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Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 101
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 101
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Dan Lincoln - 2004 Olympian, AH 2009
Special Guest Dan Lincoln
2004 Olympian & American Record Holder - Steeplechase
• 3000m Steeplechase – 8:08.82 (AR)
• 3-time USA Steeplechase Champion (’04, ’05, ’06)
• 4-time NCAA Champion (SC ’01 & ’02, SC/10,000 ’03)
• 2003 NCAA Scholar Athlete of the Year
• 12-time NCAA All-American
High School Stats
• Arkansas School of Mathematics & Science (Hot Springs, AR)
• 4-time Arkansas State Champion
• Mile – 4:16
Daniel Lincoln decided at a very young age he wanted to be a doctor. He always took the hardest classes and didn’t take running seriously. Even after placing seventh at states in cross country his sophomore year, while attending Conway High School, it didn’t motivate him to set any big running goals. He didn’t even run track until his senior year. He was all about hitting the books. In fact, he was so serious about his education he left home to attend the finest boarding school in the state - the Arkansas School of Mathematics and Science.
Once there, the guys on the cross country/track team bothered him to join cross country. He agreed to cross country, but not track. “I ran decent that season, nothing great,” says Lincoln. True to his word, he didn’t run track, but agreed to join them again for his senior year cross country season. He tore up the trails winning the state championship. After states the 25 best cross country runners from Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma competed at the Tri-State Meet. He won that too. Daniel decided to give track a try. At the Texas Relays he ran a 4:16 mile then the following month capped off his high school running career at states winning both the 1600 and 3200 meter runs. He threw down an exclamation point by anchoring his 3200 meter relay to victory.
Daniel accepted a full academic scholarship to the University of Arkansas to pursue his dream of being a doctor. Running was over with, so he thought. However, on a tour of the campus for incoming students Lincoln decided to “stroll” unannounced into legendary track coach John McDonnell’s office. “He pretended to know who I was when I asked if I could walk-on the team,” laughs Lincoln. Coach McDonnell, who led Arkansas to 40 national championships during his tenure, said yes. He’s probably glad he did. Daniel would go on to be a 4-time NCAA champion. He capped off his senior season by winning both the steeplechase and 10,000 at NCAA’s. That double landed him on the cover of Track and Field News.
Lincoln continued to improve winning three straight USA steeplechase championships and landing himself on the 2004 Olympic Team. In 2006, at the Golden Gala in Rome, he broke Henry Marsh’s 21 year old American steeplechase record running 8:08.82. He owns three of the ten fastest times ever run by an American.
All through his running career Daniel has continued taking the most challenging academic courses and focuses on becoming a doctor. He earned a chemistry degree with a concentration in biochemistry and a minor in mathematics. He is enrolled in the University of Arkansas Medical School. Daniel currently resides in Portland, OR where he trains under Jerry Schumacher. He recently completed his medical rotations and continues to train while completing his studies. back to speakers main
Contact: Jennifer & David Patruno
aimhighrc@aol.com
Jennifer: 315-303-7286
David at work: 315-472-0744
This site is maintained by Mike Bradley.
Contact him at mike@aimhighrunningcamp.com.
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HOME WELCOME ARTICLES ARCHIVES BIOGRAPHY FEEDBACK BLOG LINKS Longing for Peace amidst a Long War
As Americans wade through the shock, grief, and consequent anxiety of the Orlando massacre—which takes its place alongside San Bernardino, Chattanooga, Moore, Boston, Ft. Hood, and Little Rock in the growing tally of jihadist attacks on American soil since 9/11—I am reminded of something Adm. Eric Olson said in 2011. Olson, then-commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, concluded that “al-Qaeda version 1.0 is nearing its end.” He then added an ominous caveat: “I’m very concerned about what al-Qaeda version 2.0 will be.”
His worries were well-founded. After Orlando and San Bernardino, Brussels and Paris, Mosul and Sinjar, we know that al-Qaeda 2.0—better known as “ISIS”—is not a “JV team” in “Lakers uniforms,” but rather a more virulent, more vicious, more violent version of al-Qaeda 1.0.
In the shadow cast by 9/11, it’s difficult to believe something could be worse than al-Qaeda 1.0. But with American nightclubs and office buildings awash in blood, with Europe under siege, with Christians and Yazidis targeted for extermination, with the Pandora’s Box of chemical warfare reopened, with the female populations of entire cities enslaved, here we are.
Consider that al-Qaeda 1.0 was kicked out of Sudan, consigned to a tiny corner of Afghanistan, had a modest financial base, and fielded a small core of deeply committed, mostly-Arab footsoldiers. By 2011, al-Qaeda 1.0 had been whittled down to 3,000 operatives.
Today, ISIS fields an army of 36,000 fighters (6,600 from Western countries). ISIS has a $56-million monthly revenue stream. Even after two years of U.S. airstrikes, ISIS controls some 20,000 square-miles of Iraq and Syria. Thirty-four militant groups from around the world have pledged allegiance to ISIS. ISIS has committed genocide against Yazidis and Christians. ISIS and its henchmen have murdered at least 1,440 people in 90 terrorist attacks in 21 countries outside Iraq and Syria, including massacres in San Bernardino and Orlando. The FBI has 900 active investigations into ISIS-inspired operatives in all 50 states.
ISIS did not emerge out of thin air. As The Financial Times has reported, the remnants of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) “morphed into the earliest version of ISIS.”
It pays to recall that the surge of U.S. forces into Iraq in 2007-09 eviscerated AQI. By every metric, post-surge Iraq was in better shape than pre-surge Iraq. The Pentagon consensus was that Iraq needed the U.S. military’s support to sustain the upward trajectory of the surge: Gen. Lloyd Austin (commander of U.S. Forces-Iraq) recommended keeping 20,000 troops in Iraq. Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen urged the White House to keep at least 16,000 troops in Iraq as an insurance policy. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Gen. James Mattis (CENTCOM commander) concurred. “None of us recommended that we completely withdraw from Iraq,” Gen. Martin Dempsey, Adm. Mullen’s successor, later noted.
But President Obama always viewed U.S. involvement in Iraq as a problem to be corrected, rather than a commitment to be sustained. As former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta laments, the White House was “so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.”
There was nothing surprising about President Obama’s eagerness to bring America’s war in Iraq to a close. Regrettably, nor was there anything surprising about the results:
In October 2011, Col. Salam Khaled of the Iraqi army warned, “Our forces are good but not to a sufficient degree that allows them to face external and internal challenges alone.”
In January 2012, Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan worried, “Without all the enablers we provide, there’s no doubt there will be less capability than there is right now,”adding that if Iraqi troops prove unable to put pressure on jihadist groups, “they could regenerate.”
In February 2014, State Department official Brett McGurk told Congress that ISIS aimed “to cause the collapse of the Iraqi state and carve out a zone of governing control in western regions of Iraq and Syria.”
It’s no coincidence that al-Qaeda 2.0 blossomed as the American people turned inward, as Washington limited the reach and resources of the U.S. military, as policymakers from both parties concluded it was time to “focus on nation-building here at home” and “build some bridges here at home ” and “build our own nation,” as the U.S. disengaged from its forward presence overseas. But don’t take my word for it.
“The moment they cease to be fought against,” former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said of our jihadist enemies, “they grow.” Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington’s failure to intervene early in Syria “left a big vacuum which the jihadists have now filled.” Noting that “inaction” carried “profound risks and costs for our national security,” Gen. David Petraeus called Syria “a geopolitical Chernobyl spewing instability and extremism over the region and the rest of the world.”
President Obama has often said he “was elected to end wars.” Given the national mood in 2008, that’s certainly true politically, though it may reflect a misunderstanding of a commander-in-chief’s role. Regardless, elections have consequences, and it was a noble mission. Scripture, after all, declares, “Blessed are the peacemakers.”
Of course, scripture also reminds us there is “a time for war”—a time when conflict is unavoidable, a time to defend innocents and defeat enemies. In trying to end, unilaterally, what America’s military calls “the long war,” the president ignored a fundamental truth of human conflict: The enemy gets a vote. As Gen. Mattis explains, “No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.” The enemy is far from vanquished.
Refusing to say we are at “war” or that our troops are in “combat” does not make peace. As Secretary of State John Kerry observes, “Just longing for peace does not necessarily bring it about.”
To achieve peace, we have to defeat the enemy that started this war. As Gen. Michael Flynn, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014, counsels, “We have to energize every element of national power—similar to the effort during World War II or during the Cold War—to effectively resource what will likely be a multigenerational struggle.”
The president soothingly says our enemy is “on the path to defeat” and “contained.” Yet ISIS controls 20,000 square-miles of prime real estate in the heart of the Middle East. There are more terrorist safe havens today than at any time in history. The Taliban controls more of Afghanistan than at any time since 2001. ISIS is striking the West at will. The bipartisan gamble known as sequestration has decimated the U.S. military. Congress has failed to debate or authorize the war against ISIS. Can anyone seriously say Washington is heeding Gen. Flynn’s counsel?
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Review: Galatea
Unlike previous plays performed by Edward’s Boys, Galatea is a play which is itself about boyhood. It is difficult to think of another play from this period in which the two central characters are young children. When Shakespeare reprised Galatea‘s themes, as he frequently did, he tended to stage cross-dressed encounters in which at least one partner was an adult. One of the things this production taught me is that this is a play interested in how boys learn to behave as adults.
Though he was the best-selling literary writer of Shakespeare’s time, and an early and highly influential playwright, Lyly’s work has never been professionally revived. His work offers further challenges to performers, in particular its many differences from what we might call, if we were feeling cheeky, the “average” early modern play. Unlike most other plays of the period, it is written in prose, and prose which is interested in exploring what it means to speak in prose: hence those strange scenes in which the pageboys encounter jargon-spouting masters. Unlike other plays of the period, Lyly’s work is full of women, and women often dominate the stage. It also tends to explore non-normative sexual choices, such as virginity, non-heterosexual unions or forced marriages in which the women promise to be terrible wives in revenge for the marriages they are forced into. Lyly’s plays tend, too, to be much shorter than the average early modern play. This may not seem immediately significant, but it means that his plays have a different sense of pace and timing that can unsettle performers used to working with Shakespeare, Middleton or Marston. Edward’s Boys were not unsettled.
The boys handled Lyly’s language – so often described as fussy and complicated by scholars – with ease and panache. This is the first time I have seen Lyly performed by actors who are not distracted by their characters’ tendency for wordplay. Professional actors, trained to treat everything as naturalistic, are often deeply embarrassed when their characters start to pun, and often seem to deal with this problem by pretending it isn’t happening. Edward’s Boys delighted in the language their characters delighted in, allowing the wordplay to lead them as they spoke. The gender demographic of the play was of course no problem for a boy company able to don costume signifiers for either gender (not just dresses for women but beards for men). But perhaps the greatest revelation in terms of the boys inhabiting the parts in this play was to see the way gods, played by older boys, towered over ordinary mortals, played by younger members of the cast.
The production also brought its own deeply theatrical language to the play. The company came together to represent the tree, twisting into different shapes for difference scenes. Movement, posture and tableaux were carefully used for characterisation: Diana and her nymphs, in particular, raced across the stage, suddenly froze in haughty ownership of the world around them, and raced off again for the hunt equally as fast. Costume was used to signal character identity but also to refuse the audience any sense of historical time: Galatea and Phillida in period dress, page boys in football shirts. This enabled the play to honour its Elizabethan questions in a modern context. This meant that the play dazzled with its sense of spectacle, the boys as much a part of the set as they were individual characters. Perhaps the greatest moment of stage confidence was the preparations to execute Hebe. This is a long scene, in which Hebe indulges in hysterical histrionics, and the temptation is for the actor to do the same. Instead, this production insisted on a quietly matter-of-fact sacrificial victim, thinking through her predicament, not terribly happy about it but not inclined to make a fuss. Rather than seeking to be funny themselves, the boys let the scene become funny through its sheer length. It was this brave characteristic – the willingness to take the play seriously and see where it led them – that made the boys’ performances so exhilarating.
As I have said, Lyly’s work is fascinated by unconventional sexual choices, and Galatea has been understood by scholars as a play exploring female homosexuality. Perhaps this production’s most radical decision was not to foreground this aspect of the play. Sexuality was simply not an issue, and in many ways the greatest challenge that seemed to face Galatea and Phillida was how to become an adult, rather than how to deal with the possible gender of the person they loved. This was an unusual and unexpected reading of the play, and it was unexpectedly convincing. This is an example of how much performers have to teach academics about the theatre, but it is perhaps also an example of how much boys can teach adults about plays that explore childhood.
I have taken the decision not to name individual performers in this review. This was a truly company performance and every member was needed to create the world of the play. I cannot express enough my congratulations to all members of the company for this bravely honest staging of a forgotten but exciting text.
Dr Andy Kesson
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The effect of long-term migration dynamics on population structure in England & Wales and Scotland
Murphy, Michael (2016) The effect of long-term migration dynamics on population structure in England & Wales and Scotland. Population Studies, 70 (2). pp. 149-162. ISSN 0032-4728
Identification Number: 10.1080/00324728.2016.1185140
We investigated the effect of migration on population dynamics in England & Wales and Scotland from the mid-nineteenth century to the present by comparing actual population size and structure with estimates based on zero net migration from a range of starting dates. In this period, Scotland had the largest net outflow among countries in Europe for which detailed information is available, whereas overall net migration in England & Wales was close to zero. In the absence of migration, population would have been over twice as large in Scotland in 2013 as the actual value, but similar to its actual value in England & Wales. Levels and pace of population ageing have been broadly similar in both countries, so the major impact of differential migration has been on population size rather than structure. We discuss these findings in relation to the debate on migration policy between political parties supporting and opposing independence in the 2014 Scottish referendum.
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rpst20
© 2016 Population Investigation Committee
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J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN1187 Scotland
J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
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HomeRedskinsWHO THE HELL IS NEW REDSKINS D-BOSS JACK DEL RIO?
WHO THE HELL IS NEW REDSKINS D-BOSS JACK DEL RIO?
January 2, 2020 Theodore Beitchman Redskins 0
By Lewis Gould
So who exactly is Jack Del Rio, the Redskins new defensive coordinator, as chosen by new head coach Ron Rivera?
He has 32 combined seasons of NFL experience, 21 years as a coach and an 11-year playing career. His previous experience in this role includes time with the Oakland Raiders (2015-17), Denver Broncos (2012-14), Jacksonville Jaguars (2003-11)
After nine seasons with the Panthers, Rivera was fired by Carolina on Dec. 3 after a 5-7 start to the 2019 season – and a 29-21 Week 13 loss to Washington – making him available, ironically, to be hired by the team who put the final nail in his career with the Panthers, where Rivera coached to a 76-63-1 (.546) overall record.
Del Rio served in dual roles – both head coach and defensive coordinator – for the Jaguars, amassing a 68-71 record (.489) over nine seasons. During that time, Jacksonville ranked sixth in the NFL in yards per game allowed (317.3) and eighth in points per game allowed (20.3). They made two playoff appearances under Del Rio’s leadership (2005, 2007), with one playoff win, in 2007.
Del Rio served as head coach of the Raiders for three seasons (25-23) and, after a 6-10 season in 2017, was fired just one year into a four-year contract extension. Prior to that season, Del Rio led Oakland to a 12-4 record and the playoffs in 2016.
NEW COACH RON RIVERA IS A REDSKINS HISTORY BUFF!
HERE’S REDSKINS RON RIVERA INTRODUCTORY PRESSER
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The 10 Passed-Over NHLers and Their Chances to Make the Hall of Fame in 2016
J.D. Cuban/Allsport
by Sean McIndoe
The Hockey Hall of Fame announced its class of 2015 yesterday, and it’s a big one. The Hall will welcome seven new members this winter: five players and two inductees in the builder’s category.
The big name is Nicklas Lidstrom, the seven-time Norris Trophy winner who’d been considered an absolute first-ballot lock since well before he retired. He’ll be joined by former teammate Sergei Fedorov, who also gets in on the first try. Fedorov wasn’t quite a slam dunk, but he was close, and certainly deserves the honor.
Two other picks will cause at least a little bit of discussion, although for very different reasons. Phil Housley finally gets the call after waiting since 2006. He’s the fourth-highest-scoring defenseman of all time and had nearly 400 points more than the next-highest-scoring blueliner who wasn’t in, but his defensive shortcomings had hurt his candidacy — he’ll be one of a very small group of HOF defensemen with a minus rating over the course of his career.1
And then there’s Chris Pronger. On merit, there’s no doubt Pronger belongs in the Hall — he was arguably the best non-Lidstrom defenseman of his era, and is the only blueliner since Bobby Orr to win the MVP. He’s also technically still an active player, despite suffering a career-ending injury in 2011, and that’s where this gets messy. He’s still under contract, and was even traded just a few days ago. But the Hall had already ruled him eligible months ago, so he was going to get in.
The Hall also welcomed three other inductees: builders Bill Hay and Peter Karmanos Jr., and longtime Team USA defenseman (and gold-medal winner) Angela Ruggiero, who becomes the fourth woman honored.
The seven honorees will be inducted in November. In the meantime, it’s time to start picking through the snubs and near misses as we try to figure out who has the inside track on the class of 2016. There aren’t any especially impressive candidates coming into the pool next year,2 which opens up the field for some players who missed the cut this time.
Here are 10 players who were passed over this year who may have the best case for induction in 2016.
Mark Recchi
Eligible since: 2014
The numbers: 577 goals and 1,533 points over a 22-year career. He won three Cups, played in seven All-Star Games, and was a second-team All-Star once.3
The case for: The 1,533-point total ranks 12th all time, and everyone else in the top 25 is either already in or will go in on the first ballot as soon as they’re eligible (Teemu Selanne and Jaromir Jagr). Offensive production has always been the key criteria for induction, so seeing a guy with Recchi’s massive career totals left out seems bizarre.
The case against: Recchi is the classic example of a player who was good for a long time but was never really considered elite. He was very good in the early ’90s, and was a consistent producer well into his forties, but he was never in the conversation for best player in the league, or even close to it.
If I had a vote: If we were picking between guys with a high peak vs. guys who were very good for a long time, I’d take the peak over longevity. But Recchi’s top years were pretty good, and there does come a point when a guy’s career numbers get so high that he has to get in. I think Recchi is right around that zone, so while I don’t mind seeing him wait a bit, he’d get my vote to go in eventually.
Bottom line: Everyone seems to assume Recchi will get in someday. Maybe next year is the year.
Dave Andreychuk
The numbers: 640 goals, 1,338 points, two All-Star Games.
The case for: He scored the 14th-most goals in NHL history, and every eligible player ahead of him was a slam dunk. In fact, other than Recchi, Andreychuk has over 100 more goals than any other eligible player. That’s stunning, and feels like it should be enough to get him in on its own. He’s also one of the few players to have lifted the Stanley Cup as a captain, having done so in 2004 as the veteran leader on an otherwise young Lightning team.
The case against: Along with Recchi, Andreychuk is the poster child for the “long career, big totals, good but never great” class of player. He played in an All-Star Game only twice and never got significant votes for any major award, and it’s fair to say that nobody ever dragged their kids to the rink to see Andreychuk play. He also racked up most of those goals playing in the high-flying ’80s and early ’90s (although that’s not as big a factor as you might think; on an era-adjusted basis he still ranks 18th all time).
If I had a vote: I’ve lobbied for Andreychuk’s name to be featured more prominently in the HOF discussion; that he rarely generates any sort of buzz is baffling to me. That said, I’m not sure I’d vote for him, for the same reason I wouldn’t have voted for Dino Ciccarelli and would at least hesitate on Recchi.
Bottom line: It doesn’t seem like Andreychuk will ever get in, and if that’s the case, that record of 640 goals for a non-Hall-of-Famer will probably stand forever.4
Sergei Makarov
The numbers: Just 134 goals and 384 points in 424 NHL games, but hold that thought.
The case for: Say it with me, everyone: “It’s the Hockey Hall of Fame, not the NHL Hall of Fame.” Makarov had a dominant career in the Soviet Union before coming over to North America in 1989 and winning the rookie of the year award with the Calgary Flames at the age of 31.5 Other Soviet greats have already been inducted based more on their international career than any NHL stardom, including Vladislav Tretiak, Igor Larionov, and Viacheslav Fetisov.
The case against: While it’s not the NHL Hall of Fame, it’s pretty strongly tilted in that direction. Makarov has his backers,6 but there doesn’t seem to be much of a groundswell of support for him.
If I had a vote: I never saw Makarov play overseas — to me he’s always been the guy from the 1987 Canada Cup who was just pretty good in the NHL — so I’ll defer to those who did.
Bottom line: It doesn’t seem like his case has much momentum, although international players are notoriously hard to predict.
Jeremy Roenick
The numbers: 513 goals, 1,216 points, nine All-Star Games.
The case for: Roenick has the career numbers to merit consideration, and, as all those All-Star appearances would indicate, he really was considered one of the best players of his generation for a long time. The fact that he was one of the league’s most entertaining players on and off the ice can’t hurt either.
The case against: While he had a career, Roenick’s peak as an elite player was relatively short, and maybe not as good as you remember it — he had three straight 100-point seasons by the age of 24, but never got past 80 after that. He also never won anything — no Cups and no awards, and he got Hart votes in only two seasons.
If I had a vote: He’s a no, although a close one.
Bottom line: It feels like one more elite season could have tipped the scales here, and in that sense maybe the league’s dumb 1994 lockout, which wiped out half a season right in his prime, ended up costing him.
Steve Larmer
The numbers: 441 goals, 1,012 points, and a Calder win as rookie of the year in 1983. He is one of the NHL’s iron men, with 884 consecutive games played.
The case for: Larmer’s numbers don’t seem impressive, but that’s because injuries ended his career when he was only 33. More importantly, he was an excellent defender, and was considered one of the league’s better two-way players.
The case against: He was an All-Star only twice, and never won any major awards after his rookie year.
If I had a vote: Nope. The iron man streak is nice, but not something that should prominently factor into a Hall of Fame discussion. Maybe his case would look different if he would have stayed healthy, but this isn’t a Cam Neely or Pavel Bure situation in which a dominant player has his career cut short.
Bottom line: His name still comes up, and some hockey people are adamant that he should be in. But the fact that he’s been up for consideration for this long without getting the call gives you a pretty good idea of his future chances.
Theo Fleury
The numbers: 455 goals and 1,088 points. Just one second-team All-Star pick, but seven All-Star Game selections.
The case for: His stats are right on the borderline of what it takes to get into the discussion, although they’re less impressive when you factor for era. He overcame a ton just to get to and stay in the NHL, from his tiny stature (he was listed at just 5-foot-6) to more than a few personal hardships.
The case against: The offensive numbers just aren’t quite there; he falls into that same category as guys like Alexander Mogilny and Pierre Turgeon, who needed one or two more big years to make a strong case.
If I had a vote: I’d really, really want to vote for him. But I couldn’t.
Bottom line: Hall of Famer or not, he was fun as hell to watch, and the man knew how to celebrate a goal.
Keith Tkachuk
The numbers: 538 goals and 1,065 points. Five All-Star Games and two second-team All-Star selections.
The case for: By cracking the 500-goal and 1,000-point marks, he checks two boxes that often get you moved to the front of the line. At his best, he was one of the game’s top power forwards, and unlike many guys who play his style, he managed to stay healthy well into his late thirties.
The case against: There are plenty of guys with similar goal and/or point totals who aren’t in the Hall, many of whom got there in fewer games.
If I had a vote: You have to draw a line somewhere. I draw it pretty much right at Keith Tkachuk: Everyone who’s better than him gets in. Unfortunately for him, he just barely fails that test.
Bottom line: Tkachuk is American, which either gives him a huge Joey Mullen–style boost or makes him a victim of the Hall’s well-documented pro-Canadian conspiracy, depending on your perspective.
Paul Kariya
The numbers: 402 goals, 989 points (in 989 games). He was a first-team All-Star three times and made the second team twice. He was the runner-up for the Hart Trophy in 1997 and won the Lady Byng twice. He played in seven All-Star Games.
The case for: As all those postseason All-Star selections would indicate, he was absolutely considered one of the best players in the league for the first decade or so of his career. In his nine years with the Ducks, he scored at roughly a 1.1 points-per-game pace, which is excellent for the dead puck era. He also lost almost an entire season in his prime due to injuries and a contract dispute.
The case against: His career numbers don’t look great, thanks to injuries (mostly concussions) that effectively ended his run as a top star by his early thirties.
If I had a vote: I really thought this was a clear no, but when you type all those numbers and honors out … man, he has a decent case. Can’t you at least make a very strong argument that he was better than Cam Neely? I think I might be a “yes” on Paul Kariya. I did not see that coming.
Bottom line: The Hall has always had a tough time with guys whose careers were cut short by injury. It felt like the induction of Neely opened the door for Pavel Bure, which probably helped Peter Forsberg. There’s one other guy for whom this is important, and we’ll get to him in a minute.
Chris Osgood
The numbers: 401 career wins and three Stanley Cups. There are others, but those are the biggies.
The case for: He’s tied for 10th all time in wins, and everyone ahead of him is either in or will be, with one exception. That exception is Curtis Joseph, who ranks fourth, but Joseph never won a Cup. Osgood won three, so if you believe that a goalie can have an innate ability to be a winner, Osgood is your guy.
The case against: Osgood was never really considered a great goalie, and was certainly never in the discussion as the best in the league. That said, he was better than you remember — he won two Jenningses, and was a second-team All-Star and Vezina runner-up once. But on balance, he was a good goaltender who played most of his career for a great team in Detroit, and racked up the wins because of it. And, as any stats guy will tell you, wins are a bad way of judging goaltenders.
If I had a vote: He played in the dead puck era and had a save percentage over .910 just four times in 17 seasons. Nope.
Bottom line: For the record, I wouldn’t vote for Joseph either, but I’d put him in ahead of Osgood on my ballot.
Eric Lindros
The numbers: 372 goals, 865 points in 760 games. He won the Hart Trophy in 1995, was a postseason All-Star twice, and played in six All-Star Games.
The case for: Over and over on this list, we’ve mentioned guys who were very good but were never among the very best. Lindros unquestionably was; at his peak, he was one of the most dominant players the league had ever seen. There had never been a player who combined his physical dominance with his offensive ability — yes, I’m including Mark Messier — and it created a force that often seemed unstoppable.
Obviously, that didn’t last. Injuries (especially concussions) eventually conspired to ruin his career, and his legendary feuds with Flyers management didn’t help matters. But even with several uninspiring years tacked on to the end of his career, he still averaged well over a point per game in the dead puck era. And he has that Hart Trophy — with Fedorov now in, no eligible player in the last 60 years has been named MVP and hasn’t made the Hall of Fame, except for Lindros.7
The case against: His career numbers aren’t great because of all those injuries. But again, guys like Neely, Bure, and Forsberg had the same problem, and they were all (rightfully) inducted. Lindros at his peak was better than any of those guys, so a lack of big numbers on its own can’t be the main problem. Are voters remembering all the holdouts and sniping with management? Maybe. Remember, the Hockey Hall of Fame is voted on by a committee of former players, managers, and media, so there’s room to hold grudges. Luckily, for purposes of this exercise, we don’t have to.
If I had a vote: He’s an easy yes. It’s silly that he’s not in yet.
Bottom line: There seems to have been a shift in public sentiment over the years, perhaps aided by how much we now know about concussions, and the betting here is that Lindros will get in soon — probably next year. That’s great, but he should have been in a long time ago.
Wait, isn’t plus/minus a useless stat? Well, yes, mostly, because there’s so much noise and randomness involved that it doesn’t tell you anything unless you’re working with a massive sample size. Like, say, a 20-year career.
Probably at least in part due to the 2013 lockout; no superstar player was going to want to end his career by playing a half-season.
This is where we remind you that “All-Star” has two meanings in the NHL: You can be an All-Star by being picked to play in the midseason game, or by being named to one of the two All-Star teams honored after each season. The latter is far more impressive.
But if he ever does get in, understand that I’m taking 100 percent of the credit.
Which resulted in the league changing the rules to put an age limit on the honor.
Veteran sportswriter Steve Simmons has been pushing his case for years.
Although Jose Theodore will break that streak once he’s eligible.
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A 2018 Market Forecast Mid-Term Review
July 2, 2018 July 2, 2018 | Ernie Zerenner
At the beginning of the year I wrote a Blog article about “A 2018 Market Forecast“. The basic forecast I setup was a rotation of sectors based on the economic and political environment of the time. About a dozen stocks were recommended in 5 sectors. Using those recommendations, I formed a model portfolio and have been tracking the results over the last 6 months. This article will review how that model stock portfolio has performed and offer some portfolio re-allocation ideas. The initial portfolio in January was:
There are 10 positions in the portfolio. $100,000 total was invested with about $10,000 in each position. During the last 6 months there have been some wild swings in the prices, but no changes were made to the portfolio. As an example, SLB was up as high as $79 and as low as $63. It is currently at $67 with little change from January. The concept of the portfolio was long-term and not to trade daily. Most of the positions in my actual account were done as married puts to insure the positions against some unforeseen event.
Four of the ten positions are profitable at the end of June and two of them very profitable. The 2 weakest position FCX and GLOG were purchased near their peaks, but I believe still have good prospects. Overall the portfolio is positive by about 9% and at one time was up about 12% in the last 6 months. The market sell-off over the last week in June took the edge off some of the best performers.
One of the reasons for doing a 6-month review is to evaluate the need for re-allocation of some positions. The original concept of portfolio re-allocation was originally applied to a portfolio that consisted of cash, bonds, and stocks. Since bonds and stocks are generally counter cyclical i.e. when bonds out perform stocks do not and visa versa, therefore there is an opportunity to sell the out performer and invest in the other for a cycle reversal. This same concept can be applied to sectors or a portfolio in general.
Since this is a “stock only” portfolio there are 2 streams of thought where portfolio re-allocation is concerned:
1. Sell the poorest performer and invest the proceeds in the best performer. For cyclical stocks this approach runs the risk of selling the poor performer just as they have bottomed and buying into an overpriced stock ready for a correction.
2. Sell the best performer believed to be over bought or extended and invest in the issue believed to be presently undervalued and about to move higher. This approach risks poor timing. The good performer may continue to advance, and the poor performer may start hitting new lows again.
Without a crystal ball, it’s a matter of judgement on the timing. In this case I’m siding with approach #2. The 2 stocks that advanced the most now represent a disproportionate amount of the portfolio. They have a value 50% more than the original $10,000 allocated. Therefore, perhaps the portfolio should be re-balanced by taking some profits in HQY, which also happens to look over extended and perhaps ready for some profit taking. And the proceeds from the HQY sale would be invested in the 3 stocks that have the most promise to advance FCX, KMI and GLOG, all three of which happen to be the poorest performers at this time.
Note, seven out of the ten stocks in the portfolio have dividends. The effective cost per share of those stocks is lowered by the dividend. Dividends increased the total unrealized portfolio return about 1% in the first six months. Also note that the top 3 highest performing stocks had high growth rates but no dividend.
The sale of HQY and allocation of the sale proceeds left $1,694 in cash in the account. Adjustments were made to the original portfolio for the sale of 100 shares of HQY, dividends on 7 of the stocks, and the purchase of addition shares for FCX, KMI and GLOG. The resultant portfolio now is shown below:
With the changes suggested the new allocation by sector and industry will look like at the end of June:
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Lavrov: BRICS leaders stated that the decision on quotas in the IMF is blocked from the USA
ANTALYA, November 15. The BRICS leaders stated that the decision on redistribution of quotas in the IMF is blocked from-for positions of the U.S., said Sunday the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov following the meeting of the BRICS.
“Regretfully noted, including in the statement, which circulated following the meeting of the BRICS leaders, taken five years ago, the decision to reform on the increase of quota and voice, which the BRICS countries have in the International monetary Fund, that decision is blocked due to the lack of ratification by the United States, the Minister said to journalists. – In a statement today endorsed the BRICS leaders, right calls to ensure that such ratification took place, as otherwise it suffers the reputation and legitimacy of the International monetary Fund”.
Speaking about the results of the meeting of BRICS leaders on sidelines of G20 summit, Lavrov said that her theme was related to the actual problems in the world economy, instability of international financial and monetary system. “The leaders reaffirmed their commitment to mutual action, consideration of each other’s interests and promotion of joint projects”, – said the head of the Russian foreign Ministry.
In particular, leaders agreed on the need to launch the New development Bank of BRICS in the form of specific projects in 2016. “Secondly, it stressed that the pool of conditional foreign exchange reserves remained important and will be actively used to mitigate the negative impact on the financial system of the BRICS countries in those events that take place in global markets and do not depend on five countries”, – has informed laurels.
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Insanely Volkswagen
Welcome Volkswagen Enthusiasts!
Volkswagen History
“The Volkswagen”, translated from German meaning “People’s Car”, who’s name reflected the political climate of Germany in 1933. The need for an affordable car, which was fast enough to utilize Germany’s newly created Autoban, and durable enough to endure the mountainous terrain and climates contained within the country, was filled by Ferdinand Porsche.
Volkswagen was known as the KdF-Wagen in 1938 through 1945. KdF is an acronym for “Strength through Joy”, and was built in a “factory town”, KdF (seriously!), whose primary function was to produce or aid in the production of the car. During this time, KdF also produced two military vehicles based on the KdF-Wagen design. One of these, the Schwimmwagen, was amphibious.
Transitioning Into The World Auto Market:
After the war, 2/5ths of the factory at KdF was destroyed. The factory was handed over to Britain in 1945, to which, no current British manufacturer was interested in investing into KdF. The factory was handed over to the British military, who repaired the damage to the factory and began producing the KdF-Wagens again. The town was renamed from KdF to Wolfsburg and the car it produced renamed to “Volkswagen” to market the car better in an anti-German climate following the war.
The company eventually reverted back to German control after an attempted takeover by a French Auto manufacturer. Production of the small Volkswagen (Type1) increased over the next few years and surpassed 1 million produced in 1955. Sales were good until 1965, to which the car now commonly known as the “Beetle” was getting a little “long in the tooth” as far as design and function.
The Consequences Not Adapting To The Market:
VW had produced another successful model, the Transporter (or Micro Bus) in the ’50s, but struggled to produce a successor to the Beetle that caputered the American Auto market. Sales continued to slide in the ’70s, even after many attempts at redesigning both the Beetle and Bus, but also releasing other models to compete with the newley emerging Japaneese Auto manufacturers.
With some spare change, VW aquired Audi in 1974, which contributed greatly to Volkswagen’s future success through the aquistion of much needed technology, such as a reliable water-cooled engine. VW quickly turned these technology assets around and produced the “NS1″ which later became the “Golf” or “Rabbit” in the US.
Success And Expansion:
Even with Audi’s bad press in 1980, the Golf saved Volkswagen. Not only that, but the design was so revolutionary for the time, that you are probably driving a vehicle today, built by a different manufacturer, that has it’s roots in the Rabbit’s design. Sales were back up in 1979, and vehicles like the Rabbit, Jetta and Vanagon were blazing the way. Times were good again in the town of Wolfsburg.
In fact, times were so good in the ’90s that Volkswagen moved away from it’s “one shoe fit’s all” philosophy and made investments that asserted them firmly into the mainstream auto market. During these times, Volkswagen splurged (or squandered) resources on making Audi a serious luxury brand, expanding the Volkswagen and Porsche lines, and purchasing auto manufacturers such as Bently and Bugatti. Times were still good, but the cars were different somehow, transitioning from utility and durability into performance and luxury.
The “New” Volkswagen:
During the 2000′s and up to today, The Volkswagen Group hovers between the 5th and 6th largest auto manufacturer, which is pretty good. Unfortunately, “the old grey mare just isn’t what it used to be”, meaning, if you are looking for a new car with the durability and utility of the original Beetle, I recommend you purchase a Honda or Toyota.
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Robyn Burkinshaw — Utah
Robyn Burkinshaw is the secretary of her stake Relief Society, and a gay woman. She was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has always had a love of the Gospel. When she left the Church as a young adult and struggled deeply with depression, she felt a devastating distance between herself and God, believing herself to be unworthy of His blessings. Time, family, and tiny miracles led her back to the gospel and after a twenty-year hiatus, she returned to church. Robyn’s journey is her own. While her story may help LGBTQ people realize the love that God has for them, it is not a guide for their own lives or their relationship with the Church.
Robyn is the CEO of BlytzPay, a financial technology startup. As a woman executive in the financial technology industry, Robyn is used to standing out and raising her voice for positive change. This interview is part of our Tales of Return Series.
Scroll to bottom to listen to the audio for this interview, or find it on The Mormon Women Project podcast.
Will you tell me a little bit about what you do?
Professionally I am the Founder and CEO BlytzPay, a financial technology startup in Utah County. Soon we’re moving from Lehi to Draper, to the other side of the mountain. It started late 2016 to early 2017 and we’re starting to catch some steam. It has been a lot of fun to be a female fintech founder—to be involved in technology as a woman and specifically in Utah—and to make a little bit of a splash. It has been an incredible opportunity and I’m really blessed and very grateful for all of the things that have come my way.
Can you briefly describe in layman’s terms what BlytzPay is?
BlytzPay is a mobile payment technology that allows businesses to invoice and collect via text message. So rather than getting your water bill or your mortgage payment or your insurance bill in the mail, you get it via text message and you can pay right from your phone.
Why did you create BlytzPay? What is your underlying vision there?
It has evolved pretty dramatically. Initially I created it because paying bills is a pain, so I wanted an easier way to interact with merchants. BlytzPay was born of the need to communicate and collect—interaction that leads to transactions between consumers and businesses. But there is an inclusion piece that has materialized as the product has grown and developed. The twenty-first century digital economy excludes people who are underbanked or unbanked—people who are immigrants, the poor and people who are trying to make ends meet—they don’t have the opportunities to participate in the digital economy like people who fit in the bank box. It’s expensive to be poor and needlessly so. Blytz has designed some platforms to allow everybody to participate and everyone to have those conveniences and efficiencies and security.
Blytz really came about during the crash in 2008. I was in mortgage lending when the market crashed, and I was recruited by a law firm that was dealing with distressed consumers. At that point in time, middle America was full of distressed consumers. Many were underemployed or unemployed, and underwater in their homes. That opportunity really gave me a clear vision of the silos that exist in the way businesses deal with consumers. It gets worse when people are scared, and what happens to communication in that kind of a setting needed to be improved.
Robyn Burkinshaw
What’s it like being a women in Utah in fintech?
Fintech leadership in Utah specifically is predominantly male and it has been a challenge—in fundraising, and in being taken seriously. I’ve sat in meetings where I’m answering questions that are posed to my male counterpart sitting next to me—engaging with him but not looking at me. It’s interesting. In my entire career I’ve never seen anything quite like it. Dealing with fundraising and dealing with the financial technology world specifically has been a challenge as a female founder, but it’s one that I absolutely thrive on. The fastest way to get me to do something is to tell me that I can’t.
Do you feel like it’s changing for women in the fintech field?
I do feel like it’s changing, but I don’t feel like it’s changing at the pace it needs to. I think that in order for it to change, people who care about change are going to have to stand up for what we believe in and make ourselves heard, because it’s not going to be handed to us.
I’d like to hear a little bit about your upbringing. Were you raised in Utah, in the Church?
I was born and raised in Midvale, the youngest of five siblings—the closest sibling to me was 16 when I was born, the oldest was 25. I was the family surprise over and over again, as they tell me. My mother wrote my second-to-oldest brother who was serving a mission in Brazil and said, “Oh, by the way, when you get home from your mission you’re going to have a new baby sister!” So it was pretty surprising to him and then just as he got home, my other brother left to serve a mission in Japan. So I was surrounded by adults from a very young age. I was the one to be supervised. I had five sets of parents telling me what to do and how I should do it. All of my siblings were active, more or less. My mom was always fairly active before I was born but my dad never really was, but more or less I was raised in the Church.
The Burkinshaw family
What was your journey in the Church like, from when you were young?
It was a little bit of a dichotomy. There was always a feeling of spirituality, but I never really related it to the Church or to Church activity. I have family roots that I think anchored me in the gospel even before I was born. I always loved the gospel and always had a love of my Savior, but there came a point where I felt like I had to choose and the gospel and the Church were so intertwined that if I was choosing out of one, I was choosing out of all of it. In my early life, that was a real challenge for me. I struggled. I left the Church in my early twenties.
I’d always known that there was something different about me. Recognizing I was gay came a little later because I didn’t really have a context. I hadn’t grown up around anybody that was gay and so I didn’t understand. I think everybody knew I was gay but me!
So that wasn’t a piece of your leaving the Church?
It wasn’t at the time but it became a piece later. I think at that time being gay was so different that I didn’t believe I could have the Savior and the gospel in my life if I was gay. So I went really, really far the other direction, trying to figure out who I was. It was tough. My family struggled with it quite a bit, they didn’t understand me and I don’t feel I understood them. We spent a lot of time talking past each other—when we were talking, which was rare in those days. My mother passed away a couple of years ago but to her dying day I think she would tell you that I wasn’t gay, that it was a phase.
How did they respond to your inactivity in the Church?
That was tough for them. I think they were worried about my well-being and my safety and my choices, and it was really tough. My mom specifically had a really difficult time. I think they feared for my eternal well-being. I don’t want to speak too far out of turn, but my perception was that they viewed it as a choice I had made, rather than part of who I was. I think over the last 20-25 years we have gained a lot of insight and information about what it’s like to be gay. I think my family at the time felt like I was just going through some wild phase and that it was a decision that I made. And that was really hard to try and explain. These were people that I loved and respected and I wanted them to understand, but I didn’t have the words to articulate it and neither did they.
Were you able to maintain those relationships through that time of misunderstanding?
No. They tried in their own way on a number of different occasions. One of my siblings still hasn’t quite wrapped her head around my journey and where it has gone. She has distanced herself from me but my brothers really did their best and my parents did their best to understand and be supportive where they could. It was a hard time for all of us.
What about your relationship with God around the time you realized you were gay?
Devastatingly distant. I othered myself—I believed that I was different enough that I didn’t have the right to have a relationship with God. And interestingly, He kept reaching, and reaching, and reaching. He wouldn’t let me go and I just didn’t see it. I think I was so convinced that I was less-than, or that I was not deserving of His love and His blessings that I distanced myself there as well.
What are the ways that you now see He was reaching to you?
When I was 23 or 24, I had broken up with my first partner. I was convinced that I was going to lose my family, I was going to lose my faith, I was going to lose everything, and she had had enough of me being a closet case. It was really a tough time. I told my family I was gay, and they didn’t take it very well. I was battling a depression that I couldn’t lift myself out from. Even just to think back to that time, it feels like a fog.
I had had enough, and I made a pretty serious suicide attempt. I was found by a friend that had absolutely no reason to be looking for me, but he felt impressed to leave work and come and check on me. The doors were locked in my house so he climbed in the back window and found me unconscious. To make a long story short he got my parents and called 911. I had stopped breathing. As they were getting ready to load me into the ambulance, my parents’ home teacher and our bishop were driving by. They saw the commotion and stopped and followed the ambulance to the hospital. A couple of weeks ago I found a letter written by my former bishop, who I’m actually still close to now. It was basically him jotting down notes of the blessing he gave me while I was unconscious in the emergency room and they were waiting to see whether or not I was going to live. At that point they didn’t have great hope that if I did survive I was going to be at full capacity. That’s one of the ways that Heavenly Father blessed me. He was able to see the future. He was able to see past the darkness of a young struggling girl that didn’t know which direction was up. In the blessing, my spirit was commanded to return to my body and I was told that Heavenly Father had a great work for me to do in my life and that I would be a tool in His hands to lift and build and strengthen people who had less faith and who needed—I think the words were—“needed to see a light at the end of a dark path.”
It’s hard for me to share that story publicly but I think it’s important for people struggling for any number of reasons to know there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Suicide is something we need to talk more about in the Church and as a community especially with LBGTQ members. There’s no shame in having challenges and struggles, even serious ones. There is hope even when you don’t fit the mold.
There were always people around that were there to support and sustain me as I walked my path. I recovered and Heavenly Father continued to reach for me. It was always very difficult for me internally because I felt a pull back to the gospel. I felt a pull to my Heavenly Father, and I think some of that probably was from the other side. I think some of that was grandparents, and I had a sibling that passed away, and aunts and people who were always there to make sure that I didn’t go so far over the side that I couldn’t be brought back.
Thank you for sharing that. What was your “light at the end of a dark path?” What was it that finally led you back?
There were a number of things. In 2008-2009 when the market crashed, I was in a position where I was looking for work and work was pretty scarce. An opportunity materialized that couldn’t have been anything but the hand of God in my life. From that point I made a commitment to start paying my tithing. It was a little strange to be in the position that I was in—I was in a relationship at the time and completely out of the Church. I just felt that Heavenly Father had blessed me so abundantly that I needed to reach out.
The day after Christmas in 2013, my dad hadn’t been feeling well and had really kind of declined. He was in his eighties. On Christmas Day he wouldn’t let me take him to the doctor. We took him the day after Christmas, and the next day we found out that he had acute myeloid leukemia with just a very, very short period of time to live. It was devastating to me. I didn’t always have a great relationship with my parents and I didn’t have a relationship with him that was very good. It was like the door had closed. He passed away the night of New Year’s Eve, just shortly after 11:00 p.m. My brother had driven from Oklahoma where he was living at the time and there was a peace to him that I didn’t have. He had an understanding—I understood it but I don’t think I had a testimony of it. I think the fear overwhelmed me.
To watch the difference between my brother’s response to my dad’s passing and the rough tide that was just raging in me, was pretty significant. My mom had been diagnosed with dementia and was pretty out of it. She didn’t have a lot of comprehension as to what was going on, so my dad was kind of the last anchor I had to my parents. I’m the baby. It was a challenge. I think that started the serious journey.
Over the course of the next year we had to put my mom in an assisted living facility because she wasn’t able to care for herself. We had to sell the family home and all of these things. I’m pretty sentimental by nature and so to watch some of those things unfold was pretty tough; to watch my mom take her last steps out of her home that she had lived in the majority of her married life was devastating. It was a pretty rocky year for me. We began to prepare the home for sale and I was going through some documents that my mother had saved. I found a letter that she had written in 1962 or 1963. It was very clearly for me. A little bit of background: my mom and dad were not married in the temple and had had some struggles in their marriage and some struggles each personally and so weren’t ever super active. So about 18 months before my dad passed away, they were endowed and sealed in the temple and all of my siblings were able to participate but me. I very literally stood outside the doors of the temple and waited. I was pretty upset. So when I found this letter, it was pretty interesting. My mother wasn’t married in the temple and I think she carried that regret with her but her mother, my Grandma Bateman, was very, very active and my mother loved and revered her mother just like all my siblings. I never met my Grandma Bateman as she passed away before I was born, but this letter is about her. My mother wrote:
One night I stood outside the temple gates and waited for mother who was inside. I waited quite a time, and in those moments, I saw and pondered many things. I looked upon the solid stately walls which separate Temple Square and set it from the world apart, then upward to the lighted spires and upward until my eyes rested upon that grandest pinnacle, atop which stands that glorious likeness of the Angel Moroni. Above, the sky was black in contrast, filled with glimmering stars. Upon the street were many a hurried footsteps, couples, arms entwined, or holding hands, walked forth in eagerness, faces alive with purpose, to enter, and be welcomed through the gate. Groups of every age, hurrying, intent on the joyous task at hand poured through the gate. A bride, carrying a bouffant wedding dress, careful lest it be crushed, made her exit from those doors, the realization of her dreams written upon her face. Her husband beside her, their parents close at hand. Young and old, I thought, here are the faithful. Then I saw my own dear Mother approach, her face alight with the inspiration she had felt within those walls, of the worthwhile accomplished, buoyed up and generated by covenants renewed, eyes shining from the burning of the spirit within. Out the heavy doors she came, down the path to the outside world, carrying an essence of heaven with her.
I was alone. I alone had waited outside that night. With the waiting, the seeing, the feeling, came a clear realization of how my own choice had placed me there, of how those years ago, I thought that love could win the desires of my heart and soul without a doubt. Now only God could know the yearning of my heart. My love of husband even stronger now, and with four children, Kim, Jeffrey, Mark, and Laurie, ours to love and guide, I knew the truth: True love cannot be fulfilled that does not encompass the gospel of Jesus Christ. On then, to dinner with Mother for whom I’d waited, to sit about the table and hear her conversation, feel the strength she had derived from her loving service for the dead. See the emotion and almost into the souls of the family who had been sealed that very night. Twelve years had passed since my wedding day, years of hope, faith, love, learning, and a vast multitude of experiences. And yet how long the journey and how steep the pathway I did not know. Onward, then, with tools of love and understanding to strive, and earn with faith, to qualify, with the one I love for eternal life. If I could leave one message for my children, it would be this: Never make a choice in life that leaves you waiting outside the House of God. For if you do, it may be you will find yourself and those you love outside for eternity. Nothing in the world could compensate for the loss of this, the greatest of all blessings.
—Joyce B. Burkinshaw
At a time when my mother didn’t have the capacity to deliver that message to me, Heavenly Father made a way. That was my call to come home.
Robyn’s parents’ sealing, 2011
What an amazing story. What was your journey back like? How did you take those steps?
My first step was I think talking myself into it. I hadn’t stepped into a church for over 20 years and that was a pretty daunting experience. It took me until January of 2015, and one Sunday I gathered my strength and found the one skirt that I owned in the back of the closet that I hadn’t even thought about for years, and traipsed myself to sacrament meeting. I was terrified. I walked in the doors and sat in the back. It was fast and testimony meeting, the first Sunday in January, and I sat hiding in the corner, hoping that nobody would see or notice me. During fast and testimony meeting I felt compelled to bear my testimony about the Plan of Salvation and the fact that I didn’t know anything about anything, but that I was grateful that Heavenly Father had instituted a way for us to be together. From there I all but ran to the door. I was mobbed by members of that ward who wanted to know who I was and what I was and where was I going and why was I going so quickly. It took me a couple of months of going to really commit. In years past I had investigated other religions and had tried to find that peace, and it didn’t exist, at least for me.
That’s one of the things I want to make really clear in this interview, that my story is very different than everybody else’s, my path is very different. One thing I don’t want to happen is for my story to be used as a weapon against others who are struggling with some of the same challenges. My path is my path alone and it doesn’t represent the same choices and same challenges or opportunities that others face. People are people, everybody has their own path and their own opportunity to learn and to grow in a way that is designed specifically for them. The Atonement was focused by our Savior and our Heavenly Father on the individual. He atoned for each one of us personally and individually and He knows our path and He doesn’t compare our path to anybody else, even if the challenges are similar. I want to make sure that I communicate this clearly: my path is not for everyone.
Thank you for stating that with such clarity. What teachings of the Church resonate most deeply with you? What really drew you back?
There are a couple of things that really spoke to me. Elder Holland has a special place in my heart. It feels like every time he talks, he is talking specifically to me. My brother sent me a link to Elder Holland’s talk, “Remember Lot’s Wife: Faith is for the Future.” This was after my dad died but before my path started back towards church. That resonated with me, that faith looks forward, that we take the embers and not the ashes from our past and we are able to grow from those. He talks about the future that is yet to come and the forgiveness that can be wrought from that. That gave me a hope and a sense of belonging that I really needed and hadn’t had. I think it started to clarify for me that I was worthy and had the opportunity to find God even though I was different, even though I wasn’t what you would consider the storybook member of the Church. That was significant to me. There was another talk that I found by Brad Wilcox called “His Grace is Sufficient.” In that he talks about the art of playing the piano—essentially we are beginning piano players and as we go through life’s experiences, we’re going to hit wrong keys, but it doesn’t mean that we are not to be piano players, it means that we are learning. That resonated with me as well.
Robyn with her brother Mark
What teachings of the Church are challenging for you?
The night before I was endowed, my family had flown into town and my mother had recently passed away. I was preparing to be endowed on November 6. The day before, November 5, 2015, the Church announced the changes to Handbook 1 that limited children of same-sex couples from being blessed and then baptized. I crawled into bed to read the news, as is kind of my custom, and to see that news was a kick in the gut to me. Literally not 12 hours before I was to be endowed. I thought, I can’t do this, I can’t do this. I can’t join something that is this exclusionary to people who don’t have a choice and who don’t fit the traditional mold. That was very, very difficult and very painful for me. That was a struggle.
I ended up being endowed, but being endowed with the goal to raise my voice—for whatever that was worth—to be a voice for change and a voice for temperance and a voice for kindness and inclusion. Change within the Church, so that everybody is welcome and that everyone deserves the love of God and the blessings of the Atonement and the recognition of His hand in each one of our lives.
The sociology of the Church I think is changing, but there are still some tough challenges that weigh on me. There are conference talks that are given across the pulpit that are sometimes painful. I’ve gotten to where I don’t listen to conference live, I listen to it after the fact and I’ve got amazing, supportive people that give me the guidance of what to listen to and what to stay away from. It’s not the doctrine, it’s the way the doctrine is delivered. We are a church of lay leaders—imperfect lay leaders with opinions and experiences and differences, and that can be challenging.
There was a time just after I was endowed that I was sitting in Relief Society. Nobody really knew my background. There were a very select few who even knew that I was gay, my bishop and his counselors and maybe one other person. Because of the conversation and the derision that the changes to Handbook 1 had caused, everybody had something to say but there wasn’t a really good forum in which to say it, so it came out in these really weird ways, like in Relief Society. So we’re in Relief Society, and we’re having a lesson called “Feed My Sheep,” and “Feed My Sheep” turns into “Should I feed the gay sheep?” There were a couple of sisters that started going back and forth about whether they should support family members and attend weddings of gay family members or gay friends. I sat kind of white-knuckled in my seat, not sure what to share and what not to share, and I just sat there silent. I walked out, pretty upset with myself that I had stayed quiet, because I’m not much for being quiet, but I wasn’t sure what to say! I had been called that year as a Relief Society teacher and happened to be teaching that next week. The lesson was called “Faith is not by Chance but by Choice,” and I shared my story. And you could have heard a pin drop. I read the letter from my mother and I asked, “If you had known I was gay, would the conversation have been different? Would you have thought that I would have returned? Does it change your opinion of me? Does Heavenly Father want us to feed just the sheep that look like us and talk like us?” I talked a little bit about the Savior’s life and who He was. That was a wake up call to me.
There are always people that say things that I don’t think mean harm—they don’t think through completely what they’re saying or who may be in the room that might be affected. But the truth, at least for me, has been that my faith is not by chance but by choice. That I choose to believe in the gospel and believe that Heavenly Father will sort it all out, eventually. I don’t have to carry the weight on my shoulders, and not that that absolves me of a responsibility to be a voice for change, and to speak up when I see something that’s wrong, but that I don’t have to feel responsible to change everything in a finite period of time. He is aware of us and aware of the things that are happening, and blesses us accordingly.
That is beautiful and I think a really compassionate view of the people who surround you in the Church. It must be some kind of a burden to be a gay member of the Church and feel like there is a responsibility to be the one that speaks up and that represents and that explains. Does that become tiring?
I wouldn’t say tiring, I would say I want to make sure that I deliver it in a way that’s loving and that’s appropriate and that’s kind. Because we don’t need any more division, we need unity. I think it’s overwhelming at times, and it’s easy to feel insecure about being able to deliver that message. I think of Moses—I’m not comparing myself to Moses—but I think of people who have been called to duties and responsibilities that they don’t know how on earth they are going to fulfill. It’s scary; it can be challenging and overwhelming that Heavenly Father would allow me to share my voice and my experiences and to believe am I the right person for that.
Do you serve in a calling right now in your ward?
I do. I am the Secretary in the stake Relief Society. It has been an incredible opportunity. When they called me in to offer me the calling, I thought I was in trouble. Much to my surprise they called me to the stake and I think that speaks volumes to the change that’s happening. My ward and my stake are incredible. Our stake Relief Society President is one of the most gifted, kind, loving people that you could ever ask for, so to be called to serve with her has been phenomenal. But there aren’t many lesbian members of the stake Relief Society presidency so it’s been pretty cool.
I’m going to ask just because that’s my same calling—what do you feel like your purpose is in that calling?
I think especially now, and I don’t know if it’s just more visible than it has been in the past, but I think now there are a lot of feelings in the Church about “is this the place that I should be? Am I doing the right thing?” There were a lot of people that left over the changes to Handbook 1 and, and I think if anything, I want to show that change is possible, and that people are trying and that the only way change will happen is if people are willing to stay and do the hard work and raise their voice but there are days where it’s hard.
What message do you have for other LGBTQ people who wish to be active members of the Church?
You have your path to walk, and only you know what direction that path will take. Very clearly I want to articulate that Heavenly Father, whether you’re an active member of the Church or not, Heavenly Father loves each one of us individually, He knows us individually, He knows us intimately, and it doesn’t change based on your sexual preference or your ethnicity or your religious beliefs or your standing in a community or your job or any of those things that we sometimes look at ourselves and judge ourselves in accordance with. If you want to be a disciple of the Savior, there are two great commandments. Number one is love God, and number two is love your neighbor. I think we stack a lot of other stuff on top of the gospel and it’s time to get back to basics. It’s time to get really clear about who we are and what’s important to us and what we’re doing and how that impacts the world and the people around us. Anything else is just a lot of noise.
You talked about how there was a time in your life where you felt really distant from God and maybe unworthy of God’s blessings. What is your relationship now with God?
Gratitude. I try really hard to pay attention to His hand in my life daily. There are so many opportunities that He puts before me and for all of us, things that are just tiny, or things that are large and miraculous, but He’s there. He’s there in the details. I would say I am learning to trust Him, I’m learning to trust. I think it’s a matter of remembrance—remembering the times that He picked me up on my road to Damascus and sent me on my way.
There are two stories about the Savior that come to my mind often. The first is the story of Peter just after the Savior was crucified. Peter went back to fishing and I’m sure was unsure of what to do going forward, and scared, and all of the emotions that those early disciples felt. The Savior asks Peter three times “Peter, do you love me?” Peter answers, “Yea Lord thou knowest that I love thee.” Three times in repetition—I think in very deliberate proximity to what Peter’s denial of the Savior was—He asked three times and wanted to make sure that Peter knew what he was saying. I think it was almost as much a testament to Peter as it was to the Savior. The second one is Jesus asking His disciples “Will ye also leave?” And their response is “To whom shall we go?” And that’s the truth, for me. The only option, the only place that I have to go is to the Savior and to our Father in Heaven, because He knows. He knows me, and He knows what I need to be the person that I want to be, and that He knows that I can be.
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Information Ministry launches activities of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign
Damascus, SANA- Information Ministry, in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Wednesday launched the activities of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign in Syria under the motto “Safety for All.. Gender-based Violence Unacceptable” in Khan As’ad Pasha in Damascus.
The ceremony included a concert performed by Gardenia Choir and a screening of a video that narrates the stories of the success of Syrian women who have challenged the crisis in the country and benefited from the services offered by the UN Fund.
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicks off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day. It was started by activists at the inaugural Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991 and continues to be coordinated each year by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership.
Assistance Information Minister Ahmad Dawa expressed the Ministry’s keenness on spreading awareness in regard to the issues related to gender-based violence, as the Ministry broadcasts media and educational materials within deliberated programs, some of which are carried out in cooperation with the Fund.
There are unprecedented cases of Gender-based violence in the areas controlled by the US and Turkish occupations and their tools from the armed terrorist organizations east and northwest of Syria, Dawa warned.
In a statement to journalists, Dawa said that Syria was one of the pioneer countries which cooperated with the UN organizations in the field of the campaign even during the years of the crisis and the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic.
Resident Representative of the United Nations Population Fund in Syria Dr. Iyad Nasr said in a similar statement that the16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is a call for the communities to do what is necessary to limit this kind of violence.
Nasr expressed the UNFPA support to the women and girls in Syria and the world, particularly in the critical economic situation and the outbreak of coronavirus which have increased the suffering of the women.
In turn, the responsible of the media and communications at the Fund, Kinda Qatranji, said that the Syrian women play a key role in keeping the safety of the Syrian family and society following the years of the war.
Qatranji indicated intensifying the activities related to the occasion in cooperation with governmental bodies and civil associations in several Syrian provinces, through lighting buildings and archeological sites in Damascus in orange, “the motto of the campaign”.
Hala Zain
based gender launched violence 2021-11-25
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Welcome back; Timing reminder; Website; Uniform; Healthy packed lunches; PE days; Clubs; From the office; Diary dates; Tree tops
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The whole school celebrated Windrush Day on Friday 21 June 2019. Families had the opportunity to come and view the children’s work celebrating the important contributions made by the Windrush generation. The classrooms were open and there was art work, poetry, music and displays around the school. The School Council put on a special performance …
News & Dates Calendar Letters Term Dates Trips and Visits Windrush Day Celebrations June 2019
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Note: The following document has been scanned from a fax, and is a reproduction of the original minutes. The formatting has been changed from the original document and may contain errors.
INDIANA NUMBER PORTABILITY TASK FORCE
CAUSE NUMBER 39983
The third meeting of the Indiana Number Portability Task force was held October 7, 1996 at 9:30 a.m. at the Commission's Office in Indianapolis. Terry Appenzeller from Ameritech chaired the meeting.
II. MEETING ATTENDEES
A list of the meeting attendees is attached.
III. FOLLOW UP FROM LAST MEETING
At the August 16, 1996 meeting a schedule had been agreed to for developing an implementation plan. Based on this schedule, the new entrants were to identify to an independent consultant, the exchanges that they want to enter by September 19, 1996. (Letter from Stan Sallier, dated September 4, 1996.)
For a variety of reasons only one Competing LEC (AT&T) had submitted it's list of Exchanges as of this meeting. As this effort is critical for determining the cost of implementing LNP for the State of Indiana as requested by the IURC on November 8, 1996, the task force agreed to:
1. establish a revised schedule 2. submit a preliminary progress report to the IURC on November 8, 1996 3. request an extension for the cost estimate due to the IURC. The requested date would be January 8, 1997.
The following revised schedule was agreed to:
10/21/96: New entrants to identify by MSA, exchanges they want to enter. These lists
are to be sent to Brad Behounek, an independent third party consultant, at:
Brad Behounek
473 Broadview Avenue
Highland Park, IL, 60035
III. FOLLOW UP FROM LAST MEETING (CONTINUED)
Brad is to compile a master list of Exchanges for each MSA, by combining requests from all Competitive LECs. The requesting CLEC's name will NOT be identified. Brad will provide this list to the IURC and incumbents on this date.
The incumbents, Ameritech, GTE, Sprint and any independents will compile a report with their offices on the master list and the schedule for providing Number Portability.
Main Report Extension
The Task Force unanimously voted to have the two co-chairs (TerryAppenzeller, Ameritech and Judy Evans, AT&T) sign the extension request on behalf of the Workshop.
Report Authors:
The following companies agreed to author the reports (preliminary progress report and main report, including a cost estimate).
Preliminary Report
The first draft is due on October 25, 1996. Comments and Feedback is due November 1, 1996. Submit the Preliminary Report to IURC.
IV. NEW ISSUES
NANC: Terry Appenzeller reported on the first NANC meeting October 1, 1996.
NANC is forming two (2) task forces.
The first NANC task force will counsel the FCC on how to move Number Administration from Bellcore to a neutral third party. The Number Administration Task Force will have it's first meeting on November 7, 1996. It is scheduled to complete it's work by January 1, 1999.
The second NANC Task Force will work on LNP Database Administration. This task force will look at issues such as "Standardization of Interfaces" and "Regionalization of State Efforts". The LNP Task Force is scheduled to complete it's work by May 1, 1997.
IV. New Issues (continued)
NPAC/LLC: Roger Marshall presented a report on the Illinois NPAC selection of
Lockheed, as the vendor and the formation of the Limited Liability Corporation (LLC). The responses to some of the questions are outlined below.
A Service Provider does not have to be an LLC member to use the NPAC. Lockheed will provide its services to all users; LLC members and non-members on the same terms.
The purpose of the LLC is to manage the relationship with the Vendor and negotiate the Master Contract. Each Service Provider/User must sign a separate agreement with Lockheed.
The LLC will be regionalized. Each member will only pay/join once for the whole region instead of signing up for each individual state.
The LLC will ask Lockheed to base cost allocation on any directives forthcoming from the FCC and/or State Commissions.
Any Indiana workshop participant interested in joining the LLC should contact Roger Marshall, Ameritech, or Daniel Noorani, AT&T. (See attached Attendee List)
V. Next Meeting
The next meeting has been scheduled for November 8, 1996 at 10:30 a.m. in the Commission's Law Library.
The following Illinois Workshop committees will make presentations at that meeting:
1. Rating and Billing
2. Operations
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Darren Almond (1971 – )
MULTIPLE WORKING 1997 Darren Almond (1971 – ) © The Artist
Darren Almond was born in Wigan and studied at Winchester School of Art. He is renowned for his evocative photography, films, sculptures and installations which manifest his singular exploration of time and atmosphere. His photography in particular refers to a meditative portrayal of landscape. His solo exhibition Darren Almond: Night as Day at the Tate in 2001 consisted of long exposure photographs taken at night. The result is an arresting portrayal of nature: the long exposure lens giving the photographs a particular clarity and colour, with only the uncanny quietness and the atmosphere giving away the fact that they were actually taken at night. Seen in the context of romantic landscapes and the work of William J.M. Turner, Almond encourages the viewer to reflect on their sense of place within nature, and their perception of space. The idea of the journey is also important in Almond’s work. In 2003, his film If I had you, installed at the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi explores amongst other things the particular atmosphere of Blackpool Dance Halls, symbols of a bygone era in the north-west of England.
Darren Almond: 11 Miles from Safety, White Cube, London 2003
Hamza Walker and Martin Herbert, Darren Almond, Kunsthalle Zurich, 2001
Peter Wollen, Darren Almond: Night as Day, Tate Publishing, London 2001
Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1999
A transparent, flexible plastic material, usually of cellulose acetate or polyester, on which light-sensitive emulsion is coated, or on which an image can be formed by various transfer processes.
Landscape is one of the principle genres of Western art. In early paintings the landscape was a backdrop for the composition, but in the late 17th Century the appreciation of nature for its own sake began with the French and Dutch painters (from whom the term derived). Their treatment of the landscape differed: the French tried to evoke the classical landscape of ancient Greece and Rome in a highly stylised and artificial manner; the Dutch tried to paint the surrounding fields, woods and plains in a more realistic way. As a genre, landscape grew increasing popular, and by the 19th Century had moved away from a classical rendition to a more realistic view of the natural world. Two of the greatest British landscape artists of that time were John Constable and JMW Turner, whose works can be seen in the Tate collection (www.tate.org.uk). There can be no doubt that the evolution of landscape painting played a decisive role in the development of Modernism, culminating in the work of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists . Since then its demise has often been predicted and with the rise of abstraction, landscape painting was thought to have degenerated into an amateur pursuit. However, landscape persisted in some form into high abstraction, and has been a recurrent a theme in most of the significant tendencies of the 20th Century. Now manifest in many media, landscape no longer addresses solely the depiction of topography, but encompasses issues of social, environmental and political concern.
BOLOGNA ART FAIR
Italy, Bologna, British Council Office - Bologna
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Street art in Porto
This article is not available in Portuguese, sorry.
When I came to Porto, back in 1996, the city was gray, due to his granite constructions and,I should confess, a little bit depressing; people from Lisbon described it like that, a gloomy, foggy city with no light whatsoever. That has changed and, besides all the improvements I’ve seen in twenty years, street art is one of the big responsible for the color and youth that is described by people from all over the world.
The only graffiti that I can recall, from the 1990’s, was the white circled A, the Anarchy symbol, drawn here and there by punks, and that doesn’t really count as street art or graffiti for that matter. Graffiti usually is an egotistical work which primary objective is to get known quickly, and by the largest number of people possible, that’s why painting trains is so popular amongst writers – trains cover large distances and you get known and famous outside your neighborhood or surroundings. Also, graffiti has a kind of code that can only be appreciated by other writers, excluding the rest of the common mortals, which makes that this kind of art is not well accepted socially.
This wall as a lot of different artists including Lara Luís, the doll on the left.
Street art, on the other hand, is created to leave an impression on the rest of society’s sensibility, with themes that are well accepted and make people love it. It’s a more altruistic art form and, there’s always a message behind it, trying to change the society around the mural, collage, stencil, tiles, photography, stickers, whatever.
With the city’s evolution and, mainly after Porto European Capital of Culture in 2001, it opened up to exterior influences and showed a cosmopolitan side that was sleepy and numb, and soon artists, timidly, showed their true colors on the streets. First with some throw ups, hall of fame and then, connected with the hip-hop scene also growing quickly, the first pieces, planned and getting from the inside to the outside.
But what boosted Porto’s Street Art scene was a completely different thing.
Hazul, the most prolific writer in town, painted this huge mural in Cooperativa Árvore.
Graffiti Wars
Rui Rio was Porto’s Mayor from 2001 to 2013 and was known for its economic efficiency and the complete disregard for arts. Looking back, the citizens always look back and remember that Culture in the City, during this period, was created and produced by the private sector, and that the Municipality thought that it was a luxury that the public vaults couldn’t afford. At the same time, thousands of euros were being spent on the race circuit of Boavista, the mayor’s own pipe dream. While acting like this, and moved by the complaints of some citizens, Rio’s administration created the Anti-Graffiti Squad to wipe clean all the walls, independently if they were more or less socially accepted.
There are a lot of powerful catalysts and the most flammable is Repression.
In 2013, the anti-graffiti squad covered one of Hazul’s murals in the City center and soon, pictures, with viral speed, were being shared on the Internet. There was a rise up against this act, comparing it with burning books, blocking freedom of speech and one more drop to kill all art forms in Porto. Rui Rio’s profile on Wikipedia was “vandalized” with sarcastic remarks, implying that he was only doing that because he used to be the CEO of one of the biggest Portuguese paint companies.
Quickly, out of nowhere, the once quiet city Writers, started sabotaging the anti-graffiti squad with… paint. During the day, the squad was covering murals with white or yellow paint, and in the evening, the artists would go to the same places and paint a straight black line on the wall’s length and one sentence in Portuguese: Continua a pintar (keep painting). This was a very simple and effective protest that was cheap to one side and very expensive to the municipality, that spent 150 000 euros on this campaign, with immediate results and great loss over time.
Godmess used an abandoned shop window to do this paste up.
Soon Hazul, turned into a martyr, his pieces started to be spared on the cover up rampage, and he was immediately compared with Bansky, first due to the VIP treatment and also because his identity was surrounded by secrecy. People, not only the street artists, thought that it was unfair for the other artists and some buzz started to come up, creating the moment for changes.
City Hall recognized that some of the murals painted were art and some were not, so they decided to create a kind of license for street artists. Everyone could apply paying a fee but they had to submit a project and tell where they were going to intervene. At the same time, the first street art law was created in Portugal imposing huge fines for transgressors. Trying to regulate what was art and what was not, City Hall hired a street artist to recreate old pictures from Porto on some walls, and subliminally saying that Porto was static and orderly…
You can’t harness something that has illegal as its middle name.
Draw used the side of a building at the entrance of Luís I Bridge to create his host – AN.FI.TRI.ÃO. You can spot from Gaia.
Street Art, a new approach
October 2013, Rui Moreira is elected Mayor of Porto. This independent candidate, entrepreneur, from Porto’s finest families, with a deep passion for his City, faces his new job as everything he did in his business life. Instead of acting like a Mayor, he starts acting as a CEO surrounding himself with the best and quickly getting the support of is contenders in the past election. He has one thing in mind, to restore Porto’s glory and straightforwardness that is part of its spirit for centuries.
One of the first individuals that he gets to help him is his friend Paulo Cunha e Silva, a humanist, intellectual and also a Porto Lover. His dream was to turn Porto into a “Liquid city[…] where everything can happen everywhere.” and street art was one of the gears of his machine. He envisioned different art forms entwined in a big street festival, including all the artists and all the citizens, giving today’s generations food for thought so they could be better in the future. Unfortunately, he passed away in November 2015, but his legacy is kept alive.
A mix between Godmess and Chei Krew – the giraffe head.
In April 2014, the first legal Mural in Porto is inaugurated in the corner between Rua Miguel Bombarda and Rua Diogo Brandão, one of the gateways to Bairro das Artes, the city’s art galleries district. A 130 square meter representation of D. Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Pança, represent all the windmills that street art had to face until that moment and it took Circus Network, through the hands of local artists Fedor, Mesk and Mots, a long time to have it done. Today it is the proof that legal murals are the way to go forward in a City that is evolving every day. This was part of a project called Ru+A created by Imagin’o Porto associated with Réplica and Circus Network, which intervened in one of the Shopping streets, Rua de Cedofeita, creating murals in the store fronts called Urban Frames.
After that, City Hall commissioned an intervention in Avenida dos Aliados on the phone booths, then a dedicated street art exhibit in Edifício Axa and a huge Mural by Hazul and Mr. Dheo in one of the car parking owned by the City, very close to Trindade Metro Station. Next, all the electricity boxes in Rua das Flores were decorated by Porto street artists in a joint venture between the City Hall and the National Electricity company. A second intervention in Rua de Cedofeita is getting ready as I write this words.
Costah adds his collages all over the city. This one is a joint venture with Bug Bolito.
Also, close to Palácio de Cristal, one of the city’s parks from the end of the 19th century, in Rua da Restauração, there’s a huge wall that every 6 months has the murals replaced, creating an opportunity for new names of the street art scene.
But what about the artists?
There’s a lot of Porto based artists but we can only name a few that you can easily find on the streets. Hazul is still one of the most prolific artists in town and he uses blocked window and door frames as a canvas to his pieces that you can find everywhere. Costah is another popular artist mostly with collage creating colorful and funny compositions, depicting birds or characters with long arms and legs. Chei Krew are the ones behind the cute giraffes that you can find here and there. #PreencherEspaçosVazios and Sem use tiles for their interventions, with a different approach. And what about girls on street art? Lara Luís and Eleonor, are the names to remember. From illustration directly to street art, putting some more color in our streets. International artists passing by also leave their mark, like Selor which is somehow active at the City Center.
Street art is changing and it is part of its nature. it is not a thing to last for centuries, sometimes just a few days and its destroyed or replaced by another one. Porto is now facing some challenges and one is that there’s still some walls being covered by the City Hall’s crews, trying to keep some order. However, there’s not a jury deciding what’s good or bad, just a wall painter that spares what’s attractive to him – I think this is very romantic and ironic. Rules, nowadays, say that you submit a project and, if accepted, you’ll be licensed for free, on a clear incentive to lighten up the streets, and City Hall’s commissioned works have an economic incentive starting in 300€. On the other hand, some wannabe street artists try to get easy fame trying to emulate Hazul’s martyrdom, putting their pieces in strategic places and, when destroyed, paying campaigns on Facebook, using people’s blindness to spread the “injustice” and get known fast. This is not honest and frowned upon by the street art community.
Agustina Bessa Luís one of Porto’s greatest writers depicted on a stencil by Eime
While in Porto, keep your eyes and mind open and feel how the street art empowers the cobblestone and makes the City better, no matter how old or young you are. Pay attention to the pride people have for having it next door, and the smiles on their faces when someone takes a picture – for most Porto citizens, Street Art is also Heritage.
Dedicated Store
In a world that is almost exclusively masculine, the only place where street artists can buy all their supplies is managed by girls. Dedicated Store besides selling supplies, promote artists and activities that enrich the street art scene and, if you want to know a lot about the theme, go there and ask away.
Circus Network
Porto is a small city with tons of people with good ideas that try to make the society around them better than it is while making some money in the process. Circus Network, is the first art gallery in town dedicated to street art were you can find some resident artists that are commissioned by them, and also all the information about Porto’s street art Scene. Owned and managed by André and Ana – which has a masters degree in street art and knows almost everything about it – it is an art gallery, a co-working space and a great place to drop by. They are the ones behind the first legal Mural in town.
Look at Porto by Vhils, with reverse graffiti technique that removes layers instead of adding.
Writer – The one that does graffiti (don’t use Graffiti artist or Graffiter)
Hall of Fame – Synonym to Masterpiece or Piece.
Throw ups – A work that is painted very quickly.
Tag – Writer’s signature.
Crew – Group of Writers that gather to do graffiti
Piece – A big composition created with time.
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NFL Classic Rewind: Steelers Get Overtime Victory Over Patriots In Foxboro
Posted on October 28, 2011 by A.J. Foss
In the late 1990s, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kordell Stewart was a case of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” as his up-and-down play would often frustrate his teammates and fans, but a lot of times would still come away with the victory.
That was the case in the Steelers’ December 1997 game against the New England Patriots when Stewart bounced back from a pair of interceptions to lead his team to an overtime victory in Foxboro.
After spending two years as a quarterback/running back/wide receiver (thus earning the nickname “Slash”) Stewart was given the starting quarterback job by head coach Bill Cowher.
Stewart would be prone to making mistakes, yet show flashes of talent, sometimes in the same game.
An example would be in the Steelers’ fifth game of the season against the Baltimore Ravens when Stewart threw three interceptions in the 1st half as Pittsburgh fell behind 21-0, only to account for five touchdowns to lead his team back to a 42-34 win.
Pittsburgh entered their game with the Patriots with a 10-4 record and a chance to clinch the AFC Central Division title for the fourth straight year.
Meanwhile, the Patriots entered the game with a 9-5 record under first-year head coach Pete Carroll and in the hunt for the playoffs.
Carroll’s success benefited from having all-Pro quarterback Drew Bledsoe, running back Curtis Martin, and wide receiver Terry Glenn at his disposal.
However, the Patriots would be short-handed against the Steelers as Martin and Glenn were inactive because of injuries.
The game was scoreless though most of the first half until the Patriots got on the scoreboard with an 18-yard touchdown pass from Bledsoe to tight end Ben Coates after picking off a Stewart pass.
Lawyer Milloy stepped in front of wide receiver Will Blackwell to make the interception and returned it to the Pittsburgh 27-yard-line, setting up the touchdown that gave New England a 7-0 lead.
Things did not get much better for Stewart on the Steelers’ ensuing possession as he was intercepted again, this time by Willie Clay, which the Patriots converted into another touchdown as Sam Gash caught a 1-yard pass from Bledsoe to make it 14-0 in favor of the Patriots.
After two straight interceptions, Stewart got back on track as he led the Steelers on a 72-yard drive, which culminated with Stewart sneaking in for a 1-yard touchdown to cut the deficit to 14-7 as the first half came to an end.
Pittsburgh got the only points of the third quarter with a 36-yard field goal by Norm Johnson, and then got another field goal early in the fourth quarter, a 34-yarder by Johnson, to trim the New England lead to 14-13.
Drew Bledsoe threw three touchdowns, but his late-game interception proved to be deadly for the Patriots.
With their lead cut to one point, the Patriots needed a big play and got it from running back Dave Meggett only on the possession following Johnson’s 34-yard field goal.
On a 1st-and-10 from the Steelers’ 49-yard-line, Bledsoe fired a pass intended for wide receiver Troy Brown, only to have Meggett jump in front of Brown to make the catch at the 31, and then ran it in for the touchdown to push the Patriots’ lead back to eight points at 21-13 with 10:31 left in the fourth quarter.
The Steelers drove to the New England 36-yard-line on their next series where they were faced with a 4th-and-6.
Instead of going for a 53-yard field goal that would make a five-point game, Cowher decided to go for the 1st down.
Stewart fired a pass for Courtney Hawkins, who made the catch only to be tackled inches short of the 1st down by Patriots defensive back Jimmy Hitchcock giving New England the ball back with 6:45 remaining.
The Patriots punted the ball back to Pittsburgh who looked to be in business after Bettis rumbled for a 49-yard gain to inside the New England 22-yard-line on a screen pass, but the play was nullified by a holding penalty on offensive lineman Will Wolford and the Steelers had to punt the ball back to the Patriots with 3:13 left.
New England got one first down and forced the Steelers to burn their remaining timeouts until they were faced with a 3rd-and-7 from the 50-yard-line with 2:10 to play.
One more first down would allow the Patriots to simply take a knee and run out the remaining time on the clock.
But disaster struck for New England when Bledsoe dropped back and tried to toss a screen pass to Meggett, only to have defensive end Kevin Henry pick off the pass.
Henry then rambled for 36 yards until he lateraled the ball to defensive lineman Orpheus Roye at the 13, who ran into the end zone for an apparent touchdown.
However, the officials ruled that Henry’s pitch as a forward lateral, drawing a five-yard penalty from the spot where Henry pitched it to Roye to put the ball at the 18-yard-line and a first down for the Steelers as the two-minute warning.
Pittsburgh would gain only three yards on three plays to force a 4th-and-7 at the 15, where Stewart fired a pass for Yancey Thigpen, who made a diving catch at the 4 to set up a 1st-and-goal.
Stewart would run around the left end for three yards on 1st down, which was followed by Bettis being stopped for no gain on 2nd down.
After a poor first half, Kordell Stewart helped led the Steelers to a comeback win over the Patriots.
Then on 3rd down, Stewart found tight end Mark Bruener wide open in the end zone for the touchdown to make it 21-19 with 38 seconds to play.
The Steelers had to go for the two-point conversion to tie the game and when Stewart connected with Thigpen, the game was tied at 21.
The Patriots took a knee to run out the clock, so the game went into overtime where the Steelers won the coin toss and elected to play offense.
Pittsburgh lost five yards on their first two offensive plays which led to a 3rd-and-15 from their own 21-yard-line when Stewart tossed a screen pass to Hawkins, who turned up field and ran 41 yards to the New England 38-yard-line.
Then, Bruener made a 16-yard reception to the Patriots’ 20 which was followed by two runs by Bettis for five yards.
That is when Cowher decided to go for the field goal on 3rd down, a 31-yarder that Johnson calmly kicked through the uprights to give Pittsburgh a 24-21 overtime victory that helped secure the Steelers’ fourth straight AFC Central Division title.
The two teams would meet again in the AFC Divisional Playoffs, this time at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh with the Steelers knocking off the Patriots in a defensive battle, 7-6 to advance to the AFC Championship Game.
However, the Steelers would fall to the Denver Broncos 24-21 as Stewart threw three interceptions in the game, two of them in the end zone as the Steelers were poised to score touchdowns.
Stewart would struggle for the next three seasons as the Steelers failed to make the playoffs each season until the 2001 season when Stewart had his best season as a quarterback as he threw for over 3,000 yards and accounted for 19 touchdowns as he led Pittsburgh a 13-3 record and a return trip to the AFC Championship Game.
But once again, Stewart would throw three interceptions in the AFC Championship Game as the Steelers lost 24-17 to the New England Patriots.
Stewart’s reign as the starting quarterback in Pittsburgh came to an end during the third game of the 2002 season when he was replaced by backup Tommy Maddox after a 0-2 start and was released by Pittsburgh following the end of the season.
Stewart would make stops at Chicago and Baltimore before he retired after the 2005 NFL season.
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Berlin: Hertha announces opening date for new stadium
It's more of a wish than solid information at this point, but still worth the attention. When Hertha is 133 years old, on July 25, 2025, their new stadium should open its doors to supporters. Exactly 55,137 of them.
On Monday evening Hertha Berlin supporters met with club officials to discuss outstanding issues surrounding the club. One of them is the relocation to a football-specific stadium within Olympiastadion.
As confirmed by Klaus Teichert, chief of Stadion GmbH, the stadium should see groundbreaking in January of 2022, perhaps within that year's first quarter. Opening? A very symbolic date: July 25, 2025, on Hertha's 133th birthday. It would also be the opening of the 2025/26 season, following the end of lease on Olympiastadion in late June of 2025.
Every year Hertha is paying €5.25 million for the current stadium and, according to Teichert, redevelopment of the stadium into a football-specific one would make it far more expensive, in excess of €10 million per annum. Besides, as Teichert said, „Olympiastadion is a great stadium when full, it's a great stadium when empty. Everything in between is bad”.
A new stadium, in turn, requires a stable financing of €200 million to build but would then be far easier to manage. The venue, inspired by Athletic Club's San Mames in Bilbao, would have a capacity of 55,137, according to Teichert.
The detailed capacity and quite precise time frame for construction may still be brought to a halt, however. Hertha still has to reach agreement with Berlin's senate over lease of land within Olympiapark, where the stadium is to be built. That deal is expected by Hertha in the first quarter of 2019. Another issue is the relocation of residents who currently live within the area, occupying 24 apartments at Sportforumstraße.
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Category Archives: World
Gulen’s Goon: Radical Muslim now “Bob” Casey’s Cash Cow
15 July 2016 By Guest Author
Money buys everything, including, it would seem, the allegiance of Senator Robert (“Bob”) Casey (D-PA) to militant Islam.
All aid to Israel is illegal
29 March 2015 By Jason Scheurer
Israel has over 100 nuclear weapons. No one in the US government will publicly admit to this truth because to do so would break the very laws we passed decades ago against proliferation, while simultaneously exposing the hypocrisy of the current US Israeli foreign policy.
Car dashcam video of TransAsia GE 235 plane crash emerges
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The Muckrakers: a history
9 September 2014 By Louis R. Jasikoff
While muckraking articles began appearing in the late 1800s, the January 1903 issue of McClure’s Magazine is generally credited with the launch of muckraking journalism. The term “muckraker” actually appeared later, initially in comments by President Teddy Roosevelt in a 1906 speech about journalism, when Roosevelt referred to a character in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress as “the Man with the Muck-Rake.” Originally used as a pejorative, the public came to embrace the term, as well as the work provided by these intrepid writers.
Silence is Compliance: Would you recognize tyranny? Part II
18 August 2014 By Anthony Antonello
Now, in 2014, this government admits to wiretapping every single American, and the following claim might sound like hyperbole if it were not true, but the entire world is now being spied on. The U.S. government has written into law the power to do literally anything it wants to you and you have no say about it whatsoever. They can kidnap you, throw you in a cage forever, and you will never see a lawyer, let alone see your family again. But I guess that pales in comparison to the fact that they can murder you without you ever getting a chance to face your accuser in a court of law or make your case for innocence. If your family wants to know what happened to you, they will be told that “it’s classified, National Security,” and all of this can be made upon the decision of one person who doesn’t even need to explain to anybody why he made such a decision.
Spanning the immigration divide
7 August 2014 By Eric Franzo
With the rapid spread of communication tools enabling a free-form flow of ideas and opinions, the American public is perhaps more vocal now than at any other time in history. When these public opinions are parlayed into political discourse, the rhetoric can feel emotionally charged and heated. The latest long-running issue reaching this precipitous slope of loud, often-times incomplete and mechanistic outrage is immigration reform, or in this case, a general lack thereof. Over 321 protests took place over the July 19 weekend, with protesters citing that an estimated 55,000 children have entered the United States illegally since the spring. According to protest organizers, this is “the largest coordinated protest against all forms of amnesty, comprehensive immigration reform, and the government’s failure to enforce immigration laws and secure our borders.”
A trip to the beach, Part II
7 August 2014 By Daniel Gagnon
It is difficult to describe the visual impact of the many Allied and American cemeteries in the North of France. Even today’s reverent pictorials on the Internet cannot capture the feeling evoked by passing hundreds, then thousands, of white crosses, field after field, kilometre after kilometre, each cross marking the final resting place of a soldier foreign to this soil. Those who live here see these reminders every day.
Silence is Compliance: Would you recognize tyranny? Part I
14 July 2014 By Anthony Antonello
Would you recognize tyranny? Honestly ask yourself that question. How would you know if you are on the right side of history? Being a citizen of the empire, you, the reader, live in a bubble and are constantly being reinforced with the notion that “we are the good guys” and that “we are bringing peace to the world,” “we” being American citizens of the United States federal government and anybody who stands behind it and the actions carried out in its name. I know that when conversation arises about foreign policy, it usually consists merely of left-vs.-right talking points. Consider that most of the “anti-war Left” were really just anti-Bush, and I wouldn’t even have a problem with that if they stuck to their principles and continued to be anti-war, but that wasn’t the case. When George W. Bush left office, it seemed the “anti-war Left” departed with him.
A trip to the beach, Part I
9 July 2014 By Daniel Gagnon
One benefit of military service is the recognition that not all authority is meant to thwart our good times; sometimes it is meant to protect us, preserve us, arm us with the knowledge and skills to survive in difficult or life-threatening situations. As a result, we were open to the advice of my unit’s senior non-commissioned officer (NCO), who touted the idea of camping our way along the French side of the English Channel. He spoke of the beauty of the beaches, the friendly reception afforded to visiting Americans, and insisted that it would be the “vacation of a lifetime.”
Beware of the Heartbleed bug
12 May 2014 By Eric Franzo
Heartbleed. It’s a word that almost instantly became synonymous with unprotected software and malicious attacks. We live in a world where the lifeblood of communication, productivity, and innovation relies heavily upon the interconnectivity of machines. Amoral electrical impulses flood our world with data and knowledge, with the moral use of those signals lying solely with the user. Herein lies the greatest challenge to modern day computing: known as blackhat hackers, these netizens carry the unique distinction of causing mayhem online, whether through identity theft, website defacement, or sailing the burgeoning seas of bitcoin theft. Heartbleed is the most recent high-profile bug, and one which allows hackers to carry out malicious attacks on unsuspecting companies and users.
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Less than 1 percent of MLB employees tested positive for covid-19 antibodies
May 11, 2020 May 11, 2020 - by Coach - Leave a Comment
A study involving thousands of staffers and players from most Major League Baseball teams revealed that 0.7 percent of those who completed test kits had antibodies for covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, indicating that they had been infected at a previous time.
That number is greater than the rate of reported cases, approximately 0.4 percent, among the overall U.S. population. However, most of the country has not been tested, either for antibodies or in point-of-care diagnostic tests, making the MLB study an important and unprecedented “snapshot,” researchers said Sunday.
“In one sense, it suggests that only a small fraction of the population has been infected,” Jay Bhattacharya, a medical researcher at Stanford University, told reporters in a conference call. Still, he noted, covid-19 is “also further along than what you might expect by just looking at case numbers.”
The study reportedly involved 26 of the 30 MLB teams and based its results on 5,603 completed tests and surveys. Researchers said 60 people tested positive for covid-19 antibodies, and after controlling for an expected amount of false positives and negatives, that number was adjusted to 42. There were zero deaths among the test group.
Researchers noted that the test group was not perfectly “representative of the American population at large,” because it skewed toward subjects who mostly ranged in age from 20 to 64 and who generally were of elevated socioeconomic status.
The study was described as the first of its kind in terms of its national scope, and Bianca Mulaney, a Stanford medical student who is the lead author on the study, made a point of crediting major league teams for “an amazing feat” in having been able to “orchestrate the test collection in such a short period of time.”
However, researchers pointed to the fact that the “overwhelming majority” of test subjects were not athletes but other types of team employees, from front-office executives to stadium vendors.
It takes about six to 10 days for 50 percent of people to develop antibodies, Bhattacharya said, and thus the snapshot provided by the study would have been from early April. MLB suspended spring training in mid-March, and it hopes to resume in June before starting to play games in July.
Bhattacharya said the study provided good news in the zero deaths but bad news by indicating that “the epidemic has not gotten very far.” Another positive takeaway could be gleaned from the fact that 70 percent of the subjects who tested positive described themselves as asymptomatic.
Researchers were loath to draw analysis from results from different locations, except to acknowledge that the rate of antibodies was higher in states known to have a relatively greater prevalence of the coronavirus, such as New York, as opposed to the Midwest. According to the Athletic, the Los Angeles Angels and the two New York teams had the highest rates of infection. The MLB test subjects showed lower rates, per the researchers, than in surrounding areas where similar antibody studies had been done.
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A dwarf evergreen shrub usually 6 to 12 in. high, perhaps ultimately 18 in.; young shoots scurfy, with reddish scales. Leaves roundish ovate, 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. long, half or more than half as wide, dark green above, pale beneath, both surfaces covered with glistening scales; leaf-stalk distinctly formed, but only 1⁄12 in. long. Flowers in terminal trusses of frequently five or six; each flower 5⁄8 in. across, violet-purple in the bud state, becoming paler and lilac-coloured after opening. Calyx-lobes five, short, triangular. Corolla with a short tube and five rounded, spreading lobes. Stamens ten, almost entirely included within the corolla-tube, downy at the base. Style shorter than stamens. Bot. Mag., t. 8163. (s. Lapponicum)
R. intricatum was discovered by the Abbé Soulié in W. Szechwan in 1895, some way to the west of Kangting (Tatsien-lu), and was introduced by Wilson in 1904 when collecting for Messrs Veitch. Only three years later, in April 1907, that firm exhibited seedlings a few inches high but full of flower, and the species was straightway awarded a First Class Certificate (but under the erroneous name R. nigropunctatum). It was later reintroduced from the Muli area of S.W. Szechwan by Forrest and by Kingdon Ward.
This rhododendron makes a neat little bush of rounded form suggesting a pygmy tree, and it flowers when only a few inches high; this, together with the colour of the flowers and the profusion in which they are borne, render it a singularly attractive little plant for the rock garden or some such place, where tiny, slow-growing plants are not in danger of being smothered by stronger ones. Coming from high Alpine regions, it is quite hardy.
R. peramabile Hutch. – In describing this species, Dr Hutchinson remarked that it could be no more than a ‘luxurious state’ of R. intricatum. The type is a cultivated plant, raised from Forrest 20463, the field-specimen corresponding to which is R. yungningense. It grows up to 21⁄2 ft high and has leaves 1⁄2 to almost 1 in. long.
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
R. peramabile, mentioned here, becomes a synonym of R. intricatum.
† R. complexum Balf.f. & W.W. Sm. – This species could be confused with R. intricatum, which it resembles in its narrow corolla with the stamens, and usually the style, included in the tube. It differs in the rust-coloured scales on the undersides of the leaves (pale in R. intricatum) and in having usually only six to eight stamens. A native of north-west Yunnan, introduced by Forrest (F.15392), but rare in cultivation.
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New Funding for Cattle Producers to Secure Strong Future for the Beef Industry
National Cattlemen’s Foundation announces a partnership with Cargill to invest in the long-term resilience and professional development of farmers and ranchers
DENVER (July 16, 2020) – The National Cattlemen’s Foundation (NCF) today announced its partnership with Cargill to provide funding to North American cattle producers to provide practical tools to help manage market shifts, reduce costs, manage finite natural resource availability and withstand extreme weather events.
The four-year strategic partnership, which was funded by a $3 million contribution from Cargill’s protein business, establishes a professional development scholarship program, and provides educational resources through the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (USRSB) and experiential learning in partnership with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA).
“Cargill is invested in the future of ranchers and farmers,” Jon Nash, Cargill Protein – North America business leader. “This contribution is just one of the ways we are investing what we’ve earned back in agricultural communities. We know we can’t deliver protein to tables without the people on the frontlines of our food system.”
The Rancher Resilience Grant program, which serves as the professional development scholarship arm of the program, offsets expenses for farmers and ranchers to attend state, regional, national, and global educational events. This includes industry conferences, seminars, and certifications that address animal health and wellbeing, profitability, natural resources, sustainability, genetics, and reproduction education.
“This partnership furthers NCF’s vision by advancing the future of the beef industry,” said NCBA CEO Colin Woodall. “There is no better way to achieve this than by meeting producers on the ground and supporting access to continuing education through free tools and resources.”
Cargill and the NCF will also work with the USRSB to support free virtual education platforms for the entire beef value chain. Additional resources will support the NCBA in promoting producer professional development opportunities.
“The USRSB educational modules provide real-world solutions that can be applied to any operation, no matter size or location,” said Wayne Morgan, USRSB chair. “We are excited to partner with Cargill and the NCF to develop tools designed to help stakeholders across the industry continuously improve how we raise, process and distribute beef.”
“Our industry continually explores technologies and production practices to support more efficient operations that focus on profitability and consistent high-quality beef,” said NCBA Executive Director of Producer Education Josh White. “It’s exciting to see industry partners come together through a shared commitment to promote the long-term economic wellbeing of farmers and ranchers across the beef value chain while also improving our product and our care for livestock and natural resources.”
The Rancher Resilience Grant program will launch this fall. Development of educational resources and promotion will begin immediately.
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Author Danielle Steel
Dating Game (eBook)
Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn't imagine what he was about to say."I want a divorce," Peter tells her. Just like that, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made their plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. And Paris was left to figure out how she intended to get through the next day, let alone the rest of her life.The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to "fix her up" with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Worse yet, she still loved him. Finally, Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were called for. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to move - as far away as possible, just after Peter remarried. Paris had never felt, or been, more alone.Saying goodbye to the world she knew and loved, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. For Paris, the list seemed endless . . . the charming commitment-phobe . . . the drunken Neanderthal . . . the young Frenchman - so adorably sexy she almost forgot about his age, and did, for a while. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Paris's age, Paris finally comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future. That's when her small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And a decision Paris makes only for herself changes her life once more. The secret, she discovers finally, is in finding the gifts in life's unexpected twists and turns, and turning despair into freedom and loss into joy.In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courage and laughter, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start over, whether you wanted to or not, and finding something better than you had before.
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Martin Set to Debut for Slumping Phillies
Yet another Phillies prospect will make their big-league debut this year, as Ethan Martin has been tabbed for tonight's start. With Cliff Lee still experiencing neck stiffness, Martin will take his turn in the rotation and, at least momentarily, give fans a glimpse into the future of the Phillies.
Acquired from the Dodgers last season in the Victorino trade, Martin comes highly-touted. A six-foot-two right-hander, Martin was the fifteenth overall pick in the 2008 Draft out of high school. After working his way through the Dodgers system, Martin was traded to the Phillies last year, finishing the season in Double A Reading, going 5-0 in seven starts. Martin made the jump to Triple A Lehigh Valley in 2013.
In 21 starts for the Iron Pigs, Martin has amassed an 11-5 record to go along with his 4.12 ERA. While that ERA is not overly impressive, Martin clearly has shown promise after entering the season as the Phillies number two rated prospect by MLB.com. While his first stint in the majors may be short lived, depending on Lee's health, one thing is for sure, the Phillies have begun to look to the future as this disappointing season continues.
Side note, Martin's middle name is Cash. That's pretty awesome, in my opinion at least.
For who? My teammates. For what? To win.
-Aaron Rowand (after running into the outfield wall to make the catch)
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Compliance Advisor Fined and Suspended For Falsifying Data
It's sort of a reasonable expectation, I would say, that if you are hired to do a job, you have an obligation to do what you're being paid to do. Of course, sometimes you bite off more than you can chew and you're overwhelmed; and, sometimes, you figure that if no one is looking over your shoulder, hell, I'll get to this crap when I'm in the mood. In a recent FINRA regulatory settlement, we are confronted with a respondent who didn't quite seem to be clocking in everyday and paying attention to the details. Let's just say, we got a guy who may have gone through the motions . . . if even that.
For the purpose of proposing a settlement of rule violations alleged by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA"), without admitting or denying the findings, prior to a regulatory hearing, and without an adjudication of any issue, John Walter Ruggles submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent ("AWC"), which FINRA accepted. In the Matter of John Walter Ruggles, Respondent (AWC 2015045211801, October 23, 2015).
Ruggles first became registered in 1993 and was registered with six FINRA member firms during his career. From May 5, 2014 to March 16, 2015, he was associated with FINRA member firm City Securities Corporation as a General Securities Representative, Principal, and Sales Supervisor. The AWC asserts that Ruggles had no prior relevant disciplinary history.
The MCDs
The AWC alleges that City Securities hired Ruggles as a Compliance Advisor, and among his assigned tasks was to generate monthly FINRA Municipal Continuing Disclosure Reports (the "MCDs") in compliance with Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board ("MSRB") and federal securities laws disclosure requirements. Ruggles was required to populate the MCDs with customer transaction data and to email the data to the management of the City Securities's Private Client Group ("PCG"). The AWC asserts that the PCG used the information in Ruggles' emails to prepared customer satisfaction letters in which recent bond trading activity was set forth.
Takin' Care of Business?
The AWC asserts that on March 4, 2015, Ruggles' supervisor noticed that Ruggles had not yet run the February 2015 MCD and asked for documentation evidencing the performance of necessary tasks back to June 2014. In response to that query, the AWC alleges that on March 11, 2015, Ruggles provided six printed copies of e-mails and the supporting trade details.
Fabricated Documentation
Whatever raised the supervisor's concerns, it turned out that Ruggles had fabricated the e-mails and falsified the contents of both the six e-mails referenced above and their supporting trade reports in order to give the false appearance that he had completed his required compliance reviews.
Bad enough that he falsified the supporting compliance documents, but the clumsiness of Ruggles efforts are clearly spelled out in the AWC, which notes that:
although the falsified e-mails purported to date back to June 2014, the subject lines all made reference to either July or September of 2014;
City Securities's electronic compliance files did not contain of any of the six e-mails Ruggles provided;
two of the MCDs provided by Ruggles contained falsified and altered transaction data (pointedly, he had altered execution dates for certain customer bond trades); and
between October 31, 2014, and March 2, 2015, Ruggles had not viewed the MCDs despite having marked the compliance task completed.
Over and Out
Online FINRA BrokerCheck records as of November 2, 2015, disclose that he was "Discharged" by City Securities on March 16, 2015, based upon allegations of:
FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY PERFORM JOB FUNCTIONS AND ALLEGED FALSIFICATION OF INTERNAL COMPLIANCE RECORDS
FINRA deemed Ruggles' falsification of two MCDs and six e-mails as constituting violations of FINRA Rule 2010. Moreover, by falsifying the MCD data, Ruggles was also deemed to have entered false information in his firm's books and records, causing the maintenance of inaccurate books and records in violation of Section 17(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 17a-4 thereunder, thus violating FINRA Rules 4511 and 2010.
In accordance with the terms of the AWC, FINRA imposed upon Ruggles a $5,000 fine and 14-month suspension from association with any FINRA member in any capacity.
Bill Singer's Comment
According to the AWC, on March 4, 2015, Ruggles' supervisor was aware of the late filing/preparation of the February 2015 MCD. The absence of the February report should have troubled the supervisor but that hardly explains why that individual wanted proof from Ruggles' of the subordinate's compliance with his job duties going back to June 2014. Although we can all come up with any number of reasonable explanations as to why any supervisor would request proof that a subordinate had done his or her job in light of a failure to timely produce a required monthly report, regulatory settlements should offer meaningful content and context whenever possible. In that spirit, the AWC would have performed a helpful service by informing industry compliance professionals as to what the red flags were that motivated the supervisor to demand proof of some eight months of job performance from Ruggles.
Kudos to the supervisor who smelled smoke and moved to put out a small fire before it became a conflagration. Job well done!
Municipal Continuing Disclosure Reports
MSRB
BrokeAndBroker
Bill Singer
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I'm a writer, a programmer, a Pyrenean Mountain Dog owner and, in my few spare moments, I teach Aikido in North Devon...
But let's talk about the writing.
I've been a writer all my life. I was eleven when I first started selling articles to newspapers and magazines. In the 1980s I became a pop music journalist and interviewed stars ranging from Simon Le Bon and Adam Ant to Randy Crawford and The Weather Girls. I worked for magazines such as Flexipop!, Number One, Kicks and Jackie. After that I moved into computer journalism, writing about programming, editing magazines, doing multimedia presentations and TV.
Just a few of the fine magazines for which I wrote in the '80s
For a while the 1990s I was a magazine publisher. We published the regular way, with huge print-runs and a complicated distribution network. It cost a small fortune. And now I write programming books (see the Bitwise Books site) and novels... and I publish them myself!
But eeek! (I hear you cry) isn’t self-publishing the same as vanity publishing? Well, that’s certainly the way it used to be perceived in the book publishing world. In the magazine publishing world, with which I am more familiar, independent publishing has no such stigma. Recall that I said I was a publisher myself in the ’90s. To become I publisher, I went into partnership with another reckless fool, we stumped up tens of thousands of pounds of our own hard-earned cash and we printed a magazine called 18 Rated. The major newsagents agreed to distribute it and then had second thoughts (they said the magazine was rude! Ha! Just because it had a picture of a man’s naked bottom impersonating Elvis Presley on the cover!) But we’d already paid for the printing and when newsagents refused to sell the magazine, it cost us a fortune in lost revenues.
E-Publishing is altogether more civilised. All you need to publish a book is talent and determination. The financial outlays are minimal. I am utterly convinced that this is the face of the future. The whole clunky network of agents, publishers, distributors and bookshops is going to become a thing of the past. Authors no longer need them. We can communicate directly with our readers. Those authors who write books that people want to read will succeed; those who don’t, won’t. And the writer is not at the mercy of the publishers and distributors. They cannot bring you to the brink of financial ruin on a whim...
This blog is devoted to the book publishing experiences of myself and other writers. If you are a writer and you have something you want to say, please contact me. Maybe we can do an interview. If you want to interview me for your blog, well, I'd also be keen to talk.
We are in this together now, so we’d better get to know one another!
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Museo del Prado opens new permanent collection itinerary on same-sex relationships
Room 12. Hermaphrodite. Deceptive Appearances Section.
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado is inviting visitors to focus on its collection from a different viewpoint through a selection of 30 paintings, sculptures and drawings which are habitually on display in its galleries. Representing part of the complex western cultural heritage, they can now be viewed as a marvellous testimony to different, minority and, on occasions, silent affective formulas.
Each of these independent but interrelated thematic routes reflects an affective reality with a social status that has changed in relation to different periods and places and which has been reflected in art in a range of diverse and appealing ways. On the one had these routes emphasise the way the various iconographies of love have passed unnoticed or were even concealed in the past and on the other, the naturally inclusive fact of their existence.
These works refer to concepts such as love between free equals in the classical world and the persecution of relationships of that type in the new Christian era; the status of different and ambiguous individuals as a spectacle in their own right during the early modern age; and the sole possibility of the acceptance of other alternatives through a literary and mythological key in images which were only for the enjoyment of the social elites.
The first route, Immortal Friendships, looks at sentimental and political relationships between people of the same sex. From antiquity onwards these relationships came to acquire mythical status in art history and literature as a starting point for the creation of an alternative identity legitimised by history.
Antinous, Taller romano, 131 - 132. White Carrara marble, 97 x 70 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
The Emperor Hadrian, Roman sculptor, Ca. 134. White marble, 84 x 67 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Orestes and Pylades or The San Ildefonso Group, Pupil of Pasitales, Ca. 10 a.C.. White Carrara marble, 161 x 106 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Aristogiton, Roman sculptor, Late I century. White marble, 54 x 34 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Sappho, Anonymous, 16th-century artist, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
The Siesta, Lawrence Alma Tadema, 1868. Oil on canvas, 130 x 369 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
The second, Pursuing Desires, looks at the persecution of artists and the denigration of works of art over the centuries due to their personal identity or subject matter and iconography respectively, given that they made visible relationships and identities outside of the prevailing morality of the time. Some artists, such as Botticelli or Leonardo, were put on trial while other artists testified against them.
Scenes from The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, Sandro Botticelli, 1483. Mixed method on panel, 83 x 138 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
The Mona Lisa, Anonymous (Workshop of Leonardo Da Vinci), 1503 - 1519. Oil on walnut panel, 76.3 x 57 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Venus, Bacio Bandinelli, 1530 - 1534. Bronze, 179 x 58 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
David with the Head of Goliath, Caravaggio, c. 1600, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Saint Sebastian, Guido Reni, 1617 - 1619. Oil on canvas, 170 x 133 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Hippomenes and Atalanta, Guido Reni, 1618 - 1619. Oil on canvas, 206 x 297 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Jupiter and the Gods urging Apollo to take back the Reins of his Chariot, Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, 1594. Oil on panel, 44 x 98 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Many works of art suffered a similar fate and were either encrypted or were ignored for what they showed. The body and its image structure the argument of the third route, Deceptive Appearances. Inconformity with the corporeal norm is to be found in a number of works in the collection, including The Hermaphrodite and the two paintings of bearded women by Ribera and Sánchez Cotán. Also featured are examples of transvestism and the reversal of gender roles.
Brígida del Río, the Bearded Lady of Peñaranda, Juan Sánchez Cotán, 1590. Oil on canvas, 102 x 61 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Maddalena Ventura, José de Ribera. In deposit at the Museo Nacional del Prado
Sleeping Hermaphrodite, Matteo Bonuccelli, 1652. Bronze, 61 x 160 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1618. Oil on canvas, 248.5 x 269.5 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Hercules and Omphale, Antonio Dumandré, XVIIIe century, 82 x 50 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Vertumnus and Pomona, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636 - 1637. Oil on panel, 26.5 x 38.3 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
To love like the Gods, the final route, brings together a series of mythological works that represent relationships between equals in settings remote from the real world. Works of this type were intended for the private spaces of the social elites. These stories of gods showed behaviour forbidden to mortals which only rulers and princes could contemplate.
Ganymede, Anonymous artist, 1600 - 1700. White marble, 150 x 106 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
The Abduction of Ganymede, Peter Paul Rubens. Oil on canvas, 181 x 87,3 cm. 1636 - 1638, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Diana and Callisto, Peter Paul Rubens, Ca. 1635. Oil on canvas, 202.6 x 325.5 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
The Death of Hyacinthus, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636 - 1637. Oil on panel, 14.5 x 13.6 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Narcissus, Anonymous artist, Roman, 25 - 50. White marble, 116 x 44 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
The project is completed with two exceptional works from the collection, El Cid by Rosa Bonheur and El Maricón de la Tía Gila by Goya. These are little-known creations which give visible form to two complementary realities through a female artist and a subject matter that clearly relate to the content of the itinerary as a whole.
El Maricón de la tía Gila. Album C, 38, Francisco de Goya, 1803 - 1824, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
El Cid, Rosa Bonheur. Oil on canvas, 95 x 76 cm, 1879 Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
In conjunction with The Other’s Gaze, the Museum’s website (www.museodelprado.es) is featuring a series of conversations between artists such as Guillermo Perez Villalta, Javier Codesal, Helena Cabello and Ana Carceller, Alexander Apostol and El Palomar; and historians, journalists and cultural agents such as Estrella de Diego, member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Manuel Olveira of the MUSAC, Jaime de los Santos, head of cultural promotion, Region of Madrid, and Javier Moreno of El País. These conversations will focus on the principal issues and problems behind the representation of other types of love and sexuality through art and literature.
Room 8. Deceptive Appearances Section.
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BROWN PRAGMATOX
Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time searching for rummage sales hoping to buy either a flower arrangement with daisies and carnations for your uncle or a coffee cup commemorating next Thursday. Be on the lookout for jovial bank tellers.
Mark Twain said "I wonder how much it would take to buy soap buble if there was only one in the world."
Clearinghouse Interbank Payments System
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Home → Jurisdiction → Latvia → Culture
Culture of Latvia
People in Latvia speak the Latvian language. The linguistic diversity of Latvia is rather diverse according to a fractionalization scale which for Latvia is 0.5795. The followers of Christianity are the religious majority in the country. 67.7% of Latvia's population live in cities. This percentage comprises the urban population of Latvia. The rate of urbanization in Latvia is considered to be -0.5. The negative rate of urbanization in Latvia indicates a lack of economic strength and stability in that nation’s cities. This could indicate that investment in this nation’s industries is a gamble; decreasing urbanization could result in a lack of labor for large business projects. According to data on inbound tourists in Latvia, 1,536,000 tourists arrive in the country each year.
The national anthem of Latvia is called 'Dievs, svētī Latviju!', which in English means 'God Bless Latvia'. It was adopted in 1920. Both the music and the lyrics have been composed by Kārlis Baumanis.
The first McDonalds in Latvia was opened on 15 December 1994, and it was located in Riga. At the moment Latvia has 11 operating McDonalds restaurants. The number of operating McDonalds restaurants in a country is indicative of the influence of Western culture and globalization in that country. Operating McDonalds restaurants could also have a direct impact on the health of a nation's citizens. Around 25% of the population of Latvia are obese.
Each year, the people of Latvia consume 1.8 litre of alcohol per capita, and this volume consists of 46.9% beer, 10.7% wine, 37% distilled spirits, 5.4% other alcohol.
National dish
One of the most popular national dishes of Latvia is sauerkraut. Other national dishes include grey peas with salted pork fat, sweet bread soup.
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The pandemic taught us how not to deal with climate change.
There’s a case to be made that 2020, for all the sacrifices it demanded and tragedies it inflicted, could at least mark a turning point on climate change.
It’s now possible that global oil demand and greenhouse-gas emissions may have already peaked in 2019, since the pandemic could slow economic growth for years, accelerate the demise of coal, and bring about long-lasting declines in energy demand through things like continued remote working.
On top of that, a growing number of major companies and nations, including China, have committed to zero out their emissions by around midcentury. The election of Joe Biden will put a president in the White House who has committed to take bold action on climate change. Clean technologies like solar, wind, batteries, and electric vehicles are getting cheaper and gaining ground in the marketplace.
And in the final days of the year, the US Congress managed to authorize (though not yet appropriate) tens of billions of dollars for clean power projects within a sweeping coronavirus relief bill. The package also enacted tightening limits on hydrofluorocarbons—highly potent greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners. (After criticizing the bill as a “disgrace,” President Trump nonetheless signed it into law on Dec. 27.)
But finally reaching a turning point, decades after scientists began warning us of the dangers, matters less than how rapidly and consistently we cut emissions on the other side of it. And that’s where some of the darker signs in 2020 have me worried.
Far too slowly
Even if we have achieved peak emissions, that only means we’re no longer making the problem worse at an increasing rate year after year. But we’re still making it worse. Carbon dioxide lasts hundreds of years in the atmosphere, so every additional ton we emit further exacerbates climate change, promising more or worse heat waves, droughts, wildfires, famines, and flooding.
We don’t need to flatten emissions—we need to eliminate them as rapidly as possible. Even then, we’ll be left to deal with the effectively permanent damage we’ve caused.
Some argue that the radical changes in behavior and practices that went into effect as the coronavirus spread around the planet are a promising sign for our collective ability to address climate change. This is, frankly, nonsense.
Huge portions of the population stopped driving to work; going to bars, restaurants, and theaters; and flying around the globe. Economic growth plummeted. Hundreds of millions of people lost their jobs. Hundreds of thousands of businesses have closed for good. People are going hungry. And the world is becoming much poorer.
None of this is a viable or acceptable way of slowing climate change. Moreover, all this devastation only shaved about 6{9a01d93bf7b2c28a1b31ca31fecd25f15e15c35cfb9f5daef6a59cb9fcd1aa14} off US greenhouse-gas emissions this year, according to BloombergNEF estimates. Global estimates are about the same. The pollution reductions came at a massive economic cost, at somewhere between $3,200 to $5,400 per ton of carbon, according to earlier estimates by the Rhodium Group.
We would need sustained cuts on that level, year after year for decades, to prevent far more dangerous levels of warming than we’re already seeing. Instead, emissions are likely to bounce back close to 2019 levels as soon as the economy recovers.
It’s hard to point to a clearer example of how deeply embedded climate pollution is into an even basic level functioning of our society—and how drastically we need to overhaul every part of our economy to begin substantially and sustainably cutting emissions.
We need to transform the economy, not shut it down. And that transformation is happening far too slowly.
Polarized politics
It is fantastic news that clean technologies are getting cheaper and more competitive. The problem is they still represent a fraction of the market today: Electric vehicles account for about 3{9a01d93bf7b2c28a1b31ca31fecd25f15e15c35cfb9f5daef6a59cb9fcd1aa14} of new car sales worldwide, while renewables generated a little more than 10{9a01d93bf7b2c28a1b31ca31fecd25f15e15c35cfb9f5daef6a59cb9fcd1aa14} of global electricity last year.
Meanwhile, we’ve barely begun to transition industries that are far harder to clean up, like cement, steel, shipping, agriculture, and aviation. And the “net” part of national and corporate zero-emissions plans rely on huge levels of carbon removal and offsets efforts that we haven’t remotely shown we can do reliably, affordably, permanently, and at scale.
We can’t wait for free markets to nudge along nonpolluting products. And the lofty midcentury emissions targets that nations have set mean little on their own. We need aggressive government policies and trade pacts to push or pull clean technologies into the marketplace and support the development of the tools we don’t yet have or are far too expensive today.
Getting just the US on track to zero out emissions across its economy will require massive investments, and they need to start now, according to a study by Princeton researchers released last month. In the next decade alone, the US will need to invest $2.5 trillion, put 50 million electric vehicles on the road, quadruple solar and wind resources, and increase the capacity of high voltage transmission lines by 60{9a01d93bf7b2c28a1b31ca31fecd25f15e15c35cfb9f5daef6a59cb9fcd1aa14}, among much else.
The analysis found the nation also needs to dedicate far more money to research and development right away if we hope to begin scaling up an array of emerging technologies beyond 2030, like carbon capture and removal, carbon-neutral fuels, and cleaner industrial processes.
Certainly, the election of Biden is good news for climate change, following the Trump administration’s four-year blitz to unravel every climate and environmental regulation it could. Biden’s White House can make some progress through executive orders, bipartisan infrastructure bills, and additional economic stimulus measures that free up funding for the areas above. But it’s hard to imagine, given the mixed results of Congressional elections and our highly polarized political climate, how he’ll be able to push through the sorts of strict climate policies necessary to get things moving at anywhere close to the necessary speed, like a hefty price on carbon or rules that mandate swift emissions reductions.
The good news is that, unlike what happened in the downturn that began in 2008, people’s concerns about climate change have persisted into the pandemic and downturn, according to polling. But coming out of a year of angst and loss and isolation, I have to wonder how readily voters around the world will embrace any measures that ask more of them in the next few years, whether it’s a tax on gas, higher airline fees, or being told to upgrade to cleaner electric appliances in their homes.
Remember, the world—and many of its citizens—will emerge from the pandemic far poorer.
Sowing division
But here is what frightens me the most about what happened in 2020.
Researchers and advocates have long assumed, or hoped, that people would start taking climate change seriously as it began to inflict real harms. After all, how could they continue to deny it and refuse to take action once the dangers were upon them and their families?
But what we’ve seen in the pandemic doesn’t bear that out. Even after more than 300,000 Americans have died of covid-19, huge portions of the population continue to deny the threat and refuse to abide by basic public health measures, like wearing masks and canceling holiday travel. Despite waves of infections tied to Thanksgiving gatherings, millions packed the airports the weekend before Christmas.
That’s terrifying in itself, but it’s particularly ominous for climate change.
In an essay in August, when global covid-19 deaths stood at around 600,000, Bill Gates pointed out that climate change fatalities could reach that level by 2060—but as an annual occurrence. By the end of the century, the death toll could be five times that figure.
If the pandemic offers any clear lessons, it’s that even all that loss may not persuade many of the reality of climate change or the necessity to act—particularly since those deaths will tick up gradually. Politicians can still find ways to downplay the dangers and exploit the issue to sow division, rather than seeking common cause. And we may simply learn to live with the elevated risks, particularly since they’ll disproportionately harm those in the poorest, hottest parts of the world who had the least to do with causing climate change.
I have every confidence that we have the technical and economic capacity to address most of the risks of climate change. I’m pretty sure we will begin to move faster than we have in the past. I think we’ll make a lot of progress on cutting emissions. I bet we’re going to rebuild big parts of our infrastructure to address some of the increased dangers. I’m certain that some areas, particularly in the global North, will continue to thrive, and some will even grow richer.
But I fear we still don’t fully recognize that we’re on the cusp of failing in very tragic ways. Given where our emissions are and where they need to be, it’s nearly impossible to see how we’re going to move fast enough at this point to prevent 2 ˚C of warming. And that will mean staggering levels of otherwise preventable death, suffering, and ecological destruction.
It should be a call to arms. But it’s hard to look at 2020 and come away feeling optimistic about our collective ability to grapple with complex problems in rational or humane ways—even, or perhaps especially, in the midst of multiple unfolding calamities.
Instead, overlapping climate disasters could poison our politics even further, making all of us more selfish, more focused on our own comfort and safety, and less willing to sacrifice for or invest in a better common future.
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U.S.-ROK military exercises to start after 2018 Paralympics: Mattis
2018-01-05 11:14Xinhua Editor: Gu Liping ECNS App Download
Echoing a White House announcement, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis said Thursday that the joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea will be held after the the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
South Korea, the host nation of both the sports event and the military drill, came up with the proposal for "reasons of traffic, for reasons of de-conflicting an exercise," Mattis told reporters.
"As you know, exercises are not done just on military bases in the defense of ROK ... It'll start sometime following, not the Olympics but the Paralympics, which actually goes a little longer," he said.
"It's a practical matter, and we would call it de-conflicting," he noted. "It's just the normal de-confliction there."
He also added that the United States "have to be open to anything that would implement a diplomatic solution" to the Korean Peninsula crisis.
The White House said earlier that President Donald Trump and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in said in a telephone call that the two nations will delay the military exercises to ensure the security of the upcoming 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
According to the White House, the two leaders agreed to "de-conflict the Olympics and our military exercises so that United States and Republic of Korea forces can focus on ensuring the security of the Games."
Vowing to be "committed to a safe and successful 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang," Trump also told Moon that the United States will send a high-level delegation to the Olympics
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PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND RETURNS TO EL CAMPANIL THEATRE
Sunday, April 10, 2011, 4:00 p.m. Matinee
El Campanil Theatre
602 W. Second Street
www.elcampaniltheatre.com
Antioch, CA - The Preservation Hall Jazz Band (PHJB), based in the city known as the birthplace of Jazz, New Orleans, LA, will return to Northern California on April 10, 2011 to perform for the second year in a row at the historic El Campanil Theatre in Antioch, CA. Sponsored in part by a grant from the Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation and the support of the Antioch Music Foundation, the concert will be staged for a 4:00 p.m. Sunday matinee performance.
This return engagement results from the very enthusiastic response that the band received on March 6, 2010, from the near-capacity, international crowd at the 700-seat theatre. Executive Director of El Campanil Theatre, Rick Carraher, learned while working in the box office before the show that the band apparently has an avid fan-base willing to travel long distances to see them perform. He spoke with one female fan on vacation in the US from Okinawa, Japan. She had just flown across the country in order to see PHJB perform live at El Campanil, after having just missed the band's performance in New York. Carraher, to say the least, was impressed!
The band ended its inaugural performance in Antioch that night with a member of the band marching a line of fans from their seats to the stage. With all that he witnessed and learned in connection with PHJB, Carraher realized that both the band and its fans were something special. He was observed at the end of PHJB's performance turning to Frank Giovanni, the Delta Blues Festival organizer who had recommended the band, and giving him a look that registered his pleasure with what had just transpired on stage. Carraher seemingly mouthed to Giovanni, while the band bowed during their well-earned standing ovation, "Yeah, this was a good choice!"
PHJB was also apparently taken by both its East San Francisco Bay Area following and the vintage theatre's recently-restored, Vaudeville-era ambiance that is a good fit for its music (the theatre was originally built in 1928). This was evidenced by the band's quickly booking the upcoming return engagement shortly after last year's performance.
The building in New Orleans that houses Preservation Hall was the site of many businesses over the years. These included a tavern during the war of 1812, a photo studio and an art gallery. It was during the years of the art gallery that then owner, Larry Borenstein, began holding informal jam sessions for his close friends. Out of these sessions grew the concept of Preservation Hall.
The PHJB began touring in 1963 and for many years there were several bands successfully touring under the name Preservation Hall. Many of the band's charter members performed with the pioneers who invented jazz in the early twentieth century including Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Bunk Johnson.
On a yearly basis, the PHJB performs hundreds of concerts in major cities around the world. A major component of the PHJB's mission is to share with young audiences the living musical traditions of New Orleans. Through Master classes and Student Performances, the PHJB exposes thousands of students to New Orleans Music the world over. From Master classes with college level students and professional musicians at leading conservatories or children's performances for grammar school students, the PHJB seizes every opportunity to spread the resounding joy of New Orleans Music.
Tickets for the PHJB concert at El Campanil may be purchased in advance at the ticket office at 604 W. 2nd Street (next door to the theatre) Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. and one hour before show time. There is no service charge when purchased at the ticket office; if purchased by phone, (925) 757-9500, there is a $2.00 service charge per order (not per ticket). Ticket prices are as follows: $28 for Adults, $25 for Seniors, and $15 for Youth. Tickets can also be purchased online at www.elcampaniltheatre.com, then, clicking the Buy Tickets link on the home page.
In addition to PHJB last year, notable Jazz Musicians who have appeared at El Campanil Theatre in recent years include the following:
• Pete Escovedo Orchestra;
• Christian McBride, Geoffrey Keezer, and Justin Brown;
• Tuck and Patti
The Antioch Music Foundation (AMF), a California non-profit 501(c) (3) corporation, was created in September 2005 to stage musical entertainment events and seek monetary and musical instrument donations for the benefit of the Antioch Unified School Districts music programs. Walter and Cynthia Ruehlig of Antioch, CA, founded the organization, and it has a Board of Directors totaling 10 members. During its first full year of existence, AMF distributed nearly $20,000 and numerous instruments to the various AUSD music programs. It has also staged several other diverse musical events, most notably:
The Antioch Collegiate Jazz Festival, headlined by Jazz Bassist Christian McBride, pianist Geoffrey Keezer and drummer Justin Brown, along with small Jazz combos from the Dave Brubeck Institute (University of Pacific), Cal State East Bay, Fresno State, and San Jose State.
• Ken Bergman's Percussion Discussion
• Internationally-renowned, Philippines-based Saringhimig Singers.
• East County Idol, patterned after American Idol, which was won by Neyshia Go in 2006, Chanelle Lewis in 2008, and Storm Lever in 2010; the next one is scheduled for 2012.
• A church choir competition won by Antioch Family Church.
For more on the AMF, please visit its website at antiochmusic.org
More Information: http://www.elcampaniltheatre.com/events/preservation_hall_jazz_band.htm
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I just read the review in the TLS by Marjorie Perloff of Louis Manand's The Free World, Art and Thought in the Cold War.
Perloff begins her review with a quote from the beginning of Manand's book: "This book is about a time when the United States was actively engaged with the rest of the world. In the twenty years after the end of the Second World War, the United States invested in the economy of Japan and Western Europe and extended loans to other countries around the world. With the United Kingdom, it created the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to support global political stability and International trade. It hosted the new United Nations. Through its government, its philanthropic foundations, its universities, and its cultural institutions, it established exchange programs for writers and scholars, distributed literature around the globe, and sent art from American collections and music by American composers and performers abroad. . . . Works of literature and philosophy from all over the world were published in affordable translations. Foreign movies were imported and distributed across the country. . . ."
I thought of Clive Bell's Civilization. Surely the United States doing the things Manand describes is deserving of some slight bit of the classification "Civilized." But that thought begins to crumble as one gets past this first section, as I have, having bought the book. The U.S. becomes embroiled in the world's shadier activities and doesn't manage nearly as well as it did during the first period. But this is not, apparently, a point Menand wants to emphasize. He wants to show how the U.S. has been changed, how its art has grown and improved, how in fact the U.S. has become more cultured and perhaps (I am hopeful) civilized. The news is full of our shortcomings, but something dramatic and even revolutionary has happened in art, in culture, in understanding if not in politics during the period Menand discusses . . . at least it would seem so from Perloff's review and in the few pages I've thus far read.
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