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Home / Knowledge Hub / AccessPay named one of the top ten northern tech companies
AccessPay named one of the top ten northern tech companies
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AccessPay has been ranked number 8 in the first ever ‘Northern Tech 100’ league table.
The league table ranks the top 100 fastest growing tech companies in the North and was launched on Thursday 30th March 2017 at the Northern Tech Awards in Newcastle.
Championing payments evolution
AccessPay has championed the evolution of payments and finance since its establishment in 2012, seeking to drive positive, innovative, and rapid change in the financial services industry.
The business is now playing an integral role in shaping discussion and contributing to the future of modern finance practices,
A word from AccessPay
CEO Anish Kapoor , who has lead the AccessPay team in its bid to become a financial services innovator, said: “Being named in such an esteemed list is credit to the team for all they have achieved in the last five years. Financial technology is a rapidly evolving area and we are proud to be a northern-based organisation that is helping both shape its future but also work with our clients to realise the business benefits.”
Tech North partnered with GP Bullhound to create the Northern Tech 100 to celebrate the growing number of tech success stories in the North.
For the full league table visit the Northern Tech 100 web page on Tech North’s website.
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Refugees Wave Stock Photos and Images
Signpost refugee's wave and asylum, Wegweiser Fl?chtlingswelle und Asyl
Munich, Germany. 06th Sep, 2015. Refugees wave as they arrive at the main train station in Munich, Germany, 06 September 2015. Thousands more exhausted refugees were setting foot in Germany for the second day 06 September after enduring grueling journeys across Hungary and Austria. Many of the refugees are fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria and Afghanistan, and thus qualify for international protection, but EU countries disagree on how to best handle the surge. Photo: Andreas Gebert/dpa/Alamy Live News
Refugees wave a German flag as they call for borders to be open and celebrated the support received from German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the makesh
Migrants and refugees wave from a window of a train in the Tovarnik train station that will transport them to Austria on September 18, 2015 in Tovarnik, Croatia. Photo by Achilleas Savallis/UPI.
Eu Flag, Weapons And Miniature Family Figures, Wave Of Refugees
Vintage archive WW2 Propaganda image of Jewish refugee children escaping Nazi Germany anti Semitic aggression by traveling by sea to the United States in 1939. Jewish children mimic and wave to the Statue of Liberty as they enter New York on the SS President Harding on 3 June 1939
Mother with child, waiting for their relatives, to cross the border between Croatia and Slovenia at Rigonce
Athens, Greece, 17th March, 2018. Refugees chant slogans demanding open borbers and wave flags during the demonstration for the International Day against racism in Athens, Greece. Credit: Nicolas Koutsokostas/Alamy Live News.
Calais, France. 24th Oct, 2016. The bus leaves the Reception and Orientation Centre at the Jungle. Refugees wave at the camera. The first day of the registration and distribution of the refugees from the Jungle in Calais has seen 1631 refugees in 39 buses have been distributed by 16:00 to several places in France. © Michael Debets/Pacific Press/Alamy Live News
Recently arrived refugees from Afghanistan arrive on the island of Lesvos and begin walking to the capital to be registered.
Abandoned boat on the coast - refugees risking lives to find new homes or life due to persecution.
In the refugee arrival in Dortmund Keuning house the refugees of volunteers are supplied with food and clothing.
INDIA, West Bengal, Ganges river delta Sundarbans , Sagar Island , broken dyke due to sea erosion and rising sea levels / INDIEN Westbengalen, Gangesdelta Sunderbans , Sagar Island , vom Meer zerstoerter Deich
Jerusalem, Israel. 23rd Apr, 2015. Israeli Arabs and other supporters wave Palestinian flags during a protest to demand the right of return for refugees who fled their homes during the Palestinian-Israeli war in 1948, near Tiberias, northern Israel, on April 23, 2015. Credit: Muammar Awad/Xinhua/Alamy Live News
David Reeks, honorary helper of the Scottish relief organization 'Edinburgh Direct Aid' (EDA) has driven a truck from Scotland to Germany with 12 tons of donated clothing. The picture shows him when handing over the donation in the sorting center of Diakonia on Stahlgruberring 8.
EU flag with barbed wire, symbolic photo refugee's crisis, EU-Fahne mit Stacheldraht, Symbolfoto Fluechtlingskrise
Bristol, UK - 04 February 2017: Crowds of people wave banners in support of refugees and march through the city of Bristol, UK, protesting against the policies of the 45th President of the United Sates, Donald Trump, and his proposed state visit to the UK. Credit: Andy Parker/Alamy Live News
Refugees seen warming themselves with bonfires in the Lere Refugee settlement. A deadly earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitude and the tsunami wave caused by it has destroyed the city of Palu and much of the area in Central Sulawesi. According to the officials, death toll from devastating quake and tsunami rises to 1,347, around 800 people in hospitals are seriously injured and some 62,000 people have been displaced in 24 camps around the region.
Thessaloniki, Greece. 21st July, 2016. Thousands of protesters, which most of them were refugees stranded in Greece, demonstrated in Thessaloniki, Greece on July 21, 2016. Demonstrators marched through the streets of the city demanding for border opening inside the European Union Credit: Giannis Papanikos/Alamy Live News
Eye behind barbed wire, symbolic photo refugee's crisis, Auge hinter Stacheldraht, Symbolfoto Fl?chtlingskrise
Munich, Germany. 05th Sep, 2015. Refugees wave from a bus which takes them to a reception center after arriving at the main train station in Munich, Germany, 05 September 2015. Thousands more exhausted refugees were setting foot in Germany for the second day 06 September after enduring grueling journeys across Hungary and Austria. Many of the refugees are fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria and Afghanistan, and thus qualify for international protection, but EU countries disagree on how to best handle the surge. Photo: Andreas Gebert/dpa/Alamy Live News
South Sudanese refugees wave South Sudan flags at a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, to support the Southern Sudan referendum, January 9, 2011. More than a million Southern Sudanese started casting their ballots in the seven day referendum that would split Christian South Sudan from the northern government dominated by Arab Muslims. The referendum is expected to split Africa's largest nation into two, giving birth to the world's newest nation. UPI/Debbie Hill
German refugees from the Lebanon wave a German flag as they get out of the Bundeswehr plane at the military part of the airport Cologne/Bonn, Germany, Thursday, 20 July 2006. It is the first of three planes with about 200 refugees each. The plane was late because of a late departure in Damaskus. Photo: Felix Heyder
Syrian family reunited after crossing the border and entering Schengen zone at Rigonce, Slovenia
Berlin, Germany. 16th Aug, 2016. Twenty-seven years old Iraqi Saif Aldliam, who lives for a year in a refugee facility in the Spandau in district of Berlin, came to Germany as well as hundreds of thousands of refugees at the peak of migration wave last summer. Saif Aldliam is pictured in Berlin, Germany, August 31, 2016. © Martin Weiser/CTK Photo/Alamy Live News
Greece. 05th Sep, 2015. Refugees wave from board of the El. Venizelos while it is docking in Piraeus harbour. Thousands of migrants from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan come to Athens on a near daily basis from the Greek islands which they reached from Turkey. For many of these refugees, Athens is just a stopover on their journey to northern European countries. Credit: Michael Debets/Pacific Press/Alamy Live News
Three Syrian refugee children smile as they arrive in Greece from Turkey in a rubber boat that landed on a Greek beach.
Palu, Indonesia. 13th Oct, 2018. Refugees seen resting in the Lere Refugee settlement.A deadly earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitude and the tsunami wave caused by it has destroyed the city of Palu and much of the area in Central Sulawesi. According to the officials, death toll from devastating quake and tsunami rises to 1,347, around 800 people in hospitals are seriously injured and some 62,000 people have been displaced in 24 camps around the region. Credit: Hariandi Hafid/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News
Idomeni refugee camp on Greek Macedonia border, Syrian refugees protest, Pro-Merkel rally, boy waves a german flag, Idomeni
Damascus. 13th Aug, 2018. Syrian children wave hands as a Russian military police officer standing guard at the Jdaidet Yabous crossing border between Syria and Lebanon on Aug. 13, 2018. Around 150 Syrian refugees returned to their country Monday from Shabaa in Lebanon, local media reported. This is the fourth batch of Syrian refugees returning to their homeland from Shabaa. Credit: Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua/Alamy Live News
Immigration concept illustration: Sperms of different colors swimming towards an egg cell with the flag of Syria.(series)
Milton Ernest, UK. 13th May, 2017. Campaigners against immigration detention communicate with detainees inside Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre during a large protest organised by Movement For Justice By Any Means Necessary. Campaigners, including former detainees, called for all immigration detention centres to be closed. Credit: Mark Kerrison/Alamy Live News
Refugees seen being loaded onto a truck which will take them to safer area. A deadly earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitude and the tsunami wave caused by it has destroyed the city of Palu and much of the area in Central Sulawesi. According to the officials, death toll from devastating quake and tsunami rises to 1,347, around 800 people in hospitals are seriously injured and some 62,000 people have been displaced in 24 camps around the region.
Globe with flower chain in German national colours, symbolic photo refugee's stream to Germany, Globus mit Blumenkette in deutschen Nationalfarben, Sy
Relatives wave farewell to the members of the crew of Germany navy vessel 'Augsburg' in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 20 November 2015. The 'Augsburg' is sailing for the Mediterranean to join operation Sophia, which is aimed at rescuing refugees in distress and tracking down of human trafficers. Photo: Ingo Wagner/dpa
South Sudanese refugees wave South Sudan and Israeli flags at a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, to support the Southern Sudan referendum, January 9, 2011. More than a million Southern Sudanese started casting their ballots in the seven day referendum that would split Christian South Sudan from the northern government dominated by Arab Muslims. The referendum is expected to split Africa's largest nation into two, giving birth to the world's newest nation. UPI/Debbie Hill
Globe With German Lei, Flow Of Refugees
Turkish flags wave in the newly founded Ludwigshafen Park in Gaziantep, Turkey, 01 April 2009. The park is a memorial for the nine women and children of Turkish descent who were killed in the fire in a residential building in Ludwigshafen, Germany on 03 February 2008. German Minister of State and Commissioner for Migration, Refugees, and Integration Boehmer (not depicted) visited t
Refugees and migrants waiting to enter the Schengen zone
Berlin, Germany. 16th Aug, 2016. Twenty-seven years old Iraqi Saif Aldliam, who lives for a year in a refugee facility in the Spandau in district of Berlin, came to Germany as well as hundreds of thousands of refugees at the peak of migration wave last summer. Saif Aldliam´s room is pictured in Berlin, Germany, August 31, 2016. © Martin Weiser/CTK Photo/Alamy Live News
Piraeus, Greece. 08th Oct, 2015. Refugees wave from the railing of the El. Venizelos while it docks in Piraeus Harbour. The ferry El. Venizelos brought 2,500 of refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos to Piraeus. The refugees are then brought by buses to the metro station, from where they travel into Athens and later on further towards Western Europe. The ferry is one of three chartered by the Greek government to transport refugees from the Greek islands to Athens on a continuing basis. © Michael Debets/Pacific Press/Alamy Live News
Protesters wave a Wirmer flag and German flags. A handful of right-wing protesters came to their weekly rally in Berlin where they spoke out against foreigners and refugees and specific against the German churches and their pro-refugees policies. The protest is part of the larger PEGIDA movement, that meets regularly in several German cities. Photo: Cronos/Michael Debets
Palu, Indonesia. 4th Oct, 2018. Refugees seen resting in the Lere Refugee settlement.A deadly earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitude and the tsunami wave caused by it has destroyed the city of Palu and much of the area in Central Sulawesi. According to the officials, death toll from devastating quake and tsunami rises to 1,347, around 800 people in hospitals are seriously injured and some 62,000 people have been displaced in 24 camps around the region. Credit: Hariandi Hafid/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News
Athens, Greece. 14th June, 2015. Immigrants and refugees arrive at the port of Piraeus near Athens, Greece, June 14, 2015. More than 1,800 immigrants and refugees arrived here on Sunday morning from the Greek island of Lesvos. The new wave of immigrants from Syria were trapped for a long time at the Greek island, due to a delay in the necessary paperwork at the port of Lesvos and in the reception centers where they were staying. © Marios Lolos/Xinhua/Alamy Live News
Immigration concept illustration: Sperms of different colors swimming towards an egg cell with the flag of Andorra.(series)
The word Asylum from wooden letter and locking beam, upper limit for refugees, Das Wort Asyl aus Holzbuchstaben und Sperrbalken, Obergrenze fuer Fluec
Palu, Indonesia. 4th Oct 2018. Refugees seen resting in the Lere Refugee settlement. A deadly earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitude and the tsunami wave caused by it has destroyed the city of Palu and much of the area in Central Sulawesi. According to the officials, death toll from devastating quake and tsunami rises to 1,347, around 800 people in hospitals are seriously injured and some 62,000 people have been displaced in 24 camps around the region. Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
Emily chair of Polish Minister prior to the European Union interior and home affairs ministers meeting on the immigration crisis at European Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on 09.11.2015 The EU ministers gathered to discuss the wave of refugees on the Balkan by Wiktor Dabkowski
Europe, Serbia, Sid, September 2017 : After the great wave of migrants in recent years, the dramatic situation of migrants stuck in Serbia has not end
Refugees, waiting to cross into the Schengen zone at Rigonce, Slovenia.
Asotthalom, Hungary. 25th June, 2015. The Hungarian Serbian border area near Asotthalom, Hungary, June 25, 2015. Hungary has been recently facing a strong wave of refugees from North Africa and the Middle East, which get to the country mostly from Serbia. About 54,000 illegal immigrants have been registered in Hungary since January. Hungary plans to build a fence along its border with Serbia to stop people illegally entering the country. Credit: Jan Koller/CTK Photo/Alamy Live News
Lesbos, Greece. 9th September 2015. The refugees in an approaching small inflatable rubber dinghy cheer and wave as they see the people on the beach waiting for them. Hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are still coming to the Greek island of Lesbos on a daily basis, after making the dangerous trip from the nearby Turkish coast in small inflatable boats. Credit: Michael Debets/Alamy Live News
Protesters wave a Prussian flag and flags of the German Reich until 1918. A handful of right-wing protesters came to their weekly rally in Berlin where they spoke out against foreigners and refugees and specific against the German churches and their pro-refugees policies. The protest is part of the larger PEGIDA movement, that meets regularly in several German cities. Photo: Cronos/Michael Debets
Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. 12th Oct, 2018. Refugees seen warming themselves with bonfires in the Lere Refugee settlement.A deadly earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitude and the tsunami wave caused by it has destroyed the city of Palu and much of the area in Central Sulawesi. According to the officials, death toll from devastating quake and tsunami rises to 1,347, around 800 people in hospitals are seriously injured and some 62,000 people have been displaced in 24 camps around the region. Credit: Hariandi Hafid/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News
Idomeni refugee camp on Greek Macedonia border, Syrian refugees protest, Pro-Merkel rally, a child waves a german flag, Idomeni
Immigration concept illustration: Sperms of different colors swimming towards an egg cell with the flag of Isle of Man.(series)
The word Asylum from wooden letter and tollgate, upper limit for refugees, Das Wort Asyl aus Holzbuchstaben und Schlagbaum, Obergrenze fuer Fluechtlin
Palu, Indonesia. 4th Oct 2018. Refugees seen set up tents in the Lere Refugee settlement. A deadly earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitude and the tsunami wave caused by it has destroyed the city of Palu and much of the area in Central Sulawesi. According to the officials, death toll from devastating quake and tsunami rises to 1,347, around 800 people in hospitals are seriously injured and some 62,000 people have been displaced in 24 camps around the region. Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
Render illustration of computer keyboard with the print Immigration Wave on two adjacent pale blue buttons
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve prior to the European Union interior and home affairs ministers meeting on the immigration crisis at European Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on 09.11.2015 The EU ministers gathered to discuss the wave of refugees on the Balkan by Wiktor Dabkowski
Refugees waiting on the Slovenian-Croatian Border crossing at Rigonce, Slovenia.
Protesters wave a Wirmer flag and a German flag, while another protester addresses the group. A handful of right-wing protesters came to their weekly rally in Berlin where they spoke out against foreigners and refugees and specific against the German churches and their pro-refugees policies. The protest is part of the larger PEGIDA movement, that meets regularly in several German cities. Photo: Cronos/Michael Debets
Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. 3rd Oct, 2018. Refugees seen warming themselves with bonfires in the Lere Refugee settlement.A deadly earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitude and the tsunami wave caused by it has destroyed the city of Palu and much of the area in Central Sulawesi. According to the officials, death toll from devastating quake and tsunami rises to 1,347, around 800 people in hospitals are seriously injured and some 62,000 people have been displaced in 24 camps around the region. Credit: Hariandi Hafid/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News
Idomeni refugee camp on Greek Macedonia border, Syrian refugees protest, Pro-Merkel rally, a girl waves a german flag, Idomeni
Immigration concept illustration: Sperms of different colors swimming towards an egg cell with the flag of Oklahoma.(series)
Milton Ernest, UK. 13th May, 2017. Detainees inside Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre hold up signs in the windows to communicate with campaigners against immigration detention attending a large protest organised by Movement For Justice By Any Means Necessary. Campaigners, including former detainees, called for all immigration detention centres to be closed.
Palu, Indonesia. 4th Oct 2018. Female refugees seen praying in in the Lere Refugee settlement. A deadly earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitude and the tsunami wave caused by it has destroyed the city of Palu and much of the area in Central Sulawesi. According to the officials, death toll from devastating quake and tsunami rises to 1,347, around 800 people in hospitals are seriously injured and some 62,000 people have been displaced in 24 camps around the region. Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
A bag with the words 'Baby welcomes for refugees in Munich' in Margit Merkle's office, which is unique in Germany, for fugitive and escaped pregnant women and young mothers in the Bayernkaserne in Munich.
Barbed wire on EU flag, symbolic photo refugee's stream to Europe, Stacheldraht auf EU-Fahne, Symbolfoto Fl?chtlingsstrom nach Europa
Danish Interior Minister Inger Stojberg prior to the European Union interior and home affairs ministers meeting on the immigration crisis at European Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on 09.11.2015 The EU ministers gathered to discuss the wave of refugees on the Balkan by Wiktor Dabkowski
Flag Of The Eu And Barbed Wire, Flow Of Refugees
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Celtic face UEFA charge over Palestine flag display
Dozens of Palestine flags were displayed during Scottish club's 5-2 win over Israeli opponents Hapoel Beer-Sheva.
Celtic were fined about $20,900 two years ago after a Palestine flag was displayed at a Champions League qualifier against KR Reykjavik of Iceland [Reuters]
Europe's football governing body UEFA have opened disciplinary proceedings against Celtic after a section of their support displayed Palestine flags during Wednesday's Champions League play-off first leg against Hapoel Beer-Sheva of Israel.
UEFA said Scottish club Celtic had been charged for displays of an "illicit banner" and added: "This case will be dealt with by the UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body on 22 September."
The UEFA rule in question forbids the use of "gestures, words, objects or any other means to transmit any message that is not fit for a sports event, particularly messages that are of a political, ideological, religious, offensive or provocative nature".
These #Celtic soccer fans broke the rules to show their love for Palestine. https://t.co/o62qnk2ZaE
— AJ+ (@ajplus) August 18, 2016
Dozens of Palestine flags were displayed during Celtic's 5-2 first-leg win, many of them in the new safe standing section at Parkhead.
Many Celtic fans have long identified with left-wing causes, among them the Palestinian struggle.
"It's [got] to do with the sense that the Irish Catholics in Scotland have of being underdogs over several generations," Scottish historian Tom Devine told Al Jazeera. "There is a strong sense of history among that community, even though it's now third, fourth and fifth-generation Irish."
Celtic were fined about £16,000 ($20,900) two years ago after a Palestine flag was displayed at a Champions League qualifier against KR Reykjavik of Iceland.
The Scottish champions have been punished eight times in five seasons by the European governing body for supporter misconduct.
The second leg of the play-off tie will be played in Israel next Tuesday, August 23.
Celtic fans singing and showing support for Palestine! pic.twitter.com/WRzcVKwjC7
— Football Chants (@FootyFansChants) August 19, 2016
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Archive : Interview – Harold Musgrove
20 May 1985 Keith Adams 0
CAR – June 1985
Interview – Harold Musgrove, Chairman And Chief Executive, Austin Rover Group Ltd, story by Gavin Green
Harold Musgrove must have the least envied task in the motor industry. As chairman of Austin Rover, BL’s volume car wing, he’s in charge of turning the still ailing manufacturers into a commercially viable firm. Despite signs of promise, last year was a bitter disappointment for Musgrove with Austin Rover’s balance sheets worse than in 1983, sales down and further industrial disharmony. Negotiations with the government over the BL corporate plan have also been difficult. Nonetheless, next years executive car – the long awaited and crucially important Rover XX – and a blossoming relationship with Honda, bode well for the future. The company’s forthcoming return to the U.S. market, where they failed miserably a few years back, should also help.
Musgrove, a BL veteran with 40 years service, was given the chairmanship of Austin Rover in 1982 after working under Sir Michael Edwardes. He now heads a smaller, leaner company – which he claims is one of the most cost effective car makers in the world.
‘And if you let me down, I’ll make sure you never come anywhere near this building again’! Harold John Musgrove, Austin Rover’s straight talking chairman, is showing the schoolmasterly side of his character: leaning forward with finger wagging and voice raised almost to a shout.
His brown eyes, flashing with apparent anger, hold mine like a vice. Musgrove, who has apparently had some bad experiences with journalists in the past, is asking for a fair deal. Astonished, I mumble something about being good. Apparently satisfied, Musgrove regains his managerial decorum, reaches for his Hamlet cigar – balanced on the ashtray with far more stability than any BL financial books of recent – and leans back in his easy chair. The flash of imperious anger is over, but the domineering sock it to them side of the Musgrove psyche is not gone for good.
As chairman of Austin Rover since 1982, 55 year old Musgrove is charged with the onerous responsibility of making the biggest bit of the British motor industry survive. An acknowledged grafter rather than an intellectual, he admits that Austin Rover are still ‘not viable.’
‘I want the Musgrove era at Austin Rover to be remembered as the period in which the company becomes a viable, commercial concern.’
He’s offering no prediction as to when this might happen, though. But if he takes early retirement, there are only five years left.
Musgrove works in a large first floor area of Austin Rover’s headquarters, on the A45 in Coventry. His office, part of a complex which includes the boardroom, a video room and a large secretarial cum-reception area, offers a panoramic view of the A45, the executive car park and the Torrington factory over the road – where, among other things, steering joints and bearings are made for AR cars.
The view being what it is outside, most guests are probably more inclined to peruse the pot pourri of offerings on the office wall. They’ll find a large painting of the forge at Longbridge during World War 2 – where among other things, bits of Lancaster bombers were built – and a series of aerial shots of a more modern 1980s Longbridge. There’s a large autographed print of former French saloon car champion Rene Metge in his Rover SD1 racer (Musgrove takes a keen interest in the competition Rovers ) and two gold medals Musgrove won in the early 80s.
One of these is from the Institute of Production Engineers ; the other is the Churchill Award from the Society of Engineers. There is also a framed cartoon from THE BIRMINGHAM POST, which shows Mrs Thatcher about to get into a voice synthesiser equipped Maestro telling Maestro telling Musgrove : ‘It wouldn’t dare tell me what to do.’ (Says Musgrove ‘It’s more accurate than the artist ever realised’ ).
And in pride of place above Harold’s swivel desk chair is Austin Rover’s royal warrant. Musgrove is an hour late for our early evening interview. He has been delayed in the boardroom discussing the company’s corporate plan – currently in front of Trade and Industry Secretary Norman Tebbitt – with other management heads. The meeting has lasted 4.5 hours. His unruffled, ever smiling secretary Ann has given us coffee and biscuits as we wait. He finally emerges from the boardroom, issues some peremptory instructions to Ann (‘……..and don’t let me forget that tomorrow’ ), looks at the mound of paperwork on his desk (Ann, where did this come from ?’ ), then shakes my hand firmly.
He is a thin, fit looking man, full of pent up energy despite the advanced hour ( it’s 7 pm ), the no doubt arduous meeting and the fact that he had just arrived back from a three day trip to India.
We open up on ARG’s current condition – I aim to strike a congenial note – so Musgrove launches into reasons for Austin Rover’s poor sales and financial performance last year. Despite the optimism of the last couple of years, Austin Rover’s market share in 1984 fell ( back under the 18 per cent mark ), their tiny operating profit in 1983 receded to a £26 million loss, they missed their sales target by 50,000 cars and, in the first quarter of 1985, they have been overtaken in overall sales by Vauxhall. Even more annoying, their brief period of industrial harmony disintegrated : there were two lengthy disputes.
Musgrove puts the blame for the sales and Sterling losses firmly on those strikes.
‘The first – over the dismissal of the coloured forklift driver – came before the August sales rush and meant we were short of cars. While the rest of the industry were heavily incentivising we didn’t, because we had no cars to supply. And anyone who doesn’t have a good August sales performance in Britain has got problems with the annual figures. Then in November there was the wage negotiation dispute. That hurt our supply of cars for the start of the ’85 year.’
Harold Musgrove says 1984 was very disappointing all round. And the aggressive UK market conditions are still hurting.
‘Many foreign companies, whose domestic markets are poor, are putting enormous effort into increasing their UK sales,’ he says. ‘And when certain other makers are increasing their volumes, yet showing worst profit positions’ (an obvious swipe at Vauxhall )’ it is obvious what they are doing to increase sales. We can’t afford to do that. And they can’t afford to do it ad infinitum. But they do have certain advantages. They bring in most of their cars from overseas – despite being regarded as British manufacturers.’
Musgrove says Austin Rover can compete on dealer incentives ( to aid discounting ) – but cannot offer the huge fleet discounts of some competitors. Some makers are said to offer up to 40 per cent off certain models for fleets.
Although Austin Rover may still not be a ‘viable’ company, Harold Musgrove reckons there have been many achievements in the post-Edwardes era.
‘We’ve made strong technical advances, our long range product plan has been virtually delivered as promised, and we have improved our cost efficiency – to the point that we are one of the most efficient car makers in the world. Now we have to widen our marketing base. We want 19 per cent of the UK market ( a much lower figure than some Austin Rover directors were mentioning a couple of years ago ) and we have to concentrate more on export markets. We are already making progress in Europe and, thanks to the new XX Rover saloon, we should be making inroads soon into the USA and Japan. That car will give us a tremendous opportunity in Japan, because it will actually assembled there from CKD kits by Honda.’
‘And no serious car maker can afford to ignore the USA. In a couple of weeks I’m off to America to talk about the setting up there of our dealer network. At the moment we do have too much reliance on the UK market – and that’s bad. With a stronger export base there is more stability, because you can ride out individual market problems and particular currency fluctuations.’
Harold Musgrove says Austin Rover won’t be making the same errors with their exports that BMC and British Leyland did.
‘It was a mistake to try to sell British specification cars to overseas markets without adapting them properly to local conditions. We won’t do that again.’
Anyone who has sat through one of Harold Musgroves product launches will know that the ARG chairman likes to barrage his audience with superlatives about the cars. He seems to work on the tell-them-its-good-enough-times-and-they’ll-believe-you principle. In this 90 minute interview – during which I never ask his opinion of any ARG model – he describes the Metro as’ a most distinctive car’, the MG Metro as’ a beautiful fun car’, the 2.0 litre MG Maestro as’a beautiful fun car which is superbly balanced’, the MG Montego Turbo as’ a tremendous drivers car – I feel ashamed about the fact that I actually own one, whereas most people haven’t had the chance’ and the Montego as’a most distinctive, very stylish car – it’s a classically styled machine.’
The real eulogies are reserved for the XX.
‘Given the choice of any car to own and given unlimited money, I’d wait for the XX. It will have tremendous quality, refinement and durability – and it will be an exceptionally superb looker.’
The XX, which will replace the Rover SD1 – production of which fell sharply last year – is Austin Rover’s first major collaborative design and manufacturing project with Honda. ARG’s main role has been the overall body style, suspension and interior. Honda’s main input has been into the new V6 engine, the transmission, the air conditioning and the steering.
‘It is more difficult to design a car when you are collaborating with another company’, says Musgrove.
‘You have to take into account their views and, obviously, in some areas, you will differ. I remember that during an early stage in the development we decided on a certain suspension system – which is our responsibility. But the head of research and development at Honda at the time, who is now their president, suggested we should use a more expensive system instead. Eventually we agreed. We have also had discussions about the styling where Honda have agreed with us. It is more difficult working with someone else, but the result is better. The XX will be a better car, because of the Honda collaboration, than if we had designed it completely ourselves.’
The two main engine options on XX will be a 2.5 litre Honda V6 and a modified version of the ubiquitous 2.0 litre O-series engine. There will be two different specifications for the V6, and three for the 2.0 litre. The initial model will be a notchback, with the possibility of a coupe and hatchback to follow. The notchback is due to be launched in spring 1986, although the Honda version of the car, the HX will be shown at the Tokyo Motor Show at the end of 1985.
‘It would have been nice if we’d launched our version first, but it really doesn’t matter,’ says Musgrove.
‘The Japanese have a different way of launching cars from us – they show the first car they’ve built – with absolutely no production stock on hand. We launch a car when you can buy it from dealers.’
Not all XX models will necessarily be Rover badged, says Harold Musgrove. But contrary to some rumours that the coupe variant would wear Triumph badgework, the chairman says the Triumph name will not feature in XX’s future. He also denies a strong rumour that Porsche are involved in a £6 million development programme to improve the O-series engine for the XX, perhaps with 16 valves in the head.
Harold Musgrove says working with Honda has increased his respect for the Japanese.
‘They take longer to make a decision than we do, but once they’ve made it they move with incredible speed. The Japanese are very, very clever – but they are not unbeatable.’
Future Honda collaborative projects are certain, although Musgrove denies that any firm plans have been made. Nonetheless, most experts predict that a new collaborative deal to build a medium sized car is imminent. There is also a strong possibility of ARG assembling some Honda models at either Cowley or Longbridge.
Musgrove denies that ARG’s relationship with Honda is adulterating the British nature of his cars, or debasing Austin Rover’s corporate identity.
‘The old Triumph Acclaim and Rover 213 have a far higher local content than the cars of most so-called British manufacturers,’ says Musgrove, his voice raised, his forehead tilted forward and his eyes performing their optical lock. It’s clearly a sensitive area. Musgrove insists that, despite any future collaborative projects, Austin Rover will always keep their corporate identity. Questioned on the possibility of Honda buying a share of ARG, or even taking them over, Musgrove says: ‘I don’t know how we could retain our corporate identity if Honda did have a share.’
Along with committing himself to the retention of corporate identity, the chairman also insists that Austin Rover must retain the ability to’ build or design any area of a car. It’s imperative that we don’t rely on another maker to do something for us, and then lose the ability to make that part.’
Accordingly, Musgrove dismisses a suggestion that ARG may never again design and build a new engine by themselves. The powerplant for the forthcoming Metro replacement – believed to be about two years away – will not be Honda sourced, he adds. Nonetheless, ARG are about to start manufacture of Honda gearboxes at Longbridge. With typical hyperbole, Musgrove describes the box – rightly enough – as ‘superb.’
But the chairman retains some of his enthusiasm for Honda’s new complex at Swindon.
‘It shows how much effort Honda are putting into supporting the XX/HX programme,’ he says, adding that the site is purely for the sub-assembly of pressings peculiar to Honda versions of the HX made in Britain by ARG, for parts and distribution, and as a pre-delivery inspection centre.
‘Honda say they have no plans to expand the site. And that includes starting UK engine production.’
The chairman also dismisses the rumoured resurrection of an MG roadster – possibly on a Honda base – as ‘pure speculation.’
‘ We have no plans to build an MG roadster. It is not even in the concept stage. We would only build one again if we thought it was profitable. At the moment we don’t think it is.’
The Austin Rover chief has two MG’s at home – one of the new Montego Turbo’s and an MG Metro.
‘My chauffeur car is a Rover Vanden Plas EFI, I love driving, though, and am a real car enthusiast. I drive all our cars, and no one is allowed to get to any significant stage of development until I’ve driven the car and gone through it. I drive everyone mad. Not that I’d want a Lamborghini or a Porsche or a Ferrari. The idea of a mid-engined 12 cylinder two-seater just doesn’t appeal. I also like driving fast, but never in a built up area. People are damned fools if they speed around town with children and old people about. Yes, put your foot down on the open road, but no, not in built up areas.’
There is the raised voice and the now-you-listen-here tone, again.
What makes a good chairman?
That requires a calmer answer. There’s a pause, a puff on the Hamlet, a scratch on the chin.
‘I can motivate and lead people, and I can certainly lead by example. My strengths are the manufacturing side, the ability to assess a car, and the engineering side. I also have the ability to listen, and make decisions when necessary. And I don’t always make decisions based on the advice I get.’
As a boy brought up in the Midlands, Harold Musgrove accepted the advice of many people and went to work in the motor industry.
‘I came from a motor industry background. My father worked as a machine operator at Longbridge. My grandfather was also a factory worker. I had a very working class background, really. As a boy I had three ambitions. I wanted to be an RAF navigator – and that I did. I wanted to be a professional footballer. That I did ( he played for West Bromwich Albion. And I wanted to work in the motor industry. And that I did. I never really dreamed of being chairman or managing director of this company, although I was always competitive. In those days, too, there was a big gap between the shop floor and middle management, and between middle management and the boardroom. Nowadays the gaps just aren’t as big.’
Musgrove says he joined the Austin Motor Company 40 years ago – just as the war was ending – as an apprentice on press tool making and machine tool fitting.
‘I came from a grammar school though, which was unusual for a trades apprentice, and when I went to technical college I did a mechanical engineering course. I had the ideal apprenticeship – doing an engineering course and actually working on the shop floor. Soon after, I did my national service – in the RAF. I finished that after being commissioned at 23. I struck a dilemma then. I went back to Austin’s – where they put me in the planning department – but all the time I thought of gong back into the RAF. The thing that swayed me was that, at 23, they made me works manager at a factory in South Wales, looking after 250 people. I’ve never had any regrets about committing myself to the car industry. This company has been incredibly good to me, and my family. In return I’ve always given 100 per cent.’
But there were times when Harold Musgrove did consider leaving. During British Leyland’s nadir in the mid 70’s, he almost did it twice.
‘In 1977, for instance, I did make up my mind to leave. There were so many problems and I wanted out. But Sir Michael Edwardes and Ray Horrocks asked me to change my mind. I was impressed by them. They asked me to be manufacturing director of cars. I thought it would be a change, after a lengthy spell in the in the truck and bus division.’
Musgrove admits he learned’quite a lot’ from Edwardes. They don’t keep in touch, though.
‘I haven’t got time to keep in touch with anyone outside this industry.’
The chairman usually works a 12 hour day.
‘I normally arrive at the office, or at whatever plant I have to visit, at about 8.05 am. I leave it five minutes or so after everyone else arrives, to avoid hold-ups at the gate. Being chairman, I can allow myself the liberty. It’s unusual for me to be home in the evening before 8.30 pm. I have a lunch break if we have customers or visitors ; otherwise I simply have sandwiches in the office. I don’t want you to overplay the hard working thing, though. Some people think if I work 12 hours a day it must be some sort of drudgery, but if I didn’t enjoy it, I wouldn’t do it.’
‘I regret it from the point of view of my family, particularly when I sometimes have to be away at weekends too. But then if you don’t like the heat, you should get out. I love my work.’
The people who may not love it quite so much – the Musgrove family – include his wife Jacqueline (‘She’s fantastic’), and his four children. His eldest son, who is 21, is at college doing hotel management.
‘He decided that the pressures of the motor industry weren’t for him,’ says the chairman. ‘But my youngest son, who’s 12, might be interested in the car business. He’s not sure yet.’
Musgrove likes to spend weekends with his family, although he likes golf as well.
‘The trouble with golf is that it’s such a selfish hobby. I spend so much time away from my family during the week, I feel I should see them on weekends, and golf rather spoils that.’
Harold Musgrove needs to work such long hours, he maintains, because for Austin Rover to be successful big effort is necessary.
‘We’re paying the penalty now for British industry’s problems in the seventies. For us to be equal, we have to be better. That’s a good quote for you. And one of the reasons is, that the British public are so critical of British products. Journalists don’t help. I mean just the other day our racing Rover’s finished first, second and third at the Monza European touring car championship round, beating the BMW’s, Toyota’s and whatever. How much press coverage did this get in Britain. One lousy sentence in a few papers, if we were lucky. Yet if we blow up in the next round at Donington, you can bet we’ll get exposure.’
Again the lecturers finger.
It’s after 8.30 pm and, outside, the executive car park is almost empty. Harold Musgrove has been very generous with his time, and helpful. It’s time to go. His secretary has gone home, and the combination lock equipped filing cabinets are all shut. The corridor is deserted.
Outside Austin Rover’s headquarters, the Musgrove chauffeur driven Rover Vanden Plas awaits. Apart from the chairman’s office, only one other light in the office building is on. Some other executive will outwork Harold Musgrove tonight. The boss’s example, it seems, is being followed.
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Keith Adams The McLaren P1 was first shown at the 2012 Paris Motor Show as a styling model, and just six months later, it takes centre stage in Geneva in production form. It’s now public [...]
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By Jack Jenkins Posted on October 1, 2012, 10:15 am
While helping the poor and the economically disadvantaged has long been a core value for many Americans and their faith communities, some might question whether their concern would persist in unstable economic times—many families, after all, are just trying to stay afloat. Yet recent surges in activism and advocacy indicate that sensitivity to the plight of the less privileged is actually increasing—especially within many faith communities—and is playing an active role in the 2012 campaign.
In addition to thousands of churches, faith-based nonprofits, and activist groups working tirelessly to serve the poor, clergy and laypeople alike are speaking out to eradicate poverty and encouraging elected officials to create economic policies that are fair and just.
Fighting for economic justice
Faith groups in America have always expressed deep concern about economic inequality and poverty. Throughout our nation’s history, churches and faith-based nonprofits have provided essential services to the poor and needy. In addition to providing direct services, they have spoken with a prophetic voice about the government’s responsibility to care for those in need. From Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker Movement to Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, faith communities have a proud history of advocating on behalf of “the least of these.”
93 percent of Christians express concern for global poverty.
67 percent of Catholics consider helping the poor as central to the Catholic identity.
Faith-based charities and other religious organizations provide $50 billion worth of social services to the poor each year
In both 2004 and 2008, voters from all religious traditions listed the economy as a top issue that affected how they vote.
As it turns out, this value, like faith, seems to have staying power, and the strong tradition of faith-based activism on behalf of the poor continues today. Faith leaders played a prominent role in the recent Occupy Wall Street movement, for example, marching side-by-side with protesters as they decried corporate greed and called attention to America’s growing income disparity. What’s more, scores of churches and dioceses divested their money from large banks like Bank of America in October of last year, placing their funds in local credit unions that reinvest in community development and are responsible lenders.
Faith groups also made waves in recent years by opposing federal legislation that would harm lower-income households. During last year’s federal budget debate, for instance, many faith leaders denounced the House Republican budget-cutting plan, saying it would slash crucial programs essential to millions of Americans living in or near poverty. In fact, Common Cause—a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to holding U.S. political institutions more open and accountable—organized a protest against the budget in which priests, pastors, rabbis, and faith leaders were arrested for gathering in the U.S. Capitol and praying for lawmakers to remember the poor.
Similarly, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was quick to speak out against a separate House Budget proposal earlier this year because of its draconian cuts to government programs that help the poor and vulnerable. Their critique was amplified by Sister Simone Campbell, a nun and head of the Catholic social-justice group NETWORK, who organized the nine-state “Nuns on the Bus” tour decrying the “immoral” budget while visiting local faith-based service groups that would be drastically harmed by proposed budget cuts.
Advocacy for a fair and just economy extended into this year’s election season, with religious groups working to raise awareness about poverty within both presidential campaigns. Sister Simone Campbell and NETWORK have asked both presidential candidates to spend a day with the poor. And Circle of Protection, an ecumenical Christian activist group dedicated to protecting government services that meet “the essential needs of hungry and poor people at home and abroad,” successfully persuaded both presidential campaigns to release video statements expressing their dedication to eradicating poverty.
Rev. David Beckman, president of Bread for the World—a Christian citizens’ movement in the fight to end hunger—explained that the videos addressed what is truly a spiritual issue:
We are calling on religious leaders and all people of faith to listen carefully to what the candidates have to say and when voting be mindful of the least among us. Voting is a sacred obligation; supporting candidates who have demonstrated their commitment to reducing hunger and poverty is integral to good stewardship.
But concern about economic inequality and poverty isn’t restricted to organization heads or clergy—it’s also important to those in the pews. Polls show that 93 percent of Christians express concern about global poverty. In addition, a 2011 survey found that 67 percent of Catholics consider helping the poor as central to the Catholic identity—by comparison, only 64 percent say the belief in Mary as the mother of God is a core Catholic belief. Another 2011 poll reported that majorities of every major religious group, as well as those who are religiously unaffiliated, think the country would be better off if the distribution of wealth were more equal.
In short, the movement for a fair and just economy isn’t limited to faith leaders and worshippers. In fact, it includes Americans of all faiths—and no faith—united behind the cause of economic justice.
If recent events are any indication, concern for economic inequality isn’t just a political talking point. It’s a deeply held spiritual value shared across faiths and American history that is only getting stronger.
Jack Jenkins is a Writer and Researcher with the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center for American Progress. For more on this initiative, please see its project page.
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In Homage to Brahms: "Broken Intermezzo" for Piano
April 04, 2013 Peter Lanier
BUY THE SHEET MUSIC HERE: http://www.bachscholar.com/cory-hall-piano-classics-for-church-concert/broken-intermezzo/ It was two years ago, in 2011, that I experienced my greatest activity as a composer. In April 2011 I composed a beautiful piano piece called Broken Intermezzo, where "Broken" refers to the separated or broken up sections and "Intermezzo" refers to the overall Brahmsian character of the music. Broken Intermezzo consists of two sections -- a melodic section with chords in the right hand and a folksy melody in the left hand (Section A), and a harmonic section that exploits four against three, 4:3, cross rhythms (Section B). These two remarkably contrasting sections, in A-flat major and its relative minor of F minor, fit together like a hand and glove. The overall form is almost entirely symmetrical, which provides the listener with sense of total completion and satisfaction. Even if one does not consciously analyze the form when listening to it, one inevitably experiences a sense of total completion. Here is a layout of the form:
A (all) -- B -- A (first half) -- B -- A (second half) -- B -- A (all) -- coda
Not only does the form fit into a satisfying symmetrical plan, but the musical ideas themselves offer a constant source of joy and accomplishment to the pianist. The folksy melody in the left hand of the A section reminds me of a couple of pop songs (such as John Denver or the Beatles), which wasn't intentional. I use the word "accomplishment" since the B section consists of a constant sequence of fours against threes, which every pianist knows presents a formidable technical challenge. However, these are not fast and virtuosic 4:3 rhythms, but rather slower and more melodious ones over a rich harmonic progression that requires much damper pedal. This section sounds a lot like Brahms. The chord progression here is the "Pachelbel Canon" progression but in a minor rather than major key (F minor). This famous progression is totally disguised in a minor key with 4:3 rhythms. In fact, had I not mentioned the "Pachelbel" progression here I am willing to bet most listeners -- even highly educated ones with music degrees -- would never recognize it.
I love contrast and my advice to aspiring composers is to use as much contrasting elements as possible within the same composition. Broken Intermezzo is an ideal example of just how effective contrast can be. Consider the two sections and their contrasting characteristics, especially the general dichotomy of "simple" vs. "complex":
A section: A-flat major, "melodic" in style, features "simple" melody, "mono-rhythmic" rhythms in melody of eighth-eighth-quarter, sparing use of damper pedal and clear textures B section: F minor, no melody featured, "harmonic" in style, uses repeating chord progression, "complex" 4:3 polyrhythms between the hands, liberal use of damper pedal and rich textures
After the two sections are stated alternatively seven times -- the number "7" traditionally symbolizing "perfection" -- a coda appears at the end which brings the piece to a peaceful conclusion. I love playing and listening to this piece and hope you do also. If you are a pianist and would like to purchase the sheet music, simply click on the link below!
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The School of Geography Map Room comprises a collection of approximately 200,000 sheet maps, 600 atlases, a local history reference collection, and a collection of map memoirs, travel guides and gazetteers.
Archives and collections associated with the Map Room include the Conzen Collection, the Thorpe and Nicklin archives, and a complete collection of dissertations and theses written by Birmingham geographers since the establishment of the department in 1924.
Monday to Thursday: 0900 to 1700 hours
Friday: 0900 to 1600 hours
Map Curator
Mr James Peart
Email:j.a.h.peart@bham.ac.uk
The Map Room is open to all members of the university, both past and present.
Enquiries from schools, colleges, interested members of the public and organisations outside the university should apply to the Map Curator in the first instance.
Borrowing Facilities
Members of the university may borrow the following categories of material: folded editions of 1:250,000, 1:50,000, and 1:25,000 scale Ordnance Survey maps; road atlases, street plans and directories, domestic and foreign travel guides, and most folded editions of foreign tourist-style maps.
Limited photocopying facilities are available to users of the library.
The Map Room is located in room G33, School of Geography building (R.26 on the Campus Plan), West Campus.
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Russian Banks to Test Cryptocurrency Banking Solutions in a Regulatory Sandbox
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by Nick Tsakanikas
Russian banks will test private banking solutions for cryptocurrency-based products. Managed by AddCapital, the fund boosts cryptos' adoption.
A group of Russia's largest banks, including Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, plan to participate in a 45-day pilot to test private banking solutions using digital currencies. The Bank of Russia will outline the regulatory sandbox under which these products will operate during the pilot period. The end goal is to have products available for the public once the legislative framework is ready. According to the report, the decision was made last Wednesday during a roundtable entitled, "Digital financial assets for banks, funds and large capital: the position of the regulator and solutions for investors."
The pilot program will include two solutions, namely Perceptron R and RQ. Both are exchange algorithms, self-adapting to markets with low transaction volumes and can be equally compatible with traditional financial assets. The investment portfolio will consist of six of the most common cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin. The algorithm will automatically review the selection of cryptocurrencies at the end of every quarter, as well as dynamically readjust their proportions in the portfolio. The minimum entry threshold for investors is set at $500 thousand.
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This is an important step forward for the adoption of cryptocurrencies in Russia, the legality of which has been extensively questioned by the Russian Central Bank. Regulations on digital assets are currently being explored and representatives of many major Russian banks have said that it is necessary to create a transparent and regulated environment for cryptocurrencies.
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Separation: The best entries so far
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Standout submissions for BJP’s competition to shadow Laura Pannack on an exclusive portraiture commission
British Journal of Photography, supported by Affinity Photo for iPad (Apple’s 2017 App of the Year), has commissioned award-winning photographer Laura Pannack to create a series of portraits that respond to the threat of Brexit on London’s creative industries.
The portraits will feature London-based couples who work in the creative industries and face the possibility of separation due to one not holding a British passport. With Britain soon to be out of the EU, tens of thousands of people face the possibility of losing their right to work in the UK, not to mention being forced out of the country that they share with their partner.
British Journal of Photography and Affinity are giving one photographer the opportunity to shadow Pannack during the Separation commission. If you are an emerging photographer with a talent for portraiture, we want to hear from you!
One successful entrant will also win a 10.5” iPad Pro, preloaded with Affinity’s for iPad, be featured on BJP online, and receive an in-depth portfolio review with Pannack.
Below, we present a selection of the strongest submissions so far.
Margo Ryszczuk
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Polish photographer Margo Ryszczuk moved to the UK in 2007. Currently a student at Plymouth College of Art, enrolled on the BA Commercial Photography for Fashion, Advertising and Editorial course, Ryszczuk has a thirst for travel and considers herself a “citizen of the world.”
“Since moving abroad from Poland, losing my dad and becoming a mum, I started capturing and documenting my private life and the moments that affected my everyday,” she says. “My work deals with independence, individuality, loneliness and femininity.” Portraits of Ryszczuk’s grandmother, captured following a family tragedy, were selected by Rankin for inclusion in the touring exhibition Dying Matters.
Izzy de Wattripont
Izzy de Wattripont is a young photographer currently studying at the University of the West of England in Bristol. De Wattripont’s photography explores the medium as a tool for human connection. Through her portraiture, she seeks to capture “genuine human emotions and interactions.”
Sarah Jane Field
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Sarah Jane Field started studying photography with the Open College of the Arts in 2013 and has been working as a photographer ever since. She continues to study and develop her personal practice whilst working as a portraiture-focused commercial photographer. She was recently invited to collaborate on an exhibition at Oxford House in Bethnal Green, London and is planning to do a photography workshop with prisoners in Wandsworth Prison in early-2018.
Guen Fiore
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Guen Fiore is an Italian photographer based in Rome. Specialising in portrait photography, Fiore’s work explores the representation of the human figure. Her photographs have been exhibited around the world and featured in publications including Vogue Italia and Vanity Fair.
Felipe Restrepo
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Felipe Restrepo was born in Manizales, Colombia. After studying Marine Biology in Bogotá, he moved to the south of Spain. It was there that Restrepo became interested in cinema, literature and photography, and later taught himself photography. Restrepo is currently working on a series of photographs taken around Lea Valley in east London. The photographs mostly comprise portraits of strangers that he encounters in the area.
Separation, a portrait series commissioned by British Journal of Photography and supported by Affinity Photo for iPad, will explore themes of separation in the wake of Brexit. BJP is giving one creative the opportunity to shadow Laura Pannack during the shoot. Enter now for your chance to win!
British Journal of Photography is also seeking couples willing to be photographed by Pannack for the portraiture series. Register your interest now.
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What if the Rathergate forger(s) had had a clue?
A thoughtful reader emails with this question:
Perhaps I have missed it, but has anyone (yourself, Rush, etc.) ever discussed what the consequences would have been if Dan Rather's informant, being more astute, had typed the fraudulent documents on a period typewriter? Would we now be discussing the policies, etc. of President Kerry?!
It may well be that someone with a better crystal ball than mine has already thoroughly addressed this topic and that if so, I've missed it too. But I'm a fan of "alternative histories" and rarely shy about venturing opinions and speculation, so here's what my own crystal ball tells me.
What if our presumed forger(s) — the anonymous source(s) from whom CBS News' source Bill Burkett purportedly received the documents — had used a contemporaneous typewriter, one of the sort available to Dubya's TANG unit at the time the documents were supposedly written? If that were the only factual change that we assume for our alternative history, then I think that before the election, the documents still would have ultimately been proved — to the satisfaction of a large segment of the well-informed and open-minded public — to have been forged anyway.
Recall that one of the "verifications" supposedly relied upon by CBS News was the White House staff's lack of an immediate denial when CBS News previewed the documents for them just before the broadcast aired. As things turned out, the blogosphere immediately snapped to the peculiarities, typographic and otherwise, of the documents. Eventually the White House (or at its request, the DoD and/or TANG) would have weighed in, probably saying, "We've re-checked and re-re-checked the official files, and we're highly confident that no copies of these documents were ever in them." Of course, the forger(s)' cover story was that they were from Col. Killian's "private files"; there's a history of mislaid or misfiled documents dribbling out (which surprises no veteran I've ever met, but some folks find significant); and some people won't accept Dubya's or the DoD's or the TANG's assertion that "all the files" have been searched and documents pertaining to Dubya released, no matter what.
But the other fishy circumstances — misuse of military terminology, abbreviations, formatting, etc., and the strong suspicions from other contemporaneous near-witnesses — by themselves raised very substantial doubts about the documents' authenticity. Add that to the lack of corroboration, and contrary opinions, of the near-witnesses, and I'm quite certain that the question of whether the documents were genuine would have come up, typeface notwithstanding.
So my guess is that not too many voters would have been swayed in this scenario — I don't think there were many voters for whom Dubya's TANG service was a key factor in voting for him, and those who felt it was a key factor in voting against him were already persuaded by the previous criticisms of his record by the MSM and liberal punditry. "Fishy" documents, even if not fully proven as forgeries, likely wouldn't have swayed enough votes to have changed anything important.
If we alter the scenario to presume a much more competent forger — one who got not only the typography right, but who also got the military abbreviations and formatting and terminology spot-on — then it's a much closer call.
The absence of the documents from "official" records, plus the doubting opinions of near-witnesses, by themselves wouldn't have convinced many folks that there was a genuine question of the documents having been forged. CBS News might well have been able to continue to stonewall on the identity of its "reliable source" at least until after the election. (For a course syllabus in "Brazen-but-Effective Stonewalling 101," consult the John Kerry Military Academy; see also the Miller-Cooper Institute for Self-Righteous Journalists Concealing Sources' Identities on "Principle.")
Would this scenario have swung the election? I can see it swinging maybe one percentage point of the total vote. I have no reason to think that, for example, it would have swung a disproportionate number of Ohio voters, but a one percent swing there could have made things Florida-2000 tight. My gut tells me that it still wouldn't have changed the election's outcome, and that one percent is an overgenerous guestimate. But it might well have undercut the basis on which Dubya has been able to claim having a broad mandate, however, with resulting significant weakness in his second term.
The big historical change that I think is most reasonable to posit as the consequence of a more competent forger, though, doesn't have to do directly with the election, but instead with the consequences of Rathergate for Dan Rather, CBS News, and the MSM generally. Especially if we assume that CBS News would have been able to keep the identity of its source confidential (and the squirrelly and conflicting stories that its source told them), the case against Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, et al. would have been much less compelling. Dangerous Dan still hasn't admitted without qualifications that the documents were forged; without the typographic case, he certainly never would have, even in the face of impeaching evidence like the abbreviations/formatting/terminology problems.
What absolutely damns the whole crew to Journalism Hell is that they aired and then resolutely defended the story notwithstanding the huge red flags their own document experts (even though they were primarily handwriting experts) had raised about the typeface. Some of the smaller red flags that CBS News had ignored (e.g., relying solely on photocopies) and shortcuts they took (e.g., failing to probe Burkett's story more deeply, or not letting Lt. Robert Strong actually see the documents when they solicited his guess as to their genuineness) might have been excused by many folks — but that one cannot be excused by anyone with an ounce of integrity or common sense. It's the difference between shoddy journalism and outright fraud — with the experts' warnings providing absolute proof of the mens rea ("guilty mind") of the CBS News culprits.
In short, had the forger(s) been smarter, CBS News' credibility likely would not have been thoroughly destroyed, and there's little hope that anyone in the MSM or the public generally would have learned any convincing lessons from this episode. The jury is still out on the extent to which the MSM has actually absorbed and accepted those lessons, or will alter its future conduct based upon them. But a vast portion of the public had its eyes opened (pun on the CBS logo intended). And for that, we can be thankful that the forger(s) were so thoroughly inept.
UPDATE (Sun Feb 20 @ 8:00pm): Charles Johnson at LGF reports that Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) — a/k/a The Hon. Gentleman from Woodstock — is apparently also a fan of alternative histories. In his, Karl Rove forged and planted the memos! The problem is, Rep. Hinchey is seriously trying to pass this fantasy off as truth. (He'd have been slightly more persuasive had he managed to remember which network Dan Rather works for, in my humble opinion.)
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(1) Mike G made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 7:47:10 AM | Permalink
Hell, go one step further: what if the documents were legit?
We would have had the devastating revelation that Bush was the son of a rich and powerful man who benefited from Dad's connections. Change your vote yet? Of course not; everyone has long since processed the fact that Bush was a sort of Prince Hal. If that matters to you, it's mattered to you all along. If it doesn't, then you judged whether or not to return him to office on his record since January 20, 2001, not on his record in the 1970s.
The fact is, the Democrats and the Rathergate perpetrators in the media both wildly overestimated the importance of military service to the voters. (Sort of the way Newt Gingrich et al. overestimated the importance of certain already-processed information about Bill Clinton's proclivities.) Kerry thought touting his Vietnam combat record was enough to run on; the media thought deconstructing Bush's non-combat record was enough to disqualify him. In both cases voters looked, yawned, and then asked the eternal political question, "What have you done for me lately?"
(2) Jay G made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 7:55:34 AM | Permalink
I'm with Mike. Even before the 60 minutes segment ran, I was rolling my eyes. Who doesn't already assume that W. used his family connections to elbow his way into the Guard, and then to waltz away from it? Of course he did. CBS might as well have run a segment on the shocking revelation that JFK had been unfaithful to Jackie. Who cares anymore? If the W. documents had been better forged or even real, so what?
(3) Brett Bellmore made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 7:56:06 AM | Permalink
I think you're missing a BIG second order effect: Rather and company, by airing such an easily debunked fraud, so far in advance of the election, essentially immunized the public against any more competent frauds being sprung on them at the last minute.
I think it was the New York Times, for instance, that had been planning to go with a story alleging that Bush had cheated in the debates using a radio tranciever, (Remember the mysterious "lump"?) and dropped it just a few days before the election. Who knows what other last minute suprises other news organizations had planned, and canceled because the public was primed to dismiss them?
I think Bush owes Rather a debt of gratitude.
(4) triticale made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 8:05:53 AM | Permalink
If the only change had been using a period typewriter, there still would have been detail issues of language and date format, and the bizarre error of picking Mother's Day weekend for the supposedly missed medical exam.
Anyway, it didn't take a whole lot of pull to get into full-time training for the F-104s when they were short of pilots for them, and it didn't take a whole lot of pull to waltz away once sufficient flight points had been logged and that particular plane was phased out.
(5) Michael Hertzberg made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 8:18:28 AM | Permalink
You're living in a dream world. Without the typeface issue, everything else would have been subject to interminable and undeterminable argument. Since, as Mike G says, people generally had processed GWB as the beneficiary of a famous dad, people (except for some diehard Bush supporters) would have assumed that the story was true, since it supported their assumption. But the question of how many fence-straddlers would have decided to vote for Kerry because of this (probably few) is the least interesting side of the issue. More to the point is how many fence-straddlers (or weak Kerry backers) were pushed into the Bush camp in reaction to the heavy-handed partisanship of Rather & co. & their use of forged documents. And then there's the fact that the exposure of Rather and the prevalence of the story at that stage of the campaign sucked the air out of the Dems' efforts to finish the campaign with a strong "Bush is evil" message.
(6) Diggs made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 8:37:08 AM | Permalink
Clearly the Democrats were confused about how the military, and military matters, play with the general public. They sought to make service in the Reserve/Nat'l Guard look like a joke at the very time that those groups are supplying a majority of the servicemembers in Iraq. Most Reservists and Guardsmem are NOT privileged, and they serve at great sacrifice to themselves, their families, and their community. Oftentimes a Red State community. To try to make that type of service into a liability was a grave mistake; but one easily made by people who's entire outlook about the military was flash-frozen during the Viet Nam years. The fake Bush memos only work in that Viet Nam era scenario, not today. No one in their right mind, and I mean no one, is joining the Reserves/Guard to get out of being drafted (although I'm sure several idiotic college-age Lefties went out and joined right away after they heard Kerry say they were seconds away from being "drafted") so the constant claxon call of Bush's "privileged" service as a fighter pilot in the TANG was nothing more than a reminder of his service as a fighter pilot, period. No liability for those of us who understand service.
If the Leftists ever want to use the military service of a former servicemember as a liability, they should first understand what it means to be in the military. Very few Lefties ever join, so as a group, they will never, ever know.
(7) Hank_F_M made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 8:43:16 AM | Permalink
Another issue that would have come up.
If I remeber correctly the memos did not say that W was using influance, that it was his father and/or friends of his father.
I remeber from that time parents often exercised influance without acutally telling there son. Though usually they realized it.
Also Nat Guard staff often sometimes provide favoraroble treatment well connected sons with out a request to avoid any wrath from politically connected families.
I think the White House would eventully turned to a no evidence that the President knew or particpated" in any impoper influence.
(8) Richard made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 8:46:56 AM | Permalink
I have wondered how Mr. Rather can look at himself in the mirror each and every day.
(9) Zach made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 8:51:30 AM | Permalink
Without the typeface problem, would people have thought to examine the documents as closely as they did?
Also, the problem with formatting/content analysis is that, from the outside, it looks exactly like the sort of internet conspiracy theorist brand of thinking that "proves" the Pentagon was hit by a missile on 9/11.
Without clear visual evidence like the superscripted "th", debate would get awfully muddled awfully quickly.
(10) Ric Locke made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 9:10:23 AM | Permalink
You cannot change one thing.
The whole reason the Democrats selected John Kerry as their candidate was that they thought, at the base of their minds, that he could be used to pry the military and its supporters away from Bush. That's a priority for them, or was until the Deaniacs took over, and should still be. If they cannot find a way to either attract or neutralize the military vote they have little chance in the future, especially as the adventures in the Middle East build a larger and larger segment of the electorate which can be characterized as "military" including supporters.
One of the objections to Gore was that his military service was pretty clearly a ticket-punching in-and-out, and some people objected to that. So they looked at Kerry and thought, "Aha! A real war hero, been in combat and killed people and everything. The anal-retentive, baby-napalming assholes can't help but go for it, and the fact that he changed his mind afterwards makes it palatable to our gentle progressives. Win-win."
And the very fact that they could think that, and not realize that even pre-Swift Boats Kerry's record is that of a very bad officer (to say the least), reveals that the depths of their cluelessness are nearly infinite. The same is true of the George Bush "AWOL" story, starting with the fact that "AWOL" is a very shaky concept when applied to a Reservist in the first place.
A Democratic Party whose operatives were clueful enough about the military to have credibly forged the ANG documents would never have put John Kerry up as its candidate in the first place, and the candidate they did put up would have been worth voting for. In reality, the situation would never have come up; a clueful Democratic Party would have won in a walkaway in 2000 (although I don't think such a party would have nominated Gore) and this would have been a re-election campaign for an incumbent, hardly worth showing up at the polls.
Ric Locke
(11) ionstorm made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 9:52:47 AM | Permalink
It probably didn't even need to be a real typewriter! If the forger had simply used a fixed-width Courier font, then that would likely have been enough for the MSM to support Rather.
Let's not forget that some liberals (like Juan Williams) couldn't be convinced even after the document was revealed to be a match to the default settings of MS Word.
We were incredibly lucky.
(12) TW. Andrews made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 10:11:42 AM | Permalink
I think you're being exceedingly generous to Kerry in thinking that the National Guard story could have swung 1% of the vote. The only people who really cared were already voting Kerry. I think that the people on the edge were much more likely to judge Bush on his 4 years in office than his purported absence from the National Guard while Kerry was "in" Cambodia.
(13) Jim made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 10:28:44 AM | Permalink
"see also the Miller-Cooper Institute for Self-Righteous Journalists Concealing Sources' Identities on "Principle.""
Note the developing story, by the way, on the identity of "Deep Throat," reported to be a composite identity now. It makes you suspect any claim of source confidentiality. Why is Deep Throat any less egregious than Janet Cooke's inventions at the Washington Post or Jayson Blair's at the NYT?
(14) Chadland made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 10:55:59 AM | Permalink
I wonder if anyone is researching stories Dan Rather (or any other msm figure)did back in the 80 s or before. I bet alot of crap they put out they just made up.
I seem to recall a special Rather did in the late 80 s about Vietnam vets committing atrocities. Of the 5 or so vets he profiled, only one turned out to be in the military. It came directly out of the Michael Moore of the 70 s (John Kerry) playbook.
Now the msm can't fabricate info like they used to. They are really pissed.
(15) Robin Roberts made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 11:00:16 AM | Permalink
I disagree with those who think that the forged documents, if not clearly debunked as they were, would not have changed the election.
The debunking of the documents may not have greatly changed the public's appreciation of President Bush's actual past - but it did change the public's appreication of what kind of unfair bigotry against him was in the news. That was the message that I found those of my acquaintances who didn't follow the details as much as we did, but had heard of the controversy. That the hatred had gotten so rabid that the MSM would flog badly made ridiculous forgeries. It changed perception of the President today more than perception of his service.
(16) RR made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 11:04:28 AM | Permalink
Odd that no one has followed up Susan Estridge's boast about that time, that they had some stunning information that was going to turn the Dem's flagging campain around.
I waited and waited, and didn't see a thing come out of Ms. Estridge's office, except maybe this forgery.
You are wrong, sort of. The Bush team's internals showed him easily winning five days before the 2000 election. Then the DUI story hit on Thursday before the Tuesday. As soon as the story hit his numbers dived.
But in 2004 GWB was a well know commodity. The msm was trying to poke holes in his two main attributes: security and honesty. We all know the stuff the msm did on security. The target of honesty would have definitely put Bush on defense. Because of the stupidest fabrication of all time the Bush team quickly pivoted onto offense. However if the fabrication was better done it would have cost Bush votes, just not as many as the story in 2000 did.
(18) Tollhouse made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 12:05:33 PM | Permalink
The thing that really astounds me is that had those documents been done halfway competently, then would we be arguing at all? The lack of the originals would be to me to be a giant red flag. Is it acceptable in the news biz to report with such loosely sourced info? Documents are just that, paper, not fact. Fact is something different, a preponderance of evidence. It just boggles to understand that the level of veracity is so low that documents of mysterious origin are considered acceptable.
We are now moving into a era of technology where duplication can be done at a molecular level. How is the media going to keep up when two documents that show contrary information, but both can be totally and completely authenticated by technological means? How many other scandals are waiting in the wings based on documentation that has been forged more competently?
(19) Ginny made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 12:06:45 PM | Permalink
A minor point: if the story had merely changed the voting by 1% (which, given the history of 2000 - and exactly who leaked that when?) how close would some states have been? And if they were close, how important would those exit polls begin to loom, how important would the lawyers spread across the country and ready to do battle be, how much could the msm find problems in areas with narrow Bush win margin? I don't like hypotheticals and alternative histories because I figure there are too many variables. But I do think CBS and Rather knew exactly what they were doing: the coordination of that news story with the Democratic machine was a good deal closer than the Swift Boats with the Republicans. And all I can say is that it seems to me our country missed the bullet for the second time. I don't care if the next president is a democrat. All I care is that they actually can see and accept facts, honor and uphold a democratic voice, use our might to connect the apprently severed parts of our world. I hope for the kind of character we see in those who have been weighted with terrible decisions and tried to do the best thing, regardless of politics or the msm.
(20) Lucas Brachish made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 12:56:08 PM | Permalink
Although the typeface conceit of using a superscripted "th" in the word Rathergate is awfully cute and hard to pass up, I can't help but think all these post-Watergate "gates" are a sign of complete creative bankruptcy on the part of journalists and pundits alike (Rathergate, Hillarygate, Monicagate, Whitewatergate, pardongate, CIAgate, etc.... as partially mocked in the post at www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=649 ).
Or maybe it's just the conservatives trying to confuse the public about who committed the original "gate" itself. Regardless, let's come up with some more clever names for political scandals from now on, shall we? Where are the Deep Throats and Grassy Knolls of yesteryear?
(21) Walt made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 1:15:46 PM | Permalink
By the time the documents came out, I think most people had already made a choice. Even if the documents were true -- not forged better but absolutely true -- I don't I could have voted for Kerry under any imaginable circumstances.
We had seen four years of Bush in office and what he may have done during Viet Nam didn't matter. We had also seen Kerry in office for bunchteen years, and what he did in Viet Nam, and thereafter, mattered a great deal.
(22) D. Webber made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 1:33:33 PM | Permalink
I appreciate all of the comments above. Correct me if I'm wrong on this - one thing that hasn't been mentioned is that CBS originally planned to drop the "missing munitions bombshell" on Sunday night before the election, but was forced to release the story a week ahead of schedule in order to prevent the NYT from scooping them on it. I think that story, coupled with public doubts about how the war in Iraq was going and GWB's fitness to be commander-in-chief, may have suppressed the voter turnout for the incumbent.
Thanks to the Times this one time, I guess, the story was released early enough for the initial reports to be debunked. That tells me that even after RatherGate, CBS was undeterred in their zeal to manipulate voters to get Kerry elected.
(23) fdcol63 made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 2:23:44 PM | Permalink
A free, open, objective, and even adversarial press is a healthy check on the powers of elected officials.
What's frightening is when that press is overwhelmingly aligned with one or the other of the major political parties, and becomes nothing more than voluntary shills for that party and unpaid attack dogs against the other party.
The American 4th Estate has become nothing more than a 5th Column.
(24) Chadland made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 3:26:51 PM | Permalink
Here is a point that I have never heard brought up. If you look at any typed paper from the 70 s you'll notice they all look the same: the same type face, same font size, same justification, etc.
There is no way that the people at CBS can be that stupid. Because of their liberalism they regard the general public as morons (probably because they pulled this off before). They knew it was a fabrication and in on a conspiracy to bring down GWB.
With the producers refusing to leave I wonder how much CBS will have to pay them off. If they talk does any one think CBS's FCC license will be revoked?
(25) Al Superczynski made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 5:29:04 PM | Permalink
I object to the characterization of subject documents as forgeries. Forgeries are alterations of actual documents. The documents in question were *fake*, made up out of thin air.
(26) Ordi made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 6:45:14 PM | Permalink
IMHO, the Dems and MSM knew Kerry's Military service and protests were going to be a problem so in their minds they had to attempt to make Bush look smaller. I think Mcawlful came out about the time Kerry was assured the nomination with his "Fake AWOL" BS and it built from there. I think this was ALL a cordinated effort by the DEMS and MSM. They just kept slinging mud at Bush's service and protected Kerry from his "Cambodian" past. They thought it would be do the trick. Why did Russett hold onto the video of Kerry's interview on Meet the Depressed?
(27) Brad made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 6:47:44 PM | Permalink
I think a more relevant "what if" than Beldar's question of what if the fake documents were typed on a period typewriter, is what if CBS never put images of the faked documents up on a website for the whole internet to see and examine?
It was access to those images that gave a huge audience a chance to poke holes in the CBS story. And I think instead of imploding, the controversy over Bush's ANG service would have continued throughout the election cycle. That could have changed the whole dynamic of the election.
And how small a change in the election would have delivered the presidency to JFK2? A switch of only 60,000 votes in Ohio would have given Kerry an electoral vote majority, regardless of a Bush popular vote majority.
(28) Seerak made the following comment | Feb 20, 2005 9:48:22 PM | Permalink
I think you are all missing the point (though some come close).
As a lot of the bloggers on Dan Rather's case made clear, the kernel of the story wasn't George Bush or TANG at all; it was CBS and Dan Rather getting caught doing what nearly all non-liberals have always suspected *but could never prove*: tossing their vaunted objectivity to the wind for partisan political purposes.
If the memos had never been outed, the liberal media bias would still be seen as a "conservative's paranoia", Dan Rather would still be the anchor, and Eason Jordan would still be at CNN.
Instead, the MSM has been caught so red-handed that even moderate liberals are waking up. The mild general mistrust of the MSM that has been killing network news ratings for over a decade now has bloomed into a serious credibilility problem. As a transmission belt of Leftist ideas, the MSM has lost a lot of its utility, something which far overshadows the results of Election 2004 in the long run.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that I see Rathergate as helping to accelerate the next phase of McCain-Feingold; the latter, by necessity, incorportes the concept of "official media", and CBS's malfeasance in this capacity DURING AN ELECTION will serve as yet another justification to expand the FEC's control over both media and private organizations.
(29) Jennifer Peterson made the following comment | Feb 21, 2005 3:37:33 AM | Permalink
Hi, All good posts above....
But I wanted to see an alternative history of what would have happened if Kerry won. Lebanon would go what way? Syria, Iran...?
(30) John Boyle made the following comment | Feb 21, 2005 12:18:54 PM | Permalink
A few posters minimized the effect of what happened thirty years ago in this election. How common it is to generalize from one's own personal experience. There are over eight million Vietnam "era" military vets, about two-and-a-half million who serevd "in-country," and more than twenty-five million vets overall. Those who served with honor - the vast, vast majority - took Kerry's posing, self-serving and "multiple-personality" charade with deadly seriousness, and became single issue voters. Trust me. Bush, whatever his military career lapses, never pretended it was anything but what it was, and never tried to use or abuse his service for personal gain. THAT was Kerry's cardinal anti-military sin, even if all his boasts had been true.
The real cynicism of both Kerry and the Dem Party and CBS was in knowing this was an election maker/buster, and going for it. Kerry clinched the nomination the day Jim Rassman - his Green Beret savee, showed up in Iowa and endorsed him.
(31) A. J. made the following comment | Feb 21, 2005 4:26:09 PM | Permalink
As the "thoughtful reader" who posed the subject question to Beldar, thanks for all your thoughtful comments. However, I am less concerned with alternative history than with prospective duplicities. The question of the impact or effect on the recent election is now merely tangential to the real issue.
In my email to Beldar, I further posed the more critical question: "Has serious thought been given to dealing with more clever and sophisticated forgers in future political battles (e.g., Supreme Court nominations, Senate and Presidential candidacies)? We have to assume that the Left and MSM have learned their lessons well. This [should] be a topic [] of discussion in the conservative blogosphere. Forewarned is forearmed."
The second paragraph of Tollhouse's comment swerved into the same concern I am raising. The last sentence was: "How many other scandals are waiting in the wings based on documention that has been forged more competently?" This is a topic of concern that deserves to be discussed, with emphasis on how they may be dealt with forensically.
"Coming events cast their shadow before." -- Goethe(?) The thought that the election of the most powerful man in the world could be subject to manipulation by unscrupulous persons is foreboding.
(32) Kent made the following comment | Feb 21, 2005 9:15:33 PM | Permalink
I have also wondered what might have happened had the documents been faked more skillfully, and I worry about more skillfully faked documents in the future.
However, a professor at my alma mater once claimed that there is no such thing as a skillful historical forgery. Every known historical forgery has, in retrospect, been seen to be embarrasingly clumsy. It is simply too hard to get period details right. As you and many commenters here have noted, even with a period typeface, the errors in terminology, dates, and facts would have eventually betrayed the Rather forgeries.
Historical forgeries succeed, not because they are skillful, but because they play to the target's preconceptions and prejudices. Certainly true in this case.
The problem is that a forgery can do a lot of harm before it is exposed. It is some comfort to have half a million bloggers poised to fact check.
(33) James B. Shearer made the following comment | Feb 22, 2005 5:55:42 PM | Permalink
I at first thought your estimate of a 1% swing to Kerry with better fakes was too high. Upon reflection I think it may be about right but not because the documents would have hurt Bush, but instead because he would not have benefited as he did from the exposure of crude fakes. Any discussion of alternative histories should start with the alternative history in which the story never ran.
(34) Chester White made the following comment | Feb 23, 2005 9:58:51 AM | Permalink
"Every known historical forgery has, in retrospect, been seen to be embarrasingly clumsy. It is simply too hard to get period details right."
Well, sure. But you seem to ignore the historical forgeries that are not "known."
There are surely a lot that have never been discovered, and thus are still considered genuine.
(35) Kent made the following comment | Feb 23, 2005 11:52:37 AM | Permalink
I think the argument against this being purely a selection effect is that you would expect a small number of moderately skillful forgeries to be detected. My professor claimed that there have been no historical forgeries with any objective plausibility at all.
But I'm not sure it changes the key point, which is that historical forgeries succeed primarily because the target wants to believe them.
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The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust supports a range of bursaries, grants and scholarships to assist art and art history students at selected educational institutions. The awards are administered, and the candidates selected, by the relevant academic departments. The Trust funds, or has funded, students at:
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
Scholarship PhD - Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee £3,000 - ceased 2018
3 year award for a Fine Art postgraduate PhD student.
2015 - 2018 Elenia Vlachaki
PhD Project is 'The Capodistrian Orphanage or The Aegina Prison: Can the arts function within a social context as a catalyst for change in our relationship with our past and our immediate environment?'
2013-2015 Joanne Foster
2010-2013 Geoff Lucas
His PhD research project is entitled: ‘Towards a Concrete Art – A Practice-Led Investigation’
Geoff co-founded HICA (Highland Institute for Contemporary Art) in 2008, an artist-run gallery near Inverness. See: www.h-i-c-a.org He completed his Masters degree in Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone in 2010. He gained his Foundation Diploma in Art and Design from Central St Martins College in 1992, and gained his undergraduate BA (Hons) from Kent Institute for Art and Design in 1995. He worked as a tutor at Richmond School of Art from 2002 to 2008.
Study Aid - £1,000 for students requiring special assistance.
University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Scholarship £5,000
For post graduate student
Starts 2019-20 academic year
Joint Degree Award £2,000 - ceased 2018
Annual award for two final year undergraduate Master of Fine Art students (the Master of Fine Art course is run jointly between the University and the Art College), to fund research for their dissertations (normally a research trip).
2015 - Olivia Norris
2015 - Isaac Nugent
2015 - Esther Wakelin Stotten
2014 - Emma Smith
Funds used to visit various Scottish castles and country houses researching medieval objects gathered by private Scottish collectors in 18th and 19th centuries.
2013 - Catriona McKenzie
Funds used to travel to Cambridge, London and Marseille to research William Blakes’s pictorial engagement with the Book of Job.
2013 - Kirsty Neale
Funds used to travel to China and Taiwan and London to research Chinese and Asian propaganda, art and culture.
2012 - Sarah Boulton
Funds used to research sound art in London and New York.
2012 - Isobel Turley
Funds used to research the link between Mudejar architecture of 14th century Southern Spain and contemporary Islamic architecture in Morocco.
2011 - Georgina Bolton
Funds used to travel to Chicago to undertake an art residency at the John David Mooney Foundation and to visit the Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art and other galleries. Funds also used to travel to Iceland to view Roni Horn’s architectural installation Library of Water.
2011 - Rebecca Fraser
Funds used to travel to Hamburg to visit the Aby Warburg Library for research into the library as a setting in portraiture. Funds also used to travel to Berlin to visit the Bebelplatz Nazi book burning memorial.
2010 - Hugo de Verteuil
Funds used to take up a 3 month summer internship position at the Mildred’s Lane Artists Community in Pennsylvania, USA. Funds also used to travel to Chicago and Detroit to research other artist communities.
2010 - Kamila Kocialkowska
Funds used to travel to New York to view works by Mona Hatoum, and to attend the MoMA exhibition ‘Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions 1940 to Now’
Barns-Graham Travel to Italy Award £1,500
Annual award for Fine Art students (undergraduate or postgraduate) to fund an extracurricular but subject related trip to Italy.
2015 - Scott Baxter
Scott undertook a journey to Viareggio in Tuscany as part of an ongoing exploration of old seaside resorts.
2014 - Thomas Aitcheson
2013 - Catriona Gallagher
2012 - Rachael Cloughton
Rachael undertook a trip to Rome where she visited religious sites related to St Ignatius, and visited archives with the aim of exploring their shifting narratives. She then travelled to Naples, where she explored contemporary art commissioned for the Metro, and travelled to the archaeological site of Pompeii.
2011 - Not awarded due to administrative error
2010 - Elli Matzourani-Koutsoukeli
The Barns-Graham Scholarship £1,500
Three year award for an undergraduate student working in painting or sculpture (for 2nd, 3rd and 4th years of study) - ceased 2018
2015 - 2018 - Theo Christy
2012-2015 - Jordan James Pilling
2009-2012 - Darren Nisbet
2006-2009 - Christopher John Bryant
The Balmungo Grant – Study Aid £1,000 for students requiring special assistance.
Falmouth University (incorporating Falmouth School of Art)
The Barns-Graham Award £3,000
Intern experience for two 2nd year students
Previous Scholarship Recipients:
2012-2015 - Lily Milne
2009-2012 - Lauren Wilson
2006-2009 - Laura Culham and Leila Watts
Annual award for Fine Art students (undergraduate or postgraduate) to fund an extracurricular but subject related trip to Italy
2015 - Camilla Laing-Tate
2014 - Rose Marie Caldecott
Travelled to Tivoli
2013 - Samuel Cotterell
Travelled around Italy (between Rome, Tuscania and Sabaudia) creating a film that explores Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Article of the Fireflies.
2012 - NB for this year only the award was split between two recipients as the winner’s project required just £850. The remaining £650 was given to a second student.
Rosanna Catterall (BA Fine Art undergraduate) – First Winner
Rosanna undertook a trip to the Calabrian mountains to research the location of the film Le Quattro Volte, and to create film footage of her own.
Rebecca Ballard (BA Fine Art undergraduate) – Second Winner
Rebecca undertook a trip to Venice, where she studied the relationship between place, narrative and memory in relation to photography. She visited exhibitions and galleries, and also the Architecture Biennale.
2011 - Alastair Barford
Student undertook a trip to Florence to study traditional drawing and painting on a short course at the Charles H. Cecil Studios. Student also visited museums, galleries and studios in Florence.
2010 - James Kelly
Student undertook a walking trip of part of the Via Francigena; visited several locations of Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia (1983); and participated in the grape harvest of Southern Rome, observing the accompanying festivities.
2009 - Jasmine Pajdak
Student travelled to Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan during Spring 2010, participating in mask-making workshops, visiting museums and theatres.
The Balmungo Scholarship £1,000
Annual award for a 1st year undergraduate student in financial need.
2013-2014 - Heather Lane
2012-2013 - Jonathan Douglas
2011-2012 - Sophia Shepherd
2010-2011 - Svetla Popova
2009-2010 - Mhairi Tavendale
2008-2009 - Roger Catalano
2007-2008 - Tomas Jankowski
2006-2007 - Louise Pendergast
Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
Study Aid Fund £1,000 for students requiring special assistance.
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Research Support Grant £2,000 - ceased 2016.
Annual award for researchers working on projects in the field of 20th Century painting.
2016 - Dr Sophie Hatchwell
Research: Robert Colquhoun and Robert McBryde - the Neo-Romantic Body and the Second World War 1940-1946
2015 - Beth Williamson
Research: America in the Borders: William Johnstone’s Landscape Painting.
2014 - Lee Halman
Research: The London Lanscapes of Frank Auerbach and Leon Kopssoff, 1950 to present.
2013 - Lily Foster (PhD student at The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Research: Lily’s research project is entitled ‘Interior Paintings by Harold Gilman and Édouard Vuillard’ – a study of the depiction of private space in the work of Gilman and Vuillard from 1910-1919.
During 2012 Lily used the grant to conduct research within Britain (Tate Archive, British Library), and to travel to conduct research in France (Salomon Archives and the Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France in Paris), and USA (Yale Center for British Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC).
2012 - Dina Aleshina
Research: Working on project ‘Abstract and Concrete in the Work of Ben Nicholson and the Artists of St Ives School’ – a study of the abstract and naturalistic approaches of the St Ives group. Funds used to travel to London, St Ives and Leeds.
2011 - Emma Acker
Research: Working on project ‘A Sense of Place: The Aerial Abstractions of Richard Diebenkorn and Peter Lanyon’ – a comparative analysis of both artists’ landscape-based abstractions. Funds used to travel to Washington DC, London and St Ives.
2010 - Professor John Curley
Research: Working on book project ‘The Art that Came in from the Cold’ – looking at political agency and ambiguity of visual images during Cold War – focus funded research on the London-based Independent Group.
Plymouth College of Art
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Award of £2,500 for postgraduate student
Royal Scottish Academy
The Barns-Graham Travel Award - £2,000
Annual award for artists who have recently graduated from one of Scotland’s four art colleges, for travel and artistic practice abroad. Recipient can be working in painting, sculpture or printmaking.
2015 - Alice Hoskins
Award used to travel to Vietnam.
2014 - Gabriele Jogelaite
Award to be used to travel to Poland to explore the grand impressions of post-war modern soviet architecture on society today.
2013 - Madeline Mackay (Graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art – BA Fine Art)
Madeline used her funding to travel to Finland to undertake a residency at the Åland Archipelago Guest Artist Residence during autumn 2012. During her trip, Madeline produced extensive sketchbook studies working outside, and drawings in the studio using local clay as a drawing material.
She produced a number of site-specific rock drawings and small works based on postcard formats. She exhibited work from her trip at the Autumn exhibition of the Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, and the Cabinet exhibition at the Compass Gallery in Glasgow. In early 2013 Madeline had a drawing accepted to the RSW Annual Exhibition, which went on to win the Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award.
2012 - Aleksandra Zawada
Award used to travel to China to explore the Chinese art scene and recent changes in Chinese cultural heritage – in particular, the phenomenon of demolishing past cultural heritage to move forward.
2011 - Geri Loup Nolan
Award used to travel to Japan to explore connections between east and west in philosophical thinking and artistic / architectural approaches.
2010 - Martin Hill
Award used to fund travel to Greece to look at sites of antiquity. Trip inspired drawings and paintings of animals in ancient sites, work relating to roadside funeral monuments, and work relating to Greek mythology.
2009 - Gemma Saville
Award used to fund travel to Iceland.
2008 - Mairi Hughes
Award used to fund travel to Turin to investigate the Arte Povera movement, which makes use of organic materials and everyday commodities. Inspired work that re-examines the still life genre.
2007 - Margaret Bathgate
Award used to fund a site-specific art installation in Pittenweem Harbour.
University of the Highlands and Islands
The Barns-Graham Travel Award £1,500
Study Aid £1,000 for students requiring special assistance.
The Barns-Graham Doctoral Award £5,000
3 year award for an Art History postgraduate PhD student working in the field of Museum Studies.
2011-2014 - Kristen Adlhoch
Her PhD research project is entitled: ‘Abstract Photography in Europe in the Early Twentieth Century’. Kristen gained a BFA (Hons) in Photographic Studies from Ryerson University in 2000, and gained a MLitt (Distinction) from the University of St Andrews in 2009. From 2007-2008 she worked as Database Coordinator at the National Arts Centre Foundation, Ottawa, and before this she worked from 2003-2006 as the Director of the Stephen Bulger Photography Gallery in Toronto.
In January 2013 Kristen was awarded the 2013 Josef Breitenbach Research Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. During the fellowship, Kristen plans to study the archives of Josef Breitenbach and Francis Bruguière for her doctoral research.
2010-2011 - Not awarded
2009-2010 - Kirstin Donaldson
MLitt Student. Dissertation title: ‘The Surrealist on the Street: Julian Trevelyan and Mass-Observation’.
2007-2009 - Michelle Ying Ling Huang
2nd year PhD student. Thesis title: ‘The Reception of Chinese Paintings in Early 20th Century Britain, with Special Reference to Laurence Binyon (1869 – 1943)’.
2006-2007 - Anna Sandaker Glomm
3rd year PhD student. Thesis title: ‘A Study of Early 1970s Political Poster Art in Scandinavia – GRAS, Folkets Atelier and Røde Mor’.
Between 2009 and 2014 the Barns-Graham Charitable Trust provided funds for The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust Scholarship in Fine Art £2,500
2013-2014 - Gina Batterton
2011-2013 - Philip Michael Welbourn (known as Mick Welbourn)
2009-2011 - Jessica Lalje
Please be aware that the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust does not accept applications directly. These awards are administered by the colleges and universities cited above, and the candidates selected by and from their art and art history departments.
Please address all enquires via email to info@barns-grahamtrust.org.uk
OTHER STUDENT FUNDING
Further to the funding of students at art colleges and universities the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust has supported art student and art education projects at:
Tate St Ives
St Ives School of Painting
Leith School of Art
Funded Residencies 2014 onwards
The Trust is committed to supporting Artist Residencies. These are administered by the Royal Scottish Academy.
May - June 2015 Anneli Holmstrom
Anneli Holstrom’s proposal is to stay in Orkney. In her application she says:
In our virtual world of logging on and off, discussions are regularly needed about the way digital technologies impact upon our connections with the physical world. Taking this enquiry as a starting point, I plan to use my time at the Pier Arts Center to explore new ways of visually depicting the ‘feeling realm’ within my image making. In this way, I regard this applied for residency as an opportunity for a period of concentrated study and creation, aimed at identifying fresh ways of treating the topic of human touch in a computerised era.
As Orkney is rightly renowned for its dramatic weather, it only seems fitting to draw upon this natural backdrop, as well as my perceptions and interactions with it, as inspirational sources during my stay.
Read more Specifically, I envisage my eventually produced works to play out a human drama in which calm domestic settings battle it out with a volatile outdoor climate. In this way, I plan to draw upon the tactility of these opposing forces, whilst simultaneously investigating contemporary perspectives of the manmade and natural world.
As the painting process often reminds the viewer of the essential role played by touch, texture, surface and closeness in art, I envision the culmination of my research to be a realization of this. However, as a sculpture is undoubtedly the language of the tactile, I plan to employ its materiality at the very starting stages of this project. This process will involve the collections of objects selected for their diversity and their intimate relationship to touch. From such samples, I will then create a series of sculptural props with the purpose of formulating a language of tactility.
The last stage of my work will involve incorporating this symbolic system into final paintings, in an anthropomorphic drama where controlled and uncontrolled environments are re-evaluated.
In essence, I see my applied for Pier Arts Center residency as an opportunity to engage with new and diverse audiences, as well as form exciting networks for the future. I therefore intend to actively engage myself in opportunities to discuss and share my practices through workshops, talks, discussions or exhibitions during my stay. In so doing, I view the applied for residency as a mutually rewarding process, wherein I can continue to develop artistically and professionally, whilst firmly contributing to the cultural heritage of Orkney itself.
2014 Paul Furneaux
Postponed until 2016
Paul Furneaux is an artist working with Japanese watercolour woodblock printing (mokuhanga). Based in Edinburgh, his 2014 residency was postponed due to the sale of Balmungo House. Due to his subsequent commitments this has had to be put back to 2016. He is considering spending time at DCA (Dundee Contemporary Arts) and possibly An Talla Solais, the community-led art centre in Ullapool on the northwest coast of Scotland.
Funded Residencies at Balmungo House 2011 – 2013
Funded residencies provided opportunities for artists and writers to live and work at Balmungo House, the Trust’s first centre of activity, without incurring charges for accommodation and use of facilities. Artist Residencies were arranged in partnership with the Royal Scottish Academy, while a Writer Residency (now ceased) was partnered by the School of English at the University of St Andrews.
Past beneficiaries of residencies offered at Balmungo House were:
Oct – Dec 2013 Patricia Cain
Patricia Cain is a Dumfries and Galloway-based artist, author and researcher who completed her PhD through the practice of drawing at Glasgow School of Art.
Her practice (drawing, painting, sculpture and public art) is intimately connected to her interest in skill-lead art-making processes, the value of these as First Person research methodologies and the importance of teaching and encouraging skill in this era of concept-led Art Education.
Her book Drawing: The Enactive Evolution of the Practitioner explores the relationship between drawing and enactive thinking and examines how art-making can actualize and visually make evident the emergent aspects of its own activity, allowing artists to become self-aware of their own thinking and learning processes.
Trish exhibits nationally and internationally, winning both the Threadneedle and Aspect Prizes in 2010. Her recently acclaimed major exhibition at Kelvingrove, Drawing (on) Riverside, exposed the nature of practitioner knowledge to a wider lay audience through the observation and response to the construction of Glasgow’s new Riverside Museum which has subsequently been likened to Dewey’s study of the nature of method.
One of the paintings arising from her residency, and directly inspired by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s work, Balmungo, was awarded the Royal Watercolour Society Award at the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2014.
Oct –Dec 2013 Emma Jones
Emma Jones holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, and a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge. She won the Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2005, and has been the recipient of an emerging writer’s grant from the Australia Council for the Arts, and the Harper-Wood Studentship in English Poetry and Literature from St John’s College, Cambridge.
Her first book, The Striped World, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Collection and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2009-10 she was poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere. In 2013 she was invited to be the International Writer in Residence for the School of English Studies at St Andrews University, with whom the Barns-Graham Charitable Trust acts in partnership.
Oct - Dec 2012 Damon Galgut
In 2012 the International Writer’s Residency programme entered its second year. The programme was a five-year collaborative venture with the School of English at the University of St Andrews, which brought creative writers from outside the UK to pursue their work in St Andrews. South African novelist Damon Galgut was the second writer to participate in the scheme, living and working at Balmungo House between October and December.
Galgut is an award-winning novelist, who has been twice short-listed for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, for his novels The Good Doctor (2003) and In a Strange Room (2010). This residency represented Galgut’s first long-term stay in Scotland, and the peaceful surroundings of Balmungo granted the opportunity to work on his latest novel. During his residency Galgut tutored creative writing students at the University of St Andrews, and gave a public reading from The Good Doctor in a special literary event at Parliament Hall, alongside Australian-born novelist Meaghan Delahunt.
Jul - Nov 2012 Lindsay Sekulowicz
The visual arts residency for 2012 was a one-off collaboration with the Royal Scottish Academy and the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum at the University of Dundee. The aim of this residency was to provide a unique opportunity for an artist to research and draw inspiration from the D’Arcy Thompson collections, while based at Balmungo House.
D’Arcy Thompson (1860-1948) was an eminent Scottish biologist, best known for his research into the mathematical principles of nature and his ground-breaking publication On Growth and Form. Given that Thompson’s research had a lasting influence on Barns-Graham’s art, it seemed very apt to celebrate this link through a special residency. The artist Lindsay Sekulowicz was selected to participate in the project between July and November.
Lindsay, whose work often engages with museums and archives - especially natural history collections, spent just over three months studying specimens and developing art based on her findings. In keeping with the polymath spirit of D’Arcy Thompson, she also extended her research into areas such as neuroscience, marine biology and animal behaviour. During her residency, Lindsay experimented with a variety of media, and showed work at the Royal Scottish Academy exhibition Of Natural & Mystical Things. New work from the residency was displayed at Dundee University in early 2013.
Oct – Dec 2011 Karen Solie
The final residency of 2011 was a collaborative venture with the School of English at the University of St Andrews. The International Writer’s Residency programme was a five-year project, which brought creative writers from outside the UK to pursue their work in St Andrews. Canadian poet Karen Solie was the first writer to be selected for this annual residency, staying at Balmungo between October and December.
Winner of the 2010 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, Solie had visited St Andrews before to participate in the StAnza Poetry Festival. However, the residency at Balmungo enabled her to settle into the area, and undertake a more sustained period of writing. Over the course of her stay, Solie led creative writing workshops at the University of St Andrews, and gave a public reading at an event organised by StAnza.
Karen Solie’s poem Life is a Carnival was written while at Balmungo House:
Dinner finished, wine in hand, in a vaguely competitive spirit
of disclosure, we trail Google Earth's invisible pervert
through the streets of our hometowns, but find them shabbier, or grossly
contemporized, denuded of childhood's native flora,
stuccoed or in some other way hostile
to the historical reenactments we expect of our former
settings. What sadness in the disused curling rinks, their illegal
basement bars imploding, in the seed of a Wal-Mart
sprouting in the demographic, in streetview's perpetual noon. With pale
and bloated production values, hits of AM radio rise
to the surface of a network of social relations long obsolete. We sense
a loss of rapport. But how sweet the persistence
of angle parking! Would we burn these places rather than see them
change, or would we simply burn them, the sites of wreckage
from which we staggered with our formative injuries into the rest
of our lives. They cannot be consigned to the fourfold,
though the age we were belongs to someone else. Like our old
house. Look what they've done to it. Who thought this would be fun?
A concert, then, YouTube from those inconceivable days before
YouTube, an era boarded over like a bankrupt country store,
cans still on its shelves, so hastily did we leave it. How beautiful
they are in their poncey clothes, their youthful higher
registers, fullscreen, two of them dead now. Is this
eternity? Encore, applause, encore; it's almost like being there.
Jul - Sept 2011 Lorna McIntosh
The first visual arts residency at Balmungo was organised as part of the Royal Scottish Academy’s Residencies for Scotland scheme. This programme supports contemporary artists by matching them to funded residency placements across Scotland. The Edinburgh-based artist Lorna McIntosh was selected for Balmungo House.
McIntosh, whose art is informed by her research into emblematics, 18th century chemistry and mineralogy, worked in Barns-Graham’s studio between July and September. Her residency was a time of intensive study and experimentation, in which she elaborated on her existing research and practice, and cultivated new ideas. She sketched in the Balmungo grounds, and engaged with new materials. During the residency, McIntosh was nominated for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011. The new work arising from the residency was exhibited at the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh in 2012.
May - Jul 2011 Giles Sutherland
In 2011 the Trust's residency programme was launched with a critical writing residency. The art critic Giles Sutherland stayed at Balmungo for three months between May and July, working on established writing projects and researching Barns-Graham’s art.
While Sutherland is perhaps best known for his exhibition reviews and features in journals and newspapers, the residency gave him the opportunity to become immersed in the work of Barns-Graham. Inspired by etchings of trees in the Trust’s collection, Sutherland chose to study the artist’s treatment of underlying structure and form. In addition to researching this field, he produced a series of related photographs and poems.
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Barton & Loguidice D.P.C. (B&L), a northeast regional engineering, planning, environmental, and landscape architecture firm with nine offices across New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, announces that six staff at its Albany office have received promotions. The promotions became effective in January 2018.
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Loss of EU passporting 'significant risk' to UK business, says Tyrie
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More than 5,000 British financial services firms rely on "passporting rights" to trade across the EU, the chairman of the Treasury select committee, Andrew Tyrie, has said.
Passporting rights allow firms to trade across the bloc without the need for separate licences.
Mr Tyrie said it showed the "significant" risk Britain leaving the single market would pose to business.
But Eurosceptics have previously said such an outcome would not harm the UK.
The data was provided in a letter to Mr Tyrie from Andrew Bailey, head of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
In it, Mr Bailey revealed that 8,008 European companies use 23,532 passports to trade in the UK.
By contrast, 5,476 UK firms currently hold some 336,421 passports to trade elsewhere in EU.
Image caption Andrew Tyrie, head of the Treasury Committee, said the loss of passporting rights was a "significant" risk to business
'Significant risk'
Mr Tyrie, who published the figures on the Treasury Committee's website, said: "These figures give us an initial idea of the effects of losing full access to the single market in financial services. The business put at risk could be significant.
"None of the current off-the-shelf arrangements can preserve existing passporting arrangements, while giving the UK the influence and control it needs over financial services regulation as it develops.
"Efforts to secure an appropriate arrangement for UK-based firms will be one of the most challenging aspects of the negotiations about the UK's future relationship with the EU."
It comes a day after the head of Germany's central bank, Jens Weidmann, said that passporting rights were "tied to the single market" and would automatically cease to apply if Great Britain left the EEA.
In a separate report, however, credit ratings agency Moody's said the loss of passporting rights would likely be "manageable" for most UK-based financial firms.
This is because the EU already recognises some non-EU regulatory regimes for the purpose of undertaking investment and banking business.
"This outcome would be credit negative, as it will have costs and is likely to reduce profitability at least in the short term," it said in a statement.
"But Moody's considers it unlikely that all permissions granted to financial firms will be lost."
Banks 'would lose passporting rights with hard Brexit'
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"New Zealand is in shock," said former Prime Minister Helen ClarkImage caption: "New Zealand is in shock," said former Prime Minister Helen Clark
New Zealand's former Prime Minister Helen Clark says the attack will call for "deep reflection".
Speaking to the New Zealand Herald, she said: "New Zealand is in shock that the things we see on TV from other parts of the world, could happen in peaceful Christchurch.
"There are many unanswered questions in people's minds, but right now the key issue is that we all grieve with the people who have been personally, deeply and tragically hurt by this."
She added that she hoped New Zealand would look at its gun control laws as "while we do have gun control, we can do better."
'We must stand united against anti-Muslim hatred'
On Twitter, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the "shooting of innocent people as they prayed peacefully".
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Witness: 'We were in a state of panic'
Srinivas Chandrasekharan was with the Bangladesh cricket team when the shooting at the Al Noor mosque started.
"As soon as we reached near the entrance to the mosque, we heard firing, shooting. Then we saw a woman fainting just outside and falling down," he told the BBC’s Hindi service.
"We were going to help her when we saw 10-15 people with bleeding and blood stained clothes running out of the mosque and shouting 'firing'. "It was only then we realised that the firing was happening here."
The team arrived on a bus following a news conference ahead of a now cancelled third Test. "[We] didn't know what we should do. We felt cornered. We were in a state of panic."
Read more about what they experienced.
What is known about the suspects?
The Christchurch mosque attacks were live-streamed on the internet by a man posting online under the name of Brenton Tarrant.
Police said three people were in custody and that a man in his late 20s had been charged with murder.
Read more about what we know about the suspects.
Mirror shouldn't have run footage from gunman, editor says
The Mirror website should not have run footage filmed by the gunman in Christchurch, the publication's group editor says.
In a tweet, he says it is "not in line with our policy relating to terrorist propaganda videos".
The video has since been removed from the site of the UK newspaper, he said.
A spokeswoman for the UK prime minister had urged all media companies to remove terrorist content from their sites.
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Kensington Palace: 'Senseless' and 'horrifying' attack
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have issued a joint statement with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex describing the attack as "senseless" and "horrifying."
"Our hearts go out to the families and friends of the people who lost their lives in the devastating attack in Christchurch," they said.
"We have all been fortunate to spend time in Christchurch and have felt the warm, open-hearted and generous spirit that is core to its remarkable people. No person should ever have to fear attending a sacred place of worship.
"This senseless attack is an affront to the people of Christchurch and New Zealand, and the broader Muslim community. It is a horrifying assault on a way of life that embodies decency, community, and friendship.
"We send our thoughts and prayers to everyone in New Zealand today. Kia Kaha," they added, using a Maori expression which means "stay strong".
New York mosques with extra security
The New York Police Department has sent extra officers to mosques during morning prayers on Friday.
It said on Twitter: "The NYPD is committed to the safety of all houses of worship, and the freedom to practice your religion freely without any fear."
In pictures: Tributes and reaction around the world
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What we know
If you're just joining us, here's a recap of what we know about the shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand:
Forty-nine people have been killed and at least 20 wounded in shootings at two mosques
The attack happened at a time when people were gathered for Friday prayers and was the deadliest in the nation's history
A man in his late 20s was charged with murder and will appear in court on Saturday morning
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said this was a terrorist attack and one of New Zealand's "darkest days"
Security has been stepped up around mosques in several cities around the world
Merkel: Attack on 'Muslims, democracy and tolerant society'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said this was a "perfidious assault on people praying in a place of worship".
She added it was "an attack directed against Muslims but it is also an attack on New Zealand's democracy and the open and tolerant society".
"We share these values with New Zealand and with it we share the horror and the condemnation of this terrible act. And my sincere condolences of course in this hour go to the victims' families and the injured to whom I wish a speedy recovery.
"I would like to say to the people in New Zealand we stand at their side at this difficult time."
Deputy PM: End of 'age of innocence' for New Zealand
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New Zealand's deputy prime minister says the attack marks an end of an "age of innocence" for his country and its "strict" gun control laws will "all be open for review".
"We’ve watched abroad while these terrorist attacks have happened. But we never, though prepared for them, contemplated they would emerge in the shape they have today in New Zealand," Winston Peters tells BBC Radio 5 Live.
"The reality is that we've never known that sort of level of terror in a place like Christchurch of all places, or anywhere in New Zealand for that matter."
Asked what action he thinks should be taken, he says: "It would be naive to think that we'll not be looking very hard at how it is that they acquired these automatic weapons."
As well as reviewing the country's gun control laws, he says spending on security will have to increase and cross-country engagement on terrorism should be stepped up.
Senseless acts of violence, says Pope
Pope Francis says he is "deeply saddened to learn of the injury and loss of life caused by the senseless acts of violence".
In a telegram sent by his secretary of state, the Pope said he "assures all New Zealanders, and in particular the Muslim community, of his heartfelt solidarity in the wake of these attacks".
The Pope added that he was "mindful of the efforts of the security and emergency personnel in this difficult situation".
White House condemns 'vicious act of hate'
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A statement from the White House said: "The United States strongly condemns the attack in Christchurch. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. We stand in solidarity with the people of New Zealand and their government against this vicious act of hate."
Rugby star in emotional message
New Zealand rugby player Sonny Bill Williams sent a video filmed from his car after hearing about the attack.
The player, the first Muslim to play for the All Blacks, told his followers on Twitter: "I can't put into words how I'm feeling right now. Just sending my love to the families."
Charles 'utterly horrified'
The Prince of Wales says he is "utterly horrified" to hear about the "barbaric attacks" on two mosques in Christchurch.
In a message to the people of New Zealand, Prince Charles says: "It is beyond all belief that so many should have been killed and injured at their place of worship and our most special and heartfelt sympathy goes out to all the families and loved ones of those who have lost their lives.
"This appalling atrocity is an assault on all of us who cherish religious freedom, tolerance, compassion and community.
"I know that the people of New Zealand will never allow hate and division to triumph over these things they hold dear.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims' families, the first responders, the people of Christchurch and all New Zealanders at this most heartbreaking of times."
Horrible massacre, says Trump
President Donald Trump said on Twitter the shootings in Christchurch were a "horrible massacre", adding that the "US stands by New Zealand for anything we can do."
Bangladesh cricket team manager: 'We're very lucky'
Bangladesh cricketers were minutes from being inside one of the mosques attacked, said team manager Khaled Mashud: "We're very lucky."
Speaking to the BBC's Bengali Service, he said: "We were very close. We could see the mosque from the bus... If we had arrived three-four minutes earlier, we would probably have been inside the mosque by then.
The team arrived at the mosque on a bus following a news conference at the Hagley Oval - the venue of Saturday's now cancelled third Test.
"We saw everything from outside like a video, just as you see in the movies. We saw from the bus people coming out with blood pouring. Quite a few people were able to come out. For eight to ten minutes we remained on the bus, we kept our heads low in case there was firing outside."
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Russian Honey Crop Down By Almost Half
By Elizaveta Vereykina, the Moscow Times
Consumers visiting the annual honey market sponsored by the Russian National Union of Beekeepers at the Kolomenskoye Estate Museum in southern Moscow this fall should expect to pay more for the sticky stuff, as the amount of honey produced in the country this year is predicted to be just over half as much as in 2014.
“Last year, 105,000 tons of honey were produced in Russia, but in 2015, we expect 60,000 tons,” said Arnold Butov, head of the Russian National Union of Beekeepers.
The fall in volume is in part due to early summer’s unseasonably cold temperatures, which were followed by a heat wave in July.
Viktor Volodin, 71, who lives in the village of Bobrovka in the Oryol region of western Russia and has 20 hives of around 70,000 bees each, said that his production dropped sharply this year.
“Because of the rains and then sudden heat in the summer, the period when my 120 hectares (almost 300 acres) of buckwheat was in bloom was shortened and the bees didn’t get enough,” Volodin said. “This year, one hive produced 20 liters of honey, while last year it was 45 liters,” Volodin said.
The Honey Economy
Volodin doesn’t have a stand at the annual market, but a few times a year he sells 40 liters of honey to the Moscow farm-to-table cooperative shop LavkaLavka. The deal is far from a steady source of income, however.
“Sometimes LavkaLavka sells it all in a month, sometimes in three months,” Volodin said. “I don’t expect any profit. I do it because I love bees and nature.”
It costs Volodin about 100 rubles ($1.50) to produce 1 liter of honey. It sells for 298 rubles for a 300 milliliter jar at LavkaLavka, and for 300 rubles per liter at his local market in Oryol.
Vladimir Plotnikov, a beekeeper in the Tambov region who has 120 hives, said that the cost of coming to the market in Moscow is just not affordable for small producers. “They told me it cost 300,000 rubles ($4,476) for a stand at one of Moscow’s fairs. I couldn’t afford it, since I’d also need 300,000 ($4,476) extra for transportation and for living expenses in Moscow during the two months of the fair,” Plotnikov said.
But if he can’t sell his honey in Moscow, Plotnikov can’t sell all the honey his bees produce. Since 2013, he has gotten rid of 30 hives annually.
The Union of Beekeepers’ Butov says that beekeepers need new ways to make money from their hives, but Russian legislation makes it difficult.
“Russia needs regulations similar to the United States, where a beekeeper gets money from farmers for every beehive located near their farm, as bees help to improve the flora around them,” Butov said.
Grigory Kondratets, who cares for 90 hives in the village of Petrishevo south of Moscow, said that he has asked his local administration to rent him four acres of a local forest for his bees to pollinate, but was refused.
“The Naro-Fominsk administration even fined me last year 6,000 rubles ($89) for installing my beehives illegally,” Kondratets said. “I complained to the Russian National Union of Beekeepers, wrote letters to the administration, but nothing helped.”
Beekeepers in Siberia’s Altai territory have looked to even more novel ways to earn more money from their honey. Members of the local cooperative Altai-Land of Honey offer “honey tourism” packages that give visitors the opportunity to sleep near beehives or get honey spa treatments.
Real and Fake Altai Honey
Yury Boguslavsky, chairman of Altai-Land of Honey, said that the honey from his region is particularly prized. “Altai honey is unique, with 1,000 healthy chemical compounds, compared to just 300 in other types of honey,” he said.
More than 20,000 beekeepers live in Altai, which is extremely biodiverse and incorporates several climate zones: taiga, deciduous forest, steppe and mountains.
Boguslavsky says that because honey from the region is so prized, Altai beekeepers have to constantly fight against “fake” honey labeled as products from Altai.
“To prevent fakes, this year we registered the brand Altaisky Myod (Altai Honey) and any product with this name must meet the standards in lab tests that we conduct,” Boguslavsky said.
The Union of Beekeepers’ Butov says that the best way to avoid fake honey is to buy from a beekeeper and check the honey’s “passport,” which contains all the information about its origins and makeup.
“In some regions of Russia, the amount of fake honey is up to 70 percent,” Butov said. “Fake honey is made of sugar, starch or syrups.”
Currently the Union of Beekeepers has 330,000 members across the country, but according to Butov, the number of Russians engaged in keeping bees is on the decline and the situation is not likely to change any time soon.
“[Former Moscow Mayor] Yury Luzhkov, a devoted beekeeper, used to popularize the honey industry. He organized markets to keep the prices down and promoted honey production on TV”, Butov said. “After Luzhkov resigned, the honey industry went silent and there is no sign it will be that popular again.”
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THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED
Author(s): BURROUGHS WILLIAM S
This is the second novel, alongside 'The Soft Machine' and 'Nova Express', in William Burroughs' classic 'Cut-Up Trilogy'. A prophetic vision of a world in which technology has gone haywire, 'The Ticket That Exploded' continues the adventures of Agent Lee in his mission to investigate and subvert the methods of mind control being used by The Nova Mob. Experimental, unnerving and compelling in equal measure, this is a completely original work of science fiction and a gripping moral and political fable from post-war America's most controversial and influential writer.
'As filthy and boggling as it was in 1968 -- would he get away with it today?' Time Out 'The fold-in technique gives excellent comic and satiric results!cleverly combines the raw energy of lowbrow spy- and science-fiction with the brutal unfamiliarity of hardcore pornography.' Spectator 'He has a savage sense of comedy and a cleverly educated ear for the haunting casual phrase.' Scotsman 'In Mr Burroughs's hands, writing reverts to acts of magic, as though he were making some enormous infernal encyclopaedia of all the black impulses and acts that, once made, would shut the fiends away forever.' New York Times 'His Swiftian vision of a processed, pre-packaged life, a kind of electro-chemical totalitarianism, often evokes the black laughter of hilarious horror.' Playboy Praise for William Burroughs: 'Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.' Jack Kerouac 'Burroughs' voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American, a voice in which one hears transistor radios and old movies and all the cliches and all the cons and all the newspapers, all the peculiar optimism, all the failure.' Joan Didion 'The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.' Norman Mailer 'In the English language, William Burroughs is the greatest writer alive. His imagination has tackled head-on the post-war world, with its huge bureaucracies and sinister complexes. He has a paranoid vision, but as he himself said: the psychotic is someone who knows what's really going on.' J. G. Ballard, Sunday Times 'William Burroughs broadened people's conception of what makes humanity. In that way, he really was an American hero, a hero writer, and also just a great man.' Lou Reed
William Burroughs was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1914. Immensely influential among the Beat writers of the 1950s -- notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg -- he already had an underground reputation before the appearance of his first important book, 'Naked Lunch'. Originally published by the daring and influential Olympia Press (the original publishers of Henry Miller) in France in 1959, it aroused great controversy on publication and was not available in the US until 1962 and in the UK until 1964. The book was adapted for film by David Cronenberg in 1991. William Burroughs died in 1997.
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Author : BURROUGHS WILLIAM S
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Industry eyes will turn to Corowa this Monday morning as the national lamb market continues to surge. Record high prices for the Honour Ave saleyards have been set in each of the past two yardings, with a pen of 70 extra heavy “Allambie West” Pleasant Hills lambs selling for $281.60 last Monday. Elders selling agent David Hill said the Beckett family had set the lambs, averaging 35kg, for the July 23 sale. “It’s not often you see the tail of your lambs make the most money,” he said, “that was the end of his lambs, the end run of his lambs, that made the most money. “They kicked it at $270 … and they had a slug-out until $281.60. For Corowa to knock Wagga off is a pretty good result.” A short-lived Australian record price of $281.20 for extra-heavy lambs was set at Wagga on June 19. A pen of lambs sold for $297.60 at Wagga on Thursday, July 26, and now the question is whether there are enough top quality heavy lambs in the paddock, and enough buyer competition to push through the $300 a head barrier. “Our big lambs are just about gone, we’ve got some big lambs but not as big as those lambs, and not in those numbers,” Mr Hill said. “We’ve seen the best of the lambs, but we might not have seen the dearest prices.” Elders Albury manager Tony Killalea said it was good to see the region’s farmers rewarded for their endeavour and perseverance. “The guys who have stuck to sheep and cattle in their traditional farming enterprise have done very well,” Mr Killalea said. High prices have put a spring in the step of agents and farmers with long-standing working relationships who still have clear memories of drought induced lows. “We’ve been there when the lows are on,” Mr Hill said. “We might be kicking goals at the moment, we’re doing very well, but we do the same amount of work for the same amount of people as we were when sheep were worth nothing … I remember in ’82 you were getting $1 a pen. There wasn’t one sheep in the pen there was 350 to 500 sheep in the pen.”
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July 27 2018 - 12:00PM
Plenty of meat in the tail for lamb producers
John Chanter
WELL STOCKED: Elders auctioneer Stephen Grantham with vendors Nicole, Lily, Natasha and Peter Beckett and David Hill, Elders livestock, with the pen of 70 lambs sold for a Corowa sale yard record of $281.60 on Monday, July 23.
Industry eyes will turn to Corowa this Monday morning as the national lamb market continues to surge.
Record high prices for the Honour Ave saleyards have been set in each of the past two yardings, with a pen of 70 extra heavy “Allambie West” Pleasant Hills lambs selling for $281.60 last Monday.
Elders selling agent David Hill said the Beckett family had set the lambs, averaging 35kg, for the July 23 sale.
“It’s not often you see the tail of your lambs make the most money,” he said, “that was the end of his lambs, the end run of his lambs, that made the most money.
“They kicked it at $270 … and they had a slug-out until $281.60. For Corowa to knock Wagga off is a pretty good result.”
A short-lived Australian record price of $281.20 for extra-heavy lambs was set at Wagga on June 19.
A pen of lambs sold for $297.60 at Wagga on Thursday, July 26, and now the question is whether there are enough top quality heavy lambs in the paddock, and enough buyer competition to push through the $300 a head barrier.
“Our big lambs are just about gone, we’ve got some big lambs but not as big as those lambs, and not in those numbers,” Mr Hill said.
“We’ve seen the best of the lambs, but we might not have seen the dearest prices.”
Elders Albury manager Tony Killalea said it was good to see the region’s farmers rewarded for their endeavour and perseverance.
“The guys who have stuck to sheep and cattle in their traditional farming enterprise have done very well,” Mr Killalea said.
High prices have put a spring in the step of agents and farmers with long-standing working relationships who still have clear memories of drought induced lows.
“We’ve been there when the lows are on,” Mr Hill said.
“We might be kicking goals at the moment, we’re doing very well, but we do the same amount of work for the same amount of people as we were when sheep were worth nothing … I remember in ’82 you were getting $1 a pen. There wasn’t one sheep in the pen there was 350 to 500 sheep in the pen.”
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Willingboro working to crack down on abandoned vehicles
By Lisa Broadt lbroadt@thebct.com
Under a proposed new ordinance, the township would see a lot of impounded vehicles, officials say.
WILLINGBORO — Fed up with abandoned vehicles, the township is considering a new ordinance to prevent cars being stored on neighborhood streets for months — or occasionally years — at a time.
Public Works Director Richard Brevogel last week told council members the proposed ordinance is “aggressive.”
“There will be a lot of unhappy people, because there will be a lot of impounded vehicles,” Brevogel said.
Currently, Willingboro places restrictions on parking cars in front yards and on leaving inoperable cars on public streets for more than 72 hours. Township code also states that the occupants of a house are responsible for removing cars without proper registration and license plates from their property, but does not stipulate a time period or enforcement procedures.
The draft ordinance is not yet public, but Brevogel said it is based on ordinances used in townships that abut Willingboro.
Burlington Township, for one, defines an abandoned vehicle as one parked on a public street without current registration or parked on a public street for more than five days.
A vehicle also is considered abandoned if it’s been mechanically inoperable for more than five days or lacks one or more tires, whether it’s on public or private property.
Any vehicle stored in a driveway or outdoors must have a fitted cover, and only one stored vehicle is allowed at a time, under Burlington Township zoning.
In most cases, police can immediately tow and impound abandoned vehicles on public property.
For abandoned vehicles on private property, police must leave a notice explaining the violation. If the violation is not fixed within five days, police then are authorized to tow and impound the car. Vehicles not claimed within 30 days are sold at auction, according to the township.
Burlington Township's ordinance has a number of exceptions, including one for military personnel stationed outside New Jersey.
Delran imposes many of the same restrictions, but is slightly more forgiving. Cars can be left for up to 10 days, in some circumstances, before they are considered abandoned, according to the township's code. In Delran, zoning officers, as well as police, are authorized to enforce abandoned-vehicle regulations.
Willingboro resident Barbara Williams, of Rittenhouse Park, told council members the township is long overdue in taking action on abandoned vehicles.
In her neighborhood, she said, there are a number of cars abandoned on the streets, including one that has been there for nearly one year and another with an expiration sticker of August 2016.
“I’d like to know … when (the ordinance) takes effect and, specifically, if it will remove that car that’s now been parked there for 11 months, soon to be 12 months, with an expired sticker,” Williams said about a car on Roberts Place. “These vehicles are not being touched."
The ordinance currently is under review by the Township Council.
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2 dead, 6 injured in Finland stabbing, police say
Michelle Mark and Associated Press
Aug. 18, 2017, 12:17 PM
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police in Finland say they have shot a man in the leg after he was suspected of stabbing several people in the western city of Turku.
Finnish police patrol the streets, after stabbings in Turku, in Central Helsinki, Finland August 18, 2017.
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Two people are dead and six more are injured after a stabbing in Finland's western city of Turku on Friday. Police shot the suspect in a leg and detained him Friday, police said, adding that authorities were looking for more potential suspects.
Finnish broadcaster YLE says several people were seen lying on the ground in Puutori square in central Turku. On Twitter, police urged people to avoid that part of Turku.
One person has been "apprehended," Finnish police said, adding "several people had been stabbed" in two squares in the city. Their conditions weren't immediately available.
Tabloid Ilta-Sanomat says six people were injured, one man and five women, and that a woman with stroller was attacked by a man with a large knife.
Prime Minister Juha Sipila said the government was closely monitoring the ongoing police operation and holding an emergency meeting later Friday.
Witness Laura Laine told broadcaster YLE that she stood approximately 20 meters (65 feet) from where the stabbing took place.
"We heard that a young woman was screaming. We saw a man on the square and a knife glittered. He was waving it in the air. I understood that he had stabbed someone," Laine was quoted as saying.
Police planned a news conference at 7 p.m. (1600 GMT; 12 p.m. EDT) in Turku, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) west of Helsinki, with Finland's interior minister and the national police chief.
Finnish television channel MTV said security had been heightened at Helsinki's international airport but didn't give details.
"Police have told us not to go to the city center so we are in this coffee shop a few blocks away from the city center," said Vanessa Deggins, an American who is studying business in one of Turku's three universities. She didn't witness the actual attack, but heard sirens going past.
"This is a safe country by American standards. I have gone home alone at 2-3 a.m. ... I feel safe. This is a safe country."
SEE ALSO: Barcelona terror attack: Van suspect named, death toll rises to 14, police kill 5 suspects in 2nd Spanish city
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Eurozone GDP Just Barely Grows In Q3
LONDON (AP) — The economy of the 17-nation euro bloc expanded 0.2 percent in the third quarter, thanks largely to growth in Germany and France during a turbulent period in which a raging debt crisis raised fears of a new recession, official data showed Tuesday.
The second consecutive quarterly rise of 0.2 percent, reported by the EU statistics office Eurostat, was widely-anticipated. Figures earlier had showed Germany and France grew grow solidly — 0.5 percent and 0.4 percent — during the July to September period as consumers continued to spend.
France, Europe's second-biggest economy, managed to avoid falling into recession as the second quarter figures were revised to show a 0.1 percent contraction — a recession officially occurs after two quarters of negative growth.
However, many economists think the eurozone as a whole won't be able to avoid a recession over the coming year as the debt crisis that's already seen three countries — Greece, Ireland and Portugal — bailed out is now threatening much-bigger economies like Italy and Spain, and even raising questions over France's debts.
"Future growth prospects have deteriorated markedly since the summer, making a 'mild recession' more likely," said Frederik Ducrozet, an economist at Credit Agricole.
Tuesday's figures were Eurostat's first estimate for the quarter and do not include a number of countries, such as Greece and Italy.
Signs of a looming eurozone-wide recession were evident in the figures — Cyprus, Portugal and, perhaps most surprisingly, the Netherlands, all contracted during the quarter.
"There is no reason for growth optimism," said Ferdinand Fichtner of the German Economic Institute, DIW, warning that fourth-quarter growth is expected to be much slower as the bite of the eurozone crisis is felt.
"People are uncertain," Fichtner told the news agency dapd. "That is poison for growth."
When the debt crisis erupted in 2009, Europe's economy was just recovering from its deepest recession since World War II largely on the back of Germany, the region's biggest economy. Germany enjoyed a boom in exports and improved domestic demand, even as many in the eurozone struggle in the face of mammoth debts.
The eurozone's third quarter performance compared poorly with those of its peers. Eurostat said the United States grew by a quarterly rate of 0.6 percent, while Japan boomed by 1.5 percent, though largely because it was making up for lost output in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
The economy of the wider EU, which also includes Britain and Sweden, also grew by 0.2 percent.
Melissa Eddy in Berlin contributed to this report.
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Malaysian ringgit continues to fall against Singdollar
Aw Cheng Wei, The Straits Times
A check on Thursday showed that one Singdollar could buy RM3.0525.
The Singdollar rose against the ringgit on Thursday (Dec 20), a trend that has continued since April, when the Malaysia ringgit was strongest against the Singdollar this year.
Then, one Singdollar could buy RM2.936. A check on Thursday showed that one Singdollar could buy RM3.0525.
Reasons for the ringgit’s decline include political uncertainty and falling oil prices, analysts said.
Another factor is the strong Singapore currency, they added.
Mr Chua Han Teng, head of Asia Country Risk at Fitch Solutions, said the ringgit’s decline could be attributed to weakness in oil prices seen since October.
The Singapore currency, however, “continued to benefit from a relatively stable Chinese yuan (as the two currencies have) a strong positive correlation with each other”, he added.
Mr Chua expects the ringgit to depreciate further against the Singdollar next year.
He said: “The ringgit will weaken due to continued political and policy uncertainty in Malaysia brought about by the ruling Pakatan Harapan coalition.”
Meanwhile, the Singapore currency will remain supported by the central bank’s “appreciatory stance on the Singdollar nominal effective exchange rate”, he added.
CIMB Private Banking economist Song Seng Wun said uncertainties in regional markets have strengthened the Singdollar.
“It’s a case of Singdollar strength on the back of safe haven demand… so regional funds are parked in Singapore as Singdollar,” he said.
He added: “The stronger Singdollar is definitely handy in containing imported food inflation, especially from Malaysia.”
Earlier this month, Malaysia, Singapore’s closest neighbour, said it is looking into limiting, or stopping, the export of eggs to ensure sufficient supply for the domestic market.
Earlier this week, Malaysia’s Deputy Finance Minister Amiruddin Hamzah said the government will work through Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) to “make sure that the ringgit is stable via proactive measures to ensure sufficient liquidity and a resilient market”.
He said: “In the long term, the ringgit value would be driven particularly by the strength of the country’s economic fundamentals. Hence, Malaysia needs to focus efforts on increasing its economic resilience by diversifying revenue sources, and strengthen its fiscal position.”
Money changers told The Straits Times that the ringgit’s decline has translated to better sales.
At Aramex International Exchange at Sim Lim Square, managing director Barakath Ali said sales for the ringgit have picked up about 45 per cent this month compared with last month.
But the strong Singdollar may be one part of the equation to better ringgit sales, he added.
Mr Barakath, who is also first vice-president of the Money Changers Association (Singapore), said: “Demand for currencies usually increases during school holidays.”
Read also: Malaysian government to prohibit export of 4 species of fish, shrimp from Jan 1 to Feb 28
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NCCI recommends lower workers compensation rates for 15 states
Sheena Harrison
September 14, 2014 Reprints
P/C Legislation & Regulation Workers Comp Coverage More + Less -
An improving workers compensation market — including better policy underwriting, increasing comp premiums and a national decline in claim frequency — is driving the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. to recommend more decreases in state workers comp rates for next year.
While falling advisory rates are a sign that cost pressures are improving, workers comp experts say the filings won't necessarily translate into lower pricing for employers.
“The state insurance rates are simply guidelines ... and (insurers) — in the majority of cases, not all — have the ability to deviate from that rate” by more than 25% of the state suggested rate, said Eric Silverstein, Dallas-based senior vice president and risk management practice leader at Lockton Cos. L.L.C.
Boca Raton, Florida-based NCCI, a nationwide workers comp ratings and research organization, is the comp rating agency for 35 states and the District of Columbia. It also provides actuarial data for ratemaking agencies in Indiana and North Carolina.
NCCI has submitted workers comp advisory rate filings in 20 states so far this year.
Of those filings, 15 have been for rate de-creases and four have been for increases, said Peter Burton, Wayne, Pennsylvania-based senior division executive for state relations at NCCI. The agency requested rates remain the same in 2015 for Colorado.
Major states in which NCCI has requested decreases include Illinois, which recently approved a 5.5% decrease in workers comp rates for next year, and Oklahoma, which is considering a 7.8% decrease after the state began allowing employers to opt out of the workers comp system this year. Florida also is weighing a 2.5% decrease, the first potential workers comp rate cut for the state in four years.
Mr. Burton said the trend is expected to continue as NCCI continues its rate filing season this fall, and said he's “optimistic that the majority ... of our filings will be approved as proposed.”
“Underwriting results are good, premium is growing, and what has been one of the great stories over the years is (that) lost-time claims frequency has gone down,” Mr. Burton said of trends driving NCCI's ratemaking this year.
This is the first time in several years that NCCI advisory rates are expected to include more decreases than increases.
NCCI said at its annual conference in May that private workers comp insurers' combined ratio declined to 101% in 2013 compared with 108% in 2012 and 115% in 2011. Meanwhile, private insurers' workers comp premiums grew 5.4% year over year to $37 billion in 2013, driven largely by payroll growth and insurer pricing increases.
Mr. Burton said those positive developments now are starting to make their way into workers comp rate filings.
Pam Ferrandino, executive vice president and casualty practice leader for Willis North America Inc. in New York, agreed that NCCI's rate filings indicate favorable trends in the national workers comp landscape. She said that improved insurer profitability is allowing some to propose smaller renewal rate increases this year after years of pushing for policy pricing increases of up to 5%.
“We're beginning to see payroll growth, which also allows carriers to back off on some of the rate increases because it gives them a bigger base to spread some of the fundamental expenses across,” Ms. Ferrandino said.
Still, Lockton's Mr. Silverstein said not all companies will see lower workers comp rates.
Smaller companies' rates typically are tied closely to state rates because they don't have much claims data that can be analyzed for customized pricing, he said. Meanwhile, large employers often see workers comp policy prices fall in line with state rates because they have significant claims information that can be used to present a favorable risk profile to insurers.
But middle-market employers, whose claim experience falls between those of small and large firms, could see comp price increases from insurers and will “really have to work on their market profile to be beneficiaries” of declining advisory rates, Mr. Silverstein said.
“The market is very sensitive” to changes in underwriting, “especially within that profile in the middle market,” he said.
Decreasing rate trends haven't reached other major states that use proprietary rating agencies.
In May, the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board proposed a 6.8% increase in state workers comp advisory rates, effective Oct. 1. However, the New York Department of Financial Services rejected the proposal in July, keeping rates unchanged from last year.
Ziv Kimmel, the New York rating board's vice president and chief actuary, told Business Insurance that the board requested a rate hike because increasing medical and indemnity costs have outpaced decreases in claim frequency. The state approved a 9.5% increase in workers comp rates last year.
The San Francisco-based California Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has asked the California Department of Insurance to raise the state's pure premium workers comp rate to $2.77 per $100 of payroll as of Jan. 1, 2015, compared with $2.68 at the start of this year.
A WCIRB spokesman said increased workers comp claim frequency in Southern California played a role in its request for a rate hike, and the agency is researching the cause, he said.
Workers comp experts say they're not surprised that California is outside the trend of falling state workers comp rates.
They say reforms passed by the state in 2012 have helped hold down some cost pressures but haven't completely alleviated them.
Calls for comment to the American Insurance Association and Property Casualty Insurers Association of America were not returned last week.
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Home Newsletters Daily Report AM Little concern so far over BREC proposal to eliminate Dumas golf course
Little concern so far over BREC proposal to eliminate Dumas golf course
Annie Ourso Landry
In the two months since BREC unveiled a proposal to eliminate the Dumas Memorial golf course as part of the Greenwood Park-Baton Rouge zoo master plan, officials say the public has voiced relatively little concern over the idea.
BREC presented the public with three design concept proposals for the master plan on May 2, all of which calls for the removal of the 18-hole Dumas golf course, leaving nine reconfigured holes at the J.S. Clark course at Greenwood Park.
“We have heard from some golfers who are disappointed, but after we discuss the low play and large subsidy, they largely seem to understand that it doesn’t make sense,” says BREC spokeswoman Cheryl Michelet.
The public will be able to weigh on whether BREC should remove Dumas entirely or keep nine holes of the course, bringing Greenwood down from a total of 27 to 18 holes of golf.
Of the parks department’s six golf courses, Dumas has presented the largest challenge for BREC, officials say, because of low performance and high cost of maintenance. The 18-hole course saw just 12,134 rounds played last year and needed taxpayer subsidies of nearly $500,000.
It could be too early, though, to fully gauge public sentiment. BREC may hear more from the community as deadlines for a final master plan draw closer, Michelet says. The proposed final plan will be unveiled August 17, which the public will once again have the opportunity to weigh in on before it’s sent to the BREC Commission for approval in September.
In the meantime, the department is creating informational material with questions and answers about Dumas to be handed out at BREC golf courses, with contact information where golfers can reach out with additional questions or concerns.
The last time BREC closed a golf course—Howell Park, which officially closed in 2016 after the August flood—the parks department did receive a fair amount of pushback from golfers and elected officials in the north Baton Rouge area where the park was located. The Howell course, though, was BREC’s lowest-performing golf course at the time.
As for general public feedback on the three design concepts for Greenwood and the zoo, BREC has received some 1,708 total responses—either online, in-person at the May meetings or via a door-to-door survey.
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EU fears Brexit delay, uncertainty after shock UK vote
Fri, Jun 09, 2017 - 1:57 PM
European Union leaders fear Prime Minister Theresa May's shock loss of her majority in the snap British election she called will delay Brexit talks due to start this month and raise the risk of negotiations failing.
[BRUSSELS] European Union leaders fear Prime Minister Theresa May's shock loss of her majority in the snap British election she called will delay Brexit talks due to start this month and raise the risk of negotiations failing.
Guenther Oettinger, the German member of the European Commission, said it was unclear negotiations could be launched on Monday, June 19, as planned. The talks, which the EU wants to ensure a legally smooth British departure in March 2019, would be more uncertain without a strong negotiatng partner, he added.
Another EU official in Brussels said it was too early to speculate on how the bloc would react to a change in Britain's demands for its withdrawal.
"Let's see if the next government changes its position on Brexit," the official said as results confirmed Mrs May could no longer command a majority in parliament.
Former Finnish premier Alexander Stubb was a rare senior commentator. He tweeted: "Looks like we might need a time-out in the Brexit negotiations. Time for everyone to regroup."
SEE ALSO: UK lawmakers back bid to hamper a no-deal Brexit
Mrs May, who had campaigned against Brexit last year but took over the Conservative party after David Cameron lost last June's Brexit referendum, delivered her terms for withdrawal in March.
These include a clean break from the EU's single market and customs union. Mrs May then called a snap election hoping for a bigger majority to strengthen her hand in negotiations.
That was also the broadly desired outcome in Brussels, where leaders believed that a stronger Mrs May would be better able to cut compromise deals with the EU and resist pressure from hardline pro-Brexit factions in her party which have called for Britain to reject EU terms and, possibly, walk out without a deal.
European leaders have largely given up considering the possibility that Britain might change its mind and ask to stay. Most now appear to prefer that the bloc's second-biggest economy leave smoothly and quickly. To halt the Brexit process now would require the consent of the other member states.
The other 27 governments are particularly concerned that a breakdown in negotiations could lead to Britain ceasing to be a member on March 30, 2019, as laid out in Article 50 of the EU treaty, without negotiating the kind of divorce terms that would avoid a chaotic legal limbo for people and businesses. That would also make it improbable that Britain could secure the rapid free trade agreement it wants with the EU after it leaves.
In a note to clients, UBS wrote that the relative strength of hardline pro-Brexit groups in a weak Conservative government could make a breakdown in talks more likely and make it harder to reach a trade deal: "A tighter political balance could make it easier for Eurosceptics ... to prevent the government from offering the compromises needed to secure a trade deal".
"The prospect of another election raises the risk of a delay, potentially leaving the UK without a negotiated exit settlement."
Talk in Britain that a different ruling coalition could seek a "softer" Brexit than Mrs May has proposed, possibly seeking to remain in the single market, is also problematic for the EU.
While the 27 would quite possibly be willing to extend to Britain the same kind of access to EU markets that they offer to Norway or Switzerland, they have made clear that that would mean Britain continuing to pay into the EU budget and obey EU rules, including on free migration across the bloc, while no longer having any say in how the Union's policies are set.
EU leaders question how any British government could persuade voters to accept such an outcome and so would be wary of starting down the path of negotiating it for fear of ending up without a deal that both sides could ratify in 2019.
Siegfried Muresan, spokesman for the European centre-right party whose dominant leader is German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was scathing, saying on Twitter that Mrs May had followed Cameron in risking the "future of the country for personal political gain".
She had, he said, "played with fire" in binding Britain to the two-year deadline for Brexit talks and had now "got burned".
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Trump backs embattled court nominee after fiery hearing
Fri, Sep 28, 2018 - 8:41 AM
Donald Trump (left) gave a resounding vote of confidence to Brett Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, after a dramatic Senate hearing Thursday that saw a university professor testify he assaulted her decades ago - and the judge furiously fight back.
PHOTOS: EPA-EFE, REUTERS
[WASHINGTON] Donald Trump gave a resounding vote of confidence to Brett Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, after a dramatic Senate hearing Thursday that saw a university professor testify he assaulted her decades ago - and the judge furiously fight back.
America watched transfixed as the gripping day-long hearing opened with Christine Blasey Ford, 51, recounting to a packed room the harrowing details of what she said was an attempted rape by Mr Kavanaugh 36 years ago.
In a passionate defence, the 53-year-old conservative judge insisted before the Senate Judiciary Committee that it never happened, accused Democrats of destroying his reputation and condemned his confirmation battle as a "national disgrace" and a "circus."
"Judge Kavanaugh showed America exactly why I nominated him," the president tweeted just minutes after the close of the hearing.
"His testimony was powerful, honest and riveting," Mr Trump said. "Democrats' search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct and resist. The Senate must vote!"
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The allegations against Mr Kavanaugh by Blasey Ford, a psychology professor in California, have threatened to derail Mr Trump's bid to tilt the nation's highest court to the right for years to come.
They come against a backdrop of the #MeToo movement and the hearing included sharp exchanges between Republicans and Democrats mirroring the atmosphere of bitter political partisanship in Washington.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, which has 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats, is scheduled to vote on Kavanaugh's nomination on Friday. If approved, it would go to the full Senate, where Republicans hold a slim 51-49 edge.
"I categorically and unequivocally deny the allegation by Dr Ford," Mr Kavanaugh said in an opening statement during which his voice shook with anger, repeatedly fighting back tears.
"I've never sexually assaulted anyone, not in high school, not in college, not ever," he said. "I am innocent of this charge."
Earlier, during four hours of testimony, Blasey Ford said she was "100 per cent" certain that Mr Kavanaugh was her assailant and it was "absolutely not" a case of mistaken identity.
"I am here today not because I want to be," Blasey Ford said as she recounted the alleged assault at a high school party at a suburban Maryland home in 1982.
"I am terrified," she said, her voice often quavering. "I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me."
'CHARACTER ASSASSINATION'
The married mother of two, wearing glasses and a sober dark blue suit, appeared nervous but poised as she sat at the witness table, consulting occasionally with her lawyer.
She said Mr Kavanaugh and a friend of his, Mark Judge, were drunk at the 1982 party when they pushed her into a bedroom.
"Brett and Mark came into the bedroom and locked the door behind them," she said. "I was pushed onto the bed and Brett got on top of me.
"I believed he was going to rape me," she said. "I tried to yell for help. When I did, Brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling.
"It was hard for me to breathe, and I thought that Brett was accidentally going to kill me," she said.
Blasey Ford said she managed to escape after Judge jumped on the bed, toppling the three on to the floor.
Mr Kavanaugh said he did not watch Blasey Ford's testimony but he categorically denied her allegations.
"This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election," he said. "This is a circus."
"My family and my name have been permanently destroyed by vicious and false accusations," Kavanaugh continued. "This confirmation process has become a national disgrace."
But he said he would not be "intimidated" into withdrawing his candidacy for a spot on the nine-member Supreme Court. "You may defeat me in the final vote but you'll never get me to quit. Never," he said.
'I BELIEVE YOU'
Mr Trump nominated Mr Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who had been a swing vote on a court now divided between four conservative and four liberal justices.
Democrats on the committee praised Blasey Ford for coming forward and repeatedly questioned Mr Kavanaugh about his drinking habits in high school, asking if he had ever "blacked out" while drunk.
"I believe you," Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, told Blasey Ford.
Mr Blumenthal also hit out at Trump for failing to authorise an FBI investigation into Blasey Ford's allegations.
"It's up to the president of the United States and his failure to ask for an FBI investigation amounts to a cover-up," he said.
Several Republican senators accused Democrats of trying to delay Mr Kavanaugh's nomination until November in the hopes of capturing control of the Senate.
"This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics," said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. "I hope the American people can see through this sham.
"I intend to vote for you and I hope everybody who is fair-minded will," he told Mr Kavanaugh.
Blasey Ford said she had no political motivations. "I am a fiercely independent person and I am no one's pawn," she said.
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US: Wall Street hits new highs as banks soar on rate hike hopes
Wed, Mar 01, 2017 - 11:06 PM
US stocks hit record intraday highs on Wednesday, with the Dow breaching the 21,000 mark for the first time ever, as bank stocks surged on higher chances of an interest rate hike this month, while a more measured tone in President Donald Trump's speech reassured investors.
[BENGALURU] US stocks hit record intraday highs on Wednesday, with the Dow breaching the 21,000 mark for the first time ever, as bank stocks surged on higher chances of an interest rate hike this month, while a more measured tone in President Donald Trump's speech reassured investors.
In his first address to a joint session of Congress late Tuesday, Mr Trump said he wanted to boost the US economy with a "massive" tax relief, make a US$1 trillion effort on infrastructure and overhaul Obamacare.
His comments, though lacking in detail, helped underscore his pro-growth stance that has pushed Wall Street to record highs in a post-election rally.
However, the markets were more focused on comments on Tuesday from a handful of Federal Reserve officials, including the influential New York Fed President William Dudley, who said the case for tightening monetary policy had become "a lot more compelling".
The S&P 500 financial index soared 2 per cent, far outperforming the other 10 major sectors, led by gains in JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo.
The KBW Nasdaq Bank index was up 2.2 per cent, trading at its highest level since late 2007.
"The markets are trading higher on the softer approach by the President," Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at First Standard Financial wrote in a note.
"The dollar and yields are moving higher as next theme of the market, the 'Fed' overrides the Trump effect."
The probability of a March rate hike jumped to 67.5 per cent from roughly 30 per cent after the comments from Fed officials, according to Thomson Reuters data. The central bank's policy-setting body meets on March 14-15.
The US dollar jumped 0.79 per cent to mark its biggest one-day gain since Dec 15, while gold prices fell.
Janet Yellen, who has said a rate increase could happen in an upcoming meeting, is scheduled to speak on Friday. Meanwhile, investors will closely watch Fed Board Governor Lael Brainard's comments on Wednesday for her take on rates.
At 9.34am ET (1434 GMT) the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 198.2 points, or 0.95 per cent, at 21,010.44, the S&P 500 was up 19.1 points, or 0.80 per cent, at 2,382.74 and the Nasdaq Composite was up 47.22 points, or 0.81 per cent, at 5,872.66.
Among stocks, Lowe's jumped 9 per cent to US$80.99 and was the biggest gainer on the S&P, after the home improvement chain issued an upbeat sales forecast for the year.
Mylan rose 8 per cent as the generic drugmaker reported a 31 per cent jump in quarterly revenue.
One weak spot was Intel, which was down 0.9 per cent and was the top drag on all three indexes after Bernstein downgraded the stock to "underperform" and cut its price target.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners on the NYSE by 1,901 to 825. On the Nasdaq, 1,939 issues rose and 410 fell.
The S&P 500 index showed 85 new 52-week highs and one new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 82 new highs and 11 new lows.
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'Friends' Meets The Sims In This Wonderful Mashup — PHOTOS
By Mallory Schlossberg
Sept 8 2014
Do you remember The Sims? That computer game which allowed you to live vicariously through a group of simulated people who spoke an unintelligible language (I clearly remember one Sim angrily bellowing the not-word "voogensnot!")? Or, as some misanthropes might remember it, it was a game that allowed you to slowly destroy the lives of others with varying forms of death. (It still is — laughter and death are only some of the newer ways to perish in The Sims 4!) Hopefully you don't fall into the latter category, but if you're familiar with The Sims, then you'll definitely appreciate this. An Imgur user took the Friends characters and the impossibly amazing sitcom world they lived in and morphed the Friends cast into The Sims!
Often when people attempt to fuse pop culture and The Sims, the characters come off as pale imitations of their real-life counterparts. However, in the photos below, you'll see that these simulated computer-Friends look remarkably similar to their human buddies. Even the rooms are stark replications. It will make you wish you had this Friends pseudo-NYC universe implemented into your Sims system back when you were playing. Think of all that you could have done! You could have made Ross and Rachel get together back in Season 4! It would have been like writing Friends fanfic, right? And imagine all of the things The Sims version of what Joey would utter! (Probably "voogensnot," now that I think about it.)
While you can't exactly play The Sims-Friends, you can at least take a look at these phenomenal replications of the Friends world below. You can click here to see the rest of the photos. Clearly, we'll never be too old for The Sims.
Images: IanRoach/Imgur
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Professionally accredited by the American Chemical Society
FACULTY Professors Andersh (Chair), Campbell, Field (emeritus), Gayhart (emeritus), Glover (emeritus), Kolb (emeritus); Associate Professors Bosma, Flint, Fry, Helenek (emeritus), McQuade, Remsen; Assistant Professors Haverhals, Schnupf, Sengupta; Visiting Assistant Professor: Woods; Lecturers: Moroz (emeritus), Wentzel; Lab Coordinator Fitzjarrald
The Mund-Lagowski Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty and students comprise a learning community dedicated to the study of science and the application of the scientific method, to solve problems from both theoretical and applied perspectives. Providing programs in a personal environment characteristic of a small college, in outstanding facilities with modern instrumentation akin to that of larger institutions affords the Department a unique stature in higher education. Our faculty is comprised of dedicated teachers who are professional chemists with active research programs. The Chemistry major has received continuous certification by the Committee on Professional Training of the American Chemical Society since 1949.
Employers, graduate schools, and professional schools have recognized our graduates as having excellent problem-solving, critical-thinking, and communication skills, the ability to work in collaborative teams, and a broad understanding of chemistry’s interdisciplinary nature. The Department offers courses in all areas of chemistry: analytical, biochemistry, inorganic, organic, materials, environmental, and physical. Our graduates are well prepared for careers in the chemical or educational professions, entrance into graduate programs in chemistry or biochemistry, or entrance into professional programs, including medical, dental, pharmacy, optometry, veterinary, business, or law.
Research is an integral part of the learning process and an important component of many careers in the discipline and, as such, students are encouraged to begin independent studies early in their academic careers. Working alongside their faculty mentors, students use high-tech instrumentation to do relevant real-world research, sometimes in partnership with local laboratories or companies. Often, our students co-author scientific journal publications and present their work at national and regional conferences as well as during the Department’s weekly seminar series.
Advanced Placement: Students earning a 5 on the Advanced Placement Examination will receive credit for CHM 110, 111, and 112. Those who earn a score of 4 will receive credit for CHM 110 and 111. Those who earn a score of 3 will receive credit for CHM 100 and 101.
Internal Transfer Students: Before declaring a major or minor in the Department, internal transfer students must have achieved a 2.25 overall grade point average and completed at least one course in the departmental common curriculum at Bradley, earning a C or better,
To prepare our majors to achieve their professional objectives, six curricular options leading to a Bachelor of Science or a Bachelor of Arts degree are available. The Department also offers a Minor in Chemistry and jointly sponsors a program in Medical Laboratory Science (LSM) with the Department of Biology and a program in Environmental Science—Chemistry (ENS-C) with the Departments of Biology and Physics. In addition, the Department offers two combined Baccalaureate and Master’s degree options, the B.S./M.S.-Chemistry and the B.S./M.S.-Biochemistry. These accelerated, research-intensive programs provide opportunities for students to earn both a B.S. and an M.S. degree in less time than traditionally required and enrollment in these programs is limited. B.S./M.S. graduates find immediate employment or have very high acceptance rates into Ph.D. or professional school programs. Students enrolled in a B.S./M.S. program who decide not to complete the combined degree program can graduate with a B.S. degree by fulfilling the requirements of any program offered by the Department.
Departmental Major Requirements
All majors must meet the all-university degree requirements, departmental common curriculum requirements, and the required courses for their chosen major or concentration. Typical course sequencing schedules for all departmental majors and concentrations may be found on the Department’s website.
Chemistry and Biochemistry Common Curriculum Requirements
Students in the B.S., B.A., or B.S./M.S. programs must successfully complete the Chemistry and Biochemistry Common Curriculum Requirements:
• CHM 110 General Chemistry I - 3 hr.
• CHM 111 General Chemistry I Laboratory - 1 hr.
• CHM 116 General Chemistry II - 4 hr.
• CHM 117 General Chemistry II Laboratory - 1 hr.
• CHM 252 Organic Chemistry I - 4 hr.
• CHM 253 Organic Chemistry Laboratory I - 1 hr.
• CHM 256 Organic Chemistry II - 3 hr.
• CHM 257 Organic Chemistry Laboratory II - 1 hr.
• CHM 292 Chemical Informatics - 1 hr.
• CHM 326 Analytical Chemistry - 4 hr.
• CHM 360 Biochemistry - 3 hr.
• CHM 380 Seminar I in Chemistry and Biochemistry - 0 hr.
• CHM 386 Seminar II in Chemistry and Biochemistry - 0.5 hr.
• CHM 470 Physical Chemistry I - 3 hr.
• CHM 480 Seminar III in Chemistry and Biochemistry - 0.5 hr.
• One semester of biology with laboratory (BIO 151 and BIO 152)
• One year of college-level physics (PHY 110, 201 or PHY 107, 108)
• Two semesters of calculus (MTH 121, 122 or MTH 115, 116)
A grade of C or higher must be earned in CHM 110, 111, 116, 117, 252, and 253 before continuing on to the next course in this sequence.
Biochemistry Major (BCM)
This course of study is designed for students wishing to prepare for entrance into a graduate program, a career in biochemistry or a career in allopathic, osteopathic, or veterinary medicine. All students must complete the Chemistry and Biochemistry Common Curriculum Requirements and:
• CHM 361 Biochemistry Laboratory - 1 hr.
• CHM 420 Instrumental Analysis - 4 hr.
• CHM 462 Protein Structure and Function - 3 hr.
• CHM 466 Intermediary Metabolism - 3 hr.
• CHM 471 Physical Chemistry Laboratory I - 1 hr.
• BIO 310 Genetics - 4 hr.
• BIO 464 Cell Biology - 4 hr.
Total hours required for the BCM major: 69–70.
Chemistry Major
The specific courses and enrollment sequences taken are a function of the Chemistry Major Concentration selected. All students who are candidates for the B.S. or B.A. major must complete the requirements of the selected Chemistry Concentration.
Chemistry American Chemical Society Certified-Concentration (CHM-C)
This concentration is designed for students wishing to attend graduate school in chemistry or who plan to seek immediate employment in chemistry or an allied field. Students who complete this concentration will receive anAmerican Chemical Society Certified Degree. All students must complete the Chemistry and Biochemistry Common Curriculum Requirements and:
• CHM 412 Molecular Modeling - 1 hr.
• CHM 436 Inorganic Chemistry - 3 hr.
• CHM 437 Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory - 1 hr.
• CHM 476 Physical Chemistry II - 3 hr.
• A minimum of six additional hours in chemistry numbered 299 or above, excluding CHM 300, 302, and
422. At least two of the six credit hours must be selected from the list below:
o CHM 299 Directed Studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry – 1–4 hr.
o CHM 441 Materials Chemistry Laboratory - 1 hr.
o CHM 499 Directed Studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry* – 1–4 hr.
o Approved LAS 301 internship* - 1-3 hr.
When LAS 301, CHM 299 or 499 is used to complete this requirement, a written research paper must be submitted to the chair of the department.
Total hours required for the CHM-C concentration: 69–70.
Chemistry Pre-Medical Concentration (CHM-PM)
This concentration is designed to provide curricular flexibility to students who are interested in studying chemistrywhile preparing to attend medical (allopathic, osteopathic), veterinary, optometry, or dental school. Students enrolledin this concentration will work closely with their CHM-PM departmental advisor and the University’s HealthProfessions Advising Center to select elective courses that best meet their career objectives. All students must complete the Chemistry and Biochemistry Common Curriculum Requirements and:
• BIO 230 Human Anatomy and Physiology I - 3 hr.
• BIO 232 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II - 3 hr.
• BIO 310 Genetics – 3 hr.
• Statistics – 3 hr. (Options: MTH 111 Elementary Statistics, MTH 325 Probability and Statistics I, PSY 205 Quantitative Methods, or BIO 260 Biological Statistics I – 1 hr. and BIO 261 Biological Statistics II – 2 hr.)
• PSY 101 Principles of Psychology – 3 hr.
• SOC 100 The Sociological Perspective – 3 hr.
Plus 13 additional elective hours of which at least 7 hours must be selected from Chemistry Departmental courses numbered CHM 301 or above; the remaining six hours could be additional CHM courses (numbered above CHM 301) or any of the courses listed below:
o BIO 231 - Human Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory I – 1 hr.
o BIO 233 - Human Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory II - 1 hr.
o BIO 250 - Organismal Biology - 4 hr.
o BIO 351 - Human Histology - 3 hr.
o BIO 406 - General Microbiology - 4 hr.
o BIO 408 - Bacterial Pathogenesis - 4 hr.
o BIO 464 - Cell Biology – 3-4 hr.
o BIO 468 - Immunology of Host Defense - 3-4 hr.
o BIO 482 - Endocrinology - 3 hr.
o BIO 484 - Neurophysiology - 3 hr.
Total hours required for the CHM-PM concentration: 81-82.
Chemistry Pre-Pharmacy Concentration (CHM-PP)
This Chemistry Concentration is specifically designed for students preparing to apply for admission to PharmD (Doctor of Pharmacy) programs. Nationwide, the majority of pharmacists work in community pharmacies; however, there is an exceptional demand for pharmacists in a wide variety of professional settings. Departmental advisors and individuals in the University’s Health Professions Advising Center offer curricular support and advising throughout the pharmacy school application and admission process. All students must complete the Chemistry and Biochemistry Common Curriculum Requirements and:
• Seven additional hours in Chemistry selected from courses numbered CHM 301 or above.
• BIO 230 Human Anatomy and Physiology I -3 hr.
• BIO 231 Human Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory I – 1 hr.
• BIO 232 Human Anatomy and Physiology II – 3 hr.
• BIO 233 Human Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory II – 1hr.
• BIO 251 Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity – 3 hr.
• BIO 252 Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Laboratory - 1 hr.
• BIO 406 General Microbiology – 4 hr.
• ECO 221 Principles of Microeconomics – 3 hr. or ECO 222 Principles of Macroeconomics – 3hr.
Total hours required for the CHM-PP concentration: 82-83.
Chemistry High School Education (9-12) Concentration (CHM-T)
This concentration is designed to provide graduates with the education and training to teach chemistry at the secondary school level (grades 9-12). Students who select this concentration must also complete all the education requirements mandated by the Illinois State Board of Education, which includes 441 hours of course work in the Teacher Education-High School Education concentration.
All students must complete the Chemistry and Biochemistry Common Curriculum Requirements and:
• MTH 111 Elementary Statistics – 3 hr.
• Six additional hours, three from Category A and three from Category B, selected from the lists below:
• CHM 316 Environmental Chemistry - 3 hr.
• GES 101 Principles of Earth Science - 3 hr.
• CHM 332 Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry - 3 hr.
Total hours required for the CHM-T concentration: 100-102.
For more information, see Teacher Education - High School Education program in the College of Education and Health Sciences section of this catalog.
Chemistry Business Concentration (CHM-B)
This concentration is designed for students wishing to combine chemistry with a basic knowledge of business for immediate employment in the field or to help prepare for entrance into an MBA or Law program. Typical employment options for graduates with this concentration are found in companies or industries dealing with chemical production, procurement, or processing; the careers include: cost analysis, sales, marketing, advertising, customer service, and management. All students must complete the Chemistry and Biochemistry Common Curriculum Requirements and:
• CHM 450 Industrial Organic Chemistry - 1 hr.
Plus four additional hours, selected from the list below:
CHM 332 Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry - 3 hr.
CHM 361 Biochemistry Laboratory - 1 hr.
CHM 436 Inorganic Chemistry - 3 hr.
CHM 437 Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory - 1 hr.
CHM 440 Materials Chemistry - 3 hr.
CHM 441 Materials Chemistry Laboratory - 1 hr.
CHM 471 Physical Chemistry Laboratory I - 1 hr.
Seventeen hours taken in the Foster College of Business:
ATG 157 Accounting Principles-Financial - 3 hr.
M L 350 Managing for Results in Organizations OR M L 250 Interpersonal Effectiveness in Organizations - 2 hr.
ECO 221 Principles of Microeconomics or ECO 100 Intro. to Economics - 3 hr.
FIN 322 Business Finance - 3 hr.
MTG 315 Principles of Marketing or MTG 304 Professional Selling - 3 hr.
Three hours selected from the list below:
ATG 158 Accounting Principles-Cost Management - 3 hr.
ECO 222 Principles of Macroeconomics or any 300-level course in FIN, M L, or MTG - 3 hr.
Total hours required for the CHM-B concentration: 78–79.
As a natural science, chemistry is of fundamental importance to the understanding of many disciplines. Moreover, a minor in chemistry would enhance the preparation of other majors for entrance into careers in pharmaceutical sales, environmental studies, forensic science, health sciences, engineering, and the biological sciences. At least 8 hours of the departmental coursework required for the minor must be completed at Bradley. Some minor requirements may also serve as curricular requirements for majors in the physical and life sciences. The minor in chemistry consists of:
CHM 110 General Chemistry I - 3 hrs.
CHM 111 General Chemistry I Laboratory - 1 hr.
CHM 116 General Chemistry II - 4 hrs.
CHM 117 General Chemistry II Laboratory - 1 hr.
CHM 252 Organic Chemistry I - 4 hrs.
CHM 253 Organic Chemistry Laboratory I - 1 hr.
CHM 256 Organic Chemistry II 3 hr.
CHM 257 Organic Chemistry Laboratory II - 1 hr.
CHM 326 Analytical Chemistry - 4 hrs.
One 3-4 hr. course numbered above 300 (excluding CHM 422) - 3–4 hrs.
One year of college-level physics and one semester of calculus.
Total hours required for the minor: 37–38.
Combined Undergraduate/Graduate Degree (4+1) Programs
B.S./M.S. Admission Requirements (Undergraduate)
Students may apply to the program after completing CHM 252. To be admitted, the student must have achieved an overall GPA of 2.50, an average GPA of 2.75 in chemistry courses, and a C or better in all chemistry, mathematics, biology, and physics courses.
Students are strongly encouraged to apply in their junior year, but applications from seniors who have significant research experience will also be considered. The initial application is made within the department, using the Application for Admission to the BS/MS Program form available on the Department Sakai site. This application is to be submitted to the graduate coordinator. Once admitted, students fill out the change of major form, which is signed by the Department Chair and the LAS dean.
B.S./M.S. Admission Requirements (Graduate)
To earn graduate status within the B.S./M.S. program, students must have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.0 in the last 60 hours of undergraduate coursework, a cumulative GPA of 2.75 in undergraduate chemistry courses, and a cumulative GPA of 3.0 in graduate courses. The student must also have met the requirements for undergraduate graduation before the first semester of the graduate study. Application is made to the graduate school after meeting with the Department’s Graduate Coordinator regarding the specific requirements for application to the B.S./M.S. graduate program.
For both Chemistry and Biochemistry B.S./M.S. options, up to nine hours of graduate credit, taken prior to the completion of the bachelor's degree can be counted toward both degrees. If this option is selected, a minimum of 146 hours, 30 of which must be at the graduate level, must be earned. The Graduate Record Examination is not required for admission to this program.
Programmatic Requirements and Procedures
Program participants are expected to engage in full-time research experiences during the summers after their third, fourth, and fifth years. Failure to do so will extend the time needed to complete the program.
Students must identify a research mentor/thesis advisor and begin their undergraduate research no later than the summer after their third year. A research mentor/thesis advisor must be identified before applying to the BS/MS program.
At the beginning of the fourth year, the student’s thesis committee shall be constituted. The committee members shall be chosen by the Graduate Coordinator in consultation with the thesis advisor. The committee shall include the thesis advisor and at least two other Faculty. If a student has two thesis advisors, there must be two additional faculty members on the committee. The majority of the members must be from the Bradley University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Before completion of the fourth year, the student must present a seminar (CHM 580 ) summarizing the literature relevant to the thesis project, any preliminary results, and an outline of the proposed research. Within one week of the seminar, the student must meet with the thesis committee to discuss the presentation and the research plan. Failure to meet with the committee will result in a grade of IN in the course.
The Graduate Coordinator and thesis advisor must approve a Graduate Program of Study before the first day of classes of the student’s fourth year of study.
The student must apply to graduate when the undergraduate requirements are complete, so as to be able to register as a graduate student thereafter.
All matriculated graduate students (except those requiring a leave of absence) are required to be registered for at least one course for each fall and spring semester and one course during each summer from the semester of matriculation through the semester in which the degree is completed.
Upon completion of the thesis, the student must present the work in a research seminar (CHM 682) and successfully defend the thesis to the thesis committee. The voting members of the thesis committee shall determine the research seminar grade and when a thesis has satisfactorily met all standards. The thesis defense serves as the comprehensive examination required by the Graduate School.
Departmental Common Curriculum Requirements
Students in the B.S./M.S. programs must successfully complete the Chemistry and Biochemistry Common Curriculum Requirements. A grade of C or higher must be earned in CHM 110, 111, 116, 117, 252, and 253 before continuing on to the next course in this sequence.
B.S./M.S.-Chemistry (CHM 4+1)
Students completing this degree option and who have submitted a written research summary paper will receive an American Chemical Society Certified Degree. The B.S. degree will be awarded once the candidate has met the All-University Degree Requirements and completed the B.S./M.S. Common Curriculum Requirements and the B.S. Requirements listed below:
B.S. Requirements for B.S./M.S. Chemistry
CHM 436 Inorganic Chemistry - 3 hrs.
CHM 476 Physical Chemistry II - 3 hrs.
CHM 499 Directed Studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry - 2 hrs.
CHM 520 Instrumental Analysis - 4 hrs.
CHM 580 Literature Seminar in Chemistry and Biochemistry - 1 hr.
Chemistry Electives - 5 hrs.
Two hours in courses numbered 300 to 499, excluding CHM 300, 302, and 422.
Three hours in courses numbered 500 or above, excluding CHM 522.
No more than three of the five credit hours in laboratory courses.
Total hours in the major required for the undergraduate degree: 69.5–70.5
M.S. Requirements for B.S./M.S. Chemistry
A minimum of 30 hours of coursework at the 500–600 level is required, including:
CHM 524 Fundamentals of Separation Science - 3 hrs.
CHM 599 Research - 3 hrs.
CHM 682 Thesis Research Seminar - 1 hr.
CHM 699 Thesis - 1 hr.
The remaining graduate credits must be selected from the list of electives below:
Graduate Chemistry Electives
CHM 500 Chemical Topics - 1–3 hrs.
CHM 512 Molecular Modeling - 1 hr.
CHM 514 Chemical Group Theory - 1 hr.
CHM 516 Environmental Chemistry - 3 hrs.
CHM 526 Advanced Analytical Chemistry - 3 hrs.
CHM 528 Topics in Analytical Chemistry - 1–3 hrs.
CHM 532 Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry - 3 hrs.
CHM 538 Topics in Inorganic Chemistry - 1–3 hrs.
CHM 540 Materials Chemistry - 3 hrs.
CHM 548 Topics in Materials Chemistry - 1–3 hrs.
CHM 550 Industrial Organic Chemistry - 1 hr.
CHM 552 Physical Organic Chemistry - 3 hrs.
CHM 554 Organic Spectroscopy - 3 hrs.
CHM 555 Organic Spectroscopy Laboratory - 1 hr.
CHM 558 Topics in Organic Chemistry - 1–3 hrs.
CHM 562 Protein Structure and Function - 3 hrs.
CHM 564 Biochemical Literature - 1–2 hrs.
CHM 566 Intermediary Metabolism - 3 hrs.
CHM 568 Topics in Biochemistry - 1–3 hrs.
CHM 577 Physical Chemistry Laboratory II - 1 hr.
CHM 578 Topics in Physical Chemistry - 1–3 hrs.
CHM 584 Readings in Chemistry or Biochemistry - 1–3 hrs.
Total hours required for the CHM 4+1 program: 91.5–92.5 hrs
B.S./M.S.-Biochemistry (BCM 4+1)
The B.S. degree will be awarded once the candidate has met the All-University Degree Requirements and completed the B.S./M.S. Common Curriculum Requirements and the B.S. Requirements listed below:
B.S. Requirements for B.S./M.S. Biochemistry
CHM 499 Directed Studies in Chemistry - 2 hrs.
BIO 310 Genetics - 4 hrs.
BIO 464 Cell Biology - 4 hrs.
Total hours required for the major: 71.5–72.5
M.S. Requirements for B.S./M.S. Biochemistry
The remaining graduate credits may be selected from the lists of biochemistry and chemistry electives below, with no less than half of the credits coming from the biochemistry list.
Graduate Biochemistry Electives
BIO 503 Molecular Genetics - 3 hrs.
BIO 509 Human Genetics - 3 hrs.
BIO 568 Cell/Molecular Immunology - 3 hrs.
Chemistry Graduate Electives
Total hours required for the BCM 4+1 program: 93.5–94.5
All students are encouraged to join the Chem Club, a Student Affiliate Chapter of the American Chemical Society. Based upon their many educational, service, and social activities, the Bradley chapter has been consistently ranked in the top tier of the approximately 900 chapters by the Society’s Committee on Education. Chapter members perform chemical demonstrations at local elementary schools, judge science fairs, participate in Mole Day and National Chemistry Week, host invited lectures, and much more.
Internship And Co-Op Programs
Numerous opportunities exist in the greater Bradley area (e.g., at Caterpillar, Inc., the medical school, hospitals, USDA lab, crime lab, or environmental labs) for students to gain off-campus career-related work experiences. Students who participate in internships and co-ops typically begin their experience during their sophomore or junior year.
Because advances in science are often made by international teams of individuals collaborating to reach a common goal, majors are encouraged to participate in a study abroad experience. In addition to the cultural and educational benefits, study abroad experiences will broaden the professional opportunities available to the student. The University’s Study Abroad Office works in conjunction with the department in the placement of students. Majors who choose to study abroad generally do so during their junior year.
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Rob Cox: Russia sanctions’ unintended consequences
Parmigiano-Belarussiano
9 June 2015 By Rob Cox Follow @rob1cox
Here’s a pronouncement to rekindle nostalgia for the Soviet Union’s once-formidable propaganda machine: the 180,000 tonnes of cheese produced in Russia in the first four months of this year was 30 percent more than in the same period of 2014.
The increase, reported by state statistics service Rosstat, is one of the few appetizing unintended consequences to emerge from the West’s sanctions against Russia. The penalties followed last year’s annexation of Crimea and President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing support of pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.
The cheese business is surging because Russia, in retaliation for restrictions imposed by the United States and European Union, banned a wide swath of food and agricultural imports last August. While there were enough holes in the prohibition to allow Swiss Emmental into Russia, domestic producers were called upon to patriotically curdle their own variations of Italian parmesan and Cypriot halloumi.
A cheese boom in Russia is hardly what the international community was planning when it announced measures designed to target Putin’s inner circle of power. But it’s the least worrisome of many other unexpected developments. Certainly it is of less concern to London, Washington and Berlin than, say, Putin’s heightened popularity or Russia’s economic pivot to China.
Economic sanctions, blockades and their ilk are among the least perfect tools wielded by Western governments. Just ask Fidel Castro or the mullahs still ruling Iran. In part, that’s because assessing their efficacy often requires proving a counter-factual. For instance, it might be argued that UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s threat earlier this year of “materially different” sanctions kept pro-Russian forces from overrunning the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the last barrier to building a land bridge between Russia and Crimea. Maybe – or maybe not.
What’s irrefutable is that the sanctions have added to a host of problems – chiefly the decline in the price of oil over the past year – that have conspired to send the Russian economy into a dramatic slowdown, accompanied by high inflation and a severe capital drought.
Cameron, U.S. President Barack Obama and others who championed the sanctions in March 2014 promised they were aiming at Putin and such cronies as Gennady Timchenko, the founder of commodities trader Gunvor and Yuri Kovalchuk, the largest owner of Bank Rossiya, rather than ordinary Russians.
While travel and other prohibitions have certainly inconvenienced Putin’s network of loyal oligarchs, the average Russian continues to bear the brunt of the bruising.
“Achievements in shared prosperity are being threatened,” the World Bank warned just last week, predicting that real GDP this year will contract by 2.7 percent and rebound by just 0.7 percent in 2016.
Reduced access to capital has hurt the entrepreneurial lifeblood of the Russian economy, or any other: small and medium-sized businesses. While big state enterprises like Rosneft or Gazprom have also been shut out of international capital markets, they still have access to the balance sheets of Russian banks, particularly the two state-owned giants, Sberbank and VTB.
Not so the little guys. Credit extended to small and medium-sized entities was down 9 percent to 4.78 billion rubles in May from the same month a year earlier, according to Central Bank of Russia figures. Bankers in Moscow admit that they have little incentive to lend to these borrowers, as they are riskier credits than, say, a steel mill backed by the Kremlin.
The longer this continues, the more control the state will ultimately exert on the Russian economy. Again, it’s hard to imagine that was the objective of the West’s sanctions.
Despite the economic hardship, Putin’s approval ratings have soared, hitting 86 percent last month, according to Moscow pollster the Levada Center. With his extraordinary popularity, Putin is under little immediate pressure to make the tough structural changes that would help Russia’s economy, and which were plainly needed well before the annexation of Crimea.
A more prosperous Russia cannot be built without big investments in infrastructure, public works, education and technology to help wean the country off its dependence on energy prices. There is also a need for internal sources of risk capital. Pension funds, which have been raided to help public accounts, could be a good source. And the aging country needs higher legal retirement ages.
The economic ostracism has also encouraged a Russian pivot toward China. Not only is trade between the nations up, but Chinese state banks are helping capitalize Russian businesses. They were, for instance, involved in the secondary offering in March of Lenta, a hypermarket chain originally backed by U.S. private equity fund TPG. The $225 million deal was led by the Russian Direct Investment Fund, which was established to make equity co-investments alongside strategic investors, including China Investment Corp.
Sure, some of the pain being inflicted on the Russian middle class was expected. As Obama said in a speech in Brussels after unveiling sanctions: “The Russian people will recognize that they cannot achieve the security, prosperity and the status that they seek through brute force.”
But that message hasn’t yet fully sunk in. Putin looks stronger than ever. And the variety of Russian cheeses in the dairy case keeps expanding by the day.
This item has been corrected to read “the first four months of this year” in the opening paragraph.
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Report: Schiff Hires Another Russian Investigator for Probe into Donald Trump
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is adding another Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in the House Intelligence Committee’s probe into President Donald Trump.
Schiff, who became chairmen of the committee after Democrats took back the House majority, tapped Daniel Noble, co-chief of the complex frauds and cybercrime unit at the Manhattan office, unnamed sources told Bloomberg News.
“They declined to be named because the move hasn’t been made public yet,” Bloomberg reported.
Noble, who has deep experience in cybercrime, worked with Goldman to convict Mikhail Zemlyansky in 2015 of racketeering, insurance fraud and securities fraud. Zemlyansky ran a Russian-American criminal ring that perpetrated a $100 million no-fault auto scheme, according to prosecutors.
“Known as ‘Russian Mike,’ Zemlyansky is a Ukrainian native. His 36-person ring mainly comprised of people of Russian-American descent. They included ten doctors and three lawyers who sold out their professions for lucrative bribes to rubber-stamp bogus crash treatments and claims,” insurancefraud.org reported.
The hire comes just days after Breitbart News reported Schiff hired Daniel Goldman, who worked with Noble on the Zemlyansky case. He left the U.S. Attorney’s office in 2017 to become a legal analyst on NBC and MSNBC, where he regularly accused President Donald Trump of committing crimes to win the presidential election.
Goldman is also a fellow at the George Soros-funded Brennan Center for Justice, with offices in New York City and Washington, DC.
Schiff’s investigations of Trump are not limited to his committee chairmanship. On Thursday he reintroduced legislation that would alert Congress if the president pardons any individuals tied to investigations into himself or family members, according to the Hill.
“While Schiff introduced the legislation last year, his new push comes amid reports that representatives for Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, may have spoken about a pardon with attorneys for the president,” the Hill reported.
“The President has a broad power to confer pardons, but not when they are designed to insulate himself, his family and his associates from criminal investigation,” Schiff said in a statement about the Abuse of the Pardon Prevention Act. ”Such an abuse of the pardon power would amount to obstruction of justice and is not countenanced by the constitution.”
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A brief history of the radial master cyclinder
BremboCompanyNewsHISTORY RADIAL MASTER CYCLINDER Brembo brakes
The secret to the impressive response linearity found in the radial master cylinder that substantially improves braking performance.
In 1985 Brembo registered the first patent for an idea destined to revolutionise braking systems: the radial master cylinder. The idea first took shape in racing, where the problem of limited space on competition bikes spurred intense research into more compact solutions.
This new concept significantly improved rider ergonomics, making the action of the rider on the brake lever even more effective while reducing the size of the system.
What set this new solution apart was a configuration that transmitted the force exerted by the rider's hand to the piston directly and in the same direction, without friction losses caused by diverting the force into multiple components.
The radial design puts the piston axis parallel to the lever pull direction and perpendicular to the handlebar.
One of the many advantages of this approach was that the brake master cylinder could be designed to optimise the hydraulic and mechanical ratios in order to improve the product's performance.
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In anticipation of Brembo's braking system innovations for the queen class, let's review the evolution of the Brembo braking systems for MotoGP over the last five years. Not just anyone is able to stay at the top of a highly competitive category like the MotoGP. In the last five years, six riders and two manufacturers have alternated on the top tier of the podium. The only one who never relinquished the spot was Brembo.
In 1986 the radial master cylinder was already on the track, on the Yamaha YZR OW of the famous GP racer Eddie Lawson, who would win that season's 500 cc class of the Motorcycle Grand Prix.
The American was immediately impressed by the extraordinarily linear response of the new component, convincing Brembo to develop the idea further to resolve a few shortcomings that the new solution had brought to light.
Two further evolutions of the initial concept were patented in 1988, resulting in a radial master cylinder very similar to what we see today.
It was only in 2002, fourteen years later, that the first radial master cylinder would appear on a production motorcycle: the Aprilia RSV 1000. In 2007 Brembo presented the new 19RCS Brembo brake master cylinder, a product bristling with innovative technology.
This radial master cylinder introduced yet another world first. Patented by Brembo and derived from MotoGP, it featured an innovative adjustment system allowing even the most exacting rider to configure the performance of the master cylinder to cater for specific situations.
Up until then, there had been just two aftermarket brake master cylinder choices, with riders having to opt for either a racing product or a road-going component.
Riders using their bikes predominantly on the road generally chose a 19x20 road-going master cylinder, which offers softer, more progressive braking action and a smoother response in less than ideal road conditions.
Those seeking the exhilaration of shaving hundredths of a second from their lap times during track sessions, on the other hand, opted for a 19x18 Racing master cylinder, which delivers strong braking power as soon as the rider touches the lever.
As a guideline, a 19x18 master cylinder is recommended for bikes with calipers fitted with 4 pistons measuring 32/36, 34/34 and 30/34 in diameter, while 19x20 master cylinders are suitable for other calipers.
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Find out which Brembo Master Cylinders are available for your bike and where you can purchase them. Brembo offers a wide range of radial master cylinders and adjustable levers to replace and enhance the original system.
Brembo has succeeded in catering for these two seemingly irreconcilable worlds with a single product, which lets the rider switch between configurations with a simple turn of a screwdriver.
The RCS (Ratio Click System) system on the 19RCS Brembo radial brake master cylinder introduces the unprecedented capability to change a fundamental characteristic of the master cylinder, letting the rider adjust the feel of the bike perfectly to their personal preferences.
The system lets the rider adjust the leverage of the brake lever and tailor the characteristics of the braking system to suit different situations, such as dry or wet road conditions and tarmac with poor or good grip, as well as different riding styles.
The 19 mm master cylinder can be installed on any motorcycle with dual brake discs, and offers the advantages of having two different brake master cylinders to choose from: a 19x18 mm unit offering more progressively controllable braking power in exchange for a slightly longer lever travel; and a 19x20 mm unit, giving the rider a more street bike brake lever feel.
The innovative characteristics of this two-in-one master cylinder let the rider switch between configurations in a matter of seconds, selecting a fulcrum-to-piston distance of 18 or 20 mm by simply turning the adjuster screw on the front of the guide lever by 180° with a screwdriver. The system uses a cam (red when set to 18 mm, black when set to 20 mm), which adjusts the distance between the fulcrum point and the contact point with the master cylinder push rod by 2 millimeters: this changes the distribution of the braking force without altering the performance of the system in terms of pure power.
The Brembo 19RCS is now joined by the all-new Brembo 19RCS CORSA CORTA brake master cylinder, a product destined to become the new benchmark for motorcycle enthusiasts.
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Motorcyclist Hurt in Hit-and-Run Accident
Florida Today-September 17, 2012-According to the article investigators is seeking the driver of an eastbound green car that hit a motorcyclist Sunday afternoon on State Road 528 on Merritt Island, Brevard County, Florida. The accident occurred about 5:00 p.m. Due to the accident both eastbound lanes were temporarily blocked so a medical helicopter could land, according to Florida Highway Patrol. The article goes onto say the motorcyclist was flown to Health First Medical Center in Melbourne, Brevard County, Florida.
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Douglas Carter Beane & Lewis Flinn to Workshop To Wong Foo Musical Adaptation
by Andy Lefkowitz • Oct 20, 2017
Patrick Swayze in "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar"
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Tony nominee Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn are at work on a musical adaptation of the 1995 film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. The stage show, featuring a book by screenwriter Beane and a score by Flinn, will receive a developmental presentation at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts from November 1-4.
Beeban Kidron directed the cult-favorite film about three drag queens whose car breaks down when traveling cross-country, leaving them abandoned in a small town. The film boasted a cast featuring Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, John Leguizamo, Stockard Channing and Blythe Danner.
The musical's developmental presentation, open to the public with a reservation, will feature students of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, including Korey Brown, Stephan Byc, Tom Chandler, Mia Christinis, Mecca Christy, Holland Lane Curtis, Alistair Don, Caleb Gonzales, Valerie Gorris, Gabriela Lopez Hernandez, Flo Van Hove, Finty Kelly, Jim Lawrenson, Aida Leventaki, Jane Logan, Juanes Montoya, Rafael Jason Nadal, Luke Anthony Neville, McKenna Parsons, Nico Piccardo, Oliver Sublet, Imani Youngblood and Ali Zaman.
Beane and Flinn, who happen to be married, collaborated on the Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones, for which Beane received a Tony nomination for his book. Most recently, the pair debuted the new musical Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure at Dallas Theater Center.
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Continuing on from our pick of the top casino games and gambling inspired songs out there, here are a few more of our favourites – and an absolute blooper that makes our ‘what not to listen to’ category.
6) ROLL OF THE DICE by Bruce Springsteen (1992)
This is why he’s called The Boss – he can take any theme, add a catchy tune and mix in some amazing lyrics and – hey presto, it’s brilliant! A song equating gambling with love, it has the luck of the draw at its heart – and amazingly, it was written just after Springsteen quit the E Street Band and teamed up with pianist Roy Bittan. The album it was on, Human Touch (co-released with Lucky Town), hit the charts worldwide, reaching the number one spot in Austria, Italy, and Spain, amongst others.
Our favourite line: High-rollers lay down your bets and I’ll raise ‘em / Well I know the odds ain’t in my favor.
7) VIVA LAS VEGAS by Elvis (1964)
If you thought all Elvis songs were hip-swivelling cheese, think again! This song has been described as a love letter to the world of American gambling – and listening to it you can certainly envision the table, the games, the people. It’s upbeat, exciting and lively – everything you expect entertainment to be. The film it was written for is a decent bit of old fashioned viewing but yes, we admit that Elvis’ diamond-studded suits were a bit much – but this IS VEGAS, baby!
Our favourite line: How I wish that there were more /Than the twenty-four hours in the day /Cos even if there were forty more /I wouldn’t sleep a minute away
8) THE GAMBLER by Kenny Rogers (1978)
This song has everything – emotion, melody, and a heart-tugging story at the heart. OK, so it’s slightly melodramatic but we’re listening to be entertained, not to use the song as our No. 1 games strategy bible! Some of the song’s fans argue that the ‘time is everything’ undercurrent is a great metaphor for life. That as it may be, we just think it’s a great, classy tune.
Our favourite line: He said, “Son, I’ve made a life / Out of readin’ people’s faces / Knowin’ what the cards were / By the way they held their eyes
9) THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL by Abba (1980)
Seriously – you didn’t think we were going to leave out the cheesy disco, did you? Not just a catchy tune, this is a dance floor must have! Originally on the Super Trouper album and later released as a single that reached the charts worldwide – from Japan to America, Zimbabwe to Europe – this song reached a number 1 placement in Ireland, England, Belgium and South Africa. It has also enjoyed over 40 cover versions!
Our favourite line: I’ve played all my cards / And that’s what you’ve done too / Nothing more to say / No more ace to play
And now, it’s time for our least favourite casino song…
10) POKER FACE by Lady Gaga (2008)
Maybe it suffers from being overplayed, maybe it’s the outfits or the annoying makeup, or maybe it’s the fact that this song throws in every possible poker stereotype to try and jump on a gaming bandwagon and sell records? Some say this is Lady Gaga’s most toe-tapping tune – and it did go to number 6 in the UK charts – but to us it lacks believability. And we know it’s just a song, but surely a song shouldn’t make you cringe.
Our least favourite line: I wanna hold ‘em like they do in Texas please / Fold ‘em let ‘em hit me raise it baby stay with me.
Video link: Seriously? Please, make it stop.
And now it’s over to you… what is your favourite casino games song of all time? Do you like our choices or are you ready to defend m’lady’s poker face? Feel free to add your thoughts in the comments below… we’d love to add a number ten spot with your help.
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Facts and figures on the Christian Doppler model
The CDG has existed since 1988. At the time, it was established under the name Christian Doppler Gesellschaft as a group instrument of Österreichische Industrieholding AG (ÖIAG). Its goal was the establishment of research units intended to pursue basic research at a high level. The selected themes were to be of medium to long-term benefit for the companies of the group. Financing was provided by the group management.
The restructuring of ÖIAG from an industrial group to an investment and privatisation agency in 1993 also brought about a reform of the CDG. It was to be open to all Austrian companies and to process specific issues of business at a high level. In 1995, a new financing basis was created and the association structurally reorganised. The association was simultaneously placed under the responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs. Since then, the CDG has been a model that supports cooperation between science and business in the area of application-oriented basic research and is financed jointly by companies and the public purse.
Since the founding of the CDG, the number of CD Laboratories and involved commercial partners has grown constantly. In 2012, the CDG acquired an additional area of activity with the management of the JR Centre programme at universities of applied sciences.
Entwicklung der Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft
From 2017 to 2018, the amount of CD Laboratories and JR Centres increased as well as the financial support. In 2018 158 companies were involved in 85 CD Laboratories and 12 JR Centres. In comparison, in 2017 148 companies were involved in 76 CD Laboratories and 11 JR Centres. In total, 31,5 Mio. Euro were used in 2018, compared to 26,2 Mio. Euro in 2017.
Structure of the commercial partners by company size and origin 2018
About 26% of companies are SME, about 30% are located abroad.
Current statistical data on the CD Laboratories
A total of 85 CD Laboratories with about 962 employees are active in 2018.
universities and non-university research institutions
84 CD Laboratories are based at 16 Austrian universities and non-university research institutions. Moreover there are 2 international CD Laboratories.
CD Laboratories by universities/research institutions 2018
[Translate to English:] Budgetgröße CD-Labors
The CD Laboratories have a budget of between EUR 110.000 and EUR 700.000 per year. Financing takes place through the Federal Ministry for Digital, Business and Enterprise, the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development as public funding sponsors and by the companies as cooperation partners.
[Translate to English:] Aktuelle statistische Daten zur CDG
The collaboration of science and business is achieved in the CD Laboratories. Compact research groups with an average of 5-15 employees cooperate with up to 5 commercial partners.
Comercial partners and staff
Eight thematic clusters
Eight different thematic clusters can be assigned to the CD Laboratories, which employ about 741 scientific staff in 2018.
Next generation of scientists in the CD Laboratories by thematic clusters 2018
[Translate to English:] Wissenschaftlicher Output der CD-Labors 2018
The scientific output of the CD Laboratory manifests itself in scientific publications, presentations and patents: In 2018, this includes 516 publications (of which 418 publications in scientific periodicals with peer review), 1.150 presentations at conferences (of which 186 publications with peer review and 234 invited presentations) and 15 granted patents.
Current statistical data on JR Centres
In 2017 a total of 11 Josef Ressel Centres are active in the following universities of applied sciences: Fachhochschule Joanneum Gesellschaft mbH, Fachhochschule Kärnten - gemeinnützige Privatstiftung, Fachhochschule Salzburg GmbH, Fachhochschule St. Pölten GmbH, Fachhochschule Technikum Wien, Fachhochschule Vorarlberg GmbH, FH Oberösterreich Forschungs- und Entwicklungs GmbH, IMC Fachhochschule Krems GmbH.
About 130 employees work in these 11 JR Centres in 2017; cooperationg with up to five ommercial partners.
Most of the active JR Centres (6) are dedicated to the thematic cluster “Mathematics, Computer Sciences, Electronics”, two of them to the cluster “Materials” and one of them to the clusters “Medicine”, “Mechanical Engineering and Instrumentation” and “Life Sciences and Environment”.
The scientific output of the JR Centers includes in 2017: 19 publications in scientific periodicals with peer review and 99 participations in conferences, 14 of them with invited presentation.
JR Centres have a budget of between EUR 80.000 and EUR 400.000 per year, in 2017 the average budget amounts to EUR 250.000. Financing takes place through the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs as public funding sponsor and by the companies as cooperation partners.
A look at the future
The sustained demand by business and science allows the establishment of about 10 to 12 CD Laboratories and about 3 JR Centres per year.
The international activities of the CDG are advanced in the interest of Austria as a location for research and business.
The number of women amongst the Head of Laboratory and Head of Centre is being further increased in order to fully exploit the scientific potential.
The Christian Doppler Research Association has been active since 1988; each year, its research units contribute to numerous business and scientific success stories.
Staff of the CD-Laboratories 2018
CD Laboratories by thematic clusters 2018
Output of the CD Laboratories 2018
Budget size of the CD Laboratories 2018
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Here are our top 10 suggestions for having a great time in Woking - Surrey's most modern and vibrant town centres.
From world class theatre and international exhibitions to modern street art, award-winning cuisine to contemporary street-food, Woking's cultural scene has never been livelier.
1. Catch a West End show at The Ambassadors' New Victoria Theatre
Drama, opera, comedy, pantomime, musicals - Woking's Ambassador's theatres host the best in both West End and amateur productions. Or if cinema's more your thing, you have six blockbusting digital screens from which to choose!
2. Visit an exhibition of world-famous art
Top notch well-respected touring and permanent exhibitions can be found at Woking's museum and gallery, The Lightbox. Past exhibitions have included works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Elizabeth Frink and Damien Hirst, plus extensive private collections.
3. Follow in the footsteps of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds' martians
H. G. Wells wrote his classic novel whilst living in Woking just over 150 years ago. Follow the heritage trail around the Borough, on foot or bike, or take a look at the legacy of Woking's anniversary celebrations in his honour.
4. Enjoy authentic, artisan food from around the world
Cantonese, Thai, Malay, Bangladeshi, Bengalese... Woking's diversity is celebrated best in its extensive food offer.
5. Stay in luxury, at Woking's DoubleTree
Visitors can expect the four star treatment when they stay in this town centre hotel which is part of the Hilton family.
6. Remember our fallen heroes at Woking's Peace Garden, within the Muslim Burial Ground
A Grade II listed structure, the site can be found nestled amongst Horsell Common's pines, and was extensively restored in 2015 to honour Indian Army soldiers who died alongside the British during World War One.
7. Discover the UK headquarter's of the world's leading conservation charity, WWF
Located alongside the Basingstoke Canal, WWF-UK's Living Planet Centre has a free visitor centre and lots of great events throughout the year.
8. Shop until you drop in Woking shopping's fully accessible undercover malls
All the High Street names you'd expect from a popular town centre, plus a few pleasant surprises! The added benefit of Woking's burgeoning cafe culture means you're never far from a tasty treat to recharge those shopping batteries.
9. Cycle or stroll along one of Britain's most picturesque waterways, the Basingstoke Canal
With stretches of the canal designated as Sites of Special Scientific Interest for their flora and fauna, why not follow the water, on foot or two wheels, to one of Woking's pretty villages?
10. Try your hand at one of Woking's 14 golf courses, or maybe crazy golf's more your thing..?
Being surrounded by green belt, means that Woking has a huge number of leisure opportunities for visitors, including great indoor and outdoor facilities at Woking Park.
What's happening today in Woking?
The Ambassadors theatres and cinemas
The Lightbox museum and gallery
The Living Planet Centre
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Singapore competition watchdog fines Grab, Uber S$13 million in total over merger deal
Singapore's competition watchdog has fined Grab and Uber a total of S$13 million over their merger, saying that the deal has led to the substantial eroding of competition in the ride-hailing market. Elizabeth Neo and Gwyneth Teo with more.
By Amir Yusof @AmirYusofCNA
24 Sep 2018 11:00AM (Updated: 24 Sep 2018 11:06PM )
SINGAPORE: Singapore's competition watchdog has fined Grab and Uber a total of S$13 million over their merger, saying that the deal has led to the substantial eroding of competition in the ride-hailing market.
Uber was fined S$6.58 million while Grab was fined S$6.42 million. The Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) said the penalties were imposed to “deter completed, irreversible mergers that harm competition”.
In levying the fines, CCCS said it considered the companies' turnovers, the nature, duration and seriousness of the infringement, and aggravating as well as mitigating factors.
US-based Uber sold its Southeast Asian business to bigger regional rival Grab in March in exchange for a 27.5 per cent stake in the Singapore-based firm. The following day, CCCS said it would launch an investigation into whether the transaction infringed anti-monopoly laws.
READ: Grab maintains it did not breach competition laws, but will abide by remedies set by watchdog
As part of its investigation findings, the watchdog highlighted that Grab increased its prices after the removal of its closest competitor, Uber.
It found that Grab trip fares, net of rider promotions, have increased by between 10 and 15 per cent after the acquisition deal.
Additionally, CCCS said it has received "numerous complaints" from both riders and drivers on Grab's fares and commissions.
It highlighted changes Grab made to its loyalty programme GrabRewards, such as reducing the number of points earned by riders per dollar spent, as well as a decrease in the number and frequency of driver promotions and incentives.
CCCS also found that Grab currently holds about 80 per cent of the market share, and that the “strong network effect” makes it difficult for potential competitors to scale and expand in the market, particularly given that Grab imposed exclusivity obligations on taxi companies, car rental partners, and some of its drivers.
MEASURES TO ADDRESS COMPETITION CONCERNS
The competition watchdog also announced on Monday measures to lessen the impact of the deal on drivers and riders and open up the market for new players.
It ordered Grab to remove exclusivity arrangements with drivers and taxi fleets, and to maintain its pre-merger pricing algorithm and driver commission rates.
"This protects riders’ interests against excessive price surges, and drivers’ interests against increases in commissions that they pay to Grab," CCCS said.
It also ordered Uber to sell cars under its vehicle leasing business Lion City Rentals to any potential competitor who "makes a reasonable offer based on fair market value", and prohibited Uber from selling those vehicles to Grab without regulatory approval.
Lion City's fleet totalled 14,000 vehicles as of December.
READ: Grab-Uber merger investigation – a timeline
“Mergers that substantially lessen competition are prohibited and CCCS has taken action against the Grab-Uber merger because it removed Grab’s closest rival, to the detriment of Singapore drivers and riders," CCCS chief executive Toh Han Li said.
“Companies can continue to innovate in this market, through means other than anti-competitive mergers.”
The Land Transport Authority said in a statement that it supports the competition watchdog's decision, which it said is in line with an ongoing review of the regulatory framework for the sector.
CCCS DECISION AN "INAPPROPRIATELY NARROW DEFINITION OF MARKET": UBER
Uber said it believed CCCS' decision was based on an "inappropriately narrow definition of the market", and that it incorrectly describes the dynamic nature of the industry, among other concerns. It said it would consider appealing.
Grab said it completed the transaction within its legal rights, and maintained it did not intentionally or negligently breach competition laws.
It added that it had not raised fares since the deal, and said for drivers to have full maximum choice, all transport players, including taxi operators, should also be subjected to non-exclusivity conditions.
It said it would abide by remedies set out by the CCCS.
Source: CNA/Reuters/aa(cy)
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Kershaw League
Nigel De'Ath ends Linton Granta managerial spell on a high with win over Brampton
Nigel De'Ath is looking forward to having a break after stepping down as Linton Granta manager in the Kershaw League, Premier Division
Michael Vaughton
Dale Archer got one of the Linton Granta goals in manager Nigel De'Ath's final game in charge.
Nigel De’Ath signed off as Linton Granta manager with a 3-2 home success over Brampton in the Kershaw League, Premier Division.
The boss is taking a step back from the game after being wrapped up in it for more than half a century.
Dale Archer and Harry Atherton, who later went off with a broken nose, saw their goals cancelled out by George Cresswell and Matthew Gearing for the visitors.
But Gavin Tickner had the final word to ensure De’Ath, who recently turned 60, ended on a high note.
“I was pleased to go out with a win,” said De’Ath. “It was a good one and meant we finished seventh in the league, which is about where we should finish.
“I’ve had 53 years of Saturdays being dominated by football, either watching, playing or managing.
“I’ll still be involved with the club in some form and will continue to support the team.”
De’Ath will now hand the reins over to his assistant Lee Miller.
Brampton boss Wayne Ambler was disappointed with some of his team’s defending, although they did have a much-changed back four due to player availability issues.
“It sums up our season – we have to score three or four goals to win a game,” he said.
“Scoring two goals away from home you should at least get a point from the game, so that’s something we have to work on.”
Kevin Sobiechowski is Lakenheath's Lord of the Dance in win over Fowlmere
Another man vacating the managerial hotseat was Chatteris’ Ashley Taylor.
He saw his side draw 1-1 at West Wratting in his final fixture before taking up a director of football role next term.
The visitors fell behind early on, but they levelled matters thanks to an excellent headed effort from Craig Gillies and ended a good campaign fifth in the standings.
“It was a good point in the end against a strong, physical side, but we probably should have won it as their keeper made some good saves,” said Taylor.
“Coming up from Senior A and coming fifth has been a good achievement, especially as we’ve had a few injuries.”
The club expect to announce their new management team next week.
* Tom Sinclair got the only goal of the game as Needingworth United reserves claimed the club’s first piece of silverware for 12 years.
His close-range effort in the first half earned them a 1-0 victory over Thaxted reserves in the Reg Haigh & Arthur Peck Cup final at Histon.
Needingworth United reserves celebrate winning the Reg Haigh & Arthur Peck Cup.
Sinclair’s strike proved enough, although Jake Linley-Brown went close to extending the lead when he saw a shot cannon off the woodwork.
The cup glory added to the team’s promotion in Mead Plant & Grab League, Division 5B.
But Brett Swales’ side had to settle for second place in the league as a home walkover for Houghton & Wyton reserves against Wicken secured top spot for their rivals.
Other SportTown Bumps 2019: Action, pictures and results from Day ThreeThe third day of the annual event on the River Cam got took place last night
Cambridge United FCCambridge United feel better prepared for the new season, says Dimi MitovWe caught up with the U's shot-stopper at their pre-season camp in Largs
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Fmr. Antifa member reacts to group's attack on conservative writer Andy Ngo (VIDEO)
Jon StreetManaging Editor @JonStreet on Jul 02, 2019 at 10:19 AM EDT
Former Antifa member Gabe Nadales joined Fox & Friends First to discuss the recent attack on conservative writer Andy Ngo.
Nadales also addressed unconfirmed threats to launch acid attacks at an upcoming D.C. free speech rally.
Nadales said that while the group bill itself as one that fights fascism, it really is "just a gang" that fights "anyone who supports the First Amendment."
Former Antifa member Gabriel Nadales joined Fox & Friends First Tuesday to discuss the group's recent attack on conservative Andy Ngo, saying that the only way to deal with the extremist group is to "go into the college campuses."
Ngo, a writer for Quillette, was injured Saturday in Portland, Oregon by members of Antifa. Nadales, a former member of the group and current employee of Campus Reform's parent organization, the Leadership Institute, reacted to that news and more on Tuesday morning.
"what Antifa is today, and what I eventually realized is that they're not willing to fight fascists. They're willing to fight anyone who supports the First Amendment..."
Asked to bring viewers into the mindset of Antifa members, Nadales said that while they say they fight fascists, they do the opposite.
[RELATED: Antifa threatens to 'shut down' conservative event]
"Unfortunately, what Antifa is today, and what I eventually realized is that they're not willing to fight fascists. They're willing to fight anyone who supports the First Amendment or anybody who stands in their way," Nadales said, later describing the group as "just a gang."
Nadales recently spoke with Campus Reform about his experiences with Antifa, as well as what led him to become a conservative. He said it wasn't until he began failing his college economics class, started reading more about economics, and then posing questions about economics to other Antifa members that he began questioning his involvement with the extremist group.
“I was failing my econ class… so I actually started reading my econ books. I took those ideas home… and I took them to my friends and I would ask a lot of questions...Instead of having a conversation… they called me names. It was my first time as an anarchist that I was called a capitalist pig, just because I was raising questions.”
[RELATED: Journey unmasked: From Antifa anarchist to conservative capitalist (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)]
Fox & Friends First co-host Heather Childers then asked Nadales about unconfirmed reports of Antifa members plotting an acid attack at a planned free speech rally in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.
"We need to arrest that person," Nadales said. But, he added, that's not really getting at the root of the issue.
"If we really want to look at the problem of Antifa, we have to go into the college campuses," the former Antifa member turned conservative activist said, while later adding that "there are extremist professors who are feeding this mob mentality into their students."
One such professor whom Nadales mentioned earlier in the interview is Dartmouth lecturer Mark Bray who, as Campus Reform previously reported, wrote a book on Antifa and donated half the proceeds to Antifa.
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Jon Street | Managing Editor
Jon Street is a news editor for Campus Reform. Six years ago, Jon cut his reporting teeth fresh out of college as an intern at Media Research Center's CNSNews.com, where he interviewed multiple members of Congress and former presidential candidates. From there, he went on to complete a stint at Watchdog.org, where his exclusive, investigative work was picked up or cited by the New York Times, Washington Post, Fox News, National Review, and the Drudge Report, among others. More recently, Jon spent three years as an assistant editor at TheBlaze.com. In his free time, Jon enjoys trying new coffeehouses around the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and traveling back to his home state of Missouri to spend time with his family.
20 Articles by Jon Street
Antifa adds Andy Ngo to list of victims. Meet some of the others.
See the pattern?
Jon Street Jul 02, 2019 - 1:39 PM EDT
EXCLUSIVE: Gibson's Bakery lawyer accuses Oberlin College of pushing 'alternative facts'
He really goes off
Jon Street Jun 24, 2019 - 1:07 PM EDT
Incoming Texas freshmen threatened with doxxing if they join conservative campus groups
This is intimidation
Jon Street Jun 21, 2019 - 11:11 AM EDT
Prof: 'Nasty, naughty little Republicans' try to 'pimp God'
He swears he's not a Dem
Ivy League prof: Trump immigration comments a 'terroristic act'
Quite the statement!
Jon Street Jun 19, 2019 - 12:32 PM EDT
Bill Maher on Oberlin College: SJWs 'are finally finding that maybe there's a price to pay
That's a BIG price...
Ivy League pres: Campus free speech 'doing just fine' despite contrary evidence
Sure about that?
Oberlin College just learned a $44 MILLION lesson
That's one expensive lesson
Cornell law prof: Oberlin bakery onslaught an 'example of the mob not waiting for facts'
Here's the backstory...
Leftist comedian Bill Maher calls political correctness a 'cancer' (VIDEO)
"No one likes to be living on egg shells."
Students siding with communist China is what happens when they're taught to oppose Trump 'no matter what' (VIDEO)
"not surprising"
UNM advised to BUILD A WALL to make campus safer
What's good for the goose...
'The intention was to be separate': Researcher BLASTS Yale's treatment of minority students
He spent two years studying this topic...
Jon Street and Lawrence Jones Jun 03, 2019 - 12:40 PM EDT
(EXCLUSIVE VIDEO) Alabama free speech bill sponsor: 'We're not going to silence voices'
"we're going to encourage robust speech"
Jon Street May 31, 2019 - 4:54 PM EDT
UChicago student gov leader: 'I received death threats' over pro-life legislation
"really unfortunate..."
Jon Street May 30, 2019 - 12:17 PM EDT
Pelosi praises illegals in commencement address. Lawrence Jones is having NONE of it.
He goes off
Ted Cruz: Leftists used to 'defend' free speech. Today they 'silence' it.
A 180 degree turnaround
Jon Street and Lawrence Jones May 28, 2019 - 1:56 PM EDT
NYU former polisci prof misquotes Trump. The president is having NONE of it.
Here's what set him off...
Jon Street May 28, 2019 - 10:41 AM EDT
Ted Cruz issues the ultimate challenge to 'young socialists' (VIDEO)
Cruz: Defund colleges that don't support free speech
Will Congress act?
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Youngstown State students say late-night chicken is homophobic
Mitchell Gunter South Carolina Senior Campus Correspondent @rMitchellGunter on Jul 20, 2017 at 8:34 AM EDT
A petition is demanding that Youngstown State University the Chick-fil-A on campus, saying access to late-night chicken “adds to the negative experience of LGBT students.”
Despite acknowledging that it is the only restaurant on campus open in the evenings, the petition says that the company's donations to 'anti-LGBT organizations' is an insult to its students.
Noting that the Chick-fil-A is “the only place to get food in the evenings,” the Change.org petition complains that while the restaurant chain has apologized for “statements by its founders regarding members of the LGBT community,” the business “is still donating money to anti-LGBT organizations.”
"Im gonna start a petition to close every Whole Foods if i lose the YSU Chick-fil-a."
[RELATED: Students ‘fear’ Chick-fil-A will jeopardize ‘safe place’]
“Youngstown State has a very low campus pride rating as it is,” the petition notes, observing that Youngstown State has a three star rating.
The Campus Pride Index (CPI), a metric that purports to rate LGBTQ campus life, describes itself on its website as “a vital tool for assisting campuses in learning ways to improve their LGBTQ campus life and ultimately shape the educational experience to be more inclusive, welcoming and respectful of LGBTQ and ally people.”
According to the petition, the university offers “little [sic] accommodations for transgender students when it comes to getting their names changed in the system or living in appropriate dorms, and the only LGBT group on campus gets almost no visibility.”
Worse still, from the petitioner’s perspective, is the fact that administrators have in the past “allowed anti-LGBT speakers on campus and did nothing about it when students complained,” though the petition does not specify what the school should have done to mollify its LGBT community in those cases.
“The fact that the only restaurant they have open during the evenings is a notoriously anti-LGBT restaurant only adds to the negative experience of LGBT students on campus,” the petition concludes. “Obviously, replacing Chick-fil-A would not change the company’s views or anything, but it would be an act of solidarity for the campus's LGBT students.”
[RELATED: UC-Irvine students: Wells Fargo branch on campus is ‘unacceptable’]
Emmett Ray, the petition’s author, explained that the anti-LGBT speakers referenced in the petition were “preachers with big signs condemning LGBT people,” and that he wished the university would “actually have security kick them out when people report them.”
Ray told Campus Reform that he wants Chick-Fil-A to be replaced “because Chick-fil-A is notoriously run by homophobes,” adding, “my goal with the petition was more to start a discussion than actually get Chick-fil-A closed.”
Several individuals voiced their support in comments, including at least one faculty member.
“Time for these people grow up and accept what is and move forward living life and stop hating and spread more love,” one said, while another asserted that, “The choice of Chick-fil-a by Pres. Tressel to come to YSU with Chartwells is symbolic of a culture of indifference towards minority communities.”
Heather Lorimer, an Associate Professor in Genetics at YSU, voiced her support, as well.
“I am a professor at YSU. I have not set foot up there since they became Chick-fil-A,” Lorimer stated, lamenting that, “A long time ago it used to be a respectable place where you could take an invited speaker out to lunch and even have table service. We now have no such place and I will not support Fried Food for Homophobes, which is what I think of Chick-fil-A.”
“Chick-fil-a is well known for its CEO's bigotry,” Professor Lorimer told Campus Reform, reiterating that “Since it has been Chick-fil-A I have not set a foot in it.”
[RELATED: Prof calls Chick-fil-A a ‘hate’ symbol]
Other professed students mocked the petition via Twitter.
One user scoffed that the “YSU Chick-fil-A petition has to be the worst thing I've ever read,” while another tweeted, “So there's a petition rn to get rid the chic-fil-a on ysu campus bc the owners dont like gay people. They just want to ruin it for everyone.”
“Im gonna start a petition to close every Whole Foods if i lose the YSU Chick-fil-a,” a third user declared.
“You might be woke,” YSU alum Chelsea Marrie mockingly tweeted, “but are you ‘having a chick fil a on campus is literally homophobic so I’m starting a petition to remove it,’ woke?”
UPDATE: A spokesperson for YSU provided a statement to Campus Reform indicating that the school has no plans to remove Chick-fil-A, but is willing to engage in a dialogue on the issue.
"The Chick-fil-A brand is pervasive on college and university campuses throughout the nation and is an extremely popular choice for our students at YSU, as well," the statement began, adding, "As part of the YSU Culture of Community initiative, the university recently formed a new Inclusion and Awareness Committee to help us better appreciate our diversity and to help us work together to overcome and prevent societal divisions. We invite those with concerns about Chick-fil-A to join in Committee discussions and participate in efforts to promote and nurture respect and to develop a campus community where everyone feels safe and secure."
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Mitchell Gunter | South Carolina Senior Campus Correspondent
Mitchel Gunter is a South Carolina Senior Campus Correspondent, and reports liberal bias and abuse on campus for Campus Reform. He is currently studying civil engineering at Clemson University.
20 Articles by Mitchell Gunter
Leaked memo reveals racial hiring quota for Clemson faculty
A leaked memo allegedly reveals that Clemson University is imposing racial quotas for new faculty hires in an effort to meet a “Diversity goal.”
Mitchell Gunter May 29, 2018 - 9:59 AM EDT
Liberal students admit to defacing Jefferson statue at Hofstra
Several Hofstra University students have openly confessed to defacing a Thomas Jefferson statue on campus with a “Black Lives Matter” sign.
Mitchell Gunter Apr 30, 2018 - 10:13 AM EDT
Students demand ‘space for healing’ over drag show photo
Following criticism of the Seattle University student paper over a risqué drag show photo, students are demanding a “physical space for healing.”
Jefferson statue vandalized at Hofstra University
Rather than attend a meeting to discuss removal of a Jefferson statue from campus, Hofstra University students have instead resorted to vandalism.
Socialist students demand elimination of ROTC program
The Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter at The City College of New York is demanding that the school remove ROTC from campus.
Mitchell Gunter Apr 23, 2018 - 7:29 AM EDT
Students criticize 'Mikado' play for 'cultural appropriation'
Some students at Fort Hays State University are complaining that a school play is not only “racist,” but also rife with “cultural appropriation.”
Students demand 'POC-only space' at NYC university
Students are demanding that The New School establish a "POC-only space" for people of color to “exist without the pressures of white supremacy.”
Mitchell Gunter Apr 04, 2018 - 12:26 PM EDT
Hofstra students hold dueling protests over Jefferson statue
Hofstra University students held dueling protests Friday over whether or not to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from campus.
Fordham punishes students over MAGA hat incident
Fordham University has disciplined three students in relation to the eviction of conservative students from a coffee shop for wearing MAGA gear.
Mitchell Gunter Mar 29, 2018 - 3:38 PM EDT
Hofstra students: 'KEEP The Jefferson Statue'
Hofstra students are fighting back against a coalition of activist groups agitating for the school to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from campus.
Students call Thomas Jefferson 'icon' of white supremacists
A statue of Thomas Jefferson has raised the ire of student activists at Hofstra University, who are demanding that his visage be removed from campus.
Mitchell Gunter Mar 26, 2018 - 11:08 AM EDT
University turns frat into 'safe space for black students'
Washington University in St. Louis is converting a recently-suspended fraternity's vacant house into a “safe space for black students.”
Mitchell Gunter Mar 23, 2018 - 7:44 AM EDT
University no longer banning conservative student from class
Indiana University of Pennsylvania is no longer barring a student from class for disputing his professor's claims about "white male privilege."
Students urged to 'Punch Nazi Homophobes' at conservative paper
A Clemson student recently placed a sign on the door of a conservative student publication advocating violence against the “Nazi Homophobes” within.
College Republicans cause panic with immigration event
The UC-Merced College Republicans provoked outrage throughout their "sanctuary campus" recently by holding an event promoting immigration enforcement.
Student barred from class for claiming there are two genders
A student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania was barred from attending a religious studies class after pointing out that there are only two genders.
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Shortly after his first birthday, Aeson Moen was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a type of high-risk childhood cancer. Still reeling from this news, his parents Aaron and Ana then learned that some children can have a fatal reaction to the drugs that are standard for treating this type of cancer.
Thankfully, Aeson’s oncologist, Dr Rod Rassekh, was part of a research team with Dr Colin Ross who had found a way of preventing that from happening.
Drs Ross and Rassekh identified genetic markers in children with cancer that predicted who was likely to experience heart failure as a result of their anthracycline treatment, a commonly prescribed group of chemotherapies. Using a genetic test, they discovered Aeson had not 1, but 2 genetic markers that put him at the highest risk of heart failure. With this knowledge, Dr Rassekh changed Aeson’s treatment from anthracycline to a different, safer drug. Aeson has been cancer-free ever since and started kindergarten in September.
“If it hadn’t been for that test, Aeson wouldn’t be here today,” says Aeson’s dad, Aaron.
“We’re really just scratching the surface at the moment,” says Dr Ross. “With the support of CCS, we’ve been able to show that the findings we made in pediatric cancer patients also apply to adult cancer patients which really expands the impact of this research.”
With a CCS Innovation Grant, Dr Ross is taking this research one step further by developing interventions that can protect against anthracycline-induced heart damage. He is once again teaming up with Dr Rassekh to find and test drugs that can prevent anthracycline’s potentially fatal side effects. Their research will help make chemotherapies safer while preserving the use of these highly effective cancer-fighting drugs.
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"When we are speaking about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ."
"When we speak of wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking about Christ. When we are speaking about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ." So wrote Ambrose, bishop of Milan, biblical exegete, political theorist, master of Latin eloquence, musician, and teacher; in all these roles, he was speaking about Christ.
Arrested career
The first Latin church father from a Christian family, Ambrose was also born into power, part of the Roman family of Aurelius. The pope and church dignitaries visited his parent's home when he was a child, and he was a governor in Italy's northern provinces before the age of 30. As he was sent, the prefect gave him a word of prophetic advice: "Go, conduct yourself not as a judge, but as a bishop."
Indeed, even as governor he had ecclesiastical problems to deal with. Orthodox Christians and Arians were practically at war at the time. Ambrose was no friend of the Arians, but he was so well regarded that both sides supported him. When the bishop of Milan (an Arian) died, Ambrose attended the meeting to elect a replacement, hoping that his presence would preempt violence between the parties. Much to his surprise, both sides shouted their wish for him to be their replacement.
Ambrose really didn't want to be an ecclesiastical leader; he was doing quite well as a political one. And he hadn't even been baptized yet! But the people wrote to Emperor Valentian, asking for his seal on their verdict. Ambrose was placed under arrest until he agreed to serve.
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If the Arians had hoped to gain favor by supporting Ambrose as bishop, their hopes were soon dashed. The new bishop was as orthodox as could be, and he soon took the Arians to task. He refused to surrender a church for use by Arians, and he wrote several works against them, including On the Faith, The Mystery of the Lord's Incarnation, and On the Holy Spirit.
Having been trained in rhetoric and law and having studied Greek, Ambrose became known for his knowledge of the latest Greek writings, both Christian and pagan. In addition to Philo, Origen, and Basil of Caesarea, he even quoted Neoplatonist Plotinus in his sermons. He was widely regarded as an excellent preacher.
In many of those sermons, Ambrose expounded upon the virtues of asceticism. He was so persuasive that noble families sometimes forbade their daughters to attend his sermons, fearing they'd trade their marriageable status for a life of austere virginity.
One piece of his pastoral advice is still universally known: "When you are at Rome, live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere."
Ambrose also introduced congregational singing, and he was accused of "bewitching" Milan by introducing Eastern melodies into the hymns he wrote. Because of his influence, hymn singing became an important part of the Western liturgy.
The emperor repents
Ambrose's most lasting contribution, though, was in the area of church-state relations. He wrestled with three emperors—and won each time. His relationship with Theodosius, the first emperor to try to make Rome a Christian state, is the most well-known example.
In 390, local authorities imprisoned a charioteer of Thessalonica for homosexuality. Unfortunately, the charioteer was one of the city's favorites, and riots broke out when the governor refused to release him. The governor and a few others were killed in the melee, and the charioteer was freed.
Fuming, Theodosius exacted revenge. He announced another chariot race, but after the crowds arrived, the gates were locked and the townspeople were massacred by the emperor's soldiers. Within three hours, 7,000 were dead.
Ambrose was horrified. He wrote an angry letter to Theodosius demanding his repentance. "I exhort, I beg, I entreat, I admonish you, because it is grief to me that the perishing of so many innocent is no grief to you," he wrote. "And now I call on you to repent." He forbade the emperor to attend worship until he prostrated himself at the altar.
Theodosius obeyed, marking the first time church triumphed over state.
In that event, Ambrose introduced the medieval concept of a Christian emperor as dutiful "son of the church serving under orders from Christ." For the next thousand years, secular and religious rulers struggled to determine who was sovereign in various spheres of life.
Though there is some question about the historicity of Theodosius's famous statement, "I know no bishop worthy of the name, except Ambrose," the emperor continued to hold the bishop in high regard and died in his arms.
"I confess I loved him, and felt the sorrow of his death in the abyss of my heart," Ambrose eulogized.
Two years later, Ambrose himself fell gravely ill. The worries of the country were expressed by one writer: "When Ambrose dies, we shall see the ruin of Italy." On Easter eve, 397, the man who had been bishop of Milan for more than 23 years finally succumbed.
Only one name is more associated with Ambrose than Theodosius's, and only one student outshined this teacher: Augustine. The skeptical professor of rhetoric had gone to Milan in 384 to hear the bishop's famous allegorical preaching. By the time he left four years later, he had been baptized by Ambrose and given a philosophical basis he would use to transform Christian theology.
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THE Russian Orthodox Church has threatened to withdraw from dialogue with Anglicans because of the “liberalism and relativism” of some Anglican Churches, and the development of women bishops in the Church of England.
In a speech at Lambeth Palace on Thursday of last week, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk attacked the Anglican Church for what he described as “betraying our common witness by departing from traditional Christian values and replacing them by contemporary secular standards”. He urged the Archbishop of Canterbury to resist pressure from liberal Anglicans.
Metropolitan Hilarion, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, was speaking at the Nikaean Club annual dinner. His prolonged attack on liberalism in the Anglican Church stunned Dr Williams, onlookers said.
In his speech, the text of which was released later by the department for external church relations, the Metropolitan said: “The abyss that exists today divides not so much the Orthodox from the Catholics or the Catholics from the Protestants as it does the ‘traditionalists’ from the ‘liberals’.
“Some Christian leaders, for example, tell us that marriage between a man and a woman is no longer the only way of building a Christian family: there are other models, and the Church should become appropriately ‘inclusive’ to recognise alternative behavioural standards and give them official blessing.
“Some try to persuade us that human life is no longer an absolute value; that it can be terminated in a mother’s womb, or that one can terminate one’s life at will. Christian ‘traditionalists’ are being asked to reconsider their views under the slogan of keeping abreast with modernity.”
The Metropolitan continued in strongly worded terms: “Regrettably, it has to be admitted that the Orthodox Church and many in the Anglican Church have today found themselves on opposite sides of this abyss that divides traditional Christians from Christians of liberal trend.”
He said his Church was “extremely concerned and disappointed by other processes” in the Anglican Communion. “Some Protestant and Anglican Churches have repudiated basic Christian moral values by giving a public blessing to same-sex unions and ordaining homosexuals as priests and bishops. Many Protestant and Anglican communities refuse to preach Christian moral values in secular society, and prefer to adjust to worldly standards.”
By contrast, he praised “traditionalists” among Anglicans, and those who mounted “protests against liberalism” — citing the resolution of the recent All Africa Bishops’ Conference (News, 3 September), which stated that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
He spoke of how Orthodox-Anglican dialogue “has come under threat”. “We appreciate the proposal Archbishop Rowan Williams made this year to exclude from the dialogue those Anglican Churches which failed to observe the moratorium on the ordination of open homosexuals. But we regard this proposal as not quite sufficient to save the dialogue from an approaching collapse. The dialogue is doomed to closure if the unrestrained liberalisation of Christian values continues. . .
“Our Church must sever its relations with those churches and communities that trample on the principles of Christian ethics and traditional morals.”
The Russian Orthodox Church suspended contact with the Episcopal Church in the United States after the consecration as bishop of Canon Gene Robinson in 2003; and with the Church of Sweden in 2005, when it blessed same-sex unions.
Relations with the C of E have been strained since the ordination of women as priests, and look as if they may deteriorate dramatically: “I can say with certainty that the introduction of the female episcopate excludes even a theoretical possibility for the Orthodox to recognise the apostolic continuity of the Anglican hierarchy,” the Metropolitan said.
Instead, he suggested that any future collaboration lay with the Roman Catholic Church: “Together we are considering the possibility of establishing an Orthodox-Catholic alliance in Europe for defending the traditional values of Christianity.”
Different versions of the Metropolitan’s speech were circulating this week. One text, which appeared to have an even harsher tone, was at www.virtueonline.org.
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After his studies in New York, Rome and London, Holl set up his own architect’s studio in 1976 in New York, though he did not achieve international recognition until 1991 when he designed an innovative apartment building in Fukuoka (Japan).
With certain similitudes to Eisenman’s style, his work is characterised by the use of fragmented cubes and the modulation of space and light. By means of placing openings on corners, edges and sides of cuboid structures, he remarks the qualities of folds and continuation.
Amongst his works we may highlight the Chapel of Saint Ignatius in Seattle (Washington) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. The MOMA exhibited models of his work in 1991 and he has been awarded prizes such as the AIA of Honour, the Grand Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture and the award granted by Time magazine to the best architect of America.
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The expression of each different function of the buildings is synthesised in the glass architecture. The corridors and the connections between cultural zones become an important catalyst.
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The new city shall thus show a really unique architecture as a dynamic expression of fusion with an open core, an engine of culture.
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The UNFCCC and Beyond: Transnational Climate Change Governance
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The world’s attention (or at least that bit of it thinking about climate change at all) is focused again on the annual UN negotiations that convene for two weeks every December. This year in Lima, increasing attention is being given to a huge array of initiatives that work outside, or alongside, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Academic research has recently started to focus intensively on this phenomenon, now most commonly captured in the term ‘transnational climate change governance’ (TCCG).
In the recent book of the same title, Harriet Bulkeley and nine colleagues (including myself) provide what is to date the most comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon. The book is based on a database of 60 such initiatives, developed by the research team, which enables an analysis more systematic than that possible by focusing only on individual cases or small clusters of them. Our sole criterion for inclusion was a negative one of excluding governance initiatives explicitly developed as part of the UN negotiation process or national climate change policy.
My colleagues and I don’t come to any definitive conclusions, but suggest that an initiative’s effectiveness can be understood in terms of how it contributes to the building of an overall governance system.
The book reveals is an enormously diverse and dynamic, and often at the same time highly problematic, set of phenomena. TCCG initiatives cover a huge range of types. They include networks of cities collaborating and competing across the globe to shift to a low carbon economy; certification schemes developed by environmental NGOs and business groups to provide rules about what constitutes good (and bad) carbon offset projects; partnerships between small groups of governments and large corporations aiming to develop and deploy specific technologies such as renewable energy; groups of institutional investors asking the companies they invest in to disclose their carbon emissions and other climate-related risks with a view to affecting investor and manager behaviour; business networks seeking to transform corporate behaviour; and critical NGOs seeking to contest the dominance of markets and corporations in ways of dealing with climate change.
The book also shows how the TCCG initiatives vary along a range of different dimensions: forms of governance, types of actors involved, differential geographical scope (and the North-South politics thus involved), and types of legitimation strategies engaged in.
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Across the space of TCCG, using a cluster analysis of our database focussed on issues of energy, carbon markets, infrastructure and forests, we identify four ways which climate change governance is being constructed:
A ‘market dominant’ cluster: These 14 initiatives are involved principally in constructing and governing carbon markets. Some work specifically on energy and forests also, but none of them work in the area of building low-carbon infrastructure.
A ‘subnational dominant’ cluster: This cluster of 12 initiatives is dominated by local or subnational initiatives. They all work on infrastructure and almost all work on energy; but none work on forests and only a handful are involved in carbon markets.
An ‘all-purpose’ cluster: These 18 initiatives work in all four issue areas, and thus seek to coordinate climate change action across a range of issues.
An ‘energy or development’ cluster: These 16 initiatives work either on energy or on development in developing countries, but never on the other three issues (markets, infrastructure, forests).
This clustering of initiatives is useful in showing that different sorts of actors (or more precisely coalitions of actors) conceptualize climate change differently and thus seek to govern it in specific ways. Even when a specific issue is governed by more than one cluster – forests for example – it is understood and framed as a different type of problem to be solved. For some, governing climate involves the creation of new sorts of markets that need regulatory rules. For others, it is about shaping investment paths into new types of infrastructure. And for still others, it is something else entirely.
A big question, as yet unresolved, is what all this adds up to. Specifically, is this explosion of activity just, in Macbeth’s words “sound and fury, signifying nothing”? Critics of these transnational climate change initiatives often point to doubts about their effectiveness. Of course, the same charge may be leveled at the UNFCCC or national governments. No type of climate change governance can really be said yet to be effective; if it were, the global economy would be on a path to decarbonization, we would have clear and just rules to deal with climate refugees, and so on.
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The more subtle but important problem in evaluating TCCG is that of measurement. Following Weber’s classic definition of the state, national governments govern a specific territory—and hence measuring the emissions they formally govern is (in principle at least) relatively straightforward. (That is, compared to, say, a carbon offset certification system or an investor-led carbon disclosure system). How then to measure whether TCCG initiatives are any good or not?
My colleagues and I don’t come to any definitive conclusions, but suggest that an initiative’s effectiveness can be understood in terms of how it contributes to the building of an overall governance system (alongside the UNFCCC and other UN climate-related activities). Effectiveness may arise as much out of interactions across this ‘global climate governance complex’ as out of any individual initiative; and it may take the form of building capacities to address climate change.
TCCG is unlikely to go away. Many of these initiatives are now deeply entrenched. The question is how they will evolve and how other sorts of climate change governance can seek to take advantage of their energy, especially as UNFCCC negotiations continue working at a glacial pace.
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Strutting and Fretting: An Actor Despairs
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On the last night of a spectacularly unsuccessful tour of Macbeth, the lead actor sits in his dressing room trying to work out where it all went wrong. Balancing his own disappointments with a fervent appreciation of Shakespeare’s genius, he touches on such subjects as the death of Trotsky, the rise of Taylor Swift and where medieval witches did their shopping. Strutting and Fretting is an hilarious and thought-provoking new comedy from the wicked pen of Chris McHallem, who has written extensively for stage, TV, film and radio. He is also well known as an actor and has worked with the RSC, The Royal National Theatre, The Gate and The Abbey as well as numerous film and TV appearances including a popular stint on the BBC’s Eastenders.
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NJSIAA has voted to make girls wrestling an official high school sport in New Jersey, with a state girls wrestling championship
by CJA Wrestling | Sep 12, 2018 | CJA Club News, New Jersey Wrestling, Women's Wrestling
BREAKING NEWS (Wednesday, September 12, 2018) A proposal to offer girls wrestling as a standalone varsity sport complete with its own region and state tournaments beginning in the upcoming 2018-2019 season was unanimously approved by the NJSIAA’s Executive Committee.
“Historic day for wrestling! The NJSIAA executive board (over 35 voting members) voted unanimously to add a girls division to the state tournament at Boardwalk hall. The same people will vote on a second reading in October, but it is safe to get your hotel rooms now!”
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“It’s the right thing to do,” said Princeton University wrestling coach Chris Ayres, who has worked with state officials to bring girls wrestling to life. “At the end of the day, I’m embarrassed that I haven’t been trying to push this a little bit sooner. I see the girls competing. I see what they get out of the sport. Why should we cut out half of humanity for an amazing sport?”
At top, Hunterdon Central’s Melanie Sancho faces off against Bound Brook’s Diatsu Sane in an all-girls JV wrestling match in Bound Brook last season. (Andrew Miller | For NJ Advance Media)
The proposal will be voted on a final time at next month’s Executive Committee meeting before it can officially be implemented. But NJSIAA officials said they expect no opposition to the measure and the move has widely been applauded across the state.Now New Jersey female wrestlers that previously had nothing special they could compete for—DO! That’s huge for all current NJ girl wrestlers, but should also encourage other girls to try one of the greatest sports!It’s the 100th anniversary of the NJSIAA. Boys have been competing for a state wrestling championship in New Jersey for 75 years. This will be the first time for girls to do so.
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Facel Vega Excellence EX2 C007 restoration
>>Facel Vega Excellence EX2 C007 restoration
Facel Vega Excellence (EX C007): is currently being restored in the Amicale Facel Holland (AFH) workshops on behalf of its owner from Finland. The automobile was delivered to AFH in partly dismantled and obviously very rusty condition. Luckily the car proved to be quite complete. After the body was reinforced it was welded onto a temporary ‘work’ chassis. The bodywork was sand blasted, some collision damage was repaired, and all the sheet metal work was carried out. After that the bodywork was smoothened and finished with a high-quality paint system. The chassis was dismantled. The chassis, the suspension, the engine and all the other components have been fully restored and overhauled to brand new condition! Recently the ‘marriage’ of the restored chassis and bodywork has taken place. This is an impressive step in the restoration process, at that moment you see how large a Facel Vega Excellence is!
Facel Vega Excellence type 1 and type 2 additional information
Facel Vega has manufactured 145 examples of the first series (type 1). Near the end of the production run the need for a face lift became evident. The somewhat dated panoramic windshield was replaced by a ‘flatter’ version and the tail-fins where rounded off to suppress them a little. Mechanically the type 2 was given disc brakes as standard equipment and the door locking mechanism had been improved.
Of the second series (type 2) only 8 cars have been built in the years 1961 and 1962. The last examples were road registered as late as 1964. All 8 Excellence type 2 cars are still in existence. On this moment AFH has three of these rare cars in restoration. Two of these restoration projects are presented on our ClassicarGarage site.
The Facel Vega Excellence was presented as a luxury limousine for the worlds richest people. The Excellence was based upon the legendary Facel Vega HK 500 which was the fastest four seater production car of its day.
The 5.23 meter long Excellence features four doors of which the doors at the rear are so called suicide doors. The Excellence was built without a B-post. When the doors were opened the large opening was very inviting to enter the fantastic interior. As the other Facels the Excellence was an extremely luxurious automobile with a gorgeous finish and beautiful details. The interior is majestic with it’s mock walnut (in the French tradition) dashboard and beautifully chromed handles and switches. The leather upholstery is of an exceptionally high quality the comfort it offers reflects this. The car comes with all of the novelties which were common on the American market at the time. The robustly built automatic windows and the gear shift with it’s stylish buttons are extremely reliable and never fail. Chrome was used sparingly on Facel cars; the bumpers and side strips are all constructed of stainless steel. The Facel Vega Excellence is built upon a welded steel chassis within which the strong 6.2 litre Chrysler V8 is mounted. The undercarriage has independent wheel suspension with coil springs at the front and a live axle leaf spring suspension system at the rear. From 1960 onwards, the Excellence was equipped with disc brakes all round. Only 150 cars of this model have been built.
Engine: 6.2 litre Chrysler V8
Carburettor: 1 "four barrel" carburettor
Capacity: 350 bhp. at 5400 rpm.
Gearbox: 3- speed, automatic (Chrysler Torqueflite)
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#That unions caused great harm, including senseless violence and lost jobs.
#That hard work was the key to the success of many Americans.
#That most great Americans, from Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Edison to [[George Patton]], were homeschooled.
#That most of the greatest Americans, from the author of the Constitution ([[Gouverneur Morris]]) to [[Abraham Lincoln]] to [[Thomas Edison]] to [[George Patton]], were all [[homeschooled]].
#That [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s [[faith]] grew while he was President.
#That [[Benjamin Franklin]] abandoned the [[Deism]] of his youth later in his life.
#Standard textbooks mislead students into thinking that contributions to history were somehow based more on status than by effort or Providence. This bias is a form of [[Essay:Status Worship|status worship]].
#Standard textbooks emphasize material things (like race, gender, wealth, scarcity) at the expense of the more important role played by ideas and "the power of the pen."
#Standard textbooks overemphasize the significance of popularity (e.g [[JFK]]).
#Standard textbooks overemphasize the significance of popularity (e.g. [[JFK]]).
#Standard textbooks ignore or deceive students about the fact that most great contributions to western society have been made by conservative Christians.
#[[Public school]] education in its current form in the U.S.A. is less than 100 years old.
#[[Atheist]] materialism lay behind the genocidal crimes of the [[Nazi]]s
#[[Martin Luther King]] was a Republican.
#[[Martin Luther King]] was not a democrat.
#[[Lenin]] was a ruthless and violent dictator who oppressed the people of the [[Soviet Union]] almost as thoroughly as [[Stalin]].
#[[Nazism]], with its insistence on the collective, was a [[left-wing]] doctrine.
[[Category:United States History Essays]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Liberal Denials about History}}
Here are liberal denials about history, with the result that virtually no textbooks teach them.
1 General denials
2 General bias
3 Specific truths that history books deny or distort
General denials
The following truths about history are typically denied by liberal history textbooks:
That military battles are an essential part of history, and of preserving freedom.
That the only vote in Congress against declaring war on Japan the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor was by the first woman congressman, a suffragette.
That there were valid reasons for past opposition to immigration which had nothing to do with racism; immigration did not enable the North to beat the South.
That unions caused great harm, including senseless violence and lost jobs.
That hard work was the key to the success of many Americans.
That most of the greatest Americans, from the author of the Constitution (Gouverneur Morris) to Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Edison to George Patton, were all homeschooled.
That Abraham Lincoln's faith grew while he was President.
That Benjamin Franklin abandoned the Deism of his youth later in his life.
That Thomas Jefferson's religious beliefs were not representative of the other Founding Fathers.
That Rhode Island and Thomas Jefferson, and their view of a "separation of church and state," had no role in the formation of the Constitution.
That there were conservative Presidents before Ronald Reagan, such as George Washington, James Monroe and Grover Cleveland.
That President FDR did not end the Great Depression, and may have prolonged it.
That President LBJ's Great Society did little to alleviate poverty.
That President Ronald Reagan's foreign policy was key to ending the Cold War and alleviating poverty worldwide.
That NO "triangular trade" existed in the 17th and 18th centuries with the New World[1]
That the Catholic Church has a history of promoting science, not suppressing it.
That as an Intelligence agency, CIA was crucial for the Free world to defeat communism and their agents made huge sacrifices to defend our freedom.
That America's involvement in World War II was the key to ending the Great Depression.
General bias
Standard textbooks mislead students into thinking that contributions to history were somehow based more on status than by effort or Providence. This bias is a form of status worship.
Standard textbooks emphasize material things (like race, gender, wealth, scarcity) at the expense of the more important role played by ideas and "the power of the pen."
Standard textbooks overemphasize the significance of popularity (e.g. JFK).
Standard textbooks ignore or deceive students about the fact that most great contributions to western society have been made by conservative Christians.
Specific truths that history books deny or distort
Rhode Island was the only state to separate church and state, and it became the biggest importer of slaves.[2]
Thomas Jefferson was not as successful or important as liberals claim;[3] He failed personally and as president, especially in his second term.
Chivalry was customary throughout most of American history.
The greatest corruption in government during the Grant Administration was by the Democratic-controlled "Tammany Hall."
The misnamed "Gilded Age" generated tremendous prosperity for some, thanks to an absence of stifling regulation.
Public school education in its current form in the U.S.A. is less than 100 years old.
Atheist materialism lay behind the genocidal crimes of the Nazis
Martin Luther King was not a democrat.
Lenin was a ruthless and violent dictator who oppressed the people of the Soviet Union almost as thoroughly as Stalin.
Nazism, with its insistence on the collective, was a left-wing doctrine.
The history of the "State of Franklin."
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↑ In fact, no specific "triangular" trade route has ever been identified and it is unlikely that there was significant sale of goods to Africa at that time. The term was invented by an historian more than 100 years later.
↑ "The largest slave trading ports in America were located in Rhode Island and soon rivaled those of Liverpool. The wealth and economy of New England was based solely on slave trading and exporting rum; and the southern most colonies were NOT part of that odious slave trade."[1]
↑ For example, Jefferson was given a wealthy estate but died in substantial debt.
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News > Blog > An insight into the Change Makers programme
An insight into the Change Makers programme
Dr Tehmina Goskar hosts our first guest blog on our new website. Tehmina is leading Cornwall’s Change Maker programme, which is a flagship scheme of Arts Council England, intended to diversify the senior leadership in the museum sector and inject new ways of thinking into cultural organisations.
Tehmina is a highly skilled curator with 16 years of cross-sectoral experience in creating, planning, project managing and delivering exhibition and collections projects, on a variety of scales and budgets in museums, archives, libraries, higher education and voluntary sectors.
In this post, Tehmina explains her experiences of working with Change Makers programme, and what the training entails.
Dr Tehmina Goskar
Consultant Curator and Heritage Interpreter
“Adjusting to the Change Makers programme has been a joy and a challenge. What an opportunity, to have your own personal professional development supported so generously and with a view that by the end of the programme I might be considered leadership material by my peers.
I feel even more privileged, if not a little daunted, to be working in Cornwall whose own diversity is unique when compared with other regions, not least given official recognition of the Cornish as a National Minority. The timing of the Change Makers programme has therefore come at the right time for me and for the museums and organisations I will be working with over 18 months.
The challenging part is that I earn a living from freelancing. I specialise in strategic curatorial development, open knowledge, policy intelligence and research, and diverse-led audience development projects. That means my calendar looks mad most of the time and I am going to be ultra organised to undertake the ambitious leadership programme we have developed together.
My Change Makers programme looks like this:
Leadership programme
Comprising a formal leadership course (outside the arts sector), certification in facilitation, personal coaching, CPD, critical study visits abroad, and the achievement of the Fellowship of the Museums Association.
Placement at the Royal Institution of Cornwall
Joining their Senior Leadership Team, contributing to strategic decision-making in the role of Lead for the development of its Bicentenary Programme in 2018.
Research project on rural diversity with Cornwall Museums Partnership
With particular emphasis on social inequalities in the arts and cultural sector in Cornwall. In addition, I will be providing the Partnership with an opportunity to review policies which impact upon diversity and inclusion and setting up a national Rural Diversity Network for Arts, Culture and Heritage.
Apart from planning my leadership courses, I have focused my activities on getting to know my new colleagues at the Royal Institution of Cornwall. This independent charitable trust runs the Royal Cornwall Museum and the Courtney Library. It’s been a steep learning curve.
How do you go about developing a radically different feeling programme for an organisation that has been around for 200 years and has become used to certain ways of doing things?
My greatest pleasure so far as been in having the opportunity to better understand its collections. Like any museum, their collections are what makes them unique – as a window onto the world for Cornish people and as a window onto Cornwall for our millions of visitors.
Most of the staff, volunteers and trustees I’ve spoken with feel that there is just so much more potential in the work we can do with the collections and the knowledge and stories they hold.
This promises well for the development of an activity-led programme, that celebrates the institution’s history and collections by focusing on new, particularly under represented audiences. It will also centralise previously marginalised activity, such as the great work their education department is already doing with migrant families and college students, who are struggling with the demands of formal learning.”
To find out more about the Change Makers programme, please email info@cornwallmuseumspartnership.co.uk for more information.
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Free “Make a Movie” Workshop with Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Beginning in January 2019, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, in partnership with Charlotte Unconventional Film School, presents a full series on how to make a movie.
This workshop series is aimed at helping you make a movie. Beginning in January and running through May 2019 , these FREE in-person workshops will take place at various Charlotte Mecklenburg Library branch locations on Saturday afternoons, and will bring together filmmakers, professors and professionals to lead the workshops and provide insight into this exciting industry.
It is recommended to register for all sessions to receive a complete overview of filmmaking from start to finish.
All workshops are FREE, but registration is REQUIRED. Please click on the link at each workshop to register. Space is limited.
Secrets to Making a Successful Film presented by Keema Mingo
1 p.m. to 4:30 .m.
Hickory Grove Library
5935 Hickory Grove Road
A leader in local independent filmmaking director, writer, producer and casting director Keema Mingo has also worked on Hollywood productions. She’ll show students what it takes to successful create a movie with and without a budget; which team members are most important to have on set; how to create local partnerships to get your projects done and how to transition skills and expertise into a position that’s perfect for each student.
Hands On: Getting your Indie Film Made presented by Joshua Overbay
Join Joshua Overbay, a professor of film at Western Carolina University and New York Times-awarded filmmaker, as he details how to produce an independent film. Overbay will give a hands-on experience overview of running a movie set and offer students the confidence and know-how to gather the people and resources they need to start making an indie movie.
Audio Production for Filmmakers presented by Michael Quigley
West Boulevard Library
A lifelong learner and creative, Michael Quigley’s current explorations include the intersection of music, cinema and computer software. Quiqley leads a workshop that covers becoming more conversant in the importance of sound in filmmaking, the basics of audio, equipment and software, audio capture and basic audio manipulation and mastering. Quigley will also teach students how to independently assist on set of an indie movie.
Telling Stories for the Screen presented by Rodney Stringfellow
Rodney Stringfellow currently teaches courses in screenwriting, film history and video production at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. An educator and screenwriter, he’s written episodes for Nickelodeon, PBS, Disney Channel and more. Stringfellow designed this class to help students craft stories specifically for the screen. The workshop teaches story structure, screenplay formatting, idea development and what happens after students have finished a script.
Intro to Cinematography for Narrative Filmmaking presented by Chuck Bludsworth
For more than 30 years, Bludsworth has worked as a crew member, cinematographer, director or writer on feature films such as Cape Fear and Dances With Wolves, television shows, documentaries, commercials and corporate films. In this workshop, students will learn how to interpret and create the language of cinema, the vocabulary of shot structure, basic lens theory as well as basics of camera placement and movement.
Directing presented by Joshua Overbay
This master class will teach students everything they need to direct a small crew on a small budget to make an amazing film. Students will learn how to direct actors, develop a visual language through shots and make hundreds of decisions before, during and after the filming. Students will learn how to lead the cast and crew from pre-production through post-production, while creating a positive environment where everyone thrives.
Casting & Location Scouting presented by Chip White, PGA
Award-winning producer and writer Chip White is passionate about translating concepts from script to screen. He brings more than 25 years of experience to Charlotte Mecklenburg Library as he will present on casting and location scouting. He’ll teach students how to see the whole picture, from concept to final product.
Making a Short Documentary presented by Reuben Bloom and Kathleen Bloom
Plaza Midwood Library
Digital storytellers Reuben Bloom and Kathleen Bloom are Charlotte filmmakers and founders of Basic Cable, creating content that connects people with their communities. They’ll lead students through this highly interactive day on the outskirts of the Charlotte Boom! Festival in Plaza Midwood. Learn to make a short documentary in this hands-on workshop. After this workshop, you’ll be ready to start capturing all those stories that fascinate you, so you can share them through your own documentaries.
Brilliance of Bollywood Movies presented by Ananda Mitra, Ph.D.
Beatties Ford Road Regional Library
2412 Beatties Ford Road
Anandra Mitra teaches Indian culture and communication practices at Wake Forest University. Students will enjoy excerpts from many classic and current Bollywood movies as Mitra instructs on communicating ideas through your movies in an entertaining way.
May 18, 2019 – Beatties Ford Road Regional Library
The Art of the Interview Presented by Mike Collins and Tommy Tomlinson
1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Mike Collins is a veteran Charlotte broadcaster who is host of WFAE’s Charlotte Talks. Tommy Tomlinson spent 23 years as a columnist and local reporter for the Charlotte Observer and is the current host of WFAE’s Southbound podcast. Collins and Tomlinson will share stories about a handful of the thousands of people they’ve interviewed during the years. Students will earn what goes into the making of a good interview so they can and will be ready to conduct their own, capturing thoughtful answers to make interesting content for a documentary or behind-the-scenes work.
Beatties Ford Regional Library
2412 Beatties Ford Rd
Charlotte, CA
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Politics Elections
U.S. Rep. Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia, attorney Jerry Joyce back Lori Lightfoot in Chicago mayor’s race
Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune
Chicago mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot greets people before the South Side Irish Parade on March 17, 2019, in Chicago.
Chicago mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot greets people before the South Side Irish Parade on March 17, 2019, in Chicago. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune)
Gregory PrattContact ReporterChicago Tribune
U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia endorsed Lori Lightfoot’s candidacy for Chicago mayor before Sunday’s South Side Irish Parade, saying she would serve as a departure from old-school machine politics and bring needed change to the city.
Garcia stood alongside Lightfoot on Sunday in making his endorsement ahead of the April 2 runoff election.
“I believe that she will become the change agent that Chicago needs so desperately at this critical juncture. I believe that she has the moral compass to guide our city and that she has the skill set required for making critical policy decisions. I believe she has the heart and the soul to usher in a new era of bold municipal policy that improves especially the lives of working people everywhere across our city, especially the people who have the least,” Garcia said. “Chicago must enter a new era of equitable development, and I believe that Lori Lightfoot will usher in that new era.”
Garcia’s support could boost Lightfoot with Latino voters on the Southwest Side, where Garcia is particularly popular, as well as with progressive voters. Garcia pushed Mayor Rahm Emanuel into Chicago’s first mayoral runoff four years ago and received the backing of many progressive unions that are now supporting Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, including the Service Employees International Union and the Chicago Teachers Union.
“I am incredibly grateful and I’m mindful of the fact that I am here today because of the work that (Garcia) did and really ignited this incredible spark for change across our city,” Lightfoot said. “We’re carrying the torch of the 2015 movement forward and we’re building on what was ignited in this city long before with Harold Washington and the multiracial, citywide coalition that Harold Washington built.”
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Garcia flirted with a mayoral bid last fall but ultimately decided not to run. U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, who stepped down after 13 terms, endorsed Garcia to succeed him in Congress. After Emanuel made the surprise announcement in September that he wouldn’t seek a third term, Gutierrez launched a “draft ‘Chuy’ ” movement to get Garcia to run for mayor.
But Garcia said the possibility of winning a congressional seat and then immediately running for another office left a bad taste in his mouth.
At the time Garcia bowed out, Preckwinkle released a statement through her mayoral campaign thanking Garcia for his work on behalf of Cook County residents. “I know that Chuy will continue advocating on behalf of our shared priorities for immigrants, women, and seniors in his new role as congressman,” the statement said in part.
Before going to Congress, Garcia served as a commissioner on the Cook County Board and was Preckwinkle’s floor leader.
Their relationship has frayed over the years, though. Part of that stems from Preckwinkle not endorsing Garcia in his bid to defeat Emanuel. Garcia also was upset because Preckwinkle was late to support his choice to succeed him on the board, Alma Anaya. And the two also split over Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios, whom Preckwinkle backed in a losing bid to fend off Fritz Kaegi while Garcia supported Kaegi.
Lightfoot said she voted for Garcia against Emanuel in both rounds of the 2015 mayoral election.
Garcia said he got to know Lightfoot about 3 1/2 years ago, when she was working on the issue of police accountability.
“I think she is eminently qualified to address the issues of safety, of greater police accountability,” Garcia said. “Let me be very clear: Some of her most important contributions to moving the city forward have been the task force report on police accountability. It is a damning indictment, a very important guide to move forward that helped usher in the consent decree that will guide the next mayor, the council, the people of Chicago in bringing about (change) in the Chicago Police Department.”
Garcia did not criticize Preckwinkle directly, though he did say the city “needs to break from the vestiges of old machine politics and is close to making that a reality.” Asked whether Preckwinkle’s the machine, a criticism often made by Lightfoot, Garcia instead said there’s “signs of corruption in the Chicago City Council” and in the property tax system — a shot at Berrios, Preckwinkle’s ally.
But he declined to criticize Preckwinkle personally, saying the future “looks great.”
“A new mayor in City Hall and across the hall, on the fifth floor, a very competent president of the (county) board who I had the great honor to work with for eight years and move Cook County government forward, leaving behind the old reference that it was Crook County,” he said.
But Garcia also said Lightfoot “ushers in a new era that Chicago has been waiting for a long time.”
Asked about SEIU and CTU backing Preckwinkle, and how it feels to be on the opposite side of them four years after they helped push him into the runoff, Garcia said, “Those relationships don’t change. There are progressives in both camps.”
Preckwinkle spent the early part of her birthday attending church services with Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, before eating breakfast with staffers in a corner booth at Eppel’s Restaurant in the South Loop.
Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune
Mayor candidate Toni Preckwinkle addresses members of her AKA sorority and supporters during a celebration for her 72nd birthday at the AKArama Foundation Inc. Community Service Center on March 17, 2019, in Chicago.
Mayor candidate Toni Preckwinkle addresses members of her AKA sorority and supporters during a celebration for her 72nd birthday at the AKArama Foundation Inc. Community Service Center on March 17, 2019, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
But the County Board president skipped the politician-friendly South Side parade — and Garcia’s display with Lightfoot — and instead elected to campaign at the city’s Northwest Side Irish Parade.
Preckwinkle, when asked about Garcia’s endorsement for her opponent, said her campaign planned to unveil more endorsements from West Side officials later in the week.
“We’ve gotten lots of support from other Latino elected officials. I’ve been to the Latinx community, not just in this campaign, but in the course of my entire political career,” Preckwinkle said of Garcia’s decision during a Sunday evening birthday party with her sorority allies.
“So I’m a known quantity there in a way that she isn’t,” she said of Lightfoot.
Though Garcia’s endorsement is a boost to Lightfoot’s campaign, he also suffered embarrassing defeats in the Feb. 26 aldermanic elections.
Garcia most notably supported civil engineer Tanya Patino in her unsuccessful campaign to defeat embattled Southwest Side Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, who has been charged in a federal public corruption investigation at City Hall. Garcia also backed community organizer Hilario Dominguez’s losing effort to replace Ald. Danny Solis — who secretly wore a recording device while cooperating with the FBI — in the Pilsen-centered 25th Ward.
At the same time, Garcia’s organization helped elect Mike Rodriguez to replace retiring Ald. Ricardo Munoz, 22nd. And Garcia has pointed out that he endorsed in 15 races, with six outright wins, seven runoffs and two losses.
(Editor’s note: The following paragraph has been updated to correct Jerry Joyce’s name.)
Lightfoot also accepted an endorsement from Southwest Side attorney Jerry Joyce, who won the 13th, 19th and 23rd wards on the Southwest Side, and the 41st on the Northwest Side in the first round of the mayor’s race.
Joyce introduced Lightfoot to a crowd at a party for his volunteers, friends and family as "somebody I know to be honest, hardworking, extremely bright and just a kind person."
"I am proud to endorse Lori Lightfoot," Joyce said, to loud cheers.
Lightfoot beamed and told the crowd, "I could not be more proud to accept the endorsement of my friend, Jerry Joyce."
Since the crowded field of 14 mayoral candidates was cut down to two, six former candidates have endorsed Lightfoot while none have come out for Preckwinkle. Lightfoot has received support from Willie Wilson, Paul Vallas, Gery Chico, Joyce, Neal Sales-Griffin and John Kozlar.
Ald. George Cardenas, 12th, also released a statement endorsing Lightfoot on Sunday.
Correction: A previous version of this story misidentified Jerry Joyce as Jerry Joyce Jr. Joyce said his full name is Jeremiah E. Joyce II, but he’s known professionally as Jerry Joyce.
Chicago Tribune’s Juan Perez Jr. contributed.
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Rules tinkering by baseball bosses are ruining the sport
By Hal Block
The proprietors of baseball, charged with the task of protecting and preserving the sport, insist on tinkering with it instead.
They keep fooling around with the game, changing the rules every so often, adding a designated hitter here, and a wild card team there. And now they have come up with the goofiest idea of all.
This season, every minor league game that is tied after nine innings will begin each extra inning with a runner on second base. This will be a better opportunity to break the tie so we can all go home.
That's fine. It just isn't baseball.
In baseball, runners are not awarded bases for no reason. They earn their way there. Not this season. Not in the minor leagues. Forget hits, runs and errors. Welcome to the baseball's brave new world where we are in a hurry to get done with the game.
This is not new. It has been going on for some time. They insist on monkeying around with a sport that seemed awfully good in its original form.
It started with the designated hitter, a gimmick that turned a nine-player game into 10. Never mind that the DH leads to us having the World Series played with two sets of rules depending on whether games are played in American League parks, where the DH is embraced, or National League parks where it is dismissed. Doesn't that make a lot of sense for the showcase event of the sport?
Oh, and speaking of the World Series, which once was a best-of-seven affair played in the shadows of October. Now, extended playoffs require 11 or 12 wins to claim the championship of the summer game's biggest stage, which often ends in the autumn chill of November.
And all of the games are played at night, decided when the next generation of fans are safely tucked away in their beds. No wonder kids play soccer instead.
Once, the World Series was the only time the leagues played each other. Now the lords of baseball have homogenized the sport with interleague games every day, removing the uniqueness of the Series.
Then there is the clever wild card scheme, a one-and-done shootout, eliminating teams from the postseason if they lose a single game when they played 162 for that opportunity. A mistake here or there and a team that fought for one more chance at the postseason gets sent home in a heartbeat.
With analytics and algorithms encroaching on the game, sooner or later, technology was sure to follow. So now, after complaining that games were taking too long, we have video replays and umpires huddling to debate their calls for what seems an eternity while both teams stand around waiting for a decision.
To make things move along, we now have the automatic intentional walk. No need to throw four balls. Just take your base. That saves, oh, at least a minute or two each game, depending on how many walks are issued. Sometimes, there are none at all.
And now, they have come up with what might very well be the wackiest idea of all, an invitation to break ties as fast as possible.
In case you haven't noticed, there is no clock in baseball. That's part of the charm of the game. Basketball, football and hockey are ruled by dwindling minutes and seconds. Baseball is a more leisurely, thoughtful activity, more cerebral. But in this hurry-up world, that's just not good enough for the people in charge.
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Well, here's a suggestion. Take a deep breath. Let the hitter step out of the batter's box. Let the pitcher step back off the mound. Let them, consider the circumstances. And let them do it without some runner on second base who got there because we can't let this game go on forever.
Here's a better idea. Take away a defensive player for each extra inning played. Pretty soon, there will be only a couple of defenders, inevitably a run will score and we can all go home. Or maybe play Home Run Derby to decide the issue. It would be all sorts of fun. It's just not baseball.
Do the tinkerers understand how annoying they are? They are messing around with a product that was perfect in its previous form. It could be again, if they would just leave it alone.
If the length of games is really an issue, there is another method which will limit the time spent in the ballpark considerably. The solution is simple. Set up a table at home plate with the two managers seated across from each other. Give them a set of dice and some neat spinners and they can decide the issue with a board game in an hour or so, just like kids did years ago.
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China Family Tours
10 days | 9 nights
DestinationsBeijing, Xian, Zhangjiajie, Shanghai
Beijing Highlights
Take in the magnitude of the Great Wall stretching more than 20,000 kilometers west of the mountain ridges north of Beijing. The Mutianyu section of the wall, unique for its military watchtowers, now provides for travelers the same incredible views across the mountains outside Beijing as it did for guards of old.
Take a peek into the glorious court life of feudal society in China exploring the Forbidden City, which served for over five centuries as the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Magnificent royal architecture clusters and imperial culture now serve as the Beijing Palace Museum, housing a collection of over one million precious relics.
Grandeur for good could be the theme of the Temple of Heaven, a royal site used by emperors to worship heaven for a good harvest and prosperity of the country. The site covers an area four times the size of the Forbidden City. Watch locals as they practice Tai Chi, sing and dance to water calligraphy.
Wonder at the largest and best-preserved imperial garden in China at the Summer Palace. Located approximately 15 kilometers north west of the city center, the Summer Palace is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, first built in 1153. The palace garden was the summer retreat for emperors, concubines and, most notably, the Empress Dowager Cixi. After extensive restoration and reconstruction, the garden, palaces, temples, corridors and exquisite exhibits can be seen reflecting their former glory against the backdrop of a remarkable man-made lake.
Xian Highlights
Be amazed by the marvel of the world-renowned Terracotta Army, developed as a tomb for the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, in 210 BC. This UNESCO site features 8,000 individual life-size warriors, horses and chariots believed to part of Emperor Qin’s army to protect him in the afterlife. The site was discovered by a local farmer in 1974.
Xian City Wall
Xian city has an interesting history. Over 1000 years ago it was the start of the famous Silk Road. Take this opportunity to explore the ancient Xian city wall enclosing the old capital and marvel at the largest and best-preserved wall currently standing in China.
The Great Mosque
This is a great chance to visit the oldest and largest Islamic mosque in the country. The Great Mosque is a walled complex of five courtyards, with many walls carrying beautiful depictions of plants, birds, objects and text, in both Arabic and Chinese. Other religious temples of historical significance were known to have been situated in the same location.
The Muslim Street
Muslim Street is a thriving and bustling center of commerce with delicious restaurants and traditional Muslim shops offering tasty treats and bargains for the intrepid traveler. While most commonly known abroad as a tourist hot spot, it’s actually the locals’ favorite hangout as well. There’s a strong Muslim community and culture here and it’s become something of a famous drawcard for Xian.
Zhangjiajie Highlights
Made famous by the movie Avatar, the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park has more going for it than inspiration for movie backdrops. Stunningly beautiful natural landscapes that literally take your breath away are a welcome contrast from the otherwise busy pace of China’s big cities.
Tianzi Mountain Nature Reserve
Rising one after another, the peaks of Tianzi Mountain provide stunning views. Visitors can see the full expanse of the Wulingyuan Scenic Area and the beauty of each season – all at the same time. Here is where you experience the four wonders: Radiance of the Moonlight, Sea of Clouds, Rays of Sunshine and Snow in winter.
Tianmen Cave
A natural hole in the mountain that opens up to a height of 131.5 meters is reached by a lengthy escalator which is an experience in itself.
Shanghai Highlights
Yuyuan Garden
Yuyuan is the celebrated garden, originally constructed in 1559 as the private property of a local dignitary. Beautifully restored and maintained, the Yu Garden is a peaceful reprieve from Shanghai’s otherwise bustling pace.
Located in the Huangpu District of Shanghai on the bank of the Huangpu River, The Bund is one of the most impressive sights in Shanghai. View the famous Oriental Pearl Television Tower, the Jin Mao Tower and other buildings of historical significance by taking a stroll along this famous promenade.
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
With eleven permanent exhibition galleries presenting different themes, the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum is a place children will love exploring. Now considered one of Shanghai’s modern iconic landmarks, it’s been voted the second most popular museum in the Asia-Pacific region
Experience the exotic temples and beautiful gardens of China’s capitals; Beijing, Shanghai and Xian plus take in the beautiful Karst scenery of the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park and be astounded by the natural beauty of Pandora.
This wonderful 10 days tour explores some of the most beautiful sights China has to offer. Experience China’s ancient and modern capitals, Beijing, Xian and Shanghai, where you’ll find ancient history blending seamlessly with contemporary China. Travel at speeds up to 300 kilometres per hour on one of China’s newest bullet trains. Take in the stunning Zhangjiajie National Forest Park where you’ll enjoy majestic landscapes and a cable car ride over Tianzi Mountain. Not forgetting Pandora, a land of almost magical beauty which inspired the scenery for the movie Avatar. This wonderful China tour will make incredible travel memories and it includes all in country transfers, 9 nights hotel accommodation, daily buffet breakfast, high speed train travel, fully guided tour with driver transport, airport transfers, and more!
Day 1 - Arrive in Beijing
On arrival into Beijing Capital Airport be met by your dedicated tour guide outside the baggage claim area. On the way to your pre-booked four or five-star inner city hotel, your guide will point out the highlights and history of Beijing. Spend the rest of the day exploring this incredible city at your own leisure. Perhaps get a taste of modern Beijing at nearby Wangfujing Street or simply relax in your luxurious hotel.
Day 2 - Beijing
After breakfast today explore Beijing with your guide who will collect you from your hotel. Visit the world’s largest city square, Tiananmen Square. Make your way across the road to the magnificent Forbidden City, a culturally historic landmark in China, which was the former residence of Chinese royalty for five centuries. After the Forbidden City tour, you will hop on a rickshaw for a Hutong Tour through this characteristic, maze-like Beijing neighbourhood. Experience Chinese culture and folk arts by learning Chinese brush calligraphy, facial designs of the Beijing Opera and kite making. Before heading back to the hotel, sample the famous local food market Sanyuanli where you can stock up on fruit and snacks for your next day’s trip to the Mutianyu Great Wall.
Note: Your tour guide may adjust your itinerary due to closure of the Forbidden City each Monday.
Today after an early breakfast and hotel pickup, the first stop is the Mutianyu Great Wall, a less frequented part of China’s 1,400-year-old iconic landmark located approximately 70 kilometres from Beijing. Take a pleasant and comfortable round-trip cable car transfer over the picturesque scenery, then walk the wall to take in the Ming dynasty guard towers and sensational views. On return to the city in the afternoon, visit the Summer Palace. Appreciate the beautiful gardens and imagine the lifestyle of royalty who enjoyed this summer resort during imperial times. A stopover at Beijing’s stadium and pool – the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube – built for the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics – provides a modern contrast to China’s ancient history. Return to the hotel.
Day 4 - Beijing – Xian
Start today with a visit to the remarkable Temple of Heaven, where emperors from the Ming and Qing Dynasties performed ceremonies and rituals to pray for good harvests and blessings for the country. Transfer to the Beijing West railway station and be checked in by your guide to travel by high speed rail train to Xian. Approximately a five hour trip, travelling at 300 kilometres per hour, you can relax and absorb the diverse landscape along the way. On arrival at the Xian North Station, your local tour guide will meet and escort you to your inner city four or five star hotel.
Day 5 - Xian
After the breakfast, you will explore Xian’s ancient City Wall, currently the largest and best-preserved wall of its type in China. Enclosing China’s former capital city and almost 14 kilometres long, enjoy your free time by exploring on a either a tandem or regular bicycle. Next destination is today’s sightseeing highlight, the world-renowned Terracotta Army. Recognized as the largest underground military base in the world, take in this extraordinary archeological discovery, which houses thousands of unique life-sized figures. Try making your own Terracotta soldier or horse by visiting a local villager’s workshop. Return to the city and for a change of pace, take in the quiet of Xian’s Great Mosque, located in the middle of the city’s old block. Built mid seventh century, the Great Mosque is the oldest and largest Islamic mosque in China. Mix with locals and find food of every flavor in Muslim Street, which is bustling with authentic eateries and souvenirs. Enjoy the shadow play in a traditional Chinese architecture, Gao’s Grand Courtyard, the former residence of an official in Ming Dynasty. Today’s final destination before returning to your hotel is Xian’s famous Bell Tower and Drum Tower Square.
Day 6 - Xian – Zhangjiajie
After breakfast and check out from your hotel, the tour guide will take you to the Shaanxi History Museum where you’ll discover over 370,000 relics of Chinese history. Take in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, one of two iconic Buddhist pagodas in Xian. You may have a chance to enter at the top of the pagoda and look out over Xian’s 1,400 years of history, then take a contemplative walk through the temple and gardens. Following on from the morning’s activities, you’ll be driven to the airport for your flight to Zhangjiajie. Upon arrival, your local guide will meet and transfer you to your hotel, providing a brief introduction to Zhangjiajie on the way.
Note: Your tour guide may alter your itinerary as the Shaanxi History Museum is closed on Mondays.
Day 7 - Zhangjiajie
After breakfast, begin your exploration of this gorgeous region in the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. Take the world highest and fastest elevator, the Bailong Elevator to reach the Yuanjiajie Scenic Area, located in the northwest of Zhangjiajie. Be inspired by attractions, including the No. 1 Natural Bridge under Heaven, used for the design of Hallelujah Mountains in the famous film Avatar, and other iconic karst landscapes. Afterwards, ride the public shuttle bus to the Tianzi Mountain Nature Reserve and appreciate the more of the region’s exquisite landscape, including Helong Park, Xihai Stone Forest, Fairy Offering Flowers, and the Imperial Brush Peak. Head down the mountain by taking a two-kilometer journey on the Tianzi Mountain Cable Car. (If the cable car is not available, the Bailong Elevator will be taken). Finish the day with a small train trip where you can view the misty karst landscape of the Ten-mile Gallery in the Suoxigu Valley. Following this full day of activities, return to your hotel.
Day 8 - Zhangjiajie – Shanghai
Today’s sightseeing commences with a tour to the precipice of Tianmen Mountain.
Prepare yourself for the breathtaking view as you ride the world’s longest cable car to the mountaintop and walking on the glass Sky Walk perched at 1430 meters above the ground. Take the escalator through the mountain to Tianmen Cave, a huge naturally formed hole crossing the cliff of the mountain. It’s the perfect location for capturing photos of the stunning natural landscape and the 999 steps leading to the foot of the Cave. Ride the escalator down to the resting area and finish the Tianmen Mountain trip with a shuttle bus ride to the parking lot. Following the morning’s activities, you will be transferred to the airport for your fight to Shanghai. In Shanghai, your local guide will meet and transfer you to the hotel pointing out this bustling city’s local landmarks along the way.
Note: Alternative travel arrangements can be made for those preferring to travel by shuttle bus up the mountain and cable car down the mountain. Please liaise with your guide to make this change.
Day 9 - Shanghai
Commence your tour of Shanghai with a visit to the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. Start the exploration in the 11 different themes galleries and have fun with the variety activities. A special experience will be watching 3D,4D films in the Science Theaters. Walk Nanjing Road, the busiest shopping precinct in China. Change tempo and visit Yuyuan Garden, where you can marvel at the stunning gardens; then stroll around the nearby Chenghuangmiao bazaars and make a worthwhile detour and visit the Shikumen Museum in New Spot (XinTianDi) for a true taste of old world Shanghai. Make the most of your afternoon by wandering the quieter streets of Dongping Road or Sinan Road in the Former French Concession, where you will find the essence of classic Shanghai. Get ready to be amazed at the stunning Shanghai Acrobatic Show tonight.
Note: Your tour guide may alter your itinerary as the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum is closed on Mondays.
Day 10 - Depart from Shanghai
Your tour guide will collect you at the hotel and drive you to the airport for your flight home. Alternatively, if your flight departures from Shanghai Pudong International Airport, depending on your flight departure time, your tour guide can accompany you to take the Shanghai Maglev (the fastest commercial high-speed electric train in the world) to the airport as a special experience while your luggage is transferred to the airport by the driver.
Beijing Accommodation Options
Novotel Peace Hotel
The Regent Beijing
Xian Accommodation Options
Grand Mercure Xi’an on Renmin Square
Sofitel Xian on Renmin Square
Zhangjiajie Accommodation Options
Pullman Zhangjiajie
Crowne Plaza Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan
Shanghai Accommodation Options
Pullman Shanghai Jing An
Hyatt on the Bund
Admission fees: to sightseeing spots and activities specified.
Accommodation: hotels based on double/twin occupancy as specified.
Meals: as specified in the itinerary.
Tour guide: excellent private English-speaking guide.
Transportation: high-speed train between Beijing/Xian (First class seat for Luxury tours; second class seat for Superior tours). Economy class domestic flights between Xian/Zhangjiajie/Shanghai.
Transfers: land transfer with drivers as specified.
Government taxes and fees.
International flights to/from China.
China visa fees.
Gratuities to guides and drivers and any expense of a personal nature.
Important information – PRIVATE TOUR
This is a private tour for your group of family or friends. There will be no other travellers in the group apart from you. It’s always available for your schedule!
The prices shown are not valid during China’s Official Holidays (such as National Day and Chinese Spring Festival).
The tour guide may adjust the itinerary due to closure of the museums each Monday.
Optional tours to Suzhou, Hangzhou or nearby Watertown, and other destinations are also available.
Any city not included in the existing tour package can be blended into as Private tour.
Entering and exiting China from Hong Kong and Taipei are also available.
Stays at entering and exiting cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei) can be extended.
After purchase, you will receive a receipt and a Purchase Confirmation email with a Passenger Information Form. The Passenger Information Form must be completed within 72 hours of the purchase.
Any special requests, preferences and optional extras MUST be clearly stated in your Passenger Information Form. Any change requested after submitting your Passenger Information Form cannot be guaranteed, is strictly subject to availability and will incur surcharges as outlined in the Schedule of Fees below.
On purchasing this tour product, you are bound by the General Terms and Conditions, in addition to the specific terms and conditions outlined in this Important Information.
Please note: online credit card payment and PayPal payments incur surcharges.
Tour Start Dates
Private and custom tours can be scheduled to commence on any day. Multi-day small group tours start on set dates as indicated in the booking calendar for the specific tour.
Cities for Commencement of Tours
Beijing is the city in which multi-day small group tours start. Multi-day tours with set itineraries booked as a private tour, commence in Beijing, unless otherwise arranged with ChinaTours.com. Tours booked as custom tours can start in any destination listed on the ChinaTours.com website.
Full service flights included, where applicable. For international flights: full service flights included only if tour includes travel to/from Hong Kong, Taiwan, North Korea, or as part of Indochina tour packages. Domestic flights included as part of a tour package are provided by select Chinese domestic airlines. Flight carrier will be specified in itinerary provided on finalization of booking. Note: the maximum baggage allowance for domestic in China is 20 kilograms for economy class domestic flights, 30 kilograms for business class, and 40 kilograms for first class. Flight class upgrades are available on request at an additional charge.
High Speed Trains
First class seat for five star (Luxury) tour packages and second class seat for four star (Superior) tour packages.
High Speed Train Seat Upgrades
Seat upgrades are available on high speed trains on request at an additional charge and subject to availability. A limited number of first class seats are available on high speed trains. ChinaTours.com cannot guarantee high speed train seat upgrades due to third party or supplier’s shortage.
Destination Transfer
Transfers from airport to hotel provided as air-conditioned vehicle with driver.
Accommodation options for early arrival prior to commencement of tour are available. Bookings can be made online prior to checkout or arrangements can be made with a ChinaTours.com travel consultant.
Stay Behind
Accommodation options for stay behind after completion of tour are available. Bookings can be made online prior to checkout or arrangements can be made with a ChinaTours.com travel consultant.
All ChinaTours.com tour guides are bilingual speakers with intimate knowledge of an area/city, its culture, history, people, and food, which they will share on tour. ChinaTours.com does not operate commission-based shopping tours which means our tour guides do not receive commissions for commission-based shopping stops. Small group and private tour groups of 1-2 (<3) people will be provided with a guide/driver rather than a driver and a guide.
Small Group Size
The maximum number of passengers in a multi-day small group tour is 12 people.
Optional Tours/Activities
Optional tour activities are available on request. Please contact ChinaTours.com directly to customize your optional tour activities and destinations.
ChinaTours.com selects international four star and five star hotels located in the inner city centre. In small, regional destinations, ChinaTours.com selects the best available hotel.
Bedding included in accommodation is double or twin bedding (subject to availability). Special arrangements available on request; additional charges may apply due to third party or hotel request.
Adjoining/Interconnecting Rooms
Adjoining/Interconnecting rooms are available subject to passenger’s request. Additional charges may apply due to third party or hotel request.
Child/Infant Policy
Pricing for child and infant can be quoted separately.
Infant price is valid for children 0 to 2 years. Child price is valid for children aged 2 to 11 years. Adult pricing apply for passengers aged 12 years and over. Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult aged 18 years or over. No unaccompanied minors allowed.
All breakfast included. Lunch and dinner are excluded allowing passengers to make their own selection for lunch and dinner. Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided on the Yangtze River Cruise only. Lunch provided on the Li River Cruise. Local guides can be consulted to provide recommendations and assist with eating arrangements on request.
Customers are required to provide valid passport details either at the time of purchase or within 72 hours of purchase. Failure to do so may result in cancellation of the booking. In this instance customers will be responsible for any costs and fees incurred.
Passport validity should be at least six months for entering China.
A tourist visa for China is a strict requirement if travelling on a foreign passport.
Please make arrangements for your visa as soon as you receive your documentation to account for any delays due to consulate operating hours.
Gratuities/Tipping
Gratuities (tips) for services of the tour guide and driver throughout the tour are not included in the tour package price.
ChinaTours.com tour packages do not include travel insurance. We strongly recommend purchase of comprehensive travel insurance prior to departure to provide for any unforeseen circumstances.
For changes to travel arrangements:
First change – No charge.
For all subsequent changes – USD50.
Any charges applied by a third party (for example, airline, cruise company, accommodation provider, other travel provider) cannot be waived.
For China tour Packages, ChinaTours.com charges cancellation fees at a percentage of the total tour package price, which are stated as follows:
More than 60 days prior to tour start date, no cancellation fee
45 – 59 days prior to tour start date: 10 percent cancellation fee
Within 14 days prior to tour start date: 100 percent cancellation fee
Any charges applied by a third party (for example, airline, cruise company, accommodation provider, other travel provider, credit card fee, bank fee) cannot be waived.
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Mr. Frank A Knight
After reviewing your tour company we began the process of booking our private tour. Beginning with booking process to all aspects of our tour we were very satisfied. Our representative, Fay Gao walked us through the entire process, making the arrangements easy and leaving us confident. Our guides were waiting for us at every destination with the vehicle and driver and dealt with us efficiently, courteously and professionally throughout. The itinerary, sights, hotels and most restaurants met our expectations. At times the itinerary was adjusted to ensure that we obtained the best possible experience during our tour. We would thoroughly recommend your company to any prospective clients.
Bing Chen
I had a great time on my trip. Everything was very organized. The tour guides were locals but they spoke excellent English. The restaurants we went to were great and there was always a lot of food left over. I really liked the fact that we spent our time sightseeing and not wasting time on shopping stops like some other tours. I would highly recommend China Tours.
Mr. Ahmed
We have enjoyed an excellent tour organized by your company. The tour guides were very professional, courteous and very warm in conducting the tour. Evelyn has an excellent sense of humor with her professionalism whilst Linda and Jack are full of enthusiasm with similar professional qualities. We would definitely consider using your company for future traveling. Thanks again.
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Border Agents: Rock-Throwing Migrants Pushed Women And Children To Front Of Horde
Amber Athey and Saagar Enjeti Reporters
November 26, 2018 1:12 PM ET
Border Patrol agents revealed in interviews that the migrants storming the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend were using women and children as human shields as they launched rocks at agents.
Border Patrol unleashed tear gas and pepper balls to disperse the crowd of migrants trying to cross the border in Tijuana, Mexico on Sunday. According to San Diego Chief Border Patrol Agent Rodney Scott, agents did not use dispersion techniques until after migrants had struck several agents with projectiles.
“Several agents were actually struck by rocks,” Scott said, before revealing that the migrants pushed women and children to the front of their group to discourage agents from responding to rock-throwing with force.
“What we saw over and over yesterday was that the group — the caravan, as we call them — would push women and children to the front and then begin, basically, rocking our agents,” Scott asserted.
Scott further explained that agents did not target women and children with gas, but that “once that chemical is released, it does go through the air.”
“They use women and children regularly,” National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told The Daily Caller, confirming that “several’ border patrol agents were struck by projectiles yesterday. (RELATED: Obama Administration’s Border Patrol Shot Pepper Balls At Migrants In 2013)
Judd explained that the situation at the border yesterday was “unprecedented” and that migrants had never tried before to rush a port of entry. The Border Patrol veteran explained that illegal immigrants often abandon woman and children while being chased by authorities, knowing that they will hinder officers while they abscond.
Judd reiterated the migrants’ strategy during an interview with Fox News on Monday afternoon.
“The way these people rushed the border was absolutely monstrous,” he said. “They pushed women and children up front and then behind those women and children, they started throwing rocks, cement bricks, they started throwing bottles at our Border Patrol agents.”
“We were forced to use the action,” Judd said, adding that they did not use “kinetic force” on any children and instead launched tear gas into the area to force the crowd to disperse.
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Police find missing 5-year-old boy on Detroit's west side
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Marcus Pruitt last seen Thursday night
By Koco McAboy - Reporter, Dave Bartkowiak Jr.
Posted: 2:36 AM, May 31, 2019 Updated: 12:18 PM, May 31, 2019
DETROIT - A search is underway on Detroit's west side for a missing 5-year-old boy.
UPDATE: The missing boy has been found
Police are searching in the area of 7 Mile Road and St. Marys Avenue for Marcus Pruitt. A neighbor said police dogs are in the area.
The 5-year-old was last seen in the 19400 block of St. Marys. Police say his mother noticed he was missing around 10:30 p.m. when she went to check on him.
Police want to speak with a person of interest in connection with the boy's disappearance. The person of interest is described as a black man in his 30s with a medium comlpexion and a goatee. He was wearing a black baseball hat, a dingy black jacket, dark jeans, Timberland boots and safety glasses. he was riding a red moped, police said.
Police released the following video of Marcus. They said it was taken before he went missing but shows the clothing he was last seen wearing.
Marcus is 4-feet-2-inches tall and weighs 87 pounds. He was last seen wearing a grey and white striped shirt and blue jeans.
"At the end of the day, I just pray that you find this boy. I pray that we find this boy. We need him. He's our baby, he needs us. Help us find him," said Paris Jackson, the mother's boyfriend.
Marcus Pruitt
Police Cpt. Darrell Patterson said police searched the home, the area, and even searched a nearby vacant home. Officers were assisted by a K-9 unit.
"We did a door-to-door search ... we still did not find the boy," said Patterson.
Patterson said Marcus is little tall for a 5-year-old. He will be turning 6 soon, and he is often thought to be older due to his size.
"We notified his school. Hopefully he will turn up at the school and hopefully someone knows where he is and help us return him to his family," said Patterson.
If anyone has seen Marcus Pruitt or knows of his whereabouts they are asked to please call Detroit Police Department’s 8th Precinct at 313-596-5800 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-Speak Up.
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2018 Announcement
Solid Attendance and Superior Fundraising at WEC18
Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and Visit Indy played host to 2,200 planners and suppliers at this year’s World Education Congress (WEC), MPI’s flagship event.
Held June 2-5, 2018 at the Indianapolis Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, attendance at the completely reimagined conference was down 13.6 per cent from WEC 2017, which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, but up 10 per cent over WEC 2016 (Atlantic City, NJ) and WEC 2014 (Minneapolis, MN). However, WEC18 fund-raising initiatives garnered substantially more support than they did at WEC 2017.
MPI reports that 39 per cent of registrants were first-time WEC attendees, and 77 per cent were members of the association. And, while the majority of attendees were from the United States (89 per cent) and Canada (five per cent), more than 35 countries were represented at WEC18. The planner to supplier ratio was split nearly 50:50 with 49.6 per cent planners and 50.4 per cent suppliers.
On the fund-raising front, MPI Foundation raised more than $450,000 USD, including contributions from Rendezvous, which had nearly 1,200 participants, and through the Text to Give program. This is a 32 per cent increase over WEC 2017 ($340,000). The funds will go towards scholarships and grants.
The event’s other key fund-raising initiative, the President’s Dinner, drew more than 500 attendees and raised more than $250,000 USD, a nearly 15 per cent increase over the $218,000 raised in 2017. The evening honoured chapter leaders, board members and the 2018 MPI Industry Leader Award recipient, Roger Dow, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association. The funds raised will support the MPI Academy in developing fresh and innovative educational programs.
Other key numbers from WEC18 are:
249 MPI chapter leaders in attendance thanks in part to the 2018 MPI Chapter Business Summit being held in conjunction with WEC this year.
203 planners and 138 suppliers in the MPI Hosted Buyer Program, which saw just over 1,800 business appointments conducted in two days
158 supplier exhibitors throughout the WEC Villages (Social, Experiential, Innovation, Leadership)
80 education sessions, allowing attendees to earn up to 11 clock hours
1,000 unique users registered for the WEC18 Virtual Pass Program, which featured select sessions from each day of the conference. Eighty-four per cent were planners and 59 per cent were MPI members.
Major new initiatives announced at WEC 2018 are:
MPI’s partnership with Indiana University to enhance the CMM program;
MPI’s publication of a meeting planning safety and security guide this month;
and MPI’s plan to develop inclusion-focused educational programming, the first step of which is enlisting New York University’s School of Professional Studies Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality to conduct research for the initiative.
The 2019 World Education Congress will be held June 11-14, 2019 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Zhangjiajie is a newly developed international tourist city, which lies on the border of Hunan Province. It is rich in water resources despite of being not a coastal city. The region covers an area of 91,563 square kilometers and has a large population of 1.68 million, 60% of whom belong to the Tujia, Bai and Miao minorities.
Zhangjiajie city is situated on the semitropical monsoon humid climate zone with a modest climate, plentiful sunshine, flush rainfalls, fertile land and rich tourist resources.
Zhangjiajie is famous worldwide for its pristine national scenery and the government's potent policy on tourist infrastructure construction in recent year has boosted the region's tourist industry and made it one of the new-rising popular tourist destinations in China.
Zhangjiajie's main tourist draw is the Wulingyuan Scenic Area, which was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list for its lush vegetation, unique sandstone pillars, pristine waters and a wide variety of species of flora and fauna. It contains three major sights including the Zhangjiajie Forest Park, Suoxi Vale, and Tianzi Mountain with total coverage is 396 square kilometers.
Zhangjiajie city is an energetic tourist city. Nine Percent of the city, about 500 square kilometers, has been zoned as provincial national scenic spot, and natural protection zone. Featuring scenic spots and historical sites such as Puguang Temple, Yuhuang Dong Rock Cave, together with the former residence of renowned Helong and Duxin's. The area has become an attractive cultural tour destination. The local minority flavor and folk Wushu are popular both home and abroad.
Area：9563square kilometers
Telephone code：0744
Zip code：427000
Nationalities：Tujia, Bai, Miao, Han and so on.
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7Zhangjiajie Overview
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Now the market thinks the Fed could make an even deeper cut to...
The fact that interest rates are relatively low makes the idea of a so-called insurance rate cut later this month an attractive option for the Fed.
Roth vs. traditional IRAs: How to decide where to put your money
Published Mon, Jul 30 2018 1:42 PM EDT Updated Mon, Jul 30 2018 3:10 PM EDT
Lorie Konish@LorieKonish
Traditional individual retirement accounts, which are funded with pretax money, and Roth IRAs, which are for post-tax money, have different rules for retirement savers.
IRA expert Ed Slott breaks down what you need to know.
Traditional IRA versus Roth IRA
Your Money, Your Future
If you think traditional and Roth individual retirement accounts are the same, think again.
There are some big differences between these popular retirement savings plans.
And what you don't understand about the particular rules that apply can cost you, according to IRA expert Ed Slott, founder of Ed Slott & Co.
With traditional IRAs, you get a tax deduction upfront. The taxes you pay on that money are delayed until you withdraw it in retirement.
Roth IRAs, on the other hand, are funded with post-tax money.
"With a traditional IRA, you're at the mercy or uncertainty of what future higher tax rates might do to your retirement savings," Slott said. "With a Roth IRA, you don't have to worry about future rates, because your tax rate in retirement will be zero."
There are five key differences between these two retirement accounts that savers need to understand.
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1) Income limits
Contributions to traditional IRAs do not have income limits for savers who contribute to these kinds of accounts (though high earners may not get the upfront tax break).
Roth IRA contributions, however, do have income limits. For 2018, the income phase-out range is $120,000 to $135,000 for singles and $189,000 to $199,000 for married couples who file jointly.
2) Age limits
The rules for traditional IRAs prevent you from making contributions once you turn 70½.
But the same doesn't apply to Roth IRAs. You can continue to contribute to those accounts at any age, according to Slott, if you have the earned income wages or self-employment income to do so.
3) Plan participation
Your participation in a company retirement plan generally doesn't affect either traditional or Roth IRA accounts.
It is important to note, however, that with a traditional IRA, you may not be eligible for the deduction depending on your income.
4) Required minimum distributions
The rules around required minimum distributions mark the biggest difference between traditional and Roth IRAs, according to Slott.
With traditional IRAs, you are forced to take distributions starting at age 70½. Roth IRAs aren't subject to required minimum distribution rules.
5) Money withdrawals
If you withdraw from a traditional IRA before retirement, you will pay tax on that money. Plus, if you are under 59½, you generally will be subject to an additional penalty.
You can take money out from Roth IRAs, on the other hand, for any reason, penalty free. The key is that those withdrawals have to be the money you contributed, not funds from IRA conversions or earnings on your investments.
In order to withdraw the earnings on your contributions without paying taxes or other penalties, you have to wait at least five years since you first invested the money. You must also be age 59½ or older.
"That's a big deal for lots of younger people who are worried, 'What if I need to get to my money?'" Slott said.
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This is how much profit Mercedes-Benz makes every hour
Published Mon, Oct 8 2018 11:29 AM EDT Updated Tue, Oct 9 2018 3:29 PM EDT
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Source: Daimler
Mercedes-Benz, a luxury car company founded in 1926, makes an average $339 profit every second.
This amounts to an average $20,310 every minute, $1,218,656 every hour and $29,247,743 every 24 hours, according to Staveley Head, a U.K.-based car insurance provider.
Staveley Head looked at the financials of 14 iconic car brands, including Mercedes-Benz. It used global yearly profit data from Mercedes' 2017 annual report and divided that by time periods — for example, it divided total 2017 profit by 365 to get a daily average. It did the same with 2017 revenue and units sold.
Mercedes-Benz makes $1,017 profit in three seconds. This is more than the median weekly earnings in the U.S. for wage and salary workers in July 2018, who brought in $876 a week, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 48 hours, Mercedes-Benz makes a profit of $58,495,488. This is more than Barack Obama's net worth of $40 million.
"We decided to break the figures down to show exactly how much the world's leading brands make every second, minute, hour and day worldwide, to create an actual picture of how the industry looks right now," Staveley Head managing director Ashley Peters tells CNBC Make It. "When looking at the recent performance of Mercedes sales and profits worldwide versus competitors, it's clear to see that Mercedes are one of the leaders in the 'luxury' car sales market."
When it comes to revenue, Mercedes-Benz brings in an average $12,535,200 every hour and $300,844,800 every day. It sells five cars a minute and 7,200 cars in one day.
Mercedes-Benz ranked #3 in revenue among Ford, Hyundai, Subaru, Porsche, Toyota, Bentley, Volkswagen, Skoda, Jaguar Land Rover, SEAT, Ferrari and Aston Martin.
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Maduro Closes Venezuela's Borders to Prevent U.S. Aid From Flowing In
By Patrick Goodenough | February 22, 2019 | 4:25 AM EST
Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro meets with generals, in a photo posted by the AVN state news agency on Thursday, February 21, 2019. (Photo: Presidential Press)
(CNSNews.com) – Ahead of what could be a significant day in the Venezuelan crisis, the Maduro regime on Thursday closed the border with Brazil and said it was considering doing the same at the Colombia border, in a bid to prevent the opposition from bringing in humanitarian aid waiting in the neighboring countries.
Flanked by senior military officers, Nicolás Maduro said he was ordering the Brazil border closed “completely and absolutely” until further notice, and was also mulling “total closure of the border with Colombia.”
The Brazilian and Colombian governments are supporting the delivery of U.S. food and medicine to areas adjacent to their borders with Venezuela.
Critics attribute Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis, which has seen more than three million citizens flee in recent years, to the socialist regime’s mismanagement and corruption.
Maduro refuses to allow the aid to enter. He accuses the U.S. of using the issue as a pretext to spark a coup to install National Assembly head Juan Guaido, whom the U.S. and 50 other countries recognize as interim president pending new elections.
Guaido and supporters were making their way by convoys Thursday to the border with Colombia and the border town of Cucuta, where they hope tens of thousands of volunteers will on Saturday bring in and distribute U.S.-supplied food and medicine.
U.S. humanitarian aid arrives in Colombia for distribution in Venezuela. (Screen capture: YouTube)
Video clips posted online purported to show flag-waving Venezuelans cheering convoys on, and National Guardsmen struggling to stop vehicles, with little evident success.
Heading to Cucuta from a different direction on Thursday was the U.S. special representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams, leading a delegation accompanying more humanitarian supplies being flown Florida by military aircraft.
And the White House announced that Vice President Mike Pence will travel to the Colombian capital, Bogota, on Monday, “to voice the United States’ unwavering support for interim President Juan Guaido and highlight the Venezuelan people’s fight for democracy over dictatorship.”
Pence will meet with Colombian President Ivan Duque and other Western Hemisphere officials “to define concrete steps that support the Venezuelan people and a transition to democracy.”
Both the opposition and regime are gearing up for Saturday, the one-month anniversary since Guaido declared himself interim president under Venezuela’s constitution. Apart from the aid distribution efforts, rival music concerts are being planned for either side of the Venezuela-Colombia border.
“This weekend we will attempt to deliver what are now hundreds of tons of humanitarian assistance that the American people, our taxpayers, have generously paid for, now have moved into the region,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told NBC on Thursday. “We hope we can get it across the border.”
Asked about U.S. interests in the crisis, Pompeo pointed both to the humanitarian crisis and to security concerns.
“This is in our region,” he said. “We don’t want this to be a Cuban puppet state in Venezuela.”
Military officers urged: ‘Do the right thing’
U.S. officials continue to appeal to senior Venezuelan military officers to act in the people’s best interest in the coming days.
“You’ll ultimately be held accountable for your actions,” the commander of U.S. Southern Command, Admiral Craig Faller, said Wednesday in comments directed at the Venezuelan military. “Do the right thing. Save your people and your country.”
On Twitter Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a vocal critic of the Maduro regime, warned Ivan Hernandez, the U.S.-sanctioned commander of Maduro’s presidential guard and military counterintelligence chief to “think very carefully about the actions you take over the next few days. Because your actions will determine how you spend the rest of your life.”
On Thursday, Hugo Carvajal, a former military intelligence head and lawmaker in the ruling socialist party, posted a video clip online pledging support for Guaido and challenging Maduro’s generals over their refusal to allow aid to enter the country.
Drawing attention to Carvajal’s defection, Rubio tweeted, “Expect more of this in the hours & days to come …”
“Threats, blackmail and coercion won’t break out unity and moral strength,” Maduro’s defense minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said in a televised statement earlier this week. “We are not mercenaries who can be bought by the highest bidder.”
Patrick Goodenough
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Cobb Tank 2015 Competition Nets Big Catch for Twelve Cobb County Schools
Cobb County teachers recently competed for and won a total of $83,400 to implement innovation in their classrooms through a program called Cobb Tank.
The brainchild of Superintendent Chris Ragsdale, Cobb Tank is based on the TV show “Shark Tank” in which contestants present their ideas to the “sharks” in the “tank” in hopes of receiving funding.
Teacher response was enthusiastic with more than 100 applicants. In the end, 9 finalists were selected to go before the Cobb Sharks, a group consisting of local leaders in business and education as well as a high school student.
The finalists, representing schools from across Cobb County, gave creative, dynamic, and passionate presentations to the Cobb Sharks. From setting up an observatory at a high school to teaching elementary students how to program robots, each proposal clearly supported the district vision of “One Team, One Goal: Student Success.”
In a surprise move, the Cobb Sharks decided to fund all of the projects, citing the strength of their innovative ideas. The list of finalists and their awards are listed below.
Berkil Alexander, Kennesaw Mountain High School, $10,000 for “Moving the Planets and Stars into the Classroom”
Alexa Dean, Tritt Elementary School, $3,600 for “Programming Through Robotics”
Becky Gonzales, Big Shanty Elementary School, $12,500 for “Big Shanty’s STEM Outdoor Innovation Lab”
Sonya Henry, Hendricks Elementary School, $10,000 for “The Reading Nook”
Tiffany Hourigan, Kelli Stagich, and Missy Johnson of McCall Primary School, $10,000 for “Aspirations Station”
Tami McIntire, representing the McIntire Family of teachers, $10,300 for Smyrna Elementary School, Palmer Middle School, Campbell Middle School, and Lassiter High School for “Virtual Mentors”
Rachel Mudgett, Floyd Middle School, $10,000 for “iOrchestra: The Classroom of the Future”
Jamie Richardson, Cooper Middle School, $10,200 for “Power in the Palm of Their Hands”
Ben Smalley, Pebblebrook High School, $6,800 for “Virtually Anything is Possible”
The Cobb Tank event was filmed live and had its broadcast debut on December 4 on COBB edTV. Viewers may watch the show on the Cobb County School District’s YouTube channel or on COBB edTV.
by Lee Hill, CCSD Communications Department
- See more at: http://cobbcast.cobbk12.org/?p=13008#sthash.zEMM4s9W.dpuf
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Local soccer teams look to gain valuable experience
By Nick Kelly Columbia Daily Tribune
Mar 27, 2018 at 8:19 PM Mar 27, 2018 at 11:38 PM
The Tolton Trailblazers girls soccer team isn't running from challenges this season. Far from it.
After Sacred Heart failed to field a team this season, Tolton needed to find an opponent to fill an open slot on its schedule.
So the Trailblazers scheduled Pleasant Hill.
This is the same Pleasant Hill that defeated Tolton 9-0 in the sectional round of the MSHSAA Class 2 tournament last May.
For Trailblazers coach Chuck Register, the logic of scheduling Pleasant Hill was simple.
“We will probably meet them again (in the postseason) this year,” Register said. “We won’t kind of be blinded by what we see again.”
Adding Pleasant Hill to the schedule is just one step Tolton has taken in hopes of providing greater challenges during the regular season so that the postseason becomes less daunting.
Tolton, which will look to win its fourth district title, also scheduled Rock Bridge this year. Other big schools it will face this season include Jefferson City, Hickman and Battle.
Thirty-three girls went out for soccer this year, Register said. It’s the most the Trailblazers have ever had. Eight seniors, six juniors, one sophomore and six freshmen make up the varsity squad.
Register said the Trailblazers’ strength this season will likely be defense. Hana Dietz will play in net for the fourth consecutive season.
Still, many questions remain for Tolton early in the season.
“We are just trying to make an identity for ourselves and who is going to be the person we go to and how we are going to put our game together to beat some of the tougher teams we play,” Register said.
For Battle, it’s not a matter of to whom they will turn, but whether those individuals can play at full speed when the Spartans need them.
Spartans coach Jack Rubenstein expects Battle’s lack of depth to pose the greatest challenge this season. He said that his squad will need to be in top shape to win the district this year.
“A lot of our subs are still learning and developing as players,” Rubenstein said. “They just aren’t as seasoned as you might see off the bench at other schools.”
The Spartans aren’t dismissing the possibility of these reserves contributing, though. The coaching staff plans to continue to develop these players so that they can call on them to join long-term starters later in the season.
Some of those long-term starters include a back line with two seniors and a junior who have played there for two seasons. Rubenstein considers that to be Batte’s strong point. That back line is paired with freshman goaltender Cassidy Schulte, who Rubenstein said has a lot of potential.
“We are excited to have her back there,” he said. “She is performing at a high level.”
Rubenstein also is optimistic about the scoring firepower on the other end of the field. Sophomore Maddy Schrader will likely lead that charge after scoring 26 goals and 11 assists as a freshman.
“She is as a strong as an ox up there for us,” Rubenstein said.
Schrader and Shelby Atherton will provide a one-two punch that Rubinstein expects to pose matchup problems for opponents.
Contributions will likely come from all ages. There are four girls from each age group.
Rock Bridge doesn’t have an even spread like Battle, but the Bruins aren’t far behind. Six seniors, seven juniors, eight sophomores and two freshmen make up the varsity squad.
Rock Bridge coach Gary Drewing said this is the deepest team he’s had in his five years as coach.
“We have a lot of people contending for spots,” he said. “I think that brings consistency out in practice.”
Of those six seniors, five have played at the varsity level for four years.
Four defenders are seniors, including Megan Floyd and Allison Floyd, who will play for Columbia College.
“The experience, the character and competitive nature of the four backs plus the people we pair with them is the strength of the team,” Drewing said.
As to who will play behind them in net is to be determined. Drewing said Abby Green, Eryn Puett and Morgan Boussad have all made compelling cases to start. All three have rotated early in the season.
On the offensive end, the Bruins don’t have any players committed to play collegiate soccer. They do, however, have two players committed to play basketball at the next level: Katey Klucking (Truman State) and Payton McCallister (Southern Illinois University).
Both scored twice in a 7-0 victory over Ozark on March 20. Caroline Cole also scored twice in that game.
Rock Bridge comes off a season in which it lost to Lee Summit West in the quarterfinals of the MSHSAA Class 4 tournament. It was an experienced team then and an even more experienced team now.
Drewing knows experience does not automatically equate to success, though.
“It is all in the demeanor of how much we want to be there and how bad we want it,” Drewing said.
Although experience won’t win you games, it certainly helps. Just ask Hickman coach Willem Ross.
There was a game last spring in which he had to start 10 freshmen thanks to injuries and issues with grades.
The lineup wasn’t that young every game, but it wasn’t far off.
Ross expects that to change this season.
“They’re used to playing with each other now,” Ross said. “I think we are already seeing it has paid a lot of dividends this year for us.”
That large freshman class now makes up a class of nine sophomores on the varsity squad. They are paired with six seniors and three juniors.
One of those sophomores is midfielder Hannah Larson, who has made an oral commitment to Saint Louis.
“She will be our engine or spark plug or whatever sorts metaphor you want to use in the middle there,” Ross said.
Senior defenseman Karlee Shettlesworth is the other Kewpie who has committed to play at the next level. She will play for Evangel University in Springfield.
Overall, Ross said Hickman needs to work on technical ability. No longer worried about experience, Ross has turned his attention to physical and technical aspects of the game.
“We’re going to have a lot of goal-scoring opportunities, but whether we finish those is always a different story,” Ross said.
nkelly@columbiatribune.com
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Imi Lo: Psychotherapist, Art Therapist, Coach (MMH, FRSA, UKCP, AthR)
www.eggshelltransformations.com
Hi! I am Imi,
I have spent my professional life of over a decade in pursuit of answers to one question: ‘How to best serve people who are emotionally intense?’
Though my background is in clinical psychotherapy and art therapy, my work has evolved throughout the years beyond the conventional medical model. The way I work with you is holistic, combining East and Western philosophies with other psychological and spiritual healing modalities. We may address the past, the pain of alienation and not fitting in, the childhood wounds, emotional triggers, and the body-mind disconnection. But this work is not just about healing, but also thriving. Thus, we will talk about your hopes and dreams, your inner strengths, and most importantly how to harness your creative potential so you can feel fully alive.
My work was recognised by the Endeavour Award, an international scholarship presented by the Australian Government. In 2018, I was granted the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) for my commitment and contributions to social change. With all the intense souls on my path in mind, I wrote the book Emotional Intensity and Sensitivity (Hodder & Stoughton).
More about my professional background:
For more than a decade, I specialised in working with people diagnosed with personality disorders, particularly Borderline Personality Disorder within the mental health system. My aspiration emerged in 2006, when I witnessed people who are unable to manage their emotions being misunderstood, marginalised or described as having ‘personality defects’. Hearing pejorative labels such as ‘manipulative’ or ‘attention seeking’, and seeing people who do not fit neatly into diagnostic criteria slip through the cracks of the system deeply frustrated me. My experience in the public health system has inspired me to break away to forge a different path, where I hope to initiate a paradigm shift, away from the model of pathologies.
I started my career as a clinical Social Worker and later received accreditations as a Clinical Psychotherapist, Art Therapist, Schema Therapist (ISST), Mentalisation-based Therapy Advance Practitioner (BPC), and Mindfulness Teacher (in MBSR, MBCT). After gaining the Master of Mental Health (School of Medicine, University of Queensland) in Australia, I wanted to broaden my knowledge and skills through exploring various therapeutic avenues, such as Schema Therapy, EMDR, Sandtray and Symbol Work, holistic health coaching, personality typologies like the Enneagram, MBTI, and mindfulness-based therapies.
Instead of taking suggestions straight from these theories, I weed out the jargons and or overly complicated elements, to include only what I know to be effective and resonate best with you. After all, underneath all the techniques, it is our relationship and the genuine feelings between us that makes therapy work. I cannot hide behind theories and you will know it if I do.
My experience is grounded within various roles in the mental health sector. I was a practitioner of an NHS Community Mental Health Teams, a Personality Disorder Specialist Team, a mental health centre for Mind, and the Samaritans Suicide Crisis Intervention Centre. I have also sat on the Board of Directors for Emergence, a personality disorder service-user led organisation. I also founded Eggshell Collective, a BPD support group that had run successfully in Central London for three years.
Leaving my job in the NHS and ending the academic path to pursue my passion have allowed me to work in a holistic, creative and authentic way. Every day, I devote all my enthusiasm and resources to Eggshell Transformations. I am grateful that I get to sit alongside many creative and intelligent individuals, fulfilling my mission to liberate them from the bind of negative patterns, and to live full and authentic lives.
I value clarity and openness, and I am a great believer in sharing knowledge with you, as well as actively engaging with your existential and day-to-day questions.
I look forward to being with you!
I work with people on issues related to the experience of feeling and living intensely, especially the pain of being told – spoken and unspoken – that you are ‘too much’—‘too intense’, ‘too sensitive’, ‘too emotional’.
More specifically, these are some of the challenges commonly faced by emotionally intense individuals:
Extreme and unpredictable mood swings, feeling like you are always on the verge of losing control.
Sensitivity to criticism and rejection, over-reacting in some situations, carrying internalised shame.
Perfectionism, chronically restlessness, overdrive, unable to relax or to take in pleasure.
Patterns of impulsive and self- sabotaging behaviours that are not aligned with who you want to be.
Feeling oppressed by the dominant culture, not able to have a voice or a place in the world.
Not fitting into mainstream society or cultural values, being or feeling isolated and alienated.
Being drawn to the same type of partner/ relationship over and over, even when your needs are not met.
Taking on other people's emotions; Becoming overly responsible for things that happen between you.
Unable to say no, feeling guilty even when you have done nothing wrong.
The fear of 'coming out' with your intensity, with the fear of being annihilated if you ‘stick your head out.’
Feeling numb and empty most of the time, except when the emotions erupt suddenly and uncontrollably.
Existential guilt and despair, feeling hopeless and powerless in the face of uncertainties in life.
Not able to trust anyone, feeling like you have to control everything.
Losing touch with your intuition, and disconnected from spirituality.
Writer/ Artist's block; Feeling stuck and unable to reach your full potential.
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY TRAITS
Despite being referred to as a ‘personality disorder’, BPD is not a personality defect. It simply reflects a degree of unmet childhood needs, which now affects your way of being in the world. The condition is often misunderstood and heavily and stigmatised. For one, the myth that BPD is ‘untreatable’ is an old, inaccurate and very dangerous myth within the mental health industry. In fact, mounting evidence is suggesting the opposite is true.
Some of the traits of BPD are:
Fearing abandonment and rejection
Having series of intense and unstable relationships
Not having a strong sense of self-identity, not knowing 'Who I am'
Impulsive behaviours that are self-damaging e.g. spending, drug use, sex, reckless driving, binge eating
Recurrent suicidal thoughts and behaviour
Severe mood swings
Chronic feelings of emptiness
Sudden and uncontrollable rage
Feeling dissociated from reality during times of stress
Professional and Academic Awards
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), 2018 - Royal Society of Arts, London
Endeavour Award (International), 2010 – Australian Government
Dean’s Commendation for High Achievements- University of Queensland, 2011
Dean’s List Recipient 2009, School of Social Work, CUHK
HSBC Social Science Scholarship, 2008, 2009
Social Work Departmental Prize, CUHK, 2008, 2009
Class Scholarship, CUHK, 2008, 2009
Master of Mental Health- School of Medicine, University of Queensland, AU
Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology (MBPsS) - University of Derby, UK
Postgraduate Certificate in Psychological Studies- Middlesex University, UK
BSc. in Social Work (Hons) - Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
Fine Art Program- Yale University, US
Psychotherapy Accreditations and Training
Certified Schema Therapist for Personality Disorders
Mentalisation-based Therapy Practitioner (Advanced) for Borderline Personality Disorder
Clinical Supervisor, Certificate in Psychotherapy Clinical Supervision
Accredited Clinical Psychotherapist; Advanced Diploma in Contemporary Psychotherapy (UKCP)
Registered Creative Arts Therapist (AThR);The Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) for Trauma
Mentalisation-based Art Therapy; British Association for Art Therapists, UK
Psychosynthesis (A Psyho-spiritual model to therapy) Foundation
LGBT Counselling and Trans(gender) Awareness Training
Applying Enneagram in Coaching and Counselling
Neuro- linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Practitioner
Gottman Couples Therapy Level 1 Training: Bridging the Couple Chasm
Qualifications in Holistic Health
I am enthusiastic about combining ancient body-mind wisdom with modern psychology in my work.
My qualification in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (MBCT) was gained in Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, UK, and my Practicum in Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is recognized by the University of Massachusetts Medical School. As a mindfulness teacher, I have delivered mindfulness training programs in special education units, mental health charities such as Mind and in the local communities.
Before becoming a therapist, I was a Yoga Teacher (RYT 200), and was trained in various holistic healing modalities such as Reiki, aromatherapy, and energy work. I am also an Enneagram counsellor and trainer, it is a powerful and dynamic system that is close to my heart.
Interviews and Media Consultations
The Daily Mail, UK: An Interview about the book Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity, Feb 2018
Live Interview on Talk Radio Europe (Spain), about the value of sensitivity in today's world. March 2018
Psychologies UK: Sensitivity is my Superpower, Nov 2017
The Telegraph UK on Borderline Personality Disorder, Feb 2015
Marie Claire UK: 'How to Toughen Up', Issue March 2016
Happiful Magazine: Emptiness and Borderline Personality Disorder, April 2017
The Ambient: on smart light and how colour affects our mood, Feb 2018
Refinery29: How Do You Know Which Therapy Is Best For You?, Jan 2017
The Debrief Magazine: The realities of dating when you are struggling with your mental health, May 2016
Foreword for the Art for Mindfulness Colouring book series, Harper Collins 2016.
MX Brisbane, AU: Interview as an artist/ art therapist, 23rd November, 2010
City Brisbane, AU: Press Release for the exhibition at Liveingallery, 25 November, 2010
4 ZZZ Radio, AU: Radio Interview, aired on 12 June 2011
Teaching and Speaking
I have delivered lectures and workshops for trainee therapists seeking accreditation as a faculty member of the Beeleaf Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy, an accrediting authority of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). Some of the topics I have covered include Human Development, Psychopathology, Attachment theories, Personality Disorders and Suicide crisis management I also supervise therapists in training as a clinical supervisor and mentor. With students’ consent, the following are testimonials for the workshops I have delivered:
Imi has an incredible wealth of knowledge and talent in her subject areas, and she shared it with us in a totally accessible way that felt inclusive & respectful at all times. Her humility compassion & warmth blended with her expertise and professionalism throughout. It was a thoroughly enjoyable & informative learning experience...
— Lesley C., Lead family support worker at London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Insightful, brilliantly delivered, flowing with compassion and understanding, giving us time to digest this complex area of therapy. Thank you so much Imi.
— Ed Luttrll, Director & Principal Coach at BlueTouchPaper Consulting
Specialist Psychotherapist – Personality Disorder Team, NHS
Trainer and Module Leader - Beeleaf Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy (UKCP)
Non-Executive Director- Emergence Plus
Clinical Practitioner, Care Coordinator- Personality Disorder Community Team, NHS
Founder of Eggshell Collective, London BPD Sharing Group
Suicide Counsellor – Samaritans Suicide Crisis Intervention Centre, HK
Honorary Psychotherapist- London Friend, UK
Wellbeing Centre Officer– Mind, Richmond Royal Hospital, UK
Mental Health Mentor- Randstad Student Support, UK
Eating Disorder Inpatient Ward – NHS
Art Therapist- Tennyson Special School, Australia
Counselling Practitioner- Centacare Family Services, Australia
Taipei Psychiatric Hospital Drug & Alcohol Unit, Taiwan
Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
The Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association (ANZACATA)
The Community for Contemporary Psychotherapy (CCP)
The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST)
EMDR Association UK & Ireland
The British Psychological Society (BPS)
Australia Global Alumni
British Mensa
Past Memberships
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
The Australian and New Zealand Arts Therapy Association (ANZATA)
Australia Endeavour Awards Alumni Network
British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT)
Hong Kong Social Workers Registration Board
Registered / Accredited
I am passionate about dispelling destructive myths and stigma about borderline personality disorder (BPD), and provide evidence-based treatment for related issues such as fear of abandonment, moods swings, anger outbursts, impulsive and compulsive actions, chronic anxiety, suicidal thoughts and urges to self-harm.
My goal is to create deep and lasting shifts that dispel your difficulties at their roots. On top of a mere intellectual shift, we aim for changes on a visceral and emotional level.
Because true healing and come from lasting changes in physical, emotional and behavioural levels, the work should be integrative and holistic in nature. Instead of having a fixed, rigid modal, it is important to find out the unique way of working that best resonate with you.
Art therapy/Art psychotherapy
Psychodynamic therapy
Psychosynthesis
Schema Therapy
Transpersonal psychology
WHAT DO YOU OFFER?
I offer online consultation, therapy, coaching, and supervision.
FOR HOW LONG?
The duration very much depends on what you are after. Some people just want one or a few consultations for specific issues, others sign up for a course of 8-10 session coaching, or longer-term therapy.
I understand your desire to get better fast. You may have read online or in books that there is no 'quick fix' for the particular issue you face. This may be true, but it is entirely possible to attain deep insights or experience a rapid shift in a short period of time. These shifts can then be consolidated via other means, such as less-frequent follow-up sessions, books, email support from me, or being around the right people in your life. There is much value in ongoing support, but in contrast to some other models of long-term therapy, our goal here is to effectively equip you with the needed insights and capacity, so you can be free to live a full life as soon as possible.
I encourage you to trust your instinct and the ability to discern. If you decide half-way through that it doesn't work for you, you have the full right to withdraw and I will respect your decision.
The meetings are GBP 160 per session.
After booking the first session, you will receive an email confirmation with all the logistical details. You will also be directed to complete an Online Assessment. This initial step is optional, but it may help us to have a deeper understanding of your unique needs and challenges, and allow us to focus in our work together.
Using a credit or debit card, you can book your session with a secure online process.
With less than 24-hour notice, my cancellation policy is to collect the agreed amount of payment. The same rule applies to me, where if for any reason I were to miss a session, your next session will be free-of-charge.
HOW FREQUENTLY DO WE MEET?
I do not have a fixed rule about the frequency of our meetings.
The old gold standard of having weekly (or more frequent) session is arbitrary and does not reflect authentic and unique individual needs. Yes, sometimes having some regularity can help us settle into an emotional rhythm. However, in our fast-moving modern world where you might already feel stretched in multiple directions with financial, life and work demands, a weekly set-time schedule may seem undoable.
Indeed, entering therapy is not a light undertaking- financially, emotionally, and pragmatically. At the same time, nothing is more important than investing in yourself and building a solid foundation for your relationship and creative endeavours in life.
The work happens not just within the hour; in fact, the real work begins in your real life. If we were to meet less frequently, I might offer certain ‘reflection prompts,' specific homework or exercises, so that the work continues in-between sessions.
I trust you to find your own pace and would try my best to work with you to find a balance between cost, your readiness, and our progress.
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MEETING ONLINE
Meeting online is no longer a second-best solution. With its own merits, it is something that is different to, but not inferior to face-to-face therapy. I work with clients from around the world so actually, half of my sessions are conducted via Skype.
Here are some of my thoughts and experience with meeting online:
Research has found that Skype therapy can be as effective as face-to-face. In fact, there are times when online therapy can bring out a level of depth and progress that in-person session cannot. In a nutshell:
Have you ever felt that an hour of traveling to your therapist’s office through the tube, settling to the new environment and checking in, you are no longer able to connect with the emotional materials that most need to surface? These may be the times where you feel frustratingly numb and empty, and unable to connect. This is understandable, especially if disconnecting have been part of your way of protecting yourself from feeling emotionally vulnerable. Many people have found having therapy from home allow them to feel safer, more at ease and in control. Being in the comfort of your own home can enable you to feel more at ease and in control, so you can open up at your readiness.
Meeting online can bring out a level of depth and progress that in-person session cannot. Having someone with you in the here-and-now of your battles can alleviate the loneliness that many sensitive and intense individuals have carried all their lives.
By meeting you in your private space, I am meeting you in your world, in real time. This is especially useful if you struggle with bouts of intense emotional storms, periods of depression, and feel that emotional triggers surround you. Meeting online would give us more opportunities to ‘strike while the iron is hot’ in the space where your day-to-day struggles occur. I also get to have a more vivid sense of your difficulties, to help you bring the new learnings or insights into your actual life.
Most intense and gifted people are resource-rich but time-poor. Perhaps your competence attracts expectations, you have high standards for whatever you do, and your multiple passions tug you in a million directions. You may already be confronted with the feeling that there is never enough time to do all that you want to do, or have to do. If you were already battling with a sense restlessness and urgency, overwhelming responsibilities from inside and out, travelling stress is the last thing you need. Meeting online gives you the benefit of flexibility- so you can use your time and money in ways that you want to, rather than being limited by the public transport system or traffic.
Throughout the years, I have been able to develop deep emotional bonds, spiritual friendships, and go on incredibly moving journeys with many intense and sensitive souls via Skype, even when we have never met in person. Everyone is different, I personally have a lot of good experience with meeting online.
London, SW19
Online counselling: Yes
Telephone counselling: No
Supervision & training
Supervision available
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Video: Snoop Dogg “I Wanna Thank Me”
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Snoop Dogg reflects on his illustrious career with I Wanna Thank Me. On the record produced by Battlecat, the "west coast king" celebrates his accomplishments.
"Who did it like me? / Who want the dice, nigga, bet it," Snoop raps on the feel-good track. "Twenty-plus years, I ain’t even gotta sell it.”
"I Wanna Thank Me" serves as the title track to Snoop's upcoming album due out later this year.
Watch the video above and get the track here.
Video: Snoop Dogg “I Wanna Thank Me” Reviewed by King Nel on 12:25:00 PM Rating: 5
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Indian A women team to tour Australia for limited-overs series in December
India women's A team will embark on their maiden tour of Australia in December this year for a limited-overs series.
By Press Trust of India
| Updated : May 17, 2019 3:01 PM IST
The series is a part of an agreement between CA and BCCI (AFP Photo)
India women’s A team will embark on their maiden tour of Australia in December this year for a limited-overs series, Cricket Australia confirmed on Friday.
The series is a part of an agreement between CA and BCCI to host annual A series between the two nations.
The first such series was held in October last year, when Australia A toured India for an ODI and T20 series.
During the tour, India A will play three ODIs and as many T20 matches in Brisbane and Gold Coast respectively starting December 12.
The three ODIs between India ‘A’ and Australia ‘A’ will be played in Brisbane on December 12, 14 and 16 while the T20 matches will be hosted by Gold Coast December 19, 21 and 23.
“Hosting the first A tour for our female cricketers is another important step in the evolution of the National Talent Pathway,” Australia’s Female High Performance Manager Shawn Flegler said in a statement.
“A lot of work has gone into the women’s pathway and we’ve already seen numerous players come through the system and show they are capable to taking the next step to international level.
“We now have annual tours for our Australia Under 19 team, the Women’s National Performance Squad is in its third year and now being able to schedule regular Australia A tours, both at home and away is the icing on the cake.”
First Published on May 17, 2019 3:01 PM IST
Last updated on May 17, 2019 3:01 PM IST
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Home Living Back to Fitness: Choose to Endure
Back to Fitness: Choose to Endure
John Andersen DVM
If you read this column enough, you’ll know that I love ultrarunning (running/races longer than a marathon). Ultra-running is a sport that favors those who endure. From Merriam-Webster:
Endure: To remain firm under suffering or misfortune without yielding. To undergo, especially without giving in. To regard with acceptance or tolerance. To continue in the same state.
When we think of endurance relative to sports and fitness, we often think of endurance athletes as people who are genetically different than other people. The reason I love ultrarunning as sport so much is that I get to see first-hand that enduring is a choice. To endure means not giving up when things are hard. To endure means being smart, problem solving, and remaining calm. To endure means putting in the work. I have never once met an ultrarunner who can endure without this ethos. Talented runners often come and go because they choose not to endure.
Meanwhile, the sport is composed mostly of very regular people who have simply chosen to endure. People who have decided they want to start running at the age of 60. People who have been incredibly patient in the face of injuries or misfortune. And people who are just too stubborn to give up. That is the simple beauty of endurance sport—it is available to anyone. It is a choice. Not an easy choice, but a rewarding one.
I was inspired to write about this as I watched the 2018 version of the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run take place June 23. This is a very difficult 100-mile trail race that starts in Squaw Valley near Lake Tahoe, California, runs up and through the Sierra Nevada mountains, and then through scorching hot canyons and valleys until finally ending in the town of Auburn. Participants have a 30-hour time limit to complete the race, which averages out to just over 19 minute-miles for 100 miles. Most participants run a lot, but also “power hike” a lot. They take short breaks, they eat, they drink, and mostly, they endure the day and the course. This year’s winner set a new course record in 14 hours and 30 minutes. That’s an 8:40 minute/mile pace for 100 mountain miles with 18,000 feet of elevation gain.
As incredible the winners are, the folks who don’t have much talent but have chosen to do the things that it takes to endure are just as amazing. This year was particularly impressive to me (and relevant to this Back to Fitness column) because there were some amazing performances in the older age groups.
Nick Bassett of Cheyenne, Wyoming, 73 years old, became the oldest person ever to finish this storied race as he finished 100 tough, hot, mountain miles in 29 hours and 9 minutes! He had 51 minutes to spare before the race’s 30-hour cutoff. Let that sink in. Mr. Bassett is 73 years old! Let’s say you’re 43 and starting to feel “old.” Well, good news! You’ve got 30 years to train and be like Nick Bassett! (But you really need to start now.)
“Aw, come on, he’s probably just some elite runner for whom this stuff just comes easy to!” you might say. Well, perhaps that is true. Nick Bassett ran his first Western States 100 race 34 years ago. He was obviously in shape when he was 39 years old. However, I can guarantee you this: to keep active during these last 34 years, as he aged, as his life became busy and complex, and as life events were thrown at him, he chose daily to endure. He chose to put in the work and keep fitness a priority and there is no doubt that this became more challenging with age. The reward? I bet Mr. Bassett is mighty pleased about the view he had of Lake Tahoe and the Granite Chief Wilderness as he climbed through the Sierra Nevadas last weekend at the age of 73.
How about 60-year-old Diana Fitzpatrick? Diana Fitzpatrick smashed the women’s 60-69 age group record at Western States by finishing in 23 hours and 52 minutes. I ran Western States last year and finished in 23 hours and 11 minutes (as a 41-year old).
Diana first started running these crazy ultramarathons 15 years ago, when she was 45. What drove her to want to start running these long distances at 45 years of age? I don’t know, I don’t know her. I am confident, however, that at the age of 45 she had a goal, created a plan to get there, and she endured. I am also confident that it was difficult. Last, I am confident that the past 15 years that led her to her incredible performance at this year’s Western States has been full of endless decisions—choose to endure, or choose to quit. And more often than not, she chose to endure.
I hear and see much too often people giving up on their health and fitness because of “age” or getting older. Yes, not exercising is the easier road. Yes, we are so much busier now than when we were younger. And yes, our bodies require more care and a bit more caution than when we were younger. But do not limit yourselves because of age! Thank goodness for Nick Bassett and Diana Fitzpatrick, and the thousands of people just like them who give us no excuses.
Let’s go back to that Merriam-Webster definition:
Endure – to remain firm under suffering or misfortune without yielding.
Sounds like a good life motto.
Choose to endure.
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For Friends School students, graves reveal Quakers' influence is all around them
Wilmington Friends School students visited the city's meeting house Wednesday and learned names of local streets and parks are written there in stone.
For Friends School students, graves reveal Quakers' influence is all around them Wilmington Friends School students visited the city's meeting house Wednesday and learned names of local streets and parks are written there in stone. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2019/05/08/friends-school-students-visit-early-wilmington-icons-wednesday/1141543001/
Adam Duvernay, Delaware News Journal Published 3:06 p.m. ET May 8, 2019
A field trip to the Friends Meeting House Wednesday gave students a look at the "who" behind many local landmarks they've known all their lives. Adam Duvernay, The News Journal
Brandon Williams is new to the Wilmington Friends School, but on Wednesday it dawned on him that his educators' roots have been before his eyes all along.
Williams and his sophomore classmates were on an annual field trip to the Wilmington Friends Meetinghouse on Fourth and West streets, bouncing from gravestone to gravestone in search of names they knew from their city's street signs.
"That's someone's name. That's someone's history. That's someone's life," he said.
The old Meetinghouse headstones were simple, a lesson their Quakerism teacher said was critical to understanding the historic figures underneath. Their faith shunned ostentation, she said, but simply-lived lives didn't make those people important.
"When I read off the names of some of the people that are buried here you'll recognize them," said Mary Woodward, their teacher. "Canby. Ferris. Tatnall. Shipley. Dickinson. Richardson. Mendenhall. Bancroft. There are streets named after these people, parks named after these people. They were early Quakers who helped develop this area."
Before they explored the graveyard, the students got a tour of the meeting house and an education on its history: from the membership of John Dickinson, "Penman of the Revolution," to the burial of Underground Railroad's local linchpin, Thomas Garrett.
Sophomores from the Wilmington Friend's School visited the meeting house in the city's Quaker Hill School Wednesday to learn about the historical connection between the people buried there and the areas in which they live. (Photo: Adam Duvernay/ The News Journal)
"We hear a bunch of stories about these really important people who've done a lot of things and changes a lot of lives," said 16-year-old Manon Magnan. "Seeing the graves just makes it real. This is an actual thing that happened and it wasn't just some story."
The meeting house, sometimes called the heart of the Quaker Hill district, is the third in that area. The original was built in 1739, a year after William Shipley led the settlement of the hill. Quakers played a significant role in smuggling freed slaves from the South.
The original Wilmington Friends School also was there.
Only one of Woodward's students there Wednesday is a Quaker herself, but the lessons of local history aren't reserved just for the groups that participated in them so long ago.
"It just has a really rich history and culture," said student Sarah Stovicek.
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On November 17th, 2016 these islands were declared by UNESCO as Natural Heritage of Humanity. On November 25th, 2017 this place got declared as Mexico's National Park, turning it into the biggest National Marine Park in the world.
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Traffic easing on M1 between Junction 27 and 28 after 45 minute delays
Traffic on the M1
Jessica Dallison
Delays on the M1 between Junction 27 and 28 have reduced to 20 minutes after there was 45 minute delays.
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The Private Enemy
Nicola L. C. Talbot
Crime / speculative fiction
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In the Fenland area of Norfolk, the last Earl of Wynherne is found dead on the study floor of his Gothic mansion. His daughter is missing, having run off after stabbing the seemingly respectable Mr Allerton in the leg. Detective Inspector Charles Hadley and his partner Detective Sergeant Sarah Fenning are called in to investigate, but in this retro world of gangsters and corrupt city police a wrong move could destroy the fragile alliances and trigger war after thirty years of uneasy peace.
This novel is set in a future where the Anti-Technology League collide with demands to restore former levels of technology, rival gangsters battle for dominance, and government agencies are determined to reinforce their message that the world is united in peace and prosperity — by any means necessary. Into this mix comes the last of the Coulgranes of Wynherne, hell-bent on revenge.
The first edition paperback (ISBN 978-1-909440-05-0, 11pt font on cream paper, width 140mm, height 216mm, spine 32mm, published 30th September 2014) is now out of print. The second edition has a smaller font (10pt), smaller page size and is more compact. This has brought the print cost down, which in turn has brought down the retail price from £12 to £8.99.
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The book launch will be at Jarrold Department Store, Norwich on 30th October 2014, from 6pm (store closes at 7pm). Tickets are free and can be requested through Jarrold's. Ordering a ticket helps to give an estimate of expected numbers.
You can reserve copies of the book to collect on the day in case there's a sell-out before you arrive. To reserve copies, send me a message via the contact form specifying how many copies you want to reserve and what name to reserve them under. The location (view map) is a short walk from the Castle Meadow bus stops. Norwich is on the Abellio Greater Anglia intercity train service from London Liverpool Street, and also on the East Midlands Line from Liverpool Lime Street. (Take care not to confuse those two stations as they are over 200 miles apart!) The Norwich International Airport has direct flights from Amsterdam, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and various other locations. Harwich International Port has ferry services to and from the Hook of Holland and North Europe. Train travel from the Harwich International Rail Station to Norwich requires a change at Manningtree.
Norwich is England's first UNESCO City of Literature. There are plenty of interesting things to see while your visiting Norwich, such as The Forum, the Norwich Playhouse, the John Jarrold Printing Museum, the Sainsbury's Centre for Visual Arts, the Norwich Arts Centre, or have a look at the Norfolk Tourist Information website for other ideas.
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Democracy worth risk, ex-leader says
Oct 20, 2007 at 12:01 AM Nov 2, 2007 at 7:00 PM
KARACHI, Pakistan -- Benazir Bhutto blamed al-Qaida and Taliban militants yesterday for the assassination attempt against her that killed at least 136 people.
She also declared that she would risk her life to restore democracy in Pakistan and prevent an extremist takeover.
The former premier presented a long list of foes who would like to see her dead -- including loyalists of a previous military regime that executed her politician father and Islamic hard-liners bent on stopping a female leader from modernizing Pakistan.
"We believe democracy alone can save Pakistan from disintegration and a militant takeover," Bhutto said at a news conference less than 24 hours after bombs exploded near a truck carrying her in a procession marking her return from eight years of self-imposed exile.
"We are prepared to risk our lives, and we are prepared to risk our liberty, but we are not prepared to surrender our great nation to the militants," the pro-Western leader added.
Bhutto, who came home to lead her party in January parliamentary elections, said she had been warned before returning that Taliban and al-Qaida suicide squads would try to kill her, saying a "brotherly" nation provided her with a list of telephone numbers of suicide squads.
She said she warned of that threat in a letter Tuesday to Pakistan's current military leader, President Pervez Musharraf, with whom she has been negotiating a possible political alliance.
U.S. officials said the blasts showed the challenges as Pakistan tries to build a moderate Islamic democracy.
"It tells you a lot about the kinds of people we are battling against every day, that any flicker of democracy they want to find a way to beat it down and stamp it out," White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto said.
Pakistani officials, who said Thursday night's bloodshed would not disrupt election plans, said one suicide bomber staged the attack.
Authorities said the assault bore the hallmarks of a Taliban-allied warlord and the al-Qaida terror network -- with a man first throwing a grenade into the sea of people around Bhutto's convoy and then blowing himself up with a bomb wrapped in bolts and other pieces of metal.
Bhutto disputed the government's version of the attack, saying that there were two suicide bombers and that her security guards also had found a third man armed with a pistol and another with a suicide vest.
Bhutto's procession had been creeping toward the center of Karachi for 10 hours Thursday when a small explosion erupted near the front of her truck as well-wishers swarmed around it. A larger blast quickly followed, destroying two police vans.
Party officials said Bhutto, 54, had left the open top of the truck and gone inside to rest only a few minutes earlier. She was reviewing a speech with an adviser when they heard a loud bang.
"Something in my heart told me that this is not a firecracker, it is a suicide attack," she said. "You could see the light, and then as we waited for 30 seconds to 60 seconds, we heard the sound and saw the huge orange light and bodies spilling all over."
Rejecting criticism that she had endangered her supporters, Bhutto said it was the right decision to return to help her homeland and she was willing to pay the price.
The attack was one of the deadliest in Pakistan's history, with six hospitals reporting 136 dead and 250 wounded.
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Staging AHS Accredited Daylily Shows
The American Hemerocallis Society mission statement includes the desire to provide the general public with education and exposure to the daylily. To help with this mission, members and local daylily groups choose to host a daylily exhibition show and are proud to have their daylilies on display for the public’s viewing pleasure. An AHS Accredited Show may be given by a local group when they meet the requirements outlined in Chapter 5 of the AHS Exhibitions Handbook.
AHS Exhibitions Handbook
The AHS Exhibitions Handbook is the complete guide for conducting and judging Daylily Shows. It is the primary document for all AHS Judges and for those hosting Daylily Shows. It is also the basis for all judges training and materials for instructors. Below are links to PDF copies of this document for printing and for computer viewing. Links to PowerPoint & Video presentations that overview the changes made to the AHS Exhibitions Handbook are also located below. You can purchase a hard copy of this document in AMAZON and PDF version from the AHS Portal.
Overview of the 2018 AHS Exhibitions Handbook (PowerPoint)
Overview of the 2018 Exhibitions Handbook (Video)
Supporting documentation for staging a Daylily Exhibition and entering flowers into the show.
Exhibition Shows for Enthusiasts
Preparing To Exhibit Daylilies
Transporting Daylilies for Exhibitions
Grooming Clinic (Video)
The Hang-tag: A Simple guide for Exhibitors and Show Volunteers
2018 Scheduled AHS Accredited Shows
2017 AHS Accredited Show Results
How To Get AHS Shows Accredited
At least eight to ten weeks before the show date, the Application for AHS Show Accreditation forms must be requested from the AHS Exhibitions’ Chair or downloaded from the links below. The Application for AHS Show Accreditation is to be completed and returned to the AHS Exhibitions’ Chair at least six weeks prior to the show date. A tentative schedule must also be sent at this time.
A final show report must be sent to the AHS Exhibitions’ Chair within two weeks after the show. A show is NOT fully accredited until the Final Report and all required judges’ ballots, tabulations, and forms have been received and until tabulations have been verified by the AHS Exhibitions’ Chair or the Exhibitions Committee.
All documents that a potential show chair will need in order to apply for AHS show accreditation is shown below. All forms are provided as .pdf (Personal Document Format) files and will require Adobe® Acrobat Reader™ for viewing and printing. Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded FREE from the Adobe Web site.
AHS Letter To Show Chairs (updated 5/18/2018)
Application for Show Accreditation (updated 2/10/2018)
Request for Insurance Certificate (updated 2/10/2018)
Classification at AHS Shows Information (updated 5/18/2018)
The Sample Show Schedule in MS-Word.doc format (updated 4/8/2018)
Seedling Distinction Scoring Worksheet (updated 4/8/2018)
AHS 2-D Logo Sheet (updated 2/10/2018)
Request for AHS Membership Brochures (Form available here April 15, 2018)
AHS Final Show Report (updated 2/10/2018)
For printed copies of the above documents, electronic Microsoft® Word™ documents, additional questions, or additional information, please contact:
MaryAnn Duncan
2885 Graig Court
Lexington KY 40503-2805
flowershows@daylilies.org or madunc859@gmail.com
List of Registered Spiders, List of Registered Polymerous, List of Registered Unusual Forms, List of Zero-size Registered Cultivars and the List of Registered Doubles for Exhibit in AHS Exhibitions can now be found directly through the AHS Registrations database under Flower Show Lists --- Link HERE.
THE AHS BEST IN SHOW TABULATION PROGRAM
This is a computer program developed by Dr. Robert O. Stanton, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at St. John's University, and an AHS Senior Exhibition Judge. It may to be used to tabulate and determine the Best in Show at AHS accredited shows. The program is intended to eliminate the tedious, time consuming and error prone process of doing this tabulation by hand. If judges' scores are entered into the program as they are received, the Best in Show should be determined within seconds of the entry of the final set of scores. A new version (Version 3A) has replaced the older version to correct some errors when there was a tie.
The program has been tested extensively and thoroughly for accuracy. The print out of the tabulation report from this program will be accepted by the AHS Show Chairman as a part of the official report.
The program is developed for computers using Microsoft Windows software. It will work "as is" on many computers with this operating system. However, some versions of Windows may require additional files for the program to work. If one gets a message indicating that a required file is missing, visit the Microsoft site: www.support.microsoft.com. Click on Downloads and Updates, then Microsoft Download Center. In the Product/Technology box, find Visual Basic and click Go. Click on the Visual Basic Service Pack 5. In the next window, click Download and follow the instructions. Once the service pack is installed, the AHS Best in Show software should work. Feel free to contact Dr. Stanton if you have any questions. Note that it is essential to check the program beforehand and not wait until the day of the show.
Download the Tabulations Program
When you click on the above line you computer may say that it is unsafe to download this program. (It is safe) Go ahead and download. When the software is downloaded, select the Save to file option. To run the software after it is on your computer, hit the start button and select Run. Click Browse to locate the program on your computer. Once its name, AHSBestInShowVersion3A.exe is in the Open box, click OK to run the program. For additional help, Contact Dr. Stanton.
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Jeff Horn Is Ready for His American Debut
Australia's own Jeff Horn is set to defend his Welterweight Title against fellow undefeated star Terence Crawford.
Australia’s own Jeff Horn is set to make his American debut against fellow undefeated boxer Terence Crawford in Las Vegas on April 15, with the Queenslander’s WBO Welterweight Title on the line.
With 32 fights and 32 wins, ‘Bud’ Crawford has been dominating at Lightweight and Junior Welterweight for quite some time, but has never fought anyone in the Welterweight division until now. Despite Horn being the heaviest fighter that Crawford has ever faced, the Aussie has been given little chance by American boxing pundits.
However, those same pundits dismissed The Hornet’s chances against Manny Pacquiao in Brisbane last July, and that ended with Horn winning the world title in a closely fought decision after 12 gruelling rounds of boxing.
While that fight set the record for an attendance (51,000) at an Australia boxing match and will go down in history as one of the greatest moments in local boxing history, some American ‘experts’ such as Stephen A. Smith believe Pacquiao deserved to win the fight, and still refuse to acknowledge Horn’s title credentials.
Smith often refers to Jeff Horn as “Joe Horn”, and we’re not sure if this is deliberate or just plain ignorant. He has repeatedly stated that “Joe Horn” has no chance against Crawford, but this blatant show of disrespect might play into Horn’s favour, as he has appeared to thrive as the underdog throughout his entire career. The Australian Rocky?
The fight marks the first time that Horn as fought on American soil, and what better way to announce yourself as a genuine world champion than at the mecca of boxing - Las Vegas.
The entire sporting population of Australia will be in The Hornet’s corner, but this will be his toughest fight yet, with Floyd Mayweather declaring Crawford as the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. While enjoying retirement, Mayweather had many compliments for the undefeated Crawford, saying “He’s a motherfucker. And one thing I like about him is, he reminds me of a young Floyd Mayweather. He can fight his ass off. And that’s what I like about him.”
It is quite rare for Floyd to compare anyone to himself, so let’s see what he has to say about Jeff Horn if he can get the win in Las Vegas.
UPDATE: Terence Crawford has suffered a hand injury in training, postponing the fight until late May or early June.
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24 : 16 - Le Mans 24 Hours, 16 Wins with Porsche Porsche
Exemplaire d'occasion état neuf
Ref. produit : COTERIE002
enior engineer Norbert Singer has retired from Porsche's race
department at Weissach after a career spanning 37 years.
In that time he has been involved in all of Porsche's 16 wins at Le Mans,
starting with improved cooling of the gearbox on the 917 model that won in
1970, to being principal designer of the 956 and 962 Group C cars that
achieved six consecutive Le Mans victories in the 1980s, and finally, the
911 GT1-98 that won in 1998.
Now, he tells the story in his fascinating biography 24:16 - that is,
24-Hours of Le Mans, 16 Porsche victories, published by Coterie Press.
With the foreword by Derek Bell MBE, it features never-seen-before imagery
from the Porsche archives and provides a fascinating insight into the
development of the racing department at Weissach, and the background to
some key decisions.
Norbert Singer's legacy is the race development of the 911 model, starting
with a commission from Dr Ernst Fuhrmann in 1972, leading to the 911 RSR
that won the Daytona 24-hours and the Targa Florio in 1973, the Turbo model
which raced in 1974, the 935 which dominated endurance racing between 1976
and 1981, and of course today's new generation 911 GT3 Cup, RS and RSR
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by Steve Garrity on Feb. 9, 2016
Similar to 2015 this years draft class does not have a slam dunk top choice to go number one, and for some, it's weaknesses may outweigh it's strengths. However one definite strength it does possess is a deep crop of pitching both at the high school and college levels.
Following our look at the top five right-handed pitchers in the draft, below is Draftsite's list of the top five left handed pitchers in the 2016 class.
1) Jason Groome , Barnegat HS (NJ)
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Groome may have the smoothest delivery I've ever seen on a high school pitcher. Effortless is a word that comes to mind, . And at 6'6'' and 220 pounds there is still room for him to grow and add velocity to a fastball that can already touch 96 mph. He has a chance to possess three average or better pitches in the aforementioned fastball, a potentially above average curve that could serve as his out pitch, and a change up with good sink.Right now I think it would be tough for any team to pass him up at number one.
2) AJ Puk, Junior Year, University of Florida
Puk has all the tools to be a front of the rotation starter. He has the size at 6'7'' and 230 pounds. The arm;his fastball can touch 97 mph, along with a strong breaking ball, and change. However, for me, a few things are keeping him out of the number one slot. He is not consistent with his mechanics, and it hurts his control from time to time which hurts his ability to dominate on a consistent basis. Right now the results haven't always matched the tools. If he can put it all together this season he could challenge for the top overall slot.
3) Matt Krook, Junior Year, University of Oregon
Krook may sound familiar to a lot of people as he was taken 35th overall as a competitive balance pick just three years ago. After needing Tommy John surgery he began his comeback in the Cape Cod League last summer and showed he is back on track to becoming a top draft prospect. His fastball can hit 94 mph, and he pairs it with a dominating curve that will serve as a second plus pitch, and a change-up. Right now he'll need to continue to build up the arm strength and show teams he can hold his velocity deep into starts.
4) Braxton Garrett, Florence HS (Ala)
Garrett features one of, if not the best curve by a high school pitcher since 2012 first rounder Max Fried. His fastball won't blow anyone away sitting 88-92 but his deceptive left handed arm angle should allow it to be at least average, possibly a tick above. At 6'3'' and 190 pounds Garrett has room to grow and add some velocity to all his pitches. He is a solid athlete for a pitcher and has a relatively clean delivery.
5)Eric Lauer ,Junior Year, Kent State
Speaking of athletic pitchers, Lauer may be the best of the bunch as he was an all state wide receiver in OHIO as a high schooler. He stuck with baseball and it has paid off. Lauer features a fastball that has hit 94 mph with life and pairs it with a hard low 80's slider. He also has has a curve and a change up. Lauer has good size at 6'3'' and 205 pounds and has an extremely smooth and repeatable delivery that allows him to control of his pitches. After leading the Cape league in strikeouts, a strong season could launch him into middle of the first round conversation.
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Major takeaways and highlights from 29th pre-trial hearings of 9/11 suspects
Posted by Douglas Harpel | May 14, 2018 | Defense Systems News, DSJ @ GTMO - May 2018, DSJ in the Field, DSJ News Features | 0
In 2012, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four accused accomplices—Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarek bin ‘Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali (Ammar al-Baluchi), and Mustafa Ahmed al Hawsawi—were charged jointly by the U.S. Government with organizing, training and financing the nineteen hijackers who, on September 11, 2001, crashed planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing 2,976 people. They are charged specifically with committing conspiracy, attacking civilians, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, murder in violation of the law of war, hijacking or hazarding a vessel or aircraft, and terrorism.
Last week, the 29th Military Commission pre-trial hearings at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in southeast Cuba were devoted to hearing a raft of legal motions related to a handful of main issues. U.S. Army Colonel and Judge James L. Pohl—largely in open session, but also in closed/classified sessions—presided over deliberations asking questions of both the defense counsel and prosecutors to inform his pending rulings on each of the motions centered around these key issues:
(1) Information on Enhanced Interrogation: Defense counsel argued (in motion AE558) that, unless the defense is granted greater access to additional information about CIA enhanced interrogation/torture of their clients, including the locations of international black sites, information about the buildings themselves, and interrogator notes and reports, they will be unable to mount a proper defense of their clients. The prosecution countered that providing additional highly classified information would threaten the national security and the safety of those CIA employees and related personnel.
(2) Interview Restrictions on Former CIA Officials: Defense counsel argued (in motion AE524) against interview restrictions that prohibit the defense counsel from interviewing current or former members of the CIA and people who know them. The defense claimed the restrictions have dramatically tightened some six or seven times in the nine months. The prosecution countered that they have provided the defense with information for about 25 officials and other people of interest on behalf of the defense via “Unique Functional Identifiers,” or pseudonyms, but that these officials have declined the opportunity to speak with defense counsel. Defense counsel argued both that appropriately-cleared Defense counsel should be trusted with this contact information and that Defense counsel can/will have greater success in gaining the cooperation of these witnesses if they can reach out directly.
(3) Political Interference in the Justice Process: Defense counsel argued that political interference with the military justice process, including the coordinated firing of Military Commission leadership and President Trump’s 2018 State of the Union Address, was so antithetical to a fair trial that it should justify dismissing the case—or at least dropping death penalty charges against the accused.
On the first count, Defense argued (in motion AE555) that the surprise February 2018 firing of the Military Commission’s Convening Authority Harvey Rishikof and his legal advisor Gary Brown was a politically-motivated move brought on by, among other things, the decision of Rishikof to entertain the notion of a plea deal with Defense counsel. Prosecution argued that the decision was brought on by Rishikof’s insubordination, including when he end-ran the military chain of command by reaching out to the U.S. Coast Guard for an aerial photo of the GTMO Legal Complex (which he was considering expanding) when the U.S. Southern Command refused to provide the photos.
On the second count, Defense prosecutors argued (in motion AE559) that President Trump’s recent public comments and tweets condemning the “complete and total disgrace” sentencing of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl—who avoided jail time after deserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009—and his call for the death penalty and potential GTMO detention/trial of Sayfullo Saipov, the man accused of killing eight pedestrians in October of 2017, constituted “undue command influence.” Judge Pohl was outspoken in condemning the comments of President Trump, saying: “With all due respect to the commander-in-chief, if he wants to interject himself into this process by making these kind of comments, it is my job to make sure this process is fair.” In perhaps the only agreement between the opposing sides during the entire week, the prosecution, while arguing that prospective jury members would not make their decision on the guilt of the accused based on “a few comments made by the President,” agreed that the President’s comments were regrettable and unhelpful.
(4) Defendants faltering access to Defense counsel: Defense counsel argued (in motion AE566) that their clients’ ability to meet with members of their defense teams has recently and dramatically deteriorated since the beginning of 2018. Defense counsel argued that they have increasingly experienced difficulty in receiving visit access and meeting rooms for their teams—particularly their non-lawyers—to meet with their clients to develop their defense. Prosecution countered that limitations in the number of meeting rooms and the lack of sufficient Joint Task Force (JTF) personnel meant that not every request could be honored: “on any one day there could be as many as ten competing interests for meetings with these individuals. Something’s got to give. But they have access. The camp does sometime let lawyers meet with their clients on weekends.”
(5) Laptop Seizure from the Defendants: Defense counsel argued (in motion AE530VV) that laptop computers provided to the defendants in 2014 to support their defense preparation, have been unfairly seized, searched, and not returned. Prosecutors argued that the laptops were being used, and perhaps modified, inappropriately and that they would be returned once their security and proper use could be confirmed. With no proof offered that the laptops had been inappropriately modified, Judge Pohl ordered their return.
(6) MRI machine use: Defense counsel requested that the MRI machine currently at GTMO being used to perform brain scans on both accused USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al–Nashiri and on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed remain at GTMO to assist the Defense in using MRI testing to determine the physical effects of their clients’ torture (and, perhaps, to undermine the “clean confessions” of the defendants or at least drop the death penalty charges.
(7) Defense counsel bemoaned the transparency of the Military Commissions, including the slow release of unclassified pleadings and the refusal to release almost all classified pleading and transcriptions in redacted form.
Judge Pohl’s rulings on the motions heard this week will, as deemed appropriate, be placed on the Military Commissions website when they become available.
Other major news from the week at GTMO included:
Miami Herald/McClatchy reporter (and relentless Military Commissions chronicler) Carol Rosenberg broke the story on April 30 that that an MRI scan performed on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed suggested that he suffered a head injury in CIA custody.
On April 30, in the first hour of the first day of hearings, defendant Walid Bin Attash told Judge Pohl that he was very unhappy with his representation by Cheryl Bormann, his appointed Lead/Learned Counsel. He said that he had tried for more than two years to make it work with Ms. Bormann, but with no success. He asked if he could get a new attorney, which was rejected by Judge Pohl, and then asked if he could sever his trial from that of “his brothers,” which Judge Pohl quickly rejected again. Bormann confirmed that Bin Attash continues to refuse to speak to her, blaming part of this division with her client on her inability to effectively advance his detainment issues within the court.
On April 2, the Department of Defense (DoD) facilitated the transfer of GTMO detainee and confessed terrorist Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi, 43, to serve out the balance of his 13-year plea-bargained sentence handed down in 2014 in his home country of Saudi Arabia. The Saudis came to GTMO to pick up al Darbi, reducing the GTMO prisoner count to 40.
On April 3, it was announced that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had submitted to President Donald Trump his tasked plan for the detention of suspected terrorists, including at GTMO. “This policy provides our warfighters guidance on nominating detainees for transfer to Guantanamo detention should that person present a continuing, significant threat to the security of the United States,” Pentagon spokesman Commander Sarah Higgins stated. Details of the plan were not announced, but Trump, in campaigning for President, promised to “load” GTMO “up with bad dudes.”
David Nevin, Lead/Learned Counsel for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, told media on April 4, that Defense Counsel had been advised that there would be a 25 percent cutback in overall funding for the Office of Military Commissions (OMC).
With a long break in observance of Ramadan, the next U.S. versus KSM pre-trial hearing at GTMO, the 30th round, will not convene until July 23 and is scheduled to run for two weeks through August 3.
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Engage Cuba, State Leaders Launch Mississippi State Council
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Engage Cuba, a leading coalition of private companies and organizations working to lift the travel and trade embargo on Cuba, today joined state leaders to launch the Engage Cuba Mississippi State Council. The Council, which is made up of agriculture, business, manufacturing, health care, education and government leaders from across the state, will build statewide support for Congressional action to end the travel and trade ban on Cuba.
In May, Engage Cuba released a report with the U.S. Agriculture Coalition for Cuba (USACC) showing that Mississippi agribusiness continue to lose market share in Cuba's growing markets to foreign competitors. The council seeks to lift the travel and trade ban in order to allow Mississippi farmers to regain market share and fuel Cuba's growing private sector. A copy of the report is available here.
"We’re very pleased to work with all of our Engage Cuba Mississippi State Council members to lift the Cuba travel and trade ban that is costing Mississippi jobs and preventing economic development for the Cuban people. It's time to end 50 years of failed, isolationist policies toward Cuba,"said President of Engage Cuba, James Williams. "Mississippi businesses are stuck on the sidelines as our foreign competitors continue to take advantage of Cuba's growing markets. Opening up trade with Cuba would provide tremendous opportunities for Mississippi agriculture, shipping and manufacturing sectors and support Cuba's growing private sector."
As Cuba’s markets continue to grow given the rise of tourism and the increasing purchasing power of 11 million Cubans, demand for high-quality U.S. exports will continue to rise. Given Mississippi’s world-class ports and proximity to our island neighbor, Mississippi is uniquely positioned to be an international leader in exports to Cuba.
As a top U.S. supplier of agriculture exports, Mississippi farmers would benefit from expanded trade with Cuba. Specifically, Mississippi is a top exporter of U.S. rice, and Cuba has the highest per capita rice consumption of any country in the Western Hemisphere. Additional Mississippi top exports like soybeans, soybean meal and corn will also be increasingly important for Cuba as its livestock sector continues to grow.
"Increasing Mississippi exports to Cuba would support Mississippi’s ports, which have a significant economic impact on the entire state," said Ashley Edwards, Director of the Gulf Business Council." The Mississippi State Port of Gulfport alone is an economic catalyst for the entire state. Increasing exports from the Gulfport would create jobs throughout Mississippi."
“I'm pleased to work with the Engage Cuba Mississippi State Council to expand trade with Cuba in order to provide Mississippi farmers with significant benefits and create jobs throughout the state," said Mike McCormick, President of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation.
Engage Cuba has launched state councils in 9 additional states including, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas. While Engage Cuba will continue to add members, the Founding Members of the Engage Cuba Mississippi State Council include:
Arden Barnett, President, Ardenland
Carlos Bell, Director of Public Engagement, Mississippi State Port Authority
Frank Bordeaux, Vice President, Stewart Sneed Hewes/Bancorp South Insurance Services
Rose Boxx, Director, Mississippi Development Authority
Dr. Kim Burke, Dean, Else School of Management, Millsaps College
Philip Burnett, Financial Advisor, Coker & Palmer, Inc.
Rob Coker, Farmer
Alveno Castilla, Partner, Butler Snow
Dave Dennis, President, Specialty Contractors and Associates, Inc.
Hayes Dent, President, Hayes Dent Public Strategies, LLC
Tracy Diez, Executive Director, World Trade Center of Mississippi
Ashley Edwards, President, Mississippi Gulf Coast Business Council
G.G. Ferguson, President, Ferguson & Associates Architects
Dr. George Hopper, Dean, Mississippi State University School of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Cindy Hyde-Smith, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Agriculture &Commerce
Tony Jeff, President, Innovate Mississippi
Mark Leggett, Executive Director, Mississippi Poultry Association
Brad Mason, Business Development Director, Johnson Controls, Inc.
Dr. Karen Matthews, CEO, Delta Health Alliance
Mark McAndrews, Port Director, Port of Pascagoula
Mike McCormick, President, Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation
Glenn McCullough, Executive Director, Mississippi Development Authority
John Newcomb, President, Newcomb Farms
Mona Nicholas, Executive Director, USA International Ballet Competition
Jack Norris, Sr. Program Manager, Covington Civil & Environmental Engineering
Dr. Wilson Parry, Central Nephrology Clinic
Dr. David Shaw, Vice President for Research & Development, Mississippi State University
Philip Shirley, President, Godwin Group
Stewart Speed, President, Leaf River Group, LLC
Gibb Steele, President & CEO, Steele Farms
Tim Timbs, President & CEO, Indianola Pecan House
Clay Wagner, Senior Vice President for Economic Development, Hancock Bank
David Watkins, Jr., Manager, Soul City Hospitality
Jack Winstead, Water Management and Natural Resources Advisor, MS Department of Agriculture & Commerce
Hank Zuber, Representative, Mississippi House of Representatives
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Public Release: 5-Nov-2018
New NYU Abu Dhabi research suggests corals produce molecules that can help resist disease
VIDEO: Prof. Shady Amin. Dr. Michael Ochsenkühn (left) and Dr. Stephan Kremb (right) are measuring environmental parameters around coral colonies and collecting samples to analyze the coral surface microbiomes and molecules.... view more
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Alexandray Mystikou and Prof. Shady Amin.
Fast facts:
Recent research shows that corals' resistance to disease depends on their ability to maintain healthy surface microbiomes, a community of microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi.
Much like how our health is linked to maintaining a healthy gut microbiome, corals also resist disease by maintaining a healthy surface microbiome.
This study shows that corals can control their surroundings by producing unique molecules that can help recruit healthy microbiomes and fight parasitic microbes.
The study results have been published in Communications Biology.
Researchers used water sampling in 18 coral colonies along the Abu Dhabi coast; each colony was sampled at different distances from the coral surface.
Abu Dhabi, November 5, 2018: Corals' resistance to disease is highly dependent on their ability to maintain healthy surface microbiomes, a community of microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi. For several years, it has been shown that corals harbor unique microbes at their surfaces, but the mechanisms of how this community is recruited and maintained were not known. In a new study published in Communications Biology, NYU Abu Dhabi Assistant Professor of Biology Shady Amin, along with Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin from the Helmholtz Center Munich, report that corals, though they are stationary organisms, can alter their surroundings by producing unique molecules that can help recruit healthy microbiomes and fight parasitic microbes.
Much like how our health is linked to maintaining a healthy gut microbiome, corals also resist disease by maintaining a healthy surface microbiome. The paper reports for the first time that corals are surrounded by a cloud of molecules that form concentration gradients around coral colonies and help structure microbial communities, also known as surface microbiomes, residing on coral surfaces. The implications of these findings are far reaching as these microbial communities are strongly linked to whether corals around the world are healthy or are infected by disease.
Using water samples from 18 coral colonies along the Abu Dhabi coast, each of which was sampled at different distances from the coral surface, the study's researchers have discovered that Acropora and Platygyra corals harbor unique bacteria and molecules at their surface, distinctly different from surrounding seawater. These molecules were identified as chemo-attractants, antibacterials, or signaling molecules, suggesting they may structure coral surface-associated microbes. Their findings show that there is a distinct gradient of molecules surrounding corals, and that these molecules may help recruit beneficial bacteria and/or defend against parasitic bacteria.
Furthermore, the researchers have detected surface associated molecules characteristic of healthy or white-syndrome disease infected corals, a finding which may aid in predicting the onset of disease.
"This is the first glimpse we have of what corals do in their immediate surroundings to adapt to their environment. If we understand the types of molecules corals need to maintain a healthy surface microbiome, we may be able to predict when diseases and bleaching occur and perhaps even prevent them," said Amin.
About NYU Abu Dhabi
NYU Abu Dhabi is the first comprehensive liberal arts and science campus in the Middle East to be operated abroad by a major American research university. NYU Abu Dhabi has integrated a highly-selective liberal arts, engineering and science curriculum with a world center for advanced research and scholarship enabling its students to succeed in an increasingly interdependent world and advance cooperation and progress on humanity's shared challenges. NYU Abu Dhabi's high-achieving students have come from 120 nations and speak over 120 languages. Together, NYU's campuses in New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai form the backbone of a unique global university, giving faculty and students opportunities to experience varied learning environments and immersion in other cultures at one or more of the numerous study-abroad sites NYU maintains on six continents.
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UAE residents' love for expensive cars
Published Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Even as the euro fluctuated and markets overseas remained timid, the UAE’s motoring sector cruised through in the first half of 2015.
Online classifieds site Dubizzle revealed 72,000 vehicle ads were featured in H1 2015, with three of the most expensive cars traded amassing a combined tally of nearly Dh28 million.
Meanwhile, three VIP number license plates were sold at a combined cost of Dh5.65m.
What is UAE driving?
The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) classifieds site published its H1 2015 autos trends report for the UAE, which states users placed nearly 12,000 ads in the motoring section per month.
Toyota was one of the top car brands listed on the site with an average of 2,132 ads per month, followed by Nissan with an average of 1,465 ads per month.
This was followed by German car maker Mercedes-Benz with an average of 1,330 ads per month.
The top three cars sold on Dubizzle were Japanese brands with Toyota Camry 2008 coming in first at an average price of Dh32,393; Honda Accord 2009 and the Mitsubishi Pajero 2009 came second and third at an average price of Dh41,658 and Dh49,068 respectively.
The report indicated three most searched expensive cars listed since the beginning of the year were Bugattis, with a Dh10,500,000 limited edition of Bugatti Veyron Super Sport 2013, followed by a Dh9,990,000 Grand Sport Vitesse Meo Costantini 2014 and a Dh7,500,000 Veyron.
The report also highlighted the three most expensive unique license plates listed on the site, with the priciest marked at Dh3,000,000, the second number plate at Dh2,500,000 and the third one listed at Dh155,000.
Dubai, Abu Dhabi
For Dubai users, the top searched car brands were: BMW, Jeep, Honda, AMG and Porsche.
Top searched car models in Dubai were Ford Mustang, C63, SRT, Wrangler, and GTS.
For Abu Dhabi users, the top searched car brands were: BMW, Honda, Jeep, AMG, and Mercedes.
The top searched car models in Abu Dhabi were: C63, SRT, GT, Raptor, and Wrangler.
As for car colours, black was the most popular car colour in the first half of this year, followed by white then red.
The report revealed that in the last six months there were more than 48,000 users who searched for convertible cars on Dubizzle.
“With over 1.3m people visiting the autos section on Dubizzle and an average of 12,000 new car ads are posted on the site each month... we find this kind of data so valuable when it comes to identifying price trends, market insights and most importantly providing transparency within the autos market place,” said Osman Bhurgri, Marketing Manager – Autos at Dubizzle UAE, in a statement.
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Christie’s Quarantine Over-Reaction Ignores How Ebola is Transmitted
October 27, 2014 /30 Comments/in Health Policy, Science /by Jim White
While Chris Chrisite toasted fellow quarantine advocate Rick Scott at a fundraiser in Florida, Kaci Hickox met with her attorney to prepare a legal challenge to her quarantine.
It’s really difficult to say which poor response to Ebola has done more damage to the public health system in the United States. First, we had the series of unforgivable errors at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas that resulted in Thomas Duncan being sent home with Tylenol and antibiotics when he first presented with Ebola symptoms. This was followed up after he was admitted by Nina Pham and Amber Vinson coming down with the disease after they treated him. Now, we have Kaci Hickox, who treated Ebola patients in West Africa, confined to an unheated tent in a New Jersey hospital for 21 days even though she is asymptomatic and has tested negative for Ebola. Twice.
The hysteria over retracing the steps of Craig Spencer in New York City just before he developed his fever illustrates the way the US press has misled the public about when and where Ebola risk exists. Abundant evidence from this and previous Ebola outbreaks demonstrates clearly that there simply is no risk of transmission from asymptomatic patients and that transmission risk grows through the course of the infection.
We see that principle demonstrated very clearly in Duncan’s case history. See this terrific ABC timeline for relevant dates quoted below. Duncan arrived in Dallas September 20. No passengers on any of the flights he took have developed Ebola. The incubation period has elapsed, so we know that no transmission of the virus occurred during any of his flights. Duncan had symptoms on his first hospital visit on September 26 but was sent home. He was later admitted on September 28. No patients or personnel from the hospital became infected from his visit September 26. The incubation period has expired, so we know for certain that transmission did not occur for anyone near Duncan that day. Similarly, even though they were in the apartment with him for days after he developed symptoms, none of the residents of or visitors to the apartment where Duncan was staying in Dallas became infected. The incubation period for that exposure also has expired. From this timeline developed by the New York Times, it appears that Pham and Vinson treated Duncan on the day before he died, which would be at the time when the amount of virus being produced by his body was nearing its maximum.
The load of virus in a patient’s blood over the course of Ebola infection has been studied. In this CDC review, we have a graph showing the amount of virus over time:
On first glance, one might think that this graph doesn’t show much difference between the viral load at the onset of symptoms and the maximum output of virus. But if we look at the vertical axis of the graph, we see that what is plotted is the log (or logarithm) of the number of copies of RNA (the virus genetic content) per milliliter (mL) of of blood serum. That means that the number on that axis tells us how many zeros are on the number of virus particles. The axis begins at “4”, which means 10,000 virus particles per mL, which is also noted as the lower level of detection for the way the measurement was carried out. So from this graph, we see that on day 0 (which would be before symptoms are shown), the viral load ranges from undectectable to around the tens of thousands of particles per mL. Once symptoms develop, that load jumps dramatically, to tens of millions per mL. That represents a jump of around three logs, or a factor of 1000 times more virus in the blood. A few days later into the infection, we see the load approaching a billion viral particles per mL, about a hundred fold higher than on the first day of symptoms.
That Duncan’s family and friends, even though they were around him well into the time after he developed symptoms and yet did not contract the virus illustrates pointlessness of quarantining Hickox or any other returning health care worker who treated Ebola patients. Before they become extremely ill, Ebola patients appear to be virtually incapable of transmitting the disease. To calm public hysteria that has been whipped up by the sensationalist reporting surrounding these cases, I can agree with calls for health care workers like Hickox to be kept in voluntary home isolation with monitoring twice a day for a fever. These are health professionals with a vested interest in detecting any symptoms once they develop (odds of survival appear to be better the earlier treatment is started), so self-monitoring of temperature should be enough, but if states want to waste precious health-care dollars sending someone out to take those temperatures, so be it. But an actual quarantine serves no purpose and creates a real barrier to those noble souls contemplating spending time on the front lines treating this horrible disease in an area where many of the health care providers have already succumbed due to the shortage of suitable facilities, equipment and supplies.
Fortunately, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who had originally gone along with Christie in implementing the quarantine policy for returning “high risk” individuals, relented last night and went with a more rational policy. Other states may well take some time and a few legal proceedings before sanity sets in.
The folly of the quarantine policy will be highlighted further once a few more incubation periods have elapsed. For example, we are 14 days into the 21 day incubation period since the October 13 flights Amber Vinson took back to Dallas once her fever was beginning to develop. There was much hysteria about people “exposed” on those flights. I will stick my neck out here and predict that we will see precisely zero people infected from being on those flights with her. Similarly, the hysteria around the Uber car, the bowling alley and the meatball shop visited by Craig Spencer just before he came down with symptoms will need another 17 days to be proven baseless once we see that he didn’t infect anyone, either.
Ebola is deadly, but we simply must use what we know about it in applying our resources to fighting it.
Update: It appears that while I was writing this post, Christie is already beginning to admit his error because Hickox is now likely to be released.
Tags: Amber Vinson, Andrew Cuomo, Chris Christie, Craig Spencer, Ebola, Ebola hysteria, Nina Pham, Rick Scott, Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas, Thomas Duncan
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Saltinwound says:
It seems like there is some grey area about what constitutes a symptom. The doctor reported that he felt sluggish before the Uber and bowling excursion. Is that a symptom? More importantly, this still seems to be based on self reporting.
seedeevee says:
“The incubation period has elapsed, so we know that no transmission of the virus occurred during any of his flights. ”
Not to be too contrarian, but, to say “no transmission of the virus” would assume that every person that the virus is transmitted to shows symptoms and/or would report it? Is it safe to say that there has never been a virus that has a 100% symptomatic rate? (If that is the correct way to phrase it?)
Our sample size of “infected” of this extremely deadly virus is still relatively small.
Christie is still a huge fear mongering scumbag, though.
Don Bacon says:
I don’t get the logic that since Duncan apparently didn’t transmit the disease, “Ebola patients appear to be virtually incapable of transmitting the disease” when of course the disease was transmitted to Duncan.
Ebola can be spread (a short distance) by airborne droplets or by contact as shown here. However CDC has also said “Ebola is not spread through the air” so there you go. To complicate it further, CDC:
“During outbreaks of Ebola, the disease can spread quickly within healthcare settings (such as a clinic or hospital). Exposure to Ebola can occur in healthcare settings where hospital staff are not wearing appropriate protective equipment, including masks, gowns, and gloves and eye protection.”
It’s no wonder that there is confusion.
You cut that first quote off a bit short. Transmission occurs once patients are extremely sick but is very difficult before that stage of their disease. And that is how Duncan got it. He was helping transport a neighbor to the hospital (and then back again, they had no room) when he was exposed. She died within a day or two of his contact with her.
That same CDC document I linked has more on the whole “airborne” issue. Droplets going a few feet and quickly? Yes, that could be a route of infection. Airborne in the traditional sense of viruses that stay aloft for hours at a time? Not so much.
.Edit: I just checked and that incident of the hospital trip was only a few hours before Duncan’s neighbor died. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/us/after-ebola-case-in-dallas-health-officials-seek-those-who-had-contact-with-patient.html
Thanks on Duncan, but we still have droplets and contact so I still go with Christie’s logic that it’s better to inconvenience some than to expose many.
Alrighty then. How about the folks at Bellvue who are treating Spencer? Quarantine them?
As far at that goes, I’ve even seen suggestions that Christie’s logic applied to gun owners is that we have to quarantine them, too, since we don’t know when they will kill someone.
Ben Franklin says:
Actually an apt comparison. If we took the same panic troll concerning with ebola and applied it to gunz, we would see the infection of deranged shooters has the same limited range as ebola. The host and the infected die quickly and there is no aerolization to worry about. And just as we shouldn’t politicize ebola, we shouldn’t politicize firearms, eh?
You are quite imperious like a tenured professor who refuses to be questioned, so I ask again..
Are you in any way connected with WHO, USAMRID, NIH or Tulane University?
No. Not by even the most remote connection.
And you continue to ignore the most basic findings of science in order to hold on to fantasies.
Thanks for presenting the graph of concentrations of Ebola virus particles in infected people over time. That lets us look at some statistical “basic findings of science”.
Other analysis regarding the 21 day quarantine period shows roughly 9 day mean time from infection to full blown Ebola. Those numbers show that 21 days represents a 95% confidence level that someone is Ebola free. That seems consistent with the graph you presented that showed Ebola infrequently in infected people past 21 days, and that at a low level.
The graph you presented shows that once Ebola gets established there is a profoundly quick rise in virus particle concentration from 10k/mL to millions/mL in 24 hours or less.
Both those sets of numbers seem consistent with what we have observed in this epidemic:
. (1) Once someone has become infected, it takes awhile to progress to full blown illness.
. (2) Until full blown, infectiousness is low.
.(3) Once symptoms present, the progression from “low” levels of virus to massive happens very quickly, ie, it can be less than 24 hours.
Previous discussions/announcements I have seen have not addressed the velocity with which change from non-contagious to contagious apparently happens. Speed kills.
What is a rational public health policy that addresses people, and especially medical professionals, who have been in contact with people with Ebola? What is a prudent way to deal with the potentially very rapid change in status to contagious? Seems, to me anyway, a difficult question, and one that has not been resolved.
Unfortunately the medical community, especially some of those who have been brave and public spirited enough to work with Ebola patients, have addressed it badly. Being in denial that they could really be infected is understandably strong, but at least two docs and three nurses have demonstrated that “voluntary” quarantine can not be considered a real solution.
I know there are good people in those government agencies I listed, but I also understand they are part of a bureaucracy, and those bureaucracy’s are inherently stupid and inefficient. If you value your career you don’t make waves and it’s easy to accept low information ‘need to know’ protocols.
The fact that some ‘protest too much’ when push comes to shove, deflecting and misdirecting in response to questions makes me wonder, that’s all. But Jim still hasn’t disclosed just why he is so vehement. Mid-terms comes to mind. Other than that, it is mysterious.
I also understand they are part of a bureaucracy, and those bureaucracy’s are inherently stupid and inefficient.
Bureaucracies are as efficient as they have to be. If one is inefficient, maybe it needs new managers and new procedures, instead of people giving up and letting things fall apart because they don’t like working to fix them.
Christie is a politician, and he’s a politician who’s ignoring the advice of doctors who know what they’re doing. If you have no symptoms of Ebola, you’re not going to be giving it to anyone else. The nurse in the tent? She isn’t sick.
Come on man, this flies directly in the face of both medicine and physics. Lets us not all be peeing in our pants fearmongering clowns.
Whatever happened to the America of “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself”?
The graph doesn’t show negative days before “symptoms” although there is virus present. Jim, are you sure that day 0 is really before symptoms? Seems from the label that is 0 days after symptoms, or framed the other way, as the day symptoms are observed.
Help please, what is the criteria for a “symptom”. If that has been clearly expressed I’ve missed it. Is it is 101.5 degrees? In any event once showing “symptoms” a person is already ramped up on what is an explosion of virus. As you note it goes from 10k virus particles per mL to millions within a day. That’s a pretty tight window from extremely unlikely to very toxic. That is cause for concern if we are relying on self observation and reporting.
The problem with voluntary quarantine has been that folks have notably volunteered to un-quarantine themselves. Having a Doc ride the subway and go bowling while another heads out to pick up food gives rise to demands for enforced quarantine. Unfortunately, voluntary quarantine has meant no quarantine, so we can thank a couple of jerk Docs, as well as the Repubs, for the calls for enforced quarantine.
Even if spread is unlikely, it is understandable that people are anxious about plopping down in a seat someone infected with Ebola has just occupied. Sticking fingers in a bowling ball has a similar yuck factor.
As you noted the other day, WHO recommends that staff treating Ebola patients be prohibited from treating general population patients. Self reporting and voluntary quarantine of staff would be great if we had evidence it was reliable. Unfortunately we do not. That’s a problem.
Understand your frustration with some of the incoming you’ve received, but dodging into guns doesn’t make for a rational discussion.
Nope. Just not buying it.
If the argument of the quarantine advocates is to inconvenience a few to achieve zero risk, then that applies absolutely to gun owners. If we want zero risk from their guns, maybe at least quarantine the guns if not the owners. Why just shrug and accept a death toll that is likely to be higher next year than that for car accidents as “freedom” while denying freedom to folks who don’t even have any symptoms yet and whose only “crime” was to help sick people?
There is no Constitutional right to Ebola, nor did our independence from tyranny bleed out of an Ebola victim. No rational person advocates for zero risk from any product including guns, cars, light bulbs or tampons. Ironically, one of the few things with zero toxic risk may be THC.
From the graph you presented someone goes from 10k/mL virus particles to millions within a day. That is the gift of exponential growth. You may well be right that the risk from someone infected with Ebola is binary. Someone is either un-infectious or infectious. But, the segue between states can be very quick. Like, for example, within the 12 hours between voluntary twice daily temperature readings.
It is understandable that people do not want to sit in the seat that someone in an indeterminate, but guaranteed rapidly changing, state of a deadly disease has used. Same goes with sticking their fingers in a bowling ball (there’s a yuck factor) or going on a cruise.
The jerks in the medical community who have voluntarily un-quarantined themselves, not citizens with rational concerns about the spread of a deadly disease, are the proximate cause for calls for restrictions on health care workers who work with Ebola patients.
Jim, Jim, you out there? We’re down to the “basic findings of science” that you presented.
They show how quickly Ebola virus multiplies in people. Do you agree that exponential proliferation should be a factor in how we deal with people who have been exposed, or does it not make any difference?
Given the replication rates you presented, how many hours do you believe it takes from being zero risk to high? Less than 12 using your numbers.
We agree that people in early stages of infection are not very contagious, but what about that short transition period when the curve goes close to straight up to big numbers? The risk goes from low to high very quickly. Imagine what the chart you presented would look like if it was linear!
Ebola apparently takes about 8 hours to replicate, but replication by each virus particle is multiple particles, hundreds to thousands. Then it all does it again. That’s what drives the exponential growth. Someone can go from 10k/mL to 1m/mL in a hurry.
How can voluntary quarantining and self monitoring/reporting reliably cope with that rapid onset of severe and contagious infection?
I’m here but had other stuff going on.
The data in the graph are for viral load in blood. And yes, it does replicate exponentially and goes to very high levels quickly.
But that isn’t the only step in infection. For someone to get infected, they have to come into contact with that blood or other body fluids (I haven’t seen numbers for the time course of buildup in those other fluids) and then transfer the fluids through a cut or contact with a mucous membrane. How that happens most of the time with Ebola is for someone caring for an extremely sick or dead victim and coming into contact with large amounts of those fluids. For that to happen, you need lots of vomiting, diarrhea or bleeding.
Keep in mind that even with those crazy high virus titer numbers, the average number of people one person with this virus infects is two while measles is 18.
Find me a case of an Ebola patient during an outbreak who has a “mystery” infection. That is, one who doesn’t know who exposed them or how. You won’t be able to because it hasn’t happened. There has never been a suspected case where a patient came down with the disease when they weren’t very obviously exposed to someone in late stages of the disease.
If asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic people regularly passed the disease to others, we’d see very different patterns during outbreaks (and higher R0 numbers closer to the one for measles) from the ones that we have seen in the past and that we are seeing in this outbreak.
I understand Ebola is hard to spread, and have not been in the sky is falling contingent. That no one in Duncan’s “family” was infected illustrates just how hard it is to infect people.
It may be that in Africa people have a pretty good idea where they got bit. But here in America we don’t seem to be as insightful or forthcoming. Have the nurses in Dallas copped to exactly what they did to become infected? Last I heard they had not. If the Doc in NYC knew where and by whom he was infected, what the hell was he doing riding the subway and bowling?
The doc stayed away from Columbia, his place of employment, but potentially exposed as many or more people by rambling around the city. Suppose that had anything to do with the ability to be anonymous in the city as opposed to being highly visible at work among peers who have a professional appreciation of disease?
The graphical representation of the exponential explosion of virus in infected people was stunning. Log graphs seem so mild, but facilitate compact representation of profound changes. I had to look about three times before the numbers sank in. With another vertical scale those bars would be so tall they could not be presented.
That means the time between mild symptoms and massive illness is very short. That creates the opportunity for exposure before the extent of illness is recognized. There can be many vectors. Transmission from someone with a massive load of virus may not be easy, but it sure is possible. I work with my hands, so I’ve always got nicks and dings. That creates an exposure for me. Recent studies of office virus spread via door knobs, printer buttons, telephones, etc shows surprisingly quick and wide dispersal. With Ebola, close range aerosols also have the potential to spread disease. That is not in the same order of magnitude as cold or other viruses that actively use that vector, but the risk is there.
Events with low probability but high lethality are scary, and that’s where we are with Ebola. That seems to argue for a cautious public health policy that keeps people at material risk away from the general population for several weeks after exposure while waiting for disease, or lack of it, to declare itself. It seems a pretty mild inconvenience for a small number of people to ensure that the disease does not spread here as it has in Africa.
The doc in NYC was taking his temperature twice a day and reported it as soon as he found he had a fever. That was what he was supposed to do, and apparently Thursday morning was the first time he had a fever. He wouldn’t have exposed anyone before that, and if he wasn’t exchanging bodily fluids with anyone, then he didn’t expose anyone either.
But he did report feeling sluggish. Not the height of Ebola but is there a reason no one wants to even count his self reported sluggishness before bowling as a symptom? That seems odd to me. It was important enough for him to report.
I understand. Look at the chart Jim published as part of this posting. It makes it clear that exponential replication of virus is the norm. Someone can go from essentially non infecting to loaded with virus in less than 12 hours.
Where is the evidence that 12 hours is a safe cycle for taking temperatures? Or evidence that rambling around the city, doing things like bowling, is less than reckless? The doc did not go to work at Columbia where people knew him and understand infectious diseases.
Ebola replicates on a roughly 8 hour cycle. When it replicates, it is not like cell division, it is hundreds or thousands of particles. Then it all does it again. That is how someone can go from 10k/mL virus particles to millions/mL very quickly. That is exponential proliferation that requires a log scale to represent.
The graph documents going from 1,000,000/mL virus particles to 10,000,000/mL in a day, and to almost 100,000,000/mL the next day. That is the very benign looking 6 to 7 to 8 on the vertical axis. Tinker to Evers to that’s a chance we, as a matter of public health policy, may not want to take.
If Ebola was easy to transmit, Africa would be depopulated already and we’d be well on the way. It is a lot easier to transmit by someone who has a heavy load of virus, and that happens very quickly. There is no evidence that voluntary quarantine can reliably deal with that.
Soldiers coming back from serving in Ebola-hit Liberia will be kept in quarantine for 21 days, the U.S. Army said Monday — even though they were kept apart from any Ebola patients.
New York’s and New Jersey’s governors announced Friday that any health care workers returning from West Africa to their states would face mandatory 21-day quarantines. Other states including Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota and Georgia have since announced their own measures.
Reiterating, ebola can be transmitted by airborne droplets (within about a meter) or by contact. Exchanging bodily fluids is not necessary for transmission (and repeating it doesn’t make it true). That’s according to CDC –#3.
And gun control is a red herring in this context. Means nothing.
I thought it was ill-advised and poorly thought out. But it augers well with the mid-terms and is consistent with progressive logic.
fritter says:
Actually, gun control fits pretty well in this context and I’m a 2nd amendment advocate in most situations. Denying anyone liberty, internment during war, or health crisis, it’s all applicable.
I don’t think we were originally supposed to be a country of cowards. It seems pretty obvious the founders knew — had experienced first hand — how fears of various types could be used as excuses to restrict liberty. In spite of that, we have a long history of this so there is clearly precedent. That doesn’t make it right or consistent.
It is kind of funny because it is inconvenient for members of both parties and really serves to highlight their hypocrisy. If you don’t want mere potential patients locked up under near prison / inhumane conditions then you have to consider that gun owners might just have a point even though they could be “dangerous”. You might also reflect that “crazy” women at one time were kept locked up and isolated just because they thought they should be able to vote. Not to mention, homosexuality was at one time considered a disease. Also we have to attack them over there before they attack us here, forever war, that both parties seem to love unless the other guy is doing it.
Maybe it will get people to think a little about their anything goes as long as i have a confortable life policy. Rendition ok, unless its me. See 99.6, nothing to worry about yet, I’m not even brown see when I said lock ’em up, I really wasn’t talking about me…
Patients lie: http://nypost.com/2014/10/29/ebola-doctor-lied-about-his-nyc-travels-police/
So much for the idea of “self quarantine” as a respectful and effective way to deal with assholes.
When do we get to physician heal thy f**** self on this barren mountain top surrounded by concertina wire? Don’t you just hate it when jerks make Cuomo and Christie begin to look reasonable?
Uncle William says:
The graph shows that once symptoms begin, the viral load is near the detectable limit at day 0. However, the quarantine time is 21 days before the symptoms begin and so you’ve left off the previous 21 days that would show virus below the detectable limit. She was “tested negative for ebola twice” is irrelevent if she is in within the 21 days before symptoms. Duncan would have tested negative as well before he showed symptoms. There is still a chance that she could be symptomatic (God forbid) and why she should be quarantined. Besides, it’s 21 days and half over! Relax, watch TV, listen to music. She’s acting like she’s in solitary confinemen!
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Wish Wednesday: Littlefield High School Students throw luau for Elliott
by: Sandra Eichenberg
Posted: Jun 6, 2019 / 09:36 PM CDT / Updated: Jun 7, 2019 / 03:42 PM CDT
LUBBOCK, Texas — Littlefield High School students spent the school year raising money to grant a child’s wish.
In fact, they raised more than $9,000 to make Elliott Mallory’s dream come true.
Before school let out for summer, students turned the gym into an island oasis to surprise Mallory with the trip of a lifetime to Hawaii.
At 8-days-old, Mallory had his first major open heart surgery and he’s been waiting a few years to get the news about his trip.
“We found out two weeks before the reveal who our child was,” said Claudia Martinez, student council president. “We just branched off a few ideas that they give us. We just brainstormed and that’s how the gym came to life. We got stuff done.”
Students came up with dinosaur games for Elliott to play before the big reveal.
Mallory said he had a special reason for why Hawaii was the place he wanted to go.
“Because it reminded me of the wild, and what it would look like if we were in the time of the dinosaurs,” Mallory said.
If you want to learn anything about dinosaurs Elliott is the expert.
“Yes, Elliott loves dinosaurs. He’ll read anything he can find about dinosaurs. He’ll tell anyone who will listen,” said Melanie Mallory, Elliott’s mom. “He’ll even spot a T-Rex that’s drawn incorrectly, knows scientific names, he’s a wealth of knowledge about dinosaurs.”
Texas Tech brought Elliott and his family to West Texas. His parents said the party from the students at Littlefield High School really touched them.
“It was amazing, I’m not from West Texas, but Texas Tech brought us here,” said Melanie Mallory, Elliott’s mom. “We went back to Houston to have Elliott. A year later, we couldn’t wait to get back to West Texas. Because West Texas is family. Seeing that love and kindness and support is overwhelming fact that that’s directed at my family is incredible.”
If you’d like to get involved with the Make-A-Wish Foundation just give them a call at 806-785-9474.
Wish Wednesday is sponsored by Michael Postar’s Affordable Storage. https://affordablestoragelubbock.com/community/
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LUBBOCK, Texas — Littlefield High School students spent the school year raising money to grant a child's wish.
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LUBBOCK, Texas — Over the last year, Robert Lance Jewelers hosted watches for wishes. For every watch battery sold for 10 dollars, all proceeds went to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Nine hundred watch batteries were sold making a grand total of $9,000 to help kids.
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Home Felons Voting Amy Klobuchar talks climate change, hurricanes and winning Florida in Tallahassee
Amy Klobuchar talks climate change, hurricanes and winning Florida in Tallahassee
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar talked climate change, hurricanes and what it will take to win Florida with Democratic lawmakers in Tallahassee on Tuesday in her first visit to gather support in the sunshine state for her 2020 presidential campaign
“A lot of the issues I’m focused on are issues that matter a lot in Florida,” the Minnesota Democrat said after a closed meeting with the House Democratic Caucus.
Klobuchar said she was concerned with the effects of climate change, and pointed out that eight of 10 of the metropolitan areas destined to have the most climate change-induced flooding are in Florida.
“My idea here is to get an international climate change agreement on day one and to bring back the clean power rules and to do more when it comes to infrastructure … certainly, you have needs here,” she said.
She also answered questions regarding funding for those who were affected by Hurricane Michael in October. Klobuchar voted down on a disaster relief bill that would have awarded tens of millions of dollars to victims still waiting on funding. The bill is stalling as the Senate fights over substantial new assistance for Puerto Rico — assistance Democrats are demanding.
She is a bigger fan of the House bill, she said, and that she hopes the chambers will “work that out.”
“There is no reason we can’t work this out, given that the House bill had the kind of funding we’d like to see,” she said. “They don’t seem to want to help Puerto Rico and there’s no reason we can’t do all of this together. We have to get this done and we will. This is a matter of negotiations. “
Klobuchar talked about other hot topics in Florida, and commended Florida on the way student activists in Parkland have engaged more young people politically, and how voters approved Amendment 4 to restore voting rights to former felons. She said she’d never seen students from high schools in Minnesota ask such engaging questions, and that people back home have taken a new interest in restoring felon’s rights.
Klobuchar added that she feels confident about winning Florida in the primaries in 2020 “despite the fact that I’m coming from a state that has a lot of snow.” She said walking around Florida today she sees “a lot of people feeling left behind,” and that they want a candidate who will address affordable housing and expanded access to better healthcare.
“We have to be governing from opportunity, not chaos,” she said. “I don’t see the other presidential candidate, which will likely be Donald Trump, addressing climate change.”
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This Gmail pro tip will change how you think about your inbox
With a little outside-the-box thinking, Gmail labels can make your inbox smarter than ever.
[Photo: Samuel Zeller/Unsplash]
By JR Raphael 5 minute Read
It’s easy to think of Gmail’s labels system as a glorified filing cabinet for your inbox—but if you’re treating labels strictly as folders, you’re missing out on some of their most powerful possibilities.
Gmail labels, for the uninitiated, are a series of custom text markers that can be assigned to your Gmail messages. You might mark all invoices with a label called “Expenses,” for instance, or mark all emails related to a particular work project with a label containing its name. Any such messages will then be grouped together in Gmail’s main menu for future reference and discovery.
That’s all fine and dandy, but where labels’ unexpected value comes into play is in their ability to control precisely how messages are handled when they hit your inbox. With a few minutes of setup, in fact, you can create a custom high-priority label that limits your notifications only to pressing messages and gives your most important emails a distinctive, eye-catching appearance. This is some next-level email management—and, yes, it has the potential to change your relationship to email for the better.
Reframing the label
The first step to stepping up your Gmail labels game is to think about what exactly you’d like to accomplish. How could your inbox better serve you? What types of messages do you need to stand out? What sets your truly important emails apart from the rest?
Once you figure out those answers, you can use Gmail labels to eliminate unnecessary interruptions from your inbox while simultaneously making it easier to notice the messages that matter. It’s a significant upgrade from Gmail’s built-in system for identifying important messages and treating them accordingly—because frankly, that system isn’t very effective. It tends to result in far too many unnecessary notifications, for one, and its marking method creates a lot of clutter you’re bound to ignore over time.
Here’s how to set up labels to do it better: First, you’ll want to create a Gmail filter that automatically applies a “VIP” label to any incoming emails that meet certain criteria—those factors we were talking about a second ago that consistently set your important emails apart. The messages might need to come from specific high-priority senders or domain names; they might need to be addressed to a specific address that you designate for timely missives (maybe using this handy trick); or they might need to contain a specific word or phrase in their subject line that lets you know they’re time-sensitive.
With your personal parameters in mind, click the downward-facing arrow in the search box at the top of the Gmail website and create a new filter for each relevant field. You can group multiple terms together within the same field using the “or” command—having something like larry@google.com or tim@apple.com in the “From” field, for instance, or “new appointment” or “urgent request” in the “Subject” field—but you’ll need to create a separate filter for each additional field you want to include.
Use the “or” command to group multiple terms together within a single field, but create a new filter for each additional field you need.
After you’ve clicked the “Create filter” button, select “Apply the label,” then click “Choose label” followed by “New label.” Type “VIP” into the label name field and click the blue “Create button.” Back in the main filter setup window, click the options to have Gmail star any included messages as they arrive and to sort them into your “Primary” inbox tab, too, provided you’re using Gmail’s default tabbed interface.
These options will make sure emails with your “VIP” label are always treated appropriately when they arrive.
One more visual adjustment: Find your newly created “VIP” label in Gmail’s left-of-screen menu, click the three-dot icon beside it, and select an eye-catching color from the set of options that appears. Now, any messages that come in with VIP status will always stand out and demand your attention when you’re looking at your inbox.
An eye-catching label color will help your high-priority messages stand out in your inbox.
All that’s left is to implement the crowning part of this setup—the custom and noise-eliminating notifications.
Enlightening your email notifications
This final piece of the puzzle will work on any Windows PC, Mac, Chromebook, Linux computer, or Android phone. Apple’s iOS, unfortunately, doesn’t support the granular form of notification customization needed for it to function (sorry, iPhone fans!).
On a desktop computer:
Disable Gmail’s native notifications by opening the site’s settings, scrolling down to “Desktop notifications” (in the “General” section), and selecting “Mail notifications off.”
Install the third-party Checker Plus for Gmail extension in your desktop browser. It’s available for both Chrome and Firefox, has 1.2 million users and a nearly five-star rating in Google’s Web Store, and does not store or share any sort of personal data.
Click the button that appears to configure the extension. Select the “Accounts/Labels” tab in the configuration screen, uncheck “Inbox” under the “System labels” header, and check “VIP” under the “Labels” header.
If you’re using Chrome and want your VIP notifications to pop up even when you don’t have your browser open, click over to the “Notifications” section of the extension’s settings and check the box next to the “Run in background when Google Chrome is closed” option. (That option isn’t available on Firefox.) You can also customize exactly how the notifications look and work via the other options in that same section.
On Android, meanwhile:
Open the Gmail app on your phone.
Tap the three-line menu icon in the app’s upper-left corner, then scroll all the way down the main menu and tap “Settings.”
Tap the name of your Gmail account, then tap “Notifications” and make sure the option is set to “All.”
Tap “Inbox notifications” and make sure the box next to “Label notifications” is unchecked.
Next, tap “Manage labels” and find your “VIP” label in the list. Tap it, make sure its “Sync messages” option is set to “Last 30 days,” and make sure both “Label notifications” and “Notify for every message” are checked.
Look through the rest of the labels in the list—any labels for which you don’t want to receive notifications—and make sure those same boxes are unchecked for all of them.
The sky’s the limit with this, and you don’t have to stop with just a single “VIP” designation. Follow the same steps for any other superpowered labels you want to create—and watch your email efficiency soar.
For even more next-level Google knowledge, check out my Android Intelligence newsletter.
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WATCH: Iza Calzado And Ben Wintle's Tear-Jerking Wedding Video
'You and me. Unbreakable' the couple promised to each other
by Khatrina Bonagua | Jan 13, 2019
IMAGE Pat Dy Bob Nicolas
Iza Calzado and Ben Wintle’s dreamy nuptials, held on December 19, was immortalized through a wedding video by videographer Bob Nicolas. The video was released Saturday night, January 12.
The 8-minute film, which Nicolas aptly titled "Ben Wintle and Iza Calzado– Wedding In Paradise," features the highlights of the couple’s romantic sunset wedding ceremony at Club Paradise in Coron, Palawan. Snapshots from Iza and Ben’s fiesta-themed welcome dinner for their guests were also included.
The tear-jerking video started with footage from the ceremony when the officiant asked the crowd to say a prayer for Iza’s late parents.
"Before we continue, may I request a moment of silence to pray for the souls of Iza’s mother, Mary Ann, and father, Lito, who would have loved to have been here today and are now the couple’s allies in heaven," the wedding officiant said.
For those who don’t know, Iza’s parents, Maria Antonia "Mary Ann" Ussher and director/choreographer Lito Calzado, both succumbed to cancer. Her mom passed away in 2001, while her dad, 2011.
The video also showed Iza walking down the aisle looking radiant in her custom Rajo Laurel gown, Karylle’s speech during the pre-wedding party, and Ben’s funny moments with his groomsmen. Of course, the couple’s sweet vows to each other were also shown.
"I just want to take this time to honor your parents for raising such a wonderful man," Iza began her speech. "I am grateful to be marrying your son, but I am equally grateful that I have now found a new family who has loved and accepted me from day one. I’m so lucky."
"Beautiful, beautiful Iza. It was love at first sight for me." Ben began his vow. "But it has been our strength and grace in tougher times that has made me believe that our relationship is forever."
"You and me. Unbreakable," the couple promised to each other.
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This Week at Ferris (April 4-10)
Check out this week's edition of The Ferris Lowdown.
The month of April is officially in full swing as Ferris State University dives into a fresh set of activities from the University Events Calendar.
April, the last full month of the academic year, has several noteworthy activities, including a new exhibit in the Fine Art Gallery, the Community Health Fair, the Turn Up the Good Concert and more.
For a list of highlighted activities, from the calendar, check below:
*Fine Art Gallery – “No Stone Unturned: Hybrid Landscapes and Eco Systems”*
Click “No Stone Unturned” for more information.
6:30 p.m. – University Center, Room 202A, Passion for the Past Series: Visual History Project (Barry Mehler)
Learn more about the History Programs at Ferris.
7 p.m. – University Center, Room 116, Entertainment Unlimited General Assembly Meetings
11 a.m. – University Center, Room 203 (Founders’ Room), The BIG Event Volunteer Meeting
Click The BIG Event to learn more about this year’s effort.
6 p.m. – University Center, Room 203, Office of Multicultural Student Services Social Justice Discussion
6:30 p.m. – University Center, Student Government General Assembly Meeting
3:30 p.m. – FSU Softball Fields, Women’s Softball hosts Lake Superior State
Click women’s softball team for more information.
11 a.m. – IRC Connector, Community Health Fair
6 p.m. – Fine Art Gallery, Artist Talk: Ethan Ross
6:30 p.m. – University Center, Room 203 (Founders’ Room), Student Government Finance Division Meeting
7:30 p.m. – Williams Auditorium, FSU Theater presents: Infinite Black Suitcase
*10 p.m. Information Technology Maintenance Night*
2 p.m. – Racquet and Fitness Center, Women’s Tennis hosts Davenport
Click women’s tennis team for more information.
7:30 p.m. - Williams Auditorium, FSU Theater presents: Infinite Black Suitcase
8 p.m. – Wink Arena, Turn Up the Good
Click Turn Up the Good for more information.
*Leadership Development Conference*
10 a.m. – Racquet and Fitness Center, Men’s Tennis hosts Lake Superior State
Click men’s tennis team for more information.
11 a.m. – Williams Auditorium (Meeting Location), Spring Alley Clean-Up Event
1 p.m. – FSU Softball Fields, Women’s Softball hosts Hillsdale
10 a.m. – Racquet and Fitness Center, Men’s Tennis Hosts Michigan Tech
11:30 a.m. – Northend Riverside Park, Fourth Annual Fallen Officer Memorial 5k Run/Walk
12 p.m. – FSU Softball Fields, Women’s Softball hosts Findlay
1 p.m. – University Center 202, International Festival of Cultures
Click International Festival of Cultures for more information.
For a complete list of activities, click University Events Calendar.
PHOTO CAPTION: Pictured above is an image from the 2014 International Festival of Cultures.
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Noodles on a microscopic level
Researchers from the University of Manitoba use Canada Light Source technology to see what's going on inside noodles and what factors affect quality
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Saskatoon, Sask. – A team of researchers took their questions about noodles and texture right down to the microscopic level.
The team, from the University of Manitoba, used the services at the Canadian Light Source (CLS), which offers the brightest light in Canada and is housed at the University of Saskatchewan.
As CLS explains on its website (See “A first look at how miniscule bubbles affect the texture of noodles” on Feb. 7, 2018), a good noodle is a result of many factors. The structure of the gluten, and how the dough is kneaded and stretched all have an effect on quality.
In addition, say the researchers, “there are miniscule air bubbles that are part of the mix and influence texture.”
The only way to really see these bubbles was to use CLS microtomography, says Martin Scanlon in the article. Scanlon is U of M professor in the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences and the project’s lead researcher.
The CLS microtomography gave the team detailed 3D pictures. What they found was “noodle dough is much stiffer” compared to bread dough. Noodle dough also has much fewer bubbles.
They could also see that bubbles tend to cluster together and, says the article, “clusters of bubbles are likely to lead to cracks in the dough when it is dried for later sale, which is a problem for product quality.”
To see their results in full, click here.
The article says the researchers plan to look at “how bubbles form and evolve in the dough” and how that affects quality. They also plan to “look at how other properties – such as processing, water content and gluten structure – interact with the fast-evolving bubble structure and the integrity of the final dough.”
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Jobs boost as dairy firm McQueens buys Müller factory
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Scottish dairy producer McQueens has purchased the former Müller factory in East Kilbride as part of a multi-million pound expansion plan that includes 100 new jobs in two years.
The 26,300m2 East Kilbride site, which is expected to open in spring 2020, would allow the business to accelerate its growth aspirations in doorstep deliveries, McQueens said.
Its current dairy and distribution centre at the M8 Food Park in the north of Glasgow had reached capacity, the firm added.
Müller announced in 2016 that it was closing the East Kilbride facility with the loss of 131 jobs.
McQueens Dairies was founded in 1995 by company chairman Mick McQueen and wife Meg. In addition to its Glasgow dairy, it operates eight distribution depots in Scotland and the north of England, having opened its latest depot in Galashiels in May 2019.
The company currently employs 400 members of staff, with the couple’s five children holding senior positions. Turnover grew 30% in the past year, and McQueens said it expected that increase to be repeated this year.
Milk direct to customers’ doors
Mick McQueen said the company was an “ambitious business” that delivered milk direct to customers’ doors and it wanted to build on the success achieved so far. He also claimed to be “very excited” about creating many new jobs as a result.
“Our success to date has been by focusing on the demand for doorstep delivery, both here in Scotland and in the north of England,” McQueen said. “We know that many people purchase milk from supermarkets, but our business is about delivering milk direct to the consumer, whether that is doorsteps or businesses.
“Our current dairy and distribution centre in the M8 Food Park in the north of Glasgow has reached capacity and doesn’t afford us any scope to expand, so the move to a purpose-built dairy, just 12 miles away and still within easy reach of our tens of thousands of customers, makes perfect sense.”
As part of the expansion, McQueens planned to increase its requirement for raw liquid milk supply from farmers through supply partner First Milk.
‘Using the dairy in a different way’
McQueen said: “We will be using the dairy in a different way to how it was used before, which was predominantly to produce flavoured milk and potted cream.
“We’ll be focused on processing liquid milk, along with orange and apple juices. A large part of our investment will be in modern dairy technology, including new refrigeration plant, pasteurising equipment and a filler line that includes glass bottles – which are having a resurgence with our customers.”
First Milk commercial director Fraser Brown said his company looked forward to continuing its milk supply partnership with McQueens as it grew and developed its business.
“We are proud to supply them with high-quality, farm-assured fresh milk directly from our farmer members, with full traceability – something we know is important to all customers,” he added.
McQueens Dairies has more than 100,000 milk delivery customers across Scotland and in the north of England, served by distribution depots in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Kirkcaldy, Galashiels, Mansfield, Huddersfield, Warrington and Preston.
Meanwhile, Müller confirmed in May it was to close its Foston plant in South Derbyshire, affecting 228 jobs.
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3 No-Brainer Stocks to Buy in the Industrials Sector for 2018
These three red-hot industrial stocks look poised to run even higher in 2018.
Neha Chamaria
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The industrials sector, in general, had an incredibly strong 2017, with several stocks across various industries, be it heavy machinery, electrical equipment, aerospace, or building materials, soaring double digits. For the ones that didn't, it was more about internal struggles than macro headwinds. Industrial stalwart General Electric (NYSE:GE) is, by far, the best example: From tumbling profits to a major management shakeout to a massive dividend cut, General Electric gave investors enough reasons to fume.
Yet, despite GE's jaw-dropping 45% plunge, the Dow Jones Industrials capped 2017 with a solid 25% gain, reflecting sectoral strength that should spill over to 2018. For investors, that could mean another richly rewarding year ahead if they're invested in fundamentally strong, growth-focused industrial stocks such as 3M (NYSE:MMM), Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW), and Emerson Electric (NYSE:EMR). Check out the growth projections and plans for each of the three companies below before you decide which ones to invest in.
A high-potential Dividend Aristocrat
2017 was the best among 3M's past five years, as the company scored a 32% gain. CEO Inge Thulin is optimistic about 2018: During 3M's pre annual-outlook meeting in December, Thulin said, "The 3M team is delivering a robust performance in 2017, and is well-positioned to build on that momentum in 2018 -- including strong, broad-based organic growth and expanded profitability."
Some industrial stocks could reward you handsomely in 2018. Image source: Getty Images.
3M's portfolio has changed radically in the past five years, with the company reducing its businesses from 40 to 24 through aggressive restructuring. 3M isn't done yet: Just last month, it announced plans to sell its communication-markets division for $900 million in 2018. 3M outlined an encouraging five-year growth plan for 2016-2021 that calls for 8%-11% growth in earnings per share and 100% free-cash-flow (FCF) conversion (percent of net income converted to FCF).
In line with its goals, 3M is on track to end fiscal 2017 with 10%-12% growth in earnings per share (EPS). For 2018, the company is projecting 3%-5% organic and 6%-10% EPS growth, which looks achievable given the strength in important segments like electronics. As 3M's profit rises, investors should be doubly rewarded in the form of higher share price and dividends. 3M boasts an incredible dividend history, and there's absolutely no reason to believe that it won't reward shareholders with another dividend hike in 2018, going by its encouraging EPS-growth goals.
Strong financial goals make this stock a buy
As a hugely diversified conglomerate with seven businesses that serve several major industries, Illinois Tool Works is one of the best ways to gain exposure to the industrials sector. And what better time than now to consider the stock when the company has laid down ambitious growth goals for 2018-2022. Some of Illinois' performance targets for the five-year period include:
Organic growth: 3%-5%
Operating margin: 25% plus
EPS growth: 8%-10%
FCF conversion: 100% on net income
Dividend payout: 50% of FCF
Illinois is already growing rapidly, targeting EPS growth of 17% at the midpoint for FY 2017. EPS in FY 2018 is projected to grow another 7% at the midpoint from FY 2017's midpoint earnings estimate. Not every company offers investors such operational foresight.
What matters is that each of Illinois' seven business segments -- automotive OEM, food equipment, welding, test and measurement and electronics, polymers and fluids, construction products, and specialty products -- is expected to contribute to its growth. This diversity hugely helps Illinois maintain growth on its top and bottom lines. The company is also a dividend champion: It's increased its dividends every year for more than five decades and is growing them at a compounded average rate of 15% in just the past five years.
With management aiming to bump up its dividend payout from 43% to 50% by 2020, investors can expect fatter dividend paychecks in 2018, even as they watch Illinois' earnings and share price rise.
2018: A year of automation and acquisitions
Emerson Electric operates two hugely different, but high-potential, segments: commercial and residential solutions (primarily heating, ventilation, and air conditioning products), and automation.
2017 was an important year as Emerson wrapped up its portfolio-restructuring plan, mainly divestitures, initiated two years ago and managed to grow its sales by 5% in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2017 after a weak 2016. While loss of sales from divested businesses hurt the company's bottom line, its earnings from continuing operations grew 4% during the year. More importantly, Emerson converted 95% of its net income into FCF worth about $1.4 billion in 2017.
Emerson Electric is making huge headway into future trends such as the Industrial Internet of Things. Image source: Getty Images.
Having streamlined its portfolio, Emerson is now set to "position the company for the next generation." 2018 should be the start, when I expect some big announcements coming in, especially after Emerson's recent $29 billion offer to acquire Rockwell Automation in a bid to create the world's leading automation company fell through. Flush with cash and a manageable debt-to-equity ratio of 0.44, Emerson has the leeway to tap external funding for mergers and acquisitions, if required.
For now, Emerson projects its sales to grow by 8%-10% and EPS by 5%-13% in FY 2018 as it continues to make small bolt-on acquisitions, especially in automation. For those of you who may not know, Emerson is also among the handful of companies to have increased its dividend every year for at least 60 years. In short, Emerson has all the right ingredients in place for growth in 2018 and beyond.
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Novartis' Acquisition of AveXis: Bad News for Biogen?
Not only might Biogen be facing a challenger for Spinraza next year, it could be a big challenger with deep pockets.
Add another signification biotech acquisition to the list for 2018. After a relatively quiet period for mergers and acquisition in 2017, there has been a flurry of activity so far this year.
Novartis (NYSE:NVS) announced early Monday morning that it plans to buy clinical-stage gene therapy company AveXis (NASDAQ:AVXS) for $8.7 billion, gaining promising spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) candidate AVXS-101. The price tag represented a whopping 88% premium to AveXis' closing price on Friday.
This buyout was obviously great news for AveXis and seems to be good news for Novartis. But is the deal bad news for Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB)?
A great fit
An acquisition of AveXis looks like a smart move for Novartis. The Swiss drugmaker already has a solid presence in the neuroscience market with multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Gilenya, the company's top-selling drug. However, Gilenya faces the threat of generic competition within the next few years.
Gaining AVXS-101 gives Novartis a potential blockbuster to add to its lineup relatively soon. AveXis reported terrific early-stage clinical study results last year. A pivotal late-stage study is in progress now. If all goes well, the biotech expects to file for regulatory approval of AVXS-101 in the second half of this year. Novartis hopes to launch the gene therapy in 2019.
Paying for the AveXis acquisition isn't a problem for Novartis, either. The big pharma company recently announced that it was selling its consumer business to GlaxoSmithKline for $13 billion. That sale will give Novartis plenty of cash to buy AveXis, although the timing of the two transactions will require the company to use some short-term borrowing in addition to its currently available cash.
But what about Novartis' own SMA candidate, branaplam? AVXS-101 is well ahead of Novartis' internal candidate, which is in a phase 1/2 clinical study that isn't scheduled to wrap up until late next year. Novartis had also halted clinical development of branaplam for a couple of years because of safety concerns. AVXS-101 appears to give the Swiss drugmaker a better candidate overall for entering the SMA market.
A looming headache
While acquiring AveXis looks like a good deal for Novartis, it could present a looming headache for Biogen. Currently, Biogen and partner Ionis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:IONS) enjoy the SMA market to themselves. Biogen exercised its option to license SMA drug Spinraza from Ionis in August 2016. Spinraza won FDA approval less than four months later, becoming the first drug approved to treat SMA.
Spinraza had a great first year on the market, generating sales of nearly $884 million. Analysts have projected peak annual sales for the drug of $2.5 billion. But with AVXS-101 on track to potentially reach the market in 2019, Biogen's easy money could become much more challenging to make.
Novartis' acquisition of AveXis probably makes the challenge even greater. AveXis would have needed to hire a sales force and ramp up for its first commercial launch if it tried to market AVXS-101 on its own. Novartis brings an established neuroscience sales team and deep financial resources to go head to head with Biogen.
Assuming AVXS-101 does win approval and hits the market next year, Spinraza will still have a competitive advantage for a while, at least. AveXis' late-stage study is targeting only treatment of SMA type 1, while Spinraza treats types 1, 2, and 3 of the rare disease.
Still, though, over half of new cases of SMA are type 1. Also, AveXis is already evaluating AVXS-101 in an early-stage study for treating SMA type 2.
A big bet for Biogen
Where does this leave Biogen? The biotech can still count on Spinraza and its multiple sclerosis franchise to deliver solid revenue over the next several years. However, Biogen's MS franchise faces significant competition. And with huge Novartis on course to market AVXS-101, Spinraza is also likely to see a serious challenge in the near future.
Much of Biogen's fortunes ride on one pipeline candidate -- experimental Alzheimer's disease drug aducanumab. Market research firm EvaluatePharma ranks the drug as the No. 1 pipeline asset in the biopharmaceutical industry. However, Alzheimer's disease has been notoriously difficult to treat, with the landscape littered with once-promising drugs.
Novartis' acquisition of AveXis puts more pressure on Biogen. I suspect Biogen will now be more anxious than ever to make a deal of its own.
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UMCOR - Hurricane Relief
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Faith Promise Distributions
The Missions Team of Grace Church wants to thank those who give to the Faith Promise Mission Efforts. Here is a breakdown of what the church supported in September.
$250 Emerging Mission Ministries
$135 Assist Fundraiser (Franklin)
$750 Leadership Johnson County
$250 Karl Hinkle Ministries
$250 Good Samaritan Ministry
$1000 McCurdy Ministries Campaign
$600 World Communion Sunday Offering
$1000 Otterbein/Franklin Benevolent Fund
Barnes United Methodist Church Inner City Ministry
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Brightwood United Methodist Community Center
Community center that supports children in the community near and around Brightwood in urban Indy with educational and nutritional programs.
Fletcher Place Community Center
Community center that works with folks in urban Indianapolis with a wide-variety of social needs.
East 10th UMC Children & Youth Center
Ministry that helps children in neighborhoods around the East 10th UMC.
Viva Nueva UM Ministry
Ministry that reaches out to and works with Hispanic populations in Indianapolis.
Roberts Park UMC Soup Kitchen
Soup Kitchen Ministry to persons and families on the streets of downtown Indianapolis. Groups from Grace Church serve at this kitchen on a regular basis.
Indiana United Methodist Children's Home in Lebanon, IN
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Paster Jenothy Education Fund
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Celebrating Ministry
Grace Church celebrates persons who are now moving into full-time and other forms of ministry. The following persons have been associated with ministry here at Grace:
Efrain Belmontes – He will be attending Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Chicago. He is also getting married in the summer. Efrain was a summer intern at Grace Church four years ago. He is a graduate of the Methodist Seminary in Mexico.
Chris Dourson – Grace Church wants to thank Chris and Chelsea Dourson for the ministry they have shared with the people of this congregation over the last three years. A graduate of Asbury Theological Seminary, and a ministry intern at Grace Church, Chris has been serving in different capacities, offering Bible studies, prayer, counseling, and visitation. He has also helped and preached at the Vespers Service at the Otterbein Franklin Senior Life Community. Chelsea has also been instrumental in building up the Vine service on Sunday mornings. Both Chris and Chelsea will be moving to Morristown, Indiana where Chris will serve as the pastor of the Morristown/Carrollton UMC Charge. Their new address is Morristown, UMC, 221 S Washington St, Morristown, IN 46161. Prayers to Chris and Chelsea!
Joe Gamboa – Joe has graduated with a BA in Pre-Theology from the University of Indianapolis. He will attend the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis in the fall to focus on family therapy. Joe was a member of the youth ministry of Grace Church.
Gabrielle Ginder – Gabrielle Ginder received the Bob Coleman Scholarship at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio and has graduated with honors from UTS. She has recently been appointed to serve at Sonrise UMC in Fort Wayne.
Jenothy Rather – Jenothy has two more years to complete her Doctor of Ministry at Northern Theological Seminary in Chicago.
Grace United Methodist Church takes an active role in supporting and partnering with several missionaries and mission organizations around the world. Through Faith-Promise Missions Giving, Grace Church seeks to fulfill the Great Commission of making disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:16-20).
Please visit our Ministry Partners page for information of each missionary and organization and ways to give direct financial support. Mission trips and extended periods of stay and service are also possible with advanced planning. Please contact the Church Office at Grace Church to learn more at 317-736-7962.
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The need is great and there are children denied hot lunch due to lack of funds in their lunch account. For the cost of $2.60 a day or $12.00 a week an elementary student in Franklin receives a well-balanced nutritious hot lunch. If they do not have the money they receive a cold lunch consisting of a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, cold veggies (probably carrot & celery sticks), a fruit and milk. Would you consider contributing to the health and welfare of our Franklin youth by donating to a “school lunch” campaign? This will be an ongoing project through the school year. If any questions, please contact Jenny Beck (jennybeck@franklingrace.org)
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Gold down on French election.
The gold price has pulled back sharply today after yesterday’s French election results which saw both pro and anti EU candidates make it to the 2nd round.
At 6.39pm (GMT) gold was trading at $1,275, after hitting a low of $1,265 earlier in the trading session and down from $1,283 yesterday.
In the run up to yesterday’s vote, gold had been gaining ground at the prospect that not one but two Anti EU candidates might square off in the 2nd round but in the end the winners were Emmanuel Macron and Marie Le Pen.
Macron, who is Pro European and business friendly is almost assured of victory in the second round of elections in May which brought a sense of calm over the markets and had investors searching for bigger returns,
"Macron is the favorite of the markets, so there's been a collective sigh of relief," explained Tony Farnham at Australian stockbroking and financial services firm Patersons Securities overnight.
"As a result there was an exit out of the safe haven of gold into riskier investments like stock markets and foreign currency exchange." He added.
The precious metal may have further to fall now that the threat of France possibly leaving the EU and ditching the Euro has subsided but it may receive some support on the back of continuing tensions between North Korea and the US the former’s nuclear weapons program.
"Gold prices have fallen sharply this morning due to the improvement in risk sentiment," agreed Singapore-listed bank OCBC' analyst Barnabas Gan.
"It does remove some of the suspense and risk-off sentiment we saw late last week." He added.
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Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman Criterion Collection Box Set
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Product Types: Products | Movies & TV
Lines: Cult Cinema Icons | Cult Flavor | Throwback Space
Formats: Blu-ray
Genres: Action | Drama | Martial Arts | Thrillers
Studio: Criterion
Item Release Date: September 13, 2016
The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen’s great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman. As this iconic figure, the charismatic and earthy Shintaro Katsu became an instant superstar, lending a larger-than-life presence to the thrilling adventures of a man who lives staunchly by a code of honor and delivers justice in every town and village he enters. The films that feature him are variously pulse-pounding, hilarious, stirring, and completely off-the-wall. This deluxe set features the string of twenty-five Zatoichi films made between 1962 and 1973, collected in one package for the first time.
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro 1964
After arriving in a small village, Zatoichi finds himself accused of stealing the citizens’ hefty tax payments. To clear his name, he must face off against a corrupt official, a succession of hired blades, and a bullwhip-wielding titan.
The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
Director: Kazuo Mori 1962
Zatoichi is hired to give a massage to a powerful political official who, he discovers, is mentally ill—a secret that the nobleman’s retinue is determined to keep at any cost.
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Director: Kenji Misumi 1964
While on the road, Zatoichi befriends a young mother right before she is savagely murdered. Promising her that he will hand over her baby to its father, the blind masseur embarks on an adventure both sentimental and beset by perilous action.
Zatoichi the Fugitive
Director: Tokuzo Tanaka 1963
Zatoichi triumphs at a village wrestling match, much to the chagrin of his yakuza opponents. The defeated gang members pay a hotheaded ronin to take out the masseur; unbeknownst to them, the hired assassin is married to a former flame of Zatoichi’s, further complicating matters.
Zatoichi on the Road
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda 1963
The itinerant Zatoichi comes across a dying man, who begs the masseur to escort a young woman back to her family in Edo. The honorable swordsman agrees, but in so doing, he catapults himself between two warring yakuza clans, each with its own interest in kidnapping the girl.
Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword
The blind swordsman is shot and nursed back to health by kind strangers. He soon discovers that his saviors are caught between sparring crime lords; bound by honor, Zatoichi stays to ensure their safety.
Adventures of Zatoichi
The blind swordsman wanders into a town to celebrate the New Year. There, he befriends a young woman whose father has gone missing; as he tries to help her find him, he becomes entangled in a web of corruption and a series of tragic twists of fate.
Samaritan Zatoichi
Hired by a yakuza boss to eliminate an accused debtor, Zatoichi fulfills his task, only to witness the victim’s sister paying the owed amount minutes later. When the crime lord tries to possess the woman along with the cash, the blind swordsman wrestles with the injustice he has caused.
Zatoichi’s Revenge
Director: Akira Inoue 1965
Nearing the village of his sensei, Zatoichi decides to pay the teacher a visit, only to learn that he has been murdered and his daughter forced into prostitution.
Zatoichi and the Doomed Man
An elderly prisoner accused of murder begs Zatoichi to find evidence of his innocence. The blind swordsman, for the first time, chooses not to help, but fate has other plans for him.
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
Kenji Misumi, who directed the first installment of the Zatoichi series, returns with this tale in which the blind swordsman once again finds himself the protector of a child: a little girl pursued by both devious family members and bloodthirsty ruffians.
Zatoichi’s Vengeance
Zatoichi encounters a dying man, who asks the itinerant masseur to deliver a bag of money to his young son; he agrees to fulfill the request, finding the boy in a village terrorized by criminals.
Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage
Troubled by his violent past, Zatoichi begins a journey to a series of shrines for a dose of cleansing spirituality. But as always, trouble isn’t far behind, and the blind swordsman soon finds himself defending a widow from the self-interest of ruthless thugs and despicable townsfolk.
Zatoichi’s Cane Sword
Wearying of his wandering lifestyle, Zatoichi yearns to settle down; unfortunately, when he does so it’s in a town overrun by yakuza. He has an eye-opening encounter with the town’s blacksmith, who reveals himself to be the apprentice of the man who forged Zatoichi’s legendary cane sword.
Zatoichi Challenged
A dying woman begs Zatoichi to reunite her son with the father he has never met, but when the blind masseur searches for the man, he discovers that he has been forced by a local yakuza boss to pay off his gambling debts in an unusual way: by painting illegal erotica.
The Tale of Zatoichi
The epic saga of Zatoichi begins.
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Director: Kihachi Okamoto 1970
Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard—Toshiro Mifune’s scruffy, smart-mouthed, cash-hungry Yojimbo of legend.
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
Cowritten by star Shintaro Katsu, this adventure pits Zatoichi against one of his most diabolical foes: a blind yakuza boss whose reign of terror and exploitation has made him nearly mythic.
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
It’s East meets East when one of Japan’s action idols crosses paths with an iconic kung-fu hero from Hong Kong.
Zatoichi at Large
Zatoichi comes across a pregnant woman dying from sword wounds and helps deliver her baby. Her final request to him: take the boy to see his father.
Zatoichi in Desperation
Director: Shintaro Katsu 1972
Star Shintaro Katsu sits in the director’s chair for this psychedelic and unremittingly bleak entry in the Zatoichi series, which is unlike any other in its grind-house grimness.
Zatoichi’s Conspiracy
Capping off Zatoichi’s feature film era before he made the transition to television in 1974, this chapter is suffused with melancholy, closing the series on a note of seriousness and emotional heft that it has well earned.
Zatoichi and the Fugitives
The wandering swordsman finds himself in a small village that serves as hideout for a band of fugitives who control the town officials and enforce brutal slave labor in the local silk mill.
New Tale of Zatoichi
Zatoichi is back—and in color! Hoping to leave violence behind, the blind masseur wanders to a village, where he meets an old friend fallen on hard times.
Zatoichi the Outlaw
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto 1967
Zatoichi arrives in a town where a gambling house is kidnapping its poor, debt-ridden patrons. A rival establishment moves to pay those debts and free the peasants, but this second house’s seemingly altruistic boss is actually laying the groundwork for a ruthless money-grabbing scheme.
New digital restorations of all twenty-five films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
The Blind Swordsman, a 1978 documentary about Zatoichi portrayer and filmmaker Shintaro Katsu, along with a new interview with its director, John Nathan
New interview with Asian-film critic Tony Rayns
New English subtitle translations
A book featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien; synopses of the films by critic, novelist, and musician Chris D.; “The Tale of Zatoichi,” the original short story by Kan Shimozawa; and twenty-five new illustrations inspired by the films, by twenty-five different artists
Cover by Ron Wimberly. Additional illustrations by Greg Ruth, Paul Pope, Scott Morse, Samuel Hiti, Josh Cochran, Evan Bryce, Ricardo Venâncio, Robert Goodin, Yuko Shimizu, Jorge Coelho, Vera Brosgol, Matt Kindt, Connor Willumsen, Patrick Leger, Jim Rugg, Jhomar Soriano, Angie Wang, Ming Doyle, Caitlin Kuhwald, Benjamin Marra, Bill Sienkiewicz, Andrew MacLean, Polly Guo, Barnaby Ward, Victor Kerlow.
Runtime: 2190 minutes
Region: Region A
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
Subtitles: English
Cast: Chizu Hayashi | Gaku Yamamoto | Kaneko Iwasaki | Mikio Narita | Shintaro Katsu
Directors: Akira Inoue | Kazuo Ikehiro | Kazuo Mori | Kenji Misumi | Kihachi Okamoto | Kimiyoshi Yasuda | Satsuo Yamamoto | Tokuzo Tanaka
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