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'They say it brings joy to the neighbourhood': Winnipeg home lights up Charleswood
Charleswood home illuminates neighbourhood with about 24,000 lights (Scott Andersson, CTV News)
It is a scene right from the script of the movie “Christmas Vacation” starring Chevy Chase, and for one Charleswood resident, it could give Chase's character a run for his money.
Ted Hasiuk has been lighting up his home for over two decades, and each year it gets a little more elaborate.
“Part of it is for the attention; plus it does help to brighten up the winter nights,” said Hasiuk.
As it has grown, the display has expanded from the house to include other non-traditional locations.
“My not so trusty, very rusty Dodge Caravan,” said Hasiuk.
The lit van will sit idle until the spring before it transitions from a yard decoration to a mode of transportation.
Hasiuk admitted some of his best ideas are stolen from friends and colleagues, others, he said, people let him borrow.
This year, new additions year includes 1,600 new lights on a fence and a tree. There is also an arbour Hasiuk has not yet set up, just in the front of the house.
“People stop when they see me decorating and they say it brings joy to the neighbourhood. They say you don’t know how many people actually like it so out of the blue, strangers,” said Hasiuk.
“It’s kind of neat and makes it all worthwhile.”
The time spent is considerable. Hasiuk estimates there are somewhere between 23,000 to 24,000 lights and about 100 hours of his time.
“Light bulbs burn out, squirrels chew the strings, all that sort of stuff.”
It is not all fun and games. Hasiuk said he does feel pressure to get things up and it isn’t until the finish line is in sight that he starts to, “see the light at the end of the tunnel.”
Hasiuk began stringing lights back at the end of September. Two months later, he has a couple of hours left.
The 71-year-old said sometimes, it was hard to gain momentum with blown fuses and inconvenient snowfalls. The key, Hasiuk said, is to be methodical and get a light tester.
The house is located on Fairmont Road south of Grant Avenue.
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UW System: UW scientists, innovators poised to accelerate U.S. competitiveness
by Tech Council | Dec 7, 2021 | Featured, NEWSROOM
By Tommy Thompson, President, University of Wisconsin System
In recent years, Wisconsin’s two public research universities, UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, have aggressively and strategically built a faculty roster with a wealth of expertise in some of the world’s most cutting-edge and crucial fields.
From biotechnology and genomics to artificial intelligence and quantum computing to advanced manufacturing and sustainability, this broad and deep range of Badger-state expertise at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee is working on significant issues facing our society. At our other UW locations throughout Wisconsin, knowledge in such areas as health care, engineering, and logistics add significant value to the state’s research portfolio.
All of it puts Wisconsin in a favorable position to create a globally competitive innovation hub that could secure some of the hundreds of billions of dollars in expected federal investment designed to accelerate the nation’s competitiveness.
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Beautmuse, CDs, Music, Opinion
Bargain Bin Beauts: Tell Me What’d I Say – The Atlantic Story
Written by Gary Steel on July 6, 2013
Albums that I picked up for a song, but in retrospect, would have paid an arm and a leg for.
ONCE IN A blue moon I find myself browsing zombie-like through the poorly curated and abysmally shelved sale stock at The Warehouse.
It’s not something I’m proud of. For one, I don’t like what the ‘red shed’ has done for small-town NZ, decimating small businesses and bringing tons of Chinese-made junk into our green and pleasant land, most of which presumably ends up as landfill when it breaks or malfunctions shortly after purchase. And I don’t like the way The Warehouse treats music: without a shred of respect. It brings in lots of budget-priced crap (a lot of it featuring re-recorded performances of classic songs or poor masters) and distributes it randomly across its shelves, and it’s a depressing place to shop, because it makes no effort to display anything on the basis of merit. Apart from that, it does the unthinkable: the spines of its CDs and DVDs are almost always upside down and, for me, that makes them neck-wrenchingly dizzying to read.
Clearly, I hate everything The Warehouse represents, so why do I end up flicking through its racks? Well, looking for bargains in an anonymous environment can be therapeutic. I’d rather haunt the sale bins at Real Groovy (a real record store) but it’s often too invasive for my mood. That is, just when I need an hour of honest labour delving into shop-worn stock, I’ll bump into half a dozen friends I haven’t seen for awhile and end up using that precious zombie time on conversations, instead. [I love my friends, but this is my ‘guy in the tool shed time out]. I can rely on The Warehouse for one thing: I won’t bump into anyone I know there, and I can wear any rumpled old clothing assemblage without getting funny looks. It’s also a convenient stop-off on the way home to my semi-rural idyll.
But yeah, probably 80 percent of what I hoped would be Bargain Bin Beauts purchased at The Warehouse have turned out to be turkeys. An example is the 4-CD Julie London set, Eight Classic Albums, which claims to be digitally remastered, and sounds okay until you notice the very discernable sound of needle on vinyl. It turns out that despite the availability of the original masters, the company responsible for this tragedy just took them off vinyl, and used some software to minimise the annoying clicks and pops. (I guess some vinyl-heads might even prefer this ‘sounds like vinyl’, because they can then pretend they’re listening to the real thing).
Bear in mind that I have no problem with albums being carefully rendered from vinyl when the original masters have gone missing – as is the case with the recent reissue of that great NZ band from the 1970s, Waves – but despite the incredibly low price, I felt ripped off by the Julie London set.
And that’s why I’m elated to report the acquisition of an album called Tell Me What’d I Say – The Atlantic Story, from English oldies company One Day Music. This is a double CD issued in 2011 that I picked up for $1.97 at the Red Shed, and it turns out not to be the usual cut-price atrocity exhibition.
Sadly, the liner notes don’t discuss the source tapes or anything about the remastering, but it sounds wonderful.
In the late 1980s I owned a box set containing many of the same songs, oddly enough released through Warners, the owners of the Atlantic audio archive. It sounded like shit: thin, harsh, hardly any bass, almost like you were hearing it from the next room. Really uninvolving. That set got traded in fairly swiftly.
Tell Me What’d I Say, on the other hand, sounds rich and involving, with a full spectrum, curvaceous and enticing analogue-style presentation that brings this music alive.
And that’s the point, surely. We can wank on endlessly about the finer points of sound quality, but really, it’s about hearing something that contains more than just traces of the energy, conviction, joy, sweat and emotion that went into the original performances.
Throughout the two discs, I found myself glued to my seat. Or rather, I couldn’t help moving with the rhythm and the blues. I couldn’t believe the amount of bass response these old recordings contained, or the big sound I was hearing.
I wouldn’t say that the Atlantic vault is my all-time favourite mine of great ‘50s music, but it’s essential to understanding everything else that happened around it, and what came later. Some might find some of this frequently naïve music more than a little bit corny, but who cares? There are 50 songs on these two discs, and they’re not all stoned cold classics, but this selection does contain most of the DNA of the music we take for granted as the bounteous harvest of popular culture 50-something years later, and most of it stands up.
What’s still surprising, amazing, and sometimes hair-raising about all this Atlantic-label music is just how eclectic it is. There’s rhythm and blues, there’s blues, there’s prototype rock and roll, there’s doo-wop, there’s gospel-into-soul, and various mutations thereof, and it’s not all as clear-cut stylistically as some music historians might like it to be.
For instance, there’s Professor Longhair who is synonymous with New Orleans and part of that city’s unique heritage, and the set’s biggest act, Ray Charles, whose music at this stage may have still been heavily gospel-inspired but already felt like it was breaking out into something else, and of course that something else would see him experiment with (god forbid!) country and jazz and more down the line.
I’m not going to get into a blow-by-blow account of the music, because this blog is already blowing out of all proportion. But today’s Bargain Bin Beaut is one of those real finds that puts your faith back into music, and entices you to sit down and groove to a music that still sounds fresher than anything our top so-called R&B stars could muster today. GARY STEEL
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Rev. Sharpton’s National Action Network Brings Robust Civil Rights Convention To Donald Trump’s Doorstep
In the first convention since Barack Obama left the White House, NAN plans to bring the heat to the current president’s home turf.
Angela Bronner Helm
The National Action Network’s annual convention is the place to be if you are serious about dialogue and solutions for Black people in America. It always features a who’s who of prominent leaders, activists, elected officials and even celebrities covering everything from policing to black intellectualism to gun crime to the school to prison pipeline and to more esoteric themes such as pension funds and labor unions.
NAN will convene its annual national convention from April 26-29 at the Sheraton Times Square (811 7th Avenue @ 52nd Street) in New York City—walking distance from Trump Tower. The convention is free and open to the public but registration is required and certain events—like the fashion show—are ticketed. For those unable to be in New York City, convention panels will be screened online.
As founder Rev. Al Sharpton notes, this is the first time that the convention will be held in the era of President Donald Trump and in his hometown of New York.
“This will be the first major national convening of Black leaders under Donald Trump as we assess the state of America around civil rights and social justice,” Rev. Sharpton told NewsOne. “For 26-years NAN has been a voice for the voiceless and we look forward to mobilizing key leadership to shape a path forward in these times.”
On the first day of the convention – Wednesday, April 26 – Rev. Sharpton and NAN leadership will kick-off and then participants will hear from Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder who will give the convention’s opening address, focusing on gerrymandering and voting rights. Tom Perez, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and former U.S. Secretary of Labor, will give the first Plenary speech.
Other opening day highlights include a panel on the 2016 election and organizing with pollster Cornell Becher, NOW President Terry O’Neill, MSNBC Correspondent Joy-Ann Reid, and others. Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump will moderate a panel discussion about accountability in policing with Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin; Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner; Judy Scott, the mother of Walter Scott; Valerie Bell, the mother of Sean Bell; and Kadiatou Diallo, the mother of Amadou Diallo. First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray will deliver remarks during a panel discussion on mental health in the Black community. Opening day will close out with the annual Keepers of the Dream Awards, which be hosted by Actor Samuel L. Jackson and will honor Harry Belafonte, Rev. Dr. William Barber, II, the pastor who organized Moral Mondays, Terry O’Neill the President of the National Organization of Women (NOW), and other national leaders.
And that’s just on the first day.
Other highlights for the next two days include panel discussions or speeches from CNN contributor Angela Rye with former President Obama officials; contributions from Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, William Jelani Cobb and Dr. Mary Frances Berry; words from Spike Lee, former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, and New York Senator and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. And… actor/activist Hill Harper, New York Daily News columnist Shaun King and Akeem Browder, brother of Kalief Browder.
On each day of the NAN convention there will be a hackathon and technology competition, and each evening there will be revivals featuring leading national preachers.
The current schedule is available here.
SOURCE: National Action Network
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The Disadvantages of Tattoos in the Workplace
By Mary Bauer
Modern Views on Tattoos in the Workplace
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It's your body and you have the right to decorate it anyway you like, but your expression of individuality could cost you in the workplace – in job interviews and in your interactions with peers and clients. Don't deny yourself the body art, but have it placed so that it won't show when you dress for work. Show it off after hours, not when you're trying to climb the ladder.
Attitudes towards tattoos are evolving, but negative stereotypes remain. Some people associate tattoos with lower socio-economic classes, or even dangerous groups, such as gangs and prison inmates. If you have exposed tattoos, you run the risk of people making assumptions about your character before they get to know you. That's hard enough if you're in an office environment, but it can be a career-killer if you work with the public in a sales job or in service industries.
You may not like it, but your employer has the legal right to specify a dress code, which may include body art. Some employers allow tattoos, but specify that they must be conservative or non-offensive – terminology that is exceedingly subjective. What you think is conservative, your boss, or a client, may view as offensive or inappropriate. And, you won't know it until after there is a problem.
What Statistics Say
Yes, tattoos are increasing in popularity. Thirty-six percent of Gen Nexters, who are 18 to 25, and 40 percent of Gen Xers, 26 to 40, have a tattoo somewhere on their bodies, according to a 2012 study by the Pew Research Center. But, 70 percent of Millennials -- people born between 1977 and 1994 -- who have one or more tattoos said that their body art normally is not visible, also according to the Pew Research Center. Translation: Even those who favor tattoos realize the ink can be disadvantageous in interpersonal and professional relations.
Interviews: Put Your Best Foot Forward
When you're on the job market –- now or when you're looking for your next job -– cover up your tattoos. A 2006 survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that 46 percent of employers regarded tattoos as slightly negative and 29 percent said that tattoos had a strong negative influence during job interviews. Don't let your tat cost you your next job.
Tattoo Policy of Fire Departments→
Workplace and Computer Ethics Abuse→
Importance of Appearance in the Workplace→
Bacon/Wilson Employment Law Bits: Tattoos in the Workplace
AskApril.com: Can Body Art Hurt Your Chances of Promotion?
Pew Research Center: Thirty-six Percent – Tattooed Gen Nexters
Pew Research Center: Seventy-two Percent – Tattoo Taboo
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Blue Hair, Body Piercings – Do Employers Care?
CNN Living: Decoding the Workplace Dress Code
A retired federal senior executive currently working as a management consultant and communications expert, Mary Bauer has written and edited for senior U.S. government audiences, including the White House, since 1984. She holds a Master of Arts in French from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Arts in English, French and international relations from Aquinas College.
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ALTA Statement on Supreme Court Marriage Ruling
Washington, DC, June 26, 2015 — The American Land Title Association (ALTA), the national trade association of the land title insurance and real estate settlement services industries, released the following statement today following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in favor of same-sex marriages in Obergefell v. Hodges:
“The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges today has a significant impact on property rights,” said Michelle Korsmo, ALTA’s chief executive officer. “Our nation provides numerous protections for married couples that own property. In addition, the Supreme Court’s opinion gives same-sex couples the ability to take title to real property as tenants by the entirety, which is the strongest way to hold title and is reserved for married couples.”
“Today’s decision helps eliminate confusion on determining property rights of same-sex couples who move to a state that previously did not recognize same-sex marriages,” Korsmo added.
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Dinner at Rick and Chuck’s (A Memory)
The letter was in an envelope in my pocket, folded in half. Even though I knew this would produce a crease, I figured a crease was better than walking into my professor’s house holding a mysterious envelope, especially with three other classmates arriving with me. “What’s that letter?” they would probably ask and what would I say? Which is why the letter was in my pocket.
The house was handsome, made of brick, and shrouded by trees. I arrived early (as I tend to do) and sat in the car for a bit killing time rather than be the first to ring the doorbell. Did I bring a gift? I wouldn’t have brought wine because I wasn’t old enough to buy wine yet. It’s possible that I showed up empty-handed, except for the letter.
Who else was there? I remember Michael, a frat guy in a black polo shirt with a toothy grin. I remember John, a tall, gawky, sort, also a frat guy, who might make a very capable journalist or politician some day. Ben, a redhead with a boy-next-door quality. And, of course, our hosts: Rick and Chuck.
Rick was a professor of English at our university (he would one day chair the department). The previous summer, I’d studied abroad at Oxford and Rick was there to teach a class on Shakespeare.
The first half of the summer, he was there alone. The class focused on Shakespeare’s comedies and we would read a play like “Comedy of Errors” or “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and then go see a production, either a local one performed by Oxford students or a professional one performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was as good an experience a person could have studying Shakespeare and Rick was a magnificent teacher.
We didn’t just read the comedies, we “unpacked” them. He used phrases like “liminal space” and “heteronormative.” He picked apart layers of homoeroticism in “As You Like It.” And me, being the dolt that I am, didn’t realize that he was gay until Chuck, his partner, showed up for the second half of the summer.
Seeing Rick and Chuck together was a transformative experience for me. Up until that point, I’d been struggling intensely with my own sexuality. I came out to friends and family the year before, but it hadn’t gone smoothly; I’d gone to therapy to try to “fix” things; the therapist herself was a dolt, but I didn’t know that at the time. So when I showed up at Oxford, that summer, I was “straight.” Or at least I didn’t talk about being gay.
But then Chuck appeared and no one batted an eyelash. All of the students my age, the frat boys (like Michael and John), the boy-next-door types (like Ben) were as nonchalant about Rick and Chuck as they had been about our other professors and their spouses. No, that’s not right: Rick and Chuck were cooler than the other professors and their spouses. Rick and Chuck were the ones you wanted to sit next to at a formal dinner, the ones you wanted to hang out with on the field trip to Scotland. While the history professor was a scold and the poly-sci professor a letch, Rick was incredibly genuine, open, and utterly himself.
So inspiring was my time with Rick and Chuck, so influential, that when I got back to school that fall I had a much clearer sense of myself and the possibilities in store for me. When I directed a production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” I worked up the courage to ask out the actor playing Reuben, a freshman named Michael. He immediately dumped his temporary freshman boyfriend and said “yes.” When I showed up at Rick and Chuck’s for dinner, Michael and I had been dating for a few months and I’d never been happier.
Which is precisely what I’d written in my letter. I wanted to tell Rick and Chuck how much they had changed my life, how their presence at Oxford meant more to me than anything academic I had learned that summer. Simply being around them showed me how I could live a better life. I put that all in my letter which was burning a hole in my pocket as we all sat down to dinner.
It says a lot about this meal, a meal that happened over a decade ago, that I still remember much of it. I remember grilled swordfish with grill marks for our entrée. And I remember Medjool dates—fat, sweet, Medjool dates—served with dessert.
If we were to parse this meal Rick-style, we might view those dates metaphorically, like the pomegranate seeds Persepheone ate during her time with Hades; a forbidden fruit with mystical powers to cast a spell, a spell that resonates throughout a lifetime.
Also mystical: Rick and Chuck’s bathroom. Looking at their collection of Kiehl’s products, I was seeing into my own future. Who could imagine that one day I would have a boyfriend and an apartment with a bathroom filled with Kiehl’s products of our own? But it’s 12 years later and I do.
At the end of the meal, we all said our goodbyes and I handed Chuck the letter. I’m sure I was awkward when I did it, probably thrusting the letter into Chuck’s hand sloppily, saying something uncomfortable like, “I wrote this for you guys.” I’m sure my face flushed red as I walked out to my car and waved goodbye to the other guests.
Driving home, I kept shaking my head. “That was weird,” I kept telling myself. “Why did you write them a letter? Why couldn’t you just tell them that you’re gay and that you have a boyfriend and you found them really helpful in that process? Why did you have to do it in a letter?”
My mind was still racing when I finally got back to my apartment and opened my computer. And there, in my in-box, was an e-mail from Rick. I still have the first line memorized:
“Adam, we read your letter with tears streaming down our cheeks.”
Every so often, now, I’ll get an e-mail from Chuck giving me an update on him and Rick. The latest said they’re moving to Providence where Rick’s taking a position at Brown. They’re both still interested in food, proud of me and my food writing career, a career that very rarely asks me to use phrases like “heteronormative” and “liminal space.”
I think of Rick and Chuck any time I eat a Medjool date, more majestic than a regular date; plumper and richer and fuller and sweeter; just like the life I’m living today, thanks to them.
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Arabs and Persians on the Characteristics of Blacks
Hippocrates, American Renaissance, May 2011
In the year 410 the German Visigoth Alaric and his army sacked Rome and destroyed the Roman Empire in the West. The Eastern Empire survived but its intellectual life came to an end in the sixth century AD, when Emperor Justinian closed the colleges in Athens and the scholars migrated to Baghdad. Europe entered the Dark Ages, which lasted some 600 years. During this time, Muslim civilizations flourished in Mesopotamia (present day Iraq) and in Iran. These civilizations had slaves of a variety of ethnic and racial groups, including blacks, who were mainly purchased in Zanzibar, off the coast of East Africa.
The Arabs and Persians were therefore familiar with blacks, and in some cases wrote about them at length. Their descriptions were almost always negative and many middle-Easterners continue to have a low opinion of blacks, who are not generally welcome as immigrants.
The American scholar Minoo Southgate has summarized, in her own words, the characteristics of blacks most commonly recorded by mid-Eastern writers: “In both Arab and Persian Islamic writings, blacks are accused of being stupid, untruthful, vicious, cowardly, sexually unbridled, ugly and distorted, excessively merry, and easily affected by food and drink.” She also quotes a number of sources directly.
The first Arab scholar known to have commented on the low intelligence of blacks was Al Jahiz (d. 868 AD), who wrote, “We know that the Zanj [East Africans blacks] are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.” Al Jahiz also claimed that “despite their dimness, their boundless stupidity, their obtuseness, their crude perceptions and their evil dispositions, they make long speeches.” He concluded that “like the crow among mankind are the Zanj for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.”
A century later, Maqdisi (also known as Al-Muqaddasi, fl. 966 AD) wrote that “the Africans are people of black color, flat noses, kinky hair, and little understanding or intelligence.” The 12th century Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi described blacks as having a “lack of knowledge and defective minds,” adding, “Their ignorance is notorious; men of learning and distinction are almost unknown among them, and their kings only acquire what they know about government and justice from the instruction of learned visitors from farther north.”
Another Arabic scholar, Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadani, (c. 903 AD) wrote that “the people of Iraq . . . do not come out . . . overdone in the womb until they are burned, so that the child comes out something between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions, such as the East Africans, the Somali, and other blacks who resemble them. The Iraqis are neither half-baked dough nor burned crust but between the two.”
In 1343 AD, an anonymous Arab published a romance about Alexander the Great entitled Iskandarnamah in which he wrote that “the East Africans are slight-witted, and God, most high, has created them stupid, ignorant, and foul.”
These observations were made of East African blacks with whom the Arabs were most familiar, but they knew something also of the blacks of southern Africa. The celebrated polymath Ibn Khaldun (1332 – 1406) wrote: “To the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.”
Ibn Khaldun also wrote: “Therefore, the Negro nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because Negroes have little that is human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals.” Khaldun could have been quoting Aristotle, who wrote that “it is clear that there are certain people who are free and certain who are slaves by nature, and it is both to their advantage, and just, for them to be slaves.” Aristotle also likened slaves to animals, calling the ox the poor man’s slave.
Persians who observed blacks reached similar conclusions. The geographer al-Qazwini (1203 – 1283) asserted that blacks are characterized by “weakness of intelligence,” and Hudud al-Alam (c. 982 AD) wrote that “as regards southern countries, all their inhabitants are black on account of the heat of their climate . . . Most of them go naked. . . . They are people distant from the standards of humanity . . . Their nature is that of wild animals.”
The Persian scholar Abu Rayhan al-Biruni did not comment on the intelligence of blacks but wrote (c.1030 AD) of what he considered their primitive nature: “[T]he Zanj [blacks] are so uncivilized that they have no notion of a natural death. If a man dies a natural death, they think he was poisoned. Every death is suspicious with them, if a man has not been killed by a weapon.”
Maqdisi (fl. 966 AD) asserted of blacks that “there is no marriage among them; the child does not know his father, and they eat people.” Some three centuries later, the Persian scholar Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-1274) concluded that the human races had different levels of intellectual development and that East African blacks were at the lowest level: “If all types of men are taken, and one placed after another, the Negro from Zanzibar does not differ from an animal in anything except the fact that his hands have been lifted from the earth . . . Many have seen that the ape is more capable of being trained than the Negro, and is more intelligent.”
In the 14th century, Several Arab and Persian scholars noted that blacks have strong sexual drives, large sex organs, a manic temperament (see “Galen on the Merriment of Blacks,” AR, Dec. 2010) and a strong sense of rhythm. Dr. Southgate observes that “the notion of the blacks’ unbridled sexuality occurs in many Arab and Persian Muslim sources, some of which reveal the white man’s fear of the black man’s superior sexual prowess.”
Similar accounts are found in the One Thousand and One Nights, the collection of stories of largely 9th century Persian origin told by the young bride Scheherazade. These stories were translated in the 19th century by the British Arabist Richard Burton, who noted that there are several stories about Persian wives who seek satisfaction with black slaves. These “debauched women,” he wrote, “prefer negroes on account of the size of their parts” and because “the deed takes a much longer time and this adds greatly to women’s enjoyment.”
Observations about black sexuality have been confirmed in contemporary times by Prof. Philippe Rushton, who has documented the large sex organs and strong sex drives of blacks, which he ascribes to high levels of testosterone.
The purpose of quoting these ancient authors is neither to belittle blacks nor, indeed, to accept the complete accuracy of their accounts. It was obviously wrong to describe blacks as animals or to claim that apes were more intelligent. Still, these accounts cannot be dismissed as mere prejudice or the desire to flatter one’s own group by insulting others. Arabs and Persians recognized the intelligence of the Greeks, for example.
Europeans who first entered those parts of Africa that had never been explored by Arabs brought back similar accounts of very low levels of cultural development. Entirely aside from whatever prejudices they might have brought with them, their factual observations cannot be dismissed. The Oxford scholar John Baker summarized the observations of such 19th-century explorers as John Speke, Samuel Baker, Henry Fynn, Paul du Chaillu, David Livingstone, and Georg Schweinfurth in his classic book Race. Throughout vast areas of sub-Saharan Africa, they did not find a written language, a calendar, a multi-story building, a mechanical device, a beast of burden, or use of the wheel.
Contemporary black-run societies, whether in Africa, Haiti, or in enclaves in the West are further evidence for race differences in intelligence and the ability to maintain civilization. There is no question that some blacks are capable of considerable achievement when they can avail themselves of opportunities in other societies, but even aside from the psychometric, genetic, and physiological data, it is difficult to see today’s insistence on the equivalence of all races as anything but wishful thinking and a deliberate refusal to consider the evidence.
J.P. Rushton Race, Evolution and Behavior. Port Huron, MI: Charles Darwin Research Institute, 2000.
Minoo Southgate: Negative images of Blacks in some Medieval Persian writings. Persian Studies, 1984, 17, 3-36.
John Baker Race. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Topics: Africa, Classics, Racial Differences
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Wolves defeat Celtics
Published 8:36 am Monday, October 21, 2013
MONTREAL — Kevin Love had 22 points and nine rebounds to lead the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 104-89 preseason win against the Boston Celtics on Sunday.
The game was held in Montreal as part of the 2013 NBA Canada series.
Kevin Martin scored 21 points for the Timberwolves (3-2). Ricky Rubio had 15 points and a game-high seven assists.
“We’re getting more acclimated with each other each day that goes by,” said Martin, who was acquired in an offseason trade with Oklahoma City. “I’m very hopeful for the season. We have a good team here. We have high expectations for ourselves as a team. We expect to win games.”
Gerald Wallace had 16 points for Boston (1-6). Toronto native Kelly Olynyk scored four points in 19 minutes.
“It’s fun. It’s an honor to play in front of your country,” Olnyk said. “It’s a special feeling.”
Minnesota put together a 12-0 run to grab an 18-7 lead on Martin’s 3-pointer with 6:24 left in the first quarter. The Timberwolves led 57-51 at halftime and carried an 81-72 lead into the final period.
Martin was 5 for 8 from 3-point range. He also had five rebounds and three assists.
“It’s a really tough guard when you have a guy like Kevin Martin who’s so fast and can get open, runs the break, can shoot the ball from distance,” Love said. “He only needs a split-second.”
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The MPs recently met with the Combined Parish Councils group in Sapcote to discuss the rail freight proposals and the plans to oppose the development.
Previously, Mr Costa has sent a survey to over 11,000 constituents in the Fosse Villages of Elmesthorpe, Stoney Stanton, Sapcote, Sharnford, Croft, Huncote, Aston Flamville, Potters Marson and Wigston Parva to ask for their views on the proposed Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange and led a debate in Parliament on the plans in February 2020 which was supported by Dr Luke Evans MP.
The Bosworth MP has launched his own survey for local residents in his constituency to have their say, with 13,000 households to be contacted over the next four weeks. Dr Luke is also running an online survey, which can be completed on his website.
Both MPs have also recently voiced their support for the comments made by Leicestershire County Council who had raised significant concerns about the extent of the consultation, the traffic modelling used for the plans and the lack of an appropriate bypass for nearby Stoney Stanton and Sapcote.
The eight-week consultation opened today (12th January) and will close on Wednesday 9th March, comments should be made to https://www.hinckleynrfi.co.uk/
Alberto said, “I am encouraging my constituents in the vicinity of the proposed Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange to please respond to the developer’s formal consultation at the earliest opportunity to make their feelings known about this huge development. The rail hub would have a massive impact on the local area in terms of the increases in traffic movements and the pressures on local infrastructure, and not forgetting the detrimental environmental impact so it’s so important that residents use this time to have their voices heard”.
Dr Luke added, “The proposals for the National Rail Freight Interchange have the potential to have a serious and adverse effect on much-loved beauty spot Burbage Common in my patch, so I’m pleased to be working with Alberto on this. Residents near the Common and wider in Hinckley and Burbage have raised concerns about heavy traffic, wildlife and the environment, and our infrastructure not being able to cope if the Interchange were to be built.”
“I would strongly encourage people to help support Alberto and I by having their say and completing the public consultation, to formally share their views with the developer, the Planning Inspectorate and the Council. This is an absolutely vital stage in the process, and it’s important as many local people as possible get the chance to have their say.”
Alberto concluded, “It goes without saying that I absolutely share my constituent’s concern in relation to the Rail Freight Interchange. Residents will know that I have been consistent in opposing these plans since they were first announced, and I very much hope to again raise this matter in a Parliamentary debate in the coming weeks. There are questions that must be answered over the placement of this rail hub, especially with a number of similar sites located nearby, and I look forward to raising this in Parliament once again to ensure that the views and concerns of my constituents are listened to at the very highest levels of Government”.
Photo above shows Alberto (L to R) with Leicestershire County Councillor and Blaby District Councillor, Maggie Wright, the then Local Government Minister Luke Hall MP, Blaby District Councillor Iain Hewson and Dr Luke Evans MP.
Alberto encourages residents to help name new prison
South Leicestershire MP, Alberto Costa, is encouraging local residents to get involved in finding a name for the new Glen Parva prison – with the facility due to open next year, the Ministry of Justice are asking the community to send in their suggestions that ‘embrace the history and culture of the area’.
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Ratatouille Recipe
May 3, 2021 | Vegetarian |
In France, ratatouille is a culinary specialty of Nice, also found throughout Provence. It exists in many countries under different names. It is a stew of various vegetables.
Ready In: 1hrs 15min
Good For: Dinner
Wash vegetables and slice zucchini, eggplant, and onions.
Cut the remaining vegetables in dice.
Fry in a pan oiled each ingredient separately (except tomatoes and garlic).
Put all the vegetables together with the bouquet garni.
And simmer for 45 minutes.
Tomatoes: 6
Eggplant: 1
Courgettes/zucchini: 4
Onions: 4
Garlic: 4
Bouquet garni: 1
History of Ratatouille
What is Ratatouille?
The word “ratatouille” comes from the Occitan ratatolha. It is also used in all languages, including English, ratatouille is also said Valentine in the south of France and piperade in the Basque country.
With garlic, olives and onions, it is the “Bohemienne du Languedoc.” The origin of the dish is in the area around Provence and Nice.
Originally, the word “ratatouille” means from 1778 a motley stew. The abbreviation “rata” means, in military slang a mixture of beans and potatoes and mixed vegetables and fatty meat. The rata is in fact the basis of the military canteen, quick and easy to make.
It is composed of pieces of cooked vegetables, especially eggplant, onions, zucchini, peppers and tomatoes, and garlic. Like any recipe “generic” there is no precise recipe but guiding principles.
For the ratatouille, two methods are possible: cooking all the vegetables or cooking vegetable by vegetable separately.
Defenders of the Provençal tradition as the chef’s verge or Gedda, they advocate to fry the vegetables one by one and pass the capsicum over the flame to get rid of the skin and give a taste of smoke.
What should you have with Ratatouille?
Ratatouille is usually served as a side dish, but can also be served as a main dish (when accompanied by rice or bread). In France, it is usually served with fish, like tuna; however, it is also possible to pair with quiche or souffle too.
Traditionally, it is advisable to accompany these vegetables with a rosé wine from the vineyards of Provence or a red wine such as Vin de Pays d’Oc or a white wine, like St. Joseph ( AOC).
Other countries near the Mediterranean also prepare the same type of recipe. The Catalan dish “samfaina” and the Majorcan “Tombet” are other versions of the same dish. The Maltese language version is called Kapunata, very similar to the French recipe, it comes with grilled fish.
In Italian it is called caponata, Spanish pisto, Lecsó Hungarian, in Bulgarian and Romanian ghiveci, in Greek briami (but including potatoes), the Croatian and Serbian version called đuveč contains beans and rice.
In Turkey, ratatouille is presented in a stuffed eggplant under the name of Imam Bayildi (translation: The imam is fainting).
In the collective imagination, ratatouille seems to be a culinary Mediterranean tradition that has always existed …..
And yet, if we look more closely, it seems difficult to imagine that the ratatouille as we know it today may have been invented before the sixteenth century. For this, it suffices to dwell on the time of arrival in Europe of the vegetables that make up the ratatouille to determine its date of creation.
A Ratatouille “classic” consists of tomatoes, aubergines, peppers and courgettes, plus garlic, onions and olives added. However, the eggplant that comes from India arrived in Europe in the sixteenth century.
If the name of the dish is new, the dish is older, but what is it really?
It is fun to take one at a time the main components of ratatouille and determine their origin:
– Eggplant is a vegetable traveler who comes from India, which has appeared to Europe in the sixteenth century, when it was seen as an ornamental plant poisonous.
– Tomato comes from pre-Columbian America, from Mexico, brought to Europe in the sixteenth century, it was then the size of a cherry tomato, and has only slowly spread in our country: its arrival in Parisduring the Revolution with volunteers from Marseille (and the National anthem La Marseillaise).
It will be cooked under the arches of the royal palace in the famous restaurant of the Directoire, the “Freres Provencaux” and at the time of Brillat Savarin, under the Restoration, it was still used to color red sauces.
– Zucchini is of American origin. Only in the family of gourds, melons and cucumbers are from the Old World. We did for long serve only the squash. Zucchini are squash harvested before maturity: the first meaning of the word dates from 1929.
In view of the arrival of these vegetables on the plate of our ancestors, it seems difficult to imagine today that the famous ratatouille who treats us in the summer may have been invented before the seventeenth century!
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Picturesque village Porto da Cruz in Madeira island, Portugal. Houses on the green hills, rock formation, cliff by the Atlantic ocean in the background. Hilly terrain. Portuguese landscapes.
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The Long Mynd is a part of the Shropshire Hills. Emerging suddenly and steeply from the farming landscape below it rises to 516metres (1693ft).
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Golden sunlight shines on the rolling hills in Northern California. These beautiful, eroded hills turn green once winter brings seasonal rain.
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Aerial view tropical beach on island Ditaytayan. tropical island with white sand bar, palm trees and green hills. Travel tropical concept. Palawan, Philippines
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flowering rolling hills of a Sicily landscape with green grass fields in the evening
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Incredible sunset landscape with Kallur lighthouse on green hills of Kalsoy island, Faroe islands, Denmark
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Beautiful scenery of green hills and forest at cloudy sunrise sky framing with pine trees. Outdoor and hiking concept
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City landscape in the mountains, hills, fields, forests, green meadows, lakes in the distance and blue sky with clouds.Town Bons-en-Chablais in France.
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Aerial view of the huge sandy beach and green hills in Rhossili, Swansea
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Rural road passing through green hills and lake - scenic aerial panorama
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Beautiful sandy beach in Seixal, Madeira Island, Portugal. Green hills covered by tropical forest in the background. People on the beach. Summer vacation destination. Portuguese landscape.
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Beautiful mediterranean greece village between the green hills. Aerial of a town on Corfu island
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Rolling green hills and fields illuminated by sunlight in Cuilcagh Mountain Park with small lakes and dramatic stormy sky, Northern Ireland
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expanse of green grass on rolling hills dotted with tiny farmhouses (Granilia) at evening, typical of the agrarian reform (ERAS) in Sicily in the firs
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Panoramic Icelandic lava desert landscape with panorama of Landmannalaugar colorful mountains and green hills. Fjallabak Nature Reserve, Iceland
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Kallur lighthouse on green hills of Kalsoy island on sunset time, Faroe islands, Denmark. Landscape photography
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Rolling green landscape of the Tuscan countryside in Italy.
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Volterra panorama, rolling hills, green fields and white road. Tuscany, Italy Europe.
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Val d'Orcia landscape in spring. Hills of Tuscany. Val d'Orcia, Siena, Tuscany, Italy - May, 2019.
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Green rolling hills of farmland wheat fields seen from the Palouse in Washington State USA
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Long-distance picturesque evening view to Wharfedale (rolling clouds & hills, green pasture, sunlit valley) - Beamsley, Yorkshire Dales, England, UK.
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Rural road passing through green hills and lake - scenic aerial landscape
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Amazing sand beach in Seixal, Madeira Island, Portugal. Green hills covered by tropical forests in the background. People swimming in the ocean. Vacation destination. Portuguese tourist attraction.
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View from Tahora Saddle, old railway tracks, Forgotten World Highway (SH43), Manawatu-Wanganui Region, North Island, New Zealand
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Rural landscape of rolling hills and green fields with Hawthorn blossom and sheep grazing near the sea between Winspit and Worth Matravers, Dorset
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Marche Region, cultivated hills in summer, meadow, wheat and green fields. Italy
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Surrey Hills UK - English Countryside - North Downs Way looking toward the South Downs, Newlands Corner, Surrey
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Icelandic landscape with blue Markarfljot river canyon, green hills and Tindfjallajokull glacier mountain peak. Fjallabak Nature Reserve, Iceland
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All the Design Happenings This April
From Dwell on Design to the Paris Art Fair and, of course, Salone del Mobile and High Point, here are this month's hottest design events
By Laura Itzkowitz
As spring arrives, the temperatures warm, the flowers bloom, and the design crowd gears up for a whirlwind of fairs, gatherings, and a fabulous sale or two. This month, cities across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America will welcome designers and enthusiasts alike to survey the latest in furniture, lighting, finishings, and decor at a mix of trade shows, vintage fairs, exhibitors, and conferences. Mainstays of the month are of course tentpole events like Salone and High Point, but don't forget to check out equally important gatherings like Greenbuild Europe and and SIDIM, too. Ahead, AD PRO gathers up this month's hottest design events to keep you in the know.
Moscow International Furniture Show
Held at the largest exhibition center in Eastern Europe, this furniture fair exhibits home furnishings, office furnishings, textiles, lighting, and decoration. It’s held concurrently with BATIMAT Russia, the country’s major construction and interior trade fair. mmms-expo.ru; April 3–6
Boston Design Week
The theme for Boston’s fifth annual design week is “Now, New, Next,” and the events will be focused on finding ways to promote sustainable design, urban planning, historic preservation, and design with a social purpose. bostondesignweek.com; April 4–15
Dwell on Design
Dwell on Design, one of the biggest design fairs on the West Coast, opens the doors to some of L.A.’s most stunning homes, and showcases prefab dwellings, outdoor furnishings, and limited-edition collections of furniture, lighting, and accessories by emerging designers. This year, featured speakers include Jonathan Adler and Janet Echelman. Dwellondesign.com; April 5–7
Art Paris Art Fair
Paris’s Grand Palais will host this art fair, which gathers 123 galleries from 23 different countries, showing works that span the period from the postwar years to the present. This year’s edition will be guest-curated by noted art critic and exhibition curator François Piron. artparis.com; April 5–8
Anyone searching for vintage pieces would do well to attend this two-day fair in Amsterdam, which will gather 60 dealers from all over Europe selling their finest vintage wares from the 1930s through the '80s. You’ll find everything from classic Eames and Mies van der Rohe to covetable pieces by anonymous designers. design-icons.com; April 7–8
A selection of treasures found at Design Icons in Amsterdam.
Image courtesy of Design Icons Fair.
New York Table Top Show
More than 120 brands will open their showrooms at Forty One Madison to display the latest china, flatware, linens, ceramics, glassware, and more at the New York Table Top Show. The bi-annual fair takes place each fall and spring, and features pieces by brands like Hermès, Alessi, Vietri, and more. www.41madison.com; April 10–13
TED Talks returns to Vancouver this year with programming that covers a wide range of subject matter, including architecture and design, drawing innovators across many different fields. This year's design program is curated by Chee Pearlman, and will include talks by Vishaan Chakrabarti (founder of the Practice for Architecture and Urbanism and designer of Brooklyn’s soon-to-open Domino Sugar Refinery complex), engineer and bridge designer Ian Firth, and Renzo Piano. ted2018.ted.com; April 10–14
SP Arte
The major art and design fair brings together renowned galleries from around the globe for a series of exhibitions, talks, performances, and other events at the Oscar Niemeyer Bienal Pavilion in São Paulo. 2018 marks the third year that the fair will present a section dedicated to design, as well as the first time it will welcome independent designers alongside established galleries. sp-arte.com; April 11–15
Fairgoers at the 2017 edition of SP Arte in Brazil.
Image by Ênio Cesar. Courtesy of SP Arte.
Philadelphia Furniture Show
Artisanal American-made furniture takes the stage at the 24th annual Philadelphia Furniture Show, held at the historic Armory on 23rd Street. In addition to showcasing handcrafted tables, chairs, couches, and other pieces made by artisans at the top of their game, the fair hosts a contest for emerging artists, granting the winner(s) booth space and publicity to get their name out there. philadelphiafurnitureshow.com; April 13–15
High Point Spring Market
The spring edition of High Point returns, as more than 75,000 designers, architects, serious buyers, and other enthusiasts descend upon the small town in North Carolina. Featuring more than 2,000 exhibitors representing the best in design from more than 100 countries, this trade show is the largest of its kind in the world, and is a staple for the design set. And to help streamline your schedule, we've outlined the launches, events, and talks we're most anticipating. highpointmarket.org; April 14–18
Greenbuild Europe
Billed as “the flagship event for sustainability professionals,” this three-day event in Berlin will address the latest green building techniques, LEED case studies, energy consumption, air quality, and global climate change. greenbuild.usgbc.org; April 16–18
We would be remiss not to mention Salone, one of—if not the— most important fair on the design world's calendar each year (so popular, in fact, that it inspired its own board game). Some 300,000 architects and designers from around the world will convene in Milan to discover the latest in furniture, lighting, and design from some 2,000 exhibitors. This year, EuroCucina/FTK (Technology for the Kitchen) and the International Bathroom Exhibition will return. salonemilano.it; April 17–22
Discover the hottest next design trends at Salone.
Photo: Courtesy of La Cornue
SaloneSatellite
Concurrent with the Salone del Mobile, SaloneSatellite shines a spotlight on the most promising young designers under the age of 35. Since the satellite fair's inception in 1998, many of the prototypes that first debuted at SaloneSatellite have gone into production, and a whole crop of designers have become fixtures in the industry. If you’re hoping to scout fresh talent, this is the place to do it. salonemilano.it; April 17–22
Glasgow International
This biannual contemporary art fair draws crowds to Scotland’s most creative city for a dynamic roster of exhibitions, performances, talks, and events by both local and international artists. This year’s events are timed in conjunction with a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Glasgow’s prodigal son, architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh. glasgowinternational.org; April 20–May 7
SIDIM (Salon du Design)
The 30th edition of Montreal’s major international design show—the largest gathering of designers in Canada—is expected to draw 20,000 visitors to discover 300 exhibitors. This year's themes highlight the best of Nordic design, bringing wellness into the workplace, and innovative lighting. Expect new product launches, the chance to discover the latest trends, and networking opportunities. sidim.com; April 26–28
Pictured: the Aria, the Davidson, the Brass Feuille, and the Vase, by Kravet, Inc.
Images courtesy of Kravet, Inc.
Kravet, Inc. Designer Warehouse Sale
For the first time ever, Kravet will throw open its doors for a flash sale that promises up to 85 percent off retail price on more than 400 pieces of furniture, 300 decorative objects, and over 45,000 yards of drapery and upholstery fabric. The sale will take place in Bethpage, New York, just outside the city; it opens early for designers and the industry on April 26th and 27th, and to the general public on the 28th. Included in the sale are new inventory items and floor samples from Kravet, Lee Jofa, and Brunschwig & Fils—and best of all, shipping is available and credit cards are accepted. www.kravet.com; April 26—28
San Francisco Decorator Showcase
Northern California's top interior and landscaping talent will transform a 1930's home, originally built by George McCrea, to showcase their unique designs. The property, located in the historic Marina District (a first-time location for the showcase), will become a canvas for designers, while raising money for the San Francisco University High School financial aid program. www.decoratorshowcase.org; April 28–May 28*
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Japan won’t send government delegation to Beijing Olympics
by: MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno speaks at a news conference in Tokyo, Friday, Dec. 24, 2021. Japan announced Friday it won’t send a delegation of ministers to represent the government at the Beijing Games but three Olympic officials will attend, a mixed response to a U.S.-led move to boycott the games to protest China’s human rights conditions. (Sadayuki Goto/Kyodo News via AP)
TOKYO (AP) — Japan announced Friday it won’t send a delegation of ministers to represent the government at the Beijing Games but three Olympic officials will attend, a decision that follows a U.S.-led move to diplomatically boycott the Games to protest China’s human rights conditions.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said at a regular news conference that “we have no plans to send a government delegation.”
He said Tokyo Olympic organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto, Japanese Olympic Committee president Yasuhiro Yamashita and Japan Paralympic Committee president Kazuyuki Mori will attend.
Matsuno said the three officials will attend at the invitation of the International Olympic and Paralympic Committees to represent the JOC and JPC.
Asked if it’s a diplomatic boycott, Matsuno responded by saying: “We don’t use a particular term to describe how we attend.”
Japan’s decision not to send a government delegation follows a similar move by the United States and some other democratic nations including Australia, Britain and Canada, which cited China’s human rights violations.
The Chinese foreign ministry appealed to Tokyo not to politicize sports.
“We hope and urge the Japanese side to honor its commitment with China to supporting each other in hosting the Olympic Games and not politicizing sports,” foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said. “China is confident in working with all sides to uphold the Olympic spirit of ‘together’ and present the world a streamlined, safe and splendid Olympic Games.”
Japan, as both a U.S. ally and with China its biggest trade partner, is in a difficult position and has taken a softer approach than its western partners on human rights situations in China’s Xinjiang region and Hong Kong.
Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has made human rights a key part of his diplomacy and created a special advisory position to tackle the issue and has said he hopes to make constructive relations with China. He has been repeatedly asked what to do about the Beijing Olympics in recent weeks but only said he was to make a decision comprehensively for Japan’s national interest.
“Japan believes that it is important for China to guarantee the universal values of freedom, respect for basic human rights, and the rule of law, which are universal values in the international community,” Kishida said later Friday.
Japan took those points into consideration and made its own decision, he added.
Kishida has faced growing calls from the China hawks within his governing party as well as opposition lawmakers to quickly make a decision to diplomatically boycott the Beijing Games.
China has criticized the United States and other countries for violating political neutrality required in the spirit of the Olympic Charter.
Japanese athletes will take part in the Games, which are scheduled to open on Feb. 4.
“Japan hopes the Beijing Olympics will be held as the festival of peace in the spirit of Olympics and Paralympics,” Matsuno said.
More AP Winter Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/winter-olympics and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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Posts Tagged ‘Binghamton University SUNY’
2nd Circuit Holds That It Was Not “Clearly Established” That Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Public Employment is Actionable Under the Equal Protection Clause Prior to Obergefell and Windsor
Posted on: September 8th, 2019 by Art Leonard No Comments
In the course of deciding an appeal by some supervisory public employees of a district court’s refusal to accord them qualified immunity from a discharged employee’s claim of discrimination because of perceived sexual orientation (that took place in 2010), a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals stated in Naumovski v. Norris, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 23891, 2019 WL 3770193 (Aug. 12, 2019), that it was not then “clearly established” by the Supreme Court or the 2nd Circuit prior to the rulings in U.S. v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges that sexual orientation discrimination is actionable under in a 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 claim alleging a violation of the Equal Protection Clause.
The opinion for the panel by Circuit Judge Jose Cabranes suggests that it might be “possible today that sexual orientation discrimination in public employment may be actionable under Section 1983,” but at the time of the conduct challenged in this case “such a constitutional prohibition was not yet ‘clearly established’” so the defendants were entitled to qualified immunity from the claim. In a footnote, Judge Cabranes acknowledged that as early as 1996, in Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 634, and again in 2003, in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558, the Supreme Court “had already begun to scrutinize laws that reflected ‘animosity’ toward gays,” but in this case the plaintiff had not alleged “such class-based animosity or desire to harm.” He also noted that under Engquist v. Oregon Dept. of Agriculture, 553 U.S. 591 (2008), the plaintiff could not bring a “class of one” equal protection case “simply on the basis that her termination was individually arbitrary.”
On March 10, 2010, Binghamton University’s Athletic Director, James Norris, informed Elizabeth Naumovski, then assistant coach of the women’s basketball team, that she would be discharged if she did not resign. She resigned and filed her discrimination charges with the NY State Division of Human Rights and the EEOC. After exhausting administrative remedies against the school, she filed suit in federal court, adding discrimination claims under the Constitution against the Athletic Director and the Head Coach of the team as well as the university employer. Norris and Scholl sought unsuccessfully to get U.S. District Judge David Hurd to dispose of the claims against them on grounds of qualified immunity, as part of his overall ruling on motions for summary judgment, and this appeal to the 2nd Circuit concerns Judge Hurd’s failure to grant their motions, which he implicitly did by denying them summary judgment.
Naumovski, a single woman in her thirties, became the subject of rumors concerning her possible relationship with a woman on the team, identified in the opinion as J.W. Complaints from other students that Naumovski was showing favoritism to this woman came to the head coach and the then-assistant athletic director, James Norris, who, according to Judge Cabranes, “states that he understood the rumors to refer to a relationship of favoritism between a coach and a student-athlete, rather than to a sexual relationship between the two.” Norris discussed these rumors with the Athletic Director, “who assured him that the allegations were the baseless fabrications of disgruntled former members of the Binghamton Athletics community.” Norris was promoted to the athletic directorship on September 30, 2009.
In response to the persisting rumors during the fall term of 2009, Head Coach Nicole Scholl “imposed various restrictions on interactions between coaches and student-athletes to avoid any perception of impropriety.” According to Naumovski’s allegations, “As a result of the increased scrutiny triggered by these restrictions, Naumovski began to suffer from depression and stress-induced weight loss.” She met with Norris to address the rumors, and claims he told her that “your problem is that you’re a single female in your mid-30s,” implying that the rumors were due to a perception that she was a lesbian. Norris denies having made that comment, a potential material fact in the overall scheme of the litigation, in terms of the school’s potential liability.
The rumors persisted into 2010, as Norris continued to receive complaints about “favoritism” by Naumovski towards J.W. Friction developed between Naumovski and Head Coach Scholl, who felt that “Naumovski was trying to undermine her leadership of the team.” Wrote Cabranes, “Naumovski does not deny tension between herself and Scholl; rather, she claims that any such tension ceased after a February 9, 2010 meeting with Scholl. Naumovski further claims that Scholl and Norris never expressed any additional concerns about her coaching performance after that time.” However, during a phone call on February 21, Scholl and Norris agreed that Naumovski’s employment should be terminated at the end of the basketball season in March. “The decision was purportedly based on Naumovski’s demonstrated favoritism toward certain student-athletes and the disruptive impact of her workplace conflicts with Scholl,” writes Cabrances, relating the defendants’ claims. Meanwhile, Norris continued to receive student complaints and things came to a head when J.W.’s family received “an anonymous, vulgar letter accusing her of ‘screwing’ Naumovski,” which J.W. told Naumovksi about, and which led J.W.’s mother to call Norris; it is disputed whether the letter was mentioned in that phone call. However, a week after that call, Norris informed Naumovski that she was being fired for performance reasons, but she could resign to forestall being fired, which she did.
Naumovski’s suit alleges discrimination based on her sex, perceived sexual orientation, and national origin (Canadian), in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Equal Protection Clause and the First Amendment (42 USC 1983), as well as the NY Constitution and NY Human Rights Law. Defendants moved for summary judgment after discovery. “The motion remained pending for several years,” write Cabranes, not being decided until April 17, 2018, when District Judge Hurd granted summary judgment to Binghamton University and the State University of New York on all constitutional claims but allowed statutory claims to proceed to trial. (Perhaps Judge Hurd was waiting to rule on the motions for a final resolution by the Circuit of whether sexual orientation claims are actionable under Title VII, which emerged with the Zarda v. Altitude Express en banc ruling in February 2018.) As to the individual defendants, Scholl and Norris, Hurd dismissed all claims except for Naumovski’s sex-based disparate treatment and hostile work environment claims under 42 USC 1983 (Equal Protection), failing to address the issue of their qualified immunity from constitutional claims even though they sought to invoke immunity in their summary judgment motion. Judge Hurd subsequently denied a motion by Norris and Scholl for reconsideration on the immunity argument as untimely under local rules, asserting that it did not raise any new issues, and they appealed to the 2nd Circuit.
Judge Cabranes devoted considerable space in his opinion to explaining the different proof requirements on the statutory claims and the constitutional claims. In particular, he noted, under Title VII, the plaintiff can win by showing that her sex or perceived sexual orientation was a “motivating factor” for discrimination, but on the constitutional equal protection claim, her burden would be to show that it was a “but-for” factor. He also devoted a portion of the opinion to itemizing the various other ways in which the statutory and constitutional claims receive different treatment, finding that the district court seems to have conflated the two separate modes of analysis in its decision. Furthermore, he pointed out that the statutory claims under employment discrimination law run only against the institutional employer, not against individuals, while the constitutional claims could be asserted against individuals who are “state actors,” but who enjoy qualified immunity from personal liability unless it is “clearly established” by appellate precedent that the discrimination with which they are charged is, if proven, unconstitutional.
Turning to the subject of the appeal, Judge Hurd’s implicit denial (or failure to recognize) qualified immunity from the constitutional claims for Norris and Scholl, Cabranes noted that the 2nd Circuit’s review of the district court’s “implicit” rejection of the qualified immunity claims “is complicated by several factors. First, the District Court never addressed the claims of qualified immunity in its Memorandum-Decision and Order; it is therefore impossible to review its specific reasoning in denying relief on this ground. Second, while both the Complaint and the District Court’s Memorandum-Decision and Order conclude that Defendants’ alleged conduct constitutes sex discrimination (either through disparate treatment or subjection to a hostile environment), neither explains precisely how Defendants’ conduct can be so construed. Third, the District Court opinion conflates its analysis of Naumovski’s Title VII and Sec. 1983 claims, rendering our task of reviewing only the Sec. 1983 claims more difficult.” Attempting to “reconstruct the logic” of the District Court’s denial of immunity to Scholl and Norris on the constitutional claims, the court concluded that “no theory can sustain the District Court’s implicit denial of Defendant’s qualified immunity.”
First addressing the sex discrimination claim, the court found that there was a lack of evidentiary allegations to support the claim, apart from Naumovski’s allegation about Norris’s remark concerning her status as a single woman in her 30s, which the court concluded did not “constitute sufficient evidence to make out a case of employment discrimination,” characterizing it as “the sort of ‘stray remark’ that is insufficient to support an inference of discriminatory intent.” While Judge Hurd referred to “other indicia” of discrimination intent, the appeals court was not convinced: “The only ‘other indicia,’ however, is evidence suggesting that Scholl and Norris interpreted the rumors as alleging a sexual relationship between Naumovski and J.W., rather than mere favoritism from one to the other. The invocation of such evidence is unavailing. Even if we assume Scholl and Norris interpreted the allegations against Naumovski as sexual in nature, that fact provides no additional support for a conclusion that Scholl’s and Norris’s own actions were based on discriminatory animus toward women in general or any subcategory of female employees in particular,” wrote Cabranes. Thus, the conclusion that summary judgment should have been granted on the sex discrimination claim.
The court also discussed the possibility that Naumovski could succeed on a sex-stereotyping claim; i.e., “Norris and Scholl stereotyped Naumovski based on her sex (possibly in combination with other characteristics) as more likely to have engaged in a romantic or sexual relationship with J.W. Defendants then fired Naumovski (at least in part) because of their wrongful and discriminatory belief that she engaged in sexual impropriety with a student and, subsequently, attempted to conceal that stereotyping played any role in their termination decision.” While the court agreed that such a theory might work in some cases, “Naumovski cannot succeed on such a theory” because of the “but-for” proof requirement for a constitutional violation. In order to prevail, “Naumovski must establish that a reasonable jury could find that Defendants would not have terminated her based on their stated reasons alone. To be sure, there may well be cases in which misconduct findings based on sex stereotyping meet the ‘but-for’ discrimination standard,” Cabranes continued. “Here, however, we do not think that the evidence, even construed in the light most favorable to Naumovski, satisfies that standard.” Cabranes gives an extended explanation for this conclusion, noting in particular that “Naumovski does not materially dispute that Scholl’s personality and coaching style clashed with her own,” which on its own would be a legitimate reason to let go an assistant coach who was an at-will employee.
Turning to the perceived sexual orientation discrimination claim, Cabranes came to the issue of most direct relevance to Law Notes: whether public officials enjoy qualified immunity from constitutional liability for discriminating against their employees because of actual or perceived sexual orientation. He pointed out that if the district court was relying on the 2nd Circuit’s 2018 Zarda decision for this proposition, “it erred for at least two reasons.” First, Zarda was a statutory interpretation case under Title VII, not a constitutional case, thus the Circuit’s decision that discrimination “because of sex” under Title VII includes discrimination because of sexual orientation was not a ruling the sexual orientation claims should be treated the same as sex discrimination claims under the 14th Amendment. Second, the conduct at issue in this case (2009-2010) predated Zarda by many years. Given the 2nd Circuit’s pre-Zarda caselaw, Cabranes pointed out, at the time Naumovski was fired, “the ‘clearly established law’ … was that sexual orientation discrimination was not a subset of sex discrimination.”
“Nor could the District Court rely on freestanding constitutional principles separate from Zarda,” continued Cabranes. “To date, neither this court nor the Supreme Court has recognized Sec. 1983 claims for sexual orientation discrimination in public employment. Moreoever, when the conduct in this case occurred, neither of the Supreme Court’s landmark same-sex marriage cases – United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges – had been decided. It was, therefore, not yet clear that all state distinctions based on sexual orientation were constitutionally suspect.” At this point, Cabranes wrote a footnote acknowledging the existence of Romer and Lawrence, but distinguishing them based on Naumovski’s factual allegations. Cabranes’ opinion does not explicitly state that a public official would not enjoy qualified immunity today from an adverse personnel decision based on sexual orientation, but he implies that after Windsor and Obergefell, “state distinctions based on sexual orientation” are “constitutionally suspect,” a point that some scholars have argued, attempting to give more teeth to Justice Kennedy’s opinions in those cases than some might see in them. To be clear, neither of those cases explicitly states that government distinctions based on sexual orientation are to be treated the same as sex discrimination cases and enjoy heightened scrutiny under the 14th Amendment. Justice Kennedy did not employ that vocabulary, and arguably placed more weight on the liberty interest in marriage in those cases.
The court also found that Norris and Scholl would clearly enjoyed qualified immunity from a claim that their decision relied on biased student claims against Naumovski, and also that a constitutionally-based hostile environment claim based on sex or perceived sexual orientation in a public employment context was not clearly actionable under 42 USC 1983, as the precedential basis for such claims has been developed thus far only under Title VII.
Summarizing the Court of Appeals holding, Cabranes wrote that Section 1983 claims for discrimination in employment require plaintiffs to establish that the defendants’ discriminatory intent was a “but-for” cause of the adverse employment action, that because of the intent requirements under the Equal Protection clause, a Section 1983 claim for employment discrimination “cannot be based on a respondeat superior or ‘cat’s paw’ theory to establish a defendant’s liability (thus ruling out liability for Scholl and Norris based on complaints by discriminatory students), and defendants were entitled to qualified immunity because, “even when interpreted in the light most favorable to Naumovski, the record cannot support the conclusion that they violated her ‘clearly established’ constitutional rights.”
Naumovski is represented by A. J. Bosman of Rome, N.Y. Judge Cabranes was appointed by President Bill Clinton. The other two judges on the 2nd Circuit panel were Ralph Winter (Reagan) and Renee Raggi (George W. Bush).
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History Distilled In Exhibition Posters - II
ARTWISE EDITORIAL
When an artist’s career spans many decades, art movements and locations around the globe, it can be disorienting to follow the wave of changes or evolutions swimming through time. One of the greatest features of the art poster world is the trail of exhibition posters, serving to contextualize a body of work in a geographic place, a time and even sometimes a cultural institution of significant note. When important museums organize a selection of work by a particular artist, their show posters represent a pinpoint marking the atmosphere of the art world at that moment, and further echoing the larger cultural motions of the world in general. These posters reflect a certain historical archive, part of a story told through curated selection, date, city, typography, color choices and more. More than just a print of a great artist’s work, they hold the flavor of whatever magic was circulating at the time, often the very same essences working to inspire the art in the first place.
Robert Rauschenberg designed a poster for an exhibition of his work at the Whitney from December 7, 1990 - March 17, 1991, a show for his silkscreen paintings made between 1962-64. After the advent of photoshop in 1988, a compelling argument was being made for creating artwork by hand or mechanically— Rauschenberg’s labor-intensive assemblies make a strong counterpoint, and prominent institutions like the Whitney were in a significant place of stature to offer such a perspective. Even his typography is handwritten, and with the chaotic fervor that could only accompany such unbridled creativity.
" One of the greatest features of the art poster world is the trail of exhibition posters, serving to contextualize a body of work in a geographic place, a time and even sometimes a cultural institution of significant note. "
This poster by Joan Miro was produced for the exhibition at Berggruen and Cie in Paris in 1959, a beautiful stone lithograph printed on watermarked Arches paper, with the original deckled edge. The image used derives from the exhibition portfolio, a collection of lithographs Miro created from his watercolors. Miro’s art encapsulates purity of poetic emotion and spontaneity of execution— although he found a prolific practice through his love of lithography, a highly delicate and mechanical process. He uses black ink with a range of values and refined tones, reaching wild and playful effects. The importance of his print work is exemplary of the profound ability of lithography to translate artistic vision into a reproducible medium valuable in its own right. It was a hallmark creativity machine for many European artists in the 1950s, defining a golden era of graphic artwork.
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The 2019/20 audit of Scottish Water
A subsidiary of Scottish Water may need between £47 million and £88 million in financial support due to the impact of Covid-19 on the businesses it serves.
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The 2018/19 audit of City of Glasgow College
This report outlines the nature of an alleged fraud that was perpetrated against City of Glasgow College and the action which has taken place following its...
The 2018/19 audit of Renfrewshire Council: Report on accounts closure
This report outlines issues arising from the council's annual audit report for 2018/19.
The 2018/19 audit of Fife Integration Joint Board: Report on significant findings
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The 2018/19 audit of Glasgow City Council: Update on equal pay settlement
Glasgow City Council has successfully delivered a challenging project to finance £500 million in equal pay claims.
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Editorial Feature
Motion Capture Sensor Systems
Image Credit: Mark Agnor/Shtterstock.com
If you have ever seen The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001 to 2003) then you’ll certainly remember the gaunt fictional character Gollum. This was one of the most difficult characters to bring to life for the trilogy, but was made possible using motion capture sensor technology.
The animation of a fictional character, like Gollum on-screen, demonstrates how effective motion capture sensor systems can be:
gollum scene
Motion capture or motion-tracking systems record the movement of an object or person. The system is so sophisticated, it requires a certain number of capture sessions where the movement of an object is recorded multiple times per second. The data on the object’s movement is mapped out into a 3D model. The model mirrors the exact movement positions as the object that is wired to the motion sensor network.
The following flowchart illustrates the different types of motion sensors:
Optical motion sensors capture the image data and triangulate the 3D positioning of an object using multiple cameras at varying angles. The markers attached to the object make this positioning possible. The markers (i.e., the motion sensors) are attached to the surface of the object being captured. Passive markers are coated with a retro-reflective material that can reflect the light source. This technique is important for ensuring that only movement is tracked. Software is integrated to help model the 3D image after receiving data on the movement of the object. With character Gollum, the actor creating the movement was dressed in a suit attached to reflective markers. The video cameras recording the actor’s movements for a particular scene in the film, captured the motion data from several different angles. This allowed the software to monitor the movement of the markers on the actor and to use this data to program sliders (camera movement system) to help animate the character.
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With active marker systems, the sensor (marker) light source, often an LED, emits an electromagnetic field that is detected in real-time. Yet, the large amount of wiring involved could stop the subject from performing intricate movement.
Non-Optical Motion Capture Systems
Non-optical systems for motion capture are split into three different types of sensors:
Mechanical motion sensors
Magnetic sensors
Inertial Motion Sensors
Measurement sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes are commonly applied for motion tracking. The motion data from these sensors is detected and recorded by a computer software system. Tracking movement using inertial sensors can be difficult as the data recorded can be ambiguous. Therefore, creating models of human motion was a prerequisite for obtaining the most accurate readings on human movement.
The combination of both accelerometers and gyroscopes to measure movement is controlled through an algorithm. The gyroscope in this motion sensor network measures the orientation of the sensor data that reflects gravitational acceleration. By subtracting the gravitational acceleration from the sensor frame, the accelerometer can calculate the initial position.
Mechanical Motion Capture Sensors
A mechanical motion capture system is a structure that is attached to the subject to act out a sequence of movements. Typically, a mechanical motion system consists of electrogoniometers – a sensor system made up of potentiometers or transducer technology. It estimates joint angles when positioned close to a joint on the subject’s body. Compared to inertial sensors, the mechanical motion capture system allows for direct measurement of movement, meaning that the subject can move around more freely in a large environment without any movement being out of view by a central camera system, nor is the capture system affected by reflective light. A wireless mechanical motion sensor system can enhance the capture volume.
A good example of a wireless mechanical motion capture sensory system is the Gypsy 5 engineered by Meta Motion and has a half-a-mile range. The mechanical motion system may give the subject more freedom to move around in a larger space, but it limits the subject’s degrees of freedom and the positioning of sensors on the attached mechanical system. The following video by Inition, a 3D technology, and production company, presents a GypsyGyro18 demo of a mechanical motion capture system in use. The system does not require extensive calibration yet still delivers clean data on subject movements.
Magnetic Motion Sensors
This type of motion capture sensor calculates a low-frequency magnetic field created by a transmitter. The magnetic current is detected by orthogonal coils in the transmitter. There are two types of magnetic current flows: the direct current (DC) technique and the alternating current (AC) system. With the DC system, the magnetic current flows in the form of square pulse waves; contrary, sine pulse waves are generated with an AC current.
A magnetic motion system involves using 6–11 sensors around the joint of the subject’s body, which work to produce measurements on the position and rotation of the corresponding joint. The accuracy of position measurements is reduced by the simultaneous performance of multiple magnetic systems. The distortion of results is due to interfering sensors from opposing magnetic capture systems.
This capture system can react to magnetic fields in the surrounding environment which interferes with the magnetic current flow generated by the transmitters and receivers on the subject; hence why this type of capture system is better used in controlled environments. Unlike the mechanical capture system that has a limited degree of freedom, the magnetic motion capture setup is built with transmitters allowing for up to six degrees of freedom (including roll orientation angle measurements), which offers the subject more movement creativity.
The military is widely known for using magnetic motion capture systems for head tracking. In this context, the system is used to calculate the pilot’s line of sight so that weapons are released with maximum accuracy. Further application of magnetic motion sensors is in the medical industry where such systems are engineered to measure organ size inside the human body – particularly useful during surgical procedures to allow for better accuracy.
Sources and Further Reading
Hoffmann J, Brüggemann B, Kruger B. Automatic Calibration of a Motion Capture System based on Intertial Sensors for Tele-Manipulation. In proceedings of 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Funchal - Madeira, Portugal, June 2010.
Norton J.C. (2008). Motion Capture to Build a Foundation for a Computer-controlled Instrument by Study of Classical Guitar Performance. USA: ProQuest LLC.
This article was updated on 14th February, 2020.
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CNN Live Coverage of Mumbai Attacks Has Over 1.4 Million Views
CNN’s live streaming channel has had continuous coverage of the attacks in Mumbai since the events first broke on Wednesday at just after 1 p.m. EST. CNN’s live coverage has gotten 1.4 million views as of 11:30 a.m. EST, a CNN spokeswoman told me.
We have seen how live streaming of events has taken hold with the presidential election. The tragedy in India could be the biggest international crisis streamed live globally. Nearly 40 percent of streams came from viewers outside of the United States, Beet.TV has been told.
— Andy Plesser, Executive Producer
By Andy Plesser on November 28, 2008 @beet_tv
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Home » Beckman Coulter to buy Biosite in $1.55B proteomics purchase
Beckman Coulter to buy Biosite in $1.55B proteomics purchase
By Karen Young
Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California), a developer of products that automate complex biomedical tests and operating in 130 countries, and Biosite (San Diego), a biomedical company commercializing proteomics discoveries for diagnostics, reported entering into a merger agreement under which Beckman Coulter will acquire Biosite’s outstanding common stock in a cash tender offer of $85 a share, about $1.55 billion on a fully diluted share basis.
Beckman Coulter said the blockbuster transaction is expected to accelerate its revenue growth, improve operating margins and be accretive to earnings in 2008 and beyond.
“This is an exciting transaction which adds significant capability, content and breadth to our organization. This positions us for continued profitable growth with some compelling near-term economics,” Scott Garrett, Beckman Coulter’s president/CEO, said in a conference call on the deal.
The deal is expected to close in 2Q07, Garrett said.
“Financing has been fully committed by Morgan Stanley and Citigroup,” he said. “Long-term, the financing is likely to be a combination of convertible and term debt.”
Garrett described the combined entity as “the leading U.S. immunoassay complementing Beckman Coulter’s leadership positions in U.S. chemistry and hematology.” Biosite, he said, is the “top developer of novel tests” and has “set the standard for market and product development in our industry.” He called the two companies “a natural fit,” and in fact, the deal builds on an existing relationship between the two companies.
The transaction grew out of Beckman Coulter’s relationship with Biosite over the past four years in the area of B-type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP), a test that aids in the diagnosis, risk stratification and assessment of severity of heart failure and the risk stratification of patients with acute coronary syndromes. It combines Beckman Coulter’s instrument systems, each of which delivers a “predictable recurring revenue stream based on sales of consumables, revenues from service and payments on operating-type leases,” with Biosite’s near-patient tests.
Garrett said that on revenues of just over $2.5 billion for Beckman Coulter in 2006, about 76% could be “characterized as recurring.”
“This high percentage of recurring revenue provides a growing and reliable stream of earnings and cash flow,” he said.
“Biosite utilizes third-party distributors, and more than 85% of sales come from within the United States. A major source of value in the transaction is our ability to leverage our global commercial infrastructure and installed base to expand sales of Biosite’s immunoassay tests, including BNP.”
Biosite, he said, grew its high-margin recurring revenue to more than $300 million in 2006, “almost all of which is attributed to consumables.” About 80% of 2006 revenue came from the cardiovascular disease area, including tests designed to enable the diagnosis of a “range of conditions, including congestive heart failure, chest pain and heart attack,” as well as pulmonary embolism.
The Biosite pipeline Garrett described as “extensive,” with products planned for the assessment of acute kidney injury, sepsis, abdominal pain, acute coronary syndrome” and others.
Garrett added: “We remain on track to achieve our full year 2007 outlook, as stated in our February 8 earnings release, excluding any impact from the Biosite acquisition. We expect significant revenue growth resulting from the improved effectiveness of our global commercial franchise selling BNP along with other cardiac markers. . . . Everyone at Beckman Coulter looks forward to expanding our collaboration with the Biosite team in San Diego and elsewhere, as we maintain and grow the center of excellence that Biosite has established.”
Beckman Coulter will commence a tender offer for all of Biosite’s common stock. The offer is conditioned upon at least a majority of the outstanding Biosite shares being tendered, as well as the satisfaction of customary conditions. Approval of the transaction by Beckman Coulter’s shareholders is not required.
Jeffrey Frelick, VP and diagnostic devices and laboratory equipment analyst at Lazard Capital Markets, issued a buy rating on Beckman Coulter, citing positives and slight negatives of the deal.
On the positive side, Frelick said the “point-of-care market could provide opportunities for Beckman beyond the central laboratory. In our opinion, as labs continue to be faced with personnel challenges, point of care use should rise, not just because of its rapid turnaround time, but also because it doesn’t require laboratory staff to perform the tests.”
However, Frelick characterized the price that Beckman Coulter is paying for Biosite as “a bit rich, given that sales grew only 7% last year and are expected to hover around the same single-digit growth over the next few years.”
• Millipore (Billerica, Massachusetts) reported a collaboration with Dr. Gerry Shaw from the University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) and EnCor Biotechnology (Gainesville) to develop and license an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit to measure the levels of pNF-H, a biomarker of axonal injury, in homogenates of tissues as well as samples of serum, CSF and other bodily fluids.
The neurofilament ELISA kit can be used to detect the extent of spinal cord and brain injuries and for finding axonal degeneration in neurological diseases. The kit measures upregulation of pNF-H in a variety of damage, intoxication and disease states. This assay functions on all mammalian species tested so far, including rat, mouse, rabbit, cat, pig, cow and human.
“We believe collaborations like this will accelerate discovery and therapy in the field of degenerative diseases, and Millipore is committed to further partnering with scientists at leading academic, biotech and government institutions to supply research tools worldwide which will accelerate breakthroughs in medicine and therapies,” said Kumar Bala, marketing director for Antibody Technology at Millipore.
Shaw, a professor of neuroscience at the McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Florida College of Medicine, founded EnCor in December 1999 to manufacture antibodies and proteins. In 2004, EnCor, Shaw and a collaborator at the National Institutes of Health reported a patent pending on the ELISA assay.
Millipore’s Bioscience provides tools, services and biological reagents that drive advancements in biomedical and academic research as well as support the discovery and development of new pharmaceuticals.
Karen Young
Centagenetix Close To Getting Licenses To Longevity Discovery
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Great Indian Son
by Arnab Sain
Indian-origin novelist Rohinton Mistry is among 13 authors shortlisted for the prestigious USD 96,070 Man Booker International Prize, where strangely British thriller writer John Le Carre withdrew his name.
Man Booker International Prize
The Man Booker International Prize is a biennial international literary award given to a living author of any nationality for fiction published in English or generally available in English translation. The award, sponsored by the Man Group and established in 2005 to complement the Man Booker Prize, rewards one writer's overall achievement in literature and their significant influence on writers and readers worldwide. The award is therefore a recognition of the writer's body of work, rather than any one title. 2005 - Ismail Kadare (Albania) 2007- Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) 2009 - Alice Munro (Canada)
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968; it became commonly known as the "Booker Prize" or simply "the Booker." When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain "Booker" as part of the official title of the prize.
The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £21,000, and was subsequently raised to £50,000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group.
The rules of the Booker changed in 1971; previously, it had been awarded retrospectively to books published prior to the year in which the award was given. In 1971 the year of eligibility was changed to the same as the year of the award; in effect, this meant that books published in 1970 were not considered for the Booker in either year. The Booker Prize Foundation announced in January 2010 the creation of a special award called the "Lost Man Booker Prize," with the winner chosen from a longlist of 22 novels published in 1970.
2001 was the first year in which the longlist was revealed to the general public.
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer in English. Bibliography * Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987). * Such a Long Journey (shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction, 1991). * A Fine Balance (shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction, 1996). * Family Matters (shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction, 2002). * The Scream (2006).
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Terence Crawford and Jeff Horn Final Press Conf Quotes
This is what the main event fighters had to say at Thursday’s press conference.
Photo: Mikey Williams Top Rank
Terence Crawford
“He’s viewing me as this small welterweight. Come fight night, he’ll see otherwise. I just feel like that’s good for him. He’s coming in hungry and determined, and that makes for a good fight. I’m going to be prepared for whatever he brings. Come Saturday, he might get hurt.”
“I’m bigger. I’m stronger. I’m in my prime. And that’s gonna show come Saturday. A lot of people are comparing how he pushed around Pacquiao, but that’s not me. Pacquiao is 5’5, I believe, 5’6. I feel like you’re viewing that and comparing the Gamboa fight, when I got hurt, to this fight. I’ve seen him get hurt. I’ve seen him get dropped. We’re gonna see come Saturday night who’s gonna be getting rocked and dropped.”
“I got a strong will as well. Pressure breaks pipes. A lot of people came into the ring with me with a strong will, and they left with their tail tucked in.”
“I’m going to let the referee {Robert Byrd} do his job, and I’m going to do my job.”
Jeff Horn
“I’m surprised I’m as big of an underdog as I am for the fight. I’m not surprised I am the underdog. Terence Crawford is a great fighter, pound-for-pound, wiped out the super lightweight division. That’s a tough division as well. I’ve made this mistake before. I underestimated a guy that was slightly smaller than me – in the amateurs – and he knocked me down a couple times. I won’t be making that same mistake. Terence, I know he’s put on the size. He’s going to be a nice, strong welterweight. I can’t wait to get in there and prove the doubters wrong.”
“That guarantees a win if you knock the other guy out. If you search for it too much, that’s when it doesn’t come. You can’t just be looking for the knockout all the time, and I just have to fight the best fight I can and rely on even scoring. I feel like back home {against Pacquiao} it was even scoring, and I feel like it will be the same here.”
“I’ve just got to fight my heart out, and that’s all I can do.”
Crawford vs. Horn and Pedraza vs. Moran will be streamed exclusively on ESPN+ beginning at 9:30 p.m. ET., while the undercard, including Stevenson-Mesquita, Benavidez-Rojas, Nelson-Webster, and Flores-Rojas will be shown on ESPN+ starting at 6:30 p.m. ET.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Kobo eBook)
By Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force—and one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.
In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.
Paperback (September 1st, 1998): $17.95
Compact Disc (September 1st, 2006): $115.98
Paperback (April 1st, 2010): $19.75
Paperback (August 1st, 2011): $18.00
Hardcover (October 1st, 1997): $25.95
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JUDICIAL REFORMS OF LORD WILLIAM BENTINCK
Author: Sarvesh Kasaudhan, II Year of B.A.,LL.B from Lloyd Law College.
Lord William Bentinck was known as the first official governor-general of British India who served India between 1828 to 1835. In 1828, Lord William Bentinck became the governor of Bengal, and as per the Charter of 1833, he became the official governor of British India. Among the other officers, the contribution of Lord William Bentinck was known to be most valuable.
He was known as the man of peace, discipline, and economy and he was a liberal reformist who took an active part in the reform moments in England, and he wanted to make some important reforms in India too. His immediate directive was to recover India from its financial crisis or somewhat financial difficulties, and he soon succeeded in revering the deficit in a surplus amount due to which the deteriorating condition of the East India Company was again balanced.
He was a great reformer and was considered the first governor that had sympathy towards the Indians, so he introduced several reforms of great importance in various fields such as administrative reforms, judicial reforms, educational reforms, financial reforms, and social reforms. As per the title of the article, I will focus only on the judicial reforms of Lord William Bentinck.
Since Lord Cornwallis divided the courts into Provincial courts and Session courts, but these courts were abolished by Lord William Bentinck by passing a regulation in 1829. He realized some defects in administrative justice of civil as well as criminal cases, and both were to be decided in the Provincial Court, and thus many times prisoners suffered in jails for a long time without even the trial proceeding.
All the judicial procedures must be followed by the English courts, that often results in delays and uncertainties, due to the delay in the process of justice, Lord William Bentick took this step forward.
Then after the Commissioners of Revenue and Circuit were appointed in the place of Provincial Courts, and for the same, the Bengal Presidency was divided into twenty divisions that were under the control of separate governors. The commissioner has headed the small territories to enable him to visit frequently different places that come under his/her jurisdiction. At Allahabad, separate Sadar Nizamat Adalat and Diwani were established to hear the criminal cases and for the revenue cases, the commissioners directly worked under the Board of Revenue. The appointment of Muslim Law Officers was optional under it.
Another important judicial reform was that the District Magistrate was empowered to punish the victim for up to two years. As we studied in the time of Lord Cornwallis, there was the decentralization of the powers of the District Magistrate, but Lord Bentinck examined a different way and made that judicial reform again give that power to the District Magistrate.
Usually, at that time both in the High court and lower courts the Persian language was necessary to be used, but Lord Bentinck ordered to use the vernacular language instead of the Persian language in the courts. The Sadar Amins or the Principal Sadar Amins were authorized under the Magistrate to investigate any of the criminal cases but can’t make any decision over the case, so the expected results of speedy trial of criminal cases were not forthcoming.
Since the Governor-General-in-council was authorized to empower any Zila and City Judge to try the major commitments in their jurisdictions, and hence it gave rise to the creation of District and Sessions Courts in each district which decided the civil as well as criminal cases.
One of the most important reforms took place during the tenure of Lord William Bentinck was the abolition of Sati. It was a kind of an evil, inhuman rite according to which a Hindu widow was forced to burn herself in the burning pyre of her husband. Later it was declared as culpable homicide and a punishable offense, any kind of assistance for this offense was also punishable.
Lord Bentinck also took an initiative towards the abolition of unwanted children’s murder, especially in the case of the girl child. In that era, there were some oaths and rituals that believe in murdering people or any animals in the name of goddess Kali, the same custom also banned by Lord Bentinck. But as we know India is a country of custom and rituals, so at many places, these rituals were still carried. As like giving an open decision in every sector, Lord William Bentinck adopted an unprejudiced policy against the Indian Press. He gave a free hand to the Indian Press, or we can say that he allowed its free functioning with the thinking that he didn’t permit the government officials to misemploy the power of the Press against the government.
Lord Bentinck disliked the old policy of Lord Cornwallis because he excluded Indians from judicial officers and, as per the suggestion of Directors, Indians were appointed in the civil and criminal courts.
The power of Sadar Amins, Principal Sadar Amins, and other Indian Law officers was increased up to the passing of the sentence. Since Indians began to be appointed at the judicial level, Indians became more confident and loyal towards Lord William Bentinck.
In 1831 the power of Indian judges was extended more as the claim amount or pecuniary jurisdiction of the Munsiffs was increased to Rs. 300, also the Sadar Amins were authorized to decide on any suit that was referred by Zila or City Judge, but that must be up to the valuation of Rs. 1000. Principal Sadar Amins were also started to decide original suits that come under the Courts of Registrars up to Rs. 5000. In 1831 all the functions of the Provincial Courts of Appeal were transferred to the District Diwani Adalat, so its jurisdiction became unlimited.
Regulation 8 of 1833 gave the power to the Governor-General that he can appoint any number of additional judges in a district on the recommendation of Sadar Diwani Adalat. The rent-related suits were transferred under the jurisdiction of the Collectors of Revenue, and they were further empowered to summarize the same. The fact held that over judging these cases it will be further easier to collect the revenue.
The Charter Act of 1833 was considered one of the most important charters at that time as it played an important role in shaping the future course of the legislative and judicial developments in India. The charter also gave the territorial possession to the East India Company for the next twenty years and to legislate with general powers it established and All India Legislature. The Governor-General of Bengal was declared as the first Governor-General of India who was Lord William Bentinck. Somehow, the charter tried to provide an opportunity towards the centralization of law by adding a law minister to the Governor-General’s Council to preside over the Law Commission, by regulating the Provinces, and also by abolishing the right to legislate.
[1] S. Priyadarshini, Reforms made by Lord William Bentinck, historydiscussion.in
[2] Lord William Bentinck and his reforms, studyandscore.com, November, 2018
[3] Balakumar Rajendran, Judicial Reforms in Ancient India, journal.lex-warrier.in, June, 2015
[4] Philip Mason, Lord William Bentinck, Britannica.com
[5] Sudhish Prahara, Social Reforms in India During Lord William Bentinck’s Era in 1828, shareyouressay.com
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Andrew Lloyd Webber says he hated the ‘Cats’ movie so much that he had to get a therapy dog
Sinéad Baker,Jacob Sarkisian Oct. 7, 2021, 8:47 AM
A still from the ‘Cats’ movie. Universal Pictures
Andrew Lloyd Webber said he didn’t like the film adaptation of his “Cats” musical.
He told Variety that when he saw it he thought “oh, God, no,” then “I went out and bought a dog.”
He claimed he told an airline “I’m emotionally damaged and I must have this therapy dog.”
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Andrew Lloyd Webber said he was so “emotionally damaged” by the movie version of his famous musical “Cats” that he had to get a therapy dog.
The 2019 movie starring Taylor Swift, Judi Dench, and Jennifer Hudson was met with ridicule and scathing reviews, and Lloyd Webber told Variety that he hated the adaptation of his own musical as much as anyone.
“‘Cats’ was off-the-scale all wrong. There wasn’t really any understanding of why the music ticked at all. I saw it and I just thought, ‘Oh, God, no,'” Lloyd Webber said.
“It was the first time in my 70-odd years on this planet that I went out and bought a dog. So the one good thing to come out of it is my little Havanese puppy.”
The composer said the puppy was his therapy dog, and even told an unnamed airline that he had to travel with the dog at all times.
“I wrote off and said I needed him with me at all times because I’m emotionally damaged and I must have this therapy dog,” he told Variety.
“The airline wrote back and said, ‘Can you prove that you really need him?’ And I said ‘Yes, just see what Hollywood did to my musical ‘Cats.” Then the approval came back with a note saying, ‘No doctor’s report required.'”
Andrew Lloyd Webber in 2018. Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions
Lloyd Webber began working on “Cats” in 1977, basing the musical on T.S. Eliot’s 1939 poetry collection “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.” The show premiered in London’s West End in 1981 and on Broadway in 1982. The musical quickly became a success, winning multiple awards including both the Olivier award and the Tony award for best musical, while it ran for thousands of performances in both locations.
In total, “Cats” ran for 21 years in London and for 18 years in New York.
The 2019 movie adaptation was a star-studded fest, with Ian McKellen, Idris Elba, and James Corden also starring, while Tom Hooper, the Oscar-winning director behind “The King’s Speech” and “Les Miserables,” directed the movie.
However, the film was panned and widely mocked for its bizarre anthropomorphic cats that had both human and feline features. Lloyd Webber previously said that he thought the film was “ridiculous,” and even wrote to Universal Studios warning them that the movie would be a “car crash” a year before it came out.
“Cats” ended up winning six Razzie Awards, including prizes for worst director and worst picture.
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How Larry Ellison's Vision For An Italian Sandwich Shop Started A New Era For Food In Silicon Valley
Madeline Stone
Nov 7, 2014, 00:14 IST
A young Larry Ellison.
Workers at major Silicon Valley companies like Facebook and Google may enjoy some pretty amazing meals in their corporate cafeterias, but that wasn't always the case.
In the late 1980s, Fedele Bauccio was in the process of building Bon Appetit Management Company, a Palo Alto-based restaurant company that he hoped would change the way businesses fed their workers.
"My office was in the area where all of the venture capitalists were at the time, starting new companies," Bauccio told Business Insider.
He soon became acquainted with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who wanted to build a paninoteca, or traditional Italian sandwich shop, at his young company's new headquarters in Redwood Shores.
"Being Italian, I said, 'I could do that,'" Bauccio said. "But we knew a small sandwich shop wasn't going to last long."
As Oracle continued to grow, Bon Appetit created a series of unique concept cafes for the campus. There's now a Japanese noodle bar, an Indian curry house, and a Mediterranean marketplace, among other delectable options located in different buildings beside a lake.
It wasn't long before other tech firms in Silicon Valley caught on to the idea.
"Other companies saw what we did and said, 'We want to do that too.' Other companies were doing these large cafeterias (and we do have some large facilities, too) but there was obviously a benefit in doing these smaller cafes where you have a personal connection to the food and have different seating options," Bauccio said. "Silicon Valley took off like crazy, and now we have a whole new crop of companies - Google, LinkedIn, Amazon - that weren't even in business back then."
Courtesy of Bon Appetit Management Company
Fedele Bauccio, CEO of Bon Appetit Management Company.
As these companies have grown into massive global operations, Silicon Valley office culture has also changed significantly. Workers spending long hours at the office often look to their employers to provide healthy, authentic meal experiences at all times of the day.
"It challenged us to create what I call 'casual collisions' - that as people break bread together, they come up with new ideas and innovations," Bauccio said. "The days of huge cafeterias are over."
A commonly held belief in Silicon Valley is that the happier, healthier, and better-fed employees are, the more productive they'll be. That's where all of the perks come in.
And with initiatives that aim to bring nutritious and locally sourced ingredients into corporate cafeterias, Bon Appetit ensures that employees don't have to leave the office to eat good food.
"I think food is a huge perk, and I think it's expected now," Bauccio said. "These people creating new products now - there's no beginning or end of the day for them. They're here all the time. We have to create experiences that start earlier and last longer, because it's not just lunchtime anymore."
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Donald Trump Spoke Forcefully Against NAFTA At A 1993 Business Conference
"The Mexicans want it, and that doesn't sound good to me," Trump said in 1993, according to one account.
By Andrew Kaczynski
Andrew Kaczynski BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on February 29, 2016, at 2:37 p.m. ET
Benjamin Krain / Getty Images
Donald Trump, throughout his presidential campaign, has distinguished himself from free-trade Republicans, saying he would end the North American Free Trade Agreement and condemning President Obama's trade deal with Asian countries.
Trump told 60 Minutes of NAFTA last year, "We will either renegotiate it or we will break it."
It's a position of Trump's that he has expressed over the past three decades. In appearances and writings dating back to the 1980s, Trump has criticized U.S. trade deficits and called agreements between the U.S. and other countries "bad deals."
According to multiple archived news accounts reviewed by BuzzFeed News, Trump spoke forcefully against NAFTA at a California-based convention in 1993, when the agreement's ratification was being debated in Congress. The accounts appear to be the only record of Trump's speech. A representative for the conference said it wasn't taped that year.
"Trump, who entertained the crowd with details of his financial problems during 1990s, was one of the few to come out against NAFTA," read the Daily News of Los Angeles account of an October 1993 speech to the ninth annual Bakersfield Business Conference, which was held in a stadium on the grounds of California State University, Bakersfield.
Another local newspaper account of Trump's speech, from the Lodi News-Sentinel, also has Trump saying the plan "would only benefit Mexico."
Trump was opposed by three former presidents at the conference. Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and George H.W. Bush all spoke in favor of the deal.
The Fresno Bee reported Trump saying of the planned agreement: "We never make a good deal."
From the Bee:
Real estate magnate Trump was the only speaker swimming against the NAFTA current, criticizing the treaty not so much for its concept but rather for what he sees as poor negotiating by U.S. trade representatives.
NAFTA is poorly crafted, Trump said, as all our other trade treaties seem to be. "We never make a good deal."
"It's a no-brainer,'' Trump said, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram. "The Mexicans want it, and that doesn't sound good to me."
Trump also claimed the Kuwaitis "truly hate our guts," the Japanese "are laughing at us," and that "mobsters" were taking over Indian reservation gambling and creating a "crime wave like you haven't seen since Al Capone."
NAFTA was eventually approved by the House and the Senate in November 1993 and was signed by President Bill Clinton early the next month.
Andrew Kaczynski is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Contact Andrew Kaczynski at andrew.kaczynski@buzzfeed.com.
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No Policy Talk From Team Trump At Meeting With Tech Giants
During a closed door session with a broad range of trade groups, the presidential transition team for Donald Trump spoke mostly about operations, not the future of tech.
By Hamza Shaban
Hamza Shaban BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on October 7, 2016, at 4:58 p.m. ET
Facebook/ Donald Trump
If you're eager for a policy agenda outlining Donald Trump's vision for American technology, you'll have to keep waiting.
Trump's presidential transition team met with dozens of tech, telecom, and media representatives Friday, but according to several people familiar with the meeting, team Trump offered little insight into the Republican Presidential candidate's view on tech policy. The transition team instead outlined planning priorities for the first days of a Trump administration, selecting presidential appointments, and soliciting donations.
Representatives from Google, Uber, and Twitter attended the meeting. They were joined by trade and advocacy groups including the Consumer Technology Association, the Information Technology Industry Council and the Internet Association. About 50 people attended the off-the-record meeting, which took place at the offices of the law firm Baker Hostetler, in Washington, DC. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and AT&T were also represented.
Tech groups were asked to name regulations they'd like to see abolished under a Trump presidency.
Sources familiar with the gathering said the Trump transition team referred attendees to the Trump campaign website for details on policy priorities. They noted as well that tech groups were asked to recommend agency appointments, and to name regulations they'd like to see abolished under a Trump presidency.
The tech companies and groups were given a chance to share their own policy priorities, which focused around international trade, STEM education, Federal IT, as well as surveillance and privacy.
Trump’s transition team was represented by executive director Rich Bragger and general counsel Bill Palatucci. While the chair of the transition operation Gov. Chris Christie was billed to attend, his campaign schedule with Trump in New Hampshire kept him away, according an invitation obtained by BuzzFeed News. Ado Machida, the head of policy implementation, and Cam Henderson, the finance director, were there as well.
Many of the same organizations in attendance were involved in private sessions with the RNC earlier this year, leading up the party’s convention in July. The GOP platform calls for expanding broadband access across the country, support for so called “on-demand” platforms like Uber and Airbnb, and Congressional leadership on the controversy surrounding government access to encrypted communication.
Several trade and advocacy groups have called on the Trump campaign to release a detailed tech policy agenda. Hillary Clinton unveiled her technology plan this summer, which includes a proposal to connect every American household to high speed internet by 2020.
While Trump has campaigned largely on his business acumen, an influential group of Silicon Valley leaders has openly criticized him, voicing their opposition to his campaign. This summer, nearly 150 executives, engineers, researchers, and investors, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Vint “father of the internet” Cerf, and the CEOs of Slack, Box, Yelp, and Tumblr said “Trump would be a disaster for innovation.” In dramatic fashion, Trump himself has antagonized the chief executives of Apple and Amazon as well, and has appeared to take positions on net neutrality, encryption, and internet censorship that clash with widely held views among technologists.
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Hamza Shaban is a technology policy reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC.
Contact Hamza Shaban at Hamza.Shaban@buzzfeed.com.
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Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center
OVERVIEW OF DETENTION
Juvenile detention, as part of the juvenile justice continuum, is a process that includes the temporary and safe custody of juveniles whose alleged conduct is subject to court jurisdiction who require a restricted environment for their own and the community’s protection while pending legal action*. Juvenile detention may range from the least restrictive community based supervision to the most restrictive form of secure care.
The critical components of juvenile detention include:
Screening to ensure appropriate use of detention,
Assessment to determine the proper level of custody, supervision and placement,
Policies that promote the safety, security and well being of juveniles and staff,
Services that address immediate and/or acute needs in the educational, mental, physical, emotional and social development of juveniles.
Based on the Definition of Detention as adopted by the National Juvenile Detention Association, October 14, 2007
*(Idaho Code also allows the use of secure detention as a dispositional alternative.)
The mission of the Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center is to furnish architecturally secure detention for those youths within Idaho’s Third Judicial District who have violated the law and present a threat to the community, subject to the determination of the courts. Further, the Center shall be an integral part of the Juvenile Justice system as it exists in Canyon County and all participating counties.
SWIJDC is committed to uphold and follow the guidelines of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act which are contained in the four core requirements, which are:
Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders
Jail Removal
Sight and Sound Separation of Juvenile from Adult Offenders
Disproportionate Minority Contact
SWIJDC is also committed to support the tenets of the “Balanced Approach,” upon which the Idaho Juvenile Corrections Act is based. Those are:
Community Protection,
Accountability, and
Competency Development.
ARISE Program
in approximately 2013, Officer Muntaga Bah found information about the ARISE program, and became a faciltator. The Arise program is used to teach the residents topics including, but certainly not limited to fatherhood, gang resistance, anger management, healthy lifestyles, self esteem, nutrition, hygiene, finances, etc.
Horses!
Several times per year, Officer Candy Martilla teaches the residents about horses in the classroom, and then actually brings three of hers in for the kids to groom and ride. At the end of “Horse Week,” parents can come in and watch their son or daughter ride.
Bikes!
The Juvenile Probation Community Service Coordinator, Ross Garven, brought a load of bikes in for our residents to triage, fix, salvage or do whatever we could with them. Officer Nathaniel Ashby has been our resident expert in this program. The bikes are then donated to needy families.
Deputy Director Sean Brown spearheaded a small engine “repair” group. We have had several donations, and the kids dig into the engines to see what makes them work. Some things actually do get repaired, but there are no promises! Staff have used some of their own equipment as guinea pigs, with surprisingly good results.
Pat Andersen School Garden
In Spring 2011, the SWIJDC began the Pat Andersen School Garden with a grant from the Idaho State Department of Education and through the help of more than a dozen local sponsors who donated seeds, soil, mulch, plants, fertilizer, irrigation supplies, lumber and other items.
The garden acts as an outdoor classroom for the juvenile detainees and gives them a hands-on experience as they work towards the common goal of creating a thriving vegetable garden.
Under the direction of Garden Coordinator Craig Olsen, the Pat Andersen School Garden has harvested over 6,000 pounds of produce that has been donated to charities across Canyon County.
We will try and post letters, or articles, etc., that are relevant to the mission and goal of the Center. We cannot promise that every letter we receive will be posted due to space and time constraints, but we will do our best.
Memo to all future Criminals
The following is an unsolicited letter from an ex-resident of the Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center. We have elected to print it exactly as it was written, even though there are a couple inaccuracies:
This is a memo to all future Criminals
I want to tell you about the Juvenile Detention Center (J.D.C.). Out of a twenty-four hour day you go to school for five hours. After school you will get an hour of gym, then later on in the day you get an hour of leisure time. In the old facilities the cells are 8 feet by 10 feet and there are 18 of these cells with 2 holding cells. In the new facilities the rooms are 8 feet by 5 feet, there are 60 of these new cells so there’s always room. There’s one window in your room you are forbidden to look out of it unless told to. You can never trust the food because it’s made at the Canyon County Jail and you never know what those inmates might put in it or do to it. These are some descriptions of the beautiful clothes that you get to wear; the pants are green and white striped, orange, and blue, the shirts are dark green, white, light green, and orange. The only items that you are allowed in your cell is; one book, one bible, one deck of cards, and any of your mail. Your parents and grandparents can visit you on Wednesday and Sunday for one hour. You get your blankets at 7:00 p.m. and have to fold them and put them outside your cell at 5:30 a.m. You love your blankets because it gets pretty cold in here. It’s a constant 68 degrees Fahrenheit and even colder after you get out of the shower. You must obey all rules and the staff and respect them and the other juveniles if not you will be put in lock down. Theirs only one thing you have to do to stay out of a place as this and that’s stay out of TROUBLE, AND SAY NO TO DRUGS AND ALCOHAL I would also like to point out that this place is heavenly compared to Saint Anthony’s and J.D.C West. I sincerely hope that this letter will encourage you not to commit crimes because this is not some place you would like to be trust me. If it didn’t their will always be room for you here at South West Idaho Juvenile Detention Center.
Ex inmate M______ ____
This letter was wrote while my stay at J.D.C as an inmate.
This page and the pictures may be downloaded or copied, printed off to be used in reports for school.
This page was started on May 1, 2003, and more will be added as more questions come in.
(Hallway) Here is a view down one of the hallways. You are looking at 12 cells. There are 12 more immediately upstairs, making it 24 for each wing. We have 3 wings, giving us 72 regular rooms. We also have a 14 bed dormitory and 4 observation rooms. The bags hanging from the hinges contain laundry. The white piles on the floor are the freshly laundered bedding and linen. The closest door on the right, with the sliding hatch, is a shower.
(Cell Interior) This is one of the cells. The kids must fold their bedding and keep the room neat at all times.
(Booking Area) This is our booking office. Kathy is booking in a juvenile. All of the information goes into our database, then we fingerprint, photograph and change the kids into our clothing. All of the information we have, including fingerprints and photographs, are available to any law enforcement agency and the FBI.
(Dayroom with food trays) This is the dayroom, almost all set up for the kids to come in and grab a tray before going to their rooms to eat. Just before the kids come through, we put sandwiches on the trays, and spoon out the soup. Our ‘magazine rack’ is the table in the back of the room. The game cabinet is the dark thing on the far right. Our library shelves are just out of sight past the game cabinet. You must earn the privilege of using the exercise machine.
(School Room) This is our school. We have 3 classrooms in operation, with 3 teachers and an aide. In this picture, our aide is helping a juvenile. Notice the clothing. The kid on the right is on Level 3, which means he gets some more privileges that the kid on the left, who is on Level 2. Privileges include more time out of their room, more gym time, more phone calls each week, visitation with extended family members, more books in their cells, etc.
Over the years, juvenile detention centers have evolved from warehouses that offered little or no programming into centers where the juveniles can attend school, helpful classes such as anger management, drug and alcohol awareness, cognitive restructuring, life skills, creative writing, etc. Depending on size and resources, other programs may be available. The SWIJDC also has a small wood shop (Very limited tools and projects), and we do easy sewing projects, etc. The juveniles have to earn the privilege to enter these programs.
It is the duty of the juvenile detention center to try to teach things to the juveniles that will make them better citizens when they get out.
Here are some more questions that have been asked by others:
How many kids can the facility hold? We have 90 beds, but we have enough staff to hold about 56 kids right now. As population rises, we will hire more staff.
How long do they usually stay in detention? The average stay is about 15 days, but we some juveniles have been here for a year or longer.
How many kids are in the facility now and on the average? The average over the past 2 years has been a steady at around 45. We usually see a dip at certain times of the year, but we also see peaks in population at other times of the year. Our population has reached 74 in the past.
Why are the kids in there? Kids can come into the center only if they are accused of, or have committed a crime. We don’t hold anyone for being abused or neglected. We have some kids who come in because they failed to go to court on minor offenses, like smoking or possession of alcohol, but we also have kids that are here because they have committed violent offenses.
What happens when the kids do not follow the rules? They receive write ups, and this keeps them from moving up on our level system, which is how the kids earn more privileges. We have rules separated into Minor(Class C), Intermediate(Class B) and Major rules(Class A). The Class C rules include not folding your bedding and talking in the hallway. Intermediate rules include disrespect for staff or other juveniles and using profanity. Major rules include fighting and interfering with a head count.
What is the day like for the kids? They get up on a schedule that depends on their level status: If they have been here a while without any behavior problems, then they are allowed to sleep a little bit later. Otherwise, we start getting them up at about 5:00 or 5:30. They clean their area, then eat and go to school. We have three school rooms here so that the juveniles do not have to go to any outside school. They also have an hour of gym during the school day and a short lunch break. After school, which ends about 2:15, they are given at least one hour of leisure time in community dayrooms. They can earn more time depending on their level. We have four levels on the level system, 1,2,3,4. It takes 4 weeks to get to level 4, and they get more freedom as they move up. The juveniles are back in their cells for dinner, but usually come out after dinner for programs and visitation, which occurs Wednesday and Sunday, for an hour each time.
How many juveniles are in each cell? The cells are only big enough for one juvenile, but when our population reaches 77, we will start using our dorm room, which will house 14 juveniles.
Do they have to go to school while they are in there? YES! We have three classrooms that operate on a year-round basis. For example, the kids will have the day off on Christmas Day, July 4, New Years, President’s Day, Labor Day and Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving and Veteran’s Day, but they do not get long Spring or Christmas breaks like in a regular school. They also attend school throughout the summer. School is important to us.
What happens when you have a fight? Our staff is trained in an state-wide approved method of restraint to be able to stop the fight, then the juveniles are separated and will be charged with a Major(Class A) rule violation, and also will probably be charged with Assault or Battery by the police.
Who puts kids in Detention? Well, the logical answer to that question is that Police Officers, Judges and in some cases Probation Officers have the authority to place kids in detention. BUT, the real answer is that the kids themselves choose to come into detention through their actions and behavior. When a person commits a crime, they have to realize that one of the consequences of that crime may include detention. For example, if you choose to steal, you have also made the choice to visit detention. Kids in detention cannot blame others for what happens as a result of their crime. That is a simple principle that applies everywhere. Even kids outside of detention cannot blame others for the results of any other action. For example, don’t blame the teacher if you do not study and end up earning an “F” in class. EVERYONE MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN ACTIONS!
The Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center is a 90-bed juvenile detention center located in Caldwell, Idaho, about 30 miles west of Boise. The center opened with 20 beds on March 2, 1992, with Robert L. Bigelow as Director, Dan Kessler as Trial Court Administrator and Judge Jim. R. Doolittle as Administrative Judge. On March 1, 1993, Steven G. Jett took over as Director.
The center houses juveniles from five of the southwest Idaho counties that make up the 3rd Judicial District , specifically, Canyon, Gem, Owyhee, Payette and Washington.
On May 26, 1998, Canyon County voters approved a $3.7 million dollar expansion project which increased the number of beds to 90 to better serve the district. Construction started in May, 1999, ran past the original deadline of March/April of 2000, and was ‘completed’ in September, 2000.
In October 1994, the center instituted a level system to help teach accountability and responsibility to those in custody. The result has been a marked decrease in violent incidents and disciplinary lockdowns, and an increase in the morale of the juveniles and staff.
In December, 1999, our “writer in residence” program started, with writer Dawn Ludwin instructing. The classes are held twice each week in conjunction with our regular school hours. Feedback has been very positive. We appreciate the help that we receive from the Log Cabin Literary Center . In September 2004, Paul Berg took over instructing the program. Malia Collins now directs the program. Once per year, we publish an anthology of the writings of the juveniles. Please contact the Director if you would like a copy at sjett@canyonco.org.
On November 22, 2000, the graduation ceremony was held for the first Juvenile Detention Officer Training Academy, held at the Idaho Peace Officers Standards and Training Center (P.O.S.T.) at Meridian, Idaho. Special thanks to Roch Clapp of the Department of Juvenile Corrections, Mike Becar and Debbie Kindelberger of P.O.S.T. and the Idaho Juvenile Training Council chaired by Commissioner V. Hoybjerg for their hard work and efforts in setting up the academy.
Pictured are 4 of SWIJDC’s first P.O.S.T. Instructors, Mike Geselle, Chelle Mills, Shawn Anderson and Steve Jett. We now have approximately 6-7 P.O.S.T. certified instructors.
In December, 2000, Supervisor Tim Aguirre started the “Hat Project” in the Center. Working one on one with the juveniles, he and his team used a simple pattern and started cranking out hats to donate to local hospital maternity units for the newborns to wear. On March 23, 2001, we were able to donate approximately 50 hats to the Mercy Medical Center in Nampa, Idaho. For a look at the article that appeared in the Idaho Statesman on March 24, 2001, click the Old Projects. Due to several issues, the Hat Project isn’t running at the present time.
In April, 2002, the Scroll Saw Project was started by Glen Diers and Marilee Davis. Please check out the pictures of the project. The Project was featured in the September 10, 2002 Idaho Press Tribune for donating numerous articles to the Caldwell School District and the Idaho Juvenile Justice Association. For a look at the article, please click the Old Projects. Glen transferred to Oklahoma in 2004, and the Scroll Saw Project hasn’t been in operation since that time.
On September 24, 2003 Glen was chosen as the Idaho Juvenile Justice Association’s District 3 Line Worker of the Year. Glen was presented his plaque by Julie Yamamoto, Caldwell Alternative School Principal, and Steve Jett.
On December 19, 2003, the juveniles were given Christmas treats donated by the Matterhorn Ice Cream Company. We appreciate their generosity. The kids sure enjoyed the “Big Ed’s Super Saucers”!
On December 19, 2003, Albert Erickson, now Chief of Police for Parma, Idaho, spoke to the juveniles about his experiences in Kuwait. Albert had recently returned from Kuwait where he served as Operations Superintendent at Al-Jaber Air Base.
On February 8, 2004, the Idaho Press Tribune ran a story on the Center’s Education program. To see article, click here .
In June, 2004, Taga Bah, certified through the Cooper Institute, was appointed to lead the Phys Ed program in the Center. The SWIJDC has instituted physical requirements for any staff hired after May, 2005 with Taga’s help.
On March 27, 2005, it was announced by the Idaho Press Tribune that a juvenile in the center had won the Silver Quill Award for a letter he wrote praising the Center’s juvenile detention officers and teachers. To see article, click here .
The best tools that we have for rehabilitation include mentoring and establishing good relationships with the juveniles committed to our custody.
CPR class July 29, 2004
Scroll Saw Project
In April, 2002, under the creative genius and direction of Teacher Glenn Diers, the SWIJDC Scroll Saw Project was born.
Juveniles who have shown outstanding behavior and submit a signed permission slip are allowed to participate in the project. Glenn and Marilee Davis have loaned the Center scroll saws and have taught safety classes to the juveniles. The kids then can pick out a pattern or two and cut away.
We believe that the time that a juvenile spends in detention should be as productive as possible, helping to teach needed skills and competencies to make it as a productive citizen “on the outs.” The Scroll Saw Project helps.
Also, to teach some accountability and give something back to society, 25 puzzles are headed to a local first grade class, and more will be donated to the Idaho Juvenile Justice Association to be used as raffle prizes at their annual conference.
We hated to see Glen move down to Oklahoma, but we wish him well. The Scroll Saw Project is not running at this time.
Young Offenders Sew Baby Hats
The following article appeared in the Idaho Statesman on Saturday, March 24, 2001. Special thanks to the Idaho Statesman and reporter Lucinda Tyler and photographer Kim Hughes for coverage of this event.
Diane Markus, director of the OB/GYN Unit of Mercy Medical Center, right, holds up a hat presented by the Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center. Incarcerated juveniles made the hats. “It is a way to teach the kids that…they can give back to society,” said Tim Aguirre, detention center supervisor. Canyon County Commissioners Todd Lakey, center, and Matt Beebe, left, also attended the event.
Links to Related Contacts
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Juvenile Justice in Idaho
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Rules of the Department of Juvenile Corrections, Secure Juvenile Detention Facilities (IDAPA 05.01.02)
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Compliance with Prison Rape Elimination Act
In compliance with Section 115.322 of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Standards, Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center (SWIJDC) has provided policies to ensure referrals of allegations for investigations. Those policies can be found by clicking here .
If you suspect sexual abuse has happened at the Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center, you may call the Director at the Center, at 454-7353, or you may call the Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney or the Caldwell Police Department. Please have any information or evidence available for the investigator who will be assigned to handle the case. False accusations may be prosecuted. All reports are taken seriously and investigated as outlined in PREA.
Data Review for Corrective Action and Publication
In compliance with Section 115.388 of the PREA Standards, SWIJDC has reviewed data collected and aggregated pursuant to section 115.387 in order to assess and improve the effectiveness of its sexual abuse prevention, detection, and response policies, practices, and training, including:
Identifying problem areas;
Taking corrective action on an ongoing basis; and
Preparing an annual report of its findings and corrective actions.
Also, in compliance with Section 115.389 of the PREA Standards, SWIJDC shall make all aggregated sexual abuse data readily available to the public at least annually. View the data: SSV for Year End .
The Director of the SWIJDC will issue an annual report regarding PREA: SWIJDC PREA Report .
Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center has been audited pursuant to Section 115.401 of the PREA Standards. To view the Press Release regarding the results, click here .
To view the SWIJDC’s first Audit Final Report, click here .
The second PREA Audit Report will be posted when available.
To view the SWIJDC’s third Audit Final Report, click here .
What Parents Should Know
The 90 bed-Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center is an integral part of the Juvenile Justice System of Canyon County and the State of Idaho. Juvenile Detention is defined as the temporary and safe custody of juveniles who are accused of conduct subject to the jurisdiction of the court who require a restricted environment for their own or the community’s protection while pending legal action. The Center provides a range of helpful services which support the juvenile’s physical, emotional and social development, which may include education, recreation, counseling, nutrition, medical and health care services, reading, visitation, communication and continuous supervision.
National School Lunch Program (NSLP)
The Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center participates in the NSLP. To view the required informational poster concerning Civil Rights that is posted in the Center, click here .
To view the SWIJDC Wellness Policy, click here .
What kinds of kids are in Juvenile Detention?
Only those juveniles that have been charged with or adjudicated of crimes may be housed in the Center. These crimes can range from failing to appear in court on minor offenses to murder, however, if a juvenile is charged with certain serious crimes and has reached 14 years of age, s/he may be automatically held in the adult jail. Juveniles under the age of ten are usually not held in the Center, and no one is held in the Center past his/her 18th birthday.
Detention Hearing
When a juvenile is taken into the Center, s/he will be taken to court on the next judicial day for a detention hearing. A parent or guardian MUST attend this detention hearing. Please check with the Juvenile Probation Department at 454-7330 to find out times and places for the detention hearing.
Visitation for Parents, Grandparents, and Guardians:
Monday-Friday: Skype and Phone visits.
Saturday and Sunday: No Contact visits.
To set up visitation, please call 208-454-7240
If these times are impossible, contact the detention staff. You will be allowed to visit for one hour during each visitation period. Approved visitors include mother, father, and grandparents. Other visitors may be requested on an individual basis by submitting the appropriate form, available from detention staff. Visitation for non-custodial parents may be restricted if there is a valid court order restricting visitation for that parent. Because of space and time limitations, only two visitors per juvenile will be permitted to enter the Center at one time. If more than two approved visitors are present to visit a juvenile, detention staff will allow the visitation time to be split up to accommodate all approved visitors.
Approved Items
Items which may be brought into the Center for your son/daughter include the following, subject to search and review:
Hair brush, small, one piece construction, no metal bristles, no detachable handles, no red or blue colors
Jigsaw puzzles, new, unopened
Shampoo or body wash, new, unopened clear liquid in clear container
Lip treatment, new unopened, in tube, must be packaged in unopened bubble on display card
Playing cards, new unopened
There may be a display showing examples of acceptable items at the Center during visitation times. For answers to specific questions, a Detention Center staff member may be reached at 454-7240. Except for schoolwork and prescription medication, no property will be accepted other than at scheduled visitation times.
Telephones and Mail
At admissions, juveniles are permitted to make telephone calls to notify parents of their status, and to arrange for their release if permitted by the court. After they are admitted, juveniles may make at least 2 telephone calls per week to parents or grandparents. Except for calls placed immediately following admission, calls must be collect calls. Incoming telephone calls for juveniles are not accepted. Juveniles are permitted to write and receive letters while in the detention Center. Incoming mail is screened for illegal material or contraband.
Mail to juveniles must have your return address and be addressed as follows:
JUVENILE’S NAME
SW. IDAHO JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER
CALDWELL, IDAHO 83605
Juveniles will attend school while incarcerated in the Center. Schoolwork may be picked up from the juvenile’s regular school and delivered to the Center if the juvenile will be incarcerated for an extended period of time. If this is not possible, the Center’s teachers will assign a program to the juvenile.
Medical Care and Medications
The Center has a medical staff available to take care of emergency medical needs. If your child has a medical condition that we will need to know about, please, PLEASE CALL THE CENTER. If your child is taking prescription medication, please bring it as soon as possible to the Center in its original bottle with the prescription still attached. The medical staff must check out each prescription that is brought into the Center. Juveniles are generally not released to attend medical appointments outside of the center unless special circumstances exist. If you feel that you regular physician must see your child, you must contact our medical staff at 454-7275. You may not pick up your child for a medical appointment outside the Center unless a judge signs a written order allowing you to do so.
Level System
While in the Center, juveniles have the opportunity to advance in the “Level System,” and earn privileges and duties. As higher levels are earned through good behavior by the juvenile, later bedtimes, more phone calls and relaxed visitation restrictions may be allowed.
Transportation from the Center
If your child is to be moved to a state program, or to another jurisdiction, you will not be informed of the time or date of that transport for security reasons. In most cases, the juvenile will be given a chance to make phone calls as soon as s/he reaches their next destination to inform you that they have been moved.
Release from the Center
You will be required to pick up your son or daughter upon their release from the Center and to produce some form of picture identification. If you will not come to the Center when your son or daughter is being released, the Center staff must contact the Department of Health and Welfare and the local law enforcement agency to file child abandonment charges.
Charges for Detention
There is a possibility that you will be charged for your son or daughter’s time in detention. Idaho Code 20-524(2) allows for the court to set an amount that you will be responsible to pay in order to cover the costs of detaining your child.
If there are other questions that are still unanswered concerning the Detention Center, please call the staff at 454-7240.
222 N 12th Ave.
sean.brown@canyoncounty.id.gov
Visitation will start on July 5th, 2021.
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ABS-CBN employee Bayani Alvarez and Irene Ong conquered more than 100 kilometers from Bogo City to Cebu City to become the male and female champions of Cebu’s first ever 100-kilometer race dubbed the Century Properties 100-KM Ultramarathon 2011 yesterday. Alvarez and Ong finished as the bests in their respective divisions among 160 hopefuls. Alvarez crossed [...]
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NEWLY-LISTED real еstatе developer Century Properties Group, Inc. hiked its net income by nearly four times for the 10-month period last year versus year-ago levels due to a surge in total company revenues, a filing with the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) showed yesterday. The company, which was listed on the local bourse in the fourth [...]
In a recent press release, property developer Century Properties Group, Inc. reported a large increase in its control market share in residential apartment sales in the first 9 months of 2011, extending the company’s control of the Manila Real Еstatе Market. Comparing figures from the previous year, the company stated that its command of the [...]
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Century Properties Group Inc. reported that its net profit in the first 10 months of last year grew significantly driven by higher real еstatе sales. In a regulatory filing, Century Properties said that its net income reached P780.91 million in the January to October period, up 438 percent from P143.46 million in the same period [...]
Yoo and Century Properties Group have teamed up for a new and exciting residential project in the Philippines. Yoo inspired by Starck will define the amenity spaces of the new building and provide interior design inspirations for the living spaces. The project will officially launch the second quarter of 2012. Set to launch in the [...]
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CENTURY Properties Group, Inc. has partnered with a group of landowners to have a resort developed in Batangas, boosting further its tourism-related portfolio. Century Properties, one of the most active property developers in the Philippines, has formed a joint venture with Group Developers, Inc. Caylaway Development Corp. and Batulao Bio-loop farms, Inc. which would develop [...]
Century Properties has forged a joint venture to transform a 142-hectare property in Batulao, Batangas into a major leisure and resort community. In a disclosure to the stock exchange yesterday, Century Properties said its wholly-owned unit Century Communities Corp. has signed an agreement with Group Developers Inc., Caylaway Development Corp. and Batulao Bio-loop Farms Inc. [...]
LISTED DEVELOPER Century Properties Group, Inc. is looking to build a 142-hectare resort development south of Metro Manila together with three real еstatе firms, a disclosure to the local bourse showed yesterday. “On Feb. 7, Century Communities Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Century Properties, entered into a joint-venture agreement by and among Group Developers, Inc., [...]
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When it comes to keeping focused on the issues that matter, Craig Swanson is the attorney you want at your side. As one of the leading shopping center redevelopment lawyers in the United States, Craig takes a practical approach to completing even the most complex deals. He is well-versed in anticipating and addressing the needs of his clients in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, working smart, concentrating on what is important, and drafting agreements succinctly.
With more than 35 years of experience, Craig specializes in the acquisition, disposition, development, leasing, and financing of shopping centers and commercial and mixed-use projects. His legal strategies for helping developers respond to space limitations through creative air rights agreements, converting anchor stores into mixed-use retail spaces, and identifying opportunities for "big box" stores to expand into urban neighborhoods reflect a combination of creative legal strategy, innovative business thinking, and pragmatism. With a client list that includes some of the nation's leading real estate companies, Craig has extensive experience representing developers, from individuals to national corporations, in drafting and negotiating CC&Rs for industrial/business parks and reciprocal easement agreements (REAs) for shopping centers. His expertise also encompasses a broad range of leasing issues, representing both landlords and tenants.
Prior to founding CGS3, Craig was a partner at Allen Matkins. His expertise in the industry is well recognized, and he has been a speaker at national events for ICSC events, including the organization's US Shopping Center Law Conference.
Represented the developer in connection with the redevelopment of the Westfield Valley Fair shopping center in San Jose/Santa Clara. The redevelopment involved the construction of a Bloomingdale’s store on top of a newly constructed underground parking lot with another parking lot on top of the store. This involved creating an air-rights parcel for Bloomingdales, as the developer retained ownership of the underground parking lot and the parking lot above the Bloomingdale’s store, along with creating access and support easements.
Represented the developer in connection with the redevelopment of the Westfield UTC shopping center in San Diego. The redevelopment involved the relocation of an existing Nordstrom store to a new store built on top of a newly constructed parking deck owned the developer. This structure required a property swap, with Nordstrom conveying its existing store to the developer, and the developer creating an air-rights parcel over the parking deck and conveying the air-rights parcel to Nordstrom, together with creating access and support easements.
Represented the developer in connection with build-to-suit leases for a Costco store at the Westfield Wheaton shopping center in Wheaton, Maryland, and the Westfield Sarasota Square shopping center in Sarasota, Florida. In each case, the developer acquired the interest of a closed department store at the shopping center, razed the existing department store, and constructed a new store for Costco featuring a primary entrance within the enclosed mall.
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New ‘Cartoonist-Driven’ Looney Tunes Shorts To Debut At Annecy
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Warner Bros. Animation’s new series of Looney Tunes shorts will debut on Monday, June 10, at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. It’s a fitting place to launch them since the first announcement about this innovative project happened last year at the festival.
A few of the shorts will screen in front of the festival’s opening night film, the previously-announced Playmobil: The Movie, and will additionally screen at the festival’s open-air lakeside screening on the same day.
The new shortform series, spearheaded by Pete Browngardt (creator of Uncle Grandpa), promises a return to “cartoonist-driven” filmmaking, the approach that was used on the classic Looney Tunes shorts made between the 1930s-1950s. It’s the first time in nearly 60 years that Warner Bros. is using this approach in an extensive way for its Looney Tunes program. In the cartoonist-driven approach, artists come up with everything from the premise though the gags and story, and the finished cartoons may reflect the individual cartooning styles and personalities of the artists who are making them.
The first “season” of the new Looney Tunes shorts will be comprised of 1,000 minutes of animation, with each short varying from one to six minutes in length. WB intends to distribute the shorts across multiple platforms including digital, mobile, and broadcast.
Annecy will also present a panel about the new Looney Tunes shorts on Wednesday, June 12. Participants in the panel include Browngardt, as well as Alex Kirwan (Looney Tunes Cartoons supervising producer), Audrey Diehl (vice president, series, Warner Bros. Animation) and Sam Register (president, Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Digital Series). More shorts will be screened at that presentation, in addition to a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the shorts.
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Families, Tribes, and the Indian Child Welfare Act
One River, Two Canoes: Peace and Respect in Indian Child Welfare
Kristen Carpenter • August 31, 2016 • Comments
Advocacy around the Indian Child Welfare Act reveals disparate perspectives. At this juncture, I’d like to turn from our differing views of particular cases toward conceptual issues, in the hopes of advancing mutual understanding, if not agreement.
In ICWA, Congress declared that it is the policy of the nation “to protect the best interests of Indian children” and “to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families.” Additional provisions recognize the “unique values of Indian culture” and the role of “Indian tribes” in child and family service programs.[1] In my view, ICWA properly protects both the best interests of children and tribal sovereignty; it reflects principles of constitutional law and human rights, as well as current philosophies and best practices with respect to individual and collective rights.
The essays of Mr. Sandefur and Mr. Olson appear to critique ICWA at its core; they do not like the fact that ICWA makes a child’s membership in a federally recognized Indian tribe relevant to child welfare proceedings. They seem to believe that if Indian children were free from ICWA’s provisions (e.g., notice to parents and tribes, active efforts toward reunification, opportunities for tribal court jurisdiction, and preferences for placements with extended families and tribal members), they would do better in the child welfare system. Underlying these points appears to be a deep concern for individual rights, which the critics believe to be best advanced through formal equality before the law.
From my work with Indian tribes, I see things differently. Indian children have not only a right to safety and security, health and wellbeing, family and home, but also to a tribal identity, culture, and citizenship. These are aspects of the child’s individual rights that are uniquely protected by the ways in which tribal and federal law work together through ICWA. Federal law guarantees the right of tribes to make their own laws and be governed by them. Among other things, tribes determine membership, domestic relations, and inheritance, thereby ensuring that individuals will be able to participate in tribal life and enjoy the benefits thereof. An approach of formal equality that would treat the Indian child just like any other child, without reference to tribal membership or tribal sovereignty, would deny Indian children fundamental rights that only the tribe can protect.
Thus I would argue that we should: (1) acknowledge that tribes are sovereign governments with the right to make their own laws in various realms including child welfare; (2) understand that ICWA’s affirmation of tribal sovereignty is one of the mechanisms by which the law promotes the best interests of Indian children; and (3) support collaborative efforts among state and tribal governments, and other parties, toward compliance with ICWA.
We clearly have a long way to go toward these goals. As I write, opposition to ICWA occurs in the form of lawsuits based on specious claims of race discrimination, fraudulent adoption practices skirting the law’s notification provisions, and media events exploiting small children as pawns in the cause. I believe these tactics do nothing to nurture the children at the heart of the struggle.
How do we get from our trenchant disagreement to mutual respect and perhaps even constructive collaboration? As a starting point, I offer the very first treaty between Indians and white settlers as a potential model. This essay then examines tribal worldviews and Indian history, constitutional law and human rights, political theory and local practice, toward what I see as the way forward in Indian child welfare.
An Historic Model with Contemporary Applications
In 1613, American Indians and Europeans made what is thought to be the first treaty between them. Meeting in present-day New York, representatives of the Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) and Dutch governments agreed to three principles, namely, friendship, peace between peoples, and living in parallel forever.[2]
The Two-Row Wampum.
The Dutch recorded the agreement on paper with three silver chains.[3] According to tradition, iron chains would not do because iron rusts and breaks over time. Silver, by contrast, could be polished to a shine when treaty partners would meet again. These promises were eternal and would not break. The Haudenosaunee and the Dutch agreed to call this the Silver Covenant Chain of Friendship.
The Indians recorded the agreement in a belt of white and purple shells. “The belt has two purple rows running alongside each other representing two boats. One boat is the canoe with the Haudenosaunee way of life, laws, and people. The other is the Dutch ship with their laws, religion, and people in it. The boats will travel side by side down the river of life. Each nation will respect the ways of each other and will not interfere with the other.” The Haudenosaunee and Dutch agreed to call this the Two Row Wampum.
Why is the Two Row Wampum relevant now? What does it have to do with ICWA?
Today, the United States stands in the shoes of the European nations that negotiated historic treaties with Indian tribes. The Two Row Wampum is “a living treaty, a way that they have established for their people to live together in peace; that each nation will respect the ways of the other as they meet to discuss solutions to the issues that come before them.”
The Two Row Wampum is potentially helpful in a case like this where we all have to live under the same law but we have different beliefs about what is right. It offers a process (discussion of the issues), structure (parallel existence), and normative view (peace and mutual respect) for relationships between Indians and others. In the best case scenario, the Two Row Wampum could inspire a more peaceful, constructive approach to Indian child welfare that respects differences in worldview and promotes respect among peoples.
In ICWA, Congress committed itself to protecting both “the best interests of Indian children” and “the stability and security of Indian tribes and families.” The law recognizes both the “unique values of Indian culture” and the role of “Indian tribes” in child and family service programs.[4]
Mr. Sandefur appears to believe that ICWA’s goals – (1) the protection of Indian children and (2) the protection of Indian tribes and families – are at odds with one another. To put it another way, he seems to argue that the protection of Indian children should trump the protection of Indian families and tribes. Mr. Olson largely concurs, though he argues that Indian parents also have legitimate individual rights in parenting their children.
In Mr. Sandefur’s view, Indian children are entitled to be treated like all other children, without reference to their membership in an Indian tribe. This is because he sees membership in an Indian tribe as an ethnic or racial heritage that should not keep Indian children from enjoying the full panoply of rights that all American citizens hold as individuals. Mr. Olson is “shocked at how little individual rights count for in the ICWA scheme.”
What is missing, I think, from these critiques is an appreciation for the way that the individual rights and personal identities of children and parents are valued in the context of tribal cultures, as well as how ICWA effectuates those values.
Mr. Sandefur claims, for example, that the Indian child of attenuated bloodline may not have any cultural connections, leaving only what he sees as a racial link to justify ICWA’s application. These claims appear to be based on his understanding of Indian identity as based on blood quantum, genetics, race, and ethnicity. Mr. Olson complains that ICWA applies to people who have never lived on a reservation. In my view, these critiques are based on are western constructs that infiltrated, but never really colonized, Indian Country.
Consider the affiliations that do have meaning in tribal communities. In some communities, a child is born into a clan. For Cherokees, the clans are Wolf, Bird, Paint, Deer, Long Hair, Wild Potato, and Blue. Navajo clans are too numerous to list here. For other tribes, it’s societies, towns, villages, communities. It may be a single mom and her son in rural Wyoming or a stepfather and his daughter in New York City. These individuals may indeed live far from reservations (and of course not all tribes have reservations), in part because of the forced relocations imposed on Indians over hundreds of years. But these are Indian children and parents, related to Indian families and tribes, through religion and culture, politics and law.
The Indian child is not a blank slate. She is never a fraction of anything. She is Navajo or Hopi, Odawa or Cherokee, born into a fabric of spiritual life, a lineage of cultural practice, a place of individual power and of collective responsibility to the whole. One or two or three generations later — even if her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother were themselves relocated or adopted — today the Indian child is protected in her personal identity, family life, and tribal citizenship by ICWA.[5]
Make no mistake: tribal cultures contain powerful expressions of individual rights.[6] Among the Hopi and Zuni, for example, “there is a strong belief that adult individuals are ultimately free to act as they see fit and are not to be judged by other humans for their actions. In Hopi, this respect for individual freedom is expressed by the phrase, ‘Pi um pi’ or ‘it’s up to you.’” And yet these individual rights are understood and experienced in the context of collective rights. Individual and community are balanced. And so a respect for individualism exists alongside the “obligations and duties toward one’s kin … necessary for the proper order of Hopi or Zuni society.” The Navajo tribe holds a core value that “no one and no institution has the privilege to interfere with individual action unless it causes an injury to another or the group.” Religion, speech, and parenthood are all construed in this way, to recognize individual rights in the context of collective responsibilities.
This is, in fact, the way it works in Indian Country. Whereas some strands of western European philosophy prioritize the individual man in his quest for rational autonomy over body, home, and property, American Indian worldviews typically value each individual in the embrace of family, tribe, and landscape, all maintaining an interdependent relationship with the natural world through prayer and ritual, history and relationship. These traditional values are expressed in tribal constitutions and codes, as well as the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, a federal statute that ensures tribal courts will respect individual rights, including speech, equality, and due process, while also fostering collective rights to determine membership, practice religion, exercise jurisdiction.[7]
It is unfortunate if ICWA’s critics have not seen the beauty and resilience of Indian Country. To spend time at one of the Southwestern pueblo feasts, or Oklahoma stomp grounds, or New England powwows is to experience the sheer joy of a culture and a people who have survived genocide. Indian people may be poor (although increasingly they are not). They may not have Ph.D.’s in child psychology (although increasingly they do). But to live in an Indian community is to be connected to family, land, tradition, and culture. It is to grow up with one’s personal identity, autonomy, and birthright as an Indian person. These are individual rights just as surely as any others.
There is also pain and heartache in Indian Country. Mssrs. Sandefur and Olson are correct that there are Indian children – in cities, towns, and reservations around the country – suffering from abuse and neglect, in families that have withered from generations of poverty and dislocation caused by the misguided policies described above. Tribal government is uniquely situated to have expertise on these problems and uniquely able to bring tribal culture to bear on solutions for Indian children and families. Tribes offer culturally sensitive foster care and adoptive family services, health care for pregnant women and children, and education from pre-school through university and graduate studies. Tribal courts have the time, expertise, and resources to address child welfare in ways that recognize the kinship bonds, the issues of language, religion, and culture, and the economic realities of Indian families. Urban Indian organizations have cultural revitalization programs to keep kids in school while addressing their vulnerability to gangs and human trafficking. Domestic violence, substance abuse, and suicide prevention initiatives across Indian Country are designed in significant part to strengthen and heal tribal families and allow parents and other caregivers to recover their roles in raising children.
These stories, perhaps, not do not capture headlines in the ways that certain cases have. Nevertheless, they are stories of the ways in which Indian tribes protect the welfare of children, and how in some cases they bring special resources and perspectives that might be not be available to state court judges, child and family service workers, and so on. Why would we want to deny Indian children the benefit of these programs by diminishing the force and effect of ICWA?
Individual v. Collective Rights: Or How about Legal Pluralism Instead?
The current assault on ICWA, while poorly informed, does not come as a huge surprise. History suggests that each time Indian tribes recover any shred of collective self-determination, reformers intervene to say that now is the time for individual rights, American style, in Indian Country.
We’ve heard these arguments before: Indians would be much better off if their rights to casino gaming were abrogated, if their land could be sold without restriction, and if their children could be adopted on the open market. If only Indians would let go of their culture, their lands, their language, religion, and children, they would be free!
And we know how the story unfolds: These arguments catch the ear of policy makers, and legal reform totally divorced from the collective nature of Indian culture is imposed on Indian people, against their wishes but somehow for their own benefit. And then, when push comes to shove, the courts ultimately recognize only a watered down version of individual rights. Individually and collectively, Indian people suffer.
Consider religion. In the 19th century, the federal government outlawed Indian religions, such as the sun dance, and enforced these laws by putting Indians in jail and denying them food. In 1890, the United States army ratcheted up the punishment, and shot and killed 200 Lakota people, as they prayed, in the Ghost Dance. The Indian Commissioner explained he “had no intention of interfering with the Indian’s personal liberty.” These measures were “meant to remove a badge of servitude to savage ways and traditions which are effectual barriers to the uplifting of the race.”[8] One hundred years later, in 1988 and 1990, the Supreme Could held the federal government could destroy Indian sacred sites[9] and state governments could outlaw Indian sacraments[10] without violating the First Amendment. These decisions are the law of the land to this very day. Is this how we envision religious freedom in the United States?
Consider land. After the policies of Indian removal and reservations failed to destroy Indian culture altogether, the United States, under pressure from individual states and white settlers, announced the “allotment” of tribal lands. As President Roosevelt said, allotment was to act as a “mighty pulverizing machine intended to break up the tribal mass.”[11] It was pitched as a policy that would “free” Indians by “giving” them the “right” to sell their property and join mainstream culture. What really happened was that Indians lost 90 million acres of land between 1887 and 1934.[12] The Supreme Court held in 1903 that these losses were not reviewable by the courts.[13] Then in 1955, the Court held that Alaska – yes just about all of the Native land in Alaska, to which title had never been extinguished and on which Native people were still living – was not compensable under the 5th Amendment.[14] These decisions, too, remain the law of the land. Is this how we envision property rights in the United States?
And consider children. The worst, saddest, most tragic example of the imposition of a radical model of individual “rights” on Indian communities. As I wrote in my previous essay, the federal and state governments, as well as adoption agencies, churches, and schools, all have a very long history of removing Indians from their families, for their own benefit. The prevailing policy from the late 1800’s until recently, or maybe even through today, was to “Kill the Indian and Save the Man.” In the decade when I was born, fully 1 out of every 4 Indian children was removed from his or her family. Congress found that many such removals were out of cultural ignorance, not because of neglect or abuse. It also found that the ramifications for individual Indian children were horrible. My earlier essay cited to the statistics about the psychological harms, drug abuse, and suicide rates of Indian adoptees during this period, and the traumatic effects on parents and siblings. Is this how we envision family rights in the United States?
ICWA presents a better way forward. It is a classic legislative compromise. The law respects the individual and collective rights of Indian children, parents, and tribes. It respects tribal and state court jurisdiction. It applies equally to mothers and fathers. ICWA respects the best interests of children and tribal self-determination. And so on.
This is not a radical view of the world, either in the mutual recognition of individual and collective rights, or in the concept that tribes maintain legal systems differing in some ways from the federal and state law systems around them. Indeed, the U.S. Constitution, alongside its very robust commitment to individual rights, also recognizes tribal governments in the Commerce and Treaty Clauses. As “domestic dependent nations,” whose existence pre-dates the formation of the United States, and whose political relationship with the federal government, through treaties and the Constitution, is a part of our nation’s political structure, Indian tribes are somewhat “exceptional” entities in American public law.[15]
But this situation is not exceptional when we cast our gaze around the globe. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, endorsed by the United States and 143 other nations, recognizes both the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, including children’s rights to family and identity, and tribes’ rights to self-government and self-determination.[16] All in all, our approach to Indian Affairs, informed by constitutional law and human rights, is not unlike what the political philosopher John Rawls called “reasonable pluralism.”[17] This is a practice in which nations of the world respect “peoples” within their borders, including peoples with “reasonable” morals, religion, and philosophies, even if their laws or practices depart from the liberal tradition in certain ways. As societies grow more complex, reasonable pluralism is one way to manage differences within nations, engendering mutual respect and self-determination, rather than formal hegemony or forced assimilation.[18]
To be clear, this is not “separate but equal” as applied to Indians. As a formal matter, all of the essayists have acknowledged that the status of Indian tribes is political, and not racial, pursuant to the Constitution and many Supreme Court decisions.[19] When Congress legislates in Indian Affairs, as it has through an entire Title of the United States Code, these laws are subject not to strict scrutiny as they would be in the case of race-based legislation, but rather “rational basis” review to determine whether Congress has rationally upheld its trust duties to tribes. More practically, the current federal policy of “tribal self-determination” requires that federal Indian laws must be made in consultation with tribal governments, a practice endorsed by Republicans and Democrats alike. Congress consulted with tribes when it enacted ICWA and the Bureau of Indian Affairs did the same when it recently promulgated ICWA regulations. This is not about a regime imposed on Indians without their participation; it is about complying with a law that tribal governments lobbied for and are now trying to implement with federal and state cooperation.
Limiting Principles
Finally, the law contains several limiting principles that, if understood, should assuage some of the concerns about its reach and its protection for individual rights. These limits are found in ICWA itself as well as in the broader body of federal Indian law.
First and foremost, whatever the merits of arguments about transracial adoption, it is quite clear that ICWA does not open the floodgates to claims by racial minorities. Pursuant to Section 1903, the law applies only to “federally recognized tribes,” meaning those tribes that have a political relationship with the United States through treaties and statutes. The Supreme Court has clearly held that legislation based on Indian status is political and not racial.[20] ICWA is not about disparate treatment based on race. Indian tribes are distinguishable from other minority groups because they are governments that pre-date the United States, maintain a formal political relationship with the United States through treaties and statutes, and exercise inherent jurisdiction over reserved territories.
Additionally, while critics have suggested that ICWA’s coverage is so broad such that anyone with a tiny smidgen of Indian blood, a faint genetic marker, might fall under its net, that’s not right. As I suggested above, most Indian people do not typically equate blood or genetics with cultural or political affiliation. The attacks based on blood quantum or generational distance are truly meaningless from a tribal perspective.
Even more pragmatically, ICWA’s definition of “Indian child” is significantly limited. Section 1903 defines an “Indian child” as “any unmarried person who is under age eighteen and is either (a) a member of an Indian tribe or (b) is eligible for membership in an Indian tribe and is the biological child of a member of an Indian tribe.” To put this in perspective, the last census revealed 800,000 people with Cherokee heritage, but at most 325,000 are enrolled members of one of the three Cherokee tribes – and of this an even smaller number of Cherokees are minor children who qualify as an “Indian child.” Like all laws, ICWA might appear to be overbroad or under inclusive at the margins, but it clearly applies to a limited subset of people, determined by well-established practices determining membership in a federally recognized tribe. Stated another way, ICWA does not apply to all children who may have some Indian heritage; it is much more limited than that.
Jurisdiction—or the right to have a child welfare case heard in tribal court—is similarly limited under ICWA. Under basic principles of federal Indian law, children and families who live on the reservation are subject to the jurisdiction of the tribal court, not the state. For children and families who live off the reservation, ICWA gives the tribe and the state concurrent jurisdiction over child welfare matters. Pursuant to Section 1911, either parent can veto a transfer to tribal court, and the state court can also find good cause to deny such transfers. In short, a finding that ICWA applies to a certain cases does not necessarily mean the family will end up in tribal court.
With respect to individual rights, ICWA’s Section 1914 gives an Indian child the right to bring his or her own lawsuit to invalidate a foster care placement or parental rights termination on grounds that it was unlawful. As lawyers for Indian children like to point out, this is a provision that can help to assert the child’s own voice, identity, and interests vis à vis parents, tribes, and others. In this and other provisions, ICWA has built in protections for the individual rights of children (and parents for that matter).
With respect to the critique that ICWA creates a second-tier legal regime for Indians, note that Section 1922 provides that in instances where state law offers higher protections to parents of Indian children, the state law must apply. Generally, however, most state laws provide lower protections to those parents, which is one reason ICWA is considered a gold standard in child welfare. In this regard, ICWA stimulates a race to the top, encouraging states and tribes to protect the individual rights of parents.
Finally, if critics are concerned about individual rights in tribal courts they should know that the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 requires that all branches of tribal government recognize both individual rights, like speech, property, and due process, while also protecting the tribe’s rights to determine membership, proscribe inheritance rules, and assert jurisdiction. As in the aftermath of Holyfield v. Mississippi Choctaw, tribal courts are empowered to affirm placements with non-Indians when they determine it to be in the best interests of the child.[21] To state this most clearly, ICWA does not require courts to place Indian children with Indian families if the best interests determination dictates otherwise.
In all of these ways, ICWA effectuates an eminently reasonable view of the world consistent with the Two Row Wampum in which indigenous peoples and newcomers to this continent respect one another, and offer friendship and support, without trying to steer one another’s canoe. In this spirit, I would like to invite an approach of mutual respect, non-interference, and peace into the current conversation about Indian child welfare. Here are some examples to build on.
First, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges has called on its members to comply with ICWA and the new regulations. This, in and of itself, is a major step from contestation to collaboration. Second, the organization holds trainings and produces materials regarding compliance and has started to hold observations so that judges can learn from one another. These sessions have revealed several contrasts. As Professor Fletcher’s latest essay suggests, tribal courts, unlike state courts, usually gather all family members in front of them, allow children to speak (whether formally or informally, in an age appropriate way), and make sure everyone there understands the proceedings. Tribal court judges are able to craft approaches to child welfare that take into account families’ personal, economic, and religious needs. Interestingly, state judges have expressed admiration and even envy about the ways in which the tribal court judges conduct child welfare proceedings, suggesting that there is room for mutual respect and information exchange among individuals who may not be natural allies.
On the flip side, some tribal governments are working with their state counterparts on effective ways to license and regulate foster families so as to ensure child safety. Tribes have been encouraged to publish and make readily available their constitutions, codes, and decisions so that families and lawyers in their systems, whether Indian or non-Indian, will understand the relevant tribal law. Tribes and Indian organizations understand that, given the realities of urban Indian populations and the scarcity of Indian foster and adoptive placements, many children will be placed in non-Indian families. They have begun to participate in “cultural connectedness agreements,” inviting foster and adoptive families to come to Indian Country, to keep their children invested in ceremonies and language, and to know their extended Indian families.
These best practices, often produced in discussions among people who work on the frontlines of child welfare, honor the foundational principles of the child’s best interests and tribal sovereignty, and promote mutual education among states and tribes toward improving Indian child welfare.
For people who are not lawyers or family service professionals, there are still additional ways to care for Indian children. First, those who wish to become adoptive or foster parents should work only with tribes and agencies that comply with the law, including ICWA. Those who wish to support Indian children without becoming parents can consider other avenues. Locally, volunteer at tribal Head Starts, donate to scholarship programs, or buy school supplies. Nationally, look to foundations and organizations devoted to Indian children. On a personal level, individuals can learn more about the history of Indian child welfare and open their hearts toward healing, restoration, and recovery. Check out where the political candidates stand on Indian issues and visit Indian Country to get to know its people and places. Support Indian children while respecting tribal sovereignty. The invitation is open.
The legal scholar and theologian Vine Deloria, Jr., once said, in characteristically provocative fashion:
Consider the history of America closely. Never has America lost a war. When engaged in warfare the United States has always applied the principle of overkill and mercilessly stamped its opposition into the dust…. But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict.[22]
To many in Indian Country, the current assault on ICWA feels like a war waged on tribes by targeting the most vulnerable among them. The rubric is one of concern for individual rights that seems to ignore the ways in which tribes already respect and honor both individual and collective rights. The current attacks are unfortunate because, in enacting ICWA, Congress made significant progress toward recognizing that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict.
Inspired by the resilience of our ancestors and hope for our children’s futures, I hope we can renew a vision for peace and healing in Indian child welfare. One river, two canoes.
[1] Indian Child Welfare Act, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/25/chapter-21.
[2] See Honor the Two Row, http://honorthetworow.org/learn-more/history/.
[3] The quotes and information in this section are largely from Onondaga Nation, http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta.
[5] See Matthew L.M. Fletcher and Wenona T. Singel, Indian Children and the Federal-Indian Trust Relationship (April 26, 2106), http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2772139 (relating the authors’ personal experiences in Indian families in which multiple generations of family members have been removed from their homes and relatives to developments in federal Indian policy).
[6] For detailed citations to the material in this paragraph, see Kristen A. Carpenter, Individual Religious Freedoms in Tribal Constitutional Law, in The Indian Civil Rights Act at 40 (2012), http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2015796.
[7] For book length treatment on individual rights in tribal legal systems, as they interact with the federal Indian Civil Rights Act, see Kristen A. Carpenter, Matthew L. M. Fletcher, and Angela R. Riley, The Indian Civil Rights Act at 40 (2011).
[8] Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs W.A. Jones (Oct. 16, 1902), reprinted in 2 Wilcomb E. Washburn, The American Indian and The United States: A Documentary History 724, 727 (1973) .
[9] Lyng v. Nw. Indian Cemetery Protective Ass’n, 485 U.S. 439 (1988).
[10] Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990).
[11] Charles Wilkinson, Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations 19 (2005).
[12] Judith V. Royster, The Legacy of Allotment, 27 Ariz. St. L.J. 1 (1995).
[13] Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 553 (1903).
[14] Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States, 348 U.S. 272 (1955).
[15] See Philip P. Frickey, (Native) American Exceptionalism in Federal Public Law, 119 Harv. L. Rev. 433 (2005).
[16] See S. James Anaya, Indigenous Peoples and International Law (2d.ed 2004); Angela R. Riley, Sovereignty and (Il)liberalism, 95 Cal. L. Rev. (2007).
[17] See John Rawls, The Law of Peoples (with the Idea of Public Reason Revisited) (2001). See also Kristen A. Carpenter, Real Property and Peoplehood, 27 Stan. Env. L. J. 2008 (reviewing justifications and critiques from philosophy, sociology, native studies, and other disciplines around the treatment of indigenous peoples as “peoples” in legal regimes).
[18] Compare Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship (2005) (describing instances wherein group rights are consistent with, or even mandated by, the liberal tradition).
[19] Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1 (1831); Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 515 (1832), (tribes are domestic dependent nations in which the laws of the state can have no force); Morton v. Mancari, 417 U.S. 535 (1974); Delaware Tribal Business Committee v. Weeks, 430 U.S. 73 (1977) (federal legislation benefitting Indians is not invidious race discrimination and will be upheld so long as it can be rationally tied to the fulfillment of Congress’ unique obligation toward Indians).
[20] Morton v. Mancari, 417 U.S. 535 (1974).
[21] Mississippi Choctaw v. Holyfield, 490 U.S. 30 (1989).
[22] See Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969).
Treat Children as Individuals, Not as Resources by Timothy Sandefur
Timothy Sandefur charges that the Indian Child Welfare Act renders children of Native American ancestry the only ones in the entire country against whom it is legal to racially discriminate. Not only that, but the racial discrimination at hand is being conducted by the government of the United States, and it often seriously harms the children involved. U.S. law typically attempts to realize the best interests of the child, but the ICWA abandons that standard. It declares that many genetically Native American children are “tribal resources,” even if they lack any cultural or emotional attachment to a tribe or its members. Sandefur documents several cases of serious abuse that have followed from this law and recommends reform.
Limit Government Intrusion in Indian Families’ Lives by Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Matthew L. M. Fletcher argues that the Indian Child Welfare Act has done a great deal of good by allowing Native Americans to preserve both their culture and their families. And this has not come at the cost of children’s well-being; numerous child welfare advocacy groups regard the ICWA as the “gold standard” for child welfare and even recommend that its provisions be extended to all children. Fletcher rebuts the charge that the ICWA was to blame for a recent, high-profile child custody dispute, and he laments that casual racism against Native Americans continues down to the present day.
Indian Status Is Not Racial: Understanding ICWA as a Matter of Law and Practice by Kristen Carpenter
Professor Kristen Carpenter explains the rationale for the ICWA and argues that it is not a piece of racial legislation. Rather, it respects the previously made determinations of the United States government about who is eligible for membership in Indian tribes, and it has proven in general to be an effective tool for opposing the forced assimilation policies that have done so much harm to Indian tribes’ culture in the past. Anecdotes of one case of child custody or another are unhelpful, she maintains, while the data shows that ICWA is generally working well, and that problems generally come from noncompliance or from other, unrelated factors.
This Isn’t the Way to Protect Families’ Rights by Walter Olson
Walter Olson agrees that the Indian Child Welfare Act is “an exceedingly bad law,” but he suggests that much of the rest of our child welfare system is flawed as well. The “best interests of the child” standard can lead to costly and exacting legal battles over just how good a particular parent may be. This is a nightmare for anyone, of course, but it hurts the poor the worst. Turning to the ICWA, Olson agrees that it commonly disregards individual rights and treats individuals as resources for a community with which they have no acutal affiliation. The ICWA puts tribes’ interests ahead of both those of children and parents, and it protects American Indian ethnicity while ignoring other ethnicities that a child may also have, and may even identify with more closely.
Racial Discrimination Is No “Gold Standard” by Timothy Sandefur
Lexi and Veronica: The Dandelions by Timothy Sandefur
A Civics Lesson by Matthew L. M. Fletcher
The Best Interests of Individual Children by Timothy Sandefur
Sovereignty - Tribal or Otherwise - Must Respect Our Rights by Timothy Sandefur
A History Lesson by Matthew L. M. Fletcher
One River, Two Canoes: Peace and Respect in Indian Child Welfare by Kristen Carpenter
How to Fix ICWA by Timothy Sandefur
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Genesis Power Ltd and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority v. Franklin District Council (Environment Court, 2005)
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Side A: The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (Government)
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Challenge to district council's decision refusing consent for a proposed wind farm
New Zealand Environment Court granted consent for a wind farm. The Franklin District Council refused consent for the project on the basis that would have an adverse visual effect on the landscape, local community and equestrian activities. Proponents of the project cite reduction in emission of harmful greenhouse gases and a national need for sustainable and renewable energy sources as support for the project. The court determined that the purpose of the Resource Management Act 1991 would be better served by granting the wind farm proposal. The court found that the benefit of the wind farm proposal, when seen in a national context, outweighed the site-specific effects and the effects on the surrounding area. The court also rejected the council's argument that because the wind farm was relatively small, its climate change benefits were not relevant.
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Sightseeing in Cuba
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Cuba, the diverse island in the Caribbean, is always worth a visit. Holidaymakers can discover countless places here where time seems to have stood still. For example, vintage cars from the 1950s still drive through the streets of Havana. But collectors are not at the wheel. No, they are still suitable for everyday use.
The morbid charm of the streets and alleys of Cuba’s cities has already cast a spell over many. But a lot has happened. The socialist country has invested in tourism. And that is particularly noticeable around the many sights. The plaster has not crumbled there for several years. The sights of the island also include nature and the breathtaking beaches.
Vacationers can enjoy the sun in the white sand and bathe in the warm sea, which shines in more than 50 shades of blue. The forests offer cooling shade and lakes with crystal clear water. The best thing about it: The island is now completely developed for tourism. You can discover all the sights on organized trips or by public transport.
In the following we present you the most exciting tours, most beautiful attractions and best sights in Cuba.
1. The capital Havana
Havana, once the pearl of the Caribbean, then a decayed beauty for a long time. It has always been a magnet for tourists. If only because of the imposing quay wall, the Malecón. Much has happened in the capital as a result of the country’s cautious opening to capitalism. Many sights shine in new splendor.
Cuba’s capital has not lost its charm – on the contrary. Many small shops, restaurants and lovely hotels have settled here. They all offer holidaymakers a very individual experience. And of course they still exist, the old classics that Ernest Hemingway wrote about. What would a vacation in Cuba be without a visit to the legendary Bar Floridita?
2. Isla de la Juventud
Cuba is a classic island nation. There is of course the main island, but there are also a few smaller islets. The most famous island is the Isla de la Juventud. A small piece of earth with an eventful history. Because once pirates sought refuge here, aiming at the capital.
Later it became a penal colony and a training camp for the offspring of the Socialist Unity Party. Hence the name, which means “island of youth”. Today it attracts tourists with its long, wonderfully white beaches. And last but not least, the reefs and atolls off the island are a paradise for divers.
3. Colonial Heritage in Trinidad
A lovely city located on the Caribbean coast. The winding streets take you back to colonial times in one fell swoop. In the meantime, many of the houses have been lovingly renovated and give an impression of the island’s golden age. Rich investors once spent their summers in the magnificent villas on the coast.
The many museums in the city are especially worth a visit. Above all the Museo Nacional de la Lucha contra Bandidos. It tells of the fight against crime on the island. Another extra tip: Enjoy a wonderful view over the roofs of the city from the tower of the museum.
4. Son – the unique sound of Cuba
Son is not really worth seeing, but above all is worth hearing. As you wander the streets of the cities, you will discover combos everywhere. They sing of the beauties of the island and the sufferings of love. The musicians accomplish the feat of creating songs that sound cheerful and yet deeply wistful at the same time.
The “Son Cubano” (short: Son) is undoubtedly an extraordinary style of music and strongly linked to the history of the country. A special experience is a visit to the Buena Vista Social Club, to which Wim Wenders dedicated a film. The detour to the outskirts of Havana is worthwhile, because here you can experience the real Son of the island.
5. The most beautiful beaches in Cuba
Cuba is in the Caribbean. And what would a vacation in the Caribbean be without enjoyable, relaxing days on the beach? In Cuba there is a whole variety of dream beaches with fine, white sand and turquoise blue water. The best known is certainly the bathing paradise in the north of the island, Varadero. You won’t meet Cubans here, however.
The locals cavort in the east of the island, where the beaches are not leased to hotels. For our travel experts in the editorial team, the most beautiful beaches are on Cayo Largo, Cayo Guillermo, Cayo Coco and Playa Ancón near Trinidad.
6. Santiago de Cuba
Santiago is located in the very east of the country. The metropolis is not yet as touristically developed as the capital. But that is precisely what makes it so charming. It still exists here, the morbid charm that has already been celebrated so often. And vacationers can discover a completely different side of the island here:
The African American religion of Santeria. If you visit Santiago, you should definitely try the specialty of this region: the Canchanchera. A cocktail made from rum and honey. In Santiago you can find the drink on every corner. It was once thought of by bartenders who wanted to help people survive a long war.
7. Pinar del Rio
Make sure you take a trip to the region. 80 percent of Cuban tobacco grows here. The cigars are also produced here, which is a good opportunity to test one of these legendary glow sticks. But not only tobacco thrives here wonderfully. In the woods you can take a break from the tropical heat.
The very brave can also enjoy a cool bath at one of the many waterfalls. The tourist offers in the Vinales Valley are very rich. Those who like it sporty can hike or explore the region on a mountain bike. Those who want to take it easy can take part in a hike on horseback.
8. Pure nature: Alexander von Humboldt National Park
The famous explorer Alexander von Humboldt has never been to the island, but he would certainly have felt very much at home in this little corner of the world. UNESCO has named this park in eastern Cuba a World Heritage Site – and it was worth it. The flora and fauna could develop better here than anywhere else on the island.
Scientists even rumor that the biodiversity is greater here than on the Galapagos Islands. With a little luck, visitors may come across the smallest bird in the world, for example. Many other interesting encounters and impressions await. The best way to explore the huge park is on a guided hike.
9. Cienfuegos – relaxed insider tip
Are Havana and Trinidad too overrun? Then visit the insider tip of Cienfuegos. The city has 170,000 inhabitants and is protected in a large bay. Unesco has also named its center a World Heritage Site. That is why the management went to great lengths to preserve the old town.
In the middle is the Parque Jose Marti, a palm oasis. All the important buildings of the city are located around them, from the town hall to the theater to the famous cathedral. The city invites tourists to stroll and stroll. Take this invitation and discover one of the most relaxed spots in Cuba!
10. Cigars and rum – Cuba’s gold
Wherever you go on the island, cigars and rum will be with you every step of the way. Take it easy. The cigars are rolled on the island and the tobacco also grows here. Cuba is home to famous brands like Cohiba, Montechristo and Romeo y Julieta. The factories are all located in the region around Pinar del Rio and can be visited.
Rum is also distilled on the island and sugar cane thrives in the west. The first manufacture of the famous Havana Club can be visited in the capital. There are also exciting insights into the history of the high-proof drink.
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Prague Spring – Sunday
It seems that these European sporting meets always have a Brunch on the day after and I’ve signed up for it.
Pavilion Grébovka
The Pavilion Grébovka is set in an attractive park and looks like a gingerbread house basking in the sunshine. I meet up with the three French Guys and proceed to work our way through a feast. Everything is good except the coffee. There’s an offer of a free walking tour around Praha in the afternoon so I have to hang around for this to begin. Pavel is a gay professional tour guide and he promises a somewhat subversive view of things. He wants to show us the history of the Czech Republic and its relationship with neighbours, the rest of the world and homosexuality. There are 10-12 guys on the tour some of them are from Germany, one guy from Austria, a local gay couple (the younger one comes from Slovakia) and the masseur – who is from Prague but now lives in Israel.
We begin in Wenceslas Square, which is more of a boulevard sweeping down from the Museum towards the Old Town Square. Pavel tells us this is where, in the past, you could pick up a guy for sex. We see a memorial to Jan Palach a young student who set himself alight in protest at the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 see: http://www.radio.cz/en/section/czechs/jan-palach-the-student-whose-self-immolation-still-haunts-czechs-today
Canal which was Venice in Film Casino Royal
Pavel shows us the contrast between a Soviet designed building and those of a more elegant era. Time is short as some of the party have to leave. They are catching a train and though we don’t have time to go to the station we are told about the Kinder Transport bronze statues which are companions to those at Liverpool Street Station in London. There’s also a statue of a Czech kissing a Soviet Soldier which Pavel thinks is very homo erotic, supposedly to show gratitude for being saved. From what is not clear. For the benefit of the Slovakian, Pavel tells us that Slovakia collaborated with the Nazis by handing over their Jews. Prague was apparently one of the first cities in Europe to welcome Jews and consequently there is evidence still of a once thriving community and you can still see the Orthodox on the streets. Everywhere on buildings there are the names of the streets and district we are in. The old ones (germanised) have not been taken down and co-exist with modern Czech versions. To understand all this we have to do some history and as we are standing in Wenceslas Square under the statue of St Vaclav this is a good place to start with the story of Bohemia. There is a very complicated theory of how the word Bohemian came in to being, involving the Roma, who were originally from India via Bohemia and when asked (in France) where they came from the answer was Bohemia, because that’s where they were last. We get the story of protestant Bohemia being subsumed into the Hapsburg Empire, returning to Catholicism and being forced to speak German. This is to be a running gag for the benefit of the Austrian and Germans.
Castle Gardens
They take it all in good part as we make our way to the Castle area on the other side of the river. Here we enter fabulous public gardens around the parliament buildings. The Castle where the president lives is above us as is the Cathedral. The President is allegedly an alcoholic and has been given this job to keep him out of trouble while the Prime minister gets on with the work. The President is anti gay and has also been on record saying that everyone should smoke and drink like him so that people will die younger and save the pension funds. I think that will only work if people have to pay for their healthcare.
Famous View of Prague and the charles Bridge from the river
We come down to the river to see a great view of the Charles Bridge and Old City.
But before we cross there are Pissing statues by David ?ern?. The Czechs are well know for taking the piss out of themselves and here, literally, are two men pissing on a map of their country.
Pissing Statues
There are more memorials to the revolution. There’s the John Lennon Pub unaccountably sitting in a quiet street. Lennon was never in Prague or the Czech Republic, but the Beatles songs greatly influenced the young and as their music was banned, records were smuggled in wearing Mozart dust jackets. In 1980 anticommunists painted ‘Imagine’ on a nearby convent wall opposite the French Embassy. It was removed immediately but the wall remained a focus of dissident graffiti and remains ever changing today.
John Lennon Pub
Grafitti Wall
We cross the Charles Bridge noting the location of a Mission Impossible scene and looking at the propaganda statues on the bridge. In particular there is a plaque showing the martyrdom of St John. In 1393 Queen Sophia’s confessor refused to divulge her secrets and was killed by order of the king. It’s supposed to be good luck to touch it. Various bits of brass have been kept looking clean by the constant touching. Pavel thinks that the stories change from time to time so that different parts of the brasses can be cleaned by the tourists.
By this time we have lost most of the party who have had to catch trains or go to the ‘After Party’. On the bridge, Pavel points out the Rudolfinum, named after the Hapsburg prince Rudolph who carried out a suicide pact with his lover at Mayerling. This music auditorium was used by the Germans in the war and the story goes that Hitler attended a concert there. He demanded that the statue of Jewish composer Mendelssohn be taken down. The staff had no idea which statue to remove and in the end they decided on the one with the largest nose which turned out to be Wagner. We turn right over the bridge to take a brief look at the National Theatre but the real prize is the Theatre where Václav Havel worked as a stage hand.
Václav Havel’s Theatre
We wander around the streets looking at insignias on the businesses, all the while noting the German and Czech versions of street signs. We pass the Gay sauna next to a church and now there are only three of us who eat at a traditional Czech restaurant. The beer is as usual excellent and the meal, which arrives at speed, is tasty and cheap. I have to leave now if I’m to make the evening concert at St Nicholas in the Old Town Square. The ensemble is comprised of four violins, a viola, cello and double bass. There’s a trumpeter and a Mezzo soprano who come in and out throughout the programme which last an hour. Mozart, Bach, Handel, Franck and Vivaldi are on the programme. I realise it’s a mixture of what can be achieved with the forces available and what the popular tunes are. The audience are all tourists from all over the world. Some applaud between movements but it doesn’t matter and the artists are gracious.
Sigmund Freud contemplating suicide
I’ve an early flight in the morning and decide to take the hotel car so there’s no time for breakfast. It’s German Wings on the way home. They are more relaxed and comfortable than Ryan Air but I could have done without the long stop in Köln, where I have breakfast and buy Swiss chocolate from the duty free at much the same price as Sainsburys.
Author Christopher PrestonPosted on May 22, 2014 Categories All, Travel Europe
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On the Right Track: $55M SR 347 Expansion Over UPRR
Tue August 14, 2018 - West Edition #17
Jennifer Rupp – CEG Correspondent
Bridge Rebar – Ames Construction erects the bridge piers for the new SR 347 bridge over the UPRR tracks. (ADOT Photo)
A $55 million project in Maricopa, Ariz., is under way, following an extensive traffic and accessibility study. SR 347 is the city's main transportation corridor through the community, serving as a regional connector to major employment and recreation areas. Traffic averages more than 31,000 vehicles per day and future (2040) projections of double that amount sparked a study to improve access and capacity.
The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), in conjunction with Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the city of Maricopa evaluated a total of 10 alternatives which would provide improvements to access, capacity and traffic operations through 2040. The study also considered a future grade separation (bridge) to replace the existing at-grade intersection of SR 347 at the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) track. Following a public hearing and environmental assessment, Alternative H was selected.
Just south of the Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway, SR 347 crosses the existing UPRR where there are currently 40 to 60 trains per day; the UPRR has plans to expand service, which would increase train traffic upwards of 100 trains per day. Additionally, the Amtrak station is located just west of the intersection and vehicular traffic is routinely delayed for its passenger operations.
The two-year project aims to free Maricopa commuters from long waits as trains cross busy SR 347 in the central part of the city. The project also includes an overpass connecting southbound SR 347 to Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway, and a new route for northbound drivers on Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway. ADOT received a $15 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant to cover a portion of the cost, and the city of Maricopa is contributing nearly $14 million.
“By enhancing mobility and safety, this project and the partnership that made it a reality will improve the quality of life in Maricopa and the region,” said John Halikowski, ADOT director.
Maricopa officials held a groundbreaking event in November 2017 and ground work began in March of this year with ADOT crews clearing vacant homes acquired for the project along Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway. Ames Construction of Scottsdale is the prime contractor.
“This marks the culmination of 14 years of work and fiscal prudence,” Maricopa Mayor Christian Price said. “This crucial infrastructure project has been one of our biggest hurdles to growth and safety. We now begin a new chapter and look forward to working with ADOT to build our overpass.”
SR 347 will have a new alignment just east of the current highway, a move that will allow most of the work to be accomplished without restricting highway traffic. The bridge is being constructed at Desert Cedars Drive and connecting with the current alignment north of Honeycutt Road. Northbound drivers on Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway will travel north on an alignment near the current Fourth Street and turn west at Honeycutt before connecting with SR 347. The project is on track to finish as scheduled by late 2019.
For more information, visit maricopa-az.gov/web/overpass-tracker.
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100 things you should know about the Grand Canyon
Scott Craven and Melissa Yeager
Grand Canyon may be the most recognizable landmark on the planet. And it's large enough to hold countless facts, figures and historical details you probably never knew.
As Grand Canyon National Park celebrates its centennial during 2019, here are 100 things you should know about Arizona's natural wonder.
Grand Canyon facts and figures
1. In 1926, seven years after the Grand Canyon's became a national park, it had 37,745 visitors. In 2017, the latest year for which stats are available, the park had 6.2 million visitors.
2. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long and 18 miles wide at its widest point.
3. At 1.2 million acres (1,902 square miles), Grand Canyon is the 11th largest national park in the United States.
4. The park is larger than Rhode island (1,034 square miles).
5. With more than 6 million visitors a year to the South Rim, Grand Canyon is the second most-visited national park. Great Smoky Mountains National Park draws more than 11 million visitors annually.
6. Though just 10 air miles separate the visitor services at the park's North and South rims, 211 road miles and more than four hours of windshield time await those who want to drive from one to the other.
7. Thanks to its remote location, the Grand Canyon's North Rim sees just 500,000 visitors a year.
8. The Colorado River drops nearly 2,000 feet during its journey through the Grand Canyon.
9. The oldest rocks are 1.8 billion years old, predating dinosaurs.The Canyon itself is roughly 6 million years old.
10. There are eight layers of exposed rock at the Grand Canyon.
11. On average, the Grand Canyon is a mile deep.
12. The North Rim is roughly 1,300 feet higher than the South Rim.
13. The Canyon boasts about 91 species of mammals, 447 species of birds, 58 species of reptiles and 18 species of fish (five of them native).
14. Botanists have counted 1,750 plant species growing in the park.
15. The Grand Canyon pink rattlesnake is found only within the park's boundaries. It's one of six rattlesnake species that live inside the park.
16. But the most dangerous creature at Grand Canyon, based on unfortunate encounters with visitors, is the rock squirrel. Dozens of people each year are bitten, many while attempting to feed — or take selfies with — the not-as-adorable-as-they-look creatures.
17. The Colorado River has a maximum depth of 85 feet.
18. The temperature of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon averages a chilly 50 degrees.
19. Yes, one of the seven wonders of the world has a physical address. It's 20 South Entrance Road, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023.
20. Need the park's mailing address? Send letters and packages to P.O. Box 129, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023.
Grand Canyon notable people
21. Based on archaeological findings, the first people passing through the Grand Canyon likely were hunter-gatherers 10,000 years ago.
22. Eleven indigenous tribes are traditionally associated with the Grand Canyon, including the Hualapai, Havasupai, Hopi and Navajo.
23. In the late 19th century, mining drew many of the earliest American-European settlers. With precious minerals scarce, they found tourism a more lucrative career.
24. John Christmas Ives was the first Anglo to lead an expedition to explore Grand Canyon. In his 1861 report to Congress, he predicted the area would remain wilderness. "The region is, of course, altogether valueless. It can be approached only from the south, and after entering it there is nothing to do but leave," he wrote.
25. Famed explorer John Wesley Powell was the first to call it the Grand Canyon, doing so in 1871. Before Powell and his expedition team explored the Colorado River through the gorge and put it into perspective, it was called Big Canyon.
26. It seems the Grand Canyon has always been an Instagrammable spot. The Kolb brothers established a photo studio near Bright Angel trailhead. They took photos of people hiking and riding mules along the trail, then developed them in their studio and bound them in leather folders for $3 — approximately $83 today.
27. One of the first politicians to seek protection for Grand Canyon was President Benjamin Harrison. As a senator, he introduced three bills to Congress to make Grand Canyon a national park, the first in 1882. In 1893, President Harrison issued an executive order creating the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, which put limits on logging.
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28. President Theodore Roosevelt kept the Grand Canyon rolling toward national-park status. Three years after he visited in 1903, he declared the area a Game Reserve, and in 1908 made it a national monument. Neither declaration required congressional approval.
29. President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation designating the Grand Canyon a national park in 1919. There is no evidence he ever saw the Canyon in person.
30. Ralph Cameron, an Arizona prospector and businessman, had a bitter feud over federal protection for Grand Canyon. The U.S. government declared that Cameron, who had mining claims in the area, was trespassing on federal property. He successfully ran for Senate in 1920 and temporarily succeeded in removing funding to develop the park before being voted out of office.
31. Architectural pioneer Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter's work is still visible at the Grand Canyon. From Phantom Ranch on the Colorado River to Hermit's Rest to the Desert View Watchtower, she designed buildings to blend rather than compete with the environment.
32. Sitting presidents who have visited the Grand Canyon include William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
33. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon visited, but were not president at the time.
Visiting Grand Canyon
34. Absolutely the best tip if you're visiting during peak season: Buy an admission pass online, park in Tusayan (the little town just outside the front gate) and take a free shuttle to Grand Canyon Village. You'll avoid long entrance lines and a lengthy hunt for a parking spot.
35. It's a 5-mile drive from the South Rim's front gate to the Rim itself and Grand Canyon Village, where the hotels and services are.
36. Public Wi-Fi is available at two areas on the South Rim (the Canyon Village Market Deli and Yavapai Lodge) and one spot on the North Rim (the general store at the entrance of the campground).
37. Due to a slow connection, don't count on the Wi-Fi to allow you to do much beyond checking email and doing some light browsing.
38. In Market Village, the business district of the South Rim, there is a deli, grocery store, post office and bank.
39. If you want to travel like they did in the early 20th century, take the Grand Canyon Railway from Williams to the South Rim and back. The 65-mile journey takes 2 hours and 15 minutes.
40. Become a Junior Ranger by completing various activities when visiting the Grand Canyon. And you don't have to be a junior. In February 2019, 103-year-old Rose Torphy earned the title.
41. El Tovar hotel was built at a cost of $250,000 in 1904, roughly $7 million in today’s dollars. It opened in 1905 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
42. El Tovar hotel has 78 rooms, 12 of them suites, and no two rooms are alike.
43. You don't have to dress up to enjoy dinner in the El Tovar Dining Room, but don't wear shorts or flip-flops.
44. Other accommodations right on the South Rim are Thunderbird Lodge and Kachina Lodge (hotel rooms) and Bright Angel Lodge (cabins). The hotel rooms of Maswik Lodge are a 5-minute walk away. Yavapai Lodge rooms are a shuttle ride away near the Market Plaza.
45. The South Rim has an auto mechanic, but the shop is set up to deal only with minor repairs.
Outdoors at Grand Canyon
46. The Grand Canyon is bike-friendly. Bike rentals are available and shuttle buses are equipped with racks. Bike-only campsites are available at the South Rim's Mather Campground and the North Rim Campground.
47. Enjoy the Park Ranger Audio Tour by calling 928-225-2907. Each of the 30 stops along or near the South Rim is indicated by a sign. Call the number, tap which stop you're at, then listen to a two-minute narration of your surroundings. You can listen from anywhere, including from home, but it won't have the same impact as being there.
48. The main trailheads along the South Rim are, from west to east: Hermit, Bright Angel, South Kaibab, New Hance and Tanner. These aren't the only ways to explore the canyon — other, more remote trailheads can be used, and hardy backpackers can put together extended routes using connecting trails below the Rim.
49. The first dramatic overlook on the popular South Kaibab Trail is called Ooh Ahh Point. It offers unparalleled panoramic views and is a good destination for day hikers as it's just 0.9 mile one way.
50. There can be a temperature difference of 20 degrees or more between the South Rim and the Canyon floor. In summer, it's often in the 80s on the Rim but 100 degrees or more at the Colorado River.
51. On average, 250 people must be rescued inside the Grand Canyon each year.
52. The biggest mistake visitors make is not carrying enough water, park rangers say. Hikers also underestimate the effort needed to get back to the rim, and wear improper footwear (including flip-flops and high heels).
53. It takes a reasonably fit hiker four to five hours to hike from the South Rim to the Colorado River and, as rangers tell anyone who asks, twice as long to hike back up.
54. The fastest known Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim time (running or hiking from the South to the North and back) for women is 7 hours, 28 minutes and 58 seconds, set Nov. 21, 2018, by Taylor Nowlin of Portland, Oregon. Jim Walmsley of Flagstaff set the men's record of 5 hours, 55 minutes and 20 seconds on Oct. 4, 2016.
55. Should you leave unattended food at your campsite or picnic area, ravens will pounce. The birds are notorious for ravaging belongings in search of food.
56. Want to get married at the Grand Canyon? There are eight outdoor areas (six on the South Rim) and one indoor location (Shrine of the Ages on the South Rim). Lodges also are available.
57. Want to float the Colorado River? To get the best selection of trips and dates, reserve a commercial rafting trip a year ahead of time. But you might find dates just a month out, based on demand or cancellations.
58. Private rafting permits are a different matter. They are issued via weighted lottery, and some people wait as long as five years to score a permit.
59. Each year, 503 noncommercial launches are allowed on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. And 16 concessionaires offer commercial trips of three to 18 days.
60. Best rafting weather typically is in April, May, September and October. Those months offer best chances for dry, mild days.
61. The most unusual weather occurrence at the Grand Canyon is an inversion, where thick clouds fill the gorge below the Rim. It occurs once every few years.
62. On average, Grand Canyon National Park records 25,000 lightning strikes each year.
North Rim and Phantom Ranch
63. Because of cold weather that puts water pipes at risk, the North Rim is open seasonally: May 15-Oct. 15.
64. By Oct. 16 each year, Grand Canyon Lodge has been winterized. Water is shut off. Bedding and furnishings are wrapped in plastic to deter vermin, though when employees return in April to start the reopening process, they often find some rooms have been compromised.
65. The small guardhouse at the North Rim is unlocked during the winter closure, and is stocked with food and water should wayward hikers need emergency shelter.
66. A skeleton crew lives at the North Rim during the winter. When the snow comes, residents move their vehicles to Jacob Lake and rely on snowmobiles to get around.
67. The original lodge on the North Rim burned down in 1932. A new one rose in its place in 1937.
68. There is such a high demand for Phantom Ranch, the only public accommodations on the Canyon floor, that monthly lotteries are held for reservations 15 months out.
69. Two-person cabins at Phantom Ranch are $155 per night. Group cabins are $267 per night. A bed in the dorm is $53 per night.
70. Food costs at Phantom Ranch may seem high ($23.65 for breakfast; $47 for a steak dinner) until you factor in the cost and difficulty of transporting supplies.
71. Phantom Ranch also is home to a telecommunications unicorn: a pay phone. Callers must pay with credit cart or phone card.
72. The Kaibab Trail Suspension Bridge, also called the "Black Bridge," is one of two suspension bridges over the Colorado River in the span of 340 miles. It lies between Navajo Bridge to the east and Hoover Dam to the west.
73. The Black Bridge is 440 feet long and has been in use since 1928. It connects the South Kaibab Trail to Phantom Ranch.
74. The Silver Bridge, about 765 yards downstream from the Black Bridge, connects Phantom Ranch to the Bright Angel Trail.
Living at Grand Canyon
75. A pipe more than 60 years old runs from the Colorado River to the South Rim, supplying the area with its water.
76. The South Rim is a small city complete with school, library and community center for year-round employees and their families.
77. Grand Canyon is the only national park to have a K-12 school district. The park's first elementary school was established in 1911.
78. One of the most precious commodities on the South Rim is internet bandwidth. Senior employees are likely to live in houses with broadband connections. For residents who lack that, the best signals are found in and around the community center.
79. Religious services in the park are offered by seven churches and faiths.
80. Bowling is a popular pastime for some South Rim residents. Leagues compete at the six-lane alley inside Tusayan's Grand Canyon Squire Inn.
81. To be buried in the Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery, one must have worked at the park for least three years and have made a significant contribution to the understanding or appreciation of the Canyon.
The Skywalk isn't at Grand Canyon National Park
82. The Skywalk, the U-shaped, glass-bottom bridge that juts over the Canyon, is not in Grand Canyon National Park. It's at Grand Canyon West, on the Hualapai Reservation about 250 miles and five hours of drive time from the South Rim.
83. The Grand Canyon isn't the world's grandest. Tibet's Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is 2 miles deeper and 30 miles longer.
84. In December 2017, a Las Vegas family was declared Grand Canyon's 6 millionth guests. Just one problem: A year-end audit revealed the park received 5.96 million visitors.
85. California has its own Grand Canyon — sort of. Riders aboard the Disneyland Railroad travel along the South Rim via a 306-foot-long diorama, the longest of its kind when it opened in 1958.
86. In 1999, the U.S. Postal Service destroyed 100 million Grand Canyon stamps. According to those stamps, the Canyon was in Colorado.
87. In 1979, the Canyon was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
88. It's estimated that in 2017 Grand Canyon National Park created $938 million in economic benefit and 9,423 jobs in northern Arizona, according to the National Park Service.
89. Less than a fifth of the Colorado River's length runs through Grand Canyon National Park. The river is 1,450 miles long, 277 of which are in the park.
90. Of the 335 recorded caves in the park, only one is open to the public: Cave of the Domes on Horseshoe Mesa. Officials estimate more than 1,000 caves are tucked into the Grand Canyon.
Want to scatter ashes at Grand Canyon?
91. Want to scatter a loved one's ashes at the Canyon? According to the park's website, human ashes may be spread in undeveloped areas away from roads, buildings and campgrounds. The ashes must be well dispersed and have no teeth, bone fragments or other recognizable remnants. And no markers are permitted.
92. Tusayan is the small town 2 miles outside the national park's front gate. It's home to seven hotels and an RV park, as well as several restaurants and souvenir stores.
93. If seeing the actual natural wonder isn't enough for you, visit the Imax Theater in Tusayan to see "Grand Canyon: Hidden Secrets," a 34-minute film showing up to 10 times a day.
94. In the late 1800s, the 65-mile stagecoach journey from Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon took 12 hours. A “tiny tent village” awaited visitors, according to the Arizona Republican newspaper.
95. Believing the Canyon to be a Masonic Lodge carved by God, Phoenix Masons led by A.A. Betts met there in 1913 to confer first, second and third degrees in Masonry. Betts referred to the Canyon as “an abysmal slit.”
96. In 1905, Utah politicians attempted to annex the Arizona Strip, the land north of Canyon and abutting the Utah state line. Their efforts (as well as offers to buy or trade for the land) spanned more than a decade but came to nothing.
97. The first recorded flight to span the Grand Canyon occurred Feb. 24, 1919. It fueled dreams of passenger flights between the El Tovar hotel on the South Rim and Bright Angel Point on the North Rim. The idea never took off.
98. On June 30, 1956, two passenger planes out of Los Angeles collided over the Grand Canyon, killing all 128 aboard. Poor communication, outdated visual flight rules and turbulent weather played crucial parts, and the crash was one of the accidents that inspired the 1958 creation of the Federal Aviation Administration.
99. Grand Canyon is the most popular national park on Instagram, based on the latest stats (2017). With 1.9 million tags, it beat out Yosemite National Park (1.7 million).
100. In the late 1950s, miners pulled roughly 1,000 tons of bat guano from a cave in a failed venture to capitalize on the fertilizer. Remnants of the mine, including a terminus of a tram, remain at Grand Canyon West.
Republic reporter Perry Vandell contributed to this story.
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Accidental Erasing and Virus Destroy Court Transcript – Convicted Murderer Gets New Trial
Modified April 1, 2021
An old saying advises that “nobody’s perfect”. This truism is reinforced every day, and for those who type and use computers for a living, the saying is a living reality.
Writers and stenographers rely on being able save, modify, delete, and even recover information that was typed into and stored on a computer. But, as exemplified by a 2009 murder conviction which was overturned as a result of a court reporter’s error, sometimes a person’s imperfections can come back to haunt them.
In 2009 Randy Chaviano was convicted of murdering a man who had come to Chaviano’s home to purchase drugs. Upon appealing the conviction to the Third District Court, authorities found that there was barely any transcript available of the previous proceedings, a finding which resulted in Chaviano’s original conviction being thrown out, and a new trial being ordered.
The reason for the lack of a complete transcript was that the court reporter for the case did not use paper to record the transcript, as was customary. Instead, it was stored on a computer disk, but the memory was later accidentally erased.
Though the court reporter for this case had backed up the transcript by saving it on her computer, a virus on the computer wiped out her information, including the transcript.
As a result of the situation Miami-Dade court reporters were instructed to use methods to capture the transcripts on both paper and digital memory. Additionally, county regulators pushed to replace human stenographers with digital recorders.
This case underscores the critical work done by court reporters in the United States, and how important it is that they consistently follow proper procedures at all times.
In a more recent situation, a court reporter in New York City caused upwards of 40 cases to be reviewed, after writing “gibberish” instead of accurately reporting court proceedings.
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Banks win reprieve on home-equity loans
Bank of America has struggled under the weight of toxic mortgages from its 2008 purchase of Countrywide Financial Corp.
Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo & Co. and three other banks that settled a nationwide probe of foreclosure practices this month will get a bonus from the deal: protection for $308 billion of home-equity loans they hold.
The banks that service about half the nation's mortgages on behalf of investors will be able to share losses on their junior loans with bondholders and get credit toward the cash they pledged to spend in the settlement, said an Obama administration official involved in drafting the $25 billion agreement. Second liens would typically be wiped out before senior-mortgage investors take a loss, said Laurie Goodman, managing director at Amherst Securities Group in New York.
It's “a gift to the banks, at investors' expense,” said Ms. Goodman, a member of the Fixed Income Analysts Society's Hall of Fame. “A proportionate write-down of the first and second represents a reversal of normal lien priority.”
Loss-sharing will break the logjam that occurs when banks drag their feet processing modifications on mortgages that outrank their junior liens, said the Obama official, who declined to be identified because this arrangement hasn't been made public. Government foreclosure-prevention programs have resulted in less than 1 million modifications, a quarter of the goal the administration set three years ago. Home-equity mortgages have been a reason for that, said Arthur Wilmarth, a professor at George Washington University Law School in Washington.
“The roadblock to getting comprehensive modifications has been the efforts of these banks, the biggest servicers, to protect their second liens,” Mr. Wilmarth said. “To only suffer losses on an equal basis as first-lien investors is a good outcome for them.”
The servicer agreement resolved state and federal probes into foreclosure abuses including robo-signing, the fraudulent endorsement of court documents. The banks have pledged $20 billion in various forms of mortgage relief, including principal reductions, plus payments of $5 billion to state and federal governments.
The settlement has been criticized by money managers including Scott Simon at Pacific Investment Management Co., who said investors who bought mortgage-backed securities will suffer losses as banks earn credits for easing loan terms.
“This was a relatively cheap resolution for the banks,” Mr. Simon, the mortgage head at Pimco, which runs the world's largest bond fund, said after the settlement's Feb. 9 announcement. “A lot of the principal reductions would have happened on their loans anyway, and they're using other people's money to pay for a ton of this. Pension funds, 401(k)s and mutual funds are going to pick up a lot of the load.”
While a summary of the settlement has been released, the details haven't been made public. The document may be issued as soon as this week, according to the Obama official. The credits banks will get for writing down home equity loans won't be as much as they will get for reducing the balance on primary mortgages, the official said.
The servicers involved in the agreement are Bank of America, Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Ally Financial Inc.
Bank of America had $102.9 billion of home equity mortgages in the third quarter, surpassing its $84.6 billion market cap, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Wells Fargo had $95 billion, J.P. Morgan had $79.7 billion, Citigroup was $27.8 billion, and Ally, the bank that sparked the state and federal investigation into foreclosure practices, had $2.2 billion.
Representatives from J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Ally, and Citigroup declined to comment.
Since Feb. 9, Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America has declined 3.7%, San Francisco-based Wells Fargo has dropped 1.3%, Citigroup in New York fell 3.9% and J.P. Morgan gained 1.1%. Ally was bailed out by the government in 2008 and is pursuing an initial public offering to repay taxpayers who own the Detroit-based lender.
About 92% of home equity loans are held on the balance sheets of U.S. banks, according to data compiled by Amherst. The five banks in the mortgage settlement own 42% of the second liens. That makes it “very likely” a servicer of a primary mortgage will hold a property's junior loan, Ms. Goodman said in a report this month.
“A conflict arises because the servicer has a financial incentive to service the first lien to the benefit of the second-lien holder, which may oppose the financial interest of the investor,” she wrote.
Nearly 11 million home loans in the U.S. were underwater in the third quarter, according to CoreLogic Inc. in Santa Ana, Calif. About 4.4 million of them had home equity mortgages, with an aggregated value of $180 billion. That represents 20% of the $888 billion of outstanding second-lien loans, according to Federal Reserve data.
Home equity lines of credit, or Helocs, were used during the 2001 to 2006 housing boom as a way for owners to cash in on rising real estate values for money to spend on cars, vacations and property renovations. Homeowners who took out Helocs were given checks and a debit card to make the loans easy to tap. Primary-mortgage holders couldn't stop, and rarely knew about, homeowners who took out home equity loans on their collateral.
“People turned their homes into cash registers,” said Keith Gumbinger, vice president of HSH Associates, a mortgage data firm in Pompton Plains, N.J. “They used their Helocs like pre-paid credit cards.”
Home-equity loans were also used as so-called piggyback mortgages that took the place of down payments. By 2006, when U.S. home prices peaked, most banks were willing to give “no- equity equity loans,” lending up to 100% of a property's value, said Peter Ticktin, a Florida foreclosure attorney. Some banks advertised loans that exceeded home values by 25%.
“Now those home equity loans are so far underwater, they can't see the surface,” said Mr. Ticktin, who negotiates with banks on mortgages in default. “The banks have been adamant about protecting their second-lien interests, no matter how underwater they are.”
Treating a senior and junior lien on an equal basis will result in higher rates for primary mortgages as investors add a risk premium to compensate for the danger of higher losses, said Amherst Securities' Ms. Goodman.
“It will ultimately result in more expensive first lien mortgages, as investor realize they will be less well protected than their lien priority would indicate,” said Ms. Goodman.
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Home Entertainment Watch the first full trailer for X-Men TV series The Gifted
Watch the first full trailer for X-Men TV series The Gifted
By Kervyn Cloete
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the mutated gene pool, Bryan Singer is back to dabble in the world of X-Men! As X-Men: Apocalypse had the mutant power of even making Olivia Munn in a blue bikini with a katana boring, many fans were a bit relieved with the news that Singer was done directing movies about superhero mutants. He said nothing about TV series though!
Fox’s upcoming new drama series The Gifted is set in the world of the X-Men, but not quite the X-Men from the movies. Although this is a separate universe, it is a lot closer to the big screen version of X-Men we know though than something like Legion. That would probably be due to the fact that Singer is producing this one and will also be directing the pilot as well as an indeterminate number of further episodes.
We’ve already seen one brief teaser for the upcoming series written by Burn Notice creator Matt Nix, and a recently released full trailer for the series solidifies its comic book roots as it even name-drops Xavier’s superhero team. You probably shouldn’t get your hopes up of seeing Wolverine slicing and dicing through the crowds.
What you will see though is True Blood star Stephen Moyer (SSSOOOOKEEEH!) and fan favourite Whedonverse alum Amy Acker as parents who discover their kids are mutants in a world in which the superpowered are hunted down. This forces them to meet up with the mutant underground (who appear to be the Morlocks from the comics) to get their kids to safety while being hunted down by some government ne’er-do-wells and their robot spiders. It’s always robot spiders. That last bit aside, The Gifted actually looks way better than I thought it would, with great looking effects and solid acting and I’m now kind of stoked to see it.
The Gifted also stars Percy Hynes White, Sean Teale, Blair Redford, Natalie Alyn Lind and Jamie Chung (as Blink, who featured in X-Men: Days of Future Past). It is scheduled to debut sometime in the third quarter of 2017.
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Flower shows brighten winter's gray days
Think spring by attending a nearby flower show.
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By Beth J. Harpaz AP Travel Editor
Enough already with chilly gray winter. Time to pick up a bouquet of bright pink tulips and start thinking about spring.
In many places, it will be weeks before daffodils and hyacinths start peeking through the ground, but there are plenty of flower shows to see in the meantime.
Some are big annual events with themes that change every year, such as the famous Philadelphia Flower Show, this year March 1 to 8 with a "Bella Italia" theme, (tickets, $22).
Other displays focus on one type of flower, such as the various orchid shows that showcase the jungle plant's intense blooms at gardens and exhibit halls around the country.
One of those annual orchid shows held each year just as the cold weather starts to lift is at the New York Botanical Garden."We're in the last gray days of winter," says Marc Hachadourian, curator of NYBG's Glasshouse Collection. "What better place to be than a tropical paradise filled with exotic orchids?"
Here's more information about orchid shows scheduled soon. Following is a list of other flower shows:
- The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx hosts its seventh annual orchid show, this year showcasing the plants in a contemporary Brazilian garden design with fountains, pools, mosaics, and palms. "The Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern" takes place Feb. 28 to April 12. The garden is open Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; admission, $20.
- The Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis celebrates its 150th anniversary this year and has been hosting orchid shows for an impressive 91 of those years. The orchid show is called "Henry's Garden," named for Henry Shaw, who founded the garden in 1959. The show features more than 800 orchids with a Victorian theme, including a three-tiered fountain, large planters brimming with flowers, wrought-iron lamp posts, urns, and other period pieces to suggest a 19th century courtyard. The show runs through March 15 (garden open daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $11).
- Among the best places to view orchids are local and regional shows sponsored by orchid societies. The South Florida Orchid Society bills the 63rd Miami International Orchid Show as the largest exhibiting orchid show in the country. It will take place Feb. 27 to March 1 with a theme of "Secret Orchid Gardens" at the Doubletree Miami Mart/Airport Hotel and Exhibition Center. The program includes a juried awards competition, daily demonstrations by orchid experts, and sales of thousands of orchids and related items.
For a complete list of orchid shows around the country, visit the website of the American Orchid Society. Click on "Events," then "Show Schedule," to find listings for dozens of shows around North America and even some in the Caribbean and South America.
Here are a few scheduled for March; most include displays, juried shows, sales, and expert advice:
- San Francisco Orchid Society Pacific Orchid Exposition, March 6 to 8, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco.
- Smoky Mountain Orchid Society Show, March 6 to 8, West Town Mall, Knoxville, Tenn. (No website.)
- International Orchid Festival, March 13 to 15, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami.
- San Diego County Orchid Society Show, "Around the World with Orchids," March 13 to 15, Scottish Rite Center, San Diego.
- Atlanta Orchid Society Show, March 12 to 15, Atlanta Botanical Gardens.
- Greater Cincinnati Orchid Society Show, March 14 to 15, Krohn Conservatory, Eden Park, Cincinnati. (No website.)
- Santa Barbara International Orchid Show, "Orchid Escape," March 20-22, Earl Warren Showgrounds, Santa Barbara, Calif.
- Heart of Dixie Orchid Society Show, March 21 to 22, Holiday Inn Research Park, Huntsville, Ala.
- Greater Omaha Orchid Society Show, March 21 to 22, Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, Neb.
- Illinois Orchid Society Show, "Orchids in the Mist," March 21 to 22, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Ill.
- Southeastern Pennsylvania Orchid Society Show, March 27 to 29, Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pa.
- Alamo Orchid Society Show, March 28 to 29, San Antonio Garden Center, San Antonio. (No website.)
- Western North Carolina Orchid Society Show, "Orchid Mystery: Journey to the Far East," March 28 to 29, North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville, N.C.
- Illowa Orchid Society Spring Show, March 28 to 29, Putnam Museum and IMAX Theatre, Davenport, Iowa. (No website.)
Other garden shows, festivals, and events
In addition to the Philadelphia Flower Show, which is the largest of its kind, many localities and botanical gardens host major events to celebrate the flowers of spring. Here are a few of them:
- Chicago Flower & Garden Show, March 7 to 15, Navy Pier.
- Boston "BLOOMS!," March 13 to 15, One International Place, 125 High St. and the InterContinental Hotel, Boston.
- San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, March 18 to 22, San Mateo Event Center, San Mateo, Calif. Organizers say this is the show's final year.
- National Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington D.C., March 28 to April 12.
- Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, Skagit County, Washington, April 1 to 30.
- Atlanta Dogwood Festival, April 17 to 19, Piedmont Park.
- Cincinnati Flower Show, April 18 to 26, Symmes Township Park, Symmes Township, Ohio.
- Historic Garden Week in Virginia, April 18 to 25 . Events and tours around the state, from Mount Vernon and other historic landmarks to private homes.
- Maryland House & Garden Pilgrimage, April 25, May 2 to 3, May 9, May 16 to 17. Tours of historic and contemporary gardens around the state.
(Editor's note: We invite you to visit the main page of the Monitor’s gardening site , where you can find many articles, essays, and blog posts on various garden topics.)
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Cunninghams Funeral Directors has been in business serving Meath, Kildare and the greater Dublin since the 1920's.
The present company has evolved from the original family business "Cunningham Brothers" set up by three brothers Robert, Andrew and John who were already trading as Kellystown Sawmills based in Clonsilla Village who among other things were coffin manufacturers transporting their products throughout the country on the Royal Canal. Robert's two sons, Robert (Rory) and Oliver took over the business and in 1979 The business was incorported becoming Cunninghams Funerals Ltd with Robert as Managing Director. In 1993 Robert died suddenly and the company passed to his wife Nuala and their four sons Ian, Robert (Robin), Michael and Andrew who now run the company.
Cunninghams has traditionally served an area bordered by Maynooth , Dunboyne, Ashbourne, Finglas, Navan Road, Chapelizod, Clondalkin, Newcastle and Celbridge and including Leixlip, Lucan, Blanchardstown, Castleknock and of course Clonsilla.
Cunnighams, originally based in Clonsilla Village where they are amongst the oldest residents, opened their second funeral home in Lucan (the first purpose built funeral home in Dublin) in 1984, In 1995 they opened their funeral home in the former Methodist Church, Ardclough Road, Celbridge and in 2013 in The Old Presbytery at Church Avenue, Blanchardstown and in 2014 at Maynooth Road, Dunboyne.
Although now quite a large and expanding business, Cunninghams prides itself in the personal and professional service which they provide, rooted firmly in complete family involvement. Cunninghams staff are trained and qualified to the highest standards being members of the B.I.E (British Institute of Embalmers) and the B.I.F.D (The British Institute of Funeral Directors). The company is also a member of the I.A.F.D (Irish Association of Funeral Directors). Their codes of practice are a safeguard to the bereaved.
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Tom Dumoulin confirms he will target a Grand Tour in 2022
By Stephen Farrand published 23 December 21
'That is the ultimate challenge, the pinnacle of cycling' says newly-motivated Dutchman
Primož Roglič (left) and Tom Dumoulin show off the 2022 Jumbo-Visma jersey (Image credit: Jumbo-Visma)
Tom Dumoulin has revealed that he will return to targeting the overall classification at a Grand Tour in 2022 but did not specify if he will take aim at the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France or Vuelta a España.
The 31-year-old Dutchman decided to take out from the sport in the first months of 2021 to focus on his personal well being. However, he returned to racing at the Tour de Suisse as preparation for the time trial at the Tokyo Olympic Games and won a silver medal behind Jumbo-Visma teammate Primož Roglič.
A fractured wrist meant he was unable to ride the World Championships in Belgium but he is fully focused on the 2022 season and recently attended the Jumbo-Visma training camp near Girona, Spain.
Roglič has agreed a new contract with Jumbo-Visma that runs until 2025 and he is likely to lead the team at the Tour de France as he pursues a so-far elusive overall victory, while Jonas Vingegaard could lead Jumbo-Visma at the Giro d’Italia before riding the Tour in support of Roglič.
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Dumoulin could return to the Giro d’Italia, a race he won in 2017, but could also be tempted to build his form during 2022 and then target the Vuelta. This year’s race starts in the Netherlands and has both a team time trial and an individual time trial that could help Dumoulin pull back any time lost in the steep mountains.
“We have talked a lot about it in the team in recent months. I think riding a classification is very special. That is the ultimate challenge, the pinnacle of cycling," Dumoulin said in an interview with Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
“Those highs are what drives me. Not only that, of course. Fun should always be there, but if it weren't for those special highlights, I wouldn't have enjoyed it so much."
Dumoulin has not ridden a Grand Tour since 2020 when he finished seventh overall at the Tour de France and then abandoned the Vuelta early due to fatigue. He is convinced he is ready to return to the sport’s most demanding races.
“I think it's special that I have this opportunity, and it's cool that I can do it well. No matter how difficult it is, because there is a lot of stress and pressure involved. But when I look back on my career so far, it is precisely those moments where you perform maximum under difficult circumstances are the most special.”
Dumoulin admitted he was feeling tired, overtrained and unhappy this time last year. He eventually announced his decision to take time out at the start of Jumbo-Visma’s camp last January. Now he is far more motivated and ready to take on the young generation of riders who have recently emerged.
“Last year in December I noticed that the feeling was not good, I was overtrained and very tired. Now I feel fit and comfortable in my own skin,” he said.
“I just think it's great that every year a few of these young guys join us. It makes it even more difficult to get a good classification, but for cycling that's great.”
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Tony Romo carries Dallas Cowboys past Texans in overtime
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Cole Beasley (11) is tackled by Houston Texans cornerback Kareem Jackson (25) during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014 in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald/ Beth Engel)
PUBLISHED: October 5, 2014 at 10:36 p.m. | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 7:18 a.m.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Tony Romo took a few extra moments on the ground, right arm raised to celebrate a long touchdown pass after he escaped what looked like a sure sack for J.J. Watt.
Then, when the 34-year-old quarterback playing with a surgically repaired back made another off-balance throw under pressure in overtime, Dez Bryant’s spectacular catch saved the Dallas Cowboys from a late meltdown.
Bryant’s jump-ball grab set up Dan Bailey’s winning 49-yard field goal, and the Cowboys bounced back from blowing a 10-point lead late in fourth quarter to beat the Houston Texans 20-17 on Sunday.
“Just got to come down with it, come down with it,” said Bryant, who had game highs with nine catches and 85 yards. “That’s something I always tell Tony. If the ball is in the air, I’m going to try my best to come down with it.”
After the Texans scored twice in the last 2:27 of regulation, Bailey’s miss from 53 yards on the final play ended a franchise record streak of 30 straight made field goals.
“We had to go down and basically win the game twice,” said Romo, who threw for 324 yards with two touchdowns with an interception that took away a scoring chance in the fourth quarter. “You just put your work hat on and go out and execute.”
The Cowboys (4-1) won their fourth straight for the first time since 2011 heading into a trip to Super Bowl champion Seattle, their only road game in a stretch of six games.
The Texans (3-2) rallied behind Arian Foster, who had 157 yards rushing and a tying 1-yard score with 41 seconds left in regulation.
“Football is a brutal game,” Watt said. “It’s brutal on your body. It’s brutal on your emotions. To fight back the way we did, to show that resilience, it was good to see. But at the end of the day, we lost the game.”
NFL rushing leader DeMarco Murray had 136 yards for Dallas, his fifth straight 100-yard game to start the season.
After the Cowboys stopped the Texans on the first possession of overtime, they were facing third-and-8. Romo unloaded off his back foot to avoid a sack. Bryant reached over Johnathan Joseph on a 37-yard gain to the Houston 31. Bailey’s kick came three plays later.
“Dez, I’ve seen him make it a million times,” said Jason Witten, who became the third tight end in NFL history with 10,000 career yards receiving. “I don’t know that there’s two better people at clutch moments than Tony and him.”
The Texans pulled even by converting a fourth down on a drive to Randy Bullock’s 29-yard field, then got the ball back in just 32 seconds. They went 45 yards in four plays to Foster’s second touchdown with 41 seconds left.
Houston had just 86 yards total offense at halftime, but Foster had 117 rushing himself in the second half. He went 48 yards on consecutive plays, the latter from 15 to put Houston ahead 7-3 in the third quarter.
Romo answered four plays later on probably the best test so far of his back after surgery last December to repair a herniated disk.
He spun to his right as Watt closed in, then threw about as far as he could with more pressure coming. Terrance Williams had an easy 43-yard catch in the end zone when Houston’s Kendrick Lewis fell at the goal line just before the ball arrived.
“Certainly it’s one for the ages with Romo,” coach Jason Garrett said. “There’s a handful of those he’s had throughout his career, and I think you can add that one to the list.”
Witten helped set up Williams’ score with a 34-yard catch to join Tony Gonzalez and Shannon Sharpe as the only tight ends with 10,000 career yards receiving. He finished with 59 yards to put him at 10,014.
Murray, who had his fourth fumble in five games in the first quarter, was denied a chance to join Jim Brown and O.J. Simpson as the only running backs with at least 100 yards and one touchdown in the first five games of the season.
It looked like he would get the TD, but Romo instead threw a 2-yard scoring pass to Bryant for a 17-7 lead in the fourth quarter.
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On Third Anniversary of Ferguson, President Supports Further Militarization of Police
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By Kanya Bennet
Today (August 9) marks the third anniversary of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. It was this shooting that woke this country up to the epidemic of police violence.
We as a nation have watched dozens of fatal police shootings, often of unarmed boys and men of color since August 9, 2014.
We’ve seen almost no police accountability for these fatalities over the last few years. In 2014 and 2015, zero officers were convicted of murder or manslaughter, while in 2016 there have been just a few convictions. And we’ve witnessed the outrage and protest around these unjustified shootings being met with militarized policing.
The militarized response to the uprising in Ferguson shocked America. It shocked the world. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) declared, “Ferguson resembles Fallujah.” The sniper rifles, armored vehicles, and tear gas turned on Ferguson protesters were stunning, and yet it could have happened in countless communities in this country.
In the ACLU’s report, “War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing” — published just a few weeks before the Ferguson uprising — we explained that militarized policing was routine for many communities, particularly those hit hardest by the war on drugs. We shed light on the Department of Defense 1033 program — a military weapon giveaway that brings weapons of war from the battlefield to your hometown.
Though there are several federal programs that provide local law enforcement with military weapons, 1033 is the most dangerous. President Obama was right to reform it and prohibit the transfer of certain weapons, like bayonets and tanks, and to restrict other weapons like Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, or MRAPs, from being sent to police departments. To learn that these modest reforms may have been in name only was deeply disturbing.
Last month, the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s investigative arm, released a truly shocking report on the 1033 program. Setting themselves up as a fake law enforcement agency, GAO investigators applied for military gear and received $1.2 million worth of rifles, pipe bomb equipment, and night vision goggles, among other 1033 equipment.
GAO officials who ran the sting operation couldn’t believe how easy it was to trick the Pentagon into transferring military gear to a federal law enforcement agency — and a fake one at that. “They never did any verification, like visit our ‘location,’ and most of it was by email,” a GAO official told The Marshall Project. “It was like getting stuff off of eBay.”
And if this isn’t troubling enough, there’s President Trump’s take on 1033, which he delivered in the same speech where he incited police violence generally.
In late July, as Donald Trump told law enforcement in Long Island, New York, “don’t be too nice” to “these thugs,” he assured them that the 1033 equipment was “being put to good use.” Trump said, “the stuff is disappearing so fast we have none left.” According to Trump, he changed the rules around 1033 on his “first day,” though there’s no evidence of this at all.
During the campaign, Trump made clear that he was a fan of 1033, calling it “an excellent program that enhances community safety.” He pledged to rescind Obama’s executive order around militarized policing. Again, it is not clear if and when he did this, certainly not to the public and not even to officials at the Department of Defense. At a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing last month, witnesses from the Department of Defense recommitted to operating 1033 consistent with the Obama reforms, even acknowledging that city councils or other local governing bodies are required to sign off on certain military weapons before they are received.
Given the GAO report and Trump’s comment, the best thing to do is suspend the 1033 program. The ACLU has asked for a suspension before, and now we’ve been joined by the Democratic leadership of the House Armed Services Committee. “The Defense Department,” said Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Rep. Madeleine (D-Guam) in a joint statement, “should not be providing military equipment to civilian law enforcement agencies until we can be sure the program is capable of preventing dangerous items from falling into the wrong hands.”
As we are reminded on the third anniversary of Michael Brown’s death and the protests it provoked, it looks like 1033 is in the wrong hands with President Trump. Only change will prevent future death and tragedy and advance the reforms so desperately needed to fulfill law enforcement’s promise to serve and protect.
Kanya Bennett is Legislative Counsel of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office
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3 thoughts on “On Third Anniversary of Ferguson, President Supports Further Militarization of Police”
Howard P August 9, 2017 at 10:54 am
Interesting ‘opinion piece’… interesting conscious (some would say ‘implicit’) biases are apparent.
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David Greenwald August 9, 2017 at 11:55 am
I’m interested in your take on the “conscious” biases.
Noreen Mazelis August 18, 2017 at 5:52 pm
The police are a para-military force. So what? As for the Ferguson riots, that was an excuse to loot and plunder. As for Michael Brown [edited] Good riddance.
[moderator]: no name calling, please.
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See the world through a dog's eyes in Psyop's hand-drawn animated Coke ad
By Michael Burns | on April 30, 2015
This new spot for Coca Cola is not just a walk in the park for a dog and his owner.
Directed by Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick, Man and Dog is an animated delight from Psyop, devised in collaboration with ad agency Wieden+Kennedy.
It features the perambulations of a bored dog-owner and his canine companion, who sees the world in a very different way. The owner's outlook is changed however, after a chance encounter with a drinks machine - and becoming the recipeint of what appears to be a free bottle of Coke.
The inspiration for the ad was the mysterious interior of a dog's imagination.
"Dogs have the curious, imaginative minds of a six year old–specifically mine–who thinks every stick is Excalibur, every bit of string is a lightning whip,” said Kylie Matulick. “Dogs don’t see a heap of two-week old laundry; they see a castle ready to be defended, then napped in. Where we see a cumbersome vacuum cleaner, they see an alien robot loudly singing its home planet’s anthem. At least that’s what my six year old told me.”
“We wanted this film to be genuinely drawn by hand, like classic 2D animation we grew up with, but with more depth and dimension”.
“It’s nostalgic but new, it shows love and focus, it’s crafted but nicely flawed, we wanted it to have a truly original look that only exists in this moment.”
Throughout the film, the perspective shifts back and forth between man and dog, each view standing out stylistically from the other. The team achieved this by approaching both from different angles not only visually but technically.
“To truly appreciate the unique feeling of looking at the world through a dog’s eyes, we had to make sure that his moments really set themselves apart from the rest of the spot,” Kylie explained. “To achieve this, we did as much as we could to shift the feeling of the moment, from unique camera moves, the look and sound of the action. Things become brighter, more fanciful, and it’s clear that you’re seeing things in a new way.”
Throughout the film, the perspective shifts back and forth between man and dog, each view standing out stylistically from the other.
The team achieved this by approaching both from different angles not only visually but technically.
“To truly appreciate the unique feeling of looking at the world through a dog’s eyes, we had to make sure that his moments really set themselves apart from the rest of the spot,” Matulick explained. “To achieve this, we did as much as we could to shift the feeling of the moment, from unique camera moves, the look and sound of the action. Things become brighter, more fanciful, and it’s clear that you’re seeing things in a new way.”
Environments were comprised of digital matte paintings that were first painted in Photoshop on layers and eventually broken up onto cards and projected across 3D geometry, using both Maya and Nuke.
This hybrid 2D/3D look was particularly important for establishing the dog’s unique POV, which drives the fun spirit of the spot.
Objects seen in this perspective needed to be created in 3D, including pieces of the environment as well as additional characters that the dog encounters, such as the motorcycle-riding squirrels.
Casting the right man and dog for the spot was very important, and was a process that saw the creation of dozens upon dozens of different canines and their potential owners before landing on the final look from character designer Lois van Baarle.
Character designs were then brought to Duncan Studio, which collaborated with Psyop on the 2D portion of the film, from rough sketches and blocking down to inked and painted final cels.
In addition to the characters being hand-drawn, colours, shadows, and highlights were also added in the final hand-drawn animation phase. Animators at both Duncan Studios and Psyop added effects, color trails, smoke, dust, and more, all in 2D.
The final step was the compositing stage, where Psyop’s artists integrated the 3D renders with 2D animation, and laid them both out together among the film’s painted environments.
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SpaceX joins internet-from-space race with launch of 60 Starlink satellites
By Trevor Mogg May 23, 2019
SpaceX had a great night on Thursday, May 23, successfully deploying its first batch of 60 internet satellites designed to beam cheap broadband across the planet.
Two previous launch attempts had been scuppered by bad weather, but this time around, improved conditions allowed the SpaceX team to get on with the job.
Carrying its heaviest payload ever at 18.5 tons (16.8 metric tons), the Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida just after 10:30 p.m. ET on Thursday. Live-streamed on YouTube, SpaceX staff could be heard breaking into wild celebrations at every successful stage of the mission.
Three-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, the rocket’s faring fell away to reveal the 60 small satellites packed together, awaiting deployment. Six minutes after that, the first-stage booster made a perfect landing — its third so far in the reusable rocket’s lifetime — on SpaceX’s drone ship as it bobbed up and down in the Atlantic Ocean.
At about 11:30 p.m. ET — an hour after launch — SpaceX achieved exactly what it’d set out to do by successfully deploying the 60 Starlink satellites into orbit — by far the largest number of satellites it’s ever deployed in a single mission.
As the cluster of satellites drifted slowly away from the spacecraft, SpaceX software engineer and event commentator Tom Praderio described it as “an incredible moment” for the company.
According to what we’ve seen so far of Thursday night’s mission, the earlier-expressed fears of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk that “much will likely go wrong on 1st mission” appear unfounded.
Through the $10 billion Starlink project, SpaceX aims to deploy a total of 12,000 satellites into low-Earth orbit to create a broadband network providing low-cost, high-speed global internet coverage.
SpaceX will begin with the deployment of 4,425 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit followed by an additional 7,518 satellites at an even lower orbit.
The higher satellites will orbit Earth at an altitude of between 690 miles (1,110 km) and 823 miles (1,325 km) and act as the backbone of the Starlink broadband service, while the lower satellites will orbit at altitudes of between 208 miles (335 km) and 215 miles (346 km) and be used to boost capacity and lower latency, especially important in densely populated areas.
Musk has said that six further launches, each with 60 satellites, will be needed for “minor” internet coverage, and an additional 12 launches for “moderate” coverage.
The Federal Communications Commission greenlit SpaceX’s Starlink plan toward the end of last year, but on condition that the company deploys half of its satellites within six years and all of them within nine years, unless a waiver is granted.
SpaceX isn’t the only company interested in using satellites to build broadband services, with Facebook, Amazon, and SoftBank-backed OneWeb, for example, continuing to develop their own separate projects.
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Huntley Community School District 158FeaturedBelin Named Member of International Emerging Leaders Class of 2021
Belin Named Member of International Emerging Leaders Class of 2021
Dr. Marcus Belin, principal of Huntley High School, was selected to the ASCD international Emerging Leaders Class of 2021, a two-year cohort-based program designed to cultivate and develop rising leaders in education. The Emerging Leaders Class of 2021 includes educators from 12 states, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and India.
“Nurturing and promoting great education leaders is at the heart of our mission,” said CEO and Executive Director Ranjit Sidhu. “The Emerging Leaders program represents a growing cohort of leaders from around the globe who will serve as a guiding force in districts and schools for years to come.”
Participants in the Emerging Leaders program have between five and 15 years of experience in education and have made an impact as leaders in their schools, districts, and communities. Through the program, these educators gain access to networking and learning opportunities, prepare for future leadership roles, and build strong and supportive professional learning communities with peers around the globe.
“I am so excited and honored to be part of the Emerging Leaders Class of 2021 alongside such an outstanding group of educators across the world. This cohort presents a one of a kind opportunity to learn from fellow leaders and forward thinkers in the field of education. I look forward to representing Huntley High School and gaining a wide range of skills and perspectives to further the mission and vision of Huntley 158,” said Belin.
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You cannot live forever: Ageing is unstoppable
We probably cannot slow the rate at which we get older, because of biological constraints, an unprecedented study of lifespan statistics in human and non-human primates has confirmed.
The study set out to test the ‘invariant rate of ageing’ hypothesis, which says that a species has a relatively fixed rate of ageing from adulthood. An international collaboration of scientists from 14 different countries, including José Manuel Aburto from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, analysed age-specific birth and death data spanning centuries and continents.
Led by Fernando Colchero, University of Southern Denmark and Susan Alberts, Duke University, North Carolina, the study was a huge endeavour requiring monitoring wild populations of primates over several decades.
José Manuel Aburto says, ‘Our findings support the theory that, rather than slowing down death, more people are living much longer due to a reduction in mortality at younger ages. We compared birth and death data from humans and non-human primates and found this general pattern of mortality was the same in all of them. This suggests that biological, rather than environmental factors, ultimately control longevity.
‘The statistics confirmed individuals live longer as health and living conditions improve, which leads to increasing longevity across an entire population. Nevertheless, a steep rise in death rates, as years advance into old age, is clear to see in all species.’
He continues, ‘The debate over how long we can live has divided the academic community for decades. Some scholars argue human lifespan has no limit, while others say the opposite. But what has been missing is research comparing lifespans of multiple animal populations with humans, to work out what is driving mortality. Our study plugs that gap. This extraordinarily diverse collection of data enabled us to compare mortality differences both within and between species.’
The team analysed data from primates, since they are our closest genetic relatives, and therefore most likely to shed light on our biology. The research team analysed information from 30 primate species, 17 in the wild and 13 in zoos, including gorillas, baboons, chimpanzees and guenons. And it examined birth and death records from nine diverse human populations in 17th to 20th century Europe, the Caribbean and Ukraine, and two hunter gatherer groups between 1900 and 2000.
All the datasets examined by the team revealed the same general pattern of mortality: A high risk of death in infancy which rapidly declines in the immature and teenage years, remains low until early adulthood, and then continually rises in advancing age.
José Manuel Aburto says, ‘Our findings confirm that, in historical populations, life expectancy was low because many people died young. But as medical, social, and environmental improvements continued, life expectancy increased. More and more people get to live much longer now. However, the trajectory towards death in old age has not changed. This study suggests evolutionally biology trumps everything and, so far, medical advances have been unable to beat these biological constraints.’
The team hopes its findings will lead to greater understanding of the ecology and evolution of a wide range of animal species worldwide, and their conservation.
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Politics, Theology/Bible
Al Mohler on “Larry King Liveâ€
Dr. Albert Mohler, the President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, appeared on “Larry King Live” last night to discuss religion and the 2008 Presidential race. He was among a panel of guests that included Jim Wallis, David Kuo, Barry Lynn, and David Gergen.
The conversation was very illuminating not for what we learned from those representing the secular left (Barry Lynn and David Gergen), but for what we learned from those representing the religious left (Jim Wallis and David Kuo). Wallis and Kuo both argued that evangelicals should not base their vote in the upcoming election on a candidate’s views concerning abortion and same-sex “marriage.” They argued that poverty, aids, and Darfur are just as urgent as life issues and family issues.
I have talked about this before on this blog, and I will say it again. The religious left is trying to downgrade abortion on the list of evangelical priorities. They are not the only ones doing this. Ever since election 2004, many on the left side of the political spectrum have been trying to figure out how to capture or mitigate the evangelical vote. The Democrat party in particular has been trying to make inroads into the evangelical voting block by appealing to the moral conscience of evangelicals. They have been trying to convince evangelical voters that poverty, the environment, and aids are moral issues that are every bit as important as the sanctity of human life. “Evangelicals” like Jim Wallis and David Kuo are helping them make this case. The Democrat party, however, wants evangelicals to vote for them even though the party has every intention to continue their support for the right of mothers to kill their unborn children at any stage of pregnancy (0-9months).
In my view, Evangelicals should not be the lackeys of partisans when they are thinking about where to cast their vote. Rather, we should allow our political priorities to be shaped by a robust Christian conscience. For this reason, we must insist that the abortion issue is the greatest human rights crisis of our time and that we should not be distracted from the cause by politicians (Republican or Democrat) who care more about shoring up a constituency than protecting innocent human life. It’s an issue of priorities, and while the deleterious effects of poverty and “global warming” may be in the offing, the death toll of Roe v. Wade is already 40 million and counting. In my view, it’s not difficult to see which is the more urgent cause.
That is why I am so happy that Dr. Mohler was there to defend the priority of the pro-life cause:
What I don’t like and what I, frankly, find somewhat artificial and false here is the suggestion that evangelicals need to broaden their agenda, which means abandoning simple convictions on the family, on sexuality and on abortion and the sanctity of human life. I’m all for broadening the agenda. There’s a whole lot — given this country and given our responsibility that ought to be on our agenda, but evangelical Christians are not going to surrender those primary issues. We all have a hierarchy of concerns. And politically speaking, the sanctity of human life and the sanctity and integrity of the family are at the very top of the evangelical agenda. So, by the way, are issues of personal morality…
Here’s the transcript of the entire show: “Larry King Live” (May 14, 2007).
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What I find troubling is that Dr Mohler (in the quote you provided) seems to equate the importance gay marriage (‘the sanctity and integrity of the family’) with the sanctity of human life. He then adds ‘issues of personal morality.’ If we do, in fact, have a hierarchy of values with the sanctity of human life at the top, shouldn’t the Darfur situation and AIDS rank above gay marriage? Millions of people are dying becuase of those situations, while I don’t think rampaging pairs of married homosexuals are killing that many people. It seems to me that Dr Mohler has downgraded abortion to the same importance level as ‘personal morality’ and ‘sanctity and integrity of marriage.’
Denny,
as someone who is both a Christian and pretty far to the left, I think that you’re twisting words a little bit.
I don’t think that anyone on the religious left is trying to “downgrade” the abortion issue. It is hardly downgrading it to say that it’s as big of an issue to protect the unborn (abortion) as it is to protect the already born (Darfur, and anywhere where these kinds of atrocities happen). In both situations, it is innocent people being put to death because of someone else’s selfishness. To say that one murder is more important than another murder is flat out disgusting.
I think that if you’re going to be pro-life, then that encompasses a WHOLE BUNCH OF THINGS. Being pro-life, to me, also means being proactive in ensuring that those lives that we save have a fighting chance. Being pro-life means saying no to capital punishment. Being pro-life means being smart about where we send soldiers off to die, if we must do so at all.
The republicans get one thing right: abortion. But they get everything else SO COMPLETELY BEYOND WRONG that I can’t in clear conscience vote for them.
I echo Faimon’s point. I’m not sure why an unborn’s life is worth more of our attention than the life of the innocent in Darfur. Why does an evangelical’s passion for the unborn need to be more intense than his/her passion for other innocent victims who’s lives are in peril to get the evangelical stamp of approval? It easy to see that to get the Al Mohler seal of approval, we need to heighten abortion and homosexual marriage at the expense of other needs. Honestly, the fact that evangelicals like Mohler neglect these other needs, it seems clear that they are not being led by Kingdom values, but by political sentiments.
Also, I’m not sure why poverty is less important homosexual marriage. With all the attention towards the poor in the NT, I’m not sure why it is so low on Bible-believing conservative evangelicals priority list. The Jerusalem’s church’s request to Paul in Gal. 2 should ring in the evangelical conscience; “Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.” The one request from these leaders.
I’m not sure why you guys (the 3 posters above) feel the need to make the statements by Mohler into something they are not. He never said poverty is less important than anything.
He simply said that those 2 issues are “at the top”…he did not say other issues are not up there, he just said those 2 are, and those are 2 that often get denigrated as being less important than other issues (as you have demonstrated here).
Now, I find it rings very hollow when people cry out for mercy for people thousands of miles away and yet neglect the millions of people killed here.
Do we need to stop genocide? Yes!! But why do you only care abour Darfur? Heck, Wallis was in support of the Cambodian genocides. Hypocritical much? (yes).
We needed to stop the man who killed millions of Iraqis (Hussein)…but that was met with objections too.
I think some people will only be happy if we stop the genocides that they choose…or the ones that fit their political agenda.
Why are you guys not crying out for mercy and justice for the millions of babies killed in America? Try and be consistent.
I am with you that we need to be concerned about life issues and particularly genocides…but I think we need to fix our problems here in America with our own genocides (abortion and euthanasia) before we can go anywhere and stop any other killing.
We also need to be concerned with the poor. But, again, it rings hollow to me that rich Democrats make accusations that rich Republicans don’t care about the poor.
I’m also unconvinced that welfare (it has not and will not worked…anywhere) and universal healthcare means we actually care about the poor.
You guys say that the evangelical right are a bunch of sheep that follow whatever the GOP says….you guys aren’t much different….just a whole lot more pretentious and less consistent.
If you consider the context of my post, I’m referring to evangelical world. In evangelical world, homosexual marriage and abortion are THE issues… the only issues for conservative. Only recently (say, last 6-10 years) have these other issues been addressed and only by those like Wallis, Compolo and company. So abortion and homosexual marriage are hardly “denigrated” in evangelical world. In secular culture, sure, but they don’t have the biblical values that we have.
Secondly, re-read Mohler’s comments. He clearly says homosexual marriage and abortion are “primary issues”. Can we “broaden the agenda?” Sure, as long as these two primary issues stay just that, primary. Then he says, “We all have a hierarchy of concerns. And politically speaking, the sanctity of human life and the sanctity and integrity of the family are at the very top of the evangelical agenda.” Maybe you misread what was stated (like we all do from time to time), but he obviously is saying poverty and other issues are less important than abortion and “family issues.”
I can see why you think that “us 3” neglect abortion, but think about what this is; a response to a blog. If I were laying out my agenda, I can guarantee you that abortion would be up there. But I would go about it a little more biblically. Rather than focusing on getting the right President, Supreme Court or Congress, I would spend more of my time encouraging prayer, charging others to live the gospel life and love those confused young women in such a way where they understand what true life really is.
Finally, are you sure you want to say that Wallis was FOR the Cambodian genocides. As “he wanted them to happen.” I don’t know Wallis; don’t ‘follow’ him, nor am I interested in his agenda unless it deals with Kingdom values in Kingdom ways. But I’m guessing he wasn’t FOR genocide.
ask before you state. It makes things much easier.
1) #1 trick of the right: don’t like the message? Kill the messenger! Wallis made a mistake. Asked about that mistake today, I am sure he’d have a change of heart. Many people support things that they know little about, and this might have been one of those scenarios.
2) Euthanasia is hardly genocide. And if someone wants to take their own life, who are you to stop them? AND(!!!) wasn’t it your buddy Bush who signed into law in Texas the law that states that hospitals can pull the plug on poor terminally ill patients? Talk about hypocritical!
3) At the rate we’re going, we’ll have caused the death of more Iraqis than Hussein. At least he kept a lid on all of the sectarian craziness that we’re seeing now.
4) The reason why Welfare won’t work in America is simple: give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a night. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime. Same deal with welfare. Make job training a component of welfare, and we might get somewhere. Just keep giving poor people money, and they’ll spend it like poor folk do. Oh wait, Clinton tried that (Americorps), it was working, and Bush pulled the plug on that, too. And on empowerment zones, which was another Clinton idea that worked, that Bush killed within a week of being in office. Want me to keep going, Gray?
4a) While we’re on the topic of welfare and or state subsidies, mind telling me who got helped by tying student loan rates to the fed rate? Because every last one of you that voted for the idiots that put that one through probably just kept your own kids out of almost any private college in the country. Nice work.
5) You can make a case against Universal Health Care when the rate of health care induced bankruptcies in this country goes down.
6) That gay marriage is an issue at all proves that the right are sheep. Sorry. Our treasure is in heaven. Theirs, as unrepentant sinners, is here. I say let them have theirs. But hey, it’s the greatest wedge issue of the last 50 years!
Should abortion be at the top of the heap? Maybe, although I doubt we’ll ever see a comprehensive ban on abortion in all 50 states, and short of that, what’s the point?
And if there is little to no point, then it’s time that we start electing leaders who care about the people that they’re supposed to be representing.
I think the Evangelicals should get down on their knees and ask for forgiveness for sending their sons to kill in Iraq, instead of focusing on abortion and stem cell research.
BrianW,
1. Those issues are glazed over by many on the “evangelical left”. They say “yeah, but” when talking about those issues. So, they do not hold those as key issues…if they did, they would say so. But they do the opposite.
2. Maybe you misread him. He said those are primary…but he did not say they are the ONLY primary or important issues. He was definitely stating that those 2 issues are primary, but that does not mean he was saying poverty was secondary. Maybe you are reading that into what he was saying.
3. Fair enough.
4. Well, sadly, he did support it. Look into it a little bit…very scary what men will support when they are so adament against a political party or ideal that they let their politics trump their Christianity. Hmm, I guess that charge can be made against the left too.
Be careful not to assume, Paul. You know what it does.
1. I’m not killing the messenger. I am not even advocating dismissing everything Wallis says. I am simply pointing out that he is severely inconsistent in his stances, especially when it comes to genocide. Now, I’m not sure how one can be a “pro-genocide Christian” who later changed his mind on genocide while not changing his views on anything else…but I suspect that his views on genocide have to do with supporting communism, and letting communistic ideology determine his stance on moral issues. So, his politics are primary to his morals. That is sub-Christian.
Moreover, it is very pertinent to this discussion….inconsistency in the application of “moral outrage”.
2. Who says I am “pro-Bush”? (Remember be careful about assuming.)
As for euthanasia, clearly that is a tough issue…and the fact that we routinely encourage (both actively and passively) the killing/suicide of the elderly, terminally ill, and retarded is a sad reality.
BTW, if our belief is “who are we to say something someone does is wrong?” then all of the political discussion is useless. Let’s just not have a government and let man do what he feels is right.
If you really believe that, then you are inconsistent in your application of it.
3. Hmm…nice logic. Once again, your political bias has informed your morals rather than vice versa.
What makes Darfur a more just situation for us to be involved in than Iraq?
4. Once again, don’t assume I support Bush or that I agree with his decisions. (We’ve covered this, right?)
Also, how do you know those programs were working? They were in place, sure, but was that actually curing the problem? Welfare seemed like a good idea (to some) at the beginning too. It was thought to have worked. Heck, some still think it is working. (But it clearly NEVER has!)
BTW, concern for the poor is not limited to Clinton. I’m sure as he is sitting in his large mansion (or should I say multiple mansions) he is not thinking about the poor and how he could live off less money and give more to the poor. None of the politicians are…Rep. or Dem.
BTW (2), concern for the poor cannot be summed up with support for social programs. That is not the only way, nor is it even the best way, to combat poverty.
5. LOL
6. At least TRY and be consistent. If you really think that Christians should not and try and push morality into the marketplace, then why do you use morality (and Scripture) to push more support for fighting poverty and genocide?
Either quit pushing for change in the name of Christ, or do it in every area and not just the ones that fit your agenda.
Now, to be honest, I am more concerned with believers making clear what Scripture teaches about these issues than what laws government passes.
My hope does not rely on a certain person or party getting into office…sadly, it seems yours does.
You seem to be more concerned with Reps. not being in office than the people there making the right decisions.
If the govt sees fit to make gay marriage legal…then that’s the way it is. It doesn’t make it right. Currently, abortion is legal…yet it is still wrong.
I am more concerned with encouraging believers to support and do what is right (rightly declaring the truth of the gospel, rightly declaring the teaching of Christ on all these issues, supporting life in all arenas, aiding the poor and needy, etc.) than I am getting people into office. It’d be nice if people who think the same way get into office. But I have little hope that government will successfully be able to hold back sin…yet, they have a responsibility to do so…and I have a responsibility to try and hold them to their job.
Your attitude toward abortion in your statement shows what you really believe.
“If we can’t stop it wholesale, why try?”
Is that your view of genocide?
Is that your view of poverty?
Is that your view of murder?
Is that your view of stealing?
Unless we can stop it completely, why try?
Like I said…your lack of consistency is your weakness in this.
Your politics inform your morals, rather than vice versa. As long as that is the case, you’ll be led down the wrong road.
Scripture informs our moral stances…not politics.
Gray, then I guess this is where we differ. When Mohler says, “We all have a hierarchy of concerns. And politically speaking, the sanctity of human life and the sanctity and integrity of the family are at the very top of the evangelical agenda” these stand above all other political issues. If they weren’t the only two, then Mohler and other conservative evangelicals wouldn’t be one/two-issue voters. If you don’t think he means that, but that poverty and other issues are of equal importance, you’re fooling yourself.
Oh, I fully recognize that for most evangelicals those two are the main (for many, the ONLY) issues.
But Mohler did not say those are the ONLY important issues, he simply said that those two are at the top.
Do you not see the difference?
Mohler is not a 2-issue voter. I am a conservative evangelical, but I am not a party-line voter nor am I a 2-issue voter.
My problem with those on the “(quasi)evangelical left” is that they take the issue of abortion and downplay it as if it was not that big of a deal. If it was really a concern that millions of babies are killed then we’d hear the left screaming about it. But they don’t scream about it. Considering I hear screaming about organic food and nukes, I assume it is because the left cares more about nukes and organic food than killing babies…unless those babies are in Darfur.
IMO, all those issues are important…but you don’t think we look completely ridiculous when we complain about killing in other countries, yet we ignore it here?
I think the main point I personally feel obligated to regarding the abortion issue is this. Supporting (sincerely) a pro-life/anti-abortion stance alone does not qualify anyone for my vote, but not supporting it automatically disqualifies a candidate from my consideration regardless of the stance they take on other issues. I think it is entirely possible for a Republican candidate to adequately address issues such as poverty, or Darfur, or global warming, but I’m finding it harder and harder to believe a Democratic candidate would have to courage to take a pro-life/anti-abortion stance. That’s how the issue is defined in my eyes.
I think Denny is banning me from commenting on this one…
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Royal Mint reveal 50 pence coin for Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
Sunday, 28th November 2021, 10:45 am
Updated Tuesday, 30th November 2021, 5:55 pm
The Royal Mint has revealed a 50 pence coin in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The coin, the first 50p to be produced with a royal event tribute on the tails face, will be circulated next year.
Queen Elizabeth II became the monarch of Great Britain and the commonwealth on 6 February 1952, she will have reigned for 70 years next year.
‘Fitting celebration’
She has been the longest reigning monarch for the past six years, overtaking her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria, who reigned for over 63 years.
The coin will feature the number 70 with her cypher framed within the zero at the heart of the design, the Queen has approved the design.
Clare Maclennan, divisional director of commemorative coin at the Royal Mint, said: “The Royal Mint has a proud history of striking coins for British monarchs and 2022 sees one of the greatest celebrations of Her Majesty the Queen with the upcoming Platinum Jubilee.
“Marking 70 days until the anniversary of the Queen’s accession to the throne, the Royal Mint is delighted to reveal the commemorative Platinum Jubilee 50p design ahead of its launch in the new year.
“In recognition of the landmark occasion, this is the first time a royal milestone has been commemorated on a 50p coin and is a fitting celebration for Britain’s longest reigning monarch.”
The Royal Mint has struck circulating coins for the Queen throughout her reign and celebrated royal milestones, including her Silver, Gold and Diamond Jubilees, on a collection of commemorative crown pieces.
Register an interest
Coin collectors can register their interest with the Royal Mint for the Platinum Jubilee fifty pence which will feature a special commemorative obverse design.
The bespoke obverse will be unveiled in 2022 across one of the largest collections made by the Royal Mint, which will also include a commemorative £5 crown.
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Texas Rangers at Seattle Mariners Free MLB Picks & Odds 8-7-2015
by Guy Bruhn - 8/6/2015
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Probable Pitchers: Cole Hamels (0-0) vs. Hisashi Iwakuma (2-2)
The Texas Rangers head to Safeco Field on Friday to take on the Seattle Mariners. The probable starters are Cole Hamels for the Rangers and Hisashi Iwakuma for the Mariners. The opening line for this matchup has Texas at +110 and Seattle at -120. The over/under was set at 7. The Rangers have a 48-53 over/under record and a 64-43 run line mark, meaning they cover 60% of the time. The Mariners are 45-64 against the run line and have a 49-55 over/under record. They cover the spread 41% of the time.
The Rangers head into this matchup with a 54-53 record, including 31-24 on the road. Cole Hamels has a 0-0 record on the season, an earned run average of 5.87 and a 1.17 WHIP. In his starts, the Rangers are 0-1 over his 7.2 innings pitched this season while giving up 8 hits during those innings. Against the over/under, the Rangers are 1-0 in his starts. He is getting 7 runs from the team when he takes the mound. The bullpen has given up 348 hits on the season and have a earned run average of 4.68. Teams are hitting .257 against the bullpen while being struck out 302 times and walking 146 times this season. As a team, Texas has allowed 9.25 hits per nine innings while striking out 6.6 batters per nine. They are 27th in the league in team earned run average at 4.54.
As a team, Texas is batting .254, good for 12th in the league while putting together a .245 average away from home. The Rangers on-base percentage sits at .318, which puts them at 12th in the league and they have a team slugging percentage of .409. They rank 11th in baseball with 8.7 hits per game and Prince Fielder leads the team with 133.
With a 22-31 home record, Seattle will hope to improve on their 50-59 overall mark. Hisashi Iwakuma has a record of 2-2 while sporting an earned run average of 4.47 on the year with a 1.14 WHIP. In his starts, the Mariners are 4-5 and he has allowed 55 hits over 56.1 innings pitched this season. Against the over/under, the Mariners are 5-4 when he starts. He is getting 4.2 runs from the team when he takes the mound. The bullpen has given up 312 hits on the season and have a team earned run average of 3.89. Teams are hitting .247 against the Mariners bullpen while being struck out 305 times and walking 132 times this season. As a team, Seattle has allowed 8.51 hits per nine innings while striking out 7.91 batters per nine. They are 18th in the league in team earned run average at 3.97.
As a team, they are batting .242, good for 27th in the league while putting together a .250 average at home. The Mariners on-base percentage sits at .303, which puts them at 24th in the league and they have a team slugging percentage of .396. They rank 24th in baseball with 8.26 hits per game and Nelson Cruz leads the team with 134.
In terms of team defense, the Rangers have a fielding percentage of .980 with 82 total errors, 1,088 assists and 2,868 put outs. For the home team, they hold a .986 team fielding percentage while committing 59 errors, accumulating 1131 assists and compiling 2,951 put outs.
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The Texas Rangers are 48-53 against the over/under so far this season
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The Seattle Mariners are 45-64 against the run line so far this season
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Penn State Nittany Lions vs Northwestern Wildcats Prediction, 1/5/2022 College Basketball Picks, Best Bets & Odds
by Josh Schonwald - 1/4/2022
Game: Penn State Nittany Lions vs Northwestern Wildcats
Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Location: Welsh-Ryan Arena in Evanston, IL
The Northwestern Wildcats (8-3) will take on the Penn State Nittany Lions (6-5) at Welsh-Ryan Arena on Wednesday.
The Penn State Nittany Lions played Indiana and earned the victory with a final of 61-58 in their last game. Penn State ended with a 41.2% FG percentage (21 out of 51) and converted 11 of 22 three-point shots. From the charity stripe, the Nittany Lions knocked down 8 of their 10 tries for a rate of 80.0%. In regard to rebounding, they earned 37 with 11 of them being offensive. They also recorded 7 assists for the matchup in addition to forcing the other team into 6 turnovers and having 6 steals. When it comes to the defense, Penn State let their opponent shoot 39.7% from the floor on 23 of 58 shooting. Indiana earned 13 dimes and had 6 steals in the matchup. Additionally, Indiana had 28 rebounds (9 offensive, 19 defensive), but wasn't able to record a rejection. Indiana shot 66.7% from the charity stripe by knocking down 8 of 12 shots. They also buried 4 of their 17 shots from long range. In regard to fouls, the Nittany Lions ended up with 14 while Indiana totaled 13 fouls.
Myles Dread is a guy who was a major factor for the game. He ended up scoring 12 points on 4 of 5 shooting. He played for 22 mins and also collected 4 rebounds. He finished the game shooting 80.0% from the field and also totaled 1 assist.
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Penn State steps onto the court with a record of 6-5 so far this season. They average 66.7 points per contest (288th in D-1) while hitting 45.0% from the field. The Nittany Lions are shooting 34.6% on three-point attempts (91 of 263) and 74.1% from the charity stripe. As a team, Penn State is snagging 35.4 boards per contest and has tallied 144 assists on the campaign, which is 290th in the country in terms of passing. They turn the ball over 13.0 times per contest and as a squad they commit 14.5 fouls every game.
Defensively, the Nittany Lions are forcing 9.1 turnovers per contest and they draw 15.6 fouls. They currently rank 70th in Division 1 in giving up assists to the opposition with 135 conceded so far this season. The Nittany Lions defense is allowing a FG percentage of 41.8% (268 of 641) and they surrender 31.0 rebounds per game as a group. They concede 32.9% on shots from beyond the arc and they are ranked 103rd in college basketball in points per game allowed (65.2).
The last time they took the court, the Northwestern Wildcats took a loss by a score of 73-67 against Michigan State. The Wildcats pulled down 25 defensive rebounds and 12 offensive boards for a total of 37 in this game. They gave up possession 9 times, while earning 6 steals in this game. Michigan State was called for 25 personal fouls for the matchup which got the Wildcats to the free throw line for 30 shots. They were able to make 20 of those for a rate of 66.7%. With regard to shooting from downtown, Northwestern made 5 of their 24 tries (20.8%). In all, the Wildcats shot 21 out of 65 from the floor which had them shooting 32.3%. The Wildcats permitted Michigan State to convert 20 of their 52 attempts from the field which left them shooting 38.5% for this game. They finished the game shooting 30.4% from beyond the perimeter by shooting 7 out of 23 and finished the contest at 26 of 33 at the free throw line (78.8%). When talking about rebounding, Northwestern permitted Michigan State to grab 35 in total (7 on the offensive side).
Chase Audige pitched in for the Wildcats for this game. He made 3 of 14 in the matchup for a rate of 21.4%, and accounted for 7 rebounds. He racked up 12 points in his 30 minutes on the hardwood and had 2 dimes in this matchup.
Northwestern has a mark of 8-3 so far this year. The Wildcats are responsible for committing 17.1 fouls per game while shooting 76.0% from the charity stripe. They are earning an assist 18.3 times per contest (9th in the country) and they turn the ball over 8.7 times per contest. Northwestern has scored 857 points this year (77.9 per game) and they collect 39.0 boards per contest. As an offense, the Wildcats are shooting 45.2% from the field, which is ranked 145th in Division 1.
The Northwestern defense allows 34.5% from downtown (87 of 252) and opponents are knocking down 72.2% of their free throw shots. They relinquish 12.7 dimes and 35.2 rebounds per game, which has them ranked 194th and 203rd in those defensive categories. The Wildcats on the defensive end are ranked 48th in college hoops in PPG allowed with 61.9. They are able to force 14.7 turnovers on a nightly basis and allow teams to shoot 36.8% from the floor (7th in D-1).
Who will win tonight's NCAA basketball game against the spread?
Josh Schonwald's Pick: Take Northwestern
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Russia recalls its ambassador to the US after Biden says he thinks Putin is a killer
Deirdre Shesgreen
WASHINGTON – Russia has recalled its ambassador to the United States to discuss relations with Washington, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said Wednesday.
The move came after President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin would "pay a price" for Moscow's interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In an interview with ABC News, Biden was also asked if he thought Putin is a killer.
"I do," Biden responded. The president did not elaborate on the "killer" question or on what costs the U.S. might impose on Russia over election interference.
In her statement, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova did not mention the "killer" remark or any other specific reason for the ambassador's recall.
"Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov has been summoned to Moscow for consultations in order to analyze what needs to be done in the context of relations with the United States," she said.
The diplomatic tiff comes amid rising tensions between Washington and Moscow. On Tuesday, U.S. intelligence officials released a report concluding that Russia tried to denigrate Biden's candidacy in the 2020 election. The declassified assessment said that Putin authorized the election meddling, which sought to help former president Donald Trump's re-election bid.
Putin authorized influence operations "aimed at denigrating President Biden's candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the U.S.," the report concluded.
The Biden administration also recently sanctioned Russia over the poisoning and continued detention of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the first of several steps the Biden administration plans to take to confront Russian aggression.
"(Putin’s) only method is killing people," Navalny said. "He'll go down in history as a poisoner."
The list of high-profile Putin critics and former Kremlin insiders, spies and power brokers who are the victims of unsolved murders, grisly poisonings, suspicious deaths, as well as lighter forms of persecution and ill-treatment, is long.
Zakharova said the Biden administration is leading U.S.-Russia relations into a "blind alley."
"The most important thing for us is to identify ways of rectifying Russia-U.S. relations, which have been going through hard times as Washington has, as a matter of fact, brought them to a blind alley," she said in her statement. "We are interested in preventing an irreversible deterioration in relations, if the Americans become aware of the risks associated with this."
The White House downplayed Russia's recall of Antonov and declined to say whether the U.S. would also bring its ambassador home from Moscow.
Biden is "not going to hold back in his direct communications, nor is he going to hold back publicly," Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said on Wednesday. "And we have still found ways to work together in areas where we have mutual interest, including the extension of a new START by five years. That’s diplomacy in action.”
A State Department spokeswoman said they were aware of Moscow’s decision but had "noting to add" to Biden's comments.
"We remain clear-eyed about the challenges that Russia poses, and even as we work with Russia to advance U.S. interests, we’ll also work to hold them accountable," said Jalina Porter, the State Department's principal deputy spokesperson. "When it comes to any recall from us, we have nothing to comment on that."
Contributing: Matthew Brown and Associated Press
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HEMPHILL Announces Renée Stout, Phillips Collection Acquisition
By Editorial Team on February 5, 2019
Hemphill Fine Arts announces the Phillips Collection’s significant acquisition of three works by Renée Stout. This three-part acquisition, a “Unit” in Duncan Phillips terms, is made possible through the Director’s discretionary fund and a gift of the artist and Hemphill Fine Arts.
Renée Stout is a recipient of the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (2018), Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize (2012), David C. Driskell Prize (2010), a Joan Mitchell Award (2005), The Pollock Krasner Foundation Award (1991 & 1999), the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (1999), and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1993). Her work is included in such collections as The Africa Museum, Berg en Dal, Netherlands, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The High Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Fine Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, among others. Stout was the subject of the traveling exhibition “Tales of the Conjure Woman,” originating at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in 2013, a solo exhibition, “Funk Dreamscapes from the Invisible Parallel Universe” at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI in 2018 and “Church of the Crossroads: Renée Stout in the Belger Collection” at the Belger Center in Kansas City, MO in 2018.
HEMPHILL was founded in Washington DC in 1993. The exhibition schedule features modern & contemporary art in all media by artists ranging from emerging to mid-career to modern masters.
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International Arts & Artists and NYC American Folk Art Museum Announce New Partnership and Three Traveling Exhibitions
By Editorial Team on November 12, 2019
International Arts & Artists (IA&A) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the American Folk Art Museum, New York, in celebration of the museum’s upcoming 60th Anniversary year in 2021. Drawing from the museum’s extensive collection, three exhibitions will be on tour throughout North America from 2021 to 2024.
“We are pleased to partner with International Arts & Artists,” says Director of American Folk Art Museum, Jason T. Busch. “As we celebrate our 30th anniversary at Lincoln Square in Manhattan and approach our 60th Anniversary as a museum, we want to create opportunities for new audiences to experience the impact of self-taught art across time and place. Through this new partnership with IA&A, the American Folk Art Museum will expand awareness of the museum and our outstanding collection.”
To inaugurate this new collaboration, IA&A and the American Folk Art Museum are making these incredible exhibitions available to art museums across the country:
Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art comprises a major gift to the museum from Kendra and Allan Daniel of almost 200 works of art used in fraternal societies from the late eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. The exclusive “mystery and privilege” of such brotherhoods is transmitted through secret systems of visual signifiers, passwords, and ritualized performances whose increasingly complex meanings are revealed only as a candidate passes through the degree hierarchy. Mystical, evocative, and sometimes simply strange, the exhibition features objects rich in symbols that are familiar yet utterly at odds with the commonplace.
Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts invites viewers to read quilts as maps, tracing the paths of individual stories and experiences that illuminate larger historic events and cultural trends. Spanning the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the exhibition brings together 40 quilts and hand-drawn maps from the museum’s collection that represent a range of materials, motifs, and techniques—from traditional early-American quilts to more contemporary sculptural assemblage.
Fables and Fairytales featuring dynamic animal characters have captured the imaginations of children and adults around the world for thousands of years. Kalila wa Dimna (Kalila and Dimna) is a collection of animal fables that centers around two jackal brothers. The stories originated in India more than two thousand years ago and have been widely circulated in the Near East. Noted scholar, author, and artist Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir has adapted and illustrated three of these lively tales of resourcefulness, jealousy, and friendship in a new volume published by the American Folk Art Museum. The exhibition presents 24 works on paper and features a companion publication.
“IA&A is delighted to be working with the American Folk Art Museum to bring these superb exhibitions to audiences throughout North America,” says Lise Dubé-Scherr, Executive Director and CEO of IA&A. “We’ve presented over 100 exhibitions since we were founded 25 years ago and this partnership not only celebrates the American Folk Art Museum’s rich holdings, but it aligns perfectly with our mission to promote cross-cultural understanding through the arts by way of each exhibition’s unique narrative.”
Mystery and Benevolence, The Cartography of Quilts, and Fables and Fairytales will tour from 2021 through 2024 traveling to an estimated nine venues each, reaching thousands of museum visitors and engaging them to experience new ways of seeing and thinking about art. Whether it be through enigmatic objects with charged meanings, the blending of traditional and contemporary quilting techniques, or by bringing light to lesser known fables, these exhibitions make vital connections that expand our understanding of the world and of each other.
For more information about IA&A’s traveling exhibitions, visit ArtsandArtists.org/tes
(via International Arts & Artists and the American Folk Art Museum. Photo: Artist unidentified, Map Quilt, 1886, Silk and cotton with silk embroidery, American Folk Art Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. C. David McLaughlin, Photograph by Schecter Lee.)
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Gino Antonelli with COBATEK, Julie Smith with Amazon Web Services and Julie Statland with Statland & Katz LTD
SILVER SPRING, MD – Easterseals DC MD VA is thrilled to announce the election of the newest members to our Board of Directors. The newly elected board members are Gino Antonelli, Founder, President and CEO, COBATEK LLC; Julie Smith, Senior Technical Business Operations Leader, Amazon Web Services; and Julie Statland, former Managing Partner of Statland & Katz, Ltd., now a Joseph W. McCartin Insurance Company.
“We are excited to welcome Gino Antonelli, Julie Smith and Julie Statland to our Board of Directors,” said Jon Horowitch, President and CEO of Easterseals DC MD VA. “The experience and passion of these leaders will help us enhance Easterseals services to ensure even more children, adults, veterans and military families become part of our hopeful, inclusive community where all individuals realize their potential and live meaningful lives.”
Gino Antonelli is the Founder, President and CEO of COBATEK LLC, which provides consulting services to businesses within the public sector IT markets. Gino has over 35 years of experience in business building, organizational development and executive management.
Prior to establishing COBATEK, Gino was the Co-founder, President and COO of Spear Incorporated, an IT firm focused on providing data analytics, cyber security and engineering services to public sector- focused companies and clients. In 2018, Spear Incorporated was acquired by CALIBRE Systems Inc.
Gino was also Executive Vice President of Intelligent Decisions prior to establishing Spear Incorporated. His responsibilities included oversight of sales, business development, product contract management, operations and partner alliances. Throughout his career, he has held other executive and board positions with a variety of organizations.
Gino is committed to giving back to our community. He is passionate about supporting veterans as well as families and children needing assistance.
Julie Smith has more than 15 years of senior leadership experience involving business creation and transformation, international expansion, restructuring and organic growth. She leads business operations for Worldwide Public Sector Technical Teams for Amazon Web Services. Prior to joining Amazon Web Services, she was Vice President of International Operations with Booz Allen Hamilton where she provided strategic and financial leadership for multi-dimensional globalization initiatives.
Julie is extremely passionate about mental health care for veterans and military families and believes in serving people with disabilities through an inter-generational approach. She serves on the Finance Committees of Tactical Emergency Casualty Care and Washington Women’s Leadership Initiative. Julie holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in accounting from the University of Florida, as well as a Leadership and Management Certificate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Julie Statland is the former Managing Partner of Statland & Katz, Ltd., now a Joseph W. McCartin Insurance Company. Julie has been providing clients with quality insurance products and exceptional service for over 25 years.
Julie serves on the board of The Committee for Montgomery and is an active member of Leadership Greater Washington (Class of 2016 graduate). She also previously served as the Past Chair of the Silver Spring Urban District Advisory Board and The Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce.
Julie has a real passion for community outreach. She personally enjoys supporting Community Bridges a local nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of women and girls through her profession, especially helping those who wish to provide for their loved ones or protect their business. Julie is the Founder and regular contributor for www.Rivetingwomen.com, a blog devoted to shining a spotlight on women in business, politics, arts and education.
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Why parents are worried: 20,000 in China, 500 Indian students in epicentre of Coronavirus breakout
Students from India mostly go to China for a medical degree. Most Indian students studying in Wuhan are enrolled in medical universities
There are quite a few worried parents in the country
China is the second most preferred destination for higher education for Indian students after the USA, which means quite a large number of parents in India are fretting over the Coronavirus. About 20,000 students currently study in different parts of China and about 500 students study in the city of Wuhan which is the epicentre of the outbreak of the virus.
Students from India who choose to go overseas for a medical degree, mostly go to China — which is why most of the Indian students studying in Wuhan are also enrolled in medical universities. Local authorities have warned residents from travelling out of and to Wuhan, which has left many Indian students and their parents back here in India worried. Since the Chinese New Year holidays are just around the corner, some students had travelled back to India but since some have only 10 days off, they had decided not to come as it is only a short vacation. Some had also stayed back to finish work.
One Twitter user took to social media site to share a photo of her niece in China stuck in traffic and pleading for help from the Indian government to bring her niece back home. Others also put up tweets asking for the government to find a way to bring the students back home.
The Indian Embassy has issued an advisory to the residents in China, "If you feel sick on flight, while traveling back to India: Inform the airlines crew about illness, seek mask from the airline crew, avoid close contact with family members or fellow travelers,” the advisory said. For those who have returned to India in the last few days after the virus initially broke out, the officials have warned that if they fall sick within a span of one month of return from India, they have to report to the nearest health facility.
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Mr Mark Webb is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with a passion for sport-related injuries. He strives not only to provide excellent surgical treatments, but also rounded, bespoke care that allows his patients to get back to the activities they love. This is evident in his specialist training which includes a Master’s degree in Sports Medicine from University College London to help him when treating all levels of athletes.
Alongside surgical treatments, Mr Webb offers non-operative (conservative) options. Treatment plans are tailored to the patient’s requirements and expectations using the best evidence available
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Mr Webb has trained in the UK and abroad. He has undertaken the Adult Hip & Knee Arthroplasty, Knee Arthroscopy & Sports Medicine Fellowship at the Prince of Wales and Mater Hospitals in Sydney, Australia. He also worked alongside Mr John O’Donnell at Hip Arthroscopy Australia, who had recently completed his 10,000th hip arthroscopy. On returning to the United Kingdom, Mr Webb completed the Complex Trauma Fellowship at St. George’s University Hospital in London and in May 2019 was awarded an International Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship in San Francisco.
Research and monitoring patient outcomes is important to Mr Webb. He has over 25 publications and has presented both nationally and internationally.
In January 2019, Mr Webb started working as a consultant at St. George’s where his elective practice focusses on hip and knee joint preservation and sports surgery. He also works in the Major Trauma Centre, managing patients with complex injuries.
Batchelor of Medicine, Batchelor of Surgery Newcastle University 2006
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IBM Unveils Power5 Unix Servers
Jeff Burt
Two months after introducing the Power5 processors in a line of new systems running its OS/400 operating system, IBM on Tuesday is unveiling Unix servers running the new chip.
IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., will roll out three new servers that will hold from two to 16 processors and run the newest version of its Unix operating system, AIX 5L v5.3, as well as Linux.
The introduction of the P5 is the next step in the convergence of IBMs Power-based i- and pSeries systems as the company continues to simplify its hardware offerings, though officials say there will still be a distinction between the two lines.
In May, IBM introduced the first of its eServer i5 systems, a departure from the iSeries name. The company also introduced the latest version of its OS/400 operating system, named i5/OS.
The systems introduced Tuesday will be the eServer p5 systems, including the two-way p5-520, four-way p5-550 and the midrange p5-570, which will scale up to 16 processors. The first two will use the Power5 chips, up to 1.65GHz, with the p5-570 running 1.9GHz chips.
The midrange server also offers further evidence of the convergence. Like the other two, it will run AIX 5L or Linux, but it also will run i5/OS.
In addition, an express version of the p5-570 will run 1.5GHz chips and include up to 256GB of memory.
However, there will continue to be distinction between the two lines, said Karl Freund, vice president of pSeries products. While the i5 systems, aimed at small and midsize customers, will offer integrated packages that feature IBM middleware—including Tivoli, WebSphere and DB2—Freund said, the pSeries systems will continue to be more customizable.
Still, the two lines will share the partitioning and virtualization capabilities available with the Power5. Included in the chip is IBMs Virtualization Engine, which includes the Micro-Partitioning feature. Users will be able to run up to 10 virtual servers on a single processor, with each server able to run a different operating system, and can run workloads across those partitions, Freund said.
That capability—which IBM is bringing into its enterprise systems from its mainframe servers—will enable businesses to increase the utilization of their systems while reducing the cost of operating them. In addition, the dual-core Power5 offers multithreading capabilities on each core, increasing the performance of the chips, Freund said. The new version of AIX 5L takes advantage of these capabilities by enabling such features as the virtual I/O and LAN, as well as the multithreading, he said.
“The years of innovation that weve done with the mainframe, we are applying now [to other server lines],” he said.
That innovation includes integrating some memory and task management features directly onto the silicon.
The virtualization and partitioning capabilities are the key part of the new chip, beyond the simple bump in processing power, said Gordon Haff, an analyst with Illuminata Inc., in Nashua, N.H.
“The reality is that all that plays a larger role [among users] today, rather than just improving processor performance,” Haff said.
IBM for months has been pushing its Linux-on-Power initiative, driving to make Power the architecture of choice for Linux users. However, Unix continues to be a growth area for the company, Freund said. Though the Unix market has stabilized at about $20 billion per year, IBM aims to grow by stealing share from competitors—primarily Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. Numbers from research firms IDC and Gartner Inc. indicate that IBM grew Unix revenue in 2003, while HP and Sun saw revenues decline.
Officials with both companies criticized IBMs Power5 push, saying that it cant be an open architecture when it cant run Windows and that it forces customers to migrate to new hardware and OS support.
Freund said that IBM offers the xSeries for Windows as well as Linux, and that IBM has a migration offering that gives users a clear path to the Power5 systems. In addition, he said, the new Power5 systems can interoperate with the current Power4 systems, and the Power4 systems can be transitioned to Power5 one virtual partition at a time, with no downtime.
Check out eWEEK.coms Infrastructure Center at http://infrastructure.eweek.com for the latest news, views and analysis on servers, switches and networking protocols for the enterprise and small businesses.
Jeffrey Burt has been with eWEEK since 2000, covering an array of areas that includes servers, networking, PCs, processors, converged infrastructure, unified communications and the Internet of things.
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Star Citizen Developer Publishes a Roadmap…for a Roadmap
By Joel Hruska on July 31, 2020 at 7:30 am
Let’s get two things out of the way upfront: I love space combat sims, and I love Chris Roberts’ work, specifically. The original Wing Commander games are some of my all-time favorites. With that said, development on Star Citizen’s Squadron 42 — that’s the single-player component of the title — is, to all appearances, a train wreck.
Fans and backers of the game have been requesting an update on where Squadron 42 stood for months. Cloud Imperium Games, the developer behind Star Citizen, publishes regular monthly diaries that offer some insight into the single-player game’s development, but offer virtually nothing in terms of an over-arching roadmap.
Cloud Imperium wants its users to know that it has heard their issues loud and clear. That’s why the company is promising to publish a roadmap for its roadmap.
No, really. That’s what they’ve promised. CIG intends to deliver the following:
1. Give an explanation of the goals of our new Roadmap and what to expect from it
2. Show a rough mockup of the proposed new Roadmap
3. Share a work in progress version of the Roadmap for at least one of our core teams
4. Transition to this new Roadmap
This entire issue arose in March, when CIG admitted in a forum post that its existing roadmap doesn’t properly show the progress it has made on its own game. As a result, it wants to overhaul how it communicates its progress to players. Nothing wrong with additional transparency — provided, of course, that it’s eventually delivered. So far, all that’s been released is a literal roadmap for the development of a roadmap. The four bullet points above apparently took five months to write.
While the various monthly updates contain a fair amount of information, the information isn’t presented in a context that allows the reader to draw conclusions about how much work is left to do in the game or when the title might actually ship.
Is Doing Everything the Best Idea?
Whenever we discuss Star Citizen’s delays and development time, certain fans are quick to leap to its defense with the argument that no game has ever done anything like it and therefore the entire situation is reasonable and fine. In reality, it’s been a decade since Star Citizen began development, eight years since its Kickstarter, and five years since Squadron 42’s original release date. It’s not unfair to be asking if Chris Roberts can ever deliver the project he promised.
Star Citizen famously wants to be a game with unparalleled depth and scale, but at a certain point, it’s worth asking if smaller, more targeted projects would yield better results. One of the biggest reasons for Duke Nukem Forever’s endless delays was a combination of feature creep and aging engines. As the delays stretched out, 3D Realms had to port the game to new engines more than once, delaying the product even more.
Many of the milestones listed in the CIG development diaries suggest core systems of the game are being overhauled for exactly this reason. There are multiple references to the ongoing work being done to add Vulkan support, for example. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with supporting Vulkan, but the API is only four years old. If Star Citizen had hit its initial launch dates, Vulkan support would’ve been an aftermarket addition. Instead, the company is developing a Vulkan renderer, dubbed Gen12, now to keep its own product current. Except, that effort actually launched in 2017, so why isn’t the renderer done yet?
“We will publish the full roadmap to Squadron 42’s release in December.”
That quote is from CIG, but it’s dated December 2018. Needless to say, the “full roadmap” the company promised never materialized. If Star Citizen cannot figure out how to communicate its development schedule in a simplified form to its backers, how is it going to handle the incredibly complex task of integrating all of the features for the game?
Waiting five months to tell fans you’ve written a roadmap for a roadmap is a bad move on CIG’s part. Best-case, it paints CIG as incapable of effective project management. Worst-case, it raises questions of whether the various teams are in effective communication with each other.
If you can’t build a game in a decade when handed $306M, perhaps you shouldn’t be making a game in the first place. Not, at least, until you’ve got a better idea and an actual plan to deliver the product.
Squadron 42, like Star Citizen, has no release date. Perhaps when CIG is finished with the roadmap for the roadmap, they could give us a timeline for the timeline. I love Chris Roberts’ single-player storytelling, but I don’t have much faith in his ability to bring Star Citizen’s disparate parts together in the cohesive whole he’s promised his fans. I’d have sooner had a smaller Squadron 42 with several mission packs or full-blown sequels out of that $306M than one single uber-simulator that may never function as intended due to the sheer complexity of its own design. You don’t have to think Chris Roberts is a scam artist to believe the project has gone badly off the rails, and he wouldn’t be the first game developer to get stuck in the weeds this way.
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Fibers: What are they and what types exists?
What are the Fibers?
Fibers are filiform elements, which present a high length ratio with respect to their maximum transverse dimension. They are characterized by flexibility and fineness.
Fibers are made of macromolecules referred as polymers. In turn, these polymers are composed of a sequence of monomers. Polymers are chemically stable while monomers are chemically unstable, which explains the reaction of the union of monomers in the formation of a polymer.
The polymer length is a very important factor, since almost all fibers have very long polymer chains. Regarding the molecular arrangement, fibers can be highly or slightly oriented. When they are highly oriented, they conform a crystalline region, which means that the polymers are longitudinally aligned and in order, more or less parallel. In the case of fibers being slightly oriented, amorphous regions are formed, where the polymers do not have a defined orientation.
Highly orientated polymers confer fibers high tensile strength, low elongation, heat resistance and chemical resistance. On the contrary, the amorphous areas of slightly oriented polymers give fibers features such as: flexibility, softness and comfort.
Fibers can be classified attending to several aspects:
With respect to the length, fibers can be classified as discontinuous, when they are limited to a few centimeters length; or continuous, when they have a very high length, which is only limited by technical reasons;
With respect to its origin, they can be classified as natural or man-made fibers. Within the latter group, artificial, synthetic and inorganic fibers can be found. Natural fibers exist as they are found in nature, and can be of animal, vegetable or mineral nature.
What types of Fibers exists?
Natural Fibers
Non-Natural Fibers
Inorganic Fibers
Functional Fibers
Nanofibers
Multicomponent Fibers
Natural fibers can be classified according to their origin into animal, vegetable or mineral.
Animal fibers may originate either from the glandular secretions of some insects as in case of silk, in which two fibroin strands are linked by sericin, or follicle bulbs of some animals as in case of wool, which has a molecular structure composed of keratin.
Vegetable fibers have elongated structures, mainly composed of cellulose and usually with round cross-section. They can be classified according to their origin into seed fibers, stem fibers, leaf fibers and fruit fibers.
As compared to the traditional man-made fibers, vegetable fibers present several advantages: abundance, low cost, low density, ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the environment, renewability and biodegradability.
In contrast, its main disadvantages are the high moisture absorption, low resistance to micro-organisms, low thermal stability and mechanical properties lower than those of man-made fibers.
Mineral fibers have their origin in the rocks with fibrous structure and are composed, essentially, of silicates. An example of a mineral fiber is asbestos.
The non-natural fibers have been developed with the aim of improving various properties such as mechanical efficiency, thermal stability and electrical conductivity, to natural fibers.
They are known as man-made fibers and can be divided into artificial or synthetic.
The fibers are obtained from the processing of natural polymers through the action of chemical agents in extrusion processes.
For the most part, the polymer precursor to many of the fibers is cellulose extracted from cotton linters, leaves from trees, such as eucalyptus, bamboo, soybean, maize, among others. Other precursors such as casein or milk extracted algal alginate may also be used.
The synthetic fibers are normally produced via chemical precursors from oil, resulting in a wide range of materials with various properties.
The appearance of synthetic fibers contributes greatly to broadening the range of applications of fiber-based materials, considering their physical, chemical and mechanical properties.
Thus, polyester fibers, polyamide or polypropylene quickly found widespread applications and large-scale in unconventional areas – clothing and home textiles, including medicine, transportation, aerospace, building and construction, among others.
The inorganic fibers are constituted mainly by inorganic chemicals, based on natural elements such as carbon, silicon and boron that, in general, after receiving treatment at elevated temperatures are transformed into fibers.
Inorganic fibers, also sometimes dubbed high performance fibers or super-fibers, have characteristics and properties that differ from other non-natural fibers and therefore rarely find applications in the field of conventional textiles.
Effectively, these fibers have general characteristics as high thermal and mechanical resistance, which makes them especially in engineering solutions applied in many cases in combination with other materials – composites.
In these applications, they compete normally with conventional materials, replacing them often due to their ease of processing, thermal resistance, resistance to chemical agents and especially due to the excellent weight/mechanical properties correlation.
In general, the inorganic fibers are difficult to process by conventional textile techniques, such as weaving or knitting, due to the fact that easily break in flexure (weak), presenting low elongation at break and possess high coefficients of friction with metals, forcing many times to its surface lubrication.
The progress made in fiber production industry allowed meet the various requirements that have emerged and continue to emerge to meet the market needs.
The growing demand for new materials to meet new needs, led the textile industry to evolve towards new features, imposed on materials.
The functionalization of properties is defined as all points which go beyond the aesthetic decoration, including so-called “smart properties”, are properties that imposed to the material so that it reacts to an external stimulus, for example the temperature.
Thus, the functional fibers are fibers that perform a specific function may be defined as being unique, in that each is able to respond in a given situation, i.e., any fiber that presents an innovative feature, unusual or conventional.
This functionalization can be obtained by the intrinsic characteristics of the base polymer itself, the addition of specific compounds during the extrusion process or chemical finishing of the fibers after extrusion or harvesting.
Antimicrobial fibers, thermoregulating, resistant to high temperatures, moisture management, such as shape memory, conducting electricity, among others, are examples of functional fibers.
Nanosciences and nanotechnology led to the nanofibers, and is currently the main focus of research, development and innovation, where investments have been significant.
Nanofibers are usually produced by electrostatic spinning.
The basic polymers normally used for forming nanofibers are polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polybenzimidazole (PBI), polyacrylonitrile (PAN), polyamide (PA), polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyester (PS), among others.
Given the nanometer scale in which the fibers are designed, have special properties that make them very attractive for numerous applications such as:
A high specific surface area (area / unit mass);
High aspect ratio (length / diameter);
Low number of defects;
Biomimetic potential;
These properties lead to the potential application of nanofibers in fields as diverse as high-performance filters, fibrous absorbent composite materials reinforced by fibers, fiber materials for dressings, grafts created in vivo to implant materials for controlled drug delivery, nano devices and microelectronics, electromagnetic shielding, photovoltaic devices, high-performance electrodes, and an array of sensors based on nanofibres.
The multicomponent fibers are fibers that combine at least two polymers having properties and/or different chemical compositions. The polymers are extruded together, and their relative position along the length of the fiber depends on factors such as the geometry of the die holes and the intrinsic properties of the polymer itself, including viscosity and molecular weight.
Can be obtained multicomponent fibers having the desired properties, by making a right combination of polymers, the conditions of manufacture and additives added. The multicomponent fiber production technologies can be used to produce fibers with a mixture of filaments, varying the color, the linear mass, the nature of the polymer, among others.
One of the most used multicomponent fibers comprises polyethylene and polypropylene (polymers with different melting points) and used in the production of nonwovens using polyethylene fiber as a binder it has lower melting point. The resulting material is lightweight, strong, soft and comfortable, dries quickly, and has high resistance to abrasion and dirt.
It is expected that in the future the possibility of combining the basic properties of the polymers, the multicomponent fibers are assumed as engineering materials in fields as diverse as medicine, architecture, agriculture, and even fashion.
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The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
This theatrical movie based on the television series (which was also based on a popular multiform robot toyline) did not go over very well at the box office. The movie takes place in 2005, twenty years after the television series, and chronicles the efforts of the heroic Autobots to defend their hom…eworld Cybertron from the evil Decepticons. Both factions are seething with anger, and that hatred has blinded them to a hideous menace headed their way. That hideous menace is the colossal planet known as Unicron, who has been ready to consume anything that stands in its way. The only thing that can stop Unicron is the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, which is possessed by the Autobots and which the Decepticons, through Unicron's orders, plan to take away from them. (Read More)
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Masters Of The Universe (1987)
On the planet Eternia, Skeletor and his dark army overthrow the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull expecting to acquire her power. He-Man, his old friend Duncan "Man-at-Arms" and his daughter Teela are attacked by Skeletor's soldiers and they defeat them. They also rescue their prisoner, the inventor and… locksmith Gwildor. He explains that he was lured by Evil-Lyn that used his invention Cosmic Key to open the gates and seize the Castle Grayskull. He-Man and his friends retrieve the prototype of the Cosmic Key trying to release the Sorcereress but they are defeated by Skeletor and his army and Gwildor uses his key to open and portal for them to flee. They come to Earth but lose the key. Meanwhile Julie Winston, who grieves the loss of her parents in a plane crash, and her boyfriend Kevin Corrigan find and activate the key, believing it is a foreign musical instrument. On Eternia, Evil-Lyn locates the Cosmic Key and Skeletor sends her with a group of mercenaries and soldiers to vanquish He-man and his friends and bring the key back. Will they succeed? (Read More)
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Le Cinquieme Element (1997)
In the twenty-third century, the universe is threatened by evil. The only hope for mankind is the Fifth Element, who comes to Earth every five thousand years to protect the humans with four stones of the four elements: fire, water, Earth and air. A Mondoshawan spacecraft is bringing The Fifth Elemen…t back to Earth but it is destroyed by the evil Mangalores. However, a team of scientists use the DNA of the remains of the Fifth Element to rebuild the perfect being called Leeloo. She escapes from the laboratory and stumbles upon the taxi driver and former elite commando Major Korben Dallas that helps her to escape from the police. Leeloo tells him that she must meet Father Vito Cornelius to accomplish her mission. Meanwhile, the Evil uses the greedy and cruel Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg and a team of mercenary Mangalores to retrieve the stones and avoid the protection of Leeloo. But the skilled Korben Dallas has fallen in love with Leeloo and decides to help her to retrieve the stones. (Read More)
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Total Recall (1990)
Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evi…l Mars administrator Cohaagen. Now the story really begins and it's a rollercoaster ride until the massive end of the movie. (Read More)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
When the USS Enterprise crew is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone worl…d to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction. As our space heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew. (Read More)
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Man Of Steel (2013) is one of the best movies like Dune (1984)
Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets (2017)
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS is the new adventure film from Luc Besson, the director of The Professional, The Fifth Element and Lucy, based on the comic book series which inspired a generation of artists, writers and filmmakers. In the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laurelin…e (Cara Delevingne) are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha-an ever-expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence and cultures with each other. There is a mystery at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe. (Read More)
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In the year 2058, the Earth will soon be uninhabitable after the irreversible effects of pollution and global warming! Professor John Robinson, lead scientist of the Jupiter 2 Mission, will lead his family to the habitable planet Alpha Prime to prep it for colonization. The Jupiter 2 is equipped wit…h a hyperdrive that allows faster-than-light travel, which will eventually be employed to evacuate the citizens of Earth. However hypergates must be constructed on Earth and Alpha Prime to provide stable points of departure and arrival. Dr. Zachary Smith is bribed by a terrorist organization to sabotage the mission, and ends up an unwilling stowaway as the ship blasts off. (Read More)
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
The second "Highlander" movie, again with Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery. It's the year 2024 and all the ozone above Earth has gone. To protect people from dying, MacLeod helped in the construction of a giant "shield", several years ago. But, since there isn't left anyone Immortal after MacLeo…d's victory in the previous film, he has stopped being an Immortal himself. Now he is just an old man, until one day some other Immortals arrive on our planet. You see, the Immortals come from another planet... (Read More)
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Soldier (1998)
In a futuristic society, some people are selected at birth to become soldiers, and trained in such a manner that they become inhuman killing machines. One of the most succesfull and older of these soldiers (Russell) is pitted against a new breed of soldiers, and after the confrontation is believed t…o be dead. His body is left behind in a semi-abandoned colonial planet, where everything is peaceful, and he is taught about the other aspects of life. But eventually he has to fight the new breed of soldiers again, this time to defend his new home... (Read More)
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Ender's Game (2013)
The Earth was ravaged by the Formics, an alien race seemingly determined to destroy humanity. Fifty years later, the people of Earth remain banded together to prevent their own annihilation from this technologically superior alien species. Ender Wiggin, a quiet but brilliant boy, may become the savi…or of the human race. He is separated from his beloved sister and his terrifying brother and brought to battle school in orbit around earth. He will be tested and honed into an empathetic killer who begins to despise what he does as he learns to fight in hopes of saving Earth and his family. (Read More)
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (2011)
Autobots Bumblebee, Ratchet, Ironhide, Mirage (aka Dino), Wheeljack (aka Que) and Sideswipe led by Optimus Prime, are back in action taking on the evil Decepticons, who are eager to avenge their recent defeat. The Autobots and Decepticons become involved in a perilous space race between the United S…tates and Russia to reach a hidden Cybertronian spacecraft on the moon and learn its secrets, and once again Sam Witwicky has to go to the aid of his robot friends. The new villain Shockwave is on the scene while the Autobots and Decepticons continue to battle it out on Earth. (Read More)
After stopping off at Starbase Yorktown, a remote outpost on the fringes of Federation space, the USS Enterprise, halfway into their five-year mission, is destroyed by an unstoppable wave of unknown aliens. With the crew stranded on an unknown planet and with no apparent means of rescue, they find t…hemselves fighting against a ruthless enemy with a well-earned hatred of the Federation and everything it stands for. Only a rebellious alien warrior can help them reunite and leave the planet to stop this deadly menace from beginning a possible galactic war. (Read More)
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
A massive alien spacecraft of enormous power destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, entering Federation space. Admiral James T. Kirk is ordered to take command of the USS Enterprise for the first time since her historic five-year mission. The Epsilon IX space station alerts the Federation, but th…ey are also destroyed by the alien spacecraft. The only starship in range is the Enterprise--after undergoing a major overhaul at Spacedock on Earth. Kirk rounds up the rest of his crew, and acquires some new members, and sets off to intercept the alien spacecraft. However, it has been there years since Kirk last commanded the Enterprise... is he up to the task of saving Earth? (Read More)
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
Mortal Kombat is an ancient tournament where the Earth Realm warriors battle against the forces of Outworld. Liu Kang and a few chosen fighters fought and defeated the powerful sorcerer Shang Tsung, their victory would preserve the peace on Earth for one more generation. Taking place now where the f…irst movie left off, the Earth realm warriors live a short period of peace when evil forces from another dimension come to invade and wreak havoc on Earth. They are guided by the forces of Outworld leader, Shao Kahn and his generals such as: Motaro, Rain, Ermac, Sheeva and Sindel. Now Liu Kang, Raiden, Jax, Sonya and Kitana must defeat Shao Kahn in six days before the Earth realm merges with the Outworld. (Read More)
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The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen (1988)
The fantastic tale of an 18th century aristocrat, his talented henchmen and a little girl in their efforts to save a town from defeat by the Turks. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable advent…ures. (Read More)
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Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
After a joyous wedding between William Riker and Deanna Troi, Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew stumble upon a mysterious signal which results in it being a prototype android who is the twin to Data. Then the Enterprise is invited to Romulus to negotiate peace with the Romulans by their new Pra…etor named Shinzon. However, Shinzon is revealed to be a clone of Picard who was raised on Remus, a slave planet to the Romulans. Later on, Picard discovers that this peace treaty was nothing more than a set-up due to the fact that Shinzon needs Picard in order to survive. But little do the Enterprise crew know that Shinzon also plans to do away with the Federation by unleashing a weapon that could destroy a whole planet. (Read More)
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Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
Adventure, Drama, Sci-fi
Earth's future has been riddled by disasters, famines, and droughts. There is only one way to ensure mankind's survival: Interstellar travel. A newly discovered wormhole in the far reaches of our solar system allows a team of astronauts to go where no man has gone before, a planet that may have the …right environment to sustain human life. (Read More)
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a… space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that's wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed. (Read More)
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Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan (1982)
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Solaris (1972)
The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence, but the details are hazy and very secret. After the mysterious demise of one of the three scientists on the base, the main character is sent out to replace him. He finds the station run-down and th…e two remaining scientists cold and secretive. When he also encounters his wife who has been dead for ten years, he begins to appreciate the baffling nature of the alien intelligence. (Read More)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
While on a mission to observe the peaceful Ba'ku race, Lt. Commander Data suddenly behaves as if having to fear for his existence. The immortal Ba'ku, whose planet offers regenerative radiation and therefore incredible lifespans, live in harmony with nature and reject advanced technology. Their plan…et and their culture is secretly researched by the Federation associated with an alien race called the Son'a. But the Son'a intend to abduct the Ba'ku in order to take the planet for themselves and for the Starfleet officials who all would like to regenerate their bodies. But they did not think of the loyalty of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-E to the Prime Directive. (Read More)
The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
The modern world holds many secrets, but the most astounding secret of all is that witches still live amongst us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world. Armies of witch hunters battled the unnatural enemy across the globe for centuries, including Kaulder,… a valiant warrior who managed to slay the all-powerful Queen Witch, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen curses Kaulder with her own immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter in the afterlife. Today Kaulder is the only one of his kind remaining, and has spent centuries hunting down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost loved ones. However, unbeknownst to Kaulder, the Queen Witch is resurrected and seeks revenge on her killer causing an epic battle that will determine the survival of the human race. (Read More)
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Home Leadership NOTES ON WATER SUPPLY OF THE PHILIPPINES
NOTES ON WATER SUPPLY OF THE PHILIPPINES
(SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR FIRE AND WATER.)
Throughout the Philippines the waterworks systems are very defective. The water itself is not pure, and the method of supply is poor. The few improvements that have been made during the past hundred years were due in part to the Spanish, and more recently to the Americans. On Luzon in the neighborhood of Manila the system and supply are fairly good, but defective in many ways. Outside Manila rivers, wells and rain-basins form the sources of supply. Only in the rain-basins is the water pure, but it becomes impure after standing a little time. Since sanitation has begun to be enforced in the islands, the Filipinos experience some difficulty in getting drinking water, since most of the rivers rise in sections abounding in vegetable matter which is constantly undergoing decay. They are further polluted by the caribou—the Philippine reindeer, used by the islanders (as will be seen in two of the accompanying illustrations) as a beast of burden and for draught purposes—great herds of which wallow in the streams, and by the natives, who bathe in the waters without restraint, and empty all their filth into them on every side. These continue to drink the water freely. The American soldiers, however, are all obliged to boil the waters of the river before drinking it. The well water, also, though cool and apparently clear and pure, when subjected to microscopic examination is shown toabound in pathogenic microbes. It can, therefore, be used only after having been boiled for a long time. The drinking water from the basins can be caught only during the rainy half of the year. The basins are often covered, and, when this is the case, are well protected so far as their supply is concerned. In very many cases, however, the writer has seen them uncovered, and. in addition to the water, has noticed dead fowl and other polluting matter floating on the surface or lying at the bottom. The little mountain brooks furnish practically pure enough water; but these, of course, are not available for use in the cities and large towns.
Waterworks are in demand in the islands, the better classes of whose population have offered high prices, and even put up the money for water supplies; but to no purpose for lack of the proper materials for establishing systems. In Manila there is a fairly good plant, and under American control the machinery is kept in running order. But in Iloilo (which could also supply Molo, Jaro, Oton, Arevalo, and other large towns close by) the American population has to import at high prices bottled waters from the Jananese springs, as well as lemonade, tonics, and the like, of which shiploads are imported. The same conditions rule in the southern islands; imported or boiled water or the polluted, disease-bearing stuff of the country must be drunk. The engineers of the islands have, therefore, proposed to establish waterworks throughout the country. taking the water from the springs found in most of the mountainous sections. On Mindanao, for example, your correspondent visited the mining dist’ ets and was shown many very excellent brooks of water, which could be combined into one or two channels and carried to the reservoirs in the cities and towns. On Cebu there are plenty of good water supplies in the mountains, while the people of the cities and towns are drinking the polluted waters of the marshes and wells. The same conditions exist on the islands of Gimeras, Negros, and others of the southern portion of the archipelago. For good water supplies the people are willing to pay, and the leading citizens state that their people were willing to buy stocks in any water supply company which would begin operations on their island. These richer classes of natives have the money with which to do work of this kind, but no one has ever been in any other island than Luzon with a view of forming stock companies for water supplies. The sugar planters and the proprietors of the shops and to bacco lands, all well off, speak to the same effect.
The lack of piping has. of course, stood in the way. When the Americans first came to the Philippines there was hardly too feet of water pipe laid, and in many places bamboo poles are today utilised for that purpose. These are so laid that the smaller end interlocks with the larger, and at the joinings is a binding of split bamboo and hempen cord cemented over with a composition obtained from the clayey deposits of the lowlands. These pipes are put together on the ground, or, in some cases, when sunk a few feet in the earth, and then covered. But these pipes are not lasting; they will carry a thin stream of water for a few months and then loosen at the joints and leak. Again, they cause trouble by clogging, because there is a little rib inside of the bamboo, which often splits off in such a way as to catch foreign matter, and they clog the channel. There are also homemade pipes used by the natives, constructed from clay and cement. There are good clay deposits here, apd also mines of lime and cement, while the fine beach sands arc excellent for pipe-making purposes, if the Filipinos understood the art. But they do not. and the result is that they can turn out only some inferior and small sized pieces of pipe, which are of little use and have to be renewed frequently.
Elbows are almost impossible for the native potters to manufacture, while such appliances as stopvalves, and the like have to be made up of patched devices, such as may have been shipped here by the Spanish or the Japanese and sold through the socalled hardware supply stores of the country. 1 have seen fittings for pipes made tip of dozens of patched pieces, very ingeniously formed, but totally inadequate for the work intended.
As to power systems for the waterworks of the Philippines: Outside of the power plant of Manila, no engineer seems to have had the courage to plan extensive works. At times there have been parties of engineers in Iloilo looking over the territory, with a view to installing proper pumping stations; but no definite move has as yet been made, although some of the leading sugar mill men were ready to invest several hundred thousand dollars in the enterprise. In some of the islands the engineers have planned to establish water power systems, there being some good water courses capable of being dammed and utilised for power-transmitting purposes. Some of the commanding officers of the United Statesarmy in different districts have started the idea of contributing money for the purpose of putting in such systems for operating electric lights, water supply systems, cable roads, and other modern conveniences.
One of the greatest paying investments in the islands would be ice-making, if proper water could be had. In fact, those who are engaged in the business at the present time are obliged to operate their plants twenty-four hours per day, Sunday and every day. They can get very high prices for the ice and are never able to keep up with the demand. There are government ice-making plants in Manila, Iloilo, and some of the other important stations, and, after the hospitals are supplied, the operators of these plants are permitted to sell the surplus ice to government officials at cost. After they are supplied, the stores and the other people are permitted to buy.
Labor can be secured at very low rates; even the native women are hired out on waterworks conconstruction. Skilled engineers from America and other countries expect from $,} to $6 in gold a day, while European or American foremen and superintendent engineers are paid even higher wages.
As to the materials found on the spot which can be used in the construction of waterworks: There are the different sandstones of the country which are suitable for reservoirs and stone work in general. This material is found in vast quarries almost everywhere. It is cut and carted to market by natives, some of whom make a business of this work alone, as the stone is used by them for many purposes. There are also the different sorts of native woods, which can be had for the cutting, for the government lands arc open to all.
The accompanying illustrations show the hauling of bamboo poles, by caribou, for pipe uses; gang of native workmen and caribou; and native women employed on waterworks construction.
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Canada and the North Atlantic Alliance
By Lester B. Pearson
IN an address on the foundations of Canadian foreign policy at the University of Toronto in January 1947, the Right Honorable Louis St. Laurent, now the Prime Minister of Canada, made the following statement concerning the attitude of Canadians to their foreign policy: "If there is one conclusion that our common experience has led us to accept, it is that security for this country lies in the development of a firm structure of international organization." At that time Mr. St. Laurent was Secretary of State for External Affairs. Anyone who holds this office, and indeed any serious-minded student of foreign affairs in Canada, must concur in his judgment, for it is based upon considerations in the political and economic life of Canada which make it almost axiomatic.
On many occasions members of the Canadian Government have expressed the hope that the United Nations would work out quickly and in detail procedures by which peace could be maintained through collective action. There was disappointment in Canada when differences amongst the Great Powers delayed this development, but the Canadian Government continued to be anxious that the United Nations should proceed with its main task. At the opening of the General Assembly in September 1946, for example, the leader of the Canadian Delegation said:
Canada therefore urges that the Security Council and the Military Staff Committee go ahead with all possible speed in the constructive work of negotiating the special agreements and of organizing the military and economic measures of enforcement. It appears to us that it would be in the interest of all members of the United Nations to see the Security Council equipped and ready in fact to enforce proper decisions for the maintenance of world peace and also to see serious consideration given to the reduction of national armaments so that the productive capacity of the world thus conserved may be used for improving the living conditions of all peoples.
In early 1947 there was still reason to hope that the idea of universal collective security, so important in the minds of Canadians, might be realized before long, and on a basis more secure than had been the case when the experiment had previously been made in the League of Nations. Today the principle to which Mr. St. Laurent gave expression remains constant in the formulation of Canadian foreign policy; but evidence during the past two years has led to the sober realization that collective security of this kind will be more difficult to achieve than had been expected.
Even as the Charter was being signed, the evidences of disunity within the membership of the United Nations were present. This disunity has now led us to the point where we must frankly and honestly admit that our hope of gaining security through the United Nations, although we do not abandon that hope, is not one which will soon be realized. We have been led to this conclusion partly through developments within the United Nations itself and partly because of the menacing state of affairs which has developed in the world, and which the United Nations is clearly not capable of meeting in its present condition. Merely to name some of the principal issues before the United Nations which remain deadlocked shows at a glance the extent of the danger: how to control atomic energy; how to establish military forces under international control; how to secure Greece against attacks from her northern neighbors; how to establish a rational plan for disarmament. All these involved questions not only threaten peace but lead to gnawing fear and insecurity, particularly among the less powerful members of the United Nations.
Nor is the situation more encouraging in the Security Council. On issues which divide the Great Powers, it is frequently impossible to take decisions because of the operation of the veto. On the other hand, the permanent members of the Security Council may, if no one of them dissents from a proposed course of action, move the Security Council to swift and radical action in matters which affect the interests of smaller Powers. A contrast between the handling of the Balkan question and the Indonesian question gives a good example of the difficulties which face a Power of middle rank in endeavoring to work out a consistent policy in relation to the Security Council. Greece's northern neighbors, because they enjoy the protection of a powerful sponsor, cannot be touched by the action of the Security Council. The Dutch, on the other hand, whose friends amongst the permanent members of the Security Council are more conscientious about the way in which they use their voting privilege, find themselves in a much more exposed position during the discussions of the Indonesian question. Similarly, the difference in attitude amongst the Great Powers towards truce resolutions, depending on the part of the world to which these resolutions apply, has been a cause of serious misgiving to less influential members of the Council. In the meantime, these members, these smaller states, find themselves in the presence of an aggressive political theory, Communism, supported by all the resources of a powerful totalitarian and militaristic state.
The expansion of Communism cannot be regarded merely as the natural emergence of a particular political ideology in certain European countries. It has come to mean the concentration by the U.S.S.R. of power so great, and exerted in so unscrupulous a manner, that, in states which border upon the Soviet Union, Communism can be imposed upon the people in defiance of their real desires. Further, this power is now centered in a nation which, in almost every organ of the United Nations, has made it clear that it will have its own way or no way at all. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the U.S.S.R. thinks of its security only in terms of the armed forces it can itself muster, the territory it can control or influence, and the confusion of purpose it can engender among those who oppose its policies. Any security that might be offered by the United Nations to the U.S.S.R. on top of this will be welcome, but will not occasion any abandonment of the original Soviet attitude or any move towards accommodation with other viewpoints.
The Canadian Government has not been alone in its concern and misgiving over these disquieting developments. The first concrete result of the western world's growing sense that its way of life was threatened was the conclusion of the Brussels Pact in March of last year. In Canada it was observed with particular interest that the pledge given by the Brussels Powers went beyond the conventional exchange of military guarantees. Starting with the promise of mutual support in event of an armed attack, the signatories to the Brussels Pact agreed also to take steps in order to create and perfect a coördinated defense organization and coöperate in social and economic fields for their common good, and in order that they might not through weakness or disunity seem to offer an easy prey for an aggressor. Commenting on this characteristic of the Brussels Treaty, Mr. Mackenzie King, who was then Prime Minister of Canada, said that it was "far more than an alliance of the old kind." He went on to make the following comments on the agreement for Western Union: "It is a partial realization of the idea of collective security by an arrangement made under the Charter of the United Nations. It is a step towards peace which may well be followed by other similar steps, until there is built up an association of all free states which are willing to accept responsibilities of mutual assistance to prevent aggression and preserve peace."
A discussion in the Congress of the United States, which took place during the same period, led to the adoption of the Vandenberg Resolution which was part of the same pattern of development. Public interest and approval shown for the Brussels Pact and the Vandenberg Resolution made it clear that in the western world a movement had grown, both in governments and among peoples, for greater unity in the face of danger. This development in Western Europe and the United States had its counterpart in Canada. Throughout 1947 and 1948 many discussions took place, in Parliament and in the press, concerning the attitude which Canada should adopt towards the dangers that beset the western world.
From all these discussions, both in Canada and elsewhere, there emerged the proposal for an association amongst the nations of the North Atlantic community. The growth of this idea has been a good example of the way in which in democratic communities political leadership finds its best expression. Public concern over the failure in the postwar world to achieve security was general. So also was the conviction that peace and freedom can be secured only if those who love both peace and freedom pool their resources and stand together. These general ideas were interpreted and given precise form by the governments which represented the peoples of the western democracies. They were also made concrete in the negotiations for the North Atlantic Pact, which were undertaken in Washington during the latter part of 1948.
The negotiations themselves have been an equally good demonstration of the way in which foreign affairs are conducted in democratic countries. The exploratory and noncommittal meetings in Washington, in which the terms of the treaty have been worked out, have been secret. The participants in the preliminary discussions and the governments which instructed them have been free from day-to-day public comment on the details of the negotiation. For this reason, the process of mutual accommodation by which the most generally satisfactory result possible could be reached has gone forward without the pressures which invariably arise when the early stages of international negotiations are conducted in public. Honest differences of opinion, when they occurred in the afternoon, did not become sensational world headlines in the six o'clock editions. There is nothing more difficult for a democratic government to abandon than a headline. The negotiators and their governments were spared this difficulty. At the same time, however, the general purpose and tenor of the discussions have been well known to the public, and each of the participating governments has been able to test public opinion in its own country as the agreement was being formulated. As a final check on its judgment concerning the wishes of its people, each government will take the treaty before its own legislature for searching debate and final decision. In many respects the preparation of the North Atlantic Alliance has embodied an admirable combination of confidential diplomacy of the conventional style with free and open discussion of the general principles under consideration. It will be an open covenant, privately negotiated, publicly debated and decided.
Even before the precise terms of the North Atlantic Treaty have been revealed, its general characteristics have been made apparent to the public. It has been possible, therefore, for Canadians to estimate the extent to which the proposed treaty will fit within the general framework of Canadian foreign policy. For this reason, the support which Canada has given to the proposal for a North Atlantic Alliance has been increased and strengthened by the general conviction that it is in no way inconsistent with any other commitment or with the general aims and purposes of Canadian foreign policy.
The North Atlantic collective system, in the first place, will form part of a structure for the preservation of peace, and will therefore be in keeping with the aims and purposes of the United Nations. In engaging in such a pact, the member states will base their action on the "inherent right of individual or collective self-defense" recognized in Article 51. In accordance with the other provision of that Article, they will not enter into engagements which would "in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security." Measures taken by nations which sign the Pact will be reported to the Security Council and, when the Council is prepared to assume its full responsibilities as the universal guardian of security, then the arrangements embodied in the North Atlantic Pact will no longer be needed.
The proposed North Atlantic Alliance may prove to be an important step in the development of a chain of collective security pacts which will girdle the globe and underwrite the universal security aims of the United Nations. It will overlap but will not duplicate the Brussels Pact. One of its members, the United States, will also be a member of the Inter-American System. Two of its proposed members, Canada and the United Kingdom, belong to the British Commonwealth, which, although not bound by formal commitments, has nevertheless proved in the past half-century to be, in effect, one of the most successful systems for collective defense and coöperative action the world has yet seen, when there is a threat to world security as great as that embodied in the German aggressions of 1914 and 1939. The United Kingdom has special international responsibilities which, although they are not assumed by all members of the Commonwealth, are nevertheless of importance to them. The defense of its colonial territories and its agreements with other nations outside the Commonwealth on matters of defense involve the United Kingdom in a security system which is spread over a large part of the world and which will be a factor in the development of security on a universal basis. In the Pacific, two members of the Commonwealth, Australia and New Zealand, have entered into their own defense understanding. They have, therefore, a regional security system of their own as well as their association with the Commonwealth and their general commitment under the Charter of the United Nations.
Amongst these groupings, the North Atlantic community effectively meets the needs of Canadian foreign policy. In contrast with the Pan American Union, for example, it reflects political, economic and cultural interests which in the history of Canada have been of importance in the growth of its freedom and security. These interests also are more generally shared by other members of the Commonwealth of Nations, in which Canada is determined to maintain her membership. The North Atlantic grouping, moreover, is the association which most directly corresponds to the need which Canada has for increased security, because Canadians, perhaps more than any other people in the Americas, consider that the safety of their country is bound up with that of Western Europe.
All these plans should be viewed as part of a general pattern for world security, which can be progressively developed within the framework of the United Nations. The unity of this system might well be strengthened at once by as simple a device as a provision that each association should each year make a report on its activities to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
The growth of regional security groups of this kind, coöperating closely together, calls to mind developments of an earlier age, when nations began to form out of provinces and states, as pressures from below and from outside seemed to make such a development necessary. It may be that an effective international organization to keep the peace on a universal or almost universal basis will in this way emerge out of regional associations in which, at the present stage, states can work together for security and progress more responsibly than they can in a larger looser body.
Whether the ultimate objective of an effective world organization is achieved in this or in some other way, there is no reason why the formation of a North Atlantic union now should hinder or defeat our efforts, in spite of all obstacles, to make our present United Nations work as effectively as possible. This regional Pact -- all regional Pacts -- should supplement, not replace, the Charter of the United Nations.
All the efforts at universal security which have been made up to now will be continued. The Assembly will explore issues and try to reconcile contending views. The various functional agencies, working in every sphere of international life, will continue to build from the groundwork of coöperation in day-today matters a structure of international administration. The Security Council will continue to be the main instrument for the peaceful settlement of international disputes. The United Nations will lose no time in making use, for the good of mankind, of any improvement that may come in relations between the U.S.S.R. and the western world. Meanwhile, it offers the means by which any desire for an improvement in these relations can be put into effect immediately, and with a minimum of formality.
Finally, the proposal for a North Atlantic agreement should fulfill the desire of the Canadian people to make some positive contribution to the maintenance of peace. It is not enough merely to arm ourselves against danger, or to proclaim our abhorrence of totalitarian and reactionary Communism. We must also make sure that the North Atlantic Pact does not ever in any circumstances become merely a screen for narrow suspicions and fears or an instrument of unimaginative militarism. The hopes which Canadians have that this association of states will in the long run serve the best and fullest purpose of mankind were clearly stated by Mr. St. Laurent in an address in September last:
Now a collective arrangement of this kind has positive as well as negative values. It can make for prosperity as well as security. It has in it the ultimate hope -- and the possibility -- of establishing freedom, order and welfare over a wide area. Under present conditions that seems to be our best formula for peace; the concentration of an overwhelming superiority of moral, economic and physical force on the side of those who do not wish to use force, but are resolved to do so together if the necessity is forced on them. If we can bring this about, it may then come to pass that the forces of aggression, respecting our power for war and convinced of our will for peace, will abandon their mad designs, dismiss their unjustified suspicions, and begin to coöperate with others without requiring that they become mere satellites. Any political association on other than a universal basis in this shrinking world cannot be an end in itself, but only a means to an end. The end is that set out in the Charter we have all signed, the erection of a structure of international coöperation and understanding, in which all men of every creed and race and color may exist together in peace and prosperity.
These are high aims. They are also a guarantee that we shall not fall into the old error of thinking that intricate alliances and military schedules are a lasting guarantee of peace or that they constitute the proper means to attempt a rapprochement between hostile Powers.
In all its important characteristics, therefore, the proposed North Atlantic Treaty is consistent with the principal aims of Canadian foreign policy as they have been formulated over the past generation. In one respect, however, the Alliance will be for Canada, as for the United States, a new and revolutionary departure. Up to the present the Canadian Government has, in time of peace, never recommended to Parliament that Canada undertake the precise and formal commitments of an Alliance such as the one proposed.
The Canadian people are perhaps better prepared for this new stage in the development of their foreign policy than the people of the United States, because of Canada's participation in the work of international organizations between 1919 and 1939. For Canadians, too, the vulnerability of the North American continent to the shock of political earthquakes in other parts of the world has been more apparent, because of the fact that they were immediately involved in the wars of 1914 and 1939.
Since the outbreak of the last war, the rôle of the North American continent in world affairs has increased so greatly, and the dangers of disunity have become so generally recognized, that Canada is now prepared to accept the new aspect which the North Atlantic Treaty will give to the conduct of her external relations. The people of Canada will, when the time comes, take this decision deliberately and in full knowledge of what it means. Once they have taken it, they will be prepared to accept their share of the responsibility in the new alliance, though within the measure of their resources, and as part of plans agreed upon by all and according to which each member of the group assumes the tasks for which it is best qualified. In this way they can make an effective contribution to building and maintaining the peaceful world they so greatly desire.
The North Atlantic Alliance will not only be a pooling of resources, but it will also provide means for the collective working out of plans which are acceptable to all its members. For this purpose, it will be necessary to establish effective agencies on behalf of the states which have signed the agreement. Through these agencies, they all can take part in determining how the resources which have been built up in common can be used for their mutual benefit and protection. This is one of the conditions which will make it possible for a country of the size and strength of Canada to participate fully and freely in the agreement, for it gives to Canadians the assurance not only that they will share the obligations of the group, but also that they will share the responsibility for determining how these obligations shall be met. On no other basis could Canada -- or indeed any other self-respecting nation -- sign the Pact.
The North Atlantic Pact is designed solely to secure peace and promote progress. The first objective -- peace -- seems infinitely and immediately desirable as threats to that peace appear. Security, as it has been said, is the ideal of the insecure; and at present we are all insecure. We seek to put force behind peace and freedom now, so that later they can be maintained without force. Until that later time is reached, however, we must be on our guard against developments which may suggest that we can now lower our guard. The real test of our Atlantic Alliance will come if and when the threat to peace seems to recede and we are allowed to see that silver lining which the Iron Curtain is said to possess.
In the past, alliances and leagues have nearly always been formed to meet emergencies and have dissolved as the emergencies vanished. It must not be so this time. Our Atlantic union must have a deeper meaning and deeper roots. It must build up habits and desires for coöperation which go beyond the immediate emergency. By ministering to the welfare of the peoples of its member states, it must create those conditions and desires for united effort which make formal pacts unnecessary. Threats to peace may bring our union into being. Its contribution to welfare and progress will determine how long it is to survive.
LESTER B. PEARSON, Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada; Canadian Ambassador in Washington, 1944-46; Canadian representative at many international conferences, including the San Francisco Conference of 1945
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3 killed, 10 others wounded Wednesday in Chicago shootings
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CHICAGO - Three people were killed — including a 13-year-old boy — and 10 others wounded in shootings Wednesday across Chicago.
A man was fatally shot Wednesday morning near a grade school in Lawndale on the West Side.
Officers found the 41-year-old lying in the street with several gunshot wounds around 5:15 a.m. in the 4000 block of West Grenshaw Street, Chicago police said.
He was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. His name hasn’t been released.
Frazier International Magnet School is located on the same block where the shooting occurred.
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Wednesday night, a 29-year-old man was killed in a shooting in Roseland on the South Side.
The man was in outside in the 11000 block of South Indiana Avenue about 7:30 p.m. when a vehicle approached and someone inside fired shots, police said.
He suffered gunshot wounds to the leg, back and chest, police said. He was transported to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was later pronounced dead, police said.
An hour later, a 13-year-old boy was fatally shot inside an apartment in Portage Park on the Northwest Side.
About 8:35 p.m., the boy was inside an apartment in the 5200 block of West Byron Street when a male shot him in the chest, police said. He was transported to Stroger where he was pronounced dead, police said. He hasn’t been identified.
One person was placed into custody at the scene and a weapon was recovered, according to police.
Police sources said the shooting appeared to be domestic related.
In nonfatal attacks, three men were wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon in West Garfield Park.
The group was standing on the sidewalk in the 4500 block of West Maypole Avenue just after 4 p.m. when someone inside a passing vehicle began shooting at them, police said.
A 27-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the head and a gunshot wound to the lower back, police said. He was taken to Loyola Medical Center in Maywood in critical condition.
Another man, 30, was struck in the leg and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, police said. The third man, 28, was shot in the hand and transported to Loretto Hospital in good condition.
Late Wednesday, three people were arrested after a man was shot in Austin.
The 32-year-old was standing outside about 10 p.m. in the 5100 block of West West End Avenue when a female and two males approached him, police said.
The female pulled out a handgun and shot him in the leg, police said. He was taken in fair condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.
Shortly after, responding officers saw the suspects walking in the 5000 block of West Monroe Street and placed them into custody, according to police.
At least six others were hurt in citywide gun violence Wednesday.
Ten people were shot Tuesday in Chicago.
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‘It’s very flattering’: Alabama officer earns fame for striking resemblance to ‘The Rock’
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Alabama officer earns fame for striking resemblance to ‘The Rock’
Lt. Eric Fields spoke with FOX Television Stations about the attention he's getting for looking like wrestler-turned-actor "The Rock."
SOMERVILLE, Ala. - Getting stopped to take pictures while running errands may be no big deal for wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, but his doppelganger in Morgan County, Alabama is still getting used to it.
Lt. Eric Fields, 37, said ever since he started working out a few years ago and shaved his head, people remark that he bears a striking resemblance to Johnson. Fields is 6-foot-2 and weighs 235 pounds. Johnson is reported to be 6-foot-5, weighing approximately 260 pounds.
"It’s been an ongoing joke," Fields told FOX Television Stations Saturday. "And I go with it. I’ve never really seen myself as being like a real close match."
But there are several people who would disagree.
Lt. Eric Fields (Credit: Morgan Co. Sheriff's Office) and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
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Fields, who works for the local sheriff’s office, started to get national attention after the office posted a picture of him on its Facebook page on Aug. 20. The post received over 2,000 likes and hundreds of shares.
Fields said he used to get mistaken for actor Vin Diesel. However, he’s now starting to see what others see when it comes to comparing him to "The Rock."
"I’ve seen it on pictures with certain angles and I think ‘Yeah, that kind of looks like ’The Rock’," he added. "But you know, you always see yourself."
"It’s very flattering," he continued.
Johnson said he is a fan of "The Rock" and admires the celebrity, calling him a "good guy" who has "positive energy."
But with the fame, comes the loss of privacy. Fields said he has become known as "The guy who looks like ‘The Rock’" although no one has seriously mistaken him for the movie star.
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"I go out, and I have people wanting to take selfies with me," he said. "I went to a store after all of this kind of hit, and it took me like 30 minutes to get back into the car and out of the parking lot."
But Fields does want to use his newfound fame for good. He wants to call attention to ALS after his co-worker Sgt. Chris Dillard was diagnosed with the debilitating neuromuscular disease. A Facebook and GoFundMe page has been set up to raise money for Dillard’s family.
"But really what I was to ask [for] is prayers [for healing]," he continued.
Meanwhile, Fields said he hasn’t met "The Rock" and isn’t even sure the actor knows about him. However, Fields’ wife and two young sons see the resemblance and often jokes with him about it.
"My older son says 'Does ‘The Rock’ want to be you?‘ and I’m like ’Yeah, he does’," Fields said.
On Monday, Johnson took to Twitter to address his doppelganger.
"Guy on the left is way cooler," he tweeted. "Stay safe brother and thank you for your service."
Johnson also offered to have a drink with Fields and hear about the lieutenant’s "Rock stories."
This story was reported from Los Angeles.
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HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco announces an agreement between his Foundation and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts ? United States
HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco travelled to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on 9 July to visit two institutes devoted to ocean research: the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Alongside his Monegasque delegation, the Sovereign Prince met scientists from both organisations, with whom he shares the same deep interest in marine biodiversity, exploration and protection. Accompanying His Serene Highness were His Excellency Mr Bernard Fautrier, Vice-President of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Her Excellency Mrs Maguy Maccario-Doyle, Ambassador of Monaco to the United States and Canada, and Professor Patrick Rampal, President of the Scientific Centre of Monaco.
Firstly HSH Prince Albert II visited the MBL, whose work in fundamental biology also covers biodiversity and the environment. Founded in Woods Hole in 1888, the MBL is a private, non-profit institution and an affiliate of the University of Chicago. After a tour of the MBL’s research collection vessel, The Gemma, the Sovereign Prince was shown around its Marine Resources Center by Dr David Remsen, Manager of the Marine Research Department. “Our oceans are greatly under threat, despite their size and their vital contribution to humanity,” said Prince Albert II during the visit. “This is the central issue of our time, an issue that is urgent and at the same time eternal, an issue for today and for future generations. To move forward at the United Nations, in Monaco, or here on the beautiful New England coast, we have only one resource, and that is knowledge, understanding and science. Our sole resource is all of you.”
Discussions continued on the theme of climate change and the environment at a lunch held at the Woods Hole Golf Club. During his address, Professor Robert Zimmer, President of the University of Chicago, emphasised the importance of the role of science in the fight against climate change.
In the afternoon the Monegasque delegation visited the WHOI laboratories, where they were greeted by Mr Mark Abbott, President and Director of the institution, and Mr Larry Madin, Deputy Director and Vice President for Research. Dedicated to research in all aspects of marine science and engineering, the WHOI, which was founded in 1930, is the largest independent oceanographic research institution in the United States. Its researchers gave presentations on their scientific work in the fields of coral reefs, microplastics and the mesopelagic – the ocean’s twilight zone.
An exhibition of historical photos and archival material from the MBLWHOI Library documenting the polar expeditions led by the Prince Albert II of Monaco’s great-great-grandfather, Prince Albert I, concluded the day.
The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation supports the Marine Biological Laboratory’s SeaBase project
During his visit HSH the Sovereign Prince officially announced the upcoming signing of an agreement between his Foundation and the Marine Biological Laboratory to support a project that will improve marine biodiversity knowledge. Approved at the Foundation’s last Board of Directors meeting on 22 June in Monaco, the Building SeaBase: a Bioinformatic Infrastructure for Marine Genomes initiative is part of the MBL’s ongoing research into the anthropomorphic issues and other challenges facing ocean health. The Marine Biological Laboratory is establishing a web research database for marine biodiversity and ecosystems. SeaBase will feature integrated data on marine organisms, their genomes, transcriptomes and microbiomes, with contextual information such as their diversity and local and global distribution, as well as the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of their habitats. The MBL will also develop new tools to enable comparisons of these detailed data between species and habitats in order to understand the drivers of change in marine ecosystems. The studies carried out will have applications in a variety of fields, such as physiology, neuroscience and industry.
As the oceans are under constant pressure, understanding the mechanisms that govern marine ecosystems and their biodiversity seems more vital than ever. The project is entirely consistent with the missions that the Foundation has set itself in terms of improving and sharing scientific knowledge. The project will be jointly funded by the Foundation’s headquarters in Monaco and its United States branch.
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Sri Lankan Held as Domestic Slave in New Jersey
Domestic Slavery
A woman in New Jersey has been convicted of forcing a Sri Lankan woman to work in her home for nine years without pay.
She made the victim overstay her temporary visa and even attempted to fraudulently marry her to keep her in the country.
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The jury only needed two hours to deliberate before handing down a guilty verdict for Alia Imad Faleh Al Hunaity on charges of forced labor, alien harboring for financial gain and marriage fraud.
The New York Times reports:
Prosecutors did not name the victim, who they said took care of the woman’s children and cleaned her house, and was largely hidden from the outside world. They said she came to the United States on a temporary visa in 2009.
“The defendant in this case treated the victim as a slave,” United States Attorney Craig Carpenito said in a statement from the Justice Department. “Al-Hunaity kept the victim in this country illegally and hid her away, in order to force her to perform household work for Al-Hunaity without pay, privacy, or the ability to move about freely.”
“Hunaity forced the victim to cook and clean her homes in Woodland Park and Secaucus, New Jersey, and to care for her three children, all without pay,” the Justice Department said in its statement. “She further limited the victim’s interactions with the world outside of Hunaity’s homes.
Court documents noted that the victim had worked for Ms. Al-Hunaity’s parents in Jordan before coming to the United States.
Robert Kovic, a lawyer for Ms. Al-Hunaity, rejected the guilty verdict, saying ““The evidence presented was nowhere near proving the government’s claims,” which were rejected “not only by Ms. Hunaity, but also by the alleged victim herself.”
His client will be sentenced on September 4, and the forced labor conviction means she could face up to 20 years in prison.
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Interesting that the ‘alleged’ victim also rejected the government’s claims. Just goes to show how deeply they messed with her mind. I hope they throw the book at Ms. Hunaity.
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Investigative Journalist and Lead Engineer for the Paradise Papers Investigation and 2020-2021 European Young Leader (EYL40)
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Matthew is a renowned Maltese journalist and software engineer with a distinguished career that spans over a decade. Having previously worked for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), he co-founded the organisation’s Data & Research Unit in 2014 and was a lead engineer on six major investigations, namely Offshore Leaks, Swiss Leaks, Luxembourg Leaks, Fatal Extraction, Panama Papers and Paradise Papers. The Unit’s core work on the Panama Papers notably won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2017. He left the organisation in 2018 to continue working on the case around the assassination of his mother, Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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Emma Gillbard 12 November 2021 https://www.fwi.co.uk
Widely used fungicide co‑formulant found to harm bees
Emma Gillbard 16 November 2021
A co‑formulant widely used in azoxystrobin fungicides has been found to significantly affect the health of bumblebees, prompting calls for a change in the way new products are assessed.
Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London discovered that exposure to the co-formulant alcohol ethoxylates can cause severe gut damage, which can lead to a lack of appetite, weight loss and mortality in bumblebees.
Ed Straw, PhD researcher at the University, said exposure to alcohol ethoxylates was found to cause a 30% mortality rate in bumblebees, as well as a range of other sub-lethal effects.
“The study demonstrates how co-formulants can drive the toxicity of a product and put vital bee populations at risk,” he said.
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Researchers fed the commonly used fungicide Amistar, containing the active ingredient azoxystrobin, and each of its individual ingredients to a number of bumblebees.
“We found the co-formulant alcohol ethoxylates caused the entire damage. Azoxystrobin was not causing any harm at all and neither were any of the other ingredients,” said Mr Straw.
“While 30% of the bees exposed died, the other 70% were far from healthy. They had damaged guts, were eating about half as much food and were losing weight.”
Currently, chemical regulation focuses on the active ingredients in products and their effects on bee health, leaving co-formulants such as alcohol ethoxylates overlooked as potential threats.
Mr Straw suggested the regulatory regime be updated so chemical co-formulants are tested more stringently to ensure they do not have negative effects on insect or bee populations.
But Crop Protection Association CEO Dave Bench said when bringing plant protection products to market, the pollinator risk assessment included tests on products in a formulated state.
“Plant protection products are subject to one of the most stringent regulatory regimes of any product.
This regulatory regime ensures that no product is authorised if it is found to pose an unacceptable risk to the health of bees or other pollinators.
“This laboratory-based study does not replicate realistic conditions of exposure or dose rates and, rather than using the formulated product that bees might be exposed to in the field, it takes a single co-formulant in isolation.”
He added that the co-formulant identified in the study, alcohol ethoxylates, was used in a range of consumer products such as laundry detergents, cleaning products, cosmetics, textiles and paper and, as such, was widely regulated.
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Online Gambling in Austria
Austria has produced an impressive roster of great minds: Freud, Mozart and, perhaps their greatest mind of all, Arnold Schwarzenegger. A true polymath in the classical sense, Arnie's colourful career has spanned the gamut of talents from bodybuilding and acting to business and politics. This stern "Terminator" brand of genius might glean a little insight into the Austrian government's view on gambling laws, which is one of complete, muscular control. A stretched analogy? Perhaps, but not any more stretched than Arnie's quads at the gym, which are very stretched indeed.
The Legal Landscape
A few years ago, in response to a perceived danger in the rise of gambling addiction, Austria's government decided to tighten its legal reins on the industry in an attempt at returning to the gambling rates of the early 2000s. While slot machines, poker, card games and sports betting remain legal in casinos throughout the nation, these are strictly regulated. The situation in Austria is unique in that the government distinguishes between "proper" gambling, with large amounts of money, and "Kleines Glüksspiel," or low-stakes card games and slot machines. The latter is permitted anywhere, whereas the former can only exist within permitted casinos.
Confusingly, amendments to the Gambling Act differ across the country. Vienna, for instance, is allowed fewer casinos per person than other states due the density of its population.
The online gambling laws dictate that Austria-based companies are eligible for online gaming licences via the internet, mobile phones and interactive television, but only Austrian residents are allowed to use them. Foreign operators who hope for Austrian patrons will encounter discouraging bureaucratic and legal roadblocks such as a supervisory board and a registered, domestic office. Bet-at-Home was found guilty in 2011 of not respecting these laws because it operated in the country with a Maltese gaming licence, and the gambling website was promptly issued a "Hasta la vista, baby" verdict.
As with most European countries, football is Austria's most popular sport, and football betting is naturally extremely popular. The domestic league, though, isn't particularly competitive due to the Viennese clubs' domination. The neighbouring German Bundesliga is therefore widely covered in Austria, and residents tend to follow and bet on it a great deal.
Given its climate and mountainous environment, winter sports such as skiing and snowboarding have an equally impressive fan base. Ice Hockey is also widely played; the domestic league could perhaps best be described as "up and coming." Austria's sporting successes are generally restricted to the winter months, and the Winter Olympics subsequently attract far more bets than the Summer Olympics.
There's a big appetite for poker in Austria, despite the fairly limited amount of actual casinos in which to play it. Vienna boasts the largest poker hall in Europe, but otherwise most players play online. The most successful online player from Austria is Nikolaus Jedlicka, who made over $3 million in 2007 but has since failed to replicate that kind of success. Over 14 billion Euros were wagered in 2012 alone, with internet casinos and sportsbooks seeing a 7% year-on-year rise in revenues and offline sports bookies an 11% rise. On the other hand, slot machines have seen a heavy 10% decrease in revenues.
The Future of Gambling in Austria
The European Court of Justice recently ruled that Austria’s state gambling control is essentially legal by EU law, despite numerous legal challenges from online betting companies attempting to break national monopolies. Casinos Austria, formed in 1967, is one of the largest casino operators in the world, with 40 land-based casinos in 16 countries, 8 shipboard casinos, 15 slot parlours, and one online gambling platform.
The Austrian government has also come under fire from some quarters for failing to protect its citizens from both gambling addiction and gambling corruption. There has also been a rise in gambling addiction arrests, again leading to many wanting stricter monitoring systems in place in order to help those with gambling problems.
Gambling thus has a future in Austria, but a regulated one - and one that non-Austrians definitely aren't invited to.
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Department of the Treasury (4)
Internal Revenue Service (2)
United States Customs and Border Protection (1)
Market Shifts toward Lower-Taxed Products Continue to Reduce Federal Revenue
A 2009 law created a tax disparity among different types of tobacco products, with cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco, and small cigars taxed at one rate and pipe tobacco and some large cigars taxed at lower rates.
Released on Aug. 31, 2015
Federal Low-Income Programs
Multiple Programs Target Diverse Populations and Needs
Published: Jul 30, 2015.
Publicly Released: Aug 31, 2015.
What GAO Found More than 80 federal programs (including 6 tax expenditures) provide aid to people with low incomes, based on GAO's survey of relevant federal agencies.
Released on Mar. 25, 2009
Improved Management Controls Can Enhance Effectiveness of Key Conservation Programs
GAO-09-528T
Published: Mar 25, 2009.
Publicly Released: Mar 25, 2009.
Released on Nov. 24, 2008
Federal Farm Programs
USDA Needs to Strengthen Controls to Prevent Payments to Individuals Who Exceed Income Eligibility Limits
GAO-09-67
Published: Oct 24, 2008.
Publicly Released: Nov 24, 2008.
Farmers receive about $16 billion annually in federal farm program payments. These payments go to about 2 million recipients, both individuals and entities. GAO previously has reported that the U.S.
Released on Jul. 30, 1999
Sugar Program
Changing the Method for Setting Import Quotas Could Reduce Cost to Users
RCED-99-209
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Sugar Program, focusing on: (1) USDA's procedures for setting the tariff-rate quota for imported raw sugar; and (2) the U.S.
Released on Oct. 20, 1997
Assistance Available to U.S. Agricultural Producers Under U.S. Trade Law
NSIAD-98-49R
Publicly Released: Oct 20, 1997.
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) the tariff reductions negotiated and provisions for creation of a private dispute settlement mechanism for Florida fruit and vegetable products under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); (2) safeguard provisions available...
Net Farm Income
Primary Explanations for the Difference Between IRS and USDA Figures
GGD/RCED-93-113
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the differences between the net farm income figures reported by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA).
CFTA/NAFTA Agricultural Safeguards
GGD-93-14R
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Canadian-U.S. Free Trade Agreement's (CFTA) tariff provision for fresh fruits and vegetables and the North American Free Trade Agreement's (NAFTA) agricultural safeguard provisions between the United States and Mexico.
Released on May. 5, 1989
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation
Underwriting Standards Issues Facing the New Secondary Market
RCED-89-106BR
Publicly Released: May 05, 1989.
In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (FAMC), focusing on: (1) underwriting standards for secondary markets; (2) provisions of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 relating to FAMC underwriting standards; and (3) key issues FAMC faces in developing...
Released on Jan. 19, 1989
Factors Influencing Trends in World Agricultural Production and Trade
RCED-89-1
Published: Jan 19, 1989.
Publicly Released: Jan 19, 1989.
In response to a congressional request, GAO provided information on issues affecting global agricultural production and trade, and the resulting impact on U.S. agricultural exports.
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Top Gear returns on Sunday June 16th (Video)
10:07 am June 5, 2019 By Roland Hutchinson
The next series of Top Gear will return on Sunday the 16th of June and the show gets a new presenting team which consists of Chris Harris, from the previous series. Plus new presenters Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness.
The trailer below gives us a look at what will be happening in the latest series of Top Gear, we are looking forward to seeing how the new team gets on.
Watch this video on YouTube.
We cant wait to see how the new series does and are looking forward to seeing some amazing cars, the show returns to BBC2 in the UK in the 16th of June.
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Mercury Ink - Mercury Radio Arts and Simon & Schuster extend and expand publishing deal
GLENN BECK’S MERCURY RADIO ARTS AND SIMON & SCHUSTER EXTEND AND EXPAND CO-PUBLISHING PARTNERSHIP
Mercury Also Launches Mercury Ink - a New Publishing Division
To Discover and Promote Books That Appeal to Beck’s Large Audience
(NEW YORK, June 1st 2011) Glenn Beck’s multi-media production company Mercury Radio Arts and Simon & Schuster, Inc., are proud to announce that they are extending their global multi-book, multi-imprint co-publishing agreement. The renewal builds on the incredible success and many milestones the two companies have enjoyed since the 2003 publication of THE REAL AMERICA, including Beck’s joining the select group of authors who have placed #1 New York Times bestsellers on both the fiction and non-fiction lists.
Beck, the author of seven consecutive #1 bestsellers spanning multiple genres and formats— including fiction, non-fiction, self-help, and children’s picture books, trade paperback and audio originals— will continue to write numerous books every year. As in the past, Beck and Mercury’s focus will be on creating a robust publishing program that offers readers a broad selection of titles in a wide range of categories. The first title under the renewed agreement, a trade paperback non-fiction title, The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century, goes on sale June 14, 2011. A new novel by Beck, THE SNOW ANGEL, will be published in October.
Beck's titles will continue to be published internationally by Simon & Schuster's publishing companies in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, and in audio from Simon & Schuster Audio.
Mercury is also launching Mercury Ink, a new division that will discover, publish and promote books and authors that Glenn is passionate about across a variety of genres. The division will be run by Kevin Balfe, Mercury’s SVP of Publishing, who will acquire titles for the imprint. Mercury Ink titles will be co-published with Simon & Schuster.
Mercury Ink’s first title is Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25, a young adult novel by #1 New York Timesbestselling author Richard Paul Evans. The book, on-sale this August,has already received accolades from successful writers like perennial bestselling thriller author Vince Flynn, who said: “Michael Vey is one of the most original thrillers I've come across in years. It's rare that a book can appeal to a young adult just as much as their parents—but Evans has pulled it off."
Beck and Mercury have a long-track record of successfully connecting authors with readers. The New York Times wrote: “Virtually every novelist in America fantasizes about being picked to appear on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show. But now an increasing number of writers have discovered a new champion: Glenn Beck.”
"I am thrilled to expand our relationship with Simon and Schuster and could not ask for better partners than Carolyn Reidy and her amazing team,” Beck said. “While I have a million book ideas of my own, there are still countless subjects that I know my audience would love to read about but that I just don't have the ability or expertise to write. That is where Mercury Ink comes in. We will work with the best authors in a variety of genres to craft books that am I passionate about and that I believe will strongly connect with my audience.”
“Glenn Beck and Mercury Radio Arts have built a creative studio of the first order, and proven time and again that they are an unstoppable commercial force in any medium they enter,” said Carolyn Reidy, President and Chief Executive Officer of Simon & Schuster, Inc. “In publishing they have shown themselves to be masters of all categories and formats, and so we are delighted to extend our agreement for more books authored by Glenn, and to expand our relationship to help Glenn bring new and established authors to readers under the Mercury Ink line.”
Kevin Balfe, SVP of Mercury Radio Arts, said, “Mercury Ink is the natural evolution in our partnership with Simon and Schuster. Glenn's audience continually craves books that entertain, educate and enlighten—and we are uniquely positioned to meet that demand. With Mercury Ink, we can work with the best writers around to bring their vision to our audience while maintaining the high standard of quality that Glenn’s own books are known for.”
“Publishing Glenn Beck is like winning the World Series, multiple times a year,” said Louise Burke, Executive Vice President and Publisher of Threshold Editions. “Whether it is full-length work of satirical nonfiction, a gripping political thriller, a short but sharp take on a current topical matter, nobody is more spot-on or knows better how to connect to his audience of millions of devoted readers. It’s been a pleasure from the beginning and we look forward to even more successful publishing in the years to come.”
Glenn Beck was represented by George Hiltzik of N.S. Bienstock in the agreement. Kevin Balfe, who is also Beck's co-author on previous books, will continue to oversee the partnership on behalf of Mercury Radio Arts. Liz Perl, Senior Vice President, Marketing, will continue to serve as a strategic coordinator for the Glenn Beck publishing program across all Simon & Schuster divisions and imprints.
About Simon and Schuster
Simon & Schuster, a part of CBS Corporation, is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for consumers of all ages, across all printed, electronic, and audio formats. Its divisions include Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, Simon & Schuster Audio, Simon & Schuster Digital, and international companies in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit our website at www.simonandschuster.com
About Mercury Radio Arts
Mercury Radio Arts is Glenn Beck’s fully integrated multi-media production company. Mercury produces or co-produces all Glenn Beck related properties including The Glenn Beck Program, America’s third highest-rated radio show, Beck’s New York Times bestselling books, his live stage-show business, destination website GlennBeck.com, and news and information service TheBlaze.com. Founded in 2002, Mercury has a full time staff of over 50 employees and is based in New York, NY.
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Data Analytics Market to Hit USD 132.90 Billion by 2026 | North America Region to Spearhead the Global Data Analytics Industry with the Projected CAGR of 26.4%
Global data analytics market leaders are IBM Corporation (US), Microsoft (US), Oracle (US), SAP SE (Germany), Amazon Web Services, Inc. (US), Tableau Software, LLC. (US), SiSense Inc (US), Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd. (India), ThoughtSpot, Inc. (US), Mu Sigma (US), Looker Data Sciences, Inc. (US), Datameer, Inc. (US), Alteryx, Inc (US), Dell Inc. (US), and SAS Institute Inc. (US).
February 08, 2021 05:40 ET | Source: Market Research Future Market Research Future
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Market Research Future (MRFR) predicts the global data analytics market size to reach USD 132,903.8 million at a 28.9% CAGR from 2016 to 2026 (forecast period).
Data can be used by a variety of organizations to boost their marketing strategies, increase their bottom line, personalize their content, and better understand their customers. Data analytics is the science of analyzing raw data to extract meaningful insights. Many data analytics processes and techniques are automated into algorithms and mechanical processes to operate on raw data for better decision-making processes. Data analytics is a broad concept that includes many different forms of data analysis. It refers to the process of analyzing data sets to draw conclusions about the information it holds.
Key factors driving the global data analytics market are the widespread adoption of advanced technologies for business operations and the rising demand for data analytics for faster decision-making processes and cost reduction. The implementation of data analytics techniques improves the efficiency and productivity of business operations and strengthens the organizational workforce. Data analytical techniques help identify and fix the errors in data sets with the help of data filtration tools, which further improve the quality of data to benefit both consumers and institutions, including insurance firms, banks, and finance companies. These advantages are responsible for the exponential growth of the global data analytics market. In addition, the rising volume and complexity of data due to increasing mobile data traffic, increasing adoption and development of technologies like AI and IoT, and cloud computing traffic, are fueling the growth of the global data analytics industry.
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COVID-19 Impact on the Global Data Analytics Market
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of data analytics solutions and services. Researchers have developed predictive analytics models to track COVID-19 surges in various countries. These factors lead to a major rise in the global data analytics market.
The global data analytics industry has been segmented based on type, solution, application, deployment, organization size, function, and vertical.
By type, the global market has been segregated into predictive analytics, prescriptive analytics, customer analytics, descriptive analytics, and others.
By solution, the global market has been segregated into data management, data mining, fraud & security intelligence, and data monitoring.
Based on application, the global market has been segregated into enterprise resource planning, database management, supply chain management, human resource management, and others.
By deployment, the global market has been segregated into cloud and on-premises.
By organization size, the global market has been segregated into large enterprises and small & medium enterprises.
By function, the data analytics market has been segregated into marketing analytics, sales analytics, operational analytics, accounting & finance analytics, HR analytics, and others.
By vertical, the global market has been segregated into BFSI, IT & Telecom, manufacturing, retail & e-commerce, energy & power, healthcare, transport & logistics, media & entertainment, and others. The BFSI segment earned the largest market share of 22.3% in 2019, with a market value of USD 5.127.7 million, and is projected to have the highest CAGR of 30.9% in the assessment period. The IT & Telecom segment was valued at USD 4.444.9 million in 2019 and is expected to have a CAGR of 30.6%.
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Geographically, the global data analytics industry has been segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the rest of the world.
North America to Lead Global Market
North America captured the highest market share of 43.6% in 2019, with a market valuation of USD 10,037.1 million; the market is projected to have a CAGR of 26.4% over the forecast period. The US earned the largest market share of 86.7% in 2019, with a valuation of USD 8.701.4 million; it is projected to register a 26.2% CAGR during the forecast period. Canada was the second-largest market in 2019, estimated at USD 773.6 million; it is projected to post the highest CAGR of 27.9%. While the Mexican region recorded a market share of 5.6%, reported USD 562.1 million in 2019, and is expected to hit USD 3.068.0 million at CAGR 27.8% by the end of 2026.
Europe to Hold the Second Spot
Europe held the second-largest position in 2019, estimated at USD 6,428.0 million; the market is expected to have a CAGR of 29.8% over the forecast period. The UK held the largest market share of 38.1% in 2019, with a market value of USD 2.447.8 million; it is expected to register a CAGR of 29.7% during the forecast period. Germany was the second-largest market in 2019, estimated at USD 1,249.1 million; it is expected to have the highest CAGR of 28.2% over the forecast period.
With the presence of a large number of global and regional players, the global data analytics market is moderately fragmented and competitive. Market players are actively involved in technological advancement, geographic expansion, and mergers and acquisitions in order to retain their position in the international market.
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The key players in the global data analytics market are:
IBM Corporation (US)
Microsoft (US)
Oracle (US),
SAP SE (Germany),
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (US)
Tableau Software, LLC. (US)
SiSense Inc (US)
Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd. (India)
ThoughtSpot, Inc. (US)
Mu Sigma (US)
Looker Data Sciences, Inc. (US)
Datameer, Inc. (US)
Alteryx, Inc (US)
Dell Inc. (US)
SAS Institute Inc. (US)
In 2020, IBM built new cloud and AI-powered technologies to help researchers across a broad range of scientific disciplines accelerate the delivery process. It aims to help scientists, doctors, and health researchers improve the processing of the Covid-19 drug, from collecting insights to applying new virus genomic information.
In 2019, Oracle revealed the addition of Pre-Packaged Enterprise Analytics to applications. The new package is built for the fusion cloud enterprise resource planning applications that companies use to run their financial processes.
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Mata: Chelsea must improve in the big games
By Husmukh Kerai
The Blues midfielder has admitted that Rafael Benitez's men did not do enough to earn victory during Sunday's 2-0 defeat to Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium
Chelsea playmaker Juan Mata has claimed his side must improve their performances against the Premier League's big clubs following Sunday's defeat to Manchester City.
The Blues dropped down to fourth after their 2-0 loss to the reigning Premier League champions, and face a battle for Champions League qualification with both Tottenham and Arsenal finding form.
And the Spaniard has described the west London outfit's showing at the Etihad Stadium as not good enough.
"The most important games are when you play against the best teams in the Premier League and you have to show you are at this level," Mata told Chelsea TV.
"On Sunday it wasn't enough, the job that we did, and what we have to do now is just carry on, the season is not finished yet.
"When you play teams like Man City you have to perform at your best. We tried but in the first 25 minutes they were better at pressing us.
"At the end of the first half we changed the game a little bit and after we had a few chances, and in the second half it was an important moment with the penalty and Joe Hart did a very good save."
Mata's team-mate Gary Cahill, meanwhile, expressed his belief that fixture congestion handed Roberto Mancini's men the advantage.
"At the start of the season we had spark and we had zip and sometimes a little bit of fatigue plays its part," said the defender," he said.
"Man City had a clear week before the game and we didn't and they were a lot fresher and sharper than us.
"It does take its toll, we have not had a clear week for many weeks and you are expected to go into games 100 per cent fresh, trying to push on for every competition.
"You don't want to make excuses but it is a fact. It is something we have to deal with."
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The Educational Benefits of Travel
With her company Voyaj, master’s student Yasmine El Baggari is breaking down barriers and fostering global connections for a more peaceful world.
By Gianna Cacciatore
Yasmine El Baggari
Photo: Courtesy of Yasmine El Baggari
Master’s student Yasmine El Baggari has been to all 50 states. And she hasn’t just “been” to them in a casual, check-off-the-box way. She has been to them, for extended trips, staying in the homes of more than 250 families, riding countless Greyhound buses, and fostering thousands of genuine connections across cultures.
Originally from Morocco, El Baggari decided that she wanted to travel the United States by bus when she was 17, starting from Kansas where she was living while taking part in the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange — a state-department exchange program that seeks to dismantle stereotypes about Morocco, Africa, and the Middle East in the United States. “I told myself, if I can break down stereotypes in Kansas, I can do it in all 50 states,’’ says El Baggari. She continued her travels across the U.S. through college and beyond, visiting her final state — Alaska — in 2019.
Her commitment to the interpersonal and cross-cultural benefits of travel only grew from there, with additional visits to 50 countries. Six years ago, El Baggari founded Voyaj, an international exchange company that seeks to break down cultural stereotypes and foster a sense of global interconnectedness through travel experiences. Voyaj connects people of all ages with others in their destination country who share their interests and values, “in order to have a deeper cultural experience through their lens,” El Baggari explains.
The program, currently being piloted with select communities, has facilitated journeys for its clients to more than 40 countries, including France, Morocco, and the United States. Hosts open their homes to travelers, who then open their hearts and minds to embrace new cultures. The Voyaj process is planned to work through the Voyaj website, where travelers will be able to sign-up, arrange homestays, and share stories about their journeys.
El Baggari’s work at Voyaj, which is currently a venture at the Harvard iLab, is grounded in the belief that when humans from different backgrounds form authentic connections, our increased global understanding can help lead to a more peaceful world. Learning more about how the human mind works while at the Ed School has given her insight into the factors at play when two strangers sit down and form a deep bond, despite their different social contexts — factors she learned anecdotally from her travel experiences. This developmental knowledge, El Baggari believes, will help her understand cross-cultural connections, even when stereotypes, walls, and borders stand in the way.
“It is so important to realize that we aren’t really that different, and that we can embrace any perceived or real differences and identify our commonalities,” she explains.
When COVID-19 restricted travel, Voyaj created remote opportunities for connection, facilitating online experiences for people around the globe. While these gatherings lack the allure of an international, in-person experience, they have addressed some of the social ills exacerbated by the pandemic like loneliness and isolation. “That’s one of the positive sides of COVID: More communities are looking to connect and to do so more deeply,” says El Baggari. “Because of the isolation, people are eager to meet. These virtual experiences have proven meaningful.”
El Baggari expects the evolution of Voyaj to continue — even as she concurrently focuses on her ultimate travel goal: becoming an astronaut through Space For Humanity’s sponsored citizen astronaut mission. With the support of her global team, she is running pilots for the upcoming Voyaj app, as well working to form partnerships with other exchange and travel organizations in the United States, New Zealand, Morocco, and elsewhere.
El Baggari believes that travel is about more than place. It is about people: the people you see, the people you meet, and the people who change you along the way. “I believe we have the opportunity to learn at every moment from every encounter,” says El Baggari. “We’re here, and alive! We’ve got to connect, to open and share our cultures, and realize who we truly are.”
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Staff Research
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Dr Toby Young
Dr Toby Young is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Guildhall School, currently working primarily on ‘Transforming the operatic voice’. This practice-based project investigates the relationship between singing styles in popular music and opera, and brings performers from the opera company McCaldin Arts to collaborate innovatively in fusing popular and operatic vocal styles and widen the appeal of opera to a diversified demographic.
Toby’s broader research draws on popular musicology, composition, philosophy, and cultural sociology to examine the blurred space between classical and popular music. Before coming to Guildhall, Toby was the Gianturco Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford, running a project focusing on electronic dance music and its ability to mediate complex social, musical, and aesthetic spaces. He also regularly engages in public talks and lectures, including a TEDx talk, a series of radio programmes on ‘Artistic knowledge’ (Resonance FM), and talks on the creative process and music industry for Saïd Business School.
As a composer and producer, Toby’s music explores the boundaries between popular and classical music, with influences ranging from plainchant to electronic dance music. After winning the Guardian/BBC Proms Young Composer of the Year (2006; 2008) and International ABRSM Composition Competition (2009), Toby’s music has been performed by ensembles and orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rambert Dance Company, Academy of Ancient Music, Fretwork, London Mozart Players, Britten Sinfonia, and CHROMA. He has also formed close relationships with several instrumentalists and chamber groups, including soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, harpist Catrin Finch, cellist Guy Johnston, and mezzo-soprano Clare McCaldin.
Toby regularly collaborates with pop and jazz artists including the Rolling Stones, Duran Duran, Chase & Status, Snow Ghosts, MOKO, and Jacob Banks. He also written string, choral, and orchestral arrangements for the Rolling Stones, Ellie Goulding, The King's Singers, Tame Impala, renowned Tamil songwriter Ilayaraja, and the London Symphony Orchestra. As a producer he has worked with Mark Lettieri (Snarky Puppy), Karl Jenkins, Cassidy Janson (Beautiful - The Carole King Musical), the Philharmonia Orchestra, Opera North, Rambert Dance Company, and the West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra.
Toby is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a trustee of the Albert Schweitzer Foundation.
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April 20, 2021 – Publications / Mentions
Reformation of Trust Supported by Presumption that Settlor Would Not Have Intended Construction Resulting in Payments to Government Rather Than Beneficiaries
Matter of Valerie R. Pecce Supplemental Needs Trust, No. 19-P-591, 2021 WL 1203680 (Mass. App. Ct. Mar. 31, 2021)
Where a mistake in the formation of a trust document is clear, and that mistake would result in excess payments from the trust assets to the government, there is a presumption that the settlor would not have intended such a result. In Matter of Valerie R. Pecce Supplemental Needs Trust, No. 19-P-591, 2021 WL 1203680 (Mass. App. Ct. Mar. 31, 2021), the settlor had established a trust with reference to the Federal Medicaid statutes for the supplementary benefit of his daughter, who had been born with disabilities and had received Medicaid benefits through the Massachusetts division of medical assistance (“MassHealth”) for many years. At the same time the settlor created the trust, he executed a will that included a pour-over clause to the trust. The daughter died eight years after the settlor, in 2015, and the trust terminated, triggering the asset-disposal provisions. The petitioner—and only remainder beneficiary—argued that there had been a mistake in the formation of the trust, because it “incorrectly and unnecessarily provides that trust assets must first be used to reimburse MassHealth for benefits provided to [the daughter] during her lifetime, before any remaining assets can be distributed to other [trust] beneficiaries.” The Probate and Family Court judge declined to reform the trust, finding that there had not been a mistake in its formation.
A Massachusetts Appeals Court agreed with the lower court in part, finding that “assets that [the settlor] transferred to the trust during his lifetime are properly subject to the payback provision,” because the settlor could have intended to include the provision in order to preserve his own Medicaid eligibility. However, the Appeals Court reversed as to the payback provision’s application to assets which poured over into the trust following the settlor’s death. The Court noted that “there clearly was a ‘mistake’ in the ‘expression’” of the trust documents, because the drafter had “misidentified the legal basis for the trust, and carried that mistake through several sections.” These errors—which established the “statutory predicate for reformation”—improperly exposed the settlor’s “entire estate to reimbursement to MassHealth.”
The Appeals Court found that the settlor “would not have intended that his estate assets go to the Commonwealth, where they could otherwise go to the beneficiaries.” It found support for this presumption in a Supreme Judicial Court case, First Agric. Bank v. Coxe, 406 Mass. 879, 882 (1990), which had similarly concluded that reformation was necessary where assets otherwise would have been subject to Federal generation skipping transfer taxes. “Where a mistake is clear in a trust document and where the result of the mistake is evidently at odds with the settlor’s intent,” the Appeals Court concluded, “reformation is called for.”
The takeaway: Courts recognize a presumption that a settlor would not intend a trust to result in excess payments to the government, where an alternative construction would direct the payments to the trust beneficiaries instead.
Capital Improvements Made By Parents Living in Condo Unit Purchased for Son Did Not Negate Finding that Property Was Intended as Gift
Zullo v. Zullo, 99 Mass. App. Ct. 1108, 2021 WL 279673 (Mass. App. Ct. Jan. 28, 2021)
The fact that parents who had provided purchase money to their son for a condominium unit subsequently lived in and made capital improvements to the unit did not negate a finding that they had intended the property as a gift. In Zullo v. Zullo, 99 Mass. App. Ct. 1108, 2021 WL 279673 (Mass. App. Ct. Jan. 28, 2021), the plaintiff and her now-deceased husband had provided their now-deceased son with purchase money for a condo unit. While the defendant—the son’s widow—held legal title to the condo unit after the son’s death, the plaintiff argued that the property was actually subject to a resulting trust of which she was the remaining beneficiary, because the plaintiff and her late husband had intended to hold the beneficial interest in the property for themselves when they paid the purchase money. A Superior Court judge found in a bench trial that the plaintiff’s and her late husband’s making capital improvements did not negate a finding that they had intended the property as a gift to their son.
A Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed, noting that “where, as here, all the parties involved in the purchase are family, ‘there is a presumption of a gift.’” The plaintiff argued that she and her husband had made capital improvements that were erroneously characterized as “rent” while they themselves lived in the condo for some amount of time, and that such long-term capital improvements showed no gift had been intended in this case. The Appeals Court dismissed that argument, finding that while arm’s-length tenants on a short-term lease would probably not make such capital improvements, “it is not difficult to imagine parents giving property to a child as a gift with an implicit understanding that they could live there indefinitely, and the parents in that living arrangement choosing to initiate capital improvements and incur other significant expenses primarily for their own benefit.”
The takeaway: Family members who wish to retain a beneficial interest in property for which they supplied the purchase money to another family member should ensure that they carefully document such terms. Reliance on actions that might demonstrate an intention to retain a beneficial interest in arm’s-length transactions will often be insufficient to overcome the presumption of a gift in the familial context.
Attorney’s Practice of Speaking to Testator Alone Helps Defeat Undue Influence Claim
Matter of Michels, 2021 WL 1202631 (2nd Dep’t March 31, 2021)
A recent Appellate Division decision in New York illustrates the importance of a trusts and estates attorney speaking to the testator alone, particularly if the testator is disinheriting any family members. In Matter of Michels, 2021 WL 1202631 (2nd Dep’t March 31, 2021), the Appellate Division ruled that the Surrogate’s Court should have dismissed an objection of undue influence filed by three grandchildren of the decedent, who received nothing under a 2010 will because the decedent had excluded from the will the offspring of their father (Charles), who had predeceased the decedent. The objectants claimed that one of Charles’ sisters (Anne), who had accompanied the decedent to the office of the attorney preparing the will, had exercised undue influence over the decedent, causing her to disinherit Charles’ offspring. The Surrogate’s Court found issues of fact for trial.
The Appellate Division reversed. The court noted that there was a prior will, in 2003, that also disinherited Charles’ offspring, and that “[t]he attorney testified that there was no indication in the record that anyone accompanied the decedent to his office that day [in 2003] and that if she had come with a family member, his procedure would have been to speak with the decedent alone, particularly if she were disinheriting someone.” When the decedent came to the attorney’s office to execute the 2010 will, “[a]t a meeting attended by the decedent and Anne, the attorney spoke with the decedent outside of Anne’s presence …. At that time, the decedent, although 90 years old, was alert, strong-minded, and financially, mentally, and emotionally independent when she executed the 2010 will.”
The court concluded that objectants’ “conclusory allegations and speculation as to Anne’s treatment of the decedent [were] insufficient to raise a triable issue of fact.” The attorney’s practice of speaking to the testator alone when disinheritance was involved was a significant factor in the court’s decision.
The takeaway: T&E counsel should speak to the testator outside the presence of potentially interested family members, if possible, particularly if disinheritance is involved.
What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas
Matter of Panek, 70 Misc.3d 1220(A) (Sur. Ct. Erie March 2, 2021)
Many cases in this newsletter illustrate the difficulty of objectants proving undue influence over a relative making his or her will. Some cases, though, clearly cross that line. Such a case is Matter of Panek, 70 Misc.3d 1220(A) (Sur. Ct. Erie March 2, 2021). The decedent executed a will in 2011 leaving all his property to one daughter (Karen), naming Karen as executrix, and expressly disinheriting two other daughters (Lori and Joanne). In 2015, the decedent executed another will dividing his estate equally among all three daughters and naming Lori as executrix. After the decedent passed away in 2019 at the age of 91, Karen filed a petition for probate of the 2011 will, and Lori filed a petition for probate of the 2015 will.
Karen objected to the 2015 will and moved for summary judgment dismissing Lori’s petition. The Surrogate granted Karen’s motion. Karen, a nurse of some 30 years’ experience, had looked after the decedent daily. Decedent was diagnosed with dementia in 2014 and by March 2015 was experiencing such disorientation that the local police had to bring him home from wandering on a local roadway. That same month, Lori, a flight attendant living in Las Vegas, removed the decedent from his home (without his dementia medication) and flew him to Las Vegas, leaving a note for Karen saying “I have Dad.” Lori also changed the decedent’s bank accounts to joint accounts with Lori. Lori took decedent to an attorney’s office in Las Vegas where he executed the 2015 will. Lori placed the decedent in an adult living facility in Las Vegas and made plans for Joanne, a realtor, to sell the decedent’s home in New York.
Karen then commenced both a guardianship proceeding to have the decedent returned to New York, and a conversion action against Lori and Joanne to recover money they had taken from the decedent’s accounts. In response, Lori and Joanne filed for bankruptcy (in Las Vegas); and in response to that, Karen commenced an adversary proceeding against Lori and Joanne. By the time Karen’s summary judgment motion was before the Surrogate, it had been found after trial in the bankruptcy proceeding, among other things, that Lori had committed larceny and fraud against the decedent, had removed decedent from his home without consent, and intended to inflict injury upon decedent including with respect to the 2015 will, which did not reflect decedent’s wish to disinherit Lori. The Surrogate found Lori collaterally estopped from contesting the bankruptcy court’s findings, and on the basis of those findings held that Karen had shown undue influence. Lori’s petition for probate of the 2015 will was dismissed.
The takeaway: While objectants generally face significant hurdles in proving undue influence in the making of a will, some situations speak for themselves.
If you have a probate and fiduciary litigation question or business concern, we invite you to reach out directly to any member of our Probate & Fiduciary Litigation Group.
DISCLAIMER: This advisory should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents are intended for general informational purposes only, and you are urged to consult your own lawyer concerning your situation and any specific legal questions you may have.
Who Is the Client and Why It Matters
Probate & Fiduciary Litigation Newsletter - February 2021
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Help for businesses
Published: 20 May 2020 15:00
Public safety and emergencies, Coronavirus in Scotland, Business, industry and innovation, Economy
Additional £40 million of support for key sectors.
The Scottish Government’s Business Support Fund has been increased by £40 million to provide additional support for key sectors of the Scottish economy.
This extra funding will be split between the Pivotal Enterprise Resilience Fund, which has increased by £30 million to £120 million, and the Creative, Tourism & Hospitality Enterprises Hardship Fund, which has increased by £10 million to £30 million. Both funds closed to applications on 18 May.
Cabinet Secretary for Economy Fiona Hyslop said:
“We are listening to what businesses need and following the First Minister’s announcement earlier this month that the Pivotal Enterprise Resilience Fund would double to £90 million to meet demand, we will now add a further £30 million to help as many SMEs as possible survive these incredibly difficult times.
“Our creative, tourism and hospitality sector is one where we know there are particular pressures, so we have also increased this fund by £10 million.
“These funds are supporting businesses the length and breadth of Scotland and continue our commitment to ensure every penny of the additional business money that has come to Scotland is passed on to support our economy.
“Crucially, we are also focusing our efforts to help those who are not captured by the UK Government schemes.”
Businesses can visit FindBusinessSupport.gov.scot for the latest information on funding opportunities.
The funds which make up the £185 million support package are as follows:
£34 million Newly Self-Employed Hardship Fund, managed by Local Authorities, allocated to the newly self-employed who are ineligible for UK support (as they became self-employed since April 2019) but are facing hardship
£30 million Creative, Tourism & Hospitality Enterprises Hardship Fund, managed by the Enterprise Agencies with support from Creative Scotland and VisitScotland for small and micro creative, tourism and hospitality companies not in receipt of business rates grants of up to £25K
£120 million Pivotal Enterprise Resilience Fund, managed by the Enterprise Agencies providing bespoke grants and wrap around business support to viable but vulnerable SMEs who are vital to the local or national economic foundations of Scotland
The Scottish Government is also providing £1 million to top up Creative Scotland’s Bridging Bursaries scheme in the not-for-profit sector.
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Civic Petitions
It is the fundamental right of citizens to petition their elected representatives. Petitions are one way citizens can bring grievances or concerns to the attention of City Council.
A petition is basically a written request signed by citizens that asks City Councillors to do something within their power about a particular issue. Instead of many people writing individual letters to Council, it is much easier to create a petition. One letter is written and people sign it to demonstrate their support.
Even when a petition does not result in an immediate or obvious resolution, petitions are important because they communicate your opinion to Members of Council and other citizens. Petitions are one way to bring public concerns to the Council agenda.
Petition form (PDF, 60.7 KB)
Electronic Petition form (PDF, 69.4 KB)
Who can petition City Council?
Anyone who is at least 18 years old and a resident of the City of Greater Sudbury, including businesses and unincorporated associations where the majority of the membership consists of City residents, may petition Council.
Should you petition?
Petitioning Council may not always be your first course of action. Some matters which are operational or administrative are sometimes best resolved by appropriate staff with the City of Greater Sudbury.
What are the rules governing petitions?
At a minimum, a petition must contain the following:
A statement of purpose. This statement of purpose must be repeated at the top of each page.
The signatures of a least two citizens currently residing in the City of Greater Sudbury. For electronic petitions, an electronic signature or valid e-mail address must be provided.
The local addresses of each citizen signing the petition.
The name of a spokesperson (or “principal petitioner”) including their mailing address, street address and telephone number.
The subject of any petition must be a matter over which Council has the power to act. In other words, the topic must be a municipal responsibility rather than a Provincial or Federal matter.
How do I prepare a petition?
Spokesperson or Principal Petitioner
The “principal petitioner” or “spokesperson” is the person who has initiated or organized the petition on behalf of citizens, businesses or organizations.
If the petition is from a business or organization (unincorporated body), then a duly authorised officer of the business or organization should sign the front page of the petition on behalf of the business or organization. That person’s position within the organization (i.e. owner, president, secretary, treasurer, etc.) should also be included.
This person will be the main contact for the petition. Ensure that the spokesperson’s name is clearly printed and that their mailing address, street address (if it differs) and their telephone number are provided. Please include a daytime telephone number where the spokesperson can be reached between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. You may also wish to include the spokesperson’s fax number and an e-mail address.
Style of petition
Petition forms are available from Members of Council, the Office of the City Clerk and online.
Petitions must:
be in English or in French,
be addressed to City Council
ask City Council to take some action on the subject matter or concern of the petition,
identify the principal petitioner or spokesperson,
include the original signature, electronic signature or valid e-mail address along with the local address of each petitioner.
Do not attach letters, affidavits or other documents to the petition.
Collecting signatures
Although a petition requires a minimum of only two signatures to be accepted, the petition will be more representative of public feeling if it is signed by many people.
How can I get a petition presented to City Council?
All petitions should be submitted to a Member of Council who will present the petition on behalf of the petitioners to Council.
The City Clerk will record in the Minutes of the Meeting the name of the Member of Council who presented the petition, who the petition is from and a short summary of the action requested by the petitioners.
If Council directs the petition to a particular member of staff, then this will also be recorded in the Minutes, including any direction given to staff.
What happens to the petition after it is presented to City Council?
After a petition has been presented, it is forwarded to the appropriate municipal staff for action.
Once a General Manager has received the terms of a petition, the General Manager can choose the way in which to proceed unless otherwise directed by City Council.
In some cases, the General Manager may order administrative action to be taken in response to a particular grievance.
Is a Petition a “public” document?
Personal information on a petition form is collected under the authority of the City's Procedure By-law 2019-50, as amended by By-law 2020-107, adopted in accordance with section 238 of the Municipal Act, 2001, for the purpose of informing City Council of the views of the petition. Personal information will not be used by the City for any purpose other than to ensure it meets Council's requirements for a valid petition and to ensure contact with the spokesperson or principal petitioner. All information on a petition will form part of the public record.
Where can I obtain further information?
Please contact the City Clerk’s Office if you have any questions:
P.O. Box 5000, Station A
2nd Floor, Tom Davies Square
200 Brady Street
Sudbury ON P3A 5P3
(8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday)
Telephone: 705-674-4455, ext. 2016
E-mail: clerks@greatersudbury.ca
Electronic Petition Form
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City to resume enforcement of Park bylaws following court ruling
HAMILTON, ON – Following the Superior Court’s decision today the City will resume enforcement of City by-laws that prohibit camping on City property, including park areas.
The City aims to continue upholding this bylaw in a way that is respectful and supportive to all involved. The City’ enforcement approach will continue take into consideration the safety and well-being of individuals experiencing homelessness, as well as the broader community needs, including access to green space for safe outdoor recreation.
In enforcing the City’s Parks Bylaw, Municipal Law Enforcement officers are the first point of contact when responding to park by-law violations, which allows the Housing Outreach team to remain focused on their core role of engaging and connecting unsheltered individuals to housing and available services. Ticketing those who are unsheltered will not be a course of action, though if necessary and after all efforts to connect individuals to appropriate alternative options are exhausted, a trespass notice would be issued. Once a trespass notice is issued continued occupation is a provincial offense enforced by Hamilton Police Services.
The City remains focused on continuing to support homeless individuals in securing safe and affordable housing, by taking an individualized approach to connect those experiencing homelessness with the available community resources and supports, including the variety of options available through the City’s housing continuum. Housing Services continues to monitor shelter capacity and enact plans in order to ensure the safe operation of spaces, and that there is capacity in the system. Hamilton’s shelter system capacity has grown by 166 beds from 341 emergency shelter beds to 507 emergency shelter beds. This includes a recent addition this month of 15 emergency shelter beds for single women experiencing homelessness at Emma’s Place, and 21 additional hotel spaces which serve couples, and individuals.
Staff are planning to bring a report to the December 7 Emergency & Community Services Committee that will provide more details about the City’s planning for transformation of the shelter system, capacity, and winter plans.
For more information about the City’s encampment response, visit www.hamilton.ca/social-services/housing/city-hamilton-encampment-response.
In 2021, the City committed an additional $950,000 in annual funding (year over year) towards a new shelter focused on addressing the unique needs of women, Indigenous women, trans-feminine, trans-masculine, and non-binary community members experiencing homelessness.
In June 2021, Hamilton Council approved further interventions in its post-COVID adaptation and transition plan for Hamilton’s housing and homelessness system which includes a one-time investment of $2 million for housing allowances for clients of City funded Intensive Case Management (ICM) programs providing 93 individuals or households with housing allowances that support their housing stability over the next four years.
In 2020 and 2021, the City’s Housing Services Division assisted in connecting over 440 homeless households, representing over 990 individuals and their families, with permanent housing.
In 2021, over $4 million will be invested specifically by the City of Hamilton towards social housing repairs supporting quicker turnaround of vacant units, bringing chronically offline units back online, and supporting energy retrofits. This includes a $2 million contribution in 2021 from the City of Hamilton’s Poverty Reduction Fund commitment of $20 million over 10 years investment towards social housing repair.
In 2020 over 700 households from Hamilton’s Access to Housing wait list were housed in rent-geared to income units, in the private market using portable housing benefits, and from intensive case management and Rapid Rehousing programs. In 2019, 595 households were housed from the wait list.
In 2021/2022 at least 400 new affordable housing units in Hamilton will break ground or be completed due to strategic investment on the part of the municipal, provincial and federal government.
Hamilton’s housing system receives contributions from all levels of government and invests approximately $120 million annually into the housing and homelessness system, including a $64 million municipal contribution in 2021.
Since the beginning of the pandemic through the Government of Ontario’s Social Service Relief funds the City directed $37 million into the housing and homelessness system response ensuring shelter operators could enact important COVID-19 protocols to reduce the risk of transmission for shelter clients and staff. These funds also ensured community drop-in programs could expand and maintain services for vulnerable residents from meals, showers, harm reduction supplies, and overnight access drop-in services.
The City has seen an increase in the number of people sleeping rough in public spaces and in several City parks since the beginning of the pandemic. In August, City Council voted to return to its pre-pandemic enforcement strategy, which includes helping individuals sleeping rough find safe and humane housing and enforcing the City’s Park bylaw that prohibits camping or living on public property. On October 7, 2021, a court imposed temporary restrictions on the City’s enforcement of bylaws which prohibit camping and tents or other structures placed on public property.
On November 2, 2021, the court denied an application for an interlocutory injunction thereby allowing the City to resume enforcement of its bylaws. Here were some key excerpts from the Court’s decision:
“I am persuaded that accommodations such as shelters and hotels have been made available and are responsive to the needs of encampment residents with the provision of necessary social supports. It is not perfect, but most homeless occupants can be reasonably accommodated by the City. Accordingly, in considering the litigants and the homeless-at-large in Hamilton, the applicants have not met the burden of establishing harm to the public interest that would rationalize suspending the City’s ability to enforce its By-Law preventing camping and related activity in all of its parks. The relief sought would unjustifiably tie the City’s hands in dealing with encampments that raise serious health and safety concerns for an indefinite duration, and would unduly prevent the use of parks by others.
“No reasonable person in Canada would disagree with the proposition that homelessness, wherever and however it occurs, is a tragedy in Canada. However, the narrow issue before me is whether the City’s enforcement of the By-Law should be restrained by court order. It is not a wide-sweeping review of the underlying issue of whether more should be done to help the homeless.”
“The evidence presented in this hearing buttresses the respondent’s position and demonstrates that the City has taken and continues to undertake reasonable steps in order to make available safe shelter space and accommodation. This is accompanied by the necessary community supports and other measures to address the evolving and cautiously improving state of the pandemic and the overall homeless issue in Hamilton.”
Coming Together to End Homelessness – Hamilton’s Systems Planning Framework
City of Hamilton’s 10-year Housing & Homelessness Action Plan (January 2020)
Municipal by-law
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Helgeson Funeral Home
Send Flowers for Albin
Albin Oscar Green
November 8, 1939 ~ December 31, 2021 (age 82)
Albin "Abbie" Oscar Green was born November 8, 1939 in Greenbush, MN to Oscar & Florence (Voth) Green. He was the third of four children and grew up on the family farm driving tractor and caring for their many animals. Abbie was baptized and confirmed at Bethel Lutheran Church in Greenbush. He attended the local school where he did well in class as well as sports. He played both basketball & football, winning the district championship in football during his senior season. He continued to have a lifelong love of sports, rooting for many different local, college, and professional sports teams.
Abbie graduated in 1957 and attended Hansen Auto School in Fargo, ND in the fall. After a year in Fargo, Abbie moved back to Greenbush where he worked at Thompson Chevrolet for a year. On June 25, 1960 Abbie married Muriel Melby at Pauli Lutheran Church in rural Greenbush. After a honeymoon on the North Shore, the couple settled in Stephen, MN where Abbie worked at Jenson Chevrolet and Muriel was a teacher. They lived there for five years, moving back to Greenbush in 1965 and two years later they welcomed their son Douglas into their family.
Abbie began farming with his brother Orin for several years before the brothers each started their own farm. Abbie and Muriel eventually moved onto his home farm where they continued to grain farm and milk cows. They built a new barn and put up silos, allowing them to expand their dairy herd. Their new barn was one of the first in the area to have an automatic barn cleaner with a manure pit, saving Abbie much work during chores every day.
In 1986 their son Doug married Corena Christianson and their family continued to grow. Also, that year Abbie and Doug formed a partnership, Green Acres Dairy, where the family still dairies cows and grain farms. Abbie was active on the farm for his whole life, doing everything and anything that needed to be done. He could fix almost anything and did most of his own machine work. He loved Massey Ferguson & Oliver tractors and could often be found working in the field or just watching from the road.
Abbie was very strong in his faith and active in the United Free Lutheran Church where he held many different leadership positions over the years, as well as teaching Bible study. His favorite Bible verse was Psalm 46:1, and many mornings he could be found at the kitchen table doing his devotions, his strong hands folded in prayer. He was a quiet man, full of love, grace and kindness. He loved being surrounded by his family…. kids, grandchildren and great grandchildren. He often told his beloved wife, “We have everything.” Abbie passed away at his home on December 31, 2021. His legacy of faith and hard work lives on through his family.
Abbie is survived by his wife of 61 ½ years, Muriel. His son Douglas (Corena) Green, grandchildren Monica(Preston) Byre, Matthew (Miranda) Green, Michele(Blaire) Berg, & Michael Green; great-grandchildren Brielle & Beckett Byre, Irene Green & Bentley Berg, siblings Orin (Joan) Green & Carol Hemp, sister-in-law Paulette Melby, brother-in-law Roger Bjorgan as well as many nieces, nephews & cousins.
He is preceded in death by his parents Oscar & Florence, infant brother Marvin, brother-in-laws Wallace Melby & Ernie Hemp, and sister-in-law Faye Bjorgan.
A Visitation for Albin will be held at the United Free Lutheran Church in Greenbush from 6:00-7:30pm on Wednesday, January 5th with a Family Service at 7:30pm. A Funeral Service will be held Thursday, January 6th at 2:00pm with a visitation a hour prior at the United Free Lutheran Church. Interment will be at Pauli Cemetery in rural Greenbush.
To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Albin, please visit our floral store.
United Free Lutheran Church (Greenbush)
Paulie Cemetery
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Register my Mosque
What is Islam?
Who is Allah?
Qur’an at a Glance
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
Who was Jesus (pbuh)?
Jihad and Terrorism
You may have heard Islam being mentioned by others such as in the news, friends, colleagues etc. But what does Islam actually mean?
As the Arabic language is so rich and eloquent, it’s difficult to find the exact word in English. However, the closest word for ‘Islam’ would be peace, coming from the word ‘Salam’, and this is peace acquired by submitting one’s will to the obedience of God.
What is meant by submission?
To summarise, this means looking to live life according to the revealed teachings of the Creator. As Muslims, the revealed teachings are believed to be found within the Glorious Qur’an, which was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) over 1400 years ago.
Continuity of Message
As it’s only been over 1400 years since the time of the Prophet Muhammad, you may be thinking that Islam is a new religion. This is contrary to the Muslim belief. Islam is not considered to be a new religion, but it is the same message and guidance, which Allah revealed to all His prophets.
“Say, “We have believed in Allah and in what was revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Descendants, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus and to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims [submitting] to Him.”
The message, which was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), the last Prophet, is Islam in its comprehensive, complete and final form.
You may remember fragments of this from RE lessons at school. However, there’s no harm in re-visiting them to jog your memory.
Islam consists of five main pillars including:
Shahada (Declaration of faith) – the declaration of faith is to say, “I bear witness that there is none worth of worship except Allah and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger.”
Salah (Prayer) – prayers are prescribed five times a day as a duty towards Allah. They offer many physical benefits in addition to physical. Some of the spiritual benefits include strengthening the belief and connection of people in Allah, and inspiring them towards higher morality.
Further, the prayer helps to purify the heart and control the temptation towards wrongdoing. It should be stressed that whilst Allah does not need our prayers, we cannot achieve guidance without His blessings.
“O you who have believed, seek help through patience and prayer. Indeed, Allah is with the patient. O you who believe! (Qur’an, 2:153).
Siyam (Fasting) – fasting is observed once each year during the month of Ramadan. This means staying away from eating food, drink and intimacy between dawn and sunset. It teaches love, sincerity and devotion towards our Creator, and fosters discipline, patience and will power within individuals.
Zakah (Almsgiving) – almsgiving (or as often known as obligatory charity) is an annual payment of 2.5% of an individual’s net savings as a purifying sum to be spent on the poor and needy. Zakah implies that everything man possesses belongs to Allah and therefore anyone in need has a share in it.
Hajj (Pilgrimage) – pilgrimage to Mecca is required once in a lifetime for every Muslim that can afford it. Hajj implies an individual temporary suspension of all worldly activities and his realisation of himself as a servant in front of God alone.
This includes a variety of rituals including walking briskly between Safa and Marwa. Traditionally, these were two small hills which Hagar, the wife of Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him) ran between searching for water for her son: Ismail (peace be upon him).
Islam enjoins faith in the Oneness and Sovereignty of Allah, which makes us aware of the meaningfulness of the Universe and our place in it. This belief frees us from all fears and superstitions by making us conscious of the presence of Almighty Allah and our obligations towards Him. Belief in one God requires that we look upon all humanity as one family irrespective of colour, class, race, or ethnicity, under the Omnipotence of Allah – the Creator and Nourisher of all. Islam rejects the ideas of a chosen nation, making faith in Allah and good action, the only way to salvation. Thus, a direction relationship is established with Allah, open to all alike, without any mediator.
Human beings: the free agents
Human beings are the highest creation of Allah and they can choose his own way. Created with the highest potentialities, humans are left relatively free in their will, action and choice. Allah has shown humans the right path and the life of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) – the perfect example.
Humans’ success and salvation lies in following them.
The world, according to Islam, is a place of trial and humans are being judged in it. Human beings are accountable to Allah for all that he does to preserve it. Life on earth, will one day, come to an end; and after that a new world will be resurrected. It will in this life after death that humans will be rewarded or punished for their deeds and misdeeds. Almighty Allah will judge humans on the day of resurrection which leads to further blessings (Heaven), or to Hell; a stage of suffering and punishment.
The Glorious Qur’an is the last revealed word of Allah and as such affirms and completes the total process of revelation which has come from the Divine Guidance for the human race. The Qur’an is the basic sound of Islamic teachings and laws and deals with the bases of creed, morality, history of humanity worship, knowledge, wisdom, the God-human relation, and human relationship, in all aspects. Comprehensive teachings, on which sound systems of social justice, economics, politics, legislation, jurisprudence, law and international relations can be built are important contents of the Holy Qur’an.
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) himself was an unlettered man who could not read or write. The Holy Qur’an was revealed to him piece-meal over a 23-year period and committed to memory and writing by his followers under his supervision during his lifetime. The original and complete text of the Qur’an is available to everybody in Arabic, the language in which it was revealed. Translations of the meaning into many languages are widely used.
Hadith, the teachings, sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), meticulously reported and collected by his devoted companions, explain and elaborate the Qur’anic verses.
Concept of worship
Islam does not teach or accept mere ritualism. It emphasises intention and action. To worship Allah is to know Him and love Him, to act upon His laws in every aspect of life, to enjoin goodness and forbid evil and oppression, to practice charity and justice, and to serve Him by serving mankind. Islam seeks to implant in humans’ heart the strongest conviction that their every thought and action are known by Allah – who sees at all times.
“…Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.” (Qur’an, 8:17)
Islamic way of life
Islam provides definite guidelines for all people to follow in all walks of life. The guidance it gives is comprehensive and includes the social, economic, political, moral and spiritual aspects of life. The Qur’an reminds humans of the purposes of life on earth, and their duties and obligations towards themselves, their friends and relatives, their community, their fellow human beings, and their Creator.
Human beings are given fundamental guidelines about a purposeful life and then they are left with the challenge of human existence before them so that they put these high ideals into practice.
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was born approximately in the year 570 A.D. in Mecca, Arabia. He came from a noble Arab family and first received the firs revelation at the age of forty.
As soon as he started telling others about Islam, he and his followers were persecuted and had to face severe difficulties. Subsequently, he was commanded to migrate to Madinah, another city in Arabia.
During a short span of 23 years, he completed his prophethood and died at the age of 63. He was put to rest in the city of Madinah.
Interestingly, unlike many Kings and rulers, he left no wealth or property. He led a perfect life and set an example for all human beings. His biography illustrates in real life, the meaning and implications of the Qur’anic teachings.
Islam’s rational appeal
Islam is a simple, rational and practical way of life. The unity of God, the Prophethood of Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the concept of life and death are the basic articles of faith. There is no hierarchy of priests, no confessions to humans, and no complicated rites and rituals. Everybody may approach the Qur’an directly and translate its dictates into practice.
Islam stands for the middle path and the goal of producing a moral human being in the service of a just society.
“…”Our Lord, give us in this world [that which is] good and in the Hereafter…” (Qur’an, 2:201).
Status of Women
No discrimination is made on the basis of gender. Islam recognises that the sphere of potential capabilities and hence responsibilities of mean and women are equally important in themselves but not exactly the same. The roles of men and women are complementary to each other.
Click here to learn more about the rights of women.
“And whoever does righteous deeds, whether male or female, while being a believer – those will enter Paradise and will not be wronged, [even as much as] the speck on a date seed.” (Qur’an, 4:124)
Whilst this word most probably carries negative connotations today, Jihad involves exerting oneself to the utmost in order to follow the teachings of Islam. A Muslim, therefore is required to strive and struggle against themselves to achieve the pleasure of their Lord.
The Family which is the basic unit of civilisation is unfortunately, disintegrating in many countries. Islam’s family system brings into a fine equilibrium the rights of man, wife, children and relatives. Islam nourishes human unselfishness, generosity and love in a well organised family system.
Human beings live according to their view of life. The tragedy of secular societies is that they fail to connect the different aspects of life. The secular and the religious, the scientific and the spiritual seem to be in conflict. Islam puts an end to this conflict and brings harmony to humans’ vision of life.
Fulfil Your purpose in life
The question would be, what is stopping you from the greatest gift from your Creator? God has created you for a purpose and provided guidance through His books and His Messengers (peace be upon them all) to help you achieve that purpose. The Creator is waiting to see which of his creation are willing to accept the truth for themselves.
The most significant reason for your coming into existence is to worship God. There should be a meaning to your being alive today.
We humbly request for you to take this purpose seriously, for time is ticking away, and cannot be brought back or replaced.
To learn more about your purpose of existence, get in touch with us today and we’ll be happy to help.
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Adam Kayani
Adam accepts instructions in the full range of chambers’ work across the spectrum of family law.
Adam has appeared on behalf of numerous Local Authorities in a range of Public Law applications ranging from case management and final hearings in the County Court to contested deprivation of liberty proceedings in the High Court. Adam has also appeared on behalf of parents successfully fighting for contact with children in care and wider family members seeking special guardianship orders. Adam has also worked on behalf of both Local Authorities and parents to successfully rehabilitate children back into the care of their families with the appropriate support and guidance.
Private Law Children and Matrimonial Finance
Adam has a thriving practice in private children law applications, appearing on behalf of parents seeking Child Arrangements Orders in the first instance and also for those seeking to enforce existing arrangements as well as those undertaking Fact-Finding hearings in contested matters.
Adam has experience of having previously worked as a County Court advocate, undertaking over 500 County Court hearings across a range of civil-law matters. He has also spent time as a paralegal specialising in commercial litigation disputes involving companies with international mining interests, franchise disputes, construction and insolvency issues. These experiences combine with his knowledge gained during his LLM studies, which focussed on the application of the ‘Sharing Principle’ in practice, to give him a broad and insightful perspective on the commercial realities involved in matrimonial finance applications such that he is able to give creative and pragmatic advice on them.
To instruct Adam or for more information…
Adam accepts instructions in public law proceedings on behalf of Local Authorities, parents, Guardians and other family members. He has been instructed on cases involving issues such as suspected non-accidental injuries, sexual abuse, proceedings involving multiple children with different care plans, drug abuse, domestic violence and Deprivation of Liberty applications involving older children.
Adam accepts instructions in all aspects of private law children proceedings. Adam has represented parents seeking Child Arrangements Orders in the first instance or enforcing them when they haven’t been complied with and has been instructed on cases involving issues of domestic violence, drug use and entrenched parental conflict. Adam is able to give practical and early advice on urgent applications when either a child has been retained or when there becomes an issue with continued compliance with court orders and is adept at representing parents in these situations at short notice.
Adam accepts instructions in all aspects of family finance proceedings, including applications pursuant to TOLATA 1996, under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989, the full range of matrimonial finance applications and enforcement. Adam’s previous experiences in the civil jurisdiction and commercial litigation combine with his LLM-studies to enable him to offer creative and pragmatic advice.
Wider interests
Adam is dedicated to his work as Director of Leducate, a charity that he founded and which has won Advocate’s prestigious ‘ProBono Innovation of the Year’ award in 2021 for its work in promoting legal education amongst secondary-school aged students in England.
Adam is a committed member of Lincoln’s Inn, currently sitting on the Junior Members Committee and regularly addressing undergraduate students on access to the profession at panel events held at universities across the country.
The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
Junior Members Committee (2019 – Present)
BPTC LLM – City Law School (2018)
Law LLB Hons – University of Nottingham (2017)
Hardwicke Entrance Award – Lincoln’s Inn
Adam Kayani shortlisted for Young Pro Bono Barrister of the Year
Harcourt Chambers is delighted to announce that Adam Kayani has been shortlisted for Young Pro Bono Barrister of the Year at this year’s Bar Pro Bono Awards.
The Bar Pro…
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Harcourt Chambers is delighted to welcome Alana Hughes and Adam Kayani
Chambers is delighted to announce that Alana Hughes and Adam Kayani have accepted invitations to join Chambers upon successful completion of their pupillage. Alana and Adam will practise in all…
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Prison teacher, guard arrested in separate cases
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A teacher and a correctional officer at the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility in Walnut Grove face charges after alleged incidents at the prison.
The Clarion-Ledger reports 58-year-old Freda Stuart, of Union, a teacher at the prison, was arrested for allegedly having sex with an inmate in a classroom closet. Police also arrested correctional officer Romelowe T. Lofton, who reportedly tried to smuggle a cellphone and cigarettes into the prison.
Walnut Grove remains under federal court oversight for inmate-on-inmate violence and other issues. The prison suffered riots on Dec. 31 and July 10, leading plaintiffs in the court case to question private prison contractor Management & Training Corp.'s control of the situation. After the July riot, about 100 of the most dangerous inmates were removed from the prison.
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First female AOA President to lead a new era in orthopaedics
Leadership & Management: Welcome to Health Industry Hub’s Women in Leadership Series – connecting, engaging and empowering women in the MedTech, Pharma and Biotech sectors by celebrating and sharing the journey of inspirational and passionate women leaders in the healthcare industry.
In a recent interview with Health Industry Hub, Dr Annette Holian, the first female President of the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) to be appointed in 85 years, talks of how she forged her own path on her remarkable career journey, why she intends to advance diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) within the orthopaedics profession, and the dynamics shaping 2022 for women in leadership within orthopaedics.
On her intention to advance DE&I within the orthopaedics profession during her appointment, Dr Holian said “It is raising awareness about the gender discrimination that is all around us. And in orthopaedics surgery, it’s very much a man’s world.
“The [AOA] diversity strategy is extending into 2022 – 2024 and we’ve included more aspects to gender equity to also ensure that barriers to people who want to train and are capable of being trained to be an orthopaedic surgeon for their communities are removed. The biggest merit that determines people getting into surgery at the moment is the postcode of the school they went to and that simply has to change, and it is changing.
“There’s a lot of emphasis now more broadly, not just in orthopaedics, on selecting for rural populations. There’s also been quite a bit of work on the inclusion of indigenous people in our training. We have three registrars and about to graduate our first indigenous orthopaedic surgeon in New South Wales. He’s going to head up our cultural inclusion committee,” she added.
Dr Holian commented on becoming an influential female leader while staying authentic and true to her values. “I’m very strong on having courage and integrity, they’re probably my two leading values. Courage is about speaking up when I see injustices or people not being included or being discriminated against. It’s easy and more comfortable not to see it, to disregard it and not say anything, but then I have great difficulty living with myself because I haven’t been true to those values. It’s really hard but I think we have to speak up when we see issues like that. That’s where we need our male allies as well.”
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HeartShare Celebrates Autism Awareness Month
Celebrations, Community
This April, HeartShare is celebrating Autism Awareness Month with student parades, a fundraiser, and a radio campaign.
First, HeartShare education programs continue their tradition of hosting celebratory parades at their schools. The HeartShare School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn hosted its 7th Annual Autism Awareness Parade on Wednesday, April 5th. HeartShare’s Cuomo First Step Pre-School in Queens will host their parade next Wednesday, April 26.
In honor of Autism Awareness Month, teachers, therapists and staff led a parade for students near The HeartShare School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn on Wednesday, April 5th.
Second, HeartShare is teaming up with Kiwanis and Raymour & Flanigan for a fundraiser on Sunday, April 23. The event, hosted at the 410 Gateway Drive store, will feature a special performance by those who live at the HeartShare children’s residence. There will be games, refreshments and an opportunity to win a gift certificate to the furniture store.
Lastly, HeartShare began airing a radio ad on 106.7 and Z100 (streaming) to publicize its Autism Services weekdays 12 a.m. to 5 a.m. and Saturday mornings 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. It will run through the end of April. “Many parents and caretakers turn to HeartShare during a time of crisis,” said President and CEO Bill Guarinello. “Parents may know their child has a developmental delay, but unsure how to access resources. We want the New York community to know we’re here to help.”
“I have autism. I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream. Now, I can talk and write. I love HeartShare.” – Kevin
HeartShare, a developmental disabilities services agency, has specialized residential, education, and respite program for children and adults with autism in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. In addition to its core funding, HeartShare receives a nearly $130,000 grant annually from the NYC Council Autism Initiative to fund those programs serving children with autism.
The HeartShare School offers a rigorous curriculum, therapies, and extracurricular activities for children with autism ages 5-21. One of those children, Tallal, was featured in a HeartShare Gala video story. Twelve year old Tallal spoke for the first time in his life after receiving five years of education and therapies at The HeartShare School.
“During the course of my career, I have seen so many children on the spectrum, who were non-verbal at first, learn how to express themselves in our care,” said Carol Verdi, Vice President of HeartShare’s Education Services. “At HeartShare, we always believe in human potential.”
To learn more about HeartShare’s Autism Services, call 718-422-4200.
“Autism is not a disability, it’s a different ability.” HeartShare Cuomo First Step Pre-School will host its Annual Autism Awareness Parade on Wednesday, April 26.
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What colleges do students study the most?
Every student has a different college experience, and one of the factors that plays into this is what type of school they attend. Some students go to large state schools, while others attend small liberal arts colleges. There are also students who choose to study at specific colleges. In this blog post, we will take a look at which colleges students study at the most. We will use data from the National Center for Education Statistics to see which schools have the highest enrollments. Keep reading to find out more!
What colleges are most popular for students to study? The school with the highest number of students is Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California. Harvey Mudd College, which has just 829 students, specializes in mathematics and science. It was also named the school on the most beautiful campus.
The Princeton Review surveyed 137,000 undergraduate students at 382 colleges about how much time they spend studying outside of class. Of those, 10 schools ranked above the rest in terms of study time, but all of them have relatively small enrollments. For example, Harvey Mudd College, a science and mathematics school, has only 829 students, but its campus is home to a large number of science and math majors.
While the majority of the top schools are highly ranked by a wide range of factors, the Princeton Review’s study reveals that only a few schools study the most. The list features eight private colleges, including Liberty University, and nine National Universities. All but one of these schools offer master’s degrees and a few doctoral degrees, and they all aim to cultivate a rigorous mentality in their students.
In its study, the Princeton Review surveyed more than 138,000 college students to find out what subjects students are most interested in studying. Of those, 20 colleges enrolled fewer students than any other. Meanwhile, the top 10 schools studied the most, on average. The Princeton Review also released a list of the most partying and stone-cold sober universities in the United States. It was not surprising to learn that some colleges are even worse than others.
Is Brown the worst Ivy Brown University consistently ranks amongst the Ivy League schools at the bottom in the highly regarded US News & World Reports rankings, which are released each year.
Which is better, Harvard or Yale? Harvard Beats Yale Consistently
Year after year, Harvard is consistently ranked higher than Yale in the QS World University Rankings. Harvard also holds its own place better than Yale year after year. In its 2020 report, Harvard placed 3rd while Yale is at 17th among the world’s top universities (TopUniversities.com, 2020).
Which college is the most intellectual? The top spot is once again held by the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, which is based in California. Harvard, Yale and Princeton round out the top five schools.
Which colleges are the best for students? – Similar Questions
Which is the most difficult Ivy?
Harvard University is the last and final option. It is known for being the hardest Ivy League school. It is accepting 5.2% of applicants in 2020.
Which Ivy is academically the most difficult?
Columbia surpassed Harvard and Princeton to be the most competitive Ivy in 2021. Columbia has the highest acceptance rate of any Ivy League school, at 3.9%, despite all four schools reporting acceptance rates below 5.5%.
Is it possible to study in bed?
However, studies have shown that it can be dangerous to study in bed. Doing homework or working in bed may reduce your focus. This is because people often associate their beds with sleep and comfort. This can lead to brain drift and make it easier to fall asleep.
Are you able to study at Starbucks?
Customers studying/working
Starbucks was a top choice for those who want to study or work in quiet surroundings that are fueled with coffee.
Which Ivy League is the most happy?
Campus happiness: Brown is the most happiest Ivy. Perhaps because it allows students to choose their courses almost completely autonomously.
Is there an Ivy League school that is easiest to get into
Based on the information you have seen, Cornell University has the highest acceptance rate of all Ivy League schools. This makes it the easiest Ivy League school for you to get into.
Which Ivy League campus is the most beautiful?
Princeton is the Ivy League campus with the best reputation. It’s known for its beautiful campus. But beauty is subjective. Columbia may be the most beautiful due to its Gothic and Classic buildings. Cornell, however, is considered more stunning for its spectacular landscape.
Is it possible to get into Yale with only a 3.5 GPA
A 3.5 GPA will make you highly competitive. Admission to many colleges can be expected with reasonable expectations. But, Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth accept students with higher GPAs than 4.0 on average.
Is Oxford superior to Harvard?
Which university is better according to the Overall Ranking? According to the Times Higher Education website, Oxford University was ranked 1st overall. This gives it the title as the best university in the entire world. Harvard was ranked 3rd, while Stanford took 2nd.
Is Harvard FREE?
Harvard provided free tuition for most students from families earning less than $65,000 in the most recent academic years. For 90% of students, Harvard is cheaper than a state college. Harvard graduates without a degree in undergraduate can earn up to $146,800 per year by the middle of their careers.
Is a GPA of 1.0 good?
Is a 1.0 GPA good? A 1.0 GPA would be considered low, especially when the US national average GPA stands at 3.0. A GPA of 1.0 is generally considered to be a low average. It is very difficult to raise a 1.0 GPA above an unacceptable level, but it is possible with persistence and determination.
Which college is the most intelligent?
Ranking colleges in the U.S. based on student SAT score 2020
The California Institute of Technology had an average SAT score of 1545 and was the most intelligent college in America in 2020.
Harvard is the place where the most intelligent people are.
FACT: Harvard is home to 98% of all admitted students. Flunking out is very rare. A student is not admitted unless the college is convinced that he or she can handle the work – in fact, close to 70% of recent graduating classes have received honors.
What GPA are you required to get into Harvard
Harvard GPA Requirements
Unweighted GPAs, however, are not very useful because high schools weigh GPAs differently. Harvard admissions requires you to have a minimum of 4.0 GPA. This means that you will get straight A’s in all classes.
What college has a low graduation rate?
Below is a listing of 3187 colleges which have the lowest graduation rate in America. With a graduation rate at 3%, Western International University is the top college on this list. The graduation rate is the percentage of students who complete their degree within 150% of the expected time.
With a 3.7 GPA, can I get into Harvard?
Harvard requires applicants to have exceptional grades in order to be accepted. Harvard University’s freshman class averaged 4.04 on the scale of 4.0. This means that applicants must have excellent grades in high school. Even if you have a 4.04 GPA, this school should be considered an option.
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How “The Florida Project” Could Silence Critics of the American Way of Depicting Poverty
David Tsintsadze
David Tsintsadze is a music industry executive, investigative reporter and a film enthusiast. As far back as he remembers, he always wanted to be involved in the entertainment industry. When that started to happen and he began to really understand how it all worked, he found that his love of both the creative arts and the relevant industry allowed him to move between the two worlds and make them relate to each other. David’s belief in meaningful entertainment coincides with Hollywood Insider’s values and in his vision, cultural intermediaries play a crucial role in shaping and exchanging culture, which he firmly believes is one of the main contribution in creation of a free and vibrant society that people want to live in.
The Criticism of the “American way”
What Actually is the “American way”?
What Makes ‘The Florida Project’ Different In A Beautiful Way
Photo: ‘The Florida Project’/A24
It probably wouldn’t be very far-fetched to conclude that the worldwide perception of 21st century Hollywood and American Cinema is that it does not love making its films about poverty and the struggles of impoverished people.
More than 80 years have passed since “City Lights” and “Grapes of Wrath” and the times when poverty was an important and recurring theme in American culture and the narratives created by the likes of Theodore Dreiser and John Steinbeck constantly found their way in the spotlight. Since then, Hollywood has made just a handful of films that covered the theme of poverty while making countless movies touching poverty, usually as the start-up place for the protagonist. Indeed, touching might serve as the crucial word here as we’ve heard plenty of criticism of the American way of depicting poverty and impoverished people – always from a palpable distance, often loaded with stereotypes and myths, and always shown as something to be ashamed of, a consequence of very bad luck or just a momentary flash of such an extreme state that its comical – all in all much like touching something alien and disgusting with a ten-foot pole.
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And possibly for that reason, when people talk about understanding poverty in modern Cinema, they usually point at the other side of the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean – to the very British socialist realism of Ken Loach, to the heart-burning humanity of “Capernaum”, to the cruel & unforgiving environments of Zvyagintsev, or to the recent acclaim of Japanese “Shoplifters” and South Korean “Parasite”. It’s hard to argue that when it comes to Hollywood in that context, most movie geeks believe that the power of American Cinema lies elsewhere.
And indeed, who can carve a good old rags-to-riches story better than Hollywood. There have been hundreds (maybe thousands) of stories under that same narrative that have seen the light of day, some are brilliant while others are mediocre. The fable of final success might be more omnipresent in American film than the iconic “happy end” – you certainly might see the protagonist die, switch to the dark side, reach or fail his/her ultimate mission but you will never see the character stay poor unless its somehow implied that he/she deserves that as some kind of punishment and even then, it happens not to the protagonist but usually to some secondary characters. When you see the character struggle with poverty and financial hardships at the beginning of the movie, it immediately works like Chekhov’s Gun – you are subconsciously sure that whatever hardships the character may face, the poverty will be defeated in the end – because if not, what’s the actual story then, eh?
From the very birth of Hollywood and even more so in the 21st century, American Cinema is all about the idea that dedication, hard work, and moral decisions are what you need to reach success, or at least to escape poverty and suffering. If there is one thing that it preaches, it’s that the road ahead will not be easy but through the tyranny of will and humanity it will be rewarding in the end, the character will get its one-in-a-million chance after all, and all depends on how he/she uses it. In “Pursuit of happiness” we struggle together with Chris Gardner but we do know that finally he and his son will escape their dire situation. In “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, we got Hushpuppy’s back when she finally confronts the aurochs and turns them away, and we know that she will win against all odds because that’s the very fabric of what most American movies are made of – the Slumdog Millionaire story of reaching the American dream through self-motivation and obstinacy – where the perseverance of the character becomes its very own plot armor which guards the protagonist against final failure.
And no wonder the distance of that formula from the actual reality of life has frequently become the main foundation of criticism mentioned above.
The exceptional & innocent beauty of “The Florida Project” is that it lures you with the very same Hollywood formula but at the same time hits the unsuspecting viewer with such an in-depth angle of reality that you might question yourself whether you watched a documentary or fiction when you are done. The film follows a group of young children led by 6-year old Moonee (wonderful Brooklynn Prince) whose families live and try to survive in neighboring cheap motels close to Disney World, one of which is ironically called “Magic Castle”. As the film mostly guides us in this world through the eyes of children, the high-saturated 35 mm film shots give viewers a chance to see the grim world from a child’s perspective – in more vibrant and joyful colors, loaded with paths to adventures and mystery.
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And it is obvious that Disney World, “the happiest place on earth” is just a stone’s throw from the world where the characters live, but no matter the short distance, it’s out of their reach and their reality, and all they have is the shabby imitation of that world that is “Magic Castle”. The inhabitants of the motel struggle on the verge of homelessness and every week’s rent and day’s meal is a pressing issue, but they do try to prolong the innocent childhood of their kids as long as they can. As a viewer, you follow the chaotic microcosm of outcasts and people on the verge of finally falling apart maintained by a couple of firm, calming personalities like manager Bobby Hicks (Willem Dafoe), who is clearly protective of the unpredictable people of the motel – especially when it comes to the children.
And as we continue to observe the lives of the characters at the “Magic Castle” going on a downward spiral through the innocent point of view of their children, it is also characters like Bobby that give us the luxury to neglect the rising feeling of alarm, as we observe things getting worse and worse, and questions as to how all this can be fixed begin to multiply. The belief that there must be a plot armor is subconscious as we have been lured into what we believe is an American way of telling a poverty story – so someone or something will not let the lives of these people slide out of view. So could it be Bobby as the hero, or Halley making the right decisions finally, or, maybe, Ashley forgiving and reaching out with a helping hand? – Because any of that should be sufficient to finally make things right. But it is obvious that none of their efforts, even combined, can do anything against the harsh reality of the life and environment they live in.
And only in that last, truly magically crafted scene (most of it shot on an iPhone) the façade we have been lured into is completely washed away and we see two most innocent characters, Moonee and Jansey, left alone against the cruel reality of their lives, with no one but each other to help them out. The moment when Jansey takes Moonee’s hand and they run away to Disney World is both their’s and the viewer’s last, childish attempt to apply for a magical twist, a Hollywood way to get out of the misery and despair, but as we follow the kids in the crowd we are already well aware what happens after – the carefree childhood is over and it is time to face the dark reality of life.
Cast: Brooklyn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Rivera, Aiden Malik, Josie Olivo, Valeria Cotto, Edward Pagan, Patti Wiley, Jasineia Ramos, Mela Murder, Rosa Medina Perez, Krystal Nicole Watts, Bronwyn Valley, Kelly Fitzgerald, Sandy Kane, Jim R. Coleman, Andrew Romano
Directed By: Sean Baker | Written By: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
Produced By: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Kevin Chinoy, Darren Dean, Andrew Duncan, Dani Johnson, Samantha Quan, Alex Saks, Elayne Schneiderman Schmidt, Francesca Silvestri, Shih-Ching Tsou
Music By: Lorne Balfe | Cinematography By: Alexis Zabe
By David Tsintsadze
An excerpt from the love letter: Hollywood Insider’s CEO/editor-in-chief Pritan Ambroase affirms, “Hollywood Insider fully supports the much-needed Black Lives Matter movement. We are actively, physically and digitally a part of this global movement. We will continue reporting on this major issue of police brutality and legal murders of Black people to hold the system accountable. We will continue reporting on this major issue with kindness and respect to all Black people, as each and every one of them are seen and heard. Just a reminder, that the Black Lives Matter movement is about more than just police brutality and extends into banking, housing, education, medical, infrastructure, etc. We have the space and time for all your stories. We believe in peaceful/non-violent protests and I would like to request the rest of media to focus on 95% of the protests that are peaceful and working effectively with positive changes happening daily. Media has a responsibility to better the world and Hollywood Insider will continue to do so.”
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David Tsintsadze is a music industry executive, investigative reporter and a film enthusiast. As far back as he remembers, he always wanted to be involved in the entertainment industry. When that started to happen and he began to really understand how it all worked, he found that his love of both the creative arts and the relevant industry allowed him to move between the two worlds and make them relate to each other. David's belief in meaningful entertainment coincides with Hollywood Insider's values and in his vision, cultural intermediaries play a crucial role in shaping and exchanging culture, which he firmly believes is one of the main contribution in creation of a free and vibrant society that people want to live in.
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Monica Ortiz-Sanchez — Board Member
Mónica Ortiz -Sanchez served the children of New York City for 25 years after working in the accounting field for 10 years. She earned a B.S in Accounting and a M.S. in Education from Lehman College (CUNY). She received her C.A.S in Educational Administration from New York University and in 2012 earned her doctoral degree at the same institution. She has work for the NYC Department of Education in various capacities. As teacher, Mónica taught at the middle school and high school levels. She was an Assistant Principal for Administration in Queens for 6 years. Monica than became Principal of one of the top 10 most violent school in the Bronx, NY. She was tasked with turning the school around and then phasing it out.
She set out to transform the school with a population of 4,000 students, 200 plus teachers, a cabinet of 10 and supporting staff of over 20. In two years, she was able to turn a failing school to a performing school. In the following three years, Monica facilitated the phase out of the school to a campus with multiple schools. After phasing out the large school, she became the Director of Student Suspension for New York City Department of Education. Monica oversaw the suspension and expulsion process for city schools. Monica was also a member of a task force that supported violent and/or under performing schools. She later accepted the task to work with another under performing school with potential for turnaround. As a Principal, Mónica has been successful in turning around some of the most challenging schools in NYC with an unwavering belief in students’ ability to succeed provided they are given the opportunities and resources to do so. She understands the impact of low socio economics, homelessness, and family hardships have on students.
And with that imperative, she partnered with multiple organizations to bring necessary resources to the school including a dental clinic, social workers and psychologist sessions, mediation and conflict resolutions clinics and myriad of other services. After proudly serving the children of New York for over two decades, Monica retired to due medical reasons. Currently, she is working on her third career as an artist.
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Thursday, March 1, 2018 10:07am
Information about fire, police and troopers is taken from public records consisting of logbooks and press releases.
Anchor Point Fire and Emergency Services
Feb. 19-25
Firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to 10 medical calls and six fire calls.
Homer Fire
Firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to nine medical calls and four fire calls.
Kachemak Emergency Services
Firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to six medical calls and three fire calls.
Homer Police
An officer at 8:50 a.m. arrested a 51-year-old wanted man at a local business on the Homer Bypass.
A caller at 12:04 p.m. reported a man being threatened in the Homer Area. An officer was advised and made contact with the man.
An officer at 6:59 p.m. issued a 52-year-old woman a summons for driving without insurance on East End Road.
A caller at 10:47 p.m. reported loud music and yelling coming from a neighboring area at White Alder Court. Officers responded to the area, contacted the responsible people and advised them to keep the noise down.
A caller at 1:50 a.m. requested a welfare check on a friend on Main Street. Officers responded to the friend’s residence.
An officer at 4:05 a.m. confiscated marijuana during a prisoner search at the Homer Jail.
A caller at 10:45 a.m. reported that a Lynden Transport truck was blocking his driveway on West Danview Avenue. An officer responded to the area but was unable to locate the truck.
The manager of a local business at 1:45 p.m. went to the Homer Police Station with a counterfeit bill. An officer spoke with the manager and took the bill.
A caller at 12:38 p.m. reported men cutting firewood on the edge of Beluga Lake. Officers contacted the Alaska Department of Forestry.
An officer at 2:23 p.m. warned a driver for speeding on East End Road.
A caller at 9:32 p.m. reported a missing person from Kachemak Drive. An officer was advised. The missing person later returned home.
A caller at 11 a.m. reported a man harassing employees at a business on Lake Street. An officer responded to the location and the business requested that the man be given a trespass notice.
A caller at 6:30 p.m. reported a suspicious man near a business on West Pioneer Avenue after hours. An officer went to the location but was unable to locate the man.
An agency at 8 p.m. requested officers patrol a government building on the Homer Bypass.
A caller at 1:26 a.m. reported a disturbance on Main Street. Officers responded to the scene and contacted a man with warrants for failing to appear in court. They arrested the 31-year-old man on two warrants.
The hospital at 2:15 a.m. requested assistance with a protective custody case. The man ended up being housed at the Homer Jail.
A caller at 2:43 a.m. reported an intoxicated man getting into a vehicle on East Pioneer Avenue. Officers responded to the area.
A caller at 5:56 a.m. reported a disturbance on the Sterling Highway. An officer responded to the area.
A caller at 9:38 a.m. reported a man was camping in a public restroom at Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street. An officer responded to the area but was unable to locate the man.
A caller at 1:30 p.m. reported a vehicle in the ditch at Mile 168.5 Sterling Highway, but no injuries. An officer responded to the scene.
Alaska State Troopers at 3:32 p.m. passed on a Report Every Dangerous Driver Immediately (REDDI) report about a vehicle at Mile 170 of the Sterling Highway. An officer made contact with the driver and found all was OK.
An officer at 11:58 a.m. assisted another agency with an injured animal while responding to a motor vehicle accident at Mile 2 of Spit Road.
A caller at 5:32 p.m. made a REDDI report on a vehicle on Grubstake Avenue. An officer contacted the driver and noted no impairment.
A caller at 5:41 p.m. reported an intoxicated woman had fallen and couldn’t get up, on Grubstake Avenue. An officer and medics responded to the scene.
A caller at 1:57 a.m. reported a disturbance on West Fairview Avenue. Officers responded to the location, and a man involved in the disturbance left on foot.
An officer at 8:32 a.m. warned a driver for speeding in a school zone at Pioneer Avenue and the Homer Bypass.
An officer at 8:39 a.m. warned a driver for speeding in a school zone on the Sterling Highway.
An officer at 8:54 a.m. removed debris from the roadway at Glenview Street and the Sterling Highway.
A caller at 11:59 a.m. reported a shoplifting and trespassing issue at a business on Greatland Street. An officer responded to the scene and contacted the person involved. That person was given a trespass notice to keep them from the building.
Officers at 1:05 p.m. went to the scene of an unattended death on Kachemak Way.
A caller at 4:45 p.m. reported an abandoned bike on property on the Homer Bypass. An officer went to the location to pick up the bicycle.
A caller at 5:54 p.m. reported a verbal disturbance at a business on the Homer Bypass. The people involved were contacted and one woman was given a trespass notice.
A caller at 8:35 p.m. reported back pain but was unable to give their specific location. An officer contacted the caller at Crittenden Drive and the Sterling Highway, in the roadway and provided transportation to a medical facility.
Alaska State Troopers at approximately 5 p.m. contacted a 33-year-old Anchor Point man at a residence in Anchor Point. Investigation revealed the man had an outstanding arrest warrant. He was arrested and transported to Homer Jail.
Alaska State Troopers at approximately 7:16 p.m. contacted a 40-year-old Anchor Point man at his residence. Investigation revealed the man had an outstanding arrest warrant. He was arrested and transported to Homer Jail.
Alaska State Troopers at approximately 10:55 p.m. conducted a traffic stop on East End Rd near Homer. Troopers contacted a 26-year-old Homer man. Investigation revealed he had an outstanding arrest warrant. He was arrested and transported to Homer Jail.
Alaska State Troopers at approximately 4:20 p.m. received a report from a concerned parent about a student making threats toward the Ninilchik School. Troopers from Anchor Point and Soldotna responded to investigate. The investigation showed a 12 year old male student had repeatedly made threatening statements about the school and that he was going to bring a gun to school. After consulting with the Division of Juvenile Justice the male student was taken into custody and remanded into the Kenai Youth Facility. Troopers worked with the Ninilchik School staff during the investigation to ensure the safety of the school, students, and staff. The investigation is continuing.
Alaska State Trooper at about 10 a.m. received a report of a suspicious male walking around heavy equipment near mile 140.5 of the Sterling Highway. When Troopers arrived they located a 27-year-old Wasilla man inside a piece of equipment. The man was arrested and transported to the Homer Jail where he was released on his own recognizance.
Information regarding courthouse activity is taken from logbooks and court-issued forms and may not contain all details of the final disposition of each case.
Court records show the following actions taken in Homer District Court through March 1:
Francis L. Risinger, 62, two counts of reckless driver, and third-degree assault.
Rosalyn D. Rose, 52, no motor vehicle liability insurance.
Richard C. Knagin, 27, second-degree criminal trespass.
Steven D. Stewart, 57, violating a domestic violence protective order.
Wesley Mason Thompson-Orriss
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Hugh Dower - Evolutionary Philosopher
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The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Extracts from “Lamarck’s Due, Darwin’s Luck”
The inheritance of acquired characteristics is a theoretical mechanism by which a species can change, over many generations, into a different species by progressively accumulating minor changes caused by habits and external circumstances, including diet. For example, if, during his gestation and growth, a male hominid developed a bigger brain due to a rich diet than he would have done without the rich diet, that is an acquired characteristic. If he got together with a similarly-affected female hominid and any of their offspring had a bigger brain than it would have done if its parents had not had rich diets, that is the inheritance of an acquired characteristic, however slight the increase in brain size was. Similarly, if a group of stooping, hairy apes became more upright and less hairy as a consequence of standing in sea water, and any of their offspring were naturally more upright or less hairy than they would have been if their parents had not spent time standing in sea water, that is the inheritance of acquired characteristics. If a group of hominids moved to an environment where they were exposed to less strong sunlight than they had been, and they became lighter-skinned as a consequence, with an incremental accumulative effect over the generations, that is due to the inheritance of an acquired characteristic.
The inheritance of acquired characteristics is a logical necessity for any evolutionary system which relies upon changes made in response to experience. Otherwise every generation would have to go back to the same Square One that their parents had started at. As a mechanism, it was made famous by the French evolutionist, Lamarck, but it was in fact the assumed mechanism by which lasting change happened for virtually all pre-Darwinian evolutionists. Ironically, in the light of what he would become famous (or infamous) for, Lamarck attached little importance to the inheritance of acquired characteristics; that was just a necessary assumption. His emphasis was upon the acquisition of characteristics, which is not now seriously disputed in principle, rather than their inheritability, which is. I said ‘pre-Darwinian’ evolutionists, but that should really have included Darwin. That’s right – in modern-day terms, Darwin was a Lamarckist. Present-day Darwinists like to ignore that fact or, if they do acknowledge it, say it was an understandable aberration. Darwin himself chose to play it down, but the fact remains that he believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics as being one of the sources of variations by which Natural Selection was aided.
The reasons why Darwin believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics were partly because he was impressed, and convinced, by numerous apparent proofs, but mainly because he couldn’t conceive of anomalies such as flightless birds being caused by anything other than the accumulative, inherited effects of disuse of organs. This was an entirely logical stance, given Darwin’s beliefs in the rarity of specific random variations, their minimal effect, and natural culling. If you take a group of proto-ostriches which were still able to fly, but didn’t, any individual which incurred a random variation which made it less able to fly would not find that detrimental, but neither would it have any advantage over all the other proto-ostriches, who wouldn’t be punished for still being able to fly, so the random variation would stand no chance of becoming universal to the species. Logically, Darwin could also see that, if disuse diminishes organs, use must develop them. His most unequivocal early support for the inheritance of acquired characteristics came in the form of his speculations as to the mechanism of heredity, called the hypothesis of Pangenesis, as explained in his 1868 book, “The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication”, the two Volumes of which basically constituted the first two chapters of his 1850s tome:
How, again, can we explain to ourselves the inherited effects of the use or disuse of particular organs?….How can the use or disuse of a particular limb or of the brain affect a small aggregate of reproductive cells, seated in a distant part of the body, in such a manner that the being developed from these cells inherits the characters of either one or both parents? Even an imperfect answer to this question would be satisfactory.
In variations caused by the direction of changed conditions, whether of a definite or indefinite nature, as with the fleeces of sheep in hot countries, with maize grown in cold countries, with inherited gout etc., the tissues of the body, according to the doctrine of pangenesis, are directly affected by the new conditions, and consequently throw off modified gemmules, which are transmitted with their newly-acquired peculiarities to the offspring. On any ordinary view it is unintelligible how changed conditions, whether acting on the embryo, the young or adult animal, can cause inherited modifications. It is equally or even more unintelligible on any ordinary view, how the effects of the long-continued use or disuse of any part, or the changed habits of the body or mind, can be inherited. A more perplexing problem can hardly be proposed; but on our view we have only to suppose that certain cells become at last not only functionally but structurally modified; and that these throw off similarly modified gemmules.
It has to be said that his hypothetical gemmules have never been observed and that Pangenesis proved only to be a debating point and was never generally accepted. Nonetheless, Darwin was quite content to maintain belief in the inheritance of acquired characteristics, as may be demonstrated by the following passage about blushing from his 1873 book, “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”:
It is a rather curious question why, in most cases the face, ears, and neck alone redden, inasmuch as the whole surface of the body often tingles and grows hot. This seems to depend, chiefly, on the face and adjoining parts of the skin having been habitually exposed to the air, light, and alternations of temperature, by which the small arteries not only have acquired the habit of readily dilating and contracting, but appear to have become unusually developed in comparison with other parts……Of all parts of the body, the face is most considered and regarded, as is natural from its being the seat of expression and the source of the voice. It is also the chief source of beauty and of ugliness, and throughout the world is the most ornamented. The face, therefore, will have been most subjected during many generations to much closer and more earnest self-attention than any other part of the body; and in accordance with the principle here advanced we can understand why it should be the most liable to blush.
In the Preface to the Second Edition of “The Descent of Man”, he wrote:
I may take this opportunity of remarking that my critics frequently assume that I attribute all changes of corporeal structure and mental power exclusively to the natural selection of such variations as are often called spontaneous; whereas, even in the first edition of the ‘Origin of Species’, I distinctly stated that great weight must be attributed to the inherited effects of use and disuse, with respect both to the body and mind. I also attributed some amount of modification to the direct and prolonged action of changed conditions of life.
In fact, Darwin’s belief in the inheritance of acquired characteristics became increasingly emphasised right up to his death. In the final edition of “The Origin of Species”, he even went so far as to say, “It appears probable that disuse has been the main agent in rendering organs rudimentary.” Part of the reason for this increasing emphasis was in response to a technical problem that his theory had run into as a result of an 1867 review of “The Origin….” by a Scottish engineer, Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin. One of the most oft-quoted passages from “The Origin of Species” is this:
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
Not only does this illustrate a prevalent view in science that a single error can invalidate a life’s work, but it has also been used as a starting point by anti-Darwinists. Creationists devoted a lot of attention to the eye as a complex organ that must have been purposefully designed rather than created by chance. In doing so, they played right into the Evolutionists’ hands. There were, however, more worrying refutations. Though the following argument did not necessarily relate to complex organs, and it was by no means clinching, it set the tone of reasoned debate. In order to defeat Darwin’s theory, the arguments would need to be evidential and technical rather than based on religious indoctrination or philosophical distaste.
The ‘commonsense’ view of the time was that reproduction represented blending of characteristics. It was slightly haphazard, as evidenced by the differences between brothers or sisters and the occasional tendency of a perceptible characteristic to skip a generation, but the overall trend was towards evening out. Darwin had attached much attention to the issue of Artificial Selection, as practised by dog-breeders and pigeon-fanciers, from which the evidence was that any characteristic that had been purposefully bred into an animal was easily lost through mongrelisation. If both breeding animals have the same characteristic, it can be preserved and even accentuated, but if only one of the breeding pair has it, it can be diminished or swamped. This became known as the Law of Regression towards Mediocrity. The implicit premise of Darwin’s theory was that any random variation had to happen to only one individual, known as a ‘sport’ if the variation was detectable, in the first instance. That individual would have to breed with a normal member of the species. Therefore, in contradiction to the theory of Natural Selection, any random variation would tend to be blended out rather than developed, however beneficial it was; any benefit that a variation conferred would reduce over time rather than increase. That was what Jenkin’s review pointed out, citing the example of what would happen if a white man were to live and breed in a black community.
Darwin’s answer to this was to reassert his belief in the inheritance of acquired characteristics. By that mechanism, favourable characteristics could spread, and grow, rapidly; due to the same changed conditions or to imitation, many individuals within a breeding group could acquire the same characteristic. In other words, all Darwin’s theory was doing was incorporating the guiding system of Natural Selection into Lamarck’s theory. The only real difference between them was Lamarck’s emphasis on responsive adaption and Darwin’s emphasis on natural culling. That’s not just my view; it had also become the view of Darwin’s good friend, Sir Charles Lyell. So Natural Selection was really just acting on the consequences of habits and changes of use? Yes, but there also had to be a random source of inheritable novelty, argued Darwin, under changed conditions of existence. So, what Darwin’s theory now resembles is “The Control of Species Development by Means of Natural and Sexual Selection, or The Preservation of Favourable Acquired Characteristics and Occasional Random Novelty Features”. I wish Darwinism had stayed like that. I would have been a loyal supporter. I would quite happily call myself a Darwin-as-Darwin-intended-it-ist. Like many an evolutionary dissident, then and now, I have no problem whatsoever with Natural Selection as such.
After his death, the doctrine of Darwinism became censored in respect of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, though his writings weren’t. The reason why Darwinism became censored was because of two German theories and an Austrian ‘discovery’. The first, known as Cell Theory, said that every cell was produced by the division of a previous cell, and a consequence of that was that ‘experience’ could only be passed on to direct descendants. It was followed by August Weismann’s Germ-plasm Theory, in which he claimed that the germ-plasm, which was what he called the stuff that the nuclei of sperms, eggs and seeds were essentially made from, took a continuous line of descent without being affected by the organisms which it generated (or generated it). In other words, his sperms could not have been tampered with either by him or by any of his ancestors, because all the body cells, including the germ-line cells, were made by successive divisions of the original fertilised egg. The germ-line cells became differentiated during embryology and could not thereafter be affected by the somatic (body) cells. That became known as Weismann’s Barrier – information could flow from fertilised egg to organism, but not vice versa – and, in his view, it made the inheritance of acquired characteristics logically impossible. Thus it was Weismann, more than any other living person, whose intervention led to the divorce between Lamarckism and Darwinism after Darwin’s death, and the consummation of his proposition would lead to the birth of neo-Darwinism.
Weismann’s proposition was vindicated in his own lifetime by the rediscovery in 1900 of a paper written and published in 1865 by an Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel who became abbot of his monastery in what is now the Czech Republic in 1868. He had studied science in Vienna after becoming a priest, and indulged his passion for horticulture at his monastery, where the growing of food was an important aspect of life. It has been said about Mendel that, as a celibate monk, he possibly had more reason than most to notice that the result of reproduction between a man and a woman was either a man or a woman and not an hermaphrodite. He observed much the same type of quantisation in the hybrid peas he cultured, and he reported his results in his famous paper. Essentially, he noted that reproduction does not result in blending of characteristics but in the presence or absence of simple characteristics. His hybrid peas were distinctly either one type or the other, not halfway between. Most significantly, he discovered that hereditary factors could be dominant, in which case they always showed, or recessive, in which case they only showed in the absence of a dominant factor. He didn’t fully understand his results, or attach that much significance to them, so he couldn’t have had an inkling of the fact that he would later become regarded as the father of genetics.
As a consequence of all of the above, Lamarckian inheritance became discredited, and even vilified, throughout most of the 20th century. The tenets of 19th century science, combined with the increasing evidence concerning the essential contents of the germ-plasm, the chromosomes, made Lamarckian inheritance inexplicable. Put simply, the DNA sequences within the genes within the chromosomes cannot be changed as a consequence of experience. During the latter half of the 20th century, a growing number of dissidents began to question whether those genes were, in themselves, responsible for characteristics. Some began to wonder whether it was the expression of genes, rather than merely their existence, that controlled development. Little was known about the control of gene expression. In the 21st century, epigeneticists have discovered that the expression of genes can be altered in an inheritable way. In other words, the inheritance of acquired characteristics has been an important, if not the most important, factor in the evolution of species. Lamarck was right. So was Darwin, except perhaps in his emphasis.
Throughout the entire evolution debate of the past two centuries, there has never been a shred of philosophically-rigorous evidence against the inheritance of acquired characteristics, and the empirical evidence has always been in favour of it. There are mountains of circumstantial evidence from nature which can be explained much more easily by Lamarckism than by neo-Darwinism. There have been numerous experiments done which have demonstrated the apparent inheritance of acquired characteristics, including those by Edouard Brown-Sequard and Karl Semper in the 19th century, and those of Paul Kammerer and Conrad Waddington in the 20th century. Recently, the phenomenon of second-generation Thalidomide symptoms can only be explained by reference to non-genetic inheritance, and some behind-the-scenes scientists have been reporting new evidence of Lamarckian inheritance, including the long-term consequences of the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-45.
See also “Lamarckian Inheritance from Epigenetics”.
Hugh Dower – Evolutionary Philosopher
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Human Traffickers using prison ships in the Slave Trade – Reuters Report
22nd October 2014 22nd October 2014 Articles, Case Study, International Issues, Smuggling, Supporting Entities
Photo Credit: Bangladesh Coast Guard
Article reproduced from the Maritime Executive 22 October 2014
Original Copyright Reuters 2014 – Article
When Afsar Miae left his home near Teknaf in southern Bangladesh to look for work last month, he told his mother, “I’ll see you soon.” He said he expected to return that evening.
He never did.
When he reported for work at a house on the outskirts of Teknaf, a man there gave him a drink of water. Soon, his eyelids sagged and his head started spinning.
When he awoke, it was dark. He had lost all sense of time. Two Bangladeshi men then forced him and seven others onto a small boat and bound them.
“My hands were tied. My eyes were blindfolded,” said Miae, 20.
The boat sailed through the night until it reached a larger ship moored far offshore. Miae was thrown into its dark, crowded hold by armed guards. He and his fellow captives survived on scraps of food and dirty water, some of them for weeks.
The ship eventually sailed toward Thailand where, as Reuters reported last year, human-trafficking gangs hold thousands of boat people in brutal jungle camps until relatives pay ransoms to secure their release.
Testimonies from Bangladeshi and Rohingya survivors provide evidence of a shift in tactics in one of Asia’s busiest human-trafficking routes. In the past, evidence showed most people boarded smuggling boats voluntarily. Now people are being abducted or tricked and then taken to larger ships anchored in international waters just outside Bangladesh’s maritime boundary.
It’s unclear exactly how many people are being coerced onto the boats. But seven men interviewed by Reuters who said they were taken by force described being held until the boats filled up with hundreds of people in what are effectively floating prisons. Two of the men were taken to trafficking camps in Thailand.
“EATING LEAVES”
The experiences of these men recall the trans-Atlantic slave trade of centuries ago. Miae and four other men who were held on the same ship as him described being kept in near total darkness and being regularly whipped by guards. Two men from another boat said they were forced to sit in a squatting position and that the hatch to the hold was only opened to remove dead bodies.
Miae and 80 other men were abandoned, starving and dehydrated, on a remote island by their captors, who appear to have fled for fear their operation had been exposed, according to two local Thai officials who were involved in rescuing the men in Phang Nga, located just north of the popular tourist island of Phuket.
“Their conditions were beyond what a human should have to go through,” said Jadsada Thitimuta, an official in Phang Nga. “Some were sick and many were like skeletons. They were eating leaves.”
More than 130 suspected trafficking victims, mostly Bangladeshis but also stateless Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar, have been found in Phang Nga since Oct. 11, according to Thailand’s Ministry of Social Development and Human Security. Prayoon Rattanasenee, the acting governor of Phang Nga province, said that interviews conducted by police, rights groups and his own people revealed that the victims were “brought by force. Many were drugged but we don’t know the exact number,” he told Reuters.
Evidence indicates that many of the boats appear to be from Thailand. The abducted men recalled ships with either Thai flags or Thai-speaking crews. In June, six people were killed and dozens injured when a mutiny broke out in Bangladeshi waters on what the Bangladesh Coast Guard described as a “Thai trawler” trafficking hundreds of men to Thailand.
The Bangladesh Coast Guard told Reuters it was aware of trafficking ships lurking just outside Bangladesh’s territorial waters. Intercepting them wasn’t easy, said Lieutenant Commander M. Ashiqe Mahmud.
“At night they enter our waters, take the people and again cross the boundary,” he said. “It is very difficult to identify those ships at sea.”
Ashiqe said the coast guard was intercepting smaller boats that were leaving Bangladeshi shores with people to feed the larger ships. A report in August by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said that in the first half of the year, Bangladeshi authorities reportedly arrested “over 700 people (including smugglers and crew) attempting to depart irregularly by sea from Bangladesh.”
The Royal Thai Navy, which patrols the coastline with the Marine Police Division, also said it was aware people were being held captive on ships off its coast. “The truth is they use fishing boats to transport people and the bottom of the boat becomes like a room to put the people, but it seems like a commercial fishing boat,” said Royal Thai Navy spokesman Rear Admiral Kan Deeubol.
The ship on which Miae was held set sail with its human cargo for Thai waters four days after he was taken aboard. Others interviewed by Reuters say they spent up to six weeks in the hold of the ship anchored in the Bay of Bengal. Fourteen armed guards were aboard, said Miae.
The men were forced to squat for much of their journey and sometimes had their hands and feet bound with rope or cloth. The guards routinely beat them with sticks or whipped them with rubber fan belts.
Food was a handful of rice a day, or nothing at all. What little drinking water they received was contaminated with sea water. “We tasted it in our hands and it was salty,” said Muhammed Ariful Islam, 22, a Bangladeshi fruit vendor who was on the same boat as Miae.
A NEW WEAPON
Miae, who left behind his wife and three children, said he was kidnapped. “I never thought I would leave Bangladesh,” he said, sitting in a government shelter in Phang Nga.
That’s a change. In the past, many impoverished Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar and Bangladesh voluntarily boarded small, local fishing boats heading across the Bay of Bengal in the hope of reaching Muslim-majority Malaysia where they could find work. Smuggling, done initially with the consent of those involved, differs from trafficking, which involves entrapment, coercion and deceit.
Thai authorities say the existence of the boats in which people are being held against their will is a response to the more strenuous efforts they are making to combat trafficking. Police operations have led to the rescue of 200 to 300 trafficking victims in the past six months, said Police Major General Thatchai Pitaneelaboot, who is in charge of counter-trafficking operations for immigration police in southern Thailand.
“The traffickers have become more sophisticated and cautious, partly because of the Thai government policy to crack down,” he said.
The country’s military government says it is beefing up cooperation with neighbouring Malaysia and has registered more than one million illegal migrant workers to prevent them falling prey to traffickers. “That’s a big step,” said Sek Wannamethee, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Human rights groups say the growing use of force is because trafficking has become increasingly lucrative, not because of any new measures taken by Thailand. Competition between a rising number of people smugglers explains why they are resorting to kidnapping, said Chris Lewa of the Arakan Project, a Rohingya advocacy group. “There are always five to eight boats waiting in the Bay of Bengal. And the brokers are desperate to fill them.”
Matthew Smith, the executive director of Fortify Rights, an organization that documents human rights violations in Southeast Asia, said the size of the ships being used by traffickers has increased as business is thriving and the trafficking rings are able to operate largely with impunity.
THAILAND’S ROLE
A series of Reuters investigations in 2013 revealed the complicity of some Thai authorities in smuggling Rohingya and in deporting them back into the hands of human traffickers.
Thailand was downgraded in June to the lowest category in the U.S. State Department’s annual ranking of the world’s worst human-trafficking centers, putting it in the same category as North Korea and the Central African Republic. The same month, the Thai military vowed to “prevent and suppress human trafficking,” after having seized power from an elected government on May 22.
Five months later, jungle camps are still holding thousands of people in remote hills near the border with Malaysia, according to testimonies from two recent escapees and a human smuggler.
The men and women aboard the prison ships who reach Thailand are sold for $200 each to trafficking gangs, according to one of two Rohingya men interviewed by Reuters who recently escaped from the trafficking camps.
“The camps are running very smoothly,” the human smuggler, based in southern Thailand, told Reuters.
The smuggler, a long-time Rohingya resident of Thailand who spoke on condition of anonymity, estimated there were up to eight large camps holding 2,000 to 3,000 people at any one time.
The two men who recently escaped described the brutality in the camps. One of them told Reuters he witnessed camp guards gang-raping a woman.
Police Major General Thatchai describes a vast and complex trafficking network in which Bangladeshis and Rohingya kidnap and trade their own people with the help of nationals from Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia and Pakistan. “It’s transnational crime,” Thatchai said.
The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR confirmed the existence of “bigger fishing or cargo vessels” that carry up to 700 passengers across the Bay of Bengal to Thailand – a five- or six-day journey.
This time of year is rush hour for smugglers and traffickers. October marks the start of the four-month “sailing season,” the busiest time for smuggling and trafficking ships plying the Bay of Bengal.
The Thai Navy’s Kan said most of the boats and crews were from Thailand and that patrols against traffickers had been increased in the country’s territorial waters. But Kan said the bigger boats were operating beyond Thailand’s maritime boundaries, in international waters, and so the navy couldn’t move against them.
WHOSE JURISDICTION?
Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), to which Thailand is a signatory, each nation “shall take effective measures to prevent and punish the transport of slaves in ships authorized to fly its flag.” The Navy didn’t respond to queries on why it wasn’t acting against trafficking ships carrying the Thai flag outside its territorial waters.
Robert Beckman, the director of the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore, said the Thai Navy would have jurisdiction over a ship flying a Thai flag in international waters. Under UNCLOS it had a right, not an obligation, to act against someone suspected of engaging in the slave trade, he said. The “uncertain state of the law on these matters,” Beckman added, meant that navies and coast guards were “usually very reluctant to arrest persons outside their territorial waters, especially if they are on ships flying the flag of another state.”
Interviews with two Rohingya, who in early October escaped from a Thai trafficking camp, corroborate the testimonies of the Phang Nga victims. They also suggest the slave ships have been operating for some time.
Mohamad Nobir Noor, 27, says he was living in an impoverished Rohingya settlement in Bangladesh, near the border with Myanmar, when he was taken. One September evening last year, men with knives and sticks forced him onto a small boat that sailed all night to reach a larger vessel moored at sea.
It would eventually hold 550 people, Noor estimated.
They were guarded by 11 men with guns, he said. Most were Thai speakers but one was Rakhine, the majority Buddhist ethnic group in Rakhine State, where communal violence since 2012 has killed hundreds and left 140,000 homeless, most of them Rohingya.
About 30 of those being held were women. “There was one woman who was very beautiful,” said Noor. “The guards took her upstairs. When she came back she was crying and her clothes were wet. She didn’t say anything.”
Drinking water was so scarce that Noor said he drank his own urine to survive. When someone died, a small group of men was permitted to carry the body up on deck. A quick prayer was said and then the bodies were thrown into the water. “For the sharks,” Noor said.
ESCAPE AND MUTINY
Once, Noor tried to escape by jumping overboard during a trip to the toilet. The guards dragged him back in and gave him electric shocks with wires attached to the ship’s generator, he said.
Usually, most passengers were too physically weak or terrified to confront the guards. But, on at least one occasion, desperation trumped fear.
On the morning of June 11, the Bangladesh Coast Guard arrived off the coast of St. Martin’s Island, in Bangladesh waters, to record the bloody aftermath of a high-seas firefight that followed a mutiny aboard a Thai trafficking ship. Desperate for food and water, passengers had overwhelmed the crew. But another trafficking ship quickly arrived and its crew opened fire on the mutineers, said Lieutenant Commander Mahmud of the Bangladesh Coast Guard.
Six people were killed and 30 sustained bullet injuries. Among the injured were “two Thai crew members and one Myanmar human trafficker,” according to a Bangladesh Coast Guard statement.
A record 40,000 Rohingya passed through the Thai camps in 2013, Lewa of the Arakan Project said. They are held captive until relatives pay the ransom to traffickers to release them over the border in Malaysia, she said.
By early 2014, not just Rohingya but other nationalities were also ending up in the trafficking camps. In a series of raids earlier this year, Thai police found hundreds of Bangladeshis, as well as Uighur Muslims from China’s restive northwestern province of Xinjiang.
The camps were also the likely destination of the Bangladeshis rescued in Phang Nga. But something went wrong.
They were brought ashore at the remote island in Phang Nga under cover of darkness. Phang Nga official Jadsada says he believed they were about to be transferred by road to another location, but a tip-off to the authorities compelled their captors to flee.
Local officials have yet to account for another 190 passengers they believe came on the same boat as Miae and Islam from Bangladesh via the Bay of Bengal. Jadsada said they might already be trapped in trafficking camps.
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Ancient ampulla found in the ancient city of Dara
MARDİN
A 1,400-year-old ampulla (a glass or terracotta bottle in Rome) with the figure of Saint Menas has been found in the ancient city of Dara in the southeastern province of Mardin.
The head of the excavations, Kafkas University academic Professor Hüseyin Metin, said the ampulla was used by the pilgrims at that time to carry cosmetic materials such as fragrant holy water or oil.
“Even the fingerprints of the master who made this are on the ampulla. It is a priceless, first class material. This finding revealed that a holy pilgrimage was made from Dara to Egypt. Those who went to Egypt from Dara kept their cosmetic products such as fragrant holy water or oil in this ampulla.”
Saint Means was born in Egypt in the 3rd century and was killed during the Christian massacres in the reign of Diocletian.
Metin, drawing attention to the figure of Saint Menas on the ampulla, stated the story of this is also extremely important. “This artifact found during excavations in Dara is one of its best finds. The find also has a story. Ampulla has a similar feature to today’s fragrance bottles. There is a saint figure in the middle. There are kneeling camels on both sides and cross motifs on the top. These ampullae have standard forms. There are exactly similar examples in excavation sites such as in Africa, Anatolia Europe and some parts of Syria. The ones found in Western Anatolia are called
Western Anatolian ampullae and are quite different from this one,” he said.
As for the story of the saint, Metin said, “We know that the saint was a soldier in the Phrygian Region at the end of the 3rd century, during the reign of Diocletian. However, after the saint became a Christian and Diocletian had persecuted Christians, he left the army and secluded himself. Then the emperor killed him. His body was taken by his followers in the later period and buried in the Abu Mena region of Alexandria. The pilgrims, who visited Abu Aziz Menas, used to bring cosmetic products such as holy water, oil or fragrance in this type of materials. This find in Dara is very important because it had never been found here before.”
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Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Jim Dooge Award
Outstanding Editor Award
Editors of this journal work on a purely voluntary basis without remuneration in line with the not-for-profit philosophy of the EGU.
Chief-executive editors
Theresa Blume
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Catchment hydrology
Ecohydrology
Hillslope hydrology
Vadose Zone Hydrology
Alberto Guadagnini
Dip. di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale
Biogeochemical processes
Groundwater hydrology
Thom Bogaard
Water Resources Section
My research focuses on hydrology aiming to improve our understanding of subsurface water circulation. This mainly related to landslide activity and discharge generation, specializing in quantifying preferential flow and linking it to slope stability and displacement. I have a strong interest in risk management and communication. Furthermore, I use stable water isotopes (2H, 18O)and develop and apply innovative tracers such as DTS using Fibre Optic Cable and synthetic DNA for hydrology.
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Erwin Zehe
Institute of Water Resources and River Basin Management
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT
+49(0)721-60843822
Philippe Ackerer
Laboratory of HYdrology and GEochemistry of Strasbourg
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Global hydrology
Genevieve Ali
Urban Hydrology
Stacey Archfield
My current research is focused on understanding hydrologic change for water resources applications. I also maintain an interest in the use of statistical approaches to characterize hydrologic information at unmonitored locations.
Brian Berkowitz
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
972 8 9342098
Günter Blöschl
Institute for Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering
- President of the EGU: April 2013 – April 2015 - Vice-President of the EGU: April 2015 – April 2016; April 2012 – April 2013 - President of the Hydrological Sciences Division (HS) of the EGU: April 2002 – April 2007 Günter Blöschl’s research interests are understanding and predicting hydrological processes across scales. He is operating the Hydrological Open Air Laboratory (HOAL) that aims at understanding flow and transport processes with high temporal and spatial detail. He is interested in distributed hydrological modelling using remotely sensed snow and soil moisture data, scale issues, climate change impacts on the water cycle, environmental change, socio-hydrology, predictions of floods and droughts and flood risk estimation. His research has been supported by grants from numerous funding agencies. Recently he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to analyse River Flood Changes, the results of which he published in Nature and Science. Günter Blöschl is currently Editor of Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences (HESS) and the President the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, whose synthesis book on Predictions in Ungauged Basins (published by Cambridge) he has edited. During his presidency of the EGU he has been active in linking the geoscience disciplines with each other which has been reflected in themed General Assemblies, see, e.g., https://edition.lammerhuber.at/buecher/a-voyage-through-scales Günter Blöschl is the founder and Director of the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems, a multi-year inter-disciplinary PhD program at the Vienna University of Technology funded by the Austrian Science Fund that focuses on connecting biogeochemical and ecological processes impacting on water quality. Throughout his career, Günter Blöschl has been a strong advocate of bridging the gap between fundamental process understanding and the practice of water resources management.
Damien Bouffard
Lelys Bravo de Guenni
College of Liberal Arts and Science
Hydrometeorology
Manuela Irene Brunner
Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
I am a hydrologist interested in hydrological extremes such as droughts and floods and in changes in water resources. I develop methods for assessing flood and drought hazard by combining multivariate statistical techniques with process knowledge and try to understand climate- and human-induced changes in the water cycle.
Wouter Buytaert
András Bárdossy
Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems
Dr. András Bárdossy is a Professor in Hydrology and Geohydrology in Institut fϋr Wasserbau. He holds a Ph.D. (Mathematics) from ELTE University of Budapest, 1981 and Dr.-Ing. in Civil Engineering from University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 1993. His major research areas are Hydrological modelling, stochastic hydrology, space-time statistics, stochastic simulations, multivariate statistics and general uncertainty quantification. He has supervised 42 PhD theses. He is member of the Scientific Committee IHP-OHP National Program (2005 onwards); Recipient of the Henry Darcy Medal of the European Geosciences Union (2006); member of the Scientific Board of the Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig (2006-2010); Member of the Senate Commission Water of the German Science Foundation (DFG) (2006 - 2010); Member of the Senate Commission Sonderforschungsbereiche of the German Science Foundation (DFG) (2009-2015) and External member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2013 onwards). He has been Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrology (1997 - 2008), Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (2004 onwards), Hydrology Research (2000 - 2012) and Water Resources Research (2003 - 2011). He is Chief Editor of Journal of Hydrology (2008 onwards). He was Visiting Research Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada (1986 – 1987).Since 1995 he is Professor for Hydrology and Geohydrology at the University of Stuttgart, since 2013, he is Research Professor (part time) at the Newcastle University, England and since 2014, he is Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa and since 2019 of the University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia.
Coasts and Estuaries
Jesús Carrera
IDAEA
Jesus Carrera has been Research Professor at CSIC since 2006. Prior to that, he was Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia, where he had been head of the School of Civil Engineering (1992-1994) and Vice-President for Research (1994-1998). His research focuses on Groundwater Hydrology, with emphasis on quantitative modeling and integrative solutions to water related problems. He participates in many advisory committees, including the National Water Council or the plenary of National Research Evaluation Commission. In the process, he directed 30 doctoral theses, and supervised 20 postdoctoral scientists; he published some 200 journal papers (some 16 kcites, IH of 62, according to GS). He has received numerous awards (e.g., Spanish Academy of Sciences Medal, EGU’s Darcy Medal, PSIPW Prize for Water. He is member of Academia Europa and the US National Academy of Engineering .
Miriam Coenders-Gerrits
Wateramanagement
evaporation, interception, transpiration, distributed temperature sensing (DTS), new measuring techniques
Narendra Das
Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carlo De Michele
I’m Professor of Hydrology and Water Resource Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, where I started my career in 1999 as assistant professor. My research interests include: Hydrological extremes: rainfall, snow, floods and droughts, Multivariate extreme value distributions in hydrology; Scaling issues in hydrology; Snow hydrology; Climate change impact on hydrologic cycle; Ecohydrology; Reliability and Resilience of existing water engineering works. My scientific activity includes more than 100 Publications on ISI journals and 1 Book “Extremes in nature: an approach using copulas” (Springer). H-index: 26 (Scopus) with about 3000 citations (Scopus). I’m Editor of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Journal, Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE); and Water. I’m reviewer for several ISI International Journals. Actually I’m the tutor of 5 Ph.D. students, and several MS students. I have coordinated several research projects at national and international levels.
Gerrit H. de Rooij
Helmholtz-Zentrum fuer Umweltforschung - UFZ
Department Bodensystemforschung
- mathematically modeled solute transport in soils (mainly nutrients in humid climates and salts in irrigated soils) - characterized the nature of the solute transport process (important for estimating the degree of spreading of the solute plume) - modelling water flow and solute transport in soils with preferential flow paths due to unstable wetting fronts - developed a sensor to measure the soil water energy status under dry conditions (important to determine the degree of crop water stress and to optimize irrigation) - measured and modeled nutrient transport in agricultural catchments - developed a weather generator that can be used in ares with limited data (and thus for future climate scenarios) - modeled groundwater recharge in semi-arid areas
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Fabrizio Fenicia
Jim Freer
School of Geographical Sciences
+44-(0)117-3318388
Hongkai Gao
Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education of China)
I am a hydrologist motivated by fundamental and applied questions about glacier hydrology, landscape hydrology, ecohydrology, and socio-hydrology. My approach combines field observation, mathematical modelling, and statistical analysis of large sample data that spans hydrological, ecological, meteorological, and geographical sciences. I earned my Ph.D. on hydrology and water resources in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands in 2015, in consultation with prof. dr. ir. Hubert Savenije. In my postdoc research at Arizona State University from 2015 to 2018, I created a physically-based modelling tool to quantify the potential for wetland restoration to restore desired flows (hydrology), and a financial framework for comparing its cost-benefit with heightening an existing dam (economy). From February 2018, I am a research professor on hydrology at East China Normal University (ECNU), in Shanghai. I have conducted many research and teaching activities focusing on the development of more advanced hydrological models. I have published 31 peer-reviewed articles, and 15 papers of them are as first author or corresponding author, e.g. in Scientific Report, GRL, WRR, HESS, HP etc. In professional service, I reviewed around 60 papers for academic journals, e.g. Science. I have been invited to give guest lectures and presentations at many institutes. Also I have lead three research projects as PI, and participated three research projects as an important member, including a funded NSF proposal ($2.5M). I am conducting a research project to develop a modeling framework to couple glacier hydrology model with a bunch of glacier response models to predict streamflow variation in future and quantify their uncertainties, with funding support from NSFC.
Pierre Gentine
Earth Institute
Earth and Environmental Engineering
Anas Ghadouani
Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering
Anas is currently a Professor of Environmental Engineering at The University of Western Australia where he leads a very successful research group (Aquatic Ecology and Ecosystem Studies) focused on the study of a range of topics in water resources (water and wastewater), ecological engineering and environmental engineering, with an emphasis on the development of innovative technologies. Anas was appointed Programme Chair for Environmental Engineering in 2017. Anas has more than twenty years of research and teaching experience in the water area and has led numerous large scale multidisciplinary projects nationally and internationally. He is an expert advisor to a number of organisations and agencies in Australia and internationally. He has also been an editor for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) since 2005. Anas is a founding member and past Executive Director of the $120M Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities (CRCWSC) established in 2012 (2012-2021). This role includes both operation and scientific leadership in this large multidisciplinary research centre, the coordination of the CRCWSC activities within UWA, and the management of relationships with Western Australian CRC industry partners.
Mauro Giudici
Universita degli Studi di Milano
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Roberto Greco
Università degli Studi della Campania
Ingegneria Ciivile
Alexander Gruber
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Yi He
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen
Agrosphere (IBG-3)
Anke Hildebrandt
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Computational Hydrosystems
University degree in water management, PhD in hydrology on survival of marginal ecosystems at the desert fringe. Current research focuses on how plants influence water fluxes within the unsaturated zone, patterns of canopy processes and related soil properties. Field experiments related to biodiversity research.
Matthew Hipsey
School of Agriculture and Environment
I am an Associate Professor in Environmental Science with an interest in developing integrative models of aquatic systems
Markus Hrachowitz
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Department of Watermanagement
Graham Jewitt
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Dept. of Water Science and Engineering
Christa Kelleher
215 Heroy Geology Laboratory
Thomas Kjeldsen
Architecture and Civil Engineering
Computational Hydrosystems (CHS)
Hydrologist by training with a broader interest on data analytics (both model and observations), model development and application to diverse range of water related problems - understanding the impacts of global change on water resources (quantity and quality) through modelling and observational records.
Pilar Llorens
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA)-CSIC
Dominic Mazvimavi
Institute for Water Studies
Hilary McMillan
Matjaz Mikos
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
+386-(0)1-4254380
Mariano Moreno de las Heras
I am a dryland eco-geomorphologist with a strong emphasis on applied research. My work is devoted to the integration of multidisciplinary knowledge derived from the geomorphological, hydrologycal and ecological disciplines for the study of arid, semiarid and subhumid landscape dynamics in the context of both land degradation and landscape rehabilitation. Since 2003, I have participated in a variety of research projects over a broad range of landscapes in Spain, central Australia and SW USA.
Efrat Morin
Roger Moussa
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
Laboratoire d'étude des Interactions entre Sol, Agrosystème et Hydrosystème (LISAH)
Dr Roger Moussa is a Research Director at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research in Montpellier, France. He has been working in the field of hydrology since 1986, and has more than 100 scientific articles. His research focuses on hydrology, hydraulic, geomorphology, environmental sciences, numerical methods, and modelling. He is a guest lecturer at the University of Montpellier and is Associate Editor in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, and Journal of Hydrology.
Insa Neuweiler
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Institute of Fluid Mechanics
Department of Civil Engineering / Inst. of Fluid Mechanics
Diploma degree in Physics, University of Heidelberg, 1995 Doctoral degree in Environmental Sciences (modeling flow in porous media), ETH Zürich, 2000 Postdoc at Imperial College London (petroleum engineering and rock mechanics) until 2003 Dept. of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems, University of Stuttgart until 2008 since then Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Environmental Physics in Civil Engineering, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Natalie Orlowski
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Chair of Hydrology
Expert in isotope (eco-)hydrology.
Nadav Peleg
University of Lausanne
Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics
Laurent Pfister
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
After having obtained a PhD degree in Physical Geography (with a focus on catchment hydrology) at the University of Strasbourg (France) in 2000, I joined the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) as a hydrologist. My efforts have been geared since then to gradually build a lasting research infrastructure, including a dense instrument network for monitoring hydro-meteorological variables across a wide range of clean and mixed geological settings in the Alzette River basin in Luxembourg. My strategy consisted in focusing on the water cycle and interdisciplinary approaches for overcoming the prevailing status quo in our understanding of water source, flowpaths and transit times, flood generation, as well as water pollution fate and transport. This strategy also consisted in building a critical mass of junior and senior researchers, project leaders, technicians and students for covering various complementary fields of expertise (hydrochemistry, geology, remote sensing, environmental modelling, etc.). With progress in hydrological sciences having been largely thwarted by the spatial and temporal complexity of involved processes, I believe the advent of new technologies, interdisciplinary approaches, concepts and models to be key pillars for designing and implementing new strategies for a sustainable management of water resources exposed to global change. Hydrology remaining a field that is measurement limited – even more so in remote areas and/or characterized by cold climates, I have always advocated the exploration of innovative research avenues: e.g. measuring rainfall via microwaves emitted by cell phone relay antennas (in collaboration with telecommunication companies and cities), tracking rapid water flow paths with terrestrial diatoms as biological tracers (an idea since then picked up by fellow research teams elsewhere in Europe), or building a small-sized portable mass spectrometer for measuring stable isotopes of O and H in water.
Monica Riva
Nunzio Romano
Department of Agricultural Sciences - Division of Agricultural, Forest and Biosystems Engineering
Soil Hydrology and Water Resources Management: hydraulic engineering, soil hydrology, soil bioengineering, laboratory and field determination of soil hydraulic properties, parameter optimization, spatial variability of soil properties, development of simulation models for unsaturated flow, scale problems in hydrology, catchment hydrology, irrigation and drainage.
Elham Rouholahnejad Freund
Physics of Environmental Systems
D-USYS
Patricia Saco
Luis Samaniego
Helmholtz Centre - UFZ
Department Computational Hydrosystems
My major research interests focus on modelling and forecasting of droughts and floods, multiscale parameterization of land surface and hydrologic models, parameter estimation and uncertainty analysis, assimilation of remotely sensed products into mHM (www.ufz.de/mhm), stochastic hydrology, precipitation downscaling, and geostatistics.
Hubert H.G. Savenije
Department Water Management
Bettina Schaefli
GIUB
My research focuses on the development of new (mathematical, numerical) methods to model hydrological processes accounting for our latest insights into how nature works and enabling, ultimately, better predictions of how hydrological systems will behave in the future. The hydrologic prediction methods are applied and tested in various climates (especially in Europe) and in various water management contexts (e.g. flood protection, hydropower), with currently a strong focus on high mountainous systems.
Stan Schymanski
Environmental Research and Innovation
I did a master in Geobotany at the University of Freiburg i.Br., Germany, in 2001, followed by a research position at the FVA in Freiburg and a PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Western Australia in 2007. In 2007-2011, I worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany and then until 2017 at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Since August 2017 I am a lead R&T associate and ATTRACT fellow at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. My main area of research relates to Ecohydrology.
Jan Seibert
My main research interest is hydrological modeling at different scales in combination with experimental studies. Current research topics include the use of catchment models for land-use and climate change impact studies, runoff generation processes and topography, uncertainty analysis and risk assessment, the value of different types of data and opportunities for citizen science in hydrology.
+41 (0)44 63 55200
Shraddhanand Shukla
Louise Slater
School of Geography and the Environment
My research focuses on understanding and predicting changes in hydro-climate extremes.
Dimitri Solomatine
Dimitri P. Solomatine has been with the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (Delft, The Netherlands) since 1990, and since 2006 he holds the Hydroinformatics Chair. His research interests include hydroinformatics, integration of data and models, optimization, systems engineering, computational intelligence, decision support, analysis of uncertainty and flood risk management. He is an associate editor of Journal of Hydroinformatics and Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS). He is the member of IWA, EGU and is the co-founder of the sub-division on Hydroinformatics of the European Geosciences Union.
Kerstin Stahl
Environmental Hydrological Systems
Christian Stamm
Studies in biology, University of Zurich (Diploma in Zoology) , PhD in soil physics, ETH Zurich on phosphorous Transport in grassland soils, since 20002 Senior scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) with a strong Focus on water Quality impacted by agriculture and urban Systems. Research activities in Switzerland and developing countries. Strongly involved in Transfer of knowhow to practice (member of several national committees, president of a Swiss environmental NGO (Praktischer Umweltschutz Schweiz Pusch).
0041-58-765 5565
Christine Stumpp
BOKU - University of Natural Ressources and Life Sciences
Institute of Hydraulics and Rural Water Management
Bob Su
Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis
Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis works as Associate professor at the Water Resources Group of the Water management Department at Delft University of Technology. She is an expert in Hydrometeorology: her research focuses on using high-resolution observational datasets to analyze and predict how hydrological systems respond to small-scale rainfall and atmospheric variability.
Adriaan J. (Ryan) Teuling
Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group
Fuqiang Tian
Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources (IHWR)
Department of Hydraulic Engineering
Elena Toth
Nadia Ursino
Universita' di Padova
ICEA
2011 - Associate Professor. University of Padova. Italy. Teaching: Urban hydrology: Water distribution and drainage systems, Subsurface Hydrology, Applied hydraulics. Waste management and Urban runoff management (at Master level) Research topics: Vadose Zone Hydrology. Eco-hydrology and biogeochemical processes Urban Hydrology and Sustainable water management. Soil-vegetation-atmosphere interaction and ecosystem evolution. Fire regime in the Mediterranean type climate, equilibrium and ecosystem shifts.
Pieter van der Zaag
IHE Delft
Ann van Griensven
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Prof. Ann van Griensven, PhD; Research Scientist Ann van Griensven, bio-engineer, obtained her PhD at the Free University of Brussels titled “developments towards integrated water quality modelling at river basin scale” (2002). For her PhD research, she started her activities in developing and applying the ecohydrological modelling software: Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). Afterwards, she worked at the University of California, Riverside, and at the Ghent University. Ann van Griensven is currently professor in the department of hydrology and hydraulic engineering of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Associate Professor of hydrology and water quality in the chair group of hydrology and water resources at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (now IHE-Delft). She has 20 years of research experience in the field of water quality and hydrological modelling, uncertainty analysis of models and optimisation algorithms, leading to up to 100 publications in international journals with peer review, some of them being cited more than hundred times. She is elected Vice President of the international Environmental Modelling Software Society, member of the editorial board of the highly ranked Journal of Environmental Modelling and Software. She has been the organiser of international conferences workshops and short courses. She was involved and taken leading roles in several EU research projects eg CHESS (FP5), Harmoni-CA (FP6; WP2 lead), WETwin (FP7; WP6 lead), AFROMAISON (FP7; WP5 lead), EnviroGrids (FP7), AQUAREHAB (FP7; WP6 lead), MyWater (FP7) and in various Capacity Building and research projects in developing countries. In 2017, she became the Head of Department of the department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering.
Loes van Schaik
Soil physics and land management
Marnik Vanclooster
Universitè catholique de Louvain
Earth and Life Institute / Environmental Sciences
Prof. Dr. Marnik Vanclooster is professor and researcher at Université catholique de Louvain (www.uclouvain.be/marnik.vanclooster). He made his Ph.D. in soil physics and develops research projects in the area of water resources engineering, agricultural water management, and vadose zone hydrology. His major research focus is the study of transport processes of water and chemicals from the agricultural origin in the soil-water continuum. He has 20 years of experience in executing and leading research projects at the national level, at the EU level and elsewhere (in particular the Maghreb and central Africa). He is head of the Environmental Sciences Department of the Earth and Life Institute of the UCL. He was elected chair of the Vadose Zone Division at the European Geophysical Union (2011-2013), is elected chair of the Belgian Commission for the UNESCO – International Hydrologic Program (2013-2016), past member of the editorial board of the ‘Journal of Hydrology’ and the ‘Vadose Zone Journal’, and current member of the editorial board of ‘Agricultural Water Management’ and ‘Hydrology and Earth Sciences Systems Journal (HESS)’.
Daniel Viviroli
University of Zürich
Niko Wanders
Niko has a position as assistant professor hydrological extremes at the department of Physical Geography. Recently, he was awarded a NWO-VENI grant to support his research on the impacts of human reservoir management on drought in large-scale river basins. Furthermore, he is working research related to the topics of drought, climate change, satellite data assimilation, flood forecasting, hyper-resolution modelling, and seasonal forecasting.
Lixin Wang
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Department of Earth Sciences
Albrecht Weerts
Inland Water Systems - Operational Water Management
Albrecht Weerts has a background in hydrology and unsaturated zone physics and data analysis. He has both experience in academia and industry (Unilever R&D Colworth). At present, he holds a position as Expert Hydrology and forecasting at Deltares and at Wageningen university as professor Hydrological Predictability. lbrecht led the Deltares R&D program on “Early Warning” under the strategic research theme Flood Risk. He authored/co-authored more than 45 peer reviewed journal publications
Markus Weiler
Environment and Natural Ressources
A hydrologist by training, Markus Weiler has worked in fields ranging from hydrology, soil science, isotope geochemistry, solute transport to plant physiology using field experiments, statistical approaches and conceptual and numerical modelling. After graduating in Hydrology from the University of Freiburg, Germany, he obtained his PhD in 2001 from the ETH Zürich, Switzerland working on preferential flow processes in soils. After a 2 year post-doc at Oregon State University, USA, he was appointed Assistant Professor and Chair of Forest Hydrology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Since 2008, Markus Weiler is Professor in Hydrology and was director of the Centre of Water Research at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Markus Weiler established a modern stable water isotope laboratory and set-up several hydrological observatories in urban, agricultural and forested catchments. He also founded the MSc programme in Hydrology offered at the University of Freiburg.
Micha Werner
Yue-Ping Xu
Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources
Dr. Yue-Ping Xu received her B.Sc. degree and M.Sc. in Hydraulic Engineering from Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering (currently named Wuhan University), China, and her Ph.D. degree in Water Engineering and Management Group, Civil Engineering, University of Twente, the Netherlands. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher from 2006-2007 in the Department of Civil Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. She joined Zhejiang University in 2007 and is currently a full time professor, Head of Hydraulic Engineering and deputy director of the Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources. Research interests Hydrological extreme analysis Hydrological modeling under uncertainty Climate change impact analysis on water resources and flooding Ensemble flood prediction and forecasting Uncertainty and risk analysis in water management Flood risk assessment Engineering hydrology
Zhongbo Yu
State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering
Xing Yuan
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
School of Hydrology and Water Resources
Dr. Xing Yuan (袁星) is a professor in the School of Hydrology and Water Resources at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST). He received his B.S. degree in Information and Computing Science at Hunan University in 2004, and Ph.D. degree in Meteorology at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP/CAS) in 2009. Before joining NUIST, he worked as a climate modeler at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during 2009-2011, as an associate climate specialist at Princeton University during 2011-2014, and as a professor at IAP/CAS during 2014-2018. He is an editor of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, associate editor of Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, and editorial board of Hydrology Research. Prof. Yuan’s research interests are primarily in the field of hydroclimatology, including land surface modeling, climate change and water cycle, hydroclimate ensemble prediction, and attribution for extremes. He has authored 80+ peer-reviewed journal papers. His research on seasonal hydrological forecasting covers a variety of areas including multi-model ensemble, dynamical and statistical downscaling, and hydrological post-processing. Recently, Prof. Yuan’s group is working on hyper-resolution land surface modeling, decadal hydrological predictability, and attribution and projection of flash drought in the anthropocene. (https://faculty.nuist.edu.cn/yuanxing/zh_CN/index.htm)
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Hyundai Motor Group Reveals Solar Charging System Technology to Power Future Eco-Friendly Vehicles
2018.10.31 09:00:00 No. 16059
● Eco-friendly solar charging system charges a vehicle’s battery using solar panels on its roof or body, improving mileage and reducing CO2 emissions
● Translucent solar roof is world’s first technology for internal combustion engine vehicles
SEOUL, Oct. 31, 2018 – Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors have today announced plans to introduce solar charging technology on selected Hyundai Motor Group vehicles. Electricity-generating solar panels will be incorporated into the roof or the hood of vehicles, and will support internal combustion, hybrid and battery electric vehicles with additional electrical power, increasing fuel efficiency and range.
The solar charging technology is being developed to support the vehicle’s main power source, improving mileage and reducing CO2 emissions. It can charge batteries of not just eco-friendly vehicles, including electric and hybrid vehicles, but also of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, thereby improving fuel efficiency.
Hyundai Motor Group is developing three types of solar roof charging systems: The first-generation silicon solar roof system, the second-generation semi-transparent solar roof system, and the third-generation lightweight solar-lid on the vehicle’s body.
The first-generation solar roof system, which will be applied to hybrid models, includes a structure of mass-produced silicon solar panels that are mounted on an ordinary roof. This system can charge 30 to 60 percent of the battery per day, depending on the weather condition and the environment.
The second-generation semi-transparent solar roof system will be applied to vehicles with internal combustion engines, for the first time in the world. Differentiated from the first-generation system, the second-generation system provides transmissive panel options, also satisfying consumers who desire a sense of openness. The semi-transparent solar panels are applied to a panoramic sunroof, maintaining transparency whilst charging an electric vehicle’s battery or an additional battery mounted on an internal combustion engine vehicle.
Applying solar charging systems to internal combustion engine vehicles will contribute to the increase in vehicle exports, by enabling vehicles to adhere to global-scale environmental laws that regulate CO2 emissions.
The third-generation lightweight solar-lid system, currently in the process of pilot study for applying to eco-friendly vehicle models, includes a structure that mounts solar panels on a bonnet and roof combined, in order to maximize energy output.
The solar charging system is composed of a solar panel, a controller, and a battery. Electricity is produced when solar energy from the sun touches the solar panel’s surface, which converts this by using photons of light from the sun and then creating the electron-hole pairs in silicon cells to generate solar electricity.
When a 100W solar panel is equipped, in 1 Sun standards (Summer noon, 1000 W/㎡ intensity of radiation) it produces 100Wh of energy per hour. In the controller, Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), which controls voltage and current to increase efficiency of the electricity collected in the solar panel, and source transformation take place.
The electricity from this process is transformed to the standard voltage by the controller, then stored in the battery or utilized to decrease loads of a vehicle’s Alternating Current (AC) generator. Hyundai Motor Group took not only efficiency but also design into account while developing the solar charging system.
“In the future, various types of electricity generating technologies, including the solar charging system, will be connected to vehicles. This will enable them to develop from a passive device that consumes energy to a solution that actively generates energy,” said Jeong-Gil Park, Executive Vice President of Engineering Design Division of Hyundai Motor Group., who has developed this technology. “The paradigm of the vehicle owner will shift from that of a consumer to an energy prosumer.”
Hyundai Motor Group will launch the first generation of this technology into its vehicles after 2019 to help meet global regulations targets and improve vehicle fuel efficiency.
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ABOUT HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP
Hyundai Motor Group is a global corporation that has created a value chain based on automobiles, steel, and construction and includes logistics, finance, IT and service. With about 250,000 employees worldwide, the group’s automobile brands include Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. Armed with creative thinking, cooperative communication and the will to take on all challenges, we are working to create a better future for all.
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