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Twenty-year-old earworms
How “…Baby One More Time” changed pop music
Such a potent combination of song, star and marketing has rarely been seen since its release two decades ago
by G.Sz.
THERE have been many significant and powerful entries into the music industry. With the whimsical “Wuthering Heights” Kate Bush became, at 19 years old, the first female artist to top the British charts with a self-penned song. “I Want You Back”, one of many timeless numbers to roll off Motown’s famed production line, signified the start of the Jackson dynasty. When punk arrived in the 1970s it brought with it many arresting anthems: the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop”, the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the U.K.” and the Undertones’ “Teenage Kicks”. The greatest debut in the world of pop music took place 20 years ago, on October 23rd 1998. The first offering from a teen from Kentwood, Louisiana, named Britney Spears, the song began with three piano chords and an uncanny voice: “Oh baby, baby…”
“…Baby One More Time”, a plaintive lament on loneliness and longing, was a phenomenon. It reached the number one spot in every country in which it charted. It sold nearly 500,000 copies in its first week in Britain in February 1999 and went on to become the biggest single there that year, shifting 1.4m copies in total. Driven by the song’s impact, an LP of the same name sold 8.3m copies in America in 1999. After a decade of rap, rave and alternative rock, here was something that cut straight to the heart and emotional angst of teenagers, offered by an approachable young singer.
It was written and produced by Max Martin, who said that the memorable melody came to him as he fell asleep (the Swedish musician is also responsible for the song’s strange turn of phrase, thinking that “hit” was American slang for “telephone”). Ostensibly bubblegum pop, there is an undercurrent of funk in “…Baby One More Time”, with wah-wah guitars, slap bass and those same three chords recurring throughout. The song exercises power and conviction without straying into melodrama. Backup singers join Ms Spears in a swelling crescendo as she cries “my loneliness is killing me” and “give me a sign”, but fall away for the more confessional verses and interlude to create contrast and drama (it is a karaoke classic for precisely this reason). It was neither as schmaltzy as Mr Martin’s earlier work with the Backstreet Boys, nor as vigorous as his later hits with Kelly Clarkson.
Mr Martin has said that Ms Spears’s performance elevated his work as she had a “good sense of catching the melody, performing it, taking it to another level”. Indeed, there is something about the song that seemed perfectly suited to Ms Spears, then 16 years old. Snide commentary that she was a manufactured star designed to target certain demographics missed the mark: she understood that Mr Martin’s lyrics harnessed the irrational urgency of teenage emotions, and delivered that message with honesty.
“…Baby One More Time” had been shopped around to popular acts like TLC and Robyn but, fortuitously for the teenage singer, they turned it down on account of the words, which they thought might be misconstrued as referring to either violence or sex. It was in fact that ambiguity that generated interest among some listeners. The lines were blurred further with the release of the song’s music video in November 1998, where Ms Spears appeared as a bored Catholic schoolgirl, her hair in scrunchies and her shirt tied up to reveal her midriff. Much of it was the singer’s idea: she wanted the video to have dance scenes and reflect the lives and interests of her fans. Critics have commented on the disturbing coquettishness of the video, but it, too, was a hit. In 2008, MTV’s “Total Request Live” show deemed it the most “iconic” video broadcast in the show’s history.
Pop music is renowned as fickle and always in search of the next big thing, but “…Baby One More Time” has endured. It remains catchy and captivating 20 years later; to date, the song has sold more than 10m copies worldwide. Even Rolling Stone and VH1, outlets which have tended to prefer rock music, include it in their lists of the greatest songs of all time. That is partly the move towards “poptimism”—a sense that the genre deserves the same critical appraisal as other artforms—but it is also because it is an example of pitch-perfect songwriting matched with a talented and appealing performer. It was bound, in the words of an executive at Jive, Ms Spears’s recording label, to be “a fucking smash”.
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Published: 31st March 2020
This PhD student's family is stuck with no safety gear or soap in COVID-19-riddled UK
Mohit Bansal Rudraksh and his wife Neha moved to the UK six months back.They have two six-year-old daughters and don't know when they will be able to return
Parvathi Benu
Mohit and Neha with their daughters
It was in September 2019 that Mohit Bansal Rudraksh moved to the UK with his wife Neha and their twin daughters. Neha was to pursue her PhD from the University of Essex. Six months down the line, this family from Delhi is stranded in the country with no access to medical help, safety gear, soap or a way to go back home.
Mohit who moved to the country as Neha's dependent tells us that despite making numerous calls, the Indian High Commission in the UK is turning a deaf year to the family's plight. Previously, we'd written about Indian students who were stuck in the UK after India banned the landing of international aircraft in its airports. The UK has reported over 19,000 positive cases and more than 1,200 deaths until now. "Sensing that the situation would worsen, we had booked our tickets to go back to Delhi. But around the same time, the travel ban was announced and our tickets were cancelled," says Mohit.
Mohit recalls how one of his daughters was ill earlier in March. "She had got the flu and my wife's employer had asked her to not go to work, suspecting that my child may be positive. However, hers turned out to be a regular flu. But until then, the entire family's been stuck inside our home," he says. "My wife's employer is also not able to help her out. Since we've come here on the student visa, we do not have access to the medical care too," he adds.
Like the others in the UK, Mohit tells us how the shops are out of the necessary safety gear as the COVID-19 pandemic worsened. "Forget sanitisers and masks, the shops are out of handwash and soap too. I heard that toilet rolls are back in the market, but 6we couldn't find any. We go out risking our healths and making ourselves vulnerable," he says. "Thankfully, we had stocked up the ration and we are able to eat three times a day. My children do not understand how bad the situation is and the two keep on playing with each other during the lockdown. That is the only relieving thing to watch," he says.
COVID19 Coronavirus UK
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Vincent Michael Sturiale
September 10, 1951 - December 6, 2021
Vincent Michael Sturiale passed on December 6, 2021 at St. Tammany Parish Hospital, in Covington, LA at the age of 70 after a hard-fought battle with liver cancer. Vincent was born on September 10, 1951 in Canton, OH to Frank P. Sturiale, Sr. and Edith Romeo Sturiale. Vincent is survived by his wife of 47 years, Peggy; son, Vincent II and his wife Erin; granddaughters, Jordan and Addison; son, Craig and his wife Giselle; grandchildren, CJ and Araceli; and numerous nieces, nephews and friends. Vincent was preceded in death by his parents. Vincent graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from University of Akron in 1973. He had a very long and successful career in the oil & gas industry in the Gulf South and spent several years working internationally. Vincent moved to South Louisiana in 1975 and enjoyed playing golf and became an active follower of his grandchildren’s’ pursuits in his spare time. His family paid this tribute to him, ‘Vince was one of the most generous people you could ever meet and he will be sorely missed.’ The family would like to express our gratitude for the wonderful help and care given by the doctors and nurses of St. Tammany Hospital. In lieu of flowers, friends may make memorial contributions to St. Jude Hospital in honor of Vince per Memorial ID#22698514. Relatives and friends are invited to the Funeral Service at E.J. Fielding Funeral Home, 2260 W. 21st Avenue, Covington, LA 70433 on Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 11:00 AM with visitation from 9:00 AM until service time. Interment will follow the service at Pinecrest Memorial Gardens, 2280 W 21st Avenue, Covington, LA. E. J. Fielding Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements. The family invites you to share thoughts, fond memories, and condolences online at E. J. Fielding Funeral Home Guest Book at www.ejfieldingfh.com.
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Malaria: MSF delivers care even to remote areas of DRC
In Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), malaria is still the deadliest disease, with almost 15 million cases and around 27,500 deaths in 2017. During the same year, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provided community-based, free healthcare to 819,000 malaria patients from 61 health facilities all over the country.
After Nigeria, the DRC sees the second highest number of malaria cases in Africa. Access to health care, especially in rural contexts, remains a huge challenge in the DRC for many reasons, including scant health infrastructure, not enough qualified medical professionals and supply difficulties. Poverty and displacement due to local conflicts and violence have also had taken a heavy toll on quality of care, which is usually not available for free.
To fight against malaria in rural environments, MSF carries out a range of activities to reach the most vulnerable populations in remote areas of the DRC. Since 2014, several MSF projects have adopted a community-based response to combat malaria and other frequent diseases (such as diarrhea and respiratory infections). These activities are being carried out in places like Bili, in North-Ubuangui, Baraka, Kimbi-Lulenge, Lulingu, Bunyakiry and Mulungu in South Kivu, and finally Mweso and Walikale in North Kivu.
'Before, we did it by foot'
MSF has been present in Bili, North–Ubuangui, since 2015, but last July refocused its activities to provide free treatment to malaria by supporting 17 health centres, 15 health sites and 3 community-based sites, where some 51,689 patients have been treated. “Distance and price are the biggest hurdles for those in need of care, especially in rural areas,” says Jean-Bernard, the local MSF community focal point in one of the MSF-supported health sites. “MSF provided several remote villages with bikes, to enable community focal points to reach them, and to refer cases to the local health care site or to the nearest health center. Before, we did it by foot: now the average journey has shifted from three hours to one hour. This has helped to save a lot of lives.”
An MSF team also supports the pediatric department of Bili General Hospital, where 1,608 children under the age of 15 years have been hospitalized since July 2017.
In South-Kivu, in Baraka, malaria remains the most commonly treated disease by MSF staff, who took care of 113,197 people over the past three years. The support provided to 15 community health sites allows for the timely diagnosis and treatment of patients in their own villages, especially for remote populations living far from health centers. “The community-based approach is a rapid response to simple cases of malaria, preventing possible complications. Free care, that is close to the patient is key to reduce the huge impact of this morbidity in DRC,” explains Maaike Hersevoort, project coordinator for MSF in Baraka.
MSF has worked in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 1981, and today works in 20 of the country’s 26 provinces, offering medical care to the victims of conflict and violence, to displaced people and to those suffering in epidemics or pandemics like cholera, measles and HIV/AIDS. Emergency response teams are ready to react across the whole country in case of an epidemic, a natural disaster or a conflict.
Learn more about malaria and MSF
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Home Articles In the News Tragedy as a Catalyst for Change
Tragedy as a Catalyst for Change
After her estranged husband killed their three daughters, Jessica Lenahan took her fight for human rights to the Supreme Court
By Stephanie Thurrott
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In May 1999, Jessica Lenahan (then Gonzalez), fearing for the safety of herself and her children, obtained a restraining order against her estranged husband, Simon Gonzalez. On June 22, 1999, their three young daughters, Rebecca, Katheryn and Leslie, were playing after school in the front yard of Jessica’s Castle Rock, Colorado home.
Jessica discovered that the girls were missing and called 911. She explained that she suspected Simon had taken the girls and, if so, he had violated the restraining order. Over the next 10 hours, terrified that her daughters were in danger, she contacted the Castle Rock police numerous times, both over the phone and in person.
In the early morning of June 23, 1999, Simon drove to the police station and started shooting. He was killed in a shootout with the police. In his truck they found the dead bodies of the three girls.
Jessica sued the town of Castle Rock and three of its police officers for not enforcing the restraining order. By 2005 her case had attracted the attention of the ACLU and reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled against her, saying, in effect, that she and her daughters had no Constitutional right to have her restraining order enforced by police.
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Determined to find justice for her murdered daughters, Jessica filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, claiming that her human rights had been violated. She was the first individual domestic violence survivor from the U.S. to bring a case before an international human rights tribunal.
The commission ruled in her favor and made recommendations about better enforcing restraining orders and training police to the US government. In December 2015 the U.S. Justice Department released new guidelines for identifying and preventing gender bias in law enforcement, specifically in response to sexual abuse and domestic violence.
Since then, cities and counties across the country have passed resolutions naming freedom from domestic violence a human right.
Jessica shared her story in the 2017 documentary Home Truth, available for streaming on PBS.
“I felt like it needed to be documented. The information needed to be told,” she says. “People identify with my experience and where it went wrong, really wrong.”
Jessica’s case is now studied in law textbooks around the country, and her case is considered one of the most significant legal cases in the domestic violence field. “This case moved the needle throughout the U.S.,” says Caroline Bettinger-López, director of the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law and Jessica’s attorney, formerly with the ACLU. She shared her optimism on progress in a recent article published in Foreign Affairs.
“Jessica as a survivor is holding people accountable and holding her country accountable. She’s pushing the agenda. When we listen to survivors and follow their lead we find ourselves in unexpected places. The ground is not well trodden, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t go there,” she adds.
After spending years in law schools sharing her story as a guest, Jessica has decided to build a career in law and she’s currently enrolled at Cornell Law School.
“The success we’ve had is because of awareness. People believe what we’re doing is the right thing to do. The things women and children are going through—they should not be suffering at the hands of people who say they love them,” Jessica says. “I hope to give Americans the voice to find justice in their own lives.”
Getting Protection in Place
Jessica’s case highlights some of the problems surrounding restraining orders and protection orders. Strengthening restraining orders is important. Consider these statistics:
Approximately 20% of the 1.5 million people who experience intimate partner violence annually obtain civil protection orders.
Approximately one-half of the restraining orders obtained by women against intimate partners who physically assaulted them were violated.
More than two-thirds of the restraining orders against intimate partners who raped or stalked the victim were violated.
There is a 21% chance of an escalation in violent behavior after a protection order is issued.
Bettinger-López says, “The legal system so often silences victims. We hear this time and time again. The major reason victims don’t want to participate in the legal system is that they feel silenced by the system that’s supposed to be protecting them.”
She says that people who take out restraining orders should try to understand the terms so they know what constitutes safety. They also need to know how to engage with law enforcement or other resources if they fear the consequences of getting a restraining order or if they are concerned the abuser won’t observe the restraining order.
“This isn’t to say it’s their responsibility—they should be able to rely on police—but all too often law enforcement doesn’t understand how restraining orders operate. Hopefully knowledge means power,” she says.
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Economic Survey 2019-20: A radical deregulation agenda of poor economics and poorer economic history
Efforts to create a Singapore-on-Ganges will simply not work
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By Kapil Subramanian
Published: Friday 31 January 2020
That the Economic Survey 2019-20 makes a departure, from using Sanskrit quotes alone to include Tamil, reaffirms this establishment’s commitment to India’s linguistic diversity.
The document also looks beyond India, to include a quote each by Margaret Thatcher and Adam Smith. The implication that a radical deregulation agenda is central to the report is confirmed by chapter titles, which include gems such as The Invisible Hand, Pro-business v. pro-crony, When government intervention hurts, Targeting ease of doing business and Privatization and wealth creation.
The political heir of Margaret Thatcher intends to use Brexit to create a low regulation jurisdiction at the doorstep of Europe, with the United Kingdom a so-called ‘Singapore-on-Thames’.
While the survey begins with data on historic dominance of the Indian economy, which was ruined by British colonialism, it points India in the same direction as its former colonial masters.
The late Angus Maddison’s painstaking estimate of historic national wealth have become viral; The Economist’s eye-catching infographics based on the same coincided with the resurgence of a narrative about past Indian glories.
It is telling though that the report’s account of economic history jumps from the Thirukural and Arthashastra to the 1991 economic reforms, neglecting not only the impact of colonialism but also the substantial growth achieved in the years since Independence.
Readers may be reminded that the real rate of growth in gross domestic product (GDP) during the Nehruvian years was not only a massive leap from colonial stagnation but regularly compared to France’s “post-war growth miracle”.
Indeed even The Economist’s obituary of Nehru, which severely criticised his foreign policy, had little critique of economic policy.
(Private) wealth
To make the case for (private) wealth creation, given India’s “tryst” with socialism, the report studies “India’s top 100 wealthy entrepreneurs”, after “excluding those with tainted wealth by applying several filters”.
That the increased wealth of the super-rich correlated with the wage bill of their corporations is used to make the case that society as a whole benefits from the rich becoming richer. But the reason for this correlation is obvious even to the layperson — given that larger companies employ more people.
What matters for the common good is the wage share of the economy, which has drastically declined across the group of 20 countries, including in India, since Margaret Thatcher popularised the development model that has come to be called neo-liberalism.
Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” is the means to this all-important wealth of course, as it has “guided economic development in several advanced economies”, which again betrays a poor understanding of economic history.
In all industrialised countries, including the UK, Germany, the United States and France, the government played a central role in wealth creation, including through protectionism to protect infant industries.
The moral philosopher’s work has in fact enjoyed a resurgence only since the 1970s with the emergence of neo-classical economics and the so-called marginalist revolution in that discipline.
Turning to the so-called “late-industrialisers”, the state played a key role in South Korea’s economic miracle, but was stymied from doing the same by Indian capital, as has been powerfully argued by Vivek Chibber, a professor at New York University.
In Singapore, the most cited example, the state controls double the proportion of the economy as in the rest of the world, including 80 per cent of the housing market.
The entrepreneur-centric vision intensifies in the chapter Wealth creation... which centres on ‘Start-up India’. A reminder is necessary that a higher proportion of Indians are entrepreneurs (as street vendors and others) than in rich countries, where a larger proportion of people work for giant corporations.
New firms play a critical role in the economy as well as in the personal lives of those who “want to do their own thing”. But it cannot substitute for scale of operations — kirana shops can seldom compete with Big Bazaar.
In any case, there were no policy recommendations for the vast majority of Indian entrepreneurs.
To make the case for unregulated capitalism in the face of unimpeachable data — suggesting a secular slowdown last decade — the report argues that merely pro-crony policies followed since 2007 are to be blamed.
However, a study of 94 countries “rejected in all the specifications” the notion that economic reforms reduce corruption. Indeed there is much evidence that corruption increases with reforms as the potential gains from capitalist profit seeking as well as government rent-seeking sky-rockets.
The next chapter makes the case that “government regulation hurts” using the case of some pharmaceutical pricing regulations that seemingly led to price inflation of a few drugs. Whatever the specifics of this particular policy failure, India’s global lead in providing affordable drugs not just in India but across the Global South and even in the West is well known.
Globally, regulated drug markets such as the UK result in substantially lower costs to the governments (which pay through the National Health Scheme); in deregulated markets such as the US, patients pay much higher, out of pocket.
The overflowing granaries of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) are also brought up to illustrate the perils of government meddling. The building of a buffer stock to control market grain prices in bad years has been at least as central to Indian food self-sufficiency as the increased production engendered by the so-called Green Revolution.
The present problem stems from a combination of not enhancing storage capacity and political unwillingness to reduce procurement from states such as Punjab, which have benefited disproportionately from the FCI’s existence.
An entire chapter is devoted to improving India’s ranking in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index. It is questionable whether a crucial policy document should pursue such trivialities, but the importance this government places on the same is highlighted by the founding of an Ease of Doing Business Committee of Parliament in 2015.
Not only does such an index have limited relevance to the vast majority of Indian businessmen, but its rhetoric has merely justified cheap land grants to corporates, permits without inspections, and “self-regulation” on labour and environmental issues.
Even Kaushik Basu, who was involved with the ranking for five years, has admitted that its methodology was open to ideological influence (if not “data cooking”) and should not be used to the exclusion of other indicators of well-being.
The chapter on privatisation begins with a quote on free enterprise as freedom made by Thatcher, who once famously (and perhaps apocryphally) thumped a copy of free market economics pioneer Frederich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom on the table, booming: “This is what we believe in”.
Britain has led the world in privatisation and its critics have pointed out to savage impact on communities dependent on state industries. But the best case against thoughtless privatisation lies in the fact that large parts of Britain’s electricity and railway infrastructure is now owned by public-sector enterprises from elsewhere in Europe, who have managed to create internationally competitive state-owned behemoths.
The common person finally finds a mention in the last chapter of the first volume, with her needs reduced to food alone. Thalinomics promises to be the single-most important buzz word to emerge from this year’s Economic Survey.
The chapter limits itself to calculating the price of an average Indian thali of food and showing that the same had become more affordable (for vegetarians and otherwise) since this government came to power.
It may be pointed out that India nevertheless ranks 102 among 117 countries in the Global Hunger Index.
It is often argued that documents such as the Union Budget and Economic Survey are no longer relevant as the government controls less of the economy (since the 1991 reforms).
But the 2020-21 Economic Survey, which pushes far reaching policy changes with not even a semblance of subtlety and nuance needs to be read with a fine toothed comb.
Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
अर्थव्यवस्था से जुड़ी सभी खबरें हिंदी में पढ़ें।
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Places of Interest to Epicurean History
The "School of Athens" - By Raphael - Where Is Epicurus?
Where Is Epicurus In The "School of Athens"?
Garden Bard
Personally, I'm not convinced that any of the figures represent Epicurus.
Bernard Frischer, researcher and archaeologist from Indiana University who specializes in Roman history wrote a book called The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece in which he attests to the “magnetism” of Epicurus’ portrait. He devotes several hundred pages to exploring different cultural depictions of Epicurus throughout history based on available resources. On page 151 he makes an important point: “Before 1742, when the Epicurus-Metrodorus double herm with ancient identifying inscription […] was discovered beneath the new porch of S. Maria Maggiore in Rome (the herm is now in the Capitoline Museam), Epicurus’ true image was not known.”
Raphael’s intended audience would not have seen portraits or busts of Epicurus, and, even if they had, they would not have recognized the face of the bust to match that of Epicurus. Painting a contemplative, bearded Greek would not have been as Epicurus-esque as would have painting a chubby, smirking Roman (for example).
The four Vatican frescoes were certainly painted within an allegorical context as opposed to a historical one. This is evidenced by the anachronistic presence of philosophers spanning several centuries, several of whom were never active in Athens. The setting of this piece is purely symbolic and not in any way intended to be literal.
It's like "Jurassic Park", filled with dinosaurs from the Triassic and Cretaceous periods.
In an architectural context, the four frescoes in the Stanze di Raffaello in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican were designed to reinforce the Christian narrative. Therein, the inclusion of “pagan” philosophers is not meant to contrast with the divinity of Christ; rather, it signifies a harmony between ancient philosophy and Christian theology.
Thus, the Church's favorite two philosophers, and their supporters (such as Socratics and Pythagoreans) are featured front-and-center. The idolization of Plato and Aristotle is overwhelming. They reinforce the brand. The choice to include Epicurus – at all – would have been antithetical to the function of the painting, taken symbolically. While Raphael may have made that choice anyway, it is thematically inconsistent.
Painting Epicureans in the Apostolic Palace in the first place is contextually inappropriate (It may even have been dangerous). Raphael's inclusion of Epicurus and/or Epicurean philosophers in the Apostolic Palace may have been akin to Diego Rivera painting Vladimir Lenin in the Rockefeller Building in the 30s.
If it were the case that we had some indication that Raphael was a closet Epicurean who subversively hid hedonist-sympathizing clues in his paintings throughout the years (...the way Dan Brown frames Leonardo in the Da Vinci code), then, in my mind, it would seem appropriate to include Epicurus.
However, I think that fiction unlikely. I think the following two possibilities are most probable: (1) Epicureanism is not represented in this painting because Epicureanism is thematically inconsistent with the artistic context, (2) "Epicurus" is represented by the anonymous, chubby, smiling Roman stereotype, writing in the front.
Either way, the relevance I see with this painting to Epicurean philosophy is the reflection of the Christian Church's marginalization of materialism over a millennia. Raphael neither provides us with a glimpse at Epicurus, nor of Epicureanism. What he provides us with is either commentary of ambivalence, that it was not necessary to depict Epicureans clearly, or absence, that omitting Epicurus was necessary.
In conclusion, I don't see any compelling reason for Raphael would have felt compelled to include the Epicurus and his Epicureans. He was not painting a record of Athenian teachers; he was painting a picture of philosophical pre-Christians.
That most recent paper posits that The Nuremberg Chronicle was one of Raphael's sources. If so, Epicurus's "portrait" in that looks suspiciously/unfortunately like pudgy wreath guy:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.or…s_Nuremberg_Chronicle.jpg
As an aside, it just occurred to me that the architectural setting is Roman, not Greek. As far as I'm aware the Greeks didn't build with arches but with posts and lintels, developed through the classical orders.
If this has any relevance to the discussion at hand, it may indicate that Raphael wasn't taking a literal view as to who was who and had another, overarching (pardon the pun) agenda.
All I can say for sure right now is that it is definitely an interesting debate.
Nate raises very good points. My desire for Epicurus to be front and center is just that. A desire. However, if Raphael wanted to portray Epicurus, he most likely would either:
a) Use ridicule: pudgy wreathed portrait of guy he knew (and that resembles the Nuremberg Chronicle picture)
b) show him rejecting the accepted Philosophers: storming away down the steps or dismissively gesturing at the cynic Diogenes. Diogenes, with his Anti-social behavior and ridicule of Plato (plucked chicken = Behold, a man!) wouldn't have endeared him to the Popes but he's there. I see no reason why Epicurus shouldn't be included but he certainly didn't need to be.
Also, Lucretius's poem was also just being rediscovered around this time. "The first printed edition of De rerum natura was produced in Brescia, Lombardy, in 1473." Wikipedia. School of Athens was done 1509/11. Epicurus may have to have been addressed in the work, again via ridicule or rejecting accepted Philosophers.
Lots of good points bring made. I woke up thinking about this that has probably already been covered, but how firm is the identificstion of the group to the right of Plato with one or more Stoics? If that group were shown to be clearly stoic, I suspect that Raphael and his contractors would have had a hard time resisting the parallelism of putting one or more Epicureans on Socrates left to mirror them and keep things "even.". Regardless of what anyone knew about what anyone looked like from the bustd, I gather that the church always held Cicero in high regard, and never lost his works, and it would be impossible to know about his "On Ends" and not know that Epicureans were one of the major schools that would leave a major gap if omitted.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/ar…l-hidden-in-a-masterpiece
This article contends that the figures may not be fixed identities. Some yes, others not. Food for thought.
Lots of interesting stuff in there, but I have to comment on this:
As a symbol that oversees the enactment of official papal decrees in the Stanza Della Segnatura, Heraclitus’s ink pot (from which notions of the fleetingness of all authority would pour forth), is a courageously subversive symbol. It denies power by declaiming the futility of any attempt to inscribe oneself indelibly into the world. It and it alone sanctions the fluidity of identity that Raphael ingeniously constructs (and deconstructs) across the surface of his painting. Remove the ink pot from the epicentre of Raphael’s fresco, and the work dissolves into a fiasco of confused and confusing forms. Heraclitus’s profound, if overlooked, ink pot is the very well-spring from which the elastic energy of Raphael’s masterpiece endlessly emanates.
Oh come on, Kelly Grovier! (the author) Do you really expect to be taken seriously when you say something like It's all about the inkpot?
I'm getting the thought that, sans Raphael's personal notes, The School of Athens is almost a Rorschach test. Who do you want to see where? Oh, you think that's him? Interesting idea. Why? How's about this one?
Raphael saw somewhere a bust, a ring or an engraving of Epicurus, not necessary inside the Vatican, but in one villa of his wealthy friends/florentines bankers who had statues from Villas of Romans e.g. Villa Hadriana etc, and as I mentioned above in one of my comments. Raphael painted Epicurus and his figure is so identical with the bust of Epicurus we know today. I assume when the pope asked Raphael who is who, he did not say anything for anyone. Only for Plato and Aristole that in fresco they hold already their books and they were (and still are) well esteem by the popes.
However, I insist for my speculation since for that person with the yellow chiton that I claim is Epicurus, along with the embraced friendly company next to him, it prevails a total silence!!
Don, as far as I know, it has never been found a bust or a statue of Speusippus. For Speusippus there is only an engraving that was done from imagination. Speusippus was not so famous that has companion and friends. Besides if that figure was Speusippus, as he was socratic-platonist, the figure next to him it would not be appropriated to make a gesture of doubt or question, it is supposed that the platonists knew what Plato had said.
Beauty and virtue and such are worthy of honor, if they bring pleasure; but if not then bid them farewell!
Elli that's a good line of attack -- even if we forget about the busts, what about the rings?
I don't have a good list of how many there are or where they are now, but we don't think that each and every ring was discovered in Herculaneum or Pompeii, do we? Presumably there were many more rings than busts to start with, and they would be passed down from generation to generation. And some (at least) of the rings have Epicurus' name inscribed too, correct?
I would think the first thing that someone commissioned to do a fresco of historical figures would do is to scour his available contacts for all representations preserved in any form.
Certainly you would also include references from Diogenes Laertius as to objects or names (of books) that people were associated with, but you would certainly do everything you could to incorporate ALL available evidence.
If you did not see this picture, I post it on FB yesterday, entitled "the school of the world".
I see this one at the British museum doesn't show his name, so maybe none of them do. Not sure.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/…ion/object/G_1890-0601-55
Maybe there aren't many rings to consider - I see in the photos I've clipped in the past I only show these two, and the one on the left may not really be him:
Cassius there is already a post by you on rings. Rings Featuring Epicurus or Epicureans
Thank you for linking that for us Elli! I am afraid that I can't keep track of what I post myself, much less what everyone else posts! I guess that's what a forum with a "search" function is for!
So as for the posts in that thread too there is no indication that we have a ring labeled with Epicurus' name.
Τhere are some greek letters engraved on the right ring. I read the letters that form the word "NEAΡΚΟΥ". There is no such a greek name that includes the letter "K". But as far as I know there was a greek name as "NEAΡΧΟΣ" with the letter "X" and in genitive is "ΝΕΑΡΧΟΥ", and we meet this name as one the famous explorer, a navarch and officer in the army of Alexander the Great.
Elli I see that that page at the British Museum says that the inscription is "modern." No idea how they conclude that:
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https://archive.org/details/ha…v00king/page/276/mode/2up
Nearkos was an ancient artist according to this catalog of names. (For those curious: Nearkou is simply the genitive form of his name.)
Don, in the text you linked, there are latin letters in this name. With latin letters the greek name ΝΕΑΡΧΟΣ becomes as NEARKOS or NEARCHOS because the greek letter "X" it sounds like "K". In this ring we see greek letters as "NEAΡΚΟΥ" since there is the lettter "Yiota" in the end, but in greek names there is not such a name as NEAΡKOΣ in genitive NEAΡΚΟΥ, but as I said "NEAΡΧΟΣ".
From whom, specifically, might Raphael have seen the image?
I agree that it is a reasonable generalization to suppose that one of the hundreds of affluent, Italian benefactors of the Renaissance had access to Epicurus ... but it's hard to prove, especially when we consider that Epicurean literature was just re-discovered, and then proceeded to suffer several hundred years of misinterpretation by enthusiasts.
I think it's imperative to our conclusion that we identify the name of this individual who owned Epicurean memorabilia, because that person would be more significant to the history of Epicurean philosophy than either Poggio Bracciolini and Pierre Gassendi.
If someone had preserved a ring of Epicurus, and recognized the significance of it, they, themselves, would very likely be Epicurean-sympathizers, or Epicureans, themselves. Even Poggio was unconvinced by the the conclusions he read in De Rerum Natura. This would imply that a community was in Italy in the 15th-century that was actively dedicated to preserving Epicurean philosophy. This could be the case, but it would change history.
Even so, it's not even enough to prove that there were Epicureans in Italy at the time.
We need to demonstrate that (1) not only was Epicurean philosophy understood to a thorough level within one century of the rediscovery of De Rerum Natura (2) not only was Raphael familiar with this knowledge, but, most importantly, (3) that a 25-year-old Renaissance painter was dedicated enough to Epicurean philosophy to have chosen to risk his career by painting the Ultimate Anti-Apostle on a fresco in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. It's an incredibly bold move, and Raphael did not do it for our unique benefit.
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Bob Sherrill: A Remembrance
For six decades, former Esquire editor Bob Sherrill was one of the unheralded heroes of New Journalism. With his untimely passing earlier this month, we celebrate his career.
Bob Sherrill passed away on July 6 in Durham, North Carolina. His career in journalism spanned six decades; one of them -- 1964 to 1974 -- he spent in New York as an editor at Esquire.
Remembrances have thus far invariably mentioned an essay Bob wrote for us in 1992 called "The Truth About Growing Old." True to himself, he was eloquent, angry, and wry. True to his newsman's roots, he didn't mince words:
Anyone who says old is gold is demented, a mindless optimist, under forty, or doing a study on it—old age, I mean. I'm sixty-seven. Old. . . . I am not ready for the twentieth century, much less the twenty-first, should I be here. Who is?
As it happened, Bob himself was: he continued to write well into this decade, most often for a scrappy Durham literary magazine called The Urban Hiker. Many of his stories are available through its Website; we're pleased to reprint "The Truth About Growing Old" on ours.
Bob's contributions as an editor are harder to pin down, but that's the nature of the job: Few who do it, even those who do it well, are recognized outside their profession.
One exception is Harold Hayes, architect of Esquire's legendary Vietnam period. In 1964 he sent an angry memo to staff members, lamenting their lack of contributions -- all of theirs but one. "Sherrill," he wrote, is "the only editor who consistently produces ideas without being asked."
Considering what followed over the next ten years -- the string of genre-cracking reports that came to be known as New Journalism -- it's more than just high praise. It's an acknowledgement of Bob Sherrill's impact on Esquire and, it follows, on American writing as a whole. We tip our hat.
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7 out of 10 Workers are “Chronically Broke”
Home » Blog » 7 out of 10 Workers are “Chronically Broke”
Mark Skinner Associate Partner
The Royal Society of Arts has carried out a study in which it found that at least 70% of the UK’s working population are “chronically broke”.
The RSA surveyed more than 2,000 workers and found that 30% said they lived comfortably, 30% said they were not managing to get by with a further 40% saying finances were permanently precarious.
The report found that 32% of the UK’s workers have less than £500 in savings and 41% have less than £1,000. Almost 30% are concerned about their level of debt. This insecurity spread to their thoughts on their jobs and careers with only 40% of employees feeling they have good opportunities to progress in their line of work.
The UK labour market recently released figures showing employment reaching a record high. However, the problem seems to be debt laden households are struggling to finance their existence, even though work is available.
The insecurity in work is evidenced by nearly 1 million people on zero hour’s contracts and 1.7 million in temporary work. Nearly 5 million people are self-employed, which is an all time high and there are an estimated 1.1 million people in Britain’s gig economy which, in just five years, is equal to the number of NHS workers in England.
Precarious, part-time work seems to be a theme and there is a lack of control or confidence in finances while in employment. Whether this structure of work practice and employment leads to more debt and insolvency such as bankruptcy is a moot point.
The report calls for new rights and responsibilities based on support of people as they navigate changes to the cost of living, taking debt into account.
It states the Government should explore universal childcare, pay for the self-employed to take maternity or paternity leave and look at personal budgets for reskilling to make the workforce more flexible.
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Target now carries a non-toxic skincare line built on the insights of 16 million women
Next time you visit Target, you’ll see a new skincare line called Versed, brought to you by the same people who created Who What Wear.
[Photo: courtesy of Versed]
By Elizabeth Segran 3 minute Read
If you asked 16 million women what they wanted out of their eye creams and face washes, then used all of this information to create your very own skincare collection, it might look something like Versed, a non-toxic line that is dropping at all 1400 Target stores and online on May 19. Every single product in the 19-item collection costs under $20.
The new brand comes from Clique Brands, the company behind women’s lifestyle blog Who What Wear, which recently spun off a fashion label also sold at Target. Last year, Clique announced it would begin incubating new startups through a holding company called Offspring, and Versed is the first fruit of this effort.
“With the Who What Wear fashion line, we wanted to bring high-trend items typically only accessible to women in big cities, and make them available to women across the country,” says Katherine Power, CEO of both Clique Brands and Versed. “I saw the same opportunity when it came to skincare.”
While Versed is now a standalone company that owns its own supply chain, it relies on the information gathered from Who What Wear’s community of 16 million monthly users. Versed also did a smaller study tapping into 8,000 members of the community who participated in focus groups and population studies. Versed has used these insights to identify new opportunities in the crowded beauty market.
So what did the data tell them? For one thing, that women were more dissatisfied with their skincare options than with beauty, according to Melanie Bender, GM of Versed. And when it came to skincare, consumers are looking for products that were affordable, non-toxic, and that effectively addressed their most anxiety-inducing skincare issues like wrinkles, under-eye circles, and blemishes.
Power says the company spent a lot of time developing a supply chain that would allow them to sell effective, non-toxic products at under $20 a pop. She points out that many brands try to stand out on the beauty aisle by creating dramatic packaging, but all of this comes at an additional cost. “We focused on using high-quality ingredients and we saved money in other ways, like using off-the-shelf packaging instead of designing our own,” Power says. “We also control our entire supply chain, which also allows us to be lean.”
Despite using simple no-nonsense containers, the Versed products have a chic, minimal design, with bottles and tubes that come in muted pink, green, blue, orange, and yellow. It’s packaging that is reminiscent of Glossier’s, which is also minimalistic, but only comes in a shade of millennial pink.
As the Versed team studied the data, they found that women’s top skincare concerns tended to be relatively consistent. Many worried about dark circles under their eyes, which is why Versed has a whole suite of eye products including one formulated to brighten under the eyes, another that targets fine lines, and another that energizes puffy eyes. (Each of these is $17.99.) Some Versed products help even skin tone, including an overnight glycolic acid facial peel ($19.99), a tea tree oil complexion solution ($12.99), and a willow bark extract clarifying serum ($19.99). There are also everyday cleansing balms and gels, along with moisturizers in the mix.
Importantly, Versed recognized that women are increasingly concerned about the ingredients in their skincare products. With this line, Versed does not use 1,300 toxins and questionable ingredients that the EU has banned from personal care products. (The United States does not regulate the beauty and skincare industries, so those ingredients occur in many products sold in this country.) Versed also took into account other customer preferences, including making sure products are free of artificial fragrances, silicones, parabens, and sulfates.
Over the last few years, there’s been an explosion of non-toxic beauty brands on the market. At the higher end, there are brands like Tata Harper and May Lindstrom, and there are also premium brands like Beautycounter, Drunk Elephant, and Seed Phytonutrients. But it’s hard to find clean brands at drugstore prices. Large brands like Neutrogena and Herbal Essences have recently dropped a few non-toxic products in their lines. But with Versed, customers can choose from a full range of clean products at affordable prices.
“If you have the right access or discretionary income, you have so many new options when it comes to clean, effective skincare,” says Bender. “But if you’re among the 60% of women who buy their beauty products from the drugstore, those aisles haven’t changed much over the last few decades. We wanted to change that.”
Elizabeth Segran, Ph.D., is a senior staff writer at Fast Company. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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The Polytechnic was established through legislation by the 6th National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the Federal Polytechnic Act of 1990 as amended. It was assented into law by late President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua (GCFR) in July 2007, but full implementation was in 2009.
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News Release 10-Jul-2018
Can nanoparticles be used to lower antibiotic resistance?
UH engineers are testing a theory with livestock microbiome
Grant and Award Announcement
image: Debora Rodrigues, left, and Stacey Louie, both faculty members at the University of Houston, are using a reactor built to simulate the intestines of a pig to study ways to combat antibiotic resistance. view more
Credit: University of Houston
Antibiotic resistance is one of the world's most serious threats to public health, forcing the use of medications that are more toxic, more expensive and not always effective. There are several causes, including over-prescription of antibiotics in both humans and in livestock.
Two engineers with the University of Houston have embarked on a project to determine whether the use of tiny amounts of antibiotics embedded in corn-based nanoparticles could allow the use of lower dosages and avoid wiping out the microbiome - the collection of both healthy and disease-causing bacteria found in the intestines - and the resulting genetic mutations that lead to antibiotic resistance.
Debora Rodrigues, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Stacey Louie, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, have developed a reactor to simulate pig intestines in order to study how antibiotics react in the pig microbiome.
"Pigs have a lot of similarities to humans," said Rodrigues, principal investigator on a $437,535 grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. "We are working with livestock, but ultimately it could be helpful for humans."
Collaborators Cristina Sabliov and Carlos Astete at Louisiana State University will create corn-based nanoparticles loaded with antibiotics for the project.
Early data supports the researchers' hypothesis that the plant-based nanoparticles will be less toxic than many other forms of nanoparticle. They are designed to dissolve in the simulated pig intestine.
The reactor mimics a pig's lower intestine, with a dialysis bag positioned to capture nutrients as pig slurry is funneled through. Louie said the bag functions much like the gut, allowing water, sugars and other nutrients to pass through.
Antibiotics - both at regular dosages and the minute amounts in the nanoparticles - will be added to the slurry, allowing the researchers to test how the drugs affect the microbiome at different dosages.
The goal is to determine if administering antibiotics in a different way will avoid the widespread damage to the microbiome associated with current practices.
"We'll study how the microbial community is changing and what genes related to antibiotic resistance are emerging," Rodrigues said.
This work is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, AFRI project 2017-07878.
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Classic Archive™: The French Piano School
Vlado Perlemuter, Yvonne Lefébure, Robert Casadeus, Hephzibah Menuhin, Dino Ciani
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This classic archive DVD features three outstanding representatives of the French Piano School. Vlado Perlemuter, who worked closely with Ravel on many of his compositions, demonstrates in this Paris recording of 1966 his superb mastery of the composer’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Yvonne Lefébure, for whom many French composers of the day wrote music, was also a celebrated interpreter of Beethoven, as is impressively shown not only by her recording of his complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin with Sándor Végh but also by the Piano Sonata Op.110 she performed for French television in 1963. Robert Casadesus, a great lover of French music, frequently played Debussy, Chabrier and Fauré. In 1971, just before his death, he gave a short recital at his home for a French documentary, during which he performed excerpts from Fauré’s Thème et variations.
The two bonus tracks feature Hephzibah Menuhin, who studied for several years in Paris with Marcel Ciampi, and Dino Ciani who came to perfect his art under the guidance of Alfred Cortot.
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Tony and Joan Crozier celebrate their golden wedding anniversary
A FAMILY trip to the pantomime helped Tony and Joan Crozier celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
Mr and Mrs Crozier of Yew Tree, off Varley Road, Slaithwaite marked the occasion with a family meal and the trip with their two daughters and two grandchildren on Saturday.
The couple met at a dance in Huddersfield and married at St Thomas’s Church in Greetland. They have lived in Slaithwaite for the last 46 years.
Mr Crozier, 71, served with the Royal Signals at Catterick and in the New Forest for his National Service.
He served a six year apprenticeship at Brook Motors in Huddersfield as a mechanical engineer and worked for Kuwait Petroleum for many years in Europe as a technical services manager. He also qualified as a lecturer and worked for several years at the former Huddersfield Technical College.
Mr Crozier worked for many years for Rotherham-based Exol Lubricants before he retired, again as a technical services manager and he still works as a consultant engineer for the company.
He is a vintage car enthusiast and a member of the Vintage Sports Car Club. Mrs Crozier has bowled for Linthwaite Hall Bowling Club for around eight years.
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GeForce 7900 Drives Down the Cost of Speed
By Jason Cross on March 9, 2006 at 9:00 am
When the Radeon X1800 XT was released last fall, it prompted a new and expensive challenge to Nvidia’s GeForce 7800 GTX. Then Nvidia countered with a “glory SKU,” the GeForce 7800 GTX 512, which did more than just bump the memory up to 512MB—that card has seriously boosted clock speeds. But at the same time, Nvidia seriously jacked up the price. 7800 GTX 512 cards have been almost impossible to find, to the point where Nvidia’s PR department would actually send out email blasts when a handful of new cards became available at a popular online store, as if that was news. What’s more, the card couldn’t be found for less than $750. For a single card.
Recently, ATI has upped the ante again with the Radeon X1900 cards. Again almost embarrassingly pricey, these cards at least had three times the pixel shader units of the X1800s and delivered some really impressive performance.
Nvidia’s counter-attack in this graphics war of attrition comes today with the release of three new GPUs—the 7900 GTX, 7900 GT, and 7600 GT. They’re all made on a 90nm manufacturing process (Nvidia’s previous performance GPUs were made on a 110nm process). ATI has been on a 90nm process since the X1000 series of cards was introduced last fall. This is really our favorite part of the never-ending fight between Nvidia and ATI. This is the part where graphics architectures don’t change dramatically, but performance goes up and costs drop aggressively. Today, the price battle between Nvidia and ATI escalates, and all the customers win. Continued…
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The United States had entered the World War I on April 6, 1917. Young men had registered for the draft on June 5, 1917.
The Bonham Daily Favorite reported on June 12 that a large number of representatives from Bonham and surrounding portions of the county met to discuss the Library Loan Bond proposition. A. B. Scarborough was made chairman of the soliciting committee to get all the banks in the county subscribed their pro rata share of the amount wanted, the estimated amount about $300,000.
Of the over 4,111 men who registered for the draft in Fannin County, 3,492 were white, 591 were negro, 28 were aliens and 3 were enemy aliens. Of the whites, 1,833 claimed exemptions on account of having relatives dependent on them; of the negroes 230 claimed exemption of the same ground. The Favorite headline stated: "Lots Discovered They Had Dependent Relatives."
The Favorite reported on June 13 that a farewell was given to Troop M which had assembled in the Russell building on the northeast corner of the Square on the previous evening. The Municipal Band played, and the soldiers marched west on the north side of the square to the corner, thence south and thence east and thence north to Simpson Park, where a sumptuous barbecue was in waiting. After dinner "America" was played, with C. R. Inglish asking everyone to join in, and there was a long patriotic program. Troop M was heading to the coast of Texas, where the troops would be stationed for awhile, at least.
On June 16 The Favorite reported that Fannin County had been asked to purchase almost $400,000 worth of bonds but had actually sold only $272,750. However, in the country as a whole more than the $4 billion was sold.
On June 19 the Red Cross workers of Fannin County would start their campaign to raise $65,000.
The Honey Grove Signal on June 8 reported that the draft registration in Honey Grove was much higher than expected. 435 men registered at the two Honey Grove boxes, 292 were whites and 143 colored. Immediately following the patriotic meeting at the tabernacle on June 5, a Red Cross Auxiliary was organized in Honey Grove. The aim was to have 500 members by July 4.
Also in Honey Grove the County Demonstrator was giving canning demonstrations for fruits and vegetables.
On May 16 the Bonham Daily Favorite published a letter by the Sheriff of Dallas advising citizens to make extraordinary efforts to increase the cultivation of foodstuffs and to use the ground ordinarily given up to ornamental cultivation to this patriotic purpose. He also urged "the most rigid economy in the consumption of foodstuffs," suggesting that each family reduce its consumption of food by a pound a week and the "elimination of waste and actual and rigorous self-sacrifice."
An ad in the May 22 Bonham Daily Favorite by the Fannin County National Bank promoted the purchase of Liberty Loan War Bonds.
The Honey Grove Signal on May 11 reported that the Honey Grove soldier boys who had been on the Mexican border but had recently returned were now at the Officers Training Camp at Leon Springs.
On June 29, 1917 the Honey Grove Signal reported that a young German man who had been in Honey Grove in the employ of the cotton firm Blocker-Miller four or five years before had been killed in France. When the "great war" had broken out the young man had returned to German and joined the German army. He was remembered as a "very handsome young man, companionable and intelligent, and by his genial bearing made many friends in our city." His best friend and roommate in Honey Grove was a young English man, J. G. Brierly, who had returned to England to fight on the other side. "The fate of [Mr. Brierly} is unknown."
The Red Cross contribution for Honey Grove was $5,431,50. Honey Grove led all Fannin County towns in donations. The largest single contribution in Honey Grove was $500 from M. A. Galbraith.
On July 3 the Bonham Daily Favorite announced that a noted negro preacher was to speak at the court house on "The Negroe's Duty and Part in the Present War." White people and the public at large were invited to hear the address. Also noted was that members of the Red Cross Society would celebrate the 4th of July by putting in the day at work at headquarters.
On July 6 the Favorite printed a letter from a Bonham boy, G. C. Alston, who was in service at the Jefferson Baracks in Missouri. He had arrived there in April after volunteering. He expected that he would soon go to France.
On Friday, July 20, 1917 the list of Fannin County young men eligible for the first draft was published in the Bonham Daily Favorite. Those on the list would be called up for examination. If the required number were obtained from the first list, the work would be stopped. If not, a second call would be made. The list was county-wide, and included 115 names. However, additional names were still being added at press time.
On Saturday, July 21, 1917 the Favorite published additional names for the first call. The number was now up to 600 names, and not yet complete.
The Honey Grove Signal remarked on July 20 that "great anxiety is naturally felt by the registrants and their people." A total of 687,000 men would be drafted nationwide in the first draft.
June 19 - 27, 1917
The United States had entered World War I on April 6, 1917. Young men had registered for the draft on June 5, 1917.
The Bonham Daily Favorite reported on June 19, 1917 that the ladies of the Red Cross gave a banquet at the Hotel Alexander to which leading men of the county were invited. It was decided to send speakers to all points of the county in an attempt to raise funds.
The Favorite announced on June 20 that on Friday June 22 at 4:00 every merchant in Fannin County was asked to close his business for the day and join in a general Red Cross rally and parade in Bonham, or stage a parade in another town. Bonham was to have an auto parade with Red Cross decorations and the ladies and children were requested to dress in Red Cross costume. The parade when formed would march to Simpson Park.
On June 21 a patriotic served honoring those who had enlisted in the military was held at the Methodist Church in Honey Grove.
On June 23 the Favorite reported that the big Red Cross Parade held on Friday was the biggest parade that Bonham had seen in a long time. The parade assembled on West Fifth Street at the Duncan school building There was a long line of autos decorated with Red Cross emblems and flags. The Bonham band, in the Bonham Wholesale Grocery Company's big new truck, well decorated, headed the procession. Following this came the members of Camp M, Texas Cavalry, the Confederate veterans, Red Cross nurses, the Boy Scouts, the citizens in autos and a few in other vehicles. The parade went to Simpson Park, and for nearly an hour the people listened to one of the most earnest, most eloquent, most patriotic addresses. Refreshments were sold on the ground for the benefit of the Red Cross fund.
On June 26 Chairman Philip Wise closed the Red Cross campaign by reporting that it had fallen short of amount it had been allotted to raise, even though the members of the committee had worked faithfully and enthusiastically. The figures released were: Honey Grove, $5,546.00; Bonham, $5,427.84; Ladonia, $3,500.00; Leonard, $3,344.00.
On June 27 the War Department announced the following members of the Fannin County Exemption Board, the board that would pass on which men would be excused from military duty. The individuals were: Lewis Blankenship and E. E. Nunn of Bonham and Dr. B. B. Golden of Leonard.
Federal regulations were completed regarding who will be exempt from the draft: married men with wife or children solely dependent upon them; man with aged parents solely dependent upon him; man with orphaned sisters or brother under certain age solely dependent upon him; workers in industries necessary to maintain military organization or maintaining national interest; only men indispensable to the continuance from such industries are exempted, and federal and state officials.
By the first week in June reality was beginning to sink in.
On June 5, 1917 every young man between the ages of 21 and 31 was required to register for the draft. The Governor made the day a legal holiday, and most if not all of the stores and business houses in Bonham and Honey Grove were closed.
In Honey Grove the citizens were to meet at 2 o'clock on that day at the tabernacle for prayer, for patriotic songs and for the consideration of matters of importance to the country. The band was there. The Liberty Loan Bond issues were explained.
The Bonham Daily Favorite reported on June 6 that he registration was higher than expected, although the total was not yet known. In Bonham there were 644, in Honey Grove over 500 and in Ladonia 378.
Troop M, First Texas Cavalty was mustered in at Bonham. "The troop will be called out in about 10 days." The long list of names is in the Bonham Daily Favorite. The Troop began drills on the public square in Bonham.
On June 8 the Favorite reported the complete returns: The total number of registrations in Fannin County was 4003. Of those registered 605 were negroes and 28 aliens, most of the latter being Mexican.
An article in the May 30, 1917 Bonham Daily Favorite explained that every man between the ages of twenty-one and thirty, inclusive, must register for the army draft. If an exemption is claimed, public authorities will determine the exemption of each individual on the basis of a second and more ample explanation, not on the briefly stated reason given on the registration.
The Bonham Housefurnishing Co. advertised that the price of fruit jars was going higher and that the jars would be scarce later on.
The Honey Grove Signal of May 25, 1917 also had a front page article on the draft, stating that the first draft would be for 500,000 men nationwide. Registration day will be June 5. The pay for privates will be $25 per month.
In its issue of May 22, 1917, the Bonham Daily Favorite announced that the Bonham Red Cross Chapter had met and several committees were appointed. A work room was provided in the Duncan school. Six sewing machines were desired.
The Favorite reported on May 23 that the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas wrote to Fannin County Judge Leslie appointing Judge Leslie as chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee and asking that a mass meeting of citizens be called to effect an efficient organization for a whirlwind campaign to educate the citizens on the necessity of their subscribing for the liberty loan war bonds. In the entire US there would be a flotation of $2 billion liberty loan bonds. All the local banks had been authorized to receive subscriptions for the bonds.
The Favorite reported on May 26 that a company organized in Bonham was named the Bonham Troop. The Captain stated that "men who enlist in Bonham Troop will not be sent to Europe under present conditions . . . but will replace the regulars now doing border service. . . This fact alone makes enlistments in Bonham Troop very attractive. Bonham will be called upon to furnish a number of men under the selective draft plan, and the fact that many are now volunteering increases every able-bodied man's chance of being drafted into the service."
The Honey Grove Signal of May 18, 1917 bemoaned the fact that to date over 4,500,000 European soldiers had been killed since the war had begun, which was more than the total population of all the men of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. It quoted a German newspaper saying that if all those killed in the war were marching in close formation the endless line of men in the bloom of youth and the prime of manhood would be over 650 miles long.
War Declared April 6, 1917
On April 6, 1917 a large headline in the Bonham Daily Favorite stated:
War Declared 1:13 P.M. Today.
Both the Bonham and Honey Grove newspapers had been reporting on the war for months, indeed years, and the declaration of war was expected.
In the D. B. Hardeman biography of Sam Rayburn, it says that the House of Representatives had been in session continuously for almost 17 hours when the roll call began on the declaration of war, and that many members of Congress were on the verge of tears when the vote began. Sam Rayburn told his colleagues two decades later: "That was the most serious hour of my life, and the vote I cast upon that occasion gave me more pause than any other vote I have cast." For a time during the debate, he became physically ill and worried that he might have to leave the floor to vomit. "Of course, any man hates like the devil to vote for war," he recalled. But it was something we have to do. We had no choice."
The Honey Grove Signal was a weekly newspaper, and had already been printed on April 6, so by the April 13 issue the declaration of war was old news.
Of course there was a large German community in and near Honey Grove. An article in the Honey Grove Signal April 13 issue stated: "There is danger, great danger, that a few unwise Germans may say or do foolish things that will cause the loyal German citizens of this country serious embarrassment . . . The Signal would therefore urge its German friends to condemn quickly and severely any unwise remarks made by hot-headed irresponsible people of German blood, and it would also urge all true Americans not to hold our loyal German citizens in any way responsible for the acts of the class mentioned."
The Navy Recruiting Service arrived in Honey Grove and found considerable interest, with four Honey Grove men headed to Dallas for their final examination. The Navy was also in Bonham recruiting.
Of special interest in Fannin County was the impact of the war on agricultural operations. The Bonham Daily Favorite on April 11, 1917 ran an article from the U.S. Department of Agriculture with the headline "Food Crops Must Be Increased," encouraging the growing of staple food crops and the raising of poultry and pigs, and the growing of gardens.
Also in that issue was a report on a citizens meeting to take steps towards an organization of civilians to drill. "Of course you did not raise your boy to be a solider . . . and be put on the firing line to be used as a target by a foreign foe . . . but if your boy is eligible . . . he had better be in shape." [On April 14 at the second meeting sixty drilled, and more drills were scheduled for the public square.]
On April 12 the Bonham Daily Favorite ran an article from three Bonham banks suggesting that farmers "cut your cotton acreage and increase your feed crops." And there was a report that Bonham's "colored band" went to Denison to participate in a patriotic parade.
On April 14 the Favorite reported that the Bonham Cotton Mill was now flying an American flag from its "majestic flag post," which could be seen not only from those who work at the mill but also by passengers on the train through the city.
Reprinted in the April 16, 1917 Favorite from the Leonard Graphic was the news that James Brown and Howard McDuffy of the Valley Creek community had left for Denison to enlist in the US Navy. Also that William Bradford of Bonham, student at the University of Wisconsin, had taken an oath which swore him to service and was taking seven hours' drill daily and military class work at night.
In its April 13, 1917 issue, the Honey Grove Signal noted that most of the merchants and bankers were closing their businesses for 1 hour on Saturday afternoon for the purpose of discussing the food shortage. "It is a time of war, and the war has imposed new conditions that must be met sensibly and patriotically." It also noted on the front page: "It is folly to assume that our entrance into the European war will end it speedily. . .By fall there may be no ships for anything but food and feed stuffs. In that case our cotton will bring little or nothing. . . Every back yard and every vacant patch should yield something for man or beast." Also in Honey Grove there had been two meetings to discuss organization a citizens training company. Thirty-eight men signed at once.
The Honey Grove Signal editor stated "Ours is not a war for conquest; we want no more territory . . . It is a war for liberty - for liberty to sail the open seas with safety, and to make sure and steadfast the rights guaranteed all nations and people. . . If ever a duty was laid upon any people the duty of cherishing and defending this perfect liberty falls upon the people of America."
The Favorite on April 17 reported about a big meeting in Honey Grove of between 600 and 1,000 people on Saturday. The Honey Grove band marched around the Square to the pavilion. Among the speakers were Jim Lowrey, who gave his ideas about what steps to take in raising food and feed crops.
The Bonham Daily Favorite reported on April 18 that a patriotic rally was to be held at Lamesco.
The Favorite on April 19 reported that President Wilson issued a patriotic appeal, which included an Appeal to the Farmers. "I particularly appeal to the farmers of the South to plant abundant food stuffs, as well as cotton. They can show their patriotism in non better or more convincing way tan by resisting the great temptation of the present price of cotton and helping to feed the nation and the peoples fighting for their liberty and our own. The variety of their crops will be the visible measure of their comprehension of their national duty. . . The government . . . will do everything possible to assist farmers in securing an adequate supply of seed, an adequate force of laborers when they are most needed at harvest time, and the means of expediting shipments of fertilizers and farm machinery." Also: "everyone who creates or cultivates a garden helps and helps greatly to solve the problem of feeding the nations, and that every housewife who practices strict economy puts herself in the ranks of those who serve the nation."
The Favorite also reported that a colored man, Pinkney Erskine, "who had been here every since soon after Lee's surrender," decided "to organize a company among his color to drill. He says he has some fifty or sixty men in sight." Two drilling companies of negroes, one old and one young, were organized. Committee: P. W. Erskine, Jeff Murrell, Charlie Jordan, Dorset Stewart, Ike Stull, S. C. Patten.
In its April 20, 1917 issue, the Honey Grove Signal reported on a big meeting at the tabernacle looking toward greater production of foodstuffs and the conservation of foods. The tabernacle was filled with women and men and many stood on the outside.
The Signal also reported that a home military training school had been organized, and that 103 names were added to the rolls. A drill was to be held on the Square. Membership in the Company would impose no obligation for future service, but simply prepare for service those who might be called.
On April 25 the Bonham Daily Favorite reported that two drilling companies of negroes, one old and one young, had been organized. Committee: P. W. Erskine, Jeff Murrell, Charlie Jordan, Dorset Stewart, Ike Stull, S. C. Patten.
On April 26 the T & P Railroad announced that it would allow members of section crews to spend half a day each week in the cultivation of truck gardens on the railroad right of way.
On April 27 the U.S. Army had a notice in the Favorite that the nearest place to enlist in the army was at Denison. The notice highly encouraged voluntary enlistment. Another notice encouraged women to become the "army of food conservers," to use the more abundant and less expensive foods, such as corn, rice, nuts and green vegetables, instead of flour, potatoes and meats" and to "stop waste in every scrap of foodstuff." Each woman was asked to take the pledge to use "in my home only the necessary amount of food" and "try in every way to conserve all foods, and to live simply."
The Favorite reported on May 8 that Old Glory was raised at the high school on a new flag pole, with the singing of patriotic songs. The school would be raising the flag every morning and taking it down every afternoon at the end of school. "This custom is one that is coming into fashion the whole country over."
Several interesting ads were in the newspaper. One by a dentist: "Do you want to enlist? You will be barred if your teeth are defective." And Everybody's Garage suggested that a citizen could "Show your Patriotism" by buying an "American Flag radiator ornament.".
The Honey Grove Signal on May 4 reported that the Home Guards were drilling nightly and occasionally in the afternoons. These were four to ten youngsters who had wooden guns and marched on vacant lots or in the streets. The Signal also reported on the passage by Congress of the conscription plan which provided for the selection of men for Army service.
The Impact of World War I on Fannin County
A chronology prepared by the Fannin County Historical Commission and the Honey Grove Preservation League from the Bonham Daily Favorite and the Honey Grove Signal.
The Bonham Daily Favorite and the Honey Grove Signal issues for 1917 can be viewed in their entirety at the Portal to Texas History.
Originally published in the Fannin County Leader.
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Historical Marker for Leonard Presbyterian Church
(Article taken from A History of the First United Presbyterian Church, Leonard, 1875-1982
by Ruth A. Borland Davis and Elizabeth Brooks Davis)
Click on the link above to view the entire History
The First Presbyterian Church of Leonard formally received and dedicated a state historical marked in ceremonies held at 2:30 p.m., July 16, 1983, the Saturday of the Leonard Picnic. The ceremonies were held at the Church.
In the early 1870's, a wealthy new York stockbroker, Tom Murphy, and a grocer, H. L. Parmele, began organizing a small Texas colonization effort. Both Murphy and Parmele were brothers-in-law of Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph. The prerequisite for joining the colony was membership in the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (Presbyterian Church, U. S. A.). Family names included in the colony membership were Rockwell, Conklin, Parmele, Ludlow, Van Pelt, Kuyrkendall, and Wright.
Mr. and Mrs. Parmele, their two grown daughters, (Bessie and Moddie) and a grandson (Asa) settled around 1872 in southwest Fannin County and established the community of Valley Creek.
During the next eight years, the rest of the Presbyterian colony began arriving via "immigrant train". (Their household effects rode in the front of a railroad car; the living quarters were in the back of the car.) They crossed New York State and traveled into Canada at the Niagara Falls over the Rainbow Bridge. In Canada, they traveled down the north side of the Lake Erie, through Ontario, to Windsor. The train re-entered the United States at Detroit, Michigan and went on to St. Louis, Missouri. The railway ended at Sherman, Texas. Colony members then moved overland by wagons to Bonham and continued on to Valley Creek.
In 1875, the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., was organized in Valley Creek under the guidance of Parmele and with the help of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. The congregation of this mission church met in one another's homes or in the community schoolhouse until a church house was built in 1878. The preacher for the small congregation was Mr. DeCosta Howard Dodson. Pastors and ministers for the mission church between the years 1875 and 1883 included the Reverend Mr. Rogers, the Reverend Mr. Van Emon, and the Reverend Mr. Johnson.
In 1880, the Valley Creek community was excluded from the new Fannin county route of the Denison and Southeastern Railroad. Two new towns were created on the line in Fannin county: Trenton and Leonard.
The town of Leonard sprang up quickly. From a population of 50 in 1881, it grew to a population of 350 by 1885. No doubt it was the combination of the growth of Leonard and a storm-damaged church building that brought about the mission Church elders' decision to relocate the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. to Leonard in 1883, and to build a new church structure. The new chosen name was the Leonard Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. The congregation called the Reverend Mr. Johnson to supervise the relocation and rebuilding of the church.
The new church building, another frame structure, was built in 1883 on the northeast corner lot of Houston and Main Streets in Leonard. (This is north of the present-day First United Methodist Church.) This was the first church building erected in the new town of Leonard.
The Leonard Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., grew as Leonard grew. From a small mission church began by a familial Presbyterian colony the membership now stood at 50.
During this period, four men served the congregation as its Teaching Elder (church minister): the Reverend Mr. Johnson, the Reverend Mr. S. P. Ulrich, the Reverend Mr. Lampton, and the Reverend Dr. DeCosta H. Dodson.
Between 1883 and 1905, Dr. Dodson became well-known in the North Texas area as both a pastor and as a Christian educator. His influence upon the educational system of Leonard was great.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church had organized a church in the Grove Hill community of Leonard following the Civil War, around 1870. Their membership began to decrease as members moved closer to Leonard. On October 15, 1905, the Grove Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Leonard Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., were united by a joint action of the church's Sessions. This union took place under the leadership of the Reverend Dr. DeCoasta H. Dodson, pastor of the Leonard church, and the Reverend Dr. Kirkpatrick, pastor of the Cumberland church. Elder's representing the U.S. A. church were A. L. Melton, James Sheils, J. R. Wilson, and J. J. Conklin. Elders representing the Cumberland church were W. E. Cox, J. C. Christian, F. P. Wilson, and H.C. Mitchell. The name, First Presbyterian Church, was selected by the Sessions. The Reverend Mr. N. F. Grafton accepted the congregation's pastor's call. The combined membership of the church was 100.
The frame structure used by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was built by Dr. DeCosta Dodson in 1898 and is the church's current location at the northeast corner of Connett and Thomas Streets. The structure of the U.S.A. church was torn down; the materials were salvaged to build a manse east of the church. The N. F. Grafton family soon built a personal family home on the large lot due north of the current Billy Grimes home on Parmele Street. The manse was let to various families until it was razed in 1958 to provide space for a parking lot.
Pastors and ministers during the period 1905-1958 include the Reverend Mr. N. F. Grafton, the Reverend Mr. U. C. Howard, the Reverend Mr. E. E. Diggs, the Reverend Mr. C. W. Yates, the Reverend Mr. C. C. Hines, the Reverend Mr. L. S. Markham, the Reverend Mr. A. A. Hyde, the Reverend Mr. J. W. Joiner, the Reverend Mr. A. C. Evans, the Reverend Mr. Art Ray, the Reverend Mr. Otis D. Swisher, and the Reverend Mr. Howard Holland. Reverend Paul Markham pastors a church in Monroe, Michigan. F. K., son of the early elder F. K. Malendore, an ordained minister, is now retired and living in Prosper, Texas.
In the early 1950's, Sunday School and church attendance greatly increased (from 21 to 45), with teenagers and young children in the majority. Consequently, the Session voted to add an educational building on to the northwest end of the church in 1953. Elders at this time were Thomas E. Wright, Pat Wilson, Clarence Weaver, and Sherman Latimer. The Reverend Mr. Howard Holland was pastor. This building continues to be used for church activities, and is greatly enjoyed by various civic groups and clubs for their meetings.
In 1964, a brick manse was built one block west of the church, on Thomas Street. Funds for the building of this home were a gift to the church from a long-time member, Blanche Ferguson Giles (Mrs. Ellis Giles). The original church bell, a part of the mission church at Valley Creek and all generations of the Leonard church, was permanently installed in the west churchyard in loving memory of "Miss Blanche" in 1964. It is rung to announce the Sunday worship services.
The church's name was changed in 1958 to the First United Presbyterian Church to reflect the national union of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of American and the United Presbyterian Church in North America. The denominational name was changed to "The United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America."
This congregation was organized as a mission of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., in 1875 at Valley Creek (3 mi. N) through the efforts of H. L. Parmele, the community's founder and leading merchant. The Rev. DeCoasta Howard Dodson, a noted Christian educator, became the first pastor.
After a spring storm damaged the church building in 1883, the congregation moved to the new town of Leonard, created by the coming of the Denison and Southeaster Railroad. They built the town's first church building on the corner of Houston and Main streets. In 1905 Leonard Presbyterian Church merged with the local Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which had been organized at Grove Hill (3.5 mi. NE) in 1870. The Rev. N. M. Grafton became the new pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, as it was named after the union.
The church structure on this site was used for worship by the Cumberland Presbyterian congregation and continues in use today. Additional facilities were built as membership increased.
Members here have included pioneer settlers and prominent community leaders who made significant contributions to the area's development and heritage.
Location: Connet & Thomas St., Leonard
First Presbyterian Church of Leonard
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What is the Workers Comp Process in Louisiana?
The workers comp process in Louisiana can be complex when a person is trying to file the claim without a lawyer. In this video, Lake Charles workers comp attorney Robert Martina reviews the four elements of a workers comp claim.
Well, workers’ compensation claims are completely different than tort claims, or personal injury claims. It’s a whole different system. They’ve got their own set of laws. The Louisiana Workers Compensation Act applies. There’s a lot of big differences between workers’ compensation claims and personal injury or tort claims. Specifically, it’s a no-fault system. There’s no fault in workers’ compensation claims. And there’s no award for pain and suffering, or mental anguish in workers’ compensation claims.
So, that’s the two big differences. But there’s really only four elements to a workers’ compensation claim in Louisiana. I can go into those, the first one is penalties and attorney’s fees for improper claim handling. The second is wage exposure or indemnity exposure. Which is lost wages or if you lose income due to an injury. That’s the second element.
The third element is pretty big. Usually future medical expenses. Future medical exposure. Workers’ compensation pays for reasonable, necessary and related medical treatment. So, that could last a lifetime, if you stay on comp for the rest of your life. Medical benefits don’t prescribe. Or, there’s no statute of limitations on medical benefits. But indemnity, there is different statute of limitations. Or in Louisiana, they call it prescription, apply to different benefits that you get indemnity. But medical, there is no statute of limitations or prescription.
The fourth element of a workers’ compensation claim in Louisiana is sometimes there’s an award for serious and permanent scarring and disfigurement. Those are in certain cases where there’s some serious and permanent impairment or scarring and disfigurement. But that’s limited up to 100 weeks of wages. So, sometimes that apply, sometimes it doesn’t. For more information on workers compensation claims, go to GallowayJefcoat.com.
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Zumiez Inc (ZUMZ) Q3 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
ZUMZ earnings call for the period ending November 2, 2019.
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Dec 5, 2019, 5:00 p.m. ET
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Zumiez Inc. Third Quarter Fiscal 2019 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. We will conduct a question-and-answer session toward the end of this conference.
Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone of the company's Safe Harbor language. Today's conference call includes comments concerning Zumiez Inc. business outlook and contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements and all other statements that may be made on this call, that are not based on historical facts are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially. Additional information concerning a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the information that will be discussed, is available in Zumiez's filing with the SEC.
At this time, I will now turn the call over to Rick Brooks, Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead.
Richard M. Brooks -- Chief Executive Officer
Hello and thank you everyone for joining us on the call. With me today is Chris Work, our Chief Financial Officer. I'll begin today's call with a few brief remarks regarding our third quarter and holiday performance to date. Then I'll share some thoughts about the future. Before handing the call to Chris who will take you through the numbers. After that, we'll open up the call to your questions.
The third quarter, represented our fourth consecutive strong back-to-school season and the 13th quarter of positive comparable sales gains. We drove solid full price selling in each of our geographies, resulting in a comparable sales increase of 5.5% versus our guidance of 2% to 4%. This comes on top of a 4.8% gain a year ago and 7.9% gain, a year before that.
We're very pleased with our performance and our team's meticulous focus on providing high quality service to the customer through every touch point. It is this focus has allowed us to convert mid single-digit topline growth into a significant improvement in profitability. The sales gains coupled with gross margin expansion, and the benefits from numerous expense saving initiatives we've implemented throughout our organization, drove a 37.1% increase in earnings per share to $0.75, which is $0.14 above the high end of our guidance range.
Our relentless attention to serving our customers, combined with a powerful operating model, we built around the single cost structure, has fueled our strong track record of performance and has Zumiez well positioned for continued success. This includes the fourth quarter, which has started well with quarter-to-date comparable sales measured through Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019, increasing 3.3% compared to the same period last year ending Tuesday December 4th, 2018.
As we reflect upon the strong results in the first nine months and full Year outlook, we reminded that our short-term results are directly attributed to the execution of our long-term strategies. For Zumiez, our long-term focus remains squarely on continuing to execute the customer centric growth strategy that the company has been building and evolving over its 40-year history. Many of the key elements of our strategy haven't changed over the decades, where others have been refined to reflect the impact of technology on consumer purchasing behavior.
Before I hand the call over to Chris for a review of the numbers, let me expand on the key elements of our long-term strategy. It starts with having the right products and brands that our customers are looking for, with an engaging customer experience. Our product selection is made up of a distinct mix of leading and emerging brands that are not broadly distributed. All the years, we've been able to consistently achieve this balance through strong relations we've forged with our brand partners, and more recently, our global reach that allows us to serve both our customers and brand partners at heightened levels, this includes clearly articulating our culture driven lifestyle brand position, and showcasing our ability to connect with the target audience in a authentic, engaging environment, that is uniquely curated by our people, all the way down to the local level.
Over the years, we spent significant time and resources, improving our localized merchandise assortments through investments in our people and technology, that enhance the customer experience at each touch point. Our teams across organization put a significant amount of effort into understanding our customers, not only today, but how they continue to evolve and what will be important to future generations. This thinking is embedded in our culture, and is reflected in who we hire and how we operate. These teams are in tune with the local and national trends that are important to our customers, and can speak to them across all of our channels. This approach allows us to serve the customer in an authentic way, bringing all the touch points together through the customer journey.
The next factor critical to our success, is speed. With the proliferation of digital capabilities, the speed of commerce has changed dramatically in recent years. We're already faster than most of our competitors, as we have the ability to deliver all digital orders out of our stores. This concept allows us to get product into the customers hands faster, by cutting down the shipping distance and also providing a stronger and more relevant product offering in stores.
Looking ahead, we are going to get faster in every aspect of serving and meeting customers needs than we are today, through enhancing localized assortments and our ability to get to know the customer more intimately through improved digital interactions and enhanced in-store experiences. Finally growing internationally has allowed us to identify consumer trends that emerge locally and grow globally and to achieve the scale necessary to work together with our brand partners in serving our customers around the world.
Our expansion has established a strategic physical presence in eight countries across three continents, with a digital platform that allows us to reach even further. We are applying learnings and best practices from each of our markets to ensure that we are on top of the latest fashion trends and brand cycles, which can now launch from anywhere in the world and quickly spread globally, due to proliferation of smart devices and social media. Our international businesses are primed for future growth and through exporting our operating model. We are taking our processes and tools from the more mature US operations, and seeing good results internationally.
In the third quarter, our businesses in Europe and Australia again performed ahead of the consolidated comparable sales growth. With the strong comparable sales, margin growth and overall store growth year-to-date, we have seen improved operating performance as well. We're excited about the progress being made by the Blue Tomato and Fast Times teams and continue to build upon the benefits of a globally integrated business. We are the only retailer in our lifestyle niche that can offer our brand partners global reach in major markets that meet consumer demand.
With regard to our financial model, we believe two key factors have contributed and will continue to contribute to our ability to drive improved results over the long term. First, as a lifestyle retailer, we have built our business to be exceptionally nimble, continuously evolving with customer trends and preferences. The capabilities we have built continue to provide us with a defensible strategy in maintaining and growing share, with our segment of a lifestyle market that seeks to be unique and different.
The first nine months of 2019 is a great example of this, as we saw a category shift in our business globally, with footwear and hardgoods leading the comparable sales trends, while men's and women's apparel have posted softer results. This is a meaningful change from one year ago, when we saw the apparel categories driving our positive comparable sales. Overall, the goal continues to be selling at full price and full margin, while listening to the customer with regards to the categories and brands they want to see at Zumiez. This focus has resulted in growth of comparable sales in 34 of our 40 years and is something that we believe will continue to be an advantage into the future.
Secondly, as we transitioned into the digital age, we've done a tremendous amount of work, creating an operating model that positions Zumiez to win with the digitally empowered [Phonetic] consumer, by combining our digital and physical sales channels to work seamlessly in service of the customer. With one inventory, that is accessible from all customer touch points, localized fulfillment, integrated sales teams, aligned goals, and our strong cultural values, we are well positioned to scale the business in today's integrated world. This strategy directly contributed to our 2018 results, as we increased operating profit by 25.3% on a 5.5% growth on revenue for the year, and we've continued that trend into 2019, delivering operating profit growth of 58% through the first nine months of 2019 on sales growth of 4.6%.
I'll leave you with this by staying true to our customer, culture and brand, with an intense focus on long-term results. We've consistently outperformed the competition and strengthened our market position. It is these thoughts that drive our long-term planning and feed the blueprint for our current year success. We've established a platform for growth, based upon a strong culture and brand that we are confident will support continued growth and increased shareholder value well into the future.
With that, I'll hand the call to Chris for his review of our financials. Chris?
Christopher C. Work -- Chief Financial Officer
Thanks Rick and good afternoon everyone. I'm going to start with a review of our third quarter 2019 results. I'll then provide a brief update on the quarterly sales trends, before discussing our fourth quarter guidance and our updated perspective on the full year.
Third quarter net sales increased $15.2 million or 6.1% to $264 million from $248.8 million in the third quarter of 2018. Contributing to this increase were positive comparable sales growth of 5.5% and the net addition of 15 stores since the end of last year's third quarter, partially offset by a decrease of $1.4 million due to changes in foreign currency rates.
During the 2019 third quarter, our comparable sales were driven by an increase in transaction volume, as well as an increase in dollars per transaction. The increase in dollars per transaction resulted from higher units per transaction, partially offset by a decrease in average unit retail.
During the quarter, the hardgoods category was our largest positive comping category, followed by accessories, footwear and men's. Women's was our only negative comping category. From a regional perspective, North America, net sales increased $11.9 million or 5.3% to $238.5 million. Other international net sales, which consists of Europe and Australia, increased $3.3 million or 14.8% to $25.6 million. Excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, North America, net sales grew 5.4% and other international net sales grew 19.8% for the quarter.
Third quarter gross profit was $94.6 million, an increase of $7.7 million or 8.9% compared to the third quarter 2018. Gross margin was 35.8% in the quarter, an increase of 90 basis points compared to 34.9% a year ago. The increase was primarily driven by 40 basis points of leverage in our store occupancy costs, 30 basis points improvement in web fulfillment distribution and shipping costs, and a 20 basis point improvement in the write-off of excess or slow-moving inventory. Product margins were flat during the quarter, despite unfavorable mix shifts across categories and geographies.
SG&A expense was $70.3 million in the third quarter, compared to $68.5 million a year ago. SG&A as a percent of net sales was 26.6% compared to 27.5% in the prior year. The decrease was primarily driven by 100 basis points of leverage in our store costs, including 30 basis points of depreciation. Operating income in the third quarter 2019 increased 32.2% to $24.3 million or 9.2% of net sales, compared with the prior year third quarter operating income of $18.4 million or 7.4% net sales. Net income for the third quarter was up 38.7% to $19.2 million or $0.75 per share compared to net income of $13.8 million or $0.55 per share for the third quarter of 2018. Our effective tax rate for the third quarter 2019 was 25% compared with 26.5% in the year ago period. The decrease was primarily due to a reduction in net losses in certain jurisdictions, which are excluded from our estimated annual effective tax rate, due to the uncertainty of the realization of deferred tax assets and the proportion of earnings or loss before income taxes across each of our jurisdictions.
Turning to the balance sheet, cash and current marketable securities increased 39.7% to $178.6 million as of November 2, 2019, up from $127.9 million as of November 3rd, 2018. This increase was primarily driven by $77.6 million in cash flow from operations, partially offset by $19.2 million of capital expenditures, primarily related to new store growth and remodels. We ended third quarter 2019 with $183.4 million in inventory, down 1.9% from last year, excluding the year-over-year impact of foreign currency translation, inventory declined 1.4% from the prior year.
Now to our recent sales results, our comparable sales increased 3.3% quarter-to-date through December 3rd, 2019 compared with the prior year quarter days sales results through December 4, 2018. We have provided this comparison for 2019 due to the timing of the Thanksgiving holiday shift. The comparable sales increase was driven by an increase in transactions and an increase in dollars per transaction. Quarter-to-date, dollars per transaction increased due to an increase in units per transaction and an increase in average unit retail. Quarter-to-date, the hardgoods category is our highest positive comping category, followed by accessories in men's. Women's is our largest negative comping category, followed by footwear.
Looking at the guidance for the fourth quarter of 2019. Once again, I'll start off by reminding everyone that formulating our guidance involves some inherent uncertainty and complexity in estimating, sales product margin, and earnings growth given the variety of internal and external factors that impact our performance. With that in mind, we currently expect that comparable sales will increase between 2% and 4% for the fourth quarter of 2019, with total sales in the range of $314 million to $320 million. Consolidated operating margins are expected to be between 12.5% and 13%, and we anticipate earnings per share will be between $1.26 and $1.32 compared with last year's earnings of $1.18.
Now I want to give you a few updated thoughts around 2019., given our performance year-to-date. We are now building on 13 consecutive quarters of positive comparable sales. As we look to the fourth quarter of 2019 and beyond, we continue to believe that we've made that -- with the investments we've made in our infrastructure, creating a seamless sales experience for our customers, our unique approach to merchandising, as well as those investments we continue to make in the Zumiez team will drive long-term top and bottom line growth. With that in mind, we are updating our annual expectation for consolidated comparable sales growth to be approximately 4% compared to our previous guidance for comparable sales growth to be between 2% and 4% for fiscal 2019.
In fiscal 2018, we achieved peak product margins, improving from the previous high point in 2017, despite a heavily branded cycle resulting in reduction of private label share of 370 basis points. In fiscal 2019, to date, we have also experienced mix shifts that have impacted margin. These mix shifts include our category sales, trending toward hardgoods and footwear, which have lower product margins in the apparel categories, as well as higher top line growth in our international businesses. While international product margins continue to grow and have additional opportunity, they are currently lower than our US operations, based upon where those businesses are in their lifecycle.
For 2019, we expect product margin to be down between 10 and 20 basis points from the prior year, consistent with our Q2 earnings call update. We continue to manage costs across the business, with the more mature concepts in North America, focused on leveraging at a low single digit comparable sales growth. Internationally, we are focused on managing costs well within the current sales and unit growth rates, and driving our concepts closer to breakeven, reducing the impact of the losses on the overall business. We currently anticipate year-over-year operating profit growth of approximately 25% to 30% for fiscal 2019. We are currently planning our business, assuming an annual effective tax rate of approximately 26%, comparing to our prior year rate of 27.5% and diluted earnings per share for the full year are now expected to be between $2.38 and $2.46, up from our previous guidance of $2.10 to $2.20, representing a year-over-year growth between 33% and 37%.
We have opened 15 new stores in 2019, including five stores in North America, seven stores in Europe and three stores in Australia. There are no further store openings planned during fiscal 2019. We expect capital expenditures for the full 2019 fiscal year to be between $19 million and $21 million compared to $21 million in 2018. The majority of the capital spend is dedicated to new store openings and planned remodels. We expect that depreciation and amortization, excluding non-cash lease expense, will be approximately $25 million for the year, down approximately $1.6 million from the prior year. We are currently projecting our share count for the full year to be approximately 25.5 million shares. Any share repurchases during the year, will reduce our share count from this estimate.
And lastly, on December 4, 2019, the Zumiez Board of Directors approved the repurchase of up to $100 million of our common stock. This repurchase authorization replaces the previously approved $75 million repurchase program, and is expected to continue through January 30, 2021, unless this time period is extended or shortened by our Board of Directors.
And with that operator, we'd like to open up the call for questions.
[Operator Instructions]. First question is from Sharon Zackfia from William Blair. Your line is now open.
Sharon Zackfia -- William Blair -- Analyst
Hi, good afternoon. A couple of questions on -- I guess most obviously on the rate of SG&A growth, which has been really, really low in terms of dollar growth through the first three quarters that you're driving kind of the mid-single digit sales gains and I know, Rick, you alluded to this some in the prepared commentary, but how do we think about SG&A going forward? I mean is this kind of a new normal where you can grow SG&A at a low single digit percentage rate, or is there something unusual this year that you are really harvesting and it will tick up again in future years?
Sure, Sharon. I'll go ahead and take that. So thank you for your compliments on our SG&A growth, we're pretty happy about it as well. This has been a big effort of ours, as we've been thinking about the business over the last couple of years and setting goals really by entity and how we're planning the business. And as we think about 2019 and how we've exited the last couple of years, I think that -- the one benefit we've had in growth rates is -- last year we performed pretty well. The year before that and 2017 we did as well. Throughout that time we were growing the incentive pool, and we've got that kind of to that targeted level and and beyond. And so, there is a benefit in incentives to a modest amount in how we're planning 2019 right now. So that's one area, but beyond that, it's really strong expense management across all of our entities. This is something, again, we kind of talked about in our long-term plannings of how do we think about SG&A and really all costs to really try to optimize the business. And it starts with some of the things Rick talked about, as we have talked about localization and how we're thinking about one sales channel. We've really tried to break the business apart and say, you know, the customer only sees us as one sales channel. We don't need to see our cost structures too. And so fulfilling from stores, and the way we've been able to ship closer to the consumer, all of those things have been benefits to our overall business. That being said, we've had many other areas within SG&A, just in our management of store wages, how we've looked at store operations and the management of store costs. We've really kind of gone back and looked at our web businesses across all of our entities, to say where can we optimize some of the costs there, and of course attacked some of the areas of corporate SG&A as well.
So all of those are contributing to what we're seeing on the store growth -- from a store growth rate, I think, I'm sorry -- from an SG&A growth rate. I think what you should expect from us going forward is we're going to really work diligently to plan it at a rate below sales. And domestically here, we're looking at low-single digit comp plans, and trying to plan SG&A to grow below that and internationally, obviously the growth rate from stores and top line is going to be higher, based on the opportunities there. But again, we're trying to manage SG&A very-very tightly to keep that SG&A rate pretty meaningfully below the sales rate of growth, to really drop through that profit to the bottom line.
So really happy with where the rate stands for 2019. I don't think it's a direct straight line into 2020 and growing forward. We'll probably see a little higher rate of growth, but plan that rate below sales.
And Sharon. I think to add to that, I don't want you to think that this is a cost saving push. We are making investments in our business to about things that we think are going to drive long-term results simultaneously, as Chris has laid out, our ability to think about this concept the trade area, optimization of trade areas, the importance of refined localized assortments as we mentioned in the comments, and how we are able to lever labor in new ways, in a single cost structure world. There are lot of initiatives, how we're going to act with our consumer over the next few years, and all sorts of different ways being more highly relevant to them. I think that will continue to drive this. I don't want you to think that, this is really about cost savings at one side. This is really about optimization of the business, and why we are investing for the future at the same time.
Okay, that's helpful. And then on merchandise margin or product margin. I know you've kind of have that slightly negative guidance all year. But it's been kind of slightly positive through the first three quarters. So I guess, that means we're going to have all of that happen in the current quarter. Is that really more geographic because of the kick up in international in the fourth quarter, or is it more of the category mix?
Yeah, it definitely, as it relates to the fourth quarter and we have been up and down. We are a little bit up in product margin in Q1, down in Q2 and relatively flat in Q3 here. So as we think about Q4, international is just a larger portion of the business. So that is going to -- the mix shift to international is going to have a bigger impact into the fourth quarter. But the growth, as we've really reported all year in skate hardgoods predominantly, but also footwear has been pretty phenomenal. And so that mix within categories is impactful as well. But to your question, international will have a larger impact in the fourth quarter than the category mix, but both will have an impact in the fourth quarter and -- where our plans are today.
Okay, thank you very much.
Thanks Sharon.
Thanks you, Sharon.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jeff Van Sinderen from B Riley, FBR. Your line is now open.
Richard Magnusen -- B. Riley FBR -- Analyst
Hello, this is Richard Magnusen in for Jeff Van Sinderen. Historically, during the strong skate hardgoods cycle, what did you experience in the snow hardgoods related apparel business, with the snow conditions being equal? We're just wondering if there is a correlation you can point to?
No, there is no correlation is a simple answer, Richard. Snow is -- as a function of weather, to a large degree, when were talking about snow hardgoods and the hardware that goes with it, so it's really a function of where does it snow and how much does it snow, and does it now in our larger markets where we do business versus the smaller markets, where we might operate around the country, or around the world. So it's a function of snow. I don't view it is -- I don't see any correlation relative to the trend skate cycle.
Okay. And then regarding the various brands that you carry, understanding as the leadership of the brands is constantly evolving, can you speak to any emerging trends that you're seeing develop, and what is your latest thinking on where you are in the branded cycle in the apparel business? And then maybe you can touch on the trends in your footwear business as well and the outlook there?
I'll let Chris talk a little bit more deeply about the trends relative to mix of our business and things like that. But let me start off Richard, by just saying that, I think that we feel good about the pipeline for new brands. I believe we're on target for hitting our launch this year, of how many new brands we target to launch on an annual basis. So we're not seeing any lack of new brands coming forward into the marketplace. From that perspective now, it doesn't mean that they become an all star [Indecipherable], work as local brands as we start working with them and beginning to help them, build their business. So I'll just remind you that from my perspective, you have to think about our business as a portfolio of brands, a portfolio of departments and categories, and at different times, different things will drive the business. And again, as we talked in our comments that can change rapidly, as you've seen from last year with the apparel being the driver of this year with skate hardgoods and accessories being the driver.
And so our view of this, both from a brand perspective, emerging brands, is that we're always going to see something happen. If this is a wallet share drive and we believe we are pretty good at capturing our share of the wallet. So just keep that in mind, our model is about this portfolio approach to brands and the lifestyle, representing entire lifestyle through departments in category combination. So with that, I am going to let Chris add some comments.
Yeah, I'd just say from a trends perspective as we've talked about it over our history, we really try to look at kind of our top 20 brands and and how they represent, and we've said in the past, at 20% to 30% turnover, over an annual period is pretty common. We are actually just trending slightly ahead of that, through the third quarter year-to-date. So we'll come back and report that after a full year, which is probably the best read to kind of give an idea of what's happening.
But to Rick's point, I think we continue to see the pipeline look good. A couple of the brands that have moved into our top 20, weren't even in our ecosystem a year ago, which is -- which is kind of, I think, a really cool sign and again highlights what we talked about over the years, that just the speed of trends and how fast things move. So overall, the top 20 brands in regards to kind of where we are in this brand cycle, our top 20 brands are actually through the first nine months, a little higher, total penetration than they were a year ago, which has historically been an indication for us, it's kind of still the strength of the cycle and where our top 20 consolidating taking more of a share. So again, overall feeling good about the make up.
In regards to footwear, footwear has been a driver all year long. We talked about that. We did call out that it was just down -- it was down through quarter-to-date, but I will reiterate it was down very-very slightly, almost to the flat level. So we are feeling fine about where footwear stands, and the footwear trends have been good. We still have one vendor that has been a bigger driver there, but we are seeing growth in other areas of footwear too, so it's not just all growth in one areas and that's -- that's the diversity that Rick talks about, both across departments as well as within department. So we obviously feel very pleased with the trends of the business and where our brand situation sits.
Thank you. Our next question is from Janine Stichter from Jefferies. Your line is now open.
Janine Stichter -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Hi, thanks for taking the question. Congrats on the great results. Wanted to ask about the women's apparel business. I guess, that's the one piece that you could maybe say, is a little bit weaker right now, everything else seems to be working really well. So what's going on there? Can you give us some context? Is it just the fact that we've been in a stronger branded cycle, and I think that the women's apparel tends to skew a little bit more toward private label, or how should we think about it, and is there some outlook where you can give us that -- the timeline for that piece of the business, which are positive. Thank you.
Sure. Glad to help out a little bit there Janine, in terms of thinking about the women's business. I think women's is -- tends to be a bit faster from a trend perspective, than our men's side of the business. So some of that I think, we tend to see more volatility around women's, both on the upside and the downside. Traditionally, I'd also remind you that, I think that our women's consumer, in many respects, buys men's product to a large degree. And so some of the new and emerging brands we have, are brands that I think where we're not offering women's products. So that -- we will probably see some of that women's from just this a trend perspective buying the smalls in men's, for example, in t-shirts and things like that.
So what we talk about women's, to be clear, what we are talking about is, the number we're talking about -- is women's apparel. It doesn't include accessories or women's footwear. So it's a broader mix, when we look at overall women's, and then again, I think there is this push to -- for our business that women don't see gender lines as clearly. They are just as happy to buy men's sizes and men's brands, and certain assumptions, where women like the fit better frankly on the men's side of the business. So it's not as clear as just women's apparels. It has been a negative. But I do add that, it tends to be more volatile than the men's side traditionally, because trend cycles move even faster on the women's side of the business.
And I'd just add one thing with women's just to remember, we have been down for the first three quarters of this year, but we were up 10 quarters prior to that and up pretty strong. So even when I look at like the two year stack through the year, its still positive. So we ran some really strong results in women's, and yes, we've been running down. But still pretty good results overall, specifically in light of where the overall business sits.
Great, that's helpful perspective. And then just anything you can give on tariffs what you're hearing from your branded partners? Any update there?
Yeah, absolutely. From a tariff perspective, obviously we're -- just like all other retailers here, monitoring this very closely. One of the things we talked about over the last few quarters, is just where our exposure lands and we still are -- probably just over since 9/1, which is the last time the last update we've had of kind of the rates going into effect. We're still probably just over 40%, 41%, -- 42% of product coming from China, that I try to remind people, when you talk about this, because that number can't seem bigger, but such a large portion of our business is screenables and much of that is blanks that come from China. And so as we start to break that down, the imported value of a blank is obviously much less than the completed value. So but yeah, I mean we continue to work with our vendors here. To date, what you see through the third quarter and what's planned in the fourth quarter, there are -- there is not a material impact. There are areas where we have seen the increased tariff and a few areas where we've seen some pass-through from our brands and -- but at the end of the day, it's not material to this year, it's something we'll continue to monitor and manage, as we move into 2020. We're going to -- we're going to really try to take a balanced approach here of working with our vendors, continuing to try and move production where possible, finding other potential offsets on price here. And then in the last case scenario, potentially having to raise our prices to customers. So it's an ongoing situation we're monitoring, and we'll kind of keep tabs on it here.
Great. Thank you.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Mitch Kummetz from Pivotal Research. Your line is now open.
Mitch Kummetz -- Pivotal Research -- Analyst
Yeah, thanks for taking my questions and congrats on the quarter. I have a few questions. I just want to circle back on footwear, which was -- sounds like a barely negative quarter-to-date. I know that's a very small sample size. It doesn't sound like its anything you guys are concerned with. I just wanted to drill down on that. I mean is there -- I know that these categories sort of ebb and flow and I'm -- it doesn't sound like you feel like footwear is now something that is going to hit a downward trajectory like maybe apparel has for the last few quarters, and I'm just kind of wondering, why you think that is, if this is just a blip or too small of a sample, or...?
I think Mitch, the way I think about it. obviously we've looked at this different ways. It's been trending really well for us all year along. We've looked at this over the last two Q4s, and have actually seen November softer than December. So December typically has gotten stronger in footwear sales, which I think makes sense, in regards to the gift-giving and the need around Christmas time for people wanting footwear. So we don't have any indications at this point. I would kind of classify more to your question of the smaller sample size in November, obviously the good portion of our volume here is still to come, and we expect footwear to still be a strong part of our Q4 sales.
Yeah. Got it.
Historically, I'd just add that, again I think footwear really booms in the post-holiday period, when our consumer -- our young consumer is back in the store as opposed to the gift giver. So that's what we've really seen historically, footwear doing better.
Okay. And then on EBIT margin, you guys are closing in on 8%. It looks like based on what the Q3 guide is, you are sort of inching toward that? Because I know that in the past, when people have asked you about EBIT margin targets, you sort of talked about, I think 8%, something lower than prior peak. I'm just wondering, now that we're kind of getting close to that number, where do you think you could go from here, what's the low hanging fruit at this point on the margin side, to get it above that 8% level that I think you've kind of referred to in the past?
Yeah, thanks Mitch, and I'll kind of tie this in with even Sharon's question earlier on SG&A, because we're super happy with where the results are coming in for this year, obviously on top of very strong results in 2018. To your point, the top end of our Q4 guidance would indicate operating profit or EBIT close to 8% there, it's about 7.7% in operating profit, compared to 6.2% a year ago. So very, very happy with the growth there.
And I think what we've pushed in the past, is to say, high single-digits, and so that to us means, we can probably get closer to 10%. And it's going to take some work to do that. We are working on ways always to kind of optimize and maximize the potential of our North America business, that's here that's very mature. Obviously you guys know, we have a good opportunity to grow internationally and turn that profitably, which will help us a lot.
But in addition to the comments I made around Sharon's question earlier, you know, there is other areas that have contributed to this operating profit or EBIT margin depending on how you want to look at it, in regards to -- we continue to make some traction on shrink, and are seeing our shrink rate come down. we called out the amount of excess and obsolete inventory management that we've been able to benefit from, which is really our teams coming together and maximizing some of our clearance and damaged product to bring more value to that. We've talked about occupancy leverage and opportunity there and working on that line item, and there is a lot of the kind of DC optimization and shipping optimization projects that we've reaped some benefits from, and have benefits to come in the future.
So for us, I think it's really trying to push it to get back to that around 10%, and we kind of -- so that's where we're pushing toward.
And then last question, just you kind of touched on it briefly in your response to that question. But profitability update on Europe, especially given what you've seen on the international business last couple of quarters, I would imagine that that's been pretty impactful on the profitability of international business. But it's still losing money, if I'm not mistaken, I think you kind of talked about getting closer to breakeven this year. One, can you get breakeven, just kind of based on what you've seen over the last couple of quarters in particular?
Yeah. Thanks Mitch. Definitely its part of the mix right, when we're growing here, operating profit between 25% to 30%, a big portion of that is North America, just because the lion's share of our business, but there is a great contribution from our international teams here as well. We've talked about are losing millions of dollars over the last couple of years. We are getting that down quite a bit. We'll make substantial -- our forecast, we're going to make substantial improvement here in 2019. We'll try to give a little more color on that in Q4. I think it is important, just based on the seasonality of that business, that we see how the Q4 comes in, but our current estimates would mean -- would show we're going to be making major traction there in 2019.
As we look toward 2020, our current focus based on how we're planning the rest of this year and into 2020, is that we will continue to make substantial progress and this would be a business that within the next year or two, we would be looking at on the profitability side of it. So I think that we're getting very close. We are really excited about our current results, as Rick talked about on the call, we continue to see Europe performed very strong, specifically in some of those important markets outside of -- Austria, which was the home country for the business. We've seen Germany be really strong. We opened in Finland here in the last quarter, which will be our fifth market here in Europe, which will be -- starting in Austria. We added Germany, Swiss, the Netherlands and now Finland, and we've seen some really good early indications from that market. So really happy with that. And as Rick pointed out in his comments, International is super important to our global footprint and really meeting the expectations of the customer, on how trends emerge around the world and then obviously serving our brand partners as well. So happy with how that's moving forward and we'll look forward to giving you guys more of an update here on our Q4 call.
Yeah, and Mitch, I'll just add just for flavor to this comment about international is, when we talk about needing to invest in the current business, thinking about the long-term nature of driving profitability in -- all within announced markets take investment [Phonetic] because for us to roll out then our omni-tools practice, processes and the tools themselves requires scale in the marketplace. So when we -- when we launched in Canada, our first international market, we had to make those investments. We really lost money in our initial years in Canada, and then as we were able to gain the scale that we have in Canada today, we are able to turn on all our omnitools, serve the customers at all new levels, and actually we have a pretty strong business in Canada these days, and that's what you're seeing us do globally, as we think about the business here. Europe is a really big market, so it requires that we make those investments, we are making investments as we go along, while delivering good, long-term results, as we execute and develop new tools and new ways to serve customers in our most mature markets. By investing in growth in those markets to gain scale, then allowing us to implement our omni tools, which are now [Indecipherable] to do in parts of Europe, where we're building up models, and seeing the benefits of the omni tools play out. So again this year, I want for all of us to think about this as the continuum, that we are making investments today, that are going to pay off in the future.
Great. All right, thanks guys, good luck this holiday.
Thanks Mitch.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jonathan Komp from Baird. Your line is now open.
Jonathan Komp -- Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. -- Analyst
Yeah, hi. Thank you. I just wanted to follow up on some of the category performance, and I guess I'm just wondering, when you look at the current mix hardgoods, accessories, footwear, to a lesser extent, can you maybe just comment more on maybe the duration of that mix of drivers, and is there a point in the future where you think you need to get apparel back, working better to sustain the comps performance, or how are you thinking about that?
Sure Jon. Again, as we think about this portfolio approach, we've always been -- we've got to own the wallet share for our consumers, and there's not many years that we don't -- in fact, not many years that we not only don't own our share, but I think we're gaining more share of their wallet, as we move forward. So I would tell you that, in peaks, we've seen better performance of the men's apparel already and, as Chris said, I think where we found some new brands move into the play, that's been very impactful on the men's apparel line and probably again indirectly on women's too, because I believe that to some extent, it's women buying the smaller size of some of these new men's brands.
But that being said, again we listen to the consumer, we follow what the consumer says, I think some trend cycles move at different speeds. The fastest trend cycles have to do with just fashion trend versus a brand cycle, which tends to be longer in duration. And I would tell you that I think a skate cycle, like we're in here, those historically for us have been long cycles, both on the upside and the downside. As you recollect, I think our last peak in skate was in 2015 approximately, had a tough '16, and then we had tough years in skate. In fact, we're running down skate year ago. So they tend to be a multiyear cycle is what we've seen -- tend to see whether it's a department driven cycle like that. Now that doesn't mean we're going to run up in the skate as big as we are this year and next year to be clear. But I think -- if you thought about in terms of recapturing percentage mix of the business in skate, you could expect over a period of time, over a period of years, we would achieve that penetration again, that we've historically achieved in skate hardgoods. So each of the different kinds of trend cycles move at different speeds, and I would expect because the fashion trends that move faster, we will see some things trend down. In the next 18 months, and we will see all new things being introduced.
Brand cycles, I think as we said earlier, we feel good about the pipeline where we're at. We've had some good success with new brands this year in the business. So I think, I don't have any major negative for you there and then on the category type of -- department category kind of combination, so those tend to be longer-lasting as has been our history, multi-year cycles, and again, so I think we've got some -- somewhere and with skate to go and I think the right way to think about it is, do we get back to the peak penetration we hit in prior cycles.
And that's where I wanted to follow-up, actually on the skate, I guess two questions. Is skate -- first, is skate item that's gifted for holiday, or is that a business that kicks back in next spring? And then just any color or commentary on what you observe in terms of the competitive set, following the last down cycle. Would that be a case where you could maybe go deeper, capture more of the share in an up cycle, if the competitive set has changed?
Yeah, good questions, and I would tell you that I think that skate cycle, there are fewer competitors today in the skate hardgoods world than there were in the last cycle. And so, I think that we've talked about whether or not we achieve a greater deeper penetration. I think the evidence, we're going to have to wait to see that play out and to see if that is going to be true, but I think that the rate that skate is growing for us is pretty phenomenal, and it would tend to indicate to me that, we own a bigger share, I think this is a good example of that. Jonathan, where we do -- I believe own a bigger share than -- I believe our skate business is growing faster than most of -- the rest of the marketplace. And I think we just on scale, I don't know who -- when you come to actual lifestyle skateboard retailing, where you're assembling components and boards, I don't know of anyone bigger than us in the world doing it today. So this is an area that's definitely a strength of ours. We'll see. We've had some competition internally, we might reach a new peak here. think we just have the evidence [48:22] play that out.
Okay. And just on the holiday. Is that something that's a gifted or should we think about it next...
No it is definitely a gift item. So I think now, also t-shirts run bigger in the holiday season, it's a good -- obviously a good gift item, to accessory groupings. But no skate has always been a good gift item. It may not run up as high as it does in the spring, just relative to mix, because other categories like t-shirts and accessories run higher, but it is a good gifting item.
Okay. Great. That's all really helpful. Thank you.
Thank you. Our next question is from John Morris from DA Davidson. Your line is now open.
John Morris -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst
Hi, thanks. Hey Chris, hey Rick. So really nice work here, and I'm thinking, the inventory levels. It's really great that you guys were able to put up these kinds of numbers with lower inventory actually, at the end of the quarter. So any more added color there, is that where you're getting a lot of the efficiency that we're talking about and where -- what should we be thinking about how inventories look at the end of the year. And you know, just kind of turning it around, do you feel like you could drive more sales, if you decide to release more inventory into the pipeline? I'm thinking from the perspective of not so much Q4 now, but how you might manage the business differently into next year. So sort of all of that inventory discussion? Nice work.
Sure. I appreciate it, John, and I'll jump in here and then let Rick add anything at the end, if he'd like. I think from, let's say -- if we just step back and kind of talk long term. Obviously going to localize fulfillment was a big benefit in inventory to us overall. Now that's not going to directly attribute to the year-over-year here, but I do want to just focus on -- when we close our fulfillment center and we pushed a portion of that inventory out to stores. It has really allowed us to optimize and thinking about inventory differently over the last couple of years. And Rick even talked about in his prepared comments of the -- it has benefited the experience of the physical stores, because your online demand is effectively carried in the local stores, which makes -- as you match those together from a planning and fulfill -- and a planning and allocation perspective, it just brings a better in-store experience overall.
So we're really happy with the inventory management. I think our buying teams and our store teams and our web teams, and everybody working together has really, really optimized inventory and we have a ways to go. We have a ton of opportunities as well. So we're very pleased with the inventory management. I think if you look at growth rates, I would just say, let's look at it over a multi-year period. Last year at this point, we saw inventory increase 19.1% at the same quarter. So over a couple year period, our two-year stack, and this is still a pretty good increase for us. But really, that's just a factor of doing. I think what you're asking in the latter part of your question, if you had more inventory, could you do more? And what we got to last year, was that by increasing more inventory, bringing in more Q3 receipts and getting that inventory in a better balanced position, heading into holiday, we did think we could do more, and I think, it showed good results last year and as we manage through this year, we thought we could take it down a little bit, and we did that. But overall, we feel like inventory is in a really good spot. We're more current than we were a year ago, across all of our entities. So the health of the inventory is in a good spot, and we're excited to see how this fourth quarter plays out.
And the only thing I'd add John, to Chris' comments is, again I just want to reemphasize that the quality of inventory is really strong. Again, we're more current as Chris said, across all of our entities. So we really feel good about that. The teams have worked hard, about keeping things -- keeping things in good current positions, which of course is going to be -- helps us offset some of the margin challenges relative to mix and shift in the business.
The other thing I would tell you that is a positive for us in a cycle like this, and although it's a small, still overall small percentage of our business relative to men's or women's apparel, for example, skate hardgoods is a quick turning business. So if you actually looked at our inventory there, we're running down actually -- significantly there in inventory, relative to that a significant gain. Its just -- we are able to program that, work closely with our brand partners. We are a very important retailer for our brand partners. And so we're able to turn -- that's actually a faster turning category for us because we have land -- we got land decks every week, and we literally build plans with our partners, as to what we're going to need and when we're going to need it. And so we work really well together with our partners, and that tends to be faster turning business-wise. So a small part of our overall inventory position. We are, I can tell you have larger -- we are down more in skate inventory, while running up a huge amount. So it's just a quick turn -- the fact is, that a trendy business for us helps us a little bit, just because it's a quick turn business.
Yeah. And we can see that better inventory in the stores. They look great. One other quick question, Chris, on the tax rate for the fourth quarter, can you just true it up for us for Q4, because it looks like the full year, I think you said would be 25%. So that would imply Q4 would be down quite a bit too, and I just want to check that number with you?
That's correct. Yeah, we would expect Q4 to be down even significantly to our Q3 rate, which was 25%, and I think the big challenge here -- and actually the benefit we've had throughout the year is, is really most closely tied to our international business. As you guys know, we do have a valuation allowance on the losses that we've sustained in Europe, which means we cannot recognize any tax benefit in the losses to operating profit flow straight to the bottom line. So that has a inverse impact in the fourth quarter, where this is the quarter that our operations there make money, it's their largest quarter, and so we're going to see a positive benefit to the bottom line of -- to see operating profit drop straight down to net income, and offset some of the net operating losses we have in the entity. So you will see that benefit, which is obviously driving the lower tax rate in the fourth quarter, and then to our annual guide of -- that we gave in our script.
Should we be thinking about next year, around 25%? Would it be a working tax number?
I think where we land here for 2019 will be a good draft for where we will be long-term. Obviously, the more profitable that we can make our international operations, the more benefit we should have there. And so, yes, I think this is probably a good benchmark to start with for 2020 and we'll try to provide some more color as we get to our Q4 call.
Got it. Thanks and good luck for holiday, guys, thanks.
[Operator Instructions]. At this time, I'm showing no further questions. I would like to turn the call back over to Rick Brooks for closing remarks.
All right, thank you very much and we appreciate everyone's interest in Zumiez and thanks for all your questions today. And of course we wish you all the best in the holiday season, and we'll look forward to talking to you again with our fourth quarter results in March. Thanks everybody.
[Operator Closing Remarks].
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Arvie Odom Jr.
May 8, 1942 - April 15, 2021
Arvie Odom Jr., 78, formerly of Cape Girardeau, Missouri passed away to his heavenly home on Thursday, April 15, 2021. He was a beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He was born May 8, 1942 in Dyess, Arkansas to Arvie E. and Hettie V. Mabry Odom. He and JoAnn McMahan were married June 17, 1961 at Saint Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Bragg City High School in 1960 and worked 39 1/2 years at the Saint Louis Post Office. He loved Jesus and served Him throughout his life. He was a faithful member of First Baptist of Jackson, Missouri. Survivors include his wife of 59 years, JoAnn Odom of Cape Girardeau; daughter, Karen (Mark) Allen of Forest, Virginia; a son, Todd (Kendra) Odom of Cape Girardeau; son-in-law, Jason Millen of Fort Worth, Texas; nine grandchildren, Kathryn (Russ) Rodriguez, Jaclyn (Michael) Camden, Colton Allen, Jason Aaron Millen, Matthew Millen, Meagan Millen, Brady Odom, Jordan Odom, Jackson Odom; five great-grandchildren, Raegan Rodriguez, Kiley Rodriguez, Ryder Rodriguez, Charlotte "Charlie" Camden, Hayden Camden; a sister, Dean Beardsley of Osceola, Arkansas; a brother, Wayne (Sandra) Odom of Benton, Arkansas. He was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Reedie Lewis, Ruby Ross, Sylvia Ford; and a daughter, Sandra Millen. Visitation will be 10:00 am to 11:00 am Monday, April 19, 2021 at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will follow at 11:00 am Monday at the funeral home with the Rev. Mark Allen assisted by Rev. Randy Riley. Burial will be at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau. Memorial contributions may be given to American Cancer Society or First Baptist Church in Jackson. Online condolences may be made at www.fordandsonsfuneralhome.com. Ford and Sons Funeral Home - Mt. Auburn is in charge of arrangements.
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NBA, players agree to additional protocols through holidays
by: TIM REYNOLDS, Associated Press
The NBA and its players have agreed to enhanced health and safety protocols through the holiday season in response to rising virus numbers, with additional testing coming and a return to mask usage in many situations.
The upgraded mask rules will be in place “until agreed otherwise by the NBA and Players Association,” according to a memo shared with teams Thursday night and obtained by The Associated Press. Masks need to be worn again in almost all circumstances during team activities — including travel, when on the bench during games, in meetings and locker room, weight room and training room settings.
The exceptions: during on-court basketball activities for players, and for head coaches during games.
Testing will be increased from Dec. 26 through Jan. 8, the league said. The league also told teams that more requirements and recommendations would be coming in the next few days, “to help reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread within the team environment.”
The memo was released on the same day that Russell Westbrook entered the health and safety protocols, joining Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo and Brooklyn’s James Harden as past league MVP’s currently sidelined by coronavirus concerns.
Westbrook played 42 minutes for the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night in their overtime win at Dallas. The Lakers said he would not play Friday night in Minnesota, along with four other players because of virus issues and two more because of injuries. ESPN, however, reported that one of the five Lakers in the protocols — Malik Monk — tested out Thursday night, which would make him eligible to play Friday.
If granted permission by the NBA to sign reinforcements and temporarily exceed the roster-size limit, the Lakers were planning to sign former All-Star guard Isaiah Thomas to a 10-day hardship contract Friday, according to a person with direct knowledge of the negotiations. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the pending league approval.
As of Thursday evening, there were at least 39 players — roughly 8% of the league’s total player roster — from at least 13 different teams known to be in the league’s protocols. Chicago had a league-high eight players known to be in protocols, one more than Brooklyn. Harden and Antetokounmpo both entered the protocols earlier this week.
Washington coach Wes Unseld Jr., speaking to reporters in Phoenix before the Wizards’ game there Thursday, said the rise in numbers — in the NBA, other leagues and around the country — is “a huge concern.”
“Protocols are put in place,” Unseld said. “We’ve been testing for some time now with the cases that we’ve had. It’s not unusual. It’s not unique to our team. Obviously, look around the landscape of the league and this country; there’s been a dramatic uptick in cases. Knock on wood, the severity of those cases and the rate of hospitalizations don’t appear to be as dramatic. But it’s still very real.”
Thomas scored 42 points for Grand Rapids in a G League game Wednesday night and recently appeared in two games for USA Basketball in World Cup qualifying games in Mexico. He was in the NBA briefly last season, averaging 7.7 points in three games with New Orleans.
If it happens, it’ll be his second stint with the Lakers. He appeared in 17 games with them during the 2017-18 season.
“For me, personally, the ultimate goal is to get back in the NBA,” Thomas, who averaged 29 points for the Boston Celtics in 2016-17 and spent a considerable amount of time battling injuries since, said last month. “But I just love playing the game of basketball. … I love competing and I love playing against the best players in the world.”
There was a bit of good news Thursday when the Bulls revealed that two of their 10 players who entered protocols have since been cleared for a return.
The Bulls had two games this week postponed because of a player shortage. For now, they’re scheduled to return to play Sunday at home against the Lakers.
“We got hit really hard with all this and we lost a lot of players,” Bulls coach Billy Donovan said Thursday. “Other teams have maybe been hit a little bit, but not as much.”
The NBA was up to 430 games played as of Thursday, or 35% of the season. The two Bulls games this week are the only ones postponed by virus concerns.
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Los Angeles Lakers’ Russell Westbrook (0) celebrates after sinking a basket as fans look on in the second half of an NBA basketball game in Dallas, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Michigan football: Shea Patterson relieved, ready to compete for title
Nick Baumgardner
PARIS — Relief was the best way to describe it.
On Thursday, just before Michigan departed on its team trip to Paris, Shea Patterson was called into Michigan’s compliance office alongside director of player personnel Sean Magee.
The news was what he’d been waiting four months to hear: He was eligible to play at Michigan this season.
“It’s really hard to sit here and describe what I’m feeling right now,” Patterson told reporters Saturday. “It’s been a long time coming and I’m just thankful it’s over with. We get to move forward and just focus on playing football.
“I’m trying not to get a little emotional ... but it was such a relief.”
Patterson’s long journey officially came to a close Friday when U-M and Ole Miss released a joint statement as the NCAA declared the former Rebels quarterback eligible for the 2018 season.
The journey was challenging personally for Patterson, who did his best to focus on football instead of worrying about if he’d be able to play this year.
When he transferred to Michigan in December, the prospect of missing an entire year of football was real. And every day since, he’s been bombarded with questions daily from strangers.
“It’s not ‘how are you doing,’ “ he said. “It’s ‘are you going to be able to play?’ "
His answer now is yes. U-M will have what many believe is a game-changing quarterback this fall.
Patterson threw for 2,259 yards, 17 touchdowns and nine interceptions in seven starts for Ole Miss last season. The Wolverines, as a team, completed just nine touchdown passes last season, started three different QBs and finished 8-5.
It was the lowest number of TD passes for Michigan since 1975.
“There were always moments of doubts, but I had good faith,” Patterson said. “I got what I needed to get done day in and day out, on the field and in the classroom.
“It’s a feeling of relief. It’s been on my mind since I transferred. This was the first day I could wake up with a clear mind and not think ‘what if I’m not able to play?’ It changed my outlook.”
Michigan started recruiting Patterson in December, shortly after ex-quarterback Wilton Speight announced he would take a graduate transfer. Before the month was over, the Wolverines received a commitment from the former 5-star passer, who was rated as the nation's No. 1 quarterback in the 2016 class.
He was a full participant during spring football over the last two months, competing with Brandon Peters, Dylan McCaffrey and true freshman Joe Milton.
Patterson is U-M's most accomplished passer. Though Jim Harbaugh said Saturday the competition is wide open and will be leading into fall camp.
“Very happy for Shea,” Harbaugh said. “Didn’t know but figured it would (work out). Figured this was the right thing. Doesn’t always work out the way you think it will.
“But I thought this was the way it would turn out.”
As far as football goes, Patterson says he’s right where he wants to be with regard to Michigan’s offensive system.
He explained how learning a pro style offense has been a different challenge than he was used to at Ole Miss. But that process is well underway.
“Every day is a work in progress. I definitely feel comfortable and have great coaches helping me,” Patterson said. “But repetition, repetition, repetition. ... We got a lot of reps and I feel comfortable with it.
“I feel like being able to adapt is one of my qualities. I can get along with anybody. But the guys did a great job of taking me in and making me feel comfortable.”
More:Pep Hamilton: QB Shea Patterson 'a playmaker'
In the end, Patterson says he would have stayed at Ole Miss had the program not been hit with a two-year bowl ban as a part of NCAA sanctions.
But he was facing the reality of not being able to compete for a national title.
He’ll have that chance now at Michigan.
“I can live with throwing an interception in the national championship game or the playoff,” he said. “But I don’t know if I could’ve lived with not even being able to get the chance to compete for one.
“And I think we’ve got a really good shot at doing that.”
Contact Nick Baumgardner: nbaumgardn@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @nickbaumgardner. Download our Wolverines Xtra app for free on Apple and Android devices!
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Apostolic Vicariates
Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (C.I.C.M.)
Scheutists
Also known as: Congregación del Corazón Inmaculado de María (español) / Congrégation du Cœur Immaculé de Marie (Scheutistes) (français) / Congregazione del Cuore Immacolato di Maria (Italiano) / Congregatie van het Onbevlekte Hart van Maria (Nederlands) / 聖母聖心會 (正體中文) / Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariæ (latine) / 淳心会 (日本語)
Type: Clerical Religious Congregation of Pontifical Right (for Men)
Depends on: Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life
Statistics: 56 houses, 827 members (634 priests) (2018)
Address: Via S. Giovanni Eudes 95, 00163 Roma, Italy
Phone: 06.66.50.301
1862: Established as Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Scheutists) (English) / Congregación del Corazón Inmaculado de María (español) / Congrégation du Cœur Immaculé de Marie (Scheutistes) (français) / Congregazione del Cuore Immacolato di Maria (Italiano) / Congregatie van het Onbevlekte Hart van Maria (Nederlands) / 聖母聖心會 (正體中文) / Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariæ (latine) / 淳心会 (日本語) / C.I.C.M.
22 churches
Superiors
Superior General: Fr. Charles Phukuta Khonde, C.I.C.M. (55) (2017.06.16 – ...)
Superior General: Fr. Timothy Atkin, C.I.C.M. (2011.06 – 2017.06.16)
Superior General: Fr. Edouard Tsimba Ngoma, C.I.C.M. (2005.07.23 – 2011.06)
Superior General: Fr. Jozef Lapauw, C.I.C.M. (1999.09.20 – 2005.07.23)
Superior General: Fr. Jacques Thomas, C.I.C.M. (1993 – 1999)
Superior General: Fr. Michel Decraene, C.I.C.M. (1987 – 1993)
Superior General: Fr. Paul Van Daelen, C.I.C.M. (1974 – 1987)
Superior General: Fr. Wim Goossens, C.I.C.M. (1967 – 1974)
Superior General: Fr. Omer Degrijse, C.I.C.M. (1961 – 1967)
Superior General: Fr. Frans Sercu, C.I.C.M. (1957 – 1961)
Superior General: Fr. Jozef Vandeputte, C.I.C.M. (1947 – 1957)
Vicar General: Fr. Jozef Vandeputte, C.I.C.M. (1935 – 1947)
Superior General: Fr. Constantin Daems (湯執中), C.I.C.M. (1930.06.23 – 1934.12.11)
Superior General: Fr. Joseph Rutten, C.I.C.M. (1920 – 1930)
Superior General: Fr. Florent Mortier, C.I.C.M. (1909 – 1920)
Superior General: Fr. Albert Botty, C.I.C.M. (1908 – 1909)
Superior General: Fr. Adolf Van Hecke, C.I.C.M. (1898 – 1908)
Superior General: Fr. Jeroom Van Aertselaer, C.I.C.M. (1888 – 1898)
Superior General: Fr. Frans Vranckx, C.I.C.M. (1869 – 1888)
Superior General: Fr. Teophiel Verbist (南懷義), C.I.C.M. (1862 – 1865)
Founder: Fr. Teophiel Verbist (南懷義), C.I.C.M. (1862)
Living Bishops (4 Archbishops, 9 Bishops)
Archbishop Godefroy Mukeng’a Kalond, C.I.C.M. (91), Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Kananga (Congo-Kinshasa)
Archbishop Faustin Ambassa Ndjodo, C.I.C.M. (57), Metropolitan Archbishop of Garoua (Cameroon)
Archbishop Ernest Ngboko Ngombe, C.I.C.M. (57), Metropolitan Archbishop of Mbandaka–Bikoro (Congo-Kinshasa)
Archbishop Roger Pirenne, C.I.C.M. (87), Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Bertoua (Cameroon)
Bishop-elect Edgar Cuntapay Gacutan (ガクタン エドガル), C.I.C.M. (57), Bishop of Sendai 仙台 (Japan)
Bishop Léonard Kasanda Lumembu, C.I.C.M. (85), Bishop emeritus of Lwiza (Congo-Kinshasa)
Bishop Cyprien Mbuka Nkuanga, C.I.C.M. (78), Bishop emeritus of Boma (Congo-Kinshasa)
Bishop Philippe Nkiere Keana, C.I.C.M. (83), Bishop emeritus of Inongo (Congo-Kinshasa)
Bishop Louis Nkinga Bondala, C.I.C.M. (84), Bishop emeritus of Lisala (Congo-Kinshasa)
Bishop Oscar Nkolo Kanowa, C.I.C.M. (64), Bishop of Mweka (Congo-Kinshasa)
Bishop Félicien Ntambue Kasembe, C.I.C.M. (51), Bishop of Kabinda (Congo-Kinshasa)
Bishop Prudencio Padilla Andaya Jr., C.I.C.M. (62), Vicar Apostolic of Tabuk (Philippines) and Titular Bishop of Fuerteventura
Bishop Philibert Tembo Nlandu, C.I.C.M. (59), Bishop of Budjala (Congo-Kinshasa)
Deceased Bishops (2 Cardinals, 5 Archbishops, 33 Bishops)
2019: Bishop Carlito Joaquin Cenzon, C.I.C.M., Bishop of Baguio (Philippines)
2018: Bishop Wenceslao Selga Padilla (黃旭東), C.I.C.M., Prefect Apostolic of Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)
2016: Bishop Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M., Bishop of Inongo (Congo-Kinshasa)
2011: Bishop Ignace Matondo Kwa Nzambi, C.I.C.M., Bishop of Molegbe (Congo-Kinshasa)
2007: Cardinal Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, C.I.C.M., Cardinal-Priest of S. Lucia a Piazza d’Armi and Metropolitan Archbishop of Kinshasa (Congo-Kinshasa)
2005: Cardinal Jan Pieter Schotte, C.I.C.M., Cardinal-Deacon of S. Giuliano dei Fiamminghi and President of Labour Office of the Apostolic See
2000: Archbishop Franciscus van Roessel, C.I.C.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Ujung Pandang (Indonesia)
1997: Bishop André Jacques, C.I.C.M., Bishop of Boma (Congo-Kinshasa)
1993: Bishop William Brasseur, C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Mountain Provinces (Philippines)
1992: Archbishop Bernard Mels, C.I.C.M., Archbishop-Bishop of Lwiza (Congo-Kinshasa)
1987: Bishop Albert van Overbeke, C.I.C.M., Bishop of Bayombong (Philippines)
1982: Archbishop Nicolas Martinus Schneiders, C.I.C.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Makassar (Indonesia)
1980: Bishop Charles Joseph van Melckebeke (王守禮), C.I.C.M., Bishop of Ningxia 寧夏 (China)
1976: Bishop Frans van den Berghe, C.I.C.M., Bishop of Budjala (Congo-Kinshasa)
1972: Bishop Georges Kettel, C.I.C.M., Bishop of Kabinda (Congo-Kinshasa)
1971: Archbishop Louis Morel (穆清海), C.I.C.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Suiyuan 綏遠 (China)
1971: Bishop Joseph Julian Oste (德化隆), C.I.C.M., Bishop of Rehe 熱河 (China)
1969: Bishop Louis-Georges-Firmin Demol, C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Kasaï Supérieur (Congo-Kinshasa)
1967: Archbishop Félix Scalais, C.I.C.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Léopoldville (Congo-Kinshasa)
1952: Bishop Constace Jurgens, C.I.C.M., Bishop of Tuguegarao (Philippines)
1952: Bishop Giorgio Six, C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Léopoldville (Congo-Kinshasa)
1951: Bishop Leon-Jean-Marie De Smedt (石德懋), C.I.C.M., Bishop of Xiwanzi 西灣子 (China)
1950: Bishop Louis Janssens (南阜民), C.I.C.M., Bishop of Rehe 熱河 (China)
1949: Bishop Joseph Vanderhoven, C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Boma (Congo-Kinshasa)
1948: Bishop Francesco Joosten, C.I.C.M., Bishop of Datong 大同 (China)
1944: Bishop Egide de Boeck, C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Lisala (Congo-Kinshasa)
1944: Bishop Gaspare Schotte (石揚休), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Ningxia 寧夏 (China)
1942: Bishop Conrad Abels (葉步司), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Rehe 熱河 (China)
1939: Bishop Auguste De Clercq, C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Kasaï Supérieur (Congo-Kinshasa)
1938: Bishop Hubert Otto (陶福音), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Northern Kansu 甘肅北境 (China)
1938: Bishop Camille Van Ronslé, C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Léopoldville (Congo-Kinshasa)
1938: Bishop Goffredo Frederix (費達德), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Ningxia 寧夏 (China)
1937: Bishop Louis van Dyck (葛崇德), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Suiyuan 綏遠 (China)
1931: Bishop Everard Ter Laak (蘭克複), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Xiwanzi 西灣子 (China)
1924: Bishop Jerome van Aertselaer (方濟眾), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Chahaer 察哈爾 (China)
1915: Bishop Alfonso Bermyn (閔玉清), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Southwestern Mongolia 西南蒙古 (China)
1900: Bishop Ferdinand Hubertus Hamer (韓默理), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Southwestern Mongolia 西南蒙古 (China)
1896: Bishop Théodore-Herman Rutjes (呂繼賢), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Mongolia 東蒙古 (China)
1895: Bishop Jacques Bax (巴耆賢), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Central Mongolia 中蒙古 (China)
1888: Bishop Alphonse de Voss (德玉明), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Southwestern Mongolia 西南蒙古 (China)
Other Former Prelates (6)
1981: Fr. Alphonse Van Buggenhout (范普厚), C.I.C.M., General Secretary of Chinese Bishops’ Conference
1948: Fr. Gerardo Martino Uberto Martens, C.I.C.M., Prefect Apostolic of Makassar (Indonesia)
1947: Fr. Giuseppe Billiet, C.I.C.M., Prefect Apostolic of Mountain Provinces (Philippines)
1945: Fr. Giuseppe Hoogers (高東升), C.I.C.M., Prefect Apostolic of Datongfu 大同府 (China)
1918: Fr. Giovanni Battista Steeneman, C.I.C.M., Ecclesiastical Superior of I-li 伊犁 (China)
>1913: Fr. Eméry Cambier, C.I.C.M., Prefect Apostolic of Kasaï Supérieur (Congo-Kinshasa)
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Resolute in its mission to make extraordinary education accessible, ‘Our Own’ focuses its energies in preparing its students to be able to pursue tertiary education in their chosen fields and be at the forefront as ethical and socially engaged leaders.
To discover more about our Learning Overview, curriculum, course options, and extra-curricular activities, please explore the links below.
Students benefit from a pastoral system through which their academic progress and welfare are carefully monitored.
Our Own High School - Al Warqa'a is one of the leading Indian Curriculum Schools in Dubai
At the Primary School stage, students are given an excellent grounding in all the basic skills and their natural inquisitiveness is stimulated.
Through Middle School our teachers ensure that students strive to reach their full potential.
We help students stay focused on their goals as they advance and further their knowledge.
The programme responds to individual needs and fosters enthusiasm for learning.
We aim to ensure that every student acquires a high standard of skills.
The inclusive ethos of Our Own High School is reflected in every aspect of the school’s policies and processes.
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Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition of work by Jim Hodges. Since the late 1980s Hodges has created a broad range of work responding to the events, emotions, and relationships that have filled his life. These deeply affecting works engage varied forms and media, from traditional draftsmanship to more poetic approaches to sculpture and installation, to create a highly reflective vocabulary that speaks to art historical, political, and autobiographical discourses. Charting the overlooked and obvious touchstones of life with equal poignancy, his conceptual practice is as broad and expansive as the range of human experiences he captures.
For this exhibition of new work, Hodges will create new sculptures and drawings that mediate on universal themes of mortality, fragility, and the natural world. Using a variety of materials including cast glass and photographs cut to create relief, Hodges intuits form and space through a haptic approach, making tangible not just the plastic possibilities bound into various media, but also the phenomenological aspects that tie materials to lived experience. A photograph of a foliage filled landscape does not remain static, but through Hodges’ incisive intervention becomes a dynamic flurry of leaves against a monochromatic field; while a broken mirror becomes an opportunity for deeper reflection. Like the tradition of vanitas paintings, Hodges’ pieces work in concert to create a contemplative space in which sculptural process itself becomes a vehicle in which to examine both the singular and shared courses of life.
Jim Hodges was born in 1957 in Spokane Washington and received his MFA from Pratt Insitute in Brooklyn, NY. He has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at various venues including the Aspen Art Museum; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostello, Spain; Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Currently a retrospective of his drawings across various media is on view at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, after its premiere at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. This summer it will travel to the Camden Arts Centre in London. In 2009 Hodges curated a two person exhibition “Floating a Boulder: Works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Jim Hodges” at the FLAG Art Foundation in New York. He currently Lives and works in New York City.
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Australian PGA goes back to Royal Queensland in 2020
After seven years on the Gold Coast, the Australian PGA Championship will return to Brisbane in 2020 to celebrate Royal Queensland Golf Club’s centenary year.
The time-honoured tournament, one of the feature events on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia, will be played in Queensland’s capital for the first time since Robert Allenby edged fellow Victorian Geoff Ogilvy by a stroke to defend his title in 2001.
PGA of Australia CEO Gavin Kirkman said the PGA was thrilled to showcase the Australian PGA Championship at Brisbane’s Royal Queensland Golf Club.
“We’re incredibly excited to return to Brisbane and the Royal Queensland Golf Club to celebrate a milestone anniversary of one of the country’s most treasured golf courses,” Mr Kirkman said.
“Royal Queensland Golf Club is a rich breeding ground which has unearthed a number of PGA Professionals, including one of the game’s icons, Greg Norman. We look forward to celebrating the club’s history with our flagship event”.
“We know Brisbane loves its live sporting events and we look forward to seeing the crowds come out to cheer on our home-grown and international golfers, while enjoying the party atmosphere of the Championship, which will continue to deliver exciting, vibrant and fan-friendly entertainment precincts on course”
“We cannot wait to share this popular tournament with the people of Brisbane.”
Brisbane will also hold the rights to host the 2021 and 2022 Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland Golf Club as part of their host city agreement.
The 2020 event marks the 21st consecutive year the Australian PGA Championship has been held in Queensland.
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Teens Use 3D Printer to Give Three-Year-Old Avery the Best Gift Ever!
This independent little girl will now have two hands to play with.
Inspiration, Kindness, Innovation, Community
Teens Use 3D Printer to Give Three-Year-Old Avery the Best Gift Ever! | This independent little girl will now have two hands to play with.
Little Avery Walker, a three year old energetic and sassy child, was born with one typical arm and one “little arm” as she calls it — an arm that doesn't have an elbow, forearm, wrist or hand. And although this has never stopped her from coloring, playing or being an independent little girl, she can now do all of those things and more. Thanks to three teenagers from Wellington's Scots College, she now has a robotic arm that attaches itself to her “little arm”.
An Act of Kindness
Locky Stinson, Liam Frampton and Ben Trolove, the three teens who are making waves with their act of kindness, met Avery and her family at an open day, reports NewsHub. The boys had been presenting a prototype for a prosthetic arm that they had built. They decided to make one for Avery who at that time had a prosthetic arm that was too small on her and would have been quite costly to replace. Prosthetic arms, they explain, can cost anywhere between $20,000 to $100,000.
The arm was built with a 3D printer and scanner, which allowed the correct parts to be designed and printed, says Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand's popular news site. The idea is for a velcro strap to go over her shoulder and across her chest, and hold it in place. The electronic arm even has EMG sensors that react to Avery tensing her muscles.
The teens hoped to raise $900 through a Givealittle page to cover the material’s cost. What happened next was amazing — they ended up raising more than $3000! The extra money will be used to further develop and improve Avery’s arm.
A unique solution
One of the unique things about Stinson, Frampot and Trolove’s prosthetic arm is the ability to replace parts and allow the limb to grow together with its user. Typically, prosthetic arms have to be replaced as the user grows, which makes them incredibly expensive. With the trio’s solution, only parts of it need to be replaced, making the cost much more affordable.
Newsfounded quotes Sean Gray, Chief Executive of Peke Waihanga, an artificial limb service, saying that these kinds of robotic options are much simpler than the prosthetic alternative, especially for people who need joints replaced. Although there is still some refining to do, Gray was extremely impressed by the teen’s work. The hope is that Avery will get to use this new robotic arm until she is around five years old, and then replacement pieces will be able to be reprinted as she grows.
Although the story has a happy ending, the process wasn’t as smooth as it may seem. Frampton said they went through 12 different prototypes before arriving at the last version of the prosthetic. The results were worth every one of those prototypes and hard work, and the positive impact their innovation will have on the quality of life of people like Avery, and the world, is infinite.
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Publication - Strategy/plan
Economic Recovery Implementation Plan: Scottish Government response to the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery
Last updated: 18 Dec 2020 - see all updates
Published: 5 Aug 2020
Economic Development Directorate
Arts, culture and sport, Brexit, Building, planning and design, +20 more … Business, industry and innovation, Children and families, Communities and third sector, Constitution and democracy, Coronavirus in Scotland, Economy, Education, Energy, Environment and climate change, Equality and rights, Farming and rural, Health and social care, Housing, International, Money and tax, Programme for Government, Public sector, Scottish Budget, Transport, Work and skills
The Scottish Government’s response to the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery report “Towards a Robust, Resilient Wellbeing Economy for Scotland: Report of the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery.”
1. Economic Context
2. Our Response and Implementation Plan
3. Monitoring Progress towards our Outcomes
Annex: Detailed Response to Recommendations
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a challenge on a scale that our economy and people have not seen in our lifetimes.
Yet, acting as one, we have pushed this virus back. It has required sacrifices from everyone to save lives. Many businesses have had to close, or witness demand for their products or services collapse overnight. Money coming
in one day, and gone the next.
We are, however, now seeing the result of that hard work and sacrifice, of a concerted public health effort. The number of cases and deaths from the virus are at very low levels compared to the spike earlier in the year. As a result, we
can begin to open more and more businesses, all learning
to operate in new and uncharted ways.
This allows us to think about how we drive our economic recovery and the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery report published just a few weeks ago was a vital contribution to that. This response welcomes that report and its recommendations, and I want to sincerely thank the members of the Advisory Group for their swift and detailed work on this.
I want to highlight one of its key findings. That, if we are to be successful in as speedy a recovery as possible, there is no single action, person or organisation that will achieve it alone.
This needs to be a jobs-focused recovery. I have engaged extensively with businesses over the past few months, and have discussed ideas and views on economic recovery with many organisations and individuals. This approach underlines our willingness to listen and collaborate with businesses, social enterprise, trade unions and other organisations to protect and create jobs in our economy. We know that their innovation and determination will be the engine room of our economic recovery. I’m asking businesses to work with us to support our people, to create good quality jobs, and rise to this challenge. And I expect them to challenge us too.
This response has also been informed by discussion of the Report with the Social Renewal Advisory Board, which has been set up to advise government on social renewal post-COVID. There are many areas of interest that have a strong cross-cutting focus on the economy. We will continue to work with them, to ensure our ambitions are aligned to create maximum impact on the type of socially just and equality-focused economic recovery that we want.
We also face the full impact of BREXIT at the end of this year, which could tempt some towards a race to the bottom. However, the Advisory Group’s Report is clear in its support for the principles of fair work, the importance of decarbonising our economy and the imperative of reducing inequality. That approach described in the Report builds on our ambition of a fair, inclusive and wellbeing economy that Scotland is setting its path towards.
Some would argue that there is an inherent contradiction in being pro-business and supporting fair work and reducing inequality. I strongly reject that. As the Advisory Group report makes clear, the underlying resilience of our economy relies on fair work and quality jobs for all, to create a society that is more equal.
However, it goes beyond that. Tackling inequalities, including gender economic inequality, and providing fair work unlocks people’s creativity, confidence and wellbeing. The business case is strong for an inclusive economy. It helps our businesses to innovate and grow, it helps them to compete more effectively on the world stage. It helps develop, attract, and make, the most of our talent in Scotland.
Delivering this type of ambition relies on investing in the quality of our housing and our infrastructure, our public health, and the support that is available to those who need it. Thinking of these as social policies disconnected from economic policy and job creation and growth is simply to constrain the potential of our people.
There is also no choice but to focus on decarbonising and greening our economy. The global climate crisis poses an imminent threat to our quality of life and wellbeing. We have a moral imperative to act, but if we rise to this challenge now, we will support jobs through innovations that we can export to the rest of the world, and bolster the natural assets that underpin our economy. Our recovery will be an environmentally sustainable and green recovery. Everything we’re doing, whether it be on skills, business support, investment, is focused on sustainability and ensuring a just transition to net zero by 2045.
The global challenges of COVID-19 and climate change also put a spotlight on the critical nature and role of our local economies. It requires us to think about how we can change the way that we work and travel, to reduce the impact on our environment but potentially, also to create an economic and social renewal in all of our communities. It can be a means to address significant challenges around de-population of parts of Scotland.
Unlocking the power of digital innovation means that economic activity can happen anywhere that is connected. It can also reduce the need to travel – opening up new opportunities for economies to flourish in our rural and island communities and reducing the inequity caused by the costs and time of travel.
In this response to the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery, therefore, we set out what we can accelerate at pace now, and what further actions we can take forward in the forthcoming Programme for Government, as well as the refresh of the Climate Change Plan update.
We won’t have all the answers but I look forward to working with our employers, our public sector and our people to rise to the challenge in front of us.
Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture
Email: BESTCovidHub@gov.scot
First published: 5 Aug 2020 Last updated: 18 Dec 2020 - show all updates
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Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO1]
All 2017 Report Cards
Rep. Diana DeGette’s 2017 Report Card
Representative from Colorado's 1st District
Serving Jan 7, 1997 – Jan 3, 2023
These year-end statistics cover DeGette’s record during the 2017 legislative year (Jan 3, 2017-Dec 31, 2017) and compare her to other representatives serving at the end of that period. Last updated on Jan 6, 2018.
A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of DeGette’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.
Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.
Government Transparency
Bills Introduced
Bills Cosponsored
Laws Enacted
Bills Out of Committee
Powerful Cosponsors
Committee Positions
Working with the Senate
Joining Bipartisan Bills
Writing Bipartisan Bills
Supported government transparency the least often compared to Colorado Delegation (tied with 1 other)
GovTrack looked at whether DeGette supported any of 21 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave DeGette 0 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills.
Compare to all Colorado Delegation (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).
Introduced the 2nd fewest bills compared to Colorado Delegation
DeGette introduced 9 bills and resolutions in 2017. View Bills »
Compare to all Colorado Delegation (14th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (34th percentile); House Democrats (31st percentile); All Representatives (34th percentile).
Got their bills out of committee the 2nd least often compared to Colorado Delegation (tied with 2 others)
Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. DeGette introduced 2 bills in 2017 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.
Those bills were: H.R. 518: EPS Improvement Act of 2017; H.R. 3271: Protecting Access to Diabetes Supplies …
Compare to all Colorado Delegation (14th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (59th percentile); House Democrats (73rd percentile); All Representatives (54th percentile).
Got bicameral support on the 24th most bills compared to All Representatives (tied with 17 others)
The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 5 of DeGette’s bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the Senate. Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate.
Those bills were: H.R. 2843: Medicaid and CHIP Quality Improvement …; H.R. 2844: To authorize 2 additional district …; H.R. 3124: Preventing Diabetes in Medicare Act …; H.R. 4082: Protect Access to Birth Control …; H.R. 4273: Tobacco to 21 Act
Compare to all Colorado Delegation (57th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (88th percentile); House Democrats (90th percentile); All Representatives (91st percentile).
Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service.
Cosponsored the 41st fewest bills compared to House Democrats (tied with 2 others)
DeGette cosponsored 192 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills »
Compare to all Colorado Delegation (29th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (51st percentile); House Democrats (20th percentile); All Representatives (54th percentile).
Joined bipartisan bills the 47th most often compared to All Representatives
In this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 192 bills that DeGette cosponsored, 37% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Democrat. View Cosponsored Bills »
Compare to all Colorado Delegation (71st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (85th percentile); House Democrats (77th percentile); All Representatives (89th percentile).
Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
Was 50th most absent in votes compared to All Representatives (tied with 4 others)
DeGette missed 7.5% of votes (53 of 710 votes) in 2017. View DeGette’s Profile »
Compare to all Colorado Delegation (86th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (85th percentile); All Representatives (87th percentile).
The Speaker of the House, per current House rules, is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings” and is never recorded as missing a vote, and may not be included in the comparison with other representatives if not voting. The delegates from the five island territories and the District of Columbia are not eligible to vote in most roll call votes and so may not appear here if not elligible for any vote during the time period of these statistics.
DeGette introduced 0 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in 2017. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law.
The legislator must be the primary sponsor of the bill or joint resolution that was enacted or the primary sponsor of a bill or joint resolution for which at least about one third of its text was incorporated into another bill or joint resolution that was enacted as law, as determined by an automated analysis. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. We also exclude bills where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill.
3 of DeGette’s bills and resolutions in 2017 had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward.
Those bills were: H.R. 2012: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of …; H.R. 3271: Protecting Access to Diabetes Supplies …; H.R. 4082: Protect Access to Birth Control …
Compare to all Colorado Delegation (43rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (60th percentile); House Democrats (60th percentile); All Representatives (65th percentile).
In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 3 of DeGette’s 9 bills and resolutions had both a Democratic cosponsor and a Republican cosponsor in 2017.
Compare to all Colorado Delegation (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (40th percentile); House Democrats (41st percentile); All Representatives (37th percentile).
DeGette held a leadership position on 0 committees and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View DeGette’s Profile »
Compare to all Colorado Delegation (14th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (20th percentile); House Democrats (40th percentile); All Representatives (39th percentile).
DeGette’s bills and resolutions had 237 cosponsors in 2017. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills »
Compare to all Colorado Delegation (71st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (62nd percentile); House Democrats (65th percentile); All Representatives (71st percentile).
Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics.
Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).
Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.
Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of 2017) was the 115th Congress (freshmen) or 114th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
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Posted by Shannon Nutt - June 13, 2013
‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ 1.08 Recap: “You’ve Committed These Sins for Nothing”
Last week brought us the eighth and final episode of the first season of ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’. It has been a somewhat uneven season, but the show finished its freshman year strong. However, the producers couldn’t resist leaving us with a cliffhanger.
This episode is entitled ‘The Lovers’. As it begins, Leonardo, Zoroaster and Nico overlook Florence during Easter weekend. Da Vinci notices a rare hawk that’s only native to Turkey. The last time he saw such a hawk was on the last day he remembers seeing his mother. He gets on his horse and follows the bird, which leads him to an underground chamber where the Turk awaits him with more information about the Vault of Heaven and the mysterious Book of Leaves.
The Medicis and the Pazzis have gathered for a celebration of Giuliano Medici’s upcoming marriage into the Pazzi family, but Giuliano is nowhere to be seen. Lorenzo sends Captain Dragonetti in search of his missing brother, not knowing that the captain has already sided with the Pazzis in the plot against the Medici family.
Meanwhile, Vanessa is not feeling well and is attended to by an aide. She discovers that she’s not sick, but actually pregnant – carrying Giuliano’s child. She’s anxious to get the news to him, but not yet aware that he has disappeared.
Of course, in the conclusion to the previous episode, we saw the traitorous Lucrezia stab Giuliano after he found out the truth about her. She left his lifeless body floating in a river. But wait – he’s still alive! Nursed back to a state of semi-health by some kind strangers who found his body, Giuliano is anxious to return to Florence to warn his brother about the plot against them.
Dragonetti finds Giuliano and has a change of heart during the trip back to Florence, killing a would-be assassin they meet along the way. Together, the two race back toward the city, hoping they can stop the plot to kill Lorenzo and his family.
In Rome, Pope Sixtus IV goes to visit the mysterious prisoner (whom we learned was Lucrezia’s father) to taunt his captor about his impending victory over the Medicis. At the end of the conversation, the prisoner refers to the Pope as his brother. I’m guessing he didn’t mean in a religious sense.
Da Vinci gets ready to leave Florence on his quest for the Book of Leaves when he realizes that something is amiss and races off toward the church where Easter mass is being held. The Church plans to kill Lorenzo and his family with poisoned communion wafers, but Giuliano bursts into the sanctuary at the last second and reveals the plot. A swordfight begins, during which Giuliano gets repeatedly and fatally stabbed (for good, this time!). Before he passes, however, Vanessa is able to reveal to him that he has fathered their unborn child.
Lorenzo also suffers a nasty wound across his neck, but da Vinci is able to save him… temporarily… by barricading himself and Lorenzo behind two large doors. In the meantime, Lorenzo’s wife and daughters escape thanks to the help of Lucrezia, who is taken hostage by Count Riario just seconds later. As Riario prepares an explosive to launch at the large doors, on the other side of them Lorenzo has finally figured out that da Vinci was having a relationship with Lucrezia. Lorenzo promises to kill da Vinci if they manage to survive – just as Riario’s explosive goes off, shattering the doors into a thousand pieces.
All in all, this is a pretty solid season finale, with one big complaint: It’s pretty annoying that the writers/producers had Giuliano survive last week’s stabbing (and suggest he died), only to have him recover in this episode so they could kill him off again. I suspect the reasoning for this is so that they can still rehabilitate Lucrezia, since viewers could probably never accept her as a “good” character if she was the one who actually killed Giuliano.
‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ is scheduled to return to Starz in 2014.
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10 Reasons to Watch the Hammer in 2011
March 22, 2011 /6 Comments/in Editorial Page /by Martin Bingisser
The outdoor season is about to start in full swing and I’m excited. Last season had its ups and downs. One the one hand, the women’s hammer saw a new world record and every competition was a battle on both the men’s and women’s side. But on the other hand, the level of the men’s hammer was at historic lows. You’d have to look back to 1981 for the last time the world leading mark was so low and so few throwers broke 80 meters. Looking towards this summer, both men and women look to be ready for an even better season in 2011.
Olympic champion Primoz Kozmus will be making his comeback in 2011.
1 – The return of the champions. Primož Kozmus and Ivan Tikhon have won every Olympic or World Championship gold medal dating back to 2005. Kozmus was the Beijing Olympic champ and 2009 World Champion before announcing his retirement at the peak of his career. After one year away from the sport, he wanted back in the game and announced his return and plans to defend his Olympic gold. His goals for this season are modest, he’s aiming for 78 meters and a spot in the finals in Daegu, but it will be exciting to see if he can return to form under the guidance of his new coach. Tikhon has had a more interesting path back to the sport. After winning three world championships and throwing the second-best mark of all time, he was banned for a positive test at the Olympics and then stripped of his bronze medal. After a lengthy appeal with the Court of Arbitration in Sport, he was reawarded his medal and is now eligible to compete again. Both Tikhon and Kozmus have some of the best technique in the sport and will be a pleasure to watch again.
2 – The first woman over 80 meters? For the past decade, coaches and fans have been debating when a woman will finally break 80 meters. Most expected that it would happen before now, but this year it may actually happen. Anita Wlodarczyk has thrown a world record each of the last two seasons, the most recent of which measured 78.30m and showed a lot of technical improvements. Unfortunately she injured herself shortly after both records. If she can stay healthy the entire season, she could be the first to break the 80 meter barrier.
3 – Another American over 80 meters? No American man has thrown over 80 meters since silver medalist Lance Deal retired in 2000. In fact, no American man has been real competitive on the international scene since then. I’m hoping my training partner Kibwé Johnson can change that. He had a strong season last year that featured a win at Decanation over a stacked field. His new personal best of 77.07m (and nearly ever meet over 75 meters) shows that the technical progress he is making under coach Anatoliy Bondarchuk is preparing him for 80 meters.
4 – Hammer throwers: the next generation. Sergej Litvinov Jr. is leading the next generation of throwers. At age 25, he just improved his personal best to 79.76m. He placed fifth at the last world championships and has already shown great consistently. But unlike past seasons where he represented Germany, he will now be representing Russia. This move will allow him to train with his father year round and might help give him the boost he needs to get on a podium. Two young Belorussians have also shown great promise at times in the past few years. Yuriy Shayunou threw 80m at the age of 21 in 2009. Pavel Krvitski broke the barrier in 2008 at age 24. However both have struggled to stay consistent in the way the Litvinov has been. With another year of experience they may be able to compete for a medal too.
5 – A new American Record. The American record in the women’s hammer throw turns six years old this year and is in peril once again. Several throwers are approaching the standard set by Erin Gilreath at 73.87m. Amber Campbell has been the most consistent and already improved her personal best of 72.07m this year. Jessica Cosby has also broken 72 meters and Loree Smith looks to be in good form again after a coaching change. Records might also fall north of the border. Sultana Frizell has improved her Canadian national record each of the last three seasons and hopes to get closer to 75 meters this year. Olympic finalist and Canadian men’s record holder Jim Steacy is also returning from injury this year.
6 – A full season from Murofushi. We haven’t seen a compete season from Athens Olympic champion Koji Murofushi since 2006. Despite that, he was able to show up at a few year-end competitions last year and win the inaugural IAAF Hammer Challenge. At age 36, he might still have some more gas in the tank.
World Junior Champion Conor McCullough joins the senior ranks in 2011.
7 – McCullough will compete with the big boy’s hammer. Conor McCullough is one of the bright hopes in the future of American hammer throwing. In addition to winning the World Junior title last summer, breaking the American junior record, and throwing 80 meters with the 6-kilogram hammer, he also threw 70.78m with the heavy hammer despite not training for the heavier weight. Not bad for just 19. As a 20 year old, Conor will now be competing with the heavier hammer the entire season and hopefully that will translate into some more impressive results.
8 – Krisztian Pars is back. Krisztian Pars got a late start to training last season due to surgery and never quite seemed like himself. His distances were a bit down and he only managed bronze at the European Championships. It was also the first year he hadn’t broken 80 meters since 2003. This was a big step back for a guy who looked unbeatable during most of the 2009 season. Now he seems back to his normal self. Just last weekend he won against a top-notch field at the European Cup Winter Throwing in Sofia. His mark was even more impressive: 79.84m in cold, wet, and slippery conditions.
9 – The top women will keep battling it out. While Wlodarczyk holds the world record, she’s got some stiff competition. Several athletes are within a meter or two of her and they continually trade wins, even at last summer’s European Championship. Former World Record holder Tatyana Lysenko just won in Sofia against Betty Heidler, who is ranked fifth all-time. This was a similar result to Lysenko’s thrilling win at last year’s Pre Classic to set an American all-comers record. Heidler isn’t even the hands down favorite in her own country; her training partner Kathrin Klaas beat her this winter in South Africa. Martina Hrasnova, ranked sixth all-time, is also returning to competition after having a baby last season.
10 – Championships bring out the best. The great thing about the World Championships is that they are the focus of everyone’s season. There was no meet that could say that last year. Everyone should be in shape in Daegu, which means nearly anything can happen. I can’t wait to watch.
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tomsonite says:
I like the predictions! I think it would be cool if at the end of the 2011 season you re-visited this list, and examined why each of these things did or didn’t happen!
They’re not necessarily predictions, but rather things I hope will happen this year (or things that might happen). I hope they all happen.
TBell says:
This is one of your best articles yet, Martin. I nominate you for Hammer Ambassador to the US.
Two thumbs up for point 6. Koji’s got plenty left. These guys might be shooting for London, but they’re not going to ignore Daegu.
Bushop says:
Does anyone know where Conor McCullough is training?
I heard he was no longer at Princeton. . . he is not on their current roster
He is taking some time off of school to help his family but plans to return to Princeton. For now he is training back in California.
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Everything We Know About Season 10 of ‘American Horror Story’
Isabella Brownlee
Isabella Brownlee is an experienced writer, video editor and filmmaker. She is currently a writer for Hollywood Insider, focusing on detailed and thought-provoking film reviews and articles discussing truth and impact in the film industry. Driven by self-awareness and unique perspectives, she takes utmost pride in providing others with emotionally impacted knowledge about the film industry. As a writer, her main goal is to connect with the audience and those who find themselves in the back of the bleachers unknown to anyone but beautifully aware of the world. In addition to her primary job functions, Isabella creates and edits videos/films personally and professionally. Aligning with Hollywood Insider’s mission of sharing impactful and influential content, Isabella hopes to enrich her readers with positivity and truth.
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The first season of American Horror Story, ‘Murder House,’ released in 2011, engulfing the audiences with its cast, sex appeal, storyline, and connection to real-life horror events and individuals. After the first season, nine followed with ‘Asylum,’ ‘Coven,’ ‘Freak Show,’ ‘Hotel,’ ‘Roanoke,’ ‘Cult,’ ‘Apocalypse,’ and ‘1984.’ The art of the show comes from the connections within the seasons themselves that flow from each storyline allowing audiences to revisit characters along the way.
While the storylines themselves can start and end from a later season to an earlier one, the links hold true. The season that physically transports itself to an earlier season is 2018’s ‘Apocalypse’ with connections to the witches from ‘Coven’ and the birth of Michael Langdon from ‘Murder House.’ Also, a big heartfelt hug from the revisit to Violet Harmon and Tate Langdon’s love story ending on a good note.
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The brilliance, originality, and creativity that comes from AHS are without a doubt remarkable, to say the least. While some seasons did not prevail as successfully as others, they all offer a piece of history that connects to the overall storyline in one way or another. The show also provides the additions of guest-star appearances that have taken on the horror event, such as Adam Levine, Jenna Dewan, Billy Porter, Neil Patrick Harris, Naomi Campbell, Clea DuVall, Kate Mara, and the everlasting wonder Stevie Nicks. Also, I would not necessarily categorize her as a “guest-star” appearance as her role was legendary, but Lady Gaga also had her moment of performing in AHS.
For years, I have been asked what “the big goal” or “where I see myself in 10 years,” and while I do not have answers, I do have aspirations, with the biggest one being that I will one day have a hand on the set of American Horror Story. Every day of every week, I have the seasons playing on repeat, never taking a moment to miss the opportunity of watching the nostalgic magic. I believe I can speak for most when I say that AHS feels like home and with every season, while it might not be our favorite of the bunch, the story and cast as a whole brings nostalgia to a simpler time in our lives. And with that small and cheesy remark, here is everything we know about season 10 of American Horror Story.
Season 10 comes after the 2019 release of ‘1984,’ a retro camp season filled with gore and final girls. Unlike every season thus far, season 10 of American Horror Story will consist of two different stories with two different casts. Confusing? At the moment, yes. Writer and producer Ryan Murphy posted on Instagram revealing the season title, ‘Double Feature’ and a video that reveals, “Two horrifying stories…one season. One by the sea…the other by the sand.” With fans asking for more information on the new idea Ryan Murphy added to a fan’s comment by saying, “It means TWO SEASONS for the fans airing in one calendar year! So double the viewing pleasure. One set by the sea (this cast already announced). A second by the sand (that cast announcement coming).”
The cheeky Ryan Murphy did not stop there as a few days later; he posted a photo of a fur-covered Leslie Grossman alongside Macaulay Culkin on the beach. With a caption that read, “Something wicked this way comes. American Horror Story Season Ten.” The addition of eccentric Macaulay Culkin indeed adds excitement to what is to come from his acting capabilities in a horror-themed show. If you for a second thought Murphy would stop there from giving hints, you are very mistaken and must be new to the easter egg hunt that comes with every season release. Soon after the news of the addition of the Christmas classic boy, Murphy posted a photo of a menacing scene with two haunting figures. With a caption that read, “Night Moves.” Who are these figures? Not a single clue.
The real clues started to drop when Murphy posted what appears to be the season poster of a lipstick-stained mouth containing shark-like teeth. A gloved hand appears on the side, holding what appears to be a tattoo gun that had tattooed the words “AHS 10 FX” on the tongue. Murphy adores his hints as the post’s geotag was labeled with Provincetown, Massachusetts, which had fans guessing themes for the season, such as sirens, mermaids, and vampires. Furthering the storyline, Ryan Murphy reached out to fans to decide which storyline they would like to see in the upcoming season. With the options “Aliens,” “Xmas Horror,” “Bloody Mary,” “Sirens,” “Piggy Man,” and “Plague.”
When the results came down to “Bloody Mary” and “Plague,” many fans were disappointed that “Sirens” was not in the final running, causing a recount on votes. Just recently posted, Murphy revealed that sirens might be the go as he posted an image of good vs. evil sirens along with a caption that read, “Love this. And apparently, SIRENS is a must for many of you too.” With all of the different behind-the-scenes photos and the addition of sirens, I cannot begin to calculate a synopsis for what season 10 might offer. I’m excited, to say the least, but the coherent theme is not protruding out in the open at this point in time. With other seasons, it was relatively simple as ‘Asylum’ would only offer an asylum setting, and ‘1984’ would offer a punky retro attitude. As for ‘Double Feature,’ I am in the air for what is to come.
Ryan Murphy seems to be the thickest source for information on the upcoming season as he released the initial season 10 cast on a video post. The video hummed Orville Peck’s “Dead of Night” as the cast’s names appeared on the screen one by one with the crashing of waves. The names included; Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe, Kathy Bates, Leslie Grossman, Billie Lourd, Adina Porter, Angelica Ross, Finn Wittrock, and Frances Conroy.
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And, of course, Macaulay Culkin’s name appeared, and his appearance is set in stone. Sarah Paulson had this to say in an interview with Collider about the guest star appearance, “A great big swath of the people that love Macaulay Culkin love him from a particular era when he was a child. To watch him do some of the very grown-up things he’s gonna be doing — because I’ve read the first two episodes — and turning all of your expectations on its head will be thrilling for the audience and good fun. I do get to work with him, so I feel really excited about that.”
Murphy strikes again on March 23 with a post revealing the addition of model Kaia Gerber to the cast. The caption read, “Very excited to announce that Kaia Gerber is joining the American Horror Story family.” In an interview with Deadline, Murphy hinted at the possibility of more cast additions by saying, “We’re working on an idea for season 10 that I think people will love because it’s about reuniting fan-favorite actors to come back…I’ve been quietly reaching out to various people.”
I would be guilty in saying that my dream would be for the wondrous Jessica Lange to take her thrown once more in another season. Still, with the already heavily famous cast and addition of Macaulay Culkin, I’m not too sure about her appearance. But, Murphy is unpredictable, so I am not ruling out the possibility of seeing her brilliance once again.
The second cast has yet to be released, but I do not doubt that Ryan Murphy will have a part in releasing that information when it is time.
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As to what the season will entail, the storyline themes are endless possibilities at this point in time. The actors have also made sure to stay elusive about the storyline; as Sarah Paulson said, “I have a hair color I’ve never had in life nor in the show. That’s what I can tell you. And I have a great name. I have a great name, which I can’t tell you.” Which, of course, does not offer much to concur from, but nonetheless, it’s something I suppose.
In an interview with Collider, Lily Rabe also did not offer much when she said, “The person I’m playing on this season is nothing like anyone I’ve played on the show before, and I am having such a wonderful time with her and with my fellow actors, — I love this season. New fans of the show will love this season, but longtime fans of the show, I just can’t wait to share this season with them.” Now, there are some hints with the term “longtime fans” as I am one of those, so the chances of receiving storyline endings, connections or revisits with familiar faces is exceptionally high.
Thanks to avid fans and social media, filming at the Murder House in Los Angeles has been surfacing everywhere. With images of an actor dressed as the iconic Tate Langdon and the streets lined with pumpkins depicting the Halloween season, it is almost safe to say that the ‘Murder House’ storyline is not finished and will be revisited. Also, it’s Halloween, people, which means the ghosts within Murder House are allowed to roam the streets. Oh, yes. Oh, incredibly yes.
Season 10 Release Date And Where To Watch
Due to pandemic issues that most productions have undergone, season 10 of American Horror Story is set to release on FX in 2021. The exact date or month is unsure at this moment, especially with filming still taking place as seen at the iconic Murder House in Los Angeles.
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Behind the Scenes of Christian Louboutin’s Quincy Brown-Directed ‘Run Loubi Run’ Film Short
February 8, 2019 11:33AM PST
Footwear and accessories designer Christian Louboutin and his cult red-soled shoes certainly need no introduction to popular culture — the brand is regularly name-checked in hit songs by everyone from Cardi B and Kanye, to Lady Gaga and Migos. It’s no surprise, therefore, that when it came to creating content for a campaign to launch the label’s first luxury runner, Louboutin decided to enlist one of its most high-ranking players, who is part of a hip-hop dynasty, singer and actor Quincy Brown.
Brown (the son of Kim Porter and Al B. Sure, and whose stepfather is rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs) first met Louboutin last year in Paris at the designer’s Spring ’19 presentation which he attended with his brothers Christian Combs (a.k.a. King Combs) and Justin Combs. “Louboutin has always stood out to me as someone who is pushing the barriers of style and taking risks,” said Brown. Fans of each other’s work (Brown is partial to Louboutin’s men’s lace up boots, while he has been on the designer’s radar since starring in the 2015 film Dope), discussions soon followed about how the pair could work together for the launch of Louboutin’s first performance neoprene sock sneaker range.
Brown had previously dabbled in directing, shooting the music video for his single Snuggle Up entirely on his Google Pixel 2 phone, and was eager to try his hand at a more ambitious project, while Louboutin hoped to reintroduce the brand to a digitally-savvy audience.
“This generation communicates through social media and Quincy speaks their language so I felt that he was the right fit to share his vision for this launch,” Louboutin told The Hollywood Reporter of his decision to hand over the creative reins. After several months of creative back and forth between the two, what transpired was a dance-inspired tableau about art, passion, discovery and love set to the sounds of Brown’s latest track “Mosaic” featuring The Code (that will be released simultaneously) and shot by veteran fashion commercial director Otto Arsenault.
When it came to storyboarding, “dance was always going to be part of the video,” Brown explained to THR in between takes at the Mack Sennett studios in Silver Lake, where he had assembled a cast that included television presenter Erin Lim, dancer Kid The Wiz, and brothers Justin and Christian (whose 2017 Coachella dance-off with Rihanna went viral). It was quite the family affair in fact, as rapper and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs also came by to offer his support.
“Quincy brings new meaning to the phrase ‘passion project’,” said Louboutin of the creative process. “He has an impressive range of talents as a young creative, but they’re amplified by his endless supply of enthusiasm and curiosity.”
For Louboutin, who as a teenager had worked for the famous Paris cabaret act the Folies Bergère, bringing a dance element into the campaign was also a no-brainer: The brand’s Spring ’19 presentation featured a high-octane dance performance starring French actor Kevin Mischel and dance is a theme throughout his campaigns. “The first shoes I ever designed were for showgirls, for people on stage,” he explained. “Dancers have a certain kind of attitude, a solid consciousness of their body—they’re forces to be reckoned with.”
The final 90-second film, starring Brown in a pair of Red Runners, will debut on the brand’s social media accounts after a February 12th event during New York Fashion Week, showcasing both the women’s and men’s styles against a cool, modern backdrop of neon.
“Quincy is not limited by logistics or other things that most creatives find quite boring. His way of thinking exists outside of the box,” said Louboutin of the final cut. As for Brown “I have learned so much from this project. I used to think fashion was about being a model and looking cute on camera,” he said as the filming wrapped. “By working with designers, I’ve realized it’s about emotion. Fashion can really elevate your attitude and your energy and allow you to be more confident.”
The “Run Loubi Run” upscale runner collection for men and women will be available worldwide on christianlouboutin.com and in Christian Louboutin Boutiques as of Tuesday, Feb. 12.
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Facebook says it's ready to launch its most ambitious new product in years, a digital wallet called Novi. But officials say Washington could stand in his way.
The company needs to convince regulators who question its strength that this is a good idea. "When we need one thing, it's the benefit of the doubt," said Facebook's David Marcus. We start with mistrust and we have to catch up.
Many of the company's broader ambitions, such as building the Metaverse and developing its own shopping platform, have been linked to payment innovations.
Marcus traveled to Washington last week to meet with key regulatory stakeholders to discuss the implementation of Novi's blockchain-based wallet.
He said cryptocurrency-based payment systems help reduce access to modern financial systems.
He also spoke about the Deem Association, a group of 26 companies and non-profit organizations that are building the blockchain-based payment system that Novi uses.
The organization’s goal is to act as a neutral third party allowing various digital wallets around the world to use the same type of cryptocurrency called Diem for transactions.
Marcus said Facebook hopes to launch Novi with Diem before the end of the year.
Although novi is now ready to go. But it's not clear if Diem is ready this year, in part because he needs more regulatory support. He said that we are definitely planning to launch Novi in the second half of the year.
The company first announced its digital payments ambitions in 2019. However, when it faced skepticism and regulatory scrutiny, it had to transform and rebrand its products.
"I hope Washington will be more receptive because a lot has changed," Marcus said. I guess one thing I haven't made clear yet is how to make money.
Facebook is confidently struggling as it launches Novi. prepared
The company has been promoting digital payments for many years. But paying is not yet a profitable activity for the company.
In the past 12 months, the company has processed nearly $100 billion in payments, mostly through messaging platforms, shopping experiences and small advertisers. However, he will not receive any hidden commissions on these transactions.
The company hopes to help build a deeper digital payment system. It hopes to make online transactions easier and faster for more people around the world.
It will start rolling out free peer-to-peer payments next year and eventually facilitate paid transactions between individuals and merchants.
Marcus expects payments won't have significant returns as early as 2023, when merchant payments start to grow.
One of the regulators' biggest concerns is Facebook's entry into payments, as it could destabilize the global financial system by replacing its digital currency, Diem, with local global currencies such as the US dollar.
To solve this problem, Diem moved his company from Switzerland to the United States in May. He said he is trading in a digital currency, Diem, whose market value is pegged to the US dollar.
Marcus is the former CEO of PayPal. He has spent most of his career in small business. His goal is to help regulators understand what Facebook does and why it matters.
He said the current system is in trouble because 62 million people in the United States are unbanked. There are 1.7 billion people in the world without a bank account. About 1 billion people lack access to financial services. This is not how it should be.
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B.C. set to use Alert Ready system when next storm strikes in days ahead
VICTORIA — British Columbia is prepared to use a national emergency alert system ahead of what could be the most intense rainfall since a storm two weeks ago devastated communities and destroyed critical infrastructure, the government announced on Su
VICTORIA — British Columbia is prepared to use a national emergency alert system ahead of what could be the most intense rainfall since a storm two weeks ago devastated communities and destroyed critical infrastructure, the government announced on Sunday.
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth announced plans to use the Alert Ready system during a briefing on the ongoing storm series, which prompted new evacuation orders and saw a major river breached its banks and threaten parts of Abbotsford, B.C. on Sunday.
The second in a series of atmospheric rivers moved in Saturday and was still dumping rain in some areas 24 hours later, while a third and possibly more severe storm is forecast to arrive on the southern coast on Tuesday.
"We're in the middle of one of the most intense series of storms that we have seen along coastal B.C.," Farnworth said.
"More heavy rains mean people on the north, central, south coast, on Vancouver Island, in Abbotsford and the Sumas Prairie are facing an extremely volatile situation. Once again, it's time to be ready."
New evacuation orders were issued for 56 properties in the Petit Creek-Spius Creek area west of Merritt, B.C. and for a portion of the Huntingdon area of Abbotsford, B.C. Later, Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun announced the Nooksack River south of the U.S. border had breached its banks Sunday afternoon and the flood waters were on their way to Sumas Prairie.
Alert Ready is a Canada-wide system that allows government officials to issue public safety alerts through major television and radio broadcasters, as well as compatible wireless devices.
The system has been available since 2018, but B.C. has faced criticism for not using it to warn residents of deadly disasters this year, including the wildfire that all but destroyed Lytton, B.C., and the heat dome that led to hundreds of deaths.
"B.C.'s emergency warning systems are not meeting the challenges of today's natural disasters. That's on this government," BC Liberal MLA Todd Stone, who represents Kamloops-South Thompson, said during Question Period on Nov. 18.
"All other provinces are using the Alert Ready system. They're using it for tornadoes. They're using it for wildfires. They're using it for a range of other natural disasters. We're not using it here."
Farnworth said Sunday provincial officials are in contact with local governments, First Nations and emergency staff in areas where forecasts predict the worst impacts mid-week. B.C. is prepared to support them with the Alert Ready system should they determine there is a threat to life or public safety, he said.
"Local governments are the experts on the ground and emergency managers at the local and provincial levels will continue to closely co-ordinate through the days ahead," he said.
Officials warned that the next storm could reach intensities similar to those seen in the downpour that destroyed highways, flooded communities and prompted mass evacuations two weeks ago. The next storm is due to strike the central coast Monday before moving south, with the greatest impacts expected on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Armel Castellan of Environment and Climate Change Canada said there is a lot of uncertainty at this stage, and while meteorologists hope the impacts remain as low as possible, they are urging maximum caution, vigilance and readiness for a "very strong storm and swell."
Farnworth urged residents of southwestern B.C. to avoid all non-essential travel in the days ahead.
Environment Canada lifted weather warnings for many parts of the province Sunday as the second storm began to pass, however it warned snowmelt was adding to the runoff and risk of flooding thanks to strong warming that forced the freezing levels well above mountaintops.
The River Forecast Centre issued a new flood warning for the Coquihalla River. The Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen said any residents who lingered in the Tulameen areas since an evacuation order took effect two weeks ago should leave immediately due to rising water levels.
In Abbotsford, the mayor said the region was bracing for expected flooding from the Nooksack River in Washington state.
Braun said Abbotsford's dikes were in better shape Sunday than they had been ahead of the disastrous flooding two weeks ago thanks to repairs and added height.
"What we don't know is was there any damage done to the integrity of the dike that we can't see," Braun said during a news conference.
"We have done what we can do and we are ready, as ready as we can be, for the event that is about to unfold."
The Transportation Ministry said the threat of flooding forced the closure of Highway 1 between Abbotsford and Chilliwack Sunday evening.
Transportation Minister Rob Fleming said crews were assessing "minor" damage elsewhere in the province along stretches of highways 1, 3 and 99 that were closed as a precaution ahead of the weekend storm. The damage included some landslides, fallen trees and other debris, he said.
Flooding forced the closure of a 4.8 kilometre stretch of Highway 7 in Maple Ridge overnight and Fleming recommended monitoring Drive BC for updates.
The Red Cross has distributed $2.25 million to evacuees across the province who are eligible for $2,000 to help cover emergency costs, the government said.
— By Amy Smart in Vancouver.
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All Roads Lead To Africa Starts The Journey With Harlem’s Etu Evans And Others
All Roads Lead To Africa (ARLTA) an organization created to establish business opportunities fostering collaboration between best in class American and African creatives.
This creativity includes music, fashion gaming, streaming, animation, film, television, education, announced a series of new global partners today.
Founder, HBCU college professor, entrepreneur, and content creator, Professor Eleanor Earl, had a transformative experience during the earliest months of the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
Years before the pandemic, she expressed a desire to collaborate with entrepreneurs and creative artists in Africa.
One such successful opportunity presented itself when she was invited by Prince Anthony Bart- Appiah, CEO of The BridgeZone, to co-produce and moderate a virtual masterclass, “Black Stories Matter,” with The BridgeZone and the Ghana Tourism Authority for the well-received Beyond The Return initiative.
Get more information at https://visitghana.com/beyond-the-return/
Earl has always had an affinity for the continent of Africa; and desires to make meaningful connections with corporations and individuals who acknowledge all roads originated in Africa; and, they will ultimately lead back to humanity’s birthplace, Africa.
“She created ARLTA, as a subsidiary of E. L. Earl Enterprises, to provide virtual and physical spaces where members of the African Diaspora and Africans, with shared interests in the creative arts and business, will come together to develop, produce and distribute original content; and learn industry standards with shared areas of concentration.”
Prince Anthony Bart-Appiah’s The BridgeZone and the Creative Arts Council of Ghana are among ARL-TA’s partners, as they have been at the forefront of scaling Ghana’s international profile in the global creative industry.
R. J. Bucaria, Co-Founder & CEO of Prolific Media Holdings, brings years of experience in film & tv financing and production, music entertainment, live streaming, content distribution, education, original content for film, television, well-established artists, and entrepreneurs.”
Earl is currently developing new content with legendary producer and her mentor, Reuben Cannon of Reuben Cannon & As-sociates; and other accomplished professionals like The Madtwiinz and Etu Evans.”
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This singer-song-writer has also collaborated and performed with Grammy award-winning music producers, and is an Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies and Director of the Film Studies Program, at a prominent Historically Black College and University(HBCU).
Get more information at https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanorearl/
Asante Bradford recently received the honor of being named Industry Engagement Manager for Digital Media & Entertainment with the Georgia Centers of Innovation.” For the past decade, he has been Pro-jecting Manager for Digital Entertainment and Emerging Media for the Georgia Department of Economic Development, “the sales, and marketing arm of the State of Georgia, for more than a decade.” Asante helped promote the growth of the digital media industry as well as identify initiatives that helped grow businesses for the state of Georgia in interactive entertainment.
He also helped educate potential prospects and provide clients with information about the Georgia Entertainment Industry Incentives Act.
His area of concentration with the Global Commerce office was to increase the impact of interactive entertainment for the State of Georgia, as well as being a dedicated liaison to assist with promotions, logistics, and business development for attracting digital media companies outside the state to relocate in Georgia.”
Asante was the Digital Entertainment Liaison for the”Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment division of the Georgia Department of Economic Development from 2007-2010, which helped”Georgia become known as a center for video game development, animation, and digital media.
The economic impact of the entertainment industry in Georgia jumped from $413 million” to”$2.4 billion in that period.
Get more information at https://www.linkedin.com/in/asantebradford/
Twin brothers, Mark and Mike Davis make up the two-man art team known as The Madtwiinz. They’ve worked in fields of animation, comic books, toy design, fashion, and live actions film.
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Their dynamic style has them working alongside most major Hollywood studios and on a wide range of animated tv shows from Boondocks “to How To Train Your Dragon: Riders of Berk” to ABC Television’s Blackish.
The twins most recently have worked”on animated series for Cartoon Network and DreamWorks. Their creator-owned intellectual property, Blokhedz, has been published as a graphic novel in Europe, South America, and media platforms.
Mark is presently a supervising director at Sony animation for a new series to air on HBO Max; and, Mike is Director of Creative Branding and Development at The Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at Harvard University.”
Get more information at https://madtwiinz.com
Etu Evans is a shoe, clothing, and accessory designer, interior design consultant, and philanthropist. Referred to as the “Prince of Luxe,” Etu Evans has made a name for himself as a tastemaker to celebrities.
He built his company, Etu Evans, LLC, into international footwear, accessory, and interior design company that creates luxury items and one-of-a-kind footwear for the rich and famous.
The company also de-signs under several private labels. Etu is also Executive Creative Director & Designer for Harlem World Magazine.
Get more information at https://www.linkedin.com/in/etu-evans-6829b430/
R. J. Bucaria is Co-Founder and C.E.O. of Prolific Media Holdings LLC. From Immersive Entertainment to Television, Film, Music, in addition to their transmedia ecosystem.
Prolific’s operations, deal flow, and investment targets typically fall inside of 5 core verticals which include: Music, Film & Television, Facilities & Venues, Entertainment Marketing, and Entertainment Technology & IP.” RJ has been a trusted advisor and consultant to companies ranging from top Fortune 100 with over US $300 million in revenues to start-ups on topics ranging from financial structuring methodologies, corporate strategy, M&A, operational efficiencies, Federal/State/Local regulatory compliance, and more.”
He has also had the pleasure of compiling a client list of the entertainment industry’s top names such as Sony Records, Universal Music, Warner/Chappell Music, Sony/ATV, Radio City Music Hall, Charlie Murphy, Nokia, MPL Communications, Wyclef Jean, NBA, Discovery Channel, A&E, E!, Comedy Central, Warner Bros. Pictures and many more.
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Get more information at https://prolificmedia.co
Prince Anthony Bart-Appiah is the Founder & CEO of The BridgeZone (TBZ), an organization that brings together Africans and those of African descent among the diaspora, in particular, African Americans, to bridge the gap that was created hundreds of years ago during the TransAtlantic slave trade.”
The BridgeZone, in partnership with the Ghana Tourism Authority and The Creative Arts Council of Ghana (https://www.cac.gov.gh), has already organized some of the most proficient and comprehensive masterclasses for the Ghana creative industry.
The masterclasses are the brainchild of Prince Anthony Bart- Appiah, who is nephew to the King of Akwamu in Ghana, and Founder & CEO of The BridgeZone (TBZ).
Bart-Appiah is a well-known and established entrepreneur, talent manager, and digital content editor within Ghana’s creative industry.
Get more information at https://thebridgezone.org/
Professor Eleanor Earl offered, It is paramount that investors continue to look towards Africa, a continent that welcomes cross-cultural collaboration between Africans and those around the world who genuinely wish to conduct equitable and profitable business. Ghana has been at the forefront of welcoming such collaborations.
My partners and I look forward to launching All Roads Lead To Africa in Ghana. One of our first efforts will be to produce live streaming concerts with some of Ghana and America’s top musical talent. “It will be a game-changer.”
Photo credit: 1) Etu Evans. 2) Top row (L to R): Prince Anthony Bart-Appiah Asante Bradford Prof. Eleanor Earl RJ Bucaria. Second row (L to R): Etu Evans Mike and Mark Davis(The Madtwiinz).
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The Grand Boule’, Family, Social, Spiritual And Communal From Harlem To Hollywood Since 1904 –
Posted on 12/30/2019 by Carolyn — Leave a reply
The attached Ebony magazine article posted below was originally written to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the Grand Boule in 2004:
100 years after six Philadelphia professional men founded Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, the organization returned to Philadelphia with a cloud of blue-ribbon witnesses, living and dead, a record of 10 decades of achievement, and an expanding vision of an international band of brothers committed to service, brotherhood and excellence.More than 3,000 archons (members) and archousai (wives) attended the Grand Boule Centennial Celebration, the largest gathering in the history of the fraternity, which is oftentimes called the Boule, meaning, in fraternity parlance, “a council of noblemen.”
The delegates and attendees, meeting in style in the salons and the grand ballroom of the Marriott Hotel, presented to themselves and to others a telling contrast with the restricted and largely segregated world of 1904 Philadelphia, where on May 15, 1904, a pharmacist, a dentist and two physicians–Henry McKee Minton, Dr. Algernon B. Jackson, Dr. Edwin C. Howard and Dr. Richard J. Warrick–met and announced to themselves, and to others, that a new world was coming. Within two weeks, two more doctors–Robert J. Abele and Eugene T. Hinson–joined, increasing the membership by 50 percent.
The new world the Six dreamed in 1904 materialized and renewed itself in 2004 in a week of celebration and re-bonding, enlivened by a Boule-patented round of social events, including three black-tie affairs, symposia on Black health and Black male incarceration, and major addresses from, among others, Grand Sire Archon (national president) Calvin O. Pressley, the Rev. Otis Moss Jr., former Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode and Vernon Jordan Jr.
Almost all major speakers stressed what Pressley called “the connectivity” of the celebration, which blended, he said, Symbol and Substance, and almost all called for a new level of personal and fraternity involvement in the living problems and challenges of the 21st century.
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In the keynote address, Archon Vernon Jordan Jr. presented a 12-point program for personal and collective renewal, saying, among other things, that “we must create a new sense of community among our own … bridge the growing economic gap within the Black community [and] re-Brown Brown to counter the long slide back into de facto segregation.” We must also, he said, “constantly remind the new entrants into the Talented Tenth that their exciting jobs in corporate America and investment banking and in law firms are not the result of their grades and their ability and their school all by themselves. They did not get there by themselves … and they have to know it.”
The delegates and attendees who applauded these and other remarks represented 112 member boules (chapters), including a chapter in the Bahamas, and more than 5,000 members. They also represented the virtual Who’s Who of Black America who were and are members of the group. W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Carter G. Woodson, John Hope Franklin, Charles Drew, Hale Woodruff, William Hastie, Walter White, Martin Luther King Jr., John H. Johnson, Earl Graves, Paul Williams, Arthur Ashe, Benjamin Mays, Maynard Jackson, Kenneth Chenault–call the roll–they were and are members of a bond that is primarily Black but includes some non-Black members. One of the best-known White members was Jack Greenberg, who was deeply involved in the Brown v. Board of Education struggle, and who succeeded Thurgood Marshall as executive director of the NAACP Legal and Defense Fund.
Originally conceived as an organization that would contain the “best of Skull and Bones of Yale and of Phi Beta Kappa,” the fraternity stresses, as its founders stressed, family and the need for a social, spiritual and communal gathering space for Black professionals. The need, paradoxically, Calvin Pressley and others argue, is greater in 2004 than it was in 1904. Some of the members are second- and third-generation archons, but an increasing number, like the new leader, Charles Teamer, come from the ranks of high achievers with no previous family connections.
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What makes the Boule’s success all the more interesting is that it was founded as a secret or quasi-secret organization and did not seek public notice until the 1960s and 1970s. Since that time, it has mounted a number of outreach programs, including a mentoring program, a public policy committee and a $200,000 scholarship program.
Called by some observers a super-fraternity because its membership includes the members of all major Black fraternities, Sigma Pi Phi, unlike other fraternities, does not have college chapters and only accepts members with a college degree and “a record of demonstrated excellence” in a chosen field. Members say they have followed the mandate of founder Henry Minton, the pharmacist who later earned a medical degree, who said that new members should not be “selected on the basis of brains alone, but in addition to congeniality, culture, and good fellowship, they should have behind them [at initiation] a record of accomplishments, not merely be men of promise and good education.” Minton, who was the first grand sire archon, helped organize the second boule (chapter), Beta Boule, in Chicago in 1907. The third boule was organized in Baltimore in 1908. It is worth noting, at least for perspective, that some of the founders of the first chapters, notably Charles E. Bentley and F. L. McGhee of Beta Boule, were also co-founders of the landmark Niagara Movement, which opposed the policies of Booker T. Washington and created the foundations for the NAACP.
Outgoing Grand Sire Archon Calvin O. Pressley says the Boule is “the quintessential brotherhood for African-American men.” The incoming Grand Sire Archon, New Orleans banker and financier Charles Teamer, says the Boule “is unique because no other organization brings together so many talented leaders–sometimes you have in the same room the mayor and the biggest educational and economic leaders in town–and no other organization provides such an unparallelled opportunity to mentor, change structures, and build bridges.” He says his administration will concentrate on mentoring, creating new international connections and moving networking to another level.
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Teamer, who will head the organization for the next two years, says that in the next 100 years, Sigma Pi Phi will have an opportunity to extend its vision to communities across the world. To meet that challenge, the fraternity must, he said, replenish its roots, bridge the widening gap between male generations and reach out to new constituencies who are dreaming in their own day and in their own language the same dream that moved the six founding fathers who sat down in a house on Philadelphia’s South 10th Street in 1904 and dreamed a dream that changed themselves and history.
Get a full extended history at www.sigmapiphi.org/home/history-of-the-boule.php
Photograph via source.
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Controversy between Pro-Vaxxers and Anti-Vaxxers
Category: Medicine
In a world of medicines and mommy bloggers, there is a controversy between pro-vaxxers and anti-vaxxers. The vaccination controversy cause an uproar for many people, understandably, it’s very polarized- you strongly believe in them or you strongly do not. For me, at the age of 15, I strongly believe in the Pro-Vaccine movement and I have data that can back me up. For starters, you may wonder ?what is a vaccine’ or ?how to do they work’. For a general explanation, a vaccine is an introduction of a virus or part of a virus that allows your body to see it, to get used to it, to build up its defense, and to be protected if the real thing does come along. For a more in depth medical explanation, vaccines are replicating our body, naturally. If you are exposed to an antigen that you have never seen before, your body has to generate antibodies to fight this antigen- preparing its defense cell in its primary response- it’s preparing memory T-cell and B-cell. Therefore, when the antigen is presented again, the second immune response is much faster, and inside of greater magnitude, therefore it’s not going to have the same power that it would if you were in primary immune response made by giving ourselves a weaker form of the strain of antigen. We’re preparing our body for that more powerful pathogen that could potentially infect us and kill us by not vaccinating. You can put the people around you in danger, if you choose not to vaccinate. Every contagious disease has a herd immunization threshold, which is a percentage of the population that must get vaccinated to protect the population from an outbreak. If this threshold is not being under controlled, it can result in a mass public health issue.
Why are there anti-vaxxers? Anti-Vaxxers are known for their disagreement towards vaccinating their child. They believe that the Polio vaccine cause Polio and the Flu shot causes the Flu. They consider that the preservatives in vaccinations are toxic and it may lead to autism. However, the preservatives in vaccinations are there to prevent microbes and bacteria from forming in these vaccinations. There are many celebrities who are leading this controversy: Donald Trump, Alicia Silverstone, Kat Von D, and Jenny McCarthy. Alicia Silverstone, known for her role in the iconic movie- Clueless, explained her anti-vaccination stance in her 2014 book. In her book she stated, While there has not been a conclusive study of the negative effects of such a rigorous one-size-fits-all, shoot’em-up schedule, there is increasing anecdotal evidence from doctors who have gotten distressed phone calls from parents claiming their child was ?never the same’ after receiving a vaccine. However, parents advisor Ari Brown, M.D., a pediatrician in Austin, Texas, and author of Baby 411, told parents.com, Parents often have a hard time reasonably assessing the risks involved because they’ve never had any experience with many of the diseases that vaccines prevent. But I’ve seen children with serious cases of measles, mumps, and whooping cough, and I have seen a child die from chicken pox. I promise you that these are diseases you don’t want your child to get. Jenny McCarthy has been extremely vocal about the stance, her son Evan was diagnosed with autism in 2005, she blamed her son’s condition on the MMR shot received as a baby, among other vaccines.
Our 45th President- Donald Trump, recently tweeted, Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn’t feel good and changes- AUSTISM. Many such cases!. This theory has been widely disproven, according to the CDC, Dr. Offit said, According to the CDC, there is absolutely no link between vaccines and autism. Experts believe that the association between the MMR shot and autism is almost certainly coincidental. Children get their first dose of the MMR vaccine at 12 to 15 months, the age at which autism symptoms typically become noticeable. I believe that mommy bloggers and our 45th president should rethink their thoughts, because the realm of vaccine research has expanded and there’s no hard-core evidence.
How has the media presented this topic? The media focused on the Whakfield study in 1998, conducting the study was Dr. Wheatfield, he did it on twelve kids and found that there was an increased risk of getting autism if they got vaccines, more specifically- MMR vaccine. With a small sample to conduct ONLY twelve children, not a thousand or a hundred, popped us a red flag. His study shows that children had pervasive developmental disorder, affecting their GI tract, with a strong conclusion; some new type of autism, new phenotype of autism that manifested with GI symptoms and developmental regression, inferring that it has to do with the MMR vaccine. All of this set up the controversy, that autism has to do with vaccine. Wheatfield was paid $500,000 to create this link, because of a law company that wanted to make lawsuits, he claim that he found there was an increased rate, and his research was published. However, on that research paper 10 out of the 13 authors came out and retracted their statements, that there is a causation between autism and vaccines. Making the situation more suspicious, Wheatfield’s medical license was taken away.
As a pro-vaxxer- myself, the realm research for vaccines has expanded. People are looking into the preservatives like thimerosal, and how that affects certain diseases and disorders. There is no direct evidence that vaccines cause autism and that is a fact. Plus, the public wouldn’t allow vaccines to continue if there is evidence that vaccines causes autism, you have to have epidemiological studies, clinical trails and studies, and in-vitro replication web. Thimerosal a preservative in a lot of vaccines to prevent them from growing bacteria and etc. However, if it gets exceeded it’s not safe for children but there is no data that shows that the Thimerosal levels today cause any sort of central nervous system disorder. Before 1960, the amount of people that got measles was around 4 million and in 2005, there was 40 people, with no doubt- vaccines work or we would have polio and so many more diseases. There’s a shortage of vaccines throughout the world, unicef says that about one child dies every 20 seconds from a disease preventable by vaccines. I say, anti-vaxxers think again.
In conclusion, I would rather see my child with autism than dead. I find it incredibly selfish for those who decided not to vaccinate their kids, because first you’re putting your child in danger and secondly, you’re putting other people’s children in danger. Throughout medical researchers and doctors, we can conclude that there’s always a risk in everything. Just like putting on your seat belts, 1%-99% anything could happen, maybe it’s your own seat that kills you when you’re in a car crash. But, putting on your seatbelt could save you from many damages, and a ticket. Right now, the information presented to you, shows that vaccines are good, they have higher benefits than risk, and they protect us. Mommy bloggers and celebrities does not have a degree like doctors. With no doubt vaccinate yourself and kids.
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David Cameron's rhetoric on the EU migrant crisis is cruel and misleading
At a recent Prime Minister’s Questions, David Cameron said: “The vast majority of people setting off into the Mediterranean are not asylum seekers, but seeking a better life” – as if the boats crossing to Europe are full of Syrian plumbers seeking…
Brussels’ Personae Non Gratae
The EU is responsible for correcting the irrational, irresponsible debate about migration to Europe. So far, it’s failed.
Imagine the Hollywood blockbuster about one boat’s perilous journey in the Mediterranean. The Eritrean mother with her five-year-old son, the 16-year-old Afghan boy traveling on his own, and the Syrian patriarch with his entire family — they would be the…
How Many More Must Die at Sea before Europe Acts?
“Aman.” a 29-year-old Eritrean, had just described his arduous journey to Europe when I heard the news about hundreds of deaths in the Mediterranean. He, like many others I spoke with last week in Dresden, risked their lives last summer crossing from war-…
Is Ukraine ‘Safe’? What Planet is the UK Home Office on?
With horrendous reports of death and destruction coming from Ukraine, the UK Home Office continues to regard it as a “safe country of origin” for asylum seekers. That means a Ukrainian asylum seeker landing at Heathrow tonight would still be forced to…
Cambodia Is Not Safe For Refugees
"It's not about whether they are poor, it’s about whether they can be safe," Australia’s Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said in defence of Australia’s plan to resettle refugees currently housed on Nauru to Cambodia. It appears Cambodia and Australia…
Women, Asylum and the UK Border Agency
Last week, the Home Office Minister Meg Hillier said on the BBC’s Woman’s Hour programme that the UK Border Agency ensures that very complex cases brought by women asylum seekers do not go through the UK’s so-called “detained fast-track” asylum process,…
UK: Women Fast-Tracked to Asylum Denial
The UK Border Agency has published a report today showing that targets to speed up the asylum procedure are unachievable. The chief inspector, John Vine, said that the agency deals with vulnerable people and "we should remember that, first and foremost,…
Refugees Are Not Bargaining Chips
(Washington)- A virus is sweeping Asia. The symptoms are heightened xenophobia and amnesia about fundamental refugee rights. Australia and Indonesia succumbed first, in October, when they stopped boats carrying Sri Lankans. Neither country would allow…
Closed-door Immigration Policy Is Shameful Vision
European immigration policy has to do more than simply try to bar the door to migrants and asylum-seekers. Instead, Buttiglione offered his support for a German proposal that resurrects the discredited idea of establishing centres to process asylum-…
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Amicus Brief in Support Of Petitioner O.G.
S259011 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA O.G. Petitioner, vs. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF VENTURA CO. Respondent; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Real Party Interest. On Review From The Court Of Appeal, Second…
Human Rights Watch Amicus Brief in Hernandez-Roman v. Wolf
Covid-19 and the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center
Colombia: Amicus Curiae on Access to Abortion
Honorable Cristina Pardo Schlesinger Justice of the Constitutional Court of Colombia Rapporteur of Case T-6.612.909 Case: T-6.612.909 Subject: Human Rights Watch amicus curiae brief …
Human Rights Watch Amicus Brief on Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Sentences
Submitted before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Human Rights Watch filed an amicus brief in the case of Henry Hill, et al. v. the United States (12.866) that is before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The amicus submission demonstrates in detail how the United States, including the state…
US: Misuse of the Material Witness Statute
Amicus Curiae brief filed with the Supreme Court
Human Rights Watch and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed an amicus brief in the case of Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd before the Supreme Court. The case challenges the US government's misuse of the material witness statute to investigate…
US: California Should Reduce Overcrowding in its Prisons
Amicus Curiae provided to the United States Supreme Court in Schwarzenegger v. Plata
INTRODUCTION This case involves ongoing, undisputed, and lethal constitutional violations in the California state prison system. As the lower court found, and the State does not dispute, “the medical and mental health care available to inmates in the…
Latin American, Caribbean States Blocking UN Effort to End Juvenile Executions
(New York, October 28, 2008) – Latin American and Caribbean governments should drop their opposition to UN efforts to end executions of juvenile offenders, Human Rights Watch said today. UN diplomats in New York are debating the juvenile death penalty as…
Comments to the Malawi Law Commission on the development of HIV and AIDS Legislation
Reverend Joseph Mpinganjira, Chairperson The Malawi Law Commission Sent by facsimile: RE: COMMENTS ON THE REPORT OF THE LAW COMMISSION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIV AND AIDS LEGISLATION Dear Reverend Mpinganjira and members of the Commission:…
US: Supreme Court to Review Restrictions on Access to Court for Guantanamo Detainees
Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. US amicus brief
On December 5, 2007, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a challenge to the Military Commissions Act of 2006. At stake are provisions in the law that prohibit the 330 Guantanamo Bay detainees – and any other non-citizen the president declares to…
Brief of Amicus Curiae International Human Rights Organizations
Supreme Court of the United States, January 6, 2006
The detention and military commission systems created by the Executive to hold and try persons seized in the “war on terror” and implemented at the United States Naval Station in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (“Guantánamo”) violate the well-established norms of…
Amicus Curiae Brief : Open Society Institute v. United States Agency for International Development
Negative Impact on Public Health Interventions by Mandatory Anti-Prostitution Pledge
The Open Society Institute (OSI) and DKT International have recently initiated two separate but similar lawsuits against the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) regarding the so-called “anti-prostitution pledge” in legislation…
Brief of Amici Curiae in Goodman v. Georgia
Supreme Court Brief, July 29, 2005
Human rights Watch joined with many other organization to file an amicus brief in Goodman v. State of Georgia et. al. urging the Supreme Court to rule that Title II of the Americans with Disability Act, as applied to prisoners with disabilities, is a…
Jama v. INS: Keyse G. Jama, Petitioner, v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent
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On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Brief Amici Curiae of International Human Rights Organizations and International Law Professors in Support of the Petitioner "When a country lacks a functioning central…
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Google Defends Internet Freedom
The search engine stops censoring information and ideas in China
Last month, Google - one of the world's most important technology companies - stood up to the Chinese government by making it clear that it will not be complicit in censoring information and ideas. For years, corporations - including Google, Yahoo!,…
Report Card on President Obama’s First 100 Days
As a candidate, Barack Obama signaled his clear intention to break with the Bush administration's abusive counterterrorism policies. Once sworn in as president, Obama immediately issued executive orders that set a course toward reform. Human Rights…
Majority of US Senators Vote to Restore Habeas Corpus
On September 19, a majority of US senators voted to approve an amendment that would restore the right to habeas corpus, one of the oldest and most important checks on the arbitrary exercise of government power. Last year’s Military Commissions Act…
Council of Europe Confirms Secret CIA Prisons
On June 8, the Council of Europe released a report confirming allegations first made by Human Rights Watch in 2005 that the CIA used locations in Poland and Romania for the secret detention of terror suspects. During several years of research, we combed…
United States: U.N. Confirms Abuses at Guantánamo
A report by U.N. human rights experts confirms what Human Rights Watch and other nongovernmental organizations have long documented-that the United States is violating international human rights law and the Geneva Conventions by indefinitely detaining,…
United States: Soldiers Provide Accounts of Torture
In a new report by Human Rights Watch, United States soldiers have for the first time come forward to describe torture and other abuse by the U.S. military in Iraq, and the failure of superior officers to stop it. Human Rights Watch's report has…
Sweden: United Nations Confirms Sweden Violated Torture Ban
In two recent reports, Human Rights Watch has exposed the increasing reliance by Western governments on a practice called "diplomatic assurances," which enable those governments to return terror suspects to their home countries, many of which are known to…
United States: HRW-backed Torture Amendment Passes the House
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed an amendment offered by Representative Edward J. Markey that reaffirms the government's opposition to torture and prohibits the use of U.S. funds for the practice of "extraordinary rendition." The…
HRW and U.S. Congress Advocate Release of Chinese Factory Workers
Human Rights Watch helped to draft and collect signatures for a letter sent by members of the United States Congress requesting the immediate release of two prisoners, Yao Fuxin and Xiao Yunliang, from the Liaoyang area of Liaoning province in northeast…
HRW Challenges Alleged Torture of Al-Qaeda Suspects
On December 26, the Washington Post reported that persons held at a CIA interrogation center in Bagram air base in Afghanistan were being subjected to "stress and duress" techniques such as "standing or kneeling for hours" and "being held in awkward,…
Abuse of Post-September 11 Detainees
On August 15, HRW released "Presumption of Guilt: Human Rights Abuses of Post-September 11 Detainees." The report is based on interviews with scores of detainees and their attorneys, documenting cases of arbitrary detention…
The Enron Corporation and Human Rights
The failure of the Enron Corporation, and its connections with U.S. government officials, has once again turned attention to the human rights abuses that plagued the Corporation's Dabhol power plant in India from 1992 to 1998. Human Rights Watch's 1999…
Fact Sheet: Past U.S. Criticism of Military Tribunals
(Washington, DC) - Under President Bush's November 13th Military Order on military commissions, any foreign national designated by the President as a suspected terrorist or as aiding terrorists could potentially be detained, tried, convicted and even…
Child Farmworkers Legislation Introduced in the U.S. Senate
On May 10, Senator Tom Harkin introduced new legislation into the US Senate to address abusive and exploitive child labor in the United States. The legislation would eliminate the current double-standard which allows children to work in large-scale…
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Birth Control Does Not Advance Women's Rights
Most calls for the Pill to be made more broadly accessible--ideally free and without a prescription--all share the same subtext. Denying access to the Pill isn't merely denying health care, it's denying women's rights. Yet this is not about the right to get the Pill but rather, the right to not get pregnant.
Andrea Mrozek, Contributor
Program Director, Cardus Family
07/10/2015 12:28pm EDT | Updated July 10, 2016
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Across North America today, there are calls to make the birth control pill accessible over the counter. The Pill, we are told, is part of comprehensive health care and it is an insult that women should need a doctor's prescription to use it. Recently, a columnist at the National Post complained that it is easier to get the Pill in Abu Dhabi than in Calgary or Toronto.
Most calls for the Pill to be made more broadly accessible -- ideally free and without a prescription -- all share the same subtext. Denying access to the Pill isn't merely denying health care, it's denying women's rights.
Yet this is not about the right to get the Pill but rather, the right to not get pregnant.
This stems from the modern idea that men and women are only equal in dignity when we are exactly the same. As a result, we think that if men can have sex without the responsibility of childbearing, then women should too. This is why some feel so strongly that it is wrong for women to not have access to the Pill -- one of the most effective contraceptives the world knows.
Why, however, should pregnancy diminish a woman's dignity or her rights in the world? And if this is indeed the case, why is it the woman who must remain child free in order to thrive?
For starters, it remains a matter of opinion, not fact, that total control over fertility improves women's rights.
This is a creation of the later waves of the feminist movement, over which there has never been complete agreement. Early feminists were better able to accept, embrace and celebrate motherhood, while simultaneously demanding that others rise up to support this unique and beautiful aspect of women's lives.
A first wave feminist might ask that work conditions be altered to suit a woman who is pregnant -- the opposing view, very much supported by modern contraception, demands that a woman not get pregnant in order to continue working.
The Pill does not advance women's rights. It normalizes the idea that women shouldn't be fertile, let alone pregnant. As evidence, see how major corporations like Apple and Facebook have the chutzpah today to offer women egg freezing as a job "perk." In reality, this highlights how little we are willing to incorporate pregnancy into the working world.
The Pill: Stridently pitched as being in favour of women's rights, it simultaneously puts women into a disadvantaged position. Women who want to have children must negotiate this desire at work with their employers and at home with their partners who are often comfortably uninterested.
Then there's the negotiation you never win with the biological realities of Mother Nature. Extended education and job training most often mean women are left to conjure up pregnancy at an age when it is far more difficult or impossible. The bitterness of the Pill, in my opinion, is that almost universally, women don't care about age-induced infertility until they are experiencing it.
Even if we all accepted that not getting pregnant makes women more equal, thereby bestowing greater rights -- it is not clear that the Pill is the best way to do this. The Pill has health risks, has been declared to be carcinogenic by the World Health Organization and there's that pesky class action suit against Yaz and Yasmin. The death of 23 women in Canada taking those birth control pills would not be so blithely overlooked were the cause of death something different.
Beyond catastrophic health events, however, the Pill denies women valuable information about their health. The body sends us clues about how we are doing. For women, this includes the daily ups and downs of our reproductive cycles. Women who are in the know can better monitor their own health unaltered by a daily dose of hormones. It's empowering.
For the vast majority, the Pill is not medicine in any meaningful sense of the word. To designate it as such castigates pregnancy as a disease. It is no surprise, then, that this is how we treat pregnancy today, as a clinical problem, not a beautiful miracle.
All this said, yes, please do make the Pill over the counter. Perhaps when it sits beside Tylenol on a drugstore shelf, advocacy groups will stop yammering on about how the Pill is a major component of women's rights. Or that it is patronizing when doctors show concern. Perhaps then we will stop targeting excellent doctors who won't prescribe it for very good reasons.
And about the Pill being more freely available in Abu Dhabi? Just shout out if you want to move there, as a Canadian or American woman today.
Andrea Mrozek is the Executive Director of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada (www.imfcanada.org). She is currently co-authoring a book about the effects of the sexual revolution in women's lives.
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Democracy’s Detectives
The Economics of Investigative Journalism
James T. Hamilton
2 line illustrations, 38 tables
SOCIAL SCIENCE: Media Studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Industries: Media & Communications
POLITICAL SCIENCE: Political Process: Media & Internet
In democratic societies, investigative journalism holds government and private institutions accountable to the public. From firings and resignations to changes in budgets and laws, the impact of this reporting can be significant—but so too are the costs. As newspapers confront shrinking subscriptions and advertising revenue, who is footing the bill for journalists to carry out their essential work? Democracy’s Detectives puts investigative journalism under a magnifying glass to clarify the challenges and opportunities facing news organizations today. Drawing on a painstakingly assembled data set of thousands of investigations by U.S. journalists, James T. Hamilton deploys economic theories of markets and incentives to reach conclusions about the types of investigative stories that get prioritized and funded.
Hamilton chronicles a remarkable record of investigative journalism’s real-world impact, showing how a single dollar invested in a story can generate hundreds of dollars in social benefits. An in-depth case study of Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Pat Stith of The News and Observer in Raleigh, NC, who pursued over 150 investigations that led to the passage of dozens of state laws, illustrates the wide-ranging impact one intrepid journalist can have. Important stories are going untold as news outlets increasingly shy away from the expense of watchdog reporting, Hamilton warns, but technology may hold an answer. Computational journalism—making novel use of digital records and data-mining algorithms—promises to lower the costs of discovering stories and increase demand among readers.
At Washington Monthly, read Jay Hamilton’s comparison of Donald Trump’s hostility towards the press with Richard Nixon’s in the years preceding Watergate
Read Professor Hamilton’s discussion with the Atlantic about how the economics of journalism explains today’s “news bubbles”
Read an interview with Hamilton in Columbia Journalism Review
On Texas Public Radio’s The Source, listen to Hamilton discuss the “5 Ws” of journalism: who, what, when, where, and “who is paying for this?”
At MediaShift, read an interview with Hamilton in which he argues that investigative reporting generates social returns that far outweigh its initial costs
Read the American Press Institute’s interview with Hamilton
At Columbia Journalism Review, read Hamilton’s response to a recent case in which the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer was ordered to pay $6 million in punitive damages after a 2010 investigative series was found to have libeled a state firearms investigator
Read the News & Observer’s response to the book
At the Nieman Foundation for Journalism’s Nieman Reports, read Hamilton’s in-depth analysis of the Washington Post’s 1999 “Deadly Force” series—coverage of police violence against civilians that won a Pulitzer Prize, and prompted extensive policy reforms
At Five Books, read Hamilton’s own recommendations for books about the economics behind the news
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2017 James Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
2017 Goldsmith Book Prize for Best Academic Book, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
2016 Frank Luther Mott–Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award, Kappa Tau Alpha
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“The relation with the Other, or Conversation, is a non-allergic relation, an ethical relation; but inasmuch as it is welcomed this conversation is a teaching.” — Emmanuel Levinas in Totality and Infnity, an Essay on Exteriority.
Berlin-based independent music label Pelagic Records commemorates the work of electronic music pioneer LUSTMORD by releasing a boxset titled The Other, based around his tenth studio album [ O T H E R ], originally released in 2008 and to date the only LUSTMORD album with guitars on it, performed by Adam Jones (TOOL), King Buzzo (THE MELVINS) and Aaron Turner (ISIS).
Next to this seminal mid-career opus, the boxset contains the two remix albums Beyond and The Dark Places of the Earth, as well as a new 3LP album of Lustmord tracks reinterpreted by some of the spearheads of the contemporary heavy music scene – and beyond: ULVER, ENSLAVED, GODFLESH, MONO, ZOLA JESUS, BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE, STEVE VON TILL, IHSAHN, JAYE JAYLE, JO QUAIL, SPOTLIGHTS, KATATONIA's JONAS RENKSE, ALEXANDER HACKE's (EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN) new band HACKEDEPICIOTTO, as well as fellow Pelagic artists MONO, THE OCEAN, ÅRABROT and CROWN.
The Others (Lustmord Deconstructed) is a celebration of the fearless attitude of being different and the expression of unique ideas which have never existed before.
LUSTMORD is the artistic moniker of Brian Williams. Born in North Wales, he started his musical career in 1980 and soon became a pioneer in the early industrial music scene in the UK. He was a former member of SPK during arguably their most crucial era, and went on to work with THROBBING GRISTLE members Chris & Cosey as well as appearing on early albums by CURRENT 93, NURSE WITH WOUND and others. After relocating to Los Angeles in 1993, Williams worked on dozens of motion picture soundtracks including The Crow, Underworld and Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. Additionally he created several video game soundtracks, television scores and solo albums, as well as collaborating with artists as varied as THE MELVINS, CLOCK DVA, JARBOE, John Balance of COIL, Paul Haslinger (TANGERINE DREAM), PUSCIFER, Wes Borland and more, including Grammy Award-winners TOOL on their much acclaimed effort Fear Inoculum. To this day, Lustmord is actively recording and releasing music, his latest release being the collaborative album Alter with Karin Park of ÅRABROT, and he is considered to be the founding father of the dark ambient music genre.
[ O T H E R ] was originally released by independent record label Hydra Head Records, founded by ISIS frontman Aaron Turner and former home of bands such as CONVERGE, PELICAN, JESU, SUN O))) or BORIS. As one journalist put it at the time, [ O T H E R ] is a “grim example of a consummate artist who is working frmly within the parameters that he has laid out for himself over the years.” This album shows Lustmord at his most characteristic, and the icy, ominous guitar playing of Jones, Turner and Ozborne resonates perfectly within the deep soundscapes that make up this frightening yet inspiring journey. As a matter of fact, the material on [ O T H E R ] is so powerful that it moved Williams to create two ambient remix versions of it, and one dub remix EP exploring the sounds of this record to the greatest extend of his ability.
Over 13 years after the release of [ O T H E R ] , Pelagic Records has gathered 16 bands and solo artists to record their own unique takes on tracks from the Other-sessions. The result is an album that is more than a compilation, and more than the sum of its parts; covering a wide range of musical niches and directions, but sharing the same underlying mood and vibe defined by Lustmord's timeless soundscapes: from the ambient solo performances provided by IHSAHN, ENSLAVED or JONAS RENKSE to the subdued voice of ZOLA JESUS woven into Lustmord's sombre fabric to the industrial carnage that is GODFLESH's version of 'Ashen'.
What demonstrates the profound influence of Lustmord on this contemporary music underground showcased here is that artists from disparate ends of the sonic spectrum all feel inspired to explore the essence of his idiosyncratic sounds within their own realm: experimental electronica icons ULVER excel on a stunning, hazy rendition of ‘Godeater’, while Japanese post-rock act MONO deliver a crushing version of ‘Er Eb Os’, and THE OCEAN take us on a cathartically heavy mindtrip back to our 'Primal [State of Being]'. In the end, each of these 16 artists delivers an interpretation that pays the deepest respect to this pivotal artist, while also standing out as a new track of its own.
As Williams himself often puts it in interviews: “Copying someone you like with the right equipment isn’t going to be the least bit interesting. What matters is that you have good ideas and interesting things to say.” The Others (Lustmord Deconstructed) is not only a tribute and an excellent entry points into the discography of the founding father of dark ambient. It is also a celebration of the most accomplished visionaries in the underground music scene of today, and a manifestation of what binds them together—an undeniable devotion to attitude over ability and the courage to remain in the shadows and be The Other.
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The 6 Biggest Potential Signs of Extraterrestrial Life
What scientists look for when they are trying to answer whether we're alone in the universe.
Jonas de Ro
Neel V. Patel
Spoiler alert: We haven’t found extraterrestrials yet, despite where a trip down the K-hole of alien internet might lead you. That doesn’t mean scientists have stopped looking. On the contrary, we’re closer to discovering life on other planets than ever before. (That is, assuming the aliens aren’t all dead.)
That excitement, however, raises the question: What kinds of clues are astronomers and other space researchers hunting for?
Before we dive in, it’s important to remember not all life is created equal. Extraterrestrials, should we ever stumble upon them, could arrive in the form of super-advanced creatures whose evolutionary leads to to mechanisms we can’t begin to fathom; or they could be the most primitive and basic of organic molecules, barely falling under the biological definition of life.
That’s a big range to work with. So here are the six signs of alien life scientists are most interested in investigating — with the understanding that there are plenty of other observations and data, too, that could determine whether life exists on a different world.
Life on Earth fundamentally requires H2O. Where there is water, organic molecules can come together and form living systems. These, in turn, reproduce and pass down genetic material. That’s why astronomers are so obsessed with finding water on other moons and planets.
What makes water so vital? It has chemical properties that no other natural substance in the world can emulate. It takes a lot of energy to change the temperature of water — so it does a great job of insulating bodies from the cold while keeping them cool under heat. It’s excellent at carrying nutrients into cells while expelling waste and toxins. It can withstand sharp pressure shifts. It’s really good at dissolving other others substances. Simply put, life as we know it can’t exist without water.
Recurring slope lineae on Mars, formed by water. NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
This is why the discovery of liquid water on Mars was so big. Though surface of Mars is likely lacking life, there’s hope we might find signs of ancient Martian organisms — or that the planet could be home to future forms of life.
Gas biosignatures
Liquid isn’t the only state of matter that matters. It’s not always pleasant, but it’s a reality that living things on Earth produce gas. The large amounts of specific gases in our atmosphere act as biosignatures of life. Inorganic geochemical processes can produce gas — but concentrations of certain gases would be a good sign of life on another planet.
Oxygen is the biggest signature on Earth, and methane is a close second. But other biosignatures include any kind of carbon-based gas. And really, besides the noble gases, life on Earth is produces every single gas known to man. Just imagine walking through a dense forest, or along the ocean. Everything you smell that’s a sign of life is technically a biosignatures.
If you have instruments that can analyze the chemical composition of another world’s atmosphere, you’re in a good position to deduce whether biosignatures are present and the likelihood there’s life. A big problem, however, is making sure that organisms produced those biosignatures. Technology, as always, is key.
Here’s where we distinguish the search for just any signs of alien life and the search for intelligence. If aliens are anything like us, chances are good they can harness radio waves for communication and scientific purposes. Nikola Tesla was one of the first people to suggest aliens might try to reach us through radio transmission. As our radio telescopes have improved, the possibility of stumbling on E.T.’s radio are better than ever.
One of the most promising radio telescopes is the Square Kilometer Array under construction in Australia and South America. When completed, it will be 50 times more sensitive than any other radio instrument, capable of scanning the sky 10,000 times faster than we can now. Wherever the radio waves passing through our solar system might originate — be it inside the Milky Way, or from a galaxy dozens of light-years away — this array could pick them up.
The antennas of the Australia Telescope Compact Array Stewart Duff, CSIRO
That highlights the biggest problem with looking for radio waves — they may be coming from light-years away, potentially millions of years old. We’d be listening in on the ancient past. Successfully sending a response back would take much longer than humanity’s lifetime. Still, that hasn’t prevented new investments into SETI research.
Heavy elements
It stands to reason that intelligent life would rely on the same heavy elements we use to construct infrastructure and technology in our sentient civilization.
We’re not simply talking about metals like gold and iron and aluminum. We’re talking bigger. Nuclear. Stephen Hawking once observed that “when intelligent life gets smart enough to send signals into space, it is also busying itself with stockpiling nuclear bombs.”
In that case, that species needs to deal with nuclear waste. Nuclear material collected in unusually large concentrations on a planet — or even out in space — might be a sign of an intelligent civilization nearby. A fortuitous sign, but we would want to be a little cautious that introductions don’t inadvertently trigger an interstellar nuclear war.
If Mars was overflowing in vast oceans at some point in its ancient history, then perhaps some form of life existed on the red planet. And if this was intelligent life, there must be some sign it that still remains.
That’s the hope among some scientists looking to find alien artifacts sitting on Mars or some other planet or moon. These could be ruins of an ancient city or small tools hidden away in a cave. Or anything else in between. Looking for alien artifacts would actually not be too dissimilar from how archaeologists study early humans.
Furthermore, artifacts aren’t necessarily a sign that species has gone extinct. They may have migrated to another planet, and what remains are leftovers from a failed or lost colony.
Technostructures
Lastly, the best and most direct sign of intelligent life would be finding what are called “technostructures” — signs of technology that don’t include radio messages. These could be small, like the space probes we’ve also sent off into space — or incredibly massive, like alien megastructures. In essence, a technostructure would show us there’s a species of life out there that’s at least as smart as humans were in the 20th century.
An illustration of what an alien megastructure might look like. Wikimedia Commons
The possibility of finding a technostructure with alien origins is extremely low. That might be a good thing — a species far smarter than we are could eradicate us or enslave us without great difficulty. Or, perhaps, it would be so advanced that it simply views us like ants moving through a mound of dirt.
We won’t be giving up the search any time soon.
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Tired of self-isolating at home? NASA wants you to isolate in Russia for 8 months instead
The spaceflight simulation study will prepare astronauts for the Moon and Mars.
Passant Rabie
By now, most of us are experiencing quarantine fatigue. And perhaps a little change in 'isolation scenery' is required for some.
For those who truly need to get away, NASA is recruiting participants for its next spaceflight simulation study, inviting a small group of people to live together in isolation for a period of eight months in Moscow, Russia.
The purpose of the study is to help NASA get a better understanding of the psychological and physiological effects of isolation and confinement on humans.
As NASA prepares for longer duration missions to the Moon, and future missions to Mars, it also needs to prepare its future astronauts for long periods of isolation while journeying through outer space.
Participants in the study will live in an environment similar to that of a spacecraft, and will be required to complete simulated space missions during their time at the facility. Just as astronauts onboard the International Space Station take part in scientific experiments onboard while flying 254 miles above Earth, participants of the study will also be conducting scientific research using virtual reality and perform different robotic operations.
A crew member conducting robotic operations while in isolation. NASA and the Institute for Biomedical Problems
In order to take part in the study, participants must be United States citizens between the ages of 30 to 55 years old, and must be proficient in both English and Russian. They also must have a master's degree in the field of science, a PhD, or a medical degree, or have completed a military officer training. Candidates with a bachelor's degree may also be considered if they have relevant military or professional experience, or additional education.
As a health precaution considering the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus, participants will also be placed in a two-week quarantine before going into the facility where the study will take place.
The participants will be compensated for taking part in the study.
This is a follow-up to another study that took place in 2019 where six people, two Americans and four Russians, spent four months in a metal habitat that acted as a spacecraft. The crew simulated mission operations tasks, from docking to a space station orbiting the Moon, to selecting lunar landing locations and conducting moonwalks on the lunar surface.
Members of the crew from the 2019 study emerging from their isolation pod. IBMP
Members of the crew also underwent different experiments to test the toll of isolation on their mind body through self-tests, questionnaires, specimen collection and journaling.
“Social isolation is a very important area for us to research. It is associated with higher levels of stress and affects physiological and psychological well-being,” Thomas Williams, Ph.D., scientist for the Human Factors and Behavioral Performance Element, said in a statement.
Since people around the world have been forced to stay home to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, NASA astronauts have been weighing in with tips on how to combat the psychological toll self-isolation can take and deal with feelings of loneliness. Astronauts can spend up to months on end in isolation onboard spacecraft, and longer duration missions are planned for the future of space travel as agencies aim for faraway planets like Mars.
As a result, studies like this one are crucial to helping NASA better understand the effects of isolation, and ways to mitigate it during spaceflight.
If you think you're up for the challenge, you can apply to take part in the upcoming study here.
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Haiti leader’s slaying exposes role of ex-Colombian soldiers UCARAMANGA, Colombia (AP) — As the coronavirus pandemic squeezed Colombia, the Romero family was in need of money to pay the mortgage. Mauricio Romero Medina’s $790 a month pension as a retired soldier wasn’t going far.
Then came a call offering a solution.
When Romero answered the phone on June 2, another veteran, Duberney Capador, offered what he said was a legal, long-term job requiring only a passport. But Romero had to make a decision fast.
“Talk about it with your family and if you are interested, see you tomorrow in Bogota, because the flight is the day after tomorrow,” Romero’s wife, Giovanna, told The Associated Press, recalling the conversation.
A month later, Romero and Capador were dead and 18 Colombians were reportedly in custody, accused of taking part in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. It’s a case that dramatizes Colombia’s role as a recruiting ground for the global security industry — and its murkier, mercenary corners.
Colombia’s Defense Ministry says about 10,600 soldiers retire each year, many highly trained warriors forged in a decades-long battle against leftist rebels and drug trafficking cartels. Many — including a number of those involved in Haiti — have been trained by the U.S. military.
Those soldiers make up a pool of recruits for companies seeking a wide range of services — as consultants or bodyguards, in teams guarding Middle Eastern oil pipelines or as part of military-like private security in places like the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan. The UAE paid Colombian veterans to join in the battle against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
“Colombian former (soldiers) are very well trained and … may be cheaper or more accessible than other sorts of trained, specialized manpower,” said Silvana Amaya, a senior analyst focused on the Andean region for the global security firm Control Risks. “It’s a good opportunity for former (soldiers) in Colombia to have a job that they’re obviously prepared to do. … So for both sides, supply and demand, we believe that it works well.”
Sean McFate, a former U.S. Army paratrooper and private military contractor who has written about mercenaries, said Colombians are generally on par with U.S. and British soldiers, and are “good value” because they have combat experience, obey chain of command, work in teams and are tough.
“It’s an illicit industry that operates around command language,” McFate said. “The three main mercenary pillars are Spanish, English and Russian. And in the Spanish one, the Colombians are the biggest.”
The wife of Francisco Uribe, who was among those arrested in the Haiti assassination, told Colombia’s W Radio that the company that contracted the veterans, Florida-based CTU Security, offered the men about $2,700 a month.
That can go a long way when exchanged to Colombian pesos. It’s also far below the rates of retired Green Berets or other American, British, Israeli or South African veterans.
“We are normally paid almost 50%, and sometimes up to 70% less, for being Latin American,” said retired Col. John Marulanda, president of the Colombian Association of Officers of Military Forces in Retirement and an international security consultant.
He insisted their work is only “a business” and “has nothing to do with mercenarism.”
Colombian President Iván Duque last week said that only a small group of the former soldiers arrested in Haiti knew it was a criminal operation. He said the others were duped and thought they were traveling for a legitimate mission to provide protection.
Relatives note the men didn’t think they needed to hide. Several posted social media photos of themselves during a stop in the neighboring Dominican Republic en route to Haiti.
Jenny Guardado, an assistant professor of Latin American studies at Georgetown University, said Colombian soldiers tend to come from rural, low-income neighborhoods, where drug cartels and rebel groups also recruit, and they usually see their military service as a way to climb the social ladder.
But some struggle after they leave the military, especially those who haven’t put in the 20 years of service needed for a full pension. And, she said, some have complained about not getting their full benefits.
Colombia’s armed forces commander, Gen. Luis Fernando Navarro, told reporters this month that the army does not have the capacity to monitor all retired military personnel, only to guarantee social assistance, including the pension.
Key details of what happened on July 7 are unclear.
Authorities said the attackers raided the president’s home before dawn yelling “DEA operation!” and wielding high-caliber weapons. A small group entered and the rest stayed outside.
A judge told the AP the attackers tied up a maid and houseboy and ransacked Moïse’s office and bedroom. The president’s daughter hid in her brother’s bedroom and survived.
When it was over, Moïse lay sprawled on his bedroom floor. He had been shot in the forehead, chest, hip and stomach, and his left eye was gouged. His wife was wounded by gunfire.
None of the president’s security detail was injured — raising questions about their role.
The attackers don’t appear to have made any plan to escape. Some hid in a nearby business. Others invaded the Taiwanese Embassy. Some were found hiding in bushes by passersby and handed over to police.
At least three of the Colombians were killed, including Romero and Capador.
Romero retired from the army in December 2019 after receiving multiple decorations, specializing as a military paratrooper and combat medic and attending the Lancero School, which provides army special operations training and is similar to the U.S. Army Ranger School.
“When the soldiers retire, they are invited to join armies in other countries,” Giovanna Romero told the AP. “Mauricio was no exception to the fact that if one of those opportunities arose, it could be taken, because he had the knowledge for the job.”
She said her husband never told her where he was going, and she learned of his death from the news media. Now, the Colombian government has informed the family that his pension will be suspended for the duration of an administrative process.
The Moïse assassination presents a challenge for the Colombian security forces, which already were dealing with complaints about a heavy handed response to protests this year and over past allegations that soldiers sometimes killed innocent civilians and counted them as rebels slain in combat in order to boost body counts.
Colombian Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez has said the country is ready to offer consular assistance to the detained suspects and repatriate the bodies of the deceased. A former defense minister, she defended the nation’s armed forces.
“I know perfectly well that the Colombian military are never, under any circumstances, mercenaries who are going to go on duty to commit any crime anywhere,” Ramírez said.
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By Ryan Long
Mashups are tracks or compositions created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs together.
The bright lines of the real property based view of copyright are being blurred by technology. In 1991, Mr. Biz Markee was found liable for infringing Mr. Gilbert O’Sullivan’s copyright in his song, Alone Again (Naturally), when Mr. Markee used an unauthorized sample in his rap song entitled Alone Again. Had Mr. Markee used Mr. O’Sullivan’s song in a mash up, the result may have been different.
A mash up is a digitally created song that splices in elements of other songs, sometimes in very small increments – not in quarks, but in milliseconds – to create what some would argue are original pieces. Think of a mash up as a fusion dish that blends elements of Chinese, southern soul food, Italian, and Mexican cuisine into one dish. The question arises whether the unauthorized use of other people’s songs in a mash up is an infringement or a fair use of their copyrighted works?
The question isn’t an academic one. According to Turning Profit from Music Mashups, New York based tech company Dubset Media, Inc., collects royalties from mash up artists who use other copyrighted songs in their works. The company’s technology, known as “MixScan,” tracks uses of copyrighted songs down to the second on mash ups. It then distributes royalties to labels depending on the extent of use.
These royalty streams come in different forms and can be lucrative, Turning Profit saying that such minisampling can generate an additional $1.2 billion a year in revenues. That’s because there is a copyright in the musical composition underlying the song, and in the recording of the song. In Mr. O’Sullivan’s case, he would own the copyright to the composition of Alone Again (Naturally), which includes the musical notes and lyrics to the song, in addition to his recording of the song in the studio, known as the “master.” Mr. O’Sullivan collects royalties from those who wish to publicly perform or re-record his composition, and from others who wish to use the recording of the song in their music or in a film. Mr. Markee avoided paying these royalties to Mr. O’Sullivan by using the uncleared sample in the rap song Alone Again.
However, had Mr. Markee used Mr. O’Sullivan’s song in a mash up, the resulting decision finding infringement wouldn’t have been so easy. Mr. Markee would likely have had a colorable fair use defense if he: physically transformed the sample (changing the frequency, tone, bass) so that it became physically unrecognizable in the final product, sampled only a small part, and if the resulting rap song either had no effect on the market for Mr. O’Sullivan’s work, or exposed it further.
Courts are more prone to find fair use – and no infringement – when there is either physical transformation of the copyrighted work in a new work, or application to a new purpose. Patrick Cariou, a photographer, lost his copyright infringement lawsuit against appropriation artist Richard Prince because he had physically modified the photographer’s photos of Rastafarians — in one case, putting a gas mask and guitar in the Rastafarian’s hands. In the recent Google books case, Google was found to have fairly used authors’ copyrighted indexes to their books by making them searchable via Google books. This is so even though there was no physical transformation of the copyrighted work, but, rather, only application to a new purpose.
Before the recent technology boom, copyright infringement was viewed with a real property monocle – one toe over the line constitutes a trespass. But technology is making that toe harder to see and the resulting line between properties less clear. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but an Axl Rose sample in a mash doesn’t smell as sweet.
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Young Alumni Give Back, Support First-Gen Data Science Student
Incoming 5th Year MIDS student Christina Carr was chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Sharon X. Lin (’11, MIDS ’15) and Andrew R. Bullen (’10) Graduate Fellowship in Data Science for the 2020–21 academic year. The award specifically supports students in the Master’s of Information and Data Science (MIDS) program who show a commitment to gender equity within the program.
Carr, a first-generation college student, graduated Berkeley in May of 2020 with a BA in cognitive science. She was an honors student who worked all four years of college, and was a clarinet player in the Cal Marching Band. Carr originally envisioned pursuing a Ph.D. in cognitive science after graduation, but as time went on it was data science that called to her. “I worked at the Moore Accuracy Lab on campus; it’s where I conducted the research for my honors thesis, and it’s where I got heavily into data analysis and realized how important data science was because you could apply it to so many things,” Carr said.
Too far along in her academic career to switch to the newly minted Data Science major (established 2018), Carr was motivated to apply to the 5th Year MIDS program after looking at the career outcomes on the MIDS webpage and being motivated by all of the different job titles she saw listed there.
“I have the financial capacity to help, and I don’t think these things can wait. I’m trying to make an impact now.”
— Sharon Lin
The sponsors of the fellowship, Sharon Lin and her husband, Andrew Bullen, met when they were Berkeley undergrads. After a few years in the workforce, Sharon was looking for a degree program that would allow her to continue to work full time. She joined what would be the first cohort of MIDS students, graduating in 2015. “I was hesitant at first because it was online,” she said. But she very quickly realized the rigor of a Berkeley degree program was in full effect.
Passionate about math and science from an early age, Sharon was raised by a single mother who encouraged her daughters to value education, which was one of the reasons the couple decided to fund a fellowship to benefit gender equity in the MIDS program.
“Female representation, encouraging minorities to go into STEM, helping people from lower-income brackets — I want all of these people to thrive in the STEM environment!” Lin said.
“I think my MIDS cohort had only 20% women,” Lin said. “And in my professional life, I’m a hiring manager [at Twitch] for data analysts and data scientists, and you don’t see many women. And you really don’t see much Black or Hispanic female representation in STEM fields.” This drove Lin to act: “I have the financial capacity to help, and I don’t think these things can wait. I’m trying to make an impact now.”
Bullen agrees. “We’re more fortunate than most to be able to afford it at this point in our lives.”
“I experienced a lot of racism, a lot of sexism. I was told many times that the only reason that I got into Berkeley was because I was a woman of color.”
— Christina Carr
Carr was exactly the applicant the Lin-Bullen Fellowship was designed for. She grew up in a small town in El Dorado County, California. “It’s a conservative area, and I experienced a lot of racism, a lot of sexism. I was told many times that the only reason that I got into Berkeley was because I was a woman of color — and not because I did well in school and had many extracurriculars.” She went on to say, “To be honored with this fellowship, well, it means a lot to me. It’s a pretty cool thing.”
Lin is an active I School alumna: she often speaks on alumni panels, she’s a MIDS Ambassador, and a mentor for 5th Year MIDS. Thinking back on her grad school experience, she says that the aspects that aren’t measurable are the relationships you make: with the faculty, many of them who gave her professional advice, and other classmates, who help each other with job referrals and insights. “All of these things, they come with the program,” Lin says. “And they’re incredibly useful for the future. I get lots of messages on LinkedIn and it’s difficult to respond to all them. But if someone says they’re from the MIDS program? I’m always happy to talk to them.”
If you are interested in supporting students at the School of Information, please consider a gift to the Annalee Saxenian Graduate Student Support Fund, or contact the development team at give@ischool.berkeley.edu.
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Subject: Karnataka Revenue Subordinate Branch Services [Recruitment] (Amendment) Rules,2021.
The draft of the following rules further to amend the Karnataka Revenue Subordinate Branch Services (Recruitment) Rules,1977, which the Government of Karnataka, proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 read with section 8 of the Karnataka State Civil Services Act, 1978
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Latin Lives at WJCL Convention
Posted on February 18, 2015 February 19, 2015 by Timothy Han
Homestead High School sent 81 students, pictured, to the convention. [Priya Khullar]
From January 29-31, over 500 high school students shared their love of Latin at the Wisconsin Junior Classical League’s (WJCL) Latin Convention in Madison.
Gathering in the Inn on the Park Hotel in the shadow of Wisconsin’s capitol building, students from across the state traveled long hours to celebrate and reaffirm their love for the classics. From a spirited pep rally on Thursday night, to fierce Certamen matches on Friday afternoon, to tearful and heartfelt goodbyes on Saturday, the convention was filled with joy and happiness between fellow Latin students.
About the convention, a WJCL board member said, “Convention gives us pre-convention stress, sleep deprivation during convention, and post-convention blues.”
Students and teachers alike lauded the WJCL and this year’s convention, during which students had the chance to explore Roman history and culture at venues including UW-Madison’s campus.
Clare Hanson, the Latin Club public representative of Mequon’s Homestead High School, told JSR, “The sense of community you feel right when you walk in is incredible. Everyone is so nice and welcoming. It’s a place where you can be confident in yourself.”
Marianne Wallach, who as Homestead’s Latin teacher is the architect of the largest Latin program in Wisconsin, stated, “The spirit was amazing this past year… It was very inspiring… I was taken aback… It makes me want to get up every day and come [teach]. It energizes the whole program.”
For those who choose to take full advantage of the opportunities for students, the schedule can be grueling. Some of the events offered at convention were an impromptu art competition, an impromptu essay, an impromptu oratory selection, twelve timed tests, a memorized oratory recitation, Certamen, a war machine contest, a chess tournament, a dance, and myriad art competitions including sculpting and scrapbooking.
The most popular event, Certamen, is a Latin trivia game in which three teams of four compete. At the convention, there were tournaments for four different levels of junior Latin, both competitive and open, and an additional tournament for adults. Wallach coached a Homestead team comprised of Rachel Chavin, Clare Hansen, David Giersch, and Ansley Laev to a state title last year.
However, this convention is about much more than just fun and games; it is a testament to the power of the classics and a rallying cry to study the language which resonates in Western culture to this day.
Said Wallach, “The classics are embedded in every facet of our Western civilization: the architecture, our democracy, our art, our medicine, our language. [They are] so woven into our lives that people are just not aware of how much we are a part of the amazing world of the classics.”
The convention shows that Latin is not a “dead” language; rather, it is still very much alive. In listening to these students talk about why they chose such an ancient language, one cannot help but hear the passion in their voices.
Rachel Chavin, Homestead’s Latin Club secretary, said, “I started taking Latin because I… wanted to take something that would challenge me… [and provide] something different.”
Latin is an exciting subject for these 500 students, and, for a weekend, they shared their passions with each other.
Timothy Han
Tim Han is a new member of JSR for the 2015 Spring Semester and a freshman at Homestead High School. He plays on the football team and is a member of numerous clubs related to the humanities. Writing and public speaking are two of Tim's passions, and he strives to make a positive impact on the world by using language not only as a means of factual communication but also a medium of expression of the thoughts and emotions that make everyone unique.
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Justia Lawyer Directory International Law New York Sea Cliff Attorneys
Sea Cliff International Law Lawyers
Compare 1000 top rated New York attorneys serving Sea Cliff.
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James Michael Maloney
Port Washington, NY International Law Attorney with 25 years of experience
(516) 767-1395 P.O. Box 551
International, Appeals, Civil Rights and Maritime
New York University School of Law and Fordham University School of Law
I have been a solo practitioner since 1999, after having worked for two historic maritime law firms in New York City. My practice now consists almost exclusively of federal litigation, including maritime and constitutional law. I am perhaps best known for my own pro se constitutional challenge to New York's ban on the in-home possession of the martial-arts weapon known as the nunchaku ("nunchucks"), a case that has been in litigation since 2003 (and continues as of November 2015, when this passage was last edited). Over the years, I have represented numerous individuals in state and federal...
Shahriar Kashanian
Manhasset, NY International Law Lawyer with 36 years of experience
(516) 404-9961 69 Stonehenge Road
Manhasset, NY 11030-2522
International, Insurance Claims, Personal Injury and Products Liability
David Lacher
New Rochelle, NY International Law Attorney with 44 years of experience
(914) 355-5900 270 North Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801
International, Business and Real Estate
Consummate legal professional bringing creative solutions to the legal challenges of modern times for clients in the areas of Wills, trusts, estate planning and estate administration; real estate (commercial and residential); land use and economic development; and the needs of business owners including LLC and other new business formations, purchases and sales of businesses, and contract reviews of every type.
Kyce Siddiqi
Floral Park, NY International Law Lawyer with 12 years of experience
(888) 915-7333 122 Plainfield Avenue
Floral Park, NY 11001
Free ConsultationInternational and Criminal
Mr. Kyce Siddiqi is the principal attorney and owner of The Law Firm of Kyce Siddiqi. With over a decade of legal and criminal justice experience, Mr. Siddiqi is a decorated former (retired) NYPD Police Officer and international rule of law advisor. Mr. Siddiqi practices immigration and asylum law. He has intimate knowledge of New York’s criminal justice system and has made and issued hundreds of arrests and summonses having worked in plain-clothes and counter-narcotic assignments. Additionally, having served in the NYPD Trial Room where cases involving police misconduct and corruption were adjudicated, Mr. Siddiqi offers advisory services on police...
Edward Warren Grolz
Garden City, NY International Law Lawyer with 37 years of experience
(516) 742-4343 400 Garden City Plaza
Garden City, NY 11530
International and IP
Claimed Lawyer ProfileOffers Video ConferencingQ&ABlawg SearchSocial Media
Ross B. Intelisano
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfNew York, NY International Law Attorney with 27 years of experience
International, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Stockbroker Fraud
Ross B. Intelisano is a founding partner of Rich, Intelisano & Katz, LLP. He represents individual and institutional investors in securities arbitration and litigation against financial firms, employees in industry disputes, employees in transitions from one financial firm to another, and employees in self-regulatory organization investigations.
Ross has over two decades of experience trying large and complex financial fraud cases on behalf of investors worldwide, including winning the largest arbitration award ever against Goldman Sachs. His clients include high net worth individuals, family offices, hedge funds, funds of funds, endowments, non-profits and other institutions in claims against...
Wayne Outten
New York, NY International Law Attorney with 47 years of experience
International and Employment
WAYNE N. OUTTEN is Chair and Founding Partner of Outten & Golden LLP. He was the Managing Partner from the founding of the firm in 1998 until the end of 2018. His practice focuses exclusively on representing individuals in all areas of employment law. He co-chairs the firm’s Executives and Professionals and Whistleblower Retaliation Practice Groups.
Mr. Outten’s practice focuses on representing high-level employees and professionals in all aspects of their employment, including negotiation of employment, compensation, and severance agreements. He is the author of the “Representing the Executive” chapter in Executive Compensation (BNA Books). His practice includes representing employees in...
New York, NY International Law Lawyer with 30 years of experience
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfInternational, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Real Estate
Rogelio J. Carrasquillo
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfInternational, Business, Immigration and Securities
University of Pennsylvania Law School and Georgetown University
Roy has been providing strategic guidance and advice to clients in a variety of complex and sophisticated legal transactions for over 20 years. He advises domestic and foreign companies, multinationals, and entrepreneurs on their business activities and investment considerations in the United States and throughout Latin America, Asia, and Europe, including in cross-border transactions.
Roy assists clients in equity and debt offerings registered under U.S. securities laws, the issuance of equity and debt in global transactions not subject to the registration requirements of U.S. securities laws and with corporate governance and securities regulation matters.
Roy also advises clients on M&A transactions, joint...
David H. Relkin
White Plains, NY International Law Attorney with 35 years of experience
(212) 244-8722 15 Stewart Place--12 D
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfInternational, Arbitration & Mediation, Bankruptcy and Business
Northwestern University, B.A., Honors in Philosophy.
Attended Harvard, Columbia University, and Laval University [Montreal]
City University of the State of New York, New York, M.A. Ancient Greek Philosophy, 1982.
New School for Social Research, New York, M.A. Modern European Philosophy, 1983.
Writer and Lecturer on Broad Range of Legal Issues: "Fraudulent Conveyances (New Broad Scope of Debtor Liability for Collections)": "The New Scope of Web-Based Jurisdiction to sue foreign Entities"; "Litigation Strategies to Win"; "New Concerns for Lenders in Bankruptcy Litigation"; Author of "Creative and Strategic Analysis To Win", Author: "How to Lose a Litigation"; "Is Arbitration still viable?" Author and...
Jathniel Shao
Queens, NY International Law Lawyer with 1 year of experience
(800) 808-4013 29 - 28 41st. Ave,
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfInternational and Immigration
Jathniel Shao is a lawyer in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, and Manila. Originally from Binondo, the world’s oldest Chinatown, Jath grew up bouncing between Asia and America and speaks Hokkien, Mandarin, and Tagalog fluently. Jath received his BA from Beloit College in Wisconsin, and his JD from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he was a founding board member of the Asian Law Student Association (ALSA) and the Filipino American Lawyers Association of Ohio (FALA Ohio). At the same time, he was a law clerk here at Herman Legal Group. Prior to rejoining Herman Legal Group as Of...
Richard Pu
(212) 427-3665 120 E 90th St
Free ConsultationInternational, Business and Legal Malpractice
My education and work history include Harvard College, B.A. 1972; NYU School of Law, J.D. 1977; Editor, NYU Law Review, 1976-77; Law Clerk to Hon. Lloyd F. MacMahon, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York, 1978-79; Litigation Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell, 1977-1983.
As a law clerk to a federal judge, I became familiar with the concerns of the judge, and give an insider's understanding of what will and won't work with a federal judge. As a litigator at a large law firm, I worked with big name litigators like Bob Fiske, who would later become...
Stephan Grynwajc
(347) 543-3035 P.O. 164
New York University School of Law, University of Paris School of Law and University of Paris School of Law
Admitted as a lawyer in France, the UK, Canada, and the U.S. I assisting EU and U.S.-based entrepreneurs, start ups and small to mid-size companies from the technology sector in their operations in Europe, the United States, and Canada. My firm, the Law Office of S. Grynwajc, PLLC, is a full-service corporate and transactional boutique law firm dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs and startups of the technology sector that are looking to expand in Europe and North America. We assist our clients in all stages of their business development, from setting up their corporate presence in the U.S., Canada, England, or...
Jeffrey Warren Berkman
Baldwin, NY International Law Attorney with 31 years of experience
(516) 331-1654 2260 Grand Avenue
Baldwin, NY 11510
Free ConsultationInternational and Business
New York University School of Law and New York Law School
Seasoned business lawyer with extensive experience working with entrepreneurs, companies, and business ventures in a variety of industries, including high tech, management consulting, real estate development, film and television, Internet, e-learning, software and hardware development, retail, life sciences, call center/business process outsourcing, and a variety of brick and mortar businesses. Serve as counsel to companies and individuals as outside general counsel and M&A/transactional counsel. Serve as business advisor to entrepreneurs seeking assistance with business start-up matters. I have handled numerous M&A deals, corporate, venture capital and commercial transactions worldwide, and bring the experience of...
David H. Nachman Esq.
8th Floor, Suite 800
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfInternational, Business, Employment and Immigration
Immigration Law Offices located in Ridgewood, New Jersey, New York City, Canada.
Phone (201) 670-0006 (x100)
E-mail david_nachman@visaserve.com
David H. Nachman was born in New York and is a lifetime resident of New Jersey. Following his admission to practice, Mr. Nachman was employed for three years with one of New Jersey's largest law firms in Newark, New Jersey, in Corporate and Business Law Department. Here, Mr. Nachman engaged in the business immigration law practice and he assisted with general corporate compliance and commercial litigation.
Mr. Nachman, along with other firm attorneys, worked on such cases as Berger vs....
T. Edward Williams
(212) 634-9106 45 Rockefeller Plaza 20th FL
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfInternational, Bankruptcy, Business and Real Estate
Mr. Williams' experience includes both trial and transactional work. Mr. Williams has appeared in Federal and State courts, representing individuals and businesses in various matters, including claims involving Employment Discrimination, Bankruptcy Adversarial Proceedings, Breach of Contract, Real Estate Disputes, Real Estate Partition, Real Estate Litigation, Shareholder Disputes, and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP). On the transactional side of his practice, Mr. Williams focuses on Private Placement Memorandum (PPM), Choice of Entities issues, Partnership Dissolution, Post-and-pre-nuptial Agreements, and Trusts and Estate Planning.
Chaz Rainey JD/MBA
(212) 658-1920 45 Rockefeller Center, Ste. 2000
International, Communications, Entertainment & Sports and IP
London School of Economics and Political Science and UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law
Chaz Rainey advises clients in the film and television industry on matters related to: copyright litigation, financing, production, new media technologies, rights of publicity, defamation, trade secrets, trademarks, unfair competition and other transactional issues. An internationally recognized lawyer, licensed in the practice of law in California, Nevada, New York, Texas and the District of Columbia, Chaz Rainey is an accomplished litigator, negotiator, and advocate. Chaz has served as lead counsel on over 200 cases in both state and federal court. He has first-chaired more than a dozen jury and bench trials, argued before federal and state appellate courts,...
John Tollefsen
(212) 964-1960 5 Penn Plaza, 23rd Floor
International, Appeals, Bankruptcy and Business
Suffolk University, Willamette University and University of Washington School of Law
John is a international lawyer with multiple post graduate degrees from both U.S. and European schools. He is a certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Controls Specialist. He has extensive multifaceted experience in business law and litigation.
Valerie S. Wolfman
International, Divorce, Family and Probate
For the past 30 years Valerie Wolfman Esq. has concentrated her law practice on Family, Matrimonial and Divorce Law, Child Custody, Divorce and Equitable Distribution (both simple and complex). Many of her cases have International components, including issues such as whether a French or Chilean or Swiss pre-nuptial agreement is valid; whether a divorce should proceed in France, New York or Australia, whether the mother may relocate the residence of the child away from the father. She has also litigated Will contests and has proven heirship with the aid of a genealogist and has been a guardian in guardianship...
Deborah Hrbek
(212) 480-2400 295 Madison Ave
International, Business, Cannabis Law and Entertainment & Sports
Kings College, Cambridge University, UK and Kings College, Cambridge University, UK
Daniel H. Erskine
Mount Vernon, NY International Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
(866) 951-4443 11 West Prospect Avenue
Mount Vernon, NY 10550
Free ConsultationInternational, Business, Communications and IP
The George Washington University Law School and Suffolk University Law School
Daniel H. Erskine, a New York and Connecticut admitted attorney and solicitor of England and Wales, represents U.S. individuals, companies, joint ventures, foreign businesses, and foreign nationals on complex legal matters under U.S. and U.K. law. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Erskine served as a shareholder and counsel to a business involved in relocating large scale production facilities from either US or foreign locations. Mr. Erskine also completed a judicial clerkship at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in Washington, DC. He now operates a solo practice focused on international business transactions, advising on US and English...
Maksim Dilendorf
New York, NY International Law Attorney
International, Business, Real Estate and Tax
Lakshmi Gopal
New York, NY International Law Attorney with 2 years of experience
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfInternational, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Civil Rights
Passionate, in equal parts, about individual freedom and emerging technology, Lakshmi established her firm, Muciri Law PLLC in 2020 to offer focused, independent, and accessible representation on the side of people against harmful uses of technology.
Ronny Buni
Free ConsultationInternational, Appeals, Bankruptcy and Business
Rutgers University - Newark
The Law Offices of Ronny Buni offers boutique services to a select clientele. We formulate unique, tough-minded and practical tax and business solutions. Our work is grounded in a detailed understanding of the facts, thorough legal research, and a critical analysis of the law as it applies to our client's specific facts. Our practice is based on years of experience in tax and business law. In every case we work on, we formulate a methodical approach calculated to deliver the result our client needs. We expect difficulties and know how to work through them. We emphasize tenacity and vision in everything...
Raoul Duggal
(212) 244-7570 450 Seventh Avenue
33rd Floor
Free ConsultationInternational, Business and Securities
Raoul Duggal is a corporate attorney focusing on the representation of start-up and venture-backed companies. He has advised companies and investors on numerous venture capital and angel investments and exits. In addition, he has extensive experience advising clients on a broad spectrum of domestic and international M&A transactions, including restructuring and refinancing transactions. Raoul also has experience with public companies and has advised on domestic and international IPOs. Raoul has represented a wide variety of start-up companies and investors, as well as numerous mid- and large-sized U.S. and European corporate clients. Raoul has extensive experience in such industry sectors as technology,...
Thomas Foley
International, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Employment
Thomas is a co-founding partner of SavicFoley and managing partner of the firm’s London office. Thomas is a dual-qualified attorney and solicitor with substantial international, litigation, and investigation experience. In London, Thomas advises clients on cross-border litigations, international dispute resolution issues, international law, US federal and state laws, UK and EU law, and assists on government investigations including advising participants. Thomas advises UK business establishing and conducting businesses and joint ventures in the US and abroad. He counsels businesses and individuals concerning contractual and business relationship disputes and is frequently sought for advice on jurisdictional questions, investigations, international law and human...
Thatcher A. Stone
(212) 332-2477 45 Rockefeller Center
Free ConsultationInternational and Civil Rights
Thatcher is a highly experienced AV-rated commercial finance, aviation and structured finance lawyer, who has worked with airlines, power companies, manufacturers, banks and export credit agencies all over the world on documenting and litigating complicated financial transactions. In addition, his airline passenger rights practice is world famous since his victory in New York over Continental Airlines in 2005 establishing passenger rights under contract in denied boarding scenarios. Thatcher has extensive experience with export credit agencies, the rating agency process at national statistical rating agencies like Moody's and S& P, and just about every facet of the aviation industry. Currently Thatcher...
Luciano Oliveira
New York, NY International Law Lawyer
262 W 38th St Rm 1705
International, Business, Collections and Energy
Luciano Oliveira is an attorney licensed in Texas and Brazil. Luciano has over 20 years of experience in international business.
John M. Giordano
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfInternational, Business, Construction and Employment
John M. Giordano is Of Counsel to Rich Intelisano & Katz. He brings over 30 years of experience, skill and knowledge to a broad array of legal matters. His practice areas include Business, Construction, Employment, International, Real Estate, and Securities Law. Mr. Giordano is committed to providing proactive, creative, and client-focused advocacy.
Mr. Giordano obtained his B.A. at Ithaca College. He earned his J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law. Mr. Giordano's jurisdictions include the State of New York and the United States District Courts in the Southern, Northern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Caitlin Hayes
Rye, NY International Law Lawyer with 10 years of experience
(914) 719-6945 80 Theodore Fremd Ave
Rye, NY 10580
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfInternational and Business
American University Washington College of Law
Caitlin M. Hayes, Esq. a licensed New York attorney has extensive international legal know how, as well as social, cultural and marketing expertise from her varied travel and global work experiences which enhances her professional offerings to go beyond traditional lawyering into consulting, coaching and instructing. She also authors poems, a blog and articles in various publications and is the purveyor of www.SpiritualizeYourself.com a 'E-commerce Boutique for your Soul', where she sources product locally and globally that includes fair trade, sustainable, artisan products. Caitlin helps her clients navigate, and overcome, cultural differences and apprehensions that can...
Ramsey Taylor
International, Business, Energy and Tax
William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law
I am the founder and attorney at Taylor Legal Law Firm, based in Washington DC. I help businesses of all sizes and social entrepreneurs (non-profits) handle their legal needs and everyday challenges, so you can focus on what matters most – your work and your business. My goal at Taylor Legal is to provide your business with fast, efficient, practical legal advice that works in real life, not only on paper.
Before founding Taylor Legal, I spent two decades practicing international business law in the US, as well as Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. I worked in a number of...
Ruth Jin
International, Business and Securities
Ruth Jin has extensive experience in corporate and securities laws. She regularly represents private equity firms and hedge funds from fund formation and investment management to project financing, including acquisition financing; and represents corporations for equity/debt securities offering, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and general corporate matters. Ruth's clients range from entrepreneurs and emerging companies to Fortune 500 companies. She advises businesses through all stages of growth from start-up and capital financing right through to initial public offering and counsels on the ongoing securities law compliance and periodic reporting obligations. She also provides broker-dealers with regulatory compliance related legal advice....
Gerard Romski
Gerard Romski serves as Of Counsel at Rich, Intelisano & Katz, LLP. Mr. Romski practices in the areas of construction litigation, real estate and land use law, commercial law and government relations.
Mr. Romski holds a Bachelor of Arts from the New York Institute of Technology and received his Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School. He is a member of the bar of State of New York and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern District of New York and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Romski is on the Board...
Samantha Plesser
(401) 935-9391 130 West 79th St
International, Arbitration & Mediation, Employment and Securities
Samantha Plesser most recently received a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from The New School of Public Engagement and is an attorney in New York City with more than five years’ experience monetizing labor and employment risks within government and corporate affairs teams of consumer goods, retail and professional services sectors. She also holds two Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and a Jurist Doctorate from Cornell Law School. Her diverse skills include researching and writing about regulatory policy, analyzing ROI, and increasing engagement across human rights, justice and supply chain issues. Realizing that to make a...
Karina Duvall
Brooklyn, NY International Law Attorney with 22 years of experience
(718) 704-8558 1400 Avenue Z #507
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfInternational, Divorce and Family
George Mason University School of Law, St. Petersburg State University, the Russian Federation and Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Experienced International Attorney. I serve American and foreign clients with a variety of legal needs in the U.S., Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, including International Notary Services, Apostille, etc. We provide certified English/Russian/Ukrainian translations. The international part of our practice is to provide services as a Russian/Ukrainian divorce attorney. We also assist in the matters of Russia and Ukrainian citizenships. I provide legal expertise regarding Russian law for law firms and U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. My primary focus is on working with courts and immigration authorities to interpret Russian law with respect to family law, enforcement of Russian court...
Jan Gunnar Johansson
(212) 517-2750 360 E 72nd St
International, Business and Immigration
John Daniel Megerian
(212) 684-9881 3 W 30th Street
International, Business, Employment and Immigration
Fordham University School of Law and Pace Law School
John D. Megerian founded Megerian Law Firm, PLLC in April, 2015. Prior to opening his private practice, Mr. Megerian gained valuable experience working for two prestigious law firms, while handling cases from inception to trial. He obtained a Juris Doctorate and International Law Certificate from Pace University School of Law in 2006. He also obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Fordham University in 2003, where he was the recipient of the International GLOBE Honor Student Award. Mr. Megerian’s scope of practice is focused on Commercial and Business Litigation, Real Estate Transactions, Immigration Law, Wills...
Leo Krymkier
(212) 292-8192 1270 Avenue of the Americas, FL 7
International, Business and IP
Richard William Cutler
(212) 683-0220 60 Madison Ave
Frank Anthony Natoli
(212) 537-4436 304 Park Avenue South, 11th Floor
Free ConsultationInternational, Business and IP
The law firm of Natoli-Lapin, LLC is happy to offer LANTERN LEGAL SERVICES - our suite of cost-effective, Flat-Rate legal solutions designed for the entrepreneur, small business and artist. We provide USER FRIENDLY & VIRTUAL services and strive to maximize your budget through a schedule of fixed prices and low overhead. Beyond his position as Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Natoli-Lapin, LLC, Mr. Natoli has an extensive background creating enterprise as a small business and international entrepreneur. In 1995, he began a start-up trading company based in both New York and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and was one of...
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How Curofy, started up by three IIT grads, is focused on connecting the medical community
Saturday, 1 August 2015
Talk to anyone associated with public health, and they will tell you about the miasma of antibiotic resistance sweeping the world. The World Health Organization's first report on the global state for antibiotic-resistant bacteria recently warned that the world is entering a “post-antibiotic era,” in which even the most powerful antibiotics available are becoming ineffecive against infections so easily treated in the past.
Closer home, a newspaper story last month highlighted a study that tracks infants in India born with bacterial infections that are resistant to most known antibiotics which said that 58,000 of the 800,000 infants who die annually, die due to multi-drug resistance. “Evidence is now overwhelming that a significant share of the bacteria present in India — in its water, sewage, animals, soil and even its mothers — are immune to nearly all antibiotics,” The New York Times report datelined Amravati, India, said.
Even if some feel that that is a generalised overstatement, the fact remains that India's public health infrastructure is poor and the country hasn't managed to bring down background rates of infections in any significant manner. In such situations, doctors end up prescribing antibiotics preventively and more liberally – in some cases to treat viral diseases that antibiotics can't even cure. Inappropriate use of antibiotics can worsen the situation by increasing multi-drug resistance. It is a classic paradox where effectiveness is diminished by use and increased accessibility and consumption of antibiotic often leads to increased resistance.
Add to this, the growing overuse of antibiotics in livestock to keep them disease-free and stimulate growth, as industrial scale farming spreads, with increasingly more animals packed into tinier amounts of space – and you have the perfect storm.
“Antibiotic consumption in India has increased 70% between 2000 and 2010,” says
Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan, Vice President, Research and Policy at the Public Health Foundation of India.
An even more dangerous subset of antibiotic-resistance is hospital-acquired infections – ask any doctor worth his stethoscope and he will tell you that, counter-intuitively, infection rates in Indian intensive care units are almost 40% higher than in general wards. An Indian Intensive Care Case Mix and Practice Patterns study recently found that one out of every eight patients in India die from infections contracted in ICUs. To begin with, ICU patients are more prone to catching even the slightest infections, as they are more immune-compromised since they are on heavy doses of antibiotics - and pathogens in the ICU are more resistant to these antibiotics, explain doctors. Recently, U. (Mandolin) Srinivas survived a liver transplant – but not the hospital acquired infection that followed.
Antibiotic infections are tough, sometimes impossible, to treat and the most likely reason for longer hospital stays and increased treatment costs. “Hospital acquired infections should be the highest public health priority in India,” Dr Laxminarayan says.
In a September 2014 Science magazine publication, Dr Laxminarayan said antibiotic effectiveness is a natural societal resource that is diminished by antibiotic use. “As with other such assets, keeping it available requires both conservation and innovation.” Conservation makes best use of antibiotic effectiveness by reducing demand through vaccination, infection control, diagnostics, public education, incentives for clinicians to prescribe fewer antibiotics, and restrictions on
access to newer, last-resort antibiotics. Innovation includes improving the efficacy of current drugs and replenishing effectiveness by developing new drugs, he said.
In most countries, but especially India, none of this is happening, say physicians.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has already warned of potentially catastrophic consequences unless immediate action is taken to reduce overuse, track and prevent the spread of resistance and develop new drugs. Significantly, three months ago, the Obama administration finally outlined a national strategy to tackle the growing threat of antibiotic resistance that includes incentives for new drug discovery and development, tighter stewardship of existing antibiotics and improvements in tracking their use and that of microbes resistant to them.
Overall, across geographies, big pharmaceutical companies seem to have stepped back from responsibilty on R&D for new drug discovery in this field – simply because it is so much more profitable to find new drugs that focus on lifestyle and other diseases where efficacy isn't diminished by use. But in an interesting development, a couple of new startups in India have recently entered the field of drug discovery - Bugworks in Bangalore, co-founded by Anand Anandkumar, Janaki Venkatraman and Santanu Datta, and Vitas in Hyderabad, co-founded by Radha Rangarajan and Rajinder Kumar. The latter recently pitched to the Indian Angel Network for funding of Rs 3 crore and got fully subscribed within minutes. The deal was led by four IAN members, including well-known angels such as Jerry Rao and Hemant Kanakia.
Vitas Pharma started in 2011 as a drug discovery and development company, involved in identifying and developing next-generation antibiotics to treat multi-drug resistant hospital acquired infections. Its two co-founders, (Dr Rajinder Kumar also serves as the chief medical officer of the company) have invested almost $1 million of their own funds as well as grants to bring the company up to the product development stage. The money raised from IAN will be used primarily for completing the safety, pharmacology and toxicology package and filing an investigational new drug and clinical trail application for one programme, the founders said. The next round of funding will be initiated in 12 months to raise Rs. 20 crore.
"Vitas is going after an area of drug discovery that is very important for humanity. We're currently facing a perfect storm of superbugs which are resistant to most existing antibiotics – and India has become an epicenter because of over-prescription of antibiotics by Indian doctors for even minor ailments,” said Hemant Kanakia in an email from the U.S. “The reluctance of major pharma companies to engage in sustained R&D effort to develop new antibiotics makes it especially important to support startups like Vitas. Plus, Radha's clear exposition and factual command of her business proposition impressed us. She came across as someone with a very good sense of the business as well as the sciences aspect of her startup,” Kanakia added.
Rangarajan has received her Bachelor's degree from Stanford University and PhD from Rockefeller University. Before starting Vitas, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in Infectious diseases and a scientist in the drug discovery division of Dr Reddy's Laboratories. “The WHO now cites antimicrobial resistance as one of three greatest threats to human health. Given the current levels of drug resistance and their widespread occurrence globally, drugs that overcome resistance and offer significant clinical benefit are urgently needed,” Rangarajan, who is also CEO, Vitas, said in a phone interview from Hyderabad.
The Vitas portfolio currently includes compounds for bacterial infections such as hospital acquired pneumonia, blood stream infections, complicated skin and soft tissue infections and complicated urinary tract infections.
"We have filed three patents till date. These compounds target vital metabolic functions in the cell and are novel, thus overcoming drug resistance. The most advanced project is at a lead optimized stage and is intended for the treatment of complicated skin infections and hospital acquired pneumonia caused by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). The other three projects are at different stages of preclinical development from hit to lead," says Rangarajn.
"Our operational model is based heavily on the public-private partnership model. Vitas was incubated in the University of Hyderabad and the IKP Knowledge Park. We work with academic institutions and public hospitals," Rangarajan said.
At the moment, Vitas Pharma is collaborating with both academia and industry. "We have an ongoing collaboration with, Dr Harinath Chakrapani at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune; Dr Sharon Peacock, University of Cambridge, Dr V Lakshmi, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Dr D.Balasubramanian L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, and Syngene (a Biocon group company). We've also had past collaborations with the faculty at the University of Hyderabad," Dr Radha says.
"We are a research and development-driven product company. Our business model is to out-license our molecules after achieving proof-of-concept in the target population,” she added. This makes Vitas's “customers” mid-to-large pharmaceutical companies with expertise in clinical development and regulatory practices, with sales and marketing capabilities in the major markets. At present, the company has filed for 3 patent applications, two international and one in India and has four key programs in its portfolio, one of which is a collaboration in which Kiran Majumdar Shaw has invested.
The Vitas team consists of scientists with Master's or PhD degrees, in chemistry or biology, with relevant industry or academic experience. "In the field of new drug discovery for antibiotics, there are only a handful of companies worldwide. We have the distinction of being one of them," Rangarajan says. However, she feels that the appetite of Indian private investors for investment in R&D driven biotech companies is very low – they are very risk averse. “This is in contrast to other parts of the world such as the Silicon Valley or Boston, where investment in biotechnology is considered an essential component of the growth story," she says.
With that contrast in mind, she emphasizes that, in India the government needs to take the role in creating an ecosystem for R&D driven companies to thrive. "This includes creating capital for start-ups, establishing incubators, accelerators and putting in place policies that are small-company-friendly and tax incentives to promote private investment in R&D," she says.
Rangarajan sees Vitas entering the clinical development phase with its assets, and successfully out-licensing and building partnerships with other pharmaceutical companies. "Our focus will remain on infectious diseases, although we may expand our scope to include anti-virals and anti-parasitics in the future. Pain and inflammation is another area that we might venture into,” she says. In the long term, Vitas wants to establish itself as a world class pharmaceutical company, with secured finances and ongoing clinical development programmes for antibacterial indications and diagnostics.
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Oxford is teeming with prestigious educational institutions and historical sites. Celebrated as Europe’s oldest university town, it has rivaled Cambridge for academic influence in England. Tick off many items on your Oxford must-see list when you explore its centuries-old buildings, museums, and the world-renowned university. Check out this helpful travel guide and discover what the city has in store for you!
Founded in 1602, Bodleian Library in Oxford is one of the oldest public libraries in Europe. It serves as the main research library of the university and has over 12 million items under its care. Some of its treasures are the Gutenberg Bible and the most important surviving manuscript written in Middle English, the Vernon Manuscript. In pop culture, the library was seen in many Hollywood films such as Harry Potter, The Golden Compass, and The Madness of King George III.
Radcliffe Camera
Completed in 1749, Radcliffe Camera is one of the, if not the most iconic structures in Oxford. Its circular design and isolation from other buildings make it an ideal focal point around the campus. Named after Dr. John Radcliffe, who funded its construction, the library holds many history books within its walls. It also sits right across from Bodleian Library, providing additional reading rooms in case Bodleian becomes too crowded.
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Completed in the 13th-century, Oxford Castle is one of the well-known castles in England. For centuries, royal affairs and rebellion happened in the castle. In the 18th-century, the owners at the time made a profit by leasing the castle to the local wardens. It was the time the castle gained its reputation as one of the cruelest prisons in the UK. Rumor has it, the place is still haunted by its past. Today, the building is now home to an education center that shares its interesting history.
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Notable for its prominent architecture, the University Church of St Mary the Virgin is one of the most iconic structures in Oxford. Originally built during Anglo-Saxon times, the church has seen many historical events and structural improvements over the centuries. The oldest part of the building is also its most striking — the tower. Constructed in 1280 and enhanced from 1315 to 1325, the tower is considered the best example of decorated Gothic architecture in Oxford.
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Sports Person of the Week - Jack Walker
By Brady Renard
Updated: Apr. 1, 2021 at 6:48 PM CDT
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - What’s in a pitch?
For Barbe senior pitcher Jack Walker, it’s confidence.
“I have to stay humble, but I think when I have my stuff, I can compete with just about anybody in the state,” Walker admitted. “When I’m out there I have to think I’m the best in the world. This team isn’t better than me. I’m just going to compete and try my best to get as many guys out and keep us in the game.”
And he does. According to Prep Baseball Report, Walker is the state’s top pitcher for the Class of 2021.
Using his 92 miles-per-hour two-seam fastball to overpower lineups.
“Most kids don’t have a two-seamer. He’ll run that thing in and then he has a true slider and curve. Most people have one or the other and most people don’t have even one as good as he has,” said Barbe coach Glenn Cecchini. “He has two-plus exceptional pitches.”
And all three were on display in the last two starts against Sam Houston and Sulphur. Walker struck out 27 batters in those 14 innings.
“He always gets the toughest assignments and he’s won every game and he dominates every time out. He’s had one loss in his career at Barbe and he’s been pitching since his freshman year. The one loss he threw, was a one-hitter,” Cecchini said. “He’s special, and he is going to Mississippi State for a reason.”
Cecchini says Walker is as good as any Barbe pitcher he’s coached in his 35 years.
“As a right-hander, he’s as dominating as any guy we have ever had. He is absolutely dominant. Every game out it’s a one or two-hitter. They don’t hit off him,” said Cecchini. “They hit way less than .100, I think they’re hitting .040 off him.”
But Walker’s success didn’t come without hurdles.
“It was depressing at first,” Walker said, “the night I tore it I was upset.”
Coming off a state championship in 2019, Walker suffered an injury in July.
“And then I had surgery and when I came out of my splint, everything was going well and after that, I just looked at it as a blessing,” Walker admitted. “I got a whole year to retrain my arm and learn more about my body and my throwing to be able to come out my senior year and throw better.”
Walker admits the Tommy John surgery, as it often does, made his arm stronger.
That paired with a positive attitude has helped Walker make the most of his second chance.
“I always tell him, ‘Jack, make us happy.’ I call him happy Jack Walker because he is always smiling,” said Cecchini. “That’s part of his success because of his demeanor.”
Walker said repeating as state champions remains the goal.
“That’s all I thought about the whole process just going to rehab and that’s what kept me going through it because it was a grind, and it was tough,” Walker admitted. “I just thought about my senior year and how I’m going to go out and leave everything on the field.”
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Mark Zuckerberg now owns over 1,400 acres in Hawaii
by: TheRealDeal, Nexstar Media Wire
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan arrive at the 7th annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at the NASA Ames Research Center on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018, in Mountain View, Calif. (Photo by Peter Barreras/Invision/AP, File)
(TheRealDeal) – For all of Mark Zuckerberg’s talk about the metaverse, he’s got a thing about real-world property too.
Zuckerberg and wife, Priscilla Chan, paid $17 million last month for 110 acres of agricultural land on Kauai, bringing their total Hawaii property holdings to more than 1,400 acres, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. It includes most of the 131-year-old Ka Loko Reservoir, which unleashed a deadly flood after bursting in 2006, the Star-Advertiser said.
The purchase gives the couple a contiguous collection of agricultural and conservation land. It includes turmeric and ginger farms, nursery and cattle ranching and a residence called Ko’olau Ranch that they completed in 2017. They plan to protect and conserve wildlife and “fulfill legal requirements and promote safety” for the reservoir, which hasn’t been repaired since the flood and is on the state’s list of high-risk dams, according to Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for the couple, and the Star-Advertiser.
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The couple previously said they wouldn’t redevelop their property aside from building another home. It would be valued at about $35 million and would have almost 36,000 square feet of living area, the Star-Advertiser reported. Building permits for that project haven’t yet been approved, the publication says.
Zuckerberg and Chan bought the land with the reservoir from a company owned by the Pflueger family, whose late patriarch, James Pflueger, was jailed for seven months in 2014 after the flood, which killed seven people who were swept downstream. He was released in mid-2015 and died at 91 in 2017.
His family, the state, and Kauai County, among other parties, paid $25 million in 2009 to settle civil lawsuits brought by families of the seven flood victims and landowners who suffered property damage, the Star-Advertiser reported.
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Interior to hold auction for offshore wind power in NY, NJ
by: MATTHEW DALY and MIKE CATALINI, Associated Press
FILE – This photo from Aug. 15, 2016, shows offshore wind turbines near Block Island, R.I. The Biden administration said Wednesday it will hold its first offshore wind auction next month, offering nearly 500,000 acres off the coast of New York and New Jersey for wind energy projects that could produce enough electricity to power nearly 2 million homes. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it will hold its first offshore wind auction next month, offering nearly 500,000 acres off the coast of New York and New Jersey for wind energy projects that could produce enough electricity to power nearly 2 million homes.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said the Feb. 23 auction in the New York Bight region will allow offshore wind developers to bid on six lease areas, the most ever offered in an auction for offshore wind energy projects.
“The Biden-Harris administration has made tackling the climate crisis a centerpiece of our agenda, and offshore wind opportunities like the New York Bight present a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fight climate change and create good-paying, union jobs in the United States,” Haaland said.
The auction comes after the administration announced a flurry of clean energy actions Wednesday, such as steps to speed up reviews of clean energy projects on public lands, including solar, onshore wind and geothermal energy. The Interior Department has approved 18 onshore projects during Biden’s first year in office. The projects are set to deliver more than 4 gigawatts of clean energy, powering more than 1 million homes.
The administration also said it is accelerating the deployment of new transmission lines, as enabled by the new bipartisan infrastructure law, to make the grid more reliable and resilient in the face of intensifying extreme weather. Last year was the deadliest weather yea r for the contiguous United States since 2011, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday. A total of 688 people died in 20 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters that cost a combined $145 billion, the agency said.
President Joe Biden has set a goal to install 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, generating enough electricity to power more than 10 million homes. The administration has approved thenation’s first two commercial-scale offshore wind projectsin federal waters: the 800-megawatt Vineyard Wind project off the Massachusetts coast and the 130-megawatt South Fork wind farm near New York’s Long Island.
Haaland has said the Interior Department hopes to conduct as many as seven offshore wind lease sales by 2025, including the New York Bight and sales offshore in the Carolinas and California later this year.
Democratic Govs. Kathy Hochul of New York and Phil Murphy of New Jersey hailed the New York Bight lease sale, saying it would help their states chart an ambitious path toward a clean energy economy. The projects there could produce up to 7 gigawatts of electricity.
“Today’s milestone further highlights New York’s commitment to reaching its offshore wind goals,″ Hochul said in a statement.
“Offshore wind holds the tremendous promise for our future in terms of climate change, economic growth and job creation,” Murphy added. “New Jersey is already committed to creating nearly one-quarter of the nation’s offshore wind-generation market and these transformative projects are proof that climate action can drive investments in infrastructure and manufacturing while creating good-paying, union jobs.″
The administration’s announcement rankled some commercial fishing groups, who have complained that wind projects off the East Coast could interfere with efforts to catch seafood species such as scallops, clams and sea bass. Annie Hawkins, executive director of Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, a group representing fishing associations and companies, said the Biden administration has been moving offshore wind projects at a “staggering” pace, with insufficient environmental reviews or public comment.
“The NY Bight is a hugely conflicted area,” Hawkins said, referring to a variety of fishing, shipping and other ocean uses. “Issuing new leases before putting processes in place to mitigate the clear risks this scale of development poses to historic food production and ecological resilience will result in devastating impacts that would have been largely avoidable with careful planning,” she said in an emailed statement.
The Interior Department said it consulted with commercial fisheries and other stakeholders before moving forward with the lease sale, resulting in a 72% reduction in the size of the proposed lease area. The closest distance to New Jersey among the parcels is 27 nautical miles offshore, while the nearest to New York is 20 nautical miles away, the department said.
Amanda Lefton, director of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, said her agency will require that the six leases be awarded to six separate developers, ensuring “a robust set of operators” and spurring competition on price and other factors.
The project carries several stipulations, including required project labor agreements with unions and planned incentives for using U.S.-made components such as blades, turbines and foundations.
Daly reported from Washington.
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Edgewood animal sanctuary seeks assistance after paperwork mistake
Posted: Apr 30, 2019 / 04:26 PM MDT / Updated: Apr 30, 2019 / 04:27 PM MDT
A paperwork mistake has left a wildlife nature park in Edgewood in a big bind. Now, they need your help with donations and volunteers to keep this hidden gem a float.
From the bobcats and coyotes, to the foxes and mountain lions—the Wildlife West Nature Park in Edgewood is home to more than 20 different species of rescue animals.
“We take in non-releasable native species. So they are injured, orphaned, maybe illegal pets,” said Roger Alink, founder and executive director.
“It’s one of the things that makes this part of New Mexico special,” said Bill Owen, Edgewood resident.
Now, this special spot needs the public’s help all because of a paperwork error.
“We kind of messed up when we did the application,” Alink said. “They changed one of the designations on how much you can ask for and we didn’t see that.”
Every year, the nonprofit typically gets $135,000 in grant money from the Youth Conservation Corps, but when they asked for that this year it was denied.
“They changed it to $100,000, but we didn’t get anything this year,” Alink said. “So, we are raising money so we can hire some youth to do the tours and do some construction.”
Not only that, but the park also needs improvements which come at a hefty cost.
“We are trying to raise about $3,500 for improving this coyote exhibit,” Alink said.
The improvements will be done by teens who have constructed every inch of the park.
“The sidewalks, the buildings, the bathrooms, the habitats,” Alink said. “Everything is done by youth.”
While Alink usually hires about 20 teen helpers for the summer, this year he’ll have to scale that back. Still, community members are hopeful the 27-year-old zoo will stay above water.
“It’s part of the community structure and it is preservation, so it would be not good for it to leave,” said Norman Scott, Tijeras resident.
The park is also raising funds by hosting events like their Kite Festival this weekend.
For ways to donate, click here. One can also donate the at the Wildlife West Nature Park in Edgewood.
Santa Fe Community College hosting new art exhibit
SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Preparations are underway for a new exhibit at a local art gallery. The new exhibit "Painting and Poetry: The Center Cannot Hold" will open at Santa Fe Community College's visual art gallery.
It will showcase paintings infused with a deep connection to poetry. Works from popular artists Jane Shoenfield and Bill Sortino will be featured. It opens on February 3 at 5:00 p.m.
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From Juvie To J.D.: The Story Of A 'Runaway Girl'
By NPR Staff
When Carissa Phelps was 12, she dropped out of seventh grade in the small town of Coalinga, Calif. Her homelife was dysfunctional and soon, she ran away.
Her life on the streets took its toll, and before long the unthinkable happened: she was kidnapped by a pimp and forced into prostitution.
Today, Phelps is a success story. She graduated summa cum laude from college and went on to earn a combined law and business degree from UCLA. That remarkable story is the subject of a new book called Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets, One Helping Hand at a Time.
The worst of it began when she was coerced and taken in by a pimp called Icey. "He just basically told me their sad story," Phelps told weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz.
He needed help getting his car out of impound, Icey told her, but his girlfriend couldn't make the money because she was pregnant. So Phelps agreed. "It was supposed to be just one night, and it turned into 10 horrible days."
She said grown men didn't seem to be put off by the fact that she was just 12 years old. "The thing is, it was normal to them, and it seemed normal to all these people that were on the streets," she said. "They didn't care about my age. All they cared about was that they were buying — buying time with me to do whatever they wanted."
Phelps only escaped the situation when she was in a car with Icey and they were pulled over. Icey gave a fake name, but the fake name had a warrant. The police arrested Phelps as well. "I was put in the back of a police car ... and he sat in one police car right next to me. And I felt like I was a criminal just as much as he was."
Her life wouldn't turn around for another few years yet. After she returned home, she tried to go back to high school, but soon dropped out again. "I was trying to make sense of my life," she said, "and became involved with more gangs and different types of crime, not just shoplifting. So the next year was just basically spiraling downward. Nobody believed me, what had happened on to me [on] the streets." Another low point came when she and a few friends were arrested for joyriding in a stolen car.
Then, Phelps had her lucky moment. For the joyriding incident, she received a six-month sentence to a juvenile hall, where she was sent to school.
"For the very first time, my counselors were consistent, and I was able to get into therapy, go into family therapy, group therapy, with other little girls who had similar experiences, and just receive help for what had happened."
After finishing her sentence, Phelps went on to graduate from high school on time and graduate summa cum laude from Fresno State University. When she first arrived to UCLA for law and business school, one of her fellow students was a filmmaker named David Sauvage.
He was interested in filming a documentary, and when Phelps briefly suggested herself as a subject, Sauvage off-handedly replied, "Well, unless you were a child prostitute, it's all been told before."
"When he said that I just, I just was silent because I'd never considered myself a prostitute," Phelps recalled. "I knew what had happened to me, I'd been kidnapped by a pimp and I had been forced into prostitution and I knew the other things that had happened. But I'd never considered myself a child prostitute."
Sauvage indeed made a documentary about Phelps, the 2008 film Carissa.
Since completing her degrees, Phelps has committed herself to working with teenagers with the very kind of troubles she used to have. "I think that I'm supposed to bring this message and I really do feel like I was just a visitor in that life, in that time, to bring out the voice of kids who have been voiceless."
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Tropical Storm Bertha Takes Aim At The Caribbean
Published August 1, 2014 at 9:54 AM MDT
Tropical Storm Bertha is moving northwest, taking aim at Puerto Rico and expected to skirt the Dominican Republic's coast.
The National Hurricane Center has issued a tropical storm warning for Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, Dominica, Martinique, and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, while the Dominican Republic has issued a tropical storm watch.
Luckily, forecasters with the Hurricane Center say upper level winds are not favorable for further strengthening, so maximum sustained winds should remain at about 50 mph.
The long-term forecast calls for Bertha to keep moving west, but at some point curve back — missing the U.S. East Coast and cruising off into the Atlantic Ocean.
The Associated Press adds:
"Bertha is expected to generate up to 3 inches of rain across the eastern and northern Caribbean, with isolated amounts of up to 6 inches in certain areas.
"Officials in Puerto Rico are welcoming the rainfall amid a moderate drought that has hit the island's southern region and a small portion in the northeast. More than half of the U.S. territory also is experiencing abnormally dry conditions, with the government reporting $20 million in crop losses.
"Strict rationing measures are scheduled to go into effect starting Aug. 6 if the storm doesn't generate enough rain."
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Here's What's Become Of A Historic All-Black Town In The Mississippi Delta
By Melissa Block
(From left) Rolando Herts, director of the Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University, Annyce P. Campbell, 92, and Eulah Peterson, 68, both from Mound Bayou, Miss.
Teddy Roosevelt proclaimed it "The Jewel of the Delta."
Booker T. Washington praised it as a model of "thrift and self-government."
Mound Bayou, in the Mississippi Delta: a town founded in 1887 by former slaves, with a vision that was revolutionary for its time.
From the start, it was designed to be a self-reliant, autonomous, all-black community.
For decades, Mound Bayou thrived and prospered, becoming famous for empowering its black citizens. The town also became known as a haven from the virulent racism of the Jim Crow South.
"It's almost like it was an inverted or alternate universe, where being black was a positive thing," says Rolando Herts, director of the Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University.
I came to Mound Bayou both to learn about the unique history of the town and to see what has become of it today.
A drive through town reveals a place that has fallen, hard. There are just a few businesses left: a convenience store, a gas station, a funeral home.
The population is down below 1,500, a fraction of what it once was. More than half the children in Mound Bayou live below the poverty level.
So what happened? "I think desegregation happened," says Herts. "This is a case we've seen across the country in which black communities, people who had more options, left those communities to move to the suburbs, or to move to urban areas with more opportunities, and took their know-how and their resources with them."
But stop for a moment and imagine the Mound Bayou that was, and to picture what a remarkable feat it was to build this town in the first place.
Back in 1887, the founders — freed slaves Isaiah T. Montgomery and his cousin, Benjamin T. Green — bought 840 acres of Mississippi swampland that was covered with dense hardwood forest.
According to Booker T. Washington's account, published in 1907, Montgomery led the first small group of prospective black settlers there by train:
"You see," he said, waving his hand in the direction of the forest, "this is a pretty wild place." He paused, and the men looked hesitatingly in the direction he had indicated, but said nothing.
"But this whole country," he continued, "was like this once. You have seen it change. You and your fathers have, for the most part, performed the work that has made it what it is. You and your fathers did this for some one else. Can't you do as much now for yourselves?"
The men picked up their axes and attacked the wilderness.
It was back-breaking work, but they succeeded. Mound Bayou became prime cotton land, and word spread of the economic opportunity there.
It was not the ordinary Negro farmer who was attracted to Mound Bayou colony. It was rather an earnest and ambitious class prepared to face the hardships of this sort of pioneer work. The scheme was widely advertised among the Negro farmers throughout the state and drew immigrants from all parts of Mississippi, and a certain number from other states.
As Herts tells me: "They wanted the best of the best. They wanted the most highly educated people who were entrepreneurial, who were going to come in and contribute something to making this community even more competitive, even better."
By the time Annyce Campbell was born in Mound Bayou in 1924, the town was thriving. "You name it, we had it!" she tells me proudly. "We had everything but a jail, to tell you the truth!"
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Folks in front of a general store in Mound Bayou, 1939.
The 92-year-old Campbell clearly recalls the heyday, when Mound Bayou was home to dozens of businesses, three cotton gins, a sawmill, a cottonseed oil mill, a bank — all of them black-owned.
Mound Bayou boasted several schools, a train station, a Carnegie library.
By 1942, Taborian Hospital opened, serving blacks from all over the Delta.
Herts, of Delta State University, points out how revolutionary that was for the time: "Just being able to walk through the front door of a hospital and immediately receive the care that you need. Not having to go through a back door. Not having to wait for the white patrons to get their needs serviced first. That happened here in Mound Bayou."
Taborian Hospital is shuttered now. The home of Mound Bayou's founder, Isaiah Montgomery, is abandoned, its foundation cracked and crumbling.
Elissa Nadworny / NPR
Taborian Hospital opened in 1942, serving blacks from all over the Delta. It is now closed.
Montgomery and his co-founder, Benjamin Green, are buried in a small cemetery in town.
Every year, people gather graveside for Founders' Day, with a memorial service and wreath-laying. "It gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the founding of Mound Bayou," says Eulah Peterson, 68, who was born and raised in Mound Bayou.
"This was certainly a big undertaking in 1887," Peterson continues. "We were, what, 32 years from slaves being freed. Some 130 years later, we're still here. While we're not where we'd like to be, we're still here."
Peterson's family roots in Mound Bayou go back to 1903. Her maternal grandfather, born into slavery, was 7 when the slaves were freed. He and Peterson's grandmother moved to Mound Bayou from Louisiana, attracted by the promise of this "utopian society," as Peterson puts it.
Eulah Peterson moved back to Mound Bayou once she retired, after spending nearly two decades away.
"People said, 'Why are you going home to Mound Bayou?' and I said, it's because Mound Bayou is close enough to anything that I want to do and far enough away from anything I don't want to be bothered with."
Peterson is a former alderman and vice mayor, and is now running for mayor.
I ask if it saddens her to think about what Mound Bayou used to be, and what it is now.
"I would not necessarily say sad," she replies, "because I'm a realist. People are different, times are different, a sense of what was is not here. But," she adds, " I do feel that Mound Bayou will survive. Not necessarily the way it was, but maybe different and better in some ways."
Peterson envisions the Mound Bayou of the future as a retirement community, attracting more people who moved away but want to come home and help revive their hometown.
"I've not given up on the thought that we can get more people who are willing to come back to Mound Bayou."
The "Our Land" series is produced by Elissa Nadworny.
Corrected: March 8, 2017 at 10:00 PM MST
In a previous Web version, Eulah Peterson was misidentified as Eulah Campbell.
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Construction robotics - research and innovation from China
While advances in robotic automation have revolutionised manufacturing over past decades, assembling a wide range of everyday items from vehicles to consumer electronics, we have yet to see a similar breakthrough in the construction industry and the process remains highly labour intensive. Professor Darwin Lau shares insights into his work on construction robotics and how new innovations might reshape the building sites of the future while opening exciting new possibilities in architecture and design.
The least discussed but most powerful benefit of robotics and automation in construction is the unlocking of design possibilities.
Video: Portable Cable-Driven Parallel Robot for Brick Building Construction
Q: What is the state of robotics in the construction industry today? Why have we not seen robots applied to the extent seen in other industries?
Industrial robots began making headlines in the 1960s with the unveiling of the robotic manipulator “Unimate”, paving the way for full automation of production lines. Today, the number of industrial robots in use globally has tripled over the past two decades to 2.25 million. Yet the construction industry has yet to embrace this trend. In some ways, the mode of construction today is not so different from that used decades or centuries ago.
There are a number of challenges that explain this slow pace of change.
Firstly, industrial robots tend to operate in well-defined, predictable indoor settings, confined to an assembly line with a fixed job. Meanwhile, construction sites are unpredictable and filled with surprises. Work has to be done in extreme and often frequently changing conditions, whether dry, dusty or wet, hot or cold, in enclosed or open spaces. Developing a robot that can adapt to these varying conditions is challenging and costly.
In addition, there are established regulations and complex procedures in place that ensure the quality and safety of construction work. Workers are required to have professional qualifications, and legal liabilities are clearly stipulated in contracts. If a robot replaces a human worker, how can these requirements still be met? This raises ethical and legal questions that are yet to be addressed.
And third, there is the complexity of the tasks involved. Constructing a building often requires hundreds of tasks in numerous phases. Moving from a robot capable of one task to a system that can automate and manage the whole process necessitates further research into developing the necessary process flow.
Q: What are some of the advantages that construction robots could bring to the building industry?
It is indisputable that automated robotic systems help reduce production and labour costs. Meanwhile, the industry is facing multiple challenges, from safety to costs, an aging workforce and tightening environmental regulations. It is therefore important for the long-term to identify where and how robots can be incorporated into construction practices.
When it comes to worker safety and labour shortages, the median age of workers in the industry is rising, and a construction worker has a 75 percent likelihood of experiencing a disabling injury and a 1-in-200 chance of being fatally injured on the job over a 45-year career. Robots could hopefully take on the most high-risk tasks, like demolition or work at heights, and solve shortages in specific skilled tasks.
Of course, robots can also work 24/7. They do not fatigue, avoid the associated risks of errors or inconsistencies, and avoid the risk of making dangerous mistakes. That precision is invaluable.
Q: What impact could robotics have on architecture and building design?
The least discussed but most powerful benefit of robotics and automation in construction is the unlocking of design possibilities. Incorporating interesting shapes and complex brick structures is often limited in architecture due to conventional and labour-intensive manufacturing processes. Fully automated robotics demonstrate how more complicated structures could be precisely constructed, without necessarily increasing the development costs, opening up exciting new design ideas in the foreseeable future.
In 2017, our research team from the Faculty of Engineering and Professor Adam Fingrut from the School of Architecture presented a cable-driven robot named “CU-Brick” that used jenga blocks to build. The irregular structure of buildings means each block has to be placed precisely, with little margin for error. To achieve this, the system consists of a gripper end-effector and the cable actuators can be mounted on a range of different environments, from metal frame structures to the walls and roofs of buildings. Its design is performed through developed intelligent software and it will then automatically generate the structure to be built, while remaining within the operational region of the robot and determined parameters such as the number and location of bricks.
We are currently working on the fourth generation of the “CU-Brick” system in its first on-site pilot project. Taking the research prototype out of the laboratory, this project will see the robot develop a single-storey brick structure using up to ten thousand bricks, using real construction materials and workflow. This project showcases the workflow advantages of precision robotic construction linked to computational design solutions, ultimately demonstrating how robotics can help realise the architects’ dream, with endless possibilities in design concepts.
Q: What other forms could construction robots take in the future?
Robotic technology is an indispensable opportunity when discussing the future of construction and architecture. Our work at CUHK has explored several approaches to the application of robots in tackling specific construction tasks. We are also currently researching the use of cable-driven robots in the cleaning of sedimentation tanks, high-rise façade operations robot that can work at height to handle window cleaning, painting and repair work, and even the operations for constructing bored-pile building foundations. This can help create a safer work environment for humans, enabling them to focus on other tasks.
While a fully automated construction site may be a distant dream, automation and teleoperation for many individual tasks at construction sites are absolutely feasible within the coming 10 to 20 years.
Author: Professor Darwin Lau is Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) cuhk.edu.hk/english/
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Executive education in Switzerland: Finance and banking courses in Zurich & Geneva. MBA in wealth management degree in English, finance PhD programs for international students / American students. Undergraduate & graduate education in Europe.
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Executive Banking & Finance Education in Switzerland
Swiss Finance Institute:
Based in both Zurich and Geneva, Swiss Finance Institute is a private foundation created by Switzerland's banking and finance community in co-operation with leading Swiss universities to support and advance research and executive education in banking and finance. As one of the major European providers of advanced executive education in banking and finance and delivering world-class research, the institute offers a wide variety of high-quality international and national executive education programmes including an executive MBA programme in Asset and Wealth Management taught in English, additional executive programmes taught in English and German, a PhD programme in finance and more.
Executive Education Programmes in Banking & Finance:
Master Programme:
* Dual Degree Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) in Asset and Wealth Management (in English):
Jointly offered by the Swiss Finance Institute, HEC Lausanne, Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA).
Degrees obtained:
- Executive MBA in Asset and Wealth Management – Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA).
- Executive MBA in Asset and Wealth Management – HEC Lausanne, Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).
Our dual degree programme in Asset and Wealth Management combines the strengths of three world-class research institutions: The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, the Swiss Finance Institute, and HEC Lausanne, Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne.
This interdisciplinary programme will achieve two key objectives: It will provide executives with the conceptual and practical tools and the in-depth financial and investment expertise required to compete at the highest levels of this industry. It will also equip participants with the managerial tools necessary to assume a leadership role, exploring how to best translate new ideas into practice in a knowledge-intensive industry. Mastery of both finance and business management is the hallmark of the successful executive in asset and wealth management.
Program overview: This innovative dual degree program gives participants access to a range of top-flight academics and experienced practitioners. The modular structure of this program, where classroom units last for two weeks, allows professionals from around the world to participate without taking long periods away from work. This international mix of talented executives also builds a global network of contacts – invaluable assets in today's interconnected world.
Involving 12 weeks of classroom instruction spread over 20 months and two continents, participants will explore four interdisciplinary business themes. Speaker sessions, interactive lectures, case studies, group discussions and project work will challenge you and give you a more dynamic and complex understanding of the business of investment management. While classroom modules are two weeks long, some of the most important work in the program takes place between modules, when participants prepare for the next module and complete individual and web-enabled group assignments.
Three of the six sessions will be held at the Tepper School of Business in Pennsylvania, USA, and three will be held at the HEC Lausanne, Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
* Senior Management Programme in Banking (in English):
The Senior Management programme in Banking addresses the current radical changes in the finance industry and how to respond to them. The programme provides senior finance industry executives with an integrated view of the industry, discussing modern concepts and their practical application, while subjecting both to critical review.
Course Structure: The programme is split into four 1-week blocks. Each block is held in a different financial center - Geneva, London, Madrid, and Bratislava - enabling participants to gain insights into different approaches to banking through interaction with senior managers from the different countries. Each block addresses two to three key topics, typically a specific business area such as commercial banking or asset management, plus an integrative topic such as competitive strategy or risk management.
As the participants themselves bring years of exposure to the finance industry, the Senior Management Programme in Banking assembles a unique wealth of industry insights into a single program. In addition, the modular structure of the programme ensures the development of a deep and lasting network among the participants, an important ingredient to facilitate the exchange of personal insights. The Swiss Finance Institute awards a certificate to those participants who complete the programme.
* Advanced Executive Programme (in German):
The Advanced Executive programme aims to help senior executives from financial and related sectors to strengthen their management competence, to broaden their factual knowledge and to promote critical integrated thinking with respect to the current dramatic trends in the financial industry.
Course Structure: The AEP comprises 10 modules, each lasting two and a half days, from Thursday to Saturday, with one module per month. Prior to each module, the participants will deepen their factual knowledge by independent study using our documentation. When completing the course, participants will obtain a certificate.
* Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) in Banking (in German):
The DAS in Banking combines solid knowledge and skills in management with practical know-how and insight into the functioning of the financial sector. Participants are taught how to interpret their own responsibilities as part of the financial system, and how these are to be handled in line with modern thinking.
Course Structure: The programme will last a total of 6 weeks, plus 4 additional days spread over 21 months. Initially, there will be a “Kick-Off-Event” followed by a mandatory self-assessment on the participant’s knowledge of modern financial mathematics. The three course blocks, which last two weeks each, are thematically divided into modules. After every course block the participants have to take an exam on the corresponding contents. The participant's successful completion of the programme is confirmed by a “Diploma of Advanced Studies in Banking” of the University of Bern, Switzerland.
* Financial Asset Management and Engineering Programme (FAME):
The FAME Programme provides a unique experience in learning the modern practices of asset management and financial engineering. For four weeks, practitioners are challenged to apply advanced thinking to investing in real world situations. It is this intense focus on application which allows the FAME Programme to achieve its singular impact.
Students who successfully complete the 4-week FAME Programme, including all tests and the assigned project, are awarded the Diploma of Financial Asset Management and Engineering from the Swiss Finance Institute.
Management Retreat:
* International Private Banking & Wealth Management Retreat:
The retreat is an exclusive international platform for senior executives in private banking and wealth management. It helps to understand the strategic, organizational and personal challenges in the turbulent environment of modern private banking, to become familiar with best practices of leading institutions, and to build an international network of peers.
The retreat will be held at the enchanting "Grand Hotel Victoria-Jungfrau" in Interlaken in the Canton of Bern in west-central Switzerland. Interlaken is a well-known tourist destination in the Bernese Oberland.
PhD Programme in Finance:
The Swiss Finance Institute PhD programme in Finance is targeted towards the pursuit of academic excellence. It aims at providing an intellectual environment and a curriculum comparable with the top PhD programs in Europe and North America. The PhD program operates at the three Swiss Finance Institute campuses in Geneva / Lausanne (Léman), Lugano and Zurich.
The curriculum comprises two phases: One preparatory year of intensive coursework followed by three years of advanced studies and research. The programme covers a wide range of subjects including Economics, Financial Economics, Corporate Finance, Mathematical Finance, and Econometrics. There is a clear focus on the mathematical foundations of Finance and all courses are taught by internationally renowned academics from Switzerland, Europe, and North America. The programme offers the ideal framework for successful and inspiring PhD studies in Finance.
Applicants should have a strong interest in research activities and the desire to pursue an academic career or to continue their career doing research in Finance within the public or private sector. The program is internationally oriented and aims at attracting the best students from Switzerland and abroad. Applicants need to have a Master of Science in Finance or Economics or a degree deemed to be equivalent by the Admission Committee. Additional prerequisite courses at the beginning of the PhD program might compensate for weaknesses in any of these areas. We strongly encourage applications from women.
* Private Banking – Cross Border Activities:
Half day country specific seminars for compliance officers and interested experts from banks. Workshops with the legal specialist who developed the Swiss Bankers Association Country Manual for France, Germany and Italy. The workshop has the objective to address specific challenges the participants are facing with regard to cross border private banking activities.
Address: Walchestrasse 9 CH-8006, Zürich, Switzerland
SBS - Swiss Business School, Zurich
Swiss Business School (SBS) is a fully-accredited international business school in Zurich, Switzerland that provides undergraduate and graduate business degree programs, which are taught in the English language. We are dedicated to preparing students from around the world for careers of the global economy in International Management, Finance, Marketing and other fields.
We are a quality-driven niche player. We teach state of the art theory, immerse students in international experiences, and connect them to best practice in business. Participants in our programs learn much more than management theory and practice; they acquire new ways of thinking that can profoundly change their lives and the success of their organization.
SBS Swiss Business School is fully accredited by the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE), a US Specialized Accrediting Body for Business & Business-Related Degree Programs at the Baccalaureate and Graduate Degree Levels in Colleges and Universities. Zurich is the financial and economic capital of Switzerland, at the heart of Europe. It is only one hour by air from London, Paris, Brussels or Berlin.
BBA - Bachelor of Business Administration Program
MBA - Master of Business Administration Program
Flex MBA - Master of Business Administration Program
Executive MBA - Executive Master of Business Administration Program
Distance Learning MBA Program
DBA - Doctor of Business Administration
AAE - Accelerated Adult Education Program
Business & Hotel Management School (BHMS), Luzern
Located in the heart of the beautiful city of Luzern in north-central Switzerland, Business & Hotel Management School (BHMS) is an accredited hospitality management school. We provide high-quality diploma and degree courses in the fields of culinary management and hospitality management to Swiss students and international students. The language of instruction for all of our programs is English.
Through hands-on training and classroom learning, BHMS Culinary Management programs develop students' contemporary skills in food preparation and presentation, a la carte cuisine, pastry and desserts and kitchen management. You will acquire all the fundamental skills necessary to work in the world's fine dining establishments in one of the fastest growing industries. Our programs include paid industry internships so you gain practical work experience.
Luzern (Lucerne) is conveniently located less than a 1 hour drive from Zurich and approximately 2.5 hours drive from Geneva. Luzern is situated on the most important route between north and south, and connected with the Swiss train network in six directions.
Culinary Management Programs
- Diploma in Culinary Management (6-12 months)
- Advanced Diploma in Culinary Management (6-12 months)
- Associate Degree in Culinary Entrepreneurship (12 months)
Hospitality Management Programs
- Diploma in Hospitality Management (1 yr)
- Higher Diploma in Hospitality Management (2 yrs)
- Bachelor of Arts Degree in Hotel & Hospitality Management (3 yrs)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Hospitality Management (1 yr)
- MBA in Global Management & Hospitality Management (2 yrs)
Geneva Business School (GBS)
Geneva Business School (GBS) provides an outstanding international environment for undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates in every dimension of student life in Geneva, Switzerland. Our business administration and finance degree programmes are tailored to meet this century’s complex global challenges. English is the language of instruction. Course curriculum is designed with the real world in mind to create the most practical and innovative education possible.
Geneva Business School has received specialized accreditation for its business programmes through the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE), located in Olathe, Kansas. Our faculty members are highly experienced and are specialists in the field that they teach.
Geneva Business School classes are scaled to sizes which encourage a higher quality interaction between students and faculty. Our new Career Support Center has been founded on our dedication to seeing our students get the most from their studies both in and beyond the classroom.
Geneva International Airport is located 4 km north-west of the city, providing easy access to and from other international cities in Europe and around the world.
Bachelor's degree programmes:
- Bachelor in Finance (BF)
- Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
- Dual Degree programmes with ESC Chambéry (France)
Master's degree programmes:
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Master of Science Degree in Finance (MsF)
- European Master programme in International Private Banking (EMIB)
Doctorate programmes: Each specific field of research at doctorate level is represented by a separate department.
BSL - Business School Lausanne
Business School Lausanne (BSL), a leading innovator in business education with entrepreneurial spirit, is committed to practical and pragmatic learning. The school ranked among the Top 3 Swiss business schools in a recent employer choice study, conducted by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd 2010).
BSL takes a pragmatic approach to learning by applying theory to practice and is backed by a multidisciplinary faculty of business professionals. BSL attracts students from around the world, creating a multicultural environment of more than 40 nationalities. Studying at BSL is an interactive and engaging learning experience. Established in 1987, BSL is a co-founder of the World Business School Council of Sustainable Business.
- Accelerated 2 - year BBA with an internship option (3 years)
- Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)
- Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA)
- MSc in Finance with CFA preparation
- Master in International Business (MIB)
- MSc in Global Marketing
- MSc in Management
- MSc in Luxury Management
- Diploma in Sustainable Business - executive 1-year program with a joint degree by BSL and University of St. Gallen
César Ritz Colleges Switzerland
César Ritz Colleges Switzerland has two locations: One in Le Bouvret, near Geneva in West Switzerland and another in Brig-Glis, Valais in southern Switzerland. We offer hospitality business education programs at both undergraduate and postgraduate level which prepare our students for the exciting and dynamic industry in which they have chosen to make a successful career.
At César Ritz Colleges Switzerland we are inspired by the uncompromising professionalism displayed by “The Hotelier of Kings and The King of Hoteliers”, César Ritz, the founder of The Ritz and Ritz-Carlton hotels. A future hotel manager needs to learn professional skills and gain relevant practical experience in order to set high standards for all his employees.
Are we the best choice for your career ambitions in the international hotel and tourism industry? Many of our present and former students say so, and year after year numerous high-profile hotel companies come to our Colleges to handpick our talent. These professionals confirm that our students are among the best. For over 25 years, “César Ritz” Colleges Switzerland has contributed to excellence in international hotel and tourism management.
- Higher Diploma in Hotel & Restaurant Management
- Bachelor of International Business in Hotel & Tourism Management
- PGD in International Hospitality Management
- Master of International Business in Hotel & Tourism Management
- MSc in International Hospitality Management.
* Programs are taught in English. German, French and Spanish are also introduced in the programs.
Lausanne Hotel School
Located in Lausanne, a beautiful city which lies on Lake Geneva in Western Switzerland, The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) is a leading hospitality school which is part of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland. EHL is an international, bilingual school that offers hotel management and hospitality programmes in both English and French.
We provide the solid management education of a top business school while basing our programmes on our own unique educational philosophy: Hospitality management as both a science and an art. We are accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).
Founded a hundred and fifteen years ago the school has never ceased to grow and innovate. During this time, the hospitality industry too has greatly evolved. It is now the fastest-growing economic sector in the world and is reaching out into many new business areas.
In response to these rapid changes, EHL continually evaluates and updates its programmes to correspond to new industry needs. With more than a century of experience, EHL is steeped in rich traditions yet a visit to the school reveals a young, dynamic institution with ultra-modern facilities.
- 4-year Bachelor of Science in Hospitality
- 2-year Hotel Management Diploma
- 14-month Master in Hospitality
* Programmes are offered in English and French.
* All EHL programmes strike a careful balance between the science and art of hospitality management.
* Students learn the hard financial and business aspects of hotel management as well as practical and professional experience.
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ROBERT HIRSCHKRON
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HIRSCHKRON, Robert – of Marblehead. Entered into rest August 12, 2016 at the age of 88 years. Beloved husband of the late Frances (Greenblatt) Hirschkron. Devoted father of Gary Hirschkron and his wife Dominique of Ojai, CA, and of Amy Hirschkron of Salem, MA. Cherished grandfather of Clay Hirschkron and his wife Jenna Kessell, and of Sky Hirschkron. Dear longtime partner of many years to Sylvia Berman. His memorial service will be held at Temple Emanu-El, 393 Atlantic Avenue, Marblehead on Sunday, August 28, 2016 at 3:00 PM. After the service, a reception will be held at the Hawthorne Hotel, 18 Washington Square, Salem.
An Interment was held privately. In lieu of flowers, please send expressions of sympathy in his memory to Operation Bootstrap, 20 Wheeler Street, #203, Lynn, MA 01902.
Robert Hirschkron - Bob to all who knew him - had a rich and full life. He was born in 1928 in Vienna, Austria, the only child of Mary and Richard Hirschkron. He experienced a typical Viennese childhood of the early 1930s, surrounded by a large extended family of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. From 1938-1940, he lived under Nazi occupation. He was expelled from his school and his family lost their home and business. On Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938, his father went into hiding to avoid deportation to Dachau. He and his parents were forced to move to a collective apartment where they lived with six other Jewish families, all desperately searching for a way to escape. Bob took a streetcar by himself daily (wearing the yellow star on his coat) to a Jewish relief kitchen to get food to bring back for his family; the trip would have been too dangerous for his parents to make.
A program sponsored by the peace-loving Quaker AFSC (American Friends Service Committee) allowed the family to escape to New York City in early 1940. A rare bookseller named Jerome Brooks provided an affidavit of support - a life-saving act of generosity.
His family had $10 in their possession on arrival in the U.S. Both parents struggled to find work and to adjust. Bob quickly became fluent in English and took great care of his parents throughout their lives.
Based on his academic abilities, Bob skipped two years of school and graduated high school at age 16. He worked his way through NYU Engineering School and, graduated at 19. One favorite job was delivering boxes of postcards to tourist destinations like the Empire State Building. Bob always climbed the stairs to the 86th floor - an easy scene to visualize for those who knew him.
In 1947, Bob was hired by General Electric to work in Schenectady, NY for $52.50 a week - the beginning of a fulfilling and creative 46 year career with GE. At the time, GE was one of the few industrial companies that would hire Jewish engineers.
In 1951, he was drafted into the Army for two years. He served at White Sands, New Mexico working on engineering issues in early missile development - even meeting Wernher Von Braun, the father of the Nazi V-2 missile program! Bob learned Spanish and took leaves in California and in Mexico where he climbed the 18,000 foot volcano, Mount Popocatepetl.
After the Army, Bob returned to GE's Aircraft Engine Department in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1953. In January, he met and fell in love with another young GE employee, Frances Greenblatt. They were engaged within a month and married that June in Brookline. Frances was one of the scores of young women hired as ""calculators"" to manually perform engineering calculations now performed by computers in milliseconds. She was from an Eastern European Jewish family in Boston. They had a long and loving marriage that ended with Frances' premature death in 1995.
In 1954, Bob was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Jet Propulsion to study at Princeton University's graduate school. Bob earned a Master's degree from Princeton, but then left the program short of his PhD upon the birth of his son, Gary, in July, 1957. His daughter Amy was born four years later, in June 1961.
Returning to Massachusetts, the family moved to Marblehead. In 1959, he purchased his home of the next 55 years on Leggs Hill Road.
At GE, Bob was involved in the design of the early generations of jet engines - specializing in combustion and thermodynamics. From 1971 onward, he worked in Preliminary Design with customers and government agencies - both in the US and internationally - on the initial conception of new engines. Bob's work was at the cutting edge of the development of quieter, cleaner and more fuel-efficient engines.
Bob loved travel and the outdoors. He was a practitioner of a healthy diet with plenty of exercise long before it became fashionable. In New England, he rekindled his enthusiasm for skiing and hiking from his Austrian childhood. He was also eager to reconnect with European culture, returning for the first time in 1960 and on dozens of occasions in the years that followed. Despite the trauma of his childhood, he was extremely fond of many things Austrian and Germanic: the language, the mountains, the music, the punctuality and, perhaps most of all, the desserts.
As retirement from GE approached, Bob transformed his love of the mountains into a small business: RH Trails. From 1989 until 2008, Bob led groups of 20-30 annually on three weeks of hiking through Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France. The trips became a treasured reunion for a close group of friends, with most hikers returning year after year.
For the last 25 years, He volunteered almost every day at Operation Bootstrap in Lynn, MA, tutoring math to immigrants studying for their GEDs. When he was on his deathbed last week, one of the nurses, an immigrant from Africa, recognized him as her math tutor from many years ago. Although she lacked confidence, Bob kept telling her, ""Claudia, you can do it."" She believed him and passed her GED.
He loved sailing, hiking, skiing, biking, and walking. In his 70's, he took ballroom dance classes, and got a friend to teach him baking. His heroes were scientists and intellectuals. He took classes in German literature at the Goethe Institute until his stroke a couple of years ago. He had no interest or enthusiasm for competition among nations or peoples.
Bob valued human connections above all else. He made friends everywhere he went, all over the world, and often maintained those relationships for life. We will all miss him.
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Published by Boston Globe from Aug. 17 to Aug. 18, 2016.
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Our deepest condolences from Ruth Fleischer (Hirshkron) and her family from Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Sylvia, Amy and Gary,
We are so sorry to hear about the passing of your father. Robert was a pretty amazing, smart guy with so many interests. We fondly remember wonderful success stories that your dad shared as while volunteering at Operation Bootstraps, along with his passion for wonderful hiking adventures.
Our deepest sympathies go out to you and your family.
Alison Levins, Brookline, MA
Clara Levins, Lantana, FL
Sylvia and Bob's family:
I will always remember my friend Bob, for his intellect, humor and love of life. My husband and I and Sylvia and Bob did a little socializing, dinners out and dinners in; and I will remember those times with fond memories. Driving Bob to his tutoring classes in Lynn in the AM and hearing about all his adventures was always a good way to start my drive into Boston.
I am sorry for your loss, but I know he's out there in spirit.
Diane Silverman Black
I am so sorry to hear of your father's death. He was one of my dad's dearest friends. They were both longtime brainy GE guys. My dad died at 87 Oct 2, 2013. Bob will certainly be missed by everyone who knew him. My condolences to you all.
Elizabeth Levins
To all those who were a part of Bob's life...
I got to know him through my Dad, Heinz. We had a very interesting time hiking in Europe, where I learned so much from him. He was an inspiration to me during a time of upheaval in my own private life. He had an energy level, paired together with a strong will, that I really admired. His daily reflection's had me taking a closer look at my own life. Thank you for being my guide in so many ways.
You will be remembered...
Doris Altherr
Dear Gary and family.
May your Father's life be honored by he loved.
May his memories be cherish for all he gave.
My your hearts be conformed by all your shared
Sandra Miller
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A non-traditional Fourth of July celebration
By William Seekamp
Updated: Jul 03, 2021 07:47 PM
Andy Atkinson / Mail TribuneAbel Esemene is ready to run from Medford to White City and back carrying an American Flag 4th of July morning.
A traditional Independence Day typically includes some combination of barbecues, fireworks and beer. But Abel Esemene's celebration is anything but traditional.
Sunday, he will be running from Medford to White City and back with an American flag on his back.
“It is easy for people to forget about the pain that (the founders) went through for us to be able to celebrate,” he said.
Esemene, who was born and raised in Nigeria, had always admired the United States and dreamed of living here. When he became a U.S. citizen in 2018 he vowed to do something difficult to honor the holiday ... or he wouldn’t celebrate at all.
He settled on his unique annual endeavor because he enjoys running and the July heat, combined with the distance involved, will make it challenging.
Esemene has followed through on his vow. This will be his fourth year running it and it is something he always looks forward to, in spite of the heat and pain.
“It’s my passion, there is something behind it,” he said. “I do it for myself and for the nation that I love so much.”
He estimated that he will travel about 10.5 miles, but said that he has never calculated the distance because the run is symbolic and not about achieving a certain number.
Esemene feels ready, he plays soccer fairly often and has been running.
He is planning on running tomorrow morning at seven and then spending the rest of the day recovering and at the river with his friends.
“It’s been a blessing living in this land. You have a dream of the land, you’ve thought about this life so much,” Esemene said. “And then living here, it’s mind-blowing.”
Reach Mail Tribune news intern William Seekamp at wseekamp@rosebudmedia.com.
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Hit by the Spanish king of spam in the week of GDPR
Maltese politicians and CEOs get a twice-daily dose of spam king’s political drivel
7 July 2018, 9:09am
by Matthew Vella
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort brags that he has been able to flood the mailboxes of almost 12 million professionals, by his own account.
Nigerian princes and gold bullion scams are redolent of an innocent age of email spam. But when your name crops up among Malta’s great and good to join a “presidential team” by none other than spam king ‘J.P. Monfort’, you know you’ve landed in the pantheon of spam artists.
This being just weeks since the big inbox clean-up brought over by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, nothing could be more fortuitous.
“We have invited you to join the presidential team in your country,” Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort writes in an email from his base in Albania. The industrious Spaniard says he is setting up 200 such think-tanks manned by “top notch experts”, in an email that comes with rendered images of people like former minister Michael Frendo, former University rector Juanito Camilleri and EU Court judge Peter Xuereb, who have not consented to become members of this policy-making team.
Spammed... these people's images are being used without their consent
This is first-class bullshit, delivered to an impressive list of academics, journalists, lawyers and politicians by the king of spam.
Some of the people in this long list are requesting to be delisted already, hoping that Monfort is pliable under GDPR threats.
But Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort brags that he has been able to flood the mailboxes of almost 12 million professionals, by his own account. “My name is Jaime P. Monfort, author and social entrepreneur, prepared from exile a coup to the Establishment in Spain to end once and for all with the impoverished situation of misgovernment.”
In his Malta email, he invites his victims to join his multidisciplinary team to “construct creative, imaginative, prospective and analytical policymaking proposals… Congratulations on the nomination to join your country’s most prestigious team, you are one of your country’s best experts and a potential crew member in the world’s most revolutionary journey towards the best possible future, a borderless World of Eutopia and Cornucopia.”
His CV boasts the most industrious of academic records: since 1994, 10 degrees, from a Master’s in telecommunications from Madrid polytechnic, and degrees in financial analysis and financial engineering from Madrid and Berkeley, and degrees from the LSE, Columbia University, Georgetown, and now undertaking a Master’s in global diplomacy at SOAS in London – simultaneously studying for a Master’s in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
His ‘Monfort Plan’ claims to have devised a solution to “lessen the burden of poverty” through “creative policymaking”, and says he is fluent in English, French, German and Spanish, as well as working knowledge of Albanian, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.
One person who actually met him was none other than the former Spanish minister and president of the European Parliament Josep Borrell, who suggests that Monfort is “an unbalanced person who needs psychiatric help” – but not a fraud.
As president of the University Institute of Florence, Borrell gave Monfort a letter of recommendation for a scholarship, but was turned down by the corresponding US university.
When Borrell refused to give him another letter of recommendation, Monfort began harassing him with emails.
In one of his videos, amateurish productions in which Monfort is seen talking about his ‘Monfort plan’ with the most unusual of backgrounds (one of them looks like the shower of an outdoor swimming pool), he claims to have sent emails to 16,000 professionals in Argentina, 20 of whom answered back.
So far, some Maltese recipients have asked Monfort to delist them from his list although it will be a hard feat for them. Now based in Albania, the Spanish spammer’s visions for a “global party” and a think-tank gathering world experts to solve global ills, seem unstoppable.
Matthew Vella is executive editor at MaltaToday.
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More than 1,000 people test positive for coronavirus in UK in 24 hours
Today's number of positive Covd-19 cases is up by 332 from the day before
Cases are continuing to rise in the UK (Image: Getty Images)
More than 1,000 people have tested positive for coronavirus in 24 hours, according to the latest figures.
The Department of Health and Social Care said on Tuesday that as of 9am, 1,148 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the UK.
Today's number is up by 332 from the day before.
This brings the country's total amount of people to have tested positive with coronavirus to 312,789.
The Department of Health has paused the publication of its daily death figures while a review is conducted into how the data is compiled by PHE.
'If you don’t act now we are looking at a lockdown’: bosses issue 11th hour warning to residents ahead of potential government intervention in Oldham
Instead, the Public Health England (PHE) dashboard has been updating the figures.
However due to a technical fault, the dashboard will not be updated until tomorrow (August 12).
Hospital deaths for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are still being released daily.
A further six people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals to 29,425, NHS England said on Tuesday.
The patients were aged between 46 and 96 and all had known underlying health conditions.
Eight deaths were reported with no positive Covid-19 test result.
The region with the highest number of deaths was the North West with four, while the remaining two deaths were recorded in the Midlands and the South East respectively.
Another two people who tested positive for coronavirus in Wales have died, bringing the total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic to 1,581.
In Scotland, the First Minister said no deaths have been recorded of patients who tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days.
Confirmed coronavirus cases, however, have sharply risen by 52 in the past 24 hours - which is up from the 29 confirmed on Monday.
No new deaths with Covid-19 have been reported in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health said.
Another 48 people tested positive, bringing the overall tally to 6,188.
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New implants make vision possible
Molly Wood Mar 29, 2011
https://www.marketplace.org/2011/03/29/new-implants-make-vision-possible/
A device called the Argus II has been approved for commercial use in Europe and could be widely available in the United States as soon as next year. It’s meant for patients who have degenerative conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa.
The device is implanted within the eye itself and it works in conjunction with a mounted camera on a set of glasses that the patient wears along with a power pack on the belt. It’s not the lightest set of equipment you could possibly imagine, and at around $115,000, it’s far from affordable for a lot of people. But the important development here is that the technology is real and it’s becoming available. The equipment will eventually become less cumbersome and the price will drop.
We talk with Brian Mech of Second Sight Medical Products, which developed the Argus II. He describes how it all works, including the antennae used on both the glasses and the implanted device. He said patients are able to see about 60 pixels of light, which isn’t much compared to the average person but a huge difference for the patients involved.
We also talk to Dr. Gislin Dagnelie of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The school has been involved with clinical trials in the U.S., and Dr. Dagnelie has worked with five of the patients. He says it may not restore full vision but in terms of mobility and navigating through the world it’s a remarkable step forward.
Also in this program, speaking of remarkable steps forward, Harvard scientists have invented a wand that puts out fires using blasts of electricity. Which is cool.
Are doctors and patients ready for home health monitoring?
What the merger of CVS and Aetna could mean for customers
Why you should want your surgeon to play video games
Why home health monitoring devices could improve care and costs for chronically ill patients
The FDA wants more medical devices in your pocket
Pandemic innovation: High-tech family doc brings back the house call
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Within Marquette's commitment to social justice, Howard L. Fuller, Ph.D. ('85) founded the Institute in 1995 to provide quality educational options for students of low-income families. Since then, the Institute has won nearly $14 million in grants from local and national foundations for working across systems to reform K-12 education in Milwaukee and nationally. The primary beneficiaries for all of the work of the Institute are low- income children and families in the City of Milwaukee, and children anywhere who are being ill served by the current systems of education.
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Russell Walker
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Russell Walker, Ph.D. is Clinical Professor at the Kellogg School of Management. Dr. Walker has expertise in Big Data and Analytics, Risk Management, and International Business Strategy. He has developed and taught leading executive programs and MBA classes on Big Data and Analytics, Strategic Data-Driven Marketing, Enterprise Risk, Operational Risk, and Global Leadership. Russell founded the Kellogg Executive Education program on Risk Management. He founded and teaches the very popular Analytical Consulting Lab and Risk Lab. He was awarded the Kellogg Impact award by his MBA students for excellence and impact in teaching.
He is the author of From Big Data to Big Profits: Success with Data and Analytics (Oxford, 2015) that examines how firms can best monetize data assets. This book has been awarded a medal by the prestigious Axiom book awards for excellence in business technology, and has been recognized and featured by the Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. He was named one of most influential bloggers in Big Data and Analytics, globally. He also authored the award-winning text Winning with Risk Management (2013), which examines the principles and practice of risk management through business case studies. He authored the chapter Operational Risk in Insurance, as part of Risk Management in Financial Institutions (2013). He has been recognized as a top thought leader in Big Data and Analytics by many organizations, including the International Institute of Analytics, Onalytica, Teradata, SAS, KDNuggests and the Harvard Business Review. The Aspen Institute, Harvard Business School Press, The Bank of England, The World Bank, and PRMIA have recognized his cases for excellence in showcasing lessons in risk management.
His International Business Strategy research includes a study of medical tourism opportunities for Turkey and an analysis for tourism transformation in Mexico for the Secretary of Tourism of Mexico. He leads the popular Global Lab class at Kellogg, an experiential class that brings Kellogg MBAs in touch with global opportunities. He frequently speaks on the emerging global middle class and demographic shifts driving changes in international markets. He has been invited to speak at the US Department of State, The World Bank, and the International Finance Corporation. He partners with the Cuba Study Group to identify initiatives to advance the success of Cuban entrepreneurs.
He serves on the Scientific and Technical Council for the Menus of Change, an initiative by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Culinary Institute of America, to develop healthier and more environmentally sound food choices. He served as a board member of the Education and Technology Committee to the Morton Arboretum, and as a board member of the Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, where he developed support programs for Hispanic entrepreneurs and worked with US senators on US Latino matters.
He has been invited to share his perspective internationally at Oxford University, IESE Business School in Spain, the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration in Thailand, Amsterdam Institute of Finance, and the Indian School of Business.
He has advised Microsoft, World Bank, Bank of England, SEC, US Department of State, CME Group, John Deere, IBM, Teradata, Discover Financial, Capital One Financial, PepsiCo, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Hyatt, among others.
Russell began his career with Capital One Financial, as a corporate strategist specializing in the advancement of analytics in the enterprise for the purposes of improved marketing and risk management.
He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He also holds an MS from Cornell University, an Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a BS from the University of South Florida. Russell speaks Spanish.
He enjoys travel, photography, trees, and horticulture.
Russell Walker can be reached at @RussWalker1492 & russellwalkerphd.com
Walker, Russell. 2015. From Big Data to Big Profits: Success with Data and Analytics. New York, London: Oxford University Press.
Walker, Russell. 2015. Menus of Change Annual Report. An Initiative of the Harvard School of Public Health and the Culinary Institute of America. Menus of Change.org.
Walker, Russell. 2014. Menus of Change Annual Report. An Initiative of the Harvard School of Public Health and the Culinary Institute of America. Menus of Change.
Walker, Russell. 2013. Menus of Change Annual Report: An initiative of the Harvard School of Public Health and the Culinary Institute of America.
Walker, Russell. 2013. Winning with Risk Management. World Scientific Publishing Company.
Walker, Russell. 2016. Exporting Challenges and Opportunities for Cuban Entrepreneurs. Cuba Study Group.
Walker, Russell. 2015. The Increasing Importance of Operational Risk in Enterprise Risk Management. The Journal of Enterprise Risk Management. 1(1)
Walker, Russell. 2013. Winning with Risk Management: Focus on Operational Risk. European Financial Review.
Walker, Russell. 2010. Role of Credit Rating Agencies as Risk Information Brokers. Prepared for the Anthony T. Cluff Fund and the Financial Services Roundtable, Presented to the US SEC and US Congress.
Walker, Russell. 2006. Partnerships in Training. Interfaces.
Associate Director of the Zell Center for Risk Research at Kellogg School of Management
President at Walker Bernardo Consulting
Director, Board of Directors at Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Senior Strategist at Capital One Financial, Inc.
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Sir Matthew Pinsent CBE
Gold Medal Winning Rower & Broadcaster
Sir Matthew Pinsent CBE, 4-time Olympic gold medallist, 10-time world championship winning rower, turned TV presenter and reporter.
Matthew began rowing when he was President of the Oxford Rowing Club during his time at University. He took part in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race in 1990 and 1991, and lead Oxford to Victory, beating Cambridge by substantial distances.
In 1992, Pinsent won the Gold Medal at the Barcelona Olympics with partner Sir Steve Redgrave, this was the beginning of a long partnership as the outstanding pair took winnings at seven World Championships, and gold medals at the Olympic Games in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004.
In August 2000, Pinsent took part in a 3-part BBC documentary entitled ‘Gold Fever’. This followed the coxless four team made up of Redgrave, James Cracknell and Tim Foster, in the years leading up to the Olympics.
After the 2000 Sydney win, Matthew formed Coxless Pair partnership with James Cracknell. Undefeated throughout 2001, they broke the world record by 4 seconds.
Matthew was elected to the International Olympic Committee’s Athletes’ Commission in 2001.
Matthew announced his retirement from rowing in 2004 and was made a Knight Bachelor later that year. He had already been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire and was raised to Commander. He was awarded the coveted ‘Thomas Keller Medal’ by the International Rowing Federation in 2005.
Since retiring from rowing, Matthew has worked for the BBC as a sports bulletin presenter and reporter. Umpiring & commentating key events on the rowing calendar such as the Olympics, Henley Royal Regatta and The Boat Races. Pinsent also directed “Unbelievable – The Chad Le Clos Story”, a documentary following swimmer Chad Le Clos.
In June 2012, Matthew rowed on the Gloriana as part of the royal pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. He appeared again on the Gloriana the following month, bearing the Olympic torch as it crossed the river Thames.
Matthew is an outstanding motivational speaker and after dinner speaker. He has appeared at corporate events for some of the most prestigious UK & International companies such as Proctor & Gamble, IBM, British Telecom, NatWest, Camelot and Lombard.
Matthew Pinsent CBE is a 4-time Olympic gold medallist, 10-time world championship winning rower, turned TV presenter and reporter.
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February 2011 update
06/02/11: The January and February 2011 CPD questionnaires have been uploaded. See CPD scheme for details
The scheme is primarily aimed at mental health solicitors, and is accredited by the SRA. The course will cover LSC category supervisors for their mandatory MHA- and MCA-related CPD hours. It is also suitable for barristers (established practitioners), psychiatrists, social workers and psychiatric nurses. For £50, you can obtain 12 CPD credits. Multiple-choice tests are published monthly and stay online for 12 months, and can be taken at any time during the 12-month subscription.
See February 2011 chronology for this month's changes to the website in date order.
On 31/12/10, the website had 926 categorised cases.
Re P and Q; P and Q v Surrey County Council; sub nom Re MIG and MEG [2011] EWCA Civ 190 — Judgment of Parker J upheld: neither P (aged 18, in a foster placement) nor Q (aged 17, in a small group home) was deprived of her liberty. [Caution: see Supreme Court decision.]§
Re AB; D Borough Council v AB [2011] EWHC 101 (COP) — (1) The test for capacity to consent to sex is set at a relatively low level: 'does she have sufficient rudimentary knowledge of that the act comprises and of its sexual character to enable her to decide whether to give or withhold consent?' (2) Capacity to consent to sexual activity is act-specific, not partner-specific; decisions to the contrary were based on a conflation of capacity to consent to sex and the exercise of that capacity. (3) The test requires an understanding and awareness of (a) the mechanics of the act, (b) that there are health risks involved, particularly the acquisition of sexually transmitted and sexually transmissible infections, and (c) that sex between a man and a woman may result in the woman becoming pregnant; however, not all criteria will apply to every type of sexual activity. (4) The test does not require an understanding (a) that sex is part of having relationships with people and may have emotional consequences, (b) that only adults over the age of 16 should do it (and therefore participants need to be able to distinguish accurately between adults and children), or (c) that both (or all) parties to the act need to consent to it. (5) AB did not have the capacity to consent to and engage in sexual relations, and the regime for his supervision and for the prevention of future sexual activity was in his best interests. (6) The declarations were made on an interim basis, to be reviewed in nine months, with the local authority ordered to provide sex education in the hope that he gains capacity.§
R (Hertfordshire CC) v LB Hammersmith and Fulham [2011] EWCA Civ 77 — The appellant sought: 'A declaration that "is resident" in s117(3) Mental Health Act 1983 has the same (or substantially the same) meaning as "is ordinarily resident" under s24 National Assistance Act 1948, so that a person placed by a local authority under s21 NAA in the area of another local authority remains ordinarily resident in the area of the placing authority for the purposes of Part 3 NAA and s117(3) MHA.' The court refused to grant the declaration as: (1) Parliament must have deliberately chosen a different formula for s117; (2) s117 was intended to be a free-standing provision, not dependent on the 1948 Act; (3) there was no legitimate way to interpret 'resident' as excluding a placement under s21. The court noted that the decision is in line with recent government guidance, and that the Law Commission's current project provides a much better forum for considering and remedying any defects in the present law.§
Massie v H [2011] EWCA Civ 115 — The general rule is that an appeal shall lie from a decision of a county court to the High Court. One exception is for final decisions in Part 7 CPR multi-track cases, which go to the Court of Appeal. (1) This exception does not apply in nearest relative displacement cases under s29 MHA as the application is made under Part 8 CPR; no other exception applied. (2) The court declared that it lacked jurisdiction and that a previous consent order was therefore a nullity. (3) Because of the passage of time and costs involved, rather than abandon the matter or simply transfer it to the High Court, the case was transferred to the High Court for one of the Court of Appeal judges to consider it as a High Court judge there and then.§
R v Welsh [2011] EWCA Crim 73 — Welsh appealed against a discretionary life sentence for diminished responsibility manslaughter, but was unsuccessful because (1) his propensity for violence, even before he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, and the gravity of the offence, meant that public confidence would not be maintained by making a restricted hospital order, and (2) there was ample justification for the conclusion that he bore substantial responsibility and that there was a risk he would remain a source of danger even if his condition substantially improved once he received treatment and medication.§
NMC Conduct and Competence Committee decision: Josiah Foeka Amara 18/2/11 — Nurse was struck off for misconduct. The following charges were proved: 'That you, on or around 19 December 2005, whilst working as a Staff Nurse on Vincent Ward at the Gordon Hospital, Bloomberg Street, London SW1V 2RH: (1) Purchased crack cocaine in the company of Patient A, a patient on the ward; (2) Took crack cocaine with Patient A; (3) Had sexual intercourse with an unknown female when Patient A was also present in your flat; AND in light of the above, your fitness to practise is impaired by reason of your misconduct.' §
Hill v Fellowes Solicitors LLP [2011] EWHC 61 (QB) — Professional negligence claim including an allegation that a solicitor's firm negligently failed to make enquiries as to the client's capacity to understand the sale of her house.§
No transcript yet: Haworth v Cartmel and HMRC [2011] EWHC 36 (Ch) — Disability Discrimination Act, and lack of capacity, used to annul bankruptcy order.§
Not new: Access to Justice Act 1999 (Destination of Appeals) Order 2000 — This Order sets out the general rule that appeals from the county courts other than in family proceedings will lie to the Court rather than to the Court of Appeal, and sets out the exceptions. In force 2/5/00.
Other documents etc
The Mental Health Lawyers Association is now an accredited provider of the two-day course which is compulsory for membership of the Law Society’s MHT Accreditation Scheme (formerly the MHRT Panel). The course will take place on Monday 14/3/11 and Tuesday 15/3/11 from 9.30am to 5.30pm. The presenters include Tribunal judges and peer reviewers who have a wealth of practical experience of representing patients at Tribunals. Price: £300 (members); £390 (non-members); £250 (for third and subsequent members in a group). CPD: 12 SRA-accredited hours. See MHLA website for further details and booking form. See Courses and conferences
Essex Street, 'Court of Protection Newsletter (issue 6, February 2011) added. The cases referred to are: Re AB; D Borough Council v AB [2011] EWHC 101 (COP), Hill v Fellowes Solicitors LLP [2011] EWHC 61 (QB), Haworth v Cartmel and HMRC [2011] EWHC 36 (Ch), GSCC conduct committee decision: Philip Julian Davies 10/12/10. See Court of Protection
Oral ministerial statement, 'Statement on sex offenders' register' (16/2/11) added. In response to the Supreme Court decision in F and Thompson, the police will be given the power to remove a sex offender from the register; there will be no right of appeal. See R (F and Thompson) v SSHD [2010] UKSC 17
The Law Society have published a statement encouraging solicitors to use the CJSM secure email system. See Mental Health Tribunal
On 24/2/11 the LSC published a 'forms preview' for the April 2011 changes to their forms. There are very minor changes to Checklist (CK3), and changes to the following forms which do not relate to mental health law: CW2 (IMM), CW3A, CW3B, CW3C. See Legal Aid News
On 2/2/11 Nick Clegg MP announced that s141 (Members of Parliament suffering from mental illness) would be abolished. See MHA 1983 s141
New document added: Welsh Assembly Government, 'Implementing the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010: Guidance for Local Health Boards and Local Authorities' (dated January 2011, published 3/2/11). See Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010
Tribunals Service customer notice: 'The First–tier Tribunal (Mental Health) office will be closed for Easter on Friday 22nd April and Monday 25th April. In addition the office will be closed on 29th April on the occasion of the Royal Wedding.' See MHT
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Home » Sports » Men's Basketball » Michigan’s ‘surrender cobra’ catches break watching Wolverines rout Houston Baptist
Michigan’s ‘surrender cobra’ catches break watching Wolverines rout Houston Baptist
by Simon Kaufman December 6, 2015 April 20, 2021
Michigan sophomore Chris Baldwin is finally breathing easily.
Baldwin — who claimed Internet fame when an image of him with his hands over his head went viral following the Michigan football team’s last-second loss to Michigan State earlier this year — had his hands raised over his head again on Saturday as he watched the Michigan men’s basketball team take on Houston Baptist. This time, though, Baldwin, along with the rest of the student section at the Crisler Center, had his hands up high and fingers wiggling as sophomore guard Aubrey Dawkins stepped to the line for free throws late in Michigan’s 82-57 rout of the Huskies.
Baldwin, an engineering student from Saginaw, Mich., said that before Michigan’s loss to Michigan State, he was “no different than anybody else — just a good sports fan.” But that day, when Michigan punter Blake O’Neill bobbled a snap with time expiring and the Spartans ran the ball back for a game-winning touchdown, that all changed. ESPN’s cameras focused in on a stunned Baldwin, and the image quickly went viral.
“I guess I was doing the surrender cobra pose,” Baldwin said. “And now everybody knows who I am. … I felt a bunch of text messages right after the game ended, but I figured it was just people talking about the game because, of course, it was crazy, and then when I finally looked as we were getting ready to head out of the stadium, I had all sorts of texts and tweets and things on Facebook — all sorts of pictures and people talking about how I was suddenly famous.”
The pose — known as the “surrender cobra” — is a common sight in stadiums following come-from-behind wins and thrilling finishes. It consists of hands over the head, elbows pointed out and jaw dropped — making speechless spectators resemble the venomous snake. The pose even got its own segment on ESPN’s College GameDay last week, in which Baldwin was featured.
“I’ve tried to have fun with it,” Baldwin said. “Of course, everybody here at (the University) supports me, because they all felt the same way I did.”
Another image of Baldwin doing the pose, this time in Detroit Lions gear, went viral after the NFL team suffered a Hail Mary loss at the hands of the Green Bay Packers on Thursday. It was actually taken at an earlier date — Baldwin watched that game in his dorm room, and he was able to restrain himself from breaking out the cobra.
“I kind of felt like that pose,” he said. “But I don’t think I was doing it.”
So after lots of devastation, when Michigan hosted Houston Baptist in a guarantee game on Saturday, it meant that Baldwin would most likely be able to keep the cobra in the cage for the game. But after some of the finishes he’s seen, he wasn’t 100 percent sure.
“I guess there’s no guarantees, especially after last year’s season,” Baldwin said during the second half. “But yeah, it’s nice not to worry as much about the game and just kind of enjoy it.”
On Saturday, he did get to enjoy it. Michigan rolled past the Huskies and — at least for one day — the cobra got to go into hibernation.
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The Librarian is in: 'Dear Committee Members'
By Katrina Spencer
This is likely my favorite work I’ve encountered over the last two years. Its humorous and satirical writing tells the story of Jason T. Fitger, professor of Creative Writing at the fictitious “Payne University.” Fitger is tasked with writing letters of recommendation (“LoRs”) for his students and colleagues for a variety of reasons: jobs, fellowships, promotions and the like. He’s weighed down by the busyness of tending to all things related to teaching and regrets that his mundane work precludes him from doing his preferred work: tending to his much graying writing career. Fitger’s irascibility and aggression are thinly veiled in his missives. The recipients of his sardonic epistles are frequently people he has wronged in the past —including two ex-wives — and he is convinced that they are still nursing grudges against him. Despite his eloquence, his talent for securing personal favors from his former peers is wantingly successful.
Fitger is a lovable fool. With his LoRs, he often goes out of his way to support bright students and aims to be authentic in letter after letter, resisting systems that ask him to rate his students with numerical scores. As he writes, the story of his career, too, is told between the lines: he published an early and successful novel that drew a good deal of attention, likely for the scintillating scandal represented within its pages, and it was followed by works that were more disappointing as they were wanting in popularity. So now he is confined to a Midwestern university where funding for basic supports — like functional toilets and windows — is precarious for the English department while the Economics professors are treated like gods. He’s livid. His intellect is understimulated. And his efforts feel Sisyphean.
Having spent more than 5 years at public institutions of higher education in the Midwest, I find this work hilarious and spot on. I liked it so much, I’ve listened to it twice on OverDrive. Author Schumacher makes many poignant critiques on the state of academia through the voice of her misanthropic Fitger. She questions the link between those who graduate with English degrees and the jobs the market allows them to apply for. She underscores the heartbreaking loss of talent surrounding students and professors who are mentally sharp, but for a variety of reasons — financial aid, time, politics, distraction, etc. — are unable to nurture their talents or produce writing that reflects their brilliance. And she eviscerates the incestuous landscape of academia in which everybody knows everybody and old wounds fester on for decades following injury
Schumacher’s "Dear Committee Members" is a scathing, all-knowing love-hate letter to academia that I would recommend to any faculty member who has minimally spent 5 years as a teaching professional in higher ed or any student who aspires to join these ranks. An exegesis and tour de force, might I recommend you listen to this one as an audiobook on go.middlebury.edu/overdrive/? Robertson Dean’s vocal interpretation acumen is extraordinary. (Pro tip: Familiarize yourself with Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener” upon reading or listening to this work.) For more like this, see the novel’s sequel "The Shakespeare Requirement" or anything by David Sedaris.
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Edgar G. Mueller Memorial Scholarship
MLSM Board of Directors
Mary Todd Lincoln 2021
Eleanor Rooselvelt 2019
The Voyageurs 2019
Ye Olde School Day 2009
MLSM 150 Year Celebration 2007
Dodge County Museums
Mayville History & Talent
Rural Schools of Northeast Dodge County
A collection of photos from the 48 rural schools that once helped educate the youth of northeast Dodge County. Townships included are: Herman, Hubbard, LeRoy, Lomira, Theresa, and Williamstown. Each board displays a map of the township, showing where the old schools were located, and has approximately 20 photos of schools in that township. Research and contributions from other historical societies and a number of individuals (including a number of retired teachers) have brought us a total of more than 350 photos at this time. A three-ring binder will be placed near each bulletin board containing descriptive photo pages for ALL the photos we have for that township. We also have the teacher lists for every school, some from the very beginnings in the 1860s, but most from 1901 to the year that each school closed.
Mayville Limestone School—Thru the Years
Original school bell.
A photographic history of the White Limestone School and surrounding facilities. Artifacts include the original school bell from 1857.
Raymond “Peggy” McEathron (1909-1995)
Ray McEathron, a life-long Mayville resident, was known as “Mr. Mayville” and “Mr. Dixieland Jazz.” Peggy’s drum set, amplifier, and twenty scrapbooks on the history of jazz beginning in 1900 are on exhibit.
Dick Ruedebusch (1926-1968)
“Mr. Trumpet” Dick Ruedebusch
A 1943 graduate of Mayville High School, Dick Ruedebusch taught himself Dixieland jazz by playing trumpet to recordings of Bob Crosby’s Dixie Combo. Dick played with the 378th Army Service Swing Band while in the service. With “The Under-privileged Five,” Dick had six albums, including “Meet Mr. Trumpet.” In 1962, Dick Ruedebusch and his group appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. One of his trumpets, a record player, and some of his albums are on display.
Rudolph “Cap” Blohm (1896-1991)
R. H. Blohm—know best as “Cap” Blohm—was born in Mayville in 1896, the sixth child in a family of eleven children of German emigrant stock. His main interests since childhood were those things which are naturally wild and free, and much of his leisure time was spent drawing these subjects in pen and pencil. He is without any formal education in any field, including art. An average student in the Mayville public schools, he was well disciplined, bashful, and sensitive. From the time of his 17th birthday, Cap was forged and tempered by 48 years in the steel industry; always too engrossed in his work, his academics took second place over the necessity of providing shelter, food and clothing. He saw service in World War I as one of the town’s first volunteers. At age 69 he went back to painting in oils; his paintings have been on exhibition at the Springville Galleries, Brigham Young University, the Provo Utilities Gallery, the Eldred Center and business establishments. “Cap” produced over 350 paintings and sketches in his golden years. “Cap” passed away March 21, 1991.
Hulda Gramlow (1898-1995)
Two landscape scenes of Mayville painted by Hulda Gramlow (1898-1995) hang on the north wall. Hulda passed away September 23, 1995.
Arllys Falkner Schumann (1907-2000)
Arllys Falkner Schumann gave 26 years of her life teaching kindergarten in this very building. She taught from 1928-31 and 1946-69, nurturing a total of 1,390 students. A memorial display with swinging metal pages shows pictures of her many pupils over the years. Arllys passed away November 5, 2000.
Sanford “Sandy” Aronin Postcard Collection
“Sandy” Aronin (born and raised in Mayville) donated his collection of 250 post cards showing early views of Mayville. These include pictures of city businesses and buildings, schools, churches, iron industry, parks, and Rock River.
1940 “Unit Classroom Library”
Miss Maybelle M.Franseen was classroom teacher of the “Demonstration Room” of the Rural Normal School from the mid 1930’s until the early 1950’s. The red brick building in which she taught, on the southeast corner of John and Buchanan Streets, had been built in 1898 as Mayville’s first high school. It was razed in 1957 when a public school addition was constructed on the site.
With an average of four students in each of the six grades, Miss Franseen was the inspired creator of curriculum, actual instructor for individual grade classes held in the front of the room, and initiator of total enrollment projects such as reading from “The Lord of The Rings” trilogy. As subject matter and teacher training levels dictated, the older students were rotated out of Miss Franseen’s area to nearby rooms to be taught by the teachers who were in training on the second floor of the building. However, at all times, her “Demonstration Room” was the home base where lines of individual desks were arranged in graduated grades from the south to the north of the room.
In 1940, Miss Maybelle M.Franseen, who taught at rural Normal School, had this prototype of the Unit Classroom Library built by local craftsman Lars Larsen. This mission was to offer a portable library unit that could be wheeled from room to room, provide a nestled space for readers, furnish side display shelves for featured books, incorporate side drawers for the library card catalog, and supply bulletin board space on the back for topical displays. To our knowledge this original bookcase was the sole unit constructed.
Jack Leder (1924–2013)
Models by Jack Leder
Jack Leder, a resident of Mayville, hand built and painted this collection of model vintage automobiles and military vehicles
The Marais Players
The Marais Players is a community based, non-profit theater group that has been entertaining local audiences since 1971. Our actors, directors and support staff are volunteers who love to perform.
215 N. Main St., PO Box 102, Mayville WI 53050
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James Krause isn’t retiring, but he’s ‘not actively looking to fight’ any longer as he transitions full-time into coaching
By Damon Martin@DamonMartin Nov 26, 2021, 9:00am EST
James Krause isn’t necessarily retiring from competition, but there’s also a chance he’s fought in the UFC octagon for the last time.
The veteran welterweight, who has been a part of the UFC roster since 2013, revealed during an appearance on The Fighter vs. The Writer that he’s no longer looking to book any fights for himself these days as he makes a full-time transition into coaching and running his gym, Glory MMA.
According to Krause, he’s still potentially available for a short-notice opportunity, like the offer he made to face Chris Curtis just recently with only 24 hours remaining until the event took place. But otherwise, he’s not seeking out the UFC matchmakers to book him against an opponent.
“I haven’t told anybody that I’m retiring, but I’m not really actively looking to fight or anything like that,” Krause said. “I don’t know. It’s weird. I’ve said this quite a bit. There’s three things that I wanted at the end of this whole thing.
“One, I wanted to go out on a win. Two, I wanted to go out on my terms. I didn’t want to have the UFC say, ‘Hey man, you’ve lost three in a row, we’re going to cut you,’ or whatever. One of those nudge, nudge things where the fighter just doesn’t realize he should have been done a long time ago. We see it all the time. Lastly, I just wanted to create some financial freedom from the sport of MMA. I’ve done all three of those things. If I left today, all three of those things are accomplished.”
Krause’s last fight took place in October 2020 with the veteran picking up a unanimous decision win over Claudio Silva, which brought his record to 7-1 over his last eight fights, with Krause’s only loss coming via controversial split decision in a short-notice fight against Trevin Giles at 185 pounds.
Another opportunity like the Giles fight is probably the only way that Krause will end up competing again, which is why he’s not ready to use a word like retirement regarding his fight career.
“I’m not saying I’m done,” Krause said. “Obviously, I’ll jump in on a day’s notice. That just seems easier for me. I train everyday. It is what it is. I enjoy coaching. I’m like 70-something fights, pro and amateur. October of this year was actually my 15th year fighting since my first fight. At some point, you’ve got to be done.
“I’ve always said I wanted to quit a little bit early rather than a little bit late. Once again, I’m not saying I’m done fighting but I’m also not actively looking to fight either. I don’t know what that means, but if I was done today, if I never fight again, I’d be happy with what I’ve done as a fighter and I would be even more happy with the transition into building a team and coaching.”
Lately, Krause has still been a fixture during UFC broadcasts, except he’s working a corner as he’s been coaching a growing list of fighters coming out of his Kansas City based gym.
As much as he personally loved competing, Krause admits he’s getting much more enjoyment out of watching his fighters succeed, which helps him know that he could potentially never compete again yet he’d still have just as much fun with the sport.
“I think a lot of time what the problem is with the fighters is this is one of the hardest sports in the world to quit because they want that drug,” Krause explained. “They want that highest high and they don’t want to go out on the lowest low. So they’re constantly seeking the drug again. For me, I’m still getting the drug. It’s just I’m getting it differently now. It’s an easy segue into coaching for me. I’m still heavily involved in the sport. I’m still at the fights.
“As a competitor, I’m still being fulfilled from the MMA standpoint. Honestly, more so even. You can watch me at the end of my fights. I don’t smile. It’s not a big deal to me. I’ve been fighting for 15 years and I’m not saying I’m not happy to win or anything like that, but watch me after one of my wins and then watch me after one of my people wins. It’s different. I get much more fulfilled out of watching other people’s success than I do my own.”
Coaching has always been a passion for Krause, but now it requires a lot more of his time and he couldn’t be happier with the decisions he’s made regarding his career.
Krause never touted himself as a future champion, and aspiring to win UFC gold wasn’t a primary mission after he decided to become a professional fighter.
But one day Krause hopes to train and coach a world champion, because that would mean far more to him than anything he ever did on his own in the cage.
“I do [like coaching more than fighting],” Krause said. “In the grand scheme of things, it gets tough at times, travel and stuff like that. I’ve been on the road. This is my first weekend off in a long time, probably 10 weeks, 11 weeks.
“So I’m on the road almost every weekend, so that can get a little tedious, but everything is in moderation. Water is great, but if you have too much, it can kill you. Everything is good in moderation. But overall, I do love coaching more than I love fighting.”
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Send Flowers for James "Jim"
James "Jim" Edgar Folsom
April 28, 1935 ~ January 12, 2022 (age 86)
James “Jim” Edgar Folsom
April 28, 1935 ~ January 12, 2022
James “Jim” Edgar Folsom, 86, of Ogden passed away Wednesday, January 12, 2022, at McKay-Dee Hospital of natural causes. Born April 28, 1935, in Williston, North Dakota, to Irl Edgar and Hattie Elizabeth Smith Folsom; he was the youngest of four children. He graduated in Oregon from Salem High School Class of 1954. Jim enlisted in the USAF and served during the Korean War.
He met Ella Long and they were married December 27, 1960. They raised four daughters together in Utah. Jim eventually retired in 1992 as a supervisor in aircraft mechanics from Hill Air Force Base in Layton. Jim and Ella loved camping together.
Jim is survived by his wife, Ella L. Folsom of Ogden; daughters, Robin (Armando) Izatt of Roy, Karry (Rusty) Larson of Farr West, Nan Shafer of Kearns, and Tammy (Randy) Bockas of North Ogden; 17 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren, and 11 great-great-grandchildren with one on the way; and sister, Joyce (Dean) Becker of Portland, OR. He was preceded in death by his parents, granddaughter, Starla Tucker; and two sisters, Betty Jean Folsom and Velma Louise Sundet.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 11 a.m. at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. Friends may visit with family on Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Wednesday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the mortuary. Interment, Lindquist’s Washington Heights Memorial Park, 4500 Washington Blvd.
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U.S. News Rates the 2020 Acura RDX as the Top Luxury Compact SUV
by Louis Santiago on March 13, 2020
2020 is proving to be another winning year for Acura’s luxury crossover SUV, the RDX. Since its redesign in 2019, this American-made model is edging out the competition and winning accolades from the likes of J.D. Power and U.S. News. Taking the No. 1 spot in the 15 Best Luxury Compact SUVs for 2020 list, it’s clear to see why it’s taking the lead in its class.
Earning the enviable score of 8.6 on a scale from 1-10, these are some of this year’s RDX highlights.
The Acura RDX’s comfortable ride
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Described by U.S. News as having “confident poised handling and responsive steering” as well as an excellent suspension, this makes for a smooth ride. A reviewer for Shifting Lanes explains that the more powerful engine in the RDX makes driving a more lively experience with super handling and an engaging AWD system that is rear-biased.
The 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLC Class came in at a close second but comes up short in terms of delivering a less-than-sporty ride with turbo lag on acceleration. The Lincoln Corsair, which also made the list, falls short and is described as having dull handling, non-intuitive steering and a ride that can be bouncy on uneven terrain.
Loads of tech
Standard tech offerings on the RDX are numerous and include Apple CarPlay, Siri Eyes Free, a Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth and USB ports. Also equipped with satellite radio and a nine-speaker audio system, you can cruise to any tune that suits your driving mood. The AcuraLink telematics system comes standard but has been described as being non-intuitive and taking some getting used to.
Abundant space in an upscale cabin
The Acura RDX | Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Acura
A refined interior cabin gives the luxury feel to this midsize sporty crossover, setting it apart from the rest. There is only minimal plastic in the interior cabin and mostly high-quality materials that come standard. Although it is possible to upgrade to Milano leather upholstery, the synthetic leather that comes standard has an elegant look and feel.
Another high mark for the RDX is the abundant cabin space and additional underfloor storage compartment. With 29.5 cubic feet of space behind the second row and 58.9 cubic feet with seats folded down, you will have more than enough room to stretch your legs.
The second-place Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class comes up cramped for cabin space with only 19.4 cubic feet of space behind the rear seats and 56.5 cubic feet with seats folded down. The coupe has even less cabin space with 17.6 cubic feet behind the second row and 49.4 with seats folded down. Another down-side to the GLC is the limited rear-seat headroom in the coupe models due to the raked roofline.
The Acura RDX comes at a competitive starting price
Coming in at one of the lowest starting prices in its class, at $37,600, the Acura RDX is a modest choice for most individuals in the new car market. Although only having one trim level, there are several add-on packages, with the most pricey being the RDX Advance Package costing $45,700. This package includes nearly all the available features such as a head-up display and surround-view parking camera.
Most of the other models in the class could be cost-prohibitive for those on a budget. The BMW X3 starts at $41,950, but the top performance trims can cost up to $76,900.
In addition to boasting a 272-hp 2.0-liter four-cylinder turbocharged engine, its fuel economy of 22 mpg city and 28 mpg highway sets it apart from the competition. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gives it an overall rating of five out of five stars, giving you peace of mind, be it city driving or for long road trips.
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Home » Sir Frank Williams obituary: the man who built an F1 team on a romantic dream
Sir Frank Williams obituary: the man who built an F1 team on a romantic dream
Sir Frank WIlliams, who has died aged 79, entered F1 with a love of racing... and little else. He would become one of the greatest team principals in grand prix history
Williams on the Silverstone pitwall in 1983
Sir Frank Williams 1942-2021
Frank Williams. Has there ever lived a man so immersed, so desperately enthralled and in love with motor racing? He didn’t have a plan, he had a desire. He knew where he wanted to be – right in the middle of this magical world so far removed from his upbringing in the north-east of England. He didn’t have a skill, just masses of charm and a sense of adventure. No skill and no plan going in, he would go on to become one of the greatest team principals in the history of F1 – from almost nothing.
He wasn’t from money. His mother was a special needs teacher, his father in the RAF, and they split up early in Frank’s childhood. But his mother did somehow manage to send him to a boarding school in Dumfries and it was there, in the company of boys from wealthier families, that he acquired the social polish which, allied to his natural charm and immense enthusiasm, would serve him so well when he began mixing in amateur racing circles as soon as he possibly could.
He would do anything to stay in that world. He made ends meet in a variety of ways – a management trainee with a car distributor, Campbell’s soup salesman, selling fruit and veg from a van, buying and selling, ducking and diving. Debt didn’t worry him unduly and he’d spend the next couple of decades trying to stay one step ahead of the bailiffs. This continued right through to his early years as an F1 entrant. Bernie Ecclestone recalled how Frank would borrow £5000 and promise to pay it back on a set day. Come the day, he’d turn up to return the £5000 – but would immediately ask if he could borrow £7000!
Lunch with... Sir Frank Williams
Almost unbelievably, this year marks the 47th consecutive season that Frank Williams has fielded a Formula 1 team. The first Grand Prix with a Williams entry on the grid was…
By Simon Taylor
The route from mobile fruit and veg van to F1 entrant took only a few years. British motor racing was a pretty small and incestuous scene in the ‘60s and Britain was the motor racing centre of the world. So if it hadn’t been for crashing his road-going Austin A35 after entering it into a race at Mallory Park, he’d likely have got to meet Piers Courage – heir of Courage Breweries and a seriously talented would-be F1 driver – some other way. From there, to the in-crowd of crazy racing junkies sharing a house – cultured accents and dirty fingernails, high-jinx times. Frank won a bet from the others in the house once by greeting passengers on the passing tube train from the bottom of the garden – stark naked. The money was probably spent on fresh spark plugs. Everything was always based around the absolute, the centring point, of being in there, part of racing.
Only a romantic could live such a life when not backed by money. Carefree, knowing only that he wished to exist in the special suspended reality of motor racing. But he moved among wealth and so it probably seemed natural. Such a romantic could be devastatingly charming and many a woman’s heart melted when he looked them in the eye and gave them his best smile. Including that of his later wife Ginny. “I still find it hard to understand why I fell so instantaneously for Frank,” she later said. “He was not tall, dark and handsome. He stood only five foot eight inches high and even in 1967 his hairline was receding rapidly. There was no obvious reason for me to go weak at the knees, which only made it more disturbing.”
Frank’s own ambitions as a driver – way too many accidents, not enough money – came to an enforced halt but his friendship with Courage led him to be his entrant, in F3 and F2. Piers provided the money, Frank organised the team, employed a mechanic, did some trade deals, negotiated with the organisers. The bond they formed was incredibly close. Courage rose to F1 and for a while Frank ran others in F2. But when Courage ran out of F1 options after a few too many accidents, Frank came to the rescue with a second-hand Brabham and a DFV. In that car Courage finished second at both Monaco and Watkins Glen in ’69. Just like that, Frank Williams was an F1 entrant.
Piers Courage finished second at Monaco in 1969 driving Williams’ Brabham
What followed would have driven a lesser man a long, long way from the sport. Courage was killed in the de Tomaso F1 car Frank was entering in the 1970 championship. But Frank was addicted. For the next six seasons he operated on the financial margins, doing deals here and there to stay in business, his team invariably turning up somehow. There were moments of promise – the Iso Marlboro designed for him by Ray Stokoe was a decent car which occasionally allowed Art Merzario or Jacques Laffite to show well. But generally, Frank’s team was not highly regarded. In late ’75 he acquired a sponsor, the oil man Walter Wolf. A few weeks before that, he’d acquired a designer, Patrick Head ex of Lola, after a recommendation from Frank’s friend and Lola racer Guy Edwards. It was the designer that would prove by far the most significant acquisition.
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Walter Wolf ended up owning the team after paying off Frank’s debts. Frank couldn’t bear the idea of working as an employee with what used to be his team and left. Head initially stayed – but was swayed by the adventurer Frank’s charm to come join him in a new venture. So Williams Grand Prix Engineering took form. Patrick was the previously missing part in Frank’s jigsaw, a gifted engineer, someone who could put a technical structure in place to give Frank the proper foundation to race. When one of Frank’s old gang Charlie Crichton-Stuart then came up with some Saudi money from Saudia Air, a new F1 epoch began.
In no time at all Williams would be F1’s dominant team, making champions out of Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet (already a champion), Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve over a 20-year period of glory. The colossus of a race team would also properly launch the F1 careers of, among others, Ross Brawn and Adrian Newey. All headed by Frank and his irrepressible energy, his love of racing, his fascination with drivers.
Patrick Head and Williams in Canada '85
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FW07 gave Williams its first World Championship with Alan Jones
The Mansell-Williams partnership finally won the F1 championship in 1992
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It was remarkable that this sequence continued uninterrupted after Frank suffered his life-changing injuries pre-season 1986. The years of driving too fast on public roads finally caught up with him as he made his way back from a Paul Ricard test to the airport to take part in one of his beloved running races the following day. He hovered on the brink of life and death for some time, Ginny adamant that everything should be done to keep him going even as hope was fading. Within a few months he was back at the races, wheelchair-bound for the rest of his life, but that smile, that sheer zest, still there. The love of racing, the mischief, the romance of it all. Strung together by invisible high-tensile steel that prevented him ever from being ejected from his magical world. In fact, as he returned to the paddock that day at Brands Hatch in ‘86 his greatest days were still ahead of him – the glory, the knighthood. But best of all, the days when a Williams-badged car would grind the opposition into the ground.
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Why Smartline's Kapil Nepal chose broking over banking
Top 100 broker says he was quick to implement change in his growing business
Kapil Nepal left the bank to become a broker about eight years ago and has since gone on to rank in MPA’s Top 100 three times. MPA spoke with the Smartline broker about what attracted him to the industry and how hiring staff helped him strike a better work/life balance.
Striking the right work/life balance
Attracted to what it could offer his customers and his career, Nepal jumped the fence to broking in 2012.
He wanted to set up his own business while expanding what he could offer his clients.
“I am a service-oriented person. I believe that if you look after the client, the business just knocks on your door.”
At the time, he thought it would allow him to have a better work/life balance than what he had at the bank, however, he soon found himself working even longer hours.
This was in part due to his success as a Top 100 broker. But despite being busier, he says the role was much more manageable and offered more flexibility than his previous position.
“I could control how busy I wanted to be and I could hire staff.”
Which is exactly what he did – just one year later.
“As soon as I did that it was so much more manageable and my work and life balance was good as well.”
He says any successful broker must go through a period of growth as a one-man band and the challenge of hiring their first staff while on a limited income.
Reaching premium status
Another common challenge brokers face when starting out is getting loan approvals on time. For Nepal, service levels were very slow at various lenders and he often found himself waiting for hours to hear back from them. After building volume within his business, he reached “premium status” with a couple of banks and was able to achieve quicker turnaround times for his clients.
A good portion of his clients are first home buyers or migrants who don’t know much about the loan application process, and he has had many memorable lending scenarios over the years.
He recalls one particular time in which he found himself on a mad dash towards settlement – quite literally.
It was just a few days before settlement and he had to visit the clients at their workplaces to do the document sign up. He met the husband at his work and then drove him to the wife’s place of employment – a health care facility.
“I think we spent 10-15 minutes walking within that big compound to find her.”
This was the final sprint in a marathon that saw him visit the branch, liaise with the BDM and get the loan settled within seven to eight days – half the time it would have normally taken.
When he is not going the extra mile for his clients, Nepal enjoys travelling, spending time with family and losing himself in a good book.
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Triathlon Training Keeps ‘The Witcher’ Star Paul Bullion Screen Shredded
From swimming to swashbuckling, this actor has his fitness all figured out.
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With his towering, lean frame, and his fiery red hair, Paul Bullion is soon to make for an imposing character as he portrays “Lambert,” the close friend to Henry Cavill’s “Geralt of Rivia,” in the much-anticipated Season 2 of Netflix’s “The Witcher.”
M&F sat down with Paul Bullion, who was born in London, to learn more about his experiences on the hit fantasy series, and soon found out that he owes his screen-worthy physique to a love of triathlon.
Bullion’s desire to become an actor was, in part, influenced by the movies that he watched in his youth. “For me it was the ‘Rocky’ films,” he says. “Making something of yourself just kind of resonated with me, being against the odds, I used to love those kinds of films, but then also as a child I was really into ‘The Goonies’ and mad adventure films like that.” If you like adventure, it doesn’t get any bigger than ‘The Witcher.
The show, which follows the trials and tribulations of a mutant monster-hunter for hire, was the third most in-demand original streaming series shortly after its debut, only trailing behind “Stranger Things” and “The Mandalorian.” Being part of such a huge franchise is a big leap for a boy who grew up in Milton Keynes in the northwest of London, but he’s never been shy of a challenge. From teaching himself to play the guitar to treading the boards on stage, this actor relishes the chance to push himself to his limits.
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Paul Bullion loves a challenge
“I like to set myself challenges,” says Bullion, who entered his first Ironman on a rare hot day in Bolton, England, flanked by an entry-level road bike, in 2016. An Ironman triathlon requires the participants to undertake a 2.4-mile swim, 112 miles on the bike, and 26.2 miles of running. “Up to that point, I had only ever run a half marathon,” he continues. “But, as a teenager I was a competitive swimmer, so I knew the swim wouldn’t be too much of a problem, although [it was a long time since I had done it]. I’m quite powerful on the bike, so I thought I would just see what my body could take.”
The actor’s first foray into triathlon proved successful, garnering a respectable finish of 12.5 hours. “Outside of the acting world, I think it’s important to have those goals,” he says, “so that you’re not drawing all of your happiness or worth from one source.” The experience lit a fire in Bullion and he has entered many triathlons since.
If you can’t be the best, be YOUR best
“If I’m going to do something, I have to be good at it,” says the actor. “For me, I have to be my best, not, the best, but my best as there’s no point in going into anything 50 percent.” Paul Bullion, who was a 100m freestyle, relay, and backstroke swimmer, and had size 12.5 feet by the time he was in high school, had never raced the kinds of distance required by a triathlon.
Now at age 33, (and a size 13.5) he worked on restoring his confidence in the water. The actor says that having large feet helps with propulsion in the water and he soon worked his way up to swimming the 2.4 miles required by Ironman before turning to the bike to test his cycling fortitude. This also went well, but he says that his “ouch” moment came when he began to run, because the transition between low-impact exercises such as swimming and cycling were completely different from the high-impact effects of running long distance.
Learning from your mistakes
Reflecting on his training for that first foray into triathlon, the actor was able to spot flaws and make adaptations. “The mistakes that I made was in overdoing it sometimes,” says Bullion. “I would run myself into the ground. Since then, I’ve learned about what I call “garbage miles,” where there’s no point running for 90 minutes when you could actually have a solid session of 20-minute intervals, and really work on your heart rate. So, I became more efficient over the last few years.
The last Ironman I did was in 2018 and I was 50 minutes faster.” And, he gained that much improved result on the same entry level road bike too. Since then, Bullion has invested in a newer, more efficient, bike, and has also entered Olympic distance triathlons. He’s even placed first in his age group while competing in Olympic distance races. “It comes from adjusting my mindset,” says Bullion. “But also, just little tweaks in working smarter not harder.”
Compartmentalizing His Training
With his day job requiring that he stay fresh to perform, Bullion plans his competitions around filming projects so that he is not too stiff when it’s time to steal a scene. The star, who has also appeared as Billy Kitchen in “Peaky Blinders,” enlists the services of his personal trainer Leanne Marshall. They trained together five times each week in preparation for “The Witcher.” This period coincided with a national lockdown, so Bullion had to improvise by purchasing his own barbells and 100 kilos of weight. The actor trained in a small area outside of his house and also used resistance bands. Marshall would give Bullion his meal plan and the actor would follow it with precision. His workouts mainly consisted of low-weight, high-rep work, which was sensible since he was forced to train without a spotter.
“It’s amazing,” says Bullion. “The difference [to your physique that comes] from changing habits.” The actor also says that he stays accountable on his nutrition 80 percent of the time, allowing him to loosen up a little for 20 percent, so that he can still enjoy takeaways and social events with friends. He also finds that eating more in the mornings, such as porridge and fruit, makes him less likely to snack as the day progresses.
The result is a chiseled physique worthy of standing next to Superman himself, Cavil, and having heard that Disney could be making a live-action version of the movie “Hercules.” Bullion says that he would love to throw his hat into the ring for consideration. It’s a good call by an actor who is well-adept to take on any type of action scene. When you watch Bullion as Lambert in Season 2 of “The Witcher” (premiering Dec. 17 on Netflix), you may wonder where those swashbuckling sword-skills came from.
“When I found out that I got cast, a good friend of mine [and fight choreographer], Jonathan Holby took me down to Beckenham Park twice per week and we would do a bit of broadsword and just get the flow and feel of [the sword]. And that really helped me, so that when I went to work with (The Witcher) stunt team, they could see that I was competent.”
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Refugee resettlement programs work tirelessly to help Afghans coming into US
By: Dan Grossman
As Afghans flee their country in thousands, many are coming to the United States seeking freedom.
It can be an exhausting process as they endure plane rides and countless legal processes on their way to the U.S.
There are three main types of migrants coming into the United States right now: refugees, asylum seekers, and Afghan allies.
Each is a slight variation of one another, as refugees have typically begun the immigration process months, if not years in advance. Asylum seekers show up at a port of entry hoping for freedom, and allies have worked with the United States government in Afghanistan.
In each case, the application process is long and complex, as it includes paperwork, interviews, and medical exams--just to name a few.
“Seeing the humanity in people is critical,” said Jennifer Wilson, executive director of the Denver division of the International Rescue Committee, one of nine national organizations that connect refugees and asylum seekers to local resources. “You think of everything you need to know to live in a place, to build a life there. So, we are really invested in bringing forward a whole array of services and supports to make sure they can get their feet under them.”
Wilson helps migrants acclimate to their new way of life by connecting them to schools, charities, jobs, and whatever else they may need after arriving in their new home, which is usually found and furnished by her organization.
“I don’t think the average person really understands what it is that compels people to leave their home,” she said.
Between October 2020 and June 2021, Wilson says her local office of the IRC helped settle 65 migrants, a number it has matched in the two months since.
But ever before migrants reach her, they deal with people like Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of Lutheran Immigrant and Refugee Services.
Last week, Vignarajah was in Fort Lee outside of Washington D.C. helping welcome migrants who first arrived in the United States.
“There’s a palpable sense of relief [when they first arrive],” said Vignarajah. “It takes a village to raise a child? It takes a village to welcome not just one family, but hundreds. They go through some of the most extreme vetting of any immigrants who come into this country. Honestly, I think some of my friends wouldn’t pass muster when you think about it.”
According to a 2016 study by the libertarian CATO institute, of the more than three million refugees accepted into the U.S. over the last 40 years, 20 have committed a terrorist-type attack on U.S. soil, a testament to the rigorous nature of that process.
“These are people who make our economies stronger, our communities safer, the data has proven that time and time again,” said Vignarajah.
Once a migrant and their family are cleared for entry into the U.S., they are housed with family and friends or on a military base until their permanent location is determined by the U.S. Department of State and other organizations under its umbrella. Government data shows Texas, Washington, and Ohio took in the most refugees in 2018, 20% of all those admitted into the United States.
Each year, the number of migrants accepted into the U.S. changes. In 1980, when the United States first passed legislation to establish permanent procedures for vetting, admitting, and resettling refugees in the country, more than 200,000 were allowed to resettle in the U.S. each year.
In most years since, that number has declined to 30,000 in 2019 under the Trump Administration. President Biden has worked to expand that number, aiming to resettle as many as 125,000 refugees in the United States in 2022.
“For the average family, I would say we end up connecting and referring them to two or three dozen different resources," said Wilson. “We know that when people not only make connections within their own community, what we call social bonding, but also experience social bridging by reaching others who don’t share their culture, religion, culture, nationality. That’s when they really start to feel like they’re at home again.”
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Herons at the Lyric Hammersmith
A potent and hard-hitting depiction of working class adolescence, Herons at the Lyric Hammersmith is a tough play, brought to life through Sean Holmes’ directing and acted wonderfully by its young cast.
Herons occurs a year after the death of a 15 year old girl, and while the cause of her death remains a mystery, it becomes clear fairly early on that the circumstances were far from innocent. We learn that the tragedy involved the brother of Scott, an aggressive but troubled teenager whose popularity seems to stem from peoples’ fear of him. We are also introduced to Billy, an awkward, strange but overall sweet boy in the school year below the other characters, who is doing his best to juggle a strained home life and keeping above the water at school. Littered with cruder elements of growing up in working class England, and the struggles of getting through comprehensive school life—swearing, peer-pressure, violence and bullying—the play paints a sombre, harsh and uncomfortable backdrop to the characters’ everyday lives but refrains from overstating the point or falling into cliché. There are moments of real tension and the clever writing keeps the intrigue and suspense flowing throughout.
While Simon Stephen’s original play was written in a formulaic style, Holmes’ reimagining has a non-naturalistic feel that increases the pace which adds to the intensity. Some scenes are played naturally, allowing for the truth of their situation to sink through, while at other times the fourth wall is broken down to great effect bringing a closeness to the piece. The cast of seven, of which five are teenagers, all provide very provocative and intelligent performances. Max Gill who plays Billy is likable and easy to empathise with. His scenes with the quirky and caring, if not slightly unhinged Adele, played by Sophia Decaro, provide touching moments as well as some great comedic lines. Despite the overall difficult nature of the play, humour is far from absent and is cleverly intertwined with the more serious moments.
The decision to cast a deaf actor as Billy’s mum worked perfectly, particularly as I had originally assumed this was a decision in the writing not the casting. While using sign language for the interactions between Billy and his mum adds an extra element to their complicated relationship, the issue of her being deaf is never mentioned nor acknowledged but rather accepted as normality. Despite commendable performances from the whole ensemble, Billy Matthews as Scott is by far the standout actor. His ability to convey anger, fear, confusion, arrogance and naivety was remarkable and this performance is a clear sign that he is a performer to look out for in the future.
The whole stage is covered with shallow water but otherwise largely bare, which allows for the raw performances to really shine through. During one especially striking scene depicting an attack on one of the characters, the water is used well to increase the drama of the fight. Aided by some clever choreography, this particular scene is remarkably brutal and highlights the dangerous reality of what children can be capable of. While most of the directorial gestures work well, at times some of the more stylistic decisions distract from the narrative and it would maybe work better to let some of the scenes play out naturally.
Overall, this is an intelligently put together take on a very well-written play which, despite being written fifteen years ago, feels just as contemporary now. The director trusts his very capable cast allowing very realistic and powerful performances. At 70 minutes long this is a relatively short show, but given that you are at the edge of your seat for most of the performance, you certainly won’t feel short changed from this triumph at the Lyric Hammersmith.
Written by: Adam Mcdonnell
Published: Saturday, 2016/01/30 - 23:51
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Boris Johnson announces details of England's 'freedom day' on July 19 and the scrapping of many restrictions
By Newbury Reporter
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Published: 08:11, 06 July 2021
| Updated: 08:13, 06 July 2021
Boris Johnson has revealed the next stages out of lockdown in a Downing Street press conference yesterday (Monday).
The Prime Minister will tear up current rules in a fortnight on July 19 if the situation with the pandemic doesn't worsen dramatically.
He told the public face masks are no longer required in most settings, with social distancing rules removed for pubs and restaurants, and told people "to learn to live with the virus".
Prime Minister Boris Johnson held a press conference this evening
There will no longer be restrictions on the number of people inside and outside and school bubbles at schools will be removed.
The work from home rule will also be lifted.
Mr Johnson set out a five-point plan on easing restrictions, which included re-opening nightclubs and letting people make their own choices.
He admitted a decision would be made on July 12, but that delaying reducing restrictions until winter would work in favour of the virus.
The news of being allowed to ditch masks was welcomed by one MP, who said she is looking forward to not wearing one.
Helen Whately, Secretary of State for Care, told Sky News: “I, like others, have followed the guidance on when you should or shouldn’t wear them.
Face masks won't be necessary anymore. Picture: Stock
“We’re looking forward to not having to wear one in so many circumstances.
“We’re going to ask people to take personal responsibility on choices like that.
“Like many others, I can’t wait to not wear a mask, but I will be cautious and try to make the right judgements and follow guidance on this.”
The Prime Minister also explained to people there would be no one metre-plus rule in hospitality venues.
He also told people the working from home guidance will be dropped and workers are okay to return to the office, if their employers permit.
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NFL great Doug Williams blames Donald Trump for Colin Kaepernick snub
The finger has been pointed at Donald Trump for ruining the career of a man who now symbolises what’s happening in the US now.
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American President Donald Trump’s opposition to Colin Kaepernick taking a knee during the US national anthem made the Washington Redskins reluctant to sign the quarterback, according to team official and former NFL star Doug Williams.
Kaepernick protested racial injustice in the United States by kneeling during the anthem in the 2016 NFL season.
The 32-year-old has not been signed by a team since opting out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers in 2017, despite many pundits agreeing he is still good enough to be playing at the top level.
In 2017, Trump urged team owners to fire athletes who took a knee during the anthem, and called those players a “son of a b***h”.
The Redskins were in need of a quarterback in 2018 before trading for Alex Smith — Kaepernick’s former 49ers teammate — to replace Kirk Cousins.
The team’s senior vice president of player development Williams, who became the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl in Super Bowl 22, admits the team were wary about how Kaepernick would have been received by the team’s fans.
“I think what happened here, we’re in a heavily, heavily military area,” Williams said, during an appearance on the Dan Patrick Show.
“And I think the guy (Trump) that sits on Pennsylvania Avenue — 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue — made such a big stink of it, the fans in this area might’ve been a tough situation for both the team and (Kaepernick).
“You don’t want to bring people into a situation where nobody is going to be happy. I think that’s probably what happened, why he didn’t come up during that time.”
Kaepernick took a knee for his beliefs.
Kaepernick’s stand against police brutality and commitment to social-justice issues is back in the spotlight after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Floyd, a black man, died after white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes.
Last week, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the NFL will encourage players to speak out and protest following the death of Floyd and admitted the NFL was “wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier”.
That prompted Trump to question whether Goodell is changing the league’s position on kneeling during the anthem.
Could it be even remotely possible that in Roger Goodell’s rather interesting statement of peace and reconciliation, he was intimating that it would now be O.K. for the players to KNEEL, or not to stand, for the National Anthem, thereby disrespecting our Country & our Flag?
Kaepernick spent six seasons with the 49ers after being a second-round pick in the 2011 NFL Draft.
He played in only three games as a rookie, then started 58 games over the next five seasons. He completed 1011 of 1692 passes for 12,271m, 72 touchdowns and 30 interceptions in 69 career games.
He also rushed for 2300m and 13 scores, averaging 6.1m per attempt.
Kaepernick was the 49ers’ quarterback when they lost 34-31 to the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl 47 following the 2012 season.
This article first appeared on Sky Sports and was reproduced with permission
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Jordan Mailata has blazed a trail for Aussies playing in the NFL, but the Sydney-born giant has revealed how close he came to giving up.
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Bizarre Twist in Case of 2 Women Lost at Sea
They never used their emergency beacon
Posted Oct 31, 2017 3:29 AM CDT
Updated Oct 31, 2017 5:03 AM CDT
Jennifer Appel, right, and Tasha Fuiava speak on the deck of the USS Ashland in Okinawa, Japan, on Monday. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)
(Newser) – The story of two women from Hawaii rescued after being lost at sea for five months is beginning to seem incredible—as in difficult to believe. After they were picked up by the USS Ashland 900 miles southeast of Japan last week, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava said they faced storms and shark attacks and that there were times when they "absolutely" thought they would die. They didn't mention that they failed to use their Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon, which would have immediately alerted rescuers to their location. A Coast Guard spokeswoman says the women claim they never used the emergency beacon because they never felt "truly in distress, like in a 24-hour period they were going to die."
Multiple other inconsistencies in the account have surfaced, including some that conflict with the "basic geography of the Pacific Ocean," the AP reports. The women say they departed Hawaii bound for Tahiti on May 3 and ran into a fearsome Force 11 storm the same day that "lasted for two nights and three days," but the National Weather Service says there were no storm systems near Hawaii around that time. The women have said their mast and motor failed, along with multiple methods of communication, though the Coast Guard says it made radio contact with their sailboat, the Sea Nymph, near Tahiti in June and they said they weren't in distress. One long-distance sailor tells People that many sailors find the women's story odd, because "there are so many holes in it that it just doesn't make any sense." (The two women are now back on land.)
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Plainview-Old Bethpage Residents Hold Annual Public Safety Forum
April 25, 2018 By Christopher Boyle
by Christopher Boyle
LONG ISLAND, NY – In today’s day and age, it can’t hurt to hope for the best but prepare for the worst- and that’s just what the Concerned Citizens of Plainview-Old Bethpage, a civic group focused on the safety of their neighbourhoods, was doing at their recent annual public forum.
Held at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library, the Concerned Citizens was formed over two decades ago as a means of making important information and services available to the community in order to make sure the forces of crime and disorderly conduct – in all their malevolent, myriad forms – are kept firmly at bay, according to Carol Meschkow, the group’s president.
“We started a Neighbourhood Watch program several years ago in response to a series of home invasions in the area. We work hand-in-hand with the Nassau County Police Department,” she said. “They have been attending our annual meetings for some time now in order to share local crime stats and safety tips with our attendees.”
One topic in particular that this year’s meeting centered upon was the scourge of computer harassment known as cyber-bullying, and how to best combat it for the sale of both the mental and physical well-being of school children of all ages.
“The officers are also sharing information tonight on how to combat cyber-bullying, which is a very serious problem these days. It’s one thing to be picked on at school, but then to go home and have to deal with it on your cell phone or computer…it’s everywhere they look, and if it gets bad enough, kids can hurt themselves or worse,” Meschkow said. “If you’re the victim of cyber-bullying, you need to share that with someone you know. There’s assistance out there for kids who need it, and laws governing conduct on the internet are slowly but surely beginning to modernize and catch up with how quickly tech evolves. Cyber or not, bullying is bullying and cannot be tolerated.”
In addition, officers spoke to parents and their kids on protecting their identity and avoiding unknown individuals when on the internet, and how people should be extremely selective and careful about what they choose to share online…much like Las Vegas’ famous tourism slogan says, once it’s there, it stays there, and a misjudgment on sharing inappropriate personal material can come back to haunt you weeks, months, or even years down the line.
However, one way of sharing personal information that was encouraged was the importance of providing the names, pictures, and other vital identifying details of your children to your local police in the event that they are ever abducted; such data can prove to be the difference between life and death when interfaced with the Amber Alert system of the authorities, as police will have everything they need on-hand to help with search efforts, allowing cops to concentrate on returning an taken child to their parents safe and sound.
Meschkow noted that every active member of a community should work together with the authorities in order to make sure that everyone is doing what they can to make a difference, and that’s exactly what the Concerned Citizens of the Plainview-Old Bethpage are doing each and every day.
“Our police are on the job seven days a week, 365 days a year, and when they find the time to come in and engage with us and strengthen our ties…it’s a wonderful bond that we have, and it makes me feel more safe just thinking about it,” she said. “We’re proud to be working with our police, and we want them to know that we support them 100 percent. This is a great community we live in, and strive to be a model for other neighborhoods to follow to keep themselves safe as well.”
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Hard rock is a variation of rock and roll music, which has its earliest roots in early-1960s garage and psychedelic rock. It is typified by a heavy use of distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, and drums. The term "hard rock" is often used as an umbrella term for genres such as punk and grunge in order to distinguish them from the more radio-friendly, pop rock genre. Even though the genre uses a large amount of distorted sounds to exemplify the melodic and harmonic lines, hard rock creates a partnership with rock and roll and its variations so that extreme dimensions of sound can co-exist in a harmonious and cooperative manner. The milieu of hard rock exists in partnership with other forms of rock and roll such garage rock, psychedelic rock, punk, and grunge music in the art form of rock and roll music.
1.1 Differentiation from heavy metal
2.1 Early years (1960s)
2.2 First era (1970s)
2.3 Second era (1980s)
2.4 Third era (1990s to Present)
3 The importance of hard rock
Hard rock became a template of society and reflected the many views and moods of the younger generation. There were protest songs of the anti-war and civil rights movements in the 1960s, which created a venue for civil disobedience and influenced the public attitude. Although many denied its negative impact, it enabled an accelerated use of drugs and alcohol among its adherents and fans as they attempted to achieve a stronger connection with the music. Although such usages are viewed as detrimental societal factors, hard rock became a unifying communicational device to show its dual purpose; to bring disparate groups together, and to separate them from social conservatism.
Hard rock is strongly influenced by blues music; the most frequently used scale in hard rock is the pentatonic, which is a typical blues scale. Unlike traditional rock and roll, which takes elements of the "old" blues styles, hard rock incorporates elements of "British blues," a style of blues played with more modern instruments, such as electric guitars, drums, keyboards, and electric bass. Hard rock departs from traditional blues by being seldom restricted to the I, IV, and V chords prevalent in 12- or 16-bar blues. Rather, it includes other chords, typically major chords rooted in tones of the minor scale.
The term "hard rock" is often applied to many styles of rock music. There is a common misconception that these styles can be called "hard rock" even though they are very different, provided that their only common feature is the fact that they deviate from pop rock. Two such examples are punk rock and grunge. Punk rock uses a faster tempo and fewer riffs (often using power chords), while grunge fuses elements of hardcore punk and heavy metal, and is generally characterized by "dirty" guitar, heavy drumming, and apathetic or angst-filled lyrics.
The predominant instruments in hard rock are the electric guitar, bass, and drums. The role of the guitarist is very prevalent in hard rock. Most hard rock bands are comprised of two different types of guitarist; the lead guitarist and the rhythm guitarist. The lead guitarist plays the solos, riffs, and fills. Hard rock lead guitarists also use techniques such as alternate picking, sweep picking, and tapping to maximize the speed of their solos and riffs. The role of the rhythm guitarist is to compliment the lead guitarist and provide rhythmic and harmonic accompaniment to the other instruments in the band. The rhythm guitarist may also provide backup vocals.
The bassist's role is important to the structure of hard rock music; the bass-line outlines the harmony of the music being performed while simultaneously indicating the rhythmic pulse. As with the rhythm guitarist, bassists may also provide backup vocals. Drums provide a key element of hard rock music by sustaining the rhythm of the music and creating a drive that keeps the music flowing. Lastly, singers define the band as a whole and give it its overall image and sound.
Differentiation from heavy metal
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During the 1970s, hard rock inspired a new genre of music: Heavy metal. The emergence of this genre has led to some confusion about the difference between hard rock and heavy metal bands. Adding to this, distinctions between hard rock and heavy metal styles are usually subtle, and often are determined more by a band's image rather than its songs. The two genres have some crossovers. For example, heavy metal pioneers, such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple, are often considered to be both heavy metal and hard rock bands, whereas, bands such as AC/DC, Aerosmith, Nazareth, Status Quo, Guns N' Roses, and KISS, are normally referred to as just hard rock bands and not heavy metal bands.
To further add to the confusion, one of the heavy metal sub-genres of the 1980s, glam metal, was known to be influenced by both the pioneering heavy metal acts and other hard rock groups such as Alice Cooper, KISS and Mötley Crüe. KISS subsequently went on to experiment with glam metal.
Early years (1960s)
One of the major influences of hard rock is blues music, especially British blues. British rock bands, such as The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Yardbirds, The Who, and The Kinks, modified rock and roll, adding to the standard genre; harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming and louder vocals. This sound created the basis for hard rock. Early forms of hard rock can be heard in the songs "Helter Skelter" by The Beatles, "I Can See for Miles" by The Who, and "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks.
At the same time, musician Jimi Hendrix, produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues and rock and roll, creating a unique genre. He was one of the first guitarists to experiment with new guitar effects like phasing, feedback, and distortion.
Hard rock emerged from British groups of the late-1960s, such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, that mixed the music of early British rock bands with a more hard-edged form of blues rock. Led Zeppelin's eponymous first album, Led Zeppelin I (1969), is a good example of blues rock that represents the beginning of the hard rock genre. The blues origins of the group's album is clear, and a few songs by well-known blues artists are adapted or covered within the album.
Later, Deep Purple entered the hard rock scene with the albums, Shades of Deep Purple (1968), The Book of Taliesyn (1968), and Deep Purple (1969). Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple are usually considered some of the first hard rock bands.
First era (1970s)
In the 1970s, hard rock attained its identity. Led Zeppelin's third album, Led Zeppelin III was more progressive rock-oriented than the group's second, but the heavy aspects of their music remained. In 1970, Black Sabbath, released what is considered the first heavy metal album, Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath's music was revolutionary even for hard rock. It was typified by dark lyrics, hard riffs and a heavy atmosphere, transforming hard rock into to an early form of heavy metal. Deep Purple's transformation of hard rock continued with their album, Machine Head, considered (along with "Black Sabbath") as one of the first proto-metal albums. The song "Highway Star," which is on the album, is considered the first speed metal song. Deep Purple's music lacks the darker, more Gothic, elements of Black Sabbath, and is generally considered hard rock rather than heavy metal. Another band, Nazareth, provided a blend of hard rock which commercialized the genre further with their best selling album, Hair of the Dog, which in turn, influenced numerous other bands.
During the 1970s, hard rock developed a variety of sub-genres. In 1972, Alice Cooper made the first shock rock album, School's Out. The following year, Aerosmith, Queen, and Lynyrd Skynyrd released their eponymous debut albums, demonstrating the broadening directions of hard rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd's featured "Free Bird," the single that first gave the band national attention. The song quickly became a staple for Lynyrd Skynyrd and is most recognized for its nearly five-minute triple guitar solo section that finishes it.
In 1974, Bad Company released its debut album, which also influenced the hard rock genre. Also in 1974, Queen released its third album, Sheer Heart Attack. The tracks for the song "Stone Cold Crazy" were one of the earliest examples of speed metal and thrash metal, and influenced later thrash metal artists, such as Metallica and Megadeth.
Queen used layered vocals and guitars and mixed hard rock with arena rock, glam rock, heavy metal, progressive rock, and occasionally, opera. Additionally, KISS furthered the shock rock concept when it released its first three albums, KISS, Hotter Than Hell, and Dressed To Kill, in a little over a year. The band achieved their commercial breakthrough with their double live album, Alive.
With the death of Tommy Bolin in 1976, Deep Purple disbanded. In 1977, the lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash, disbanding Lynyrd Skynyrd. A year later, The Who's drummer, Keith Moon, died in his sleep, having overdosed on Chlormethiazole. With the rise of disco in the United States and punk rock in the United Kingdom, hard rock began to lose its popularity. Disco appealed to a more diverse group of people and punk rock seemed to take over the rebellious role that hard rock once held. Meanwhile, Black Sabbath moved away from the dark quality of their early work with albums such as Technical Ecstasy.
Van Halen, another important group in hard rock, formed in 1978. Van Halen's music was based mostly on the guitar skills of Eddie Van Halen, the lead guitarist. The song, "Eruption," from the album Van Halen, demonstrated Eddie Van Halen's technique and was very influential.
In 1979, the differences between the hard rock movement and the rising heavy metal movement were highlighted when the Australian hard rock band AC/DC released its second biggest album, Highway to Hell. AC/DC's music was based mostly on rhythm & blues and early-1970s hard rock, with the group explicitly repudiating the "heavy metal" tag.
Second era (1980s)
In 1980, Led Zeppelin disbanded after the sudden death of its drummer, John Bonham. Bon Scott, the lead singer of AC/DC, also passed away in 1980. With these deaths, the first wave of "classic" hard rock bands ended. Some bands, such as Queen, moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop. AC/DC however, remained on the scene, and recorded the album Back in Black, with their new lead singer Brian Johnson. Back in Black is the fourth biggest selling album of all time. By being so successful, AC/DC proved hard rock could be popular and made the rise of a radio-friendly hard rock and heavy metal possible. Van Halen, too, released many successful albums, such as Van Halen II and Women and Children First.
In 1981, the U.S. band Mötley Crüe, released an album called, Too Fast For Love, which set the basis for the rising genre, glam metal. Also, Def Leppard, an English hard rock band, released the album Pyromania, which reached No. 2 on the U.S. charts. Their music was a mix of glam rock, heavy metal, classic rock, and Album Oriented Rock, which influenced many 1980s hard rock and glam rock bands.
In 1983, Mötley Crüe released the album, Shout at the Devil, which became a huge hit, and Van Halen's album, 1984, became a huge success, hitting number two on Billboard album charts. In particular, the song "Jump" reached number one on the singles chart and is considered one of the most popular hard rock songs ever written. However, 1984 was also the first time the band included keyboards and synthesizers, marking a shift away from their original guitar-orientated style.
In 1984, KISS returned to the genre with the album Animalize. With their unmasking, they officially entered the glam metal movement. Judas Priest's Defenders of the Faith achieved RIAA Gold and Platinum certifications. Other important acts in 1984's glam metal scene were Ratt and W.A.S.P.
At the same time, musicians Yngwie J. Malmsteen and Steve Vai released their respective debut albums, Rising Force and Flex-Able. Their unique style did not feature vocals, with both albums showcasing the guitar-playing talents of the artists instead; this was the beginning of instrumental rock. There were differences between Malmsteen and Vai; while Malmsteen's music was greatly influenced by classical music, Vai was more hard rock-influenced.
In 1986, the Swedish band, Europe, released The Final Countdown, often considered the most popular and radio-friendly album, together with Van Halen's 1984. In particular, the title track, "The Final Countdown," became a huge success, reaching number one in 26 countries. Also in 1986, guitarist Joe Satriani, a friend of Steve Vai, released his first album, Not of This Earth. Satriani achieved further success in 1987, with the release of Surfing with the Alien, a milestone in the history of instrumental rock.
In 1987, the most notable successes in the charts were Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses and Hysteria by Def Leppard (which reached number one on the Billboard album chart), Mötley Crüe's Girls, Girls, Girls and Whitesnake's 1987. In 1988, Skid Row was formed. Their first album, Skid Row, was released in 1989. Thrash metal was strongly transformed into groove metal, which would later evolve, into the nu metal genre.
Third era (1990s to Present)
The early 1990s were at first dominated by Guns N' Roses and Metallica. The multi-platinum releases of Metallica's Black Album and Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II in 1991 showcased this popularity. But the popularity of such bands waned, as their music and attitudes became more decadent and self-indulgent. In 1991, a new form of hard rock broke into the mainstream.
Grunge combined elements of hardcore punk and heavy metal into a dirty sound that made use of heavy guitar distortion, fuzz and feedback. Although most grunge bands had a sound that sharply contrasted with mainstream hard rock (for example Nirvana, Mudhoney and L7), a minority (for example Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog and even Soundgarden) were more strongly influenced by much 1970s and 1980s rock and metal. However, all grunge bands shunned the macho, anthemic and fashion-focused style of hard rock at that time.
In the UK, bands like Swervedriver, Catherine Wheel, and Ride demonstrated that guitar heroics could be incorporated into songs that lacked the often-misogynistic content of 1970s and 1980s hard rock bands. As the popularity of artists such as Metallica continued from the 1980s into the 1990s, some other bands had begun to fuse metal with a range of eclectic influences. These bands came to be known as alternative metal artists, a subset of alternative rock. Some, such as Primus, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Living Colour, and White Zombie, fused funk with metal styles, though most of these bands actually formed in the '80s. Faith No More/Mr. Bungle fused many genres with hard rock, ranging from rap music to soul. Helmet and The Afghan Whigs were also successful experimental hard rock bands.
The Darkness' retro glam-metal influences helped propel them to the upper realms of the charts in the early 2000s, with the likes of Wolfmother. Towards the mid 2000s with new bands started to become mainstream, The Answer, Glitterati, The Datsuns, Nineteenth Century, and Punk influenced Towers of London are some of the new rock bands which followed up from the Garage rock revival. The biggest major hard rock band of recent years however, is supergroup Velvet Revolver. Made up of ex-members of Guns N' Roses primarily, the musicians have updated the sound of hard rock but also have a high quality pedigree to come from. This has helped revive the sleaze rock scene (for example, bands like Buckcherry, which Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction album is often credited with influencing).
The importance of hard rock
Hard rock music is a combination of extremities in music, from grunge, garage, and psychedelic rock to a traditional blues and pop rock sound, yet there is order and a singleness of purpose in any performance which brings a harmony of the polarizing opposites that has inspired many different genres of music. Over the years, heavy metal, glam metal, shock rock, speed metal, thrash metal, and alternative rock, among others, have taken their cue from hard rock and further developed the music scene to what it is today. Thus, hard rock could be considered the origin of the heavier styles of rock music.
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Jasper, Tony and Derek Oliver. The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock & Heavy Metal. New York: Facts on File, 1985. ISBN 0816011001
Kyriazi, Paul, Rod Taylor, Russ Tamblyn, Robert Culp, James Darren, Ishtar Uhvana, Netfa Perry, and George Chakiris. Hard Rock Lovers. Santa Monica, CA: Ronin Audio Books, 2006. ISBN 0971618321
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03-07-2016 Thought Leadership
Separating Fact from Fiction
Megan Clarken, president of product leadership, Nielsen
The last two years have been a time of significant innovation and progress at Nielsen. At the end of 2015, we put the final pieces of our Total Audience framework in place, so we are now able to measure video wherever it is viewed. Today, we are working with clients to integrate the different pieces of Total Audience.
The initial data has exceeded our expectations. But while the progress we have made is clear to a wide range of researchers and media executives, there are still those who think that the “TV ratings,” otherwise known as “C3/C7,” are the entirety of what Nielsen measures. That has led to the persistence of a number of fictions about Nielsen and what we do. We’d like to set the record straight by putting those fictions side by side with today’s reality.
Fiction No. 1: Nielsen only measures three or seven days of TV viewing.
Reality: This is a definition of the commercial ratings, not the far larger universe Nielsen measures.
Nielsen measures 35 days of time-shifted viewing.
We measure TV for seven days in order to capture the average audience for commercials reflected in the “live,” “C3” and “C7” ratings. The ratings are based on eligibility rules defined by the industry in May 2007, which, at the time, reflected the bulk of consumers’ viewing of ad units within seven days of live telecast. These ratings are used to buy and sell those ad units. The rules also stipulate that the national advertising load be the same in all versions of a program viewable for seven days after telecast. While we cannot unilaterally change the definition of the ratings, we continue to work with the industry to expand the current definition to reflect today’s media consumption behavior.
Meanwhile, Nielsen has been measuring all television viewing time to the TV screen since 1987 without regard to whether and how programs contain commercials. We provide clients with an “average program minute” metric that matches the better-known “average commercial minute” metric. Today, these measurements cover DVR viewing up to 35 days, as well as on-demand viewing at any time, whether delivered through set-top boxes, game consoles or “over the top” (OTT) devices such as Apple TV, Roku and Google Chromecast. We can also measure all video content on PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones and DVD/Blu-ray devices regardless of when the content was watched and regardless of the commercial load the content contains. This is what goes into our Total Content Ratings offering, designed to bring together all viewing on all platforms so that our clients get a total picture of their programs’ audiences.
Fiction No. 2: Nielsen’s measurement is “panel only,” which is inferior to big-data solutions.
Reality: Nielsen’s Total Audience solution is based on a combination of panel and big data.
Nielsen’s measurement of PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones already uses a combination of panel and big data. We use “census” counts and third-party big data matches to produce the ratings for all digital consumption. As for traditional TV, we will include big data in traditional TV measurement when this data reaches sufficient quality, scale and availability. Today, big data solutions that make use of set-top box data cannot tell if a TV set is on or off, who is actually watching the TV, how viewership breaks down by age and gender demographics or ethnicity, and so on. At present, therefore, the data we provide for the TV ratings is based on a panel accredited by the Media Ratings Council, which offers the most reliable and accurate measure of viewing activity in TV households in America today.
Fiction No. 3: Nielsen can’t measure mobile viewing.
Reality: Nielsen measures mobile viewing. Clients that work with us benefit from remarkably accurate census measurement.
In 2014, Nielsen launched a measurement solution that allows us to capture every video view and ad exposure on the digital screen—whether PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet, OTT device or game console. Clients that leverage this solution get the benefit of incredibly accurate, true census measurement, whether we are measuring a hugely popular program or ad or a single viewer. Our solution leverages large panels to calibrate big data sets, as well as partnerships that include Facebook, the owner of the highest quality person-level mobile registration data in the world. We collect, anonymously, the demographics of more than 180 million Americans, enabling us to deliver both content and ad measurement to our clients. This is a crucial part of our Total Audience offering, which is designed to measure any piece of video, audio or text content or advertising, no matter where, how or by whom it is consumed.
Fiction No. 4: Nielsen doesn’t measure subscription video-on-demand (SVOD).
Reality: Nielsen measures the vast majority of SVOD viewing and is increasing its coverage all the time.
Today, Nielsen can measure all VOD and SVOD content viewed on a TV, whether accessed from a set-top box on-demand menu or delivered through a subscription streaming service such as Amazon or Netflix. Our Television panel includes 100,000 people and over 50,000 TV-connected devices (Roku boxes, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, etc.) across the entire U.S. Our 2015 launch of signature-based measurement leverages audio-based signatures attached to individual programs by our clients. This allows us to measure over 6,000 programs currently being streamed by SVOD services—measurement that helps our clients understand, among other things, to what degree SVOD viewing is complementary to or substitutive of more traditional offerings.
It’s not entirely a mystery why these myths about Nielsen persist. People often assume that anything we measure would be included as part of the traditional TV commercial ratings. But we don’t make the rules—our job is to deliver accurate data against the current definition of the TV ratings 365 days a year.
We will continue to work with our clients to provide precise and comprehensive insight into video consumption, so that our clients can deliver content in ways consumers want to watch and that our clients can monetize. With the delivery of the Total Audience framework, we are already producing consistent, comparable metrics for content and advertising across all devices and platforms, making it possible for the industry to measure and count “everything.”
This article originally appeared on Media Village. Megan Clarken is president of product leadership at Nielsen.
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ATLANTA - Nearly 500 of Georgia’s business and political elite said thanks to former U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson Monday, Sept. 27, for more than 40 years spent in public service.
Isakson, a Republican who retired at the end of 2019, suffers from Parkinson’s disease. Monday, Sept. 27’s tribute at the historic Piedmont Driving Club raised about $1 million to benefit The Isakson Initiative, a nonprofit he founded in May to raise awareness and funding for research related to Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and related dementia.
The first Georgia politician to ever serve in the state House and Senate, the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate was feted as a leader who took a bipartisan approach toward public policy during an era of increasing polarization between Republicans and Democrats.
“Johnny has always worked to get everyone at the table,” said Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge.
“He represents the best our state and nation have to offer,” Gov. Brian Kemp added.
Isakson served in the General Assembly during the 1970s and 1980s as one of its few Republican members. After unsuccessful runs for governor and the U.S. during the 1990s, then-Gov. Roy Barnes appointed him to chair the Georgia Board of Education.
He was elected to the U.S. House in 1999, succeeding former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia, then won a seat in the Senate in 2004. Isakson became the first Republican elected statewide to three terms.
Monday, Sept. 27’s luncheon program included both live and recorded tributes from some of Isakson’s former Senate colleagues from both sides of the aisle. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., praised Isakson for using his illness for good and pledged to support Isakson’s fund-raising efforts.
“You’re taking a bad hand that was dealt to you and using it to help other people,” Graham said. “We’re going to fight this illness together.”
“Johnny was my mentor when I came to the Senate more than a decade ago,” added Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., who now chairs the Senate Ethics Committee formerly headed by Isakson. “He focused on what we could do together.”
Ralston said Isakson was a key backer of federal funding to deepen Savannah Harbor so the Port of Savannah could accommodate a new generation of containerized cargo ships.
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Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo, another former Senate colleague, informed the audience the Johnny Isakson Public Health Research Building on the Atlanta campus of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is due for completion in 2024.
And Kemp announced that the Johnny Isakson Professorship for Parkinson’s Research at the University of Georgia has raised $4.5 million and hired its first research professor.
“We’re proud of the progress that professorship has made in less than two years,” the governor said. “I have no doubt this initiative will bring hope for Parkinson’s patients and their families for years to come.”
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“Most prominent of the stained-glass windows featured on the sanctuary’s western façade is Oliver Smith’s rose or wheel window, which is replete with numerical strategies that are a subtext of Jewish mysticism. Emanu-El’s “signature” window is comprised of 12 panes (symbolic of the tribes of Israel) surrounding a six-pointed Magen David (or Star of David). Circling the rose are 36 small panes-36 being significant because of the Talmudic reference to 36 righteous men in each generation who are responsible for preserving the world; 36 also signifies “double life” in gematria (numerology of the Hebrew language and alphabet) because 2 X 18 = 36 and 18 is the numerical value of the Hebrew word chai, which means “life.” The rose window was donated to the congregation in honor of Babette and Mayer Lehman by their children, who included New York Supreme Court Justice Irving Lehman (a former Emanu-El president) and New York Governor Herbert Lehman (the first Jewish governor of New York).
Caai likewise is symbolized in the 18 marquis-shaped panes that arch around the rose and four lancet windows (each of which have 10 panes). The 18 panes of the arch may suggest the Amidah, our 18-part daily prayer. The seven windows located at the top imitate the seven-branched menorahs on the bimah. The center high window of the seven was donated to the congregation by Florette Guggenheim-widow of Benjamin Guggenheim (who died aboard Titanic), mother of arts patron Peggy Guggenheim and daughter of Joseph Seligman (a member of the Seligman banking family and a long-time vice president of the congregation.”
According to the Congregation Rodeph Sholom website, Oliver Smith was a master craftsman in the art of stained glass, most notably in the Arts and Crafts style. Smith’s studio was in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania as early as 1929, possibly earlier. His windows are at the Princeton Chapel, Princeton, New Jersey; Clothier Memorial Hall, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; and Temple B’nai Brith, Los Angeles. Additionally, Smith’s paintings have been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the National Academy of Design and the Kennedy Gallery, both in New York City.
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