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History All Around our Hotel
St Patricks Cathedral
Built in honour of Ireland’s patron saint, St Patrick’s Cathedral is the largest in Ireland and has been a prominent part of Dublin’s history for over 800 years. Enriched with history and culture, the cathedral offers visitors a look at the building’s dramatic tale of storm and fire damage to its restoration and evolution to one of Dublin’s main tourist attractions.
St Patrick’s Cathedral is famous around the world for its choir which performs daily during the academic term. The building is the National Cathedral for the Church of Ireland and encompasses overwhelming cultural aspects along with unforgettable architecture. Guided tours are offered several times daily at a small fee. All proceeds from the tours go towards the upkeep of the cathedral.
The cathedral is right opposite and hotel and less than a 2 minute walk from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street.
Christ Church Cathedral holds the title of Dublin’s oldest building and also the city’s eldest cathedral, having stood in the heart of the capital for almost a thousand years. Steeped in history and culture like that of its neighbouring cathedral St Patrick’s, Christ Church has also fallen on hard times throughout its existence and was almost derelict by the time it was restored. The Cathedral welcomes thousands of visitors through its doors each year.
Christ Church Cathedral is renowned for its heart-stopping beauty, diverse architecture and charming floor tiles, attracting visitors from all over the world. Like that of its sister cathedral, it is famed for its choir which dates back to 1493, the choir has toured all around the world. Various tours are offered daily at a charge.
Christ Church Cathedral is just an 8-minute walk from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street.
The Guinness Storehouse
The Guinness Storehouse is Ireland’s number one tourist attraction and home to the black stuff. Visitors to the storehouse are taken on a journey which begins at the bottom of the worlds largest pint glass and ends in the Gravity Bar which provides visitors with a 360-degree view of Dublin City.
The tour provides visitors with the history and evolution of Guinness throughout the years, as well as teaching you how to pull the perfect pint. A tourist attraction not to be missed by anyone visiting Dublin.
The home to Guinness is just a 15-minute walk from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street
Teeling’s Whiskey Distillery
Teeling’s Whiskey Distillery is the only operational distillery in Dublin City and is the first new distillery to grace the city in over 125 years. The Dublin based distillery began production in 2015 meaning it will be several years before any of the distillate can even be considered whiskey. For now, visitors can enjoy Teeling’s Whiskey from its other distillery in Ireland.
The visitor centre provides tourists with a unique distillery experience seven day per week and is just a 7-minute stroll from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street.
Jameson Whiskey Distillery
The newly revamped Jameson Distillery Bow Street carries on John Jameson’s ambition through unforgettable experiences with several types of tours available to its visitors. The storytellers take you through John Jameson’s journey which began at Bow Street in 1780 right up to the present day. At the end of the tour visitors can enjoy a famous Jamie & Ginger on the house.
Jameson Distillery is a scenic 20-minute walk from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street.
Pearse Lyons Distillery
Pearse Lyons Distillery is open 7 days a week and is a 20 minute stroll from the hotel through the heart of The Liberties, Dublin. Just a 5-minute walk from The Guinness Storehouse, this distillery offers an insight into the colourful history dating back to the 12 Century.
The tour of the distillery brings visitors around the surrounding graveyard and introduces you to the characters from Dublin’s distilling district. The Pearse Lyons Distillery produces some of Ireland’s finest small batch Irish whiskies, you can learn this through the celebration of Irish tradition of storytelling on each guided tour. Guests enjoy a sensory experience as they are brought through the distilling process, before enjoying whiskey and gin tastings at our tasting bar.
Guests can choose from a guided tour and tasting experience, to an art of distilling experience with our head distiller or a whiskey and food pairing experience, with local seasonal produce. All booklets, interactives and welcome video are translated in seven languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and Portuguese).
Built in the 13t century, Dublin Castle plays a prominent role in Irish history. For 700 years Dublin Castle was a fortress to British power in Ireland before being handed over to Michael Collins who represented the Irish Free State in 1922. Since then Dublin Castle has been used by the Irish Government for meetings and functions.
Several daily guided tours are available at Dublin Castle at a small fee. Visitors also have the option of a shorter self-guided tour which is available in 17 different languages.
Dublin Castle is only a 12-minute walk from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street.
Iveagh Gardens
Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens is host to many events throughout the year. The garden displays a diverse collection of landscape features including rustic grottos and sunken formal panels of lawn with fountain centre prices.
Taste of Dublin takes place here each year as well as a number of concerts and comedy shows.
The Iveagh Gardens is located just 1km from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street and a 12 minute walk away.
Stephens Green Park
Ireland’s most popular Victorian public park was re-opened to the public in 1880 by Lord Ardilaun. Stemming 22acre and providing visitors with 3.5km of walkway, St Stephen’s Green Park is an oasis within the heart of Dublin City that is hugely popular amongst locals and tourists. The park is home to several historical sculptures, a children’s playground, a lake and a garden for the visually impaired.
St Stephens’s Green Park is a short 10 minute stroll from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street.
Ireland’s capital provides you with lots of desirable facilities
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Two inquiries in the first days of sex fiend ID law
Officers in charge of a new ‘Sarah’s Law’ already received two applications for information
The Cheshire police officer in charge of a new ‘Sarah’s Law’ scheme has already received two applications for information on potential paedophiles.
Detective Inspector Mark Tasker says operators of the Child Sex Offender Disclosure initiative are dealing with the region’s first requests for information since the scheme was launched on Friday.
The scheme allows parents to ask police about anyone with access to their children and officers will reveal details confidentially if they think it is in the child’s interest.
It is known by many as Sarah’s Law after Sarah Payne, eight, who was murdered by a paedophile in 2000.
Parents, guardians, carers and interested third parties, such as grandparents, friends and neighbours, can submit applications to police.
The child’s main guardian will receive the information about a person’s previous sexual offences against children or other offences that would pose a risk to a child, such as violence.
The information cannot be shared with anyone else and to do so could result in prosecution.
Cheshire is one of 20 forces across the country to introduce the project. Det Insp Tasker said: “The difficulty parents have is that it’s a very secretive world that paedophiles operate in.
“They choose their victims very carefully and put a lot of effort into grooming families and children so they can get access.
“They come from all walks of life, you never know – and that’s the benefit of the Child Sex Offender Disclosure scheme.”
Det Insp Tasker added: “In the past we have warned people if there is a danger – for example if a known offender is hanging around a public swimming pool.
“But this allows members of the public who have concerns to register those with the police. We can check them out and if something untoward we can take action.”
And he is confident the scheme will not lead to vigilantism. He added: “We don’t expect a backlash. It’s not like in some states in America where they have Megan’s Law – pictures are posted and everyone can get access. There has to be evidence of some form of contact and we will be very careful about who we give information to.”
Det Insp Tasker said the team had been working closely with known paedophiles in Wilmslow and Macclesfield.
He said: “I don't think this scheme will hinder rehabilitation of paedophiles.
“We’ve already liaised with an awful lot of our registered sex offenders and we’ve been very open and transparent.
“The best way to manage them is to work with them."
To apply to the scheme for disclosure, contact Cheshire Police on 0845 458 0000 where an appointment with an officer will be arranged.
Alternatively people can seek advice at their local police station.
To coincide with the launch, a new website – parentsprotect. co.uk – provides advice for parents on how to keep kids safe.
The rest of the country’s forces will introduce the scheme in April.
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Juventus set to sell up to four players to fund Pogba transfer
June 10, 2019 By Oscar Rojas
Topics: Transfer, English Premier League, Manchester United, Serie A, Juventus, Paul Pogba
The French footballer seems to be closing in to a move back to Italy, and the bianconeri side is paving the way to se the deal come true.
Paul Pogba is set to become one of the most talked-about characters in the ongoing transfer window, as not only Real Madrid is interested in his services.
The player's lack of chemistry with Manchester United fans, along with the fact that he is set to take a massive chunk out of his salary following the team's inability to qualify for the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League, seem to be deciding factors to search for other employment opportunities.
Real Madrid seemed to be in pole position to sign the 2018 FIFA World Cup champion, but according to The Mirror, Juventus has already stepped up their pursuit of the player, so he goes back to where his career surged to the top.
Juventus knows that Financial Fair Play rules have to be observed, and in order to do that, the bianconeri side is ready to part ways with four footballers to fund Pogba's deal. Striker Mario Mandzukic, defender Joao Cancelo, midfielder Juan Cuadrado and goalkeeper Mattia Perin are the ones that have been identified by the English newspaper as the team's first transfers out to see Pogba's deal materialize.
Out of those players, Joao Cancelo and Juan Cuadrado have been linked with transfers away from the club, with Cancelo negotiating a deal with Manchester City and Juan Cuadrado as Bayern's primary transfer target. Meanwhile, Mario Mandzukic and Mattia Perin will still have to ponder their options, as no real offers have reached Juventus' front desk.
Pogba left Juventus to become the most expensive player of all time in 2016. His stint at Old Trafford has been met with mixed reactions, as some believe that the footballer was never able to show his true potential. Will he thrive once again if he returns to the Italian top flight?
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Professor Sir Michael Atiyah (22 April 1929 -January 11, 2019)
The LMS has learnt with great sadness of death of Professor Sir Michael Atiyah, OM, FRS on January 11th, 2019. Michael Atiyah was a brilliant mathematician and a towering figure who dominated the British and international mathematical landscape for over half a century.
Atiyahs’s work spanned many fields. Together with Friedrich Hirzebruch, he laid the foundations for topological K-theory. The Atiyah–Singer index theorem, proved with Isidore Singer in 1963, not only vastly generalised classical results from the 19th century, but also provided an entirely new bridge between analysis and topology. Regarded as one of the great landmarks of 20th century mathematics it has profoundly influenced many of the most important later developments in topology, differential geometry and quantum field theory. His more recent work was inspired by theoretical physics, in particular instantons and monopoles.
In 1966 he was awarded a Fields medal for his work in developing K-theory, a generalized Lefschetz fixed-point theorem and the Atiyah–Singer theorem. In 2004 he was awarded the Abel Prize jointly with Singer ‘for their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics’.
Besides the brilliance of his mathematics, Atiyah was a visionary leader. He was President of the LMS (1974–76) and his former students include no less than three LMS Presidents as well as Fields medallist Simon Donaldson. He was involved in the creation of the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, becoming its first Director in 1990. He was also closely involved in the foundation of the European Mathematical Society, having chaired the meetings which led up to its inception also in 1990.
Born in London of Lebanese and Scottish descent, Atiyah’s early education was in Sudan and Egypt. He came back to England immediately after the war, finishing his final school years at Manchester Grammar School. He did his undergraduate and doctoral work in Cambridge, studying under William Hodge, and in 1954 became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1961 he moved to Oxford where in 1963 he became the Savilian Professor of Geometry, having been elected to the Royal Society in 1962 at the early age of 32. In 1969 he left Oxford for the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, returning to Oxford three years later to take up a Royal Society Research Professorship. In 1990 he returned to Cambridge to take up the Directorship of the Newton Institute, becoming at the same time Master of Trinity College and President of the Royal Society (1990–95).
Following his retirement, he moved to Edinburgh where he was an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2005–2008).
Atiyah received awards and honours far too numerous to list here. He had honorary degrees and memberships of Academies of Science from around the world. His medals include the LMS’s highest award the De Morgan Medal (1980) as well as the Berwick Prize (1961), the Royal Society’s Royal Medal (1968) and its highest award, the Copley Medal (1988). He was knighted in 1983 and became a member of the Order of Merit in 1992. He was a Grand Officer of the French Legion of honour. Some of his medals and certificates are on display in the Newton Institute.
Sir Michael's other contributions to the LMS include as Vice-President (1973–74), the Forder Lectureship to New Zealand (1989) and as an Editor of the Journal of Topology (2007–2016/17).
LMS President Professor Series, said: ‘Sir Michael has been the dominating figure in British mathematics during my entire career. Even to those far from his subject, he was an inspirational lecturer who had the gift of elucidating complicated ideas and taking his listeners with him on a journey which created the illusion that one understood far more than one really did. His life and work must have touched all those who came into contact with him and British mathematics would be very different now without him. Despite increasing frailty in the past few years, he retained his enormous energy and enthusiasms, travelling to Rio in August 2018 to deliver the Abel lecture at the ICM. Only very recently, he wrote to the LMS expressing his strong support for an Academy of Mathematical Sciences, believing it essential to have such a body to argue the case for the broad mathematical community. Michael would have been the person to make it happen. He will be sorely missed’.
More information about Atiyah’s life and works can be found in Celbratio edited by Nigel Hitchin, Andrew Ranicki and Rob Kirby.
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Class A semifinal: Eastchester now one win shy of ending 59-year championship drought
"I don't know what went through my head.
Class A semifinal: Eastchester now one win shy of ending 59-year championship drought "I don't know what went through my head. Check out this story on lohud.com: http://lohud.us/1fxfOOH
Varsity Insider
Josh Thomson, jthomson@lohud.com Published 12:52 a.m. ET Feb. 27, 2014 | Updated 9:51 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2014
My story on Eastchester's victory over Harrison, which puts the Eagles just one win shy of their first championship since 1955:
Nick Campana understood what he should've done, and Eastchester coach Fred DiCarlo issued a friendly reminder just a few minutes after the senior's putback in the final seconds of Wednesday night's tense Class A semifinal against Harrison.
"I don't know what went through my head. I just got the ball and threw it in," Campana said. "I knew I shouldn't have. ... Thank God it went in."
It was that kind of night for the top-seeded Eagles, who struggled, scrapped and weren't perfect, but survived against the game Huskies, winning 56-51 to advance to Saturday's championship game.
Although it wasn't easy, Eastchester (19-2) will vie for the program's first Section 1 championship since 1955 at 5 p.m. against No. 2 Panas at the County Center.
"It's a hard place to play. We struggled and there's a little pressure on," DiCarlo said. "But it doesn't matter if you win by one or you win by 40. A win's a win."
Lefkowitz then appeared to block Daly on a drive on the next possession, but a foul was called from behind on sophomore Zac Evans (play is pictured right). Daly, Eastchester's all-time leading scorer, sank a pair of free throws with 27.9 to play. He hit one more 11 seconds later after Harrison's Nick Esposito cut it to 53-51.
Campana, who matched Daly with a team-high 14 points, rebounded Daly's miss on the second free throw and scored. He had also hit three 3-pointers in the first half to give the Eagles a 34-25 lead at the break.
"I'm so proud of Nick," said Daly, who had nine rebounds and seven assists. "I've been playing wiht him since the third grade. He's a winner. He'll do anything to win."
"We're hungry," DiCarlo said. "That's the best word somebody used to describe our team. We don't look past anybody. We don't look past a game."
Esposito led the Huskies with 13 points. Lefkowitz added 11 and blocked three shots.
CLICK HERE for complete photo gallery of Eastchester-Harrison by Frank Becerra
CLICK HERE for postgame interviews with Eastchester seniors Jack Daly and Nick Campana
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Biz Break: Silicon Valley follows Apple’s lead…
Biz Break: Silicon Valley follows Apple’s lead on stock repurchases
By Jeremy C. Owens | Mercury News, Bay Area News Group
Today: After setting a record for investor return in 2013, Silicon Valley tech companies ramped up stock repurchases in 2014, and predictions vary on whether the trend will continue.
The Lead: As cash flows into Silicon Valley, it flows back out through repurchases
As Silicon Valley tech firms generate cash at unseen levels, they are pushing it back to investors in the form of stock repurchases that the region has never before experienced.
In 2013, stock repurchases more than doubled to a record $72.3 billion, and the momentum has not slowed in 2014. Apple raised its plans to repurchase stock by $30 billion, committing to $90 billion of share purchases through next year; the Cupertino tech giant led Silicon Valley with nearly $26 billion in share repurchases in 2013, but will undoubtedly top that in 2014, having exercised more than half that amount in just two weeks at the beginning of the year.
But Apple is not alone. Eight of the 10 largest Silicon Valley tech companies announced or extended stock-repurchase plans in 2014, including $5 billion apiece from eBay and Gilead Sciences and an additional $13 billion from Oracle. The trend is not confined to the top of the SV150, however, as companies such as Adobe and SanDisk buy back shares, a tactic that inflates the popular earnings-per-share metric while reducing supply of the stock, which is likely to boost per-share prices.
“It’s Finance 101 — you improve your earnings by reducing your outstanding share balances,” Brendan Connaughton, Chief Investment Officer of ClearPath Capital Partners, explained.
Santa Clara University finance professor Robert Hendershott notes that Apple and other prominent Silicon Valley tech companies are generating cash at historic rates, with little of the cyclicality endemic in the chip and networking sectors that dominated the region in past years, which can give the companies no choice but to push money back to investors.
“You can either sit on it to no benefit to the shareholders; you can invest it, but they’re generating so much cash that it is hard to imagine them being able to invest it any sort of reasonable way; or you can give it back,” Hendershott explained.
The concern is that timing can be difficult to pin down. With many valley tech stocks trading at all-time highs, companies could be overpaying for their own shares.
“From a shareholder value perspective, its right (to repurchase) when the stock is cheap and wrong when the stock is expensive, but of course those are hard to pin down in advance,” Hendershott said. “If we knew that, then stock market investing would be a lot simpler.”
Connaughton notes that Apple specifically can afford to ship cash back to investors at record rates without sacrificing spending on research and development of the next big moneymaker, but other companies may be choosing repurchases over capital expenditures. His colleague, ClearPath Managing Partner Paul Boyd, believes that is a reason the current trend will start to reverse itself in 2015 and beyond.
“I think the desire to repurchase stock is going to start to shift” in 2015 and 2016, Boyd said. “We’re going to see more money spent on traditional capital expenditure spending for real growth, because there’s no other way to get growth — they’ve already bought back their stocks, they’ve already cut back everywhere they can.”
Hendershott is not as certain, however, because of Silicon Valley’s continued place at the forefront of commerce in the United States.
“It’s a new phenomenon for Silicon Valley to be disgorging all this cash, but it is inevitable — it’s a consequence of the success of the Valley,” the SCU professor noted. “When you’re generating a big fraction of the corporate profits in America, you’re going to be paying out a big fraction of the dividends and repurchases.”
SV150 market report
Up: Gilead, Zynga, Netflix, Applied Materials, Cisco, AMD
Down: GoPro, Twitter, SolarCity, Pandora, EA, Workday, NetApp
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley’s largest tech companies: Down 4.49, or 0.26 percent, to 1,706.37
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 0.05 to 4,806.91
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Down 15.48, or 0.09 percent, to 18,038.23
And the widely watched Standard & Poor’s 500 index: Up 1.8, or 0.09 percent, to 2,090.57
This is the third in a series of BizBreaks looking back at Silicon Valley financial trends in 2014. Sign up for the 60-Second Business Break newsletter at www.siliconvalley.com. Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/jowens510.
Jeremy C. Owens
Twitter won’t remove or label Trump’s tweets about minority congresswomen
House to vote to condemn president's tweets about four minority congresswomen, in which he tweeted that they should go back to where they came from, although three of them were born in the U.S.
Symantec fails as deal talks with Broadcom called off
The San Jose-based semiconductor company is said to have reduced its initial offer.
He was castrated for being gay. Now he’s the face of UK’s £50 note
By Charles Riley | CNN Business Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Britain's new £50 note. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney announced Monday that Turing, who killed himself in 1954 after he was subjected to chemical castration, will appear on the new polymer note by...
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Uber driver arrested for kidnapping and assaulting blacked out female passenger in DC
By Brianna Provenzano
An Uber driver was arrested in Prince George's County, Maryland, on Thursday for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a female passenger who rode in his cab.
Police told Fox News that the man, 29-year-old Westagne Pierre, was summoned to a District of Columbia bar on the night of Oct. 18 by the victim's friends after the victim became too intoxicated.
Detectives believe that after picking her up, Pierre drove the woman, who was blacked out, to her house. Then he made a detour to a Budget Inn in College Park, where he carried her out of the car and into the hotel.
Pierre used his own name to check into the hotel room, police said, and after staying for some time, he made a pit stop at a nearby 7-Eleven, where he used the victim's American Express card to buy $14 worth of goods.
The arrest isn't Uber's first dustup with sexual assault allegations. An investigation by Buzzfeed News found that the company has fielded five claims of rape and "fewer than" 170 claims of sexual assault directly related to an Uber trip between December 2012 and August 2015.
With the exception of the U.K., where Uber drivers recently won a landmark case to be considered full-time employees, the ride-share company classifies its drivers as independent contractors. This has the potential to create accountability issues, resulting from high employee turnover and low capacity for clear top-down communication.
Without clear protections in place for those who are victimized by their drivers, Uber is treading into dangerous waters — legally and otherwise.
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'Arrow' Season 5, Episode 13 Preview: Synopsis, promo and spoilers for "Spectre of the Gun"
By Jason Berman
Wednesday night's Arrow continued the series' return to form via an extremely enjoyable fifth season. "Bratva" saw Oliver and the rest of Team Arrow (including the new Black Canary) traveling to Russia to prevent a nuclear arms deal orchestrated by fugitive from justice General Walker.
Season five, episode 12 also welcomed back Deputy Mayor Quentin Lance, following his brief stint in rehab. With Lance having returned to the show, Thea Queen remains the only regular character who has not appeared in several weeks. It is unclear at this point whether she will return in episode 13, titled "Spectre of the Gun" (actress Willa Holland is listed in the credits, but that may not make a difference considering she is a main cast member).
"Spectre of the Gun" appears to be an episode that will focus on one of Team Arrow's young recruits — specifically Rene Ramirez, aka Wild Dog. We know a little bit about Wild Dog — he was dishonorably discharged from the Navy, was once caught tagging a building by Detective Lance and can be a bit of a hothead — but we do not know the exact circumstances that turned him into a hockey mask-wearing vigilante. That will soon change.
Stephen Amell as Green Arrow and Rick Gonzalez as Wild Dog
The official synopsis for season five, episode 13, "Spectre of the Gun," via Den of Geek!, illustrates that it will be a very Wild Dog-centric episode of Arrow. Check out the synopsis below:
A traumatic attack on City Hall triggers painful memories for Rene (Rick Gonzalez) about his family. Flashbacks reveal how Rene went from simple family man to a hero named Wild Dog. Meanwhile, Oliver (Stephen Amell) must deal with the perpetrator behind the attack and realizes the best way to do so is as Mayor Queen instead of the Green Arrow. Tensions run high in the Arrow bunker.
You can check out the extended promo for "Spectre of the Gun" below:
Season five, episode 13 of Arrow airs on Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. Eastern on the CW.
Mic has ongoing coverage of Arrow. Please follow our main Arrow hub here.
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New U.S. Hospital IT Data Released for Research Purposes
For five years, the Dorenfest Institute has provided historical data on health information technology use in the hospital market
The 2009 data on the U.S. hospital IT market and updated 2008 data from the HIMSS AnalyticsTM Database has been released by The Dorenfest Institute for Health Information Technology, Research and Education, managed by the HIMSS Foundation. The Dorenfest Institute provides a variety of detailed historical data, reports and white papers about information technology use in hospitals and integrated healthcare delivery networks at no charge to universities, students under university license, U.S. governments (local, state and federal), and governments of other countries that will be using the data for research purposes.
The newly released 2008 data from the HIMSS AnalyticsTM Database covers IT use in hospitals and integrated healthcare delivery networks. The release of the 2008 data expands the current library of the Dorenfest 3000+ Databases™ and Dorenfest Integrated Healthcare Delivery System Databases™ for the period 1986 through 2008, as well as many publications on IT use in the healthcare industry during that same time period.
The 2009 Annual Report of the U.S. Hospital IT Market, also now available in pdf format on the Dorenfest Institute Web site, presents the state of the U.S. hospital IT market. The report examines hospital budgets as well as financial, technology, and department environments and presents key findings on IT investment and enterprise resource planning. The data is from HIMSS AnalyticsTM Database. The 2005 through 2008 reports are also available on the site.
“These updated data and market reports, along with the legacy of the Dorenfest healthcare IT databases, support the critical research that is needed to improve outcomes from healthcare IT investment projects,” said Sheldon I. Dorenfest, president/CEO of the Dorenfest Group in Chicago. The Dorenfest Group is a leading consultant and source of knowledge about the healthcare information technology industry.
The Dorenfest Institute was formed in January 2005 to further the interest in and benefits associated with ongoing research in health IT. This followed a generous donation of his company and its historical data assets to HIMSS Foundation by Dorenfest to further the interest in and benefits associated with ongoing research in health IT.
The complete listing of databases and publications available from the Dorenfest Institute is available at www.himss.org/dorenfestinstitute, including an online registration form for access to all of the data. Contact foundation@himss.org for more information on the Dorenfest Institute.
“With the release of this historical data from the Dorenfest Institute and HIMSS Analytics, the HIMSS Foundation continues to support universities and government agencies in their research efforts and study of health information technology and management systems,” said R. Norris Orms, FACHE, CAE, Executive Director of the HIMSS Foundation.
About HIMSS Foundation
Established in 1986, the HIMSS Foundation serves as the philanthropic arm of HIMSS, providing support and assistance to the organization, its members, and the industry. The HIMSS Foundation is an Illinois not-for-profit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable scientific and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Projects that the Foundation supports include: scholarships for students in healthcare IT-related fields, and relief and assistance for need-based programs such as the Katrina Phoenix Project.
About HIMSS
HIMSS is a cause-based, not-for-profit organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. Founded 50 years ago, HIMSS and its related organizations have offices in Chicago, Washington, DC, Brussels, Singapore, Leipzig, and other locations across the United States. HIMSS represents more than 30,000 individual members, of which two thirds work in healthcare provider, governmental and not-for-profit organizations. HIMSS also includes over 470 corporate members and more than 85 not-for-profit organizations that share our mission of transforming healthcare through the effective use of information technology and management systems. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare practices and public policy through its content expertise, professional development, and research initiatives designed to promote information and management systems’ contributions to improving the quality, safety, access, and cost-effectiveness of patient care.
About The Dorenfest Group
The Dorenfest Group is a leading source of knowledge about the worldwide healthcare industry and its improvements needs. Providing a variety of consulting services throughout the world, The Dorenfest Group focuses these services on improving healthcare while reducing costs by helping its clients to improve work processes, management systems, and quality of medical care.
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relief after 15 years of pain
Christmas 2004 is a holiday season Jerilyn always will remember well. It marked the first time in almost 15 years she was able to decorate the family tree without having to spend the next day nursing a debilitating flare-up of severe neck pain.
"I remember commenting to my husband that it was so nice to be able to hang all the ornaments and not regret it the day after," says the active 53-year-old wife, mom, and office manager from Sycamore, Georgia. "And I really enjoyed being able to actually look up at the tree again to see what I was doing."
Jerilyn recalls that when her neck pain first started, it felt like a mild muscle spasm. "It got progressively worse over the years, to the point where I just couldn't stand it," she says. "Later on, it was more of a burning sensation that also extended down into my shoulders; I eventually developed muscle weakness, lost mobility in my neck, and started to have really severe headaches."
As the years passed, Jerilyn's pain and discomfort began to greatly interfere with her ability to do the things she loved, such as flower gardening, shopping with her friends and family, and managing the Turner County offices of the State of Georgia's Division of Family and Children Services.
"Lifting anything, even a shovelful of dirt or a carton of Cokes, would set off the pain in my neck and shoulders," she says. "And it got to where it affected every aspect of my life – my social life changed, I was taking a lot of sick leave at work and I was spending less time with my family. I went into a depression and spent a lot of time just lying in bed with a heating pad."
Diagnostic testing, including x-rays and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), eventually revealed the cause of Jerilyn's pain to be a herniated disc between the C6 and C7 vertebrae of her cervical spine. This is a condition in which the inner core of the disc bulges out through a tear in the disc. If the disc material presses on a spinal nerve, it can cause pain, numbness, and weakness, both in the neck and other parts of the body.
Working with her family doctor, Jerilyn tried a number of non-surgical therapies in an attempt to manage her pain, none of which provided any permanent relief. "I took muscle relaxers and both over-the-counter and prescription pain medications, but all those did was make me sleepy and feel not so good," she says. "I had many physical therapy sessions, and went to a chiropractor, as well. But I just couldn't get any satisfactory relief."
With neck pain such a constant presence in her life, Jerilyn was always on the alert for any mention of a therapy or treatment that might be able to help her. She'd also started considering the possibility of spine surgery. One Sunday after church, she struck up a conversation with a fellow congregant who had recently undergone cervical spine surgery, and whose husband was also recovering from back surgery. "I told her about my neck," Jerilyn says. "And she told me, 'You ought to go see the surgeon who treated me – I really believe he could help you, too.'"
First thing Monday morning, Jerilyn called the surgeon her friend had recommended: Dr. J. Kenneth Burkus with the Hughston Orthopedic Hospital in Columbus, Georgia, and made an appointment to consult with him regarding her surgical treatment options. "I took my previous diagnostic tests with me, and Dr. Burkus examined me and took some x-rays of his own," Jerilyn recalls.
"After looking at the results, he said he thought I could benefit from spine surgery. But, he never pushed it on me or said it was my only option. The decision was up to me. I told him I was ready to do whatever was necessary to finally get some relief."
When Jerilyn met with Dr. Burkus to discuss her treatment options, she decided to participate in a clinical study for the PrestigeTM cervical disc, an artificial disc with a ball-and-trough design. As a study participant, she had a 50-50 chance of either receiving the disc or undergoing traditional spinal fusion. "Of course, I was a little leery at first, and was undecided about what to do – I didn't know anything about the Prestige disc before I met Dr. Burkus," Jerilyn admits. "But I liked what Dr. Burkus told me about the device. So, I just decided to take a chance – I felt like it was what I needed to do."
To replace Jerilyn's damaged intervertebral disc with the Prestige disc – a procedure called cervical artificial disc replacement – Dr. Burkus made a small incision in the front of her neck and created a narrow opening through the muscles for access to the cervical vertebrae. He then removed the damaged disc material pressing on Jerilyn's spinal nerves and causing her painful symptoms through the opening, inserted the Prestige Disc, and then closed the incision. The procedure was performed under general anesthesia, and Jerilyn was released from the hospital 2 days after her surgery.
"I was told the surgery went very well," Jerilyn says. "Dr. Burkus replaced the disc and told my husband it had been almost completely worn away; what was left was practically just bone against bone. No wonder I was hurting so badly!"
For 2 weeks following her procedure, Jerilyn wore a soft cervical collar around her neck, which provided extra stability while her treated vertebral segment healed. "My recovery went very well, I think; I was in very little pain," she says. "I was told to do a lot of walking, and that really helped. I started walking right after I got home, even with the collar on. I took a few weeks of sick leave from work, then went back part-time for a while before getting back up to full speed."
Within a few months, Jerilyn says, life was good again. “By the time of my last follow-up, I had no limits, as far as the surgical site or the Prestige disc were concerned. I was able to do anything I wanted, and without any pain. To me, that was wonderful!"
Today, Jerilyn says she is so grateful for the opportunity to have had cervical artificial disc surgery with the Prestige disc that she's become an outspoken "ambassador" for the device. "I'm so glad it's been (FDA) approved and is available to everyone now," she says. "Because it worked so well for me, I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who has the same kind of problems I did. In fact, I encouraged a man here in Turner County who'd been having problems for years to go see Dr. Burkus, and he did. He had surgery a few months back, and is now doing very well."
This story reflects one person's experience with the Prestige artificial cervical disc. (Download the patient brochure to learn more about this device.) Not every person will receive the same results. Talk to your doctor about your treatment options.
Information on this site should not be used as a substitute for talking with your doctor. Always talk with your doctor about diagnosis and treatment information.
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In Conversation with Theater Director Sahar Assaf
District of Columbia, Washington 20036 (Map)
In March 2016, a police raid in Beirut rescued seventy-five Syrian refugee women from what became known as the largest sex trafficking network in the history of Lebanon. The story gained huge media attention as the women told horrifying stories about their abuse, but soon faded from headlines.
In response, American University of Beirut theater professor Sahar Assaf produced “No Demand No Supply: A Re-reading of Lebanon’s 2016 Sex Trafficking Scandal," a performance aimed at giving voice to the stories of the trafficked women. After several successful performances in Beirut and Athens, the play was invited to perform at the Between the Seas festival in New York on May 19, 2019. The play will also feature at the Shubbak festival in London in July 2019.
MEI's arts and culture program is delighted to host Sahar Assaf in conversation with Lyne Sneige, director of MEI's Arts and Culture program, about the development and impact of her play, as well as the growing role of theater in Lebanon and the region in addressing important socio-political issues.
Sahar Assaf
Actress; assistant professor of theatre, American University of Beirut
Sahar Assaf is an actress and stage director and an assistant professor of theatre at the American University of Beirut. She recently co-established the AUB Theatre Initiative with playwright and English professor Robert Myers under which she translated and directed Garcia-Lorca’s Blood Wedding as a site-specific promenade performance and co-translated, co-directed and starred in Shakespeare’s King Lear at Al Madina Theater in Beirut, the first production of Shakespeare in Lebanese Arabic colloquial. She also recently conceived and directed Meen El Felten, a documentary play on rape and sexual assault in Lebanon as part of Abaad MENA campaign of 2018 and No Demand No Supply, a documentary play about sex trafficking in Lebanon in collaboration with Kafa NGO. Her credits as a director include Ab: Beit Byout (an adaptation of Tracy Letts’ August Osage County), Saadallah Wannous’ The Rape and Rituals of Signs and Transformations, Issam Mahfouz’s The Dictator, Watch Your Step, a site-specific performance about the Lebanese civil war and Ana Amel Ana Amela, a devised documentary theatre about the experience of janitors at AUB. Assaf is a member of Lincoln Center Director’s Lab in NYC (2014), a member of Director's Lab North in Toronto (2017), co-founder and artistic director of Directors Lab Mediterranean (2019) and a Fulbright alumnus with an MA in Theatre Studies from Central Washington University (2011).
Lyne Sneige
Director, Arts and Culture program, MEI
Lyne Sneige is currently the director of the Arts & Culture Program at MEI in Washington, D.C. She has over 15 years of experience in international development in the Middle East. Before joining MEI, Sneige was deputy director Lebanon and regional projects manager for Arts and Culture for the Middle East at the British Council operating out of Beirut. She has extensive experience in strategy and planning as well as project management, and has many years of experience in the arts and culture scene in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East. Sneige is a strong advocate of the important role that artists play in their societies. Sneige is a Salzburg Global Seminar fellow, a nominator to the Art Jameel Prize, an international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition organized in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a nominator to the newly established Agha Khan Music Awards and an advisor to the educational and outreach program of the Beirut Museum of Art (BeMA) that is set to open in 2023. She sits on the selection committee of the Beirut Art Fair and is a board member of Action for Hope, a Beirut based NGO that provides cultural relief and cultural development programs to meet the social, cultural and psychological needs of distressed and displaced communities.
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MSP talks Borders Railway with ScotRail boss
Michelle Ballantyne and Alex Hynes.
Published: 06:55 Thursday 25 April 2019
Michelle Ballantyne MSP met with the ScotRail CEO Alex Hynes this week to discuss the Borders Railway.
Following a public meeting earlier this month where Mr Hynes conceded that commuters “are not getting the service they deserve”, Scotland South List MSP Mrs Ballantyne spoke to the ScotRail boss to seek assurances that the service would improve soon.
After a delay in the delivery of new carriages, commuters on the Borders Railway have been subjected to numerous delays, disruptions and cancellations on the Tweedbank-Edinburgh service.
A recent survey of commuters on the Borders Railway revealed that six per cent of respondents had been late for work because of delays or cancellations, with 78 per cent of those polled having missed appointments due to the unreliability of the service.
This comes after statistics last week which revealed that over 27,000 trains were cancelled by ScotRail last year- the equivalent of 74 trains every day. The figures from the Office for Road and Rail highlighted that ScotRail’s performance last year have been the worst since records began in 1997.
Michelle Ballantyne (Con) stated that currently the Borders Railway “simply isn’t good enough” and highlighted the need for immediate action to tackle the current issues on the line.
She said: “I had a productive conversation with Alex Hynes regarding the state of the Borders Railway. It’s an issue that has affected many of my constituents in Midlothian.
“The fact of the matter is that something has to change, and soon. Thousands of people rely on the trains to get to work, school and to see loved ones. This service has been letting them down and it simply isn’t good enough.
“I’ve had a lot of constituents contact me about how this is affecting their lives. It’s impacting people’s ability to get to work on time, to attend appointments and to travel. This is why I will continue to press ScotRail and the Scottish Government about this issue.
“Commuters in Midlothian deserve better than the service they’ve received so far. It’s up to the Scottish Government and their authorities to ensure that we have a reliable rail service that’s fit for purpose.”
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Home » Exhibit of art by Guantanamo terror suspects sparks outrage
Exhibit of art by Guantanamo terror suspects sparks outrage
NEW YORK — An art exhibit at a New York City college seemed innocuous enough, mostly seascapes and still-life paintings of flowers and fruit.
But it’s the background of the artists — current and former terror suspects at the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention center — that drew protest and prompted the Pentagon to bar the further release of works created at the military-run prison.
The exhibit, Ode to the Sea, has been on display since October at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. It shows 36 paintings and sculptures created by eight men during their years being held at the U.S. military facility for terrorism suspects in Cuba. The works were released to the men’s attorneys after being vetted by the U.S. government to make sure they did not contain violent content or hidden messages.
But news coverage of the show, particularly the fact that some of the works were available for purchase, has spurred the Department of Defense to reconsider such releases and redefine who actually owns such works.
“Items produced by detainees at Guantanamo Bay remain the property of the U.S. government,” Maj. Ben Sakrisson, a spokesman for the department, said in an email to The Associated Press.
Sakrisson said that transfers of any art made by detainees had been suspended pending a policy review, but that the department wouldn’t try to claim art that had already been sent out of Guantanamo.
The show was put together after a lawyer who represents Guantanamo detainees, Beth Jacob, reached out to John Jay professor Erin Thompson to ask generally about how to go about possibly exhibiting one of her client’s work.
That led Thompson and two other curators to gather up other detainees’ artistic efforts and display them in a hallway near the office of the public college’s president.
Thompson said she was disturbed at the idea that the government would take detainees’ artwork away from them.
“I just want to encourage people to look at these paintings. They’re flowers and beaches, and not subversive content,” Thompson said. “It’s not threatening to the United States. I don’t think we should burn bouquets.”
Jacob said detainees often gave artwork to the attorneys as gifts, to be passed to family members or for safe-keeping. She said she had heard from two men still detained on Guantanamo that they had been told no more artwork would be allowed out, and they would also be limited in how much of what they created they could keep.
But it was unclear if that meant works would be stored or simply destroyed.
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First Italian F-35 Mission Highlights Partnerships
An Italian F-35 Lightning II pilot is met by a 61st Aircraft Maintenance Unit Airman Nov. 5, 2015, at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., after the pilot flew the first Italian F-35 training mission. (U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Ridge Shan)
LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. — Two Italian pilots completed their initial F-35 Lightning II training flights Nov. 5 at Luke Air Force Base, marking the first F-35 flights under control of Italian pilots.
The flights were also another significant step forward in the F-35 program as they showcased the full partnership aspect of F-35 operations at Luke AFB. One Italian flew his mission in an Australian F-35 with an Air Force Reserve ground instructor on the headset. In addition, the maintenance team was composed of Lockheed Martin contractors and an Australian maintenance liaison officer.
Two U.S. instructor pilots from the 61st Fighter Squadron flew alongside the Italians, guiding them through their first flights.
"This has been a big day for the 61st, for Luke AFB, and for the F-35 program," said Lt. Col. Michael Gette, the 61st Fighter Squadron commander. "Every aspect of today's operation was a multinational effort. It was a great example of how all the partner nations are cooperating to make this program a reality and shows how Luke AFB is becoming the international training hub for the F-35."
The international partnerships were on further display as two U.S. student pilots took their first flights as well, one guided by a U.S. instructor pilot and the other by an Australian.
"It is great from an Australian partner perspective to be contributing to the outcome of training F-35 aircrew," said Squadron Leader Nathan Draper, an Australian participant maintenance liaison officer. "To see (a U.S. Air Force instructor pilot) alongside an Aussie jet, with an Italian partner getting his first flight is seeing the vision for the program come to fruition. It is a great day for the F-35 and a big milestone for our team."
The pilots began the academic training phase Sept. 21, which involved approximately 90 days of classroom and simulator instruction under the supervision of the 56th Training Squadron before the pilots could step into the jet.
"New pilots will be trained in an environment where they learn how to work seamlessly with other nations both from a practical standpoint and a tactical basis," an Italian pilot said. "Future students coming through the course will be able to fly on many different tails, so it is a perfect integration."
When the Italian pilots return home, they will be equipped to help develop the training programs of their own air forces and will help pioneer the next generation of global F-35 pilots.
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Mining insights: Curbing protracted and violent strikes in 2018
According to Johan Olivier, a partner at Webber Wentzel, the Chambers of Mines estimates the mining industry isresponsible for creating approximately 450 000 direct jobs in South Africa.
The most recently published Fraser Institutes research also reported that South Africa had Labour Regulations/Employment Agreements and Labour Militancy/Work Disruptions which could act as a relatively high deterrent to investment.
One of the key contributors to this figure is likely to be strike actions.
In a time where unemployment rates are escalating, the need to ensure growth and stability of the mining industry, including its labour relations, has never been more acute.
Although the right to strike is a sign of a healthy democracy and serves to balance the power of employees and firms through collective bargaining, protracted and/or violent strikes are likely to be a disincentive to potential mining investors.
Research published by the Mandela Initiative, suggests that although the frequency of strikes has decreased substantially in South Africa since 2000; it appears that when they do occur, they do more intensely. This trend has played itself out clearly in the mining industry.
In a bid to address this issue in the mining industry, the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC) negotiations of 2016, resulted in the creation of the NEDLAC Accord on collective bargaining and industrial action (the Accord) as well as the Code of Good Practice: collective bargaining, industrial action and picketing.
The parties to the Accord are the Government (including State Institutions like the CCMA and Bargaining Councils), employers’ organisations and trade union federations and their members.
In its broadest terms, these parties have undertaken to ensure that, should violence, intimidation or the threat of harm occur in strikes, they will do everything in their power to ensure that the strike is solved as promptly as possible.
The Code details the practical application of the Accord. It will provide guidance on collective bargaining and dispute resolution among others.
In terms of their effect, anyone interpreting the Labour Relations Act (LRA) must take the Code into account as well. As things currently stand, however, the trade union federation, SAFTU (of which NUMSA is a member) and the trade union AMCU have not signed the Accord.
As such, the full benefit of the Accord and the Code at addressing violence and improving effectiveness of collective bargaining has not yet been felt.
This may, however, be addressed in part by the coming into force of the the Labour Relations Act Amendment Bill (Amendment Bill), published in November 2017 and likely to come into force in 2018.
The Amendment Bill reflects in part the agreement reached on the employer demands regarding the introduction of legislation to curb violence during the course of a strike. To the extent that these are passed into law, they will be binding on all employers and employees.
Unfortunately, the amendments do not include specific provisions requiring a ballot before strike action is embarked upon as trade union opposition thwarted attempts to include these.
Although there are a number of problems with the way in which the amendments have been drafted, they should nonetheless be welcomed by employers as a positive step towards curbing lengthy and drawn out strikes which may lead to violence.
From the employer's perspective, they should now seek advice on incorporating the provisions of the Accord and the Code as well as the amendments to the LRA in their recognition agreements.
The training of negotiators sufficiently skilled to avoid drawn out strikes and disputes should also be supported. Employers should also look at more creative ways to settle wage disputes before they turn into strikes.
"The real sweetener to this positive development would be if we could all work together to get all trade unions to sign the Accord and support the Amendment Bill and the Code."
Feature image credit: Wikimedia
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Gold-medalist Daniel Kowalski: “Speaking Out About My Mental Health Made My Relationships Stronger”
He's shared his incredible story
Olympic gold-medalist Daniel Kowalski says he wishes he sought help sooner, but feared his loved ones would think less of him.
“It was one thing to try be the fittest athlete I could be – but mentally I couldn’t keep up. So finding that balance between being strong physically and mentally is difficult, but important.”
He’s spoken to What’s Your Problem? | The Aussie Men’s Health Podcast about why it's so important to each out and talk to people about your issues.
“I had all the resources and support at my fingertips but so some reason it was ingrained in me that getting help, particularly from a mental point of view, was a sign of weakness, a vulnerability and I tried to distance myself as much as possible from that, I felt as though I could do it on my own without anyone’s help. The reality was, I couldn’t.”
He said he was concerned how people would respond, particularly people close to him would react:
“I always felt as though it would affect my relationships and the way people viewed me and if they liked me and if they loved me. I always thought they wouldn’t. And what I subsequently found out is I couldn’t be further for the truth.
“If anything, my relationships grew stronger once I was able to talk openly and honestly with them.”
He’s now calling for parents and teachers to normalise conversations about mental health and wellbeing – the same way we talk about physical health.
“I’m more than happy to speak openly about it these days, because I think it’s very important.”
Listen to Daniel here:
If you, or anyone you know would like to talk to someone, the Beyond Blue Support Service provides advice and support via telephone 24/7 on 1300 22 4636.
Daniel Kowalski
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Saturday's top prospect performers
By Mike Rosenbaum @GoldenSombrero
Here's a look at Saturday's top Minor League performers from each team's Top 30 Prospects list:
AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST
Blue Jays: Riley Adams, C (No. 28) -- 2-for-3, HR (5), 3 RBI (Class A Adv Dunedin)
Adams, 22, connected on a three-run homer as part of New Hampshire’s four-run fifth inning. The 22-year-old is hitting .364 over his last 10 games and .250 overall in 16 games at the Double-A level. A 6-foot-4, 225-pound backstop, Adams was promoted to New Hampshire as a reward for his .277/.434/.462 performance in his return to the Florida State League. He owns a 32 percent caught-stealing rate this season after throwing out 45.8 percent (43 of 94) of attempted base stealers a year ago.
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Orioles: Mason McCoy, SS (No. 30) -- 2-for-6, 2B, 2 RBI, 3 R, BB (Double-A Bowie)
McCoy, 24, is batting .391/.462/.565 with hits in 14 of 16 games (eight multihit games) since he was promoted to Double-A Bowie on May 6. He joined the Baysox after he torched Florida State League pitching at a .379/.416/.509 clip over 27 games. With a .384/.433/.530 line through 43 games, the former sixth-round pick (2017) out of Iowa has been one of the top breakout prospects in the Minors so far in 2019.
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Rays: Nick Solak, 2B/OF (No. 12) -- 3-for-4, HR (7), 2 R (Triple-A Durham)
Solak was the lone Durham hitter to tally multiple hits, one of which, an eighth-inning solo shot, proved the difference as the Bulls edged Charlotte, 4-3. The 24-year-old snapped out of an 0-for-16 slump -- albeit with seven walks in five games -- with the three-hit performance, while the home run was the 2016 second-rounder’s fourth in last 10 games. Solak flirted with a 20-20 Double-A campaign in 2018 before finishing with 19 homers and 21 steals, both career-highs, in 126 games for Montgomery.
Rays prospects stats »
Red Sox: Tanner Houck, RHP (No. 6) -- 6 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 1 BB, 7 K (Double-A Portland)
Houck snapped a three-game losing streak with a quality start, as he struck out seven and recorded five groundouts while throwing 62 of 92 pitches for strikes against Altoona. It was an encouraging performance from the former first-round pick (2017) considering that he had logged a 6.87 ERA in his first four starts this month. Overall, the 22-year-old righty has pitched to a 5.08 ERA across nine Double-A starts.
Red Sox prospects stats »
Yankees: Deivi Garcia, RHP (No. 4) -- 6 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 10 K (Double-A Trenton)
Garcia's 10-strikeout performance marked the third time in nine starts this season that he's racked up double-digit strikeouts. He's fanned 75 batters in just 43 2/3 frames, good for 15.5 K/9, and more than 46 percent of all his outs in 2019 have come via strikeout. The 19-year-old's outing on Saturday was also his first without issuing a walk, and the lone run he permitted came on a solo home run in the fourth inning.
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Deivi Garcia got promoted and kept on rolling.
After impressing for @TampaTarpons, the #Yankees' No. 4 prospect has tossed another gem in his 5th start for @TrentonThunder. Tonight's line:
6 IP
0 BB
10 K@Yankees prospect stats: https://t.co/lUAMvm5arJ pic.twitter.com/WfCGb4GHiK
— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) May 26, 2019
AMERICAN LEAGUE CENTRAL
Indians: Daniel Johnson, OF (No. 22) -- 2-for-4, 2B, 3 RBI, R, BB (Triple-A Columbus)
Johnson followed his RBI single in the seventh inning with a two-run double in the eighth to record a two-hit, three-RBI performance in his Triple-A debut. The 23-year-old outfielder, whom Cleveland acquired from the Nationals in the offseason Yan Gomes trade, was promoted to the Minors’ highest level from Double-A Akron after he produced a .253/.337/.534 line with 10 homers and 33 RBIs in 39 games.
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Royals: Daniel Lynch, LHP (No. 4) -- 7 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 7 K (Class A Adv Wilmington)
The No. 34 overall pick from last year's Draft is getting better with each start. On Saturday he posted his third straight scoreless outing, completing seven dominant innings on a season-high 101 pitches (71 strikes). Lynch pushed his scoreless streak to 22 innings in the process, and his ERA now sits at a season-best 3.00 ERA after his fourth win in nine starts. A 6-foot-6 lefty who operates at 94-95 mph with three advanced secondary offerings, Lynch owns a 44/13 K/BB in 47 innings, during which he's allowed just two home runs while generating ground balls at an above-average rate.
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Daniel Lynch has been 🔥🔥🔥 lately for @WilmBlueRocks.
The 2018 #MLBDraft pick of the #Royals has gone 7 scoreless with 7 strikeouts tonight, and he's in line for his third straight scoreless outing.
He's No. 4 on the @Royals Top 30: https://t.co/CmiMeiiVSQ pic.twitter.com/Y7Cw0uOcpu
Tigers: Daz Cameron, OF (No. 5) -- 3-for-5, solo HR (6), 3 R, BB (Triple-A Toledo)
Cameron reached base four times and collected three of Toledo’s 21 hits, including his sixth home run of the season. The 22-year-old center fielder is hitting .325 over his last 10 games and .286/.337/.545 in 19 games this month after slashing .195/.302/.341 during the season’s first month.
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Twins: Jordan Balazovic, RHP (No. 19) -- 7 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 K (Class A Adv Fort Myers)
Balazovic, 20, bounced back from his shakiest start of the season (5 IP, 6 H, 4 ER) to fire seven innings of three-hit ball to improve to 5-1 in eight starts across two levels. The 2016 fifth-rounder out of the Canadian prep ranks owns a 2.22 ERA, with 66 strikeouts and nine walks, in 44 2/3 innings this season between Fort Myers and Class A Cedar Rapids. He's limited hitters to a .146 average since his promotion to the Florida State League.
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White Sox: Luis Alexander Basabe, OF (No. 7) -- 1-for-3, 2B, 2 RBI, 2 BB, SB (Double-A Birmingham)
The 22-year-old switch-hitter extended both his hitting and RBI streaks to five games via a two-run double in the fifth inning. He’s batting .476 (10-for-21) with nine RBIs during those streaks. After beginning the season behind schedule while recovering from a broken hamate bone, Basabe has returned to action to produce a .250/.342/.310 line in 26 games.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE WEST
A’s: Lazaro Armenteros, OF (No. 4) -- 2-for-4, 3B, 2B, RBI (Class A Adv Stockton)
Lazarito snapped out of a four-game 1-for-13 slump with a triple and double in four at-bats for the Ports. The 20-year-old Cuban is making his first pass through the Class A Advanced level and is showing some power at the expense of batting average. His .225 average would be the worst of his Minors career by more than 50 points, but his slugging percentage of .457 would be his best. That's thanks to a career-high nine homers and 16 total extra-base hits in 151 at-bats.
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Angels: Jordyn Adams, OF (No. 6) -- 2-for-4, solo HR (4) (Class A Burlington)
The move to full-season ball hasn't come easy for Adams, but his recent performances might be a sign of better things to come. After a solid showing in Rookie ball last year, batting .267/.361/.381 with 5 stolen bases in 29 games, the 2018 first-round pick is batting only .210 for Class A Burlington. However, he does have his first four pro homers, including Saturday's fifth-inning solo shot, and two of those have come over the past three days. He's also working on a modest four-game hitting streak, tied for the longest of the season for the 19-year-old.
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Jordyn Adams, #Angels No. 6 prospect and 2018 #MLBDraft 1st-rounder, has his second homer in three days for @BurlingtonBees.
The 19-year-old is adjusting to life in full-season ball and seems to be heating up to end the month.@Angels Top 30: https://t.co/tfiH8kaRXs pic.twitter.com/Pm3ffyoZh2
Astros: Abraham Toro, 3B (No. 21) -- 2-for-4, HR (9), 3B, 3 RBI, 2 R (Double-A Corpus Christi)
Toro has been fantastic of late for the Hooks, hitting safely in 11 straight games, seven of which were the multihit variety. The latest effort left him a double shy of the cycle as the 2016 fifth-round Draft choice tallied his second triple and ninth homer of the campaign. The Canadian-born JUCO product made the jump to Double-A last season and struggled a bit, posting an OPS of .688 in 50 games. This year, through 45 games, his OPS is an elite 1.006, fueled by what would be an easily career-best .339 batting average and .435 on-base percentage.
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Mariners: Logan Gilbert, RHP (No. 6) -- 5 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 6 K (Class A Advanced Modesto)
Usually a pitcher won't see his ERA rise after tossing five innings of one-run ball, but that's just how good Gilbert has been this season. The 2018 first-rounder out of Stetson was untouchable at Class A West Virginia, starting his pro career with back-to-back scoreless outings and eventually gaining promotion after four starts. His two prior starts for the Nuts were scoreless and featured 16 strikeouts in 12 innings, leaving him with a 1.65 ERA entering play Saturday. The solo homer he allowed in the fourth would bump his ERA up to 1.69 ... which is obviously still very good. Saturday's start against the Storm was also his second in a row without issuing a walk.
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Rangers: Julio Pablo Martinez (No. 4) -- 2-for-4, HR (4), 2B, 3 RBI, 2 R, SB (Class A Advanced Down East)
The 23-year-old's second homer in as many days was a three-run shot with two outs in the top of the ninth that put Down East ahead for good. He also tallied a double and swiped a bag, his second straight game with a stolen base. While he's produced just a .157/.206/.306 line in 33 games with the Wood Ducks, Martinez is starting to pick up the pace with a .250 average and eight RBIs over his last five games.
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#Rangers No. 4 prospect Julio Pablo Martinez smacked a homer and swiped a bag for @GoWoodDucks ... for the second night in a row! He's got 4 homers and 8 steals on the season.@Rangers Top 30 Prospects: https://t.co/rHGstfKOTc pic.twitter.com/3DEaHzL2j2
NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST
Braves: Ian Anderson, RHP (No. 3, MLB No. 31) -- 6 2/3 IP, 5 H, 2 R (1 ER), 2 BB, 9 K (Double-A Mississippi)
Anderson's nine strikeouts were the second-most he's recorded in a game this season, and his 105 pitches were a season high as the 21-year-old battled through nearly 7 innings of solid ball to record his third quality start of the year. However the win would elude him as the Braves' bullpen would concede the lead and hand the Jumbo Shrimp the eventual victory. That was certainly no fault of Anderson's, as he's battled some inconsistencies this season (four starts with three or more runs and fewer than five innings), but he was on top of his game on Saturday. Anderson cruised through the season at Class A Advanced last year and is performing fairly well after the bump up in competition, although he could stand to cut down a bit on the walks (30 in 48 innings, compared to 49 in 119 1/3 innings last year).
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Marlins: Isan Diaz, 2B (No. 6) -- 3-for-4, HR (9), 2B, RBI, 3 R, BB (Triple-A New Orleans)
That’s now four straight games with a home run for Diaz after he went deep in his first at-bat en route to a three-hit performance. The 22-year-old second baseman has improved his slash line from .220/.318/.356 to .271/.371/.488 over his last 11 games, a stretch in which he’s hit five of his nine home runs.
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Mets: Will Toffey, 3B (No. 15) -- _2-for-3, 2B, R, BB, SB (Double-A Binghamton_)
Toffey did a bit of everything on Saturday for the Rumble Ponies, collecting a pair of hits and a walk while scoring a run and stealing a base. The steal was his second of the season, although he has also been caught stealing twice. The Vanderbilt product is known more for his glove and arm than his bat, but he does continue to demonstrate a solid understanding of the strike zone by taking yet another walk, his 29th in 35 games. His .396 OBP would be a career-high for the 2017 Draft pick.
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Phillies: Jhailyn Ortiz, OF (No. 11) -- 1-for-3, HR (6), 2 RBI, BB (Class A Clearwater)
The 6-foot-3, 215-pounder's fifth home run in 11 games was a two-run shot in the sixth inning that put the Threshers ahead for good against Jupiter. He's slowly beginning to turn the corner after a slow start, as Saturday's performance gives Ortiz a .275 average and 13 RBIs during the aforementioned 11-game stretch. Overall, however, the 20-year-old is batting just .197/.280/.386.
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Nationals: Malvin Pena, RHP (No. 13) -- 5 2/3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 4 K (Class A Advanced Potomac)
Pena, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound righty, kept his opponents from scoring for the first time in nine starts this season, firing 5 2/3 frames of two-hit ball for the P-Nats in a no-decision against Frederick. The performance was a step in the right direction for the 21-year-old, who entered the day with an 8.73 ERA after allowing 11 earned runs on 14 hits in 6 2/3 innings during his previous two starts.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE CENTRAL
Brewers: Tristen Lutz, OF (No. 4) -- 2-for-3, HR (5), BB; Mario Feliciano, C (No. 14) -- 1-for-4, HR (9), 3 RBI (Class A Adv Carolina)
The two 20-year-olds accounted for all of the Mudcats' offense in a loss against Down East, as Lutz delivered a game-tying homer in the eighth inning after Feliciano had initially put them ahead in the sixth with a three-run blast. Lutz, a tooled-up outfielder, has been red-hot of late, with a .375 average, two homers and four multihit efforts in his last six games. Feliciano, a bat-first catcher, has gone deep three times in his last nine games, giving him nine homers in 46 games for the season.
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Cardinals: Nolan Gorman, 3B (No. 1, MLB No. 35) -- 3-for-5, 2B, 2 RBI (Class A Peoria)
While he hasn't homered since May 16, Gorman does have a .343 average with eight RBIs and five multihit performances over his last nine games. The 2018 first-round pick (No. 19 overall) is having an eye-opening first full season, with a .267 average, .883 OPS nine homers and 35 RBIs through 46 games in the Midwest League.
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Nolan Gorman is having a day for @peoriachiefs.
The #STLCards 1st-rounder from the 2018 #MLBDraft is 3-for-5 with a double and 2 RBI, including an one-run single to open the scoring.
Live @Cardinals prospect stats: https://t.co/Hnrj0K3fxl pic.twitter.com/XZad93m3XK
Cubs: Andy Weber, SS/2B (No. 30) -- 3-for-4, HR (2), 3B, 4 RBI, 2 R (Class A South Bend)
Weber, a fifth-round pick out of Virginia in 2018, had a career-high four RBIs and finished a double short of the cycle as he helped power South Bend past West Michigan. The 21-year-old hit a single in the first inning, a three-run homer in the second and then added a triple in the sixth before grounding out in his final at-bat. He’s batting .278/.320/.414 in 43 games this season.
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Pirates: Will Craig, 1B (No. 14) -- 2-for-5, HR (13), 2B (Triple-A Indianapolis)
Craig owns a share of third place on the International League leaderboard after slugging his second homer in three games for Indianapolis. The 24-year-old first baseman and 2016 first-round pick out of Louisville has jumped the yard four times in his last nine contests, during which he's hitting .333 with eight RBIs and nine runs scored. He's poised to blow well past the career-high home run total of 20 he established in 132 games last season during a breakout campaign in Double-A.
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Reds: Ibandel Isabel, 1B (No. 25) -- 2-for-4, HR (13), 2 RBI, 2 R (Double-A Chattanooga)
Isabel went deep in a fifth straight game for the Lookouts as he reached the 100-homer mark for his career. The 36 bombs he hit last year -- tying him with Pete Alonso for a share of the Minor League lead -- as well as his 28 homers in 2017 helped accelerate Isabel toward the achievement. He’s on his way to threatening last year’s total with 13 homers in 43 games.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE WEST
D-backs: Daulton Varsho, C (No. 4) -- 2-for-5, HR (8), 2B, 2 RBI, 2 R (Double-A Jackson)
Varsho's eighth home run of the year was a game-winner, as the 22-year-old delivered a solo shot with two outs in the top of the ninth inning to power Jackson past Montgomery, 6-5. He also had an RBI double in the contest for his second multihit performance in three games. Playing in his first Double-A campaign, the Wisconsin-Milwaukee product owns a .277/.360/.504 line through 38 games.
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The #Dbacks' No. 4 prospect hit his eighth HR of the year for @jacksongenerals, inching closer to his @MiLB season-high of 12. He's been raking in May, raising his average 56 points! @Dbacks Top 30 Prospects: https://t.co/J6rGI182MW pic.twitter.com/rtntuqZQTB
Dodgers: Edwin Uceta, RHP (No. 20) -- 6 1/3 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 7 K (Class A Adv Rancho Cucamonga)
The 21-year-old right-hander's ERA sits at 1.99, the second best mark among California League hurlers, in the wake of his longest start of 2019. To go along with his sub-2.00 ERA, Uceta has compiled a 56/12 K/BB ratio in 45 1/3 innings (nine starts) for the Quakes this season after posting a 6.97 ERA across five starts last year in his introduction to the level.
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Giants: Sean Hjelle, RHP (No. 6) -- 6 IP, 4 H, 3 R (1 ER), 2 BB, 1 HBP, 5 K (Class A Adv San Jose)
Hjelle matched his longest outing this season while recording a quality start in his California League debut. Throwing 52 of 82 pitches for strikes, the 6-foot-11 right-hander recorded 16 of his 18 outs via either a strikeout (5) or groundout (11). He finished the outing strong, too, retiring the side in order in the sixth inning after allowing three runs (one earned) in the prior frame. The 2018 second-round pick out of Kentucky was promoted to San Jose after registering a 2.66 ERA and 44/9 K/BB in 40 2/3 innings (nine starts) with Class A Augusta.
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Padres: Xavier Edwards, SS (No. 11) -- 2-for-4, R, BB, 2 SB (Class A Fort Wayne)
Edwards reached base three times and swiped a pair of bags out of the leadoff spot as he improved his Midwest League-leading average to .355 through 40 games. He also leads the circuit in hits (55), ranks second in stolen bases (tied-14) and third in OBP (.417). What’s more, the 19-year-old switch-hitter has accrued more walks (17) than strikeouts (15) so far in his first full season.
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Rockies: Yonathan Daza, OF (No. 14) -- 3-for-5, R (Triple-A Albuquerque)
Daza, 25, is second in the Pacific Coast League batting race (.366) after his 14th multihit performance in 23 games this month. Overall, he's hit safely in 30 of 38 games for the Isotopes. A .314/.355/.430 hitter in 632 career Minor League games, Daza is looking to get back to MLB after going 0-for-11 while appearing in three games earlier this season during his first callup.
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Mike Rosenbaum is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @GoldenSombrero.
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Jaime Davidovich
American, born Argentina. 1936–2016
Jaime Davidovich (September 29, 1936 – August 27, 2016) was an Argentine-American conceptual artist and television-art pioneer. His innovative artworks and art-making activities produced several distinct professional reputations including painter, installation artist, video artist, Public-access television cable TV producer, activist, and non-profit organizer. He is the creator of legendary downtown Manhattan cable television program The Live! Show (1979–1984). Billed as "the variety show of the avant-garde", The Live! Show was an eclectic half-hour of live, interactive artistic entertainment inspired by the Dada performance club Cabaret Voltaire and the anarchic humor of American television comedian Ernie Kovacs.
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Davidovich was born in Buenos Aires and studied at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, the University of Uruguay, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He was initially a painter but is known for his work with video. In 1976 he co-founded Cable SoHo and in 1978 founded and was president of the Artists’ Television Network. He created Cable Soho’s "The Live! Show", a variety half-hour program that ran from 1979 to 1984. He had solo exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of Art, Churner and Churner; Cabinet, the American Museum of the Moving Image, and participated in group exhibitions at New York’s MoMA and the Whitney Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Long Beach Museum of Art, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.
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BATtle for a Cure softball tournament to celebrate 10 years of giving
By Robbie McKay Lincoln News • May 16, 2019
MILLINOCKET – Every spring, young and old alike take to softball fields to enjoy the “companion” sport to baseball. This weekend, sixteen teams of athletes will be doing just that while they raise money for some very important causes.
The BATtle for a Cure Softball Tournament is in its 10th year of raising funds for deserving charities/organizations. This year the proceeds will go to the Oncology Department Renovation Project and the Northern Lights Foundation towards research and patient care. One of the event organizers, Tiffany Stanley, said this year’s event marks the 10th year anniversary of what started as a labor of love by Angela A. Morrow who was battling cancer herself.
“This tournament is in memory of Angela A. Morrow,” said Stanley. “If she were still here she’d be so thankful and amazed and what she started has turned into,” she said.
The action all starts at 8 a.m. at both the Elks and Delahanty softball fields, and Stanley says that all sixteen team slots have been filled. She also said that this year’s generous sponsors have already donated over $7,000 even before the weekend begins when pledges and donations will be rolling in.
Another important part of the weekend is the Kids 1 Mile Walk/Run, hosted by the “Katahdin Angels” and Millinocket Regional Hospital. Katie Mackin, Marketing Director for MRH explains how this event is important to the community.
“The Eighth Annual Kids 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk is such a great way to get the kids of all ages involved in a cause greater than themselves,” said Mackin. “These kids amaze me. Their drive and determination is an inspiration and the fun they have is contagious!” she said.
Participants may register starting at 9:30 a.m. at the Elks Field at the airport. The race starts at 10 a.m. and runners/walkers will be escorted by Penobscot Sheriff Deputy Marty Legassey and other law enforcement members from both East Millinocket and Millinocket. Parents and/or guardians are encouraged to take part as well, and strollers will be allowed but bicycles will not. Participants are encourage to bring pictures or a drawing of the people they are doing this for which will become part of a tribute wall. After the race, there will be a wrap up ceremony along with cool down refreshments and a bounce house as well.
“The 2018 Kid’s 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk had 23 participants who had a whole lot of fun and raised $1,700 in the rain,” said Mackin. “I can’t wait to see how much fun we’ll have again this year,” she said.
Those wishing to become part of this weekend or those with any questions are asked to call 723-7273.
An added event on Friday night will support and raise funds for the family of Detective Ben Campbell who was killed earlier this spring while on duty. See the separate article in this issue of the Katahdin Area/Lincoln News.
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Home Run Derby To Benefit Campbell Family
By Robbie McKay
MILLINOCKET – A Friday night home run derby will kick off the 10th Annual BATtle for the Cure weekend, and the proceeds will be going to the family of Detective Ben Campbell. Campbell was killed earlier this spring while on duty, and now the community will be taking part in an event that will not only honor him, but support his loved ones as well.
The “Bombs for Ben” Home Run Derby will kick off Friday night at the Elks/Airport softball field. Organizer Tiffany Stanley said this will be a very important part of the weekend.
“As a player in this tournament, as well as the Maine State Troopers being a long time sponsor of the tournament, we wanted to do something special to pay tribute to the sacrifices they make for us, and especially dedicate this to Ben,” Stanley said.
Participants will pay to enter the contest, and the one with the greatest amount of home runs wins. In addition to the derby, there will also be a raffle with the prize being a dovetail bat in honor of Detective Campbell. All proceeds of the derby and the raffle will be given to his family.
About Millinocket Regional Hospital
Millinocket Regional Hospital (MRH) is a 25 bed Critical Access Hospital nestled at the base of Baxter State Park that provides vital healthcare services to those who live, work and play in the Katahdin Region. Beyond the friendly staff and award-winning patient care, MRH provides an impressive range of specialty and general services; with a recent expansion resulting in the addition of eight new specialties and a Walk-In Care facility. In 2018, MRH was awarded the Press Ganey ‘Guardian of Excellence Award’ for exceptional patient experience; a nationally-recognized symbol of achievement for hospitals who consistently perform within the top 5%. Providing jobs to approximately 250 people, MRH is the largest employer in the Katahdin Region and a crucial economic driver within its community. For more information, please visit www.mrhme.org or www.facebook.com/MillinocketRegionalHospital
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The early years – On the way to the top of the world (1880–1914)
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The foundation of Munich Reinsurance Company in 1880 is largely due to the efforts of Carl Thieme. It is also Thieme who stated that: "By its nature, reinsurance needs to be international". He consistently follows his conviction by putting the company on an international footing from the very start. He establishes a business model whose essential features remain valid up to the present day: independence from primary insurers, a broad spread of risks, an efficient system of treaty management, working in partnership with clients and innovative insurance concepts.
Munich Re quickly develops into one of the leading risk carriers worldwide, and has been helping shape the insurance industry ever since. In 2010, with the aim of reviewing the historical role and development of the company, Munich Re commissions business historians Johannes Bähr and Christopher Kopper with the task of producing an independent study on the company's history. It was published by Verlag C.H. Beck in 2015 and covers the period from 1880 to 1980. The English version followed in 2016 with the title "Munich Re – The Company History". The stages of the company's history detailed below have been based on the findings of the study and reflect research covering the years up to 1980. This applies in particular to the entirely new chapter on the role of Munich Re during the Nazi period.
When Munich Re is established in 1880 as Münchener Rück, there is already intense competition in the market.
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Munich Re sharpens up its brand profile and, since 2009, has a uniform global identity in the reinsurance business fields.
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James Keleher was born in Chicago, Illinois. He belonged to St. Felicitas Church. After attending Mount Carmel High School for one year, he entered Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary and graduated in 1951. He then studied philosophy and theology at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein.
At age 26, Keleher was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Samuel Stritch on April 12, 1958. He then continued his studies at Mundelein until 1962, when he obtained a Doctorate in Sacred Theology with a dissertation on the writings of St. Augustine. In addition to his studies, he served as chaplain and confessor to the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. In 1962 he was named an associate pastor at St. Henry's Church in the Rogers Park section of Chicago.
In addition to his pastoral duties, Keleher was academic dean and teacher of religion at Quigley North from 1966 to 1969. He then served as dean of formation at Niles College (1969-1972) and at Mundelein Seminary (1972-1975), and as rector of Quigley South (1975-1978). During this period, he also furthered his studies in spiritual theology at Rome. In 1978 he was named president and rector of Mundelein Seminary, where he also served as an associate professor of systematic theology.
On October 23, 1984, Keleher was appointed the sixth Bishop of Belleville by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following December 11 from Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, with Bishops William Michael Cosgrove and Thomas Joseph Murphy serving as co-consecrators.
Following the retirement of Archbishop Ignatius Jerome Strecker, Keleher was named the third Archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas, on June 28, 1993. He was installed at the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle on the following September 8.[After eleven years as archbishop, he resigned on January 15, 2005.
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Posted on May 6, 2019 by Point Pleasant Register
Rio hosts 143rd commencement ceremony
357 students receive degrees
Pictured are some of the 357 students receiving their degrees Saturday during the 143rd Commencement Ceremony at the University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College.
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RIO GRANDE, Ohio — The University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College recognized the Class of 2019 as official graduates this past weekend.
There were 357 students who received their degrees Saturday at the 143rd Commencement Ceremony on campus. Interim President Dr. Catherine M. Clark said she is proud of the graduates’ accomplishments while at Rio and is grateful to all of the loved ones who have encouraged them throughout their studies.
“The entire campus community is proud of these graduates and the success we celebrate at the commencement ceremony. We also acknowledge the role of their classmates, friends and family members as we celebrate the graduates’ achievements,” Clark said. “The students became an integral part of Rio during their time here, and we welcome them into the ranks of our alumni.”
Ohio Astronaut Dr. Don Thomas, who served as a mission specialist on four space shuttle missions as well as serving as NASA director of operations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, was the commencement speaker for this year’s ceremony. Thomas is from Cleveland, OH, and has an extensive background with NASA including spending 44 days in space, completing 692 orbits of the Earth, and serving as International Space Station Program Scientist from 2003-2006. In this position, he was responsible for selecting and scheduling experiments to be performed aboard the ISS. For his numerous achievements, Thomas received the Honorary Doctorate of Public Service from the University of Rio Grande during the ceremony. He said he encourages the students stay focused on their dreams.
“The number one lesson I have learned in my life is to never give up on your dreams. From first dreaming of becoming an astronaut when I was six years old, it took me 33 years to accomplish my goal,” Thomas said. “My message to the students is to ‘Keep your eyes on the stars,’ which is an astronaut’s way of saying, “Keep focused on your dreams and never give up along the way.”
Among the graduates walking across the stage, 235 are receiving associate degrees, 115 are receiving bachelor’s degrees and 25 are receiving master’s degrees. 34 of these graduates have earned multiple degrees. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Richard Sax said the class has made a lasting impression on Rio, and he hopes they continue to be influential members of society wherever their lives may take them.
“We were so pleased to honor our 357 graduates this Saturday at Commencement. These students have worked hard in earning their degrees and certificates which will commence the next chapters of their meaningful lives,” Sax said. “We wish them well and support them in their future endeavors.”
The institution’s administration, faculty, staff and boards of trustees wish the Class of 2019 the best of luck and thank the graduates’ families for supporting their achievements during their time at Rio.
https://www.mydailyregister.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/web1_5.7-Rio.jpgPictured are some of the 357 students receiving their degrees Saturday during the 143rd Commencement Ceremony at the University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College. Rio | Courtesy
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Legal cannabis sales could hit $15 billion globally this year
Updated: 11:29 AM EDT Jun 20, 2019
Alicia Wallace
Fueled in part by CBD product sales and Canada's recent legalization of marijuana, the world's cannabis market could notch $15 billion this year.Industry insiders are forecasting that global cannabis sales could total $14.9 billion in 2019, up 36% from 2018, according to a new report released Thursday.For the first time, the annual "The State of Legal Cannabis Markets" report evaluated the cannabis industry as the "Total Cannabinoid Market," meaning it encompassed sales of medical and recreational cannabis at dispensaries; hemp-derived products rich in non-psychoactive cannabidiol, or CBD; and Food & Drug Administration-approved CBD-based pharmaceuticals.The surge of CBD products coupled with Canada starting legal recreational cannabis sales in 2018, helped to buoy the industry's growth, according to the report published by the market research arm of cannabis investment firm Arcview Group and data firm BDS Analytics. This was the first full year to evaluate the effects of three significant developments in the cannabis industry: the FDA approval of CBD-based drug Epidiolex, legal adult use sales starting in Canada, and the 2018 farm bill giving hemp products more legal standing."These decisions being made at the federal level put pharmacies and general retailers in the business of selling CBD-based products in all 50 states, which substantially boosted the ," Troy Dayton, Arcview's chief executive officer, said in a statement.The seventh edition of the report — like publications Arcview published previously — includes a calculated gaze into the crystal ball, projecting industry sales. Arcview and BDS' latest expectations are that cannabis sales in dispensaries, retail stores and pharmacies will hit $44.8 billion globally by 2024.Still, Arcview expects the bulk of sales to remain at dispensaries, followed by retail stores and then pharmacies. Sales of CBD products across those channels are poised to hit $20 billion in 2024, the researchers projected.The long-term predictions include several assumptions such as Canada becoming a $5 billion market; European and Latin America countries launching cannabis programs; and states such as Arizona, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York legalizing the recreational use of cannabis.
Fueled in part by CBD product sales and Canada's recent legalization of marijuana, the world's cannabis market could notch $15 billion this year.
Industry insiders are forecasting that global cannabis sales could total $14.9 billion in 2019, up 36% from 2018, according to a new report released Thursday.
For the first time, the annual "The State of Legal Cannabis Markets" report evaluated the cannabis industry as the "Total Cannabinoid Market," meaning it encompassed sales of medical and recreational cannabis at dispensaries; hemp-derived products rich in non-psychoactive cannabidiol, or CBD; and Food & Drug Administration-approved CBD-based pharmaceuticals.
The surge of CBD products coupled with Canada starting legal recreational cannabis sales in 2018, helped to buoy the industry's growth, according to the report published by the market research arm of cannabis investment firm Arcview Group and data firm BDS Analytics. This was the first full year to evaluate the effects of three significant developments in the cannabis industry: the FDA approval of CBD-based drug Epidiolex, legal adult use sales starting in Canada, and the 2018 farm bill giving hemp products more legal standing.
"These decisions being made at the federal level put pharmacies and general retailers in the business of selling CBD-based products in all 50 states, which substantially boosted the [projections]," Troy Dayton, Arcview's chief executive officer, said in a statement.
The seventh edition of the report — like publications Arcview published previously — includes a calculated gaze into the crystal ball, projecting industry sales. Arcview and BDS' latest expectations are that cannabis sales in dispensaries, retail stores and pharmacies will hit $44.8 billion globally by 2024.
Still, Arcview expects the bulk of sales to remain at dispensaries, followed by retail stores and then pharmacies. Sales of CBD products across those channels are poised to hit $20 billion in 2024, the researchers projected.
The long-term predictions include several assumptions such as Canada becoming a $5 billion market; European and Latin America countries launching cannabis programs; and states such as Arizona, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York legalizing the recreational use of cannabis.
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10 Vehicles With Needed Redesigns Coming in the Next Few Years
by Justin Lloyd-Milleron November 12, 2014 November 12, 2014
Like all products, there’s a certain lifespan associated with automobiles that puts an expiration date on the unit’s marketability and competitiveness. Some cars are refreshed constantly — every two to three years, which is a lot when you look at how complex making cars really is. Others, like the Volvo XC90, for example, can make it 10 or more years before they’re mercifully overhauled to rekindle public interest.
There are new cars revealed virtually every year, as well as many updates and light refreshes that keep the cars desirable for long enough until the automaker can implement a full replacement. We’ve combed the headlines to find out which vehicles are in the midst of a life-changing change, and we’ve showcased 10 of them for your perusal and enjoyment.
Source: Nissan
1. Nissan Maxima
The Altima is Nissan’s bread and butter in the U.S. sedan market, but the Maxima is still an important piece of the brand’s portfolio. That being said, the Maxima may be one of the next cars to get swept up in Nissan’s widespread redesign strategy that sees the adoption of the V-inspired design language that currently adorns the new Rogue, Pathfinder, and Murano. Though the new car hasn’t been revealed, it’s possible that the Maxima will likely adopt cues from the sleek and modern Sport Sedan concept.
Source: Honda
2. Honda Pilot
Honda’s Pilot SUV is largely successful because it’s entirely inoffensive. It’s simple — bland, even — without a design risk to be seen inside or out. It’s a bit blocky but otherwise fairly unremarkable from a design point of view, and as a result, Honda has sold a tremendous number of units. However, the car has remained virtually unchanged since 2009, when the flying brick shape was introduced, and it’s getting a bit long in the tooth at this point. Details are, per usual, scarce, but some spy shots indicate that development of a 2016 model is well underway.
Source: Toyota
3. Toyota Sequoia
The Toyota Sequoia is among the most capable full-size SUVs on the market, but it missed the boat on the Tundra’s 2014 redesign despite being very closely related to Toyota’s large pickup. This means that the Sequoia is still rocking the design language that was introduced in 2008 as the car goes into the 2015 model year. Eventually, SUV will be refreshed and likely take on the new bolder, more aggressive styling that currently adorns the Tundra.
4. Nissan Titan
Nothing spells automotive longevity quite like the Nissan Titan. That face that you see on the 2015 model is virtually the same that adorned the truck upon its introduction to the market in 2003, and it now chugs its way into its 12th year of service. But Nissan hasn’t been sitting idly by of late and has actually been hard at work on a replacement for the thoroughly aged pickup. We know the new model will come with a diesel engine option, but as far as the styling goes, we’re still in the dark.
Source: Mitsubishi
5. Mitsubishi Outlander
The Mitsubishi Outlander SUV has a problem: Upon its redesign for 2013, the new vehicle ended up looking — to many, at least — older than its predecessor. This is rarely a good thing, but it’s especially difficult for a company like Mitsubishi,which has seen its U.S. presence dwindle while the industry flourishes. A new offering is under development, which will hopefully take cues from the Outlander Concept S that bowed at the Paris Motor Show earlier this year. So far, it’s too early to tell, but the brand needs it — and desperately.
Source: GM
6. Cadillac SRX/XT5
The SRX crossover is among the last vehicles in Cadillac’s stable to be transitioned into the brand’s new design language. Though still selling well, it’s about that time for the crossover to get its due update so it can better take on a revamped X3 from BMW, a renewed lineup from Mercedes, and the new NX from Lexus. Along with its new looks, the Cadillac will also be getting a new name: the XT5, it seems.
Source: Mercedes-Benz
7. Mercedes-Benz E-Class
Though the new Mercedes E-Class is fresh off a mild redesign, the Daimler engineers aren’t resting on their laurels. Another E-Class is slated for 2017 and will reportedly feature new straight-six engines and a new body. Sharp, angular lines will apparently be swapped out with curvier motifs, similar to the new C and S Class sedans; it will also likely inherit some tech from its larger siblings to help secure its place among the luxury sedans of the world.
8. Chevrolet Camaro
The Chevrolet Camaro got a minor update for the 2014 model year, but in order to stay competitive against the completely redesigned Ford Mustang, a more in-depth and comprehensive rehash will be in order. It’s likely that the Camaro will retain the same overall shape and key styling cues, but Ford has indicated that muscle cars no longer need to be blocky, brick-like creatures with questionable aerodynamics. There’s no telling how far Chevy will go styling-wise, but expect the refresh to arrive for the 2016 or 2017 model year.
9. Chevrolet Volt
Though it’s one of the more polarizing cars on the market, the Chevrolet Volt has done pretty well for itself. However, it hasn’t had a redesign since its introduction in 2011, and as companies like Tesla and BMW show that plug-ins and hybrids can be green and sexy, Chevy’s heading back to the drawing board for a new Volt that will be coming out sometime next year as a 2016 model, at least tentatively.
10. Toyota Tacoma
Though it dominates the midsize truck segment, the Toyota Tacoma has done so because there aren’t any other competitors aside from the Nissan Frontier. But with a new GMC Canyon and Chevy Colorado now hitting dealerships, the Tacoma will have to rely more on things other than its size to move units, and this truck could use a good overhaul all the way around. It looks old, its engines are dated, its fuel economy is now less than par, and it won’t remain competitive for much longer as the segment gets crowded again.
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Key issues Nigerians set to consider in elections
Supporters attend the final campaign rally of the Nigerian opposition Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar on February 14, 2019 at Ribadu Square in eastern Nigeria, ahead of elections on February 16. PHOTO | LUIS TATO | AFP
Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation and one of the fastest growing in the world, with predictions there could be 410 million Nigerians by 2050.
The new president will have to find employment for increasing numbers of young people and cut the world record 87 million people living in extreme poverty.
By the sheer size of its population, the west African giant remains Africa's biggest economy, ahead of South Africa, according to the International Monetary Fund.
In Nigeria, it is often said that no figure is verifiable unless it is the price of a barrel of crude oil.
AFP has put together some key numbers ahead of Saturday's election, in which President Muhammadu Buhari's bid for a second term is being challenged by opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar.
The only way for a presidential candidate to secure a first-round win and avoid a run-off: Candidates need to have won the most votes and at least 25 percent support in two thirds of Nigeria's 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja.
The latter measure was implemented to ensure that all presidents have at least some nationwide support in a country divided by religion and ethnicity.
Nigeria: Africa's struggling giant
Nigerians frustrated ahead of elections
Whoever wins will govern about 190 million Nigerians. But even that figure is an estimation, as the last census was conducted in 2006.
One thing is certain -- Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation and one of the fastest growing in the world, with predictions there could be 410 million Nigerians by 2050.
That would make it the world's third-most-populous nation behind China and India.
The new president will have to find employment for increasing numbers of young people and cut the world record 87 million people -- about 45 percent of the population -- living in extreme poverty.
According to the World Poverty Clock, that figure could climb to 120 million by 2030.
The ages of Buhari and Abubakar respectively: But the opposition maintains Buhari is older than 76.
On his 75th birthday in 2017, the president even said: "I thought I was 74 but was told I'm 75."
His opponent Atiku, as he is called in Nigeria, has targeted the 18-35 age group, who makes up precisely 51.11 percent of the 84,004,084 registered voters.
He even published a version of his manifesto entirely in emojis. But do not call either candidate "old".
US television channel CNN did, prompting outrage on Twitter and the observation that President Donald Trump is... 72.
Only once has power changed hands in Nigeria via the ballot box, when Buhari beat President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.
The last election took place largely without the deadly violence that characterised the other four since Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999.
Nigeria's economy grew at a rate of just 1.9 percent in 2018, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, and should continue its upward trend.
The World Bank estimates the upward momentum to be at 2.2 percent this year.
It is a far cry from the double-digit growth of the early 2000s, when the price of crude topped $100 (Ksh10,000) a barrel.
True to form, though, even this fluctuates and depends on how it is calculated and which exchange rate is used to convert nairas to US dollars.
Despite the downturn, Nigeria is adding dollar millionaires at the fastest rate in the world.
According to research firm Wealth-X, the number of people in the country with a net worth of $1 million or more will grow by 16.3 percent per year until 2023.
That is the highest rate in the world, and significantly more than second-place Egypt at 12.5 percent.
With some 1.8 million barrels a day, Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer.
But even here there is doubt and the figure could be much higher given discrepancies between declared and actual production, to which the rise in millionaires may well be closely related.
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Yalexa Matos
Inside Business Immigration
Significant Retrogression – August 2019 Visa Bulletin Update
The Department of State (DOS) August 2019 Visa Bulletin shows significant retrogression in employment-based (EB) categories.
In the EB-1 category, final action dates retrogress to July 1, 2016, for all countries of chargeability except for India. The cutoff date for India’s EB-1 category remains at Jan. 1, 2015. The EB-2 category retrogresses to July 1, 2016 for all countries except China, advancing to Jan. 1, 2017, and India, advancing to May 2, 2009.
EB-3 categories for all other countries, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, and Vietnam also retrogress to July 1, 2016. India retrogresses to Jan. 1, 2006, while China advances to July 1, 2016. Similarly, for the EB-3: Other Workers category, most countries retrogress to July 1, 2016; India retrogresses to Jan. 1, 2006, and China’s remains the same at Nov. 22, 2007.
The EB-4 category cutoff dates remain the same at July 1, 2016 for El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, with the rest of the countries remaining current.
In the EB-5 category, most countries remain current. India and Vietnam’s cutoff dates retrogress to Oct. 15, 2014. China advances to the same cutoff date of Oct. 15, 2014.
The Visa Bulletin indicates that the implementation of the above-mentioned dates is expected to be temporary and that every effort will be made to return the Final Action dates to the same as those in the July Visa Bulletin in October 2019, the first month of fiscal year 2020.
Referring to the Final Action Dates, following are updates for the August 2019 Visa Bulletin:
Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Preference Cases
Dates for Filing of Employment-Based Visa Applications
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Yalexa Matos focuses her practice on employment-based non-immigrant and immigrant visas, including H1-B, L-1, TN, and R-1 visas. She represents clients on PERM applications, family-sponsored petitions, asylum applications, relief from removal, special immigrant juvenile petitions, child custody, and support petitions.
While she was in law school, Yalexa was an intern with the Columbus Community Legal Services, Legal and Family Clinic and with the Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Through these internships, she gained experience in a variety of immigration and...
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Songwriter Nick Ashford Dies; Had Throat Cancer
Published Aug 22, 2011 at 10:59 PM | Updated at 11:54 PM EDT on Aug 22, 2011
Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson arrive at the Legends Ball in Santa Barbara, Calif. Ashford's longtime friend and former publicist announced Ashford's death.
Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson, has died at age 70.
His longtime friend and former publicist Liz Rosenberg told The Associated Press that Ashford — who along with wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of Motown's biggest hits — died Monday in a New York City hospital. He had been suffering from throat cancer and had undergone radiation treatment.
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Among the songs Ashford & Simpson penned are "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," ''You're All I Need To Get By" and "Reach Out And Touch Somebody's Hand."
He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
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Despite Evacuations Ahead of Hurricane Florence, Some Families Stay Home
More than 1.7 million people in the Carolinas and Virginia were warned to evacuate as Florence approached
By Jeffrey Collins
Published Sep 13, 2018 at 1:57 PM
New Footage Shows Hurricane Florence From Space Station
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The International Space Station captured images of Hurricane Florence as it approached the Carolina coast on Thursday. The Category 2 storm is expected to make landfall late Thursday or early Friday.
(Published Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018)
Mercedes O'Neill is a little scared to ride out Hurricane Florence in her home just two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean with her boyfriend, her 6-year-old daughter, two cats and her new son, due Sept. 27.
She thought hard about leaving. She is in a mandatory evacuation zone, but in South Carolina officials can't force anyone to leave.
A family member offered a hotel room 200 miles (320 kilometers) inland from her North Myrtle Beach home in Aiken. But then Florence slowed down. That means more rain would be dumped on the coast, and evacuees would be forced to stay away for an even longer period.
O'Neill and her boyfriend mostly live paycheck to paycheck.
Footage Shows North Carolina Dam Breach Caused by Florence
Duke Energy said Friday that a dam containing a large lake at a Wilmington power plant has been breached by floodwaters from Florence, and its possible coal ash from an adjacent dump is flowing into the Cape Fear River.
(Published Friday, Sept. 21, 2018)
So they decided since they were surrounded by helpful neighbors and since the storm didn't appear to be coming in as strong, they would board up and hunker down.
O'Neill's family is just one of many who are deciding to stay home and ride out the storm, downgraded from a Category 4 storm earlier this week to a Category 2. More than 1.7 million people in the Carolinas and Virginia were warned to evacuate as Florence approached. The storm is expected to hover over the coast and bring up to 13 feet of storm surge and as much as 40 inches of rain, resulting in catastrophic flooding. Duke Energy power company said Florence could knock out power for much of its 4 million customers and the outages could last for weeks.
"I could go. But you can't go for every storm. Yes, I'm scared. But I would be more scared if we were alone. Neighbors, helping neighbors, you know?" she said as her daughter Sophie rode her bike out of the driveway and into the empty street.
10 Days After Hurricane Florence, Fresh Chaos in S. Carolina
O'Neill got off work a few hours Wednesday before her boyfriend and a neighbor finished putting plywood on the widows. On one window was spray painted "Thank God for Trump." On the other piece of plywood was "God bless the USA."
If the forecast takes a sudden, drastic turn, they still might leave and join the more than 300,000 people who Gov. Henry McMaster said left South Carolina's coast by Wednesday afternoon.
Wilmington resident Katie feels similarly to O'Neill, telling NBC News that there is "strength in numbers."
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(Published Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018)
“We have several neighbors saying put,” Katie added. “We checked in with one another. We are going band together and make it through.”
When asked what they would do at home, one of Katie's children said they were going to “color [and] try to stay safe during the hurricane.”
The decision cuts across economic classes. About a mile away, Simon Ohayon hasn't decided whether to leave his North Myrtle Beach home because he wants to be near his beachwear store Kings At the Beach, which sits across the street from an oceanfront park.
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"I think we can get 3 or 4 feet of water up here. And then waves," Ohayon said. "I put my merchandise up off the ground, but I don't know if I want to leave."
Ohayon said he would look at the forecasts through Thursday afternoon and leave if it looks like Florence would hit as a Category 3.
Those over at Ironclad Brewery in Wilmington are protecting their business as well. And the brewers have sanitized some of their tanks to hold water for other residents staying behind who may need help.
Long Recovery Ahead for Carolinas From Florence Flooding
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"We're all about community and just trying to do everything we can for everyone," one staff member named Elizabeth told NBC News. "As soon as we can open we'll be open."
Elizabeth added that she was allowed to stay in the Ironclad building, made of steel and brick, because her own home wasn't safe. She also owns a restaurant in town and wanted to watch over that business too.
O'Neill said she will probably think about whether she has made the right decision to stay until the winds get too strong.
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The other concern was getting back into North Myrtle Beach. O'Neill figures the Family Dollar, where she works, is going to try to open as soon as it can, and she can get back to making money.
"It just takes forever to get back in," said O'Neill's boyfriend, Kelly Johnson.
O'Neill plans to keep in touch with her store manager and several neighbors waiting out the storm. If one of them is in trouble, they figure the rest can help.
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While visiting the areas battered by Hurricane Florence in North Carolina, President Donald Trump vowed to provide the area with all the resources they need for a full recovery.
"I think we all thought about leaving. But since we're together, I think that will make it easier," she said.
And then there were the cats. O'Neill wasn't sure that - even if she had money and a place to stay - she couldn't leave Klepto ('he always steals the kitty toys") and Mia ("It's pronounced mee-ya, but stands for MIA because I could never find him") behind.
"Pets are part of our family too," she said.
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Jenna lives in a beachfront house on Oak Island, a barrier island in North Carolina that’s part of the state’s evacuation zone. She told NBC News she’ll “stay as long as I can” and expressed awe at the power of Florence.
“It’s an adrenaline rush, you know,” Jenna said. “You can’t control Mother Nature. She doesn’t make exceptions, and as a surfer, you never see waves this big except for during hurricanes. So it’s kind of surreal to see them here at our home break.”
Jenna acknowledged the dangers of the intense storm, such as wind damage and flooding. But she explained that people “have to know where your most sacred belongings are, … have a big car so you can hall them away and don’t get attached to the actual house.”
Casey Dodson lives in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, and told CNN that he is leaning on his “faith in God that we’re going to be here when it’s all over.”
“I’m not even worried at all,” he said. “We got all the windows boarded up and we’ve got water. Plenty of water, plenty of food, and, I mean, we’re just really not worried. We’ve got a sturdy house. And it’s just faith in God that we’re going to be here when it’s all over. That’s pretty much that.”
When asked if he was concerned about Florence’s “life-threatening” conditions, Dodson said, “Honestly, no. But I’m just one of those people that’s not afraid of stuff like that. I mean the most that can happen is your windows are going to get busted out, or you’re roof’s going to rip off, or you’re going to get flooded. But we’re not in a flood zone. So I’m not worried about it being flooded. I’m not worried about the windows being broken. And, I don’t know, we’re going to lose power, but we’ve got plenty of flashlights and stuff like that. So we’re just going to bunker down and see what happens."
Feeling Your Pain: Presidents Tread Tricky Disaster Politics
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Home > Pope's meeting with Pelosi 'both/and'
Pope's meeting with Pelosi 'both/and'
by John L. Allen Jr.
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi smiles during a ceremony at the Italian legislature in Rome Feb. 16. (CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters)
Pope Benedict XVI's much-awaited encounter this morning with U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, perhaps the most prominent pro-choice Catholic in America, amounted to a classic Vatican “both/and” exercise, striving to balance the demands of external diplomacy and internal church discipline.
By meeting Pelosi, Benedict signaled that he wants lines of communication to remain open with the new American leadership, even if the Vatican has deep differences with its policies on the “life issues.” The Holy See is a sovereign state with diplomatic relations with 177 states around the world, which, among other things, means the pope can’t always act like the head of a special interest group.
Yet by issuing an unusual public statement after the session with Pelosi -- which insisted that all Catholics, including legislators, are obliged to work for the defense of human life from conception to natural death -- the pope also made clear there will no let-up in the pressure on pro-choice Catholic politicians to change their ways.
While the Vatican typically puts out brief declarations after the pope meets with a head of state, encounters with lower-level officials are generally considered private. Doing so in this case thus suggests that the pope wanted to make a point.
Benedict XVI spoke briefly with Pelosi and members of her entourage at the close of his regular Wednesday General Audience this morning in Rome.
Benedict’s willingness to meet Pelosi had frustrated some pro-life Catholics in the States, who felt it was untoward for the pope to grant a “photo op” to a politician who drew a rare public rebuke from the U.S. bishops last summer after suggesting on “Meet the Press” that the church’s position on abortion has been fluid and ill-defined.
“Over over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition,” Pelosi said, referring to when life begins. She said the position that life begins at conception had arisen within the last “fifty years, or something like that.”
A late August letter from Cardinal Justin Rigali, chair of the bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop William Lori, chair of the Committee on Doctrine, bluntly asserted that Pelosi had “misrepresented the history and nature of the authentic teaching of the Catholic church against abortion.”
In the run-up to the encounter, Judy Brown, the president of the ardently pro-life American Life League, issued a statement asserting, “The only photo-op I hope to see out of Rep. Pelosi’s meeting with the Holy Father Wednesday is the House Speaker in the confessional line.”
Exacerbating this drumbeat was a rumor circulated on some pro-life web sites that Benedict would be presenting Pelosi with some sort of award – speculation that was quashed early this week by the Vatican spokesperson, Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi.
Facing criticism about mixed signals, the Vatican issued its statement immediately after the meeting broke up.
“His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the church’s consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death,” it read, “which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and those responsible for the common good of society, to work in cooperation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development.”
Not only was it unusual to issue a statement after a meeting with an official who’s not a head of state, routine Vatican declarations after diplomatic meetings also generally sum up the range of issues discussed rather than concentrating on a particular point.
In that sense, the statement can only be read as a rejection of Pelosi’s statements last summer, and, in general, of her argument that it’s acceptable for Catholics in public life to take a pro-choice position.
Seen through the lens of Vatican diplomacy, this combination of public welcome and after-the-fact rebuke covered all the bases. Whether it will leave activists and partisans in any camp fully satisfied, however, is another question.
Pelosi was in Rome as part of a six-day visit to Italy, meeting with various Italian officials as well as American servicemen and women. Pelosi is also reconnecting with her own roots, as her paternal grandfather was born in the Italian region of Abruzzo and her grandmother in Liguria. On Monday, the Italian Chamber of Deputies presented Pelosi with her grandparents’ birth certificates to commemorate her visit.
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These young women of the Class of 1946 were ready to take on the world, having traveled the educational pathway of their choice with either an emphasis on academics or commercial skills.
Graduating from their Downtown Home
Notre Dame students have learned to navigate the streets of downtown San Jose for 165 years and celebrated graduation in the heart of the city after four years of strong sisterhood.
Since its founding in 1851, Notre Dame High School in downtown San Jose has stood as the premier school for young women of the Silicon Valley. Guided by the wisdom of Saint Julie Billiart, foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, we have provided a relevant and exciting curriculum, teaching young women “what they need to know for life.” Whether for the 1850s or the fast-paced 21st century, our mission does not change: we ensure our students are armed with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate and excel in their rapidly evolving environment.
Founding
Established in 1851 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in San Jose, then the state capitol, to provide education to the booming Santa Clara Valley.
School Crest
Symbolizing protection and faith, the trinity, the love of God and loyalty, the crest is a representation of the coat of arms of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
A symbol of St. Julie who believed we should "be like the sunflower that follows every movement of the sun and keep our eyes always turned towards our good God."
The regent replaced the original Notre Dame High School gremlin mascot in the late 1990s. A regent is a person who steps up when a leader is needed.
Born in Cuvilly, France in 1751 Julie was the child of a poor shopkeeper whose deep faith led her to establish the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur along with her lifelong friend Françoise Blin de Bourdon.
St. Julie's perspective inspires us to recognize goodness in the relationships and experiences that shape learning for life. The Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph serves as our downtown place of worship.
Notre Dame is among 130 schools in a global network sponsored by the Sisters of Notre Dame. Their commitment to educating young women and standing in solidarity with the poor is part of our daily approach to education.
Students develop strong bonds of sisterhood through activities and events that have become well-loved traditions including freshman sleepover, the choosing of class colors and a mascot and the well-loved Spirit Week!
Notre Dame High School is the oldest private secondary school for young women in California. The school is owned by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, a congregation founded by Saint Julie Billiart in Amiens, France, in 1804. The Sisters came to California in 1851 at the invitation of the Most Reverend Joseph Alemany, O.P., Archbishop of San Francisco, to establish in San Jose, then the state capitol, a college, upper and lower residence schools and a high school for day students on extensive property on Santa Clara Street. The location was chosen at the advice of the Jesuit Fathers who had recently opened a school for boys at nearby Mission Santa Clara. Notre Dame opened on August 4, 1851.
Thirty years of continuous growth in student population necessitated the expansion of the school facilities in 1958. Construction was begun on two buildings: Julie Billiart Hall, a multi-purpose structure serving as auditorium, cafeteria and gymnasium; and Madonna Hall, a two-story classroom building. Over the years, the growing student population led to the renovation of Julie Billiart Hall, the addition of computer and photography labs, the use of O'Connor Mansion for offices and classrooms, as well as the creation of Pardini Park. Madonna Hall was renamed Donnelly Hall in honor of Sister Mary Emmanuel Donnelly's years of dedicated service to Notre Dame.
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Alt-J – ‘Relaxer’ Review
NME Jun 1, 2017 4:00 pm BST
Credit: Gabriel Green
Inventive trio Alt-J’s third album is a weird pop juggernaut with a sinister side
Alt-J’s ‘Relaxer’ is not exactly an indie record by numbers. This is the group’s first album since 2014’s ‘This Is All Yours’ and it’s half a decade since the band were inescapable with their Mercury Prize-winning debut ‘An Awesome Wave’. Throughout this time, the Leeds-formed trio have only gotten weirder – they never hint at going by the book.
With ‘Relaxer’, they remain devotedly nerdy. The teaser for opening track ‘3WW’ was written in binary code and they launched a website inspired by a cult ’90s PlayStation game. But there’s so much more going on than insular geekdom. Take lead single ‘In Cold Blood’ as an example – there are horns and threatening guitar lines undercut with punitively reassuring but actually quite threatening “la la la” chants. ‘House Of The Rising Sun’ is not so much a cover as a glorious turning inside out of the original, coupled with personal lyrics about a broken family. It’s one of six tracks that features a 30-piece string section, an expansive leap from early Alt-J’s signature hushed style.
‘Relaxer’ flits between two sides. Sweet romanticism – the lyric “I just want to love you in my own language”, the decision to have the group’s girlfriends sampled – is juxtaposed with the unsettling cover art of what appears to be a bloodied murder victim. This shouldn’t be all that surprising from a band that once made a video about killing one’s partner in the bath.
Still, the playful, inventive musicality that saw songs like ‘Fitzpleasure’ become live favourites is intact. ‘Hit Me Like That Snare’ is that moment, with its punk-cut drumming, layers of distortion and vocal origami folds from frontman Joe Newman. There’s more traditional journeyman storytelling here too, particularly on the gentlest song, ‘Last Year’, in keeping with the group’s literary influences.
By the time you get to the cinematic, religion-nodding album closer ‘Pleader’, you’ve had the pleasure – if an often uneasy one – of listening to a tight 40 minutes of music that builds a very modern wall of sound. Great album, if not entirely relaxing.
Words: Hannah Jane Parkinson
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A SMALL ROUND-UP OF SMASHING NEW MUSIC FROM NADER SADEK, ROTTING CHRIST, AND KRYPTS YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHO’S NOMINATED FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR AT THIS YEAR’S REVOLVER GOLDEN GODS AWARD (THEY’RE FROM FRANCE)
OUR LIST OF 2012’S MOST INFECTIOUS EXTREME METAL SONGS: PART 21
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Welcome to Part 21 of our list of the year’s most infectious extreme metal songs. In each installment, I’ve been posting at least two songs that made the cut. For more details about what this list is all about and how it was compiled, read the introductory post via this link. To see the selections that preceded the three I’m announcing today, click here.
All good things must come to an end, and this seemingly endless list will end tomorrow with Part 22, going out in a blaze of death metal glory. Today’s three songs, however, are another set that don’t come from the same genre of metal. If they have anything in common besides my belief in them, it’s that all three are heavy as hell.
Our friend and fellow blogger Professor D. Grover the XIIIth reviewed High On Fire’s 2012 album for us (here), and I think it’s fair to say that he had mixed feelings about De Vermis Mysteriis, which he viewed as a bit of a step backward compared to the step forward represented by 2010’s Snakes For the Divine. I had the opposite reaction. Where the Professor viewed Snakes as HoF’s crowning achievement, I enjoyed De Vermis Mysteriis more than anything I’ve yet heard from the band.
I preferred the grimier, grittier tone that Kurt Ballou’s production brought to the sound and the utter darkness that suffused so much of the music. The standout track for me — a song that has gotten a shitload of play since I first heard it — is “King of Days”.
It’s one heavy motherfucker. The main riff is monstrous, and monstrously infectious — the thing prowls my mind so vibrantly that just seeing the name of the track causes its dark bulk to rear up unbidden. Matt Pike’s vocals are also just stunning. He howls and roars like a wounded behemoth, coughing blood and dragging its dying but still dangerous carcass forward for one last kill.
And speaking of killing, Pike’s writhing, squalling solo on this song is decimating, and so is the work of the rhythm section — right up to the pounding drum beats that close it out.
As bleak as this song is, I can’t get enough of it.
“KING OF DAYS”
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As I explained in my review, I thought All We Love We Leave Behind was brilliant and strikingly varied, from the chaotic, technically exuberant discordance of “Aimless Arrow” to the jet-fueled punk rampage of “Tresspasses” and “Sparrow’s Fall” to the mix of brutal sludge and swirling guitar leads in “Sadness Comes Home”, from the martial drum-and-bass hammering in “Empty On the Inside” to the jolting yet atmospheric “Glacial Pace” to the rifftastic stomp of “Veins and Veils”.
But the song that has hung with me the most persistently is a track that comes out of left field on the album. I have a feeling that if I surveyed all fans of this album, “Coral Blue” wouldn’t even break the top 5 in terms of popularity, but this is my list, so fuck it.
“Coral Blue” is a mid-paced, hook-heavy, melodic crusher with a soulful, solitary guitar solo, a feedback fueled finish, and unusually subdued vocals. Here ya go:
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Napalm Death are one of those rare bands who have been making music for really long time and could be forgiven for resting on their thick bed of laurels, but who continue to create brilliant, head-wrecking music as if they were still trying to make a name for themselves.
Their 2012 album Utilitarian (reviewed for us by TheMadIsraeli here) was so damned full of destructive energy and unstoppable beats that it proved to be an adrenaline trigger for me no matter how many times I let it kerb-stomp by head. For me the catchiest track on the album, and one of the year’s most infectious metal onslaughts, was “The Wolf I Feed”.
And honestly, those completely unexpected clean vocals are a prime reason why the song has proven to be so memorable. Who would have guessed?
“THE WOLF I FEED”
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Posted by Islander at 1:22 pm Tagged with: Converge, High On Fire, Napalm Death
13 Responses to “OUR LIST OF 2012’S MOST INFECTIOUS EXTREME METAL SONGS: PART 21”
Gipson says:
“Coral Blue” is a great choice. “Trespasses” is my favorite off the album – and I think one of the most infectious along with “Sadness Comes Home” – but “Coral Blue” has a rarefied air about it. It stands out. You immediately want Converge to take you back to that place and stay awhile.
Who am I to tell Converge how to write songs, but I do think the ending of “Coral Blue” is a let down. The slow, dramatic build of the bridge just begs to land on one more big chorus, and you think you’re going to get it and then…over. I love the song, but that’s disappointing every time.
I have to agree with you about the ending of “Coral Blue”. It jars me every time to have it just stop, as if I got a corrupted file of the song instead of the entire recording. It might just be Converge’s wordless way of saying, “yeah, we can write a song like this if we feel like it, but don’t ever get too comfortable.”
My personal favorite off the records is the title track, especially the first 1:20. I lose my shit every time when those drums come in
Professor D. Grover the XIIIth says:
Finally, Napalm Death. I guess I won’t be needing this molotov cocktail after all.
I confess that I’m unable to separate my assessment of “The Wolf I Feed” as a piece of music from the memory of your threat to burn this place down if I didn’t include it on the list. 🙂
It was a worthy cause, I think.
Terrorstorm says:
January is almost over…. i thought you guys were done with this shit…
January will be over tomorrow and we’ll be done with this shit tomorrow, too.
badassmetslhead says:
could you release a compiled post of all the songs so I can create like a playlist, it’s going to be damn annoying going through every post.
Absolutely — that’s been my plan all along. Hopefully by Friday, I’ll collect all the song info and song-streams in one post, as I’ve done in past years.
BadWolf says:
spotify playlist?
I’m such a neanderthal I’ve never used spotify.
I don’t have spotify in my country (india)
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Our View: Paid military salutes at sports games do disservice
Bulletin Editorial Board
Next time you see an NFL team putting on a program to honor American servicemen and women, think twice about its origins — and then look no further than your own wallet.
According to a May report on nj.com, the U.S. Department of Defense paid 16 NFL franchises — half of them — at least $6 million between 2011 and 2014 for military salutes and other marketing. In other words, what appear to be generous displays of good will toward the military, in some cases, are actually just paid advertising.
In recent years, a shadow of disillusionment has grown over many fans’ excitement and enjoyment as prominent pro players are convicted of violent crimes and a cheating scandal — whatever your opinion on “Deflategate” might be — continues to resonate for the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots just two weeks before this year’s season begins.
So if you’re feeling cynical about the NFL, don’t stop at the players and coaching staffs; think too about the patriotic programs that punctuate play on the field, and what’s driving them.
The teams, being profit-bearing businesses, cannot be faulted for accepting payment for the recruitment efforts they host; though were they to conduct military salutes without payment from the Defense Department, credit would be due rather than mere absolution from blame.
Responsibility rests with the military itself, for whom this is but one example of an exploitative recruitment program that violates the limits of ethics and good taste.
The implication that sports teams are voluntarily conducting military salutes as a public service — when they are in fact bought and paid for — is a disservice to both prospective enlistees and the featured servicemen and women themselves. The former are left with an inflated sense of the reverence with which the public regards the military, and the latter are cynically trotted out as recruiting tools when their service deserves much more sincere treatment.
The military spends hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising, and it’s understandable that creative marketing has become part of that picture. But there is a difference between paid televised ads and in-person salutes before vast crowds, particularly when they are cleverly disguised as solemn tributes the NFL puts on for something other than monetary gain.
That’s our opinion. What’s yours? Email letters@norwichbulletin.com.
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Children in nursing homes a shameful secret
What the Justice Department found is shocking: Hundreds of children, some from the time of infancy, are growing up in nursing homes.
The state can be a savior for children whose families face challenges in raising them. But it can be a lousy parent, too. The U.S. Department of Justice has slammed the state of Florida for dumping sick and disabled children in nursing homes designed for the elderly. This is a gross violation of the children's civil rights under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
What the Justice Department found is shocking: Hundreds of children, some from the time of infancy, are growing up in nursing homes, isolated from others and receiving little education or socialization. Some have been reared, basically, in hospital rooms, a far cry from the "community settings" that the federal law requires.
State Attorney General Pam Bondi says that the state is in compliance with federal law and is fighting a lawsuit filed this year. Given the Justice Department's findings, however, it's time to determine where strict "compliance," which might pass legal muster, turns into the inhumane, costly warehousing of children in inappropriate, harmful environments. Worse, according to advocates for the children, many of them could live at home with their parents at less expense.
Florida, however, has been moving in the other direction, to the detriment of families, their disabled children — and taxpayers, too. Since 1990, the federal Americans with Disabilities Act has been used to shut down deteriorating institutions giving substandard care and move the mentally ill and disabled into their own homes or group homes in a community. But the state has slashed millions of dollars from programs that help parents take care of their challenged children at home; and it has rejected $40 million in federal funds to help these kids remain in or return to their homes.
The state, indeed, is financially strapped, and cuts have necessarily touched many aspects of Floridians' lives. But then why encourage institutionalization by raising the per-diem rate that the state is willing to pay nursing homes to take in disabled children?
And why refuse federal funds that would make the lives of families that much easier? Unfortunately, this has been a frustratingly familiar pattern since Gov. Rick Scott took office — allowing ideology to trump the health and well-being of his constituents. Other misguided moves include refusing to implement Medicaid exchanges and spurning $28 million in federal Healthy Start funding. And, of course, there are other states that will willingly scoop up what Florida rejects, basically, Floridians' hard-earned tax money.
Once again, the state is being penny-wise and pound foolish. Worse, it's playing havoc with people's lives.
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Congress passes bill renewing Violence Against Women Act
JIM ABRAMS,Associated Press
The House has passed and sent to President Barack Obama a far-reaching extension of the Violence Against Women Act.
WASHINGTON — The House has passed and sent to President Barack Obama a far-reaching extension of the Violence Against Women Act.
The vote comes after House Republican leaders, cognizant of the need to improve their faltering image among women voters, accepted a Senate bill passed two weeks ago on a strong bipartisan vote.
The House vote to reauthorize the 1994 law that has set the standard for anti-violence programs came after lawmakers rejected a more limited approach from Republicans.
The law lapsed in 2011 and has been caught up in the partisan battles that now divide Congress. Last year, the House refused to go along with a Senate-passed bill that would have made clear that lesbians, gays, immigrants and Native American women should have equal access to anti-violence programs.
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American Legion Post 88 To Be Sold For $5.25 Million
Post 88 Will Move To Pave Way For Development
By: Alexandra Koehn
One of the oldest American Legion Posts in the country has been sold to a developer for $5.25 Million.
Post 88 in Donelson celebrated their last July 4th barbecue on Elm Hill Pike Wednesday.
"We're doing 170 butts and a hundred and something chickens," Len Chappell said.
The post commander said people come from all over for their food. Veterans like Honey Clark have attended the event for decades.
"They build a good crowd here, it's good barbecue, I've been coming for years and it's really good," Clark said.
It was a patriotic but also bittersweet luncheon.
"So as we grow, now we've sold the building, and we're moving out," Chappell said.
They've been hosting events here since after World War II. It opened in 1947.
"To leave this place to go to a new future, it's sort of like Star Wars adventure because we're going to the unknown," Chappell said.
Post 88 is in the process of closing on the multi-million dollar deal. Folks made sure to celebrate and dance to the music for the last time at the current facility.
"We may be old, but we still love to dance," Clark said.
The American Legion Post 88 will move to McCampbell Avenue, just a few miles away. They're in the process of purchasing several acres there.
Architects are designing a new post, and they hope to break ground in September. In the meantime, the developer will let the veterans stay until their new post is built.
According to the post commander, the developer plans on building shops and a hotel.
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Home Politics Local LIVE ALL DAY VIDEO COVERAGE: AG Barr Press Conference 9:30 AM and...
LIVE ALL DAY VIDEO COVERAGE: AG Barr Press Conference 9:30 AM and Mueller Report release at noon.
WATCH LIVE COVERAGE OF THE MUELLER REPORT FROM CBSN NEWS. CLICK HERE.
WASHINGTON (AP) — After nearly two years of waiting, America will get some answers straight from Robert Mueller— but not before President Donald Trump’s attorney general has his say.
The Justice Department on Thursday is expected to release a redacted version of the special counsel’s report on Russian election interference and the Trump campaign, opening up months, if not years, of fights over what the document means in a deeply divided country.
Even the planned release of the nearly 400-page report quickly spiraled into a political battle Wednesday over whether Attorney General William Barr is attempting to shield the president who appointed him and spin the report’s findings before the American people can read it and come to their own judgments.
Barr will hold a 9:30 a.m. news conference to present his interpretation of the report’s findings, before providing redacted copies to Congress and the public. The news conference, first announced by Trump during a radio interview, provoked immediate criticism from congressional Democrats.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Barr had “thrown out his credibility & the DOJ’s independence with his single-minded effort to protect” Trump. And Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, “The process is poisoned before the report is even released.”
“Barr shouldn’t be spinning the report at all, but it’s doubly outrageous he’s doing it before America is given a chance to read it,” Schumer said.
Hours before Barr’s press conference, Pelosi and Schumer issued a joint statement calling for Mueller to appear before Congress “as soon as possible.”
They said Barr’s “partisan handling” of the report has “resulted in a crisis of confidence in his independence and impartiality.”
A Justice Department official confirmed Barr’s plan to speak and answer questions about his “process” before the report’s public release. He will be accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversaw the investigation after Mueller’s appointment in May 2017. Mueller and other members of his team will not attend, special counsel spokesman Peter Carr said.
After the news conference, the report will be delivered to Congress on CDs between 11 a.m. and noon and then be posted on the special counsel’s website, said the official, who wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Barr formulated the report’s roll-out and briefed the White House on his plans, according to a White House official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. The White House declined to comment on an ABC News report that it had been briefed on the contents of Mueller’s report beyond what Barr has made public.
At a later date, the Justice Department also plans to provide a “limited number” of members of Congress and their staff access to a copy of the Mueller report with fewer redactions than the public version, according to a court filing Wednesday.
The report is expected to reveal what Mueller uncovered about ties between the Trump campaign and Russia that fell short of criminal conduct. It will also lay out the special counsel’s conclusions about formative episodes in Trump’s presidency, including his firing of FBI Director James Comey and his efforts to undermine the Russia investigation publicly and privately.
The report is not expected to place the president in legal jeopardy, as Barr made his own decision that Trump shouldn’t be prosecuted for obstruction. But it is likely to contain unflattering details about the president’s efforts to control the Russia investigation that will cloud his ability to credibly claim total exoneration. And it may paint the Trump campaign as eager to exploit Russian aid and emails stolen from Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s campaign even if no Americans crossed the line into criminal activity.
The report’s release will be a test of Barr’s credibility as the public and Congress judge whether he is using his post to protect Trump.
Barr will also face scrutiny over how much of the report he blacks out and whether Mueller’s document lines up with a letter the attorney general released last month. The letter said Mueller didn’t find a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government but he found evidence on “both sides” of the question of whether the president obstructed justice.
Barr has said he is withholding grand jury and classified information as well as portions relating to ongoing investigation and the privacy or reputation of uncharged “peripheral” people. But how liberally he interprets those categories is yet to be seen.
Democrats have vowed to fight in court for the disclosure of the additional information from the report and say they have subpoenas ready to go if it is heavily redacted.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said Wednesday he will “probably find it useful” to call Mueller and members of his team to testify after reading the version of the report Barr releases.
Nadler also criticized the attorney general for trying to “bake in the narrative” of the report to the benefit of the White House.
Late Wednesday, Nadler joined the chairs of four other House committees in calling for Barr to cancel his news conference. But Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, defended Barr and accused Democrats of “trying to spin the report.”
Collins said Barr has done “nothing unilaterally,” saying he had worked with Rosenstein and Mueller’s team “step by step.”
Mueller is known to have investigated multiple efforts by the president over the last two years to influence the Russia probe or shape public perception of it.
In addition to Comey’s firing, Mueller scrutinized the president’s request of Comey to end an investigation into Trump’s first national security adviser; his relentless badgering of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his recusal from the Russia investigation; and his role in drafting an incomplete explanation about a meeting his oldest son took at Trump Tower with a Kremlin-connected lawyer.
Overall, Mueller brought charges against 34 people — including six Trump aides and advisers — and revealed a sophisticated, wide-ranging Russian effort to influence the 2016 presidential election. Twenty-five of those charged were Russians accused either in the hacking of Democratic email accounts or of a hidden but powerful social media effort to spread disinformation online.
Five former Trump aides or advisers pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate in Mueller’s investigation, among them Trump’s campaign chairman, national security adviser and personal lawyer.
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Political Scene: Can the N.S.A. Be Reformed?
By Matthew McKnight
On this week’s Political Scene podcast, Hendrik Hertzberg and John Cassidy join host Amy Davidson to talk about President Obama’s proposals to make the National Security Administration’s surveillance programs more transparent and more sensitive to civil liberties. The President’s plan includes appointing an independent lawyer to argue against the government before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court and reforming the Patriot Act to strengthen safeguards against the government listening in to citizens’ phone calls. “The steps he outlined,” Hertzberg says, “were gestures in the right direction, but they were really kind of feeble.” What’s more, as Cassidy says, the politics of security and counterterrorism may stand in the way of any substantial policy changes. “The political incentive for Obama and everybody in the White House is to act as tough as possible on all this national-security stuff, including this N.S.A. thing,” he says. “Even though there’s going to be a big brouhaha over this, the policies are basically going to continue.” After all, as he notes, no President wants to risk opening the doors to another terrorist attack.
You can also subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or XML, and become a fan of the Political Scene on Facebook.
Photograph by Andrew Burton/Getty.
Matthew McKnight is a Web producer at newyorker.com.
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May 2018 English Transcript
Greetings, fellow Federationists. Today is Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 and this is presidential release number 472. I cannot believe that it is already May and I think we skipped Spring, at least in Baltimore. We went from sort of cold to hot. I think it's 92 degrees today in Baltimore but I am not at all complaining about the beautiful weather, even though it's a little hotter than I'd like at the beginning of May, there are so many great things happening in the National Federation of the Blind and we are enjoying the nicer weather in Baltimore. We're getting ready for the Preakness Race later this month. Of course, we have to have the Kentucky Derby first, but there's a lot of great activities happening in the community and within the National Federation of the Blind.
We just had our National Scholarship Committee here this past weekend and they have confirmed our 2018 scholarship class. I had the opportunity to observe the work of the committee and look at some of the choices of scholarship finalists. I think you will be very proud, once again, of the scholarship class of the National Federation of the Blind. You'll have to be at the convention, though, to be up close and personal with our scholarship finalists and with thousands of other Federationists, so I hope that you are making plans to be with us in Orlando for our final convention in Florida for some time to come. You'll have to be at the convention to know where we're going next.
I just got back from Seattle, was visiting with the Amazon Company about some of our work on their products and services and accessibility so it has been a busy year and I continue to be jumping from thing to thing. I am gonna be in Canada at the end to this month for meetings of the World Blind Union Executive Committee. So there's lots of things happening before we get to our National Convention.
There's also some great victories and progress we're making in the National Federation of the Blind and I think I'll talk to you about those especially our legislative work, but first, in case you missed it, on April 25th we announced a settlement agreement that's been in the works for a couple of years now with the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS. We have announced a settlement agreement that will provide accessibility to blind beneficiaries and increase equal access to Medicare information.
Because of our work, beneficiaries will be able to make a single request to receive all communications and notices from CMS in an accessible format such as large print, Braille, audio or electronic data. The details of how that's gonna happen and the processes will take a little time to work out but CMS has already been actively engaged in preparing to make some of these changes, and I think if you receive services from CMS of any type you'll be pleased with the progress very soon.
As part of our settlement agreement, CMS must issue accessibility best practices to Medicare health and drug plans, implement a policy that extends the time in which a beneficiary must answer time sensitive communications by the number of days it takes CMS to process the beneficiary's accessible form requests, and develop a plan to promote the availability of accessible materials from CMS. I am not 100 percent sure, but I'm somewhat confident you can plan on visiting with some of the CMS folks at the National Convention. We have invited them to be in the exhibit hall and we have every reason to think they'll be there. This is just one of the great victories we have already had this year. I know it impacts a lot of people who receive services from Health and Human Services, so I congratulate all of us on this next victory in accessible documents.
The healthcare space is a complicated one, even with having full access to the information and without it, it is almost impossible to try to navigate all of the components, so this is a great step forward for us, and if you are a beneficiary, I encourage you to pay attention and start requesting accessible materials when those announcements come out.
We have been making great progress on our legislative initiatives and I wanted to spend a little time talking about them, because urgent action is required during the months of May and June. The primary item that is now coming to the top is the Marrakesh Treaty. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on Wednesday, April 18th, at which Scott LaBarre represented the National Federation of the Blind and it was a very successful hearing. Scott did a fantastic job representing us and it has created the momentum for getting the treaty ratified by the Senate and the Marrakesh Implementation Act, which is the legislation required to implement the components of the treaty that intersect with our law, signed by the president, ultimately. So there is some immediate action to be taken.
The United States Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up consideration of the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act, that's S-2559. That is scheduled to take place at its next executive business meeting which is currently scheduled for May 10th. Regardless of when you're hearing this release you need to contact your United States senators and ask them to support the Marrakesh Implementation Act. We have been urged to get as many cosponsors in the United States Senate as possible.
If we can do it before May 10th, before Judiciary takes up the Implementation Act, that would be great, but we will still have to be pushing forward, especially as the Foreign Relations Committee will need to mark up this bill as well. So even if you're hearing this after May 10th, unless you've heard that we've had successful passage of the Marrakesh Treaty in the United States Senate, please reach out to your senators and urge both of them to support the Marrakesh Treaty and the Marrakesh Implementation Act S-2559. If you can do it before the committees actually take a vote that would be ideal.
As always, you can reach your senators through the Capitol switchboard which you can call at 202-224-3121, that number again, 202-224-3121. We, of course, have a number of other bills working their way through Congress and we continue to make steady progress in the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Our Access Technology Affordability Act continues to gain in both the House and the Senate. We now, as of the making of this release, have 61 cosponsors in the House and 10 cosponsors in the Senate. This bill also continues to move forward. We need to get more people on these bills. There will be some opportunities later in the summer to advance them, so please continue to call your members of Congress about this bill as well.
We are also making great progress on our effort to eliminate discriminatory pay for people with disabilities, primarily by ending the practice through the exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act under Section 14-C. We are making progress on our bill but also in getting the attention of others and getting them to pay attention and advocate for our bill.
In the last month, the National Downs Syndrome Association has spent considerable time and energy on promoting the Time Act. We often show up and people say, well, I can kinda understand how this might be okay for blind people, equality for blind people might be sufficient but what about people with developmental or intellectual disabilities? Well, NDSS has been taking up this charge and these are people with developmental disabilities often, and they're showing up and saying we want equality too, and that is tremendous, and we have been coaching them on the talking points and giving them our expertise from working on this for many, many years.
Also, as we discussed in the last release, of course, Seattle eliminated unequal pay for people with disabilities and now members of the United States Senate have gotten involved in taking up the charge of equal pay for people with disabilities. A number of the members of the Senate sent a joint letter over to the Department of Labor asking for information about the places that use 14-C to pay people with disabilities very low wages, and we are now seeing members of the Senate even getting involved in social media efforts to raise awareness.
Senator Warren sent out a tweet that reads like this, "Did you know, it's legal for companies to pay people with disabilities pennies on the dollar for doing the same job as a worker without a disability? It's a discriminatory practice and I'm working to eliminate it." And she gives a link to an interview she recently did about this. This is very good for us, that members of the Senate are getting more involved in raising awareness about this issue. It's largely because of the work of the National Federation of the Blind and the partnerships we've been creating with other disability run organizations. We need to keep the momentum on so let's continue to talk with our members of Congress about this, but let's also continue to advocate in our cities and in our states that lawmakers there consider eliminating this discriminatory practice of unequal pay for equal work.
There are a lot of things happening at the state level as well. We now have ten of our affiliates that have successfully passed bills related to the rights of blind parents. I think in the last month, Colorado, Nebraska, and Arizona have all joined that group. I don't think we've talked about Arizona getting their legislation passed on this release. So we now have ten affiliates, so it's a great start. We still have a lot more progress to be made on protecting the rights of blind parents, so I urge us also to get out and get that done in our state legislatures in your affiliate.
I urge our chapters to be talking about our legislative priorities, why they are important and to also be considering what new, emerging issues might be coming up that we should be considering as a national organization. Of course, members are invited to bring resolutions to the Resolutions Committee in advance of the convention so that the committee may consider resolutions to bring to the floor of our convention this summer. So if there are policies that we have to been pursuing that you feel we should, come to the convention, bring a resolution to the committee before the convention and let's talk about what other policies we should have and pursue in the National Federation of the Blind in the next year.
I do have a number of Federation family notes for this release that I want to share with you. I'm sorry to have to share news of a number of our Federation family members who have passed away in the last month. These include Lauren Schmidt of Iowa City who passed away in the middle of April. Lauren was born and raised in Iowa, attended the Iowa Commission for the Blind when Dr. Jernigan was there, spent time in Idaho and Kansas, and eventually returned to Iowa. Also, our San Juaquin County Chapter in California reports the death of Raul Gutierrez who passed away on April 14th, 2018. Raul was one of the original members of the chapter. He was an inspiration to many in the chapter. He had not been as active lately as he once was because of his health, but he will definitely be missed in our Federation family.
We also have a couple of long-time leaders who have lost parents in the last little while or parents-in-law. Julie Deeden, Director of our Colorado Center, lost her mother recently and was not able to be at the scholarship committee meeting. And our president in Virginia, Tracy Sefranco, lost his father-in-law, Leonard Appel, who was a great supporter of our youth programs in Virginia. I urge you to keep all of these members and closely associated friends of the National Federation of the Blind and their families in your thoughts and prayers this month.
I do have one joyous bit of news to share with you and that is that Frank Coppel, our president of the National Federation of the Blind of South Carolina and his wife, Frank and Shelly are grandparents two times over, having the joyous news of twin grandsons being born on Thursday, April 26th at 7:41 and 7:42 a.m. So congratulations to the newest grandchildren of the Coppel family and to all of the other Federationists who have had joyous experiences that should be celebrated that I did not hear about over the last month.
This will be the last release before our National Convention. We have a ton of stuff to do to get ready for the convention and I have some speeches to write and I mentioned a trip to Canada for the World Blind Union and we have our Dot Dash 6K Race and we have a couple of chapters who are coming to visit the national office in the meantime. And as you've already heard, a lot of possibility of moving some of our legislative priorities in the next two months. I think we're going to have a great deal of stuff to celebrate at our National Convention. I do urge you to register, preregister by May 31st, but if for some reason you don't, you can still work out being with us at the convention to celebrate our success and to plan for the future. I look forward to seeing you at the convention. I do urge you to come by the presidential suite and I hope that I'll have the ability to spend a little time visiting with you.
That's what I have for the May Presidential Release. I will make the next release shortly after our National Convention. Until then, I am going to leave you with the customary endings and remember, you can live the life you want, blindness is not what holds you back. Let's go build the National Federation of the Blind.
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Palm Harbor Facts
Mild winters with lots of sunshine and summers tempered by the cool long breezes from the Gulf of Mexico make Palm Harbor a pleasant choice. Temperatures average 64F in winter, and about 81F in the summer. The average annual rainfall is 50 inches, with most falling in late afternoon thundershowers from June through September.
To enter kindergarten, a child must be five years old on or before September 1st of the school year. To enter first grade, a child must have satisfactorily completed kindergarten and be six on or before September 1st of the school year. For enrollment, Florida schools require dated immunization records, proof of a physical exam by a licensed physician within the last 12 months, and a birth certificate. School assignments are determined by parents' or guardians' place of residence. For school zone information, contact the Pinellas County Pupil Assignment Department at 727-586-1818.
Palm Harbor is an unincorporated community, governed by the Pinellas County Commission
The 1985 State Legislature provided a special status for Palm Harbor, protecting it from annexation by surrounding municipalities and providing a mechanism for citizens to levy by referendum special purpose taxes to fund services not provided by the county.
Palm Harbor Community Services Agency, Inc. (PHCSA) is a Florida not-for-profit corporation with a seven member board of directors and two representatives from Palm Harbor Friends of the Library, two representatives from the Greater Palm Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce, one county-at-large position, and two from the Recreation League. This Board of Directors oversees operations, programs, maintenance of facilities of the Palm Harbor Library and Palm Harbor Recreation Department. The Board meets monthly (second Wednesday at 7pm at the Palm Harbor Library public invited). Funding for the Library & Recreation Department is in part from special-purpose taxes. As of 1998, the total millage rate levied in Palm Harbor for recreation programs was .25 mills, and .25 mills for library programs.
Historical Palm Harbor
People began occupying the area now known as Palm Harbor as early as 1860. Between 1864 and 1925 Palm harbor went through three names and was a pioneer town, a farming center, a developer's dream, a resort town and a college town.
Even before the Civil War, pioneers began to trek southward to Florida, including the Palm Harbor area. The year round warm weather made the area conducive to farming, citrus groves, and fishing. Warm mineral springs gave birth to spas and health resorts. Some citrus groves are still in existence, and fishing & farming still provide a livelihood to some area residents. For a day of relaxation, visit one of our resorts, parks, or nearby beaches. For a step back in time, stroll down Florida Avenue in historic downtown Palm Harbor where many of the early buildings remain, open and welcoming just as they were in the beginning. Business services, beauty and barber facilities, dining, shopping and the Greater Palm Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce are located in the downtown area. Make a special visit to the North Pinellas Historical Museum at Belcher Road & Curlew for a look back at history. www.pinellascounty.org/heritage/north_historical_museum.htm
Located east of US 19 on East Lake Road, Palm Harbor, this unincorporated area is currently comprised of over 5,749 occupied households. The East Lake area of Palm Harbor has East Lake Community Library www.eastlakelibrary.org and is located in the East Lake Tarpon Special Fire Control District, which follows the identical boundaries as the East Lake Taxing District. Brooker Creek Preserve is located off of East Lake Rd. in the northeast corner of Pinellas County. This 8,000 acre preserve established by the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners is truly a wilderness island in the middle of urbanization.
Located on the Gulf of Mexico, Crystal Beach is an older community with a mix of unique older homes as well as new houses. At the west end of Crystal Beach Ave. is Live Oak City Park.
The real history of Crystal Beach begins in 1912 when two gentlemen from Texas took over a development started by Mr. Avery and Mr. Rebstock & Co., which they named Crystal Beach after a place near their home in Canada. The Texans, Dr. J.D. Hanby and Mr. A.D. Powers, laid out the streets in squares, leaving a parkway and a road all along the Gulf so all residents could have access to the water. Their brochure read, "We will forever hold this strip of land as a park for the use of the residents of Crystal Beach." Land was also set aside for Live Oak Park which at that time had a fountain and pool with fish in it. Crystal Beach has never been incorporated and the Community Club, which was organized in 1941, has been the surrogate government.
Founded as a gulf-front fishing village and located west of Alt US 19 (just south of Crystal Beach), this community was first called Yellow Bluff for a high mound of yellow sand visible from the bay. It was settled by a couple of doctors from Chicago and St. Louis who brought down asthmatic patients and later made it their home. The story goes that the name Yellow Bluff was discarded because of the unpopularity at the time of any name suggestive of yellow fever. The doctors are said to have suggested "Ozona" because of the invigorating gulf breezes. Ozona, older than Palm Harbor , has its own Post Office and elementary school. A focal point of Ozona is the Ozona Village Hall. Built in 1900 with money raised primarily from bake sales, the hall was and still is the social and political center of Ozona. The hall is home to OVIS (Ozona Village Improvement Society).
Palm Harbor is approximately 45 minutes from downtown St. Petersburg and Tampa. Palm Harbor is largely a residential community with several concentrations of commerce. Downtown Palm Harbor, north of Tampa Rd., is host to many quaint shops and restaurants along with several historic buildings. Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club, a nationally-regarded golf course, is located off U.S. 19 in Palm Harbor.
Located on the Gulf of Mexico, midway down the Florida peninsula, the community of Palm Harbor has a short but rich history, a prosperous present, and a most promising future.Palm Harbor, unlike most of coastal Florida, terrain rises from the Gulf of Mexico to an average elevation of 25 feet, with some land as high as 80 feet above sea level. Palm Harbor residents enjoy all the advantages of a major city while living in an attractive suburban setting.
Palm Harbor is known for its excellent public schools, all are rated "A" by the state and have scores of 9s or 10s from GreatSchools
Downtown Palm Harbor
The historic downtown district of Palm Harbor, at Florida Avenue and Alt. US 19 and CR 1, has numerous festivals and craft fairs. Old Palm Harbor Main Streets, hosts their signature event the first Friday of each month. Palm Harbor's First Friday Celebrations are popular community events for youngsters and adults alike. There are rides and games for the children, with opportunities to dine on food from the many local restaurants, enjoy local artists & crafters displaying and selling their wares. Annually, the first Sunday in October marks when the "Taste of Palm Harbor" festival is held. The event is sponsored by the Palm Harbor Junior Women's Club with the proceeds benefiting their "Making a Difference" grants & scholarships program. The Taste of Palm Harbor offers live music and the tasting of samples from over 20 of the local restaurants.
As of July 2010, the area collectively known as Palm Harbor remains as a part of unincorporated Pinellas County.
Palm Harbor is located at 28°5′2″N 82°45′14″W
Palm Harbor was originally called Sutherland, a shortening of Southern Land and Development Company, the group that originally platted the community as Sutherland, Hillsborough County in 1888. The name was changed to Palm Harbor in 1925. Palm Harbor was originally settled by pioneers including the Thompsons ca 1865, the Whitehursts, the Hollands, the Tinneys, the Suttons, the Rivieres, the Bensons, the Roberts, the Aldermans and the Wilsons. J.C. Craver was the first Northerner to permanently settle in this portion of Hillsborough County. According to Craver's diary, still in the family, he came here in the winter of 1877 upon the advice of his physician. A post office commission under the name of Bay St. Joseph was granted in 1878, this being the earliest written record of the community. The name Bay St. Joseph was used only a short time before Yellow Bluff replaced it. But that name proved relatively short-lived, as a few years later its negative connotation with the yellow fever epidemic gave way to its present name. Palm Harbor was originally called Sutherland after a post office was granted in 1888, the same year the railroad came through. Sutherland boasted two beautiful hotels, the larger one becoming Southern College in 1902. It sat high on the bluff overlooking Sutherland Bayou and the Gulf of Mexico. Sutherland was thought to be named after Duke of Sutherland, who visited these parts after landing at Tarpon Springs in 1887. Palm Harbor also has a unique "hilly" geography which is uncommon in the relatively flat Florida.Demographics
There were 25,461 households in Palm Harbor out of which 27.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.3% were married couples living together, 8.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.6% were non-families. 28.1% of all households in Palm Harbor were made up of individuals and 14.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size in Palm Harbor was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.79.As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 59,248 people, 25,461 households, and 16,906 families residing in Palm Harbor. The population density was 1,276.6/km² (3,306.8/mi²). There were 28,044 housing units at an average density of 604.2/km² (1,565.2/mi²). The racial makeup of Palm Harbor was 95.83% Caucasian, 0.97% African American, 0.19% Native American, 1.28% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.60% from other races, and 1.10% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.45% of the population.
In Palm Harbor the population was spread out with 20.8% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 23.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females there were 88.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.5 males.
The median income for a household in Palm Harbor was $45,404, and the median income for a family was $52,925. Males had a median income of $41,003 versus $29,287 for females. The per capita income for Palm Harbor was $26,470. About 4.3% of families and 5.5% of the population were considered below the poverty line, including 5.2% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over.
Palm Harbor Chamber of Commerce
The Greater Palm Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce is a voluntary organization of business and professional men and women who have joined together for the purpose of promoting the civic and commercial progress of our community.The area’s economic well-being is related directly to the caliber of work that is done by the Palm Harbor Chamber. That is why the Palm Harbor Chamber has a major impact on business, income and future growth of the area.There are two primary functions of a chamber of commerce:
1. It acts as a spokesman for the business and professional community and translates into action the group thinking of its members
2. It renders specific services of a type that an be most effectively rendered by a community organization both to its members and to the community as a whole.
The Board of Directors, the policy making body of the Greater Palm Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce, represents the business and professional leadership of the community. The Board consists of not less than 15 members; one third are elected each year for a three year term.
The Greater Palm Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce, Inc. is financed primarily by the investments of its members. Special projects are also conducted throughout the year such as the Palm Harbor Arts, Crafts & Music Festival in December, Golf Tournaments, and others.
Hospitals/medical centers near Palm Harbor:
MEASE HOSPITAL DUNEDIN (Acute Care Hospitals, Government - Local, provides emergency services, about 5 miles away; DUNEDIN, FL)
HELEN ELLIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (Acute Care Hospitals, Voluntary non-profit - Other, provides emergency services, about 5 miles away; TARPON SPRINGS, FL)
MEASE COUNTRYSIDE HOSPITAL (Acute Care Hospitals, Voluntary non-profit - Private, provides emergency services, about 7 miles away; SAFETY HARBOR, FL)
Amtrak stations near Palm Harbor:
4 miles: TARPON SPRINGS (2337 U.S. 19) - Bus Station
8 miles: CLEARWATER (20967 U.S. 19) - Bus Station
College/University in Palm Harbor:
Central Florida Institute (Full-time enrollment: 868; Location: 30522 US Hwy 19 N Ste 300; Private, for-profit; Website: www.cfinstitute.com)
Colleges/universities with over 2000 students nearest to Palm Harbor:
St Petersburg College (about 14 miles; Clearwater, FL; Full-time enrollment: 9,555)
Pasco-Hernando Community College (about 15 miles; New Port Richey, FL; FT enrollment: 4,159)
University of South Florida-Main Campus (about 21 miles; Tampa, FL; FT enrollment: 27,329)
University of South Florida-St. Petersburg Campus (about 24 miles; St. Petersburg, FL; FT enrollment: 2,227)
Public high school in Palm Harbor:
PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH (Students: 1139; Location: 1900 OMAHA ST, Palm Harbor)
Private high schools in Palm Harbor:
CENTER ACADEMY (Students: 82; Location: 34054 US HIGHWAY 19 N, Palm Harbor; Grades: 3 - 12)
PALM HARBOR PREPARATORY (Students: 12; Location: 1522 OHIO AVE, Palm Harbor; Grades: 9 - 12)
Public elementary/middle schools in Palm Harbor:
PALM HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL (Students: 1378; Location: 1800 TAMPA RD, Palm Harbor)
JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL (Students: 1287; Location: 3301 BENTLEY DR, Palm Harbor)
CYPRESS WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 353; Location: 4900 CYPRESS WOODS BLVD, Palm Harbor)
OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 343; Location: 601 TAMPA RD, Palm Harbor)
HIGHLAND LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 342; Location: 1230 HIGHLANDS BLVD, Palm Harbor)
CURLEW CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 329; Location: 3030 CURLEW RD, Palm Harbor)
LAKE ST. GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 317; Location: 2855 COUNTY RD 95, Palm Harbor)
SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 309; Location: 3150 BELCHER RD, Palm Harbor)
PALM HARBOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 213; Location: 415 15TH ST, Palm Harbor)
Private elementary/middle schools in Palm Harbor:
WESTLAKE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (Students: 303; Location: 1551 BELCHER RD, Palm Harbor; Grades: KG - 8
PALM HARBOR MONTESSORI ACADEMY (Students: 227; Location: 2355 NEBRASKA AVE, Palm Harbor; Grades: PK - 8
NEW HORIZONS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL (Students: 203; Location: 2060 NEBRASKA AVE, Palm Harbor; Grades: PK - 5)
SCHOOL OF THE SUNCOAST (Students: 80; Location: 1857 CURLEW RD, Palm Harbor; Grades: KG - 7)
SPRING VALLEY SCHOOL (Students: 20; Location: 2109 NEBRASKA AVE, Palm Harbor; Grades: UG - UG)
HUNTINGTON LEARNING CENTER (Students: 17; Location: 33223 US HIGHWAY 19 N, Palm Harbor; Grades:2 - 10)
Banks with most branches in Palm Harbor
SunTrust Bank: County Road 1 Branch, East Lakes Woodlands Branch, Lansbrook Branch, Palm Harbor Branch. Info updated 11/24/2010: Bank assets: $164,556.8 mil, Deposits: $123,435.4 mil, headquarters in Atlanta, GA, negative income in the last year, Commercial Lending Specialization, 1732 total offices, Holding Company: Suntrust Banks, Inc.
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association: Boot Ranch Branch, Ridgemoor Branch, Palm Harbor Branch. Info updated 12/01/2010: Bank assets: $1,070,489.0 mil, Deposits: $811,027.0 mil, headquarters in Sioux Falls, SD, positive income, 6537 total offices, Holding Company: Wells Fargo & Company
Regions Bank: Lansbrook Branch, The Palm Harbor Branch, Alternate 19 Branch. Info updated 02/09/2009: Bank assets: $129,067.7 mil, Deposits: $99,803.3 mil, headquarters in Birmingham, AL, negative income in the last year, Commercial Lending Specialization, 1784 total offices, Holding Company: Regions Financial Corporation
Bank of America, National Association: Lake St. George Branch, Palm Harbor Branch, Tarpon Woods Branch. Info updated 11/18/2009: Bank assets: $1,489,198.0 mil, Deposits: $1,021,724.0 mil, headquarters in Charlotte, NC, positive income, 5991 total offices, Holding Company: Bank Of America Corporation
Anderen Bank: East Lake Branch at 3412 East Lake Road,Palm Harbor, branch established on 11/15/2007; at 3412 East Lake Road, branch established on 11/15/2007. Info updated 06/09/2008: Bank assets: $19.8 mil, Deposits: $15.9 mil, local headquarters, negative income in the last year, Commercial Lending Specialization, 5 total offices, Holding Company: Anderen Financial, Inc.
Whitney National Bank: Palm Harbor Branch at 35388 Us Hwy 19 North, branch established on 11/21/1985; Messenger Sevice Branch at 35388 Us Hwy 19 North, branch established on 02/20/2000. Info updated 12/22/2008: Bank assets: $11,499.5 mil, Deposits: $8,867.1 mil, headquarters in New Orleans, LA, negative income in the last year, Commercial Lending Specialization, 171 total offices, Holding Company: Whitney Holding Corporation
Fifth Third Bank: Palm Harbor Branch at 1100 East Lake Road, branch established on 08/16/1995; Palm HarborBranch at 1027 Nebraska Avenue, branch established on 02/04/1971. Info updated 10/05/2009: Bank assets: $110,197.0 mil, Deposits: $83,619.5 mil, headquarters in Cincinnati, OH, positive income, Commercial Lending Specialization, 1368 total offices, Holding Company: Fifth Third Bancorp
Branch Banking and Trust Company: Lake Saint George Branch at 3400 Tampa Road, branch established on 04/30/2007; Palm Harbor Branch at 35098 Us Hwy 19 North, branch established on 02/01/1936. Info updated 03/29/2010: Bank assets: $151,545.4 mil, Deposits: $105,623.4 mil, headquarters in Winston Salem, NC, positive income, Commercial Lending Specialization, 1795 total offices, Holding Company: Bb&T Corporation
Patriot Bank: Palm Harbor Branch at 1103 Florida Avenue, branch established on 04/16/2007. Info updated 11/03/2006: Bank assets: $14.0 mil, Deposits: $11.5 mil, headquarters in Trinity, FL, positive income, Commercial Lending Specialization, 5 total offices
4 other banks with 4 local branches
Fire-safe hotels and motels in Palm Harbor, Florida:
Knights Inn, 34106 Us Hwy 19 N, Palm Harbor, FL 34684 , Phone: (727) 789-2002, Fax: (727) 784-6206
Red Roof Inn, 32000 Us Hwy 19 N, Palm Harbor, FL 34684 , Phone: (727) 786-2529, Fax: (813) 786-7462
Starwood Hotel & Resorts, 36750 US Hwy 19 N, Palm Harbor, FL 34684 , Phone: (800) 456-2000
Best Western Palm Harbor, 37611 Us Hwy 19 N,Palm Harbor, FL 34684 , Phone: (727) 942-0358, Fax: (727) 938-9826
Strongest AM radio stations in Palm Harbor:
WGUL (860 AM; 5 kW; DUNEDIN, FL; Owner: WGUL-FM, INC.)
Strongest FM radio stations in Palm Harbor:
WBBY (107.3 FM; ST. PETERSBURG, FL; Owner: COX RADIO, INC.)
TV broadcast stations around Palm Harbor:
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UK Seeking To Encourage Audit Market Competition
Companies looking for auditing services may benefit from a more competitive market if changes are recommended as part of a recently launched Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) review into the industry.
The CMA's detailed study of the audit sector is intended to examine concerns that it is not working well for the economy or investors.
As part of its review, the CMA will investigate whether the sector is competitive and resilient enough to maintain high quality standards. The move comes amid growing concerns about statutory audits, in particular following the collapse of construction firm Carillion and the criticism of those charged with reviewing the organization's books, as well as recent poor results from reviews of audit quality.
The review was launched in October, with feedback sought from stakeholders. Consultation responses to the review have newly been released. The Authority is now moving forward with developing recommendations for UK lawmakers to consider.
Launching the review, CMA Chairman Andrew Tyrie said: "If the many critics of the audit process are right, it is not just the companies which buy audits that lose out; it is the millions of people dependent on savings, pension funds and other investments in those companies whose audits may be defective."
The study will look at:
Choice and switching. According to the CMA, changes put in place by the Competition Commission appear to have strengthened competition between the big four firms – Deloitte, KPMG, EY, and PwC – but the largest UK companies when seeking auditors still turn almost exclusively to one of these firms when selecting an auditor to review their books.
Resilience. The market study will examine what the role of the big four firms means for resilience – in particular that, according to the CMA, each of the big four auditors is "too big to fail," potentially threatening long-term competition.
Incentives. Companies, rather than their investors, pick their own auditor. The CMA's work will examine concerns that this might result in a lack of incentive to produce challenging performance reviews that may improve audit quality.
The CMA said if it finds evidence that the market is not working well after examining these areas, it will scrutinize all proposals for tackling the issue.
Recommendations will focus on: ideas to improve incentives; further separating audit and non-audit services; and reducing barriers to entry and expansion of non-Big Four firms. According to the CMA, this could result in a more competitive market for the benefit of firms seeking auditing services and their investors.
Alongside the launch of the review, a consultation was launched, with responses welcomed until October 30, 2018. On November 20, 2018, responses to the consultation were released, with feedback having been received from firms, industry stakeholders, and members of the public.
The CMA has said, following the consultation, it intends to complete its work as soon as possible. As part of this, the CMA will take into account the views from stakeholders, including the sector regulator, the Financial Reporting Council. A legislative response, if deemed appropriate, would be adopted by October 2019 at the latest.
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GoFundMe for missing West Chester University professor seeks funds to hire private investigator
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Thomas Short Jr. is a popular statistics professor at West Chester University.
The family of a West Chester University professor who went missing during the Thanksgiving holiday is seeking help to hire a private investigator to track down his whereabouts.
Thomas Short Jr., an associate professor of mathematics at West Chester, was reported missing by his family in Ohio after he didn't show up for Thanksgiving dinner. He had arrived in the town of Orange Village, about 20 miles east of Cleveland, around Nov. 18.
Amy Beltano, Short's sister, said her brother's car was found at an Orange Village hotel where he'd made reservations. He never picked up his room key or contacted his friends, siblings or parents. His phone was found inside his car.
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An initial investigation by police found that Short arrived in the Beechwood area on Nov. 18, according to the family. Surveillance footage showed him at a local store that day and a credit card purchase was made at another business. All trace of him was lost after that.
A GoFundMe page set up by the family seeks $25,000 to hire a private investigator to pursue the case.
"We need Tom to come home," the page reads. "Tom is a valued and essential member of our family. His parents, wife, siblings, children, cousins, aunts and uncles are heartbroken over his disappearance."
As of Tuesday morning, the family had raised more than $23,500 toward their goal. They are within striking distance of hiring an investigator who's been recommended by several Cleveland area law firms. The cost of his services could range from $25,000 to $50,000.
Short is described as 6-foot-1 with blond hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a white baseball hat, a dark-blue sweater and blue jeans.
Anyone with information about Short's disappearance or whereabouts is asked to contact Orange Village police at (440) 247-7321.
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Office of Communications » Drone Research Documents Reforestation at Pitzer’s Firestone Center in Costa Rica
Drone Research Documents Reforestation at Pitzer’s Firestone Center in Costa Rica
Aerial image by Andrew Marx and Ahmed Alzahrani
Claremont, Calif. (February 8, 2017)—Professor of Biology and Environmental Science Donald McFarlane has released data from a collaborative research project that used aerial drones to measure rates of reforestation at Pitzer College’s Firestone Center for Restoration Ecology in Costa Rica. The data, published in the article “UAV data for multi-temporal Landsat analysis of historic reforestation: a case study in Costa Rica,” reveals nearly total regrowth in the low-land tropical forest once cleared to raise cattle. The paper was published in the International Journal of Remote Sensing.
McFarlane and co-authors Andrew Marx, an assistant professor at Claremont Graduate University’s Center for Information Systems and Technology, and CGU doctoral student Ahmed Alzahrani describe how new data, culled from high-resolution images taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), can be used in conjunction with data from historic, low-resolution satellite images of the 150-acre Firestone Center in southwest Costa Rica.
“The drone data, combined with Landsat data and findings from student research on the ground, gives us a 30-year record of land use change,” McFarlane said. “It’s important data for the Firestone Center and has potential use for much larger areas as well.”
Once blanketed by coastal primary-growth rainforest, the land that now makes up the College’s Firestone Center was cleared by cattle ranchers in the ’50s and ’60s. Environmentalist and philanthropist Diane Firestone initiated reforestation projects after she acquired the land in the early 1990s. She donated the property to Pitzer in 2005, giving the College a base for its semester-long study abroad program and a tropical ecological field station for undergraduate research.
For more than a decade, Pitzer students and professors have helped restore the forest by cutting back invasive species and planting native trees. They have also gauged the effects and rates of reforestation on the ecosystem by monitoring water quality, studying fruit-feeding butterflies, leaf-cutter ants and poison-dart frogs, and charting ecological changes using mapping software. The new paper shows the success of those efforts and the enormous benefit of protecting the land so it can heal on its own.
“Land that was cleared is now almost entirely vegetated in,” McFarlane said.
A graph in the paper shows a dramatic change in land cover since Firestone turned the land into a reserve. From 1993 to 2016, land cover skyrocketed from 8 percent to 93 percent.
The techniques used by this intercollegiate research team (in addition to McFarlane, Marx and Alzahrani, the team included Claremont Colleges Library GIS Specialist Warren Roberts, wildlife biologist Keith Christenson and four students from the W.M. Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps colleges) can be incorporated by environmental land managers to plan and measure their own restoration efforts. Agile “quadcopter” drones mounted with multispectral cameras fill in information gaps left by aircraft and satellite imagery, especially in dense forest areas with a thick tree canopy, like the Firestone Center, which can interfere with GPS signals and make both aerial imaging and ground survey work very difficult.
This coming summer, research will continue, using drones and Landsat images to measure drought stress in trees. Based on that data, McFarlane says the team will be able to “make predictions about how the forest may respond to future climate change.”
McFarlane has led numerous student research projects at Pitzer College’s Firestone Center for Restoration Ecology since the center opened in 2005. He began teaching tropical biology shortly after he arrived at the Keck Science Department in 1992, leading students on research trips to Costa Rica over spring break more than a decade before Pitzer established the Firestone Center. An awardee of multiple grants from the National Geographic Society’s Global Exploration Fund, McFarlane has published more than 100 articles on his many research interests, including the ecology of extinction, paleobiology and the ecology of cave ecosystems.
More information about Pitzer College’s Firestone Center and study abroad is available on the College’s website.
About the W.M. Keck Science Department
The W.M. Keck Science Department is the interdisciplinary home to all biology, chemistry, and physics faculty for Pitzer, Claremont McKenna and Scripps colleges. The department is administered cooperatively and is housed within an 81,000-square-foot center located at the intersection of the three colleges. The department offers 13 discrete degree options, including dual-degree programs in partnership with schools of engineering and majors in conjunction with disciplines outside the sciences. The W.M. Keck Science Department provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary instruction in small class settings and numerous opportunities for students to conduct research.
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Backlight: India In Times Of Anger
For a long time India was anticipated to surpass the west as an up-and-coming economic superpower. Globalization actually did boost the Indian economy quite a bit, but to no avail of most of the popul... More...
Documentary - Current Affairs & Politics
For a long time India was anticipated to surpass the west as an up-and-coming economic superpower. Globalization actually did boost the Indian economy quite a bit, but to no avail of most of the population.
Disillusioned and desperate Indian youngsters struggle with the dream that did not come true.
In the early 1990s ‘globalization’ was a magic word; the world was going to be one big community with an all-encompassing, booming economy. Those who didn’t open up their markets quickly, could count on the World Bank’s scorn and criticism. India surrendered, and exchanged its planned economy for an open market.
Now, twenty years later, we can see what globalization has actually done for India. Writer Pankaj Mishra and journalist Snigdha Poonam take stock. Yes, the country has experienced huge economic growth, but the common Indian man and woman didn’t get their share. Three hundred million people are still left empty-handed, and have to make do with ‘one dollar a day’. They are disappointed and angry because they didn’t get what was promised to them.
Globalization promised Indian youngsters they could become anything they want if they studied hard enough, and became skilled self-promotors. Now a million students graduate each month in India, and have to fight for a spot on the workforce. The ones who speak English well can take up coding, the ones who have mastered marketing are promised the moon. Language courses are packed, and teachers of English are treated like superstars.
Whoever loses the battle for the future ends up embittered and on the sidelines, not knowing who is to blame. Groups of citizens lash out, looking for a scapegoat. Prime minister Narendra Modi’s inflammatory, nationalist rhetoric - who between the lines encourages them to live according to old-fashioned Hindu teachings - hits home. Frustration turns into fundamentalism with daily lynchings and even killings of Muslims, because to them the cow is not a sacred animal. The prime minister turns a blind eye, promising the people a new purpose and ideal. And thus one promise replaces the next.
Featuring: Pankaj Mishra (author of Time of Anger) and Snigdha Poonam (journalist for The Hindustan Times and author of The Dreamers, i.a.)
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What Fixing NICS Really Entails – And What it Does NOT Portend
By Lawrence G. Keane
With U.S. House passage of H.R. 38 this week, as amended to include the Fix NICS Act, we are moving toward the one reform that will do the most to help keep firearms out of the hands of those who should not have them. And, despite what some have falsely claimed, it will do so while not interfering with the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans.
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) was established 17 years ago with Congressional passage of the Brady Act. Today, it is generally not known that the instant criminal background check system itself was the recommendation of the firearms industry, long before there was a Brady Act. The operating principle then and now is to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens — and the lawful commerce in firearms — while denying access to firearms by those prohibited by current law from purchasing or possessing guns.
Fix NICS is Not Gun Control
Unlike restrictions on semi-automatic rifles or magazine capacity, Fix NICS is not a “gun control” measure, no matter how some opportunistic co-sponsors on that side of the gun debate may choose to characterize the bill. In truth, the legislation is based on the previous state-level work of the firearms industry to improve a system put into place nearly two decades ago. Ever since its inception, NICS has been hamstrung by the systemic failure to include all necessary disqualifying records in its database.
There are many reasons for this failure. And even so, for the most part, the system works. We know this system better than anyone because our retailers are on the front lines every day using it to help protect public safety. That’s why we launched the FixNICS® initiative in 2013. The legislation before Congress is built on this experience.
We are nearing the end of the fourth year of our industry’s national effort, led by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, to ensure that the system has all the appropriate disqualifying criminal and adjudicated mental health records put into it. We have been successful through our direct efforts with 16 state legislatures to pass reforms to ensure that there are no statutory, regulatory, administrative or procedural impediments to entering all appropriate records into NICS.
NSSF’s work has resulted in a 170 percent increase in records submission, to 4.5 million in 2016 up from only 1.7 million in 2013. That is a record of accomplishment. The legislation now before the U.S. Senate will build on this success by providing incentives for states to submit records and help ensure that the military and federal agencies do their part, as already required under federal law.
Now, let’s discuss what the bill does not do. The definition of a prohibited person is not being expanded. Unelected government bureaucrats cannot unilaterally and arbitrarily put the names of law-abiding Americans into the NICS database to stop them from buying firearms, no matter how loudly some might claim. But it will stop prohibited people like the murderer of the innocent victims in Sutherland Springs from being able to purchase firearms from a federally licensed firearms retailer.
If not NICS, What?
For those on the pro-gun side who argue online or respond to posts with the message that the entire system should be scrapped for whatever reason, or that it will lead someday to a national gun registry, you need to hear this: Take a breath, think. If there was not a NICS system, we would have had some other system imposed, just as we did in the five years before NICS was implemented. The Brady Act imposed a waiting period while NICS was under construction. Would you prefer that? Existing federal law prevents a national registry. That will not change with Fix NICS.
Opposing this legislation because a vocal anti-gun Senator has signed on as a co-sponsor is easy, but it accomplishes nothing meaningful. Most Americans want a system to ensure that gun buyers are law-abiding and not mentally ill. That’s why we have NICS. It is politically unrealistic to think that the abolishment of NICS is even remotely possible. It is absurd to think we can support our Second Amendment rights without it.
No one who sells firearms for their livelihood wants to put a gun into the hands of a criminal or a mentally unstable individual. While we know it’s not perfect, we want to work to improve the system – not expand the law – but improve the system. That’s what the Fix NICS Act will do.
We will oppose any senators’ amendments that may be offered that would be truly anti-gun. These senators need to know that they will fail if they put on a show of placing politics ahead of enacting needed reform and attempt to amend the legislation with a Christmas wish list of unworkable and unconstitutional measures. They will fail their constituents and they will fail America.
We have your back. Beware of those trying to politicize the issue – from either side.
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Archives|Dooh Nibor Economics
Dooh Nibor Economics
By PAUL KRUGMAN JUNE 1, 2004
Last week The Washington Post got hold of an Office of Management and Budget memo that directed federal agencies to prepare for post-election cuts in programs that George Bush has been touting on the campaign trail. These include nutrition for women, infants and children; Head Start; and homeland security. The numbers match those on a computer printout leaked earlier this year -- one that administration officials claimed did not reflect policy.
Beyond the routine mendacity, the case of the leaked memo points us to a larger truth: whatever they may say in public, administration officials know that sustaining Mr. Bush's tax cuts will require large cuts in popular government programs. And for the vast majority of Americans, the losses from these cuts will outweigh any gains from lower taxes.
It has long been clear that the Bush administration's claim that it can simultaneously pursue war, large tax cuts and a ''compassionate'' agenda doesn't add up. Now we have direct confirmation that the White House is engaged in bait and switch, that it intends to pursue a not at all compassionate agenda after this year's election.
That agenda is to impose Dooh Nibor economics -- Robin Hood in reverse. The end result of current policies will be a large-scale transfer of income from the middle class to the very affluent, in which about 80 percent of the population will lose and the bulk of the gains will go to people with incomes of more than $200,000 per year.
I can't back that assertion with official numbers, because under Mr. Bush the Treasury Department has stopped releasing information on the distribution of tax cuts by income level. Estimates by the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, which now provides the numbers the administration doesn't want you to know, reveal why. This year, the average tax reduction per family due to Bush-era cuts was $1,448. But this average reflects huge cuts for a few affluent families, with most families receiving much less (which helps explain why most people, according to polls, don't believe their taxes have been cut). In fact, the 257,000 taxpayers with incomes of more than $1 million received a bigger combined tax cut than the 85 million taxpayers who make up the bottom 60 percent of the population.
Still, won't most families gain something? No -- because the tax cuts must eventually be offset with spending cuts.
Three years ago George Bush claimed that he was cutting taxes to return a budget surplus to the public. Instead, he presided over a move to huge deficits. As a result, the modest tax cuts received by the great majority of Americans are, in a fundamental sense, fraudulent. It's as if someone expected gratitude for giving you a gift, when he actually bought it using your credit card.
The administration has not, of course, explained how it intends to pay the bill. But unless taxes are increased again, the answer will have to be severe program cuts, which will fall mainly on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid -- because that's where the bulk of the money is.
For most families, the losses from these cuts will far outweigh any gain from lower taxes. My back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that 80 percent of all families will end up worse off; the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities will soon come out with a more careful, detailed analysis that arrives at a similar conclusion. And the only really big beneficiaries will be the wealthiest few percent of the population.
Does Mr. Bush understand that the end result of his policies will be to make most Americans worse off, while enriching the already affluent? Who knows? But the ideologues and political operatives behind his agenda know exactly what they're doing.
Of course, voters would never support this agenda if they understood it. That's why dishonesty -- as illustrated by the administration's consistent reliance on phony accounting, and now by the business with the budget cut memo -- is such a central feature of the White House political strategy.
Right now, it seems that the 2004 election will be a referendum on Mr. Bush's calamitous foreign policy. But something else is at stake: whether he and his party can lock in the unassailable political position they need to proceed with their pro-rich, anti-middle-class economic strategy. And no, I'm not engaging in class warfare. They are.
A version of this op-ed appears in print on June 1, 2004, on Page A00019 of the National edition with the headline: Dooh Nibor Economics. Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Baseball: 2-year-old girl hit by foul ball at MLB game suffered skull fracture
Albert Almora Jr of the Chicago Cubs is comforted after checking on a young child that was struck by a hard foul ball off his bat. Photo / Getty Images
The 2-year-old girl who was hit by a foul ball at a Houston Astros game in May suffered a fractured skull and had a seizure, a news release about the injury and child's medical condition stated. The girl also suffered associated subdural bleeding, brain contusions and brain edema.
The child was rushed from the game to a hospital, where she had the seizure and remained for several days, according to the release. She is taking medication to prevent seizures and continues to recover at home.
"The Astros continue to send our thoughts and prayers to the young girl and her family," the Astros said in a statement. "We continue to respect the family's request for privacy and have no further comment at this time."
A 2-year-old girl is rushed from the stands after being hit by a hard foul ball off the bat of Albert Almora Jr at the Houston Astros' Minute Maid Park. Photo / Getty Images
The child's family has been consulting with Houston attorney Richard Mithoff about the injury, stated the release, which was sent from Mithoff's office. Mithoff sent a letter to Astros owner Jim Crane, letting the organisation know he had been retained, along with another attorney, to represent the girl's family. The letter to the Astros also included details on the girl's injuries and condition.
"The Astros' risk management representative reached out to the family, and now that the family is represented by counsel, I wanted to let the other side know that I am involved so that they can get in touch with me," Mithoff told the Houston Chronicle. "It's not unusual to let the other party know when one party has retained counsel."
The Chicago White Sox and Washington Nationals have this season announced plans to extend safety netting down to both foul poles amid concerns about fan safety. Dodgers President and CEO Stan Kasten has said his team will extend the netting at Dodger Stadium.
The Astros said Tuesday that they will conduct their own study of adding extra netting at Minute Maid Park and would not commit to extending it this season.
"We are going to look at what options we could have, potentially for the end of the season but not necessarily during this season," Astros senior vice president of marketing and communications Anita Sehgal said, according to the Chronicle.
In a phone interview with The Washington Post on Wednesday night, Mithoff called Crane a "very responsible owner."
"And I hope and I believe moving forward that Jim will make the right decisions," he said.
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The girl was sitting on her grandfather's lap when she was hit in the back of the head by a foul ball during a game against the Chicago Cubs at Minute Maid Park in late May.
Albert Almora, the Cubs player who hit the foul ball, crouched at home plate and was consoled by teammate Jason Heyward and Cubs manager Joe Maddon. Shortly afterward, he went to the section where the girl was hit and was consoled by a member of the stadium's security staff.
Albert Almora Jr was visibly upset after the incident. Photo / Getty Images
"Obviously, I want to put a net around the whole stadium," Almora said after the game.
The girl's family has a "concern about making sure this doesn't happen again," Mithoff told The Post.
When asked whether the family wants the Astros to pay for the child's medical bills, Mithoff said that he is giving the family some space as she recovers, but that they will "discuss possible options moving forward" in the future.
"I want to give (the Astros) a chance to make the right decision," Mithoff told The Post, when asked whether he was disappointed that the team had not yet committed to extending the netting. "I'll just leave it at that."
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Home Latest News A view on Thailand’s past and its future
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A view on Thailand’s past and its future
This slide showing the beginning of present day Thailand’s long history was one of several presented by Dr. Laohavanich as he described Thailand’s past governments as part of his presentation to the PCEC.
Mano Laohavanich, MD, PhD, presented a riveting talk to the Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) on the political history and future of Thailand, at their meeting on Sunday, May 5, 2019. Dr. Laohavanich’s talk contained a wealth of information on the political history of Thailand from 1238 A.D. to the current election process, as well as his insight into where Thailand is headed in the future; including how these political changes will affect Thai people, tourism and expat living here in the future. Additionally, he provided some views on the role of the monarchy as Thailand moves forward.
Dr. Laohavanich had the audience captivated with a timeline of Thailand’s political history, many details of which were not widely known to the audience. His talk covered details such as Thailand’s involvement with Japan during WWII, the frequency of the Thai government turnovers, many of which were government coups (13 successfully and 5 aborted), and the political players involved in these changes.
Dr. Laohavanich provided his PCEC audience with an informative and interesting talk about Thailand’s past governments and his views on what the future will bring.
Included in the many topics regarding the future of Thailand, he mentioned international trade, foreign relation with other countries, currency exchanges rate expectations in the future, the structure of the new Thai democratic system to be implemented, timeline for future events in Thai politics, global warming – its impact and Thailand’s strategies for mitigation of its effects, and future Thai government relationship with expats.
Many of these comments were in response to questions from his audience, giving his views on what will happen. One dealt with the government’s addressing corruption, to which he responded, corruptions is expected to be reduced in the future under the new government. In addition, social media, such as a Facebook, Line, and Instagram which broadcast news of any wrong doing has helped reduce corruption.
Another dealt with expectations for currency exchange involving the Thai baht. He responded that he thinks the Thai currency is too strong because of the stock market and the trades related to other countries. He believes the Thai baht value should be lower, maybe 33 baht to one U.S. dollar would be appropriate. The current exchange rate is not good for tourism and import trade, although it is good for exports.
Regarding climate change, he explained that there is a plan being developed to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Thailand plans to help the environment by using alternative energy sources, such as solar and wind power, but he doesn’t think this will happen soon. In addition, Thailand is developing a national disaster plan to address the impact of global warming.
Dr. Laohavanich in responding to a question about the future relationship of Thai government and expat retirees, said he does not think it will be a difficult time for the retirement process and other paths that benefit foreigners who settle in Thailand. He thinks that Thailand is now well aware that it has to promote tourism and long stay of people.
In responding to questions, he said that he believes that Thailand faces some challenges in the world regarding international relations, for example, the United States and China; Thailand has to balance its relationships, but one thing is for sure, the relation with China and Russia is going to improve.
Dr. Laohavanich accepts the PCEC’s Certificate of Appreciation for his excellent talk about Thailand’s past and his expectations for the future.
On the political scene and its impact on the economy of Thailand, he said he thinks the Thai economy is no longer based on agriculture; Thailand produces cars and lots of car exports for China from Japan, Japan builds many manufacturing plants here for car manufacturing, also Thailand has a lot of investment coming from EU and United States. Further, Thailand is now somewhat of an industrialized country and he thinks the economy is going to grow, not very fast this year, only about 4%. He noted that the Thai agricultural industry will suffer due to a drought, so farming will not be as good as last year. However, he believes this will be compensated with tourism.
Additionally, Dr. Laohavanich graciously provided a free mediation session to all member attendees after his presentation which was well received by all who attended.
Dr. Laohavanich’s background is quite impressive. Having graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University in 1981, became a monk known as Mettanando Bhikkhu. Finishing all the three grades of Buddhist monastic education, he furthered his study at Oxford University, UK, majoring Sanskrit with Pali and Buddhist literature. Further, he continued his study at Harvard Divinity School, Massachusetts, USA and was award Master of Theology in Buddhist Medical Ethics, focusing of HIV/AIDS epidemics in Thailand. Later, he continued his Doctorate degree at Hamburg University, Germany on “Healing Meditation”.
Member Ren Lexander interviews Dr. Laohavanich about his PCEC presentation. To view the video, visit: https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=AfBgEdL8VUk&t=4s
He disrobed in 2007, after publishing a book, “After Buddha,” wherein he used Buddhist principles of investigation and science in the investigation of the Death of the Buddha and its consequences which stunts the Buddhist World. He was named “Galileo of Theravada Buddhism” by Arthit Magazine in Thailand. He wrote numerous articles on Buddhism, cultures and speakers in many forums worldwide, and served as the Advisor to the Secretary General of WCRP (Religions for Peace), the world largest ecumenical organization working for peace for 20 years.
Also, he has been active in reforming Buddhist monastic communities in Thailand. He served at Chivasom in Hua Hin, Thailand as the Spiritual Advisor. He supervised the first hospice of Thailand at Mahavajiralongkorn Hospital, and serves as the President of Palliative Care Thailand Foundation. Currently, he is the Director of Gandhi Institute and Vice Dean for International Affairs, College of Social Innovation, Rangsit University. Politically, he is the Secretary-General of the People Reform Party of Thailand.
The meeting ended with the usual announcement of upcoming events and the Open Forum, where questions are asked and answered about expat living in Thailand. For more information about the Pattaya City Expats Club, visit their website at www.pcec.club.
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South Korea, US sign cost-sharing deal for American troops
World Feb 10, 2019 12:13 PM EDT
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea and the United States struck a new deal Sunday that increases Seoul’s contribution for the cost of the American military presence on its soil, overcoming previous failed negotiations that caused worries about their decades-long alliance.
The development comes as President Donald Trump is set to hold his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam in late February.
South Korea last year provided about $830 million, covering roughly 40 percent of the cost of the deployment of 28,500 U.S. soldiers whose presence is meant to deter aggression from North Korea. Trump has pushed for South Korea to pay more.
On Sunday, chief negotiators from the two countries signed a new cost-sharing plan, which requires South Korea to pay about 1.04 trillion won ($924 million) in 2019, Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The statement said the two countries reaffirmed the need for a “stable” U.S. military deployment amid the “rapidly changing situation on the Korean Peninsula.” The ministry said the U.S. assured South Korea that it is committed to the alliance and has no plans to adjust the number of its troops in South Korea.
South Korea began paying for the U.S. military deployment in the early 1990s, after rebuilding its economy from the devastation of the 1950-1953 Korean War. The big U.S. military presence in South Korea is a symbol of the countries’ alliance, forged in blood during the war, but also a source of long-running anti-American sentiments.
About 20 anti-U.S. activists rallied near the Foreign Ministry building in Seoul on Sunday, chanting slogans like “No more money for U.S. troops.” No violence was reported.
“The United States government realizes that Korea does a lot for our alliance and peace and stability in the region,” chief U.S. negotiator Timothy Betts said Sunday in Seoul. “We are very pleased our consultations resulted in agreement that will strengthen transparency and deepen our cooperation and the alliance.”
The deal, which involves the spending of South Korean taxpayer money, requires parliamentary approval in South Korea, but not in the United States, according to Seoul’s Foreign Ministry.
The allies had failed to reach a new cost-sharing plan during some 10 rounds of talks. A five-year 2014 deal that covered South Korea’s payment last year expired at the end of 2018.
Some conservatives in South Korea voiced concerns over a weakening alliance with the United States at the same time as negotiations with North Korea to deprive it of its nuclear weapons hit a stalemate. They said Trump might use the failed military cost-sharing negotiations as an excuse to pull back some U.S. troops in South Korea as a bargaining chip in talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Feb. 3 that he has no plans to withdraw troops from South Korea. During his election campaign, Trump suggested he could pull back troops from South Korea and Japan unless they took on greater a share of the financial burdens of supporting U.S. soldiers deployed there.
South Korean media earlier reported that Trump demanded South Korea double its spending for the U.S. military deployment, before his government eventually asked for 1.13 trillion won ($1 billion). Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said the U.S. had called for a sharp increase in South Korean spending but didn’t elaborate.
Trump announced last week that he will sit down with Kim for their second summit. Their first summit in Singapore last June resulted in Kim’s vague commitment to the “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” a term that his propaganda machine previously used when it argued it would only denuclearize after the U.S. withdraws its troops from South Korea.
Trump’s top envoy for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, visited Pyongyang last week to work out details of the upcoming summit. After being briefed by Biegun about his Pyongyang trip, South Korea’s presidential office said Sunday that U.S. and North Korean officials plan to meet again the week of Feb. 17 in an unidentified Asian country.
The U.S. military arrived in South Korea to disarm Japan, which colonized the Korean Peninsula from 1910-45, following its World War II defeat. Most U.S. troops were withdrawn in 1949 but they returned the next year to fight alongside South Korea in the Korean War.
Associated Press journalists Chang Yong Jun and Lee Jin-man contributed to this report.
Left: South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and Timothy Betts, acting Deputy Assistant Secretary and Senior Advisor for Security Negotiations and Agreements in the U.S. Department of State, shake hands before their meeting at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, February 10, 2019. Photo By Lee Jin-man/Pool via Reuters
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FDA Approves First Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Bladder Cancer
April 16, 2019 PR-M04-19-NI-050
SILVER SPRING, Md. /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today granted accelerated approval to Balversa (erdafitinib), a treatment for adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer that has a type of susceptible genetic alteration known as FGFR3 or FGFR2, and that has progressed during or following prior platinum-containing chemotherapy. Patients should be selected for therapy with Balversa using an FDA-approved companion diagnostic device.
"We're in an era of more personalized or precision medicine, and the ability to target cancer treatment to a patient's specific genetic mutation or biomarker is becoming the standard, with advances being made in new disease types. Today's approval represents the first personalized treatment targeting susceptible FGFR genetic alternations for patients with metastatic bladder cancer," said Richard Pazdur, M.D., director of the FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence and acting director of the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "FGFRs regulate important biological processes including cell growth and division during development and tissue repair. This drug works by targeting genetic alterations in FGFRs."
The most common type of bladder cancer is transitional cell carcinoma, also called urothelial carcinoma. Bladder cancers are associated with genetic mutations that are present in the patient's bladder or entire urothelium (the lining of the lower urinary tract). Bladder cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the United States. Fibroblast growth factor (FGFR) alterations are present in approximately one in five patients with recurrent and refractory bladder cancer.
The efficacy of Balversa was studied in a clinical trial that included 87 patients with locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer, with FGFR3 or FGFR2 genetic alterations, that had progressed following treatment with chemotherapy. The overall response rate in these patients was 32.2%, with 2.3% having a complete response and almost 30% having a partial response. The response lasted for an average of approximately five-and-a-half months. About a quarter of patients in the study were previously treated with anti PD-L1/PD-1 therapy, which is a standard treatment for patients with locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer. Responses to Balversa were seen in patients who had previously not responded to anti PD-L1/PD-1 therapy.
Common side effects reported by patients taking Balversa were increased phosphate level, mouth sores, feeling tired, change in kidney function, diarrhea, dry mouth, nails separating from the bed or poor formation of the nail, change in liver function, low salt (sodium) levels, decreased appetite, change in sense of taste, low red blood cells (anemia), dry skin, dry eyes and hair loss. Other side effects include redness, swelling, peeling or tenderness on the hands or feet (hand foot syndrome), constipation, stomach pain, nausea and muscle pain.
Balversa may cause serious eye problems, including inflamed eyes, inflamed cornea (front part of the eye) and disorders of the retina, an internal part of the eye. Patients are advised to have eye examinations intermittently and to tell their health care professional right away if they develop blurred vision, loss of vision or other visual changes. Health care professionals are advised to check patients' blood phosphate level between 14 and 21 days after starting treatment and monthly, and to increase the dose Balversa in patients whose serum phosphate is below the target level.
Health care professionals are advised to tell male patients with female partners of reproductive potential to use effective contraception during treatment with Balversa and for one month after the last dose. Pregnancy testing is recommended for females of reproductive potential prior to initiating treatment with Balversa. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding should not take Balversa because it may cause harm to a developing fetus or newborn baby. Balversa must be dispensed with a patient Medication Guide that describes important information about the drug's uses and risks.
Balversa received an Accelerated Approval, which enables the FDA to approve drugs for serious conditions to fill an unmet medical need using clinical trial data that is thought to predict a clinical benefit to patients. Further clinical trials are required to confirm Balversa's clinical benefit and the sponsor is conducting or plans to conduct these studies. Balversa was also granted Breakthrough Therapy designation. The FDA granted the approval of Balversa to Janssen Pharmaceutical.
The FDA also approved the therascreen FGFR RGQ RT-PCR Kit, developed by QIAGEN Manchester, Ltd., for use as a companion diagnostic with Balversa for this therapeutic indication.
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Series Preview: Floundering Phillies set to host Reds at CBP
Patrick Gordon, Managing Editor Friday, May 26, 2017 Phillies
By Patrick Gordon, Managing Editor , Friday, May 26, 2017 Labels: Phillies No comments
The Philadelphia Phillies avoided a series sweep Thursday with a 2-1 extra-inning win over Colorado at Citizens Bank Park. Bumbling in the midst of a 4-20 stretch, the Phillies have the worst record in baseball and welcome the Cincinnati Reds for a weekend series.
“Today was a good step in the right direction,” said first baseman Tommy Joseph, who had a game-tying solo home run in the seventh inning Thursday and provided the game-winning hit in the 11th. “Winning helps with a positive environment, and looking forward to building on it.”
The Phillies last won back-to-back games on April 26th and 27th,
"It's a tough stretch, no doubt," said Phillies manager Pete Mackanin. "I believe though that we are a better team than our record indicates. We just need some things to go our way."
Pitching Matchups
Friday: RHP Tim Adleman (2-2, 6.19) vs. Aaron Nola (2-1, 3.52)
Saturday: RHP Bronson Arroyo (3-4, 6.75) vs. RHP Jerad Eickhoff (0-5, 4.70)
Sunday: RHP Scott Feldman (4-4, 3.99) vs. RHP Zach Eflin (0-2, 5.36)
All About the Reds
I reached out to writer Jordan Barhorst (@JordanBarhorst) of Redleg Nation to get his take on how things are going with the Reds.
What's the main story line right now with the Reds?
I'd say the story of the year for the Reds is just how little impact rookies have been having on the overall team. 2017 was supposed to be a year of sorting out who's going to be on the next good Reds team, but the only "prospects" that have made their first appearances for the team so far this year are Amir Garrett and Rookie Davis, who probably wasn't considered a prospect prior to Spring Training.
Instead, guys like Scott Schebler, Zack Cozart, Bronson Arroyo, Scott Feldman, and others who either aren't in the Reds plans going forward, or weren't supposed to be, are getting regular playing time. While that's resulting in more wins for the team in 2017, and even though I hate the idea of tanking, it's only bringing the Reds closer to the middle of the pack. If its anything both of these teams should be well aware of, it's that finishing with a record around .500 is probably the worst spot to finish the year in.
We'll see as the year goes on which rookies will make their debuts for the Reds. If the team wants to stay on track for their '18/'19 resurgence, the debuts will need to pick up the pace.
Billy Hamilton - speed yes, patience no
Hamilton has certainly been a polarizing figure over the past few years. There's no denying that he belongs on the team - his defense and baserunning make him consistently well above replacement level, but in the years past, his offense has left us wondering "When?".
Well, that time seems to be coming around. Billy hasn't been a world beater at the plate, but he finished last season with a .321 OBP, which is right at league average. He started out this season very slowly, but has gotten back on track as of late, and is now up to a .311 OBP. It's obvious when watching games just how dangerous Billy Hamilton can be if he can get on base at a league average clip. He instantly becomes one of the best leadoff hitters in the game, and has the potential to be one of the most valuable overall players.
Reds starting pitching
Fun fact: if hitters hit off of pitching machines in games, the Reds would be the best team in baseball. They're the only team to have amassed 10 fWAR so far on the season, lead mostly by their stellar defense which is far and away the best in baseball so far. Add that to a top 10 offense, and you've got yourself a hell of a team, right?
Wrong. Unfortunately for the Reds, there are grown men throwing them baseballs much faster and much harder to hit than pitching machines. The fact that the Reds also have to have guys throw to other teams is also unfortunate, as Cincinnati's pitchers are either at or near the bottom of the league in every pitching metric.
As I alluded to earlier, most of the starting pitching struggles have been related to injury. For the past few years, the Reds just haven't been able to keep their top line pitchers on the mound. When you have guys like Lisalverto Bonilla and Asher Wojciechowski (an actual player's name) are rounding out your starting rotation, it's easy to see why the team's pitching has been so bad.
Health seems to be just around the corner, however. Guys like Bailey, DeSclafani, and Finnegan are bonafide rotation candidates that will surely bolster the production, and they're all scheduled to return sometime around June or July. Whether that actually comes to fruition remains to be seen, but if it does, I expect the Reds to be well over .500 in the second half of the season.
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7 Stories Of Unplanned Pregnancies That Will Touch Your Heart
Anandita Malhotra | May 20, 2019
Being sexually active before marriage is completely fine. It's okay to experiment with your likes and dislikes in bed as far as you're being safe. Be it condoms or contraceptive pills, safe sex is important to avoid unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
An unplanned pregnancy can be scary and emotionally and physically draining. However, in some cases, it can be a blessing too. Everyone has a different journey and these 7 real unplanned pregnancy stories will touch your heart.
1. A tough trauma to recover from
"I got pregnant when I was 18 and unfortunately didn't realize until I was almost 3 months in. I was dating a terrible guy who refused to support me through this. When I told him that I was pregnant, he broke up with me the next day! I had to deal with everything that followed myself. I obviously couldn't tell my parents so I decided to confide in my closest friends. One of them took me to the abortion clinic while the other one stayed over with me for a few days and handled my mother. We realized that we had passed the point of taking a pill. We had to go through an actual abortion. They would need to vacuum clean my uterus - and without parental consent, we managed to find a doctor who was willing to do it. I scheduled the abortion for a Saturday morning, it was one of the worst experiences of my life. I could feel stuff being sucked out of me and I could see all the contents (of my uterus) being pulped in a glass canister. I've never forgiven myself for it, it still haunts me. Because the abortion was so intense, I couldn't get out of bed for a week. The bleeding continued for about a month. By the end of the experience, I swore off men and sex until I found the man I knew I wanted to marry."
2. Teenage pregnancies are terrifying
"I was only 16 years old when I finally came to accept my pregnancy. I had been living in denial for several months before that. I was so scared that I would let my family down and that they'd be disappointed in me. However, I told them and they were supportive and accepting of whatever decision I took. With a whole lot of counselling and understanding my options, I found a social worker who helped me out. I used to even make lists of what the pros and what the cons for my baby were. The decision was a tough one but it was extremely clear. I gave my child up for adoption to a beautiful set of parents and a loving home. I have no regrets about what I did for my birthson. I am now married and have children again and I also have a career which I'm grateful for."
3. All's well that ends well
"My husband and I got married at the very young age of 22. Within a couple of years, our families kept asking us about babies and although everyone else seemed so excited for us to procreate, the two of us were pretty clear on the fact that we never wanted kids. I never felt like a very maternal person and was never particularly fond of babies, thankfully my husband felt the same way. In fact, in all our years of marriage, we were so careful about using condoms to prevent any unwanted pregnancies. Imagine our surprise then when we found out that I was pregnant last year, after 8 years of marriage and in spite of using a condom. I was in complete shock and utter disbelief which progressed into anxiety and nervousness through out my pregnancy. However, to my surprise all that changed the day my baby girl was born. She really is the apple of our eye and my husband and I can't get enough of her. Life has given us the best gift, even if it was an 'accident', I can't help but feel extremely blessed."
4. A miscarriage can be terrible
"I didn't know I was pregnant until I had a miscarriage. I had been married for about five years and didn't want a baby. And because of my PCOS condition, becoming pregnant was an issue so we didn't use protection. One day I went to the washroom and was in excruciating pain and went to the doctor and she told me that it was a miscarriage. I have never felt that devastated in my life but my husband supported me through it. Even though we didn't want a baby as such, losing it was heartbreaking. Now we are trying to have kids but haven't been successful till now."
5. In the end, it all works out
"I had been dating my boyfriend for eight years and we had spent a lot of time together. We had also been looking to get married for a while but it never seemed like the right time. That's when I realised that I was pregnant. I used to have very erratic periods due to the many hormonal complications I had so didn't even think it was strange that I didn't get my periods for three months. When I took the pee test, I completely freaked out. I told my boyfriend and he too was really scared but supported me. We decided to abort the child because telling our parents wasn't an option. We went to the doctor and got an ultrasound but then we heard the baby's heartbeat. We actually heard her breathing, he already looked so big. Both of us just couldn't go through with it and we decided to tell our parents. To our surprise, all of them took it really well and were REALLY excited to welcome a tiny human to our clan. We put a date on it and had a wedding within a month. Five months later our baby girl came into our lives and completely filled it with her laughter and giggles. We have never been happier."
6. Third time lucky!
"I have had three unplanned pregnancies and it's been a rollercoaster, to say the least. The first was when I was still a teenager, I was eighteen and it was a birth control failure. I decided to have an abortion. It wasn't traumatic for me like it is for many. I do wish I didn't have to go through it but it happened, it happened.
The second one happened when my husband and I had already stopped trying for a baby. I went to the doctor and realised that I was three weeks in but it ended in a miscarriage in six weeks. This really got me and I was diagnosed with situational depression. It took me two weeks to heal due to complications when it should have taken two days. But God has a plan, I guess.
The third one is in my tummy right now. He/she is kicking hard and I'm so excited to meet him/her. We stopped trying again and went on a vacation. When we got back we got a gift too."
7. Everyone's path is different
"I think everyone's journey is different. I was in a long term relationship with my boyfriend but we are both complete no-baby people. We have two dogs who we love and our family is complete. I realised I was pregnant six weeks in and we both went to get the abortion. It was super painful and I cried through it all. He got me my fave takeout and we cuddled with the dogs and slept. I took off work for a couple of days and he did too. He was with me through it all and it was awful but heartwarming at the same time."
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Conshohocken native Luanne Hunt has just been nominated for two Josie Awards for Album of the Year for her latest album, “Backroads, Bottles & Blues,” and Female Traditional Country Song of the Year, for “The Rhythm”.
Musical accolades keep pouring in for Conshohocken native Luanne Hunt
By Gary Puleo gpuleo@21st-centurymedia.com @MustangMan48 on Twitter
CONSHOHOCKEN — Who doesn't love a Conshy-kid-makes-good story?
Fans of Indie Country Star and Conshohocken native Luanne Hunt will be pleased to know that Hunt has just been nominated for two Josie Awards for Album of the Year for her latest album, “Backroads, Bottles & Blues,” and Female Traditional Country Song of the Year, for “The Rhythm”.
Hunt will have plenty of time to relish the thrill of being nominated because she won't find out if she’s won the top prize in her categories until Sept. 21, when The Josie Awards ceremony takes place in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
A press release described the annual event as a star-studded extravaganza that draws music artists, songwriters and industry execs from around the globe.
“To be nominated in two categories for a Josie Award is truly the honor of a lifetime,” said Hunt. “Opportunities for Indie artists to be recognized in such a major way are few and far between, so I am extremely grateful that my CD and song were chosen out of thousands of submissions.”
According to organization's Tina Passantino, The Josie Awards is the largest and most prestigious independent awards show in the world.
“After a review of 23,025 submissions, Luanne was selected,” said Passantino. “We are thrilled and proud to have her aboard.”
In addition to the nominations, Hunt also just won two American Songwriting Awards and a World Songwriting Award.
"My 2018 CD, 'Backroads, Bottles & Blues,' has also been named Contemporary Country CD of the Year by the National Traditional Country Music Association. I scored two, No. 1 hits from the project on major Indie charts with, 'The Rhythm' and 'Lightning In A Bottle,’ '" Hunt added.
Many may remember that Hunt regards her album “Mary Wood to Hollywood” as a “retrospective on my time growing up in Conshy. The lead track, ‘Pleasant Valley,’ is filled with imagery about the magic of Conshy, such as the Italian bakeries, the cheesesteak shops, football games at the “A field,” train whistles. I count myself so fortunate to have been born and raised in such a charming place with all of these wonderful offerings,” noted Hunt, who now lives in California but pays frequent visits back to her hometown. “They provided me with the best memories of growing up in a small, East Coast town.”
As many locals are aware, Mary Wood is a park on East Fifth Avenue in Conshohocken.
“I played there as a kid,” explained the Archbishop Kennedy High School grad.
“I recorded the acoustic version of "Mary Wood to Hollywood" a few years ago and am currently working on a fully-produced version that I hope to release in 2020. The acoustic project is available on my website, www.luannehunt.com,” said Hunt, who was awarded the Classic Country CD of the Year Award 2017 for her double album, “Songs from the Valley/The Heart of It All,” by the National Traditional Country Music Association’s (NTCMA) Rural Roots Music Commission.
“As an independent artist, it is rare to be recognized at all, let alone by an organization as prestigious as NTCMA,” said Hunt, who also earned a CD of the Year Award in 2016 from NTCMA. “I am beyond honored by this award and count it among one of my greatest achievements.”
Hunt is an Independent Superstars Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, another in her ongoing series of honors.
“It was an incredible honor to be inducted in the Hall of Fame, alongside Marty Stuart, Kitty Wells, Charlie Price, George Jones, Patsy Cline and so many other country legends,” Hunt said. “Artists are chosen for their lifetime contributions to the recording industry.”
While growing up in Conshohocken, Hunt said she never exhibited much of an indication of the musical talent that would one day be defining her professional life.
“I was even rejected for choir in grade school and only wound up getting in because I begged the choir teacher for days on end,” she admitted.
“Still, despite my seeming lack of singing talent, my life was filled with music and I spent countless hours listening to artists like James Taylor, Carly Simon, Bread, John Denver and the Beatles. I also was very influenced by the singing nuns, who played the most beautiful music during what were referred to as the ‘folk masses’ back in the day. Their songs really inspired me to want to be a professional singer when I grew up.”
Hunt admitted she is truly a “folk rocker at heart,” having discovered country music in the ’80s “when rock music began taking a strange turn, in my opinion. During that time, there were so many great country artists emerging on the scene — Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, George Strait, Pam Tillis, Mary Chapin Carpenter. Their songs were so catchy and well-crafted, which made me fall in love with the genre. Once I was hooked, I began to delve into country music’s past and became a fan of everyone from Buck Owens and Johnny Cash to Hank Williams and Patsy Cline.”
Ironically, Hunt eventually met one of Cline’s songwriters, Lawton Jiles, who ultimately penned her Top 10 hit, “Let the Teardrops Fall.”
“We became very good friends and in 2008, he asked me to record a Christmas tune that Patsy had asked him and his songwriting partner, Buster Beam, to write for her titled ‘Christmas Without You.’ Patsy’s label had asked Lawton and Buster to change the lyrics to something non-seasonal and the song became ‘How Can I Face Tomorrow?’ It didn’t do very well after they released it and Lawton told me that Patsy was heartbroken she didn’t get to give her fans a Christmas song,” Hunt explained. “So all these years later, I wound up recording the tune the way it was originally written and have had great success with it.”
In 2015, Sweden’s largest daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, listed the tune among its Top 25 Christmas Songs of All-Time.
“It was a tremendous honor, as I was the only Indie artist on the list,” Hunt recalled, “alongside Merle Haggard, Otis Redding, Mariah Carey and other global superstars.”
"Backroads, Bottles and Blues," Hunt’s 14th studio album, has been racking up some uncommon accolades since its release, like this one from a Jamsphere Magazine critic: “One listen to Luanne Hunt and you won't be able to take Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood seriously anymore”
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Child-porn crackdown in Vermont nets nine arrests
The nine people arrested so far come from all walks of life and include a lawyer, a photographer and a voice coach.
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Officials in Vermont say nine people have been arrested in the past week as part of a crackdown on child pornography.
At a Friday press conference in Burlington, U.S. Attorney Tristram Coffin said the initiative dubbed Operation Greenwave is a collaborative effort involving state police, local police departments and the federal Homeland Security Investigations agency.
Coffin said the arrests will continue.
“These are serious offenses,” he said. “We’re going to be using our resources to go after them in a serious way.”
The Burlington Free Press reported that the nine people arrested so far come from all walks of life and include a lawyer, a photographer and a voice coach.
Coffin called the effort unprecedented in child pornography prosecution in Vermont. Officials say undercover investigations are continuing and more arrests are expected.
Child pornography “is not a victimless crime,” said Matthew Etre, deputy special agent in charge at Homeland Security Investigations’ Boston office, who said the collaborative statewide effort is among the first in New England. “We will use every tool at our disposal” to track down child predators, he said.
“I want Vermonters to understand that this is quite simply the tip of the iceberg,” Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell said, according to the Free Press. “I’m not exaggerating when I say that.”
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The Real Bosses of New Jersey
A Huge Tax Break Went to a Politically Connected Company in New Jersey Despite Red Flags
Holtec International told New Jersey regulators that Ohio was competing for its new headquarters. But officials there stripped the firm of past tax awards for failing to create the jobs it promised.
by Jeff Pillets and Nancy Solomon, WNYC, and Alex Mierjeski, ProPublica
June 26, 5 a.m. EDT
The exterior of a Holtec International facility in Camden, N.J. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
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This article was produced in partnership with WNYC, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
In January 2014, as Holtec International explored sites for a new national headquarters and high-tech manufacturing center, the New Jersey company told state officials that the Garden State had stiff competition.
A number of other states, including Ohio and South Carolina, had offered “robust proposals” to persuade the nuclear technology firm to relocate, said Holtec CEO Kris Singh in his sworn application to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
Generous tax breaks from New Jersey’s new economic development program, he argued, could place Camden “on a level playing field” with Holtec’s other suitors. In return, the firm pledged the retention of 160 jobs and the creation of an additional 235 positions. Six months later, the EDA awarded the company $260 million in taxpayer assistance — the second-largest tax break in state history.
What Holtec didn’t reveal, though, was that just weeks before filing its application in New Jersey, Ohio had stripped the company of tax credits there for failing to create the jobs it had promised as part of a similar program. According to records obtained by WNYC and ProPublica, none of the 200 positions it had pledged in 2009 to bring to Orrville, a small town about 20 miles outside Akron, ever materialized.
Holtec, in a letter to Ohio regulators, blamed its problems on the failure of new manufacturing equipment that led to a “major setback.” The company also said it was suffering an overall “decline in orders” caused by “lower quality overseas competitors.”
In the same letter, Holtec asked Ohio to consider applying the old credits to its new plan to build a high-tech manufacturing center. But there is no record that the state ever granted that request.
In fact, local elected officials and economic development staffers in Ohio, as well as South Carolina, said in interviews that they knew of no approved package of incentives their states had offered Holtec.
“We keep pretty close tabs on all our companies here, and we never heard anything about that,” said Orrville Mayor David Handwerk, who visited Holtec's plant on Dairy Lane only a few weeks ago.
Holtec did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
The previously unreported Ohio deal provides a new window into New Jersey’s embattled tax break program and how state regulators missed key facts as companies maneuvered to qualify for controversial incentives that are now under scrutiny by a state task force and the state attorney general.
Holtec, in particular, has become Exhibit A in a program that critics have blasted for what they say is fraud and mismanagement. In May, WNYC and ProPublica discovered that the company had given a misleading sworn statement; it falsely answered “no” about once being barred from working with a federal agency, a situation that could have jeopardized its application. After the story, state officials put Holtec’s tax break on hold and announced an investigation into the firm. Holtec has said that it made an “inadvertent mistake” that it would like to correct.
In a blistering interim report last week, a state task force appointed by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy identified the EDA’s lack of due diligence as a major failing for an $11 billion program intended to boost the state’s sluggish economy, especially in hard-hit cities like Camden. On multiple occasions, EDA staffers failed to flag problems in multimillion-dollar tax break applications because the agency had “no formal training” and a “fundamental lack of controls,” the task force said.
EDA officials confirmed that Holtec did not disclose its Ohio troubles. “This was not reported in Holtec's application or legal questionnaire,” said Virginia Pellerin, a spokeswoman for the authority. "It is not apparent ... that Holtec informed the EDA of this.”
On Wednesday, after publication of this story, the EDA announced that it has asked six companies, including Holtec, for additional information “to afford the companies the opportunity to respond in writing to a range of recent developments,” including the task force report. Potential actions, subject to a board vote, could include reductions in awards, suspensions of tax breaks or terminations of incentives.
“We have no higher obligation than to serve as stewards of taxpayer dollars, and the process we are initiating today will enable our team to make a determination of appropriate next steps with regard to these specific companies,” said Tim Sullivan, the authority’s CEO. “Transparency and accountability should be the hallmark of any public investment program, and we take any allegations of wrongdoing very seriously.”
How Companies and Allies of One Powerful Democrat Got $1.1 Billion in Tax Breaks
Meet George Norcross. Nearly two thirds of $1.6 billion in tax incentives in his hometown of Camden, New Jersey, went to his own company, business partners, political allies and clients of his brother.
Holtec is part of a constellation of companies tied to the South Jersey Democratic boss George E. Norcross III, who is an unpaid member of Holtec’s board, and his brother Philip, who is a lawyer and lobbyist whose firm wrote part of the tax break law and represented Holtec’s application. All told, companies connected to the two power brokers received at least $1.1 billion in tax breaks. The EDA has targeted five of those firms in its inquiry.
The governor’s task force found that New Jersey’s politically connected insiders steered tax breaks to favored businesses and nonprofits, which, in turn, won millions in incentives through questionable claims on their tax break applications. The Norcross brothers have denied any wrongdoing.
The fallout has riven New Jersey politics. Last week, state lawmakers approved a bill extending the life of the controversial incentive program through 2020 — a move Murphy promptly attacked, promising to veto the measure if it did not include significant changes.
Under the program, firms that are at risk of moving outside New Jersey are eligible for higher tax incentives, and investigators cited efforts by several Norcross-connected firms to obtain competing real estate offers from other jurisdictions, even though they had already committed to staying in state.
Cooper Health System, for instance, where George Norcross is chairman, provided the state with lease information about an alternative site in Philadelphia even though it had no intention of moving there, the task force found. The hospital system has denied any wrongdoing.
In another email revealed by state investigators, a representative of a firm called NFI discussed whether his company and another business, The Michaels Organization, could use the same building in Philadelphia to convince New Jersey officials they intended to move out of state.
“I think it would be a little suspicious to ask for a duplicate. Any thoughts?” wrote Steven Grabell, chief financial officer for NFI.
George Norcross has joined with those two firms, as well as Cooper Health and his brother’s law firm, Parker McCay, in a lawsuit challenging Murphy’s panel, which he says is an illegal attempt by the governor to single out him and his business partners.
The groups argue that they have “made an enormous investment in the revitalization of Camden, one of America’s poorest cities, have been falsely and publicly accused of misconduct regarding the tax incentives that lawfully attend such investment and have been denied a fair opportunity to refute those defamatory accusations.”
In the case of Holtec, the company told New Jersey that sites in Ohio, South Carolina and Pennsylvania would cost $5 million to $7 million a year less in rent and labor costs. “In comparison to other states that are successfully wooing manufacturing investment to their territories, New Jersey has high site acquisition and construction costs, high labor cost, relatively high cost of living and high property taxes,” Singh, the CEO, wrote.
But nowhere in Holtec’s 49-page application did the company provide details on the tax incentives from those other states. Emails released by the EDA show that staffers at the agency did, in fact, ask Holtec to supply specifics.
“What evidence can you provide to demonstrate incentive offers of competing states including the abatement of real estate taxes?” staffers Kevin McCullough and Justin Kenyon asked Holtec in April 2014, four months after the company lost its Ohio tax break.
Nick Abraczinskas, Holtec's vice president of contracts, offered no details though. “The discussions with South Carolina have been focused on tax abatement on the potential facility, which we are not allowed to provide the details of that offer due to confidentiality,” he wrote.
Contacted by WNYC and ProPublica, a spokeswoman for the South Carolina Department of Commerce said there was no record of an application by Holtec for tax incentives there. And a regional development group said that while Holtec was one of several nuclear technology firms looking to locate at a federal site on the Savannah River, talks were preliminary and no offer was made.
In Ohio, state economic development officials said they could neither confirm nor deny the existence of discussions with Holtec at that time, citing state policy prohibiting them from talking about any negotiations with firms over potential tax breaks. But records show that the company ran into trouble with state authorities in late 2013 over previous tax awards there.
The issue involved a Holtec subsidiary called Orrvilon Inc., which had expanded a vacant factory in 2009 after consolidating workers from other Ohio plants. It received tax credits worth about $475,000 for the move because it promised to hire 200 more employees. But those plans collapsed, records show, when demand fell for the high-tech aluminum parts manufactured at the plant.
In December 2013, the Ohio Tax Credit Authority stripped Holtec of its tax breaks on the recommendation of state economic development officials. At the time, records show, Holtec had actually reduced the number of employees there, from 102 to 98.
WNYC and ProPublica reached out to the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue with questions about Holtec's application for tax incentives in the state, but the information is considered confidential under Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law.
This year, every company that received a New Jersey tax break has been asked to go through recertification.
Pellerin said the EDA has the right to disqualify any firm from getting tax breaks if it provides false information to the state. The task force reported that more than $500 million in incentives have either been voluntarily terminated or may be subject to termination.
This report was produced with support from the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism, City University of New York.
ProPublica and WNYC are spending the year investigating the power and influence wielded by party bosses in New Jersey’s political system. If you know something about the state’s controversial tax incentive program, we’d like to hear from you. We’d particularly like to hear from:
Past or present state employees who can tell us about the mechanics of the tax break program
Past or present employees at companies that received tax breaks since 2013 who can tell us about the application process
If you have something to share with us, here’s how to do it:
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Update, June 26, 2019: This story has been updated to reflect that the EDA announced that it has asked six companies, including Holtec, for additional information.
Alex Mierjeski
Alex is the research fellow for the Local Reporting Network at ProPublica.
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Indian doctors grow new nose on boy's forehead
Doctors in India have replaced a 12-year-old boy's damaged nose with a new one which was grown on his forehead.
Arun Patel's nose was badly damaged and disfigured when he suffered from pneumonia as a baby.
The infection damaged the cartilage of his nose, making it difficult for doctors to fix it.
A similar operation was carried out in China in 2013 where a man who had damaged his nose in a traffic accident was given a new one.
Arun's parents took him to a doctor in their village in the central state of Madhya Pradesh when he suffered from pneumonia soon after his birth.
But the treatment made his condition worse and he lost his nose due to extensive tissue damage.
More than a decade later, a team of doctors in Indore city decided to conduct a rare four-phased plastic surgery to give Arun a new nose.
Dr Ashwini Dash, who led the surgical team, told BBC Hindi's S Niazi that he was "confident that the new nose would work properly like his other organs".
He added that the entire operation took about a year to finish.
In the first phase, a silicon "tissue expander" was put on his forehead to make space to grow a new nose. Then a special chemical was injected to make the tissues expand.
The second phase involved taking cartilage from his chest to create a new nose, which grew on his forehead over three months.
The doctors removed the artificial nose in the third phase and implanted it on his face. The final phase involved repairing his forehead.
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Meditations on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Paradiso Cantos XXIX-XXXIII
A. S. Kline © Copyright 2002 All Rights Reserved
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Meditation XCVI: Paradiso Canto XXIX
Meditation XCVII: Paradiso Canto XXX
Meditation XCVIII: Paradiso Canto XXXI
Meditation XCIX: Paradiso Canto XXXII
Meditation C: Paradiso Canto XXXIII
MedXCVI:1 The Angels: Paradiso Canto XXIX:1
Beatrice is silent for as along as it takes the sun to set and the opposing full moon to rise or vice versa. She then explains that God, out of love, created his creatures so that they might know existence. Time was created in the triple creation, of form, matter and being, out of the timeless, like three arrows from a bow. Light in Aristotelian science requires no time to travel through a translucent medium: its speed is infinite.
Order and substance were created instantaneously in the form of the Angelic presences, contradicting Jerome. (Eusebius Hieronymous Sophronius (342-420), born at Stridon in Dalmatia. With Ambrose, Augustine and Gregory he is one of the four Latin (western) Fathers of the Church. He retired into the Syrian desert for four years where he studied Hebrew. He settled in Bethlehem in 386. His translation of the Bible into Latin, the Vulgate, was eventually declared the official version at the Council of Trent. He spoke of the Angels being created long before the rest of the universe, which was contradicted by Aquinas.)
The Angels are actualised and complete, the lower creatures and matter are potential, and the material heavens and human beings are a binding together of act and potential. So human intellect can know in actuality things which it did not know, that is knew potentially: and create what it has not created. Similarly creatures are born and develop, as Genesis claims the world developed, over time, whereas the Angels were created in that first fiat.
Having explained the triple where and when and how of the Angelic creation, Beatrice explains that unlike Satan who fell through pride the other Angels opened themselves to God, and understood their place humbly, and that it is a virtue to open oneself to grace likewise. The Angels have understanding and free will, as was taught, but do not require memory since they see past, present and future, as human beings claim to do in true or false prophecy.
Beatrice then condemns the vain displays of philosophy but more so the misuse of scripture, or its neglect. The fraudulent preachers obtain wealth that goes to feed more than just Saint Anthony’s pigs. Saint Anthony’s (251-356) symbol was the pig, and he was therefore the patron of the pigs that infested Florence, and its neighbourhood, belonging to the monks. They were fed on the fraudulent gain made from selling remissions (indulgences).
The Angels are of too great a number for human conception, as in Daniel vii:10. God’s Light is reflected in all the elements of creation, the splendors, which vary in their qualities, says Beatrice, as she and Dante prepare to enter the Empyrean.
MedXCVII:1 The Empyrean: Paradiso Canto XXX:1
The Angelic display fades like stars at dawn, and Dante turns to Beatrice with love. In the Empyrean her beauty exceeds all measure, and Dante ceases to be able to describe her further. Here in the Empyrean Dante will see the redeemed spirits and the angels in their forms as at the Last Judgement. The Empyrean is the pure light of Truth, that intellectual light, which is filled with love. That Love, full of transcendent joy, is the love of true Goodness. Again we see how Dante unites Truth and Goodness, to be known by the intellect, out of which flows the transcendent joy of Love. Though Truth and Love coexist in God, intellect and knowledge in Man is the cause of human love.
Dante is greeted by a light that bathes him. His vision increases, and he sees a River of Light (see Revelation 22:1, and Psalm 46:4, the river of the water of life, symbolising the flow of divine grace), which gradually changes into a vision of the courts of Heaven. The light there is formed from light reflected back by the Primum Mobile below, making the Creator visible to the creature. The spirits are ranked in hierarchy and themselves reflect the light upwards and outwards. The eye can see an indefinite distance there since the laws of nature do not apply.
Beatrice draws Dante into the glow of the Rose, where Beatrice says that the empty throne Dante sees with a crown above it is reserved for Henry VII (died August 1313). Italy will not be ready for his attempt to renew the Empire, and Clement will work against him. But as we saw in Inferno XIX Clement, dying in April 1314, is destined for Hell.
MedXCVIII:1 Saint Bernard: Paradiso Canto XXXI:1
The Angels fly like bees between the redeemed, in the form of a white rose, and God. Their faces are flame, their wings golden, and the rest white, the three colours symbolising love, knowledge and purity. They fly without obscuring vision or the divine light.
Dante is struck dumb, as the barbarians were on seeing Rome, having made the triple journey from the human to the divine, from time to eternity, and from Florentine chaos to Heavenly order. He gazes at the multitude so as to remember it all, then turns to Beatrice but finds Saint Bernard there instead, representing loving contemplation, standing at the threshold of the Divine. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) the Cistercian monk and theologian, son of a noble Burgundian family, who founded the great monastery at Clairvaux in France was Abbot there till his death. He had a particular devotion to the Virgin, expressed in his De Laudibus Virginis matris and his nine sermons for the feasts of the Purification, Assumption, Nativity etc. He opposed the celebration of her Immaculate Conception. He dedicated all the monasteries of the Cistercian Order to her, and here calls himself her ‘loyal’ Bernard.
He explains that Beatrice has brought him to Dante, and he shows her to him, now seated on the third level. Dante offers her, as his guide to virtue, his sublime prayer and receives her smile. This is charged with the real woman as well as any symbolism of Divine Philosophy. And Dante in gratitude celebrates her goodness, and her grace that has led him to freedom and the hope of salvation, and asks for her protection. She then turns towards the Divine Light.
Dante gazes at Bernard like a pilgrim gazing at Christ’s image on the cloth of Veronica. Saint Veronica gave her handkerchief to Christ to wipe his brow as he carried the Cross, and when he returned it to her it was said to carry the imprint of his features. It was exhibited at Rome each year at New Year and Easter. Bernard tells him to look higher towards the Virgin, at whom he looks with adoration. She shines out like the rising Sun, and there a thousand Angels each of a different species in Medieval angelology, are dancing and singing, beyond Dante’s ability to relate. Bernard has brought Dante to gaze at the Virgin, the essential feminine aspect of God’s universe, its grace and kindness.
MedXCIX:1 The Heavenly Ranks: Paradiso Canto XXXII:1
Bernard now explains the ranks of the blessed, with all their examples. The ranks are separated on either side of the Virgin into those before Christ’s coming, on the left, and those after, on the right. Those before, in the first seven ranks descending, she being in the first rank herself, are Eve, Rachel (Jacob’s wife, with Beatrice, signifying contemplation, and therefore higher than the two following), Sarah (Abraham’s wife), Rebeccah (Isaac’s wife), Judith (The Jewish patriotic heroine and a symbol of The Jewish struggle against oppression She is usually shown holding the head of Holofernes the Assyrian general whom she decapitated with a sword. See Apocrypha.) and Ruth (the wife of Boaz, and great grandmother of David.)
On the Virgin’s right side, those who came with or after Christ, we have John the Baptist, and below him Francis (who carried the stigmata), Benedict (opposite that other contemplative Rachel) and Augustine, this being Dante’s view of their relative nearness to God. Lower down and running across the ranks is the division of the children who died before they had time to acquire merit, ranked there according to God’s justice. They have differing qualities according to God’s breathing of their spirits into them at birth, and were saved by their parents’ merit in ancient times, first their parents’ faith and innocence, then the Jewish rite of circumcision. Once Christ had come baptism became necessary, and the unbaptised are condemned to Limbo. Note that Bernardis made to express this orthodox view that the unbaptised child must remain in Limbo (See Inferno IV), where spirits live ‘without hope, in longing’. However Bernard himself in his treatise addressed to Hugh of Saint Victor, holds back from this terrible conclusion. ‘We must suppose that the ancient sacraments were efficacious as long as it can be shown that they were not notoriously prohibited. And after that? It is in God’s hands. Not mine be it to set the limit.’
Gabriel now celebrates Mary, singing the ‘Ave Maria’, and Bernard answers Dante’s question about him.
Bernard now points out the souls on the right and left of Mary in the first rank. On the left are Adam, then Moses, on the right Peter and John. Saint Anne, Mary’s mother, is opposite Peter, Saint Lucy, Dante’s patron saint, who appears three times in the Commedia, is opposite Adam. (It is possible that Dante was born on Saint Lucy’s day as celebrated at the end of May in ancient Florence.).
Bernard now turns, as in life, to the Virgin, and exhorts Dante to pray to her with him, so that he might obtain her grace and assistance.
MedC:1 The Prayer and the Final Vision: Paradiso Canto XXXIII:1
Bernard’s prayer to the Virgin follows, and Dante associates her with Love, Hope, Grace, Kindness, Pity, Generosity, and other human excellences. She is an embodiment of nurturing, empathetic, and loving humanity, taking on many of the positive and benign attributes of the ancient goddesses. Bernard asks the Virgin for her grace towards Dante so that he might see the final vision, and his protection afterwards. The prayer touches on the incarnation and redemption, the hope of salvation, the end of Dante’s mission, the grace he needs to achieve it and be true to it, the sympathy of the blessed, and Bernard’s own praise and devotion. This prayer on behalf of another is an essentially loving act. Beatrice prays for Dante also. The Virgin turns her eyes towards Bernard and then towards God.
Dante now looks into the Divine Light. His power of vision is beyond speech and memory, and like a dreamer he retains only the impression and the sweetness. He asks for the power to reveal a little of what he saw and felt, and dared to endure. His Vision, in the moment of supreme stillness, beyond time, is of a universal unity, bound together by Love in a simplicity of Light. Within it is the concentrated and perfect Good, the object of will and desire, which the eye cannot turn away from to another sight. Outside it all things are in some way defective in their goodness. Dante is therefore consistent in treating God as the essential Good, and the intellectual Light of Truth, which is desired by Man, Love as the desire for the Good binding all together.
His speech is inadequate like a babe’s, but as his power of vision increases he sees a triple rainbow in the deep light, symbolising the Trinity, and within it the human form, symbolising Man’s unity with God in his essential nature. Dante is left like the geometer who cannot exactly measure a circle’s circumference in radii (the equation contains the irrational and transcendental number pi: though he can create a square equal in area to a given circle so ‘squaring the circle’) and cannot see how the image is fitted and set there.
Finally his mind is struck as if by lightning, and his will is empowered. The Vision itself loses power in his imagination, but his desire and will to achieve salvation and to create the Commedia are set in motion by Divine Love that moves the sun and the other stars. So the Paradiso ends on the same word as all three Cantiche, stelle.
Meditation C:2 Coda to the Paradiso
Dante set out to re-create an ethical and spiritual journey in a poetic work. That journey was rooted in his self-consciousness of his own life and position in history, and in his critical view of the religious and secular politics of his age. He may have believed that he was divinely inspired. Equally he makes conscious use of motifs and patterns established by the writers of Classical epic and verse-forms. He was aware of his own quality as a poet, and always sure of his own lasting fame, in the manner of Ovid.
He was a fundamental believer in form and structure, to the extent that the whole Commedia is tightly controlled, and carefully organised to reflect a Neo-platonic vision of a hierarchical Universe centred on God. He saw his work as a mission: that he was called, that he possessed a historic role as Aeneas did or Paul did. That mission was to propound a view of the role on Earth of the Church and the Empire, each to have authority in its proper sphere, and in so doing to expose the inadequacies of the Papacy and the secular rulers of Europe: and his mission was also to show the end of ethical and spiritual striving as embodied in the Catholic religion, for the Christian pilgrim. The mission was therefore both personal, and social, reflecting the concern of Catholicism with both the one and the many, the individual and the community of believers.
He drew on a number of areas of knowledge and experience in order to create the Commedia. Firstly there was his own life and development as a love poet in the tradition of the schools of Courtly Love, his personal relationship with Beatrice, and his spiritualization of her both as an inner guide to his own journey in this life and the next, and as a symbol of divine philosophy and grace. Secondly he drew on his Classical studies of poetry and myth, particularly Virgil and Ovid. Virgil specifically provided both compelling inspiration, and a mythology of Empire. Thirdly he made extensive study of Medieval philosophy, and of rudimentary science, both strongly influenced by the works of Aristotle. Fourthly came his study of theology, via the Scriptures and the Christian Commentators, including Aquinas. Fifthly he had knowledge of the Mendicant Orders and practical religion, including the Franciscan ideas of radical poverty, and the prophetic utterances of some of their extreme thinkers. Sixthly he absorbed the political experience of Florence and Rome, Italy and Europe, leading to his lasting exile from Florence, and his long and complex relationship with the Ghibelline cause. Lastly was the rapidly altering city environment, with is new industry, commerce and wealth, and its strong sense of individual life, personality and destiny.
Out of all this he wove the three great strands of the Commedia, the personal, the spiritual and the political, all three tightly wound together in his life, and with ethics at the root of his response to all three. The question was how to live in order to reach the intellectual and spiritual good that was the aim of earthly life, and the guarantee of salvation and redemption in the afterlife.
In that sense though he is a savage critic of the state of earthly institutions, his solutions are radical only in the sense of looking back to earlier models of Empire and Church, and desiring a cleansing of institutions in order to achieve a return to those models. He is an Imperialist and monarchist, desiring authoritarian rule of separate Church and State based on justice and law, just as he saw God ruling the Neo-platonic universe. The most difficult questions he faced, and agonised over, in addressing the political and social arena, were the extent of human reason and free will, the extent to which human affairs and history are pre-ordained, and the relationship between human and divine justice.
His spiritual challenge was to reconcile the potentially conflicting elements of religion, the active and contemplative life, religious practice and theology, free will and the divine plan. His solution was to endorse a mainly conservative ethical framework, based around the concept of the right exercise of free will. He explores this through exhibiting the results of incontinence, malice and fraud in the Inferno, showing the purgation of the seven sins in Purgatory, and reviewing the meaning of the three theological and four cardinal virtues in the Paradiso. Free will is misused in Hell, re-aligned in Purgatory, and correctly applied to earthly and heavenly existence in Paradise.
His own personal challenges given his political and spiritual solutions were spiritually to free himself from those sins of pride and lust which he saw most clearly in his own life, and to spiritualise the tradition of Courtly Love and his own love for Beatrice by applying reason and intellect to emotional and erotic love, and by extending human love to touch the divine: and inn the political sphere to become a prophet of a secular saviour to come, who would re-establish the Empire according to Roman law, and return the Papacy to Rome. He confines himself to prophecies regarding the Empire. The Papacy is a matter for God.
The schools of Courtly Love, and the Classical poets, inspired part of the style and content of the Commedia, but its sublime execution is his own. He borrowed crucial content from Virgil in particular, and from a wide range of ethical, mythical and scriptural sources, but the precise construction of the three realms is truly his own imaginative achievement. As a poet he has few true precedents, and fewer successors. The combination of lyrical expression, epic structure, and brilliant use of appropriate simile and metaphor is unmatched. Always measured, lucid and concise, Dante convinces imaginatively, and moves the emotions. If he did not believe in some aspects of what he wrote, if he is guilty of mere artistic licence, there is no way of telling so. The assumption has to be that he did so believe, and that his Vision was to him divinely inspired, and his relationship with Beatrice in life and death as he declares it. That the ethical, spiritual and political purposes of the Commedia were pure, and were his overriding concern, the power of his poetry being a tool towards achieving those ends.
To what extent did he succeed, and does he succeed, in convincing us? I take the stance of the non-Catholic citizen of a secular society in addressing the question. I am not qualified to discuss the orthodoxy of Dante’s theology, nor the extent to which a practising Catholic might endorse his view of this life and the next.
His ethical vision I find still relevant, and still compelling. That the right and good life should be moved by the centrality of love, of which empathy and courage, compassion and fortitude are crucial components, is wholly relevant, and a source of modern ethics. Out of emotional and intellectual empathy and courage come hope and trust, justice and moderation, and what practical wisdom we have. The Neo-platonic and Catholic detail may no longer persuade, the true sources of our ethical feelings may be in the nurturing and protective basis of our species, our social structures and behaviour may be the result of the historical development of ideas and our education, but that does not invalidate a view of the good individual as being one who is true, sensitive and kind. What Dante’s ethics do not do is address the increasing number of moral conflicts that our world presents to us, issues where we are forced to choose between evils, or balance goods, such that we are forced to turn to other concepts, for example that of the ‘natural’: the ‘good of the greatest number’: the ‘rights’ of individuals and the other creatures we share the world with: the continuance of the Earth, ourselves and its species: the applications of science and technology that will change the nature of society, the individual, the environment and the species. Nevertheless the Neo-platonic ideas of the Good, of Truth, Love and of Beauty must continue to be a starting point for and an essential component of ethics and aesthetics. Dante’s work besides being poetically and structurally beautiful, also succeeds in carrying forward ethical meaning into our own age and the future.
His political and religious views have been overtaken by history. The separation of secular state and religious authority has effectively been settled and much in line with his views. Religion concentrates on spiritual affairs, the state on temporal power. Dante’s concept of the single Imperial authority in the narrow sense was dead soon after Dante’s own death, though there was a remarkable revival of the concept, I would almost call it a parody, in Napoleon’s ‘Empire’ short-lived though it was, his Imperial Eagle once more creating a wide authority under a single basic and fundamentally benign legal code. Just as in Dante’s day it was shattered by nationalist striving and temporal rivalry, and by the very clamour for republican and democratic ‘rights’ that Napoleon himself long supported. Dante’s concept survived for longer in Europe in the more restricted sense of kingship or authoritarian rule, and religious authority within the Churches in Europe still remains though shorn of most of its temporal powers.
The deep challenge to both divine and secular authority, in the sense of the monarchical ruler whether king, Emperor or God, was stimulated by economic pressures and that intellectual freedom that led to the debate over the rights of Man. Dante’s own argument for the right use of the intellect and free-will, and his difficulties over the inscrutability of God’s justice and the extent to which human life was pre-ordained, were at the root of the dissent. That dissent is visible before his times, as well as after. Dante answers doubts with unquestioning faith: ‘ours not to question, ours to obey’. His compelling need to make order out of chaos, his response to the destructiveness of Italian and European politics in his age, and the corruption around him, led him to assert ancient authority, ancient law, and the imperatives of his faith. The expansion of knowledge, geographical, scientific, and historical forced an ever-increasing reappraisal. What if man were free: what if life and the future were not pre-ordained: what if justice was man-made and there to be re-made?
And once blind faith was questioned, and the power of those with most to gain from freedoms and rights was exercised, then the institutions were torn apart, and the modern world came into being. Dante anticipates the questions, and shores up the building. But in the end it is only a tower of the imagination, no more solid than any other. The detail, the fanaticism almost, displayed in the Commedia’s structure indicates the sense of real and impending chaos that Dante tries to allay. Ironically he is obsessed with building, because the foundations were ultimately flawed. It is reminiscent of Shakespeare’s later obsession with order and monarchy, and for much the same reason. Renaissance doubt and science: the empirical method to which Dante alludes: intellect and reason, the philosopher’s tool kit: and the very need for blind faith at various points in the religious and political argument, eroded that faith and that social order. Dante’s concern with and delight in individuals, the means by which he brings the Commedia to life, their creativity, originality and reasoning powers, passed on into the Renaissance and the efforts of great individuals eventually undermined what Dante stood for politically and religiously. Republicanism and Democracy, the rights and freedoms of the individual, and the new perspectives on the purpose of the state and religion, as being for the betterment of the individual, of statesmen and churchmen as being the servants and not the masters of the public good, destroyed the authority of arbitrary individuals selected by exercise of naked power, or heredity. That questioning aided by scientific progress brought religion itself into question. The most difficult parts of the Commedia to find interest in for a modern mind, are certain sections of Paradiso, where the poetry alone and its great beauty carries the secular reader through some of the more tedious and outmoded elements of history and theology. Only the delights of structure, lyrical cadence, superlative imagery and simile, make it possible to gain genuine enjoyment from occasionally unpalatable material. I would only say that I find the effort worthwhile even in those sections, if only for their historical and intellectual interest.
What of Dante’s personal quest? We cannot know his own spiritual state at the end of his life, nor his emotions concerning the memory of the real Beatrice or his created symbolic form of her, but she is certainly the glory of the Commedia. Around her the beauty, love and intelligence gathers, as a promise and a distant goal in Inferno (Virgil being her loving proxy), as a strong hope and an emotional striving in Purgatorio, and as a present magnificence in Paradiso. The Commedia could have existed without her, but not with the same power and effect. She is the embodiment of Love, Virgil and the spirits her reflection. Does Dante get beyond her, in the final Vision, substituting the Virgin Mary for her almost at the last, and then gazing onwards into a final sublimity? He hangs on for a very long time before that moment: Beatrice is not easily relinquished!
At times he is overpowered by her presence, and almost makes an end there and then, though we know he will and must finish building the tower! Did he get beyond the erotic, the spiritualised and intellectual erotic but still the erotic, of her meaning to him, of her physical context, her eyes and smile? I have argued that the Medieval mind more easily merged the physical with the spiritual, Christ as blood and flesh in wafer and wine, the Resurrection of souls being in the body, which Dante stresses. There is no erotic as such for Medieval thought, no such category. The body is the seat of the feelings and carries the soul breathed into it by God. Flesh and emotions and spirit are one. Love takes on a human form. Dante often seems to me to be on the verge of heresy, but never quite heretical. His immense tact leaves many things unsaid, many questions un-attempted and unanswered. He stepped back perhaps from difficult issues, since his purpose was to build the perfect and consistent tower of authority.
While rejecting that authority and the structure’s objective truth, I take delight in the poetic and imaginative beauty of it. I find the ethical thrust of the work, so expressive of the thrust of European society, grounded in Love and its attendant virtues, moral and social, as informing and challenging. To go beyond Dante one must first read him and answer him. The history, the situations and individuals, the thought and the emotions are always fascinating. The figure of Beatrice not only charms us but still makes a demand of the modern mind and heart, if we are to understand what Love is and means for human beings. The intellectual and the spiritual is still in tension with the physical and the emotional. The depth of that tension in Dante communicates itself throughout the Commedia. A real man moves through a real landscape with real responses even though the towers are constructed in imagination. History is swept together in the timeless Moment in question and answer, in vision and thought, and against that background of Energies, the Individual comes face to face with his or her own self-examination, asks of his or her own self what the purpose of being in this age might be, how one should live a life of creative love and virtue, and what the full dimensions of that life might be.
I see Dante turning away from writing down his ‘memories’ of the Vision, as he had to finally in his own life, turning back towards the world, away from the long journey of question and examination, turning towards his readers, so many generations later, to challenge us, to ask us to examine the state of our age, of our society, the state of our own spirits and ethics, and to answer, if we can, what we will build greater than his tower of the poetic imagination.
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Fat shaming hits the pet set
When a dog or cat gains weight, it’s easy for a pet parent to assume that there is simply more of him (or her) to love. In fact, only 17% of owners acknowledge that their pet is obese, according to findings of a recent study by Nationwide, the country’s largest provider of pet health insurance.
“Others know their pet is overweight but don’t think it’s a problem,” said Deborah Linder, who heads the Tufts Obesity Clinic for Animals Clinical Nutrition Service. “Wrong!”
However, just as 70% of adult Americans (age 20+) are classified as overweight by the National Center for Health Statistics, so, too, are their pets.
Veterinarians report that nearly 50% of the dogs they see are overweight or obese, a February 4 report by Jane Brody of The New York Times reveals.
And the average weight of pets has risen over the past decade, Nationwide notes. In 2017, obesity-related insurance claims for veterinary expenses exceeded $69 million, a 24% increase over the last eight years, the insurer reported in January. With only 2% of pets covered by insurance, the costs to owners of overweight pets is likely to be in the billions.
Indeed, obesity in pets has been associated with diabetes, pancreatitis, hyperlipidemia (high fat levels in the blood), joint disease, skin disease, and even a shorter lifespan, the Tufts Obesity Clinic says. A study of Labrador retrievers, a breed especially prone to becoming overweight, revealed that excess weight can take nearly two years off a pet’s life.
So for our pets, as well as ourselves, it’s best to adopt the concept that “less is more.”
A study of 50 obese dogs enrolled in a weight-loss program conducted by the University of Liverpool in England during 2011 demonstrated the value of losing excess body fat, The New York Times reports. The 30 animals in the study that reached their target weight had greater vitality, less pain and fewer emotional issues than the animals that remained too fat.
But as with people, prevention is the better route—and, Linder emphasized during an interview with Brody, treats should make up no more than 10% of a dog’s daily calories.
“We love our pets and want to give them treats, but we often don’t think about treats from a caloric standpoint,” said John P. Loftus, an assistant professor, Section of Small Animal Medicine, at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. “It adds up over time. Better to show our love in ways other than food.”
“Everything counts as a treat, including marrow bones and rawhide,” Dr. Linder told Brody, as well as scraps of human food offered by owners or scarfed off their plates. Treats used for training or retrieval should contain only a few calories each, like Fruitables Skinny Minis or Zuke’s Mini Naturals.
Rather than overdoing treats, give your dog love and attention by playing ball, fetch or tug-of-war, which provides some exercise that burns calories. Cats, too, love to play with things they can wrestle with, like a toy mouse on a string or a ball of yarn. For pets that are too old or unwilling to play, you can show your love calorie-free with a caress, a belly rub, or a scratch behind the ears.
Equally important is to learn to resist pets that beg for more food than they need. Linder advises, “If you’re already meeting your pets’ nutritional needs, they’re not hungry. What they’re really asking for is your attention. Better to distract them with an activity.”
Cats can be even more challenging than dogs. They tend to graze, prompting owners to leave food out for them all the time. This becomes a problem for overweight cats. Dr.
Linder says, “I’ve never met an animal that could free-feed and still lose weight.” For cats that come begging for food at 4:30 a.m., she suggests using an automatic timed feeder. Cats quickly learn when the food will drop down and will wait at the feeder instead of nudging their owners, she said.
Of course, regular physical activity —15 to 30 minutes day—is important for a dog’s overall well-being, but it’s rarely enough to help an overweight dog lose weight “unless they’re running a 5K every day,” Linder noted. “They’re not going to burn off the calories in a marrow bone with a walk around the block.”
Research contact: @tuftsvet
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Infringement Liability for US Products Sold Abroad: Could Supreme Court Reverse CAFC?
A case currently pending petition to the United States Supreme Court could further define the scope of potential patent infringement liability for U.S. based companies that sell products intended to be used abroad. If the Supreme Court reverses the lower court in WesternGeco LLC v ION Geophysical Corp., it could expose infringers to much greater liability for infringing acts occurring outside of the United States.
On December 6, 2017 the Solicitor General filed an amicus curiae brief expressing its view that the Supreme Court should grant WesternGeco’s petition for a writ of certiorari. The question presented by the petition for cert, as submitted by the Solicitor General, is whether a patentee that has proved a domestic act of patent infringement may recover lost profits that it would have earned outside of the United States if the infringement had not occurred.
In the facts of this case, ION sold a component manufactured in the United States to foreign customers who incorporated the component in marine seismic survey systems used entirely outside of the United States. WesternGeco’s patents allegedly cover those marine seismic survey systems. A jury determined that ION infringed WesternGeco’s patent under 35 U.S.C. 271(f), which permits infringement where a component is sold “in or from the United States…[with the seller] intending that such component will be combined outside of the United States.” Based on this infringement finding, the jury awarded damages of $12.5M in royalties and $93.4M in lost profits.
Then on appeal, the Federal Circuit vacated the entire award of lost profits holding that the exporter of a component cannot be liable for an infringing use of that component abroad. A dissenting opinion was filed by Judge Wallach which relied on general tort theories of damages to arrive at a conclusion that lost profits can be recoverable under these facts. The Federal Circuit denied rehearing en banc, with three judges dissenting from the majority’s holding for the reason given in Wallach’s original dissent.
Polsinelli’s Intellectual Property Litigation attorneys will closely watch this case and report on any substantive developments. If you have questions about this issue and its implications to your business, please contact the author or your Polsinelli attorney.
James P. Murphy
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Mada’in Saleh, in the north of present-day Saudi Arabia, was settled by the Nabateans from the second century B.C. Although few visible traces remain of their ancient city, they left behind awe inspiring tombs carved out of the surrounding rocky outcrops.
The Asir region lies in the south-west of Saudi Arabia on the border with Yemen. ‘Asir’ means ‘difficult’ in Arabic, reflecting the challenge involved in crossing the Asir Mountains. It is this remoteness that has helped preserve the distinctive cultural heritage of the region.
The Prophet's Mosque, Madinah
Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, in the Hijaz region of western Saudi Arabia, is the second holiest city in Islam after Makkah, and burial place of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Entrance to the centre of Madinah is only granted to non-Muslims in exceptional circumstances.
Al-Balad, Jeddah
Al-Balad is the historic centre of Jeddah, the second largest city in Saudi Arabia, known as 'Bride of the Red Sea'. For centuries Jeddah has been the port of entry for pilgrims making the Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah, a few hours inland from Jeddah.
Bir Hima and The Rub' al Khali
Bir Hima lies to the north of Najran in southern Saudi Arabia, on the edge of the great Rub' al Khali desert. Around 300 individual sites contain rock carvings dating back to 5,500 B.C. These drawings show cattle, ibex, lion, baboons, giraffes and ostriches.
Najran and Al-Ukhdud
Najran occupies a strategic position on the modern border of Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Nestled between the rugged mountains of Asir to the west and the emptiness of the Rub' al Khali desert to its east, the town sits in a green and fertile oasis.
Ad-Dir'iyah, Najd
Founded in 1446-7, Ad-Dir'iyah served as the capital of the first Saudi State from 1744 to 1818. In 1744, Ibn Saud, emir of Ad-Dir'iyah, took in a fugitive religious scholar named Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, and what became known as the first Saudi state was born.
Al-Bahah
Al-Bahah is a region in the south of Saudi Arabia. Most of its inhabitants are from the Ghamidi and Zahrani tribes, which trace their origin to the pre-Islamic state of Sheba. To the west is the Tihama coastal plain of the Red Sea, and to the east are the al-Sarawat mountains.
Tayma
Tayma is a large oasis on the western edge of the al Nafud desert, the second of Arabia’s great sand deserts. It became an important stopping place for caravans on the incense route. The Bir Haddaj well is one of the largest and oldest wells in the Arabian peninsula.
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Starz CEO says The Chair’s future is up to creator Chris Moore
August 2, 2016 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment
What’s happening with Starz’s The Chair and its second season? Starz CEO Chris Albrecht gave a brief update about the filmmaking competition.
Project Greenlight, cancelled by HBO, is looking for a new home
July 27, 2016 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment
There will not be a Project Greenlight season five on HBO, but Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are looking for a new home for it, perhaps Netflix or Amazon.
Watch Shia LaBeouf on a live feed in an elevator
Shia LaBeouf, the actor who came to fame on Project Greenlight‘s second season, is in an elevator at Oxford for the next 24 hours, live streaming his conversations with two other performance artists and strangers. It’s a live feed that rivals Big Brother‘s, taking place in an enclosed space with not much going on—though the conversations I’ve heard so far… continue reading
Updates on The Chair season two
It’s been more than a year since the first season of Starz’s The Chair ended, but a second season of the DGA-award-winning and TCA-award winning series is at least further along than it was one year ago. But there is some behind-the-scenes progress on season two.
The frustrations of Project Greenlight 4, cartoon edition
November 1, 2015 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment
The return of Project Greenlight to HBO has offered two critical opportunities to observe Hollywood at work. The first, and rightfully the most-attention getting, is Hollywood’s problem with diversity. The second has been the shift in reality television. Resurrected after original star Chris Moore brought back the format with a twist, Project Greenlight is one of the all-time great formats, a guaranteed… continue reading
The racist Project Greenlight episode title, explained
October 19, 2015 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment
Project Greenlight’s sixth episode, which aired last night, was titled “Hot Ghetto Mess.” That was not a phrase spoken by any character in the episode, which once again largely focused on producer Effie Brown’s ongoing attempts to manage production of a film directed by a petulant, demanding child who constantly goes behind her back to white men to get… continue reading
Matt Damon’s pseudo-apology blames editing, congratulates himself
September 20, 2015 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment
Matt Damon has apologized and blamed the editing for comments he made during the first episode of Project Greenlight‘s fourth season, in which he rejected another producer’s concern about diversity. The season premiere include the producers of Project Greenlight deliberating about which director to hire, and during that, Effie Brown—a successful film producer who will… continue reading
First thoughts on the return of Project Greenlight
In the last moment of the first episode of Project Greenlight 4, executive producer and mentor Peter Farrelly says, “this guy is the best filmmaker in the group, but I think he’s self destructive.” He’s talking about Jason Mann, the first-time director the Farrelly brothers, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and others actually chose as the… continue reading
Two amazing shows return this week. Will they still be great?
September 4, 2015 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment
This Sunday, The Great British Baking Show returns to the US, the second season of the UK competition to air on PBS. A week later, on Sept. 13, a fourth season of Project Greenlight will debut on HBO, 10 years after it went off the air. Both represented the best of reality television. The question… continue reading
The Chair, The Jinx win TV critics awards
The Television Critics Association has given two TCA awards to unscripted series, The Chair and The Jinx. Also in nonfiction, the award for outstanding achievement in news and information went to HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The Chair, Starz’s exceptionally crafted documentary series that followed two filmmakers as they produced films from the… continue reading
The Chair winner Shane Dawson comes out as bisexual
July 7, 2015 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment
Earlier this year, fellow YouTube star and Amazing Race cast member Joey Graceffa came out as gay, and now the winner of Starz’s The Chair and YouTube star Shane Dawson has come out as bisexual via a video. “I always wished that I was gay, just 100 percent gay,” Shane says, “but I’m not, I’m… continue reading
The Chair’s Anthony B. Sacco wins Directors Guild award
February 8, 2015 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment
Anthony B. Sacco, the director of Starz’s The Chair, has won the Directors Guild Award for outstanding directorial achievement in reality programs. It’s his second win; he previously won for NBC’s Treasure Hunters in 2006, and in was nominated for an episode of Project Runway‘s fourth season in 2007. Sacco won for the ninth episode, which focuses… continue reading
A second season of The Chair seems very possible
The Chair was one of my favorite series of 2014, and there seems to be a chance it could return for a second season. The network, Starz, is “totally open” and its creator, Chris Moore, has promised to go back to Pittsburgh for a second season of the outstanding filmmaking competition reality series. First, in… continue reading
Shane Dawson on winning The Chair, Not Cool critics, Big Brother
Shane Dawson has won The Chair and $250,000, a coda tacked on to the ending of one of the best reality TV series I’ve ever watched. I talked to him about making Not Cool under the scrutiny of reality TV cameras, criticism of his work (including from Zachary Quinto), how fair the competition was considering his millions of followers on social… continue reading
Anna Martemucci on The Chair, directing, collaboration, creativity
Starz’ The Chair comes to an end tomorrow night, with either Anna Martemucci (“Hollidaysburg”) or Shane Dawson (“Not Cool”) winning $250,000. But despite that large prize, the contest has truly been secondary to the reality series’ extraordinary ability to capture the filmmaking process. I talked with Anna last night, and she offered a lot of candid insight about The Chair, its… continue reading
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Sytrinol™ - A Natural Solution for Addressing Cholesterol
By Richard F. Staack, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Sytrinol™, a patented proprietary formula derived from natural citrus and palm fruit extracts, combines citrus polymethoxylated flavones (PMFs), palm tocotrienols and other proprietary constituents. This combination results in a synergistic effect for maintaining cholesterol levels in the normal range, including total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglyceride levels, as demonstrated by a long-term, three phase clinical trial.
This trial is extremely significant because it is a randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover design, one of only a few in the dietary supplement industry. Sytrinol has also been shown to maintain normal levels of high density lipoproteins (HDL), the beneficial cholesterol. Additionally, Sytrinol is a powerful antioxidant with numerous heart health benefits and also plays a significant role in reducing cellular irritation.
What are polymethoxylated flavones?
Polymethoxylated flavones are a highly methoxylated sub-classification of citrus flavonoids. This process occurs naturally and results in a more biologically active molecule. This is especially true for tangeretin and nobiletin, two of the primary polymethoxylated flavones in Sytrinol. Tocotrienols, naturally occurring analogues of tocopherol (natural vitamin E), are the other proprietary ingredient in Sytrinol and are a group of minor dietary constituents that have been studied for their effect on heart health.
Sytrinol's Proven Benefits
Sytrinol is the result of over 12 years of research focusing on the relationship between polymethoxylated flavonoids, tocotrienols, and cardiovascular health. Sytrinol's benefits have been shown in vitro, in vivo, and in multiple clinical studies. In these studies, subjects consumed 150 mg of Sytrinol twice per day (300 mg/day) and were instructed to keep the same dietary habits and maintain their caloric intake. Fasting blood samples were drawn at study onset, and at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, and 12 weeks. The results of the clinical studies were all similar in their effect, with a reduction of total cholesterol up to 30 percent, LDL cholesterol up to 27 percent, and total triglycerides up to 34 percent in twelve weeks compared to the placebo group. Additionally, the LDL/HDL ratio was significantly reduced in all clinical studies up to 30 percent.
Effect on C-reactive protein (CRP)
Another very important benefit of Sytrinol that cannot be claimed by other cholesterol-addressing supplements is its effect on C-reactive protein (CRP), which plays a role in cardiovascular challenges. Recent research has established that inflammation may cause C-reactive protein to be produced in the body. Specific PMFs, including nobiletin and tangeretin, have been studied for their anti-inflammatory properties, suggesting that Sytrinol may have a positive effect on CRP.
Antioxidant Benefit
Sytrinol has also been shown to be a powerful antioxidant. The polymethoxylated flavones have been researched for over 25 years demonstrating their antioxidant effects for heart health. Studies have shown that polymethoxylated flavonoids and their metabolites are excellent sources of dietary antioxidants that are able to suppress many of the events of free radical damage, including cellular irritation. The tocotrienols in Sytrinol have a higher antioxidant activity than tocopherols. Alpha-tocotrienol has been shown to be up to 60 times more potent than alpha-tocopherol in the prevention of lipid peroxidation. Other research has demonstrated that the delta and gamma isomers of tocotrienols also have potent antioxidant activity.
Sytrinol has three complementary mechanisms of action in the body that deliver cardiovascular benefits.
Polymethoxylated flavones decrease apolipoprotein B, the structural protein needed for endogenous synthesis of LDL cholesterol.
Polymethoxylated flavones (tangeretin & nobiletin) decrease diacylglycerol acetyl transferase, a liver enzyme needed for endogenous synthesis of triglycerides.
Tocotrienols inhibit HMG CoA reductase, the liver enzyme responsible for endogenous synthesis of cholesterol.
These mechanisms work synergistically to support normal total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglyceride levels, more significantly than other natural supplements on the market today.
Sytrinol can also be combined with other ingredients such as phytosterols. Phytosterols help block cholesterol in the gastrointestinal tract while Sytrinol helps block cholesterol synthesis in the body. This suggests that, when combined, a more pronounced effect on maintaining normal cholesterol levels would result.
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The ease of compliance for consumers is a major consideration for a successful natural heart health product. Consumers do not have to take Sytrinol prior to, immediately following, or directly with their meals and, as a result, are more likely to take the correct dosage and continue using the product. Sytrinol can be taken in tablets, or softgels, which are easy to swallow because of the low dosage. Sytrinol will also be available in functional foods.
Dr. Richard Staack is the Vice President of Business Development, Technology, and Science at SourceOne™ Global Partners. He received his Master of Science and Doctorate in Nutritional and Biochemical Toxicology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his Master of Business Administration with Distinction from DeVry University. Dr Staack has received several awards and honors in the field of nutrition, is associated with numerous professional affiliations, and has published several articles on nutrition and toxicology in peer-reviewed journals.
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Home » News » Ethical Issues in Medicine
Publish Date January 1, 2019
When Patients Refuse Recommended Treatments
David J. Alfandre, MD, MSPH
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In general, ethical tension exists when a physician's obligation to promote a patient's best interests competes with the physician's obligation to respect the patient's autonomy.
“When you don’t take your medication, you’re more likely to get sick.”
“I hear you doc, but I can manage this.”
Conversations like these can make physicians uncomfortable. When patients refuse recommended treatments, physicians are apt to worry not just about their patients’ health and if they are doing everything they can to help them, but also if they will be to blame if the patient suffers a poor outcome.
This problem is neither new nor uncommon. Patients have been refusing medical advice for as long as there have been doctors and they do so across the spectrum of care, from the outpatient clinic to the hospital to the nursing home. A dramatic example of this is when an inpatient leaves the hospital against medical advice (AMA). More commonly, conflicts can arise over other declinations of care, including non-adherence with medication, treatment, or screening recommendations, by disengaging with their health care providers, or failing to follow-up regularly.
Balancing obligations
Although the tendency is to frame these conflicts over rules, regulations, and legal liability, these dilemmas are primarily about physicians’ obligations and patients’ rights, and thus benefit from an ethical perspective. In general, ethical tension exists when a physician’s obligation to promote a patient’s best interests competes with the physician’s obligation to respect the patient’s autonomy, that is, a patient’s right to decide about what care they accept. Trying to balance these obligations without inappropriately favoring one of them can be a regular challenge for clinicians.
Physicians promote patient autonomy when they involve patients in discussions about their care. Still, simply providing a technical listing of the relevant medical information and standing aside so patients can decide is not what physicians or patients want. Patients want their physicians to contextualize the information and make a recommendation based on medical evidence and patients’ goals. At the same time, patients do not necessarily want their physicians to decide for them. Such paternalism, when physicians make unilateral decisions about what is best for patients, is no longer ethically acceptable. Where does that leave the clinician, who is trying to help patients promote their health but avoid being paternalistic? The answer lies in 1) engaging patients in the decision-making process, 2) respecting competent patient’s choices, and 3) promoting harm reduction when patients make choices that do not prioritize their health.
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The most common reason patients decline recommended care is because they lack information.1 In these cases, a physician’s ethical obligation is to ensure patients understand exactly what they are declining. This includes clarifying the indication for the treatment, its risks and benefits, any alternatives, and the risks and benefits of the alternatives. Often, patients can be persuaded to agree to a beneficial treatment simply by identifying the source of their misunderstanding and correcting it.
Understanding why
If a physician has determined that a patient understands the available options but continues to decline the recommended option, the physician can try to understand how the patient arrived at his or her decision. Understanding the why behind the declination can create an opportunity to intervene. A clinician might say, “You told me you don’t want the surgery because ‘it’s just not right for me.’ What about it isn’t right? Are you worried about surgical complications? The anesthesia? Staying in the hospital after the procedure? Something else?” Creating space for patients to voice their concerns can help identify previously undiscovered reasons for declining a recommended option.
If a physician obtains a patient’s “informed refusal” (i.e., informed consent to decline the recommended treatment option), then the physician has honored an important ethical obligation: respecting a competent patient’s right to decline recommended care. But respecting a patient’s right to refuse does not address another core obligation of medical practice: how to help patients promote their health.
Harm reduction maintains the therapeutic relationship while helping to promote a patient’s best interests. It attempts to reduce the adverse health consequences that may come from a patient’s unhealthy behaviors while accepting that such patients are likely to continue these behaviors. This is practiced on large scales with needle exchange programs and on smaller scales in physicians’ offices with nicotine replacement therapy.
Practicing harm reduction means identifying other medically acceptable options that the patient is willing to accept.2 It does not mean suggesting treatment options that are not in accord with accepted standards of medical practice. Doing so would threaten the integrity of the medical profession because it would harm patients without a potential for benefit. Identifying other medically acceptable options that are preferable to the patient maintains the treatment alliance and promotes the patient’s health more than doing nothing.3 For example, a patient who wishes to leave the hospital AMA may be behaving in way that undermines his or her health. But if a clinician can arrange follow-up with the patient’s primary care provider in 24 to 48 hours, the patient may find that preferable to continued hospitalization and will keep that patient engaged in care.
Competent patients have a right to decline recommended treatments and physicians have an obligation to respect that right. Although it is frustrating to stand by when patients decline recommended care, it does not mean they wish to decline all help. Keeping patients engaged in their care allows physicians to help when and where they can.
David J. Alfandre MD, MSPH, is a health care ethicist for the National Center for Ethics in Health Care (NCEHC) at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Population Health at the NYU School of Medicine in New York. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the NCEHC or the VA.
1. Appelbaum PS, Roth LH. Patients who refuse treatment in medical hospitals. JAMA. 1983;250:1296-1301.
2. Stratton K, Shetty P, Wallace R, Bondurant S. Clearing the smoke: the science base for tobacco harm reduction—executive summary. Tob Control. 2001;10:189-195.
3. Alfandre D. Clinical recommendations in medical practice: A proposed framework to reduce bias and improve the quality of medical decisions.” J Clin Ethics. 2016:27:21-27.
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Sister Margaret Hilliard
Born: 8th April 1946
Entered Religious Life: 10th February 1969
Died: 4th October 2017
The following is the reflection given by Camellia D'Cruz at the memorial Mass of Sr Margaret held on 14th November 2017 at the chapel in St Michael's Hospital, Dún Laoghaire.
"It is with mixed feelings of sadness that we miss Sr Margaret and of gratitude for her life that I stand here to reflect on the life of Sr Margaret. I recall the first day I met her was in the chapel at the third pew where she usually sat. She recognised it was my first time to visit the chapel and made me feel at home.
Sr. Margaret was a lady of strong values. A woman who did not compromise the love of Jesus to anyone. Her role as a chaplain was far beyond supporting patients spiritually. Sr. Margaret would do her rounds every single morning and many, many patients and staff were assured of her love, her guidance, her support and her prayers. The spiritual needs of a patient was fully supported and upheld by Sr. Margaret. Her work was always recognised when patients verbalised that it was great to have a chat with Sr. Margaret. The holistic nature of healthcare demands spiritual well-being and this was constantly provided by Sr. Margaret.
Her presence and her encouragement is very, very sadly missed around the hospital. Staff who need a word of upliftment today have to only hold on to the memories of the goodness we received from Sr. Margaret.
Our gratitude to God will always stand. That the Lord blessed us with a lady personified with love and values which went beyond culture, creed, race and faith. She was there for anybody in need. Now Jesus we give Sr. Margaret back to you. Every time we miss her, we will remember and be reminded that she is now with you. May your favour and love uphold her. Amen."
The following is the ‘Welcome’ given at Sr Margaret’s Funeral Mass on Saturday, 7th October, by Sr Mary Christian, Superior General and a member of the community where Margaret lived in Sandymount.
“On behalf of the Caritas Community and the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity I welcome all of you here today.
I welcome Fr. Dan O’Connor who is our main celebrant, Fr. Tom McDonald, CSSp who ministered very closely with Margaret at St. Michael’s Hospital and Fr. John McDonagh, our Parish Priest.
A special welcome to her family – her sisters Mary and Pauline, brothers Tommy and Paddy, sisters-in-law Bernie and Clare, brothers-in-law Mick and Oliver, her nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews and the extended family, Religious from other Congregations, her former colleagues at St. Michael’s Hospital, Members of the Choir, Margaret’s many friends and Sr. Una O’Neill our Provincial Leader and the many members of the Religious Sisters of Charity present.
Margaret was a woman of great faith, determination and hope. For twenty years she battled lymphoma and up to two weeks ago she would say over and over again ‘I just have to weather this bout’. God had other plans for Margaret and called her to himself.
As a Religious Sister of Charity. Margaret was just two years short of her Golden Jubilee. During these forty-eight years she ministered in many different aspects of healthcare in many different places. She began in Marycrest Manor in Los Angeles. Then it was back to Ireland to St. Joseph’s Kilkenny, over to Scotland to Airdrie, then back to Ireland for the remainder of her life where she ministered in Baldoyle, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin, St. Patrick’s Kilkenny, Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross, St. Patrick’s Cork and finally as Chaplain at St. Michael’s, Dun Laoghaire.
I have only lived with Margaret for the last seven years. I am absolutely certain that she loved her ministry and her one hope was to go back to St. Michael’s for two mornings a week. In her head she had it all worked out. She loved singing in the choir here in Sandymount and before that in Bray. She was also part of Project Messiah and this time last year when she was undergoing chemo nothing could stop her from attending practices and being part of the choirs. She was a very generous woman who thought only of others and was a real friend to many people. She had a wonderful devotion to the Rosary and I am sure she would be very happy to have her funeral Mass on this the feast of the Holy Rosary.
She will be missed greatly by her family, her community, her former colleagues, choir members and many, many more people.
Margaret, may you rest in peace."
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Analysis of Chris Christie’s Speech
RUSH: We’ll talk about the Christie speech at the Reagan “liberry” — that’s for those of you in Rio Linda — library, for those of you who are not, last night Simi Valley. Boy, I’ll tell you the reaction to this Christie speech is fascinating to me. I got an e-mail from a friend of mine in California who would not travel two blocks to hear me speak, and this friend grabbed a good friend of his and their wives and they drove all the way over to the Simi Valley to hear Christie. Snerdley’s reaction was identical to my friend’s. “Eh, speech was okay. Parts of it I didn’t quite understand, but the Q&A, that was gold plus. That was AAA. Q&A, that’s a talent you either have or you don’t have. Spontaneity, Q&A, nailed it.”
The ten-minute Q&A, from people I’ve talked to, was the high point of the Christie speech. I looked at some of it. I will withhold my review until I hear from some of you what you think, because when I say what there is to be said, there’s generally nothing left to be said. I don’t want to influence what some of you might think by telling you right off the bat what I think. Now, we don’t do this much. It’s very rare that I reserve my comments in deference to you, but this time I’m a little fascinated because there’s a lot of stuff rolled into this.
For example, the media would love the perception out there that there’s genuine widespread unhappiness with the Republican field, and that’s what Christie and the reaction he’s getting represents. And depending on where you go, there probably is unhappiness with the field. If you go to the Republican establishment, if you go to the people in the establishment who are really singing Christie’s praises today, you can conclude that the Republican establishment is not happy with the field, think it’s weak. The media of course would love for that perception to be furthered.
Byron York has a piece today in the Washington Examiner where he talked to a bunch of pollsters who were talking to Republican primary voters and he’s not finding much sentiment among voters for unhappiness with the field. This whole notion that the field is weak, in other words, is not something that the voting public thinks; the Republican establishment thinks it according to Byron York’s piece. He talked to pollsters who have come to this conclusion. The reaction that some people are having to Christie is, “Oh, God, please get in,” and then that does indicate an unhappiness with everybody else that’s in the field. It boils down I think to people wanting somebody they think can win, and it boils down to people wanting somebody that talks tough, and talks straight, from the gut.
But, gee, I almost started telling you moments ago what I thought of Christie’s speech, and I’m gonna withhold that ’til I hear from some of you. We’ll play some highlights from it and see what you all think about it. I think I got a pretty good idea the reaction we’re gonna get, but we’ll see. I don’t want to taint it in any way by prejudging it, i.e., caller reaction to Christie’s appearance at the Reagan library.
RUSH: Janet in Shiloh, Illinois. Go ahead and tell the audience what it says here you were gonna tell me.
CALLER: Well, first I want to say hello “last son-of-a-bitch standing.” (giggling)
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: I am so delighted they haven’t taken you out. (giggling)
RUSH: (laughing) Ah, that’s… Look at how the Democrats are corrupting even this program!
CALLER: (giggling) Yes, but they haven’t corrupted you and that’s what we must celebrate today. Rush, you’ve been right. I did not listen to Chris Christie last night because I didn’t need to. I’ve listened to you long enough to know that you are the one who has accurately, honestly, forthrightly carried on conservatism since Reagan and Buckley stopped — and it was only age that stopped them; it wasn’t a fault of conservatism — and what we are watching with the Republican GOP nomination process is we’re watching conservatism be reframed properly in this time period. Tina Brown said you were wrong to say you hoped that Obama failed? Well, what we don’t get yet — what this country kinda gets; you’re right — is Obama didn’t fail. He got everything he wanted. He got it all, and now the country’s failing. That’s called “nuanced thinking.” That’s the kind of thinking that you give out every day. I’m one of your best students. I know this.
RUSH: Okay, so what she’s leading up to here, folks, is that you’re waiting for my take.
CALLER: Exactly!
RUSH: You don’t want to hear what everybody else thinks of Christie’s speech.
CALLER: No!
RUSH: You want to know what I think of Christie’s speech.
CALLER: Yeah!
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Yes. And you want to know something else?
CALLER: If you had been in your desk Friday instead of off having fun, Rick Perry would have been doing better, but you know what? You did Herman Cain an enormous favor by not being there.
RUSH: I wish to heck I was having fun Friday.
CALLER: (giggling)
RUSH: I’d give anything to have been having fun Friday.
RUSH: Anyway, so, are you gonna beg me to run?
CALLER: No.
RUSH: ‘Cause I gotta tell you something: I’m sitting here, my feelings are a little hurt. Everybody is out there begging Christie to run and nobody’s begged me to run. And you just said it: I’m Mr. Conservative, I’m Mister Big, and nobody’s begging me to run. I have to sit here and listen to all these other schlubs get begged?
RUSH: There’s not enough time to do the Christie sound bites in this segment. I want to move the Christie speech sound bites to the top of the next segment, ’cause there’s not enough time. I want to be able to do ’em all rat-tat-tat. I got five of them here and I don’t want to have to separate ’em by the top-of-the-hour break. So just couple of other things here. All of these people begging Christie to run, who are they? Now, I know you’ve got voters like the woman during the Q&A last night, begged Christie to run. I think that’s the exception. The people who are begging Christie to run were the same people begging Mitch Daniels to run. Republican establishment. The same people begging Paul Ryan to run. But why?
My friends, do not doubt me. I know this is going to shock many of you, and maybe disappoint a lot of you. But when you talk about the Republican establishment — and you’ve read their pieces today — you know what I’m talking about: The columnists, the magazine directors, editors, publishers, whatever, they are reaching and searching for a counter to the conservatives. They don’t want Herman Cain getting the nomination; they don’t want Perry getting the nomination; they don’t want Bachmann getting the nomination. The Republican establishment does not want a conservative getting the nomination. If Chris Christie can come along, catch fire, see to it that Palin, Bachmann — Palin not in, she might get in, who knows, doubt it, but still too soon to say — if they can co-opt any conservative getting the nomination, they will do it.
Nothing’s changed. “But, Rush, but, Rush, Christie’s a big conservative.” I will reserve my comments for later on in the program. I’ll just give you one little hint. I heard a lot of John McCain in that speech. Well, maybe not a lot, but I heard enough to send up a red flag or two.
RUSH: Let’s go to the audio sound bites. Here’s Governor Christie on American exceptionalism last night.
CHRISTIE: A lot is being said in this election season about American exceptionalism. But for American exceptionalism to truly deliver hope and a sterling example to the rest of the world, it must be demonstrated, not just asserted. They will be more likely to follow our example and lead if they see what we’re doing and are allowed to emulate it. Unfortunately, through our own domestic political conduct of late, we have failed to live up to our own tradition of exceptionalism. Today, our role and ability to affect change has been diminished because of our own problems and our inability to effectively deal with them.
RUSH: Okay, folks, there’s a lot there. I mean there’s a whole lot there in that 42-second sound bite. You want to hear what I think about this or not? That’s a foreign policy comment. And everybody says, “Foreign policy, wait a second here. You’re the governor of New Jersey. The only reason you would bring up foreign policy is if you are setting the stage for a presidential run or maybe being selected as a veep. Because as governor of New Jersey you really haven’t spoken out much on foreign policy. It’s not required.” But he spent a lot of time on things that could be construed as foreign policy last night, and this bite contains a lot foreign policy.
Also in this bite, coupled with other things I heard in the speech, Christie’s unhappy with the partisanship that exists in the country today. That’s what this all means here. There isn’t any American exceptionalism going on because we’re not demonstrating any. There’s nothing for anybody out there to emulate because we’re not doing anything very well. “Our domestic political conduct, we’ve failed to live up to our own tradition of exceptionalism.” I’m sorry, folks, but my definition of American exceptionalism has nothing to do with how the Republicans and Democrats get along with each other in Congress or in Washington. I have a whole different concept of American exceptionalism which I have explained and defined on this program countless times previously. Here’s the next bite on what Ronaldus Magnus would do.
CHRISTIE: If Ronald Reagan faced today’s challenges, we know exactly what he would do. He would face our domestic problems directly, with leadership, and without political calculation. He would take an honest and tough approach to solving our long-term debt and deficit problem through reforming our entitlement programs and our tax code. We would confront our unemployment crisis by giving certainty to business about our tax and regulatory future. We would unleash American entrepreneurship through long-term tax reform, not short-term tax gimmickry. (applause)
RUSH: Right on. Oh. I can tell Cookie is for Christie. She left in more applause than she usually does. You can’t fool me, Cookie. Cookie is the producer of the audio sound bites, and, you know, there’s several dictates under which she operates from me. One is no bite can be longer than 60 seconds unless I approve it, and cut the applause just for the sake of brevity. Now, normally we get a second and a half of applause, maybe a second if we are lucky. This we get three seconds of applause. He-he. I know Cookie lives in New Jersey or grew up there. (laughing) She’s responding now on instant message: “Damn right, love him, he’ll smash the Democrats, love him,” it’s in all caps. Okay, so that’s a pretty good bite there, what Ronaldus Magnus would do. Here Christie calls Obama a bystander in the Oval Office.
CHRISTIE: We continue to wait and hope that our president will finally stop being a bystander in the Oval Office. We hope that he will shake off the paralysis that has made it impossible for him to take on the really big things that are so obvious to all Americans and to a watching and anxious world. Each and every time the president lets a moment to act pass him by his failure is our failure, too. The rule for effective governance is simple. It’s the one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. It’s the one he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That’s the job we’ve been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it.
RUSH: Okay, now, this bite’s interesting to me. I myself have referred to Democrats and Obama specifically as a spectator. And what I’ve meant is here’s Obama, I’ll give you a great recent example. Obama with Porkulus and TARP and all the spending has added $4 trillion to the national debt, and then goes out and makes a speech about how we need to get our financial house in order as though he’s just been a spectator. Same thing with Katrina. The Democrats were in charge in New Orleans, in Louisiana, in Washington, and it was they who were supposed to fix the levees. Money was appropriated to fix the levees. The levees didn’t hold after Katrina. The Democrats get to act like spectators, demand hearings, demand investigations. They want Bush strung up. They want Mike Brown of FEMA strung up. They’re the ones who were to blame. They’re the ones who didn’t get the job done. They get to act like spectators, demand all these investigations, hearings, everything else, when they were the architects of all the problems.
Now, that’s what I mean by spectator. Maybe Christie doesn’t mean that when he says bystander, but I think he does. I think Obama’s basically trying to make it look like none of this that’s happened has anything to do with what he’s done, and now he wants to set himself up as the repairman who wants to bring a little sanity to this, he wants to be the adult in the room. But paralysis, Obama… I’m sorry. Obama’s not paralyzed. This guy has been on steroids attacking the private sector. Obama has been on human growth hormone in attacking the private sector and destroying job opportunity. Obama’s been taking steroids and shooting up HGH when he goes out and does everything he can to grow government, take money and capital out of the private sector.
I don’t see him as a bystander in that sense. He’s got all these czars. Who knows what the hell’s going on that we are not being told by all these czars who are not accountable, they don’t have to be confirmed by the Senate. He’s a grandstander, there’s no question about that. Was FDR a bystander? Was LBJ a bystander with the Great Society and all that? This guy has been pretty active as far as I’m concerned. Here’s one more bite. This is Christie saying that Obama came to divide.
CHRISTIE: President Obama prepares to divide our nation to achieve reelection, telling those who are scared and struggling that the only way their lives can get better is to diminish the success of others, trying to cynically convince those who are suffering that the American economic pie is no longer a growing one that can provide more prosperity for all who work hard, insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American dream. That may turn out to be good reelection strategy, Mr. President, but it is a demoralizing message for America. What happened to state Senator Obama? When did he decide to become one of the dividers he spoke so eloquently of in 2004?
RUSH: Right on with this. We all know that Obama came to divide. He didn’t just start dividing with this latest iteration of his campaign. Obama showed up dividing. Obama’s intention has been to divide. But that’s just me. I don’t think Obama’s divisive character is recent or new. I think he’s just doubling down on it. He’s doubling down on it because he’s in trouble, and again it goes back to the fact… I had somebody tell me that life never escapes high school, that we all never escape high school. You know, I was analyzing why Tina Brown’s mad. The theory is as expressed to me, “Look, Obama came along and made all these people — the most popular kids in New York, the most popular kids in Washington — happy. He comes around and wins and they’re the big clique again, and now he’s destroyed that. Nobody wants to be in the clique, everybody’s running to get the hell out of the big clique.” Clinton did the same thing, but Clinton was able to hold on for eight years. Clinton still has the ability to do that. Obama has squandered it. He’s making their side look bad. Now to the Q&A. This is the woman who begged Christie to run.
WOMAN: We can’t wait another four years ’til 2016. I really implore you as a citizen of this country to please, sir, to reconsider. Don’t even say anything tonight. Of course you wouldn’t.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
WOMAN: Go home and really think about it. (laughter)
WOMAN: Please. Do it for my daughter, do it for our grandchildren, do it for our sons. Please, sir. We need you. Your country needs you to run for president.
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
RUSH: Ah! Three seconds of applause there. Cookie left it in, a little bit longer than the directive. Here’s Christie’s reply…
CHRISTIE: I’m just a kid from Jersey who feels like I’m the luckiest guy in the world to have the opportunity that I have to be the governor of my state. People say to me all the time now, “Why don’t they just leave you alone? You’ve already given your answer. Isn’t it a burden?” What I say to you tonight and say to everybody else who’s nice enough to applaud what she said is that it isn’t a burden. Anybody who has an ego large enough to say, “Oh, please! Please, please, stop asking me to be leader of the free world.”
CHRISTIE: “It’s such a burden. If you could please just stop!” It’s extraordinarily flattering. But by the same token that heartfelt message you gave me is also not a reason for me to do it. That reason has to reside inside me. I know, without ever having met President Reagan, that he must have felt deeply in his heart that he was called to that moment to lead our country.
RUSH: He was. Reagan was called to run for president. He really was. That’s the famous Reagan kitchen cabinet, an arrangement that because of election law would be illegal today. However, you know, the thing about Christie saying, “I don’t know. I just don’t think I’m ready, don’t think I’m qualified.” I’ve never run for office, I’ve never had the desire to. There’s one thing about it that I think I do understand — and that is, you have to really want it; and if you don’t, then don’t even get close to it. This is not something you do without a full-fledged, 150% self-commitment. This is a life-changing, a forever life-changing event, to run for president. If you go and get the nomination, to actually to be your party’s standard-bearer, it changes your life forever; and it’s something that you have to have an ego that says, “Country and world cannot survive without me.” That’s almost what it takes. It is so arduous, the media anal exam you’re gonna get as a Republican. So if he really is being truthful when he says he’s not into it yet, that he doesn’t think he’s ready, he ought to be listened to. Otherwise, he would know. The fire in the belly, you know whether you’ve got it or not — and if you don’t have it, this is not something you do on an, “Ah, let me give this a shot.” This is something that you have to be full-fledged, 150% committed to. Besides, the leader of the free world job is actually taken: I have it, titular or otherwise.
RUSH: Sarah Palin last night was on Greta Van Susteren’s show. And Greta said, “Well, it’s sort of interesting, always the people who are not in the race. Sometimes they get a lot of encouragement from others, a lot of glowing reports, and Christie has certainly been pushed by many Republicans.”
PALIN: Many Republicans — but also just many in the media because, for many in the media, this is like a reality show. I think a Newsweek article that came out the other day really nailed it when they said that there are media outlets that kind of create this reality show; this intrigue and, “Who’s gonna be the next flavor of the week?” and they prop somebody up — in order to crush the person, it seems, later on.
RUSH: So Sarah Palin says the media is building up Christie just so they can crush him later on. I think there’s something to that. But, again, I’m gonna tell you: The Republican establishment… Now, you’re gonna get mad at me at this. The Republican establishment is looking for anybody who can see to it that a conservative, a genuine conservative will not be nominated. “But, Rush! But, Rush! Are you saying that Christie is not a conservative?” As far as the Republican establishment’s concerned, yes. Herman Cain is a conservative that worries ’em. Perry, he’s a conservative that worries them. Bachmann is a conservative that worries them. Santorum is a conservative that worries them. Reagan was a conservative that worried the Republican establishment.
Christie is not. Now, some people say that, “Well, Christie’s more conservative than you think, Rush. He’s just governor of New Jersey. He has to say certain things. I mean, look at who the voting base is there. A bunch of lib Democrats. He’s gotta work with a Democrat legislature in that state. He’s a governor of a liberal state. He’s gotta say some things to appease those people. So if he ever broke out of that you’d see the genuine full-fledged, 100% conservative Chris Christie.” Okay, that’s fine if that’s what we want to do, roll the dice that that’s what we’re gonna get when he breaks free of New Jersey.
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Tower Lighting Options Grow
New solar-powered, LED lights help save costs while meeting aviation obstruction rules
RadioWorld ⋅ Jun 17, 2010
Aviation obstruction lights are high-medium-, or low-intensity lighting devices installed atop high-rise structures, buildings and towers and used as collision avoidance measures.
The governments of most countries require aviation obstruction lights on all high towers and on low towers near airports, because towers are hazards to aircraft. Such devices make the structure much more visible to passing aircraft, and are usually used at night, although in some countries they are used during daytime, too. Aviation lights need to be of sufficient brightness in order to be visible for miles around the structure.
For broadcasters, high-rise towers are a vital part of the transmitting system, so proper understanding of tower lighting system is essential.
In general, tower lighting systems require several sets of lights, depending on the height and location of the tower, along with connection to the mains power supply. In addition, medium-wave broadcasters require some form of isolation system, such as an Austin transformer, on self-radiating towers.
Earlier, incandescent filament bulbs were standard for tower lighting, but nowadays LED-based and solar-powered LED-based aviation obstruction lights are very popular.
These lights have replaced older incandescent filament and neon bulbs for several reasons. An additional benefit for broadcasters is that solar-powered LED aviation obstruction lights can eliminate the need for power cabling and Austin transformers on self-radiating towers.
CATEGORIES OF LIGHTS
Aviation obstruction lights are broadly divided into three types: aviation red obstruction lights for structures less than 200 feet (61 meters) above ground level (AGL); medium-intensity flashing white obstruction lights for structures between 200 feet and 500 feet (153 meters) AGL; and high-intensity flashing white obstruction lights for structures with a height exceeding 500 feet AGL. A mix of these types of lights may be required, depending upon the tower.
Aviation obstruction lights must meet all specifications of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Since rules can vary from nation to nation, additional approvals from other organizations may be required. In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration is responsible for implementing aviation safety regulations.
In the Field AHMEDABAD, India — In July 2008, while attending to a fault of cabling and lights on the medium-wave mast at All India Radio Ahmedabad’s Bareja high-power transmission site, it was observed that the Austin transformer at the site was also faulty.
Looking at the exorbitant replacement cost of this transformer and cabling, the station decided to explore the other alternatives for obstruction lighting on the tower.
During its search, AIR Ahmedabad came across an excellent option: compact solar-powered LED aviation obstruction lights.
The solar-powered lights consist of a backup battery panel, high-intensity LED lights and control circuitry — all enclosed in a suitably designed compact iron-clad box.
The solar panel is rigidly attached to the box, making it a single module. With the help of clamps, the entire unit can be mounted on the mast or tower.
A setup like this had not previously been used on a live mast carrying RF voltage in excess of tens of thousands of volts. Some personnel were skeptical that the systems might burn out due to the high RF field, and the effect of a high-intensity RF field on the storage batteries was also not known.
As an experiment, one solar-powered LED aviation obstruction light was mounted on the mast at 3 meters above ground level (10 feet AGL); utmost care was taken to Any structure that exceeds 200 feet AGL generally needs to be marked/lighted according to FAA regulations. There are many factors that can affect obstruction marking requirements, such as weather, terrain, proximity to airports, etc.
Tower lighting can be red or white; specific colors may be mandated based on the tower size and location.
For red lighting systems, the tower must be painted in alternating sections of orange and white paint to provide maximum daytime visibility; red lights are for night-time use only. In the case of white or dual (red-white) lighting systems, the need for painting the tower may be eliminated.
A tower or any high-rise structure may be lighted by low-, medium- or high-intensity obstacle lights or a combination of such lights.
Multiple light units may be used to achieve a horizontal coverage of 360 degrees around the tower or structure. The “beam spread” of a light is defined as the angle between the two directions in a plane for which the intensity is equal to 50 percent of the minimum specified peak beam effective intensity.
Towers taller than 200 feet may also require lighting at intermediate points along the tower. The color and placement requirements can vary based on tower height. The presence of guy wires may also affect how a tower must be marked.
In addition to structure size, the type or combination of types of lights that must be used can vary based upon the time of day. Their type of signaling (fixed or flashing) and brightness also can vary. FAA Advisory Circular AC 70/7460-1K outlines the specific obstruction marking requirements.
TYPES OF LIGHTS
Traditionally, red lamps use incandescent filament bulbs or neon bulbs, which have a relatively short lifespan.
Nowadays, LED-based and solar LED-based lights are becoming quite popular.
Advances in light-emitting diode technology are creating new applications and increased acceptability of LEDs for mainstream applications. Until recently, LEDs were considered appropriate only for indication or decorative purposes, but LEDs are now gaining acceptance for signaling, down lights, floodlights, street lights and aviation obstruction lights.
LED light is increasingly superseding incandescent bulbs and neon lights, particularly for applications where the bulb can be difficult to replace, because an LED light source can offer a longer life, energy savings, equal or better light characteristics and years of maintenance-free operation and a quantifiable return on investment.
LEDs are common on broadcasting towers, mobile towers, wind turbines and high-rise buildings. Technical specifications of these lights are based on the number and type of LEDs used, and are usually defined in terms of lux produced. LED-based obstruction lights are available for all intensity types and categories.
In addition to being long lasting (LEDs can remain in service for a decade or more), LED technology is quite efficient at converting electrical energy into light energy while generating very little heat. LEDs are 90 percent more energy efficient than the incandescent bulb.
Also, since LEDs give off hardly any heat, they are safe to handle and there are no UV or infrared rays. They also are clearly visible in sunlight, without any time lag.
Unlike conventional light sources such as fluorescent and high-intensity discharge bulbs that use mercury to generate light, LED lighting uses no mercury, thus eliminating issues surrounding disposal of hazardous substances.
LEDs are also reliable and rugged; they contain no fragile filaments or glass. LEDs are solid-state devices and are less affected by the demands of harsh and hazardous environments. Finally, the usable life of LED bulbs is limited by lumen depreciation, not failure.
Lumen depreciation is the main concern with LED bulbs as their luminous intensity can significantly decrease over time. However, many manufacturers compensate for this by offering lights with initial luminous intensity much greater than required by FAA and ICAO specifications.
LEDs can also be heat-sensitive, and excessive heat buildup can shorten their usable lifespan.
SOLAR LED-BASED LIGHTS
The combination of a new generation of LED lights with very low power consumption and the falling costs of solar panels made it practical for LED-based obstruction lights to work on solar energy. This kind of system consists one solar panel, a backup battery, high-intensity LED lights and a control circuit.
In fact, this arrangement is very economical compared to other aircraft obstruction lighting (AOL) systems. These lights are suited for all types of tower, and avoid the necessity of laying mains power supply cables on the tower. Also, in case of self-radiating medium-wave towers, the costs of Austin isolation transformers are also saved.
Table 1: Comparison of Various Lights for Aviation Obstruction Lighting Among the other benefits of solar-powered LED-based obstruction lights are that each light operates independently; and accident or failure may affect one light, but it will not affect the others.
Also, with automatic sensors no manual intervention is required to turn the lights on or off. Solar lights can be designed to provide illumination automatically from dusk to dawn. Each system can charge itself, storing and producing electricity even on overcast days.
In addition to the light itself, solar-powered LED-based obstruction lights do require a few additional basic “modules” for operation.
A solar, or photovoltaic to use the formal term, module converts sunlight into electricity that can be used immediately or stored in a battery for use during the night. The type of battery being used is lead-acid, maintenance-free type, which is designed to be fully charged and discharged over and over again without causing damage.
Also necessary is a DC-to-AC inverter to convert direct current from the battery into alternating current to run AC appliances. If the LED lights are able to work on DC, then there is no need for converter.
Setting up a solar-powered LED-based obstruction lighting system does require some care, especially in positioning the solar panels to ensure maximum power generation.
Also, if a DC-to-AC inverter is used, remember that a 240 V inverter loses about 30 percent of the power during the conversion process. Using 12 V DC-based systems eliminates this power loss.
It is also important to check the life of the batteries, number of batteries and their charging capacity.
Meenakshi Singhvi is station engineer for All India Radio in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. This article was adapted from a piece published in the June 2010 international edition of Radio World.
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Will water become more valuable than oil?
Three experts argue whether or not water might one day be more expensive than the fuel that powers the global economy.
Illustratation by Andrea Ucini.
This article first appeared in the Times on 22 September 2018.
With oil prices rising sharply this year, it seems remarkable to argue that water might one day be more expensive than the fuel that powers the global economy.
Yet Jean-Louis Chaussade, the chief executive of the French utility company Suez, whose activities straddle the energy and water sectors, argues that water scarcity is now one of the most pressing challenges facing many industries.
He told the Financial Times last year that he foresees a day when water will be a more precious commodity than oil.
It isn’t only a growing world population that places demands on water – industries such as energy and agriculture are also consuming more and more.
The 2030 Water Resources Group, a public-private partnership hosted by the World Bank, believes that by 2030 global demand will be 40 per cent higher than it is today – and that if action is not taken to curb the worst effects of climate change, water supplies will diminish.
The threat is now so acute that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in the US recently warned that disputes over water have the potential to trigger armed conflicts, particularly in more arid areas of the world such as Africa and the Middle East. A three-year drought in South Africa prompted a water crisis earlier this year, with officials warning they may have to shut off most of Cape Town’s taps.
So we asked the experts: could water become costlier than oil?
Yes, it is true
Alexei Levene, Co-founder of Desolenator, a start-up that uses clean energy to desalinate water.
"The most valuable water in the world is what we actually consume; what we drink and cook with – potable water. With petrol at roughly £1.29 a litre in the UK today, a bottle of water from some of those big-name branded companies can already be about three times more.
"The water we drink is not going to get any cheaper. Our 100-year-old water infrastructure is rapidly ageing, and problems associated with that are only getting worse. The days of relying on potable water flowing through our taps are coming to an end.
"Around the world, some 2.1 billion people do not have immediate access to clean drinking water. And this isn’t only a developing-world problem. In almost every country people have water stress – ranging from water scarcity in the American southwest to extreme drought concerns in Australia. Indonesia has up to three metres of annual rainfall, but very limited access to safe water to drink.
"Over the next ten years, if we do not come together to find answers to our water shortage, we will face major supply-related issues around the globe, not just with drinking water – our industries will be affected as well."
No, it’s not true
Charles Fishman, Author of The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water.
"In economic terms – literally, in terms of price – water will never cost more per gallon than oil. The US alone uses more water in three days than the world uses oil in a year. The quantities used, and the quantities available, are not comparable. And the economics aren’t comparable either.
"Price won’t be the issue. We won’t be carting water around in tankers from one part of the world to another. You can’t charge $1.55 for every gallon of water. The world economy would collapse. More to the point, you would never need to. You can produce water by cleaning and reusing it, or even desalinating it, much more cheaply than oil costs now. And the costs of reuse and desalination are falling.
"It’s fair to say that water is more valuable than oil as a commodity in non-price terms. Oil is a basic commodity for which there are many substitutes. That makes water more valuable, but this value is not reflected in its price.
"Communities and countries must appreciate that water is the foundation of their economies and invest much more in water systems. But water doesn’t need to be so expensive that ordinary people can’t afford what they need."
Tapping water’s potential - Schroders' view
Andy Howard, Head of Sustainability at Schroders, says investors must get to grips with the risks posed by water scarcity – and understand the opportunities.
"Water scarcity is absolutely an issue that should be on investors’ radars, but the answers aren’t straightforward. Water is a much more localised matter than, say, climate change, and the degree to which a company you might invest in is at risk of water shortage is not always clear.
"In practice, that means investors need to develop a firm understanding of the challenges that water shortages might present, and where these will bite. But they also need to think about what those issues might mean for an individual business.
"A drinks manufacturer, say, very obviously has an exposure to water, but not necessarily any more so than a business that uses water in its supply chain or its production processes.
"Still, it’s true to say that the value of water – or the cost of a lack of it – could be high enough to have a material impact on a business. We’ve already chosen not to invest in companies as we believed their exposure to water shortages was too big a risk.
"Equally, while water has so far been priced to reflect its basic necessity for life, we’ll need to find new ways to incentivise investment in water, and that will create new opportunities and value."
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Stay Tuned: Reality TV racers on new season of ‘The Amazing Race’
Melissa Crawley More Content Now
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Beyonce shares her brilliance, detective Bosch takes on the opioid crisis and reality TV stars race around the world.
Dispatches: Weekly TV news
Tatiana Maslany (“Orphan Black”) will play a lead role opposite Matthew Rhys in HBO’s reimagined “Perry Mason.” Maslany has been cast as Sister Alice, the powerful and influential leader of the Radiant Assembly of God.
“NCIS” (CBS) has been renewed for a 17th season. The show is averaging 16 million viewers in 2018-2019, is the highest rated drama and second highest rated series in all of television (behind CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory”) and is licensed in more than 200 territories across the globe.
Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry are teaming up for her forthcoming multi-part series on mental health. The project will launch in 2020 on Apple TV+.
Can’t wait for the next installment of “American Horror Story”? FX has got you. The network has released a teaser for “American Horror Story: 1984.”
Contenders: Shows to keep on your radar
Because, Beyonce. “Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce” (April 17, Netflix) documents her 2018 performance at Coachella, with behind the scenes footage of putting the show together. From concept to rehearsals to the performance, it’s “Queen Bey” at her best.
More teams test their skills, endurance and determination not to have a public meltdown in a foreign country on the 31st edition of “The Amazing Race” (April 17, CBS, 9 p.m. ET). In a casting move that’s either brilliant or lazy, CBS has decided to keep it all in the reality TV family. This season’s racers are returning players who are up against alumni of “Survivor” and “Big Brother.”
“Bosch” returns April 19 on Amazon Prime Video. Last season, the Hollywood homicide detective finally closed the case on his mother’s killer. The action picks up 15 months later with Bosch (Titus Welliver) facing suspicion that he planted evidence and convicted the wrong man in a past case. While trying to clear his name, he investigates a murder at a Hollywood pharmacy that exposes a dangerous opioid pill operation.
Filmed over a three-year period that includes before and after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, “Charm City” on “Independent Lens” (April 22, PBS, 10 p.m. ET) profiles a group of police, community leaders, government officials and citizens who are trying to come to terms with Baltimore’s violence and claim a better future for their city.
Calling all car lovers and those of you who like to watch celebrities test their automotive skills in exotic locations: “Top Gear” returns for season 26 (April 25, BBC America, 9 p.m. ET). Five hour-long episodes feature Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris, Rory Reid and The Stig, who attempt to discover the best supercar alternatives to the family car, race to the top of a mountain in very small 4x4’s and take their lives into their hands in Tuk-Tuk’s across Sri Lanka.
Report Card: A look at ratings winners and losers
Winners: CBS announced that “FBI” and “Magnum P.I.” will be back next season.
Losers: NBC’s “The Village” is the network’s second-lowest-rated freshman show of the season, making it a likely cancellation.
Melissa Crawley is the author of “Mr. Sorkin Goes to Washington: Shaping the President on Television’s ‘The West Wing.’” She has a Ph.D. in media studies and is a member of the Television Critics Association. To comment on Stay Tuned, email her at staytuned@outlook.com or follow her on Twitter at @mcstaytuned.
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Thursday Swing! Featuring Reggie Houston's B' Swingsters, Pete Krebs and the Rocking K Ranch Boys
Two live bands, two dance lessons, 5 hours of swing music and dance every Thursday Night!! Join us for happy hour from 6-8pm when all ages are welcome in the ballroom, and stay for the second band and lesson as the night heats up at The Secret Society! No partner necessary, and you are welcome to join us and watch if you're not ready to step out quite yet!
6:00 Dance Lesson with Melissa Roane
6:30 Live Music and Dancing
8:00 DJed Music and Dancing
8:30 Dance Lesson with Guest Instructors
Pete Krebs and the Rocking K Ranch Hands - (Set time: 9:00 PM)
Originally from Southern California, Pete Krebs has been a fixture on the Portland music scene since 1987. His musical pursuits have spanned several decades and genres, including punk rock, Western swing, old-time, jazz and folk. His bands have included Thrillhammer, Hazel, Golden Delicious, Pete Krebs and The Gossamer Wings, The Stolen Sweets and Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys.
He's shared the stage with a broad range of world-class musicians including Nirvana, Elliott Smith, Peter Rowan and The Hot Club of Cowtown. He's performed at venues and festivals large and small, legendary and infamous, including CBGBs, Preservation Hall, Pickathon and Lollapalooza. He's received mostly good press from the likes of Rolling Stone, Spin, Magnet and No Depression. His commercial work has been featured nationally for NASCAR and the NFL as well as for the Oregon Lottery.
An in-demand performer, collaborator, composer and teacher, he is currently working on a number of projects and releases for late 2016 and 2017, including the release of a live Hazel performance from 1993, a “best of” record, and an album of new original work. A film about his life is also in the works. He is a double inductee in the Oregon Music Hall of Fame and a double cancer survivor. He lives in NE Portland with his partner in crime Kelley and their two dogs, Merle and Dixie. He's pretty stoked about the whole thing.
Reggie Houston's B' Swingsters - (Set time: 6:30 PM)
Reggie Houston's B' Swingsters feat. Michael Elson on keys and Keith Brush on bass!
More than a master vocalist and saxophone player, Reggie Houston is an entertainer of the highest order. He has the charm and charisma of a modern day Louis Armstrong mingled with the pure and irresistible joy of a child.
Reggie was inspired to study saxophone at age 10, after seeing Ray Charles play alto sax at Lincoln Beach Amusement Park, where Fats Domino also performed during Reggie's childhood. Years later, Reggie would share the stage with both musical giants, and spend 22 years as a member of Fats Domino's band, before moving to Portland, Oregon in 2004.
Reggie’s devotion to his craft, and to sharing his deep knowledge of Louisiana’s history, musicians, and musical genres, stems from a time-honored New Orleans tradition of arts education. Nurtured by his teachers—musical giants like Edward “Kidd” Jordan, Johnny Fernandez, Danny Barker, and Alvin Batiste—the latter of whom learned at the knee of legendary musician Sidney Bechet, referred to by Duke Ellington as “the very epitome of jazz,” Reggie has now picked up the mantle to pass that knowledge on to future generations of musicians.
When funk first developed, exploding onto the scene, Reggie was there—and not as an observer, but as a 13 year-old musician playing his first professional gigs with legendary keyboardist David Batiste Sr. and his band The Gladiators, widely accepted as one of the preeminent and pioneering bands of funk.
Reggie knows the music. It is in his blood. He can trace the many, varied styles and influences of southeast Louisiana music all the way back to pre-colonial Africa.
Melissa Roane - (Set time: 6:00 PM)
Melissa, though too modest to admit it, is one of Portland’s most important figures in Vintage Style Swing Dances. She has been teaching at the Viscount Dance Studio since 2003 and has taught, deejayed, and performed at various events around town. Her approachability, knowledge, fun classes, and dance style have garnered her a solid following and place among the Portland’s great swing instructors.
The Portland Lindy Society - (Set time: 6:00 PM)
Portland Lindy Society is a non-profit organization that promotes swing dancing and jazz music in Portland, OR. We host a dance each Thursday at The Secret Society ballroom.
6pm-11pm, Lesson from 6-6:30, 8:30-9.
Bands from 6:30-8:15 and 9-11
$8!
PLS also organizes and hosts the Portland Lindy Exchange. Please visit the Facebook page
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Coral Ridge is a community of 75 homes in Henderson NV, zip code 89074, started in 1995, with square footage ranging from 1507 to 2535 square feet,with the median being 1713 square feet. There are 52 single stories. Lot sizes range from 4792 sq ft to 10454 sq ft, with the median being 5663 sq ft All data taken from Clark County tax records.
People really like the community’s access to everything. It is about 2 miles to The District at Green Valley Ranch , to The Henderson Multigenorational Center and to Green Valley Ranch Hotel and Casino About 3 miles to Sunset Station and the Galleria Mall It is about 15 minutes to McCarran Airport is about 20 minutes from Lake Mead or to Bellagio, the middle of the strip. They also love the fact that every unit has a garage
The schools for the community are excellent, Gibson Elementary School , Greenspun Middle School and Green Valley High School (School zoning is always subject to change Here is a link to the Clark County School District zoning map)
See all available homes in Coral Ridge, in the Green Valley area of Henderson NV 89074
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See Sean and Emily's periodic publication which contains current available homes in Coral Ridge, as well as prices on recently sold properties
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E.V., Ohhhh: Rachael Staying Put, Say Show's Distributors
Published: March 14, 2008 Last Updated: September 14, 2018
Remember that item about Rachael Ray's daytime talk show being in danger of cancellation? Yeah, scratch that. The New York Daily News, always happy to point out errors in the New York Post, talked with Ray's producers at CBS Television Distribution. Despite the ratings dip (everyone else had them, too, CBS says), Ray will remain on the air for the foreseeable future.
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Laurene Powell Jobs scores a revamped 1888 Russian Hill mansion for $16.5M
The widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs just snapped up a stunning San Francisco mansion for $16.5 million.
Claudine Zap,
Published 7:00 am PDT, Monday, April 23, 2018
FILE -- Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of Emerson Collective and widow of Apple's co-founder, in New Orleans, May 10, 2013. A major investor in the Walt Disney Co. who Òbelieves in the power of storytelling," Jobs said Friday that Emerson had taken a substantial minority stake in Anonymous Content, a production company that will use the investment to compel social change. (William Widmer/The New York Times) less
FILE -- Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of Emerson Collective and widow of Apple's co-founder, in New Orleans, May 10, 2013. A major investor in the Walt Disney Co. who Òbelieves in the power of ... more
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Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, may be spending more time in San Francisco. She just snapped up a stunning Russian Hill mansion for $16.5 million in a reported all-cash deal, according to the Observer. The property had been on the market for about a month, at a price of $16.9 million.
Despite the jaw-dropping price, Jobs will still have plenty of money to spare for a house-warming party: The businesswoman is worth almost $19 billion, according to Forbes.
She also appears to have a keen eye when it comes to gorgeous homes. This 1888 gem was completely redone as a modern family home by the designer Steven Volpe when it was purchased in 2013 for $12.375 million.
The open layout offers six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and 6,180 square feet, including multiple decks with views of the San Francisco Bay, a garden off the family room, and a back patio.
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The master bedroom includes a private balcony and a spalike bath, with a separate tub placed on a marble slab. The high-end kitchen contains an extra-long marble island, and a built-in banquette. The living room features a fireplace and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. The dining room includes French doors that open to a balcony. A more casual dining area off the kitchen looks out to the patio, which features a fire pit, dining area, and seating.
Powell apparently has a variety of options in deciding where to lay her head. She’s reportedly in the midst of designing a $20 million 15,689-square-foot compound in Woodside, CA, and currently lives in nearby Palo Alto with her children.
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As far as pieds-a-terre go, the 54-year-old could not go wrong with this San Francisco pad. She also reportedly has snapped up equestrian estates in Los Altos, CA, and Wellington, FL, as well as an unfinished property in Malibu.
The philanthropist and entrepreneur is the founder of Emerson Collective, which advocates for polices on social and environmental justice. She's also the co-founder of College Track, which helps disadvantaged students prepare for college.
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Buddhism in Cuba
by Joannet Delgado, Cuba
culture of peace
Joannet Delgado, general director of SGI-Cuba, shares her journey of discovering Nichiren Buddhism and how it took root in her country.
SGI-Cuba General Director Joannet Delgado [© Seikyo Shimbun]
My family encountered Buddhism when my older sister married a Japanese Soka Gakkai member and herself became a member in 1974. My sister relocated to Yokohama, Japan, where she became actively engaged in Soka Gakkai activities.
On one occasion, at a women’s meeting at a local Soka Gakkai center, she shared her experience of how six years of Buddhist practice had changed her life. The meeting was attended by Kaneko Ikeda, SGI President Daisaku Ikeda’s wife. After the meeting, Mrs. Ikeda learned of the financial difficulties my sister and her family were going through and warmly encouraged her saying, “When you practice Buddhism earnestly, you will develop a life state that will enable you to travel back and forth between Japan and Cuba whenever you wish.”
About a week later, my sister had an encounter with Mr. Ikeda at the same center. He encouraged her wholeheartedly, telling her he had heard all about her from his wife and that she was an invaluable person with an important mission in life. This encouragement became a turning point for my sister. In 1984, she visited Cuba for the first time in 10 years. While there, she shared her experience of practicing Buddhism with my mother, who was so deeply touched that she too decided to start practicing. A year later, my father began chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo as well.
Stirring Interest
In 1990, having transformed their financial situation, my sister and her husband invited our parents to visit them in Japan, where they were able to learn more about Buddhism. At the time, however, I wasn’t really interested in it. I had studied biochemistry at the University of Havana and was working as a researcher, and I wasn’t convinced when my sister said that you can change anything if you chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
related article Discovering My Abilities by Blandina Happiness Sembu, Tanzania As a single mother who had lost her right arm in an accident, Blandina Happiness Sembu faced severe challenges. She describes how her Buddhist practice has given her the confidence and courage to tackle all her problems as well as her work as a spokesperson for women with disabilities in Tanzania. My mother then gave me the English translations of some of Mr. Ikeda’s books on Buddhism, which she had brought from Japan, and asked me if I could translate them into Spanish. As I was translating them, I found myself becoming interested in the profound philosophy of Buddhism. I finally began to understand what my sister had been trying so hard to teach me about the philosophy of human revolution.
I decided to start chanting and received my first benefit: I was able to attend an international scientific conference in Ecuador in 1993, and the presentation that I gave there on my research turned out to be a great success. But for me, above all, it was my great good fortune to be able to meet and talk with the SGI members in Ecuador. I found them to be like a warm family, and through them I began to deeply appreciate the SGI.
When I returned to Cuba, I spoke to many of my colleagues about Buddhism. Although Cuba is a socialist country, freedom of religion is guaranteed. However, most people are either Christian or practice indigenous religions, so not many were interested in an oriental philosophy like Buddhism.
President Ikeda’s Visit to Cuba
SGI President Daisaku Ikeda meets Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana, 1996 [© Seikyo Shimbun]
In the meantime, in 1996, Cuba’s relations with the US worsened again. In the midst of this tense political situation something unbelievable happened. We heard that President Ikeda would visit Cuba. His visit was announced in all the media. The TV aired live scenes of his arrival at the airport, his lecture at the University of Havana and the ceremony at which he was presented with the Order of Félix Varela of the First Grade. One especially surprising thing was seeing President Fidel Castro wearing a suit when he met with Mr. Ikeda—I had never seen him wearing anything other than a military uniform!
In between the series of important events in Cuba, Mr. Ikeda made time to genuinely encourage SGI members. He invited my parents to his hotel and warmly embraced and encouraged them. During his three-day visit, Mr. Ikeda filled the hearts of the Cuban members, who were scattered around the country, with hope. It was from this time that SGI-Cuba began to gel. Step-by-step we exerted ourselves to earn trust and disseminate the philosophy of Buddhism in our country as model citizens.
Covering Ground
The public transport system in Cuba is very poor. Often one has to wait hours to catch a bus. It took a lot of patience to make it to SGI meetings on time. To be able to encourage members living far away we had to rent a car, which was no easy task, because so many people wanted to rent cars. We had to negotiate over and over to secure a car, and for this we had to chant a lot. Finally, when we had rented a car, we would make full use of it by visiting as many members as possible, often covering more than 2,500 kilometers. Through such steadfast efforts, on January 6, 2007, 10 years after President Ikeda’s visit, SGI-Cuba was officially recognized by the Cuban government as a religious organization.
At an SGI discussion meeting in Havana, Cuba [© Seikyo Shimbun]
Today, the philosophy of peace taught in Buddhism is coming to be appreciated more and more by Cuban society. In October 2015, for example, SGI-Cuba was one of 23 religious groups that participated in the International Meeting for Interfaith Dialogue and World Peace in Havana. Our exhibition on the abolition of nuclear weapons was met with great enthusiasm by those who viewed it. Recently, during a discussion on religion in the Cuban parliament, President Raúl Castro spoke highly of the SGI, saying that it was contributing greatly to the stability and peace of the nation.
The SGI in Cuba has grown from seven households in 1996 to a membership of more than 1,000 people today.
In 2015, Cuba and the US resumed diplomatic relations. At this crucial time for our nation, we are determined to do our best to direct our beloved country toward peace and happiness.
[June 2016]
Rising Up with Positivity
by Horacio Pulido, Argentina
life & death
A Fierce Determination to Live
by Jharna Narang, survivor of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks
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Egyptian, Jordanian and Iraqi leaders meet in Cairo, admonish Israel
By Jay Jackson, Shanghai News
CAIRO, Egypt - Two of Israel's allies, and the only Arab nations to have diplomatic ties with the Jewish state, has called for the cessation of 'Israeli violence in Jerusalem,' and cessation of 'violations against the Al-Aqsa mosque.'
Egypt and Jordan were joined by Iraq, as the three countries issued a a joint statement on Sunday.
The trio, who were meeting in Cairo for an economic cooperation summit, issued a motion of support for Palestine and it's claim to East Jerusalem as it's capital.
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi hosted the summit which was attended by Jordan's King Abdullah II and Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.
The statement from the three leaders also emphasized the need to fight against terrorism in all its forms, and confronting all those who provide terrorism with funds, arms, and media platforms, with the latter being a probable dig at Qatar.
Egypt, Jordan and Iraq also called for coordination with other Arab countries to restore stability in the region.
They emphasized the independence of Arab countries and the importance of preventing external intervention in their internal affairs.
On Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in a private meeting. It was the first meeting in an international setting for Mahdi who took officve five months ago.
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Man Utd's Ashley Young Rues Dropped Points Earlier in the Season as He Targets 2nd Place Finish
Ashley Young has claimed that the season could have been 'different' had Manchester United picked up three points against teams outside of the Premier League top six on a more regular basis.
United are 16 points behind champions Manchester City, despite having a good record in games against the 'top six' sides this season, and Young looks back to earlier in the season as to why they're so far behind.
"It's been one of those seasons when, around Christmas, we were drawing games and had late goals against us," He told reporters (as quoted by FourFourTwo).
"When you look back at those kind of games, then you think the season could have been different."
United beat Arsenal 2-1 on Sunday, meaning that they have only lost three of their ten games against teams in the top six of the Premier League this season, and Young believes that that record shows what the team can do.
Whether we’ve played well or not this club loves a late winner! Onwards to Brighton on Friday, got to keep up the winning feeling 🤘🏾👹 pic.twitter.com/BHmYbGPksx
— Ashley Young (@youngy18) April 29, 2018
"It wasn't meant to be, but we've put down a marker against the top-four, top-six clubs, but it's more than that.
"We have to win at other clubs as well. We have to win more games than we have done."
The win against Arsenal put United five points ahead of third placed Liverpool with a game in hand, and the wing back is now targeting securing a second place finish this season.
GOAL Man Utd 2-1 Arsenal (90+1 mins)
United have surely won it late on! Ashley Young swings in the cross for Marouane Fellaini who steers it with his head outstandingly into the corner!#MUNARS
— Premier League (@premierleague) April 29, 2018
"We've been second for quite a lot of the season and it's nice to be able to rubber-stamp the Champions League qualification, but when you've been second so long, you want to finish it," he added.
"We wanted to finish higher, but obviously weren't able to, and being second is how we want to finish now.
"We need four points and there are three games left in the league. We want to pick up as many points as possible."
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Swedish activist nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Thursday, 14 March 2019, 04:53 Hrs
Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish activist who is a prominent voice in the fight against climate change, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
Norwegian deputy Andre Ovstegard told the "VG" newspaper on Wednesday that he and two other parliamentarians of the Socialist Left Party have nominated Thunberg because "climate threats are perhaps one of the most important contributions to war and conflict", and "the mass movement that she has promoted is a very important contribution to peace", reports Efe news.
Last year, Thunberg stopped going to school every Friday and instead protested in front of the Swedish Parliament to demand more effective measures against climate change.
After her speeches at the UN climate change conference in Poland and at the Davos forum, she became an example for many young people all over the world, who since have promoted similar initiatives.
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai in 2014 became the youngest winner of the prize, at the age of 17.
This year's Nobel Peace Prize has 304 candidates, of which 219 are individuals and 85 organisations, the Norwegian Nobel Committee reported last month.
The Nobel prizes are awarded each year on December 10, coinciding with the anniversary of the death of its founder Alfred Nobel, in a double ceremony: at the Oslo City Hall in Norway, for the Peace Prize, and in the Konserthus in Stockholm, Sweden, for the other five awards.
The Nobel Peace Prize last year went to Congo's Denis Mukwege and Iraq's Nadia Murad for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict", according to the Nobel Committee's ruling.
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Monthly Archives : July 2016
Landscape art under glass
I’m in Chicago right now, as the summer artist in residence at the Chicago Center for Book, Paper, and Print. I’m working on the summer Brain Washing from Phone Towers pamphlet, Tell the Bees. It’s going well, I’m happy with it. More about that soon.
Right now I want to talk about the Garfield Park Conservatory, a local greenhouse and public garden located on the west side of Chicago. I went and visited on Sunday:
In the 19th century all three of the parks on the West side had their own greenhouse; in the twentieth century the three collections were consolidated into one at Garfield Park, under the direction of Jens Jensen the chief landscape architect, who then designed and implemented what he described as a series of naturalistic landscape scenes under glass. This was a new idea the time, when most greenhouses housed a jumble of individual plants lacking an overall design or story.
Jenson was identified with something called the Prairie School of landscape architecture, which highlighted native midwest plants and materials, and encouraged a sense of wandering through a natural setting. The room that made me want to look him up was this one:
The fern room, which he designed in 1906, was designed to give visitors a glimpse of what Illinois might have looked like millions of years ago. Jensen designed the lagoon and the lush ferns to evoke a swampy, prehistoric version of Chicago. Originally called the Aquatic Room, it was designed to give visitors a glimpse of the types of plants growing in Illinois during a much earlier and much warmer geologic time. Perhaps the room offers a glimpse of the future as well.
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Microbial Ecology and Evolution
Simons Collaboration on Principles of Microbial Ecosystems (PriME)
Sammy Pontrelli, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH ZurichSammy Pontrelli’s website
PriME Project: Elucidating Microbial Metabolic Interactions Using Metabolomic Analysis
Heterotrophic bacterial communities collectively play a fundamental role in degrading particulate organic matter in marine environments and, subsequently, in recycling elements at the global scale. Particulate organic matter in marine environments consists of fecal pellets, polysaccharides and decaying organisms. Although metabolism is at the core of this recycling, there is only a minimal understanding of how community members interact on the metabolic level. Studying metabolic exchanges will allow us to gain insight into how microbial ecosystems function, what roles are carried out by individual bacterial species, and how they may respond to environmental perturbations or resource fluctuations. Here, we aim to apply a variety of metabolomic techniques to elucidate specific metabolite exchanges of marine ecosystems and to understand the metabolic principles that contribute to the organization and function of these ecosystems. Our primary studies will focus on understanding the trophic relationships of various carbohydrate degrader and secondary consumer pairs that thrive on particulate organic matter present in marine environments. First, we will perform large numbers of conditioned media experiments, in which we measure metabolites that are excreted by degrader strains as they break down recalcitrant carbon sources, and which metabolites are used by secondary consumers for growth. Once we have identified candidate compounds, quantification of absolute concentration changes over time will allow mass balancing to separate exchange of more vitaminlike growth-promoting compounds from major exchanges of carbon and nitrogen. Finally, to demonstrate in vivo functionality we will perform pairwise (and potentially more complex) cultivations of community members with combined nutritional supplementation and 13C isotopic tracer experiments. Together, these data will allow us to identify critical pathways and metabolic capabilities of individual microbes and provide insight into their role within a microbial ecosystem.
Sammy Pontrelli graduated with a B.S./M.S. in bioengineering from Santa Clara University in 2013 and completed his Ph.D. research at the University of California, Los Angeles in chemical engineering in 2018. His Ph.D. research was under the supervision of James C. Liao. The primary focus of his research was to understand how new metabolic pathways form in response to missing essential metabolic enzymes. Other projects entailed engineering Escherichia coli for enhanced production of biofuels. Through his research experiences, Pontrelli gained a passion for science and has chosen to pursue a postdoc in Uwe Sauer’s lab at ETH Zürich as a PriME postdoctoral fellow. With hopes of a fruitful collaboration, he intends to use this opportunity to learn new skills and prepare himself for a long-term academic position in scientific research.
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Did Congress Pass the 22nd Amendment in Order to ‘Make Sure FDR Did Not Get Re-Elected’?
Critics seized upon remarks made by Democrat U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during an appearance on MSNBC in March 2019.
Dan MacGuill
The U.S. Congress passed the 22nd Amendment in order to "make sure President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not get re-elected."
What's True
The campaign to introduce a two-term limit on the U.S. presidency intensified after FDR's third and fourth elections in 1940 and 1944, giving rise to what ultimately became the 22nd Amendment in 1947. Those historical facts support what a spokesperson for Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said was the intended meaning of her remarks in March 2019.
What's False
The way Rep. Ocasio-Cortez phrased her remarks appeared to suggest, incorrectly, that the introduction of the 22nd Amendment was required in order to prevent a further re-election of FDR. In fact, FDR died in 1945, six years before the amendment came into force.
Some critics of Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded with a measure of ridicule and criticism in the Spring of 2019, after remarks she made about the introduction of the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which imposed a two-term limit on the U.S. presidency.
The Washington Examiner, for example, wrote:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-N.Y., might want to brush up on some history after asserting, incorrectly, that Republicans in Congress amended the Constitution to kick President Franklin Delano Roosevelt out of office.
“They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected,” Ocasio-Cortez said [March 29] during a night hall event with MSNBC with Chris Hayes.
According to AOC, Congress amended the Constitution to prevent FDR from being re-elected:
Ocasio-Cortez was referring to the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution which passed in 1947.
The text of the amendment states, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” FDR died in 1945, meaning he was dead for a full two years before presidential term limits were implemented.
That article was re-published on the website of Fox News, along with the headline “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez alsely claims Republicans amended Constitution to kick FDR out of office.”
The New York Post joined in the criticism, writing:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be getting A’s in social media — but she’s getting an F in basic history. The Bronx-Queens Democrat flunked 20th century world events last week when she claimed during a town-hall meting [sic] that the Constitution was changed to keep President Franklin D. Roosevelt from being re-elected. In fact, he died two years before the amendment to which she was referring was passed and six years before it was ratified by the requisite number of states.
A video clip of Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks was prominently shared on Twitter by Tom Elliott, who added: “According to AOC, Congress amended the Constitution to prevent FDR from being re-elected: ‘They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt dd not get reelected.’ (Reminder, FDR died in office in 1945; the 22nd Amendment came in 1947).”
“They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt dd not get reelected.”
(Reminder, FDR died in office in 1945; the 22nd Amendment came in 1947) pic.twitter.com/DImHj0caVy
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 31, 2019
Critics of Ocasio-Cortez pounced on her remarks as evidence of a purported lack of historical knowledge on her part. However, the Congresswoman’s subsequent comments on the subject, along with clarification provided by her spokesperson, indicated the intended meaning of her remarks was that the catalyst behind the development of the two-term limit (which was ultimately enshrined in the 22nd amendment) had been Roosevelt’s repeated re-elections during the 1930s and 1940s, and not that the introduction of the 22nd amendment (as opposed to Roosevelt’s death) prevented what would have been his fourth re-election.
What Ocasio-Cortez Said
The Congresswoman’s remarks came during a web-only question-and-answer session recorded during her appearance on MSNBC’s “All In” with Chris Hayes on 29 March, whose focus was the “Green New Deal,” a plan put forward by Ocasio-Cortez ;and fellow Democrat Senator Ed Markey to tackle climate change and create jobs centered around renewable energy.
Mark Paul, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, a left-leaning think tank, asked Ocasio-Cortez what lessons she had learned from the “New Deal,” the series of economic projects FDR introduced in the 1930s with the intention of helping the U.S. economy to recover from the Great Depression, and the program to which the “Green New Deal” is an allusion.
One of the points Ocasio-Cortez made in response to that question was to highlight the importance of Democratic success in facilitating the passage of legislation that introduced New Deal programs. Here’s a (lightly edited) transcript of that segment, which can be viewed below:
Paul:…What are the lessons from the New Deal that we can bring in today?
Ocasio-Cortez: There’s [sic] a lot. One is, you know when we talk, when we start picking apart the problem of political will –you know, “Technologically possible, is it politically feasible?” — one of the big parts of political will is fear, especially fear within our own party. “If we do this, if we are a little too bold, we will lose our majorities, we will lose everything.” And it is a difficult question because the House has been gerrymandered in ways that are extremely difficult. But I think there’s [sic] a couple of lessons. One is that, when we look into our history, when our [Democratic] party was boldest — the time of the New Deal, the Great Society, the Civil Rights Act and so on — we had and carried supermajorities in the House, in the Senate, we carried the presidency. They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get re-elected. And there were so many extraordinary things that were happening in that time that were uniting working people, and so that, I think, is one of the encouraging lessons …
The point Ocasio-Cortez was making in that section of the interview was to highlight the role that electoral success for Democrats — not least of which was FDR’s repeated presidential victories during the 1930s and 1940s — played in facilitating the introduction of major reforms such as the New Deal programs. FDR was first elected in 1932, then re-elected three times, in 1936, 1940, and 1944.
To illustrate the extent of FDR’s power and popularity at that time, the Congresswoman said: “They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get re-elected.”
The manner in which she phrased that statement (“They had to … to make sure”) indicated, on its face, that Ocasio-Cortez was saying that the introduction of the two-term limit in the 22nd Amendment was required in order to prevent FDR from being re-elected a fourth time.
It is therefore understandable that some commentators seized upon her remarks and made the rather obvious point that the 22nd Amendment was not required to prevent FDR’s fourth re-election, because FDR died in 1945, six years before the amendment was ratified and came into effect.
(FDR died two years before the U.S. Congress passed the amendment, but it was not implemented until it was ratified by the requisite number of states six years after his death, contrary to the Washington Examiner‘s inaccurate statement that he had died “two years before presidential term limits were implemented.”)
However, that was not the intended meaning of Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks, according to a spokesperson for the Congresswoman. The spokesperson told us it was “pretty clear” that her intention was simply to point out that FDR’s repeated re-elections, and the sustained implementation of his policy agenda, had been the catalyst for Republican efforts to introduce a term limit on the U.S. presidency, a plan that began while FDR was still alive.
That this was Ocasio-Cortez’s intended meaning is also supported by the fact that the Congresswoman approvingly tweeted out a Newsweek article that presented the “full story” behind her remarks, which reported that:
The dates appeared to leave the argument cut-and-dried, with both Fox News and the Washington Examiner running the story and calling Ocasio-Cortez’s claims false.
However, some eagle-eyed social media commenters pointed out that the original architects of the 22nd Amendment were inspired by Roosevelt’s monopoly on the White House and began campaigning long before his death … The National Constitution Center also had Ocasio-Cortez’s back. On its website, the nonpartisan organization explained: “Talk about a presidential term-limits amendment started in 1944, when Republican candidate Thomas Dewey said a potential 16-year term for Roosevelt was a threat to democracy.”
F.D.R. and Term Limits
It is unquestionably true that efforts to introduce a two-term limit on the U.S. presidency began before FDR’s death and were intensified by his unprecedented third and fourth elections in 1940 and 1944.
FDR’s decision to break precedent and seek a third term in 1940 was in itself a significant part of Republican candidate Wendell Willkie’s platform that year. In a speech accepting his party’s nomination in August 1940, Willkie said: “I should like to debate the question of the assumption by this President, in seeking a third term, of a greater public confidence than was accorded to our presidential giants, Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson.”
In a newspaper advertisement published days before the election, Republicans put “The Third Term” at the top of a list of major issues, writing: “Violating all principles of freedom, and a sacred American tradition of 150 years standing, the President forced his own nomination for a third term at the Chicago convention … and gave as an excuse I was drafted.’ Are we Americans that gullible? … Let us say together, ‘There is no indispensible man. There shall be no third term.'”
(In order to avoid the controversy of actively seeking to break the two-term tradition, FDR coyly declined to openly declare himself a candidate in 1940, and instead his supporters arranged for him to be “drafted” as a nominee by delegates at the 1940 Democratic National Convention.)
In a statement issued the day before the election, Willkie called specifically for a constitutional amendment to limit the presidency to eight years, saying that “When elected, in order to prevent any subsequent demonstrations of such ambitious views, in my first message to Congress I shall recommend that they submit a constitutional amendment limiting the time any one president may serve to eight years or less.”
Before FDR’s third re-election in 1944, his Republican opponent, Thomas Dewey, also called for a term limit of the kind ultimately encapsulated in the 22nd Amendment. In a speech delivered in Buffalo, New York, just days before the election, Dewey said a fourth term for FDR would be “the most dangerous threat to our freedom ever proposed,” adding, “I believe that two terms must be established as the limit by constitutional amendment.”
FDR won his fourth presidential election that year, but he died just five months later, in April 1945, leaving Vice President Harry Truman to serve out nearly all of what would have been his fourth term.
After the House of Representatives and Senate switched from Democratic to Republican control in the 1946 mid-term elections, the path was cleared for the 22nd amendment, which was passed by Congress in 1947. It eventually entered the U.S. Constitution in February 1951, when Nevada and Utah became the 35th and 36th U.S. states to ratify it, providing the required approval by three-quarters of the states. (The U.S. comprised only 48 states in 1951, with Alaska and Hawaii joining the Union in 1959.)
The 22nd amendment states, in part:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
What Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said on MSNBC on 29 March was that, “They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get re-elected.” It is understandable that some of her critics viewed this as her saying that the introduction of the 22nd Amendment was required to prevent FDR’s fourth re-election, an assertion which would make no sense because FDR died in 1945, six years before the amendment entered into force.
However, according to clarification provided to Snopes by her spokesperson, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s intended meaning was simply to point out that the catalyst for efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution and impose a two-term limit had been FDR’s repeated re-elections during the 1930s and 1940s. As we have shown, that is certainly true, and calls for such a constitutional amendment began to intensify even before FDR’s second re-election in 1940, almost five years before his death.
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Tere Daly
BLibs (Hons), MRes, FCMI, MIoD, Pro Vice-Chancellor, External Relations
Vice-Chancellor's Group
tere.daly@solent.ac.uk 023 8201 3041 ext. 3041
Role at Solent
Tere was appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor, External Relations in June 2017, having previously held the role of Director of External Relations. Tere joined the University in March 2015 and now has oversight of the following broad areas:
Admissions and Recruitment Centre (ARC)
UK Student Recruitment and Widening Participation
Recruitment Events and Prospects Management
Admissions and Enrolment (UG, PGT, PGR, Warsash and other professional programmes)
Commercial Partnerships (CP)
Business-to-business partnerships and management
Communications and Alumni Relations (CAR)
Communications and Engagement (including staff and students)
PR and Media Relations
Alumni and Philanthropy
International Office (IO)
International Student Recruitment
International Partnerships (including Mobility)
International Programmes (including TNE)
Marketing and Content
Content and Production
Marketing and CRM
He leads on the University strategies for Recruitment, Internationalisation and Reputation.
In addition, Tere is a member of the Vice-Chancellors’ Group, University Management Board and Senior Management Team.
Tere has over 18 years of experience in marketing, digital, student recruitment (UK, EU and international), admissions, advancement, public relations and communications.
Before joining Solent, he was Deputy Director of the Marketing, Recruitment and Admissions department at London South Bank University (LSBU) where he oversaw the growth of student enrolments at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as developing the business sponsors network. Under his leadership, Tere’s schools and colleges team won the ‘THE Award for Widening Participation Initiative of the Year’ in 2012. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and a member of the Institute of Directors (IoD). He is also a judge in the annual Management Book of the Year competition held by the CMI.
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Center for Basic and Translational Research on Disorders of the Digestive System
Diseases that affect the digestive system are among the most prevalent health problems in the world today, but little is known about the fundamental causes and basic biology of these disorders. The Center for Basic and Translational Research on Disorders of the Digestive System (CDDS), established in 2012, brings together faculty for intensive interdisciplinary collaboration intended to result in new treatments for a broad range of health conditions including hepatitis; inflammatory bowel disorders such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis; obesity and metabolic disorders; and many forms of cancer, notably fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumors, as well as colorectal, liver, and pancreatic cancer.
The center promotes interdisciplinary basic research and collaborations among some 20 Rockefeller labs that study biological processes related to the digestive system, including its interactions with resident microorganisms and its interconnections with the immune, circulatory, and neuroendocrine systems. The CDDS also encourages translational research that integrates basic studies and clinical investigations centered in The Rockefeller University Hospital, with the goal of making major contributions to the medical management of metabolic diseases, cancers, infections, and inflammatory disorders
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Junagarh Fort, Bikaner
Originally called the Chintamani Fort, the Junagarh Fort is an age old heritage site and one of the most sought after places to visit in the historical city of Bikaner, Rajasthan. Set amidst the Thar Desert (the Great Indian Desert), the fort complex is an extraordinary illustration of architecture and an exceptional center of art. Reflecting outstanding architectural design and excellent, the fort is one of the most impressive fort complexes in Rajasthan and India as well.
This grand and historical Junagarh Fort was built by Raja Rai Singh, the sixth ruler of Bikaner, who ruled from 1571 to 1611 AD. He appointed his Prime Minister, Karan Chand, to supervise the construction of the fort complex. The Raja himself was an expert in arts and architecture. You can see several monuments built by Raja within the fort complex depicting his knowledge of art and architecture. The entire fort complex is built in red stone and marbles. Several additions and decorations were made to the Junagarh Fort Complex by later rulers.
Some of Popular Attractions Inside Junagarh Fort
Karan Mahal Palace: Karan Mahal is one of the most notable attractions within the fort complex. It was built by Karan Singh, who was the Prime Minster of Raja Rai Singh, to mark his victory over the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1680. The palace is considered as one of the most elegant and beautiful palaces built with gardens depicting aesthetic sensibilities of the royalty of royal Rajasthan. The stained glass windows and intricately carved beautiful balconies built in stone and wood fluted columns still attract much attention. More floors and decorations were added to the Karan Mahal Palace by later rulers. Anup Singh and Surat Singh made substantial addition to the palace. They added extraordinary decorations to this palace with intricate mirror works, red & gold paint, and inlaid polychrome glass.
Anup Mahal: Anup Singh refurbished the Karana Mahal Palace with a Diwan-i-Aam (the Hall of Public Audience) and called it Anup Mahal. It is a multi-storey structure and considered as one of the finest constructions in the fort complex. The Anup Mahal exhibits beautiful art and architecture in form of ornate wooden ceilings with inlaid mirror works, fine lattice windows, beautiful balconies, and superbly incorporated Italian tiles. You can also see here gold leaf paintings. Anup Singh also built Zenana quarter, royal dwelling for females.
Phool Mahal: The Phool Mahal is the oldest part of the Junagarh Fort & Palace Complex. It was built by the King Raja Rai Singh himself. The interior walls of the rooms inside the palace are superbly decorated with stucco work and glass inlay works. You will be amazed to see the decoration of this palace with motifs of trays, rose water sprinklers, and flower vases. Exploring these decorations at the palace will remind you the decoration popular in Jehangiri period. Jhoola inside the Phool Mahal is a key attraction.
Chandra Mahal: Chandra Mahal is one of the most impressive and luxurious palaces built within Junagarh Fort Complex. This beautiful palace was refurbished by Gaj Singh, who ruled from 1746 to 1787. It has luxurious rooms. You can also see here gold plated deities and beautiful paintings dotted with precious stones.
Ganga Mahal: The Ganga Mahal in the Junagarh Fort was constructed by Ganga Singh in the 20th century. This palace has a large Durbar Hall known as the Ganga Singh Hall. The hall houses a museum war weaponry and also a well-maintained World War I aeroplane (biplane).
Badal Mahal: The Badal Mahal (The Cloud Palace) is an extension of Anup Mahal. It is known for is exquisite wall paintings. You will be amazed to see beautiful fresco paintings of Hindu God Krishna and his consort Radha amidst the rain clouds.
Bikaner Havelis: There are several beautiful havelis located within and outside the historical Junagarh Fort. These havelis are known for their unique architectural style.
Fort Museum: The museum within the magnificent Junagarh Fort, called the Junagarh Fort Museum, was established in the year 1961 by Maharaja Dr. Karni Singh under the control of “Maharaja Rai Singh Trust”. The museum is very popular among tourists exhibiting Sanskrit and Persian manuscripts, royal costumes, jewelries, farmans (royal orders), miniature paintings, enamelware, silverware, howdahs, war drums, palanquins, and headgear, costumes, and dresses of god’s idols. The museum also exhibits armory collection of post medieval arms.
Massive Gates: There are several architecturally beautiful massive gates that provide access to various monuments in the historical Junagarh Fort Complex. Prominent gates are Karan Pol, Suraj Pol, Fateh Pol, Chand Pol, Daulat Pol, and Tripolia Gate. These all gates depict excellent architectural style.
Temples: There are two beautiful temple insid
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2 Year Countdown to the London Olympics Kicks off Today
In exactly two years time the London 2012 Olympics will finally kick off in Stratford, East London and to mark the countdown Sir Chris Hoy will be the very first person to ride inside the cycling velodrome today. Chris has already won 4 Olympic gold medals – 1 in Athens in 2004, and 3 at the last Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 at the age of 32. He also received the Sports Personality of the Year Award in the same year before being knighted in 2009 and now relays his wisdom and experiences as a motivational speaker. Chris has always been keen to promote cycling as well as encouraging more youngsters to take part in Olympic sports. A recent study revealed that most youngsters have never tried at least 40% of the 26 Olympic sports and as Chris says, “I’m not the best at hand-to-eye coordination so football was not for me. If I’d only ever tried football at school I might have given up sport.” Thankfully for us, Chris did try his hand - and feet – at cycling and will be the one to watch in 2012. His preparation has always proven essential and he has decided to pull out of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi so that he can concentrate on the European Track Championships – the qualifying event for the Olympics. He will also be joined by rising stars Beth Tweddle and sailor Ben Ainslie as well as champion diver Tom Daley who has had a pretty quiet year so far with his GCSE commitments.
Sir Chris will also be joined by Olympic star and motivational speaker Michael Johnson who will take his first running steps on a specially laid track today in the Olympic stadium. Michael is the winner of 4 gold medals and has gone on to set up his own sports management company and even take part in Celebrity Apprentice state-side this year. Former NBA player John Amaechi will also be shooting the very first basketball hoop in the basketball arena, and dance group Diversity will be joining London Mayor Boris Johnson to launch the drive for volunteers to help with everything from medical assistance to guiding visitors around the city as ‘London Ambassadors’. Around 70,000 volunteers will be required and the Olympic site itself will need to be finished within a year so that testing events can begin prior to the opening. Chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and keynote speaker Lord Sebastian Coe has worked incredibly hard so far and does not underestimate the challenge ahead, “We’re at the business end of this now and I never minimise the extraordinary complexity of what we’ve got to achieve.”
The London Olympics flagship store will also open today in St Pancras International so things really are on a roll. The pressure is well and truly on but Lord Coe and his team are determined to make a success of it and ensure that everyone gets involved as the excitement starts to build.
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Sugary cherry tomatoes are oval-shaped fruits with firm, thin, reddish-pink skin and a pointed blossom end. They grow about an inch wide and 1.5 inches long, weighing an average of 1 to 2 ounces. Sugary cherry tomatoes are juicy with an exceptionally sweet flavor, measuring 9.5 on the Brix scale of sugar content, while the average Brix measurement for tomatoes in general is around 5. The plant is semi-determinate, and hence is more compact than other varieties, although it is still highly productive and will continue to set huge clusters of fruit throughout the growing season.
Sugary cherry tomatoes are available year-round with a peak season in the summer months.
Tomatoes are botanically referred to as Solanum lycopersicum or Lycopersicon esculentum, and are categorized in subgroups that represent variations within the tomato species. Therefore cherry tomatoes are more specifically called Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme. Tomatoes can be further classified as either heirlooms or hybrids. Hybrids like the Sugary cherry tomato are the result of crossing two different varieties.
Cherry tomatoes are high in fiber, vitamin A, and vitamin C, and they also have good amounts of vitamin B-6 and potassium. Tomatoes are especially known for containing the antioxidant compound lycopene, which has been studied for its ability to help fight certain types of cancer and heart disease.
With their distinctive sweet taste, Sugary cherry tomatoes are best eaten fresh, but can also be used in cooked applications like sautéing, grilling, baking, or stewing. They can be used in salads and pastas, or made into a sweet compote or jam. They pair well with avocado, watermelon, cucumbers, chilies, soft cheeses, and fresh herbs like mint and basil. Store Sugary cherry tomatoes at room temperature away from direct sunlight for 2 to 3 days, after which refrigeration can slow the process of decay. Bring chilled cherry tomatoes to room temperature before serving raw for best flavor.
In 2005, Sugary cherry tomatoes were chosen as an All-America Selections (AAS) National Winner. AAS is an independent non-profit organization that tests new home-garden varieties through anonymous trials by volunteer horticulture professionals.
Cherry tomatoes are descendants of the wild tomato, which traces back millions of years to coastal South America. They actually predate large tomato varieties, as the first cultivated tomato fruits were the size of berries and housed only two seed cavities. Sugary cherry tomatoes are a 21st century hybrid variety bred by Known-You Seed Co., which is based in Taiwan and was established in 1968 by Mr. Wun-Yu Chen.
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Topics: Ancient Olympic Games, Summer Olympic Games, United States Pages: 1 (279 words) Published: January 11, 2013
The Olympic games is a well-known international sport event in the world of human. Many people think this event wastes money and gradually lose its value .However, i strongly believe that it is a significant event despite having some problems.
The Olympic games is believed to lose their vital role in 21st century due to financial waste and the exsistence of online games and other international games. First, governments have invested big flows of cash into olympic games without receiving much profits, creating a huge waste of money. governments should be heavily used Such budgets in infrastructure, upgradation and security monitoring systems. Besides, online games are becoming more and more popular. Other international games also contain many kinds of attractive sports which the Olympic Games do not have . As a result, people seem to undervalue this event . undeniably, the olympic games have brought economic, cultural and political benefits. no sooner has this event occurred than millions of visitors worldwide flock to the host countries, creating a significant amount of profit. Revenue for goverments and citizens, thus, are promoted. moreover, thanks to this event, people around the world have opportunities to have fun, exchange culture and meet people from all over the world. Furthermore, this event can cement the relationship between countries in the world, and ease up potential political tensions. Greaks and Romans are examples in the ancient history, because they agreed to interrupt battles and participated in the games. In conclusion, it is true that the Olympic Games have pros and cons. Nevertheless, I think their advantages actually surpass disadvantages. Such benefits like the development of economy, strong relationships between countries and cutural interaction are undeniable.
Hello Kitty case study Essay
...Introduction Hello kitty is a cartoon character of a small white cat that looks kind, sweet and cute, with a button nose, two black dot-eyes, six whiskers and a ribbon in her hair. Hello kitty has no mouth and this represents a major source of emotional association for buyers and buyers can put many different feelings to the little cat. Owners and their cat can be happy, sad and cheerful or any other feelings that user wishes to feel. Hello Kitty was firstly introduced in Japan in 1974 and is a segment of Japanese popular culture and hello kitty is a Japanese bobtail cat also knows as kitty white. Currently hello kitty is 40 years of age; hello kitty trademark is worth over 5 billion annually worldwide. 2.0 What the appeal of Hello Kitty? What needs does it fulfill? Hello Kitty appeal is success in Japan to the prevalence of the Kawaii culture in the country. The Japanese, regardless of their age, were known to have a passion for 'cute' objects. 'Kawaii' itself mean cute. Hello Kitty not only popular among kid but for adult too. They describe as 'kidult', the combination of 'kid' and 'adult'. It attracts user who love pink and cat. For instance, it was considered normal for grown women in Japan to be seen with mobile phone cases that were adorned with cartoon characters, or for banks to print check books with pictures of cartoons....
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...Bob Dain Professor Cory Speech July 18, 2011 Informative Speech: Hello Kitty “You can never have too many friends,” is what my childhood character, Hello Kitty, once said. Hello Kitty, also pronounced as Harokiti in Japanese, is known as the white cat with a red bow and no mouth, but behind all of her worldwide recognition, there are a lot of things most people do not know about Kitty herself. Today, I will be telling you about: her life, who invented her and how they were inspired, and Hello Kitty’s rise in corporation. Yes, Hello kitty does have a life of her own, but you will be surprised about her stories. Well, I sure was. First I will be telling you about Hello Kitty’s life. She does have a family: her grandpa, Anthony, grandma, Margaret, father, George White, mother, Mary White, and twin sister, Mimmy White. Hello Kitty’s real name is actually Kitty White, with that, she got her name Hello Kitty in 1975.To tell the difference between Kitty and Mimmy, Kitty wears a red bow, her favorite color, on her left ear and Mimmy wears a yellow bow on her right ear and Mimmy is much more shy than Kitty. Hello Kitty UK states that, Kitty and the rest of the White family live in a red roof, little white house in London. Kitty weighs about three apples and is tall as five apples, and her blood is type A. She loves to bake and her friends...
...Hello Kitty is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, first designed by Yuko Shimizu. She is portrayed as a female white Japanese bobtail cat with a red bow.[1] The character's first appearance on an item, a vinyl coin purse, was introduced in Japan in 1974 and brought to the United States in 1976.[4][5] The character is a staple of the kawaii segment of Japanese popular culture.[6] At age 36 as of 2010, Sanrio has groomed Hello Kitty into a global marketing phenomenon worth $5 billion a year.[7] Originally aimed at pre-adolescent females, Hello Kitty's market has broadened to include adult consumers. She can be found on a variety of products ranging from school supplies to fashion accessories and high-end consumer products. Several Hello Kitty TV series, targeted towards young children, have been produced. Hello Kitty is also the main character at the two Japanese Sanrio theme parks, Harmonyland and the indoor Sanrio Puroland. Character[edit] Formally in Japanese, "Hello Kitty" refers to the group of related characters, while the main character herself is known as Kitty White (キティ・ホワイトKiti Howaito?), or affectionately as Kitty-chan (キティちゃん Kiti-chan?). According to the official character profile, she was born in the suburbs ofLondon, England on November 1. Her height is described as five apples and her weight as three apples. She is portrayed as a bright and...
...in 1974, employees at the Japanese design company Sanrio created Hello Kitty, the small, rounded cartoon cat with a red bow between her ears and no mouth, they could never have dreamt that she would become the global megastar she is today. Sales of Hello Kitty merchandise now account for half of Saniro's $1bn (£500m) annual turnover and her face adorns 50,000 products, sold in more than 60 countries. The little half-Japanese, half-English cat has become so globally recognisable that it is, perhaps, inevitable that the Japanese board of tourism has appointed her their official tourism ambassador to China and Hong Kong. This is not the first time the world has looked to Hello Kitty to perform an ambassadorial role; she has been United States children's ambassador for Unicef since 1983. Dr Sharon Kinsella, a lecturer at Oxford University on Japanese sociology, thinks that Japan's choice of Hello Kitty as their representative is unsurprising. "It seems predictable enough to have her adopted as a diplomatic envoy," she says. "That has been the way of the 'Cool Japan' bandwagon for a few years now, and relations with China are no healthier. It seems a bit farcical to select Hello Kitty, however: as if a dumbed-down cultural icon that was cool in her retro boom in the 1990s, and which Chinese teenagers dig, can somehow do something significant to alter the gnarly and difficult state of China-Japan...
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...Hello World! A "Hello, world!" program is a computer program that outputs "Hello, World!" (or some variant thereof) on a display device. Because it is typically one of the simplest programs possible in most programming languages, it is by tradition often used to illustrate to beginners the most basic syntax of a programming language. It is also used to verify that a language or system is operating correctly. Contents [hide] • 1 Purpose • 2 History • 3 Variations • 4 Examples • 5 See also • 6 References • 7 External links Purpose[edit] A "Hello, world!" program has become the traditional first program that many people learn. In general, it is simple enough so that people who have no experience with computer programming can easily understand it, especially with the guidance of a teacher or a written guide. Using this simple program as a basis, computer science principles or elements of a specific programming language can be explained to novice programmers. Experienced programmers learning new languages can also gain a lot of information about a given language's syntax and structure from a "Hello, world!" program. In addition, "Hello, world!" can be a useful sanity test to make sure that a language's compiler, development environment, and run-time environment are correctly installed. Configuring a complete programming toolchain from scratch to the point where...
...Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 2 COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS PART A 3 TARGET MARKET 4 SWOT ANALYSIS 5 Strength 5 Weakness 6 Opportunities 6 Threat 6 Brand merchandising strategies of hello kitty 7 Reference 11 INTRODUCTION Hello kitty is a cartoon character of a small cat that looks kind and cute, with a button nose, two black dot-yes, six whiskers and a ribbon or flower in her hair. Hello kitty has no mouth and this represents a major source of emotional association for buyers and buyers can project many different feelings onto the little cat. Owners and their cat can be happy, sad, thoughtful or any other feeling the user wish to feel. Hello Kitty was firstly introduced in japan in 1974 and was brought to the united state in 1976. Hello kitty is a segment of Japanese popular culture and hello kitty is a Japanese bobtail cat also knows as kitty white. Currently hello kitty is 39 years of age, at the age of 36 sanrio has introduce hello kitty in to a global market, hello kitty trademark is worth over 5 billion annually. Competitive analysis Part A Barbie doll is a fictional character, born on March 1959. First introduced as the original fashion model, Barbie doll has since had more than 130 careers, represented more than 40 different nationalities and...
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...Kitty White, better known as Hello Kitty was born in London in 1974, in the suburbs outside of London. This adorable cheerful, warm-hearted little kitty loved baking cookies for her friends and family. Hello Kitty lived with her father, George White, mother, Mary White, and twin sister, Mimmy White in the suburbs outside of London. She loved wearing a red bow on her left ear and really enjoyed Traveling, learning about the world, eating her mama’s apple pie, candy, stars, and goldfish. This adorable third grader, who only weighted the same as three apples and standee five apples tall, loved small, cute things, and helping others. Hello Kitty passed away on 2004, when she turned 30yrs old. She had gone to a lake to have picnic with her family, but unluckily she fell on the lake, when running around with other friends. Her leg had got caught up with some plants under the water , they say, that she struggle to get out, and her family did everything on their hands to help her, but by the time they were able to take her out, she was barely breathing. The London University hospital pronounced her death at 4pm on august 20th, 2004. We will always remember this amazing little kitty that made our hearts believe one more time and that kept our inner child alive with her sweetness and innocence. We ask you to please join us, at the funeral service this august 22nd, 2004 at 5pm at Sanrio funeral home in order to honor her memory. We hope...
...| HELLO KITTY | | Obsah Introduction 3 1. Hello Kitty 4 1.1 History 4 1.2 Hello Kitty in Japan 5 2. Globalization – localization 6 3. Famous brands create for Hello Kitty 6 3.1 Forever 21 (US) 7 3.2 Sephora (Francie) 7 3.3 Swarovski (Austria) 8 3.4 Vans (US) 8 3.5 Eva Air (Taiwan) 9 Conclusion 10 Bibliography 11 Appendix I.: Hello Kitty Story 12 Appendix II.: First product with Hello Kitty motive - 1974 13 Appendix III.: Hello Kitty Products 14 Appendix IV.: Hello Kitty a celebrities 19 Appendix V.: Hello Kitty products in magazines 20 Introduction Lately I have been noticing many articles in the shops carrying a name Hello Kitty with the typical oversized-head kitty image. To be quite honest until I started looking for information I did not know anything about this brand, where it is coming from, what is its main product, who is its targeted group, nothing. But it got my attention because I have been spotting the Hello Kitty image on so many different products and in such an amount that I started to feel like it is everywhere and I cannot escape. This essay is about one Japanese brand, that was invented as a new Sandio´s company design for coin purse that turned into a global brand, presenting her as a western brand and not carrying so much about its origin. Introducing...
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Simon Andrews signs for RAF Reserves Honda
Twitter superstar and motorcycle racer Simon Andrews has been announced as part of a two-rider lineup at RAF Reserves Honda, joining Manxman Connon Cummins in the team. They will compete in the superstock class of the MCE British Superbike Championship onboard Honda’s new Fireblade SP. It marks a welcome return to racing for Andrews who suffered potentially career ending injuries during a crash at Le Mans last year.
Cummins will also campaign the new Fireblade SP in the superstock classes of the NW200 and Isle of Man TT for the RAF Reserves team. Meanwhile Andrews will be on board the penz13.com BMW S1000RR for his superstock effort.
Andrews said: “I am feeling good about the season ahead and I think that my experience in the World Endurance Championship will benefit me, as we have seen that consistency pays off particularly with the Showdown format. The Honda Fireblade makes a good package in BSB and Alex (Lowes) showed that last season and so this is the perfect situation for me to make a comeback in the Championship and for the team to make the step up – it is an exciting time! I am definitely setting out for at least a couple of trophies this year; the body is feeling pretty good now and I feel like I am in the best place I have been for the past few years. I am coming back to MCE BSB with a strong head and a strong attitude and I am looking forward to it.”
Cummins commented: “I feel brilliant and after a couple of years away from racing in the Superstock Championship I want to come back and give a good account of myself. In 2010 I was running up the front and getting results, so there is no reason why we can’t be up there again and challenging for the results. It is a competitive field and lots of us want to do the business but I am definitely coming back to really fight for results.”
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Microtech Gefell KEM 970
Unorthodox. Odd. Maybe even a little weird. Microtech Gefell's KEM 970 microphone is anything but run-of-the-mill. On the other hand, the words excellent
John McJunkin ⋅ Nov 1, 2003
Nov 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
John McJunkin
Unorthodox. Odd. Maybe even a little weird. Microtech Gefell’s KEM 970 microphone is anything but run-of-the-mill. On the other hand, the words excellent and superb also describe this microphone. I have seen microphones that seem to have arrived in a flying saucer with an alien named Trebor from the planet Livocs in the Anozira quadrant, and the KEM 970 definitely ranks up there on the “what the?” scale. Nonetheless, this mic is based on a brilliant idea.
The KEM 970 has a smooth burnished metal tube 25 mm in diameter and 355 mm long. Connected to the tube along its length by 8 posts is another tube 40 mm in diameter and also 355 mm long. This tube has smooth burnished metal end caps but is otherwise formed of a black metal mesh. Essentially, you have two tubes, side-by-side, one slightly larger than the other.
The aforementioned posts are approximately 9 mm in diameter and 12 mm long. Four of these posts are centered on the lengthwise midpoint of the tubes in a straight line on centers of approximately 25 mm. About 30 mm further along the length in either direction are two more posts, and then the final two of the eight are located proportionally farther from the midpoint, about 25 mm from the ends of the tubes. The point is that these posts are not evenly distributed along the length of the microphone, which is important because each corresponds to one of the microphone’s eight condenser elements. This is, in fact, a line-array microphone!
The condensers correspond, in terms of position, exactly with the posts that connect the two tubes together. The condensers are approximately 10 mm in diameter and thus cannot be described as large diaphragm, but that is not the point of this design. A half-circle of black plastic slices through the black mesh tube in a perpendicular fashion nearly a third of the length from the top. The flat half of this semicircle faces the speaker and features two green LEDs to indicate to the speaker when the mic is on. Finally, at the bottom end is a finely machined flange that couples with the mic’s proprietary 7-pin connector. The connector also serves as a standard mount for use with a tabletop stand. Actually, because the mic’s pattern on the vertical axis is symmetrical, the mic could also be suspended upside down if necessary.
The idea of using multiple condensers in a microphone is nothing new. Arraying eight of them vertically, however, is simply not a common design. Nowadays the idea of arranging specialty loudspeakers in a vertical line to help gain control over the directionality of acoustical energy dispersion is just an accepted fact of life. Here that concept is reversed. The vertical arrangement of eight condensers with the correct spacing and phase relationships yields a nice tidy pattern for the capture of sound rather than its dispersion. Pretty clever idea! In this case, the pattern is 30 degrees wide in the vertical plane and 120 degrees wide in the horizontal plane. The KEM 970’s two tubes are normally oriented vertically with the black mesh facing the speaker, and the pattern emanates outward in a 30-degree-wide supercardioid pattern along the vertical reference axis. The pattern from top to bottom is 120 degrees in what Microtech Gefell describes as a club shape.
The point of having a pattern that differs in its horizontal and vertical axes is that podium speakers tend to move about, some more than others. A particularly animated speaker may from time to time move outside the pickup pattern or at least into an area where the sensitivity is low enough to significantly attenuate the signal. The traditional solution is to use a wider cardioid pattern to encompass the entire area where the speaker may be. A drawback to that solution is that wider patterns increase the propensity for feedback, and the speaker may be awash in an ocean of the other sounds picked up by the wider pattern. The benefit of the KEM-970 is that the pattern can be directed specifically toward the person speaking while allowing him or her the freedom to move within that pattern. It simply enables more precise directionality than a traditional microphone with a spherically symmetrical pattern.
I test-drove this microphone with speech and conducted some pseudoscientific experimentation to make some determinations about the pattern. The results were interesting, to say the least. First of all, the quality of the signal with the speaker dead-on center in both axes is impeccable. The manufacturer’s published frequency range is from 40 Hz to 18 kHz, and it’s all there, clear and clean. The published self-noise rating is a dead-quiet 15 dBA. With the pad switched to line position, the mic can handle 116 dB SPL. It’s not likely this mic will wind up in front of a Marshall stack, but it has the capability.
Here’s what’s particularly interesting about the KEM 970: the two condensers located at top and bottom of the array do not yield high frequencies. In fact, they sound quite dull. I moved the microphone up and down on the vertical axis, and it became apparent that the brightest part of the pattern was indeed dead-on center. I was not provided with a spectral plot for this mic, but I’m going to guess that there’s a pretty significant bump in the higher intelligibility frequencies and extending even a bit higher. This bump is significant enough that were the pattern any larger or less restricted, a whole lot of monitor wringing would be necessary. But that’s the point here; the mic yields plenty of the intelligibility frequencies of human speech but in a controlled pattern that helps tremendously to solve the feedback issue that is typically associated with that range.
I moved the mic vertically in front of a white-noise source (with highpass filtering to make it more directional). The point was to test for any audible phase shift. There was a barely audible amount toward the ends, as one might expect, but it was only scarcely audible and even then only in the highs and high mids. With human speech, the phasiness would be practically inaudible and even then only if the speaker were literally jumping up and down.
The KEM 970 is a specialized microphone, intended mainly for podium use, and it exhibits a high-quality signal. It simplifies the job of audiovisual professionals who seek a no-muss, no-fuss solution. In most applications, EQ will not be necessary at all. At $8,500 it’s not cheap, either, and that’s to be expected in consideration of the fact that this is a world-class microphone. You’re much more likely to see this microphone on the floor of the United Nations than at the city council meeting in West Podunk, Wyoming. If you need a top-quality microphone with maximum ease of use and money is no object, the KEM 970 is the choice for you.
John McJunkinis the principal of Avalon Audio Services in Phoenix. For more than 20 years, he has engaged in studio recording, live sound, and broadcast. He consults in design and commission for numerous studios and artists.
Company: Microtech Gefell, distributed in the United States by C-TEC (JP CableTek Electronics); www.gefell-mics.com
Product: Microtech Gefell KEM 970
Pros: High-quality reproduction. Well-defined coverage pattern.
Cons: Too expensive.
Applications: Vocals, such as podium speakers, choirs, and so on.
Pattern Cardioid plane 120-by-30 degrees
Response 40 Hz-18 kHz
Sensitivity 775 mV/Pa
Level/Rolloff -10 dB/-20 dB pad, -10 dB @ 90 Hz
Self-Noise -15 dBA
Signal-to-Noise 79 dBA
Maximum SPL 136 dB with 10 dB pad
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Stephanie Metz
Visual Artist: Sculptor
Stephanie Metz lives and works in San Jose, California and was a featured artist in Bay Area Currents 2009 at ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA. She has exhibited at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco and New York, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Her numerous group exhibitions include Black Sheep: The Darker Side of Felt at the National Centre for Craft and Design in the U.K., Creatures: From Bigfoot to the Yeti Crab at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Idaho, Formex Stockholm 2008
Stephanie Metz lives and works in San Jose, California and was a featured artist in Bay Area Currents 2009 at ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA. She has exhibited at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco and New York, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Her numerous group exhibitions include Black Sheep: The Darker Side of Felt at the National Centre for Craft and Design in the U.K., Creatures: From Bigfoot to the Yeti Crab at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Idaho, Formex Stockholm 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, and Transmission: Experience at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Gallery, Singapore. Metz was honored with two Center for Cultural Innovation Grants in 2011 and 2009.
Her artwork has been reviewed and featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Fiberarts Magazine, Craft Magazine, Artweek Magazine, and PBS. She received her BFA in Sculpture at the University of Oregon.
Metz’s focus is overly domesticated creatures, especially those whose form has overgrown their function.
It means a years' worth of studio rent, which allows me to focus on my overarching body of work rather than stressing about selling enough small pieces and teaching enough workshops to pay the rent. It is literally the gift of time.
Felted wool is often viewed through the lens of its traditional and historical uses in the realms of domesticity, craft, and industry; my sculptural use of felted wool is an ongoing investigation into its potential for physical manipulation and conceptual redefinition. I have been working with wool for thirteen years now, and my work continues to evolve. My early work in felt was an exercise in mimicking the physical qualities of more traditional materials. As I continued to experiment with my medium I found that the material itself began to inform my work, and I gradually began to embrace wool in its own right. Today my work is still based in biological reality, yet it is increasingly abstract and much larger than before.
Besides putting the time into your own unique vision, be easy to work with, which means: be professional, be courteous, be prompt, and be prepared.
Struggling for respect.
Laureate Award Category: Off the Wall (Sculpure)
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ICYMI: Ben Affleck is in rehab again, Idris Elba won’t be James Bond
FILE- In this March 19, 2016, file photo, actor Ben Affleck poses for photos during a press conference to promote the movie "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File) PAPM101
By Caitlin O'Conner
Published August 24 2018
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Ben Affleck is reportedly back in rehab
Ben Affleck is reportedly back in rehab.
The Oscar-winning producer is said to be seeking treatment for alcohol addiction at a facility in Malibu, according to TMZ and People. His estranged wife Jennifer Garner reportedly staged an intervention at his home Wednesday.
Reps for Affleck and Garner did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation on Thursday.
The 46-year-old actor's personal struggles this week were accompanied by several unflattering paparazzi images. Photos on Wednesday showed a visibly upset Garner arriving at his Pacific Palisades home, and soon after that, he was photographed looking pretty worse for wear while going through a fast-food drive-thru with her.
Earlier this week, Affleck was photographed accepting a home delivery of beer and liquor, which TMZ reported was the tipping point for Garner, who shares three children with the "Justice League" star.
The "Argo" director went through rehab in 2001 and 2017.
Affleck and Garner announced their separation in 2015 and filed for divorce in April 2017 but still have not finalized the split. Meanwhile, the actor-director dated "SNL" producer Lindsay Shookus for about a year, but news of their split came earlier this week when he was spotted out with 22-year-old Playboy model Shauna Sexton.
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Post Malone nearly died in a plane crash – somebody get him a drink.
The bad boy musician, whose plane had to make an emergency landing after its wheels flew off Tuesday, seemed rattled, but unbowed after he disembarked.
"I hate flying in general. I don't even know what to say, man. I'm shook," the rapper, real name William Richard Post, told TMZ in a brief interview moments after getting off his hobbled Gulfstream IV. "We're here . we're here on earth and I need a beer. And some wine at the same time."
Post Malone's plane was forced to circle in the air for nearly five hours Tuesday after it departed from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and lost two of its tires after takeoff. The plane managed to make an emergency landing in Newburgh, N.Y., at 3:45 p.m., after pilots burned more than 3,000 gallons of excess fuel.
There were 15 people on the plane, including Malone and his entourage.
After landing, Malone took to Twitter to blast his critics. "I landed guys," he tweeted. "Thank you for your prayers. Can't believe how many people wished death on me on this website. F— you. But not today."
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Lost Mick Jagger-Carly Simon duet found after more than 45 years
A lost Mick Jagger duet with Carly Simon has been found more than 45 years after it was first recorded.
The song, apparently never heard in public, appears to have been recorded in 1972 and was found recently on a tape owned by Rolling Stones collector Matt Lee.
Believed to be named "Fragile," at least according to Rolling Stones fan websites, the song is a slow love ballad that has Jagger and Simon seemingly sitting together at a piano and singing.
Simon spoke about the lost duet in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine about two years ago, saying the tape of the recording had been lost for decades. When the song ends, a female voice believed to be Simon's gasps: "Good song."
Janet Jackson to receive award at Black Girls Rock awards
Janet Jackson will receive the rock star award at the 2018 Black Girls Rock awards.
The Grammy winner will be honored as a "phenomenal woman in music," organizers said Thursday. Jackson recently released "Made for Now," her single with Daddy Yankee.
Queen Latifah will host the show, which will be taped Sunday at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. BET Networks will air the special celebrating the accomplishments of black women on Sept. 9. (In other news, Queen Latifah will be honored with an award named for a pioneering opera singer. The Marian Anderson Award is given in Philadelphia to "critically acclaimed artists who have impacted society in a positive way.")
Other award recipients include Mary J. Blige, Naomi Campbell and Judith Jamison. Blige will receive the star power award. Campbell will be presented with the black girl magic award and Jamison will receive the living legend award for her work in dance and choreography.
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GUILTY: 28-year-old Kieffer Delp, a boyfriend who appeared on Teen Mom 2, has pleaded guilty to running a meth lab in Pennsylvania. In a deal, he pleaded guilty to operating a meth lab, possession with the intent to deliver and risking a catastrophe.
OFFICIAL: Priyanka Chopra, 36, and Nick Jonas, 25, confirmed on their respective Instagram accounts last weekend that they are engaged. They had an official engagement ceremony in India.
LEGAL NEWS: Stan Lee's restraining order against a former business manager was extended for three years late last week. Lee's family has accused Keya Morgan of elder abuse.
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Toledo’s Westwood Art Theater
February 24, 2013 Buildings / Entertainment / Gone But Not Forgotten
When I visited Toledo in 2012, I was disappointed, for some reason, to find the Westwood Art Theater had closed.
It was just one of those landmarks – the neighborhood porno theater – you always expected to be there. When I took these pictures it was shuttered and showed no signs of life as the renovation of Sylvania Avenue continued in the fall of 2012.
The closed Westwood Art Theater from September, 2012 (click for full-size). Photo by the author.
The Westwood opened in 1928 and closed in May of 2011 with showings of Bouncy Bouncy Big ‘Uns and Cougars in Heat. Its owner, Bob Schaefer, said the theater was doing OK financially, but he was ready to retire. You should read that story. It’s a funny one.
The earliest reference to the Westwood Art Theater I could find was from 1956, when Mitch Woodbury laid out the winter lineup of films – mostly foreign. The Art Theater Guild owned the Westwood then, and owned theaters in 13 other cities, according to this 1958 article.
The Blade of the late 1950s and early 1960s was chock full of art movies playing at the Westwood – La Dolce Vita, for example, in this review from 1961. The theater also hosted art exhibits.
But times changed (as did movies), and the Westwood changed with them.
Another view of the Westwood Art Theater (click for full-size). Photo by the author.
The Westwood tried an experiment in 1972 – showing Chaplin films – but almost no one showed up, wrote The Blade’s Norman Dresser.
He put it this way:
For years it was known as an art theater, specializing in foreign imports – the Ingmar Bergman, ‘little’ but well-made French and English movies, that sort of thing. The theater built up a comparatively small but loyal clientele.
Then, a few years ago, it switched to skin flicks. Such films as ‘Without A Stitch,’ ‘Vixen,’ the Russ Meyer opuses brought a new type of patron to the Sylvania Avenue theater.
This exhibition policy came to an end, at least temporarily, when the Westwood became involved in court battles over some of its films, including ‘Without A Stitch’ and ‘The Stewardesses.’
The links above go to stories about the obscenity rulings, not the movies themselves. We’re strictly G-rated here.
An ad from March, 1981.
Despite being temporarily banned at one point, The Stewardesses, a soft-core porn flick that self-related itself X, ran for 21 weeks at the Westwood in 1971. The manager said over 60,000 people came to see the 3-D skin flick according to an I’ve Heard item written by now-retired Blade editor and vice-president Tom Walton (Vixen! ran for 23 weeks).
The Westwood went all X in 1977, according to this Roberta deBoer story from 1985. The home video revolution had eaten into the X-rated movie theater scene in Toledo and the city was down to two X-rated movie houses, the Westwood and the Las Vegas Cinema on Secor Road (which wasn’t quite accurate, since the Las Vegas did peep shows and live dancers but not movies). The story also said the Art Theater Guild still owned the Westwood, but the chain was now all X-rated.
Ads in The Blade bear this out. Picking a date at random from May, 1981, I found five ads in the Peach Section from Toledo’s skin flick houses (ahh, the things we do for research):
– the Cinema North at Suder and Benore was showing the Inside Story of Seka
– the Modern Cinema at 135 S. Byrne was showing The Seduction of Amy
– the Las Vegas Cinema was showing The Erotic Adventures of Little Orphan Sammy (if I remember it correctly, it was in the plaza across from LaSalle’s where there was once a Topps, and then a Farmer Jack – and now a Home Depot)
– The Eastwood at 817 E. Broadway was showing Chorus Call
– the Westwood was showing American Pie and Frat House
An ad from July 7, 1995.
The Westwood was being subsidized at the time by the sale and rental of video cassettes, but the manager, who declined to be identified, said “I think we’re not far off from the time when the movies will go altogether.”
Nevertheless, the theater lasted another 26 years, through the VHS era, the DVD era, but not, apparently, the Internet era.
No. I never set foot in the place.
Postscript: As indicated in the comments, The Westwood Private Members Only Club reopened the old theater sometime in 2012. It described itself as Ohio’s finest adult private club showing XXX movies in a private club environment.
By 2017, however, it had folded. Happily, a group calld “Sylvania Avenue Neighbors” has taken interest in the old theater now for sale , and on March 11, 2017, they met to discuss its future with the hope of turning it into something other than what it’s been for so long. Here’s a story from WTOL on it, here’s WTVG’s take, and here’s the group’s Facebook page.
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Steve Brack
March 23, 2013 at 5:24 pm 6 years ago
I worked for a time in the 1990s at the Ma Chere Academy, a beauty school on Sylvania at Lewis (the five-points interstection). I can remember passing by the Westwood on my way to & from work every day, and, if I recall correctly, one of our students was renting an apartment over the theater.
Diane Ley
I grew up around the corner from this in the 1970’s. Since I was a youngster, I didn’t know what kind of movies it showed. My mother refused to take me there…it wasn’t until I was much older that I “got” it.
Chris Sobieniak
June 6, 2015 at 9:13 pm 4 years ago
To update things a little, the theater is open again, this time as some private club of sorts. Too bad they can’t use it to play some indie flicks now and then. I would love to see the releases of GKIDS in town if ever.
http://www.westwoodadult.com/
Frank Lehman
August 29, 2015 at 12:53 pm 4 years ago
There was another “Art Theater” located on Broadway, maybe half way between the high level bridge and the South St intersection. I can remember regularly seeing its ad along with those of the Westwood in The Blade. Does anyone know anything about it? I cannot remember the name.
September 2, 2016 at 10:47 pm 3 years ago
In the late 70’s and early 80’s The Rocky Horror Movie played at midnight on Fridays. A group of us went to see it most Friday’s while I was in high school.
Greg D
April 22, 2017 at 3:21 pm 2 years ago
As a kid growing up down the block on Belmar Ave. (in the 70s/80s), i remember the Westwood quite well. As kids at Longfellow school we would hang out behind the theater, occasionally finding clips of old adult movies. As teens we would hide out behind there to drink beer and smoke….ahhh the good old day. Tried to go in a few times but was turned away for being a minor. Finally saw some movies there in the late 80s, they used to run a weekend movie with WIOT….rocky horror, tommy, the wall….etc. Never did see an adult film there, but you could hear them from the back exit door when we were drinking back there…….its funny i grew up just down the block in its heyday…but i don’t remember any issues or problems that occured ….haven’t been in my old neighborhood in 20yrs…guess i should go by
October 29, 2017 at 10:33 pm 2 years ago
Whats up Greg. Remember a lot of the same things. I remember seeing Rocky Horror. The high school kids made a mess of things that night and I think that was the last of it. Interesting to see the neighborhood now. Many things are different but most of it looks the same. Sad to see that at the corner of Jackman and Sylvania Calvary United Methodist Church has closed. The windows in the back were broken. Red Wells, Penguin Music Store,… all were gone.
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Teacher Ambassadors
At the heart of teacher-powered schools are dedicated teacher leaders. Our initiative is proud to have teacher ambassadors representing a diverse range of teacher-powered schools. These ambassadors come from schools in the transforming stage—that is, schools where advanced teams of teachers have created and are sustaining a teacher-powered school.
Ambassadors and their teams understand that they are part of a larger community of teacher-powered schools, and seek to grow that community by hosting tours, writing blog posts, communicating with media, and actively sharing about their school's successes and challenges in our online community. Ambassadors and their schools benefit by learning great ideas for their own communities, and by bringing increased legitimacy to the movement as a whole. All are welcome to reach out and connect with an ambassador using their contact information below.
2018 Teacher Ambassadors
A big welcome to the new additions to our family of ambassadors. Reach out and say hello!
Zaynab Baalbaki
Zaynab Baalbaki is extremely passionate about social justice, especially in education. This passion stems from various personal experiences. Zaynab was born and raised in Milwaukee's south side. She attended UW-Madison, where she double-majored in Elementary Education and Sociology and double-minored in Educational Policy Studies and Chicana & Latina Studies.
During her time at UW-Madison she was able to study and teach abroad in London at University of Roehampton. Additionally, she participated in an undergraduate research program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Next, she started her graduate school in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania, but finished at Marquette University in College Student Personnel Administration. Zaynab was one of two people selected for a graduate internship in the Middle East at American University of Kuwait. She worked at Northwestern University at the Center for Talent & Development coordinating their summer programs.
Currently, Zaynab is an advisor at Escuela Verde, located in Milwaukee, WI. Escuela Verde is a teacher-powered school that focuses on social justice, sustainability, and peace. Zaynab is involved with local organizations as the education chair for the Milwaukee Urban League Young Professionals. Additionally, she serves as a board member for the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Educators, which allows her to be an advocate for the earth. Trying new restaurants and traveling are two of her favorite pastimes.
zaynab@escuelaverde.org
@zbaalbaki
Brent Chamberlain
Brent Chamberlain is a teacher leader in New York City public schools. After several years struggling to serve students in a variety of school settings, Brent joined a team of teachers and administrators at the Urban Assembly School for Green Careers, one of the lowest-performing schools in the city. Together, they chose to implement the Learning Cultures pedagogical model, a school-wide reform that transformed the high school from one of the lowest-rated learning environments in NYC to one of the highest. Under this student-centered model, which privileges student choice and autonomy through relational interactions and rich environments, the graduation rate rose from 30% to over 80% while suspensions were cut by more than half. The team continues to innovate structures and practices around their core values of intention, collaboration, and responsibility.
When not at Green Careers, Brent can be found roaming around the world (often somewhere in the UK) or in grad school, ever learning. His most recent degree in leadership from the Bank Street School of Education is helping to further his vision for building teachers’ collective autonomy to implement student-powered structures. Brent continues to tell the exciting story of the Green Careers team at conferences and through his involvement with the Innovative Schools Network (ISN). His commitment to equity and excellence in public education continues to drive his innovative work in partnership with an ever-growing number of amazing educators.
bchamberlain@uagreencareers.org
@edinequality
Julie Cook teaches middle school students at the Souderton Charter School Collaborative. SCSC is a K-8 school in Souderton, Pennsylvania. Julie joined SCSC in 2002 and has been instrumental in designing and sustaining a teacher-powered school with her colleagues. She currently co-teaches in the school’s award-winning middle school program, which has been recognized as a “PA Don Eichorn School To Watch.” SCSC’s mission to change the environment of education through individualized, experiential, and community-based learning is supported by the school’s innovative organizational processes and systems that empower teachers.
Julie holds a B.S. degree in Secondary Education & English from Penn State University and an M.S. in Educational Strategies and Leadership from Wilkes University. Julie is actively involved in the PA Association for Middle Level Education. She is passionate about middle school, writing, reading, and her three boys.
juliec@scsc4kids.org
@JulieSCSC
Danny Flannery
Danny Flannery is a first & second grade teacher at Mission Hill School, a teacher-powered school in Boston, Massachusetts. Danny holds a Bachelor of Science in Behavioral Neuroscience and a Master of Arts in Teaching in Elementary and Special Education, both from Northeastern University.
Danny was drawn to working at Mission Hill because of the autonomy available to its teachers and the democratic governance he observed taking place as a student teacher. In his first two years on staff, he has embraced this work wholeheartedly. Danny serves as a math facilitator and a science facilitator on staff, where he co-wrote a proposal which has expanded the thematic study of science at Mission Hill. Danny is also a member of the school’s Governance Board, which makes larger decisions about the school community. He is looking forward to sharing the advantages and possibilities of teacher-led schools with communities within Boston and across the country.
dflannery@missionhillschool.org
@teacherdanny216
Adam Haigler
Adam Haigler is a science teacher at Tri-County Early College in Murphy, North Carolina. TCEC is a project-based, competency-based school that implements and invents best practices suited for students in rural Appalachia. Adam has witnessed firsthand the remarkable potency of distributed leadership and his teacher team has developed various innovative practices in direct response to student needs.
Adam has spent over a decade in education in a variety of roles. He has been an Outward Bound Lead Instructor, an overseas educator, educational consultant, and a classroom teacher during his educational career. He also co-founded and directed a Gap Year program with his wife and has served in leadership roles in various experiential education organizations.
Currently, Adam is finishing a book with a colleague on the concept of Open Source Learning. The book is intended to encourage more distributed leadership, transparency, sharing, collaboration, and innovation in schools. Adam has blogged about education for Edutopia, ASCD, the National Society for Leadership & Success, NC New Schools, and was a contributing author for The Gap Year Advantage. In 2016, he was recognized by the NCSTA as an Outstanding Science Teacher for his district.
adam.haigler@cherokee.k12.nc.us
@adamhaigler
Teacher Ambassador Alumni
Ronnda Cargile
Ronnda Cargile tapped as director of the Innovation Lab at Hughes STEM High School in Cincinnati, Ohio is dedicated to increasing student achievement by empowering schools with strategy and tools to aid in building leadership capacity. Her role has dual focus on facilitating professional development opportunities for educators and collaborating with community and industry partners to develop and sustain initiatives that promote STEM outreach.
Ms. Cargile holds a teaching license in General Science, Master’s degree in education and is currently completing coursework towards principal licensure. As an adjunct professor for the University of Cincinnati, Ms. Cargile shares her passion for teaching, practitioner experience and professional understandings with pre-service science teachers. She is committed to public service. As a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., she is involved with youth mentoring and social awareness programs. Ms. Cargile loves spending time with family and friends and relies on her faith as a source of strength.
ronndacargile@gmail.com
@MsCargilebaybay
Josef Donnelly
Josef Donnelly is a 9th and 10th grade global history teacher at International Community High School in the South Bronx, New York City. A school designed for recent immigrants, ICHS is a member of the Internationals Network for Public Schools and the New York Performance Standards Consortium. Josef also teaches a bridge program for SIFE students as well as serving as union chapter leader, department head, and his school’s portfolio coordinator/representative for the I.N.P.S. network.
He has presented at the National Council for Social Studies and the Journal of Language and Literacy Education. Prior to teaching he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Micronesia.
josef.donnelly@gmail.com
@mrjosefichs
Sarah Giddings
Sarah Giddings is a National Board Certified teacher, advisor, and curriculum coordinator for the WAVE Program—a Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium alternative countywide high school she helped develop and is a part of the instructional leadership team. Sarah is a Hope Street Group National Teaching Fellow, an America Achieves Fellow, and a national TeachStrong Ambassador. She has trained and presented to educators, policymakers, and community members from the local level to the USDOE and national level on a multitude of passions including teacher leadership, public education innovations, education policy, assessment literacy, social-emotional learning, and being a connected educator.
Sarah has written and blogged for Big History Project, National Board, Teach to Lead, and the Michigan Department of Education. Sarah also was an organizer of the inaugural ECET2MI education conference. She spent several years as a teacher-leader at Al Raby High School in Chicago, designing a cutting-edge GIS curriculum. Sarah graduated with a master's in K-12 Education Administration, and holds a professional certificate in Ed Technology, a B.A. in social relations and English minor, all from Michigan State University.
sgiddings@weocflex.org
@sarahyogidds
Aaron Grimm
Aaron is an educator at teacher-powered Minnesota New Country School. MNCS is a rural, highly recognized project based charter school in the Minnesota River valley of Henderson, MN. Currently, he co-teaches in a multiage grades 4-6 classroom. Aaron has been working in education since 2004, including rolls in the nonprofit EdVisions Schools and serving as Director of EdVisions Cooperative.
Aaron holds a Bachelor's from Minnesota State University, Mankato in English/Speech Education and a Master's in Advocacy and Political Leadership from University of Minnesota, Duluth. Aaron's passions include: following politics, music/concerts, motorcycling and gardening. He lives with his partner Ann and has two sons.
aggrimm@gmail.com
@aggrimm
Deyonne Jackson
Deyonne Jackson has been teaching for 15 years. For the last 11 years she has been team-teaching in a multiage classroom of kindergarten and first grade students at Woods Learning Center. This year marks the 25th year as a teacher-powered school for Woods Learning Center.
When Deyonne is not in the elementary classroom she can be found at Casper College working with 3rd grade students and college mentors at Help Yourself Academy. She is also an adjunct instructor for early childhood courses at Casper College.
Deyonne holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education with an Early Childhood Endorsement from the University of Wyoming and a Masters of Science degree in K-12 Science Education from Walden University.
deyonne817@myncsd.org
@DeyonneJ
Rebekah Kang
Rebekah M. Kang is a 6th-12th grade Special Education teacher at UCLA Community School, a kindergarten through 12th-grade public school in Los Angeles, California. UCLA Community School's design started with a social justice vision to prepare all students to succeed in college, have meaningful careers, and participate in our democracy.
As one of the founding teachers, Rebekah has helped start and develop some signature learning programs such as the Seminar Program and Integration Program for students with disabilities. Rebekah is a National Board Certified Teacher and a UCLA Writing Project Fellow.
rmkang@gmail.com
@rmkang110
Julene Oxton
Julene Oxton is currently the innovation coordinator for the Lakeville Public Schools in MN. She feels honored to be working with teachers to transform educational systems. She served as the lead developer of Impact Academy, which is a learning environment for about 450 students in grades K-5. The teacher-powered school opened in 2013 in Lakeville, MN, a suburb of the Twin Cities. Designing and launching this new school model with a group of teachers has been the most rewarding part of her thirty plus year teaching journey.
Julene received a master's in Teacher Leadership from the University of Minnesota and an Administrative Specialist Degree from St. Thomas University, MN. She started her career in Montana and moved to the Twin Cities area for most of her teaching years. Her family of three adult children and husband recently grew as she became a first time grandmother last spring! She loves traveling, gardening, rollerblading and sharing her gifts and resources with others on short-term mission trips.
julene.oxton@isd194.org
@julene_oxton
Liz Seubert
Liz Seubert is an experienced, project-based learning (PBL) advisor and member of a teacher-powered school staff. She is also an innovator in the field of student-centered learning. As one of three founding staff members of Wildlands School, Liz has led many expeditionary learning trips with students and has developed community-based learning and service connections. She has been a project-based teacher since 2005.
Liz has also consulted with Project Foundry to develop better PBL management strategies and tools. She has presented at numerous conferences, and been an active member in the Innovative Schools Network (ISN). Liz has developed and taught summer institutes for teachers in the areas of PBL, student-centered learning, and school culture. She also coaches and consults with schools. Her focus is to help them develop student-led, project-based learning communities, teacher led (teacher-powered) schools, and relationship based learning cultures.
liz@leadthepath.com
@Wildlands_LizS
Alysia Krafel
Alysia Krafel and her husband Paul founded Chrysalis Charter School, a teacher-powered school in Redding, California. It was one of the first teacher-powered schools in the country. In this school, the teachers called the shots, and since Alysia had the academic freedom at Chrysalis to continue her research into how children learn math, she continued her work on Patterns in Arithmetic—a math curriculum she co-authored based on understanding and not memorized procedures, designed for grades 1st - 5th. Chrysalis has used the Patterns in Arithmetic series now for eighteen years with excellent results, and Alysia has continued field testing the 3rd - 6th grade materials with homeschoolers.
Chrysalis Charter School is the culmination of a desire to set teachers free and to create a loving, gentle community where both children and teachers can let their light shine brighter. Alysia has recently retired and is now mentoring other teachers in mathematics both at Chrysalis and in the broader world beyond. She is a strong advocate for teacher- powered schools.
alysia@teacherpowered.org
@akrafel
Carrie Bakken
Carrie Bakken was hired with a team of teachers to open Avalon School in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2001, where she is now program coordinator and teacher. Over the last few years, she completed a two year Aspen Institute Teacher Fellowship and won an Outstanding Educator in Ethics Education Award sponsored by the WEM Foundation.
Carrie has a master of arts degree in teaching from the University of St. Thomas and a juris doctorate from Hamline University. She completed her undergraduate work at Beloit College. She is also a member of the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ) Collaboratory.
carrie@avalonschool.org
@CarrieBakken
David Briley
David Briley is a 2nd-and-3rd-grade looping teacher at Reiche Community School in Portland, Maine. Reiche is the first teacher-powered school in Maine and he is part of its leadership team as coordinator of the enrichment committee. Before his teaching career began, he was an informal educator for fourteen years at COSI, a world-class science center in Columbus, Ohio.
He has a Bachelor of Science from Otterbein University, and is completing his Master of Science in Education at the University of Southern Maine.
briled@portlandschools.org
@BRILEYD
Taryn Snyder
Taryn Snyder is a third-grade teacher at the Boston Teachers Union Pilot School in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up in Pine Bush, New York and attended Simmons College in Boston for her bachelor's degree and master's degree. Taryn began her career in advertising, but after five years figured out that she wanted to work with children.
Taryn started her teaching career at Boston Renaissance Charter Public School and then moved to the Boston Teachers Union Pilot School when a third-grade position opened up. She also served as an adjunct professor at Simmons College, teaching a graduate course called Strategies for the Inclusive Classroom. When she's not in the classroom, Taryn volunteers her time as co-chair of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Pancreas Foundation. She loves reading, baking, traveling, exploring Boston, and spending time with her family.
taryn.snyder@gmail.com
@TSnyd
Jeff Austin
Jeff Austin teaches economics and government, serves as the assistant principal and was on the design team at the Social Justice Humanitas Academy in Los Angeles. He is a National Board Certified Teacher and was a 2013 Los Angeles County and Los Angeles Unified School District Teacher of the Year.
Jeff lives in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles with his wife Amanda and two daughters, Abigail and Madelyn. When he's not teaching or corralling his girls, Jeff loves watching soccer.
jaustin@sjhumanitas.org
@MisterA
More than 120 schools in 19 states and counting.
of Americans agree teacher-powered schools are a good idea.
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Wong tries to keep momentum after mayoral preliminary win
By Matthew Bruun TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
Lisa A. Wong did not waste a day to bask in the glow of her commanding victory in Tuesday�s preliminary mayoral election.
Yesterday morning, she was waving at voters on the Upper Common before visiting coffee shops and diners to meet and greet more prospective supporters for her showdown in November with veteran City Councilor E. Thomas Donnelly.
�It�s a thank-you day,� she said yesterday afternoon, referring not only to the voters who gave her the first-place finish in the preliminary election, but also to the campaign workers who spent months orchestrating the effort.
She said her effort to restore the city has already begun.
�This is about more than just the campaign,� she said. �This is about helping the city bring back its vitality and bring back hope. People want to be part of a positive change.�
Ms. Wong, a 28-year-old newcomer to local politics, was the topic of buzz around town yesterday. The former executive director of the Fitchburg Redevelopment Authority, Ms. Wong took 62 percent of the vote in the four-way election, far outdistancing Mr. Donnelly, a veteran councilor who got 22 percent of the votes cast. Eliminated from the race Tuesday were Ward 4 Councilor Ted E. DeSalvatore and perennial candidate Ronald R. Dionne.
Political observers said Ms. Wong tapped into something with her message of economic revival, bringing out a very high voter turnout, at least for a preliminary election.
City Clerk Anna Farrell said 5,553 votes were cast out of 20,115 registered voters, for a turnout of 28 percent. That�s high for a preliminary election, she said, and she heard anecdotal evidence from poll workers that many inactive voters cast their first ballots in years on Tuesday.
Ms. Wong, meanwhile, said she had been approached by voters in their 20s who told her they had cast their first ballots in a municipal election on Tuesday, and they cast them for her.
�We seemed to get our message out to first-time voters,� she said. �We do have a bright future, and they want to be a part of it.�
�I was glad to see that a lot of people came out,� said Council President Jody M. Joseph. �Obviously, Lisa had a better strategy. I really was surprised by the outcome. I thought it would be a lot closer.�
In the last preliminary mayoral election, in 2003, 13 percent of the voters turned out. The mayoral contest was set as incumbent Mayor Dan H. Mylott came in second with 1,279 votes to a first-place finish by Councilor Annie K. DeMartino, who had 1,303 votes.
By comparison, Ms. Wong had more than 3,400 votes on Tuesday.
In the fall of 2003, Mr. Mylott went on to beat Mrs. DeMartino by a vote of 4,686 to 3,101, when there was a 36 percent voter turnout. Mr. Mylott � unopposed just two years ago � announced last month he would not seek a fourth term as mayor, choosing instead to focus on issues facing the city, including what he has repeatedly described as a budget crisis.
The mayor watched the election returns from the sidelines Tuesday night. He is staying out of the race entirely, saying he will reserve his opinion on the candidates to the ballot he casts in November.
In an interview yesterday, Mr. Mylott said he was impressed by Ms. Wong�s feat this week.
�She pulled 2,000 votes out that shouldn�t have been there,� he said, referring to the high turnout. �I think it would be unfair to attribute it to anything, but she tapped into something. The question is, is she going to be able to sustain that level of support for the next six weeks and build on it? I would suspect the answer is yes.�
As for Mr. Donnelly, Mr. Mylott said, the at-large councilor has a lot of work to do between now and Nov. 6, Election Day.
�I would think his message is going to have to change,� Mr. Mylott said.
Mr. Donnelly said the high turnout shows the public is looking for a change. Though he has spent years on the council, Mr. Donnelly insisted yesterday that he can still be an agent of change in the city.
�We don�t want Fitchburg to be what it has been,� he said. �The council is in a limited role. If change is going to happen, it�s going to be with the mayor.�
He said he did not see Ms. Wong�s victory as evidence of an anti-incumbent sentiment among the voters. He said they were challenging the status quo.
�I question changing people without municipal experience versus someone with municipal experience, meaning me,� he said. �I can make change.�
The November election will include all 11 seats on the City Council, where there will be at least two new faces: Mr. Donnelly and Mr. DeSalvatore did not seek re-election to those seats to focus on their mayoral bids. Several ward contests will be on the ballot as well, along with three challenges for seats on the School Committee.
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Price of Football: Over 80 per cent of Premier League ticket prices reduced or frozen... and Carlisle have cheapest pies
Chelsea fans queuing for tickets Credit: GETTY IMAGES
Telegraph Sport, and PA
16 November 2017 • 8:37am
Football League 2
Over 80 per cent of ticket prices in the Premier League have either been reduced or frozen for the 2017-18 season, the latest BBC Price of Football study has found.
Average season ticket prices across England's top flight are at their lowest levels since 2013, having dropped for a second successive year, with 82.5 per cent of all ticket prices in the division having fallen or remained the same.
Promoted Huddersfield offer the lowest-costing season tickets in the league at £100, while Arsenal are at the other end of that scale at £891, and the Gunners' most expensive season ticket is also unmatched at £1,768.50.
The average for cheapest season tickets is £464, down 1.85 per cent from £472.75 last term.
However, the average for cheapest adult home matchday tickets in the Premier League has increased by 0.86 per cent, going from £29.05 last year to £29.30 this campaign.
In that category, Liverpool offer the cheapest option at £9 and Chelsea the highest at £47.
Ticket prices have come down after protests Credit: AFP
Last season, in which a record £8.3 billion global television rights deal kicked in, the league introduced a three-year cap on away ticket prices of £30, and the study has found the average for cheapest adult away tickets is £28, having been £28.45 a year ago (a 1.58 per cent decrease).
The average price of a pie in the Premier League has gone up, from £3.49 to £3.65 - an increase of 4.58 per cent. Tottenham have the dearest at £4.30 - their food and prices drinks are being set by Wembley Stadium this term.
The study also includes data on the cost of cups of tea, programmes and adult and junior replica shirts for clubs. There have been increases in the average cost in all those categories, with Spurs, Manchester United and Manchester City having the most expensive adult shirts at £60.
Findings from latest BBC Price of Football study
A total of 202 clubs across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were covered and the study found that across the United Kingdom for a third year the majority of ticket prices - almost two thirds - have been reduced or frozen.
In the Championship, the average for cheapest season tickets is £337.02, up from £335.15 last season (0.56 per cent); for cheapest adult home matchday tickets it is down from £22.11 to £20.58 (a 6.92 per cent decrease); and for cheapest adult away tickets it is up from £21.94 to £22.42 (2.19 per cent).
Young people choose gaming over live matches
The study also covered some overseas clubs. Barcelona's cheapest season ticket is £87.78 and most expensive £737.24. For Paris St Germain, it ranges from £357.26 to £2,817.50.
In a separate poll, 1,000 18 to 24-year-old fans living in Britain were asked how they engage in football and 82 per cent said the cost of tickets was an obstacle to them going to more matches.
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Unstacking the Deck: Marvel Masterpieces Series II
Skybox 1993
90 cards (including checklist card) with an eight card subset of chase cards.
Card fronts feature series title on the top, with the character name on the bottom, with no other borders.
Cardbacks feature character's real name, group affiliation (where applicable). first appearance ( including publication date and art credit), with the cardback text laid over a scene from the character's first appearance. The bottom of the cardback lists a "In the Beginning" factoid.
Whereas the first series of Marvel Masterpiece cards were all from artist Joe Jusko, for this series, Marvel enlisted multiple artists (including Jusko again).
The chase cards for this series feature characters from X-Men 2099. These are "Dyna-sketch" cards, and even for someone relatively fluent in meaningless 90s marketing speak, I have no idea what that means (they're vaguely metallic and sparkly, I guess? Maybe a little bit embossed/textured too?).
Somewhere along the way (probably in Wizard), I seem to recall this series' Iron Man card becoming a recurring joke as, from a certain point of view, it could be said that Iron Man is farting.
Jim Steranko (I believe) draws the Human Torch, Captain America & Namor cards, in a very art deco/40s propaganda style, which when placed side by side, form one image, a nice acknowledgement of the relationship between the three characters as, essentially, Marvel's founding superheroes (at least the ones still in publication in some form) from the 40s.
Ghost Rider's real name is stated as Dan Ketch (the 90s Ghost Rider), but his first appearance (and accompanying image) is listed as Marvel Spotlight, which was the first appearance of Johnny Blaze as the original Ghost Rider in the 70s.
An additional upside to the cardbacks featuring art from characters' first appearances is that you get to see some fun design/layout choices, like how Forge's card prominent features "sassy leg-cocked 80s short-shorts wearing Forge". It also leads to some fun and occasionally sad/horrifying juxtaposition when going from a character's current look on the front to an image of the character in all their 60s/70s glory on the back.
X-Related
22 of the series' 90 cards feature someone from one of the four main X-books, broken down as follows:
X-Men: Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Archangel, Beast, Psylocke, Rogue, Gambit, Colossus, Longshot (sort of), Bishop, Jean Grey
X-Force: Cable, Domino, Cannonball, Shatterstar
X-Factor: Forge, Polaris, Havok
Excalibur: Captain Britain, Nightcrawler, Phoenix
Wolverine is said to be the first operative to come out the Canadian Weapon X program, an acknowledgement of the expansion of that program beyond Wolverine in recent Wolverine stories.
Cyclop's start with Jack O'Diamonds is referenced, a rare acknowledgement of those old Silver Age "origin of the X-Men" backups (it's quite possibly the first place I encountered the idea that Cyclops hung out with someone called Jack O'Diamonds before joining the X-Men).
Psylocke's first appearance is listed as Uncanny X-Men #213, which is neither her actual first appearance (if you include Marvel UK), nor her first American appearance (which is New Mutants Annual #2).
Gambit's "in the beginning" fact states that before joining the X-Men, he committed crimes in New Orleans alongside Sabretooth, which is both not quite true, and a surprising place to reveal something like that, considering Gambit's past with Sabretooth (already teased) will soon become more prominently featured in the X-books.
In contrast, Stryfe's "in the beginning" factoid sticks to the middle ground, declaring Cyclop's son was sent to the future and returned to the present as either Stryfe or Cable (which is pretty much where we're at with that plot in contemporaneous comics).
Colossus' group affiliation is still listed as the X-Men, not the Acolytes.
Polaris appears wearing her most recent X-Factor costume, with Shatterstar in his post-"X-Cutioner's Song" Capullo-designed one.
It's said that Cyber made Wolverine forget their original encounter, which isn't exactly something I remember from Cyber's first story, but I also don't pay terribly close attention to many of those Marvel Comics Presents stories, so maybe that got setup somewhere in there.
Phoenix' first appearance is listed as X-Men Annual #9, which is neither Rachel Summers' first appearance (X-Men #141), nor the issue when she comes to the present (New Mutants #18), nor the issue in which she adopts the mantle of the Phoenx (X-Men #199), but rather, the first time she appeared wearing a Phoenxi-esque costume.
Somewhat curiously, Longshot gets a card in this set, despite not appearing since X-Men #10 (over a year ago publication-time) and not having any significant appearances planned in the near future.
The Grim 'n' Gritty 90s
In addition to the X-Men 2099 chase cards, this series features six 2099 characters in the set proper (Hulk, Spider-Man, Punisher, Doom, Ravage and Vulture).
Stryfe, presumably making a posthumous victory lap, gets his own card in this set despite being more or less done as a character.
Other notable card inclusions:
Future Marvel movie star Blade, who received his own series around this time for the first time.
Vulture, who at this time was poised, I believe, to get a de-aged makeover in the Spider-Man books, and is one of the few classic Spidey badguys to get his own card in this set.
Cyber, riding high on his pair of Marvel Comics Presents stories and X-Factor appearance.
Leather-clad, lightsaber-wielding Black Knight, who's pretty much the central character of the early 90s Avengers.
Vengeance, who is basically Ghost Rider but even more EXTREEEME!!!
I like the different layers to the image, the way Beast is weaving in and out of the laser blasts.
US Agent
Nice action-orientated image.
Spider-Man's card is kind of a dud, but Spider-Woman makes up for it.
Another strong Magneto card, with some of the propaganda influences seen in the Human Torch/Namor image.
A lot of characterization for a character we still don't know a lot about.
Fun perspective on this one.
A more serious image than the character probably merits, but I like it.
Not sure who the artist is, but I really like the almost-animation quality to it.
While the first series of Marvel Masterpieces earns points for consistency (featuring as it does art from only one artist) and functions better as a "greatest hits" set of cards (featuring fewer "hot" characters and seemingly striving to present a more "classic" assortment of cards), I actually prefer this second series to it. In part, that's because I was able to assemble a complete set via packs as a kid (as opposed to buying a full set from a collectible store as an adult), and in part because the variety of artists makes for a more engaging set (even though the different art styles do lead to some stinker cards: this is possibly the only Marvel card set to not feature a strong, iconic Spider-Man card). The lack of a border on the front of the cards makes for a bolder image, which helps the artwork pop more throughout the set.
But what really sets this above the previous one is the "first appearance" info on the backs of the cards. Because I got into comics through trading cards, and "first appearance" was always one of the things listed on the cardbacks (like batting average or ERA on baseball cards), I came into comics with a mild obsession with characters' first appearances - memorizing them and, when possible, reading or buying them. And back in those days, before the internet and Marvel Unlimited and the mass proliferation of trade reprints, it was particularly difficult to track down the first appearances of all but the most significant/popular-at-the-time characters. As a result, the reproduced art on the backs of these cards represent the first time I saw some of these characters' initial appearances, and thus served as a sort of quick-and-dirty primer on Marvel history. That alone added a ton of value to the series, enough to make up for some of the less-exciting artwork or questionable, of-their-time character inclusions.
Labels: trading cards, Unstacking the Deck, X-aminations
Licinio Miranda December 27, 2017 at 8:52 AM
The Crystal card looks like Bret Blevins.
Pedro de Pacas January 3, 2018 at 8:45 AM
An artist I have mixed feelings about: I pretty much adore his style, but his New Mutants run - likely due to the writing, but still - brings me to revulsion.
Patrick R December 27, 2017 at 9:45 PM
Speaking of Xi'an, how slim are the chances you'll be covering X-Men 2099? (If in an earlier post you already declared NO, STOP ASKING, sorry for missing it.)
(wait. how many people would actually ask about X-Men 2099?)
Teemu December 28, 2017 at 4:18 AM
Funnily enough, in September X-Amination about EXCALIBUR #68 the book was tangentially touched in the comments. (So if I counted correctly, the answer is "one", and there would be about two guys answering him.)
Mela December 28, 2017 at 6:34 AM
"(wait. how many people would actually ask about X-Men 2099?)"
I would, largely cuz I remember really liking it & still mean to review it myself someday. But I'd fully understand if it's not reviewed, since what I've returned to feels like an X-book in name only.
Totally not tooting my own horn, but I did a half-baked X-Men 2099 overview a couple years back. I'd love to see a more comprehensive analysis of the series from someone who knows 1000% more about X-lore than me, though it's not like Austin doesn't already have enough canonical X-titles queued for their turns under the lens. (How close are we to Generation X now?)
Austin Gorton January 1, 2018 at 3:47 PM
I have no immediate plans to cover X-MEN 2099 at this time - as Mela said, it doesn't really tie-in with the other X-books in any significant way (aside from cribbing the name and general ethos), and I've got enough regular series to cover already, especially with all the extra junk getting churned out at this time.
That said, I read the entire series back in the day as it was being published, and remember it fondly-if-vaguely for the most part (at least until the latter third or so of it, when the entire 2099 line floundered as the market crash caught up to Marvel) so I would like to revisit it someday. For now, I'm considering it one of those series only tangentially-connected to the X-Men (like CHAMPIONS, ALPHA FLIGHT, NEW DEFENDERS and DAZZLER) that, if I ever found the time for, would review issue-by-issue behind some kind of paywall (like Patreon), or as new content for a book collecting pre-existing (but revised) X-aminations (which is something I've long wanted to do but have never had the time/money for, and which Marvel would probably put the kibosh on anyway because it wouldn't really work if I didn't also reproduce the selected artwork featured in the reviews).
Oh, and by my figuring, we should hit the launch of GENERATION X sometime in the later half of 2018, even with the sprawling of the line and me scheduling myself fewer "three review" weeks in an effort to stay sane (and get Force in Focus back up and running).
Blam December 28, 2017 at 7:21 PM
Yeah, Blevins’ signature is on the Crystal piece. And Steranko did all three in in that Invaders triptych. George Pérez’s signature is on the Beast card, which is at least a small surprise given the context and the medium, although his style is definitely evident.
I don’t think an obsession with first appearances and other significant events is rare among comics readers, or at least die-hard fans/collectors. My own go-to for that was the Overstreet Price Guide — I’d buy one every two or three years, often picking up a dealer’s used copy at a con for a discount when the next was soon to be published.
No comment on Iron Man but the Silver Surfer on that pack art reads to me as “Whoa! How do I stop this freakin’ thing?!?”
Bob December 29, 2017 at 11:40 AM
It's a bit Bond girl-y, but that Domino card really does offer more personality than the first year or two of her narrative appearances combined.
Especially when you recall that, technically, most of her appearances to date were of someone else pretending to be her, leaving us with very little of the real Domino.
Blam January 4, 2018 at 12:39 PM
Agreed (with both of you) but the flesh tone in Domino’s face there confused me since I think we’ve only seen it depicted as chalk-white in the comics to date — even when Copycat-as-Domino got into the bath with Cable, seeming to confirm that the (lack of) color really is her skin rather than body paint or some kind of ultra-skintight costuming.
amax13 December 30, 2017 at 10:16 PM
I have very fond memories of this card set. I collected full sets of all of the X-Men trading cards, but for the Marvel Universe ones, I only bought a couple of packs. I remember thinking that these ones were really fancy and special -- and I also remember them being more expensive than some of the other trading cards I had bought before. I seem to recall a very dynamic Abomination card in this set that introduced me to the character.
Yeah, I should have mentioned that like the previous set, these two were high-gloss cards, with thicker card stock than the
"regular" Marvel Universe cards (a style soon-to-be-adopted by the X-Men cards in their upcoming Fleer Ultra set), and as a result, the packs were more expensive than the regular card packs, while also featuring fewer cards-per-pack (six here, versus the eight or ten cards/pack you'd get in other series' packs).
X-amining Avengers #368
X-aminations in January 2018...and Beyond!
Unstacking the Deck: Marvel Masterpieces Series II...
Force in Focus: The Last Jedi
X-amining Marvel Comics Presents #137-142: Rumble ...
X-amining Sabretooth: Death Hunt #1-4
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David Connett to stand down as ETIRA president
ETIRA President David Connett
David Connett is to stand down as President of the European Toner and Inkjet Remanufacturers Association (ETIRA) at the end of June 2019 following the election of a new president at the upcoming ETIRA AGM.
David said: “It has been a pleasure to have had an active involvement with ETIRA since its inception in 2003 and a real privilege to serve as the association’s President for the past year. We have made excellent progress on our members’ behalf and much of this was consolidating and developing the excellent work of my predecessor, Christian Wernhart. ETIRA has been very active in influencing EU policy, particularly concerning the EU Voluntary agreement and inputting into the EU’s future green procurement policies. We have added new members and launched a campaign to promote reuse on social and trade media sites and will shortly release the first of three videos aimed at informing consumers about the “reduce, reuse and recycle issues. “
“The cartridge remanufacturing sector is entering a new period of challenges, with changes in the market landscape, new EU government policies related to global environmental issues, and of course Brexit. The board has been active in the last year reviewing the association and how it works and increasing the participation on the board of members is essential to ensure that ETIRA draws expertise from across the membership. At the upcoming AGM, the board will propose a schedule that allows for more frequent rotation of board members by maximising their term of office two years and serving a maximum of four years in total. At the same time, the role of the President will rotate more frequently and will be for a period of one year. I fully support these changes and by standing down as President, will enable these changes to be agreed at the AGM and implemented right away. I will be happy to continue serving as a board member for the rest of my tenure that ends in June 2020.
“I am confident that the proposed changes will enable ETIRA and the next President to stake their claim in forming a significant part of an environmentally friendly future for the toner and inkjet remanufacturing industry in 2019 and beyond.”
ETIRA nominates new President
ETIRA launches new reuse promotion video
ETIRA appoints Javier Martinez as President
Greentec celebrates success of Think Recycle programme
ETIRA’s new President – the first interview!
Award winners comment on recognition
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Charlie Nicholas states his prediction for Arsenal v Blackpool
The Arsenal legend is tipping the Gunners to ease past Blackpool in the Carabao Cup fourth round
By The Sport Review staff Wednesday 31 October 2018, 07:30 UK @thesportreview
Arsenal manager Unai Emery Photo: Screen grab
Charlie Nicholas is confident Arsenal will ease to a resounding 4-0 win over Blackpool in the Carabao Cup fourth round on Wednesday night.
The Gunners will welcome the League One side as Unai Emery’s side look to make an immediate return to winning ways in the League Cup at the Emirates Stadium.
Arsenal were held to a 2-2 draw with London rivals Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park last weekend to bring to an end their 11-game winning run in all competitions.
The Gunners have still managed to score 10 times in their last three Premier League games to underline their attacking prowess under the Spanish head coach.
The north London side are the Premier League’s second-highest goal-scorers so far this season, netting 24 times in 10 outings to leave them in fourth place in the table.
Blackpool, on the other hand, have conceded just 12 times in 15 games in League One but the Tangerines haven’t faced a team with the Gunners’ attacking talent.
Former Arsenal playmaker Nicholas believes Arsenal will secure a resounding 4-0 victory over Blackpool in the League Cup fourth round at The Emirates on Wednesday night.
“It’s a very good draw for Arsenal, who can afford to make a number of changes. With the likes of Aaron Ramsey and Danny Welbeck to come in there’s more than enough there to get a convincing result against Blackpool, especially at the Emirates,” Nicholas told Sky Sports.
“I don’t see too many problems for the Gunners here.”
Arsenal lost 2-0 to defending Premier League champions Manchester City at The Emirates in their season opener.
The Gunners slumped to a 3-2 defeat by Chelsea FC at Stamford Bridge to make an underwhelming start to the Premier League campaign under Arsene Wenger’s replacement.
However, Emery’s side responded with seven successive Premier League victories to hoist themselves up to fourth place in the Premier League table.
Arsenal will face a real examination of their progress at The Emirates next weekend when second-placed Liverpool FC make the trip to the English capital to take on the Gunners on Saturday evening.
Liverpool FC are unbeaten in their opening 10 games of the Premier League season, having beaten Tottenham and drawn with Chelsea FC and Manchester City this term.
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Alberta private school sees merit in asking about ‘positive effects’ of residential schools
By Kieran LeavittStarMetro Edmonton
Mon., Sept. 24, 2018timer3 min. read
EDMONTON—An Alberta private school has pushed back against the notion that students shouldn’t be asked to identify positive effects of residential schools in Canada.
The controversy arose last week when news broke across the province that the St. Paul Alternate Education Centre had used an online course downloaded from the Alberta Distance Learning Centre that included a question for students to identify “a positive effect of residential schools.”
The four possible answers were: children were away from home; children learned to read; children were taught manners; and children became civilized.
After a photo of the question made the rounds on social media, administrators for the St. Paul school, as well as the distance learning centre, apologized for letting the material get into classrooms.
Minister of Education David Eggen said he would personally apologize to the student who came across it and said the course and any like it should be “immediately discontinued.”
While acknowledging some may question the validity of the question — which appeared on a test in the Social Studies 20-4 course — the founder and head of the Webber Academy in Calgary, Neil Webber, said during an interview with StarMetro: “I sure as hell don’t.”
Read more: Alberta Distance Learning Centre apologizes after test asks students to identify ‘positive effect’ of residential schools
The Webber Academy is a kindergarten to Grade 12 private school that took issue with an email from the Deputy Minister of Education addressed to schools across the province last Thursday when the news came out.
“Earlier today, Alberta Education learned of a resource being used that described residential schools in an inappropriate and insensitive way, by asking students about the positive benefits of residential schools,” the email stated.
“We want our teachers to discuss both positive and negative aspects of the issue,” said Webber. He said he responded to the deputy minister with an email of his own, saying as much.
“I’m not saying that there are positive benefits here, but I’m questioning his saying that it’s inappropriate and insensitive to even ask whether there’s any positive aspects. That’s not reasonable.”
Residential schools in Canada were a network of institutions that began in the 1800s, with the last school closing in 1996. Over that period, an estimated 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in the schools, where they were often forbidden to speak their own languages and were abused.
Webber said his school doesn’t believe the question was reasonable, but took issue with the deputy minister seeming to assert they shouldn’t be allowed to discuss positives of the issue at all. He said his students learn from examining all sides of an issue to see if there are any positives to discuss.
“Whether it’s slavery in the U.S. or Canada’s relationship with Iraq, Iran, I think that when you have discussions about those things, you need to consider both positive and negative benefits — and there may not be any positive ones or negative ones associated with these issues,” he said.
He didn’t think the course from the learning centre had made its way into his school and agrees with banning it from the province altogether. He also said he had some Indigenous students at the academy, but “there’s not very many.”
Before founding the academy in 1997, Webber worked in the Progressive Conservative governments of Don Getty and Peter Lougheed from 1975 to 1989. At one point, he served as social service minister and worked on child welfare on reserves in Alberta with the provincial government, federal government, and band councils.
He said he helped set up agreements with several band councils that allowed them to have access to trained child-care workers to help the community place “kids at risk” in adoption or foster homes.
At the time, Webber said residential schools and their history were known about in government, but weren’t part of the public discussions like they are today.
When asked whether residential schools did have positive effects, he responded he didn’t know, but students should not be stopped from exploring the question.
“Whether there’s any positives or not, we think we should be able to raise the question: were there any?”
Kieran Leavitt is an Edmonton-based reporter. Follow him on Twitter: @kieranleavitt
Edmonton, Calgary, Alberta
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