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Solutions Manual to Chemistry
A Fundamental Overview of Essential Principles (First Edition)
David R. Khan and Jason C. Yarbrough
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Solutions Manual to Chemistry: A Fundamental Overview of Essential Principles is a companion workbook to Chemistry: A Fundamental Overview of Essential Principles. The original problems from the textbook are included in full, along with detailed explanations that reference the related sections of the main textbook.
This solutions manual can also be used as a source of additional problems to supplement any basic chemistry text or course. It can also serve as an excellent reference resource for multidisciplinary researchers as the manual covers essential concepts in chemistry.
Jason C. Yarbrough is an assistant professor of chemistry at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, where he has served on the faculty since 2014. After earning a Ph.D. in chemistry from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas in 2003, Dr. Yarbrough went on to conduct post-doctoral research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Following this, Dr. Yarbrough worked in the polymer industry for several years before joining the faculty at West Texas A&M University. He holds multiple patents and his writings can be found in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Macromolecules and Inorganic Chemistry, to name a few.
David R. Khan is an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, where he has served as a member of the faculty since 2009 and currently serves as the chair of the Department of Chemistry and Physics. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida in 2007 before going on to post-doctoral research with Dr. Edna Cukierman’s laboratory at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Dr. Khan’s writings have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Biology and Drug Design, as well as BMC Cancer.
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Academy Awards (Oscars)
The Academy Awards, informally known as The Oscars, are a set of awards given annually for excellence of cinematic achievements.
The Academy Awards, informally known as The Oscars, are a set of awards given annually for excellence of cinematic achievements. The Oscar statuette is officially named the Academy Award of Merit and is one of nine types of Academy Awards. Organized and overseen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the awards are given each year at a formal ceremony.
The awards were first given in 1929 at a ceremony created for the awards, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood. Over the years that the award has been given, the categories presented have changed; currently Oscars are given in more than a dozen categories, and include films of various types. As one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world, the Academy Awards ceremony is televised live in more than 100 countries annually. It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media.
While the Oscar is under the ownership of the recipient, it is essentially not on the open market. Since 1950, the statuettes have been legally encumbered by the requirement that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for US$1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette. Academy Awards not protected by this agreement have been sold in public auctions and private deals for six-figure sums.
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Spencer: A Moving Portrayal of a Mind on the Edge
December 16, 2021 • twssmagazine
Sarah Lewis’s review of Spencer considers the cinematic portrayal of Princess Diana’s inner complexities and struggles
Content Warning: Self-harm, eating disorders and suicide
Kristen Stewart stars as Princess Diana in Spencer, a revision of the story of Lady Diana boldly crafted by director Pablo Larraín. More psychological drama than a historical biopic, Spencer is a dark and intense depiction of the latter stages of Diana’s marriage to Prince Charles. Set at the Sandringham estate from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day, the film’s three-day time frame creates a claustrophobic set-up, as Diana struggles to make it through the festive period with her royal in-laws. As the critically acclaimed director of Jackie (2016), Larraín has tackled historical material before, but here fact is secondary to the dramatised mental state of Diana. She is shown to be slipping into a depressive psychosis whilst struggling with an aggressive eating disorder.
The intense creative choices made to represent her psyche may come as a surprise to viewers, who may have expected a more plot-heavy narrative, perhaps in the style of The Crown. Most notably, a pearl necklace becomes a sinister focal point, which Diana explains was given as a gift from Charles, who also gave the same necklace to Camilla Parker Bowles, the infamous ‘other woman’. As she sits down to dinner, Diana imagines crunching on one of the pearl beads, which she lets fall in her soup. It is later torn from her neck in a moment of freedom.
Compared to other films and adaptations that have drawn on the Diana story, such as Helen Mirren’s The Queen (2006), Spencer positions Diana directly at the centre of the plot, letting almost every other character dissolve into the background. The extended royal family are reduced to props, mostly silent at dinner whilst Diana experiences her mental turmoil. Even the Queen only has one real line, before disappearing into the grounds with her dogs. Much of the remaining screen time is given to staff, especially Diana’s chief dresser, Maggie. Some attention is given to Charles, as a scowling visual reminder of their failing marriage. But most compellingly, much of Diana’s dialogue takes place between her and her children, where a young Harry and William take centre stage. The emphasis is on Diana as mother as she strives for a warm family life in contrast to the cold traditions of a royal Christmas. For instance, she secretly gives the boys presents to open on Christmas Day, subverting the traditional Christmas Eve gift giving.
Diana revisits happy memories of childhood throughout her stay at Sandringham, beginning as she glimpses the abandoned neighbouring estate Park House where she grew up. Despite being coined ‘the people’s princess’, this seeks to remind audiences Diana really isn’t one of the people. Abandoned and decaying as it is, it is clear the Spencer family is one accustomed to grandeur. And whilst a capability for suffering isn’t reduced by great wealth and privilege, seeing Diana rudely address less favoured staff, and in one case misname a servant, does create a slight tension for the viewer to navigate. At one point, as she reaches breaking point in her ensuite bathroom, I couldn’t help noticing just how nice the shower was. I’m deliberately missing the point here, in that despite the luxury, Sandringham house remained a cold and unhappy place for Diana where she wasn’t made welcome. And in many ways the Diana story has always been a palpably anti-royalist one. In light of this, to view the film as a dramatisation, and not a directly historical representation of Royal dynamics, is probably for the best.
Creative liberties are boldly taken throughout the film, not least of all with dresser Maggie’s confession of love to Diana, designed to cheer her up after a particularly aggressive depressive spell. But the most effective and surreal element comes in the acute presentations of Diana’s troubled mind. She is shown to be reading a history of Anne Boleyn, which inspires the mystical appearance of a historically dressed Boleyn, visible only to her. Boleyn materialises sometimes with the face of Diana, or Stewart, and often at times of heightened crisis. At one point the ghostly figure prevents Diana from throwing herself down a flight of stairs in Park House. This symbolic royal figure was, like Diana, also famed for her grisly end and her unfaithful husband, and was notably vilified within the walls of the royal court. The film’s symbolic power is strong from the start, with an early shot of roadkill, a pheasant belonging to the Sandringham grounds, casting an ominous shadow over the festive proceedings.
As documented in The Crown, Diana’s eating disorder is also a major focus, a sombre counterpoint to the elaborate food preparations taking place over the Christmas period. This is paired with moments of graphic self-harm and threats of suicide, which are well-handled within the film’s tight timeframe and domestic setting.
Undoubtedly Kristen Stewart makes the film the success that it is, transformed and almost unrecognisable with Diana’s trademark hair and clothes. We are with her throughout as a viewer, in her mind and her bedroom, whilst the rest of the royal family is downstairs, two courses into their eight-course feast. By its conclusion, Spencer succeeds in representing an internal struggle in a bold, sometimes scary fashion. The result is a moving and highly impactful representation of a now much mythologised historical narrative, with a lonely woman at its centre, who is merely trying to survive.
Artwork by Amelia Elson.
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I Don’t Want to Party Anymore
Spiking in Clubs: More Security isn’t Making us More Safe
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Virginia Motor Speedway | USA 100 back on 2013 Schedule; New Date and Sanctioning by Ultimate Super Late Models
Jamaica, VA – Officials of Virginia Motor Speedway announced at the Motorsports 2013 show in Oaks, PA on Saturday that the USA 100 will return to the 2013 schedule with a new date and sanctioning body.
The 34th Annual USA 100 will now be contested on Saturday May 18th and be sanctioned by the Ultimate Super Late Model Series. The event will pay $10,000 to win and continue with the fan friendly format of two twenty-five lap qualifying races to make it into the fifty lap “A” main.
“The USA 100 is one of the longest running late model events in the country and we felt it was important to keep the tradition going; after discussions with Ernie Shelton the owner of the USA 100 and Stan Lester of the Ultimate Super Late Model Series a deal was struck to bring it back for 2013,” commented track owner Bill Sawyer.
The USA 100 will take the place of the previously scheduled Ultimate Super Late Model sanctioned Mid-Atlantic Spring Championship on Saturday May 18th. This will be the third year that the series has sanctioned an event at the ½ mile speed plant.
“It’s an honor to be a part of one of the county’s longest running races. I appreciate Ernie Shelton, Bill Sawyer and the staff of Virginia Motor Speedway for intrusting the Ultimate Super Late Model Series with sanctioning this time honored event; I look forward to many successful years ahead,” commented Stan Lester Owner and Founder of the Ultimate Super Late Model Series.
This will be the eighth year that the USA 100 will be contested at Virginia Motor Speedway. In the previous seven years there has yet to be a repeat winner. Ernie Shelton, with sanctioning from the Mid-Atlantic Championship Series (MACS), first brought the event to the speedway in 2006.
“This takes us back to our roots by having a regional touring series sanction the event and I looking forward to working with the Ultimate Super Late Model Series this year; as I have stated in the past the perfect home for the USA 100 is and will always be Virginia Motor Speedway,” commented Ernie Shelton.
More details about the event will be released at a later date.
Bill Sawyer’s Virginia Motor Speedway, an ASA Member Track, is a 1/2-mile, dirt oval. The track is located on U.S. Route 17, eight miles north of Saluda, VA and 25 miles south of Tappahannock, VA in Jamaica, VA. The speedway is just a short drive from Richmond, Fredericksburg, Southern Maryland and the Hampton Roads area.
To learn more about Bill Sawyer’s Virginia Motor Speedway and its 2013 schedule of events, fans may call the Speedway office at (804) 758-1VMS or visit the track’s website at www.vamotorspeedway.com.
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The Big 12 weighs its next move: Expansion exploration, the Texas-Oklahoma problem and Bob Bowlsby’s future
By Max Olson Aug 25, 2021 288
Now that the alliance between the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 is formally underway, it’s time once again to ask: What will the Big 12 do next?
Sources in the conference continue to believe there’s a road to long-term survival for the Big 12. There are obstacles littered along the way, but the larger challenge going forward hasn’t changed much. It’s still a matter of getting all eight remaining members on the same page and arriving at the same conclusion about their future.
Thanks to the three-conference alliance, it’s becoming more likely those eight Big 12 members are going to be stuck together for now. The pact doesn’t preclude those leagues from eventually deciding to add new members. But the main threat right now to the Big 12 is the Pac-12. By the end of this week, we’ll know whether it wishes to pursue expansion.
While Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff has floated that possibility publicly, he also acknowledged on Tuesday that the formation of the alliance achieves “a lot of what we wanted” when his conference first began looking at expansion. He also preached the importance of bringing stability to the college athletics landscape. Raiding the Big 12 doesn’t accomplish that.
“We want and need the Big 12 to do well,” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said. “The Big 12 matters in college athletics. The Big 12 matters in Power 5 athletics.”
Still, even the slightest possibility of the Pac-12 adding two or four schools gives hope to the members of the Big 12 that have been trying to explore potential exit strategies. It’s a door that hasn’t yet been slammed shut.
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Home/Crime/“A white man lynched a Black man over a white woman,” Jealous boyfriend killed man, kept the body home for a week and showed it off to friends, sentenced
“A white man lynched a Black man over a white woman,” Jealous boyfriend killed man, kept the body home for a week and showed it off to friends, sentenced
Alex Tuhell Send an email December 18, 2021
Jealousy is something that brings people to insanity, something that probably can’t be controlled in most of the situations and something that pushes people make the worst mistakes in their lives. Only those who have experienced a relationship with a jealous partner know what it really feels like to be under constant pressure, every single moment of your life.
Although the easiest way to prevent troubles with this type of partners is simply ending a relationship, in many cases people will continue their toxic relationships. Unfortunately, almost every single time at one point, a jealous partner will do something stupid and embarrassing.
So was the case with the now 32-year-old S. Vogel who won’t be able to see the light of the day once again after he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of a parole earlier this week. Vogel was found guilty over several charges in the fatal incident in 2020 when he killed a man because he had allegedly been talking to his girlfriend.
According to the court documents, the victim in the “cold-blooded” case was identified as the 44-year-old M. Williams. Firefighters and deputies responded to a call about a ditch fire in Iowa on Sept. 16, 2020. Shortly after their arrival, fire crews easily realized that a human body was burning. Once the authorities identified that the victim was Williams, they arrested Vogel two days later as the main suspect in his death because he had allegedly been talking to his girlfriend about murdering Williams.
However, the initial autopsy results had shown that Williams was killed at least four days before the fire crews responded at the scene where he was set on fire. Investigators appointed to the case found out that Vogel lured Williams to his home and then beat him over the head with a blunt object several times. He then hanged Williams by the neck until he was dead, a medical examiner reportedly testified. Strangulation was ruled the official cause of death.
During the court process, at least two people testified in court that Williams then kept the dead body in the basement of his home where he allegedly showed off the body to other people, mostly friends, for almost a week until he decided to dump to body in a ditch and setting it on fire.
The investigators were also able to determine that Vogel was not alone in the case. According to multiple evidence, Vogel’s mother and her boyfriend knew about everything and they even helped the killer to transport the body from his house and burn the body. Both of them were charged with one count each of abuse of a corpse, destruction of evidence and accessory after the fact.
Authorities believe the only motive behind the incident remains the fact that Williams had allegedly spoken to Vogel’s girlfriend. Nothing suggested that the murder was racially motivated, but Williams’ family members continue to claim that the attack was racially motivated, calling the murder a modern day “lynching.”
“It’s putting that rope around his neck and holding it for over six minutes, causing his death, is the definition of a hanging. A lynching,” Williams’ aunt, P. Terrell told IPR. “A white man lynched a Black man over a white woman.”
The judge appointed to the case multiple times referred to Vogel as “cold-blooded” and he said that he treated the victim like an animal. The judge was happy with the sentence Vogel got saying that life in prison without the possibility of a parole under the Iowa law is an appropriate punishment for people like him.
“You treated M. Williams like he was not human,” Judge reportedly said. “You clubbed him. Strangled him to death. Kept him in your basement like an animal that you would kill. You wrapped up his body, set it on fire. And you dehumanized M. Williams. And Mr. Williams did not deserve that.”
Vogel was convicted last month on one count each of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse. He was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The other suspects in the case have their court appearances scheduled in the upcoming period.
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Cavalry Museum (Museo de Caballería)
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The Mexican Cavalry Museum (Museo de Caballeria) is one of a number of Mexico City museums operated by the Mexican Military. This one is on the site of the former National Teachers College.
That institution operated training teachers, beginning in 1910 when it opened. The Revolution saw it increasingly used for Military training. With the end of the Revolutionary period, the Teachers college closed and the facilities were converted completely to serving the needs of the Military for training officers. The riding school, opened in the 1920s, had been on the grounds of the historica Nuestra Señora de la Merced de las Huertas Church.
The French-inspired building architectural style, a very common style during the Porfiriato period. The school had been inaugurated in 1910. In 1920, it became The Military College and the facilities were adapted to these needs including the Cavalry riding school, where the museum is today. It served as the Colegio Militar from 1926 to 1976 when the new facilities opened in Tlalpan. The Calvary Museum opened in April, 2006.
The museum is just one of those operated by the military. The school also occupied the Bethlemitas site in the city center, which is also an Army and Air Force Museum. The Cavalry Museum collection includes military items and paintings from the periods of the Spanish conquest through to today. Historic weapons, riding equipment, and portraits of famous generals, including some of Ignacio Allende, Juan Aldama, Mariano Escobedo, Porfirio Diaz, Francisco Villa, and Emiliano Zapata are all here.
Six large galleries feature the following historical time periods:
• Spanish Conquest
• Independence War
• The Reform War
• The French intervention and 2nd empire
• Porfirio Diaz and the Mexican Revolution
• Today’s Cavalry
Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Guests can arrive from either Metro Colegio Militar or from Metro Popotla.
Nearest Venues
Av. México-Tacuba Campo Militar 1-B, Col. Popotla.
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Nearest at 0.26 kms.
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Madoonga Station U.F.O.
November 22, 2020 ~ Jessica Barratt
As we have been requested in our home State of Victoria to notify the Air Force of any “Flying Saucers” sighted we presume the case to be the same here.
John Morris, 29 April 1955 [NAA: A705, 114/1/197 Page 17 of 210]
The night was clear on Thursday, 28 April 1955. John Morris got up at about 11:15 pm and left his quarters at Madoonga Station near Cue. An orange blur in the distance caught his attention. He called out to his friend, Gary Martin, to look at it. Gary got out of bed and, by the time he got to where John was standing, it had stabilised. An object with orange lights was hovering in the sky. They believed that what they were looking at was a flying saucer.
Upon seeing the object, they fetched a pair of binoculars so they could get a closer look. They described it as being saucer-shaped with an orange glow emitting from three spots. For three to four minutes, they stood and watched it in the night sky. It moved slowly, and they did not believe it was a comet or a fireball.
It had a definate [sic] shape, and I could see, thru the binoculars, what appeared to be portholes. No known vehicle was travelling on the property at that time to cause any reflections.
Both were shaken by what they witnessed. After it vanished into the horizon, Gary sat down to write what they saw. He began by stating that they observed “…a strange glowing object…” in a westerly direction that moved towards them and then returned the way it came.
On the following day, John copied Gary’s observations in a letter addressed to The Intelligence Branch of the Royal Australian Air Force at Pearce. To help illustrate what they saw, they each drew a small picture in the letter.
What Gary Martin and John Morris saw. The crosses indicate where the orange glow was emitting. Courtesy of the National Archives of Australia.
Upon receipt of the letter, Flight Lieutenant Hartley wrote to the Commissioner of Police in Perth. He told them of John and Gary’s report and requested that a constable in Cue investigate the matter and ask them to complete a form. He noted that if other witnesses saw the phenomenon, then the constable should also collect their statements.
John and Gary answered all the questions apart from 25 and 26, which were completed by the Royal Australian Air Force. Number 25 asked: “Location of any air traffic in the vicinity at the time of sighting.” The answer was ‘nil.’ Number 26 asked: “Location of any meteorological stations in the general area.” The nearest stations were Carnarvon and Geraldton, respectively 240 and 190 miles away from Madoonga Station.
Officer Gilchrist questioned other residents in the area, but there were no other witnesses of the phenomenon. He returned the forms to Perth and, on 27 June 1955, the Acting Commissioner sent a letter to the Royal Australian Air Force, at Pearce.
From Pearce, Flight Lieutenant Hartley sent John Morris’s letter and the forms to the Department of Air at the Victoria Barracks in Melbourne to add to their records.
As part of his duties, Officer Gilchrist suggested to John that he forward any photographs or diagrams of the object to the base at Pearce. It took him a few months, but on 8 July 1955, he wrote another letter. It began, “You will remember I wrote your department concerning a ‘flying saucer’ sighted by my friend Gary Martin and myself on the night of April 28, 1955, here at Madoonga Station.”
John had taken the trouble to draw a neat, detailed diagram of the object, with each part labelled to provide additional explanation. He had also taken a photograph of the scene and explained that at the time of witnessing the object, neither of them had “thought of attempting to use a camera” as they “were so amazed.“
A drawing of the object John Morris and Gary Martin saw. Courtesy of the National Archives of Australia.
He explained that he and Gary were standing in the foreground and that their quarters were to the right. The ‘flying saucer’ had hovered over the trees in the background, and he had marked the approximate position on the photograph with a cross.
This photograph might give you some idea of the distance between the object and ourselves on that night.
John Morris, 8 July 1955 [NAA: PP474/1, 5/5/AIR Page 39 of 112]
A photograph taken outside John and Gary’s quarters at Madoonga Station. A faint cross marks where they saw the object. Courtesy of the National Archives of Australia.
Flight Lieutenant Hartley thanked him for taking the time to send the drawing and the photograph. Once again, he sent both documents to the Department of Air in Melbourne. The information eventually formed part of two files relating to unusual aerial sightings and reports on flying saucers. Within the files, there was no explanation or theory as to what John Morris and Gary Martin saw that night in the outback near Cue.
National Archives of Australia; [RAAF, Royal Australian Airforce, Pearce] Intelligence – unusual aerial sightings [UFO]; NAA: PP474/1, 5/5/AIR
National Archives of Australia; [Intelligence – General] – Reports on flying saucers [UFO’s] and other aerial objects – October 1953 – April 1955 [2.5cms]; NAA: A705, 114/1/197
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The Last Kingdom Season 5: Right here is what you need to recognize
In April 2020, The Last Kingdom returned with season four, where Uhtred of Bebbanburg was to fight all the obstacles…
The Last Kingdom Season 5: Below is what you need to recognize
In April 2020, The Last Kingdom returned with season four, where Uhtred of Bebbanburg was to fight all the obstacles to take his house back. The capacity for future seasons will be wonderful, with plenty more of Bernard Cornwell’s resource product. Below is whatever that you need to learn about Season 5 of The Last Kingdom.
What is the revival condition of The Last Kingdom Season 5? Is it coming back to Netflix for followers?
Mentioning the renewal condition for Season 5 of The Last Kingdom, Nigel Marchant, Exec Producer of the Carnival Films, claimed that we are truly pleased that this series has been a remarkable success throughout the globe. Several individuals have been captivated by this series.
In addition, Nigel Marchant states the last season of The Last Kingdom was a significant success, so we are quite thrilled to draw out Season 5 of this series to Netflix. As everybody understands that The Last Kingdom has a big fanbase, so we are delighted to provide users with an opportunity to watch Uhtred going to the next level. So, this implies that The Last Kingdom has been restored for Season 5.
Talking to Variety, Alexander Dreymon claimed that the fans of this series are quite remarkable and have been succulent to understand about the next season. He also says that we never ever did so much advertising yet somehow managed whatever and all thanks to the followers of The Last Kingdom. They all are quite encouraging as well as passionate also.
Fortunately, Season 5 of The Last Kingdom involves Netflix, yet the unfortunate one is that this is most likely to be the last installation. This implies that Season 5 of The Last Kingdom will certainly be the last.
Launch Date: When will Season 5 of The Last Kingdom best on Netflix?
Seasons 1 to 4 has currently shown up on Netflix. If you haven’t enjoyed them yet, then go and enjoy them.
The initial two seasons premiered on the BBC first and hit the screens in October 2015 and March 2017. Afterwards, the show was purchased by Netflix and all three seasons aired in November 2018 and four on April 26, 2020. With all this, it is really hard to anticipate when Season 5 will certainly premiere on Netflix.
Behind the scenes of getting the perfect shot…#TheLastKingdom #Season4 #BehindTheScenes pic.twitter.com/Cj04QHSRQi
— The Last Kingdom (@TheLastKingdom) November 2, 2020
First, it was believed that Season 5 would premiere in April 2021. But no, it did not premiere in April. But there is an opportunity to get here on Netflix in mid-late 2021, but there is no verification.
The reckoning is approaching…
It's official! We're all back shooting #Season5 of #TheLastKingdom.
Thank you all so much for your continued support and we'll have more exciting content to share with you soon! pic.twitter.com/llAvG0wptK
— The Last Kingdom (@TheLastKingdom) April 30, 2021
Who is anticipated to be the cast in Season 5 of The Last Kingdom?
It has been discovered that cast participants are not most likely to return for Season 5.
Ian Hart’s Father Beocca will certainly not be returning after he drew the dying breath. Marchant says that it is really difficult to lose Ian Hart, he is such a wonderful actor. We also need to say goodbye to Toby Regbo’s Aethelred. Cnut, as well as Steapa, also lost their lives. One person who will return in the Season 5 of The Last Kingdom is Alexander Dreymon as Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
Chatting with Backstage regarding this duty, Alexander Dreymon claimed that the great difficulty is maintaining this personality fascinating and alive. Actor Adrian Schiller confessed to Fansided’s Winter months is Coming that his character is most likely to go out quickly.
What will take place in Season 5 of The Last Kingdom? What is the plot of Season 5?
Netflix has released an official summary informing followers what they can enjoy in Season 5 of The Last Kingdom. Uhtred is most likely to understand that his fate is more than simply Bebbanburg: it is connected to the future of England itself. Charged with training King Edward’s first-born boy Aethelstan, the perception of Uhtred is going to have an even higher pressure. However, to accomplish destiny, Uhtred will have to face many things like facing down his best enemy and suffering the best loss.
The collection is additional most likely to adapt Cornwell’s Saxon Stories, so we can anticipate that the 5th season will certainly unpack the occasions of Warriors of the Tornado and also The Fire Bearer.
The run-through of Warriors of the Storm reads as adheres to, Uhtred of Bebbanburg now regulates north Mercia from Chester’s city, and forces are rising against him. Despite the threat of event, King Alfred’s son Edward and child are extremely interested in leaving for the safety of their fortifications.
In summary, for The Fire of Bearer, Uhtred of Bebbanburg will have the last chance to have his residence back, which his evil cousin still occupies. The fate is inevitable, and the enemies Uhtred has actually made from several years incorporate to distract him from his dream of recapturing Bebbanburg and Britain’s tranquillity.
As per the records, it has been located that there are two more books, nine and 10, titled War of the Wolf and Sword of Kings. If even more individuals certainly tune in, then there are much more chances The Last Kingdom will come with the 6th season so, if you intend to allow this to take place after that, watch the 5th season soon after the release.
When can individuals view the trailer for Season 5 of The Last Kingdom?
It has been observed that many trailers can be found in the month when the season is heading out to be premier. So, after we get to know about the exact date for the launch, we will certainly have a better idea regarding the date for launching the trailer.
Will there be a sixth season of The Last Kingdom?
As mentioned above, Season 5 is the last instalment of The Last Kingdom. However, it also listens to that if even more individuals listen to enjoy Season 5, there are chances of a sixth season. Thus, it is extremely early to predict whether the fans will see the 6th season for The Last Kingdom or not.
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Okay, But Will Plan B Actually Work? Here’s What The Experts Say
Written by thehitnetwork on December 9, 2021
Plan B is coming into force from Friday December 10, with new coronavirus restrictions introduced in a bid to slow down the spread of the Omicron variant.
Case numbers of the Covid variant are doubling at least every three days, according to Imperial College London’s Professor Neil Ferguson.
But will the new measures be enough to stop the spread? And if not, where do we go next? We asked the experts.
What is Plan B?
The government has brought back guidance to work from home if you can and extended the face mask rules to include most indoor venues, such as theatres and cinemas.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said exceptions to wearing masks include when eating, drinking, exercising or singing.
Mandatory vaccine passports are also being brought in for larger events and nightclubs, so that people can prove they are double-jabbed. Johnson added that a negative lateral flow test will also be sufficient proof too.
Venues include those indoors that are unseated with more than 500 people, unseated outdoor venues with more than 4,000 people and any venue hosting more than 10,000 people.
What do the experts think of Plan B Measures?
Professor Keith Neal, emeritus professor of the epidemiology of infectious diseases, University of Nottingham, said “vaccine passports which include self-reported lateral flow tests are highly flawed”.
“Self testing will not achieve the same level of sampling quality from the throat compared to an experienced swab taker,” he added. “People can report a positive result as negative or just report that they have done the test using the number on the strip without even doing the test. Lateral flow tests will miss a percentage of infectious cases.”
Dr Simon Williams, a senior lecturer in people and organisation at Swansea University, was also sceptical about the impact of vaccine passes.
“The jury is still out on Covid passes. A recent evidence review by the Scottish government did not find evidence of the vaccine passport scheme’s effectiveness in terms of reducing transmission, although it did find ‘a relatively slight impact on uptake of vaccinations,’” he said.
However, Dr Williams was far more optimistic about the working from home measures.
“Aside from vaccines, working from home – for those who can – is one of the most important interventions to reduce transmission,” he said. “Data suggests that far fewer of us are working from home this winter compared to last, and so there is potential to significantly reduce the total amount of contact currently taking place. ”
Professor Neil Greenberg, professor of defence mental health at King’s College London, is concerned that the wellbeing of the nation has been overlooked in Plan B.
“It is evident that the understandable focus on whether Omicron is more deadly or not appears to have missed the potential mental health impacts of moving to Plan B,” he said. “Whilst the new measures are not in themselves overly restrictive, many people are likely to fear the uncertainty of the future now more than ever. ”
Will Plan B Work?
Professor Paul Hunter, a professor in medicine at UEA, thinks so.
“Yes, Plan B will have some impact on slowing the growth in cases, but it will not be enough to stop it,” he told HuffPost UK. “Indeed, with the rate of growth we have now, I doubt going back to the restrictions in February would stop the growth.
“If we get boosters out quickly and if we can manage to get antiviral drugs out to people who need them effectively and efficiently then we may be able to ride this out, though that is not easy.”
What Will Plan C and D potentially look like?
In October, Sky News reported that the government had discussed a Plan C. Professor Lucy Chappell, chief scientific adviser at the DHSC said “[Plan C] has been proposed – the name has been mentioned,”
However, a government spokesman said the focus was on “Plan A and B. ”
“As we have repeatedly made clear, there is no plan C. We knew the coming months would be challenging which is why we set out our Plan A and Plan B for autumn and winter last month,” they said.
Professor Hunter says he really doesn’t know what’s next. “The big uncertainty is how much this infection will spread in the boosted more vulnerable people and how much protection you get against severe disease,” he said. “I guess any further tightening of control measures would be around closing entertainment venues, but I hope it doesn’t come to that. I really cannot see school closures being a good idea.”
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Marin Alsop is an inspiring and powerful voice, a conductor of vision and distinction who passionately believes that “music has the power to change lives.” She is recognized internationally for her innovative approach to programming and audience development, for her deep commitment to education, and for advocating for music’s importance in the world.
The 2019-20 season marked Alsop’s first as Chief Conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, which she leads at Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, and on recordings, broadcasts and tours. As Chief Conductor and Curator of Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, she curates and conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s summer residencies, formalizing her long relationship with Ravinia, where she made her debut with the orchestra in 2002. Appointed in 2020 as the first Music Director of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival (NOI+F), a program of the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, she will lead a newly formed conductor academy and conduct multiple concerts each June with the NOI+F Philharmonic.
Her outstanding success as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) beginning in 2007 resulted in two extensions of her tenure until 2021, and she has since been named the Music Director Laureate of the orchestra. During her time as Music Director, Alsop led the BSO on its first European tour in thirteen years and created several bold initiatives, including OrchKids, for the city’s most disadvantaged young people. At the end of 2019, following a seven-year tenure as Music Director, she became Conductor of Honour of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), where she will return to conduct major projects each season.
Alsop has conducted many of the world’s major orchestras, including the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Budapest Festival and Royal Concertgebouw orchestras, Filarmonica della Scala, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and she has long-standing relationships with the London Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO). Further highlights of the 2019–20 season include guest appearances with the Orchestre de Paris, Danish National Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In the United States, she regularly conducts The Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and leads multiple projects each year at the Ravinia Festival.
Alsop’s extensive discography has led to multiple Gramophone awards and includes highly praised Naxos cycles of Brahms with the LPO, Dvořák with the BSO, Prokofiev with OSESP, and further recordings for the Decca, Harmonia Mundi, and Sony Classical labels. She is dedicated to new music, as demonstrated by her twenty-five-year tenure as Music Director of California’s Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
In 2019, Alsop was awarded the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum. She is the only conductor to have received the MacArthur Fellowship and, in September 2013, made history as the first female conductor of the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. Among many other academic positions, she is Director of the Graduate Conducting Program at the Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute. She attended the Juilliard School and Yale University, where she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2017. Alsop’s conducting career was launched in 1989, when she was the first woman to be awarded Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Conducting Prize, where she began studying with her closest mentor, Leonard Bernstein.
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Russia Plans To Ban VPNs & Proxies That Unblock Blocked Sites
April 20, 2017 by Andy Maxwell
The Russian government is preparing to scale-up its war on blocked sites by hitting services that provide workarounds. A new bill developed by the government requires VPNs and other anonymizing services to stop providing access to blocked domains. If they do not, they themselves will also be blocked. Search engines also face sanctions for linking to banned sites.
When it comes to blocking websites, Russia is quickly emerging as a world leader. Tens of thousands of resources are now blocked in the country on copyright infringement and a wide range of other grounds.
Of course, Russian citizens are not always prepared to be constrained by their government, so large numbers of people regularly find ways to circumvent ISP blockades. The tools and methods deployed are largely the same as those used in the West, including VPNs, proxies, mirror sites and dedicated services such as Tor.
To counter this defiance, the Russian government has been considering legislation to tackle sites, tools and services that provide Internet users with ways to circumvent blockades. According to local news outlet Vedomosti, that has now resulted in a tough new bill.
Russia’s plan is to issue a nationwide ban on systems and software that allow Internet users to bypass website blockades previously approved by telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor. This means that if a VPN, proxy or similar tool unblocks torrent site RuTracker, for example, it will be breaking the law. As a result, it too will find itself on Russia’s banned site list.
The publication says it has confirmed the bill’s existence with a federal official and several Internet service provider sources.
The technical aspects of the bill were reportedly formulated by lawyers working for the Media Communications Union (MCU), a trade group established by the largest media companies in the country. The MCU has a particular interest in ensuring that web users do not bypass pirate site blockades by using anonymous web-based CGI proxies.
The bill does give VPN and proxy providers some remove for maneuver. If they are configured to prevent access to all domains present in Russia’s banned resources list, it appears they can avoid legal issues. However, for VPN services which pride themselves on not monitoring user traffic, censoring certain sites could provoke a backlash and undermine credibility.
As previously reported, Russia also has search engines in its sights. It wants to prevent links to banned sites appearing in search results, claiming that these encourage people to access banned material.
The new bill reportedly lays out a new framework which will force search engines to remove such links. Failing to do so could result in fines of up to $12,400 per breach, clearly a significant issue for companies such as Google and local search giant Yandex.
“We believe that the laying of responsibilities on search engines is superfluous,” a Yandex spokesperson said.
“Even if the reference to a [banned] resource does appear in search results, it does not mean that by clicking on it the user will get access, if it was already blocked by ISPs or in any other ways.”
This morning, the bill was discussed at the Russian Internet Forum (RIF). While it’s aim of reducing copyright infringement was understood, there were concerns that the bill could affect negatively effect the rights of Internet users.
“Naturally, we are against the spread of illegal content, but the law does not violate the rights and freedoms of citizens to access information,” says Sergey Grebennikov, director of the Regional Public Center of Internet Technologies.
“Yes, there is a ‘gray zone’ used to carry out illegal activities and the distribution of illegal content using a CGI proxies, but it does not mean that legitimate users have to suffer. It is also important to note that the laws do not violate the rights of users who choose the safe use of the Internet, for example, by using a VPN connection,” Grebennikov concludes.
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TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 21)
Bob Saget gets hosed; Jericho returns with reruns on The CW.
Oh that wacky CW network -- if that's what you want to call it.
Its Sunday night partnership with Media Rights Capital has been severed, depriving American television audiences of the barely seen Valentine and Easy Money while ensuring that Surviving Suburbia, starring Bob Saget, never gets seen at all.
Instead CW will fill in its Sunday night blanks, beginning on Nov. 30th, with reruns of Jericho and a movie from 6 to 9 p.m. (central). They'll be preceded from 4 to 6 p.m. by repeats of Everybody Hates Chris and The Game plus a pair of Drew Carey Show reprises.
The Saget sitcom, announced by MRC last May, is now homeless without ever having a home on CW's sked. MRC was supposed to take care of Sunday nights for CW under an oddball outsourcing arrangement announced late last spring.
***Planet Earth's fans of ABC's Life On Mars might have been surprised to learn at the end of Thursday night's episode that the time-traveling series will be off the air until Jan. 28th. Mars also is getting a new home, on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. following Lost, which as previously announced returns on Jan. 21st with a two-hour serving.
ABC hasn't made any official programming announcements yet. But USA Today reports that the network will be dropping Pushing Daisies, Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money in January after this season's orders of 13 episodes run their course.
The newspaper also says that Private Practice will move to Thursdays at 9 p.m. in January, following the series from which it spun, Grey's Anatomy.
Also in January, Scrubs will kick off its last season on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on ABC, which rescued it from NBC. Urp, it's going to be paired on that night with new episodes of According to Jim.
Terrell Owens looked like a hero last fall; calling Dr. Greene on ER,
NBC's already pivotal Sunday Night Football matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins will be further spiced by Bruce Springsteen's halftime performance of his new song, "Working On a Dream."
Springsteen is warming up for a bigger halftime performance at the Feb. 1st Super Bowl in Tampa, which also will be on NBC. But will the Cowboys show up?
***Earlier on the same Sunday, CBS' 60 Minutes hopes to retain last week's crown as prime-time's most-watched show with the first post-campaign interview of president-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama.
CBS announced its latest big score Thursday, with correspondent Steve Kroft set to tape his interview with the Obamas on Friday, Nov. 14th in Chicago.
Last Sunday, Kroft led 60 Minutes with his election night interview of Obama's four principal campaign strategists. That edition drew 18.5 million viewers nationally to edge CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as prime-time's highest-rated show for the week of Nov. 3-9, according to Nielsen Media Research.
60 Minutes will have to do better than that Sunday night. Another CBS crime drama, NCIS, already is the clubhouse leader with a personal best 18.8 million viewers for Tuesday's episode.
***Tonight's the night (Thurs., Nov. 13) for Anthony Edwards' return to NBC's ER, where he'll reprise Dr. Mark Greene in a series of flashback scenes. ER is commemorating its 15th and final season with encore visits by some of the series' most popular stars and characters. The biggest fish of all, George Clooney, hasn't been landed yet. But you've got to think he'll reappear in some way before ER checks out sometime next year.
***HBO's live, sixth season finale of Real Time with Bill Maher is on Friday (Nov. 14th) at the usual 10 p.m. (central) start time. Scheduled roundtable guests are Ashton Kutcher, Jon Meacham and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. The host's one-one-on interview subjects haven't been announced yet.
***NBC's Saturday Night Live has added two featured cast members, Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins, with both joining the show on Nov. 15th.
Abby is the daughter of veteran comedian Chris Elliott and the granddaughter of the late Bob Elliott, who teamed with Ray Goulding to form the famed Bob & Ray comedy duo. She last worked with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, which was founded by Amy Poehler, who recently left the show as planned after having her first child.
Watkins comes from the Groundlings Theater, where former/current SNL cast members Will Ferrell, Phil Hartman, Laraine Newman and Kristen Wiig got started.
***Finally, Rosie O'Donnell is beginning to dribble out the guest list for her live Nov. 26th variety show on NBC. So far she has Kathy Griffin, Jane Krakowski, Alanis Morissette and Ne-Yo
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January's heavy-hitters are falling into place with Fox officially announcing its midseason plans while ABCs reportedly has set Jan. 21st as the fifth season premiere of Lost.
The trade newspaper Variety says Lost will return to Wednesdays at 8 p.m. (central) after spending last season on Thursdays as a direct lead-in to local late night newscasts.
ABC supposedly will reboot with back-to-back Lost episodes from 8 to 10 p.m. after a one-hour recap. Lost then settles back in at 8 p.m. on the following Wednesday (Jan. 28th).
ABC's Wednesday 8 p.m. incumbent, Private Practice, will either relocate to another night or move back an hour. It's been picked up for a full season, so cancellation's not in the cards.
Meanwhile at Fox, here comes Season 8 of American Idol with a two-night, four-hour launch on Jan. 13-14. That keeps the sing-a-thon in its regular Tuesday-Wednesday locale.
House, however, will move from Tuesdays at 7 p.m. to Mondays at the same hour, beginning Jan. 19th. Its 8 p.m. bunkmate is 24, which as previously reported returns on Jan. 11-12 with a four-hour running start.
Fringe, the freshman sci-fi series from Lost creator J.J. Abrams, remains on Tuesdays at 8 p.m., but with Idol as its new lead-in on Jan. 20th.
On Wednesdays, the new scripted crime series Lie To Me gets the post-Idol push, beginning on Jan. 21st. It stars the always edgy Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs as world-class "deception expert" Cal LIghtman, who "studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to discover not only if someone is lying, but why." Sounds a lot like The Mentalist, already a breakaway hit on CBS.
Another Fox newbie, Dollhouse, gets a lesser Friday slot, but not until Feb. 13th. Created by Joss Whedon (Buffy, the Vampire Slayer) and co-starring former BVS regular Eliza Dushku, it dotes on "a highly illegal underground group of individuals who have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas."
Dollhouse will be paired on Fridays with Fox's like-minded Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which has struggled on Monday nights this fall in tandem with Prison Break. Until then, Fox will keep its Friday night lights on with incumbents Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? and Don't Forget the Lyrics.
We're not done yet. Fox plans to relocate Bones from Wednesdays to Thursdays at 7 p.m., where it will lead into Hell's Kitchen, beginning on Jan. 29th. First though, Bones will pull two Thursday night shifts with Kitchen Nightmares, starting the week after Fox's Jan. 8th telecast of the Fedex BCS National Championship Game.
All of this moving and shaking will leave 'Til Death and Prison Break on the outside looking in. Fox says that both will be back "at a later date." Whatever.
TV Bulletin Board (Nov. 4)
Jack Bauer's blown away but of course still standing on Fox's 24.
Fox's big-ticket attraction for the November "sweeps" finds agent Jack Bauer still ticking while on the lam in Africa.
24: Redemption, premiering as a self-standing movie on Nov. 23rd, sets the stage for 24's seventh season launch as a two-night, four-hour "event" on Jan. 11-12.
Kiefer Sutherland, officially back as Jack on Nov. 23rd, is doing missionary work in Africa when called on to stop a ruthless warlord from drafting school kids by force into his "murderous militia."
Meanwhile, back in the U.S., it's inauguration day for president-elect Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones). Little does she know -- or does she? -- that "malevolent mastermind" Jonas Hodges, played by guest star Jon Voight, is working hard behind the scenes to further inflame an international crisis.
January's official kick-off of 24 in its usual hour-by-hour format will re-introduce Carlos Bernard as presumed dead CTU agent Tony Almeida. CTU is officially dead, too, according to Fox publicity materials. But two of Jack's longtime CTU comrades, Chloe O'Brian (Mary Lyn Rajskub) and Bill Buchanan (James Morrison), will be returning to the series in new guises.
24 also is adding "First Gentleman" Henry Taylor, played by Colm Feore, and returning Janeane Garofalo as agent Janis Gold.
Season 7 of 24 was supposed to begin unfolding in January, 2008, but the Writers Guild strike knocked it entirely off the air. So Jack hasn't been seen since May of 2007 in 24's sixth season finale. He looked pretty vexed.
FOX IS OVER THE "HILL"
King of the Hill has survived previous planned cancelations, but this time it's official -- on Fox at least. The network will be dropping its second-longest-running animated series -- starring the fictional Hills of fictional Arlen, TX -- after new episodes run out sometime next year.
"After 13 cycles, Hank and family are gone," Fox senior VP of communications Scott Grogin confirms.
There's a chance, though, says the trade newspaper Variety, that ABC might be interested in picking up King and pairing it at some point in late 2009 or early 2010 with its planned new animated series, The Goode Family. Both shows are creations of Austin's Mike Judge, whose first claim to fame was MTV's Beavis & Butt-head.
King of the Hill premiered on Jan. 12, 1996 and at last count has more than 250 episodes under its belt.
RATINGS HIGHS AND LOWS
Final national Nielsen numbers are in for Barack Obama's Oct. 29th half-hour prime-time pitch to the electorate and Fox's rain-delayed, five-game World Series between the victorious Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays.
The Series averaged 13.6 million viewers for its five games, making it by far the least-watched ever. The previous record-holder, 2006's five-gamer between the winning St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers, drew 15.8 million viewers on Fox.
Nielsen Media Research has been keeping total viewers data on the World Series since 1973, when an average of 34.8 million viewers watched the Oakland A's defeat the New York Mets in seven games.
The all-time most-watched Series during that 36-year period is NBC's 1978 six-gamer between the victorious New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers.
It averaged 44.3 million viewers during the course of further anointing Reggie Jackson as "Mr. October." In the 1977 Series, Jackson clubbed three straight home runs at Yankee Stadium in the deciding Game 6, with the Dodgers again on the losing end. A relatively modest 37.2 million viewers watched the '77 Series on ABC.
Obama's Oct. 29th presentation, carried on four broadcast and three cable networks, drew a total of 33.6 million viewers nationally. That shattered by previous record by Dallas billionaire Ross Perot, whose Nov. 4, 1996 half-hour commercial on three broadcast network was seen by 22.7 million viewers, according to Nielsen.
Here's the official viewership scorecard for the Obama ad:
NBC -- 9.8 million
CBS -- 8.6 million
Fox -- 7.1 million
Univision -- 3.6 million
MSNBC -- 3.5 million
BET -- 714,000
TV One -- 307,000
ABC's competing telecast of its ratings-starved Pushing Daisies had 6.7 million viewers. In other words, it couldn't beat Obama's competing commercial on any of ABC's rival Big Three broadcast networks. This likely means that Pushing Daisies will be pushing daisies -- a k a -- canceled -- before the New Year rings in.
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Celebrating Gandhi & Khadi
“The 'khadi spirit' means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth. It means a complete renunciation of everything that is likely to harm our fellow creatures, and if we but cultivate that spirit amongst the millions of our countrymen, what a land this India of ours would be!”
― Gandhi
On this day in the year 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born. Across India, us and our fellow countrymen acknowledge the life of this lawyer and political ethicist, marking and celebrating his immense achievements in leading the successful nonviolent campaign for India’s independence. He helped changed a nation and created the India we experience today as well as inspiring civil rights and freedom movements all over the world.
He also made khadi into a symbol of national pride, a fabric we at Sui adore. This humble, handwoven fabric managed to change and free a nation, so, here, we wanted to show you how special it is and why it is so treasured.
A Brief History of Khadi
The word ‘khadi’ itself is derived from the word ‘khaddar, a term for handspun fabric in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Though normally created from cotton, the fabric can also be spun in silk or wool and is a practice that has existed in India for thousands of years with evidence of terracotta spindles and and bone tools being used to spin and weave, respectively. It indicated the Indus Valley Civilisation to have had a thriving tradition of creating textiles.
In an article by The Better India, they state that “In 400 BC, Greek historian Herodotus wrote that in India, there were “trees growing wild, which produce a kind of wool better than sheep’s wool in beauty and quality. The Indians use this tree wool to make their clothes.””
As time went on, British rule and European influence affected the industry immensely with France and England banning the import of chintz, wood-blocked printed calicos (cotton), in the late 17th century and early 18th, respectively. Moreover, the introduction by the British of machine-driven mills in Mumbai saw a sharp decline in the production of handwoven khadi.
The market continued to decline until a man who saw khadi as the symbol of the regeneration of India’s economic came along to change that.
Gandhi & Khadi
“The spinning wheel represents to me the hope of the masses. The masses lost their freedom, such as it was, with the loss of the Charkha. The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.”
In the early 20th century, Gandhi used khadi to encourage the Swadeshi movement to boycott British-made clothing. It was a call to Indian citizens to urge them to take up the handweaving tradition once again, to spin their own yarn, and wear khadi to rediscover Indian pride as well as support their rural communities.
The movement sought to not just involve the elite and was what really helped include the common man in India’s fight for independence while bringing to light the exploits the British had done to the country.
Khadi in Our Modern Day
Since Independence, khadi’s popularity has steadily declined somewhat with it having to compete with so many machine-made fabrics being favoured all over the world. However, there is hope for the textile.
In India, khadi has seen a new surge in popularity in India amongst modern designers who have begun using it in their collections, bringing it to a wider fashion platform. In an article by The Culture Trip, they describe how, “Since independence, the journey of khadi has been about maintaining a balance between traditions and modernity. Khadi stands for what’s traditional, but every tradition has to undergo change to stay relevant. Khadi has seen a new wave of acceptance thanks to many fashion designers like Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Ritu Kumar and Rohit Bal, to name a few.”
And, of course, at Sui we have a deep love for the fabric and incorporate it into many of our designs. Being handwoven, the fabric is the perfect example of slow, sustainable creating and we are proud to use a material that has such a rich, significant history in the country Sui was born in.
We currently work with WomenWeave who provide the khadi we use to design our garments. They are an NGO dedicated to teaching women handlooming skills to support them in working successfully and safely in the textile industry. WomenWeave is able to provide an ethical work environment for many of the underprivileged women in Maheshwar. We are proud to work with them and continue spreading Gandhi’s message to uphold and have pride in our traditions while supporting our communities.
To check out our khadi pieces, click here.
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ToDo ToDay: John Cage’s Centennial
by Jonathan L. Fischer September 4th, 2012 October 8th, 2020
Orchestras love anniversaries as reasons to draw up theme programs, but only when those anniversaries are for composers most people enjoy: Mozart, Beethoven, and the like. John Cage is not one of them. He was an already weird composer of random ambient sounds before he discovered Zen Buddhism in the 1950s and got even stranger, at times jettisoning instruments and music altogether; his influence is felt more in the noise-rock and anti-art scenes than modern classical. That’s what makes D.C.’s weeklong festivities such a pleasant surprise. Highlights include tonight’s reading of Cage’s radio play James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet at the Corcoran, an open-ended Cage potpourri program performed by 77 musicians at the Library of Congress (Sept. 6, free), a piano concert by Stephen Drury at the Kreeger Museum (Sept. 8, $35), and art exhibitions at the National Gallery, American University Museum at the Katzen, and the Phillips Collection. MORE >> (Mike Paarlberg)
The John Cage Centennial Festival opens at 6:45 p.m. at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW. Advance registration required. $15 for nonmembers. corcoran.org. (202) 639-1700. See a complete festival schedule at johncage2012.com.
SIP THIS
Fro-yo shop Mr. Yogato is hosting a pop-up for your morning cup of joe. Every Monday through Friday from 7 to 10 a.m., D.C.-based micro-roaster Vigilante Coffee will supply a full espresso bar, single origin pour-overs, cold-brew iced coffee, and quick cups to go at the Dupont spot. Vigilante comes from Chris Roessler-Vigilante, who got his start in the coffee biz as an apprentice for a small roaster in Hawaii after graduating from Virginia Tech. He launched his own roasting company at the start of this year. The pop-up at Mr. Yogato is set to continue indefinitely. Vigilante also sells its coffee from several area farmers markets, Dangerously Delicious Pies on H Street NE, Boccato Gelato in Clarendon, and a couple other spots. Also look for it at food and fashion market Maketto, coming to H Street NE early next year. Vigilante Coffee at Mr. Yogato; 1515 17th St. NW; vigilantecoffee.com. (Jessica Sidman)
OH AND ALSO
In the Shadow of the Banyan, the debut novel by Vaddey Ratner, is a street-level story about the horrors of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime seen through the eyes of a child. Ratner reads at 7 p.m. at Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. (202) 364-1919.
Photo courtesy of The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Meet America’s first Black Priest, Venerable Father Augustus Tolton, in this audio drama adapted from our live stage production. The drama opens with nine-year-old Augustus Tolton’s harrowing escape from slavery to freedom. In a leaky boat with bullets whizzing overhead, his mother courageously rows the family across the Mississippi River. They settle in the town of Quincy, Illinois, where hardships and persecution continue to afflict them. Despite all this, Augustus perseveres in his deep desire to become a Catholic priest. Rejected by all U.S. seminaries, he is finally ordained in Rome. When he returns to America, he tirelessly serves people of all races, especially the former slaves who flock to Chicago.
Actor Jim Coleman’s powerful performance as Father Tolton is complemented by a wide cast of supporting characters. The remarkable story is enhanced with Tony Manfredonia’s moving musical score inspired by traditional African American spirituals.
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Home/— Travel n Tour/Visit the best military museums in the United States now
Visit the best military museums in the United States now
Have you ever wanted to walk through a battlefield as it looked back during the Civil War? Or learn about how our wars are fought? We have searched for you and compiled a list of the most exciting and knowledgeable military museums across the country. These museums have their own rich stories to tell and often include items that can’t be found anywhere else.
History of military museums
Military Museums are not only about the artifacts. The history of military museums is rich with stories of the heroes. Tales of bravery and courage in the face of an enemy. Stories of triumph and loss. The exhibition is the story of who we are, where we came from, and why we are here.
Things you should keep in your Mind
What are military museums?
What do they show?
How did they start?
Who are the heroes?
Why are they important?
What are some types of military museums?
What should I know about visiting a military museum?
United States Military Museums
There are many military museums all over the United States. The Pentagon Museum in Washington, D.C., documents the history of the U.S. Department of Defense. The Chicago History Museum has a Military History Gallery that commemorates war veterans. The museum is set in the heart of Chicago and is dedicated to preserving military history.
The Military Museum of World War II in Brussels
This museum focuses on the events of World War II in Europe, and it is one of the most critical military museums in Belgium. The Military Museum of World War II in Brussels is one of the most important military museums in Belgium. It is divided into several different sections. One of the most interesting is the “Hall of Glory”. This hall shows the history of Brussels and Belgium.
Military museums in Massachusetts
A military museum is dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history of armed conflict and related subjects such as weaponry, uniforms, and equipment. Military museums in Massachusetts are used to protect the rich military history of the United States. They contain equipment and uniforms from various wars, including the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and others. Other museums in Massachusetts feature artwork depicting military life. – 1 Plattsburgh Air Force Base Museum, 5984 Airport Rd, Plattsburgh NY, +1 518 562-7128.
How to plan a day at the military museums
Military museums are a great way to learn about a specific military branch, a specific war, or a certain period. Some military museums have been around for a very long time and have an extensive collection of artifacts that date back decades. In contrast, other museums may only be a few years old and have a more limited supply of artifacts. Planning a day at the military museums can take a lot of time and effort if you want to visit more than one museum.
You might want to visit the museums in a day to visit another city, so keep that in mind. The United States Air Force Museum is most often visited after flying into Dayton International Airport as it is located on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The Air Mobility Command Museum is usually visited if a visitor stays at Lackland Air Force Base, which is across town from the Air Mobility Command Museum.
Tips for visiting military museums with kids
A military museum with the capability to tell military history from various perspectives, including those of the soldier, sailor, and civilian. Visiting a military museum with kids can be an enriching experience for them and you. By going on a tour of a military museum with your children, you allow them to explore the history of our country’s armed forces.
The stories that can be told through artifacts, photographs, and videos will make your visit worthwhile. If you have never visited a military museum, this is an excellent time to start! – Visit an Air Force Museum – Celebrate Memorial Day at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. – Learn about our history at the 9/11 Museum and Memorial. – Check out the fascinating exhibits at the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum.
U.S. military museums in Atlanta
These museums represent the most compelling military artifacts from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. In addition to weapons, uniforms, tanks, and aircraft, some images document the history of these conflicts. The U.S. military museums in Atlanta offer compelling collections of weapons, uniforms, tanks, and planes from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The National WWII Museum in New Orleans has a collection of artifacts from the War in Europe and the Pacific War. The Military Museums of Esenboga in Ankara, Turkey, has an extensive collection of uniforms, weapons, tools, and other military equipment collected by the Turkish state.
Best Military Museums in the World
The world’s best military museums, as voted by a panel of experts, are as follows:
1. The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Ohio 2. The Imperial War Museum, London 3. The U.S. Navy Museum, Washington DC 4. The National Defense Forces Museum, Beijing 5. The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Dulles Airport, Chantilly, Virginia 6. The National Museum of the U.S. Navy, Washington DC 7. The National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC 8. The National Museum of the U.S. Navy, Beaufort SC 9. The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Dayton 10. The National Museum of the US Marine Corps, Triangle, North Carolina 11. National Museum of the U.S. Navy, Springfield, Virginia.
Are military museums worth visiting?
Museums are places where visitors admire art, heritage, and cultural objects. A military museum is a place where visitors can learn about military weapons and warfare history. Some people might find military museums worth visiting because they give them an insight into how warfare has developed through the years. Museums usually contain exhibitions about the history of war, featuring a variety of weapons from throughout history.
Military museums are primarily archives of military artifacts, weapons, equipment, and other items. The collections are dedicated to documenting the history of armed conflicts, mainly focusing on naval, air, and land military aspects. Military museums are often located near sites where the events took place.
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===Three Body Dynamics===
In ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=D90tDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA91&ots=yPzfufQH4V&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q&f=false Three Body Dynamics and Its Applications to Exoplanets]'' by Drs. Zdzislaw Musielak and Billy Quarles we see:
In ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=D90tDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA91&ots=yPzfufQH4V&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q&f=false Three Body Dynamics and Its Applications to Exoplanets]'' by Drs. Zdzislaw Musielak ([https://web.archive.org/web/20200515183819/https://mentis.uta.edu/explore/profile/zdzislaw-musielak bio]) and Billy Quarles we see:
{{cite|The three-body problem is one of the best known scientific problems, and there are three main reasons. First, the problem has fundamental importance in science, mathematics and engineering. Second, the problem is truly difficult to solve, which has been manifested by thousands of papers written by numerous outstanding researchers, ''who have tried (very) hard but failed.'' Third, the problem can be stated simple enough, so non-experts can understand it and appreciate its importance. As described in this book, all attempts to solve this problem have enriched celestial and classical mechanics, and mathematics with many new methods, powerful theorems, and novel ideas that are already being used in applications in different fields of research.}}
The Three Body Problem is a four hundred year old problem of mathematics which has its roots in the unsuccessful attempts to simulate a heliocentric Sun-Earth-Moon system.
Due to the nature of Newtonian Gravity, a three body system inherently prefers to be a two body orbit and will attempt to kick out the smallest body from the system—often causing the system to be destroyed altogether. There are a limited range of scenarios in which three body orbits may exist[1]. It is seen that those configurations require at least two of the three bodies to be of the same mass, can only exist with specific magnitudes in specific, sensitive, and highly symmetrical configurations, and exhibit odd loopy orbits that look quite different than the systems of astronomy proposed by Copernicus. The slightest imperfection, such as with bodies of different masses, or the effect of a gravitational influence external to the system, causes a chain reaction of random chaos which compels the entire system to fall apart[2].
“ Describing the motion of any planetary system (including purely imaginary ones that exist only on paper) is the subject of a branch of mathematics called celestial mechanics. Its problems are extremely difficult and have eluded the greatest mathematicians in history. ” —Paul Trow, Chaos and the Solar System
1 400 Years of Defiance
2 Newton's Solution
3 Henri Poincaré
4 Ask a Mathematician
5 No General Solutions
6 A Thousand New Solutions
7 Hill's Region
8 Poliastro
9 Chaos Theory: A Demo
10 N-Body Solution Galleries
11 Supercomputing Challenge
12 Universe Sandbox 2
13 Analytical Vs. Numerical
13.1 Over a Thousand New Solutions - New Scientist
13.2 Over 600 New Orbits
13.3 Figure Eight
13.4 1349 New Families
14 Quotes
14.1 Three Body Dynamics
14.2 Vinay Ambegaokar
14.3 Erwin B. Montgomery
14.4 Robert Rosen
14.5 Mark Cunningham
14.6 Richard D. Mattuck
15 Stability of the Solar System
16 N-Body Symmetry
400 Years of Defiance
In The Physics Problem that Isaac Newton Couldn't Solve (Archive) physics and astronomy professor Robert Scherrer (bio) tells us:
“ There's a physics problem so difficult, so intractable, that even Isaac Newton, undoubtedly the greatest physicist who ever lived, couldn't solve it. And it's defied everyone else's attempts ever since then.
This is the famous three-body problem. When Newton invented his theory of gravity, he immediately set to work applying it to the motions of the planets in the solar system. If you have a planet orbiting a much larger body, like the sun, and the orbit is circular, then the problem is easy to solve -- it's something that's done in a high school physics class.
But a circular orbit isn't the most general possibility, and sometimes one body isn't much smaller than the object it orbits (think of the Moon going around the Earth). This more complicated case can still be solved -- Newton showed that the two bodies orbit their common center of mass in elliptical orbits. In fact, this prediction of elliptical orbits really cemented the case for Newton's theory of gravity. The calculation is a lot trickier than for circular orbits, but we still throw it at undergraduate physics majors in their second or third year.
Now add a third body, and everything falls apart. The problem goes from one that a smart undergraduate can tackle to one that has defied solution for 400 years. ”
Newton's Solution
Mathematician and astronomer Issac Newton is credited to have "brought the laws of physics to the solar system."1 To solve the multi-body problems of his system Newton famously invoked divine intervention (Archive):
“ At the beginning of the 18th century, Newton famously wrote that the solar system needed occasional divine intervention (presumably a nudge here and there from the hand of God) in order to remain stable.11 This was interpreted to mean that Newton believed his mathematical model of the solar system—the n body problem—did not have stable solutions. Thus was the gauntlet laid down, and a proof of the stability of the n body problem became one of the great mathematical challenges of the age.
11Newton's remarks about divine intervention appear in Query 23 of the 1706 (Latin) edition of Opticks, which became Query 31 of the 1717 (2nd Edition) edition see Quote Q[New] in Appendix E). Similar 'theological' remarks are found in scholia of the 2nd and 3rd editions of Principia, and in at least one of Newton's letters. In a 1715 letter to Caroline, Princess of Wales, Leibniz observed sarcastically that Newton had not only cast the Creator as a clock-maker, and a faulty one, but now as a clock-repairman (see [Klo73], Part XXXIV, pp. 54-55). ”
1The University of California San Diego credits Newton with providing the laws of physics for the Solar System (Archive):
“ Then came Isaac Newton (1642-1727) who brought the laws of physics to the solar system. Isaac Newton explained why the planets move the way they do, by applying his laws of motion, and the force of gravitation between any two bodies, letting the force decrease with the square of the distance between the two bodies. ”
Caltech physicist Sean Carrol (bio) gives a history of the problem on his page N-Bodies:
“ The N-body problem is one of the most famous, and easily stated, problems in mathematical physics: find exact solutions to point masses moving under their mutual Newtonian gravitational forces (i.e. the inverse-square law). For N=2 the complete set of solutions is straightforward and has been known for a long time — each body moves in a conic section (circle, ellipse, parabola or hyperbola) around the center of mass. In fact, Kepler found the solution even before Newton came up with the problem!
But let N=3 and chaos breaks loose, quite literally. For a long time people recognized that the motion of three gravitating bodies would be a difficult problem, but there were hopes to at least characterize the kinds of solutions that might exist (even if we couldn’t write down the solutions explicitly). It became a celebrated goal for mathematical physicists, and the very amusing story behind how it was resolved is related in Peter Galison’s book Einstein’s Clocks and Poincare’s Maps. In 1885, a mathematical competition was announced in honor of the 60th birthday of King Oscar II of Sweden, and the three-body problem was one of the questions. (Feel free to muse about the likelihood of the birthday of any contemporary world leader being celebrated by mathematical competitions.) Henri Poincare was a favorite to win the prize, and he submitted an essay that demonstrated the stability of planetary motions in the three-body problem (actually the “restricted” problem, in which one test body moves in the gravitational field generated by two others). In other words, without knowing the exact solutions, we could at least be confident that the orbits wouldn’t go crazy; more technically, solutions starting with very similar initial conditions would give very similar orbits. Poincare’s work was hailed as brilliant, and he was awarded the prize.
But as his essay was being prepared for publication in Acta Mathematica, a couple of tiny problems were pointed out by Edvard Phragmen, a Swedish mathematician who was an assistant editor at the journal. Gosta Mittag-Leffler, chief editor, forwarded Phragmen’s questions to Poincare, asking him to fix up these nagging issues before the prize essay appeared in print. Poincare went to work, but discovered to his consternation that one of the tiny problems was in fact a profoundly devastating possibility that he hadn’t really taken seriously. What he ended up proving was the opposite of his original claim — three-body orbits were not stable at all. Not only were orbits not periodic, they didn’t even approach some sort of asymptotic fixed points.
Now that we have computers to run simulations, this kind of behavior is less surprising (example here from Steve McMillan — note how the final “binary” is not made of the same “stars” as the original one), but at the time it came as an utter shock. In his attempt to prove the stability of planetary orbits, Poincare ended up inventing chaos theory.
But the story doesn’t quite end there. Mittag-Leffler, convinced that Poincare would be able to tie up the loose threads in his prize essay, went ahead and printed it. By the time he heard from Poincare that no such tying-up would be forthcoming, the journal had already been mailed to mathematicians throughout Europe. Mittag-Leffler swung into action, telegraphing Berlin and Paris in an attempt to have all copies of the journal destroyed. He basically succeeded, but not without creating a minor scandal in elite mathematical circles across the Continent. (The Wikipedia entry on Poincare tells a much less interesting, and less accurate, version of the story.)
However, just because the general solution to the three-body (and more-body) problem is chaotic, doesn’t mean we can’t find special exact solutions in highly-symmetric conditions, and that’s just what Cris Moore and Michael Nauenberg have recently been doing. The image at the top really is an exact solution to twenty-one equal-mass objects moving in a figure-eight under their mutual gravitational attraction. They’re moving in a plane, of course, but that’s not strictly necessary; here’s a close relative of the figure-8, perturbed outside the plane. ”
“ From there you can just go nuts; here’s an example with twelve objects orbiting with cubic symmetry — four distinct periodic paths with three particles each. ”
Sean Carrol describes the three body problem orbits as chaotic and classifies the special orbits which were discovered as "highly-symmetric." Dr. Carrol proceeds to give animations of figure eight configurations and other special symmetrical orbits which have been discovered.
Readers should decide for themselves whether the Sun-Earth-Moon system or other systems proposed by contemporary Astronomy are "highly symmetric" systems.
Ask a Mathematician
https://www.askamathematician.com/2011/10/q-what-is-the-three-body-problem/ (Archive)
“ Q: What is the three body problem?
Physicist: The three body problem is to exactly solve for the motions of three (or more) bodies interacting through an inverse square force (which includes gravitational and electrical attraction).
The problem with the 3-body problem is that it can’t be done, except in a very small set of frankly goofy scenarios (like identical planets following identical orbits). ”
No General Solutions
Physics Professor Richard Fitzpatrick at the University of Texas says (Archive):
“ We saw earlier, in Section 2.9, that an isolated dynamical system consisting of two freely moving point masses exerting forces on one another--which is usually referred to as a two-body problem--can always be converted into an equivalent one-body problem. In particular, this implies that we can exactly solve a dynamical system containing two gravitationally interacting point masses, because the equivalent one-body problem is exactly soluble. (See Sections 2.9 and 4.16.) What about a system containing three gravitationally interacting point masses? Despite hundreds of years of research, no useful general solution of this famous problem--which is usually called the three-body problem--has ever been found. ”
Science China Press says (Archive):
“ In general, orbits described by the three-body problem are non-periodic, i.e. chaotic, and are rather sensitive to initial conditions. According to the theory of chaos, uncertainty in initial conditions enlarges exponentially for chaotic dynamic systems. Therefore, it is rather difficult to gain reliable convergent numerical simulations of chaotic orbits of three-body systems across a long interval of time. Due to this, it is also difficult to find periodic orbits of three-body systems by means of numerical methods. ”
From The Three-Body Problem (Archive) by Z.E. Musielak and B. Quarles we see:
“ In the three-body problem, three bodies move in space under their mutual gravitational interactions as described by Newton’s theory of gravity. Solutions of this problem require that future and past motions of the bodies be uniquely determined based solely on their present positions and velocities. In general, the motions of the bodies take place in three dimensions (3D), and there are no restrictions on their masses nor on the initial conditions. Thus, we refer to this as the general three-body problem . At first glance, the difficulty of the problem is not obvious, especially when considering that the two-body problem has well-known closed form solutions given in terms of elementary functions. Adding one extra body makes the problem too complicated to obtain similar types of solutions. In the past, many physicists, astronomers and mathematicians attempted unsuccessfully to find closed form solutions to the three-body problem. Such solutions do not exist because motions of the three bodies are in general unpredictable, which makes the three-body problem one of the most challenging problems in the history of science. ”
As we read above, there are no general solutions to the Three Body Problem and that the motions are unpredictable. As Sean Carroll and the authors of "Ask A Mathematician" related, the only solutions require very specific and odd scenarios.
A Thousand New Solutions
In 2017 researchers used a supercomputer to test various configurations and reported over one thousand new special solutions to the Three Body Problem. We read an account from a New Scientist article titled Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions (Archive) :
“ For more than 300 years, mathematicians have puzzled over the three-body problem – the question of how three objects orbit one another according to Newton’s laws. Now, there are 1223 new solutions to the conundrum, more than doubling the current number of possibilities.
No single equation can predict how three bodies will move in relation to one another and whether their orbits will repeat or devolve into chaos. Mathematicians must test each specific scenario to see if the objects will stay bound in orbit or be flung away.
The new solutions were found when researchers at Shanghai Jiaotong University in China tested 16 million different orbits using a supercomputer.
All the fresh orbits found are periodic. This means that each object, whether it’s a planet or a proton, ends up where it first began its orbit, with their paths forming three intertwined, closed loops.
“It is impressive that they’ve made the list a lot longer,” says Robert Vanderbei at Princeton University in New Jersey – though he adds that there is “basically an unlimited number of orbits”, so it may be overkill if anyone sought to find them all.
Perhaps the most important application of the three-body problem is in astronomy, for helping researchers figure out how three stars, a star with a planet that has a moon, or any other set of three celestial objects can maintain a stable orbit.
But these new orbits rely on conditions that are somewhere between unlikely and impossible for a real system to satisfy. In all of them, for example, two of the three bodies have exactly the same mass and they all remain in the same plane.
Knot-like paths
In addition, the researchers did not test the orbits’ stability. It’s possible that the tiniest disturbance in space or rounding error in the equations could rip the objects away from one another.
“These orbits have nothing to do with astronomy, but you’re solving these equations and you’re getting something beautiful,” says Vanderbei.
Aside from giving us a thousand pretty pictures of knot-like orbital paths, the new three-body solutions also mark a starting point for finding even more possible orbits, and eventually figuring out the whole range of winding paths that three objects can follow around one another.
“This is kind of the zeroth step. Then the question becomes, how is the space of all possible positions and velocities filled up by solutions?” says Richard Montgomery at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “These simple orbits are kind of like a skeleton to build the whole system up from.” ”
As suggested by the above article, the field of Celestial Mechanics is still on step zero—the stone age. The found orbits are nothing like heliocentric astronomy and there will be an attempt to use them as a skeleton to "build the whole system up from."
Hill's Region
Astronomer and mathematician George William Hill studied the Three Body Problem. The only way Hill was able to make any progress at all was by using the Restricted Three Body Problem, where one of the bodies was of zero or negligible mass. Even then, the body was still chaotic. The benefit of the Restricted Three Body Problem and the Mass-less moon meant that that the moon would be no longer ejected from the system, as it would usually be. It is confined to what is known as "Hill's Region".
From http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Three_body_problem (Archive):
The above depicts a crazy and chaotic moon which even makes a u-turn in mid orbit.
From the text that accompanies the image:
“ The simplest case:
It occurs when, the Jacobi constant being negative and big enough, the zero mass body (we shall still call it the Moon) moves in a component of the Hill region which is a disc around one of the massive bodies (the Earth). This fact already implies Hill's rigorous stability result: for all times such a Moon would not be able to escape from this disc. Nevertheless this does not prevent collisions with the Earth. ”
"Zero mass body" -- One of the bodies in the restricted three body problem is of zero mass.
"Nevertheless this does not prevent collisions with the earth" -- It's still chaotic, even in that simplified version.
One might observe that Newtonian Mechanics most certainly does not naturally default to the heliocentric system of Copernicus.
Poliastro
Poliastro, an astrodynamics software developer, shares several numerical methods for the restricted three body problem:
https://twitter.com/poliastro_py/status/993418078036873216?lang=en (Archive)
“ Look at this beautiful plot of several numerical methods for the restricted three body problem taken from Harier et al. "Solving Ordinary Differential Equations I". The use of high order Runge-Kutta methods is pervasive in Celestial Mechanics. Happy Monday! ”
Arenstorf orbits are the knotted closed trajectories which are the result of Restricted Three Body Problem solutions.
Chaos Theory: A Demo
The available solutions to the Two and Three Body Problems are so sensitive that the slightest change or imperfection will tear the entire system apart. From 'Mathematics Applied to Deterministic Problems in Natural Sciences' we read another account of Poincaré's discoveries:
“ As Poincaré experimented, he was relieved to discover that in most of the situations, the possible orbits varied only slightly from the initial 2-body orbit, and were still stable, but what occurred during further experimentation was a shock. Poincaré discovered that even in some of the smallest approximations some orbits behaved in an erratic unstable manner. His calculations showed that even a minute gravitational pull from a third body might cause a planet to wobble and fly out of orbit all together. ”
The orbits are incredibly sensitive. As a very illustrative demonstration, take a look at this online Three Body Problem simulator that uses the simplest possible figure eight pattern, which requires three identical bodies of equal mass which move at very specific momentum and distance in relation to each other.
Demo: Figure-Eight Three Body Problem
Adjust the slider values in the upper left of the simulation to something very slight to find what happens. What you will see is a demonstration of Chaos Theory. Any slight modification to a perfect system creates a chain reaction of random chaos.
This is precisely the issue of modeling the Heliocentric System, and why its fundamental system cannot exist. Only very specific, sensitive, and highly symmetrical configurations may exist. The slightest deviation, such as with a system with unequal masses, or the minute influence from a gravitating body external to the system, will cause the entire system to fly apart. The reader is invited to decide for his or her own self whether those scenarios would occur in nature as described by popular theory.
N-Body Solution Galleries
Below are links to galleries of various Three Body and n-Body solutions which have been found. One should note the lack of heliocentric orbits and the inherent semmetry inherent in all orbits.
https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/notes-7-4--three-body-problem/ (Archive)
“ In Henri Poincaré's study of the collection of possible trajectories for three-body systems he identified sensitive dependence on initial conditions (see above), noted the general complexity of what could happen (particularly in connection with so-called homoclinic tangles), and developed topology to provide a simpler overall description. With appropriate initial conditions one can get various forms of simple behavior. The pictures below show some of the possible repetitive orbits of an idealized planet moving in the plane of a pair of stars that are in a perfect elliptical orbit. ”
Institute of Physics Belgrade
http://three-body.ipb.ac.rs/ (Archive)
n-Body Choreographies
http://rectangleworld.com/demos/nBody/ (Archive) - Notice that the common theme is highly symmetrical shapes.
Scholarpedia.org
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Three_body_problem (Archive)
Euler Math Toolbox
http://euler.rene-grothmann.de/Programs/Examples/Three-Body%20Problem.html (Archive)
Find N-Body Solutions in Your Browser
https://www.i-programmer.info/news/202-number-crunching/8163-find-n-body-solutions-in-your-browser.html - Javascript tool which finds possible N-Body orbits
Supercomputing Challenge
Programming students participated in the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge to simulate the solar system and found issues with creating basic orbits:
Simulation of Planetary Bodies in the Universe (N-Body) (Archive) (Source Code)
“ Our solar system is an N-body system. N-body simulation is the simulation of astral bodies under gravity, using laws of classical mechanics to define how the astral bodies move. The goal of our project is to model the N-body problem in NetLogo. Code defining how astral bodies interact implements the inverse square law and a gravitational constant to calculate gravitational force between them.
Even though our model is not entirely accurate, it recreates with graphical simplicity and mathematical correctness of the N-body simulation. Through many many trials, we realize that normal orbits are incredibly complex and hard to obtain through any normal means, and causes us to conclude that our own solar system is an incredible anomaly of the universe. ”
The PDF report explains with additional details that all attempts at observing orbit were unsuccessful.
Universe Sandbox 2
Universe Sandbox 2 (Universe Sandbox ²) is a physics based space simulation developed and published by Giant Army. It has often been claimed that this simulation provides evidence that the Sun-Earth-Moon System and the Solar System are able to be simulated with gravity.
Read the following from a developer blog post and decide whether the program is using a full simulation of gravity:
Working Through the N-Body Problem in Universe Sandbox ² (Archive)
“ By default, the simulations in Universe Sandbox ² try to set an accuracy which prevents orbits from falling apart due to error. This means setting a maximum error tolerance for each step and also making sure the total error doesn’t reach an upper limit.
If you crank up the time step, the simulation then has to take fewer, larger steps. This means the potential for greater error. And the greater the error, the more likely it is that an orbit, which otherwise would be stable, falls apart. Moons crash into planets, Mercury gets thrown out of the solar system — things like that.
This isn’t what most people want in their simulations. But at the same time, most people also don’t want a limit on how fast they can run their simulation. This is a problem.
An imperfect solution
So how can we get around this problem? How can we accurately simulate thousands of objects while still allowing for large steps forward in time? For example, what if you wanted to simulate our solar system on a time scale of millions of years per second so that you could see the evolution of our Sun?
One solution proposed by Thomas, our physics programmer, is to allow for a special mode within simulations running at high time steps. This mode (which of course could be toggled) would collapse the existing n-body simulation into a series of 2-body problems: Moon & Earth, Earth & Sun, Europa & Jupiter, Jupiter & Sun, etc.
Solving a 2-body problem is much easier than solving an n-body problem. Not only is it faster computationally, but there is also a relatively arbitrary difference between figuring out where the two objects will be in one year and where they’ll be in a million years — it still requires just one calculation. So if you collapse an n-body simulation into a series of two-body problems, the simulation could take one big step forward, instead of taking the small steps needed for calculating it as an n-body problem.
The results won’t be entirely accurate, as this method would effectively ignore all gravitational influences outside of the main attractor. As mentioned before, calculating Earth’s orbit by looking at how it interacts with just the Sun is not accurate, as Earth is also affected by every other body. The Sun, however, is the most significant factor by far, because it is much more massive than any other object in our solar system. The other, much smaller forces tend to have little effect overall in non-chaotic systems. So while it’s not correct, it’s close enough when simulating something relatively stable like our solar system.
This isn’t a perfect solution. But we think it could be an improvement over the current system and its limitations, which leave you with the choice of either destabilizing the orbits with massive errors, or waiting days for the simulation to advance the millions of years needed for the Sun to evolve. Neither is particularly interesting. ”
One might ponder that, surely, if all they had to do was to wait days for the simulation to advance millions of years for the 'sun to evolve' in order for heliocentric orbits to become possible, they could simply run that simulation and save its state to use as a baseline for further simulations.
Despite any fanciful allusions that the choice is between either "destabilizing the orbits with massive errors" or "waiting for Sun to evolve," and reassurances that our solar system is stable despite the inability of simulating it—all common statements to excuse away the problems of simulating bodies in heliocentric orbits—its developers freely admit that the program is not using a full simulation of gravity. The article states "By default, the simulations in Universe Sandbox ² try to set an accuracy which prevents orbits from falling apart due to error".
Analytical Vs. Numerical
Q. I think those quotes are talking about analytical solutions. There are working numerical solutions...
A. This is a misconception which stems from some sources which state that there are no analytical solutions, only numerical solutions. This might cause a casual reader to assume that there must be solutions in which the conventional systems of astronomy work. While it is true that the analytical approach of creating an equation to predict future positions based on initial conditions is much more difficult, the working 'numerical solutions' are the special cases described above -- the figure eight and other highly symmetric configurations.
The "numerical solutions" are highly symmetrical solutions with identical masses.
Over a Thousand New Solutions - New Scientist
From the New Scientist article Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions we read:
“ Perhaps the most important application of the three-body problem is in astronomy, for helping researchers figure out how three stars, a star with a planet that has a moon, or any other set of three celestial objects can maintain a stable orbit.
But these new orbits rely on conditions that are somewhere between unlikely and impossible for a real system to satisfy. In all of them, for example, two of the three bodies have exactly the same mass and they all remain in the same plane. ”
Clicking on the arxiv.org source at the bottom of the that article takes us to the paper The 1223 new periodic orbits of planar three-body problem with unequal mass and zero angular momentum, where we see at the bottom of p.1:
“ Therefore, without loss of generality, we consider m1 = m2 = 1 and m3 is varied. ”
Elsewhere in the paper it describes:
“ Thus, we further integrate the motion equations by means of “Clean Numerical Simulation” (CNS) [17–20] with negligible numerical noises in a long enough interval of time ”
Over 600 New Orbits
Similarly, the phys.org article Scientists discover more than 600 new periodic orbits of the famous three-body problem (Archive) describes the discovery of other symmetrical orbits:
“ These 695 periodic orbits include the well-known figure-eight family found by Moore in 1993, the 11 families found by Suvakov and Dmitrasinovic in 2013, and more than 600 new families reported for the first time. The two scientists used the so-called clean numerical simulation (CNS), a new numerical strategy for reliable simulations of chaotic dynamic systems proposed by the second author in 2009, which is based on a high order of Taylor series and multiple precision data, plus a convergence/reliability check. ”
Figure Eight
The famous symmetrical Figure Eight problem was discovered numerically:
http://numericaltank.sjtu.edu.cn/three-body/three-body.htm (Archive)
“ The famous figure-eight family was numerically discovered by Moore [10] in 1993 and rediscovered by Chenciner and Montgomery [11] in 2000. ”
1349 New Families
Over a thousand new periodic orbits of a planar three-body system with unequal masses
“ Here, we report 1349 new families of planar periodic orbits of the triple system where two bodies have the same mass and the other has a different mass. ”
Further down in the same paper, in the section "Numerical searching for periodic orbits" we verify that these are numerical simulations:
“ As mentioned by Li and Liao (2017), many periodic orbits might be lost by means of traditional algorithms in double precision. Thus, we further integrate the equations of motion by means of a "clean numerical simulation" ”
We see that these special solutions are the numerical solutions. Just where are the solutions with different masses and non-symmetrical configurations? Opponents are unable to show that there are non-symmetrical configurations, or that the Sun-Earth-Moon system can be simulated by the Three Body Problem.
Three Body Dynamics
In Three Body Dynamics and Its Applications to Exoplanets by Drs. Zdzislaw Musielak (bio) and Billy Quarles we see:
“ The three-body problem is one of the best known scientific problems, and there are three main reasons. First, the problem has fundamental importance in science, mathematics and engineering. Second, the problem is truly difficult to solve, which has been manifested by thousands of papers written by numerous outstanding researchers, who have tried (very) hard but failed. Third, the problem can be stated simple enough, so non-experts can understand it and appreciate its importance. As described in this book, all attempts to solve this problem have enriched celestial and classical mechanics, and mathematics with many new methods, powerful theorems, and novel ideas that are already being used in applications in different fields of research. ”
Vinay Ambegaokar
In the Chaos chapter (Archive) of Reasoning about Luck: Probability and Its Uses in Physics, its author Physics professor Vinay Ambegaokar (bio) tells us that the three-body problem is not studied in the physics curriculum:
“ The next simplest case is the ‘three body problem’ - sun, earth, and moon, for example - taking into account the attraction between each body and the other two. No simple solution to this problem exists, and it is not studied in the physics curriculum. ”
Erwin B. Montgomery
On p.174 of Medical Reasoning: The Nature and Use of Medical Knowledge (Archive) its author Dr. Erwin B. Montgomery shares this quote from Newton:
“ An example of a system that can be described explicitly by a mathematical metaphor proved unsolvable (at least explicitly in algebraic or integral functions) is the three-body problem, such as the orbits of the earth, moon, and sun when all three are considered simultaneously. While the two-body problem is solvable, such as the orbits of the earth and moon, even Newton recognized the difficulty and indeed potential intractability of the three-body problem, commenting in 1684 that “to define these motions by exact laws admitting of easy calculation exceeds, if I am not mistaken, the force of any human mind” (from a draft of De Mom, tentatively dated in December 1684; Wilson 1989). ”
See the following quote from Fundamentals of Measurement and Representation of Natural Systems by Professor Robert Rosen (bio):
“ Let us give a very simple example. It is well-known that the three-body problem cannot be solved in closed form, and hence we cannot answer any asymtotic questions regarding such a system (e.g., we cannot tell whether such a system, like the earth-sun-moon system, is stable or not). ”
The above states that the due to the issues of the three body problem we cannot answer questions such as whether the earth-sun-moon system is stable or not. This suggests that it cannot be simulated.
On p.189 of Neoclassical Physics by theoretical physicist Mark Cunningham Ph.D. (bio) we read the following (Archive):
“ Issac Newton's notable success in providing a theoretical explanation for the motion of planets around the sun was followed quickly by his realization that the gravitational problem involving three bodies was immensely more difficult than the two-body problem. Where the two-body problem, as we have seen in Chapter 2, can be solved exactly, Newton's attempts to provide a concise mathematical description of the earth-sun-moon system were not successful.1 This, of course, is not due to Newton's lack of mathematical skills. Indeed, a series of notable mathematicians all applied their skills to the problem but without success, although it depends somewhat on how one defines success. It is true that no general solutions of the three-body problem have been constructed but the assault on the problem led to powerful new mathematical methods for understanding dynamical systems.2 ”
Yet again, we find direct statements telling us that the venture of describing or simulating the earth-sun-moon system has been unsuccessful, from the time of Newton up to present. Numerous and notable mathematicians over the years have attempted to describe or simulate the earth-sun-moon system without success—telling us everything that we need to know about the systems of Newton and Copernicus.
Richard D. Mattuck
Contrary to common dogma, the ability of various fields to describe physical systems based on the underlying laws has been going down with time, not up. Richard D. Mattuck writes in his A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem (Archive):
The Many-Body Problem for Everybody
“ How many bodies are required before we have a problem? G. E. Brown [bio] points out that this can be answered by a look at history. In eighteenth-century Newtonian mechanics, the three-body problem was insoluble. With the birth of relativity around 1910 and quantum electrodynamics in 1930, the two- and one-body problems became insoluble. And within modern quantum field theory, the problem of zero bodies (vacuum) is insoluble. So, if we are out after exact solutions, no bodies at all is already too many! ”
Stability of the Solar System
It has been asserted that Laplace and Lagrange demonstrated the stability of the Solar System. On this topic, Professor H. Scott Dumass tells us in The KAM Story (Archive):
“ In the early 19th century, building on earlier work of Lagrange, 12 Laplace ‘proved’ the stability of the solar system, and although this work was an important step and is mathematically correct as far as it goes, it was soon recognized that he had not shown stability for the n body problem, but rather for an attenuated version of it in which higher-order interactions between planets are ignored. Such claims and half-successes by the mathematical giants of the ages (and many other less-than-giants) of course only added celebrity to the n body problem, and to the stability problem in particular. ”
Later researchers went on to 'simulate' the solar system with geometry preserving schemes. See Symplectic Integrators
N-Body Symmetry
Code documentation for N-Body simulation software at Rosetta Code states the following:
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/N-body_problem (Archive)
“ The slightest perturbation from symmetry causes the system to become unstable. ”
Three Body Problem - The heliocentric Sun-Earth-Moon system cannot be simulated
Perturbation Methods - Epicycles are still used for astronomical prediction
Eclipse Prediction - The eclipses are predicted with cycles and patterns
Symplectic Integrators - A special method of orbital simulation which preserves geometry and forces stability
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Celestial Mechanics
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WHO Position on Rabies Vaccination
The World Health Organization on position paper on Rabies incorporates the most recent developments in the field of human rabies vaccines, in particular with regard to immunization schedules.
More on WHO's vaccine position papers here.
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New WHO position paper on rabies vaccines A new World Health Organization on paper incorporates the most recent developments in the field of human rabies vaccines, in particular with regard to immunization schedules. It was published on August 6th 2010 in the Weekly Epidemiological Record, and replaces the previous position paper published in December 2007. See page 7 of the most recent Rabies Alliance Newsletter: http://www.rabiescontrol.net/ARCnewsletter19.pdf for summary or go direct to full position paper: http://www.who.int/wer/2010/wer8532.pdf
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ProMED: Angiostrongylus - Spain: (Tenerife) First Report
29/09/2010 ProMED: The rat-lung worm [Angiostrongylus spp.] Has been found in Tenerife. “The institute of tropical diseases of the canary islands have discovered a parasite in the island of tenerife that may affect the population through the ingestion of lettuce. In the program, this Monday [27 sep 2010], television canaria "30 Minutes," the institute's director, Basilio Valladares, said that this parasite has been found in Tenerife and lives in the lungs of 40 percent of the rats tested.The parasite is transferred from animals to slugs and snails through their eggs. Although the possibility of acquiring it is remote, this parasite (of still unknown origin) has come to the island of tenerife with freight [imported food?]. It is advisable to wash food thoroughly before eating, and talking to your doctor if feeling unwell. Read the ProMED-mail article >>
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Report to the Fish and Wildlife Health Committee of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies from USGS Science Centers
29/9/2010 The report contains a number of interesting updates, articles and wildlife disease reports. Read the report >>
Avian Health-International News
Seagulls Harbor Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria 20/09/2010 BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11374536 Analysis of seagull droppings has revealed that one in ten carry 'superbug' bacteria, resistant to the last-resort antibiotic Vancomycin. Researchers writing in BioMed central's open access journal Proteome Science investigated 57 migratory seagull samples recovered from an island off the coast of Portugal. The seagulls studied (Larus cachinnans) are migratory birds that can be found across Europe, including the South East of England. They are opportunistic marine feeders, and will readily eat the food sources provided by humans, especially garbage….” Follow link to read more.
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Researchers sequence the genome of white nose fungus 16/09/2010 Broad Institute: http://www.broadinstitute.org/news/1516 “Broad researchers have sequenced and assembled the genome of Geomyces destructans, or white nose fungus, the pathogen involved in the death of over one million bats in the northeastern United States. They have made the genomic data public in an effort to aid those who hope to stop the spread of white nose syndrome, which threatens to destroy more bat populations….. Broad researchers collaborated with the US Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center on this project. USGS microbiologist David Blehert isolated the fungus from bats and shared genomic DNA with the Broad for sequencing. Blehert and his colleagues were among the first researchers to discover and describe the fungus. “The genome provides a framework for studying pathogenesis,”
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Seagulls Harbor Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
20/09/2010 BBC News: Analysis of seagull droppings has revealed that one in ten carry 'superbug' bacteria, resistant to the last-resort antibiotic Vancomycin. Researchers writing in BioMed central's open access journal Proteome Science investigated 57 migratory seagull samples recovered from an island off the coast of Portugal. The seagulls studied (Larus cachinnans) are migratory birds that can be found across Europe, including the South East of England. They are opportunistic marine feeders, and will readily eat the food sources provided by humans, especially garbage….” Follow link to read more.
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Revised White Nose Syndrome Guidance [BCT - UK] The latest white-nose syndrome guidance for bat workers is available to download from the BCT website. We are asking that all hibernation workers check the above link regularly for information about suspect cases in their local area, or the area(s) in which they work. Follow link for further information. http://www.bats.org.uk/pages/info_for_batworkers.html In addition the following information is found on this website regarding current surveys for WNS in the UK [mod-TG]. “Cases currently under investigation are those where one or more of the symptoms of WNS have been observed or are suspected. It is important to note that all cases investigated during the 2009/10 survey season came back as negative: that is, there were no confirmed cases of WNS (or the fungus G. destructans) in the UK. “
How viruses jump from hosts: Secrets of rabies transmission in bats discovered [Plus Publication] 6/6/2010 Science Daily: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100805143101.htm “HIV-AIDS. SARS. Ebola. Bird Flu. Swine Flu. Rabies. These are emerging infectious diseases where the viruses have jumped from one animal species into another and now infect humans. This is a phenomenon known as cross-species transmission (CST) and scientists are working to determine what drives it. ………….. It has been a long-held belief that rapid mutation is the main factor that allows viruses to overcome host-specific barriers in cellular, molecular or immunological defenses. Therefore, it has been argued that viruses emerge primarily between species with high contact rates. McCracken and his colleagues now report that CST may have less to do with virus mutation and contact rates and more to do with host similarity…………..” Follow link to read full article.
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Dry Climate Might Save Bats 01/09/2010 Las Vegas Review Journal: “One of the things we all hope in the back of our minds is that that particular fungus will find the Nevada environment inhospitable, but that remains to be seen," she said in a telephone interview from Sparks. Her comments followed an announcement by the Bureau of Land Management that said the federal…..” http://www.allvoices.com/news/6655274-dry-climate-might-save-bats
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NYPD finds no wrongdoing by Shake Shack employees after officers got sick from milkshakes
(CNN) — Three New York City Police Department officers have been released from the hospital after getting sick when they drank milkshakes from Shake Shack Monday night.
The shakes may have been tainted with bleach, according to a statement from the NYC Police Benevolent Association.
The NYPD launched an investigation after the officers fell ill and determined early Tuesday morning that there was no criminality by employees, according to a tweet from NYPD Detective Chief Rodney Harrison.
Investigators believe a cleaning solution used to clean the milkshake machines wasn’t fully cleared and may have gotten into the officers’ drinks.
The officers bought the beverages at the restaurant chain’s lower Manhattan location around 8:30 p.m., a spokeswoman for the department said.
All three officers were transported to a local hospital where they were treated, observed and released, according to the spokeswoman.
The NYCPBA, which represents more than 50,000 active and retired police officers, said in a statement posted to Twitter Monday night that the officers “discovered that a toxic substance, believed to be bleach, had been placed in their beverages.”
The officers had already ingested part of the beverages when they noticed a substance was in their drinks, the statement said.
“When NYC police officers cannot even take meal without coming under attack, it is clear that environment in which we work has deteriorated to a critical level,” PBA President Patrick Lynch wrote.
Shake Shack said in a tweet Monday night they were “horrified by the reports of officers injured,” and were working with police on investigation.
In an update tweet Tuesday morning the burger chain said they were “relieved to hear the officers are all okay” and are “working hard to get the full picture.”
CNN has reached out for further comment from the restaurant but has not yet heard back.
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Clarks calls in McKinsey & Co to "transform' brand
Struggling footwear giant Clarks is looking at its options and has called in consultants from McKinsey & Co-to conduct a review of the business. The result could mean store closures and job losses.
Clarks, which has 553 UK/Ireland shops and a workforce of around 12,000 people, has also hired an interim finance chief, with Philip de Klerk (formerly CEO of materials maker Low & Bonar) joining. The shoe chain’s existing finance director Paul Kenyon is leaving to rake up a new role outside of the fashion sector.
The McKinsey news was reported in the Sunday times at the weekend with the newspaper also saying McKinsey is helping new CEO Giorgio Presca “to transform the brand”. It also quoted the company saying de Klerk’s experience would be “invaluable”.
The news of McKinsey’s involvement came after Clarks reported an £82.9 million net loss for its latest year, with the company also taking a £50 million hit from the reduced value of its stores in the US and UK. At the time, it called its stores “a real drag on business performance”.
The almost-100-year-old company is still controlled by descendants of its founders and, despite having been a high street stalwart for most of its history, had warned earlier this month that it’s under “significant stress” and is planning “meaningful” store closures.
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Montana is ground zero for Native American voter suppression — and the fight against it
Who bears the burden? You’ll never guess:
Geography, poverty and politics all create obstacles for Native Americans. The Blackfeet reservation is roughly the size of Delaware but had only two election offices and four ballot drop-off locations last year, one of which was listed as open for just 14 hours over two days. Many other reservations in Montana have no polling places, meaning residents must go to the county seat to vote, and many don’t have cars or can’t afford to take time off.
By Vanessa Taylor
Opinion: The Supreme Court won’t stand up for voting rights. But some state courts will.
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Home Country Music Brooks & Dunn – Neon Moon
Brooks & Dunn – Neon Moon
It reached number # 1 of the lists of US Hot Country Singles, for two weeks in a row. On the Canada Country Tracks lists, it reached number # 1, for two weeks in a row. The song was included in the Brooks & Dunn debut album, Brand New Man (Arista 1991)
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A song written by Ronnie Dunn, it was recorded by the duo Brooks & Dunn for the Arista label, it was recorded in March 1991, at Tree Studios, 8th Music Sq. West, Nashville, TN, on the Brooks & Dunn recording, it was accompanied by, Brent Mason (guitar), Mark Casstevens (guitar and mandolin), Bruc Bouton (steel), Glenn Worf and Mike Chapman (bass), Lonnie Wilson (drums), Rob Hajacos (fiddle), John Barlow Jarvis (piano & keyboards) and Dennis Wilson, Harry Stinson & John Wesley Ryles (vocal back). With the production of Scott Hendricks & Don Cook, the single was released on February 24, 1992, on May 9, 1992, it reached number # 1 of the lists of US Hot Country Singles, for two weeks in a row. On the Canada Country Tracks lists, it reached number # 1 on May 23, 1992, for two weeks in a row.
The song became their third consecutive number one on the country charts. It was also their first single not to have an accompanying music video.
The song was included in the Brooks & Dunn debut album, Brand New Man (Arista 1991), the album was released on August 13, 1991, and reached number # 3 on the USTop Country Albums lists, and the number # 5 on the Canadian RPM Country Albums lists.
The album was certified 6 × Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for sales of six million copies.
On the original 45 record, it was paired with another good song: The B-Side was “Cheating on the Blues ” from the pen of D Cook, K. Brooks and C. Rains .
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Brooks & Dunn – Neon Moon lyrics
On my side of town
That lonesome feeling
Comes to my door
The whole world turns blue
There’s a rundown bar
Cross the railroad tracks
I’ve got a table for two
Way in the back
Where I sit alone
And think of losing you
I spend most every night
Beneath the light
Of a neon moon
If you lose your one and only
There’s always room here for
the lonely
To watch your broken dreams
Dance in and out of the beams
I think of two young lovers
Running wild and free
And sometimes see
You in the shadows
Of this smoke-filled room
No telling how many tears
I’ve sat here and cried
Or how many lies
That I’ve lied
Telling my poor heart
She’ll come back someday
Oh, but I’ll be alright
As long as there’s light
From a neon moon
The jukebox plays on
Drink by drink
The words of every sad song
Seem to say what I think
This hurt inside of me
Ain’t never gonna end
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Title: Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 3 December 1890
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03884
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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Glendale NJ
Dec 3rd 1890
Dear Mr Whitman
I received your letters1 & should have written to you long before this but I have had so much to do paps illness2 & Monts3 little family have keept me busy for the past month & I have an old lady staying with me & Jane4 away so you see that my time is about taken up. Pap does not improve very rapidly one day he is better the next worse cannot sit up all day more than an hour or two at any time, I suppose that Ed5 told you he had paralyses he did not know that he had a left hand for five days but he has regained the use of his hand but not the feeling also the lift foot the Dr6 says it was caused by blood—pressure of or on the brain & also says that he is likely to "have another attack at any time" I have seen pap ill but never like this he cant remember any thing long at a time & seems to be all broken up. I don't know how long Monts family will be here as he has left Woodstown his health was poor so he gave up his position there & has gone out in Pensylvania & has sent his wife & little ones here until he can get a house. The old lady that is staying with me is a sister in law of John Stafford,7 she is 83 years old is poor & has no home she came here last august to stay 3 weeks has been here ever since waiting for her children to provide a house for her.
I am sorry to hear of your Brothers8 death, was he ill long? it must be very trying for his daughter9 poor girl she must feel very much a lone. Harry10 was here last night he was well he is going to Camden soon & will call at your place. I will say goodby for this time please write to us when you feel able to—we always like to get a letter from you
with much love
Susan Stafford
Susan M. Lamb Stafford (1833–1910) was the mother of Harry Stafford (1858–1918), who, in 1876, became a close friend of Whitman while working at the printing office of the Camden New Republic. Whitman regularly visited the Staffords at their family farm near Kirkwood, New Jersey. Whitman enjoyed the atmosphere and tranquility that the farm provided and would often stay for weeks at a time (see David G. Miller, "Stafford, George and Susan M.," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings [New York: Garland Publishing, 1998], 685).
1. Whitman had last written to Susan Stafford and her husband George on November 12, 1890. [back]
2. George Stafford (1827–1892) was the father of Harry Stafford, a young man whom Whitman befriended in 1876 in Camden. Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New Jersey, where Whitman visited them on several occasions. For more on Whitman and the Staffords, see David G. Miller, "Stafford, George and Susan M." Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings, eds., (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998), 685. [back]
3. "Mont" is Montgomery Stafford (1862–1925); he was the son of Susan Stafford and her husband George. He was the brother of Whitman's close friend Harry Stafford. [back]
4. As yet we have no information about this person. [back]
5. Edwin Stafford (1856–1906) was one of George and Susan Stafford's sons. He was the brother of Harry Stafford, a close acquaintance of Whitman. [back]
7. Stafford may be referring to a sister-in-law of John Stafford (1825–1900), a cousin of her husband George. However, George Stafford's father was also named John Stafford (1790–1876). [back]
8. Thomas Jefferson Whitman (1833–1890), known as "Jeff," was Walt Whitman's favorite brother. As a civil engineer, Jeff eventually became Superintendent of Water Works in St. Louis and a nationally recognized figure. For more on Jeff, see Randall Waldron, "Whitman, Thomas Jefferson (1833–1890)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]
9. Jessie Louisa Whitman (1863–1957) was the second and youngest daughter of Whitman's brother Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman (1833–1890) and Jeff's wife Martha Mitchell Whitman (1836–1873). [back]
10. Walt Whitman met the 18-year-old Harry Lamb Stafford (1858–1918) in 1876, beginning a relationship which was almost entirely overlooked by early Whitman scholarship, in part because Stafford's name appears nowhere in the first six volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were published only in the 1990s. Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to John H. Johnston), but the relationship between the two also had a romantic, erotic charge to it. In 1883, Harry married Eva Westcott. For further discussion of Stafford, see Arnie Kantrowitz, "Stafford, Harry L. (b.1858)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]
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Alamogordo residents got a glimpse of the pope
Jacqueline Devine
Alamogordo Daily News
Alamogordo's Father James B. Hay Catholic School Principal Julia Fracker and Alamogordo High School student Belen Cardiel have returned from their voyage after seeing Pope Francis in Juárez.
Fracker said the experience is what she expected it to be but also what she wasn’t expecting it to be. Although she had tickets far in advance, it did not grant her and Cardiel access to the historic Mass site.
“We weren’t able to go really early because the people that we were staying with, the mom, she had to work. So we waited until she got home before we left. We left around 11 a.m., we got on the bus and got to the site. We started walking towards the end of the line but the line was never-ending,” she said. “We walked about a mile and we still didn’t find the end of the line. We ended up finding a break where I guess people weren’t paying attention so there was a big gap and we just jumped in. We were getting towards the front where you turned in your ticket and by this time it was around 1:40 p.m. A man came up to me and started speaking in Spanish and he stopped us. I asked a lady what he said and she said that it was already full and that we won’t be able to get in.”
Fracker and Cardiel were not alone. Thousands of others who also had tickets were turned away because security said it was too full and for safety reasons, they could not allow any more people into the Mass site. People had to be in the Mass site by 2 p.m., but the crowds were so large and the lines were so long that not everyone got to the front in time.
“I said how can that be? We have tickets but they said apparently people that didn’t have tickets were able to get in and they weren’t able to get them out,” Fracker said. “I said that wasn’t fair and all of a sudden the line started moving really fast and we got in, we went through security in what seemed like a second. We got to the area where the Mass site was and we walked towards the entrance where the green tickets were and the entrance was closed, they told us again that it was full.”
In perhaps a miracle, police approached Fracker and Cardiel’s group and told them they could go in but they would have to sit all the way in the back right outside the Mass site.
“We could see the altar and we decided that we were going to stay there,” Fracker said. “I was disappointed, but I reminded myself of how awesome this would be regardless of where I was and that even though I would not be officially in the Mass, I would still pray along and spiritually enter the mystery. I then realized that the pope might drive by here. I ran up to the front where the road is and we stood there for maybe an hour.”
She said when the pope arrived to the Mass site, his popemobile did not drive by them and some people in the crowd got upset and left.
“There were people inside the Mass site that after the pope left, they left as well which I was surprised because all the ticket takers said they wouldn’t let anyone leave until the pope leaves but they were letting people out and people were trying to get in,” Fracker said. “When everyone around me left I ran up to the railing and I thought to myself that the pope might come back this way. I stood there for two hours and then the pope drove by and I got an amazing picture of him, there was nothing in between us but the rail!”
Fracker and Cardiel received a blessing in disguise. By not sitting in their assigned seats, they were able to see Pope Francis up close as he zoomed by in his popemobile greeting the crowd before his departure.
“I wasn’t going to allow the setbacks to ruin my experience of it, I just focused on staying positive. When I finally saw him when he passed by, it happened so fast I just remember thinking that I was actually seeing the pope in person with my own two eyes,” Fracker said. “It was just incredible. Belen on the other hand, was just screaming. After he passed by she called every single person she could think of and frantically telling them how she just saw the pope.”
After Fracker and Cardiel witnessed the pope go by them, they dashed for the hills to try and beat the crowd out of the Mass site.
“As soon as he passed, we grabbed each other’s hands and made a mad dash out of the area and back to our bus. We held on tight to one another, not wanting to lose anyone in the massive crowd and wanting to get to the buses before the hundreds of thousands of people inside the Mass site caught up with us,” Fracker said. “Exhausted, we made it in the third bus heading out of there and made it home safely. We finished the night with sandwiches, cheesecake and diet Pepsi. I was so tired and hungry, our simple meal seemed like the most incredible meal ever.”
She said when all was said and done, she had a fantastic day and incredible experience. However, her body does ache but she said now that she is home, she can finally rest and reflect on her adventure.
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America’s ‘privacy renaissance’: What to expect under a new presidency and Congress
A deep dive into US privacy legislation and implications for US-EU-UK relations
Dr Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna
With more than 30 bills filed in the United States Congress since 2018 to regulate privacy, several privacy-related ballot initiatives passed at state level this year with overwhelming support from the population, and state legislatures adopting or seriously debating baseline privacy laws, it looks like the US might be going through a ‘privacy renaissance’.
However, much of this effervescence is still to be concretised in law, especially at federal level. Great expectations are now placed on the shoulders of both the future Biden administration and the 117th Congress: will they build on this momentum and deliver a federal comprehensive privacy law?
A history of great expectations and fragmented results
This is not the first time the US is making serious legislative incursions into potentially comprehensive federal privacy law. In the late 1960s and the early ’70s, developments in the US building on the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 led to an insightful Report of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) – ‘Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens’ (1973), that proposed a set of Fair Information Practice Principles, which are still influential today around the world. It was developed in parallel and published shortly after the UK’s Younger Committee Report, which provided for fairly similar principles.
In addition, the HEW Report argued for the need to adopt a comprehensive federal privacy law. A Bill proposed in the US Congress in 1974 as a result of the HEW Report comprised surprisingly similar provisions to the broad lines that currently define EU data protection law – a sign of a time when the US was influencing Europe in privacy policymaking. However, that Bill was significantly watered down throughout the Congressional legislative process and ended up being adopted into a law covering only some aspects of personal data processing by federal agencies – the current Privacy Act of 1974.
The decades of fragmented federal privacy legislation that followed are characterised by the development of the information society and an absence of correlating cross-industry, baseline safeguards for how personal data is collected, used and shared. This pattern was only disrupted in 2016, when US-based companies doing business in the EU started to be alarmed about implementation of the extraterritorial effects of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Awareness of data protection safeguards spread across the corporate world and trickled down into consumers’ inboxes, who were being flooded with information about ‘privacy policies’ being updated. Paired with the Cambridge Analytica scandal that erupted after the 2016 US Presidential elections, and brought personal data protection concerns into the mainstream, this led to tangible changes and increased awareness about the need for privacy protections. So, will things be different this time around for comprehensive federal privacy law? There are reasons to believe that yes, things will be different.
From the ground up: How states and the people are influencing privacy lawmaking
This time around there is pressure from the states and there is pressure from the people. Americans have an increased appetite for privacy. Consider the fact that close to 90% of the voters in Michigan approved a ballot initiative (akin to a referendum law) this November that amends the State Constitution to include a requirement of a search warrant to access a person’s electronic data and electronic communications.
Undoubtedly, though, California is leading the charge. On 4 November 2020, Californians voted a ballot initiative of their own, with more than 56% support, that promised to enhance the protection of their privacy, the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA). This law builds on and amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which was adopted by the state legislature in 2018 as the first baseline privacy law in the US, showing some hints of inspiration from the GDPR, and which entered into force in January 2020.
The CCPA applies across industries, broadly defines ‘personal information’ and has a set of baseline obligations for businesses in relation to how personal information is used, with a focus on limiting ‘selling’ of personal information to third parties. However, it does not set any limitations on collection of personal information, since it does not require lawful grounds for ‘processing’, as the GDPR does.
The same approach is perpetuated by the CPRA, which sets additional limitations on the use of newly defined ‘sensitive information’ but does not limit collection of any type of personal information. Additionally, the CPRA clarifies that the right to opt out of a sale of personal information equally applies to ‘sharing’ that information, eliminating the uncertainty that followed the entry into force of the CCPA and its definition of what a ‘sale’ of personal information is.
Both the CCPA and the CPRA provide for a set of individual rights, including access and deletion. Notably, the CPRA creates for the first time in the US a dedicated authority to enforce privacy law, the California Privacy Protection Agency (the CCPA is being enforced by the Attorney General of California). However, it does not expand the limited private right of action under the CCPA, which is only applicable with regard to data security breaches. The CPRA is set to enter into force in January 2023, having a lookback period of one year, and with the CCPA applying in the meantime.
Another significant development at state level is the legislative proposal of the Washington Privacy Act (WPA), in Washington State (in the north-west of the US, not Washington DC). This January, the state legislature will have a WPA version 3.0 on its table, after two failed attempts to pass it as law in the past two legislative sessions. During the most recent attempt, the State Senate passed the bill with close to unanimity, but the House of Representatives rejected it, expressing concerns around insufficient enforcement tools. The WPA bill has more similarities to the GDPR than the CCPA. For example, it uses the same concepts of ‘personal data’, ‘controllers’ and ‘processors’, includes the principles of data minimisation and purpose limitation, and provides for accountability rules and a risk-based approach, including the need to conduct ‘data protection assessments’ for specific types of data processing that present increased risks for ‘consumers’. The WPA also includes a set of rights of individuals, such as access and deletion, and with another nod to the GDPR, an individual right to portability.
Notably, the WPA proposal includes limitations of collection of sensitive data, by imposing on controllers an obligation not to process such data ‘without obtaining the consumer’s consent’, and ‘processing’ includes ‘collection’ in its definition. The newest version of the WPA does not provide for a private right of action. Similarly to the predecessor bill, its enforcement is left in charge of the Attorney General of Washington State.
Given that the legislature changed after the elections in November, it’s difficult to predict how the debates will go this time around. And with such an increased appetite for data protection and privacy safeguards, in addition to the allure of passing a law just in time to influence the process at federal level, there may be some chances for the bill to pass. At least 23 other states have multiple proposals on their agenda for baseline or sectoral consumer privacy law since 2018, but none of them as prominent and promising as those in California and Washington State, for now.
Initiatives in Congress heated up in 2020, but not enough to cross the finish line
This year was ambivalent for efforts at federal level to pass a comprehensive privacy law. On one hand, there were significant developments, with new bills that have political weight being introduced, such as the SAFE DATA Act led by Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), who is also the Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. The SAFE DATA Act consolidated several bills or discussion drafts proposed by Republican Senators. On another hand, those efforts were not sufficient to advance towards a compromise and actually pass legislation before the 116th Congress closes its session.
On the other side of the aisle, the leading legislative proposal was introduced a year ago, in December 2019, by a group of Democratic Senators led by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash): the Consumer Online Privacy Act (COPRA). Other bills were introduced in 2020, such as the Data Protection Act of 2020, by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and the Consumer Data Privacy and Security Act of 2020, introduced by Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas), in addition to bills proposed to specifically deal with privacy concerns raised by responses to the COVID19 pandemic.
The Congressional Research Service noted in a comparative analysis that all of the proposed comprehensive privacy law bills introduced in Congress or published discussion drafts have common features, such as ‘recognizing individuals’ rights to control their personal information’ and ‘creating procedures to enforce those requirements’, but that they differ in key respects – ‘which federal agency would have enforcement power; whether to preempt state privacy laws; and whether to provide a private right of action’. Indeed, all these matters are politically charged and the solution to them will be a result of political compromise.
Close observers agree that, for the time being, the two leading efforts are the SAFE DATA Act and COPRA. Both define ‘covered data’ broadly, which recalls the GDPR definition of ‘personal data’ by referring to information that not only identifies an individual, but that also is ‘reasonably linkable’ to an individual or a ‘consumer device’. Interestingly, both bills chose the notion of ‘covered data’ to designate the data that would be subject to regulation, and not ‘personal data’ or ‘personal information’. Both bills also exclude de-identified data, employee data and public records from their scope.
Other common features of the two bills are 1) consent-based restrictions to process a set of defined ‘sensitive’ data, recognising in addition to classic sensitive data (such as health, ethnic origin, sexual orientation), new categories like ‘persistent identifiers’ and ‘precise geolocation information’ – of note, the SAFE DATA Act, as opposed to COPRA, does not explicitly include ‘collection’ as one of the operations defined by ‘processing’; 2) a set of rights of individuals in relation to covered data relating to them, including the GDPR staples of access, correction, deletion and even portability; 3) sophisticated approaches to algorithms and algorithmic decision-making, with complex definitions and rules, such as mandating for algorithm transparency reports (SAFE DATA Act) or for algorithmic decision-making impact assessments (COPRA), or recognising and regulating ‘digital content forgeries’ (such as deep fakes).
Where the bills significantly differ is with regard to private rights of action and preemption, with COPRA proposing a general private right of action and preempting state laws only if they conflicted with it, and if that conflict did not ensure a higher level of protection to individuals. In contrast, the SAFE DATA Act does not include a general private right of action and proposes preemption of state privacy laws.
A relevant development for the debates around a US comprehensive federal privacy law was the invalidation of the EU-US Privacy Shield framework this July by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The threat to transatlantic trade posed by the court’s decision took several months before it managed to draw the attention of Congress. It was only in December that the Senate Commerce Committee organised a hearing to explore the challenges posed to personal data transfers by the Schrems II judgement of the CJEU.
One of the key questions the Senators asked repeatedly throughout the hearing was whether a federal privacy law would solve the transatlantic transfers problem. The consensus of the panel of witnesses was that a federal comprehensive privacy law would certainly help, but it will not be sufficient without addressing remedies, oversight and proportionality related to accessing personal data for national security purposes.
The Senators seemed motivated to advance their work towards comprehensive federal privacy law, which is top of the legislative agenda, as evidenced by the time and energy spent in the past two years proposing thoughtful, complex bills. The two Senators leading the bills that are most discussed by privacy professionals, Sen. Wicker and Sen. Cantwell, have not been impacted by the 2020 elections (they will both be up for reelection in 2024), allowing for continuity between the work of the 116th and the 117th Congress on this topic. The momentum is mounting even more so with the developments at state level detailed above.
The economic and social effects of the pandemic and the climate change crisis will be top priorities of the incoming administration. That said, there are several reasons to believe that a Biden Presidency could be a catalyst towards solving the federal privacy law puzzle.
First, there is the track record of the Obama Presidency, where President-elect Joe Biden served as Vice-President, assuming leadership in proposing a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, albeit non-binding, and in adopting a thoughtful, detailed report on ‘Big Data, Algorithmic Systems, Opportunity and Civil Rights’. Second, the experience that former Obama appointees, who now are part of the transition team or are being considered for different positions in the new administration, have garnered in negotiating the Privacy Shield, working on surveillance related commitments and reform as part of that process or working on the two initiatives mentioned above. Third, Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris’s interest in consumer privacy when she was the Attorney General of California. For instance, she created the Privacy Enforcement and Protection Unit in 2012. In addition, the current Attorney General of California, Xavier Becerra, whose Office is central to the enforcement of the CCPA, was nominated as Secretary for Health and Human Services by President-elect Biden.
Last, and perhaps most importantly, there is the current geopolitical landscape and the global movement towards adopting data protection laws fit for the digital age. And with the US announcing its return as an active global player, it’s difficult to believe the new administration will not want the US to be one of the leading voices in the global privacy and data protection debate.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has already extended a hand to the incoming administration, launching a proposal for a ‘new, forward-looking transatlantic agenda’, which includes cooperation on data governance, data flows and AI. The Declaration refers to ‘our shared values of human dignity, individual rights and democratic principles’ and ‘an unprecedented window of opportunity to set a joint EU-US tech agenda’.
One point on this agenda would be ‘cooperation at bilateral and multilateral level to promote regulatory convergence and facilitate free data flows with trust on the basis of high standards and safeguards’. A US federal privacy law would decisively contribute to this aim, even if it will not solve by itself the issue of transatlantic data transfers. President-elect Biden is expected to visit Brussels early in 2021, with pending invitations from both NATO and the Council of the EU.
One additional variable to track in 2021 is Brexit and whether the European Commission will adopt an adequacy decision for the UK that will allow unrestricted transfers of personal data from the EU, in the light of the recent judgement of the CJEU in the Privacy International case. If the Commission is not satisfied that the level of protection of personal data in the UK is essentially equivalent to that in the EU and will not adopt an adequacy decision, this may create an opportunity for a rapprochement between the US and the UK in how they deal with cross-border data flows and government access to data.
To return to the question at the beginning of this overview, there are reasons to believe that US comprehensive federal privacy law may become reality during the 117th Congress, which will meet from 3 January 2021 to 3 January 2023, with the Biden administration acting as catalyst. All of the moving pieces analysed above indicate an effervescent next year.
This article is the second article in a series on the geopolitics of data regulation, exploring questions arising from the UK’s National Data Strategy, transition from the EU and new regulations, and the impact of the incoming Biden administration on Anglo-Euro-US cross-border data transfer.
Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna is Senior Counsel for Global Privacy and EU Data Protection Law at the Future of Privacy Forum, a think tank headquartered in Washington DC. Previously she was legal officer for the European Data Protection Supervisor in Brussels. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the text belong solely to the author. She can be reached at gzanfir-fortuna@fpf.org.
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Stagey Selects: The Lion King
Anna Fiorentini • 23 Jul 2021
Welcome to our series of blogs called Stagey Selects where we will take a deep dive into our favourite musicals and shows from the stage. We’ll take a look at the history of the show as well as some fun trivia. This week is all about The Lion King musical.
Based on the 1994 Disney animated movie of the same name, The Lion King follows the moving and epic story of Simba as he transforms from a naïve lion cub to his destined role as King of the Pridelands. But trouble ensues when Simba’s uncle Scar launches his own bid for the Kingdom, going to unimaginable and shocking lengths to claw his way to the throne.
The production opened on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theater in November 1997. Following its success there, the show opened in the West End at the Lyceum Theatre in October 1999.
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Here is some exciting theatre trivia for the show:
It has been running at London’s Lyceum Theatre for over 20 years making it the sixth-longest running show in the West End.
The story was influenced by the Biblical stories of Joseph and Moses and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
232 puppets are used in one performance of the show. The giraffe puppets measure18 feet and the elephants are 13 feet.
The music is by one of Britain’s most popular musicians of all time, Elton John. The lyrics are by Tim Rice whose other credits include Evita and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
It took a total of 37,000 hours to build all the props for the show.
There are six African languages used in the show. These are Swahili, Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana and Congolese.
The musical has won many awards including Best Musical at the Tony Awards and Best Costume Design at the Olivier Awards.
The production has played in over 100 cities in 20 countries on every continent except Antarctica.
The actor George Asprey has been playing Scar since April 2008.
Mufasa’s mane is constructed using a circular shape, this represents ‘goodness’ and reflects the circle of life. Whereas Scar’s mane is jagged as his actions disrupt the circle of life.
We can’t wait to return to the Pridelands and hear the audiences roar!
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Trump diplomacy
North Korea fires projectiles after seeking new talks with Trump
Kim Tong-hyung
Sep 10, 2019 – 10.24am
Seoul | North Korea launched at least two unidentified projectiles into the sea on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States but warned its dealings with Washington may end without new US proposals.
The North's projectile launches and demand for new proposals were apparently aimed at pressuring the United States to make concessions when the North Korea-US talks restart. North Korea is widely believed to want the United States to provide it with security guarantees and extensive relief from US-led sanctions in return for limited denuclearisation steps.
This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows the test firing of an unspecified missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea at some undisclosed date. North Korea fired two projectiles off its coast on Tuesday. AP
The North Korean projectiles fired from its South Phyongan province, which surrounds its capital city of Pyongyang, flew across the country and in the direction of the waters off its east coast, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defence Ministry.
The military said South Korea will monitor possible additional launches by North Korea but gave no further details like exactly what projectile North Korea fired.
Tuesday's launches were the eighth such launches since late July and the first since Aug. 24. The previous seven launches have revealed short-range missile and rocket artillery systems that experts say would potentially expand its capabilities to strike targets throughout South Korea, including US military bases there.
On Monday night, the North's first vice foreign minister, Choe Son Hui, said North Korea is willing to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States in late September but that Washington must come to the negotiating table with acceptable new proposals. She said if the proposals don't satisfy North Korea, dealings between the two countries may come to an end.
President Donald Trump called North Korea's announcement "interesting."
"We'll see what happens," Trump said. "In the meantime, we have our hostages back, we're getting the remains of our great heroes back and we've had no nuclear testing for a long time."
There was no immediate comment from the White House following reports of the launches.
In the late-night statement carried by state media, Choe said North Korea is willing to sit down with the United States "for comprehensive discussions in late September of the issues we have so far taken up, at a time and place to be agreed."
Choe said she hopes the United States will bring "a proposal geared to the interests of the DPRK and the US and based on decision methods acceptable to us." DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name.
She warned that "if the US side fingers again the worn-out scenario which has nothing to do with new decision methods at the DPRK-US working negotiation to be held with so much effort, the DPRK-US dealings may come to an end."
Talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament fell apart in February when Trump rejected North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's demand for sweeping sanctions relief in return for partial disarmament at their second summit in Vietnam.
It was a huge embarrassment for the young North Korean leader, who made a dayslong train trip to the Vietnamese capital to obtain the sanctions relief he needs to revitalise his country's troubled economy.
In April, Kim said he was open to another summit with Trump but set the end of the year as a deadline for the US to offer improved terms for an agreement to revive the nuclear diplomacy.
Kim and Trump met again at the Korean border in late June and agreed to restart diplomacy, but there have no public meetings between the sides since then.
In recent months, North Korea has carried out a slew of missile and rocket tests to protest joint military drills between the US and South Korea that North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal. Some experts said the North Korean weapons tests were also a demonstration of its expanding weapons arsenal aimed at boosting its leverage ahead of new talks with the United States.
Most of the North Korean weapons tested in July and August have been short range. This suggests that North Korea hasn't wanted to lift its self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests, which would certainly derail negotiations with Washington.
Trump has downplayed the latest North Korean weapons tests, saying the US never restricted short-range tests.
Some experts said Trump's repeated downplaying of North Korea's recent launches allowed the country to speed up its weapons development while it seeks to build leverage ahead of negotiations with Washington.
By repeatedly firing the short-range weapons system that directly threaten South Korea but not the US mainland or its Pacific territories, Pyongyang is also seen as pressuring Seoul to coax major concessions from Washington on its behalf. The North, while recently ignoring the South's pleas for talks, has also demanded that Seoul turn away from Washington and restart inter-Korean economic projects currently held back by US-led sanctions against the North.
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The ups and downs of the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations
Posted 16 Feb 2012, 4:41pm By Verity Coyle
Breaking news 5.45pm 16 February
The UK has firmly committed to robust and effective Arms Trade Treaty covering all convention weapons, including small arms and ammunition. They also said that the Treaty must reflect values such as human rights and international law.
Clearly the pressure you've been putting on the UK government is working and we are nearly there. This might sound like everything we've been asking for, but there is still more to do:
While this is a very positive step in the right direction, what we really need are caste iron guarantees that the UK will help ensure arms sales and deliveries are stopped if it seems that serious violations of human rights will occur. To do so, they must support the inclusion of language to this effect in the Treaty. Some governments want very weak provisions, or none at all, making these rules optional - potentially allowing irresponsible arms sales to continue.
We need you to Keep up the pressure. We still have not heard from David Cameron and we want him to show that this is a top priority for the UK government. Email Cameron and Clegg now
We're now just over half way through the last preparatory conference focussed on the creation of an international Arms Trade Treaty. And, let me tell you, it is hard work! Governments and civil society care deeply, albeit about sometimes very different versions of this Treaty. But, nevertheless, they care deeply and are working hard to reach agreement on the rules and procedure that will govern the final talks in July.
Today Olly and I met with many States. Speaking to representatives from Pacific countries, issues of international cooperation and assistance really hit home. A major area of concern for these countries, particularly the smaller States, is implementation. With limited resources, the burden of reporting that is being suggested as part of the Treaty will create real problems. We need to enshrine partnership and capacity building in the Treaty because without such support, many of these countries - however willing - will struggle to fully comply.
For countries with developed export control systems and technology such as the UK, who we also met, the burden is not a new or onerous one. Read our report on implementing the Treaty, and the need for transparent reporting (pdf)
We take to the stage
Civil society participation has been a hot topic this week, with NGO's being thanked by numerous States for their contribution during the whole process. Today it was our turn to contribute through a set of formal presentations to the UN member states about issues important to the civil society movement.
First to take the floor was The World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities, an organisation that claims to represent more than one hundred million hunters and sports shooters. Ted Rowe, the President, spoke briefly, his main message being "I would implore the body to exempt civilian firearms from the scope of an ATT. I would further implore the body to exempt all ammunition from the ATT".
An Arms Trade Treaty that has no control over bullets? Hmmm…You probably don't need reminding that without controls on all types of weapon and ammunition the Treaty will never fulfil its potential to save lives and stop weapons getting into the hands of those who will use them to commit human rights abuses.
Jeff Abramson - head of the Control Arms coalition put the counter argument beautifully: "we frequently hear the claim that the treaty would interfere with US gun ownership, in particular those based on the Second Amendment. Such arguments are factually bankrupt and morally indefensible. Vigorously shouted claims that the ATT is a way to "take away their guns" is an accurate as saying that those opposing the treaty wish to "internationally arm terrorists to kill US soldiers". Please, let us stop this nonsense and talk about the actual treaty effort upon which we are all engaged”.
Costing the Treaty
As though responding to this plea Dr. Omolade Oladejo from International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War spoke about her work which revolves around the health consequences of armed violence. Some of the facts she delivered to the conference are staggering. For example, in Nigeria, the average health expenditure per individual is $69 a year. "By contrast, treatment for a recent case, a man injured by armed violence cost $460 for just the first two weeks in hospital, with many more weeks of medical care ahead of him then untold months or years of additional rehabitliation for the emotional and psychological trauma. This is but one of the devastating costs of armed violence".
Dr. Oladejo further explained that the medical cost to treat a young girl in Nepal hit by a stray bullet is the equivalent of 3.5 years of her father’s salary - or enough to equip an entire health centre in her village. In Nairobi, Kenya, medical care to repair a jaw shattered by a gunshot costs the equivalent of immunisations for 250 children.
With talk about this treaty costing too much or being overly burdensome her arguments are a timely reminder that the opposite is true - the cost of not having this treaty is simply too high.
A broader perspective
The vast majority of people in the UK don't live in fear of armed violence as a daily reality. For most of us it's safe to go to the shops and it's possible to go through your entire live without ever hearing live gunfire. As these examples show, for so many people in so many countries that isn't the case.
Conventional arms often assist in the perpetration of serious violations of human rights such as torture, the excessive use of force by security forces, extrajudicial executions, forced evictions and disappearances. If an ATT is to be an effective legal instrument in regulating the international arms trade, the inclusion of human rights and humanitarian law is key.
Transparency International UK, who work to reduce corruption in defence and security establishments worldwide, highlighted that even with these legal frameworks, there remains a risk that the effectiveness of stronger controls on the arms trade being proposed as part of the Arms Trade Treaty could still be undermined by corruption. They suggested that the risk of corruption is considered alongside the other factors (such as human rights issues above) in deciding whether or not to approve individual arms sales. They urged that states continue to press for language to be included in the treaty that addresses the risk of corruption.
Please continue to call on Clegg and Cameron to support a bulletproof treaty.
Time takes on a different meaning here at UN talks, days are packed with debate, discussion and real global politics. I go from feeling completely optimistic open minute when a State like Trinidad and Tabago or Mexico speaks, to deflated and worried when the Chair asks for closed sessions or the French position on concensus takes us the steps back. The days are long and although a predominantly technical debate there is still emotion in the room. We are after all talking about finally controlling the deadly trade in arms, something that with the current lack of controls contributes to halting devopment and abusing people's rights.
As Dr. Oladejo put it "with ambitious vision, good will, cooperation, political capital and very long July nights, an ATT that actually matters is within reach for the international community".
Let's go get it people - ask David Cameron and nick clegg to speak up with the conviction of Dr. Oladejo, Jeff Abramson and all of the other campaigners out here.
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angus watson 9 years ago
You said it is hard work at the conference and I'm sure that is an immense understatement. Keep strong, and hopefully your efforts will be worthwhile.
It appears the UK are heading in the right direction. Hopefully other countries will follow.
jodan 9 years ago
Posted 16 Feb 2012, 4:41pm
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‘We have to speak and speak about our traumas’
মার্চ ২৮, ২০২১, ৪:২৪ পূর্বাহ্ণ
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The more we speak, the more we heal ourselves. So, we must not stop speaking about our traumas. When we speak other women, who are voiceless, get their energy to go further.
Thus, the panelists of the first webinar of Women Chapter International (WCI) emphasized speaking about traumas.
WCI, a not-for-profit organization, conducted its first webinar on 26th of March, 2021 on the theme “Transgenerational Trauma of Rape and Our Future” on the occasion of 50th Independence Day of Bangladesh. The panelists from different parts of the world talked about cases of wartime rape and the transgenerational impact among communities affected by war and conflict.
The one and half hour session was co-hosted by Supriti Dhar and Shumu Haque (board member of WCI). The panelists included:
● Leesa Gazi, a British Bangladeshi writer, theatre-worker, award-winning filmmaker, and co-founder of Komola Collective.
● Jeanne Celestine Lakin, a human rights advocate and founder of One Million Orphans. She is a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
● Consolee Nishimwe, an author, a motivational speaker, women’s rights defender and a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
● Dr. Feride Rushiti is founder and executive director of the Kosovo Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (KRCT).
● Wiola Rebecka, psychotherapist and author of the book Rape. A history of shame. Diary of the survivors.
Leesa Gazi shared how she learned about the Birangonas at the age of 17 and began her journey to meet some of them and spend time with them. According to her, she found a sense of purpose by making films on their stories. Shumu and Leesa reflected over how the title Birangona, which was meant to honor the rape survivors of the 1971 war of Bangladesh ended up backfiring and the survivors were accepted back at the cost of being silenced about their experiences. A trailer of Ms. Gazi’s award-winning documentary “Rising Silence” was shown during the session.
Jeanne Celestine Lakin and Consolee Nishimwe talked about their extremely powerful personal stories as rape and genocide survivors during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. They talked about the aftermath of the genocide, and how they struggled to cope with their traumas and tried to hold onto their faith in God to heal and find their way to heal and rebuild their lives. Ms. Nishimwe talked about how she and her mother embarked on a healing process at the same time. Ms. Lakin emphasized on the need to seek counselling in order to heal, and to be able to speak up and forgive.
Dr. Feride Rushiti talked about her holistic approach to working with wartime victims of sexual violence. She emphasized on the need for a multi-dimensional approach through psycho-social support, legal assistance, medication, treatment and policy advocacy.
Wiola Rebecka talked about her grandmother’s story and the situation in her country of origin, Poland, where she witnessed the denial of sexual violence. She drew attention to the sexual trauma impact on our psychology and body, which passes across generations. She emphasized the importance of speaking up, as losing the ability to share our stories can severely impact us. She concluded by lauding the government of newly- formed Bangladesh in 1970s for officially honoring the wartime sexual violence survivors, by giving them the title “Birangona.”.
The session ended with the intention to organize more events in the near future. Everyone from the panelists have agreed to work together and to help each other. Supriti Dhar, founder editor of Women Chapter and chairman of WCI asked everyone to come forward to making a Support Center in Bangladesh, so that the victim women of Bangladesh can get mental, physical and legal help from this center.
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Financial Statement Differentiation A Financial Statement can be defined as, “Summary report that shows how a firm has used the funds entrusted to it by its stockholders (shareholders) and lenders, and what is its current financial position” (Business Dictionary, 2011). The Financial information is required for various users to make an informed Decision.
“The purpose of financial information is to provide inputs for decision making” (Kimmel, Weygandt, Kieso, 2009, Para 1, p. 6).There are four different parts covered in a Financial Statement; those are Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Retained Earnings Statement, and Statement of Cash flow. The assignment will elaborate the purpose of each statement and differentiate its utility for different users. Balance Sheet “The balance sheet reports assets and claims to assets at a specific point in time” (Kimmel et al. , 2009, p.
14). The Balance sheet gives the exact money value worth of the assets over the liabilities of the company as of the specified time mentioned.The Balance sheet formula is “Assets = Liabilities + Stockholders’ Equity” (Kimmel et al. , 2009, p. 14). The various resources possessed by a business such as property, cash, and equipment are Assets.
Liabilities include the company’s payables to creditors and owners; the owner capital is also-called as Owner’s equity. A public company publicizes its Balance sheet to the general public. The creditors and investors use this statement to decide if they will invest in or lend to this company. The investors will see the likelihood of their money being repaid by the company.Income Statement The Income Statement is also-called a Profit or Loss statement. As the name infers the statement shows if the company has made profit or loss during the specified time. “The income statement reports the success or failure of the company’s operations for a period of time” (Kimmel et al. , 2009, p.
12). The Income Statement consists of Expense and Revenue, the difference between the Revenue and Expenses determines the Net Profit or Net Loss. “Expenses are the cost of assets consumed or services used in the process of generating revenues” (Kimmel et al. , 2009, p.
11). Revenue is the increase in assets resulting from the sale of a product or service in the normal course of business” (Kimmel et al. , 2009, p. 11). So if the expenses are more than the revenue earned the company made a loss and if the Revenue exceeds the expenses it made a Net profit.
Lenders like Banks, credit association, and other investors use the Income Statement to see the company’s performance and determine if it can repay the money and if it is worth investing. The Income statement also helps the internal team to determine if the expenses are well covered by the revenue generated.For example a new Advertisement cost is $12000 for last quarter and Revenue did not move any further than it was before the Advertisement. Then they should rethink about continuing that Advertisement strategy. Retained Earnings Statement “Retained earnings are the net income retained in the corporation” (Kimmel et al.
, 2009, p. 13). When a business makes profit it can decide to retain the earnings for business expansion or pay the owners back as dividend. The Retained Earnings statement shows the total Income, less the dividend paid to owners to determine the retained Earnings.The investors look at this statement to see usual dividend payment practice of the business. Some investors like companies paying the owners and some investors do not like these.
This is because the dividend paid will bring down the company’s ability to pay the creditors. Statement of Cash Flow “A statement of cash flows is to provide financial information about the cash receipts and cash payments of a business for a specific period of time” (Kimmel et al. , 2009, p. 15). The cash flow statement shows how the cash has been utilized in the business operation, financial, and investing activities.
This means the Statement of cash flow will show the amount of cash used in different ways such as in operation of business, investing, and Financing activities. The Investors and creditors can see how the liquid cash has been handled. The internal team uses the report to know the current cash position. To summarize, Investors, and creditors depend on the various financial statements to make investing decisions. The Internal team uses these financial statements to understand their current position and uses this as a measure for their performance. This will help both internal and external users to make decisions.
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A Conversation “She really doesn’t know?” “I haven’t had time to tell her.” “Don’t you think she’d like to know?” “It’s not like I’m keeping a secret. I need to time it right.” “I would think the moment you’re gone she’ll know something’s up.” “I doubt she’ll even care.” “Is it possible you’ve already let her know?” “I don’t think so.” “Maybe, the wedding ring has given it away.” “This thing? Well, yeah, maybe.” Other…
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Actress Known as Lily Aldrin in the CBS Sitcom "How I Met Your Mother"
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Alyson Hannigan Biography
Alyson Lee Hannigan (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress who plays Lily Aldrin in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. She is also known for her previous roles as Willow Rosenberg on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and flautist Michelle Flaherty in the American Pie film series.
Hannigan was born Alyson Lee Hannigan in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Emilie Posner, a real estate agent, and Al Hannigan, a truck driver. Hannigan is Jewish on her mother's side, and also has Irish ancestry. Her parents divorced a year after her birth and she was raised mostly by her mother in Atlanta.
Although Hannigan had appeared in an industrial film for "Active Parenting" as a baby, as well as starred in a commercial for the Duncan Hines cookie mix in 1978, it wasn't until she moved to Los Angeles, California in 1985 that she formally began her acting career. Living with her mother and attending North Hollywood High School, she successfully auditioned for agents while visiting her father in Santa Barbara.
Hannigan's first major film role was in My Stepmother Is an Alien, a science fiction comedy released in 1988; one of her co-stars in the film was actor Seth Green, who would later join her in the regular cast of Buffy as her on-screen boyfriend. Throughout most of the early 1990s, she appeared in commercials and supporting roles on television shows, including Picket Fences, Roseanne and Touched by an Angel.
In 1997, Hannigan was cast to play Willow Rosenberg, Buffy's best friend, on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The show became a success, and Hannigan gained recognition, subsequently appearing in several notable films aimed at teenage audiences, including American Pie, American Pie 2, Boys and Girls, and American Wedding. By the time Buffy had ended in 2003, Hannigan was earning a $250,000 salary for each episode. She also had a guest spot on the Buffy spin-off, Angel, portraying her role of Willow in a few episodes (including most notably "Orpheus", during the fourth season of Angel and the seventh season of Buffy), but none after Buffy finished production.
In early 2004, Hannigan made her West End debut, starring in a stage adaptation of When Harry Met Sally... at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, opposite Luke Perry. In 2005, she returned to starring in a regular television series, appearing in the hit comedy, How I Met Your Mother, as Lily, and also playing a recurring guest role on Veronica Mars as Trina Echolls.
In February 2006, Hannigan starred as Julia Jones in Date Movie, a parody on romantic comedies.
She dated and had a very open relationship with the drummer from the band Marilyn Manson, named Ginger Fish, in the 90's.
She married actor Alexis Denisof (who played Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in the Buffy/Angel franchise) at Two Bunch Palms Resort in Desert Hot Springs, California on October 11, 2003. They bought a house together in Santa Monica, California.
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Home Major Recall of Burgers Containing Undeclared Wheat
Major Recall of Burgers Containing Undeclared Wheat
By: Ishani Nath
in Celiac
Nearly 137,000 pounds of beef products are being pulled off U.S. grocers’ shelves due to suspected wheat contamination.
The massive recall occurred when the Campos Foods discovered that the spice mix used in their ready-to-eat cheese burgers contained trace amounts of wheat. However, wheat was not included on the products’ ingredient list.
Wheat is one of the Top 8 recognized allergens and contains gluten, making this recall a concern for those with wheat allergy, gluten intolerance, and celiac disease.
Jim English, president and COO of Campos Foods, told Allergic Living that their third-party spice supplier changed its ingredient list to reflect the fact that wheat is used in their manufacturing process. When Campos Foods became aware of the change to the spice ingredient statement, they opted to do disclose the new information to the public and do a voluntary recall.
English emphasizes that the cheeseburgers and their manufacturing process remains unchanged. “It’s the same product it’s always been,” he says. “In the final product, it’s less than 2 parts per million of wheat.”
The two H-E-B brand burger varieties which contain the undeclared allergen were produced between August 2014 and January 2015, and shipped to retail locations in Texas.
According to the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service, the Tennessee-based company has received no reports of adverse reactions due to the wheat-contaminated burgers.
Going forward, the recipe for the pre-prepared burgers will remain the same, but the burgers now include wheat on their ingredient list.
“Campos Foods stands behind its products and we’re always concerned for the health and well-being of our customers and that’s why we’re doing this,” says English.
For more information, call the toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline is 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6853). Reactions or complaints can be reported online here: https://ccms.fsis.usda.gov/
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By: Jim Kevlin 04/08/2020 5:00 pm
Home › AllOTSEGO | Hometown Oneonta | The Freeman's Journal | This Week's Newspapers › Desperate Callers Spur Fast-Tracking Of A Better Visor
Desperate Callers Spur Fast-Tracking Of A Better Visor
04/08/2020 AllOTSEGO, Hometown Oneonta, The Freeman's Journal, This Week's Newspapers
Samaritans Work ‘Round Clock To Fill Need
Desperate Callers
Spur Fast-Tracking
Of A Better Visor
By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
It’s a futuristic-looking visor, and Oneonta native Ivan Potocnik and three collaborators are giving them away to regional hospitals as fast as
their 3D-printers can churn them out.
UTICA – Every day, Ivan Potocnik gets calls from people across the state, begging him for help.
“The head of nursing from a hospital on Long Island just broke down crying,” he said. “She was telling me that there’s just not enough personal protective equipment, and it’s contributing to the spread. I wish that was uncommon, but we hear it all the time.
“She had heard that we were printing the medical shields, and was begging me – this person she didn’t even know – for help getting some.”
Potocnik, born in Oneonta, raised in Laurens and now lead programmer analyst at SUNY Polytechnic in Utica, has partnered with several friends to 3D-print medical shields for healthcare workers who often work 12-hour shifts on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, using the same PPE for multiple patients.
Potocnik was contacted by a friend, Shawn Daley in Northborough, Mass., who was working with another friend, Toni Dipalma, Albany, to make the masks and donate them to healthcare workers.
The visors – printed from a pattern they found online – are worn by medical professionals as “splatter prevention” against sneezes and other bodily fluids, with a face mask worn underneath.
Shawn Daley received this selfie from a couple of satisfied customers.
A 3D printer – from a digital file, it can print three-dimensional solid objects – in this case, the visors. Potocnik then assembles the pieces.
Under normal circumstances, said, the shield would be used, then thrown away. But with supplies as limited as they are, these masks can be cleaned with soap, water and rubbing alcohol and reused until the plastic fogs. Two shields are included with every visor to extend its life.
Potocnik – he is also the web architect who built www.AllOTSEGO.com – purchased his own 3D printer for the project and enlisted a Utica-area friend, Ryan Quigley. They also started a GoFundMe to help buy materials; of the $5,000 goal, $4,470 has been raised. Three 3D printers have also been donated.
Along with Daley and Quigley, Potocnik prints the visor, and attaches the transparent plastic shield. Dipalma works as communications director, fielding calls and taking orders. Potocnik then sanitizes, packages and ships the masks.
Seven 3D printers going full-time can produce between 80-100 visors per day. “So far, we’ve distributed 450 visors, with 900 shields,” Potocnik said. “If we could ramp it up, we’d like to distribute 500+ a week.”
Word quickly got out, and soon cold calls from across the state started coming in. “People have been so grateful, whether we give them five or 100,” he said. “It’s really indicative of the state of affairs.”
Many times, he said, it’s a brother or sister of nurses or aides reaching out on their behalf. “The health-care workers are just too busy,” he said. “They work their shift, come home and fall into bed, then get up and do it again.”
Locally, visors have been distributed to Bassett Healthcare and ARC Otsego, as well as EMTs with the Davenport Volunteer Fire Department.
Potocnik has also distributed visors to Utica-area nursing homes and Oneida Hospital. “I’d like to get more back home,” he said.
Daley has been distributing to several locations in Massachusetts, including Worcester and Milford. Other messages come in through the Facebook page, and Potocnik is working on building a website.
And he’s still seeking people with 3D printers to join the effort. “We’ll take any you can print,” he said. “If we had 100 machines running, we still couldn’t meet the demand.”
But he doesn’t want to be called a hero for his efforts. “These are desperate times,” said Potocnik “and schlubs like me shouldn’t be getting any recognition because the government failed to prepare.”
Ivan Potocnik, otsego county news, RIST 3D Printing, SUNY Poly
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2020 | WALKIN’ OFF…. …The Coronavirus Blahs
2 thoughts on “Desperate Callers Spur Fast-Tracking Of A Better Visor”
mandigocarol April 9, 2020 at 11:25 am
RIST is doing amazing work and if you think about how many people can potentially be saved by a face shield preventing one infection it’s a geometric progression of disease that will never have to happen because of them.
They are also spending a lot of their own money and being price gouged on supplies, which I think should be against the law. Please consider a donation to their GoFundMe page to help stop the spread to the healthcare workers in our community!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/3d-printing-medical-shields-for-medical-workers?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet
Ivan Potocnik April 9, 2020 at 11:40 am
Thank you so much for this article! This is wholly a team effort and other than myself, the RIST3D team are some of the best folks I’ve had the opportunity to work with.
Toni DiPalma, who originally got me involved and who has been handling basically all of the front end of this project, handling calls, sorting out distribution, involving local politicians, and even getting involved in the assembly and technical side as well.
Shawn Daley who, thanks to his vast intellect, continues to pump out this necessary PPE, fields requests all throughout Massachusetts, and without whose knowledge of modeling and 3D printing we wouldn’t be near as efficient as we are now.
Ryan Quigley who has been solid as a rock and has been day-in-and-day-out working, and has been instrumental in figuring out how to best print these visors and how to go about sanitation, and who has been ensuring that we have as little downtime as possible.
Outside of that, we,the RIST3D team want to extend a massive THANK YOU to all of the healthcare workers, social workers, and others that have been putting themselves out there on the front-lines of this crisis. This is just one, small way we’re trying to express our gratitude for you all working to keep us safe and healthy.
Please see the links below for more information on RIST3D:
Web: https://rist3d.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RIST3DPrinting
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/3d-printing-medical-shields-for-medical-workers
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Carry On’s lavatorial masterpiece
Posted byAl September 8, 2009 Posted inComedy, Escapism, Film, Gnosis, Visionary
Well, it’s been a quiet August on the blogging front, partially because work’s been very hectic (in particular, some fascinating drug legalisation crusading – more details here), partially because my tech time has gone on other projects (which should lead to major changes to the blog this autumn – watch this space, as they say), and partially because I just felt like a bit of a break.
But now, I’m back. And I’m back because of late Carry On masterpiece, ‘Carry On At Your Convenience’, one of the last films the team made before they descended into the horrors of dubious sex comedies like ‘Carry on Emmanuelle’.
On the surface, it’s not an immediate contender for masterpiece status. It’s set in a toilet factory; it’s a profoundly partial anti-union rant; and, climaxing as it does with the humiliation, and then spanking, of Vic, the lead trade unionist by his fearsome mother, it’s in part a kind of right wing media spell for invoking the coming reign of the arch-matron, Margaret Thatcher. Here she is in action:
But there’s much in it that’s just magnificent. For starters, there’s the relationship between Sid James and Hattie Jacques. It’s a precise portrait of a certain kind of suburban tedium; a ‘happy’ marriage that’s at once a source of routine comfort and quiet desperation. Played a little differently, it would fit easily into any one of the period’s ostensibly more serious and socially realistic classics. Here’s their first scene together:
Then, there’s the relationship that offsets that, between Sid and Joan Sims. Often cast as the shrew, Sims shines here in a far more positive way. Her cheerful, bawdy wit and gleefully sexual presence effortlessly deflate pomposity throughout the film. But there’s a deep emotional core to her performance. She and Sid spend most of the film in very public comic flirting; but, once they’re alone, the tone changes.
They’re next door neighbours; and, after the works outing to Brighton, they’re dropped off together, late at night, outside their respective front doors. Divided by a garden fence, they debate whether or not to share a cup of tea before bed. Deciding in the end that the neighbours would talk, they sadly separate, and the scene ends. Alas, I can’t find any clips of it online.
There’s a depth to this moment that’s unique in Carry On; played entirely straight, it’s a direct and very touching presentation of the reality behind the endlessly flirtatious, endlessly unconsummated relationships that drive the humour of so much of the films.
And it’s a nod to a reality the audience would know very well, too. In fact, few – if any – contemporary films managed to present the complex reality of long term relationships, caught on the cusp of major social change, in such a concise and affecting way.
But, being a Carry On movie, ‘Carry On At Your Convenience’ of course has hilarity at its core. Throughout, hilarity deflates pomposity, acting as a wonderful and powerful leveller. Nowhere is that more evident – and developed in a more interesting way – than in the works trip to Brighton itself.
About three quarters of the way through the movie, all the characters take off for Brighton – the management included, despite the ongoing strike that’s threatening to close (you’ve guessed it) Boggs & co. – and enjoy a riotously wonderful (and in some cases life changing) day together.
In plot terms, the whole jaunt is completely unjustifiable. Management and workers are at each others’ throats; and yet factory owner Kenneth Williams treats his staff to round after round of drinks, and all sing and play merrily together. But then, part of the point of the sequence is that joy trumps all disagreements, all hierarchies.
That sense of joyous misrule also upends various character relationships. Bernard Bresslaw’s character meets the stunning love of his life; the factory owner’s son ends up winning and marrying his true love; and even Kenneth Williams might have consummated his relationship with his love-lorn secretary, after an educational encounter with some cockles:
That’s a joyous little gag – and joy, the film tells us, is at the heart of true love, whether that love is consummated or unconsummated. For all its conservatism – and for all the tragedies that dogged these films – that’s a wonderfully heartening response to, and way of understanding, the bawdiness that drove and was celebrated by the Carry On films.
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All Netherlands Research
CIDI research: Online criticism of Israel often covers Jewish hatred
Kantar analysed approximately 750 Dutch antisemitic tweets and 300 websites from 2019. Classic antisemitic conspiracy theories are also common. CIDI, the antisemitism watchdog of the Netherlands, thinks it is time for social media companies and web hosts to really take their responsibility and remove antisemitic and otherwise hateful content. If they refuse to do so, the government must intervene and arrange this by law.
Explosive increase in antisemitism
The number of cases of anti-Jewish discrimination is increasing explosively, as the Antisemitic Incidents Monitor already showed in February . In 2019, CIDI registered 182 antisemitic incidents, the highest number in the more than 30 years that CIDI has published the report. A further 127 incidents were reported on the internet. However, most incidents are still not reported. This is especially true for antisemitism on the internet, while research shows that 80% of Dutch Jews experience antisemitism on the internet. For this reason, CIDI Kantar (formerly TNS NIPO) has commissioned research into the scope and nature of antisemitism on the Dutch-language internet.
This research revealed 747 Dutch-language tweets that can be classified as antisemitic according to the working definition. These range from "9/11 was a Zionist-inspired plot" to "Timmermans is a traitor whose Jewish master still wants us in the gulag." Of the antisemitic Twitter posts, 68% are related to Israel and 52% are classic antisemitism. These two categories regularly overlap. Another 11% of the tweets found contain antisemitic references to the Holocaust.
Kantar also found 286 Dutch websites, blogs and forums that contain antisemitism. The most common category of antisemitism on websites is classic Jew-hatred (79%), followed by anti-Zionist antisemitism (65%). Again, these two often overlap: conspiracy theories about Israel or the "Jewish lobby" contain classic antisemitic elements on the assembly line. Websites that stand out and contain structural antisemitism are for example the forums Maroc.nl and Morocco.nl .
Approach needed more than ever
Due to technical limitations, platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Instagram could not be included in this study, nor could images and videos. CIDI receives many reports about this. Expressions of Dutch in other languages were also left out of reach. The scale of the problem is probably much larger.
CIDI is therefore pleased that Minister Grapperhaus (Justice and Security) is working on a plan to tackle internet companies if they do not remove antisemitic or otherwise hateful messages within 24 hours. This is an important step, and CIDI's research shows that it is needed more than ever. Much of the most disgusting antisemitic content we found is still on the internet.
In addition, reports of (online) antisemitism must now really be dealt with, so that perpetrators can be punished. CIDI hopes that the National Coordinator for Antisemitism, which was created last week by the House of Representatives , will work on this in collaboration with CIDI and the judiciary.
Source: CIDI
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Home » Rival Proposals for Hudson Yards Discussed
Rival Proposals for Hudson Yards Discussed
Brookfield Properties’ proposal, led by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill and Field Operations, with a large group of contributors including SHoP Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and SANAA.
Image: Courtesy Brookfield Properties
FXFowle, Pelli Clarke Pelli, and WRT partnered on a proposal from the Durst Organization and Vornado Realty Trust.
Image: Courtesy Durst Organization and Vornado Realty Trust
Steven Holl is working with Extell Development Company.
Image: Courtesy Extell Development Company
Kohn Pedersen Fox, Arquitectonica, Robert A.M. Stern, and West 8 collaborated on the proposal from the Related Companies and Goldman Sachs.
Image: Courtesy Related Companies
The Tishman Speyer and Morgan Stanley proposal, designed by Helmut Jahn and Peter Walker.
Image: Courtesy Tishman Speyer
Tim McKeough
Correction appended December 10, 2007
Five design teams presented their proposals for the development of Manhattan’s Hudson Rail Yards yesterday evening before a crowd of more than 1,000 people packed into Cooper Union’s Great Hall. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which owns the 26-acre chunk of prime real estate—stretching from 30th Street to 33rd Street, between 10th Avenue and 12th Avenue—invited development proposals last July in advance of its plan to sell the property. Yesterday was the first time that the architects personally presented their plans to the public.
The redevelopment district is currently occupied by rail lines and industrial uses. It has been granted a floor-to-area ratio of 11, which given the size of the site could allow for tall buildings. The Hudson Yards Development Corporation (HYDC), headed by New York City deputy mayor Daniel Doctoroff, developed the planning guidelines along with WRT and FXFowle—which also worked on one of the five rival schemes, causing some observers to question the fairness of the process.
In presenting their different visions last night, all of the architects spoke about the importance of connections to the city, connections to the future High Line park—which is being created out of a disused elevated railway line that runs along Manhattan’s West Side—vibrant public spaces, and sustainability. So it seemed appropriate that the first question put to them after presentations was what exactly made each of their proposals different.
Steven Holl, who is working with Extell Development Company, had the most straightforward answer. Rather than building a high platform above the existing train tracks, the team proposes to vault the 365-foot-wide gap with a surface that hangs like a suspension bridge. This eliminates the need for columns underneath, reduces construction costs, and creates a naturally curved valley that slices across the site. “A diagram from the HYDC framework plan shows only 12 acres of open space,” Holl said, “our project proposes 19.5.” Promising the most open space of all the proposals, the Extell plan also leaves the east and west edges of the site open. “Twenty years from now, maximizing this green space will be something we all should have thought of,” Holl said. The strategy also opens views of both the Hudson River and Empire State Building, presuming that future high-rise development between 10th and 6th Avenues doesn’t block that view.
For Kohn Pedersen Fox, Arquitectonica, Robert A.M. Stern, and West 8, which collaborated on the proposal from the Related Companies and Goldman Sachs, the project is all about variety. “What we’re really talking about is trying to make a neighborhood for people to live and work in,” Stern said. “A New York neighborhood which is diverse in its functions, diverse in its architecture, diverse in its typologies, and one that can grow incrementally and change over time as the project goes forward, even after completion.” Hoping to reflect existing Manhattan city blocks more than a singular, super-sized development, the proposal calls for buildings of varying heights, styles, and materials, from bricks and mortar to glass.
Brookfield Properties’ proposal, led by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill and Field Operations, similarly imagines a cluster of diverse buildings by a large group of contributors, including SHoP Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and SANAA. “The requirement put to us by Brookfield was that this be part of the city, that this not be developed as an enclave,” said James Corner, of Field Operations. To provide a strong connection with the rest of the city on the southern edge of the site, the proposal calls for the creation of a West Chelsea Promenade along the length of 30th Street, below the High Line, which would serve as a transition zone up to the higher elevation above the train tracks.
FXFowle, Pelli Clarke Pelli, and WRT partnered on a proposal from the Durst Organization and Vornado Realty Trust. “In terms of organizing the site visually we would create an iconic point tower that really serves as a focal point,” on the eastern edge of the site, said FXFowle’s Daniel J. Kaplan. As well as tying new buildings into the High Line, the proposal envisions a separate “Skyline” elevated walkway that would connect to building lobbies, and a “people mover” train that would whisk visitors to and from Penn Station.
The Tishman Speyer and Morgan Stanley proposal, designed by Helmut Jahn and Peter Walker, calls for four massive, matching towers that taper as they rise. “Our team’s architectural vision was inspired by the optimistic dreams of the city’s skyscraper visionaries from the turn of the century,” explained Murphy/Jahn’s Francisco Gonzalez Pulido. In the center of it all would be a large circular public plaza known as “the forum.”
The MTA’s selection committee will make recommendations to the MTA board on a winning proposal, or proposals, in the first quarter of 2008. After that point, the development plan will be subject to further reviews and approvals.
Correction: Due to an editing error, two details were omitted from this story. Air rights for the Hudson Yards district are available for purchase, as the story noted, as well as long-term lease. The FAR of 11, meanwhile, applies only to the eastern portion of the site.
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Book of Mormon Central / Archive / First Voyage to the Americas: Columbus Guided by the Spirit
First Voyage to the Americas: Columbus Guided by the Spirit
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Title First Voyage to the Americas: Columbus Guided by the Spirit
Publication Type Book Chapter
Authors Garr, Arnold K.
Book Title Christopher Columbus: A Latter-Day Saint Perspective
Publisher Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University
City Provo, UT
Keywords Christopher Columbus
URL https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/christopher-columbus-latter-day-saint-perspective/first-voyage-americas-columbus-guided
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With a hand that could be felt, the Lord opened my mind to the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. . . . This was a fire that burned within me who can doubt that this fire was not merely mine, but also of the Holy Spirit.
The anticipation and drama associated with Christopher Columbus’ first expedition to the Americas is almost unparalleled in human history. Perhaps the only event of comparable magnitude in our day was man’s first landing on the moon in 1969. Inasmuch as Columbus sailed 33 continuous days into the unknown, with a crew on the verge of mutiny in the final stages, it is apparent that every decision he made was crucial to both the success of his expedition and the survival of his small fleet. It is amazing, said George E. Nunn, a prominent geographer, that Christopher “did not make a single false move in the entire voyage” (Nunn 43). To what can we attribute such incredible seafaring precision, and what were the Admiral’s inner-most thoughts and feelings during the voyage? The answers to these questions lie in the several accounts of the journey that have endured the five centuries since that stunning expedition.
Historians have written about Columbus’ first voyage to America from many points of view. Most secular historians, however, have placed little emphasis on the most important theme of all—the fact that Columbus was guided by the Spirit of God. Beginning with the decision Christopher made concerning his point of departure, and continuing all the way through to his return voyage to Spain, we can find numerous junctures at which the Lord manifested His hand in Columbus’ key decisions.
Before 1492, other navigators had tried unsuccessfully to explore westward from the Azores Islands (800 miles west of the coast of Portugal), assuming that this was the best place from which to set sail (Morison 1:97–98). Although the Azores were the western-most islands known in the Atlantic, Columbus chose to sail from Palos, Spain, to the Canary Islands (off the west coast of Africa) and from there, to launch his voyage into the vast unknown. By doing so, he caught the tradewinds blowing from the northeast to the southwest and avoided the headwinds which blow from the west to the east in the vicinity of the Azores (Nunn 37–38,42).
The route Columbus chose has stood the test of time: five hundred years of sailing have proven it the best possible course for sailing west from southern Europe to North America. Nunn suggested that Columbus’ successful navigation was the result of “an application of reason to . . . knowledge” (Nunn 50). Columbus, however, gave credit to the Lord. Even though he was a successful seaman and an accomplished navigator, he said, “With a hand that could be felt, the Lord opened my mind, to the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies” (West and Kling 105).
Inspirational Junctures
Columbus experienced relatively easy sailing during the entire outward voyage; had he not done so, he likely would not have reached America before his crew mutinied. There was one occasion, however, on 23 September, when the sea became calm, and the ships were stalled for part of the day. Columbus noted in his journal that the crew, which had not seen land for some days, began to complain that since there were no heavy seas in the region, the wind would never blow hard enough to return to Spain. Soon thereafter, the sea mysteriously rose without wind, astonishing the crew (Dunn and Kelly 41). The Admiral considered this a divine miracle. He said, “the high sea was very necessary to me, [a sign] which had not appeared except in the time of the Jews when they left Egypt [and complained] against Moses, who took them out of captivity” (Ibid).
On the way to America, Columbus changed course only twice during the entire 33 days at sea. The first alteration was on 7 October. Until that time, Christopher had sailed due west for 28 days. Then he noted in his journal that a great multitude of birds passed over, going from north to southwest. Bartolome de Las Casas, the man who transcribed Columbus’ journal, wrote that from this observation, the Admiral “decided to alter course and turn the prow to the WSW [west southwest]” (Fuson 71). Professor Morison claimed that if Columbus had not changed course, “the voyage would have taken a day longer” (Morison 1:283). That extra day would have been critical, since two days before the eventual sighting of land, the crew threatened mutiny. Every extra day at sea heightened their anxiety; the Admiral’s time-saving change of course on 7 October, therefore, just may have saved the expedition.
The story of the threatened mutiny is one of the most dramatic episodes of the first voyage. The incident took place on Wednesday, 10 October 1492, after they had been at sea for over 31 days without seeing land. The sailors, who had been concealing their discontent, now openly threatened insurrection. They had come to believe that Columbus, the foreigner from Genoa, had deceived them; they supposed he was leading them on a journey from which they would never return. According to one account, the sailors even conspired to do away with their leader, whom they “planned to throw into the sea” (d’-Anghera 1:59–60). Yet, “Columbus, by using gentle words, holding out promises and flattering their hopes, sought to gain time, and he succeeded in calming their fears” (Ibid). Others have stated, after the fact, that at this juncture, Columbus promised the men that they would return if they did not sight land within two or three days (Morison 1:286,290–91,292n6). Although Columbus did not record this oft-repeated assertion in his journal, he did report that “I also told the men that it was useless to complain, for I had started out to find the Indies and would continue until I had accomplished that mission, with the help of Our Lord” (Fuson 72; emphasis added). This incident serves as an excellent example of Columbus’ determination and faith in God.
The second instance in which the Admiral altered his route was after sunset on 11 October, just a few hours before land was sighted. For no apparent reason, he gave orders to change direction from west southwest back to the original course of due west (Dunn and Kelly 59). He gave no explanation for the change, but it was, nevertheless, an excellent choice. Had he continued on the west southwest course instead of steering due west, he would have missed the island of San Salvador, and would likely have ended up on the deadly reefs along the coast of Long Island (in the Caribbean), perhaps never returning to Spain (Morison 1:295). Many historians have attributed these changes in course to luck or chance, but Las Casas said, “God gave this man the keys to the awesome seas, he and no other unlocked the darkness” (Las Casas 35), and I agree.
Having made this second course correction, Columbus was then right on target, and Justin time to meet with his destiny—to discover the New Land. That evening as the crew gathered for prayer, the Admiral, “spoke to the men of the favor that [the] Lord had shown them by conducting them so safely and prosperously with fair winds and a clear course, and by comforting them with signs that daily grew more abundant” (Ferdinand 58). His policy since reaching a point 700 leagues beyond the Canaries had been not to sail at night, but the crew’s desire to see land was so great that Columbus decided to sail through the darkness (Morison 1:294). He commanded the night watch to keep an especially sharp lookout because he was confident that land was nearby. In addition to an annuity of 10,000 maravedis guaranteed by the Sovereigns, the Admiral also promised to give a silk jacket to the first sailor who sighted land (Dunn and Kelly 63).
About 10 o’clock that night, Columbus saw a light in the distant dark, but it was so faint that he did not publicly announce it. He did, however, bring it to the attention of Pedro Gutierrez, who also acknowledged seeing the flickering light. Rodrigo Sanchez was also called on to observe the light, but he claimed he could see nothing from where he was (Phillips and Phillips 153). Notwithstanding Columbus’ glimpse of the light, it was some four hours later, at about two in the morning on 12 October, that the fleet sighted land for certain. Rodrigo de Triana, a sailor on the Pinta, shouted, “Tierra! tierra!” while the fleet was still two leagues off shore (Morison 1:298). Martin Pinzon, the captain of the Pinta, quickly verified Triana’s claim and then fired a cannon shot, which was the prearranged signal for sighting land.
One can only imagine the gratitude and relief they all must have felt, after more than a month of anxious days at sea, when their eyes first saw this obscure little island in the middle of the tropical Caribbean Sea. It goes without saying that the crews were ecstatic and their respect and admiration for the Admiral soared, literally, overnight.
For Columbus, this historic sighting was a rendezvous with destiny. He had proven, in spite of mounting opposition and a lack of faith on the part of his crew, that it was possible to sail westward across the great Atlantic. According to his agreement with the monarchs, Columbus officially became Admiral of the Ocean Sea, simultaneously gaining the titles of Viceroy and Governor of this island at the moment he discovered it. Professor Hugh Nibley aptly put this celebrated moment into proper perspective when he said: “Everything else in Columbus’ life is subservient to the carrying out of that one mission. The aim and purpose of all his work and suffering was what happened at 2 a.m. on the morning of October 12, 1492” (Nibley 320).
Impatient and anxious to explore their new discovery, the crew waited through the night, and sailed excitedly to shore at daybreak. Upon reaching dry ground, the landing party knelt, kissed the sand with tears of joy, and offered prayers of thanks to God. Rising from his knees, the Admiral named the island San Salvador (Holy Savior), thus beginning a personal tradition of giving names of religious significance to many newly discovered lands (Ferdinand 59). In deference to the crown, Columbus dedicated San Salvador, which lay off the northern coast of Cuba, to the Spanish monarchs.
Exploring the Wonders of the Caribbean
The arrival of the ships did not go unnoticed by the inhabitants of the island. Many of the natives soon gathered at the crew’s landing site. Columbus observed that, “All of them go around as naked as their mothers bore them; and the women also, although I did not see more than one quite young girl. And all those that I saw were young people, for none did I see of more than 30 years of age. They are very well formed, with handsome bodies and good faces. Their hair [is] coarse—almost like the tail of a horse—and short” (Dunn and Kelly 65–66).
The Admiral’s faithful motive for making the voyage is quickly revealed by his impressions on meeting the island people. He confided, “I recognized that they were people who would be better freed [from error] and converted to our Holy Faith by love than by force” (Ibid 65). Later in his journal, Columbus noted: “I believe that they would become Christians very easily, for it seemed to me that they had no religion” (Ibid 69). He determined to take six of the islanders with him in order to educate them in Spanish and in the ways of European life.
After three days of exploring on San Salvador, the Admiral set sail southward, passing various islands en route to an eventual landing at Cuba on 28 October. An astonishing reception awaited the Spanish explorers at this port. Columbus sent two men inland to survey the island’s interior, and they returned with an inspirational account. Arriving at a village of about 1000 inhabitants 12 leagues from the shore, the men had been greeted with great reverence and adoration: “the Indians touched them and kissed their hands and feet, marveling and believing that the Spaniards came from the heavens” (Dunn and Kelly 137).
Through an Indian interpreter, the village was informed “of the way the Christians lived and that they were good people.” Later, the women of the village came toward the two explorers, “kissing their hands and feet and feeling them, attempting to see if they were, like themselves, of flesh and bone” (Ibid). When it came time for the two Spaniards to leave, hundreds of the natives wanted to go with them. Columbus wrote that, “more than 500 men and women would have come with them, because they thought that the Spaniards would return to the heavens” (Ibid).
This account of native Americans giving reverence to the fair-skinned men whom they believed had come from heaven is intriguing to those who believe in the Book of Mormon. The Indians’ adoration for these men undoubtedly came from their belief in the legend of the bearded white God. Of course many Latter-day Saints believe that this legend is based on the Book of Mormon account in 3 Nephi of Christ’s appearance in ancient America after his resurrection.
Paul Cheesman in The World of the Book of Mormon claimed: “The bearded white God is one of the most universally taught and accepted legends of the Indians of North and South America. Virtually all tribes teach of him. Tribal songs, dances, and sacred rituals are dedicated to his name” (Cheesman 7). Even though the white God’s “name varies from tribe to tribe, his description and teachings are basically the same. In each tribe, in song and story, he was described as white and fair, with long brown hair and a beard” (Ibid). Cheesman further stated that the God’s “message was of love and peace. He announced to the people that he was born of a virgin. And, last of all, He promised to return” (Ibid). Because this legend was part of their culture, it is little wonder that the native Americans of Cuba sincerely believed that Columbus’ fair-skinned sailors literally came from heaven and were, therefore, worthy of reverence and adoration.
Christopher was so impressed with the spiritual potential of the Indians that he made an immediate plea on their behalf in his journal that day: “I truly believe, most Serene Princes .. . that, given devout religious persons knowing thoroughly the language that they use, soon all of them would become Christian.” Continuing his petition to the monarchs, he pleaded, “I hope in Our Lord that Your Highnesses, with much diligence, will decide to send such persons in order to bring to the Church such great nations and to convert them” (Dunn and Kelley 141). These requests, made at a time of such personal accomplishment, further illuminate Christopher’s great devotion to things spiritual; the informed reader cannot doubt that he was truly motivated by his desire to serve God.
Unfortunately, not all of the crew’s discoveries on Cuba were of a spiritual nature: it was there that the Admiral’s men first saw the Indians smoke tobacco, an experience that eventually led to its introduction to Europe and the rest of the world. Written forty years after the fact, Las Casas’ account of the sailors’ experience with tobacco is humorous: he wrote that the Spaniards were then beginning to take up smoking, “although I know not what taste or profit they find in it” (Morison 1:342).
Columbus spent the entire month of November exploring the northeast coast of Cuba; then, on 5 December 1492, he sailed across the windward passage and safely made his way to the island of Hispaniola. The climate and trees of this new land reminded him so much of Spain that he decided to name it Espanola (Dunn and Kelly 215). However, as early as 1494, Peter Martyr, the first New World historian, began referring to the island as Hispaniola, its Latin name, by which it is still known today (Morison 1:370,383n5). Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the two countries currently on the island. This island would soon become the home of the first Spanish colony in the New World. Unfortunately, it would also be the scene of much frustration, tribulation, and humiliation for Columbus.
The Admiral’s first Christmas in America was not destined to be a merry one. Instead, it was the date of a major calamity on this historic voyage. On the days just prior to Christmas, while the fleet was exploring the shores of Hispaniola, the weather had been turbulent making it difficult for the crew to sleep. Then on Christmas Eve the weather finally turned calm. After some Christmas festivities, the tired crew settled in for a restful night’s sleep. Unfortunately, the helmsman was also sleepy and turned the tiller over to a boy, even though Columbus had specifically ordered the crew not to allow a boy to steer the ship (Dunn and Kelley 277).
Disaster struck just before midnight on Christmas Eve as the Santa Maria slid upon a coral reef so gently that the crew was not even aware that they were aground. Nevertheless, the boy knew what had happened as soon as he felt the rudder lodge in the coral (Taviani, The Great Adventure, 130–31). Even though it was not a tumultuous wreck and no lives were lost, the resulting leakage was so severe that the ship was unsalvageable. The accident forced Columbus to abandon the wreckage, and he was obliged to leave 39 of his crew in a make-shift fort built from what was left of the ship. This fort, named La Navidad because of their arrival on Christmas day, became the first Spanish colony in the New World, although it came about quite by chance. The crew members that were left behind to await the Admiral’s return on his next voyage were more than willing to stay, because they would have the first chance at discovering gold, a dream which served to motivate many of the sailors (Morison 1: 393–94).
The Homeward Voyage
After exploring the islands of the Caribbean for three months, Columbus prepared to return to Europe in his substitute flagship, the Nina. The route the Admiral chose for his homeward journey is yet another example of his being inspired of God. On 14 January 1493, he recorded in his log, “I have faith in Our Lord that He who brought me here will lead me back in His pity and mercy . . . no one else was supportive of me except God, because He knew my heart” (Fuson 174). Columbus did not return to Spain by the same southern sea passage that had carried him to America. Instead, he sailed northeast and caught winds coming out of the west that took him back across the Atlantic to the Azores. Once again, Nunn asserted that Columbus’ navigational decisions were remarkable: “So much has been said about his discovery of America that it has been lost to sight and thought that he also discovered both of the great sailing routes in the North Atlantic” (Nunn 50). With no prior trans-Atlantic sailing experience, how did Christopher enjoy such good fortune on both legs of the trip? One noted historian declared, “there can be no doubt that the faith of Columbus was genuine and sincere, and that his frequent communion with forces unseen was a vital element in his achievement” (Morison 1:65).
On 16 January the Admiral began his homeward trek. The unknown winds served him well at first; he experienced relatively smooth sailing for the first four weeks. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed as if the devil himself was attempting to prevent Columbus from achieving his providential destiny. On 12 February, the fleet was overtaken by a violent tempest, perhaps more perilous than any of the other storms the sailors had experienced in their lives. On 14 February, the winds became even more treacherous and Columbus’ ship, the Nina, became separated from the Pinta until their journey’s end. The Admiral said, “The winds increased and the waves were frightful, one contrary to the other, so they crossed and held back the vessel which could neither go forward nor get out from between them, and the waves broke on her” (Dunn and Kelly 363–65). The storm was so terrible that none of the men thought they would live through it
In the midst of this nightmare at sea, Columbus assembled the crew and called on the Lord for help. He ordered all the men on the ship to draw lots to choose one of the crew to take a pilgrimage to Santa Maria de Guadalupe if the Lord would save their lives and allow them to return to Spain. For the drawing, Christopher put a chick-pea into a hat for each member of the crew, with one pea marked with a cross. Columbus drew first and, as fate would have it, he picked the pea with the cross on it. When the storm raged on, Christopher ordered another drawing, this time for a pilgrimage to Santa Maria de Loreto in Italy. The lot fell on a sailor named Pedro de Villa, and Columbus promised to give him money for his journey. The storm intensified so the Admiral ordered a third drawing, this time for a pilgrimage to Santa Clara de Moguer. Surprisingly, the lot fell once again to him, but the storm did not subside. Finally, they all made a solemn covenant that if the Lord would lead them safely to shore, they would immediately “go in their shirtsleeves in a procession to pray in a church” (Dunn and Kelly 365–67). That evening the storm began to subside and the next morning they spotted land—they had reached the Azores, 800 miles off the coast of Portugal.
However, the raging sea had not yet finished with the battered ships. After a week’s stay in the Azores, the Nina set sail for the mainland of Portugal. On 3 March another devastating storm struck, so powerfully that it tore all the ship’s sails. Once again the crew drew lots, this time to send a pilgrim in his shirt-sleeves to Santa Maria de la Cinta in Huelva. Amazingly the lot fell to Columbus again. In addition, all of the men “made a vow to fast on bread and water the first Saturday when they reached land” (Dunn and Kelley 391). The next morning the storm blew them into the mouth of the Lisbon River, and they made their way to a dock. Finally, they arrived at Palos, Spain, on 15 March 1493; and the Pinta sailed into the same port just a few hours later. The next month Christopher Columbus appeared before King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to give his report. “All the Court and the city came out to meet him; and the Catholic Sovereigns received him in public, seated with all majesty and grandeur on rich thrones under a canopy of cloth of gold. When he came forward to kiss their hands, they rose from their thrones as if he were a great lord, and would not let him kiss their hands but made him sit down beside them” (Ferdinand 101). This reception was a striking contrast from the scene played out the year before, when Columbus left the court in despair after these same monarchs had rejected his proposal.
Thus, with the help of the Lord, Christopher Columbus was able to accomplish one of the greatest feats in human history. After this marvelous achievement, he could have taken all the glory for himself, but throughout his life he consistently gave credit to God. For example, in 1500, he solemnly declared: “Our Lord made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth . . . and he showed me the place where to find it” (Brigham, Life, 50, 57n5).
The Admiral’s encounter with America literally opened the floodgate to explorers, colonizers, fortune seekers, and missionaries. Many of these people would accomplish honorable purposes, while others would, unfortunately, be detrimental. Whatever the final outcome, the world would most certainly never be the same.
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Columbus: Fulfillment of Book of Mormon Prophecy
Early Life in Genoa
Years In Portugal: Emergence of the Grand Idea
Years In Spain: Columbus Finds a Sponsor
Later Voyages: Columbus as Governor
Later Years: the Book of Prophecies and the Final Voyage
Appendix A: Statements by Modern-Day Prophets and Apostles on Columbus
Appendix B: Statements by Columbus with Spiritual Significance
Appendix C: One Hundred Eminent Men Baptized by Proxy in the St. George Temple, 21 August 1877
Appendix D: Chronology of Christopher Columbus’ Life
Garr, Arnold K.. "First Voyage to the Americas: Columbus Guided by the Spirit." In Christopher Columbus: A Latter-Day Saint Perspective, 39-52. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992.
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The Ethics of Bombing
Air Marshal Sir Robert Saundby, Royal Air Force, Retired
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Plane dropping bombs.
The subject of air bombardment is seldom discussed objectively and reasonably. It arouses all kinds of illogical antagonisms and emotional responses. Even when used against a leaking and derelict tanker aground near the Scillies, napalm bombs cause shudders of horror.
These irrational feelings are strongest among the young and the so-called progressives, and are usually directly proportional to their ignorance of the subject. When these people descend to the level of rational argument, the commonest objection to air bombardment is that it involves civilians in war, whereas they have a right to be treated as noncombatants.
Civilian populations have always, to a degree, been involved in hostilities. A glance at the history of war will suffice to make this clear.
From the earliest days of civilization, cities and towns have been besieged, bombarded, sacked, pillaged, and burned. Often their defenders, and sometimes also their civilian inhabitants, were slaughtered or driven off into slavery. Land battles are not fought in deserts but over the countryside, across farms, houses, orchards, and gardens, the property and homes of civilians who have to flee for their lives.
Conventional Warfare
It is true that, with the gradual merging of the feudal into the monarchical order in Europe in the Middle Ages, there came into being for a time a system of conventional warfare waged by standing armies of professional soldiers. During this period, the usages, forms, and ceremonies of war were taken seriously.
Generally speaking, a fairly clear distinction was drawn between combatant and noncombatants. This was comparatively easy because the ordinary people did not take sides as they cared little who won or lost the war. Usually, no religious or ideological principles were involved in those struggles for territory between the petty kings, dukes, and counts. The civilian population did its best to carry on with its normal affairs and avoid trouble.
The conventions of war were rather like a set of trade union rules, drawn up to make the profession of soldiering tolerable. Campaigns were normally conducted during only the summer months, and armies went into winter quarters to escape the trials and discomforts of frost, snow, and floods. The campaigns themselves were mainly affairs of maneuvering for position, formal sieges, and investitures, all conducted in a regular manner according to the rule book.
It was against the conventions to try to take unfair advantage by unorthodox actions. Thus, it was contrary to the usages of war to attack the base camp or baggage train of an enemy.
But even the professional soldier expected a bonus now and then in the form of loot or repine, and there were occasiona when the civilian inhabitant were plundered, ill-treated, and even slaughtered. Cities were sacked, and countrysides laid waste. But such lapses were unusual, and, on the whole, material destruction was avoided and the rights of noncombatants respected as far as was practicable.
Character of War Altered
At the end of the 18th century, a great change occurred. The French Revolution, followed by the rise to power of Napoleon Bonaparte, completely altered the whole character of war. It became the affair of the whole people, and in France the professional army, devoted to conventional warfare, was replaced by the levée en masse, the nation in arms. The Grande Armée disregarded most of the conventions, and all over Europe the professional armies of other states went down before its onslaught.
The whole system of conventional war was rapidly swept away, and all nations began to raise large conscript armies. War became far more serious and pervaded the whole life of the nation. A new and much more realistic concept of military strategy appeared.
This fundamental change in the character of war made a great impression on contemporary students of military affairs, and the German General Karl von Clausewitz clothed in words the theory of war originated by Napoleon. Clausewitz believed that war had finally escaped the bonds of convention, and that, in the future, when great powers were engaged, it would be total and absolute. It would involve not only the armed forces, but the whole nation, and its successful prosecution would, therefore, need the support of public opinion. He insisted that war, whether one liked the idea or not, was now a violent clash between nations in arms which could never be humanized or civilized, and that, if one side attempted to do so, it was likely to be defeated.
Clausewitz had no faith in the reliability, in time of war, of any international rules or agreements since no nation facing the possibility of defeat would allow itself to be bound by them. It was clear that in general war the distinction between combatants and noncombatants was bound to become blurred.
Alone among the countries of Europe, Britain was able, by virtue of her seapower and island situation, to avoid the creation of a large conscript army. One of her main weapons was the sea blockade, a legal and internationally recognized method of sea warfare which aimed at starving the enemy nation into submission. Since armed forces and essential workers had to be fed and clothed those who suffered most were the women and children, the infirm and the aged. Britain’s blockade of Germany in World War I caused the death from malnutrition of far more civilians than died in all the air attacks on Britain in both World Wars.
Damage inflicted by Allied bombers on Hanover, Germany, during World War II. (US Army)
There is abundant evidence that, more often than not, the civilian population is deeply involved in war. However, British civilians have tended to regard themselves as privileged noncombatants. Since the Norman invasion of 1066, except for a few civil wars, all Britain’s fighting has been on the high seas or in other countries.
British Seapower Protection
From the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century, British seapower completely sheltered Britons from the direct impact of war. This encouraged the view that war was exclusively the business of the armed forces which were paid to fight and risk their lives, while civilians were noncombatants who had a right to be left unmolested to go about their lawful affairs. Their part in the war, they believed, should be limited to waving goodbye to the troops; paying extra taxes; knitting cardigans, mittens, and balaclava helmets; and submitting to a few minor inconveniences.
This comfortable view was shaken by German air attacks on Britain during World War I and completely shattered by the all-out onslaught from the air in World War II. The coming of the third dimension into war brought about great changes, and another and even more realistic concept of military strategy emerged. The conventions of war that Britons had come to believe in were annihilated.
The main focus of British indignation was against air bombardment. It is a curious thing, but condensation and criticism of bombing began with the first occasion on which an explosive weapon was dropped from an aircraft. Four converted Swedish hand grenades were dropped by an Italian pilot on 1 November 1911 during the Italian-Turkish War in Libya. Several more grenades were dropped during the next few days.
Before long, Turkey protested against the bombing of a hospital at Ain Zara by Italian aircraft. Extensive inquiries failed to establish the existence of a hospital there, but it is possible that some Turkish military tents may have been used as a casualty clearing station. The Italians pointed out, not unreasonably, that they had shortly before bombarded the encampment at Ain Zara with 152 heavy naval shells without any protest from the Turks.
There followed in the Italian, Turkish, and neutral press a considerable discussion about the ethics of “air bombardment–a discussion which has continued, more or less violently, ever since. It is astonishing that the first feeble attempt at air bombardment should have provoked an illogical pretest, suggesting that a few tiny bombs were more dangerous and destructive than a large number of heavy naval shells.
Air Control System
In Iraq and Transjordan, large land forces were replaced in 1922 by small air forces, and a very successful system known as the air control of developing countries was instituted. It did not involve a direct attack on the tribesmen or their houses, but was a form of air blockade. Unlike sea blockade, however, it did not seek to achieve its aim by starvation, but by unacceptable discomfort and inconvenience.
The system proved to be so effective and so economical in money and in casualties to both sides that in 1928 it was extended to the Aden Protectorate where it was an immediate success. The North West Frontier of India was ideally suited to this humane and efficient form of control, and, whenever it was tried there, it produced excellent results. The army, however, with its system of punitive expeditions, was too strongly entrenched and was able to frustrate all attempts to introduce the air method.
Protests in Great Britain
As might be expected, there was considerable opposition in Great Britain to the idea of air control. Its opponents had predicted that its reliance on the bomb–which they stigmatized as violent, horrible, and inhumane–would leave a legacy of hatred and ill will. This prediction proved to be the reverse of the truth. Nevertheless, the system continued to be bitterly attacked by many people who had an instinctive horror of any form of air bombardment.
During the years between the two World Wars, the alarm felt by civilians at the prospects of air bombardment led to determined efforts to outlaw or restrict it. At the League of Nations Disarmament Conference held in Geneva in 1932-34, the British Government proposed a convention to prohibit all forms of bombing from the air, to which it later added a rider permitting its use under certain conditions in developing countries. Further amendments from various sources were added to permit the attack of strictly military targets in support of land and sea operations. But the difficulty of defining what was, and what was not, a military target eventually proved insuperable.
Britain then tabled another proposal limiting the unladen weight of military aircraft to 3,000 pounds. This would have ruled out everything but the defensive fighter and the very short-range light bomber. Armies and navies of many countries welcomed this proposal, and, for a time, there seemed to be a chance that it might be accepted. But eventually, the Disarmament Conference broke up without achieving any result whatever.
At the outbreak of World War II, both Britain and France gave instructions that only strictly military targets were to be attacked. The Royal Air Force was not even allowed to attack German warships in docks or at quaysides for fear of causing casualties among civilians.
What Is a Military Target?
This again raised the question of what a military target is and how it can be defined. It is generally agreed, for example, that the man who loads or fires a field gun is a military target. So is the gun itself, and the ammunition dump that supplies it. So is the truck driver who transports ammunition from the base to the dump. So–in the last two World Wars—was the man who transported weapons, ammunition, and raw materials by sea.
But, then, are not the weapons and warlike stores on their way from the factories to the bases, and the men who transport them, also military targets? And what about the weapons under construction in the factories, and the men who make them? Are they not also military targets? And if they are not, where does one draw the line?
If they are military targets, are not the industrial areas, and the services—gas, water, and electricity—that keep industry going also military targets? Again, where can one draw the line? Or is it permissible to starve these civilian workers by blockade, or shell them if you can get at them, but not to bomb them from the air?
As World War II went on, Britain and the United States followed the German lead in attacking from the air the industrial areas, power stations, railway centers, and other essential services, and accepting the certainty of a considerable number of civilian casualties. With few exceptions, Britons warmly supported this policy during the war. As soon as the war was over, many tried to ignore the vital contribution made by the Allied bombers, and to dissociate themselves from the policy.
Britain’s Bomber Command was denied the 1939-45 star or other campaign star, and given the mainly civilian defense medal instead. Its commander in chief was, in the opinion of many people, slighted, and the command’s achievements were commemorated in an official history written in a singularly equivocal and lukewarm style.
In progressive circles nowadays it is fashionable to assert that the strategic bombing campaign was a mistake and a waste of valuable resources. Yet even the official history is compelled to admit that:
Strategic bombing and, also in other roles strategic bombers, made a contribution to victory that was decisive. Those who claim that the Bomber Command contribution to the war was less than this are factually in error.
The truth is that it is war itself that is wrong and immoral—or, more accurately speaking, aggressive war—for it must be right to defend one’s country and oneself against attack. By this standard, the war waged by North Vietnam, backed by the Soviet Union and Communist China, against South Vietnam—fought in South Vietnamese territory, be it noted—is wrong and immoral. On the other hand, the defensive war against the attack from the north—fought by South Vietnam with backing from the United States, Australia, and New Zealand—is right and proper. No twist of argument, no sophistry, and no emotional outcry against bombing can controvert those two plain facts.
It is certainly not intended to imply that all actions, even in a just war against aggression, are necessarily permissible. The test is whether the action in question genuinely furthers the aim and main strategic concept of the war. Thus, taking revenge on civilians by mass slaughter does not help to win a war and is not permissible. But the diminution of an enemy’s power to continue the war by the destruction of industrial areas, power stations, dams, railway centers, and depots is legitimate, even though such action must cause civilian casualties. It goes without saying, however, that all practicable steps, short of prejudicing the success of the operation, should be taken to minimize the risk to civilians.
A study of the ethics of bombing cannot fail to remind one that man is an illogical creature, still far more swayed by emotion than by calm reason. Man has wonderful powers of self-deception, and of the uncritical suppression of unwelcome facts; he is still capable of believing what he wants to believe, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Indeed, there are none so blind as will not see, or so deaf as will not hear.
It is, therefore, no doubt unrealistic to hope for the general acceptance of rational views about such an emotive subject as the ethics of air bombardment.
Air Marshal Sir Robert Saundby (26 April 1896 – 25 September 1971) was an Royal Air Force officer whose career spanned both World War I and World War II.
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Press Release August 25, 2017
Keith L. Prewitt, Former Deputy Director for the United States Secret Service, Named Chief Security Officer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that Keith L. Prewitt has been appointed to the role of Chief Security Officer for the Museum.
Mr. Prewitt is presently Vice President for Cable Security and Facilities at Comcast Corporation, where he oversees the development and implementation of security and risk-management practices, while setting the strategic vision for the organization in coordination with other key functions within company.
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Before joining Comcast Corporation, Mr. Prewitt served as President of Harvard Enterprise Risk Solutions, LLC, and Harvard Protection Services, LLC, where he was responsible for the company’s strategic leadership and served as the internal and external point of contact for industry expertise and knowledge regarding the markets for risk management, strategic security consultation, and protection services. Prior to his work there, Mr. Prewitt served 30 years with the United States Secret Service, including four years as the agency’s Deputy Director. In that role, he oversaw the senior executive team and served as the agency’s Chief Operations Officer, managing the daily operations of a workforce numbering approximately 7,000, a $1.5 billion budget, and related activities.
“It's an honor to take on this role at The Met,” said Mr. Prewitt, “and I’m looking forward to working with the Museum’s leadership team, as well as the highly respected team of security managers and personnel that is already in place at the Museum,” said Mr. Prewitt.
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Many mesothelioma law firms have offices in New York City. New York is among the most popular jurisdictions for filing mesothelioma lawsuits in the United States. Notable New York mesothelioma law firms include Weitz & Luxenberg and Simmons Hanly Conroy.
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Filing a Mesothelioma Claim in New York
According to a KCIC industry report, New York City was the second-most popular jurisdiction for mesothelioma lawsuit filings in 2019. That year, it handled 6% of U.S. mesothelioma claims, which include personal injury lawsuits, wrongful death lawsuits and asbestos trust fund claims.
New York is home to some of the strictest asbestos laws and regulations in the country. That’s because the state is trying to protect the public from the extensive amount of asbestos that was used throughout the state from the 1800s through the 1970s.
It wasn’t until the 1970s that the U.S. government began enacting laws and regulations to limit the use of asbestos. Implementation of these laws took time, which meant many people were still heavily exposed throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
New York is known for its rich industrial history. Factories, textile mills, power plants, manufacturing plants and shipyards used many asbestos products on a daily basis. The workers employed at these facilities were exposed to dangerous amounts of asbestos.
Many of these workers later developed asbestos-related diseases and hired a New York mesothelioma lawyer to help them seek compensation.
For example, in 1991, a New York judge consolidated 850 cases filed by power plant workers to expedite their claims. Around the same time, two other judges consolidated 600 cases filed by asbestos-exposed workers from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
New York military bases and shipyards are known hot spots for asbestos contamination. Military veterans in the state may file VA claims for benefits, and they have access to VA health care.
You should not rely on any information herein to make a determination about your legal rights. Please speak to an attorney licensed to practice law in your area to best understand your legal options.
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Asbestos Exposure in New York
New York is No. 5 in the U.S. for mesothelioma and asbestosis deaths. The state’s high ranking is attributed to its rich industrial and manufacturing history. New York is often called the birthplace of the asbestos manufacturing industry.
In 1858, a predecessor of the Johns Manville Corporation began using anthophyllite mined in Staten Island to manufacture asbestos insulation. Over the next century, asbestos use spread to a variety of industrial applications in New York and beyond.
Workers in New York were exposed to asbestos products in factories, manufacturing plants, power plants, shipyards, schools and public buildings. Public housing and private homes were also built with asbestos-containing construction materials.
New Yorkers who develop asbestos-related diseases have several options in the state for specialized treatment. Some of the most renowned mesothelioma treatment centers in New York include Mount Sinai Hospital, NYU Langone Medical Center and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
New York Industries Known for Asbestos Exposure
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Mesothelioma Law Firms Practicing in New York
Attorneys at the mesothelioma law firm Weitz & Luxenberg are based in New York City, while firms like Simmons Hanly Conroy have offices in New York. These mesothelioma lawyers specialize in asbestos litigation and understand federal asbestos regulations and New York state statutes.
Nationwide Mesothelioma Law Firms
Weitz & Luxenberg
Cooney & Conway
Simmons Hanly Conroy
Nemeroff Law
Galiher DeRobertis & Waxman
New York residents with mesothelioma should choose a nationwide mesothelioma law firm because they have experience with different types of cases in nearly every state.
According to a 2019 KCIC industry report, many New York residents end up filing their claim in-state. However, it’s not in every resident’s best interest to file in New York. Firms that practice nationwide know the best state in which to file your claim.
There are a number of top law firms that specialize in asbestos cases in New York, including:
Mesothelioma patients in New York may take advantage of the fact that experienced asbestos law firms such as Weitz & Luxenberg, Cooney & Conway and Simmons Hanly Conroy have offices in New York City.
If you can’t make it to one of these offices, a nationwide firm will come to you. Representatives from these firms travel to clients throughout the country to conduct interviews and depositions, and they won’t charge you for their travel expenses.
A top mesothelioma attorney can secure the maximum value of your case. They have the experience and reach to stand up to greedy and negligent companies that exposed you or your loved one to asbestos.
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Asbestos Verdicts Awarded to New York Workers
$75 Million in 2017: A New York jury awarded $75 million to Marlena Robaey, who claimed she developed peritoneal mesothelioma in 2012 and pleural mesothelioma in 2016 as a result of secondary exposure to asbestos through her husband. Some of the defendants listed in Robaey’s claim settled out of court. This is one of the biggest mesothelioma verdicts in the state’s history.
$2.5 Million in 2008: A New York jury awarded $2.25 million to the family of a former electrician at the Brooklyn Navy Yard who developed mesothelioma.
$22 Million in 2004: The estate of another former electrician who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was awarded a total of $22 million.
Many asbestos claims are settled out of court in New York. A select few go to trial and may result in substantial verdicts.
New York mesothelioma lawyers are known to get settlements worth more than a million dollars for their clients. They are also known to secure six-figure payouts from asbestos trust funds.
New York Asbestos Laws and Regulations
New York has enacted a number of laws and regulations to promote safe handling and removal of materials containing asbestos. The New York State Asbestos Law, known as Industrial Code Rule 56, protects the public from exposure to asbestos.
Additionally, New York City has its own set of asbestos laws known as the NYC Asbestos Control Program. Other laws involving asbestos are found in the New York Compilation of the Rules and Regulations (NYCRR).
Regulations Governing Asbestos in New York
New York State Asbestos Law (Industrial Code Rule 56): Describes proper procedures for handling and disposing of asbestos materials. It also requires all work which disturbs asbestos materials be done by licensed asbestos abatement professionals.
NYC Asbestos Control Program: Oversees New York City’s set of asbestos laws.
10 NYCRR Part 73: Regulations for training asbestos abatement workers and those providing safety training.
12 NYCRR Part 56: Regulations involving public safety during asbestos abatement projects.
6 NYCRR Part 360: Regulations for properly disposing of asbestos waste.
6 NYCRR Part 364: Regulations on how to safely transport asbestos waste.
State Departments Overseeing New York’s Asbestos Laws
New York State Department of Labor’s Asbestos Control Bureau: Enforces asbestos laws, inspects asbestos projects, responds to complaints and shuts down work if violations are found.
New York Laws Affecting Asbestos Lawsuits
New York Civil Practice Law and Rules Section 214: Defines the statute of limitations for personal injury lawsuits in New York.
New York Civil Practice Law and Rules Section 1411: Defines New York’s negligence laws.
Asbestos Litigation Trends in New York
Many mesothelioma lawsuits have been filed in New York courts. That’s primarily because New York is a hot spot for asbestos exposure. The state’s industrial facilities, factories, mills, power plants and shipyards employed many people who worked with asbestos products.
Between 1998 and 2000, New York was among five states that captured 66% of the nation’s asbestos lawsuits. In 2000, New York and California led the nation in the number of asbestos case filings.
New York courts have developed procedural rules and practices and case management practices to deal with the number of cases. For example:
The New York City Asbestos Litigation was developed to handle cases filed by residents of New York City and people exposed in the city.
Courts in New York City and Syracuse, New York, have established “inactive dockets” for asbestos cases. These courts place cases of claimants who allege asbestos exposure but are currently unimpaired on a separate inactive docket. Discovery and processing of such cases is delayed until the plaintiff’s injuries have progressed.
New York courts also adopt procedural rules and issue case management orders to address a backlog of cases. For instance, under “first in, first out” procedures, claims of terminally ill claimants are set aside for accelerated trials during one month, twice a year.
These case management orders also include procedures for “clustering” groups of similar cases for trial and discovery. For example, multiple cases handled by a single mesothelioma law firm may be clustered into a group.
New York is among the states that allow setoffs. If a claimant has received compensation from an asbestos trust fund, any defendant that they sue may deduct the amount of trust compensation from a court award.
New York courts may require a plaintiff to file trust fund claims prior to a trial for a personal injury claim or wrongful death claim.
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Palm oil conflicts persist amid lack of resolution in Indonesian Borneo
Mongabay - March 16, 2021
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The framework for resolving land disputes involving palm oil companies in Indonesian Borneo has largely failed, allowing conflicts to fester for a decade or more, with very few ever being settled, a new study shows.
Researchers from the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and the Indonesian NGO Gemawan focused on 32 conflicts out of a total 69 that have been identified between palm oil companies and communities in West Kalimantan province.
In most of the cases, the communities say they haven't been fairly compensated for their land or the companies have failed to allocate parts of their concessions to be managed by locals, under a scheme known as plasma cultivation.
In some cases, the companies have relied on local figures who don't represent their communities; failed to adequately and accurately inform the communities about the potential impact of their plantations; and even hired thugs to intimidate community members.
"There are many conflicts related to the plasma scheme promised by companies, which aren't being met, or people feel they aren't being implemented well and transparently," said KITLV senior researcher Ward Berenschot. "Second is land grabbing. People feel their lands have been taken away by companies without fair compensation."
Of the 32 conflicts that the researchers studied, 21 are related to the plasma scheme and 15 to land grabbing. Nearly all the disputes involve more than one grievance.
There have been efforts made to resolve these conflicts, from mediation by officials, to complaints lodged with sustainability certification bodies, but most of these cases have still not been settled.
"There seems to be no solution for 66% of the cases," Berenschot said. "The conflicts are still there and there's been no result [from the efforts], or just a few."
And communities often have to fight for years, often more than a decade, to reach a resolution.
"We found the process to solve conflicts to be long, usually it takes five years [on average], and many cases haven't been resolved," Berenschot said. "The 66% of [unresolved] cases have been going on for 10 years on average."
To determine whether a conflict had been resolved, the researchers gauged public perceptions on the matter, asking people affected by the conflict whether they thought the efforts to address it had been effective. Thirty-eight percent of respondents said the efforts had failed completely, while 28% said they had failed almost completely.
KITLV researcher Ahmad Dhiaulhaq said much of the resentment on the part of the communities was directed at local authorities they considered had failed to mediate a resolution.
Twenty-six of the 32 conflicts studied featured some form of mediation by local governments, lawmakers and police, highlighting the communities' reliance on authorities to fix the problems. But in only three of these cases were agreements between the communities and companies achieved and implemented, Ahmad said. In five other cases, agreements were reached but had not yet been implemented.
In some cases, the officials mediating the conflicts don't have the authority to make decisions, Ahmad said. "As a result, the meetings facilitated by the government don't produce the expected results," he added.
And in the cases where companies are uncooperative and unwilling to meet the communities in the middle, it's very rare for the government to punish them.
"We see lack of sanctions for companies that are not being cooperative," Ahmad said. "Of course there are companies that are cooperative, but we also found on the ground that there were companies that didn't show up when they're invited [to resolve conflicts with communities]."
And even when companies have been ordered to relinquish part of their concessions for communities, there's little to no enforcement, he added.
"There are district heads who have issued decisions for companies to [change] the status quo," Ahmad said. "But [the decisions] aren't enforced on the ground and the government seems to not be able to do anything when the companies don't carry out the district heads' decisions."
The West Kalimantan provincial plantations agency responded to the findings of the study by saying that it showed the industry's incidence of conflict was low. With 378 registered palm oil companies operating in the province, and only 69 conflicts identified, that works out to less than one conflict per company, said agency head Heronimus Hero.
"I see around 0.18 conflicts [per company] compared to the total number of companies in West Kalimantan," he said.
Sadino, a legal adviser to Indonesia's main oil palm business association, GAPKI, agreed: "From that percentage, I think it's still something that's very reasonable," he said. "But does reasonable mean we are satisfied? Of course not."
Heronimus said that in some cases, it was the companies, and not the communities, that were the victims of these conflicts.
"It turns out that lots of companies have also fallen victims, but [these cases] don't come to the surface," he said. "For example, in Landak district, the ones who harvest [the oil palm crops] are local people, not the company, even though the company is the one who invests. And then in Kubu Raya district, there's a case where [the company] has clearly [paid] compensation, but the villagers unilaterally cancelled [the agreement] without returning the compensation [money]."
He said these cases showed the government has to be fair in mediating conflicts.
"Companies have to be protected as well because they have permits to operate," Heronimus said. "There's no way they can cultivate such vast lands without permits."
Other avenues for redress underutilized
Even as they perceive the government to have failed to look out for their interests, aggrieved communities are not making use of other means of conflict resolution, such as courts or certification bodies like the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the world's largest association for ethical palm oil production.
Companies that are members of the RSPO are required to resolve any existing land conflicts with Indigenous peoples and smallholder communities to qualify for certification. They are also obliged to acquire the free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) of the communities in where they operate.
If RSPO members are found to be involved in ongoing disputes, the affected communities can lodge a complaint with the RSPO, which would then mediate through its dispute settlement facility.
Litigation in local courts is also an option for communities seeking redress. Yet these avenues remain underutilized, with only five of the 32 conflicts studied going to court, and five going to the RSPO, according to the study.
Ahmad attributed this low rate to a number of factors, such as cost, lack of trust in institutions, and complicated procedures.
Berenschot said that in many legal cases, judges tend to rule in favor of the companies.
"The people often lose [in court]," he said. "Even if they win, with two such cases in West Kalimantan, the verdicts aren't enforced. So even if they win, they don't get the benefits."
Hermansyah, a law professor at West Kalimantan's Tanjungpura University, said this is because courts tend to take a purely procedural view of such matters – determining whether the companies have the necessary permits – instead of trying to seek justice.
As a result, communities either have to rely on government officials like district heads to side with their cause, or take to the streets in protest.
"So people said let's not bother going to the court, it's better for us to protest, it might be more efficient," Hermansyah said.
For the most part, these protests have been peaceful, with only six conflicts giving rise to violent protests, according to Berenschot.
"What's interesting is that people tend to avoid violence or anarchy because they usually demonstrate peacefully," he said. "Sometimes there is violence, but not often, and the violence is done by both the locals and also plantation security."
Despite this, community members are often subject to arbitrary or frivolous criminal charges brought by the companies. This happened in 10 of the disputes, resulting in the arrests of 94 people.
"There's a problem with criminalization," Berenschot said. "Many protesting local figures are arrested by the police during or after the protests, with accusations that are sometimes [valid], but sometimes not as well. And this complicates the conflict resolution because a lot of efforts [have to be made] to free the figures."
Indigenous peoples and smallholders have been among those arrested for calling for fairer treatment.
"In many cases, the main demand from the people is to receive better compensation from oil palm plantations," Berenschot said. "For example, they want better benefit sharing or better implementation of the plasma scheme."
Other common demands include better compensation for lands that they have lost; for the return of parts of their land; and for companies to contribute more to the communities by providing jobs. In general, Berenschot said, the communities aren't rejecting the presence of the palm oil companies or demanding that plantation activities be stopped.
"On the contrary," he said, "they want to receive better compensation for the lands that they've contributed for the development of oil palm plantations."
Finding win-win solutions
Based on the findings, the researchers have called on the government to boost its efforts in mitigating conflicts by making sure that companies obtain free, prior and informed consent from communities before being allowed to start operating, and by closely monitoring the implementation of the plasma scheme.
And for conflicts that have already arisen, the researchers have called for the establishment of institutions responsible for mediation and conflict resolution at the provincial and district levels. Hermansyah said stakeholders in such institutions would have to include representatives of the communities, businesses, governments, and other organizations.
"It is hoped that the mediation [efforts] from this institution could become a forum for dialogue that can be a more civilized option to resolving conflicts," he said.
Ana Gustia, an official with the West Kalimantan provincial land agency, said she hoped such an institution could be established in each district in the province to resolve conflicts in a speedy and satisfactory manner benefiting all parties.
"Hopefully we can solve disputes and conflicts so that they don't have be taken to the court," she said. "If these conflicts are taken to the court, the process will take a very long time, energy and cost. So if all problems can be solved through mediation, hopefully that's the best solution."
The researchers said law enforcement against companies refusing to cooperate should also be strengthened.
"There needs to be more professional law enforcement which is free from any informal pressure from business actors," Ahmad said.
Heronimus of the plantation agency said district governments, which have the authority to issue permits, can play a key role in this regard by rescinding the licenses of intransigent companies.
"We can evaluate companies [to see] whether they've benefitted all parties, which means the firms are profiting, the locals are prosperous and the economy is developing," he said. "That's how it's supposed to be."
Heronimus added that if companies mistreat communities or fail to communicate properly with them, then district heads can reprimand the firms.
"We understand that the ones whose positions are quite vulnerable are the locals, because the ones with capital are usually the companies," he said. "From the point of view of the plantation agency, we have to accommodate all conflicts, whether the victims are locals or companies. We must find win-win solutions."
Source: https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/palm-oil-conflicts-lack-of-resolution-in-indonesian-borneo-west-kalimantan
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Sports governance 20 years after Bosman: Back to the future… or not? By Borja García
13. November 2015 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
Dr Borja García joined the School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences at Loughbourough University in January 2009 as a Lecturer in Sport Management and Policy. He holds a PhD in Politics, International Relations and European Studies from Loughborough University (United Kingdom), where he completed his thesis titled ‘The European Union and the Governance of Football: A game of levels and agendas’.
In this leafy and relatively mild autumn, we are celebrating two important anniversaries. Recently, we just passed ‘Back to the Future day’, marking the arrival of Marty McFly to 2015. In a few weeks, we will be commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Bosman ruling. Difficult to decide which one of the two is more important. As we move well into the 21st century’s second decade, these two dates should mark a moment to consider innovation. They are perhaps occasions to take stock and reflect how much sport has evolved to reach this new future… or not.
When Marty McFly ‘landed’ on October 21st 2015, at 4.29 PM, he found a whole new world. Flying skateboards, holograms, massive jumbo screens… There was not much reference to sport governance in Back to the Future, although in the vein of the rest of the film, one would anticipate a modern, innovative and decidedly better sporting world. However, if Marty McFly, coming from the 1980s or 1990s, had arrived into the real October 21st 2015 and looked at the present state of sport governance, he may have thought his De Lorean was not working properly! Twenty years on from Bosman, and more than a decade since major scandals that were supposed to change the landscape of sport (so we were told back then), a familiar feeling of déjà-vu emerges when reading the sport news nowadays.
The late 1980s and 1990s were characterised by legal insecurity, scandals and transformation in the governance of sport. There were legal challenges to the legitimacy of governing bodies. Bosman was just one of them, but on the back of the ruling the European Commission was inundated with questions related to the application of EU law to the rules of sport governing bodies. Those were also days of major public opinion upheaval against the institutionalised doping or the mismanagement of the IOC.
Fast forward to 2015 and we find ourselves in a very similar situation! After a period of relative calm, legal challenges from stakeholders against rules and regulations of governing bodies have flourished everywhere. Dutch skaters against ISU, Mr. Striani against UEFA, FIFPro against the international transfer system, the Spanish and Portuguese leagues against FIFA... just to name a few. Moreover, it seems as if doping and corruption never left us. It was cycling back then, and Russian athletics now. It was the Olympics and Salt Lake City in the 1990s, football, Russia and Qatar now. It seems not much progress has been achieved in 20 years.
Why is that? One of the reasons is that, despite some changes and mild modernisation, the governance structures are still very similar. No flying skateboards around FIFA or the IOC, I am afraid. Sport continues to be regulated by international federations trying to keep their place at the top of a pyramid that, however, is no longer there because it has given place to a much more complex network. The transformation from vertical governance to horizontal structures, that caused many problems in the public sector as described by Rod Rhodes[1] (among others), has not been correctly addressed in sport.
As Jack Anderson has correctly pointed out, perhaps one of the problems is that the current political governance structures of sport are not fit for purpose. They lack real separation of powers. For example, when the Spanish athlete (now a senator!) Marta Domínguez is allegedly accused of doping due to irregularities in her blood passport, WADA sends the dossier to the Spanish Athletics Federation, in which Domínguez was a vice-president for a few years, serving under the current president (who has been in charge since 1989, so probably Marty McFly knows him well!). Can the disciplinary committees of such a body be really independent and be expected to pass a clear and decisive judgment? Of course, they cannot and have not done so!
But the questions are perhaps more systemic. Are international sport federations really fit for the purpose of modern sport? The new reality of sport is one where the commercial dimension is increasingly divorcing from the coveted grassroots or sport-for-all Holy Grail. ISFs, and most public sport policies, are still attempting to house these two different realities under one common roof. Questions need to be asked as to whether this confusion des genres is even possible. There was a time in which the European Commission suggested that international federations had to separate their regulatory and commercial roles. But not much has been done in that respect since the Formula 1 case. Perhaps it should be accepted that elite and professional sport needs a new approach. If ISFs are serious, they need to start putting in place much more modern management and governance structures. Executive committees need to stop being ‘representative’ of the stakeholders, turning to be ‘skills based’. They need, of course, to be much more age, race and gender diverse. Independent directors need to be fully incorporated to councils, boards and federations’ EXCOs. Standing committees need to be more independent and need to have targets… This is nothing new, but it reads as a revolution in the world of international sport.
Given the governance failures of sport, it is often questioned whether public authorities could/should/ought to regulate or bring sport to account. Here, it seems fair to say that following the political ‘backlash’ of Bosman, aptly articulated by some sport bodies, politicians have erred on the cautious side. The idea that the EU “was trying to kill club football in Europe”, as put forward by Lennart Johanson on 16 December 1995 was powerful enough to discourage the EU, and other public authorities for that matter, to regulate sport. The reality is that, to date, perhaps the EU is the only public body that has managed to bring to account international sport, even in a limited fashion, as I have argued in a recent article[2]. The mainstreaming of the autonomy and specificity of sport into EU policies, however, has deterred EU institutions from pursuing a much more proactive approach in the control and regulation of sport.
After Bosman, there was a period in which both sport and EU law found each other. There were negotiations and some changes in both sides. There were even positive noises coming from different social dialogue committees. The calm, however, has been broken abruptly. And we have woken up back to the future, as if 1995 had never passed. ASSER’s very own Antoine Duval, and some authors such as Arnout Geeraert have recently argued that the EU should be much stronger in its application of EU law to sport. The problem is: can they really do it? In an increasingly Eurosceptic environment amongst the peoples of Europe, can the EU really risk trying to have a go at sport? It can be argued, that sport as an area of ‘soft politics’ and popular culture may give the EU some of its lost legitimacy back. But I am not so sure. In a recent survey, part of the FREE Project, we asked Europeans in nine countries whether they trusted the EU (amongst other bodies) to regulate the governance of football. The answer was clear: No, they do not. Of the nine different organisations offered in the survey, the EU was the third least trusted body, only above the media and national governments. In the survey, only 40% of the Europeans in the nine countries polled trusted the EU in this respect. This goes down to 21% when the survey is restricted to core football fans, not the general public. In other words, Europeans do not trust the EU, nor national governments to improve the governance of football. So, if the EU tries to have a stronger position in the application of European law and policies to sport, it may well backfire.
Normally, I have refrained from such a normative approach to governance. As a political scientist, I prefer to analyse what actors do, rather than to tell them, what to do. However, it is clear to me that what they have done so far is not working. Twenty years on from Bosman, and a visit of Marty McFly after, the ‘future’ of international sport governance looks conspicuously similar to the past. And it is not good. We need a solution that brings us to the future, to a real future where the past is finally put to rest.
[1] Rhodes, RAW. (1997) Understanding governance: policy networks, governance, reflexivity and accountability, Maidenhead: Open University Press.
[2] Meier, HE and García, B. (2015) ‘Protecting private transnational authority against public intervention: The power of FIFA over national governments’. Public Administration, Early view, September 2015, doi: 10.1111/padm.12208.
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Bari Land, Beach & Coast, Daunia Mountains, Gargano, Itineraries, Itria Valley, Salento, Top 10 To See
Puglia, also known as the heel of the Italian boot: such a splendid region offers charming towns and villages, marvellous architecture, tasty food, plenty of traditions and folklore. Here we want to present you with what we consider to be the top 10 places to visit in Puglia and among the most beautiful in Italy. Otranto Otranto is a town in the province of Lecce and is part the Salento area. It is located in a harbour along the east coast on the Adriatic Sea and is the easternmost town in Italy. Its small seaport is mostly used for fishing activity and tourism, especially for the ferry services to Greece.…
Giovinazzo and its charming fishing port
Monopoli: a unique city in Bari Land
Conversano, noble city of Bari Land
Itineraries, Itria Valley
Discovering the Itria Valley Located in the heart of Puglia is the Itria Valley, a vast area of central Puglia that extends between the province of Bari, Brindisi and Taranto. Known as the Itria Valley, this area does not look exactly like a real valley, it is in fact an extensive karst depression at the bottom of the Murge. The area extends South of the Murge plateau and includes the towns of Alberobello, Locorotondo, Martina Franca, Ceglie Messapica, Cisternino and Fasano. The name derives from the Byzantine Itria, in honor of Our Lady Odegitria, protector of travelers. The valley is characterized by the presence of numerous caves including the famous…
Bari Land, Itria Valley, Top 10 To See
Alberobello is a small yet characteristic town located South East of Puglia in the province of Bari, (in the middle of The Itria Valley) with a population of about 10,000 people. Alberobello is situated on two hills; the new town is located on the eastern hill and is characterized by a modern architecture. The western part is occupied by the old town (trulli) and the whole area is divided into two districts: Monti and Aia Piccola, both National Monuments. Alberobello is without question one of the most characteristic towns in Italy and is famous for its traditionally built ancient stone houses called trulli, (which since 1996 have been named a…
Bari Land, Itria Valley
Safari Zoo & Fasanolandia
This is a place that all children and their parents will love, this is where you can be in contact with nature and animals and have a great fun within the amusement park. This permanent structure that hosts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year is located just outside the town of Fasano in the Brindisi Province. It consists of the safari zoo, the wildlife pedestrian park and the amusement park known as Fasanolondia. The entire complex is the biggest in Italy and one of the biggest in Europe. Main attraction is the Zoosafari, this is a great wildlife park that houses about 1,700 specimens of 200 species. Here the…
Itria Valley, Salento, Top 10 To See
Ostuni is a town in the province of Brindisi which has a population of about 32,000 people, but during the summer months this mushrooms to a massive 100,000 proving that Ostuni is a must see to any visit in Southern Italy. Ostuni is also known as “White City” (Città bianca) because its historic center is entirely painted with white lime. It is a very popular tourist destination. The origins of the city can be placed in the Paleolithic period (approx 50.000 – 40.000 years ago). The area was originally occupied by hunters who built their huts in the caves that characterize the territory of Ostuni. Human presence in this area around that time was…
Itria Valley, Salento
Martina Franca is a city of about 50K inhabitants in the province of Taranto. It’s located on a hill in the Southern part of the Murgia and overlooks the green Itria Valley. It is a must-see and perfect stop for a day trip if you are taking a tour of Puglia and Itria Valley. The city was founded in the 10th century, and the name Martin comes from people’s devotion to St. Martin, the first human settlement was in fact right on the St. Martin Mountain. The name Franca, was assigned in 1310 as a result of various privileges that were given to the city. The most important was surely…
Locorotondo is a village in the province of Bari with a population of about 14,000 people, well connected by public transports and easily accessible by car, Locorotondo is certainly worth a visit while in Southern Italy. Its name derives from the Latin Locus Rotundus meaning round place to prove the fact that the village had a circular shape which still remains today. Built on top of a hill and surrounded by a wall Locorotondo is certainly the most beautiful natural balcony over the Valle d’Itria. From its panoramic viewpoint, you can see thousands of trulli, a typical Mediterranean scrub forest, olive groves and vineyards that surround the Masserie. The the…
Cisternino is a village in the province of Brindisi, which overlooks the Itria Valley. The first human settlement in the area dates back the Paleolithic period. Even today, prehistoric tools of every kind such as knives, scrapers and chisels to cut bones can be found in the area. The name Cisternino derives from the hero Sturnoi, who after the Trojan War founded a nearby town which was later occupied by the Romans, which they named Sturninum and today is the current Ostuni. It was not until the Middle Ages that the Byzantine monks named it Cis-sturnium (on this side of Sturnium). The old town of Cisternino is an example of…
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Department of Emergency Care and Disaster Medicine
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The Department of Emergency Care and Disaster Medicine was founded in 1989. The staff of the department was represented by intensivists, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, toxicologists, emergency surgeons, traumatologists, neurologists. The main target of the Department of Emergency Care was training of emergency physicians on diagnostics and treatment of emergency conditions in patients before the admission to a hospital. From the time of its foundation, the Department of Emergency Medicine had been based at Minsk Emergency Clinical Hospital.
The first head of the department was Leonid Baranov, an associate professor, Candidate of Medical Sciences. He had been in charge of the department until 2003. At that time, the department was represented by the following specialists: L.D.Kunitsa, professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences; associate professors, Candidates of Medical Sciences E.G.Machulin and E.A.Voronko; assistants, Candidates of Medical Sciences T.V.Avramenko and E.N.Ostapenko. Specialists of the department were in charge of cardiology unit, toxicology unit, pulmonology unit, admission room and etc.
In 1998, there had been created a course on general medical practice at the department, which was reorganized into a separate department headed by associate professor E. A.Voronko (in 1999). In the same year, E.G.Machulin, professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences, became head of the newly created Department of Disaster Medicine.
The department of Disaster Medicine was founded in 1970. At the Department of Military and Medical Training there had been created a course on medical service of civil defense, with two lecturers in charge, one of which was P.V.Zhevnyak. In 1972, the course was headed by B.N. Martusevich, there were two newcomers at the department – the lecturers B. N. Martusevich, P. I. Kalinin, A. S. Serdyuk.
In September, 1981, the course on medical services of civil defense was reorganized into the Department of Medical Services of Civil Defense with V.N.Stavsky, Candidate of Medical Sciences, in charge. In 1983, a new lecturer, Y.K.Chernakov, started to work at the department. In 1984, the staff was extended by new specialists —B.I. Popov, a senior lecturer, and V.Z.Monich, Candidate of Medical Sciences.
In 1987, the Department of Medical Services of Civil Defense was headed by I.S.Asaenok, Candidate of Medical Sciences; in 1990, it was renamed into the Department of Emergency Medical Care, which changed the contents and targets of the training programs of the department. But in 1992, due to the retirement of two lecturers, the Department of Medical Service of Civil Defense was again reorganized into a course with two specialists — V.I.Stavsky, an associate professor, and Y.K.Chernakov, a senior lecturer.
In January, 1999, the course on medical services of civil defense was reorganized into the Department of Disaster Medicine, which was headed by E.G.Machulin, professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences. The course on combustiology was set into the curriculum of the Department of Disaster Medicine.
The clinical base of the department at that time was Minsk Emergency Clinical Hospital. The staff of the department was represented by experienced physicians, who were in charge of the admission room, burns intensive care unit, toxicology unit: O.P.Pochepen, an assistant, Candidate of Medical Sciences, assistants V.V. Postnikova and E. H. Kurilenko.
The main target of the Department of Disaster Medicine was training of healthcare leaders, emergency physicians, admitting physicians, special emergency teams of physicians, who were ready to provide necessary medical care in emergency conditions. For this purpose, there had been developed and approved a training program, which corresponded to the present-day requirements of disaster medicine.
In 2003, the staff of the department was extended by M.I.Guseva, an assistant, and A.N.Volosheniuk, Candidate of Medical Sciences, associate professor, who later became head of the department.
Since October 2003, the Department of Emergency Care had been headed by L. Mironov, an associate professor, Candidate of Medical Sciences. In 2004, professor N.P.Novikova started to work at the department, who until that time had been working at the Department of Functional Diagnostics of BelMAPE.
In December, 2004, the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Department of Disaster Medicine had been merged into one separate department, which was called the Department of Emergency Care and Disaster Medicine. The department was headed by L.L.Mironov, Candidate of Medical Sciences, an associate professor. The department had the courses: the course on emergency medical care (professor L.D. Kunitsa, associate professors N. P. Novikova, Т. V. Avramenko, assistants V. I. Pukita, V. N. Tarasevich), the course on disaster medicine (E.H.Kurilenko, V.V.Postnikova), the course on polytrauma (associate professor А. N. Volosheniuk). The staff of the department was extended by new specialists — assistants A.L.Sukovatykh and S.Y.Grachev.
The Department of Emergency Care and Disaster Medicine developed qualification requirements for emergency care physicians of the first and highest qualification category, tests for attestation of emergency care physicians and physicians of other specialties on disaster medicine. Specialists of the department participated in the development of the protocols for adults.
In 2006, Leonid Mironov started to work as dean of the Surgery Faculty, so N.P,Novikova became vice head of the department and, in 2007, she started to work as head of the Department of Emergency Care and Disaster Medicine.
Annually, about 600 trainees undergo advanced training and retraining courses at the department, among which there are emergency care physicians, therapists, cardiologists, intensivists, physicians, working at polyclinics, healthcare leaders. The department also offers training courses on emergency medical care at clinical residency.
Scientific activities of the department include: improvement of the management and structural organization of the disaster medicine services at all republican levels, participation in the development of the automatically controlled system on the liquidation of different types of technogenic disasters, development of the modern technologies to render medical care in emergency conditions, surgical treatment of dysplastic coxarthrosis in adults; low flow anaesthesia; organization of the management of emergency medical care services in emergency situations; clinics, diagnostics and treatment at ischemic heart disease, arterial hypertension and rendering of emergency medical care to patients at prehospital stage.
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Sheetz Little Meadows PA 18830 Sheetz, Inc. is an American chain of benefit stores as well as coffee stores had by the Sheetz family. The stores market a mix of customized food, drinks, and also ease shop items.
A few locations are full-blown vehicle quits, including showers and also a laundromat.
Sheetz, Inc was founded by G. Robert “Bob” Sheetz in 1952 when he purchased among his dad’s 5 milk stores situated in Altoona. In 1961, Bob hired his sibling Steve to function part-time.
The siblings prepared to broaden at the rate of one shop per year with a target of 7 shops by 1972. In 1972, the company broadened from seven to fourteen stores. One year later, Sheetz began selling fuel, as well as opened up the very first self-serve gas pumps in central Pennsylvania.
By 1983, Bob as well as Steve had actually opened 100 shops. In 1981 Bob retired and Steve came to be president.
In 1995, Stanton R. “Stan” Sheetz, Bob’s boy, became president and also Steve presumed the position of Chairman of the Board. To this particular day, Sheetz keeps a family organization with 4 relative offering on the Executive Committee.
During the mid-1990s, Sheetz marketed It! Soda, the chain’s private-label brand name of soft drinks readily available in containers, bottles, and as fountain beverages. The drink was stopped and the water fountains were changed with Pepsi items. The chain now has both Pepsi and also Coca-Cola items in the water fountains.
In December 2004 they started using the brand-new Sheetz MasterCard PayPass with RFID modern technology, as well as was one of the first retailers to accept such modern technology, ahead of McDonald’s, Arby’s, CVS, as well as competing 7-Eleven, every one of which introduced it across the country in 2006.
On July 10, 2006 Sheetz became Pennsylvania’s 2nd retail chain to offer E85 ethanol-based fuel alternative at choose terminals.
In 2008, Sheetz opened its initial commissary, Sheetz Bros. Cooking area, to produce fresh sandwiches as well as bakery products that are cost Sheetz areas.
All Sheetz stores are company-owned-and-operated. Sheetz is the leading comfort store chain in much of Pennsylvania, holding a digital syndicate in Altoona as well as a commanding share in Pittsburgh (where it contends with 7-Eleven, Speedway, GetGo, as well as to a much minimal level Circle K) as well as Harrisburg (where it largely completes with Rutter’s, as well as 7-Eleven and also Speedway), but is visibly lacking from the Delaware Valley ( consisting of Philadelphia) due to the presence of Wawa, leading to a fierce “rivalry” between the two chains amongst Pennsylvanians, though the 2 firms themselves have a friendly relationship.
In October 2013, Stan Sheetz ended up being Chairman of the Board of Sheetz, with his relative Joseph S. “Joe” Sheetz ending up being head of state and CEO.
Published in November 2013, Kenneth Womack’s Made to Order: The Sheetz Story traces the company’s history from its dairy-store origins via today day.
In 2014, Sheetz opened its second warehouse and kitchen center in Burlington, North Carolina.
Sales for fiscal year 2018-2019 amounted to $7.5 billion.
On November 29, 2019, Sheetz introduced an development into Columbus, Ohio beginning in 2021. Sheetz intends to open up 60 areas in the Columbus area by 2025 (more than increasing its current store count in Ohio), with Sheetz COO Travis Sheetz informing the Columbus Dispatch that “we’re not coming in lightly”. Locations already confirmed will be found in Obetz (near Rickenbacker International Airport), four areas in Columbus proper ( consisting of one just outside of John Glenn Columbus International Airport near Gahanna and also another near Hollywood Casino Columbus, Mark Wahlberg Chevrolet, & the former Westland Mall), Circleville, South Bloomfield, Polairs, Reynoldsburg, as well as two each in Delaware, New Albany & Hilliard; locations in Grove City & Lancaster (the latter due to its close closeness to an existing Sheetz location in Zanesville) are additionally anticipated.
In 2020, Sheetz discontinued selling Faygo sodas and replaced them with their new private-label brand, Sheetz Pop!. This drink effectively replaces It! Soda pop 25 years after the last product was discontinued.
In 2003, Sheetz opened a principle store in the food court of Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This place offered Sheetz’s made-to-order foods and fountain drinks in a much more standard junk food design. It did not work as a corner store. The shop has actually because shut.
In 2012, Sheetz, again, started pondering ” brand-new principle”, “fuel-free” places. In 2014, a plan was introduced to open such a place on the campus of West Virginia University, in Morgantown, WV. The intent was to call it “Sheetz MTO Market”, nevertheless, when opened up, in February 2015, the shop was called “Sheetz Café” (although outside signage coincides as all other shops).
In September 2015, one more no-fuel coffee shop opened up in State College, PA, near the school of Penn State University. In Indiana, , on the boundary of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania school, a Sheetz that previously brought gasoline was taken down, and also changed with a no-fuel café that opened up in August 2016. A fourth such location opened in September 2017, in Charlottesville, VA, straight across the street from the school of the University of Virginia.
In September 2019, Sheetz announced they would not restore their lease with WVU for that Morgantown area. The company supplied no explanation for the closure.
Sheetz, Inc. is an American chain of convenience stores as well as coffee shops possessed by the Sheetz family. Sheetz prepares to open up 60 areas in the Columbus area by 2025 (more than doubling its existing store count in Ohio), with Sheetz COO Travis Sheetz telling the Columbus Dispatch that “we’re not coming in lightly”. In 2020, Sheetz terminated offering Faygo soft beverages and replaced them with their new private-label brand, Sheetz Pop!. In 2003, Sheetz opened up a concept store in the food court of Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The intent was to call it “Sheetz MTO Market”, however, when opened up, in February 2015, the shop was called “Sheetz Café” (although outside signs is the same as all other shops). Sheetz Little Meadows PA 18830
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With less than 2 weeks left in the regular season, let's start to get nostalgic.
By soco@socosoco Sep 22, 2015, 3:00pm EDT
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One September day, one not particularly special day, I took the train down to Phoenix City Hall. I was to meet my old friend for lunch and a discussion about a parcel he had been considering developing.
The train rolled smoothly on its track through the old East Phoenix neighborhoods, and I was greeted by tire shops and local restaurants with their names painted on their stucco walls. Everything was a sandy tan and pink and soft, old yellow, telling the story of years of haboobs that couldn't be washed away with the early fall rain. The sky was a deep blue today, and it reminded me of ultramarine, that coveted paint of old Renaissance masters.
As the train moved into Downtown it, and I, was suddenly cast in shadow, under the watchful eye of a looming, squat building that stood apart from the rapidly changing business core to the north. A ballpark, one usually covered though open today, and I wondered who watched it as it slept.
"T!" Gerald leapt up from the table to greet me. The cafe was nearly empty, being quite early for the office drone lunch hour. "You're looking lovely."
"Flattery won't help," I replied, sitting at the table and casting an eye around for a server.
"Oh, I know," he said as sat. "but we have to engage in some civilities."
"Just don't bore me with talk about the weather."
As breakfast progressed we discussed his project, yet another walkable mixed use develop that seemed to be the only source of my consulting work. One workable example in the city, and suddenly every developer is trying to shove a version of it in every urban village. I pointed out the usual flaws, that the demographics in the area weren't favorable, that the parcel wasn't large enough and that he'd have to buy and demolish the surrounding parcels, that a significant investment would have to be made in an underground parking structure.
After the meal ended Gerald and I walked down Washington towards the station. Before us loomed Chase Field, that lonely ballpark of the local baseball team.
"I wonder," he mused, "why they never developed a successful retail component around the park."
Another question I had been asked what felt like a million times. "No where to put it. It's bound by Washington, 7th, parking to the south and west. The parcel to the north could have been something, but they had to build a parking garage with the ballpark to meet league rules."
"I haven't even been to a game this year," he replied. "Things haven't been the same since Goldschmidt was traded to the Yankees."
I shrugged. "He was at the end of a long contract and gave all his best years to us. Hard to be too mad."
"I know! I just remember that 2015 season, and just want to relive it forever."
"I mainly remember that season as some doses of fun but mainly relief at not being disappointment."
"Disappointment," he asked, turning to me with eyebrows attempting to join his hairline. "How could 2015 been disappointing?"
"It was expectation," I replied. "Or lack there of. They were the worst team in baseball in 2014, and had castoffs or unknowns for 2015."
"But Goldschmidt in his prime! Pollock, Inciarte, Peralta, Tomas, Castillo!"
"Right, but outside of Goldschmidt there wasn't particularly high hopes for any of them. Tomas started the season at third and in the minors, if you remember."
"What I remember," he puffed up his chest and assumed the classic mansplaining voice. "was the D-backs going on a late season winning streak and sneaking into the playoffs."
"That's not how I remember it all."
He sniffed. "Well, it's okay to not be much of a fan. But that NLCS series was a lot of fun, even if it was ultimately heartbreaking to lose to the Cubs in Game 7. At least we lost to the eventual winners."
"I'm pretty sure none of that happened."
His patronizing smile reminded me why I only saw him for business. He kept talking, but by that point I had stopped listening. I looked towards Chase Field, devoid of activity this September morning that was just starting to feel its heat. The ballpark was nearly 30 years old, and I knew from talking with other developers that there already was talk, quietly of course, of replacing the facility. It didn't look bad for its age, but this was the way of things.
Gerald mentioning 2015 made me suddenly love the aging park. Not for the playoff races or Hall of Fame players, or the championships. That random year nearly 10 years before hadn't been anything special in the record books. Its banality made it more endearing, though, as a representation for baseball as an act of entertainment and community.
As I waited for my train I felt the humidity rise and watched the colors shift on the facade of the ballpark. In the late morning sun it ceased to glow with a soft pink light, but instead became streaked in dust and reminded me of the endless strip malls around the metro area. The current season would be over and the mild winter would come, and other distractions would fill my time. The books I had neglected, the new ballet season. But baseball would remain on my mind.
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Home » House members defend healthfulness of enriched grains
House members defend healthfulness of enriched grains
By Josh Sosland
The importance of folic acid and enriched grains should be clarified in the 2015 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, numerous members of the U.S. Congress wrote in a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
The letter was signed by Representative Peter Roskam of Illinois, Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard of California and 58 members of Congress.
“The American Bakers Association applauds the hard work of Congressman Roskam and the many other members of Congress toward protecting the health of women and infants in the 2015 Dietary Guidelines,” said Robb MacKie, president and chief executive officer of the A.B.A. “This bi-partisan support for the role of grain foods fortified with folic acid is critical to the continued improvement of the health of women and infants.”
The A.B.A. said the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee was mistaken in its February report, which grouped enriched grains in the refined grains category and urged a reduction of intake.
“Folic acid fortification of enriched grains has led to a 36% reduction of neural tube defects since 1998, a success that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has described as one of the top 10 public health achievements of the decade of 2001-10,” the A.B.A. said.
The 2015 Dietary Guidelines will be finalized this fall.
“If U.S.D.A. and H.H.S. fail to recognize the importance of folic acid fortified grains, it would be a big setback for women and infants’ health, particularly in the Hispanic community where neural tube defects are much more prevalent,” said Mike Goscinski, manager of government relations and public affairs for the A.B.A.
Mr. MacKie pledged to work with the H.H.S. and the Department of Agriculture “in developing a strong, science-based dietary guidelines that communicate the vital role of both enriched and whole grains in a healthy, balanced diet.”
Other groups supporting the letter in addition to the A.B.A. included the North American Millers’ Association, the Spina Bifida Association, the March of Dimes Foundation, the Grain Foods Foundation, the Wheat Foods Council, the Independent Bakers Association, the USA Rice Federation, the National Pasta Association and the Tortilla Industry Association.
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Study shows nutrition benefits of grains for children
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Baltimore Community Mediation Center joins team to oversee police reform
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The nonprofit based in a small office on Greenmount Avenue with a staff of six was called in at the end of a months-long process to identify an independent monitoring team to oversee the Consent Decree reached between the city and Justice Department earlier this year. (Amy Davis / Baltimore Sun)
From its plain brick headquarters on Greenmount Avenue in North Baltimore, a small nonprofit has long helped people resolve routine neighborhood or family disputes. Now the Baltimore Community Mediation Center has been asked to play a key role in the city’s police reform effort.
The center is charged with working to improve the relationship between the community and the police department. It’s part of the independent monitoring team assembled by city and U.S. Justice Department officials to oversee changes, including more training for police and investments in better technology, mandated in a federal consent decree.
U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar, who approved the monitoring team last month, said in an order that the mediation center was asked to join the process “to ensure that the community’s voice is heard throughout the implementation of the Consent Decree.”
At its helm, is Shantay Guy, who left a lucrative job as a technology project manager at T. Rowe Price to pursue mediation as a way to heal the community after the 2015 riots.
Guy said she was driving home with her son near Druid Hill Park as rocks and other debris flew between police officers and upset young people, including something that struck her car. Her phone had been off and she was unaware that rioting had broken out after Freddie Gray’s funeral.
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In the days and weeks after the unrest, she realized she wanted to get involved. “The universe is really telling me that I need to be doing something different, something more,” Guy said.
The consent decree followed a sweeping investigation by the Justice Department ordered after Gray’s death from injuries suffered in police custody. Federal investigators concluded that city police had systemically violated the rights of residents, disproportionately targeted African-Americans, stopped people without proper justification and violated people’s civil rights.
The monitoring team is led by Kenneth Thompson, a partner at the Venable law firm, and includes Charles H. Ramsey, a former chief of the Philadelphia and District of Columbia police departments, and other lawyers and former law enforcement officials.
Guy said she couldn’t discuss her organization’s role in the consent decree without the judge’s approval. Bredar declined through a court spokeswoman to comment.
But in a statement released shortly after being named to the monitoring team, the mediation center said it plans to “develop a team of volunteers drawn from various segments of Baltimore’s population to ensure appropriate and authentic community engagement” in the process.”
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It said the group will “engage with both the community and monitoring team using the non-judgmental, confidential and transparent methods, rooted in inclusive and empowering values, that we use every day to help Baltimore residents have difficult conversations.”
Guy described the wide-ranging impacts the organization has had in the community for more than two decades. The center has 67 volunteer mediators who hear disputes from across the city. Some mediation sessions involve disagreement that arise between neighbors, soon to be released inmates and their families, and parents and the school system.
“Our goal is to reduce interpersonal and physical violence because we realize that folks won’t always agree with each other on everything,” Guy said. The group’s perspective, she said, is that “we don’t see conflict as negative.”
The group completed more than 600 mediation sessions last fiscal year in libraries, churches, recreation centers or anywhere that doesn’t feel punitive, Guy said. She said the volunteer mediators undergo 50 hours of training and then complete several mediations under the supervision of experienced mediators.
One of its mediators, Erricka Bridgeford, launched the “Baltimore Ceasefire” event that urged 72 hours without bloodshed as the city reached 188 homicides. While violence continued, the campaign for peace garnered widespread support, with many communities hosting vigils, cookouts and other events across the city. A second event was held this month.
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Baltimore Community Mediation was called in 2016 to help mediate between Western District police officers and district residents. The group also helped facilitate youth/police dialogue circles that began in 2015 and continue today.
“Our officers got to hear the young people out, and the young people got to hear the officers out,” said police department spokesman T.J. Smith. Beyond that, he said, “We may never know how many disputes were resolved that didn't end up leading to a violent crime.”
The nonprofit moderated two community forums on the consent decree.
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“We reflected back what people were feeling and what was important to them and articulated the points that were being made. And we do that in a lot of cases,” Guy said.
“What’s important to us is making sure every side feels heard and understood.”
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Paul Jackson, who struggled with drug addiction for 20 years, said it strained his relationship with his mother and stepfather. But after he and his parents sat down for two mediation sessions this year, he said they couldn’t be closer.
“I haven’t had this type of relationship with my parents in years. Right now, I couldn’t be in a better place,” said Jackson, 49.
He said mediation is something that can be beneficial to everyone.
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“If you come in there with an open mind, it will work out for you,” he said.
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Home Interview: Raju Thapa
Interview: Raju Thapa
by Rachel Huffman
Photo by Yan Pekar
I’m from Nepal. It’s a little country. Even the people are little, but they have big hearts.
After I moved to Barcelona to be with my Catalan partner, Laura (pictured above), I started to think about what I wanted to dedicate my time to. I studied business in London, so something related to that, but also something connected to Nepal. Our families are both involved in the textile industry, working with natural fabrics. That’s how ‘firiri’ was born—from a desire to fuse Asia and Europe, my past and my present, in an international clothing brand.
‘Firiri’ means movimiento con viento. If you think about a flag waving, moving in any direction it pleases; that symbol of freedom and liberty best represents our brand. Firiri is a platform for creativity. If someone has an idea, we welcome them. It’s as if our company is a football pitch—the pitch itself doesn’t do anything, it’s simply the platform for young kids with talent to become superstars. We are here to create wealth and opportunity for others, not just ourselves.
Our fashion design is European, but our lines are made with products from Nepal. For example, we use a traditional fabric of Nepal called ‘dhaka’. Dhaka can be paired with our organic cotton or bamboo to mix up the designs of our jackets and tops. We believe that when Europeans wear Nepalese fabrics, the bridge between East and West strengthens.
We are not so concerned about selling clothes. Our clothes brand has a greater purpose—to promote Nepalese culture and traditions. Most people associate Nepal with the Himalayas, but there is more to it than snowy mountains. Firiri aspires to show people what else the country has to offer. The time has come for the global community to do business differently, and business shouldn’t be solely about chasing wealth. Companies need to be chasing vision, upholding values and making decisions that benefit others as well as the planet.
It’s a challenge to compete with big brand names. They keep their clothing prices extremely low by exploiting labour, especially in poor countries in Southeast Asia. Our first priority is to make sure the people who produce our clothes are treated fairly—they can eat, send their children to school, etc. Also, fundamental things that we take for granted in Europe are not available in Nepal. Electricity, for instance—at certain times each day, there are blackouts in the areas where our factories are located. There isn’t enough clean drinking water and the infrastructure of the country is not always safe. Sometimes we think, “How the hell are we going to get things done?” The people I know and respect there, as well as our clients who appreciate what we are trying to do, keep us going.
Firiri was a few years old when two very intense earthquakes hit Nepal in 2015. Our operations were paralysed. There was minimal damage to our factories, but the majority of our workers had to return to their home towns to be with their families. Since then, morale has decreased and no one is motivated to do business as usual. Laura and I have been back to Kathmandu since. About 40 percent of the temples and many important elements of the country’s heritage are gone—it is incredibly sad—so feelings of dismay are understandable.
Nepal has an extremely rich culture, though, that will not be easily diminished. Collectivism is strong and people give more than they receive. I see similarities here in Barcelona when it comes to family and other close relations. But Barcelona is still a large city, where people don’t know who lives in the apartment above them and don’t care to learn the name of the woman who serves them their morning cortado. In Nepal, everyone knows everyone else in the neighbourhood. You don’t have to be related by blood to be family.
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A New Day Is Dawning: BA Seniors Break Ground on Senior Center East
Officials from the city of Broken Arrow, together with Broken Arrow Seniors, Inc., broke ground April 13 on the new Senior Center East, located at 1811 South Main Street.
“Broken Arrow has long been a community that supports senior citizens and diverse recreation programs,” City Manager Michael Spurgeon said. “This new facility will provide much-needed room for expansion in both programming and office space as the membership continues to grow.”
The two-part municipal project consists of a new one-story building, as well as parking and much-needed storm water improvements.
The 12,400-square-foot building will include two multipurpose rooms, multiple meeting rooms and an exercise room. Paid for by voter-approved 2018 general obligation bonds, the project is expected to be completed by next summer.
“With this second building, we will be able to expand our program offerings from 75 activities a week to more than 125,” according to BA Seniors President and Chief Executive Officer Sean Simpson. “We will grow from 20,000 square feet to 32,000 square feet.”
“We certainly celebrate the much-needed additional space. However, BA Seniors is not a just building,” Simpson stressed. “BA Seniors is so much more than bricks, walls and windows. It is community. And community is what the senior center is all about.”
The 201-space parking lot will provide a dual-purpose amenity by tying into the trail at the Arrowhead Park Softball Complex to the east and serving as overflow parking for the park on evenings and weekends.
The project will also include storm sewer improvements around Arrowhead Park. “The Senior Center’s mission is to be “the model in the region for promoting healthy, social, emotional and physical engagements for adults 55 and older through programmed activities and social opportunities,” said City Councilor Johnnie Parks, chairman of the board for Broken Arrow Seniors.
He added, “We as a board continue to get feedback for programs that will continue to nurture growth and enjoyment for our membership from Broken Arrow and the surrounding areas.”
“We’ve found and we see that if older adults can meet and have social activities, they stay healthier, they enjoy life more, they are excited about getting up in the mornings to come to the senior events,” said Parks. “I’m really excited for them. It’s our city’s effort to push that forward.”
Bravo Builders LLC, will construct the new facility and improvements at a cost of approximately $3.6 million. The facility is expected to open by the summer of 2022.
Today, the diverse and energetic community fostered by BA Seniors is growing and thriving, and the organization faces a unique challenge in managing the number of members who need access to services.
As a result of both our success and the booming growth in the city of Broken Arrow, the Center now must innovate and change once more to construct a new facility and programming that is worthy of those who have devoted their lives to making Broken Arrow one of Oklahoma’s greatest places to live, work and play.
“Community allows us to support one another through life’s struggles – struggles like food insecurity. The past 10 months, we’ve provided 30,000 meals for BA seniors. That’s not even our primary mission but one of our community needs,” said BA Senior Center Executive Director Sean Simpson.
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Politics Over River Water Disputes
- P. Vijayan’s New Path
by Dr. P Koshy
Managing river and water disputes are among the top political challenges of India. There are several disputes between different States in India, which involves different States over different rivers. Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhyapradesh, Orissa, Rajastan, Haryana, Uttarpradesh, Punjab, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi J & K, UP, Bihar, Punjab, Manipur, Assam are all involved in such disputes over different rivers Mullaperiyar, Kaveri, Narmada, Godavari, Yamuna etc.
River water disputes between states are a very sensitive issue. Though water sharing raises passions, the challenge of keeping the rivers pure and unpolluted, without throwing garbage and waste into them, is not a priority issue nor does it raise any passions among us.
Dealing with river water disputes in India need consensus. Confrontation is not the way. The potential of such disputes being misused for political gains by ‘an imaginative politician’ can endanger the peace and development process. It’s interesting to note the comments and response to a river water dispute by the CPI(M) leader and the new Chief Minister of the South Indian State of Kerala, in a dispute where his state is involved with the neighboring Tamil Nadu. Immediately after his first visit to New Delhi after becoming the Chief Minister of Kerala he said in Delhi that “it is of no use whipping up passions”.
His message to political parties and leaders, including from his own that ‘theMullaperiyar dam issue cannot be resolved through unnecessary controversies’. And he added that ‘the expert committee report on dam safety would be taken into consideration while handling the issue’. (The Hindu, May 30, 2016 ‘Kerala CM’s dam remarks draw flak’)The State of Kerala and Tamilnadu are in a cold war over the issue for a very long time. Kerala argues that the dam, which was constructed some 120 years back is now weak and a new dam need to be constructed. But Tamil Nadu says there is no need for a new dam, it’s strong and the water level also can be raised from 136 to 141. Former Supreme Court judge justice KT Thomas, who was a member of the expert Committee, which looked in to the safety issues took a stand that the dam was strengthened thrice in the past and is stronger than a new one. According to Justice Thomas ‘strengthening of the dam was done in 1979, 1989 and 1981. But it has not been reported by the media’. (First Post, Mullaperiyar issue: Kerala CM Pinarayi's bold new stand is better for ties with TN, May 30, 2016)
Political parties and leaders act to maximize their vote share during the course of river water disputes. Often business and possibility of earning a commission from a mega project contract also come up in their discussions on strategies. Do they ever consider ‘development’ or interests of people? It’s important that a political culture emerges where leaders and political parties prioritize nation and people as their prime interest.
Mr. Pinarai Vijayan’s mature response would bring peace that otherwise had the potential to slip away. He was candid enough to admit and emphatically defend his position over and over again, despite criticisms from different quarters including his colleagues from ruling coalition. Mr Vijayan has correctly evaluated the situation and told after assuming office that nothing can be done at Mullaperiyar without the cooperation of the people of Tamil Nadu. There is an agreement of lease exists for 999 years between these States signed during British days. He said what is needed is consultation, discussion and a consensus on the issue and said there is no scope for any confrontation in such issues.
It’s indeed more pragmatic to explore the possibilities of further strengthening the existing structure rather than demolishing it and building another one in its place. Strengthening the existing one may be a greener approach too. A new dam would benefit contractors, bureaucrats and politicians rather than people.
Mr. Vijayan, later on, under pressure, attuned his position to the larger political consensus in Kerala, which favors a new dam. But his earlier statements have several implications and an important one is that both the States can now forget about an environment of confrontation that prevailed in this matter between them. Two southern states may hopefully discuss and work together to resolve this in a spirit of cooperation now on. Certainly confrontation is not the way in resolving river water disputes. Pinarai Vijayan shows a commendable and admirable path in managing river water disputes.
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River water disputes are there through out the history of mankind. I read somewhere that the English word rivalry is derived from river water disputes. That may give some perspective to people not to think that their claim to certain waters is special while they may be simply under the influence of their tribal instincts.
P. Rao
Keeping in view of the existing agreement an amicable settlement between Tamil Nadu and Kerala is much desirable. Strengethening the existing dam is very essential. Our New CM deserve praise for taking a better decision in this regard.
P.R Kurup
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Amazon About To Expand in Boston
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According to the Boston Globe, which cited Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the e-commerce giant is in talks to lease 430,000 square feet in a planned 18-story building in the city, potentially hiring 2,000 or more workers to fill it.
“It’s not HQ2. But it is great news for Boston,” Walsh reportedly said in a meeting with Boston business leaders on Tuesday.
The building would be part of a planned development in Boston’s Seaport District that’s expected to be ready by 2021. The deal is expected to be finalized in the coming weeks. Amazon will seek $5 million in tax breaks from the city.
Amazon has the option to expand the lease to a million square feet and 4,000 employees by 2025 by expanding into the building next door, which is also in the planning phases.
The future jobs available at Amazon in Boston are expected to be in the tech-heavy fields of robotics, cloud computing, and voice-activated systems.
“Amazon is considering additional options for expansion in the Boston area to meet the demand of our growing employee base and as part of our ongoing hiring efforts,” the statement reads. “This is independent of the company’s search for HQ2, a second headquarters in North America.”
Boston is seen as desirable for the company due to the quality of its nearby schools that focus on tech, like MIT.
The new office is a significant size, but what’s interesting is the option on the lease for a million square feet — that would be a good start for a company that’s looking to build a new headquarters with several million square feet of space.
Amazon says the new headquarters will have 50,000 employees and $5 billion in investment over 10 years.
Of course, the fact that it’s just an option on the lease and not a done deal means it could just be there in the case Amazon were to decide on Boston. And the fact that the land is being leased — and not purchased by the company — is another potential hole in the theory.
While Fortune notes that the search for office space in Boston started before Amazon announced its search for HQ2, if the company is going ahead with leases in candidate cities, it could mean that internally, it has decided Boston is not the frontrunner. Also, Amazon would most likely lease two buildings in a city long-term, then build another headquarters somewhere else in the city.
Amazon has not shied away from opening new offices in HQ2 candidate cities since the announcement of its search for HQ2. Amazon announced in September that it will open a 360,000-square-foot office in New York City, another potential HQ2 city.
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Share this Story: Dundas wins Game 1 of final against Blast
Dundas wins Game 1 of final against Blast
Darryl G. Smart
Mar 08, 2013 • March 8, 2013 • 3 minute read
When teams take a run at a championship, a deal at or near the signing deadline can give the lineup a real boost.
The Brantford Blast and Dundas Real McCoys know this strategy well.
In years past, the Blast and Real McCoys have always used the signing deadline to bulk up their rosters for a shot at the J Ross Robertson Cup - but this season both teams hit home runs with Joel Prpic (Blast) and Jay McKee (Real McCoys).
"They've both been impact players," Blast owner/ general manager Peter Ham said. "Both are big men and are a giant presence on the ice. They also bring a ton of experience to their teams."
While McKee was steady and led by example on the blue line in the Real McCoy's 5-3 win in Game 1 Friday night, Prpic was a force on the scoresheet for the Blast.
After Dundas's Ryan Christie opened the scoring eight minutes into the game, Prpic scored his first of two goals with three minutes to go in the first period.
Early in the third period, Paul Lawson and Scott Stafford gave the Real McCoys a two-goal lead, with Cam Sault responding midway through.
Cam Watson then gave the Real McCoys another two-goal cushion before Prpic cut the lead with less than two minutes to go.
But that's as close as the Blast would get, with Darryl Smith adding another goal for the Real McCoys with the net empty.
While Prpic's arrival in December has been well documented, the impact he's had is a lasting one.
"He's a great hockey player and exciting to watch," Blast player/coach Mike Burgoyne said. "He's a world-class hockey player that's travelled all over the world to play and be an ambassador. He's been huge for us and we're definitely happy to have him."
Ham has always said it's a delicate balance when adding a player because of the chemistry in the dressing room. But his on-ice presence and friendly demeanor off it has made the Blast that much better.
That's the same type of impact McKee has had since he arrived in Dundas.
"He's made us a better hockey team," Real McCoys general manager and associate head coach Don Robertson said. "There are no bad players that played in the NHL, some are better than others. He's doing what he did in the NHL. He's a defensive defenceman. He blocks shots and all the other little things that made him a successful player in the NHL."
Since the six-foot-three defencemen who spent 14 years in the NHL arrived in Dundas, the Real McCoys have a 7-1 record. While his four assists helped the Real McCoys in the four-game sweep of the Whitby Dunlops in the first round of playoffs, he's much more than just a guy that pads his stats.
"What he brings on the ice is more than what he brings in the dressing room," Robertson said. "He is pretty calming on the ice. We were down to Whitby early and his demeanor on the ice really helped and that speaks volumes. In the dressing room he's one of the guys."
ICE CHIPS: Brock Novak got the win between the Real McCoy's pipes making 27 saves, while Brett Leggat took the loss in a 24-save effort. Game 2 of the series is 2 p.m. Sunday at J.L. Grightmire Arena in Dundas. Game 3 of the best-of-seven ACH final is back at the Civic Centre Friday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m.
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Big Ideas worked with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) to develop and deliver the Living Memory project in 2016; a poignant new community engagement programme which aimed to encourage more people to visit UK CWGC sites in their community, actively remember those who gave their lives in the First World War, and take a ongoing interest in local history.
The project was first piloted in November 2015 with funding and support from CWGC and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The project supported thirty community groups around the country to discover their local war graves and plan events and activities to remember those buried locally.
Living Memory 2016
British actor, Hugh Dennis, has helped to launch Living Memory in April 2016 to get the British public to visit war graves and discover the stories behind the names of those who gave their lives in the First World War.
“I have a very personal connection with the First World War as both my grandfathers fought at the Western Front. My great uncles also fought and one, my great uncle Frank, died and is commemorated by the CWGC in Gallipoli, Turkey. I’d urge everyone to get involved in this initiative so we never forget those who died during the Great War and are buried and commemorated so close to us on the home front.”
Watch Hugh’s short film explaining more about the Living Memory project.
View more films from the project at vimeo.com/bigideasco.
On 18 November 2016, the final day of the Somme Centenary more than 150 representatives of Living Memory groups met at Brookwood Military Cemetery to share their experiences of the Living Memory project. The event had a special focus on the Somme casualties buried in the British Isles and discovered and remembered by our groups.
It was an uplifting and moving day, at once a commemoration and a celebration. We listened to poems written by the Kings Theatre writers group in Portsmouth, in the UK, Clydebank High School teacher Paul Hamilton shared their Living Memory Dunbartonshire website, Roydon Women’s Institute and Havering Borough Council spoke about their Somme casualties. The Pipe Major of the Royal
Scottish Pipers Association in Northern Ireland played their lament, we heard Chepstow Singing Club’s choral Last Post. Somehow, the Grimsby Scouts managed to transcend cancelled trains and motorway roadworks and arrived in time to receive their Champions certificates from Sir Tim Lawrence. Sir Tim’s encouragement and enthusiasm was hugely appreciated by everyone as he awarded the project certificates and recognised their contributions as communities to the memory of those buried in CWGC war graves in the British Isles.
Big Ideas developed The Living Memory Project with CWGC to inspire and enable the public into the sites across the UK as a fitting tribute for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. The Living Memory resource pack took participants on a journey to discover, explore, remember and champion war graves.
Participants could:
Discover local war graves (postcode search on CWGC.org)
Explore the stories of those buried there (start with CWGC database)
Remember through informal commemoration events (e.g. lay flowers)
Champion the war graves telling others in the community (events, creative response, media, displays, etc.)
The project also offered small scale funding for expenses from £50-£200 per group to cover costs incurred.
We set our participation targets based on the 141 days of the Battle of the Somme and aimed to fund 141 groups to undertake activities and hold events throughout the period of the centenary from 1 July until 18 November. Living Memory aimed to raise awareness of war graves in Britain with mainstream community groups utilising networks, media, and contacts to generate awareness. In order to strengthen the connection to the Somme centenary, we also encouraged participants to search for the war graves of 141 Somme casualties buried in the UK.
We worked with a ‘mixed economy’ of new audiences (such as the Merseyside Fire Cadets) and heritage networks (such as the National Federation of Cemetery Friends). We found that even among established remembrance groups the idea of visiting war graves was often novel. History experts embraced the opportunity to reach new audiences.
This ‘mixed economy’ approach was also pursued in our strategic partnerships which included key players in the Centenary sector (the IWM Centenary Partnership, the British Council and Institute of Education), existing CWGC stakeholders (National Federation of Cemetery Friends, Royal British Legion and SSAFA) and mainstream networks (the Women’s Institute and the FA). Of these, the Women’s Institute was the most notable success. We offered them information about 2000 women’s war graves which created a connection and sense of ownership exemplified in the moving film which documents the activity of Crosthwaite and Lyth WI.
The powerful local connection to cemetery sites proved a strong motivation for involvement with many participants telling us they felt a sense of ownership and duty. Indeed the ‘cold call’ approach to recruitment was strikingly effective – when for example schools next to the cemetery were invited to take part, they invariably agreed. We targeted mainstream networks and piloted a flexible approach so that the project could be adapted for diverse settings including schools, youth groups, older people’s networks and sports clubs.
Britain does not have an established tradition of visiting cemeteries and our survey shows that approx. 50% of those taking part were unaware of the CWGC and the war graves here. Despite the scale of the challenge we were able to meet our targets. 222 groups took part in the Living Memory project and kept us fully informed of their activity. A total of 700 contacted the team and requested a resource pack. The project breakdown by region and by group (schools / libraries /arts etc.) demonstrates that we were successful in generating engagement across community networks and throughout the UK.
We also aimed to reach hard to reach communities and to engage groups which might have financial constraints. The high diversity score is of particular note: 45% of those reported in the Living Memory survey were from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Furthermore, 64% of respondents said that they would not have been able to take part without the financial assistance.
Above all, the feedback from our Living Memory groups reflects the positive experience of those who took part. 93% of respondents said they would be likely or very likely to take part in the project again. 94% said they had learnt something new about their local First World War heritage. 99% of respondents said they enjoyed taking part in the Living memory project.
Everybody, 100% of respondents, said they have told other members of their community, family or friends about the local war graves.
With thanks to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and the Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) for funding the Living Memory Project.
The Living Memory Project was in partnership with CWGC.
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Identity theft crimes relate to fraudulently using a person’s identity or identifying information to obtain some sort of benefit. Identity theft crimes in Florida can be complex because there are a variety of different charges, including:
• False Personation: False personation means the accused presented himself or herself as another person to obtain money or property for their benefit, according to Florida Statutes Annotated § 817.02. The charge could range from a second degree misdemeanor to a first degree felony, depending on the amount of the value taken.
• Criminal Use of Personal Information: Criminal Use of Personal Information means to use a person’s personal information, including a name, Social Security number, driver’s license number or bank account number, to obtain money, property or some other benefit, according to Florida Statutes Annotated § 817.568. The charge is a third degree felony, but it can be a second or first degree felony if a large amount of money was taken or there were multiple victims.
• Use or Possession of a Deceased Person’s Personal Identification Information: According to Florida law, it is illegal to fraudulently use or possess with intent to use personal identification information of a deceased individual. The crime is considered a felony of the third degree.
• Criminal Use of Personal Identification Information to Harass: Using another person’s personal information without consent in an attempt to harass them is prohibited under Florida law. The charge is considered a first-degree misdemeanor.
• Use of a Minor’s Personal Identification Information: Using the personal information of someone younger than 18 years old without the consent of the minor or his or her legal guardian is illegal, according to state law, and is considered a felony of the second degree.
• Fictitious or Counterfeit Personal Identification Information: Using or possessing with intent to use fictitious or counterfeit personal information for the purpose of committing fraud is illegal and is a felony of the third degree.
Identity theft crimes can range from a second degree misdemeanor to a first degree felony in Florida. The penalties for identity theft crimes in Fort Lauderdale vary depending on the offense, and in some cases you may be required to pay restitution to the victims.
If convicted, you may face:
First Degree Felony: Up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000
Second Degree Felony: Up to 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000
Third Degree Felony: Up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000
First Degree Misdemeanor: Up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000
Second Degree Misdemeanor: Up to 60 days in jail and a fine of up to $500
Some identity theft charges have a mandatory minimum prison sentence. For example, Criminal Use of Personal Information carries a minimum three-year sentence if the crime involved $5,000 or more, or if it involved the information of 10 to 20 people without their consent.
Identity theft crimes often are complex and can be divided into a plethora of charges in Florida. Meltzer & Bell represents clients who have been charged with identity theft throughout Broward County and can help you build a thorough defense. Call (954) 765-6585 to schedule a free consultation. The Fort Lauderdale identity theft lawyers are available for assistance 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
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The building, located at no. 147, Chaussée de Haecht/Haachtsesteenweg, conceals a dwelling built in 1826 for a rich linen merchant by the name of Charles-Louis Eenens. Two wings were added by the next generation, with the building then passing to Viscountess Terlinden, granddaughter of the first owner.
Château Eenens was the setting for a page in the history of independence of 1830: Frederick of the Netherlands took refuge there before ordering its evacuation. During the two world wars, the house played a role in the resistance. When the Eenens-Terlinden family lived there, it played host to leading Belgian and foreign figures.
Owned by the municipality since 1950, the building, a fine example in Schaerbeek of an aristocratic dwelling from the Belle Epoque, today houses the House of the Arts, the setting for exhibitions, concerts, conferences and other cultural events. Inside, decorative elements borrowed from the Louis XV, Louis XVI and Flemish neo-Renaissance tradition illustrate the varied interpretations of an eclectic style. The former saddlery has been converted into a small cafe, a perfect example of an old Brussels bar, while the vaulted rooms are used for shows. The access corridor connecting the courtyard to the street is decorated with a delightful fresco by Nicolas Moreel. In the rear, adjoining the Halles de Schaerbeek, its appealing garden creates an unexpected green space in the quarter.
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Join Our #BTChat: U.S. Road Trips
By The Budget Travel Editors
On Thursday, March 28, at 2pm Eastern, we'll host a Twitter chat devoted to affordable road trips across America.
We're hosting a #BTChat on Twitter this Thursday, March 28, at 2 p.m. Eastern all about U.S. Road Trips. We'll be joined by a multitude of participants who have an insider's perspective on affordable, scenic drives from coast to coast, plus Alaska, Hawaii, and even the Caribbean.
Here are three easy steps to follow along and chime in with our #BTChat.
1. GET ON TWITTER
Log in to your Twitter account (or create one at Twitter.com) on Thursday, March 28, shortly before the #BTChat starts at 2 p.m. Eastern
2. JOIN THE #BTCHAT
First, follow @BudgetTravel on Twitter. Then, in a separate tab or window, search for the hashtag #BTChat and click on "Latest" at the top of the page so you can see the questions (which will be numbered Q1, Q2, etc.) and other people's answers (numbered A1, A2, etc.) as they come in. Depending on how chatty you are and how many people are responding to your answers, you may want to open a third tab or window to help keep track of notifications.
3. READ, RE-TWEET, AND POST YOUR OWN RESPONSES
Feel free to re-tweet our questions out to your own followers so they can participate, too! The most important thing is to add #BTChat to your answers so the rest of us can see them. Take this as a fun, informal opportunity to chat with other people who care about travel as much as you do. Use the questions we ask as a jumping off point for conversation and to make new friends over the Twittersphere, and above all, have fun!
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Hotel We Love: Blockade Runner Beach Resort, Wrightsville Beach, NC
Not 20 minutes from downtown Wilmington, North Carolina, on the barrier island of Wrightsville Beach sits the Blockade Runner Beach Resort, a family-owned property centrally located on a pristine oceanfront plot. The boutique hotel has been around since the mid-60s, but it’s received a contemporary facelift over the years, now boasting stylish accommodations, beautifully manicured gardens, and an unsullied stretch of white sand, where beach meets gentle ocean waves. THE STORY The Blockade Runner’s history begins some 120 years ago, when the Colonial-style Seashore Hotel, located at the same site, opened to the public in 1897. As with many buildings in the Wilmington area during this time period, it didn’t last long, falling victim to a fire in 1918. In 1922, the Ocean Terrace Hotel took its place, but it wasn’t long for this world either, hit hard by a hurricane in 1954 and burning down entirely the following year. In 1964, the current iteration opened, and you can see still elements of the original midcentury style in the blonde-wood ballroom, once the main dining room. Today, the resort is collectively owned by four siblings, two of whom have managed the property since 1984. THE QUARTERS Each floor of the Blockade Runner has a unique style—my third-floor oceanfront room featured two queen-size sleigh beds with pink accents, a set of white chairs cozily arranged in front of sliding-glass doors for optimal sunrise-watching or coffee-drinking, and a gold wall treatment reminiscent of glam fish scales—but its 147 rooms and three suites all come equipped with a king or two queen beds, flat-screen TVs, Keurig coffee makers, mini fridges, free WiFi, and plush terry robes. Harborfront rooms are the least expensive; they overlook the Intracoastal Waterway’s boat slips and offer great sunset views, but in the process, they also face the parking lot. Oceanfront rooms come with or without a balcony and cost a little more, and suites are at the top end, thanks to roomy digs, soaking tubs with ocean views, and loungy balconies with gas fireplaces. Also available: A two-story cottage (formerly a boarding house), adjacent to the hotel, that sleeps up to 26 people, with 13 bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a fully equipped kitchen, and a dining room that seats 20. THE NEIGHBORHOOD The beach is the neighborhood. Blockade Runner is a classic resort and it lives up to its billing, with enough attractions to keep guests on the property and happy about it, but it’s also centrally located on the island, just a brief walk from beach-town style bars, restaurants, and shops and a short drive over the causeway from Wilmington proper. No visit to the shore is complete without a stop at beachwear chain Wings, where you’ll find every conceivable accessory you’d want (and quite a few that you wouldn’t), and you’ll pass one on your way to the hotel, just as you exit the bridge. After you’ve had your fill of cheap t-shirts and toys, head around the corner to Hallelu, a cute boutique peddling bohemian, beachy clothes and inexpensive jewelry, or stroll a little further down Lumina Avenue to Sweetwater Surf Shop, where you’ll find a collection of cheeky Ts, bikinis, and boards, and Wrightsville Beach Art Company, the only gallery on the island, for nautical pieces made from recycled materials. THE FOOD On the property, East Oceanfront Dining serves coastal cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, either in the sleek dining room or outside on the canopied garden patio, and there’s a poolside bar that opens in late March for cocktails and seafood-forward fare. (Breakfast is only included with certain packages, and if yours isn’t one of them, the a la carte menu is a more appealing option than the buffet.) Within walking distance, try the Trolly Stop for hot dogs (varieties include all-beef, smoked pork, and vegetarian) or the deli counter at Roberts Market for juicy, piping-hot fried chicken—but only before 3 p.m., when both local faves stop serving (on offseason weekdays, at least). The Workshop, tucked into a small space behind Wings, offers espresso drinks and premade sandwiches with a side of shark-teeth jewelry; further down Lumina, 22 North has a killer fried-alligator special that’s lovely with a glass of white wine. On Harbor Island, between Wrightsville and the mainland, try Poe’s Tavern for burgers; across the Intracoastal, grab a seat on the deck at the Fish House Grill for iced tea and fish tacos (expect a wait on sunny afternoons), or make a reservation at the Bridge Tender for a more upscale waterfront experience. And over the causeway, just a few minutes from Blockade Runner by car (my Lyft ride cost all of $4), is Ceviche’s, a Panamanian restaurant with strong tropical beverages and a menu that ranges from traditional plates like ropa vieja and arroz con pollo to the namesake selection of ceviches. Scoop up the corvina, sea bass classically prepared with lime, cilantro, and red onion, and the langoustine, marinated in citrus and coconut milk, with plantain chips and tostones, and wash it all down with a fresh-lime margarita (only $6 on Mondays!). ALL THE REST Blockade Runner’s ocean-facing gardens are beautifully manicured, with a pool and hot tub that open in the spring. Guests can take classes at an ASA-certified sailing school (good for beginners or intermediates) or charter a boat for an evening sail; rent a kayak and explore the sound, either on your own or with a guided tour of the salt marsh; or lounge by the pool or the ocean and let an attendant keep you in fruity umbrella drinks. In low season, you can get a great deal on accommodations, and though you might not spend much time lying on the beach, the area makes a good mid-winter escape, with average temperatures hovering around the 60s from December to February. The rates more than double during the summer, though, so if you’re looking for a peak-summer bargain, this probably isn’t it. Also, as is common with some beach locations, the tap water is sulfuric, so if you’re sensitive to that smell or taste, be sure to bring filtered water with you. RATES & DEETS Starting at $125. Blockade Runner Beach Resort275 Waynick BoulevardWrightsville Beach, NC910.256.2251blockade-runner.com
Hotel We Love: Front Street Inn, Wilmington, NC
A family-friendly coastal community that's home to both a healthy university crowd and a thriving population of retirees, Wilmington, North Carolina, is a year-round destination, thanks to its temperate climate, proximity to the beach, and wide array of food, drink, and artsy activities on offer. In the heart of downtown, Front Street Inn is a quirky independent property with individually themed rooms, reasonable rates, friendly staff, and a decidedly welcoming approach. THE STORY Originally built as a Salvation Army headquarters in 1924, the red-brick building was home to an orphanage, office space, and apartments before it was gutted and converted to an inn in the early ‘90s. The current owners—a couple, married for nearly six decades—felt restless in retirement, first opening a restaurant in Lilliington, a few miles inland, before relocating to the coast and purchasing this property in 2005; their son, a former schoolteacher, manages the day-to-day operations. THE QUARTERS The Inn has two floors, and it retains the feel of a bed and breakfast, with first-floor rooms mainly accessed through the Inn itself and rooms on the second accessed via a balcony. (The Taverna suite on the first floor has a private entrance.) Each of its 12 rooms and suites has a different theme, from the nautical touches of the Jacques Cousteau suite to the southwestern-accented Georgia O’Keeffe; amenities vary by room size and location, but all accommodations have free WiFi access, and most have mini-fridges. I stayed in the first-floor Pearl Buck, a sunny, quiet, queen room with 14-foot-high ceilings, tall arched windows, maple flooring, and a selection of the famed writer’s books on the built-in shelf by the headboard, conveniently situated for bedtime reading. THE NEIGHBORHOOD Located smack-dab in the middle of downtown Wilmington, just a 20-minute drive to Wrightsville Beach, Front Street Inn is spitting distance from the area’s restaurants, bars, breweries, galleries, and museums, close to draws like the Riverwalk, a collection of shops and restaurants set on nearly two miles of boardwalk overlooking the Cape Fear River, and historic homes like the Bellamy Mansion (bellamymansion.org), the Burgwin-Wright House and Gardens (bwhg.memberclicks.net), and the Latimer House (latimerhouse.org), which are open for tours and offer an idea of what life was like for rich folks in the days before modern conveniences. (Set on the site of the former city jail, the Burgwin-Wright also incorporates an overview of how things were for the less fortunate, in the days before habeas corpus—i.e., not great.) It’s around the corner from the Children’s Museum (playwilmington.org) and a quick drive from the USS North Carolina (battleshipnc.com), a World War II battleship that saw action in the Pacific and now welcomes visitors for self-guided tours. If you’re looking for a peek at the local arts scene, Wilmington’s Arts Council (artscouncilofwilmington.org) hosts a monthly gallery walk; pop into one of the 20 or so participating venues for wine, snacks, live music, and small talk with the artists themselves. Art is subjective, obviously, but I loved the black-and-white photography, cool collages, and amazing blown glass at Art in Bloom (aibgallery.com). THE FOOD Front Street has a beautiful kitchen, with a thick-wood-beamed ceiling, blue-and-white tiles, and a vintage, workhorse oven that turns out a daily complimentary breakfast (during my stay, ham-and-cheese quiche, blueberry muffins, and two kinds of pound cake, plus fresh fruit, boiled eggs, and cold cereal) for the inn’s guests. For the rest of your meals, nearby dining options are bountiful and varied, with joints serving everything from sushi to Southern in divey digs and highbrow environs alike. We splurged on dinner at PinPoint (pinpointrestaurant.com), named to Southern Living’s list of best new restaurants in 2016 and serving coastal cuisine that’s been living up to the billing ever since, with a menu starring meat, produce, and seafood sourced from local farmers and fishermen. For a light lunch or a more substantial meal, Savorez (savorez.com) is a small, colorful corner room with reasonably priced Latin American fare. Snack-wise, Front Street Brewery (frontstreetbrewery.com), offers half-priced appetizers from 4-6pm daily; pair a pile of light, crispy onion rings with a five-beer tasting, and you'll be more than sated. ALL THE REST There’s a small lot adjacent to the inn, and parking is free for one car per room. One room can accommodate a dog, but just one dog at a time, and it must weigh less than 40 pounds. Rates include breakfast and WiFi access. RATES & DEETS Starting at $129 per night. Front Street Inn215 South Front StreetWilmington, NC800.336.8184frontstreetinn.com
Hotel We Love: The Godfrey Hotel, Boston
The Freedom Trail runs around and adjacent to hotel's Downtown Crossing, a centrally located maze of mostly retail-lined streets, but the district, just up the street from Chinatown and Emerson College, is anything but fusty. The old-world architectural details of many of the buildings are preserved, but otherwise it's a thoroughly modern shopping area with "ambassadors" lingering on the partly cobblestone streets to guide visitors and outdoor tables for loitering in warmer months. In other words, it's a welcoming area for tourists visiting the city who want to stay in luxury just steps from American history. THE STORY The Godfrey, a small national boutique hotel chain, has its flagship property in Chicago. Boston, which has 242 rooms and opened in 2016, is the second property. Others include Tampa and LA.) It's located in two thoughtfully combined and renovated 110-year-old buildings that are listed on the National Historic Registry. Having once housed corporate textile and fabric trade offices on the upper floors and retail outfits on street level, they're credited with having had a historical impact on the city's once lively commerce. THE QUARTERS Despite being located in a densely-packed urban center, the rooms, which are appointed in neutral shades of grey, beige, charcoal and green, with tartan headboards tossed in for good measure, get plenty of light thanks to floor-to-ceiling windows. Rooms range in size from a standard size to a slightly larger double queen (two beds) to a larger studio king, which features a pullout couch, to sprawling corner suites on the top floor. Mini-fridges are not set up in the standard rooms, but they're available upon request, a thoughtful way to cut down on energy, an underlying mission at the property. The hotel pulled out all the stops where technology is concerned. Each room has a 55-inch LCD televisions with smartphone-to-TV streaming capability for your own Netflix and Hulu accounts, Bluetooth-compatible Bose wireless speakers, and Keurig coffee makers. Spacious bathrooms have a luxurious feel, plenty of counter space, and neat design touches like deep basin sinks. High speed WiFi and bottled water are free. THE NEIGHBORHOOD Suffice it to say you can’t be more centrally located in Boston than Downtown Crossing, a mix of gorgeous historic buildings and lots of familiar stores. There’s a number of restaurants and pubs nearby, and Chinatown is a few blocks away, but it’s primarily a retail district, so it’s very quiet late at night. The hotel is walking distance from the sprawling Boston Common and a stone’s throw from all four subway lines. (They’re designated by color here: the Red Line, Green Line, Blue Line, and Orange Line.) THE FOOD The Godfrey is certainly not a big property by hotel standards, but when you hear about its varied eating and drinking options, you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise. First things first: coffee. A George Howell Cafe is connected to the lobby. Howell's name may not be as familiar as Howard Schultz's but it should be. In the 1970s, long before Starbucks, Howell founded the Coffee Connection and pioneered the specialty coffee movement, even coming up with the Frappuccino, which he based on the frappe, a classic New England milkshake. The drink became part of Starbucks' repertoire when the company bought Coffee Connection in 1994. Today the cafe features a range of specialty drinks and locally made pastries and sandwiches. Baristas explain the nuanced flavors of different single estate beans. The dinner option is Ruka, a creative Japanese-Peruvian fusion spot that features creative dishes and drinks in a lively, colorfully appointed space. And for a nightcap--or afternoon tipple--the lobby bar, helmed by forward-thinking barmen, offers seasonal cocktails amid the marble columns of the high-ceilinged space, which has tall windows facing the buzzy street. Belly up to the marble bar or hunker down on one of the stylish chairs or couches. ALL THE REST There's a 24/7 fitness center, but the hotel offers other outdoor options for getting active, too. You can borrow a bicycle for free or tag along with the "running concierge," who'll lead you on a fast-paced tour through the Boston Common or along the harbor. RATES & DEETS Starting at $199 The Godfrey Hotel 505 Washington StreetBoston, MA 02111 (617) 6494500 / thegodfreyboston.com
BT on the Weather Channel: Awesome & Affordable Spring Trips
If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of winter 2018 melting (finally!) into spring, and with that warm weather comes spring road trips, big-city getaways, and hiking in the national parks. Budget Travel editor in chief Robert Firpo-Cappiello shares three great spring destinations on The Weather Channel’s morning show, AMHQ, on Friday morning, March 30, around 8:40am Eastern. If you miss one of our regular live broadcasts on The Weather Channel, you can often catch them on Budget Travel’s Facebook page, and, of course, you can learn more about each of these affordable spring trips right here at BudgetTravel.com. 1. SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO First of all: How does 300 days of sunshine per year sound? That’s what Santa Fe, New Mexico, enjoys, and you will too. The second-oldest city in America is also the highest state capital, at 7,000 feet above sea level. Santa Fe offers incredible history going back to the days when it was a hub for traders and pioneers in the Southwest. You’ll love the museums, galleries, and interactive art spaces, decadent spas, great food, and free-flowing margaritas. It’s a city that embraces its own quirkiness, earning its nickname, The City Different. 2. NEW ORLEANS New Orleans has a reputation for partying, and this year may be its biggest party yet. The Big Easy celebrates its 300th anniversary all year long, and spring - the sweet spot between Mardi Gras and summer vacation - may be the best time to find bargains and fewer crowds. You can hear authentic American jazz, blues, and other music all over town, try a classic Sazerac cocktail, explore the city’s voodoo culture, and kayak the bayou. 3. GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK With more than 11 million visitors each year, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, straddling the Tennessee and North Carolina border, is America’s most popular - it’s centrally located for a relatively easy road trip from much of the East, South, and Midwest. And admission is free, thanks to an agreement with the state of Tennessee when the park was founded (though we do recommend you make a donation to the nonprofit Friends of the Smokies. The park is bouncing back from the fires of late 2016, and it’s the ultimate budget escape with campsites for $20, amazing hiking, old-growth forest, and the kind of scenic overlooks that Instagram was invented for.
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Joy Ranch celebrates its 60th anniversary
By Scott E. Beeler on April 9, 2021 Restaurant Investment
After a turbulent 2020 with COVID-19 disrupting both classroom lessons and graduation exercises, hundreds of seniors have returned to normal in recent days through ceremonies celebrating their academic achievements and overcoming the pandemic.
However, the coronavirus made itself felt in trials held at various Surry County locations, as it did on Saturday morning during the Mount Airy High School launcher program.
“Wow, what has been that year,” said farewell speaker Brooke Lankford to a large crowd gathered on the school’s soccer field, saying COVID-19 was an educational experience in itself.
“I’ve learned that staying positive can make all the difference.”
Such comments were repeated at other induction programs across the county, considering that it was a year like no other, but the human spirit once again triumphed over adversity.
MOUNT AIRY HIGH SCHOOL
On Saturday morning, 135 MAHS seniors were awarded diplomas during a program that produced a victory arguably as big as any other that the Bears soccer team scored in the same location.
Peyton Harmon, Senior Class President, one of five student speakers on the program, neatly summed up the events of the past year as “this most unusual time in our lives.”
He went on to say that at times in life when everything seems to be going well, an unexpected event can occur that thwarts even the best of plans.
“COVID made that pretty clear to me,” noted the President of the Class of 2021, pointing out that good can still happen under such circumstances.
“We have not withdrawn from the challenges of COVID,” said Harmon about such a result, as the proud appearance of the graduates on Saturday shows. “We made it!” he exclaimed.
Another speaker, Tessa Stovall, vice president of the senior class, took a similar view:
“Even if this school year was anything but ordinary, we all like to remember this special day.”
Darius Walker, president of Mount Airy High’s student body, cited additional pride in Saturday’s milestone, which included the fact that campus opened for face-to-face learning last August.
“We were the only school in North Carolina that did this,” Walker said, and his remarks received loud applause from those in attendance, including family members and friends of the graduates grabbing the stands.
This award was also presented on Saturday by Dr. Kim Morrison, the headmaster of Mount Airy City Schools.
“I am very grateful to everyone who made this possible,” said Morrison during her time on the podium, particularly praising the members of the school administration who made the difficult decision to continue with face-to-face learning.
NORTH SURRY HIGH SCHOOL
North Surry graduated 163 seniors at Charles Atkins Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
Student Union President Isaac Riggs spoke to fellow students about the importance of being friendly. He shared his experiences of missionary trips in his youth to Ecuador and the Dominican Republic and how important it was to be kind to one another, which he learned from these visits.
“I want us to know that the little things matter – try to make a positive impact on someone’s day,” Riggs said.
“We as ‘normal’ people don’t always have to give huge sums of money or be amazingly generous, we can just be kind and do the little things – this will have the greatest impact, sometimes more than you know.”
Riggs was recognized as an NSHS Class Salutator by 2021. In the fall he becomes a student at Lenoir-Rhyne University.
James Jessup was the North Surry’s Class Farewell Speaker of 2021 and also the Senior Class President. He was also the President of the Student Government Association at Surry Community College last year.
Jessup graduated from SCC before actually graduating from high school and will be attending the University of North Carolina this fall to eventually pursue a career in law.
He talked to his classmates about looking to the future.
The farewell speaker quoted Malcolm X in his speech: “Education is the passport for the future.”
Jessup also left some advice of his own to his classmates, saying, “Regardless of which path we take, we all have the potential to make a notable impact.”
EAST SURRY HIGH SCHOOL
Perseverance was a central theme of the graduation ceremony in East Surry held on Friday evening at the David H. Diamont Stadium.
“It’s hard to ignore the elephant in the room when we talk about our high school experience,” said Colton Allen, senior class president of East Surry. For 135 high school graduates, attending their senior year of high school during a pandemic posed a whole new set of challenges in addition to the traditional exams students face.
Both the student speakers – Allen and Student Union President, Chloe Hunter – and Charity Rosenhauer, who performed Riley Clemmons’ song “Keep on Hope”, emphasized the importance of never giving up in the face of seemingly impossible adversity. An excerpt from Rosenhauer’s song perfectly expressed this message to those present: “Open your eyes, you will be fine. You have the strength to keep going, so keep on hoping. “
The school year began with distance learning, turned into alternating school days where students studied in cohorts, and then slowly but surely returned to a more normal environment that enabled graduation.
Students were able to experience all the things one would expect at a graduation ceremony, including the noisy friends and families filling the stands, the smiling and maskless faces of the students walking across the stage to shake hands (or Breast bumps). ) Director Jared Jones, as well as the cloud of silly strings that filled the air after graduation was declared.
East Surry also duly honored the two students with the highest cumulative GPAs. Jacob Michael Haywood was recognized as the farewell speaker and Chloe Noelle Sloop as the greeting.
SURRY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
At the Surry Central High School ceremony Thursday night in Dobson, some graduates danced across the stage or fluttered flags as capes as they stepped on the threshold to their future after high school.
“It’s no secret that the past three semesters have been challenging,” said Headmistress Misti Holloway.
“You have faced these challenges and you have overcome them.”
This year’s senior class will disband, with 122 completing post-secondary education, six entering the military and 46 entering professional life.
SURRY EARLY COLLEGE
Surry Early College High School, one of the newer educational institutions in the county, was a leap after graduation this year with the first local ceremony.
On the occasion of the final year 2021, 64 students have reached this educational milestone.
This was the 11th graduation ceremony for Surry Early College High School, at which students received both a high school diploma and a two-year college degree. The 64 students were honored in a ceremony on May 21st.
Two of the best students in the class were the speakers, who remembered their years together at school and encouraged classmates to look forward to a bright future.
The senior speaker was Mason Elijah Melton and the “super” senior speaker was Paloma Garcia-Serrano.
SURRY ONLINE MAGNET SCHOOL
Not only did the Surry Online Magnet School celebrate the milestone its graduates had reached on Friday afternoon, but also the fact that they were the first graduating class from a unique institution.
“You have shaped history,” said special spokeswoman Dr. Jill Reinhardt the seven outgoing students during their initial practice at the Surry County Government Center in Dobson – a small group with a big accomplishment.
Surry Online Magnet School had given them the opportunity to complete a high school education exclusively online, emphasizing personalized learning through unique and flexible options requested by students for a variety of reasons.
They did this without “classroom walls, no metal tables, and no cafeteria,” said Reinhardt, who retired from Surry County Schools in January but served as a key member of a development and implementation team to help make the online magnet concept a reality .
Although there are no walls, the school has a mascot, the Trailblazers, which was referred to several times at the start of Friday.
Reinhardt said the individual graduates might have started their educational careers as Cedar Ridge Elementary School Panthers or Westfield Wildcats, but ended up being trailblazers – signaling the uniqueness of the new online public school, which was groundbreaking both locally and nationwide.
The students are individuals “who have seized a chance for change and progress,” the spokesman said at the beginning, adding that some thought the school could not get going during a pandemic and achieve what it is in such a short time have achieved.
The graduates were also commended on Friday by their headmistress Kristin Blake:
“Through your training you did pioneering work and everyone who is here today is proud of your achievement.”
MILLENNIUM CHARTER ACADEMY
The Millennium Charter Academy presented their fourth graduate class at the annual graduation ceremony on Saturday.
This year’s class is the largest in the school with 34 graduates, 80 percent of whom are in college or university, including an Ivy League school, and the rest go straight to the workforce.
The MCA’s opening theme was “The Times We Are Given”, an indication of how students, schools and families have courageously dealt with the pandemic despite all the challenges and have completed a very successful school year.
The keynote speaker on Saturday was Stan Jewell, President and CEO of Renfro Brands, a company that also successfully dealt with the times when Renfro switched from sock-making to mask-making, literally masking Mount Airy and various other cities.
Jewell’s address provided the graduates and everyone present with in-depth advice. He said it is not so important where a person is going in their life, but how they got there.
The speaker encouraged each student to travel through life with authenticity, be true to themselves, have curiosity and courage, and work hard in everything they do.
Unlike last year’s opening ceremony, which was held outdoors while families watched from their cars, this year’s program was held in the gym of the MCA high school.
Graduates were limited to six guests each and all participants were masked.
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Israeli Ministry of Health Authorizes COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna for Use in Israel
Ministry of Health of Israel has secured 6 million doses and first deliveries expected to begin in January
January 04, 2021 06:58 PM Eastern Standard Time
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today announced that Israel’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has given authorization to import the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna in Israel.
“Today’s authorization is a landmark moment in our company’s history and in the global fight against COVID-19,” said Stéphane Bancel, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna. “This is the third regulatory authorization for the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna, and its first outside of North America. I want to thank the Ministry of Health of Israel for their efforts, as their team have worked tirelessly alongside ours to ensure a timely authorization of this vaccine. We hope to continue to see authorizations in additional markets in the coming days, weeks and months.”
The MOH has secured 6 million doses of the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna. Planned deliveries reflect today’s authorization to supply the vaccine in Israel, and first deliveries are expected to begin shortly.
Israel is the third country for which Moderna has received authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine, following the United States on December 18, 2020 and Canada on December 23, 2020. Additional authorizations are currently under review in the European Union, Singapore, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The authorization is given according to Regulation 29 (A)(9): Medical product designated for pharmaceutical treatment of local citizens in case of epidemic or contagious disease or protection from chemical or radioactive substances, according to Regulation 29 of the Pharmacists’ Regulations (Medical preparations) – 1986.
The decision from the MOH is based on a rolling submission of data and is based on the totality of scientific evidence shared by the Company, including a data analysis from the pivotal Phase 3 clinical study announced on November 30.
To learn more about Moderna’s work on mRNA-1273, visit www.modernatx.com/COVID19.
About the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine
The Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine is an mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 encoding for a prefusion stabilized form of the Spike (S) protein, which was co-developed by Moderna and investigators from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Vaccine Research Center. The first clinical batch, which was funded by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, was completed on February 7, 2020 and underwent analytical testing; it was shipped to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on February 24, 42 days from sequence selection. The first participant in the NIAID-led Phase 1 study of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine was dosed on March 16, 63 days from sequence selection to Phase 1 study dosing. On May 12, the FDA granted the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Fast Track designation. On May 29, the first participants in each age cohort: adults ages 18-55 years (n=300) and older adults ages 55 years and above (n=300) were dosed in the Phase 2 study of mRNA-1273. On July 8, the Phase 2 study completed enrollment.
Results from the second interim analysis of the NIH-led Phase 1 study of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine in the 56-70 and 71+ age groups were published on September 29 in The New England Journal of Medicine. On July 28, results from a non-human primate preclinical viral challenge study evaluating the vaccine were published in The New England Journal of Medicine. On July 14, an interim analysis of the original cohorts in the NIH-led Phase 1 study of the vaccine was published in The New England Journal of Medicine. On November 30, Moderna announced the primary efficacy analysis of the Phase 3 study of the vaccine conducted on 196 cases. On November 30, the Company also announced that it filed for Emergency Use Authorization with the U.S. FDA and a Conditional Marketing Authorization (CMA) with the European Medicines Agency. On December 3, a letter to the editor was published in The New England Journal of Medicine reporting that participants in the Phase 1 study of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine retained high levels of neutralizing antibodies through 119 days following first vaccination (90 days following second vaccination) and on December 30, interim safety and primary efficacy results from the Phase 3 trial were published in The New England Journal of Medicine. On December 18, 2020, the FDA authorized the emergency use of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine in individuals 18 years of age or older.
Authorized Use
The Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine has been authorized for emergency use in the U.S. by the FDA for active immunization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in individuals 18 years of age and older, has been authorized by Health Canada for the immunization of Canadians 18 years of age and older under an Interim Order and now authorization to import by Israel. Moderna has submitted the final Conditional Marketing Authorization Application (CA) following rolling submissions with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and several other regulatory agencies around the world.
About Moderna
Moderna is advancing messenger RNA (mRNA) science to create a new class of transformative medicines for patients. mRNA medicines are designed to direct the body’s cells to produce intracellular, membrane or secreted proteins that can have a therapeutic or preventive benefit and have the potential to address a broad spectrum of diseases. The company’s platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, providing Moderna the capability to pursue in parallel a robust pipeline of new development candidates. Moderna is developing therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, independently and with strategic collaborators.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Moderna currently has strategic alliances for development programs with AstraZeneca PLC and Merck & Co., Inc., as well as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, and BARDA. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past six years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including regarding: the Company’s development of a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, the potential for the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine to prevent COVID-19 disease and slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and plans for the supply and distribution of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine to the Israeli Government. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “will,” “may,” “should,” “could”, “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “aims,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” “continue,” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. The forward-looking statements in this press release are neither promises nor guarantees, and you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond Moderna’s control and which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties, and other factors include, among others: the fact that there has never been a commercial product utilizing mRNA technology approved for use; the fact that the rapid response technology in use by Moderna is still being developed and implemented; the safety, tolerability and efficacy profile of mRNA-1273 observed to date may change adversely in ongoing analyses of trial data or subsequent to commercialization; despite having ongoing interactions with the FDA or other regulatory agencies, the FDA or such other regulatory agencies may not agree with the Company’s regulatory approval strategies, components of our filings, such as clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies, or the sufficiency of data submitted; Moderna may encounter delays in meeting manufacturing or supply timelines or disruptions in its distribution plans for mRNA-1273; whether and when any biologics license applications and/or emergency use authorization applications may be filed and ultimately approved by regulatory authorities; potential adverse impacts due to the global COVID-19 pandemic such as delays in regulatory review, manufacturing and clinical trials, supply chain interruptions, adverse effects on healthcare systems and disruption of the global economy; and those other risks and uncertainties described under the heading “Risk Factors” in Moderna’s most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and in subsequent filings made by Moderna with the SEC, which are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Except as required by law, Moderna disclaims any intention or responsibility for updating or revising any forward-looking statements contained in this press release in the event of new information, future developments or otherwise. These forward-looking statements are based on Moderna’s current expectations and speak only as of the date hereof.
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October 13, 2020 | 12:01 am
Nicole Asensio to launch new song, ‘Poblacion’
NICOLE Laurel Asensio, having just released her single “Silong” under Warner Music Group, is scheduled to release her next single, an original composition entitled “Poblacion” featuring members of the A.M.P. Bigband and Parokya Ni Edgar’s Chito Miranda with a short-film music video starring Cherie Gil. “Poblacion” will be launched on Spotify on Oct. 16 and on Facebook Live on Oct. 17. The song is about a night out at the bars in Poblacion, Makati where Ms. Asensio has lived since 2007.
New Pinoy folk song tackles fruits
WHILE there is a song about local vegetables — “Bahay Kubo” — and the coconut — “Da Coconut Nut” — there was no song about fruits. To make up for this lack, National Artist for Music Ryan Cayabyab and lyricist Noel Ferrer came up with “Prutas Pilipinas,” performed by The Company. The song, created in collaboration with local juice brand, Locally, features rhymes and riddles about homegrown fruits, both the familiar and the less known. “Prutas Pilipinas” not only names popular fruits, like mangoes, melons, and grapes but also more unique ones like chico, mangosteen, and dragonfruit. The song also mentions how nutritious and good these local fruits are. It has three versions — the first is the main song which has already been released and is quickly growing in popularity on Spotify. Set to be released soon, the second version integrates a little bit of “bugtungan”— riddles — at the song’s beginning, while the third version is short and easy to memorize, made to be shared in schools nationwide through the Department of Education. “Prutas Pilipinas” is available for streaming on Spotify at this link: https://rb.gy/yp1nc5, and soon, on YouTube. Locally is NutriAsia’s first venture into beverages. Locally juices are available in all leading convenience stores and supermarkets. For more information, visit @Locally_PH on Instagram and Facebook.
Kubra Commander debuts first official single ‘The Now’
KUBRA Commander, which has joined indie record label Lilystars Records’ roster of music acts, has released its latest single “The Now,” a brooding, post-punk number. The Cebu-based psychedelic rock outfit has been making waves online since the release of its breakthrough track, “On Your Left,” which made it to CNN’s 8 New Local Releases for your Listening Pleasure and earned a glowing review from indie music website, Flying Lugaw. “The Now” will be part of Kubra Commander’s upcoming new album, Rhythm Tourists, to be released in 2021.
The Mall the Merrier now on WeTV and iflix
THE VICE Ganda-Anne Curtis comedy movie The Mall, The Merrier can now be streamed on WeTV VIP and iflix VIP. Directed by Barry Gonzalez, based on a screenplay by Daisy Cayanan, the film follows the story of siblings Moira/Moises Molina (Vice Ganda) and Morissette “Setset” Molina (Anne Curtis) who get caught up in a bitter feud when they become the heirs of the family property, Tamol Mall. Upping the ante is the arrival of Aunt Moody (Dimples Romana) who is set to stake her claim as well. Things start to get shady at the mall when mysterious events start to happen and the mannequins and toys come alive after dark. The movie marks the first time that Anne Curtis and Vice Ganda co-starred in a film together, apart from being co-hosts on a popular noontime show. Rounding out the cast are Elisse Joson, Jameson Blake, and Ruffa Gutierrez. The Mall, The Merrier emerged as one of the big hits out of the Metro Manila Film Festival last year. All the mall scenes were shot in the iconic Harrison Plaza before it closed at the end of 2019. Both the iflix and WeTV apps are available on the App Store and on Google Play.
Dominic Chin releases debut EP
SINGAPOREAN pop artist Dominic Chin released his debut EP “License to Cry,” via indie label Umami Records on Oct. 9. The seven-track EP is a diverse collection of songs that document the early stages of self-discovery in Chin’s life, in his efforts to articulate his struggles and explore different sounds. The 24-year-old singer-songwriter creates music with his distinct voice and a blend of electro-pop, soul and R&B. He started covering songs on YouTube in 2010, and his channel has more than 9,200 subscribers and 1.3M views. His songs have been featured on major Spotify editorial playlists including “Electro Mix” and “Singapore’s Top Acts.”
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Throwback Thursday: Reflections on the first editor’s note
Can Geo editor-in-chief Aaron Kylie reflects on the very first Foreword by the Editors of Canadian Geographic
The cover of the first issue of Canadian Geographic.
By Aaron Kylie
Speaking to millions of people numerous times a year is a task I don’t take lightly. And while I don’t necessarily confront that fact on a daily basis, I do regularly consider the enormity of the responsibility related to it, given that the content I oversee as the editor of Canadian Geographic is estimated to be seen by more than 3 million people each issue (not to mention millions more through various other mediums).
I can only imagine the pleasure Lawrence J. Burpee, the first editor of Canadian Geographic Journal (Canadian Geographical’s original name), would take in knowing that the publication he helped launch in May 1930 was reaching that many people. Of course, the “Foreword by the Editors” he presumably penned (and most certainly oversaw) in that issue certainly aspired to such greatness. It also set out very clear objectives for the publication that help guide my decision making today when it comes to crafting the content so many will see.
“Its purpose is to use the Journal as a means of information in the field of Geography, interpreting that subject in its widest sense,” notes that Foreword of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s rationale behind the publication. “In the first place, it hopes to make the resources of Canada, economic as well as aesthetic, better known both at home and abroad. That will always remain its primary object, but by no means it sole object.”
Indeed, myself and the editorial team here go to great lengths to ensure we adhere to that mandate, which stands as true and important now as it did 85 years ago. We also believe it plays a large part in the size of the audience our content attracts.
The Foreword from that first issue ended with another key point worth noting: “Every Member of the Society should feel it a duty to help the Editors not only by pointing out defects but by suggesting ways and means of bring the Journal closer to its ideal.” Like the principle goal of the magazine, this is as true today as it was then. Canadian Geographic is your magazine, and readers should feel responsible for informing us of missteps and of ways to continue to adhere to our mission. We’re listening.
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Good deeds come full circle: a feel-good story
By: Teresa Sousa
Sometimes, in the midst of hectic days and busy times, we come across a story that makes us slow down and live in the moment. Sometimes we come across an act of kindness that is so pure and from the heart that it touches us deeply. Sometimes we come across a story that strengthens our belief in the human race. Sometimes we come across a story like this...
Imagine giving birth to your precious baby and then watching her being fed through a tube, knowing deep down inside that something isn't quite right. Imagine the feelings of helplessness as you watch your baby being airlifted from North Bay, Ont., to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario while you follow in your van. Imagine not leaving your daughter's side for days while she undergoes test after test. Imagine listening to the doctor tell you she has Prader-Willi syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes obesity, as well as reduced muscle tone and mental ability. Imagine walking out of the hospital boggled down with life-changing news only to find an empty spot where you had left your van days earlier. This is the story of Darcy Sheridan and her daughter Rayven. After reading about Darcy's story in the Ottawa Citizen, Ian Charlebois dropped off the keys to his 2012 Nissan Titan truck at the hospital reception desk and left a message with Darcy that he would come pick it up weeks later, only after she had secured permanent transportation to bring Rayven to and from her doctors’ appointments. And then, Rachel Sweezey, a 15-year-old Grade 10 student turned a school assignment – a thought exercise in how to contribute to an issue raised in a news article – into action by offering up her 19-year-old brother, Ben, who has a pilot licence, to fly the owner of the truck to North Bay. Although her project was supposed to be "What would you do if...?" she thought it would be really cool if she actually did it. Ian was taken aback when he read Rachel’s email. He was truly moved by the teen and her brother doing what they could to turn a story of despair into one of triumph. “It’s remarkable to see how gestures sometimes have more of an impact on people’s lives,” he said. “It’s not always about time and money, and I learned that from Rachel.” Furthermore, a couple from Guelph delivered a 2004 Chevy Express van with new tires to Darcy and her family free of charge. Darcy is overwhelmed by the kindness of strangers. She has catalogued the generosity of all the strangers-turned-friends in Rayven’s baby book. “Even though she’s only been here a short time, her life has been very eventful. If this is any sign of what the future holds for her, then it’s a good thing,” said Darcy. Sometimes we come across a story that makes us realize without a shadow of a doubt that it truly is the little things, the small gestures, the gifts of the heart, that make our world go round. Sometimes we come across a story that rejuvenates our faith in people. Sometimes we come across a story like this.
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Edward M. Flanagan
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Naples FL & West Yarmouth - Edward Michael Flanagan, of Naples FL and West Yarmouth MA, passed into eternal rest on December 19, 2021, at the age of 92.
Ed was born into modest means in Malden, MA on January 9, 1929, to Mary (Dolan) Flanagan and Joseph Flanagan. He was one of six children, born in the Depression, to Irish parents. His upbringing informed who he became and who he was until his passing. Ed attended and graduated from Malden High School and attended Burdett School of Business. In 1945, at the age of 16, he began working as a messenger at the Boston Herald Traveler. For decades, he continued: as an advertising salesman, later as the head of advertising, for a time as a columnist under the pseudonym "Ed Michaels," and eventually as the paper's Assistant Publisher. Until he passed, he subscribed to the Herald and not surprisingly, hated the Globe. In July of 1972, Ed decided to take a leap into entrepreneurship and started his own business, owning and producing trade shows in the City of Boston and beyond. The New England Boat Show, one of his most popular and successful shows, remains, to the present day, an iconic venue for boating aficionados from all of New England and beyond. Upon Ed's retirement in 1989, he and his wife moved to Naples, Florida, where he enjoyed golf and other well-deserved hobbies (but not boating which he also hated).
Ed's life was not all business though. One of his passions was public service and from the early age of 25 he was involved in politics. He began his political career in Municipal Government when he was elected to the Malden City Council in 1954 and then was elected Council President in 1955. He continued his career in city government serving as an Alderman, Councilor at Large, and Chairman of the Malden Redevelopment Authority. Ed continued his political career when he ran for and was elected to three terms as a State Representative in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. From 1965 to 1970 he served the people from the city of Malden in the State House with honor and integrity. During Ed's time there he was State Chairman for Jobs for Veterans, and Chairman of the Committee to establish the John F. Kennedy Library. He was chosen as Man of the Year in 1972 by the Department of Massachusetts Jewish War Veterans.
Ed's greatest joy and most fervent passion though, was his family. On September 6, 1954, Ed married Mary Elizabeth O'Farrell. There began a life journey filled with love and joy. Mary and Ed had four daughters, raising them in the Malden and Medford area and instilling in them that there was not anything they could not do if they wanted to. Education was of great importance to Ed, given that his circumstances did not permit him a formal education, as was hard work; honesty; and faith. His family was his world and he gathered all of them, as often as possible, around his and Mary's home on Lewis Bay in West Yarmouth every summer and eventually all year round. Sunday beach days, family cookouts on the bluff, games of Red Rover in the yard, and songs being sung to his grandchildren as they skipped through his and Mary's yard coming up from the beach, always with multiple family dogs in tow, were common events orchestrated by an uncommon man. There was always a deck chair to pull up and sit down, there was always an open door to walk through (although you were always reminded to shut the screen) and his home was the most wonderful gathering place for all of us, all the days of his life.
Ed is survived by his loving wife and the love of his life for 67 years, Mary Flanagan. He is also survived by his children; Beth (Joseph) O'Neal, Kathleen (Robert) McAlpine, Christine (John) Forcier, Brenda (Edward) Stafford. He is also survived by his much loved and adoring grandchildren; Brian (Jennifer), Elizabeth (Seamus), Patrick (Rebecca), Kathleen, Abigail (Joshua), Madeline, Gabrielle, Rose, Edward (Brooke), Mary, Joseph, and Grace. He was predeceased by his cherished grandson John "Jack" Forcier. He is also survived by seven great grandchildren: Jameson, Lucas and Declan, Hope and Sinead, and Bridgette and Collin (and at last count, 11 grand and great grand dogs).
He is also survived by his sister Mary Harrington and predeceased by four other siblings: Joseph, Kathryn, Philip, and Ann.
Ed's recipe for a good life was simple. Love your family, work hard, serve your community, and love God.
Whatever name we call him, Ed, Dad, Papa, or Candy Papa, he will be remembered always, loved fiercely, and forever cherished.
Arrangements under the direction of Chapman Funerals & Cremations, Yarmouth. There will be a Mass of Christian Burial at the Sacred Heart Chapel in Yarmouth Port MA. All services will be private.
If the Christmas Spirit moves you to honor Edward's memory you may donate to his favorite charity, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
For notes of comfort, please visit www.chapmanfuneral.com
Posted online on December 23, 2021
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French Legion of Honour awarded to Irish Priest
At a ceremony in the French Embassy, Ailesbury Road, Dublin, on Wednesday, November 14th, the Ambassador of France, M. Gabriel de Bellescize, invested with the insignia of Officier of the Légion d’Honneur Mgr. Brendan P. Devlin, Rector of the Collège des Irlandais de Paris and Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages in the National University of Ireland at Maynooth. This honour is the highest normally given to a non-French national (it was recently awarded to Mr John Hume M.P.), and was awarded to Mgr. Devlin for his services to cultural relations between France and Ireland. The citation mentioned in particular his work for the restoration of the Irish College in Paris, his development of French studies at Maynooth, and his work as translator of several of the classics of French literature into Irish.
Mgr. Devlin was born in the parish of Gortin, Co. Tyrone. He was educated at Aughnamerrigan P.E.S.; St. Columb’s College, Derry; Maynooth; The Irish College in Rome (where he was ordained priest for the Diocese of Derry), and the Sorbonne University in Paris. He was Professor of Modern Languages in Maynooth from 1958 to 1996. Appointed Rector of the Irish College in Paris in 1984 by the late Cardinal O’Fiaich, he was given the mission of saving this centuries-old seat of learning for the Irish people, and from 1991 to 2000 he was secretary of the Fondation Irlandaise, the trust in which the College is now vested. Mgr. Devlin is also well-known as a writer in the Irish language, as novelist, dramatist and literary critic. He founded the Maynooth school of literary criticism in Irish in the 1960’s. He translated the Book of Isaiah from the original Hebrew for the Irish language version of the Bible, as well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church of the Second Vatican Council. He has also published translations into Irish of Pascal, Montaigne, La Fontaine, Saint-Exupéry, and an anthology of French lyric poetry.
Mgr. Devlin was already Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, and was appointed a Domestic Prelate in 1997.
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Bishops’ Committee on Child Protection responds to ‘Residential Institutions Redress Bill 2001’
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NEWARK PRIEST RESIGNS
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Bill Donohue comments on the decision by Newark archdiocesan priest Father Michael Fugee to resign from ministry:
Father Fugee now says he violated his agreement with the Newark Archdiocese and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office; thus, his decision to step down. His dishonesty is appalling. Moreover, he has clearly impugned his character.
As I said in my report of May 1, “What is really going on here is an attempt to sunder Archbishop Myers—Fugee is not the man they want. They want Myers, and that is because they detest what he stands for.”
Fugee’s resignation does nothing to change my position. Indeed, had there not been calls for Myers to resign over this matter, there would have been no reason to comment on it.
There is a concerted effort on the part of left-wing Catholics and ex-Catholics, aided and abetted by some in the media, to take down a bishop. But not just any bishop: he must be a conservative. To this day, the way these activists have reacted to their hero, the disgraced former archbishop of Milwaukee, Rembert Weakland, is in stark contrast to their response to conservative bishops who have been embroiled in controversy (e.g., Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph and Newark Archbishop John Myers).
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again: any priest who is guilty of committing a crime, especially sexual abuse, should have the book thrown at him; he will get no defense from the Catholic League. But when we see that the clergy of other religions, as well as public school officials, are being held to a lesser standard than our bishops, that is cause for action. Not until we get a level playing field will we back off.
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Review Of Social Partners In New Member States
Contributions of the trade union organisations to the evaluation of the actions conducted and their impact in terms of the European Employment Strategies
Etuc Publication, 2005
The European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education and Health and Safety, together with the Joint Programme for Working Life Research in Europe (SALTSA) and CREER has published the second volume of its review of the role of the social partners and social dialogue in the new EU Member States. "The Role of the Social Partners in the European Employment Strategy, Volume II", edited by Cline Lafoucriere and Lars Magnusson evaluates the democratic preparations underway, in the new member states as well as candidate countries to the EU, to guarantee full participation of the social partners in the European Employment Strategy (EES).
Whilst the first volume, published in April 2004, looked at the situation in Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia, this second volume covers the remaining states: Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Turkey. In the run-up to the mid-term evaluation, and potential reform, of the EES, it seeks to draw attention to the dangers for the future of the European Social Model (ESM) in an enlarged EU and, more specifically, to the future of social dialogue as a crucial regulatory mode of the ESM. In most of the new member states the involvement of the social partners remains rather limited and, while these states have undeniably made efforts to transpose social directives into their national legislation, there is still relatively little evidence of practical implementation.
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Snowboard star Shaun White’s Olympic status still uncertain
by: WILL GRAVES, Associated Press
Shaun White, of the United States, after his third run in the snowboarding halfpipe finals, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, during the Dew Tour at Copper Mountain, Colo. (AP Photo/Hugh Carey)
MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, Calif. (AP) — Shaun White arrived at Mammoth Mountain hoping to lock in a spot on his fifth Olympic team.
The snowboarding superstar left it with his ankle hurting and work still left to do.
White put together a solid run during qualifying at the U.S. Grand Prix on Saturday night but aggravated a lingering ankle issue in the process and he opted not to participate in the finals.
It led to the strange site of a portion of the 2022 U.S. Olympic snowboarding and freestyle team being announced later Saturday night without the 35-year-old who has redefined the sport.
U.S. Olympic Ski and Snowboard head coach Mike Jankowski said White headed back up to the top of the halfpipe for finals but couldn’t get warmed up enough to perform at the level that’s made him one of the faces of the U.S. Winter Olympic program for the better part of two decades.
“If you’re off a bit and you’re not feeling your ‘A’ game, at this level, at night in the icy white, it’s risky as you know so he decided to take a break,” Jankowski said.
The setback was the latest in a series of them for White since he returned to the sport following a three-year sabbatical after his dramatic final-run triumph in Korea in 2018.
He finished eighth and seventh in separate events last month and said earlier this week that he contracted COVID-19 in late December, describing his symptoms as a serious cold.
White arrived in California this week as the third-ranked American in a discipline that’s become dominated by the Japanese. He stressed the importance of wanting to generate some momentum heading to China, Now he finds himself in fourth behind a group led by 2014 Olympian Taylor Gold, though White is still likely in good position provided he’s healthy. The team does not have to be finalized until Jan. 21.
“(White) just wants to train and keep working hard and keep getting better,” Jankowski said. “He’s hoping the spot where he’s at now holds solid and that he’s able to get the nomination to the team.”
While White’s status is still unclear, a couple of his contemporaries who have multiple Olympic gold medals at home punched their ticket to Beijing.
Two-time freestyle halfpipe gold medalist David Wise posted a strong 95.25 during his first run in the finals to finish second to Nico Porteous of New Zealand to assure himself of a shot at a three-peat, something the 31-year-old feared might not happen after a string of finishes off the podium.
Wise’s ability to drill a run when he absolutely needed it — with a crowd of supports that included his parents, his wife and his two children as well as friends who made the three-hour trip from the Reno, Nevada, area — made his third Olympic appearance all the sweeter.
“The last two times, I was the first guy to lock in my spot,” Wise said. “And that was definitely not the case this time around. I did it by locking it in at the last minute. But that battle, it just gives me a little bit more ammunition for Beijing.”
Wise will be joined by Alex Ferreira, who took silver in Korea four years ago as the U.S. went one-two. Aaron Blunck will make his third Olympic appearance on the halfpipe.
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Jamie Anderson will get a shot at a three-peat in women’s snowboard slopestyle. Anderson, who also earned a silver in Big Air in Korea in 2018, will head to China with some momentum after edging Zoi Sadowski Synnott of New Zealand in the slopestyle final on Saturday.
“Returning as a two-time champ, you feel the heat and pressure of that, but I also feel I’m grateful to have the privilege to go and represent our country and do what I love and hopefully inspire young girls and young people everywhere to follow their dreams,” Anderson said.
Hailey Langland will return to the Olympics for a second time after competing in both slopestyle and Big Air in Pyeongchang.
Defending halfpipe champion Chloe Kim leads the women’s team snowboard halfpipe team. The 21-year-old Kim soared to gold as a teenager in Korea and like White a decade ago, has become the standard-bearer for her sport, winning five straight events heading up to Beijing.
Maddie Mastro, the last athlete to beat Kim, will join Kim in China, though she is recovering from an ankle injury suffered after crashing hard at a Dew Tour event in Colorado last month.
Red Gerard will get a chance to defend his gold medal in snowboarding slopestyle after earning an automatic berth. He’ll be joined on the slope course by Dusty Hendrickson and Chris Corning.
The women’s freestyle halfpipe team will be led by 17-year-old newcomer Hanna Faulhaber, who finished a tight second to Eileen Gu — an 18-year-old born in San Francisco who will compete for China, where her mother is from. Brita Sigourney, a bronze medalist in 2018, will try to add to her medal haul in what will be her final Olympics.
More AP Winter Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/winter-olympics and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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VC Industry Makes Slow Progress on Diversity
Despite their wide recognition for exerting a positive effect on business results, diversity and inclusion programs remain relatively rare among VC firms.
Venture capital has unquestionably driven economic growth over the past few decades. To what extent isn’t perfectly clear, but it’s a type of financing that appeals to hordes of innovative, forward-looking companies.
However, the VC industry is arguably somewhat out of step with the times with respect to one highly visible attribute. Oddly, it’s one that many VC-backed companies likely deem important to their chances for success: embracing diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts.
In a survey of 1,428 venture capital firms by Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association (NCVA), less than a third of the respondents said their firm has a diversity strategy (32%) or an inclusion strategy (31%).
To be sure, those figures represent an improvement from a previous iteration of the survey conducted in 2016. Then, less than 20% of participants reported that their firms had any D&I strategy.
Still, NVCA president and CEO Bobby Franklin said the new survey shows that “VCs still have a long way to go in fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace for investment professionals.”
The survey does enable the organization to benchmark progress over time, and it’s seeing some “important ripples of positive taking place,” Franklin noted.
He continued, “The challenge, however, is that diversity and inclusion is a critical issue, and it demands continued and sustained changes that have yet to materialize across the industry.” He said the association plans to use the survey results to help VC firms “take full advantage of the wide talent pool available to them.”
While women comprised 45% of the workforce at participating firms, only 21% of their investment professionals and 14% of their senior-level leaders were women. Two-thirds of those surveyed said their firms did not have and female investment partners, and among those that did, 74% had only one.
Again, those numbers all represented improvements of only a few percentage points from the 2016 survey. Given the potential business impact of D&I, it may be surprising that change isn’t faster and stronger.
“Diversity and inclusion are powerful growth levers for venture capital firms, regardless of their size or focus,” said Heather Gates, national managing director of the emerging growth company practice at Deloitte & Touche. “Studies have shown that hiring more female investment professionals is correlated to enhanced returns, better recruiting, and talent retention, as well as more profitable exits and overall improved financial health for funds.”
But the needle is moving very slowly for racial D&I. The survey found only slight improvements for black and Hispanic representation since 2016. Just 4% of employees and 3% of investment partners were black, and the corresponding figures for Hispanics were 5% and 3%.
“Change may be happening, but it’s happening at different rates for different groups, and that can be a problem,” said Terri Cooper, Deloitte’s chief inclusion officer. “This year’s report underscores the on-the-ground, day-to-day work we still have to do to make diversity and inclusion a high-priority agenda item for organizations across industries, venture capital included.”
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It's Your Business: People of All Color Welcomed by Chamber, City
NOTE: This "It's Your Business" column by Chamber CEO Erin Predmore was published in the Aug. 14, 2020 Bloomington Herald-Times.
Erin Predmore
Earlier this summer, we unveiled an important historical marker for our community as a whole, for the business community, and most importantly, for the Black business community.
In the 1960s, a business called The Black Market operated in the spot where Peoples Park is located now. Owned and run by IU grad student Rollo Turner, it was a Bloomington store celebrating Black culture, with African art, clothing, and music. It was a welcoming place for Black IU students and community members to gather.
On December 26, 1968, in a violent reaction to the civil rights movement, the Black Market was firebombed. What was one moment a thriving, locally owned business and center for Black culture became in the next moment a burning symbol of hatred and racism. The store was destroyed in the fire.
As time passed, this location became a gathering place for local students, civil rights activists and other residents. The family that owned it later gave this land to the City of Bloomington to be maintained forever as a public park – Peoples Park.
But as time passed, the story of this place – The Black Market, the firebombing, and its place in the history of the local civil rights movement – was left behind. People stopped telling others about it, and many residents never knew what happened here.
I first learned about this history almost two years ago, when the Chamber began working with leaders in the Black business community in an effort that led to the formation of the Chamber’s Black-Owned Business Affinity Group. With their leadership, we partnered with the City of Bloomington to submit an application to the Indiana Historical Bureau. That work led to the installation of an historical marker at Peoples Park that we celebrated on July 31.
But really, we were celebrating our community’s Black business owners and acknowledging that what happened here in 1968 still matters to Bloomington today. We forget that history at our peril.
The treatment of people of color in Bloomington and Monroe County has been horrible, ranging from microaggressions at work to racial profiling to physical violence. Taking a stand against these behaviors is required by of all of us who want to be decent and humane.
For those who don’t believe this is a moral issue or don’t acknowledge that racism still exists here, at least consider the economic impact of our community’s reputation. This summer, our office has fielded calls and emails from individuals and groups who were no longer willing to come to Bloomington because of the racist actions of some of our community members. In 2018, visitors spent over $418 million in Monroe County. What would we do if they all decided not to come back after the pandemic abates?
Here’s another harsh reality, from the Monroe County Quality of Place & Workforce Retention Plan: “Minority residents do not feel the sense of welcoming community that Monroe County prides itself on. The legacy of the KKK in the region is remembered and felt today. Recruiters have trouble attracting diverse candidates to the region, to Monroe County, and to Bloomington.”
Our community’s success is intricately tied to the success of our neighbors, friends and colleagues. We will all rise or fall together, and we can only rise by supporting those who need to be recognized as valuable members of our community. We must embrace the minority members of our community and stand for equality, equity, and inclusion.
To all people of color, the Chamber is glad you are here.
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The EU Succession Regulations May Impact Your Estate Planning
By ChapmanCraigJanuary 30, 2018 News
We previously recommended that families create a written list identifying, and noting key details of, their financial and personal assets. The importance of this in support of drafting a Will or for broad estate planning purposes was emphasized.
Ensuring that testamentary objectives are met can be especially challenging for families with multi-jurisdictional estates.
Jurisdictions apply different connecting factors such as domicile, residence, or nationality to determine which jurisdiction’s laws will apply for succession matters, sometimes leading to complex conflicts of law. Issues such as mental capacity and the validity of substantive aspects of Wills are treated differently across countries (particularly as between common law and civil law countries).
In 2015, most EU countries adopted a set of regulations, known as the EU Succession Regulations, that reduce complications for cross-border succession planning and administration.
Note that the intention was not to harmonize succession and inheritance laws across the EU. The Regulations are intended to reduce conflicts between the laws potentially applying to cross-border estates, including applicable law, jurisdiction of courts, enforcement of decisions and presentation of instruments in succession matters.
Where a client has a multi-jurisdictional estate, including ties to an EU country (e.g., being a citizen or resident or owning assets located there), then the Regulations will impact succession planning.
The Regulations apply to the estates of people dying after August 17, 2015.
Where an estate falls entirely within a person’s country of residence and nationality, then little changes. In addition, the Regulations do not apply to revenue, customs or administrative matters, including questions relating to matrimonial property regimes, legal capacity, maintenance obligations or property rights other than those arising by reason of death, trusts or company matters.
The Succession Regulations and Impact
The default position set out in the Regulations is that the law of the Member State where the deceased had her last habitual residence has jurisdiction with regard to her entire estate. The inheritance laws of that country would be applicable to the estate. This includes both succession and administration issues.
Habitual residence is not necessarily the same as the last domicile or even residence prior to death. It involves an assessment of the “life circumstances” of the deceased up to and including the time of death. Where her life was centered, including her most important social contacts, are be considered.
This default position can also be overridden in a number of circumstances – most importantly, if the testator elects the laws of her nationality to apply to the whole estate, by evidencing in writing, the election to exercise a “choice of law”.
Note: some advisors question whether an estate containing multiple wills can make this election with respect to less than the entire estate.
This choice of law would be helpful where a testator has a strong preference for a particular set of national laws or where there is any uncertainty with respect to habitual residence.
The Regulations determine the set of laws that apply to succession issues, but does not determine which courts can be involved. The courts of the Member State where the deceased was habitually resident at the time of death or in which property is located would retain the jurisdiction to rule on succession matters, but they would apply the national laws set out under the choice of law election.
Where a Member State is elected as the choice of law, then the parties can agree that the courts of that country will have exclusive jurisdiction to rule on all succession matters.
While not a requirement, the parties can apply for a Certificate of Succession that will be recognized in each Member State (and probably Switzerland and perhaps other countries).
Impact on Clients that are Not Resident in the EU
It is only EU Member States that are bound by the Regulations, but there are two ways in which nationals or residents of non-Member States could be impacted.
If the connecting factors of a country’s Private International laws would link a person’s assets back to laws of the EU country, then these Regulations will apply.
If you have property in an EU country, or have dual citizenship including of an EU country, then the Regulations are relevant, especially if you have concerns about particular local laws – e.g., those dealing with forced heirship.
Historically, a Canadian national habitually resident in France, and owning real property in both France and Canada, would have had French law apply to the personal property and real property located in France, and Canadian law to the real property located in Canada.
Now, that person could elect to have Canadian law apply to the entire estate, which would require French courts to apply Canadian succession laws to the French real property.
Under the Regulations, if that person died without having made an election, then French law, including forced heirship rules, would apply to the entire estate, including the Canadian real property. [However, it is questionable whether Canadian courts would give up jurisdiction with respect to the Canadian real property.]
It is not yet clear that all EU countries will accept an election to a national law that does not provide for forced heirship rights. However, court references to date suggest that they would only apply local laws in exceptional circumstances, after looking at the practical consequences of the proposed succession.
Disclaimer: The above is intended as commentary only, and should not be interpreted as advice for any particular circumstances. The Regulations are complicated, and the way that they interact with domestic laws impacting, inter alia, estate, succession, marital property and tax issues remain uncertain and certainly not without risk and complexity. The commentary above is brief and has not dealt with many relevant issues or nuances addressed in our internal memorandum.
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Mariska Hargitay
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Mariska Hargitay is an American actor best known for her role as Olivia Benson in the drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. On the long-running TV show, Hargitay stars as a detective investigating sex crimes for the New York Police Department’s 16th Precinct in Manhattan.
The actor has appeared in every season of the NBC police procedural/legal drama since it debuted in 1999. She also won an Emmy Award in 2006 for her portrayal of Benson.
Aside from landing the role of a lifetime, she has appeared in numerous other TV series and movies. Her acting debut came in the 1984 cult classic Ghoulies. Subsequent roles include Carly Fixx on the popular primetime soap opera Falcon Crest in 1988; Cynthia Hooper in the 1990s George Clooney-led medical drama, ER; and Didi Edelstein in the mid-’90s sitcom Can’t Hurry Love. She also played law enforcement officers in the 1991 police procedural FBI: The Untold Stories and the short-lived 1992 drama Tequila and Bonetti.
Full name: Mariska Magdolna Hargitay
Hometown: Santa Monica, California
Net worth: $100 million
Spouse: Peter Hermann (m. 2004)
Children: Amaya Josephine Hermann, Andrew Nicolas Hargitay Hermann, August Miklos Friedrich Hermann
Top TV shows: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Top movies: Tales From Earthsea, Lake Placid, Leaving Las Vegas, Ghoulies
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In India, lawyers see emerging market
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David A. Carpenter
Raj N. Shah
As the business climate in India shows signs of warming up to foreign investment, law firms are cautiously optimistic about what that could mean for clients and the legal industry.
“(Prime Minister Narendra) Modi has made it a top priority to re-engage,” said DLA Piper partner Raj N. Shah. “He has really re-invigorated everybody. There’s a renewed uptick among our clients in doing business in India.”
Shah, the firm’s India initiative U.S. co-chair, was in the country last month shortly after President Barack Obama’s second trip to India. There was a lasting energy and buzz after the visit, he said, which marked the first time a U.S. president had gone to the country more than once while in office.
The Modi administration’s first full-year budget proposal is being released this weekend, and many are keeping an eye on whether the pro-business reforms Modi talked about during his campaign will be priorities.
Shah said the interaction between Obama and Modi signals strengthening ties between the countries that may translate to more business investment in the country and Indian companies looking to expand internationally.
While the 2008 downturn in the global economy slowed the pace of business growth in India, David A. Carpenter, co-chair and a founder of the India practice at Mayer, Brown LLP, said he is seeing positive signs, such as the rupee gaining strength, since Modi came into power.
But he cautions that India has never been a place that acts quickly, and so far, progress has been quite reserved.
“You’re never going to see things happening overnight there. But from what I see from the Modi administration, I think they’re moving in a good direction,” he said. “The proof is in the pudding.”
Doing business sans office
Because the Indian bar prohibits international law firms from having offices in the country and bars foreign lawyers from practicing Indian law, firms have developed different strategies over the years to advise clients on international legal issues.
Generally, they partner with Indian firms to handle local matters. The India initiative at DLA Piper has eight attorneys who serve as liaisons between Indian firms and the firm’s clients and attorneys.
Shah connects with and evaluates Indian attorneys to provide referrals for his colleagues to firms that will match with their clients’ needs.
“We don’t mandate that any of our partners work with anyone in particular,” he said. “With the attorneys we have, we end up with a lot of different attorneys working with a lot of different firms in India.”
Shah, who focuses on complex commercial litigation, has represented Indian companies involved in cross-border transactions. The firm has helped clients in the media, oil and gas industries and has done work for large manufacturing facilities on inbound and outbound transactions.
Mayer, Brown formed its India practice group in 2004 and works in a similar fashion. Carpenter, whose practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, said the lawyers they usually work with come from the country’s largest law firms, which tend to have 120 to 200 attorneys.
Indian law limits the number of partners allowed at firms, he said, so they aren’t as large as national firms in other countries.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP also has a group of partners who are devoted to work in India. Partner Shilpi Gupta, whose practice includes mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance matters, said having connections to local firms is critical, particularly in handling the bureaucracy and regulatory environment in the country.
“From my perspective, M&A is M&A wherever you go, whether it’s Australia, India or the U.S. A lot of the same principles apply,” Gupta said. “But there are nuances you need to take into account. That’s where local counsel is extremely helpful in their expertise.”
If a client wants to operate a business in multiple cities, for example, separate business permits and tax registrations would apply in each location, as well as county or state permits, Gupta said.
In some cases, Carpenter has seen involvement from sub-regulators in matters — such as a real estate project that needed approval from a local fisheries board and a municipal board.
Corruption and transparency issues can also make it challenging for western investors to navigate. Although the caps on foreign investment have increased, he said there’s not a lot of free capital flow in and out of India because it all goes through a single source, the Reserve Bank of India.
The Indian government approved an ordinance last week to raise the foreign direct and portfolio investment in Indian insurance companies from 26 percent to 49 percent. Modi’s cabinet also floated a proposal in December that would allow foreign investors to purchase 100 percent stake in Indian medical device manufacturers without government approval.
Different cultural styles in handling business transactions also come into play. Carpenter and Gupta both said it takes more time to work on deals.
“(In India) once you get to a document, that’s when the real negotiations begin,” Carpenter said. “There’s less certainty that a deal will get done even when you have a term sheet in a good form.”
Taking those style differences into account and minimizing potential problems by setting expectations and making sure clients and attorneys are compatible with each other is a central part of Shah’s role.
The various challenges of doing business in India, including an 11½ time zone difference, haven’t stopped big transactions from getting done.
Last year, Gupta represented Visteon Corp. in its $265 million cash transaction to acquire the automotive electronics business of Johnson Controls, which has a portion of its operations in India.
In 2012, Carpenter worked on a $1 billion outbound transaction for an Indian gas and oil subsidiary, Hinduja Group, on its acquisition of Houston-based Houghton International.
DLA Piper advised the Indian government and the world’s largest coal miner, Coal India Limited, in the largest initial public offering in the history of Indian capital markets in 2010. The $3.43 billion IPO was also the third-largest IPO in the world that year.
“I think energy is going to be a big part of the activity and outward looking aspects of India,” Shah said.
Shah said he sees growth in the coal, shale, oil and gas industries and anticipates that India will look more to Africa, South America and the U.S. as demand grows. The country is also strong in information technology and has some of the largest consulting firms in the world.
India has always been strong in service industries such as call centers, Carpenter said, and he sees growth in telecommunications and manufacturing.
Indian companies will also continue to branch out internationally, and Carpenter cites Tata Technologies — an engineering services, product development and IT consulting company — as one example. The subsidiary of Mumbai-based Tata Group Worldwide opened an engineering innovation center in Troy, Mich., in 2013 to work on electric car technology.
“I think India will continue to thrive in the outsourcing business,” Carpenter said.
A shingle in Mumbai?
While clients will likely have more business in India in the future, the likelihood of international firms hanging a shingle there remains a mystery.
Shah said predictions are constantly changing, with some who say it could happen in about three years and others who believe it will be a decade or longer.
Carpenter’s impression is that the Bar Council of India, the regulatory body of the country’s legal profession, wants to maintain the status quo and that many Indian firms are concerned about outside competition.
In 2010, Indian lawyer A.K. Balaji filed a lawsuit in the Madras High Court against 30 international law firms alleging that foreign lawyers from the U.S., UK and Australia were illegally practicing in the country without a license.
BCI and the Indian government filed affidavits supporting Balaji’s arguments. Indian courts ruled that lawyers could fly in and out of the country to advise clients on foreign law. The case has since been on appeal.
But in comments published this week in the Business Standard, Lalit Bhasin, president of the Society of Indian Law Firms, said he is in favor of gradually opening up the legal sector to foreign law firms.
For now, attorneys said India is a great market and that their firms will continue to advise clients and operate under whatever regulatory model is in place in the country.
In addition to its work with clients, Mayer, Brown has also provided pro bono support to Indian companies and multi-national companies interested in corporate social responsibility programs, such as microfinance loans to individuals for business activities that benefit their local economies.
For Shah and Gupta, who are both of Indian descent and grew up in the U.S., working with clients on matters in India is personally gratifying. Gupta and his wife have family in the country and travel there frequently.
“To have the opportunity to work on transactions there, I really enjoy it,” he said. “It allows an additional connection to a place that’s very close to my heart.”
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Desk where Lincoln wrote of ‘better angels of our nature’ is restored
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Alan Chambers Revives Debate: Can Gay Christians Go to Heaven?
CP Church & Ministries | Saturday, July 14, 2012
By Lillian Kwon, Christian Post Reporter | Saturday, July 14, 2012
Alan Chambers serves as president of Exodus International. | (Photo: Exodus)
Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, which up until now had supported the so-called gay "cure," isn't fazed by a call from an evangelical scholar for his resignation. In fact, he's heard it many times before.
"Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new," he told The Christian Post on Thursday. "So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it's gay activists or now a New Testament professor."
But this time, the concern isn't centered so much on the practice of reparative therapy – which aims to change a person's sexual orientation from gay to straight – nor is the criticism coming from a pro-gay camp. What has at least one evangelical sounding the alarm is Chambers' theology.
Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon, associate professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, is very concerned about statements made by Chambers over the last year that assure Christians who persistently engage in homosexual behavior that their salvation is guaranteed.
"The issue is that Alan assures even self-professed believers who are unrepentant and self-affirming in their sin that no sinning of any magnitude or degree will keep them from going to heaven," Gagnon said to CP.
Chambers reiterated to CP his belief that for anyone who has given his or her heart to Christ, the gift of salvation is irrevocable.
"You know my issue isn't whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven. The point that I'm trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers," he stressed.
(Read the full interview with Chambers here.)
"I'm not saying that sin isn't sin. I'm not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I'm not saying that that's a mark of a mature believer at all," he added.
"Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ. I'll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day. But I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness, when they don't have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God's going to yank His relationship from them."
Everyone, he highlighted, struggles and falls prey to sin – and sometimes the same type of sin over and over.
In response, Gagnon contended that the debate is not about Christians who occasionally stumble into sin.
"We are talking about self-professed Christians who contend that their behavior, even behavior that Scripture regards as an extreme offense, is actually a good thing and who have no desire whatsoever to discontinue the behavior," the biblical scholar stated.
"I understand that Alan sees his message as encouraging 'gay Christians' to consider how great God's grace is so that, hopefully, they will respond to grace with obedience," Gagnon added. "However, homosexually active 'gay Christians' are already abusing God's grace. Like the incestuous man at Corinth (1 Cor. 5), assuring them that they will go to heaven while they are continuing in gross sexual immorality has the opposite effect of encouraging them to keep on abusing God's grace.
"My disagreement with Alan is over his belief that no immoral behavior of any magnitude carried out in an unrepentant and self-affirming manner over the course of one's life is even an indication of a nonexistent faith. Jesus and the authors of the New Testament clearly regard an untransformed life as evidence for the absence of justifying faith."
Chambers has expressed frustration over Christians placing more emphasis on the issue of homosexuality than other sin issues.
He said he doesn't differentiate between one sin struggle (i.e. homosexual behavior) over another.
"For other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it's the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?" Chambers posed. "Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don't think so."
Gagnon admitted that he wouldn't make as big a deal about gluttony or even pride as he would about homosexual practice but argued that the Apostle Paul and Jesus didn't either.
He said immoral acts of sexual intercourse, such as "homosexual practice, incest and bestiality," are viewed in Scripture as "more outrageous than fornication or even adultery precisely because of the grossly unnatural character of incest, homosexual practice, and bestiality."
Nevertheless, he said he does believe that "unrepentant incest offenders, adulterers, persons in sexual unions of three or more, and fornicators should be warned about possible exclusion from God's kingdom."
When asked about the process of sanctification in a Christian's life, Chambers quoted 1 Cor. 6:9-11.
There, the Apostle Paul talks about those who won't inherit the Kingdom of God and then says, "But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."
"I believe in justification at the point of salvation; I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation," said Chambers. "That doesn't mean that we don't continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified. But sin resides, the power of sin resides in our flesh. It will always try us and it will always tempt us and therefore we always need to be submitting our mind, will and emotions to the lordship of Jesus Christ."
Chambers announced last month that Exodus no longer supports reparative therapy. He explained to CP that he doesn't agree with the methods reparative therapists employ – such as the use of heterosexual pornography or images to encourage heterosexual attraction – especially when they guarantee a 100 percent "cure" from gay to straight.
"I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent – in all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction," he recalled. "How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that's what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent? That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I'm not willing to offer."
For Christians in particular, Chambers doesn't deny that someone can gain an opportunity for new life when they come to faith in Jesus Christ. He's living proof of that, having formerly practiced homosexuality. Happily married to his wife and the father of two children, Chambers, 40, wants others seeking to align themselves with Christ to be able to do so – whether through celibacy or marriage.
But a relationship with Christ doesn't mean the struggles or same-sex temptations will go away, he emphasized.
John Smid formerly served at Love in Action – a ministry within Exodus International. It was 1995 when he decided to make a bold move and confess that he still had ongoing same-sex attractions. That admission was made at a time when no other persons in the "ex-gay" movement had ever discussed lingering homosexual desires. A lot of people were angry.
He was married to his wife then and still is now.
Nearly two decades later, Smid now leads a ministry called Grace Rivers. His goal through the ministry is not to change a person's sexuality but rather to love them and "encourage them through their journey towards God, or with God," he told CP.
Before Chambers' big announcement last month that Exodus was halting reparative therapy, he made a phone call to Smid in 2011.
During that unexpected call, Smid talked about his "newfound belief centered in God's grace for gay people."
"I talked with Alan about how I had discovered a new awareness of God's grace with us through the journey of life," he elaborated to CP. "I realized that none of us will ever achieve perfection in this life and that there must be a grace covering for us as we muddle through our lives. If Jesus forgave us our sins, all of them, then homosexuality must be another factor in our lives that is covered by His grace. None of us knows where we or any other person is along our journey, but He does."
While Exodus has ended reparative therapy, what it is offering now is something that Chambers considers more biblical – an encouragement of discipleship.
"It's about pursuing a relationship with Christ."
"[I]f someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life. I am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don't need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life," he underscored.
"I'm grateful for people's opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed. My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who He is and who He created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus."
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Charleston Sister Cities’ Trade Mission to Panama City
This week, Charleston Sister Cities International (CSCI) in partnership with the South Carolina Department of Commerce (SCDOC) reported that their recent trade mission to Panama City, Panama was a success. As a result of the Trade Mission visit this past October, business opportunities ranging from biomedical to agricultural were identified and are in various stages of negotiations.
Economic development projects between Sister Cities are one of the most exciting ways for cities to connect. In addition to a positive impact on the local economy, these partnerships generate increased travel between cities and illuminate similarities and shared interests between residents. These dividends extend to benefit wider populations because they create stable ties and the potential for lasting peace.
In July, Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg announced plans for the trade mission with its Sister City Panama City, Panama. The trade mission was organized in two tracks, one led by Neita A. Wiese, President & CEO, Charleston Sister Cities International; and the other by Anita Patel, Trade Program Manager, South Carolina Department of Commerce. Charleston Sister Cities International facilitated business meetings and events designed to provide an economic and logistics overview and to introduce Panamanian business and government leaders to trade mission participants.
Two of the South Carolina companies participating as part of the South Carolina Department of Commerce track returned from the trade mission with plans to do business in Panama. Mr. Chad Brubaker of Innovative Poultry Products said,
“The joint effort between the SCDOC and Charleston Sister Cities International Panama Trade Mission was a very productive experience for our company. The contacts and meetings were strategically scheduled which made the trip a business success.”
Arthur V. Martin, Ph.D, President of Global Infection Control Consultants LLC, remarked
“Everything organized by CSCI including a seminar by the Panama Ministry of Commerce and Industry, to a site visit of the Panama Canal was well worth the experience and add to what SCDOC organized to make what I call a total package.”
Both tracks of the trade mission attended presentations by the Republic of Panama’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry, featuring an overview of Panama’s trade, logistics and infrastructure. They also toured Panama Pacifica, a vast high security logistics and distribution center that include a private commercial airport with key tenets such as Dell and DHL. Julius H. Hines, K&L Gates, LLP, provided a brief presentation of Charleston, it’s port, and distribution and logistics capabilities, stated,
“In addition to being a major crossroads of international shipping, Panama has a vibrant economy and culture, both of which offer great partnering opportunities for Charleston.”
CSCI track participants met the Ministry of Agriculture and the Panama Specialty Coffee Association. CSCI Board Member, CSCI track sponsor, and former South Carolina Sate Representative Harry B. “Chip” Limehouse discussed potential agricultural export and import opportunities between Panama, the Charleston metro area and the state of South Carolina.
On behalf of Panama City Mayor Jose Blandon, Vice Mayor Raisa Bandfield hosted an evening reception for all trade mission participants at the recently restored Casa Municipalidad in historic Casco Antiua. Guests included Panama business and government leaders, among them Alberto Aleman Zubieta, former administrator of the Panama Canal Authority and keynote speaker at the 2012 and 2013 South Carolina International Trade Conference. Staff with the United States Embassy and U.S. Commercial Services in Panama also attended.
Trade mission participants had a complimentary tour of the Panama Canal Miraflores Locks and visited the Panama Canal Pilots Association Building in Ancon. Panama Canal Administrator Jorge L. Quijano arranged for a private tour to the historic rotunda museum of the former Canal Zone Panama Canal Administration Building in Ancon. Now the headquarters of the Panama Canal Authority, the rotunda’s murals reflect the challenging construction of the Canal’s Gaillard Cut, which was led by South Carolina native son and U.S. Army Corps of Engineer David DuBose Gaillard. A tour and visit to the Panama Canal Pilots Association was attended by CSCI track sponsors K&L Gates, LLP and The Charleston Branch Pilots Association representing shared objectives between the two nations in international law and maritime commerce. Julius H. Hines K&L Gates stated,
“In addition to being a crossroads of international shipping, Panama has a vibrant economy and culture, both of which offer great partnering opportunities for Charleston.”
Economic Partnerships continue to be a vital avenue for cooperation between the geographically distant populations of Sister Cities and represent important opportunities to define the bonds which create a more peaceful world.
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How Vera Made
Your Life More Colorful
Seems like everyone—not just the fashion crowd—is suddenly talking about the intersection of art and technology. The Met’s upcoming Costume Institute exhibition, Manus x Machina, will celebrate it. And Clinique will, too, with limited-edition makeup bags featuring works by the first American artist to combine art and technology on a massive scale: Vera Neumann, an icon of mid-century art and design.
Vera also happens to have been one of the first self-made female millionaires, thanks to that trailblazing business concept. When she founded her namesake company in 1947 with her ad-exec husband, George, fine art was either shown in galleries or collected by the wealthy. But Vera believed that everyone should be able to live with art. “Our philosophy was…pure design married with pure technology,” she once said. They began to print her original paintings onto pieces that anyone could own—think bed sheets, kitchen towels, dishes, and vases. Household items that had always been plain and restrained were suddenly available in Vera’s color-bursting patterns. “We have so many problems in the world,” she said. “Color brings just a little bit of joy into our lives.”
Vera also made headlines in the fashion industry. Her classic 1960's dresses, blouses, and jumpsuits were a must-have at the time, designed with prints that reflected her travels to India, Africa, Europe, and East Asia. Her scarves were an of-the-moment obsession, too. Even Marilyn Monroe had a collection of Vera scarves, and fashion photographer Bert Stern photographed her wearing one (and nothing else!) in the final photo shoot of her life. Marilyn’s Vera Neumann collection was sold at a Christie’s auction of her estate in 1999.
When we say Vera was a prolific artist, it’s not hyperbole. We’re talking about a woman who painted every day while overseeing a staff of 200 to produce 130 patterns per season. Why so much…of everything? “If you don’t change the art around you, it becomes less important to you. After a while, you don’t see it at all,” said Vera. She had the original lifestyle brand. Somehow, Vera understood before most that “people want to feel or express emotions in their clothes and furnishings. A bland cocoon is a dull existence.”
Vera lived life on her own terms and remained true to her vision. If she needed to travel alone through India for creative inspiration, she did it. If she wanted to learn a new painting style or prioritize her grandchildren, she found a way to do that, too. She was fearless, authentic, and confident. She was a person of action. And it all comes through in her art.
The world mourned the loss of Vera in 1993. Fortunately, The Vera Company continues to make her colorful imprint on today’s world with selective collaborations. Whether it’s 1966 or 2016, her creations make people feel happy and vibrant. That’s exactly why Clinique choose several of her patterns to use on its limited-edition Vera cosmetics bags exclusive to Macy's, which feature versions of her iconic poppies, watermelons, butterflies, and sunflowers (no longer available). And since no Vera piece is complete without her signature ladybug, we made the compacts, too. Love, love, love.
Photos courtesy of: The Vera Company | Words: Alix Light Perez
Artist Lakwena in London
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Did you know that life wasn’t always in Technicolor? Get inspired by one of America’s first self-made female millionaires: artist Vera Neumann.
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Alan Alda Reveals ‘Life Hasn’t Changed Much’ Since He Was Diagnosed With Parkinson’s Disease
Jan 19, 2019 4:05 pm·
By Bryan Brunati
Now that the world knows that he has Parkinson’s disease, legendary star Alan Alda is talking all about it.
Back in July of 2018, the 82-year-old appeared on CBS Morning to reveal that he has been battling the disease for over three years. And now fast-forward to today and Alan says that not much has done a 180 in his life. “I’m busy,” the M*A*S*H star told People in a recent interview. “I do occasionally do nothing and sit around. But I believe in doing everything in moderation, including moderation. So far it’s working.” Alan continued and said that he’s started exercising, boxing and a version of tai chi.
“My life hasn’t changed much,” the Oscar nominated actor added. “I just applied my curiosity to it. I’m constantly reading and trying to figure out the best approaches. So far it’s really interesting. I think it’s helped me understand a little better that everybody has something they’re coping with.” And Alan isn’t alone in his fight, as his wife, Arlene, who he has been married to since 1957 and has three daughters with, remains by his side. “We still experience a kind of puppy love,” the Aviator costar said.
As for what’s in the future for him, Alan doesn’t have any sort of blue print for that quite yet. “I really have never made plans for the future,” he told the outlet. “My life is more of an improvisation. I just try to make the best of what’s in front of me.”
And there’s some good ahead for Alan, as fellow actor Tom Hanks will be presenting him with this year’s SAG (Screen Actor’s Guild) Life Achievement Award on January 27. And it’s just a bonus that both men are considered two of the nicest guys in the industry. “I guess it’s a counterbalance,” Alan joked to the Associated Press on Tuesday, Jan. 8. “To the rowdy reputation that a lot of actors have had over the last couple of hundred years, including the guy who shot Lincoln. So it’s good to balance the reputations of the acting profession.”
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Federal judge strikes down nationwide eviction…
Real Estate & Property Law
Federal judge strikes down nationwide eviction moratorium for exceeding statutory authority
May 5, 2021, 3:41 pm CDT
Image from Shutterstock.com.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has set aside a nationwide eviction moratorium that was set to expire June 30.
U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of the District of Columbia ruled Wednesday that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not have the authority under federal law to impose the moratorium.
Friedrich ruled in a lawsuit filed by companies and people who manage rental properties and by the Alabama Association of Realtors and the Georgia Association of Realtors.
Her opinion follows a March 29 decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati finding that the CDC did not have statutory authority to impose the moratorium, according to the Volokh Conspiracy. Other federal district courts have split on the issue.
The 6th Circuit decision, Tiger Lily v. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, said the government was unlikely to succeed on the merits of its appeal in the case.
The first eviction moratorium—implemented as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act—applied only to rental properties receiving federal assistance. When the moratorium expired after 120 days, the CDC implemented a broader moratorium that applied to all rental properties nationwide. Since then, Congress extended the CDC order by 30 days, and the CDC extended its order twice.
The CDC eviction moratorium applied to tenants expecting to make less than $99,000 for the year and who were unable to pay full rent because of a loss of income or extraordinary medical expenses. The CDC order imposed fines and jail time for violations.
The CDC had issued its order under the Public Health Service Act, which authorizes the CDC, with approval from the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, to make and enforce regulations to stop the spread of communicable diseases between states.
Section 264(a) of the law says the HHS secretary may, for the purpose of carrying out the regulations, “provide for such inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of animals or articles found to be so infected or contaminated as to be sources of dangerous infection to human beings, and other measures, as in his judgment may be necessary.”
The government argued that this language gave the CDC authority to determine what measures are necessary to prevent contagion.
But Friedrich, citing the 6th Circuit opinion, said an eviction moratorium is different in nature than inspecting, fumigating, disinfecting, sanitizing, exterminating or destroying.
“In sum, the Public Health Service Act authorizes the department to combat the spread of disease through a range of measures, but these measures plainly do not encompass the nationwide eviction moratorium set forth in the CDC order,” Friedrich wrote.
Friedrich is an appointee of former President Donald Trump.
The case is Alabama Association of Realtors v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The Department of Justice plans to appeal and seek a stay of Friedrich’s decision, according to Washington Post coverage of the decision. The New York Times also has coverage.
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Celebrate Pride Month by Improving California Laws
By Stina Va
By Amanda Goad
June is Pride month, a month to celebrate the strength and activism of LGBTQ people. Communities across California honor the spirit of Pride every year with parades, marches, and other events. But as we celebrate, it’s also important to remember that even in California, we still have work to do to secure true, lived equality, particularly for LGBTQ people who are also part of other historically marginalized groups. That’s why we at the ACLU of California are excited to be working on three LGBTQ-related bills this year that will make life better for students, youth in foster care, and people in jail or prison.
First, we are working on legislation to make sure California charter school students get the same comprehensive, LGBTQ-inclusive, and science-based sex ed other public school students are already getting. Quality sex ed provides young people with the knowledge and skills to develop healthy relationships and navigate issues of consent.
In 2015, the ACLU of California and other advocates secured the groundbreaking California Healthy Youth Act, which requires public schools to provide comprehensive, scientifically accurate sex education. Importantly, sex ed lessons must include discussion of diverse gender identities and sexual orientations and acknowledge same-sex relationships. This law was a huge victory for LGBTQ youth. Research shows that inclusive instruction helps promote a safe school climate for LGBTQ students and improves health outcomes for students generally.
However, although charter schools are public schools, they weren’t included in the California Healthy Youth Act. So this year, we’re working on AB 2601, a bill that will make sure charter school students aren’t left in the dark when it comes to sex ed. AB 2601 is an important step toward ensuring that ALL young people receive the information and tools they need to make healthy choices regardless of who they are or where they live. The bill has already passed the Assembly and is moving through the state Senate. Contact your state Senator today to ask them for a YES vote on AB 2601!
Another bill we’re working on to build a more inclusive and healthy California for LGBTQ youth is AB 2119. Transgender and gender non-conforming youth are overrepresented in the foster care system. Unfortunately, the very caregivers and professionals tasked with taking care of these young people can fail to respect their gender or provide the gender-specific support they need.
Child welfare agencies are already required to assess the health and behavioral health needs of all young people in foster care and ensure they receive appropriate and timely care to address the needs identified by qualified professionals. AB 2119 will affirm the right of trans and gender non-conforming young people in the foster care system to access necessary gender-affirming medical care and behavioral health care, an important step toward ensuring that all young people in out-of-home care can live healthy, safe, and authentic lives. Despite some nasty opposition from groups who deny that trans young people’s identities are real or worthy of support, AB 2119 has passed the Assembly and is now moving through the state Senate.
Finally, we’re also working on a bill to give LGBTQ Californians equal access to education, work, and rehabilitation programs while in custody. LGBTQ people, and especially transfeminine people of color, are disproportionately likely to be entangled in the criminal justice system and spend time in jail or prison, often due to law enforcement bias and economic marginalization that forces people into survival economies. Once incarcerated, trans women and other LGBTQ folks are at high risk of sexual victimization and other forms of violence and harassment.
In a terrible irony, many jails and prisons place LGBTQ-identified detainees in segregated “protective” housing, but don’t allow folks in those housing units to access critical programming – such as drug and alcohol rehabilitation, GED classes, and vocational training – that people in general population get. This not only can make the experience of incarceration harsher for LGBTQ people and reduce their chances at successful reentry, but also can lengthen their punishment by impairing their ability to qualify for early release or parole. SB 990 will require prison and jail officials to provide equal programming opportunities for people who are housed separately for their own protection. This bill will also require prisons and jails to ask transgender detainees their preferred name and pronouns and to honor those preferences. SB 990 has passed the state Senate and is now moving through the Assembly.
The ACLU of California is proud to be working with broad coalitions of other advocates to secure passage of these three bills. Together, we hope to achieve a California where EVERY LGBTQ person enjoys respect, safety, and true equality.
Amanda Goad is a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California.
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Home People Celebrities and Public Figures Jin Xing Makes China Look A Lot Like the United States
Jin Xing Makes China Look A Lot Like the United States
I opened the Economist newsletter I get in my inbox every couple of days because the subject line of this email interested me.
“Meet China’s Oprah Winfrey,” it said. Huh. If anything close to a female media mogul exists in China, some shit really must be going down.
I scrolled past other articles featured in the email to find Chinese Oprah. Once I got there, another twist: “China’s transgender Oprah,” it said.
“The rise of a Chinese reality-TV star reveals how social attitudes are changing,” read the description of the article.
What Jin Xing means to China
The Economist article on Jin Xing was simply the latest content feeding my hungry fascination with the Eastern hemisphere’s superpower. If anything, it made China look more like the United States than many Americans would like to admit.
Xing is understood as the embodiment of China’s social identity crisis. Having served in the Chinese military as a colonel of the dance troupe, Xing is patriotic and understands the experiences of China’s older generations. Also, at nearly 50 years of age, her views on family and relationships are very traditional.
However, her openly transgender identity—one of the first to be officially recognized by the Chinese government—seems to directly contradict her patriotism and conservative values. Not to mention her German husband, American education, and Western sense of fashion. In an interview, Xing’s husband Heinz-Gerd Oidtmann described the first time he saw Xing, saying she had, “A little Chihuahua in one hand, and a Louis Vuitton bag in the other hand.”
A former colonel in the military, elite choreographer, transgender, and fabulous as fuck. She’s also the founder and owner of a top-level dance company, and has a variety show, The Jin Xing Show, that pulls in 100 million viewers weekly. Given all of this, you have to wonder why she isn’t talked about outside of China, and especially in the United States of Supposed Progressivism.
Her biography is worth a bunch of articles, but other sources have covered her background well. I’m here to say that Jin Xing’s success says a lot about how China, and global society by extension, is going to change in the very-near future.
Despite warnings of Western evils from President Xi Jinping, both he and Chinese citizens know that China’s involvement in the global economy and popular culture is crucial to the nation’s growth as a world leader. Though many cling to nationalist values, the Chinese are traveling abroad at a rate greater than most Western countries. 100 million Chinese are expected to visit the United States in 2018, by far the most U.S. visitors of any nation in the world.
Along with influxes of Chinese tourists into LA and NYC, the annual number of Chinese visitors to Boston will be greater than the number of Bostonian residents by 2020
China’s growing pains are a contradiction with potential. Jin Xing is that contradiction: the fiercely patriotic Chinese citizen who loves her American education, foreign husband, and freedom to travel the world.
Xing makes Chinese society seem American
China is gearing up to have a powerful presence beyond its borders. Its investments, businesses, and citizens are beginning to show in ways entities from the United States do. When a worldly transgender entrepreneur is gracing the television screens of millions of Chinese citizens, it’s an in-your-face presentation of the nation’s future. It makes the evolution of Chinese society real in the eyes of the public.
Xing fascinates me because she looks like the believable future of China: a society with strong national roots that is well-traveled and well-educated. It’s hard to wrap your head around a nation of almost 2 billion firmly believing in their conservative values while also becoming a world-leading nation. Having the voice and image of Xing on national television must be surreal. Though the positions of variety show host or dancer are not inherently political, Xing’s identities make her a political figure in China.
The optimistic shock of seeing Xing dominate Chinese society might be like watching President Obama in 2009. Xing’s success and leadership given her repressed identities must force people to examine their views much like a Black man leading the United States did to Americans. According to an article on Tranzgendr, Xing plans to use her popularity as a springboard into serious political roles. U.S. citizens have certainly seen that one before, but Xing’s case is promising.
Xing is not dredging up the basest parts of her nation’s social consciousness to propel her into power. Rather, she is using the appeal of her background and personality to begin progressive conversations. The potential for Jin Xing to have positive political change in China, on top of what she’s done culturally, is a huge bright spot in the world.
Different regions of China fall differently on the spectrum of social and political beliefs. However, it seems safe to say that the Chinese value their travel, strong foreign relationships, and the pieces of Western culture they allow into their daily lives. Xing lives these values boldly in China’s mainstream, making the nation step more confidently into a future where Chinese people, news, and events are as relevant as American ones.
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Real estate agent who asked Trump for a pardon pleads guilty in Capitol riot
Jenna Ryan, 51, pleaded guilty to illegally demonstrating inside the Capitol building on January 6. She agreed to pay $500 in restitution for damage done to the Capitol during the riot. Prosecutors have cut the same deal for other low-level defendants who weren’t violent or destructive inside the building.
She could face a sentence of up to six months in prison, according to her agreement with prosecutors read at her plea hearing on Thursday, though it is likely Ryan will be ordered to serve much less, or even no jail time, when she is sentenced in November.
Ryan’s plea comes as prosecutors ramp up efforts to resolve cases against defendants that face lesser charges, with four more defendants scheduled to plead guilty this week.
In March, Ryan tweeted that she is “definitely not going to jail. Sorry I have blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I’m not going to jail… I did nothing wrong.” Though defendants are not required to show remorse, federal prosecutors have said in other cases they’re looking for contrition from the insurrectionists, and it could persuade a judge to show leniency at sentencing.
According to court documents, Ryan and two friends took a private jet to Washington, DC, to attend the Stop the Steal rally. After the rally, Ryan went back to her hotel room. But when she saw Vice President Mike Pence presiding over the certification of the Electoral College vote on TV, the group decided to go to the Capitol.
“We’re gonna go down and storm the Capitol,” Ryan said as she livestreamed herself walking to the building, adding “that’s why we came and so that’s what we’re going to do.” Ryan continued to livestream as she entered the building with the mob.
In the days after the attack, Ryan stayed defiant. She tweeted, “We just stormed the Capital. It was one of the best days of my life,” prosecutors say, and told a Dallas TV station that she deserved a pardon from Trump.
But a few weeks later, Ryan told the Washington Post that she “bought into the lie” and “I regret everything.”
“Not one patriot is standing up for me,” Ryan told the Washington Post. “I’m a complete villain. I was down there based on what my president said. ‘Stop the steal.’ Now I see that it was all over nothing. He was just having us down there for an ego boost. I was there for him.”
The Justice Department has charged more than 575 people in the massive Capitol riot investigation. So far, 38 people have plead guilty to federal charges.
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CACI’s Earnings Tumble In Third Quarter
CACI President and CEO Ken Asbury
By Calvin Biesecker |
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CACI International [CACI] on Wednesday posted a double-digit decline in net income due to lower sales, higher interest expense, severance expense and costs associated with a recent acquisition, although the company said its third quarter results were in line with expectations and its outlook for the rest of the fiscal year is intact.
Net income fell nearly 20 percent to $30.8 million, $1.19 earnings per share (EPS), from $38.4 million ($1.62 EPS) a year ago, missing analysts’ expectations by three cents. Operating margins slipped 90 basis points to 6.7 percent.
Award delays, lower run rates on professional services contracts, and less volume for war-related work in Afghanistan led to a decline in sales to $900.4 million, off less than a percent from $906.2 million a year ago.
While the amortization of intangibles associated with CACI’s acquisition last year of the intelligence, cyber and C4ISR solutions provider Six3 Systems trimmed the company’s earnings, Six3 still generated $3 million of net income and $104.7 million in sales, mitigating what otherwise would have been bigger drops in the company’s top and bottom lines. CACI’s organic sales in the quarter were down 12 percent.
Even though there is more budget clarity through the end of the government’s fiscal year 2015 as a result of the congressional budget deal earlier this year that also removed the near-term threat of sequestration, CACI said customer award activity is still sluggish.
“We don’t see a big change in front of us,” Ken Asbury, CACI’s president and CEO, said on Thursday’s earnings call. He added that current budget pressures, including the potential return of sequestration in FY ‘16 coupled with “global flashpoints compound the burden of our customers.”
Bookings in the quarter were below sales at $794 million but up over 20 percent from a year ago while free cash flow was a healthy $97 million. Company officials said that 25 percent of the orders represented new business with over half of that taken from incumbents.
Total backlog at the end of the quarter stood at $7.3 billion, including $1.6 billion that was funded, compared to total backlog of $6.9 billion and funded backlog of $1.7 billion at the end of the company’s fiscal year 2013 last June.
CACI still expects sales for the year to be in the range of $3.5 billion to $3.6 billion and net income between $130 million ($5.12 EPS) and $140 million ($5.51).
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DARPA Selects BAE For Radar Countermeasures Program
The Defense Advanced Research projects Agency (DARPA) selected BAE Systems for Phase 2 of its Adaptive Radar Countermeasures (ARC) program, the company said on Monday.
The ARC program is aimed at developing technology to automatically generate effective countermeasures against adversaries’ new, unknown, and adaptive radars in real-time in the field.
As part of Phase 2, BAE is to deliver a prototype system that features software algorithms capable of detecting and countering emerging radar threats. This would provide a capability enhancement without more costly hardware upgrades, the company said.
“Our work innovating next-generation EW technology will provide a major battlefield advantage and help create a smarter and safer environment for our warfighters,” David Logan, vice president and general manager of Technology Solutions at BAE Systems, said in a statement.
“Technology that adapts to overcome our adversaries’ digitally programmable air defenses is an important part of BAE Systems’ wider portfolio in cognitive programming for military systems.”
BAE previously completed work in Phases 1A and 1B to develop technology that leverages advancements in electronic warfare (EW) systems to rapidly characterize emerging radar threats, synthesize electronic countermeasures, and assess the effectiveness of the response. Phases 1 and 2 of the ARC program combined are a three-year, $21.6 million opportunity for BAE, the company noted.
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BAE Systems Wins $600 Million U.S. Navy Contract For Laser-Guided Rockets
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Bill Ashby is pumping the last of the water out of the homestead pool. The drought's over for now but the pool hasn't been swam in for years. It's just another water storage which today is being used to soak the lawn. The memories of the last drought - the worst on record - still play on the minds of this sixth-generation outback farming family, whose 29,000-hectare property lies on the floodplain about 80 kilometres north of Wilcannia. We're in Outback NSW as part of journey to listen to the people living along the banks of the Darling River for a four-part podcast special called Forgotten River. Listen to the full story on our podcast. Until 12 months ago, Chrissy Ashby explains, Trevallyn Station was still in a critical condition. It was only because they successfully put down a bore that they scraped through until the rains eventually came and the river starting flowing again in February this year. "I don't think we could have got more critical. We were down to one pond, which was just rank water," she says. "That was our only source of water to pump from. "Our house, all our stock and domestic were on that water. Our troughs were filthy." The water stank, too. "You had a shower and learnt to breathe through your mouth pretty quickly." There were sporadic flows once the drought broke in February 2020 but not enough to call the crisis over. "It's been a struggle up until February this year," Bill Ashby says. "February, March this year, the water came down. It's been up and down a bit since then but it's on the rise again now. But before that it was just an ongoing battle. "It would get some water, then it would dry out again, be back to square one, it was tough." The battle, they say, is far from over. The river remains the lifeline of their property and they're concerned drought is never too far away. Nor are the upstream demands on the river. However, trying to be heard as small players in the long running and often confusing Murray-Darling game is a frustrating business. "We were living in Third World conditions and that's never been accounted for out here," Chrissy says. "If city folk had to live one day in that the whole country would be in uproar. But we don't give up and we keep fighting and we've had some good wins." One of those wins has been the blocking in the NSW Upper House of regulations that would regulate and license floodplain harvesting upstream from them, a practice they say diverts water which should be allowed to flow into the whole river system. Floodplain harvesting involves the construction of berms and channels to direct water from flood events into large on farm dams and reservoirs for future use. The NSW government has twice put its regulations to the NSW parliament and twice they've been rejected because of what opponents say is a lack of proper data. There is also a fear that the granting of licences will only entrench a practice that stops water from making its way through the river system. A key player in stalling the regulations is Independent MLC Justin Field, who with Labor, the Greens and the Shooters and Fishers Party to send the regulations back to the government. While he thinks it is inevitable floodplain harvesting will be regulated and licensed, he wants more certainty for downstream people like the Ashbys. "I don't think we should be handing out billions of dollars worth of licences until we have certainty that the needs of downstream communities and the environment can be met. At the moment the rules and the protections are simply not in place to allow us to let this regulation pass," he says. As far as the Ashbys are concerned it's the medium and low flows through the river system that are most critical. "I think the word is getting out there about floodplain harvesting and how much damage it can do, especially downstream," says Bill. "In a big flood it's probably not that much that they take but it's the small flows that we worry about. The small to medium flows are the ones that we want left alone, so they keep the river connected." Those big floods, they say, are becoming more infrequent. They used to be expected once every four or five years; now it's once in 10 years. As grim as things got - and despite predictions climate change will see more droughts - the family is determined to stay put, even though the river they once water-skied on, the river which brought their ancestors to the region on paddle steamers, is now more often than not a trickle. "I'd love to grow up further here and start a family," says son Will. He knows how much that dream depends on the health of the river. "The river is our main water source for everything, we're washing our clothes, we shower in it, it feeds all our livestock, all our animals here. It's our main living source. Without the river, it's not possible." And if that means taking the water politics baton from their parents, so be it. "The more I listen to it, the more of a joke it sounds like it's becoming," says younger brother Jack. "We're only so little out here compared to everyone further up." Further north, at Kallara Station near the tiny settlement of Tilpa, Justin McClure is up early, taking a flight in his light aircraft to check on stock. As the sun rises over the Darling, flocks of noisy corellas gather on the riverbank. It's the sound of a river that, for now, has come back to life. Also stirring, probably the last of the tourists before COVID shuts NSW down. The group of Ulysses Motorcycle Club members are hitching their vans and campers to their four-wheel-drives and heading out. After 15 minutes, Justin sets his small plane down again, drags it into the hangar and makes his way back to the old homestead, a boisterous kelpie pup at his feet. "Those date palms were reputedly planted in 1852," he says, pointing to two giant trees casting shade across the lawn. "In terms of white man's history, they outdate us all. I'm a fifth-generation Western Division man. Our family have been here since the 1870s." Speaking of the history of European settlement and the pastoral industry in this remote part of the country, he wears no rose-coloured glasses. "White man did it very badly for 150 years. They introduced the rabbit. They overgrazed it with cloven-hoofed animals." The lightbulb moment, he says, came in the 1980s, when drought hit and the bottom fell out of the wool market. There was a realisation among graziers they had to look after the environment which sustained them. In his 56 years, he has watched attitudes and practices change and the landscape recover. "I've seen a resurrection of native plants and shrubs that have reinvigorated this country and made it more sustainable." Justin's outlook is positive but for one factor. "The global demand for food is huge and we've got the land to do it. Low rainfall, low stocking densities, clean and green. We've actually got everything we need but the one key element we really, really need is water. Without water, we will perish." So, like many in the Lower Darling, he is looking closely at the proposed regulations surrounding floodplain harvesting. And the key question is, will it remain within the cap set by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority? "This is a cap on the extractions of water from the system. Floodplain harvesting is part of that water source," he says. "My understanding is that floodplain harvesting has to be within that cap so I can't for the life of me see how can they can potentially issue new floodplain harvesting licences." Former Murray-Darling Basin Authority director Maryann Slattery says measuring and regulating floodplain harvesting is great, in principle at least. But the sticking point is how can it be proven to be within the cap set by the Basin Plan. "That's where there is a lot of debate and shenanigans going on at the moment," she says. "The question, I think, is not whether it should be regulated but the volume of what we're going to allow as floodplain harvesting. That's not a policy question, it's a legal question. And the answer is it has to be within cap." Slattery says the NSW government and MDBA acknowledge floodplain harvesting has been allowed to grow unchecked, "so miraculously what we're going to licence is going to fall within the cap when it was never included in the cap in the first place". More from the Forgotten River team: NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey is quick to defend floodplain harvesting in the northern basin. "The evidence shows that even completely removing floodplain harvesting in the northern basin it would only increase flows in the NSW River Murray by less than 1 per cent on average." She's also quick to defend her state's record on water management, despite the damning findings of the 2018 South Australian Royal Commission into Water, which were highly critical of NSW's management of water. "We are doing a lot to ensure the sustainability of the system and in terms of the original plan for Murray-Darling Basin we've exceeded those expectations." The minister said proof of how well NSW had kept its part of the Basin Plan was the fact Adelaide did not run out of water during the last drought. The never-ending struggle between two water management narratives will get renewed airings with a NSW Upper House inquiry into floodplain harvesting regulations commencing hearings. There's the government narrative, that drought happens and floodplain harvesting in times of flood simply captures water that would otherwise be lost. The water activists' counter-narrative is that the cotton industry in particular, the biggest floodplain harvester, is denying downstream communities of life-giving water they say would make its way into the river system if not diverted into storages. As for the future of the overall Basin Plan, that will be up for review in 2024 in accordance with the federal Water Act. It will test whether we have matured sufficiently to put state interests and political calculus aside to work co-operatively for the benefit of the environment, for the whole country. Sadly, the prospects are not good. For as long as humans have settled by rivers, there has been conflict between upstream and downstream. "There's a saying that originates in Queensland," says Justin McClure, "that what water I can't harness is a waste. So it's basically, very simply, human greed. I look after myself and my own communities and bugger the guy next door." Perhaps, then, as Independent MLC Justin Field suggests, it would make more sense to flip the way we have traditionally looked at the river system, to view it from the bottom up. After all, that was the intent of the federal Water Act in the first place. Historically, the biggest floodplain harvester at the northern end of the Lower Darling is Toorale Station. The station was one of the biggest and most successful on the Darling River - Henry Lawson even spent time there working as a roustabout - but at huge cost to the river system downstream. An 80-kilometre network of levees and dams effectively blocked water from the Warrego River to the Darling downstream. In 2008, then federal Water Minister Penny Wong bought the property and its water licence for $24 million. It was in turn handed to NSW. A source of great frustration since has been the glacial pace at which the water infrastructure has been either dismantled or modified to allow this water into the Darling. Strangely, it's the one piece of the river system not managed by Water NSW, which apart from floodplain harvesting regulates and measures all water taken from the system. "When I first got the role as Water Minister I knew it was an enormous amount of frustration for the community out there," says NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey. "Once it rained in 2019 much of that water stayed behind the gates at Toorale." Read more about the Forgotten River: Graziers have insisted that, like every other water licence holder, the water kept or released at Toorale needs to be regulated and needs to be measured. "I'm working with [NSW Environment Minister Matt] Kean to ensure that water does make its way into the system on a more regular basis. "I believe it needs to be measured and we'll be supporting that." The Minister concedes it's taken too long for the infrastructure at Toorale to be removed or modified to allow that water to flow. "There's more work to do there but we've moved a lot in two years from where it was - it sat dormant for 10 years," she says. Contractors moved onto Toorale in July and have commenced work on modifying the infrastructure. There is, finally, movement at the station. Listen to the full story on our podcast. Search Forgotten River on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your preferred app. You can also click here, or use the web player in this article.
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Forgotten River podcast: Floodplain harvesting should be regulated, the argument is over how
John Hanscombe
What's floodplain harvesting and why should we care?
Floodplain harvesting should be regulated but the argument across the Murray-Darling Basin is over how.
Bill Ashby is pumping the last of the water out of the homestead pool.
The drought's over for now but the pool hasn't been swam in for years.
It's just another water storage which today is being used to soak the lawn.
The memories of the last drought - the worst on record - still play on the minds of this sixth-generation outback farming family, whose 29,000-hectare property lies on the floodplain about 80 kilometres north of Wilcannia.
We're in Outback NSW as part of journey to listen to the people living along the banks of the Darling River for a four-part podcast special called Forgotten River.
Listen to the full story on our podcast.
Will Ashby pictured at his parents' property, Trevallyn station, Wilcannia, NSW. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
Until 12 months ago, Chrissy Ashby explains, Trevallyn Station was still in a critical condition.
It was only because they successfully put down a bore that they scraped through until the rains eventually came and the river starting flowing again in February this year.
"I don't think we could have got more critical. We were down to one pond, which was just rank water," she says.
"That was our only source of water to pump from.
"Our house, all our stock and domestic were on that water. Our troughs were filthy."
The water stank, too.
"You had a shower and learnt to breathe through your mouth pretty quickly."
Jack and Will Ashby with their parents, Bill and Chrissy, at Trevallyn Station near Wilcannia. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
There were sporadic flows once the drought broke in February 2020 but not enough to call the crisis over.
"It's been a struggle up until February this year," Bill Ashby says.
"February, March this year, the water came down. It's been up and down a bit since then but it's on the rise again now. But before that it was just an ongoing battle.
"It would get some water, then it would dry out again, be back to square one, it was tough."
One of three memorials to departed family members on the Ashbys' Trevallyn Station. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
The battle, they say, is far from over. The river remains the lifeline of their property and they're concerned drought is never too far away. Nor are the upstream demands on the river.
However, trying to be heard as small players in the long running and often confusing Murray-Darling game is a frustrating business.
"We were living in Third World conditions and that's never been accounted for out here," Chrissy says.
"If city folk had to live oneday in that the whole country would be in uproar. But we don't give up and we keep fighting and we've had some good wins."
One of those wins has been the blocking in the NSW Upper House of regulations that would regulate and license floodplain harvesting upstream from them, a practice they say diverts water which should be allowed to flow into the whole river system.
Floodplain harvesting
Floodplain harvesting involves the construction of berms and channels to direct water from flood events into large on farm dams and reservoirs for future use.
The NSW government has twice put its regulations to the NSW parliament and twice they've been rejected because of what opponents say is a lack of proper data.
There is also a fear that the granting of licences will only entrench a practice that stops water from making its way through the river system.
A key player in stalling the regulations is Independent MLC Justin Field, who with Labor, the Greens and the Shooters and Fishers Party to send the regulations back to the government.
While he thinks it is inevitable floodplain harvesting will be regulated and licensed, he wants more certainty for downstream people like the Ashbys.
"I don't think we should be handing out billions of dollars worth of licences until we have certainty that the needs of downstream communities and the environment can be met. At the moment the rules and the protections are simply not in place to allow us to let this regulation pass," he says.
As far as the Ashbys are concerned it's the medium and low flows through the river system that are most critical.
"I think the word is getting out there about floodplain harvesting and how much damage it can do, especially downstream," says Bill.
"In a big flood it's probably not that much that they take but it's the small flows that we worry about. The small to medium flows are the ones that we want left alone, so they keep the river connected."
The river is our main water source for everything, we're washing our clothes, we shower in it, it feeds all our livestock, all our animals here. It's our main living source. Without the river, it's not possible.
Will Ashby
Those big floods, they say, are becoming more infrequent.
They used to be expected once every four or five years; now it's once in 10 years.
As grim as things got - and despite predictions climate change will see more droughts - the family is determined to stay put, even though the river they once water-skied on, the river which brought their ancestors to the region on paddle steamers, is now more often than not a trickle.
"I'd love to grow up further here and start a family," says son Will. He knows how much that dream depends on the health of the river.
Will Ashby in the workshop at Trevallyn Station. Picture Dion Georgopoulos
"The river is our main water source for everything, we're washing our clothes, we shower in it, it feeds all our livestock, all our animals here. It's our main living source. Without the river, it's not possible."
And if that means taking the water politics baton from their parents, so be it.
"The more I listen to it, the more of a joke it sounds like it's becoming," says younger brother Jack.
"We're only so little out here compared to everyone further up."
Further north, at Kallara Station near the tiny settlement of Tilpa, Justin McClure is up early, taking a flight in his light aircraft to check on stock.
As the sun rises over the Darling, flocks of noisy corellas gather on the riverbank.
It's the sound of a river that, for now, has come back to life.
Justin McClure, left, of Kallara Station near Tilpa, secures his aircraft after an early morning flight. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
Also stirring, probably the last of the tourists before COVID shuts NSW down.
The group of Ulysses Motorcycle Club members are hitching their vans and campers to their four-wheel-drives and heading out.
After 15 minutes, Justin sets his small plane down again, drags it into the hangar and makes his way back to the old homestead, a boisterous kelpie pup at his feet.
"Those date palms were reputedly planted in 1852," he says, pointing to two giant trees casting shade across the lawn.
"In terms of white man's history, they outdate us all. I'm a fifth-generation Western Division man. Our family have been here since the 1870s."
Speaking of the history of European settlement and the pastoral industry in this remote part of the country, he wears no rose-coloured glasses.
"White man did it very badly for 150 years. They introduced the rabbit. They overgrazed it with cloven-hoofed animals."
The homestead at Toorale National Park and State Conservation Area, NSW. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
The lightbulb moment, he says, came in the 1980s, when drought hit and the bottom fell out of the wool market. There was a realisation among graziers they had to look after the environment which sustained them.
In his 56 years, he has watched attitudes and practices change and the landscape recover.
"I've seen a resurrection of native plants and shrubs that have reinvigorated this country and made it more sustainable."
Justin's outlook is positive but for one factor.
"The global demand for food is huge and we've got the land to do it. Low rainfall, low stocking densities, clean and green. We've actually got everything we need but the one key element we really, really need is water. Without water, we will perish."
So, like many in the Lower Darling, he is looking closely at the proposed regulations surrounding floodplain harvesting.
And the key question is, will it remain within the cap set by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority?
"This is a cap on the extractions of water from the system. Floodplain harvesting is part of that water source," he says.
"My understanding is that floodplain harvesting has to be within that cap so I can't for the life of me see how can they can potentially issue new floodplain harvesting licences."
Justin McClure on the banks of the Darling River. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
Debate and shenanigans
Former Murray-Darling Basin Authority director Maryann Slattery says measuring and regulating floodplain harvesting is great, in principle at least.
But the sticking point is how can it be proven to be within the cap set by the Basin Plan.
"That's where there is a lot of debate and shenanigans going on at the moment," she says.
"The question, I think, is not whether it should be regulated but the volume of what we're going to allow as floodplain harvesting. That's not a policy question, it's a legal question. And the answer is it has to be within cap."
Slattery says the NSW government and MDBA acknowledge floodplain harvesting has been allowed to grow unchecked, "so miraculously what we're going to licence is going to fall within the cap when it was never included in the cap in the first place".
Sheep mustering at Kallara Station. Picture: John Hanscombe
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Listen to Forgotten River above or find it on your favourite podcast player.
Meet the team behind the Forgotten River.
All you need to know about the Murray-Darling
Why we're telling the story of the Darling River
NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey is quick to defend floodplain harvesting in the northern basin.
"The evidence shows that even completely removing floodplain harvesting in the northern basin it would only increase flows in the NSW River Murray by less than 1 per cent on average."
She's also quick to defend her state's record on water management, despite the damning findings of the 2018 South Australian Royal Commission into Water, which were highly critical of NSW's management of water.
"We are doing a lot to ensure the sustainability of the system and in terms of the original plan for Murray-Darling Basin we've exceeded those expectations."
The minister said proof of how well NSW had kept its part of the Basin Plan was the fact Adelaide did not run out of water during the last drought.
The never-ending struggle between two water management narratives will get renewed airings with a NSW Upper House inquiry into floodplain harvesting regulations commencing hearings.
There's the government narrative, that drought happens and floodplain harvesting in times of flood simply captures water that would otherwise be lost.
The water activists' counter-narrative is that the cotton industry in particular, the biggest floodplain harvester, is denying downstream communities of life-giving water they say would make its way into the river system if not diverted into storages.
As for the future of the overall Basin Plan, that will be up for review in 2024 in accordance with the federal Water Act.
It will test whether we have matured sufficiently to put state interests and political calculus aside to work co-operatively for the benefit of the environment, for the whole country. Sadly, the prospects are not good.
For as long as humans have settled by rivers, there has been conflict between upstream and downstream.
"There's a saying that originates in Queensland," says Justin McClure, "that what water I can't harness is a waste. So it's basically, very simply, human greed. I look after myself and my own communities and bugger the guy next door."
Perhaps, then, as Independent MLC Justin Field suggests, it would make more sense to flip the way we have traditionally looked at the river system, to view it from the bottom up.
After all, that was the intent of the federal Water Act in the first place.
Daybreak over the Darling River at Kallara Station. Picture: John Hanscombe
Rare agreement
Historically, the biggest floodplain harvester at the northern end of the Lower Darling is Toorale Station.
The station was one of the biggest and most successful on the Darling River - Henry Lawson even spent time there working as a roustabout - but at huge cost to the river system downstream.
An 80-kilometre network of levees and dams effectively blocked water from the Warrego River to the Darling downstream.
In 2008, then federal Water Minister Penny Wong bought the property and its water licence for $24 million. It was in turn handed to NSW.
A source of great frustration since has been the glacial pace at which the water infrastructure has been either dismantled or modified to allow this water into the Darling.
Strangely, it's the one piece of the river system not managed by Water NSW, which apart from floodplain harvesting regulates and measures all water taken from the system.
"When I first got the role as Water Minister I knew it was an enormous amount of frustration for the community out there," says NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey.
"Once it rained in 2019 much of that water stayed behind the gates at Toorale."
Read more about the Forgotten River:
Learn about Wilcannia. Before it was a COVID hotspot.
Find out what happened after the historic Menindee Lake fish kills
Hear the stories of those challenging water policy to save Australia's outback river
See the mighty Darling River for the first time through a photographer's lens
Graziers have insisted that, like every other water licence holder, the water kept or released at Toorale needs to be regulated and needs to be measured.
"I'm working with [NSW Environment Minister Matt] Kean to ensure that water does make its way into the system on a more regular basis.
"I believe it needs to be measured and we'll be supporting that."
The Minister concedes it's taken too long for the infrastructure at Toorale to be removed or modified to allow that water to flow.
"There's more work to do there but we've moved a lot in two years from where it was - it sat dormant for 10 years," she says.
Contractors moved onto Toorale in July and have commenced work on modifying the infrastructure.
There is, finally, movement at the station.
Listen to the full story on our podcast. Search Forgotten River on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your preferred app. You can also click here, or use the web player in this article.
This story What's floodplain harvesting and why should we care? first appeared on The Canberra Times.
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John lives in northern Michigan where he spends all his free time playing bass in a seemingly endless number of bands (many of which happen to be cover bands) and filling his house to the brim with records (many of which feature oddball cover versions of popular songs). He currently writes for PopMatters, Spectrum Culture and, in an odd twist of fate, several classic car publications (this despite his not knowing anything about cars).
Review: ‘Let All The Children Boogie: A Tribute to David Bowie’
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Any collection of a popular artist’s songs presented as children’s music should always be approached with some level of trepidation. And with good reason, given the glut of inanely saccharine covers delivered either by children and twee instrumentation or adults pandering to the younger demographics. The latter case is perhaps the most egregious, as these adults seem to believe that the only way in which to create music kids will understand is to severely dumb down the content and up the intolerably cartoonish elements of the worst of so-called children’s music performers. The question often becomes, Why subject your children to these atrociously subpar re-imaginings of popular songs when the originals are vastly superior and just as accessible?
Thankfully, the folks at Spare the Rock Records seem to have felt the same with regard to the world of children’s music and, rather than adding to the pap currently clogging the marketplace, have ventured to release music aimed at children but ideally suited for the whole family. And there is perhaps no better artist, save perhaps the Beatles, for whom this approach is ideally suited than David Bowie. With his passing in January of 2016, he left a gaping void in the musical landscape, one artists across myriad genres have, in the months since, sought to fill in the form of countless tributes, think pieces, and heartfelt expressions of admiration.
And while we may have lost the man himself, we will always have his music. His is a catalog so vast and stylistically diverse as to perfectly warrant the stylistically diverse assemblage of artists and styles gather here on the newly-issued Let All the Children Boogie. Stripped to their barest elements and rebuilt in individually idiosyncratic ways, the work of David Bowie presented here remains wholly recognizable, yet affords listeners an entirely new way of hearing these well-known songs. Continue reading »
Album Review, Feature Tagged with: Antibalas, David Bowie, Marco Benevento, Rhett Miller, Ted Leo, Wumni
Cover Classics: John Lennon’s ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’
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Cover Classics takes a closer look at all-cover albums of the past, their genesis, and their legacy.
By the time he recorded Rock ‘n’ Roll, John Lennon had been through quite a lot. From the dissolution of the Beatles to the fracturing of his marriage to the ever-present threat of deportation, he clearly had a great deal weighing on him. It was during this same time that he embarked on his legendary “lost weekend” in Los Angeles while estranged from Yoko Ono. Tearing through the city with drinking pal Harry Nilsson, Lennon seemed to fully embrace his chaotic path of self-destruction. While he would eventually come around enough to bring himself out of his increasingly fraught downward spiral, there was a clear spiritual line of demarcation between what came before and what was cut tragically short just a few years later.
It is within this self-reflective/post-self-destructive climate that Lennon embarked on the sessions that would produce Rock ‘n’ Roll. Not only would it represent a return to the music that inspired him in the first place, it also served as a swan song/love letter to fans, as he would, for all intents and purposes, retire from music and the public eye for the next half decade to concentrate on being a father to his son Sean. Because of this, there’s a heavy air of nostalgia at play. From the cover image (John in 1961 Hamburg, with a blurred Paul, George, and Stu Sutcliffe walking past him) down to the track listing, Rock ‘n’ Roll represents something of a mid-life reanalysis of self for the erstwhile Beatle. By returning to his roots, he was able to reassess his own position within and feelings toward the world of pop music.
Cover Classics, Feature, Video Tagged with: Ben E. King, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent, John Lennon, Phil Spector, The Beatles
Review: Train, ‘Train Does Led Zeppelin II’
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The whole reason for a good cover to exist at all is that it takes the original source material, gets to the heart of the song, and extracts the most important elements, which are then refashioned in the image of the cover artist. There must be an element of band or artist doing the covering within the cover itself; otherwise it’s simply a note-for-note recreation of a superior (often iconically so) performance. Furthermore, there’s little in the way of artistry behind strict recreations of popular music. This approach is little more than an impression that ultimately serves little to no purpose aside from existing to remind listeners how much better the original was, is and always will be.
For a band like Train – whose music has served as the backdrop for innumerable cloying “romantic” moments in film, television and perhaps even real life – to take on the decidedly heavier sounds of Led Zeppelin would initially seem like something of a joke. What qualifies the group behind such saccharine megahits like “Drops of Jupiter” and the insufferable “Soul Sister” to cover a band like Led Zeppelin, let alone replicate an entire album? Well, it seems that when you reach the level Train has, you can do pretty much whatever you want and no one will question you.
Album Review, Feature Tagged with: Led Zeppelin, Train
Review: Various Artists, ‘To Emmylou’
To Emmylou, the Fleeing Ghost Records’ compilation of LA-based artists covering the songs of Emmylou Harris, features eleven reverential performances. Each of the largely unknown artists collected here do a fine job of recasting her songs, both those well-known and those that run a little deeper, in a contemporary framework without sacrificing the heart and soul of the original. Not surprisingly, the primary focus throughout is on each artist’s voice, something for which Harris has long been known both on her own, as a collaborator and as one of the finest interpreters of Americana.
Fittingly then, opening track “Timberline” from Harris’ 1985 release The Ballad of Sally Rose is performed by the Silver Lake Chorus. Unfettered by musical accompaniment, the chorus of voices help establish the primary focus of the collection from the start. And while there are plenty of fine instrumental performances throughout, the over-arching element running through these songs – performed in styles ranging from straight country to contemplative indie rock – is the purity of the human voice. And in this case, the “voice” in question is that of Harris as a songwriter, something that is occasionally lost due to her high-profile collaborations and the immaculate nature of her voice.
Album Review, Feature Tagged with: Burning Jet Black, Elliott Smith, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Sandbox, Silver Lake Chorus, Tall Tales and the Silver Lining
Cover Classics: Laura Nyro & Labelle’s ‘Gonna Take A Miracle’
Following the cultural tumult that was the end of the 1960s, many musicians opted for a more introspective, seemingly autobiographical approach to their songwriting. Artists like James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, and scores of others suddenly made it okay to turn down the volume and once again focus on the lyrical content that tended to get swept aside during the height of psychedelia. Yet not all introspection resulted in the creation of original material. With the nation seemingly falling apart, many artists began looking back to the late-1950s and early-1960s, essentially their formative years, to help better understand how they arrived and, in the process, finding themselves temporarily transported to better times.
For a musician like Laura Nyro, herself always open and contemplative within her own songs, the approach transcended the internal here and now in favor of a more accurately autobiographical look at how she ended up where she did by the time of 1971’s Gonna Take A Miracle. Rather than digging deeper into herself in an attempt to find a wealth spring of inspiration, she returned to her original inspirations as though they were a palate cleanser designed to erase the memories of the preceding years’ social unrest. By returning to her roots and the music that inspired her in the first place – her “favorite teenage heartbeat music,” she called it – Nyro sought to find her center, looking backwards for answers contained within what was beginning to be (incorrectly) perceived as a simpler time.
Cover Classics, Download, Feature Tagged with: Cat Stevens, Gamble & Huff, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Labelle, Laura Nyro, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Motown, Nona Hendryx, Patti LaBelle, Sarah Dash, The Originals, The Shirelles
Review: ‘The Reverberation Appreciation Society Presents: A Tribute to Pet Sounds’
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Fifty years on, Pet Sounds still stands as one of the definitive statements 20th century pop music has to offer. Its production, song craft and performances remain so powerful and influential they continue to resonate with generations of musicians and listeners. It is the former who have gathered here to pay their respects to an album that regularly tops “Greatest Albums of All Time” lists. That the majority of the artists collected on The Reverberation Appreciation Society Presents: A Tribute to Pet Sounds take their stylistic cues from pre- and post-Pet Sounds styles seems to have little bearing on the consideration for those included.
In fact, the majority of the artists assembled here owe more of a debt of gratitude to the earlier Beach Boys recordings – many, including Shannon and the Clams, the Black Angels, and the She’s sound as though they could have been contemporaries of the pre-LSD Beach Boys. That they would attempt to reimagine – there are no recreations here – such revered material in their own image is a fairly brazen move. Yet instead of relying on the studio expertise of Brian Wilson, the focus is placed on the songs themselves.
Album Review, Feature Tagged with: Chris Catalena, Christian Bland & The Revelators, Shannon and the Clams, The Beach Boys, The Black Angels, UFO Club
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Conflict: Reuters chairman is Pfizer investor and board member
The chairman and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Reuters news agency – James C. Smith – is a top investor and board member for pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer. He was elected to the board in 2014, as well as joining Pfizer’s Corporate Governance and Science and Technology Committees. The news raises serious conflict of interest concerns as corporate media outlets such as Reuters continue to promote Pfizer products, defend pharmaceuticals companies from criticism, and move to silence skeptics.
Smith is currently the Chairman of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the London-based charity known for providing news and information to billions of readers. He was also the President, Chief Executive Officer, and on the Board of Director of Reuters from 2012 until his retirement in 2020.
He has worked with the organization since 1987, when they were known as the Thomson Newspaper group. He has also served as the CEO of the professional division, overseeing legal, tax and accounting, and intellectual property and science businesses. Later, he went on to lead the North America operations for the news organization.
In an official statement at the time, Ian Read, Pfizer’s chairman and CEO said: “We are pleased to have Jim Smith join Pfizer’s Board of Directors. He brings leadership and operational and international business experience to Pfizer’s Board, and will be an excellent asset to the company. The addition of Jim to our Board helps ensure that Pfizer will continue to benefit from a breadth and variety of experience.”
In the last year alone, Reuters has published more than 22,000 articles mentioning Pfizer. The company has only published 8,191 articles related to Moderna, and 18,000 related to Johnson & Johnson. Many of the articles about Johnson & Johnson were negative in sentiment, unlike their Pfizer reporting.
Smith is also linked to the World Economic Forum (WEF), where he serves on the board of Partnering Against Corruption Initiative. He’s also a member of WEF’s International Business Advisory Boards of British American Business and the Atlantic Council.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Smith also holds the position of President & CEO of Refinitiv Transaction Services, Ltd, who boasted $6.25 billion in revenue with more than 40,000 customers and 400,000 end users across 190 countries. Refinitiv was a member of the Thomson Reuters Group until 2018.
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I'm A Celeb 2021: 'I was quite worried in the night that my daughter would see this': Arlene Phillips breaks down as she frets over youngest daughter Abi watching her struggle
By Ella Hodson For Mailonline
Arlene Phillips became emotional when she spoke about her daughter on Tuesday night's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
The choreographer, 78, spoke in the Telegraph while continuing her stay in The Clink about how she felt she had to protect Naughty Boy because he is a similar age to her youngest daughter Abi Ion.
When speaking to the musician, 36, she said: 'I was quite worried in the night [that] my daughter would see this and she’d worry and not know that I’m actually OK.'
Oh no! Arlene Phillips became emotional when she spoke about her daughter on Tuesday night's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
It was at that point she started crying and Naughty Boy reassured her: 'You’re the reason we’re all trying to be better as well. Let me give you a hug, you’ve got nothing to worry about. You’ve made me feel like I’ve got someone here.'
Arlene replied: 'We are OK, that’s the thing.'
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Naughty Boy insisted: 'That’s because you’re the queen!'
Arlene shares her 30-year-old daughter with long-term partner Angus Ion.
Looking out for him: The choreographer spoke in the Telegraph about how she felt she had to protect Naughty Boy because he is a similar age to her youngest daughter Abi Ion
Arlene and Naughty Boy have been living in the squalid separate camp which is new to this year's series and is being named The Clink.
Richard Madeley, Danny Miller and David Ginola also join them in there.
Naughty Boy admitted in the episode that he may leave the camp as he spoke to the rest of The Clink: 'I do think my time here is done. I had a feeling earlier and I was thinking about mum and obviously I love you guys.
Friends: It was at that point she started crying and Naughty Boy reassured her: 'You’re the reason we’re all trying to be better as well. Let me give you a hug'
'I don’t think after knowing what the Main Camp probably knew what they were putting me through knowing I did the challenge earlier – I don’t know if I could ever join that camp.'
He went on: 'This isn’t a random big decision… I’ve tried my best both times today. I just can’t go from here into that Main Camp… I can’t fake that.
'I’m sorry. One thing I’ll tell you before you guys go into the Main Camp, as much as they say they love us, they love you… there is no love. When you guys go to the Main Camp, they’re the reason why I left.'
Leaving? Naughty Boy admitted in the episode that he may leave the camp as he spoke to the rest of The Clink
Sad: He said: I don’t think after knowing what the Main Camp probably knew what they were putting me through knowing I did the challenge earlier – I don’t know if I could ever join that camp'
They found themselves in the smaller camp after Richard lost his first challenge.
Back on the main camp in Tuesday episode, Louise Minchin has been up very early, and explained: 'Very difficult to judge how much sleep I’ve had, as I’ve been awake for ages. It feels like about three hours.'
Louise then told Frankie Bridge she'd washed her hair in cold water, to which the Loose Women panelist shared: I’ve still got yesterday’s knickers on. Maybe I’ll do a knicker change then… I’ve got five [pairs].
'I’ve got a pair on, a dirty pair that I walked in… they smell great though guys, I sprayed them with loads of perfume. You can have a whiff whenever you want.'
Funny: Back in the main camp, Frankie Bridge admitted to Louise Minchin that she is still wearing yesterday's knickers
I'm A Celebrity 2021: Arlene Phillips gets teary-eyed talking about her daughter
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JULIA HIGGINS MILLER
NEWPORT NEWS — Julia Higgins Miller, a native of Wilkes County, N.C., and a Peninsula resident since 1940, went home to be with the Lord Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002, after a lengthy illness.
Mrs. Miller retired from civil service in 1966 and was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church, Newport News. She was past president of the United Methodist Women, Peninsula District, as well as United Methodist Women of Trinity United Methodist Church. She had also served Trinity Church in various other capacities.
She was the daughter of the late Edward W. Higgins and Lenora Absher Higgins.
She is survived by her husband of 68 years, Herbert M. Miller; two daughters, Marilyn M. Blanton of Dothan, Ala., and Lenora M. Parker of Newport News; a son, Ronald T. Miller and his wife, Mary Ellen, of Asheville, N.C.; two sisters, Rachel H. Branscomb of Williamsburg and Ruth H. Millican and her husband, Phil, of Victoria, Va.; 12 grandchildren; 18 great- grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at Peninsula Funeral Home. A funeral service will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday at the funeral home with the Rev. Glen H. Cannon, pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Peninsula Memorial Park.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association or to Trinity United Methodist Church.
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Michael Weaver (Mike) Aday
Ridout's Valley Chapel
Passed away on October 12, 2021
Michael "Mike" Weaver Aday, age 76, of Mountain Brook, AL passed away on October 12, 2021. He was born to Mr. Lucian and Ina Aday on January 8, 1945 in Decatur, AL. He graduated from Miami Jackson High School in Miami, FL in 1963, and later from Florida State University in 1967. Following graduation from FSU, Mike served in the U.S Army, became an Army Ranger, achieved the rank of Captain and served in Vietnam. During his combat tour in Vietnam, he was awarded the Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts, and many other medals from both the United States and South Vietnamese armed forces.
Following his military service, Mike went on to have a successful business career in the consumer products industry, working primarily for the Clorox Company. In 2002 he obtained his MBA from Jacksonville State University and spent his later years as a Professor of Business and Dean of Virginia College in Birmingham, AL.
Mike, along with his wife Ginny, was a member of Canterbury United Methodist Church for over forty years. During that time, he was active in the Administration Board and served as Chairman of the Family Life Council.
Mike loved international travel, and was fortunate enough to travel the world with his family. He especially enjoyed traveling in Asia and returned to visit Vietnam twice in his later life. He enjoyed studying, and became quite knowledgeable in world history. Mike especially enjoyed visiting the desert southwest of the United States, and learned much about Native American culture. He was a fan of all sports, but particularly enjoyed Florida State football, sports car auto racing, baseball and tennis. Mike also was an avid fisherman and particularly enjoyed deep sea fishing. Mike is preceded in death by his parents, Lucian Minor Aday and Ina Lee Weaver Aday.
He is survived by his loving wife of 54 years Virginia "Ginny" Aday; Son, Ryan Michael Aday (Jennifer); grand-daughter, Lauren Elisabeth Aday; sister-in-law, Lou Ellen (Joe), brother-in-law, Doug (Louisa), niece, Diana (Matthew); nephew, Brian (Peyton), and many cousins.
Visitation will be at 10:00 am on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at Canterbury United Methodist Church. Service to follow at 11:00, followed by a reception at the church. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Birmingham VA medical center (VAMC) – Veterans General Care Fund or to Children’s of Alabama hospital.
In Memory Of Michael Weaver (Mike) Aday
Birmingham VA medical center-Veterans General Care Fund
Children's of Alabama Hospital
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Halo Pave Set Diamond Engagement Ring
Mark Patterson Halo Pave Set Diamond Engagement Ring
# R922PD
Three row micro pave halo engagement ring has 76 round brilliant cut diamonds weighing 0.63 carats. Available in platinum, 18 karat white, yellow or rose gold.
R922PD
Growing up in Southern California, Mark’s interest in jewelry began after he enrolled in a gemology class at the Gemological institute of America (GIA) in Santa Monica, CA. While at GIA, he met his wife, Josette, who was enrolled in the jewelry arts and design program. Soon after graduation, they both moved to New York City where Mark was hired by GIA's New York campus to work in the lab grading diamonds before teaching gemology. While in New York, Mark learned to make jewelry under the guidance of Kurt Gaum, who trained him in traditional Swiss goldsmithing techniques and became his mentor for many years. Josette was freelancing her designs and pursuing more design classes at the Parson School of Design and other art schools in New York City. Collaborating as a husband and wife team, they began their career as jewelry designers in 1985 when they established their own jewelry studio in the heart of New York City’s diamond district. They haven't looked back since. Mark says of his wife and partner, Josette, "My training as a goldsmith and jeweler gave me the skills I need to implement designs, but Josette has the vision. As ...
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A stake is an administrative unit consisting of large congregations (wards) and at times small congregations (branches and groups). The term "stake" originates from the Book of Isaiah in the Bible where the prophet Isaiah compared the Latter-day Church to a large tent held secure by stakes. Just as stakes hold down a tent and provide support, administrative stakes are pillars of strength in the modern-day Church. Stakes act as an intermediary between local congregations and area and international leadership of the Church.[1] A member of the Presidency of the Seventy oversees the operation of stakes within certain areas in North America and the Middle East whereas an area presidency provides administrative training and support for stakes elsewhere.
A stake presidency comprised of three local high priests that reside within the stake boundaries provide leadership for a stake. The stake president is the presiding high priest for the entire stake and he and his presidency constitute the high priest quorum presidency for high priests in the stake. Individual wards and branches do not have high priest quorums and instead have high priest groups for high priests residing within the boundaries of each congregation. A stake high council consisting of 12 high priest councilmen provide additional administrative support in meeting the ecclesiastical needs of stake membership. Stakes provide all of the administrative and ecclesiastical support needed for church members in their area relating to interviewing and approving temple recommends, Melchizedek Priesthood advancements, full-time missionary service, and patriarchal blessings. Each stake also has its own patriarch to provide patriarchal blessings to local members upon request. A patriarch is a separate priesthood office and pronounces special blessings on members that provide spiritual guidance and other gospel-related information. These blessings are transcribed and officially stored and recorded by the Church at Church Headquarters.
Stakes hold semiannual conferences for members throughout the stake to attend. Due to the large size of some stakes and inordinate distances between some members and the stake center, a stake conference can occur in more than one general session or be broadcast to multiple meetinghouses within the same stake. Other sessions or meetings also occur during stake conferences such as an adult session, a meeting for recently baptized converts, and leadership training. Oftentimes an area authority or General Authority presides at a stake conference and provides specialized training for stake leadership.
The average stake generally has five to 12 wards and branches.[2] With only a handful of exceptions, virtually all stakes have at least five wards. Since 2006, the stake observed with the fewest wards was the Sioux City Iowa Stake (three wards and five branches as of mid-2012) whereas the stake with the most wards observed was the Lehi Utah West Stake (18 wards and one branch for a short period in 2006). Since 2006, the number of branches in a stake has varied from zero to as many as nine. Many stakes have multiple groups operating under the direction of a ward or branch. The Church does not publish the names, locations, or meeting times for groups however.
Qualifications for a stake to operate vary between the United States and elsewhere. Church leaders report that stakes in the United States generally must have over 3,000 members to function whereas only 1,900 members are required for a stake to operate outside the United States. Some stakes in the United States report over 5,000 members on church records because there remain too few members to create a second stake unless the new stake draws upon congregations and membership from neighboring stakes. There are also specific ratios that must be met for wards and stakes to operate in regards to the number of active Melchizedek Priesthood holders to general church membership. Church leaders indicate that this ratio is somewhere around one active Melchizedek Priesthood holder to 15 or 20 ordinary church members. For districts to become stakes, generally five branches must have at least 12 to 15 active, full-tithe paying Melchizedek Priesthood holders. Since 2000, most new stakes have been organized from one or two preexisting stakes or from a single member district. However some stakes have been formed from two districts, three or more stakes, or from a combination of a district and one or more stakes.
The geographic size of stakes significantly varies. In locations with high-density LDS populations in urban areas such as Utah and some areas of Oceania a single stake many consist of an area as small as one or two square miles. On the other hand, some stakes in the United States, Australia, and Canada stretch hundreds or even more than a thousand miles across. Stakes seldom encompass such large geographical areas outside of effluent, modernized countries due to communication and travel constraints. Some stakes encompass multiple countries or dependencies. For example, in mid-2012 the Barrigada Guam Stake included both Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, the Roodepoort South Africa Stake included units in northern South Africa and southern Botswana, the Nancy France Stake included units in eastern France and Luxembourg, and the Abu Dhabi Stake included units in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar.
Some stakes service specific minority populations such as American military personnel, ethnolinguistic minority groups, young single adults (YSAs), single students, and married students. With only two exceptions (the Kaiserslautern Germany Military Stake and the Tokyo Japan South [English] Stake) all specialized stakes function in the United States. For example, in California the Church operates several Tongan and Spanish-speaking stakes that overlap English-speaking stakes. In Canada, the Church operates the English-speaking Montréal Québec Mount Royal Stake in the Montreal area that overlaps French-speaking stakes. In the early 2010s, church members and leaders indicated that the Church had discontinued the practice of organizing non-English speaking stakes in the United States as the Church advocated for these units to pertain to ordinary stakes. In mid-2012, the Church operated 72 YSA stakes in the United States that principally operated in locations with high concentrations of Latter-day Saints such as Utah, Idaho, and Arizona. At the time there were 11 married student stakes that functioned in Utah, Idaho, and Hawaii.
The number of LDS stakes has steadily grown since the mid nineteenth century. Due to increasing membership in the Kirtland area, the Church organized its first stake in 1832 but the stake did not become fully functional with a high council until 1834.[3] A handful of stakes operated in the 1830s and all the Church's stakes were discontinued in 1846 due to the migration of members to the Rocky Mountains. In 1847, the Church created the Salt Lake Stake. The total number of stakes in the Church reached 10 in 1874, 50 in 1901, 100 in 1928, 200 in 1952, 300 in 1960, 400 in 1964, 500 in 1970, 1,000 in 1979, 1,500 in 1984, 2,000 in 1994, 2,500 in 1998, and 3,000 in 2012. The rate at which the Church has created new stakes has varied over time. Since 1900, there have been several years where the percentage growth rate for the number of stakes was higher than 10% (1901, 1960, and 1977-1980). Within the past 50 years the annual percentage increase in the number of stakes increased by 5.5% in the 1960s, 8.2% in the 1970s, 4.8% in the 1980s, 3.9% in the 1990s, and 1.2% in the 2000s. The five years with the highest percentage growth in the number of stakes were 1978 (11.9%), 1980 (11.5%), 1977 (10.9%), 1979 (10.3%), and 1960 (10%) whereas the five years with the lowest percentage growth in the number of stakes were 2002 (-0.2%), 2003 (0.8%), 2008 (1.0%), 2001 (1.0%), and 2010 (1.1%). Since 1999, the Church has increased by an average of 34 stakes a year.
Stakes provide one of the most reliable and meaningful measures for church growth in the LDS Church as stakes must meet not only numerical membership requirements but also certain qualifications for gender ratios (i.e. active Melchizedek Priesthood holders to general members), the number of congregations, and the number of active members. Consequently increases in the number of stakes generally indicates a consistent increase in active church membership that requires the formation of new wards to the point that a single stake can no longer effectively administer so many church members and units. Specific stake-related statistics and factors that offer insight into church growth include the number of stakes in a country, the countries with the most members without a stake, the breakdown of stake growth by country and location, the countries with the most members with only one stake, the frequency of Church Education System (CES) and other church employees serving in stake presidencies, and when the Church organized its first stake in a country in regards to the number of members. In mid-2013, the 10 countries with the most stakes were the United States (1,504), Brazil (249), Mexico (226), Peru (100), Philippines (85), Chile (74), Argentina (72), Canada (47), the United Kingdom (45), and Guatemala (41) and the 10 countries with the most members without a stake (provided with membership totals for year-end 2012) included Cambodia (11,469), mainland China (10,000 members - estimate), Malaysia (8,967), Liberia (6,709), Mozambique (6,029), Jamaica (5,580), Vanuatu (5,491), Guyana (5,415), the Federated States of Micronesia (4,565), and Belize (4,240). Since 2000, approximately half of new stakes organized each year have been within the United States whereas most other new stakes have been organized in Latin America or Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2011, the countries that had the most new stakes created where the United States (28), Peru (4), Venezuela (4), Brazil (3), and the Philippines (3). Between 2006 and 2011, the Church generally created the most new stakes in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru.
Due to stringent qualifications to operate, stakes can be consolidated with nearby stakes or return to district stakes if they fail to meet the minimal standards for a stake to operate. Since the Church's organization there have been approximately 150 stakes discontinued worldwide, 125 of which closed between 1990 and mid-2012. The primary reasons for discontinuing stakes include declining active membership caused by active members moving outside of a stake's boundaries and low member activity and poor convert retention rates. The Church has discontinued some stakes due to other factors such as geographical distance between church units, communication difficulties preventing a stake from properly functioning, local stake leaders not complying with church administrative protocol, and forming multiple districts from a discontinued stake in aspiration of creating multiple stakes one day. There have been several instances of the Church reinstating a discontinued stake once the location re-qualifies for a stake to operate. In recent years, the Church has avoided the term "stake reinstatement" and instead considers the process like organizing a new stake altogether. For example, the Church created the Tokyo Japan South (English) Stake in 2003, discontinued the stake and reorganized congregations into a district in 2010, and consolidated the district with a nearby military district to recreate the stake under the same name in 2012. Discontinued stakes provide valuable data and insights to missiology researchers. For example, the LDS Church in Chile exhibits one of the lowest member activity rates worldwide (estimated at 10-15%) and Chile is the country with the most stakes that have ever been discontinued (43).
Prospects for the organization of additional stakes appear favorable in virtually all areas of the world that experience steady congregational growth or where districts are becoming closer to reaching the minimal requirements to function as a stake. Future increases in the number of stakes appear lowest in Europe and industrialized countries in East Asia and Oceania and highest in the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.
[1] Albrecht, Stan L. "Stake," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, p. 1,411-1,414. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/EoM/id/4391
[2] "Church Administration," True to the Faith, p. 36
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Jet CU Set to Merge with Credit Union 1, Member Accounts Safe
INDIANAPOLIS - Jet Credit Union is moving forward with a merger with $338 million Credit Union 1 in Rantoul, Ill. Scott Newman, the attorney representing Jet CU in its civil suit against its former President/CEO John Loudermilk for financial misconduct, said the merger has been approved by both boards and...
By Michelle A. Samaad | February 10, 2004 at 07:00 PM | The original version of this story was published on Credit Union Times Magazine
INDIANAPOLIS – Jet Credit Union is moving forward with a merger with $338 million Credit Union 1 in Rantoul, Ill. Scott Newman, the attorney representing Jet CU in its civil suit against its former President/CEO John Loudermilk for financial misconduct, said the merger has been approved by both boards and is awaiting regulator approval. “The transition from Loudermilk’s leadership to the leadership of Credit Union I is a healthy one for the members,” Newman said. “We don’t anticipate any problems with the regulator because they’ve had input with the investigation.” Newman said Jet CU is in the process of reopening its Tibb branch here, previously closed to reduce operational costs and now sporting a new drive-through. More importantly, he assures that the credit union’s nearly 12,000 members accounts are safe. Ohio-based American Share Insurance insures each member’s account up to $250,000 and Jet CU has $2.25 million in fidelity insurance covering officers and directors. Paul Simons, president/CEO of Credit Union 1 said the merger is a “great opportunity to serve a totally underserved area.” “In talking with the (Jet CU) staff, they’ve always wanted to do a lot of marketing in other areas but the former CEO leaned towards commercial lending,” Simons. “We can use this opportunity to do other things.” With past mergers, employees and senior management have been brought into Credit Union 1′s organization and this will follow that pattern, Simons said. Because the credit unions are waiting regulator approval, it’s too early to tell where Jet CU employees will be transitioned to, he added. Merger discussions began in December 2003 and officials are hoping have a final decision by Feb. 29. Originally chartered as Chanute Military Credit Union in 1958 to serve Chanute Air Force Base, it changed its name to Credit Union 1 in 1982 and expanded its charter in 1999. It is one of the largest credit unions in Illinois with more than 100,000 members and 750 select employee groups. Paul Simons is president/CEO of Credit Union 1. [email protected]
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Patelco, Mission SF Team Up for San Francisco Residents
Patelco Credit Union and Mission SF Federal Credit Union (formerly Mission Area Federal Credit Union) have joined forces to open a new shared branch in San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO — Patelco Credit Union and Mission SF Federal Credit Union (formerly Mission Area Federal Credit Union) have joined forces to open a new shared branch in San Francisco.
The new office, which is located on the main cultural and commercial corridor of the Mission District, will house the $8 million Mission SF Federal CU, its nonprofit affiliate Mission SF Community Financial and its Youth Credit Union Program.
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Review: Capilano Suspension Bridge & Park
Travelers who love the thrill of heights and gorgeous rainforest views are handsomely rewarded at the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park.
Wait, you're recommending we do what?
For people whose knees shake at the mere thought of walking a wooden suspension bridge 230 feet above terra firma, this is definitely not a top spot, but travelers who love the thrill of heights and gorgeous rainforest views are handsomely rewarded at the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park. First built as a tourist attraction in 1889, the North Vancouver park continues to draw droves of visitors who stroll the bridge and other high-level offerings. That sounds...daunting. What are some of the standout moments?
The 450-foot-long bridge is definitely the main attraction, but it isn’t the only one. There’s also the Treetops Adventure, a series of seven bridges suspended as high as 100 feet up in the soaring Douglas firs that give visitors a “squirrel’s eye view” of the forest. The newest addition to the park is Cliffwalk, a series of narrow walkways—some of them with glass floors—cantilevered out from a granite cliff high above the forest floor. Featuring life-size photographs, informative panels, artifacts and antiques, the Story Centre provides historic context to the bridge and surrounding area, while the striking Kia’palano totem poles offer the Indigenous perspective. Kids love the giant treehouse, too, which was built using only reclaimed wood. The guided history and nature tours are worth the time, and if you’re in Vancouver in December or January, the Canyon Lights—hundreds of thousands of holiday lights strung through the trees—are truly enchanting. Got it. How easy is it to find your way around? And is it accessible
The park is very well-marked and easy to navigate, but the bridge isn't wheelchair- or stroller-friendly. If you’re traveling with a baby, make sure to bring a carrier that allows you to have both hands free. There are plenty of places to catch your breath, too, including the Cliff House Restaurant, whose West Coast seafood chowder, ale-battered fish and chips, and quinoa salad are all top faves. The Trading Post store also has a local slant, with everything from rainforest-friendly outdoor gear to tasty house-made fudge. That sounds cool. Anything else we should know about planning a visit?
With rates ranging from $18.95 for kids (free under 6) to $54.95 for adults, this park isn't the cheapest, but you can occasionally find discounts online; if you’re a B.C. resident, one regular-priced ticket gets you a complimentary annual pass. There’s also a free shuttle from downtown year-round, so no need to navigate transit or parking. If you’re short on time, hit the bridge right away, and don’t spend too much time mulling souvenirs in the gift shop; the treetop walkways and Cliffwalk will offer way better memories. To avoid crowds, go earlier in the morning or later in the afternoon. Needless to say, people with a serious fear of heights would probably rather have a root canal than come here.
3735 Capilano Rd
https://www.capbridge.com/
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The U.S. Women's National Team achieved what may be yet another victory, after Congressmembers introduced a bill that would earn them equal pay.
Good News, News
Bill Supporting Equal Pay for United States Women’s National Team Introduced in Congress
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When the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) and their fans took to the streets of New York City on July 10 for their ticker-tape parade, chants of “USA! USA!” became muddled with its rhyme and rallying cry, “Equal pay! Equal pay!” Now, a bill supporting the USWNT has been introduced in Congress.
Two Democratic congress members, Doris Matsui who represents a district in California and Rosa DeLauro who represents a district in Connecticut introduced the GOALS Act (Give Our Athletes Level Salaries) on July 23. If passed, the act would bar federal funding for the 2026 World Cup, which is set to be hosted by the U.S., Mexico and Canada, until the USWNT is paid equally to the men.
Twenty-eight members of the USWNT filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) for equal pay in March. According to the lawsuit, the U.S. Men’s National Team (USMNT) makes nearly three times as much as the women’s team, despite not having won any World Cups.
Additionally, FIFA awarded the Women’s World Cup champions $30 million while last year’s Men’s World Cup winners earned $400 million.
USSF has claimed the USWNT is paid less because they generate less revenue than the men’s team. However, documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal in June reveal that between 2016 and 2018, the USWNT generated approximately $50.8 million in total revenue, while the men generated about $49.9 million.
“Stars like Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, and Rose Lavelle have used their stardom to elevate the issue of pay inequality in this country and inspire women across the nation to demand no less than what they deserve — equal pay for equal work,” Matsui said in her press release regarding the GOALS Act.
Related Story: U.S. Soccer President Mispronounces Megan Rapinoe’s Name on TV
The two teams operate separately with different expenses and net earnings for the USSF, so it is difficult to compare the two teams’ pay exactly, however, a fact check by The Washington Post calls out the all-too-common trope of women having to vastly outperform men to gain the same recognition.
Related Story: Megan Rapinoe: ‘I Stand By My Comments About Not Wanting to Go to the White House’
The bill has the support of 61 members in the House of Representatives. It needs 157 more to reach the majority required to push it to the Senate.
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A Ah, the mid-50s. Not the decade in history—my age. The, "I still feel young, but I'm not," period of life coupled with, "I sound so old making constant time-related remarks." I caught myself uttering the phrase, "Hey! I wore that when I was a teenager," to fellow class- mates at San Jose State upon observing them in high-waisted jeans or feathered hair. "That's from back in my era," I regularly exclaim to my kids when they blast a favorite song that happens to be by one of my beloved bands from childhood. It got me thinking; Everything old is new again. Even that saying, the title of a popular song, is nearing 50-years old, and is still relevant. Music is a great example. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association recently decided that the best drama of 2018 was a film about the imagi- native 1970s rock group Queen and its lead singer, Freddie Mercury. Queen: my favorite band during middle and high school whose pinnacle of success was 40 years ago. Yes, that old boundary-pushing band is being rewarded in an era where many fans think "queen" simply refers to the beautiful singer Beyoncé. If you check listings for top grossing tours of 2018, you'll see a lot of familiar names from "back in the day:" Paul McCartney, Elton John and Billy Joel are all in the top 10 money-makers of the year. Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen are still packing arenas. Despite who's come and gone over the last 50 years, the originals haven't thrown in the towel. I'm delighted that my 22-year old daughter loves the same music as I did at her age—as well as the same my parents did in their 20s. Many repackaged ideas have captured the attention of the masses, and all I can think of is that "new again" phrase. I admit, I snicker about "vegan leather." I asked a former classmate what she interpreted that material to be. "Leather that is cruelty free," she replied with the confidence I lacked at her age. My snickering accelerated to laughter. "Honey, the first time I was in college in 1983, we also had vegan leather. It was called plas- tic." Plastic, ultra-suede and vinyl, all used in what were often considered to be "lower quality" items. Now, it's chic for some fashion lines not to use animal products in their wares. A vegan leather jacket by designer Stella McCartney (Paul's daughter) will set you back almost $2,000. Vegan butter? That was called margarine. We didn't realize the non-nutritional value of the trans-fats that would help lead to some people's early demise. But, to this day, people spread (healthier) solidified vegetable oil on their food. The difference now; you can pay top dollar for it at some froufrou grocery stores and slather it on gluten-free bread. In the '60s and '70s, we also ate vegan whipped cream. It was called Cool Whip which, until 2018, didn't contain milk. Some clothing trends are back. My kids thrill in the hunt for vintage Levi's 501 jeans, the same ones we proudly scrounged from second-hand shops half-a century ago, and that our gold- mining brethren wore almost a century before, starting in 1873. Yoga wear is re-packaged leotards. Despite what Gwyneth Paltrow recently stated in Wall Street Journal Magazine about helping ignite the popularity of yoga in this country, she was off by a few decades. In 1970, Lilias, Yoga and You exposed hundreds of thousands, if not mil- lions, of people to the power of purposeful stretching. The PBS phenomenon enjoyed nation-wide syndication until 1999. Yoga is now so common that classes are comprised of a rainbow of people, in every age, ranging from part-time students to CEOs. Om-en to that! Recycling? Old hat. My most memorable school assembly in the '70s included a performance art group, all in matching blue T- shirts, singing the mantra, "Reduce, reuse, recover and recycle,"— a catchy tune that I still cannot shake, 40 years later, when I'm sorting the trash between blue and green bins. We oldies started that, no matter how wasteful the millennials think we are. With a new year upon us, we'll see hot trends and new norms. Some will be repeats. As a society, we repackage things (recyclable paper only, please) and, viola, we marvel at some- thing new. But many things—people included—get better as the years progress. If you're lucky, you'll get to experience them more than once. Dina Eastwood is a former news anchor at KSBW TV, past host of "Candid Camera" and has starred on a reality show on the E! Network. She is a writer, editor and yogini. She resides on the Monterey Peninsula with her daughter, Morgan. BEHIND THE SPOTLIGHT D I N A E A S T W O O D Queen: my favorite band during middle and high school whose pinnacle of success was 40 years ago. Everything Old Is New Again 50 C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • W I N T E R 2 0 1 9
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Eastern Shore Post
Winter Calvert Cullen III
ESP Editors
Mr. Winter Calvert Cullen III, 84, loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and Eastern Shore icon, passed away Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, with his family at his side. The grandson of the late William B. Mapp and the late Mary Rogers Mapp, Winter was born June 14, 1937, at the family home in Mappsburg.
Never one to do anything halfway, Winter always went the extra mile in every aspect of his life. A Hokie through and through, Winter received his Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural economics from Virginia Tech in 1960. That same year he returned home to the Eastern Shore and married the love of his life, Mary Thom Windsor, on Sept. 17. Over the next several years, he worked on the family farm by day and officiated local high school football games by night. In 1965, Winter assumed full responsibility of the farm, successfully operating “Winmar Farms” until his retirement in 1993. In retirement he represented two of his greatest passions, working part time for the Virginia Tech Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center for nearly two decades.
Winter was a 32-year member of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS), now known as USDA Farm Service Agency, and an 18-year member of the Virginia Soybean Association Market Development Foundation, serving two terms as president and two terms on the board of directors. During his time with VSA, he was one of 35 selected to travel to Belgium, Iran, and Egypt to introduce and encourage the purchase of American soybeans. He was a lifetime member of Painter-Garrisons United Methodist Church, the Loyal Order of the Moose #683, and the National Rifle Association, as well as past member of both Little Pungo Ruritan Club and the Eastern Shore Jaycees.
A life well lived, Winter believed in working hard and playing hard. As the first person to catch a blue marlin on a private boat out of Wachapreague, he was an offshore fishing legend. If you were aboard the Soybean II, you could guarantee he was going to put you on the fish. He enjoyed going clamming, and he loved hunting … pretty much anything.
Winter rarely missed an auction and folks always knew they didn’t stand a chance at taking home any Eastern Shore relics or memorabilia if he was on the front row. He loved dogs and from the time he was young, you’d rarely see him without his best bud, most recently, his yellow lab, Patton.
Those who were fortunate enough to listen to the master storyteller, spend a day on the ocean or in the woods, cheer alongside him at a Hokie game, or share a meal and a laugh, knew a man of incredible character – the last of a dying breed. Rest in peace, “Sport.”
In addition to his wife of 61 years, he is survived by his children, W. Calvert Cullen IV (Mary Jane), of Wellington, Fla., Kathy Cullen Henley, of Painter, and William Mapp Cullen (Jody), of Keller; grandchildren, Winter C. Cullen V, of Nashville, Tenn., Kristen P. Cullen, of Charlotte, N.C., Lacy V. Henley, of Williamsburg, Va., Savannah L. Henley, of Bristow, Va., Gina C. Ames (Tyler), of Melfa, and Dana C. Sexauer (Matthew), of Dalzwell, S.C.; great-granddaughters, Summer E. Ames, Carsyn F. Ames, Mattison J. Sexauer, Claire M. Sexauer, and his first great-grandson, Tyler Ames Jr., who is expected in December; nieces and nephews, Hal Floyd, Elizabeth M. Spencer, Sheila B. England, and Robert, Thomas, Terry, and David Windsor.
Funeral services were conducted from the chapel of the Williams-Onancock Funeral Home on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021, at 1 p.m., with the Rev. Carrie Talbott officiating. Private interment followed in the Fairview Lawn Cemetery.
Contributions in Winter’s memory may be made to Painter-Garrisons United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 502, Painter, VA 23420, Eastern Shore Virginia Tech Alumni Association (ESVTAA), c/o Hunter Blake, 15044 Par Place, Melfa, VA 23410, or to Peninsula Tractor Organization, 8104 Sunset Cove Drive, Exmore, VA 23350 (www.peninsulatractor.org/support/).
Memory tributes may be shared with the family at www.williamsfuneralhomes.com
Arrangements were by the Williams-Onancock Funeral Home.
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