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HomeInteractiveConverge Retail Unveils Retail Display Platform
Converge Retail Unveils Retail Display Platform
June 29, 2019 Interactive, Products Comments Off on Converge Retail Unveils Retail Display Platform
Converge Universal Kinetic Retail Display System is an Affordable Out-of-the-Box Solution for Brands and Retailers to Bring Interactivity into Traditional Retail Settings
Converge Retail, the company that brings the richness of online shopping to the in-store shopping experience, recently took the wraps off its latest kinetic retail display platform at GlobalShop 2019 (June 25-27, McCormick Place in Chicago). The Converge Universal Kinetic Retail Display System is poised to disrupt traditional retail by breaking down barriers most commonly associated with interactive in-store retail displays:
• Compact Form Factor: Four-foot sections can be joined for any size display and fit virtually anywhere, including narrow end-caps and other spaces not large enough to accommodate traditional retail displays.
• Installation Flexibility: System mounts easily on top of existing retail fixtures, or can be wall-mounted for even greater placement flexibility.
• Affordability: One of the most affordable all-in-one interactive retail displays currently available, ideal for small chains and other cost-sensitive brands and retailers.
• Ease of Deployment: System is ready to deploy out-of-the-box – no development resources required to get up and running.
• Small But Mighty: Despite its small form factor, the system offers the same interactive experience as the larger-scale Converge platform, with rich analytics, reporting and dashboard access to give brands and retailers detailed insight into the customer journey.
“The Converge platform has evolved significantly in the past year based on input from dozens of retailers and millions of customer interactions,” said Paul Chapuis, CEO of Converge Retail. “The new Converge Universal Display builds on that insight, making it easier and more affordable than ever for retailers to integrate the Converge platform into their stores. Removing cost and installation barriers as we have puts interactivity within reach of virtually any brand or retailer that wants to engage more deeply with their customers.”
The Converge Platform
The Converge platform features laterally-sliding interactive tablets that move with the customers through their shopping journey and automatically serve up rich content with product education, specs, tutorials and reviews that allow for a more informed purchase decision. This ability to deeply research and compare products available both in-store and online keeps customers in the retailer’s ecosystem, whether the customer purchases a product off the shelf or makes an in-aisle purchase from the retailer’s online inventory.
Converge is highly customizable and capable of displaying a wide variety of products, which is particularly relevant to product categories that benefit from richer education or that have higher price points, such as consumer tech, household goods and luxury categories. In addition, Converge can also be very effective in selling items with configuration and customization options, such as furniture, automobiles and other large-scale items. The platform’s small footprint makes it possible for independent retail stores, pop-up shops and other small-scale retail operations to maximize their limited space and create virtual showrooms to sell products of virtually any size.
In addition to the new Converge Universal Display announced today, Converge is making significant upgrades to the chassis design, customer user interface and data analytics that extend across its entire portfolio of kinetic retail displays.
Retailer-friendly Installation & Deployment
The latest iteration of the Converge platform features a newly designed, flexible mounting system that integrates seamlessly with existing retail display fixtures. The modular rail system comes in 4-foot increments that work individually as end-caps, or join end-to-end to suit full-aisle runs of unlimited length. Retailers have the added flexibility of top-mounting the Converge display system, or mounting to the front or underside of existing retail fixtures. This level of configuration flexibility and the ability to easily refresh the assortment of products on display make Converge the ideal merchandising solution for retailers and brands alike.
Content deployment is greatly simplified with the new Converge platform, thanks to a new templating engine that accelerates the process of uploading content. This ensures the brand’s most compelling visual and informational assets are easily accessible to customers as they engage with the display.
Improved Customer Experience
The Converge platform features a completely redesigned interface that makes it easier and more intuitive for customers to learn about the products on display. Tablet-based navigation delivers an interactive, informative shopping experience and makes it easier than ever for brands and retailers to create lasting customer engagement.
New Capabilities to Deepen Customer Engagement
The Converge platform has been updated with powerful new software that gives retailers and brands effective tools to measure and act on customer engagement:
• Salesforce integration enables a new scheduling functionality to automate follow-up with customers who engage with the platform.
• Analytics engine makes it possible to automatically generate and send customer engagement reports via email to key brand and retailer stakeholders.
• Customizable dashboard capabilities make it possible to display real-time customer engagement data; the retailer views information about the entire display, while brands view data pertaining only to their products.
• Bilingual support enables retailers to deliver content to customers in both English and Spanish.
About Converge Retail
Converge Retail is reinventing the in-store shopping experience with its newest technology platform, Converge. Converge is a digital retail display that elevates the tactile gratification of in-store shopping by adding a content-rich online experience. Customers have access to online in-aisle content, specially curated for an in-store experience, keeping them in the retailer’s ecosystem from discovery to purchase, and provides new and powerful insights on customer in-store buying behavior for retailers and brands. For more information visit convergeretail.com.
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Saffron Bryant, Self-Published Science Fiction and Fantasy Author – Episode 116
http://media.blubrry.com/paidtoplay/p/www.robf.com.au/files/podcast/P2PP_0116_17-05-11_SaffronBryant.mp3
Australian science fiction and fantasy author Saffron Bryant has been writing since she could first hold a pencil but only started getting serious in 2011. Saffron’s first book, The Fallen Star, was released in 2012 after Saffron was forced to take leave from her studies in biomedical science at uni while recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumour.
Now, at the age of twenty-six, Saffron has fifteen novels available for sale on Amazon, a degree in Biomedical Science (with honours) and has just finished her PhD in chemistry at the University of Sydney. As of last year Saffron earned enough royalties to pay all her bills.
In her spare time, Saffron is a huge fan of multiple fandoms, including The Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones and Stephen King (especially The Dark Tower). She also plays Massively Multiplayer Online RPGs and even tabletop ones like Dungeons & Dragons.
Join Saffron and I as we get back together (after our chat for Episode 16) for a great chat about the first fiction you write, how writing is the perfect cure for the boredom of convalescence and the process of screening editors – not to mention a geek-out about Doctor Who!
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged Australia, author, fantasy, science fiction, self-employed, self-publishing on May 11, 2017 by Rob F..
State of Play: Thank You for 1,000+ Downloads in April!
http://media.blubrry.com/paidtoplay/p/www.robf.com.au/files/podcast/P2PP_StateOfPlay_17-05-04_1000DownloadsApril.mp3
An audio AND video thank-you from your humble host to all the wonderful folks who made April an unexpectedly massive month – even with the schedule change from weekly to fortnightly!
This entry was posted in Commentary on May 4, 2017 by Rob F..
Dean Rankine, Writer and Artist on The Simpsons Comic Books – Episode 115
http://media.blubrry.com/paidtoplay/p/www.robf.com.au/files/podcast/P2PP_0115_17-04-27_DeanRankine.mp3
Australian comic artist and writer Dean Rankine has contributed work to the Dark Horse Comics title Hellboy, the classic UK kids’ comics Beano and Dandy, and the Australian MAD Magazine, but he is best known for his work on the official comic books of the animated mega-hit TV series, The Simpsons, published by Bongo Comics. You can often find him at Australian pop culture conventions creating commissioned “Simpsonised” portraits of con-goers.
Dean has also created his own title, the twisted comic book Itty Bitty Bunnies in Rainbow Pixie Candy Land, published by Action Lab.
Join us for a chat about setting goals for publishing your comic, showing your kids how to follow a creative path and moving from comics to storyboarding!
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged Australia, comics, dad, The Simpsons on April 27, 2017 by Rob F..
Ryan Schapals, Head Minion at Hyper RPG – Episode 114
http://media.blubrry.com/paidtoplay/p/www.robf.com.au/files/podcast/P2PP_0114_17-04-13_RyanSchapals.mp3
Production manager and writer Ryan Schapals works for the LA online media studio Hyper RPG. His job is to turn tabletop roleplaying games into live performance-based narrative experiences on the video streaming website Twitch.
Prior to joining the HyperRPG team, Ryan worked with computer game company Harebrained Schemes as a writer for the app-enhanced tabletop miniatures game Golem Arcana. Right now he’s juggling his minion duties at Hyper RPG building the world of Amaurea’s Dawn for a new tabletop roleplaying game rule set, Open Legend.
Join us for a chat about the second-guessing voices in the back of your head, getting into roleplaying games through Neverwinter Nights, turning down the opportunity to be on-screen talent and the zen experience of doing the dishes!
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged employee, full-time, games, live streaming, roleplaying games, Twitch, United States on April 13, 2017 by Rob F..
State of Play April 2017: Going Fortnightly and GMPreneurship
http://media.blubrry.com/paidtoplay/p/www.robf.com.au/files/podcast/P2PP_StateOfPlay_17-04-36_GoingFortnightlyGMpreneur.mp3
An announcement of a schedule change for the Podcast and the reason behind it – making more time to explore GMpreneurship!
This entry was posted in Commentary on April 6, 2017 by Rob F..
Mariah Avix, 600 Second Saga – Episode 113
http://media.blubrry.com/paidtoplay/p/www.robf.com.au/files/podcast/P2PP_0113_17-03-30_MariahAvix.mp3
Podcaster, voice talent and author Mariah Avix is the creator of the podcast, 600 Second Saga; a space for developing authors to explore the realms of science fiction and fantasy in 10 minutes or less every week. On March 20th, 2017, Mariah celebrated the first anniversary of 600 Second Saga, having released an episode a week for the last fifty-two weeks! After a short break, the show will return for its second season on April 5th!
Mariah also narrates audiobooks and writes magical tales of how technology will change our world, and technologically laced tales of magic that probably isn’t real.
Join us for a great chat about The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the division of trust between writer and reader, how current references can become future Easter eggs, getting to the meat of the story in 1,000 words, the benefits of pre-planning your podcast and working diversity into your freelance portfolio – and keep listening after the chat wraps for one of Mariah’s flash fiction works, “An Axe”!
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged author, flash fiction, podcast, podcaster, writer on March 30, 2017 by Rob F..
S.R. Ringuette, Webcomic Writer and Artist – Episode 112
http://media.blubrry.com/paidtoplay/p/www.robf.com.au/files/podcast/P2PP_0112_17-03-23_SRRinguette.mp3
S.R. Ringuette is author/illustrator/cartoonist and educator who, from his hometown of Calgary, Alberta, attempts to use creativity as a secret staircase to subvert traditional employment. His lifelong love of cartooning turned into making comics as an adult and eventually teaching kids and teens to do the same.
Sebastien has created a comic series, The Aversion Bureau, that has become two collections and even a pair of novels. He also created the web comic Gamer Roommates and in November 2016 launched a new web comic, It Has Pictures! Since then, Sebastien has been posting new witty art based on whatever takes his fancy and doing freelance design work for web series, podcasts and friends in between.
Join us for a great chat about the perfect storm of arrogance and ignorance, the importance of loving your own work, knowing when to step away from the things you love doing and how nothing matters more than the personal touch!
This entry was posted in Episodes on March 23, 2017 by Rob F..
Neil Rennison, Tin Man Games – Episode 111
http://media.blubrry.com/paidtoplay/p/www.robf.com.au/files/podcast/P2PP_0111_17-03-16_NeilRennison.mp3
Game director, producer, writer and designer Neil Rennison is the original founder of Tin Man Games, a company that brings the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks of Eighties childhoods back to life as apps. Neil has worked in the computer and video games industry for over fifteen years. He’s been involved in over fifty published games including such high profile titles as the Need For Speed series, Nascar series, The Sims series and the Tiger Woods Golf series for a variety of platforms including iPhone, DS, PSP, and Wii.
Neil has had a number of articles published in 3D World magazine & PC Format, has dabbled in university lecturing, is an adjudicator for government funding in games, and has given talks at various gaming conventions and gatherings of the International Game Developers Association.
Listen in for a great chat about the snowball effect, going freelance in the video game industry, being asked by the superstar in your business to adapt one of his works and that odd sensation of, “I could be perfectly happy staying where I am now – but…”
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged app, Australia, dad, games, United Kingdom, video games on March 16, 2017 by Rob F..
Tony Bonner: A Career in Acting – Episode 110
http://media.blubrry.com/paidtoplay/p/www.robf.com.au/files/podcast/P2PP_0110_17-03-09_TonyBonner.mp3
Veteran stage and screen actor Tony Bonner is known worldwide for playing helicopter pilot Jerry King in the classic Australian TV series, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Tony’s had a long career in the performing arts and continues to appear on TV, in movies, in theatres and on the web today. Earlier this year (and after our chat), Tony was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours list.
Thanks to my guest Travis Bain, I was lucky enough to catch Tony in late 2016 when he was in Cairns as part of his endeavour to pass his skills and experience on to actors-in-training across the country (and perform in Travis’ upcoming film Landfall). We chat about Tony’s dream role, the worldwide reach of Skippy and how little an actor’s career changes over fifty years!
This entry was posted in Episodes on March 9, 2017 by Rob F..
Zac, a.k.a. The IMP, Pro eSports Team Coach – Episode 109
http://media.blubrry.com/paidtoplay/p/www.robf.com.au/files/podcast/P2PP_0108_17-03-02_ZacTheIMP.mp3
Heroes of the Storm fan and coach of Texas A&M Team Maroon Zac is better known within the eSports community as The IMP. A former competitive player himself, Zac is working to get his team of five college students to the winner’s podium of the 2017 Heroes of the Dorm league; not only that, Zac applies his skill in Heroes of the Storm through freelance coaching of anyone looking to better their game!
As this episode goes to air, Team Maroon will be in the final matches of the the Group Stages and Playoffs of Heroes of the Dorm, but Zac has confirmed that they’ve now won enough matches to make it into the Championship Brackets starting on March 18th; if the team wins all four Bracket matches, they’ll be through to the Top Four final rounds on April 8th. The champion team will come away with each player’s college tuition covered for up to three years!
Listen in as Zac and I have a great chat about taking a group of alpha males and making them work together, the time commitments required of a competitive gamer, the sheer complexity of playing a Heroes of the Storm hero, the difference between a melee and ranged flex player and his ambition to return to the college competitive leagues as a player in 2018! Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged coach, esports, freelance, games, United States, video games on March 2, 2017 by Rob F..
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New Maps for Killzone Mercenary Available Soon for PS Vita
2/19/2014 sciteach
Ready for new MP maps on KZ Mercs for your Vita? They're almost here!…...
According to a dev posting on a Killzone Community Forum we won't have to wait too much longer to play more maps on KZ Mercenary. In fact, 2/19 in the middle of the day!
The update includes 2 maps from preview KZ games, polished up for their debut on the Vita.
Tharsis Depot
After incurring damage during the ISA invasion of Helghan, this subterranean mining platform has been converted to process nuclear Petrusite. Now that it’s back in full-scale production, the ISA will again battle Helghast and mercenary forces between the structures of Tharsis Depot. This time they intend to finish the job they started. Under the cavern’s artificial light this is a great map to play Guerrilla Warfare or Warzone on. A Mercenary version of the Killzone 2 classic.
Blood Gracht
Months after the nuclear blast that ruined most of the city, Pyrrhus is slowly recovering. But now with ISA, Helghast and mercenary troops clashing in the suburb's buildings and winding alleyways, the canals once again run red with blood. This fan-favourite multiplayer map from Killzone 2 is ideal for all game modes.
If you've already updated the KZ patch, the size of the update is 167 MB. If not, it is 526 MB.
Are you going to pick up the update when it comes out? Which map do you want to play?
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This page contains current and recent '''breaking news''' about [[NASPA]]. See also: * [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/ NASPA home]: contains the most recent tweets. * [[NASPA Bulletin]]: an online archive of NASPA Bulletins. * [[Club news]] * [[Member news]] * [[SCRABBLE in the news]] : Links to articles about SCRABBLE players, clubs, and tournaments. * [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/tourneys/calendar.html Tournament calendar]: upcoming tournaments * [[Tournament results]] == Current news == === December 9, 2011: Joel Sherman scores record 803 points === At a tournament in Stamford, CT, [[Joel Sherman]], the 1997 [[World SCRABBLE Championship|world]] and 2002 [[National SCRABBLE Championship|national]] champion, set the new NASPA and world [[Records#Tournament.2C_OTCWL|record]] for highest score in a tournament game using OTCWL, 803 points. His opponent Bradley Robbins, a member of 2010 School SCRABBLE championship winning team, scored 285 points. Joel made seven bingos, CRUMPLED, OUTRATED, COTHURNI, TRAVOISE, SHAKING, AVENGED and AIRLINE, which ties the record for most bingos by one player. Bradley made one bingo, ISOLATES, bringing the total to eight which ties the record for most bingos by both players. Congratulations! === December 1, 2011: Lisa Kessler wins CC election === Lisa Kessler wins the 2011 Canadian Committee election, garnering 23 votes to Carl Madden's 21. Lisa's three-year term will begin on January 1. === September 1, 2011: Bulletin published === A 2011 issue (Volume 3, Number 8) of the [[NASPA Bulletin]] is available for [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/bulletin.pl member download]. The previous issue (Volume 3, Number 7) is available to the [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/bulletin/201107.pdf general public]. == August 2011 == === August 10, 2011: Nigel Richards wins National SCRABBLE Championship === [[Nigel Richards]] from Malaysia wins the [[2011 National SCRABBLE Championship]] with a 22-9 +1532 record. Congratulations! See the [http://www.scrabble-assoc.com/tourneys/2011/nsc/build/standing/1/31.html final standings]. === August 9, 2011: Club Sanctioning Fee goes away in 2012 === It was announced at the Town Hall meeting at the 2011 National SCRABBLE Championship that the annual $30 club sanctioning fee will no longer be charged starting in 2012. More information about sanctioned clubs on the [[Clubs]] page. === August 8, 2011: Chris Lipe and Leesa Berahovich score −25 total === Chris Lipe and Leesa Berahovich set a new [[OTCWL]] tournament record for the [[Records#Lowest_combined_game_score|lowest combined game score]] with a total of negative 25 points. The previous record was −22. See [http://www.scrabble-assoc.com/tourneys/2011/nsc/build/notes/15.html NSC live commentary] for details. Congratulations to both! === August 6, 2011: Live coverage of NSC === Links to live coverage of the 2011 National Scrabble Championship (including player lists, standings, and annotated games) can be found at [http://www.scrabble-assoc.com/tourneys/2011/nsc/build/tsh/ NSC Live Coverage]. === August 2, 2011: Advisory Board election results === Two new members for the [[Advisory Board]] have been [[AB Elections|elected]]: * Eastern district: [[Jan Cardia]] (31% of votes) * Western district: [[Siri Tillekeratne]] (unopposed) == July 2011 == === July 31, 2011: Bulletin published === July 2011 issue (Volume 3, Number 7) of the [[NASPA Bulletin]] is available for [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/bulletin.pl member download]. The previous issue (Volume 3, Number 6) is available to the [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/bulletin/201106.pdf general public]. === July 15, 2011: Advisory Board voting started === The voting period for [[Advisory Board]] [[AB Elections|elections]] has started. There are four nominees in the eastern district and one nominee in the western district. Members may vote [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/vote.pl here] through July 31, 2011. == June 2011 == === June 27, 2011: Bulletin published === June 2011 issue (Volume 3, Number 6) of the [[NASPA Bulletin]] is available for [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/bulletin.pl member download]. The previous issue (Volume 3, Number 5) is available to the [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/bulletin/201105.pdf general public]. === June 23, 2011: New Rules Committee members === [[Rules Committee]] welcomes two new members, [[Diane Firstman]] and [[Mark Milan]]. === June 19, 2011: Advisory Board elections === NASPA has published details on the upcoming [[AB Elections|elections]] to fill two positions on the [[Advisory Board]]. The nomination period is already open. === June 8, 2011: New Code of Conduct published === The [[Advisory Board]] has published an [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/wiki/images/6/6c/Code_of_Conduct_-_effective_June_7_2011.pdf updated version] of the [[Code of Conduct]]. The new Code of Conduct takes effect immediately. === June 5, 2011: New rules published === The [[Rules Committee]] has published an [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/wiki/images/a/af/Rules-20110605.pdf updated version] of the [[Official Tournament Rules]]. The new rules will take effect on June 16, 2011. The [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/wiki/images/1/10/NASPA_Rules_Changes_June2011.pdf summary of changes] was published in the May 2011 issue of the [[NASPA Bulletin]]. == May 2011 == === May 31, 2011: Bulletin published === May 2011 issue (Volume 3, Number 5) of the [[NASPA Bulletin]] is available for [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/bulletin.pl member download]. This issue contains a summary of rule changes effective June 16, 2011. The previous issue (Volume 3, Number 4) is available to the [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/bulletin/201104.pdf general public]. === May 5, 2011: 2010 Form 990 released === On the [[financial reports]] page, NASPA has released its [[Media:NASPAForm9902010001.pdf|2010 Form 990]] (Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax) filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Please direct questions concerning the Form 990 return to CPA Kristina Simon, ksimon@hmlpc.com == April 2011 == === April 7, 2011: Juraj Pivovarov joins Web Committee === [[Juraj Pivovarov]] has joined [[Web Committee]] as a NASPAWiki editor. == March 2011 == === March 31, 2011: NSC registration open === [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/register.pl?event_id=NSC2011 Online registration] for [[2011 National SCRABBLE Championship]] is now open. === March 31, 2011: Bulletin published === Volume 3, Number 3 of the [[NASPA Bulletin]] is now available for [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/bulletin.pl member download]. === March 16, 2011: CNSC QT hosts named === [[Canadian Committee]] determines the host clubs for the two regional qualifying tournaments for the 2011 CNSC: Cambridge, ON and Calgary, AB. These events will be held sometime in May. Details will follow. == February 2011 == === February 19, 2011: CNSC and WSC qualification === [[Canadian Committee]] establishes March 27, 2011 as the deadline for CNSC qualification and June 13, 2011 as the deadline for Canadian qualification for the 2011 World Scrabble Championship. == January 2011 == === January 27, 2011: Bulletin published === Volume 3, Number 1 of the [[NASPA Bulletin]] is now available for [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/bulletin.pl member download]. == Archived news == * [[2010 breaking news archive]] * [[2009 breaking news archive]]
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Feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns about the 2019 Rasperry Run!
Hopkins Minnesota
The official blog for the Hopkins Raspberry Run. Check back for event updates, news, results, and post-race photos!
WANTED: Hopkins Raspberry Run Race Tee Photos
March 01, 2016 Michael Reneau
Help us catalog 50 years of Hopkins Raspberry Run race tees.
Olympian Bob Kempainen sporting his 1976 Hopkins Raspberry Run tank while winning the 5-mile in 1987. (Photo by Dennis Hahn)
The Hopkins Raspberry Run is truly one of Minnesota's great running traditions. It was known in it's early years for drawing the largest and most competitive field of runners in the midwest. A lesser-known part of its history is that it was also one of the first road races in the country to offer finishers a race t-shirt.
We want to commemorate the 50th running of the Hopkins Raspberry Run with a replica race t-shirt from a past race year. This is where we need your help.
1) If you have a race shirt from a previous Hopkins Raspberry Run, send us a picture or post it one of our social media accounts. If you're the first to post or email that year's tee, we'll send you a $5.00 off coupon code for this year's race!
Email: twincitiestc@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RaspberryRun/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/raspberryrun
2) When we have all (or most of) the photos from previous years tees collected, we need you to vote for your favorite. The person who posted or sent us the photo of winning year, will receive a comp entry to the race.
We've got the 1976 race tee covered already, thanks to Olympian and former Hopkins Raspberry Run champion Bob Kempainen (see photo).
Thanks for the help! We look forward to seeing some tattered old race tee photos coming our way.
Lake Minnetonka Orthodontics sponsors Kids Run Free initiative at Hopkins Raspberry Run
May 20, 2015 Michael Reneau
Hopkins, Minn, May 20 2015 — The Hopkins Raspberry Run is pleased to announce that Lake Minnetonka Orthodontics will be the official sponsor of the Kids Run Free initiative at the 48th running of the event on July 20 in Hopkins, providing free registration for youth participants.
“The doctors and staff at Lake Minnetonka Orthodontics feel strongly about giving back to our surrounding communities,” said Communications Director Gayle Seaberg. “And as advocates in supporting physical fitness and overall wellness for all kids in our community, we are pleased to the sponsor of the Kids Run Free initiative at the Hopkins Raspberry Run this year.”
The Kids Run Free initiative is part of the Twin Cities Track Club’s mission to provide more opportunities for youth & families in our communities to participate in running and enjoy the many benefits of living a healthy and active lifestyle.
“With the generous support of Lake Minnetonka Ortho, we are able to provide free registration for all youth ages 18 & under,” added race director Mike Reneau of the Twin Cities Track Club. “We hope it encourages parents to come out for the race and enjoy it with their kids.”
For more information about the Hopkins Raspberry Run and a link to online registration, please visitwww.hopkinsraspberryrun.com.
Founded in 1964, the Hopkins Raspberry Run is the oldest road race in Minnesota. The race’s mission is to provide a safe and fun environment for members of the community to enjoy the sport of running. All proceeds from the event will support the Hopkins Cross Country & Track programs in addition to other youth running programs organized through the Twin Cities Track Club.
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RenewAmerica.com July 17, 2019 Click here to receive our twice-weekly Newsletter
The three-step solution to solve illegal immigration
By Bryan Fischer
Follow me on Twitter: @BryanJFischer, on Facebook at "Focal Point"
Host of "Focal Point" on AFR Talk, 1-3pm CT, M-F www.afr.net
The solution to the problem of illegal immigration is not complicated. It can be accomplished in three easy-to-understand steps.
First, build a double-layer security fence along our entire southern border to stop the flood of illegal immigration. Fences work, which is why President Obama recently re-enforced the security fence around the White House. When a border fence was installed in the San Diego sector, illegal immigration plunged by 90%.
Fences are such an obvious part of any solution that even Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia and Tunisia are putting them up to protect themselves from the most murderous elements of Islam.
Let's not hear any nonsense about this being impossible. We built the Empire State Building in 17 months in the middle of the Great Depression, and threw up the Golden Gate Bridge while we were at it. We built the Hoover Dam and excavated the Panama Canal. It's a gross insult to the American can-do spirit for anybody to say it cannot be done.
Secondly, use E-Verify for everything. E-Verify is a massive database of Social Security numbers. If someone has a legitimate Social Security card, his name and number will be in this database, and it can be checked literally in a matter of seconds.
We should use E-Verify for jobs, welfare, and education. Anyone who applies for a job must be checked for eligibility using E-Verify. Anyone applying for a taxpayer-funded welfare benefit of any kind, including food stamps and subsidized housing, must be checked for eligibility. No E-Verify, no welfare. And E-Verify also ought to be used to check eligibility for taxpayer-funded education at all levels.
Thirdly, if we do these two things, illegal aliens currently in the United States will solve another problem for us through self-repatriation. If they can't get jobs here, can't get welfare here, and can't get a taxpayer-funded education here, they will return home where they can pursue all those things.
Using the money we save in welfare costs, including health care, we can establish a fund to help with the transportation costs of returning these folks and their intact families to their homelands, their neighborhoods, and their communities.
There would simply be no need to round up 11 to 30 million illegal aliens and send them home – which nobody is talking about doing anyway – because they will do that themselves. They will go where they've got a shot at getting jobs and welfare, and for most, that will mean returning home. Self-repatriation will solve the problem of what we do with the illegals that are already here.
And it works. Alabama, before an activist judge intruded, instituted common-sense immigration reforms, using E-Verify for jobs, welfare, and education, and it worked instantly. Classrooms emptied out virtually overnight and jobs for American workers opened up immediately. Meat-packing plants had American citizens lined up around the block for jobs which had been held by illegal aliens just days before.
So the problem of illegal immigration is eminently solvable. All we need to do is to actually enforce the laws that are on the books and use technology which is already available. What we lack is the will, not the way.
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MILO Launches New Sports Programs for Schools and Barangays Nationwide
REINFORCING BRAND ADVOCACY. (From L-R) Luigi Pumaren, MILO Sports Executive; Robbie De Vera, Sports Marketing Manager; Willy de Ocampo, Vice President, Nestle Philippines; Usec. Atty. Tonisito Umali, Undersecretary for Legislative Liaison Office, External Partnerships Service and School Sports; Kevin Mauricio, Consumer Marketing Executive and; Lester Castillo, Sports Marketing Executive
MANILA, Philippines, 18 April 2018 – MILO Philippines continues its unwavering commitment to give the Filipino youth more opportunities to get into sports with the launch of their newest sports programs, the MILO Champ Camp and the Barangay MILO Liga. Over the next two years, these programs aim to bring sports closer to grassroot communities by engaging over one million students and 60,000 parents through the MILO Champ Camp and over 500,000 residents in 300 barangays with the Barangay MILO Liga.
“MILO is proud to kick off these two latest additions to our growing portfoilo of grassroots sports programs, which will be offered for free. It is our hope that by reaching out to different public schools and barangays around the country that more parents and kids will realize the value of sports, and ultimately build a nation of champions,” expressed Willy de Ocampo, Vice President, Nestle Philippines, Inc.
Reinforcing sports in a child’s holistic development with MILO Champ Camp
For many years, MILO has had a longstanding commitment to support educational programs by providing students access to sports and encouraging them to lead active and healthy lifestyles. The MILO Champ Camp is a nationwide school tour that aims to spark the interest of students for sports and promote the importance of the values learned through it.
In partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd), the MILO Champ Camp will tap skilled youth coaches to teach elementary students the basics of basketball, volleyball, and football, while offering parents insightful talks on the value of getting their children into sports and the importance of giving proper nutrition and energy to start their day. This year, the MILO Champ Camp will roll out in 300 public schools in key cities around the country, estimating participation of 500,000 students and 30,000 parents.
“Learning continues outside the classroom, and we at MILO want to reach out to both parents and kids by providing an interactive glimpse into popular sports. We want to introduce the basics of popular ball sports by offering a hands-on experience for elementary students, and give importance to sports in the child’s overall development,” said Kevin Mauricio, MILO Consumer Marketing Activations Executive.
Bringing sports closer to grassroots communities with Barangay MILO Liga
The Barangay MILO Liga seeks to elevate the yearly community-based tournaments during the summer break through the rehabilitation of facilities and sharing of MILO’s sports advocacy to residents of barangays across the country. By refurbishing basketball courts and mounting events that will unite the community and encourage children to participate in dynamic gameplay, Barangay MILO Liga will help Filipino youth become more active, and inspire residents to become more engaged in their communities.
The Barangay MILO Liga program, which spans 100 barangays in as north as Baguio and as south as General Santos City for its maiden year, also aims to modernize the community’s sports facilities, transforming them into MILO Courts of Values. Improvements to be made include repainting or restoration of basketball courts and supplying brand new sports equipment.
“All these efforts are being made so that the barangay’s young residents, and even children from surrounding communities and nearby schools will have access to well-conditioned sports venues and become inspired to go out and play. We want to encourage kids in the barangays to become more active through sports, and not be too consumed with their gadgets,” said Lester P. Castillo, MILO Sports Executive. “We envision Barangay MILO Liga to be a training ground for young athletes to pick up at least one sport, develop their skills, and hone their character as future champions. We are very thankful to the barangays who have partnered with us to rally behind this advocacy.”
The Barangay MILO Liga began mid-March and is set to culminate in their respective barangay tournament finals some time late April to May.
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About MILO
MILO has been in the Philippines for over 50 years and is the country’s favorite chocolate malt powdered milk drink that can be prepared with hot or cold milk or water.
Every mug of MILO contains the goodness of Cocoa, Malt, Milk, and Activ-Go® - a special blend of Protomalt®, Vitamins, and Minerals. It is high in Vitamins B2, B3, B6, B12, C, and is a good source of Iron, for energy release from food.
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Kino Lorber Studio Classics: ACROSS 110TH STREET and COTTON COMES TO HARLEM
ACROSS 110th STREET (1972; Barry Shear)
It's hard not to associate this film with JACKIE BROWN. The opening title song by Bobby Womack is forever burned into my brain because of its use in the beginning and closing of Tarantino's film as well. It encapsulates Jackie herself (as played by the great Pam Grier) wonderfully and works perfectly (and arguably better) in JACKIE BROWN than this movie where it originated. That being said, ACROSS 110TH STREET is still one of the better things that Blaxploitation cinema has to offer. The ghetto fights back here as "The Family" finds themselves suddenly at war to keep from letting Harlem slip from their grasp. Anthony Quinn (in one of my favorite of his roles) is a NYC cop caught in the middle. Quinn's character is also caught up in the political rigamorall that has seen fit to assign another cop to a murder investigation in Harlem. That straight-laced by-the-book cop is played by Yaphet Kotto. Quinn's character is a rather old-school fella who still believed that roughing up a suspect is all part of the process of getting things done on his beat. Naturally, these two cops don't get along none too well. Kotto is among my favorite actors and he shines brightly in this film. He has this remarkable intensity to him when he wishes to call upon it. When he raises his voice, it is impossible not to feel him taking over a room. Also very good in this film is actor Paul Benjamin (ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ, DO THE RIGHT THING) who kind of had his breakout a bit with this movie. This movie has a remarkable energy about it throughout. The black vs. white tension can be felt in almost every scene and it gives the whole thing the feeling of a powder keg ready to explode at any second. Unlike some other Blaxploitation films from around this time, this feels like a more realistic, gritty portrayal of the NYC ghetto. There's no John Shaft superhero-type to ride in and kick some ass. These are sad desperate people and they have no qualms about letting their primal anger take over. In the words of Bobby Womack's title tune, "Breakin' out if the ghetto is a day to day fight". As portrayed in this film, it's more like a an all-out war and an ugly one at that. It all makes for a mighty powerful procedural. Early appearances by pre-ROCKY Burt Young and a pre-Huggy Bear Antonio Fargas are a welcome sight indeed. As an aside, it is always fascinating to watch how police work is done in films pre-computers. Cops combing through phone books, pulling paper files and other such tribulations are an antiquated but amusing sight indeed.
Director Barry Shear was primarily a television guy working on such varied series as THE DONNA REED SHOW, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. and TARZAN as well as other shows and TV-movies. He also did a movie called THE DEADLY TRACKERS which was based on a novel Samuel Fuller (who was to direct and started to, but the project fell apart and was reassembled). Anyway, Shear may show his TV background a bit in terms of the style of 110TH STREET, but I didn't find it particularly bothersome.
The transfer here is pretty good, plenty of grain throughout but heavy early on for sure, Solid detail though and I get a sense this film was made cheaply and quickly and was not meant to look like Vittorio Storaro or Gordon Willis shot it (the film stock used at the time may be a factor as to the way this transfer looks as well). DP Jack Priestly has also shot plenty of TV and some other NYC films like WHERE'S POPPA? and BORN TO WIN prior to this and those films are a bit more verite than stylish as is 110TH STREET.
Here's a neat interview I found with Paul Benjamin from 1995. He touches on his beginnings as an actor and works his way up to ACROSS 110TH STREET.
COTTON COMES TO HARLEM (1970; Ossie Davis)
"Was that Black enough for ya?"
Owing it's characters to a series of source novels (by Chester Himes) featuring them, detectives "Gravedigger" Jones (Godfrey Cambride) and "Coffin Ed" Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) don't feel like they belong in the ACROSS 110TH STREET universe. The dimension they exist in is no less dangerous, but they themselves are more like supercops than Yaphet Kotto and Anthony Quinn. At one point early on in the film, the duo demonstrate a near super-strength when they toss a man high into the air like some sort of rag doll. And the way these two speak in a clever, more traditionally hard-boiled kinda way makes them feel more a part of the Dashiell Hammett- verse than the real world. None of this is a problem mind you, I actually tend to prefer this kind if stylized canvas of crooks and cops going at each other. This film was cowritten (adapted) and directed by the great Ossie Davis. For me though, Godfrey Cambridge is the highlight here. He gives one of the most smug performances I've ever seen in a movie. He smirks his way through 90 percent of his time on screen and it's almost too much. He can pull of this kind of hotshot pomposity like few others and whilst still making it entertaining.
The background of COTTON is filled with memorable character actors like Cleavon Little, Redd Foxx, Helen Martin and others. COTTON COMES TO HARLEM is certainly notable for its place as an early part of the Blaxploitation Cannon. Seeing such a large cast of black actors in a studio film was not a common thing around this time. There are very few white actors in the movie at all. One of the most notable of them in the film for me was Leonardo Cimino (aka "Scary German Guy" from THE MONSTER SQUAD). Another highlight is it's depiction of Harlem circa the late 1960s. Lots of interesting locations and businesses with names like "Big Wilts", "King Fu Chow Mein" and my personal favorite, "Chili Woman".
This is a pretty nice looking transfer. The print appears clean and the colors pop nicely. Good detail here as well.
Here's a sort of retrospective interview with Ossie Davis from 2002.
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Worker injured due to substandard machine guarding
February 27, 2019 Injury
Toilet paper manufacturer Cottonsoft Ltd received a sentencing decision in the Manukau District Court after a worker was hurt on inadequately guarded machinery
The sentencing followed a January 2017 incident where the worker sustained crush injuries, degloving and lacerations after his arms were caught in rollers. He also sustained rib fractures in the incident and was left with long-term side effects requiring further surgery.
WorkSafe’s investigation into the incident found that the guarding on the machinery departed significantly from current industry standards and that while the risks had been identified during previous risk assessments, no long-term or interim solutions had been put in place.
WorkSafe says New Zealand has rigorous standards for the guarding of machinery to prevent injuries just like this and Head of Specialist Interventions, Simon Humphries said there is simply no excuse for this ‘terrible record’ around machinery guarding.
“This worker was needlessly injured by a risk that had been identified – but not mitigated effectively.”
“There is so much information and guidance available to companies and it must be implemented. Now is the time to stop and assess your machinery and stop an accident before it occurs. Do this before you find yourself with an injured worker and under the scrutiny of an investigation.”
A fine of $315,000 was imposed.
Reparations of $45,000 were ordered.
Cottonsoft Ltd was charged under sections 36(1)(a), 48(1) and (2)(c) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
Being a PCBU, failed to ensure so far as was reasonably practicable, the health and safety of workers, who worked for the PCBU, while the workers were at work in the business and that failure exposed the worker to a risk of serious injury.
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What Matters More
by Liora Blake
Publication date: April 9th 2019
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
A sexy contemporary romance about what happens when a casual one-night stand becomes anything but casual.
JT Maxwell has it all . . . well, almost. He’s a US Marshal, he looks like he belongs in an aftershave commercial, and he has tattoos—lots of tattoos. Unfortunately, he’s also in debt up to his pretty blue eyeballs. Between that and his recent divorce, his personal life is nonexistent these days. But when a free-spirited artist approaches him for a no-strings-attached one-night stand, things suddenly start looking up.Anya Alves’s life is a mess. She’s lost her job, caught her boyfriend cheating on her, and if it weren’t for the house-sitting gig she just landed, she’d be homeless. On top of all that, her creative muse has up and disappeared. If she doesn’t get it back, her burgeoning career as an artist will be over before it starts. But after indulging in a steamy hook-up with a guy who makes it easy to forget her troubles, she gets her mojo back.
The last thing she expects when starting her house-sitting job, is to see her sexy one-night stand again . . . living right across the street.
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After knocking back a huge glass of water and sharing a warm shower with Anya, JT had managed to regain his equilibrium. Wrapping a towel around his waist, he went outside and grabbed his clothes off the lounge chair, discovering Anya snuggled down in bed when he came back inside, the bed coverings gathered into a big fluffy pile around her. Her damp hair was braided into a length that hung over one shoulder, and she was wearing an oversized tank top that dipped low enough to show off the valley between her breasts. JT slipped his pants on and then pulled on his shirt, watching her expression turn more tentative with every button he worked closed.
“You okay?”
Anya nodded, then shifted her attention to the bed coverings and began smoothing the fabric absentmindedly. JT stopped buttoning his shirt, dropping his hands to his sides. Her eyes flicked up, and when she saw how he was just standing there, waiting, she drew in a long breath.
“When we were talking about my art earlier, you said something about wanting things,” she said faintly, drawing the comforter up so it was bunched around her shoulders. “About how it was a good thing to want success and how I can’t shy away from it if I really want something.”
JT nodded, resisting the intense urge to reach for her. The bed and its coverings were clearly acting as her cocoon right now, and until he was sure she wanted him to breach that safe zone, he needed to stay put.
“This artist-in-residence program I applied for?” She let out a surrendering exhale. “I want that, JT. So much. I want them to pick me. I want it so much I can’t think about it too much. If I do, it will make me crazy.” Her eyes glazed with what might become tears if she allowed it. “I’ve never wanted anything in my career like I want this. Never.”
JT’s chest swelled, almost pained by what it felt like Anya was handing him right now.
Her trust.
She was trusting him to treat her goals and aspirations with care, to hold on to them in those moments when she believed she couldn’t, and to hand them back to her whenever she was ready.
And JT was damn sure that not only did he want to rise to that challenge, he was ready for it. JT crawled up on the bed, sitting down in front of her so he could cage her in with his legs. He took her face in his hands.
“Then I hope you get it. That’s what I want for you.” She lost the battle with the tears brimming in her eyes. JT caught a lone teardrop with the sweep of one thumb across her cheek. “I hope they see how passionate you are, how no one deserves this more. If I could make it happen for you, I would. I’d do anything, even move a fucking mountain, if that’s what made you happy.”
A wobbly smile lit her face, followed by a shaky-sounding thank you. JT felt his heart start to ache so intensely it made him light-headed, in the same way the adrenaline rush from capturing a fugitive did. This, though, was all because he’d made Anya feel safe and happy—and not by way of anything that came with a price tag.
He’d done it by being there for her when her heart was full of doubt, reminding her, when it mattered most, that she was everything to him.
Wife of one. Mom of three plus a Beagle.
Liora Blake is a contemporary romance author living in Colorado.
When she isn't writing, she's likely baking cookies she shouldn't eat, inventing elaborate excuses to avoid going for a run, or asking the nice barista to sell her another quad-shot Americano.
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Book Blitz - Excerpt & Giveaway - What Matters More by Liora Blake Reviewed by Mujde Oz on April 19, 2019 Rating: 5
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As a landlocked, Georgia-raised child, Casey Garvin was drawn to the waters of Sullivan’s Island. It’s where her family spent birthdays and family vacations — on boats or at the shore near Station 7 where her aunt lived. “It’s kind of magical,” says Garvin about life on Sullivan’s. “I’ve always been an ocean baby and my brother, and I used to spend all our time exploring and finding shells. ‑ at connection is really meaningful.”
Mixed in those shells she and her brother would find were the occasional shark’s teeth, something that piqued her interest at the time, but didn’t manifest as an obsession until she returned to the Island to live during her graduate studies for speech pathology.
It was her training that really drove home the wonders of fossils. Studying anatomy and physiology — especially things like the palate and the teeth or the skull — gave Garvin a scientific skillset used to scope out prehistoric treasures. While that’s usually enough activity for the average leisurely beach walker, spotting the fossils, for Garvin, is just the beginning. “It was one of those things where I happened to see one, then I started to see them everywhere. I guess I got addicted quickly,” she says. “Studying anatomy for speech, now I’m noticing the differences like, ‘Why does this one has serrations and this one doesn’t? This one is pointy and has bicuspids, but this one is curved and jagged.’ Just that interest in what is it and really wanting to know. That’s my favorite part — wondering what it is, identifying them.”
So, Garvin, well, dug in. “‑ e more research I’ve done, the more resources I came across.” says Garvin, who even joined the Palmetto Paleontological Society and works with fellow members in her search for knowledge. She and the president of the society, Ashby Gale, spend hours sorting fossil finds and identifying items that Garvin recognizes enough to grab, but still has questions about.
Almost two years ago, Garvin made her first jewelry pieces using found fossils. “I got a lot of compliments and friends saying, ‘I want one!’ So, I started making a few and then people were contacting me out of the blue saying, ‘So and so had a necklace on.’ It just stemmed from that.”
Today her jewelry line, Foxy Fossils, mixes prehistory with a glint of glam finding new ways to incorporate fossils and sharing her obsession with the world. Take her Vert bracelets for example. Each highlights a shark vertebra and the bracelets have a magnetic clasp, making it an easy-wearing conversation piece. She also looks to contemporary design and incorporates fossils where others would put ne metals, like her bar-style necklace that’s made with stingray barbs. “I’ve got so much good feedback from people, so it’s been really encouraging and positive,” says Garvin. Local shoppers can find Foxy Fossils at farmers markets and boutiques, but her online storefront has meant that Charleston’s prehistory is on the necks and arms of those as far away as Sweden and Sheffield, England.
For Garvin, seeing her work on others is thrilling, but fossil hunting will always have its own rewards. “I love being out on the water, being outside, being in the creeks and stuff , there’s something about it — I feel whole I guess.”
- Margaret Pilarski, Photos by Steve Rosamilia
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Case Study: Integrating Sustainability Targets into Strategic Plans
June 26, 2018 / David Abell / Case Study, Featured Community, STAR Updates
When most people think of city plans, they think of comprehensive or long-range plans, which provide broad guidance for community-wide development and decision making on a ten to twenty year horizon. These types of plans are often criticized as documents that “just live on the shelf,” meaning they were developed but never implemented. Comprehensive plans can have the tendency to be visionary and lack defined metrics and targets to measure success over time.
To make measurable progress within a shorter timeframe, elected officials and city managers regularly supplement comprehensive plans with short-term strategic plans. These plans tend to be more concrete and narrowly focused than comprehensive plans. A strategic plan will establish the community’s highest priority issues for the next two to five years and then outline a specific action plan to address these priorities with clearly defined targets, timelines, and responsibilities for implementation.
The STAR Community Rating System, the leading sustainability framework and certification program in the United States, can be a helpful resource for communities that are developing a strategic plan. The STAR goal areas and objectives can be used to frame and organize a strategic plan, while STAR outcome and action measures can be used as performance targets and actions for the plan. Embedding STAR evaluation measures into a plan doesn’t just help with writing and development, but can also support the implementation and tracking phases of a plan. Below are examples of how three certified STAR communities have used the rating system to integrate sustainability and data-driven performance management into their strategic plans.
Lawrence, KS
During the hiring process of a new city manager in early 2016, the city commission for Lawrence, KS identified the need for a strategic plan that would support implementation of the city’s comprehensive plan. The two-year strategic plan could be used to drive yearly budget discussions and ensure that city projects, programs, and services are aligned with communitywide goals.
Around the same time as the new city manager was starting, the City of Lawrence Office of Sustainability was wrapping up data collection for STAR certification. In October 2016, Lawrence achieved a 4-STAR Community Rating and was recognized for national excellence in community sustainability (image at right). The timely certification helped to form the baseline for the new strategic plan.
“City leadership was looking for a way to develop and prioritize strategic goals and identify measureable strategies and objectives. The close timing of the STAR certification helped shape and inform this conversation,” says Jasmin Moore, Sustainability Director for City of Lawrence.
STAR’s holistic framework for community sustainability became fundamental to the development of the new strategic plan. The plan identified seven critical success factors (image at right) to serve as guideposts for city staff to achieve the following vision: “The City of Lawrence–supporting an unmistakably vibrant community with innovative, equitable, transparent and responsible local government.” The critical success factors include:
1. Effective Governance & Professional Administration
2. Safe, Healthy & Welcoming Neighborhoods
3. Innovative Infrastructure & Asset Management
4. Commitment to Core Services
5. Sound Fiscal Stewardship
6. Collaborative Solutions
7. Economic Growth & Security
After the critical success factors were identified, teams were developed to identify how success would be measured within each. The city’s certification results provided the teams with strong data that could be used to benchmark performance against similar jurisdictions and identify gaps and opportunities for improvement. The teams reviewed STAR outcome measures and determined which could be used to track progress towards the plan’s seven main goals.
“Our STAR certification demonstrated that we had reliable data and meaningful metrics, which matched up really well with each of the seven critical success factors in the strategic plan,” says Moore.
At the conclusion of the plan development process, eleven STAR outcome measures were selected to measure progress. For example, in the “Safe, Healthy & Welcoming Neighborhoods” critical success factor, outcome measures from STAR’s Public Parkland objective within the Built Environment goal area were selected as performance measures for tracking access to parks (images below). To demonstrate accountability and transparency to the community, Lawrence has created a publicly accessible online dashboard on the city’s website and updates the performance measures quarterly.
“Embedding STAR outcomes into our strategic plan helps keep STAR front of mind for staff and emphasizes that sustainability is not just the job of the sustainability office, but is the job of all city staff,” says Moore.
For the City of Riverside, located just outside of Los Angeles County, balancing growth with sustainability is both a priority and a challenge. To conduct a baseline of local sustainability, Riverside went through the STAR certification process in 2015 and received a 3-STAR Community Rating.
At the same time city staff members were collecting data for their STAR application, they were also developing the Riverside Restorative Growthprint (RRG), a plan to balance economic growth and sustainability. The RRG combines two plans: the Economic Prosperity Action Plan and the Climate Action Plan, which work in conjunction to spur entrepreneurship and smart growth while advancing the city’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction goals.
“A primary purpose and goal of the Riverside Restorative Growthprint is to concurrently address climate change and create opportunities for entrepreneurial growth that will contribute to a sustainable and prosperous community,” says Steve Hayes, Riverside City Planner.
A unique blend of experts came together to develop the hybrid plan. Representatives from the city’s economic development and public works departments, as well as engineers, marketing professionals, sustainability professionals, and transportation planners all worked on the Growthprint. To ensure that progress is tracked and met, the RRG identified nine Entrepreneurial Opportunity Areas (EOAs) that will track the plan’s implementation. All of the EOAs have a direct or indirect relationship to the evaluation measures contained in the STAR Community Rating System. The alignment is below:
Built Environment Climate & Energy Economy & Jobs Education, Arts & Community Equity & Empowerment Health & Safety Natural Systems
1. Energy & Water Upgrades for Home and Business X X X X
2. Green Building Standards X X X X
3. Clean Vehicles and Charging/Fueling Stations X X X X X
4. Riverside Public Utility Clean Technology Funding X X X
5. Waste Reduction & Diversion X X X X
6. Expand Bicycle infrastructure X X X X X
7. Eco/Innovation Business Zone X X X X X X
8. Clean-Tech Incubator X X X X X
9. Buy and Produce Local Initiative X X X X X X
“Many economic and environmental benefits will occur with implementation of the RRG, including cost savings benefits to businesses and local institutions, as well as public health benefits associated with lowering levels of GHG emissions, clean transportation alternatives, and increased resource efficiency,” says Hayes.
By targeting specific topics in the RRG that align with the STAR Community Rating System, Riverside will be able to use STAR recertification to track overall progress.
“The STAR Community Rating System has and will continue to provide the city with a comprehensive tool to align, prioritize, and track progress of our current and future strategic sustainability goals contained in several current and future policy documents (RRG, General Plan 2040, EV Citywide Strategy and Master Plan, etc.) into one easy-to-follow document that allows us to track and benchmark our sustainability priorities in a meaningful manner,” says Hayes.
After spending much of 2014 gathering data for certification, the City of Raleigh received a 4-STAR Community Rating in the spring of 2015. During this time, Raleigh was also in the process of a leadership transition that involved a new city manager and other senior staff. As a part of the transition and at the direction of the city council, the city decided to develop its first ever strategic plan. Through an inclusive process with city staff and other partners, the plan was adopted soon after the STAR certification.
The plan, which has since gone through one revision in 2017, used the STAR Community Rating System as a source of key information during the plan’s development.
“Leadership understood the importance of the STAR analysis and chose to incorporate it into the plan’s development process,” says Cindy Holmes, Assistant Sustainability Manager for Raleigh.
The plan identifies six strategic focus areas:
1. Arts & Cultural Resources
2. Economic Development & Innovation
3. Growth & Natural Resources
4. Organizational Excellence
5. Safe, Vibrant & Healthy Community
6. Transportation & Transit
These strategic focus areas are then broken down into objectives and initiatives, each with defined performance metrics. “By including specific performance metrics in the strategic plan, the city is able to track progress to strategically use resources,” says Holmes.
Many of the objectives and initiatives in the plan align with STAR evaluation measures. For example, objective two in the “Growth & Natural Resources” focus area states that the city should “increase the connected network of green spaces that conserve natural resources and promote outdoor activity.”
This objective aligns closely with the STAR outcome measures in the Public Parkland objective within the Built Environment goal area. In addition, one of Raleigh’s initiatives for this objective is to create an open-space plan, which is also a STAR action in the Public Parkland objective.
“By aligning several of our strategic plan objectives and initiatives with the STAR Community Rating System, we will be able to use nationally vetted best practices and be able to track our progress through recertification.”
The City will track the progress of their objectives and initiatives in an online dashboard.
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At U forum, Nancy Pelosi bullish on Democrats' electoral prospects
During forum at U, she said she fully expects to see Angie Craig and state Sen. Terri Bonoff in Congress.
By Ricardo Lopez Star Tribune
October 11, 2016 — 6:49pm
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the U.S. House, said Tuesday she was confident that voters would send two more women from Minnesota to Washington during a forum at the University of Minnesota.
Pelosi, the 15-term Democrat from California, arrived in Minnesota the day before, headlining a fundraiser for congressional candidates Angie Craig and state Sen. Terri Bonoff. The candidates are locked in two of the most closely watched and expensive congressional races in the country.
Pelosi said she's hoping for more female lawmakers in Congress.
"I feel very certain they'll be there," she said during a roughly 90 minute forum on the election, immigration reform and political gridlock.
Pelosi's visit to Minnesota comes amid a particularly turbulent stretch of the election. The fallout from a tape of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump bragging about kissing and groping women has breathed new life into efforts by Democrats nationally to regain control of the House.
With a large Republican majority in the House, Democrats' chances of regaining the lower congressional chamber seemed less likely than regaining control of the Senate, where the GOP majority is seen as more vulnerable. Trump's bitter rift with congressional Republicans who have rescinded their support less than 30 days before the general election is threatening to upend races across the country.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday, “I feel very confident that if the election were held today, we would win it all.”
"I feel very confident that if the election were held today, we could win it all," Pelosi said.
Pelosi said she views Trump as an anomaly among other Republicans, adding that the celebrity business mogul had momentarily overthrown the traditional GOP leadership.
She predicted that some GOP lawmakers could work with Hillary Clinton if she is elected president, which Pelosi said she expects will happen.
"I believe the Republican Party establishment or whatever you want to call that, will take back their party. It's the Grand Old Party. The Republican Party is a great party in our country. They make great contributions to our country's success and it has been hijacked," she said.
Pelosi demurred when asked whether Craig and Bonoff should vote for her should she run for House speaker, a role she has previously held. "Let them win their elections first," she said.
Republican groups have worked to tie Democratic candidates to Pelosi, a politically divisive figure who played a key role in the passage of President Obama's health care law. During the forum, she defended the health care law, saying that it was a massive achievement that has ensured millions of Americans have health insurance coverage.
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How do I get from Hat Yai to the Malaysian border?
I need to cross out of Thailand and come back in because Tourist Visa is nearly expired. I plan to go to Hat Yai, but how do I get to the border from there?
You have two options: go to Sadao or Padang Besar. By far the better of these options is Padang Besar.
Padang Besar is Closer to Hat Yai
The border at Sadao is further away and much busier as it is the route people take to Penang. I always go to Padang Besar as the staff seem really friendly and there has been no queuing.
Minivan From Hat Yai Bus Station
To get from Hat Yai to Padang Besar you should take a minivan from Hat Yai bus station.
Minivans at Hat Yai Bus Station
The bus station is 2.8 km from central Hat Yai where the train station is located. from the centre of Hat Yai a good way to travel to the bus station is to take a motorbike taxi.
Motorbike Taxi to Hat Yai Bus Station
Agree the price in advance and pay no more than Nung Roy Baht (this means ‘100 Baht’). The current local rate (2018) for the journey from the train station to the bus station is 40 THB
Buying a Ticket to Padang Besar
Once at the bus station ignore the travel agent touts directing you to their shops on the road by the station and go inside the bus station itself. The booking kiosk you need is at the far right end of row of counters. There is a helpful sign on the glass screen saying both ‘Padang Besar’ and ‘Border’. You turn up and buy tickets just before you travel. The cost is 50 THB each way and the journey takes 50 minutes to the border.
Getting to Padang Besar Before The Border Closes
The border is open 05.00 to 22.00 every day and there are minivans there about every 30 minutes during that time. They tend to leave when full so your best bet is just to turn up and wait.
Arrival At Padang Besar
The minivan driver will take you at the immigration centre. Once you are there at the border take a motorbike through the two borders and then back to the bus station in Padang Besar for the trip back to Hat Yai.
Motorbike Taxi Over The Two Borders
These motorbike taxi drivers are genuinely helpful and for 70 THB they will take you quickly through the border into Malaysia and then back again without getting off the motorbike. The borders are several hundred metres apart and walking between is not going to be any fun, particularly as there is no pavement and lots of traffic.
Where to Stay in Hat Yai
If you stay the night in Hat Yai do yourself a favour and book into the Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel near the Central shopping centre in Hat Yai. There is not much to do in the evenings in Hat Yai and you will find that having a nice hotel really improves the experience. It costs around 1,500 THB a night but you can entertain yourself in the gym and pool and watch English language TV in your room. There are several Western fast food outlets like KFC and McDonalds in the shopping centre next door and I normally buy a take out and eat it in the room with a few beers.
Route Map From Hat Yai Bus Station to the Border at Padang Besar
Next read about how to do a Visa Run by Train to the Thai Consulate in Kota Bharu, Malaysia
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Keeping the Universal Championship Away From Braun Strowman Does Not Seem So Bad After All
Word on the street is Braun Strowman has some HEAT! Rumors circulated around stating that the reason the WWE officials decided to go with Brock Lesnar over Strowman was because Strowman has rubbed some people the wrong way because he leaves shows early and - insert other reason- Whether or not there is heat, keeping the title off Strowman may not be a bad idea. How long can he really sustain a run as the Universal Champion?
In wrestling, many times you have to strike the iron while it’s hot. For Strowman, that time may have been during the Spring or Summer. He won the Greatest Royal Rumble followed by the Money in the Bank. But for the Raw brand, the focus was getting the title to Roman Reigns who had been chasing since February. After Reigns won the title from Lesnar, it may have not been a bad idea to have Strowman cash in but then again, that would have defeated the purpose of having Reigns chase. Unfortunately Reigns title run was watered down due to Baron Corbin restricting his title defense to only WWE Crown Jewel. Unfortunately for Reigns, he would have to relinquish the title due to sickness. Instead of going with Strowman now, WWE decided to go with Lesnar. Again, it does not seem like a bad idea now.
I’ve been one who have been very vocal about the WWE Universal Championship not being on Raw every week. Nothing has changed I still feel that way, however I do think there is an opportunity for someone else to win the title and that would be a bigger impact.
Strowman could win the title, but how good would his title reign really be? The Big Show is a 4-time world champion and he has been vocal saying that big guys like him and Strowman do not make great champions because everyone can’t work with them. The more I think about it, he’s got a point. With Reigns out, who else would give you a match with Strowman that would be box office? And is he really the guy that children look up to? Or is he just a larger than life figure that they are amazed by? Think about this, children loved NWO Wolfpac Kevin Nash but they had the Sting toys and dolls. They liked face Big Show and Undertaker but they wanted the Stone Cold Steve Austin and Rock merchandise. And if you make him a heel champion, which baby face can dethrone him? Did WWE drop the ball on Strowman, maybe or perhaps like always they are smarter than us and know exactly why they didn’t go with him.
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Seth Rollins or Drew McIntyre, who deserves the ball next?
I recently discussed why I believe Braun Strowman being kept away from the WWE Universal Championship is not so bad after all. However, if you don’t go with them, then who do you pick? Well I have the perfect heel and the perfect face. Drew McIntyre and Seth Rollins are next in-line.
Let’s start with McIntyre. Once deemed the chosen one, McIntyre entered the WWE in the late 2000s with all of the potential and hype behind him. Unfortunately he was not ready for it and never succeeded past the mid-card. After being pushed to the back and ultimately to the back door, McIntyre hit the independents and rebranded himself. When he returned to WWE, he started in NXT where he would become champion. But he was still too good for the developmental brand. However, this was a perfect way to reintroduce him to the WWE audience. Since he arrived to Raw he has been bigger, meaner, and better than ever. He would win the Raw tag team titles with Dolph Ziggler, but after losing those titles, McIntyre looks primed and ready for a WWE Universal title run. While I’m not mad that Lesnar is once again a part time champion, McIntyre is the guy I would much rather see hold the title.
Then there is Seth Rollins. You will find many fans call him the best in the world. Rollins is currently the Intercontinental champion and while he has not defended the title as much as he would like, he has done the title great justice by being one of the best workers in the company. Rollins had one of the best first-time WWE title reigns in the history of the business. Unfortunately his reign ended due to injury. When he returned, he did not seem to get his mojo back right away. However after WrestleMania 34, Rollins has looked better than he did in 2015. Can you imagine him dropping the Intercontinental title and dethroning Lesnar at WrestleMania 34? After all? He has been taking jabs at him since he first won the Intercontinental title. He was also the one take the WWE Championship from Lesnar when he cashed in his Money in the Bank contract during the main event of WrestleMania 31 to make it a triple threat match and pinning Reigns. Will we see Rollins regain the championship in 2019? It’s hard not to With the roll he’s been on.
The Raw brand is in need of something fresh. They also need for Corbin NOT to restrict title defense. There are too many stars on there who are more than capable of putting on good matches. Hit the reset button by putting the title on McIntyre or Rollins and let’s get the red brand back to where it used to be.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 2:52pm
Haley Way, 9, and Hannah Gadway, 9, put together scrapbooks. (Photo by Marla Hoffman).
By Marla Hoffman
Students staying after school at Calais Elementary School are getting moving and learning and exercising their creative minds.
Run Monday through Thursday, more than half the children in the school participate, according to Kim McCadden, who runs the program.
“They do reading, scrap-booking, all sorts of stuff to get them going,” said McCadden.
Some of the activities include Zumba, Legos, story time, arts and crafts, cheering, cupcake decorating, badminton, a walking club, Bouncing Blue Devils and ping pong, among others.
The different activities are monitored by high school teacher Ed Lehman’s Jobs for Maine Grads program.
“The kids come up and work with out kids on a number of different activities,” said CES Principal Peter Perkins. “It’s a pleasure to have them here and participating in our program,” said Perkins. “We don’t have the funds to do this, so we are happy they can come and volunteer at our school.”
The activities themselves are proving rewarding for the young students. The Bouncing Blue Devils learn basketball drills, and sometimes even get to perform during half time at varsity games, said Perkins.
The after school homework club meets Tuesdays and Thursdays. “Teachers stay after to help students with their homework or answer any questions they have,” said Perkins.
“What we do is not a babysitting service,” Perkins said. “These kids are coming here to participate and have a great time. They really look forward to it each semester. They just love it.”
One of the most popular activities is Legos. “There is a huge tote of Legos,” Perkins said. “Kids build all sorts of things on their own and many work together if they want. It’s by far our most popular this year.”
Volunteers Mariah Howard and Cassandra Day read stories to children in the after school program. (Photo by Marla Hoffman).
Students in the gym at Calais Elementary School participate in basketball drills. (Photo by Marla Hoffman).
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News round-up 18 May 2015
Bakers in Northern Ireland guilty of discrimination
Ashers Baking Company has been found guilty of discriminating against Gareth Lee by refusing to bake a cake with a theme promoting gay marriage.
Although the judge, District Judge Isobel Brownlie, accepted that the family who own Ashers "hold genuine deeply-held religious beliefs", she did say that the McArthur family had discriminated because of their customer's sexuality.
She said that the regulations were there "to protect people from having their sexual orientation used for having their business turned down".
Lee described the suggestion that Ashers return the money he had paid for the cake "made me feel I'm not worthy, a lesser person and to me that was wrong". Lee reported the baker to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland which eventually led to the trial.
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Manchester United v Arsenal Preview
Arsenal have not beaten Manchester United at Old Trafford in the league for over a decade, their last victory was in September 2006 with the only goal being scored by Emmanuel Adebayor. Danny Welbeck scored in our FA Cup win in 2015 but you have to go back to our title win in 2002 for our last significant win at Old Trafford
Add Jose Mourinho into the mix who has not been a good opponent for Arsene Wenger over the years and the trip to Manchester on Saturday will be a very difficult task for the gunners to come away with a victory
On the plus side Arsenal are currently on an unbeaten run of 10 games in the Premier League and are 6 points clear of Manchester United, But United generally raise their game when the gunners are in town
Games between Manchester United and Arsenal are always intense and the English Premier League betting odds put United as slight favourites but it is very close to call.
If Arsenal play as well as they have been so far then it will be close but the gunners should win, if we start slowly and let United get a foot hold in the game then it will be a lot tougher.
My Prediction is 1 - 2
We will have to see what effect the recent Internationals will have had on the squad but the early news on Alexis Sanchez is good with him coming through 84 minutes and scoring twice for Chile in their world cup win against Uruguay on Tuesday. He travels back on Wednesday which will give our medical staff a chance to take a look at his fitness but knowing Alexis he will be keen to play against United
Hector Bellerin is unlikely to play on Saturday after being sent home from the Under 21's with a slight ankle injury he will be also accessed but the early signs are that he could be out for a few weeks. Santi Cazora is also out as he also recovers from an ankle injury and is making slow process,no return date has been mentioned. Lucas Perez is also out but is expected to return in the next couple of weeks.
Manchester United also have injury worries with Wayne Rooney being the latest addition to the injury list after being pulled out the England squad for the Match against Spain. But he is expected to return for the visit of Arsenal and he also seems to play well against us.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is suspended after picking up a yellow card in United's last fixture, Defenders Chris Smalling and Eric Bailly are also missing
Antonio Valencia and Luke Shaw are also struggling to be fit and may struggle to be ready in time for Saturday
Manchester United have worries of their own on that front, with Wayne Rooney having pulled out of the England squad through injury. He is, however, expected to be available to Mourinho, who will be without the suspended No.9 Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
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Blu-Ray Review: Holy Knight (2012)
Holy Knight is an animated mini-series about two young adult named Lilith and Shinta. This show starts off with Lilith as a little girl living in a small village until suddenly it is being attacked by what seems to be vampire hunters from the Vatican. This sadly forces Lilith's parents to send her away via boat in order to protect her from danger. Cut to years later to when we are introduced to a guy named Shinta, a very normal guy with nothing interesting to say about him. While on his way to class, he runs into a more grown up looking Lilith and comes to shock when he sees that she is hitting on him. Later that day Shinta runs into Lilith whom wants to drag him into a room so that she can do the monster mash with him (the sexual kind of monster mash). Shinta freaks out and explains to her that she can't force a sexual relationship onto him and then he walks off. We soon find out later that Lilith is the last of her kind, this is the reason why she wants to reproduce with Shinta... Or so it seems as there could be a much more sinister reason why Lilith wants to make sweet, sweet snoo snoo to him. Did I forget to mention that Shinta's big breasted best friend is jealous of him and Lilith hanging out all the time? Did I also forget to mention that Shinta's cat can transform into a cute girl that is sworn to protect him from Lilith? Maybe I should also mention that Lilith also has a talking animal that's trying to help her seal the deal with Shinta and is also trying to have his way with Shinta's big breasted best friend? Not to mention that the hunters from Lilith's past are in town and are after Lilith. All this sounds like a fun sexy action series... Right? (Click "Read More" to read the full review).
Spot the victim.
This series might sound like a supernatural hentai but instead it is a supernatural drama that's about a girl trying to force herself into a relationship, so describing what this series is about will mislead people into thinking that this is a hentai. The story in this series was very average and doesn't pull you in all that much and so you will have to force yourself to watch it. The biggest problem with the story wasn't the main plot line but all of the random sub-plots that come out of nowhere as they get in the way of the series and don't add anything important, so it adds in a heavy filler factor to this series. When you do get an important sub-pot, you'll feel dread as you'll think it's just going to be another useless scene and that's a sign of very bad directing. Even when those important scenes do something for the story, you'll find that they are tacked on and not very strong. Another huge problem with this series is that the random filler gets in the way so much that the main plot elements get thrown to the side just to make way for the filler content and I absolutely hated that.
The problems I have do get fixed a lot in the second part of this series and it helped a lot but you can also sense that there'll be something added to the end that'll make the time not worth it. I'm just going to do a minor spoiler and say that this series ends on a cliffhanger and the problem with that is that it ends in a way where you do not care for what happens next. The drama in this show can be pretty okay at best. There were scenes where I cringed so hard that I was spurting enough lemon juice from my eyes to make enough salty lemon aide for the entire TNR crew. Comedy in this series was very generic and cliche to where the humor found in this show has been done so much and much better in other shows that it very dull and boring. Action in this series suffers the same problem as the comedy and was a drag to sit through. I was mixed on the characters as some of them were likable while others didn't do anything for me and were just boring.
The hills come alive with the sound of music... And snoring.
Artwork in this series was decent as it had characters that looked good and some very nice looking backgrounds that had some nice detailing. Oddly enough, art seemed to look its best during the sex and nude scenes. Speaking of sex and nudity as the nude scenes looked good and oddly enough, the most character detailing you'll see in this series is on Lilith's bra (not the one that's pictured above) and indeed it does have some nice detailing (not saying that part in any perverted way). There were some spots though to where the artwork did look a little cheap and yes, some of the nude and sex scenes did suffer from this as well, so this isn't the case where they blew their load (no pun intended) on the sex and nude scenes.
While characters did look decent, their designs weren't that great as they were very generic and unmemorable. Going back to art, some very minor characters in this series did look awful as they were very janky and odd looking to where they looked out of place. Animation in the series was decent and very consistent with no weird drops in quality. I'm going to sound like a pervert again but this series does have breast jiggling and it was animated well and not over the top, it looked like a natural realistic breast jiggle (damn do I sound perverted).
It is dangerous to go alone, so take this.
This release of this series only comes with the Japanese dub and English subtitles and the Japanese dub was passable but nothing all that special. I know the US release of this series has an English dub included and I am interested to see how that turned out. The acting in this series can get a little weird at times, especially during the scenes where Lilith is hitting on Shinta due to the cheesy dialogue. The soundtrack was actually good as it had some nice tunes in a nice soft rock style and the only problem I have with it is that it was mixed way too quietly during the opening and closing credits.
Overall, while this anime does have some good qualities to it, most of it was uninteresting, very poorly executed, generic, and a little off. I do not recommend going out of your way to even pirate this series as it'll be a waste of an hour of your time and is best left collecting dust in a bargain bin. Not worth it.
Title: Holy Knight
Animation Studio: Lyrics
Genre: Animation/Anime, Action, Horror, Drama
Running Time: 60 minutes (2 Episodes)
Distributor: Mandala Films
Rating: MA15+ (Strong sexual references, sexualised violence)
Recommended: No
Posted by Retrokaiser at 12:09 AM
Labels: Anime, Retrokaiser, review
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Terror attack on Mumbai of Nov. 2008
Vinu posted a set of photos the day of the terrorist attack on the Bombay hotels. Vinu was the first live-blogger to post photos. Vinu's four Flickr photo sets concerning the attack and its aftermath are titled, "Bombay Blast," "Navy Activity Nov. 28," "Nov. 28," and "Nariman House Aftermath."
Vinukumar Ranganathan, "Bombay Blasts," flickr.com
Another photographer who was on the scene the night of the attacks was Soumik.
Soumik, "26/11 Mumbai Terror Attack," Flickr.com
Some French tourists operating out of YouTube Channel Pranavdamle83, present an unusual collection of video clips filmed in a hotel under attack. They explained:
"The police tried to get in through the glass windows of doors. None of those who went in came out. Just five minutes after they entered there was a huge explosion. . . We tried to sneak in to the Taj Mahal Hotel. The cops wouldn't let us go through as the terrorists were throwing grenades on the passers-by"
Pranavdamle83, EUROPEAN TRYIN TO COME OUT, BULLTES AND SHATTERED GLASS, POLICE TRYIN TO GET IN, GATEWAY OF INDIA, FLEASH, FLEASH, LEOPOLD HOTEL , TAJ HOTEL SOUTH GATE, posted at the Pranavdamle83 channel, YouTube (8 videos)
Local Mumbai blogger Arun is a blogger who lives in the Colaba district of Mumbai near the Taj Mahal Hotel. Shanbhag got dressed and headed off to the scene of some blasts as soon as he woke up:
"Even though we are only a block from the Taj Hotel, I slept through the blasts. . . I took my camera and headed to the Terrace and took a few pics of the Taj Hotel. The hostage situation is still ongoing. I could see smoke billowing out of several windows. . . . Every time we heard a blast or gunfire, everyone would look at the Taj and try to figure out where it came from. Will keep updating as I venture out and take more pics. That is if my parents let me get out. . . ."
Arun Shanbhag, Mumbai Blasts: Day 2 Live Blogging, arunshanbhag.com (photos, text)
Mumbai Blasts: Taj Burning; More pics from terrorist killing, arunshanbhag.com (photos, text)
Twitter http://twitter.com/arunshanbhag (tweets)
FLickr! username “shanbhag” (photos)
Blogger and writer Amit Varma was in downtown Mumbai at the time of the attack:
. . . we headed to All Stir Fry, the restaurant in the Gordon House Hotel in a lane down from there. They told us we’d have to wait 20 minutes. We stepped out again, and as we did so, we heard gunshots, and saw people running towards us from the left side. One of the hotel employees rushed out and told us to get back in. “There must have been an encounter,” he said. “Get back in, you’ll be safe inside.”
Amit Varma, "A Night Out In Mumbai (Updated)," India Uncut (text)
Blogger Rahul found himself in downtown Mumbai with his wife and baby. Rahul blogged:
“There’s been a shootout,” he said, walking on. Behind them, the crowd that began streaming into this lane grew seriously thick. They were running, the ones further behind going faster. “Gang war.” “Encounter.” I turned tail and ran indoors.
Rahul, Nightmares, Green Channel
Media Live:
The Wikipedia article, "November 2008 Mumbai attacks" was a much-lauded source of timely information.
Gauravo, List of Indian bloggers live blogging the mumbai terror-attacks, Gauravonomics
Based in Washington D.C., Gauravo was among the most comprehensive and analytical of the media live bloggers.
Mumbai online: the attacks reported live (updating), Journalism.co.uk
'I am surprised by the lack of user-generated content', says Mumbai attack live-blogger, Journalism.co.uk
Real Time Citizen Journalism in Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, Gauravonomics blog
My Interview with Indian Weekly Tehelka on the Role of Citizen Journalism in the Mumbai Terrorist Attack, Gauravonomics blog
Citizen voices and the Mumbai attacks, My heat's in Accra
Mumbai India blasts, Global Voices
Twitter comes of age, Guardian
Twitter edges out blogs, and Youtube suvive, DNA
Tweeting the terror: how social media reacted to Mumbai, CNN
Two days of terror - The New York Times
PAD hijacks Bangkok airport
The People's Alliance for Democracy took over Bangkok's two major airports.
I shot this video with my cell phone at 6:30 am on Wednesday, November 26 - this shows the area at Suvarnabuhmi, Thailand's main airport, that is normally used for drop offs for international departures. The airport was taken over by tens of thousands of protesters late in the afternoon the day before. I went to the airport at about 5 am and attempted to get out on an 8 am flight to Hong Kong but no luck. Shot this short video before leaving the terminal.
Nleh63, mlehm63, YouTube Channel nlehm63 (posted at Global Voices)
Celebrations of Obama's election victory on Nov 4, 2008
November 4, 2008 will go down as one of the greatest and happiest days in American history. Little-covered a mainstream media focused on vote-counts, bloggers captured remarkable images from American cities when the public spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate Obama's victory.
Kadfly photo-blogged the celebrations, writing on his blog: "I'll let the pictures and the videos do the talking tonight."
Kadfly, Wow, Kadfly: a radical moderate, (photos).
For African Americans, the election of Obama was the fulfillment of a dream. They recognized it at once as the opening of a new chapter of American history. I listened to a some women sing "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the front gates of the White House. Witnessing this scene was one of one of the real highlights of the extraordinary night.
Jotman, Six victory themes: how Washington DC celebrated when Obama won the election, Jotman.com, (text, photos, 7 videos)
Live-blogging spontaneous celebration of Obama victory on streets of DC, Jotman.com, (text, video)
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Menthe Fraîche
The mouth-watering smell of mint might be one of the most refreshing scents in the natural world, but it’s a bugger to use in perfumery, for the simple fact that toothpaste manufacturers got there first. Mint has been the most popular flavour for toothpaste since the early 20th century, so it’s a brave perfumer who decides to make it the main ingredient in a scent.
Enter the Yorkshire-born, Paris-based scentorialist James Heeley, who in 2004 released Menthe Fraîche, a bold and rather brilliant fragrance that puts mint firmly on centre stage – and got away with it without making it smell like mouthwash.
Menthe Fraîche smells fantastically minty by dint of a clever combination of natural and synthetic ingredients that reinforce and support each other in a way that simply spraying mint-oil on yourself never would. James Heeley notes that ‘Menthe Fraîche was a collaboration with a laboratory in Grasse, inspired by the smell of Corscian mint underfoot. It includes bergamot, a lot of cedarwood, fir balsam and white musk. It’s fresh without being overpoweringly minty.’ It includes both spearmint and the colder-smelling peppermint, as well as hints of green tea.
Though sadly it doesn’t last very long on the skin, Menthe Fraîche does keep going longer than some reviewers have claimed; I can still smell it a couple of hours after spraying it on, but then it’s a pleasure to reapply. And it is, after all, a cologne, something you’d use to freshen up on a hot summer’s day, rather than the kind of heavyweight perfume you might long for on a cold winter evening.
Created in collaboration with the professional perfumer David Maruitte, it also has a raft of synthetics, detailed by Chandler Burr in a typically excellent article for the New York Times, which you can read here. In a variation on the theme of art concealing art, Menthe Fraîche smells so wonderfully fresh and natural precisely because of the synthetic molecules in its make-up, not despite them – and that for me is one of the wonders of professional perfumery.
Tags: "James Heeley", 2004, cedarwood, David Maruitte, fir balsam, green tea, Heeley, Menthe Fraîche, mint, mouthwash, peppermint, spearmint, toothpaste, white musk
Though there’s some dispute about its exact origins, the word ‘perfume’ most likely derives from ‘fumes from a substance being burned’, so you could say that Phoenicia, the latest fragrance from Yorkshire-born, Brussels-based perfumer James Heeley goes back to perfume’s roots.
The name refers to the ancient civilisation that flourished in the eastern Mediterranean around 1000BC, but Phoenicia’s smell is instantly evocative of childhood bonfires, just as his earlier L’Amandière evokes an almond orchard in spring.
‘I loved the way my hair smelled after a bonfire,’ Heeley recalls, and he’s captured the memory using a mixture of cedarwood, oud, smoky birchwood and vetiver.
Luckily there’s more to Phoenicia than smoke. ‘I’ve always loved the concrete of labdanum ciste,’ Heeley says (the densest refined extract from the fragrant Mediterranean shrub Cistus ladanifer), ‘which has a slight smell of dates or prunes.’ Adding this to the formula gives Phoenicia an attractive hint of dried-fruit sweetness, which balances the smokiness is a very attractive way. It certainly lights my fire.
Tags: "James Heeley", 2015, birchwood, bonfire, cedarwood, cistus, dates, Heeley, labdanum, oud, Phoenicia, prunes, smoke, smoky, vetiver
Colonia Leather
The smell of leather is one of the staples of men’s fragrances. It has an interesting history, too, since at least one of the roots of modern perfumery can be followed back to the perfumed-leather gloves that became fashionable from the sixteenth century on.
Some ‘leather’ fragrances are more successful than others, Chanel’s powerful and historic Cuir de Russie being one of the best. But until the launch of Colonia Leather in May 2014 I’d never come across a perfume that really captured clean new leather’s comfortingly aromatic smell.
I have to admit that this came as something of a surprise, as I’m not a great fan of the other perfumes in the Acqua di Parma range. I can recognise their quality, and I love their packaging, but their combination of lemon and rose just doesn’t do it for me – the rose seems just too feminine a counterpart to the freshness of the classic citrusy eau-de-cologne.
So I could hardly believe my nose when I first sprayed Colonia Leather on. Yes, it contains a definite hint of the Acqua di Colonia signature rose-cologne smell, but that’s quickly overlaid by a beautifully smooth, refined leather smell, like the finest fresh kidskin gloves, or an unjustifiably expensive suede jacket from Hermès. Though it’s not especially strong, its gentle scent stays on the skin for a good half day or more, even if I find it hard to smell on myself after an hour or so.
How such an authentically leathery fragrance is done is beyond me, though it does contain at least one of the classic ingredients of ‘leather’ perfumes, rectified birch tar, which is also used in Cuir de Russie. I’ve pointed out before that a list of ingredients is about as useful in describing a perfume as a list of words in describing a Shakespeare sonnet, but for those who would like to know here are some of the other things in the formula: Sicilian lemon, Brazilian orange oil, raspberry, rose, honeysuckle, Paraguayan petitgrain (made from the twigs of orange trees), ‘red’ thyme, cedarwood, cistus, guaic wood and olibanum.
So who was behind this marvellous scent? As usual there’s no mention anywhere on the Acqua di Parma website or in its marketing material, but I think Colonia Leather’s creator deserves more credit than that. So please take a bow François Demachy, the French perfumer, formerly at Chanel, who has been the ‘director of olfactory development’ at Christian Dior since 2006.
(If you’re wondering, incidentally, what Dior’s head perfumer is doing moonlighting for Acqua di Parma, the answer is that both companies are owned by the luxury-goods conglomerate LVMH, and Demachy also has oversight of its other perfume brands. And as it happens Colonia Leather isn’t his first perfume for Acqua di Parma; he also created Colonia Intensa, which was launched back in 2007.)
At £150 for 100ml Colonia Leather is a lot more expensive than the other fragrances in the Acqua di Parma range, and for now (2014) it’s only available from Harrods, but it’s really worth going to smell, even if you can’t justify spending quite so much on a single bottle of perfume.
Tags: "Cuir de Russie", 2014, Acqua di Parma, birch oil, cedarwood, cistus, citrus, Colonia Leather, François Demachy, guaiac oil, honeysuckle, leather, olibanol, orange, petitgrain, raspberry, red thyme, rose
Cologne Bigarade
Every morning for my breakfast I have tea, toast and home-made marmalade. It’s one of my favourite things, and I love the bittersweet smell of Seville oranges, which only appear in the shops for a couple of weeks around this time of the year.
In fact as I sit here writing this post in January, Roy is busy cooking marmalade next door, and the powerful odour of bitter orange (known as bigarade in French) is suffusing the house from kitchen to attic.
So it could hardly be a better time to review Cologne Bigarade, created by the perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena for the French fragrance curator and marketeer, Frédéric Malle (nephew of the film director Louis Malle). Launched in 2001, it was one of the first of the Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, and to my mind it’s one of the most immediately appealing and easy to enjoy.
On first – I was going to say ‘glance’, but I suppose I should say ‘spritz’, it smells like a simple but high-quality natural scent, with the exact mix of sweet green freshness and slight bitterness that you get from orange peel and its bitter pith.
You could, I guess, just bottle Seville-orange extract and have done with it – and apparently Jean-Claude Ellena did commission a special new essence for this scent, obtained by molecular extraction. But like all good perfumes Bigarade Cologne is ultimately a clever recreation of what seems, on the surface, like a simple natural scent, using a careful balance of other ingredients to enhance and support the main ingredient.
In this case, Ellena has added a bit of hay and grass – or rather their synthesised essences – which makes the orange even fresher somehow, then subtly underpinned it with a little cedar-wood and rose, adding extra depth and staying-power. You could even say that these extra ingredients suggest the smell of the leaves and the twigs of orange trees, though perhaps that’s going too far.
(Actually, unless you concentrate very hard you can’t really smell them at all; but then we’re so suggestible when it comes to scents that once someone has told you that a particular ingredient is present, you’re more than likely to ‘smell’ it whether it’s actually there or not.)
To me Cologne Bigarade also has a very slight and not unpleasant sweatiness, which (from a short trip to the kitchen and back) is part of the authentic Seville orange smell. In perfume that faint sweatiness is often derived from cumin, and I wonder if there might be a touch of that classic curry spice here too.
Cologne Bigarade is not, perhaps, the most complex perfume on the market, but like most of Jean-Claude Ellena’s fragrances it’s rather more thoughtful and unusual than the general run. Given that he’s also the in-house perfumer for Hermès, it immediately made me think of Hermès’ classic Eau d’Orange Verte, which is also based on the scent of bitter oranges. Though that perfume was originally created by Françoise Caron in 1979, Ellena developed a new version in 2004 called Concentrée d’Orange Verte.
Eau d’Orange Verte is one of my all-time favourite fragrances, yet comparing them side by side, it smells sharper and fresher, but perhaps also slightly less interesting than Cologne Bigarade, which also seems to have much more staying power (a rare quality in a citrus-based cologne, though you can also find it in the fantastic sherbet-lemon Monsieur Balmain).
All the fragrances in the Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle are expensive, and Cologne Bigarade is no exception, even if its packaging is extremely smart. The heavy, plain-glass bottle has a chunky black cap and comes in a slide-out, black foam-padded box, which in turn slides out (with some effort) of a scarlet card wrapper. If you have money to burn then there’s an even more expensive version called Bigarade Concentrée, which I’ve smelled as a sample and lasts even longer than Cologne Bigarade. The concentrated version also seems to have less of that faint sweatiness about it, which I suspect many people would prefer; I think I do too.
Either way, a fresh but unusual cologne is a wonderful thing to have, so full marks to Jean-Claude Ellena and Frédéric Malle for giving men something a bit different to wear. In a similar vein, though with a very different smell, is Malle’s Geranium Pour Monsieur, which I hope to be able to review before long; watch this space.
Tags: "Jean-Claude Ellena", 2001, bigarade, Bigarade Concentrée, bitter orange, cedar, cedarwood, citrus, cologne, Cologne Bigarade, Concentré d’orange verte, cumin, Eau d’orange verte, Eau de Cologne, Françoise Caron, Frédéric Malle, grass, hay, marmalade, rose, Seville orange, sweaty, wood
Christmas is coming, and as a long-standing fan of over-indulgence I’m thoroughly looking forward to getting fat on Christmas pudding with brandy butter, washed down with a large glass of Harvey’s Bristol Cream, ideally in front of a roaring log fire. Alternatively I could just blow my own socks off with a generous splash of Comme des Garçons’ delicious Eau de Parfum a.k.a. Christmas in a bottle.
Launched in 1994, this was the Japanese cult fashion brand’s first foray into perfume, but if there was nothing unusual about that, it’s rare for a first perfume to make such a big impression. Partly it was the design of the bottle, a slightly egg-shaped oval with an off-centre cap and no obvious way to stand it up.
That might sound a bit annoying, but I think it’s one of the most stylish and sophisticated perfume-bottle designs of the last 20 years. Eccentric it may be, but Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo’s design is so sleek and refined that it makes most other perfume bottles look cheap and tawdry by comparison.
The Sniff Box is about the scent, though, and what a scent this is. Created by Derby-born perfumer Mark Buxton, it’s not for the shy or faint of heart, for this is one of those fragrances that carries everything (and everyone) before you. The first thing you smell is cloves – or rather clove oil: in fact this is a distinctly oily concoction, for among the other ingredients are nutmeg oil, cinnamon-bark oil, cardamom oil, geranium oil and coriander oil. To me it even feels slightly oily on the skin, which gives it an added touch of luxury and also sets it apart from the vast majority of alcohol-based fragrances.
With ingredients like those it could hardly be anything other than spicy, but Mark Buxton cleverly added a touch of the resinous, smoky smell of incense with cedarwood, labdanum and styrax. The result is wonderfully rich and strange, and though some people find it overpowering, to be overpowered like this is like drowning in a butt of Malmsey: what a way to go!
Tags: 1994, brandy, cedarwood, Christmas, Comme des Garçons, Derby, Eau de Parfum, incense, Japanese, labdanum, Malmsey, Mark Buxton, oil, pudding, Rei Kawakubo, smoke, styrax
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A Busy Month For Our H.U.G.S. Team
Our Southern Pioneer Electric HUGS team been quite busy the past couple of weeks, making donations to several groups across southwest Kansas! What follows is a recap of the month.
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On Thursday, December 7, Southern Pioneer Electric’s Helping Us Give to Society (HUGS) representatives presented Medicine Lodge High School Science Teacher, Jake Bjostad, with a donation for new teaching equipment.
The $1,000 donation from the HUGS committee will go towards the purchase of 11 Anatomy and Clay Manikens for the classroom. The Manikens are for students to get a better understanding of the human anatomy and help them retain the knowledge more effectively.
“We are always so pleased to help our youth with their education,” said Southern Pioneer Electric HUGS representative Dee Longoria. “Being able to visit the class today and actually see what the students would be working with really drove home the whole point of HUGS.”
The Manikens are about two feet tall and allow students to use clay to mold anything from muscles to organs, getting hands on experience of how the human body works. The clay will never dry out and can be reused over and over, lasting as long as 50 years, so decades of students will benefit from the donation.
Bjostad said, “We really appreciate how willing the community was to donate. I saw the Manikens at a conference and walked away thinking, ‘well that’s out (because of the cost),’ but I called Southern Pioneer and they were immediately receptive.”
On Tuesday, December 13, Southern Pioneer Electric’s Helping Us Give to Society (HUGS) representatives presented the City of Liberal Police Department with a donation to purchase an Elastec Drug Terminator Incinerator.
The $1,500 donation from the HUGS committee was matched by CoBank, making a total of $3,000 towards the police department’s equipment. CoBank, a cooperative bank serving agribusinesses, rural infrastructure providers and Farm Credit associations throughout the United States, is the main lender for Southern Pioneer Electric and matches certain donations throughout the year, via its Sharing Success program.
“Supporting the men and women who protect our communities is something we feel very strongly about,” said Southern Pioneer Electric HUGS representative Anita Wendt. “With their new equipment not only are we helping to support the department, but also the community we serve as well.”
The police department will use the incinerator to safely incinerate of any evidentiary drugs that are ready for disposal. The incinerator will be used in conjunction with the department’s new Med Safe Box, that takes in unused and expired medication from the public to be safely disposed of.
“I was excited that we were granted the funds and super surprised when we received the matching funds from CoBank,” said Evidence Supervisor Alison Clark. “We had applied with HUGS a few years ago for our Shop with a Cop program and they are always a great group to work with.”
On December 3 Southern Pioneer Electric’s Helping Us Give to Society (HUGS) representatives presented the City of Satanta Dudley Fire Department with a donation to purchase protective grass fire gear.
The $1,000 donation from the HUGS committee will be matched by CoBank, making a total of $2,000 towards the fire department’s gear. CoBank, a cooperative bank serving agribusinesses, rural infrastructure providers and Farm Credit associations throughout the United States, is the main lender for Southern Pioneer Electric and matches certain donations throughout the year, via its Sharing Success program.
“HUGS is used for donations that are important to local communities and the Satanta fire department definitely fits into what we look for,” said Southern Pioneer Electric HUGS representative Dee Longoria. “These brave men and women protect our communities and we feel they are very deserving of our support.”
The fire department will use the gear to help better protect its fire fighters while fighting grassland fires. Specifically, the fire fighters will get new goggles and neoprene fire proof masks with filters.
Dudley Fire Department Member Wade Sunderland said, “We thank Southern Pioneer Electric and we really appreciate it. We were surprised by the CoBank matching donation and it will really help, especially with all the rain and growth we’ve had, we are expecting a pretty big fire season.”
On December 11 Southern Pioneer Electric’s Helping Us Give to Society (HUGS) representatives presented the Young at Heart Senior Center in Plains with a donation to renovate some of the center.
The $2,500 donation from the HUGS committee will be matched by CoBank, making a total of $5,000 towards the center’s renovations to their front porch, including reroofing it and replacing the brick work. CoBank, a cooperative bank serving agribusinesses, rural infrastructure providers and Farm Credit associations throughout the United States, is the main lender for Southern Pioneer Electric and matches certain donations throughout the year, via its Sharing Success program.
“We try to help our seniors whenever we can and the importance to be able to do something of this scale that will last into the future can’t be overstated,” said Southern Pioneer Electric HUGS representative Dee Longoria.
As of this release, the senior center has finished replacing the brick and is waiting on the metal roofing to be delivered. Senior Center Board Member Beulah Ratzlaff said “I just want to thank you for making this possible.”
Southern Pioneer Electric Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pioneer Electric Cooperative, is headquartered out of Ulysses, Kansas. Southern Pioneer Electric Company has local offices in Liberal and Medicine Lodge, Kansas. Southern Pioneer Electric Company serves approximately 17,200 customers and operates in 10 counties and 34 communities. Southern Pioneer Electric Company’s service territory stretches east from Liberal to Medicine Lodge and north to Kingman and back west to Greensburg, Kansas. Southern Pioneer Electric Company is dedicated to providing customers with safe and reliable electric service. For more information about the HUGS program, please contact Vice President of Energy Services, Anita Wendt. (Phone: 620.424.5271 and E-mail: awendt@pioneerelectric.coop).
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Southern Pioneer Electric Sends Four on Adventure
Southern Pioneer Electric recently sent four local high school students on two, all-expense paid trips as part of the utility’s commitment to the community. Two students were selected for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s 2018 Youth Tour to Washington, D.C., while the other two traveled to the Cooperative Youth Leadership Camp in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
All four students who were selected to represent Southern Pioneer Electric went through an application and interview process. After having their application chosen out of several dozen, the applicants then had a scored interview with a panel of judges before being selected for one of the trips.
“With so many great applicants, selecting just four is difficult,” said Energy Services Coordinator Dee Longoria. “But the students we selected were all very deserving and represented Southern Pioneer extremely well.”
Brayden Schmidt of Medicine Lodge and Desiree Doherty of Kiowa were selected to attend the CYLC, which aims to bring high school students together in a collaborative setting to learn the cooperative principles while working on leadership and teamwork skills.
At the CYLC, the youth gained a greater understanding of how their electric cooperative operates by creating a candy cooperative. The students learned leadership and teamwork skills while participating in daily membership meetings, establishing committees, and electing a general manager and board of directors. They also learned about power generation by touring Trapper Mine, a surface coal mine, and the neighboring Craig Station Power Plant.
Brayden Schmidt and Desiree Doherty get ready to board the bus to Steamboat Springs, Colo.
Schmidt, who was selected as the chairman and emcee for the camp’s talent show said, “Rodd Welker’s presentation really inspired me and actually being part of a co-op taught me a lot. Everything was pretty inspiring.”
Welker, a trainer and principal consultant with Peak Solutions, gave a seminar during the CYLC on the three C’s—connectedness, cooperation and compassion.
“The leadership seminar by Rodd Welker was amazing,” said Doherty. “I love how he had different exercises for the small groups to show us that we always need each other. “
While at camp, students participated in group activities and educational sessions while learning the importance of inclusivity and collaboration. Even the scheduled leisure activities offered learning opportunities as the students worked together maneuvering their river rafts down the Colorado River, competed in a volleyball tournament and showcased their entertaining skills at the annual talent show. The students also toured downtown Steamboat Springs, enjoyed an evening dance and got to go swimming as well.
Liberal’s Joshua Diazdeleon and Medicine Lodge’s Makalah Henke attended the 58th Annual Electric Cooperative Youth Tour in the Nation’s Capital with 1,800 peers from across the nation. Youth Tour was held June 7 through 14.
These students joined teens from across Kansas and Hawaii to spend a week touring Washington, D.C. There, they learned more about our history, our government, the co-op business model, and how to become community leaders.
Nikki Wilken, Joshua Diazdeleon, Slater Heglin and Makalah Henke pose for a photo at the Washing National’s game.
“Being able to be in the physical presence of our nation’s Capital made me realize just how amazing our American Democracy is,” said Diazdeleon. “Whether it was touring the White House or visiting Fort McHenry, the idea that our country has stood strong since its founding has made me appreciate the men and women who have helped lay the foundation.”
While in D.C., the students tour the White House, the U.S. Capitol, the Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Smithsonian museums, Mt. Vernon, Arlington National Cemetery, the National Cathedral and many memorials and historical sites. The students also attended a professional baseball game, a theater performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and saw the pandas at the National Zoo.
Henke said, “I was so inspired by the history of our country. All of the pictures in text books came to life. Also, being in the city away from my small town opened my eyes to many options.”
As part of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s National Youth Day on June 11, all of the state groups convened to learn from inspirational speakers. This year’s keynote speaker is Mike Schlappi, a four-time Paralympic Medalist and two-time world wheelchair basketball champion, who shared his inspiring message, “Just because you can’t stand up doesn’t mean you can’t stand out!”
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First Glance at FirstGlance: Chocolate
Film Title: CHOCOLATE
Film Synopsis:
A suburban housewife and mother suddenly finds herself homeless and lost in downtown Los Angeles. A beautiful story of family and hope.
Key People (cast, crew, etc.):
Dru Miller (Executive, Producer) – Thiago DaDalt (Writer, Director, Editor) – Andre Chesini (Cinematography) – Piercey Dalton (Lead Actress, Eve) – João Bounassar (Supporting Actor, Lewis Brown) – Amy Argyle (Supporting Actress, Janet) – Talia Bacha (Supporting Actor, Ellen) – Ekin Ergen (First AD) – Bruna Nogueira (Makeup/ Hair artist) – Erin Seelert (Costume Design) – Tracy Hayes (Production Design) – Jimmy Hammer (Composer) – Ricardo Ariel (Color & Graphic) – Marcos Daniel Ferreira (BTS Photos) – Milton Miné (Sound Design) – Justin Andrews – Torrey Goldman – Valentina Letuchaya and much more…
Because it’s a great platform in Los Angeles for independent filmmakers. CHOCOLATE has an important message that needs to be spread and I believe this is a great festival for that.
Yes! Thiago Dadalt, Dru Miller, some of the actors and crew will be there to support our film as we filmed in Los Angeles and everybody lives in L.A.
What is something you feel is important for our readers to know about your film?
CHOCOLATE talks about a housewife who became homeless in downtown Los Angeles. She developed early onset Alzheimer’s, a very scary condition that affects more than 200 thousand people in the US.
I initially wrote it as fictional story, and interesting enough, soon after I finished the first cut of the film, we discovered Nancy Paulikas, a 55 year old woman, who has been missing for over 4 moths in the streets of L.A. She has the same condition as the character in the film, Eve. We hope we can help people understand more about the early onset of this disease and maybe help find Nancy.
You can get more information about Nancy on http://nancyismissing.blogspot.com or https://www.facebook.com/nancyismissing/
Our film is proudly also supported by Alzheimer’s Greater Los Angeles
What should viewers expect from your film?
It’s a very emotional film with unexpected situations, beautiful cinematography, great acting, stunning music and a very important message. A film that needs to be seen.
This took 2 months and a total of 115 auditions to found the lead actress (Piercey Dalton) for this project. Thiago Dadalt also volunteered at Lamp Community in Downtown L.A for 2.5 months where he had the chance to be around “Skid Row” and talk to real homeless people during his process of writing and preparing for the film.
Inexplicably, during the third day of filming on “Skid Row” (movie set), 3 homeless people appeared at different times, helped the team on set, and were rewarded for it. One of them is named Lewis, the same name as one of the supporting characters (João Bounassar as Homeless) in the film.
Internationally acclaimed Makeup Artist, Bruna Nogueira, is emerging as one of the top makeup artists in the entertainment industry. Some of her amazing work are The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Teen Wolf, CSI: NY, I Kissed a Vampire and Chocolate.
The supporting actress (Amy Argyle) during her preparation to play a homeless mother, stopped showering 3 days before the shoot day, started to sleep on the floor and refused to eat during the whole day of shooting to help her to feel how a homeless person lives, whilst hungry and dirty on the streets of L.A. Amy Argyle won best supporting actress in LONDON IFF 2017 for her acting in CHOCOLATE. Here’s a video of her preparation on Youtube.
Meeting artists with the same hunger to make films that matter and exchange experiences.
Where can our readers find more information about your film?
First Glance at FirstGlance: Martinis at the Smoke House
First Glance at FirstGlance: Einstein-Rosen
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Bosinger With Walk-Off Double, Wampler Tosses Shutout as No. 11 Tritons Take Two
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TURLOCK, Calif. – The No. 11 University of California San Diego softball team came away with a pair of nonconference victories on the opening day of the Tournament of Champions in Turlock. The Tritons improve to 22-6 on the season with the two wins.
Game One: UC San Diego 3, Northwest Nazarene 0
Reigning California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Pitcher of the Week Robyn Wampler was dominant once again in game one, cruising through the Nighthawk lineup. Wampler tossed a two-hitter, not surrendering a run to Northwest Nazarene. The sophomore was in complete control throughout the entirety of the contest, striking out 11 Nighthawk batters while walking just two.
The Tritons gave Wampler an early lead to protect. Keila Bosinger led off with a double to right center field in the first inning, and moved to third when Danica Kazakoff grounded out to the Nighthawk third baseman. On the next play, UC San Diego capitalized on a throwing error by Northwest Nazarene, and Bosinger crossed home to put the Tritons on the scoreboard.
UC San Diego added to its lead in the fifth. Again, the Tritons led off with a double, this time drilled by Danielle Stedman to left center. Later in the inning, with two outs, Maddy Lewis smacked a homer over the center field fence to give the Tritons a 3-0 lead. That was all the Tritons would need behind lights-out Wampler, and UC San Diego came away with the win.
“Robyn’s pitches were working great,” said Head Coach Patti Gerckens about her pitcher’s performance. “She really kept them off balance. They’re a good hitting team, but she really dominated, and our defense was good behind her.”
Game Two: UC San Diego 6, Academy of Art 5
It was a quiet first few innings for both teams’ bats in game two, but that would quickly change. When the Urban Knights took a 2-0 lead in the fourth, the Tritons responded. Mikaila Reyes and Brittney Ross-Smith led off the inning with back-to-back singles, and both runners were in scoring position following a sacrifice bunt by Alyssa Wing. When Isabel Lavrov reached on a fielder’s choice, the bases were loaded for Bosinger. Bosinger came through with a single to right center, bringing home Ross-Smith.
With the bases still loaded, Kazakoff followed with a single of her own, and Lavrov and Wing both came around to score on the play. Later in the inning, with two outs, the Tritons tacked on their fourth run when Sherriah Harrington sent a single to left to score Kazakoff.
After Lewis’ sacrifice fly in the sixth gave the Tritons a 5-2 lead, things got tricky in the seventh. The Academy of Art managed to tie the game, sending it into the bottom of the seventh.
Ross-Smith drove a single through the left side with one out, and later moved to second after Stedman drew a two-out walk. Bosinger then smacked a clutch double to left field to send Ross-Smith home, sealing a walk-off victory for the Tritons.
In the pitcher’s circle, Alanna Phillips only surrendered two earned runs across 6.2 innings pitched while collecting four strikeouts. Dominique Acosta relieved Phillips in the seventh, tossing 1/3 of an inning and earning the win.
Gerckens praised Phillips’ performance in the pitcher’s circle.
“Alanna pitched just as well as Robyn did, but our defense let down,” said Gerckens. “That was very disappointing that our defense let down. The grit is great and I’m glad we came back and won, but we should be shutting the door on these teams.”
The Tritons will continue action tomorrow with another pair of games. At 10 a.m., UC San Diego is slated to face Chaminade. Around 12:30 p.m., the Tritons will take on No. 5 Concordia Irvine. The Tritons will look to continue their historic success against both teams, as they hold a 9-2 all-time record against Chaminade and a 15-7 mark in contests with Concordia Irvine.
About UC San Diego Athletics
With 30 national team championships, nearly 150 individual titles and the top student-athlete graduation rate among Division II institutions in the United States, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program annually ranks as one of the most successful in the country. The Tritons sponsor 23 intercollegiate sport programs that compete on the NCAA Division I and II levels and, in summer 2020, will transition into full Division I status as a member of the Big West Conference. UC San Diego student-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent. A total of 80 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 36 have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. In competition, more than 1,300 UC San Diego student-athletes have earned All-America honors.
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For complete coverage and information regarding UC San Diego Athletics, follow the Tritons online at UCSDtritons.com and through social media on Twitter (@ucsdtritons), Instagram (@ucsdtritons) and Facebook (ucsdtritons).
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Voting rights key to Democracy
By HOPE YEN
WASHINGTON – THE ISSUE:
Who should be able to vote and how easy should it be? It’s a question that goes to the core of democracy.
Voting rights are in flux in the final months of Barack Obama’s two terms as the first black president. Citing a need to combat fraud, Republican-controlled legislatures are tightening voter laws by limiting early voting and same-day registration, by requiring IDs at polling places, and more. In 2013, declaring “our country has changed,” the Supreme Court invalidated a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which required mostly Southern states with a history of discrimination to get advance federal approval to change election laws. The court decision made it easier for states to impose new restrictions.
This year, 17 states were set to have restrictions involving voter ID or other requirements for the first time in a presidential election. Among them: the battlegrounds of North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia.
The Obama Justice Department has challenged voter ID and other laws, saying they could restrict access for minorities and young people. In recent weeks, lower courts temporarily staved off some of the toughest requirements in North Carolina and North Dakota. Now, the total number of states with more voter restrictions than in 2012 are 15.
With the November election looming, litigation re- mains knotted up with Supreme Court appeals likely. Bills in the GOP-led Congress to restore the voting act are stalled.
WHERE THEY STAND:
Without offering specifics, Republican Donald Trump has emphasized the dangers of voter fraud, calling America’s electoral system “out of control” with people who are “voting many, many times.” He has said – without evidence – that dead voters helped elect Obama. Trump opposes same-day voter registration, saying it could allow people to “sneak in through the cracks.”
Democrat Hillary Clinton is urging Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act. She seeks a national standard of at least 20 days of early in-person voting and urges automatic voter registration for eligible 18-years old. Clinton backs voting rights for ex-felons. Her campaign has joined lawsuits to stop policies that may burden minorities, including in Arizona, where voters had to wait hours in March after cuts in polling locations.
WHY IT MATTERS:
Who gets to vote, and how easily, matters because it can determine who wins elections.
The issue is particularly salient for black Americans, who for much of U.S. history were disenfranchised and then effectively barred from voting until passage of the 1965 law. It’s also become more partisan with the rapid growth of minorities such as Latino and Asian immigrants, who tilt Democratic.
In 2008, Obama was elected with the help of a record black turnout rate that rose even higher in 2012, surpassing the white turnout rate.
That was noted by Chief Justice John Roberts, who led the 5-4 ruling that the Voting Rights Act was outdated. In dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued the law is needed to stop new forms of discrimination – redrawing districts to reduce Hispanic voting, for instance, or restricting early voting near a historically black university.
It’s unclear how much voting restrictions may suppress turnout. The Government Accountability Office in 2014 found voter ID laws could reduce voting by two to three percent, particularly among young people, blacks and newly registered voters. That can tip a race in close contests. Still, voter enthusiasm for a candidate and mobilization can offset that.
GOP legislatures cite voter fraud, including those who impersonate dead people on voter registration lists. Studies found the number of actual cases was minuscule. States and the lower courts largely shape who can vote. But the next president will set the tone on federal oversight – through legislation in Congress, the prosecutorial stance of the Justice Department and nominations to the Supreme Court, which is certain to revisit Voting Rights Act powers.
If minorities continue to back mostly Democrats, the issue could decide which party gets the upper hand in elections.
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tv Business - News Deutsche Welle February 12, 2018 12:15pm-12:30pm CET
in the week after last week's heavy losses monica jones will have that in business coming up in one minute. of the. g.w. truth diversity. where the world of science is at home in many languages to take on a mission for thought of programming go underneath show you that you care so let's cut our innovations magazine for in just two hours from the film for a week and look into the future on the w dot com science and research for any show . every journey begins with the first step and every language
with the first word published in the. rico is in germany to learn german and why not learn it from a simple online on your mobile and free shop d w z e learning course nico speak german meetings seem. to be. up or down the markets are taking it easy at the start of the new trading week from asia to europe stocks rebounding after two weeks of heavy losses we talk to an analyst in hong kong. also coming up iraq's billions of dollars to prop up its economy a donors conference in kuwait discusses the country's reconstruction and the cost involved. on the. trouble with discarded plastic and paper cups
the german city of hama now tackles the popular coffee to go culture introducing re usable cops a relief for the environment and for street cleaners. welcome to your business i want to get jones in well in thanks for joining us on the good news first european stock markets started the new week firmly on the front foot a welcome respond after two weeks of sharp falls but investors breathing a sigh of relief should note there is more volatility expected in the coming weeks so keep your seat belts fastened. khan's hang seng index finished the day down zero point two percent reversing minor rises over in japan markets were closed due to a public holiday but last week the country's benchmark nikkei had its worst performance in two years in germany the dak shed ten percent over the last two weeks but observers here expect a recovery of sorts well i wouldn't call it
a swift recovery but it is a recovery the dax is starting obote a good one percent higher than it was on friday that's not marching towards recovering all those losses that were incurred in the past week but it is a positive sign that the market can go upwards speaking at a conference in dubai on sunday i.m.f. managing director christine lagarde told investors not to worry about the market fluctuations those market movements were clearly in our view necessary market corrections the markets have function well there's plenty of years of faster inflation that triggered the global rout in the first place. so what's in store for us this week let's ask catherine young investments director for equities at the delegate international in hong kong very good to have you with us catherine of first of all i'd like to get your insights into what do you make of last week's
market. lastly last week's market correction really was well you could say very much anticipated given that for the for the past couple of years we really have seen the markets just grinding higher and higher nothing goes in a linear fashion and what happened was we source of wage data coming out two fridays ago this sparked some volatility and then really last week the correction we saw was very much underpinned by what we call known fundamental investors so these are kind of high frequency quantrill it is we saw the very popular risperidone products really seeing some selling and you would expect more selling from these kind of investors especially given that so many people own so many equities at this point in time. you prefer to use the word correction rather than a mini crash while some people even talked about a bloodbath last week what we've seen last week does this point to the underlying
problems with the u.s. economy perhaps well that's a whole thing monica when we look at the world in terms of the economic health things are going pretty well whether it's in china or across asia europe you can argue and especially the united states and what really triggered this kind of sell off was the fact that so many commentators and economists have inflation levels really quite benign or been benign range and when wage growth came out stronger than expected there was concerns it would have to sort of reset expectations that the federal reserve would indeed increase interest rates a lot quicker or faster than expected i just want to highlight though that whilst we are seeing wage growth which could which could lead to further consumption don't forget there's still a lot of debt burden in the u.s. and of course china holds a lot of that money i mean from the asian perspective to what extent do you think china sees the u.s. as
a political or economic rival. i want to call it arrived at this point in time but the chinese and so i was very high up in present shooting pings agenda is what we call the one belt one road strategy it's not just court belt road and this really is to recreate the silk road route both maritime as well as rail so the chinese themselves are funding a lot of projects whether it's across latin america whether it's in europe whether it's across asia and this really is china's ultimate way of increasing the soft power status right catherine young investment director for equities at fidelity international in hong kong thank you so much for this. iraq will receive three hundred thirty million dollars worth of immediate humanitarian aid from non-governmental organizations that is the first results of an international donors meeting currently underway in kuwait of the meeting aims to discuss iraq's
reconstruction after years of war and economic turmoil what sounds like a lot of money is in fact only the starting point for an efforts that will eventually cost almost one hundred billion dollars. rebuilding iraq will cost eighty eight point two billion dollars after years of civil war and decades of under-investment that's according to the planning ministry complicating matters is the fact that the country is effectively under two governments there's the autonomous kurdistan region in the north with around forty five billion barrels of oil reserves the rest of iraq has at least one hundred fifty billion barrels. but it's difficult to get reliable data from a country like iraq which is plagued by political instability but what's clear is just how dependent the country is on oil it's estimated to account for around ninety two percent of overall state revenues. that's some fifty seven billion out
of sixty eight billion u.s. dollars. the iraqi government is currently looking for investors for refineries pipelines and production facilities at its manned you can all field one of the country's largest the government hopes to double output and the chinese led consortium could be the favorite to take over the field. state owned petro china is already the largest foreign investor in iraq and it could work with us chevron and francis to town to exploit the field other big players include exxon mobil russian look at oil and british petroleum but the world's second largest oil company royal dutch shell was less optimistic about the field saying it wasn't profitable enough it's pulled out and plans to focus instead on gas production. all right here's a moment of truth now hands up who is grabbing a coffee on the way to what and then tosses the empty paper cup into a bin just before catching
a train ok need to guilty as charged but we're not alone coffee to go is big business in many come on the what is now taking on the disposable coffee cup culture with a re-usable cops take a look. street sweepers in hanover have had enough of disposable cups with all too many pedestrians simply dumping them on the street as soon as they finish their coffee the explosion of coffee takeaway outlets in recent years has unleashed a steadily growing flood of extra trash. and pick ups take up a huge amount of space in trash cans it only takes four or five large ones to fill up an entire sack. of others an enormous number of cups we get nowadays is just huge you know every kiosk every cafe sells them and it's causing enormous problems here in hanover. on average hanover is half
a million plus residents jettisoned over twenty million used paper cups annually the city authorities decided that was far too many and began fighting the deluge a year ago. the cardboard on the surface but inside they're lined with plastic. and as they can lie around for hundreds of years we have to collect every single one for incineration. so it's not a good product not in the least ecological. it's time to get rid of them. the city's answer was to market its own reuse of all caps with a deposit the hanno cino it costs two euro's which is refunded when customers drop it off at one of the participating cafes over one hundred fifty outlets are already taking part in the plan and the network is growing by the week. easy solution for coffee drinkers they normally don't have to go far to find somewhere to drop their cups off pick up pop off drink up drop off the city doesn't make
a cent from the scheme for cafe operators the service is free and they save on the cost of paper cups. it's good for their image to. the only condition is that participants have a dishwasher to keep the cups clean and hygenic that was no problem for the staff of this popular cafe they're happy about every customer who switches to that had achieved on. the street cleaning squads now have far fewer paper cups to deal with and the trash cans don't fill up as fast either that all saves money here you really see the difference it's made here with loads of businesses joining in there are far fewer cuts in the trashcans now. initial estimates suggest the new head coach in no system has cut the number of paper cups in hanover by around a third. all right i'll have to rethink my
coffee to go culture as well that's it for me on the business team here in berlin remember you can always find more if you follow us on twitter or on facebook i'll be back here in an hour to bring you the latest until then there's a real time check on global markets. complaint. to the touch an element. of. the template. the true
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that's "inside this morning on "world news now" -- growing uproar over donald trump's plans to ban muslims. how he's defending his ideas to abc's barbara walters while sending fellow republicans into a political tailspin. federal agents in california want to know if the couple behind the san bernardino attacks had accomplices as another family member is put on the no-fly list. a consumer alert about popular new holiday light displays. >> the store-bought laser set popular this season that could threaten air traffic and flights. the warning from the faa. later in "the skinny" daisht remake of "dirty dancing," who's
this is wednesday, december 9th. the time of my life >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> i've never seen that. >> you've never seen "dirty dancing"? this has to be one of your experiences. >> no, when i leave abc that be will my dirty dancing. >> that was to be a tease. >> you went back to watch it. would it be good or rubbish? >> i think it would be fantastic. >> then i will have to watch it. so, there's new fallout, as you might expect, from donald trump's proposal to ban muslims from coming to the u.s. >> and a new poll out of new hampshire voters shows trump has an 18-point lead over rubio. the poll was completed on monday, the same day trump unleashed a firestorm that he claims muslims should be banned
>> he's taken so much criticism because. idea that trump is now not ruling out leaving the gop and running as an independent. >> it is your voice, your vote, and abc has the latest. >> reporter: donald trump off the campaign trail tuesday but still the talk of the world. just proposed ban on muslims entering the u.s. has been met with global condemnation. trump told abc's barbara walters ain't bigot. >> i'm not. i'm a person that has common i'm a smart person. muslims? >> i don't. we have to do the right thing. >> reporter: asked if his words are putting america in a greater threat of an isis attack? >> the people in my party fully understand that. they're running against me.
i'm leading a lot. i get it. >> what was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for, and more importantly, it's not what this country stands for. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan said he would still support whoever becomes the gop nominee, sparking a strong reaction from the white house. >> they should say right now they would not support donald trump for president. what he said is disqualifying. >> reporter: on the campaign trail, gop rivals called trump's controversial comments, divisive, ridiculous. ben carson refused to pile on. >> i do not believe the world needs my voice added to that voice of critics. >> reporter: hillary clinton weighed in from iowa. >> we have to work with muslims, in our country and around the world. >> reporter: the chairman of the republican national committee disagreed with trump. said, we need to aggressively
>> great piece. you see, with the gop condemning him, including the speaker of the house, that they should sack him from the party, but the danger for him is that he goes independent and splits their vote going into the election. things were electric on my twitter handle. if you are a donald trump supporter, based on the comments yesterday, am of you are, if he goes independent, would you follow him? would you take your vote from the republican party over to him as an independent? let me know @richardpbacon. >> they have asked him not to do, go independent. the mayor of philadelphia is among the top elected officials denounceing trump's comments.
taking a page from hitler. someone threw a pig head at a mosque. it could be prosecuted as a hate crime. despite efforts by governors in texas and indiana, syrian refugee families have settled in both states. a syrian couple and their two children arrived in indianapolis as the texas governor and senator ted cruz that would give any state the right to reject refugees. the police officers who responded to the san bernardino shooting had a chance to describe their story, describing the scene as overwhelming as investigators look at who might have helped the killers carry out that attack a week ago. here is abc's brian ross. >> reporter: as a new photo emerged inside that conference room moments before that attack began, a presentation of the
authorities say say yesterday farook and tashfeen malik may have had help. authorities said they may bring criminal gun charges, at the least, against 24-year-old enrique marquez, a punk rock fan, convent to islam and a close friend of say yesterday farook. it was marquez who authorities say provided the two assault rifles used in the attack and now officials believe farook asked marquez to buy them so his name would not be on file in connection with the high-powered weapons. that was almost four years ago. >> that tells me he was thinking of doing something bad up to four years ago. >> are you going to see him now? >> reporter: marquez's mother would not talk about an investigation, but on the facebook post on the night of the attack, marquez wrote, i'm very sorry, guys. it was a pleasure. the next day he checked himself into a mental facility. friends say he may have known something about the plot.
there's a lot of muslims in our backyard, ready to go heywire and attack. we didn't think nothing of it. >> reporter: authorities reveal the terror couple may have had access to a second car, a black lexus, registered to farook's mother. fbi found shooting range targets and empty gopro cameras inside. his mother was put on the u.s. terror watch list and his father was added to make sure they don't leave the country. >> reporter: officials have discovered some $28,500 deposit into farook's bank account, apparently from an online loan account. the money was likely to be used to take care of the baby daughter the couple was leaving behind. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> that story moving over time. thank you, brian. last month's terror attacks in paris are costing the travel industry.
million from bomb threat hoaxes and other hoaxes. the financial losses are occurring this month, most to and from flights to paris. tickets are office but the airline expects them to recover. the shortage of air traffic controllers in the u.s. demands urgent attention. that's a warning from a transportation official to congress. he says 13 of the nation's busiest airports are below minimum staffing requirements. that includes new york, dallas, denver and chicago. a union official warns one-third of current air traffic controllers are actually eligible to retire. >> unsettling. as the nation's safety rating system for new cars and trucks is getting a major upgrade. starting in 2019, in order to earn five stars, vehicles will be required to have new safety technology including rear visibility cameras, blind spot detection and collision
new crash test simulating with more anatomically correct crash test dummies. his name is mark gallagher, aka santa claus and spreading cheer in his golf cart. he started with a few christmas lights and now tricked out with snoopy, a snowman and even rudolph with a blinking red nose. >> he flies his magic sleigh through the neighborhood until christmas day. >> we have to hop on that sleigh, richard. looks like a golf cart with a bunch of christmas lights. >> yeah. i'm not getting on it. coming up -- >> it's all yours. >> i'd go for the ride. coming up in "the skinny" -- the highest paid musicians of the years.
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welcome back. welcome back to "world news now." we're just ordering food into the studio. >> you did not know about this new phenomenon. >> it's new to me. the shift is brand new to me. >> you're kind of upside down. >> yeah. i've been here for three hours. i'm awake, so therefore, i need more food. what's a pizza burger. >> it's a hamburger and then they put tomato sauce and mozzarella on top. >> it sounds disgusting. it's either/or. a pizza or a burger. >> how about chicken and waffles? >> it's too much for this time of night. it's nice to let the audience into our real lives. >> the real life of richard p. bacon. >> if you want to comment on
twitter address is is @richardpbacon. we'll be returning to the little later. the question i was asking you, if he were to go independent, which he's not ruling out, would you if you were a supporter of his, and certainly quite a lot of you based on the show, based on yesterday's social media, if him? the election. a lot of people would think it hillary clinton. would you follow him? @richardpbacon. >> he apparently signed a pledge back in september saying he would not run as an independent. >> which he had to do, in order to qualify for the primary in two states. he actually had to, didn't he? >> it will be interesting if he goes back on his word. >> the whole story is gripping, isn't it? turning now to holiday decorating and a popular new way
>> more and more lasers are used but there's a potential downside. jason whitley from our dallas station has the story. >> reporter: the newest christmas lights are lasers. red, green and blue lasers projected onto homes are a cheaper way to decorate this year. but they're also a problem for pilots of passing planes, according to the faa. >> i don't think anybody who buys one of these little devices is putting it up with even the first thought that it might have enough power to hit an aircraft in the sky. >> reporter: you can buy these laser lights at walgreens, targets and other department stores. they'll cost about 40 bucks or so. an american airlines pilot reported to the faa he was flying into dfw thursday night and saw lights from these lasers at 15,000 feet up. >> if the box is aimed a little high, some of the -- some of the laser light will not hit the roof of the house, for example.
space. >> reporter: the faa says other pilots have reported them as well. that america jet was over garland at the time. it's a new fad, festive on the ground, but creating concern in the sky. >> thank you so much. the classic '80s film getting the live tv musical treatment. >> and who gets what? the latest high-profile hollywood divorce? "the skinny" is next. continues after this from our abc stations.reen red roses too i see them bloom for me and you and i think to myself what a wonderful world
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>> tell me what -- >> this was a moment we should try to recreate if on our news desk. boom! there we go. i thought we should try to do that today. >> you have the easier role. >> oh, boy. >> i need more than three hours' sleep, i tell you that. i would be delighted to lift you into the air, reena. >> we give you a pass on that. >> moi point is, these truly iconic films, if you go long enough without watching them, it becomes a point of pride, even if you've never seen it. >> really? this is an american history moment, pop culture moment. you must see it. it's not good that you haven't seen that. >> that will be on abc, on this channel, when that eventually comes out. what else have you got? >> the "forbes" highest paid
we'll start with number five. eagles, taylor swift, garth brooks and one direction. do you know who sings this song -- i've got friends in low places where the whisky drowns >> no. but i bet they sing it better than you. >> that was garth brooks. number one person? >> katy perry. >> katy perry. >> i did know that. she earns more than one direction. >> $135 million. she's now the industry's main momaker. she is the highest paid musician in the world. >> and significantly more than taylor swift. swift with $80 million and katy perry with $135 million. >> this is taylor, right? >> yes. sorry. just enjoying listening to it. that thing i mentioned yesterday, it's called ear worm. ear worm. it's a mashup of all 50 of the most popular songs.
>> it makes you nostalgic for the year before it ends. ear worm. you'll thank me. >> i don't like talking about hollywood divorces but antonio banderas and melanie griffith divorcing. guess how much he has to fork out? $65,000 a month. but apparentlyt's civil. the couple agreedmutually. she's going to get the home in colorado. he's going to keep the condo in new york city. so, it's good to see they worked things out. >> and they get -- my favorite detail, other than i just like the detail, they get -- and this makes them lookike aliens compared to the rest of us. they get a picasso and a porsche each. i think it's funny they have an even number. two of each. they made have made it a lot simpler, a packicasso and porsche.
coming up, the sexiest man alive turns to skin and bones.
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let's end this somewhere the beyond the sea she's there watching for me >> a little sea sick. >> it's great. >> three hours' sleep. i can't pretend to be sea sick. >> we're talking -- doing this because chris hemsworth is on top of the career, happy family and officially the sexiest man alive. >> does look good. >> does work. >> i like it a lot. you bumped into me this time. i like it. but when you hear about what he had to go through for his latest role, you might feel bad for the guy. abc's excellent dan harris has more. >> reporter: you know him as the
his latest film directed by ron howard and called "in the heart of the sea," chris hemsworth undergoes a body transformation, dropping 30 pounds to portray a starving and ship wrecked sailor. how did you do that? >> i didn't eat lot. each week or two we would reduce the calories down, down, down until we were at about 500 to 600 calories a day. i wouldn't do it again. if i do it now, if it has any mention of that, i give it a pass. >> reporter: hemsworth place the first mate on a sailing ship attacked by the vengful white whale on the story that inspired "moby dick." >> he's mine. >> reporter: as i understand it, you spent time training in sailing and harpooning? >> yeah.
way around the ship and tie knotts. >> reporter: "people" magazine former's sexiest man alive gave up hollywood to live more private in australia with his wife and their three young children. you said the first sign of being a good father is worrying if you're being a good father? >> yes. i think if your intentional goal is to be a good father and you have a fear of not being that, that's in the right direction. you're constantly questioning what you're doing and you've never been handed such a responsibility before and said, well, here's a loss. so, it makes you feel alive. >> reporter: dan harris, abc news, new york. >> i like dan. >> and chris. listen, don't miss our updates, facebook, wnnfans.com. >> announcer: this is abc's
insomniacs for two decades. good morning. i'm reena ninan. >> and i'm richard bacon. here are some of the top stories we're following on "world news now." donald trump says he has no regrets for proposing a ban on muslims entering the united states. we'll get into the harsh political backlash he's facing and more of what he told abc's barbara walters straight ahead. attorneys for the baltimore police officer charged with the death of freddie gray begin presenting their case today. gray died earlier this day after suffering a severe spinal cord injury while in police custody. a third of the nation's air traffic controllers are eligible to retire. and a study out of britain
of smartphone deafness. people texting literally can't hear you because their brain can't text and hear at the same time. those are some of the top stories on december 9th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." we begin this half hour with donald trump, not retreating despite the harsh criticism he's facing over his proposed ban of muslims entering the united states. >> trump says in a tweet, nearly 70% of his supporters would vote for him if he left the republican party and ran as an independent. >> the point we were talking about a lot tonight. with the firestorm over his proposal swirling around him, trump talked exclusively to abc's legendary barbara walters. and he said he has no regrets. >> somebody in this country has to say what's right.
i have people that i have tremendous relationships with. their muslim. and, barbara, they agree with me 100%. it's short term. let our country get its act together. they knocked down the world trade center. they tried doing it twice. other things have happened. there are a lot -- there are people that have tremendously bad intentions. we have to be tough, we have to be smart and we have to be vigilant. >> are you a bigot? >> not at all. probably the least of anybody you've ever met. >> because? >> because i'm not. i'm a person that has common sense. i'm a smart person. i know how to run things. i know how to make america great again. this is about making america great again. >> the least bigoted of anyone he's met, he says. donald trump speaking there with abc's barbara walters. she asked him a key question as well, which is what he means when he says the ban on muslims would be short term.
it, but he did say the ban could be quick. i'm quoting here, if our country could get its act together. well, the political bashlash following trump's proposal has been harsh and widespread. the mayor of philadelphia says trump has taken a book from hitler. >> reporter: on both sides of the aisle, a word not often head in american politics, agreement. even a speaker of the house taking a stand in a controversy that has just about his entire party lined up against the presidential front-runner. >> what was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for. and more importantly, it's not what this country stands for. >> reporter: challengers like jeb bush lashing out, too, calling trump unhinged. >> it's not about the blow hards out there just saying stuff. that's not a program. that's not a plan. this is serious business. >> reporter: and in the middle
the national republican party choosing sides, saying, we need to aggressively take on radical islamic terrorism but not at the expense of our american values. a proposal so controversial, it even has dick cheney and hillary clinton on the same team. >> this whole notion that somehow we can just say, no more muslims, just ban a whole religion, goes against everything we stand for and believe in. >> i think his comments are, you know, very ill-advised and potentially quite harmful. >> reporter: now muslim community leaders calling trump un-american. >> the policies enacted by nazi germany against the jews. have we learned anything from history, mr. trump? >> reporter: and the opposition is universal. every republican candidate running for president has come out against this plan. members of both parties calling it dangerous, saying it could inspire isis and not one single member of congress has come out
cecilia vega, abc news, riverside, california. >> the house has voted overwhelming to tighten the visa waiver program, driven by concerns over terrorism. the new law would require visas for anyone who's been in iraq or syria in the previous five years. the senate is expected to pass a similar law, which also has the backing of the white house. police officers who were first on the scene of the san bernardino rampage are giving a new view of the terror one week ago today. they described the first few chaotic moments arriving on the scene to find so many dead and injured. one officer shot in the thigh, he said. he found the scene, quote, overwhelming. he was one of several to speak out. >> never, ever thought i would deal with anything like that. >> it's nothing short of what any other person in law enforcement would do. i don't feel like a hero whatsoever. >> detective trying to downplay
assured evacuees by saying, i'll take a bullet for you. as they take who helped the killer couple, including a $28,000 loan judge days before the assault. police in chicago are, again, under fire with the release of yet another incriminating video. this one shows officers repeatedly tasering philip coleman while in lockup three years ago, and drag him down the hall by his wrist. the officers involved are now under investigation. rahm emanuel's office released the video last monday in a move towards more transparency after weeks of protests. the pacific northwest, more storm watches and warnings after a day of heavy rain. many roads are blocked by landslides and sewage is flowing through some oregon streets.
coming in off the pacific. abc's neal karlinksy has the story. >> reporter: meteorologists are calling it a fire hose coming in off the pacific. >> just feels like it literally came overnight. >> reporter: so much rain that even rainy portland slat shattered its wetty 4 hours, opening up sink holes and flooding homes. two dozen people and even this cat had to be evacuated from portland homes where the water rose faster than anyone was expecting. >> i grabbed my son and whatever he had on and took him to my mom. >> reporter: seattle so hard hit by this so-called pineapple express. a surge of tropical moisture melting mountain snow and bringing rains all at once. mudslides throughout the region halgted train service for a time, blocking some roads and making driving in general slow and miserable. more rain and wind are on the way over the next 24 hours.
people to heed signs like this one and not drive over flooded roads. neilal karlinksy, abc news, seattle. today's forecast with up to 7 inches of rain with mudslides and floods. surfs up to 30 feet in southern california. also showers in the midwest and spring-like in the east. >> that's a lot of additional rain. 50s in seattle, new york and salt lake city. 70s in los angeles, dallas and miami. the holiday season here in america has a number of modern traditions that now pop up like clock work, including the black friday fist fights, the annual war on christmas and diamonds dropped into salvation army kettles. >> this week already it happened twice. in northern wisconsin, someone dropped in a diamond ring and an appraisal sheet saying it was worth 500 bucks. >> nice. >> people are nice. >> but also in the army kettles,
swiss francs and a diamond and emerald necklace worth $1300. what would you do with gold teeth or the viagra pills dropped in? >> i know what i would do with the viagra pills. gold teeth is the hard element of the question. >> oh, boy. coming up -- who has more twitter followers than barbara walters or ringo starr? we'll find out. also the bombshell about the coach actually accused of drinking who was fired from usc. his huge lawsuit against the school. and later -- >> good morning. i'm america's aunt barbara. if you're looking for holiday gift ideas, i've got you covered. i've got some fresh ideas from tupperware for everyone. you're watching "world news now." important message for residents age 50 to 85. write down this number now. right now, people are receiving
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have won 23 games to start the season without defeat. the defending nba champs beat indianapolis last night, 131-123. going back to last season, golden state has actually won 27 in a row, which ties them for the second longest streak in league history. the next game is in boston friday night. nfl's michael vick is throwing his support behind a proposed pennsylvania law aimed at protecting animals. aimed joined lawmakers that calls first responders from any liability done to vehicles saving animals. the former head coach at university of southern california is fighting back. steve sarkisian's public fight
now he's seeking $12 million, saying the school kicked him to the curb when heought treatment. >> if steve sarkisian can prove that his alcoholism was a serious condition and usc knew about that and failed to accommodate his request for rehabilitation, then he has a good chance of winning this lawsuit. >> the school says sarkisian has mischaracterized the fact. sarkisian says he's now sober and ready to return to coaching. coming up, aunt barbara is back with a tupperware party. snoou. >> she's got the top gifts that work for everyone. that's next on "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now"
abc stations. if you're stressed out, searching for that perfect gift, don't worry. we have just what you need, practical gifts everyone can use. here to help us out, none other than america's most beloved, most prolific tupperware lady, aunt barbara. >> reena, it's so wonderful to be here, especially with christmas. >> i'm the b bgest fan of your tupperware. i u u it every day for lunch. >> wonderful.
you are the ultimate tupperware consultant but no one does it like you. so, let's kick it off. >> let's talk about christmas and let's talk about baked goods. now, we have a pie keeper. look how big that is. that's our largest pie keeper. you can put pastries in there. it's really wonderful. >> that's super sized. >> if you're bringing it to someone's house, it's nice to leave that as a gift. here we have our wonderful cake taker. look at that. and it holds up to 18 cupcakes or flip it over and hold 24 on the other side. holds a 9 x 13 sheet cake, muffins, pastries. all wonderful. again, i suggest you bring this to someone's house and you leave it. >> that's nice. what a nice gift. >> and, of course, we have other containers to hold cookies and brown anies and all sorts of wonderful things. you think about the holidays and you think of all those fattening things we'll be eating. here's a classic item from tupperware.
the tupperware jello mold. that's been around a long time. it's a wonderful gift. people don't eat enough gelatin. reena, i don't know what's on your christmas list this year, but i have to suggest the tupperware microwave pressure cooker. >> really? >> i'm not kidding you. this actually harnesses the energy of your microwave, pressurizes it. you can make a pot roast in there, 30 minutes. >> have you done it? >> i have. >> chicken, ziti, all sorts of things, stews, 20 to 25 minutes. that's fast. it's really great because i don't know about you, i i stand in front of the crockpot and yell, hurry. not anymore. get one of these. they're really great. let's move on to the children. all right, everyone. if you've got little ones at home, boys, girls, we're not here to judge. i can say one thing.
it go. we've got "frozen." it's here. it's really cute. available now. pick that up for the kids. and, of course, a classic tupperware toy, the shape-o toy. >> i d dn't know they w we tupperware toys. decades. everyone seems to think it's some other brand. no, this is tupperware. years. this teaches the children color, shape, hand/eye coordination. it's perfect for children 6 months to 6 years or older. i'm not here to judge them. it's a great gift. you can take the shapes, put them all inside, top shelf of the dishwasher. yeah, sanitize. because the kids have always got their hands and mouths on everything. now, here we have -- look at this. our original, the original
how wonderful is that? together. and it floats, too. >> supposed to be two of each. >> they snap together. you take them apart. >> oh! >> you need two. and they snap together and they how cute is that? >> absolutely adorable. these are such great ideas. from grandma to your toddlers. >> grandma to the toddlers, you're absolutely right. tupperware, people don't forget us, we're here. >> you never let us down, aunt barbara. we love you're here. our ultimate. >> i try. >> no one does christmas quite like you. i have to say, you're rocking that cape. >> oh, thank you. isn't that nice? >> capes are back in ste. >> you're darn right. i stole that from little red riding hood. >> merry christmas.
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you're corrected the writing's on the wall >> richard joins us for the next couple of weeks. along with his wit, his charm, his journalistic prowess, he also has a massive audience through social media. 1.5 million twitter followers. quite a reach. we're going to put this into perspepeive, and embarrass you fofo a little bit. we'reoing to putside hillary clinton and donald trump. richard has more twitter followers than any presidential candidate. >> is that true? >> yes. any presidential candidate except for clinton and trump. and also in the building, you have more twitter followers than everyone in abc besides george stephanopoulos because, you know, george is george. >> yeah george is george.
he's got more interesting things to say than me. >> do you know who else you top, richard? >> go on, tell me, the vice president of the united states, joe biden. >> you saidd this would be embarrassing. this isn't embarrassing. >> more than john kerry, more twitter followers than whoopi goldberg, and monic lewinsky who is a friend of yours. >> she is a friend of mine. >> you have more fwitder foowers. >> than more presidential candidates. i need more things. it's time for me to launch a bid for the presidency. even though i can't. i'm british. >> that might be a problem. >> but, you know, i got in quite early with social media. >> yeah. i had a radio show and i would audience. it made me feel as though i knew the audience. >> yououere telling me something fascinating, that actually in england pple follow radio more in the morning than television. >> radio is huge. by far the biggest breakfast shows in britain are radio
but when i started on social media i got trolled very badly by this guy. he would threaten me, my wife and my kids. he said he wanted to kill me. rather than be scared by him, i actually started to make a documentary about him. it's called "the anti-social network" and i went after him and trying to track him down. this is me tracking down a didierent trolol i never met minee in the end but i scared him. this is me -- you know, a proper journalist. >> and this guy trolled you. >> he's a different troll. but i confronted him about the trolling he's done and then he says, i like your radio show. i go, oh, thanks. >> see, you talk it out.
>> yeah. 3a this morning on "world nene now" -- the growing political backlash facing donald trump. >> hisisan on muss lip sets up a firestorm. how he's defending himself as fellow republicans speak out agains him. >> we have to be tough, smart and vigilant. >> trump speaking out in his ban on muslims in an abc exclusive rview with barbara walters, who asked trump, are you a bigot? >> should be great. health crisis. a popular fast food chain, the outbreak that made dozens of college students ill. the future of shopping. the new target concept that lets you shop, browse and buy. here's the catch. you can't take your purchases home with you.
>> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." good morning, everyone. >> i didn't mean to yawn on camera. i'm obviously hugely excited by the content of the show. i'm not used to this night shift. >> you said you only got three hourur sleep. yesterday you were so p pped up ahead of thth show by the donald trump comments. your fellow countrymen, your prime minister weighed in, and even j.k. rouwling, weighed in. >> and also boris johnson, mayor of london, made some quite funny comments about it. >> really? >> we're going to read some later. i do like the implication from you that they followed me. i made comments last night -- >> they followed you on twitter, saw the broadcast acrosss the pond and --
disagree with that. but we begin with donald trump. with his republican rivals showing no mercy in his ban on muslims. donald trump is not ruling out leaving the gop and running as an independent. >> it could cost republicans the presidential elections. a new development this morning, trump is planning a trip to israel at the end of the month. >> all that as the controversy over trump's plan to ban muslims shows no signs of slowing. it's your voice, your vote and our coverage begins with tom. >> donald trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out
>> reporter: trump justifying the ban by painting apocalyptic future iff we donon ban them. >> we'll have more world trade centers. we can be politically correct and stupid, but it's going to get worse and worse wrt with even his own party condemning, trump is invoking roosevelt actions against germans, italians and japanese in america during world war ii. cover of the philadelphia daily news compares trump to a different figure. >> the new fire over donald trump. you're increasingly being compared to hitler. does that give you any pause at all? >> no. because what i'm doing is no differert than what fdr -- fdr's solution for germans, italians, japanese, you know, many years -- >> you're for internment camps? >> this is a president who is highly respected by all. he did the sale thing. >> reporter: trump insists he's
but he is calling for new scrutiny of mosques. >> yes, we have to look at mosques. we have no choice. we have to see what's happening because something is happening in there. man, there's anger. there's anger. >> reporter: and from south carolina -- >> i like the ban on the muslims.s. we just have to get control. >> reporter: trump seems to have no control doing business with muslims, but he's now encouraging profiling, urging his supporters to sound the alarm. america hasn't heard ideas like this oranguage like this from a presidential candidate in generations. the question, the big question, does this stop trump cold or make him more popular? tom yam, abc news. >> does it make him more popular? >> you couldn't stop watching that interview. george, i don't'tnow if i would handle it as s ll ase d. >> he picked him up very well. >> we'll hear more of trump's critics in a moment.
quote, i don't care about them. >> abc's barbara walters, no less, sat down with trump yesterday for his only on-camera interview since his controversial comments. >> do you regret your ban on muslims, which some people think is un-american? >> not at all. we have to do the right thing. somebody in this country has to say what's right. i have great respect and love. i have people that i have tremendous relationships with. they're muslim. and, barbara, they agree with me 100%. let our country get its act together. they knocked down the world trade center. they tried doing it twice. other things have happened. people that have tremendously bad intentions. vigilant. >> reporter: what is short term? >> it could be very quickly if our country could get its act together. we don't know what's happening. we have a president that doesn't have a clue.
we need toughness and smartness and we have to do it quickly. >> there are many, even in your own party, who think that isis is going to like your rhetoric. that your words are putting us in greater danger. >> and the worst thing that's ever happened to isis. the people in my party fully understand that. they're running against me. for the most part, they have no poll numbers. i'm leading by a like. they get it. they're trying to get publicity for themselves. when i came out against illegal immigration, everyrydy for the same thing,g, two weeee later everybody was on my side, including members of my own party. >> are you a bigot? >> not at all. probably the least of anybody you've ever met. >> because? >> because i'm not. i'm a person that has common sense. i'm a smart person. i know how to run things. i know how to make america great again. this is about making america great again. >> donald trump there speaking
the political backlash against trump has been universal. fell republicans have been harsh. house speaker paul ryan says this isn't what the gop or u.s. stands for. the head of the u.s. national committee says, quote, we need to radically take on radicalism. trump was an easy target for democrats. >> i think his comments are, you know, very ill-advised and potentially quite harmful. >> a new poll from new hampshire has trump with an 18 percentage point lead over his nearest rival, senator marco rubio. that's pretty outstanding. the polling end the on monday, on the samee day trump first made his muslim ban proposal. we have yet to see how that impacts the polling. >> i was talking about the mayor of london, johnson. another comment trump made is london has some no-go areas because of the muslim population and the mayor of london says,
and then he says, the only fear i have of walking the streets is that i might run into donald trump. >> did he really? >> i thought barbara's interview was fantastic. he commented, i'm the least bigoted person you have ever met. i don't know whether it's true or not, but yet another staggering comment that falls from his mouth. >> and so many americans support him and trust him and believe he's the future. >> and so many that watch this program, we asked yesterday on twitter, these comments, do niece make you more devout or off-putting him. >> we are hearing for the first time from some of the first responders who arrived on the horrific scene of the san bernardino shooting. among them, a 15-year police veteran that reassured evacuees by saying, i'll take a bullet for you. herere abc's lauren lister. >> reporter: first responders remembering the victims of last week's tragedy. >> never, ever thought i would deal with anything like that. >> it's nothing short of what any other person in law
i don't feel like a hero whatsoever. >> reporter: the happy scene moments before the attack captured in this photo. survivor jael paez receiving an employee of the year award. denise also surviving the shooting, with help from her colleague. >> he just put his arm around me and said, i got you. >> reporter: shot once in the side, recacas huddling under the table with her friend, shannon johnson, who did not survive. >> he did not just save me. he saved our whole family. >> we have several down. >> reporter: we're learning more about how sayed farook and his wife prepared. they have video taking target practice. >> he came here to shoot his ar. >> reporter: -year-old enrique
farook's, seen here in this facebook photo. federal officials tell abc news marquez provided informationo fbi not known. they are considering whether others could be charged as accomplices in the mass murderer. an 8-year-old girl in utah suffering from a rare form of breast cancer has had a mastectomy. the little girl is doing well. doctors hope the mastectomy will help her avoid radadtion or other aggressive treatments. they say she can have breast reduction -- reconstruction during puberty. researchers at george washington university say there's an alarming increase in the number of children diagnosed with adhd. over a 7-year period, researchers say the number of american children diagnosed increased 43%, including nearly 6 million children. most are boys but a big increase in girls diagnosed with
the past few years. >> i believe it's because we're better at detecting it. if your kids, husband or wife seem to be ignoring you while teching, there could be a good reason for that. reena, go ahead. >> my read -- >> i was about to do my part. >> go ahead, because it is about britain. sounds sexier with your accent than mine. >> i'll take that. a tiny study out of britain shows vision and hearing share a limited processing capacity. so, when you're both -- when you're doing both, the brain chooses the waunone that is more demanding. people engrossed in smartphones, tv or book aren'n'ignoring sounds. they literally do not hear them. you may have to tap them on the shoulder to grab their attention. i don't know if that lives up to the hype -- >> yeah. >> okay, thanks. >> that was jolly good.
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> t ts dramatic video shows a hover board on fir inside a mall outside seattle. the battery-operated device exploded for no reason. it skidded across the mall. kiosk employee used a fire extinguisher on it but it prompted evacuation of the entire mall. there are other incidents, hover boards catching fire because of the lithium-ion battery. chipotle chain, customers
number of cases doubling in less than 24 hours. >> you've tried chipotle, right? >>, yeah it's already. it's essentially slop in a tray. >> slop in a tray. dozens of people are sick after slop in a tray. eating in chipotle in boston. linsey davis has more. >> reporter: the popular mexican restaurant known for its big burritos has now a bigger problem. it started with an e-mail to all boston college athletes warning, do not eat at chipotle after half the basketball team fell ill perform over the weekend, this chipotle in boston, 80 students getting gastrointestinal illness after eating there. positive for norovirus. just last month, chipotle spokes people tried their best to put an e. coli outbreak in nine states behind them, announcing they were reopening the 43
portland after scrubbing and shuddering them amidthe initial e. coli outbreak there. >> the pain in my abdomen was something i've never experienced. >> reporter: since then chipotle stock has plummeted 25%. this chipotle is closed while the boston health department investigates the source of the outbreak. linsey davis, abc news. >> 25%, that seems like a dramatic fall, given companies get past health outbreaks. >> this is another new onset. how much more will consumers trust them now to go back >> after my slop in the tray comment, it's probably w wth keeping an eye on the stock prices tomorrow. coming up in our next half hour, the potentially dangerous decorations. the growing popularity of using lasers for christmas lights. becoming a growing threat to air traffic. a warning from the faa. first, making them all nice again. retailers trying to keep pace
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this holiday, retailers are reimagining the in-store experience. target, invnving us in for an exclusive first look at their latest concept. is this the future? let's go shopping. >> reporter: target wonderland, a temporary pop-up shop in new york city instead of a shopping cart, customers walk a around with these. our rfid-enabled keys, technology that taps what you want to buy and automatically transmits it to a digital shopping cart. >> i hope when youalk into a target store in the future, it's as inspiring to shop as here and it can be as easy to shop as simply scanning your token. >> reporter: the new enter akinteractive experience, including a giant etch-a-sketch and santa via satellite from north pole.
things all around the country. the more we can make the actual shopping experience fun again, exciting again and easy, that's really the magic. >> reporter: target isn't the only retailer reinventing the in-store experience, from ralph lauren and rebecca minkoff, to monitors where you can get personalized skin care and fragrance recommendndions at the touch of a button. >> target has to improve the in-store experience otherwise people would just shop online. target is trying to up the convenience factor so people will come to the stores. >> reporter: 80% of shopping carts are abandoned before checking out. >> our rfid technology will definitely take off. retailers will use this in order to make the shopping experience more convenient for consumers. >> reporter: rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. comingup,, why badad grammar
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welcome back. it is now time for "the mix." the first story here -- binghamton university, they conducted a study into the use of grammar in text messages. researchers with apparently not enough to do. they concluded if you put a period at the end of a sentence, that makes your texts seem insincere. this is l le something onsin field," -- i always put a full stop or period at the end of a sentence and it's the proper thing to do. i think it shows you having been more thoughtful. but for some reason it shows you to look slightly more aggressive
if you put a punctuation mark it shows you to be insincere. i think it's a lazy way to make something you texted to be funny when it isn't. >> so you're against punctuation.n. >> i'm against the exclamation mark. i'm for the period. but what i'm saying is the research is against me. >> oh, okay. i just don't text. i pick up and call so you avoid the whole drama. there is that option. i want to tell you about a hot, sexy santa at the toronto mall. >> i saw a picture. >> of paul mason. he's known as hot, hot santa. he's a hotty santa. he's worked at toronto's yorkdale mall and also a profofsional model. look at him. look how dapper, right? he apparently made toronto's best dressed in 2014. he's worn luxury brands. you see him at one point wearing a velvet blazer, long green coat, cinched belt.
>> he still wants you to leave him a little snack when he comes down the chimney. he insists its carb-free. >> well done. here's another story for you. >> tell me. >> that i think youill lili. this is in -- a cape designer. for people -- for men who go to urinals. they're embarrassed about their private parts. here's a cape you wear. these are for people who are embarrassed. by virtue of wearing the cape you're drawing attention to the think you're embarrassed about. thus the cape is counterproductive. >> it looks like he's about to commit some sort of crime. pull somethingut of his cape there. i would bee terrified if somebody did this. >> that's true. >> you're not for the cape.
>> you're this this morning on "world news now" -- growing uproar over donald trump's plans to ban muss lips. how he's defending his ideas to abc's barbara waltlts while sendininfellow republicans into a political l ilspin. federal agents in california want to know if the couple behind the san bernardino attacks had accomplices as another family member is put on the no-fly list. new this half hour. a consumer alert about popular new holiday light displays. >> the store-bought laser set popular this season that could threaten air traffic and flights. the warning from the faa. later in "the skinny" -- the remake of the classic movie
the lead roles as this sexy story moves from f fm to tv. it is wednesday, december 9th. the time of my life >> announcer: from abc ns, this is "world news now." >> i've never seen that. >> you've never seen "dirty dancing"? this has to be one of your experiences. >> no, when it's on abc, that's going to be my original "dirty dancing". >> we were supposed to keep it under wraps. that was a tease. >> if you went back to watch it, do you think it would be good or bbish? >> i think it would be fantastic. >> then i will have to watch it. so, there's new fallout, as you might expect, from donald trump's proposal to ban muslims from coming to the u.s. >> and a new poll out of new hampshire voters shows trump has an 18-point lead over rubio. the poll was actually completed on monday, that was the same day trump unleashed a firestorm with his claim that muslims should be banned from entering the u.s. >> the fact it's conducted on the day, that's what makes it an
's taken so much criticism because of the idea that trump is now not ruling out leaving the gop and running as an independent. >> it is your voice, youvote, and abc has the latest. >> reporter: donald trump off the campaign trail tuesday but still the talk of the world. his proposed ban on muslims enteriri the u.s. has been met with global condemnation. trump told abc's barbararaalters a one-on-one intervrvw, he's not a bigot. >> i'm not. i'm a person that has common sense. i'm a smart person. >> do you regret your ban on muslims? some people think is un-american. >> not at all. we have to do the right things. >> reporter: asked if his words are putting the u.s. in a greater danger of an isis attack -- >> the worst thing that's ever happened do isis, the people in my party fully understand that. they're running against me. for the most part, they have no poll numbers. i'm leading by a lot.
>> what was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for, and more importantly, it's not what this country stands for. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan said he would still support whoever becomes the gop nominee, spng a strong reaction from the white house. >> they should say right now they would not support donald trump for president. what he said is disqualifying. >> reporter: on the campaign trail, gop rivals called trump's controversial comments, divisive, ridiculous. and racist. senator ted cruz says he disagrees with trump's plan b b refused to pile on. >> i do not believe the world needs mymyoice added to that chore ris chorus of critics. >> reporter: hillary clinton weighed in from iowa. >> we have to work with muslims, in our country and around the world. >> reporter: the chairman of the republican national committee disagreed with trump. and said in a statement, quote, we need to aggressively take on radical islamic terrorism. reena and richard?
indeed. great piece by barbara walters as well. you see, with the gop condemning him, including the speaker of the house, that they should sack him from the party, but the danger for them is that he then goes independent and splits their vote giing into the election. yesterday things were electric on my twitter handle. >> a lot of excited people. >> yeah. @richardpbacon. if you're a donald trump supporter, and based on the comments yesterday, many of you are, if he went independent, which he's not ruling out, would you follow him? would you take y yr vote from ththrepublican party over to him as an independenen let me know @richardpbacon. >> republicans have asked him to pledge not to do, go independent. it will be fascinating if he does. the mayor of philadelphia is among the top elected officials denouncing trump's comments. michael nutter says trump has taken a page from the playbook of hitler. the mayor also announced a full investigation after someone
in the city. the act caught on surveillance video. it could be prosecuted as a hate crime. despite efforts by governors in texas and indiana, syrian refugee families have settled in both states. a family of six joined relatives near dallas. a syrian couple and their two children arrived in indianapolis. this comes as the texas governor greg abbott and senator ted cruz have announced a bill that would give any state the right to reject refugees for security reasons. >> that's an interesting event. the police officers who responded to the san bernardino shooting have had a chance to tell their stories, describing the scene as overwhelming and surreal, this a a investigators look at who may have helped t t kikier couple c cry out that attack one week ago today. seems like so much longer, doesn't it? here is abc's brian ross. >> reporter: as a new photo emerged inside that conference room moments before that attack began, a presentation of the employee of the year award. authorities say sayed farook and
help. authorities said they may bring criminal gun charges, at the least, against 24-year-old enrique marquez, a punk rock fan, convert to islam and a closos friend of sayed farook. it was marquez who authorities say provided the two assault rifles used in the attack and now officials believe farook asked marquez to buy them so his name would not be on file in connection with the high-powered weapons. that was almost four years ago. >> that tells me he was thinking of doing something bad up to four years ago. >> mrs. marquez, are you going to see him now? >> reporter: marquez's mother would not talk about an investigation, but on the facebook post on the night of the attack, marquez wrote, i'm very sorry, guys. it was a pleasure. the next dayaye checked himself into a mental facility. friends say he may have known something about the plot in advance.
lines of there's a lot of muslims in our own backyard, ready to go haywire and attack. we didn't think nothing of it. >> reporter: authorities reveal access to a second car, a black lexus, registered to farook's mother. fbi agents found shooting range targets and empty gopro camera boxes inside. authorories say farook's mother has been added to a u.s. terror watch list. his father was put on the list to make sure they don't leave the country. officials have also discovered a deposit of some $28,500 into farook's bank account in the weeks before the attack. the money apparently from an online loan he took out. officials say the money was likely to be used to take care of the baby daughter the couple was leaving behind. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> that story moving over time. thank you, brian. last month's terror attacks s in paris a a costing the travel industry.. air france says it lost $54 million in november from cancellations, bomb threat
the financial losses are continuing this month. most of the impact was on flights to and from paris. ticket sales are a little off but the airline expects them to recover. the shortage of air traffic controllers in the u.s. demands urgent attention. that's a warning from a transportation department official to congress. he says 13 of the nation's busiest airports are below minimum staffing r ruirements. thatatncludes new york, dadaas, denver and chicago. a union official warns one-third of current air traffic controllers are actually eligible to retire. >> that is quite unsettling. as the nation's safety rating system for new cars and trucks is getting a major upgrade. starting in 2019, in order to earn five stars, vehicles will be required to have new safety technology including rear visibility cameras, blind spot detection and collision avoidance systems. also new crash tests simulating
more anatomically correct crash-test dummies. in louisiana one y i't lucky to go fast enough to be a crash-test dummy. >> surprisingly hard to say. his name is mark gallagher, aka, santa claus, and he's spreading high gear, cheer in his golf cart. he started with a few christmas lights but now it's completely tricked out with snoopy, a snowman and even rudolph withh a blinking red nose. >> gallagher flies his magic sleigh through his neighborhood every evening, starting on thanksgiving right until christmas day. we have to hop on that sleigh, richard. it's really -- it looks like a golf cart with a bunch of christmas lights. >> yeah. i'm not getting on it. coming up -- >> it's all yours. >> it's all mine. i'd go for the ride. coming up in "the skinny" -- the highest paid musician of the year. is your favorite artist topping the list?
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welcome back. welcome back to "world news now." we're just ordering food into the studio. it's an important moment. >> you didn't know about this. >> it's new to me. the shift is brand new to me. >> you're kind of upside down. >> yeah. i've been here for t`ree hours. i'm awake, so therefore, i need more food. i'm ordering. >> what's a pizza burger? >> it's a hamburger and then they put tomato sauce and mozzarella and pepperoni on top. >> it sounds disgusting. it's either/or. a pizza or a burger. >> what about economicen and waffles? >> it's s o much for this timeme of night. it's nice to let theheudience into our real lives. >> the real life of richard p. bacon. >> if you want to comment on anything you hear about us talk about tonight, any of the
tonight, my twitter address is @richardpbacon. we'll be returning to the subjects of donald trump a little later. the question i was asking you, if he were to go independent, which he's not ruling out, would you if you were a supporter of his, and certainly quite a lot of you that watch this show are, based on yesterday's social media, if he left the gop, would you follow him? that wou split the vote for the election. a lot of people would think it would hand the white house to hillary clinton. would you follow him? @richardpbacon. >> you know, richard, he apparently signed a pledge back in september saying he would not run as an independent >> which he had to do, in order to qualify for the primary in two states. he actually had to, didn't he? >> it will be interesting if he does this to go back on his word. >> the whole story is gripping, isn't it? turning now to holiday decorating and a popular new way to deck the hahas without all of the effort.
in lieu of traditional strands of christmas lights. but there is a potential downside. jason whitley from our dallas station has the story. >> reporter: the newest christmas lights are lasers. red, green and blue lasers projected onto homes are a cheaper way to decorate this year. but they're also a problem for pilots of passing planes, that's according to the faa. >> i don't think anybody who buys one of these little devices is putting it up with even the first thought that it might have enough power to hit an aircraft in the sky. >> reporter: you can buy these laser lights at walgreens, stores. so. an american airlines pilot reported to the faa he was flying into dfw thursday night and saw lights from these lasers at 15,000 feet up. >> if the box is aimed a little high, some of the -- some of the laser light will not hit the
space. >> reporter: the faa says other pilots have reported them as well. that american jet was over garland at the time. it's a new fad, festive on the ground, but creating concern in the sky. >> jason whitley reporting, thank you so much. the classic '80s film getting the live tv musical treatment. and who gets what? theatest high-profile hollywood divorce? "the skinny" is next. >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations.reen red roses too i see them`bloom for me and you and i think to myself what a wonderful world
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talk me through it. >> this was a moment we should try to recreate on our news desk. boom! there we go. i thought we should try to do that today. >> you've got the easasr role there. >> oh! >> you see why he fanciys that. >> oh, boy. >> i need more than three hours' sleep, i tell you that. i would be delighted to lift you into the air, reena. >> we give you a pass on that. >> my point is, these truly iconic films, if you go long enough without watching them, it becomes a point of pride, even if you've never seen it. >> really? >> there's a point to say you're disappointed -- >> this is an american history moment, pop cucuure moment. you must see it. it's not good thatatou haven't seen that. >> that will be on abc, on this channel, when that eventually comes s t. what else have you got? >> the "forbes" highest paid musician list. we'll start with number five. can you guess? can you guess? we've got the eagles.
brooks and one direction. do you know who sings this song -- i've got friends in low places where the whisky drowns but i bet they sing it better than you. >> i think they do. that was actually garth brooks, who was -- he's number three. who do you think it is? >> it's katy perry, isn't it? >> katy perry. >> i did know that. it's sort of remarkable she earns more than one direction. >> $135 million. she's now the industry's main money-maker. she is the highest paid musician in the world. >> and she earned significantly more than taylor swift. swift with $80 million and katy perry with $135 million. >> yeah, yeah. >> this is taylor, right? yes. >> yes, this is definitely taylor. sorry, i was jusus enjoying listening to it. that thing i m mtioned yesterery, it's called ear worm. ear worm. it's a mashup of all 50 ofhe most popular songs from this year. >> it's good. >> it makes you nostalgic for
ear worm. you'll thank me. >> you're obsessed with ear worm, aren't you? >> i don't like talking about hollywood divorces but antonio banderas and melanie griffith divorcing. guess how much he has to fork over to her? >> i don't know. tell me. >> $6 5,000 a month spousal support. but apparently it's civil. the couple agreed mutually. she's going to get the home in colorado. he's going to keep the condo in new york city. so, it's good to see they worked things out. >> and they get -- my favorite detail, other than i just like the detail, they get -- and this makes them look like aliens compared to the rest of us. they get a picasso and a porsche each. >> each, yes. >> it's an even number. they had two of each. they made have made it a lot simpler, a picasso and porsche. >> almost 20 years of marriage. coming up,p,he sexiest man alive turns to skin and bones.
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let's end this somewhere the beyond somewhere beyond the sea she's there watch willing for me >> a little sea sick. >> it's great. on three hours' sleep, i can't even pretend to be sea sick. >> we're talking -- doing this because chris hemsworth is on top of the world, happy family man and officially the sexiest man alive. >> does look good. >> it does. >> does work. i like it a lot. you can bump into me any time. i like it. but when you hear whatt he had to gohrough for his latest role, you might feel bad for the guy. abc's excellent dan harris has more. >> reporter: you know him as the brawny super hero thor but in
howard and called "in the heart of the sea," chris hemsworth undergoes a body transformation, dropping an estimated 30 pounds to portray a starving and ship wrecked sailor. how did you do that? >> i just didn't eat a whole lot. each week or two we would reduce the calories down, down, down until we were at about 500 to 600 calories a day. i can't i wouldn't do it again. i read things now, it mentions anything about being skinny, i go, that's a pass. >> reporter: hemsworth plays the first mate on a sailing ship attacked by the vengeful white whale on the story that inspired "moby dick." to make it authentic, hemsworth learned how to run a ship. >> he's mine. >> reporter: as i understand it, you spent time training in sailing and harpooning? >> yeah.h. i was learning how to navigate your way around the and tie
>> reporter: "people" magazine former's sexiest man alive gave up living in hollywood for a more private existence in his homeland of australia with his wife and their three young children. you said the first sign of being a good father is worrying if you're being a good father? >> yes. i think if your intentional goal is to be a good father and you have a fear of not being that, that's in the right direction. you're constantly questioning what you're doing and you've never been handed such a responsibility before and said, well, here's a loss. so, it makes you feel alive. >> reporter: dan harris, abc news, new york. >> i like dan. >> yeah. and chris. >> yeah. cover of "vanity fair." listen, don't miss our updates, facebook, wnnfans.com. >> announcer: this is abc's "world news now," informing
insomniacs f good morning. i'm reena ninan. >> and i'm richard bacon. here are some of the top headlines we're following wn "world news w." donald trump says he has no regrets for proposing a ban on muslims entering the united states. we'll get into the harsh political backlash he's facing and more of what he told abc's barbara walters straight ahead. attorneys for the baltimore police officer charged with the death of freddie gray begin presenting their case today. gray died earlier this year after suffering a seveve spinal cord injury while in police cucuody. a third of the nation's busiest air traffic controllers don't have enough personnel and the problem could get worse. a third of the eligible air traffic controllers are eligible to retire. and a study out of britain proves the very real phenomena
people texting aren't ignoring. they literally can't hear you because your brains can't see and listen at the same time. those are some of our top stories on this wednesday, december 9th. announcer: from abc news, this is s orld news now." we begin this half hour with donald trump, not retreating despite the harsh criticism he's facing over his proposed ban of muslims entering the united states. >> in fact, trump remains on the attack in a tweet. he says nearly 70% of his supporters would vote for him if he lackedeft the republican party and ran as an independent. >> the point we were talking about a lot tonight. with the firestorm over his proposal swirling around him, trump talked exclusively to abc's legendary barbara walters. and he saiaihe has no regrets. >> somebody in this country has to say what's right. i have great respect and love.
tremendous relationships with. they're muslim. and, barbara, they agree with me 100%. it's short term. let our country get its act together. they knocked down the world trade center. they tried doing it twice. other things have happened. they have a lot -- there are people that have tremendously bad intentions. we have to be tough, we have to be smart and we have to be vigilant. >> are you a bigot? >> not at all. probably the least of anybody you've ever met. >> because? >> because i'm not. i'm a person that has common sense. i'm a smart rson. i know how to run things. i know how to make america great again. this is about making america great again. >> the least bigoted of anyone he's met, he says. donald trump speaking there with abc's barbara walters. she asked him a key question as well, which is what he means when he says the ban on muslims would d short term. trump did not put a timeline oh
be quick. and i'm quoting here, if our country could get its act together. well, the political backlash following trump's proposal has been harsh and widespread. the mayor of philadelphia says trump has, quote, taken a page from the playbook of hitler. as abc reports, it's another example of politics making extremely strange bedfellows. >> reporter: on both sides of the aisle, a word not often heard in american politics, agreement. even a speaker of the house taking a stand in a controversy that has just about his entire party lined up against the presidential front-runner. >> what was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for. and more importantly, it's not what this country stands for. >> reporter: challengers like jeb bush lashing out, too, calling trump unhinged. >> it's not about the blow hards out there just saying stuff. that's not a program. that's not a plan. this is serious business. >> reporter: and in the middle
of the national republican party choosing sides, saying, we need to aggressively take on radical islamic terrorism, but not at the expense of our american values. a proposal so controversial, it even has dick cheney and hillary clinton on the same team. >> this whole notion that somehow we can just say, no more muslims, just ban a whole religion, goes against everything we stand for and believe in. >> i think his comments are, you know, very ill-advised and potentially quite harmful. >> reporter: now muslim >> the policies enacted by nazi germany against the jews. have we learned anything from history, mr. trump? >> reporter: and the opposition is universal. every republican candidate running for president has come out against this plan. members of both parties calling it dangerous, saying it could inspire isis, and not one single member of congress has come out
riverside, california. >> even got dick cheney and hillary clinton on the same page. good line from cecilia. >> the house has voted overwhelming to tighten the visa waiver program, driven by concerns over terrorism. the new law would require visas for anyone who's been in iraq or syria in the previous five years. the senate is expected to pass a similar law, which also has the backing of the white house. the police officers who were first on the scene of the san bernardino rampage are giving a new view of the terror one week ago today. they described the first few chaotic moments arriving on the scene to find so manandead and injured. one officer shot in the thigh, he said. he found the scene, quote, overwhelming. he was one of several to speak out. >> never, ever thought i would deal with anything like that. >> it's nothinshort of what any other person in law enforcement would do. i don't feel like a hero whatsoever. >> detective trying to downplay his heroics even though he
take a bullet for you. investigators continue to look about who helped thehe killer couplelelan the attack, that includes a 8,000 cash loan in just the days before the assault. >> the story just keeps growing, doesn't it? police in chicago are, again, under fire with the release of yet another incriminating video. this one shows officers repeatedly tasering phillip coleman while he was in lockup three years ago, and later dragging him down the hall by his wrists. the officers involved are now under investigation. rahm emamael's office releaseded the video last monday in a me towardrdmore transparency afr weeks of protests. the pacific northwest, more storm watches and warnings after another day of heavy rain. many roads are flooded or blocked by landslides and sewage is flowing through some oregon streets. one storm after another is
story. >> okay, come on, help me get through this. >> reporter: meteorologists are calling it a fire hose coming in off the pacific. >> just feels like it literally came overnight. >> reporter: so much rain that even raiai portland shattered its wettest 4 hours on record with 32 inches of rain, opening up sinkholes and flooding homes. two dozen people and even this cat had to be evacuated from portland homes where the water rose faster than anyone was expecting. >> i just grabbed my son with whatever he had on and took him to my mom's. >> reporter: seattle hard hit, too, by this so-called pineapple express. a surge ofofropical moisture melting mountain snonoand bringing heavy rains all at once. mudslides throughout the region halted train service for a time, blocking some roads and making driving in general slow and miserable. more rain and wind are on the way over the next 24 hours. emergency officials urging people to heed signs like this
roads. neal karlinksy, abc news, seattle. >> today's forecast with up to 7 inches of rain with mudslides and floods. surfs up to 30 feet in souththn california. also showers in the midwest and spring-like in the east. >> that's a lot of additional rain. 50s in seattle, new york and salt lake city. 70s in los angeles, dallas and $% miami. the holiday season here in america has a number of modern traditions that now pop up like clock work, including the black friday fist fights, the annual war on christmas and, of course, diamonds dropped into salvation army kettles. >> this week already it happened twice. in northern wisconsin, someone dropped in a diamond ring and an appraisal sheet saying it was worth 500 bucks. >> people are nice. people are nice. but also in the army kettles,
swiss francs and a diamond and emerald necklace worth $1300. what would you do with gold teeth or the viagra pills dropped in? >> i know what i would do with the viagra pills. >> we're going to -- >> the gold teeth is the harder element ofofhe question. >h, boy. coming up -- who has more twitter followerthan barbara walters or ringo starr? find out in a second. >>, yeah we'll reveal that person to you shortly. also the bombshell about the coach actually accused of drinking who was fired from usc. his huge lawsuit against the school. and later -- >> good morning. i'm america's aunt barbara. if you're looking for holiday gift ideas, i've got you covered. i've got some fresh ideas from tupperware for everyone. you're watching "world news now." important m msage for residents age 50 to 85. write down this number now. right now, people are receiving
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have now won 23 straight games to start their season without defeat. the defending nba champs beat indianapolis last night, 131-123. going back to last season, golden state has actually won 27 in a row, which ties them for the second longest streak in league history. the next game is in boston friday night. nfl quarterback michael vick is throwing his support behind a proposed pennsylvania law aimed at protecting g imals. vick joined lawmakers calling for a bill that shields first responders from liability for any damage done to vehicles dung rescues of dogs and cats in extreme heat. vick has advocated for animals since serving a prison sentence for his role in a dog fighting ring. the former head coach at university of southern cal fired for allegedly drinking on the job is fighting back. steve sarkisian's public fight was fired after this v veo went
two momohs later he was fired. now he's filed a wrongful termination lawsuit, seeking $12 million, saying the school sought treatment. >> if steve sarkisian can prove that his alcoholism was a serious condition and usc knew about that and failed to accommodate his request for rehabilitation, then he has a good chance of winning this lawsuit. >> the school says sarkisian has mischaracterized the fact. sarkisian says he's now sober and ready to rurn to coaching. coming up, aunt barbara is back with a tupperware party. >> she's got the top gifts that work for everyone. that's next on "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now"
abc stations. if you're stressed out, still searching for that perfect gift, don't worry. we have just what you need, practical gifts everyone can use. of course, here to help us out, none other than america's most beloved, most prolific tupperware lady, aunt barbara. >> reena, it's so wonderful to be here, especially with christmas. >> i'm the biggest fan of your tupperware. i use it every day for lunch. >> wonderful. >> aunt barbara, i have to say.
consultant but no one does it like you. so, let's kick it off. >> let's talk about christmas and let's talk about baked goods. now, we have a pie keeper. look how big that is. that's our largest pie keeper. you can put pastries in there. it's really wonderful. >> that's super sized. >> if you're bringing it to someone's house, it's nice to leave that as a gift. here we e ve our wonderful cake taker. look at that. and it holds up to 18 cupcakes or flip it over and hold 24 on the other side. holds a 9 x 13 sheet cake, muffins, pastries. all wonderful. again, i suggest you bring this to someone's house and you leave it. >> that's nice. what a nice gift. >> and, of course, we have other containers to hold cookies and brownies and all sorts of wonderful things. you think about the holidays and you think of all those fattening things w wll be eating.
look at that. the tupperware jello mold. that's been around a long time. it's a wonderful gift. people don't eat enough gelatin. i've seen this. that's wonderful. reena, i don't know what's on your christmas list this year, but i have to suggest the tupperware microwave pressure cooker. >> really? >> i'm not kidding you. this actually harnesses the energy of your microwave, pressurizes it. you can make a pot roast in there,0 minutes. >> have you done it? >> i have. >> chicken, ziti, all sorts of things, stews, 20 to 25 minutes. that's fast. it's really great because i don't know about you, i stand in front of the crockpot and yell, hurry. not anymore. get one of these. they're really great. let's move on to the children. all right, everyone. if you've got t ttle ones at home, boys, girls, we're not
i can say one thing. get your credit card out and let it go. we've got "frozen." it's here. it's really cute. our little "frozen" lunch set available now. pick that up for the kids. and, of course, a classic tupperware toy, the shape-o toy. >> i didn't know they were tupperware toys. >> this has been around for decades. everyone seems to think it's some other brand. no, this is tupperware. been around for many, many year this teaches the children color, shape, hand/eye coordination. it's perfect for children 6 months to 6 years or older. i'm not here to judge them. it's a great gift. you can take the shapes, put them all inside, top shelf of the dishwasher. yeah, sanitize. because the kids have always got their hands and mouths on everything. now, here we have -- look at this. our original, the original
how wonderful is that? all the animals, you get two, it snaps together. and it floats, too. i hope it floats or we wouldn't be here. >> supposed to be two of each. >> two of each. they snap together. >> oh, they're there? >> yes. you take them apart. >> oh! >> you need two. and they snap together andndhey go righthtp there. how cute is that? >> absolutely adorable. these are such great ideas. from grandma to your toddlers. >> grandma to the toddlers, you're absolutely right. tupperwarepeople don't forget us, we're here. >> you never let us down, aunt barbara. we love you're here. our ultimate. >> i try. >> no one does christmas quite like you. i have to say, you're rocking that cape. >> oh, thank you. isn't that nice? >> capes are back in style. >> you're darn right. i stole that from little red riding hood. merry christmas. >> aunt b, thanks so much. for more information, head to wnnfans.com.
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you're corrected where we've got make sure we're connected the writing's on the wall >> richard joins us for the next couple of weeks. along with his wit, his charm, his journalistic prowess, he also has a massive audience through social media. 1.5 million twitter followers. quite a reach, i have to say. we're going to put this into perspective, and embarrass you for a little bit. for the time being, we're going to put aside hillary clinton and maybe donald trump, richard actually has more twitter followers than any presidential candidate. >> is that true? >> yes. any presidential candidate except for clinton andndrump. and also in the building, you have more twitter followers than everyone in abc besides george stephanopoulos because, you know, george is george. >> yeah, george is george. he deserves more.
to say than me. >> do you know who else you top, richard? >> go on, tell me. >> the vice president of the united states, joe biden. >> you said this would be embarrassing. this isn't embarrassing. >> secretary of state, john kerry, you have more twitter followers. even whoopi goldberg and even monica lewinsky, who you say is a friend of yours. >> she is a friend of mine >> you have more twitter followers. >> than more presidential candidates. i need more things. it's time for me to launch a bid for the presidency. even though i can't. i'm british. >> that might be a problem. >> but, you know, i got in quite early with social media. >> is that what happened? >> yeah. i had a radio show and i would use social media to talk to the audience. it made me feel as though i knew the audience. more personally. >> you were telling me something fascinating, that actually in england people follow radio more in the morning than television. >> radio is huge in the morning pp, yeah. by far the biggest breakfast
rather than television. media, i got trolled very badly by this guy. he would threaten me, my wife and my kids. he said he wanted to kill me. rather than be scared by him, i actually started to make a documentary about him. it's called "the anti-social network" and i went after r m and the idede was to try to track him down. this is me tracking down a different troll. i met some others. i never got to meet mine in the end but i scared him. this is me, which i've never done before. being a proper journalist. >> and this guy trolled you -- >> no, he's a different troll. but i confronted him about the trolling he's done and then he says, i like your radio show. i go, oh, thanks. >> see, you talk it out. stay calm and carry on, right?
>> yeah. 3a this morning on "world news now" -- this morning on "world news now" -- the growing political backlash facing donald trump. >> his ban on muss lips sets up a firestorm. how he's defending himself as fellow republicans speak o against him. >> we have to be tough, smart and vigilant. >> trump speaking out in his ban on muslims in an abc exclusive interview with barbara walters, who asked trump, are you a bigot? >> should be great. health crisis. a popular fast food chain, the outbreak that made dozenenof college students ill. the future of shopping. the new target concept that lets you shop, brse and buy. here's the catch. you can't take your purchases home with you.
this is "world news now." good morning, everyone. >> i didn't mean to yawn on camera. i'm obviously hugely excited by the content ofofhe show. i'm not used to this night shift. >> you said you only got three hours' sleep. yesterday you were so pumped up ahead of the show by the donald trump comments. your fellow countrymen, your prime minister weighed in, and even j.k. rowling, weighed in. saying how horrible, valdemort was s where near as bad. >> and also boris johnson, mayor of london, made some quite funny comments about it. >> really? >> we're going to read some later. i do like the implication from you that they followed me. i made comments last night -- >> they followed you on twitter, saw the broadcast across the pond and --
disagree with that. but we begin with donald trump and the race for the president. with his republican rivals showing no mercy in his ban on muslims, donald trump is nonoruling out leleing the gop and runnnng as an independent. >t could cost republicans the president's election. a new development this morning, trump is planning a trip to israel at the end of the month. >> all that as the controversy over trump's plan to ban muslims shows no signs of slowing. it's your voice, your vote and our coverage begins with tom llamas. >> reporter: with just one sentence, donald trump igniteing an international form. >> donald k. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.
>> reporter: trump justifying the ban by painting apocalyptic future if the country doesn't change. >> we'll have more world trade centers. it's going to get worse and worse. we can be politically correcec and stupid, but it's going to get worsend worse. >> reporter: now with even his own partcondemning, trump is invoking roosevelt actions against germans, italians and japanese in america during world war ii. cover of the "philadelphia daily news" compares trump to a very different figure. >> the new fire over donald trump. you're increasingly being compared to hitler. dodo that give you any pause at all? >> no. because what i'm doing is no differert than what fdr -- fdr's solution for germans, italians, japanese, you know, many years -- >> you're for internment camps? >> this is a president who is highly respected by all.
>> reporter: trump insists he's not calling for internment camps but he is calling for new scrutiny of mosques. >> yes, we have to look at mosques. we have no choice. we have to see what's happening because something is happening in there. man, there's anger. there's anger. >> reporter: and from south carolina -- >> i like the ban on the muslims. we just have to get control. >> reporter: trump seems to have no control doing business with muslims, but he's now encouraging profiling, urging his supporters to sound the alarm. america hasn't heard ideas like this or language like this from a presidential candidate in generations. the question, the big question, does this stop trump cold or make him more popular? tom llamas, abc news. >> does it make him more popular? >> you couldn't stop watching that interviewew george, i don't know if i would handle it as well as he did. >> he picked him up very well. >> we'll hear more of trump's
quote, i don't care about them. >> abc's barbara walters, no less, sat down with trump yesterday for his only on-camera interview since his controversial comments. >> do you regret your ban on muslims, which some people think is un-american? >> not at all. we have to do the right thing. somebody in this country has to say what's right. i have great respect and love. i have people that i have tremendous relationships with. they're muslim. and, barbara, they agree with me 100%. it's short term. let our country get its act together. they knocked down the world trade center. they tried doing it twice. other things have happened. there are a lot of -- there are people t tt have tremendously y bad intentions. we have to be tough, smart and vigilant. >> reporter: what is short term? >> it could be very quickly if our country could get its act together. we don't know what's happening. we have a president that doesn't have a clue.
we need toughness and smartness and we have to do it quickly. >> there are many, even in your own part who think that isis is going to like your rhetoric. that your words are putting us in greater danger. >> i'm the worst thing that's ever happened to isis. the people in my party fully understand that. they're running against me. for the most part, they have no poll numbers. i'm leading by a lot. they get it. they're trying to get publicity for themselves. when i came out against illegal immigration, everybody for the same thing, two weeks later everybody was on my side, including members of my own party. >> are you a bigot? >> not at all. probably the least of anybody you've ever met. >> because? >> because i'm not. i'm a person that t s common sense. i'm a smart person. i know how to run things. i know how to make america great again. this is about making america great again. >> donald trump there speaking
the political backlash against trump has been universal. fellow republicans have been harsh. house speaker paul ryan says this isn't what the gop or u.s. stands for. the head o othe national committee says, quote, we to radically take on radicalism. but not at the expense othe americ people. trump was an easy target for democrats. >> i think his comments are, you know, very ill-advised and potentially quite harmful. >> a new poll from new hampshire has trump with an 18 percentage point lead over his nearest rival, senator marco rubio. that's pretty outstanding. the polling end the on monday, on the same day trump first made his muslim ban proposal. we have yet to see how that impacts the polling. >> i was talking about the mayor of london, boris johnson. another comment trump made is london has some no-go areas essentially because of the muslim population.
this isn't true. and then he says, the only fear i have of walking the streets is that i might run into donald trump. >> did he really? >> i thought barbara's interview was fantastic. he commented, i'm the least bigoted person you have ever met. i don't know whether it's true or not, but yet another staggering commentnthat falls from his mouth. >> and so many americans support him and trust him and believe he's the future. >> and so many that watch this program, we asked yesterday on twitter, these comments, do these make you more devout or off-putting him? we are hearing for the first time from some of the first responders who arrived on the horrific scene of the san bernardino shooting. among them, a 15-year police veteran that reassured evacuees by saying, i'll take a bullet for you. here's abc'sauren lister. >> reporter: first responders remembering the victims of last week's tragedy. >> never, ever thought i would deal with anything like that.
enforcement would do. i don't feel like a hero whatsoever. >> reporter: the happy scene moments before the attack captured in this photo. survivor julie paez receiving an employee of the year award. 27-year-old denise perazza alsls survivininthe shooting, with help from her colleague. >> h hjust put his arm around me and said, i got you. >> reporter: shot once in the side, recalls huddling under the table with her friend, shannon johnson. he did not survive. she believes johnson saved his life. >> he did not just save me. he saved our whole family. >> we have several down. >> reporter: we're learning more about how sayed farook and his wife prepared. the fbi says it has surveillance tape of the killers taking target practice around the l.a. area. >> he was here. he was here by himself. he came here to shoot his a. r. >> reporter: said to have
rifles, 24-year-old enrique marquez, a former neighbor of farook's, seen here in this facebook photo. federal officials tell abc news marquez provided information to fbi not known. they are considering whether others could be charged as accomplices in the mass murderer. abc news, los angeles. >> thank you very much. an 8-year-r-d girl in utah suffering from a rare form of breast cancer has had a mastececmy. kristi young's mother says the little girl is doing well. doctors hope the mastectomy will help her avoid radiation or other aggressive treatments. they say she can have breast reduction -- reconstruction during puberty. researchers at george washington university say there's an alarming increase in the number of children diagnosed with adhd. over a 7-year period, researchers say the number of american children diagnosed increased d %, including nearly y 6 million n ildren. most are boys, but there is a big increase in the number of girls diagnosed with
the past few years. >> i believe it's because we're better at detecting it rather than there being more people with adhd. and if your kids, husband or wife seem to be ignoring you while texting, there could be a good reason for that. reena, go ahead. >> my read -- >> i was about to do my part. >> go ahead, because it is about britain. sounds sexier with your accent than mine. >> i'll take that. a tiny study out of britain shows vision and hearing share a limited processing capacity. so, when you're both -- when you're dng both, the brain chooses the one that is more demanding. in other words, people engrossed in smartphones, tv or book aren't ignoring sounds. they literally do not hear them. you may have to tap them on the shoulder to grab their attention. i don't know if that lives up to the hype -- >> yeah. >> okay, thanks. >hat was jolly good. coming up in the mix, is i i rude to send text messages with proper punctuation?
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this dramatic video shows a hover board on fire inside a mall outside seattle. the battery-operated device exploded for no reason. it skidded across the mall. kiosk employees used a fire extinguisher on it but it prompted evacuation of the entire mall. there are other incidents, hover boards catching fire because of the lithium-ion battery. next the latest outbreak
customers mysteriously falling ill and the number of cases doubling in less than 24 hours. >> you've tried chipotle, right? >> yeah, it all right. it's essentially slop in a tray. >> dozens of people are sick after slop in a tray. dozens of people are sick after slop in a tray. eating in chipotle in boston, linsey davis has more. >> reporter: the popular mexican restaurant known for its big burritos has now a bigger problem. it started with h e-mail to all ston college athletes warning, do nototat at chipotle afterer half the basketball team fell ill. over the weekend, this chipotle in boston, 80 students getting gastrointestinal illness after eating there. those who were tested came back positive for norovirus. chipotle put out a statement. just last month, chipotle spokes people tried their best to put an e. coli outbreak in nine states behind them, announcing they were reopening the 43
portland after scrubbing and shuttering them amid the initial e. coli outbreak there. >> the pain in my abdomen was something i've never experienced. >> reporter: since then chipotle stock has plummeted 25%. this chipotle is closed while the boston health department investigates the source of the outbreak. linsey davis, abc news. >> 25%, that seems like a dramatic fall,l,iven companies get past health outbreaks. >> this is another new onset. how much more will consumers trust them now to go back? >> after my slop in the tray comment, it's probably worth keeping an eye on the stock prices tomorrow. coming up in our next half hour, the potentially dangerous decorations. the growing popularity of using lasers for christmas lights. becoming a growing threat to air traf a warning from the faa. first, making them all nice again. retailers trying to keep pace
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abc stations . it's a very very merry it's a very very merry it's a very very merry christmas it's a very extraordinary chririmas anyway, we're going to talk about shopping before we talk about the people we have in common. >> we were just talking about camilla parker-bowles' son, tom. he's great fun. if shopping this time of year stresses you out, you're not alone. that's probably why online sales are soaring. >> it's actually forcing stores to rethink the entire experience by getting a little more creative. here's abc's rebeccacaarvis.
down and online sales up 14% this holiday, retailers are re-imagining the in-store experience. target inviting us in for an exclusive first look at their latest concept. is this the future? let's go shopping. >> reporter: target wonderland, a temporary pop-up shop in new york city. insteaeaof a shopping cart, customers walk around with these. our rfid-enabled keys, technology that taps what you want to buy and automatically transmits it to a digital shopping cart. >> i hope when you walk into a target store in the future, it's as inspiring to shop as here and it can be as easy to shop as simply scanning your token. >> reporter: the new interactive experience, including a giant etch-a-sketch, ininractive video games, and video of santa via
keeping shoppers shopping up a storm. >> we are testing different things all around the country. the more we can make the actual shopping experience fun again, exciting again and easy, that's really the magic. >> reporter: target isn't the only retailer reinventing the in-store experience. from ralph lauren and rebecca minkoff, to o monitors where y y can get personalaled skin care and fragrance recommendations at the touch of a button. >> target has to improve the in-store experience, because otherwise people would just shop online. target is trying to up the convenience factor so people will come to the stores. >> reporter: 80% of shopping carts are abandoned before checking out. shopping in stores means customers are much more likely to complete their purchases. >> our rfid technology will definitely take off. retailers will use this in order to make the shopping experience more convenient for consumers. >> reporter: rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york.
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welcome back. it is now time for "the mix." the first story here -- binghamton university, they conducted a study into the use of grammar in text messages. researchers with apparently not enough to do. they concluded if you put a period at the end of a sentence, that makes your texts seem insincere. this is a bit like something on "seinfeld." whereas, i always put full 4 stop or period at the end of a sentence and it's the proper thing to do. i think it shows you having been more thoughtful. but for some reason it shows you to look slightly more aggressive and, they're say, insincere. if you put a punctuation mark it
i think it's a lazy way to make something you texted to be funny when it isn't. >> by punctuating? >> yeah. >> so you're against punctuation. >> i'm against the exclamation mark. i'm for the period. but what i'm saying is the research is agaiait me. >> oh, okay. i just don't tex i pick up and call so you avoid the whole drama. there is that option. i want to tell you about a hot, sexy santa at the toronto mall. >> i saw a picture. >> of paul mason. he's known as hot, hot santa. he's a hotty santa. he's worked at toronto's yorkdaleleall and also a professional model. look at him. look how dapper, right? he apparently made toronto's best dressed in 2014. he's worn luxury brands. you see him at one point wearing a velvet blazer,ong green
hot, hot santa. ding, ding, ding, da-da ding, ding. >> he still wants you to leave him a little snack when he comes down the chimney. he insists its carb-free. >> well done. here's another story for you. >> tell me. >> that i think you will like. this is in -- a cape designer. for people -- for men who go to urinals. >> urinals. >> urinals. thanks. still learning. they're embarrassed about their private parts. here's a cape you wear. these are for people who are embarrassed. by virtue of wearing the cape you're drawing attention to the thing that you're embarrassed about. thus the cape is coununrproductive. >> it looks like he'e'about to commit some sort of crime.e. pull something o o of his cape there. i would be terrified if somebody did this. >> that's true. >> you're not for the cape. >> it's a disaster.
text messages. making news in america this morning, breaking overnight, investigators in paris naming the third bataclan attacker. the details just in. firing back, the controversial plan to ban muslims. donald trump responding to critics in an exclusive interview with barbara walters. >> we have a president that doesn't have a clue. we don't know what's happening. >> the backlash growing from his own party and the white house as s lead widens in the newest poll. we are live in washington. caught on camera, one of the hottest toys f the holidays bursting into flames again, this time inside a mall. and art lovers taking an even closer look at the "mona lisa."
lurking below the surface. good wednesdsd morning. i'm richard bacon. >> and i'm reena ninan. we begin with that breaking news from paris. a critical new development in the investigation into the terror attacks. french officials have now identified the third attacker who blew himself up at the bataclan theatre, 23-year-old fouad mohamed-aggad from a city in northeast france. >> he was one of three attackers at the bataclan where 90 people were killed during a concert by califofoia rock band eagles s death metal. he had reportedly gone to syria in 2013 with a group of other the rest were arrested when they returned to france, but he was not. we'll continue to follow these new developments from paris. the paris attackers are among the incidents being cited by republican front-runner donald trump as reasons for his proposal to ban muslims from entering the u.s. >> criticism of trump has been withering and widespread.
moment, but in an exclusive interview with abc's legendary barbara walters, trump remained unapologetic. >> do you regret your ban on muslims, which some people think is unamerican? >> not at all. we have to do the right thing. somebody in this country has to say what's right. i have great respect and love, i have people that i have tremendoususelationships with, they're muslim and, barbara, theyeygree with me 100%. it's short term. let our country get its act together. they knocked down the world trade center. they tried doing it twice. other things have happened. they have a lot -- there are people that have tremendously bad intentions. we have to be tough. we have to be smart, and we have to be vigilant. we have a president that doesn't have a clue. we don't know what's happening. we need toughness and smartness and we have to do it quickck. >> are you a bigot? >> not at t l.
you've ever met. >> donald trump speaking with abc's barbara walters there and we mentioned the harsh criticism that's been raining down on trump since he unveiled his proposal. >> yeah, white house spokesman josh earnest saying the idea should disqualify trump from serving as president. the head of the republican national committee is also criticizing the idea. >> for more we're now joined from washington by abc's lana zak. lana, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, reena and richard. yes, donald trump has ignited an international firestorm with these comments. some people worry it will be used as an isis recruiting tool. others fear that it could be used to justify hate here at home. all at the same time that the latest poll numbers show donald trump with h largest lead in new hampshire ever, winning that state's primary right now with an astounding 32% support. >> donald trump has jumped the shark. he's g ge too far. >> reporter: shaha condemnation for donald trump from everyday
>> we know how you make america great again, tell donald tmp to go to hell. >> reporter: all in response to trump's most recent controversial proposal. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> what he had to say about the muslims,s,e just got to get control. >> reporter: but for young muslim-americans it's hard to see the republican front-runner's opinion as a one-off. >> these children are kind of walking around carrying the weight of their religion on their shoulders. >> my teachers told me specifically to not only keep our heads up high. >> i'm used to hearing things like go back to your country, just really discriminatory phrases like that, and i'm kind of sick of hearing it because this is my country. >> reporter: on the front cover of "the new york daily news" today, a paraphrase e that famous poem about the holocaust. it reads in part, when he came for the muslims, i did not speak out. and the head of congressional republicans paul ryan said
views do not represent that of the republican party, however, ryan wouldn't go so far as to withhold support from trump should he receive the nomination. that's something that democrats and even some republicans say should be part of that universal condemnation. reena, richard. >> they were amazingly strong words from lindsey graham, weren't they? lana zak live in washington, thank you. and donald trump capped ofo his busy day with a tweet. >> overnight trump sending out this, "wow, what a day. so many foolish people that refuse to acknowledge the tremendous danger and uncertainty of certain people coming into the u.s." that tweet getting nearly 8,000 likes. it has been one week now since the shooting rampage in san bernardino, and for the first time we are hearing from some of the men and women whon rushed to help at the scene. veteran police detective george lozano says he's no hero despite
he'd take a bullet for them. >> it's nothing short of what any other person in law enforcement would do. i don't feel like a hero whatsoever. anyone behind me or any one of the people, 300 people that were there would have said the same thing. that's our job to put ourselves in the line of danger to protect the community. >> the alarms were going off, the sprinklers were on, it was cloudy or smoky. the gunpowder was heavily prevalent in the room. but in the end i think that the training just took over. >> another officer described how he noticed he had a bullet hole in his leg but he kept on shooting just the same. and investigators continue to look into who provided help to the killer couple in that deadly rampage. authorities say 24-year-old
islam and close friend of syed farook, has admitted that he bought two guns for farook. marquez has since checked himself into a mental hospital but could face criminal charges. and the fbi is also looking into a $28,000 deposit from an online lender to the couple's bank account. well, in washington the house has voted overwhelmingly to tighten the visa waiver program driven by concerns over terrorism. the new law would require visas for anyone who's been in syria or iraq in the previous five years. the senate is expected to pass a similar law which also has the backing of the white house. in the pacific northwest, another day of heavy rain. many roads are flooded or blocked by landslides or sinkholes. and sewage is flowing through some portland, oregon, streets. the state department of transportation is telling motorists to avoid all state highways overnight. amtrak has suspended service between portland and vancouver,
one storm after another is coming in off the pacific. and as you can see on the radar there, there is more heavy weather coming in off the pacific. like a fire hose, one meteorologist said. the forecast is for more rain, more strong winds and i'm afraid more problems. still ahead, getting tougher on car safety. the biggest change to crash tests in over 40 years. and bursting into flames in the middle of a mall. another incident of a popular toy going up in flames. plus, bursting through thehe door, police saving hostages. the dramatic new body cam video this morning.
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many enjoy a cup of coffee and an early morning stroll on the beach, but this was too much. thousands of cans of coffee washed up yesterday near melbourne, florida. best case is that the coffee came from containers that fell off a barge last weekend. the travel industry is still feeling the effects from the terror attacks in paris. air france says it lost $54 million in november from cancellations, bomb threat hoaxes and other disruptions. it's mostly on flights to and from paris. the financial losses are continuing this month. well, a transportation department official warns that 13 of the nation's busiest air affic regions don't have enough controllers. he tells congress the shortage demands urgent attention. a union official also warns one-third of current air traffic controllers are eligible to retire. the number of boston college
at a chipotle mexican grill is up to at least 80. the company says it believes those illnesses are an isolated case of norovirus and says they are not relatedo a multistatat outbreak of e. coli. the chipotle where all those b.c. students ate is now closed while boston health officials investigate. and the nation's safety rating system for new cars and trucks is getting a major upgrade. starting in 2019 to earn five stars, vehicles will be required to have enough -- to have new safety technologies. that includes rear visibility cameras, blind spot detection and collision avoidance systemem new crash tests will also simulate cars colliding at an angle, and crash test dummies will be more anatomically corrt. i do love my back camera, the rear camera. >> i love it. >> yeah. >> how did we ever cope without it? >> i know, but when we come back, caught on camera,
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northwest this morning will be wet and sometimes flooded and slippery at higher elevations. drivers should also watch out for wet roads in the upper plains and the ohio valley and possibly in south florida. new video this morning is likely to give a lot of parents second thoughts about giving a popular giftft >> the dramatic video shows a hoverboard fire happening inside a mall right next to the kiosk where it was on sale. an eyewitness says the battery operated device just exploded. no reason given. kiosk employees used fire extinguishers on it but the smoke prompted an evacuation of the mall south of seattle. no injuries reported. and this is the video fromom the body cam of an officer in milwaukee going toward a hostage situation after gunfire erupted. the shots were fired by a man who was holding two people hostage inside their he. the suspect took his own life when the hostages -- with the hostages on either side of him.
arrested. >> gripping, isn't it? also caught on police cameras, a high-speed shoot-out in seattle. dash cam video shohong police chasing and ramming a carjacking suspect. he still d dves away. the 40-minute chase ending with a dramatic move. police ramming his car a second time. the suspect, a convicted felon, was killed by police in a barrage of gunfire. now to the shocking death of douglas tomkins, co-founder of the popular north face clothing store chain. tomkins died of hypothermia after a kayaking accident in the patagonia region of southern chile. after his retail career tomkins became well known as a conservationist spending millions financing national parks. douglas tofrp kins was 72 years old. >> a brilliant man. breast cancer patients will have a new tool to help them hang on to their hair and dignity.
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range. 29 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists. steph curry with 29 points so that's 68 from the back court if you add it up. the warriors got a little scare from thompson, injured an ankle. he'll be okay. play boston friday, 23-0 this season, 7 straight dating back to last season. damian lillard with 33 for portland. trail blazers in cleveland taking on lebron james. i'm determined to pronounce it like that once every show i have. lebron james highlight. lebron james knocking down the three and then lebron james, look at this. >> yeah. >> that is a super stud move going up and drawing an offensive foul. mason plumlee is not a little man either. h ran into the wall known as james. that was a top play. james, 33 points, 14 in the fourth. cleveland, 105-100. >> you know coaches love that when your best player takes a charge like that. >> exactly. >> it's a message to the rest of
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drag me down to number two, one direction, 130 millionon >> and roaring her way to the number one spot, katy perry pulling in 135 million bucks making her not only the top musician but a top earning celebrity on the planet. i wish i could sing like her. >> on the planet. next up, a new mystery involving the "mona lisa." she's at it again. >> the more than 500-year-old portrait by leonardi da vinci is hanging in a paris museum and a french scientist has been studying her more for than a decade. it peeled back every layer of paint exposing a new completely different woman. >> noticeably absent is her infamous smile and she's looking off to the side. one expert saying, and i quote, throws a big stone into the still lake of art history. >> ooh. intrigigng. >> good phrasese >> also a new study about
it finds, richard, punctuation does matter. messages that end with a period is perceived as less sincere than with no punctuation at all. >> binghamton university researchers say texting mimics face-to-face communication much more than in noncomputer messaging. and if you want your messages to look really sincere, you use an exclamation point. i don't like exclamation points in texts, but >> your grammar teacher knew what she was talking about. you had to pay attention. >> i never did. now, a lot of kids live on pizza while in college but a british university is offering students a chance to major in pizza. this is a university in manchester, north of england. a lot of unis in england get accused of having mickey mouse degrees. probably also offer degrees in mickey mouse. >> well, you know, pizza hut is teaming upupith the school wherere the students will take classes as they work in the chain's reststrant, so it will include food prep, financial analysis skills. i just want to know how do you sce a good pepperoni pizza. >> don't waste your time with that degree.
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breaking overnight, french officials have identified the third attacker who blew himself up at the babaclan theatre in the paris attacks. he had gone to syria in 2013 with a group of other radicalized young men. donald trump tells abc's barbara walters that he's not a bigot and that he has no regrets for proposing to ban muslims from the united states. condemnation of trump's plan is uniting democrats and trump's fellow republicans. roads are flooded, basements are being pumped out and some schools closed after several days of heavy rain in oregon. there have also been several mudslides. a look at today's weather, showers in south florida, the ohio valley and from the great lakes to the dakctas. and finally this morning, a kettle full of christmas cheer overflowing in one new england town. >> it's an american holiday tradition. those red salvation army kettles dotting the nation's sidewalks
becoming an annual ritual of surprises often found d side. reid lamberty from our boston station has the story. >> reporter: donations come in many denominations. >> god bless you. >> reporter: some fold, others jingle. >> thank you very much. have a great holiday. >> you too. >> reporter: but last monday night this salvation army red kettle was rocked. >> i did, i found it myself. >> reporter: captain david childs found the d dmond ring not in the rough but hidden among the hundreds ofof dollars being tallied at the end of the day. >> it was done in such a way that it was apparent that it was on purpose that they meant for us to have the ring. >> it's incredible somebody would do something like that. very generous of them. >> reporter: the ring's owner is unknown and why such a persol item was donated to begin with is also unclear but it has happened before. just last december, in fact, when an anonymous widow donated
station. the roughly one carat diamond ring has been appraised for $3500 and will be auctioned off this saturday during a salvation army radio thon. the money raised helps hundreds of families in the area. >> this christmas alone we're helping over 600 families with toys and clothing. >> that will give someone a nice christmas. >> repororr: dime ss may be a girl's best friend but the salvation armymys in love too.o. i'm reid lamberty, wcvb 5. >> people are nice, aren't they? >> they are especially during the holidays. before we go secretary of state john kerry will address the climate change talks near paris in just a few hours. also great interest in the climate change talks at the vatican. nature photographs were projected on to st. peter's basilica last night and an associate says the pope may get involved if the talks stall. >> i'd just like to know how they did that and would like to do it in my living room. >> it's beautiful, isn't it? that is what's making news in americicthis morning. >> stick around for "good morning america."
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four days after the massacre in las vegas we are learning more about the gunman. we still don't know his motive. 64-year-old stephen paddock might have scouted other concert locations in chicago and maybe even boston as well. good evening everyone. knowing his motive won't change anything. it won't bring back 58 victims for heel 400 others.
it won't ease the trauma experienced by thousands at that concert. are the witnesses nearby. earning a motive might do one thing. might help a wounded nation understand why it happened. we have team coverage with the latest developments. amber attended a vigil on the campus of uc berkeley. we begin with caroline shively. she is on the las vegas strip.>> reporter: if her release are right it looks likes stephen paddock -- if police are right he case other venues before he settled on this concert. he might also have been planning a car bombing. >> i'm not going to give any briefing or details about any of the examinations at this point.>> reporter: officials not saying whether an autopsy has been completed on the attacker's body. agents are looking into whether he had been sizing up other festivals. he rented another room in las
vegas in september. when the light is beautiful music festival was taking place. two months before sunday's massacre a person named stephen paddock booked a hotel in chicago overlooking the lollapalooza music festival is it was taking place. chicago is stepping up security ahead of this weekend's chicago marathon. >> the fbi and atf is involved.>> reporter: police in boston confirmed investigators came across mention of the cities fenway park. police say they are aware of reports he had been researching hotels surrounding fenway park >> we are in conversation with the center here in massachusetts which is in contact with them.>> reporter: trump says his a ministration will look at whether bump stocks should be banned. the devices found in his hotel room can modify semi automatic guns so they mimic automatic weapons. >> we will look into that over
the next short period of time. >> reporter: at this hour still no word on a motive. we have heard reports stephen paddock was gambling in the days leading to the shooting. there are some indications he might have been with a woman at the casino. you know anything about that?>> reporter: these reports from the fbi dismissed this mystery woman has not been called a suspect. apparently she was spotted with him. they want to talk to her. maybe she can help piece the timeline before the massacre. >> there was new information regarding his girlfriend mary lou danley. there are reports she heard him start screaming in bed. possibly calling into question his state of mind. what can you say about that? >> reporter: that report i cannot confirm. in bc said she told the fbi interrogators about that. people who watched him at the casino said he was a very heavy
drinker. he was dropping tens of thousands of dollars at the poker machines. they made that drinking -- they were buried it contributed to his mental deterioration. hundreds of people gathered in las vegas tonight to remember the off-duty las vegas police officer who was killed in his hometown. charleston hartfield was an 11- year-old veteran of the force. before joining the las vegas pd he served 16 years in the army national guard. his colleagues nicknamed him captain american for his patriotism in the lives he touched for the better. >> if he was standing right here i guarantee he would look at all of us right now and tell us not to be said. to celebrate him because all he wants to do is see smiles on
the faces he touched.>> the officer was also a beloved youth football coach. charleston hartfield leaves his wife veronica and two children. in the bay area there was a small vigil at uc berkeley to show support for those impacted by the massacre. amber is on the campus after attending the event.>> reporter: the vigil was held here by the -- about four dozen people came to pay respects. uc berkeley students came together to sing reflect and pray for the victims that survived the las vegas shooting park >> when tragedy strikes the nation.>> reporter: some students at the gathering new victims. peers in their early 20s who lost their lives. >> jordan rivera park she lived in my hometown. it goes to show how fragile
life is. and how much we should cherish our loved ones.>> reporter: the las vegas shooting brings a new sense of vulnerability. one have -- one has family nearby sunday night. >> the student said his relatives were looking working at the luxor casino on the casino happened -- the shooting happened. >> that could've been my friend. it gives me a different outlook on life. >> reporter: they found a measure of solace in writing messages of love grief and support.>> comfort all who mourn. it is not just those who lost loved ones. we all mourn. we all got hurt. >> we felt it was necessary for us to host this event. a lot of parts are aching at this moment. -- hearts.>> reporter: student
say this night is about comforting one another and it is a call to action. whether it be donating blood or becoming -- active. today the clark county coroner said all 58 people who died in a hail of bullets have been positively identified. the office has set up an assistant center to help families of the victims. a gofundme account to help the shooting victims and their families has raised more than 9 1/2 million dollars. one of those victims was 50- year-old stacy at your burke of novato. >> three of her friends that down to talk about the loss. how to help her family move forward. their primary focus is taking care of the two young children who she left behind.>> reporter: there was laughter and pain as these women talk about their close friend who was larger
than life. >> we have 1000 stories.>> reporter: stacy was devoted and driven. cowgirl with a love of country music and horses.>> she road in the grand national rodeo. i think when she was four months pregnant.>> reporter: she had a passion for family and friends. >> she treated you like home. a measurable friendship and loyalty.>> reporter: they are doing what stacy would do if she was in their place. immediate focus is taking care of her 12-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. >> incredibly tragic and horrific. moment. they are talking. about how they feel. they are expressing themselves. they are giving into their weaknesses. they are giving into their sadness. that is what we are focusing on.>> reporter: the children are taking a break from school in news reports that social
media. >> they want to ask tough questions. we do the best we can and answering them.>> reporter: their father is now shouldering an especially heavy load. he was with stacy at the concert and told her to run when the gunfire erupted. he stayed behind to help others. it is not clear yet what happened to stacy. her friends have a feeling. >> she did not run out of their. when vinnie asked her to run. she definitely stopped. and helped multiple people. >> reporter: even though he has two little ones to look over he is not alone. >> we will do the best we can to help him. it will take a long time for him and his life will change immensely. but if anybody can be the mom and the dad all wrapped into one it will be held. >> reporter: the vigil held tuesday night shows how much support there is out there.
they also know there are others who are suffering. >> right now we have 59 families that are grieving. that are laying their loved ones to rest. and friends and communities grappling with the moment. we don't know what this whole down the way.>> reporter: they don't want stacy remembered for how she died. but for how she lived. >> i don't want it to have been the last story she was found in that situation. i one it to be the life and love she shared for all of us. -- want it. coming up -- when it comes to a device used by the gunman in las vegas to make his guns fully automatic. how the tragedy has turned into a debate about bump stocks. we are tracking the forecast. a hurricane to talk about. we have some red flags warnings that will be hoisted towards the weekend. we will talk about friday as
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it is the end of an era for long time grocery store in the south bay. genes fine foods is closing the doors in saratoga after 47 years. the community is sad to see it
go. we are live in saratoga with the reasons why it is closing.>> reporter: it is one of two supermarkets in saratoga. customers call it the howard the heart of the town. is not only hard on the community but employees were scrambling to find a new job. >> since 1970 genes fine foods is where customers not only shop for groceries and gourmet food but bonded with the 50 employees. the independent business considered a staple in saratoga. now closing on october 15. >> it is community. in this friendship. it is a great market. it is sad how it is being forced out.>> reporter: for 20 years this is where jeremy worked his way up from the deli to the assistant store manager. commuting from sacramento to work here. last week he got news of the closure. >> the store was doing good.>>
unfortunately the market being what it is. and grocery stores, we were not able to make a sale happened.>> reporter: the financial of as he says the 75-year-old owner is retiring and was close to finalizing a deal with a major grocery chain. that fell through when amazon announced it was buying whole foods. >> it was hugely significant. as soon as the news hit that began to impact our negotiations.>> reporter: with profit margins tied it doesn't help the stores 20 year lease is up. the landlord raising rent to market rate. thinking -- reality is sinking in for customers and employees. >> it is terrifying. i don't think we have slept in a week. about not finding a job at my age. i'm no spring chicken.>> reporter: as they say goodbye everything is up to 75% off.
the landlord hoping to rent to a new grocery operator. everyone knows it won't be the same. >> grocery businesses is not what it used to be. the minimum wage has gone up. everything else has gone up. >> reporter: to give you background the owner's family started the business in san francisco in 1928. it grew to four locations in the bay area. there is only one location that remains. in pleasanton. the family does not own at that location. the union is helping employees find jobs. a gofundme page has also been set up to help as well. you have to feel for those employees. the 49ers are not in good graces with the mayor of santa clara after a curfew violation and levi stadium. coldplay rock the stadium last night to 45,000 people. they played until 11 pm. an hour past the 10 pm
weeknight curfew. it was agreed to by the 49ers when the stadium was built. and is designed to protect people living nearby who already endured traffic and noise. vice mayor said a weekday concert puts $400,000 into the city's general fund. he supports the 49ers who want the curfew extended for up to 4 weekday concerts a year. >> we approved and campaigned on was the economic benefits of the stadium. the stadium is doing what we approved. the appointed mayor has a lytic open data. she likes drama. -->> reporter: the mayor said he has taken thousands of dollars in political contributions from the 49ers. he might have forgotten the team it needs to follow along to protect santa clara neighborhoods. coldplay the third concert to violate the curfew. clear skies giving up a look at the october harvest moon. it is the full -- moon closest
to the fall equinox. because it rises close to sunset it makes for beautiful evenings. the harvest moon got its name because his light allowed farmers to work later to bring in crops. the harvest moon look really big. they are not super moans. harvest moves appear big because they are on the horizon. there is perspective. when you see the east bay hills and the giant moon it makes it appear larger. as you look outside some patchy fog. it is vaporizing. it is basically gone. tomorrow mostly sunny coast side and inland. without the fog temperatures are backed up. today's temperatures warm a few degrees. tomorrow a few more. we can easily see upper 80s and low 90s tomorrow for a high. that carries into saturday. friday and saturday most likely the warmest days of the week.
with a red flag warning in the offing as we get to towards sunday and monday. that is mostly about wind. we are expecting strong winds. sunday night into monday perhaps tuesday as well. warmer tonight napa. cooler in concorde. he wins outside right now relatively calm. that will set us up with a cool evening. the morning hours have been -- you get lack of wind -- overnight lows been getting down into the middle 30s. and upper 30s in the inland valley's. that is how it goes tomorrow. tomorrow starts cool. ins of warmer. we get into a red flag warning. we will talk about all of that. also about the hurricane -- tropical storm nate which has potential to impact the southeast united states by the weekend. puerto rico officials are saying power will be restored to everyone on the island until
next march. today the governor said as of right now power has only been restored to 9% of people on the island. they hope to have the power on for 25% of people with in a month. police are hoping make helping to direct traffic since traffic lights are out. stomach a local filmmaker is trying to make a difference. he is on his way to the island to hand-deliver donations. eli jacob -- with the group defend puerto rico is heading there tonight. put a call to the berkeley community for donations. is taking over 300 pounds of diapers pedicle gear and generators. it was a real honor to collect the donations. >> my heart is full. it is such an honor to be able to represent the bay area. represent puerto ricans and to go back to puerto rico. and bring these donations.>> he will be in puerto rico for a week and a half. is looking for more donations for his next trip at the end of
the month. to find out how to donate at ktvu.com. stomach southbay inmate rearrested after being released by accident. coming up next the clerical error being blamed and how social media help to track down the inmate. sunny gray on the stage tonight at the american league divisional series got started. how it turned out. and investigation underway after a woman falls to her death as san francisco's ford brunson. ah, dinner. throughout history, the one meal when we come together, break bread, share our day and connect as a family. [ bloop, clicking ] and connect, as a family. just, uh one second voice guy. [ bloop ] huh? hey? i paused it. bam, family time. so how is everyone? find your awesome with xfinity xfi
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a woman has died after falling from a cliff at fort -- in san francisco. it happened just after five p.m. the city showed emergency workers at the base of that very steep cliff alongside what appeared to be a body beneath a
yellow tarp. we reached out to park police for details. we have not heard back. a clerical error lane for an accidental release of an inmate at the santa clara county jail held for armed robbery. his social media activity led to his rearrested date.>> reporter: david lopez is back behind bars at the main santa clara jail. after enjoying a of freedom due to a clerical mistake. >> any time this happens it is a concern. we don't take it lightly.>> reporter: the mistake happened around 7:45 pm september 28. a civilian clerk received paperwork releasing him from the elmwood -- correctional facility. he sent this time for grand theft clear to go. the clerk did not notice additional paperwork for a conviction for armed robbery which included pistol whipping the victim. he was sentenced to eight years in prison for the crime. because the clerk did not see the second set of paperwork no
one noticed the inmate was gone until a week later when he was scheduled for transport. the discovery sparked an immediate search. >> we notified our executive staff. our detectives. they immediately started a search for the inmate. >> reporter: even though he considered armed and dangerous had a week head start the search began around 7 am was over about four hours later. investigators say their break came courtesy of his -- of lopez himself who took to social media postings lps as stores and restaurants he had been frequenting. he was arrested at a golf course. this is the second major gaffe involving inmates prematurely out of jail. last november 2 inmates use tools to cut through jail bars and went down the street level and escaped. they were caught a week later. sheriff's department officials say the clerk who signed off on david lopez's release is
subject to corrective action. >> any time you have a inmate who is released that has been convicted of violent charges. that is something we take great care with. we want to make sure we protect the public.>> reporter: they might implement additional safeguards to prevent a repeat of this mistake which ends with him back in a cell and possibly facing additional charges. a surprising stance taken by the gop and the nra. >> that is what we want to prevent. for someone to be able to fire 400 or 500 rounds per minute.>> how the massacre in las vegas is sparking a new conversation about a device used by the gunman. critical deadline for young undocumented immigrants as lawmakers encouraged the governor to protect dreamers here in california. seven cisco recycling program revamped. the changes will move the city
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a bump stocks device can increase the firepower of a semi automatic weapon. at the vegas shooting a moved to band them is picking up reese -- picking up support with republicans and the nra.
the story and the unexpected concession from the nra.>> reporter: in our a statement focused fully on these bump stocks devices. several sellers including walmart has stopped selling them. paul ryan and other republican said they are willing to consider a band. >> the political battle over bump stocks devices comes after they were found in 12 of the firearms in the shooters hotel rooms. those devices increase the firing speed of semi automatic weapons. >> a spring mechanism that takes the action of the gun and bounces it back and forth using the recoil. your finger stay in place and basically the gun is pointing your finger off the trigger.>> reporter: in 2010 they ruled they were attachments and therefore that regulation of to the states. estate the nra took an unusual step saying the nra believes devices designed to allow semi
automatic rifles to function like fully automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations. >> it is pretty cool to see the nra get in line with the people who don't know much about the stuff. usually it is polarized. the nra says we need to check this out.>> reporter: one house republican says he plans to introduce a ban on bump stocks. >> that is what we want to prevent. for someone not to be able to fire 400 rounds per minute. >> not only will i support it but i would be a and advocate.>> reporter: democrats also support a band. >> do more than send thoughts and prayers after these tragedies. even though this is a relatively minor adjustment. if we can act in concert will be a great signal for the country.>> reporter: a narrow bill might pass. >> i think it is possible if the democrats decided they would settle for regulating bump stocks then there could be a bill.
>> reporter: if both parties try to add more regulations for losing the laws it is possible nothing will get done. >> it is quite possible the democrats will say we don't just want to regulate bump stocks. we want to do more than that. that can lead to an impasse.>> reporter: nancy pelosi once a vote on another bill that would extend the background checks to all commercial firearm sales including at gun shows in over the internet. >> there are many more things we want to do. how do we save the most lives? with a background check.>> reporter: some republicans say the nation does not need more gun laws. >> if you wanted to killed many people he could've used a number of different things. we did not outlaw 747s out -- after 911.>> reporter: a call on congress to enact mandates allowing gun owners to move freely from state to state. they are saying there is a concession here. they also want something else
from congress. >> what about the white house? >> reporter: they said they would be open to being part of discussions. we will see what happens. certainly there is a political will to do something. the question is what will come of it. we have created a special section for the las vegas shooting. the latest on the investigation is what we are learning about the victims. look for it near the top of our home page. today the last day for dreamers and the daca program to file for renewed status. they are ending daca. the president suggested people already enrolled will be allowed to stay. lawmakers in california urging the government to sign a bill to ensure undocumented college students can remain enrolled in classes.>> the recent federal actions by our current president have demonstrated the links to which his ministration is willing to go to undo decades of humane immigration
policies. >> the daca program protects 800,000 undocumented immigrants were brought here illegally as children. telephone you became a sanctuary state is the governor signed legislation protecting undocumented immigrants. beside 10 other bills to protect undocumented immigrants. under the sanctuary state law police are barred from asking people about their immigration status. or participating in some federal immigration enforcement activities. the bill was introduced in response to widespread fear and immigrant communities following the election of trump. >> u.s. attorney general is coming under criticism for overturning a federal rule protecting transgender people from discrimination at work. in a letter session said the justice department will no longer interpret the civil rights act to include discrimination based on gender identity. house democratic leader nancy pelosi called it a shocking
disgusting reminder of this white houses contempt for the rights of lgbt americans. harvey weinstein is taking a leave of absence from the studio following activations of -- accusations of sexual harassment stretching 30 years. dozens of accusations from employees as well as actresses including ashley judd. some claimed he pressure them into giving him massages or to watch him shower. weinstein has reportedly reached settlements with eight women. he is 62 years old and married with two young children. he told the paper i appreciate the way i behaved with colleagues in the past has caused pain. i sincerely apologize for it. some netflix subscribers have to pay a higher price or streaming tv shows and movies next month. those who paid $9.99 for service on two screens will pay one dollar more. for screen service in high definition will go up to dollars.
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a fleet week concert in san francisco tonight to honor those who have died for our country. the conductor turned to the audience during the anthem and encourage people to sing. the tribute to place at the memorial theater. more than 600,000 men and women have given their lives in service to our country. the blue angels came to life in the skies over symphysis go as part of the fleet week event. they were doing practice today a hair ahead of airshows tomorrow at 3 pm. and saturday and sunday.
other teams including the canadian military snowbirds in the u.s. navy's leapfrogs will also be performing. 's special day for people who came to the dining room of saint anthony's. the people serving the meals were active members of the military. about 35 men and women who are in the bay area for fleet week volunteer to help out. we caught up with one marine who is based at camp pendleton. she said is a great way to give back. >> we wanted to be able to get back to the people. we cannot always have an opportunity to actually give back. a lot of us were excited to get an opportunity to do it. >> many of the very people they are serving our veterans who have fallen on hard times. today they had a chance to share their stories with active members. read week is taking center stage this weekend. it is not the only show in town. rosemary shows us what is going on in our weekend watch.>>
reporter: the weekend approaching in san francisco. fleet week festivities continue in the air and on the ground. including a full air show coast guard demonstration navy ship tours live music a parade, and of course the blue angels air show scheduled runs between noon and 4 pm friday through sunday. golden gate park for three days of hartley strictly bluegrass 2017. over 90 artists will perform on seven stages friday through sunday. 22nd annual cultural festival will fill union square. food and entertainment on saturday from 10 am until 6 pm. day day on angel island. the beach party celebrate the bay with activities ranging from photography to kayaking lessons. the sent karlos art and wine fair celebrates the 27 year on saturday and sunday with live entertainment a car show kids some food beverages and more in the heart of
downtown. east day 43rd avenue cowboy parade. this parade begins at 10 am on saturday. followed by a festival featuring live music food pony rides and entertainment for the family. vallejo -- music food and entertainment for the family. saturday and sunday from 10 am until 4 pm. 40th avenue -- in sports niners are away. is our home. recycling rules in san francisco.>> everything here goes in the blue bins. that is new.>> the changes bring them closer to becoming zero waste. bill martin has a look at the weekend forecast. d . winds are picking up. increase fire danger. ♪
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items. it is part of the city's plan to get 20 waste.>> reporter: if you live in san francisco was all. recycling routine is getting an upgrade. >> everything here goes in the blue been.>> reporter: department of environment and garbage company -- blue recycle bins are getting bigger. green compost bins stay the same. lack waste bins are getting smaller. >> we are further reducing the need for black bins and getting ever that much closer to our zero waste goals.>> reporter: empty coffee cups you -- juice boxes and ice containers with wax layers are coatings are recyclable. things to state-of-the-art equipment -- thanks two. plastics are now recyclable to. as long as they are put into one plastic bag before going into the blue bins. >> san francisco is on its way to get 20 waste.
we are going to get there sooner than 2020 i believe if we keep going at this pace.>> reporter: workers are also driving reconfigured trucks to accommodate more recyclables and less waste the changes are the updates to this -- the program since it launched more than 15 years ago. >> i hope all of you will take it upon yourself to change a little bit of your lifestyle. a little bit each time. we will get there one day. but mac if you are unsure about what items the where.>> the new bins are in use in the sunset district. they will be rolled out over the next two years. all residents can start using their blue bins the family today. -- differently today. a new option is about to become available for commuters in the east bay on interstate 680. carpool lanes between walnut street and san ramon are
converting to express lanes. the toll lanes at 5 am-8 am on weekdays. solo drivers in either direction. those drivers will have to pay a toll that will vary based on real-time traffic conditions. everybody using the lane will need to have a fast-track tag. if you want to travel toll-free you will need a fast-track flex tag. >> access to the lanes will remain free for call pool buses motorcycles and qualifying clean air vehicles. officials have more plans for new express lanes all over the bay area in the coming years. in the gulf -- yesterday became a tropical depression. today it is a proper tropical storm. on the weekend it will have an impact on the south east united states. it has a name. it is nate. it is a tropical storm. there is the track.
it is off the yucatan peninsula tomorrow with 60 miles per hour. that is still a tropical storm. when you hit 74 it becomes a hurricane. saturday off the southeast part of louisiana. 80 mile-per-hour winds. category 1 hurricane. probably a lot of rain for that part of the country from the panhandle to louisiana. what it means for you and me is travel concerned in atlanta. you will get some flight delays this -- flight delays. saturday and sunday. around here a red flag warning. not for tomorrow but into sunday night and into monday. mostly about the winds. when gus up to 55 miles per hour. relative humidity. temperatures in the 80s. fire danger pretty high all weekend. peaking on sunday and monday. it might not down a view tree limbs. fog has left the costs.
it is going to be a beautiful day tomorrow at the coast and around the bay. blue angels will fly again. they did their practice around noon today. if you want to run out there on lunch time to get on the golden gate bridge in might be fun to watch. temperatures running above the average by 5 degrees in hayward. 4 degrees san jose. the winds are relatively light. with the light winds it will be cool tonight. no-fault at the costs. bay bridge -- golden gate bridge. there is no-fault. tomorrow morning most likely no- fault. it starts off warm. temperatures into the 70s. san jose will be in the upper 80s. overnight lows very chilly. they have been chilly every morning pretty much this week. he will continue in that vein through the weekend. first -- forecast highs warmer than today. we will see more of these red
90s into saturday as well. tomorrow and saturday warmest days of the week. after that it doesn't really cool off. the winds kicked up. high fire danger on sunday. and monday. 87 livermore. 89 gilroy. the five day forecast. it is not going to be superhot. it is going to be windy and humidity. five day forecast -- a lot going on this weekend. there will be a lot of people in town. the weather is cooperating nicely. >> friday and saturday no clouds. sunday will the clouds affect the blue angels? >> in terms of the flights and the air show it should be perfect.>> in the meantime that moon tonight. it is gorgeous. the harvest moon pick >> when they are low on the horizon they get larger.
you're looking at the hills. here is this big orbit behind it. coming up on the 11 pm news. clues the gunman in the las vegas massacre might have been planning other attacks. the raiders had an unexpected visitor for practice today in alameda. got will tell us what derek hart was doing a couple days after being injured. ah, dinner.
god is in for mark. play -- baseball playoffs underway. october one of the best sport months of the year. the a's are not in the playoffs. opening-day starter is. sunny gray starting game 1 of the series. for the yankees. as they open things up in cleveland against the indians. a couple brave young the fans amiss the tribe members. they do everything well. including defense. jason leaving his feet. making a play. that guy is a converted second baseman. trevor bauer -- great not so affected. -- effective. j bruce going upstairs. way upstairs. this thing is as high as it is
long. a two-run shot. cleveland 43 and 9 since trading for jay bruce last with the yankees. down for nothing. to on into out. northern california aaron judge. cody alan got him. indians take game 1 4-stomach there is a website called how many --.com. inspired by josi out to they pick encumbered some measurements from feed into units. the site probably got a few hits tonight.>> red sox and astros -- got a few big hits tonight. more on that in a moment. just denver lander playoffs tested. the astros got him and he delivered. three strikeouts including andrew bennett 10. out to bait was the story in the first inning. after alex bregman led off with a home run. out to bait makes it back to back. it is 2-zero houston.
fifth inning again off of chris sale. solo shot. makes his five two -- 5-two astros. you can make it 10. out to bait first guy since pablo sandoval to do it in 2012. total 1206 feet. 222 point -- astros 8-2. derek hart is a quick healer. four days after suffering a transverse process fracture in his back, he was back on the field. remarkable says the sports anchor with no medical training. he took snaps. he threw some light passes. he looked okay. he sustained the injury this past sunday. the original timetable for a return was to to six weeks. ej manual will start quarterback this coming sunday against the ravens. is top receiver is making the
necessary adjustments. >> tried to get in some extra passes with him after practice. so i can get acquainted with how he throws the ball pick >> all quarterbacks throw a little bit different. ej euros it harder. -- throws it harder. >> thursday night football patriots and buccaneers. no rob gronkowski. he was enacted. 2nd quarter 3-zero new england. he was suspended for the first 4. 11 yards and originally grew -- ruled a touchdown. he would punch it in on the next play. the patriots answer with a brady nine play drive. chris hogan from five yards out. 10-3 new england. 20 of 3303 yards. insulin kickoff some levity. stephen gutkowski -- somewhere charlie brown and lucy are smiling. 4th quarter and 16-7. winston
tell 1st half. category in the second half. 18 yards to cameron. 16-14. we have a ball game. down 19-14. last play of the game. winston incomplete intended for oj howard the patriots hang on by a score of 19-14. stomach you have to love a guy named love. when it comes to barry sander. rice love eye-popping numbers for stanford. in five games he rushed for 1088 yards. fourth most all time and that spanned. is 301 yard last week against arizona state. a new record. he and reggie bush is the only pack 12 players with 250 yards back to back victories. the national media is catching on. rice is not really concerned pick >> it is a blessing at the end of the day. even more so than that it should be on everybody.
to be about the team and things like that. that is my biggest thing is being about others. i'm just happy for the team success. i'm ready to keep winning. >> he is as humble as talented. they will take on utah saturday night 715. the game can be seen on fox sports. next at 11. more chilling information about the gunman in the las vegas mass shooting. there are new reports he was scouting other music festivals and other cities. tonight investigators are looking into the possibility the las vegas gunman might've been planning additional attacks. perhaps including a car bombing. so far the motive for the attack in las vegas they killed 58 and injured nearly 500 is still not known.>> reporter:
other cities are responding to claims las vegas shooter may have considered targeting them as well. chicago police told us to believe he booked two rooms at this hotel overlooking the lollapalooza festival this summer. and other reported location boston pick >> we are fully plugged in on that investigation. there is no imminent threat to anything in massachusetts.>> reporter: he might have also had additional las vegas targets. he rented a room in september near the life is beautiful festival. they might never fully understand what pushed the man they are calling disturbed and dangerous to carry out the worst the mystic attack in u.s. history. >> he is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammunition. living a secret life. much of which will never be fully understood.>> reporter: they believe he probably did not act on
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week. what are the white house officials saying? well not much for now. >> i'm not talking to anything. >> i have no idea. >> can you tell us anything, any information about the current investigation going on by chairman nunes? >> nothing to say. >> we got a lot to talk about and an all-star team with all of the developments. another meg a ga panel, kacy hunt on if hill, pete williams and plus two other reporters behind today's bombshell reports here with us, carol lee and on the set, matteo gold and msnbc contributor jeremy peters of the "the new york times." lots to discuss. hans, first to you. start with what the white house and what the president is saying about these overnight developments related to the guy he basically fired six weeks ago, mike flynn. >> reporter: the question is how kindly did he fire him.
if there's any distance, any dilating between president donald trump and michael flynn, well michael flynn will have a chance to exact some revenge or set the record straight. that's why we see this tweet overnight from president obama clearly telegraphs that we wants to say friendly, friends with michael flynn. here's what he said mike flynn should ask for immunity and this is a witch hunt by media and dems. that seems to me like an attempt by the president to let michael flynn know that they are still friends and that michael flynn should be friendly if he offers any testimony under immunity. >> hans nichols there. it's interesting because the republicans talked a little differently about i nmanntimmun it related to hillary clinton. here's what michael flynn told our chuck todd six months ago. >> five people around her have
been given immunity to include her former chief of staff. when you've given immunity, that means you've probably committed a crime. >> flynn's eventual boss saying the same tune as a candidate on the campaign trail. >> the reason they get immunity is because they do something wrong. if you're not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for. right? have you ever seen anything so corrupt in your life? if they're going to give him immunity, what are you wasting your time for. >> we're going to talk more about this with carol lee from "the wall street journal" in a second. but for now to pete williams. pete, there are questions about what immunity is and what it is not. and walk us through this, right. it's not a blanket agreement where you can't say you can't prosecute me for anything. there's going to be some kboe negotiations. >> but if you get immunity from congress, it makes it difficult for prosecutors to charge you
with a crime. what you haerds trump talk about is a different kind of immunity. this is congressional immunity. the committee or the full congress votes to give you immunity, they go to a judge and the judge grants it. the attorney general has 20 day to think it over but nay can't stop they can't stop it. when you give somebody immunity, what it means is that whatever they say in their congressional testimony cannot be used against them in prosecuting the crime, it can't be used to generate leads. the problem is that is a purely technical matter. but as a practical matter when you a high profile case like this, national testimony, televised across the country, it's very hard for the prosecutors later to say we managed to disentangle all of this, we learned about all of this separately. as a practical matter it doesn't give you a get out of jail pass forever. it simply says whatever you say in congress cannot be used against you.
it's rarely granted by congress. i think the last time was 2007 when congress was investigating the firing of attorney generals. but there's a policy issue here. which is more important, uncovering the truth, getting it out in front of the public or making sure you don't do anything that would jeopardize prosecutions. and congress may have a strong argument that it's more important to tell the story than get prosecutions. i would say this is just smart lawyering on flynn's part to raise his hand early on saying hey we're happy to come up there so it doesn't look like they have anything to hide. >> thank you for that perspective. i want to go back to the white house where we've got carol lee from if ""wall street journal."" you broke this story, kind of a bombshell that came out. what do you now about why he and his team ended up making this request? >> reporter: we don't know what the request is, we don't know
what general flynn is saying he would be willing to talk about in exchange for immunity, the specifics. but as the general flynn's lawyer's statement says, their view, their argument is that this has become a very politicized investigation in that there are a number of things that have been reported that they feel are unfair. so they don't want to put him out there to testify in a way that they feel might expose him. now, separate from that, there are a number of things that are in michael flynn's background that they may be concerned about. you know, he's had connections with the russian government in a sense that, you know, he's been paid tens of thousands of dollars to, you know, whether it's giving speeches or consulting and he's had owe foreign government clients, namely turkey. we know that he was interviewed by the fbi at some point early on in the administration. and so we don't know what was
said there. and he has obviously the reason why he was -- he resigned from his position in the white house was because he was not being truthful about some of his contacts with the russian ambassador. we don't -- there are several things that we don't know. what we do know is that in recent days they've been having these conversations and so far they have not gotten anywhere. they're still ongoing. >> any time line on that or tbd? >> reporter: it sounds like when you talk to people on the hill that it's going to take some time. it's not clear that they -- you know, if you want immunity, you have to have something to offer and you have to show, you also have to demonstrate that you're going to be truthful in your testimony. and so that is a process that would take a lot of time and it's not clear even now that they would, you know, want to exchange whatever the exchange would be for whatever michael flynn has to say. and obviously his lawyer said he has a very, you know, real story to tell. but you know we don't know
exactly what that story is. is it a story about his contacts with russia? is it a story about what he learned or experience during as an adviser to the trump campaign or the white house or the transition? we don't know and so i think it's going to take a little more time. >> carol lee at the white house. thank you very much. i want to bring in our panel now, casey hunt is up over on the hill for us to jump into the conversation. i want to come to you in a second. to set the table here, this is 71 days wi, guys of this administration. time line is going to take a little longer for this. you've got, as you're dealing with the flynn stuff, you have the whole devin nunes stuff on the hill. all of it connected in a web of discussion and headlines. casey, i want to go to you to talk about the reaction from the hill because there's been reaction from flynn on the flynn story from adam schiff, for example and it ties into a house
intelligence committee inve investigation into russia. >> reporter: sure. there's been so much confusion i think over the course of the last week as far as what is up and what is down. adam schiff held a press conference yesterday that was hastily called down outthe secure location on the house side of the capitol and hi was asked, are you going to release the names of the people you want to interview. you said earlier today you guys were working on that. and he said well this day kind of got away from me, like all of these days do now. i think even these members of congress are surprised by the head-spinning pace of all aftth. mike flynn has made the request for immunity in his testimony to congress. adam schiff tweeting this morning, the public should learn a lot more about why general flynn wants i moneymmunity when
yates testify. another kind of clue filled with some innuendos. he does not say why it is that he believes that sally yates might have formation. we do know from that letter that sally yates's attorneys wrote that she was planning to discuss the warnings that she had made about flynn's potential openness to blackmail from the russians. so you could concede that perhaps this is part of it. but again we just don't know about this point. an and on the house intelligence community, they're trying to reschedule the open hearing that was to feature sally yates, clapper and brennan. but at this point there's no indication that will be rescheduled and that house intelligence investigation, they were u trying to get it restarted on friday but it's ground to a halt again. >> so casey hunt on capitol hill. in a second we're going to look at the big picture. if people are not plugged in minute by minute constantly it
can seem overwhelming and a big mess. matthew. you've got the other bombshell sto story, which is about the -- apparently according to your reporting in the "the new york times" that has come out, two white house staffers apparently involved somehow in playing a role in revelations that devin nunes came out with. >> they're the ones who found the intelligence and gave it to h him. >> although the white house is not saying a peep about that. >> they won't deny it but they're saying why are you worried about the process, it's about the substance. what they apparently found were foreign ambassadors talking to each other, intercepting the communications kind of how they were ingratiating themselves to the trump administration. totally normal. and so this apparently came from these two white house officials, one found it, the other one kind of showed it to nunes and then
it was shown to nunes. the next day he goes out on capitol hill and has a press conference like he's being given something like a whistle blower and runs back to the white house to brief president trump about information he got from white house officials. >> which sean spicer says doesn't pass the smell test. >> the call is coming from inside the house. >> what are you trying to do here? what is this theater they're putting on to try and portray them as somehow the victims. >> is that what it is? >> it's what it looks like. >> you're talking about a couple of these folks, mike ellis, the washington post, matteo is reporting, they're not saying anything. >> no. >> they're in the garages, walking down the street saying they have nothing to say, nothing to add a. do you think publicly we'll start to hear more or is this going to be put to bed? >> i don't want to make any predictions, b knowing thi administration we'll hear more because everything seems to get more detailed as we go on.
>> does it seem like devin nunes was played here? >> you know, that's a harder thing to say. was he witting in this or useful to them. i don't know. >> what do you guys think in. >> it certainly wouldn't be unlike this white house to try to play people off one another, would it? i think that the larger problem here is that when you consider these scandals in the context of everything else that is happening, you have a travel ban that is being litigated in the courts for the president which is bad news for him. you have a budget fight that's about to happen on capitol hill. you have a supreme court fight that is about to go down. >> right. >> in a big way. you have tax reform which is going to be messy and you have this ongoing skirmish over health care. all of these things add up to no good news for this administration. >> what is the takeaway if you're tuning in today, if you have been living in a cave for the last 70 days and you've popped up, what is happening?
>> which is most americans. people are not following every tick of the story like we are. the rallying cry that trump used on the campaign trail last year was vote for hillary clinton and you're going to put in an amount that will have a cloud of suspiciosu suspicion hanging over it and that's exactly a similar situation that his administration finds itself in today. for americans who are just sort of tuning in and out of this, all they're really getting as a takeaway is controversy and scandal, questions about russia. the administration's proactive messages are not cutting through that. >> speaking of russia, right, because that is the shadow that's loomed over this administration. and this morning the spokesperson basically for vladimir putn vladimir putin was out on if morning shows. there was an interesting exchange about the relationship and how that is unfolding according to the kremlin right now. this is dimitri press peskov.
>> maybe worse taking into action of the present presidential administration. >> worse than the cold war? >> of course. of course. >> so of course this relationship is destined to be worse than the cold war, he says. do you buy that in. >> i don't think we're quite there yet. i'm going to date myself and say i was a little child at the end of the cold war. my classroom had the nuclear bomb drills poster. i don't see us getting there now. but look, the hostility is real and there was by all accounts a real attempt to try to interfere in the election and that's incredibly sheer yoerious. we're going to talk more about that kb deep diving into what we have learned about russia interfering with the
election and we're going to talk more about michael flynn, senator blumenthal tweeting there should not be immunity for michael flynn until a special prosecutor is appointed. thank you for joining us here. you two stick around. coming up, we're talking more politics because president trump is fighting a different battle right now. we've got now reaction from how house freedom caucus members are responding. lots to discuss. hang out. over here! over here! no! (dog barking) whoever threw it has to go get it. not me! somebody will get it... ♪ (dog barking) anyone can dream. making it a reality is the hard part. from the b-2 to the upcoming b-21, northrop grumman stealth bombers give america an advantage in a turbulent world.
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so if you thought that fight between president trump and the house freedom caucus would start to be simmering down today, think again. a white house official telling the washington post quote, our view is there's nothing as clarifying as the smell of air force one jet fuel. if he needs to bring in a plane and do a rally, he's going to think about doing that. quote, mr. trump and white house aides are sick and tired of seeing freedom caucus people on television. bad news, here's thomas massey on "morning joe". >> they sent me to d.c. frankly to drain the swamp. and we were excited, you know, conservatives were excited when we heard that donald trump was coming to help us drain the swamp. but now he's taking advice from the swamp creatures.
he's burning political capital with every tweet with the guys who came to d.c. to drain the swamp. >> here is john wagner back with me, matteo gold from the "the new york times" and germany peters. let's start with you. a white house official tells you this has been brewing for a while. how can it be a surprise to the west wing that not everybody in the gop gets along all of the time? >> well, that's certainly a good question. if they had watched the recent history of the last couple of years, it shouldn't a surprise that the house is somewhat dysfunction nal when it comes to big issues like this. trump discovered it in his own way and it's something he's struggling with now. >> how bad is the struggle? how real is it? >> it's very real if you look at health care. but given their agenda they want to do tax reform which is going to have a lot of the same fissures at play within the republican party. they have to figure out where their sweet spot is to govern
from if they want to continue to try to pass bills with just republicans or if they're going to reach out to more moderate democrats which raises a whole host of problems. >> the can of worms and the can of worms. on what he calls how the freedom cause kus is undermining the gop. he says, we are the charlie brown party hoping that this time things will be different. but time and again the freedom caucus is lucy, pulling the ball out from under us, letting us fall. it's a cheap tactic, not a way to govern and enough is enough. freedom caucus is not going to sit count say just kidding, we're going away now. how does president trump and paul ryan work with these guys? >> if you look to the prurch's tweets, they accused him of acting like a fifth grader, accused him of becoming part of
the washington establishment that he ran against. it's a very tough problem. i mean if the white house thought these guys were going to roll over and get in line, that at least hasn't happened immediately. we'll see longer term whether they do some other calculation about what's in their best interest. but the immediate impact can't be what the white house was looking for. >> john, i'm bringing in jeremy here. the president has thrown some shade, this idea that he's going to fire up air force one, head to the districts and maybe the implication is primary against the precome caucus members. how real is the threat, really really. >> trump may be serious about doing so but most of these people won their districts by larger margins that trump won. they came into office as repuicans but actually kind of before trump rining on this brand of anti-establishment sentiment that's really connected them to their
constituents much more than to the national party. that's hard to dislodge. >> and you have everything kind of responding in this social media caldron. and going on cable news and tweeting about it and it's just -- they are so unresponsive to -- >> the social media caldron in which we live. >> they're so less responsive to the conventional governings. sure he can fly air force one into that districts and rally up the crowd but he's threatened to do that before and hasn't really pulled the trigger. >> a white house source said to me that the typical political pressures are not in play. how does this play out. what are we going to be talking about next week when it comes to the freedom caucus members. do you think we're going to see the jim jordans out on the sunday shows taking an aim. or is there a sense that maybe led by mark meadows, who has
taken this right on the chin, maybe they'll sit back a little bit and let this die down. what do you think? >> we'll have to see. another variable is whether or not president trump is going to actually follow through on the threat in any real way. he's fired off a couple of tweets. >> named names specifically, right. >> and there are plenty of examples since he became president or people called out in tweets whose lives changed in dramatic ways. we'll see if that applies, any of that pressure really pmatter. and he hasn't gone to districts of wavering members yet for whatever reason, perhaps because the time frame was so compressed during the health care debate. he didn't get out there. it will be interesting to see if he holds more of his campaign style rallies in those districts and calls out members by name while he's there. if there's continuous pressure there's a chance that it will have impact.
>> thank you much. stick around, much more to discuss. as we speak right now, president trump is over in the oval office meeting with condoleezza rice in the west wing. how much is the kremlin going to factor into today's conversation? stay with us.
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we are back now with a look at the morning's headlines. have you heard about the overnight huge fire in atlanta, caused a bridge to collapse in the fire was reported right during rush hour on interstate 85. you know how busy it is. authorities managed to turn back traffic before the bridge collapsed. nobody was hurt. people apparently saw the flames and stopped their cars before that collapse. atlanta's mayor says this is going to create a major long term transportation crisis for the city. no surprise there. just minutes from now, hillary clinton is set to take this stage here in washington at the annu yool awards ceremony. see eel talk about the critical role that women can play in politics. and president trump over the west wing is expected to sign two executive orders today
focused on one of his key campaign promises, tough talk on trade. the first one calls for a trade abuses and second one tougher enforcement of trade law, hoping to keep foreign manufacturers from cutting prices. right now the president is meeting with a former secretary of state, condoleezza rice. it's happening as the current secretary of state rex tillerson goes face to face with his fellow dip lo mates in brussels saying the u.s. isn't going to touch russia untsirussia. they're redefining what candidate trump said on the campaign trail. very significant. we get the latest from matt bradley in london watching all of this. it sounds like the secretary of state hit these three key points in his talk today. >> it was rex tillerson's debut
with the north atlantic treaty organization and it was indeed a much anticipated visit. tillerson spent his remarks touching on three main points, the fight against isis and containing russian aggression. these are long standing policy points that have carried over from the previous administration. but as you mentioned, he seems to be moving away from some of the points that donald trump himself had mentioned on the campaign trail. there's been a lot of that around here. but the big issue remains that to country's military financing. and remember, donald trump remarked several times during his campaign that european allies were getting a free ride off of american defense spending. now this isn't a new complaint. barack obama told nato leaders last year they had been complacent about their own defense. but today tillerson told his fellow nato foreign ministers that washington is spending a quote disproportionate share on defense spending and he called on nato leaders to form a plan
to increase the spending by the time that donald trump meets with the nato leaders on may 25th. that's less than two months away and many european leaders say they have a plan. nato members committed to meet the spending threshold of 2% of gdp of 2024. tillerson's demand that germany demand its defense spending is totally unrealistic. tillerson was working against impressions that the trump administration doesn't care about nato. this foreign minister's meeting had been moved up to avoid a conflict of the visit from president xi jinping from china. >> it's significant that nato rearranged its schedule to accommodate the secretary of state on his first trip over there. let's talk about this. you've got rex tillerson on this
trip overseas. back here in foggy bottom people seem to be kind of freaking out a little bit about his leadership. what's going on? >> my colleagues had a report today of an incredible sense of anxiety that's permeating the diplomatic core. because i think there's just been such a clamp down in communication and a sense of uncertainty about his philosophical approach to these issues, rumors are really flying wildly. and it's creating just a tremendous sense of unease about what direction the state department is going to go, especially at a time when the president wants to cut it. >> 30% cuts to the state department. concerns from some that rex tillerson isn't doing enough to fight for the agency that he needs. t it speems to an overall paranoia that you're talking about. but i wonder. he's a business guy.
maybe he's running the state department like he ran a business, top down. >> and i don't think you can run the state department like you would run a business. you generally cannot run governmenty entities like they are businesses. and you see this time and time again with coes who come into politics and they're used to be autocrats. when you're a ceo, you can fire anyone, you can direct your employees and you have more latitude. as a head of a massive bureaucracy, that's a lot more difficult. you can't snap your fingers and things change overnight. >> when we come back we'll talk about the focus on russia, the house intelligence committee, its investigation into last year's election and the senate intel conducting its inquiry. the first public hearing of that investigation, stunning revelations with new fallout today. we're going to deep dive into this after the break. kevin kevin kevin
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into russian interference into our election. you've got those headlines. the headlines about mike flynn andmmunitimmunity. what do they tell us? let's bring in senior policy adviser and spokesperson for the counter extremism project. back with me, jeremy peeshts and matteo gold. in the last 24 hours after you heard clint watts over an capitol hill, this morning, a lot of open jaws. people's jaws dropping. he talked about the spread of disinformation, the spread of fake news, the sophisticated effort by russia. what does that operation really mean? how real is that and how much of an impact do you think it played? >> it's very real. you see russia taking the lead on this sorts of cyber propaganda claims. more information came out this was still going on, they cited
against marco rubio, this was happening throughout the campaign. and one of the problems, which is washington post indicated this morning, you have campaign surrogates picking up some of the russian propaganda and recirculating the rumors only giving them for traction. in addition to that you have the behind the scenes hacking going on which is more troublesome. and then a third area is if they're able to hack into election infrastructure, election related tallying or numbers and we didn't see that in this election but that's a concern going on. but it is very congress. goes to the fundamental heart of our democracy in terms of information and in terms of our election system itself. >> so what can we do? the senate is looking into this but they're revealing the information. are they putting procedures in place? can they? >> you need to have resources in
place, strong cybersecurity protocol, people checking to make sure there are not intrusions on these systemselec. on the information side, it's difficult to stop this part of thing. on the hacking side it's cybersecurity and also deterring the russians from doing this. taking actions in response to this. we haven't had strong deterrence on cyber hacking or cyber str t cybersecuri cybersecurity. >> you talk about deterrence. russia is denying any involved whatsoever. you heard from vladimir putin saying watch my lips, no. here's what deme tri-peskov has to say this morning. >> we insist that any blamings that russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the united states is lander. a no evidence at all.
>> alexandslander and no eviden >> there's evidence worthy of 16 or 17 separate intelligence agencies all concluding in a bipartisan fashion that this was in fact the russians. we've seen this historically with the russians in other countries and up doubtly in this case there was russian hacking. whether it came out from the government or directed by the russians, the intelligence shows that behind the scenes. i think it's clear that the russians were behind the hack in the recent election. >> tara, one more question for you. put it into perspective. how does the testimony from clint watts play into what we're seeing with michael flynn and devin nunes. >> i think the real story people are looking at is whether or not there was any potential collusion, any coverup for corp mizing conversation, whether there was potential blackmail or any other criminal activity. so there's a wide spectrum of things that could be going on here. there's a lot of coincidences in terms of timing in russia
meetings. there's a lot of misinformation coming out of the administration. i don't think we know what the actual story is but i think we'll hear more once people like flynn start to testify. >> that's a key point. we don't know the actual story. there's still a ton of question marks. we want to say sally yates and michael flynn, some of the other folks come out and say what they know. we're talking about it every day. how damages or maybe not damaging is that in. >> one of the most dramatic things that it thought was raised in the committee hearing was the idea that trump himself might have been an unwitting cog in this campaign by tweeting information and retweeting information coming from the russians. and it speak to a much broader national security issue. put aside this investigation. i think one of the things that really serious foreign policy experts were focused on yesterday, is that the russians do not have partisan alignment. they're in for their own interests. marco rubio had been targeted as recently as wednesday.
and this is something that i think everyone is really taking a step back, what is going to be next, who is going to be next. >> when you mention the political implications of all of this, it's helpful to step back and remember. you had various investigation and scandals bubbling up for hillary clinton that in isolation people could very easily dismiss. the benghazi stuff, the private server. but eventually this all added up to -- the totali >> the totality of it. >> it takes it toll and that's risk for donald trump at this point. >> you mentioned, i think a cup l of them but there was one when clint watts talked about russian es and some nefarious doing. >> the other part that we should be looking at is follow the trail of dead russians. there's been for dead russians in the past three months that are tied to this investigation with assets in banks all over
the world. they are dropping dead even in western countries. these are all huge opening to understand how they are funded by the russian government. i don't have the capability to do that from where i sit but i think that's a huge angle. >> conspiracy theory or la dwle? >> it's woork looking into. you've seen several that are dropped dead in the past five, six months. it's worth investigation. it's worth investigation when you see government officials lying about the meetings, the time of the meetings or whether or not they happened. it could be that there is actually more to the story, some fire where we see a lot of smoke. >> always great to have yush perspectiper speck -- our perspective. up next, a lot of folks are watching what may be a shift on syria when it comes to u.s. policy. less about this man, president bashar al assad. more about defeating isis.
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secretary tillerson suggesting that removing him isn't really the priority anymore. >> i think the status and the longer term status of president assad will be decided by the syrian people. >> we also heard that sentiment from u.n. ambassador nikki haley, telling a small group of reporters, quote, you pick and choose your battles. when looking at this, it is about changing up priorities and our priority is no longer to focus on getting assad out. what does this mean? why does it matter? because it does. your assessment first of the policy shift and what it does as far as our relationships overseas? >> one way to look at it is nikki haley and rex tellerson are stating overtly what has quietly been the policy, even under the obama administration. the obama administration kept saying, assad has to go. he has to go. but they never did anything to make it happen. >> but john kerry was never this explicit. >> never this explicit. now, basically, haley is saying,
we have other things to focus on. we want to make fighting isis the priority. the obama administration also considered isis the priority. >> what does this do, especially in the context of a lot of focus on the relationship with russia, as far as the optics of looking as though the united states may be shifting more toward where putin would like us to be? >> looks like the trump administration is once again accommodating russia to a degree. russia is basically going to have its way. it's been backing us militarily and has a lot of influence. iran is also a backer of assad. if we're going to say, removing assad is not a priority for us anymore, does that mean we're also giving iran an entree to stay in syria for a long time? >> there is criticism of this coming from capitol hill. members of congress. looking at john mccain, lindsey graham. mccain saying, ultimaly, the administration's statements could lead the true allies and partners of the united states in the fight against isis to fear
the worst. a faustian bargain with assad and putin. lindsey graham saying, it is a great reward for russia and iran. >> you hear this talk from john mccain and lindsey graham. they're a little more bellicose in the way they'd choose to deal with assad. well, both of them ran for president. they're not president. donald trump is. >> sure. >> fact check, correct. >> they may disagree but they're not setting the policy here. you also have to look at this in the context of what is happening militarily with the change in the rules of engagement. and the loosening of restrictions on the military in terms of which targets it can go after and how allowable civilian casualties are. that's going to create another diplomatic problem for the united states. >> i want to -- do you agree? is that diplomatic problem going to be something we'll be in two weeks talking about? >> i think it is remarkable, if it weren't for the other news we've been talking about this morning, this would be the headline story. this is a huge -- even if it is
a very subtle shift in policy, in diplomacy, every word is par -- has impact. the articulation, going after assad is no longer a top priority, is going to have reverberations. i think it underscores how distanced this administration is from a republican approach to foreign policy. it used to be that mccain and graham were the mainstream of what republicans were thinking when they were looking out at the world and the united states role in it. this administration is in a different way. >> politically, given what donald trump said on the campaign trail, the fight against isis being the top priority, do you see that, from the filter he'll be talking through, do you see this playing into it? i always wanted fighting isis to be the priority. that's what i'm doing. >> the challenge will be, people will say, if you leave assad in power, that's simply going to lead to more recruits heading to isis. a lot of people believe that assad's rule and the civil war
in syria are one reason isis is thriving. so at the end of the day, if you want to truly eliminate isis, you're going to have to wind down the civil war in syria. >> we know that secretary tillerson is obviously very close to the administration. i wonder how secretary mattis is taking all this. >> my understanding is he is not as far out there as nikki haley and tillerson have been on this issue. one thing that is interesting is nikki haley has been making these comments. she's been more out front on this than the secretary of state. >> what does that say to you? >> well, it speaks to tillerson's real silence on a lot of issues of policy that everyone is really waiting to see. is he going to be the administration's leading voice on foreign policy, as has been traditional, or is he going to play a different role as secretary of state? >> will more come, for example, from the west wing, people taking over the foreign policy roles? >> exactly. there are not a whole lot of bright minds delineating responsibility in this administration. there's a lot of head butting
and cross pollination. this is how trump always thrived. maybe thrive isn't the right word. he runs his white house like he ran his business. it is ripe with conflict. personality clashes and chaos. >> before i let you go, what do you expect to see? what do you think we'll see from russia, from iran, from allies internationally as part of the fallout from this? >> i think we're see some of the gulf arab allies be disturbed by this. they'll see anything that leaves assad in power as something that strengthens iran. they view iran as their biggest threat in the middle east. that's something to watch out for. >> thank you very much for coming on and for this perspective on what is a major story amid tens of thousands, it feels like, of other major stories. thank you guys very much for being here. we're taking a live look quickly at, i believe, georgetown university, where hillary clinton is speaking. she -- this is part of one of her awards that she gives out as part of a group that she's involved in.
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country in turmoil ahead and some prison inmates in california are on a hunger strike a look at how many inmates are taking part and what their demands are internet show . it's wednesday july tenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching our two and we begin with major news in the bradley manning trial the defense has rested its case the private first class is facing twenty one charges including aiding the enemy for his role in providing wiki leaks with internal state department and military documents and one day after attempting to have some of the most serious charges against bradley manning dismissed in only three days into their arguments the defense has now rested i spoke with our correspondent lizzie wall earlier from fort meade maryland with the latest on the trails new development i asked her first today's move by the defense came as a surprise that they had come as a surprise to have a happened at about two point five this afternoon after some of the most compelling testimony we have heard yet in this trial after that bradley manning the terror in a cold
country in turmoil ahead and some prison inmates in california are on a hunger strike a look at how many inmates are taking part and what their demands are internet show . it's wednesday july tenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching our two and we begin with major news in the bradley manning trial the defense has rested its case the private first class is facing twenty one charges including aiding the enemy for his role in providing wiki leaks with internal state...
what's next for the country in turmoil. and some prison inmates in california are on a hunger strike we'll look at how many inmates are taking part and what their demands are later in today's show. it's wednesday july tenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax you're watching our t.v. . we begin with major news in the bradley manning trial the defense has rested its case the private first class is facing twenty one charges including aiding the enemy for his role in providing wiki leaks with internal state department and military documents these documents show the afghan and iraq war logs as well as communications between state to state department employees all around the world and one day after attempting to have some of the most serious charges against bradley manning dismissed and only three days into their arguments the defense has now rested joining me now from fort meade maryland for the latest on the trial r.t. correspondent was wall. liz the defense rested its case does that come as a surprise. yes they did come as somewhat of a surprise after some of the most compelling tes
what's next for the country in turmoil. and some prison inmates in california are on a hunger strike we'll look at how many inmates are taking part and what their demands are later in today's show. it's wednesday july tenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax you're watching our t.v. . we begin with major news in the bradley manning trial the defense has rested its case the private first class is facing twenty one charges including aiding the enemy for his role in providing wiki leaks with...
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cards for lying to homeowners an in-depth look at this story coming up. in california two women's prisons face a growing scandal dozens of female inmates were sterilized without the approval of the state more on how this happened and today show. it's monday july eighth four pm in washington d.c. lopez and you are watching our t.v. well let's begin our coverage in cairo where protests are no closer to settling down after the egyptian military deposed president mohamed morsi and his government last wednesday instead dual protests are underway in the country some supporting morsi and the muslim brotherhood and others backing the military and the opposition . at least fifty one people were killed in today's clashes alone bringing the death toll count to around one hundred and fifty and those are conservative estimates at least five children were among the dead meanwhile egypt's army chief abdel fatah al sisi and his troops are attempting to restore order in the country using tactics protesters say are tense amount to outright suppression and egypt's top muslim cleric is now warning th
cards for lying to homeowners an in-depth look at this story coming up. in california two women's prisons face a growing scandal dozens of female inmates were sterilized without the approval of the state more on how this happened and today show. it's monday july eighth four pm in washington d.c. lopez and you are watching our t.v. well let's begin our coverage in cairo where protests are no closer to settling down after the egyptian military deposed president mohamed morsi and his government...
attorney and author of the book a government of wolves thank you well the california prison system is dealing with yet another setback in attempting to calm tensions within mates prison officials announced on saturday that an inmate being held in solitary confinement died at the california state prison called coron on monday that's one of the prisons participating in the mass hunger strike and the state inmate supporters say that the inmate thirty two year old bill cell was taking part in that protest but prison officials on the other hand say that he wasn't and that his death is being treated as a suicide r.t.d. has called the prison and we have not yet heard back about whether or not any of that is true but so was serving a life sentence for attempted murder he was also awaiting trial for the murder of a cellmate now in the hunger strike is twenty two days old now with about one thousand inmates at eleven prisons still refusing to eat that's down from the thirty thousand inmates that were initially refusing meals in the very first days but for more on the hunger strike i'm joined no
attorney and author of the book a government of wolves thank you well the california prison system is dealing with yet another setback in attempting to calm tensions within mates prison officials announced on saturday that an inmate being held in solitary confinement died at the california state prison called coron on monday that's one of the prisons participating in the mass hunger strike and the state inmate supporters say that the inmate thirty two year old bill cell was taking part in that...
pez on the national mall. still ahead on earth here her reflects aim of a southern california neighborhood has outraged an entire community police officers to shoot and kill a man's dog details on how this unfortunate scene unfolded coming up after the break. the same story doesn't make good news no softball no poppy food i mean tough question. it was a scene that would make anyone we on raw speed was filming an investigation over operate c. and hawthorne california sunday evening he says his intention was to make sure that no one's civil rights were being violated but after not responding to the police request to turn down his swearing to use their police began to approach him with an arrest in mind saying the police coming be put his three year old rottweiler max in the back seat of his car unfortunately he left the window open that's what you're going to see. as rusty was handcuffed by police the dog sprung out of the window and lunged at officers one responded firing several several shots killing the dog the video has gone viral it's a disturbing scene and some have wonder
pez on the national mall. still ahead on earth here her reflects aim of a southern california neighborhood has outraged an entire community police officers to shoot and kill a man's dog details on how this unfortunate scene unfolded coming up after the break. the same story doesn't make good news no softball no poppy food i mean tough question. it was a scene that would make anyone we on raw speed was filming an investigation over operate c. and hawthorne california sunday evening he says his...
police department in california has received thousands of threats from around the globe after one of its officers was caught on camera shooting a dog the video that's been viewed over one million times as angered animal lovers and activist alike but it's the animal shooting or is it the indicator that that's a larger problem of the disregard for a life by the department or his or mogul lindo has been following the story he brings us more. this is horrible and only traumatized samantha at the end it was holding her dog neemo with a newfound appreciation she was one of several people who witnessed hawthorne police shoot and kill a two year old rottweiler. side running as i ran right in the bathroom and i was like crying and screaming police department says they shot the animal because of fear the dog would bite an officer the dog's owner a young rosie was videotaping us what operation at the time he claims his intention was to make sure no one civil rights were being violated but after not responding to police requests to turn down because of coming from his car he was arrested for int
police department in california has received thousands of threats from around the globe after one of its officers was caught on camera shooting a dog the video that's been viewed over one million times as angered animal lovers and activist alike but it's the animal shooting or is it the indicator that that's a larger problem of the disregard for a life by the department or his or mogul lindo has been following the story he brings us more. this is horrible and only traumatized samantha at the...
california he's proposed reforms to have a court judges approved by the senate as well as declassifying certifies a court opinions and allowing a special privacy advocate to argue before the court he joined me earlier and i asked him how his reforms to the secret files a court will protect americans first and fourth amendment rights. i think i'll have the commit of impact of making the pfizer court much more transparent so the american people can understand what's being done in their name in the name of national security so that we can have a more informed debate over the balance between privacy and security i think this can be accomplished while also maintaining sources and methods and not compromising some of the very real national security concerns at stake. it also will mean in terms of the appointment of five judges a more diverse set of judges than those that were chosen by the chief justice alone it'll mean the american people during that vetting process of senate confirmation have a better sense of where those judges stand on fourth amendment issues it will mean th
california he's proposed reforms to have a court judges approved by the senate as well as declassifying certifies a court opinions and allowing a special privacy advocate to argue before the court he joined me earlier and i asked him how his reforms to the secret files a court will protect americans first and fourth amendment rights. i think i'll have the commit of impact of making the pfizer court much more transparent so the american people can understand what's being done in their name in...
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center in california sacramento star welcome to the program some have already described what's going on in egypt in sort of religious overtones essentially alleging that the military crackdown against the muslim brotherhood is in fact a crackdown on islam in general what's your take on that you know. i'm not even going to a dress i'm just a short and to focus on on the core issue here you have a democratically elected president who was overthrown by the by the military in a clearly defined textbook couldn't talk and the military is. doing what it does best going after the supporters of the legitimate president most of whom are actually not members of the muslim brotherhood. there are christians there are liberal socialists groups even some some communist groups that are in the sit in with the supporters of the president and they're cracking down on them and i'm getting reports of very close friends childhood friends or physicians volunteering in the field hospital telling me that they are counting over one hundred victims and their shift alone over the past eight hours most of them w
center in california sacramento star welcome to the program some have already described what's going on in egypt in sort of religious overtones essentially alleging that the military crackdown against the muslim brotherhood is in fact a crackdown on islam in general what's your take on that you know. i'm not even going to a dress i'm just a short and to focus on on the core issue here you have a democratically elected president who was overthrown by the by the military in a clearly defined...
first female president of the university of california system. this career move begs the question why would one from the head of a department in charge of terrorist attacks and deportations make the move to a leadership position in higher education the search committee that shows no politician has said quote while some may consider her to be an unconventional choice secretary an apology is without a doubt the right person at the right time to leave this incredible university. she certainly has the experience of dealing with peer ocracy and large public agencies both at the d h s and as governor of arizona but the question is whether her experience trying to catch alleged terrorists and lawbreakers is what really makes her the right candidate to bring education to california college students. elsewhere gifting plush embassy jobs to big ticket presidential donors is not a new phenomenon however it appears president obama has taken the practice to new heights barack obama has rewarded some of his most active campaign donors with plum jobs in foreign embassies but career diplomats in
first female president of the university of california system. this career move begs the question why would one from the head of a department in charge of terrorist attacks and deportations make the move to a leadership position in higher education the search committee that shows no politician has said quote while some may consider her to be an unconventional choice secretary an apology is without a doubt the right person at the right time to leave this incredible university. she certainly has...
on to the university of southern california which is the subject of a federal investigation alleging that the school routinely failed to respond to failed to respond to or even investigate rape allegations u.s. department of education's office for civil rights launched the investigation last month at the end of june thirteen students and several other unnamed students have come forward alleging that university officials and the department of public safety have failing to respond to numerous complaints of harassment on campus parties ramon go indo reports. with college students across the u.s. say that they've been the victim of sexual assault and that the same institutions that they look towards for protection have ignored their pleas for help the u.s. department of education's office for civil rights is looking into allegations by women here at the university of southern california that the university did not properly look into their allegations of rape victims in their advocates say that the problem is rampant we had one woman the other day at our press conference come come out for
on to the university of southern california which is the subject of a federal investigation alleging that the school routinely failed to respond to failed to respond to or even investigate rape allegations u.s. department of education's office for civil rights launched the investigation last month at the end of june thirteen students and several other unnamed students have come forward alleging that university officials and the department of public safety have failing to respond to numerous...
from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world and louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related bills proposed in the last decade every bill that contain provisions for alternative energy was blocked. the only bills that became law with the five that subsidized fossil fuels and nuclear. another factor that contributes to the lack of regulation by congress is the proverbial revolving door. on a congressional delegation is known as the all delegations are senators when every tarak go to work as a lobbyist for walling gas there's a two year. cooling off period before you could become a lobbyist out of the senate to her lot resigned from the senate one month before the end of the session
from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world and louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related...
michael brooks producer of the majority report thank you so much thank you so much while the california prison system is dealing with yet another setback in attempting to content sions within mates prison officials announced on saturday that an inmate being held in solitary confinement died at the california state prison in cold koren on monday that's one of the prisons participating in the mass hunger strike in the state inmate supporters say that the end mais thirty two year old bill guerrero cell was taking part in this protest prison officials on the other hand say that he wasn't and that his death has been treated as a suicide r.t. call so the president has not yet been answered no cell was serving a life president's sentence for attempted murder he was also awaiting trial for the murder of a sound eight now the hunger strike is twenty two days now old now with about one thousand inmates in eleven prisons actually still refusing to eat that's down from thirty thousand inmates that initially refused meals in the first days for more on the hunger strike i'm joined now by ronald a her
michael brooks producer of the majority report thank you so much thank you so much while the california prison system is dealing with yet another setback in attempting to content sions within mates prison officials announced on saturday that an inmate being held in solitary confinement died at the california state prison in cold koren on monday that's one of the prisons participating in the mass hunger strike in the state inmate supporters say that the end mais thirty two year old bill...
pacific ocean is halfway between hawaii and california called the great pacific garbage patch charles moore accidentally found the garbage patch in one thousand nine hundred seven wessling through a gyre ocean currents circulate and collect trash it's a piece here a piece there it's not a solid island but in general what we see is a soup of plastic not really an island of plastic next year captain moore is planning to spend a month at the garbage patch to research its effects on the food chain it is difficult to see the collection of trash from above because it's mostly made up of pieces of plastic the size of a fingernail researchers believe that there could be two million of these little pieces of plastic persuade a mile millions of creatures are dying every year tangled in plastic it's not just the wildlife that is being fooled into eating the stuff and getting tangled in it it's we ourselves that are our changing. biological being with the chemicals in this hyper consumptive atmosphere that we live in scientists at the scripps institution of oceanography in san diego have also bee
pacific ocean is halfway between hawaii and california called the great pacific garbage patch charles moore accidentally found the garbage patch in one thousand nine hundred seven wessling through a gyre ocean currents circulate and collect trash it's a piece here a piece there it's not a solid island but in general what we see is a soup of plastic not really an island of plastic next year captain moore is planning to spend a month at the garbage patch to research its effects on the food chain...
oakland california where protesters burn flags and smashed police car windows rallies were also held in other cities including chicago and los angeles zimmerman face life in prison for shooting seventeen year old trayvon martin in february last year that he claims was in self-defense the case though led to fierce debate across the u.s. on issues of racism and gun control i.b.o. me as a keyway and editor of pan african newswire says that the shooting was racially motivated and has caused an outcry throughout the u.s. . government of course acted based upon the racial profiling political culture that exists broadly here in the united states he is not a law enforcement officer he had no right to be pursuing trayvon martin and at the same time the people who came to his defense are the same people who defend white cops who defend white racist when they take this type of blatant valen action against african-americans last evening in the immediate aftermath of this verdict there were demonstrations across the united states of the nation's capital in washington d.c. all the way to the bay a
oakland california where protesters burn flags and smashed police car windows rallies were also held in other cities including chicago and los angeles zimmerman face life in prison for shooting seventeen year old trayvon martin in february last year that he claims was in self-defense the case though led to fierce debate across the u.s. on issues of racism and gun control i.b.o. me as a keyway and editor of pan african newswire says that the shooting was racially motivated and has caused an...
do why the heck does everyone that happen remember that it happened on a deal with the california summit where obama met so the timing of it was quite interesting as well so the question now is how has that word snowden's revelations affected the tone of negotiations between the u.s. and china afterwords. post california some of that is well put did you yeah well put do you on the defensive actually because you. really aggressive. pursuing the fact that. humans but now of course they. are much much larger scale and. think that you will be on the defense if it is. economic summit and they were trying to explain to china what they did was really they really didn't get anything but of course that is. rubbish well ok politics is politics and business is business we know that china and the us are economic and potentially military rival so how likely is it that the two will drop the cyber espionage against each other well. i think the us has to recognize the the growing power of china it will have to treat china as a you call power in the near future and of course china is the number on
do why the heck does everyone that happen remember that it happened on a deal with the california summit where obama met so the timing of it was quite interesting as well so the question now is how has that word snowden's revelations affected the tone of negotiations between the u.s. and china afterwords. post california some of that is well put did you yeah well put do you on the defensive actually because you. really aggressive. pursuing the fact that. humans but now of course they. are much...
photography same thing in california although their primary concern is drones being used by the paparazzi because that's how california rolls in missouri. the show me state they want to stop drones from being used to surveil their farmers and ranchers because apparently they do not want to show me anything in florida outbreak bay and drones from being used by law enforcement because one thing florida doesn't like and it's backyard is the police and the high falutin new england states of massachusetts and rhode island want to make any information collected incidentally by law enforcement drones outside of what is specified in a warrant inadmissible in court rhode island wants to go even further than that with a bill that would require incidentally collected data to be deleted by the police within twenty four hours. across the u.s. states everywhere are making it very clear that they do not want drones to be in their backyards like strip malls wind farms chemical plants prisons and poor people drones are fine as long as they are kept someplace far away you know like pakistan tonig
photography same thing in california although their primary concern is drones being used by the paparazzi because that's how california rolls in missouri. the show me state they want to stop drones from being used to surveil their farmers and ranchers because apparently they do not want to show me anything in florida outbreak bay and drones from being used by law enforcement because one thing florida doesn't like and it's backyard is the police and the high falutin new england states of...
year old trayvon martin however rallies and l.a. in oakland california turned more violent as first started as protesters clashed with police in oakland the windows were smashed and police cars were damaged there were also reports of small fires burning throughout the city according to reports and fired rubber bullets against some of the protesters and several demonstrators were transported to the hospital in l.a. officials say nine people were arrested during ongoing demonstrations the l.a.p.d. says some protesters hurled flashlights batteries and rocks and chunks of concrete at police and the cops responded by shooting being bags at the protesters now demonstrations in washington d.c. denver atlanta philadelphia and boston also reportedly attracted very large crowds and the fatal shooting of trayvon martin occurred in florida last february but the incident has come to symbolize a national debate on racial profiling and gun laws zimmerman a former neighborhood watch volunteer shot the on armed glock seventeen year. world claiming it was in self-defense now critics believe that it w
year old trayvon martin however rallies and l.a. in oakland california turned more violent as first started as protesters clashed with police in oakland the windows were smashed and police cars were damaged there were also reports of small fires burning throughout the city according to reports and fired rubber bullets against some of the protesters and several demonstrators were transported to the hospital in l.a. officials say nine people were arrested during ongoing demonstrations the...
particularly in oakland california where we saw video of the windows of police cars in the windows of buildings being smashed by some of those that were participating in rallies meantime the u.s. justice department has announced that it will be investigating and looking into whether or not a civil rights prosecution should be raised against george zimmerman. protests in america you can always had a website. on the west coast a do stay with us for more stories coming your way. right. privacy has a better now has had for the past decade or so because now we have a lot of people who knows if there's a problem and how big it is. speak your language. programs and documentaries in its. reporting from the world talks about six of the interview intriguing stories. troyer. visit. he. but there was a. closer look at what's being revealed today. well not only are civilians from all over the world being monitored but so are governments that are closely allied to the united states according to newspaper reports thirty eight separate missions and embassies have been surveilled the countries believe
particularly in oakland california where we saw video of the windows of police cars in the windows of buildings being smashed by some of those that were participating in rallies meantime the u.s. justice department has announced that it will be investigating and looking into whether or not a civil rights prosecution should be raised against george zimmerman. protests in america you can always had a website. on the west coast a do stay with us for more stories coming your way. right. privacy...
center in california believes the army's crackdown on the muslim brotherhood might lead to the radicalization of young men because the military is now doing what it does best going after the supporters of the legitimate president this is basically reminiscent of the of the nasir era and the crackdown on the muslim brotherhood that took place in the one nine hundred fifty s. what we be sickly see a repetition of that same scenario where the military of egypt cracking down on on an islamist group we may or may not agree with their policies but they have renounced violence a long time ago they put them in prison the torture of their members the shoot him dead a group of those members will eventually break off of the muslim brotherhood and adopt a more violent perspectives and this is exactly what happened in the sixty's seventy's and eighty's and those developments basically to the creation of the international phenomenon of terrorism that we still suffer the ramifications of until the present day went to an extremely concerns me right now is those young members of the brotherhood
center in california believes the army's crackdown on the muslim brotherhood might lead to the radicalization of young men because the military is now doing what it does best going after the supporters of the legitimate president this is basically reminiscent of the of the nasir era and the crackdown on the muslim brotherhood that took place in the one nine hundred fifty s. what we be sickly see a repetition of that same scenario where the military of egypt cracking down on on an islamist...
and california most of those demonstrations were peaceful but there were some violent outbreaks that took place in the bay area that demonstrations continuing today here in the city of detroit there's going to be a demonstration starting at five thirty down at grand circus park in the heart of downtown denouncing this verdict and calling for justice for trayvon martin there's still the option of demanding the justice department file civil rights charges against. george zimmerman and also there is the possibility of civil war the actions being taken by the family of trayvon martin against george zimmerman a barry thanks for your thoughts on this album as if you were editor at the pan african news wa life on the so a case which divided the united states has reached a controversial conclusion and here's the verdict from you we've been asking you on our web site r.t. dot com on our online poll what you make of this case well it's out thirty seven percent of you who've logged on so far see no problem with the decision because they say zimmerman was entitle to self-defense a slim margin se
and california most of those demonstrations were peaceful but there were some violent outbreaks that took place in the bay area that demonstrations continuing today here in the city of detroit there's going to be a demonstration starting at five thirty down at grand circus park in the heart of downtown denouncing this verdict and calling for justice for trayvon martin there's still the option of demanding the justice department file civil rights charges against. george zimmerman and also there...
as a from the salam islamic center in california believes the army's crackdown on the muslim brotherhood might lead to the radicalization office young members. of egypt cracking down on on an islamist group we may or may not agree with their policies these but they have renounced violence a long time ago they put them out of prison to torture their members the they should and a group of those members will eventually break off of the muslim brotherhood and adopt a more violent perspectives and this is exactly what happened in the sixty's seventy's and eighty's where toward extremely concerns me right now is those young members of the brotherhood saying the same exact thing feeling that democracy can never bring them to power that their voices will never be heard that they will eventually resort to violence and then when we have waves and waves of violence this is not going to be good for anybody. the chaos has prompted the u.s. to suspend its embassies operations in cairo meanwhile the gyptian army says it's killed ten extremists and arrested twenty others in the sinai peninsu
as a from the salam islamic center in california believes the army's crackdown on the muslim brotherhood might lead to the radicalization office young members. of egypt cracking down on on an islamist group we may or may not agree with their policies these but they have renounced violence a long time ago they put them out of prison to torture their members the they should and a group of those members will eventually break off of the muslim brotherhood and adopt a more violent perspectives and...
during an occupy protest at the university of california davis is appealing for workers' compensation claiming he suffered psychiatric injury from the two thousand and eleven incident and i'm sure you remember this video. john pike was fired in july two thousand and twelve eight months after a task force investigation found that his actions were unwarranted but that didn't stop the former cop from seeking financial compensation for his quote emotional injuries now he says he suffered psychiatric injuries after videos of him and another officer dousing demonstrators with pepper spray went viral and sparked outrage john pike has a settlement conference set for august thirteenth in sacramento. now when other news in this past week ian you have if this past week you happened to be watching any mainstream media outlets probably looked a lot like this. the editor that he would have been a laborer now for over fourteen hours. they already had the baby come now. he's a big boy he's going to be. he would it was too. much his lawyer to great britain now where we are learning the official name o
during an occupy protest at the university of california davis is appealing for workers' compensation claiming he suffered psychiatric injury from the two thousand and eleven incident and i'm sure you remember this video. john pike was fired in july two thousand and twelve eight months after a task force investigation found that his actions were unwarranted but that didn't stop the former cop from seeking financial compensation for his quote emotional injuries now he says he suffered...
and part time at the university of southern california he has a fellowship at harvard's kennedy school of government and he has accepted a position chairing the new global institute at a private equity firm are so just more money to line the walls of his financial bunker who university has a student population of five hundred thousand and it is mostly funded by city and state tax money county officials say that they are asking private donors to help fund raise petraeus a salary. twenty four hours down less than twenty four to go on egyptian military time anyway before the army steps in and wells the unrest that has spread throughout the country as of late however president mohamed morsi rejected that ultimatum meanwhile the protests continue you are looking at live pictures from the massive protests that are continuing in tougher square that continued yesterday throughout today and into tonight and they are just massive as you can see seven people reported dead today protesters are demanding for morsi to immediately step down and make way for new elections for the latest from eg
and part time at the university of southern california he has a fellowship at harvard's kennedy school of government and he has accepted a position chairing the new global institute at a private equity firm are so just more money to line the walls of his financial bunker who university has a student population of five hundred thousand and it is mostly funded by city and state tax money county officials say that they are asking private donors to help fund raise petraeus a salary. twenty four...
california artist who was prosecuted for vandalism after writing into a bank messages on public sidewalks using chalk today a san diego jury acquitted forty year old jeff olson the man that you see in this surveillance video on thirteen counts of vandalism also was also facing thirteen thousand dollars in fines it took the jury less than five hours to arrive at their decision olsen's bank messages included one that read no thanks big banks and another that read shame on bank of america over the weekend in a protest chalky apply dozens of supporters through their own colorful messages and chalk including the phrase this is not vandalism at the end of this ordeal olson has said that to be very relieved that it's all over well. now before we go we have some breaking news to bring you we are getting word right now that edward snowden the former n.s.a. contractor who leaked the massive u.s. surveillance program known as prism is going to give a statement from moscow this information is coming from the wiki wiki leaks web site that is the web site co-founded by julian songe again edwa
california artist who was prosecuted for vandalism after writing into a bank messages on public sidewalks using chalk today a san diego jury acquitted forty year old jeff olson the man that you see in this surveillance video on thirteen counts of vandalism also was also facing thirteen thousand dollars in fines it took the jury less than five hours to arrive at their decision olsen's bank messages included one that read no thanks big banks and another that read shame on bank of america over...
we talked to dr mohamad abdalla sees the director of the salaam islamic center in california who is familiar with the situation on the ground in egypt and he told us there are strong indications that the army is crackdown on the muslim brotherhood might lead to the radicalization of its young members. the military is now doing what it does best going after the supporters of the legitimate president i'm getting reports of very close friends childhood friends or physicians volunteering in the field hospital telling me that they are counting over one hundred victims and their shift alone over the past eight hours most of them were actually shot in the head and this is basically home innocent of the of the nasir era and the crackdown on the muslim brotherhood that took place in the one nine hundred fifty s. what we be sickly see a repetition of that same scenario where the military of egypt cracking down on the on an islamist group we may or may not agree with their policy these but they have renounced violence a long time ago the point of the prison the torture of their members the the
we talked to dr mohamad abdalla sees the director of the salaam islamic center in california who is familiar with the situation on the ground in egypt and he told us there are strong indications that the army is crackdown on the muslim brotherhood might lead to the radicalization of its young members. the military is now doing what it does best going after the supporters of the legitimate president i'm getting reports of very close friends childhood friends or physicians volunteering in the...
oakland california where we saw video of the windows of police cars in the windows of buildings being smashed by saw of those that were participating in rallies meantime the u.s. justice department has announced that it will be investigating and looking into whether or not a civil rights prosecution should be raised against george zimmerman. and you can stay up to date on everything that's happening with those posts but of demonstrations across these was by going to our web site bring you all that i just pictures videos and reaction as you don't. plan to most common you know now see as well the softer the break we'll look at what the secret documents american whistleblower edward snowden could have up his sleeve. and. we'll talk about language and what i want to react to situations like him through the reports for the you know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your letter to see. the security of a car is on the job here in melbourne i. think you know more recently. when you made a direct question he prepared for a change when you thought you should be ready for a
oakland california where we saw video of the windows of police cars in the windows of buildings being smashed by saw of those that were participating in rallies meantime the u.s. justice department has announced that it will be investigating and looking into whether or not a civil rights prosecution should be raised against george zimmerman. and you can stay up to date on everything that's happening with those posts but of demonstrations across these was by going to our web site bring you all...
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and the police department a saturday into sunday we saw the overnight protest when california turned very violent but we saw a video of windows two police cars and windows of buildings being eyes smashed in as hundreds if not more took to the streets demanding justice for trayvon martin you know the u.s. justice department did say sunday that it will be interviewing the george zimmerman case for possible civil rights its violation now let's remember that it was back in february of last year and that george zimmerman and i'd neighborhood watch person living in florida that i shot and killed seventeen year old trayvon martin he he had his defense attorneys claim that it was in apparent to us self-defense according to prosecutors according to those that are supporting trayvon martin's family they feel that i george zimmerman acted outside of the law he's not a police officer he said neighborhood watch member of a community in florida and many argue that if trayvon martin was not blocked maybe the situation would not have occurred reports suggest police are shooting rubber bullets at som
and the police department a saturday into sunday we saw the overnight protest when california turned very violent but we saw a video of windows two police cars and windows of buildings being eyes smashed in as hundreds if not more took to the streets demanding justice for trayvon martin you know the u.s. justice department did say sunday that it will be interviewing the george zimmerman case for possible civil rights its violation now let's remember that it was back in february of last year...
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legal limbo in a transit lounge. another click away and if you don't come california police arrest a man for playing loud music and videotaping them before they bend that he's don't have to pay it jumped at an officer. time now for all welled up late this. and we're just getting the news that police in peru have clashed with well i can't bring you that story for the moment but i can bring you the story concerning yes i can't talk to you about the police in peru they clash with protesting civil servants in lima using water cannons and tear gas to break up the crowds as they rallied against new laws forcing annual assessments on government workers this is the most recent of a string of protests against multiple reforms that have been taking part in cities nationwide critics say job losses are on the horizon on thursday students demonstrate against changes to education. a suicide bombing has rocked a predominantly sunni town in iraq killing at least four people and attackers in uniform detonated his car packed with explosives just before midday prayers as follows a wave of bombings acro
legal limbo in a transit lounge. another click away and if you don't come california police arrest a man for playing loud music and videotaping them before they bend that he's don't have to pay it jumped at an officer. time now for all welled up late this. and we're just getting the news that police in peru have clashed with well i can't bring you that story for the moment but i can bring you the story concerning yes i can't talk to you about the police in peru they clash with protesting civil...
Headline News : RT : July 10, 2013 12:00am-12:30am EDT
prisoners have started refusing wheels across california in protest and being subjected to long periods of isolation as we report online also for you at our t.v. dot com digging deep well on ten million barrels of oil were pumped from the ground in russia in june more than during any other month for about twenty five years. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. a giant corporations are ruled today. it's one of the basics of being a consumer that you get what you pay for but people in britain are finding that their eligible stream bills are a few pounds higher for power they don't even receive themselves now this is to cover the massive amount of energy which is being stolen from the grid and according to regulators it's being used to grow illegal drugs i guess protests are still on how cannabis crops are sapping the country is energy. when you get consumers look at their electricity bill in a year there may be seven pounds in there that they didn't actually consume that's according to energy watchdog who
prisoners have started refusing wheels across california in protest and being subjected to long periods of isolation as we report online also for you at our t.v. dot com digging deep well on ten million barrels of oil were pumped from the ground in russia in june more than during any other month for about twenty five years. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. a giant corporations are ruled today. it's one...
students during an occupy protests at the university of california davis is appealing for workers' compensation claiming he suffered psychiatric injuries from the two thousand and eleven incident and i'm sure you remember this video. john pike was fired in july twenty twelve eight months after a task force investigation found that his actions were unwarranted but that hasn't stopped the former cop from seeking financial compensation for his quote emotional injury injuries he says he suffered psychiatric injuries after videos of him and another officer dousing demonstrators with pepper spray went viral and sparked outrage john pike has a settlement conference set for august thirteenth in sacramento. and other news the justice department announced on thursday that the defense an energy contractor hella burton has pleaded guilty to the destruction of critical evidence after the two thousand and ten oil spill in the gulf of mexico known as deepwater horizon. now the company was charged with one count of destroying evidence relating to whether or not the two thousand and ten oil well b
students during an occupy protests at the university of california davis is appealing for workers' compensation claiming he suffered psychiatric injuries from the two thousand and eleven incident and i'm sure you remember this video. john pike was fired in july twenty twelve eight months after a task force investigation found that his actions were unwarranted but that hasn't stopped the former cop from seeking financial compensation for his quote emotional injury injuries he says he suffered...
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another click away on aussie dot com california police arrest a month for playing loud music and videotape topping them as they show dad and his dog after the bad jump from an open car window. scientists get excited about a new out of this world discovery the existence of space wind had to r.t. dot com to learn more about this phenomenon. the code discontent over the and the essays sweeping surveillance program is now rocking the us itself as more than one hundred cities across america marks independence day with a mass rally against spying the restorer fourth compay an initial it kicks off on social networks and has rapidly gained support calling for respect for the false amendment of the bill of rights which protects citizens against illegal searches seizures. shop with a protest in new york on the fourth day of america's independence hundreds are taking to the streets in new york city and throughout the country to take part in the restore the fourth rally this is a campaign that watched last month in the aftermath of edward snowden's revelations about america's spying program
another click away on aussie dot com california police arrest a month for playing loud music and videotape topping them as they show dad and his dog after the bad jump from an open car window. scientists get excited about a new out of this world discovery the existence of space wind had to r.t. dot com to learn more about this phenomenon. the code discontent over the and the essays sweeping surveillance program is now rocking the us itself as more than one hundred cities across america marks...
committee there's the california association of federal firearms licensees there's like a marijuana reform group what does it say about this issue that all of these groups from all different issues from all different parts of the country can come together for this lawsuit. well it's because the first amendment doesn't care what your politics are the first amendment protects you regardless of your political position regardless of what what your advocacy is for or regardless of what your beliefs are so you know that churches are part of this very intentionally because the first amendment has always protected people's rights to join together to join together to do political action or to join together to do religious work it's the same law so you know the the the purpose of the breadth of the coalition is to really make the point that you know the first amendment protects us all right this is a yes that's first rodeo taking a lawsuit against the n.s.a. here this goes back to two thousand and eight when you were. working to expose this the domestic surveillance and how legal it all is what's th
committee there's the california association of federal firearms licensees there's like a marijuana reform group what does it say about this issue that all of these groups from all different issues from all different parts of the country can come together for this lawsuit. well it's because the first amendment doesn't care what your politics are the first amendment protects you regardless of your political position regardless of what what your advocacy is for or regardless of what your beliefs...
simply filming police officers on the job in hawthorne california and what happens next is shocking and important. for you to get the same thing.
Headline News : RT : July 5, 2013 10:00am-10:30am EDT
him from legal limbo and a transit lounge. and another click away on aussie dot com california police arrest a man for playing loud music and video taping them before they don't show that he's done after they had jumped as an officer. and also online scientists get excited about a new out of this world discovery the existence of space when. it's to learn more about the phenomenon. and right now these are live pictures from egypt's presidential palace where it turns the standoff is developing between the army and pro morsy groups where troops have opened fire as a hama norse's bikers march on the headquarters of the republican guard reports claim at least three people have been killed and several injured the muslim brotherhood supporters are currently staging mass protests over the crew that deposed president morsi and the military has continued arresting top islamist figures while other function members claim they're being had hunted the deposit president's currently believed to be held at the building where the gunfire broke out and of course we'll bring you more in just a few moment
him from legal limbo and a transit lounge. and another click away on aussie dot com california police arrest a man for playing loud music and video taping them before they don't show that he's done after they had jumped as an officer. and also online scientists get excited about a new out of this world discovery the existence of space when. it's to learn more about the phenomenon. and right now these are live pictures from egypt's presidential palace where it turns the standoff is developing...
ny r.t. . the state of california has suffered some of it was divided process go to dot com to see what's been happening all the details on the best pictures from the sundress and oakland are waiting for you that. train is counseled flies disrupted and hospitals left with just a mattress is stop in greece workers across the country how in a flash a general strike against austerity thousands have taken to the streets in athens unhappy at severe drop cards and international lenders want even more on dr bill expected to be passed this week around four thousand state employees all lose their jobs by the end of this year after a thousand workers are being fired in greece every day and recent surveys by the so there's this tical sortie show since two thousand and nine unemployment has skyrocketed from a little over nine percent to almost twenty seven percent and greece's g.'s e p has plunged by almost one hundred billion euro. going off reports now from protest hate athens where people's anger has spilled onto the streets again. it would take to the losses the nineteenth century public w
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oakland california where we saw video of the windows of police cars in the windows of buildings being smashed by some of those that were participating in the rally meantime the u.s. justice department has announced that it will be investigating and looking into whether or not a civil rights prosecution should be raised against george zimmerman. and here and bring you the latest updates on the zimmerman verdict protests in america you can always head over to the web site. to get much more on the story including dramatic images from the scenes of these ongoing demonstrations . all right still ahead for you here on the program on. as edward snowden remains holed up in moscow's sheremetyevo airport to take a closer look at the scope of his revelations in just a couple of minutes. to egypt which is forming a new government but a freeze on islamists continuing protests demanding the reinstatement of the ousted president. first trip. and i think. reporters. instrument. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear
oakland california where we saw video of the windows of police cars in the windows of buildings being smashed by some of those that were participating in the rally meantime the u.s. justice department has announced that it will be investigating and looking into whether or not a civil rights prosecution should be raised against george zimmerman. and here and bring you the latest updates on the zimmerman verdict protests in america you can always head over to the web site. to get much more on...
sporting reporting from new york marino. california suffered some of the worst violent protests go to r.t. dot com to see what's been happening all the details in the press pictures from los angeles and oakland away should be right there. trains cancelled flights disrupted and hospitals left with just emergency staff in greece workers across the country walked out in a fresh general strike against austerity thousands of taking to the streets in athens unhappy at severe job cuts and international leaders want even more under a bill expected to be passed this week around four fell's and state employees will lose their jobs by the end of the year up to a thousand workers are being fired in greece every day recent surveys by the hellenic statistical authority is showing since two thousand and nine unemployment has skyrocketed from a little over nine percent to almost twenty seven percent and greece's g.d.p. has plunged by almost one hundred billion euros or do you go to reports now from protests hit athens where people's anger has spilled onto the streets again. protected by law since the
sporting reporting from new york marino. california suffered some of the worst violent protests go to r.t. dot com to see what's been happening all the details in the press pictures from los angeles and oakland away should be right there. trains cancelled flights disrupted and hospitals left with just emergency staff in greece workers across the country walked out in a fresh general strike against austerity thousands of taking to the streets in athens unhappy at severe job cuts and...
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Ali Velshi on Target : ALJAZAM : January 26, 2016 9:00pm-9:31pm EST
Jan 27, 2016 01/16
by ALJAZAM
david shuster in for ali velshi, on target, the invisible threat. a natural gas leak lead to a nationality disaster such as the oil spill, and so far there's no way to stop it. a water crisis in flint michigan sparked outrage and focused attention on ignoring ageing infrastructure. in flint's case it was old lead pipes allowing corrosive water from the flint river to leach led into the city's drinking water. led can be harmful to children, produce learning disabilities and behaviour problems. there's a lot of question about who was at fault. public officials failed to treat the pipes and water possibly. tests turned up high levels of led in the blood of children. tonight we'll take a closer look at a public safety problem, 2,000 mails away from plint in san fernando valley. the source is a gas leak. starting three months ago in a damaged storage well in a canyon 25 miles north-west of los angeles. methane gas is escaping the well and blowing into the air, air breathed by the residents and other communities. dozens are sick, thousands of families forced to leave their home. the
david shuster in for ali velshi, on target, the invisible threat. a natural gas leak lead to a nationality disaster such as the oil spill, and so far there's no way to stop it. a water crisis in flint michigan sparked outrage and focused attention on ignoring ageing infrastructure. in flint's case it was old lead pipes allowing corrosive water from the flint river to leach led into the city's drinking water. led can be harmful to children, produce learning disabilities and behaviour problems....
Key Capitol Hill Hearings : CSPAN2 : January 21, 2016 8:00am-10:01am EST
contingent on the price of natural gas. gas is increasingly price center at the market. gas trading at $2 mbtu today, adam forecasts $3, we're story casing same ballpark. as long as gas prices stay relatively low there is strong competition. if bass prices zoom back up we think renewables are extremely well-positioned but we think renewable costs continue to slope downward not same accelerated case we've seen recently but more gently forward. >> if you were going to describe the inning in the ballgame reducing cost we're probably in the first or second inning? >> somewhere maybe in the third or forth. everyone thinks one day we'll wake up, wow, clean energy is cheaper than fossil energy. it doesn't work like that. it is great big complicated world and over time and different places we see more and more of this take place. last quick thing on storage. you did ask about that and i didn't answer, similar sort of economics. power storage starts to make the most sense on distributed behind the meter level at first because you're helping to offset the cost of retail power. in some cases y
contingent on the price of natural gas. gas is increasingly price center at the market. gas trading at $2 mbtu today, adam forecasts $3, we're story casing same ballpark. as long as gas prices stay relatively low there is strong competition. if bass prices zoom back up we think renewables are extremely well-positioned but we think renewable costs continue to slope downward not same accelerated case we've seen recently but more gently forward. >> if you were going to describe the inning...
Key Capitol Hill Hearings : CSPAN2 : January 20, 2016 4:00am-6:01am EST
sector with the rapid pace of penetration of competing fuels like natural gas and renewables. all these factors are changing the picture and it means there's much more supply. we are seeing out the beginning of a supply and if that continues to exceed demand, inventory will continue to dwindle in that means more pressure. longer-term there could be more pressure because incentivizing producers to maximize the revenues also incentivize them to cut their spending and invest very little in future production. there's a lack of new projects to make up for the decline rates and the decline rates themselves are increasing because maintenance has been pushed back. so we're likely to see an increase in decline rates, and the lack of new projects to make up for those declines. eventually we see a very steep rebound in prices and inventories when they start going down. this concludes my remarks and i be happy to take questions. thank you. >> thank you. >> chairman, ranking members, senators, thank you for the opportunity to testify before this committee. i'm honored that you request my views in th
sector with the rapid pace of penetration of competing fuels like natural gas and renewables. all these factors are changing the picture and it means there's much more supply. we are seeing out the beginning of a supply and if that continues to exceed demand, inventory will continue to dwindle in that means more pressure. longer-term there could be more pressure because incentivizing producers to maximize the revenues also incentivize them to cut their spending and invest very little in future...
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Good Morning Las Vegas @ 6AM : KTNV : January 3, 2016 6:00am-7:00am PST
Jan 3, 2016 01/16
by KTNV
an oklahoma natural gas crew was reportedly working in the backyard of the house checking a gas leak ...when a fire started near a gas meter, causing the explosion. fire officials say a man who was inside the home was thrown from his bed. he is being treated for minor burns. eight homes in the neighborhood were evacuated and two other people were taken to the hospital for difficulty breathing. this morning. a new push to shut down those popular daily fantasy sports websites. the two largest companies... sued... accused of illegal gambling. and if this new attempt succeeds... it could mean hundreds of thousands of players who bet big.. will get their money back. here's abc's marci gonzalez. a potentially crippling new setback for two giants of daily fantasy sports nat commercial if you've played fan duel or draft kings in new york, you sites reportedly taking in more than $200-million dollars in entry fees from at least 600- thousand customers here in 2015 (gfx) in a lawsuit, schneiderman is also asking those companies to pay a fine of up to 5-thousand per case (gfx)? nat commerc
an oklahoma natural gas crew was reportedly working in the backyard of the house checking a gas leak ...when a fire started near a gas meter, causing the explosion. fire officials say a man who was inside the home was thrown from his bed. he is being treated for minor burns. eight homes in the neighborhood were evacuated and two other people were taken to the hospital for difficulty breathing. this morning. a new push to shut down those popular daily fantasy sports websites. the two largest...
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News 3 Live at Seven : KSNV : January 18, 2016 7:00pm-7:30pm PST
by KSNV
price war between three gas stations in michigan forced gas prices down to amounts we haven't seen in decades. one station, 47 cents a gallon. rough conditions didn't stop drivers from flooding area. this price war made michigan the first state to see less than a dollar a gallon gas in decades. by the end of the day, gas prices went up to around 1.47. a gallon. still feels pretty cheap at 1.47. >> absolutely. >>> have you been enjoying the lower gas prices here in the valley? i know i have. it's not as low as michigan. they've been on the downward trend. gasbuddy.com says about 6 cents in nevada this week. >> it sounds great. not less than 50 cents a gallon but we'll take it. some are saying why aren't the prices here as cheap as other states east? and bonnieville with why. >> reporter: marie, there are some gas stations where the gas is 2.14 a gallon. at this particular costco, it's 2.27. but in other states, people are actually getting their gas below 2 bucks a gallon. don't expect that to happen here in nevada. >> i love it. i'm getting cheap gas. >> reporter: ailalfonso is more th
price war between three gas stations in michigan forced gas prices down to amounts we haven't seen in decades. one station, 47 cents a gallon. rough conditions didn't stop drivers from flooding area. this price war made michigan the first state to see less than a dollar a gallon gas in decades. by the end of the day, gas prices went up to around 1.47. a gallon. still feels pretty cheap at 1.47. >> absolutely. >>> have you been enjoying the lower gas prices here in the valley? i...
Fault Lines : ALJAZAM : January 15, 2016 5:30pm-6:01pm EST
consensus that most of the earthquakes are man-made - caused by the way oil and gas are produced here. but politicians and industry have been slow to react. fault lines traveled to oklahoma to find out why. north central oklahoma has borne the brunt of the state's rise in earthquakes. mark crismon is a farmer and retired electronics expert in noble county who voluntarily monitors the earthquakes day and night. in 2014, oklahoma state university installed a seismometer on his property, to collect data about the earthquakes. since then, crismon thinks of little else. his home is surrounded by faults in the ground, as well as oil and gas activity, a volatile combination. >> so i monitor it about 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. have ever since this was put in here. >> how have the earthquakes affected your home, the area here? >> destroyed it. you want to know the truth about it you can't fix it. that was all caused by that 3.3 and three 3's in one night. one night. the whole house went pfff. i'm telling you there's a fault 750 feet that way and one that way and the earthquake was right there.
consensus that most of the earthquakes are man-made - caused by the way oil and gas are produced here. but politicians and industry have been slow to react. fault lines traveled to oklahoma to find out why. north central oklahoma has borne the brunt of the state's rise in earthquakes. mark crismon is a farmer and retired electronics expert in noble county who voluntarily monitors the earthquakes day and night. in 2014, oklahoma state university installed a seismometer on his property, to...
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Good Morning Tri-State Sunday : WCPO : January 17, 2016 6:00am-7:00am EST
by WCPO
joins us live to show you where gas prices have plummeted overnight. gas is down as much as 25 cents in some places.it's a pattern drivers are seeing all lowest prices in seven years. here in reading it's 1.43 at both the udf and circle k.9 is on your side with the cheapest gas throughout the tri-state. tri-state.we're also down to 1.43 at the speedway on reading road in evandale.1.45 at the five points market on grand avenue in hamilton. and at another udf on mosteller road in sharonville... gas is down to 1.47. you can thank a horrible start to the market for those low prices. the best news... experts think things will bottom out next month... but not get beyond 2.03 for a national average for the rest of the year. reporting live....kristen swilley...9 on your side. a store clerk is recovering this morning after being run over with his own stolen car. now- police need your help to find who did it. 9 on your side's ashley zilka talked with one of the victim's co- workers. norma willis: works at speedway 19:46:37 it were relatively busy. people in and out all the time. 42 norma willi
joins us live to show you where gas prices have plummeted overnight. gas is down as much as 25 cents in some places.it's a pattern drivers are seeing all lowest prices in seven years. here in reading it's 1.43 at both the udf and circle k.9 is on your side with the cheapest gas throughout the tri-state. tri-state.we're also down to 1.43 at the speedway on reading road in evandale.1.45 at the five points market on grand avenue in hamilton. and at another udf on mosteller road in sharonville......
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WRAL News @ 5:30PM : WRAL : January 21, 2016 5:30pm-6:00pm EST
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stock up supplies. we stopped by logan, items are >> gas stations are busy today with people filling up their tanks. you can see here at the speedway of capitol boulevard is packed this way when the storm hits. that'swhy the d.o.t. recommends that you are prepared with at least a half tank of gas in your vehicle. another reasonto fill up that the gas pump don't work when the power is out. >> gilbert bay spent the day watching folks in fayetteville preparing for the storms. he is joining us live. >> reporter: hey gerald what a difference an hour make because the sun is coming down. >> you can see these dump trucks with the plows sitting out right now and so are the crews that's going to operate them. >> come little later on tonight, they're going to be on the move and the battle will be on. busy for the past several days. >> just as quickly as they build to make more to get tanks on the yard. >> i am sure it is around 30, 000. >> we probably place 60, 000 of gallons of brines. >> crews are ready to operate on 12 hour shifts from now until sunday. >> our concerns are bridges and overpasse
stock up supplies. we stopped by logan, items are >> gas stations are busy today with people filling up their tanks. you can see here at the speedway of capitol boulevard is packed this way when the storm hits. that'swhy the d.o.t. recommends that you are prepared with at least a half tank of gas in your vehicle. another reasonto fill up that the gas pump don't work when the power is out. >> gilbert bay spent the day watching folks in fayetteville preparing for the storms. he is...
Jack Gerard Address on Energy Industry Priorities : CSPAN3 : January 6, 2016 2:31am-3:13am EST
intently, as you can tell. next to tom is don santa, who is the present ceo of the national gas association. next to eric is andy black, the president and ceo of the association of oil pipelines. thank you all. let's give them a round of applause. [ applause ] >> before i turn to my prepared remarks, i'd also like to acknowledge a couple dozen veterans that we have in our room today. those that lead our efforts of what we call vets for energy group. i'd like them all to stand. i think they're all over in this area. would you please stand for us? we greatly appreciate -- [ applause ] >> all you have to do is read the newspaper headlines today and see what's going on around the world. it's a very sobering thought, particularly as we give thanks to these veterans and others. what they have been doing is working hard on the issues of national security associated with energy security. we want to give a special shout-out to you for your service and the other vets that happen to be in the room with us today. at your seat, you have a copy of this year's report, which captures america's
intently, as you can tell. next to tom is don santa, who is the present ceo of the national gas association. next to eric is andy black, the president and ceo of the association of oil pipelines. thank you all. let's give them a round of applause. [ applause ] >> before i turn to my prepared remarks, i'd also like to acknowledge a couple dozen veterans that we have in our room today. those that lead our efforts of what we call vets for energy group. i'd like them all to stand. i think...
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CBS 2 News at 6 : WCBS : January 22, 2016 6:00pm-6:30pm EST
by WCBS
in new york. about the conditions. >> and gas prices seem to be we wondered why. answers. erotrsee cl gh weee cl atn'gonawed. whe he fusnalg urodwi w diti,'rrearinacrhith hpsurodhe iel inve o oou 21osta an45couny dsechacits, r 2,0 esreoong. tootusraeou anrdf al ce,t is estda hltca. >>> gas prices in the country are falling but in new york not so much. and you may have notice the gas stations in the city are few an far between. cbs 2's sonia rincon takes a look. >> reporter: oil prices are plummeting but you wouldn't know that at some gas stations in manhattan. $2.89 on the upper west side and this station in hell's gas in the city now $3.59. making out-of-towners do a double-take. >> i don't like it a whole lot. but you know, you don't have much choice. >> reporter: but seasoned city drivers have the same complaint. >> you don't have options. you have to pay. >> reporter: blame humanity rent but manager alberto rodriguez says this gas station doesn't have many options either when it comes to suppliers. >> our prices are high. we barely can stay in business. we are not swimming in m
in new york. about the conditions. >> and gas prices seem to be we wondered why. answers. erotrsee cl gh weee cl atn'gonawed. whe he fusnalg urodwi w diti,'rrearinacrhith hpsurodhe iel inve o oou 21osta an45couny dsechacits, r 2,0 esreoong. tootusraeou anrdf al ce,t is estda hltca. >>> gas prices in the country are falling but in new york not so much. and you may have notice the gas stations in the city are few an far between. cbs 2's sonia rincon takes a look. >>...
Cleveland 19 News at 11PM : WOIO : January 27, 2016 11:00pm-11:35pm EST
by WOIO
near a school. dean taylor is the person who died. they confirm the cause was natural gas, but the state's fire marshall's office is investigating how the explosion occurred. >> it sounded like a bomb went off. >> neighbors felt the explosion blocks away. the home was leveled and the debris was sent flying to the top of a nearby home of the this tragedy shows just how dangerous natural gas can be. >> denise: we were wonder how many things can put us at risk. >> you can see the pilot lights are lit on this one. >> the gas stove is a commonplace for a gas leak. he takes us through the steps of what to look out for so you in danger. >> if it is not lighting with the igniter you would want to shut it off and see why it is not igniting. maybe the igniter is bad. sometimes if there is a breeze the pilot and the igniter don't actually light the gas. that would be one of the things you would look for. >> a simple step to prevent a potential disaster. last year they responded to hundreds of natural gas leak calls. a handful resulted in the natural gas fires. luckily none fatal. and when it
near a school. dean taylor is the person who died. they confirm the cause was natural gas, but the state's fire marshall's office is investigating how the explosion occurred. >> it sounded like a bomb went off. >> neighbors felt the explosion blocks away. the home was leveled and the debris was sent flying to the top of a nearby home of the this tragedy shows just how dangerous natural gas can be. >> denise: we were wonder how many things can put us at risk. >> you can...
Good Morning Las Vegas @ 6AM : KTNV : January 17, 2016 6:00am-7:00am PST
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WTTG (FOX)
Fox 5 News Edge @ Eleven : WTTG : January 26, 2016 12:30am-1:01am EST
by WTTG
that some gas stations are taking advantage of customers following the blizzard. in some cases a gallon of gas is selling for $5. will thomas continues our team coverage live from bethesda. will? >> reporter: all right. so what a lot of people did before the blizzard hit was what officials had been asking us to do which is to fill up your gas tanks, right? in case you have to go and seek shelter somewhere else outside of your hometown because of all this snow. what's happened though is the demand on all the gas before the storm hit, coupled with the fact that these trucks couldn't come in in the middle of the storm to deliver the gas, many gas stations are now dealing with shortages. they're out of gas. take a look at this video. bethesda, democracy boulevard right by the mall there. one gas station is open because they have a convenience store but they're out of gas. i think you can get some diesel there. we spoke with one resident who said he went to three gas stations. take a look. >> i decided to stop and get some gas. as it turned out, the gas station was out of gas and i ch
that some gas stations are taking advantage of customers following the blizzard. in some cases a gallon of gas is selling for $5. will thomas continues our team coverage live from bethesda. will? >> reporter: all right. so what a lot of people did before the blizzard hit was what officials had been asking us to do which is to fill up your gas tanks, right? in case you have to go and seek shelter somewhere else outside of your hometown because of all this snow. what's happened though is...
KOLO (ABC)
KOLO 8 News Now @ 5:30PM : KOLO : January 11, 2016 5:30pm-6:00pm PST
by KOLO
the ### was declared as natural gas continues to spew california community. thousands of people were evacuated from their homes for months. and those still in the area say they're getting sick. the gas company says leak... but residents say they want the entire site shut down. victor blackwell reports. "shut it all down. shut it all down." hundreds of outraged protesters call on southern california gas company to shut down a damaged gas storage well which has been leaking methane gas san fernando valley residents crowded into a granda hills high school gymnasium to hear testimony before the south coast air quality district. the sulfur-like odor from the gas has blanketed the porter ranch area... and now there are lots of complaints of headaches, asthma and bloody noses. "what they do know is in short-term effects can be neurological problems and gastro-intestinal problems, and we're concerned about that. we don't want to be a bunch of guinea pigs." to date, socal gas says some three thousand homes have been outfitted with air purifiers... but families living in another 25 hundred hom
the ### was declared as natural gas continues to spew california community. thousands of people were evacuated from their homes for months. and those still in the area say they're getting sick. the gas company says leak... but residents say they want the entire site shut down. victor blackwell reports. "shut it all down. shut it all down." hundreds of outraged protesters call on southern california gas company to shut down a damaged gas storage well which has been leaking methane gas...
Fox 5 News @ Ten : WTTG : January 25, 2016 10:00pm-11:01pm EST
best way to do this? >> carbon monoxide detectors. if you have natural gas propane or wood burning appliances. you need to have a detector. it's a colorless and odorless killer. >> get smoke detectors and ones that work. >> >> they started to work and started to chirp. always check your detectors and go with the ten-year life detectors. >> as soon as he actually realized the detectors were old, what did you do? >> they came out and replaced the detectors out. >> that's part of the program. >> call 311 and we'll come out and take care of it. >> reporter: now we're going to tip number 4. it's really how you clean your fire place, right? >> absolutely. cold ashes are never cold. ashes always keep heat. put them if a metal can and put that metal can away from the house. >> how to deal with a cooking fire. it turns out a fire extinguisher might not be a good idea. >> if you've got a grease fire put a lid on it. that extinguisher is going to spread the hot oil across the kitchen causing more problems. >> reporter: thank you. >> take care. >> reporter: five tips from chief goldstein. we t
best way to do this? >> carbon monoxide detectors. if you have natural gas propane or wood burning appliances. you need to have a detector. it's a colorless and odorless killer. >> get smoke detectors and ones that work. >> >> they started to work and started to chirp. always check your detectors and go with the ten-year life detectors. >> as soon as he actually realized the detectors were old, what did you do? >> they came out and replaced the detectors...
Good Morning Tri-State Weekend : WCPO : January 17, 2016 8:00am-9:00am EST
show you where gas overnight. gas is down as much as 25 cents in some places.it's a pattern drivers are seeing all over the country with the lowest prices in seven years. here in reading it's 1.43 at both the udf and circle k.9 is on your side with the cheapest gas throughout the tri-state. tri-state.we're also down to 1.43 at the speedway on reading road in evandale.1.45 at the five points market on grand avenue in hamilton. and at another udf on mosteller road in sharonville... gas is down to 1.47. you can thank a for those low prices. the best news... experts think things will bottom out next month... but not get beyond 2.03 for a national average for the rest of the year. reporting live....kristen swilley...9 on your side. a store clerk is recovering this morning after being run over with his own stolen car. now- police need your help to find who did it. 9 on your side's ashley zilka talked with one of the victim's co-workers. speedway 19:46:37 it was just an average night. we were out all the time. 42 norma willis could have never would be runned down by his own stolen car hour
show you where gas overnight. gas is down as much as 25 cents in some places.it's a pattern drivers are seeing all over the country with the lowest prices in seven years. here in reading it's 1.43 at both the udf and circle k.9 is on your side with the cheapest gas throughout the tri-state. tri-state.we're also down to 1.43 at the speedway on reading road in evandale.1.45 at the five points market on grand avenue in hamilton. and at another udf on mosteller road in sharonville... gas is down...
a ride home but didn't show up. people and animals allegedly made sick by a natural gas leak now residents are calling on the government to step in and fix the problem. and coming up later in sports -- 2 more exciting finishes in the n-f-l playoffs -- ben ross will have the highlights looking at the infrared satellite loops this morning, a strong upper disturbance is obvious out over the northeast pacific with the coldest cloud tops near the systems surface cold front near the northwest california and southwest oregon coast. indicative of the frontal and upper forcing, lightning was noted in that area about an hour ago. inland over northern california, light showers are noted in radar. this is associated with warm air advection ahead of the systems cold front. the focus for precipitation through this afternoon will be the far northern sierra and far northeast california as intensifying orographics and the leading edge of a moderate pwat tap reaches that area. snow levels in northeast california look like they have risen to morning per observations in mixed/non-valley areas and th
a ride home but didn't show up. people and animals allegedly made sick by a natural gas leak now residents are calling on the government to step in and fix the problem. and coming up later in sports -- 2 more exciting finishes in the n-f-l playoffs -- ben ross will have the highlights looking at the infrared satellite loops this morning, a strong upper disturbance is obvious out over the northeast pacific with the coldest cloud tops near the systems surface cold front near the northwest...
Key Capitol Hill Hearings : CSPAN : January 19, 2016 10:00am-12:01pm EST
health of our economy then energy and minerals. many americans are familiar with their gas prices and electricity bills but i would submit it is -- responsibility to understand the complex interplay of our energy mix and the influences that drive key energy resource indicators. low oil prices leave it to lower gasoline prices. americans are enjoying that. but what is the not -- the effect with respect to our natural gas prices? fall, howfuel prices does that affect competitiveness for renewables as well as nuclear power. ,hat is the impact on jobs consumer spending, so on. there is so much that is therrelated and complexities of these are such that we require experts to come and give us a little bit of forecast as to how it all plays out. that asinded, however, we see things like lower oil , they arethe lower 48 not necessarily reflected evenly across the united states. 10 days orin alaska so ago and prices up in gnome are in the mid-five dollar range and where i was the following , about $5.40 per gallon. they're looking with some nv at the fact that in the lower 48 we are looking at
health of our economy then energy and minerals. many americans are familiar with their gas prices and electricity bills but i would submit it is -- responsibility to understand the complex interplay of our energy mix and the influences that drive key energy resource indicators. low oil prices leave it to lower gasoline prices. americans are enjoying that. but what is the not -- the effect with respect to our natural gas prices? fall, howfuel prices does that affect competitiveness for...
CBS Evening News : WCBS : January 23, 2016 6:30pm-7:00pm EST
the gas company's c.e.o. gives his first interview. every day since october 23. i feel totally safe. >> axelrod: and former new york city mayor michael bloomberg. is he going to make his own run for the white house? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. 85 million americans are now dealing with a blizzard that could well make history by the time it's over tomorrow. so far, at least 17 people have died in this storm. 40 inches of snow have already fallen in glengarry, west virginia. up to 30 inches are in the forecast for new york city. hurricane-force winds of 75 miles per hour created blinding whiteout conditions in virginia. 11 states plus washington, d.c. have now declared snow emergencies. tonight, coastal communities are flooded, hundreds remain out in many the storm beginning in new york with marlie hall. >> reporter: pie 4:00 this afternoon, new york city was on lockdown, no cars allowed or buses and many trains stopped. this is why. there is a travel ban in the city until further notice. >> this is a very big k
the gas company's c.e.o. gives his first interview. every day since october 23. i feel totally safe. >> axelrod: and former new york city mayor michael bloomberg. is he going to make his own run for the white house? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. 85 million americans are now dealing with a blizzard that could well make history by the time it's over tomorrow. so far, at least 17 people have died in...
Good Morning Reno 5:30am : KOLO : January 19, 2016 5:30am-6:00am PST
in the gas leak in southern california. utility company--"so- cal-gas"-- says it expects to have the leak sealed by late next month, if not sooner. officials say work on a relief well is ahead of schedule. methane gas has been spewing into the atmosphere from the leak since october of last year. in san diego, a terrifying site when an amtrak train crashed into an suv on the a construction worker nearby saw the whole thing happen. "i see the train coming and i look on the tracks and there's a guy sitting there in an suv in the middle of the track and boom it hit him." the man was wedged so tightly against the door, he had to be cut out of the s-u-v. he was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. no word yet on why he was on the tracks in the first place. over a thousand demonstrators marching on martin luther king junior day yesterday-- shut down the bay bridge into san francisco, just as the afternoon rush hour commute began. traffic was backed up for miles. the protesters were marching in the wake of recent police shootings. some of them chained cars together and others sat
in the gas leak in southern california. utility company--"so- cal-gas"-- says it expects to have the leak sealed by late next month, if not sooner. officials say work on a relief well is ahead of schedule. methane gas has been spewing into the atmosphere from the leak since october of last year. in san diego, a terrifying site when an amtrak train crashed into an suv on the a construction worker nearby saw the whole thing happen. "i see the train coming and i look on the tracks...
Key Capitol Hill Hearings : CSPAN2 : January 5, 2016 11:53am-1:54pm EST
address priority for the oil and natural gas industry and is scheduled to take questions from the audience. live coverage getting underway shortly here on c-span2. >> good afternoon all again. i hope everybody enjoyed your lunch. and again welcome to the 2016 state of american energy presentation. as we all know, energy is fundamental to our society standard of living, to help the economy and its critical part of our national security. as this new year begins and clearly the presidential election and campaign are in full swing, this year state of american energy report which is on the table in front of you at your seats, focuses on the critical energy policies they. presentation today will focus on the importance of getting it right when it comes to our energy future and the policies that will drive that. it's our hope this information and the presentation will help drive a thoughtful discussion of policy goals and out into the future from campaigns and. let me remind you one last time, you all have the question cards come if you have any questions related to jack's presentation.
address priority for the oil and natural gas industry and is scheduled to take questions from the audience. live coverage getting underway shortly here on c-span2. >> good afternoon all again. i hope everybody enjoyed your lunch. and again welcome to the 2016 state of american energy presentation. as we all know, energy is fundamental to our society standard of living, to help the economy and its critical part of our national security. as this new year begins and clearly the presidential...
SFGTV: San Francisco Government Television
BOS Replay: Special Govt Audits and Oversight Committee 1/14/16 : SFGTV : January 14, 2016 8:00pm-10:01pm PST
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please call item number 4. >> the gas line breaks related to the city's construction on haight street and the california public utilities commission and pg&e. >> okay at this time this is a hearing that's been called by supervisor breed so i'm turning it over to her. >> thank you. >> thank you colleagues and thank you everyone for being here today we have a lot of folks here and i know we have a lot of questions we want answered so i'll be as quick as possible. last year the city began a multimillion dollar infrastructure project to install water mains and replace sewers and ghilotti brothers won the main contract and the crews ruptured gas lines and we also experienced two sinkholes in the same area and five gas line breaks and two sinkholes and i'm so thankful and frankly surprised that no one was seriously hurt but i'll tell you this the failures disruptived the haight ashbury community and the street was completely closed for hours at a time and stores were forced to close disrupting their business and the smell of leaking gas overpowered entire blocks and on one occasion someone
please call item number 4. >> the gas line breaks related to the city's construction on haight street and the california public utilities commission and pg&e. >> okay at this time this is a hearing that's been called by supervisor breed so i'm turning it over to her. >> thank you. >> thank you colleagues and thank you everyone for being here today we have a lot of folks here and i know we have a lot of questions we want answered so i'll be as quick as possible. last...
LIVE: Special Government Audit and Oversight Committee : SFGTV : January 14, 2016 1:30pm-4:01pm PST
item number 4. >> the gas line breaks related to the city's construction on haight street and the california public utilities commission and pg&e. >> okay at this time this is a hearing that's been called by supervisor breed so i'm turning it over to her. >> thank you. >> thank you colleagues and thank you everyone for being here today we have a lot of folks here and i know we have a lot of questions we want answered so i'll be as quick as possible. last year the city began a multimillion dollar infrastructure project to install water mains and replace sewers and ghilotti brothers won the main contract and the crews ruptured gas lines and we also experienced two sinkholes in the same area and five gas line breaks and two sinkholes and i'm so thankful and frankly surprised that no one was seriously hurt but i'll tell you this the failures disruptived the haight ashbury community and the street was completely closed for hours at a time and stores were forced to close disrupting their business and the smell of leaking gas overpowered entire blocks and on one occasion someone told eve
item number 4. >> the gas line breaks related to the city's construction on haight street and the california public utilities commission and pg&e. >> okay at this time this is a hearing that's been called by supervisor breed so i'm turning it over to her. >> thank you. >> thank you colleagues and thank you everyone for being here today we have a lot of folks here and i know we have a lot of questions we want answered so i'll be as quick as possible. last year the...
Small Business Commission 1/11/16 : SFGTV : January 18, 2016 6:00pm-8:16pm PST
you very much once again. madam clerk please call item number 4. >> the gas line breaks related to the city's construction on haight street and the california public utilities commission and pg&e. >> okay at this time this is a hearing that's been called by supervisor breed so i'm turning it over to her. >> thank you. >> thank you colleagues and thank you everyone for being here today we have a lot of folks here and i know we have a lot of questions we want answered so i'll be as quick as possible. last year the city began a multimillion dollar infrastructure project to install water mains and replace sewers and ghilotti brothers won the main contract and the crews ruptured gas lines and we also experienced two sinkholes in the same area and five gas line breaks and two sinkholes and i'm so thankful and frankly surprised that no one was seriously hurt but i'll tell you this the failures disruptived the haight ashbury community and the street was completely closed for hours at a time and stores were forced to close disrupting their business and the smell of leaking gas overpowered entir
you very much once again. madam clerk please call item number 4. >> the gas line breaks related to the city's construction on haight street and the california public utilities commission and pg&e. >> okay at this time this is a hearing that's been called by supervisor breed so i'm turning it over to her. >> thank you. >> thank you colleagues and thank you everyone for being here today we have a lot of folks here and i know we have a lot of questions we want answered...
Jack Gerard Address on Energy Industry Priorities : CSPAN3 : January 5, 2016 8:45pm-9:27pm EST
the oil and natural gas industry itself reduced its own greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 55.5 million metric tons of co2 in 2015 while dramatically increasing our production right here at home. we in the industry have invested $90 billion in zero and low carbon emitting technologies from 2000 to 2014. almost as much as the entire federal government's investment of $110 billion. we also know what the difference between pro-energy development and anti-energy development will mean to our nation's economy, businesses, families, consumers, and for our environment. last year a study by wood-mckenzie found with the right energy policies america's oil and natural gas industry could support as many as an additional 1 million american jobs in 2025 and as many as 2.3 million jobs in 2025. the study looked at the world economic difference between pro-energy development policies and anti-energy development policies espoused by some. over the next 20 years, pro-development policies could increase local, state, and federal government revenue by more than $1 trillion and boost househo
the oil and natural gas industry itself reduced its own greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 55.5 million metric tons of co2 in 2015 while dramatically increasing our production right here at home. we in the industry have invested $90 billion in zero and low carbon emitting technologies from 2000 to 2014. almost as much as the entire federal government's investment of $110 billion. we also know what the difference between pro-energy development and anti-energy development will mean to...
The Rachel Maddow Show : MSNBCW : January 11, 2016 6:00pm-7:01pm PST
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1-800-directv. that reminds me... anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea... ...gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against occasional digestive issues. with three types of good bacteria. live the regular life. phillips'. >>> we've got lots going on tonight. usually you think the night before the state of the union is going to be like what's coming up on the state of the union? definitely people talking about that. but there's a lot going on both in the news and in the political news today. still to come on the show tonight we've got a really big update from flint, michigan where a lot of things are all of a sudden happening very fast now. we've got things taking a sharp angle turn in the democratic presidential race. we've got an interview on that and some interesting sort of data on what's going on in the democratic race coming up. we've got a wild report from california tonight including a visit with a congressman who is tearing his hair out trying to work on a big problem in california. but we've also got this surprising polit
1-800-directv. that reminds me... anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea... ...gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against occasional digestive issues. with three types of good bacteria. live the regular life. phillips'. >>> we've got lots going on tonight. usually you think the night before the state of the union is going to be like what's coming up on the state of the union? definitely people talking about that. but there's a lot...
Politics and Public Policy Today : CSPAN3 : January 19, 2016 3:00pm-5:01pm EST
talked about the top priorities for the oil and natural gas industry. this is about 40 minutes. >> good afternoon, all, again. i hope everybody enjoyed your lunch. and, again, welcome to the 2016 state of american energy presentation. as we all know, energy is fundamental to our society's standard of living, to a healthy economy, and it's a critical part of our national security. as this new year begins and clearly the presidential elections and campaign are in full swing, this american energy report which is on the table in front of you on your seats focuses on the critical energy policy choices ahead. the presentation today will focus on the importance of getting it right when it comes to our energy future and the policies that will drive that. it's our hope that this information in the presentation today will help drive a thoughtful discussion about policy both now and into the future for the campaigns ahead. let me remind you one last time, you all have the question cards. if you have any questions related to jack's presentation. and with that, let me introduce jack gerard,
talked about the top priorities for the oil and natural gas industry. this is about 40 minutes. >> good afternoon, all, again. i hope everybody enjoyed your lunch. and, again, welcome to the 2016 state of american energy presentation. as we all know, energy is fundamental to our society's standard of living, to a healthy economy, and it's a critical part of our national security. as this new year begins and clearly the presidential elections and campaign are in full swing, this american...
WTXF (FOX)
Good Day Philadelphia at 6A : WTXF : January 19, 2016 6:00am-7:01am EST
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reason? why is it going down. is it a good thing. maybe not. >>> gas isn't the only thing drops in our area who you should check in on during these chilly conditions. >>> in our area, gas has fallen 6 cents from last week. commuters are saying filling up is not so bad. >> is what the reason? it is the result of supply and demand. adam smith, experts say, it is mainly due to years of over production, overseas, and, here in the united states. and there is jenny joyce, good to see you, jenny. >> reporter: yah, gas buddy is very, very helpful and it sent us here to turnersville, new jersey where we are seeing cheapest gas. we are live at riggins station on black horse pike in turnersville, a $1.47 for gas. somebody came up to the truck and say right down the the street at u.s. gas it is 1.45. very, very cheap. you have to go back more than a decade to find this gas this cheap. ten years ago gallon of gas was $2.40. mike has already explained why, it is that supply and demand factor. regardless of the reason, people are loving it. >> it helps with money to go out and buy something. you don'
reason? why is it going down. is it a good thing. maybe not. >>> gas isn't the only thing drops in our area who you should check in on during these chilly conditions. >>> in our area, gas has fallen 6 cents from last week. commuters are saying filling up is not so bad. >> is what the reason? it is the result of supply and demand. adam smith, experts say, it is mainly due to years of over production, overseas, and, here in the united states. and there is jenny joyce,...
KQED (PBS)
PBS NewsHour : KQED : January 18, 2016 6:00pm-7:01pm PST
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with only two weeks left until voting begins. and methane gas from a leaking pipe overtakes a southern californian town, forcing residents to flee. >> there's this enormous stain on the community right now caused by this leak, and a stain that's not going to go away the day after the leak's fixed, unfortunately. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: washington and tehran faced each other in a new light today, but it was clear that decades of division will not disappear overnight. the latest point of dispute: new sanctions that appeared, even as old ones melted away. hari sreenivasan begins our coverage. >> sree
with only two weeks left until voting begins. and methane gas from a leaking pipe overtakes a southern californian town, forcing residents to flee. >> there's this enormous stain on the community right now caused by this leak, and a stain that's not going to go away the day after the leak's fixed, unfortunately. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf,...
Good Morning Tri-State 4:30 AM : WCPO : January 18, 2016 4:30am-5:00am EST
fill up your gas tank first thing this morning.9 on your side found gas for as cheap as a dollar-39 at gas stations in reading. reading.experts say this is the lowest the price has been in over seven years.in the past three days gas has dropped more than 40 cents a gallon in some parts of town. if that's not close to where you live, you can always find the cheapest gas in your neighborhood on wcpo dot com under the traffic section. getting paid to go grocery shopping today.shoppers in florence have a new option for groceries.aldi will open its doors at 9 this morning. morning.the first 100 people in the door get a 100-dollar gift card...the store is on houston road - right at ted bushelman boulevard.you can drawing to win a year's worth of free produce! the n-f-l championship games are now set.it was an exciting weekend for football fans. fans.the four games over the two days left fans on the edge of their seat.lets start with yesterday's games. broncos beat the steelers steelerspanthers beat the seahawks seahawks and on saturday it was new england beating kansas city. city.then the
fill up your gas tank first thing this morning.9 on your side found gas for as cheap as a dollar-39 at gas stations in reading. reading.experts say this is the lowest the price has been in over seven years.in the past three days gas has dropped more than 40 cents a gallon in some parts of town. if that's not close to where you live, you can always find the cheapest gas in your neighborhood on wcpo dot com under the traffic section. getting paid to go grocery shopping today.shoppers in florence...
WXIX (FOX)
FOX19 Now : WXIX : January 20, 2016 6:30pm-7:00pm EST
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that gas prices keep getting lower! you're looking at a dollar 35 a gallon in springdale. fox19 now's gordon graham has how the trend is helping out some local businesses. open---woodburn cleaners has just one van to make pick-ups and deliveries to its customers and its three locations....like the one here in east walnut hills and now that gas seven year low the savings have been good for this store's bottom line. brandon----with the decrease in gas prices it makes it extremely convenient to not worry about budgeting or scheduling in any certain way so the decrease has benefitted us in tremendous ways. this van racks up about 700 miles a week, but filling it up costs about half of what it did a year and a half ago. cheaper gas is almost like a pay raise for jeff mcintosh who delivers pizzas for adriaticos. jeff----we do a good 20 or so throughout the day so it does eat up a lot of our time so the lower prices definitely helping out. and for the average motorist the price drop means more money in their pocket. austin----i fill my car up for about 15 bucks so i can't complain you
that gas prices keep getting lower! you're looking at a dollar 35 a gallon in springdale. fox19 now's gordon graham has how the trend is helping out some local businesses. open---woodburn cleaners has just one van to make pick-ups and deliveries to its customers and its three locations....like the one here in east walnut hills and now that gas seven year low the savings have been good for this store's bottom line. brandon----with the decrease in gas prices it makes it extremely convenient to...
TA Finance Committee 1/12/16 : SFGTV : January 14, 2016 4:00pm-4:31pm PST
there's been another gas leak and i don't know there's nothing that says go through this area stay out of this area all clear. it's very upsetting for us residents us homeowners and us renters to know what to do so we appreciate your looking at this with a magnifying glass and thinking about the safety of all of our citizens thank you. >> thank you next speaker, please? >> as the gas leaks occurred they kept getting closer to my house. all of them occurred within a block. it is important for me that you all understand that we're not raising questions about lowest bidder or the reporting requirements of puc to the city and county of san francisco but the responsibility of the city and county of san francisco to the residents of the city and county of san francisco. what is you all's responsibility? does it kick in after the second gas leak? is it the third gas leak? is it the 4th gas leak or is it the fifth gas leak? in this case we couldn't take it anymore and called for a press conference and supervisor breed showed up well and good and we had this hearing but what isn't discussed or
there's been another gas leak and i don't know there's nothing that says go through this area stay out of this area all clear. it's very upsetting for us residents us homeowners and us renters to know what to do so we appreciate your looking at this with a magnifying glass and thinking about the safety of all of our citizens thank you. >> thank you next speaker, please? >> as the gas leaks occurred they kept getting closer to my house. all of them occurred within a block. it is...
Washington Journal : CSPAN2 : January 10, 2016 6:00pm-6:50pm EST
states, 14 states in the last four years race on gas taxes. almost all of those work and trolled by republicans. utah raised 5 cents cents a gallon so they could fix up their roads, in the absence of any kind of major transportation bill, wyoming raise their own gas tax, all republican state. is it easy? of course not. of course not. it's hard for politicians to raise the tax. the one think they know is that when they do that, the constituents they represent realize that potholes are going to be filled, roads are going to be fixed, bridges are going to be fixed, and people see their friends and neighbor doing the work. the money does not stay in washington. it does not go in some politicians pocket, he goes back to the states. people in the states see progress. that is the recent there is not that much heartburn about raising the gas tax. fourteen states have done it, many very conservative bid states. >> host: you served as republican from illinois, you served as transportation secretary for the obama administration. why is the transportation department, -wise that needed some repu
states, 14 states in the last four years race on gas taxes. almost all of those work and trolled by republicans. utah raised 5 cents cents a gallon so they could fix up their roads, in the absence of any kind of major transportation bill, wyoming raise their own gas tax, all republican state. is it easy? of course not. of course not. it's hard for politicians to raise the tax. the one think they know is that when they do that, the constituents they represent realize that potholes are going to...
KTIV (NBC)
NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt : KTIV : January 7, 2016 5:30pm-6:00pm CST
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of emergency has been did angeles suburb where a natural gas leak has been releasing tons of methane gas into the air every day for months now. it could be months more until it's finally fixed. as joe fryar reports, the danger has driven thousands of people from their homes. >> reporter: it's an affluent los angeles neighborhood, but it looks like a ghosttown. 2,500 people moved out. lives and health disrupted by a gas october. >> my eyes were burning and it was watering and itching. it was to the point that my vision was >> reporter: this family has been living in a hotel for four weeks now. >> the first week i would be crying every single day because it was such a hard experience on me. >> reporter: angry homeowners, some wearing gas masks held protd the southern gas company says there are no long-term health short-term impacts for some people sensitive to odors. >> reporter: the company is drilling relief wells hoping to stop the leak. now california's governor is declaring a state of emergency, stepping up inspections and saying the company should cover all costs. >> we'll do wha
of emergency has been did angeles suburb where a natural gas leak has been releasing tons of methane gas into the air every day for months now. it could be months more until it's finally fixed. as joe fryar reports, the danger has driven thousands of people from their homes. >> reporter: it's an affluent los angeles neighborhood, but it looks like a ghosttown. 2,500 people moved out. lives and health disrupted by a gas october. >> my eyes were burning and it was watering and...
CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley : WOIO : January 7, 2016 6:30pm-7:00pm EST
, massive gas leak in southern california. >> we call it the b.p. oil spill. >> pelley: lining up for painkillers, a landmark suit against drug distributors that allegedly got them hooked. uncle sam cooks up a menu to keep america healthy. what government research says you should and should not eat. >> if you can't pronounce it, don't eat it. >> pelley: and saturday night fever. millions of americans chase the biggest powerball jackpot in history. because i want one. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: retirement accounts are taking a big hit. today for the third time the dow suffered a triple-digit loss, 392 points, this time, or 2.3%. investors are worried that the chinese economy, second largest in the world, is slowing more than the chinese government is letting on and that the government's haphazard attempts to intervene in its markets and devalue its currency are giving the impression that it doesn't know how to manage the trouble. our senior national correspondent anthony m
, massive gas leak in southern california. >> we call it the b.p. oil spill. >> pelley: lining up for painkillers, a landmark suit against drug distributors that allegedly got them hooked. uncle sam cooks up a menu to keep america healthy. what government research says you should and should not eat. >> if you can't pronounce it, don't eat it. >> pelley: and saturday night fever. millions of americans chase the biggest powerball jackpot in history. because i want one....
WFLA (NBC)
NBC Action News at 6:30pm : WFLA : January 7, 2016 6:30pm-7:00pm EST
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, washington. >>> a state of emergency has been did he claired in a los angeles suburb where a natural gas leak has been releasing tons of methane gas into the air every day for months now. it could be months more until it's finally fixed. as joe fryar reports, the danger has driven thousands of people from their homes. >> reporter: it's an affluent los angeles neighborhood, but it out. lives and health disrupted by a gas october. >> my eyes were burning and it was watering and itching. it was to the point getting bad. >> reporter: this family has been living in a hotel for four weeks now. >> the first week i would be crying every single day because it was such a hard experience on me. >> reporter: angry homeowners, some wearing gas masks held protd protests. the southern gas company says there are no long-term health effects. >> there are clearly short-term impacts for some people sensitive to odors. >> reporter: the company is drilling relief wells hoping to stop the leak. now california's governor is declaring a state of emergency, stepping up inspections and saying the company should c
, washington. >>> a state of emergency has been did he claired in a los angeles suburb where a natural gas leak has been releasing tons of methane gas into the air every day for months now. it could be months more until it's finally fixed. as joe fryar reports, the danger has driven thousands of people from their homes. >> reporter: it's an affluent los angeles neighborhood, but it out. lives and health disrupted by a gas october. >> my eyes were burning and it was watering...
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CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley : WFOR : January 20, 2016 6:30pm-7:00pm EST
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public takeovers of the oil, gas, even television industries. >> hillary clinton, as i understand it, was a supporter of barry goldwater. who cares. that was a long, long time ago. >> reporter: sanders says his positions now are right in line with the base. 68% of democrats say they support a single pair health care system, or what he calls "medicare for all." and the socialist label doesn't seem to be a deal breaker. at least not in the primaries. in fact, scott, one recent poll in iowa found that 43% of democrats there would use the word "socialist" to define themselves. >> pelley: nancy cordes, thanks. in pakistan today, four islamic militants stormed a university and they shot and killed at least 20 people, mostly students. soldiers and police killed the attackers in a gun fight. targeted a mini bus carrying employeees of afghanistan's first 24-hour news channel. seven were killed. 25 were wounded. the taliban claimed responsibility, apparently making good on their threat to strike the network. what does the falling stock market mean for your retirement? when will they plug that
public takeovers of the oil, gas, even television industries. >> hillary clinton, as i understand it, was a supporter of barry goldwater. who cares. that was a long, long time ago. >> reporter: sanders says his positions now are right in line with the base. 68% of democrats say they support a single pair health care system, or what he calls "medicare for all." and the socialist label doesn't seem to be a deal breaker. at least not in the primaries. in fact, scott, one...
KPIX 5 News at 5PM : KPIX : January 27, 2016 5:00pm-5:31pm PST
county may help with rental assistance. >>> ever discover in the middle of a busy day that your gas tank is empty? coming up, a new trend that could mean you will never have to fill up again. --sugerman 6pm tease-- >> the new way you may soon be able to get catch from the atm even if you forgot your wallet. >> 62 sacramento politicians voted to legalize fantasy football today. one guy didn't. and the industry spent tens of thousands of dollars against him. why bother in such a lopsided win? we'll tell you about it at 6. ,,,,,,,,,,, project could come in under cost... but take longer than expected to build. the chairman of the high- s >>> state lawmakers learned today that the high-speed rail project could come in under cost but take longer than expected to build. the chairman of the high-speed rail authority told a committee that it may cost less than the current estimate of $68 billion. dan richards says he is less confident the rail line from the bay area to l.a. will be done by 2028 as had been planned. the project has run into delays acquiring land in the central valley. >>> gov
county may help with rental assistance. >>> ever discover in the middle of a busy day that your gas tank is empty? coming up, a new trend that could mean you will never have to fill up again. --sugerman 6pm tease-- >> the new way you may soon be able to get catch from the atm even if you forgot your wallet. >> 62 sacramento politicians voted to legalize fantasy football today. one guy didn't. and the industry spent tens of thousands of dollars against him. why bother in...
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Noticiero Telemundo: Fin de semana : KSTS : January 16, 2016 5:00pm-5:31pm PST
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por las autoridades tendremos detalles. sigue la preocupaciÓn una densa nu pa nube de gas metano donde hay peligrosa exposiciÓn de gast tendremos lo Último de este problema considerado problema ecolÓgico. >>> oso y inofensivo, un abrazo entre Él y un hombre tendremos la faceta de un animal salvaje, la ediciÓn del noticiero comienza ya. ( ♪ mÚsica♪) >>> este es noto quisieiciero t fin de semana, con edgardo del vilar y felicidad. >>> ♪ (mÚsica) ♪ >>> hola quÉ tal muy buenas tardes, gracias, gracias por acompaÑarnos desde los estudios de la ciudad de mÉxico les saluda edgardo del villar >>> y desde miami soy felicidad bienvenidos. >>> nosotros comens mzamos en mÉxico, donde el estreno de la pelÍcula de la fuga de joaquin el chapo guzmÁn, se da momento en que sus abogados dicen no han podido ver al capo recluido en el altiplano, estamos con jimena quien tiene mÁs detalles? >>> asÍ es edgardo, el chapo resulta no se puede ver, no sÓlo Él si no tambien las cuentas de 400 personas que podrÍan estar relacionados con succ cartel, mientras tanto los abogados iba
por las autoridades tendremos detalles. sigue la preocupaciÓn una densa nu pa nube de gas metano donde hay peligrosa exposiciÓn de gast tendremos lo Último de este problema considerado problema ecolÓgico. >>> oso y inofensivo, un abrazo entre Él y un hombre tendremos la faceta de un animal salvaje, la ediciÓn del noticiero comienza ya. ( ♪ mÚsica♪) >>> este es noto quisieiciero t fin de semana, con edgardo del vilar y felicidad. >>> ♪ (mÚsica) ♪...
now about the state of energy and top priorities for the oil and natural gas industries. he said the policy decisions we make today will determine our future in the world energy market. mr. gerard addressed his organization's annual conference earlier this week. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. and happy new year to each of you. as you can tell, my voice is a little scratchy today, so i hope we get through this well. i think many of you know i have a number of children, eight, two of those are little 10-year-old adopted twins who come home from school every day and heavens only knows what they bring home, but i have it. so i'd like to blame my 10-year-old for what will happen for better or worse. thank you for joining us for the 2016 state of the energy report. it's a time of year for us all to come together to talk about the role of energy. and from our vantage point specifically oil and natural gas. now, with a room full of vips like we have here today, i don't want to take time to introduce all of you, knowing that in washington everybody is a vip. but here i do have two h
now about the state of energy and top priorities for the oil and natural gas industries. he said the policy decisions we make today will determine our future in the world energy market. mr. gerard addressed his organization's annual conference earlier this week. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. and happy new year to each of you. as you can tell, my voice is a little scratchy today, so i hope we get through this well. i think many of you know i have a number of children, eight,...
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Aung San Suu Kyi on Ethnic Violence : CSPAN : September 21, 2017 3:04am-3:38am EDT
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calendars and help us spread the word to student film makers. for more information, go to our website. announcer: myanmar's military has been accused of an ethnic cleansing campaign against the country's muslim minority, which has caused 400,000 refugees to flee to neighboring bangladesh. chief -- aung san suu kyi addressed criticism after canceling her trip to speak at the u.n. this is half an hour. aung: excellency's and distinguished guests. aung: excellencies and distinguished guests. last year, when i address to the united nations general assembly, as a representative of the newly established government of myanmar, i renewed our confidence in the charge of the -- charter of the united nations. it is in this enduring belief in nations to unite to build a more peaceful end prosperous world, a kinder, more compassionate end a , kinder, more compassionate home up for all mankind, that we wish to share with members of the international community the challenges the country is now facing and the steps we are taking to overcome them. this year, as i shall not be able to travel to new yor
calendars and help us spread the word to student film makers. for more information, go to our website. announcer: myanmar's military has been accused of an ethnic cleansing campaign against the country's muslim minority, which has caused 400,000 refugees to flee to neighboring bangladesh. chief -- aung san suu kyi addressed criticism after canceling her trip to speak at the u.n. this is half an hour. aung: excellency's and distinguished guests. aung: excellencies and distinguished guests. last...
HARDtalk : BBCNEWS : September 19, 2017 4:30am-5:01am BST
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storm is on its way. us forecasters say hurricane maria has become an extremely dangerous category 5 storm as it bears down on the leeward islands. the eye of the storm is expected to pass near dominica in the next few hours. president donald trump has said that the united nations is failing to fulfil its potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement. in his first speech at the un in new york, he also criticised what he sees as a disproportionate contribution by the us. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. mental illness is the invisible scourge of modern life. it comes with a stigma. to admit to depression or any other illness of the mind has been to risk being labelled, weak, self—indulgent or mad. my guest today, ruby wax, made her name as a comedian and entertainer. a long experience with depression took her into neuroscience and psychotherapy. mental illness raises difficult questions. where did she find the answers? ruby wax, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you have made a heck of a career shift from tv star to student of the brain and neuroscience. does amusi
storm is on its way. us forecasters say hurricane maria has become an extremely dangerous category 5 storm as it bears down on the leeward islands. the eye of the storm is expected to pass near dominica in the next few hours. president donald trump has said that the united nations is failing to fulfil its potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement. in his first speech at the un in new york, he also criticised what he sees as a disproportionate contribution by the us. now on bbc news,...
in fact entrusted to us the task of carrying out three responsibilities. democratic transition, peace and stability, and development. none of these challenges are either easy or simple. transition for us is the transition to democracy after half of a century or more of authoritarian rule. now we are in the process of nurturing our nation, and yet, imperfect democracy. peace and stability are something we had to achieve after nearly 70 years of internal conflict that started on the day of our independence back in 1948. development has to be achieved within the context of the first two, nurturing democratic values , establishing peace and stability, and achieving the kind of sustainable development seen as equitable by all our people. burma is a complex nation, as all of you know. its complexities are compounded by the fact that people expect us to overcome all these challenges in as short a time as possible. it is only fitting i should remind you that today, our government has not yet been in part for 18 months. it will be 18 months at the end of this year. 18 months is a very s
in fact entrusted to us the task of carrying out three responsibilities. democratic transition, peace and stability, and development. none of these challenges are either easy or simple. transition for us is the transition to democracy after half of a century or more of authoritarian rule. now we are in the process of nurturing our nation, and yet, imperfect democracy. peace and stability are something we had to achieve after nearly 70 years of internal conflict that started on the day of our...
Opioid Epidemic : CSPAN2 : September 1, 2017 8:06am-10:07am EDT
in the same way, and that is having an invocation to get started on the right foot. each of us who have not drank alcohol or use drugs today is grateful, but we remember that seldom do we take credit for that all by ourselves. and two years ago and several other times in our history, deacon ron ely has been wanting to come early in the morning to start us off on the right foot. deacon ron, could you get started on the right foot? [applause] >> god bless you, paul, and thanks for the introduction. god bless all of you. i'm happy to be here. i don't know how many times, but truly indeed this is a pleasure for me to be here amongst all of you as we all have to build with the issues that we have, whether alcoholism, drug abuse, or all of the other types of addiction that are out there. i've got a few myself and their related to food. [laughing] but as we begin today let us remember that there are some brothers and sisters who are not here with us because of that terrible tragedy that has taken place in parts of her country, in particular texas and louisiana. so we want to remember all
in the same way, and that is having an invocation to get started on the right foot. each of us who have not drank alcohol or use drugs today is grateful, but we remember that seldom do we take credit for that all by ourselves. and two years ago and several other times in our history, deacon ron ely has been wanting to come early in the morning to start us off on the right foot. deacon ron, could you get started on the right foot? [applause] >> god bless you, paul, and thanks for the...
Asia Business Report : BBCNEWS : September 20, 2017 1:30am-1:46am BST
destroy north korea if it threatened america. and this is trending on bbc.com: the us hurricane centre is warning of a potentially catastrophic impact of hurricane maria as it heads towards the british virgin islands and puerto rico. the category five storm has intensified, with winds now reaching 260 kilometres an hour. that's all from me for now. stay with bbc news. and the top story here in the uk: police have arrested a third suspect in connection with the bomb that partially exploded on a train at parsons green station in london, injuring 30 people. now on bbc news all the latest business news live from singapore. us president donald trump's tough warning to north korea battles world leaders, but is it business as usual for global companies? tata steel and germany's thussen group moved closer toa germany's thussen group moved closer to a merger that could create the second—biggest steel group. good morning, asia. hello, world. welcome to asia business report. i'm rico hizon. us president donald trump does not mince his words. in his first ever speech to the un general assembly, he
destroy north korea if it threatened america. and this is trending on bbc.com: the us hurricane centre is warning of a potentially catastrophic impact of hurricane maria as it heads towards the british virgin islands and puerto rico. the category five storm has intensified, with winds now reaching 260 kilometres an hour. that's all from me for now. stay with bbc news. and the top story here in the uk: police have arrested a third suspect in connection with the bomb that partially exploded on a...
BBC News : BBCNEWS : September 26, 2017 5:00am-5:31am BST
trump's staff have been using private e—mail servers, including his daughter and son—in—law. in the balance, jobs and trade are at risk as a us court prepares to rule on a plane row between america's boeing and canada's bombardier. the instant messaging service whatsapp faces a new block in china. is it another blow to facebook‘s ambitions in the country? it's not the first time that north korea has used the phrase a declaration of war in relation to the us, but remarks from the country's foreign minister, accusing america of doing just that, are the latest in an increasingly angry war of words between the two countries. ri yong ho's comments were in response to a tweet by president trump saying that the north korean leadership wouldn't be around for much longer. the white house has dismissed his statement as absurd and has warned pyongyang to stop provocations. andrew plant has more. it isa it is a trading of insults were neither side shows any sign of backing down. a verbal game of chicken between north korea and the usa. four weeks, antagonistic. chicken between north korea and
trump's staff have been using private e—mail servers, including his daughter and son—in—law. in the balance, jobs and trade are at risk as a us court prepares to rule on a plane row between america's boeing and canada's bombardier. the instant messaging service whatsapp faces a new block in china. is it another blow to facebook‘s ambitions in the country? it's not the first time that north korea has used the phrase a declaration of war in relation to the us, but remarks from the...
President Trump Speaks at Pentagon 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony : CSPAN : September 11, 2017 8:32pm-9:47pm EDT
gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us today. all the members of the greater pentagon community, all those who are observing elsewhere through the broadcast. we welcome you to today's 9/11 observance created we are here ofether, family and friends those we lost here. first responders from the department of defense and other agencies have stood with us side-by-side. everyilding survivors and -- we are here together as a pentagon family and always will be. we are bonded as the nation is by that tragic day and by our continued presence here today. we come together, all of us, united at this site. to remember those we lost. mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, friends and coworkers. here, the purpose of this , and we, we remember also reflect upon and renew our faith and our commitment to all that is good in this nation. thank you very much for joining us today. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please remain silent as those who were lost are remembered. paul w ambrose. petty officer third class melissa rose barnes, united states navy. petty office
gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us today. all the members of the greater pentagon community, all those who are observing elsewhere through the broadcast. we welcome you to today's 9/11 observance created we are here ofether, family and friends those we lost here. first responders from the department of defense and other agencies have stood with us side-by-side. everyilding survivors and -- we are here together as a pentagon family and always will be. we are bonded as the nation is...
Washington Journal: Paul Seamus Ryan Discusses Travel Rules for Public Officials : CSPAN : September 29, 2017 9:10am-9:37am EDT
. on c-span 2's book t.v. >> "washington journal" continues. >> joining us on paul seamus vice president for policy and litigation with the group cause, joining us to talk about the travel of government officials, cabinet officials and others and how that is funded and paid for, this in the wake tom price reports of and others using chartered flights and military flights. headline this morning, the reaction from tom price on this. price is going to pay part of cost of those flights. health and human services said ary tom price thursday he would reimburse the for a fraction of the cost after coming under sharpcriticism, members of both for the expensive practice saying today i will write a personal check for the expenses of my travel on private charter planes. paul seamus ryan, remind us what government rules and regulations officials in l terms of travel. how are they supposed to make arrangement? guest: the bottom line, in order anything other than commercial travel, government o terms officials need to bear in mind effectiveness is what is most important. explicitlylation say
. on c-span 2's book t.v. >> "washington journal" continues. >> joining us on paul seamus vice president for policy and litigation with the group cause, joining us to talk about the travel of government officials, cabinet officials and others and how that is funded and paid for, this in the wake tom price reports of and others using chartered flights and military flights. headline this morning, the reaction from tom price on this. price is going to pay part of cost of...
Documentary : RT : September 2, 2017 1:29am-2:01am EDT
sun us that's why i'm so mad to see that as we spend our lives as combat does impact on that people while the cities try desperately not to collapse all powerful corporations collect the profit of vision don't think the couple will probably go on the dole coffee cup at home in the us as up the on saabs knock up the supposed to mean a. lot and. as a tourist phobia wolf in a phone tone identity. this is what we discover inside the machines interrogate the donors the volunteers answer the medical questions at electronic terminals one single physical examination measuring blood pressure. this is mainly to avoid the donors fainting while donating blood which would slow down the entire chain. not a single chair in the room is empty an endless stream of donors with no time to recover after the donation twelve hours a day seven days a week. in view of such summary checks everything is based on what people think a donations entailed a certain risk they encourage donors to lie about their health. such compensation also attracts a high risk population that sometimes has secrets to hide. might
sun us that's why i'm so mad to see that as we spend our lives as combat does impact on that people while the cities try desperately not to collapse all powerful corporations collect the profit of vision don't think the couple will probably go on the dole coffee cup at home in the us as up the on saabs knock up the supposed to mean a. lot and. as a tourist phobia wolf in a phone tone identity. this is what we discover inside the machines interrogate the donors the volunteers answer the medical...
BBC Business Live : BBCNEWS : September 27, 2017 8:30am-9:01am BST
— bombardier gets hit with major us tariffs in its trade dispute with boeing. live from london, that's our top story on wednesday, 27th september. thousands ofjobs in the uk and canada are left hanging in the balance as the us proposes a 220% tariff on bombardier planes. also in the programme, keeping the french economy moving. emmanuel macron‘s government lay out it's first ever budget. we'll bring you up to speed with all the latest from the markets. shares mostly on the rise on wednesday and the dollar hovering near one—month high. also in the programme, we'll be getting the inside track on an app that promises to tell you all you need to know about buildings. plus twitter doubles it's tweet length to 280 characters, so we are asking you today what's your social network of choice and why? just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. thousands of aerospace jobs in the uk and canada could be at risk after the us department of commerce ruled against bombardier in a dispute with boeing. an interim tariff of 220% has been proposed on the import of bomb
— bombardier gets hit with major us tariffs in its trade dispute with boeing. live from london, that's our top story on wednesday, 27th september. thousands ofjobs in the uk and canada are left hanging in the balance as the us proposes a 220% tariff on bombardier planes. also in the programme, keeping the french economy moving. emmanuel macron‘s government lay out it's first ever budget. we'll bring you up to speed with all the latest from the markets. shares mostly on the rise on...
Documentary : RT : September 10, 2017 7:29pm-8:01pm EDT
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ten of us here all up with up to me i got on them is what i was told. i is the last infinity made us by august. all totally missed both of us and had a muslim a brussel i own you must tell me about how they were but i sure as he'll be in tulsa come get the gun get theirs up to the meeting. last impedimenta us. a call me so they're going bust one fake stands sinks and yet it hung on fun just dandy live in tulsa set up as. the. course i have also to move a little i must push on the other i got...
Click : BBCNEWS : September 23, 2017 3:30pm-4:01pm BST
identify someone from theirface, is fast becoming a thing. this biometric id has been used, albeit together with passports, at immigration control in airports. in dubai, they want to do this without the gates, allowing passengers to walk more easily through the airport. and it's also found its way into apps as an alternative to the password for validating a payment. face recognition could be coming to shops, too. in china, alibaba recently premiered a smile—to—pay system at kfc. but unlike our passports and passwords, our faces are on public display pretty much all the time, and that makes it possible for the authorities or anyone else to automatically identify us in any public space, something which you may not be surprised to hear they are quite interested in doing. dan simmons has been looking at the preparations being made by several governments to do this. and to start with, you've been to germany? yes, it seems that we could be moving towards a biometric cctv sort of state, and one of the places where it is first happening, which may surprise you, is in berlin. catching a
identify someone from theirface, is fast becoming a thing. this biometric id has been used, albeit together with passports, at immigration control in airports. in dubai, they want to do this without the gates, allowing passengers to walk more easily through the airport. and it's also found its way into apps as an alternative to the password for validating a payment. face recognition could be coming to shops, too. in china, alibaba recently premiered a smile—to—pay system at kfc. but unlike...
Click : BBCNEWS : September 23, 2017 1:30am-2:01am BST
her tone but asked for more detail. us officials say intense rain and flash floods have caused a dam to fail in puerto rico, causing an extremely dangerous situation. tens of thousands of people are being evacuated. hurricane maria brought torrential rain, swelling rivers to record levels, and knocking out power to the whole island. the ride—hailing app uber has lost its license to operate in the british capital. london's transport authorities questioned the firm's approach to driver background checks and the reporting criminal offences. the online minicab service has confirmed that it will appeal against the decision. now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week, how safe is your face? pinpointing pollutants and... i'm not sure you're pointing that hairspray to —— the right way, love. the right way, facial recognition. technology that can identify someone from their face is fast becoming a thing. this biometric id has been used together with passports at immigration control in airports. in dubai, they wa nt to control in airports. in dubai, they want to do this without the
her tone but asked for more detail. us officials say intense rain and flash floods have caused a dam to fail in puerto rico, causing an extremely dangerous situation. tens of thousands of people are being evacuated. hurricane maria brought torrential rain, swelling rivers to record levels, and knocking out power to the whole island. the ride—hailing app uber has lost its license to operate in the british capital. london's transport authorities questioned the firm's approach to driver...
Eco-at-Africa - The Environment Magazine : DW : September 23, 2017 4:30pm-5:01pm CEST
fine here and today we focus on the pall of the people ordinary people like me and you every one of us that is trying to do something for the environment and of course the planet and we are going to show you how exactly what mary people are doing this this is what we have coming up for you on the show. we will visit a so-called community architect who is constructing sustainable buildings with people in south african townships. will get to know a fifteen year old german people who successfully precious politicians to commit more decline. that action and we make zambian hits us in combat who lends his voice to people affected by the country's mining industry. now let's head to south africa most people who believe in south african townships survive on little money and often have to contend with bolland around them but did you know that sustainable green and sustainable design can help same paul these communities that's exactly what's happening in joe's slovo a township here architect kevin kimball designs buildings that can be used as youth centers nervous schools all works of the local
fine here and today we focus on the pall of the people ordinary people like me and you every one of us that is trying to do something for the environment and of course the planet and we are going to show you how exactly what mary people are doing this this is what we have coming up for you on the show. we will visit a so-called community architect who is constructing sustainable buildings with people in south african townships. will get to know a fifteen year old german people who successfully...
Texas Lawmakers on Hurricane Harvey Response : CSPAN : September 19, 2017 2:13am-3:06am EDT
, that would help us out. would you join me in a moment of prayer this morning? would you bow your heads? heavenly father, we come before you this morning. we think that you are a good god in the midst of our adversity. ask for your blessings today. toask that you continue flourish ask. that we have all that we need. we give our trust to you in the midst of this devastation, we put our trust in you. we think that he will continue to bless us, you will continue to feed us, you will continue to support us. we pray for your blessings, and we pray this in jesus'name. amen. pause for a moment please. we want to thank congressman gene green for being here this morning. he is a great supporter of this entire community. the needy conscious of in this area. i am glad that he is here. would you greet our volunteers from christian tabernacle, and the distribution center. rep. al green: thank you. -- : i remember when water was up to our houses in houston. i wish the lord wouldn't think we could handle all the storms. we are handling them because of you. thank you for spending your time here.
, that would help us out. would you join me in a moment of prayer this morning? would you bow your heads? heavenly father, we come before you this morning. we think that you are a good god in the midst of our adversity. ask for your blessings today. toask that you continue flourish ask. that we have all that we need. we give our trust to you in the midst of this devastation, we put our trust in you. we think that he will continue to bless us, you will continue to feed us, you will continue to...
Washington Journal: News Headlines and Viewer Calls : CSPAN : September 10, 2017 7:00am-8:01am EDT
. understand that. host: terry jeffrey and eleanor clift will be joining us in our second hour talking about hurricane irma and the agreement president trump worked out with congressional democrats and the potential cost of this hurricane and the cleanup of hurricane harvey. we are monitoring the florida news publications, including this story, sorry south florida, when you wake up this morning hurricane irma will still not have passed even though waiting as already felt interminable. the worst for miami-dade and broward counties probably will not start until midmorning and will last several hours. only getn will dangerous wind gusts, but tropical storm lane's are expected into sunday evening. that means hitting around may not be safe until monday. tornado watch is in effect until noon today. two tornadoes touched down yesterday. again, miami, which was initially the target of this storm without feeling the effects of the storm, but will not be directly hit. we have a phone line set aside for those of you who live in florida or have evacuated. 6.5 million people have left their homes in flor
. understand that. host: terry jeffrey and eleanor clift will be joining us in our second hour talking about hurricane irma and the agreement president trump worked out with congressional democrats and the potential cost of this hurricane and the cleanup of hurricane harvey. we are monitoring the florida news publications, including this story, sorry south florida, when you wake up this morning hurricane irma will still not have passed even though waiting as already felt interminable. the worst...
Opioid Epidemic : CSPAN2 : September 1, 2017 10:06am-12:07pm EDT
canada and mexico. "the wall street journal," you know they're all about business, reminds us this is a business. the raw products cost about $1000 for fentanyl can be sold on the streets in the u.s. for about a million dollars. that's pretty big profit margin and that motivates a lot of behavior. so i think as much as we can focus on the supply we better do something to help people in recovery so there is less of a demand for these products. i want to end by emphasizing that our department of health and human services in the federal government under dr. price's leadership has laid out five main priorities. new approaches to pain. if a key driver was excess prescribing of opioids, can't we do a better job not using opioids to treat pain? yes, we can. the second approach is improving prevention, treatment and recovery services. what can we do to focus on the addictive process itself and eliminating it. the third will be, can we save lives more readily providing naloxone, that is the antidote. i wonder how many recovery houses have naloxone in their facilities. i hope you all do. not that
canada and mexico. "the wall street journal," you know they're all about business, reminds us this is a business. the raw products cost about $1000 for fentanyl can be sold on the streets in the u.s. for about a million dollars. that's pretty big profit margin and that motivates a lot of behavior. so i think as much as we can focus on the supply we better do something to help people in recovery so there is less of a demand for these products. i want to end by emphasizing that our...
Dr. Stuart Gitlow Remarks at Oxford House Convention : CSPAN2 : September 8, 2017 12:24pm-1:02pm EDT
get injured because it wouldn't be a majority of us that at some point in our lives go through the mitch windshield. it would be a minority. we all wear our seatbelts in order to protect the minority. who would otherwise get hurt. similarly, motorcycle helmets. if you go anywhere near a ski slope these days, everyone is wearing a helmet. most people didn't end up with head injuries. all right. so here we are in a country that is focused on health to such an extent that we pass laws to protect the minority. isn't it odd that we don't seem to mind the 500,000 people a year who die of cigarette smoking related illness and we don't seem to mind when 80000 people a year die of alcohol related illness and we don't seem to mind that 50000 people a year die of opioid illness although that is coming out in the media. why is it that opioids are coming out in the media and tobacco and alcohol aren't? why is it that the drugs that killed 50000 people a year makes headlines and the drug that kill 580,000 people. year is know you're near the front page. why is that? it's because the majority of
get injured because it wouldn't be a majority of us that at some point in our lives go through the mitch windshield. it would be a minority. we all wear our seatbelts in order to protect the minority. who would otherwise get hurt. similarly, motorcycle helmets. if you go anywhere near a ski slope these days, everyone is wearing a helmet. most people didn't end up with head injuries. all right. so here we are in a country that is focused on health to such an extent that we pass laws to protect...
Al Jazeera (English)
The Stream (2017) Ep 147 : ALJAZ : September 14, 2017 11:32am-12:01pm AST
by ALJAZ
north korea has threatened to use a nuclear weapon against japan after the un impose more sanctions on pyongyang the state run korean central news agency says the four islands of the japanese archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb japan condemned the threat saying the announcement was extremely provocative outrageous and unacceptable representatives of the syrian government and opposition groups are meeting in the capital of kazakstan for a sixth round of talks to end the six year long civil war there the talks in a stand being brokered by russia turkey and iran however many victims of the war in syria are being critical of the representatives at the talks saying they are too far removed from the crisis on the ground zimbabwe is compiling a new voter register ahead of next year's presidential and parliamentary elections biometric technology will be used for the first time but some people are worrying it will actually increase the chance of vote rigging. those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after our next program is the stream i will s
north korea has threatened to use a nuclear weapon against japan after the un impose more sanctions on pyongyang the state run korean central news agency says the four islands of the japanese archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb japan condemned the threat saying the announcement was extremely provocative outrageous and unacceptable representatives of the syrian government and opposition groups are meeting in the capital of kazakstan for a sixth round of talks to end the...
globe. our top stories: president trump's health secretary quits, after using expensive private planes for government business. but as tom price departs, could others now follow? mass rallies in catalonia in support of sunday's planned independence referendum. spain says the vote violates the constitution and won't go ahead. the us cuts its diplomats in cuba by more than half and warns its citizens to stay away. it says mystery attacks have injured several embassy staff. and, at the eu summit in estonia, the head of the european commission says brexit talks "need a miracle" to keep them on track. hello and welcome to bbc world news. the us health secretary tom price has been forced to resign after dragging president trump's white house into another scandal, this time over the use of private jets. mr price promised to repay more than $50,000 after it was revealed he took private charter flights, instead of going commercial. a little earlier my colleague kasia madera got the latest from the bbc‘s laura bicker in washington. donald trump pledged his supporters that he would come
globe. our top stories: president trump's health secretary quits, after using expensive private planes for government business. but as tom price departs, could others now follow? mass rallies in catalonia in support of sunday's planned independence referendum. spain says the vote violates the constitution and won't go ahead. the us cuts its diplomats in cuba by more than half and warns its citizens to stay away. it says mystery attacks have injured several embassy staff. and, at the eu summit...
Documentary : RT : September 1, 2017 10:01pm-10:30pm EDT
also attracts a high risk population that sometimes has secrets to hide. but . i know enough to use computers no no no. if i was lying when i had tubes over two years old it looks like it's part of the bricks but it actually is what i miss in a blue faint make it look like i'm doing hair on the side. you know i have the science on though we will go in the money and it's a drill. just next first a less summer to big bang around here. and so you know me even if they was the test for drugs they don't show up you're. hot for about three to five minutes a day you chase and again. you know you got away to the next couple days backed out in the past three months. i give up this blast so i can get their fix everybody i feel their body with this way i see the people selling drugs they are used to this they love because simple fact that means walk the pharmacy there even if you know even if. they clientele gas somewhere to go every time they make some money ok listen. you give me your car your plasma car. i'll give you a bag. because i know you go is going to get loaded on there i'll go make
also attracts a high risk population that sometimes has secrets to hide. but . i know enough to use computers no no no. if i was lying when i had tubes over two years old it looks like it's part of the bricks but it actually is what i miss in a blue faint make it look like i'm doing hair on the side. you know i have the science on though we will go in the money and it's a drill. just next first a less summer to big bang around here. and so you know me even if they was the test for drugs they...
Watching the Hawks : RT : September 26, 2017 6:29am-7:01am EDT
history was used this weekend to continue pushing an agenda of offense when n.f.l. players decided to take the take the need to take any protest against police violence many were triggered insisting the act was an affront to veterans but some vets like this ninety seven year old world war two vet told the world quote those kids have a right to protest and he's right the very first amendment to our constitution is the right to freedom of speech protects us from being forced to participate in any nationalistic actions like saying pledges or standing at attention what's really odd though is that francis scott key star spangled banner is on one hand an anti-war protest song about not wanting to drag the u.s. into the war of eight hundred twelve but. the verse that we leave out it was the side of key that most would love to ignore it's the racist one that celebrates the blood of african americans being shed in the name of war see us history is in fact complicated and nuanced especially when it comes to our patriotism while one verse of a song may oppose war sometimes the next one opposes p
history was used this weekend to continue pushing an agenda of offense when n.f.l. players decided to take the take the need to take any protest against police violence many were triggered insisting the act was an affront to veterans but some vets like this ninety seven year old world war two vet told the world quote those kids have a right to protest and he's right the very first amendment to our constitution is the right to freedom of speech protects us from being forced to participate in...
Newsnight : BBCNEWS : September 15, 2017 11:25pm-12:00am BST
the clues that gives us. as more satellite images are released of more rohingya villages on fire, the international condemnation of aung san suu kyi grows and the suffering intensifies. translation: they beat the women mercilessly. then they locked the doors, poured petrol on the houses and set them on fire. and hillary clinton's published her apologia for losing the presidential election. bernie sanders — amongst others — gets it in the neck. what does her book say about the way she sees the world and about the future of the democrats? we'll ask clintons‘ former advisor. good evening. the uk terror threat stands at critical tonight for the second time this year after the fifth terrorist attack in six months. the islamic state claimed responsibility after an improvised explosive device was hidden in a supermarket bag and detonated on a underground train at rush hour this morning. 29 of the passengers on the district line train suffered injuries, some of them burns, when the device burst into flames — but it failed fully to detonate. theresa may said the bomb was intended
the clues that gives us. as more satellite images are released of more rohingya villages on fire, the international condemnation of aung san suu kyi grows and the suffering intensifies. translation: they beat the women mercilessly. then they locked the doors, poured petrol on the houses and set them on fire. and hillary clinton's published her apologia for losing the presidential election. bernie sanders — amongst others — gets it in the neck. what does her book say about the way she sees...
"March for Racial Justice" : CSPAN : September 30, 2017 3:26pm-5:16pm EDT
. thanks for being with us. appreciate your time. guest: appreciate your time. >> of course, that was dorcas davis, founder of the event going on on the national mall. we are watching the march for racial justice. the march now over, and this is the rally. the rally and justice march are being offered by a number of groups. there are sister rallies around the country. you can see it is a fairly large group that has been in the streets of washington, d.c. today. as the rally gets under way, we are waiting for speakers including gloria steinem, feminist, michaela angela davis, a writer on african-american style, race, gender, and hip-hop culture, the cofounder of the black women's blueprint, teresa younger, who is the president a foundation for women who will be one of the moderators and narrators of the event. we will also hear from gina belafonte and numerous performances. we are live at the washington mall. >> for black women and for racial justice, all right? matter? es >> black lives matter! >> black lives matter! >> black lives matter? >> black lives matter! black women matter? >>
. thanks for being with us. appreciate your time. guest: appreciate your time. >> of course, that was dorcas davis, founder of the event going on on the national mall. we are watching the march for racial justice. the march now over, and this is the rally. the rally and justice march are being offered by a number of groups. there are sister rallies around the country. you can see it is a fairly large group that has been in the streets of washington, d.c. today. as the rally gets under...
Texas Lawmakers on Hurricane Harvey Response : CSPAN2 : September 20, 2017 11:06am-12:01pm EDT
and moving your car to the rear, that would help us out greatly. translator: [speaking in native tongue] >> please join me in a moment of prayer. please bout your heads. heavenly father, we come before you this morning. we thank you that you are a good god in the midst of our adversity. we ask your blessings on today. we ask that you continue to flourish us, that we would have all that we need. we give our trust you lord god, in the midst of this devastation, we put our trust in you. god, we thank you that you continue to bless us and feed us and support us. we pray for your blessings and we pray this in jesus name. amen >> instead of doing announcements in here, you have to do them outside >> okay. yeah. [inaudible conversations] >> we want to thank the congressman for being here this morning. he is a great supporter of this entire community. he is, i can let him say this, but he is very conscious of the need in this area. i'm glad he is here. would you greet our volunteers from christian tabernacle and the distribution center >> thank you because we couldn't do this, we've been
and moving your car to the rear, that would help us out greatly. translator: [speaking in native tongue] >> please join me in a moment of prayer. please bout your heads. heavenly father, we come before you this morning. we thank you that you are a good god in the midst of our adversity. we ask your blessings on today. we ask that you continue to flourish us, that we would have all that we need. we give our trust you lord god, in the midst of this devastation, we put our trust in you....
World Apart With Oxana Boyko : RT : September 21, 2017 2:29pm-3:00pm EDT
are still curious teenage bullies there are still some. you know infuse us eccentrics who decide they want to go and make a bomb and blow it up at the bottom of the garden and this particular issue makes it far far easier for those people to do stuff and of course if they're making bombs and it's going to be some sort of accident and a loss of life as well so much more has to be done and it's really quite irresponsible. not to be doing more notes of the most dangerous research out this week has shown that jadis material is viewed more in the u.k. than in any of the european country and in twenty sixteen britain was amazon's biggest market or now with it emerging that algorithms like amazon's be helping terrorists to plan attacks the question is one of the tech giants able to do about it. has responded to the investigation saying that it only sells products that comply with british law adding that it will review its website to ensure products are presented appropriately ok and take a very short break. it's. or. are. hollywood star morgan freeman's targeted moscow and unusual video over
are still curious teenage bullies there are still some. you know infuse us eccentrics who decide they want to go and make a bomb and blow it up at the bottom of the garden and this particular issue makes it far far easier for those people to do stuff and of course if they're making bombs and it's going to be some sort of accident and a loss of life as well so much more has to be done and it's really quite irresponsible. not to be doing more notes of the most dangerous research out this week...
Senator Kamala Harris Town Hall Meeting : CSPAN : September 2, 2017 5:45am-7:00am EDT
time. our friendship is based on an ongoing conversation. view how each of us can the pulpit to figure out how we can lift folks up and do that way in a way that is about an on justice.s harris: it is so wonderful to be home. i cannot even tell you guys, it is wonderful to be home! i am a proud daughter of oakland, california. a proud daughter! [applause] so thank you all for being here. you have taken out time from your busy lives and days to be here, to have this conversation. i thank you for that. there is a lot to talk about, so i will share with you a few of my thoughts. the real purpose of this is so that we can have a conversation, so the bulk of the first time -- the mike will be pursed around -- the microphone will be passed around for questions. this moment inth time in which we live. many of you know my background, my parents met when they were graduate students at the university of california, berkeley in the 1960's. they met when they were active in the civil rights movement. times, myed many sister and i have joked that we grew up surrounded by a bunch of adults wh
time. our friendship is based on an ongoing conversation. view how each of us can the pulpit to figure out how we can lift folks up and do that way in a way that is about an on justice.s harris: it is so wonderful to be home. i cannot even tell you guys, it is wonderful to be home! i am a proud daughter of oakland, california. a proud daughter! [applause] so thank you all for being here. you have taken out time from your busy lives and days to be here, to have this conversation. i thank you...
Inside Out : BBCNEWS : September 8, 2017 9:30pm-10:01pm BST
agents of the so—called islamic state were plotting a near—identical terrorist attack using secret messaging services. for over two years, our undercover journalists have been posing as fictional characters committed tojihad. via social media and secretive messaging sites, they have been in near constant communication with senior players in isis. injuly 2016, we discovered that the terrorist organisation was touting on twitter and facebook for british muslims to stage attacks at specific london locations. we began conversing with one of their recruiters, who then invited us to chat privately on a secret messaging site. the authorities were fully aware of our contact with the terrorist organisation. i managed to track down an is recruiter online. his name was "manager", and we always spoke on encrypted messaging services. i told him i was 17 years old and living with my parents. after a few weeks speaking to manager, it became clear that he was trying to groom me into doing an attack on uk soil. and one day he just started talking about targets. as the conversation developed the isi
agents of the so—called islamic state were plotting a near—identical terrorist attack using secret messaging services. for over two years, our undercover journalists have been posing as fictional characters committed tojihad. via social media and secretive messaging sites, they have been in near constant communication with senior players in isis. injuly 2016, we discovered that the terrorist organisation was touting on twitter and facebook for british muslims to stage attacks at specific...
Click : BBCNEWS : September 9, 2017 1:30am-2:01am BST
extremely rare for us to turn up at a tech company and for of the available spokespeople to be female. it's been suggested that the lack of women in text of the building early on. kids are going back to school this week on the heels of stats from the latest exam results here in the uk showing that girls are turning away from stem subjects, that's science, technology, engineering and maths. 0nly science, technology, engineering and maths. only 20% of those who sat the computer sciences gcse exam this year we re computer sciences gcse exam this year were girls. forced gcse engineering it was 10%. —— for. someone who is fighting gender stereotypes is anne—marie. at 11 she took an a—level in computing and by 20 had graduated from oxford in maths and science. the biggest thing is the social norm and it's that awareness of the options you have but also the role models and the people that have gone before you but so people that have gone before you but so you think it's for dead white quys so you think it's for dead white guys for two... they are living guys in...the guys for two...
extremely rare for us to turn up at a tech company and for of the available spokespeople to be female. it's been suggested that the lack of women in text of the building early on. kids are going back to school this week on the heels of stats from the latest exam results here in the uk showing that girls are turning away from stem subjects, that's science, technology, engineering and maths. 0nly science, technology, engineering and maths. only 20% of those who sat the computer sciences gcse...
BBC Business Live : BBCNEWS : September 6, 2017 8:30am-9:01am BST
this is business live from bbc news with ben thompson and sally bundock. on the open road. us law—makers will vote to allow tech giants and car makers to test thousands more autonomous vehicles, but they'll have to meet tough new safety tests. live from london, that's our top story on wednesday, 6th september. with a fatal crash involving tesla's autonomous car last year, we ask an expert if this tech future means safer driving or disaster and what about the risk of hackers. also in the programme: over a new leaf! turning over a new leaf! nissan unveils its sexier, souped—up all electric car, but will it be able to overtake its high—tech more popular rivals? and we'll be getting the inside track on a labour of love — and furry bears — we speak to the boss of toy firm about risking it all. as ryanair as rya nair changes as ryanair changes its rules on check—in baggage, we want to know your stories on holiday hell. ryanair says it will make cheaper to put luggage in their hold. just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. august bank holiday weeke
this is business live from bbc news with ben thompson and sally bundock. on the open road. us law—makers will vote to allow tech giants and car makers to test thousands more autonomous vehicles, but they'll have to meet tough new safety tests. live from london, that's our top story on wednesday, 6th september. with a fatal crash involving tesla's autonomous car last year, we ask an expert if this tech future means safer driving or disaster and what about the risk of hackers. also in the...
economist is with us. and later in the programme: are you terrified of public speaking? we'll be talking to an app developer who's created a virtual reality app to solve your stage fright. and so today we want to know, what's your biggest fear? is it work presentations? presentations maybe it is a fear of flying or heights. let us know, just use the hashtag, #bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. i have shared my worst fear on twitter with a video. take a look, hashtag bbc business live. this year is the tenth anniversary of the iphone and the latest version has a new screen, new camera, no home button, and a big price tag of $1,000. the iphone 10 uses a facial recognition system to recognise its owner rather than a fingerprint—based one. but will all this be enough to drive growth at the world's biggest tech company? the firm's share price has soared over the past few months. since december last year, it has climbed more than 50% and is now just over $160 a share. but not everything is well at the tech giant. it's been struggling in china where it's losing market share to co
economist is with us. and later in the programme: are you terrified of public speaking? we'll be talking to an app developer who's created a virtual reality app to solve your stage fright. and so today we want to know, what's your biggest fear? is it work presentations? presentations maybe it is a fear of flying or heights. let us know, just use the hashtag, #bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. i have shared my worst fear on twitter with a video. take a look, hashtag bbc business...
The Stream (2017) Ep 147 : ALJAZ : September 14, 2017 5:32pm-6:01pm AST
it will be easier for us to mobilize them from their house in a quiet and efficient manner but these people are very mobile so i would say the problems are more operational or programatic north korea has threatened to use a nuclear weapon against japan after the u.n. imposed more sanctions against the regime in pyongyang japan condemned the threat saying the announcement was extremely provocative. and here with the news grid just over twenty five minutes here on al-jazeera right after day today's edition of the stream next. we understand the difference. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it. bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. hi anthony ok i really could be and welcome to a special stream master class with so much misinformation and force news circulating on social media how can you tell what's true or not well and together today on the story. i blog nation and i'm going to strain. a shark swimming down a highway post how i came so i would see businessmen richard branson robbed brutally beaten hiv contaminated blo
it will be easier for us to mobilize them from their house in a quiet and efficient manner but these people are very mobile so i would say the problems are more operational or programatic north korea has threatened to use a nuclear weapon against japan after the u.n. imposed more sanctions against the regime in pyongyang japan condemned the threat saying the announcement was extremely provocative. and here with the news grid just over twenty five minutes here on al-jazeera right after day...
House Session, Part 3 : CSPAN : September 5, 2017 6:30pm-8:19pm EDT
states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: 2/3 being in the affirmative. and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the speaker pro tempore: the ouse will come to order. the house will come to order. please, members, take conversations out of the well and out of the aisles. he house will come to order. the house will come to order. all members, take their seats. lease clear the back aisles. e cannot continue this series. the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to order. all members, crease conversations and clear the aisles. the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to order. please, members, please take a seat and crease conversations. -- keyes conversations. the speaker pro tempore: all members please stop conversations. clear the aisles. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek reckniss? >> i ask tore one minute to speak out of order to address the house.
states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: 2/3 being in the affirmative. and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the speaker pro tempore: the ouse will come to order. the house will come to order. please, members, take conversations out of the well and out of the aisles. he house will...
the british capital — uber, the online minicab service used by millions, is stripped of its london licence. and lots of applause for angela merkel. but as germany's election draws closer, is a right—wing nationalist party about to go mainstream? hello and welcome to bbc news. britain's prime minister has tried to inject new energy into the brexit talks with a distinctly warmer tone in a key speech in italy. theresa may says she wants the uk to be the eu's strongest friend and partner, and has called for a two—year transition deal after britain officially leaves the eu. our political editor laura kuenssberg has this report from florence. waiting, waiting and waiting. it's months since the prime minister gave anything away on brexit. and if you're in a hurry to disentangle completely, you might just have to wait some more. she came to florence to confirm that for as long as two years after we're technically out, not that much might change. a period of implementation would be in our mutual interest and that is why i'm proposing that there should be such a period after the uk leave
the british capital — uber, the online minicab service used by millions, is stripped of its london licence. and lots of applause for angela merkel. but as germany's election draws closer, is a right—wing nationalist party about to go mainstream? hello and welcome to bbc news. britain's prime minister has tried to inject new energy into the brexit talks with a distinctly warmer tone in a key speech in italy. theresa may says she wants the uk to be the eu's strongest friend and partner, and...
State Of The Arts : ALJAZ : September 26, 2017 3:00pm-4:00pm AST
sure all of our audience is on the same page where they're online and want to produce the us citizens here and then what puts people of iraq going one in the same or if you join us on saturday i was never going to file been looked at differently because i'm dr that all the people that i'm watching this is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag a.j. stream and one of your pitches might make the next show join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. and richelle carey in doha let's take a look at the top stories on al-jazeera president russia typer to juan is warning of the risk of ethnic war a day after kurds in iraq voted on a succession referendum turkey has been holding military exercises on its border with iraq for a second day or one also says military and economic options are on the table. as we begin to impose sanctions iraq's kurds will be left behind when we close the oil top they'll be done with they will lose all their revenues when we stop cross border traffic into northern iraq they won't have food or clothes this will be a bad situation they will ask why a
sure all of our audience is on the same page where they're online and want to produce the us citizens here and then what puts people of iraq going one in the same or if you join us on saturday i was never going to file been looked at differently because i'm dr that all the people that i'm watching this is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag a.j. stream and one of your pitches might make the next show join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. and richelle carey in doha let's take a...
Happening Now : FOXNEWSW : September 4, 2017 8:00am-9:00am PDT
that are important to us, like south china sea, cyber attacks, predatory trade practices, you name it. so kim jong-un has understood the dynamic. his father did. they have developed a pattern of behavior and know that the chinese and russians either together or one by one i will support north korea against the united states and our friends and partners. >> this struck me as particularly poignant, it's so often people refer to kim jong-un as a madman or crazy. in a way he's calculating. this from general bob scales in the wall street jurm. this regime has been in power for almost 70 years and understands the value of the long game. mr. kim wants to play nuclear blackmail. it's evil, it's dangerous, potentially catastrophic. but it isn't unpredictable. in that sense, are we looking at this too much from a western standpoint, of what kim wants his regime, survival, ensure regime survival rather than what kim says he wants, unify the korean peninsula with pors? >> excellent point. as you say, we look at this and say, well, why do we want our nukes? we want them for deterrents, we're not g
that are important to us, like south china sea, cyber attacks, predatory trade practices, you name it. so kim jong-un has understood the dynamic. his father did. they have developed a pattern of behavior and know that the chinese and russians either together or one by one i will support north korea against the united states and our friends and partners. >> this struck me as particularly poignant, it's so often people refer to kim jong-un as a madman or crazy. in a way he's calculating....
Documentary : RT : September 7, 2017 11:29am-12:01pm EDT
show us how bob made me feel. like. the. city tourism in europe is booming there's never been fool fueled by aggressive price dumping budget flights and the sharing economy trend which office cheap. worldwide. how all the authorities dealing with the onslaught in one post so i could get i'm not sure because i want to buy you have film acushla releasing it i'm not sure it gets replaced the combining a muppet if they so chose the only juggler to fit the fish or the rest of it in the city as an expanding business model with customers instead of this it has but how many tourists can the travel destination cope with without losing its identity its all them to city and does the enterprise end up in profit with. the cat outlook on our clothes and all that. just. change on me only the elderly day beauty. and the city coffers despite must tourism so what happens to all the money brought by the millions of visitors as i met him i thought at one time and all that one out there that is the guy that will have an ad that sincerely that adds up or break the sense that we're us here when we get ou
show us how bob made me feel. like. the. city tourism in europe is booming there's never been fool fueled by aggressive price dumping budget flights and the sharing economy trend which office cheap. worldwide. how all the authorities dealing with the onslaught in one post so i could get i'm not sure because i want to buy you have film acushla releasing it i'm not sure it gets replaced the combining a muppet if they so chose the only juggler to fit the fish or the rest of it in the city as an...
Beyond 100 Days : BBCNEWS : September 14, 2017 7:00pm-8:01pm BST
young immigrants brought to the us illegally. but did the president blink over the funding he'd demanded for the border wall? ultimately, we have to have the wall. if we don't have the wall, we're doing nothing. mr trump's comments come during a trip to florida where communities are still assessing the damage caused by hurricane irma. also on the programme: russia kicks off a week of massive war games. should nato and the west have reason to be nervous? pity the british holidaymaker who is feeling a little lighter in the pocket. the value of the pound has taken a battering. though not everyone is feeling bruised. there's always a cost for excess baggage, but one russian airline was fining its flight attendants, for the extra pounds around their waist, until a court intervened. hello and welcome, i'm christian fraser in london. michelle fleury is in for katty today in new york. a chinese banquet at the white house. the invited guests on wednesday night were the top two democrats in congress. and the takeaway — well, you might call it sweet and sour. after dinner the white house
young immigrants brought to the us illegally. but did the president blink over the funding he'd demanded for the border wall? ultimately, we have to have the wall. if we don't have the wall, we're doing nothing. mr trump's comments come during a trip to florida where communities are still assessing the damage caused by hurricane irma. also on the programme: russia kicks off a week of massive war games. should nato and the west have reason to be nervous? pity the british holidaymaker who is...
The Intelligence Report With Trish Regan : FBC : September 21, 2017 2:00pm-3:00pm EDT
by FBC
this is a good day but not yet a day to be euphoric. you used a key word, seemed. china is saying the right things. we have to wait for details what they will actually tell their banks because some reports in international media, there is no new loans to north korea. that is not the issue. the issue is money laundering, money transfers, et cetera. but nonetheless, any action, any serious action by president xi of china is certainly welcome because, as you pointed out time and again, this is the last, best hope for military action. now the other good thing today, is that there is no daylight between president trump and prime minister abe of japan. and, president moon of south korea, who is initially pretty wishy-washy on things, he is moving in the right direction. so the alliance is strengthening. the chinese banks, there is a big question mark what they will do. remember, s&p, standard & poor's and moody's recently downgraded china's credit rating. so we'll see. my outstanding questions are two will china turn a blind eye to people trading illicitly with north korea? will the russian
this is a good day but not yet a day to be euphoric. you used a key word, seemed. china is saying the right things. we have to wait for details what they will actually tell their banks because some reports in international media, there is no new loans to north korea. that is not the issue. the issue is money laundering, money transfers, et cetera. but nonetheless, any action, any serious action by president xi of china is certainly welcome because, as you pointed out time and again, this is...
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CNN Tonight With Don Lemon : CNNW : September 6, 2017 7:00pm-8:00pm PDT
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. this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us. the core of the category 5 storm north of puerto rico with maximum winds of 185 miles an hour. that as mandatory evacuations begin if florida. this is one of the strongest hurricanes ever in the atlantic. to get an idea of its power, just listen to the sound as irma hit the caribbean island of st. martin. powerful. and on bar buddha, the prime minister says the island is literally rubble. my goodness. look at those pictures. up to 37 million people at risk tonight. 37 million people at risk. and that's just the beginning. there are now three hurricanes in the atlantic. irma, jose and katia. our reports are live tonight all across the region we've got this covered. cnn's tom slater is in the weather center for us and that's where we're going to begin tonight. tom, this is a mon sfer itormon monster of a hurricane. >> it's time to pack up and head out because we've seen now 32 straight hours plus that this system has been churning with winds at 180 miles an hour or greater. we haven't had systems like this. this is the stron
. this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us. the core of the category 5 storm north of puerto rico with maximum winds of 185 miles an hour. that as mandatory evacuations begin if florida. this is one of the strongest hurricanes ever in the atlantic. to get an idea of its power, just listen to the sound as irma hit the caribbean island of st. martin. powerful. and on bar buddha, the prime minister says the island is literally rubble. my goodness. look at those pictures. up to...
Tavis Smiley : KQEH : September 13, 2017 6:30am-7:01am PDT
quintet southern avenue joins us, and a performance from their debut album. we're glad you joined us. russ feingold and southern avenue coming up in just a moment. >>> penned by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> pleased to welcome russ feingold back to this program. 16 years ago he was the lone senate vote against the patriot act, just a few weeks after 911. former wisconsin senator is a visiting professor at yale law school and founder of a new voting rights group called legit action. he joins us from yale studio in new haven, connecticut. senator feingold, good to have you back on this program, my friend. >> tavis, great to be back on, thank you. >> take me back all those years ago now, describe for me as best you can what it felt like being the lone vote against that patriot act. >> well, it's really something doing this show on the anniversary 16 years ago. i can't help but think all day about what it was like to be across the street from the capitol and to see people fleeing and wondering if the capitol was going it be hit. what i do remembe
quintet southern avenue joins us, and a performance from their debut album. we're glad you joined us. russ feingold and southern avenue coming up in just a moment. >>> penned by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> pleased to welcome russ feingold back to this program. 16 years ago he was the lone senate vote against the patriot act, just a few weeks after 911. former wisconsin senator is a visiting professor at yale law school and founder...
? just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. we start in frankfurt where in a few hours‘ time the european central bank holds its latest policy meeting. the big question — when will it begin to raise interest rates from their historic lows and start unwinding the massive economic stimulus programme that's been in place since the financial crisis? it's a big dilemma for ecb chief mario draghi. let's show you why. the eurozone economy is in much better shape, growing atjust over 2 percent a year. and the recovery is broad, including weaker nations such as greece and italy. prices are also rising. so called core inflation — which strips out volatile elements like fuel and food — hit 1.2 percent last month. the overall rate was 1.5 but that's still below the ecb's 2 percent target. and the recovery‘s partly down to this — the $2.1; trillion the ecb's pumped into the economy through quantitative easing. in other words, creating new money and using it to buy up bonds. critics argue this flood of money is creating a bubble on stock markets. others warn sca
? just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. we start in frankfurt where in a few hours‘ time the european central bank holds its latest policy meeting. the big question — when will it begin to raise interest rates from their historic lows and start unwinding the massive economic stimulus programme that's been in place since the financial crisis? it's a big dilemma for ecb chief mario draghi. let's show you why. the eurozone economy is in much better shape, growing...
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NBC Bay Area News at 6 : KNTV : September 29, 2017 6:00pm-7:01pm PDT
by KNTV
use of tazers after a man died during a confrontation with oakland police at this scene process. jodi hernandez joins us live from oakland where the man's family and a high approval attorney are demanding answers. >> reporter: that's right wp civil rights attorney john burris says the man's family is devastatesed. he has agreed to help them get answers while the oakland police department and the district attorney's office conduct investigations. >> he tried to run from the cops. so they have to do something. >> this man describes what he saw after a traffic collision outside his workplace on oakland's foothill boulevard. he says the driver who caused the crash took off running then got combative with police officers who tried to put him in a patrol car. >> screaming and saying no i don't want to go inside help me help me. >> we need a medical crew. >> the officers ened up using a tazer on the man who later died at the hospital. >> all i know is that a person is dead and that a tazer was used. the question to me is was a tazer used properly, and did it contribute to his death? >>
use of tazers after a man died during a confrontation with oakland police at this scene process. jodi hernandez joins us live from oakland where the man's family and a high approval attorney are demanding answers. >> reporter: that's right wp civil rights attorney john burris says the man's family is devastatesed. he has agreed to help them get answers while the oakland police department and the district attorney's office conduct investigations. >> he tried to run from the cops. so...
. investors are focused on the world's top central banks this week. taking a look on tuesday, the us federal reserve begins a two—day meeting where they will crunch the numbers to decide whether to raise interest rates. at the last meeting, they left borrowing cost all two unchanged, but the latest numbers in the us have been picking up. —— costs. the bank ofjapan meet on thursday. on that day, draghi was speaking at a conference on financial stability. they will be looking at clues on the plan to pull back on the programme of quantitative easing and how it is going. experts told us what to expect. it is almost exactly ten yea rs expect. it is almost exactly ten years since a massive reduction in interest rates, pa rt years since a massive reduction in interest rates, part of the crisis. the big question is they going to continue to let interest rates rise in order to deflate the massive amount of quantitative easing in the market? the broad assumption is somewhere between a quarter and a half a percent will be the increase. it is not clear if the us economy is robust enough to withsta
. investors are focused on the world's top central banks this week. taking a look on tuesday, the us federal reserve begins a two—day meeting where they will crunch the numbers to decide whether to raise interest rates. at the last meeting, they left borrowing cost all two unchanged, but the latest numbers in the us have been picking up. —— costs. the bank ofjapan meet on thursday. on that day, draghi was speaking at a conference on financial stability. they will be looking at clues on...
KPIX 5 News at 11PM : KPIX : September 13, 2017 1:37am-2:13am PDT
the mayor proposed changing the police use of force policy. >> we need to solve this problem and it needs to be solved in a way that prevents those to gain a stronghold. >> reporter: to allow police to use pepper spray on a crowd. >> this will be the right thing. preventing people from getting physically hit. >> reporter: so far this year there has been one violent crash after another in berkeley. the mayor and police chief say they need to allow cops to use pepper spray not for crowd dispersal, but only when demonstrators get violent. >> reporter: the city council approved the measure 6-3. >> this is a tool we are being granted to trust in our council and community to use for those very difficult, violent confrontations that may occur in the future. >> reporter: for example thursday, ben shapiro is scheduled to speak here in berkeley. there could be demonstrations spilling out onto the streets of berkeley, and it could get violent. you may remember back in 2011 an incident at uc davis where officers used pepper spray on students who were sitting peacefully on the ground. berkeley p
the mayor proposed changing the police use of force policy. >> we need to solve this problem and it needs to be solved in a way that prevents those to gain a stronghold. >> reporter: to allow police to use pepper spray on a crowd. >> this will be the right thing. preventing people from getting physically hit. >> reporter: so far this year there has been one violent crash after another in berkeley. the mayor and police chief say they need to allow cops to use pepper...
Redacted Tonight : RT : September 11, 2017 7:30pm-8:01pm EDT
surplus in fact there are but there are more than two thousand on used abrams tanks sitting in the california desert because what are you going to do with them all you got i mean you know how it is you accidentally keyboarding extra tanks for jack aids because you thought the brochure instead spanx i thought it said. thank god i just thought i was doing it does it with a load of abrams tanks. do so soon pentagon toys will yet again be in the hands of local police departments things like i am raps grenade launchers helicon sult rifles. and bayonets yes they are gnats because life beyond is you never know when the british are coming you never know you know what you know what do you nobody warned us about ricky gervais's and he's here and he's all over the t.v. screen he's very girly liberal yet really annoying kinder with you know we were ready seriously rand paul took note of the bayonets the last time the ten thirty three program was up for debate they listed twelve thousand bayonets had been given out. what purpose or bayonets being given out for. senator. under the program i can'
surplus in fact there are but there are more than two thousand on used abrams tanks sitting in the california desert because what are you going to do with them all you got i mean you know how it is you accidentally keyboarding extra tanks for jack aids because you thought the brochure instead spanx i thought it said. thank god i just thought i was doing it does it with a load of abrams tanks. do so soon pentagon toys will yet again be in the hands of local police departments things like i am...
prepare for the next time, authorities have turned to technology that is normally used in video games, to help train emergency crews and even teachers to be ready to respond. just a warning, you might find some of the images in this film distressing. radio: at least one person has been shot... hundreds of people just running around... lam frightened, and i know that my constituents for the most part are frightened. radio: we have a weapon, he has shot... unfortunately these active shooting situations, particularly in schools, are not going away any time soon. you'll see in schools, they do more fire alarm drills than they do active shooter drills. that's changing now in some schools. the most recent school shooting in the us was just a few days ago, in spokane, in washington state. a high school student died confronting the shooter. the department of homeland security is try to do something the department of homeland security is trying to do something about these events. there have been a lot of copycats, that have necessitated first responders getting more prepared to respond to thes
prepare for the next time, authorities have turned to technology that is normally used in video games, to help train emergency crews and even teachers to be ready to respond. just a warning, you might find some of the images in this film distressing. radio: at least one person has been shot... hundreds of people just running around... lam frightened, and i know that my constituents for the most part are frightened. radio: we have a weapon, he has shot... unfortunately these active shooting...
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Cliffefield Road in Sheffield S8 consists predominantly of terraced houses. Properties on Cliffefield Road typically have values around £150,000 - £200,000, but larger detached houses can command upwards of £300,000.
2 Cliffefield Road, Sheffield S8 9DH
£108,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 19th September 2008
£132,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 22nd August 2008
£69,950 Terraced house, Leasehold 27th November 2002
10 Cliffefield Road, Sheffield S8 9DH
£38,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 18th September 1998
£79,950 Terraced house, Leasehold 22nd September 2003
£67,500 Flat, Leasehold 28th January 2008
11a Cliffefield Road, Sheffield S8 9DH
£65,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 4th November 1999
£57,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 18th February 2002
15a Cliffefield Road, Sheffield S8 9DJ
£180,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 4th July 2007
£130,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 7th March 2003
£63,750 Flat, Leasehold 3rd July 2009
£75,250 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 29th October 2001
21 Cliffefield Road, Sheffield S8 9DJ
£186,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 26th January 2007
£145,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 9th August 2010
£80,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 1st August 2001
£225,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 26th August 2014
£153,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 11th December 2009
£126,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 9th December 2003
£23,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 16th January 1995
£105,000 Detached house, Leasehold 12th June 2003
32 Cliffefield Road, Sheffield S8 9DL
£115,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 26th November 2010
£169,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 30th January 2003
£20,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 4th April 2000
£115,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 1st September 2005
£43,500 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 27th April 2001
£63,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 2nd May 1997
£80,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 27th March 2002
£32,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 8th March 1999
£105,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 19th May 2005
£155,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 22nd July 2005
£114,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 12th August 2005
£22,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 31st January 1997
£139,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 26th October 2007
£125,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 24th March 2014
£199,950 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 21st September 2007
£95,950 Terraced house, Leasehold 28th January 2005
£18,750 Terraced house, Leasehold 30th August 1996
£44,500 Terraced house, Leasehold 30th April 2001
£36,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 20th December 1999
£115,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 17th November 2006
£135,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 19th September 2003
£180,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 23rd November 2005
£105,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 8th October 2004
£68,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 22nd September 2000
£52,500 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 3rd May 1996
£120,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 8th September 2004
£134,500 Terraced house, Leasehold 10th April 2008
£172,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 13th February 2008
£48,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 14th February 1997
£128,500 Terraced house, Freehold 1st June 2010
£128,500 Terraced house, Leasehold 1st June 2010
£168,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 18th December 2006
£83,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 1st November 2002
71 Cliffefield Road, Sheffield S8 9DN
£160,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 19th December 2014
£34,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 8th December 2000
£51,500 Terraced house, Leasehold 31st August 2001
£148,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 5th January 2015
£34,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 22nd December 1995
£145,150 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 26th October 2007
£122,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 27th July 2007
£140,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 3rd October 2014
£129,950 Terraced house, Leasehold 14th February 2014
£138,500 Terraced house, Leasehold 26th June 2015
£39,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 1st October 1999
£56,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 3rd October 2001
£135,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 22nd May 2008
£108,750 Terraced house, Leasehold 23rd August 2005
£39,750 Terraced house, Leasehold 23rd August 1999
100 Cliffefield Road, Sheffield S8 9DN
£113,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 25th September 2009
£43,500 Terraced house, Leasehold 23rd November 2001
£33,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 25th June 1998
£133,500 Terraced house, Leasehold 6th February 2015
£37,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 22nd June 1999
£137,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 8th December 2008
£135,500 Terraced house, Leasehold 6th August 2004
£115,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 2nd May 2014
£97,500 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 16th March 2012
£35,250 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 26th July 1996
£95,600 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 17th December 2003
£52,500 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 30th August 2000
£33,950 Terraced house, Leasehold 31st July 1996
£31,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 1st July 1996
£70,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 31st May 2002
129 Cliffefield Road, Sheffield S8 9BS
£55,000 Detached house, Leasehold 29th September 1995
£74,000 Detached house, Leasehold 28th May 1999
£44,500 Terraced house, Leasehold 22nd May 1998
£61,500 Detached house, Leasehold 22nd March 1996
£243,500 Detached house, Freehold 5th June 2015
£250,000 Detached house, Leasehold 28th February 2013
£75,500 Detached house, Leasehold 12th February 1999
£170,000 Detached house, Leasehold 5th May 2011
£180,000 Detached house, Leasehold 8th June 2007
£213,500 Detached house, Freehold 13th October 2006
£84,000 Detached house, Freehold 28th February 2001
£65,000 Detached house, Freehold 24th June 1998
£58,000 Detached house, Leasehold 28th August 1998
£199,950 Detached house, Leasehold 5th October 2006
£192,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 2nd November 2007
£59,200 Detached house, Freehold 4th September 1995
£165,000 Detached house, Freehold 18th November 2014
£125,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 5th December 2003
£185,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 8th June 2007
£70,000 Detached house, Leasehold 24th March 2000
£68,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 9th July 2001
£155,000 Detached house, Leasehold 7th February 2005
£110,000 Detached house, Freehold 25th July 2003
£110,000 Detached house, Leasehold 25th July 2003
£86,950 Detached house, Leasehold 18th December 2000
£49,950 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 30th November 1995
£196,950 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 11th April 2008
£52,950 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 31st October 1996
£220,000 Detached house, Leasehold 21st December 2005
£155,000 Detached house, Freehold 19th December 2003
£120,000 Detached house, Freehold 5th March 2004
178a Cliffefield Road, Sheffield S8 9BS
£233,000 Detached house, Freehold 28th May 2015
£155,000 Detached house, Leasehold 10th March 2014
£161,956 Detached house, Leasehold 15th December 2006
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Lazy bull Just wanted to share a funny moment. I'm dragging my bull around packed with trading goods, from town to town, looking for useful masterwork items. I start the day early, and apparently, my bull was not ready for adventure in the early morning. I literally am dragging a sleeping bull in a leather rope
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Official Legacy Character Thread (multiplayer urw) Making a new thread for this so that we can have all the pertinent info in the OP. This is a migration of the legacy character thread from the old forum. There are some screenshots and stories of older characters in that thread that you should read but I won't copy here.
In ##urw, we have been playing legacy characters together. This post is to make coordination of the legacy characters easier.
When it is your turn, play one month in game, then pass it on to the next person.
You have 1 real life month to play your turn. If you don't manage to pass the character on in that time, we will mark you away and send the file you received to the next person in line. You are welcome to come back any time. If you are getting close the deadline it is okay to pass on in the middle of the month, better to pass it on than not.
All characters share the same "next" order so that always the person who is next is the person who hasn't played in the longest. New people start at the front.
You can do whatever you want during your turn. Ask urwbot for a quest and/or a rule if you aren't sure what to do.
Try not to die. Before doing something dangerous, take dogs with you and hire some companions.
If you die anyway, let us know what happened, and then we'll make a new character. No savescumming.
Before making a new character, check that there is someone to pass the character onto with "urwbot, legacy players"
If you want to make a new character, ask urwbot for a hard or insane start like so: "urwbot, start hard" or "urwbot, start insane." Play the full first month of the character's life and have it ready to send before adding it to the bot.
Inside the character's folder is _notes.txt with a little history of what happened during the previous months of the character's life. read it when you get the character, then update it before you pass it on.
Use map markers to explain stuff like "meat drying by this shelter" or "this village is mad at us" so we know.
How to use urwbot to join the legacy game:
You can talk to urwbot with /msg urwbot COMMAND or urwbot, COMMAND. All commands related to the legacy character start with "legacy"
legacy join YOUREMAILADDRESS - join the legacy game. your email will be kept private except that it will be PMed to the person who has a character to send you. A zipped character folder can be like 10-20MB so make sure you have room in your e-mail for that.
legacy leave - stop playing legacy games entirely (first pass on the character you have to someone else though!)
legacy away - go on vacation from legacy games. no characters will be sent to you but you can come back later.
legacy back - return from away, receive characters again
legacy mail - if you are next in line, get the email address of the person to send your character to
legacy mail YOURNEWEMAILADDRESS - change your email address.
legacy sent - tell urwbot you have sent your character to the next person in line. now you are in line for receiving a new character again.
legacy new NAME - you made a new character and want to send it to somebody. Don't do this if there are already 3-4 characters in circulation.
legacy next - find out who is next (the title of the chatroom should have this info too)
legacy char - find out which legacy characters are alive
legacy players - find out who is currently active.
legacy died - report to urwbot that your character has died. it will be removed from the roster and you'll be put back in line to wait for a new character.
legacy rule NAME - find out the rules for a character.
legacy rule RULE - set a new rule for the character that you have.
##urw IRC Chatroom This is a migration of the old IRC topic from the old forum. It has some replies there that you may want to read which I won't be copying over.
I made an IRC chatroom. The idea is that it would be open all the time and people could lurk in it and now and then conversation could happen. Rules for conduct would be same as the forums -- don't be mean to each other.
Click here for instructions on how to use URWBot
How to join in:
IRC newbies
Go here: https://webchat.freenode.net/
Pick a name for yourself (preferrably your forum name so we know who you are, or if not then at least use the same name every time you join the channel)
In the "channels" box, type ##urw
Fill out the captcha and type connect.
The channel is ##urw not #urw. Freenode rules say that # channels are for official channels maintained by organisations -- so like if Sami wanted to own the channel because it's his game. ## channels are for unofficial groups, like this fan based channel.
Slightly more advanced
Download a program to connect to IRC. There are a lot of these. There's http://www.mirc.com/ for Windows and http://pidgin.im/ which works on windows/mac/linux. There's http://www.irssi.org for those of us who like to live in a terminal window.
You need to connect to freenode. there might be some gui feature you could use or there might be a box to type in.
The settings are:
chat.freenode.net
you might want to set it to autojoin ##urw
you might need to type something like this:
/connect chat.freenode.net
/join ##urw
after the first command you get a wall of text welcoming you to freenode, after the second you join the channel.
If anyone is using irssi, I'm happy to paste from my .irssi/config if you want autojoin. If you're using something with a gui it probably has a button that'll do that for you.
basic irc commands
you might want to register your name so that nobody else can pretend to be you. type:
/msg nickserv register password email@address.com
where password is your new irc password and email@address.com is your real e-mail address.
after that, every time you sign on, you have to type
/msg nickserv identify password
(your program can do that automatically for you if you set it up)
you might want to send a private message to someone in the channel. do that by typing
/msg nickname hi
sometimes instead of saying something you want to do an action. type this without the space between / and me:
/ me catches a fish with a rock
this will display as
***Plotinus catches a fish with a rock
if your username is Plotinus, which it is not, because I registered that nickname.
if someone is annoying you, you can ignore them
/ignore nickname
if you don't want to ignore them anymore:
/unignore nickname
If you want to change your nickname, type this:
/nick NewNickName
If you need more help, here's a list of commands:
/help
then if you want to know more about a command, for example "away", type:
/help away
1) no spam -- spambots will be banned without warning.
2) don't be mean
2a) don't be racist, homophobic, sexist, etc.
3) off topic chit chat is okay but keep it friendly for all ages.
3a) no one cares what you do with your "spear" when it's not slaying njerpez.
4) if someone is annoying you, use /ignore
5) if you want to share a chatlog elsewhere on the internet because something funny happened, it is polite to ask the participants of the conversation first if that's okay.
5a) nonetheless, this is a public channel that anyone can join, so think about how much private information you want to share about yourself.
More rules can be added as we need them.
Backup channel in case of Netsplits or if freenode gets DDoSed:
Go to this page: http://www.spotchat.org/connect.html
In the box where it says Nickname, type a name you want to use.
In the box where it says Channel, delete #spotchat and type #urw
Then press start!
Using a client:
connect to irc.spotchat.org
once connected, type /join #urw
Time flies, the autumn comes Oh my, it's the last of september already, and there's been no news since entering the summer vacation. Let's fix that quickly now.
So, for those who only read news I should announce that I did survive the summer -- and as a more concrete evident frequent forum browsers have spotted few replies and
here and there. Mostly concerning a few squashed or mysterious bugs.
At the moment, regarding the game, I seem to be very short of time for anything else than continuing the development from where it was paused before the summer vacation. And occasionally squashing the most relevant bugs with the left hand when possible. Once we get a fistful of more to-do's featued a roadmap towards the next version becomes more to clear announce verbally for you, good people. The last few weeks it's been mostly all about continuing to add a new spells and finalizing ritual system renewal. It's one of the big next version additions, and was vaguely briefed in this old forums thread.
With the shortage of more words and news to give you let's just say that the autumn is coming, but so are the future features of UnReal World.
Let there be code, and let there be swans.
September 2017, outside the development chambers.
Wounded or starving dogs refusing to attack on command Let's announce just one small but significant upcoming addition....
- added: wounded or starving dogs may refuse to attack on command
If your dog is seriously wounded or starving it may refuse to attack on command. Even the suffering dogs still defend
their masters and themselves from charging predators and enemies, but are just reluctant to act as war dogs who always
run after a given target completely despite of their own condition. This addition may encourage you to keep your dogs
more safe and better fed from now on.
This is an upcoming feature, not functional in the current version 3.40.
October 04, 2017, 02:21:40 PM 1
"Spirit of the forest, I presume" Now that sort of a phrase may actually slip from your lips in the next version of the game as the Spirit of the Forest gets added to our small cast of otherworldly creatures.
Reworked spells and many kind of spirit world additions has a major part in the galore of upcoming features, and manifestation and actual appearance of spirit of the forest is now featured and off my to-do list. Implementing a related quest (or two) is still required, but step by step the planned spirit world additions do gets wrapped up.
As a necessary spin-off feature we also had to expand possible sacrifices to include not only foodstuff, but also valuables. See, offering silver has been traditionally very much linked to pleasing the certain spirits. And as the spells in the game now are actual collected old spells we had to add silver sacrifices if we wanted to add proper spells for "summoning" the spirit of the forest. (You may want to see post about the used "spellbooks" at old forums).
You know, with this version it feels like our to-do things are proceeding really slow compared to the amount of work and energy put in. Seems like we're dealing with complex entities rather than simple isolated features. But there's the spirit of the forest now. He brought in so much more code and features than first assumed, but it all just had to be done.
Let's not spoil too much about what the spirit of the forest can actually do for you, but we know he's an important spirit, watching over the forest and the animals. According to the folklore the spirit of the forest may sometimes tell you where the game is, if he's pleased with you. That, at least, is an actual feature now. And as a tidbit of our desired in-game perfection I gotta mention that these spirits often concentrate on only culturally important animals. Thus, the spirit of the forest can prioritize his observations differently for members of northern tribes than those of the western tribes.
But now look at this fellow of one of the eastern tribes...
He must have something right to hear this from..well...from the spirit of the forest, I presume.
November 04, 2017, 05:28:15 PM 1
Re: "Spirit of the forest, I presume"
I'd like to be able to have a more grounded, historical experience too. If I'm shooting lightning bolts at a level-25 domovoi, I might as well be playing ADOM.
Well, at the very moment there (again) is an another thread where a player is actively trying to encounter a being which is supposed to be more or less 'supernatural' - and has difficulties doing so, for it isn't easy to find the right conditions to encounter such a being.
I think that speaks of Sami's design philosophy - personally I wouldn't worry about the game turning into 'thow lignting bolts at magical creatures'-kind of high-fantasy. The 'supernatural' elements of UnReal World are, and will remain, elusive and hard to catch, and after all, we can't be exactly sure if they are mere hallucinations, a series of random luck, or possibly a prankster hermit playing tricks on the player character.
Also, the way I see it, this actually is the historical experience. The pagan folks believed in these rituals having an effect, and they believed those supernatural entities to exists, and there were reports of people occasionally spotting those creatures. So we don't simulate the 1000AD world the way 2000AD scientist believe it to be, but we simulate the 1000AD world the way 1000AD folks probably themselves experienced it to be. No lightning bolts, though, they aren't a part of Finnish folklore =)
November 07, 2017, 11:14:32 AM 1
Re: Roads
Can someone post a link about historical fact of this.
I don't know if there are any online sources about this. It is just common folklore in Finland, passed down from a generation to another. Sleeping on a path, or camping on a road spells bad luck. Don't know where it comes from, to me it seems like an obvious part of 'cultural subconsciousnes' - folks just know it to be like that, but can't say how they know it
Also, I'd guess this is not strictly spesific to Finnish folklore. Something similar seems to be going on with crossroads.
EDIT: fixed the link
Spirits, spells, short movies, short of time, and the diminishing year Today I came to a realization that the absolutely last thing to do for the upcoming version is to finalize the spirit of the forest related quest, and the many spells that were brought into existence because of this very spirit. The reality check came upon me shortly after browsing books for spells to receive bear hunting aids from the spirits when asleep. Shortly after thinking that dreams and premonitions would be now natural to feature with the other upcoming spell improvements. Shortly after noticing myself to follow a pattern where I add a new big to-do right after the existing list of to-dos before release grows down in size to a reasonable length. This has been a familiar and overly ambitious pattern in case of the version in development. Now as the end of the calendar year is drawing nearer and the holiday season approaches, it's better to start wrap things up for test builds and then consider how far a beta release possibility might be.
There's also been this certain short movie occupying our time. A short movie we shot in autumn 2016, and which has been cooking slowly in post-production ever since. But now, ladies and gentlemen, I'm confirmed to say that a brand new Enormous Elk short movie will still be released this very year. Like the upcoming version, this short movie is also the most ambitious of them all. We had a short post about it at the old forums, with a coffee break pic from the filming location. Now let's repost it here.
All in all, despite of breaks, all kinds of stuff is coming up. Peace and patience to all of you.
Nominate UrW for Steam "Labor of Love" Award Sami and Erkka have kept this game evolving since 1992, which is likely longer than many of its players have been alive.
Let's give them some recognition and much deserved exposure by nominating them for the "Labor of Love" award on Steam now.
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UQRFC >> Club Location & Facilities
The University of Queensland Rugby Football Club is based at the University of Queensland St Lucia Campus and located on Sir William Macgregor Drive.
The Rugby Club has a large clubhouse overlooking the main field and athletics track at the University. It features a main bar, canteen, covered deck, function room and staff offices.
The Club utilises three fields all of which are illuminated and located on campus near the clubhouse and dressing rooms – Field 6 (corner of Sir Fred Schonell Drive and Sir William Macgregor Drive), Field 5B (Sir William Macgregor Drive next to the Tennis Courts) and the Field 5 which is the main field (corner of Sir William Macgregor Drive and Campbell Road inside the UQ Athletics Track).
The Rugby Club also has four modern change rooms situated within the 550 capacity grandstand which is located next to the clubhouse. The grandstand also contains a medical room set to stadium standards as well as separate change rooms for referees and touch judges.
Please click here for a map of The University of Queensland and the location of playing fields.
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Zoe vs. Raymond Carver
It's been a while since I brushed off my Liberal Arts degree and wrote a post with literary references. (When I get to ten, I get a free coffee! Only problem is I have to go to a Paris cafe Hemingway frequented to claim it.)
Late-twentieth-century minimalist short story writer Raymond Carver is an appropriate person to face off against Zoe because he's pretty laconic and he does a lot with silences, which is pretty important when dealing with a champion raconteur like Zoe.
Minimalist writer, maximalist drinker.
This is a child who never stops talking.
Her stories are tours de force in repetition and heavyhanded moralizing sprinkled with sparkly bits of illogic. The only time she stops to let you speak is when she asks "Why?"
Be careful. That's a trap. Because no matter what you answer, she'll keep asking why till you reach a conversational dead end like: Why is it night? or Why isn't Christmas tomorrow?
Maybe you excuse yourself to the bathroom, but that usually ends with an offer to help you wipe while she tells a story about a little girl who lives on the edge of the world, and she likes to dance, but then she falls off, but she doesn't "go," and there's a ball, but it's unclear if this is a dance-type of ball or a bounce one, and in my head, a constant refrain, is the title of the Raymond Carver story "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?"
My only respite from the constant chatter is when she finally goes to sleep at night.
If I were a character from a Carver story, afterward I'd sit at the kitchen table under a bare, low-wattage light bulb as I ate a cold steak I'd fried in a pan hours before and drank cheap gin from a jelly glass.
But I'm not big on steak, especially plain that way, and gin's okay, but Bombay Sapphire, please. (I'm a minimalist when it comes to juniper.)
I don't smoke either, otherwise I could stand at an unscreened window with my cigarette, placing my ashes in the bottom of a beer can, and when I looked down I'd discover a run in my new stockings---if I wore stockings, which I don't---while the Husband sat at the table behind me, silent, but in a posture that spoke volumes about "our relationship," which we would never discuss. Then we'd take our grim expressions to bed, me setting the alarm in an act of horror-tinged futility because Zoe would surely be waking us up before it had a chance to go off.
That's if I was a character from a Raymond Carver story. Lots of yuks, right?
Carver's minimalist stories mostly feature working class characters inarticulate in the face of their life's circumstances. Zoe is only a minimalist when it comes to broccoli, so if she was a character in a Carver story there'd be some rewriting.
First, the titles.
For instance: "What's in Alaska?" would become "What's in Your Mouth? Seriously, Spit It Out."
"So Much Water So Close to Home" would edit its second half to "...So Close to the Edge of the Tub."
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" would become "What Zoe Talks About When Zoe Talks About Zoe." Spoiler alert: Zoe.
As for Carver's most famous story, "Cathedral," about a man who's conflicted about entertaining his wife's blind male friend, I'd have to rewrite the whole thing. Instead of "Cathedral" I'd call it "I Can't Even Guess What It Is You Drew. Is It a Viking Funeral?" This story's plot would be about Zoe showing me a picture she drew in art class. I'd guess viking funeral and she'd say, "It's a jack-o-lantern. Are you blind?" And the story would end with a look of inarticulate horror on my face.
"The futility of kindergarten." Artist: Zoe
Then I'd write "Are These Actual Miles (That I'm Walking Through a Street Fair So That She Can Get Her Face Painted)?" This story is about what happened Sunday when I took Zoe to a street fair and she saw kids whose faces were painted and she became fixated on this idea, so we walked and walked and finally I asked one of these kids where he got his face painted, and he directed us six more blocks. So we pressed on, because Zoe still insisted she wanted her face painted. Like a tiger, she said, hooking her fingers in claws. And we arrived six blocks later to find the line was closed. The lady said she'd take us anyway, so we went behind the ropes and waited.
Then it was Zoe's turn. Except by then she didn't want to do it anymore and refused to sit down. Till I said, Zoe, you are GETTING your face painted.
So she got a butterfly. On her hand. And this butterfly represented inexpressible sadness. No epiphanies were had. Story ends with inarticulate look of horror on her face, my face, and face painter's face.
"What Do You Do in San Francisco Kindergarten?" would end up being about anything except what actually happens in kindergarten. Zoe and I would talk in circles, unaware of the futility of our struggles, doomed to be repeated day in and day out, as I insist she eat something besides pasta with butter for dinner and she says, "I want pasta." The story would end when she, for no apparent reason, turns her cup over, spilling her juice out all over the table, and then, instead of either of us reacting, we'd just sit there, in the gathering gloom, trying not to think of the creeping horror hidden beneath the (now sticky) surface of everyday things. And then maybe we'd watch Jeopardy!, if she let me.
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Foreign Vice-Minister N. Germanas stresses the need to ensure safe conditions for Syrian refugees to return home
Created: 2019.03.15 / Updated: 2019.03.15 10:14
On 14 March, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Neris Germanas participated in the third Brussels Conference on "Supporting the Future of Syria and the region”. The conference was co-chaired by the European Union and the United Nations. It aims to mobilize international financial support for the Syrians, for humanitarian aid both inside the country and in the neighboring countries.
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini chaired the conference. She emphasized support for Syrian civil society and stressed the importance of the role of women in the UN-led Syrian peace process, as well as in ensuring accountability for war crimes in Syria.
The Foreign Vice-Minister N. Germanas expressed Lithuania’s support for efforts to resume peace talks between the Syrian government and the opposition, and stressed the need to ensure safe conditions for Syrian refugees to return home.
“Lithuania supports international sanctions against the Assad regime until the Syrian government will begin to make the effort to settle the conflict peacefully, to cooperate with the United Nations, and to ensure safe conditions for Syrian refugees to return home," said N. Germanas.
Lithuania’s Foreign Vice-Minister also affirmed Lithuania’s commitment to help Syrians affected by the conflict. In 2019, Lithuania allocated EUR 30,000 for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency that has provided assistance in Syria.
Since the beginning of the war, Lithuania has allocated EUR 300,000 in humanitarian assistance to Syria. In accordance with the 2019 agreement between the EU and Turkey, Lithuania has a commitment to contribute EUR 2.6 million.
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Shooting at Nashville’s Opry Mills Mall Leaves One Dead
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A suspect is in custody after a shooting at Opry Mills Mall in Nashville on Thursday afternoon (May 3) that left one person dead. The mall is next door to the Grand Ole Opry.
The shooting happened around 2:20PM CT, with Nashville Fire Department reporting that one person, an adult male, was transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition. He was shot in the neck and later died.
Metro Nashville police tweeted just after 3PM that a suspect was in custody and precautions were being taken to sweep the mall. Numerous people are in lockdown in storage areas at the mall as the rest of the mall is evacuated.
In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Metro Nashville Police provided more other details. The shooting happened near the Lids and Auntie Anne's, across from Old Navy. A physical fight between two or three people escalated when one man pulled out a gun. The alleged shooter fired two shots, then fled the Opry Mills Mall and ran to a ticketing booth near the Grand Ole Opry, where he set his gun down and said he wanted no more trouble and to "call 911."
Inside that booth, a retired police officer from California was inquiring about a transaction and was able to take the gun and lead the accused shooter outside, where he then told him to lay on his stomach until police arrived.
Nashville Police say the victim and suspect may have known each other previously, and there's indication that the dispute was long-running. Both men are 22-year-olds from Nashville, and both were previously known to the police. The suspect has been cooperative.
Opry Mills Mall is a large mall that sits on the same plot as the Grand Ole Opry, although the Grand Ole Opry is separate from the mall. There is no show scheduled for Thursday night. The shooting happened less than two weeks after a shooting at a Nashville-area Waffle House. Alleged gunman Travis Jeffrey Reinking was arrested on April 23.
Source: Shooting at Nashville’s Opry Mills Mall Leaves One Dead
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Beloved chef identified as victim in Katy salon shooting
By Marla Carter
KATY, Texas (KTRK) -- Elmer Villatoro, who worked for Antonia's Restaurant for a decade, has been identified as the man who was fatally shot at a Katy-area salon on Wednesday.
Deputies said Villatoro, a father of two, was getting his hair cut at Natural Nails and Hair as his family said he's done for at least 17 years.
Investigators said a Hispanic man then walked in and shot Villatoro as he was sitting in the barber's chair. Investigators said the suspect didn't talk to anyone, and they believe Villatoro may have been targeted.
"It's just not fair for somebody like Elmer to be taken like this," said Adam Pettit, the general manager of Antonia's in Katy.
Villatoro leaves behind a wife, a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old.
"You have no idea how genuine this person is," said Pettit.
Antonia's Katy is holding a special wine and food pairing to raise money for Villatoro's family on Aug. 17. It's a five-course meal, $65 a person.
You can make reservations by calling 281-644-6000.
ORIGINAL REPORT: 1 dead after shooting at Katy-area salon
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How oil spills, trash affect our seafood
List of West Coast seafoods to AVOID:
Caviar, Sturgeon (imported wild)
Chilean Seabass/Toothfish
Cod: Atlantic , imported Pacific
Cobia (imported farmed)
Crab: King (imported)
Dogfish (US)
Grenadier/Pacific Roughy
Lobster: Spiny ( Caribbean)
Mahi Mahi/Dolphinfish (imported)
Marlin: Blue, Striped
Rockfish (trawled)
Salmon (farmed, including Atlantic )
Shrimp (imported)
Swordfish (imported)
Tilapia (Asia farmed)
Tuna: Albacore, Bigeye, Yellowfin (longline)
Tuna: Bluefin, Tongol, Canned (except Albacore and Skipjack)
Yellowtail (imported farmed)
SHORTER List of West Coast seafoods to AVOID:
Cod: Atlantic, imported Pacific
Mahi Mahi/Dolphinfish (imported)v
Tilapia ( Asia farmed)
Our individual seafood choices really make a difference for the health of the oceans. We're voting with our dollars and our forks each time we choose sustainable seafood.
The easiest way to make choices that are good for you, and good for the oceans, is to get and use the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch pocket guide. It's also available as an iPhone app, and in a mobile version.
The oceans need our help if we want our children and grandchildren to grow up in a world that has oceans as rich with marine life as we've enjoyed.
Our fishing and fish-farming practices have a huge impact on the health of the oceans. Most of the big fish in the ocean are gone - fished out over the years to feed our growing demand.
Things can change and the oceans can rebound - but we need to act now.
The seafood choice we make as individuals can REALLY have an impact. Every time we buy seafood, we're voting with our dollars for healthy oceans - and businesses are listening.
Seafood Watch draws a clear connection between all of our food choices and the health of the environment on which not just fish but all of us depend.
Choosing organic or sustainably farmed food from land means fewer chemicals get into lakes, streams and rivers. That means fewer chemicals in the ocean. It's all connected.
Buying sustainable, organic AND local also means we need less energy to put food on our table - a critical issue as we try to feed ourselves without contributing further to global climate change.
Best info for consumers is our pocket guide. Order the correct version for your region or our pocket guide to sushi, click here
Best info for professional chefs, with all regional recommendations in one place, is our Buyer's Guide
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The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program was created in 1999 as a way to transform the market for seafood in ways that create incentives for sustainable wild-caught fisheries and aquaculture operations. It has since then become the best know and most respected seafood recommendation program in the country.
We began by focusing on individual consumers, and developed the Seafood Watch pocket guides distributed nationally, through our website and by more than 200 partner organizations around the country. We've distributed over 32 million pocket guides since then, including more than 9 million that were inserted with Happy Feet DVDs sold in the U.S. and Canada.
Each of our recommendations is developed through a rigorous, peer-reviewed process grounded in the best available science, and reflects our vision of having oceans that support healthy, diverse marine ecosystems capable of producing seafood to meet human needs for generations to come.
In recent years, we've put more emphasis on working with big businesses - the major seafood buyers like supermarkets, food service companies and restaurants whose buying decisions can have immediate and dramatic impacts on the marketplace.
We're partners with Bon Appetit Management Co., which provides food service at the Aquarium and for more than 400 clients nationwide at cultural institutions, colleges and corporate headquarters; and with Bon Appetit's parent company, Compass Group North America, the largest food service company in the U.S. and Canada .
We're also partners with ARAMARK - one of the largest food service providers in the world - that will move its seafood purchases to sustainable sources over the next decade. And we have dozens of restaurant partners, and thousands of Seafood Watch Advocates, working with us to make a difference.
About Sheila Bowman:
Sheila Bowman has been with the Monterey Bay Aquarium for 15 years, working in education and membership before taking her current position.
As the Seafood Watch program's Senior Outreach Manager, Sheila works with over 190 aquarium, zoo, business and restaurant partners across the country where she provides training and education and helps them develop the programs and materials they can use to educate their customers and visitors to promote ocean-friendly seafood.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium launched the Seafood Watch program in 2000 in response to visitor's questions about an aquarium exhibit, "Fishing for Solutions", that focused on critical fishery issues including bycatch, habitat damage and overfishing.
Since its inception, Seafood Watch has researched over 130 seafood items and has developed pocket guides with regional recommendations for the entire U.S. as well as one specific to seafood found in the sushi market.
Over 36 million Seafood Watch pocket guides have been distributed to date. Since its launch in 2009 the Seafood Watch iPhone app has been downloaded over 200,000 times.
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FREE – Readable and downloadable copy of the Portrait and biographical record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola counties, Michigan published in 1892.
The Lucketts of Portobacco
A genealogical history of Samuel Luckett, Gent, of Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, and some of his descendants, with a sketch of the allied family of Ofifutt, of Prince Georges County, Maryland.
Adams, Adderton, Addison, Alexander, Applebaugh, Ashby, Atkisson, Baggett, Bainbridge, Baldwin, Barnes, Barney, Bartlett, Battle, Beale, Beall, Beatty, Beaven, Belt, Benson, Bethel, Blair, Borden, Bottrell, Bowie, Bradford, Brazier, Brengle, Briscoe, Brocke, Brogdon, Brown, Bryan, Burgess, Campbell, Cantwell, Carr, Carroll, Cave, Chiswell, Clapman, Clements, Clephane, Contee, Cooke, Cooper, Cope, Cox, Creek, Cumming, Dade, Davis, Delahay, Dent, Doling, Dorry, Dorsey, Douglas, Drone, Duval, Eagler, Earle, Edelen, Edmonston, Elms, Evans, Fendall, Ferguson, Field, Fink, Floyd, Fouch, Franklin, Galford, Gladden, Glahn, Glenn, Godfrey, Goodrick, Gracey, Graham, Gray, Green, Griffin, Gulick, Haddox, Hall, Hamill, Hamilton, Hanson, Harding, Harris, Harrison, Harrold, Hawkins, Haynie, Hobbs, Hobson, Holton, Hussey, Jamieson, Jenifer, Jenkins, Jett, Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Kalbfleisch, Keith, Kennedy, Kenner, Kerrick, Kybert, Langworth, Lawson, Lennarts, Lewis, Lilley, Lowe, Luckett, Lynn, Maddox, Magruder, Mantz, Manzy, Markham, Marlow, Martin, Marye, Mastin, Matthews, McCane, McCauley, Metcalf, Middleton, Miller, Minor, Mooney, Moore, Morehead, Morris, Mudd, Muir, Murray, Neale, Nelson, Nesbit, Nichnow, Nichollas, Odom, Offord, Offutt, Oldham, ORea, Orrell, Parker, Parnell, Patton, Payne, Perry, Peters, Peyton, Posey, Price, Ramsey, Rankin, Rasbury, Ratliff, Reed, Robey, Robinson, Roxborough, Sage, Sargeant, Sayles, Scott, Sewell, Seydel, Shaw, Shrive, Sidener, Skinner, Smith, Smoot, Sprigg, Spriplin, Steel, Stone, Sugar, Swansted, Swearingen, Taylor, Theobald, Thickpenny, Thompson, Tolson, Tongue, Trundle, Tyler, Venom, Wall, Wallace, Ware, Watkins, West, Westman, Wheadon, Wheeler, White, Whiting, Wickliff, Willcoxen, Williams, Withers, Witt, Wood, Woods, Woodward, Yates, Yost.
Weymouth ways and Weymouth people
Edward Hunt’s “Weymouth ways and Weymouth people: Reminiscences” takes the reader back in Weymouth Massachusetts past to the 1830s through the 1880s as he provides glimpses into the people of the community. These reminiscences were mostly printed in the Weymouth Gazette and provide a fair example of early New England village life as it occurred in the mid 1800s. Of specific interest to the genealogist will be the Hunt material scattered throughout, but most specifically 286-295, and of course, those lucky enough to have had somebody “remembered” by Edward.
A Genealogy of the Lake Family
A genealogy of the Lake family of Great Egg Harbour in Old Gloucester County in New Jersey : descended from John Lade of Gravesend, Long Island; with notes on the Gravesend and Staten Island branches of the family. This volume of nearly 400 pages includes a coat-of-arms in colors, two charts, and nearly fifty full page illustrations – portraits, old homes, samplers, etc. The coat-of-arms shown in the frontspiece is an unusually good example of the heraldic art!
History of the township and village of Mazomanie, Wisconsin
The manuscript, History of the township and village of Mazomanie [Wisconsin] penned by William Kittle and published in 1900 collected information from a wide variety of sources, both documents, and living interviews. This book provides a general history of the township, and then presents a series of brief biographical sketches on the early settlers of Mazomanie. The links below will take you to the start of each historical section as detailed in the contents for the book, and then the specific pages of the book where each biographical sketch is contained. There is no index for the book, nor is there a list of biographical sketches contained within. We have taken the liberty of creating a biographical index for it.
Descendants of William Sumner of Dorchester, MA
The Sumner family, to which the late Mrs. George Barstow Stetson belonged, is an old and prominent family of New England, descended from one William Sumner, who was born at Bicester, England, in 1605, son of Roger Sumner, of Bicester, Oxfordshire, and his wife Joane (Franklin).
William Sumner, the only child of Roger and Joane, married Oct. 22, 1625, Mary West, and they came to America with their four children in 1636, locating at Dorchester, Mass. He was made a freeman of the Colony May 17, 1637, and held many offices of importance, being selectman for nearly a quarter of a century. He was deputy from Dorchester to the General Court for eight years. He died Dec. 9. 1688, surviving his wife, who died June 7, 1676. Both are buried at Dorchester.
Pierce Family of North Bridgewater, MA
The Pierce families of this country are and have long been very numerous. Early in the settlement of New England came representatives from England, most of them not related, so far as now known. Among them were Abraham, of Plymouth, 1623, who became one of the original purchasers of Bridgewater in 1645; Daniel, of Newbury, blacksmith, who came from Ipswich, County of Suffolk, in 1634, aged twenty-three years; John, of Dorchester, mariner from Stepney, Middlesex, before 1631; another John, of Dorchester and Boston; John, of Watertown, 1638; Capt. Michael, of Hingham and Scituate; Richard, of Portsmouth, R. I.; Robert, of Dorchester; Thomas, of Charlestown, who was admitted to the church there in 1634; and Capt. William, of Boston, who was a distinguished shipmaster of his time.
Hussey and Morgan Families of New Bedford MA
HUSSEY-MORGAN (New Bedford families). These families, while not among those early here, are of approximately a hundred years’ standing in this community, and with their allied connections are among the very respectable and wealthy families of the locality, the heads of two of these families here considered being the late George Hussey and Charles Wain Morgan, who were extensively engaged in whaling and shipping interests here in New Bedford through much of the first half of the nineteenth century. Here follows in detail arranged chronologically from the first American ancestor the Hussey genealogy, together with that of some of its
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The next morning, company officials called in Lopezs mother, Deborah Ann Perez, and son, Johnny Joe Lopez IV. Still in shock and in the initial stages of grieving, they collected Lopezs personal belongings and signed a document that to this day remains unclear to them, according to the family. For its part, Schuff Steel which describes itself as the nations largest and most experienced structural steel fabricator and erectordid give the family $20,000 to help with funeral expenses. And a $200,000 life insurance policy was paid to Johnny Lopez, listed as the beneficiary, the family said. Since then, the family hydraulic cylinders has had no contact with Schuff Steel or any agency involved in responding to or investigating his death. They have many questions, and no one has stepped forward to help answer them. In the report taken by the Stockton Police Department, no one working that evening actually saw the beam strike Lopez, even a co-worker who was standing 10 feet away. Another co-worker with 30 years at the plant told police he had never experienced such a major incident like this one. This could have been prevented, Perez said. They could have used new chains that could handle the load. Somebody should have been watching him at work.
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Okay, now we’re gonna go over ad writing tips and pay-per-click secrets. Now, keep in mind that over the years I’ve had millions and millions and millions of visitors from pay-per-click search engine advertising. So, pay close attention to these tips, and they’re gonna help you do really well. Ad writing tip number one, keep it honest. Don’t say something’s free if it’s not free. Don’t, uh, lie. Don’t do anything shady. You know, really tell them what’s on the site. And if it’s gonna cost them money, you can tell ’em that as a way to pre-qualify them.
Number two, use the keywords in your ad like the Betta Fish site. Betta Fish Care Guide that uses the keywords, and it tells them what they’re gonna get. They’re gonna get a Betta Fish Care Guide. And as a result of being that targeted, we got a killer percentage rate of 25%, um, and in some areas 17% and 10%, um, but that’s very good.
Number three, if you want to be sure that you’re not going to spend a whole lot of money on people who don’t wanna buy. Like for example, if you wanna, uh, tie a tie, uh, uh, a guide about how to tie your tie fast and it’s $9, but you don’t want people who just want a free guide, then you can put, ties … tie tying secrets. That’s kind of a tongue twister. Tie secrets. Tie tying secrets, $9.95 free video or- or- or- or- uh, 9.95 for a video, 9.95 for an eBook. You know, pre-qualify ’em. Tell ’em upfront, “Hey! It’s gonna cost you something.”
Number four, look at the conversion rate that you’re getting and test different ads, and different words. You could use call words like, “Buy, or act now, or visit, or click, or something like that” as long as it’s in the search engine’s guidelines and they’re happy with it. But as you’re doing it, test different things, and look at which words are giving you the most impressions, and gear your ad to that word as long as it’s targeted. Like I found out that the word Betta Fish is giving me the most impressions, thousands and thousands of pre- impressions a day for that term.
And if I use the word Betta Fish in there, I’m gonna win, and I’m gonna get a good click through rate. So, look at the conversion and test different versions. Another tip is domain name keywords. A lot of people don’t wanna go out there and buy a new domain name, because they don’t wanna spend eight bucks, which I mean, this is a business. You’re going to spend money, uh, to do this. But if you use keywords in your domain name, that gives you an advantage as well, because then people see that and it seems to boost the click through rate.
Uh, let’s see here, we got number six. Keep it to 5 to 10 words per ad group unless the words are very similar. Don’t just plug in 5,000 words, uh, because they look like they’re relevant. Really take the time and go through, and find out if they’re relevant. Okay number seven, set daily caps. This is very important, because I mean, there’s some ads where you could run that could cost $10,000 a day to get clicks, um, and related up really quick.
So set in, uh, set a daily cap with what you’re ah- uh, comfortable with. If it’s 20 bucks a day, good. If it’s 5 bucks a day, good. If it’s a hundred bucks a day or a thousand, whatever it is, set it for your comfort level on what you are comfortable with losing. Because you might not get any sales, you know? But hopefully, you follow these rules, and you will put the odds in your favor, because this is, uh, marketing, not guessing. You know, you wanna be an effective marketer not, “Hey! I think people type in and make money, wanna give me money via PayPal so I can buy a yacht.” No, you know, you wanna be very specific, and you wanna use very specific keywords and things of that nature.
Now, let’s get into organic or free search engine ranking tips. The number one thing right now to get you ranked fast in the free search engines is going to be links from big sites. For example, if you have a link from times.com or time.com, that’s going to tell the search engines that you are a reputable company and they’re going to rank you really fast. Uh, so that’s a very important thing. If you have Yahoo directory links and things of that nature, it’s going to do very well for you.
Second most important thing is to provide relevant content based on keywords and the way people search. You wanna look for keywords that are very little competition. For example, if we go over to Betta Fish market, let’s take a look, and we are going to run a report based on the amount of competition in Google, uh, under the organic site, which is also known as, “free search engine rankings,” which really aren’t free, because time is money and they do take you time. And it might cost you a little money to get the directory listings as well.
So, let’s do a competition for, um, Google. Now, keep in mind also, Yahoo and MSN provide a lot of traffic. A lot. And it’s very good traffic and relevant traffic. And Yahoo and MSN are a lot easier to rank on the organic side than Google and some other ones. So, you can focus all on that if you’re looking for a quick method to get traffic, you can focus on that. Um, and tailor your site for that. We have some other tips for you in your bonus kit.
Now, let’s take a look. For Betta Fish, I have … Let’s see here, Betta Fish care has 482,000 people competing on the free search engine rankings. Now, this could be good if you’re willing to put forth the time. Because anything under a million competition, it doesn’t mean that there’s 482,000 sites out there trying to sell stuff about Betta Fish. This could be just that these words appear on the sites or pages that many times you know for, for that many pages. Um, so that’s something you can go for.
Now, if you wanna go for a quick method, I’m showing that Fin Rot in Betta Fish is looked up 11 times per day. And that’s very targeted, because these people have a specific problem, and they’re looking for a solution to it. And that is … Has 26,000 people competing. Now usually, if there’s 26,000 people, you could pretty much write a small article about Betta Fish Fin Rot, use the keywords throughout the article, get a link from a site or Yahoo directory listing, bam! You’re gonna be up on that really quick. Or you could even do a paid, uh, inclusion where you’re paying to get your site included fast. And basically what they’re doing is they’re putting you on a less expensive, um, site with less power.
But in a market where there’s only 26,000 people competing, uh, you know, you could get by with that route. Usually if it’s uh, you know, 500,000 to a million, I’m gonna go with a Yahoo directory as opposed to a cheaper directory. And in your bonus kit, we have all those in there. So number three tip is to get directory listings. And keep in mind, when you get a directory listing, use your most important keyword in the link text. That means that if you have a directory listing, and you’re going for Betta Fish Fin Rot, it should say, “Betta Fish Fin Rot,” (coughs) click here. Hmm, excuse me.
Okay, uh, another one is Betta Fish Care FAQ, 31 searches a day. So, we got almost 50 searches a day in these little words. We also have Sick Dying Betta Fish, 14 a day. Only, uh, 1100- 11,500 competing for that. And we have all these subcategory words. Uh, we have Betta Fish Bowl. We have Betta Fighting Fish, Betta Fish Diseases at 200,000. Sick Betta Fish. So, this market, you could build a small 5 to 10 page site, page site based on these words where each page is titled in your title tag and the title tags are all on the templates that you received in your bonus kit. Um, you know, and you can change the title tag that say, “Sick Betta Fish.”
And then you write an article, “Hey, if you got a sick Betta Fish, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, here’s what you could do about it.” And, um, let’s see here, Bored Betta Fish, you know, if your Betta Fish is bored, get ’em a TV or whatever it is. You write an article about it, and now you’re getting that traffic. And just like the PC Moneymaking site, all these words are pointing to selling the book.
And off of this, you could get you know, maybe a hundred clicks a day, maybe 200 clicks a day or more for free, free ’cause it does take time, um, based on your little site, simple site that’s leading them to these things. Betta Fish Care Instructions, 53,000 competing. So, this is a good market ready to be tackled. Another thing you can do if you’re looking to get included really quick is you could do a press release. You can do a press release based on the various Betta Fish thing and maybe you’re, “Hey, here’s a new Betta Fish technique, or here’s how to care for your Betta Fish better, or something like that.”
But again, when you write a press release, it’s just like writing a webpage for organic free search engine listing. You wanna provide good content, you wanna use the keywords, you wanna link to your site, and I’ve had sites get picked up in as little as 12 hours using a press release. And within 12 hours, I’ve had you know, 20, 30,000 people on that site. Betta Fish probably isn’t gonna bring that much traffic, but there are some other things you can use, you know?
And keep in mind also that the more traffic you get, it’s probably less quality traffic. So, if you just get you know, 50 a day for Betta Fish Care and Fin Rot Betta Fish, you’re probably gonna do a lot better than if I’m just getting everyone out there searching Betta Fish, you know? So, keep that in mind. Uh, last number five is lots of pages with good content. You wanna provide good content, good user experience, easy to navigate, link to your other pages. And when you link to your other pages, use the keywords in there.
Use the keywords on everything. Um, you know, and I’m not saying go out there and put Betta Fish, Betta Fish Fin Rot, Betta Fish, Betta Fish Fin Rot, Betta Fish, Sick Betta Fish. No, make a good human design site made for humans that people want to look at not just made to get traffic, because then people are … You might get traffic, but they’ll probably leave and you’ll get, uh, bad conversion ratio and things like that. So, it always pays to take your time and do it right. Think of what you would like, and that’s what the search engines are always gonna show, because if the search engines show junk, that makes them look bad, and they’re gonna take your side off, and make the algorithm to provide better sites.
So, those are some tips on how to get free search engine rankings. And keep in mind that, um, there’s a little bit more on this in your bonus, uh, kit. And this is the method that I’ve used to get over 50 million search engine visitors, uh, for very little money, uh, using these, uh, organic listings. Um, so you could do the same thing. Uh, and again, I would advice you to do it slow and deliberately based on markets just like you know, the Betta Fish market is perfect for this video, because it’s so targeted and the traffic converts, and there’s so little competition that you can do.
And keep in mind, I’m diagnosing a sick Betta Fish, 15 thou- You could just make a page with a picture of a Betta Fish and say diagnosing Betta Fish, uh, diseases, click here. And you’ll probably rank top 10 for that. And I’m not guaranteeing it you know, do it right, do good stuff, but that’s how easy this could be. Um, now keep in mind also, fish is just one market out there. There’s also many, many other things when you have an internet that’s so big, you might have people looking to build go karts, b- uh, make gas scooters. You might have people who wanna build tree houses, people who wanna learn how to get gum out of their VCR, people who wanna learn how to clean their carpet to where the stains don’t come back, people who wanna learn how to save money on laminate flooring.
There’s so many different things here. People who wanna learn to brew their own beer. There’s so many markets out there that you could tackle, and they’re ready, and ready for you to go after ’em, and there’s not a lot of competition. And there’s a ton left for all of us so that we could all get free traffic, paid traffic. Um, but again, if you’re looking for a fast way to go, pay-per-click is, is good. If you’re scared to do that, go organic. Sometimes it might take up to a month, two months, three months to get traffic.
Um, but you know, a lot of times you can get it fairly quick. So, keep that in mind. Um, use the templates. There’s templates in your kit that have a way. It’s a … It’s a generic site based on the word keyword. So you could kind of you know, use that as a key. Don’t use it exact. I mean, you don’t wanna be a cookie cutter site. Um, back in 2002 to 2004, there’s a bunch of programs out there that would provide cookie cutter sites that would change one word and the search engines weren’t too happy, because it just provided junky content.
Um, so really think about what you write, take the time. I mean, seriously the- the- the- the page, the page is on pcmoneymaking.com, all those articles, it took me 10 or 15 minutes to write, because I enjoy it. That’s something I care about. I’m making a site about, uh, magic tricks, something I enjoy, something I like, something I care about. If you like, uh, fixing cars, you know, maybe you could write about that. If you like, um, recipes, you could do that.
I mean, there’s a lot of people I found that type in prime rib reciepies. They spell it wrong just like I do, because I can’t spell, but I like to cook. And that’s a good market you could go for as well. So, there’s all these different things that you can go for, that aren’t even close to being tapped to the potential. And you can get free traffic, and you can get you know, um, paid traffic and press release traffic, and all this stuff funneling to help you build a sales machine, um, based on these things. And it’s not uncommon to see a site like the Betta Fish one make three to four sales in a day.
I mean, there’s people out there who, who make money off of dog training tips websites, and, and, uh, moneymaking tips websites and you know, car racing tips. All these things, they’re making money off of this little bitty niches, and you know, you can do the same thing. Uh, don’t copy ’em. Do your own thing. You know, make it ethical. Be a good business person, and you’re gonna do good. You just have to really focus what you’re gonna go for. Focus your efforts. Focus your sites. Go for niches. You know, take a look at the keyword programs we have listed. See which one works best for you.
Uh, personally, I have my personal favorite which is on there. And you know, it works fantastic, because it shows me right here at a glance all the competition for a certain word that I could get on free traffic, paid traffic and things like that. And keep in mind also that, um, there are some search engines out there that give you full disclosure of what the people are paying. You know, and I’ll show you number one’s paying 10 cents. Number two is paying 9 cents. Number three is paying 8 cents. And it’ll show you where you could go, and you could just look at it a glance and find niches really, really quick.
And that’s what you wanna do is find little niches like the Betta Fish and find little niches like you know, things of that nature that’s going to yield sales. There’s … There’s things like, uh, you know, heartburn, and, and foot stinky feet, or hurt feet, or broken arms. I think a leg cast is looked up 900 times a day. Um, and there’s all these different things that you can do. And you just have to be deliberate. It’s not difficult to get a search engine ranking. People already have ’em. You just have to really work at it, and care about it.
And again, the problem with this business is that a lot of people just wanna get number one ranking for the word “make money,” um, and they don’t think you know, about what they have to do to get that. So, do these things and, uh, you should do really well.
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Chapter 39: Gucci Pillows & Mushroom Conditioner: Saying Goodbye to Shanghai
Posted on April 4, 2019 by 2seetheglobe
Great posture (thank you, straight pins!). Photo: WikipediaCommons,https-//www.flickr.com/ photos/13091127@N00/528023018China.jpg, Luo Shaoyang
Before Jamey and I moved to Shanghai in 2015, we faced a barrage of questions that Americans always seem to ask about China. For example: Isn’t that a communist country? Don’t they eat dog? Will you get to meet Jackie Chan? Do they eat soup with chopsticks?
Stay in lockstep! Video screenshot from news broadcast in China.
I pondered these questions as I had a recurring nightmare that I was marching in one of those massive Chinese military parades with the missiles and tanks and ten bazillion soldiers marching in lockstep. Except I couldn’t get the beat, and everyone was looking at me like a traitor. In reality, I could never be one of those soldiers, mostly because they wear this hat that would make my head look huuuuge. Plus, I discovered that Chinese soldiers stick straight pins in their collars pointing toward their neck as a means of keeping their head up. Ouch.
Look at the beautiful architecture of this 12th century water town of Fengjing! And Starbucks too! Photo: Jeff Fessler
Much to my relief, there was nothing scary awaiting us when we arrived in our new home of Shanghai, no military parades or missiles or dog wontons. To the contrary. There are a bazillion Starbucks (including the largest one in the whole world), flagship stores for Prada, Versace, and Valentino, Shanghai Disneyland, Pop Tarts ($8/box), and scores of fashionable young Chinese staring at iPhones and filling the hip cafes in the very hip Former French Concession where we live. And none of them have pins sticking from their collars because they already walk very upright and purposefully like models on a Gucci runway.
But even though Shanghai looks quite Western in many respects, their government doesn’t exactly operate like those in the West. But trying to explain the government of China is complicated. It’s been labeled many things: communist, socialist, authoritarian, corporatist, a democratic dictatorship, socialism with Chinese characteristics, Marxism adapted to Chinese circumstances, and a socialist market economy. I mean seriously, you need to take a poli-sci course just to explain it (which I did not, hence my reliance on Wikipedia).
Suffice to say the government here operates differently than those in the USA. I mean, one man basically runs the show like a dictator, and his cowering minions follow suit, no matter how outrageous his words or actions are. Then there’s China.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for President Xi Jinping to tweet either, though that would be fun (“Hippo-neck Trump threatens us with a trade war? Maybe windmills have fried his brain. Sad!”). There is a guy in Beijing who, as a hobby, tries to translate Trump’s tweets into Chinese, but is challenged by the bad grammar, spelling errors, and slang. He translates
It looks just like Kim! Photo: Wikipedia Commons, https-//upload.wikimedia.org/ wikipedia/commons/4/43/ Ha_Ha_Toys%2C_Planet_Robot%2C_ Blue%2C_Main_Street_Toys_ Exclusive%2C_Front.jpg ,D J Shin
“Cryin’ Chuck” Schumer to “Chuck the Weeper.” Trump’s “Rigged and Disgusting Witch Hunt“ phrase becomes “Manipulated and nauseating political persecution.” Hard to believe his tweets can be even more incoherent than we find them ourselves.
Surprisingly, you don’t see much in the way of government intrusion here in Shanghai. There are lots of rumors, like how the government shuts down coal-burning factories when an important international event is held so that the abysmal air quality instantly improves. Or how they can seed clouds to make it snow on certain days. Or how they can slow down the Internet if they feel like it. Or how they’ve created an army of robots that look like the Kardashians, poised to take over the world. Well, that last one is not any rumor I actually heard, but you never know. Kim looks awfully animatronic.
Maybe they are laundry supplies, maybe they are dinner. Photo: Jeff Fessler
Actually, we live a fairly Western-style life here in Shanghai (“Western” as in European/American, not as in chaps/spurs, though I’m sure there are some late night clubs that offer that as well). There are Western grocery stores that sell most American products, from Nestles Chocolate Chips to Honey Nut Cheerios to Heinz Ketchup to, yes, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pop Tarts. Even the local Chinese grocery stores sell Tide with Lavender, and L’Oreal Shampoo and conditioner for color treated hair (not that I need that, mind you—this is just for informational purposes).
The tricky part is that the labels on the Western products in the local stores are completely in Chinese, so it can be confusing for a struggling Chinese speaker like me. And when I say “struggling,” I mean a completely non-Chinese speaker who totally gave up on Rosetta Stone Chinese like five times now, and whose own 9-year-old students told him his Chinese sounds like an old grandma speaking.
Shampoo? Conditioner? Pasta sauce? It’s a mystery. Photo: Jeff Fessler
We do have an app on our phone that scans and translates Chinese characters, but the results aren’t always crystal clear. For example, I can never figure out which is the L’Oreal shampoo and which is the L’Oreal conditioner–hence the 12 bottles of L’Oreal shampoo in our cabinet that represent the 11 times we thought it was conditioner. So, we always scan the L’Oreal bottles for clues. But the last time we scanned the front label on the bottle, the translation read, “Mushrooms best feature.” Is L’Oreal making pasta sauce now? Do fungi miraculously repair split ends? Is portabello the latest hot scent?
And it’s not just conditioner that causes me problems. For a month I wondered why the clothes I was washing didn’t have that freshly laundered scent. Then, after a quick scan with the app, I discovered that the Purex lavender-scented liquid detergent I was using was, in fact, lavender-scented fabric softener. Nothing like wearing really soft, static-free, filthy clothes for four weeks. Other parts of the label translated to: “New Pretend,” “Clean Smoked,” and “Temple No Remain.” Always an adventure in Shanghai.
The shipping company has packed us up already, and our 36 boxes are on a ship headed to….
But, alas, this particular adventure is nearing the end and we will soon leave the $8 Pop Tarts and cloud seeding and Kardashian robot armies behind. Because we made the big decision to leave China at the end of this school year and move on to a new place!
No doubt this new locale will be as unusual and foreign to us as Mali or China, a location that will require some time for us to adjust to an interesting, novel culture we aren’t used to. Like in our previous travels, we do have concerns about this new post. The actual city where we will reside is a picturesque, safe place with lovely people that I’m sure will welcome us with open arms. But it lies within a country plagued by violence and a somewhat shaky government led by an unstable leader.
Yes, we are moving to America.
Photo: Public Domain
Jamey and I will soon be residents of a town that is 625 times smaller in population and 153 times smaller in land area than Shanghai. Quincy, Illinois is a town of 40,000 people covering 16 square miles (41 square kilometers) on the Mississippi River, smack dab in the heart of the Midwest. First inhabited by the Illiniwek tribe and officially named in 1825, its riverfront location made it a major trading hub in the 1800s, and once the state’s second largest city. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held a senatorial debate in the downtown park, and it’s the birthplace of Academy Award-winning actress Mary Astor (the Maltese Falcon), and the fabulous, Emmy Award-nominated Jonathan Van Ness who currently stars in Netflix’s “Queer Eye” (he lived just three houses away from our new home, and I went to high school with his mom).
Quincy celebs Mary Astor & Jonathan Van Ness. Photos: Wikipedia Commons, public domain, https-//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File-Mary_Astor_Argentinean_Magazine_AD _2.jpghttps-//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File-Jonathan_Van_Ness,_2018-04
It’s always been a welcoming town, sheltering 6,000 Mormon refugees in 1838 who fled persecution in Missouri (Quincy had about 2,000 people at the time), sheltering members of the Pottawatomie tribe in 1838 as they were forcibly relocated by the U.S. government from Indiana to Kansas along the “Trail of Death,” and becoming a major stop on the Underground Railroad. There was also a huge influx of German immigrants fleeing revolutions and conflicts in Europe who found peace and quiet and good farmland in Quincy in the mid 1800s. Thanks to them, Quincy has a long history of breweries and a plethora of taverns. Nothing says “welcome” like a bar on every corner!
Despite the fuddy-duddy stereotype the Midwest sometimes evokes, Quincy actually has
Dr. Richard Eells of Quincy helped hundreds of enslaved people escape to Canada. His house in Quincy was a stop on the Underground Railroad and you can visit it today. Photo: Public domain
strong roots as a progressive city. The first immigrants came from New England and brought with them their progressive values, such as abolitionism and public education. That continued into modern times when, in 1975, Time magazine called Quincy “an educational mecca” as educators from around the country flocked to its schools to see cutting edge approaches to instruction.
But I’m not naïve; I realize that today’s Quincy may not be the same progressive burg it once was. For example, in the last presidential election here, 70.6 percent of the vote went to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named (hint: When he hears the word “stormy” he’s not thinking about the weather). And despite the fact that Illinois is a blue state, Quincy sits within a very red county. While I’ve never been a member of any political party, I am frightened by the ones who shun science and think that gay conversation therapy is a thing. But this is where those bars on every corner can come in handy, because after a few cocktails I always think the president is Lady Gaga and then I feel great.
The 1890 Newcomb House on Maine Street, now the Quincy Museum. Photo: Wikipedia, Public Domain, https-//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_ F._Newcomb_House#/media/File-Quincy_1601_Maine
There are healthier distractions, though. Quincy is a town rich in the arts and culture. Named to Expedia’s list of America’s Most Artistic Towns in 2017 and 2018, it’s home to America’s very first arts council, a community theatre in its 82nd season, a symphony orchestra, opera company, museums, 1,000 acres of parks, and over 3,500 architecturally significant buildings contributing to four National Historic Register Districts. And there are a couple of gay bars!
Quincy is also my hometown.
My Grade 4 class at Webster School in Quincy. I’m in the front, 3rd from left.
Yep, and it’s a place where I haven’t lived since I was 18 years old. I’ll be teaching in the same school system where I learned to read, write, and love show tunes. Jamey will be teaching just across the river in Hannibal, MO, home of Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn.
I’ll be living in the same town where I spent Friday nights TP-ing homes, where I avoided paying admission to the drive-in theatre by hiding in a car trunk (while wearing trendy white painter’s pants, no less), and where I once saw a ghostlike apparition as I regularly explored haunted houses way before those TV shows like Paranormal Witness and Ghost Hunters were on TV. If I get famous, I’ll probably apply to be on Celebrity Ghost Stories. My story will certainly be better than those of Downtown Julie Brown or that dweeb Scott Baio.
Sure, it’s an unconventional path from South Florida to West Africa to China to the Heartland,
Our maid and friend, Fati (2nd from right) in Bamako, Mali.
where life might be more laid back. But at this point in my life, I’ve lived and worked (or gone to school) on five continents where I’ve tried my best to speak Spanish, German, French, Bambara, and Chinese just so I could find a toilet or tell a server that I’m allergic to garlic (often the garlic question wasn’t understood so the toilet question became much more urgent). I’ve taught in schools on three continents, and in one country I taught the prime minister’s son who came to parent conferences with armed soldiers.
At the Great Wall near Beijing, early in the morning without another single tourist around.
I’ve experienced life across the globe, from Ethiopia to Easter Island, from Uzbekistan to the UK, even having to add pages to my passport because it was too filled with entry stamps. I’ve seen 70 countries. I’ve hiked an ancient Incan trail for days to Machu Picchu in Peru, climbed inside the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Cairo, looked at the temples in Cambodia from a hot air balloon, sat with a tribal chief in a remote village in Mali, experienced the Northern Lights in the Arctic Circle in Finland, stood on a smoking volcano in Nicaragua, floated down the river on a traditional Mekong Delta riverboat in Laos, spent the night with a hill tribe in Thailand, stood too close to wild baboons in Ethiopia, floated in a rowboat in an iceberg-filled bay in Greenland, had the flu in North Korea and food poisoning in Serbia, and even greeted King Wangchuck of Bhutan in a monastery. Jamey and I never needed a bucket list because we just ended up doing the things we would have listed anyway.
Hiking to the Tiger’s Nest monastery in Bhutan.
Teaching abroad was the best decision we ever made. There was our first post in memorable Mali. Amazing music! A coup d’état! Fabulous culture! A war! Two new languages to learn! An Ebola outbreak! That experience made our next stop, Shanghai, seem tame. People would say, “Oh, the streets of Shanghai are so crazy with all of those motor scooters,” and I’d think about the streets of Bamako filled with cars, galloping horses, French army trucks, herds of longhorn steer, rickety taxis, vendors weaving through it all selling toilet paper or plastic bags of water, and, oh yes, scooters. But these scooter drivers carry huge sheets of plate glass or several live sheep or six tires. So “crazy” we’ve done, in all its various forms.
Following the ancient Silk Road route in Uzbekistan.
We got to teach with fascinating educators and kids from around the world who widened our world view more than we ever thought possible. We got to live an expat life in which a long weekend in Thailand or Tokyo is routine. I once asked my class here in Shanghai if anyone was traveling for spring break, and one American girl frowned and sighed, “Bali AGAIN.”
It’s been a grand adventure, and a rather lucrative one as well because as expats we didn’t have to pay U.S. taxes, and our schools covered all housing costs. So we actually saved money–even with all of the endless traveling we engaged in during our many, many school holidays (mid-autumn festival, National Day break, Thanksgiving, winter break, Chinese New Year, spring break, Tomb Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival). In one particularly active 12-month period we managed to experience China, the Maldives, Singapore, Bhutan, North Korea, the U.S., Cuba, and Bali (Bali AGAIN?). But as much as we’ve savored this whirlwind life around the world, partying at foreign embassies, and having maids and drivers and gardeners, our priorities have changed.
We want nothing more now then to be closer to our families.
With our parents in our newly purchased home in Quincy. Photo: Jill Burgess
I know, I know. I’m talking like a sappy poster someone puts on Facebook (envision a present wrapped with silvery paper and a Tiffany-blue ribbon, nestled under a Christmas tree with a puppy sleeping next to it, and the words “Family is the gift that lasts forever” stretched across the top in a sympathetic font). But for Jamey and me, it’s not so sappy because, for a number of reasons, it’s becoming clear that this is the point in time where we can pitch in, lend a hand, and offer more support to our families than a quick weeklong visit once a year allows.
Our Quincy family: me, sister Amy, Jamey, sister Jill, nephew Nick, dad and mom. Photo: Jeff Fessler
When I was a teen, I watched the TV show “Big Blue Marble” and dreamed of seeing the unique corners of the world it showcased (“Meet Jess, a 15-year old boy from the Netherlands who wants to join the circus someday!”). But I never thought about how special my own little world was too. In this day and age when our own president is in marriage #3 (with mistresses on the side), having fun, active, normal parents married almost 60 years now is pretty unique too. Having them live five minutes away so I can drop in anytime to eat home baked treats–I mean so I can help them with chores—is a luxury beyond compare, as is building things with nephew Nick, laughing with my sisters until we almost wet ourselves, having a drink with my cousins (well facilitated by the “tavern on every corner” situation), or hopping a short flight to visit my in-laws on the idyllic farm out in the country or my brother in amazing Seattle (I could also say “my amazing brother in Seattle, but I was trying to go for parallelism in this sentence).
Our midcentury beauty, waiting for our arrival. Photo: Jeff Fessler
All of these experiences will be novel for us, and we look forward to this new life, nestled in our midcentury home full of art from our travels. Also novel will be a working Internet that doesn’t cause me to curse like a sailor, blue skies, and not needing a face mask with charcoal filters in order to protect my lungs from inhaling toxic chemicals. I certainly won’t miss the elderly woman in the apartment above who apparently begins clogging practice at five sharp every morning.
Photo: Jeff Fessler
Granted we won’t be a couple of blocks away from the Gucci flagship store like we are here in Shanghai, where we can conveniently pick up a 17” x 17” needlepoint pillow with teddy bear motif for $1,250. However, we’ll be minutes away from the Maid-Rite, a restaurant featured on Alton Brown’s show on the Travel Channel, where for around $3.00 we can buy the best loose meat sandwich in the universe (and I would much rather buy 417 Maid-Rite sandwiches than a single Gucci pillow, just not all at once).
Along with oxygen and water, travel will still be an essential part of our lives as it has always been. After all, we have 120-ish countries we haven’t yet visited, and a few states too (although Idaho is a tough sell for us). And just in case anyone has lingering questions about our big move, I’ve pre-answered them for your convenience:
Q: Will you be living next to a cornfield?
A: While I did live next to a corn field/cabbage field growing up, our new neighborhood is bordered by the very fancy, 100-year old Quincy Country Club and its well-maintained golf course. No farm equipment in sight.
Q: Will you be drinking Budweiser in the back of a pickup truck while watching monster car races?
A: If I’m in the back of a pickup truck, it’s because I’ve just bought a vintage midcentury Barcelona Chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich and I had it delivered, along with two cases of Whitley Neill Blood Orange gin.
Q: Will you feel isolated being in the middle of nowhere?
A: I can take a $50 flight from the Quincy airport to Chicago in less than an hour. I can drive to St. Louis in two hours. I can build a raft like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and float down the Mississippi River to escape Aunt Polly who is whacking me on the head with a thimble and forcing me to abandon my high-spirited ways.
Q: Won’t you go insane with the antics of the current administration at your doorstep?
A: We currently live in a communist (ish) country, previously lived in a country where the government was taken over by drunk junior officers of the army, and have visited countries run by dictators and madmen. We have learned how to manage. Plus, there is a tavern on every corner.
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Chapter 38: Traveling While Gay: Vigilante Squads, Unnatural Carnal Knowledge, and Plenty of Piña Coladas
Posted on January 11, 2019 by 2seetheglobe
At the airport in Malaysia, waiting to board our flight/escape unharmed
We were walking zombies when we arrived near midnight at the Sama Sama Express Hotel inside the Kuala Lampur, Malaysia airport. We were on our way to Vietnam, and we’d been traveling for more than 24 hours on three different planes that literally took us halfway around the world (in economy, no less). Now we had an 11-hour layover here until our next flight, and the only thing on our agenda was a steaming hot shower and sleeping while lying flat.
Thankfully we didn’t have to be coherent to check in at the hotel since we had booked and paid online a month before. And since it was located inside the airport, all we had to do was mosey over about two minutes from our arriving flight to the hotel’s front desk and flash our passports. Easy-peasy.
There were two young women at the front desk. One of them read from her computer, reviewing our reservation aloud: one night, standard room, checkout at noon, breakfast included. Then she abruptly stopped talking, looked at us, back at the computer screen with squinted eyes, then back at us.
“It says king bed,” she announced.
“Yes,” I answered. “Also, we’ll check out before ten since we have to make a flight.”
She looked at the other clerk with alarm. I wondered, were they upset we were leaving earlier than the established checkout time? Whatever—we just wanted to sleep.
Once in our hotel room, Jamey wondered if it was the king bed that had distressed them. After all, we were two males, and Malaysia was a Muslim country. While I usually looked into the LGBT situation in countries before we visited, Malaysia was just a layover and I had skipped the research. So I did a quick online search where we discovered that the front desk clerks’ discomfort was the least of our worries:
Malaysia:
20 years imprisonment, fines, and caning for same sex sexual activity.
Vigilante groups round up men accused of being gay and had them arrested.
Government officials deport any visiting foreign cabinet ministers or diplomats who are gay.
The People’s Anti-Homosexual Voluntary Movement lobbies for stricter criminal laws against homosexuality.
Then there was this fun tidbit:
The Malaysian Film Censorship Board announced it would only allow depiction of homosexual characters in movies as long as the characters “repent” or die.
Apparently in 2017 Malaysia tried to censor Disney’s Beauty and the Beast over some “gay moments.” I totally have to get a copy of that version.
Now, I’ve had some sleepless nights in hotels in the past for a variety of reasons–an air conditioner in Belize that chilled the room to meat locker temperatures, a room in Cairo without AC or a window or a fan or apparently oxygen—but this was a whole new ballgame. Would these clerks turn us in to the People’s Anti-Homosexual Voluntary Movement? Would we be caned in the airport food court, right in front of Starbucks? Would we be featured in the next season of Locked Up Abroad? We even pulled out the convertible couch and made it look slept in—just in case the vigilante squad showed up.
The next morning we checked out earlier than we had originally planned, did not make eye contact with the clerks, and loudly talked about football stats as we sped through the lobby. We finally stopped sweating when those airplane wheels left that Malaysian runway. See ya’ later, haters!
Jamey and me at the 1993 March on Washington for LGBT rights
The whole anti-gay thing has never made sense to us, and the fact that most of this bias is based in religion (you know, that institution that’s supposed to make humans better people?) makes it all the more bizarre. I’ve fought hard over the years to combat this discrimination—marching on Washington, volunteering for human rights organizations, speaking before city councils, writing a monthly article in a local alternative newspaper, picketing and boycotting anti-gay organizations, and writing an email nearly every week to a person or company who debases people because of their sexual orientation. But, c’mon! When I go on vacation, I don’t want to think about an anti-gay vigilante squad ready to bust down our hotel room door. Unless they are going to take us to see that steamy version of Beauty and the Beast…I’d be totally down for that.
In our travels around the world, we’ve mostly avoided these awkward get-put-in-the-slammer-because-of-how-we-were-born situations because, as a rule of thumb, we avoid countries that might maim or kill us. For example, there are ten charming countries that impose the death penalty for being gay (Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen) that will probably not be the spot for our next spring break hullabaloo.
Uganda was almost on that list. Home of the infamous 2013 “Kill the Gays” bill, they originally called for the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.” Now I have met some very aggravating homosexuals in my lifetime, but to be clear, I never wanted to kill them. The punishment was later downgraded to life in prison (Whew! Thank goodness for small favors!) after most of the world threatened to withdraw all of their financial support from the country. Nope, I have little desire to explore a country where violent and brutal attacks against LGBT people are common and cheered on by political and religious leaders (and often performed by state officials). Nothing ruins a holiday more than a beating overseen by a Ugandan pastor.
Unfortunately, over the years we have slipped up and took trips to places that we really
shouldn’t have. A few years back we tagged along with some friends on a driving trip around Ghana (For the sordid details, see my blog’s Chapter 15: Cause Every Little Thing is Ghana Be Alright). We didn’t research the country since our friends had made all of the plans. However, we had an inkling something was up when we saw that the windows of many Ghanaian cars were adorned with large adhesive letters that said things like, “I am covered in the blood of Jesus.” The drivers must have toweled off because, overall, they looked fine to me.
On the beach in Ghana, smiling even though they want to use those oars to beat the gay out of me.
For the first couple of nights we stayed at a rundown beachside hotel that gave new meaning to “seedy.” It was the kind of place that returned your laundry nicely folded, but still unwashed (yep, really happened). There was no Wi-Fi so we couldn’t research how Ghana felt about LGBT people. At one point I asked the front desk clerk if I could change some money, and as she was giving me my Ghanaian cedi she looked straight at me and said, “So you’re American. I don’t like that Obama. He legalized homosexuality.”
I wasn’t exactly sure how to reply. Maybe she was setting me up? Maybe she was just mean? Or covered in the blood of Jesus? So, I fake-smiled, took my wad of cedi, and racewalked out of there. Once we made it to the first place with Wi-Fi, I discovered these fun facts about Ghana–the country we would be traversing for the next eight days:
Ghana:
three years imprisonment for “unnatural carnal knowledge” (e.g. code speak for being gay)
physical and violent homophobic attacks against LGBT people are common, and often encouraged by the media, as well as religious and political leaders
reports of young gay people being kicked out of their homes are also common
reports of torture programs designed to “cure” homosexuality
Rest assured I did not hum a single show tune or discuss any episodes of The Real Housewives of Atlanta for the next week and henceforth did not get the gay tortured out of me.
Ethiopia. We’re just close friends, I swear!
We inadvertently visited other African countries where the laws don’t favor us, either because we tagged along with others, attended a conference, or just missed the info in our research. I mean, it’s not exactly publicized by their travel and tourism bureaus. “Visit Egypt! See the pyramids! Float down the Nile! And if you’re gay, crush rocks in a hard labor camp for 17 years!” Here are a few of the countries we naively visited:
Egypt: Homosexuality is not specifically outlawed, but “morality laws” are used to punish gay people–up to 17 years in prison with or without hard labor & fines.
Ethiopia: Up to 15 years imprisonment for same-sex sexual activity.
Morocco: Up to 3 years imprisonment for same-sex sexual activity.
Senegal: Up to 5 years imprisonment for same-sex sexual activity.
Tunisia: Up to 3 years imprisonment and fines for male same sex sexual activity.
Sometimes it didn’t even cross my mind that a country would be anti-gay. Take Bhutan, for
Trekking to Paro Taktsang (Tiger’s Nest monastery) in Bhutan, where we could have gone to prison for a year for making whoopie in the hotel room.
example, known worldwide as the first country with a Gross National Happiness index built right into their constitution. Everything the government does is supposedly weighed against this index, which includes a guarantee of psychological well-being. And yet:
Bhutan: Between 1 month and 1 year imprisonment for same-sex sexual acts
Well, listen here King Wangchuck (really his name) of Bhutan. If I’m a gay Bhutanese fellow, I’m not experiencing much of that Gross National Happiness you advertise. This hurts even more because King Wangchuck is young and handsome (seriously, clink on the link–he’s model-like) and is pals with Will and Kate. Surely he watches Will & Grace?
Another big travel blunder we made was when we visited the Maldives, that exotic string of islands in the Indian Ocean. We didn’t even think to check on the LGBT situation before we traveled there, mesmerized as we were by those over-the-sea bungalows we’d seen on screen savers and travel posters.
It was a painfully expensive adventure, but we sucked it up because, hey, those over-the-sea bungalows! And yes, it was dreamlike stepping off our veranda right into the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean and having a cabin boy decorate our bed each day with little pictures made of flower petals. Good thing he didn’t create a picture of the Maldives Penal Code which would have shown us this:
Maldives: Up to 8 years imprisonment with possibility of whippings, house arrest, or deportation for same sex sexual acts or…gay marriage!
I discovered this fun fact while lounging on the veranda of our Maldivian over-the-sea bungalow, sipping a tropical drink, and doing a search on my iPad. And let me just say, there weren’t enough piña coladas in the world to make us forget that we could be languishing in a Maldivian prison just because one day back in 2012 we drove to Iowa (one of six U.S. states at the time that allowed same-sex marriage) to get legally hitched after being together for 26 years.
Maldives. Can you please wait until after breakfast to whip us?
It’s one thing to feel disappointed when your vacay doesn’t turn out exactly as you planned—maybe it rained, or the hotel room had a mildew smell, or the hotel restaurant had stale bread. But imagine being on vacation and filled with dread just for being, well, yourself (while paying a whole hell of a lot of money for that privilege). Next time we want an over-the-water bungalow experience without the fear of a gay whipping, we’ll pass on the Maldives and head to places like Fiji, Cambodia, and the Philippines that won’t throw us in the clinker for being lawfully wedded.
We really began to understand the hateful side of the world when we decided to become international teachers, and began our search for schools. One of our first offers came from a school in Seoul, Korea where we really hit it off with the principal after several Skype interviews. He said we would be perfect for his school, and the last step was for him to get the final okay from the school owner. But a day later he informed us that he didn’t even make it inside the guy’s office—the secretary out front had stopped him dead in his tracks when he explained that we were a gay couple.
“You can’t tell him that!” she exclaimed. “That’s not allowed at our school!”
The principal asked, “What’s not allowed?”
“You know,” she answered. Then she mouthed the word “gay.”
You pretty much know when a school secretary can’t even voice the word “gay,” we weren’t going to be sashaying down the halls of that institution anytime soon.
It only got worse. As we started to look at schools with available positions, many were either in countries where gay people definitely would not be welcomed (hello Saudi Arabia!) or were religious-based schools where they probably mouthed the word “gay.”
To keep track, I ended up making a color coded chart that included every school (Green = gay friendly! Red = We will imprison/torture/kill you!). We discovered that nearly one third of international schools were off-limits to us.
Thankfully, both of the international schools where we ended up teaching were extremely gay- friendly and actually, just friendly in general. Our school in Shanghai even hung a banner across the front of the building announcing their support for LGBT people—it was signed by all administrators and loads of students. Both schools were also located in countries that did not discriminate based on sexual orientation. Same-sex sexual activity has been legal in China since 1997. In Mali, no laws against same-sex sexual activity have ever existed in the country.
Throughout our job searches and vacation searches, I can’t tell you how many times we heard someone say:
“C’mon, it’s safe for gay guys in _________! (insert name of obviously anti-gay country) They might have those laws on the books, but they hardly ever enforce them!”
In other words, “You PROBABLY won’t be stoned or imprisoned, so just enjoy your piña colada!”
Sorry, not worth the risk. There are just too many countries in the world that welcome me for who I am, where I don’t have to worry about the repercussions of bizarrely inhumane religious laws, or antiquated British colonial laws that treat same-sex relations as a punishable offense. If I want to spend a gazillion dollars a night for an over-the-water bungalow, I’ll do it in a country that appreciates and maybe celebrates my keen sense of fashion, knowledge of Bravo shows, and witty repartee.
Sadly, our own home country isn’t a bastion of gay friendliness either. Up until 2003, same sex relations were illegal in the United States (let’s just say I was a repeat offender from way back in the day). You know things are bad when communist China legalizes same sex sexual activity six years before the U.S. And to this day, it is still legal in America to fire an employee for being gay in these 28 states:
It’s all pretty alarming to me, especially when I just read some research that shows that unequal treatment of LGBT people causes economic harm, leading to lower economic output for individuals, businesses, and even entire countries. On the other side, inclusive policies can actually boost a country’s GDP. Surely that news would spur countries to change, right?
Nope. Just over the last year or so, countries have become even more anti-gay. Russia, Uganda, Nigeria, and Brunei implemented new laws that increase penalties not just for being gay, but also for simply supporting rights for LGBT people. We’ve still got a lot of work to do in this world.
Which means, it’s definitely time for a piña colada. Or the whole pitcher. Oh, what the hell, just give me the bottle of rum.
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Chapter 30: You’re Lookin’ Swell Mali: Saying Goodbye to Our Bamako Adventure
Posted on June 17, 2015 by 2seetheglobe
Clarence (right) with the goo-goo-googly eyes.
As a kid I was obsessed with Africa, mostly fueled by what I saw on TV. There was the TV series Daktari starring Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion, who made me feel both terrified and super sad at the same time (“Watch out! He’ll tear your head off with those powerful jaws…ohhhh, poor thing…what lioness will hook up with that walleyed creature?”).
There was the based-on-a-true-story movie Born Free, where we all boo-hooed when captive animal Elsa the lion is finally set free (in slow motion, of course) into the Kenyan wilds as that sappy, Oscar-winning Born Free song plays: Born free, and life is worth living, But only worth living, ’cause you’re born freeeeeeee. This is not to be confused with Kid Rock’s Born Free song in which he defiantly sings, “You can knock me down and watch me bleed, But you can’t keep no chains on me, I was born free! While technically those lyrics could apply to a freed African lion, poor grammar ruins the mood.
I can’t forget the classic film The African Queen where Katharine Hepburn manages to look glamorous in the Tanzanian jungles amidst the tsetse flies, high humidity, and a lack of toiletries. Glamour and jungle adventure all in one? Sign me up!
Ms. Hepburn…why don’t you sweat?
And then there was my favorite Abbott and Costello movie “Africa Screams,” where a male gorilla has a major crush on Bud Abbott and eventually saves him from being boiled up for dinner by some hungry cannibals. I used to think the whole cannibalism thing in this movie was horribly stereotypical until I read that in the 1890s the town of Ngandu in the Congo paved its streets with the leftovers from supper, in this case 2,000 polished human skulls. Oh well, they always say two (thousand) heads are better than one.
Despite the fact that I grew up in the Midwest, literally next to a cornfield, I fantasized that I lived in the wilds of Africa. The forest in the nearby park became the jungles of the Congo, and I would hack my way along the deep jungle trails with my trusty machete (well, it was part of a high rise handlebar that broke off of my Schwinn Stringray bike, you know, the one with the banana seat?). Now, I’m pretty sure that the jungles of the Congo didn’t have a Dairy Queen across the street like my jungle did, but a boy’s gotta have his Mister Misty and Dilly Bar after all of that jungle trekking.
A hungry, hungry hippo in lifelike plastic.
I even wrote a story in junior high about two boys who find an old map in their algebra book and stow away to Africa in search of treasure. Clearly I was doing some daydreaming during math class. I also daydreamed about the time I rode the Jungle Cruise at DisneyWorld, my nirvana. A ten-minute dose of pygmies, pythons, and gorillas, all while gliding along a refreshingly clean “river” with our experienced African guide (actually, an 18-year old high school dude named Jason from Fort Wayne, Indiana wearing a pith helmet). What more could an Africa-obsessed kid crave?
Hope there is some Pepto-Bismol in that bag….
So imagine my delight when I first actually stepped foot on the African continent, on a big detour during a college-era backpacking trip through Europe. Four of us had just arrived in Athens, saw a poster advertising cheap flights to Cairo, and within two hours were at the airport—despite the fact we didn’t have a visa for Egypt. After a weird chat with authorities at the Cairo airport in which we signed some papers that were all written in Arabic that might/might not have promised them my firstborn or my corneas, we were allowed in.
We enjoyed a weeklong adventure exploring the pyramids, riding camels in the desert, and learning that inexpensive, hole-in-the-wall restaurant food, while economically sensible, can cause explosive diarrhea two days later. But I was in Africa. AFRICA! It was as exotic and every bit as exciting as the Jungle Cruise, even though the Nile river water seemed a bit cloudier than the Disney “river.” But despite our watery stools, it was one of the best experiences of my life.
Just like the movie Casablanca, except actually filmed in Casablanca.
Some years later I got to experience Africa yet again. This time Jamey and I traveled to Morocco for a few weeks on a tour around the country, wandering the souks of Marrakesh, having tea with a Berber family in the Atlas Mountains, and seeing the hotel where the Marx Brothers filmed A Night in Casablanca. It was also here that we learned that Humphrey Bogart’s classic film Casablanca was not filmed in Casablanca, but rather in the exotic locales of Burbank and Van Nuys, California. Here’s lookin’ at you, California kid.
But it wasn’t until three and a half years ago that the idea of living in Africa presented itself to us. By that point we had abandoned hopes of continuing our teaching career in America, which had become about as pleasant as swallowing a mouthful of sulfuric acid-coated glass shards. Instead we were looking for international teaching jobs that would take us far, far away from the test-obsessed mess in the U.S. While there were international teaching jobs available in many countries, two openings fitting our exact skills popped up at a school in Bamako, Mali.
Mali! We pictured ourselves in pith helmets and khaki jackets, just like Jason the Jungle Cruise guide. We saw ourselves living in this exotic place of golden sands that was once home to a grand kingdom twice the size of France–so wealthy it made European royalty look like trailer park trash. We emailed the school and interviewed by Skype a few times, and after a couple of months received the news that we were hired. Surprisingly, safari fashions were not part of the conversation, but we were thrilled just the same to know we would soon be living and working in the exotic lands of West Africa.
Now granted there were a few bumps in the road in our journey. And by bumps I mean those speed bumps at the rental car places that are covered with sharp iron spikes. Because just a month after signing our contract Mali experienced a coup d’état, then a counter coup. The school closed, and we were offered the chance to cancel our contracts. But then it reopened and we went to Mali anyway because really, we figured, how much worse could it get?
Well, maybe a little worse. Within a couple of months Islamist rebels took over the northern half of the country, followed by a massive intervention by the French Army (who, by the way, wear really, really short camouflaged shorts). In the two years that followed there was a terrorist attack at a nightclub in Bamako, as well as an outbreak of Ebola. But other than that, things were dandy.
Aside from the troubles and a fluctuating student population that waxed and waned
Who wears short shorts, we wear short shorts, if you dare wear short shorts, Nair for short shorts… Source: http://ricorant.blogspot.com
depending on which countries evacuated their people, and the security advisories from the American Embassy cautioning us to avoid lots of places, we loved just about every minute of our time in Bamako. I realize that probably makes a few folks shake their heads, along the same lines as “Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?” But believe me when I say that Mali is so much more than rare viral outbreaks and military skirmishes in the desert by short shorts-wearing men. These will not be my takeaways from three years in Mali (okay, maybe I’ll remember those crazy short shorts).
So what will I take away from our three years living and working in Mali? What will I fondly remember? Here’s what:
Nothing is dull-colored in Mali. Everything from the clothes to the carrots dances with vivid color. Even the dirt is fabulous, a sort of earthy orange hue that would look great on the walls of a Parisian apartment or on a gown going down the catwalk. Actually most of our light-colored clothes and linens turned this shade of orange, so we really will remember this tone for years to come.
We had to arrive at school early because it took at least ten or 15 minutes to get through the greetings and joking with the school guards at the gate. Sure, there were teachers who blew right past these guys with a clipped “bonjour,” but they missed out on one of my favorite parts of the day. This is when we learned to speak rudimentary Bambara, including the basic greeting that can take about five minutes (How are you? How did you sleep? How is your family? How is the village chief? And so on).
This is the time where we began to comprehend the Malian sense of humor, in which they make fun of you but you don’t really feel insulted because they are so damn nice and have the most genuine smiles ever (“Your belly looks big. Did you eat everything in the house?” or “You look tired. Too much whiskey last night?”). We bonded with these guys, and plenty of the other local staff who we took the time to get to know, and saying goodbye to them was heart-wrenching.
We once visited a remote village with a colleague and his Malian friend who originally came from this village. Even though the villagers didn’t know us and we weren’t exactly dressed well (sorry Katharine Hepburn) we were treated like VIPs, always offered the good seat in the shade along with a welcome speech about how they felt so privileged to have us there. We even met the chief who welcomed us and told us we could return any time. Throngs of kids followed us as we walked back to our car. All I could think of was, “So this is what it’s like to be a member of One Direction!”
The Expats
It takes a certain kind of person to knowingly choose to live in a landlocked, developing, sub-Saharan country where kids still poop in the road and shirts are sold from tree limbs on the roadside, where embassy advisories pop up on our phones warning us to steer clear of public places. These are people with a sense of adventure, a bit of grit, an intense interest in culture, a humanitarian spirit, lots of passport stamps, and definitely a touch of insanity. And I loved meeting every one of them.
We met a UN filmmaker who shot a documentary about artists in Afghanistan. A former colleague organizes music festivals in remote areas of Mali in order to promote peace among different tribes. Another friend worked with transgendered prostitutes in various countries around the world. We met male and female Marines who, still in their 20s, have already worked in several countries most people couldn’t point out on a map. We even socialized with the US Ambassador and the British Deputy Chief of Mission.
Our road turns into the Jungle Cruise.
There really should be a TV show about the weather in Mali (hey, there are shows called “Treetop Cat Rescues” and “Wives With Knives,” so a meteorological-based Mali program isn’t too farfetched). The wet season involves torrential downpours that dump so much rain in an hour or two that if there actually were storm drains they couldn’t handle it. So the roads turn into rivers–I actually saw fish swimming down on our “street” one afternoon. The hot season is so blistering hot and dry that it sucks the moisture from your eyes and makes blinking a chore. On the bright side (pun intended), it’s nearly always sunny so you are always cheerful as you slowly melt into the pavement. Surprisingly I must have adapted to the climate because a few weeks I actually found myself saying, “No, it’s not that hot. it’s only 100.” I guess to me, 100 degrees is the new 80 degrees.
We took an African dance class our first year in Bamako, practicing on a patio outside our school, overlooking the Niger River, with live drummers who pounded away like there was no tomorrow. In our own minds we moved like the newest members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; in reality we looked like two guys with some sort of nerve damage. But it didn’t matter because we were having fun and feeling a part of the culture—a culture that is steeped in the arts. We saw just about every top Malian musician in concert (Habib Koite played at one of our school’s graduation ceremonies), watched puppet shows, learned how to decorate mud cloth, and purchased enough masks and pottery and statues to open our own museum.
Does the cat need shots? Car need a tune up? Feel like buying some Malian crafts? If so, keep your lazy butt on the couch because in Bamako everyone makes house calls, from the vet, to the mechanic, to the crafts guy. I did go to a dental office to get a root canal because I didn’t want blood and saliva to get on the couch.
The Simplicity
Bamako has a couple of million people, but is still referred to as a “big village.” I would add a “big DUSTY village.” There is about one high-rise building, and not many stoplights or sidewalks or paved roads. On the other hand there are plenty of farm animals gallivanting around the city, and you can buy most of what you need at the roadside. It’s a busy, crowded sort of place, but uncomplicated and not stressful.
Sure there are a gazillion vehicles/animals/people in the road, but you seldom move faster than 25 MPH. So it never feels like a crazy death-defying ride down I-95 like I was used to, with obnoxious drivers two inches from my bumper, honking at me to go faster when I was already ten miles over the speed limit. If you’re trying to pull onto a busy road in Bamako, people actually stop their cars and flash their lights to let you in.
Nothing seemed to rattle my Malian friends. If I was fried at the end of the day from trying to accomplish too much and not getting everything done, they would say: “Dɔɔnin-dɔɔnin, kɔnɔnin bɛ a ɲaa da.” (Little by little, a bird builds its nest). When the war in the north was raging and we were preparing “to go” bags in case of evacuation, they just said things like, “That’s life” and “It will all work out.” When our plane was delayed for hours and I paced the airport trying to find out what was going on, the Malian passengers stretched out across three seats and slept. I rarely heard a Malian complain, except for my janitor at school who felt the school cat didn’t deserve the canned food and imported Whisker Lickin treats I gave her because “she doesn’t really do any work.”
Listen, I won’t lie: Jamey and I like fancy places too. Provence in the south of France is divine…we enjoyed buying lilies at the outdoor flower market and eating at swanky sidewalk cafes and buying lavender soap and very expensive suede shoes (that did not work well in the aforementioned hot season in Mali). Venice was enchanting as we strolled over the Bridge of Sighs with a gelato and drank wine in Piazza San Marco and watched the gondolas drift by on the Grand Canal. Barcelona, Lisbon, Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, Paris…we’ve visited many proper cities and had enjoyable times.
Being fancy at a fancy Parisian sidewalk cafe with our fancy sunglasses.
But unless you are Jason Bourne being chased through Europe by CIA operatives and Interpol, these fancy places don’t involve a whole lot of adventure. You eat good food, you see pretty churches, you visit an art museum with Picassos and Monets. Pleasant, but for me not so memorable.
That’s why Mali struck such a cord with me. A simple Saturday drive through Bamako to the grocery store was more memorable than any stroll down the Champs-Élysées or the Ramblas. Right in the center of town a herd of longhorn cattle might cross the road in front of your car (which makes a unique excuse as to why you are late to something).
We always played played “What’s on the Moto?” in which we tried to find the most bizarre
photo credit: https://gerguinea2014.wordpress.com/
thing being carried on a moto, the small motorcycles that inundate every road in Bamako. Some of the contenders:
A guy driving his moto with three tires over his body (I think Wile E. Coyote did that once)
two guys carrying three live sheep (a very interesting ménage à cinq)
a guy carrying a 20-foot-long metal pipe (jousting never goes out of fashion)
a guy clutching a large pane of sheet glass (what could possibly go wrong?)
a guy balancing a 55-gallon steel drum on the seat behind him
You might also have an encounter with a Malian police officer in his royal blue shirt and jaunty black beret. If you’re new to town and stupid like we were, you actually pull over when they blow their whistle at you. Then you go through a long, drawn out ordeal in which they take your auto registration card, you tell them you don’t speak French, they speak louder and more forcefully, they mention that you can pay a “fine” on the spot to avoid a trip to the station, you try to figure out why they pulled you over in the first place, you call the American Embassy and hand the phone to the officer, he yells some more, he walks away with your registration card and phone, you get out and chase after him, and he either tells you to leave or you give him a couple of dollars.
What’s more convenient is to pretend you don’t see or hear the policeman at all, and just blow right on past him. It feels very Bonnie and Clyde, without the machine guns, thankfully. Speaking of guns, my first taxi ride in Bamako had four of us smashed in the back along with a Malian soldier in the front seat, his gun over his shoulder and pointing pretty much at my head. Every time we hit a bump in the road (in other words, every 3 seconds), I cocked my head in another direction to avoid an accidental discharge. All that adventure for a $1 taxi fare.
Adventure is at every turn in Bamako….a village on an island in the middle of the Niger River, right in the middle of town, that makes you feel you went back in time. A boat ride on the Niger in a pirogue loaded with cold beer, seeing people living in corrugated metal shacks next to mansions along the shore. Shopping at the Grande Marche outdoor market, a never-ending maze of stalls full of locals buying and selling everything from colorful fabric to toothpaste to soccer balls to warthog heads. Musical concerts in which an audience member always jumps on stage to dance with the musicians and the rest of us are on our feet dancing right along. Hippos. Crocodiles. Having a sheep ritually slaughtered for Tabaski right outside my classroom window. Massive peace rallies. Outdoor parties in the sweltering heat where your clothes are soaked with sweat but you dance anyway. Malian puppet shows where massive, bigger-than-life creatures dance to the beat of African drums. A horse and rider galloping down the main road, dodging the cars and trucks. Boarding your plane from a stairway from the tarmac like they did in the 1950s. Standing under a tall waterfall in the bush just outside of the city.
I like pretty, but I like adventure more.
Au revoir, Mali. K’an bεn. Thank you for fulfilling my childhood fantasy and better yet, for making me a better person. Until we meet again…
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Chapter 29: I’d Rather Get a Root Canal in Mali Than Teach in the U.S.
Posted on February 18, 2015 by 2seetheglobe
Last year, during a severe sugar craving bout, I found an old piece of hard candy in my desk at school. Despite the fact that this red sticky thing was probably manufactured back when Mali became a country in 1960, I still popped it into my mouth. Then it got stuck on my lower molars, and upon disengaging it I also yanked off a crown.
This is not a good situation to be in when you live in a developing country where some
My tooth, sans roots.
dental work occurs roadside. But lo and behold, I discovered a Lebanese dentist (raised in Senegal) who operated a modern, dental practice in an actual building near our school, and he had a number of our students as patients. So off I went to have him reattach the old crown which I was sure would take ten minutes. Except the old crown was cracked and he needed to make a new one. And then he discovered that a root canal had not been done on that old tooth (thank you crappy Florida dentist).
So long story short, he did the root canal (even finding a 4th root which he said was rare), had a fancy new crown made in France, and made my mouth whole again…all at half the cost of a dentist in the U.S. My dentist in the U.S. checked his work and gave his seal of approval. However, this all took six lovely visits, some of which seemed like movie scenes: the time he and his wife/assistant had a huge argument in French during my actual root canal; our debate over whether I have a gag reflex or whether he just put too much of the molding material in my mouth because it touched my uvula, etc.).
The boys of Crimson Thorn. Rock on, God!
photo: Snipview
I spent a lot of time in that dental chair, staring out the window and thinking about how I would rather be just about any other place than a dental chair. Truth be told, for me just about any other place would be preferable–a Siberian hard labor camp, a Crimson Thorn concert (Christian death metal band), a gas station bathroom, a party attended by everyone working at Fox News. I mean really, can there be worse places on this earth?
Why yes, yes there can.
My last school year in an American classroom started with a bang, and by bang I mean like being hit over the head repeatedly with a 2 x 4 until I was knocked senseless.
Usually those first few days before students arrive are when administrators pull out all the
Because every elementary classroom needs more noise! photo: Oriental Trading Company
stops to get teachers pumped up for the year ahead–spreads of artery clogging breakfast foods, singing some upbeat pop song in which the lyrics are changed to something school-related (I’m sure the Black Eyed Peas can sue whenever a faculty croons, “I’ve got a feeling, that our school’s gonna be a good school, that our staff’s gonna enforce good rules, that data’s gonna be a good tool…”), and cheap but useful gifts from the Oriental Trading Company catalog such as lanyards, water bottles, and rum. Okay, alcohol wasn’t really one of the gifts but if Oriental Trading added rum-filled key chains, I’d be all over it.
Usually there are also fun activities to inspire the faculty, help them bond, and help set the stage for creative instruction, such as determining your teaching team’s multiple intelligences or participating in a talent show (where it was immediately evident which teachers did not possess any multiple intelligences related to performing).
Data binder or something to lift at the gym to gain upper arm strength…you decide. photo: mikekenny.blogspot.com
But for this particular school year, my very last as a U.S. classroom teacher, I knew things were different the moment I entered the meeting room—or as I like to call it, the chamber of horrors. At each place setting rested a cinder-block-sized, serious looking binder stuffed to the gills with inserts and tabs. On the front was a label printed with “DATA BINDER” in all caps. A screen in the front of the room glowed with the light of an LCD projector, showing a bar graph with words and numbers too tiny to read. There was no music, no animated conversation about how thin/tan/rested everyone looked. There may have been food but I really don’t recall because the gloomy mood sucked the appetite and life right out of me.
Todays torture choices: Electroshock treatment or hours of data PowerPoint slides. photo: envisiontheamericandream.com
For the next three, grueling hours we were tortured with slide after slide of bar graphs, pie charts, line charts, histograms, and scatter plots from the school district headquarters, all showing us how crappy we were as teachers based on how low our students had scored on a single high-stakes test. Water boarding would have been easier to handle than this. Seriously, if the principal had said, “You can either watch this data PowerPoint or be shocked with raw wires attached to your private parts” I would have started attaching the copper wires myself.
The sad thing was, we all knew this test-focused mania sweeping the U.S. was hogwash, a movement led by non-educators with le$$-than-hone$t intention$. Since 2002, the law of the land told us that if we tested kids a lot (a whole, whole lot) and made teachers solely responsible for improving test scores, every kid would be “proficient” by 2014.
Maybe that’s why 500 education researchers recently signed a letter to Congress & President Obama saying, “We strongly urge departing from test-focused reforms that not only have been discredited for high-stakes decisions, but also have shown to widen, not close, gaps and inequities.” Now there’s a ringing endorsement.
At the end of this first day I loaded my Data Binder cinder block into a wheelbarrow and
Hope he doesn’t have to use the bathroom anytime soon. photo: jokes.naij.com
glumly shuffled to my classroom. Along the way I thought about jobs I could do that would be more pleasant, less painful. Like cleaning out clogged sewer pipes without protective gear, tarring roads in the Gobi desert in summertime, being a bicycle brick carrier, exploring the growing field of ice road trucking, or having stun guns tested on you.
It’s a wonder that I made it through that year without developing a crack addiction or multiple personality disorder. It was tough trying to understand the new normal, that our schools weren’t places for inspiring kids to learn but places that made them develop irritable bowel syndrome over constant test stress. I should have been tipped off when we were given a series of procedures to follow in case a student vomited on the end-of-year standardized test. It was no coincidence that this would be my last year in a U.S. classroom.
Q: How do you eat a mattress? A: One bite at a time Photo: TLC (My Strange Addiction)
So rather than go slowly insane and start eating my mattress, or hair, bricks, plastic bags, or paint pens (habits featured on “My Strange Addiction” on TLC), a few years ago Jamey and I moved to sub-Saharan Africa to teach at an international school. To ask me if teaching in an international school in Bamako, Mali is preferable to teaching in the U.S. is like asking if anesthesia is preferable to biting on a stick when you’re having you’re foot amputated.
Here’s how it went at our international school this past August during our first days before students arrived:
We began by discussing how we can strengthen our school community. Then we talked about our goals for the school year, like developing a meaningful service-learning program so our students learn as they help their local community. On subsequent days we learned about new developments in classroom technology, got a refresher on the Understanding by Design framework we use for the curriculum we develop, and had plenty of time to set up our classrooms and to collaborate with colleagues.
For the third year in a row I started the school year inspired, motivated, and full of ideas. And that was without the aid of the Oriental Trading rum. Okay, there was our Friday happy hour on the patio at the Mande Hotel, watching the sun set over the Niger River. But we weren’t drowning our sorrows as we so often did back in the States, but celebrating the start of a great school year.
Capping off the week with happy hour at the Mande Hotel, overlooking the Niger, and not talking about high-stakes standardized testing.
As the year has progressed, I can almost say that I’ve forgotten those scary days back in a U.S. classroom. But these memories are gone in the same way that I almost forget how I stuck my foot in a wasp nest when I was ten. For example, I’d love to forget that I heard an administrator, with regard to the annual state test, tell a colleague, “You need to get your student test scores up because right now, the assistant superintendent knows your name. And that’s NOT a good thing.” Ahhh, intimidation as motivation…the stuff memories are made of.
During my last two years in the U.S. I left the classroom to work as a resource teacher
Green glow courtesy of the overhead fluorescent lights, another charming feature in my cubicle away from home.
with our school district, one of the largest in the country with 13,000 teachers and nearly 180,000 students. I had just been honored as the district’s Teacher of the Year, so a job at district headquarters was my attempt at a promotion to fancier digs with a higher level of respect. The first clue that I had made a judgment error was when I moved into my workspace, a windowless cubicle smaller than the closet in my former classroom. On Day Three, I discovered that my lunch bag had been removed from the lunchroom fridge and placed on top of it, plastered with a yellow sticky note saying, “This food takes up too much space.” Fancy, indeed.
But the worst part of that district job ordeal was the new teacher evaluation system implemented during my final year in cubicle quarantine. This evaluation system was two-part: half relied on your students’ state tests scores. As any ed researcher will tell you, using student high-stakes test scores to evaluate teachers is unreliable and misguided, but that’s another conversation.
High tech data analysis tool
photo: http://www.ourwatercounts.com
But what made my situation even stranger is that I didn’t have any students. I was a mere resource teacher with little exposure to actual students and just a bit of exposure to teachers—most of whom didn’t listen to me anyway because they were suffering from PTTS (Post Traumatic Test Syndrome). So nobody was sure exactly which student test data my evaluation would be based upon. Maybe the average scores of students in the entire district someone said. Maybe the student scores from the schools I visited someone else said. Or maybe they would ask the Oracle at Delphi or use a Magic 8 Ball (“Reply hazy, try again”). I would certainly trust a Mattel novelty more in this situation.
The other half of the new teacher evaluation relied on an observation system performed by an administrator. This system is a complicated mélange of domains and data marks and frameworks and elements and instructional categories and design questions. Here is part of an email I found on the district’s website, a simple little message sent to administrators about this evaluation system:
Please be advised that the Joint Evaluation Negotiations Committee has released an updated Observation Schedule for Category 1B and Category 2 for the second half of the year. Twenty data marks are still required to complete the Instructional Practices Portion of the evaluation for Category 1B & 2 Teachers and the data marks are derived from the elements rated as a result of an observation and any elements rated in Domains 2, 3, and 4. Administrators can view the number of data marks scored by running the following report in iObservation: Evaluative Element Scoring by Learner.
Sidebar: The fact that this system required creating a Joint Evaluation Negotiations Committee (JENC, pronounced “junk”) should give one pause.
So administrators observe teachers a bunch of times and rank their performances with a
Better pay, more respect than teaching…order up!
five-category scale that ranges from “this person should be working in the kitchen at the Cheesecake Factory instead of a classroom” to “this person is so good they should immediately leave the classroom to work in a closet-sized, windowless cubicle at the school district office.” Actually the categories were Beginning, Developing, Applying, Innovating, but I like my scale better. To receive the top category, Innovating, one had to “Adapt and create new strategies for unique student needs and situations.”
Again, this system was set up to evaluate teachers in the classroom so my situation as a resource teacher didn’t quite fit. Perhaps I could be judged on the way I was able to write curriculum in my cubicle within an open workspace, surrounded by secretaries chatting about green bean recipes while 20 other resource teachers talked on the phone or to each other and someone else was sharpening 250 pencils for an upcoming state test and the fax machine continuously beeped after each page it spit out from a 100-page fax.
Or maybe I could be evaluated on the clever way I camouflaged my mini-fridge (a banned appliance in cubicle world) as a box of supplies, complete with a false front that opened to reveal an array of cold beverages and my (apparently) very large lunch bag, now safe from the lunch police.
I wasn’t too concerned about the way this observation would happen, though, since just months before the district has knighted me as Teacher of the Year for my “innovative approaches in the classroom.” It was as simple as changing the suffix on “innovative” to the present participle “innovating.” I mean, once an innovator, always an innovator, right? Even though I wasn’t in the classroom I continued writing and teaching others how to use innovative, arts-integrated curriculum. I still presented innovative sessions at national conferences. Besides, wouldn’t it look pretty stupid ranking your Teacher of the Year as a moron who still hasn’t quite the hang of teaching after 8 years in inner city schools and 6 years as a national education trainer?
Madame Curie,: Innovator or slacker?
photo: bookcoverimgs.com
So imagine my surprise/shock/nausea when I discovered that administrators were told that, for this first year, they should NOT award any teacher with the highest designation of “innovating.” That would leave them without room for improvement, they reasoned, without any motivation to do better. I mean, just look at how lazy Steven Jobs became after his success. Or Ben Franklin. Or Marie Curie. All slackers, every one of them. Thank goodness my own administrator fought back and in the end I was ranked as Innovating, even though my mood at the time would better be described as Loathing or Abhorring. I didn’t see those designations on the form though.
So you can understand how nostalgic memories like these don’t fade so much. The good news is that in my Life 2.0, phenomenal educational experiences are crowding out the crappy ones in my head. Here are a few recent classroom events worthy of being stored in my long-term memory:
When Lessons are More than Just Lessons
The think tank…coming up with the plot for our new graphic novel on malnutrition.
For the third year in a row my class of Grade 4 and 5 students is partnering with a local NGO, Mali Health Organizing Project, to create a health-related graphic novel for distribution to local school children. It always starts with a science unit in class that provides the kids with basic knowledge. From there they spend the day visiting the neighborhood where the school children live, a slum adjacent to Bamako. They visit a school, a clinic, and walk the dirt streets in order to understand the context of the health problems we are trying to address. Then a group of local school children visit us at our school, and collaborate with my students on the plot, illustrations, and comic software work.
The end products are professional looking graphic novels in both French and English—one on malaria prevention (The Adventures of Anti-Malaria Man) and another on rotavirus prevention Agents of HEALTH: When Rotavirus Attacks), and another one on malnutrition currently in process—that are given to hundreds of local children and just may save lives. You can see the last graphic novel here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1oBcyWe5BkyS1FCcE0teWtyNkk/view?usp=sharing
My students say the same things every year: I never realized how lucky we are and how bad it is for other kids. I never thought a kid could help save lives. This project makes me feel good. Can we watch Frozen?
And to think we spend about 25 total hours on this life-changing project—about the same amount of time on average that US students spend taking standardized tests and practice tests. I actually read that some U.S, schools allocate a quarter of the year’s instruction to test prep, and that some schools have daily two and a half hour prep sessions and test practice on vacation days. I vow right here and now that the last words that will EVER be in the same sentence for me will be “vacation” and “test prep.”
Andy Warhol in My Classroom
I’m a diehard proponent of arts integrated instruction, an approach that should be welcomed in test-obsessed U.S. schools because it helps kids become critical thinkers, develops creativity and problem solving, allows kids to retain information longer, and leads to world peace (sorry, got carried away on that last one, but you never know).
Half Pint engages in drill-and-kill school fun.
Unfortunately if it doesn’t look like a test prep workbook or a drill-and-kill exercise that Laura Ingalls Wilder did on the prairie in 1877, it’s probably not going to be welcomed in a U.S. classroom these days. Which is why when I arrived at the American International School of Bamako, I felt like a refugee who just escaped from North Korea and landed in the middle of Candyland or Disneyworld. Sure we implement standardized tests at AISB, this one on a computer. But students spend just 2.5 hours in September doing so, and another 2.5 hours again in April. The results are immediate, so teachers can use the data as one of many measures to inform their instruction. That frees up the rest of the year for…….wait for it……actual learning! I know, it’s a radical, revolutionary approach, but I hope it catches on.
So I always hit the ground running in August, and this year Andy Warhol was with me. This
Marilyn sets the tone at the door. Oh, the wonders of butcher paper and stick glue.
was going to be a Warhol-inspired kick-off that would have all the fun and excitement of pop art. I started with a Warhol quote and the door. Next the kids made Warhol-inspired portraits in which they used color to define their personalities. Then we created our classroom rules for the year, but this time expressed in Warhol-style posters. We read about his life, and how his experiences as a commercial artist and aficionado of movie star life helped him develop a unique style as an artist, then analyzed many of his works to look for references to his life experiences.
Now, despite the fact that of my 19 students just one speaks English as the first language at home, and that a quarter of my class had a year or less of English instruction, they all thrived during these Warhol activities—analyzing, critiquing, comprehending, evaluating–all those things standardized tests are SUPPOSED to measure. In addition, these activities fostered creativity, critical thinking, motivation, curiosity, enthusiasm, empathy, self-awareness, self-discipline, resourcefulness, sense of beauty, sense of wonder, honesty, and integrity—all those things standardized tests CANNOT measure.
Social Studies is Actually A Thing
Unlike my experience in U.S. schools where I heard more than one administrator say,
Live at The Pharaoh’s Court….the Master Sculptor did, I swear!
“Forget about social studies; it’s not on the state test,” I teach it daily at AISB (this last statement would raise eyebrows across the pond).We study river civilizations by exploring ancient Egypt. Students take on roles as actual ancient Egyptians (a vizier, a dancer, a tomb painter) and are challenged to solve an actual tomb robbery, something that requires them to develop their own alibis and to question suspects in “The Pharaoh’s Court” (which I must say was much more exciting than the past-due rent cases on the People’s Court).
Tableau from Odysseus, in which he is lashed to the mast to avoid the deathly sirens.
To study the spread of ideas we explore ancient Greece, anchored by a daily dose of Homer’s The Odyssey. As students complete challenges (one of which involved creating a tableau scene from The Odyssey) they moved their team ship on a big wall map, following the path Odysseus took in his many adventures. Safe to say that all teams did arrive in Ithaca at the end, and were treated to a viewing of the 1963 film Jason and the Argonauts. I’m still scared by those skeleton soldiers that grow from Hydra’s teeth that are planted in the soil.
Science Too
Unless you teach Grade 5 in Florida., the grade where students take a science state test, science is an afterthought at most elementary schools, usually shoved into the few remaining weeks that follow the completion of state testing. At AISB I teach it daily. Students make their own handmade books to create an earthquake survival manual for our unit on earth building and breaking. For our unit on microorganisms they engage in the service learning project described above. For our sound unit they’ll create their own outdoor sound sculpture. Students analyze songs that relate to our science themes….John Denver’s Calypso during our unit on ocean ecology, The B-52s Planet Claire and Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets during our unit on outer space.They act out the three types of tectonic plate movements.We watch clips of the cheesy Earthquake movie to see if it accurately portrays an earthquake.
So it’s discouraging to hear that a national 2007 study by the Center on Education Policy reported that since 2001, 44% of U.S. school districts reduced the time spent on science, social studies and the arts by an average of 145 minutes per week in order to focus on reading and math. No B-52s for you American kids! Get out that damn workbook!
All the School’s a Stage
My kids engage in acting every day, well, beyond the fake No-I-really-didn’t-at-all-mean-to call-her-a-heifer-and-I-am-truly-so-sorry kind of acting. In reading, the students show their knowledge of vocabulary words or important plot points in a novel by performing quick tableaus (frozen pose). They engage in story dramatization to explore major characters and events, or to predict how characters will fare after the story ended. In science they use their bodies to demonstrate the way white blood cells attack bacteria.
My clever thespians doing a tableau for the word “reflection.”
To be engaged, or not engaged, that is the question. Being engaged in so much performance work leads to confident kids who don’t know what stage fright is. I suppose that’s better than what education researcher Gregory J. Cizek discovered in studies that show how U.S. testing. produces “gripping anxiety in even the brightest students, and makes young children vomit or cry, or both.” I’ll choose performing a tableau over vomiting any day.
Maimouna’s Basquita-inspired art
The Grade 4 – 5 students demonstrate their learning visually too. After exploring symbolism in a novel, song, and poem, students create their own symbolic artwork. But they are challenged to do this in the style of one of the symbol-heavy artists we studied, such as Keith Haring, Marc Chagall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, or the Malian artists who create carved Dogon doors. That means they have to get inside the artist’s head and embrace his approach.
Students also created cubist portraits of characters from the novel we read, Shiloh by Phyliis Reynolds Naylor.
In writing we explore figurative language through visual art, creating self portraits to learn about alliteration or comic strip panels to show onomatopoeia. My classroom is plastered (in a neat, organized manner, mind you) with posters of famous artworks, movies, musicians, and Broadway shows because I think these are a bit more inspiring than the pacing schedules and anchor charts about verb conjugation that I was required to post back in the USSA.
Not only does this arts-integrated approach help kids learn valuable content, it fosters creativity. Remember that stuff? Maybe not if you’re in America. A 2010 College of William & Mary study found Americans’ scores on the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking have been dropping since 1990. Says researcher Kyung-Hee Kim, “If we neglect creative students in school because of the structure and the testing movement… then they become underachievers.” That’s enough to make Haring, Changall, and Basquiat turn in their graves.
In my old life, professional development meant another visit from a district “specialist” with
Teaching my colleagues about story dramatization, which is apparently more fun than data analysis.
a dull PowerPoint full of words in Comic Sans font, touting the latest focus/fad (“You and Data Analysis: A Match Made in Heaven”). Lots of chart paper, and if they were really fancy, lots of sticky note posting on the chart paper. At the PD session I recently led at AISB, my colleagues (all of whom weren’t even required to attend) engaged in the story dramatization of an American Indian folktale to see the connections between drama and literature.
A break in the conference in Addis Ababa gave us time to inhale platters of Ethiopian food.
Our last session on standardized testing at AISB could have been dull, except for the fact that beer and wine were served (hey, it’s 5:00 somewhere). Back in the States I’d get excited about PD sessions held outside of school, like sessions in the cafeteria of a nearby high school. Yeah it smelled like old food and the tables were sticky, but at least it wasn’t the same old media center we always met in. Contrast this with my last out-of-school PD session here…in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Not only did I get to present a session on service learning, and get to meet educators from across Africa, and become addicted to Ethiopian coffee and food, but we even had a baboon-on-the-loose alert during the conference. And the cafeteria was outside, so no old food smell.
Granted, one has to consider the cost of sending teachers to conferences. But U.S. states seem to have lots of money when it comes to testing. From 2009 through 2012 Texas spent $88 million per year just to test students.
Celebrate Good Times, C’mon!
There wasn’t much to celebrate back in my old teaching life, except maybe the end of the
At the school Halloween extravaganza, I worked the drinks table dressed as Sharknado.
week or the school year. But here, I celebrate on a regular basis…including Halloween. Yep, Pat Robertson and the 700 Club have not convinced international schools that Halloween is Satan’s birthday (yet) and we actually have a traditional Halloween party where kids and adults dress in whatever they want, not some stupid literary character, and enjoy trick-or-treating, a haunted house, and tons of sugar-laced food and drink.
Jamey and I will be leaving AISB and Mali after three adventurous and enjoyable years, and I look forward to filling my head with even more excellent memories at our new post in Shanghai. I’m happy to report that, again, I won’t need rum-filled key fobs or episodes of paint-marker-eating to get through the school year. Because I do hate the way that mauve paint stains my teeth.
Note: Thanks to the website ProCon.org for the fabulous standardized testing facts.
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Chapter 28: Go Ask Alice (or Hazel, Rosario, Rosie, Mr. French, Charles in Charge, or Fati)
Posted on February 1, 2015 by 2seetheglobe
For many years everything I needed to know about household help I learned on TV. The
Alice always makes it better. Source: alimartell.com
Brady Bunch taught me that maids wore powder blue frocks, gave you something fresh-baked when you were down in the dumps, and lived in some mystery room located in a vague part of the house (Alice rocked!).
Hazel, along with Rosario from Will & Grace, taught me that maids had smart mouths. Mr. French from Family Affair and Geoffrey from Fresh Prince of Belair taught me that butlers had facial hair and vague English accents. Charles in Charge taught me that teen idols looked great as a
Rosario lets Karen Walker have it.
nanny but probably weren’t the best choice in terms of teen girl supervision. Rosie from the Jetsons taught me that robots can totally pull off a French maid’s uniform. And really, what else does one need to know besides that?
Well, maybe a little more. My first real life exposure to a domestic happened when I was a 16-year-old exchange student in Peru. I lived with a middle class family—two teachers and their four kids—and a maid who would just sort of materialize at times. She was young, probably about my age, and unlike Hazel or Rosario, she hardly ever uttered a peep to her employers (least of all some witty, Rosario-like retort such as, “I’d ring your neck, but I don’t want to be standing in a puddle of gin!”).
Nope, this gal kept her head down, no eye contact, and kept occupied doing things like boiling stuff on the stove. Now the first time I lifted the lid off one of her boiling pots it contained everyone’s white underclothes, and the second time it was fish heads, so suffice to say I didn’t do a lot of lid-lifting after that. She also went to the market every day to buy the foodstuff we would eat at lunch and supper. I went with her once, and credit her with making me understand that guinea pigs can be pets or entrees.
Our maid in Peru, rockin’ the big cuffs.
One day I asked my host brother Paco where this maid lived. “On the roof,” he answered matter-of-factly. I immediately envisioned her curled up in an abandoned pigeon coop or sleeping under a lean-to propped against the chimney. Then I made my way up there one day and saw that there was, in fact, a little structure that I supposed was a maid’s room and while small, was really private with a great view of the neighborhood. I’m pretty sure that Alice on the Brady Bunch would have been pleased with this scenario as she could have easily smuggled Sam the Butcher up here without anyone knowing a thing.
I later found out that maids here came from poor families and only made a few dollars each week, which is why most middle class families could afford to have one. They certainly weren’t as beloved as Hazel or even Rosie the Robot Maid, and I sometimes winced at the way the family spoke to ours. I was even told by the family one time that I shouldn’t speak with ours unless I needed her to do something. Small talk be damned!
Years passed and I moved to steamy South Florida where once again the world of household help would come alive before my very eyes. I lived just across the Intracoastal Waterway from glamorous Palm Beach, an otherworldly island of warped fantasy where the uber-wealthy had mansions on the ocean full of maids, butlers, cooks, assistants, house managers, drivers, social secretaries, dog handlers, food tasters, and tiara polishers. Here were some of the highlights of my household help encounters in Palm Beach:
Human Video Game
In my previous career as a landscape architect, I designed the front lawn area for a media mogul whose mansion sat on the Atlantic Ocean in Palm Beach. At the firm where I worked we rarely did residential work and now I understand why. I was given the task of creating a preliminary design, and then a few of us paid a visit to the home. We, of course, had to park in the service area and were ushered into the back door by a gaggle of housemaids wearing crisp, black and white shifts. They led us to an area inside the door where we sat on a bench, and in hushed voices they told us to cover our shoes with velvety cloth covers, not to touch the walls as we walked up the stairs, and various other instructions that would ensure no trace of mere mortals would remain once we departed.
They led us up a sweeping grand staircase, and I couldn’t help thinking how much our velvety foot covers were polishing each marble step, or how easily we could have slipped right off and plunged to our deaths where, I was sure, no trace of our blood would be left behind. At the top they led us down a darkened hallway where every door was closed. We stopped in front of a set of double doors where one maid tapped so slightly I wasn’t sure it even made a sound. The door opened and there stood the mogul and his wife, bathed in glowing light, like some Renaissance Medici portrait. They glanced at our shoes (feet covered, check) and pointed us inside the master bedroom while the maids disappeared back into the dark hallway.
Our project director made quick introductions, but there were no handshakes, probably because we didn’t have velvety hand covers. Then she quickly explained that I had roughed out an idea for the lawn that included fountains, plantings, paving crafted from baby unicorn horns, and such. I unfurled my drawing and the mogul and his wife nodded as I explained each part. Then they explained why we were in their bedroom, thank goodness, as I was beginning to think this was going to turn in to one of those “Eyes Wide Shut” party scenarios. Mr. and Mrs. Mogul felt that from the balcony off the bedroom they would have a bird’s eye view of the front lawn, and could better imagine my design in place.
There were indeed fabulous sets of glass doors across the front of the bedroom, offering sweeping views not only of the money-green front lawn, but of the sapphire blue Atlantic Ocean. For a few minutes I tried to explain where each part of my design would happen (“Now, over there by the Central American gentleman trimming your grass with sterling silver scissors will be the first statue, and over where your Labradoodle and Chihuaweiler are enjoying their pâté and finger sandwiches will be the fountain, etc., etc.”).
Then because Mr. Mogul was having difficulty imagining the new design, he asked if I might go to the lawn and indicate the exact layout of each feature. We did have marking paint in the car, sort of a powdery, neon orange spray paint we used to “draw” on the ground, so I grabbed a can and a measuring tape and headed to the front lawn.
My actual design completed, photographed by a secret drone.
For the next hour I was like a petite video game character controlled by the Moguls up on high. I’d spray a line and they’d shout from above, “No, no, further to the left.” And I’d kick the old line away with my foot and respray. Then, “No, too small!” and I’d scuff away the paint and spray a larger diameter circle to represent the Dom Pérignon-filled fountain. To think I had pitied the housemaids who seemed so controlled over, and now I was the one with a joystick up my rear! But in the end (haha) the design turned out great, which just goes to prove that video game characters are people too.
The Greyson Bed
I once accompanied a photographer friend on a shoot at another waterfront mansion. We had the run of the place since it was off season and this hotel-sized abode was merely a vacation house. As we were snooping, I mean, looking around for new angles to photograph, we found ourselves in the laundry complex. It was easily as large as apartments where I had lived, and included industrial sized washers, dryers, steamers, padded tables for clothes folding, an array of shiny silver irons, and some sort of medieval-looking contraption that I was sure was a torture device for maids who had disobeyed (or maybe it was a clothes presser, whatever). Of course this showroom of laundry appliances served a whopping two people (who apparently changed their clothes every 12 seconds).
Make sure the gauze curtains are tied JUST LIKE THIS! Source: aliexpress.com
Then, tucked on a shelf crowded with exotic detergents from Europe, we found the mother lode….a series of little wooden models of beds, complete with headboards, tiny cloth blankets, and little silk pillows. On the base of each model was a label that said “How to Make the Greyson Bed” (name changed to protect the innocent). Yep, the household staff was immune to bed-making blunders because they had a precise model to follow! We did look around for other models (e.g. “How to Wipe the Greyson Butts”) but came up empty-handed.
Merry Christmukah!
Both Jamey and I sometimes earned extra money by helping a couple of local companies decorate Christmas trees in Palm Beach for the holidays. We would arrive at a mansion with a massive evergreen imported from Lapland or wherever, then wrap the interior trunk and every branch with a gazillion white lights that could easily illuminate Carlsbad Caverns from top to bottom.
Next we’d open box after box of fancy ornaments from the Nuremberg Christmas Market
The Palm Beachers always asked for Christmas trees made of humans, but they were just too big to fit into their fancy parlors. Source: Flickr.com
—supplemented by box after box of even fancier ornaments we bought at overpriced local boutiques or antique shoppes—to hang on each bough, often along with fresh pears, apples, and pomegranates, as well as fresh roses and hydrangea with their stems in tiny tubes of water, as well as tiny baby reindeer that would wiggle and coo (okay, not really reindeer, but they would have if they could have).
And where were the families as all of these decorating festivities were occurring? Why, sitting on the couch watching, naturally! Apparently it’s an annual holiday tradition…the “watching of the help doing the Christmas decorating.” Which made it even a little weirder that many of these families were Jewish.
So that was my extensive background knowledge regarding household help. Mostly these were worlds I would really never be a part of, something I was reminded of each time I was scrubbing my own toilet bowl or scraping off some random, dried, really sticky substance from the refrigerator shelf. I was my own household help, without the powder blue uniform and crisp white apron Alice wore so well (although I was pretty good with Hazel/Rosario-style one liners).
So imagine my surprise when Jamey and I found ourselves in our own Downtown Abbey-like arrangement here in sub-Saharan Africa. After we had signed our contract to teach at the American International School of Bamako, we received an email explaining that we would have a guard posted at our home 24 hours/day, paid for by the school. Since we had pretty much sold everything we owned before arriving, these guards would be protecting such valuable commodities as our collection of Old Navy boxers and our rare assortment of toiletries purchased from Target (that’s tar-JAY, by the way…very French).
Our favorite Fati
Then we were asked if we wanted to keep the maid, Fati, and gardener, Oumar, that were currently working at the house. The maid’s salary at the time was $150/month, and she worked 5 days a week, 8 hours/day cooking, cleaning, shopping, and doing the laundry. The gardener came twice a week for 4 hours at a time and was paid $50/month for cutting the lawn, planting and caring for the flowers, trimming hedges, watering, and sweeping paved areas. It took us 1.5 seconds to decide “yes.” Lady Grantham, eat your heart out!
Having household help was an interesting adjustment for us. Fati, our maid extraordinaire, certainly has made me feel like Lord Grantham. I remember that feeling I’d get back in Florida when I’d spend all day Saturday cleaning the house, doing the laundry, and taking care of the yard. I would be wiped out by evening, but everything looked so damn sparkly good that I didn’t care. I’d marvel at how shiny the fixtures looked, how the wood floors gleamed, how the yard looked so manicured. Now, that’s the feeling I get EVERY day when we return from school, except we don’t have to lift a finger and can just lounge on the sofa and eat bonbons and throw the wrappers on the floor (full disclosure: Not only do I NOT throw bonbon wrappers on the floor, I do a before-the-maid-gets-here cleaning so she doesn’t think we are cavemen).
One of the many downsides I’d discover about to doing your own housework is that two days after cleaning, everything is a mess again (I’m not blaming this on Jamey per se, but let’s just say that our ideas about cleanliness differ somewhat). Then you just start to dread the weekend when you have to do all of that housework yet again.
We fit right in.
Now the dread has vanished. We come home from school each day to a sparkling clean house with tile floors so shiny we could skate on them, or at least do one of those Tom Cruise slides from Risky Business (except wearing pants because I don’t think maids should see our Old Navy boxers). The bed looks hotel-ready with plumped up pillows stacked squarely on top of each other, crisply folded edges, and the sheet turned down just so. The sinks, toilets, and showers glisten without a water spot in sight. Often there are fresh flowers on the table in a glass vase (which we now pronounce “vahz” because we are just like the Crawleys or the Moguls at this point).
Then comes the most wonderful, enticing fragrance of all: the smell of dinner that we
My favorite meal is the one someone else cooks. Thanks Fati!
didn’t have to cook ourselves. Yep, every afternoon dinner awaits on the stove, a fully cooked meal in a sparkling clean kitchen. It’s almost like that device the Jetsons had in their kitchen, where they would press a button and a turkey dinner or massive plate of spaghetti would appear. Even better, when we finish eating we just leave the dishes in the sink, where, on the following day, we find them miraculously clean and put away in the cupboard.
But wait….there’s more! Next we wander into the bedroom where the dirty clothes from the previous day are clean, ironed, and folded. Fati even irons the socks. It’s the same with the yard. Just as the bougainvillea or the pomegranate tree or the lawn is about to appear unkempt, we come home to find it all trimmed to perfection. Our vegetable garden is planted, composted, watered, de-weeded, and harvested for us, but I still say, “Look at these tomatoes I grew in my garden!” In three years I’ve done dishes twice (emergency situation), and just a month ago I took out the garbage for the first time (I actually did not know where it went, and the guard took it for me).
Speaking of guards, we have two that take turns on 12-hour shifts. They open the garage door when we arrive or leave, carry our packages to and from the car, wash the car every day, water everything that grows, feed our cat when we are away, sweep the dirt road in front of our house, and pre-screen any visitors by ringing the bell and letting us know whose waiting outside the gate; we decide if we’ll will/won’t have an audience with the visitor (It’s all very Pope-like). The school pays their less-than-$200-per-month salaries, but we supplement that and also give them dinner occasionally because, well, we couldn’t sleep at night if we didn’t! It’s disconcerting to go from the near-bottom of the economic pyramid (lowly teachers in the U.S.) to the near top here in Mali. Our modest teaching salary, nearly 20 times higher than what Fati our maid makes, makes us the Palm Beachers of Bamako.
The sock drawer.
So before we ever make any requests, we always decide first if it is Mali-normal or Palm Beach-weird because we definitely don’t want to be one of THOSE guys. Take, for instance, sock folding. After Fati launders and irons our socks, she folds them, but individually, thenstacks them on the dresser. Now this means that I’m forced to unfold the two individually folded matching socks, put them together, then refold them as a pair before putting them in the sock drawer, which, by the way, I have arranged by colors from primary to secondary (red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, brown, black). Asking her to fold them as a pair and put them into the correct colored stack in the drawer? That would be Palm Beach-weird. So I do my own sock refolding, laborious as it is. We all have to make sacrifices, you know.
Audrey Hepburn and her trench coat. She has no medical conditions.
Unlike the help on Downtown Abbey or Will and Grace, our employees only speak French and Bambara. I’m great in both languages when it comes to greeting them, commenting on general weather conditions, and telling them I’m tired when we get home from school. Beyond that, it’s a crapshoot. Fati and I write notes in French back and forth nearly every morning, and thank goodness for Google Translate which sometimes is actually accurate. But when it’s not, it’s REALLY not. Like the time I translated a Fati note and told Jamey it said something about a problem with a trench coat, and we wondered why anyone would ever need a trench coat in sub-Saharan Africa, and why would she even bring up wardrobe issues with us anyway. Well, after a colleague did an actual translation, Fati was actually telling us about some medical issues she was going through. So it’s a good thing I didn’t write back something in French like, “Geez, just get rid of that trench coat and get a windbreaker—it’s Mali for God’s sake.”
And also unlike the Crawleys, we do take the time to chat with our household help every day, and get somewhat involved in their personal lives (our guard Niambele’s family picture is on our fridge). Now granted, on Downton Abbey there is no mixing of the help with the aristocrats—well, except for the chauffeur who married one of Lord Grantham’s daughters, but we don’t have a chauffeur, although we could for about what we pay the gardener. We’ve loaned/given them money (for school fees, to build a room onto a house, for driving school). On every trip we take we bring them all back a gift, and we give them a double salary during the Muslim holiday of Tabaski. We even bought a donkey for one of our guards whose previous animal was donkey-napped (it happens).
We don’t take Fati or Oumar or Niambele or Sidibe for granted, and we certainly appreciate the hard work they do to make our lives easier (and much, much lazier). I would hope that Lord Grantham, the Bradys, Karen Walker, the Banks family, and the Jetsons felt the same way.
And I can assure you that I’ll never direct Oumar’s landscaping from my perch on the roof deck, nor create a model for Fati of our preferred bed-making style, or even have them decorate our Christmas Madagascar Dragon Tree while we watch. That’s just Palm Beach-crazy.
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Chapter 25: A Tale of Two Cities (and Two Types of Poo)
Posted on November 24, 2013 by 2seetheglobe
We just spent our fall break in the south of France. Now this is a statement that, up until a year ago, I would’ve uttered only if I was (a) alcohol impaired and hallucinating after a night of tasty gin and tonics, or (b) miraculously transformed into Thurston Howell III or Kim Kardashian. As luck would have it, I now didn’t need to be under the influence of alcohol nor turned into a fake TV millionaire or a, well, a fake TV millionaire.
Nope, now that we are teaching in an international school in the middle of nowhere–or Mali, as they call it—our new normal involves getaways befitting of a Beckham or a Bieber—and we don’t even cavort with Spice Girls or monkeys. That’s because for us, living and teaching abroad provides all kinds of advantages that make life more enjoyable, such as tax-free income, cost-free housing, and duty-free liquor at every airport we pass through to get here.
When there’s a break from teaching here at school, we have the means to do more than what we use to do in our old PM (Pre-Mali) life, which was to eat at a chain restaurant and watch NetFlix. And when I say a break from teaching, there are breaks aplenty here because along with the typical American holidays we also celebrate Malian, Muslim, and African holidays. There’s a day off for the Prophet’s birth and another for his baptism, and another to honor him by killing a sheep, a couple of days off for Malian Independence day, some more for Africa Day, and the list goes on. Sometimes after one day off, government officials randomly come on the local evening news and call for an additional day off, just for the heck of it. They always keep you guessing in Mali.
Our longer stretches of free time include a fall break (which, paired with Halloween festivities, turns October totally into Rocktober for me), winter break (Xmas, Hanukkah, et al), spring break, and summer break. We barely return from one holiday and we are already planning for the next trip in a month or so. Back in the U.S., school breaks mostly meant more time for doing some god-awful, long overdue household chore, and I’m sure you can guess if we prefer sunning ourselves in Provence or reapplying caulk and cleaning mildewy grout in the bathroom.
I think she’s shouting a curse word….
And because we actually save money here (a concept that wasn’t possible in America when working as a teacher in Palm Beach County, Florida), we are able to travel, and I mean really travel. Not driving-2-hours-to-a-theme-park kind of travel, but going-to-a-foreign-country kind of travel where the castles are 500 years old and not made of fiberglass and filled with unnaturally thin Disney princesses. (Sidebar: I once clandestinely went underground at DisneyWorld with a friend who worked there, and met a foul-mouthed gal who portrayed Snow White and a gay, African-American little person who portrayed Mickey Mouse. Now that is some Disney magic.).
Ady, Ady, Ady! (she’s the one with the colorful hair)
So far we have jetted off to Ghana, Senegal, Portugal, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Illinois, Florida. and the Provence region in the south of France—and that’s just in the 15 months we’ve lived in Mali. For winter break this year we are off to the Cape Verde islands, which I hadn’t even heard of until I watched the 2012 Summer Olympics on TV and saw Adysângela Moniz (I just call her “Ady”) of Cape Verde compete in women’s judo.
Bamako to Aix-en-Provence in a day…the wonders of the modern world.
One of the best things about all of this travel is the absolute total contrast of Mali with the other countries we experience. One evening we were walking along an orange dirt road in Bamako, passing donkeys and women with massive bundles of sticks on their head, and hearing the call to prayer in the distance. And before lunch the next day we were parading down the fancy street of Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence, France, relaxing in the shadow of towering plane trees while eating lavender ice cream, trying to decide which French cologne to purchase. It wasn’t too long go when my ten-year-old self was amazed just taking the ten-minute ferry ride across the Mississippi River from my grandma’s tiny town of Meyer, Illinois to the town of Canton, Missouri.
I think I see Brad in the upstairs window….
Now if I could create a magical dream world from scratch, I would carpet it with purple flowers, include fields of wine grapes, surround the fields with hills holding quaint medieval villages, perfume the air with the scent of lavender, give Brad Pitt a home there, and make stores give away a free pair of shoes everyday to every citizen. Well, except for the shoe thing (damn it), Provence is exactly everything I had dreamed of. I’m just glad that the lavender fields were not in bloom while we were there because that last bit of gorgeousness would have made my head explode all over those purple blooms.
Everything about Provence was perfect. Through Airbnb we found an apartment in the heart of Aix perfectly befitting of a perfect town. It had timber beams across the ceilings and a terrace overlooking the tiled roofs of the town. Okay, it was 73 stairs up from the street and once inside, it required another 13 stairs to get from the bedroom to the living room. I admit that could be perfectly horrible for some people. But the view from the terrace was divine, especially once my heart returned to beating normally and allowed my eyes to more clearly focus. And besides, a couple of glasses of local wine made me forget all about the stair climb.
My new shoes, better than papal history.
The shopping in Provence was pretty magical too, especially when you live in a country where we buy shirts on the side of the road from vendors who hang them from tree branches (after a purchase you have to vigorously shake each shirt to remove the two pounds of orange dust before laundering twice—and then they’re still a little dusty). When we walked into the H&M store in Aix-en-Provence, I literally stopped to savor the clean retail-air smell, that unforgettable scent of new clothes and whatever cologne they are pushing. If they made a cologne with that retail smell I’d wear it. During a day tour to Avignon we were given free time to see the Palace of the Popes and instead we spent the whole time in one shoe store. I mean, seriously, you can’t wear history on your feet.
Even the Aix grocery stores looked lavishly stocked and sparkly and huge, but again my reference point is our Lebanese-ish Bamako supermarket whose name translates to “The Ant” with a logo of a human-bodied woman with an ant head, and she/it is pushing a shopping cart. I think we spent as much time in the French grocery stores as we did in the French art museums. Yeah, yeah, a former 15th century church full of Van Gogh paintings is amazing, but can you buy salt and vinegar potato chips there?
We did the whole Provence circuit, booking several one-day trips into the surrounding idyllic countryside, the same stomping grounds where Brangelina and family frolic around their 35-bedroom estate with adjoining 1,200-acre vineyard, which they purchased last year for a cool $60 million.
Brad Pitt may have touched this bottle.
They must find this place extra magical too because their rose wine was just crowned best in the world by Wine Spectator magazine. When it was released in March, all 6000 bottles sold out in five hours, a fact our guide for the day proudly reiterated. So next year, put in your orders early.
It just so happened that two other couples booked the same day trips as we did. We always enjoy getting to know new folks who share our love of travel and adventure. We do find, though, that people don’t share our exact version of what travel and adventure means. When we first told these two couples (husband and wife dentists and a retired couple from New Jersey) where we lived and worked they thought we said “Bali,” and they said “oooh” and “ahhh” and “Lucky you, right on the beach!” Upon learning that we actually said “Mali,” they paused for a moment to think. Then they added, “Did you actually choose to go there?” and “How long do you have to stay there?” and “Where exactly is that?” When the retired couple, who was staying in Marseilles, said they found that city to be “unrefined,” we decided not tell them that in Bamako we’ve seen local toddlers pooping on the dirt road leading to our school.
Excrement stories aside, we are still thrilled to call Mali home right now despite the fabulousness of Provence. Sure it was great to experience Internet speeds that allowed us to watch a two-minute YouTube video without letting it buffer for 45 minutes first. And walking down a sidewalk versus a dirt road with an adjacent open drainage/sewer channel does feel very civilized–though in Provence there did seem to be an awful lot of French dog poo on the sidewalks (Sidebar: On this trip we discovered that the French don’t call French Poodles “French” or “poodle,” but “caniche”). But as much as we adore Provence, we adore Mali just as much—but in slightly different ways.
Sure Provence has a rich history, with Celt, Greek, and ancient Romans colonizing the area at different times, and magnificent castles and churches dotting the countryside. But in the 14th century, when half of the folks in Provence were dying from the black plague and the towns were surrounding themselves with defensive walls and towers after losing the Hundred Years’ War, the Malian Empire had reached its largest size, a whopping
Wanna fight?
440,000 square miles with over 400 cities and towns (only the Mongol Empire was larger). It was flush with gold, the source of half of the Old World’s gold supplies, and a major supplier of salt and copper. It had an army of 100,000 that I’m sure could have given an ass-whuppin’ to those fancy-pants French soldiers.
And sure, Provence is beautiful and who the heck wouldn’t want to live there in a 35-room mansion overlooking 1200 acres of grape vines with your 1200 adopted children. But I have to say, sometimes when I look out my classroom window and see the Niger River sparkling in the foreground and the massive baobab trees on the shore and the orange hills rising on the horizon against a deep blue sky, it takes my breath away. Last week the smoke from a tire fire near campus also took my breath away, literally, but that’s another story.
I loved the people of Provence with their stylish clothes and chic haircuts that never look too overdone and their we-just enjoy-life attitudes. But I also love the people of Bamako with their multicolored robes and dresses and perfectly arranged head wraps and their live-and-let-live attitudes and how they can breathe oxygen heavy with dust and exhaust and not collapse. Even in the middle of Bamako traffic frenzy, in the midst of swerving cars, motos, donkeys, horses, cattle, push carts, etc. the Malians themselves maintain an air of calmness. Smile at them, they smile back. Wave, they return the wave. Try to speak to them in Bambara, they laugh (in a kind and appreciative way, mind you).
In Provence we ate delicious local food, but also ate at some slammin’ Vietnamese and Italian meals. In Mali we eat mostly local dishes, but also enjoy overeating at the Indian and Lebanese restaurants. I appreciate the quiet orderliness of life in Provence (let’s have a four hour dinner at that street side café) and the exciting, but controlled chaos of life in Bamako (let’s try to avoid hitting that herd of longhorn cattle in the middle of the road on our way to the French café for a four hour dinner, but only if the police guy doesn’t pull us over for a bribe first).
So I guess it all boils down to the fact that for me, there is beauty in both order and chaos, in calmness and frenzy, in sophistication and simplicity, and in dodging French dog poo or Malian donkey poo.
Provence, je t’aime….
Bamako, n’b’i fè.
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Chapter 24: Sheep in the Penthouse/Mutton on the Plate
Posted on October 22, 2013 by 2seetheglobe
On the way home from school last week I saw a ram—a really huge one with those giant twisty horns like you see on Satan in foreign horror films. That’s a fairly normal sight here in Bamako (sheep, not Satan) where these goat-looking sheep probably outnumber people.
But what made this sighting unique is that Mr. Sheep wasn’t in one of the normal locations,
photo: mali anta on flickr
e.g. lounging roadside a few inches from speeding traffic, crossing a busy road in a herd during rush hour, draped over the lap of a guy riding a moto down the street, or strapped to the top of a sitroma—the local vans used as a public bus.
photo: bamada.net
Nope, this ovine guy was peeping out of a SECOND story window, in someone’s home. He had a rather relaxed look on his face, like he had just finished taking a long soak in the tub while sipping a glass of merlot. He certainly behaved as if he had always lived on the second floor, and spent his afternoons with bearded chin on the sash, watching the world go by.
Well, first of all I didn’t know that sheep did stairs. We could barely get our dogs to go up a few stairs and they didn’t even have hooves. Made me really wonder. Had he slipped into the house and tappity-tapped unnoticed right upstairs? Or did this homeowner suddenly think one day, “Why should living in the city keep me from having sheep? They can simply live in the guest bedroom upstairs!”
Whatever the case, it was only amusing for a moment, as I knew this ram’s penthouse
arrangement was short-term. Sadly, in just a few days he would be the featured entrée for a dinner on the Muslim holiday of Tabaski.
Also known as Eid al-Adha, this holiday celebrates Ibrahim/Abraham’s willingness to follow God’s orders to slit the throat of his young son (this warm and fuzzy tale is also recounted in the Bible and makes me understand why I always had nightmares after religion class). This bedroom sheep would join an estimated 100 million other animals (cows, camels, goats, and sheep) worldwide also meeting their maker as Tabaski dinner
Banks offer Tabaski loans so you can buy a sheep too. photo: Linda Padolini
on October 15th. Because, according to many religions, nothing honors your supreme ruler more than slicing the jugular vein of a farm animal in his honor. I mean seriously, wouldn’t a deity be just as happy with, say, a big plate of carrots? We have lots of those here, and most folks don’t get emotionally attached to root vegetables.
At least this lucky sheep on the second floor lived the life of luxury beforehand. I’d like to think that at night he slept on a king-sized bed with a Tempur-Pedic mattress, snuggled in 1200 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets, listening to Adele and reading Star Magazine on his iPad (though I haven’t quite figured out how hooves would work with a swipe screen). I mean, you might as well go out on top, right?
I’ve always had a soft spot for animals, and I mean that in a “Free Willy” sort of way where I would totally free a captive orca from SeaWorld using a pick-up truck. I’ve protested with PeTA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) outside of the circus, the greyhound racetrack, and a cosmetics industry meeting (my sign at this last one said, “L’Oreal: Blinding Bunnies for Beauty!). I really, really dislike any activity that harms animals, like hunting, bullfighting, or when the Roadrunner drops an anvil on Wile E. Coyote from the cliff above.
I protested annually at our local greyhound torture track in West Palm Beach, FL (race track).
It’s the reason I was a vegetarian before coming to Mali. It started when I discovered that veal production mirrors the plot of a horror movie: yank a baby from its mom right after birth, confine it in a crate the size of a big beach towel so it can’t exercise and stays “tender,” feed it iron-poor gruel to keep it anemic so the flesh is pale, and kill it after 23 weeks so some fat human can gulp down its meat. Didn’t something like that happen in Saw IV?
Me with Wayne Pacelle, CEO of the Humane Society of the United States. I was 2010 Humane Society teacher of the Year.
Don’t get me wrong–I savor the taste of a crisp slice of bacon. And a hamburger on the grill dripping with pepper jack cheese is nirvana for me. But in the U.S. it was always easy for me to satisfy these cravings and not think about a slaughterhouse worker cracking the skull of Bessie the Cow or gutting Babe the pig. Why? Two words: mock meat.
It’s everywhere in America—fake burgers, hotdogs, crab cakes, chicken—all made from things without a face, like soy, wheat gluten, and pea protein (http://www.fakemeats.com/default.asp). In the U.S. I could still eat like a caveman without spearing the wooly mammoth and hacking off its meaty loins. For years I traced my open hand to draw cute turkeys, only to gobble down Tom Turkey at Thanksgiving dinner a few days later. Thank goodness Tofurkey allowed me to have a guilt-free holiday honoring the English prudes who were total bitches to the American Indians.
But now I’m in Mali, a developing country where the ethics of food have less to do with animal cruelty and more to do with how to feed the five million people that are starving...about a third of the population. Every day nearly 40 Malian children die from malnutrition–and I’m going to worry about whether or not my eggs come from free-range chickens? I’m pretty sure a hungry kid doesn’t debate the merits of Tofurkey vs. Tom Turkey.
I really wish the whole humane-treatment-of-animals issue here involved only food-related
photo: http://lemonademoon.wordpress.com
matters. Unfortunately I don’t think life for any animal in Mali is so great. Take dogs, for example. There are a few dogs here, but I guarantee that they aren’t being pushed around in baby strollers or getting therapeutic canine massages or sleeping in $75/night doggy spas where their vacationing owners can watch them on a live web cam. Here dogs run loose in fields scrounging for scraps in ditches, or get picked up by one leg by the neighborhood kids.
Our next door neighbor here—let’s call him Michael Vick—has a German shepherd guard dog. One Sunday morning I heard it barking continuously so like any concerned neighbor I went to the roof deck to spy, er, I mean investigate by secretly peering down into his yard. There I saw whatever is the opposite of the Dog Whisperer—maybe the Dog Screamer–some guy lunging repeatedly at the animal with a stick that he also used to bang a metal pan just inches from the dog’s ears, all while the owner held the dog in place with a piece of rope around the neck. Ah, the special bond between man and dog.
I also grimace when I see a skinny horse pulling a wooden cart overloaded with rocks right
Chickens know what Bamako looks like upside-down. Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos /superbebito/854382475/lightbox/
down a traffic-filled road. Or when a kid is beating the side of a sad-looking donkey to make it go faster. Or when a guy on a bike is laden with tiny, rusty, wire cages stuffed with live chickens, and he unloads them by tossing them to the ground. Or when longhorn cattle walk along the busiest road in town, crossing in front of speeding cars and motos that seem to miss them by mere centimeters.
Now I’m no Pollyanna. I know that animal cruelty happens in the good ol’ U.S. of A. too, and probably on a much larger scale (factory farm tour anyone?). It just doesn’t seem as horrific because I know there are animal rights organizations doing their best to stop awful things from happening. Nearly every week I receive an action alert from PeTA or the Humane Society asking me to email someone, and I do. Last week I emailed the University of Wisconsin/Madison, asking them to stop experimenting on cats (http://www.peta.org/features/uw-madison-cruelty.aspx). The email included this lovely description:
“According to records obtained by PETA, one cat was subjected to invasive surgeries on
photo: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
her ears, skull, and brain. In the first operation, a stainless steel post was screwed to her skull so that her head could be immobilized during experiments. In the next surgery they cut into her head and skull and then applied a toxic substance to her inner ears in order to deafen her.”
Seriously though, what had to happen to that researcher as a child to make him okay with drilling into the skulls of live cats? Was he thinking, “I’m sure Fluffy won’t even notice this” as his Black & Decker cordless drill began to grind skull bone? Who knows, maybe he goes home and sits on his couch made of kitten fur and baby bald eagle feathers. I just hope his lamp made out of panda cub bones falls on him some day.
While farm animals aren’t exactly coddled here, at least Malians aren’t drilling kitten skulls or filming crush videos (in which women crush tiny animals with their stiletto heels—no lie—that’s really a thing). I can understand why a country with a 28% literacy rate wouldn’t grasp the notion of humane animal husbandry. What I can’t grasp is why a country like the U.S., with a 99% literacy rate, needs an animal rights organization to remind a university that it’s not cool to pour poison into the opened skulls of live cats.
Mr. School Sheep #1 (the closest I came to naming he-who-would-be-dinner)
At school we had two “pet” sheep this year, munching grass in the distance while kids played on the swings. One had the biggest bluest eyes, and the other the loudest bleating I’ve ever heard. I didn’t let on to the kids that these were Tabaski sheep. Little did they know, one would be sacrificed right on the playground by a special Muslim man who is sanctioned to do this sort of thing (“Keep your classroom curtains closed between 8:30 and 9:00 AM!” our director reminded me). I was pleased to discover that this butcher guy had a hard time getting past the school guards as he brought an array of shiny, sharp knives in all shapes and sizes.
Our school sheep visit the cafeteria.
Supposedly the process is a quick thing done in a dignified manner and that’s what I’ll keep telling myself. Anyhow, this sheep would be served at the school’s Tabaski feast, and the second sheep would be raffled to a staff member (custodian, driver, gardener). This is a big deal as the sheep this year were frighteningly expensive, and continued to get more expensive as the big day drew closer. Since every family is expected to buy one, and the average worker’s monthly salary is $125, it becomes a hardship when you shell out $150 or $200 for a single sheep. So winning a sheep is a good thing. Even my cell phone service, Orange, sent a text saying that if I added minutes I would be in a lottery for a free sheep.
The following Monday I glanced out my window, and it was a little sad to see the Niger River without the school sheep prancing along in the foreground. I thought it was best not to mention anything to my students so as not to upset them. That morning I had them do a writing exercise about point of view. They took on the role of various people/objects/animals and wrote a paragraph on the same topic, a rainy day at school. I purposely did not include the sheep, as I didn’t want to call attention to their absence. I mean, what they don’t know can’t hurt them, right?
I did include the school tortoise though. Here’s what the student who was assigned the tortoise’s point of view read aloud:
Rainy days are the best at school. I have the whole field to myself because those loud kids
School tortoise; slow but enduring
are inside. The only thing I have to worry about is sheep poop all over the ground. I have to crawl through it! I’m so glad it’s almost Tabaski and somebody will be eating those sheep and I won’t have to deal with that poop anymore.
And the class exploded with laughter and revelry while I pretended our school sheep had really escaped and were frolicking in a field of lavender in the south of France.
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Chapter 37: When Fries Attack – Around the World with a Garlic Allergy
Chapter 36: Back on the Chain Gang – Tide Powder, Cincinnati, & Uzbek Line Cutters
Chapter 35: Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil
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ALRTA News – 23 February 2018
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER TO RESIGN
The Hon Barnaby Joyce MP has announced that he will resign as Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Federal National Party and go to the back bench.
I am sure that you will read all about this in numerous other sources over the coming days, but from the ALRTA perspective, this will also mean that a new Federal Minister for Infrastructure and Transport will soon be appointed.
ALRTA SEEKS CHANGES TO NVD
ALRTA has written to Meat and Livestock Australia subsidiary ‘Integrity Systems Company Limited’ proposing important changes to the information included on NVDs to enable chain parties to meet the requirements of the Australian Animal Welfare Land Transport Standards and Guidelines (Land Transport Standards).
Throughout the Land Standards, various sections make it clear that all ‘persons in charge’ in the livestock supply chain share responsibility for ensuring that appropriate feed and water curfews are applied prior to transport, and that relevant information is communicated to ensure that maximum time off water limits are not exceeded.
Successful management of total time off feed or water is only possible when the consignor, transporter and consignee all have access to reliable information. The current version of the PigPass NVD already caters for such information to be recorded.
Given that a Livestock Production Assurance (LPA) NVD is required for all movements of cattle, goats, sheep and lambs (including property to property, through saleyards, direct to processors, feedlots and the live export trade), this declaration is the obvious place to include curfew information for these species.
While the ALRTA acknowledges that the current NVD for Sheep and Lambs does already record ‘Hours off feed and water before transporting’, this current format is not sufficient.
Firstly, it does not separate feed and water, and secondly, chain parties cannot account for any delays that may have occurred during loading, transport or unloading when attempting to calculate total time off feed and water over a journey.
The ALRTA has recommended that all LPA NVDs adopt the same format for recording feed and water curfews as the equivalent PigPass NVD.
MEETING NOTICE: ALRTA NATIONAL COUNCIL
Members are advised that the ALRTA will be holding a Council meeting on Saturday, 24 March 2018. Details are:
Start: 8:00am
Close: 1:00pm
Location: Opal Cove Resort, Coffs Harbor
For more information please contact the ALRTA Secretariat.
ATA COUNCIL
The ATA Council held the first meeting of 2018 in Canberra this week. The livestock and rural sector had strong representation at the meeting via:
ATA Vice Chair – David Smith (LRTASA);
Small Fleet Representative – Lynley Miners (LBRCA);
Owner Driver Representative – John Beer (LRTAV); and
ALRTA Executive Director – Mathew Munro.
Photo (L-R): John Beer, David Smith & Lynley Miners.
It is only early in 2018 but already there are multiple highly charged issues on the agenda.
The recent spike in fatalities involving trucks in NSW has provoked an enormous level of discussion across industry, government and the community. The ATA Council meeting was no exception with plenty of opinions on causes and solutions expressed.
The CEO of the NHVR, Sal Petroccitto, addressed the ATA Council and was involved in robust discussions about the proposed framework for recognising EWDs as a voluntary alternative to a written work diary. It is fair to say that there are polarised opinions on this issue as well.
The meeting also considered charging reform, the draft report on national supply chain priorities and the draft Master Code of Practice.
All in all, this was one of most important meetings of the ATA Council since the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal crisis.
The ALRTA National Animal Welfare Committee met via teleconference to discuss progress on our four major projects plus several other issues such as working dogs, RSPCA approved farming standards and saleyard conditions. Here is a brief update on our major projects:
National Ramp Standards: In response to our letter proposing to establish a national standard, we have received written support from key stakeholders representing equipment suppliers, supply chain parties, community and government. We have now submitted a formal application to Standards Australia and hope to see work commence in 2018.
User-Pay PAL Frame Trial: A large processor has agreed to host the trial. We have inspected the site, agreed an action plan, locked in timeframes and paid a deposit to manufacture and deliver a ProWay Pivot Access Landing Frame to the site. We look forward to revealing to site location soon.
Roadside Effluent Disposal: ALRTA submitted a grant application to the Australian Government Building Better Regions Fund in December 2017 which has now been accepted and will progress to merits review. This week we made a similar application under the Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative 2018-19.
Code of Practice: ALRTA formally commenced development of an industry code of practice for effluent management last week. Next week we will meet with the NHVR and the Project Manager for the industry Master Code which is currently under development. Member consultation will commence at the joint ALRTA-LBRCA State-National Conference in Coffs Harbor on 23 March 2018. Why not register to attend and have your say?
AUSTROADS FREIGHT TASK FORCE
ALRTA attended a meeting of the AustRoads Freight Taskforce in Canberra.
Austroads is the peak organisation of Australasian road transport and traffic agencies. Austroads members are collectively responsible for the management of over 900,000 kilometres of roads valued at more than $200 billion representing the single largest community asset in Australia and New Zealand.
The various members of Austroads are working on a wide variety of projects which are relevant to the livestock and rural sector including:
Community Service Obligations Framework for the Roads Sector
National Guidelines on Rest Areas for Heavy Vehicles
Local Roads and High Productivity Freight Vehicles Access
Operations of Automated Heavy Vehicles in Remote and Regional Areas
The meeting was a good opportunity to have input into the scope and direction of these projects so that they better meet the needs of industry and reflect the ‘real world’ operating environment.
ENTER NOW! BP NATIONAL CONFERENCE PROMOTION: WIN $500 FUEL CARD
The ALRTA/LBRCA National Conference takes place over 23-24 March 2018 in Coffs Harbour.
This is your chance to attend Australia’s prime livestock and rural transporters conference. BP Australia wants you to get involved and are providing you with $500 worth of BP Fuel Vouchers to get you there. BP are supporting two ambassadorial spots for each member state to ensure that each state has the opportunity to attend and be heard.
To apply to be a conference ambassador, simply tell us in 25 words or less why you want to come to the conference.
Send your application to sponsors@alrta.org.au by 28 February 2018.
For more information about the conference please click here: http://lbrca.org.au/events/
Our Platinum Partner, BP is a long-time supporter of our industry and have played a critical role in helping us achieve ‘on the ground’ outcomes for our members. Please visit https://www.bp.com/en_au/australia.html to find out more about BP.
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Marvel Monday: Netflix cancels ‘Luke Cage’
October 22, 2018 Garrett Godwin ENTERTAINMENT, National News, NEWS, Southern California News, Television/Cable 0
Netflix has cancelled Marvel's "Luke Cage" after just two seasons
A week after the cancellation of Marvel’s “Iron Fist” starring Finn Jones, Netflix has closed down shop on Marvel’s “Luke Cage” after two seasons. The news was first broken by Deadline on Friday, where “Daredevil” became “Born Again” for its third season with Charlie Cox suiting back as the titular Man without Fear.
Marvel’s “Luke Cage” ended its second and final season with Luke going from the Hero of Harlem to the Godfather of Harlem. Once the “Soul Brother #1”, Luke sold his soul and sold out in taking over the reigns as the newly crowned king of organized crime. Premiered on Netflix in the fall of 2016, Marvel’s “Luke Cage” broke through with Mike Colter reprising the role he first played on“Jessica Jones” opposite Krysten Ritter’s titular hard-drinking, short-fused, hot mess of a resourceful private investigator.
Framed and wrongly convicted, Carl Lucas became the subject of a prison experiment that gave him superhuman strength and unbreakable skin. Reborn as Luke Cage, he tried to live a quiet and peaceful life in Harlem, but faced his moment of truth and step up to the arena: protecting the people against crime, corruption, and injustice as a hooded outlaw vigilante/hero-for-hire.
Colter continued the role of Cage in last summer’s“The Defenders” alongside Cox, Ritter, and Jones, where all four of them learned to work together in saving New York City from the evil Hand organization.
As of now, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and The Punisher will remain where they are, but let us continue to show our “Bulletproof Love” to Marvel’s “Luke Cage” on Netflix.
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This 'Voice' Contestant Impressed Kelly Clarkson By Singing One Of Her Most Personal Songs
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Blind Spanish surfer says sea sets her free, goes for world title
Reuters On Dec 12, 2018
SALINAS, Spain: Carmen Lopez can only imagine what the sea looks like, but the blind 21-year-old Spaniard is in her element riding the surf.
Guided by instinct and signals whistled by her coach, Lopez has been training hard to become Spain’s first blind female athlete to enter the World Adaptive Surfing Championship in La Jolla, California, on Wednesday.
“The sea is where I feel peace and freedom, as if it were where I’m supposed to be,” she said sitting on her surfboard after an hour and a half of wave-riding practice in the Bay of Biscay in northern Spain.
“I’m not different from other surfers,” said Lopez, who was born with congenital glaucoma and lost her vision completely when she was a child.
In its fourth edition, the La Jolla event for surfers with disabilities features its first team competition for visually-impaired female athletes, with Lopez representing Spain.
Blind surfers such as Lopez’ countryman Aitor Francesena or Brazilian Derek Rabelo have achieved legendary status in the sport, and Lopez, who only took up surfing a few months ago, is aiming high.
After the La Jolla tournament, organized by the International Surfing Association (ISA), Lopez aims to compete in the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. ISA has been campaigning to make adaptive surfing a Paralympic sport.
Lopez has also practiced figure-skating and horse-riding and her coach and friend Lucas Garcia praised her natural balance and instinct. Garcia, who swims next to Lopez when she surfs, is her ‘eyes’ when it comes to telling her about a wave coming up.
“A single whistle means the wave is coming on her right side, and a double whistle, on her left side,” he said, likening the signals to the way dolphins communicate.
Lopez wants to encourage others with disabilities to challenge their limitations, live a full life and perhaps try out radical sports.
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Best Look Yet at Giannis Antetokounmpo's Nike Zoom Freak 1
The 2019 NBA MVP's first signature sneaker drops soon.
By Victor Deng
In Nov. 2017, Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo's announced his long-term deal with Nike, which will reportedly include a signature sneaker with the Swoosh. Following months of speculation, it looks like the basketball model may be finally releasing this summer.
According to @djfolk on Twitter, Antetokounmpo's first signature sneaker is rumored to be called the Nike Freak 1. The shoe is rumored to debut in a black and white color in June/July, with a red and white scheme following in August. Official images have yet to surface.
Stay tuned to Sole Collector for updates. Last year, Antetokounmpo asked fans on Twitter for suggestions on the upcoming Nike Freak 1. Check out some of the best responses here.
UPDATE (03/21): During Nike's Q3 earnings call for fiscal year 2019, CEO Mark Parker announced that Giannis Antetokounmpo's anticipated debut signature model, reportedly named the Freak 1, will be releasing in the coming months during the 2019 NBA Playoffs.
"Building on the energy of the NBA Playoffs, Giannis [Antetokounmpo] will cap off his incredible season with the reveal of his first signature shoe," Parker said.
UPDATE (05/22): Despite Giannis Antetokounmpo currently battling the Toronto Raptors in the 2019 Eastern Conference Finals, the Greek Freak still has yet to lace up his first signature sneaker, the Nike Zoom Freak 1. While many fans still eagerly await the debut, there is now some news about when we might be able to expect the pair at retailers.
According to Swedish retailer Solestory's official release calendar, the "Total Orange/Midnight Navy-White" colorway previewed below will be arriving on June 29. As for when Antetokounmpo will actually play a game in them, that is still up in the air.
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UPDATE (06/21): Official images of the "Total Orange/Midnight Navy-White" have surfaced. The colorway has been previously rumored to release on June 29 for $120.
UPDATE (06/25): Following Giannis Antetokounmpo being awarded 2019 NBA MVP honors, official images have surfaced of the "Lucid Green" Nike Zoom Freak 1. The pair is still reportedly slated to arrive at retailers on July 10 for $120. Get a closer look at the colorway below.
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What is the background music played in Psycho-Pass episode 7 at 13:37?
The background music at 13:37 of episode 7 in Psycho-Pass season 1 is incredible but I am not able to identify it. I already tried music recognition apps like Shazam. They were not able to recognize it. It could be a modified or original version of Beethoven's 9th symphony. Can someone confirm?
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It is Beethoven's 9th Symphony - Ode to joy. Here is the link to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wod-MudLNPA
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March 2, 2019 April 5, 2019 / annemmeje / 1 Comment
Sometime in 2009, a few months after I finished the National Youth Service, I was preparing dinner in the kitchen when a call came into my phone. The caller was from Globacom, a leading telecommunication company in Nigeria. The caller was inviting me to interview for an attorney position with the company. At first, I thought it was my sister Amara, ever the teaser, pulling a prank on me and I kept telling the caller, whom I thought was Amara, to stop the prank. She patiently explained to me that it was real and gave me an address in Victoria Island, an upscale area of Lagos –I was in Aba — to come for the interview. I never imagined Globacom would invite me for an interview. But then I remembered that weeks prior to that, I had applied for an attorney position to a generic email in response to a job advert that did not disclose the employer. After talking to family members and determining the invitation was genuine, I traveled to Lagos for the screening test at Glo’s shiny tower and went back home to Aba.
A few weeks later, I got another call that I had to be in Abuja the following day for a second interview. I think it was late afternoon and the only way to get to Lagos in time for the interview the next day was to take a flight. My father generously paid for my flight – my first ever experience flying – that evening.
When I got to Globacom office the next day, I learned I was to be interviewed by Bella Adenuga, the CEO’s daughter. When I met Bella, her first question was, “what name do you go by?” I didn’t grow up with English as I first language. The lady next to her explained that Bella was inquiring if I wanted to be addressed by Anne or Oluchi as I had both names on my resume. I answered that question. Next, Bella asked me “Tell me about yourself.” Before that time, I had never been to or prepared for a job interview. I wish I knew then what I know now. Rather than tell her about my academic and professional qualifications, I prattled on about how I was the fourth of eight children and how I attended a Catholic secondary school. Bella did not go past that question before she dismissed me. And just like that, I wasted the hard-earned flight fare my dad, who I don’t think had ever flown at that time, gave me. Mission unaccomplished.
Fast forward to 2017, I had moved to another country and had been targeting to get a job in a particular sector without success, when I got an invitation for an opening in the sector. I looked on LinkedIn and elsewhere, thank you Google, and recognized an Igbo name from a list of attorneys who work at the establishment. I found a phone number for the attorney online and sent him a long text message, apologized I could not find his email address, hence the text. I introduced myself as a fellow Nigerian trying to interview with his agency. We have not seen till date but the attorney did text me back and scheduled a time to prepare me for the interview over the phone. His tips were invaluable. I eventually did not get that job, but I have been to other successful interviews in that sector because of the graciousness of that attorney.
Before getting a university degree became the norm, our parents used the apprenticeship system to set up young people to succeed, something youths today don’t get. In this TedTalk Roberet Neuwirth said “I can say with almost certainty that the Igbo apprenticeship system that governs Alaba International Market is the largest business incubator platform in the world.” Our generation tend to be employees ourselves and don’t have opportunity to replicate this system. But we have to look around to see other ways we can help and that is why I started this project.
In a few posts from now, I will be announcing the first set of opportunities we will be providing on this platform. We will use the little fund we have raised so far to kickstart the process; we can’t make an impact if we keep waiting until we have million dollar resources. We are thinking of offering monthly stipend, not much, to five youths who can find a place to learn a trade for six months. Priority will be given to youths who choose trades they can set up themselves with no capital after six months. From our previous survey on Facebook, it appears braiding hair, barbing, painting, driving uber, appear to be clear winners. If you are a business owner and will like to mentor or train someone in a trade for six months, we will like to hear from you. You won’t be required to pay wages. Please send an email to Nigerianintern@gmail.com.
From the Facebook Survey, there were also very valuable suggestions on certifications that can increase employability. That may require some resources and we are still researching on that.
If you are unemployed and have zero income, start looking around in your area to see what trade you may learn. The stipend that will be given is minimal (not more than N5,000 a month); the donors hope it can at least help towards transportation. If you have someone looking for opportunities in Nigeria, Please have them join the Facebook Group Intern Nigeria. We will be posting updates there.
Thank you all for your positive Feedback on the Facebook Survey. Let’s all work together for a Nigeria we can be proud of.
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American Catholics : To Hell Wih You!
January 28, 2012 January 28, 2012 J. A. Dick7 Comments
Having failed to convince American Catholics to follow their hard-line ban on contraception, American Catholic bishops are ignoring the consciences of those who work for them by seeking to impose their extremist beliefs on all women, Catholic or otherwise.
The current issue of course is the January 20th announcement by the Obama administration’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, that religious organizations could delay but not opt out of a requirement that all health plans cover contraception and sterilization in health-insurance coverage.
Catholic bishops across the United States have begun not just a spirited but a fierce anti-Obama administration campaign.
New York’s next cardinal, Archbishop Timothy Dolan feels “terribly let down, disappointed and disturbed.” In Phoenix, on January 25th, Bishop Thomas Olmsted declared: “We cannot — we will not — comply with this unjust law.”
Bishop David A. Zubik of Pittsburgh, in a column titled “To hell with you,” wrote that the Obama administration is saying: “To hell with your religious beliefs. To hell with your religious liberty. To hell with your freedom of conscience. We’ll give you a year, they are saying, and then you have to knuckle under.”
Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria, Ill., enlisted the aid of St. Michael the Archangel in fighting “this unprecedented governmental assault upon the moral convictions of our faith.” In a January 24th letter to Catholics in Peoria, Bishop Jenky has mandated that the prayer of St. Michael be recited “for the freedom of the Catholic Church in America” during Sunday Masses at every parish, school, hospital, Newman center, and religious house in the diocese. Older Catholics will remember that that prayer ends: “Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil” and “cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits, who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.”
What’s happening here?
Who’s view of reality is more “real”?
Who’s understanding of “conscience” is more authentic.
With all due respect to bishops Dolan, Olmsted, Zubik, and Jenky, I find the vision of my old moral theologian hero, Bernhard Häring, much more real and certainly much more hope-giving:
“Despite a certain trend towards conservatism in parts of the church and society, I am convinced that we have moved into a new era that will be determined by people who live by their own conscience and are particularly qualified to act as discerning members of community and society…the era in which almost everyone was content to be born and to live as a member of a certain church or ‘organized religion’ is over. The people who will shape the future of believers of all religions are those who have the courage to make their own choice, whatever pain may be involved, and to do so with personal responsibility.”
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7 thoughts on “American Catholics : To Hell Wih You!”
Fr. Jerry Brohl, COSF says:
Every time a Roman bishop or the Vatican raises their voice over issues of conscience or freedom of religion I cringe and the hair on the back of my neck stands up. They are among the most repressive and offensive folks on the planet when it comes to these issues. Obviously, they don’t see the huge log in their own eyes as they yell and scream about the splinter in the eyes of others.
Dear God, save us from the self-righteous, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
phrogge says:
I couldn’t agree more, both with the article and the above comment. I do not look forward to reading the bishop’s letter at Masses this weekend.
John W. Greenleaf says:
Courage friend…..Most people see though this holy smoke!
Robert Blair Kaiser says:
This is a non-issue. No one’s conscience is being violated here. The government is simply saying that if a corporation is going to provide insurance, it has to provide for all. Bishops like Olmsted are using this non-issue to help unseat Pres. Obama. Appealing mostly to non-thinking Catholics in Ohio during the 2004 presidential campaign, the bishops told their people that John Kerry wasn’t a good Catholic, and that was enough to swing Ohio and, therefore, the entire election toward George Bush. When the U.S. invaded Iraq, I did not hear any bishop saying we should withhold the taxes that paid for the war on the grounds that, if we did, we’d be violating our consciences.
Dear Kaiser Thanks for writing. Good to hear from you gain! John
KAY CAREY says:
That’s like saying that in pre-Vatican II days, the Bishops should have complained when eaing meat on Friday was not against the law for everyone!!!
It would have been seen as a blatant violation of OTHER PEOPLE’S rights by the Hierarchy…
Same thing here!!!
Bill McDonald says:
The bishops stance is just more blind obedience to Rome interfering in U.S. politics. What makes their claim that the government is “violating the consciences of American Catholics” so ludicrious is the hierarchy’s criticism of over 80% of U.S. catholics who have followed their consciencies in rejecting “Humanae Vitae.” The Sensus Fidelium of the U.S. Catholic Church has consistently rejected the hierarchy’s teaching on artificial contraception. So now the bishops who cannot convince the vast majority of the catholic laity about opposing artificial contraception are trying to convince the electorate including non-catholics to support “Rome’s cause.”
It is just a “red herring” to all, but a blind infallible absolutist minority of catholics who continue to support the holiness of the hierarchy in spite of the hierarchy’s crimes of sodomy against children.
Free enterpise Insurance companies should be allowed to offer contraceptive services at all hospitals, and let the free maket choices of individuals prevail. That may not be Rome’s way, but it is the American way.
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If the Library of Alexandria did not burn, how much further advanced do you think the human race would be?
or do you think it would not have made a difference?
Update: I also asked this question in the History section. I thought Year of the Dragon had an intresting response. If you would like to read it.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkqfZti5SwuNbx0.ZfDiQ8_sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080727185620AAfOVlP
Best Answer: Its a very interesting question. Since we are not entirely sure about the content of the scrolls, we really do not know for sure. However it is known that the scrolls contained knowledge; like mathamatics, astronomy, steam power, even possibly electricty. I saw some episode on the history channel about this and the analogy that was drawn, was had the library not burned down, then Columbus would have likely gone to the moon. That might be a stretch, but according to the show I saw, they claimed that the knowledge lost there set western civilization back by about 1500 years. And I can at least see that seeing as how steam power was not practical until some 1200 years after the fire.
However the factor that pops into my mind is the emergence of christianity. The early church was pretty good at destroying all litterature that was not cannonical. So had the church developed the same way, its possible the library and its knowledge would have been destroyed anyway.
Besides in those days I don't think many knew the adage "don't keep all your eggs in one basket". There could have just as easily been some other disaster like an earthquake (Alexandrian is location near a fault line) that would have been just as devistating.
Its still kinda interesting to wonder what life would be like had the library never been destroyed at all though.
EDIT: After reading the year of the dragon's response I think his first sentance pretty much summerized where I was going with my response:
"There is a school of thought that says whatever was there would have been suppressed by the Catholic Church anyway."
EDIT (again): I was on my way home last night when I thought of a few more things related to this question.
While the library of Alexandria was a hub of western knowledge, it was not the only library. There were many libraries, though they did not have as many texts or access to so many great minds. But many of the texts at the library of Alexandria were also at other libraries too. Some were just translations, others were legit copies. So the loss of the library didn't mean that the knowledge there didn't already exist else where.
Really its not the loss of the great library that set mankind back, it was the rise of Christianity that destroyed the copies of the text that were spread through out the western world.
The other reason that the great library acted as a hub of learning and the exchange of ideas. It was not only the loss of unique works, but a place where the greatest minds of the day could converge and share their knowledge.
I believe we would have had airplanes 1000 years ago if the library at Alexandria hadn't been destroyed.
Thomas E · 1 decade ago
I am being shown that this knowledge is and will be channeled to people on a " need to know" basis. I am also being told that man was not ready for such knowledge and that it was too soon. The destruction was meant to be at that time. We will move forward but just at a slower pace..
faykit66 · 1 decade ago
well for the most part we pretty much rediscovered the knowledge that was lost in the fire, i don't think it would have made a huge difference but a measurable one non the less.
evirustheslaye · 1 decade ago
1.less people on earth , meaning less bum bums in the sun lol
2.less idiocy
3.more vegetarians
4. more "aware " people
5. less religion more spirituality
6. technology without contamination
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By ERIC TUCKERJuly 14, 2018
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Friday, July 13, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve Russian military intelligence officers hacked into the Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic Party and released tens of thousands of private communications in a sweeping conspiracy by the Kremlin to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election, according to an indictment announced days before President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The indictment represents special counsel Robert Mueller’s first charges against Russian government officials for interfering in American politics, an effort U.S. intelligence agencies say was aimed at helping the Trump campaign and harming his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. The case follows a separate indictment that accused Russians of using social media to sow discord among American voters.
The 29-page indictment lays out how, months before Americans went to the polls, Russians schemed to break into key Democratic email accounts, including those belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Stolen emails, many politically damaging for Clinton, appeared on WikiLeaks in the campaign’s final stretch.
The charges say the Russian defendants, using a persona known as Guccifer 2.0, in August 2016 contacted a person in touch with the Trump campaign to offer help. And they say that on the same day Trump, in a speech, urged Russia to find Clinton’s missing emails, Russian hackers tried for the first time to break into email accounts used by her personal office.
Mueller did not allege that Trump campaign associates were involved in the hacking effort, that Americans were knowingly in touch with Russian intelligence officers or that any vote tallies were altered by hacking. The White House seized on those points in a statement that offered no condemnation of Russian election interference.
It was unclear whether the indictment might factor into Trump’s meeting with Putin on Monday.
Trump has repeatedly expressed skepticism about Russian involvement in the hacking while being accused by Democrats of cozying up to the Russian president. Trump complained about the Russia investigation hours before the indictment, saying the “stupidity” was making it “very hard to do something with Russia.”
The Kremlin, meanwhile, denied anew that it tried to sway the election. “The Russian state has never interfered and has no intention of interfering in the U.S. elections,” Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said Friday.
The indictment identifies the defendants as officers with Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, also known as GRU. If that link is established, it would shatter the Kremlin denials of the Russian state’s involvement in the U.S. elections, given that the GRU is part of the state machine.
The Russian defendants are not in custody, and it is not clear they will ever appear in American court, though the Justice Department has recently seen value in indicting foreign hackers in absentia as public deterrence.
The indictment accuses the Russian hackers, starting in March 2016, of covertly monitoring the computers of dozens of Democratic officials and volunteers, implanting malicious computer code known as malware to explore the networks and steal data, and sending phishing emails to gain access to accounts.
One attempt at interference came hours after Trump, in a July 27, 2016, speech, suggested Russians look for emails that Clinton said she had deleted from her tenure as secretary of state.
“Russia, if you’re listening,” Trump said, “I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”
That evening, the indictment says, the Russians attempted to break into email accounts used by Clinton’s personal office, along with 76 Clinton campaign email addresses.
By June 2016, the defendants, relying on fictional personas like DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0, began planning the release of tens of thousands of stolen emails, the indictment alleges.
The Podesta emails published by WikiLeaks displayed the campaign’s private communications, including deliberations about messaging that played into attacks that Clinton was calculating and a political flip-flopper. Private speeches she gave to financial industry firms were particularly damaging within the left wing of the Democratic party and among independents frustrated with the influence of Wall Street in politics.
The indictment alleges that Guccifer 2.0 was in touch with multiple Americans in the summer of 2016 about the pilfered material, including an unidentified congressional candidate who requested and then received stolen information.
On Aug. 15, 2016, the indictment says, Guccifer 2.0 reached out to someone in contact with the Trump campaign and asked the person if they had seen anything “interesting in the docs I posted?” Guccifer 2.0 said it would be a “great pleasure” to help.
Prosecutors say weeks later, Guccifer 2.0 referred to a stolen DCCC document posted online and asked the person, “what do u think of the info on the turnout model for the democrats entire presidential campaign.” The person responded, ”(p)retty standard.”
The indictment doesn’t identify the person, though longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone acknowledged Friday, through his lawyer, a “24-word exchange with someone on Twitter claiming to be Guccifer 2.0.”
“This exchange is now entirely public and provides no evidence of collaboration or collusion with Guccifer 2.0 or anyone else in the alleged hacking of the DNC emails,” said lawyer Grant Smith.
In addition, someone at Wikileaks contacted Guccifer 2.0 before the Democratic National Convention asking for Clinton material, court papers show.
The charges come as Mueller continues to investigate potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign. Before Friday, 20 people and three companies had been charged in the investigation.
Defendants include four former Trump campaign and White House aides, three of whom have pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate, and 13 Russians accused in a powerful social media campaign to sway U.S. public opinion in 2016.
Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said on Twitter that it was time to end the investigation since “no Americans are involved” in Friday’s indictment. But with Mueller still investigating, it’s not known whether further indictments are taking shape or will.
Meanwhile, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein called for a unified approach to countering foreign meddling.
“When we confront foreign interference in American elections, it is important for us to avoid thinking politically as Republicans or Democrats and instead to think patriotically as Americans,” he said. “Our response must not depend on who was victimized.”
Associated Press writers Darlene Superville, Richard Lardner, Desmond Butler and Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington and Raphael Satter in London contributed to this report.
More AP reporting on Russian hacking: https://www.apnews.com/tag/Russianhacking
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Worst Case Scenario #14 - 'All Along the Watchtower' - A Scenario for 'Top Billing' A Pulp Game of The Golden Age of Cinema
Several years ago I created a set of simple skirmish rules to reflect the madcap stunts and off-the-cuff storytelling experienced behind the scenes of a movie set during the Golden Age of Cinema.
The first edition of the rules were titled 'Leading Man', but over time I've settled on a somewhat more gender neutral title of 'Top Billing'.
I dusted the rules off a few weeks ago, tarted them up a bit, and put on a game for The Friday Night Raconteurs.
Here is the scenario which I read to the players at the start of the game:
June 15th, 60 A.D. Watchtower XII, Camulodunum, Britannia
Messengers arrived last week, informing you that Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was extending his time away, campaigning on the island on Anglesey. You along with other elements of Legio IX Hispania would remain around Camulodunum, watching over the growing settlement of discharged Legionnaires located there.
Two Roman citizens, a pair of beautiful of sisters, have emerged from the forest several hours ago, road weary and terrified. They say they are family acquaintances of Paulinus himself, and frantically describe a Barbarian ambush of their villa. During the melee they were cut off from their house slaves and managed to slip away.
While they are clearly distraught, you believe it was a small localized attack, and not worthy of mobilizing the Legion reserve, near Londinium. Wanting to make your guests as safe and comfortable as possible, you have provided quarters for them in the local watchtower.
This small excitement aside, you and your fellow centurions from Legio IX are enjoying the tradition of the monthly dice game by the campfire. You all gamble and drink until the early morning hours when you and your comrades hear the whinnying of horses, the stifled shouts of alarm, and the braying of warhorns…
This is the story, BUT it is not reality.
The reality is that it’s 1968 and you are all on a film set. It is the last scene of an epic Swords & Sandals movie, directed by the notorious and tempestuous impresario David Mean and his genius cinematographer Fredrico Fellacio .
‘The British are Revolting’ (working title) is to be one of the last studio blockbusters to be jam-packed with top-tier actors. Each one of you is a YUUGE Hollywood star, and as such you are unaccustomed to sharing the spotlight. To add a fly into the ointment, the film has gone way over budget and the studio executives are arriving later today to shut down production. With this being the case, the David Mean is shooting as much film as he can manage and is allowing the actors to improvise and impress him with their skills.
So, the stage is set, the Director is mad, the budget is through the roof, egos are raging, the script is unfinished and each of you is determined to have Top Billing!
David Mean on set capturing the ignominious retreat of one of the actors from the barbarians, er, extras.
The game focuses on the players attaining ‘Top Billing’ status by either having the most Fame Points by the end of shooting or being the last character to 'survive' on-set. The stars with the top three scores will have Top Billing on the movie playbill and be able to bask in the cinematic glory.
But here's the rub, in the effort to gain as much Fame by the end of the movie, the actors will be forced to use their Fame to gain the Director's attention and foil the plans of any competing actors.
An actor single-handedly attacking a group of barbarians with the camera capturing the action for maximum Fame Points.
With this, the actors have to strike a balance between protecting their Fame while also seizing the moment to burnish their reputations. For example, any actor can interrupt the action of another by suggesting (read: demanding) a screen re-write. These re-writes can range from choreographing a complex stunt, making another actor look the fool or seizing the camera unit to get a closeup as they give a plithy line of dialogue. These 're-writes' are entirely up to the imaginations of the players and always create a huge amount of good-natured fun. In addition each screen re-write can be challenged by another star sparking an 'Ego Trip' where the conflicting stars try to convince the Director (GM) why their approach to the scene should be favoured.
One of the actors, striding by and taking a pose for the camera.
Boudicca made her entry, ran over a few actors and later became a love interest(!)
At the start of the game I provided the players a wide selection of 1960s movie stars to select as their character. I played around with the actors' names and provided each with a special ability, unique to their cinema personality. Most of the actors' names and abilities I can't repeat here due to the joyous, puerile and prurient fun I had creating them. But as a tame example, Marlin Brando became Snarlin' Mango whose special ability was being able to confuse all actors and extras within 12" with his improvised lines and impenetrable speech (which the owning player had to exhibit during the game). Suffice it to say, some of the special abilities were pretty rude...
Boudicca's daughters causing a bit of mayhem in the watchtower.
I won't go into any detail on the game itself, but to say that the guys seemed to have a lot of fun with the madcap chaos set out by the scenario. Many ego-trips were had and the story-line was in complete tatters by time the studio executives arrived on-set to shut down production.
As the guys were such good sports, I awarded each with an Academy Award for their work on the film.
The 3D printer comes through once again.
'I'd like to thank all the little people who made this possible...'
I'll tweak the rules a bit and perhaps roll out with another blockbuster this winter.
Next Up: More tall and pointy things for the Italian Wars
Labels: 'Worst Case Scenario', Early Imperial Romans, Rules Variant, Top Billing
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Why do anime always have an eye glow arbitrarily drawn in
It is a circle on the eyes. Often lazily drawn in that is fixed without reference to lighting. Totally detracts from any quality of the drawing. For some characters, it used for personality showing but generally it is just of no value. What I mean is something like this.
Why do nearly all human-like characters have it in both eyes?
Here is another terrible eye glow. The first example just this looks eye cancer.
People are giving answer examples for when the animator gave a damn about drawing eye glow for a point whereas the question is more about the enormous of examples where the animators added an eye glow for no point- to really answer the question what is guiding junior animators e.g. is it that senior animators say you have to add eye glow. Maybe there are better guides to animation but this particular one doesn't eye glows at all.
http://kotaku.com/a-serious-look-at-big-anime-eyes-1737751337
Are there any example images you could add to your question? – Matt Aug 11 '16 at 8:46
Would you mind adding a picture showing what eye trope you are talking about? – Ikaros Aug 11 '16 at 8:46
kotaku.com/a-serious-look-at-big-anime-eyes-1737751337 Are you probably talking about the white spots on the Iris for the eyes. Use the images in the link for reference? – Arcane Aug 11 '16 at 8:47
Because it is moe! – 絢瀬絵里 Aug 11 '16 at 9:23
I will point out the same thing I did when answering anime.stackexchange.com/questions/9434 - photographs of actual eyes invariably have catchlights whenever there are nondiffuse light sources in front of them. By default, animation tends to imitate this for realism's sake. The question you should be asking is: why aren't catchlights always present? - and that's more interesting to think about, as Makoto's answer addresses. – senshin♦ Aug 12 '16 at 5:54
Depending on the series, the fact that these eye highlights appear can be exploited to add the effect of unhappiness, shock, horror, or any other emotion outside of "normal" for a stock character. The general trope for this is called Dull Eyes of Unhappiness, and has prevalence not just in anime, but in other media as well.
For a particularly jarring example, let's take Kotonoha from School Days.
In this shot, Kotonoha is at a bare minimum in a "normal" state; she's happy and in general, relatively in her right mind.
I won't go into the details of that series, but let's just say...she goes through some things1. And we can tell due to the lack of eye lights.2
Almost immediately, even those of us who aren't familiar with this story, we can see that this character is acting or feeling outside of the norm, which is a strong plot-driving point.
In other cases, it can be used for comedic effect. In the series Morita-san is Taciturn, the main character always has eyes like this.
However, very much unlike any stock example of this trope, Morita is a very happy-go-lucky person, even with her eyes in this shade (and everyone else's without). In this scenario, we could even call this "normal", and if her eyes were to go suddenly include eye lights, we'd have a similar reaction.
This doesn't even include scenarios in which the eye lights are exaggerated for a character that is crying, either.
Here, the overabundance of eye lights gives the illusion of tears forming, which can be either the emotion of sadness...
...and with this example from Trigun, the overabundance of eye lights gives the illusion of frustration or anger.
All of this to say that this effect very much has a purpose and very much has a place. In series that mandate it, the lack of it can (and often should) shift a person's perception about a scene or the state of a character, and is used for theatrical effect as well as a plot device.
1: I'll accept my Understatement of the Century award, thank you very much.
2: Oh, and the tears are a dead giveaway, too.
of course, Makoto would understate Kotonoha's feelings... :p – Toshinou Kyouko Aug 12 '16 at 8:23
That poor Pikachu.. smh.. that makes me sad :( – Arcane Aug 12 '16 at 8:35
Because when you look at a person, generally you will see the light from the environment reflected back from both eyes. Even in low light situations, photographs of people reflect the ambient light sources.
It's there because the absence of the reflection looks more unnatural and flat than the "lazily" as you call it drawn in reflections. I would suggest that it would be prohibitively expensive for every frame of every face to be checked with every scene to accurately depict every strong light source.
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Yes- but it could be there for personality purposes or at least be a standard glow like number 3 example or not include it all together. – user2617804 Aug 11 '16 at 21:42
Yes, you pointed that out in your first post. The animators use the eye glow for personality and/or emotions. But I thought you were referring to when they were NOT specifically trying to call out an emotion or personality. So in that case, I'm saying they would look "off" without an eye glow, rather than the eye glow being lazy or distracting. – JPicasso Aug 12 '16 at 12:27
Further, perhaps you are seeing something wrong with the three pictures that you posted that I am not. They look fine to me. – JPicasso Aug 12 '16 at 12:28
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“Safety Net: On Thomas Bernhard and Siegfried Unseld” – Bernhard in the international press
July 31, 2014 · 20th Century Austrian Literature, Austria in Translation, Austrian Drama, Austrian Research (general), German Studies, Literary Criticism, Publishing Austrian Literature
Photo by Barbara Klemm
Holly Case explores the relationship between notoriously difficult writer Thomas Bernhard and his editor Siegfried Unseld in her article Safety Net: On Thomas Bernhard and Siegfried Unseld. (The Nation, January 2013).
The exchange of letters between Bernhard and Unseld started in 1961 and went on for almost three decades until Bernhard’s death. The letters can be found today in the Suhrkamp archive at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach and were published in 2010 by Raimund Fellinger, Martin Huber and Julia Ketterer – naturally with Suhrkamp.
In 2011, the Wiener Burgtheater staged the letter exchange in an entertaining scenic reading by the late Gert Voss (Siegfried Unseld) and Peter Simonischek (Thomas Bernhard). Click here for the video.
In 2015, a conference on Thomas Bernhard is planned to take place at the University of London. Watch this space for further details or go to the website of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature at the University of London.
DLA Marbach · Gert Voss · Holly Case · Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literautre · Institute of Modern Languages Research · Peter Simonischek · Siegfried Unseld · Suhrkamp · The Nation · Thomas Bernhard
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Home Lifestyle How ‘generational blurring’ is changing lifestyles of women over 40
How ‘generational blurring’ is changing lifestyles of women over 40
Lean, lithe, beautiful and effortlessly cool, Polly Kemp teaches yoga at a hip hotel and members’ club. She’s addicted to Instagram and loves fashion and travelling. But no, she’s not the woman on the left of the photograph – that’s her 19-year-old daughter Iggy, a model. Polly is a mother of three (she also has sons Gabriel, 22 and Finlay, 17, with her photographer husband Iain) and is 51.
“Don’t get me wrong. I’m under no illusion that I am 19 or look 19; I’m very comfortable in my own skin – lines, grey hair and all,” she says. “But I know I live very differently from how my mother and grandmother did at my age.
Everywhere we look, highly visible older women are rewriting all the rules. Photo: Stocksy
“Iggy and I often borrow each other’s clothes, although we might not wear them in the same way. And we both love vintage clothes, so we often trawl charity shops together. We enjoy the same TV series on Netflix, such as Schitt’s Creek, Girlboss and Grace and Frankie; and we’re following the same online daily yoga challenge on YouTube.
“When I hear the term ‘middle-aged’, I have to stop and think, ‘Is this meant to be me?’ I don’t polish silver or plan menus, and I’m not interested in housework. I am also spontaneous and I don’t think that’s a quality traditionally associated with middle age.”
Polly, here with daughter Iggy, embraces an age-defying lifestyle. Photo: Rick Pushinsky/Telegraph Media
Polly’s age-defying attitude is something I can relate to. Growing up, if I’d pictured myself aged 53, my hair would be a little less long and blonde and a great deal more grey than it actually is – and I’d be wearing frocks and face powder, not jeans and CC Cream.
And now a new UK survey has found that, like Polly and me, 96 per cent of 40-plus women don’t feel middle-aged at all. The study of more than 500 women conducted by marketing agency SuperHuman, found that 80 per cent felt society’s assumptions about middle-aged women do not represent their lives. Most considered themselves in their prime of life, felt as vibrant and young as they ever have – partly due to a focus on health and fitness – and the vast majority don’t define themselves by age.
Armed with negative stereotypes about older women, companies still focus on millennials despite the greater financial firepower of 40-plussers.
Analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics data from 2013 through to 2015 shows that those aged over 45 make up 40 per cent of the population – but control 79 per cent of the wealth. And overall, while women make three-quarters of all retail transactions, UK and US surveys both show that about 90 per cent of women don’t think advertisers understand them, and 70 per cent feel “alienated” by advertising.
SuperHuman co-founder Rebecca Rhodes notes that 84 per cent of the women in its survey used products and services they felt were aimed at younger women.
But the generation gap is closing. “Forty-plus women today look, feel and live differently than the generation before them – 90 per cent consider themselves to have a much younger attitude than their own mother’s generation at the same age,” she adds.
In short, women in their 40s and beyond no longer associate themselves with a life of lawnmowers and Rotary Clubs, cheese and wine parties, elastic waists, river cruises and walking tours. Even the term “middle-aged” is fast becoming obsolete. People magazine named Julia Roberts, 49, as the World’s Most Beautiful Woman 2017, 26 years after she first made the list. And France’s youthful new president, 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron, has been pictured passionately kissing his glamorous blonde wife Brigitte, who just happens to be 64.
Everywhere we look, highly visible older women are rewriting all the rules. The likes of J.K. Rowling, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Obama and Anna Wintour are at the peak of their power and creativity.
There’s even a new term to describe people with this no-age mindset: “perennials”. It was coined by US internet entrepreneur Gina Pell, 49, who explains, “Perennials are ever-blooming, relevant people of all ages who know what’s happening in the world, stay current with technology and have friends of all ages. We get involved, stay curious, mentor others, and are passionate, compassionate, creative, confident, collaborative, global-minded risk takers.”
This attitude can be helped by the way we look. And if that sounds trivial, it’s not, according to Ellen Langer, professor of psychology at Harvard University. Her researchers have found that people who feel old compared to others tend to age faster, and a major factor in this is the way they dress. Those in the study who wore uniforms, and so dressed the same as younger colleagues, had fewer agerelated illnesses.
But we don’t need to don a white coat to gain the same health benefits; nor do we need to dress “young”. “Since the 1990s, society has become increasingly informal and fashion has become more generic,” says Rebecca. “In today’s Converse-and-jeans uniform, worn by everyone from 10 to 70, you often can’t tell how old a woman is from behind.”
Indeed, shots of classic perennials Julianne Moore, 56, and Emma Watson, 27, reveal that despite their three-decade age gap, they favour an identikit look of striped tees, oversized coats, leather jackets, jeans and trainers.
Assessing her own fashion evolution, Polly says, “I thought that by this age I’d want to look ‘smart’. Instead I like to look cool and sexy, and I live in trainers to the extent that I wonder why I even have my other shoes. Like Iggy, I’m in jeans all the time, though I might pair mine with a silk blouse and a jacket.”
Happily, SuperHuman’s survey found that 67 per cent of women over 40 felt more confident than they did a decade ago, and just as many were more ambitious too. “The idea of retiring at 50 and having an empty nest is totally out of date for most people,” says Richard Cope, a consumer trends analyst at Mintel. “Economic pressures and increasing pension ages mean women are working longer and thus spending time with younger colleagues. At the same time, due to property and rental costs, more adult children are living at home, and their attitudes are influencing their parents, causing what’s known as generational blurring.”
When her 17-year-old daughter became vegan a year ago, author Fiona Gibson, 52, ended up dramatically changing her own diet. “Erin opened my eyes to the ethical issues and health downsides of my more meat-heavy diet. I probably eat vegan four days out of seven now.”
Lynne Barratt-Lee, 58, also a novelist, says she’s picked up her 24-year-old daughter Georgie’s online shopping habits. “We get confused over who’s put what in the Asos basket,” she says.
But there’s one black cloud. In the survey, 48 per cent said they felt less confident about their appearance than a decade ago, citing pressure to stay looking young – and 83 per cent felt this affected their self-image. Rebecca calls this the “confidence paradox”, and adds that while older celebrities and models are more visible than ever before in advertising and on screen, women in their 40s and 50s still feel ignored.
Entrepreneur Grace Fodor agrees. Two years ago, she founded cosmetics brand Studio 10, aimed at women in midlife. “Currently, older women are part of the zeitgeist,” says Fodor, 50. “But remember: we’re for life, not just this season’s marketing strategy.” The future, says Gina Pell, lies with forward-thinking companies such as Netflix and Amazon who profile customers by their tastes, not by their age. “Defining people by their birth year is so antiquated,” she concludes.
ARE YOU PART OF THE AGELESS GENERATION?
Your sofa is best described as:
a) Huge, 10 years old, with velvet upholstery. b) Up-cycled from a tiki bar near your flat. c) A two-seater with floral loose covers.
When you want to relax after a day at work, your top option is:
a) Netflix binge, obviously. b) Going out. It’s a bit tricky to kick back in a flatshare with five other people. c) Popping a DVD into the player and enjoying a glass of wine.
You want to redecorate. First, you:
a) Get on Pinterest and start pinning deep, dark-blue kitchens. b) Get on Pinterest and dream of one day owning your own home. c) Why would you decorate? You had that done when you moved in.
Your favourite cookbook is by:
a) Yottam Ottolenghi. You’re thinking of going vegan, or at least demi-vegie. b) Gwyneth Paltrow. She’s so beautiful. c) Margaret Fulton. Utterly reliable.
Your ideal romantic break is:
a) An Airbnb in a city you’ve never visited before. Or Byron Bay – the noisy bit. b) An Airbnb in a city you’ve never visited before. Or Byron Bay – the quiet bit. c) A five-star country hotel, though cruises are starting to look appealing
You can’t live without:
a) Your iPhone. b) Your mates. c) Your osteopath.
Mainly a) You are a perennial, of course – engaged, adventurous and tech-savvy.
Mainly b) You’re a true millennial – but you share a lot of interests and attitudes with the new mid-lifers.
Mainly c) You’re embracing traditional middle age. The only perennials you’re interested in are in your garden. The rest, frankly, sounds quite tiring.
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Case Study: Ringling College of Art and Design
Ringling College of Art and Design
Mission: Seeking the State of the Art
Ringling College of Art and Design is recognized as one of the country’s most innovative institutes for visual arts and technology. In the development of their first fully LEED Silver-certified academic building, school administrators sought state-of-the-art systems to lead their next generation of graphic artists. A strong emphasis would be placed on the use of high-definition audio and video systems in conjunction with digital signals.
“Working with AVI-SPL was a great experience for us.” – Jeff Poleshek, assistant vice president and director of facilities, Ringling College of Art and Design
“Ringling’s requirement in these classrooms was to have whatever AV integration we did be very simple to use – easy for the students and for the instructors,” says Jamie Knoop, AVI-SPL account manager.
“For the academic center, technology is one of the most important aspects in the building,” says Jeff Poleshek, assistant vice president and director of facilities, Ringling College. “With 30 classrooms and a 200-seat tiered auditorium, the acoustics and audiovisual quality are critical for the nature of what we teach.”
Action: Enhancing the Quality of Classroom Presentations
For Ringling’s 200-seat auditorium, AVI-SPL installed an HD 193-inch diagonal screen, Extron multi-window processor, a wireless audio system and Crestron control to facilitate management of all the equipment. Instructors engage students by playing multiple computer-video or full-motion signals simultaneously on the screen. Through the Extron processor, each window has the capability to be independently scaled, positioned or overlapped.
A centrally-located bank of equipment hosts Blu-ray DVD players, and includes inputs for up to four Mac computers.
Ringling’s 12 standard studio classrooms feature a fully-customized instructor podium with DVD/VCR and an input for Mac computers. Instructors can use BenQ WXGA projectors, Da-Lite’s 133-inch diagonal electric screens, and stereo speakers to enhance the quality of classroom presentations.
A dual-screen surround-sound room features customized EAW speakers and a hearing assistance system.
“When working with dual screens, you need to devise a customized design that accounts for a center channel of sound,” explains Knoop. “Our design team customized special EAW speakers for this solution. No matter which screen a student is sitting in front of, it appears as though the center channel was coming from that particular display, and in the middle it splits the difference.”
Impact: Proper Control and Projection Systems
“Working with AVI-SPL was a great experience for us,” Poleshek says. “With the technical nature of what we do and teach here, having the proper control and projection systems is important to our operations.”
Crestron’s eControl network system is utilized on a campus-wide level. The lighting, shades and AV management system are integrated within all classrooms and presentation spaces, tying directly into Ringling’s energy-saving goals. In the gallery, student design work is showcased on two 133-inch diagonal display screens.
“We now have a building with more than 30 projection systems and a state-of-the-art auditorium,” says Poleshek. “None of that could have been possible without the work and support of AVI-SPL.”
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Human/Minbari Hybrids
True Seekers
Prophets and Prophetesses
Entil'Zha
Anla'Shok Na
Chosen One
Valen has other uses. Please see Valen (disambiguation) for other meanings.
Jeffrey David Sinclair
Z'ondar[1]
Minbari (with residual Human DNA)
May 3, 2218[2]
Circa 1360 [3]
David Sinclair (Father)[4]
Gemma Gildea Sinclair (Mother)[5]
Malcolm Sinclair (Brother)[5]
Wife Catherine Sakai
Unnamed Children (number unknown)
Delenn (descendant)
David Sheridan II (descendant)
Minbari Federation
Anla'Shok
Grey Council
Portrayed by
Michael O'Hare
"Will you follow me into fire? Into storm? Into darkness? Into death?"
– Valen to the Nine
Valen, a Minbari not born of Minbari, was the most significant figure in Minbari history. Appearing mysteriously in the midst of the First Shadow War, aboard a powerful new battle station, he is credited with uniting the fractured Minbari Castes and leading them to victory against the Shadows.
He is also known as the founder and first leader of both the Grey Council and the Anla'Shok. Moreover, Valen's actions laid the groundwork for the founding of the Interstellar Alliance a millennium later.
A Minbari Not Born of Minbari Edit
"Lennier told you that a thousand years ago, Human and Minbari souls began to merge. Minbari souls were being born in Human bodies. Something happened that opened that door between us. My change was in part to even the scales and restore balance between our races using the device my people discovered a thousand years ago. You see, if my people had found Babylon 4 with a Human aboard, they would never have accepted it."
"Dear God. A Minbari not born of Minbari."
– Delenn and Marcus Cole
When Babylon 4 arrived in 1260, Jeffrey Sinclair destroyed the letter he wrote to himself in 1360 to prevent the slim possibility of future information falling into the hands of the Shadows or their allies. He sent a message to the Vorlon Empire, to the two Vorlons he knew well enough in the future, Kosh[6] and Ulkesh[7]. They alone came to the station first. Proving who he was and when he was from without giving too much of the future away, he enlists their help. Using the Triluminary and the Chrysalis Device, he then transforms himself into Valen, taking on the appearance of a Minbari.
After his transformation, Valen contacts the Minbari. Ever since the death of their leaders and the destruction of their greatest starbase, the Minbari fleet had been on the run.[8] Their ships were damaged, scattered, and cut off; they were unable to find a safe port as all other races had been turned against them, and they could not return to Minbar for fear of leading the Shadows back to their homeworld. Receiving a signal they follow it back to its source, Babylon 4. A boarding party is sent and they are met by Zathras who takes them to Sinclair. Flanked by the two Vorlons, he introduces himself as Valen and says they have much work ahead of them.[9][10][11][1]
Valen, accompanied by two Vorlons, offers the Minbari a new hope.
Seeing Valen and his station as an answer to their prayers, the Minbari quickly rally around him and adopt the station as their new base. The Minbari were curious where Valen had come from, but were unable to trace his lineage back in any Minbari line and did not press the issue with him, hence he would often be said to be "A Minbari not born of Minbari."
Valen first attempts to unite the Minbari Castes, but they begin to quarrel amongst themselves again, refusing to bend. Valen turns his back on them and creates the Anla'Shok: a new army that recognises no caste lines and operates outside of the uncooperative castes and they in turn call him "Entil'Zha." Valen constructs their base and training compound in the foothills of the northern mountain range on a wide plateau that overlooked the city of Tuzanor. It was said, that Valen wanted the Rangers to train for battle, where they would also be able to see the sacred city, over the objections of some elements in the warrior caste, who protested that good soldiers couldn't be created in a place of peace.[12]
Shamed by Valen's decisive actions, the Minbari elders allow him to re-organise them. He calls forth the nine, the first Grey Council consisting of three from each caste; worker, warrior and religious. Remaining outside the castes, he becomes the first Chosen One and leader of the council.[1][12]
Driving Out The Darkness Edit
Ramde Zarwin teaches Valen in the use of a Barrken
Seeking allies, Valen called many races to his cause, gathering them on Minbar where, just outside of the city of Tuzanor, at the peak of Mount H'Leya and accompanied by Kosh and Ulkesh, he gave what would become known as his holy "Times to come" speech. He prophesies the defeat of the Shadows and that they will return in a thousand years; That the Anla'Shok will arise and be instrumental in that coming war against their ancient enemy, in which the Minbari would unite with the other half of their soul.[13][14]
Among those to witness the event first hand was the Tak'cha Ramde Zarwin who became one of Valen's very first non-Minbari followers. The Yolu decline to join Valen's cause, choosing to remain neutral. The Tak'cha take it upon themselves to punish them and launch a punitive assault on Pa'ri. When word reaches Valen of this atrocity he furiously expels the Tak'cha from the alliance. At some point, all Minbari records of their existence - save for those aboard the station - are expunged.[1]
Slowly the tide of battle turned in their favour and they eventually drive the Shadows out of all of their places and into hiding beneath Z'ha'dum where they enter into a form of hibernation.[12]
Valen's Legacy Edit
After the war, Valen recognizes a danger in allowing the Anla'shok to remain as such an effective fighting force without an enemy to fight, where the wrong person as their leader could turn a restless and dissatisfied group into an army for conquest and power. Rather than disband the Rangers, as he believed that without the unifying symbol of the Anla'shok, the Minbari military might once again become a collection of warring clan factions and because he knew the Shadows would return again some day, he re-tasked the Anla'shok with a new mission. They were to be a fighting force no more. Instead they were to become sentries and watchers, collecting information quietly on Minbar from returning travellers and friendly sources on other worlds. Keeping alive the traditions of the Anla'shok while they kept watch for any sign that the Shadows had returned. In his absence their leader would be known by one of the same titles Valen himself carried -Anla'shok Na, or "Ranger One"- but would not be Entil'Zha.[12]
Valen eventually finds Catherine Sakai, his marriage to her causing a scandal as she was an alien so they and their children leave Minbar to escape persecution.[1][15] Before going to the sea and leaving Minbar for the last time, Valen left behind a series of sealed boxes containing, among other things, letters addressed to himself, Delenn and Marcus Cole[16] with orders that they be locked away in the Council's archives until a specific date, over nine hundred year hence. He also entrusted the council with the three Triluminaries and the Chrysalis device he had received from Epsilon III, which are kept as the Minbari's most holy relics.[8][17][18] Babylon 4 is taken in secret to a place of rest to become a monument. Its crew never returned and its fate would remain a mystery for over nine hundred years. Before it leaves though, Valen leaves a final message in the hopes that one day Ivanova, Garibaldi or Delenn might find it and know, that he had finally found "her".[1]
His children later returned to Minbar in secret (with help from some of the Grey Council) and introduced human DNA into the Minbari gene pool. A chronicle of their bloodline and progeny was kept by those members of the Grey Council over the centuries in a sealed record to maintain the myth of their racial purity[19]
After living well over a hundred years, Valen's death would remain shrouded in mystery, his body never found and the Minbari always speak of him having "travelled beyond" rather than dying, with some believing that he will return to them someday.[3] Members of the Third Fane of Chudomo begin a tradition of setting aside one piece of flarn (a recipe Valen himself is credited with) before their meals, in the memory of Valen, in the place that is set aside for his return.[20][21]
Back on Minbar, Tuzanor, where Valen had made his home continues to spoken of as Valen's favorite place on all of Minbar and support for the Anla'shok among the people of Tuzanor was stronger than anywhere else on the planet.[12] His descendants eventually return to Minbar and have families of their own, carrying with them the human DNA of Valen and passing it on to the Minbari genome. After a thousand years and many generations, the number of Valen's descendants could not be counted. Delenn of Mir would one day be among them.[15]
Over the following centuries, many records from Valen's time are lost and not even an image of the great leader survives. As a result all depictions of him are given deliberately ambiguous features.[12]
His prophecies and letters guided Delenn and indirectly helped Sheridan during the Second Shadow War. His actions provided the foundation for winning the war, and later for building the Interstellar Alliance. He is therefore also credited for being one of the founders of the Interstellar Alliance.
Valen's "final message" found by Delenn on the final page of 'In Valen's Name' contains a small yet very significant error. Catherine was not supposed to be mentioned as possible recipient, as the message refers to Valen finding her in the past.[22][23]
"It was a typo; that name shouldn't have been in the message, it slipped past."
– JMS post on CIS, 4/14/1998
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 In Valen's Name
↑ And the Sky Full of Stars
↑ 3.0 3.1 JMS post on CIS - 5/22/1996 7:21:00 PM
↑ JMS post on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated - 6/7/1994
↑ 5.0 5.1 To Dream in the City of Sorrows
↑ The Gathering-Kosh identifies the fake Sinclair as Entil'zha Valen, belying knowledge he met Sinclair before his transformation
↑ War Without End, Part I-Ulkesh was also aware of Sinclair's destiny with the statement 'He is the closed circle, he is returning to the beginning'
↑ 8.0 8.1 War Without End, Part I
↑ War Without End, Part II
↑ JMS post on AOL - 5/29/1996 9:07:00 PM
↑ JMS post on CIS - 9/2/1996 12:51:00 PM
↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 To Dream in the City of Sorrows
↑ Ceremonies of Light and Dark - Lennier recited Valen's prophecy RE: reuniting with the other half of their soul
↑ In the Beginning - Dukhat and Lennon decribe Valen's prephecy RE: the return of the Shadows and the Rangers
↑ 15.0 15.1 Atonement
↑ To Dream in the City of Sorrows- Sinclair/Valen's letter is a note of thanks to Marcus from him and Catherine
↑ In the Beginning
↑ Babylon Squared
↑ Atonement
↑ Dining on Babylon 5
↑ Confessions and Lamentations
↑ JMS post on CIS - 4/14/1998 4:27:00 AM
↑ The Official Babylon 5 Magazine - Vol 2, Issue #2 (August 1998) - Page 12
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France, now worldwide
(See geographical distribution below)
75 million (2007)[1]
87 million L2 speakers (2007)[2]
Gallo-Romance
Oïl
Middle French
Latin (French alphabet)
French Braille
Signed French
(français signé)
29 countries[show]
Administrative/cultural[show]
16 dependent entities[show]
Aosta Valley ( Italy)
Louisiana ( USA)
Maine ( USA)
Puducherry (India)
Numerous international organisations
Académie française (French Academy)
fre (B)
fra (T)
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Regions where French is the main language
Regions where it is an official language
Regions where it is a second language
Regions where it is a minority language
Langues d'oïl
Creoles
Phonological history
Oaths of Strasbourg
Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts
Anglo-Norman
Articles and determiners
Pronouns (personal)
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French (le français [lə fʁɑ̃sɛ] ( listen) or la langue française [la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz]) is a Romance language, belonging to the Indo-European family. It descended from the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire, as did languages such as Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan and others. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) has largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone.
French is the second-most widespread language worldwide after English, being an official language in 29 countries, most of which are members of la francophonie, the community of French-speaking countries. It is spoken as a first language in France, southern Belgium, western Switzerland, Monaco, the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick and some parts of Ontario in Canada, parts of the U.S. states of Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, among educated classes in North Africa, Haiti, French Polynesia and by various communities elsewhere.
According to a survey of the European Commission, French is the fourth-most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union.[4] It is also the third-most widely understood language in the EU.[5] As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 17th and 18th century onward, French was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Most second-language speakers reside in Francophone Africa, in particular Gabon, Algeria, Mauritius, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire.[6] In 2007, French was estimated to have around 75 million native speakers;[1] and including native speakers, there are around 338 million people that are able to speak it. According to a demographic projection led by the Université Laval and the Réseau Démographie de l'Agence universitaire de la francophonie, total French speakers will number approximately 500 million people in 2025 and 650 million people by 2050.[7] In accordance with these forecasts, a report issued in 2014 by La Francophonie estimated that 274 million people speak French, either as a first or second language.[8][9]
French has a long history as an international language of commerce, diplomacy, literature, and scientific standards and is an official language of many international organisations including the United Nations, the European Union, NATO, the WTO and the ICRC. In 2011, French was deemed by Bloomberg Businessweek to be one of the top three most useful languages for business, after English and Chinese.[10]
1 Geographic distribution
1.1.1 Legal status in France
1.1.2 Belgium
1.1.3 Switzerland
1.1.4 Monaco
1.1.5 Luxembourg
1.1.6 Andorra
1.1.8 The United Kingdom and the Channel Islands
1.2.1 Algeria
1.2.2 French overseas departments and territories in Africa
1.3 North and South America
1.3.3 Haiti
1.3.4 French overseas regions and collectivities in the Americas
1.4.2 Middle East
1.5 Oceania and Australasia
4 Current status and economic, cultural and institutional importance
5 Phonology
6.1 Alphabet
6.2 Orthography
8 Vocabulary
8.1 Numerals
8.1.1 Units
8.1.2 Tens
8.1.3 Hundreds
8.1.4 Scales[h]
13.1 Organizations
13.2 Courses and tutorials
13.3 Online dictionaries
13.4 Vocabulary
13.4.1 Numbers
13.4.2 Books
Geographic distribution[edit]
Spoken by 12% of the EU population, French is the fourth most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union, after German, English and Italian; it is also the third most widely known language of the Union, after English and German (33% of the EU population report to know how to speak English, whilst 22% of Europeans understand German and 20% French).[4][11]
Legal status in France[edit]
See also: Toubon Law and Languages of France
Under the Constitution of France, French has been the official language of the Republic since 1992[12] (although the ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts made it mandatory for legal documents in 1539). France mandates the use of French in official government publications, public education except in specific cases (though these dispositions are often ignored) and legal contracts; advertisements must bear a translation of foreign words.
In addition to French, a variety of regional languages and dialects are constitutionally recognised as being part of the French patrimony. France has signed the European Charter for Regional Languages, but did not ratify it since it was ruled non-compliant by the Constitutional council in 1999.[13][14]
Belgium[edit]
Further information: Languages of Belgium and Belgian French
Bilingual signs in Brussels.
In Belgium, French is the official language of Wallonia (excluding a part of the East Cantons, which are German-speaking) and one of the two official languages—along with Dutch—of the Brussels-Capital Region, where it is spoken by the majority of the population often as their primary language.[15] French and German are not official languages nor recognized minority languages in the Flemish Region, although along borders with the Walloon and Brussels-Capital regions, there are a dozen municipalities with language facilities for French speakers. A mirror situation exists for the Walloon Region with respect to the Dutch and German languages. In total, native French speakers make up about 40% of the country's population, while the remaining 60% speak Dutch as a first language. Of the latter, 59% claim French as a second or third language, meaning that about three quarters of the Belgian population can speak French.[16][17]
Switzerland[edit]
Further information: Languages of Switzerland, Swiss French and Romandie
French is one of the four official languages of Switzerland (along with German, Italian and Romansh) and is spoken in the western part of Switzerland called Romandie, of which Geneva is the largest city. The language divisions in Switzerland do not coincide with political subdivisions and some cantons have bilingual status for example, cities such Biel/Bienne or cantons such as Valais-Fribourg-Berne. French is the native language of about 20% of the Swiss population and is spoken by 50.4%[18] of the population.
Most of Swiss French is mutually compatible with the standard French spoken in France, but it is often used with small differences, such as those involving numbers after 69 and slight differences in other vocabulary terms.
Monaco[edit]
Further information: Languages of Monaco
Although Monégasque is the national language of the Principality of Monaco, French is the only official language, and French nationals make up some 47% of the population.
Luxembourg[edit]
Further information: Languages of Luxembourg and Multilingualism in Luxembourg
French is one of three official languages of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, alongside German and Luxembourgish, the natively spoken language of Luxembourg. French is primarily used for administrative purposes by the government, and is also the primary language used to converse with foreigners. Luxembourg's education system is trilingual: the first cycle of basic school is in Luxembourgish, before changing officially to German for most branches; while in secondary school, the language of instruction changes to French for most subjects, such as mathematics and science.[19] At the Luxemborg University courses are offered in French, German and English.[20]
Andorra[edit]
Further information: Languages of Andorra
Catalan is the only official language of Andorra; however, French is commonly used because of the proximity to France and the fact that the French President is, with the bishop of Urgell, Spain, a co-prince of the territory. French nationals make up 7% of the population.
Knowledge of French in the European Union and candidate countries[21]
Further information: Languages of Italy
French is also an official language in the small region of Aosta Valley, Italy.[22] Though most non-Italophone people in the region speak Franco-Provençal as their mother tongue,[23] they use standard French to write, because the international recognition of Franco-Provençal as a separate language (as opposed to a dialect or patois of French) was quite recent. In 2001, 75.41% of the Valdotainian population is French-speaking, 96.01% declared to know Italian, 55.77% the Valdotainian Franco-Provençal patois, and 50.53% all of them.[24]
The United Kingdom and the Channel Islands[edit]
Further information: Languages of Jersey, Languages of Guernsey and Languages of the United Kingdom
French is a large minority language and immigrant language in the United Kingdom. Over 310,000 French people live in the UK, and the language is also spoken by a large number of the African immigrants in the UK. French is also the most popular foreign language studied in UK schools. According to a 2006 European Commission report, 23% of UK residents are able to carry on a conversation in French.[25] Other surveys put the figure at 15%.[26][27]
Modern and Middle English reflect a mixture of Oïl and Old English lexicons after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, when a Norman-speaking aristocracy took control of a population whose mother tongue was Germanic in origin. Due to the intertwined histories of England and continental possessions of the English Crown, many formal and legal words from Modern English have French roots. Therefore words such as buy and sell are of Germanic origin, purchase and vend are from Old French.
In Jersey, a standardized variety of French called Jersey Legal French is an official language. However, its use is generally restricted to parliament formalities or legal codes and contracts. In Guernsey, English is the only official language, although French is sometimes is used in legislation with a ceremonial capacity. Nevertheless, Norman (in its local forms, Guernésiais and Jèrriais) is the historical vernacular of the islands.
Countries usually considered part of Francophone Africa. These countries had a population of 370 million in 2014.[28] Their population is projected to reach between 785 million[29] and 837 million[28] in 2050.
French is the fastest growing language on the continent (in terms of either official or foreign language).[30][31]
Countries sometimes considered as Francophone Africa
Countries that are not Francophone but are Members or Observers of the OIF
French-language signs outside a drugstore (pharmacy) in Port-Bouët, Abidjan, in 2009.
Main articles: African French and French language in the Maghreb
A majority of the world's French-speaking population lives in Africa. According to the 2007 report by the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, an estimated 115 million African people spread across 31 Francophone countries can speak French as either a first or a second language.[6] This number does not include the people living in non-Francophone African countries who have learned French as a foreign language.[6] Due to the rise of French in Africa, the total French-speaking population worldwide is expected to reach 700 million people in 2050.[32]
French is mostly a second language in Africa, but it has become a first language in some urban areas, such as the region of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire[33] and in Libreville, Gabon.[34] French is also becoming a first language in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.[35] The classification of French as a second language in Francophone Africa is debatable because it is often the only language spoken and written in schools, administration, radio, television and the Internet; for many Africans, it is the only language in which they know how to read and write fluently. The following thirteen countries use French exclusively to teach school: Bénin, Burkina Faso, Centrafrique, Congo, Congo (République démocratique du), Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinée, Mali, Niger, Sénégal, Chad and Togo. The prevalence of the language is noticeable in popular music, in which French is often mixed with various indigenous languages. There is not a single African French, but multiple forms that diverged through contact with various indigenous African languages.[36] In fact, the term African French is a misnomer, as forms are different from country to country, and the root of the French spoken in a particular country depends on its former colonial empire. French spoken in Benin, for example, is closer to that spoken in France than to French spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is chiefly derived from Belgian French.
In the territories of the Indian Ocean, the French language is often spoken alongside French-derived creole languages, the major exception being Madagascar. There, a Malayo-Polynesian language (Malagasy) is spoken alongside French.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the region where the French language is most likely to expand, because of the expansion of education and rapid population growth.[37] It is also where the language has evolved the most in recent years.[38][39] Some vernacular forms of French in Africa can be difficult to understand for French speakers from other countries,[40] but written forms of the language are very closely related to those of the rest of the French-speaking world.
French is an official language in the following African countries, most of them former French or Belgian colonies:
Equatorial Guinea (former colony of Spain)
In addition, French is an administrative language and widely used, though not on an official basis, in Mauritius, where approximately 78% of the population speak French. French is also spoken in the Maghreb states:
Algeria (see also languages of Algeria)
Mauritania (see also languages of Mauritania)
Morocco (see also languages of Morocco)
Tunisia (see also languages of Tunisia)
Algeria[edit]
Algiers Metro subway ticket, in Standard Arabic and in French.
Most urban Algerians have some working knowledge of French, and a high (though unknown) percentage speak it fluently (as much as around 70-80%). However, because of the country's colonial past, the predominance of French has long been politically problematic.
Numerous reforms have been implemented in recent decades to improve the status of both Arabic and, in recent years to a much minor degree, Tamazight in relation to French, especially in education. For this reason, although Algeria is certainly one of the most Francophone of countries in the world outside of France, and has perhaps the second largest number of French speakers,[41] it does not participate in the Francophonie association.
French overseas departments and territories in Africa[edit]
French is the official language of Mayotte and Réunion, two overseas departments of France located in the southwest Indian Ocean.
Egypt[edit]
Bilingual Arabic-French street sign in Alexandria, Egypt.
The official language in Egypt is literary Arabic, which is mandatory in all schools. While English is the most commonly used second language in Egypt, French is known by some Egyptians. Many Egyptians learn English and French in addition to Arabic. Private schools have either English or French as the main language of instruction. Egypt also participates in the Francophonie and there are two French-speaking universities in the country, the Université Française d'Égypte and the Université Senghor.
North and South America[edit]
Further information: Languages of North America, Languages of South America and Languages of the Caribbean
See also: Canadian French, French language in Canada, Spoken languages of Canada and Official bilingualism in Canada
The "arrêt" signs (French for "stop") are used in Canada while the international stop, which is also a valid French word, is used in France as well as other French-speaking countries and regions.
French is the second most common language in Canada, after English, and both are official languages at the federal level. French is the sole official language in the province of Quebec, being the mother tongue for some 7 million people, or almost 80.1% (2006 Census) of the province. About 95.0% of the people of Quebec speak French as either their first or second language, and for some as their third language. Quebec is also home to the city of Montreal, which is the world's second largest French speaking city, by number of first language speakers.[citation needed] New Brunswick and Manitoba are the only officially bilingual provinces, though full bilingualism is enacted only in New Brunswick, where about one third of the population is Francophone. French is also an official language of all of the territories (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon). Out of the three, Yukon has the most French speakers, comprising just under 4% of the population.[42] Furthermore, while French is not an official language in Ontario, the French Language Services Act ensures that provincial services are to be available in the language. The Act applies to areas of the province where there are significant Francophone communities, namely Eastern Ontario and Northern Ontario. Elsewhere, sizable French-speaking minorities are found in southern Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and the Port au Port Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, where the unique Newfoundland French dialect was historically spoken. Smaller pockets of French speakers exist in all other provinces. The city of Ottawa, the Canadian capital, is also effectively bilingual, as it is on the other side of a river from Quebec, opposite the major city of Gatineau, and is required to offer governmental services in French as well as English.[citation needed]
About 9,487,500 Canadians speak French as their first language, or around 30% of the country,[43] with 2,065,300 constituting secondary speakers.[43] Due to the increased bilingual school programs and French immersion classes in English Canada, the portion of Canadians proficient in French has risen significantly in the past two decades, and is still rising.[citation needed]
The difference between French spoken in Quebec and French spoken in France is similar in degree to that between American and British English. In Quebec, where the majority of French-speaking Canadians live, the Office québécois de la langue française (English: Quebec Board of the French language) regulates Quebec French and ensures the Charter of the French Language (Bill 101 & 104) is respected.
United States[edit]
Main article: French language in the United States
See also: Cajun French, Louisiana Creole French, Acadian French, Missouri French, New England French and Haitian Creole
French language spread in the United States. Counties marked in yellow are those where 6–12% of the population speaks French at home; brown, 12–18%; red, over 18%. French-based creole languages are not included.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2011), French is the fourth[44] most-spoken language in the United States after English, Spanish, and Chinese, when all forms of French are considered together and all dialects of Chinese are similarly combined. French remains the second most-spoken language in the states of Louisiana, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire.
Louisiana is home to many distinct dialects, collectively known as Louisiana French. Cajun French has the largest number of speakers, mostly living in Acadiana. According to the 2000 United States Census, there are over 194,000 people in Louisiana who speak French at home, the most of any state if Creole French is excluded.[45] New England French, essentially a variant of Canadian French, is spoken in parts of New England. Missouri French was historically spoken in Missouri and Illinois (formerly known as Upper Louisiana), but is nearly extinct today.[46]
Haiti[edit]
Further information: Haitian French and Haitian Creole
French is one of Haiti's two official languages. It is the principal language of writing, school instruction, and administrative use. It is spoken by all educated Haitians and is used in the business sector. It is also used in ceremonial events such as weddings, graduations and church masses. About 70%–80% of the country's population have Haitian Creole as their first language; the rest speak French as a first language. The second official language is the recently standardized Haitian Creole, which virtually the entire population of Haiti speaks. Haitian Creole is one of the French-based creole languages, drawing the large majority of its vocabulary from French, with influences from West African languages, as well as several European languages. Haitian Creole is closely related to Louisiana Creole and the creole from the Lesser Antilles.[47]
French overseas regions and collectivities in the Americas[edit]
French is the official language in France's overseas regions of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique, and overseas collectivities of Saint Barthélemy, St. Martin and Saint Pierre and Miquelon. These overseas regions and collectivities had a population of 1,094,442 inhabitants as of January 2013:
Guadeloupe: 405,739
Martinique: 386,486
French Guiana: 250,109
Saint Martin: 36,703
Saint Barthélemy: 9,343
Saint Pierre and Miquelon: 6,062
Brazil[edit]
The French language was briefly spoken in Brazil during the colonial attempts of France Antarctique and France équinoxiale at the 16th and 17th centuries respectively (the expulsion of early French colonists by the Portuguese culminated on the founding of the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Luís respectively). The language was also used by several communities of immigrants and expatriates in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, chiefly Swiss, but also some French and Belgians. The anti-Portuguese factor of Brazilian nationalism in the 19th century led to an increased use of the French language in detriment of Portuguese, as France was seen at the time as a model of civilization and progress.[48]
The learning of French has historically been important and strong among the Lusophone high societies, and for a great span of time it was also the foreign language of choice among the middle class of both Portugal and Brazil, only surpassed in the globalised postmodernity by English, in both, and more recently by Spanish, in the latter.[49][50][51][52]
Today the Karipuna indigenous community (nearly 30,000 people) of Amapá in Northern Brazil speaks a French creole, the Lanc-Patuá creole, possibly related to the French Guiana Creole.
See also: Romance-speaking Asia § French
Southeast Asia[edit]
See also: French language in Vietnam, French language in Laos and French language in Cambodia
French was the official language of the colony of French Indochina, comprising modern-day Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. It continues to be an administrative language in Laos and Cambodia, although its influence has waned in recent years.[53] In colonial Vietnam, the elites primarily spoke French, while many servants who worked in French households spoke a French pidgin known as "Tây Bồi" (now extinct). After French rule ended, South Vietnam continued to use French in administration, education, and trade.[54] Since the Fall of Saigon and the opening of a unified Vietnam's economy, French has gradually been effectively displaced as the main foreign language of choice by English. French nevertheless maintains its colonial legacy by being spoken as a second language by the elderly and elite populations and is presently being revived in higher education and continues to be a diplomatic language in Vietnam.
Middle East[edit]
Town sign in Standard Arabic and French at the entrance of Rechmaya in Lebanon.
A former French colony, Lebanon designates Arabic as the sole official language, while a special law regulates cases when French can be publicly used. French is widely used as a second language by the Lebanese, and is taught in many schools as a secondary language along with Arabic and English. The language is also used on bank notes, on road signs, and on official buildings (alongside Arabic). Similarly, Syria was also a French colony until 1943, but the French language is largely extinct in the country and is only limited to some members of the elite and middle classes. A significant French-speaking community is also present in Israel, primarily among the community of Maghrebi Jews, and many secondary schools offer French as a foreign language. The United Arab Emirates has joined the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie as an observer, and Qatar has joined as a "member-state". However, in both countries French is not spoken by almost any of the general population or migrant workers, but spoken by a small minority of those who invest in Francophone countries or have other financial or family ties. Their entrance into the organisation was aided a good deal by their investments into the Organisation and France itself.[55]
French has de jure official status in the Indian union territory of Puducherry (formerly Pondicherry) along with the native languages of Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam. However at the district level, French is only official in the districts of Pondicherry and Mahé, while the other two districts of the territory designate local languages as official. Furthermore, according to the French Institute of Pondicherry, French is "very little spoken" in Puducherry, with only about 1% of the territory's population being able to speak the language.[56] (See also: French India)
Oceania and Australasia[edit]
A 500-CFP franc (€4.20; US$5.65) banknote, used in French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna.
French is an official language of the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu where 45% of the population can speak French.[57] In the French special collectivity of New Caledonia, 97% of the population can speak, read and write French, whereas only 1% have no knowledge of French.[58] In French Polynesia, 95% of the population can speak, read and write French, whereas only 2% have no knowledge of French.[59] In the French collectivity of Wallis and Futuna, 78% of the population can speak, read and write French, whereas 17% have no knowledge of French.[60]
Dialects[edit]
Main article: Dialects of the French language
Acadian French
African French including sub-branch Maghreb French (North African French)
Aostan French
Cambodian French
Guyanese French
Haitian French
Indian French
Jersey Legal French
Lao French
Louisiana French
Meridional French
Metropolitan French
Missouri French
New Caledonian French
Newfoundland French
New England French
Quebec French
South East Asian French
Swiss French
Vietnamese French
West Indian French
Main article: History of French
French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that evolved out of the Gallo-Romance dialects spoken in northern France by the Belgae.
French replaced Latin as the most important language of diplomacy and international relations in the 17th century. It retained this role until approximately the middle of the 20th century, when it was replaced by English as the United States became the dominant global power following the Second World War.[61][62] Stanley Meisler of the Los Angeles Times said that the fact that the Treaty of Versailles was also written in English as well as French was the "first diplomatic blow" against the language.[63]
Current status and economic, cultural and institutional importance[edit]
French remains one of the most important diplomatic languages,[34] with the language being one of the working languages of NATO, the International Olympic Committee, the UN Secretariat, the Council of Europe, the International Court of Justice, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Organization of American States, European Commission, the Eurovision Song Contest the European Space Agency, World Trade Organisation and the North American Free Trade Agreement. It is also a working language in nonprofit organisations such as the Red Cross, Amnesty International, Médecins sans Frontières, or Médecins du Monde.[64] Given the demographic prospects of the French-speaking nations of Africa, Forbes released in 2014 an article which claimed that French "could be the language of the future".[65]
In 1997, George Werber published in Language Today a comprehensive academic study entitled "The World's 10 most influential languages".[66] In his article, Werber ranked French as being the second - after English - most influential language of the world, ahead of Spanish.[66] His criteria were not solely the numbers of native speakers, but also included the number of secondary speakers (which tends to be specially high for French among fellow world languages); the economic power of the countries using the language; the number of major areas in which the language is used; the number of countries using the language, and their respective population; and the linguistic prestige associated with the mastery of the language (Werber highlighted in particular that French benefits from a considerable linguistic prestige).[66] In 2008, Werber reassessed his article, and concluded that his findings were still correct since "the situation among the top ten remains unchanged."[67]
Knowledge of French is widely considered to be a crucial skill for business owners in the United Kingdom; a 2014 study found that half of British managers considered French to be a valuable asset for their business, thus ranking French as the most-sought after foreign language there, ahead of German (49%) and Spanish (44%).[68]
Phonology[edit]
Main article: French phonology
Although there are many French regional accents, foreign learners normally use only one variety of the language.
There are a maximum of 17 vowels in French, not all of which are used in every dialect: /a/, /ɑ/, /e/, /ɛ/, /ɛː/, /ə/, /i/, /o/, /ɔ/, /y/, /u/, /œ/, /ø/, plus the nasalized vowels /ɑ̃/, /ɛ̃/, /ɔ̃/ and /œ̃/. In France, the vowels /ɑ/, /ɛː/ and /œ̃/ are tending to be replaced by /a/, /ɛ/ and /ɛ̃/ in many people's speech, but the distinction of /ɛ̃/ and /œ̃/ is present in Meridional French. In Quebec and Belgian French, the vowels /ɑ/, /ə/, /ɛː/ and /œ̃/ are present.
Voiced stops (i.e., /b, d, ɡ/) are typically produced fully voiced throughout.
Voiceless stops (i.e., /p, t, k/) are unaspirated.
Nasals: The velar nasal /ŋ/ can occur in final position in borrowed (usually English) words: parking, camping, swing. The palatal nasal /ɲ/ can occur in word initial position (e.g., gnon), but it is most frequently found in intervocalic, onset position or word-finally (e.g., montagne).
Fricatives: French has three pairs of homorganic fricatives distinguished by voicing, i.e., labiodental /f/~/v/, dental /s/~/z/, and palato-alveolar /ʃ/~/ʒ/. Notice that /s/~/z/ are dental, like the plosives /t/~/d/ and the nasal /n/.
French has one rhotic whose pronunciation varies considerably among speakers and phonetic contexts. In general, it is described as a voiced uvular fricative, as in [ʁu] roue, "wheel". Vowels are often lengthened before this segment. It can be reduced to an approximant, particularly in final position (e.g., fort), or reduced to zero in some word-final positions. For other speakers, a uvular trill is also common, and an apical trill [r] occurs in some dialects.
Lateral and central approximants: The lateral approximant /l/ is unvelarised in both onset (lire) and coda position (il). In the onset, the central approximants [w], [ɥ], and [j] each correspond to a high vowel, /u/, /y/, and /i/ respectively. There are a few minimal pairs where the approximant and corresponding vowel contrast, but there are also many cases where they are in free variation. Contrasts between /j/ and /i/ occur in final position as in /pɛj/ paye, "pay", vs. /pɛi/ pays, "country".
French pronunciation follows strict rules based on spelling, but French spelling is often based more on history than phonology. The rules for pronunciation vary between dialects, but the standard rules are:
final consonants: Final single consonants, in particular s, x, z, t, d, n, p and g are normally silent. (A consonant is considered "final" when no vowel follows it even if one or more consonants follow it.) The final letters f, k, q, and l, however, are normally pronounced. The final c is sometimes pronounced like in bac, sac, roc but can also be silent like in blanc or estomac. The final r is usually silent when it follows an e in a word of two or more syllables, but it is pronounced in some words (hiver, super, cancer etc.).
When the following word begins with a vowel, however, a silent consonant may once again be pronounced, to provide a liaison or "link" between the two words. Some liaisons are mandatory, for example the s in les amants or vous avez; some are optional, depending on dialect and register, for example, the first s in deux cents euros or euros irlandais; and some are forbidden, for example, the s in beaucoup d'hommes aiment. The t of et is never pronounced and the silent final consonant of a noun is only pronounced in the plural and in set phrases like pied-à-terre.
Doubling a final n and adding a silent e at the end of a word (e.g., chien → chienne) makes it clearly pronounced. Doubling a final l and adding a silent e (e.g., gentil → gentille) adds a [j] sound if the l is preceded by the letter i.
elision or vowel dropping: Some monosyllabic function words ending in a or e, such as je and que, drop their final vowel when placed before a word that begins with a vowel sound (thus avoiding a hiatus). The missing vowel is replaced by an apostrophe. (e.g., je ai is instead pronounced and spelled → j'ai). This gives, for example, the same pronunciation for l'homme qu'il a vu ("the man whom he saw") and l'homme qui l'a vu ("the man who saw him"). However, for Belgian French the sentences are pronounced differently; in the first sentence the syllable break is as "qu'il-a", while the second breaks as "qui-l'a". It can also be noted that, in Quebec French, the second example (l'homme qui l'a vu) is more emphasized on l'a vu.
Writing system[edit]
Alphabet[edit]
Main articles: French alphabet and French braille
French is written with the 26 letters of the basic Latin script, with four diacritics appearing on vowels (circumflex accent, acute accent, grave accent, diaeresis) and the cedilla appearing in "ç".
There are two ligatures, "œ" and "æ".
Orthography[edit]
Main article: French orthography
French spelling, like English spelling, tends to preserve obsolete pronunciation rules. This is mainly due to extreme phonetic changes since the Old French period, without a corresponding change in spelling (see Vocabulary below). Moreover, some conscious changes were made to restore Latin orthography:
Old French doit > French doigt "finger" (Latin digitus)
Old French pie > French pied "foot" [Latin pes (stem: ped-)]
As a result, it can be difficult to predict the spelling of a word based on the sound. Final consonants are generally silent, except when the following word begins with a vowel (see Liaison (French)). For example, the following words end in a vowel sound: pied, aller, les, finit, beaux. The same words followed by a vowel, however, may sound the consonants, as they do in these examples: beaux-arts, les amis, pied-à-terre.
On the other hand, a given spelling usually leads to a predictable sound. In particular, a given vowel combination or diacritic predictably leads to one phoneme.
French writing, as with any language, is affected by the spoken language. In Old French, the plural for animal was animals. The /als/ sequence was unstable and was turned into a diphthong /aus/. This change was then reflected in the orthography: animaus. The us ending, very common in Latin, was then abbreviated by copyists (monks) by the letter x, resulting in a written form animax. As the French language further evolved, the pronunciation of au turned into /o/ so that the u was reestablished in orthography for consistency, resulting in modern French animaux (pronounced first /animos/ before the final /s/ was dropped in contemporary French). The same is true for cheval pluralized as chevaux and many others. In addition, castel pl. castels became château pl. châteaux
Nasal: n and m. When n or m follows a vowel or diphthong, the n or m becomes silent and causes the preceding vowel to become nasalized (i.e., pronounced with the soft palate extended downward so as to allow part of the air to leave through the nostrils). Exceptions are when the n or m is doubled, or immediately followed by a vowel. The prefixes en- and em- are always nasalized. The rules are more complex than this but may vary between dialects.
Digraphs: French uses not only diacritics to specify its large range of vowel sounds and diphthongs, but also specific combinations of vowels, sometimes with following consonants, to show which sound is intended.
Gemination: Within words, double consonants are generally not pronounced as geminates in modern French (but geminates can be heard in the cinema or TV news from as recently as the 1970s, and in very refined elocution they may still occur). For example, illusion is pronounced [ilyzjɔ̃] and not [ilːyzjɔ̃]. But gemination does occur between words. For example, une info ("a news item" or "a piece of information") is pronounced [ynɛ̃fo], whereas une nympho ("a nymphomaniac") is pronounced [ynːɛ̃fo].
Accents are used sometimes for pronunciation, sometimes to distinguish similar words, and sometimes for etymology alone.
Accents that affect pronunciation
The acute accent (l'accent aigu) é (e.g., école—school) means that the vowel is pronounced /e/ instead of the default /ə/.
The grave accent (l'accent grave) è (e.g., élève—pupil) means that the vowel is pronounced /ɛ/ instead of the default /ə/.
The circumflex (l'accent circonflexe) ê (e.g. forêt—forest) shows that an e is pronounced /ɛ/ and that an ô is pronounced /o/. In standard French, it also signifies a pronunciation of /ɑ/ for the letter â, but this differentiation is disappearing. In the late 19th century, the circumflex was used in place of s after a vowel, where that letter s was not pronounced. Thus, forest became forêt and hospital became hôpital.
The diaeresis (le tréma) (e.g., naïf—naive, Noël—Christmas) as in English, specifies that this vowel is pronounced separately from the preceding one, not combined, and is not a schwa.
The cedilla (la cédille) ç (e.g., garçon—boy) means that the letter ç is pronounced /s/ in front of the back vowels a, o and u (c is otherwise /k/ before a back vowel). C is always pronounced /s/ in front of the front vowels e, i, and y, thus ç is never found in front of front vowels.
Accents with no pronunciation effect
The circumflex does not affect the pronunciation of the letters i or u and, in most dialects, a as well. It usually indicates that an s came after it long ago, as in île (isle, compare with English island). The explanation is that some words share the same orthography, so the circumflex is put here to mark the difference between the two words. For example, dites (you say) / dîtes (you said), or even du (of the) / dû (past for the verb devoir = must, have to, owe; in this case, the circumflex disappears in the plural and the feminine).
All other accents are used only to distinguish similar words, as in the case of distinguishing the adverbs là and où ("there", "where") from the article la ("the" feminine singular) and the conjunction ou ("or"), respectively.
Some proposals exist to simplify the existing writing system, but they still fail to gather interest.[69][70][71][72]
Grammar[edit]
Main article: French grammar
French grammar shares several notable features with most other Romance languages, including
the loss of Latin declensions
only two grammatical genders
the development of grammatical articles from Latin demonstratives
new tenses formed from auxiliaries
French declarative word order is subject–verb–object although a pronoun object precedes the verb. Some types of sentences allow for or require different word orders, in particular inversion of the subject and verb like "Parlez-vous français?" when asking a question rather than just "Vous parlez français?" Both questions mean the same thing; however, a rising inflection is always used on both of them whenever asking a question, especially on the second one. Specifically, the first translates into "Do you speak French?" while the second one is literally just "You speak French?" To avoid inversion while asking a question, 'Est-ce que' (literally 'is it that') may be placed in the beginning of the sentence. "Parlez-vous français?" may become "Est-ce que vous parlez français?"
Vocabulary[edit]
The majority of French words derive from Vulgar Latin or were constructed from Latin or Greek roots. In many cases a single etymological root appears in French in a "popular" or native form, inherited from Vulgar Latin, and a learned form, borrowed later from Classical Latin. The following pairs consist of a native noun and a learned adjective:
brother: frère / fraternel from Latin frater / fraternalis
finger: doigt / digital from Latin digitus / digitalis
faith: foi / fidèle from Latin fides / fidelis
eye: œil / oculaire from Latin oculus / ocularis
However a historical tendency to gallicise Latin roots can be identified, whereas English conversely leans towards a more direct incorporation of the Latin:
rayonnement / radiation
éteindre / extinguish
noyau / nucleus
surhomme / superman
ensoleillement / insolation
There are also noun-noun and adjective-adjective pairs:
thing/cause: chose / cause from Latin causa
cold: froid / frigide from Latin frigidum
It can be difficult to identify the Latin source of native French words, because in the evolution from Vulgar Latin, unstressed syllables were severely reduced and the remaining vowels and consonants underwent significant modifications.
More recently the linguistic policy of the French language academies of France and Quebec has been to provide French equivalents[73] to (mainly English) imported words, either by using existing vocabulary, extending its meaning or deriving a new word according to French morphological rules. The result is often two (or more) co-existing terms for describing the same phenomenon, with varying rates of success for the French equivalent.
mercatique / marketing
finance fantôme / shadow banking
bloc-notes / blog
ailière / wingsuit
tiers-lieu / coworking
It is estimated that 12% (4,200) of common French words found in a typical dictionary such as the Petit Larousse or Micro-Robert Plus (35,000 words) are of foreign origin (where Greek and Latin learned words are not seen as foreign). About 25% (1,054) of these foreign words come from English and are fairly recent borrowings. The others are some 707 words from Italian, 550 from ancient Germanic languages, 481 from other Gallo-Romance languages, 215 from Arabic, 164 from German, 160 from Celtic languages, 159 from Spanish, 153 from Dutch, 112 from Persian and Sanskrit, 101 from Native American languages, 89 from other Asian languages, 56 from other Afro-Asiatic languages, 55 from Slavic languages and Baltic languages, 10 from Basque and 144 (about 3%) from other languages.[74]
Numerals[edit]
The French counting system is partially vigesimal: twenty (vingt) is used as a base number in the names of numbers from 60 to 99.
The French word for 80 is quatre-vingts, literally "four twenties", and the word for 75 is soixante-quinze, literally "sixty-fifteen". This reform arose after the French Revolution to unify the different counting systems (mostly vigesimal near the coast, because of Celtic (via Breton) and Viking influences).
This system is comparable to the archaic English use of score, as in "fourscore and seven" (87), or "threescore and ten" (70).
In Old French (during the Middle Ages), all numbers from 30 to 99 could be said in either base 10 or base 20, e.g. vint et doze (twenty and twelve) for 32, dous vinz et diz (two twenties and ten) for 50, uitante for 80, or nonante for 90.[75]
Belgian French, Swiss French and the French used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi are different in this respect.
In Belgium and Switzerland 70 and 90 are septante and nonante. In Switzerland, depending on the local dialect, 80 can be quatre-vingts (Geneva, Neuchâtel, Jura) or huitante (Vaud, Valais, Fribourg). Octante had been used in Switzerland in the past, but is now considered archaic.[76] In Belgium and in its former African colonies, however, quatre-vingts is universally used.
It should also be noted that French, like most European languages, uses a space to separate thousands[77] where English uses a comma or (more recently) a space. The comma is used in French numbers as a decimal point: 2,5 = deux virgule cinq.
Cardinal numbers in French, from 1 to 20, are as follows:
One: un/une /œ̃/ (m) ~ /yn/ (f)
Two: deux /dø/
Three: trois /tʁwɑ/
Four: quatre /katʁ/
Five: cinq /sɛ̃k/
Six: six /sis/
Seven: sept /sɛt/
Eight: huit /ɥit/
Nine: neuf[a] /nœf/
Ten: dix /dis/
Eleven: onze /ɔ̃z/
Twelve: douze /duz/
Thirteen: treize /tʁɛz/
Fourteen: quatorze /katɔʁz/
Fifteen: quinze /kɛ̃z/
Sixteen: seize /sɛz/
Seventeen: dix-sept /dissɛt/
Eighteen: dix-huit /diz‿ɥit/
Nineteen: dix-neuf /diznœf/
Twenty: vingt /vɛ̃/
After Twenty, numbers use base ten logic (vingt et un, vingt-deux, vingt-trois...)
Tens[edit]
Cardinal numbers in French, by tens from 10 to 100, are as follow:
Thirty: trente /tʁɑ̃t/
Forty: quarante /ka.ʁɑ̃t/
Fifty: cinquante /sɛ̃.kɑ̃t/
Sixty: soixante /swa.sɑ̃t/
Seventy: soixante-dix /swa.sɑ̃t.dis/ or septante[b] /sɛp.tɑ̃t/
Eighty: quatre-vingts /ka.tʁɘ.vɛ̃/, huitante[c] or octante[d] /ɔk.tɑ̃t/
Ninety: quatre-vingt-dix /kat.ʁvɛ̃.dis/ or nonante[e] /nɔ.nɑ̃t/
One hundred: cent /sɑ̃(t)/
After Twenty, numbers use base ten logic (cent dix, cent vingt, cent trente...)
Hundreds[edit]
Cardinal numbers in French, by hundreds from 100 to 2000, are as follow:
Two hundreds: deux cents
Three hundreds: trois cents, (Archaism: quinze-vingts)
Four hundreds: quatre cents
Five hundreds: cinq cents
Six hundreds: six cents
Seven hundreds: sept cents
Eight hundreds: huit cents
Nine hundreds: neuf cents
One thousand: mille[f]
One thousand one hundred: onze cents or mille cent[g]
One thousand two hundreds: douze cents or mille deux cents[g]
One thousand three hundreds: treize cents or mille trois cents[g]
One thousand four hundreds: quatorze cents or mille quatre cents[g]
One thousand five hundreds: quinze cents or mille cinq cents[g]
One thousand six hundreds: seize cents or mille six cents[g]
One thousand seven hundreds: dix-sept cents or mille sept cents
One thousand eight hundreds: dix-huit cents or mille huit cents
One thousand nine hundreds: dix-neuf cents or mille neuf cents
Two thousands: deux mille
After deux mille (2000), only the second option is used (deux mille cent, deux mille deux cents, deux mille trois cents...)
The words vingt and cent take the plural -s only when they are the last word of the number: quatre-vingts (eighty) and quatre-vingt-un (eighty-one), cinq cents (five hundreds) and cinq cent trente (five hundreds and thirty). When a number using vingt or cent is used as an ordinal numeral adjective, the words vingt or cent stay unchanged[82]
Scales[h][edit]
Cardinal numbers in French, by exponentiation points, from 100 to 1020, are as follow:
One thousand: mille /mil/
Ten thousands: dix mille
Hundred thousand: cent mille
One million: un million /mi.ljɔ̃/
Ten millions: dix millions
Hundred millions: cent millions
One billion: un milliard
Ten billion: dix milliards
Hundred billion: cent milliards
One trillion: un billion /bi.ljɔ̃/
Ten trillion: dix billions
Hundred trillion: cent billions
One quadrillion: un billiard
Ten quadrillion: dix billiards
Hundred quadrillion: cent billiards
One quintillion: un trillion
Ten quintillion: dix trillions
Hundred quintillion: cent trillions
Jump up ^ It has been suggested that Nine and New homophonographs are related and that it would be an unusual preservation of the octal number system speculated to be formerly used in proto-Indo-European language, though the evidence supporting this is slim.[78]
Jump up ^ Septante is used in Belgium and in Switzerland. Its use is dated in Eastern France and archaic elsewhere in France.
Jump up ^ Huitante is used in Vaud, Valais, Fribourg, archaic in France.
Jump up ^ Octante is used, but dated, in Romandie and in Southern France. Its use is archaic in other parts of France.
Jump up ^ Nonante is used in Belgium, Switzerland and, dated, in Eastern France, archaic in other parts of France.
Jump up ^ Formerly singular of the now invariable mille, mil is now only used in formal documents to write dates between mil un (1001) and mil neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (1999).[79]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f While both styles are correct and concurrently used, numbers above mille and under deux mille are usually counted by hundreds from onze cents up to seize cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf and are then indifferently counted both styles[80] in informal language while the count by adding hundreds to one thousand, like in mille cent, mille six cents, is favoured in written language, especially in juridical, administrative and scientific works.[81]
Jump up ^ Nota Bene that English use the short scale while French use the long scale.
Words[edit]
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Quebec accent
Touraine accent
French Français (people) or français (language) [fʁ̥ãsɛ] [fʁ̥ɒ̃sɛ]
English Anglais (people) or anglais (language) [ãɡlɛ] [ɒ̃ɡlɛ]
Yes Oui (si when countering an assertion or a question expressed in the negative) [wi] [wi]
No Non [nɔ̃] [nõ]
Hello! Bonjour ! (formal) or Salut ! (informal) or "Allô" (Quebec French or when answering on the telephone) [bõʒuːʁ] [bõʒuʁ]
Good evening! Bonsoir ! [bõswɑːʁ] [bõswaʁ]
Good night! Bonne nuit ! [bɔn nɥi] [bʌn nɥi]
Goodbye! Au revoir ! [ɔʁvwɑːʁ] [oʁ(ø)vwaʁ]
Have a nice day! Bonne journée ! [bɔn ʒuʁne] [bʌn ʒuʁne]
Please/if you please S’il vous plaît (formal) or S’il te plaît (informal) [sɪl vu plɛ] [sil vu plɛ]
Thank you Merci [mɛʁsi] [mɛʁ̥si]
You are welcome De rien (informal) or Ce n’est rien (informal) ("it is nothing") or Je vous en prie (formal) or Je t’en prie (informal) or Bienvenue (Quebec) [də ʁjẽ] [dœ ʁjæ̃]
I am sorry Pardon or Désolé or Je suis désolé (if male) / Je suis désolée (if female) or Excuse-moi (informal) / Excusez-moi (formal) / "Je regrette" [paʁdɒ̃] / [dezɔle] [paʁdõ] / [dezɔle]
Who? Qui ? [ki] [ki]
What? Quoi ? (←informal; used as "What?" in English) or Pardon ? (←formal; used the same as "Pardon ?" in English) [kwa] [kwa]
When? Quand ? [kæ̃] [kɒ̃]
Where? Où ? [u] [u]
Why? Pourquoi ? [puʁ̥kwa] [puʁ̥kwa]
What is your name? Comment vous appelez-vous ? (formal) or Comment t’appelles-tu ? (informal) [kɔmã vu z‿aple vu], [kɔmã t‿apɛl t͡sy] [kɔmɒ̃ vu z‿aple vu], [kɔmɒ̃ t‿apɛl t͡sy]
My name is... Je m'appelle... [ʒø mapɛl]
Which Quel/Quels(pl.)/Quelle(fem.) [kɛl] [kɛl]
Because Parce que / Car [paʁ̥skœ] [paʁ̥s(ø)kø]
Because of À cause de [a kou̯z dœ] [a koz dø]
Therefore Donc [dõːk] [dõk]
Maybe Peut-être [pœt‿aɪ̯tʀ̥] [pøt‿ɛtʁ̥]
How? Comment ? [kɔmã] [kɔmɒ̃]
How much? Combien ? [kõbjẽ] [kõbjæ̃]
I do not understand. Je ne comprends pas. [ʒœ nœ kõpʁ̥ã pɔ] [ʒø nø kõpʁ̥ɒ̃ pa]
Yes, I understand. Oui, je comprends. Except when responding to a negatively posed question, in which case Si is used preferentially over Oui [wi ʒœ kõpʁ̥ã] [wi ʒø kõpʁ̥ɒ̃]
I agree Je suis d’accord. "D’accord" can be used without je suis. [ʒə sɥi dakɑɔ̯ʁ] [ʒø sɥi dakɔʁ]
Help! Au secours ! (à l’aide !) [o skuːʁ] [o søkuːʁ]
At what time...? À quelle heure...? [a kɛl aœ̯ʁ] [a kɛl œʁ]
Today Aujourd'hui [oʒuʁd͡zɥi] [oʒuʁdɥi]
Can you help me, please? Pouvez-vous m’aider s’il vous plaît ? / Pourriez-vous m’aider s’il vous plaît ? (formal) or Peux-tu m’aider s’il te plaît ? / Pourrais-tu m’aider s’il te plaît (informal) [puve vu mɛːde sɪl vu plɛ] [puve vu mede sil vu plɛ]
Where are the toilets? Où sont les toilettes ? [u sõ le twalɛt] [u sõ le twalɛt]
Do you speak English? Parlez-vous (l')anglais ? / Est-ce que vous parlez (l')anglais ? [ɛs kœ vu paʁle lãɡlɛ] [paʁle vu ɒ̃ɡlɛ]
I do not speak French. Je ne parle pas français. [ʒœ nœ paʁl pɔ fʁãsɛ] [ʒø nø paʁl pa fʁɒ̃sɛ]
I do not know. Je sais pas. (syntax mistake[83] and over-familiar[84])
Je ne sais. (formal, rare) [ʒœ se pɔ]
[ʒœ n(œ) se pɔ]
[ʒœ n(œ) se] [ʒø sɛ pa]
[ʒø n(ø) sɛ pa]
[ʒø n(ø) sɛ]
I know. Je sais. [ʒœ se] [ʒø sɛ]
I am thirsty. J’ai soif. (literally, "I have thirst") [ʒe swaf] [ʒe swaf]
I am hungry. J’ai faim. (literally, "I have hunger") [ʒe fẽ] [ʒɛ fæ̃]
How are you? / How are things going? / How is everything? Comment allez-vous ? (formal) or Ça va ? / Comment ça va ? (informal) [kɔmã t‿ale vu] [kɔmɒ̃ t‿ale vu]
I am (very) well / Things are going (very) well // Everything is (very) well Je vais (très) bien (formal) or Ça va (très) bien. / Tout va (très) bien (informal) [ʒœ vɛ (tʁɛ) bjẽ] [ʒø vɛ (tʁɛ) bjæ̃]
I am (very) bad / Things are (very) bad / Everything is (very) bad Je vais (très) mal (formal) or Ça va (très) mal / Tout va (très) mal (informal) [ʒœ vɛ (tʁɛ) mal] [ʒø vɛ (tʁɛ) mal]
I am all right/so-so / Everything is all right/so-so Assez bien or Ça va comme ci, comme ça or simply Ça va.. (Sometimes said: « Couci, couça. », informal: "bof") i.e. « Comme ci, comme ça. ») [ase bjẽ] [ase bjæ̃]
I am fine. Ça va bien. [sa vɔ bjẽ] [sa va bjæ̃]
(How) may I help you? / Do you need help? / We need help! (Comment) puis-je vous aider ? Avez-vous besoin d'aide ? Nous avons besoin d'aide ! [(kɔmã) pɥiʒ vu z‿ɛːde] [(kɔmɑ̃) pɥiʒ vu z‿ede]
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Jump up ^ France-Diplomatie "Furthermore, the demographic growth of Southern hemisphere countries leads us to anticipate a new increase in the overall number of French speakers."
Jump up ^ (French) "Le français, langue en évolution. Dans beaucoup de pays francophones, surtout sur le continent africain, une proportion importante de la population ne parle pas couramment le français (même s'il est souvent la langue officielle du pays). Ce qui signifie qu'au fur et à mesure que les nouvelles générations vont à l'école, le nombre de francophones augmente : on estime qu'en 2015, ceux-ci seront deux fois plus nombreux qu'aujourd'hui."
Jump up ^ (French) c) Le sabir franco-africain: "C'est la variété du français la plus fluctuante. Le sabir franco-africain est instable et hétérogène sous toutes ses formes. Il existe des énoncés où les mots sont français mais leur ordre reste celui de la langue africaine. En somme, autant les langues africaines sont envahies par les structures et les mots français, autant la langue française se métamorphose en Afrique, donnant naissance à plusieurs variétés."
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Jump up ^ "Nombres (écriture, lecture, accord)". Questions de langue (in French). Académie française. Retrieved 31 May 2014. Pour les dates (et les nombres en général) entre 1000 et 2000, il y a concurrence entre deux lectures : mille six cent trente-cinq ou seize cent trente-cinq. ↲ Aucune de ces formes ne peut être considérée comme fautive. Cependant, dans l’usage courant, on dit plutôt onze cents, douze cents, etc. : onze cents francs, seize cents euros, tandis que dans la langue écrite, et notamment dans un texte juridique, administratif ou scientifique, on préférera les formes : mille cent, mille deux cents, etc.
Jump up ^ "Nombres (écriture, lecture, accord)". Questions de langue (in French). Académie française. Retrieved 31 May 2014. Vingt et cent se terminent par un s quand ils sont précédés d'un nombre qui les multiplie mais ils restent invariable s'ils sont suivis d'un autre nombre ou de mille. On dira ainsi euros mais deux cent vingt euros ; quatre-vingts hommes mais quatre-vingt-deux hommes. Ils restent également invariables lorsqu’ils sont employés comme adjectifs numéraux ordinaux : page deux cent ; page quatre-vingt ; l’an mille neuf cent. En revanche, vingt et cent varient devant millier, million, milliard, qui sont des noms et non des adjectifs numéraux : deux cents millions d’années ; trois cents milliers d’habitants.
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Thinking Thursday: Why is Modern Warfare Seeming Old?
Stephen Crane
By: Stephen Crane
So we've seen the trailers for the latest Call of Duty game, and all in all everything about it is starting to feel just a bit old. It really feels a lot like it's everything we've re-hashed before. With two studios working on Call of Duty games so they are coming out every year now, it's just getting wearisome. I'm not saying playing an FPS isn't fun, but it feels like the exact same FPS just made a little prettier each time around. Each time a new iteration of the game comes out we see the same fans jump onto their keyboards to talk about how much better their chosen game is. Fans of the series will eat up every last bit of news to validate how awesome their future buying decision will be. Detractors will similarly eat up every last bit of news to find some way to prove how horrible the game is going to be.
The Call of Duty vs. Battlefield debate feels eerily familiar and hashed out to me. When you look at it, it's all a debate on preference and not so much on what mechanics are actually good or bad. Certain players will value certain abilities and features over others. Battlefield players really seem to appreciate a dedication to realism with the ability to use vehicles. Call of Duty players seem to appreciate the fast-paced action coupled with epic fragging possibilities. It sort of comes down to the old Mario vs. Sonic debates. Do you appreciate graphics and speed more, or do you appreciate the game mechanics and speed more?
Oddly enough, though, this time around even the debate around Call of Duty just seems stale. We've seen just about all the same words thrown around with different titles attached. We are almost positive the game is going to look and feel a very specific way, and it's sort of frustrating. To a degree, the customers are expected to buy the game. It's just second nature to us now. We're in an inescapable trap of "Oooh! Shiny sequel!" mode where we will immediately buy a game like Call of Duty every year so long as they keep pumping out sequels. The games themselves are often fun to play, but it feels a lot like they are trying to reclaim the glory that was Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. I still play Cod:4 to this day and enjoy it immensely while some of the other titles have sort of lost their luster.
Perhaps this is a good sign for how to not do sequels. Putting out a new game every year (or technically for this publisher every two years) just makes for stale gameplay and doesn't give its developers and creators enough time to come up with original ideas or gameplay. CoD:4 was so good because it took the online multiplayer someplace special and set the game effectively in the modern times which was a completely fresh face for the franchise. It felt like a good, earnest reboot after its predecessor of a game which I still feel was sort of a disaster.
Perhaps it really is time for the developers at Activision to slow down and start taking their time to bring out quality titles to their franchises. also, this might be a good case study for why two developers pushing the same franchise isn't exactly a sustainable business model.
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Stephen was hooked by the NES at a very young age and never looked back. He games on a daily basis and is currently trying to climb his way up the ranked ladder on League of Legends! Outside of the video game world he actually likes running and owns a rapidly growing collection of toed shoes. Stephen Crane is the owner of Armed Gamer.
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Cyber security – it is not a matter of “if” but “when” businesses will come under attack from hackers
Mar 28, 2017 | Industry News
Our Vital Topics debate on Cyber Security made for sobering reflection as our panel warned of the ever-increasing dangers of attacks.
As panellist Katherine Kearns, Principal Consultant at the NCC Group, warned: “Companies have done a lot of things right, but it is not a matter of if but when they will come under attack. Attacks are becoming larger and more scalable, and because of the success of ransomware attacks that trend is likely to continue.”
Carolyn Harrison, Marketing Director at BeCyberSure, said a lot of breaches were down to human error and one of the issues for the industry was that people were getting away with not declaring breaches. “The media stories we see on virtually a daily basis are just the tip of the iceberg. Criminals will ultimately go after things that are easy to get. They just want to get money as quickly as possible.”
Harrison said forthcoming EU General Data Protection Regulations, which aim to strengthen and unify data protection, will represent a “seismic” change when they come into force next year. “Under the regulations companies will have to declare breaches within 72 hours. This really elevates the issue and puts it in the boardroom.”
Aaron Miller, Senior Technologist at Palo-Alto Networks, said many of the problems around cyber security came down to web developers not making systems sufficiently robust. “Quality of software is still an issue and there is tremendous confusion. A lot of the legacy technology simply cannot keep up.”
He said two huge trends had changed the nature of cyber security threats. Firstly the evolution of the ‘darknet’, a computer network that is used chiefly for illegal peer-to-peer file sharing. And secondly, the emergence of bitcoin and blockchain technology which has created the means of anonymous payment networks.
Boardroom issue
Martin Tyley, partner at accountancy KPMG, echoed the view that this was now a major boardroom issue with non-executive directors also having personal liability for security breaches. “This stems right from the top of the organisation.”
He added that one of the issues for the industry was standards. “When CEOs talk to cyber experts they are not sure whether they can trust the person they are speaking to. It is a real problem. It is not like professions like medicine or teaching where there are clear career and training paths.”
Noel Hannan, Cyber and Digital Innovation Lead at GoSecure UK, said we should not forget that many people still use handwritten notes to record potentially sensitive information which is then open to breaches too. “We are missing a huge trick if we ignore the way people access communication more widely. We mustn’t forget that it is both information and people we are trying to protect.”
Dr Daniel Dresner, academic co-ordinator for Cyber Security at the University of Manchester, was keen to counter the downbeat mood. “There are little things we can all do. Everyone can start to make ripples and know who to call when there is a problem.”
But he conceded that there were wider threats which were only just hitting the radar. “This isn’t just about identify theft, it’s also about threats to devices linked through the Internet of Things, and threats to our utility network.”
Live ‘hack’
During our debate Lorenzo Grespan from Pentest did a mock ‘live hack’ demonstration to show just how easy it can be to gain entry into a website.
He added that the development of machine learning could be the answer to countering cyber security threats. “Machine learning has a big role to play in the future learning because it has the ability to aggregate and learn from the data it receives.”
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13 May 2019 | News
Mindray Offer Masimo SET® Pulse Oximetry under its Patient Monitoring Devices in many Countries beyond the United States
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Masimo and Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd have entered into a new purchase and license agreement. The new partnership, under Mindray, will offer Masimo SET® Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion™ pulse oximetry – noninvasive, continuous measurement of oxygen saturation (SpO2), pulse rate (PR), and perfusion index (Pi) in its monitoring devices. Mindray devices equipped with SET® will now be available in selected countries in Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the Commonwealth of the Independent States, and Asia-Pacific (excluding China), including Australia and India. Thus, the benefits of Masimo SET® are now also available to clinicians using Mindray’s devices in many countries outside the United States.
The new partnership has made advanced medical technology in healthcare more accessible by achieving excellent patient monitoring. Patients, clinicians, and hospitals can benefit from the performance of Masimo SET® pulse oximetry which includes the Mindray BeneVision N and BeneView T series for use in high-acuity environments and the ePM, iPM, and iMEC series for use in a variety of clinical scenarios, among other devices.
Mindray being a leading global provider of medical devices and solutions represents the world’s third-largest patient monitoring market share. With the invention of Signal Extraction Technology® (SET®), Masimo established a new standard for pulse oximetry by introducing the ability to measure through motion and low perfusion. SET® has demonstrated the highest sensitivity and specificity in identifying desaturation events and avoiding false desaturation events during these conditions.
SET® has also opened up new frontiers in patient monitoring during challenging conditions. Studies have shown that clinical assessment assisted by SET® helps clinicians reduce retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in neonates, improve critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) screening in newborns, and through continuous monitoring of patients in post-surgical wards, reduce ICU transfers and rapid response team activations. Over 100 independent and objective studies have shown that SET® outperforms other pulse oximetry technologies. Masimo continues to refine SET® and recently announced that SpO2 accuracy specifications have now improved to 1.5% in conditions of motion and no motion for adult, pediatric, and infant patients (> 3 kg) with RD SET™ sensors.
Jon Coleman, President of Worldwide Sales, Professional Services, and Medical Affairs, Masimo, said: “We’re excited to enter into this agreement with Mindray, so that more patients, clinicians, and hospitals can benefit from the unmatched performance of Masimo SET® pulse oximetry.”
Yang Ting, General Manager of International Sales and Marketing, Patient Monitoring and Life Support, Mindray, said, “We are very happy to expand our cooperation with Masimo from North America to more regions so that our customers will have access to the outstanding SpO2 technology from Masimo. It is proof of our constant commitment to bringing advanced medical technologies to people in need, and making better healthcare more accessible for all.”
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Tyler Perry Sets Real Estate Record In Estate Sale
Tonya Pendleton, BlackAmericaWeb.com
Tyler Perry is already a rich man. But a recent sale has made him even richer. Perry, 46, has just sold his Atlanta estate for a record-breaking price.
Atlanta Business Chronicle reports:
The sale of entertainment mogul Tyler Perry’s Atlanta home marks the most expensive residential home sale in Atlanta’s history.
The French Provincial 34,688-square-foot, 17-acre mansion at 4110 Paces Ferry Road hit the market with a $25 million price tag and recently sold for $17.5 million.
The home has seven bedrooms, nine full baths, five half baths and was built in 2007. Josh Reeves and Chase Mizell with Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty brokered the deal.
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StandOut Realty on August 22, 2018 at 11:11 pm said:
Wow that’s an amazing looking home… congrats to Tyler… hardwork and talent pays off
Martha Burgess on May 5, 2016 at 5:54 pm said:
Oh, Tyler I wanted to take advantage tour of your beautiful home. Maybe the next on.thanks
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ButterPecan on May 5, 2016 at 1:41 pm said:
I’m so jealous!
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Unicorn Kid – Feel So Real
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Oliver Sabin aka Unicorn Kid shows us how to feel with this new electro dance cut that features a catchy vocal edit from Love Decade’s 1991 hit, “So Real”. We’re feeling it, are you? Pick up the “Feel So Real” single this coming January 6th via Ultra Music.
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Villagers – Nothing Arrived
Irish quintet Villagers recently dropped “Nothing Arrived.” This track comes from their upcoming release, Awayland. Look for this album in January of 2013. By Trevor Meyer
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Review: Dirty South @ The Palladium in Hollywood, Ca. 11.24.12
There are shows, events, and all sorts of concerts that go around the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles, but it doesn’t seem like any of those can touch the environment of an Insomniac event. From the opening DJ’s to the confetti cannons of Dirty South’s intro track… it’s just that different. Even if it’s not your “thing” to attend a “rave” type event, I’d almost guarantee that you’ll secretly find yourself having a good time. The atmosphere brings plenty of people of all ages around town, and even some from out of state, to party till the sun comes up with smiles and good vibes. The term PLUR (google it) isn’t just a saying to this crowd, it’s pretty much a lifestyle. Being a photographer, I always welcome the challenge to capture this sort of feeling. Thankfully I got my chance to really soak it all in last Saturday night. The combo of thundering bass, eclectic synths, light shows, fog and lasers easily took this crowd to another world. There’s always a certain sense of passion you get when you’re surrounded with Dirty South’s euphoric music, and it suddenly becomes clear how his crowd can party for 6+ hours. A good party can go on for however long the heart desires. The only negative thing I had to say about The City of Dreams tour is that I haven’t attended it before! Review and Photos by Russ Ramos
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Let’s say that you really wanted to catch Radiohead at Coachella this past year, but you live somewhere like Chicago and are not interested in paying a small fortune to sweat your ass off in the middle of the desert… what did you end up doing? You live streamed the shit out of that festival! Apply that same concept but on a nightly, worldwide scale, and we introduce you to your next favorite live content streaming destination, IROCKE. With over 2,000 live shows now streaming per month, this new start-up based out of Hermosa Beach, Ca. is at the forefront of what just might be the next big step in the rapidly evolving music industry.
B3SCI recently paid visit to the official beta launch party for IROCKE and received a first hand look at what the hype is all about. Mingling with different bloggers, venue owners, artists, managers, marketing execs, live streaming sources and others, we realized the true viability in the live streaming industry. Live music from Tom Freund and friends (tomfruend.com) was accompanied throughout the evening by a collection of brief speeches from IROCKE co-founder Karl Rogers and representatives of SkyRoomLive, ShowGo.tv, and TRI Studios (Bob Weir’s state of the art studio). In fine fashion, being projected on the back wall during the party was IROCKE in full swing, showcasing real time and live streams from Benny Benassi, Andrew W.K. gigs taking place around the country.
IROCKE is now open to the public. Visit the site and the first thing you will notice on the home page is an intuitive layout and design. It’s simple to use and easy to navigate, with many cool features, like sortable live shows by genre and other criteria. Also, members who choose to sign-up with IROCKE have the ability to click on an artist and see where they are playing next and what live streams have already happened. As a member of IROCKE, you can personalize your own profile with RSVPs for streams, sharing capabilities with friends and more. Throw in the fact that membership to join is currently free – and you have a winning recipe. With an expanding roster of live streams, IROCKE is the new source for live streaming music performances worldwide. By Brian Litwin
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Rudimental – Hell Could Freeze ft. Angel Haze
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Rudimental link up with rising MC queen Angel Haze for if “Hell Could Freeze”, previewed here from the group’s debut album expected early 2013. The track offers up a delictable hook in fine Rudimental fashion with an eclectic mix of RnB, hip hop, and soulful electronic vibes. We’re into it. Check out the track below.
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Only Real – Backseat Kissers
Londoner Only Real will release his discordantly melodic debut single “Backseat Kissers” in early December via ASL records. The track is more boisterous and feel-good pop than his usual mix of atmospheric undergroove and off-the-wall freestyling, while still featuring Only Real’s trademark fuzzy vocal quality, catchy hook, and strikingly delicate guitar chords. After a few spins this one leaves you feelin’ right-straight and hella good. By Erin Feathers
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Rave’s Fave: Madness – Never Knew Your Name
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A new Madness album is always good news, and yet again the dudes have dropped a good one on us. “Death of a Rude Boy” is the cool single from OUI OUI SI SI JA JA DA DA and album goes quite a bit deeper than that. My favorite is “Never Knew Your Name” because it has a softer touch, with smooth melodies and some nice strings. By Bruce Rave
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Giveaway: Rah Rah @ The Bootleg in LA with Josh Boyd & Jamestown Revival this Wednesday 11/28/12
It’s no secret that Rah Rah have been a favorite around B3SCI HQ this year, as the band’s recent full length Poets Dead has found a healthy rotation in our morning mix. Nothing get’s our day started better than a cup of strong coffee and the blues drenched vibes of “Little Poems” or the soaring melodies of “Prairie Girl”. Needless to say, Rah Rah’s set at the Bootleg Bar in Los Angeles this Wednesday night (11/28) has had a star on our calendar for a minute now. This show is a don’t miss, and if you agree – then we’ve got a surprise for you… we’re giving away a pair of tickets to Wednesday night’s set to one lucky winner!
For a chance to win email us here and say that you’d like to to be entered in the Rah Rah ticket giveaway. We’ll be picking our winning email submission at random this Tuesday 11/27/12 (one entry per person). And don’t fret if you don’t win tickets because you can get more information on the show and purchasing tickets here.
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Pang Attack – Northern Seas (for Vanesa)
Pang Attack is the brain child of Alex Hackett. Formerly the stickman for Femme Generation, and the singer and/or guitarist of numerous other notable projects including Kill The Lights, the multi-instrumentalist and lyricist seems to have found a comfortable home in the mellow and expansive song noise of Pang Attack. The project’s sophomore EP Phantom Forest was digitally released this October. Get familiar Pang Attack and our favorite cut from the EP, “Northern Seas” below.
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Young Kato – Break Out
Young Kato just might be looking to break out of sorts with this new track from their forthcoming debut EP. At their average youthful age of 18’ish, and having already gigged with the likes of UK heavy hitters such as Spector, the Cheltenham six piece is already finding itself a loyal following on the UK live circuits. “Break Out” packs heaps of commercial viability and power rotation ambition, so sing along and look out for Young Kato in 2013.
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The New Division – Pride
LA dream rockers The New Division put the genre on notice with the shimmering “Pride”. TND, who’s varied sound is fully conveyed out their just dropped 4-tracker “Night Escape”, remind melodically of (and we mean this in the most flattering way) The National at (and not just on “Pride” where it can be heard most strongly) several points throughout the EP.
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Jill Scott – Golden (Catching Flies Remix)
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Tiananmen “Massacre”? and The Unrelenting Monopoly Media Agenda
By Wei Ling Chua
Global Research, May 17, 2017
When we search the internet for ‘Tiananmen Square Massacre’, there are hundreds of thousands of hyperlinks to books, news, articles, and videos that describe the event as a “Massacre”; and even the reputable Encyclopaedia Britannica also cites the Western media as sources to describe the 1989 incident as a “Massacre”.
This is despite the fact that, in 1998, Washington Post journalist Jay Mathews confessed in the Columbia Journalism Review that “no one died at Tiananmen Square” and that “it is hard to find a journalist who has not contributed to the misimpression”.
In 2004, the Christian Science Monitor revealed that Human Rights Watch decided not to publish their 52-page eye-witness report that confirmed the Chinese side of the story. In 2009, BBC journalist James Miles admitted that he had “conveyed the wrong impression.” CBS journalist, Richard Roth also confessed in 2009 that
“we saw no bodies, injured people, ambulances or medical personnel – in short, nothing to even suggest, let alone prove, that a “massacre” had recently occurred in that place,” however, Roth continues: “ after a debrief[ing] on-air by Dan Rather (London office), I made an effort to avoid using the word “massacre””, and acknowledged that he did not “make a point trying to contradict a colleague on the air.”
Are you aware of the circumstances under which these journalists suddenly decided to admit their years of contribution to the “misimpression”? Are you aware that they then tried to change the story to a “Beijing Massacre” with the exception of Graham Earnshaw – a Reuters journalist who wrote in his personal memoirs without a single word suggesting that he witnessed any killing by the PLA inside and outside the Tiananmen Square? As a matter of fact, after witnessing how the PLA took control of Tiananmen Square without injuring anyone, Earnshaw left the Square and walked to one of the alleys where he witnessed how a PLA commander dispersed a crowd. This is a direct quote from Earnshaw’s memoirs:
“A PLA commander shouts at the crowd to disperse and warns that his troops will fire if people didn’t go. Still, people hold their ground. The troops lift their rifles and fire above the heads of the crowd.”
In fact, there is ample silent evidence in the images produced by the Western media that tells the story of a highly restrained Chinese government facing a protest of a similar nature to ones in the West at that particular stage of economic development. The book: Tiananmen Square “Massacre”? The Power of Words v Silent Evidence (2014) compares dozens of images (silent evidence) from the Western media to their corresponding captions to explain how the power of language can easily overpower the silent evidence that tells the opposite story.
The reality is, the Western media also lied about the protesters’ desire for a Western-style democracy. The Financial Times journalist James Kynge confessed in 2009 that:
People say journalism is merely a first, rough draft of history. But the problem here is that this draft appears to have been canonised, passing largely unedited into popular conscience. I do question, however, the Western media’s basic assertion that the demonstrations had been “pro-democracy”. Even now, a raft of editorials commemorating the event’s 20th anniversary repeats the mantra that the students were “demanding democracy”.
As a matter of fact, former Australian China Desk officer Gregory Clark wrote in the Japan Times (2008) complaining about how none of the media from the USA, the UK, and Australia, including “the New York Times, the usually impartial Guardian and Independent, and the Sydney Morning Herald, are interested in publishing rebuttals.”
The irony is that, after decades of portraying the protesters as unarmed and peaceful, the Guardian decided in 2009 to publish for the first time images of violence against the Chinese military outside Tiananmen Square by using the word “violence” in an ambiguous manner.
Here is an example of how BBC manufactured the perception of a “MASSACRE” without having to show their viewers a single clip of a dead person.
In fact, there is further evidence from the work of historians, the Wikileaks-leaked U.S. embassy cables, and The National Security Archive’s declassified history, all pointing to the accuracy of the Chinese official story. Unfortunately, to this day, the event is still described by many as a “MASSACRE”.
Despite the reality, that truth is scattering in every corner, without the support of the Western media establishment, what could the bits and pieces do to make their way into people attention!
Wei Ling Chua is the author of Tiananmen Square “Massacre”? The Power of Words v Silent Evidence, and Democracy – What the West can learn from China. He can be contacted at wchua62@gmail.com
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Mirror’s Edge Catalyst Review
g0blin 2nd May 2019 2 comments
Action Adventure, Platform, Playstation 4, Retrospective
In my humble opinion Mirror’s Edge is one of those games that you either love or hate.
Also, is one of those niche games that come to the surface only once in a while, often taking their chance to win in a matter of weeks. I always wanted to write an article about it, but never find the time to do it until now. I am still struggling with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice way too much to post something reliable, so I decided to give Faith (the protagonist) another chance.
The original game was published on PS3 over a decade ago (it was 2008) when this blog didn’t even exist yet. It was basically the only game (not really true, but so it seemed to the general public) dealing with the Parkour discipline, which was used by the main character to traverse the environment in order to fulfill her mission. The plot was set in an overly-controlled society were the only way to vehiculate information without incurring in censorship of any type was to engage people able to move, unseen, out of the streets. The devs so elected for a non-traditional stealth approach where runners found their ways on the roof of a super-technological city. Also, to make this kind of platformer even less traditional, a First-Person-View style was adopted.
The game was a success for its time, even though maybe not as successful as the publisher expected, so when a new chapter was announced during 2013 E3 people got all hyped up. The game was actually published in 2016, this time for the PS4.
Despite what everyone hoped though, Catalyst was not the sequel of the wonderful first installment, but a reboot that actually did not add anything new to the original story. What DICE tried to do here was probably good in their intentions: to draw attention back to a splendid “experiment”, adapting it to different players in a different generation of consoles. Too bad that the players who bought the game were probably mostly the old fans (I surely was) and to them Catalyst, after the first hours, was simply not enough.
Don’t get me wrong: Catalyst is overall a good game, where characters from the past were re-invented in a different role to make their story much more intriguing and relevant (Faith’s sister was the main one here) yet, compared to the first title, everything feels too simplistic. The story unfolds in a rather linear way; the environments (although splendid) don’t look like a real improvement (if you consider you are now on a superior hardware); the numerous quests scattered across the game world feel like a mere skill-check and not really story-related (even though they mostly are) and when the game gets to its epilogue you are actually left with a jar of flies.
Despite the bigger game world, the sidequests, an improved combat system (not always running away will be a viable option) and the options to customize your avatar, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst was actually a step back compared to the original title which, at present, is still unsurpassed.
In the end, Catalyst was, sadly, a missed opportunity, especially if you played the PS3 one. In case you haven’t tried those game, it would probably wise to get your copy now. It must be pretty cheap nowadays and, as I said, it was overall a good game. For sure, it is way different from most of the other, which keep being just clones of themselves. Give it a chance: it may be the right one for you.
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Mirrors edge was fresh to me and very origional. Very challenging but never frustrating. Never played any other versions other than ps3 so I suppose that’s what really affected this game was it was nothing new after the first time you seen it. I still loved it but have no real desire to play it.. I mean last of us I’ve played through nearly 20 times and even though i know what’s coming I still never find it a chore. Journey was the same. But mirrors edge I never felt like replaying, even catalyst.
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Same here, m8. And that’s a pity, since the concept behind it was really good
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The Guinevere's Tale Trilogy
Nicole Evelina
Guinevere is remembered for her role as King Arthur’s wife and for her adulterous affair with Lancelot. But there is so much more to her story…
Priestess. Queen. Warrior. Experience the world of King Arthur through Guinevere’s eyes as she matures from a young priestess who never dreamed of becoming queen to the stalwart defender of a nation and a mistress whose sin would go down in history. Throughout it all, Guinevere faces threats from both foreign powers and within her own court that lead her to place her very life on the line to protect the dream of Camelot and save her people.
This compendium of Nicole Evelina’s two-time Book of the Year award-winning trilogy – Daughter of Destiny, Camelot’s Queen, and Mistress of Legend – gives fresh life to an age-old tale by adding historical context and emotional depth. Spanning more than three decades, it presents Guinevere as an equal to the famous men she is remembered for loving, while providing context for her controversial decisions and visiting little-known aspects of her life before and after her marriage to King Arthur.
Book One: Daughter of Destiny
Before queenship and Camelot, Guinevere was a priestess of Avalon. She loved another before Arthur, a warrior who would one day betray her. Learn the true story of her early life.
•Book of the Year – Chanticleer Reviews
•Best New Voice, (Silver Award), IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards
•Winner – North Street Book Prize
"Rich and stunning, easily comparable to novels by other bestselling historical fiction authors." - Chanticleer Book Reviews
Book Two: Camelot’s Queen
Guinevere is now High Queen and Arthur’s top strategist. But when she is feared dead, Arthur installs a new woman in her place, one who will poison his affections, threatening Guinevere’s fragile sanity and driving her into the arms of her champion. Can the Grail’s promise of peace set things right or will peace prove as dangerous as war?
•Fiction Book of the Year – Author’s Circle
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“Historical fantasy at its finest!" - InD'Tale Magazine
Book Three: Mistress of Legend
Legend says Guinevere spent her final days in penance in a convent, but that is far from the truth. Not one to quietly cede power, she fights for her ancestral homeland against an invasion that threatens both her people and her life.
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On My Kindle , 03/07/2019
A wonderful trilogy!
I received a free copy of this book and opted to share a review.
Evelina's knowledge of Arthurian legend is expansive; I like how she adhered to some of the tropes associated with the genre while sharing her point of view regarding the legends. I thought she struck a wonderful balance between old and new and repudiated the male-centric perspectives of Guinevere and Morgan le Fey. Evelina's flair for marrying old and new prose is further demonstrated in her word choice and flow, making it easy for people of all literary backgrounds to follow the plot and enjoy the story.
I was happy with how the series ended. While it wasn't a grandiose or dramatic ending, it suited Guinevere and her story as told by Evelina. I recommend the trilogy to readers who enjoy Arthurian legend or a reader who is looking for an interesting historical fantasy to read.
More Books by Nicole Evelina
Daughter of Destiny
Been Searching for You
Madame Presidentess
Mistress of Legend: Guinevere's Tale Book 3
Camelot's Queen (Guinevere's Tale Book 2)
The Once and Future Queen: Guinevere in Arthurian Legend
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Advances in Gender Research Vol: 1
Vasilikie Demos
Marcia Texler Segal
Advances in Gender Research
"Advances in gender research" is a new series aimed at presenting current methodological and theoretical research in an area of rapid change and with a subject which is interdisciplinary spanning the social sciences, humanities and natural sciences. The papers in volume 1 reflect the current state of gender research in terms of the variety of material and the approach. The authors take various positions within the configuration which include liberal, radical and material feminisms. The pieces also vary in the extent to which the authors' theoretical orientation and ideas about social change are implicit or explicit. The diversity of current gender research is shown in the subjects presented ranging from an examination of the everyday world experienced by poor women and women of colour in American society and post-colonial women on a global basis to research along the critical lines of postmodernism and queer theory. Focus is placed on 'advances' and developments in gender theory. This new series will be of interest to scholars and experts in sociology, anthropology, ethnography, political science and to those with a particular interest in gender studies and race and ethnic relations.
Bringing gender, race and class into student projects by negotiating patriarchal models, Diana Papademas; gender and sex - where do we draw the lines?, Patricia Gagne and Richard Tewksbury; gender studies in sociology - an analysis of race and class, Rose M. Bewer; the other cyborgs - African-American male role and feminist theory, Anthony J. Lemelle Jr; women's liberation research - methodological strategies for social change and empowerment, Monica Bahati Kuumba; gender stratification and love relationships in marriage, Dana Vannoy; mother-infant dyad - when father makes three - methodological issues and complications, Diane E. Wille.
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Books Books 1 - 7 of about 7 editions of Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present.
Out of the past: gay and lesbian history from 1869 to the present
Neil Miller - Social Science - 2006 - 677 pages
The updated and revised edition of Neil Miller's multi-award winning gay history tome.
Snippet view - About this book
Neil Miller - 1995
Neil Miller - Gays - 1995 - 657 pages
Neil Miller - History - 1995 - 657 pages
A history of gay and lesbian life combines historical and contemporary writings to discuss such topics as gay havens in the military and gay life in Nazi Germany
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Arts & Humanities /
Humanities /
English Literature /
Children's Myths & Fairytales /
Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities
Windchief, Sweeney
Author: ROSS, TONY
Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd
Quick overview This classic fairy tale is brought to life by the inimitable Tony Ross in a beautiful hardback edition of his first ever picture book, 40 years after it was published for the first time. Discover the story of mischievous Goldilocks and her adventures in the three bears' house through the glorious illustrations and charming text.
This classic fairy tale is brought to life by the inimitable Tony Ross in a beautiful hardback edition of his first ever picture book, 40 years after it was published for the first time. Discover the story of mischievous Goldilocks and her adventures in the three bears' house through the glorious illustrations and charming text.
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BOOTLICKER
Kautsky, Lenin, and Why I am an Insurrectionist
0 - Introduction
I recently saw some discussion online about the change of fortune we communists seem to be experiencing in politics. One opinion put forward struck a chord with with me:
we are putting a lot more effort now into electoral ventures, but how much effort or visibility do our social movement efforts seem to be getting?
I myself have been putting a lot of effort into social movement work, and I know that my Party, the Socialist Alliance, always has, Perhapps this comment comes from someone is in too deepy with the work of a mainstream political party to see that there are indeed a lot of social movement activists and time and energy put into grass roots organising. But I didn’t take this as the actual point of what they were trying to say.
Personally, I share a concern quite similar. I think we are entering into a new phase of struggle in Western capitalist societies. I don’t really have another name for it, so I may as well give the current one I have: a “neo-Kautskyian” era.
Recently, the Jacobin website published an article by the former school teacher Eric Blanc. In that article, Blanc argues that the famous Leninist call for the eventual smashing of the capitalist state has outlived its relevance. One passage by Blanc really struck me:
even when a desire for immediate socialist transformation was deepest among deepest among working people, support to replace universal suffrage and parliamentary democracy with workers’ councils, or other organs of dual power, has always remained marginal.
In his article, Blanc argues that the pre-1910 theoretical work of Kautsky is the model we should be following in order to transform our capitalist societies into socialist ones. I hold off on describing this particular attitude as one for “making revolution” because I do not believe it seeks to actually achieve socialist transformation through revolution at all.
1 - What is Blanc on About?
The substance of Blanc, and Kautsky’s pre-1910 position, is that communists should aim to use the power of the capitalist state from above, while also maintaining grass roots political organising from below.
The upshot of Blanc’s position is that it is undesirable to try to smash the capitalist state, in the final instance. Instead what we should be doing is trying to elect official to organs of capitalist state power, while continuing to pressure for radical social change from below. Blanc states that there is not necessarily any antagonistic contradiction in pushing for this position. Further, Blanc argues that this position is in fact Marxist.
Lately, we have been experiencing a lot of electoral success. Look at what we have achieved in th Chicago City Council. More communists elected than ever before. In the Victorian state election, we very nearly elected a communist to the upper house of the VIC state parliament. As far as I am concerned, Bernie Sanders and AOC are virtually mainstream now. Imagine if these sorts of things had been happening 10 years ago. We would have been absolutely amazed and astounded. The political landscape was so moribund and depressing that socialism was unheard of.
But I take the fact that people are settling for the way things are going in an optimistic way. And that is really how I regard Blanc’s rehabilitation of the “parliamentary road” to socialism. The fact that we are focusing so much on winning elections is an opportunity to open up a debate on who we are and where we need to be heading.
I myself regard elections as insufficient for the transformation of society into a communist one. I think for now, some electoral work is necessary, but I don’t share the view of Blanc that the Kautskyian reoad to communist transformation (if it is one at all) is the right one. I also don’t regard Blanc’s view as Marxist.
2 - Why Smashing the State is Necessary
Forgive me if this sounds doctrinaire, but I really do think that Lenin is correct in State and Revolution when he analyses Marx and Engels and shows that the correct road to communism is in fact a “ruptural” one.
Blanc does not deal with the central piece of theory that Marxism relies on when it comes to dealing with the capitalist state, and that it is site of class struggle. The analysis of the state that marxism gives is that the state is both a site of combination of classes, as well as an instrument of domination. Blanc seems to be happy concluding that the state is just a combination of classes, and kind of neutral instrument that can be taken over and wielded by anybody.
But this is precisely the lesson of Leninism, both in its theoretical form, and the way Lenin actually ended up carrying out thebeginning stages of transformation of socialism in Russia. The major tragedy of the Russian Revolution was not just the decimation of the working class in the Civil War, it was also that enormous parts of the old Czarist bureaucracy were used in order to attempt to transform the country. Not enough (or “ not all “) of the state was smashed in order to carry out the Russian Revolution.
And this is precisely why I agree with Leninism. The smashing of the old capitalist state is absolutely necessary. This is the lesson of the 20th century. The reliance on bureaucratic officialdom to cary out the work of socialism necessarily corrupts the struggle because the class nature of the state is always in question. Especially when it comes to capitalist states.
The famous addage is that “the workers cannot simply take over the capitalist state, and wield it as if it was an instrument of workers’ power”. There is an enormous wealth of historical evidence on this point. Look at the way Chavez reformed the Venezuelan military. For that matter, look at the way Che and Fidel Castro purged the Cuban military.
3 - Neo-Kautskyism: Never Making the Jump to Communism
I am happy to be labelled an “insurrectionist” if absolutely necessary, because of the agreeent I find myself in with State and Revolution. But the label “insurrectionist” is used to slur the position of genuine socialist revolution with “blanquism”. Blanquism is the simple theory of revolution that a small number of revolutionaries can just seize power in a coup or putsch and command the rest of society to transform into a socialist one.
This is obviously wrong, and this is obviously not the position of Leninists. It stands that, in order to genuinely get to communism, the capitalist state absolutely must be smashed. The argument in support of this is not simply that the working class, when carrying out revolution, will encounter resistance rom the police or military, it is that the very essence of the capitalist state is the dictatorship of the capitalist class. The capitalist class have set up this state, this political state, in order to maintain the wage relationship, and the extraction of surplus value and profit in order to amass enormous amounts of money.
I predict that if Blanc’s Kautskyian road of merely staffing parliamentary seats with avowed communists ends up being the road that we take, then we will only ever get to a kind of left social democracy. We will never make the jump to communism.
The apparatus that we live under is a behemoth. It has been constructed and maintained for the purpose of extracting profit. The fact that Blanc disavows even dual power, a situation where workers self-organise and very primitively challenge the legitimacy and physical effectiveness of the capitalist state, is telling. This is the sticking point of the difference between “reforming” capitalism, and seeking to actually overthrow it.
I think this is the whole point of Marxism – capitalism has to be overthrown! It’s not that just the leaders have to be replaced, or that the “head” of the system needs to be cut off and replaced, but that the whole way of life we live has to be changed.
4 - Tailism (and the Dialectic)
Blanc is not asking very much of socialism if we are just to maintain ocial movements as well as, say, vote in a workers’ government who pass laws, or, even purge the bureaucracy. The quotation I gave from Blanc of revolutionary bodies of workers’ self organisation being marginal in the demands of “working people”, is the absolute centrepiece of the thinking of social democratic parties and what Lenin calls “opportunism” It is what Georg Lukacs calls “tailism”.
The argument that Blanc has constructed is that working people have not historically called for revolution in advance Western societies in the time of massive upheavals, therefore it would be undemocratic and authoritarian for one to demand insurrection as an element of establishing socialism. The same sort of argument appears in identitarian thinking, the arguments that people who adhere to identity politics make.
The same sort of argument is made by the racits in the ALP about refugee rights. Supposedly the ALP would not be elected to government if they didn’t pander to what they claim are the racist working class.
Tailing the consciousness of the masses was never something that Marxism advocated. Tailism is the confusion of the empirical consciousness of some political agent for what are its actual, intrinsic, interests. In this case Blanc is arguing that everything we are doing today, at this particular, limited and primitive level of struggle, is enough.
I say that this vision is very, very limited, and that my vision of liberation and communism is much grander.
Do not settle for a half-baked type of communism.
I want the whole thing.
Blair Vidakovich 19 April 2019
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U.S. Capsules Unlikely to Launch With Astronauts Before 2020
Justice Department Won’t Bring Federal Charges Against Police Officer in Eric Garner Case
Deal Journal
Dealpolitik: NYSE Deal Challenges Conventional Wisdom on Delaware Corporate Law
Dec 21, 2012 4:51 pm ET
Every once in a while a deal comes along that raises questions about long-accepted conventional wisdom on corporate law. The buyout announced Thursday in which IntercontinentalExchange will acquire NYSE Euronext for cash and stock worth around $33.12 per share is one of those deals.
What is unusual about this deal is not so much the terms announced Thursday. Rather it is that the buyer, ICE, had teamed up with Nasdaq OMX Group to make a hostile bid less than two years ago to break up the NYSE’s deal with Deutsche Borse. The team bid was vehemently opposed by the NYSE and ultimately failed in the face of antitrust issues in connection with the Nasdaq part of the proposed tie-up.
Just a little over 18 months after walking away, ICE is back with a deal which appears entirely consensual and enthusiastically supported by management of the NYSE. Unfortunately for the NYSE, its stock price had fallen almost 40% between the time Nasdaq and ICE walked away and Wednesday’s close. Presumably the NYSE would have had more negotiating leverage with ICE if it had tried to work this deal out 18 months ago rather than wait for its deal with DB to fall apart in February this year.
If a deal with ICE alone makes sense in 2012, couldn’t the NYSE have picked up the phone last year and say to ICE, “we aren’t going to get there with Nasdaq, but why don’t we brainstorm together and see if we can put together a deal? Even if we still like the DB deal better after we talk, our shareholders would be better off having a backup plan if the DB deal doesn’t close.”
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Jason Craighead To Participate in “The Study Group” Exhibition at The Collectors Gallery
March 3, 2008 March 8, 2008 Blueplate PR
March 2, 2008 (RALEIGH, NC) – Raleigh artist Jason Craighead will participate in a special exhibition at the Collector’s Gallery entitled “The Study Group.” The opening reception will be held Thursday, March 6 from 6-9 p.m. The show runs through April 12.
As a result of a long and mentoring relationship with the late and noted North Carolina artist George Bireline, Raleigh artists Robert Irwin and Bob Rankin formed a study group along with Anthony Ulinski, Richard Garrison, David Connell and Craighead. The group meets regularly to share ideas, offer critiques and support one another. The Collectors Gallery exhibit will showcase work by each artist in the group.
Represented in the Triangle by Somerhill Gallery in Chapel Hill, Craighead will hang two paintings: “Bridge Study #2” (25w x 30h) and “Progress Jan-08” (60w x 60h). Both pieces are part of a larger body of work depicting “idea on construction, deconstruction, revitalization and the energies produced in an urban environment,” he said. Other paintings in his newest series of work are currently on display at the Miriam Preston Block Art Gallery in the Raleigh Municipal Building.
The Collectors Gallery is a partnership between Rory Parnell, formerly of Raleigh Contemporary Gallery, and Megg Rader, former executive Director of Artspace. The gallery is located at in the historic City Market in downtown Raleigh and is part of the Moore Square Art District. For more information visit http://www.rcgallery.com.
Along with Somerhill Gallery, Jason Craighead is also represented by Broadhurst Gallery in Pinehurst; Anne Irwin Fine Art in Atlanta, Georgia; and Bucks Gallery of Fine Art in Newtown, Pennsylvania. For more information on the artist, contact Kim Weiss at blueplate pr: 919-272-8615; kjw27612@yahoo.com.
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Availability and requirements
Implementation of workflow engine technology to deliver basic clinical decision support functionality
Vojtech Huser1, 2Email author,
Luke V Rasmussen1,
Ryan Oberg1 and
Justin B Starren3
© Huser et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011
Accepted: 10 April 2011
Workflow engine technology represents a new class of software with the ability to graphically model step-based knowledge. We present application of this novel technology to the domain of clinical decision support. Successful implementation of decision support within an electronic health record (EHR) remains an unsolved research challenge. Previous research efforts were mostly based on healthcare-specific representation standards and execution engines and did not reach wide adoption. We focus on two challenges in decision support systems: the ability to test decision logic on retrospective data prior prospective deployment and the challenge of user-friendly representation of clinical logic.
We present our implementation of a workflow engine technology that addresses the two above-described challenges in delivering clinical decision support. Our system is based on a cross-industry standard of XML (extensible markup language) process definition language (XPDL). The core components of the system are a workflow editor for modeling clinical scenarios and a workflow engine for execution of those scenarios. We demonstrate, with an open-source and publicly available workflow suite, that clinical decision support logic can be executed on retrospective data. The same flowchart-based representation can also function in a prospective mode where the system can be integrated with an EHR system and respond to real-time clinical events. We limit the scope of our implementation to decision support content generation (which can be EHR system vendor independent). We do not focus on supporting complex decision support content delivery mechanisms due to lack of standardization of EHR systems in this area. We present results of our evaluation of the flowchart-based graphical notation as well as architectural evaluation of our implementation using an established evaluation framework for clinical decision support architecture.
We describe an implementation of a free workflow technology software suite (available at http://code.google.com/p/healthflow) and its application in the domain of clinical decision support. Our implementation seamlessly supports clinical logic testing on retrospective data and offers a user-friendly knowledge representation paradigm. With the presented software implementation, we demonstrate that workflow engine technology can provide a decision support platform which evaluates well against an established clinical decision support architecture evaluation framework. Due to cross-industry usage of workflow engine technology, we can expect significant future functionality enhancements that will further improve the technology's capacity to serve as a clinical decision support platform.
Electronic Health Record System
Electronic Health Record Data
Currently, there is a strong interest in improving decision support systems (DSS) [1]. Despite several decades of effort, we have been unable to develop DSS platforms that would gain wide adoption [2]. Some solutions are embedded in a proprietary system or are tied to a particular electronic health record (EHR) vendor which limits their adoption. Other solutions often introduce a healthcare-specific representation format and healthcare-specific execution engines, whereas past experience shows that successful healthcare solutions often rely on cross-industry standards. Finally, easy authoring or easy review of DSS logic still remains a considerable challenge [3]. We present our implementation of a workflow engine technology [4] which addresses two current challenges of DSSs.
The first challenge is the ability to evaluate DSS modules prior to deployment. For seamless testing and deployment, it is beneficial to be able to easily switch the execution of a DSS module from prospective to retrospective mode. Traditionally, this problem has been solved by two approaches, both of them sub-optimal and requiring additional resources. The first approach involves deployment of the module at a pilot site prior to enterprise-wide deployment and fine tuning the logic directly within the deployment environment. The second approach is a separate side-project for each deployed module which extensively analyses the possible impact of the intended DSS module. This separate side-testing usually involves a separate DSS logic representation for such retrospective testing (compared to the deployment prospective version of the logic).
The second challenge is the ability of non-programming clinicians (as recipients, reviewers, maintainers, or authors of decision support) to understand and manipulate the logic of a given DSS module. From a perspective of non-programmers, it can also be described as a "black-box phenomenon." A clinician who cannot review in detail the logic of a given decision support system may be reluctant to adopt a system that he can not fully understand.
We were able to address the two above-mentioned challenges with a system called HealthFlow, which is an implementation of a workflow engine in the context of an EHR system. This software category article aims to provide implementation details for informaticians and champion clinicians at healthcare organizations that may be considering workflow engine technology to enhance their decision support functionality. We use the term clinical logic to encompass not only decision support problems, but also knowledge representation for domains of quality improvement and clinical research alerts [5]. The HealthFlow project is an effort to utilize a workflow editor and a cross-industry process definition standard to represent clinical logic and to use a workflow engine to execute such logic. Key objectives of the HealthFlow project are: (1) the ability to switch seamlessly from retrospective execution mode for prior-deployment testing to prospective mode; (2) the ability of non-programmers to review the executable logic in a user-friendly fashion (graphical, step-based flowcharts); and (3) the interoperability of the encoded executable logic across different healthcare institutions. The HealthFlow system described in this article consists of two components that share a set of common characteristics. We use the term RetroGuide for the retrospective mode of operation, and our initial work with workflow technology focused on modeling retrospective and analytical processes is presented elsewhere [6] (a comprehensive set of our desired functional requirements for a healthcare process modeling platform is published separately [7]). For the prospective component of the system, we use the term FlowGuide, and it was developed later as a distinct component within the HealthFlow project. The functional specification for the prospective component did not stem from a fixed set of initial requirements, but instead were an effort to maximize the use of functionality already included in a workflow technology suite.
Several prior studies report the use of workflow technology (WT) in healthcare, and we briefly survey some of these studies. Emanuele [8] presents the use of WT to improve infection control and proposed a term workflow-enabled EHR system, which can communicate bi-directionally with a Workflow Management System (WfMS); e.g., send EHR event notifications to the workflow engine and display in the EHR system tasks and alerts generated by the workflow engine. Quaglini et al [9] piloted the use of the Oracle workflow software suite to implement a stroke guideline. Their project used a non-standard and proprietary process definition language; the workflow engine generated tasks, and alerts were delivered to clinicians via email. Peleg [10] discusses the close relationship of current workflow engines with clinical decision support engines, and in collaboration with Mulyar [11, 12], compared existing guideline representation formats with workflow process definition standards using workflow patterns [13]. Finally, Haux [14] describes a commercial EHR system that tightly implements a workflow engine with clinical care information technology (IT) systems to enable advanced customization of many EHR functions to address local needs and utilize location-specific resources. The implementation presented in this article extends this prior work and proposes a prospective as well as retrospective operation mode of utilizing a workflow engine. Unlike previous implementation, it is also a solution that relies on established workflow technology standards rather then proprietary process definition languages. A later subsection of this article (architectural evaluation) further compares and analyzes workflow technology-based approach to decision support in comparison to other decision support platform using an architectural evaluation model [15]. In the following section, we present the architecture overview of our WT implementation, typical usage phases, how the system interfaces with available clinical data and healthcare environment, and a use case example.
Overview of the architecture
HealthFlow system is an implementation of a workflow management system (WfMS) [4]. Such a system offers the ability to model a process as a graphical flowchart in a workflow editor and execute such process in a workflow engine. A workflow process would contain steps involved in a given decision support problem (e.g., hypertension screening logic). We prefer to use the term scenario as a clinician-friendly synonym to a workflow process in order to better communicate the clinical context of a given workflow process definition.
We currently use Together Workflow Editor http://sourceforge.net/projects/jawe as our main editor for viewing and creating executable scenarios. HealthFlow utilizes a standard XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) which is a standard defined and maintained by Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC; http://www.wfmc.org/xpdl.html). Adherence to this standard avoids vendor lock-in problems (ability to switch to workflow suite from a different vendor). It also enables inter-institutional sharing of the modeled scenarios. Figure 1 shows a high-level class diagram of the XPDL standard with the root element of a workflow package containing individual process definitions. Key components of each process definition are applications, participants, activities, transitions, and variables [16]. Additional diagrams of the XPDL schema are presented in [Additional file 1].
XPDL standard. UML Class Diagram showing key XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) classes. Activities and transitions are key components which form a process definition. Additional process elements are applications, workflow variables and participants.
For scenario execution, we use Together Workflow Engine http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharkwf. Our existing implementation structurally relies on an open source workflow suite; however, it can also be implemented on more feature-rich, commercial, XPDL-compliant workflow suites (e.g., Tibco business process management platform from Tibco software (Palo Alto, CA, USA) or Fujitsu Interstage platform). We chose the XPDL standard over other workflow definition languages (e.g., Business Process Execution language (BPEL), [17]) or Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), [18]) because it has the widest adoption among the workflow system vendors [19]. Another advantage of the XPDL standard (in contrast to BPEL) was its ability to provide a corresponding graphical flowchart-like version of a processes definition in addition to a code-like version.
To provide an interface to clinical data and the EHR system as well as some other custom functionality, HealthFlow extends the workflow engine and editor with a set of small and modular external applications (EAs). The majority of the logic of the clinical scenarios and the key strengths of our implementation lie in using XPDL graphical flowchart constructs. External applications are used only when XPDL constructs are insufficient or for interfacing with other systems. In our current implementation, these lightweight and modular external applications are developed in Java, but other modalities are possible with most workflow management systems, such as a web service, a JavaScript script, or executables programmed in other programming languages. Also, these applications currently operate on a native HealthFlow event model, but it is possible to create versions of those applications that operate on other event models; for example event models and data structures of a vendor based EHR system, openMRS (Open Medical Records System, [20]), or HL7's vMR model (Virtual Medical Record [21]). For a detailed description and purpose of an event model, we refer the reader to Huff et al.'s work [22]. In pilot experiments, we have successfully demonstrated HealthFlow's ability to operate on an event model of version 1.3 of i2b2 (as represented in the i2b2 OBSERVATION_FACT table schema). i2b2 [23, 24] stands for Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside and it is an emerging platform for storing and querying EHR data, developed at Partners HealthCare with a grant from the National Institute of Health, USA. This proves that HealthFlow capabilities can be easily adopted by sites that converted and imported their data into an i2b2 repository. We use HealthFlow event model because it offers a more elaborate event structure than i2b2 native model (version 1.3 of i2b2). In HealthFlow event model certain common event characteristics are represented as native event data components (e.g., event type and event subtype), instead of using i2b2's event attributes structure. We further comment on the relationship of HealthFlow and i2b2 in the discussion section.
Similar to the event model, where HealthFlow EAs access EHR data, for final delivery of generated decision support content, it is important to provide similar interface via EAs to the host EHR system. Examples include the ability to modify or respond to action within EHR screens handling computerized order entry, problem list maintenance, results review, and treatment planning (referral and prescribing). In our work, we focused mostly on generation of decision support content and non-standardized basic delivery of this content at a single institution (e.g., daily batched delivery of generated content to a care coordinator role rather than scenarios with fully-developed and sophisticated alert delivery and usability logic). Ability to integrate into the EHR depends on the decision support platform but also on the host EHR. Peleg [10] defines this as a third level of decision support integration, and Emanuele and Koetter [8] use the term "workflow-engine enabled" EHR system when the EHR can communicate with a workflow engine by sending pertinent healthcare event data to the engine and conversely receive tasks generated by the engine.
Multiple complexity levels
Various decision support solutions (e.g., Arden Syntax [25], GLIF (Guideline Interchange Format, [3]), EON [26], ProForma [27]) have addressed with various degrees of success many challenges in DSS [10]. We would like to discuss two factors that we consider important: (1) a given DSS platform can support multiple levels of complexity on a complexity-functionality curve; and (2) a DSS platform provides a flexible interface to the outside-world. A common theme in DSS, since the days of Arden Syntax's curly braces problem [28], is the fact that a DSS platform must interface with external systems (e.g., EHR system or/and Clinical Data Repository). Dealing with external complexity may in fact require significantly more expertise then constructing the clinical logic itself. To achieve balance between complexity and functionality, we have designed the HealthFlow system to have three different levels of external complexity (basic, advanced, and ultimate). We refer to these three levels as HealthFlow usage levels because they entail multiple aspects. For example, a simple decision support problem can be fully captured on a basic usage level (e.g., obtain one most recent laboratory result for a single test, compare it to a critical threshold, and alert); whereas, a more complex logic operating with multiple parameters that may interact with each other, may require advanced or ultimate HealthFlow usage level. The first aspect of the usage level is the complexity and configurability of the external applications employed by the scenario flowchart. The second usage level aspect is the overall look of the scenario flowchart (e.g., basic usage level flowcharts [or flowchart steps] are easier to understand for non-programmers than flowcharts at the advanced or ultimate usage level). We discuss the three usage levels in greater detail in a later sub-section describing the external applications.
Three HealthFlow usage phases
The use of HealthFlow can be divided into three phases; (1) scenario creation, (2) scenario testing (RetroGuide), and (3) scenario deployment (FlowGuide). In most cases, phases 1 and 2 are repeated iteratively until the resulting scenario and HealthFlow-generated reports fully address the knowledge representation problem at hand. Depending on the nature of the project, the phase 2 scenario testing version may be deployed as a prospective module with no or small modifications. This ability directly addresses the first challenge we described in the introduction (ability to test clinical logic on retrospective data). In order to understand the relationship of the retrospective and prospective mode of HealthFlow operation, we must first explain the concept of a current temporal position in the EHR record. In retrospective mode (RetroGuide) the scenario consumes all available EHR events; it does not wait for an event to happen, but instead searches for it beyond the current temporal position. A data warehouse (or other comparable clinical data repository entity) is a primary component used in this mode, as it provides an optimized platform for searching through all historical clinical data. A given step in the scenario flowchart simply retrieves retrospective EHR data. For example, the step may contain logic to "find date of the next outpatient visit to pediatrics after discharge from hospital". In prospective mode (FlowGuide), however, the "future-oriented" scenario flowchart steps are switched to wait for a particular event to arrive via event listener. In this mode, the engine communicates directly with the EHR system in real-time. To illustrate this on the previous example of pediatric visit, the workflow engine would maintain a status of a scenario instance, which would be in paused mode, until a pediatric visit would happen. Figure 2 shows the overview of the architecture and depicts the two modes of operation. It shows that the FlowGuide component primarily interacts with an EHR system and point-of-care, whereas the RetroGuide component works with a data warehouse layer, and scenario conclusions (proposed prospective actions) are merely documented in a retrospective execution report and not sent to the point-of-care. Figure 2 also shows additional components of the architecture, such as the knowledge base consisting of process definitions (scenarios) and workflow editor. The set of HealthFlow modular external applications (EAs) is included in the additional external services box. The figure also includes (in gray) additional architectural components such as the event model and the ability to analyze workflow logs or obtain scenario definitions using workflow process mining techniques [29].
Implementation architecture. High-level diagram of the architecture of our implementation of the workflow engine (HealthFlow system). The key components are shown in bold. The workflow engine is bi-directionally connected to an EHR system layer. The left part shows a scenario knowledge base, authored within a workflow editor, and external services which include core HealthFlow external applications.
Before describing the individual phases, we need to more precisely define a HealthFlow scenario. A scenario, which is in workflow technology terms a fully executable workflow process definition, consists of two key layers: a graphical flowchart layer and a hidden code layer. The flowchart layer can be created and reviewed by users with limited programming expertise (e.g., champion clinicians or other non-expert requestors of a clinical logic module such as administrative and management level healthcare personnel or researchers). The code layer is hidden behind the nodes and arrows of the flowchart and contains references to modular applications that can (1) obtain EHR data (or listen/wait for them), (2) provide various analytical functions using any external technology, or (3) perform an action within an EHR system at the point-of-care (or document such action within a report when in retrospective mode). This hidden code essentially utilizes HealthFlow EAs, or it can call any external computer application or a web service. Finally, a HealthFlow scenario has yet an additional variable layer where relevant information can be passed between flowchart steps (e.g, average systolic blood pressure at age 60-65). We will describe each of the three HealthFlow phases in detail.
First phase: Scenario Development
The first phase of scenario development involves the creation of a sequence of steps, relying on HealthFlow's external applications. Each step is modeled as a node in a flowchart. Each node may contain the execution of one or more EAs. Arcs connecting the nodes represent the flow of logic. See figure 3 for an example scenario. Six additional scenario examples can also be found in [Additional file 2]. The graphical nature of a HealthFlow scenario facilitates collaboration between a (1) requestor (usually a clinician, but it can also be a researcher, administrator, or other domain expert) who develops the scenario using the graphical flowchart and the textual description fields that specify what each node or arc should perform, and the (2) collaborating knowledge engineer, knowledgeable about EAs, who makes the scenario executable by filling in the necessary computer-interpretable components.
Retrospective scenario flowchart example. Example of a RetroGuide osteoporosis scenario flowchart with analytical steps. This flowchart can operate on retrospective data because it does not require interaction with a clinician. All steps of the flowchart involve searching for a prior EHR event. The following logic is represented: (1) In patients with a fracture after age 65; (2) ensure female gender; (3) ensure that patient did not have a bone mineral density test performed; (4) ensure that no osteoporosis prevention drug has ever been prescribed; and (4) conclude that the patient is at increased risk for fractures.
Second phase: Scenario Testing (RetroGuide)
During the second scenario testing (RetroGuide) phase, the model is executed by the workflow engine using retrospective data from a set of patients (testing cohort). The scenario testing phase can be divided into two major steps: actual execution, and a reports review step. During the execution step, the workflow engine uses a single patient modeling and execution approach, where the scenario is run for each patient as an individual. Several reports are built during the execution step, capturing the execution trace of the scenario for each executed patient from the testing cohort. In addition to a single patient execution trace, data views are also provided to enable population view of the execution. Optional custom reports can also be built, documenting patients that satisfied certain combinations of steps or conditions (conclusion steps). The execution by default proceeds forward in time, and the concept of current position in the chart is important. The process is analogous to a human research abstractor performing manual chart review. The process is best understood by envisioning a robot that is browsing a chronologically ordered series of coded clinical events found in an EHR. The robot (RetroGuide) hypothetically starts at the first EHR event and advances through the record according to the flowchart step-wise instructions.
The second step of reports review involves the analysis of how well the HealthFlow scenario addresses the clinical problem or logic at hand. This is achieved by using HealthFlow data visualization components (see figure 2). Three main data views are available: summary report, detailed report, and individual patient view. HealthFlow summary report lists cohort-based statistical results, e.g., "How many cohort patients satisfied a particular scenario step, branch or condition?" The second, detailed report is patient-centered and offers additional details about scenario execution, e.g., exact values, timestamps and codes for individual EHR events investigated by the scenario. Finally, the third report offered by HealthFlow, the individual patient view (IPV), lists all EHR events for a particular patient. The review of selected patients within the detailed report and individual patient view is the basis for iterative improvements to the scenario logic. Several examples of scenario flowcharts and reports can be found on the HealthFlow project website http://healthcareworkflow.wordpress.com.
During retrospective testing, several aspects of the scenario are evaluated which are mainly oriented towards whether a meaningful decision support content is generated out of a proposed scenario logic:
What percentage of the initial testing cohort has an action/intervention alert generated?
This evaluation aspect is based on the assumption that a given new scenario checks certain clinical aspects of a patient which results in no action or intervention in compliant patients or some new action in non-compliant patients. In the first compliant case, the clinician's work is not changed and no interruptions occur. In the second non-compliant case, the clinician's work may be affected by one or several types of new actions. For example, new relevant information is being passively displayed, or the user is interrupted with a new data entry or choice selection dialog. In other words, if the scenario logic checks a quality improvement initiative and the non-compliant percentage of patients is too high (e.g., more then 50%), the new decision support content could be too aggressive, and other means of intervening may be chosen (e.g., quarterly educational intervention supported by peer-comparison and retrospective data review, rather then too frequent, point-of-care decision support). Similarly, if the number of affected patients is too low (e.g., less then 3%), it may not be cost effective to justify creation and costly enterprise maintenance of a new decision support content for this problem. However, this also depends on the severity of the clinical consequences in a non-compliant patient. Iterative review and changes to the trigger criteria, clinical logic thresholds, or number and types of possible output actions during this second RetroGuide phase can result in achieving an optimum balance between the projected impact of the new decision support module on clinicians, necessary information campaign about the new module, and significance of the new module's clinical domain.
Does the scenario logic perform similarly on additional testing cohorts (e.g., other geographic regions, different physician groups)?
The initial testing is usually done in a cohort suggested by the scenario requestor(s) (e.g., patients from a given clinic with certain trigger criteria). After basic scenario logic fine tuning, an integral part of the retrospective testing phase is execution on cohorts from other clinics or on an enterprise-wide cohort, to see whether the same logic can be deployed enterprise-wide, or whether the new logic will require more complex local customizations (e.g., same logic applied only in selected sub-populations [physician groups, regions, or patient groups]) or several versions of the logic with slight modifications for different contexts. In some implemented scenarios, retrospective testing in additional cohorts significantly influences the final logic, and the scenario authors are surprised with results of this testing and variability and number of possible data patterns in different populations. In such cases, there could be tens of iterations between scenario modifications and testing.
Do additional exclusion criteria need to be added, based on review of patients affected by the new logic?
For example, during retrospective testing of the newly proposed very high cholesterol patient scenario (patients with recent low-density lipoprotein [LDL] lab result of 190 mg/dL or more), we additionally excluded patients coming for oncology and/or optometry appointments based on the requestors clinical consensus. It is important to also note, that while review of retrospective results provides useful inputs, it may not cover all possible situations depending on the size of the retrospective cohort. It complements, but not eliminates, evaluation of the later prospective scenario deployment.
The functionality of the retrospective RetroGuide component of our workflow engine implementation can also be used as a standalone tool for flowchart-driven data analysis and is closely related to many cohort size estimation query tools [6]. However, the ability to use the same flowchart representation paradigm for retrospective as well as prospective execution mode distinguishes our implementation from many other research efforts. Additional examples and descriptions of the second RetroGuide phase can be found in published case studies on Hodgkin's lymphoma [30], hypertension [31], inpatient glucose control protocol [32], hepatitis C treatment and adverse drug events after use of narcotics [33], and osteoporosis and cholesterol control [34].
Third phase: Scenario Deployment (FlowGuide)
The third phase of scenario deployment (FlowGuide) uses the same framework as the retrospective RetroGuide phase, with a few exceptions. FlowGuide prospective scenario may be created from scratch (very uncommon) or can be based on a retrospective RetroGuide scenario (most frequent). We will focus our description on the second case and also explain what changes occur when a retrospective scenario is made to run prospectively. A FlowGuide scenario consists of five types of possible flowchart steps: trigger, background, analytical, listen, and action nodes. Two of the types, background and analytical nodes, are also present in retrospective RetroGuide scenarios. Trigger steps start the scenario. For example, a visit to rheumatology is scheduled for today or a surgical report is filed: there can be one or multiple trigger steps. Background steps find past events in the EHR (at runtime). For example, find earliest instance of rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis or find latest pharmacy record (prescription, renewal, or discontinuation) for a biologic agent such as infliximab. Analytical steps manipulate data obtained via previous flowchart steps. For example, based on average systolic blood pressure value, determine follow-up frequency criterion (every year or every two years). Listen steps wait for a given EHR event to occur in real time. For example, wait for a discharge event in a patient previously triggered by a surgical report creation. Listen steps share the same event data model with background steps. During retrospective-to-prospective scenario translation, listen steps are created from background steps by changing the mode from retrospective search scope (search for a specific past EHR event in a given patient) to waiting, prospective scope (wait until a specific event occurs to a given patient). Finally, action steps perform actions within a given EHR system (or other related system, e.g., Clinical Trial Management System). Actions may involve updating a report or registry, sending an email, generating an alert, creation of an order, or order cancellation. Full range of previously identified intervention types (notify, log, provide defaults, show guidelines, etc.) is supported with proper interface support of the intervention target system [35, 36]. During retrospective-to-prospective scenario translation, action steps are often created from conclusion steps by changing the action from 'retrospective report conclusion creation' to a particular prospective action. Although we emphasize the ability to test a given clinical logic retrospectively, it is important to note that not all possible prospective scenarios can be tested retrospectively. Prospective scenarios that contain manual human steps (e.g., prompt clinician for symptom severity) cannot be tested retrospectively because the new prospectively collected data are not present in the retrospective dataset used in RetroGuide mode. Limited testing may be performed if the scenario can be decomposed into smaller sub-scenarios which are fully functional on retrospective data.
HealthFlow External applications
We designed the HealthFlow system with several usage groups in mind. Our primary goal was to support the ability of a non-expert scenario requestor to passively understand the scenario logic and be able to review the logic. This also includes the ability to review any iterative changes to a scenario as it is being collaboratively authored by the requestor and the collaborating knowledge engineer. The scenario-reviewer role is mostly supported by the graphical nature of the scenario and the ability to use hierarchical arrangement of scenarios (i.e., a node may expand into multiple steps by using subflows). The secondary design goal was to also empower a non-expert requestor to even be the scenario-author, or to support very close requestor-knowledge engineer collaboration. To support a whole range of simple and complex functionality, we adopted an approach of several distinct HealthFlow usage levels (or complexity levels). This approach was inspired by historical development of the HealthFlow system, where we kept adding new, more complex, functionalities while also retaining their simpler versions for basic problems. Within this approach, we define three usage levels with increasing complexity: simple, advanced, and ultimate. A higher level can always utilize strategies and applications from all lower usage levels, and a given scenario may combine nodes (scenario steps) authored at different levels. During the last six years of developing the HealthFlow system, each usage level was populated with an initial set of external applications. However, each level can evolve and have additional capabilities added. The division into exactly three usage levels and functionality boundaries of each usage level are based on our analysis of existing HealthFlow scenarios, our interactions with scenario reviewers and authors, and system buy-in and training considerations (e.g., short training time and a favorable learning curve for simple problems, and non-expert users with the potential for more complex training and system use later).
The simple level uses EAs with a small number of parameters (zero, one, or two input parameters and one output parameter) which are easier to understand. A basic example of a simple EA is a lookup for patient gender using a step in a flowchart that contains an EA call of 'Patient_is_male()' and returns true if the patient is male, false if female, and null if gender information is not in the EHR. In a simple level, a separate EA is defined for each event type (total of 9 EAs, e.g., FindDiagnosis(ICDDxCode), FindLabResult(LabCode), FindVisit(AppointmentTypeCode)). Only a single event can be the result of a simple 'find event' instruction, and only a simple found/not found boolean output is available for scenario branching logic. All simple level EAs operate in a "strict pointer mode" which means that the hypothetical robot moves the current position pointer to the EHR position where its last step succeeded, or stays at the previous position if it failed. For example, a step using FindLabResult(LDL-cholesterol_code) after establishing the onset of lipid-lowering pharmacotherapy will return true if such follow-up test is found, and the current position pointer will move to a new EHR position. This behavior is similar to browsing and searching for events in a book; however, the pointer position can be manipulated by using "jumping" operations (e.g., JumpToLastEHREvent or JumpForwardXMonths).
The second, advanced level adds complexity to event finding operations by allowing greater granularity through more possible input and output parameters. In the advanced level, the current position pointer behavior can be modified to better fit user needs by enabling both strict and custom pointer modes. The custom pointer mode can restrict each find event operation with arbitrary time boundaries (usually defined in scenario variables). For example, FindCodedEvent with time boundaries of chronic kidney disease onset date to regular dialysis onset date: the outputs of advanced EAs are also extended and include all event properties such as event numeric value, coded value, or flag. Find event operation can return not just a single event, but also a set of multiple events, and the scenario can perform simple operations with these sets (e.g., use the count of events in the result set in branching logic such as if more than 3 dialysis events are found in the last 12 months since current or other arbitrary position). There is a total of 7 advanced EAs also with new types of applications added, such as EAs related to variables (AssignValueToVariable, IncreaseCounterVariable) and temporal EAs (EvaluateTwoTime-stampsDifferenceCriterion). Because of these additional capabilities, advanced level scenarios can be more complex to review for the requestor. The advanced usage level also offers the ability to export data generated within HealthFlow (using the HF-Export tool and CSV format) into external software packages (e.g., SAS or R). The export capacity is performed after scenario execution and could technically be part of any usage level, but is included in advanced level mainly for training purposes.
Thirdly, the ultimate level builds again on the previous levels and offers the ability to analyze averages and sums of numerical parameters of sets of events (e.g., average systolic blood pressure in a result set of a find operation). The ultimate version of the FindCodedEvent EA also supports the ability to use value sets derived from HealthFlow ontology and use terminology abstraction functionality. This enables it to use all children concepts (or only first degree children) with a particular relationship to a given term (most often the 'is_a' relationship). An example would be providing a concept code of a drug class (e.g., incretin mimetics) and let the HealthFlow ontology provide the enumeration of all current dispensable drugs in this drug class (e.g., exenatide, liraglutide, and taspoglutide). The ultimate level contains extended versions of some prior EAs and adds 4 new EAs and other model infrastructure dealing with retrospective to prospective transition (e.g., TriggerEventListener, RelevantEventListener). From a modeling perspective, the ultimate level also introduces the use of looping logic in a flowchart which may be required for some complex problems (e.g., determining onset of chronic kidney disease using laboratory criteria). Additional examples of EAs and their use can be found in previously published reports [33, 37].
Finally, it is important to note that the HealthFlow system can be further extended to achieve functionality which is not covered by the external applications included in the three levels above. This is done by programming new, problem-specific external applications. Such new EAs may provide 'de novo' functionality such as: (1) access a legacy system or data stored within a different data representation model; (2) call an external web service; or (3) provide interface to advanced analytical features (e.g., call an external reasoning engine such as Neural Network, Fuzzy Logic, Hidden Markov Model framework, or other paradigm that may provide superior capabilities in some domain [e.g., dealing with reasoning under uncertainty]). Creation of such problem-specific EAs involves custom programming and requires collaboration with a programmer.
An example use case
To illustrate HealthFlow use, it is perhaps best to operationalize it. Consider the following clinical scenario in osteoporosis care in women over the age of 67. Dr. Jones, a family medicine physician and a medical home initiative advocate, attends a conference where a case of a woman with repeated fractures after age 67 is described and recommended management options are emphasized (bone density testing and preventive administration of osteoporosis drugs). Upon returning from the conference, Dr. Jones wants to write a DSS module that would facilitate optimal care including the conference recommendations. He drafts an initial flowchart of this problem using a workflow process modeling tool. This tool enables Dr. Jones to model a sequence of analytical steps over EHR data and is easy to understand because it resembles a manual chart review. See figure 3 for the resulting initial flowchart.
Mr. Clark, a collaborating knowledge engineer, receives the process flowchart in an email (XPDL file) from Dr. Jones and extends the nodes of the process flowchart with elements that enable execution of the flowchart. Figure 4 shows an example of a dialog box within Together Workflow Editor that specifies execution and parameters for an EA.
External application example. A workflow editor dialog box showing node properties window within a workflow editor. Details of the bone density node from osteoporosis scenario are shown. Ultimate level FindEvent external application was used in this case allowing the knowledge engineer the largest flexibility. Bottom parts of the figure shows an XPDL element where scenario-step specific communication of the requestor with the knowledge engineer can be achieved.
To facilitate communication and consistency, the knowledge engineer preserves the structure of the flowchart (number of nodes, branches, and overall layout of the flowchart). The knowledge engineer then executes this extended process definition on a set of patients (e.g., 4000 females with a fracture) and emails back to Dr. Jones hyperlinks to web-based scenario retrospective execution reports (HealthFlow summary, detailed and IPV reports). Dr. Jones reviews the web-based reports and, based on a more detailed review of eight carefully selected patients, he identifies additional codes for bone density scores observed in the EHR of some of the patients. He decides to add a new process branch for a flagship family medicine center that is also collecting bone density Z and T scores in a structured EHR data entry form filled by medical assistants, which allows more specific decision logic within this branch. See figure 5 for the extended scenario. Several iterations of other process definition improvements occur, and Dr. Jones eventually concludes that the results of the retrospective fine-tuning of the process logic indicate that a meaningful and highly specific IT-intervention in a subset of osteoporosis patients is well justified. Dr. Jones uses the underlying process flowchart to share the analysis with his fellow physicians in the family practice clinic, who agree to a pilot deployment within their clinic. Dr. Jones sends the final executable scenario to the clinical decision support (CDS) team. The CDS team runs a transformation script against the process definition file which replaces all data retrieval process steps (which run against the data warehouse) with corresponding data retrieval calls that run against the production clinical data repository (CDR). The transformation script also changes the alerting/recommendation target from a retrospective execution report to a recommendation section within a patient dashboard screen in the EHR system. Since the logic prototyping was patient based (rather than population based), no other transformation for switching retrospective to prospective functionality is needed. During the pilot, colleagues of Dr. Jones can see new types of recommendations being generated, and they can click on the small view-logic-link next to the new recommendation. This view displays the same flowchart they were presented at their meeting with the highlighted route through the logic for a particular patient in question. The view offers them the ability to provide feedback linked to a specific node of the flowchart or to the flowchart as a whole.
Prospective version of the osteoporosis scenario. Extended logic for flagship facility A. The added branch ensures that even if the bone mineral density test is present, the scenario will continue to evaluate the patien's medications if the density score indicate further action is needed. Notice that only the branches which make the scenario proceed need to be addressed. E.g., no branch for female = = false is needed.
Other components of the HealthFlow system
Event Model
The event model used by the HealthFlow system is based on decomposition of EHR data into events described by Huff et al [22]. There are two event models supported: basic and extended. The three levels of EAs included in HealthFlow (simple, advanced, and ultimate) utilize the basic model. The extended model can accommodate any event structure, and in order to utilize it, custom EAs at the extended level have to be programmed. For example, we have piloted the use of the i2b2 event model.
We further describe only the basic model. At the beginning of our workflow engine implementation project, our requirement was to create a simple event model that can cover 80% of the possible use cases, rather than an elaborate and comprehensive model. For example, the basic event model does not support the ability to recursively add additional event attributes outside of the provided basic set of event properties defined. The structure of the basic model has the following key event characteristics: patient_id, event date and timestamp, event type, event subtype, observation and coded value, value numeric, and value text. Additional characteristics are flag code, terminology2 code, and sequence_id. Each coded field has a corresponding code column and textual description column. An example of several observations (using only description fields) is provided in table 1. Figure 6 shows the event structure in an entity relationship diagram together with the ontology structure.
Event schema example
EV_TIME (ev_time)
EVENT TYPE (evtype_desc)
SUBTYPE (evsbtype_desc)
OBSERVATION (obs_desc)
CODED VALUE (cd_val_desc)
FLAG (flg_desc)
VAL_NUM (val_num)
TERM2_CD (term2_cd)
TERM2_DESC (term2_desc)
Birth event
ICD-9-CM Diseases
ROTATOR CUFF SYND NOS
ICD-9-CM Procedures
ROTATOR CUFF REPAIR
CPT-4
Inj, fentanyl citrate
ARTHROSCOPY OF JOINT
Clinical Text Data
Operative Report
Standard Lab Data
Cholesterol, Plasma Quant.
Higher Than Normal
Urine Mi-croscopics
Epithelial Cells, Urine
Problem Event
Patient Order
Pharmacy order
Meperidine Hcl, 50 Mg/Ml, Ampul
Nurse Note
203.1.10.3.1.10.1.0
PURPOSEFUL MOVEMENT
Inpatient Drug
ELECTROLYTES (NUTRILYTE) 42.9 ML, VIAL
Discharged
Only selected sample events are shown. Dates are fictional and only textual meanings of codes are shown. The "ev_time" column shows the event time, the next four columns contain the basic four attributes (type, subtype, exam, coded value), followed by the flag and numeric value columns. Corresponding columns in the HealthFlow database schema (see figure 6) are shown in brackets in column headings. Only the event time and type attributes are required for all events. The last two "Term2" columns are used for storing external terminology original codes.
HealthFlow event and ontology schema. HealthFlow data model schema showing the event table linked to the ontology table. For events table examples, see table 2.
Our workflow engine implementation, similar to other clinical informatics systems, needs a standard way of representing coded clinical concepts. Chosen representation approach has a high impact on semantic interoperability of individual scenario steps, and to ensure that we strive to utilize, as much as possible, existing and widely-spread terminologies. HealthFlow uses an internal native ontology that can accommodate standard established terminologies such as International Classification of Diseases (ICD) or Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), as well as local, proprietary ontologies. It supports any relationships among two concepts; however, the most important relationship is an "is_a" relationship. The HealthFlow ontology model also allows a concept to have multiple parents via the same or different relationship. For example, the ICD-9 code for 'prolonged depressive reaction' can have one parent of psychiatric disorder and also be part of the depression Healthcare Effectiveness and Data Information Set (HEDIS) value set. Another example would be the concept atenolol can have an 'is_a' relationship to a beta blocker concept and a 'has_indication' relationship to the hypertension concept. This enables the ontology to support the search for drugs that are indicated for a given disease (e.g., hypertension) as well as by drug class (e.g., beta blocker).
In our current implementation, we have ICD-9-CM and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) standard terminologies loaded. Included proprietary terminologies are local lab codes, local diagnostic codes, and local codes for medical specialties and vendor-supplied drug terminology. Additional relationships included for user convenience are HEDIS tables covering ICD-9 diagnostic value sets. Ontology relationships can be used only when ultimate EA sets are used. Our experience with requestors indicates that many of them are not interested in utilizing complex terminology structures and prefer directly enumerating concepts of interests for a given scenario step. Figure 7 shows the HealthFlow ontology web-based browser displaying first degree children of the is_member relationship of the HEDIS concept of AMM-A value set (Antidepressant Medication Management, table A: diagnostic codes to identify major depression).
Ontology browser. Example showing HealthFlow internal ontology structure. This web-based applications allows the user to navigate concept children (HEDIS value set for depression diagnostic codes is shown). CCD abbreviation denotes a concept code.
Current implementation at Marshfield Clinic
The workflow engine and the additional components of the HealthFlow system have been fully implemented at Marshfield Clinic (MC), and the system works in real time. We have created the necessary event listener (see figure 2) for MC's EHR (CattailsMD™). Both major components (RetroGuide as well as FlowGuide) are operational.
Under an approved RetroGuide Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocol, 40+ different scenarios were modeled by several analysts (see [Additional file 2] for examples) resulting in more than 360 execution reports being available in the RetroGuide project table. A RetroGuide scenario is usually tested on a cohort of 500 to 5,000 patients which is drawn from a larger sample of 75,000 patients. This larger de-identified cohort contains a total of 145 million coded EHR events. Table 2 shows an overview of selected event types such as diagnoses, procedures, laboratory results, and other structured EHR data. To demonstrate the ability to share decision support logic at a flowchart level, we have uploaded example scenarios to a decision support community wiki http://www.clinfowiki.org/wiki/index.php/HealthFlow.
Coded EHR events statistics
EHR event type
Diagnosis (ICD)
Procedure (CPT)
Textual report
Structured EHR value
Cancer History
Death (confirmed)
The table presents counts of events by type from the larger set of 75,000 patients used for sub-setting smaller testing cohorts for RetroGuide scenarios.
Under a separate FlowGuide IRB protocol, where real time EHR data is being used to model prospective scenarios, we are currently conducting a validation study of FlowGuide generated alerts in clinical domains of cholesterol management and rheumatoid arthritis. The current scenarios are designed to look at sub-populations of patients (e.g., patients with a history of LDL cholesterol above 190 mg/dL) and are triggered by the presence of a scheduled appointment event for the next day relative to the execution time. With the two deployed scenarios, the FlowGuide system daily processes between 150 and 400 patients and generates recommendations on 7.5% of them who are subject to the currently ongoing alert validation study.
In addition to the implementation at MC, several RetroGuide scenarios were executed against data from Intermountain Healthcare in the past (see [6] for full overview). The tested clinical domains included female Hodgkin's lymphoma patients, hypertension in diabetics, glucose management in intensive care unit patients, adverse drug events after use of narcotics, hepatitis C, osteoporosis, and cholesterol control. Three of those domains were also executed within RetroGuide using EHR data from Marshfield Clinic; so for three scenarios we demonstrated the ability to execute the same logic at two institutions.
Formal, user-based evaluation
We have conducted a formal evaluation study of the HealthFlow flowchart-based modeling paradigm (retrospective mode only). In this evaluation, we used a group of 18 non-expert subjects in laboratory settings in a mixed method design. We quantitatively compared, by measuring their performance on a test, the ability of subjects to solve query problems using flowcharts against a traditional code-based structured query language (SQL) representation. The test included 9 task questions and 5 choice questions. In a task question, the subject had to create a solution for a given search task. For example, task T4 was "Find all patients who had at least 2 creatinine lab results flagged as too high." In a choice question that evaluated the ability to review a solution, the subject was shown an initial solved problem and was asked to choose from one of the three presented solutions which correctly extends the initial solution with additional query elements. In another example, the extended task C5 was "Find all patients who experienced the initially mentioned adverse drug event (naloxone and transfer to ICU within 6 hours) and also had a record of sleep apnea diagnosis prior to this adverse drug event."
In a follow-up qualitative study, we investigated technology acceptance of the flowchart-based representation paradigm using the UTAUT model (Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology) [38]. A detailed description of the design and results of this evaluation has been published separately [6]. The quantitative results indicated that non-experts achieved significantly higher scores in problem solving using flowcharts-based technology as compared to a purely code-based technology. The flowchart-based technology had on average 4.8 points higher test scores (SD = 1.8, CI 3.3-5.4; p < 0.0001) on a scale of 0-14 points. The qualitative follow-up study results showed that 94% of the subjects preferred flowcharts to code because it was easier to learn, it better supported temporal tasks, and it seemed to be a more logical modeling paradigm.
Architectural evaluation
In addition to this laboratory evaluation, we also looked at the workflow engine implementation in comparison to other decision support architectures. We used a previously published evaluation framework [15] (referred to as CDS-EF = Clinical Decision Support architecture - Evaluation Framework) for this architectural evaluation. This evaluation framework has been previously applied to Arden Syntax, GLIF, SAGE [39], SEBASTIAN [40], and SANDS (service-oriented architecture for decision support [15, 41]). We briefly comment on each of the CDS-EF elements of (1) feature determination, (2) existence and use, (3) utility, and (4) coverage.
(1) Feature determination: HealthFlow was developed with numerous CDS-EF's desirable features in mind, and it evaluates favorable against them. Specifically, HealthFlow:
Is shareable, because it is based on a cross-industry workflow standard.
Maintains DSS content separate from EHR code by using a workflow management layer running on top of an EHR system.
Content integrates into workflow by directly utilizing WfMC's model for modeling participants roles and building on the concept of tasks and worklist handlers [16].
Supports event driven CDS through modeling appropriate triggers in a process definition and sending corresponding EHR system event data to the workflow engine.
Supports non-event driven CDS through pull requests originating from non-event-driven systems, such as dashboards or reporting applications.
Avoids vocabulary issues by implementing a flexible ontology layer and also through the ability to call external terminology services via external applications.
Enables composition of rules because XPDL language allows subflows where a given piece of logic can be re-used in multiple scenarios
Allows black-box services where a scenario can invoke via multiple mechanism (most likely via a web-service call) an external inference service without exposing its underlying inner logic to the underlying WfMS
Has free choice of programming language since scenario-referenced external applications can be written in any language if they comply with the XPDL-defined standard interfaces.
(2) Existence and use: CDS-EF proposes a four level spectrum for evaluating the existence and use axis ranging from theoretical discussions (level 1) through widespread adoption (level 4). With RetroGuide, we achieved level 3 - advanced prototypes that demonstrate sharing of decision support content across sites. We were able to demonstrate running the same XPDL logic against data from two healthcare institutions (Intermountain Healthcare and Marshfield Clinic). However, when we consider workflow technology-based process modeling as a general technology, it also reaches level 4 (implementation in commercial EHR systems) when we include examples from Siemens [14] and other case studies [42].
(3) Utility: The CDS-EF distinguished two faces of utility: clinical utility and functional utility. Clinical utility is the ability to use a decision support architecture to deliver clinically relevant outputs. HealthFlow's clinical utility is determined by the clinical utility of the use cases implemented in it. To date, implemented use cases were in the domains of retrospective prototyping of decision support logic, identifying opportunities for interventions that would improve compliance with healthcare quality improvement measures, modeling enrollment or outcome-tracking logic for clinical trials, and finally validation of prospectively generated decision support alerts in four clinical domains.
Functional utility is the ability of an architecture to support a variety of different kinds of clinical decision support. Selected functional utility aspects of our workflow engine implementation are:
Developer (non restrictive technical architecture): XPDL is an open, non-proprietary and evolving standard which covers a robust set of workflow patterns.
User (wide range of possible DSS target users): a HealthFlow scenario can include steps for various roles ranging from clinician, administrator, as well as patient (e.g., via personal health record)
Information source (retrieval of data from any system): XPDL's ability to call external systems and applications ensures ability to obtain data from any knowledge or data source.
Clinical purpose (support for full range of potential use cases): processes defined in a workflow engine are not restricted to a particular use case and, depending on the host EHR, can complement diagnostic as well as therapeutic scenarios for a single patient or for a population of patients, and can be delivered as a passive information display as well as active interaction with a clinician at the point of care
The described workflow engine implementation evaluates favorably against the remaining functional utility parameters of supporting several inference types, ability to combine scenarios via subflows, and can be implemented in various business models.
(4) Coverage: The final element of the CDS-EF is the ability of a decision support architecture to encode clinical knowledge in comparison to other approaches. This final evaluation element is based on a taxonomy derived from a set of 7,120 rules [35] implemented at some point at Partners healthcare system. The taxonomy represents a set of functionality features, which many recent DSS architectures such as SANDS [41], use as a minimum required functionality set. Our HealthFlow DSS architecture was specifically extended to be able to support 100% of possible modalities within the four categories in the taxonomy. However, it is important to note, that this compliance assumes that a target EHR supports all aspects of the HealthFlow active and passive EHR interaction model (see figure 2).
In this paper, we have described our implementation of workflow technology for the purpose of clinical decision support. Our implementation addresses the problem of retrospective testing and user-friendly flowchart representation of the clinical logic. We have described the use of this framework on multiple case studies at two institutions and results of two evaluations. We will first look at advantages and disadvantages of our architecture in general, as well as the currently used software (Together workflow editor and engine). Finally, we will discuss the relationship of workflow technology to query systems and look at possible future developments and long-term relationship of workflow technology to decision support engines.
Strengths and limitations of our architecture
Unlike many existing decision support frameworks that introduce healthcare specific knowledge representation standards (for example SAGE [39], GLIF [3], ProForma [43] or SANDS [41]), our implementation relies on a cross-industry workflow technology architecture and open, well-defined XPDL standard. We see this as a major advantage since the workflow technology software tools may improve in time based on usage in other industries such as manufacturing, shipping, banking, and insurance industries. Future enhancement to workflow editors, engines, and other tools are thus not driven by healthcare alone. The use of a standard workflow representation language (XPDL) also ensures that clinical scenario logic developed at one healthcare institution can be used directly (or with little modification) at another healthcare institution. Moreover, by utilizing a standard workflow definition language, it is possible to use different underlying workflow engines or editors at different institutions.
One limitation of our approach is the readability of very complex scenarios. While every new technology offers some advantages and simplifies a view of complex problems, there is an absolute limit to any such simplification. Flowchart-based graphical representation of very complex algorithms will, in extreme cases, naturally result in a very complex flowchart. Hence, the advantage of transparency of a graphical format may not be apparent. This limitation can be alleviated by using a hierarchical arrangement of scenarios where a node in a higher lever flowchart expands into a sub-flow which may consist of multiple steps. Long and complex scenarios can thus be reduced to fewer, high-level flowchart nodes that group related analytical steps. The complexity problem can also be addressed by shifting some of the logic away from a flowchart into a single rule-based node, that calls a comprehensive rule-base or other expert system. In many implemented scenarios, however, we often chose to represent as much logic as possible using the flowchart and XPDL constructs (e.g., interim decision state nodes and strict use of transition conditions) to preserve a clinician-friendly scenario review.
Strengths and limitations of currently used workflow suite
Workflow suite developed by Together was the leading open-source workflow software available when we started our workflow technology implementation project, and it continues to be the most robust, XPDL-compliant workflow suite today. For the editor component, there are two main advantages. The first is the ability to customize functionality for a particular use case because the product is open-source and the code is available to download. This enabled us to implement the flowchart display feature on HealthFlow summary report by calling a flowchart rendering sub-component into our visualization component. The second advantage is an implementation of the flowchart notation that does not require the use of a separate join and split node for flowchart branches, [44] which makes the resulting flowcharts simpler to review. A disadvantage of the editor is implementation of the XPDL 1.0 standard instead of the most recent 2.1 version, although this is on the project future roadmap. For user-friendly editing, the editor also lacks ability to change size of the flowchart boxes, use custom colors and fonts, annotate flowchart with additional notes visible in the graphical flowchart, and streamline creation of subflows by selecting a set of nodes in the existing flowchart.
As for the engine component, a major advantage is the ability to deploy the Together Workflow Engine on multiple operating systems (Windows and Linux) and interact with it via several platforms (stand-alone, within JBOSS container, or as a set of integrated web-services). A key disadvantage, in general, is the focus of the engine on a set of configurable and programmable components rather than one integrated and compact product. For example, to link the event listener with the engine, we had to create two small pieces of software that materialize the link between the engine with our Event listener (see figure 2) for trigger steps and listen steps for FlowGuide. Also, there are no robust tools provided for exporting or detailed analysis of the workflow logs of past processes, which we achieved by analyzing the internal database of the Together workflow engine. Finally, we have also encountered clinical scenarios where we wanted to enable multiple entry points into the decision logic, which is functionality possible within some medicine-specific guideline standards (e.g., GLIF). An XPDL process model can formally have only one starting point; however, it is possible to solve the problem with one additional dummy workflow node that is connected via an additional logic of trigger conditions, and the logic flow is thus routed to the desired later start point in the flowchart. The resulting flowchart is, however, somewhat cluttered with extra transitions resulting from such a solution.
Relationship to query systems
Although HealthFlow's main focus is on deployment of clinical logic with impact at the point of care, it can also be used as a query technology - using strictly the retrospective mode and only the RetroGuide component. RetroGuide could then be compared to cohort estimation (or query building) tools such as i2b2's query component [45] or STRIDE (a proprietary patient cohort discovery tool developed at Stanford university [46]). The key difference with such tools is that RetroGuide execution strategy is to process each patient separately, which mimics how a decision support module works (on a single patient, instead of a population). This factor is important when some complex query elements are considered. The problem can be described as inter-element parameter passing and the ability to create and manipulate interim constructs (e.g., LDL cholesterol value prior treatment). Any query tool decomposes a query problem into simpler query elements. For example, a query of finding female patients with fractures would be decomposed into two elements: (1) female gender and (2) fracture event. In this example, query elements are independent of each other. However, computation of certain temporal problems or relative value comparisons makes some query elements depend upon results of prior query elements. For example, a query targeted at regular thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) screening compliance in patients on levothyroxine requires determination of levothyroxine therapy onset (defined as first two levothyroxine pharmacy pick-ups within a 6 month window), and passing of this time parameter to later evaluation for regular TSH lab tests in the following 12-month time window until the patient's present visit. An additional problem with the element dependency phenomenon is that the dependency is usually on a patient level, rather than on a population level (which is a problem for query tools that ultimately translate the query into a single SQL-based, populational query, and which may lack support user-defined interim constructs).
An example of relative value comparison is the problem of detecting a clinically significant response to depression therapy: "find patients with initial PHQ-9 score of 15 or more, who in subsequent testing after a therapeutic intervention lowered their score by at least 50%" (parameter passed: initial PHQ-9 score). Notice that the problem is different for different patients (e.g., 16 reduced to 8, 24 reduced to 12) and it can only be solved with a somewhat complex population-based SQL query using interim tables and is not easily solvable with most SQL-based query tools [24]. Another temporal example is to "find patients who had a bone mineral density test prior to their first hip fracture episode" (parameter passed: date of first hip fracture). Ability to represent temporal logic is often listed in desired features of many query tools; however, it can be considered a special case of what we define in a more general sense as inter-element parameter passing.
Our workflow technology implementation, which builds on a procedural and flowchart-based paradigm rather than a declarative language, would be able to solve such problems because (1) it can utilize variables for inter-elements parameter passing (e.g., initial PHQ-9 score), and (2) it has a built-in single patient execution level. Query tools utilizing mostly SQL representation logic can only solve such problems when an interim construct feature is present. However, most tools do not support such pre-processing within their graphical user interface (GUI), and it needs to be done by a programmer (see Deshmukh's evaluation of i2b2 search tool for examples of pre-processing in i2b2 [24]).
Another unique aspect of the workflow technology process-based approach can be described as GUI-unrestricted creativity. In most query building tools, the user usually constructs a query by combining a fixed set of query features built into a particular user interface, such as business intelligence authoring tools or Microsoft Access query wizard. Such user interface can also involve additional query metaphors such as Venn diagrams or PubMed-like advanced search combining interim search steps with logical operators (e.g., (#4 OR #8) AND #13). The set of graphical GUI features, or widgets, is always finite and the non-expert user is restricted to this set of features within a GUI-based query building tool. A chosen graphical metaphor of the query building tool may not support all necessary query elements. (e.g., within patient aggregation combined with other query elements: average systolic blood pressure 5 years prior to start of hypertension pharmacotherapy). This is in contrast to a direct authorship of the query code method employed by an experienced programmer who uses the same underlying query language as the GUI tool, however, is able to overcome some of the restricted widget set problems. In many tools there is an option for dual or combined interface for query authoring, so the difference may not be apparent in basic query tasks. However, the advanced nature of some tasks created via direct code authorship often breaks the link between these two corresponding representations (graphical and code representation) paradigms. Whereas it is almost always possible to transform GUI-authored changes into the code form, the tool (e.g., business intelligence tools) may not always support the ability to transform changes made directly in the code back to the graphical user interface representation form.
The workflow process, flowchart-like modeling paradigm is trying to retain a user friendly look for non-experts and still offer the unrestricted creativity of a direct code authorship, using a hybrid form combining both aspects of graphical and code paradigm. In a traditional search tool GUI, a new solution opens with a screen with a limited number of widgets or language constructs. Whereas, in creating a representation of a new clinical logic problem, he or she is facing a blank-sheet-of-paper paradigm as opposed to a screen with a limited set of buttons or features.
Future directions in workflow technology and relationship to decision support engines
Workflow technology suites have evolved substantially since the creation of the Workflow Management coalition family of workflow standards. We expect this trend of feature improvement of workflow suites to continue, and we plan to incorporate such improvements into our implementation. For example, several prior scenario display disadvantages (such as direct display of transition conditions in the flowchart, improved storage of flowchart layout, and several new interface customizations) were addressed in a recent upgrade from version 2 to version 3 of Together Workflow Editor. Besides incorporating further improvement in workflow technology, our future work is focused on demonstrating recursion and loops functionality, better utilization of workflow-engine generated process logs in addition to existing HealthFlow summary and detailed reports, providing more options for interacting with the EHR system in the prospective execution mode, wrapping some of HealthFlow's capabilities into a web service accepting an HL7's Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) EHR data, demonstrating portability of the XPDL format with additional vendors, and additional cognitive evaluation of the flowchart-based problem representation paradigm.
From looking at the development of healthcare-specific decision support engines and workflow technology, it is also clear that these two technologies overlap significantly [10]. Almost all healthcare-specific decision support engines implement, to some extent, workflow features; for example, representation of roles and individuals within an organization, or worklist handler functionality. Conversely, most workflow engines suites or specific site-implementations increasingly incorporate more decision support oriented features; for example, seamless integration of a rule based engine. Both of these trends are naturally motivated by the simple fact that both reasoning capabilities (support for workflow as well as for decision making trade-offs or complexities) are needed in healthcare. Vendors of both technologies are well aware of this overlap, and in the future we can expect more feature-rich and integrated engines. From a software terminology perspective, we can perhaps even expect a new software system term, such as comprehensive reasoning engine, which will explicitly describe a combined decision support and workflow engine. Another possible future scenario is that one technology may dominate or even completely subsume the other.
Comparison to other decision support formalisms
The main focus of our article has been on describing an open-source workflow engine implementation; however, because of the application domain of decision support, we briefly comment on the relationship to some healthcare-specific decision support or executable guidelines formalisms [47]. For a detailed discussion of this topic, we refer the reader to Peleg's analysis in a book chapter titled 'Guidelines and workflow models' [10] of recent DSS books and recent guidelines review studies [12, 48, 49]. Peleg [10] defines a subgroup of decision support formalisms referred to as task-network models, which include a graphical metaphor for representing clinical logic. This subgroup is most relevant to a workflow engine implementation relying on an XPDL standard which also natively includes a graphical flowchart layer. Peleg includes in this group the following representation formats: Asbru [50], closely related format group consisting of EON, PRODIGY [51] and GLIF, GUIDE/NewGUIDE [52], SAGE, ProForma [53] and GLARE [54]. Many of these formats have considerable strengths in modeling workflow and offer more sophisticated medicine-specific modeling constructs. We briefly comment on differences and the relationship of our HealthFlow system implementation to some of these formats. Compared with Asbru, HealthFlow does not include any tools for transforming textual guidelines into executable form. Compared with the GLIF group of formats, HealthFlow does not distinguish between the two flowchart types of action map (with physical steps) and decision map (reasoning steps) and lack several other medicine-specific reasoning extensions of those formats. GUIDE/NewGuide format is probably the most related to HealthFlow because it includes a workflow management system from Oracle [55]. In contrast to ProForma, HealthFlow lacks constructs for rule-in, rule-out logic [56] that was later adopted by many other medicine-specific formats. Unlike many academic-driven formats, ProForma evolved into a commercially supported platform [57] which is also the case with workflow engine technology. Finally, in contrast to numerous medicine-specific formats, the XPDL language and our HealthFlow workflow engine implementation does not include any built-in support for uncertainty. The existing implementation operates strictly on coded EHR concepts where all utilized facts are considered fully valid and only in cases where significant data unreliability is suspected by scenario authors, the scenario logic may include some additional information validation steps (e.g., minimum of two billing diagnostic codes). However, in some scenarios, we are considering inclusion of steps with natural language processing of free-text medical reports. Such scenarios would obviously have to deal with some uncertainty measure and the HealthFlow extensibility feature via new EAs or external engines would most likely be utilized where XPDL-based flowchart paradigm would be insufficient. However, some approach to uncertainty would also have to be adopted by the host EHR system, and currently there is only limited support for this in our institution's retrospective data or EHR system (e.g., uncertainty constructs within the problem list management or treatment planning).
The described software enables modeling and execution of clinical decision support problems and addresses two important challenges of retrospective testing and user-friendly flowchart representation. Additional advantages are extensibility via using external applications, native single patient execution, ability to handle temporal logic, ability to define and later use interim constructs, and code-like, unrestricted logic creation paradigm. Using a cross-industry workflow technology and open source and freely available components, we were able to create a decision support platform which evaluates well against an established clinical decision support architecture evaluation framework.
The workflow engine technology implementation described above can be implemented at other institutions. The article describes fully the necessary architecture and software components. The utilized workflow editor and engine are open-source and free for non-commercial use (GNU General Public License (GPL)). The Together Workflow Engine (Community Edition) is freely available for download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharkwf under the GPL v3 license. The Together Workflow Editor is also freely available for download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/jawe under the GPL v3 license. Complete source code is also available for download for both components. Installation of the workflow editor and review of scenarios is a simple task on any Linux, Windows, or Mac computer with Java Development Kit (JDK). A no-installation editor edition (Java webstart) is also available. Installation and configuration of the workflow engine requires some technical experience and can be done on a Linux or Microsoft Windows server or a workstation with JDK version 5.0 (1.5.0.11 or above), JBoss Application Server 4.2.x GA, and a database (such as MySQL Community Server version 5.1 or above). In our installation, we use the JBoss implementation of the engine, but it can also run on other J2EE platforms (e.g., TomCat, WebLogic) or as a stand-alone Java application, and it can be accessed via several possible APIs (application programming interfaces). Workflow engine administration is performed via a Java administration tool or a web-based application. Together workflow engine can also be linked with an existing LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server for user authentication, user groups and organizational structure. Libraries and documentation for the HealthFlow specific components are freely available at http://code.google.com/p/healthflow under the GNU General Public License. Healthcare institutions implementing the above-described framework may use the provided examples of decision support logic modules (see [Additional file 2] and project website) or create new modules that specifically address their local decision support needs or more adequately integrate with their local organizational context and clinical user roles.
We would like to thank numerous individuals at Marshfield Clinic and Intermountain Healthcare for their help and contribution to this work; the main implementation was carried out during VH's stay at Marshfield Clinic. We thank collaborating programmers Luke Rasmussen and Ryan Oberg, and Roberto Rocha and Scott Narus for contributing to the design and evaluation of the RetroGuide component. The authors wish to thank the reviewers for their constructive comments and Marie Fleisner for manuscript editing help. VH received support from Morgridge Institute for Research. This work was also partially supported by grant 1UL1RR025011 from the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program of the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health.
12874_2010_553_MOESM1_ESM.DOC Additional file 1: Additional XPDL standard schema diagrams. Additional file 1 contains detailed diagrams of the XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) as defined by the Workflow Management Coalition standard. (DOC 88 KB)
12874_2010_553_MOESM2_ESM.DOC Additional file 2: Additional examples of HealthFlow Scenarios. Additional file 2 contains six additional examples of HealthFlow scenarios, including the rheumatoid arthritis scenario deployed currently in production at Marshfield Clinic for the currently ongoing HealthFlow validation study. (DOC 552 KB)
VH conceived the study and planned the initial architecture. VH and LVR were involved in configuring the workflow engine and editor and development of site specific components. All of the authors participated in the study design, coordination, and in preparing the written manuscript.
Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI, USA
Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, WI, USA
Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone meet fans at Cineworld Feltham Exclusive Report
Movies, News, Slider, Stars | August 1, 2013 | | by Bodrul Chaudhury
Continuing on with their promotions for Chennai Express in London, Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone attended Cineworld Feltham on Wednesday night, where they met and interacted with their die-hard fans. Thousands turned up to take part in this rare opportunity to see Shah Rukh and Deepika in person and the crowds stretched from all the way outside the popular cinema, which is known for hosting many other Bollywood events in the past. Interestingly, a number of fans came from other parts of the world in order to meet the two Bollywood superstars, which included California, Mumbai and even Chennai!
The event was hosted by BBC Asian Network’s Anushka Arora, where she managed to create lots of energy and hype amongst fans. The event saw some light entertainment prior to the stars arriving, where a group of Punjabi musicians played the dhol drums to please the crowd. Yet it comes as no surprise that fans went absolutely crazy when Shah Rukh and Deepika entered the building. Both did their very best to sign autographs, pose for pictures and shake hands with their loving fans.
Subsequent to interacting with the fans, Shah Rukh and Deepika came on stage to say a few words. “Thank you very much everyone,” said Shah Rukh. I would like to send my heartfelt thanks to Cineworld Feltham for hosting us tonight. And I would especially like to thank you all (the fans) for making us the stars that we are.”
“Good evening everyone,” said Deepika. “I’m really excited and happy that I got the opportunity to come to London. I really hope that you enjoy watching the movie, as much as we had fun making it.”
Both Shah Rukh and Deepika also performed some of the popular dialogues from Chennai Express on stage. Shah Rukh said “Mere dictionary mein ‘impossible’ ka shabd hi nahin.” Deepika responded by saying, “Achcha. Kahan se kahridiya aisi bakwaas dictionary!” They also rocked the stage by dancing to the song ‘1234…Get on the Dance Floor.’ The crowds went absolutely mental after watching the two grooving to this very peppy number, which has become a hit both in India and overseas.
BollySpice also spoke to some of the fans at the event in order to get a sense as to why they took the time to make the trip down to Cineworld Feltham to see Shah Rukh and Deepika. Asad from Hounslow, London said the following. “I’m here to see Shah Rukh because he’s my role model and idol and my dream is to be an actor like him. Also, I’m here to see Deepika because she’s so beautiful and amazing.” Susan, who is also from London, told us what she is looking forward to the most about Chennai Express. “Right from Om Shanti Om to this, when they (Shah Rukh and Deepika) are working together it’s just perfect!” When we asked Asad and Susan what their favourite Shah Rukh and Deepika films are, both gave us only one answer each which was Om Shanti Om. No doubt, most fans will be looking forward to seeing the two in action again with Chennai Express!
It can be safely said that of all the events that have been hosted at Cineworld Feltham, this one tops the charts in terms of turnout levels, as well as when it comes to entertainment!
Chennai Express releases this Eid on 9 August 2013!
Check out the exclusive video and pictures from the event.
Bodrul Chaudhury
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THE WRONG NUMBERS OF BELL
The Bell Does Not Toll For Me
It was called Ma Bell in the old days. Not because its service was so great. It was just seen as a good investment for widows.
Today, people are wondering whether they should still have land lines from companies like Bell or go completely with their cell phones. Ma Bell lost her charms years ago.
Occasionally I wonder why Bell still survives when you consider how inept they are when there's trouble on the line or no dial tone at all.
I've just spent nearly two weeks without phone service at home despite the $6.95 I pay monthly for something called Wire Care Maintenance Plan. Since Bell started to charge horrendously for when its personnel had to come inside your house to repair the latest problem, I thought it would be a good idea to protect myself since I seem to be calling Bell several times a year. This way there's no squabble about where the problem is.
The latest problem began with a wind storm that ripped roofs off houses north of Toronto and dropped the neighbour's tree branch on his line. It sagged near the ground and I thought logically that was the reason we had no service too.
We phoned and when nothing happened, figured it was due to an overload of calls due to the storm.
Three days later, I called again. Oh yes, a woman assured me (from India I think), Bell did have a record of the original service call. So why did nothing happen? Seems they weren't too sure what the problem was. And they couldn't come for two days.
I have done you a favour by translating what was said in atrocious English. I had to ask her to repeat every sentence..
Nothing happened again. My son called for the second time after I called for the second time and was told that my trouble calls hadn't been completed.
Funny. Bell had the name, the address, the phone number, my cell phone etc. Wotinhell else did they need?
Nothing. happened. Again.
My wife called and got a nice man who spoke English and knew all about the previous calls and a serviceman would be coming the next day. My son waited and waited but he didn't show. So my son went out, the chap showed (was he watching around the corner?) but unfortunately for him, the cleaning lady was there.
He told my son later by cell phone that he fixed a problem inside the house, which had nothing to do with the storm. Now that seems strange.
Unfortunately we didn't have full service back. So we called again. We also found a battered service call sheet in the driveway from the first repairman, which was unintelligible. The next chap showed, of course a few days later, with a trainee. He says he fixed the problem permanently. (If I could get that in writing, I would cancel the repair insurance.)
I have too many shares of BCE, which is of course is Bell in the parental guise, and we are reassured that the stock price will go up because of all the cost cutting they are doing. That must include service personnel and people who actually can speak English in a rudimentary way.
At the cottage, where I have had continual problems, partially due to the repair chaps showing up on the day I said I would be in the city, the latest service men have given me their home phones because they want me to call them first and then they will book the call with Bell. Why? Because they're afraid that Bell is going to pay them per service call, so they want to build up a private inventory before that strikes.
Not having service for almost two weeks means no answering machine, which is vital when you're away a lot, and a lot of extra charges on our cell phones, especially for my son Mark who is visiting from China and whose cell phone is still hooked there.
I'm not a fan of Rogers cell phones but if this keeps up, I'll cancel Bell land lines, sell my BCE stock and not have one moment of nostalgia for the good old days of Ma Bell. It's a wonder in this day of computer voices, inept service from call centres on the other side of the world, and repairmen who never seem to be able to come at the right time, that Bell hasn't gone bust.
It seems "sorry wrong number" is now its way of life.
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ERICH KUNZEL'S AMAZING MEMORY
What A Musical Delight
It's not every day you get to conduct the Toronto Symphony.
And it's not every day you get to witness a startling memory.
Both happened to me in the 1980s when the Toronto Sun got tired of being dubbed a blue-collar tab and decided to go upscale at least for one promotion.
So the Sun partnered with Labatts and did a Jeans and Classics concert where everyone got a free beer as well as a delightful pops program.
And since I was the Editor, the idea was to get me involved with the concert.
Now I've been going to listen to the TSO all my life and can currently be found eight concerts a year in the front row centre, thanks to the great tickets my son Mark received when he talked about cancelling his subscription.
I've sung in choirs and glee clubs but play no instrument. No matter, the symphony folk said, we'll find something to bang or tootle.
I showed up f or the afternoon rehearsal to find a dressing room with my name on it and Erich Kunzel waving in a sea of musicians.
He explained that I was to play the nightingale, sort of a giant whistle, in the Toy Symphony. "I'll point to you and you blow as long as you can," Erich explained.
I said I had a lot of wind, or so the family told me, and I could blow for a long time if only someone warned me before Kunzel pointed at me. For some reason the nightingale came out of the percussion section so I suggested some percussionist who wasn't busy could stand behind me and poke me just before the wand pointed.
Kunzel laughed and said:"You don't understand, John, the point is to make you look ridiculous."
It all went well, or so people said to my face. During the beer-and-pizza party afterwards, I introduced my son Mark to Kunzel and said he played the trumpet.
The Sun decided to do another Jeans-and-Classics concert a year later.
It was wonderful because all of Kunzel's pop concerts, and I've been to a few, were wonderful. His joy in music shone through, and he had a marvelous rapport with the audience.
The star in this concert was Art Eggleton. He conducted the orchestra briefly and waved his mayoral bum at the audience. They roared with laughter, because Eggs had a stuffy reputation. (He he had successfully hidden his horny side that finally cost him a federal ministry.)
Kunzel handed me his baton after I again played some tiny bit on some forgettable instrument and I stared down at the musicians, wondering would they stop playing if I stopped waving. But there was a glint in some eyes, particularly from the concert master, which suggested that I better not push this conducting bit too far.
So I swooped the baton a few times and everyone applauded and I got out of there.
Afterwards, at the beer-and-pizza session where the players come down from their performance high, I pushed Mark towards Kunzel and introduced him again.
"Oh yes," Kunzel said, "you play the trumpet. And how is that going?"
Just imagine! Since he had last met Mark, there had been thousands of introductions, hundreds of musical scores, dozens of cities, and the turmoil of busy life that conductors at the top of their game experience.
But he remembered Mark's instrument.
That is why when I heard of Erich Kunzel's death at 74, I drank a toast to him in my favourite Grolsch beer, Classic not being available. A toast to a man who brought pleasure to millions but could still care enough to remember what a high school kid played.
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Home / Film / Film Columns / Cinema Macabre / Blu-ray Review: ‘Poker Night’ Starring Ron Perlman and Giancarlo Esposito
Feels like a sillier version of Seven, but "Poker Night" is good enough to warrant at least a rental.
Blu-ray Review: ‘Poker Night’ Starring Ron Perlman and Giancarlo Esposito
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Like books, movies should never be judged by their cover. When I saw the press release for Poker Night, it looked like another serial killer/slasher flick, but with a surprising cast. Ron Perlman we all know and love whether it’s as Hellboy or Sons of Anarchy, the man’s a genre legend. And Giancarlo Esposito has gained quite the following after his terrifying turn as Gus Fring from Breaking Bad.
Featuring a masked killer holding a “Killer Hand” on the cover, look at the featured image and tell me this doesn’t look predictable. Thankfully, writer/director Greg Francis delivers something unexpectedly less serious, with some scenes outright hilarious. And on purpose! Poker Night is available now on Blu-ray from XLrator Media.
We meet the hero of our story, Jeter (Beau Mirchoff), bleeding on a lawn surrounded by police. Jeter narrates the story, explaining the differences between wisdom and hindsight, neither of which were on his side. Soon, we learn that Jeter has been on the trail of a serial killer, who just so happens to have recently taken his girlfriend Amy (Halston Sage).
Now, the masked madman has also taken Jeter captive and he must use everything he’s learned from poker night — featuring a hand of veteran hotshots: Lieutenant Calabrese (Perlman), Bernard (Esposito), Davis (Corey Large), Cunningham (Ron Eldard), and Maxwell (Titus Welliver) — to outwit his captor and save himself and Amy.
Poker Night slashes its way to Blu-ray featuring pretty decent transfer. Framed in a 2.39:1 aspect ratio, if it weren’t for the amount of noise buzzing throughout the runtime, this would be an even better presentation. Colors range from properly balanced to oversaturated to undersaturated with a lot of post-production added to the mix. Detail is always sharp, lending some extra gruesomeness to the random bits of gore.
Blacks are deep and inky with no crush, and banding never creeps in. As for the 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track, dialogue can be a little on the soft side, but only when the surrounds tend to kick in. Being a front-heavy mix, at least it never gets in the way of hearing what’s being said. Ambiance is lackluster, aside from a scene at a bar. All in all, this gets the job done with bass kicking in for the prerequisite jump scares. English subtitles are also available. The only special feature is the film’s trailer.
Writer/director Francis could have picked up the pace here or there, and the ending leaves a little to be desired. Once it gets to what feels like the wrap-up, you realize there’s still 10 minutes left. But at a mere 105 minutes, the story is involving enough, the mystery engaging enough, and the torture surprising enough to keep you watching. The cast is having fun, with each of the cop’s stories coming across like those Dean Winters-starring Allstate commercials. Comical, but intense in tone. Poker Night often times feels like a sillier version of Seven, but is good enough to warrant at least a rental.
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Tag Archives: Online Journalism
Guardian gives readers option to ‘hide Olympics’ section on homepage
The Guardian is offering its readers the option of hiding the part of its homepage dedicated to the majority of its Olympics coverage, in a move similar to that which it took during the Royal Wedding last year.
Back in April 2011 the Guardian also featured a button on its homepage to remove Royal Wedding related coverage.
And this feature is something that has been seen elsewhere during big news events. The website for Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet gave its readers the choice of a “Breivik-free” version during the trial of Anders Behring Breivik.
And just like the Guardian, Norwegian title, Verdens Gang, also offered a button for users to remove Royal Wedding coverage last year.
Hatip: @TheMediaTweets and @hayjane
This entry was posted in Online Journalism and tagged guardian, Olympics, Online Journalism on July 26, 2012 by Rachel Bartlett.
#GEN2012: Startup projects showcased in new contest
The Global Editors Network launched a new contest at the News World Summit in Paris today, which has seen a number of new startups already outline their service or product to delegates, who will then vote on what they have seen.
The Startups for News competition saw more than 50 startups enter, with 13 selected who will present to the conference over today and tomorrow.
Speaking to the conference, GEN’s deputy director Antoine Laurent said there was “a need for more contact and more communication between media groups, editors-in-chief and smaller companies, startups offering editorial services”.
The 13 selected startups are mostly French outlets, but there are also four others from other parts of the world.
The winner will be declared on Friday.
This entry was posted in Events and tagged #gen2012, Online Journalism, startups on May 31, 2012 by Rachel Bartlett.
#GEN2012: Follow the Global Editors Network News World Summit in Paris
For the rest of the week Journalism.co.uk will be reporting from the Global Editors Network’s News World Summit in Paris.
The three-day event will is following the mantra of “Converge. Hack. Innovate.” As GEN says:
This is the strategy that newsroom executives everywhere need to follow to drive their organisations successfully through a cross-platform media world. This is the strategy that the News World Summit (NEWS!) will define through sessions, debates, and workshops.
We will be reporting on Journalism.co.uk and tweeting live via @journalism_live and @journalismnews where you can follow events with the #GEN2012 hashtag.
This entry was posted in Events, Online Journalism and tagged #gen2012, #hackthenewsroom, Global Editors Network, Online Journalism on May 30, 2012 by Rachel Bartlett.
#jpod – News industry approaches to curation and aggregation
Image by art makes me smile on Flickr. Some rights reserved.
This week’s jpod looks at how different publishing platforms in the news industry are approaching curation and aggregation of news, from sources across the web including news outlets, bloggers and social media platforms.
Journalism.co.uk’s news editor Rachel McAthy speaks to:
Burt Herman, co-founder of Storify
Mark Johnson, chief executive of Zite
Rory Brown, co-founder of BriefingMedia, publisher of TheMediaBriefing.com
In the spirit of curation, here is a list of some related reading and resources on this topic:
Aggregation guidelines: Link, attribute, add value – Steve Buttry pulls together some standards journalists should bear in mind when aggregating news
Five curation tools all journalists should know about – some recommended tools suggested by Journalism.co.uk
New curation tool Bundlr sets sights on ‘untangling the web’ – Journalism.co.uk article on Bundlr
Meet the curators – The Economist follows up on a tweet which caused much discussion during the SXSW conference
Social media: what’s the difference between curation and journalism? – The BBC follows up on another Twitter debate
5 opportunities for dynamic curation tools – 10,000 Words suggests five ways to put curation into practice
Are aggregation and curation journalism? Wrong question – GigaOm highlights the importance of putting the audience at the heart of the debate
This Week in Review: A push for aggregation standards, and the end of an era for print – The Nieman Journalism Lab highlights recent efforts to set aggregation standards
You can hear future podcasts by signing up to the Journalism.co.uk iTunes podcast feed.
This entry was posted in Online Journalism, Social media and blogging and tagged aggregation, curation, Online Journalism, Podcast on May 18, 2012 by Rachel Bartlett.
The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 31 March – 5 April
1. How to: verify content from social media
2. Ten ideas for news outlets using Pinterest
3. Archie Bland to be youngest Independent deputy editor
4. App of the week for journalists: SkyRecorder, for recording Skype calls on iPhone/iPad
5. Students to launch liveblogging platform Ocqur
6. Bloggers lose $105m pay claim against Huffington Post
7. Rebekah Brooks reapplies for Leveson core participant status
8. Veteran broadcaster and Media Society chairman David Walter dies
9. Future Publishing launches iPad-only title as second screen to computer
10. Police refer ‘Gypsy’ headline case to CPS
This entry was posted in Journalism, Online Journalism and tagged journalism news, Online Journalism on April 5, 2012 by Rachel Bartlett.
The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 10-16 March
1. Al Jazeera to broadcast Syria documentary filmed entirely on iPhone
2. BBC: ‘sophisticated cyber-attack’ on London newsroom
3. Ebooks: a new publishing solution to an old business problem?
4. Rebekah Brooks among latest Operation Weeting arrests, reports say
5. Citizen journalism, cyber censorship and the Arab spring
6. Guardian reporter: Police communication being ‘closed down’
7. Shareholders concerned about Sly Bailey pay
8. ‘Cities expect more from newspapers that are ‘local’ in name only’
9. Former NoW reporter: ‘I was instructed to bribe police officers’
10. Syrian citizen journalists win Netizen prize
This entry was posted in Journalism, Online Journalism and tagged journalism news, Online Journalism on March 16, 2012 by Rachel Bartlett.
Entries now open for 2012 Online Media Awards
Entries are now open for this year’s Online Media Awards, which set out to recognise the best digital news work from online operators big and small.
There are 17 categories covering everything from writing and editing to photography, design and use of social media. The entry deadline for the awards, now in their second year, is 23 March. The finalists will be announced mid-April and the winners at the awards ceremony in London in June.
Last year’s big winner was the Sunday Times website, which won six awards including best video journalism, best campaigning or investigative journalism, best use of photography, plus the grand prix. The site’s editor, Gordon Thomson, was named online editor of the year.
To find out more, see http://www.onlinemediaawards.net/
This entry was posted in Awards, Journalism, Online Journalism and tagged Awards, Online Journalism, Online Media Awards on February 13, 2012 by Paul McNally.
Independent backs Paul Dacre’s press card proposal
Paul Dacre giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry yesterday
The Independent has supported Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre’s suggestion to create a register of accredited journalists and toughen up access to the press card.
In a leader article today, the paper agreed that the “kitemark” system had potential, claiming: “Some information sources are more reliable than others.”
Mr Dacre was right that the idea that journalists should be licensed by the state is repellent to the fundamentals of press freedom. But there is merit in his suggestion for a body replacing, or sitting alongside, the existing Press Complaints Commission, which would be charged with the wider upholding of media standards.
One of its functions might be the issuing of a press card which could be suspended or withdrawn from individuals who gravely breach those standards. And while some people will argue that a kitemark for professional journalism might threaten freedom of expression in an age when much news and comment originates with bloggers and social networks, there is no danger to that freedom in giving the public what might be called a quality reassurance. Some information sources are more reliable than others.
Dacre admitted yesterday that he hadn’t given much thought to whether digital journalists would be eligible for the scheme.
The Guardian’s Dan Sabbagh says Dacre’s proposal risks pushing bloggers “right to the fringes of the system”
Meanwhile, where would foreign media, with their own rules, fit in? Nor is it certain that a Dacrecard system would be effective. Whilst some of the reporting closed shops, most obviously the political lobby, confer benefits, being outside it does not hamper quality political journalism. It could be surprisingly easy to make a mockery of the Dacrecard system.
TheMediaBlog agrees:
This self-serving suggestion is a clear attempt to ostracise whole swathes of the predominantly online media industry who would eat Dacre’s lunch given half the chance.
This entry was posted in Journalism, Newspapers, Online Journalism and tagged ethics, Independent, leveson inquiry, Online Journalism, Paul Dacre, press card on February 7, 2012 by Paul McNally.
Jon Snow’s Cudlipp lecture: ‘Twitter leads the information thirsty to water’
Toni Knevitt, London College of Communication
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow gave the annual Hugh Cudlipp lecture last night, in which he gave a powerful speech on what he views as the advent of “journalism’s golden age”.
Snow has published the full version of his speech on his Snowblog, but here are some highlights from the lecture.
Much of his speech discussed how new technology and real-time news across platforms has an impact on the work of journalists:
Contrast therefore my first reporting from Uganda in 1976 and my most recent foreign assignment in 2011.
That first report on the ground in Uganda dealt with the horror of Amin, it was graphic, and because I was not constrained by immediate “live” deadlines and the rest, I had time to hang about to try to grab an interview with the tyrant: that’s the upside. But I had little mechanism for developing any sense of how the story connected with the outside world – the UN, Westminster and the rest.
… Contrast that with my last major foreign assignment in Cairo’s Tahrir Square where I tweeted, blogged, reported, fed the bird, and then anchored that night’s Channel 4 News live from just outside the Square. Mind you, with the pressures of time, some of the fun has gone out of it all.
For journalists, he said, the “liberation” of the media gives way to a new “golden age of journalism”:
We are in the age of answer back, better still we are in the age in which “we the people” have their greatest opportunity ever to influence the information agenda … But above all we are in the age of more. More potential to get it right, to get it fast, to get it in depth. We have that illusive entity “the level playing field”, we can compete on equal terms and yet be the best.
He also passed comment on some of the biggest issues facing the news industry today, from regulation to the phone hacking scandal:
I think it is absolutely right that there is a regulator that people can go to. Who are we to be above the opportunity for people to review what we’ve done? Furthermore I do not want to find my own editors somewhere in the mix. I want an objective regulator.
… Of course, papers and TV are entirely different beasts, and they work in entirely different ways, but I see no reason why print journalism wouldn’t benefit from a credible regulator in the same way TV has.
And not forgetting the Leveson inquiry, which is currently looking at the culture and ethics of the press:
Leveson should recommend many of the people and institutions that have been before him find a way of allowing their staff to get stuck into the real world, it will vastly improve and deepen their journalism. We journalists are not a breed a part – we must be of the world we report. The hacking scandal reveals an echelon of hacks who removed themselves from the world in which the rest of us live – they took some weird pleasure in urinating on our world.
But finally, he called for journalists to be given more time and space wherever possible:
The speed and pace of what all of us is doing is starving, television journalists in particular, of the opportunity to develop the stature and presence of our forebears.
These were people who had days in which to prepare their stories, dominated a tiny handful of channels, and became iconic figures in the medium. It is much, much harder for journalists today to ascend the same ladder and preside with their kind of authority and we need to afford talent the time, the space and the working experience to develop the authority that our medium depends upon.
This entry was posted in Editors' pick, Events, Journalism and tagged Cudlipp lecture, Hugh Cudlipp, Jon Snow, Online Journalism, Twitter on January 24, 2012 by Rachel Bartlett.
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Broad Hinton Church of England Primary School Promoting the Values in Britain
Promoting the Values in Britain
The DFE have reinforced the need "to create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faith and beliefs."
The government set out its definition of British values in the 2011 Prevent Strategy, and these values have been reiterated in 2014. At Broad Hinton C of E Primary School these values are reinforced and promoted in so much of what we do, not at least during our collective worships, Religious Education and Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education (PSHCE). The values are integral to our long-standing visual ethos statement which complements British values and always has done.
At Broad Hinton C of E Primary School, we actively challenge pupils, staff or parents expressing opinons contrary to fundamental British values including 'extremist' views.
Children, parents, community and staff have many opportunities for their voices to be heard at Broad Hinton School. Democracy is central to how we operate. Examples include:
election of the School Council Executive reflects our British electoral system and demonstartes democracy in action. Each team elect their own representatives 3 times a year. The council has its own budget and is genuinely able to effect change within the school
nomiation/election of team representatives on Eco School Team, Sports Council, Friendship Group and Community Ambassadors who have regular meetings with staff and the headteacher to voice opinions and to enhance the school environment, opportunities and learning for the children
all children draw up and agree their team 'Golden Rules' at the beginning of each year
regular circle times allow for all pupils to voice their opinions, listen carefully to each other and respect others
children are encouraged through our purple learner initiative to take ownership of their own learning and progress with the help from staff and parents in partnership
children, staff, governors and parents complete an annual questionnaire in which they are able to put forward their views about the school
children are able to respond and reflect on the teaching and learning as well as the spiritual, moral, social and cultural aspect of the school through the learning platform DB Primary
children learn about democracy through time via their topic learning in history.
The importance of rules and laws, whether they be those that govern our school or our country, are referred to and reinforced often, such as in collective worhsips, circle times and when reflecting on behaviour choices. At the start of the school year, each team discuss and sets its own 'Golden Rules', a set of principles that are clearly understood by all and seen to be necessary to ensure that every team member is able to learn in a safe and ordered environment. A consistent procedure of rewards and sanctions operate throughout the school so each individual child understands right from wrong and the consequences that could result in making the wrong choices in learning and behaviour.
Pupils are taught the value and reasons behind laws, that they govern and protect us, the responsibilities that this involves, and the consequences when laws/rules are broken. These values are reinforced in different ways:
visits from authorities such as the police, fire service and school nurse
during Religious Education, when rules for particular faiths are thought about
during other school subjects, where there is respect and appreciation for different rules eg: physical education lessons, playground games.
Alongside rules and laws, we promote freedom of choice and the right to respectfully express views and beliefs. Through the provision of a safe, supportive environment and empowering education, we provide boundaries for our young pupils to make choices safely. These may include:
choices about what learning challenge or activity
choices on taking responsibility for their own learning with teachers and parents as facilitates and supporters (purple learners)
choices about how they record their learning
choices around the participation in extra-curricular activities.
Pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and advised how to exercise these safely, for example through our e-safety and PSHCE lessons.
Mutual respect is at the heart of our vision and ethos and it's one of our three values for the school; Love, Care and Respect.
Our pupils know and understand that it is expected and imperative that respect is shown to everyone, whatever differences we may have, and to everything, whether it is a school resource, a religious belief or whatever. Children learn that their behaviour choices have an effect on their own rights and those of others. The children are encouraged to support each other irrespective of background, ability or faith and this is reinforced in our Ethos, Behaviour and Discipline Policy and the values that underpin the ethos of the school. All members of the school community should treat each other with respect.
Tolerance of those of Different Faith and Beliefs
Broad Hinton C of E Primary School is becoming a more diverse school. We actively promote diversity through our celebrations of different faiths and cultures. Religious Education lessons, circle times and PSHCE lessons reinforce messages of tolerance and respect of others. Themed weeks and themed days also allow for tolerance of others to be discussed and thought about to develop personal skills and opinions of all. Our multicultural pages, linking us with Desari Memorial School in Nairobi, illustrate our commitment to exploring our diverse community. New children joining us who have English as a second language are encouraged to speak in their native tongue and staff enhance this by using strategies given by outside support which include: class labels in a different language and daily use of 'Language of the Month' website to learn new words together. Members of different faiths and religions are encouraged to share their knowledge to enhance learning within teams and the school. The school encourage visitors to school of different faiths.
Document of promoting values in Britain 2015
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UK Bookmakers And Gambling Operators Not Paying Enough For Gambling Awareness Programs
Utsav Kumar
Bookmakers in the UK are not paying enough, or even the promised sum towards gambling awareness programs as a part of their social responsibility, reports Sunday Mail.
After the gambling industry was deregulated by the labor government back in 2005, the bookmakers had to pay 0.1 percent of their total revenues towards gambling awareness and treatment programs as a part of their social responsibility. However, records show that they have not been doing enough.
The top recipient of the funds, Gamble Aware, received £400,000 less than its target in 2018.
Amongst the top UK gambling operators who have failed to contribute towards their social responsibility funds are BET 365, Paddy Power Betfair, and William Hill.
Bet 365 which donated only £868,000 to GambleAware posted an operating profit of £660.3million and a turnover of £2.86billion for the year 2018.
Paddy Power Betfair posted underlying earnings of £473 million in 2017 on revenues of £1.74 billion; however, it paid only £445,000 to the GambleAware fund.
William Hill which made £234million on revenues of £1.6 billion paid 1 million to the gamble aware fund.
In its statement to the press, Gamble Aware said: “For GambleAware to continue to meet its existing commitments and complete the successful delivery of its current two-year strategic delivery plan, the charity will require the gambling industry to donate a minimum of £10 million in the 12 months to 31 March 2020.
“We therefore ask all those who profit from the gambling industry in Great Britain, whether or not they hold a licence from the Gambling Commission, to donate a minimum of 0.1% of their Gross Gambling Yield (GGY) directly to GambleAware.”
Gambling addiction in the UK is at an all-time high, and the UK gambling commission is introducing new measures to tackle gambling problems.
Earlier a study also found that gambling and casino operators in the UK are not promoting safe gambling through their twitter handles.
UK Bookmakers And Gambling Operators Not Paying Enough For Gambling Awareness Programs was last modified: May 13th, 2019 by Utsav Kumar
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Snakeskin Stilettos
Moyra Donaldson
Moyra Donaldson’s voice is a woman’s voice—mother, daughter, wife, lover—tinged at times with anticipation, at times with regret. But always, the poet seeks the essence of life in the moment. In the title poem, she captures the wonder of emerging sexuality, as a girl finds her mother’s forbidden shoes and feels “Something/you’ve never felt before./These shoes are live and dangerous. A thoroughly modern poet, she does not avoid traditional forms, and she finds her imagery and metaphors, as those before her have, scattered in the harsh yet beautiful terrain of Ireland, her native land.
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MOYRA DONALDSON was a founding member of the Creative Writers’ Network and is Literary Editor for Fortnight magazine. In addition to Snakeskin Stilettos, her collections of poetry include Kissing Ghosts and Beneath the Ice. She has produced four stage plays, and her screenplay h was filmed in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she graduated in English Language and Literature from Queens University. She also qualified as a social worker and studied social welfare law, which led to another career in welfare and education. Literary honors include the National Women’s Poetry Competition and the Allingham Award. Born in County Down, Northern Ireland, she now lives in Newtownards with her husband John Liddle and daughters Claire and Jannah.
The publication of Moyra’s first collection . . . represents the discovery of a writer who, I believe, can go on to become one of Northern Ireland’s most accessible and popular poets. I know this is a big build- up but I am certain this work will be read and treasured by housewives, taxi drivers and professors. This writer has the surest of touches. Her work is so well crafted. The words come out almost perfectly. Each word is like a solid piece of rock that’s in just the right place at the right time. There is not a letter overwritten or wasted . . . And all conveyed with feeling and human guts into the bargain.
— Martin Lynch
It is a rare pleasure to come across a poetry that is a source of simple enjoyment . . . uniquely valuable in a social as well as a literary sense, charting as it so subtly does the emergence of a delightful, sensitive, all-embracing personality from a repressive religious environment . . . Her determination is to explore the realities . . . of living itself; then of living peculiarly as a married woman . . . The most attractive, never mind seductive, quality of this first collection is its honesty, a convincing intimacy of tone, rewarding us with the sense that we are being offered the truth and given a key to some of the most secret rooms of a heart.
— Medbh McGuckian
Eight years old, you understand
these shoes are different.
Not for nothing
has your mother wrapped them in paper,
shut them into their box, set them
at the very back of the wardrobe.
Forbidden.
You imagine them-
on their own in the dark,
hissing softly.
Biding their time.
Sneak in, creak open the door,
lift the lid and let them out,
untissue the fear.
Run your fingers
against the fissley scales,
press the fangs of heels
into your palm.
you’ve never felt before.
These shoes are live and dangerous
70 pp
Trade paper – 6 X 9.5
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College Affordability Act, Budget Bill, and Other Bills Signed by Governor
May 5, 2014 By Susan Hoyt Leave a Comment
As the legislature winds down the 2014 legislative session, Governor Hickenlooper continues to sign legislation that passes both houses. To date, the governor has signed 165 bills and vetoed two. He signed seven bills into law on April 25, 2014, he signed the Long Bill (budget bill) on April 30, he signed the College Affordability Act on May 1, and he signed nine bills on May 2. These are summarized here.
HB 14-1092 – Concerning the Voluntary Contribution Designation Benefitting the Colorado Youth Conservation Corps Fund that Appears on the State Individual Income Tax Return Forms, by Rep. Edward Vigil and Sen. John Kefalas. The bill creates a new income tax donation checkoff to benefit the Colorado Youth Conservation Corps.
HB 14-1107 – Concerning the Authority of the Department of Revenue to Offer Taxpayers the Option to Receive Electronic Notices, by Rep. Max Tyler and Sen. Linda Newell. The bill allows the Department of Revenue to transmit taxpayer notices electronically.
HB 14-1176 – Concerning the State Audit Cycle of the Emissions Program for Motor Vehicles, by Rep. Su Ryden and Sen. Lois Tochtrop. The bill changes the state audit cycle of the emissions program from once every three years to once every five years.
HB 14-1277 – Concerning Eligibility Requirements for Recipients of Grants from the Military Family Relief Fund, by Rep. Jovan Melton and Sen. Nancy Todd. The bill opens eligibility for grants from the Military Family Relief Fund to families of Colorado National Guard members and families of military personnel called to duty by executive order of the governor.
HB 14-1286 – Concerning Authorization for the State Treasurer to Loan to the State Historical Society for Public Display Items Presented to the Governor as Gifts to the State, by Rep. Jovan Melton and Sen. Pat Steadman. The bill allows the treasurer to loan items that were gifts to the state to the History Colorado and museums for display.
HB 14-1289 – Concerning the Reinvestment of Unused Governmental Moneys Held by a Financial Institution that are in Excess of the Amount Insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in Accounts in Other Financial Institutions, by Rep. Frank McNulty and Sen. Mike Johnston. The bill specifies that monies in excess of the amount protected by the FDIC may be deposited in other accounts rather than used for Certificates of Deposit.
HB 14-1299 – Concerning the Repeal of the Six-Year Limitation on Applying a Salvage Brand to a Motor Vehicle Whose Cost of Being Repaired Exceeds the Value of the Vehicle Without the Recent Damage, by Rep. Max Tyler and Sen. Nancy Todd. The bill removes the requirement that a vehicle be under six years old when the damage occurs in order to be considered a salvage vehicle.
HB 14-1336 – Long Appropriations Bill, by the Joint Budget Committee. This bill presents the budget for fiscal year 2014-2015.
SB 14-001 – Concerning Making College Education More Affordable by Imposing Further Restrictions on Tuition Increases, Increasing Financial Aid, and Increasing Operating Support for Each Governing Board of a State-Supported Institution of Higher Education by Eleven Percent and, In Connection Therewith, Making an Appropriation, by Sens. Cheri Jahn & Andy Kerr and Reps. Leroy Garcia & Mike McLachlan. The bill caps the annual increase in the rate of undergraduate in-state tuition for state supported institutions of higher education and appropriates $100,050,000 to the Department of Higher Education to support various financial aid programs and for the College Opportunity Fund and fee-for-service contracts.
SB 14-027 – Concerning Criminal History Background Checks for Professionals who Have the Authority to Appear in Court, and, in Connection Therewith, Making an Appropriation, by Sen. Lucia Guzman and Rep. Pete Lee. The bill authorizes the Colorado Supreme Court to request CBI criminal background checks as part of the licensing process for attorneys.
SB 14-114 – Concerning Expanding Access for All Students to Colorado State University – Global Campus, by Sen. Nancy Todd and Reps. Millie Hamner & Chris Holbert. The bill allows CSU Global Campus to offer complete degree programs online.
SB 14-135 – Concerning the Repeal of Certain Provisions Concerning the Purchasing of Firearms in States that are Contiguous to Colorado, by Sen. Greg Brophy and Rep. Jared Wright. The bill generally allows purchases of firearms in states contiguous to Colorado and generally allows gun sales to residents of contiguous states.
SB 14-146 – Concerning Information that the Department of Transportation May Consider when Conducting a Traffic Investigation for the Purpose of Determining the Appropriate Speed Limit for a Portion of a State Highway for which a Municipality has Proposed a Speed Limit Alteration, by Sen. Gail Schwartz and Rep. Jim Wilson. The bill allows a local government that is proposing a speed limit adjustment to submit its own traffic data and engineering reports.
HB 14-1193 – Concerning Requirements Governing the Imposition of a Fee for the Research and Retrieval of Public Records Under the “Colorado Open Records Act,” by Rep. Joseph Salazar and Sen. John Kefalas. The bill imposes certain restrictions on fees charged for the retrieval of records under the Colorado Open Records Act.
HB 14-1203 – Concerning Funding to Maintain the Infrastructure for the Digital Trunked Radio System, and, in Connection Therewith, Making an Appropriation, by the Joint Budget Committee. The bill makes a budget appropriation to replace legacy radio equipment and hardware at radio tower sites.
HB 14-1302 – Concerning the Addition of a Judgment Against a Debtor or Transferee who Acts with Actual Intent as an Available Remedy for a Creditor in a Fraudulent Transfer Action, by Rep. John Buckner and Sen. Mike Johnston. The bill provides an additional remedy for creditors when a debtor fraudulently transfers property with the intent to hinder, delay, or defraud the creditor.
HB 14-1335 – Concerning Campaign Contribution Limits that are Applicable to Candidate Committees for Candidates who are not Affiliated with a Major Political Party, by Rep. Dominick Moreno and Sen. Matt Jones. The bill allows write-in, unaffiliated, or minor party candidates to accept contributions up to the aggregate contribute limit for the election cycle.
HB 14-1342 – Concerning Transfers of Moneys Related to Capital Construction, by the Joint Budget Committee. The bill makes three transfers to the capital construction fund in fiscal year 2014-15.
For a list of Governor Hickenlooper’s legislative decisions, click here.
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Gay Catholic Dating: Sin or Heartbreak
A friend recently told me that same-sex dating was bound to “end in either sin or heartbreak.” This view was unsurprising, and I held it for a while myself. But as I’ve explored this question, I’ve become increasingly concerned that it promotes harmful and theologically unsound views of human sexuality. Continue reading “Gay Catholic Dating: Sin or Heartbreak”
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Summaries: The Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Letter Eleven: Friendship (part two)
This chapter summary is part of my reading summaries series. Click here for more information on the series. Click here for more chapter summaries from The Pillar and Ground of the Truth.
Christianity is marked by an “agape-philia” antinomy. This antinomy exercises itself in “equal love for all and each in their unity, concentrated in a single focus of love for several, even for one in his separation from the general unity.” Christianity is marked by a paradoxical character that is both esoteric and exoteric, which is “not rationally compatible… [but] reconcilable only in the most profoundly mysterious Christian life.” Continue reading “Summaries: The Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Letter Eleven: Friendship (part two)”
August 25, 2015 January 29, 2018 by Chris Damian
Compliance Questions
The following column was published in the Irish Rover on Thursday, March 20, 2014.
On February 12, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held an oral argument in Notre Dame’s case against the HHS mandate. Among the more surprising moments was Judge Posner’s question to Notre Dame attorney Matthew Kairis, asking whether the use of birth control was a mortal or a venial sin. Even more surprising was the admission of ignorance by Kairis, a graduate of Notre Dame’s Program of Liberal Studies, followed by Judge Posner’s answer that it is a mortal sin.
Continue reading “Compliance Questions”
March 25, 2014 August 22, 2015 by Chris Damian
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FESTIVALS France
Cabourg, love is in the air
by Fabien Lemercier
13/06/2013 - The 27th Romantic Days organized in this beach resort in Normandy opened yesterday
Shining the spotlight on films whose main theme is love, the 27th edition of the Romantic Days of the Cabourg Film Festival opened yesterday. On the programme until June 16th of this competition judged by a jury presided by director Stéphane Brizé, two films discovered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes stand out particularly: Grand Central [+see also:
interview: Rebecca Zlotowski
film profile] by Rebecca Zlotowski – review – to be released in France on August 28th) and the Franco-German coproduction My Sweet Pepperland [+see also:
film profile] by Kurdish director Hiner Saleem (review – to be released on October 9th).
Also competing for the Golden Swann Les beaux jours [+see also:
film profile] by Marion Vernoux (article – to be released on June 19th), Every Blessed Day [+see also:
interview: Luca Marinelli
film profile] by Italian director Paolo Virzì (review – to be released in France on September 4th), the Turco-Franco-German coproduction Watchtower [+see also:
film profile] by Pelin Esmer (which premiered in competition in Rotterdam and will be released in France on September 11th) and So Much Water [+see also:
film profile] by duo Ana Guevara Pose - Leticia Jorge Romero (a coproduction between Uruguay, Mexico, the Netherlands and Germany – discovered at the Berlinale – read the review).
Amongst the 14 films in the Panorama section, it is worth noting Alabama Monroe [+see also:
interview: Felix van Groeningen
film profile] by Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen (rewarded in Berlin and Tribeca – to be released in France on August 28th), Brasserie Romantiek by his compatriot Joël Vanhoerbrouck (news), the animated film Aya de Yopougon by duo Marguerite Abouet - Clément Oubrerie, Chez nous c’est trois by Claude Duty (article), Pour une femme [+see also:
film profile] by Diane Kurys (article), the Franco-Belgian-Luxembourg-German coproduction Belle du seigneur [+see also:
film profile] by Glenio Bonder (see the making of), Joséphine [+see also:
film profile] by Agnès Obadia, Juliette by Pierre Godeau, 12 ans d’âge by Frédéric Proust and La pièce manquante [+see also:
film profile] by Nicolas Birkenstock (article).
(Translated from French)
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Nissan drives Outback Trial connection
November 14, 2013 SteveH
Nissan Pathfinder, 2012 Classic Outback Trial, at Angove Winery in Renmark
Nissan Australia will again partner major national inland pastoral and healthcare provider Frontier Services and the 2014 Classic Outback Trial, connecting people in urban areas with those in need of assistance in remote parts of Australia.
Nissan will provide a range of four-wheel drive vehicles for essential surveys, medical intervention and the operation of the Trial, which will be staged from August 31 to September 6 in remote areas of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
It is the third time that Nissan has supplied essential vehicles to the event since its first running in 2009, while Frontier Services celebrated its Centenary last year as part of its similarly long association.
Frontier Services is the Uniting Church’s successor to the Australian Inland Mission developed in 1912 by Rev Dr John ‘Flynn of the Outback’.
It has a significant and long-standing association with Nissan, employing a fleet of 144 Tiida, Dualis, X-Trail, Pathfinder and Patrol vehicles to carry out its work throughout Australia.
The organisation’s National Development Director, Grahame Ryan, said the core purpose of the Trial for Frontier Services was to promote Frontier Services’ ‘Outback Links’ programme, which aims to form a connection between people in urban areas and those in need of assistance in remote parts of Australia.
“The Association with both the Classic Outback Trial and Nissan has always been a natural fit for us,” he said.
“The event crosses the landscape we cover annually; it deals with the people we encounter weekly; and it relies upon the goodwill of the communities that we provide help to on a daily basis.
“It also offers Frontier Services a wonderful national platform from which to promote itself across the very regions and communities that we service throughout the width and breadth of the great Australian outback.”
Grahame Ryan said Nissan’s support of its fleet of both on-road and off-road vehicles was also invaluable.
“It forms an essential component of Frontier Services being able to effectively deliver its promise to the people and communities of regional and remote Australia,” he said.
The 2014 Classic Outback Trial will see a field of around 50 Historic and Production Rally Cars built prior to 1996 compete over 35 ‘special stages’ on private and limited access roads and tracks in remote areas of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
The Trial’s organiser, Philip Bernadou, said the 2,000km event distance will be 40 per cent competitive, with 35 special stages varying in length from 10 to 90km. One of the most demanding stages will be one stretching 60km on a 62,500Ha property south of Broken Hill that will include flat scrub, sand dunes, rocky outcrops and herds and flocks of natural fauna.
He said the Nissan vehicles will first be employed in the event’s initial course survey from late March, while other Nissan vehicles will gradually be engaged in course checking and in the operation of the event itself.
For further Classic Outback Trial information, contact Philip Bernadou on (03) 9836 9911 / 0412 498 602 or visit http://www.classicoutbacktrial.com.au
For information on Frontier Services, contact National Development Director Grahame Ryan on (02) 8270 1323 or visit http://www.frontierservices.org
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The Chain: Lidl UK Announces Sustainable Soy Commitments
Soy • Latin America
Major supermarket retailer Lidl has committed to sourcing sustainable soy for its UK stores starting this month, the company said on October 12, 2018, in an effort to help slow deforestation and other negative environmental impacts. The company’s action marks the first time a UK retailer has pledged to purchase 100 percent sustainably sourced soy.
Older, more established supermarket chains in the UK are losing share to discounters such as Lidl. Now that sustainability has become a larger issue with Lidl UK’s move, the older chains may need to react quickly, likely a positive for policies to limit deforestation.
The Germany-based company, which operates 10,000 stores in 28 countries, says that its policy on soy is as follows: “As a retailer, we strive for greater sustainability across our business through sourcing of our products. We believe in a responsible soy production that does not harm nature or people. We support soy from sustainable, certified sources.” Lidl UK’s commitment comes after Lidl stores in some other markets decided on similar actions. The inconsistency in Lidl’s various national policies shows that there is upside for further sustainability efforts.
Lidl UK’s announcement is in line with the trend of retailers shifting toward sustainable soy. As CRR highlighted in July, Tesco is targeting to transition by 2025 to using soy from only suppliers that do not engage in deforestation for production.
Lidl UK will buy credits from the Roundtable for Responsible Soy (RTRS) to increase payments to farmers that produce sustainable soy, seeking to “achieve physically traceable, sustainable, zero-deforestation in the long term.” Lidl has soy initiatives in other European countries. Last year, Lidl Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Denmark purchased RTRS Direct Trade credits for eggs, meat, poultry and dairy products, the company said in its RTRS 2017 Member Annual Public Report. Lidl Netherlands started using RTRS soy credits as early as 2011.
In Lidl UK’s report on its soy policy, the company noted that in 2017-18 it used 130,000 tons of soy as feed for producing chicken, pork, cheese, beef, egg and milk-based products. After the first phase of Lidl UK’s transition (the part that involves buying RTRS certificates), it will collaborate with others in the industry through the UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soya to “develop a range of mechanisms” to contribute to a changing market that ultimately produces “sustainable, zero-deforestation soy.” Lidl is a founding member of the UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soya, which held its first meeting on March 19, 2018. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), in a 2017 study, found that most UK soy is sourced from Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
Lidl UK’s strategy comes a year after Lidl UK signed the Cerrado Manifesto, which calls on companies and investors to adapt policies to protect the biome and halt deforestation in the region. The global rise in demand for soy as a feedstock has increased deforestation in parts of South America, especially Brazil.
Lidl UK has chosen to source soy from three farms located in the Brazilian states of Piaui and Maranhao. These include Fazenda Progresso, Fazenda Serra Vermelha and Fazenda Sol Nascente.
In addition to the efforts of Lidl UK, Lidl’s branches in Germany and Austria launched the Lidl Soy Initiative in January 2018. With this this initiative, Lidl Germany set a goal of using only certified sustainable and non-GMO soy as feed for its pork and beef products. The company will source the soy from two farms in Maranhao, operated by SLC Agrícola. However, an upcoming CRR report shows that deforestation is planned at one of these farms. SLC Agrícola restructured this farm in August 2018 and claims it now falls outside of the scope of Lidl’s initiative.
Beef, Cerrado Manifesto, Lidl, Soy
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Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris
July 2, 2018 Cozynookbks Book Reviews, Suspense 38 Comments
⭐️⭐️ – 2-stars
Simply put, this book wasnt for me. I didn’t like it at all. It became a tedious cat and mouse chase and I lost interest early on. The characters, including the main ones, were all one dimensional, and there wasn’t much to imagine outside of them. No engaging secondary characters, no atmosphere, no interesting landmarks, no development. Nothing. There was just no substance. It’s like everyone and everything existed in hazy outline, and I didn’t really care about anyone or anything, except maybe the dog, Peggy. And those silly Russian Dolls. 🙄 I didn’t particularly care for how it was structured either. There was quite a bit of introspection and first person narrative. I felt like it kept going in circles. Very repititious. It picked up a bit towards the final 20% of the book, but only briefly. I was just too tired of the whole thing to care by that time anyway. I couldn’t wait for it to be over. I was hoping for a climactic ending, but alas I found it disappointing and implausible.
Here’s a brief synopsis of the plot…
Finn McQuaid’s girlfriend, Layla, goes missing during a rest room break while on their way back to Devon, England, from their trip to France. Finn is devastated, but eventually he begins to accept that Layla is gone forever and he grows attached to Layla’s sister, Ellen. In the twelfth year of Layla’s disappearance, Finn gets engaged to Ellen and when their engagement becomes public knowledge clues begin popping up to suggest that Layla might still be alive and close by.
Initially, Finn paints this blissful picture of his relationship with Layla, but then there’s this undertone of discontent and animosity that existed. What really happened the night Layla disappeared, and has she really come back?
I’m sorry. I didn’t like any of it. That is all.
I want to thank St. Martin’s Press for a complimentary copy of Bring Me Back in exchange for an honest review which I have given.
Have a wonderful week everyone.
Don’t Believe It by Charlie Donlea – **Top Pick**
May 23, 2018 Cozynookbks Book Reviews, Suspense 38 Comments
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 5 stars
In the words of Joe Kenda of Investigation Discovery: “Well my, my, my.”
Charlie Donlea certainly knows how to spin a tale.
Following is confirmation that I loved this book:
1. I couldn’t wait for an opportunity during the day to read it
2. I couldn’t stop thinking about it
3. I kept inundating my husband with details about it
4. I opened it up at 3:00 a.m. and started reading instead of going back to sleep after using the bathroom
5. I wasn’t longing for it to be over so I could read something else
6. I kept thinking to myself, “this guy can write!” as the book progressed and I was flipping pages faster than my little arthritic pinky finger could handle
7. The final sentence sent a wave of exhilaration coursing through my body, making me wish I could call up Mr. Donlea ASAP and gush about my thoughts
8. My e-reader showed I’d reached 100%, but I was still attempting to find more pages
9. I’m poised to add it to my Best Reads list for 2018
Need I go on? If those reasons don’t convince you, then I highly suggest that you read this book and see for yourself. (Don’t Believe It releases in the U.S. on May 29th.)
And now here’s a very brief summary of the plot….
Julian Crists’s body is washed up on Sugar Beach, part of an island resort in St. Lucia, where he was vacationing with his girlfriend, Grace Sebold, who is found guilty of his murder and spends a decade in a St. Lucian prison cell, all the while proclaiming her innocence. She’s exhausted her appeals and it looks likely that she’ll be living out her days locked up. Desperate, she reaches out to a former acquaintance, Sidney Ryan, by means of letters written continually asking for her help. Sidney is a documentary film writer whose films have exonerated a couple of wrongly convicted criminals. Sidney makes the decision to help Grace by producing a real-time documentary of her findings regarding Grace’s case; new episodes airing each week revealing her findings from the previous week’s research. The documentary is a monumental hit for Sidney, and fans of the show loyally tune in to find out the fate of Grace Sebold. Will Sidney’s instincts prove true regarding Grace’s innocence?
There’s so much more content, but this is all I can share without giving anything away. Charlie Donlea truly delivers with this one. And I just love his writing. His stories are riveting. He’s a new favorite suspense writer for me. Highly recommended.
Thank you Netgalley, Kensington Books, and Charlie Donlea for an e-ARC of Don’t Believe It. In exchange I have provided an honest review of my thoughts about it.
Have an awesome day everybody! And thanks so much for visiting Cozynookbks. 💕
Charlie DonleaDon’t Believe ItKensington BooksSuspense
Our Little Secret by Roz Nay
April 17, 2018 Cozynookbks Book Reviews, Suspense 34 Comments
Our Little Secret was a page-turner and a brilliant read. I seriously never got bored reading it. The chapters are short and conclude in such an enticing manner that I could have read the entire book in one sitting if I’d had the time.
It begins in a police interrogation room with a Detective Novak questioning his detainee, Angela Petitjean (pronounced Peti-SHON), about the disappearance of a woman named Saskia. Angela informs the detective that she doesn’t have any information regarding Saskia’s whereabouts, but proceeds to tell him all about HP, who appears to have been her childhood best friend and soul mate. Through Angela’s account of her relationship with HP, we learn about her formative years; including her life at home with her parents, her time away at a prestigious University, and how things start to spiral downward in her life, which is when Saskia’s identity is revealed. All of these revelations take place in that interrogation room. I kept wondering if Angela was a reliable narrator. Was I justified in taking pity on her? Who was being deceitful? Who betrayed whom? These were some of the questions I kept asking myself as I read Our Little Secret.
Since I don’t want to give anything away accidentally, let’s just say this is psychological suspense at its finest; thrilling and well-written with characters that kept me questioning my opinions of them.
The ending had me like…
Very highly recommended.
Thank you, St. Martin’s Press, for a complimentary ARC of Our Little Secret. In exchange I have provided an honest review.
Has anyone read Our Little Secret? What did you think? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Have a lovely day, okay? ☺
Our Little SecretPsychological SuspenseRoz NaySt. Martin's PressThriller
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
March 2, 2018 Cozynookbks Book Reviews, Suspense 21 Comments
Look what I found. The U.K. edition:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫- 4.5 stars
The Perfect Nanny gets off to a chilling start and then takes us back to what leads up to its tragic beginning.
The nanny, Louise, does everything right. EVERYTHING! The delicate-looking, dainty woman is much stronger than she appears, and handles domestic chores with ease while still proficiently looking after Myriam and Paul’s two young children, Adam and Mila. Myriam feels relief that she can pursue her career goals again now that Louise keeps things running smoothly and efficiently at home. She does get in the way sometimes though, when Myriam wants to spoil and nurture her children. And Louise’s quirks can be a bit irksome at times. But Myriam can’t deny the confidence she has in the woman’s adeptness and dismisses any concerns that crop up along the way. That is until some of her noticeably bizarre behavior becomes unsettling. Why are the childrens’ parents delaying in taking necessary steps to dismiss her? They will pay the ultimate price for their callousness.
Sometimes when things appear too good to be true, they really are….
The Perfect Nanny is a psychologically gripping page-turner. Incredibly, this book is not laced with violence and profanity, just a subtle creepiness that gives you pause. Tidbits dispersed throughout the book help us to piece together how and why the nanny may have become deranged. The author wants us to draw on Louise’s life circumstances to reach our own satisfying conclusion regarding her ultimate insane act. Initially, I was thoroughly miffed about the ending. I felt like why did the author do this to me, ….
But after a few days of ruminating on it I started to feel much better about it, to the point of actually liking it. (Thank you Holly B of Dressed to Read, my reading buddy, you were right!!) 😉
Holly also alerted me to the fact that this book was inspired by true events.
Some scenes were a bit wordy at times, and the litany was causing me to feel like, ALRIGHT ALREADY! I GET IT!! But overall, this book was an excellent read. Just keep in mind that it’s the journey that will amaze you, not the destination. Recommended.
Thank you Edelweiss for a complimentary copy of The Perfect Nanny. In exchange I have provided an honest review.
Has anyone else read The Perfect Nanny? I’d love to hear what you thought about it.
Thanks for reading. Have a great weekend!!
Leila SlimaniPenguinBooksSuspenseThe Perfect NannyThriller
The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth
4-Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Four women wonder who the presumably single woman is who moves onto their family-friendly Pleasant Court street. And why does she feel comfortable speaking to them so familiarly almost immediately, as though she’s known them all for years? Perplexed, they watch Isabelle, wondering what her intentions are. Essie’s mother has misgivings about the mysterious neighbor from the start. She’s different from their little clan, and vague about her background, so why did she move from Sydney to Melbourne and into their neighborhood?
Each of the three families on Pleasant Court has its own secrets and insecurities that tidily remain hidden within the confines of their own homes, while outside appearances paint a very different, more pristine picture. They’re keeping secrets from their families, and secrets from their neighbors. But the women are slowly becoming unhinged by the various complexities affecting their lives. Fran is trying to run from her problems—literally; subconsciously burning through the fear and regret that prods her every day. Essie is detaching from her familial obligations; her husband and mother worrying about her, especially since her frightful episode a few years back. In their minds she’s fragile and unstable. Ange’s guilty conscience is eating her alive, even though she is the one everybody envies—the one with the great career, gorgeous husband, immaculate home and well-mannered kids. Little do they all know that Ange is insecure about said husband whom she can never seem to track down, and who gives her a niggling feeling about his activities when he’s not at home. What is everyone hiding, and who is the stranger on Pleasant Court?
I like the way The Family Next Door starts out mellow, builds, and then reaches a crescendo. But after that it ends rather abruptly. The psychological buildup was intense, but the end result was tamer than I’d anticipated in some instances. Specifically when it came to the enigmatic neighbor. I think there could have been a little bit more dramatic effect in some cases. However, the story advanced forward easily overall, and I was eager to turn pages. But as far as the conclusion goes, I wanted just a bit more. Other than that it really was a great read. The way and time in which secrets were revealed was excellent. Each revelation came when I wasn’t expecting it and I was blown away by how the author executed those parts. It was very well done. I would definitely recommend this book.
Thank you Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for an E-ARC of this book, in exchange I have provided an honest review.
Aside January 29, 2018 Cozynookbks Book Reviews, Contemporary fiction, Suspense, Women's Fiction 19 Comments
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Flag of the Minister for Air Travel 1933-1935 - Flagge des Reichsminister der Luftfahrt
Flag of the Minister for Air Travel and Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force 1935-1938 - Flagge des Reichsminister der Luftfahrt und Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe
Other Flags of the Ministry for Air Travel 1935-1945
Flags of the Air Force 1935-1945 - Luftwaffe
Third Reich 1933-1945
Index of all German Pages
Flag of the Minister for Air Travel 1933-1935
Flagge des Reichsminister der Luftfahrt
obverse side reverse side
Images by Fornax, added November 3, 2012
A red flag, in the center a wreath of silver laurel leaves. In the center of the wreath a white field, in the center of which a black National Eagle (as in the service flag, without swastika). Suspended from the wreath the Pour le Merite [First World War decoration for valour]. Extending from the side of the wreath a pair of silver stylized wings; connecting each corner and the wedge a white black-bordered wedge on which in each corner a black swastika, giving the impression of an overall cross. The reverse was similar, except that eagle and swastikas reversed positions (swastika in center, eagles at corners). Illustrated in Davis 1975, p. 100 and [Roger James] Bender, The Luftwaffe, p. 282]. This flag remained in use until 1935.
Norman Martin, 1998
1:1 Image by Jaume Ollé
An alternative design to the flag of the Minister for Air Travel. The design is rather similar except for having a red, rather than a white, central disk, and having the diagonal white wedges extend only slightly more than half the distance, so that the swastikas appear in the red field. In use 1933? to 1935. [Davis 1975 has a black and white picture of this flag flying at the Air Ministry.
Norman Martin, Jan 1998
I've posted photos of the first design of the flag of the Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe (one is a car pennant, but the layout is the same) on the Flag Forum.
Marcus Wendel, 6 Jun 2008
Flag of the Minister for Air Travel and Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force 1935-1938
Flagge des Reichsminister der Luftfahrt und Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe
1:1 Images by Jaume Ollé
N.B.: the gold braided border is not a fringe
Similar to the flag of the Minister for Air Travel except for having a gold Luftwaffe eagle (with swastika, of course) at the center with wings overlapping into the red field, gold swastikas and a gold braid border and analogous change on the reverse. Illustrated in Davis 1975 and p. 101, [Roger James] Bender, The Luftwaffe, p. 283. In use 1935-1938.
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N.B.: the gold braided border is not a fringe.
Identical with the previous flag except for having crossed marshal's batons at the bottom of the wreath (to signify Göring's rank). In use from 1938, but was not often used after Göring's 1940 promotion to Reichsmarschall. Illustrated in Flaggenbuch 1939, pl. VI and Davis 1975, p. 102. The reverse shows no change from the previous flag.
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