'We deserve better': Students walk out in massive protest over guns
School walkouts were planned throughout the U.S. and as far as Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany.
'We deserve better': Students walk out in massive protest over guns School walkouts were planned throughout the U.S. and as far as Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany. Check out this story on jconline.com: https://usat.ly/2IoPrBS
John Bacon and Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Published 12:01 a.m. ET March 14, 2018 | Updated 5:42 a.m. ET March 15, 2018
Students from Center for Inquiry School 2 in Indianapolis, participate in National Walkout Day March 14, 2018.(Photo: JENNA WATSON/USA TODAY NETWORK VIA THE INDY STAR)
Thousands of students across the nation walked out of classrooms and into a political firestorm Wednesday, marking one month since the bloody rampage at a Florida high school shocked the world and fueled their dynamic movement demanding an end to gun violence.
Students from about 2,800 schools marked National Walkout Day, many by leaving their classrooms at 10 a.m. to show solidarity for the 17 killed in the attack Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
In Parkland, students gathered on the football field, embraced and chanted, "MSD!" and "We want change!" Rejecting requests from administrators to return to classes, they joined students from a nearby middle school to walk 2 miles to memorials set up for the victims.
"To the parents supporting their children walking out, thank you for raising this new generation of leaders," tweeted Stoneman Douglas student Cameron Kasky. "To the parents who didn't support their children who walked out anyway, thank you for raising this new generation of leaders."
At Columbine High School south of Denver, hundreds of students solemnly filed onto the soccer field for a short rally. They released balloons to memorialize the Parkland victims, along with the 13 people killed at their own school 19 years ago.
"We should never go to school in fear of our lives," said sophomore Leah Zundel, 15, as her voice broke. "Enough is enough."
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In Washington, several hundred students of all ages massed outside the White House, waving signs and shouting: "What do we want? Gun control! When do we want it? Now!" Bella Graham, a seventh-grader at Takoma Park Middle School in Maryland, said she needed to support the students in Parkland.
"I shouldn't have to be here," said Graham, carrying a sign that read "An assault on our future" with a photo of a rifle. "I should be in school, but we have to stick up for ourselves and say enough is enough of this violence."
While the protests rolled on, Democrats in the Senate gave speeches and read the names of young people killed by gun violence. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., where the Sandy Hook tragedy took place more than five years ago, said the protesting students' "energy and passion is a civics lesson for America."
The National Rifle Association chimed in on Twitter, asking that "we work together to stop school violence" and pressing its case that banks and stadiums are better protected than schools. The NRA tweeted a picture of a semiautomatic rifle with the words "I'll control my own guns, thank you."
But this day's voice belonged to the students.
In Nevada, hundreds of North Valleys High School students filled the stands of their football stadium in Reno to release 17 balloons and hold a 17-second moment of silence. Freshman Marina Johnson held a sign that read, "Your children, not your guns."
"The memorial service is great," Johnson said. "But we can't just have a memorial service every time this happens."
National Walkout Day: Students protest gun violence
Mission Oak High School students gather at Hawks Landing in the center of campus to remember the shooting victims during the National School Walkout in Tulare, Calif. RON HOLMAN, Visalia Times-Delta via USA TODAY NETWORK
Two people embrace during the National School Walkout gathering at Pine Trails Park in Parkland, Fla. OLIVIA VANNI, Naples Daily News via USA TODAY NETWORK
David Hogg speaks to the crowd gathered at Pine Trails Park in Parkland, Fla. during the National School Walkout. OLIVIA VANNI, Naples Daily News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Sebastian River High School students share in a group hug after participating in a National School Walkout event around the flag pole in front of the school in Vero Beach, Fla. ERIC HASERT, TCPalm via USA TODAY NETWORK
Teaneck High School senior Valeria Rosario, 18, center, chants into a megaphone as students walk back into school in Teaneck, N.J. About 1,200 students, participated in the National School Walkout to protest gun violence. DANIELLE PARHIZKARAN, North Jersey Media Group via USA TODAY NETWORK
After holding a rally on the school's football field, about 500 Teaneck High School students marched to the town hall to protest gun violence in Teaneck, N.J. DANIELLE PARHIZKARAN, North Jersey Media Group via USA TODAY NETWORK
Teaneck High School junior Sierra Ochoa, 16, holds a sign during a rally on the municipal green after the students marched out of school to protest gun violence in Teaneck, N.J. DANIELLE PARHIZKARAN, North Jersey Media Group via USA TODAY NETWORK
Alexandria Broadnax, a co-chair for the Progressive Student Alliance, leads a chant outside of the FedEx Institute of Technology during a protest of gun violence in Memphis. BRAD VEST, The Commercial Appeal via USA TODAY NETWORK
Members of the community from the Waukesha School District march down Maple Ave. toward district headquarters during a gathering to show support for students in Waukesha, Wis. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel-USA TODAY NETWORK
Ninth grade students Nicole McKenna, Rebecca Medina and Thalia Dillon join their classmates at Lincoln High School in Yonkers, N.Y. during the National School Walkout. MARK VERGARI, The Journal News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Sara Ferraro, a Clarkstown South High School senior, speaks during the National Student Walkout March in West Nyack, N.Y. PETER CARR, The Journal News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Viera High students gather behind the school to show their support for the students at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High and to advocate for change in Viera, Fla. CRAIG BAILEY, Florida Today via USA TODAY NETWORK
Viera High student Nathalie Burgos addresses her classmates during a walkout to show their support for the students at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High and to advocate for change in Viera, Fla. CRAIG BAILEY, Florida Today via USA TODAY NETWORK
Yaniece Norwood stands on the steps of the Capitol with Hume Fogg students as they participate in the the National School Walkout event in Nashville. LACY ATKINDS, The Tennessean via USA TODAY NETWORK
Derek Adair prays as he protests against gun violence at John Overton High School in Nashville. ANDREW NELLES, The Tennessean via USA TODAY NETWORK
Yara Ali, left, and Zoe Newcomb comfort each other, as they protest against gun violence at John Overton High School in Nashville. ANDREW NELLES, The Tennessean via USA TODAY NETWORK
Students comfort each other and sit in silence during a protest against gun violence at John Overton High School in Nashville. MARK ZALESKI, The Tennessean via USA TODAY NETWORK
Mission Oak senior Skylar Eanes speaks to fellow students gathered in Tulare, Calif. during the National School Walkout. RON HOLMAN, Visalia Times-Delta via USA TODAY NETWORK
West Glades Middle School and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students walk out of school and make their way to Pine Trails Park during the National School Walkout at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. on March 14, 2018. Olivia Vanni, Naples Daily News, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Students brave the cold and snow during a walk out Wednesday at Brighton High School in Brighton, N.Y. to protest gun violence in schools and promote school safety. MAX SCHULTE, USA TODAY NETWORK
Robjanae Cato, 14, participates at Creswell Middle Prep School of The Arts as part of the the National School Walkout event on March 14, 2018. Andrew Nelles, The Tennessean, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Students at Newark Charter School in Newark, Del. participate in a walkout in support of those who lost their lives in the February 14th shooting in Florida and to advocate for stricter gun laws on March 14, 2018. Daniel Sato, The News Journal via USA TODAY NETWORK
Freshman Andrew Pavicich, 15, ties an orange ribbon onto a fence at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. following a gun-violence walkout on March 14, 2018. Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY
Students gathered in front of the University Center at the University of Memphis, including whole classes that walked out together in protest of gun violence in schools on March 14, 2018. Brad Vest, The Commercial Appeal, via USA T
One seat is set up for each of the 17 victims at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the courtyard of Viera High School in Viera, Fla. Craig Bailey, FLORIDA TODAY, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Maria Jowadi, left, kisses Kyle Kilgo after students protested against gun violence on school campuses and walked out of classes at John Overton High School on March 14, 2018, in Nashville Tenn. Mark Zaleski, The Tennessean, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Ithaca High School students walk out in Ithaca, N.Y., on March 14, 2018, during the National School Walkout that memorialized the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Matt Steecker, USA TODAY NETWORK
Mei-Ling Ho-Shing, left, and Erin LaVoix, right, listen to speakers at Pine Trails Park in Parkland, Fla. during the National School Walkout on March 14, 2018. Olivia Vanni, Naples Daily News, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Hundreds of students stand on the football field during a walk-out in protest of gun violence at South Salem High School in Salem, Oregon on March 14, 2018. CONNOR RADNOVICH, Statesman Journal, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Students at Brandywine High School in Wilmington Del. walk around the track for 17 minutes during a walkout protesting gun violence and to remember the 17 students that died in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Fla. JENNIFER CORBETT, USA TODAY NETWORK VIA THE NEWS JOURNAL
Students from Center for Inquiry School 2 in Indianapolis, participate in National Walkout Day March 14, 2018. JENNA WATSON/USA TODAY NETWORK VIA THE INDY STAR
Students participate in a silent gun violence protest outside of Newport High School in Newport, KY, March 14, 2018. The students displayed the names of school shooting victims as they lined the street outside the school and were silent as cars drove by. CARRIE COCHRAN/USA TODAY NETWORK VIA THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
Burlington High School students gather outside to join schools across the country in a National School Walkout day in Burlington, Vt. March 14, 2018. RYAN MERCER/USA TODAY NETWORK VIA THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS
Students at Clarkstown South High School in West Nyack NY participate in the National Student Walkout March 14, 2018. PETER CARR, USA TODAY NETWORK VIA THE JOURNAL NEWS
Maryville College student Mindy Reagan joins with other students to write messages about "how they will create peace with themselves and their community" during the National School Walkout Mar. 14, 2018 in Maryville, Tenn. MICHAEL PATRICK, USA TODAY NETWORK VIA THE NEWS SENTINEL
Senior students Maxx Wexler, Alexa Belnick, Rebecca Volkov and Amy Depol listen to a speaker after students of Pascack Hills High School in Montvale, NJ walked out in support of stricter gun control laws, March 14, 2018. MITSU YASUKAWA/USA TODAY NETWORK VIA NORTHJERSEY.COM
This photo was taken by student George Diebel at Hunter College High School on Manhattan's Upper East Side as he joined the nationwide protest by students for increased gun control, March 14, 2018. GEORGE DIEBEL
About 30 Hackensack High School students gathered at the 50 yard line of the football field and held hands in silence March 14, 2018. Police and school officials watched from the sidelines in Hackensack , NJ. TARIQ ZEHAWI, USA TODAY NETWORK VIA THE NORTHJERSEY.COM
Vineland High School students turn a sit-in into a walkout against gun violence in Vineland, NJ March 14. 2018. JUSTIN ODENDHAL/USA TODAY NETWORK
Sofia Rose a senior at Dickinson High School in Wilmington, Del. along with classmates walked out of their classes and joined students across the country as part of the National Walkout, March 14, 2018. SUCHAT PEDERSON, THE NEWS JOURNAL/USA TODAY NETWORK
Vineland High School students turn a sit-in into a walkout against gun violence in Vineland, NJ March 14. 2018. JUSTIN ODENDHAL, USA TODAY NETWORK
Cherry Hill High School West junior Chelsea Valle, 16, center, marches with fellow students during a walkout Wednesday, in Cherry Hill, N.J. March 14, 2018. JOE LAMBERTI, COURIER POST VIA USA TODAY NETWORK
Several hundred students at School of the Arts in Rochester NY walked out joining other students around the area and nation in support of gun control, March 14, 2018. Tina MacIntyre-Yee, DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE VIA USA TODAY NETWORK
Students walk out of Hastings-on-Hudson, High School in NY. MArch 14, 2018. At 10 a.m. in every time zone, teachers, students and administrators across the country are encouraged to walk out for 17 minutes. ROBERT DEUTSCH, USA TODAY
Students from Center for Inquiry School 2 in Indianapolis, participate in National Walkout Day March 14, 2018. Jenna Watson, USA TODAY NETWORK VIA THE INDY STAR
Thousands of local students sit for 17 minutes in honor of the 17 students killed last month in a high school shooting in Fla. during a nationwide student walkout for gun control in front the White House in Washington, DC, March 14, 2018. SAUL LOEB, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Hundreds of students walk out of Midwood High School as part of a nationwide protest against gun violence, March 14, 2018, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. MARK LENNIHAN, AP
Young people participate in the national school walkout over gun violence by sitting and turning their backs to the White House at a rally on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, USA, March 14, 2018. MICHAEL REYNOLDS, EPA-EFE
Students from Noe Middle School march around their school for National Student Walk out day in Louisville, KY, March 14, 2018. John Sommers II, SPECIAL TO COURIER JOURNAL VIA THE USA TODAY NETWORK
A student holds up a sign protesting gun violence at schools during a walkout at Meyzeek Middle School in Louisville, KY. March 14, 2018. TIMOTHY D. EASLEY?/SPECIAL TO COURIER JOURNAL VIA THE USA TODAY NETWORK
A student holds up a sign during a walkout at Meyzeek Middle School, in Louisville, KY, March 14, 2018. TIMOTHY D. EASLEY/SPECIAL TO COURIER JOURNAL VIA THE USA TODAY NETWORK
A large group of student gather in protest agains gun violence in schools during a walkout at Meyzeek Middle School, in Louisville, KY, March 14, 2018. TIMOTHY D. EASLEY, SPECIAL TO COURIER JOURNAL VIA THE USA TODAY NETWORK
Students at Meyzeek Middle School participate in a nationwide protest against gun violence in Louisville, KY. March 14, 2018. TIMOTHY D. EASLEY, PECIAL TO COURIER JOURNAL VIA THE USA TODAY NETWORK
Freshman Kennedi Lawson, 14, carries a sign as students walkout at Cherry Hill West High School in remembrance of those killed in the Parkland, Fla., shooting in Cherry Hill, N.J.,March 14, 2018. DAVID MAIALETTI, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER VIA AP
Teachers and administrators take part in a walk as a call to action against gun violence in Haddonfield NJ, March 14, 2018. CHRIS LACHALL, COURIER-POST/USA TODAY NETWORK
Heather Radovich, an educational assistant at Elizabeth Haddon Elementary School in Haddonfield, NJ takes part in a rally to call action against gun violence prior to taking part in a march, March 14, 2018. CHRIS LACHALL, COURIER-POST/USA TODAY NETWORK
Haddonfield NJ Board of Education President Adam Sangillo speaks during a rally to call action against gun violence, March 14, 2018. CHRIS LACHALL, COURIER-POST/USA TODAY NETWORK
In Indiana, 17 students at Herron High School near downtown Indianapolis stood in a circle and held photos of those who died in Parkland. Hundreds of students held signs reading "Never again" and "Enough is enough." Some chanted, "Make change now!" and "We deserve better!"
At some schools, the message was mixed. At Vero Beach High School, about 100 miles north of Parkland, scores of students gathered around a flagpole where their cries of "We want change!" and "Am I next?" were met with other students' chants of "Trump!" and "We want guns."
At other schools, administrators discouraged the protests, warning that participation could result in disciplinary actions.
In Kentucky, more than 100 North Oldham High School student protesters face 30-minute detentions. The school banned protests for safety reasons, spokeswoman Lori McDowell said, adding that the "punishment was for defying authority, not for participating."
In South Carolina, the Greenville school district barred the news media from schools during the protests, hoping to discourage them. District spokeswoman Beth Brotherton said a student protest for gun control measures is a divisive act, and students should instead "focus on kindness." Many students at J.L. Mann and Hillcrest high schools walked out anyway.
At most schools, staff accommodated the planned demonstrations — some faculty even cheered on students.
In New Jersey, about 1,000 students silently walked the perimeter of Plainfield High School. Some school staff joined them.
"I am very proud of our students," performing arts teacher Shaniesha Evans said. "This was their idea, and this is what they wanted to do."
Hundreds of students rallied outside the White House, calling out President Trump and the National Rifle Association with signs and chants. Children as young as 11 stood outside in the 30-degree weather chanting, "No more silence. End gun violence!" (Photo: Christal Hayes/USA TODAY)
In Haddonfield, N.J., teachers held their own march before school. About 100 students, teachers, parents and administrators came together, many carrying signs or wearing orange ribbons.
"This walk is our way of showing our students we support them and believe in keeping them safe," said Stacey Brown, an English and special education teacher at Haddonfield Memorial High School.
In Arizona, hundreds of students at Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale walked onto the campus football field, forming giant letters on the 50-yard line that spelled "ENOUGH."
"I know it's not just our school," senior Cassidy Crane said. "It's schools across the nation doing the same thing as us. It just takes a couple of people to stand up."
In Michigan, North Farmington High School students wore T-shirts with the hashtag #enough on the front and the names of the Florida shooting victims on the back. The students observed a six-minute moment of silence — the amount of time it took the Florida shooter to kill 17 people. Then they read the names of the victims — one every 17 seconds.
Wednesday's walkouts marked the first in a series of events in March and April organized by students across the nation as part of the #NeverAgain movement. Another walkout is scheduled for April 20 to mark the 19th year since the Columbine High School massacre.
A massive rally dubbed March for Our Lives is planned March 24 in Washington. The event is trying to attract 500,000 people and has spurred sister marches in every state.
In Minnesota, Genesis Knoblach was among about 100 students at St. John's Preparatory School in Collegeville walking in freezing temperatures Wednesday to the steps in front of St. John's Abbey. They stood, shivering in silence, for 17 minutes.
"Yes, we are young. I know that," said Knoblach, a senior. "But you (students) are the people with so much power right now. You are the people who right now the world is looking to."
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Wolf Warrior 2 is being seen as a symbol of China's growing security presence in Africa where, like Feng, it is also fighting Somali pirates, rebels, terrorists and other enemies of the established order.
In Big Hit 'Wolf Warrior 2' Chinese Hero Takes On Africa's Bad Guys: What It Says About Beijing's Game On The Continent
Peter Fabricius
IS the hugely successful film Wolf Warrior 2 a metaphor for China's growing presence in Africa – and perhaps beyond? It's an action thriller featuring a Rambo-like Chinese hero called Leng Feng.
He takes on the bad guys, first at home and then in Africa, where he foils Somali pirates, rebels and mercenaries trying to overthrow a government. In passing he tackles a deadly (fictitious) infectious disease called Lamanla.
Like his American inspiration, Feng is something of a maverick who has been discharged from the Chinese army and who pushes official limits. Nonetheless he is ultimately a great patriot (otherwise, presumably, the Chinese embassy in Pretoria wouldn't have hosted the South African premiere recently).
SYMBOL OF CHINA IN AFRICA
Wolf Warrior 2 is being seen as a symbol of China's growing security presence in Africa where, like Feng, it is also fighting Somali pirates, rebels, terrorists and other enemies of the established order – not to mention Ebola. The film is being interpreted by some as a cinematic expression of China's growing assertiveness on the world stage under President Xi Jinping.
He told the Chinese Communist Party's 19th Congress last month, for example, that it was time for his nation to become "a mighty force" that took a greater lead on the world stage on political, economic, military and environmental issues.
Africa, some Chinese scholars believe, is being used by Beijing as a zone of experimentation for this more assertive global role. This is in contrast to China's traditional principle of non-interference in the affairs of other countries, as Sinologist Chris Alden noted at the launch of his book China and Africa: Building Peace and Security Cooperation on the Continent at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA).
In the book, Alden – a senior research fellow at SAIIA and professor in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science – and his fellow authors describe how China's security presence in Africa has been growing. This shift from its erstwhile hands-off attitude has brought Beijing closer to the approach of Western powers which have been involved far longer in African security. But it also caused some disquiet and suspicion among those Western powers about China's designs on the continent, Alden said.
Nevertheless, China and Western powers are also learning to cohabit in the security domain, most notably in Djibouti where China, the US, Japan and European militaries are living cheek by jowl in a very small space. This could also be a pilot study for security cooperation elsewhere.
Alden explained how China's rapidly expanding economic involvement in Africa over the past two decades had exposed it to the vagaries of African politics, forcing it to step up its meagre security presence to protect its businesses and its citizens. China began increasing its military footprint on African soil in 1998, with a growing endorsement of and presence in United Nations peacekeeping missions.
UNUSUAL RISKS
The book observes how Chinese investment has been drawn to war-torn, unstable or fragile states like Sudan, which Western companies have mostly shunned; or to countries like Angola which have rejected Western donor conditionalities. But this has often confronted China with unusual risks.
Sudan and Darfur, where China has considerable oil investments, became a turning point in China's security approach in the early 2000s, Alden said. It took an increasingly activist position there, initiating discussion at the UN Security Council and even allowing the cases of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and others to go to the International Criminal Court (ICC). It was also motivated by concern about its international reputation, especially in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, that its involvement in Sudan could hurt its international reputation.
As South Sudan gained independence in 2011, fell out with Khartoum over oil deliveries and later imploded, Beijing played an active mediation role. China then contributed combat soldiers to the UN peacekeeping mission in the newborn country.
And just as Darfur had pushed China into areas it hadn't really expected to enter, so the 2011 crisis in Libya – where China also had considerable oil interests – pushed it even further along the road of engagement in peace and security matters, Alden said.
INTO THE PRIVATE SECURITY DOMAIN
China also entered the private security domain, rehatting People's Liberation Army soldiers as private security guards to protect some of its larger commercial interests.
It also increased its support to African Union (AU) peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts. It put combat boots on the ground in Mali. And it became involved in the post-civil war peacebuilding efforts in Liberia, partly as a result of that country shifting diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to mainland China.
Xi Jinping: said was time for his nation to become "a mighty force" that took a greater lead on the world stage. (Caricature/DonkeyHotey/Flickr).
China also stepped up its bilateral military support in Africa, with training – but also more controversially becoming the third-largest provider of small arms to Africa. Alden said, though, that Western non-governmental organisations were pressuring Beijing to reduce those sales as they were fuelling conflict.
Alden noted that China's involvement in African maritime security had been growing too, starting with the Chinese navy's participation in the international naval patrols against Somali pirates in 2008. In 2015 it went further by establishing the naval base in Djibouti and then expanding its presence there.
Cobus van Staden of the Wits University media studies department told the SAIIA seminar that China's involvement in Africa was increasingly mirroring the robust debate in Western societies about exposing soldiers to danger in far-off places. After two of its peacekeepers were killed in South Sudan and one in Mali last year, there had been an outpouring of debate on Chinese social media. Some questioned why Chinese soldiers were in those countries at all, while others called for an even more aggressive response.
Van Staden felt the demands by many Chinese citizens for revenge in South Sudan and Mali, coming at just the time Wolf Warrior 2 became the biggest blockbuster in Chinese movie history, expressed the way China was seeing its role in the world. That is, as a transnational actor, as opposed to the non-interventionist policy of the past, he said.
Alden suggested that the lessons China was learning in Africa could be applied to Xi's hugely ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, or Silk Road – a development and transport corridor linking Beijing with the West. Alden said, as in Africa, China's economic interests in the Silk Road were exposing it to political contests and probably the need to provide security protection.
If China's growing security involvement in Africa was changing its fundamental policy of non-interventionism, would its growing involvement in supporting African elections likewise herald a greater embrace of democracy more generally, asked John Stremlau of the Wits International Relations Department. He was surprised at China's open support for post-conflict elections in Guinea and Madagascar, for instance.
Alden thought not, saying China still preferred the developmental post-conflict peacebuilding model. This put the stress on socio-economic reconstruction and development over the Western liberal peacebuilding model, which emphasised democracy as the foundation for societal recovery, he said.
Nonetheless one can imagine that China's contribution to post-conflict elections in Africa might at least begin to introduce some constructive ideological tension with its own authoritarianism at home. And incidentally, the growing security footprint in Africa of its unquestionable friend in Beijing seems to have silenced many African critics of Western 'imperialism' on the continent.
Rambo and Feng, arm in arm, stride off into the African sunset?
•Peter Fabricius is an ISS Consultant.
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It's no secret that the Apple TV isn't doing terribly well compared to similar gear from Amazon, Google and market leader Roku. While Apple was the pioneer in this space, it took far too long to modernize the product.
Even when Apple introduced an all-new model in 2015, it made it much more expensive, yet still lacking 4K support at a time when tens of millions of TV sets featured the higher resolution capability. So it left the customers with a dilemma. If they still wanted to stick with the Apple ecosystem, the entry-level 32GB model was $149, compared to $99 for the third generation model before it was discounted.
I suppose some might have found the new features, which included an enhanced remote, and Siri and app support, to be reasonably compelling, but did it really matter? How many people really strayed beyond iTunes and Netflix anyway.
In 2017, Apple discovered 4K. Rather than keep the same price, or, better, reduce it, the entry-level unit was priced $30 higher. This may have been necessary to the bean counters who evaluated such matters as the price of raw materials and such, but it made even less sense.
Other than Apple's ecosystem, the $99.99 Roku Ultra offered a similar lineup of useful features, including 4K and HDR. If you just wanted Netflix and maybe Amazon Prime, Hulu along with VUDU for movie rentals, the $69.99 Roku Streaming Stick also features 4K and HDR.
When you look at the numbers, paying $179 for an Apple gadget seems outrageous.
Now some might cite the same argument for a Mac or an iPhone, but it's not valid. Compared to premium PCs, the Mac is in the same ballpark. Compared to premium smartphones, so is the iPhone, and you can make the same argument for the iPad or an Apple Watch.
None of this justifies paying $79 more for an Apple TV 4K compared to a Roku Ultra beyond the commitment to Apple's own services. The added features just aren't compelling enough for most people, and picture quality isn't so much different. A TV set's own upscaling of HD content produces similar results, except for the HDR enhancements.
As most of you know, I haven't been using my vintage third generation Apple TV since late 2017. When VIZIO sent me a 4K TV for long-term review, I tried out its embedded SmartCast app, which is based on Google Chromecast. My iTunes movie library is scant, and it was easily transferred to Movies Anywhere so I can play them on almost any streaming device. The VIZIO remote offers one-touch access to Netflix, Hulu, VUDU and other services with a decent interface.
If the price of an Apple TV 4K was cut in half, I still wouldn't buy one even if I had the spare cash, and I suspect a lot of devoted Apple customers have come to the same decision for various reasons.
So what is Apple to do, other than cutting the price to a sensible level?
It's doubtful Apple will join its competitors and license Apple TV technology to a TV set. I actually think it would be a good idea, but would probably work only if tvOS took over a TV's interface completely. Coming up with something similar CarPlay is a half-baked solution.
Is there another alternative for Apple?
Well, apparently there is, although it apparently involves sometimes giving an Apple TV 4K away. This is what DirecTV apparently did for a while to launch its NOW! streaming service. If you signed up for three months at $35 per month, and paid the total of $105 in advance, a 32GB Apple TV came along with the package. To some, it was a great way to get one cheap, since there was no requirement to keep the service after that period.
Just recently, I read a report that Charter TV, the second largest cable provider in the U.S., will offer an Apple TV 4K to pay-TV customers along with a Spectrum TV app. This means you may be able to bypass the service's own DVR. I am not at all sure whether it'll be offered for sale, for rent, or both.
According to a published report from Bloomberg, Verizon plans to offer an Apple TV or Google TV when it rolls out its 5G broadband to homes, which is due later this year. I'm not at all sure how an Apple TV will be offered, and whether it will embed a Verizon app of some sort with a streaming service offering.
I suppose it's possible that Apple is poised to launch its own streaming service, something rumored for years before it was reported that it couldn't strike deals with the entertainment industry. But with Apple busy creating original TV shows, maybe there will be an offering that will mix content from iTunes, including TV shows, with the new programming. That is if Apple doesn't make it part of Apple Music.
But is giving away an Apple TV as a premium for pay-TV systems, or allowing them to offer it cheaply, going to save the Apple TV? Consider the value of replacing set-top boxes with an Apple gadget that offers a custom app to navigate these services and manage time-shifting.
That might be a worthy goal, one that will save Apple TV. If I had the choice, the Apple TV 4K would probably be superior to the set-top boxes from the cable and satellite providers. Well, if Apple also offered a cloud-based DVR system.
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Mabel Taliaferro
Active - 1914 - 1940 | Born - Jan 1, 1887 | Died - Jan 1, 1979 | Genres - Drama, Romance
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Before Mary Pickford was named "America's Sweetheart," actress Mabel Taliaferro was known as "the Sweetheart of American Movies." Born in New York City, she was a small child when she first began appearing on Broadway. In 1911, she appeared in the Selig Studios filmization of Cinderella. Taliaferro continued performing in films through her retirement in 1921. In 1940, she appeared in one final film, My Love Came Back. Taliaferro is the sister of film and stage actress Edith Taliaferro and the cousin of actress Bessie Barriscale.


On Exploding The Myth that the Israeli "Security Barrier" Prevents Terrorism
Ask any Israeli why there have been no suicide bombings in the last few years, and the answer will be clear – the "security barrier". When there wasn't a barrier, there were suicide bombings. Now there is a barrier, and they aren't.
That reasoning is a classic example of the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy. If A comes after B, then A is a result of B.
But are they right? And how can one tell? Well, if there were no other explanations for the drop in suicide bombing, then it would stand to reason that the barrier explains the drop.
But there are other explanations: increased and better military intelligence, a strategic decision of Hamas to enter the political arena, the crackdown by Fatah in the West Bank, etc., and the gradual dying down of the Second Intifada
So…how can one begin to assess the relative weight of the "security barrier" as a factor?
Let's look at one of the main centers of killings from 1995-2005: Jerusalem.
Since 2005, when the Israeli government approved most of the current security barrier route, there have been only two major incidents in Jerusalem with fatalities, neither of them suicide bombings. The first was the killing of the eight students of Mercaz Harav Yeshiva (March 6, 2008), and the second was the bulldozer killing on July 2, 2008. Eleven people killed. (The source of all statistic here is the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs website here)
From 1995 to 2005, by contrast, over 250 people died in Jerusalem in over forty incidents with fatalities.
So there you have it…the "security barrier" works, right?
The only problem with the explanation is that there is no "security barrier" surrounding Jerusalem. The entire southern flank of the city is exposed. The whole "security barrier" project has been stuck for close to two years. South Jerusalem (where I live) and Gush Ezion are not protected by a "security barrier." And yet there have been no suicide bombings there.
Amos Harel has an important piece in today's Haaretz on the unfinished security barrier. (Read it here.) How unfinished? According to the article around 40%. The fence is bogged down because of legal difficulties, Israel's unwillingness to move the route to the Green Line except when forced by the High Court, and American's displeasure.
Of course, the original route of the "security barrier" was to have annexed effectively 20% of the West Bank to Harel. That was the beginning of the "Land Grab Wall," which the High Court struck down. Harel writes:
In practice, however, the route encompasses only 4.5 percent of West Bank land. The four "fingers" in the last map (and which Israel presented at Annapolis in November 2007) were never built, not at Ariel and Kedumim (where a "fingernail" was built, a short stretch of fence east of the homes of Ariel); not at Karnei Shomron and Immanuel; not at Beit Arieh, nor south of that, at Ma'aleh Adumim. Instead, with little publicity, fences were put up to close the gaps closer to the Green Line, at Alfei Menashe instead of at Kedumim, at Elkana instead of Ariel and in the Rantis area instead of at Beit Arieh.
About 50,000 people in these settlements remain beyond the fence. West of Ma'aleh Adumim the wall built along Highway 1 blocks the gap in the barrier and leaves the city's 35,000 residents outside of the barrier, forcing them to pass through a Border Police checkpoint in order to reach Jerusalem. The fact that the "fingers" were never built also damages these people's security because the state refuses to build periphery fences around them and declare their proximity to a "special military area."
In some cases, such as the roads built around the original barrier route at the Beit Arieh enclave, hundreds of millions of shekels were wasted on unused roads that may never be completed.
Large gaps remain in the southern West Bank. Between Gilo in south Jerusalem and Gush Etzion are tens of kilometers of barrier, work on which was suspended due to two High Court petitions - one filed by residents of Beit Jala, the other by villagers from Batir, Husan and Nahalin. As a result access to Jerusalem from the direction of Bethlehem is relatively easy - for commuters and terrorists both.
So where are all the suicide terrorists coming from the South? Are we supposed to believe that they get stopped on the way? By what? By the internal checkpoints that have been removed?
Israeli rightwing sources like to point to the statements of the Palestinian militant leadership that attribute the drop in suicide bombing to the security fence. You can read one such website here. Pardon me if I don't think that this is just self-serving bullshit by the Palestinian militants, who would like to pin the blame not on Israel's intelligence successes, and their difficulty to get volunteers, but on the "security barrier." It makes life easier for them and saves their credibility.
The "security barrier" makes suicide bombing difficult for them?
Don't they have a map of where the barrier hasn't been built, and probably won't be built?
Posted by Jerry Haber at 4:47 AM
fiddler said...
This myth was actually debunked some two years ago, basically, if unintentionally, by the Israeli police. I remember a report (late 2007, I think) about thousands of undocumented Palestinian workers being apprehended and deported to the West Bank every month. The unfinished wall was and is no more an obstacle than a sieve is to water. Yet at the same time there hadn't been a suicide bombing in many months. Thus the claim that the "security barrier" prevents terrorism amounts to no less than the barrier having psychic powers in that it let through thousands of "illegal" workers while blocking terrorists.
Uri said...
Excellent post. But do you mean "post hoc ergo propter hoc?"
Jerry Haber said...
Uri, golly, I HATE when I make mistakes in Latin. Serves me right for writing fast.
interesting post, but the drop in suicide bombings is not due to Hamas "entering the political arena" (was pushing opponents off buildings in or out of the political arena?)
Hamas has continued to ramp up the hate education that makes it impossible for any compromises.
Y. Ben-David said...
It must be remebered that it was the Left (or the 'progressives' or 'the peace camp' or whatever you want to call them) that demanded teh wall be built, hoping that it would then serve as the border of the Palestinian state and would force Israel to expell the Jews living beyond it. The Right opposed it for this reason.
The reason for the drop in the number of terrorist attacks is due to the IDF's breaking of the terrorist infrastructure in Judea/Samaria, starting with the Operation Homat Magen (Defensive Shield) in 2002. If the IDF were to stop its ongoing operations against this terrorist infrastructure, the attacks would resume, wall or no wall.
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Sandra Cano, "Mary Doe" in Supreme Court Abortion Case, Dies
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Saying she had been duped into Doe v Bolton, she fought to overturn her own case
Sandra Cano, whose legal brief for the legalization of abortion became the companion case of Roe v. Wade, died Sept. 30. She was 66.
Though she was the anonymous Mary Doe in the Doe v. Bolton decision of the US Supreme Court that expanded abortion rights in the United States, Cano later realized that she had been duped into signing on with the case and worked to overturn both that decision and the more famous one that had been issued the same day in 1973, Roe v. Wade.
"Sandra was a sincere, honest, good Christian woman, and her heart grieved that she had been so taken advantage of," said Janet Morana, executive director of Priests for Life. "She spent her whole life trying to overturn that decision. I will continue working — harder than ever before — to make that happen in my lifetime."
"We journeyed with her. We had her as a guest on many of our 'Defending Life' television shows on EWTN and on our radio shows," added Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life. "Sandra and Norma McCorvey — Jane Roe in the Roe v. Wade decision — were with me in 2001 at the Waldorf Astoria when the National Right to Life Committee gave me an award, and in 2002 when Franciscan University gave me an honorary degree. It was a special joy when I had them both with me."
Father Pavone said Cano didn't like the spotlight, "but when we would put her in it, she would thank us for helping her get her message out."
In 1989, Cano was the special guest when Citizens for a Pro-Life Society dedicated a 5-foot tall monument in memory of over 1000 aborted babies at Holy Cross Cemetery in Milwaukee. "She was very passionate about and wholeheartedly committed to the cause of life," said Monica M. Miller, its director. "I could tell that she was deeply, very personally troubled about the role she was made to unwittingly play in the national legalization of abortion, and she did all that she could to reverse the damage the Doe v. Bolton case brought to our nation and the toll it took on the lives of the unborn."
"She had deep regrets about being used in this case by the pro-aborts. She was clearly a victim of deceptive effort to use her, and she felt extremely bad about it," said Chris Slattery, who has fighting New York City's efforts to rein in the work of a network of crisis pregnancy centers he founded. "She dedicated her life to trying to overturn her case and to do whatever she could to promote the cause of life. She was kind of a tragic hero of the movement, like Normal McCorvey, and then converted to come over to our side. The two of them had similar circumstances—they were used by the attorneys, without knowing the true nature of what they were doing with their cases."
Cano had been critically ill in a hospital outside of Atlanta dealing with throat cancer, sepsis and heart failure, according to LifeNews.com.
The Supreme Court's Doe decision allowed for abortion up until the moment of birth if necessary for the health of the mother. It defined "health" to include "all factors — physical emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age" — that may lead someone to have an abortion, LifeNews explained.
In 2003 Cano tried to get the decision reversed.
"I'm going back to court to right a wrong," she at the time. "Abortion has hurt millions of women," she said, "and I regret my role.
She said the original case was based on lies and deception. She said that in the early 1970s she had sought legal aid to obtain a divorce from a convicted child molester and to regain custody of her two children who were in foster care—not for an abortion. But her attorneys at the time misrepresented her and sought to overturn Georgia's laws requiring three doctors to certify that an abortion was medically necessary.


HR must tackle performance to deal with Whitehall budget cuts
By Personnel Today on 5 Feb 2010 in HR practice, Performance management
Public sector HR chiefs must improve performance management and look at best practice from other sectors to help deal with forthcoming budget cuts, experts have warned.
The call follows the release of a Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) report this week, which attacked front-line management in the public sector for being "sporadic and often inadequate [in] quality", resulting in high levels of absence and an inability to tackle poor performance.
Compared with the private sector, public sector employers are three times less likely to discipline staff; rate their line managers' conflict management skills more poorly; and take far longer to manage formal disciplinary and grievance cases, the CIPD warned. "It is not the impending fiscal crunch that poses the greatest threat to public service delivery, but a related people management crisis on the front line," the institute said.
Alan Downey, head of public sector at professional services firm KPMG, warned that, with job losses across central and local government "inevitable", employers needed to address performance management issues urgently.
"When you run a redundancy programme, it has to be fair and effective," he told Personnel Today. "If you have an efficient performance management system, it is much easier to be fair and lawful. Without one, you have no basis on which to choose people, beyond things such as 'last in, first out'."
Andy Robling, public services director at recruitment firm Hays, claimed public sector chief executives were unprepared for budget cuts and "uneasy" about how they would deliver services in the years ahead.
Public sector managers are not prepared for budget cuts…
16% thought their organisations had the resources to manage a reduced budget in 2010.
69% believe the private sector will have "an increasing role" in helping the public sector meet its obligations.
63% agreed they were encouraged to look outside the public sector for solutions to their management and delivery problems.
35% believe their leadership training programmes are ineffective or not available to them.
Source: Hays
A Hays survey of 1,200 public sector employees published this week revealed that just 16% of managers and 12% of junior staff believed their organisations had the resources to manage a reduced budget in 2010 (see box, left, for other findings).
More than one in 10 managers (13%) did not believe their organisation had a clear strategy in place to cope with the challenge of offering more services with fewer resources.
"More could be done across the country in anticipation of the cuts, particularly in terms of sharing best practice between sectors," said Robling. "It really is a given that if you bring people in with different experiences, they are more likely to see where efficiencies could be made."
Dean Shoesmith, joint HR director of Sutton and Merton councils and vice-president of the Public Sector People Managers' Association (PPMA), said he was "not in denial about the issues raised".
He added: "HR needs to be a strategic guide on the service delivery model, managing change, and TUPE transfers, as well as developing toolkits for managers on issues such as shared services."
However, Shoesmith suggested that CIPD research methodology was too narrow, and issued a public request for the institute to involve the PPMA in future reports on the public sector.
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Perrin Beatty
The Honourable Perrin Beatty is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the 200,000-member Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canada's largest and most representative national business association. Perrin is the principal spokesperson advocating the policy positions of the chamber's members to the federal government, international organizations, the media and the general public. Prior to joining the Canadian Chamber in August 2007, Perrin was the president and chief executive officer of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME).
A descendant of one of Canada's most prominent manufacturing families, Perrin grew up in Fergus, Ontario and graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1971. In 1972, he was elected to the House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative, and in 1979 he was appointed Minister of State (Treasury Board) in the government of Joe Clark. He held six additional portfolios in subsequent Progressive Conservative governments, including National Revenue in 1984, Solicitor General in 1985, National Defence in 1986, Health and Welfare in 1989, Communications in 1991, and Secretary of State for External Affairs in 1993.
In 1994, Perrin joined a number of private sector boards and worked as a consultant in the field of communications. He was an honorary visiting professor with the Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario, and he wrote a weekly column on government and politics for a major Canadian newspaper. From 1995 to 1999, Perrin was president and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Perrin is a former chancellor of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. In 2013, he received an honorary degree, honoris causa, from Western University. In 2016, Perrin received an honorary degree, honoris causa, from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
Perrin has served on a number of Canadian government advisory committees, was a member of the board of directors of the Canadian International Council from 2010-2015, is currently a member of the advisory council of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, and is a member of the board of directors of Mitsui Canada.
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PILE w/ COWTOWN & LEATHERNECK
GULLIVERS: 19:30–23:00
TICKETS: £9 OTD
One of the beauties of Gigs of the Week is that it can occasionally help discover your new favourite band – and it's Boston indie rockers Pile who have the honour of becoming my new Spotify obsession this time around. Famed for their distinct blend of "melted guitars" and "howling-wolf vocals", the four have earned themselves a well-deserved cult fanbase that's only set to grow with the release of latest album A Hairshirt of Purpose. Ferocious Leeds trio Cowtown and Cheshire's post-hardcore quartet Leatherneck are two supports that'll definitely see you're in good hands throughout the night.
GORILLA: 19:00–22:00
You'll be no stranger to Pond if you're a Tame Impala lover – two Aussie psychedelic outfits that once shared Nick Allbrook and Jay Watson as members. Seven albums in and The Weather is arguably the four's greatest feat yet – a collection of ethereal tracks that put an electro spin on Pond's trippy sound that was captured so perfectly on 2015's Man, It Feels Like Space Again. With a stage presence as unique as their tunes, you have no excuse to avoid grabbing yourself one of the last remaining tickets and getting over to Gorilla on Tuesday.
THE ALBERT HALL: 19:00–23:00
Pysch-rock not your jam? Don't fear; Everything Everything are hitting The Albert Hall on the same night. Genre-defying and politically-motivated, the infectious Manchester quartet list R Kelly, 10CC and Bowie amongst some of their wide-ranging influences. Wrap your ears around latest single 'Can't Do' if you haven't already; it's anticipated to be one of the defining songs of Summer 2017.
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THE DEAF INSTITUTE: 19:00 – 23:00
Kikagaku Moyo may be a name you're unfamiliar with – but don't let it stay that way for long. Tokyo-based, and with a name that translates from Japanese as "geometric patterns", labels such as prog-rock and acid-folk do little to accurately reflect the spectrum of influences that the quintet display. Shake off your midweek slump and get yourself to Deaf Institute on Wednesday for some free-floating, late-night jamming.
FRIDAY 23rd JUNE
THE AVALANCHES
You'd be hard pushed to find a band with a career as expansive as The Avalanches – the Aussie electro group that shot to fame in 2000 with their debut Since I Left You. Working alongside the revered Toro y Moi, Madonna and Manic Street Preachers – as well scoring support slots with The Beastie Boys and Public Enemy – there's nothing to expect but the unexpected from a band who have made such an impact on the worldwide music scene with just two current members and two studio albums.
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Scouts Had Valid Concerns About Michael Jordan Before He Joined the NBA
by Matt Wilson on March 28, 2020
It would surprise no one to learn Michael Jordan was drafted in the first round of the 1984 NBA Draft. But he wasn't picked first. In fact, scouts had some concerns about MJ's basketball prowess. Teams took note, and fans everywhere waited to find out the results of the highly anticipated draft.
The Houston Rockets used its No. 1 overall pick on Hakeem Olajuwon. The two-time Finals winner became a Hall of Fame inductee — it's impossible to say he didn't deserve it. So why did NBA scouts peg Jordan below Olajuwon? It turns out, the decision seemed reasonable based on what Jordan had to show at the time.
Scouts read Michael Jordan as a journeyman
Jordan got cut once. When he was 15 years old, attending a tryout with 50 other boys, the coach didn't think he had the elite stuff required, reports Sports Illustrated. Granted, the sophomore was trying out for a varsity squad. They pegged Jordan's shooting as "merely good" and his defense as "mediocre."
During his college years, when he got a bit taller and more physical, MJ was an immediate star. But was he first-round draft material? Some scouts weren't sure about the North Carolina center. At 6-foot-6 with a wiry frame, he wasn't the big man most NBA teams wanted.
Jordan's MLB interest could be a distraction
Jordan was a dedicated high school athlete. He played basketball, of course, dominating his junior varsity team after varsity snubbed him. But even after he got the promotion he sought, he remained vocally dedicated to baseball.
This bothered some scouts. The possibility that MLB scouts could lure Jordan — leading to a wasted top NBA pick — was worrying, too. Their fears weren't entirely unfounded, given his time playing minor league baseball during his first retirement from basketball.
MJ's underdeveloped ball-handling
Ball handling was never a problem for Jordan. However, he didn't begin as the elite figure he would later become. At UNC, Jordan was encouraged to spend more time at the perimeter to improve, according to NBC. He was already accomplished at straight drives. Scouts didn't think he'd reached his full potential with ball handling.
The contemporaneous scouting report said Jordan was a "good ball handler, though not a great one at that time, but a good one, and a good defensive player." He'd become elite in both categories, of course. It simply wasn't on display at the time.
A young Jordan wasn't a great three-point shooter
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Only one deficiency from Jordan's younger years followed him into the NBA: the long ball. He preferred to work his way in, using the perimeter mostly as a mix-up tool to juke his opponents. This was consistent throughout his career. According to Basketball-Reference, Jordan averaged 32.7% from the three-point line.
That is mostly due to his playstyle. A disproportionate number of his three-point shots were attempted buzzer-beaters. When he built his game around three-point shooting on a whim, he proved his off-court training was sound. In Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals, Jordan sunk six threes and scored 35 points in the first half alone.
So much of Jordan's game was psychological. He showed little interest in falling back to open space to find threes. He played up close and personal, in a way that matched the metagame of the NBA at the time. But even here, scouting missed his potential. In terms of physical abilities, rather than choice, his three-point shooting was capable of dominating on the largest stage imaginable.
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The Edward R. Roybal Learning Center took a long and difficult path to completion but once finished the Los Angeles Unified School District could call the school a success, rather than a disaster.
Construction at the school site began in the late 1990s but was shut down two separate times after seismic and environmental conditions were discovered. The project site sat dormant for three years. The school, then called the Belmont Learning Complex, was viewed as the most expensive high school never built.
But in 2005, the Los Angeles Unified School District awarded new contracts to an architect and general contractor who were tasked to take the project and turn it into the desperately-needed school for the city.
When completed in September 2008, the renamed Edward R. Roybal Learning Center was a 610,000 sq-ft 2,800-seat year-round high school, consisting of seven small learning communities. One of the challenges of building the school was incorporating already-constructed buildings with new construction plans.
The project team took four of the partially-constructed buildings from the unfinished school and created 88 classrooms. New construction included a 55,000-sq-ft auditorium, library, cafeteria building, and a 55,000-sq-ft classroom/administration building, all contained within a 50-foot earthquake fault setback for seismic safety. The campus also features a large gymnasium with locker rooms and outdoor athletic facilities as well as a central plant. The project team also installed an elaborate methane barrier accompanied with a methane exhaust system underneath portions of the project to provide a double barrier of protection from methane gases – one of the environmental issues that had stopped construction.
The methane system and seismic safety were important components for the project team to address. The methane mitigation system traps gases through sand, soil, and a plastic membrane and when levels are high, vents them through conduits located in and around the school. All buildings were set back the minimum fifty feet from the earthquake fault, which meant demolishing one of the four already-built classroom buildings and administration building and replacing it with another classroom building and a multipurpose building that includes a cafeteria, a library, a bookstore, music and dance rooms, and maintenance offices.
The project team also managed to add in some sustainable and Collaborative for High Performance Schools elements to the school's construction. For example, north-facing windows maximize natural daylight, and south-facing windows are shaded by balconies above, solar heat gain was minimized with insulated, tinted glazing and water consumption was reduced with drought-tolerant native plants and high efficiency plumbing fixtures.
Owner: Los Angeles Unified School District
General Contractor: Hensel Phelps, Irvine
Architect: WWCOT Architects, Santa Monica
Civil Engineer: EW Moon, Inc., Los Angeles
MEP Engineer: Donald F. Dickerson & Associates, Van Nuys
Structural Engineer: Brandow & Johnston Associates, Los Angeles
Landscape Architect: Rios Clementi Hale Studios, Los Angeles
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DONETSK. Sept 15 (Interfax-AVN) - Five people were killed and another five wounded in shelling of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) by the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the past week, the DPR ombudsman's office said.
"From September 8 to 14, 2017, five people were killed in the DPR, all of them servicemen of the republic," a spokesperson told journalists on Friday.
Another five people were injured during the period, he said.
"From September 8 to 14, 2017, five people, including three DPR servicemen and two male civilians, were wounded as a result of Ukrainian armed aggression in the Donetsk People's Republic," the DPR ombudsman's spokesman said.


Yale Team Helps Improve Emergency Care for Kids
By Carrie MacMillan January 5, 2017
Simulation has become a key training tool to help medical professionals deliver the best possible pediatric emergency care.
Yale Medicine's Marc Auerbach, MD, explains elements of a medical simulation exercise at Stamford Hospital.
Credit: Robert A. Lisak
A four-month-old baby's life is in jeopardy. She cries inconsolably. Her heart beats dangerously fast as an ambulance transports her to a local emergency department. There, a team of doctors, nurses and technicians only has one minute to prepare for her arrival. As the child's distraught mother shouts information about her symptoms, the medical team gets to work.
"Is she going to be OK?" the panic-stricken mother asks, as a nurse administers an intravenous medicine to lower the baby's abnormally quick heart rhythm, also known as supraventrical tachycardia. "Will that fix her?"
"It should, and if that doesn't work, we'll shock her," a doctor responds calmly.
We want to ensure the same level of pediatric emergency care throughout the state.
Marc Auerbach, MD
But the medicine doesn't help, and the baby's pulse weakens. The doctor prepares a set of pads and gives her tiny chest an electrical shock. Finally, the baby's heart rate stabilizes, and she quiets. Just 12 minutes have passed since she came to the hospital. The team prepares to transfer her to Yale New Haven Children's Hospital, where a pediatric cardiologist will get to the root of her problem.
High drama, then lessons learned
While this type of emergency happens frequently around the country, in this case, the dramatic scenario was actually a simulation performed at Stamford Hospital and facilitated by doctors, nurses, technicians and medics from Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale Medicine. The "baby" can indeed cry, breathe, turn blue and respond to medical interventions—but she is a mannequin made of plastic and programmed through a sophisticated computer.
Alex Villegas and Shivani Patel, both of Stamford Hospital, treat a simulated infant during a practice drill.
Simulation, which includes using mannequins, technological devices, and/or other tools to mimic clinical care scenarios, has become a key training tool to help medical professions delivery the best possible pediatric emergency care.
Though Connecticut has 36 emergency departments, there are only two children's hospitals—Yale and Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford—with 24-hour pediatric EDs. The team has come to Stamford Hospital to train the emergency room staff there because the Hospital recently opened an eight-bed pediatric unit within its ED, where children are treated daily from noon until 10 p.m.
"We want to ensure the same level of pediatric emergency care throughout the state for every ill or injured child," explains Yale Medicine's Marc Auerbach, MD, who is medical director of Connecticut Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC), which runs the simulation program at hospitals around the state. The coalition includes medical personnel, parents, volunteers and community groups.
"It isn't about having the child go to this hospital or that hospital but that every kid gets the best care whenever and wherever it is needed, and if necessary, they can be transferred to New Haven or Hartford," says Dr. Auerbach, who is also director of pediatric simulation at the Yale Center for Medical Simulation and associate director of trauma at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital.
Children aren't just small adults
Specialized training is vital, Dr. Auerbach notes, explaining, "Children are not just small adults." Medications must be dosed appropriately and special equipment is often needed.
EMSC's outreach work is funded through federal grants, the administration of which is handled by YNHH and Yale School of Medicine. In addition to Dr. Auerbach, the work is led by Yale Medicine's Mark Cicero, MD; Pina Violano, PhD, of YNHH; and Marcie Gawel, MSN, of YNHH.
Simulation is a key training tool for pediatric emergency care.
The mobile simulation team is an important piece of EMSC's work. A "parent," a mannequin, nurses, doctors, residents and an EMS provider travel to EDs throughout the state. Members of the Yale staff play the parent roles and observe how the local medical workers respond to a scripted emergency. Sometimes, professional actors perform the parts.
After each simulation, the Yale experts lead a debriefing session to identify strengths and weaknesses. "Our goal is not to critique or improve their knowledge base, but to talk about operations, systems and resources," Dr. Auerbach explains. "Maybe it's about not having the right equipment, or knowing where it is, or having it be expired or not working."
Many of the local clinicians have training in pediatric care, but they may not have experience dealing with children in their EDs with their colleagues and equipment. In Connecticut, only one out of nine children comes to the pediatric emergency departments in New Haven or Hartford, Dr. Auerbach says.
Yale Medicine's Marc Auerbach, MD, discusses the importance of simulation training for pediatric medical emergencies.
"That means nine out of 10 are going to smaller community hospitals, and that's where we want to expand the level of preparedness," Dr. Auerbach says. "When a parent calls 911 and goes to the nearest hospital, they want to get the same level of care no matter where they go. And if their child doesn't get that best level within in the first five to 10 minutes of the child arriving, they aren't going to make it to a transfer to Yale or anywhere else."
Gladys Tejada, a registered nurse at Stamford Hospital, says she has participated in a pediatric simulation before, but never one as detailed as the one in Stamford. In this simulation, three different cases unfolded over the course of three hours.
"This felt real and it will stick in my head. SVT (supraventrical tachycardia) is rare with kids who come in here, but now I will remember all of this if I see it again," Tejada says.
Samuel Maryles, MD, an emergency specialist at Stamford Hospital, agrees. "It's nice to get back out there, sharpen our skills and be reminded of how to handle those really sick babies," he says.
Meanwhile, in a different room in the pediatric ED, a second team of Stamford and Yale medical experts tends to another patient: another four-month-old infant, this one in acute respiratory failure. After interviewing the baby's "father," the team decides to administer a breathing tube. It goes in smoothly, and the mannequin baby's chest begins to move up and down.
"There was no obstruction and no physical abnormalities, but let's talk to Yale and get him up there for further evaluation," a doctor says.
Practice makes a difference
After the drill wraps up, Heather Machen, MD, director of pediatric emergency medicine at Stamford Hospital, stresses to her team the value of simulation drills. The cases presented in Stamford that morning are rare; it could easily be a few years before the emergency department sees such a medical event in real life. This underscores the importance of being prepared for various scenarios.
Marcie Gawel (center right), MSN, of Yale New Haven Hospital, and Matthew Lipshaw, MD, of Yale Medicine, listen as Heather Machen, MD, of Stamford Hospital, debriefs the team after the simulation drill.
"No matter how good you are, you always keep training," Dr. Machen says.
So far, EMSC has brought its mobile simulation program to 20 of the state's 36 hospitals, and to 25 emergency departments outside of Connecticut. Dr. Auerbach says he hopes eventually to reach every hospital in the state—and then visit them again and again to follow up. Practice might not always make perfect, but when a child's life is at stake, it's well worth the effort.
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This Is Our First Look At A CH-47 Chinook With Super Powerful T408 Engines
The new engines are larger and are encased in square nacelles. The extra power could allow the Chinook to better compete with Sikorsky's CH-53K.
byJoseph Trevithick| UPDATED Nov 13, 2019 9:50 PM
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A picture has emerged of a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter fitted with a pair of powerful General Electric T408 engines. The company had said in May that it was preparing to flight test a Chinook equipped with these engines, which are the same ones found on Sikorsky's troubled, but immensely powerful CH-53K King Stallion.
The official Twitter account for the U.S. Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command's Aviation and Missile Center, which is situated at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, posted a shot of the rear of the modified helicopter, which has the tail number 067, on the social media site on Nov. 12, 2019. The Tweet also included a view of the same helicopter from the front, but taken at a different time when it had no engines installed at all.
At present, the Army is not actively pursuing this re-engine effort for its own Chinooks as part of the larger Block II upgrade program. However, the Tweet said that Aviation and Missile Center and Boeing have partnered together to test the engine installation. It is not clear if this is occurring under a traditional research and development contract or as part of some other form of a partnered agreement, such as a cooperative research and development agreement, or CRADA.
The picture does show that the T408s use entirely new nacelles with a more square shape, as compared to the circular ones associated with the Honeywell Aerospace T55s found on existing Chinooks. The nacelles also feature reinforcement bars between them and the helicopter's fuselage.
The picture of the CH-47, tail number 067, with the new T408 engines., US Army
The same helicopter without any engines fitted., US Army
A look at a standard CH-47F from the rear., US Army
The Army did fund the development of the necessary fuselage reinforcements, as well as an updated drivetrain, as part of the Block II upgrades. This could make it easier for the service, as well as any other country buying Block II CH-47Fs, to decide to add the new engines onto the helicopters at a later date. The full Block II update also includes new rotor blades and a revised fuel tank configuration, among other improvements.
It's not clear whether or not the helicopter has flown yet in this configuration. The picture appears to show personnel on the ground conducting tests or otherwise performing work.
"We're getting it ready to fly," Chuck Dabundo, the H-47 program manager at Boeing, had told reporters during a media tour in May 2019, according to Rotor and Wing International magazine. However, he did not say when, or where, the first flight might take place.
A CH-47F with T408s had the potential to be significantly more capable than the helicopter in its existing configuration, which already has very good speed, payload, and hot-and-high performance. The General Electric engines each produce 7,500 shaft horsepower (SHP), around 2,500 SHP more than the T55-GA-714As on standard F models. Boeing has said that the Block II CH-47Fs will already have increased performance compared to the original F variants even without the new engines.
Standard US Army CH-47F Chinooks., US Army
A T408-equipped CH-47F still won't have the same lifting power and maximum payload capacity of Sikorsky's CH-53K, but it is possible that the new engines could close that gap and make the upgraded Chinooks much more attractive when compared to the extremely expensive and troubled King Stallion. This has already raised questions in Congress about whether the Marines should consider the CH-47F as an alternative to the CH-53K, a debate you can read about in more detail in this past War Zone piece.
Boeing could easily pitch Chinooks with new engines to future operators and offer refits to countries that already have CH-47 fleets. The Chinook has a well-established operator base and sales have continued to be relatively steady in recent years, with the U.S. government just approving another prospective sale of CH-47Fs to the United Arab Emirates last week. India just began receiving its first Chinooks earlier this year. Israel and Germany are also actively looking for helicopters to replace their aging Sikorsky CH-53 Yasurs and CH-53Gs, respectively, and have narrowed down their searches to the CH-47F and the CH-53K.
With this picture showing that tests of the new engine configuration are proceeding, hopefully we will learn more about this exciting upgrade for the venerable Chinook soon.
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