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Home >> Prof. Development >> The Internet Safety Debate The Internet Safety Debate Yes -- it's OK to filter Internet content in schools. No -- students should learn how to handle the Internet as it is. The debate continues no solution in sight. You'd search far and wide to find an adult who does not support protecting children from pornography, hate speech, and other undesirable content on the Internet. But exactly how to keep children safe has sparked intense debate among parents, educators, politicians, technological experts, and others. Some observers question children's need to use the Internet at all. Why not simply use more traditional methods of research and information collection, they ask. Why not keep children, especially young children, from using the Internet? We need to allow kids to use the Internet "because the amount of educational material on the Internet outweighs the minor inconvenience of having to monitor what is going on," said Barbara Feldman, who writes a syndicated newspaper column, "Surfing the Net With Kids." [See below to learn how to subscribe to an online version of the column.] "I think elementary- and preschool-age kids should ONLY use the Internet with direct adult supervision. As kids enter their teens, I believe that MOST children can be given more freedom," Feldman continued. "To me that means that family (or school) rules are agreed upon and followed or computer privileges are lost. For kids AND teens, I believe the Internet computer should be in a shared room (family room, kitchen, etc.) so that adults can keep an eye on what's happening on the monitor." ON THE NET IN THE CLASSROOM A recent classroom incident, reported in the March 25, 1998, New York Times, underlines the need for clear school policies for Internet use by students. Two fourth-grade students in Waldo, Fla., were disciplined after their teacher discovered them using a classroom computer to make a World Wide Web search for, as the Times put it, "a mild vulgarity that refers to a woman's breasts." Such incidents lead to the question of how schools can allow students to use the Internet educationally yet keep undesirable language or visual material out of the classroom. Parents of the boys in Florida, whose names were not disclosed, say schools must put in filtering software intended to stop potential student access to pornography, undesirable language, and other objectionable sites. A number of such filtering programs, such as SurfWatch and Net Nanny, are sold for the stated purpose of ensuring children's safety. The director for the Florida state unit that acts as an Internet service provider for the public education system said that 75 to 80 percent of the state's school districts already filter or plan to do so, through the state or other services. Some educators and other observers, however, object to the use of filtering software in the classroom because, they maintain, it often blocks legitimate material and fails to catch all the pornography and smut. There are those observers who think the best way to ensure Internet safety for children is teaching them to use the computer responsibly. In any given classroom hooked up to the Internet, these educators say, the teacher must establish an acceptable-use policy for the computer, a set of rules oulining online do's and don'ts. WHAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS DOING What is the U.S. government doing about keeping children safe on the Internet? In June 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Amendment as unconstitutional. The amendment to the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996 regarding alleged "indecent" content on the Internet would deprive Americans of their right to free speech on the Internet, the Supreme Court held. Since the Supreme Court ruling, the federal government has launched a different sort of public information initiative to protect kids on the Net. An Internet Online Summit: Focus On Children was held from December 1 to 3, 1997, in Washington, D.C. Among the speakers were Vice President Al Gore, Attorney General Janet Reno, and Education Secretary Richard Riley. "Both the President and I have long been convinced that the Internet is not a luxury or a diversion; it is an essential tool for children. And its use is fast becoming an essential skill for adults," said Vice President Gore at the summit. "Ten million children are already on the Internet," he went on, "and that's four times as many as just a few years ago." Gore stated that Americans should "allow the industry to take the lead, with the help and guidance of government, advocacy groups, and families, to provide parents with the education and tools they need to preserve both safety and freedom on the Internet." He encouraged industry to work to "make the new technologies [that protect children by filtering Internet content] easier to use, more effective, and more widely available...These tools must become as commonplace and as easy to use as the remote control on the family TV." EMPHASIZING OTHER APPROACHES In contrast with the U.S. government's emphasis on new technology, such as software that filters Internet content to protect children, other groups emphasize teaching children to handle the Internet as it is. The Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Free Speech maintains that "such filtering software does not actually perform as advertised, and in fact not only is physically incapable of blocking material that fits a particular legal definition such as 'obscene,' but also has been demonstrated to block numerous sites with no 'obscene' or 'indecent' content whatsoever -- material that is perfectly suitable for children." The Blue Ribbon Campaign opposes current legislative attempts to require federally funded libraries and schools to use software filters to censor Internet content. One such bill, the Campaign says, "would make it a crime to have the content of the average bookstore or library available from a Web site." Vice President Gore, in contrast, has urged Congress to pass such legislation requiring schools and libraries that use federal subsidies for Internet access to block inappropriate material from children. "As we connect every school and classroom to the Internet, we must protect our children from the red-light districts of cyberspace," he said. EDUCATORS PONDER SOLUTIONS As the debate over how best to protect children swirls, educators using the Internet are faced with an immediate problem: What action to take now to protect children in their classrooms from inappropriate Internet content? Vice President Gore speaks for developing better, more sophisticated technology to help filter Internet content. Meanwhile, many experts say, the current technology should be utilized in schools because it at least makes surfing the Net safer for children. Other experts disagree. "Filtering blocks out too much, and it doesn't teach kids the critical skills they need to use this resource as they grow older," David L. Sobel, legal counsel for the Washington, D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center told the New York Times. RULES FOR ONLINE SAFETY Many parents and teachers establish rules to guide children in Internet use. The following rules for online safety, adapted from a brochure by columnist Lawrence J. Magid, might be used in the home or adapted for the classroom: I will not give out personal information such as my address, telephone number, or the name and location of my school without my parents' (or teacher's) permission. I will tell my parents (or teacher) immediately if I find information that makes me feel uncomfortable. I will never agree to get together with someone I "meet" online without my parents' permission. If my parents agree to the meeting, a parent will come with me. I will not respond to messages that make me uncomfortable in any way. If I get such a message, I will tell my parents right away so they can contact the online service. I will negotiate with my parents to set rules for going online. In short, many observers say, parents and teachers need to establish the same kinds of rules and responsible behavior for Internet use as they set for kids in general. NEXT WEEK: Teaching kids to surf safely Article by Sharon Cromwell The full text of Child Safety on the Information Highway, a brochure by Lawrence J. Magid (published by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Interactive Services Association), is available online. To request free printed copies of this brochure with rules for online safety, call 800-843-5678. Boys Will Be Boys, but Does the Internet Prove Too Tempting? A New York Times news story explores the issue of children's access to inappropriate material on the Internet in a school setting. Wired News: Dramatic Internet Growth Continues Wired magazine's news story details how the Internet is growing at a rate of about 40 to 50 percent a year, offering interesting statistics. The Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Free Speech This organization opposes attempts at online censorship and makes readers aware of such attempts and how to fight them. Parents Guide to the Internet A booklet from the U.S. Department of Education gives parents tips on navigating the Internet, including "tips for safe traveling." Surfing the Net with Kids Columnist Barbara Feldman's site provides suitable, interesting sites for kids to visit. See the site for directions on how to subscribe to Feldman's weekly email newsletter. Links updated 4/26/2002

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Do You Keep Your Promises? By: emelieempire on Friday, July 20, 2018 | 0 Relationships are built on promises: the promise to love, to care, to secure, to protect, and to provide. This is something that Piolo Pascual, Philippine actor, knows all too well, committed as he is to the promises he has made to his family as a son, a sibling, and a father. But when financial troubles arise, bringing such promises to life becomes a challenge. “Like any other person, I want to give my family the best life possible. I am a man of my word, that is why I work hard and seize every opportunity that comes my way,” Piolo said. “But more than just earning money, it’s how you manage your finances that makes a difference. Fortunately, I have the guidance and help of one very special lady: my very own sister, Chiqui Pascual-Gonzales, who also happens to be my Sun Life Advisor.” According to Piolo, Chiqui has been instrumental in ensuring that his dreams for his family will all come true. “It’s a partnership through and through. With her help, I’ve been able to make it all happen while still pursuing my own passions and advocacies,” he said. Piolo and Chiqui’s story is but one of many in Sun Life Financial, where lifetime partnerships are developed and nurtured through the years. In fact, this has inspired Sun Life’s latest campaign, at the forefront of which is a new TV commercial highlighting Sun Life’s presence in a client’s life throughout the different stages of her life. It represents the many promises that Sun Life has helped bring into fruition for the past 123 years of its existence. Sun Life hopes that the campaign, as well as Piolo’s own story, will inspire more people to take the same path in their financial journey. “As the longest-standing life insurance company in the Philippines, we have witnessed many promises being fulfilled throughout the years and have served generations of clients. It is an honor for us to serve all our clients and help them secure their future and those of their loved ones” Sun Life Chief Marketing Officer Mylene Lopa said. “The promises we make to our loved ones are sacred, and Sun Life knows this. That’s why it’s committed to helping its clients achieve their goals, no matter what happens,” Piolo said. “You can’t ask for a better lifetime partner than that!” About Sun Life Financial Sun Life Financial Inc. ("SLF Inc.") is a leading international financial services organization providing insurance, wealth and asset management solutions to individual and corporate Clients. Sun Life Financial has operations in a number of markets worldwide, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Bermuda. As of December 31, 2017, Sun Life Financial had total assets under management ("AUM") of $975 billion. For more information, please visit www.sunlife.com. Sun Life Financial Inc. trades on the Toronto (TSX), New York (NYSE) and Philippine (PSE) stock exchanges under the ticker symbol SLF.

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Home #WomenAtWork Alum Lynn Hylden on TV production, Atlanta film scene Alum Lynn Hylden on TV production, Atlanta film scene Myra Thomas As Lynn Hylden 16MEMBA wrapped up the fourth season of Being Mary Jane, she took a moment to exhale as she supervised the breakdown of the set for the hit BET cable drama. Hylden is associate producer for Atlanta-based POPfilms and manages a large team of actors and actresses, costume and production designers, grips, camera and post-production crew, as well as a host of other creative and technical people to bring the hit Viacom television show to life. “It’s a collaboration,” she said. “It’s my job to make sure all of the pieces are working well together.” There are many moving parts to get to the final product. “It’s definitely a challenging process,” she admitted. And, as soon as Being Mary Jane wrapped, it was time for Hylden to begin a different project. POPfilms produces scripted content, including films and television shows, in Atlanta. “We’re starting from scratch each and every time,” she said. “In this industry, that’s why you often learn more from the challenges you face.” POPfilms works out of the company’s 100,000-square-foot warehouse, a former Staples distribution center. They operate as a third-party production company, working with the major networks and film and television production companies. The pace can be grueling, involving long hours on set and in post-production. There are budgetary pressures too. “I do a lot of money management at an operations level, working with attorneys and accountants from the studios and networks,” Hylden said. She credits Goizueta with helping her to work more efficiently and effectively in an industry that requires speed and perfection. “The school gave me a concrete way to think about problems and solutions – the budgeting, marketing and negotiation process,” she said. “In many ways, we are making and selling a product. We operate as entrepreneurs.” Despite the many pressures, it’s a job Hylden said she wouldn’t trade. “We have a definite start and stop and an output,” she said. “There’s a tangible accomplishment.” Hylden worked her way up the production food chain. After graduating from George Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts in electronic media in 2003, the Dallas native started out working on PSAs and documentaries for the nonprofit Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Washington, D.C. She soon landed work on network reality television in Los Angeles. After a stint as production coordinator on Hell’s Kitchen, The Biggest Loser, Top Chef and Undercover Boss, she leapt at the opportunity to leave L.A. and take on a larger production role on scripted television, accepting the position at POPfilms in 2011. Hylden viewed the move to Atlanta as a smart one, given the career opportunity and the city’s quality of life. She pointed to Atlanta’s business tax and financing incentives, as well as the convenience of Hartsfield-Jackson airport, as major reasons why the city is now a top pick for L.A.-based entertainment execs looking to save money, as well as find an easy way to get to the city to check in on their film and television projects. “Business is booming in Atlanta,” Hylden said. “I came to the city six years ago and I’ve seen so much invested here.” According to FilmL.A., the not-for-profit film office that serves the greater Los Angeles region, Georgia edged out California for feature film productions in 2016. “We’re truly growing as a community of filmmakers and television production companies,” she said. Hylden is enjoying the chance to be a part of the industry’s energy. POPfilms will find local talent to do the bulk of the work on the creative and technical side of a project, not including the top-line people, like the major stars and directors, which the studios and networks select. “There might be 150 or more people that we hire in Atlanta,” she said. “There’s a true sense of satisfaction in creating that ripple effect.” Lynn Hylden POPfilms Myra Thomas is an award-winning business reporter, having written for Thomson Reuters, Dice.com, Middle Market Growth Magazine, The Secured Lender and many other publications. She has also served as Regional and Online Editor for NJ Biz, New Jersey’s business newspaper. Myra’s business acumen comes from her experience as a senior executive for a Lloyd’s of London intermediary.

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Emsworth Library Closure Consultation Emsworth Library under threat of closure Just as we were celebrating the agreement to move the Emsworth Surgery into the hospital, we have been hit by the news that Hampshire County Council (HCC) is conducting a consultation exercise on proposals to change its Library Services which include the possibility of closing the library in Emsworth. We believe that if this were to happen it would be a major blow to the town and its residents, and we need to make a robust and well-argued response. HCC needs to find savings of £80 million by April 2021 and the Library Services contribution is £1.76m. They propose to achieve this by closing up to 10 libraries and/or reducing staffed opening hours. The reasons that Emsworth has been included in the list of 10 libraries identified for possible closure (see p15 of the report) is a lower number of visits and a higher than average cost per open hour. Emsworth Library is in the centre of the town and the premises are leasehold, and so relatively expensive compared to some other libraries in the county. HCC also argues that Emsworth is within the catchment area of Havant Library, which can in theory be reached within 20-30 minutes by car or using public transport. They acknowledge however that 38% of our population is over 65 and that many would find this difficult. Emsworth Library was used by 2,227 of its members last year, with 62% of them only visiting this library. This is a substantial proportion of our population. The report says that their first priority is to promote reading and develop children’s literacy but does not describe all the support Emsworth Library gives to schools, children and community groups. In my view, the library is a very valuable asset for the community, and it would be a major loss to the town and its residents if it were to close. HCC’s Library Service Consultation report is here https://documents.hants.gov.uk/consultation/libraries-info-booklet.pdf and copies are available in Emsworth Library. The consultation began yesterday, Thursday 9 January, and runs to Wednesday 18 March. If you value our library you need to demonstrate this by responding to the consultation, you can: – Give your views online at www.hants.gov.uk/library-consultation, or – complete a paper copy of the form available from Emsworth Library. On Friday 14 February, between 2pm and 4pm, there is a HCC run Public Drop-In session at Emsworth Library. A working group of Emsworth’s representative associations has already formed and will develop constructive proposals to avert this threat to Emsworth and its residents. As the report states, HCC’s second priority is to support healthy, creative communities, which will include establishing council-run libraries as “community hubs”. We need to take them at their word and consider alternative accommodation for the library in Emsworth that would reduce its cost and increase community support. We will keep you informed about our activities through The Ems newspaper, social media and publicity materials distributed in the town. Theo Schofield

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Home / News / Press Releases / Enterprise Florida to provide Florida companies global opportunities during Singapore-Malaysia export sales mission Enterprise Florida to provide Florida companies global opportunities during Singapore-Malaysia export sales mission Applications for Florida companies to participate available through July 16 ORLANDO, FL (May 6, 2014) – Enterprise Florida (EFI) will lead a delegation of Florida-based manufacturing and professional service provider companies on an export sales mission to Singapore and Malaysia from September 19-26. The mission will provide Florida companies with networking opportunities and face-to-face appointments with the top businesses in this leading global marketplace. EFI Senior Vice President of International Trade & Development Manny Mencia said, “The exposure the participating companies will get from this trip is invaluable. Florida has one of the best manufacturing industries in the nation and our high-tech sector is among the best in the nation. Florida’s products and services are being used around the world and this trip to Malaysia and Singapore is another great opportunity for Florida companies to expand globally.” Singapore offers excellent opportunities for Florida companies to sell their products and services, as the country is virtually a free port. Singapore is a major trading hub, importing and exporting products from consumer goods to high-tech and industrial goods. In 2013, Florida exported more than $237 million of manufactured goods to Singapore. Geographically blessed, peninsular Malaysia stretches the length of the Strait of Malacca, one of the most economically and politically important shipping lanes in the world. In 2013, Florida exported about $69 million of manufactured goods to Malaysia. Singapore and Malaysia target industries include, but are not limited to: Aircraft and parts Oil and gas equipment Trade grants are available for qualified Florida manufacturers and professional service providers, covering 100 percent of the registration fee for the first company representative. The grants are only available for Gold Key participants. A separate application process is required for this grant. To register by July 16, please contact Selma Fates at sfates@eflorida.com. For more information on the mission, please contact John Diep at jdiep@eflorida.com. Enterprise Florida, Inc. (EFI) is a partnership between Florida’s businesses and government leaders and is the principal economic development organization for the state of Florida. EFI facilitates job growth for Florida businesses through recruitment and retention, international trade and exporting, promotion of sporting events, and capital funding programs to assist small and minority businesses. International International Trade and Development Press Releases

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A Bumpy Road for Driverless Cars Posted By Chelsea Conaboy On January 8, 2019 @ 11:28 am In Warning Wire | No Comments Potholes ahead: Congress adjourned last month without voting on a bill that would have smoothed the rollout of driverless vehicles across America — and angered consumer advocates — by failing to include minimum safety standards for the self-driving cars. Automakers and technology companies, which have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in driverless technology, will have to try again in a divided government, Reuters reports. Joann Muller of Axios offers some predictions for 2019, with this important takeaway: The technology still depends on public trust. Consider that in one Arizona city serving as a testing ground for Waymo, the company’s driverless cars frequently are attacked by residents who say they don’t want them on the roads. Tires have been slashed, Waymo employees have been threatened, and it seems to be the company’s practice not to pursue charges, Simon Romero of The New York Times reports. One couple said their 10-year-old son was almost struck by a driveless car while playing in a cul-de-sac. They were unapologetic in their efforts to stop the vehicles, quite literally, from driving in their neighborhood. The boy’s father, Erik O’Polka, was issued a police warning in November after repeated reports of his Jeep Wrangler acting aggressively toward a Waymo vehicle, including driving at one head-on until it stopped. “They said they need real-world examples, but I don’t want to be their real-world mistake,” O’Polka said. Also: Makers of autonomous vehicles announced a coalition aimed at lobbying policymakers and building public trust, Jake Holmes at CNET reports. At school, on lockdown: The Washington Post has taken a comprehensive look at school lockdowns and the toll they take on students’ emotional well-being. School shootings are still rare in the U.S., even after the violence of 2018. Yet reporters Steven Rich and John Woodrow Cox counted more than 6,200 lockdowns in the school year that ended last spring, calling them “a byproduct of this country’s inability to curb its gun violence epidemic.” The lockdowns they tallied affected more than 4 million students, including more than 1 million elementary-age children. “There was once a time where we could say schools are the safest place for a child to be, and they would agree,” psychiatrist Steven Berkowitz said. “They wouldn’t now, even though it’s still true. The perception of safety is no longer there.” Also: Eight years after U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords was shot at a constituent event in Tuscon, she plans to help Democrats introduce a bill that would require a background check on anyone purchasing a firearm, including online or at gun shows, with few exceptions. The shutdown rolls on: National parks are feeling the effects of the second-longest government shutdown, with numerous reports of unauthorized use of the parks and the build-up of trash, human waste and, in some locations, snow. The Washington Post reported that the Park Service will take the unprecedented step of using entrance fee income to maintain some basic operations during the shutdown, a move that critics say may be illegal because those fees are meant to enhance visitor experience, not to support basic operations. The New York Times has a comprehensive look at how other parts of the government have been affected, including a dramatic slowdown in financial enforcement, with investigations at the Securities and Exchange Commission having “ground to a halt.” The shutdown has affected about 800,000 federal workers, many of whom will go without paychecks this week for the first time. Real-world impact of rollbacks: The Trump administration has blocked or unraveled dozens of environmental protections created under President Obama. A team of reporters at The New York Times look at what that means for four communities. In Bakersfield, California, agriculture workers are overcome by chlorpyrifos, a powerful pesticide that was set to be banned. Coal-burning power plants in Texas that have benefited from the rollbacks pump out pollutants that worsen respiratory illnesses and blanket national forests and wildlife areas in a haze. Clean water regulations helped a West Virginia river and its surrounding communities begin to recover from decades of pollution, but now those efforts are being reversed. A dramatic spike in oil production in Fort Berthold, North Dakota, has left people living on or near Indian and federal lands exposed to toxins from billions of cubic feet of methane gas burned improperly each month. Also: A land swap brokered by former Interior secretary Ryan Zinke and with President Trump’s approval will allow a road to be constructed in Alaska through one of the wildest areas on Earth, despite warnings from the department’s own scientists, Jane Kay reports for Reveal. Climate probe moves forward: The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a bid by ExxonMobil to block an investigation by the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey into how much the oil giant knew – and when – about its products’ role in warming the planet. Healey began the investigation under state consumer protection law after journalists from InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times reported in 2015 that scientists for the company had been warning executives for decades about the climate effects of fossil fuels, even as the company publicly denied the existence of climate change. Her office has requested 40 years of internal documents on the matter. The company sued Healey’s office to stop the investigation, but a state court dismissed the lawsuit, a decision ExxonMobil had hoped to appeal to the high court. A separate case filed by the company against Healey’s office also was dismissed in federal court, and ExxonMobil is appealing to the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Martin Finucane of The Boston Globe reports. Also: Nicholas Kusnetz of InsideClimate News looks back at lawsuits alleging that fossil fuel companies and, in some cases, the governments that regulate them, knowingly harmed the environment and undermined human rights. Deaths on the job, a tally: People who fish for a living remain at highest risk of dying on the job in the U.S. According to new federal statistics, 24/7 Wall Street reports, in 2017 there were 100 deaths in fishing for every 100,000 workers in the industry and, not surprisingly, drowning was the biggest risk. Other jobs that made the top five most fatal list: logging, aircraft pilots and flight engineers; roofers; trash and recycling collectors. Also: Two roofing companies–Aspen Contracting of Missouri and subcontractor J Cuellar of Wisconsin–have been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for failing to protect workers from fall hazards at a Colorado construction site. They face penalties totaling $147,998 –– United Parcel Service faces proposed penalties of $208,603 for failing to maintain exits that are well marked and free of obstruction at its Sharonville, Ohio, distribution center. –– Colorado company ContractOne was ordered to pay $57,463 after a worker was killed while installing water lines at a residential construction site when a trench collapsed. –– Missouri company Western Waterproofing Co. faces penalties of $155,204, and two construction bosses have been indicted on assault charges, for their role in a crane collapses at a luxury residential building in New York that seriously injured two workers. Underpaid: The owners of the China Palace restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska, have been ordered by a court to pay $145,987 in back wages and damages to eight employees after investigators found that the employees were not paid the federal minimum wage and were not paid overtime when they worked more than 40 hours. The Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Miao Hui Zhang and Jian Zhang after they were cited for the violations and failed to make changes to comply with the law. Also: A federal court has ordered Reynolds Baldwin III of Spring Hill, Tennessee, which did business as Copperhead Construction and Sara-Tech, to pay $501,000 in back wages and damages to 82 employees for failing to pay overtime and for altering records of time worked. –– A federal court has ordered Woodlands Indian Vegetarian Cuisine restaurant in Nashville to pay $220,000 in back pay and damages to 31 employees after investigators found some workers were paid a flat salary that resulted in an hourly rate that was less than the federal minimum wage and did not include overtime. At Mother Nature’s mercy: The ocean cleanup system that’s attempting to vacuum up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has faced, perhaps not surprisingly, some hiccups. A 60-foot section has broken off and some plastic the system captured managed to escape. Inventor Boyan Slat is unfazed. “Considering the things we have been able to prove in the past few months and considering the problems that we have faced, they seem quite solvable,” he told NPR. “I’m confident that the team will be able to design appropriate solutions for this and that we’ll have the system back in the patch in a few months from now.” Chelsea Conaboy is a FairWarning contributor and freelance writer and editor specializing in health care. Find more of her work at chelseaconaboy.com. URL to article: https://www.fairwarning.org/2019/01/driverless-cars/

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Falling in love with Ryan Fitzpatrick all over again May 4, 2011 | Author John Paulsen One of the big winners coming out of the NFL Draft was Ryan Fitzpatrick. The fact that the Bills didn’t take a QB with any of their nine draft picks was a vote of confidence for their current starter. Had Buffalo picked a QB in the first round or two, he may have begun the season as the starter, but chances are that he would have been benched as soon as the losses started piling up. That would have made Fitzpatrick a risky pick in fantasy drafts. Fast forward a few days and he’s suddenly looking like a great value pick once your draft gets into the middle rounds (10th-12th). According to the #Draftmaster ADP over at Pro Football Focus, Fitzpatrick is currently the 20th QB off the board in the middle of the 12th round. I suspect that his ADP will rise to the 10th or 11th rounds given the Bills’ draft, as he could pass David Garrard, Matt Cassel and Mark Sanchez, creeping up into the QB17 range. That’s where I have him in my initial QB rankings for 2011. Let’s take a look at Fitzpatrick’s per game numbers as compared to those three QBs, because I bet there are still some nonbelievers out there: As you can see, Fitzpatrick compares pretty favorably to the aforementioned three QBs in almost every category. On a per game basis, he scored the second-most fantasy points in this group. (Keep in mind that I did remove Garrard’s Week 6 game against the Titans, when he was knocked out in the second quarter. I also removed Mark Sanchez’s Week 17 game against the Bills, where he started but left the game without attempting a pass.) Considering the Jaguars drafted Blaine Gabbert in the first round, and have been toying with replacing Garrard for some time now, it certainly appears that he may have a short leash heading into 2011. If the Jaguars start losing, I’d expect they’d plug Gabbert in to get him some experience heading into 2012. Garrard’s strength of schedule looks to be about 5% tougher this season, while Fitzpatrick’s projects to be 4% easier. For what it’s worth, Matt Cassel’s schedule looks 7.6% tougher while Sanchez’s projects to be 3.9% easier. To me, Ryan Fitzpatrick is a no-brainer when picking from this group, which is why I have him ranked #17. The Bills have a tendency to fall behind in games, so assuming he plays a full season, I could easily see him finish in the QB12 to QB14 range. I actually think he should be placed a tier higher, with Matthew Stafford, Jay Cutler, Sam Bradford and Joe Flacco. Let’s take a look at how his numbers compare to those players: Note that I used Matthew Stafford’s last eight games, which includes six games from the 2009 season, and excluded his Week 1 game against the Bears in which he was injured. Again, Fitzpatrick compares favorably to the other players in this group. He has the second-highest fantasy points per game average, the most rushing yards and is right there with the leaders in passing yards and touchdowns. In fact, given his running ability, it’s a little surprising that he didn’t run for a TD or two last season — I’d expect that to change in 2011. The only characteristic that these other four players have that Fitzpatrick doesn’t is a first-round arm. It is highly unlikely that Stafford, Flacco, Cutler or Bradford (all drafted in the first round) are going to get benched at any time this season, but Fitzpatrick, a seventh-round pick, no doubt has a shorter leash. (For what it’s worth, Stafford, Flacco, Cutler and Bradford all have similar (within 1.7%) schedules as 2010, while Fitzy’s projects to improve by 4%.) Bottom line: I love Fitzpatrick as the second QB taken in a committee-approach, possibly with one of the aforementioned players. He’s a great value once the rounds hit double-digits, and with no other viable QB to threaten his job, we can draft him with confidence that if he’s healthy, he’s probably the starter in Buffalo. The Bills didn’t do anything to improve their receivers in the draft, but with the up-and-coming Stevie Johnson anchoring one side, Lee Evans on the other, Roscoe Parrish and David Nelson over the middle, and C.J. Spiller and Fred Jackson out of the backfield, Fitzpatrick should have plenty of weapons to utilize. The Bills’ offense isn’t good enough to press the Patriots or Jets for the division crown, but they’re certainly good enough to put up points in garbage time, and that’s all you need in fantasy football. Posted in QBs, Rankings, Sleepers | Tags: 2011, 2011 QB Rankings, David Garrard, Jay Cutler, Joe Flacco, Mark Sanchez, Matt Cassel, Matthew Stafford, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Sam Bradford | 2 Comments »

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Home | Press releases Proud winner's HSJ System Leadership Initiative of the Year Award Fareham and Gosport CCG is part of a team that has scooped up a trophy at the national HSJ Awards. The North East London CSU in collaboration with Fareham and Gosport CCG, OptiMedis Cobic, Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP), Social Finance and PPL , are the 2019 Health Service Journal (HSJ) winners for the System Leadership Initiative of the Year Award. The awards ceremony took place last week at the Battersea Evolution Centre where they were up against eight tough contestants for the System Leadership Initiative of the Year award. The HSJ judging panel felt that the initiative demonstrated how a system integrator could deliver improved proactive and preventive care, benefitting individual patients, population health and the public purse. You can read the full case study here. GPs, acute and community providers worked together to analyse what the most significant opportunities were for improvement in Fareham and Gosport. As a result, they created a collaborative framework and aligned incentives to enable better management of patients with or at risk of type 2 diabetes. This initiative involved identifying particular cohorts of patients, using data to give GPs insights into clinical practice, and support for GPs and commissioners to roll out best practice. Patients were involved in pinpointing what was important to them. It resulted in the creation of a system integrator handbook to support future population health projects. Dr Donal Collins, of the CCG, said: “As a frontline GP this was a career defining piece of work in a subject area I am passionate about. Trying to fix root causes of diseases, diet, exercise, and the real relationships with people and the purpose in life. The health system needs to act as one and remember why it exists- which is to improve the health and wellbeing of the population it serves. The system can sometimes put short term financial costs ahead of this. This was the question we tried to find an answer to and are pleased to share this enthusiasm with the HSJ judging panel. A list of all the finalists can be found here.

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About Mona Hatoum Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut in 1952 and since 1975 has lived and worked in London. She originally went to England on a visit and stayed on when the outbreak of the civil war in Lebanon prevented her returning. After studying at the Byam Shaw and the Slade School of Art in London, Hatoum first became widely known in the mid ‘80s for a series of performance and video works that focused with great intensity on the body. Since the beginning of the '90s her work moved increasingly towards large-scale installation works that aim to engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, fear and fascination. Hatoum has developed a language in which familiar, domestic everyday objects like chairs, beds, cots and kitchen utensils are often transformed into foreign, threatening and sometimes dangerous objects. Even the human body is rendered unfamiliar in 'Corps étranger' (1994), a video installation that displays an endoscopic journey through the interior landscape of her own body. Hatoum's work has been exhibited widely in solo exhibitions in Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. Photo by Jim Rakete © Mona Hatoum.

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Fayetteville City Council recap: July 2, 2019 Allowing noncitizens and youth to serve on advisory boards Regulating e-scooters operating in the city Rezoning 0.4 acres on West Avenue Rezoning 0.69 acres on Stone Street Two property vacations A meeting of the Fayetteville City Council began at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 2, 2019 inside room 219 of City Hall, located at 113 W. Mountain St. in Fayetteville. Present: Sonia Gutierrez, Mark Kinion, Matthew Petty, Mayor Lioneld Jordan, Sloan Scroggin, Sarah Bunch, Teresa Turk, Kyle Smith Absent: Sarah Marsh Agenda Additions 1. Submersible Pump Repair An ordinance to waive competitive bidding and accept a quote in the amount of $33,190.40 plus applicable taxes and freight from Jack Tyler Engineering, Inc. for the repair of a submersible pump for use at the Farmington Lift Station. This repair is needed after a pump failed due to excessive rainfall the city has seen in recent weeks. There was no council or public comment. The council advanced the ordinance to the final reading and voted unanimously to approve it. 2. City Prosecutor Powers (Details) An ordinance to amend 31.45(C) Duties of the Fayetteville City Code to affirm that the City Prosecutor has the traditional inherent power to exercise discretion to dismiss most misdemeanor criminal cases. This item was sponsored by Council Member Mark Kinion. It is a clarifying amendment to the section of the city code detailing the duties of the legal department including the city prosecutor. Although prosecutors have traditional inherent discretionary powers to dismiss cases that should not be further prosecuted, that discretion is not currently reflected in the Fayetteville City Code. City Attorney Kit Williams said this clarification is needed to recognize those discretionary powers especially for cases of simple possession of marijuana of less than an ounce for private, personal, adult use. Kinion said he brought it forward because he thinks it’s important that the City Council makes it clear that they want small marijuana cases to be a low priority when it comes to enforcement. He said this is in response to recently released statistics from a local group that show a higher than expected amount of marijuana arrests in recent years, despite a 2008 ordinance that intended to make minor marijuana possession a low priority. The new language states that the City Council encourages the use of discretionary power by the City Prosecutor “to ensure that appropriate cases of simple possession of less than one ounce of marijuana for personal, private, adult use be considered for dismissal.” Council Member Matthew Petty said he thinks this is a good idea, but hopes the council goes even further in trying to address this issue. “It’s one thing to give the prosecutor the ability to dismiss cases and not put forward further penalties, but it’s another thing to correct the excessive issuing of citations and having disparities in the issuance of citations,” Petty said. Petty also suggested amending the language to mirror state law misdemeanor possession amounts (less than 4 ounces) by replacing the words “…simple possession of less than one ounce of marijuana…” with “…misdemeanor possession of marijuana…” so as not to limit the prosecutor to cases that only involve less than one ounce. The amendment passed unanimously. Some residents who spoke during public comment said the ordinance should go further by instructing the prosecutor to ignore or dismiss all misdemeanor possession of marijuana charges. Williams advised against those suggestions and said it is a violation of state law to willfully ignore statutes. He said this current ordinance is as far as the city is legally allowed to go with this matter. Kinion suggested holding the item on the first reading to allow the public more time to weigh in. The council agreed. The discussion will continue on July 16. 1. Steve Landers (Details): A resolution to approve the purchase of a Dodge Ram 1500 quad cab 4×4 truck from Steve Landers of Siloam Springs in the total amount of $22,993.00, pursuant to a state procurement contract, for use by the Utilities Department. 2. Freedom Powersports (Details): A resolution to authorize the purchase of a Kawasaki Mule from Freedom Powersports of Fayetteville in the amount of $10,836.90 for use by the Airport, and to approve a budget adjustment. 3. Cintas Corporation No. 2 (Details): A resolution to authorize a contract with Cintas Corporation No. 2, pursuant to an Omnia Partners cooperative purchasing agreement, for the rental and purchase of uniforms, mats, mops and other items through October 31, 2023, with two additional two-year renewal options. 4. CEI Engineering Associates Inc. (Details): A resolution to authorize a professional engineering services agreement with CEI Engineering Associates, Inc., pursuant to selection #23 of RFQ 19-01, in an amount of up to $135,000.00 for design and construction administration services associated with the Phase I development of Centennial Park at Millsap Mountain, and to approve a budget adjustment. 5. Black Hills Energy (Details): A resolution to approve a limited service agreement with Black Hills Energy in the amount of $10,948.00 plus applicable taxes to install a natural gas meter and bypass valve for the thermal drying unit at the Biosolids Management Site, and to approve a budget adjustment. 6. Hach Company (Details): A resolution to approve the purchase of 3 automatic sampler units from Hach Company for the West Side Wastewater Treatment Facility in the amount of $17,783.54 plus applicable taxes, and to approve a budget adjustment. 7. Hawkins-Weir Engineers, Inc. Amendment No. 2 (Details): A resolution to approve Amendment No. 2 to the professional engineering services agreement with Hawkins-Weir Engineers, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $38,420.00 for construction management and observation services associated with the Goshen Water Tank Rehabilitation Project. 8. Bid #19-18 Leher Enterprises, Inc. (Details): A resolution to award Bid #19-18 and authorize a construction contract with Leher Enterprises, Inc. in the amount of $238,777.00 for the Goshen Water Storage Tank Improvements Project, to approve a project contingency in the amount of $23,877.00, and to approve a budget adjustment. 9. Ozarks Electric Cooperative Corporation Change Order No. 1 (Details): A resolution to approve Change Order No. 1 to the contract with Ozarks Electric Cooperative Corporation in the amount of $156,128.00 for additional electrical make ready infrastructure costs associated with the solar projects at the two Fayetteville wastewater treatment facilities, and to approve a budget adjustment. 10. Watchguard, Inc. (Details): A resolution to approve a five-year software as a service subscription agreement with Watchguard, Inc. for the purchase and implementation of mobile video recorder system replacement for the Fayetteville Police Department in the amount of $409,433.00 for the first year and $18,983.75 per year in years two through five, pursuant to a National Association of State Procurement Officers cooperative purchasing contract, and to approve a budget adjustment. 11. Bid #19-30 81 Construction Group, Inc. (Details): A resolution to award Bid #19-30 and authorize a contract with 81 Construction Group, Inc. in the amount of $167,009.24 for construction of parking and sidewalk improvements at Gregory Park, and to approve a project contingency in the amount of $16,700.00. 12. Benson Mountain Water Tank Land Swap (Details): A resolution to approve the purchase of 0.72 acres from Dustin and Ryan Davis in exchange for the conveyance of 0.06 acres of city-owned land and payment in the amount of $25,000.00 plus the city’s share of closing costs, payment in the estimated amount of $10,338.00 for water meters, impact fees, and the relocation of utility poles to facilitate the removal and reconstruction of the benson water storage standpipe, and to approve a project contingency in the amount of $2,000.00. 13. City of West Fork Utility Easements (Details): A resolution to authorize the conveyance of utility easements to the City of West Fork for the installation of sewer lines required for the treatment of West Fork sewerage at the Noland Wastewater Treatment Facility. Note: Scroggin abstained. 1. Food Recycling Solutions, LLC (Details) A resolution to approve an agreement with Food Recycling Solutions, LLC for the hauling of organic compostables and recyclable material in the City of Fayetteville. This contract will permit Food Recycling Solutions to collect and transport compostable materials to permitted food waste composting operations. The company will be required to provide certification of the weight collected for hauling the organic waste. Compost would be delivered to the city’s facility. Commercial recycling could go elsewhere, but if that occurred, the company would be required to report where it was delivered and to which re-manufacturer it ultimately ends up at. June 18 Discussion: During public comments, one person asked about language in the contract referring to residential pickup and non-food waste collection. A representative for the company said they do not handle residential pickup, and they only work with food waste. Blake Pennington, the city’s assistant attorney, said that language should be removed. He suggested tabling the item to allow the agreement to be revised. The council agreed. The discussion will continue on July 2. July 2 Discussion: The council voted unanimously to amend the resolution to the new language, as suggested at the previous meeting. 2. Amend Chapter 33 Departments, Boards, Commissions, and Authorities (Details) An ordinance to amend Chapter 33 Departments, Boards, Commissions, and Authorities of the Fayetteville City Code to expand opportunities for Fayetteville residents to serve on city boards, commissions and committees. This item was left on the second reading at the previous meeting. This change would allow non-citizens to serve on some city boards, commissions and committees. The current law restricts those positions to “registered voters within the corporate limits of Fayetteville.” The goal is to attract a more diverse group of candidates to serve on the local boards, following the city’s recently adopted Welcoming Plan, which recommends the city “explore barriers and encourage civic engagement for new Americans who wish to participate in boards, committees, commissions and other leadership positions.” Council member Scroggin asked if these changes inadvertently remove age requirements for volunteers. Council member Smith, who sponsored the proposal, said it wasn’t intentional when the ordinance was drafted, but he thinks encouraging a wider variety of age groups to apply is a good thing. Scroggin agreed, and said he only asked to make sure there wouldn’t be a later issue with recommendations made by minors. Scroggin said he’d love to see younger residents involved in the advisory board process. Two people spoke in favor of the ordinance during public comment. Assistant City Attorney Pennington recommended holding the item to allow more time to investigate whether the ordinance violates the Arkansas “sanctuary cities” statute. The new state law prohibits cities from adopting any new policy that “grants to illegal immigrants the right to lawful presence or status within the municipality in violation of federal law.” Pennington said the city could be susceptible to losing discretionary state funds during an appeal if the Attorney General interpreted the ordinance to be in violation of that statute. Paul Becker, the city’s finance director, said the amount of funds the city could lose may be up to $6 million. Smith said he’s in no rush to immediately adopt the ordinance, but he doesn’t think the ordinance will be in violation of the statute. The discussion turned to the state bill itself. It’s been said that the governor supports amending the ordinance to make it clear that the intention of the statute is to stop cities from neglecting to properly enforce federal laws regarding immigration, and not to regulate non-citizens’ eligibility to volunteer on a local advisory board. The item was left on the second reading. The discussion will continue on July 2. Since the last meeting, Assistant City Attorney Blake Pennington has suggested the council amend the ordinance instead of running the risk of violating the new state statute. He recommended the amendment state that all city residents who are legally authorized to live or work in the United States (including immigrants with a temporary visa or work permit, exchange students, DACA recipients, green card holders, etc.) be eligible to serve on the advisory boards instead of using language that allows all non-citizens. He said leaving the current proposal up to the discretion of the current state attorney general is worrisome, especially at the risk of losing discretionary state funds. City Attorney Kit Williams agreed, and said even if the city tried to fight the state statute in federal court, the city would lose those discretionary state funds in the meantime and likely would never recover it. Council Member Kyle Smith said obviously the risk of losing funding was never an intention of the proposal. He thanked the City Attorney’s office for working with him on this proposal. About a dozen residents spoke in favor of the ordinance. Many said that just because someone isn’t a citizen, it doesn’t mean they aren’t capable of presenting good ideas to the City Council for consideration. Having more diversity among the people who make recommendations to the council, they said, could only be a good thing for Fayetteville, and that it could also help fill some of the vacancies on those boards. A couple of people said they didn’t like the ordinance at all, and insisted that only U.S. citizens should be allowed to serve. Steve Clark, president of the Chamber of Commerce, said he’s against the ordinance. He said the council should instead look at ways to get more participation to fill board vacancies. He said anyone who wants to speak to the council can always come to council meetings and speak at the microphone. Smith said speaking at council meetings is often the microphone of last resort when it comes to making recommendations, and that the goal is to have more diverse recommendations at a much earlier point in the policy-making process. He also reminded the audience that the boards the council is talking about are not policy-making bodies, but rather groups that make suggestions to the actual lawmakers. Mayor Jordan thanked Smith for bringing the proposal forward. “We want all our residents to know they are welcome in Fayetteville,” Jordan said. “This item helps remove barriers and encourages city engagement from residents who may not yet be citizens but who are legally allowed to live or work here.” The council unanimously approved the ordinance. 1. Arkansas Municipal Equipment, Inc. (Details) A resolution to authorize the purchase of four Peterbilt 520 Side Loader Trucks with New Way Roto Pac bodies from Arkansas Municipal Equipment, Inc. in the total amount of $1,130,820.88, pursuant to a Sourcewell cooperative purchasing contract, for use by the Recycling and Trash Collection Division. City staff said this equipment will replace loader trucks that have exceeded their life expectancy. The purchases were approved at the June 11, 2019 Equipment Committee meeting. There was no public or council comment. The council unanimously approved the resolution. 2. Enact Chapter 75 Electric Motorized Scooters and Scooter-share Programs (Details) An ordinance to enact Chapter 75 Electric Motorized Scooters and Scooter-share Programs. A new state law requires Arkansas cities to allow electric scooter companies to set up shop on public property. While the companies cannot be stopped from operating, the new law does allow cities to establish “reasonable standards, rules, or regulations” regarding the use of e-scooters and how the provider companies operate. This ordinance would establish those regulations, which include: – Limiting the total amount of e-scooters that could operate within the city to 1,000. – Creating a permit process to require each vendor to pay a $150 fee plus $20 per scooter every six months. Vendors would be limited to 250 scooters, but could increase their total to 500 after the initial six-month permit period ends. – Prohibiting users from riding e-scooters on sidewalks that a building faces. – Requiring e-scooters to be parked in a way that doesn’t impede pedestrian or vehicular traffic, and that doesn’t interfere with the Americans with Disabilities Act. They must be parked standing upright, and must not block transit shelters, commercial loading zones, railroad tracks, passenger loading zones, disability parking, street furniture, building entryways or vehicle driveways. – Limiting the per-minute charge to be no greater than one-fifth of the unlock charge. – Requiring vendors to provide access to the e-scooters to residents who don’t own a smart phone. – Requiring the e-scooters to be equipped with GPS technology that allows no-ride and slow-ride zones. For more information about this, see our story from June 27. Council Member Sarah Bunch said she’d like to ensure that the batteries from the e-scooters are recycled when they can no longer be charged. City staff said the ordinance does require the companies to have a battery recycling policy in place. Bunch also proposed limiting the number of total scooters allowed to 500. Scroggin said he’s concerned about inadvertently creating a monopoly by only allowing a certain amount of scooters and then having one company fill that maximum amount. Bunch suggested the number be revisited in six months and possibly again after 12 months. Petty said he’d like to start with the 1,000 number that staff recommended since it’s not always easy to revisit and change a law after it’s implemented. He said maybe an automatic adjustment system could be implemented that’s based on usage numbers. Council member Turk said the city needs to go slow in the process, and said she’s in favor of Bunch’s suggestion to lower the maximum amount of scooters allowed. City staff said since there’s still one more council meeting before the state law goes into effect, the council could wait another two weeks before making a decision if more time is needed to fine-tune the ordinance. The council agreed to leave the item on the first reading. The discussion will continue on July 16. 3. Jack Tyler Engineering, Inc. (Details) An ordinance to waive competitive bidding and accept a quote in the amount of $49,492.00 plus applicable taxes and freight from Jack Tyler Engineering, Inc. for the purchase of a submersible pump for use at the Farmington Lift Station. City staff said this particular piece of equipment is needed because no other pump distributor can provide a pump capable of delivering the station’s pump pressure requirements and also fit into the existing piping configuration without extensive redesign. 4. RZN 19-6666 (119 & 127 S. West St./Canfield) (Details) An ordinance to rezone that property described in rezoning petition RZN 19-6666 for approximately 0.40 acres located at 119 and 127 S. West Avenue from NC, Neighborhood Conservation to MSC, Main Street/Center. The properties are located on the west side of West Avenue between Mountain Street to the north and South Street to the south. Both properties are developed with single-family homes. In 2004, the property was rezoned to NC, Neighborhood Conservation, as a part of the Downtown Master Plan. The applicant has stated that the MSC, Main Street/Center rezoning is necessary to expand the development options of the property, including the potential for an art gallery, office, restaurant, or bar. While the current NC zoning district does allow for small offices, restaurants, and retail as conditional uses, there is no allowance for bars. Both city staff and the Planning Commission recommend approval of the rezoning. Turk suggested holding the item on the first reading to allow for more time for public comment. The council agreed. The discussion will continue on July 16. 5. RZN 19-6678 (2280 W. Stone St./Tamijani) (Details) An ordinance to rezone that property described in rezoning petition RZN 19-6678 for approximately 0.69 acres located at 2280 W. Stone Street from RSF-4, Residential Single Family, 4 units per acre to RMF-24, Residential Multi Family, 24 units per acre. The property is located on the north side of Stone Street between Sang Avenue and Root Avenue. It is currently developed with a single-family home. The applicant has not stated any specific development plans. The council voted unanimously to approve the rezoning. Scroggin abstained. 6. VAC 19-6672 (Marks Mill Road/Summit Place s/d) (Details) An ordinance to approve VAC 19-6672 for property located along Marks Mill Road to vacate portions of two conservation easements. – Fail 2-5 The subject properties are located in the southwest corner of the Summit Place Phase 2 subdivision, south of Township Street, and east of College Avenue. The lots were platted on February 23, 2017. Both city staff and the Planning Commission recommend approval with the following conditions: New conservation easements must be dedicated as proposed: 30’ wide conservation easement across the rear of lot 30 and 31 totaling approximately 9,327 square feet as shown in Exhibit ‘C’ 25’ wide conservation easement across the rear of lot 37, 38, 39, and 40 totaling approximately 10,901 square feet as shown in Exhibit ‘D’ Additionally, the Planning Commission recommends an additional condition as follows: The diversion berm shall be extended to the south as determined by City Engineering staff to protect the downstream property owner adjacent to the west. The extended berm shall be inspected for completeness. Council Member Mark Kinion said he’s concerned about losing the protections gained during the previous rezoning. Turk said she has the same concerns. She said the drainage easements are established for a reason, and the council would need a good reason to change it – which she has not yet seen. City staff said the Planning Commission’s recommendation of an extended diversion berm would be sufficient in making sure water still drains into the retention pond. City Attorney Kit Williams said he’d like to amend that condition of approval to read as follows: “The diversion berm shall be extended to the south if determined by City Engineering staff to be necessary or advisable to protect the downstream property owner adjacent to the west. The extended berm shall be inspected for completeness.” Petty said he is always skeptical in situations like this, but he trusts the city engineering staff’s opinion. The council advanced the item to the third and final reading. The ordinance failed 2-5. Bunch, Turk, Smith, Gutierrez and Kinion voted against. 7. VAC 19-6689 (1923 N. Candleshoe Dr./Pilcher) (Details) An ordinance to approve VAC 19-6689 for property located at 1923 N. Candleshoe Drive to vacate a portion of a general utility easement. The property is located in east Fayetteville, one lot south of the intersection on Madison Drive and Candleshoe Drive, and on the west side of Candleshoe. The property is currently developed with single-family dwelling. Both the Planning Commission and city planning staff are in favor of the request with the following condition of approval: Any relocation of or damage to existing utilities or existing facilities shall be at the owner/developer’s expense. A representative for the applicant said the easement comes right up to the back door of the home, and that any patio improvements are currently impossible. The applicant is asking to vacate 10 feet of the 20-foot easement. – The use of fireworks in Fayetteville is legal through July 4, with some exceptions. – City offices are closed Thursday, July 4.

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Lost to Fire 1961 - St Stephen's Parish Church, Astley, Manchester ​​“ Our churches are important to our communities and we must do all we can to preserve and maintain them.” Rt. Hon. David Cameron MP - The Daily Telegraph, 21 August 2010​ safety from fire for your congregation and visitors. ​protection from fire for your building and interior. ​Compliance with fire legislation and insurance requirements. ​Surely this is what everyone responsible for their place of worship wants, but how do you achieve this? Read on .....​ Heritage & Ecclesiastical Fire Protection intimately understands places of worship, and their use. ​ We are THE specialist company you need to give you peace of mind that the fire risk assessment we undertake will be carried out in a sympathetic and balanced manner. It will adequately protect life and property from fire and fully comply with the requirements of fire safety law and your fire insurance. ​Having a fire risk assessment conducted is not a choice, it is a LEGAL OBLIGATION for all places of worship. Shocking statistics show that every year, there are over 2,000 fires in churches and chapels in England alone, costing many millions of pounds in repairs and an incalculable cost in lost heritage. Most of these fires are thankfully discovered early and put out before they develop further. Some, however, are serious and destructive; a few are catastrophic, such as the Church of the Ascension in Salford in February 2017 and the Bethel Community Church in Newport in June 2018. It is estimated that at least 20 churches of historical importance are destroyed or seriously damaged by fire every single year! A church engulfed in flames is a very sad and tragic sight. Apart from the serious risk to life in and around the building, at Heritage & Ecclesiastical Fire Protection ​we understand that a serious fire results not only in the loss of physical historical buildings and interiors, often of national importance, but also in the loss of the spiritual focus of the community. People feel strongly about these special buildings even if they are not active members of the worshiping congregation. The loss of such a building can be devastating as it is a sacred repository for the collective memories of a local community where people have worshipped, been baptised, married and buried, often spanning many generations. The vast majority of fires in churches could be prevented by having good fire risk management, achieved through a comprehensive fire risk assessment. In the aftermath of a fire it is often discovered that it was the actions or inactions of the guardians of the church that caused the fire, or made the fire worse. How would you feel if this happened to you? It is a legal requirement to have a “suitable and sufficient” fire risk assessment for virtually every type of non-domestic building, and that includes places of worship. It is a criminal offence to not have one, and just as criminal to have one that is inadequate. Churches and chapels are specialist buildings that need a specialist holistic assessment, with full regard for the historic importance and spiritual ambience of your place of worship. A general risk assessment that does not take all of this into consideration is just not fit for purpose. ​That's why you need Heritage & Ecclesiastical Fire Protection. diversification in the use of your church building. ​The National Churches Trust is encouraging diversification in the use of church and chapel buildings as venues for the arts, leisure, social and other community activities, including hosting facilities such as a library, Citizens Advice Bureau, community shop, farmers market or post office. In line with this trend, in November 2017 the “Crossing the Threshold Toolkit” was launched jointly by the Diocese of Hereford and the Historic Religious Buildings Alliance, supported by the Allchurches Trust. It provides help and guidance to any group taking a community development approach towards adapting a church building for wider community use, while balancing the needs of existing worshippers. If you are planning to expand or vary the use of your place of worship, even if major building works are not required, this will be considered as a “significant change” under the FSO and can have a substantial effect on the fire safety in your building. These changes MUST be considered in your fire risk assessment and you may require additional fire safety equipment to be compliant. ​“We have been entrusted with the care of many beautiful and historic churches. These have been passed down to us from previous generations and our challenge is to care for them, maintain them and pass them on to those who come after us in at least as good a condition as that in which we received them. Our church buildings can be a valuable asset.” The Diocese of Liverpool (CofE) please Note that Although the terminology used on this web site tends to refer to churches and chapels of the Christian faith, heritage and ecclesiastical fire protection conduct fire risk assessments on places of worship of all faiths and denominations including synagogues, mosques, temples and gurdwaras. Phone: 07840 351458 Email: hello@fireprotect.me.uk

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Environmental Assessment for The Issuance of a National Marine Fisheries Service Scientific Research Permit and a Permit Amendment for Vessel and Aerial Surveys of Beluga Whales in Cook Inlet, Alaska The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposes to issue a scientific research permit and a permit amendment for takes of marine mammals in the wild, pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). Permit No. 14210 would be valid for five years from the date of issuance and would authorize LGL Alaska Research Associates to closely approach up to 375 beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) by vessel in Cook Inlet, Alaska annually for photo-identification. The purposes of the research are to identify individual whales and to provide information about movement patterns, habitat use, survivorship, reproduction, and population size. The amendment to Permit No. 782-1719-07 would authorize NMFS National Marine Mammal Laboratory to conduct aerial surveys of the entire population of beluga whales in Cook Inlet, Alaska in 2009. The purposes of the surveys are to 1) provide distribution information during June and July; 2) compare distribution changes over time; 3) provide group size estimates for calculations of stock size; 4) estimate fractions of calves and juveniles in the population; and 5) calibrate and improve survey methodology. The amendment would be valid until the permit expires. Alaska Fisheries Science Center Document | The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposes to issue a scientific research permit to LGL Alaska Research Associates (LGL; File No.14210) and a permit amendment to NMFS National Marine Mammal Laboratory, (NMML; File No. 782-1719). These would authorize “takes”1 by “level B harassment”2 of marine mammals in the wild pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the regulations governing the taking and importing of marine mammals (50 CFR Part 216), the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and the regulations governing the taking, importing, and exporting of endangered and threatened species (50 CFR Parts 222-226). The primary focus of the proposed activities involves the directed taking, for scientific research purposes, of the recently ESA-listed distinct population segment (DPS) of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Aerial Surveys of Belugas in Cook Inlet Aerial Surveys of Belugas in Cook Inlet 2001-2002 Surveys of Beluga Whales in Cook Inlet The Endangered Beluga Whales of Cook Inlet Alaska Acoustic Monitoring and Prey Association for Beluga Whale Last updated by Alaska Fisheries Science Center on 09/11/2018 Beluga Whale Species Profile Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Research

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ENNIS, DYLAN Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade 31 Guard Height: 1.88 Born: 26 December, 1991 Nationality: Serbia Totals 18 0 234:00 117 18/56 18/45 27/31 3 29 32 29 8 23 1 1 30 25 89 Averages 18 0 13:00 6.5 32.1% 40% 87.1% 0.2 1.6 1.8 1.6 0.4 1.3 0.1 0.1 1.7 1.4 4.9 13 at Fenerbahce Dogus Istanbul 9:24 3 1/3 0/3 1/1 1 1 1 2 1 -3 14 vs Panathinaikos Superfoods Athens 1:56 2 2 -4 15 at AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan 5:41 2 2/2 1 1 2 16 vs Zalgiris Kaunas 11:44 12 1/2 1/2 7/8 1 1 2 1 1 1 4 14 17 at Anadolu Efes Istanbul 10:35 5 1/2 1/1 1 1 4 1 1 18 vs Khimki Moscow Region 4:18 2 0/1 2/2 5 5 2 8 19 at Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv 16:18 7 1/5 1/2 2/2 1 1 2 3 3 2 1 20 vs Olympiacos Piraeus 17:21 21 4/6 4/6 1/1 1 7 8 5 1 1 1 2 31 21 at KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz 20:31 22 2/7 4/5 6/6 2 2 3 1 1 1 2 5 23 22 vs AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan 12:52 0/2 0/2 4 1 2 1 -2 23 at Brose Bamberg 16:10 8 0/5 2/5 2/2 3 3 1 1 1 2 24 vs Unicaja Malaga 13:21 6 3/4 0/2 3 2 4 25 at FC Barcelona Lassa 8:39 2 1/4 0/1 0/2 1 1 3 2 2 -6 26 vs Valencia Basket 15:28 11 1/2 3/4 1 2 3 9 27 at Panathinaikos Superfoods Athens 19:04 1 0/2 0/1 1/1 1 1 3 1 2 1 4 1 -1 28 vs Fenerbahce Dogus Istanbul 11:08 10 2/4 2/4 1 1 1 6 29 vs Real Madrid 21:51 5 1/5 0/4 3/4 1 6 7 4 2 2 1 2 8 30 at CSKA Moscow 17:39 0/3 0/2 2 1 2 -4 18 Totals 234:00 117 18/56 18/45 27/31 3 29 32 29 8 23 1 1 30 25 89 Average 13:00 6.5 32.1% 40% 87.1% 0.2 1.6 1.8 1.6 0.4 1.3 0.1 0.1 1.7 1.4 4.9 Index rating 31 Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade vs. Olympiacos Piraeus 1/26/2018 Points 22 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz vs. Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade 2/2/2018 Offensive rebounds 1 Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade vs. Real Madrid 3/30/2018 Defensive rebounds 7 Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade vs. Olympiacos Piraeus 1/26/2018 Total rebounds 8 Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade vs. Olympiacos Piraeus 1/26/2018 Assists 5 Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade vs. Olympiacos Piraeus 1/26/2018 Blocks 1 Panathinaikos Athens vs. Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade 3/20/2018 Minutes 21 Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade vs. Real Madrid 3/30/2018 Played college basketball at Rice (2011-12), at Villanova (2012-15) and at University of Oregon (2015-17). Moved to Serbia for the 2017-18 season, signed by BC Mega Sremska Mitrovica. In December'17, signed by Crvena Zvezda Belgrade. In April'18 moved to Spain, signed by Zaragoza. Moved to Andorra for the 2018-19 season, signed by MoraBanc Andorra. Moved to France for the 2019-20 season, signed by AS Monaco Basket. Named 2018-19 EuroCup Quarterfinals Game 2 MVP. Member of the Jamaican National Team. Won the bronze medal at the 2012 Centro Basket. Played at the 2013 Americas Championship. 2017-18 Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade 18 117 6.5 18/56 32.1 18/45 40 27/31 87.1 32 8 29 1 Totals 18 117 6.5 18/56 32.1 18/45 40 27/31 87.1 32 8 29 1 Averages 18 117 6.5 18/56 32.1 18/45 40 27/31 87.1 1.8 0.4 1.6 0.1 2018-19 MoraBanc Andorra 21 256 12.2 60/142 42.3 23/86 26.7 67/84 79.8 81 29 73 6 2019-20 AS Monaco 6 66 11 15/33 45.5 9/24 37.5 9/12 75 27 7 12 1 Totals 27 322 11.9 75/175 42.9 32/110 29.1 76/96 79.2 108 36 85 7 Averages 27 322 11.9 75/175 42.9 32/110 29.1 76/96 79.2 4 1.3 3.1 0.3 2011/12 Rice 32 257 8.0 58/124 46.8 25/69 36.2 66/100 66.0 135 36 131 16 2014/15 Villanova 36 356 9.9 65/135 48.1 58/160 36.3 52/84 61.9 132 35 126 16 2015/16 Oregon 2 2 1.0 1/2 50.0 0/2 0.0 0/0 0.0 3 0 2 0 2016/17 Oregon 39 425 10.9 91/188 48.4 53/148 35.8 84/114 73.7 172 43 119 17 2017/18 Mega Bemax-ABA 11 197 17.9 58/106 54.7 17/61 27.9 30/44 68.2 49 25 61 5 Crvena Zvezda-ABA 18 119 6.6 20/43 46.5 22/48 45.8 13/21 61.9 34 11 49 3 Zaragoza 6 91 15.2 28/52 53.8 7/24 29.2 14/20 70.0 20 11 13 0 2018/19 MoraBanc Andorra 33 442 13.4 95/195 48.7 52/142 36.6 96/130 73.8 98 27 8 6

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Experimental minimalist classical electronic Nils Frahm, Kiasmos Experimental electronic-influenced neo-classical by Cheryl Ang Over the course of Ólafur Arnalds’ decade-long musical career, the Icelandic composer has dabbled in a multitude of musical styles that inform his music from classical to electronic and everything in between. Ólafur’s music has spanned genres from the electronic project Kiasmos (alongside Janus Rasmussen) to the neo-classical work for which he is probably best known. Originally from the town of Mosfellsbær, 20 minutes from the Icelandic capital Reykjavík, Ólafur played drums in hardcore punk bands as a teenager. Building a rudimentary recording studio at 16, he developed his hobby into full-time work as a sound engineer before eventually turning to music. He was signed by Erased Tapes for his first solo album, 2007’s strings-and-piano Eulogy for Evolution. Ólafur has a heavily collaborative working style and has worked with a number of musicians on various projects. These include Arnór Dan and Snorri Hallgrimsson on For Now I Am Winter, Alice Sara Ott on The Chopin Project, and Halldór Eldjárn on creating the algorithmic generative Stratus pianos on re:member. Among the most popular of Icelandic artists, Ólafur’s music has been featured on films such as The Hunger Games. He has also scored for film and TV, including the 2013 film Gimme Shelter starring Vanessa Hudgens and James Earl Jones. Ólafur won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for a Classic BRIT for his work on the British crime drama series Broadchurch. More about Ólafur Arnalds Neoclassical / Germany Niklas Paschburg Play! Cocooning

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Jermaine McGillvary Huddersfield Giants star Jermaine McGillvary signs a new deal until 2022 The Huddersfield born and bred winger had been linked with a move to Australia but has committed his future to the club Wayne Ankers Huddersfield Giants' Jermain McGillvary takes on Wakefield Trinity's Mason Caton-Brown in the Challenge Cup (Pic by John Rushworth) Huddersfield Giants star Jermaine McGillvary has signed a contract extension which will keep him at the club for another four years. Winger McGillvary , born and bred in Huddersfield, had been linked with moves to Australia after he put in stunning performances for England, scoring seven tries at the 2017 World Cup. But the 30-year-old, who has played 202 games for the Giants and scored an incredible 151 tries, has now signed an improved and extended deal. McGillvary, who is expected to be named in the national side for this Autumn’s games with New Zealand, said: “I’m over the moon to re-sign with the club. "The club and supporters mean everything to me. It’s my hometown club, I’ve never wanted to leave as long as everything is in the right place. "The club has always treated me well, especially Ken, they’ve always treated me well and that’s why I play so hard. "As long as I feel loved, I’ll do anything for the club. Jermaine McGillvary of England looks to team mates after crossing for a try during the 2017 Rugby League World Cup match between England and France Former Huddersfield Giants star Shaun Lunt seriously ill in hospital "It’s the same with the fans, they’ve always shown a huge amount of support and love. It just makes my time here a lot more enjoyable and it makes me want to stay here for the remainder of my career and even after that if there’s an opportunity.” Giants Managing Director Richard Thewlis said the club was able to seal the deal despite a lack of funding help from the RFL. He said: “Jermaine was without a doubt the star of the World Cup from an England perspective and came back to us with an enormous profile which we’d hope to see further enhanced in the series with New Zealand. "We were aware that NRL clubs had been sniffing around and we all understand the salary cap differentials in play can make retaining players difficult. "Our budgets and cap had been fixed by this point so we did approach the RFL to help Jermaine by making him one of their centrally funded players which seemed to us an obvious fit as he had clearly done the majority of the media/promotional work down under and was both “the story” and “the face of England RL” alongside his wonderful playing performances. "The request for financial support for Jermaine (which is enjoyed by other players and clubs) was not forthcoming and so the burden fell solely upon us and we were able towards the end of the season to both improve and extend Jermaine’s contract with us which was great news for all concerned and I am sure will be well received by the supporters.” Richard Thewlis Shaun Lunt Transfer deadline day

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Chef Emeril Lagasse Opens New Restaurant Chef Emeril Lagasse unveiled plans today for 'e2 Emeril's Eatery' at Levine Center for the Arts. Scheduled to open early next year, the new restaurant at 135 Levine Avenue of the Arts, Ste. 100, on the street level of the Levine Center for the Arts campus, is within easy walking distance of Uptown Charlotte's numerous art, business, and cultural attractions. The Duke Energy Center, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture, Mint Museum Uptown, and Knight Theater surround the new restaurant. Over 20 years ago Chef Emeril Lagasse introduced his first take on a refined neighborhood dining spot with the opening of Emeril's Restaurant in 1990, in what would soon become New Orleans' contemporary arts district. Now he is bringing his essence, energy and signature style to his new flagship Charlotte eatery. Owned and operated by Lagasse, e2 Emeril's Eatery will draw from Emeril's Restaurant in its purest form– comfort, warm service, and delicious food, with an easy approach and an eye towards the future of modern American dining. "With a thriving dining scene, my alma mater Johnson & Wales, the nearby universities and Charlotte's great cultural and arts community, I feel right at home here," Emeril says. "I'm excited to join the beautiful museums and attractions at the Levine Center for the Arts and Duke Energy Center with my new restaurant – e2 Emeril's Eatery. We're creating a comfortable, fun, neighborhood eatery that serves great food and drink at an affordable price." E2 will feature an eclectic menu and cooking methods that highlight Emeril's passion for elevating American classics. The menu will include some dishes inspired by his travels in the U.S. and abroad, plus a few twists on his New Orleans favorites – with a touch of Southern flavor that is uniquely Charlotte. A large bar will feature moderately priced wines, craft beers, unique spirits, and handcrafted cocktails. Construction of the space, on the street level of the Mint Museum Uptown and fronting the Levine Center for the Arts, began this summer and is on schedule for completion in early 2012. The restaurant will seek LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council and will both include energy-efficient and sustainable features. The restaurant was designed by architectural firm Floss Barber, Inc. and is being built by Balfour Beatty Construction. Childress Klein Properties is leading the construction and property management on behalf of Wells Fargo & Co., owner of the Levine Center for the Arts development.

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Gahanna was founded along the Big Walnut Creek in 1849 by John Clark of Ross County from 800 acres of land that his father, Joseph Clark, had purchased from Governor Worthington in 1814. Clark named his property the Gahanna Plantation, from which the City of Gahanna derives its name. The name Gahanna is derived from a Native American word for three creeks joining into one and is the former name of the Big Walnut Creek. The City of Gahanna’s Official Seal refers to this confluence of three creeks with the inscription “Three In One”. Gahanna maintained a considerable rivalry with the town of Bridgeport. Located directly across Granville Street from Gahanna and also along the banks of the Big Walnut Creek, Bridgeport was founded in 1853 by Jesse Baughman, a former Franklin County Commissioner. The two towns eventually put aside their differences and merged into one. They adopted the name Gahanna as there was already another town of Bridgeport in Ohio. In March of 1881, 55 citizens of Gahanna petitioned Franklin County to incorporate the village. The incorporation was granted in June and was recorded on August 8th, 1881. The Village then held its first mayoral election and on October 6, 1881, swore in its first mayor, L. John Neiswander. Download the Historical Walking Tour of Gahanna brochure (PDF) Society of Ohio Archivists Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN)

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The Moon is a Natural Platform for Asteroid Mining, Detection and Deflection Singularity University Affiliate Former Contributor Vivek Wadhwa Contributor Group By entrepreneur and philanthropist Naveen Jain, who is a trustee of Singularity University and X Prize foundation and a Founder and Chairman of Moon Express There has been much talk in the media about what to do since last week's astronomically unlikely double asteroid attack. Noble efforts to detect asteroid threats such as those of the B612 Foundation have received much deserved attention. Ironically, a United Nations committee was in conference over this very question while the dramas unfolded. Many people are asking, "What is the government doing about this?" Well, the answer, sadly, is not much. NASA and other space agencies have had a few on-again off-again attempts to search and catalog asteroid threats, but there is no active government program to identify threats, and absolutely no programs to try to protect us from them. Contrary to Hollywood imaginations, the hard truth is, if we detected a large asteroid on a collision course for Earth, we couldn't do a thing about it. But there is hope. In the near future we could have technology to not only watch out for asteroid threats, but to deflect these planet killers and harvest their vast resources. We can turn swords into ploughshares on a cosmic scale. In fact, Earth has a natural ally in this effort - the Moon. If you wonder how often asteroids have hit us, take a look at the Moon. The Moon is saturated with craters, caused by billions of years of asteroid bombardment. The Earth has many impact craters too - but they have become disguised over time by dynamic weathering and geological activity. Most of Earth's surviving impact features are so large that you have to go out into space to see them. By comparison, the Earth grazing Asteroid 2012 DA14 and the Russian meteor that caught the world by surprise on Feb 15, 2013 are relatively tiny objects, hardly even rating a mention in the solar system scale of asteroid impactors. Even so, the Russian meteor exploded with over 20 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, and is the largest recorded impact event since the much larger "Tunguska event" of 1908, when an object about the size of Asteroid 2012 DA14 exploded over remote Siberia, leveling a forested area of over 2,000 square kilometers. One day it will be worse, much worse. The good news is, we can do something about it. And with our recent wake-up call fresh in our minds, the sooner the better. How does the Moon fit in? The Moon acts like an asteroid magnet and has been aggregating asteroids for billions of years. Early in its history, the Moon swept up planetary debris and helped clear Earth's neighborhood for safe living. As a result, the Moon has trillions of tons of asteroid material shattered and pulverized all over its surface. But unlike the Earth, the Moon has no atmosphere, so when asteroids hit you don't have an “air burst” detonation like we witnessed over Russia last week. The asteroids hit the surface hard, over and over, and since the Moon has been a solid body for most of its history, their materials stay on or close to the surface. It turns out that our sister world the Moon is the best place to study and harvest asteroids. It's dormant, unchanging surface is a museum of solar system history and represents a planetary Rosetta Stone of the asteroid bombardment record. And the Moon is close by and always in the sky, unlike the asteroids that flyby the Earth at incredible velocities or inhabit orbits tens of millions of miles away that take years to reach. But more than just a scientific curiosity, the asteroid resources deposited on the Moon over the past 4 billion years represent an opportunity to harvest those resources in the construction of lunar bases for the benefit and protection of Earth. In fact, China and Russia have both declared objectives to set up lunar bases over the next ten to twenty years. The US is not so clear about its intentions right now, but China landing on the Moon later this year and a resurgence of international interest in the Moon could change that. The Moon has many interesting natural virtues for scientific and commercial opportunity. It is a remarkably stable platform for astronomical observatories. And because of its very low gravity and vast resources, it will also be Earth's space port and a fuelling depot for missions to Mars and beyond. The Moon will also play a vital role in the future of Earth's planetary protection, one day supporting robotic sentinels that will watching the skies, able to rapidly respond to asteroid threats. This is far from science fiction. Thanks to Elon Musk blazing a trail for commercial space with SpaceX, private spaceships have already docked with the International Space Station. My company, Moon Express, is focused on the next stage of commercial space beyond low Earth orbit, and is already developing early precursor robotic missions in partnership with NASA to explore the Moon and learn how to develop its resources for the benefit of life on Earth. Our first task is to explore the Moon's resource hotspots and establish infrastructure on the Moon, starting with robotic explorers who will lead the way for the first permanent human outposts and colonies. This is the dawn of a new era of commercial space, driven by entrepreneurial ventures partnered with the deep experience and know-how of NASA. How timely nature's wake-up call, thankfully with no fatalities, that brings to us a new awareness of our fragility as a species and our obligations to our children to do something about it. The asteroids that threaten us can also enrich us and enable us. It will be our smart choices for investments in space technology and strategic collaborations between the public and private sectors that will leverage the value of the Moon and its asteroid-rich resources to safeguard our planetary home for future generations. Singularity University Affiliate

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Marshall to play for state championship December 18, 2018 by Bill McCaughey Devon Achane scores a touchdown to give the Marshall Buffaloes an early 6-0 lead in the state semifinal game against Calallen. (Photo by Bill McCaughey) After a difficult week that turned a team and a school into a family, the Marshall Buffalos beat the Calallen Wildcats, 19-17 last Friday in San Antonio to earn a spot in the Class 5A Division 2 state championship game. The Buffalos were shocked to learn of the death of their senior safety Drew Conley. Conley was shot and killed in a domestic dispute last Monday. The team and school mourned for Conley, who wore number 3 on his jersey, but they were determined to win the game for him. The Marshall captains carried Conley’s jersey to the coin toss prior to the game, and the Marshall fans had many signs referencing number 3. The Calallen team wore a #3 decal on their helmets in honor of Conley. “It was a tough week, but the team persevered. They loved Drew. We all loved Drew. We did this for Drew. He was a great kid. I know he is up there watching. We love him. This win was for him.” Marshall Head Coach James Williams said. The Buffalos scored on their first possession as they drove 75 yards in nine plays for their first touchdown. The big play was a 46-yard pass from Malik Hornsby to Kacey Barnett, which put the ball on the 9 yard line. Devon Achane then scored on a 4-yard run to give the Buffs a 6-0 lead. In the second quarter, Calallen kicked a field goal to make the score 6-3. On Marshall’s third series of the half, they moved to the Wildcats’ 32 yard line before giving the ball up on downs with 6:09 to go in the half. Calallen then ran 15 consecutive running plays before scoring as time ran out in the half, giving them a 10-6 halftime lead. Dalevon Campbell leaps to catch a pass last Friday during the Class 5A Division 2 state semifinal game against Calallen. (Photo by Bill McCaughey) “We had to make adjustments at halftime, both offense and defense. Calallen is a great team and they have a great coaching staff. We had to make adjustments to stop their running game. I am proud of the coaches for what they did, and I am proud of the players. I am just so proud,” Williams said. With 4:26 to go in the third quarter, the Buffalos took over on their own 22 yard line. Behind the running of Achane and Hornsby, they moved the ball to the Wildcats’ 9 yard line, where Achane ran it in with 27 seconds to go in the quarter to make the score 12-10 in favor of Marshall. After a punt by Calallen, the Buffalos took possession on their 20-yard line. On the first play, Achane ran up the middle for 80 yards to give the Buffs a 19-10 lead with 7:22 to go in the game. “The play was the same one we had been running all game, but I finally was able to bust it. I want thank my offensive line for opening the hole,” Achane said. Calallen came back to score a touchdown with 3:02 to go in the game but their onside kick went out of bounds and Marshall ran out the clock to win 19-17. For the game, Achane rushed 21 times for 183 yards and three touchdowns. Hornsby completed 6 of 14 passes for 100 yards and he rushed 12 times for 61 yards. Korey King caught four passes for 37 yards. “I love this team. These guys are so wonderful. They earned it (the win) and they deserve it,” Williams said. Marshall (15-0) will play Aledo (15-0) for the Class 5A Division 2 state championship on Friday night at 7 p.m. at AT&T Stadium in Dallas. Filed Under: Featured Slider, Sports Tagged With: football, Marshall Buffalos, Marshall High

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Stony Brook cruises past New Hampshire 73-48 AP Jan 11, 2020 at 9:14p ET STONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) — Makale Foreman sank four 3-pointers and scored 23 points and Elijah Olaniyi added a double-double as Stony Brook breezed to a 73-48 victory over New Hampshire on Saturday night. Foreman hit 7 of 14 shots from the floor for the Seawolves (12-6, 3-0 America East Conference), including 4 of 10 from 3-point range. Olaniyi finished with 22 points and 11 rebounds for his second straight double-double. Jayden Martinez paced the Wildcats (8-8, 1-2) with 13 points and six rebounds off the bench. Nick Guadarrama was the lone starter to reach double figures with 11 points. New Hampshire shot just 24% from the floor (16 of 67) and 24% from beyond the arc (6 of 25). The Wildcats made 10 of 17 from the free-throw line. Stony Brook shot 47% overall and 30% from distance (7 of 23). The Seawolves sank 16 of 25 from the foul line. Am. East

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Bilal Baloch Bilal Baloch is a non-resident Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute. He is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of GlobalWonks, a tech-enabled marketplace connecting public and private sector organizations with global affairs experts around the world. Bilal is both an entrepreneur and an academic, and has taught international security and political economy courses at Tufts University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently a non-resident Visiting Scholar. Prior to starting GlobalWonks, Bilal was a Lecturer and Regional Director of the South Asia and Middle East & North Africa program at the Lauder Institute, Wharton School of Business. Earlier, Bilal was an Associate at Macro Advisory Partners in London and Chief of Staff to Dean Vali Nasr at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. While at Johns Hopkins SAIS, he co-founded the annual Emerging Markets Series alongside former First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, John Lipsky. In addition to his scholarly publications, his commentary has appeared in a number of outlets including The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and The Washington Post. He is currently writing a book on government behavior in emerging markets during times of crisis. Bilal completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy, logic, and the scientific method at The London School of Economics where he was the Anthony Giddens Scholar, and holds a Master’s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he was the Samuel J. Elder Scholar. He earned his doctorate in political science from Oxford University. You can follow him @BilalABaloch. Recent Publications and Activities Bilal Baloch, "The War for Post-U.S. Syria Has Begun," Foreign Policy, October 9, 2019. Bilal Baloch in Four Minute Foreign Policy, "Sectoral Shifts: The Evolution of South Asia-Middle East Relations," Foreign Policy Institute, December 7, 2018. Podcast, "Hollowing Out the State: Status and Redistributive Politics in Colonial India," Center for the Advanced Study of India, September 28, 2018.

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Southwest High School counselor recorded women in school bathroom, prosecutors say Todd Naze, 54, is accused of secretly filming more than 30 women using a bathroom. Southwest High School counselor recorded women in school bathroom, prosecutors say Todd Naze, 54, is accused of secretly filming more than 30 women using a bathroom. Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2020/01/02/southwest-high-school-counselor-scheduled-appear-court-thursday-afternoon/2794501001/ Benita Mathew, Green Bay Press-Gazette Published 10:33 a.m. CT Jan. 2, 2020 | Updated 5:46 p.m. CT Jan. 2, 2020 Todd Naze (Photo: Courtesy of Brown County Jail) GREEN BAY - Police are investigating a Southwest High School counselor accused of filming women using a bathroom at the school. Todd J. Naze, 54, of Suamico, hid iPods in a staff bathroom near his office to record women, Brown County prosecutors said in a probable cause statement read in court Thursday. A Brown County deputy was dispatched to Howard Village Hall around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday to meet with Naze's wife. Prosecutors said she told the deputy she found inappropriate images of women using a toilet on her husband's hard drive in 2018. When she confronted him, he said that they were images of people he did not like at work. Some of the recordings were of Naze's two ex-wives. She said Naze threatened her at the time by saying "this is what happens when you don't respect me," prosecutors said. RELATED: Green Bay Southwest High School counselor on leave after 'potential inappropriate conduct' RELATED: Former Packer Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila discusses his side of Christmas pageant incident Naze's wife told police that he threatened to harm her children and kill her when she brought up the images up during an argument on Tuesday, saying, "I hate you and you know what happens to people I hate." If she went to police, Naze said, she would have "everything to lose, and he has nothing to lose," she told police. In an interview with police Tuesday, Naze admitted to recording women beginning August 2016 and stopping in May 2018 after his wife confronted him. He identified 11 women in the images but said he filmed 30 or more women, prosecutors said. He hid the iPod in a dresser in the bathroom nearest his office. He took the videos in an attempt to "take back control of his life" and felt like he had power in the office because of the way he was treated after his divorce, according to the probable cause statement. He told police he saved files of "females he was mad at" and deleted the rest, prosecutors said. Police are still actively investigating the evidence, and are not sure if any of the victims were students, who often use the bathroom, prosecutors said. Naze was a counselor at the school for 14 years. He was placed on unpaid administrative leave Wednesday. "As a precautionary measure, all Southwest bathrooms have been searched and no surveillance equipment was located in any of the bathrooms in the building," school officials said in a statement Tuesday. He is expected to be charged with disorderly conduct, intimidation of a witness, invasion of privacy with a surveillance device, and capturing obscene images. Prosecutors requested more time to allow investigators to finish going through all the recordings and notify all the victims. Naze is expected to appear in court Jan. 13. His bail was set at $50,000. Contact Benita Mathew at 920-309-3428 or bmathew@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @benita_mathew. Read or Share this story: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2020/01/02/southwest-high-school-counselor-scheduled-appear-court-thursday-afternoon/2794501001/ Snow shovelers embrace the chance to play a small part in Packers experience Green Bay Packers open as 7-point underdogs to 49ers for NFC title Sturgeon Bay police arrest Indiana college president for child sex crimes Whiting, last of defendants in rape, murder of Margaret Anderson, to be released on parole

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Pagel's Cannery Market joins Green Bay project A unique food market and restaurant operated by a Kewaunee County business owner, is expected to open by next summer. Pagel's Cannery Market joins Green Bay project A unique food market and restaurant operated by a Kewaunee County business owner, is expected to open by next summer. Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: http://gbpg.net/1sjVsV6 Alyssa Bloechl, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 6:55 a.m. CT Aug. 8, 2014 | Updated 7:09 a.m. CT Aug. 8, 2014 John Pagel, of Pagel’s Ponderosa Dairy, and members of his family during a July 31 news conference about the new public market retail concept that is coming to the historic Broadway District in downtown Green Bay.(Photo: Evan Siegle/Gannett Wisconsin Media)Buy Photo The Cannery Public Market, a unique food market and restaurant operated by a Kewaunee County business owner, is expected to open by next summer in the Titletown Brewing Co. expansion on Broadway in downtown Green Bay. John Pagel, owner of Pagel's Ponderosa Dairy of Kewaunee and Ron's Wisconsin Cheese of Luxemburg, signed a lease for space in the former Larson Canning Co. last week. The market will include food and drink vendors along with a fresh food shopping arena. The idea came from the Broadway Farmer's Market, where Pagel sells Ron's Cheese products every Wednesday evening during the summer. "We thought, maybe there is a need for this year-round," Pagel said Tuesday. "It's not going to be like going to the grocery store, but rather picking up a few fresh items you need for dinner that night." He described the atmosphere as a mix between a social gathering of people at a farmers market and visiting a grocer with specialty items. Pagel's Ponderosa became affiliated with Larson Cannery Co. and Titletown Brewery through the Creative Business Services brokerage firm, who also sold them Ron's Cheese. Pagel said he was drawn to the project by two considerations: to bring items from Kewaunee County to Green Bay and the population of the city. "Whatever we can do here on the farm and in Kewaunee County can be marketed to Green Bay," Pagel said. "To me, it seems like a perfect fit." Vendors for the meat, fish, dairy , vegetables, grains and wines have not been fully determined. Pagel is planning on participating in interviews and quality control operations before they are set in stone. Restaurant vendors and menus are also early in the works for the market. "We want to resource locally as much as we can, while providing a high-quality product," Pagel said. "The goal is to have the vendors complement each other." There is a social aspect to grocery shopping and that is what Pagel wants to carry. "You can meet a friend after work for a beer, pick up your groceries and experience downtown in this format," Pagel said. Pagle wants customers to also learn about the food they are buying at the market. Vendors will be encouraged to somehow display how their food is made and processed. The 8,000-square-foot concept started taking form about eight to nine months ago. Pagel said they worked to understand if it was a smart move for the farm and his family. "We are excited about it, and we think it is good for Kewaunee County to be selling stuff over there," Pagel said. Green Bay officials made the announcement with Pagel at a July 31 news conference that was the first of several announcements on tenants expected over the next few weeks. The project in several former Larsen Canning Co. buildings includes the brewery expansion, retail and office space, apartments and a banquet facility. The developer is DDL Holdings, a partnership that includes Smet Construction Services and Titletown Brewery. Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt said The Cannery Public Market is the right kind of business for attracting and keeping talent in the community, reminiscent of establishments in Seattle or Denver. "You want to work with successful people and people who are fun to work with. John is both of those," Schmitt said. Rachel Sowinski, owner of The Gift Itself and chairwoman of the Broadway Business Improvement District, said it is the right kind of project for the eclectic business district. "It bridges a lot of gaps," she said. Pagel said the cost of the project will be "in the seven figures." The market will be on the ground floor and south end of the building, fronting Broadway. "We're positive about the area we're in. We love the downtown. It's got so much potential," he said. Creative Business Services of Green Bay was responsible for getting Pagel and the Titletown developers together. The project was criticized on the day of the news conference in comments on Facebook because Pagel's Ponderosa is a concentrated animal feeding operation with5,000 dairy cows. Such farms are sometimes criticized because of environmental or animal welfare concerns. Pagel told reporters he's aware there could be some resistance to the project, but he sees it as an opportunity to educate the public. "It's a possibility. I hope not," he said of possible opposition. "We are going to be able to educate people on what gets fed to our animals and how they are cared for. They are going to know where our products come from." Schmitt said Pagel will bring a unique, successful business to the district. "I don't think I'm going to find a development 100 percent of people will like. I can't help that," Schmitt said. Other tenant announcements are expected soon, said Jim Kratowicz, chief operating officer of Titletown Brewing Co. A third-floor tenant who would lease 5,000 square feet could be announced as early as this week. Richard Ryman of Press-Gazette Media contributed to this report. Read or Share this story: http://gbpg.net/1sjVsV6

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What Will It Take to Integrate Renewables Into the Grid and How Much Will It Cost? “Anywhere between zero dollars to seven or eight dollars per megawatt-hour for wind.” Herman K. Trabish December 05, 2011 Herman K. Trabish This article is the first in a series that will consider methods, costs and other factors associated with integrating renewables into the grid. Transmission system operators are at varying stages of trepidation as renewables’ share of the world’s energy mix grows. Some, like former California system Vice President Jim Detmer, worry that policy makers are too hastily embracing a commitment to resources whose variability threatens reliability. But “there are systems right now where you’re getting up to fifteen or twenty percent of energy from wind, mainly in Western Europe, and studies have shown it is possible in the United States,” said Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Senior Project Engineer Aidan Tuohy, one of the world’s foremost students of integrating renewables into the grid. “There are a lot of different ways to do it and it really comes down to individual systems,” Tuohy said. “But it is all about flexibility.” The issue of transmission flexibility is complicated. Landmark studies from the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on integrating renewables into the eastern U.S. and western U.S. grid systems identified flexibility characteristics: increased balancing area; increased sub-hourly scheduling; increased transmission use; dispatch of generation over wider regions; state-of-the-art wind and solar forecasting; increased dispatchable generation; more operating reserves; new transmission to renewable sources; demand response programs; and required down reserves from wind projects. These technologies are increasingly available and system operators are beginning to incorporate them. “The way to alter individual systems to have enough flexibility is going to depend on the individual system,” Tuohy said. But he added, “Transmission is going to be important no matter what system you’re in.” Denmark is an example of flexibility through transmission. “Denmark is a small area but has good ties to the rest of the Scandinavian system and to Germany,” Tuohy said. “When there’s a lot of wind, it can export it and when the wind dies down it can import hydropower from Norway.” Portugal is an example of flexibility through dispatchable generation. “Portugal has a lot of hydro that can respond quickly and be controlled by the system operator.” “If you’re in a place where gas is particularly cheap, that’s an option,” Tuohy said. “Another option is pumped hydro storage, but that requires certain geological formations. Another option would be demand response, if a lot of your demand can respond when it’s needed, like if you’ve got a lot of industry that can delay or turn off processes or a lot of air conditioning load.” Markets could drive system operators to incorporate more flexibility, Tuohy said. “Markets can do things to require flexibility, incentivizing the different products that are needed whether it be a short-term response or a longer-term response.” The big question is how much it will cost to integrate renewables. “The integration cost is made up of multiple factors,” Tuohy said, which is estimated at “anywhere between zero dollars to seven or eight dollars per megawatt-hour for wind.” The cost of integration is system-specific, according to Tuohy, but it is an aggregate of several factors, including the change in operations from conventional plants because of the variability and uncertainty of wind; the new transmission needed; and the increased capacity needed because “wind isn’t a very good capacity resource; it’s an energy resource.” The first factor separating zero dollars from eight dollars is, once again, flexibility. “The more flexibility, be it from access to cheap natural gas, hydroelectric reserves or a transmission system that can deliver wind and other resources from a wider region, the lower the cost of integrating renewables.” Tuohy added, “Less flexible systems that have to rely on starting and stopping a lot of units are going to have more expensive integration costs.” Beyond flexibility, “better use of forecasting reduces the cost quite significantly,” Tuohy noted. The method used to make the cost calculation is also a reason for the range of estimates. One difference in methods is what a recent International Energy Agency study called “the capacity adequacy cost,” Tuohy said. “A system planner begins with the question of how much of the system’s peak demand can be met with the available wind and solar resources. Some studies might be for ten percent of energy demand. Others might be for 30 percent or 40 percent of energy demand. As you increase the energy demand, the cost per megawatt-hour also goes up.” Balancing cost calculations can vary depending on how far out into the future they go. Forecasting calculations also vary. They are more accurate, Tuohy said, if they include simulations both of the costs associated with the forecast and of actual conditions, but some studies use only one or the other. The more reserves required to balance the load, the higher the costs of integration, Tuohy said, and greater accuracy is obtained from considering both the variability of renewables and of demand. But some studies consider only the impact of renewables, making the cost of integration seem higher. The question of cost, Tuohy said, remains “an area of active research.” “To increase beyond where we are now, you’re going to need to improve operational planning methods and you’re going to have to make sure you’ve got the flexibility needed,” Tuohy said, because “there are issues that have been identified, like frequency response, that as we get to higher and higher penetrations may cause problems.” However, he concluded that “these are not show-stopping issues.” epri 01.09.20 Dispatches from the Grid Edge 01.17.20 Energy Storage 01.16.20 Grid Edge Australia’s Fire-Hit Grid Braces for an Even Bigger Threat

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https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Priest-s-clothing-line-creating-a-buzz-2806.php Priest's clothing line creating a buzz By Mary O'Leary, New Haven Register Published 9:39 pm EDT, Monday, August 31, 2009 NEW HAVEN -- The Rev. Andrew O'Connor is a man of the cloth on multiple levels. The Roman Catholic priest and city native moonlights as a fashion designer, blending the traditional and the modern, the spiritual and the commerical. He provides work for the poor in two nations, and there's a growing buzz in the fashion world for his efforts. "The church demands that you don't just involve yourself in your own personal salvation, but we are really here to work for the salvation of the world," O'Connor said by way of explaining Goods of Conscience, his small clothing company in New York City. Its motto: To produce clothes that "look good, feel good and do good," with a decent wage for the craftspeople involved and a good quality garment for the buyer. The priest's social justice mission brings together workers in Guatemala and in Bronx, N.Y. in the making of garments using organic cotton. The clothes are naturally colored in shades of green, brown and off-white from fabric hand-woven by Mayan men and women. In the process, O'Connor has drawn the attention of some fashion heavyweights. In the June issue of Vogue, Cameron Diaz modeled a pair of shorts designed by O'Connor, which Anna Wintour, the magazine's editor, described as her "personal favorite" in a photo layout on ethically produced clothes. David Rose, owner and chief designer of the clothing company, Ascari, met O'Connor early on in the project in 2005 through a mutual acquaintance. "I was immediately impressed. The whole concept was just so wonderful," said Rose. Now that the business is up and running, Rose called the styling and fit of the clothes "superb." "I admire the integrity of the product and of the man himself. I give him high marks all around," he said. O'Connor brought samples of the jackets, shirts, skirts, trousers, dresses, bags and some household items to a recent "mission exchange" at St. Mary's Church on Hillhouse Avenue. The fifth child in a family of nine, raised in Westville, the priest was invited to deliver the second in a series of social justice talks at the church he attended as a child. The talk was also a fashion show, with three of his nieces and a student intern from the business acting as models. Immigrant seamstresses in his New York parish sew the clothes he designs, which are all made to order about 80 pieces a month. The business is based out of the basement of a vacant convent at Holy Family Church in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx. O'Connor has sent some of the finished products back to Guatemala, as well as church albs he has designed, completing the "cycle of charity" and work between the two locations. A visual artist, who does video installations, silk screening and sculptures, as well as fashion design, O'Connor feels art and spiritually go hand in hand. The priest said the Archdiocese of New York was a little reluctant to buy into Goods of Conscience in the beginning, worried that he could not also perform his clerical duties at Holy Family Church. He said they eventually got on board and Timothy Dolan, the new archbishop, recently sent him an encouraging letter on the project. The priest said he was moved to start the company after he went on retreat in 2005 to a small town in Guatemala where an American priest, the Rev. Stanley Rother, is still revered. Rother was killed in 1981 another victim in that country's long-running civil war. "It was almost a visceral thing," O'Connor said of his visit to the site and the inspiration he took from Rother's dedication to the people there. To help the Tzutujil ethnic group in the village of Chicacao continue to practice weaving, O'Connor worked out an arrangement with the last commercial farm that uses heritage seeds for the cotton. O'Connor said the high demand for Mayan's work in the 1990s dropped off when Guatemala imported cheap cotton from China, which did not hold up like the rare strains of cotton indigenous to the country. The 40 Mayans who work for Goods of Conscience, polish the yarn with a traditional mixture of cornstarch, water and calcium and weave in a special reflective fiber that O'Connor found. This eliminates the possibility of someone counterfeiting the fabric. He calls the resulting bolts of cloth "social fabric" and he sees the combination of man-made fiber and the heritage cotton is a metaphor for the Incarnation. "One is made with human hands, and one is not," O'Connor said. The project is sponsored by the Museo Ixchel in Guatemala City, a kind of Guatemalan Smithsonian that helps to organize the weavers. O'Connor, 47, said the wages sent to the families in Guatemala pay for books and uniforms so the children can go to school, and the community is also building a new church. In the Bronx, the money supplements the women's incomes and the proceeds from the project fund programs on sustainability and gardening, while local schoolchildren are learning to design and make their own The clothing, ranging up to $800 for a jacket, is not cheap, given the time-consuming production: it takes 15 days to weave enough material for one shirt. But the quality and story behind the clothes is enough to keep some customers coming back for more. "I have a closet full of them," said Pat Gutierrez, who met O'Connor when he was assigned to Holy Trinity Church on the upper West side, a world away from his current Bronx parish. "I love the comfort of them and they look so good," Gutierrez said. "You kind of feel blessed when you wear them." Crediting O'Connor with bringing her back to the church, Gutierrez agrees with the priest that the project "brings to the world of technology some of the spiritual wealth of the poor." O'Connor, who is a self-taught designer, created his first pattern when he was 16, sewing a pair of pants from a piece of linen-cotton drapery from the defunct Horowitz's fabric store on Chapel Street. As one of nine children of Mary Alice and Charles O'Connor, the priest said they learned to be "very resourceful. We were very I can do that myself, if I can't get it any other way.'" O'Connor's work is progressing through a network of friends of friends. He came to the attention of Vogue through marketing editor, Devon Schuster, who was meeting with O'Connor in preparation for her upcoming marriage. "So much for perfect fits," Wintour wrote in her column on the Goods of Conscience. Goods of Conscience also does all the indigo dyeing for Alabama Chanin, the design company founded by Natalie Chanin. Chanin's line grown and sewn in the United States features a group of quilting and embroidery experts from her native Alabama keeping alive the artisanship of the past. "I often joke that some of our clothes have to go to church first! I find it inspiring when designers and manufacturers utilize what they have in their community to enrich that community. Father Andrew and Goods of Conscience are at the top of that list," Chanin said in an e-mail. The priest will also address the American Craft Council in New York Wednesday as part of a look at crafts and sustainable design. O'Connor said other connections brought him to the attention of the wardrobe people for Julia Roberts' upcoming movie, "Eat. Pray. Love." The retail store Barneys, where Chanin sells, has been talking to him about carrying his collection. The priest said the $100,000 worth of business they have generated in the past five years is nothing compared to most companies, but he wants to take it slow and stay true to the original mission by protecting the brand. "As a proponent of slow fashion, we are organized dramatically differently than a typical fashion house," O'Connor said of the importance of the fabric he uses and the long lasting quality of the clothes. Gutierrez, wife of concert pianist Pedro Gutierrez, both graduates of Julliard, said she got back to her own music after meeting O'Connor, inspired by his art and by his determination. "He built this himself through sheer will," she said of having to deal with the red tape and complications of an international business. "I hope it continues to build. It is quiet a beginning." Going forward, she doesn't know what his next project is, "but when he decides to do something, you know it is going to happen."

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USA soldiers vanish after discovering ancient machine Abductions, Conspiracies In Afghanistan, an incredible discovery has been found. Deep inside a cave, eight United States soldiers made their way inside never to be found again. These soldiers were apparently on a scouting mission. The discovery they made inside is known as a vimana. This word has a number of meanings, which range from temple or palace to a mythological flying machine that was described in Sanskrit epics. These machines are believed to have been used in wars both by sea and air. There is an estimation about this discovery, mentioning the vimana hidden inside this cave has been there for 5,000 years. The device is said to have some type of energy barrier preventing troops from removing it. The entire incident is certainly questionable, however many world leaders of the western world have been making trips to Afghanistan in hopes to learn more. This is a red flag, because most likely the military forces will want to harness its power for warfare, which is the last thing we need right now in the world. With sudden interest in this story, it has been floating around the internet recently. Military scientists explained this machine as being entrapped inside what is known as a “time well”. No further report has been made yet, about the eight missing military soldiers. More than likely, this will be swept under the rug and covered up with some other type story. After reading the Sanskrit, the Mahabharata is now known to be measured as being twelve cubits in its circumference. This vimana machine also has four wheels attached to it, which are quite strong by their appearance. A projectile type weapon seems to be one of its abilities. Another reading mentions, this deadly machine has a shaft of light which when focused upon any target—it will consume it with its power. Read Also: Time traveler warns of future Earth Perhaps the most interesting thing about these said reports, are that they were just recently discovered. However, this may not be the case. From the ancient writings which were found inside the cave—the rightful owner is believed to be a prophet named Zoroaster. They are known to be a leader, practicing an ancient religion known as Zoroastrianism. The religion is considered one of the oldest religions on Earth, by the Iranian people from exalting their deity of wisdom known as Ahura Mazda which means “Wise Lord”. The belief is, that this was a supreme being of some sort and only the truly faithful dedicated themselves. (Source: 7 Tales) About the men in black People are disappearing from National Parks Elisa Lam found inside a water tower Pentagon secret revealed the Anunnaki will return Bizarre secret messages hidden in Google Translator

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Tag Archives: Star Talk Research2Reality: a science media engagement experience dedicated to Canadian science As of May 11, 2015, Canadians will be getting an addition to their science media environment (from the May 4, 2015 news release), Research2Reality to celebrate Canadian research stars Social media initiative to popularize scientific innovation May 4, 2015, TORONTO – On Monday, May 11, Research2Reality.com goes live and launches a social media initiative that will make the scientist a star. Following in the footsteps of popular sites like IFLScience and How Stuff Works, Research2Reality uses a video series and website to engage the community in the forefront of scientific discoveries made here in Canada. The interviews feature some of Canada’s leading researchers such as Dick Peltier – director of the Centre for Global Change Science at the University of Toronto, Sally Aitken – director of the Centre for Forest Conservation Genetics at the University of British Columbia and Raymond Laflamme – executive director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. “Right now many Canadians don’t understand the scope of cutting-edge work being done in our backyards,” says Research2Reality co-founder and award-winning professor Molly Shoichet. “This initiative will bridge that gap between researchers and the public.” Also launching Monday, May 11, courtesy of Research2Reality’s official media partner, Discovery Science, is a complementary website www.sciencechannel.ca/Shows/Research2Reality. The new website will feature the exclusive premieres of a collection of interview sessions. In addition, Discovery Science and Discovery will broadcast an imaginative series of public service announcements through the end of the year, while social media accounts will promote Research2Reality, including Discovery’s flagship science and technology program DAILY PLANET. About Research2Reality: Research2Reality is a social media initiative designed to popularize the latest Canadian research. It was founded by Molly Shoichet, Professor of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry and Canada Research Chair in Tissue Engineering at the University of Toronto, and Mike MacMillan, founder and producer of Lithium Studios Productions. Research2Reality’s founding partners are leading research-intensive universities – the University of Alberta, the University of British Columbia, McMaster University, the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, and Western University – along with the Ontario Government and Discovery Networks. Discovery Science is the official media partner. Research2Reality is also supported by The Globe and Mail. Research2Reality details A Valentine of sorts to Canadian science researchers from Molly Shoichet (pronounced shoy [and] quette as in David Arquette) and her producing partner Mike MacMillan of Lithium Studios, Research2Reality gives Canadians an opportunity to discover online some of the extraordinary work done by scientists of all stripes, including (unusually) social scientists, in this country. The top tier in this effort is the interview video series ‘The Orange Chair Sessions‘ which can be found and shared across Twitter and Shoichet and MacMillan are convinced there’s an appetite for more comprehensive science information. Supporting The Orange Chair Sessions is a complementary website operated by Discovery Channel where there are backgrounders, blogs, and Discovery Channel is also going to be airing special one minute public service announcements (PSA) on topics like water, quantum computing, and cancer. Here’s one of the first of those PSAs, “I’m very excited about this and really hope that other people will be too,” says Shoichet. The audience for the Research2Reality endeavour is for people who like to know more and have questions when they see news items about science discoveries that can’t be answered by investigating mainstream media programmes or trying to read complex research papers. This is a big undertaking. ” Mike and I thought about this for about two years.” Building on the support they received from the University of Toronto, “We reached out to the vice-presidents of research at the top fifteen universities in the country.” In the end, six universities accepted the invitation to invest in this project, the University of British Columbia, the University of Alberta, Western University (formerly the University of Western Ontario), McMaster University, Waterloo University, and, of course, the University of Toronto (Unfortunately, Shoichet was not able to answer a question about the cost for an individual episode but perhaps when there’s time that detail and more about the financing will be made available. [ETA May 11, 2015 1625 PDT: Ivan Semeniuk notes this is a $400,000 project in his Globe and Mail May 11, 2015 article.]) As part of their involvement, the universities decide which of their researchers/projects should be profiled then Research2Reality swings into action. “We shoot our own video, that is, we (Mike and I) come out and conduct interviews that take approximately fifteen minutes. We also shoot a b-roll, that is, footage of the laboratories and other relevant sites so it’s not all ‘talking heads’.” Shoichet and MacMillan are interested in the answer to two questions, “What are you doing? and Why do we care?” Neither interviewer/producer is seen or heard on camera as they wanted to keep the focus on the researcher. Three videos are being released initially with another 67 in the pipeline for a total of 70. The focus is on research of an international calibre and one of the first interviews to be released (Shoichet’s will be release later) is Raymond Laflamme’s (he’s also featured in the ‘quantum PSA’. Raymond Laflamme Who convinces a genius that he’s gotten an important cosmological concept wrong or ignored it? Alongside Don Page, Laflamme accomplished that feat as one of Stephen Hawking’s PhD students at the University of Cambridge. Today (May 11, 2015), Laflamme is (from his Wikipedia entry) … co-founder and current director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. He is also a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and an associate faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Laflamme is currently a Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information. Laflamme changed his focus from quantum cosmology to quantum information while at Los Alamos, “To me, it seemed natural. Not much of a change.” It is the difference between being a theoretician and an experimentalist and anyone who’s watched The Big Bang Theory (US television programme) knows that Laflamme made a big leap. One of his major research interests is quantum cryptography, a means of passing messages you can ensure are private. Laflamme’s team and a team in Vienna (Austria) have enabled two quantum communication systems, one purely terrestrial version, which can exchange messages with another such system up to 100 km. away. There are some problems yet to be solved with terrestrial quantum communication. First, buildings, trees, and other structures provide interference as does the curvature of the earth. Second, fibre optic cables absorb some of the photons en route. Satellite quantum communication seems more promising as these problems are avoided altogether. The joint Waterloo/Vienna team of researchers has conducted successful satellite experiments in quantum communication in the Canary Islands. While there don’t seem to be any practical, commercial quantum applications, Laflamme says that isn’t strictly speaking the truth, “In the last 10 to 15 years many ideas have been realized.” The talk turns to quantum sensing and Laflamme mentions two startups and notes he can’t talk about them yet. But there is Universal Quantum Devices (UQD), a company that produces parts for quantum sensors. It is Laflamme’s startup, one he co-founded with two partners. (For anyone unfamiliar with the Canadian academic scene, Laflamme’s home institution, the University of Waterloo, is one of the most actively ‘innovative’ and business-oriented universities in Canada.) LaFlamme’s interests extend beyond laboratory work and business. He’s an active science communicator as can be seen in this 2010 TEDxWaterloo presentation where he takes his audience from the discovery of fire to quantum physics concepts such as a ‘quantum superposition’ and the ‘observer effect’ to the question, ‘What is reality?’ in approximately 18 mins. For anyone who needs a little more information, a quantum superposition is a term referring the ability of a quantum object to inhabit two states simultaneously, e.g., on/off. yes/no, alive/dead, as in Schrödinger’s cat. (You can find out more about quantum superpositions in this Wikipedia essay and about Schrodinger’s cat in this Wikipedia essay.) The observer effect is a phenomenon whereby the observer of a quantum experiment affects that experiment by the act of observing it. (You can find out more about the observer effect in this Wikipedia essay.) The topic of reality is much trickier to explain. No one has yet been able to offer a viable theory for why the world at the macro scale behaves one way (classical physics) and the world at the quantum scale behaves another way (quantum physics). As Laflamme notes, “There is no such thing as a superposition in classical physics but we can prove in the laboratory that it exists in quantum physics.” He goes on to suggest that children, raised in an environment where quantum physics and its applications are commonplace, will have an utterly different notion as to what constitutes reality. Laflamme is also interested in music and consulted on a ‘quantum symphony’. He has this to say about it in an Sept. 20, 2012 piece on the University of Waterlo website, Science and art share a common goal — to help us understand our universe and ourselves. Research at IQC [Institute for Quantum Computing] aims to provide important new understanding of nature’s building blocks, and devise methods to turn that understanding into technologies beneficial for society.Since founding IQC a decade ago, I have sought ways to bridge science and the arts, with the belief that scientific discovery itself is a source of beauty and inspiration. Our collaboration with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony was an example — one of many yet to come — of how science and the arts provide different but complementary insights into our universe and ourselves. I wrote about the IQC and the symphony which debuted at the IQC’s opening in a Sept. 25, 2012 posting. Music is not the only art which has attracted Laflamme’s talents. He consulted on a documentary, The Quantum Tamers: Revealing our weird and wired future, a co-production between Canada’s Perimeter Institute and Title Entertainment, From deep inside the sewers of Vienna, site of groundbreaking quantum teleportation experiments, to cutting-edge quantum computing labs, to voyages into the minds of the world’s brightest thinkers, including renowned British scientist Stephen Hawking, this documentary explores the coming quantum technological revolution. All of this suggests an interest in science not seen since the 19th century when scientists could fill theatres for their lectures. Even Hollywood is capitalizing on this interest. Laflamme, who saw ‘Interstellar’, ‘The Imitation Game’ (Alan Turing), and ‘The Theory of Everything’ (Stephen Hawking) in fall 2014 comments, “I was surprised by how much science there was in The Imitation Game and Interstellar.” As for the Theory of Everything, “I was apprehensive since I know Stephen well. But, the actor, Eddie Redmayne, and the movie surprised me. There were times when he moved his head or did something in a particular way—he was Stephen. Also, most people don’t realize what an incredible sense of humour Stephen has and the movie captured that well.” Laflamme also observed that it was a movie about a relationship and not really concerned with science and its impacts (good and ill) or scientific accomplishments. Although he allows, “It could have had more science.” Research2Reality producers Molly Shoichet Co-producer Shoichet has sterling scientific credentials of her own. In addition to this science communication project, she runs the Shoichet Lab at the University of Toronto (from the Dr. Molly Shoichet bio page), Dr. Molly Shoichet holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Tissue Engineering and is University Professor of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Chemistry and Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is an expert in the study of Polymers for Drug Delivery & Regeneration which are materials that promote healing in the body. Dr. Shoichet has published over to 480 papers, patents and abstracts and has given over 310 lectures worldwide. She currently leads a laboratory of 25 researchers and has graduated 134 researchers over the past 20 years. She founded two spin-off companies from research in her laboratory. Dr. Shoichet is the recipient of many prestigious distinctions and the only person to be a Fellow of Canada’s 3 National Academies: Canadian Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Dr. Shoichet holds the Order of Ontario, Ontario’s highest honour and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2013, her contributions to Canada’s innovation agenda and the advancement of knowledge were recognized with the QEII Diamond Jubilee Award. In 2014, she was given the University of Toronto’s highest distinction, University Professor, a distinction held by less than 2% of the faculty. Mike MacMillan MacMIllan’s biography (from the Lithium Studios website About section hints this is his first science-oriented series (Note: Links have been removed), Founder of Lithium Studios Productions University of Toronto (‘02) UCLA’s Professional Producing Program (‘11) His first feature, the dark comedy / thriller I Put a Hit on You (2014, Telefilm Canada supported), premiered at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival in Park City. Guidance (2014, Telefilm Canada supported, with super producer Alyson Richards over at Edyson), a dark comedy/coming of age story is currently in post-production, expected to join the festival circuit in September 2014. Mike has produced a dozen short films with Toronto talents Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart (CAN – Long Branch, Margo Lily), Samuel Fluckiger (SWISS – Terminal, Nightlight) and Darragh McDonald (CAN – Love. Marriage. Miscarriage.). They’ve played at the top film fests around the world and won a bunch of awards. Special skills include kickass hat collection and whiskey. Bam. It’s nice to see the Canadian scene expanding; I’m particularly pleased to learn social scientists will be included.Too often researchers from the physical sciences or natural sciences and researchers from the social sciences remain aloof from each other. In April 2013, I attended a talk by Evelyn Fox Keller, physicist, feminist, and philosopher, who read from a paper she’d written based on a then relatively recent experience in South Africa where researchers had aligned themselves in two different groups and refused to speak to each other. They were all anthropologists but the sticking point was the type of science they practiced. One group were physical anthropologists and the other were cultural anthropologists. That’s an extreme example unfortunately symptomatic of a great divide. Bravo to Research2Reality for bringing the two groups together. As for the science appetite Shoichet and MacMillan see in Canada, this is not the only country experiencing a resurgence of interest; they’ve been experiencing a science media expansion in the US. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Star Talk television talk show, which also exists as a radio podcast, debuted on April 19, 2015 (Yahoo article by Calla Cofield); Public Radio Exchange’s (PRX) Transistor; a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) audio project debuted in Feb. 2015; and video podcast Science Goes to the Movies also debuted in Feb. 2015 (more about the last two initiatives in my March 6, 2015 posting [scroll down about 40% of the way]). Finally (for the burgeoning US science media scene) and neither least nor new, David Bruggeman has a series of posts titled, Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of …, on his Pasco Phronesis blog which has been running for many years. Bruggeman’s series is being included here because most people don’t realize that US late night talk shows have jumped into the science scene. You can check David’s site here as he posts this series on Mondays and this is Monday, May 11, 2015. It’s early days for Research2Reality and it doesn’t yet have the depth one might wish. The videos are short (the one featured on the Discovery Channel’s complementary website is less than 2 mins. and prepare yourself for ads). They may not be satisfying from an information perspective but what makes The Orange Chair Series fascinating is the peek into the Canadian research scene. Welcome to Research2Reality and I hope to hear more about you in the coming months. [ETA May 11, 2015 at 1625 PDT: Semeniuk’s May 11, 2015 article mentions a few other efforts to publicize Canadian research (Note: Links have been removed), For example, Research Matters, a promotional effort by the Council of Ontario Universities, has built up a large bank of short articles on its website that highlight researchers across the province. Similarly, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, which channels federal dollars toward research infrastructure and projects, produces features stories with embedded videos about the scientists who are enabled by their investments. What makes Research2Reality different, said Dr. Shoichet, is an approach that doesn’t speak for one region, field of research of [sic] funding stream. One other aspect which distinguishes Research2Reality from the other science promotion efforts is the attempt to reach out to the audience. The Canada Foundation for Innovation and Council for Ontario Universities are not known for reaching out directly to the general public.] This entry was posted in New Media, science communication and tagged Calla Cofield, David Bruggeman, Dick Peltier, Discovery Networks. Discovery Science, Globe and Mail, Lithium Studios Productions, McMaster University, Mike MacMillan, Molly Shoichet, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Province of Ontario, Public Radio Exchange (PRX), Raymond Laflamme, Research2Reality, Sally Aitken, Science Goes to the Movies, Star Talk, transistor, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Western University on May 11, 2015 by Maryse de la Giroday. Late night science talk show (Star Talk) premiering in April 2015 on US television Thanks to David Bruggeman’s Jan. 7, 2015 post on his Pasco Phronesis blog for this tidbit about a new science addition to the late night television in the US, Star Talk (Note: Links have been removed), Neil DeGrasse Tyson appeared today [Jan. 7, 2015] at the Television Critics Association presentations in California. He announced that National Geographic will air a late night science-themed talk show hosted by Tyson, first airing sometime in April (H/T The Mary Sue). Shooting begins January 8. It will air weekly, and I intend to include it in the regular late night postings once it starts. A Jan. 7, 2105 news release on Business Wire offers details about the proposed programme, On the heels of COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey’s global success, National Geographic Channel today announced at the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, CA the premiere of the network’s first-ever late-night series, Star Talk, hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson). Based on Tyson’s incredibly popular podcast of the same name, the new series will bridge the intersection between pop culture and science as it brings together celebrities, comedians and scientists to discuss the latest developments in our vast universe. Premiering April 2015, the series will be produced by National Geographic Studios and will be taped in front of a studio audience at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium, where Tyson serves as director. Each week, Tyson and his fellow guests will explore a variety of cosmic topics, including space travel, extraterrestrial life, the Big Bang, the future of Earth and the environment and breaking news from the universe. “After the global success of COSMOS as one of the most watched series in our history, we are thrilled to be partnering with Neil again on Star Talk — his wildly popular podcast that transcends science and crosses over into pop culture — once again satisfying the audience’s passion for adventure and exploration,” said Courteney Monroe, CEO, National Geographic Channels. “We continue to bolster our programming with series and event specials that are brand definitional, and Star Talk is the perfect opportunity to offer our audience an edgy, late-night alternative with the credibility and authenticity that are the hallmarks of our network.” The premiere of Star Talk will be accompanied by the one-hour special Hubble’s Cosmic Journey, a celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope’s 25 years orbiting our planet. Narrated by Tyson, Hubble’s Cosmic Journey is the story of one of the most remarkable advances in modern technology, as told by the people who designed, built, launched, operated and repaired the legendary observatory. Hubble’s Cosmic Journey is produced by Bigger Bang and along with Star Talk will air globally on National Geographic Channel in 171 countries and 45 languages this spring. The tv show is based on Tyson’s radio show/podcast, Star Talk. A Hollywood Reporter Jan. 7, 2015 article by Michael O’Connell describes the relationship between Tyson’s radio show and his new tv talk show, “This is kind of low-risk, I think, for National Geographic,” Tyson told the crowd at the Television Critics Association press tour. “Star Talk exists as a thriving podcast right now.” Star Talk will indeed follow a similar format to Tyson’s podcast, which marries science and popular culture and feature interviews with celebrities, comedians and scientists. He’s still sorting through all of the elements that he’ll add to the television iteration, but he does intend to give Bill Nye a platform for a minute-long rant in each show, much as Andy Rooney had for many years on CBS’ 60 Minutes. I wish them good luck and look forward to reading about the show on the Pasco Phronesis blog. This entry was posted in science communication and tagged American Museum of Natural History, Bill Nye, Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, Courteney Monroe, David Bruggeman, Hayden Planetarium, Hubble Space Telescope, late night television, Michael O'Connell, National Geographic Channel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, science talk show, Star Talk, Television Critics Association (TCA) on January 9, 2015 by Maryse de la Giroday.

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Islamic Jihad Against U.S. Jews Constant since 9/11. Thu Dec 12, 2019 Mohammed Alshamrani, the Pensacola Naval Air Station shooter, appears to have been “motivated,” in part, by an obsession with jihad against Israel. Just prior to the Dec. 7 attack, a threat was posted to Alshamrani’s alleged Twitter account: “You will not be safe until we live it as reality in pleastain [sic].” This was a reiteration of a threat against the United States made by Osama bin Laden in a January 2010 audio message over American support for Israel’s right to self-defense. Although Alshamrani’s lethal attack did not directly target Jews or Israel, jihadi terrorism directed unequivocally at U.S. Jews, and their institutions, has been a continuous phenomenon since Sept. 11, 2001. Moreover, the scope of this ongoing threat has not been enumerated, while the canonical Islamic religious incitement animating it—and the resulting disproportionate 2.4-fold rate of extreme anti-Semitism within the U.S. Muslim community, i.e., 34 percent of Muslims vs. 14 percent of non-Muslims—are almost entirely ignored. I recently documented six successful and 16 thwarted Muslim attacks specifically targeting U.S. Jews—typically accompanied by an open profession of an Islamic jihadist, anti-Semitic motivation—since the 9/11 jihad carnage. The six successful attacks resulted in eight deaths and seven serious injuries. The following are summary descriptions of representative examples of two of the six lethal attacks and two of the sixteen thwarted ones. • July 2002, Los Angeles Airport — Hesham Mohamed Ali Hedayat, an alleged member of Assad Eben Furat Mosque Association, whose mission was to “understand truly and apply Islamic law in the 20th century under any circumstances,” killed two Jews, Victoria Hen and Yaakov Aminov, at the El Al ticket counter, and wounded two others. Hedayat was slain during his murderous assault. When police investigators arrived at Hedayat’s apartment after the attack, “they found a note on the door saying, ‘Read the Koran.’” U.S. Justice Department investigators determined that “religious and political beliefs were the primary motivation for the attack.” • July 2006; Seattle, Washington — Naveed Afzal Haq forcibly entered the Jewish Federation of Seattle, by taking a 13-year-old girl hostage. Once inside, he killed one woman and wounded five others, three seriously. Haq purchased weapons and ammunition, chose the Seattle Jewish Federation as his target, then drove over 200 miles from his home in Pasco, Washington, to Seattle, to carry out the attack. Before firing his weapon Haq announced, “I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel.” Upon surrendering to the police, Haq declared, “This is about the Jews and what they are doing.” He further stated in phone calls to his parents, “I got the Jews … They were enemies. I did it purposely. Now I’m going to heaven.” • July 2005; Los Angeles and Orange County, California — Cell members of Jami’at Al-Islam Al-Sahih (JIS), “The Association of Authentic Islam,” a domestic jihad terrorist organization comprised of converts to Islam and established by Kevin James, aka “Shakyh Shahaab Murshid” (and multiple other Islami aliases was prevented from carrying out terrorist attacks against El Al, the Israeli consulate, and Los Angeles-area synagogues. Their leader, James, “preached the duty of JIS members to target for violent attack any enemies of Islam or ‘infidels,’ including Jewish and non-Jewish supporters of Israel.” He also drafted a “JIS Protocol document,” which called for the “establishment of an Islamic caliphate in the U.S. that followed Islamic law.” JIS conducted surveillance, gathered weapons, and planned attacks on Los Angeles area synagogues to coincide with the Jewish high holidays, particularly Yom Kippur, thus potentially maximizing the number of Jewish victims. • December 2018; Toledo, Ohio — Convert to Islam Damon Joseph, aka “Abdullah Ali Yusuf,” expressed a generalized hatred of non-Muslims, with an intense animus toward Jews. Joseph celebrated the October 2018 Tree of Life Pittsburgh synagogue carnage, and conveyed his own desire to “wage jihad” against Jews in Toledo, Ohio, preferably on a Sabbath, to cause more casualties. Unrelenting in tempo, five potentially catastrophic attacks were prevented between August, 2018, and April, 2019. The preaching of popular Irving, Texas, Imam Omar Suleiman is pathognomonic of what fuels such incessant Jew-hatred among U.S. Muslims. Granted the privilege of delivering an opening prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives in May, Suleiman’s public “lecture series” validates the permanent, dehumanizing Koranic (5:60) epithet for Jews as “apes and pigs”—so-called “punishment” for their inveterate deceit—while demanding “humiliation,” of the state of Israel and all Jews who support its right to exist. Puerto Rico Aid Still Sitting In Warehouse

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I read Zwerfster Chic, which means “Bag Lady”, at the request of the author. This is a story of the experiences of mixed race children, PTSD, crime and redemption, childhood bullying, and the feeling of being unaccepted and unwanted. Zwerfster Chic is Billie Kelgren’s debut novel, published April 12, 2018. Elise McNeil is a mixed-race FBI Special Agent who spent nine years in prison, and is now paroled. She accepts a job with a private and very secretive security company that requires her to become associates with a known con artist, Maria Sofia Catalina Marianna Garcia, a.k.a., “Mia”. Even though she hasn’t had time to acclimate herself to normal civilian life or to recover from PTSD, Elise accompanies Mia around the globe as Mia targets one of the world’s richest men. Black people consider Elise to be white, and white people consider her to be black. Because of this, she has never felt accepted anywhere – a demoralizing emotional effect on a child. Kelgren addresses the issue in Elise’s thoughts and conversations. Zwerfster Chic is a powerful story, but is told in a very disjointed way with many flashbacks and grammatical errors which a good editor or proofreader should have caught. For example, in the middle of a dynamic action scene, Elise begins telling the reader of an event in her childhood, then reverts to the action. It was mental whiplash for this reader. Because of this, I found myself flipping back through pages to see if I had missed something, for example two women were speaking, then suddenly “he” did or said something – who is “he”? More mental whiplash. As with most books written in first person, italics are used to show the narrator’s thoughts. However, in many places, italics, rather than quotation marks, are also used for dialogue. About half-way through the book, the prose began to flow more smoothly, and the italics for dialogue disappeared in favor of quotes. It was as if Elise had had a personality change. Acronyms the general population doesn’t know: POD, BOP, JFCI, CS; incomplete sentences; missing commas; verb tense disagreement; brought here vs. take there; split infinitives; capitalization errors; one-sentence paragraphs; confusing “further” with “farther”.

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Letter: Time has come on Guam for part-time Legislature A 21-member part-time legislature that allows the best and brightest to serve without quitting their day jobs is a great idea whose time has come. Letter: Time has come on Guam for part-time Legislature A 21-member part-time legislature that allows the best and brightest to serve without quitting their day jobs is a great idea whose time has come. Check out this story on guampdn.com: http://www.guampdn.com/story/opinion/readers/2018/04/01/letter-time-has-come-guam-part-time-legislature/476380002/ Pacific Daily News Published 1:30 p.m. ChT April 1, 2018 Ken Leon-Guerrero(Photo: PDN file photo) For three years, I’ve been encouraging people to run for office without much luck. The people I have been trying to recruit are smart people with strong careers or successful businesses they don’t want to walk away from. The fact they are smart and successful is why we want them to serve in the Legislature. The fact they’re vested in their careers and businesses makes them less likely to become professional politicians who need to cater to special-interest donors. Consider former Sens. Bob Klitzkie and Mike Limtiaco as good examples of citizen legislators. Both are successful people who brought their knowledge and expertise to the Legislature and quickly left to resume their careers. Forty-one states have part-time legislatures because they recognized allowing the best and the brightest in a community the ability to serve has huge benefits. Returning to 21 senators will spread the workload among many smart people instead of overloading 15 to the point they need to do this work full-time. The costs of returning to 21 senators will be offset by the salary savings of part-time senators. Having 21 senators that have jobs and/or businesses in the real world will help keep them grounded in things that really matter; they won’t have time to introduce hundreds of resolutions. Guam has a population of 160,000 and, so far this session, in the midst of dealing with a severe financial crisis, our 15 senators had time to introduce 374 resolutions for all kinds of pointless reasons — an average of 25 resolutions per senator for things like commemorating the 100th anniversary of the scuttling of a German warship in Apra Harbor at the beginning of World War I; acknowledging the existence of departments within the government; congratulating people on their birthdays. The Guam Congress Building in Hagåtña on Nov. 28, 2017. (Photo: Frank San Nicolas/PDN) Compare that to Texas, with a population of 29 million, whose 181 part-time elected representatives introduced 921 resolutions, averaging five resolutions per elected member during their 85th legislative session. When we look back at the history of Guam, the 21-member part-time Legislature passed a lot of the laws that made Guam what it is today. We need to go back to what worked best: 21 part-time legislators, because ... more smart people will have more and better ideas than fewer smart people. More people to handle fewer committees will do a better job on the oversight requirements of the job, a key factor as we navigate our way through this financial storm. I don’t believe for a second that our professional politicians are willing to make a 21-member part-time Legislature a reality without a fight, as shown by their refusal to pass Bill 45, which would have eliminated the primary election, which is designed to protect incumbents from challenge. Victor Hugo wrote: “There is nothing more unstoppable than an idea whose time has come.” A 21-member part-time legislature that allows the best and brightest to serve the people of Guam without quitting their day jobs is a great idea whose time has come, even if we have to do it ourselves, by initiative. Ken Leon-Guerrero is spokesperson of Guam Citizens for Public Accountability. Return to a part-time Legislature: Letter What we'd miss with part-time Legislature: Letter Read or Share this story: http://www.guampdn.com/story/opinion/readers/2018/04/01/letter-time-has-come-guam-part-time-legislature/476380002/ Letter: Invest in FestPac, promote Guam Letter: Yes to part-time legislature Letter: Part-time legislature would better serve people Underwood: A land where the past isn't irrelevant Bevacqua: Guam's voice in the story of globalization Powerlifters represent Guam in Hawaii

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Born after the terror attacks, a generation of young people wonders – What happened on 9/11? Why did it happen? What was its impact on our country and the world? Exploring these and other questions in a kid-friendly way, HBO Family’s latest documentary is an introduction to the events of 9/11. What Happened on September 11 is directed and produced by Emmy-winner Amy Schatz (HBO’s Song of Parkland, The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm and An Apology to Elephants) in collaboration with the 9/11 Tribute Museum. What Happened on September 11 provides a sensitive and informative account of the events of 9/11 for a young audience. Designed in response to children’s questions about the attacks, the film features kids in conversation with survivors and family members, historical segments, and classroom scenes exploring 9/11 through artwork and poetry. The short documentary follows students from Secaucus Middle School on a class trip to the 9/11 Tribute Museum in Lower Manhattan, where they hear personal accounts from Tribute School Group Guides Stephen Kern, who worked on the 62nd floor of the North Tower and recalls the evacuation and buildings collapse, and Matthew Crawford, whose father was a firefighter who died in the South Tower. Back in the classroom, the students create art projects and write poems about 9/11, an assignment their teachers Melissa Heintjes and Doug Depice give as part of a unique interdisciplinary approach to teaching 9/11, helping kids make an “emotional connection to history.” Through archival photos and footage, the film includes a sidebar on the history and significance of the World Trade Center and lower Manhattan, along with a short discussion of the rise of Al-Qaeda to address kids’ questions about the attackers’ motivations. “It’s a difficult lesson to teach,” admits Jennifer Suri, Assistant Principal of Social Studies at Stuyvesant High School, who is Muslim. She notes the importance of emphasizing that the motivations of the terrorists are not a part of Islam. The special also touches on the other events of 9/11 – the third plane flown into the Pentagon and a fourth that crashed in a Pennsylvania field. It also describes the rescue and clean-up efforts at the World Trade Center, which took nine months to clear. The film closes with a bright spot in the recovery — when a tree was found buried under the rubble. After being moved to a nursery, the tree grew to 30 feet and was finally brought back to Ground Zero in December 2010. Visiting the “Survivor Tree,” seen in the film covered in flowers at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza, the children take away a powerful lesson from the last living thing pulled from the site. To one student, the tree “goes to show that through bad days, no matter how bad it gets, that shouldn’t make you scared to keep living your life.” For over a decade, the 9/11 Tribute Museum has worked with teachers and students to develop resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the events of September 11, 2001. Highlighting first person accounts, the museum has over 900 volunteers from the 9/11 community, including family members, survivors, and first responders, who share their experiences of that day with visitors from around the world, illustrating the history and how the world has changed. Inspired by the film, the 9/11 Tribute Museum created teaching resource materials available for free at https://911tributemuseum.org/what-happened-on-september-11-hbo-documentary. What Happened on September 11 was directed and produced by Amy Schatz; edited by Tom Patterson; producers, Katy Garfield and Sascha Weiss; director of photography, Alex Rappoport; music composed by Keith Kenniff. For HBO: executive producers, Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller.

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• Pregnancy Study Disputes Pregnancy Link to MS Relapses THURSDAY, March 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A new study challenges the long-held belief that multiple sclerosis (MS) can flare up right after pregnancy in women with the relapsing-remitting form of the disease. In that type of MS, symptoms arise, then go into periods of remission. "These results are exciting, as MS is more common among women of childbearing age than in any other group," explained study author Dr. Annette Langer-Gould, from Kaiser Permanente Southern California. "This shows us that women with MS today can have children, breastfeed and resume their treatment without experiencing an increased risk of relapses during the postpartum period," Langer-Gould said in an American Academy of Neurology news release. The theory that women have an increased risk of relapse is more than 20 years old, so the researchers wanted to determine if it was actually true. They reviewed data from California on 466 pregnancies among 375 women with MS from 2008 to 2016. Thirty-eight percent of the women did not receive any treatment for MS in the year before they became pregnant. At the start of pregnancy, 15 percent of the women had clinically isolated syndrome -- the first episode of MS symptoms. Eight percent of the women had an MS relapse during pregnancy. In the year after giving birth, 26 percent of the women had a relapse, 87 percent breastfed, 35 percent breastfed exclusively and 41 percent started taking their MS treatments again. The annual relapse rate for the women was 0.39 before pregnancy, 0.07 to 0.14 during pregnancy, and 0.27 in the first three months after birth. The rate returned to pre-pregnancy levels at 0.37 four to six months after birth. Women who breastfed exclusively for at least two months were about 40 percent less likely to have a relapse than women who did not breastfeed. Women who breastfed and also used formula for two months were just as likely to have a relapse as those who did not breastfeed. Of the women who breastfed exclusively, 46 out of 167 resumed using MS treatments while breastfeeding. Interferon-betas and glatiramer acetate were the most commonly used medications. Resuming the use of these treatments did not impact the risk of relapse. The study is scheduled to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting in Philadelphia, held May 4-10. Such research is considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has more on MS and pregnancy. SOURCE: American Academy of Neurology, news release, March 7, 2019 • Recurrence • Therapeutics • Sclerosis

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helis.comhelis.com Helicopter patches Helicopter books Urban air mobility Army FARA Flying a helicopter Helicopter stories Future helicopters 1834 operators 53318 serials 5629 heliports NEWS | APSU Austin Peay State University State of Tennessee #APSU Austin Peay State University New Helicopters Austin Peay State University launching an aviation science degree with a concentration in rotor wing program with the reception of Guimbal Cabri and R44 helicopters Austin Peay State University, January 11, 2019 - Austin Peay State University officials on Wednesday unveiled the first of three helicopters in its new rotor-wing fleet. The helicopters bolster the state’s first and only aviation science program with a rotor-wing concentration. Charlie Weigandt, the program’s director and chief helicopter pilot, circled the plaza beside the Art + Design building before lowering the Guimbal Cabri G2 – named GOV 1 – to the lawn. The landing was GOV 1’s first on campus, touching down at 10:46 a.m. About 150 people – including local lawmakers and Fort Campbell officials – braved Wednesday’s chilly temperatures and gusting winds to witness the inaugural campus landing. “This is a historic event, and it’s one that has been in the planning stages for a long time,” APSU President Alisa White said before GOV 1 landed. “This came as a result of faculty talking to industry. ‘Where are the jobs? Where are the needs?’ I don’t even know how many conversations (they) had with industry leaders to find out what is needed in this area for our workforce to be at the ready.” White cited the work of Dr. Karen Meisch, interim dean of the College of STEM, Dr. Jaime Taylor, previous STEM dean, and Dr. Kristine Nakutis, executive director of the Austin Peay Center @ Fort Campbell, for launching the program. STATE’S FIRST ROTOR-WING PROGRAM Weigandt last week flew two Cabri G2’s to Clarksville – during a three-day solo flight from Portland, Oregon, and a short flight from St. Louis, Missouri (the Oregon trip was about 1,900 miles and 21 hours of flight time) – before housing them at Clarksville Regional Airport. A Robinson R44 soon will join the University’s helicopter fleet. The helicopters will be keystones in Austin Peay’s aviation science degree with a concentration in rotor wing (helicopters) program, which launched in the fall. The degree requires more than 175 hours of flight time. The first flight lab will be this spring, Weigandt said. The program benefits Fort Campbell pilots transitioning from the military and civilians pursuing careers in flight instruction, aerial tourism, charter operations and other rotor-wing pilot careers. Retired Brig. Gen. Scott Brower, APSU’s military adviser in residence and former deputy commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, emphasized the University’s role in serving those connected to the military. “Because of living in such a great community, with such a large military presence, Austin Peay State University is afforded an opportunity with which comes a responsibility to care for and educate over 2,400 military-affiliated students, which includes our active-duty students, National Guard and Reserve service members, veterans from all services, along with spouses and children of all of those groups,” he said. SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS IN A COMPETITIVE MARKET Rotor-wing students will learn flight skills and academics in a renovated, aviation-oriented facility at Clarksville Regional Airport, aka Outlaw Field. “Without Outlaw Field doing this, we couldn’t do this,” White said. “The partnerships that have been established with this program are just indicative of the kind of partnerships we want going forward. We want to be a part of the University’s and the state’s goals to support the economy and to support our families and to support our community. “Without our entire community, without everybody at the table, this could not be possible.” Unlike other flight training facilities in the region, the APSU program is staffed by full-time faculty, well experienced in rotor-wing training. Weigandt is a 24-year U.S. Army veteran and founding member of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. After his service, Weigandt spent an additional 14 years as a contract flight instructor. “I can speak from personal experience, having my bachelor’s degree before I went into the Army gave me an edge competitively when it came time for promotion and selection for programs,” Weigandt said. “That’s what we will give our students; it isn’t just the certificates, but also that degree to make them more competitive in the job market.” ROTOR-WING THE NEXT OF ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES Students will receive a well-rounded undergraduate education in addition to the ability to obtain the rotor-wing FAA private pilot’s and commercial pilot’s licenses, and commercial flight instructor and commercial flight instrument instructor certificates. The combination of FAA certification and a bachelor’s degree will make APSU graduates more competitive in the aviation market. The program will provide a foundation in FAA regulations, airmanship, rotary-wing aerodynamics and methods of instruction and will provide students the opportunity to pass required FAA knowledge tests required for each certificate or rating. At Austin Peay, “the possibilities remain endless,” Brower said. “This rotor-wing program is the next possibility, and it’s going to help not only our military-affiliated students, but all students in the community we’re so happy to be a part of.” Aircraft mentioned in this article : Guimbal Cabri G2 N721TX ( State of Tennessee ) This article is listed in : APSU Austin Peay State University State of Tennessee Guimbal Cabri G2 Robinson R44 Cadet --Helicopters Flight School - Training Civilian Outlaw Field We use cookies to enhance your experience. By continuing to visit this site you agree to our use of cookies. MORE INFO OK Helicopter History Site - www.helis.com

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Higgs supports national family dispute resolution week West Midlands' leading law firm Higgs & Sons is throwing its weight behind a special week-long event to help families resolve disputes without going to court. Higgs & Sons is playing a leading part in supporting National Family Dispute Resolution Week, which runs from November 25 to 29. The week aims to highlight the range of ways family disputes - such as divorce, separation and cases involving children - can be settled without the need for court action. It has been organised by Resolution, a professional network of 6,500 lawyers and other professionals committed to a constructive and non-confrontational approach to family disputes. Kelly Perks, an Associate in Higgs & Sons' family department, said there were a number of alternatives to court action which could save families time, money and stress. Kelly, a member of the Black Country Collaborative Group of Resolution, said: "Dispute resolution includes a range of settlement-seeking processes including mediation, negotiation, conciliation, collaborative law and arbitration. "In collaborative law couples sit down together with the help of their own solicitors and other neutral professionals such as accountants, financial advisers and family therapists, to work out their issues. They agree in advance that they will not resort to court action but instead sit down in a series of meetings to resolve the case. "Other processes can involve using specially-trained mediators, or independent arbitrators, to bring about a settlement without all the worry and stress that going to court can produce." Kelly urged anyone facing a family dispute to contact a Resolution member to see how they could benefit from the various options available to them. "At Higgs & Sons, we play an active role in Resolution and offer detailed, specialist advice on all the different ways of dealing with these issues without the need for court action for the benefit of all parties involved." Higgs & Sons work from two offices in the Black Country - Waterfront Business Park in Brierley Hill and Kingswinford. The firm employs over 200 people, including 100 specialist lawyers. To find out how Kelly and the family team can help you call 0845 111 5050 or email kelly.perks@higgsandsons.co.uk.

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The Budapest-born mechanical engineer received his diploma in 1903 at the Budapest Technical University. His main professional interest was energetics, though his theoretical work was extensive. After gaining experience at German, Belgian, Swiss and French factories, he obtained his degree of Ph. D. in the technical field. His first invention was an aerial torpedo in 1915, which operated on the jet propulsion principle. This invention increased the effective range of artillery. It was a significant invention but failed to attract interest. On the other hand, inventions which were more in accord with the technical level of his age became successful. He patented a new steam boiler in 1923 and an air compressor for mines in 1928. A patent application for his most important invention, the jet propulsion engine, was filed in Germany. This engine enabled aircraft to fly faster than the speed of sound. It took 4 years of preliminary examination before he received his patent in 1932. With this advanced invention Fonó proved himself ahead of his time. From 1954 he was a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He received the Kossuth Prize in 1956 and from 1968 he was a corresponding member of the International Academy of Astronautics.

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April 19th, 2018 | Written by Peter Buxbaum SC Ports Opens Inland Port Dillon INLAND PORT DILLON: Nearly 400 people gathered to celebrate the grand opening. (Image: SCPA) Intermodal rail has increased 180 percent increase since 2011 at the Port of Charleston. Nearly 25 percent of the Port of Charleston's container volume moves by rail. Inland Port Dillon is expected to convert 45,000 container movements from truck to rail in its first year. The South Carolina Ports Authority held the grand opening of Inland Port Dillon this week. Dillon is SCPA’s second inland facility, constructed to handle strong growth of the port’s intermodal rail cargo volumes and deepen the port’s reach into markets through the Carolinas to the Northeast and Midwest. Inland Port Dillon utilizes an existing CSX intermodal train service to handle container movement to and from the Port of Charleston’s productive seaport facilities. Inland Port Dillon is expected to convert an estimated 45,000 container movements from truck to rail in the first year of operation. “Inland ports provide needed infrastructure in the interior of the state to support the movement of freight to and from our marine terminals,” said Jim Newsome, SCPA president and CEO. “The addition of Inland Port Dillon to the port’s network diversifies our reach and enables port users to gain logistics efficiencies through rail transportation of their cargo. We’ve had tremendous support from the Dillon region to date and look forward to growing our cargo base for the facility.” “Our ports system is one of the most important driving forces behind South Carolina’s recent economic success, and with the help of the Inland Port Dillon, it always will be,” said Governor Henry McMaster. “With two inland ports and the Port of Charleston soon to be the deepest on the East Coast, South Carolina has strategic advantages that no other state has, and that will continue to pay off for the people of our great state.” The facility will handle the growing volume of container cargo traveling to and from the Port of Charleston via intermodal rail, which has increased 180 percent increase since 2011. Today, nearly 25 percent of the port’s container volume moves by rail. “CSX is pleased to be a key link in extending the South Carolina Port Authority’s reach from the Port of Charleston to the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina through establishment of Inland Port Dillon,” said Dean Piacente, CSX Vice President of Intermodal. “We are confident that the inland port will promote economic development in the region and increase the competitiveness of the Port of Charleston and businesses throughout the State of South Carolina. CSX is proud of our role working together with the Port in converting the movement of containers from highway to rail, reducing highway congestion and providing environmental benefits to the citizens of South Carolina while promoting economic growth and commerce.” SCPA opened its first inland facility, Inland Port Greer, in the Upstate region of South Carolina in November 2013. Inland Port Greer handled a record-breaking 124,817 rail moves in calendar year 2017, an increase of 20 percent over the previous year. Inland Port Greer also achieved a fiscal year-to-date record number of rail lifts, with 87,360 moves since July. The facility handled 10,612 rail lifts last month. “The expansion of SCPA’s footprint into Dillon is a significant project not just for our Port, but the entire state,” said SCPA Board Chairman Bill Stern. “Inland Port Dillon will provide many advantages to Port customers in the Pee Dee region and beyond, enabling them to move their supplies and finished products with greater efficiency to a global consumer base. It will no doubt serve as a catalyst for economic development, and it is an exciting day to bring such opportunities to this area.” Inland Port Dillon is located within the Carolinas I-95 Mega Site with close proximity to I-95, a critical transportation artery in the Southeast. The area is central to a significant base of existing port users, including Harbor Freight Tools, that represent base cargo opportunities for the facility. “Inland Port Dillon is a complement to the capacity and infrastructure investments underway at port facilities in Charleston to accommodate bigger ships and overall growth of our volumes,” Newsome said. “Inland Port Dillon is a game-changing investment that will shape the future of not only the Pee Dee but all of South Carolina,” said US Senator Lindsey Graham. “Building on the success of Inland Port Greer, this facility will give companies an efficient and cost-effective way to move their products across the state, making the Pee Dee an attractive location for investment, economic development and job creation.” PCC Reaches Vancouver Destination

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Yates Center in Woodson County, Kansas — The American Midwest (Upper Plains) By William Fischer, Jr., September 3, 2011 1. Veterans Memorial Marker Veterans Memorial. . This memorial is dedicated to those who served to protect our freedom and our country. [Honor Roll] [not transcribed]. . This memorial is in Yates Center in Woodson County Kansas This memorial is dedicated to those who served to protect our freedom and our country. [Honor Roll] [not transcribed] Location. 37° 52.895′ N, 95° 44.011′ W. Marker is in Yates Center, Kansas, in Woodson County. Memorial is at the intersection of Rutledge Street and State Street, on the left when traveling east on Rutledge Street. Marker is on the southwest grounds of the Woodson County Courthouse. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 105 West Rutledge Street, Yates Center KS 66783, United States of America. Touch for directions. Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 15 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. World War Memorial (a few steps from this marker); World War and Veterans Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (approx. 9½ miles away); Buster Keaton's Birthplace (approx. 11 miles away); History of LeRoy, Kansas (approx. 14.9 miles away); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (approx. 15 miles away); Opothleyahola 2. Veterans Memorial County courthouse in background (approx. 15 miles away); Founding of LeRoy, Kansas (approx. 15 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Yates Center. Categories. • Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World II • More. Search the internet for Veterans Memorial. Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on June 4, 2012, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania. This page has been viewed 319 times since then and 3 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on June 4, 2012, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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Live Feed TV's Top 5 Podcast TV Reviews Premiere Dates Scorecard TV Ratings Former Fox News Host Eric Bolling Meets With Trump Over Opioid Epidemic 11:20 AM PST 1/24/2018 by Jeremy Barr Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Eric Bolling The host says that Trump has been a regular caller and well-wisher since his son died Sept. 8, the same day that his separation from Fox News was announced. On Tuesday afternoon, former Fox News host Eric Bolling met in the White House with President Trump to discuss the opioid epidemic, an issue that has taken on a personal resonance for him since the death of his only son from an accidental overdose in early September. Bolling tells The Hollywood Reporter that he had a lengthy conversation with the president about the issue, which he said he's discussed on phone calls and "several" previous visits with Trump in the White House. He also met with counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, who has been tapped to lead the White House's response to the epidemic. "Eric has committed to help the president and his administration as we endeavor to bend the curve and destroy this 'crisis next door,'" Conway said in part in a statement to THR. She said that Bolling's "ability to connect and communicate with people on a range of issues is well-known." Bolling says he was "very happy to hear" that Trump is focused on the issue, which he says the White House is "stepping up" efforts to combat, including a new initiative involving the U.S. surgeon general that's slated to be announced in the coming days. He says he's convinced that Trump is well-informed on the supply side of the opioid issue. (The administration has gotten some flak for not taking more tangible steps to address the problem.) "I have offered him 100 percent of my availability, whatever he needs me to do," Bolling said last week. After his Tuesday meeting, Bolling said, "They're going to be using me to help develop some of these awareness initiatives." Bolling says that Trump has called him "more times than you can count on one hand" and has shown him "compassion and empathy" since the death of his son, 19-year-old Eric Chase, from an overdose stemming from his ingestion of a pill laced with fentanyl. "He's been amazing," he says of Trump. Bolling says the president called him on Thanksgiving, right as he and his wife were about to sit down to dinner with an empty chair that would have been for their son. "The timing was poetic," he says. "There's nothing in it for him," Bolling adds of Trump's calls and well-wishes. "I'm not on air. I'm literally just a friend. He cares. He cares about a man who loses his son." (Bolling, who frequently defended Trump on air at Fox News, says he has known the president for 13 or 14 years.) Bolling's son died a few hours after Fox News announced that Bolling had "amicably" left the network following a monthlong suspension and investigation conducted by an outside law firm. The separation was set in motion by an Aug. 4 article in HuffPost, which relied on 14 sources to report that he was accused of sending "an unsolicited photo of male genitalia via text message to at least two colleagues at Fox Business and one colleague at Fox News." Bolling's lawyer denied the charges at the time and said his client "does not believe" he sent the images. Bolling threatened to sue the author of the story, Yashar Ali, but has not yet done so. Fox News, in a Sept. 8 statement, thanked Bolling for his "10 years of service." He told THR that the announcement followed weeks of discussions with the network, and says he was satisfied with the negotiated separation. On the night of the announcement, Bolling took his wife out to a nice dinner. "We were looking forward to the next step in my career, in our lives together," he says. On the car ride home from dinner, Bolling says he got a call from a man who, panicked, told him to call a female associate of his son's. She broke the news of his son's death. "I call her, and she's crying, and I'm thinking for some reason I just went right to, 'Is he alive?' She said, 'No.'" In the four and half months since his son's death, Bolling says he's been buoyed by frequent calls from some of his contemporaries in the news business. Bolling says that Sean Hannity, his former colleague, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, who is on the other end of the political spectrum, "have checked in with [him] constantly, constantly." CNN's Don Lemon and Van Jones have also called Bolling often to see how he's doing. And, he says that onetime Fox News star Megyn Kelly has also reached out. Scarborough, he says, put in a call when he and his wife were at a particularly low point in the grieving process. "These people have found a way to reach out, and it's been amazing," he says. Eric Chase Bolling's cause of death was confirmed as an accidental overdose in a coroner's report released in late October. On Sept. 9, a day after his death, TMZ reported that Bolling's son was distraught by his father's exodus from Fox News and had committed suicide. Bolling says the false report, which was later corrected, was "so hurtful and harming and so detrimental" to him and his wife, Adrienne. Bolling conveyed that his son, a second-year student at the University of Colorado, was a social butterfly who planned to join a fraternity. "I'll never forget," he says. "I said, 'Eric, you've got to really be careful not to get involved in things that can kill you, that can hurt you, the harder drugs. ... He said, 'Dad, I got this.' It was one of the last times we had that discussion." He says he wonders now whether he should have taken his son's word for it. In recent weeks and months, Bolling has reemerged and used his Twitter profile as a "clearinghouse" for personal stories about the devastating effects of opioid abuse. (Ever the political gladiator, he's also gotten in some partisan jabs here and there.) "It's not easy," he says. "Half the time I'm typing on Twitter there are tears in my eyes." Bolling says that he's had conversations with interested parties about a potential return to media, but nothing is formally in the works. Some companies are likely to be resistant considering the circumstances that led to his departure from Fox News. Says Bolling, "I'll let that path be lighted for me, and I'll certainly take that path, whether it's back in the media world or whether it's the opioid awareness world." Jeremy Barr jeremy.barr@thr.com jeremymbarr

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Jeff Bridges' Stand-in Reflects on 50 Years Working With the Golden Globe Honoree: "What a Rodeo!" 6:00 AM PST 1/6/2019 by Loyd Catlett, as told to Benjamin Svetkey Courtesy of subject Loyd Catlett setting up a shot for Jeff Bridges' 2013 buddy comedy (with Ryan Reynolds) 'R.I.P.D.' Loyd Catlett, 65, the longtime double for the Globe and Oscar winner — and now 2019 Cecil B. DeMille recipient — recalls their decades of doubling: "Jeff can imitate me better than I can imitate him." When people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them I sell bar napkins and swizzle sticks. Being Jeff Bridges' stand-in and stunt double, I just get too many questions. It's too difficult to sum up. Jeff and I met in 1970. I was a young rodeo cowboy, in my last year of high school, and I did this audition for a movie shooting in Wichita Falls, Texas. I had no idea what it was. They didn't even have a title then. But I ended up playing Leroy in The Last Picture Show. I didn't know it at the time, but the director, Peter Bogdanovich, had told Jeff and Tim Bottoms to hang out with me before we started shooting so that they could pick up my Texas drawl. It was intimidating as hell — Jeff was the son of a movie star — but we really hit it off. He kept calling me from his hotel, and he and Tim kept asking to hang out. I thought everybody in the movie business was so genuine and so nice and so interested in my life. I didn't realize they were studying me. Anyway, that's when I was bitten by the movie bug. Peter flew me out to do some looping in L.A., and I decided to stay. I was encouraged to take some acting classes, and to pay the rent, I worked at a gas station and at a Pioneer Chicken fast food restaurant. Jeff and I stayed in touch, but after a while my career took a downward turn. I wasn't getting parts. One day I was telling Jeff I needed a job, and he goes, "Well, you want to be my stand-in? I've got to go to Europe to do this film …" Jeff was kind enough to give me a job. I didn't know it was going to last for 50 years. I've been his stunt double too. I don't leap off buildings or anything — I'm not a daredevil — but I've done plenty of fight scenes. It's all very choreographed. It looks like they've slugged you, but they miss by three inches. Sometimes Jeff sends me scripts to read — "I haven't made up my mind, what do you think?" — and of course we talk a lot before each movie. Is there a beard? Do I need to put on weight or take some off? Right before we started filming the first Iron Man movie, I was up at my cabin in Idaho and Jeff sends me an email with a picture of himself with a bald head and a beard. I'd never been bald before, but right away I had my hair shaved off, took a picture and sent it to Jeff. He calls right up and says, "Shit, Loyd! That was a bald cap. We were just experimenting with looks. I was just joking with you." I guess Jeff felt bad, because he ended up shaving his head for the movie. After 50 years, I think his personality changed a little bit because of me. He even sounds more like me. In the past he had that California surfer boy persona, but I think he's adopted my ways. He can imitate me better than I can imitate him. He's become a master at being me. I like to say I taught him everything he knows. If my acting career hasn't come to pass like I wanted it to, so what? Fifty years of working with Jeff Bridges — man, what a rodeo. This story first appeared in the Jan. 4 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. Loyd Catlett, as told to Benjamin Svetkey

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Confident small businesses to reinvest in new financial year 16 June, 2016 by Close to half of Australian small businesses are prioritising investment in machinery, equipment and technology in the new financial year, according to research released by the Commonwealth Bank. The research, which surveyed Australian small businesses with an annual turnover of less than $1 million before the end of financial year, found 41 percent planned to reinvest in their business in the 2017 financial year. Clive van Horen, executive general manager Small Business, Commonwealth Bank, said “The overwhelming majority of all Australia’s businesses are small operators so it’s pleasing to know they are looking to reinvest back in their business. “We typically see a spike in the number of our Business Transaction Accounts opened in June and July, as small businesses gear-up for the new financial year. The research indicates the trend may continue this year.” The research also found almost half of small business owners felt ‘confident’ and ‘calm’ as the current financial year draws to an end, with ‘reviewing the performance of their business’ their top priority (50 percent). Cash flow management is a major pain point for small business. Almost one-third of small business owners currently manage cash flow issues by dipping into personal funds, the research found. One-third of businesses said they do not use any form of credit facility for business investment, working capital or cash flow. “Small business operators are typically very passionate about their product or service, which sometimes means their day-to-day banking needs don’t get enough attention,” said van Horen. “Given the research indicates small businesses are looking to ramp up expenditure in equipment and technology in the new financial year, there is a big opportunity to realise the potential of their business through a range of asset financing options, which can significantly alleviate cash flow issues.” Digitisation, technology and innovation take a back seat Despite the increasing role of technology in business, just one in five small business operators surveyed said they would prioritise a review of their technology. Retail and hospitality businesses were the most likely to prioritise the evaluation of business technology at the close of FY16, closely followed by those in the professional and business services sector. Small businesses with an annual turnover of less than $100,000 were more likely to prioritise a review of their business technology than operators with a higher turnover. “Small businesses understand the difference technology can make to their lives and the customer experience, but finding the time to research and invest can be difficult. Today’s challenging marketplace calls for innovation, which requires leveraging digital technologies to maintain a competitive advantage,” said van Horen. Small business future not certain The research also found small businesses are not adequately future-proofed. While the majority of small businesses (57 percent) expect their operations to continue on after they exit the business; two-thirds currently lack a succession plan preparing them to do so. Sole traders are least likely to have a plan (74 percent) and are also most likely to expect the business to close upon their exit (60 percent). apps and technology, managers, Why seafood sustainability is more complicated than we realise Dimmi launches voice recognition technology I used to lead with an iron fist”: the evolution of George Calombaris Flavour of the month: burrata

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Hong Kong’s Superstitious Skyline and Architecture Feng shui translates into “Wind and Water” and is the ancient Chinese practice of strategically positioning objects and buildings in harmony with nature to bring forth good fortune. Feng shui originates from an ancient Chinese respect for the environment and the belief that cosmological influences strongly affect our everyday lives. Many people in Hong Kong believe that good feng shui can result in prosperity while at the same time ward off bad luck. For this reason, feng shui masters are consulted on almost everything from home purchases and office floor plans; to the enormous architectural and engineering projects which have made Hong Kong what it is today. Here are 5 examples of feng shui in practice for you to look out for when you stroll around Hong Kong... 1. HSBC Main Building, Central The HSBC building is widely considered to have excellent feng shui. Instead of a ground floor, the building has a high, hollow atrium, inviting natures wind and positive qi (energy) inside. The escalators in the atrium are placed at an angle to the entrance, which prevents evil spirits from flowing upwards into the building. In addition, a pair of large bronze lions guard the entrance of the building and symbolise wealth and prosperity. When you visit this iconic building, take a look at the sharp edges and two swords pointing into the sky of the neighbouring Bank of China Tower. These designs go against feng shui beliefs as sharp features are seen as ‘shar chi’, or ‘killing energy’ knifing down its nearby buildings and the people around it. For this reason two maintenance cranes in the shape of cannons on the roof were installed by HSBC pointing directly at the Bank of China, defending it against any negative energy. The HSBC building with it's rooftop canons pointing towards the Bank of China Tower Photo Credits: DiscoverHongKong 2. Bank of China Tower, Central Although this tower is known for ignoring good feng shui principles, a number of unlucky incidents added fuel to local superstitions about the building’s negative feng shui leading to public criticism. As a result, some features were added to rectify the situation including a small waterfall besides the building along with giant rocks imported from China, representing harmony and stability. Several plants and trees were also planted around the building to purify the environment and nurture good energy. The sharp edges and two swords of the Bank of China Tower pointing into the sky 3. The Repulse Bay With plenty of surrounding mountains and water, Hong Kong’s environment naturally has good feng shui. In Chinese culture, dragons are symbols of nobility, strength and good luck, creating positive energy as they pass from their mountainous homes to the water to drink. People say this movement can be felt as the winds blow towards the coast. For this reason, anything which hinders this daily voyage will give rise to bad luck. To remedy this, Hong Kong buildings close to water feature holes called “dragon gates” allowing dragons to pass through unimpeded. The Repulse Bay building, on the Coast of Hong Kong Island is the most visually striking example of this. The Repulse Bay building with it's so called “dragon gates” 4. Hopewell Centre, Wan Chai Opened in 1980, this 64-story building was the tallest in the city until it was overtaken by the Bank of China Tower a decade later. After consultations with a feng shui master, it was concluded that the building’s slim, cylindrical shape too closely resembled a candle or a burning cigarette. In Chinese culture, these images have connotations with fire and death, putting the building at risk. To rectify this, a circular swimming pool was added to the roof. This was done as the presence of water serves to “put out” any fiery negative energy enhancing the buildings feng shui. The Hopewell Centre with it's slim, cylindrical shape, closely resembling a candle or burning cigarette 5. IFC, Central Both One ifc and Two ifc are situated on Victoria Harbour front, which, on its own already gives them a feng shui advantage as the open water represents wealth, allowing water, or wealth, to flow towards the buildings. Also, if you take a closer look at the iconic roof of Two ifc you will find that it is designed to look like a crown, a symbol of its elite and prestigious status in the financial world. Some speculate that they instead look like fingers, reaching out to the heavens, wanting to grab more money. Like most Hong Kong skyscrapers, ‘taboo floors’ such as 14 and 24 are omitted, due to the fact that number four sounds like the word ‘death’ in Cantonese. The roof of Two ifc designed like a crown

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Holiday pay: latest developments Holidays are supposed to be relaxing – but, for employers, keeping up with the law on paid holiday rights is anything but that. One of the most complicated aspects is calculating leave entitlements and holiday pay for workers with irregular hours. Casual staff and those employed under zero hours contracts are entitled to 5.6 weeks' paid holiday each year, as with any other worker. But how many days/hours are in a week's holiday when working hours are unpredictable? Most employers use a convenient shortcut recommended in ACAS guidance: the worker's holiday entitlement will be equivalent to 12.07% of the hours they work in the year (and they receive their usual hourly rate for the holiday). But a recent Court of Appeal case has now cast doubt on this approach. The Claimant was a teacher who worked only during school terms but was employed under a permanent contract. Her holiday pay was calculated as 12.07% of the hours worked in each term and paid as a lump sum at the end of the term. Effectively this meant that she was treated as not accruing annual leave during school holidays. The Court of Appeal ruled that the school's calculation was unlawful and rejected the school's argument that it was unfair for an employee who worked only part of the year to accrue the same amount of annual leave as someone who worked a full year. The Court ruled that because Claimant's employment contract continued during school holidays, she was entitled to accrue annual leave during those periods. The impact of the ruling isn't limited to schools - other staff on permanent contracts who work for part of the year and who receive holiday pay calculated at 12.07% of their actual working hours could potentially bring claims. Unfortunately, the case leaves lots of practical questions unanswered. Employers will need to assess their potential exposure, but may wish to wait for further clarification from the courts or updated ACAS guidance before changing their practices. Jane Amphlett , Partner

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This page, my little outpost on the Web, has been online in one form or another since early 2003. I began blogging with an account at blogger, but soon migrated to a Movable Type setup, which I maintained at this address until sometime in 2005. Then I switched to WordPress, and have maintained the site here using that system ever since. My comment/site policy list is here. I have in the past been active on other websites, but they’re all defunct now (even if some of them are still partly viewable online), so I won’t provide links to them all. In general, I post about writing, pop culture, music, science, culture, politics, South Korea, education… a real grab bag of topics. Though I do not consider myself a “Korea-blogger” my residency there and the frequency with which I discuss Korea has led others to consider me one. That’s fine with me. About Gord Sellar–Very Short Version: Gord Sellar’s work has appeared in many publications since 2007, and he has written screenplays for several award-winning short films. He was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2009, and attended Clarion West in 2006. Although a Canadian, he has lived in Asia since 2002—primarily in South Korea but also in Southeast Asia. He is currently working on a novel while living in the South Korean countryside. Visit his website at gordsellar.com. About Gord Sellar–Short Version: Gord Sellar is a writer, an educator, an avid homebrewer, and occasional musician. His work have appeared in many magazines, anthologies, and journals since 2007, and several of his screenplays have been made into award-winning short films. (See Brutal Rice Productions for more on those.) He was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2009, and attended Clarion West in 2006. Born in Malawi and raised in Canada, and having spent eleven years lecturing in South Korean universities and two years in Southeast Asia, he is now working on a novel while living in the South Korean countryside. Visit his website at gordsellar.com. More links and biographical details available on my about.me page. About Gord Sellar–Long Version: Born in Blantyre, Malawi, 1974. Emigrated to the Canadian Maritimes as an infant. Attended junior high school in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and high school (mostly) in Saskatoon. First published poem(s): “Cougar Nights” in Waking Slow (1991). First published story: “touch,” in the St. Thomas More College In Medias Res literary journal. I think it was in 1996, but I don’t have a copy of the magazine on hand. Graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a Double Honours BA: Honors in Music, High Honours in English Literature in 1998. Studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia University, Montreal, from 1998-2001. Graduated with an M.A. in the subject. I was accepted into the program on the strength of my poetry, but in 1999 I read Maureen McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang and decided that SF of the kind I wanted to write could be written… and that I should do it, too. (Soon after, Bruce Sterling’s Holy Fire, and Greg Egan’s Diaspora, had a similar effect on me.) Started freelance editing and writing around 1999 or 2000. I’ve edited a lot of weird stuff, including: A pamphlet by the Korean Ministry of Justice, advising foreigners not to work illegally. (The irony being that editing the pamphlet for pay was also “illegal” work. The double irony being that I pointed it out to the Ministry of Justice, and was told that it wasn’t a problem.) English textbooks written by people who don’t speak English. (Here, edit means “extensively rewrite but receive no credit. Never again.) A ghostwritten petition for the canonization of a Quebecois priest who died in China. I’m not sure what was more bizarre–the accounts of so-called miracles, or the flagrant admissions made regarding the abuse of research funding. It paid well, though: after all, I was paid out of his research funding, too. Moved to South Korea at the end of 2001. Stayed until March 2013, and returned in January 2015. Attended Clarion West 2006, in part thanks to receiving the generous Susan C. Petrey Memorial Scholarship. First professional story sale: “Pahwake,” to Fantasy Magazine, in 2007. (First sold, though a subsequent sale was published sooner.) My stories, articles, and poems, as well as book reviews and columns, have since appeared in numerous anthologies, magazines, and collections, including Asimov’s SF, Clarkesworld, Subterranean, the Shine Anthology, and more. See my full publication history. Finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2009, and had the pleasure of attending WorldCon that year in Montreal. That was also the year that one of my stories appeared in a “Year’s Best” collection for the first time. Attended the Launch Pad Workshop in 2009. Thank you NASA! Began screenwriting in 2011, and co-founded Brutal Rice Productions with award-winning filmmaker Jihyun Park in 2012. Several of my screenplays have been made into award-winning films. Married Jihyun Park in February 2013. Relocated to Southeast Asia in April 2013, and moved around there for a little under two years before returning to South Korea. Currently living in the South Korean countryside, where I teach at a satellite campus of a major local university. Am currently working on a novel with the working title The Company of Distillers which is probably the first book of trilogy called something insane like The Zymurgic Singularity… but I have something like ten other novels in various stages of development, each waiting for me to get around to them. I Am Not: The Gordon Sellar who was a bassist for the Prog Rock Band Beggars Opera. (He left the band before I was ever born!) We might be related, and probably are, distantly–the Sellar side of my family hails from Glasgow, as does he, and how many Sellars can there be, really? Incidentally, I have played the bass–contrabass and electric bass guitar alike, though mostly the former–though never in a rock band… only in string orchestras. I am pleased, however, to see that Beggars Opera played songs that remind me of one of my favorite fusion bands–The Mahavishnu Orchestra–and which had an SF theme: But no, this is not me. The Gord from Acts of Gord, who was into RPGs, ran a games shop, worked in Korea, and now recruits teachers for Korean hakwons. I suspect we would have gotten along, had our paths crossed, since we have so very much in common, but we’ve never met, and my acquaintance with him has solely been though the website. Which is hilarious, by the way. I am also not (as far as I know) related to the Brigadier-General Gordon Sellar, commander of the Black Watch at Gagetown, and decorated veteran of WWII. My reasons for taking up the saxophone were a little silly… at first. But hey, motivation is motivation. I mostly played in jazz groups in Canada, but spent almost three years playing with an indie rock band in South Korea, named Dabang Band. (I have a little sub-site about the band here.) However avid I was about playing the saxophone, I was just as avid about RPG games. The path as I remember it now was D&D, AD&D, Gamma World, Wraith: The Oblivion, then a long hiatus that has finally ended with Dread, Fiasco, and Stars Without Number/Labyrinth Lord. (More memories here.) I speak Korean, but I’m definitely not fluent. I’d put myself at an intermediate level for speaking, but low-intermediate for reading and writing, though the rust has begun to set in since I left Jeonju. Still, my Korean is much better than my French. I’ve been teaching in one form or another since 1990. I started out with giving saxophone and jazz theory lessons to high schoolers and retirees, and proceeded on to university essay-composition courses, worked as a pedagogical content developer, and then went back into teaching itself when I moved to Korea. The range of subjects covered during my stint in the Korean university system has been bewilderingly wide. I’m currently just teach EFL, though: rudimentary writing, conversational English, and courses in presentation and debate. I’m an award-winning homebrewer. Not tons of award, and nothing major, but then, I’ve only competed in local homebrewing competitions in Seoul. Mind you, but there was stiff competition. I started homebrewing and meadmaking in 2010, and was both very active and very well-known in the Korean homebrewer scene. I’ve brewed or co-brewed a few prize-winning beers in the years since. My toughest success? 3rd place in the IPA Category at South Korea’s Brew Your Hops Off competition, 2011… with a “Belgian IPA.” (But my proudest win was for a sour pale ale named “Sour Kiss” which got the Audience Choice Award at the last homebrewing event I was able to attend in South Korea.) I didn’t always want to be a writer. I started out drawing and sketching pictures, though I only have a few of the things I drew back when I was a kid; then I moved on to writing poems and the occasional short story or Ghostbusters fanfic; then I got a copy of D&D Basic and tabletop RPGs took over my spare time until I got serious about playing (and later writing) music. I only ever got around to writing fiction seriously after all that. Several of my avenues of interest are too bulky to fit here. I’ve given them subpages of their own: Stuff to Read: A small, but growing, collection of my short stories, poems, and song lyrics. Music: My musical background, in a nutshell, with a bunch of clips, soundtracks, compositions, and albums available for download. I’ve also just put up a memorial site for Dabang Band (다방 밴드), the (now-defunct) South Korean indie rock band I played in from 2002-2004. Filmmaking/Drama: I’ve been active in filmmaking/screenwriting for the last few years. My personal profile in this area is here, but see also Brutal Rice Productions for some projects in which I’ve been involved. RPGs: Gaming played an important part in my youth, and I’ve recently returned to the hobby (though not very heavily). Photography: I’m without a proper camera (besides my smart phone) these days, but in days gone by I was avid about photography. A lot of stuff is up at flickr.com. A**hole Island—Final Edit/Rewrite 5% The June 2019 issue of Clarkesworld contains both a translation of Myung-Hoon Bae's "The Peppers of GreenScallion" (translated by Jihyun Park and me) and my interview with Korean SF author Soyeon Jeong. Support Clarkesworld either with a subscription (Amazon.com | Itunes | Barnes & Noble | Google Play | Weightless Books) or by pledging at the magazine's Patreon. My co-translation with Jihyun Park of Soyeon Jeong's short story "The Flowering" is in Clarkesworld 151 (April 2019). "The Incursus by Asimov-NN#71" is now appearing as a reprint in the February 2019 issue of Lightspeed. Subscribe to Lightspeed or purchase an ebook edition of the issue. Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of Korean Science Fiction collects the work of many of South Korea's science fiction luminaries. It contains two stories and an essay I cotranslated with my wife Jihyun Park, as well as third story the translation of which I revised. Buy it from Amazon.com | Barnes & Noble | Whatthebook (in Korea) | Kyobo Books (in Korea) Today I learned of the sirventes, the Occitan troubadour song... June 3, 2019 Kalenda Maya is still on my mind, even if it’s June. I just read... June 3, 2019 I’ve always loved John McLaughlin’s Shakti project(s). April 16, 2019

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Alexander Gregg Rep. Alexander Gregg Former Representative for Texas’s 7th District Gregg was the representative for Texas’s 7th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1915 to 1919. He was previously the representative for Texas’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1907 to 1915; the representative for Texas’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1905 to 1907; and the representative for Texas’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1903 to 1905. Contact Rep. Alexander Gregg I live in Texas’s 7th congressional district. I want to urge Gregg to take an action on a bill. Visit Rep. Alexander Gregg’s website » Look for a contact form on Rep. Alexander Gregg’s website to express your opinion. Visit Gregg’s Website » Head over to Rep. Alexander Gregg’s website. If you are having a problem with a government agency, look for a contact link for casework to submit a request for help. Otherwise, look for a phone number on that website to call his office if you have a question. Not all Members of Congress will accept messages from non-constituents. You can try your luck by visiting Gregg’s website. Otherwise, try contacting your own representative: You are currently on the website GovTrack.us, which has no affiliation with Gregg and is not a government website. Choose from the options above to find the right way to contact Gregg. From Nov 1903 to Mar 1919, Gregg missed 582 of 1,700 roll call votes, which is 34.2%. This is worse than the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1919. The chart below reports missed votes over time. 1903 Nov-Nov 6 0 0.0% 0th Dec 1903-Apr 1904 49 8 16.3% 29th 1906 Jun-Jun 20 6 30.0% 58th Dec 1907-May 1908 270 111 41.1% 72nd 1909 Mar-Aug 36 3 8.3% 23rd 1910 Mar-May 60 8 13.3% 32nd 1910 Jun-Jun 18 18 100.0% 97th 1911 Apr-Aug 49 17 34.7% 72nd 1912 Apr-Jul 57 6 10.5% 13th 1912 Aug-Aug 30 15 50.0% 64th Dec 1914-Mar 1915 67 23 34.3% 73rd 1918 Jun-Aug 33 28 84.8% 93rd 1918 Sep-Oct 14 5 35.7% 51st Alexander Gregg is pronounced:

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Author: Curtis R. Cook Curtis R. Cook Curtis R. Cook is Associate Consulting Professor at Stanford University's School of Engineering, and a Professional Associate at IPS. He has consulted with industry and governments around the world in the areas of leadership development and program management. He has written over 25 scholarly articles on program and project management, contracts management, leadership and decision-making. His book, Just Enough Project Management, published by McGraw-Hill in 2005, has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. Dr. Cook has held a number of executive positions, including president of Provant Project Management, president and CEO of Novations Project Management, president of the Project Management College, and senior vice president for Educational Services Institute. He completed a career with the United States Air Force in 1991, where he served as a program manager and contracting officer and in a number of other operations and leadership positions. At the Air Force Institute of Technology, he was chair of the Systems Acquisition Management Department and professor of systems management. Dr. Cook has a PhD from the George Washington University, an MBA from the University of Utah, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma. He is a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College and is a certified Project Management Professional Gregg Rothermel Laura Beckwith Margaret M. Burnett T. R. G. Green Ted G. Lewis Fisher, Marc, Rothermel, Gregg, Brown, Darren, Cao, Mingming, Cook, Curtis R., Burnett, Margaret M. (2006): Integrating automated test generation into the WYSIWYT spreadsheet testing methodology. In ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., 15 (2) pp. 150-194. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1131421.1131423 Ruthruff, Joseph R., Prabhakararao, Shrinu, Reichwein, James, Cook, Curtis R., Creswick, Eugene, Burnett, Margaret M. (2005): Interactive, visual fault localization support for end-user programmers. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 16 (1) pp. 3-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvlc.2004.07.001 Burnett, Margaret M., Cook, Curtis R., Rothermel, Gregg (2004): End-user software engineering. In Communications of the ACM, 47 (9) pp. 53-58. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1015864.1015889 Ko, Andrew Jensen, Burnett, Margaret M., Green, T. R. G., Rothermel, Karen J., Cook, Curtis R. (2002): Improving the Design of Visual Programming Language Experiments Using Cognitive Walkthroug. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 13 (5) pp. 517-544. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jvlc.2002.0245 Oman, Paul W., Cook, Curtis R. (1990): Typographic Style is More than Cosmetic. In Communications of the ACM, 33 (5) pp. 506-520. Lewis, Ted G., Cook, Curtis R. (1988): Hashing for Dynamic and Static Internal Tables. In IEEE Computer, 21 (10) pp. 45-56. Harrison, Warren, Cook, Curtis R. (1986): A Note on the Berry-Meekings Style Metric. In Communications of the ACM, 29 (2) pp. 123-125. Cook, Curtis R., Kim, Do Jin (1980): Best Sorting Algorithm for Nearly Sorted Lists. In Communications of the ACM, 23 (11) pp. 620-624. Beckwith, Laura, Sorte, Shraddha, Burnett, Margaret M., Wiedenbeck, Susan, Chintakovid, Thippaya, Cook, Curtis R. (2005): Designing Features for Both Genders in End-User Programming Environments. In: VL-HCC 2005 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 21-24 September, 2005, Dallas, TX, USA. pp. 153-160. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2005.31 Phalgune, Amit, Kissinger, Cory, Burnett, Margaret M., Cook, Curtis R., Beckwith, Laura, Ruthruff, Joseph R. (2005): Garbage in, Garbage out? An Empirical Look at Oracle Mistakes by End-User Programmers. In: VL-HCC 2005 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 21-24 September, 2005, Dallas, TX, USA. pp. 45-52. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2005.40 Ruthruff, Joseph R., Phalgune, Amit, Beckwith, Laura, Burnett, Margaret M., Cook, Curtis R. (2004): Rewarding \"Good\" Behavior: End-User Debugging and Rewards. In: VL-HCC 2004 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 26-29 September, 2004, Rome, Italy. pp. 115-122. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2004.44 Burnett, Margaret M., Ren, Bing, Ko, Andrew Jensen, Cook, Curtis R., Rothermel, Gregg (2001): Visually Testing Recursive Programs in Spreadsheet Languages. In: HCC 2001 - IEEE CS International Symposium on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments September 5-7, 2001, Stresa, Italy. pp. 288-. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hcc/2001/0474/00/04740288abs.htm Green, T. R. G., Burnett, Margaret M., Ko, Andrew Jensen, Rothermel, Karen J., Cook, Curtis R., Schonfeld, Justin (2000): Using the Cognitive Walkthrough to Improve the Design of a Visual Programming Experiment. In: VL 2000 , 2000, . pp. 172-179. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/vl/2000/0840/00/08400172abs.htm Wallace, Christine, Cook, Curtis R., Summet, Jay, Burnett, Margaret M. (2002): Assertions in End-User Software Engineering: A Think-Aloud Study. In: HCC 2002 - IEEE CS International Symposium on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments 3-6 September, 2002, Arlington, VA, USA. pp. 63-. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hcc/2002/1644/00/16440063abs.htm Burnett, Margaret M., Cook, Curtis R., Pendse, Omkar, Rothermel, Gregg, Summet, Jay, Wallace, Chris S. (2003): End-User Software Engineering with Assertions in the Spreadsheet Paradigm. In: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering May 3-10, 2003, Portland, Oregon, USA. pp. 93-105. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/icse/2003/1877/00/18770093abs.htm Prabhakararao, Shrinu, Cook, Curtis R., Ruthruff, Joseph R., Creswick, Eugene, Main, M., Durham, Mike (2003): Strategies and behaviors of end-user programmers with interactive fault localization. In: HCC 2003 - IEEE Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments 28-31 October, 2003, Auckland, New Zealand. pp. 15-22. Beckwith, Laura, Burnett, Margaret M., Cook, Curtis R. (2002): Reasoning about Many-to-Many Requirement Relationships in Spreadsheets. In: HCC 2002 - IEEE CS International Symposium on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments 3-6 September, 2002, Arlington, VA, USA. pp. 149-157. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hcc/2002/1644/00/16440149abs.htm Grigoreanu, Valentina, Beckwith, Laura, Fern, Xiaoli Z., Yang, Sherry, Komireddy, Chaitanya, Narayanan, Vaishnavi, Cook, Curtis R., Burnett, Margaret M. (2006): Gender Differences in End-User Debugging, Revisited: What the Miners Found. In: VL-HCC 2006 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 4-8 September, 2006, Brighton, UK. pp. 19-26. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2006.24

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Living in Hannover A comprehensive guide about living well in Hannover Hannover is an important city in Germany and Europe which has a long history and plenty of leisure options that expats living in Hannover can explore. Discover this northern German city, its transportation system, culture and more in our guide. Life in Hannover With a population of over 500,000, Hannover is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony, while its position on the Leine River gives it fantastic transport links. Commercial trade fairs such as the Hannover Fair and the CeBIT are held in Hannover each year, earning it the nickname Exhibition City. With the city also boasting world-famous universities and a top class medical school, it is no surprise that so many foreigners consider living in Hannover, which is spelled “Hannover” in German. Transportation in Hannover Hannover’s position as a major crossing point of railway lines and highways ensures that the city has terrific transport links. The city is served by Hannover/Langenhagen International Airport, which is located just 11 km north of central Hannover. Around five million people use the airport every year, with flights available to destinations all over the world. The main railway station in the city is Hannover Hauptbahnhof, which is a hub for the ICE line, meaning expats living in Hannover can travel by rail to many international and national destinations easily. Connections to the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Austria are all available from Hannover, while the S-Bahn train links the airport and the railway station. Hannover is one of the key cities within the German Autobahn road network, positioned conveniently between Hamburg and Kassel (Autobahn A7) and between Berlin and Düsseldorf (A2). Germany’s Autobahn is famous for having no speed limit on some of its sections. With the right car, you will get from on city to the next very quickly. The city’s extensive Stadtbahn and bus system is often used by foreigners living in Hannover, as well as the locals. The city’s designer buses and trams are famous all over the world. Hannover is also very cycle-friendly and there are cycle paths all over the city. Hannover is a city of huge historical significance and this is reflected in many of the main sights in the city. The Historic Museum displays the long history of Hannover in great detail, including the city’s links to the British royal family. There are many museums and galleries worth visiting in Hannover, the largest being the Lower Saxony State Museum, showcasing European art dating back as far as the 11th century. Expatriates living in Hannover may also wish to check out the Sprengel Museum which displays works from the 20th century and is one of Germany’s most famous cultural institutions. The Long Night of the museums and the Zinnober Kunstvolkslauf are two of the most important dates on Hannover’s cultural calendar. Hannover 96 is the top local football team in the city and they play in the German Bundesliga, with their games taking place at the HDI Arena. There is also a local ice hockey team, the Hannover Indians, while there are many rugby union clubs, the most successful of which is currently DRC Hannover. Water sports are popular as well in Hannover due to the city’s location at Maschsee Lake, as well as its close proximity to the Ihme and Leine Rivers. There is a water polo team and expats living in Hannover can also take advantage of facilities for water sports, such as sailing, yachting, rowing and canoeing. As one of the world’s leading cities for hosting exhibitions, Hannover often sees a major influx of delegates who are attending events such as the Hannover Fair, the Domotex and the Ligna. Millions of people also flock to Hannover each year for the Maschsee Festival, while the Oktoberfest in Hannover is the second largest on the planet. Hannover’s zoo is also very popular, with more than 3,000 animals living at the site. Hannover is considered to be a relatively safe city considering its size and Germany is also t a relatively safe country. However, pickpocketing is a problem in Hannover and expats living in the city should be wary when in and around Kropke and Hauptbahnhof in particular. One area foreigners living in Hannover should avoid is Linden, as there have been a few problems with crime in this part of the city. Public transport in Hannover is safe but again, pickpockets have been known to operate on local trams and buses. Expats should be cautious and use common sense, especially when it is busy due to a major exhibition or a football match. Moving to Hannover As one of the main host cities for top exhibitions, Hannover can be an attractive place to live for anyone involved in t... 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Business Route 35Webmaster2019-01-16T09:14:42-05:00 Interstate Business Route 35 Interstate 35 has 15 active business routes posted in Texas, Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota. Several were proposed for both I-35 and I-135 in Kansas, but disapproved by AASHTO in 1979. Business routes for Interstates in Texas are state maintained and inventoried in the TxDOT Texas Highway Designation Files. Mileage statistics and establishment dates posted below were obtained from these. Kansas | Missouri | Iowa | Minnesota | Loop 135 Business Loop I-35A originates south from the IH 35 southbound off-ramp (Exit 3B) to San Bernardo Avenue. San Bernardino Avenue (old U.S. 81 / U.S. 83 Business) forms a frontage road to the freeway south until the IH 35 eastward shift at Calton Road (Exit 3A). The Business Loop stays one block west of Interstate 35 to the southern terminus, where the freeway separates into the couplet of Santa Ursula Avenue south and San Darion Avenue north at Victoria Street. Business Loop I-35 travels a series of one-way streets from the couplet of Houston Street west and Matamoros Street east through Downtown Laredo. The route southbound takes Houston Street west four blocks from San Bernardino Avenue to Salinas Avenue south. Salinas Avenue continues the route to Zaragoza Street, which flows east one block to Convent Avenue north as it exits the customs facility from the Americas International Bridge. Convent Avenue (old U.S. 81) leads Business Loop I-35 north back to Matamoros Street, which returns the route east to IH 35 via San Dario Avenue north. Business Interstate Highway Number 35-A was established on August 23, 1991 at a length of approximately 4.0 miles. The 2.8 mile section along San Bernardino Avenue was transferred from U.S. 83 Business. Designated internally by TxDOT as Interstate Highway No-35B, the 1.22 mile route through the city of Encinal follows old U.S. 81 along Main Street between Exits 38 and 39. A mileage transfer from State Loop 532 took place on June 21, 1990 to establish the business loop. The Cotulla business route from I-35 loops east from Exit 65 along Main Street (old U.S. 81) to the city center, and north to Exit 69. The 3.1 mile route was designated as Business Loop I-35C when it was created on March 26, 1991. Traveling 4.15 miles, Business Loop I-35D bee lines north along old U.S. 81 (Main Street) from Exit 82 to Exit 86 as IH 35 bypasses the city to the west. The business route was created via a mileage transfer from U.S. 81 on March 26, 1991 as part of the truncation of the US highway south of Fort Worth. Interstate 35 circumvents the Frio County seat of Pearsall and neighboring West Pearsall to the west. Business Loop I-35 provides a direct route to the city center from Exit 99 northeast along overlaps with FM 1581 and FM 140 (Comal Street). Overtaking old U.S. 81 along Oak Street, the business route advances northward by West Pearsall to end at Exit 104. The 5.45 mile loop was designated on March 26, 1991, partially with a mileage transfer from U.S. 81. Prior to the 1991 decommissioning of U.S. 81 south of Fort Worth, old Laredo Highway was known as U.S. 81 Business between Exits 145B and 154A through southern San Antonio. A second business loop for U.S. 81 was also posted along old Austin Highway between Exits 158 and 166 through northern San Antonio. The southern business route was renumbered as Texas Loop 353 while the northern section became Texas Loop 368. Neither route was assigned Business Loop I-35F or I-35G respectively. Some maps also showed a business loop for IH 35 encircling the San Antonio central business district. The route followed what is now the IH 35 mainline north along IH 10 & U.S. 87 from Exit 153 and east to the current north end of IH 37 at U.S. 281 at Exit 158. Business Loop I-35 in San Antonio. 1981 – Continental Map, Inc. Business Loop I-35H in New Braunfels runs along Schmidt Avenue and Elliott Knox Boulevard (old U.S. 81) between Exits 186 and 190. The route totals 4.49 miles and was designated on March 26, 1991. Established in a mileage transfer from U.S. 81 on June 21, 1990, the route of Business Loop I-35J through Kyle followed Old Highway 81 west from a long split diamond interchange at Exit 213. The southbound component looped from on and off-ramps with IH 35 directly, while northbound was not directly accessible from the freeway mainline. Coupled with work north at Kyle Crossing and FM 1626, construction through October 2013 reconfigured Exit 213 and the east-west route of FM 150 through Kyle. Work extended the west side frontage road from Kyle Parkway (FM 1626) south to Kyle. This partially displaced Old Highway 81 (Business Loop I-35) near the original off-ramp from IH 35 south. Phase 2A constructed a new multi-lane alignment for FM 150 curving south from the IH 35 frontage road system at Center Street to the original alignment nearby. Phase 2B relocated the southbound off-ramp one mile to the north and completed the new southbound only frontage road both to FM 150 (Center Street) and the south end of Business Loop I-35. Although now discontinuous along Old Highway 81, Business Loop I-35 is still posted with shields north and south of FM 150 (Center Street). Guide signs from the IH 35 mainline still omit the 1.46 mile route. Business Loop I-35L formerly branched east from IH 35 along Mays Street (old U.S. 81) through the Round Rock city center. The 3.65 mile route was established in a mileage transfer from State Loop 384 on June 21, 1990. It began at a diamond interchange (Exit 250) and ended at a half diamond interchange (Exit 254) with Old Settlers Boulevard (FM 3406). Mays Street south of U.S. 79 was transferred to the city of Round Rock on February 28, 2013. This action coincided with the cancellation of Business Loop I-35L and redesignation of the northernmost 1.4 miles as State Spur 379. Additionally alignment changes were made at both ends of the old business route. The south end was reconfigured during work to build the adjacent interchange with SH 45 North, an east-west toll road, while Mays Street was realigned to the north to no longer end directly across from FM 3406 and the on-ramp to IH 35 north. Business Loop I-35M in Georgetown was a 5.1-mile route signed along Austin Avenue (old U.S. 81) from Exit 259 to a wye interchange at Exit 262. It was commissioned on January 14, 1991.Cancellation of the route occurred by actions on July 6, 2006, when a 1.8 mile segment between RM 2243 (Leander Road) west and RM 2338 (Williams Drive) north was turned over to the city of Georgetown. This left state maintained segments to the south as newly numbered State Spur 26 and the north as State Spur 158. Further changes occurred when RM 2338 was truncated from within the city of Georgetown on July 25, 2008. This left SS 158 with a dangling end at Williams Drive until May 31, 2012, when the 0.2 mile link between Austin Avenue and IH 35 at Exit 261 was added back to the state system. Furthermore, the north end changed with the extension of Lakeway Drive east from Airport Road to SS 158. Located off Interstate 35W within the city of Alvarado, Business Loop I-35V was designated on October 25, 1990 to replace Texas Loop 392. It originates from the frontage road system tieing into County Road 401 and Maple Street at Exit 24. Overlaying old U.S. 81 along Parkway Drive, Business Loop I-35 takes a 2.29 mile route west of the city street grid back to IH 35W north of U.S. 67 (Henderson Street). The north end was previously a full a wye interchange. The route southbound changed in 2013, when the left-hand ramp (Exit 26B) from IH 35 south to Parkway Drive permanently closed. With the ramp removed, Business Loop I-35W south utilizes Exit 26A onto the frontage road south and U.S. 67 east, to make the connection with Parkway Drive south. Signs for Exit 26A were not updated to reflect the business loop. Business Loop I-35X arcs east along 5th Street from Exit 477 (Keaton Road) to the frontage road system at Exit 479. The 1.88 mile long route was transferred from the mileage of State Spur 138 on December 19, 1991. An application submitted to AASHTO outlined a 6.6 mile business route for Interstate 35 at the city of Ottawa. Business Loop I-35 would have angled northeast from Exit 182 along old U.S. 50 (Elm Street) and overlap with U.S. 59 (Main Street) north through Downtown and K-68 east back to I-35 at Exit 187. Construction of Interstate 35 south of Ottawa cut across the old U.S. 50, which crossed paths with the freeway just east of Exit 182. This alignment was eventually removed, as was the wye interchange where it split with U.S. 59 south. The route was disapproved by AASHTO on October 13, 1979. U.S. 50 Business was established along side U.S. 59 north from Exit 183 and east on Keokuk and Logan Streets (K-68) to Exit 187. The Cameron business route from I-35 loops west from the freeway 5.07 miles to join I-35 with Downtown. The route follows Evergreen Street from Exit 52 along a locally maintained road west to U.S. 69 at Walnut Street. U.S. 69 leads both routes north to De Kalb County ahead of Grand Avenue (old U.S. 36). U.S. 36 travels an expressway bypass of Cameron nearby, as Business Loop I-35 joins it east to end at Exit 54. Iowa transportation officials petitioned AASHTO for a new business route from I-35 to the small city of Lamoni in Decatur County. The 5.83 mile route was outlined as following U.S. 69 north from Exit 114 on the Missouri state line to State Street, and east along Main Street to I-35 at Exit 4 in Iowa. It was disapproved on November 14, 1997, due to the route having “serious deficiencies.” Iowa labeled its first Interstate business route in 1993; it was approved by AASHTO on October 27, 1995. The 8.92 mile alignment originates at the cloverleaf interchange (Exit 111) with the U.S. 30 freeway bypass southeast of Ames. It overlaps with the US route west to U.S. 69 (Duff Avenue) at Exit 148. Duff Avenue constitutes a busy arterial northward as both U.S. 69 & Business Loop I-35 to Lincoln Way (old U.S. 30). Lincoln Way leads the pair west to Grand Avenue while en route to Iowa State University. Grand Avenue takes the route north by Downtown to 13th Street, which carries Business Loop I-35 east to Exit 113. The Clear Lake business route for I-35 was approved by AASHTO on April 16, 1999. The 3.0 mile loop connects the city center with I-35 by way of 4th Avenue (old Iowa 106) and U.S. 18 west from Exits 193 and 194 respectively. The north-south leg follows 8th Street (old Iowa 107). Business Loop I-35 overlaps with the northernmost 6.5 miles of U.S. 65 through Albert Lea. The route winds northwest along an arterial from Exit 8 through the south side of the city to Broadway Avenue. Broadway Avenue leads due north to Downtown, where U.S. 65 & Business Loop I-35 turn east at Main Street (Minnesota 13). Main Street (old U.S. 16) travels across an isthmus between Albert Lea and Fountain Lakes to residential areas of east Albert Lea, where it expands into an expressway. Both routes end at a wye interchange (Exit 12), just south of the I-35 exchange with Interstate 90. This business loop branches east from Interstate 35 along Lyndale Avenue, the pre-freeway alignment of I-35 until 1975,1 through Faribault. The southern half of the 3.6 mile long route is an expressway (CSAH 48) originating at a wye interchange (Exit 55). The northern half doubles as Minnesota 21 between 4th Street NW and a parclo interchange (Exit 59) near Faribault Municipal Airport (FBL). The city of Faribault incorporated the concept for a business loop from I-35 in its 2003 Faribault Comprehensive Plan. “Chapter 5, Transportation Element” indicated that efforts would focus on the Lyndale Avenue Corridor and Trunk Highway 60 as catalysts for economic development over the ensuing 20 year period. It cited other Interstate business loops across the state as providing an easy route for motorists to access both business districts and available commercial services and return to the major roadway. Mn/DOT was supportive of the concept and suggested coordination between the city and its District 6 office. The city would pay for sign installations for the route.2 Business Loop I-35 signs were installed around 2006. The north end is marked from the I-35 mainline, while the south end is omitted on guide signs. This business route follows a portion of old U.S. 61 for a distance of approximately 2.9 miles through Pine City while I-35 bypasses the city to the west. Business Loop I-35 travels east along Hillside Avenue SW (CSAH 7) from Exit 169 to Main Street. Main Street, signed also as Historic U.S. 61, takes the route north through the Pine City business district and across the Snake River to Henriette Road NW (CSAH 11). CSAH 11 leads Business Loop I-35 back to I-35 at Exit 171. Business Loop I-35 in Pine City was approved by the Pine County Board on Sept. 18, 2012. Subsequent actions by the AASHTO Special Committee on Route Numbering followed suit on November 16, 2012. City officials were hopeful that designating a business loop for Pine City would result in an increase in traffic, similar to the increase experienced with the establishment of Business Loop I-35 at Faribault.1 I-35 Business Loop in Pine City Posted by AARoads on Sunday, June 14, 2015 Interstate Business Route 135 Interstate 135 is paralleled by U.S. 81 for nearly its entire length. There are two business routes for U.S. 81 that were intended for Interstate Business Loops. Kansas submitted to AASHTO a 7.3 mile loop west into the city of McPherson for new Business Loop I-135. The route would overlap with K-61 west from Exit 58, U.S. 81 (114th Avenue / Main Street) north to Kansas Avenue, and U.S. 56 east back to I-135 at Exit 60. This was disapproved along with every other Kansas application for an Interstate business route on October 13, 1979. The route instead was posted as U.S. 81 Business, as U.S. 81 overlaps with Interstate 135. Interstate 135 passes well east of the city of Lindsborg through rural Smoky Hill township. An 8.7 mile long business loop was proposed from I-135 between Exits 72 and 78. The route was disapproved by AASHTO on October 13, 1979, but later designated as U.S. 81 Business. It ran west along Smokey Hill Road (CR 429) and north on 14th Avenue (old U.S. 81) into Lindsborg, where it combined with K-4 (McPherson Street) east. K-4 returned U.S. 81 Business to I-135 & U.S. 81 at Bridgeport. U.S. 81 Business to Lindsborg was subsequently decommissioned by 2014. 2003 Faribault Comprehensive Plan http://www.ci.faribault.mn.us/departments/communitydev/planningzoning/compplan. “Pine City’s business loop ready to be experienced by I-35 motorists.” Pine Poker Blog, September 30, 2013. Page updated August 29, 2016. Business Loop I-35 encircling the west and north sides of the San Antonio central business district while IH 35 overlapped with IH 10 east and IH 37 north to U.S. 281. 1981 – Continental Map, Inc. SH 46 Business turned north along side Business Loop I-35 (Elliot Knox Boulevard) from Seguin Avenue in New Braunfels. Seguin Avenue south becomes a part of FM 725 across adjacent IH 35. Photo taken by Jeff Royston (08/00). The IH 35 frontage road continued south along side IH 35 to the Georgetown Business Loop as the freeway mainline split with the SH 130 toll road. A sign replacement made here by 2009 removed Business Loop I-35 in favor of SS 158 – NE Inner Loop. Photo taken 09/28/08. Interstate 35 southbound at Business Loop I-35, U.S. 18 west and Iowa 122 east in Clear Lake, Iowa. There were no business route shields posted at the base of the off-ramp. Photo taken 04/23/07. While Temple, Texas is not the location of a business loop for Interstate 35, an erroneous shield for Loop 363 using the Business Interstate shield template appeared in 2014:

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We are in good company Each member of our team is a specialist in his or her field. Together, we make sure you’re investing where the best returns are, while building loyalty across every touchpoint. Misty Locke Global Chief Marketing Officer Misty Locke is responsible for iProspect's global vision and strategic direction, as well as maintaining the firm's industry relationships. Co-founder of Range Online Media in 2001, Misty served as President and led the award-winning company through its acquisition in 2009 by Aegis PLC (later acquired by Dentsu). Rohan Philips Global Chief Product Officer Rohan drives iProspect’s central product development roadmap, adoption and commercialisation across the network’s 55 markets and has over 10 years experience working on Global Media Products. Rohan represents iProspect as Dentsu Aegis Network liaison, where he supports and contributes to the development of Global Media Partnerships, Data Strategy and Platform Innovation in alignment with the Dentsu Aegis operating model and capability stacks. Rohan also leads the Product Innovation Committee, an extended team across iProspect’ s top ten markets. Previously Rohan was at GroupM, where he had served as the Vice President at [m]Platform and Xaxis, prior to this Rohan played key roles on data and technology across Europe and Asia Pacific. Mark Fagan President of Global Operations Mark began his career with Overture in 2003, and then, moved to Yahoo, handling their largest clients at the time such as eBay, Lloyds TSB and The Search Works. Mark then launched the London digital office for Green Cathedral and co-founded the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising’s first ever search group, serving as Chairman for 2 years and, in 2011, was recognized for his contributions to the UK search market with a Fellowship of the IPA. In 2011, Mark joined iProspect as part of the UK executive team. As Chief Performance Officer, he helped grow his team from 80 to 250 digital performance professionals, with billings of over $190 million and 30%+ year-on-year growth. In 2014, Mark was appointed Regional Managing Director for iProspect Asia Pacific, tasked with developing and growing iProspect’s largest growth region. During his time in Singapore and Shanghai, the team grew from 600 to over 1,000 people in 20 offices across 14 markets. In January 2017, Mark moved back to Dublin, Ireland to become President of Global Operations. Des Bateman Global Head of Client Development Des has been in the world of advertising for more than 17 years. In this time, he has worked across various markets in local, global and regional roles within Europe, APAC and LATAM. He was the Head of Planning in Hong Kong for Isobar, and then moved to Miami as the Head of Strategy, LATAM for Mindshare. Most recently, he was the Global Head of New Business for Mindshare based in London. In 2013, Des was named to Campaign Magazine APAC’s 40 under 40. Head of Global New Business A veteran of iProspect, Brandon has held a number of senior level positions working as Head of New Business and Marketing, UK; and, more recently as Regional Commercial and New Business Director, Asia Pacific, based in Singapore, where the business grew from 350 to 1,000 people in the short span of three years. Currently, Brandon is responsible for global new business and revenue growth, working across our extensive network of 80+ worldwide offices and 4,000 staff. Neil McCarthy Global Commercial Director Neil is responsible for the commercial agreements we have with our global clients and technology partners. An industry veteran, he previously served as Commercial Director of iProspect UK and of iSpy, which was acquired by Denstu Aegis in 2012. His wide ranging experience has given him detailed knowledge of the finance, retail and B2B industries. Discover what it’s like working for the world’s most ambitious digital marketing agency. Life @ iProspect Across the globe, we make digital marketing more human by bringing everything together - creating the connections brands need to stay ahead, and giving businesses a tangible advantage in today's world. Check Out Life @ iProspect Discover what it's like working for the worlds most ambitious digital marketing agency. Explore life at iProspect Delve Into Our We've brought our articles and white papers together in one place, so you can find out what's new and exciting in the world of digital. Read the latest news and views

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Facebook's new tool claims to reduce your post break-up blues The proposed tool limits posts, photos, videos and status messages of exes without having to "block" or "unfriend" them. Finding it hard to move on after a break-up? Facebook wants to ease things a bit. The social networking site is testing a tool that would ease the pain that people undergo after a break-up by letting them control their interaction with their exes. On Thursday, Facebook announced a new tool that will limit posts, photos, videos and status messages of former partners without having to "block" or "unfriend" them. Facebook and Twitter have made it a lot easier to connect with people around the world. But these sites make it difficult to get over someone, especially after a break-up, when photos, relationship status and tweets pop up on user's news feed. Facebook's so-called "Take a Break" tool proposes to change that. "Starting today, we are testing tools to help people manage how they interact with their former partners on Facebook after a relationship has ended. When people change their relationship status to indicate they are no longer in a relationship, they will be prompted to try these tools," Facebook Product Manager, Kelly Winters, explained in a blog post on Thursday. Facebook said the new tool will help users stay focused on their future by helping them move on and show less of their past. With the help of the new tool, users can also choose not to share their future posts with their former partners and untag themselves from old couple photos without notifying their exs of the changes. According to Facebook, the new "Take a Break" tool can be used for the following purposes: See less of your ex's name, posts and profile picture on Facebook. Limit your photos, videos or status updates from your former partner. Untag yourself from your past posts with your ex and edit who can see them. While these changes go against Facebook's "connect the world with one network" goal, a lot of thought has been put into it to help users overcome post-breakup blues. Users in the US will have access to the new tool on their mobile devices before Facebook decides a broader rollout based on user feedback. Until then, you can find suitable means to fight your break-up blues in other ways.

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Teenage girls who 'beat 19-year-old to death' on Facebook Live charged "This was a horrific tragedy and our hearts go out to the family and friends of Ms. McKay," said Facebook. By Mark Piggott Two Canadian schoolgirls, aged 16 and 17, have been charged with second-degree murder after footage of them apparently beating a 19-year-old girl to death surfaced on Facebook. The footage was quickly removed from the site but is still available online. Serena McKay can be heard saying "sorry" to the girls as they kick and punch her bloodied face and say they are going to kill her. Facebook to hire 3,000 extra people to tackle Live crime and suicide videos Latest Facebook Live death stream sees Alabama man take own life Father films himself killing baby daughter before taking his own life on Facebook Live McKay was found dead near her family home on 23 April. Hundreds of people attended a memorial event four days later. The two girls have not been named but with Serena they attended Sagkeeng Anicinabe High School on the First Nation reserve in Manitoba, 100 km north of Winnipeg. Sagkeeng Anicinabe High School principal Claude Guimond said drugs appear to be involved: "After seeing what I saw on the video, you know what? There's nobody in their right mind (who) would do something like that, unless they were extremely high on whatever and just totally, like, out of it," he told CBC. A Facebook spokesperson told CBC the video appeared to have been removed. "This was a horrific tragedy and our hearts go out to the family and friends of Ms. McKay," said Facebook. "We have not been able to locate the video on Facebook, and are working with law enforcement as they investigate." Facebook Live under the spotlight Facebook has been forced to react to criticism of the way it monitors its live streaming service recently after a spate of deadly incidents were broadcast live. These included the murder of 74-year-old Robert Godwin by Steve Stephens in Cleveland, the suicide of James Jeffrey in Alabama, and the murder of an 11-month-old baby by her own father in Thailand. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has responded to the spate of deaths by announcing the recruitment of an additional 3,000 monitors to review videos reported as being graphic, disturbing or inappropriate. This article was first published on May 4, 2017 Related topics : Facebook

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Kristen Stewart compares fame to rape It may not be the best choice of words but it's evident from her comments to Britain's Elle magazine that being famous is taking its toll on star of the "Twilight" movies Kristen Stewart. She said she sometimes can't get a handle on what comes with being famous. "What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction," she tells the new issue of Britain's Elle. "The photos are so ... I feel like I'm looking at someone being raped," said Stewart, 20. She said she "never expected" that this would be her life. "A lot of the time I can’t handle it," she added She told Elle in the interview what "really bothers me when people write nasty s--- about me and the perception is that I don’t give a f---. It could not be further from the truth." She is also sick of being asked if her and co-star Robert Pattinson are an item. Said Stewart, "What I say is, that, why would I want anything that's private to become entertainment for other people? ... People say that if I just tell them everything I’ll be left alone, but God, you think if I tell people they’ll leave me alone? They pick up every little scrap, and that’s much worse." We feel for you Kristen. And unfortunately it's going to get worse before it gets better. The next "Twilight" installment is due out at the end of June.

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Aida Austin Ann Cahill Michael Clifford Shaun Connolly Roja Fazaeli Fergus Finlay Suzanne Harrington Gerard Howlin Brian Lucey Daniel McConnell Alison O'Connor Louise O'Neill Terry Prone Colm O'Regan Home»Viewpoints Political system won’t change itself – we the people have got to do it By Jim Glennon WE got a real glimpse into the Irish political soul last week with the row over stag-hunting and dog-breeding. Just imagine trying to explaining it to a foreign observer. You: “Our parliamentarians are rebelling.” Them: “Over the billions you have given your banks? Over white-collar corruption? Over the fact that no one is going to jail for your Anglo-Irish Bank? Over the state of your A&E departments? Or maybe even over cutbacks in frontline services for the disadvantaged?” You: “No. Our parliamentarians feel that licensing bitches to breed is the issue to withhold support on.” Cue foreign jaw swinging agape in disbelief. Yet, here’s a funny thing. I wouldn’t blame our TDs even if they did rebel over all the big stuff because most of their voters don’t ‘do’ the big stuff either; it’s as if we, the Irish people, just don’t ‘get’ that it is we, the self-same Irish people, who actually have the responsibility, and the power, to run our society, rather than someone else – “they” – to whom we like to point the finger when something goes wrong. Electing a local fixer is the best we can do because we don’t actually believe we can influence the bigger stuff. Other small countries think otherwise. Finland, by most international standards, is one of the least corrupt countries in the world and is universally acknowledged as a well-run democracy; Denmark and Norway aren’t a million miles behind the Finns. How can they do it, these democracies with similar populations to ours, when we can’t? One reason is that our political system is not fit for purpose in that it doesn’t provide an appropriate mechanism for running the country in the way we say we want it run. When we established our parliament in 1919 we copied the British system because that’s what we thought grown-up countries did, even though our culture, if anything, is closer to that of an African big chief delivering for his local tribe. We created a parliamentary structure geared to debating laws, even though this is not something our culture rewards. We empower our Dáil to choose a government from among its members, even though the means of entering the parliament usually deny access to the type of people most likely to be equipped with the technical skills and experience to be effective members of an effective government. We have supplied various international stages with world-calibre people like Peter Sutherland, Niall Fitzgerald, Detta O’Cathain, Pat Cox, Catherine Day and Michael O’Leary, to name but a few; yet why do we so rarely utilise these people and others like them in our domestic political system? Because it’s well-nigh impossible for them to achieve election and, even if they managed to do so, the probability is they would be asked to serve an apprenticeship on the backbenches with little real power to change anything until lucky enough to get a cabinet spot. Sit on the backbenches or work to change the world outside the Dáil ? A no-brainer when you look at it that way. If we can’t imagine talent like that being appropriate for cabinet membership, then we have a serious problem. So what should we do? We could make a start by having a political system that reflects our reality: three terms and go home. One of the most debilitating factors affecting politics right across the western world is the rise of a permanent professional political class who come straight from college as advisers or parliamentary assistants, then councillors and then TDs or senators. They don’t know what it’s like to worry about meeting a payroll deadline or actually having receipts for expenses. We are not served well by handing over our system of government to them – so let’s limit their potential. No one should be a TD for longer than three terms, or a minister or Taoiseach for longer than two. Come into politics knowing that you are time-limited in what you want to do and that, one way or another, after 15 years, you are going back to Planet Earth, and be recompensed appropriately. If a Taoiseach can’t get what he or she wants done in 10 years, they’re in the wrong job. Ronald Reagan, a retired film star, broke up the mighty Soviet Union, and he was only US president for eight years. Separate the government from the Dáil and Seanad. Let the Dáil elect a Taoiseach, and let the Taoiseach appoint ministers who are not TDs, as is done in France and a number of other European countries. This way, from the get-go, ministers primary loyalty is to the country and everyone of its constituencies rather than merely the one to whom they owe their position. And if there’s a perception of a possible deficit of democracy in this suggestion, I’d quote as an example the head of the HSE who currently controls a bigger budget than most ministers. Under my suggestion, he’d be working as the Minister for Health and answerable to the Dáil – which he patently is not at present. That’s self-evidently more democratic than the current system. By the way, this is not a new idea to Irish politics. When our system of local government was reformed in the 1920s, the whole idea behind appointing county managers was to bring in professionals from outside the councils to run them while answering to the elected members of the council. It was only in later years that (elected) politicians turned county managers into the creatures of the then Department of Local Government, now the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.. We also need a voting system that reflects reality. Let’s be honest, there are two types of voters – there’s the one who wants a local-big-chief-make-local-problem-go-away type, while the other wants a national legislator. We need a system that gives both. Why not have two votes? One for your local TDs, as at present, and a second ballot for a large national constituency of, say, 25 to 30 TDs. YES, you’ll still have fellas running on a local ticket, but you will also have people running as a small business candidate, a religious candidate or gay rights candidate, or maybe even a prisoners’ candidate, all trying to appeal to the issues of a non-geographic, socially-based, constituency. We’ll then have some TDs speaking for different social groups all over the country (including, maybe, dog breeders) as opposed to the usual “my area and screw the rest of ya.”. Finally, we have to ask ourselves about how we bring about change. In the unlikely event of us being totally honest with ourselves, we would have to plead guilty as charged to leaving the changing of OUR political system to politicians – akin to appointing the Ku Klux Klan to run Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. We have a wonderful facility for asserting our rights. Regrettably it’s more than matched by our capacity for conveniently forgetting about our responsibilities. You can’t have one without the other. There’s another report on political reform due out shortly from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution. What are the chances it says the system is pretty much OK? For as long as the members of the Oireachtas control what we the people get to vote on, we the people will never have the fundamental change we so badly need. We’ve got to start coming up with proposed solutions and initiating the changes ourselves – remember, a TD is a Teachta Dála, a messenger to parliament, not a messenger from parliament. Stormont rejects Boris Johnson's Brexit Fine Gael launches child health policy while accusing Fianna Fáil of 'abandoning Slaintecare' Trump lawyers brand impeachment case ‘dangerous perversion of the constitution’

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THIS WEEK IN TV GUIDE This week in TV Guide: January 13, 1979 What’s wrong with television news? It’s a question that could be asked today, as is the case with so many of the topics we run across in past TV Guides, which probably says more about inertia than anything else. Be that as it may, this week we get a unique opportunity to go in-depth on the question, along with many others, in a roundtable discussion comprised of the three broadcast news chiefs: Roone Arledge of ABC, Richard Salant of CBS, and NBC’s Les Crystal. It’s a wide-ranging discussion, taking up the entire front section of the issue, and while we won’t look at everything they brought up, we will focus on a few points that seem more prescient to today. The discussion begins with a topic that’s been at the forefront of conversation – the influence of what we now refer to as the “mainstream media,” particularly television, about their ability to shape and advance the political agenda, and how the election of Donald Trump spells a diminution, if not complete end, to said influence. In comments that are either candid, defensive, or prophetic, all three presidents deny that their medium is that influential. Salant, for example, sees television news as “instruments of reinforcement rather than conversation,” and Crystal points out that “there are a whole lot of forces in this country” that shape and influence public opinion.” He adds, however, that “[o]ur primary emphasis should be, has to be, on what people ought to know, rather than what people want to hear.” I know what he means, but it’s that “eat your vegetables” attitude, I think, the idea that the networks know best, that gets under people’s skin so much. All three agree, however, that whether or not they actually have such power, it’s important for them to proceed on the assumption that they do. Says Arledge, “we spend more time, and I am sure they do too, checking, double-checking, assuring accuracy, because of this responsibility.” What about the fact that 64% of Americans get the majority of their news from television? Again, Crystal challenges the premise, warning that “[w]e shouldn’t make assumptions” about the influence of television news. “I think people are still influenced more by the world in which they directly live – the community they live in, the neighborhood they live in, where they work – than any other single factor.” It was, of course, a much different world back then, one that suggests an actual, rather than virtual, community. In pointing out how multiple communities, however they’re constructed, inevitably diminishes the influence of television news, however, Crystal again seems to foresee today’s world. Substitute “social media” for neighborhoods and workplaces, and television does indeed become less important. Arledge makes an interesting observation in suggesting that more people get their news from local television than national, and that a viewer who “depends upon a local television station as his sole source of news is probably in trouble to start with.” In fact, depending on any single source, or cluster of like-minded sources, as their sole outlet for information could be said to be in the same sort of trouble. Shrewdly, Arledge points out that television’s power doesn’t really come from the judgments these three men and their news departments make – it comes from the power of the medium itself, its ability to reach into every home, and, says Arledge, “there is no question that it’s there.” The question of in-depth news coverage comes up, specifically the long-held dream, one we’ve seen in these pages before, of an hour-long network newscast. Arledge strongly suggests that ABC was on the verge of implementing such a newscast (perhaps this is what World News Tonight was supposed to be like), but that it was scuttled – “sabotage” is the world Arledge originally uses, although he later walks it back – by NBCs announcement that “under no circumstances” would NBC go to an hour-long program. “That gave all the ammunition that was needed to our affiliates” to doom the plan. Salant doesn’t deny that happened – “I wasn’t involved” in the decision – but he sees something else on the horizon, something that will not only impact the hour-long news, it will also address what all three see as a weakness, the inability to do in-depth, long-form stories. If satellite television (direct to the home!) finally becomes a reality, with the fragmentation and specialization that inevitably accompanies it, “I expect there will be an all-news channel.” There’s some discussion around the role of the anchor, with TV Guide questioning whether or not it’s wise to spend $500,000 on someone who reads the news; Crystal says the anchor does more than just read headlines, and the real question is whether or not the large salary interferes with the job he does. Of course, we can all see the problem NBC faced dealing with Brian Williams’ fabrications; in this case it was the anchor himself who was the distraction, but would he have done what he did had he not been paid his fabulous salary? Did it in some way pressure him to exaggerate things, to inflate his importance, in order to justify himself? Would have been a good question. Then, there’s the matter of ratings, and here all agree that news programs have no business being slaves to ratings. Salant doesn’t think they affect news judgments, although he concedes that if news documentaries got higher ratings, they’d be seen in prime time more often. On the other hand, he acknowledges that in the modern world, it’s impossible to ask the network to be oblivious to ratings – “[t]hey must look at the fact that they’re in a business. And that has to color their decisions.” Not on the content of the news, but on its availability, or frequency. In all, it’s an interesting discussion, although a bit of a slog to make it all the way through. There’s a little too much self-congratulatory sentiment, a bit too much bipartisanship among all three. It does, however, indicate that the networks are aware of the challenges they face, and if they didn’t predict the future with precision, at least they were aware of the shadows being cast. Personally, I don’t miss the days when anchors were much more forthcoming with their commentary and much less forthcoming admitting that’s what it was, when LBJ complained that losing Cronkite meant losing the War, when Dan Rather picked fights with President Nixon at press conferences. That is, until I compare it to the news today. In that case, I miss it very much indeed. ◊ ◊ ◊ It's that time of the year, as I mentioned a week or two ago, the time for television's second season: when the hopes and prayers behind so many new series come crashing down like the Hindenburg, their places to be taken by a new set of shows, with their own hopes and prayers. Hopes are certainly riding high for Delta House (7:30 p.m. Tuesday, ABC), based on the smash hit National Lampoon's Animal House. Despite the presence of several actors and actresses from the original movie (including John Vernon, Stephen Furst, Bruce McGill), the failure of Delta House - despite good ratings*, it only ran for 13 episodes and was off the air by April - shows not only how difficult it is to catch lightning in a bottle twice, it also demonstrates how dangerous it is doing derivative television. Seeing ABC introduce a series not only Obased on a hit movie but featuring some of the original cast, NBC and CBS both rush their own Animal House clones to the air: Brothers and Sisters and Co-Ed Fever, respectively. Brothers and Sisters only runs 12 episodes, which is still better than Co-Ed Fever, the rare series to be cancelled after a single showing. Also on Tuesday, NBC says farewell to Grandpa Goes to Washington (7:00 p.m.), the Jack Albertson sitcom that lasts but eleven episodes before the network pulls the plug. It's replacement in February will be Cliffhangers - another short-run series. *There were constant disputes between the producers, one of which was Ivan Reitman, and the network; obviously, the ratings weren't good enough for ABC to consider it worth the price. Wednesday brings us the first episode of the much-loved Edward the King, the epic,13-episode story of Britain's King Edward VII, the kind of series which Americans are only accustomed to seeing on Masterpiece Theatre. Edward the King, a syndicated series sponsored by Mobil. presents an interesting challenge for the networks; while many of the stations picking it up are independents, the series also makes its way to a number of affiliates who are only too willing to pre-empt their own low-rated network programs in favor of a miniseries that's both classy and popular. On Thursday, it's the final episode of David Cassidy - Man Undercover, on at 9:00 on NBC. In was Cassidy's first starring series since The Partridge Family, and his attempt to distance himself from those memories and be taken seriously as a dramatic actor. You might be surprised, considering the title, to find out that in the series Cassidy plays an undercover cop - who knew? Cassidy Undercover was itself a replacement for W.E.B., a Network takeoff; this was its tenth and final episode, to be replaced by, in order, Mrs. Columbo, Presenting Susan Anton, and NBC Novels for Television. The timeslot, ruled by Barnaby Jones on CBS, is a tough one for NBC. Friday brings us notice of an impending change for NBC, as they're about to take one of their few successful series - The Rockford Files - and move it to Saturday nights. Rockford is replaced by a couple of series, one of which is Turnabout, a seven-episode sitcom about a husband and wife who suddenly find themselves inhabiting each other's bodies. The other series is one of those that has since become a byword for television disaster, in the same way that Scrooge has become a descriptor for a miser. It's Hello, Larry, one of McLean Stevenson's many failed series, which actually made it through two seasons and 35 episodes. Either way, Hello, Larry is soon replaced in this timeslot by the aforementioned Brothers and Sisters, and before long they're all out, and Rockford is back where it belongs. Also on Thursday night at 7:00 p.m., NBC presents The Challenge of the Superheroes, which has to be either the most outrageous or the dumbest idea of this young year. It's billed as a "live action movie," which reinforces the idea that the public might have been expecting an animated adventure - either that, or some kind of "Battle of the Network Stars" showdown between the Good Guys (Adam West, Burt Ward, and a "roster of superheroes") vs. the Bad Guys (Frank Gorshin, Charlie Callas, and an "alliance of arch-villains"). I don't know how well the special does, and I don't really care - what amazes me is how far ahead of their time the producers were. They may not have realized it, but they were - they absolutely saw the superhero craze coming, twenty years before the fact. If you were to put something like this on the big screen today, schlock or not, it would make millions, millions! If only they'd had a time machine... Then again, the outrageous program of the week could bethe world premiere on the ABC Sunday Night Movie of “The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders,” starring Jane Seymour as a reporter going undercover to find out what goes on behind closed doors, or something like that.* It’s difficult to know how to react to something like this – I know how much the cheerleaders have done to burnish the reputation of America’s Team, not to mention the entire city of Dallas, over the years, and there’s no doubting the glamour that surrounds them even to this day. But a movie? Whether or not you like it, the football team is, after all, still the centerpiece of the organization. Making a movie about the cheerleaders is a bit like, I don’t know, doing a Washington DC insider movie that ignores the politicians altogether and focuses solely on what would have been called the secretarial pool. And they’d have done it too, I suppose, if the secretaries dressed like Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. It still sounds like a two-hour commercial for the team, I think. *It has to be something like that – after all, it’s billed as “An Explosive New Movie!” Not much on the sports front this week; ABC's Pro Bowlers Tour visits Las Vegas on Saturday for one of its stalwart tournaments, the Showboat Invitational - with a total purse of $125,000! The pro golfers have it a bet better this weekend, as NBC travels to Palm Springs for the final two rounds of the year's first tournament, the Bob Hope Desert Classic, with a first prize of $54,000. In case you're curious, Emmett Shutes wins the Showboat, while John Mahaffey comes out on top in the golf. The NBA tips off its TV schedule on CBS Sunday afternoon, with the New York Knicks taking on the Kansas City Kings, who've since moved to Sacramento. The Harlem Globetrotters make their annual appearance on ABC's Wide World of Sports Sunday as well, and just before that Wilfred Benitez retains his world welterweight boxing championship with a split-decision victory over Carlos Palomino on International Boxing Champions. Madison Square Garden, which has hosted a title fight or two over the years, is the scene for the season-ending Colgate-Palmolive Masters tennis championship, with the execrable John McEnroe taking the crown. Oh, and there's plenty of college basketball on both Saturday and Sunday. Diana Canova is in the spotlight this week; the daughter of comedienne Judy Canova is proving her acting chops as one of the stars of ABC’s outrageous Soap. She’s too established to call her a starlet, though. ABC’s getting ready for its highly-anticipated Roots II sequel next month, but don’t look for any favors from the competition – while the unheralded original went up against mostly regular programming, the sequel’s going to encounter everything from Bob Hope to the two-part telecast of “Gone with the Wind” to various other movies and miniseries. I think Roots II won the day(s) anyway, though I could be mistaken. NBC tries to get a jump on CBS’s “Gone with the Wind” broadcast by debuting “Charlestown” on Sunday night. Judith Crist compares the movie to “Carol Burnett skits or Saturday Night Life takeoffs,” and notes that Delta Burke, one of the cast’s “unknowns,” “thinks she’s Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett. No way.” She also doesn’t think much of the network’s Tuesday night offering, in which Sonny Bono solves a “Murder in Music City,” calling it a “second-rate whodunit,” although Bono’s easy charm makes it an easy movie to relax to. Dean Martin roasts Joe Namath on Friday night (9:00 p.m., NBC). As much as I like Deano, it’s hard to get worked up over the roasts, which really are kind of a poor substitute for his old variety show. How many times can you cut away to Orson Welles laughing at the funniest thing he’s ever heard, especially when it probably comes from an entirely different context? Rob Brown plays Captain America in a CBS movie on Friday as well. Wasn’t he in that Superhero Challenge already? Or did he just feel left out? Finally, a week or two ago Sports Illustrated did a retrospective on Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes and the ignominious end to his career after slugging a Clemson player on the sidelines during the waning seconds of the Gator Bowl. This week, ABC is forced to defend announcers Keith Jackson and Ara Parseghian after the duo failed to mention the incident during TV coverage of the game. The network acknowledges they mishandled the coverage, not providing the announcers (who didn’t see it live) with the proper replays, and failing to follow it up until the next day. I remember watching the game live, seeing Hayes throw the punch and being stunned by what had just happened – or had it happened? The announcers didn’t mention it, after all, and if TV doesn’t pick up on it, does it really matter? Talk about the influence of television – now that’s a question the network news presidents would be hard-pressed to answer. by Mitchell Hadley Labels: 1970s, News, Sports, This Week in TV Guide, TV Movies Hal January 14, 2017 at 11:48 AM Perfect timing with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders movie, what with the team at the height of its 1970's run, the defending Super Bowl champions one week away from trying to defend the title against the Steelers in what likely became the most remembered Super Bowl of the decade. The movie was medicore at best as you mention, but was predictably a ratings smash, finishing third for the week behind MORK AND MINDY and LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY. On DELTA HOUSE: it was 37th out of 61 programs by its third episode. As was common for mid-season replacements of the era, it started strong, but faded quickly. CO-ED FEVER benefitted from a choice time slot for its premiers a few weeks later (following the network premiere of "ROCKY") but also fell off dramatically. The initial episode of ROOTS II was 8th for the week (and as you guessed, still won its timeslot) with a 27.5 rating and 41 share airing during the second week of February. Viewership increased for subsequent installments, and all 5 were in the top 10 the following week. It averaged a 30.1 rating and a 45 share for six nights overall. Thanks again for great coverage of a time in tv that I can somewhat remember. I think that a couple of your statements about the network news chiefs are a bit off. First you credit Crystal for the "eat your vegetables" quote for which Salant is credited on the cover, then you state that NBC stopped ABC's hour-long newscast but quote how CBS news chief knew about it but claimed it wasn't his decision. I loved watching TURNABOUT more than THE ROCKFORD FILES myself, but then my tastes ran more toward sitcoms with fantastic premises than private eye dramas at the time. I also watched HELLO LARRY pretty often as well and was amazed how long it lasted on NBC. NBC did force crossover episodes between it and DIFF'RENT STROKES, making Phil Drummond an old Army buddy who bought Larry Adler's radio station. I remember these shows being scheduled back-to-back as well, whether on Friday or Wednesday nights. MAD magazine had fun with this setup in its DIFF'RENT STROKES satire called "Diff'rent Jokes", where McLean Stevenson crossed onto the show. When he was told that Stevenson's character was supposed to help his ratings, "Arnut" said "That's like using Shelley Winters to help Cheryl Ladd look beautiful!". I didn't see CO-ED FEVER, but I remember reading that it was cancelled after its 1 well-rated episode because, while its rating was good, it should've been much higher based on ROCKY's excellent rating just before it. I remember watching ROOTS II as well. As Mr. Horn stated above, its ratings were good. I read that each installment fell in the Top 11 (not quite Top 10) for the week when it aired, but it wasn't the absolute smash that ROOTS was (and probably never could have been as highly-rated). CHALLENGE OF THE SUPERHEROES wasn't so much a movie as a long variety show on videotape with laugh track, hosted by Ed McMahon. It was very strange, since to me the camp appeal of shows like BATMAN was how the show played everything straight. On this show everything was a big joke. Here's part of a review that includes links from the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUTCePDSYy8&list=PL2E357F39746D52F1 Sorry, that last show should be LEGENDS OF THE SUPERHEROES, with the first part called "The Challenge". I remember what I saw of it being a goofy game show/roast format, where Batman yells at Robin and wants to punish him at 1 point for giving a wrong answer in the game show part, which I think was a bit like FAMILY FEUD. Clarification Time: The show you've got here, Challenge Of The Superheroes, was an hour-long spoof of a standard superhero adventure-type show from not too long before; the villains were all comedians (Gorshin, Charlie Callas, Howard Morris, Gabe Dell, et al), and all was played for broad laughs. Legends Of The Superheroes: The Roast, the show Jon H is referring to, aired one week later on NBC. Per the title, this was a spoof not only of the characters but of the 'roast' format, which Dean Martin's producer Greg Garrison cleaned up and made into "family entertainment" a few years before. Garrison had nothing to do with this show, which was produced by Hanna-Barbera, burning off the remainder of an old contract with DC (or whatever they were calling themselves at that point). Mark Evanier has a post or two telling how these shows came to be at his blog, News From ME. Also, Warner Archive has out an MOD/DVD of both shows, available wherever these are ... well, available ... As to how something like this would play today: Obviously, Mitch, you've had little experience with modern-day comics buffs, who are almost unfailingly grim in their approach to the genre. They'd steer far clear of this, possibly to the point of organized boycotts. And since they're the only ones who go to these things at all any more (multiple times, admittedly), you can forget about "millions!". I wonder if "Co-Ed Fever" got done in by terrible reviews. timdub70 January 15, 2017 at 7:31 PM I do remember watching Delta House every week. Somewhat of a substitute for Animal House, which I did not see until about two years later. There would be a newscast that would go to an hour eventually. The MacNeil/Lehrer Report on PBS originally took the whole half hour of the program on one issue, and that format continued from 1975-83. In 1983, that newscast expanded to an hour and changed its format. YIH January 16, 2017 at 3:34 PM No surprise there, translating an R-rated movie into a TV sitcom means a lot had to go by the wayside due to 'standards and practices'. Not to mention the fact that TV has time and budget constraints that a feature film doesn't. 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About JEMA Member Missions Conducting weddings in Japan by JAPAN HARVEST Written by JAPAN HARVEST A common saying in Japan is that one goes to a Shinto shrine after being born, gets married in a Christian ceremony, and is given a Buddhist funeral when one dies. Traditionally, about a month after birth, parents take their child to a shrine to have a priest pray for his or her health and happiness. When a Japanese person dies, it is considered normal for them to have a Buddhist funeral. But isn’t it interesting that, in a country where less than one percent identify themselves as Christians, it is also considered natural for Japanese people to have a Christian wedding ceremony? It is true that most “Christian” weddings are not done in a church; they usually take place in the wedding chapel of a hotel (though I have done weddings in restaurants and other places). But it is amazing that many Japanese people are willing to have a pastor perform their wedding. Reasons for choosing a Christian wedding Just because someone has a Christian wedding does not mean that they are Christians, any more than going to a shrine as a child or visiting a temple makes them a Shinto or Buddhist believer. If you were to ask a Japanese person if they were Buddhist, most would say yes. And if you were to ask the same person if they believed in Shinto, they would probably also answer yes. An article from last year says that according to the Annual Statistics of Religion (Shūkyō Nenkan) published by the Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, 190 million people were involved in religion in 2015, more than the population of Japan!1 It quotes a Chinese media source that said: “Japanese have a strange sense of religion.” The article also says that “Going to a shrine, church, or temple has hardly any religious meaning to Japanese. It can be argued that those places are just considered somewhere to get married, somewhere to celebrate the New Year (or a newborn baby), and somewhere to pray for the dead.” So why get married in a Christian ceremony? Alas, as has been mentioned, it has nothing to do with religious faith. The main reason Japanese want to have a Christian wedding seems to be: “that’s how they do it in the movies.” Japanese are known to admire all things Western, and this is part of it. The image of a little white chapel with the bride in a white wedding dress and the groom in a tuxedo is very powerful. A great opportunity But this willingness of many couples to get married in a church or have a pastor perform a Christian ceremony provides a real opportunity to minister to them. Though they might not know it, they are asking to come under the hearing of God’s Word. That is a great opportunity for us in this land where getting people to hear what God has to say is very difficult. My experience in conducting weddings I began doing weddings at the wedding chapel of the Kōchi Shin-Hankyū Hotel 26 years ago. The year before, the hotel approached me and asked if I could be their wedding pastor. I had never really considered doing weddings before, but when they shared the type of person they were looking for, I agreed to take the job. In fact, I was the only one in Kōchi Prefecture who could have done so! You see they were looking for a foreigner, a pastor or missionary, and a non-Catholic. So, I accepted their offer and got involved early enough to help them with the design of the hotel’s chapel (being an architect by training helped). I also performed the groundbreaking ceremony, the dedication service, and, more recently, a rededication service when they remodeled the chapel. Though we missionaries think of doing weddings as a ministry, for hotels it is a business. So, market forces can change things, even at places we have done weddings for a long time. For instance, when I first started doing weddings 26 years ago, I asked to do two two-hour sessions of premarital counseling with each couple, and the hotel agreed. But that quickly changed to one two-hour session, since most of the couples did not live in Kōchi anymore. Many grew up in Kōchi, but as it is a small “country town” with very few jobs, most people go to the big cities to find work. That means that when they return to Kōchi for their wedding, they don’t have the time for lots of counseling. Of course, if someone were to ask to be married in our church, I would insist on at least two counseling sessions. But as a hotel employee, I can’t force that on people. In fact, recently, I have not had any counseling sessions with couples, because they often come back to Kōchi right before the wedding. But even though I rarely do premarital counseling now, the hotel has allowed me to expand my message during the wedding service to include a direct appeal from Scripture to the couple (though, of course, others are listening). Since then, I have gotten many positive comments on my message, which have led to opportunities to share Christian principles in many different formats and in various places. I praise God for that. I also give each couple a Gideon New Testament. I used to do about 120 weddings a year, but that has recently dwindled to less than 40. However, this still means that, with an average attendance of 50 to 60, I can share the words of God with thousands of people every year. The reasons for this decline in the number of weddings include the lower number of people of marriageable age and tighter financial constraints, which cause more couples to just register their marriages at the city hall and not have a wedding ceremony. We need to be aware of the possibility that things might change. Since we are working for a business, there is no guarantee of how many Christian weddings we can do or how long we can continue to do them. I know some “wedding pastors” who were asked to leave because the hotel or wedding chapel made a contract with another group (often a music company) who would provide a pastor, an organist, and singers for a cheaper price. I am glad that has not happened to me, but there have been times when the hotel wanted the Christian weddings I do to have more of a party-like atmosphere. I thank God that it has gone back to a more reverent situation. But we are really working for the Lord. And we can be grateful that people are interested in having a Christian wedding. Though in my case, only one couple has come to our church (and that for only a short time), I have a long list of people (over 3,000 couples) I can pray for. I hope and pray that some of them will be in heaven when I get there. There are more than market forces at work when it comes to performing Christian weddings in secular places. Please pray for us as we seek to be a light in this needy country. 1. Taken from 正月に神社、教会で結婚式、死んだらお経・・・奇妙な宗教観を持つ日本人＝中国メディア http://news.nicovideo.jp/watch/nw2584712 (accessed March 8, 2018). Wedding photo from https://hmi-wedding.jp/kochi/ Ken Reddington and his wife, Toshiko, are church-planting missionaries in Kochi-ken. Ken is a missionary kid who returned to Japan as a missionary from the US in 1978. Bumping into tomodachi Riding the wave Seizing the opportunity offered by the Olympics Three tips for using social media for evangelism with... Creative community connections Rethinking evangelistic events JAPAN HARVEST Church planting5 Contextualization4 Crisis3 Daily life22 Endorsed ministries12 Language13 Magazine15 Member care29 New voices7 Obituaries4 Parachurch6 Partnership4 Prayer10 Short term8 Social ministry3 Spiritual life8

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The persistence of large multilingual empires, which produced bilingual and even polyglot readers, the shared experience of “belated modernity” and the longstanding practice of repressive censorship produced an incredibly vibrant, profoundly politicized, and highly visible culture of translation throughout the region as a whole. The individual contributors to this volume examine diverse manifestations of this shared translation culture from the Romantic Age to the present day, revealing literary translation to be at times an embarrassing reminder of the region’s cultural marginalization and reliance on the West and at other times a mode of resistance and a metaphor for cultural supercession. This volume demonstrates the relevance of this region to the current scholarship on alternative translation traditions and exposes some of the Western assumptions that have left the region underrepresented in the field of Translation Studies. The Critical Link 5 Editor(s): Sandra Beatriz Hale, Uldis Ozolins and Ludmila Stern The current volume contains selected papers submitted after Critical Link 5 (Sydney 2007) and arises from its topic – quality interpreting being a communal responsibility of all the participants. It takes the much discussed theme of professionalisation of community interpreting to a new level by stating that achieving quality depends not only on the technical skills and ethics of interpreters, but equally upon all other parties that serve multilingual populations: speakers, employers and administrators, educational institutions, researchers, and interpreters. Major articles outline both innovative practices in legal and medical settings and prevailing deficiencies in community interpreting in different countries. While Part I, A shared responsibility: The policy dimension, addresses the macro environment of specific social policy contexts with constrains that affect interpreting, Part II, Investigations and innovations in quality interpreting, reveals a number of admirable cases of interpreters working together with their client institutions in a variety of social settings. Part III is dedicated to the questions of Pedagogy, ethics and responsibility in interpreting. The collection is an important reference book catering to the interpreting community: interpreting practitioners and interpreter users, researchers, educators, and students. Classical Spanish Drama in Restoration English (1660–1700) Author(s): Jorge Braga Riera From 1660 to c 1700, England set her eyes on Spain and on the seventeenth-century Spanish comedy of intrigue with an aim to import new plots and characters that might appeal to the Anglo-Saxon audience. As a consequence, Hispanic drama in translation enjoyed a period of relative popularity never to be repeated until the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing a corpus of translated classical Spanish plays intended for performance, this book aims to show the strategies chosen by the translators concerned. Hence, many aspects present in the source texts are naturalized in order to meet the demands of the target culture, while others are kept to clarify the “Spanishness” of the text. This study draws significant conclusions on the validity of these mechanisms within the specific framework of Drama Translation Studies. This volume will be of interest to Hispanists, drama translation scholars and theatre practitioners. Corpus Use and Translating Editor(s): Allison Beeby, Patricia Rodríguez Inés and Pilar Sánchez-Gijón Professional translators are increasingly dependent on electronic resources, and trainee translators need to develop skills that allow them to make the best use of these resources. The aim of this book is to show how CULT (Corpus Use for Learning to Translate) methodologies can be used to prepare learning materials, and how novice translators can become autonomous users of corpora. Readers interested in translation studies, translator training and corpus linguistics will find the book particularly useful. Not only does it include practical, technical advice for using and learning to use corpora, but it also addresses important issues such as the balance between training and education and how CULT methodologies reinforce student autonomy and responsibility. Not only is this a good introduction to CULT, but it also incorporates the latest developments in this field, showing the advantages of using these methodologies in competence-based learning. Crossing Borders in Community Interpreting Editor(s): Carmen Valero-Garcés and Anne Martin At conferences and in the literature on community interpreting there is one burning issue that reappears constantly: the interpreter’s role. What are the norms by which the facilitators of communication shape their role? Is there indeed only one role for the community interpreter or are there several? Is community interpreting aimed at facilitating communication, empowering individuals by giving them a voice or, in wider terms, at redressing the power balance in society? In this volume scholars and practitioners from different countries address these questions, offering a representative sample of ongoing research into community interpreting in the Western world, of interest to all who have a stake in this form of interpreting. The opening chapter establishes the wider contextual and theoretical framework for the debate. It is followed by a section dealing with codes and standards and then moves on to explore the interpreter’s role in various different settings: courts and police, healthcare, schools, occupational settings and social services. Constructing a Sociology of Translation Editor(s): Michaela Wolf and Alexandra Fukari The view of translation as a socially regulated activity has opened up a broad field of research in the last few years. This volume deals with central questions of the new domain and aims to contribute to the conceptualisation of a general sociology of translation. Interdisciplinary in approach, it discusses the role of major representatives of sociology like Pierre Bourdieu, Bruno Latour, Bernard Lahire, Anthony Giddens or Niklas Luhmann in establishing a theoretical framework for a sociology of translation. Drawing on methodologies from sociology and integrating them into translation studies, the book questions some of the established categories in this discipline and calls for a redefinition of long-assumed principles. The contributions show the social involvement of translation in various fields and focus especially on the translator’s position in an emerging sociology of translation, Bourdieu’s influence in conceptualising this new sub-discipline, methodological questions and a sociologically oriented meta-discussion of translation studies. Editor(s): Cecilia Wadensjö, Birgitta Englund Dimitrova and Anna-Lena Nilsson This book is a collection of papers presented in Stockholm, at the fourth Critical Link conference. The book is a well-balanced mix of academic research and texts of a more practical, professional character.The introducing article explicitly addresses the issue of professionalism and how this has been dealt with in research on interpreting. The following two sections provide examples of recent research, applying various theoretical approaches. Section four reports on the development of current, more or less local standards. Section five raises issues of professional ideology. The final section tells about new training initiatives and programmes. All contributions were selected because of their relevance to the theme of professionalisation of interpreting in the community. The volume is the fourth in a series, documenting the advance of a whole new empirical and professional field. It is of central interest for all people involved in this development, interpreters, researchers, trainers and others. Challenging the Traditional Axioms Author(s): Nike K. Pokorn Translation into a non-mother tongue or inverse translation, especially of literary texts, has always been frowned upon within Translation Studies in Western cultures and regarded by literary scholars and linguists as an activity of dubious worth, doomed to fail. The study, which received an award from EST in 2001, sets out to challenge the established view and to critically question some of the axiomatic assumptions of Western theorists. Its challenge is supported by extensive empirical research involving reader response to translations of specific literary texts. The conclusion reached is that the quality of the translation, its fluency and acceptability in the target language environment depend primarily on the as yet undetermined individual abilities of the particular translator, his/her translation strategy and knowledge of the source and target cultures, and not on his/her mother tongue or the direction in which s/he is translating. Claims, Changes and Challenges in Translation Studies Editor(s): Gyde Hansen, Kirsten Malmkjaer and Daniel Gile The volume contains a selection of papers, both theoretical and empirical, from the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) Congress held in Copenhagen in September 2001. The EST Congresses, held every three years in a different country, reflect current ideas, theories and studies covering the whole range of "Translation", both oral and written, and the papers collected here, authored by both experienced and young translation scholars, provide an up-to-date picture of some concerns in the field. Topics covered include translation universals, linguistic approaches to translation, translation strategies, quality and assessment issues, screen translation, the translation of humor, terminological issues, translation and related professions, translation and ideology, language brokering by children, Robert Schumann’s relation to translation, directionality in translation and interpreting, community interpreting in Italy, issues in interpreting for refugees, notes in consecutive interpreting, interpreting prosody, and frequent weaknesses in translation papers in the context of the editorial process. Editor(s): Louise Brunette, Georges L. Bastin, Isabelle Hemlin and Heather Clarke At long last community interpreters are coming into their own as professionals in various parts of the world. At the same time, the complexity of their practice has been thrown into sharp relief. In this thought-provoking volume of selected papers from the third Critical Link conference held in 2001 (Montreal), we see a profession that is carving out a place for itself amid political adversity, economic constraints and a host of historical and cultural conditions. Community interpreters are learning to work better with governments, courts, police, psychologists, doctors, patients, refugees, violent offenders, and human rights missions in war-torn countries. From First Peoples to minority language speakers to former refugees and members of the Deaf community, interpreters are seeking out the training, legal protection and credentials they need. They are standing up to be counted in surveys, reaping the fruits of specialization and contributing to salient academic discussions on language, communication and translation studies. Computers and Translation Editor(s): Harold Somers This volume is about computers and translation. It is not, however, a Computer Science book, nor does it have much to say about Translation Theory. Rather it is a book for translators and other professional linguists (technical writers, bilingual secretaries, language teachers even), which aims at clarifying, explaining and exemplifying the impact that computers have had and are having on their profession. It is about Machine Translation (MT), but it is also about Computer-Aided (or -Assisted) Translation (CAT), computer-based resources for translators, the past, present and future of translation and the computer. The editor and main contributor, Harold Somers, is Professor of Language Engineering at UMIST (Manchester). With over 25 years’ experience in the field both as a researcher and educator, Somers is editor of one of the field’s premier journals, and has written extensively on the subject, including the field’s most widely quoted textbook on MT, now out of print and somewhat out of date. The current volume aims to provide an accessible yet not overwhelmingly technical book aimed primarily at translators and other users of CAT software. Contexts in Translating Author(s): Eugene A. Nida Contexts in Translating is designed to help translators understand the varieties of contexts and their importance for understanding a text and reproducing the meaning in another language. The contexts include the historical setting of writing a text, the cultural components that make a text unique, the types of audiences for which the translation is intended, and the most efficient and effective ways of producing a satisfactory representation of the source-language text. The structural levels of language are described, and the principal features of text organization are also explained. In addition, the main features of various books on translation are outlined, and a chapter on basic theories of translation is followed by a selective bibliography. Editor(s): Roda P. Roberts, Silvana E. Carr, Diana Abraham and Aideen Dufour This volume of selected papers from the second Critical Link conference (Vancouver, 1998) shows a marked evolution in Community Interpreting (CI) since the first Critical Link conference of 1995. In the intervening three years the field has advanced from pioneering to professionalization in response to new social needs created by the influx of immigrants into the developed countries, or by an awakened sensitivity to the rights of those countries’ aboriginal peoples. Most of the papers discuss professionalization in terms of standards, tests and examinations; training; accreditation; and professional organizations that establish and administer professional standards. The collection reveals similar concerns about these issues throughout the world and a global focus on ‘standards’. With a Foreword by Brian Harris. Contrastive Functional Analysis Author(s): Andrew Chesterman Why is a raven like a writing-desk? The concept of similarity lies at the heart of this new book on contrastive analysis. Similarity judgements depend partly on properties of the objects being compared, and partly on what the person judging considers to be relevant to the assessment; similarity thus has both objective and subjective aspects. The author shows how contrastive analysis and translation theory make use of the concept in different ways, and explains how it relates to the problematic notions of equivalence and tertium comparationis. The book then develops a meaning-based contrastive methodology, and outlines one theory of semantic structure which can be used in this methodology. The approach is illustrated with four sample studies covering different kinds of phenomena in some European languages. The final part of the book proposes an extension of the theoretical framework to cover contrastive rhetoric: the aim is to suggest a unified approach linking aspects of semantics, pragmatics and rhetoric. Keywords: similarity, contrastive analysis, functional grammar, semantics, rhetoric, translation. The Changing Scene in World Languages Editor(s): Marian B. Labrum The 1997 ATA volume brings together articles on translation practice into the 21st century. Contributions deal with the Information Age, multilingualism in Europe, English as a Lingua Franca, Terminology standardization, translating for the media, and new directions in translator training. A comprehensive bibliography of dissertations makes this a useful reference tool. Conference Interpreting: Current Trends in Research Editor(s): Yves Gambier, Daniel Gile and Christopher Taylor 'Conference Interpreting: What do we know and how?' is the title of a round-table conference (Turku 1994) organised to assess the state of the art in conference interpreting research. The result is collected in this volume with fully coordinated reports on the round tables. The book presents an exciting coverage of the field, touching on methodology, communication, discourse, culture, neurolinguistic and cognitive aspects, quality assessment, training and developing skills. The Critical Link: Interpreters in the Community Editor(s): Silvana E. Carr, Roda P. Roberts, Aideen Dufour and Dini Steyn What is community interpreting? What are the roles of the community interpreter? What are the standards, evaluation methods and accreditation procedures pertaining to community interpreting? What training is available or required in this field? What are the current issues and practices in community interpreting in different parts of the world? These key questions, discussed at the first international conference on community interpreting, are addressed in this collection of selected conference papers. The merit of this volume is that it presents the first comprehensive and global view of a rapidly growing profession, which has developed out of the need to provide services to those who do not speak the official language(s) of a country. Both the problems and the successes related to the challenge of providing adequate community interpreting services in different countries are covered in this volume. Comparative Stylistics of French and English Author(s): Jean-Paul Vinay and Jean Darbelnet The Stylistique comparée du français et de l’anglais has become a standard text in the French-speaking world for the study of comparative stylistics and the training of translators. This updated, first English edition makes Vinay & Darbelnet's classic methodology of translation available to a wider readership. The translation-oriented contrastive grammatical and stylistic analyses of the two languages are extensively exemplified by expressions, phrases and texts. Combining description with methodological guidelines for translation, this volume serves both as a course book and ­ through its detailed index and glossary ­ as a reference manual for specific translation problems. Display: 20 | 50 | 100 items per page Visit our 'Help'- page with information for readers, librarians, distributors Information about our forthcoming publications can be found on https://benjamins.com All contents © John Benjamins. Approval was successful John Benjamins: http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/collections/jbe-2015-translationstudies BROWSE_VIEW_LIST

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Help us continue to fight human rights abuses. Please give now to support our work November 12, 2019 9:09PM EST Cambodia: Drop Case Against Opposition Leader EU Should Demand Restoration of Kem Sokha’s Political Rights Cambodia National Rescue Party's President Kem Sokha greets media at his house in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok) – The Cambodian authorities should immediately and unconditionally dismiss all charges against the political opposition leader Kem Sokha and let him resume his political activities, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should allow exiled opposition leaders and supporters to return to Cambodia, after blocking their return on November 9, 2019. On November 10, a Phnom Penh court announced the partial lifting of judicial supervision on Sokha, the leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). While Sokha is no longer confined to his own home, where he has been under effective house arrest since September 2018, he remains banned from engaging in any political activity or leaving Cambodia. “Cambodia’s release of Kem Sokha from house arrest without dropping all charges or allowing any political activities is just rebooting his mistreatment,” said Brad Adams, Asia director. “The European Union and other foreign governments should not be fooled but should ramp-up pressure on the government to immediately and unconditionally release Sokha and other prisoners held for exercising their basic rights.” On September 3, 2017, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s personal bodyguard unit and about 100 police officers arrested Sokha at his home in Phnom Penh. He was charged with “colluding with foreigners,” which carries a maximum 30-year prison term. He was immediately stripped of his parliamentary immunity on the grounds that he was caught in the act of committing a crime, even though the evidence was a highly edited video of a 2013 speech he gave in Australia. Foreign governments and the United Nations special rapporteur on Cambodia, Rhona Smith, have repeatedly called for dropping charges against Sokha and releasing him. After he spent a year in what the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention had declared to be “arbitrary pre-trial detention” in a prison facility along the Vietnamese border, he was released into restrictive house arrest due to deteriorating health conditions. The investigating judge has not indicated when the investigation will be closed. In November 2017, the government-controlled Supreme Court dissolved the CNRP and banned 118 party members from political activity for five years; 107 of them are still banned. The acting CNRP leader, Sam Rainsy, announced from exile on August 16 that he and other exiled party leaders and supporters would return to Cambodia on November 9, Independence Day. In response, Cambodian authorities rolled out a series of repressive measures including military threats and an uptick of harassment and arrests of people affiliated with the party or supporting their return. Between mid-August and November 8, Cambodian authorities charged 105 CNRP members with various fabricated charges, including plotting against the state, incitement to commit a felony, and discrediting judicial decisions, and detained 57 of them. The Cambodian government prevented Rainsy and other party leaders from returning on November 9 by warning airlines they would face sanctions if they carried banned people to Phnom Penh, and enlisting the support of neighboring governments of Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos to prevent any crossings at land borders. On September 17, Hun Sen stated that the government had sent ASEAN countries arrest warrants for Sam Rainsy to prevent him from transiting through them to reach Cambodia. Radio Free Asia reported on November 1 that the Cambodian Civil Aviation Authority had issued a directive instructing 47 commercial airlines not to allow Rainsy to board their aircraft. Cambodia’s state secretary of civil aviation clarified that this ban also extended to seven other CNRP officials as well as Rainsy’s wife, Tioulong Saumura. On November 8, Thai Airways did not allow Rainsy to board a flight from Paris to Bangkok. He instead traveled to Kuala Lumpur. The exiled CNRP deputy leader, Mu Sochua, also traveled to Malaysia after the Cambodian ambassador to Indonesia interrupted her news conference in Indonesia. On November 9, local human rights groups reported armored military vehicles at the Phnom Penh International Airport and in Cambodian provinces bordering Thailand, with a heavy military presence at Thai-Cambodian border checkpoints. People crossing the border reported being checked by Thai and Cambodian officials against wanted posters of exiled opposition members. In a number of instances near the Thai town of Aranyaprathet, Thai police detained Cambodians holding foreign passports and questioned them. Cambodian journalists also reported facing hostile questioning by military police while covering events at border crossings. Cambodia’s Justice Ministry asserted that the government’s recent “measures are not political restrictions of rights and freedom.” Yet as a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Cambodia is obligated under article 12 to ensure that “[n]o one shall be arbitrarily deprived of the right to enter his own country,” and under article 25, to allow every citizen to “take part in the conduct of public affairs.” In 2018, the European Union began a review procedure for suspension of the Everything But Arms (EBA) trade preferences granted to Cambodia, based on the government’s non-compliance with international human rights treaties and core International Labor Organization conventions. The action puts Cambodia’s tariff-free access to the EU market for certain exported goods, such as garments, at risk. The EU’s decision should be final by February 2020. On November 12, the EU will declare in a preliminary decision on whether it will suspend Cambodia’s EBA agreement. “Cambodia’s release of Kem Sokha from house arrest is a blatant attempt to appease EU demands for substantial rights improvements, which is condition of the EBA trade agreement,” Adams said. “The EU should recognize that during the past three months, Cambodia has unjustly charged 100 more CNRP members and imprisoned nearly 60. All those cases should be dismissed and those detained immediately and unconditionally released.” Your tax deductible gift can help stop human rights violations and save lives around the world. 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The Best American Essays 2007 (The Best American Series ®) (Paperback) By David Foster Wallace (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor) Hardcover (October 1st, 2007): $28.00 The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third person -- opinion, memoir, argument, the essay-review, confession, reportage, even a dispatch from Iraq. The philosopher Peter Singer makes a case for philanthropy; the poet Molly Peacock constructs a mosaic tribute to a little-known but remarkable eighteenth-century woman artist; the novelist Marilynne Robinson explores what has happened to holiness in contemporary Christianity; the essayist Richard Rodriguez wonders if California has anything left to say to America; and the Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson attempts to find common ground with the evangelical community. In his introduction, David Foster Wallace makes the spirited case that “many of these essays are valuable simply as exhibits of what a first-rate artistic mind can make of particular fact-sets -- whether these involve the 17-kHz ring tones of some kids’ cell phones, the language of movement as parsed by dogs, the near-infinity of ways to experience and describe an earthquake, the existential synecdoche of stagefright, or the revelation that most of what you’ve believed and revered turns out to be self-indulgent crap.” ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide. Series: The Best American Series ® Literary Collections / Essays

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11/10/2019 3:33 PM AEDT 'There May Be Deaths' – No-Deal Brexit Warning From Chief Medical Officer Is Starkest Yet Professor Dame Sally Davies said shortages of medical supplies will put lives at risk. By Chris York People could die as a result of a no-deal Brexit, the outgoing Chief Medical Officer for England has said, in the starkest warning yet about the consequences of crashing out of the EU on October 31. Professor Dame Sally Davies said it cannot be guaranteed that there will be no medical shortages if the UK fails to reach an agreement with Brussels by the end of the month. Last week, NHS Wales unveiled a so-called “Brexit Warehouse” to store around 1,000 extra products including medical gloves, needles and dressings at a cost of about £5 million, PA Media reports. Dame Sally told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday: “The health service and everyone has worked very hard to prepare. “But I say what I’ve said before – that we cannot guarantee that there will not be shortages, not only in medicines but technology and gadgets and things. “And there may be deaths, we can’t guarantee there won’t.” Pressed whether lives are at risk, she replied firmly: “They are at risk.” Dame Sally Davies. Her comments come just a couple of days after the government published a Brexit “no-deal readiness” report in which Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared that he can “confidently” say the UK is prepared to leave the EU without a deal on October 31. On the issue of health, the report said: “The UK will continue to play a world-leading role in health security, patient safety and medical advance after Brexit. “Opportunities may include innovative regulation of novel advanced therapies and medicines, and a streamlined approach to clinical trial reporting and conduct. “These strengths in health research will be further supported by fast-track visas for world-leading scientists.” The report outlines plans to set up a dedicated support unit for suppliers of medical goods in the health sector, with the aim of helping to ensure that companies have the necessary customs paperwork in place for border arrangements ahead of a no-deal scenario. It says suppliers of all medicines and medical products should ensure they are ready to comply with the new customs and border processes required to import and export goods between the UK and the EU. The report also says adult social care providers should plan for longer lead times of up to five days for products imported from the EU, and be prepared to receive stock deliveries outside normal hours. Chris York Senior Editor, Huffington Post UK MORE: uk news brexit Medical device Medical glove Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies doctor

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Herbert W Armstrong | Feed | Sign In | MyHWA | Search: Keyword Title Written by MiniStudy 12 Lesson Youth Bible Lesson K-9 Teen Bible Study Bible Study (Audio/Video) Tomorrow's World Magazine Bible Advocate Church of God News (COGN) Co-Workers Letter Letter Answering Dept Pastor General's Report (PGR) The Bible Hymnal The Bible Story The Worldwide News (WWN) Ambassador College Roots of U.S. and Britain Seven Proofs God Exists The Cause of Today's Troubles The World Tomorrow Telecast The Gospel of Hope Herbert W Armstrong Church of God Ordained: 1931 Office: Apostle Herbert W. Armstrong founded the Worldwide Church of God in the late 1930s, as well as Ambassador College in 1946, and was an early pioneer of radio and tele-evangelism, originally taking to the airwaves in the 1930s from Eugene, Oregon. Telecast Date: July 15, 1978 Well, greetings, everybody! Once again, I'm going to speak to you as no man has spoken in our time. Today, we have nations in chaos, many at war, but in our present time, this world is going to erupt into peace! Today, we face human extinction. Survival is humanity's number one problem today. But tomorrow, the good news that I have for you, is that utopia is going to grip this world, and in this present generation in which we live. We are the generation that is going to live in two worlds. We're going to see the end of this world, but that doesn't mean the end of the Earth, it means the end of the present way of things, with all of the human anguish, with all of the evils that beset us, of all of the wars, of all of the frustrations, the failures, the poverty, the starvation, and the many things that are gripping this Earth today. The message that Christ brought was news, because it was something that had not yet happened. It was news of the future. It was news of what God says is going to happen, whether we like it or not, because we're going to do it. It's going to be done to us by the supreme creator God and supernatural power. Jesus knew as few know today, that the real source of all this world's troubles, its evils, its pain and suffering, its heartaches, is an actual, existing, supernatural, super spirit power, which is called in the Bible Satan the devil. Now this Satan has deceived the whole world, according to the Bible, all nations. And that means all creeds, all races have been deceived. Man Doesn't Know He's Deceived A deceived man doesn't know he's deceived, otherwise he wouldn't be deceived if he knew it. A deceived man is one who thinks he is right, and he may be ever so sincere. Many are sincere, but they're sincerely wrong. And yet, he has deceived this whole world. He has deceived the world, actually into believing he doesn't exist. And so, it isn't popular to believe there is a devil today, but this Satan formerly was the archangel Lucifer. And he and his angels had been created by God. He had been given the knowledge of the truth, but he had been given a mind to think with, to make decisions with, and in previous programs I've told you a great deal about that, this archangel called Lucifer. He was perfect in all of his ways from the day God created him. God didn't create an evil being. He created a great super being that was perfect in all of his ways from the time that God created him, till rebellion, perverted evil, was found in him. And that came from his own thinking processes and of his own accord. Now he had been made king over all the Earth, and the Earth was then populated by angels, and he was the king over those angels. God had put him here to administer the government of God over this Earth. So it may surprise many of you to realize that the government of God once ruled over this whole Earth. And as long as the government of God ruled, there was happiness, there was joy, and great exultation all over this Earth, because the government of God is based on a way of life that produces happiness and joy, and abundance for everybody, and happiness of every kind. Lucifer Turned To Rebellion But this Lucifer, this superarchangel, and the angels under him, as I said, they had been given minds and ability to choose, and they chose to rebel. They rebelled against the government of God, and against the way of God, because you cannot have a government, except you have a law, a basic constitution, a law or ordinances or rules of some kind. Otherwise, you don't have government. And the law of God, the great spiritual law, was the foundation and the basis of that government that brought so much happiness to the angels until they rebelled against it. And they chose the way of evil instead of the way of good. Well, that way of life has caused all the world's evils, all of the pain and suffering, all of the heartaches, all of the troubles, all of the wars, and the destruction and violence that has come to this Earth. Living that way, that this Lucifer turned to in his rebellion with his angels who became demons, and for the past 6,000 years, we have a record of what that way of life has done to this world, the unhappiness it has wrought. But over 1900 years ago, Jesus Christ came to proclaim the now-imminent utopia of peace that God is going to bring to this world, in fact, going to force it on the world, and it will be against the will of men, because men would rather go on living their own getting way, their selfish way of trying to take to themselves everything they can get, and denying it to everybody else. Jesus Christ Had to Qualify It'll be the way of universal abundance, of joy, of eternal salvation. But first, however, Jesus had to conquer this Satan. He had to qualify to restore the government of God to this Earth, and not only that, to set up the kingdom of God. Now the kingdom of God is something different than the government of God. The government of God is merely the rule of God with his laws and the machinery for administering and enforcing it over - it was in that case, angels, it could be over people. But the kingdom of God is the family of God, of those born of God, born into the God family, themselves becoming entirely immortal and supernatural, and ruling and reigning over the entire Earth with the kingdom of God, the government of God that is. That will be the kingdom of God, and first they're going to reign for 1,000 years, and after that is going to be a time when all who have ever lived and been deceived and who have not known the truth, they have not been judged - they're not lost, neither are they saved, but they're going to be resurrected. They're going to be resurrected mortal once again. And I hope I can get around to saying a little about that in this program, if not, it will be, I hope, in the next one. The only hope of any life after this life is the resurrection. But all who die in the first death, in this life, die as in Adam, as a result of Adam's sin. But the result of our own spiritual sins is the second death, eternal death from which there will never be a resurrection. But all who have ever lived are going to be resurrected. [Commercial break: Just What Do You Mean... Kingdom of God?] So now I would like you to notice one scripture foretelling the coming of Christ, a prophecy, back in the book of Isaiah, in the Old Testament. It says here, Isaiah the 9th chapter, beginning with verse 6 (Isaiah 9:6). "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be on his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the increase of this government and peace there shall be no end." It will be everlasting, eternal, immortal. "Upon the throne of David." That was in Jerusalem, in the so-called Holy Land, or Palestine, or now it's the land of Israel. And I go there quite often myself. "On the throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth and forever. The zeal of the Eternal of Hosts will perform it." So Jesus himself said, if you will turn now over to John the 19th chapter in the New Testament. He was then on trial for his life. This was just on the same day that he was crucified, that is, the crucifixion came later on the same day. This was probably through the night part of the day, before daylight. But anyway, it was before this Pilate in Jerusalem. "And Pilate therefore said to Jesus, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king." (John 18:37) Now that's a good deal like the modern say-so "Well, I'll say," only he said, "You say." And that was the emphatic way of saying "I am a king." He said, "to this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." Well, not very many are of the truth, for not very many heard it. But now previous to that, he had said in the verse just ahead of that, he had answered and said, "My kingdom is not of this world," that is, this present age, this present time, this evil world, that is as I have said is manipulated and deceived by this great archangel or super-demon called Satan. Not Christ's World... Yet And this is Satan's kingdom. He is called the god of this world. This is not Christ's world, we ought to understand that. The Bible makes that very plain. "If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews, but now is my kingdom not from hence," or from here, or from this time, or for this present society, this present world in which we live. So Jesus said himself he was born to be a king. Now I've shown you in previous programs how in the first chapter of the book of Luke, how the angel appeared to Mary, the mother of Jesus, with the same thing, that he was to be born to be a king, that he was going to reign on the throne of his father David, and that of the end of that kingdom, there would be no end. Well, now as soon as Jesus was baptized, he had to qualify before he could ever take over the government of God, re-establish it, that is, and the kingdom of God, and where Lucifer had disqualified himself. Now Christ had the opportunity to qualify. Actually, the first Adam, the first man created, had that opportunity, but he made the wrong choice. He chose rebellion. He chose the way of Satan. And our people, all descended from Adam, have been following that manner, that way of life, ever since - the way as I've said, of, well, primarily of vanity, because vanity is what brings you into lust and greed, and to envy and jealousy toward others, and destruction of everything else but your own self. Now, coming back to the first chapter of Matthew, we find here is the one place in the Bible where you get a detailed description of the great contest that came on between Jesus now, and this former king, the former Lucifer that is now called Satan the devil, the one that is invisible, the one who has deceived the world into believing he doesn't even so much as exist. "And Jesus, when he was baptized," that is, the 16th verse of the 3rd chapter of Matthew (Matthew 3:16). "Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water." Now he had been down in the water, or he couldn't have gone up out of it, incidentally, so it wasn't sprinkling or pouring. Jesus had been down in the water, he came up out of the water. "And lo, the heavens were open unto him, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting on him. And the voice from heaven saying," this was the voice of God Almighty, the Father, "this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased." Jesus Christ Tempted By Satan Now, now we come right on the next verse, first verse of the 4th chapter of Matthew (Matthew 4:1). "Then was Jesus led up by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry," very hungry. "And when the tempter came," here's Satan, who is called the tempter, "came to him and said, If thou be the son of God..." You notice this Satan is challenging him? He's appealing to his vanity. Now the average person would have said, "If I was the son of God? What do you mean? I'll show you I'm the son of God." Maybe that's what one of us would say if we were the son of God. But that is not what Jesus Christ said. But Satan tempted him. He says, "If thou art the son of God, command that these stones be made bread." Now you're hungry, If you're the son of God, you've got the miraculous power to turn these stones into bread, "Go ahead and show me." I don't believe you're the son of God. Now you prove it to me. I don't know whether you can imagine what a temptation that was, or not, hungry as he was. But he was humble and not vain. He didn't come to exalt himself, but to exalt his father and to set us an example that we should follow his steps. And God says that if we, if we elevate and exalt ourselves, we shall be abased. "But whoso will humble himself shall be exalted." (Matthew 23:12) So let's just remember that. "And Jesus answered him and said, It is written that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Now Jesus Christ himself was the Word of God in actual person. He is the Word of God. But the Bible is the written word of God. Jesus was the personal Word, as a person, but the Bible is in print and it is the printed word of God. Same thing, only one is just in print, and we have words in a book, the other was the real Christ himself. But the words are the same. Well, "then the devil took him up into the holy city, set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and he said to him, If thou be the son of God..." Now there's that word "if" again. I have heard people say, an uncle of mine when I was a little boy, I remember saying, "That's the biggest little two-letter word in all the English language - IF." "If thou be the son of God." He's still tempting him with vanity, with greed, with lust, with everything of that kind. "Cast thyself down, because it is written..." Now if you really believe the Bible, let's see if you believe the Bible. The Bible says, "He," God, "shall give his angels charge concerning thee and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest thou shalt dash thy foot against a stone." Now, do you believe God meant it, do you believe God will send an angel, or that God will prevent you from doing this if, from falling, that is, and becoming hurt if you leap off the top of this temple? Again, it was a challenge as to whether he believed God. You know, one thing, Adam and Eve believed in God. Did you know that? They really did believe in God. But they did not believe God. Oh, what a difference there is. They believed there was God, they believed that the one talking to them was God. They knew God existed. Many of the people knew when Christ came, that he was the promised Messiah. You will read in the 8th chapter of the book of John, beginning in the 30th verse (John 8:30), you will read of a lot of Jews of that day who believed on him. They believed on Christ, but to those who believed on him, Jesus said, "Why do you try to kill me, you who believe on me, you're trying to kill me because you do not believe my word, because you do not believe what I say. You believe on me, you don't believe me." There's a great difference. To believe him is to believe what he says. [Commercial break: The Plain Truth Magazine] Well, the devil wasn't ready to give up quite yet. So, "the devil taketh him into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world," the various nations or governments and kingdoms of the world, "and the glory of them. And he said to him, All of these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me." I thought that, I think maybe this is another place where it says, "For they are mine, for they belong to me." Well, Jesus knew that he had been in place, in fact Christ, before he was born as a human being, is the very one that had set this Lucifer on the throne. And he understood all of that well enough. But he knew that Satan was really ruling in, and influencing and swaying, the whole world the way he wanted it to go. And that's why we're having all the troubles that we're having. "But Jesus answered and said," he was about through now, "And Jesus said, get thee hence, Satan, for it is written, thou shalt worship the Eternal thy God and him only shalt thou worship." Jesus refused, hungry as he was, to worship Satan, to do the things that would get him food, or deliver him out of that. I know a lot of people, even some doctors think today if you miss one meal even, you're going to die. Oh, don't think it. You can fast quite a while, and get along fine. And Jesus fasted forty days, Moses fasted forty days, others have done it. Now then, it was later that, seeing as he was in the wilderness for forty days, tempted of Satan, and was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered unto him. "Now, after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee," not to Jerusalem but into Galilee way up north of Jerusalem, "preaching" what? "The gospel," but what gospel? "The gospel of the kingdom of God." That is the gospel that he preached. "And saying, the time is fulfilled." How is the time fulfilled? Christ has just qualified by conquering Satan, had qualified now to restore the government of God on this Earth. And the kingdom of God is that government! And his message was the prophecy of the coming kingdom of God that is going to bring a utopia to this Earth. It is going to bring a peace to this Earth in a way we have never had it before. Repent and Believe the Gospel "The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent ye, and believe" what? "Believe the gospel." How can people believe a gospel that has not been preached for 19 centuries? By about the year of 60 A.D., people had turned to another gospel. You'll find that in Galatians the first chapter, and verses 6 and 7 (Galatians 1:6-7). They had turned to another gospel. In II Corinthians the 11th chapter, you will find how Paul feared that there were false teachers out that would turn them to another gospel, and that did happen. And the true gospel was suppressed, and it was not preached. But God did raise me up from the advertising field in which I had put myself, and yanked me right out of that, and opened my eyes to see these things in his word, and to carry it to kings, and to nations all around the world, and to people that this gospel may go as an announcement today, just as Jesus announced it then. But we today are the very generation of people that is going to live into the end of this world and the beginning of the wonderful, utopian, peaceful, happy, salvation-giving World Tomorrow. We're going to see it happen in our time. I want to just say, if I have time, I want to invite all listeners and viewers to write in for a booklet - What is the Kingdom of God? Just What Do You Mean...Kingdom of God? Now some say the kingdom of God is the church. As a matter of fact, that was taught by the Roman Catholic Church about 1800 years ago or more. That is taught in many Protestant churches, that the church is the kingdom of God. I have known of some who claim the British Empire was the kingdom of God. I have heard of those who say that by all of us working together, we can bring about the kingdom of God set up in the hearts of men. In other words, an ethereal nothing set up in men's hearts. Just what is the kingdom of God? The booklet is free, there's no charge whatever. It will just open the Bible up and make it plain. And that is what is coming, that's what you're going to live into, that's what you're going to see. You better read about it and know what's coming. So, until next time, this is Herbert W. Armstrong saying, for this time, goodbye friends. Please Note: The FREE literature offered on this program are no longer available through the Address and Phone Number given, please visit www.hwalibrary.com for all FREE literature offered on this program. Fundamental Doctrines of the Church of God Holy Day Information Sabbath & Holy Day Services Weekly Bible Study Services Copyright © 2020 Herbert W Armstrong Library Terms of Use

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stop and hide SIGCD263 Digital booklet (PDF) Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) The Complete Songs, Vol. 2 Malcolm Martineau (piano) Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available Download all MP3 16-bit VBR CD-Quality: Download all FLAC 16-bit 44.1 kHz Studio Master: Download all ALAC Label: Signum Classics Recording details: September 2010 St Michael's Church, Summertown, Oxford, United Kingdom Produced by John H West Engineered by Andrew Mellor Total duration: 72 minutes 12 seconds The songs of Francis Poulenc (some 150 works composed over a period of 44 years) remain consistently popular with concert audiences the world over. Varying in their individual style and character in a way that defies generalization, Poulenc set music to a wide range of different French poetry—both ancient and modern, and from the serious to the surreal. This series charting the complete songs of Francis Poulenc is performed by some of the greatest singers of the day and accompanied by the exceptional Malcolm Martineau. 'This is very much the mixture as before in the first of Signum's projected cycle of the complete Poulenc songs … Lorna Anderson sings delightfully the three Lorca songs, very simple in their lyricism … Felicity Lott demonstres her mastery of French operetta style. Signum again provides excellent notes by Roger Nichols and full texts and translations' (Gramophone) 'This second volume of a projected complete survey of Poulenc's songs 'a delightful prospect' begins with one of his earliest and longest examples, the waltz-song Toreador, which Poulenc described as a caricature of a music-hall song. Christopher Maltman sings it stylishly, with Malcolm Martineau contributing his usual artistry in conjuring a whole world of colours and moods from the piano part … singers score pretty high in their projection and pronunciation of diverse texts, and their all-round musicianship … overall this album is guaranteed to bring hours of pleasure—a must-have for Poulenc fans' (MusicWeb International)» More In his notorious little 1918 pamphlet Le Coq et l’Arlequin, Jean Cocteau pronounced that ‘a composer always has too many notes on his keyboard.’ This was a lesson the young Francis Poulenc took to heart and observed throughout his career; and nowhere more tellingly than in the piano parts of his songs—far better written, he thought, than his works for piano solo. After the First World War, the ethos of French art across the board lay in the direction of clarity and simplicity. Cocteau further cried for ‘an end to clouds, waves, aquariums, water nymphs, an end to fogs’, and Erik Satie, the cultural godfather of the new French music, warned that fogs had been the death of as many composers as sailors. Another target was the ‘music one listens to head in hands’—Wagner most notably, but also Schumann. For Poulenc then, in quest of song texts, the nineteenth century was largely to be avoided and only one of his texts, Théodore de Banville’s Pierrot, was published during it, while Jean Moréas’s four poems forming the Airs chantés were printed in the first decade of the twentieth. Otherwise Poulenc sought either distancing through pre-Romantic poetry or immediacy through poetry of his own time. In the present volume, only two of the song texts are historically distant. It has been said of the French that, the more revolutions they went through, the more they hankered after the certainties, real or imagined, of their past. The fifteenth-century poet Charles d’Orléans, who provided three texts for Debussy songs, was captured by the English at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 and kept a prisoner in the Tower of London for 25 years. His poem Priez pour paix therefore has personal resonance, and Poulenc’s setting, in the style of his recent Litanies à la Vierge noire, is intimate in tone. Although he called it ‘a prayer at a shrine in time of war’, he wrote it on 29 September 1938; so it could more accurately be heard as a prophecy, casting reasonable doubt on the prospects of ‘peace in our time’. Hymne, written in New York in November 1948, was written for the bass Doda Conrad, who was one of singers in Nadia Boulanger’s famous Monteverdi recordings. Racine’s poem comes from a translation of the Roman breviary he made in 1680. Poulenc underlines its hymnic quality by frequent doubling of the vocal line by the piano’s right hand. At the other extreme from these two religious offerings lie four examples of the ‘naughty’ Poulenc—a side of him that for years had the unfortunate effect of deafening critics to his more serious intentions. In Toréador, written in 1918 for a Cocteau music-hall evening, Poulenc deliberately mixes genres, producing ‘a Spanish/Italian song…that sends up the geography of the café concert songs of the time, in which a Japanese girl got bored in Peking or Sappho fired questions at the Sphinx’. The prevailing waltz rhythm is decorated with Spanish curlicues (notably on the word ‘Toréador’) and broken up at the end of each of the three verses in a way that anticipates Poulenc’s later Surrealist style. Jean-Marie Legrand, known also as Jaboune and as Jean Nohain, had been a fellow pupil of Poulenc’s at the Lycée Condorcet and remembered the composer as no dunce, but simply uninterested in the scholarly curriculum. Since no printed edition of the verses is known, we may assume they were written specially for Poulenc, who set them in 1934. They are a perfect example of what he called ‘l’adorable mauvaise musique’, reminding us of his remark that if he hadn’t been Poulenc, he would like to have been Maurice Chevalier—a parallel further underlined by the waltz Les chemins de l’amour, which closes this recital in the same style as Toréador opens it. This ‘valse chantée’ formed the leitmotif of Anouilh’s play Léocadia, produced in Paris in November 1940, when it was sung by Yvonne Printemps, one of Poulenc’s favourite artists. The composer joined the French army for just over six weeks in June 1940. After that, he remained in France throughout the war and, while never an active résistant, was in close touch with clandestine groups that included poets such as Louis Aragon. The two poems of his that Poulenc set in the autumn of 1943 see the war from two different perspectives. In ‘C’, where every line ends with the French sound of that letter, the composer reacts to what he called the poem’s ‘extreme melancholy’, as the Germans overran France; in ‘Fêtes galantes’, to the picture of total disorder in which marquises are reduced to riding bicycles—the title a bitterly ironical reference to the ordered life of eighteenth-century France as painted by Watteau, Fragonard and Boucher. The notion of Poulenc as a facile composer died hard. In fact, he often thought about pieces for years before completing them, as with the song Paul et Virginie to a poem by Raymond Radiguet, first attempted in 1920 but not given a final version until 1946.The title refers to the idyllic novel of 1787 by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre that started the French rage for the exotic. Pierre Bernac says the singer should try to invest the opening line, ‘Ciel! Les colonies’ with the dreamlike atmosphere of ‘long voyages under sail, noble savages, magic islands’. Poulenc, for his part, thought it would make a perfect encore piece. He admitted that the three poems by Federico Garcia Lorca he was working on during the summer of 1947 were giving him problems, and was never entirely happy with the result—not that composers are always the best judges of their own work! After the spare opening song, ‘Adelina à la promenade’ bursts in like a whirlwind. The final song is a sarabande. Poulenc accused it of being ‘nobly French’ instead of ‘gravely Spanish’; but as Bernac pointed out, Poulenc could never be anything other than French…He also took his time over setting Laurence de Beylié’s poem ‘Nuage’: the poem was on his desk in August 1955, but he didn’t finish setting it until September 1956. With its marking ‘doucement mélancolique’, its shifting phrase lengths and vocal style somewhere between melody and recitative, it conforms to a Poulenc archetype. He was adamant that the two formative poets for his song writing were Apollinaire and Eluard. But once more, these influences took their time to mature. After the tiny Apollinaire songs in Le bestiaire of 1919, Poulenc waited 12 years before setting the poet again. The writer of the Trois poèmes de Louise Lalanne was a fictitious personage, comprising Apollinaire for the middle song and his mistress, the painter Marie Laurencin, for the outer two. According to Bernac, the Apollinaire poem is pure nonsense and no attempt should be made to instil any sort of meaning into it. ‘Le présent’ clearly echoes Verlaine’s ‘Voici les fruits’, set by Debussy and Fauré, in which the most important present is the poet’s heart. But Poulenc’s version turns rather, by his own admission, to the implacable octave writing in the finale of Chopin’s B flat minor Sonata. For ‘Hier’, he thought of an interior as painted by Vuillard: it stands as one of the most sheerly beautiful of all his songs. By common consent, his Eluard cycle Tel jour telle nuit (As the day so the night), composed in 1936–7, is one of his outright masterpieces. The emotional and stylistic range of the nine songs is immense, from the hypnotic pulsing of the first and last of them, both in C major, linking day with night, to the vividly surrealist images of the fourth and eighth songs, marked respectively ‘très lent et sinistre’ and ‘presto (très violent)’. Not only cannot any of the songs be extracted from its context within the whole, but some are even designated by Poulenc as mere interludes, preparing for the song that follows. Thus the third song prepares for the fourth, the prestissimo fifth song for the almost religious purity and calm of the sixth, which barely moves from its E minor/major tonality. Poulenc was remembering ‘that life-affirming bitterness of a flower picked and chewed long ago near La Grande Chartreuse’. The cycle concludes with a coda for piano in the manner of Schumann: Poulenc mentioned the one in Dichterliebe, but perhaps an even closer comparison is with the one that ends Frauenliebe und -leben. In April 1939 Poulenc was about to re-orchestrate his ballet Les biches, the original autograph score of which had been buried in 1930 with his friend from childhood, Raymonde Linossier. Thinking of her, and of how much he used to rely on her taste and intelligence, he dedicated to her his short song Ce doux petit visage on another poem by Eluard. It is one of his many essays in lyrical nostalgia. According to his belief that a musical setting should mirror the layout of the poem, in the fourth line, following a space in Eluard’s text, the piano texture changes to Poulenc’s favourite repeated pairs of chords. Far more unusual is his repetition of the last line—we don’t know whether Eluard was consulted about this! Unusual too is the fact that the repetition is mezzo forte after the original piano. The effect is almost of Poulenc trying to force out a setting of a line that lies too deep even for music, evoking Linossier’s youth that did indeed ‘flee before life’. In the early 1950s Poulenc was mainly engaged on his opera Dialogues des Carmélites, added to which various commentators were assuring the world that the era of mélodies had now come to an end. Even so, he was thinking of setting poems from Eluard’s 1948 collection Voir, devoted to contemporary artists, and he eventually finished his cycle Le travail du peintre in August 1956. His only regret was that he had been unable, before the poet’s death in 1952, to persuade him to add a poem in praise of Matisse, as Eluard did not share Poulenc’s enthusiasm for the artist. For the most part, the songs reflect the painters’ characters: ‘Picasso’ is authoritarian, ‘Chagall’ a scherzo, ‘Braque’, according to Poulenc, ‘perhaps too tasteful’, while in ‘Gris’ he was careful to bring out the rhythmic balancing of certain phrases, mirroring the painter’s exquisite eye for composition. ‘Klee’ draws the short straw, as no more than a swift transition to ‘Miro’, marked by tempo fluctuations unusual for this composer. Finally, in ‘Villon’ Poulenc is able to indulge his love for the ‘litanies’ in Eluard’s poetry, and the cycle ends triumphantly with ‘the blood of the crowd’—blood for Eluard being a positive symbol of life and energy. The composer’s final instruction? As always, ‘be careful about the pedalling’… Roger Nichols © 2011 Other albums in this series

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A powerful new form of medical marijuana, without the high Cannabis Sativa Drawing In the cannabis plant, CBD and THC generally have an inverse relationship: The more THC there is, the less CBD, and vice versa. In recent years, growers have bred some plants to contain high levels of CBD. Some say the two compounds work synergistically and that for many ailments, combining CBD and THC is best. What makes CBD especially appealing is that it doesn’t get the user high. Most recreational marijuana users want this effect, of course, but many patients would rather avoid it. This has allowed CBD to sidestep many of the political, legal and medical concerns that have hindered the spread of medical marijuana. sec; In the past 10 years, scientists have concluded that CBD may be quite useful. Dozens of studies have found evidence that the compound can treat epilepsy as well as a range of other illnesses, including anxiety, schizophrenia, heart disease and cancer. “CBD has been a game-changer for medical marijuana,” says Martin Lee, the director of Project CBD, a Northern California nonprofit that promotes the use of the compound. “Its safety and lack of psychoactivity undermine any argument that it should be illegal. It’s really shifted the national discussion on this issue.” As more scientists recognize the compound’s potential, there has been an “explosion of research,” according to Pal Pacher, a pharmacologist, and cardiologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. He has been studying the chemical for more than a decade; his work has shown that CBD may have benefits in both heart disease and diabetes. One key area of CBD research is epilepsy. Several scientists are focusing on its potential to reduce seizures, especially among those for whom other treatments have failed. “We’ve found significant positive effects with CBD,” says New York University neurologist Orrin Devinsky, who studies the compound for severe childhood epilepsy. Credit: The Washington Post. Read More Here: This entry was posted in Uncategorized on November 9, 2017 by Jersey Shore Sun.

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Ender's Game (Hardcover) By Orson Scott Card Tor Books, 9780765338211, 380pp. Digital Audiobook (3/31/2004) Mass Market (7/15/1994) Paperback (3/4/2014) Hardcover (10/17/2017) Prebound (4/5/1996) Hardcover (8/15/1991) Paperback (10/1/2013) Hardcover (5/7/2013) Mass Market Paperback (1/1/1986) Pre-Recorded Audio Player (8/1/2012) The worldwide bestseller, "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card comes to the screen at last in a major motion picture event in November 2013. Starring Hugo's Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, and Ben Kingsley, the movie is sure to inspire a new audience of fans to read the book that started it all. Once again, Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. Among the elite recruits Ender proves himself to be a genius among geniuses. He excels in simulated war games. But is the pressure and loneliness taking its toll on Ender? Simulations are one thing. How will Ender perform in real combat conditions? After all, Battle School is just a game. Isn't it? ORSON SCOTT CARD is the author of the international bestsellers Shadow of the Giant, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Hegemon, and Ender's Shadow, and of the beloved classic of science fiction, Ender's Game, as well as the acclaimed fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. Praise For Ender's Game… “Read Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game before the big-screen adaptation, starring Harrison Ford and Hugo’s Asa Butterfield, hits theaters Nov. 1.” —Entertainment Weekly, 13 Ways to Get Ready for '13 “Superb! This is Card at the height of his very considerable powers—a major SF novel by any reasonable standard.”—Booklist “An affecting novel full of surprises. Card never makes the mistake of patronizing or sentimentalizing his hero.”—The New York Times Book Review

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Farrah Abraham Opens Up About Future Career: ‘I Look Forward To Adding A Doctorate To My Other Degrees’ Corrina Jean Say what you will about Farrah Abraham, but there is no doubt she is a hard worker. In fact, the reality show star has used her reality television fame as a stepping stone to help launch other careers. Aside from appearing on various television shows, she is also a business woman who has plans to open up her own restaurant as well as an adult entertainer who has made one film and a line of her own adult toys. Next, though, the Teen Mom OG star plans to add plastic surgeon to her resume and she is taking the next step this summer with an apprenticeship in Miami, Florida. Gossip Cop exclusively reported the news that Farrah Abraham would be studying alongside Dr. Sergio Alvarez this summer. The site spoke to him to get his perspective on Farrah jumping on board. “When Farrah comes to shadow me I think we can really address her passion and give her a chance to see first hand the changes our patients go through. Seeing surgery up and close will definitely be an eye opener!” Farrah Abraham notes that she has “experience” with plastic surgery and that isn’t a lie. She has been open about her many procedures, not all of which have been successful. She famously had botched lip implants earlier this year as previously reported by the Inquisitr. Rather than go into hiding while she dealt with the healing process, she tweeted photos of the mishap and was open about the experience in an effort to help educate others. While she has a lot of ambition, it appears that focusing on school in order to obtain her doctorate is a big goal of hers. While it won’t be easy, the Teen Mom OG star seems determined to do her best. “Like Dr. Alvarez, I hope to study aesthetic surgery and bring more health and happiness to this world through my future top clients as Dr. Alvarez has done. I look forward to adding a doctorate to my other degrees and expanding into another field. I have a lot of passion and experience with aesthetic surgery and look forward to helping men and women all over the world.” According to Farrah’s LinkedIn profile, she already has a Bachelor’s Degree in Culinary Management as well as a Bachelor’s in Accounting and Auditing. She has obviously used both of these degrees to her advantage as well as to catapult her endeavors. While it will take many more years to earn her doctorate, it looks like the reality show star is determined to do so. Farrah Abraham is currently back on MTV, appearing on an all-new season of Teen Mom, which airs Monday nights. [Image: via Instagram]

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The Myth of the Kindly General Lee: fiction of a person who never existed. Thread: The Myth of the Kindly General Lee: fiction of a person who never existed. 07-20-2019, 12:02 PM #1 | Top Groans Groaned 261 Times in 257 Posts The Myth of the Kindly General Lee The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed. The Atlantic |Adam Serwer The strangest part about the continued personality cult of Robert E. Lee is how few of the qualities his admirers profess to see in him he actually possessed. Memorial Day has the tendency to conjure up old arguments about the Civil War. That’s understandable; it was created to mourn the dead of a war in which the Union was nearly destroyed, when half the country rose up in rebellion in defense of slavery. In 2017, the removal of Lee’s statue in New Orleans has inspired a new round of commentary about Lee, not to mention protests on his behalf by white supremacists. The myth of Lee goes something like this: He was a brilliant strategist and devoted Christian man who abhorred slavery and labored tirelessly after the war to bring the country back together. There is little truth in this. Lee was a devout Christian, and historians regard him as an accomplished tactician. But despite his ability to win individual battles, his decision to fight a conventional war against the more densely populated and industrialized North is considered by many historians to have been a fatal strategic error. But even if one conceded Lee’s military prowess, he would still be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans in defense of the South’s authority to own millions of human beings as property because they are black. Lee’s elevation is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery as the cause of the war and whitewash the Confederate cause as a noble one. That ideology is known as the Lost Cause, and as historian David Blight writes, it provided a “foundation on which Southerners built the Jim Crow system.” There are unwitting victims of this campaign—those who lack the knowledge to separate history from sentiment. Then there are those whose reverence for Lee relies on replacing the actual Lee with a mythical figure who never truly existed. In the Richmond Times Dispatch, R. David Cox wrote that “For white supremacist protesters to invoke his name violates Lee’s most fundamental convictions.” In the conservative publication Townhall, Jack Kerwick concluded that Lee was “among the finest human beings that has ever walked the Earth.” John Daniel Davidson, in an essay for The Federalist, opposed the removal of the Lee statute in part on the grounds that Lee “arguably did more than anyone to unite the country after the war and bind up its wounds.” Praise for Lee of this sort has flowed forth from past historians and presidents alike. This is too divorced from Lee’s actual life to even be classed as fan fiction; it is simply historical illiteracy. White supremacy does not “violate” Lee’s “most fundamental convictions.” White supremacy was one of Lee’s most fundamental convictions. Lee was a slaveowner—his own views on slavery were explicated in an 1856 letter that it often misquoted to give the impression that Lee was some kind of an abolitionist. In the letter, he describes slavery as “a moral & political evil,” but goes on to explain that: I think it however a greater evil to the white man than to the black race, & while my feelings are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are more strong for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially & physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction as a race, & I hope will prepare & lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is known & ordered by a wise Merciful Providence. Their emancipation will sooner result from the mild & melting influence of Christianity, than the storms & tempests of fiery Controversy. The argument here is that slavery is bad for white people, good for black people, and most importantly, it is better than abolitionism; emancipation must wait for divine intervention. That black people might not want to be slaves does not enter into the equation; their opinion on the subject of their own bondage is not even an afterthought to Lee. Lee’s cruelty as a slavemaster was not confined to physical punishment. In Reading the Man, the historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor’s portrait of Lee through his writings, Pryor writes that “Lee ruptured the Washington and Custis tradition of respecting slave families,” by hiring them off to other plantations, and that “by 1860 he had broken up every family but one on the estate, some of whom had been together since Mount Vernon days.” The separation of slave families was one of the most unfathomably devastating aspects of slavery, and Pryor wrote that Lee’s slaves regarded him as “the worst man I ever see.” The trauma of rupturing families lasted lifetimes for the enslaved—it was, as my colleague Ta-Nehisi Coates described it, “a kind of murder.” After the war, thousands of the emancipated searched desperately for kin lost to the market for human flesh, fruitlessly for most. In Reconstruction, the historian Eric Foner quotes a Freedmen’s Bureau agent who notes of the emancipated, “in their eyes, the work of emancipation was incomplete until the families which had been dispersed by slavery were reunited.” Lee’s heavy hand on the Arlington plantation, Pryor writes, nearly led to a slave revolt, in part because the enslaved had been expected to be freed upon their previous master’s death, and Lee had engaged in a dubious legal interpretation of his will in order to keep them as his property, one that lasted until a Virginia court forced him to free them. When two of his slaves escaped and were recaptured, Lee either beat them himself or ordered the overseer to "lay it on well." Wesley Norris, one of the slaves who was whipped, recalled that “not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.” Every state that seceded mentioned slavery as the cause in their declarations of secession. Lee’s beloved Virginia was no different, accusing the federal government of “perverting” its powers “not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern Slaveholding States.” Lee’s decision to fight for the South can only be described as a choice to fight for the continued existence of human bondage in America—even though for the Union, it was not at first a war for emancipation. During his invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia enslaved free blacks and brought them back to the South as property. Pryor writes that “evidence links virtually every infantry and cavalry unit in Lee’s army” with the abduction of free black Americans, “with the activity under the supervision of senior officers.” Soldiers under Lee’s command at the Battle of the Crater in 1864 massacred black Union soldiers who tried to surrender. Then, in a spectacle hatched by Lee’s senior corps commander A.P. Hill, the Confederates paraded the Union survivors through the streets of Petersburg to the slurs and jeers of the southern crowd. Lee never discouraged such behavior. As the historian Richard Slotkin wrote in No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, “his silence was permissive.” The presence of black soldiers on the field of battle shattered every myth the South’s slave empire was built on: the happy docility of slaves, their intellectual inferiority, their cowardice, their inability to compete with whites. As Pryor writes, “fighting against brave and competent African Americans challenged every underlying tenet of southern society.” The Confederate response to this challenge was to visit every possible atrocity and cruelty upon black soldiers whenever possible, from enslavement to execution. As the historian James McPherson recounts in Battle Cry of Freedom, in October of that same year, Lee proposed an exchange of prisoners with the Union general Ulysses S. Grant. “Grant agreed, on condition that blacks be exchanged ‘the same as white soldiers.’” Lee’s response was that “negroes belonging to our citizens are not considered subjects of exchange and were not included in my proposition.” Because slavery was the cause for which Lee fought, he could hardly be expected to easily concede, even at the cost of the freedom of his own men, that blacks could be treated as soldiers and not things. Grant refused the offer, telling Lee that “Government is bound to secure to all persons received into her armies the rights due to soldiers.” Despite its desperate need for soldiers, the Confederacy did not relent from this position until a few months before Lee’s surrender. After the war, Lee did counsel defeated southerners against rising up against the North. Lee might have become a rebel once more, and urged the South to resume fighting—as many of his former comrades wanted him to. But even in this task Grant, in 1866, regarded his former rival as falling short, saying that Lee was “setting an example of forced acquiescence so grudging and pernicious in its effects as to be hardly realized.” Nor did Lee’s defeat lead to an embrace of racial egalitarianism. The war was not about slavery, Lee insisted later, but if it was about slavery, it was only out of Christian devotion that white southerners fought to keep blacks enslaved. Lee told a New York Herald reporter, in the midst of arguing in favor of somehow removing blacks from the South (“disposed of,” in his words), “that unless some humane course is adopted, based on wisdom and Christian principles you do a gross wrong and injustice to the whole negro race in setting them free. And it is only this consideration that has led the wisdom, intelligence and Christianity of the South to support and defend the institution up to this time.” Lee had beaten or ordered his own slaves to be beaten for the crime of wanting to be free, he fought for the preservation of slavery, his army kidnapped free blacks at gunpoint and made them unfree—but all of this, he insisted, had occurred only because of the great Christian love the South held for blacks. Here we truly understand Frederick Douglass’s admonition that "between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference." Privately, according to the correspondence collected by his own family, Lee counseled others to hire white labor instead of the freedmen, observing “that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find a white man, you see everything around him improving.” In another letter, Lee wrote “You will never prosper with blacks, and it is abhorrent to a reflecting mind to be supporting and cherishing those who are plotting and working for your injury, and all of whose sympathies and associations are antagonistic to yours. I wish them no evil in the world—on the contrary, will do them every good in my power, and know that they are misled by those to whom they have given their confidence; but our material, social, and political interests are naturally with the whites.” Publicly, Lee argued against the enfranchisement of blacks, and raged against Republican efforts to enforce racial equality on the South. Lee told Congress that blacks lacked the intellectual capacity of whites and “could not vote intelligently,” and that granting them suffrage would “excite unfriendly feelings between the two races.” Lee explained that “the negroes have neither the intelligence nor the other qualifications which are necessary to make them safe depositories of political power.” To the extent that Lee believed in reconciliation, it was between white people, and only on the precondition that black people would be denied political power and therefore the ability to shape their own fate. Lee is not remembered as an educator, but his life as president of Washington College (later Washington and Lee) is tainted as well. According to Pryor, students at Washington formed their own chapter of the KKK, and were known by the local Freedmen’s Bureau to attempt to abduct and rape black schoolgirls from the nearby black schools. There were at least two attempted lynchings by Washington students during Lee’s tenure, and Pryor writes that “the number of accusations against Washington College boys indicates that he either punished the racial harassment more laxly than other misdemeanors, or turned a blind eye to it,” adding that he “did not exercise the near imperial control he had at the school, as he did for more trivial matters, such as when the boys threatened to take unofficial Christmas holidays.” In short, Lee was as indifferent to crimes of violence toward blacks carried out by his students as he was when they were carried out by his soldiers. Lee died in 1870, as Democrats and ex-Confederates were commencing a wave of terrorist violence that would ultimately reimpose their domination over the Southern states. The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866; there is no evidence Lee ever spoke up against it. On the contrary, he darkly intimated in his interview with the Herald that the South might be moved to violence again if peace did not proceed on its terms. That was prescient. Lee is a pivotal figure in American history worthy of study. Neither the man who really existed, nor the fictionalized tragic hero of the Lost Cause, are heroes worthy of a statue in a place of honor. As one Union veteran angrily put it in 1903 when Pennsylvania was considering placing a statute to Lee at Gettysburg, “If you want historical accuracy as your excuse, then place upon this field a statue of Lee holding in his hand the banner under which he fought, bearing the legend: ‘We wage this war against a government conceived in liberty and dedicated to humanity.’” The most fitting monument to Lee is the national military cemetery the federal government placed on the grounds of his former home in Arlington. To describe this man as an American hero requires ignoring the immense suffering for which he was personally responsible, both on and off the battlefield. It requires ignoring his participation in the industry of human bondage, his betrayal of his country in defense of that institution, the battlefields scattered with the lifeless bodies of men who followed his orders and those they killed, his hostility toward the rights of the freedmen and his indifference to his own students waging a campaign of terror against the newly emancipated. It requires reducing the sum of human virtue to a sense of decorum and the ability to convey gravitas in a gray uniform. There are former Confederates who sought to redeem themselves—one thinks of James Longstreet, wrongly blamed by Lost Causers for Lee’s disastrous defeat at Gettysburg, who went from fighting the Union army to leading New Orleans’s integrated police force in battle against white supremacist paramilitaries. But there are no statues of Longstreet in New Orleans.* Lee was devoted to defending the principle of white supremacy; Longstreet was not. This, perhaps, is why Lee was placed atop the largest Confederate monument at Gettysburg in 1917, but the 6-foot-2-inch Longstreet had to wait until 1998 to receive a smaller-scale statue hidden in the woods that makes him look like a hobbit riding a donkey. It’s why Lee is remembered as a hero, and Longstreet is remembered as a disgrace. The white supremacists who have protested on Lee’s behalf are not betraying his legacy. In fact, they have every reason to admire him. Lee, whose devotion to white supremacy outshone his loyalty to his country, is the embodiment of everything they stand for. Tribe and race over country is the core of white nationalism, and racists can embrace Lee in good conscience. The question is why anyone else would. * This article originally stated that there are no statues of Longstreet in the American South; in fact, there is one in his hometown of Gainesville, Georgia. We regret the error. "Corporate America today is the lobbying arm of the Chinese Communist Party and Wall Street is the investor relations department," Steve Bannon. "Tell the truth, I think, for a change," Carter told MSNBC when asked what advice he would give Trump. Do Si Dos - JPP Contributor JPP Staff Groaned 1,455 Times in 1,305 Posts yeah cool. nobody likes lee. or at least most don't and shouldn't. this is sort of like preaching to the vast majority of a choir. Grind is one of the internets most beloved and influential political thinkers and deep-level theorists in the modern era. He rose to prominence in early 2015 when he alleged, contrary to the dominant theory of christiefanism of the time, that Bill Clintons wife was indeed running for president and wasn't considering settling down to be a grandmother. In 2016, Grind was one of the key figures in proposing the new revolutionary theory of "30% is not a rare occurrence" which shook up the JPP political landscape like no other theory ever had before. His academic prowess, deep-level analysis and remarkable insight into human nature and psychology will undoubtedly result in further complexities being untangled and laid bare. He currently resides in boston, his hobbies include #rekking libs, vaping, and patriotism. You can find him in a thread near you. Testimonials about my patented system: Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople Grind is basically right Originally Posted by Phantasmal Grind’s got you beat by miles. He is very intelligent. Tru Dat, but I did find it interesting & thought some others might-good read!! 07-21-2019, 12:21 AM #4 | Top Originally Posted by Bill no prob. thanks for sharing. The Following User Says Thank You to Do Si Dos For This Post: Bill (07-21-2019) Sweet Jane Great article. I’ve written several threads on Lost Cause Mythologies and in particular how they denigrated the career of the greatest General by far of the Civil War era, Grant, with out right lies in order to deify Lee. You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic! The Following User Says Thank You to Mott the Hoople For This Post: Originally Posted by . If that’s true then why do so many people still believe in these Lost Cause Mythologies? Have you posted them here?? I would like to check them out, thanks.. Yes I have but you’ll have to search to find them. thnx, I'll look around when I get a chance.. 07-22-2019, 05:38 AM #10 | Top CAGW Alarmist Arsekicker You might want to explain how he became known as Butcher Grant. In rejecting their view [Spinoza, Leibnitz and Hegel], as I shall contend that we must, we are committing ourselves to the opinion that “truth” in empirical material has a meaning different from that which it bears in logic and mathematics.” Bertrand Russell, “An Inquiry Into Meaning & Truth” (1940) Originally Posted by Havana Moon Post Civil War propaganda by Southern “Lost Cause” writers (I won’t give them the dignity of calling them historians). In fact Grant Lost significantly fewer men as casualties than Lee did. He was also the invader and invading armies are expected to have higher casualties than the defenders but Grant didn’t. He took fewer casualties than his defending opponents. 07-22-2019, 03:00 PM #12 | Top Interesting, I had heard the same as Havana Moon........ Miss Margot Frank Lee was a good man,that made one huge mistake in life,he turned against his country. To fight for his State,for the worse possible cause. The best thing that could have happened to Lee. 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Keith Kanady Compass Real Estate Cambrian Park is a neighborhood in West San Jose, a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the more affordable, high-value areas in Silicon Valley which is centrally located adjacent to Campbell, Los Gatos, Almaden Valley, Blossom Valley and Willow Glen. It has plenty of shopping, parks and Good Samaritan Hospital as well as easy access to all transportation. San Jose State University, Santa Clara University, and Stanford University, are also close by. University of California, Berkeley, University of California, San Francisco, and University of California, Santa Cruz are also conveniently accessible. Cambrian Properties Find a Home in Cambrian Almaden Valley, New Almaden Aptos, Rio Del Mar, Seascape, Seacliff Los Altos, Los Altos Hills Los Gatos Mountains, Santa Cruz Mountains Monte Sereno, Downtown Los Gatos Mount Hermon, Mt. Hermon Redwood Estates, Holy City San Jose Downtown, Japantown San Jose South © 2020 MLSListings Inc. All rights reserved. Updated Jan 20, 2020 6:42:am. Information deemed to be reliable but not guaranteed. The data relating to real estate for sale on this website comes in part from the Internet Data Exchange Program of the MLSListingsTM MLS. Real estate listings held by brokerage firms other than the operator of this website are marked with the IDX icon . The information being provided is for consumer's personal, non-commercial use and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties consumers may be interested in purchasing. Compass Real Estate 16268 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gatos, CA 95032 O: (408) 883-0588 Keith Kanady and the Kanady Team selling Real Estate in the San Jose area for over 30 years. A Compass Real Estate Broker Associate © 2020 Compass Real Estate Terms of Use Privacy Policy Fair Housing Site Map Admin Login

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Where the city changes its name (2006) Catalog introduction: Efímeros Where the City Changes its Name was the title of a famous novel by the Valencian author Paco Candel, resident in Barcelona, who was very popular a few decades ago. In the novel, with its typical social point of view, Candel described how life on the edge of the city played out for new arrivals from the countryside or those pushed out of the city centres by economic pressures, at the halfway point between two worlds, the rural and the suburban, with little hope of improvement. The novel sprang to mind as I looked at the photographs of Jose Guerrero, a young photographer from Granada, who also directs his gaze at the same subject, though Guerrero does so more from an aesthetic perspective. Unlike Candel's work whose style is determined by a moment in history (Barcelona in the 1950s) which in turn dictates its ideology, the aesthetic qualities come before everything else in Guerrero's photographs and, nevertheless, allow a certain critical vision to emerge. Because looking at those landscapes, those scattered or abandoned objects, those broken buildings, in ruins or only half-built, that surround our cities separating them from the open countryside, besides the aesthetic emotion that his composition and use of light produce, lies the same sense of unease and discomfort that the descriptions in Candel's novel produced. So unease and discomfort are the first two reactions, beyond their artistic value, that Jose Guerrero’s photographs provoke. A discomfort that comes as much from what they represent conceptually as from the temporary character of these landscapes that contrasts with a wider inertia. And the thing is, that while landscapes as a concept are per se somewhat untouchable (particularly when they are 'eternalised' in a photographic image), the landscapes in these photographs suggest the exact opposite: the fleetingness of the world, the temporary nature of everything, the permanent movement of our lives and of the cities and places that we inhabit. Because if there’s one thing that characterises our cities, beyond their concrete lay-out or their urban and social characteristics, it’s the temporary nature of their boundaries, their very lack of boundaries you could almost say. And the thing is, as it creates its boundaries the city goes beyond and absorbs them, establishing new ones which it in turn goes on to absorb. And thus indefinitely, as if we were dealing with a tumour or that idea my fellow countryman Antonio Pereira came up with in one of his stories of the infinite: that can of condensed milk that shows on its label a picture of a boy holding between his hands the same can of condensed milk that shows on its label a picture of a boy holding between his hands the same can of condensed milk, etc. So it turns out that regardless of whether you use a magnifying glass or long-range telescope to find it, this is infinity: that which never ends. Just like the present, which turns into the past in the same instant it materialises, the boundaries of cities cease to be boundaries at the very moment they are created. This is their nature and condition. Because cities, like people, never stop changing, unlike countries or laws, that can remain unchanging for years, even centuries and millenniums. So, if change is the very nature of the city, if its actual condition forces it to keep growing and changing continuously (or to diminish in some cases), its boundaries and borders are unlikely to be defined, however much one might want them to be. Fleetingness overlaid on fleetingness is, then, the raw material with which Jose Guerrero works, at least in this collection. The fleetingness of time, which is the ultimate goal of photography (for what is photography but the weak human's superhuman attempt to freeze time, tormented as he is by its fleetingness?), is superimposed in this work on buildings and landscapes that practically disappear before the lens. Those derelict buildings, plots that are empty or filled with dead objects, those grey perspectives that threaten the cranes, and roads everywhere that serve only to underline the fleetingness of all things and the temporary nature of a world which disappears as it changes and does so at full speed. The false inertia of these images and the dubious eternal status that Jose Guerrero grants them as he freezes the moment in these pictures are, like all other photographs, nothing more than a fragile mirage that is proved here to be all the more false each time the inconsistent nature of the subject matter comes into view. Panta rei states the author, citing Heracles and with the faith that both are right, as was Paco Candel when he spoke of the city that lost its name, although Candel did so for other reasons. And, now, to conclude, why not quote, within sight of these photographs of the young Jose Guerrero, the concept that the philosopher Eugenio Trias developed in an essay (The beautiful and the sinister, Editorial Seix Barral) from two ideas from two German Romantics: "Beauty's nothing but the start of terror which we are barely able to endure" (Rilke) and "The uncanny is something which ought to have remained hidden but which is brought to light" (Schelling).

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About the Ministry > Learn about the justice system > Explore the criminal justice system > 1. Kim will be seriously injured, and Lisa will be killed, along with the driver of another car. Oliver will break his leg. 2. The Officer in Charge of the case visits Oliver at home and arrests him for manslaughter and reckless driving causing injury. 3. Oliver is taken to the police station and is interviewed by the police. He is formally charged with two charges of manslaughter and one charge of reckless driving causing injury. He is fingerprinted, photographed, and placed in a police cell by himself to wait for his court appearance the next day. 4. Oliver pleads not guilty. He will face a jury in the High Court. Oliver is granted bail under strict conditions, including not being allowed to drive. 5. Two days later, Oliver is caught driving. The police arrest him for breaching his bail. Oliver is remanded in custody in prison until his next court appearance. 6. Oliver's lawyer prepares his defence in consultation with Oliver and any defence witnesses to be called. The Crown counsel arranges for witnesses to give evidence at the trial. 7. The trial will take five days. Once all the evidence is presented, the Judge sums up and the jury decides if Oliver is guilty or innocent. Oliver is found guilty. 8. Three weeks later, Oliver is sentenced to prison for three years. In prison, Oliver is given a sentence plan that focuses on giving him opportunities to break the cycle of reoffending. 9. Oliver becomes eligible for parole after serving one-third of his sentence. Certain conditions are set down as part of his parole. If he breaches these, he can be sent back to prison.

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House Republicans unanimously oppose ranked-choice voting The House Republican Caucus unanimously opposed HB 210 HD1 which would implement ranked-choice voting for all partisan primary elections, special elections, and nonpartisan general elections held in the State of Hawaii. Here's what some of the members had to say about the bill: "In races throughout the decades, Republican candidates can receive a small number of votes in the Republican primary ballot but win by strong majorities in the general," Representative Cynthia Thiel... Friday, March 1st 2019, 9:18 PM HST by KITV Web Staff The House Republican Caucus unanimously opposed HB 210 HD1 which would implement ranked-choice voting for all partisan primary elections, special elections, and nonpartisan general elections held in the State of Hawaii. Here's what some of the members had to say about the bill: "In races throughout the decades, Republican candidates can receive a small number of votes in the Republican primary ballot but win by strong majorities in the general," Representative Cynthia Thielen said. "This bill would prevent voters from making that choice in the November elections." "Ranked-choice voting is not the solution to encourage more people to vote," Representative Val Okimoto said. "The concept of ranked-choice voting has confused everyone from legislators to staff members at the Office of Elections," Representative Gene Ward said. "If public officials can't understand it, how are we supposed to expect our constituents to? On top of that, under this system, there would be no Congressman Charles Djou. "According to the Office of Elections' testimony, this system would apply in limited circumstances and cost approximately $585,200," Representative Lauren Matsumoto said. "Our taxpayers' money should work towards making government more efficient, not less." "We should be creating opportunities to increase voter engagement in Hawaii," Representative Bob McDermott said. "Ranked-choice voting may deter many of the folks we're trying to reach from registering." Ranked-choice voting is a method of voting that would let each voter choose their first, second, and third candidate in a contested election. The candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated. First-preference votes to the failed candidate will then be eliminated, directing their second-choice votes to the respective candidate. The process continues until one candidate receives a majority.

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ABC to celebrate 90 years of Mickey Mouse LOS ANGELES (AP) – Mickey Mouse is getting the full star treatment as the iconic character turns 90 this year. ABC on Tuesday announced "Mickey’s 90th Spectacular," a two-hour prime-time special, will air on Nov. 4. The program will feature tributes and never-before-seen short films of The Walt Disney Company’s global ambassador, who made his film debut in "Steamboat Willie" on Nov. 18, 1928. The list of performers participating in the celebration will be released at a later date. Don Mischer will produce and direct the celebration, which will take place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Mischer says Walt Disney inspired him to pursue his life’s work in television.

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Federal laws at heart of West’s anger up for debate, as Liberals begin outreach Vancouver mayor to Trudeau’s western critics: ‘Get over yourselves’ Nov. 21, 2019 12:20 p.m. (The Canadian Press) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quickly backed up his pledge for more dialogue with the West, opening his Thursday meeting with Calgary’s mayor up to the two members of his government now entrusted with being ambassadors to the region. Manitoba MP Jim Carr, who was named Wednesday as Trudeau’s special representative for the Prairies, and Chrystia Freeland, now deputy prime minister and minister of intergovernmental affairs, both sat in on the latest of Trudeau’s meetings with provincial and municipal officials from Western Canada in the wake of last month’s election. The Liberals lost all their seats in Saskatchewan and Alberta in October. They also dropped three seats in Manitoba. Carr, who was previously the minister for trade diversification, was also to attend Thursday’s first cabinet meeting, before embarking on his new task from Trudeau: making sure voices from the Prairies are heard in the capital. “The message is we have to do a better job listening, communicating, sharing and developing a set of regional policies that fit into the strength of our federation and the objective is that there be a strong Western Canada in a united Canada and I think that’s my mandate,” Carr said. One existing policy, however, is at the heart of much of the west’s anger: Bill C-69. It’s a contentious pieces of legislation overhauling the environmental assessment of major projects, which critics argue will further strangle natural resources development in red tape. READ MORE: B.C. oil tanker ban squeaks through final vote in Senate Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said the group had a blunt conversation about the bill, but Trudeau did not promise anything specific. “(Trudeau) said that he is interested in improving the system, and improving C-69,” he said. “That means that I will continue to be a thorn in his side to make sure this thing works better.” Nenshi’s discussions with Trudeau on the bill followed a meeting the prime minister had last week with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, where Trudeau first signalled his willingness to address the legislation. But while Nenshi, and others, would like to see it amended, that’s unlikely. The Liberals intend to try and tackle proposed changes via regulation and how the bill’s provisions are eventually implemented. While Carr and Freeland will bear responsibility for collecting and forwarding feedback from the West, primary responsibility for the legislation falls to the new environment minister, Jonathan Wilkinson. He took over the portfolio in Wednesday’s shuffle. He said the meat of the law is policies and regulation. “We’ve always said we’re open to conversations with stakeholders across the country as to how that’s going to be done in the most effective way,” he said. “That’s not a change.” Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart also met with Trudeau on Thursday morning, but he said there was no talk of western alienation. Instead, Stewart said the two spoke about ways federal programs and funding could help Vancouver with the opioid crisis, affordable housing and transit issues. He said other western leaders issuing tough talking points to the Trudeau Liberals should realize that they’re going to have to co-operate. “Get over yourselves, get down to work, help your residents, get stuff built,” he said. Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press Teen developed ‘popcorn lung’ due to vaping: Ontario doctors Kelowna businesses fleeing Leon Avenue due to tent city

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News, Events & Presentations Financial Information & SEC Filings Quarterly Earnings and Supplementals IR Resources Online Investor Toolkit Ross Crowe Open contact form Agent License Number CalBRE #01088551 National Director of Operations Ross Crowe is a 34-year real estate veteran, a leading Western Region real estate Court Appointed Receiver, broker and executive level asset manager. Ross provides fund, institutional, banking CRE, special assets and REO real estate investment and advisory services to the company’s most sophisticated clients both public and private. Since, 2001, Ross has served as a Court Appointed Receiver for various California, Nevada, Arizona and Texas courts on behalf of lending institutions, and is known as one of California’s top expert witnesses in the field of investment and commercial real estate. While at Kennedy Wilson, Ross has provided extensive support to the company fund entities with a focus on risk management and operational issues. Ross re-joined Kennedy Wilson, in partnership with CRC Impresa, LLC, on receiverships. He has previously served as a Senior Managing Director of Kennedy Wilson for a decade as well as two tenures at Grubb & Ellis Company, where he was a senior vice president of asset management overseeing a Texas and Mid-western portfolio valued at approximately $2 billion, consisting of 28 Class A and B assets, and a prior role as Vice President, Western Region Director focusing on redevelopments and company growth initiatives. Ross has successfully directed or completed transactions valued in excess of $1 billion over his long career consisting of nearly 600 transactions. Prior senior rolls at CBRE and Cadillac Fairview in Class A high-rise management and development services provided a strong grounding in the brick-and-mortar aspects of the commercial investment business. Award winning projects include: Figueroa Courtyard, 6500 Wilshire, The Tower Burbank, The Television Academy, Pacific Corporate Towers and Rincon Center on the West Coast. Redevelopment of 816 Congress, Chase Tower and The Avallon in Austin. Momentum Place and 1700 Pacific in Dallas. Redevelopment of Wells Fargo Center in Portland. The Park, Houston Center, Two Houston Center and the Four Seasons Hotel developments plus some 10 BOMA TOBY awards to his credit indicate a deep experience in investment grade real estate services. Institute of Real Estate Management Greater Los Angeles, former President Building Owners and Managers Association Los Angeles, Board Member California Receivers Forum Special Assets Management Association International Council of Shopping Centers Palm Springs Board of Realtors Crowe earned a bachelor’s degree from Stephen F. Austin State University and a Post Graduate Diploma from Georgetown University’s prestigious Institute of Comparative Political and Economic Systems (ICPES) in Washington DC, under full academic scholarship from The Edison Foundation. Contact Ross Crowe Kennedy Wilson 151 S. El Camino Dr. Auction & Sales KWE Tenant Privacy Notice © 2020 Kennedy Wilson

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Greater Manchester asked to adopt ‘Charter for families bereaved though public tragedy’ as Kerslake Arena Review progress report is published An independent review panel looking at the response to the Manchester Arena Attack is asking Greater Manchester to sign up to a ‘Charter for families bereaved through public tragedy’. The panel – chaired by Lord Bob Kerslake – has today (Friday, January 12) published a progress report outlining the work carried out so far and recommending that all public bodies adopt the charter that was inspired by the Hillsborough families and proposed by The Right Reverend James Jones KBE in his recently published report. The charter asks organisations to commit to learning lessons from Hillsborough and its aftermath to ensure the perspective of bereaved families isn’t lost in any future public tragedies. Lord Bob Kerslake, who is chairing the Manchester Arena Attack review, said: “Since the arena review got underway in September 2017, we have strived to put the bereaved families, the seriously injured and all those affected by the attack at the heart of the review and ensure their voices are heard by involving them in every step of the process and exploring events from their perspective. “The panel wants to ensure that the ethos of putting families first isn’t lost following this tragedy or in the future, that’s why we are recommending Greater Manchester adopts the ‘Charter for families bereaved through public tragedy’ that was introduced as part of the Right Reverend Jones’ report. “Throughout the review we have given everyone the chance to have their say and share their experiences of that dreadful night and the days that followed – good or bad – so we can look at what worked well and learn any lessons for the future. I’m grateful to everyone who has contributed and come forward with their views and experiences of what was undoubtedly an extremely traumatic event.” The review was commissioned by the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham following the terror attack at the Manchester Arena on May 22, 2017, which killed 22 people and injured hundreds more. Lord Kerslake, supported by a panel of experts, was asked to assess Greater Manchester’s preparedness for the attack, explore the response of the different agencies and emergency services, identify good practice, and look at any opportunities to strengthen future response to terror attacks. In October 2017, a six-week engagement window opened which invited anyone caught up in the attack to come forward with their views and experiences. Children’s charity the NSPCC facilitated public contributions via a dedicated phone line commissioned by the review, and also offered support to children affected by the attack. The window for contributions was extended for a further two weeks until November 24 to allow as many people as possible to have their say. In total more than 170 people participated in the review via the NSPCC including many young people who were at the Ariana Grande concert on the night of the attack. The panel has also spoken to members of all the emergency services at all levels and the other agencies involved in the incident and its aftermath. Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said: “When I commissioned this review I wanted first and foremost to make sure that the families of those killed and the seriously injured were at the heart of the process and as the progress report outlines, the panel have worked hard to give everyone the opportunity to have their voices heard in the most appropriate way – whether that be via face-to-face meetings or by sending their written accounts. “I have had the opportunity myself to meet many of the families who lost loved ones and many of the injured and what they have said is that they want the final report to be honest in telling the story of what happened that night. Therefore I am reaffirming my commitment today to support Lord Kerslake in making sure the report is open and transparent. “I have worked with families bereaved through public tragedy before and often what compounds their distress is a failure to get to the truth and I am determined that doesn’t happen here. That is why I am calling on all public bodies in Greater Manchester to provide their fullest cooperation to Lord Kerslake and the panel as it completes its review, and I would encourage every public body in the city region to sign up to the charter as proposed by the panel today.” Lord Kerslake added: “The panel and I would like to pay tribute to everyone who responded on the night of the attack and in the days and weeks that followed, and pay our respects to those who lost their lives, lost loved ones or those whose lives changed forever either physically or psychologically.” Read the full Progress Report here Anyone affected by the Manchester Arena Attack can visit a dedicated website for advice, information and support https://manchesterattacksupport.org.uk/ The ‘Charter for families bereaved through public tragedy’ is taken from the Right Reverend James Jones KBE report entitled “‘The patronising disposition of unaccountable power’ A report to ensure the pain and suffering of the Hillsborough families is not repeated”, dated November 1, 2017. Please see below a copy of the charter: Charter for Families Bereaved through Public Tragedy In adopting this charter I commit to ensuring that [this public body] learns the lessons of the Hillsborough disaster and its aftermath, so that the perspective of the bereaved families is not lost. I commit to [this public body] becoming an organisation which strives to: 1) In the event of a public tragedy, activate its emergency plan and deploy its resources to rescue victims, to support the bereaved and to protect the vulnerable. 2) Place the public interest above our own reputation. 3) Approach forms of public scrutiny – including public inquiries and inquests – with candour, in an open, honest and transparent way, making full disclosure of relevant documents, material and facts. Our objective is to assist the search for the truth. We accept that we should learn from the findings of external scrutiny and from past mistakes. 4) Avoid seeking to defend the indefensible or to dismiss or disparage those who may have suffered where we have fallen short. 5) Ensure all members of staff treat members of the public and each other with mutual respect and with courtesy. Where we fall short, we should apologise straightforwardly and genuinely. 6) Recognise that we are accountable and open to challenge. We will ensure that processes are in place to allow the public to hold us to account for the work we do and for the way in which we do it. We do not knowingly mislead the public or the media.

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Kessler & Solomiany, LLC > News > Inside the Child-Support Battles Inside the Child-Support Battles By Mike Tierney ATLANTA – Randy Kessler’s family-law practice in Atlanta draws male celebrities as well as women in disputes with stars, which offers him a rounded perspective. One of his clients is the former N.F.L. player Travis Henry, who has nine children, each by a different mother. Kessler also represents the mother of one of several out-of-wedlock children fathered by the boxer Evander Holyfield, who has been married three times and has 11 children. Another client is one of the eight mothers of the 10 or 11 children by the former N.B.A. player Jason Caffey. The exact number of children is under contention. Caffey declared bankruptcy after drifting more than $100,000 behind on payments. “Players and others often fall into this hole because they do not believe their exes will ever come after them,” Kessler said. “Or they are so used to their own fame, they cannot believe a judge or anyone would criticize them or hold them to the same standards as average people. “They are usually surrounded by yes men who will not tell them what they do not want to hear, like they are being a bad father.” With Nine Mouths to Feed, Travis Henry Says He’s Broke ATLANTA – Travis Henry was rattling off his children’s ages, which range from 3 to 11. He paused and took a breath before finishing. This was no simple task. Henry, 30, a former N.F.L. running back who played for three teams from 2001 to 2007, has nine children — each by a different mother, some born as closely as a few months apart. Reports of Henry’s prolific procreating, generated by child-support disputes, have highlighted how futile the N.F.L.’s attempts can be at educating its players about making wise choices. The disputes have even eclipsed the attention he received after he was indicted on charges of cocaine trafficking. “They’ve got my blood; I’ve got to deal with it,” Henry said of fiscal responsibilities to his children. He spoke by telephone from his Denver residence, where he was under house arrest until recently for the drug matter. Henry had just returned from Atlanta, where a judge showed little sympathy for his predicament during a hearing and declined to lower monthly payments from $3,000 for a 4-year-old son. Three days after the telephone interview, he was jailed for falling $16,600 behind on support for a youngster in Frostproof, Fla., his hometown. “I love all my kids,” he said in the interview, but asserted he could not afford the designated amounts, estimated at $170,000 a year by Randy Kessler, his Atlanta lawyer. Kessler said Henry was virtually broke. “I’ve lost everything in this mess I’ve gotten myself into,” Henry said. His eldest child was conceived while Henry was in high school, before he was named Mr. Florida Football and a Parade All-American. The child was unplanned as were all but one of his offspring, he said. “I’m like, ‘Whoa, I’m going to be a dad,’ ” Henry recalled. He was wed, at 19, to another of the nine mothers, who was six years older. Henry’s mother, who picked oranges for a living, disapproved. “She was going crazy over it,” Henry said. He added that he filed for annulment within a year “for her.” Two relationships while he attended the University of Tennessee produced two more children. Attending the annual N.F.L. rookie symposium as a 2001 draft pick of the Buffalo Bills, Henry watched a skit that dramatized the repercussions of imprudent sexual activity. It might as well have been geared toward him. Henry laughed through the sketch. “I thought, ‘That ain’t ever going to happen to me,’ ” he said. But it had, and it was just beginning. Henry maintained that he was involved long-term with many of the mothers. Some, he said, told him they were using birth control, and he professed surprise at discovering they became pregnant by him. “I did use protection at first,” he said. “Then they’d be saying they’d be on the pill. I was an idiot to trust them. Second or third time with them, I didn’t use it. Then, boom!” In four instances, he attested, “I was trapped.” If not for his football cachet and accompanying wealth, “I guarantee you that wouldn’t have happened.” “My counselor asks me, ‘How can you do the same thing over and over?’ ” he said, unable to provide an answer. “Knock on wood, or something, I’m blessed not to have AIDS. That never crossed my mind.” Henry declined to discuss aspects of his drug case. He was arrested last fall in Colorado with another man and has pleaded not guilty to charges that could net him 10 years to life in prison if convicted. The arraignment is scheduled for next month. At the latest child-support hearing in Atlanta, Henry testified vaguely that sizable cash withdrawals were connected to his criminal matter, not to any conspicuous consumption for himself. In an interview, Robert Wellon, the lawyer who represents the mother in Atlanta, Jameshia Beacham, characterized Henry as spending “like there was no tomorrow,” thus depriving the children of money. The Denver Broncos gave Henry a five-year, $25 million contract in 2007. Cut last year by the team, which cited injuries and off-the-field commotion, he received only $6.7 million. Piling on to the child-support issues, Henry failed an N.F.L. drug test. He successfully appealed, avoiding suspension, but faced another penalty from the league for what he said was missing subsequent test dates. Though Henry insisted his body has three more seasons in it, his quandary all but dooms any chance of his suiting up again. Henry is seeking to modify child-support obligations. Some mothers and their lawyers will have none of that, saying he has squandered a small fortune on luxuries like cars and jewelry. “I feel sorry for the guy, trust me,” Wellon said. “On the other hand, when you take those kind of actions, there are consequences. He could have taken care of the money.” Henry argued that, within the context of richly paid athletes, he was not out of line. He contended that he owned no more than three vehicles at once and figured he had spent $250,000 on jewelry. “That ain’t a lot,” he said. Nevertheless, he was hoping to pawn some jewelry to pay off one of many debts and gain freedom. If there were excesses, Henry said, they involved his immediate family, like picking up travel expenses to games during his seven-year career, highlighted by three 1,200-yard-plus seasons. “I have a big heart,” he said. “I was taking care of a lot of people. I was acting like somebody who never had nothing. Could never get into that saving mode.” Kessler, his Atlanta lawyer, said Henry could catch up on child support with access to $250,000 that the judge ordered be placed in a trust. Kessler has appealed the ruling. “Travis is tackling this head-on,” he said, suggesting that this distinguishes him from other athletes in similar predicaments. Henry made no excuses but said absentee fathers were part of the landscape during his developmental years. His father disappeared early on, only to resurface at the dawn of his football fame. “There was no love lost; he wasn’t around when I needed him to be,” said Henry, who indicated that he gets along with his father. Henry voiced no love for the mothers of some of his children. “Everything was cool,” he said before he signed the rich contract with Denver. “Then they were out for blood.” After his drug arrest, Henry said he developed severe migraines that required a visit to an emergency room. “I’m trying to get through the storm,” said Henry, who is eager to impart the same advice to N.F.L. rookies that he once ignored. He would tell them, “Don’t ever think it can’t happen to you.” Back in Denver, his fiancée awaits. They set a wedding date but agreed to postpone it until the storm dissipates. One other subject they agree on: Neither wants children.

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Color casing ceremony held at Fort Sill June 13, 2019 at 7:25 PM CDT - Updated June 13 at 7:25 PM FORT SILL, Okla. (TNN) - Fort Sill held a color casing ceremony for the 4th Battalion-3rd Air Defense Artillery Thursday. The ceremony marks the end of their training over the past year. The service members have worked hard to receive their air missile defense certifications and are now ready for deployment. The whole Battalion will be overseas for 9 months; another part of the difficult, but rewarding path they’ve chosen. “The troops have been working hard for a long time, the families have been giving up their soldier for training, training that foes through weekends, training at inconvenient hours, it’s not a 9-to-5 job. It’s a lot of work for the soldiers, a lot of work for the families, but they enjoy it. There’s a team dynamic here, and we include the families -- we’re really looking forward to the deployment,getting there and experiencing something big,” says Lt. Colonel Jeffrey Porter. Porter says they’re excited to put their training into practice. The unit will be protecting critical assets in the Central Command Area of Operation.

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Company & culture Lender help ISA help Borrower help Should platforms deduct tax on P2P income at source? Michael Todt - 20 August 2015 At the two Budget Speeches in 2015, peer-to-peer lending was the beneficiary of a pair of great results. In March, the Chancellor announced that interest earned on P2P loans will be eligible for the Personal Savings Allowance (PSA) from 6 April 2016, meaning basic-rate taxpayers will have the first £1,000 of P2P income each year removed from income tax (for higher-rate taxpayers this figure will be £500). And in July, it was revealed that the new Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) – going live on the same date - will allow lenders to shield returns from tax on annual contributions up to the ISA allowance each year. It is the first of these two game-changing tax efficiencies which has cast the issue of a withholding tax regime into the spotlight though. Currently, savings income from banks and building societies is paid after the deduction of income tax at source (i.e. by the bank or building society itself). However, peer-to-peer lending platforms are not required to do the same, meaning that it is left to the individual lender to declare their income to HMRC, usually via a Self-Assessment Tax Return. A potential role reversal? However, this is set to change from 6 April 2016, as traditional financial institutions will no longer withhold tax from income paid out on savings accounts and deposits, while there is also a consultation underway which could result in peer-to-peer lending platforms becoming obliged to deduct tax on lenders’ P2P income at source. To HMRC’s credit, the consultations they have published on both the Implementation of the Personal Savings Allowance and the Deduction of Tax from Interest on P2P income are comprehensive, and the imposed deadline for comments of 18 September gives all relevant stakeholders ample time to have their say. In light of the PSA, few could legitimately object to the burden of tax deduction being lifted from banks. After all, given their low rates of return, a basic-rate taxpayer would need astronomical sums of money in their account before the annual interest they earn exceeds £1,000. Albeit on a lesser scale, the same is true of higher-rate tax payers and their respective threshold too. For banks to deduct tax on individuals’ savings income at source and make payment to HMRC, only to have the money later claimed back on a mass scale would be ludicrously redundant. Yet the same logic applies to peer-to-peer lending too. Indeed, the rates of return are superior to those of banks and building societies, but the majority of lenders won’t be ‘using up’ their PSA in the course of the financial year either. In fact, at an annualised rate of 5%, a basic-rate taxpaying lender would need more than £20,000 invested in a peer-to-peer platform before they become liable for tax (and this calculation assumes the lender doesn’t have an IFISA!). For higher-rate taxpayers, this number drops to the still-considerable figure of £10,000, and while additional-rate payers do not qualify for the PSA, it seems safe to assume that they will be very familiar with the whole Self-Assessment Tax Return process and may have a greater awareness and understanding of the relevant tax rules. So should P2P interest be deducted at source? Whether interest should have tax deducted at source is currently subject to the following criteria: The term of the loan (Yes on certain loans longer than 12 months) The identity of the borrower (Borrower required to if it is a company and the lender is an individual) The identity of the lender (Always no if the lender is a company) The location of the lender (Borrower required to if lender is resident outside the UK) It’s clear to see that the above is mired in complexity. Such criteria have a semblance of logic to them on a single-loan basis, but become highly impractical when loans involve multiple lenders and borrowers. Market research suggests that the majority of borrowers from peer-to-peer platforms have a fairly limited understanding of peer-to-peer marketplaces as it is, so to require them to treat interest paid on a P2P loan differently to interest paid on a loan from a traditional financial service provider would create unnecessary confusion. And from a lender’s perspective, you could easily end up in a situation whereby you receive interest differently from different borrowers. Keep it simple, stupid! The good news is that one of the proposed changes in chapter 4 of the Consultation on the Deduction of Tax from Savings Income is to apply a blanket approach of removing the obligation to deduct income tax from all non-TDSI interest (which includes peer-to-peer lending). We implore HMRC to select this option, given that many of the taxation issues outlined above would fall away. True, there would be a risk to the Exchequer that the correct tax is not paid if calculating tax liability is left to the customer. Yet that’s not to say that more onus can’t be placed on platforms to assist customers in determining the correct tax obligation for their personal circumstances – be that providing guides, FAQS and links to relevant tax articles, or even offering personalised guidance by email or telephone. Most basic-rate taxpayers would receive the correct tax treatment following the implementation of the PSA anyway, while the requirements on higher and additional-rate tax payers would not be affected. Most importantly, understanding that tax is payable on all savings income above the PSA is straightforward, and will be easy to implement. In order to effectively promote P2P lending to savers and investors, and the important benefits it brings to the wider economy, additional complexities need to be avoided. Since the tax treatment of savings and investments are fairly well documented and understood, proposing a complex tax arrangement for P2P lenders would negatively impact the appeal of our asset class. To place this administrative burden of tax collection on peer-to-peer platforms for the sake of a minority of lenders who would be liable would serve merely to inhibit the efficiency of a sector raising the bar on this front. The P2P collective, in our view, is better off in the absence of a withholding tax regime. But these are just our opinions! If you have strong views on the matter, why not get in touch with us by email (cs@lendingworks.co.uk) or phone (0207 096 8512)? Alternatively, you can contribute to the consultation directly by clicking here. Quick guide to paying tax on P2P income Your tax-related P2P lending questions answered Innovative Finance ISA: the good and the 'bad' Your updated guide to Innovative Finance ISAs Get email updates for future blogs: We're doing our bit for the sharing economy, so why not do yours? All you have to do is click on one of the buttons below, or paste the page URL into your preferred social network! Our website offers information about saving, investing, tax and other financial matters, but not personal advice. If you're not sure whether peer-to-peer lending is right for you, please seek independent financial advice, and if you decide to invest with Lending Works, please read our Key Lender Information PDF first. As with all investments, your capital is at risk. Lending Works ranks 21st in the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 Scott Robertson - 6 September 2019 As a platform, we take great pride in all that we've achieved since opening our doors for business nearly six years ago. We’ve New product updates live! Scott Robertson - 22 July 2019 Since opening our doors back in 2014, we’ve always prided ourselves on living and breathing two key principles at Lending Works: innovation, and putting the customer first in everything we do. What is Retail Finance? Scott Robertson - 28 June 2019 With the retail sector enduring its fair share of challenges, companies are looking at new ways to attract customers, and drive conversion. In an overcrowded, dog-eat-dog marketplace, with behemoths such as Amazon flexing their muscle, it’s easier said than done. A guide to the new peer-to-peer lending FCA regulations (PS19/14) On 4 June 2019, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released its new regulatory framework for peer-to-peer lending (P2P); a Policy Statement known as PS19/14. As you might imagine, it's a document which, following a three-month consultation, is a hefty read of no fewer than 102 pages. How risky are IFISAs? Scott Robertson - 22 March 2019 When it comes to investing, there are numerous questions that need to be asked, and lots of things which need to be properly understood before committing your hard-earned money How to improve conversion rates In a difficult climate, customer acquisition and lead generation present stern challenges for UK retailers, and a great deal of marketing spend invariably gets directed towards getting feet through the door. 5 ways to improve customer retention There is a variety of literature and research illustrating the importance of building brand loyalty, albeit with some degree of variance. The rise of challenger banks Michael Todt - 21 April 2016 Over the last decade, there can be little dispute that the reputation of mainstream banks – and particularly the so-called ‘Big Four’ (HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds and RBS) – is at its lowest ebb. Peer-to-peer lending explained Nicholas Harding - 2 March 2015 The idea of peer-to-peer (P2P) lending is a simple one; you lend money to those who wish to borrow, with a view to receiving a great return for doing so. FCA regulation of the peer-to-peer lending industry Nicholas Harding - 18 April 2014 The peer-to-peer (P2P) lending industry is now regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The regulatory framework has been designed to protect customers and promote effective competition. Is Britain facing a credit card bubble? Anthony Burgess - 15 January 2020 January tends to be a comedown following the Christmas festivities, and, from a personal finance perspective, a time for many Britons to lick their wounds. In particular, for those who’ve over-extended their credit card, it may feel like the walls have started to close in. 7 key economic factors for 2020 Scott Robertson - 8 January 2020 A new year, and indeed a new decade has dawned. Reflecting on 2019, what seemed to have got lost in the noise and political hysteria was the fact that the UK economy actually held up remarkably well. Mortgage lending: are homeowners overstretching? Scott Robertson - 17 December 2019 As the good times rolled in the mid-2000s, only a precious few sounded the alarm as lending became increasingly reckless. Northern Rock's infamous 'Together' 125 per cent mortgage epitomised the rush for high loan-to-value (LTV) deals at a time when it was thought that house prices would just keep going up forever. Does GDP still matter? For those with an eye on the economy, 'GDP day' is always one to mark off in the calendar each month. And it's been a hot topic for the UK in 2019, with the latest update showing zero growth for the period from August to October. Auto-enrolment: the fault in default funds One of the perceived strengths of the auto-enrolment pension scheme is its simplicity – indeed, it is actually a greater effort for an employee to opt-out of a workplace pension than it is to be enrolled into one. No further actions are required, and the retirement fund grows as the months and years pass by. A new era of regulation for P2P lending On Monday this week, a new FCA regulatory framework came into effect for peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in the UK, in line with June’s PS19/14 Policy Statement. The Lending Works Shield does not give you a right to a payment so you may not receive a pay-out even if you suffer loss. The Lending Works Trustee has absolute discretion as to the amount that may be paid, including making no payment at all. Therefore, investors should not rely on possible pay-outs from the Lending Works Shield when considering whether or how much to invest. For more information click here. 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The University of Cambridge Development and Alumni Relations (CUDAR, formerly CUDO) works with philanthropic donors who are interested in funding research at the University. If you feel your project might be suitable you should discuss this with your Head of Department before contacting CUDAR. Where next? Scoping future arts and humanities led research These support in-depth interdisciplinary scoping studies led from within the arts and humanities and addressing at least one priority from the AHRC delivery plan. Three grants, worth up to £150,000 each, are available for up to nine months. Deadline: 2 April 2020 Global Challenges Research Fund highlight notice – education in conflict and protracted crises This supports the development of research networking proposals which explore the contribution of arts and humanities research to education and learning in contexts affected by conflict or protracted crises. 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Grants have no limit on value or length. ** COMING SOON ** AI and data science for engineering, health, science and government research programme The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, in collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the Natural Environment Research Council, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council, through the Strategic Priorities Fund, invites applications for its AI and data science for engineering, health, science and government research programme. This supports the utilisation of AI and data science to transform engineering and urban planning through the use of digital twins, revolutionise healthcare, develop tools for criminal justice and interpret data generated through research in the physical and life sciences. **COMING SOON** MRC/AHRC/ESRC adolescence, mental health and the developing mind initiative – call for research programmes This call supports impactful multidisciplinary research at a range of interfaces, including medicine, biology, social science, arts and humanities. The total budget is £24 million to support research programmes with up to £4m each over four years. The next call is expected to open on 30 March and close on 30 June 2020. Deadline: 30 June 2020 Nuffield Foundation **COMING SOON** Strategic fund This fund supports interdisciplinary projects that address key issues facing UK society and the public policy agenda in the next decade. Grants are worth between £1m and £3m. The next call is expected to open in 2020. Deadline: 09 Dec 2020 (forecast) UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) collective programme This is a series of calls designed to enhance the overall impact across the six strategic GCRF Challenge portfolios: Cities and Sustainable Infrastructure; Education; Food Systems; Global Health; Resilience to Environmental Shocks and Change; Security Protracted Conflict, Refugee Crises and Forced Displacement. It is an interdisciplinary programme steered by the GCRF Challenge Leaders. Applicants from all relevant disciplines are encouraged to apply for each call and proposals should be challenge-led and interdisciplinary in nature notwithstanding which council is leading. **COMING SOON** Pauline Ashley Fellowship This fellowship enables young researchers to make the transition from a postdoctoral scientist to an independent investigator and lead their own programme of research, attract funding and build a new research team. The fellowship is worth £120,000 over two years. The next call is expected to open in early 2021. Deadline: 28 February 2021 (forecast) Leadership Fellows Scheme - Early-Career Researchers This enables early-career researchers to develop their leadership experience and capabilities as they establish themselves and develop beyond doctoral and postdoctoral work, and to produce innovative research that moves significantly beyond doctoral projects. Principal investigators must be within eight years of the award of their PhD or equivalent professional training, or be within six years of their first academic appointment. They should have the commitment and support of their host organisation, which may be a UK higher education institution, a research institute or an independent research organisation, as well as a committed institution-based mentor. Co-investigators are not permitted, however, research assistants of a postdoctoral standing may be included in applications. Proposals should have a full economic cost of between £50,000 and £250,000. Fellowships cover up to 80 per cent fEC and are awarded for 24 months for full-time researchers. Leadership Fellows Scheme - Standard Route This enables researchers to develop their capabilities as leaders, to carry out work with a potential to generate a transformative impact on their discipline, and to develop and undertake leadership activities that are connected to their research. Principal investigators must be actively engaged in postdoctoral research and either have a doctorate degree or equivalent experience or training. They should have at least two years of postdoctoral experience in an academic or research environment or have an equivalent level of professional or practice experience of direct relevance to the proposed research. Eligible host institutions include UK higher education institutions, research institutes and independent research organisations. Co-investigators are not eligible under this scheme. Grants are worth between £50,000 and £250,000 for a period of six to 18 months. Leverhulme Trust **COMING SOON** Early-career fellowships These fellowships enable early-career researchers to undertake a significant piece of publishable work and to advance to a more permanent academic position. Deadline: 28 Feb 2020 (forecast, recurring) **COMING SOON** Major research fellowships in the humanities and social sciences These fellowships enable well-established researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a piece of original research. Fellowships are awarded for two to three years. Deadline: 02 May 2020 (forecast, recurring) There are no relevant studentships that we are aware of at the moment. Research networks, groups and conferences Research Networking This encourages discussion and exchange of ideas on a specified thematic area, issue or problem through facilitating a short-term series of workshops, seminars, networking activities or other events. Grants are worth up to £30,000 each over two years. An additional £15,000 full economic cost may be provided to cover the costs of any international participants or activities in addition to the scheme limit. Network Grants These support the creation of new interdisciplinary research communities and topics by developing interaction between the research community and appropriate science, technology and industrial groups. The aim is to transfer experimental techniques, models and scientific insights, and to promote mobility between academy, universities and industry. Networks are expected to lead to new collaborative multidisciplinary research proposals and some may develop into virtual centres of excellence, providing critical mass of analytical expertise.There is no limit to the amount of funding that can be applied for, however networks should last for up to three years. Medical Humanities Awards These recognise the applications of the arts and humanities within interdisciplinary research, education and social action, which transform the understanding of health and social care, and health and wellbeing in their social and political contexts. Awards are worth £5,000 each. Deadline: 18 March 2020 **COMING SOON** Research leadership awards These awards support researchers with established university careers who wish to build a research team of sufficient scale to address a distinct research problem. Awards are worth up to £1 million. Deadline: 10 May 22 (forecast) Wellcome Trust Innovator awards These support researchers who are transforming ideas into healthcare innovations that could have a significant impact on human health. Awards are worth up to £500,000 for up to two years, or up to £750,000 for up to three years for multidisciplinary collaborations. AHRC Newton Fund Issac Newton Trust

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The Irishman Called Out as Fake by Real-Life Stepson of Chuckie O’Brien The real-life stepson of one of the more prominent characters in The Irishman, Chuckie O’Brien, played by Jesse Plemons, has called out Martin Scorsese and his particular portrayal of events as “high fiction” and “fake”. In an essay entitled “How ‘The Irishman‘ Maligns My Stepfather”, Jack Goldsmith defends his now 86 year-old stepfather who, in the movies depiction, unwittingly becomes an accomplice in the murder of Jimmy Hoffa. Goldsmith has stated that, whilst in The Irishman O’Brien is depicted as Hoffa’s loyal yet distant foster son, his relationship with the infamous labor union leader was in fact much closer to that which is portrayed between Sheeran and Jimmy Hoffa. “What Mr. Scorsese did, in effect, was to place Mr. Sheeran in Chuckie’s role in Mr. Hoffa’s life. It was Chuckie, not Mr. Sheeran, who for decades served as Mr. Hoffa’s “intimate companion, driver, bodyguard and special troubleshooter,” as the labor journalist Victor Riesel noted in the 1960s. Chuckie expected to be “tagged with the disappearance” in the movie, he told me. He did not expect Mr. Scorsese to appropriate his close relationship with Hoffa – the precious blood, sweat, tears and joy of a three-decade father-son relationship, the apex of Chuckie’s life – and give it to Mr. Sheeran for all the world to see and believe.” Goldsmith has even likened the manipulation and changing of events to the illegal surveillance and wiretaps conducted by the F.B.I. against O’Brien back in the 1970’s. He goes onto say this about Martin Scorsese and his work on the movie. RELATED: Scorsese Wasn’t So Sure About The Irishman De-Aging Technology at First “Mr. Scorsese has done something similar – not by listening in illegally and publishing humiliating truths, as the F.B.I. did, but by usurping Chuckie’s relationship with Mr. Hoffa, giving it to someone else and then broadcasting the untruth. The effect on Chuckie in both instances is the same. “I had no control,” he told me during our recent conversation. His control over his life, and the presentation of his life to the world, was snatched from him in ways he can never reverse.” If that were not scathing enough, the real O’Brien has been quite maddened by his portrayal in the Netflix Original Movie, and has a few choice words for Scorsese and lead actor Robert De Niro. “But Chuckie’s portrayal in “The Irishman” as a “dim jackass” driving Mr. Hoffa to his death made him livid. “To see this happen, it just makes me so mad,” he told me. “I’d like to get hold of that Scorsese and choke him like a chicken. And then after I get through with him, I’d grab that other pipsqueak, the guy who played the Irishman.”” The Irishman is based on the confessions of Frank Sheeran, an alleged hitman who took responsibility for murdering Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa and notorious gangster Joey Gallo. It stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, with Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, Stephen Graham, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Jesse Plemons, and Harvey Keitel and is now available on Netflix. You can read Goldsmith’s essay at The New York Times. Topics: The Irishman, Netflix, Streaming Film Fanatic. Movie Maniac. Cockney Critic. Asserting his opinion wherever he goes, whether it is warranted or not.

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Libertyville/Local Several Proposals Advance for Waukegan’s Fountain Square Casino Anika Raina|November 14, 2019 As of the middle of October, three out of the four casino proposals for Waukegan have been evaluated and selected to move on in the process; these proposals will now face an evaluation by the Illinois Board of Gaming, according to the Chicago Tribune. The bids from Rivers Casino, Full House Resort and North Point, which is owned by Lakeside Casino LLC, are the ones proceeding. Waukegan’s evaluation process was led by Johnson Consultants Inc. of Chicago, a company that provides city governments and administrations financial and real-estate analysis, as well as advice for business partnerships. The one proposal not moving on was put forth by Potawatomi Hotel and Casino. According to the Chicago Tribune, Potwatomi was ranked last even though they were potentially the most financially beneficial, with construction estimated at $343 million, and its casino would have created 2,600 jobs for the local community and driven $394 million in the economy annually. In their letter for reconsideration, they wrote, “Johnson could not explain how Potawatomi was rated first or second in every financial category and yet he ranked Potawatomi last.” But, as of Oct. 21, the Waukegan City Council voted down the reconsideration, 6-3. Potawatomi then requested a second hearing, but the outcome ended similarly, in a 7-2 vote reported by the Chicago Tribune. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, five different developers originally created proposals for Waukegan officials to vote on. The final developer that gets chosen will receive a bonus of $15 million and will assist in the construction of the casino. The opening date of the casino is still undetermined. There is, however, opposition to the casino. Lisa May, a representative from Waukegan Forward, a group wanting to better Waukegan for the future, claims that there is still time for the community to speak out against the casino proposals to the City Council. She and her colleagues claim many gambling addictions will fall on families. Mr. Brian Voss, an economics teacher, explained how building casinos and allowing the use of recreational marijuana are a last-ditch effort by the state to raise money in an effort to help its struggling financial situation. He described how it’s up to each city to raise money, and it was Waukegan’s choice to raise money through a flashy casino, hence “Waukegan will see more of the negative effects that come with casinos of more traffic, more arrests, more laws being broken because, with a casino, that tends to happen.” On the contrary, he also stated that income will flow into Waukegan due to “people with lower incomes [and] minorities, who go to casinos more often. So who is benefiting from the casino and at what cost is the state really benefiting?” As for Libertyville, which is located less than 10 miles from the casino’s eventual location, Mr. Voss predicted the casino will not impact the village as much. He stated that the only major effect would be that “Libertyville, the city itself, has a very vibrant downtown area, so [the casino] would be an attraction where people can go downtown, go to restaurants [in Libertyville] and then head over to the casino before or afterwards.” As reported by the Chicago Sun-Times, Each of the remaining casino proposals has different features that the developers want to implement. Churchill Downs-Rush Street Gaming currently owns Rivers Casino in Des Plaines and hopes to expand their brand in Waukegan. They have a 50-page proposal that includes luxury restaurants and poker rooms. Churchill Downs-Rush Street Gaming claims they will create 1,200 permanent jobs and $150 million for the local economy each year. Full House Resorts is a casino chain that was originally based in Las Vegas. They have a 402-page proposal that includes a helicopter pad and luxurious restaurants. Their building is estimated to cost $300 million and will place $13 million in the economy yearly. Lakeside Casino LLC is owned by former state senator Michael Bond. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, their proposal is extremely vague. They claim they will have an outdoor amphitheater, high-end restaurants and a hotel. CivicScout | Visiting Lightscape at the Chicago Botanic Garden Main gym closes again after testing positive for lead paint Choirs host annual senior citizen dinner The Libertyville High School choir put on their annual Holiday Music Fest on Tuesday, Dec. 10, and Wednesday, Dec. 11. Tuesday’s concert was pre... IT Department removes Chrome extensions CivicScout | Exploring the Bess Bower Dunn Museum Disney+: A streaming service for all things Disney D128 implements new e-learning policy Youth climate activists continue strikes in efforts to enact policy Girls volleyball falls to Fremd vikings in supersectional match Marching band raises $3,400 for Waukegan marching band LHS close to bringing therapy dog to the school

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Vol. 32 No. 22 · 18 November 2010 Search by issue: Year202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009200820072006200520042003200220012000199919981997199619951994199319921991199019891988198719861985198419831982198119801979 Montgomery Lift I’m not sure Billy Wilder would agree with Michael Newton that Montgomery Clift was neither sardonic nor amused enough for his films (LRB, 7 October). In fact, William Holden wasn’t Wilder’s first choice to play Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard. It’s known that it was after a skiing holiday in Switzerland, when Clift read the script or at least parts of it, that he turned down Wilder’s offer. Either he thought of himself as not being either sardonic or amused enough, or he simply hated the script. The original opening sequence, which took place in a morgue with several corpses talking to each other, was found laughable after a sneak preview and cut from the film: ‘It was the kind of laugh I dreamed of getting, but for a comedy,’ Billy Wilder tells Charlotte Chandler in Nobody’s Perfect: A Personal Biography. That’s a lost scene. What remains is some raw footage of the ambulance getting to the morgue and the corpse of Joe Gillis being wheeled in, and, of course, the memories of anyone still alive who was present at that sneak preview in Evanston, Illinois. There’s a story that one of them, a woman who wore a big hat with a ribbon and a feather, not knowing who Wilder was, addressed him on the stairs of the theatre: ‘Have you ever seen shit like this before in your life?’ ‘Never!’ Wilder answered. Vitor Alves Browne’s Gamble Stefan Collini’s despair is fully justified (LRB, 4 November). A ‘student choice’ funding model was adopted in New Zealand in the 1990s, and the results were deplorable. The majority of students, especially when facing high fees, will tend to ‘choose’ the qualifications that are easiest and cheapest to complete, just for the sake of a qualification and to kill time before they have to seek employment. This is great news for business schools, which can provide relatively low-cost, high-throughput degrees with at least the appearance of vocational relevance. Overall, the students and the universities will compete on lower quality, as the former seek ease of completion and the latter seek bums on seats. The humanities and the natural sciences tend to suffer. The Clark government in New Zealand (in office from 1999 to 2008) had to spend a number of years trying to get some common sense and focus on quality back into our university system. Grant Duncan Massey University, Auckland Since young people are being asked to invest in themselves, they should be given the same tax benefits as small business owners. A small business start-up is allowed to deduct 50 per cent of the cost against profits. Investors in education will not be given the same benefit. Constance Blackwell Stefan Collini is right to criticise the baton passed from Mandelson to Cable that is the Browne Report. And rather than causing the Lib Dem leadership anguish, the proposals are completely in sync with its ideology: a simultaneous belief in the efficiency of markets and the rationality of their participants, on the one hand, and in the inability of markets to produce a sensible or beneficial outcome for society (such as enough well-trained doctors or teachers), on the other. One can only imagine that Clegg and Co, when signing up to the now abandoned pledge not to raise tuition fees, were either confident of not being elected, or canny enough to spot a shortcut to student votes. What Collini only hints at, however, is quite how enthusiastic many influential university managers are about Browne. They should be: they as good as wrote chunks of it. The submission by the Russell Group to the Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance in May argued for variable fees, a removal of the cap on charges, support for Stem subjects, the introduction of a ‘real’ rate of interest, and increased repayment rates, while rejecting a ‘graduate tax’. It states that ‘an increase in graduate tuition contributions . . . represents the only viable option for ensuring sufficient funding for a world-class higher education system, in a manner that is fair, sustainable, and protects access,’ and that an increase in graduate contributions will also facilitate a more differentiated market in higher education. This will create a fairer system in which the graduates who secure the greatest benefits will make the greatest contribution, and where diverse models of teaching and learning can be efficiently supported. Graduate contributions also provide more incentives for institutions to improve quality and responsiveness to students’ needs as they encourage students to be more demanding of their universities. So wedded must some Russell Group VCs be to the principle of market forces that one of them referred publicly to unlimited fees as the ‘sunny uplands’ for higher education. Adieu, madame I wonder whether Robert Gottlieb’s biography of Sarah Bernhardt is as vitriolic as Terry Castle’s review of it (LRB, 4 November). Though I was only born the year the Divine Sarah died, I feel I came under her spell through the actor Esme Percy, whom I knew in his old age. In his youth he had been what would now be termed her stalker, and he remained a lifelong worshipper at the Bernhardt shrine. I well remember his reciting the ‘Marseillaise’ in her vibrant voice, with her phrasing and passion, as a sort of party piece, and it took one’s breath away. Barbara Smoker What to say of the newly-weds? Tom Paulin suggests that Larkin’s well documented antipathy to marriage is qualified by ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ (LRB, 21 October). The last lines of that poem are: ‘A sense of falling, like an arrow-shower/ Sent out of sight, somewhere becoming rain.’ The sense of falling communicates the ‘disappointment’, but Paulin identifies in the arrows/rain metaphor ‘a swelling sense of fertility and alert purpose, with more than a hint of tears’. Is this more positive construction justified? I read it differently, as a failure of aims: the guided impetus of the wedding moments, launching the happy couples, loses direction and purpose, becomes diaspora, and slowly disappears. It is surely a reading that is more consistent with the poem’s general tenor as well as Larkin’s broader prejudices. Malcolm Andrews As Stalin showed Slavoj Žižek, in his review of Richard McGregor’s The Party (LRB, 21 October), seems to be suggesting that something new is happening in China. I can’t see it. To recover from the devastation of the Civil War, and to set the country on the road to economic modernisation in the absence of world revolution, the Bolsheviks turned to the capitalist market. At the same time, they tightened political repression for fear that the ‘alien class influences’ now to be unleashed might erode the Party’s monopoly of power. From there increased Party control over state and cultural institutions became necessary if market capitalism was to flourish. There would be no transition to political democracy, and if such a transition were to threaten, the only credible response would be a ‘left turn’, back to the future, as Stalin showed in 1929, when he felt the regime’s monopoly of foreign trade to be under siege. Albion Urdank Blent Larkin got ‘blent’ from Yeats (Letters, 4 November)? Anyone of Larkin’s years, let alone Yeats’s, would have been familiar with the section of Childe Harold beginning with the Duchess of Richmond’s Ball (‘There was a sound of revelry by night’) and ending on the field of Waterloo: ‘heap’d and pent,/Rider and horse, – friend, foe, – in one red burial blent!’ Byron got it from speaking English. You could set up a Pedants Corner, like Private Eye. M. Smithurst On Teesside In her journey down Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough, Joanna Biggs unwittingly touches on one of the town’s most interesting ventures: the Linthorpe Pottery (LRB, 21 October). This was founded in the town in 1879 as a result of a meeting between John Harrison, a local landowner, and the designer Christopher Dresser. One of its aims was to alleviate local unemployment – some things never change. Dresser worked in glass and metal; he designed wallpaper; and he was a potter. He had travelled widely, not least in Japan, but almost all the pottery was produced in Middlesbrough. Unusually, the factory paid attention to good working conditions: comfort, space, light and proper ventilation; it was the first in the country to use gas-fired kilns. Alas, this was too good to last. Dresser’s connection with Linthorpe Pottery ceased after only three years, artistic standards declined and the factory closed only ten years after it had opened. Roger Morsley-Smith It’s him! The French students in May 1968 didn’t quite grasp the subtlety of De Gaulle’s famous remark. Or at least, they restrained themselves from doing so. His denunciation of the riots as a ‘chienlit’, quoted by Jeremy Harding, was knowingly ambiguous between the old word for ‘carnival’, chienlit, and the scatological chier en lit – ‘to shit the bed’ (LRB, 4 November). But the students weren’t interested in the subtlety and posters were plastered overnight on every wall in Paris, reading ‘La chienlit, c’est lui!’ Louise Hirsch Jeremy Harding omits one of De Gaulle’s most improbable achievements. He ensured that France, universally written off at the time as a Great Power, nevertheless became one of the five permanent members of the Security Council. Nicholas Faith London N7 President Truman was not ‘re-elected’ in 1948, as Jonathan Fenby has it, but elected, having assumed the presidency on Roosevelt’s death in 1945 (LRB, 21 October). Geoffrey Taunton Vouzan, France send letters to 28 Little Russell Street London, WC1A 2HN letters@lrb.co.uk Please include name, address and a telephone number London Review Bookshop Square Haunting: Francesca Wade & Alexandra Harris The Shapeless Unease: Samantha Harvey & Tessa Hadley 22 January 2020 at 7:00pm Nietzsche and the Burbs: Lars Iyer & Jon Day Don't miss out on future events

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Great Songs (Come and Get Your Love) by: Redbone The Curb label's Great Songs (Come and Get Your Love) is a pretty typical budget compilation, but Native American jam band/pop/rock collective Redbone really only had one big hit, so a box set would be overkill. That said, it doesn't have "Light as a Feather" or "Message from a Drum," but it does have "The Witch Queen of New Orleans," "Maggie," and the million-selling title cut, so fans looking for the basics will be satisfied. For those who want to dig further, Epic/Legacy's Essential Redbone is a better bet. ~ James Christopher Monger

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Results: 1-3 of 3 | Refined by: Original Format: Map Remove Available Online Remove Subject: Virginia Remove Subject: West Virginia Remove Subject: Shenandoah River Valley (Va. And W. Va.) Remove Online Format: Image Remove Part of: Civil War Maps Remove Subject: Shenandoah River Valley Remove Contributor: Hotchkiss, Jedediah Remove Language: English Remove Contributor: J. Lippincott & Co Remove Location: Shenandoah River Valley Remove Map of the Shenandoah Valley, to illustrate the Valley Campaign of "Stonewall" Jackson, 1862: Scale ca. 1:860,000. Relief shown by hachures. Inset: General map [of Virginia and Maryland] 11 x 12 cm. This map was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1948 with the purchase of the papers and maps of Maj. Jedediah Hotchkiss. It is the base used to produce maps I and II in William Allan's History of the Campaign of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall)... Contributor: J. Lippincott & Co. - Hotchkiss, Jedediah - Humphreys, D.C. [Maps illustrating campaign of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. 1862 Various scales. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 654.6 Proof sheet containing the maps made to illustrate William Allan's History of the Campaign of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1880). 175 p. Proof sheet was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1948 with the purchase of the papers and maps of... Contributor: J. Lippincott & Co. - Hotchkiss, Jedediah - Humphreys, D. C. [Maps illustrating campaign of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. 1862. Various scales. Proof sheet containing the maps made to illustrate William Allan's History of the Campaign of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1880). 175 p. Proof sheet was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1948 with the purchase of the papers and maps of Maj. Jedediah Hotchkiss. Contents: I. Shenandoah Valley... Shenandoah River Valley Military Battles and Campaigns 3 J. Lippincott & Co Hotchkiss, Jedediah Humphreys, D. C. 2 Humphreys, D.C. 1 Shenandoah River Valley (Va. And W. Va.)

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Well, finally it’s open, a close run thing if ever there was, but it is open. It must be a trait of human nature but, no matter how well organised the plans, on the morning of the opening day in any new project it seems to be inevitable that there will still be an assortment of tradesmen frantically applying the finishing touches. And so it was at our new Ardgartan Hotel but, by 4pm when the first coaches were due to arrive, the frenetic atmosphere had changed into one of calmness, with only the smiling staff, waiting to greet their first guests, in evidence. This was the point at which son Neil, who has been a constant presence at the site supervising construction for the past two years, handed over responsibilities to his brother Ian, who will be General Manager of this, our 7th and most substantial hotel. Ian has been successful in recruiting an excellent team of staff, some with knowledge of Company procedures transferred from other Lochs and Glens Hotels but, for the most part, others have been recruited from near and far to take up residence in the nearby purposebuilt staff house. I wish them every success and happiness in their new posts. As this newsletter goes to press I have been thrilled to learn that our Company has just achieved the distinction of becoming No.1 in the list of the 300 best performing Scottish based medium sized companies as analysed by Scotland’s Business Insider Magazine. When we sold our family house in 1979 and used the proceeds to purchase our first hotel I know it came as a great shock to my then pre-teenage sons who were expected to become porters, waiters or dishwashers after school and at weekends. There was a great deal of grumbling and a determination to avoid the hotel business in later life, so I was delighted when they subsequently changed their minds and joined our valued management team. And now, many years on, and 12 years since I took retirement, they are continuing to take the Company from strength to strength, so I shall be feeling a considerable sense of pride when Neil collects the award on behalf of the Company later in the year. The Isle of Bute One of the most important elements of a Lochs and Glens Holiday is the choice of day excursions, and a considerable amount of research and planning is devoted to their choice and organisation. On many of the Ardgartan holiday itineraries there will be an excursion to the ancient stronghold of Scottish kings, the Isle of Bute, an attractive island of just 47 square miles situated in the protected waters of the Firth of Clyde. Bute is of great interest geographically as it is divided in two by the Highland Boundary Fault, the north being hilly and largely uncultivated, but to the south of the fault the land is flatter and, for the most part, farmed. There is just one town, Rothesay, which in Victorian times, was developed into a popular tourist destination, particularly for Glaswegians who would go ‘doon the water’, the water in question being the Firth of Clyde. Tourists arrived by steamer in their hundreds landing at the wooden pier at the centre of the town. A vast Hydropathic establishment dominated the town, an electric tramway ferried holidaymakers to one of the island largest beaches, but pride of Rothesay was the Winter Gardens building which played host to some of the best music hall entertainers of the day. Sadly all of these attractions fell into disuse in the 1960’s with the advent of the package holiday. However the town enjoyed a renaissance in the 1990’s as a new wave of tourism discovered the delights of the Scottish scenery. There was considerable investment in the town including the restoration of the Winter Gardens that had lain derelict for 30 years. There are two Isle of Bute excursions included in the Ardgartan holiday programme. One is a circular tour that crosses to Bute via the Colintraive Ferry then, after a tour of the island, arrives in Rothesay with time to explore the town before boarding the larger Wemyss Bay Ferry for the 35 minute sail back to the mainland. The other is a shorter tour, but one that includes a visit to the fabulous Mount Stuart, a lavish sandstone palace created by the 3rd Marquis of Bute in 1870. Its most famous features are the impressive marble hall and the awe inspiring white marble chapel. It is a house of firsts’, the first home in the world to have an indoor heated swimming pool and the first house in Scotland to have electric lighting, central heating, telephone system and a Victorian passenger lift. Remarkably, most of which are still in use today. More details of the programme of Ardgartan Hotel holidays can be found in our current brochure. Rannoch Moor Described as one of the last remaining wildernesses in Europe, Rannoch Moor has an awesome beauty that is quite unique. Sometimes called The Great Moor, it is an area of about 50 square miles lying at an average height of 1,000 feet above sea level and, although the floor of the area is composed of granite, it is the substantial layers of peat, up to 20ft deep in places, that has created such a unique environment. It is a habitat that is surprisingly rich in plant and animal life. Historically, travel across the moor was a notoriously dangerous affair with tracks difficult to follow, particularly in winter, but in 1891 construction of the West Highland Railway line began. This would connect Glasgow and Fort William and the project proceeded well until it reached the 23 mile section across Rannoch Moor. It was here that difficulties began in earnest. The weather was atrocious, the depths of the bog uncharted and it was impossible to find firm foundations which meant that viaducts had to be built over the worst parts and elsewhere the line was laid onto brushwood and turf. Costs escalated and funds finally ran out. Eventually one of the directors used part of his personal fortune to save the project and the line was finally completed. The first train from Glasgow arrived at Fort William on 7th August, 1894 to much rejoicing. Between 1930 and 1933 a road was constructed directly across the moor, for much of its route it runs dead straight and, apart from a couple of bridges replaced in the last two years, it remains unchanged. It must surely be one of the most awe inspiring and beautiful road journeys in the country. You too can share this experience on an unforgettable circular tour that is included in many Inversnaid Hotel itineraries. The route not only crosses the moor but passes through the notorious Glen o’ Weeping, Glencoe. As an added bonus this special day will also include a visit to that popular West Coast resort, Oban. From 4 Horsepower to 400 Since 1820, when the Inversnaid Hotel first opened its doors, most guests who have arrived by road have come by coach. The difference is that instead of the 400 horsepower that powers the Lochs and Glens coach of today, until the 1930s there was just 4 horse power available. Seeing pictures of the four-in-hands lined up ready to begin the day’s excursion, one realises what a feat of organisation it must have taken to keep the transport system working. Today, a turn of the switch and the coach is ready for action but, in the early part of the 20th century, a sizable proportion of the hotel workforce was needed just to maintain the 60 or so horses that were necessary to cover all eventualities. The larger four-in-hand coaches carried a complement of 26 guests and they must have looked a fine sight with the coachmen dressed in grey top hats and red coats. Extensive stabling was required together with garages for the coaches, as well as a haystore, smithy and bracken shed. The latter was used to store bracken gathered by the stablemen for the horses’ winter bedding. However, only a proportion of the animals were retained throughout the year, many were brought in just for the season and, when that ended, they were taken to Aberfoyle railway station for onward transport fo use on farms or as contractors workhorses for the winter period. The four-in-hand coach service finally ceased in 1937, by which time the Inversnaid Hotel was one of the last places in Britain to use this form of transport. An auction of horses and coaches was arranged and this was such an important event that the pupils at Inversnaid Primary School were given the day off to watch. George Buchan, from whom we purchased the Inversnaid Hotel in 1984, well remembered the occasion. I recall him telling me that it was a very sad affair, the auction took place in a snowstorm and, as the horses were led away, many of the staff were in tears.

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Main Street Magazine Not Done Yet Chad Ripley, Editor-in-Chief I went back the other day and revisited two songs: “Cyclone” and “A Love Letter From Me To You,” both songs by a band that has left a lasting impression on me. Their vulnerable, stripped down versions deliver a state of awe, as well as impeccable storytelling and raw emotion. While their studio versions deliver on so many different aspects, it’s the band’s ability to break it all down which makes them unique. This is the story of how I came to meet the band Sticky Fingers. No, not the famous Rolling Stones album. Sticky Fingers, the five-piece band hailing from Sydney, Australia. The rambunctious crew of Dylan Frost (lead vocals/guitar); Paddy Cornwall (bass/vocals); Seamus Coyle (lead guitar); Beaker Best (drums/percussion); and fan favorite Freddy Crabs (keys/synth) comprise a group that has the ability to send you into a melancholic state one moment, a psychedelic trance the next and finally skipping your way down the street with an uncontrollable joy. Simply put, they can do it all. But after three years of listening and unpacking the endless catalog of this band, there’s something that has never changed. The two songs that exposed me to the band, “Cyclone” and “A Love Letter From me to You,” have forever changed the way I listen to music. “Cyclone” tells this story of a crumbling relationship, and opens with “Here comes a story of a hurricane / And a temper lost like crying tears in rain / No love is lost or no sweet wisdom gained / So save your tears then save yourself the shame, ” using the storm as a metaphor for the whirlwind of emotions and problems this couple is facing in the demise of their relationship. The peaceful melodic fingerpicking by Coyle in the intro is rudely interrupted by the first line as Frost (aka Dizza) strums three simple chords almost the entirety of the song. You’re left admiring how effortless the notes ring off Coyle and Frost’s guitars. Frost’s vocal range is tested in the song’s bridge, when he sings, “so bend down them bridges, dig up them bones / What's that you got? Cause I'll have one of those / Darcy, I could never hate ya if I tried,” bringing the story of this failing relationship to an end and into the final chorus which he sings, “cyclone…. You’re on your own” which leads into a guitar solo by Coyle, exposing the raw talent that he holds while playing that six string. “A Love Letter From Me To You” offers to the table something more playful and exuberant than that of “Cyclone,” exposing the band’s ability to switch from that of a more melancholic vibe to one that brings a smile to your face - and you can’t help but smile when Coyle breaks out into a solo which brings Frost to a sway and puts a smile on his face from ear-to-ear. The song’s chorus that has Frost singing, “I think you’re real cool / oh come for a swim in my pool,” shines light on this playfulness that Sticky brings to the table in not only this acoustic jam but a handful of their songs. Now over six years from that acoustic session, and two years since their last record, Sticky Fingers is not done yet. With their new studio album “Yours to Keep” released in February, stifi fans have been gifted with an 11-track album filled with a mix of dreary, dilapidated lyrics while expanding on the reggae-rock sound that has solidified them as one of the most unique bands to come out Australia in the past decade. On March 8, 2019 I was lucky enough to witness the band that I had been following for over two and a half years. The Brighton Music Hall was barely standing after the likes of “Bootleg Rascal”, “Gold Snafu” and “Cool & Calm.” While “Australia Street” prompted Frost to jump into the drunken slew of concert-goers for a crowd surf. (Which if you look close enough in the picture, you may see the writer of this piece with uncontrollable bouts of stoke during that sequence of events.) photo courtesy: Sam Brumby, https://www.sambrumby.com/ But the true beauty of the night was when Frost was brought to tears singing “Not Done Yet” one of the singles from the new record. The song was in memory of Manu, a friend of the band. The lyrics move in an upbeat fashion despite the haunting guitar melody. The chorus tells the story of Frost’s battle with his schizophrenia, which is what sidelined the band for almost a year before releasing this album. “But I won't see red / Despite what's within / Yes, I knew you always cared / But I'm not done yet,” he sings during the chorus, shining light on his condition. In the mix of all the emotions during the night, Frost could barely finish the final chorus as tears filled his eyes. Red eyed and wiping his face, he looked to the crowd, mustering up the closest thing to a smile he could. It was a deeply emotional and vulnerable moment for not only Frost, but myself as well. Two years into this relationship with this band, I finally witnessed the firsthand the raw emotion that Frost, and the other band members pour into this music. When the band took to intermission and out came Frost and Coyle with two acoustic guitars, I crossed my fingers for the two to play the song that had instilled in me a greater appreciation for music and their work. And when that fingerpicked intro by Coyle filled the venue, I looked to my cousin Logan with the biggest smile and exclaimed, “cyclone…”

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Road safety campaign will tackle speeding, use of mobile phones and wearing of seatbelts The road safety campaign runs from Saturday, November 9, to Friday, November 15. Kevin McRoberts Published: 11:52 Friday 08 November 2019 Drivers who risk the safety of themselves and other road users by using mobile phones, speeding or not wearing a seatbelt are to be the focus of a week-long campaign. The campaign to promote safer driving will run from tomorrow (Saturday, November 9) until Friday, November 15, and is led by the Road Policing Division with support from the Safety Camera Units. In particular, officers want to highlight the importance of wearing a seatbelt in the front and rear, regardless of the type of vehicle you are in. And while there are some exceptions for wearing a seatbelt on a coach or bus, if one is provided it is advisable to wear it. Wearing a seatbelt can prevent more serious injuries being inflicted, particularly if you are sitting in the rear of a vehicle. Figures reveal that in 2017, 27 per cent of people who died in cars in Britain were not wearing a seatbelt. Recent statistics for road casualties in 2018 highlight that driver error or reaction was reported in 65 per cent of all reported crashes, travelling too fast was a factor in 16 per cent of fatal crashes and driving while using a mobile phone was a factor in five fatal crashes. Chief Inspector Simon Bradshaw said: “We know that using a mobile phone, driving while distracted, travelling at inappropriate speeds and not wearing a seatbelt are significant factors in fatal and serious injury crashes. “This is why we take the matter seriously as they are avoidable, which makes it all the more tragic when people are killed in road crashes under these circumstances. “Police Scotland works closely with other road safety agencies and partners to highlight the importance of driving safely but we cannot do this alone. “We need motorists to take road safety seriously and to change their behaviour. “We will interact with drivers through education to influence behaviour but where necessary, we will take enforcement action.” Dunnottar Castle’s record number of visitors Carron’s Friday giveaway Church litter pick success Flyover plans on display Renewed police appeal in Aberdeenshire house raids

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Public Health & Policy > Public Health Blood Banks Could Feel the Squeeze From Zika Advisories Officials fear donation restrictions could undercut blood supplies by Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News July 07, 2016 Enhancing mosquito control. Encouraging safe sex. Advising people to minimize travel to infected areas. As public health officials hustle to implement strategies like these to undermine the threat of the Zika virus, one such tactic could exacerbate a different health concern: maintaining the nation's supply of donated blood. The FDA is encouraging blood banks -- which already often struggle to meet demand -- to turn away potential donors who might be at risk. Specifically, people who have traveled to a country where the disease is being spread, or had sex with someone else who did, should not donate for 4 weeks. The protocol is being followed by clinics across the country. "We need to protect the blood supply," said Lawrence Gostin, a professor at Georgetown University and faculty director of its O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. "It would be a major scandal if there were cases of Zika transmitted -- particularly if it affected women of childbearing age." To date, there are more than 800 confirmed cases of the virus reported in the continental United States, almost all of which were connected to travelling abroad. But, though none of those cases was caused by local mosquitoes, experts warn it's only a matter of time. Though evidence is limited, there's a possibility Zika, which can cause birth defects when contracted by pregnant women and is primarily transmitted by mosquito bites, could also be spread through blood transfusions. That connection, while drawing less attention than links to sex or childbirth, is raising the stakes for what could happen if the virus spreads unchecked in the United States. And therein lies the issue. Even in locations where Zika isn't likely to pose as great a threat, blood banks are worried that the impact of the FDA's advisory -- because of the sheer number of people traveling to areas where the virus is active and growing case count -- could undercut their supplies. Experts say the advisory makes sense. There is no widely available, government-approved blood test to screen donations, though one is being used on an experimental basis for blood collected in Puerto Rico and Houston. "With blood supply, you can't even tolerate a low risk," Gostin said. "You would undermine confidence in the blood supply system in the United States, and that's something we've sought to avoid at any and all cost." Even though the risk of infection is small, caution is still warranted, Gostin and others assert. Especially for people with serious injuries, blood transfusions can be key to recovery. Unsafe blood has spread a number of dangerous viruses, such as HIV. And the consequences of getting Zika -- especially for women in the early stages of pregnancy -- can be severe, including birth defects for children or miscarriage. But that caution can still have consequences. Many banks report they are already feeling the squeeze. "We've absolutely seen a reduction," said Jayne Giroux, director of community development at SunCoast Blood Bank in Florida. Along with Texas, Florida is expected to be among the hardest hit by the virus. The limitation matters, especially since blood banks typically face difficulties in maintaining adequate reserves, Giroux said. And not just in Florida. "It's a concern everywhere." The American Red Cross, which is responsible for about 40% of the health system's donated blood, estimates that, so far, only one-tenth of 1% of its donors were turned away because of Zika exposure. But, a spokeswoman noted, that doesn't account for people who otherwise would have donated but never came. United Blood Services, which operates banks in 17 states, estimates its donations are down by 3% this year -- there are several potential causes, and Zika is likely among them, said Barbara Kain, a spokeswoman. But even if some facilities experience only a mild supply pinch, the downturn could compound other difficulties. Summer is already a tough time for blood banks to collect with people travelling more and colleges -- robust collection sites -- on break. The donor drop-off is probably greater in Southern states, where people more frequently travel to affected areas like Mexico, parts of the Caribbean and South America, said Louis Katz, chief medical officer of America's Blood Centers, another national blood bank network. Though Zika has had an impact, he emphasized that it's only one among many challenges blood banks are grappling with. Banks are trying to stock up in anticipation of any shortages, Giroux said. Blood plasma can be collected and frozen for years, but other components have shorter shelf lives. There's another option: Federal officials hope to expand the blood testing technology that's being used for Puerto Rico and Texas, so banks can collect blood from donors, screen it, and then discard whatever comes up positive for Zika. The FDA has given two tests the go-ahead to be used in clinical trials, which means blood centers can become testing sites and use the technology. One test was developed by Roche. The other, which gained that conditional FDA approval in June, is manufactured by Hologic. If the Zika threat grows, more blood banks will try to get in on using those, said Steven Kleinman, chief medical advisor at the American Association of Blood Banks. There is "tremendous interest" from blood banks and testing sites to use new screenings, said Tony Hardiman, Roche's vice president for blood screening. But it could take until the end of summer before most Southern states have easy access to testing. Federal officials are also pushing ahead on blood technology. The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded about $50 million in grants to two companies that are trying to improve "pathogen reduction technology," which takes infected blood and removes the virus, making it safe for use. That would mitigate some blood shortage concerns around transfusions, noted Gary Disbrow, acting director of the division of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear countermeasures at HHS' Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Such technology already exists for treating viruses such as Zika in platelets and plasma. Researchers are working to improve it and develop a similar "cleanser" for red blood cells, the most commonly transfused part of blood. But, experts noted, that could take years. The uncertainty, meanwhile, comes in a field where planning is already difficult, Giroux said, and where not having enough supplies on hand can have major consequences. "You never know, from day to day, what the needs are going to be. You can't predict a ruptured aorta. You can't predict a motor vehicle accident," she said. "Any time a virus or anything new pops up that we don't yet have a screening test for, people should be concerned." This article, which first appeared July 6, 2016, also ran in the Miami Herald. It was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy research and communication organization not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Samuel John Peploe Samuel John Peploe was born in Edinburgh on 27th January 1871. He can justly be described as one of Scotland’s greatest modern artists. He imbued and developed, in his own fashion, the most radical and avant garde styles of painting then current, from his earliest works c.1894 indebted to an understanding of the Barbizon School to cubism in his landscapes and still lifes c.1912. Peploe was born to a well-to-do family; however, both parents had died before he was twelve. He studied art at the Trustees School, the Royal Scottish Academy, and in Paris, in 1894 at the Académie Julian under the renowned classical painter William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) and at the Atelier Colarosse. He exhibited at the RSA from 1901 being elected ARSA in 1918 and RSA in 1927, he also exhibited at the Society of Scottish Artists and in galleries in London, Paris and New York, his first one man show being at the Edinburgh Gallery of Aitken Dott in 1903. Peploe was a founder member in 1911 of the National Portrait Society. Peploe was a landscape, portrait and still life painter, and although perhaps best known for the latter, shows himself as a very Scottish artist in his landscapes of the Isles, he painted in the Hebrides from 1891 and later in life visited Iona every summer. Between 1910, when he married, and 1913, Peploe lived in Paris. From the early influence of French social realism and the Glasgow School, the debt to Velasquez and Hals, seen in his use of paint and composition, through his friendship with John Duncan Fergusson, RBA (1874-1961) and their sketching trips to Brittany, Peploe when in Paris adopted a form of cubism. Draughtsmanship, as befits his traditional training, was significant in Peploe’s work, he adopted the formalised structure of cubism, but in a form akin to Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Peploe’s compositions, landscapes and still lifes, were dependent on line and colour. His work was reliant on his close observation of nature, colour, and the relationship of elements within his compositions, particularly evident in his still lifes, which he commenced painting c.1895. Peploe, J. D. Fergusson and Frances Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883-1937) are known as the Scottish Colourists, artists closest of all their British contemporaries to French painting and post-impressionism. His works can be found in museums in: Aberdeen; Dundee; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Glasgow, The Burrell Collection; Hull; Manchester and Perth.

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GW Links About GW GW Overview Graduate & Professional Admissions Costs & Financial Planning GW International Service & Engagement GW Today Follow GW GWeb (Records & Registration) Enrollment & the Student Experience MyGW Portal Student Services Hub GWorld GW Bulletin (Course Descriptions) GW Bookstore Regional Clubs & Chapters Transcripts & Diplomas Human Resources Management & Development Student Support & Family Engagement Online Tuition Payment GWorld Deposits GW Family Philanthropy Advising & Forms Student Services & Resources Groups, Centers & Institutes You are here: Home / Research Faculty and students in GW’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering conduct research programs in aerospace engineering; design of mechanical engineering systems; fluid mechanics, thermal sciences, and energy; industrial engineering; solid mechanics and materials science; structures and dynamics; and robotics, mechatronics, and controls. Our faculty maintain a number of research laboratories and work with faculty across the university in centers and institutes dedicated to the study of biomedical engineering, nanotechnology, and other topics. The department has a particularly strong presence in fluid dynamics research and has built one of the nation’s leading research programs in the fluid dynamics sub-discipline. Faculty Research: Meet Professor Santiago Solares We all need friends, and who among us wouldn’t appreciate a friend who does the hard, unglamorous, behind-the-scenes work that allows us to shine? Dr. Santiago Solares is that friend. He does the behind-the-scenes materials and measurement science research that other engineers can rely on to build the nano-scale devices that amaze the rest of the world. As a materials scientist, Dr. Solares is most concerned with being able to measure and describe for other engineers the properties of the materials they are going to use to build nano-scale systems. “If you want to build a safe bridge, you need to know the properties of steel and concrete,” says Dr. Solares. “So for small technologies, such as the design of a futuristic nano-machine, you also need to know those properties—how much you can push it, how much you can deform it, how much abuse it will take, or how it will change over time. But a lot of things are not yet measurable at that scale.” And the challenges to being able to measure and describe these properties at the nano scale are significant. One of the challenges is the tools. According to Dr. Solares, the inadequacy of the tools—they simply cannot be made any smaller than they are—is a reason that many people tend to shy away from this research. “They’re the best available but they’re not as good as what we have at the larger scale, not even close,” he states. “It’s like changing a tire on your car with a wrench that is three times the size of your car.” That presents another challenge: since the tools don’t allow the materials scientist to really see what he is doing, he always has to infer indirectly the behavior of the materials. And the behavior of the materials is what fascinates Dr. Solares. Right now, he and his lab are using atomic force microscopy to study what happens to polymer solar cells in real life conditions. Polymer solar cells are cheap and easy to make, and they could be attractive to consumers because they are flexible and can be bent and twisted without cracking; but they can be deformed only up to a point and for a limited time. Eventually, all that bending and twisting can make them malfunction or stop working completely. Dr. Solares’ lab is trying to study from the nano-mechanical point of view to what point specifically the solar cells can be abused and still maintain their functionality or, alternatively, how to prevent their malfunction, knowing that they will be abused a bit. Dr. Solares is no stranger to the real-life applications of his work. He spent seven years working in industry before turning to academic research, and he uses examples from industry to emphasize to his students the importance of learning well the limits of various materials and systems. “In the context of teaching, I can tell students exactly why they should learn this and I give them examples of serious things that happen when people don’t learn, because I have seen industrial accidents,” he says. “Not knowing your subject is dangerous.” Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Science & Engineering Hall 800 22nd St NW Contact Us | Maps & Directions

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Kojima: MGSV will be more like a TV series rather than like a movie June 15, 2013 | News | 11 Comments When asked about cutscene length in his upcoming game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain by IGN, Hideo Kojima answered that it will feature less cutscenes than Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. “Since this time around we’re using an open world environment, Metal Gear Solid V will have less cutscenes than before. Because you’ll be exploring, you’ll have fewer opportunities to run into a cutscene that takes the control away.” According to Kojima, if you think of the previous titles in the series as movies, The Phantom Pain will be more like a TV series with episodes. “Each episode breaks down into a non-linear mission that eventually come together to complete the story we’ve designed. Ground Zeroes perhaps best represents this.”

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View All Schools in New York City » Anisfield School of Business – Ramapo College of New Jersey Binghamton University School of Management Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Gabelli School of Business – Fordham University Jack Welch College of Business – Sacred Heart University Lehigh University College of Business and Economics Lubin School of Business – Pace University Metropolitan College of New York Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick Simon Business School – University of Rochester Stern School of Business – New York University Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business Stillman School of Business – Seton Hall University The College of New Jersey, School of Business Tobin College of Business – St. John’s University Whitman School of Management – Syracuse University Yale School of Management Zarb School of Business – Hofstra University Zicklin School of Business – Baruch College New York 1-Year MBA Programs New York City Full-Time MBA Rankings New York City MBA Programs That Don’t Require the GMAT or GRE New York City MBA Programs That Don’t Require Work Experience Home » Featured Home » Anisfield Holds Sebastian J. Raciti Memorial Lecture Anisfield Holds Sebastian J. Raciti Memorial Lecture Last Updated Oct 7, 2015 by Erin Purcell The Anisfield School of Business will be holding the Sebastian J. Raciti Memorial Lecture on Oct. 21, 2015. The event will be held at the Trustees Pavilion at the School of Business campus. During the event the Raciti Memorial Scholarship will be awarded. Sebastian Raciti was one of the founding facility of the Anisfiled School of Business. During his 31-years at ASB, he served as the Dean of the School, academic vice president, and was also a professor of economics. The event’s guest speaker will be Peter G. Klein, a professor from the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow with Baylor’s Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise. His talk for the event is titled, “Entrepreneurship in a Market Economy: What Business Students Need to Know.” Professor Klein’s research focuses on links between entrepreneurship, strategy and organization. His work as been featured in several leading publications including, The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, The Journal of Management, The Rand Jrounal of Economics and Organization Science. He and his co-author Nicolai Foss received the 2014 Best Book Award from the Foundation for Economics Education. His research is also been funded by the National Science Foundation. The event will begin at 6:45 with light refreshments. Professor Klein’s lecture will be held from 7:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. The event is free to attend and open to any alumni, current students, faculty and interested members of the general public. Those interested in attending should send an RSVP email to msabrin@ramapo.edu by Oct. 10 to ensure a place for the program. For more information on the Anisfield School of Business, visit metromba.com. regions: New York City Erin Purcell Staff Writer, covering MetroMBA's news beat for New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. View more posts by Erin Purcell Return to New York City region » New STEM Concentration in Business Analytics Introduced at Lehigh What an ADP Job Can Mean for MBA Candidates New New York City MBA Jobs for Experienced Candidates Startup Lessons: LA MILLA

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Home › Industrialisation In 1968 more space was needed to cope with the increasing demand, which in the meantime the company had crossed over in to the nautical market and brings a new name, the O.M.C. becomes MARSILI Aldo, the steering wheel as a brand is synonymous with reliability and quality; and must necessarily have the name of the founder, it was neccessary to invest in traditional and semi-automatic machines, sanders and grinders, welding and carpentry department, turning and milling department, assembly department enhanced with the test bench, a shipping department, with block and tackle and a huge crane, all this contained in the new industrial building. The first lathe The second important step of the story takes place in 1982 with the purchase of the first CNC lathe that brings the production up to date, and the technical department “collaborated” with the best Italian and foreign Designers & Naval Architects and with the most prestigious shipyards. Marsili passes to industrial automation, enhancing production with CNC machines, this allows for greater penetration of the marine market, a rationalization of the construction of servo systems for autopilots, becoming official suppliers of some brands; Marsili Aldo & Srl was born.

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Children's festival tickets on sale next week Cindy Forth / Special to The Nugget More from Cindy Forth / Special to The Nugget Published on: May 15, 2019 | Last Updated: May 15, 2019 11:51 PM EDT We are busy putting the final touches on our May 31 event in honour our building’s 90-year history. We hope you will take the time to come out to the event, enjoy the activities we have in store and celebrate with us. It’s been a busy few weeks here with dance competitions and shows. We are going to take a breath over the long weekend. The Redpath box office and WKP Kennedy Gallery will be closed. As always, you can still purchase tickets online for upcoming shows at www.capitolcentre.org. On May 24 we have Thane Dunn’s Elvis Rock and Country show taking the Capitol Centre stage. This show is billed as the definitive Elvis Presley experience. This one has been a hot ticket, but there are still some balcony seats available for all the die-hard Elvis fans out there. The show includes all the classics you love from Blue Suede Shoes to Always on my Mind. Dance also returns next week with two Dance Expressions recitals on May 25 and the BTS Dance showcase on May 26. Coming next month, don’t forget our 33rd-annual Terry’s Classic Golf tournament on June 11 and our fourth-annual children’s festival on June 14-16. This year’s children’s festival will kick off with a wonderful family concert on the Friday night with Michael Mitchell’s Canada is for Kids. Mitchell is an award-winning singer, songwriter and storyteller whose love of Canada is contagious. His show will stir up your patriotic spirit as he takes you on a musical journey with lively songs and humorous stories. Mitchell has performed more than 5,000 shows, hosted CTV television’s Story Time children’s program and has written and recorded songs for Sesame Street and PBS. He also is an Officer of the Order of Military Merit. Our festival continues June 15 with lots of activities, including puppet shows, a musical petting zoo, a slime party and crafts. Our festival concludes with a Sunday free family movie. Stay tuned for all the details. Tickets will go on sale next week. One of the questions we get asked a lot is who has performed at the Capitol Centre. I thought it would be fun to take a look back at some of the notable entertainers who have graced our stage. I mentioned a few weeks ago that the Trapp Family Singers performed here many decades ago in 1945. Others who have performed include Johnny Cash, Phyllis Diller, Brenda Lee, Gordon Lightfoot, Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman, National Ballet of Canada, the Bolshoi Ballet, Victor Borge, Sarah McLachlan, Howie Mandel, The Nylons, Andre Philippe Gagnon, Rich Little, Rita MacNeil, Michael Burgess, Jeff Healey, Barenaked Ladies, Jann Arden, Blue Rodeo, Andrea Martin, Gowan, Sheena Easton, Natalie MacMaster, Leahy, Alan Doyle, the Barra MacNeils, Men of the Deeps, The Wiggles, and Sharon and Bram. We have even had two astronauts — Roberta Bondar and Chris Hadfield – on our stage. It is really quite astounding when you look at the list, and I know I have probably missed lots of other notable names. We are excited to continue our tradition and have booked a couple of legends for this July. Bruce Cockburn will perform on July 12 and Steve Earle will perform on July 17. In the coming months, we will be launching our 2019/2020 season. Cindy Forth is interim executive director of The Capitol Centre. School buses running modified routes in Mattawa Digital exhibition pairs French-Canadian, French-African artists

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Accession: F00793 Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy testimony notes, September 29, 1879 Manuscript Description: Handwritten notes of testimony apparently taken during the Barry v. Glover case. Related Topic: L09048Click link to view L09048 document in new window, L09049Click link to view L09049 document in new window, F00790Click link to view F00790 document in new window, F00791Click link to view F00791 document in new window Called the 23d of Feb for her (Mrs Glover’s congratulations. (Miss Lucy Allen testimony to be put in (Mrs Eddy, then Mrs Glover, called. Mrs. Mary G Eddy. Reside in LynnEditorial Note: Lynn, Massachusetts Lived there 7 years. Physician, since 1864. Plaintif First came to the office in 1870. Had lung complaint and other complaints. First treated him in the Autumn of 1870. Came to pay tuition, and I receipted him in full for $150Editorial Note: $150 in 1870 is the equivalent of $2837.29 in 2015.. Came to talk of the scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, and proposed to copy my manuscripts As Written: MSS for the class. I thanked him and asked him if I should pay him and he said nothing. He copied for the classes,1871. Copied for 6 students in 1871. Miss Blood copied for me and others. I should think he copied for 3. did not copy for BookEditorial Note: Science and Health in 1871. Commenced writing BookEditorial Note: Science and Health in 1872. 60 pages written during that year. one class he copied for in ”72 of four in number. Plaintiff Paid in 72, my office rent $75.00Editorial Note: $75 in 1872 is the equivalent of $1498.04 in 2015.. Can recollect receiving some stationary from him offered to pay him for it he took pay except in some instances. Then he was say I have brought this MotherEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy. George W. Barry had frequently called Eddy “Mother.” for you. Except a Christmas present, a gold pen. I have but 3 trunks that I can remember of. He was frequently at my house, not of my request, but of his own accord. Except when he was leaving I would invite him to call again. 7 th Page. 25 He came to me after having copied in the class, and I told him I was going As Written: goin to write my book Science of LifeEditorial Note: The Science of Life was the title Mary Baker Eddy originally intended for her book, Science and Health., and said I would like to copy that for you if I could. You write it in a good hand and I should be pleased to. I asked him how much he would charge me, he said nothing, you never took my full tuition, This was in the winter of “72. We commenced then and wrote a few pages, showed him how to make an interogation pointEditorial Note: interrogation point. An “interrogation point” is another name for a question mark.. Then I arranged what letters or capitals to attach to the names of DeityEditorial Note: In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy gives seven synonyms for God: Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love. See pages 465 and 587 of the current edition.. He made no effort to dictate me. As he grew in copying, he grew a little difficult to control. we got along very well. 1872 he copied 60 pages. Made an agreement in “73 to have him copy it was to have 15 centsEditorial Note: Fifteen cents in 1873 is the equivalent of $3.00 in 2015. , royalty. $2.50Editorial Note: $2.50 in 1873 is the equivalent of $49.93 in 2015. for each book was the price agreed upon. After the book went to press, Mr Barry said it was best to have it copied again as there was some interlineation. He (Mr Barry) asked me if I could do it. I then received two proofs before the bookEditorial Note: Science and Health went into the type, about 400 pages. I did not know when it went into print When he brought the work to me I did not recognize my bookEditorial Note: Science and Health. I commenced the task of counting every letter I took out, and getting a word that would fill just the space of the letters. All he helped me was to mark As Written: marke the typographical errors, He told me to take a red lead pencil and I did, there were ---- errors Said the fault was his, said I ought not to have let it been stereotypedEditorial Note: “Stereotyped,” in printing, means turning the typed manuscript into a metal plate which is then used to print multiple copies of a work. until I had the proof. I advised him in regard to his health all this time for 3 years. When he was done copying he asked if he might call as usual twice a week. he continued to until up to the time he wanted to get the deed of my house into his hands. I think it was in the summer. Got through publishing BookEditorial Note: Science and Health in Oct 30 1875. Never received any royalty from him on the BookEditorial Note: Science and Health. In 1872 took two mortages and gave all the money I had 2000Editorial Note: $2,000 in 1872 is the equivalent of $39,947.74 in 2015. apiece. Mr. Bary collected the interest for me. Said he would be glad to. said nothing about compensation. Went to New Hampshire and when there he went into my rooms and arranged the things, said he Saw Kennedy pick a lock. don’t recollect of his going As Written: goin to Concord but once. He wanted to see Mr AcottEditorial Note: Probably Bronson Alcott. and the town. He told me what a nice visit he had. Mr Bary told me had had paid in $400 and should lose it and wanted me to take the house. I wanted then to take the house, and they would d, agree to it, Property depreciated & I did not want the house. While it was in their hands the house went out of repair. Paid Painters and other bills. They took no share of the house. After I got it in my hands Mr Bary wanted me to give him a deed of it would be in a safe keeping anybody can trump Archivist Estimate a bill you don’t take an receipts of your students, and they are helping you, it would be safe in my hands. This was in 1875 Mar 30th. 27 He grew imperative, and grew angry. This was in the autumn of 1875. Mortages were signed by Mr Allen and Barry. He would often ask me to take a walk saying to much confinement was bad. Never asked him to walk with him. After the class called me SisterEditorial Note: Early Christian Scientists often called each other “Brother” and “Sister.” he said he would like to claim the relationship of Mother. In the winter of 1872, he brought me $150Editorial Note: $150 in 1872 is the equivalent of $2,996.08 in 2015. he said he could not feel justified in keeping it, I had done him so much good. I refused to take it, and he took it home & sent it to me. When I next saw him told him I would take $100Editorial Note: $100 in 1872 is the equivalent of $1997.39 in 2015. pay him $25Editorial Note: $25 in 1872 is the equivalent of $499.35 in 2015. for the rent he had paid & give him another $25Editorial Note: $25 in 1872 is the equivalent of $499.35 in 2015. I did this. He never suggested to me that I was indebted to him on the contrary he thanked me. When his family was sick I doctored themEditorial Note: When Mary Baker Eddy says she doctored people, it is a reference to giving them Christian Science treatment through prayer. and asked no pay. I have been offered $50.00 a visit and $1000 for a weeks visits. He walked to Boston and back on a wager with a friend, after he had been my patient a short time. I offered to pay him and he always refused me. He called me to doctor his familyEditorial Note: When Mary Baker Eddy says she doctored people, it is a reference to giving them Christian Science treatment through prayer.. I gave him counsel, he had an insane grandfather and a Sister who had chronic rheumatism. He may have carried up coal, but do not remember it. Called the 23d of Feb for her (Mrs Congratulation Glover’s congratulations. Mrs. Mary Baker G Eddy. Reside in LynnEditorial Note: Lynn, Massachusetts Lived there 7 years. Physician, since 1864. W Plaintif First came to the office in 1870. Had lung disease complaint and other complaints. First treated him in the Autumn of 1870. Came to pay tuition, and I receipted him in full for $150Editorial Note: $150 in 1870 is the equivalent of $2837.29 in 2015.. Came to talk of the scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, and proposed to copy my MSS Corrected: manuscripts for the class. I thanked him and asked him if I should pay him and he said nothing. He copied for the classes,1871. Copied for 6 students in 1871. Miss Blood copied for me and others. I should think he copied for 3. did not copy for BookEditorial Note: Science and Health in 1871. Commenced writing BookEditorial Note: Science and Health in 1872. 60 pages written during that year. one class he copied for in ”72 of four in number. Plaintiff Paid in 72, my office rent $75.00Editorial Note: $75 in 1872 is the equivalent of $1498.04 in 2015.. Can recollect receiving some stationary from him offered to pay him for it he took pay except in some instances. Then he was say I have brought this MotherEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy. George W. Barry had frequently called Eddy “Mother.” for you. Except a Christmas present, a gold pen. I have but 3 trunks that I can remember of. He was frequently at my house, not of my request, but of his own accord. Except when he was leaving I would call invite him to call again. He came to me after having copied in the class, and I told him I was goin Corrected: going to write my book Science of LifeEditorial Note: The Science of Life was the title Mary Baker Eddy originally intended for her book, Science and Health., and said I would like to copy that for you if I could. You write it in a good hand and I should be pleased to. I asked him how much he would charge me, he said nothing, you never took my full tuition, This was in the winter of “72. We commenced then and wrote a few pages, showed him how to make an interogation pointEditorial Note: interrogation point. An “interrogation point” is another name for a question mark.. Then I arranged what letters or capitals to attach to the names of DeityEditorial Note: In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy gives seven synonyms for God: Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love. See pages 465 and 587 of the current edition.. He made no effort to dictate me. As he grew in copying, t he grew a little difficult to control. we got along very well. 1872 he copied 60 pages. Made an agreement in “73 to have him copy it He was to have 15 centsEditorial Note: Fifteen cents in 1873 is the equivalent of $3.00 in 2015. for copying, royalty. $2.50Editorial Note: $2.50 in 1873 is the equivalent of $49.93 in 2015. for each book was the price agreed upon. After the book went to press, Mr Barry said it was best to have it copied again as there was some interlineation. He (Mr Barry) asked me if I could do it. I then received two proofs before the bookEditorial Note: Science and Health went into the type, about 400 pages. I did not know when it went into print When he brought the work to me I did not recognize my bookEditorial Note: Science and Health. I commenced the task of counting every letter I took out, and getting a word that would fill just the space of the letters. All he helped me was to marke Corrected: mark the typographical errors, I He told me to take a red lead pencil and I did, there were ---- errors Said the fault was his, said I ought not to have let it been stereotypedEditorial Note: “Stereotyped,” in printing, means turning the typed manuscript into a metal plate which is then used to print multiple copies of a work. until I had the proof. Went to New Hampshire and when there he went into my rooms and arranged the things, said he Saw Kennedy pick a lock. don’t recollect of his goin Corrected: going to Concord but once. He wanted to see Mr AcottEditorial Note: Probably Bronson Alcott. and the town. He told me what a nice visit he had. Mr Bary told me had had paid in $400 and should lose it and wanted me to take the house. I wanted then to take the house, and they would d, agree to it, Property depreciated and & I did not want the house. While it was in their hands the house went out of repair. Paid Painters and other bills. They took no share of the house. After I got it in my hands Mr Bary wanted me to give him a deed of it would be in a safe keeping anybody can trump Archivist Estimate a bill you don’t take an receipts of your students, and they are helping you, it would be safe in my hands. This was in 1875 Mar 30th. 27 He grew imperative, and grew angry. This was in the autumn of 1875. Mortages were signed by Mr Allen and Barry. He would often ask me to take a walk saying to much confinement was bad. Never asked him to walk with him. After the class called me SisterEditorial Note: Early Christian Scientists often called each other “Brother” and “Sister.” he said he would like to claim the relationship of Mother. In the winter of 1872, he brought me $150Editorial Note: $150 in 1872 is the equivalent of $2,996.08 in 2015. he said he could not feel justified in keeping it, I had done him so much good. I refused to take it, and he took it home & sent it to me. When I next saw him told him I would take $100Editorial Note: $100 in 1872 is the equivalent of $1997.39 in 2015. pay him $25Editorial Note: $25 in 1872 is the equivalent of $499.35 in 2015. for the rent he had paid & give him another $25Editorial Note: $25 in 1872 is the equivalent of $499.35 in 2015. I did this. He never suggested to me that I was indebted to him on the contrary he thanked me. When his family was sick I doctored themEditorial Note: When Mary Baker Eddy says she doctored people, it is a reference to giving them Christian Science treatment through prayer. and asked no pay. I have been offered $50.00 a visit and $1000 for a weeks visits. He walked to Boston and back on a wager with a friend, after he had been my patient a short time. I offered to pay him and he always refused me. He called me to doctor his familyEditorial Note: When Mary Baker Eddy says she doctored people, it is a reference to giving them Christian Science treatment through prayer.. I gave him counsel, he had an insane grandfather and a Sister who had a chronic rheumatism. He may have carried up coal, but do not remember it. Lynn, Massachusetts $150 in 1870 is the equivalent of $2837.29 in 2015. Christian Science Science and Health Science and Health $75 in 1872 is the equivalent of $1498.04 in 2015. Mary Baker Eddy. George W. Barry had frequently called Eddy “Mother.” The Science of Life was the title Mary Baker Eddy originally intended for her book, Science and Health. interrogation point. An “interrogation point” is another name for a question mark. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy gives seven synonyms for God: Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love. See pages 465 and 587 of the current edition. Fifteen cents in 1873 is the equivalent of $3.00 in 2015. $2.50 in 1873 is the equivalent of $49.93 in 2015. Science and Health Science and Health “Stereotyped,” in printing, means turning the typed manuscript into a metal plate which is then used to print multiple copies of a work. Science and Health Science and Health $2,000 in 1872 is the equivalent of $39,947.74 in 2015. Probably Bronson Alcott. Early Christian Scientists often called each other “Brother” and “Sister.” $150 in 1872 is the equivalent of $2,996.08 in 2015. $100 in 1872 is the equivalent of $1997.39 in 2015. $25 in 1872 is the equivalent of $499.35 in 2015. $25 in 1872 is the equivalent of $499.35 in 2015. When Mary Baker Eddy says she doctored people, it is a reference to giving them Christian Science treatment through prayer. When Mary Baker Eddy says she doctored people, it is a reference to giving them Christian Science treatment through prayer.

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Μountains map Mount Penteli By mountainsGreece, February 3, 2018 Situated north of Athens city center, mount Penteli is easily recognizable from afar because of its extensive quarries , looking like wounds which will never heal. The mountain is famous for its flawless white marble, which was used to build the Acropolis and other ancient monuments. Today, the ancient quarries are only used to obtain material for the Acropolis restoration works, although newer ones are still “eating” the mountain’s back side. Uncontrolled construction and a series of forest fires- including the devastating fires of 2009, which occurred just when the forest was showing the first signs of rebirth after the equally destructive fires of 1995- have caused irreversible damage, erasing all trace of the once densely forested slopes. Somehow, the mountain’s fauna has managed to survive- rabbits, foxes, grouse and several species of smaller birds-, while arguably the best time to visit is in early spring, when the wild flowers are in bloom. During the summer months, withstanding the heat, with hardly any trees offering shade, is literally an endurance test. 1,109 m. 12 km from Athens 515 km from Thessaloniki The fires have not left much in terms of hiking routes. It is, however, possible to follow one of the forest roads by bike or on foot, during the cooler months of the year. In antiquity, so-called Pentelikon Oros was a source of marble, but also a place of worship in antiquity. Nearby Marathon is where the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians in 490 BC. The name of the “marathon” race derives from the legend of Greek runner Pheidippides, who was said to have run from the town of Marathon to Athens, only to die of exhaustion minutes after announcing that the Persians had been defeated. Davelis cave, once consecrated to Pan and the nymphs, takes its name from the infamous thief Davelis, who was rumored to use it as a hideout. Ntaveli’s cave is a popular destination among young explorers and those wishing to test their skills at the nearby rock climbing routes- most of which are quite challenging and recommended for the inexperienced. Marathonas’ artificial lake, situated just behind the mountain, has also been affected by the fire but remains a scenic spot very close to the city center. In the weekends, many Athenians visit the cafeteria by the dam, as well as the area’s taverns. Not far from here is the tomb of Marathon, site of the legendary battle. The monastery of Penteli, among the richest and largest still functioning monasteries in Greece, was founded in 1578. author – photographer: Panos Bampaloukas Copyright 2020 MountainsGreece

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Regal redux The painter’s playground More hotels in Provence More hotels in France Those in search of a life filled with sun, salons and stately ease will find it at Château de Fonscolombe, a restored 18th-century seat near Aix-en-Provence. Owned by wealthy humanists for more than two centuries, the château finally threw open its doors in 2017 after spending 18 months under the knife, a project that saw more than 50 artisans working on its historic rooms. Pale paints and bright fabrics were used to lend a modern touch, but the Chinese silk wallpaper, regal furniture and golden chandeliers ensure the house is still every inch a noble. On the ground floor, the salons are as sumptuous as ever, giving guests a place to sip cocktails over backgammon, billiards or a novel by Victor Hugo. In the restaurant, adept chef Nadège Serret cooks up a perfect storm of modern Provençal cuisine, best enjoyed on the shady terrace with a bottle of the estate's own wine. Get this when you book through us: A cheese plate and tasting of two wines with the sommelier; Silver- and GoldSmiths also get free breakfast 38, including 12 suites. Noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 4pm. Double rooms from £161.30 (€189), including tax at 10 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of €3.30 per person per night on check-out. Rates don’t include breakfast. The Continental menu (€26 an adult; €12 a child) includes homemade bread and pastries; on the à la carte menu, you’ll find gourmet offerings like dry-cured Savoie ham and smoked haddock. Many of the chateau’s owners were keen on science and botany – one of the reasons the grounds have been planted with over 180 species of tree. One of the oldest is the atlas cedar at the front gate, said to have been planted centuries ago by one of England’s queens. Hotel closed The hotel’s usually closed from November to April each year. Landscaped gardens; library; beauty salon; games room; free WiFi throughout; laundry. In rooms: flatscreen TV, minibar, Mitchell and Peach bath products. Our favourite rooms Even the entry level rooms have terracotta-tiled floors and views of the gardens or château court, but we’d swing for one of the junior suites, which often have regal features like high ceilings, marble fireplaces and reading nooks hidden behind plush curtains. The heated, outdoor pool is in the gardens, a few minutes’ walk from the steps of the château. Sunloungers and parasols are arranged around the outside, and there’s a pool house with a bar that’s open in summer, ensuring drinks and light bites are within arm’s reach. After a day spent exploring the estate, limber up in the impressive hammam salon, which has a tall, arched ceiling, a wooden-fronted hammam and an elegant lounge area with a tree of life painted on the wall. There’s also a beauty salon for massages, hand treatments and facials, and a fitness room with rowing and resistance machines, free weights and floor mats. If you’ve got space to spare, bring an extra bag for a few bottles of the hotel’s wine. All of the château’s common areas are wheelchair accessible, as are some of the suites on the ground floor. Pet‐friendly Pets under 12kg can stay free. See more pet-friendly hotels in Provence. All ages are very welcome. Top Table In summer, go for one of the tables in the terrace, which are shaded by the fan-like branches of bald cypress trees. You no longer need a gilet-veste or a wig to get in, but guests do tend to smarten up a little for dinner. Restaurant L’Orangerie is the most modern space at the hotel – something the architects took full advantage of by installing floor-to-ceiling windows, giving most tables a view across the gardens and forest. Helming the kitchen is chef Nadège Serret, who spent years working alongside French culinary heavyweights before taking up residence at the château. Her menus always change with the seasons, showcasing the best of southern French produce – some of the vegetables and herbs come from the hotel’s own garden. For the best experience, go for the seven-course tasting menu, which changes according to Serret’s inspiration that day. The lounge bar is in one of the regal salon rooms, and the parquet floor, deep armchairs and gilt-framed paintings make it the perfect match for a mid-afternoon cocktail or post-dinner cognac. The wine list is extensive, and includes all the estate’s own wines. There’s also a second, smaller bar next to the wine cellar used for private tastings. Breakfast is served from 7am to 11am; lunch from noon to 2pm; dinner from 7pm to 9.30pm. There’s a reduced room service menu with pasta dishes and cold plates. Route de Saint-Canadet The château is in the communeof Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, about 20 minutes’ drive from Aix-en-Provence. Marseille International Airport is closest, and can be reached directly from London Heathrow. It takes around 40 minutes to drive from the airport to the hotel; private transfers are available from €85 each way. High speed TGV trains arrive at the Aix-en-Provence Mediterranean station, a 15-minute drive from the centre of the city. Trains from Lyon take an hour to get there; services from Paris take three. The hotel can arrange transfers from the station for €65 each way. You won’t need a car if you’re planning on sticking to the hotel and its grounds, but with national parks, stately châteaus and mediaeval villages within a short drive, having your own set of wheels will certainly come in handy. If you want to hire, the Smith24 team can arrange it. Worth getting out of bed for To stay at the château is to experience life as it was enjoyed by the aristocrats that built it. Once filled with visiting nobles, the salons offer the same leisurely atmosphere and distractions as they did in their heyday, including an antique billiards table, a piano and backgammon sets. If it’s peace and seclusion you’re after, try the library, home to a set of original Victor Hugo novels. Outside, you can follow in the footsteps of courting nobles by taking a turn around the French gardens, which are perfumed by Provencâl flowers and shaded by rare trees. When you do venture beyond the hotel’s grounds, be sure to make the trip to Ventabren, a historic hilltop town crested by the ruined château of Queen Jeanne. The steep cobbled streets, stone water fountains and 17th-century church are have been painstakingly preserved over the years, and the town also lays claim to the largest stone aqueduct in the world, a triumph of 19th-century engineering that rises 83 metres from the valley floor. For art and 18th-century architecture, visit the Caumont Art Centre in Aix-en-Provence, a gallery housed in the town’s most sumptuous hotel particulier. In summer it's given over to the work of a single artist; in winter, touring collections adorn the walls. Aix also hosts several popular markets, where traders sell authentic Provençal goods. Ripe fruit and plump vegetables are sold at the bottom of the Cours Mirabeau every day; on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, local crafts are on sale in the Espace Cézanne and antiques can be bartered over on Avenue Victor Hugo. You’ll see references to Aix’s most famous resident, Cézanne, all over the city. His hillside studio – which he worked in every day for the last four years of his life – is in Les Lauves, a 15-minute walk north from the city centre. For a long alfresco lunch with excellent wine, try La Terrasse at winery Château La Coste. The menu is typically Provençal and many dishes are made with produce plucked straight from the château’s kitchen garden. As the name suggests, the seating is all outside, centred around a stone fountain and bordered by the manicured gardens. For dinner, book a table at Le Saint Esteve, where Chef Mathias Dandine has earned a Michelin star for his efforts in the kitchen. The focus is naturally on the food, but the soaring mountain view is just as impressive – book in advance to secure a table on the terrace. For a meal in a more historic setting, try Villa Gallici, where the dining room has a parquet floor, patterned velvet chairs and custard-and-cream wallpaper swirled with flowers. Both the à la carte and set menus are rooted in the region’s cuisine, but chef Christophe Gavot doesn’t shy away from playing with more modern cooking and flavours. Book well in advance. Local bars You’re unlikely to find anywhere local that does a better cocktail than the hotel. Anonymous review By Mr & Mrs Smith Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this country house hotel in Provence and unpacked their wine from the hotel estate, a full account of their stately break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Château de Fonscolombe in Provence… In 1730, the French aristocrat was sitting pretty. As the first stones were being laid at Château de Fonscolombe, the French Revolution was still a good 60 years off, and Paris was arguably the most fashionable capital in Europe. Roving from one country seat to the next, nobles would no doubt have gathered at Fonscolombe, enjoying the distractions of the salon and the privacy of the perfumed gardens, where a romance could blossom away from prying eyes. We don't have details, of course, because the house would have been off limits to anyone without rank and title – until now. After 18 months of restoration and refurbishment, the château opened its doors in 2017, giving in-the-know travellers a chance to enjoy a slice of that same life of leisure. The salons are now in full swing again, with spaces for sampling the estate wines, reading Victor Hugo and playing the baby grand piano. The gardens have never looked better, and are now home to an outdoor pool with a summer bar – something the 18th-century inhabitants didn’t have. Another area that’s undoubtedly better is the food – rising star Nadège Serret is at the helm in the kitchen, bringing a forward-thinking attitude to classic Provençal cuisine. Both the tasting and à la carte menus are worth taking your time over – in fact, we’d recommend eating there at least twice… The Guestbook Whenever you book a stay at a Smith hotel or villa, we’ll invite you to review it when you get back. Read what other Smith members had to say in Château de Fonscolombe’s Guestbook below. No Smith members have posted their reviews of Château de Fonscolombe yet. You could be the first! You’ll also find Château de Fonscolombe in: Family-friendly hotels Exclusive hotel offers for Smith members

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To Live "Comfortably" in Miami, You Need to Make $77,057 ($46K More Than the Median Income) Kyle Munzenrieder | April 20, 2016 | 11:56am According to a financial rule of thumb, a person should spend about 50 percent of his or her after-tax income on necessities. That includes things like rent, food, utilities, health care, and transportation. Another 30 percent should be spent on discretionary purchases, and the remaining 20 percent should be stashed away in savings. That sounds fine and dandy, but it turns out it's nearly impossible to follow that rule in Miami. According to a new analysis from Go Banking Rates, to comfortably budget like that here, a person would need to make $77,057 a year. It's a bummer than that the median income in Miami is just $30,858. The analysis takes into account things like median rent and local cost of living. To simply pay for necessities, an average Miamian should make $38,529 a year. That figure was doubled to come to the ideal level. Of course, it seems these estimates are modeled for single people living alone. Miami Is the Fifth-Best City for Lazy People Miami's ideal comfortable living outcome isn't shocking when compared to some other large cities. In Seattle, you need $72,092; in L.A., the magic number is $74,371; and it's $87,446 in New York. San Franciscans need an estimated $119,570 a year to live comfortably, by far the most. Here's what makes Miami unique, and depressingly so: The difference between the estimated ideal income and what the average person makes is $46,199. No other city, even San Francisco, has as high a difference between the ideal salary number and the real number. Of course, people can still find living situations that fall well below the median rent (even if they aren't ideal), and thrifty shoppers can find other necessities on the cheap. People obviously do and can get by on far less, but it's questionable whether they're really living comfortably and saving enough for the future. However, in a city noted for its income inequality and where half the residents make less than $30,858 a year, this finding isn't a surprise. The question is whether anything serious will ever be done to fix it.

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Israel court rules police ‘violated MK’s rights’ by removing him from Al-Aqsa January 22, 2019 at 11:56 am | Published in: Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine Palestinian Muslims gather in front of the Dome of the Rock after the mosque reopened in Jerusalem on 14 January 2019 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency] The Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court has ruled that the Israel Police violated the rights of Knesset Member (MK) Yehuda Glick by removing him from Al-Aqsa compound. The court’s ruling criticised the Israel Police for “not fulfilling its obligation to provide an explanation for [its] conduct against Glick,” Arutz Sheva reported yesterday, with the court stating that: “The lack of sufficient explanation raises concerns about the arbitrariness of the police toward the Plaintiff.” Arutz Sheva explained: “The lawsuit dealt with seven cases in which Glick was not allowed to [enter Al-Aqsa compound], after the Israel Police promised the [Israeli] High Court of Justice that it would allow him to [do so] and that it would remove him only after providing him the right to be heard during a hearing.” In five of those seven cases, the court ruled that Glick had proved that the Israel Police was “negligent” in preventing him from entering Al-Aqsa compound and in causing him harm. The court then ordered the police to pay Glick 7,500 shekels ($2,032) in compensation, as well as 6,000 shekels ($1,626) to cover his attorney’s fees. READ: Jordan condemns Israel violations near Al-Aqsa Mosque Glick – a Likud MK and Orthodox rabbi who lives on the illegal Israeli settlement of Otniel, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank – has long been a controversial figure for his repeated storming of Al-Aqsa compound. In September, Glick led a group of extremist settlers into the compound and performed prayers near the mosque, an act which is strictly prohibited under the status quo agreement. In July, Glick led over 1,000 Israeli settlers onto the Al-Aqsa compound to pray to in commemoration of the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av. The group was protected by heavily-armed Israeli forces which were deployed at the doorways to Al-Aqsa, set up barriers and confiscated the ID cards of Palestinians trying to enter the site. Earlier that month Glick, along with two other MKs Amir Ohana and Shuli Mualem, forced their way into the Al-Aqsa compound after Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, lifted a three-year ban on government officials and Knesset members visiting the site. Al-Aqsa kicking out Israeli soldiers [Twitter] Yesterday’s court ruling will be seen as ironic in light of the way Israeli police and armed forces treat Palestinians trying to enter Al-Aqsa compound. Last week, the police sieged the complex and surrounded the Dome of the Rock, demanding that the mosque’s guards turn themselves into the authorities. Firas Al-Dibs, an employee of the Waqf – the religious endowment which administers Al-Aqsa – said that tensions had broken out after the mosque guards refused to allow an Israeli policeman, who was wearing a Jewish kippah (head covering) at the time, to enter the Dome of the Rock. The Israeli police subsequently laid siege to the building, preventing Muslim worshippers from praying. READ: 101 Israel violations against Palestinian holy sites

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https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Community-notes-11899894.php Published 12:00 am EDT, Thursday, August 6, 2009 Crafters needed HADDAM -- The Haddam-Killingworth Middle School PTO will be holding its 22nd annual holiday craft fair Nov. 21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 451 Killingworth Road (Route 81), Killingworth. Interested crafters should call Linda Kauffman at (860) 345-9120 or e-mail rkauffman@snet.net for an application. Hall of Fame nominations open EAST HAMPTON -- The East Hampton Athletic Hall of Fame Association is now accepting nominations for the class of 2009. Last November, the East Hampton Athletic Hall of Fame Association inducted its third class, Lisa Abbott, Jason Clark, Carl William (CW) Currie, Sheila Pekari Mongiat and Paul Peszynski. Those who know of an individual, coach or team that is worthy of this honor, should consider nominating that person and/or team. Nomination forms can be obtained at the East Hampton Public Library, or requested by an e-mail to EHAHOF@sbcglobal.net or by sending a self-addressed envelope to EHAHOF, P.O. Box 156, East Hampton. All information on the form must be completed and received with supporting letters of recommendation by Sept. 4 for the candidate to be considered for this year's induction class. The Induction Banquet for this year's class will be held on Nov. 7. The EHAHOF was founded in the spring of 2006 and intends to honor and acknowledge outstanding athletic accomplishment by those involved in athletics in the town of East Hampton. DeSoto Council 6 CROMWELL -- DeSoto Council 6 of the Knights of Columbus in Cromwell recently provided two scholarships to two seminarians at Holy Apostle's seminary. They were announced from the altar at the Holy Apostle's chapel as seminarians celebrated their graduation. One of the seminarians, Deacon Christopher Schuh, was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Norwich on May 30 and gave the valedictory address at the graduation ceremony. The other recipient, Henry Agudelo, who is from Colombia, is continuing his studies at Holy Apostles in the fall for future ordination in the Diocese of Norwich. The DeSoto Council 6 and the American Red Cross held the seventh memorial blood drive in honor of Dom Malaquias in Cromwell April 25. This year, 57 pints of blood were donated. Malaquias was a longtime member of the Knights and resident who actively supported the Red Cross through personal donations. He was largely responsible for organizing the annual blood drive sponsored by the local K of C. The annual drives have collected more than 850 pints of blood for the Red Cross since 1994. CROMWELL -- Cromwell Middle School has announced the hours for parents to come in to register their children for school. Any child who is new to the Cromwell School System and entering grades six through eight should be registered at the middle school Monday to Friday, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Parents are urged to register students as soon as possible. A copy of their child's immunizations, birth certificate and proof of Cromwell residency are required. New registrations will not be accepted on the first day of school. School will open for the 2009-10 school year on Sept. 3. Valley Regional students DEEP RIVER -- Students new to Regional School District 4 planning to attend Valley Regional High School in September should plan to register Aug. 24, 27, 28 and 31. The school counseling office will be open for registration of new students between the hours of 8 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Call (860) 526-5328, Ext. 2557, for an appointment. Hospital testing, classes MIDDLETOWN -- The Middlesex Hospital Center for Chronic Care Management now offers a class that helps people who may be at risk for diabetes learn ways to prevent the disease. The 90-minute class is taught by registered dietitians and certified diabetes educators at 80 S. Main St., for $15. To register for the next session, call (860) 358-3003. The new bone density imaging equipment is offered at several Middlesex Hospital outpatient locations. Testing is offered at the Middlesex Hospital Outpatient Center, 534 Saybrook Road, Middletown; and Middlesex Hospital Shoreline Medical Center, 260 Westbrook Road, Essex. To schedule a test, call a doctor's office and ask for an appointment referral. For information, call 358-2500 or visit midhosp.org. PORTLAND -- Portland Library is offering online access to free expert job coaching through the JobNow program from Brainfuse Inc. Patrons of all ages can access this service from public computers in the library or from home with a valid Portland library card. The JobNow service offers resume and cover letter templates and examples, live interview practice, online resources, local job search websites, and more. Access JobNow seven days a week, and during select posted hours each day, can connect for a one-to-one session with a job coach. Spanish speaking coaches are also available. See portlandlibraryct.org or inquire at the information desk. Job-seekers and anyone wishing to update a resume are invited to visit the library on Aug. 13 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., when the Connecticut Department of Labor's Career Express bus will be available in the parking lot. This is a one-stop career center with internet access and assistance in resume writing, interviewing techniques and career exploration. The bus is accessible to the physically disabled. Bus passes available OLD SAYBROOK -- The Estuary Transit District has partnered with area Stop & Shop supermarkets to sell multi-ride tickets and monthly passes for its nine Town Transit services. Tickets and passes will be available for purchase at the customer service desks of the Old Saybrook, Clinton and Madison Stop & Shop supermarkets. Multi-trip tickets cost $11.50 per book and monthly passes are $45. Stop & Shop is offering the service free of charge. The Estuary Transit District provides public transit service to Chester, Clinton, Deep River, Essex, Lyme, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook and Westbrook through its 9 Town Transit service. Information, route maps and schedules are available at 9towntransit.com or by calling (860) 510-0429. Auxiliary elects officers HADDAM -- Members of the Haddam Volunteer Fire Company Auxiliary have elected the following officers for the 2009-2010 year: Mary Nork, president; Alice Strasser, vice president; Barbara Galloway, secretary; and Betty Cernan, treasurer. Town residents, 18 years or older, are welcome to join, and it is not necessary to be a fireman's wife. Meetings are held on the fourth Monday of the month, from September to June, at 7 p.m. at the new firehouse, 439 Saybrook Road. Members assist firefighters in various ways, including preparing refreshments during major fires. Through fundraisers, the Auxiliary has also been able to donate money to the firefighters for "wish list" items that are not funded through the town. At the next meeting, on Sept. 28, members will discuss plans for the annual Military Whist Card Party Oct. 27 at the firehouse. MIDDLETOWN -- A free Soup for the Soul is offered at First Baptist Church, 93 Main St., every Sunday after the service at 10 a.m. This is a light lunch and fellowship at 11 a.m. Chefs are Marilyn Dunkley and Heather Fox. MIDDLETOWN -- Church services are offered Sundays in August at Christ Lutheran Church, 300 Washington St., at 9 a.m. with Eucharist and music. Steve Azzaro was elected the new President of the IACO. He succeeds Fred Terrasi who served for seven years. The other Officers are Paul Barbagallo Vice President, John Turro, Recording Secretary and Walter Belzek, Financial Secretary, Joseph Milardo, Jr., Legal Officer and Father James, St. Sebastian's Church, Chaplin.

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https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Local-fighters-hit-the-streets-today-Two-11899439.php Local fighters hit the streets today; Two represent Lions Den at 10th Annual Ruben Diaz Jr. Boxing Show in the Bronx JEREMIE SMITH Published 12:00 am EDT, Friday, August 14, 2009 MIDDLETOWN -- Two amateur boxers with Middletown connections will take their careers to a new level this afternoon. Jarin Clay-Bey of Bloomfield, who trains at the Lions Den in Middletown; and Middletown High School junior Nick Walden are among several area boxers competing in today's 10th Annual Ruben Diaz Jr. Boxing Show in the Bronx, N.Y. Clay-Bey - the son of 1996 boxing Olympian, Lawrence Clay-Bey - is a perfect 4-0 in the light heavyweight division. He trains with John "Iceman" Scully, the former world light heavyweight title challenger and current Lions Den boxing coach. Walden also trains at the Lions Den and is coached by the Den's Junior Olympic coach ,Johnny Callas. Walden captured the Connecticut Junior Olympic 165 pound title over New Haven's Tyshaun Faire earlier this summer. The event will be Clay-Bey's second trip to the outdoor show in the Bronx, while It will be Walden's first. The two were chosen to represent the Lions Den as a result of their hard work and dedication to the sport, Scully said. "Both of them [Clay-Bey and Walden] have stayed in the gym religiously since that last show we did, [When Cities Collide; Connecticut Under Attack at the Lions Den in June] Scully said. "Both of them have definitely stepped up their sparring and their cardio work." The hard work more times than not pays off. "The boxers who stay in the gym continuously over long periods of time are the ones who learn the most and advance the furthest and it appears that both of these kids realize that and are taking the steps to making that happen. Their dedication is being rewarded now," he said. Today's event is sponsored by Kid Kelly Boxing and will be held between Watson and Westchester Avenues in the Bronx. Scully looks forward to the show every year and has a lot of experience with the event and the event's organizer, Edwin Martinez, who has been doing the show for the past 10 years and is a friends of Scully's. "Every year I touch base with Edwin well in advance and give him the names of our most dedicated boxers and see if we can get them on," Scully said. Scully explained the day is a "really special event" because the show is free and it's outdoors, right in the heart of the Bronx, in the shadow of the Gran Concourse. It's this atmosphere that adds to the excitement. "It's like a huge party where they block off the streets and people are out playing basketball and baseball," said Scully. "They have street vendors all over the place. They have a stage set up right in the street and they have some very big acts who come and sing and rap for the audience." A free event with big-name performers on the street are what brings out the crowds. "Last year they had 'Naughty By Nature', 'Doug E. Fresh' and 'Slick Rick' performing right there next to us and if you know your hip hop music you know those acts by name immediately," Scully said. "Kids go crazy for the level of performers they showcase there." The boxing is pretty good too and Scully has high expectations for Clay-Bey and Walden. "I expect both to perform well and bring home victories, but just as much as that, I just wanted them to experience being on a show of this magnitude," Scully said. "It's all part of the process in becoming a well-rounded boxer." The show will also give the Lions Den added exposure across the New England region. Scully said it's all just part of the job. "It is basically part of my job description at the Lions Den to secure matches and opportunities for our boxers," he said. "I think it's important to be seen by different people and showcase yourself and your gym. There are boxers from as far away as Washington D.C. coming to this so it puts us in good company." Weigh-ins begin at 9 a.m. First bout is scheduled for noon.

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