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Category Archives: Civil War Civil War, Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization, Political History, YouTube Series Can a U.S. Senator be Removed from Office? | The Curious Case of Jesse Bright December 11, 2017 Justin Clark There’s a lot of talk these days about presidents being removed from office. We’ve seen at least three times in American history when Congress nearly did just that. But, there’s always other politicians whose actions garner so much controversy that they’re kicked out altogether. In this video, we consider the case of Jesse Bright, a US Senator from Indiana whose coziness with the Confederacy led to his ouster from Congress. Learn more Indiana History from the Indiana Historical Bureau: http://www.in.gov/history/ Search historic newspaper pages at Hoosier State Chronicles: www.hoosierstatechronicles.org Visit our Blog: https://blog.newspapers.library.in.gov/ Visit Chronicling America to read more first drafts of history: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Learn more about the history relevance campaign at https://www.historyrelevance.com/. Please comment, like, and subscribe! Continue reading Can a U.S. Senator be Removed from Office? | The Curious Case of Jesse Bright → Abraham LincolnCivil WarCivil War HistoryIndiana NewspapersJefferson DavisJesse BrightNational NewspapersYouTubeYouTube Series African-American History, Civil War Fugitive Slaves in Indiana: A Study in Newspapers September 27, 2017 Justin Clark Despite its status as a free state in the federal union, Indiana maintained a complicated relationship with the institution of slavery. The Northwest Territory, incorporated in 1787, banned slavery under Article VI of the Articles of Compact. Nevertheless, enslaved people were allowed in the region well after lawmakers organized the Indiana Territory in 1800. As historians John D. Barnhart and Dorothy L. Riker noted, there were an estimated 15 people enslaved in and around Vincennes in 1800. This number only represented a fraction of the 135 slaves enumerated in the 1800 census. When Indiana joined the Union as a free state in 1816, pockets of slave-holding citizens remained well into the 1830s. Underground Railroad Routes through Indiana and Michigan in 1848, from Wilbur Siebert’s book, The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom. Internet Archive. Fugitive slave laws, a core policy that before the Civil War, perpetuated the “dreaded institution.” The U.S. Congress passed its first fugitive slave law in 1793, which allowed for slave-owning persons to retrieve their human property in any state and territory in the union, even on free soil. Indiana, both as a territory and a state, passed legislation that ensured compliance with federal law. The controversial Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 exacerbated the problem, with many arrests, enslavements, and re-enslavements of African Americans in Indiana. Scholars estimate that 1,000-5,000 freedom seekers escaped bondage annually from 1830-1860, or roughly 135,000 before the Civil War. Indiana’s revised Constitution from 1851. IARA. Making matters more complicated, Indiana ratified a new constitution in 1851 that included Article XIII, which prohibited new settlement of African Americans into the state. Article XIII also encouraged colonization of African Americans already living in the state. The Indiana General Assembly even passed legislation creating a fund for the implementation of colonization in 1852. It stayed on the books until 1865. This, along with a litany of “black codes,” limited the civil rights of free African Americans and harsher penalties for African Americans seeking freedom. As historian Emma Lou Thornbrough observed, Indiana’s policies exhibited an “intense racial prejudice” and a fear of free, African American labor. One window into understanding complex history of fugitive slaves is by analyzing newspapers. Ads for runaways, fugitive slave narratives, and court case proceedings permeate Indiana’s historic newspapers. This blog will unearth some of the stories in Indiana newspapers that document the long and uneasy history of African American freedom seekers in the Hoosier state. Indiana Gazette, September 18, 1804. Hoosier State Chronicles. Runaway advertisements predominantly chronicled fugitive slavery in Indiana newspapers during the antebellum period. These ads would provide the slave’s name, age, a physical description, their last known whereabouts, and a reward from their owner. One of the earliest ads comes from the September 18, 1804 issue of the Indiana Gazette, while Indiana was still a territory. It described two slaves, Sam and Rebeccah, who had run away from their owner in New Bourbon, Louisiana. Sam was in his late twenties and apparently had burns on his feet. Rebeccah was a decade younger than Sam and “was born black, but has since turned white, except a few black spots.” This might have been a case of vitiligo, a skin pigment disorder. In any event, their owner offered a fifty dollar reward for “any person who will apprehend and bring back said negroes, or lodge them in any jail so that the owner may get them.” Western Sun, December 9, 1807. Hoosier State Chronicles. On December 9, 1807, the Western Sun ran a similar ad with a small, etched illustration of a runaway slave. Slaveholder John Taylor offered thirty dollars for the capture and return of three slaves (two men and one woman) who had taken two horses and some extra clothes. “Whoever secures the above negroes,” Taylor said, “shall have the above reward, and all reasonable charges if taken within the state; or ninety dollars, if out of the state . . . .” Western Sun & General Advertiser, June 27, 1818. Hoosier State Chronicles. These ads escalated after Indiana’s statehood in 1816, leading to expansions of the role of local officials. As Emma Lou Thornbrough noted, African Americans “were sometimes arrested and jailed on the suspicion that they were fugitives enough though no one had advertised them.” For example, the Western Sun & General Advertiser published a runaway ad on June 27, 1818 asking for the return of Archibald Murphey, a fugitive from Tennessee who had been captured in Posey County. Sheriff James Robb, and not Murphey’s supposed owner, took it upon himself to run an ad for the runaway’s return. “The owner is requested to come forward [,] pay charges, and take him away,” the ad demanded. Western Sun & General Advertiser, October 26, 1822. Hoosier State Chronicles. Owners understood the precarious nature of retrieving their slaves, so some resorted to long ad campaigns in multiple newspapers. A slave named Brister fled Barren County, Kentucky in 1822, likely carrying free papers and traveling north to Ohio. His owner offered a $100 reward for his return for at least three months in the Western Sun & General Advertiser. He had also advertised in the Cincinnati Inquisitor, Vincennes Inquirer, Brookville Enquirer, Vandalia Intelligencer, and Edwardsville Spectator. Leavenworth Arena, July 9, 1840. Hoosier State Chronicles. Other ads provided physical descriptions that indicated the toll of slavery on a human being. Two runaways, named Ben and Reuben, suffered from multiple ailments. Ben had his ears clipped “for robbing a boat on the Ohio river” while Reuben lived with a missing finger and a strained hip. Lewis, a fugitive from Limestone County, Alabama, had a “cut across one of his hands” that caused “one finger to be a little stiff.” They could also be rather graphic. The Leavenworth Arena posted an ad in its July 9, 1840 issue requesting the return of a slave named Smallwood, who scarred his ankles from a mishap with a riding horse; reportedly a “trace chain” wrapped around his legs, “tearing off the flesh.” The pain these men, among many others, endured from the years of their bondage was sadly treated as mere details in these advertisements. Western Sun & General Advertiser. November 21, 1818. Hoosier State Chronicles. While ads represented a substantial portion of newspaper coverage, articles and court proceedings also provided detail about the calamitous lives of fugitive slaves. First, court cases provide essential insight into the legal procedures regarding fugitive slaves before the Civil War. The Western Sun & General Advertiser published the court proceedings of one such case in its November 21, 1818 issue. John L. Chastian, a Kentucky slaveholder, claimed a woman named Susan as his slave and issued a warrant for her return. Corydon judge Benjamin Parke ruled in favor of Chastian on the grounds that Susan had not sufficiently demonstrated her claim to freedom and the motion for a continuance on this question was overruled. Even if Susan had been a free person, the legal system provided substantial benefits to the slaveholders, and since she could not demonstrate her freedom, she was therefore obligated to the claimant. Richmond Palladium, September 30, 1843. Hoosier State Chronicles. As for abolitionists, they faced court challenges as well. In 1843, Quaker Jonathan Swain stood before a grand jury in Union Circuit Court, “to testify in regard to harboring fugitive slaves, and assisting in their flight to Canada.” When asked to testify, Swain refused on grounds of conscience. The judge in the case granted him two days to reconsider his choice. When Swain returned, “he duly presented himself before the Judge, Bible under his arm, and declared his readiness to abide the decision and sentence of the Court.” The judge cited Swain in contempt and jailed him, “there to remain until he would affirm, or should be otherwise discharged.” This episode was one of many that demonstrated the intense religious and moral convictions of Quakers and their resistance to slavery. Evansville Tri-Weekly Journal, October 7, 1847. Hoosier State Chronicles. By contrast, many of those who sought slaves faced little challenge. The Evansville Tri-Weekly Journal reported that Thomas Hardy and John Smith, on trial in the Circuit Court of Gibson County for kidnapping, were acquitted of all charges. The judge’s ruling hinged only on a fugitive slave notice. This notice provided “sufficient authority for any person to arrest such fugitive and take him to his master.” As with the case involving Susan, the alleged slaves procured in this case received less legal protection than the two vigilantes that captured them. These trends continued well into the 1850s through the end of the Civil War. Evansville Daily Journal, January 18, 1859. Hoosier State Chronicles. Second, numerous articles and narratives concerning fugitive slaves and free persons claimed as fugitives were published during the antebellum period. The passage of the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, of which Indiana kept its obligation to enforce, exacerbated coverage. Some articles were merely short notices, explaining that a certain number of alleged fugitive slaves were passing through a town or getting to a particular destination. The Evansville Daily Journal ran a brief description in 1859 about two men “who had the appearance of escaped slaves, came upon the Evansville road, last night, and passed on to Indianapolis.” It was also reported that they “had a white adviser with them on the cars,” supposedly a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. In another piece, the Journal wrote uncharitably about a “stampede of slaves” that: . . . left their master’s roofs, escaped to the Licking river where they lashed together several canoes, and in disguise they rowed down the Licking river to the Ohio and crossed, where they disembarked and made a circuitous route to the northern part of Cincinnati. After their travel to Cincinnati, the twenty-three fugitives began their route to Canada via the Underground Railroad. Evansville Daily Journal, June 19, 1854. Hoosier State Chronicles. Articles covering the arrest of fugitive slaves also filled the headlines. As an example, the New Albany Daily Ledger ran a piece in 1853 about two fugitive slaves captured in the basement of local Theological Seminary. Jerry Warner, a local, arrested them both and received $250 in compensation for their capture. The Evansville Daily Journal reported of the arrest of three fugitive slaves in Vincennes who were on their way to freedom in Canada. Two men, one from Evansville and another from Henderson, Kentucky, pursued and captured the fugitives nearly eight miles outside of the city. The fugitives defended themselves against capture, with one of them brandishing a pistol who “snapped it twice at the officer, but it missed fire.” The officers then transferred the fugitives to Evansville, who were supposedly returned to Henderson. Evansville Daily Journal, June 2, 1854. Hoosier State Chronicles. Conductors of the Underground Railroad also faced arrest for the aid of fugitive slaves. Another article from the Evansville Journal chronicled the arrest of a man known simply as “Brown” who aided four female slaves to an Underground Railroad stop at Petersburgh, Indiana. A US Marshal and a local Sheriff “charge[d] on the ‘worthy conductor,’ and he surrendered.” The officers returned Brown to the Henderson jail for processing. It was later discovered that he received $200 from a free African American for his last job. The Journal described Brown as a “notorious abolitionist, and if guilty of the thieving philanthropy with which he is charged, deserved punishment.” Indiana’s free state status did not lessen the prejudice against African Americans and abolitionists; it only obscured it. Evansville Daily Journal. April 13, 1858. Hoosier State Chronicles. One of the more elaborate, yet challenging methods fugitive slaves used to seek freedom involved shipping boxes. The Evansville Daily Journal reported of a fugitive slave captured aboard the steamer Portsmouth, a shipping vessel traveling from Nashville to Cincinnati. He was in the box, “doubled up like a jack-knife,” for five days before authorities discovered him and took the appropriate actions. The ship docked at Covington, Kentucky and they “placed the negro in jail to await the requisition of his owner.” It was learned later that the fugitive slave had an agreement with a widow to move to Ohio on condition that he work for her for a year. “He had fulfilled his part of the contract,” the Journal wrote, “and she was performing her stipulations, and would have enabled him to escape had it not been for the unlucky accident.” This story was also covered in the Terre Haute Daily Union and similar stories ran in later issues of the Journal, the Nashville Daily Patriot, and the Richmond Palladium. Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, August 16, 1855. Hoosier State Chronicles. Sadly, the ultimate risk for a fugitive slave was death, and Indiana newspapers chronicled these events as well. The Crawfordsville Weekly Journal published an article on August 16, 1855 detailing the death of a fugitive slave by drowning. It appeared to the authorities that the fugitive, resting near Sugar Creek in Crawfordsville, was discovered by a group of men and questioned about his status. Under pressure, the fugitive leaped into the water and tried to flee, which spurred one man to shoot off his gun in an attempt to stop him. As the Journal wrote, “this alarmed the negro, and he plunged beneath the waters, and continued to rise and then dive, until exhausted, and he sank to rise no more until life was extinct.” His body was discovered a few days later. While some deemed his death a mere drowning, others thought it more “suspicious.” The Journal continued: Putting the most favorable construction on the circumstances, there was a reckless trifling with human life which nothing can justify. He was doubtless a fugitive, but they knew it not, and had no right to arrest him or threaten his life. They knew of no crime of which he had been guilty, and only suspected him of an earnest longing after that freedom for which the human heart ever pants; and because he acted upon this feeling, so natural and so strong, they threaten to tie and imprison, and when struggling with overwhelming waters, he is threatened with being shot if he does not return ; and then when strength and life were fast failing, stretched not forth a helping hand to save him from immediate death. If the facts as stated be true, (of which we have no doubt,) there is high criminality, of which the laws of our country should take cognizance; and when the news of the negroe’s [sic] death shall have reached his owner, he will doubtless prosecute those men; it may be for murder in the second degree, or at least for the value of the slave. The Journal eloquently elucidated why the application of fugitive slave laws, especially by vigilante citizens, harmed the civil rights and lives of both free people and those still in servitude (of which there were a mere few). Terre Haute Journal, September 2, 1853. Hoosier State Chronicles. Free African Americans additionally faced threats to their lives and livelihood from the enforcement of fugitive slave laws. A well-known instance in Indiana regarded the arrest and release of John Freeman. Arrested and jailed on June 21, 1853, Freeman faced a charge from Pleasant Ellington of Missouri that he was one of his slaves. Freeman hired a legal team and after a lengthy trial that testified to his status as a free-born African American, he was released on August 27, 1853. It turned out that Ellington misidentified Freeman as a slave named Sam, who fled from servitude in Greenup County, Kentucky and likely escaped to Canada. Due to the diminution of his character, Freeman sued Ellington in civil court for 10,000; it was later ruled in favor of Freeman and he received $2,000 and additional unnamed damages. What Freeman experienced is but a snapshot into how fugitive slave laws harmed the rights of free people as well as slaves. Indiana State Guard, June 8, 1861. Hoosier State Chronicles. After the Civil War began, fugitive slaves continued to elicit concern, and coverage, in Indiana newspapers. In the spring of 1861, the Sentinel reprinted a piece from the Jeffersonville Democrat about the rise of fugitive slaves traveling through the Ohio River region: “the number of fugitive slaves caught on the Indiana side of the river, and returned to Kentucky within the past three months, is greater than that of any like period during the past ten years.” Kentucky’s government still offered a reward of $150 for each returned slave. That summer, the Indiana State Guard published President Abraham Lincoln’s thoughts on the issue. Lincoln, in a manner characteristic of his own political calculus, declared that Union soldiers were not “obliged to leave their legitimate military business to pursue and return fugitive slaves” but also cautioned that “the army is under no obligation to protect them, and will not encourage nor interfere with them in their flight.” The new President offered a nuanced position that possibly placated the Border States while satisfying the abolitionist wing of his own party. Realistically, it was a long way away from the Emancipation Proclamation. Greencastle Banner, December 23, 1865. Hoosier State Chronicles. The end of the Civil War brought the end of slavery as a federally-protected policy, and thus eliminated the need for fugitive slave laws. Their end brought a larger fulfillment of the Declaration of Independence’s commitment to the proposition that “all men are created equal.” Yet, the history of fugitive slaves often fell into tales of folklore and hyperbole. Looking at a primary source like newspapers helps to dispel many of the myths and provides nuance to the controversial subject of human enslavement in the United States. These stories represent a small fraction of the larger narrative about American slavery. To learn more, visit the Library of Congress’ page about fugitive slave ads in historical newspapers: https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/fugitiveAds.html. You can also search Hoosier State Chronicles for more fugitive slave ads and articles. Indiana Historical Bureau: Slavery in Indiana Territory Indiana Historical Bureau: Indiana and Fugitive Slave Laws Indiana Historical Bureau: The Underground Railroad Antebellum EraCivil Warfugitive slavesHistoryIndianaIndiana HistoryIndiana NewspapersnewspapersRunaway Slave Adsrunaway slavesslavery Business and Industry, Civil War, Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization, Literature History, Newspaper histories, Women in the news Montgomery County Newspapers: A Short History May 23, 2017 Justin Clark Montgomery County, Indiana has a rich, colorful history of newspapers, both in their coverage and the personalities that ran them. In this post, we will share some highlights of this heritage and emphasize some of the papers that are available in Hoosier State Chronicles (HSC). Crawfordsville Record, February 8, 1834. Hoosier State Chronicles. The earliest paper from Montgomery County in HSC is the Crawfordsville Record. Editor Isaac F. Wade and printer Charles S. Bryant published its first issue on October 18, 1831. As Herman Fred Shermer noted in an article about Montgomery County publishing, the “type and presses for the Record plant were brought by freight wagons from Cincinnati, Ohio” and the cost of the publishing the first issue was approximately $400. While Wade and Bryant intended for the Record’s first issue to arrive in September, they were delayed a month because the printer required a capital “D” for typesetting. Wade, as a good Whig, believed that having that capital “D” was essential, as the paper would regularly refer to “Democrats and the Devil.” The paper ran until 1838, after the death of subsequent publisher William Harrison Holmes. A brief revival of the paper in 1839-40, led by William H. Webb and Henry S. Lane, never regained the paper’s subscription base and it ceased altogether. Henry S. Lane. NARA/Wiki Commons. Speaking of Henry S. Lane, he also co-founded one of Crawfordsville’s premier Whig newspapers during the 1840s, the People’s Press. Lane, along with a consortium of political and business leaders, established the People’s Press to be the official Whig party newspaper for Montgomery County. They recruited Pennsylvanian William H. Bausman as its editor. It ran from 1844 until 1848, when its “apparent financial success” waned due to “bad editorial management.” It then ran for a short, six-week stint as the Tomahawk until the paper was bought out by publishers Thomas Walker Fry and Jeremiah Keeney. Crawfordsville Journal, September 14, 1865. Hoosier State Chronicles. Out of the ashes of the People’s Press and Tomahawk, Fry and Keeney founded one of Montgomery County’s standard papers, one that still continues today (albeit in a different form). The Crawfordsville Journal started publication on July 27, 1848. Originally a Whig paper, the Journal embraced the newly-formed Republican Party in the mid-1850s. The Crawfordsville Review, founded in 1841 and purchased by Charles H. Bowen and Benjamin F. Stover in 1854, served as the Democratic foil to Journal’s Whig perspective. Crawfordsville Review, September 16, 1865. Hoosier State Chronicles. The Journal’s Jeremiah Keeney and the Review’s Charles H. Bowen (Stover sold out to Bowen six months after their acquisition) maintained a years-long feud in their respective papers. As a recent article in the Crawfordsville Journal-Review noted, Keeney and Bowen exchanged pointed barbs at each other in the press. Here’s a few additional examples we found in Hoosier State Chronicles. In the June 7, 1855 issue of the Journal, Keeney wrote an editorial called “Clean Streets,” where he commended the public workers who swept the streets but then derided Bowen’s supposed quibble with cleanup. “Count Bowen and his clique are probably the only men in town, who will object to cleanliness, and the protection of shade trees,” Keeney declared. Keeney preferred name for the Review’s editor was “Count Bowen,” likely a jab at his purported leadership status in the town. Crawfordsville Journal, June 7, 1855. Hoosier State Chronicles. Bowen didn’t take insults lightly and routinely shot back at Keeney in the Review. In its October 7, 1865 issue, Bowen slammed Kenney for his comments on Democratic leaders in the county and threw his own rhetorical venom at the Journal’s publisher. Bowen wrote that Keeney’s targets should: [P]ay no attention to the filthy slang of this poor miserable creature, half idiotic and totally irresponsible, he should be passed by with total indifference and regarded only as a canker, a plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle upon the body of a corrupt and depraved humanity which purity should shun as a pestilence. Bowen certainly elucidated his point, in the most elaborate way possible. Imagine if these two men were alive today, trading jabs on Twitter or in Facebook comments. Some things don’t change, after all. Crawfordsville Review, October 7, 1865. Hoosier State Chronicles. Bowen wasn’t the only eccentric owner of the Review. Bayless W. Hanna, who purchased the newspaper in 1883, wore many hats, including newspaper man, diplomat—and music box operator. A short write-up from the Terre Haute Daily News noted that, “Bayless Hanna, with his monkey and box, was seen going down Eighth street [sic] this morning bound for the rural districts.” The very next week, the Daily News wrote about him again and it was even more interesting: Bayless Hanna was seen to-day walking down Main street with his music box, following a one-armed soldier who had a hand-organ in a little boy’s express wagon. The soldier would occasionally stop in front of a business house and play a tune, while Bayless and Rodgers would stare with mouth wide open, at the wonderful machine. He operated the Review for two years before President Grover Cleveland appointed him Minister to Iran and then Minister to Argentina, a position he held until his death in 1889. He died in 1891, in Crawfordsville. Bayless W. Hanna. Find A Grave. At a time when women were often delegated to domestic pursuits, Mary Hannah Krout completely bucked the trend. Born in Crawfordsville in 1851, Krout descended from a long-line of accomplished scholars. Specifically, her grandfather served as the state geologist and taught natural science at Butler University. However, her intellectual passion was writing, particularly poetry. She was a published poet in local newspapers as early as 10 years old and gave lectures in her teenage years. This culminated in her decades-long work in newspaper journalism, with positions at the Terre Haute Weekly Express, the Crawfordsville Journal, and the Chicago Inter-Ocean, where she covered the Hawaiian revolution of 1893. Alongside her newspaper work, she authored eight books and helped Susan Wallace finish Lew Wallace’s Autobiography. Mary Hannah Krout. Internet Archive. As for Lew Wallace, a post about Montgomery County and newspapers wouldn’t be complete without a quick discussion of its most famous son. Wallace’s tenure during the Civil War received differing perspectives from the Crawfordsville newspapers. This stemmed from Wallace’s own political evolution; he started the war as a Democrat and ended it a Republican. This changed his relationship with the Crawfordsville Review, who held it against him in editorials. For example, a short piece in their May 19, 1866 issue took umbrage with his military assignment during the second French intervention in Mexico. The Review wrote: Lew Wallace, who has been rusticating in our city for several weeks past, left suddenly for New York a few days since. Rumor has it that he is about to join a filibustering expedition against Mexico. Should he be so unlucky as to suffer capture by the French mercenaries of Maximillian, we trust he may be granted a fair trial before a drum-head court martial. We should regret very much to hear of his being arraigned before a civil tribunal. Much like with Keeney and Bowen’s feud, the Review‘s strongly-worded opprobrium against Wallace emanated from intense political partisanship. Lew Wallace, in full dress uniform. General Lew Wallace Study & Museum. Another Crawfordsville paper, Thomas C. Pursel and Robert B. Wilson’s Evening Argus, first rolled off the press in 1882. “Argus” as a term seems relatively antiquarian to our ears; nevertheless, its etymology is fantastic. Originally a name for the “giant with 100 eyes” from classical mythology, it eventually meant “watchful guardian.” It seems safe to assume that the latter definition applies more as a name for a newspaper than the former. The daily newspaper had a brief three year run under the solo title of the Argus. In 1885, Walter E. Rosebro and Samuel M. Coffman purchased it and merged it with their paper, the News, to make the Argus-News. It continued to appear in weekly and daily formats until 1900, when Coffman purchased the Review. He dropped Argus from the name and re-branded the paper as the News-Review, which ran for eight years before abbreviating the title to the Review. Coffman later embarked on another newspaper venture, the Crawfordsville Daily Progressive, but it languished and he filed for bankruptcy in 1917. New Richmond Record, October 15 1914. Hoosier State Chronicles. Outside of the county seat, one of the more interesting Montgomery County papers available in Hoosier State Chronicles is the New Richmond Record. It ran from 1896 until 1924 under the sole ownership and editorship of Edgar Walts. Here’s an account of its publication from the A. W. Bowen’s History of Montgomery County (1913): It is a six-column, six-page paper, run on a gasoline propelled power press. It is independent in politics, and makes a specialty of as much local news as is possible to furnish its readers with. It circulates in Montgomery, Tippecanoe and adjoining counties. It meets the requirements of the town and with it is connected a good job department. During its run, the Record often praised its subscribers for continuing to patronize the paper, in a segment called the “Record’s Honor Roll.” The “honor roll” listed all the “new subscribers and renewals to THE RECORD during the past week” from Montgomery County, Indiana, and across the country. His “honor roll” likely helped circulation; by 1920, the Record had a circulation of 500 (for a town whose population was 496, but whose readership likely extended into rural Coal Creek Township and the rest of the county). New Richmond Record, January 7, 1915. Hoosier State Chronicles. Today, readers in Montgomery County patronize two major newspapers. The Crawfordsville Journal-Review, founded in 1929 with the merger of two flagship county papers, publishes a Tuesday-Saturday print version and an online version. The Paper of Montgomery County, established by Journal-Review veteran reporter Gaildene Hamilton in 2004, also delivers a daily print version and online version. In all, Montgomery County’s newspapers often displayed the rough-and-tumble political winds of the nineteenth century, an era whose partisanship and vitriol mirrors our own. It wasn’t, however, the only part of their story. Montgomery County also facilitated forward-thinking pioneers like Mary Hannah Krout, Samuel Coffman, and Edgar Walts. Like much of history, Montgomery County’s heritage of newspapers exemplifies a nuanced, intriguing legacy. Bayless HannaCrawfordsvilleHistoryIndianaIndiana HistoryLew WallaceMary Hannah Kroutnewspaper historynewspapers Civil War, Notable Hoosier Obits, Political History, Presidential History Notable Hoosier Obits: Schuyler Colfax March 23, 2017 Justin Clark Schuyler Colfax, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives and Vice President. Library of Congress. This week’s notable Hoosier obit focuses on one of Indiana political history’s most important, and slightly controversial, public figures. Schuyler Colfax, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and vice president under Ulysses S. Grant’s first term, was a major player within the Republican Party during the late nineteenth century. However, his political career ended in controversy when news broke that he was a minor player in the Credit Mobilier scandal that also threatened Grant’s tenure in the White House. News of Colfax’s death on January 13, 1885 was somewhat inconspicuous. Indianapolis Sentinel, January 14, 1885. Hoosier State Chronicles. Schuyler Colfax was born on March 23, 1823 in New York City. He and his family moved westward in 1836, settling in St. Joseph County, Indiana. As the Indianapolis Sentinel reported in his obituary, the “earlier years of his life were spent as a clerk in a county store, but when eighteen years of age he was appointed Deputy County Auditor, at South Bend, by his stepfather, who was Auditor.” This was the start of his life-long involvement in politics. Daily Wabash Express, January 14, 1885. Hoosier State Chronicles. Colfax also gained political experience when he served as an “apprentice in the [pro-Republican] Indiana State Journal office, when that paper was under the management of John D. Defrees.” Later, in 1845, he established his own newspaper, the St. Joseph Valley Register in South Bend. As the Indianapolis Sentinel reported, Colfax “was both editor and proprietor of this paper, and made for himself quite a reputation as a vigorous political writer.” He also “prepare[d] himself for the bar” during this period. Masthead of the St. Joseph Valley Register, circa 1863-1865. South Bend Tribune Online. In 1850-51, Colfax served as one of the delegates to the Indiana Constitutional Convention, where he staunchly “opposed by voice and vote the clause prohibiting free colored persons from coming into the State.” Defeated as a Whig party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1851, he eventually won election to the House as a member of the newly-formed Republican party in 1854. He served in this body for the next 14 years. After the election of 1860, President-elect Abraham Lincoln gave Colfax some consideration for a cabinet post, before he settled on Indianan Caleb B. Smith. In 1863, during the height of the Civil War, House members elected Colfax as Speaker of the House. During his time leading the House, he helped secure congressional passage of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ending slavery, on January 31, 1865. The states ratified the amendment on December 18, 1865. 1868 presidential campaign print. Library of Congress. In 1868, while still serving as Speaker, the Republican Party nominated him to be General Ulysses S. Grant’s running mate. They won the election on November 3, 1868. Colfax would serve only one term in Grant’s administration. In 1872, Colfax announced that he was retiring from politics. The Republican Party nominated Henry Wilson to replace Colfax on the 1872 reelection ticket. However, there was a practical reason for Colfax’s retirement and the party replacing him as vice president nominee. New York Sun, September 4, 1872. Chronicling America. During 1868, Colfax became involved in a railroad shell corporation called Credit Mobilier of America, investing his own money into the scheme and receiving a $1,200 dividend check from Oakes Ames, a Congressman who roped some of his colleagues into it. After the New York Sun broke the story, Colfax was later implicated in the scheme and nearly impeached. The impeachment proceedings stalled because Wilson replaced Colfax on the ticket. (Consequently, Wilson also became implicated in the scandal, but died of a stroke in 1875.) After nearly 20 years of success in public life, Colfax left Washington in 1873 a defeated, slightly tarnished man. Greencastle Times, January 15, 1885. Hoosier State Chronicles. He spent the remaining years of his life rebuilding his reputation as a public speaker, traveling around the country sharing his memories of President Lincoln during the Civil War. On January 13, 1885, Colfax arrived in an extremely cold Mankato, Minnesota on another lecture tour. As the Greencastle Times reported, Colfax “walked from the Milwaukee [Railroad] depot, the distance of half a mile, and it is presumed the exertion superinduced an attack of heart of disease. He fell forward from the seat in the waiting room and died without uttering a word.” The Indiana press’s reaction to Colfax’s death balanced its respect for the fallen leader but also acknowledged his Credit Mobilier foibles. The Greencastle Times described the scandal as the “wrongs and embitterments that wore put upon him through the hatred and malice of his enemies,” but that his reputation was left “unscathed in the estimation of his home constituency and all those who knew him best.” The Indianapolis News wrote that, “Of his connection with the “Credit Mobilier” nothing need be said now, for the country knows it all. It is alluded to here because, in nearly thirty years of public life in his state or in congress, this is the only imputation on his integrity.” On the other end of responses, the Terre Haute Express did not even mention the affair. Finally, on the day of his death, the Indianapolis News published a column that fully defended Colfax against accusations of impropriety. “The case against him, wrote the News, “as having received $1,200 in an ‘S. C. [presumably for Schuyler Colfax] or bearer’ check from Oakes Ames was a strong one circumstantially but lacked direct conclusive proof, and against it Mr. Colfax put a private life without stain and a long and honorable public career to that time unsullied.” The Odd Fellows, of which Colfax was a member, attended to Colfax’s remains, and escorted the body back to Indiana via train within a few days. He was buried on January 17, 1885 at City Cemetery, South Bend. Colfax’s grave at City Cemetery, South Bend, Indiana. Findagrave.com. Despite Colfax’s involvement in one of the nineteenth century’s most explosive political scandals, his career in the House of Representatives, especially his help in passing the thirteenth amendment, deserves some level of recognition. Like many leaders of the Gilded Age, Colfax involved himself in an unsavory business arrangement that ruined his chances for higher political office. Nevertheless, he tried to rehabilitate his reputation and enjoyed a few years of success on the lecture circuit. While most Americans may not think of Schuyler Colfax when discussing the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, he was one of Indiana’s statesmen that left an indelible, and slightly infamous, mark on political life during the times. Schuyler Colfax statue in Indianapolis, 1904. Library of Congress. Abraham LincolnCivil WarCivil War in IndianaCredit MobilierHistoryHoosier ObitsIndianaIndiana HistoryIndiana Newspapersnewspaper historynewspapersobituariesSchuyler ColfaxUlysses S. GrantVice Presidents of the United States Civil War, Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization, Labor History, Medical History “No Imported Patriots”: James Whitcomb Riley, the Irish, and the Klan March 17, 2016 Stephen J. Taylor For most Americans, the Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley is no longer a household name. He’s mostly remembered for “Little Orphant Annie,” an 1885 poem about an Indiana girl who warns children against misbehaving, scaring them with the refrain: “The gobble-uns’ll get you Ef you don’t watch out!” Riley died a hundred years ago this July. When President Woodrow Wilson got the news at the White House, he is said to have broken down in tears, then sent an express telegram to the poet’s family in Indianapolis. As Riley’s body lay in state at the Indiana Capitol in July 1916, thirty-five thousand people filed past. American children, who adored the old man, were devastated. The press overflowed with eulogies. Novelist Booth Tarkington, another once-famous Hoosier name in American letters, eulogized Riley in the Indiana Daily Times, calling him “the first and foremost distinctively American poet, and at the time of his death . . . the greatest American.” The New York Sun mourned: “The Hoosier Poet blew heart bubbles . . . In his verses Indiana spoke to the world.” And the Philadelphia Inquirer noted: “There is no doubt that he was the most popular poet of this generation in America… If there is a child today that is not regaled with ‘Orphant Annie’ that child is to be pitied.” Riley with children and a puppy, circa 1915. Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis was named in his honor. Though Riley was mostly known for his folksy childhood lyrics, he was also a civic-minded poet, fierce in his defense of the downtrodden. In 1898, during one of those periodic battles over immigration that heat up American politics, the “Poet of Childhood” grappled with anti-Irish prejudice — though it wasn’t personally directed against him. Riley, whose own grandparents came from Ireland to Pennsylvania before moving to the Midwest, defended the valor and patriotism of the “Sons of Erin” who fought in the Civil War and Mexican War. In so doing, he took aim at the religious and ethnic hostility of nativist groups like the American Protective Association, a cousin of the Ku Klux Klan. The Irish, especially Irish Catholics, were frequently misunderstood and feared as disruptors of society. Long before the Civil War, American nativists like the Know-Nothings had been actively exploiting fears about the Irish and “Rome,” alien forces ready to undermine American democracy and Anglo-Saxon values. Though some of those fears may sound downright bizarre today, Irish immigrants were often mired in poverty, violence and alcoholism, facts that scared their neighbors. While the brutal living conditions of many Irish were no myth, catastrophic events like the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s were partly to blame. With their situation made worse by the greed of landowners and brutal utilitarian social theories, many of Ireland’s sons and daughters were reduced to sub-human conditions. Millions went overseas or found themselves driven into the arms of death. The Irish had been targeted by some of the worst 19th-century science and philosophy. Racialized by other whites during the early days of Darwinism, the “native” Irish in particular were type-cast as little better than apes, doomed by biology itself to crime, degradation and — some theorists hoped — gradual extinction. One famous drawing compares the “Anglo-Saxon” features of English nurse Florence Nightingale to the ape-like face of “Bridget McBruiser” across the Irish Channel. That drawing, however, was an American drawing, published in Samuel R. Wells’ New Physiognomy (New York, 1866). Wells was one of the foremost American phrenologists of his time, studying “character” as he imagined it to be written on the human face and skull. It took decades for the science of head bumps and nose shapes to be debunked as nonsense, but the fallout proved catastrophic for many immigrants. Books like Wells’ New Physiognomy gave rise to even more damaging scientific theories about racial types — strange fantasies that fed the growth of American eugenics, the Second Ku Klux Klan, and even Progressivism. Wells also authored books about farm animals, gardening and witchcraft. Bad science and hyper-patriotic conspiracy theories were the target of one of James Whitcomb Riley’s lesser-known poems, “Brother Jonathan Lectures His Adopted.” That poem appeared in Songs of Two Peoples, an 1898 collection set partly in New England, partly in Ireland. Originally written in broad New England dialect, “Brother Jonathan” recounts the anti-Catholic ravings of a recent Northern Irish immigrant voting for “the fust time” at a small-town polling booth in America. Jonathan showed himself an eager campaigner against foreign influence, “tearin’ up an’ deown’ on platforms,” lashing out at Rome’s priests who “eat heretics at feasts” — dark tales from European history carried by folklore and immigrant ships into American election booths well into the 1960s and even beyond. Catholics, Jonathan warns, were gearing up to crush the American public school system and democracy. He gets a stinging rebuke from the embodiment of Uncle Sam, “His Adopted.” Songs of Two Peoples, Boston, 1898. Like Brother Jonathan, many popular anti-Catholic lecturers who touted Americanism a hundred years ago were recent immigrants or not even citizens. Several wrote books that were later promoted by the Klan. Though Riley’s poem is set just after the Civil War, it spoke to the issues of 1898, when America’s generously open door did bring many problems. Yet the looming figure of “Brother Jonathan” was still fresh decades later when George R. Dale, the brave editor of the Muncie Post-Democrat, reprinted it as part of his long battle against the powerful Hoosier Klan. In 1924, Dale found Riley’s poem as apt as ever. Dale was at the start of a practically one-man battle against the KKK in his town, using humor to transform the Muncie Post-Democrat into a rollicking 1920s version of The Onion. Though Dale faced routine death threats and assaults from Klansmen, the Muncie editor bravely tore into chauvinism at a time when the Klan was as much against new waves of Eastern and Southern European immigration as it was opposed to African Americans coming up from the South. Dale slightly abbreviated Riley’s poem — missing the fact that Brother Jonathan was an immigrant himself and had brought Old World animosities across the Atlantic, a prelude to the Irish “Troubles.” (Muncie Post-Democrat, April 25, 1924. Hoosier State Chronicles. The A.P.A. was the American Protective Association, an anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic secret society founded in Iowa in 1887. It had a membership of over two million in the 1890s and was a forerunner of the Second Klan. A.P.A.-affiliated newspapers like The Menace and The Yellow Jacket landed on millions of American doorsteps.) Though many Irish immigrants were racists themselves, stirring up some of the worst race riots of the 1800s, George Dale found an ally in both history and the Catholic Church. Virtually every issue of Grand Dragon D.C. Stephenson’s Klan paper The Fiery Cross contained attacks on the church, sharpest during the Indiana gubernatorial election of 1924, the year Dale reprinted “Brother Jonathan” in Muncie. It’s not surprising that, since they were long targeted by nativists, Catholics became a major force in undermining the Klan and helped hobble half-baked social and medical theories like eugenics. (The barely-concealed “science” of white supremacy, eugenics had deep roots in Indiana.) While Riley was of Irish descent, he wasn’t Catholic himself — in fact he wasn’t much of a church-goer at all. Yet Riley knew plenty of immigrants: they were his neighbors in Lockerbie, an Indianapolis neighborhood first called “Germantown” and settled partly by refugees from Europe’s 1848 revolutions. But even Riley’s support had a dark irony in it. A frequent visitor at his house in Lockerbie was Indiana Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs. The son of French immigrants, Debs was a champion of the working class but often hostile to the new wave of immigration, which he thought undermined American labor and played into the hands of big business. Debs may have been right about the effect of cheap labor on the American workers’ movement, but history repeated itself in a sad way when even the great Socialist leader made disparaging remarks in 1891 about Chinese and “Dagos” (Italians). They “fatten on garbage,” Debs said, live “more like a savage or a wild beast,” and “are able to underbid an American workingman.” It took years for Debs to temper those views, as even the Socialist Party succumbed to nativism and fear of the “degraded foreigner.” Riley’s house in Indianapolis around 1960. During the days of urban renewal, the Lockerbie neighborhood fell into bad shape, but fortunately its decline was turned around by the 1990s. The green ivy that once covered the poet’s house, though, is long gone. anti-CatholicismCatholic ChurchEugene V. DebseugenicsGeorge R. DaleimmigrantsIrelandIrishIrish-AmericansJames Whitcomb RileyKu Klux KlanLockerbie Squaremedical historyMuncie Post-DemocratnativismracismSocialism Civil War, Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization The Sultana: Titanic of the Mississippi February 24, 2016 Stephen J. Taylor When the “Grand Arsonist of the Republic,” General William Tecumseh Sherman, addressed a room full of cadets at Michigan Military Academy in 1879, he coined a famous anti-war quote. There are different versions of Sherman’s speech, where he chides young soldiers eager to find “glory” in carnage. One goes like this: I’ve been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It’s entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two wars [the Mexican and the Civil] and I know. I’ve seen cities and homes in ashes. I’ve seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is Hell! Like Hoosier writers Ambrose Bierce, who survived Shiloh, and Kurt Vonnegut, who witnessed the Dresden firebombing as a POW and helped pile civilian corpses onto crematory pyres in its aftermath, Sherman despised romantic images of war — written, he knew, by fools. With his Catholic religious faith destroyed by what he’d seen in the Civil War, the general would have relished such anti-war movie classics as Cold Mountain, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient and even (yes!) Jaws. (Spielberg’s first major hit came out in June 1975, just two months after the Fall of Saigon brought the Vietnam War to a close, and carried a subtle anti-war message.) History repeats itself in strange ways. Take the famous, eerie monologue of Quint, the professional shark-hunter played by Robert Shaw in Jaws and partly modeled on the obsessed Captain Ahab. Quint’s chilling monologue, sometimes called “The Indianapolis Speech,” tells of how he sailed aboard the doomed USS Indianapolis in the last days of World War II. On July 30, 1945, just after the vessel delivered the components of Little Boy — the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima — a Japanese torpedo sent the Indianapolis to the blue depths. Out of 880 sailors who went into the water, over 500 died of hypothermia, starvation, dehydration and the scariest death of all: shark attacks. World War II came to an end just two weeks later. A USS Indianapolis survivor covered in oil and burns. Horrible as the loss of the Indianapolis was, it wasn’t the worst tragedy in American maritime history. That event happened after a war was over, at 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when the wooden steamboat Sultana — loaded with exhausted, traumatized ex-POWs, many of them headed home to Indiana — exploded on the Mississippi River seven miles north of Memphis. Most investigators and historians blame overheated boilers for the blast, but one intriguing theory has it that the real culprit was a Confederate terrorist. Other strange parallels evoke the loss of both the ill-fated Titanic and the Indianapolis. The Sultana, built at John Litherbury’s boatyard in Cincinnati and launched on January 3, 1863, plied the Ohio and Mississippi during the worst days of the Civil War. At a time when steamboats carried cargo and passengers faster and more comfortably than slow-moving trains, the Daily Evansville Journal kept track of riverboat passages. Though midwestern river towns feel abandoned today, in the 1860s they were teeming with life and activity. Daily Evansville Journal, Evansville, Indiana, March 19, 1863. The Sultana mostly transported passengers and agricultural wares. Yet travel on the Mississippi River past Memphis had been cut off by the Civil War. Only when U.S. Navy gunboats helped capture that city in June 1862 did river travel start up again, finally brought back to life by the fall of Vicksburg on the Fourth of July, 1863, after an epic siege. That August, the Sultana carried furloughed soldiers north from Vicksburg. But the wartime dangers of river travel weren’t over yet. Nocturnal Confederate guerrillas shot at the steamboat near Waterproof, Louisiana, in December 1863. Another boat traveling alongside it was hit with artillery shells and musket fire, provoking a Federal gunboat to fire indiscriminately into the dark woods. On April 15, 1865, just days after the Civil War ended, the Sultana was docked in Cairo, Illinois. Telegraph wires that morning were shooting out news from Washington, D.C. — Abraham Lincoln had died from a gunman’s wound at 7:22 a.m. The Sultana’s captain, J. Cass Mason of St. Louis, knew that since wires had been cut all over the South, Southerners wouldn’t get the news of the assassination quickly, so he grabbed an armload of newspapers and headed for Vicksburg, arriving downstream a few days later. English photographer T.W. Bankes took this photo of the overloaded Sultana when it docked near his portrait studio at Helena, Arkansas, on April 26, 1865. Vicksburg’s corrupt Union quartermaster, Lt. Col. Reuben Hatch, wanted to make Captain Mason a deal. With the war over, the Federal government was offering steamboat captains $5 for each enlisted man and $10 per officer they agreed to take back north. With the South in ruins, even former Confederate soldiers from Kentucky and Tennessee found it easier to get home by going up the Mississippi to the Cumberland River, which flows into the Ohio across from southern Illinois. Hatch and Mason agreed on a deal, whereby over 2,000 soldiers — mostly former Union POWs staying at a Vicksburg parole camp — would be carried back to their homes in the Midwest. About two-thirds of them were from Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois, though others had served in Union regiments from Kentucky. Captain Mason would have netted about $10,000, a small fortune. Mason agreed to give Quartermaster Hatch a kickback. The freed POWs waiting to go home had already experienced some of the worst conditions war can offer. Most had been incarcerated at the notoriously cruel and unsanitary Confederate camps at Andersonville, Georgia, and Cahaba, Alabama, where Union POWs regularly suffered and died from diarrhea, exposure, scurvy, frostbite, dysentery, hookworm, and had to contend with abuse by prison guards and even dog attacks. By the time they made it west to Vicksburg and onto the Sultana, many ex-POWs were still recovering from hunger, disease, PTSD, and physical exhaustion — and surely excruciating homesickness, as well. Yet the worst was still to come. Private Jackson Broshears, 65th Indiana Mounted Infantry, was the son of a French immigrant father and a mother from Tennessee. Imprisoned at Belle Isle POW camp in Richmond, Virginia, 20-year-old Private Broshears was nearly dead of starvation at his release in 1864. He died that October and was buried at Newtonville in Spencer County. The Sultana had paddled down to New Orleans before returning to Vicksburg on April 24. When it backed out of port, it carried about 2,100 ex-soldiers and civilians, alongside a few women and children traveling on the river. Some of the women were serving with the United States Christian Commission, a medical relief organization that also provided religious literature to Union troops and helped army chaplains. Passengers were crammed into virtually every open space on the boat, whose legal carrying capacity was just 376. Decks sagging under the weight even of emaciated men had to be supported with emergency beams. Yet if Captain Mason could get his boat upriver safely, he was bound to strike it rich. As the over-burdened boat chugged desperately north, it had to fight a huge spring flood on the Mississippi, which had burst the levees and spilled out for as much as five or six miles in some spots. The river, always treacherous to steamboats, had reached the canopy of trees along the banks and ran icy cold with snowmelt. The weight of the passengers caused the Sultana to roll from side to side, which probably caused hot spots in its boilers, as the water that produced steam to power the paddles and keep the boilers from exploding under heat and pressure sloshed back and forth and spilled out. Sudden pressure surges were probably the culprit of the explosion that came at 2:00 a.m. on April 27. Steamboat fires and boiler explosions were the plane crashes of the 19th century. The Lexington caught fire while crossing Long Island Sound in 1840, killing all but four of 143 people on board. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow missed the boat in New York. The steamboat had just passed Memphis that night, where it unloaded a cargo of sugar. Seven miles farther upriver, still fighting the massive current, the enormous blast occurred, followed by a fire that hit the coal and wood furnace boxes and rapidly turned the wooden Sultana into a blazing inferno. Some thought lightning had struck the boat. Passengers who weren’t thrown into the river were faced with a horrible choice: burn to death, or fight for their lives in the frigid, raging Mississippi. Weakened by incarceration, trauma and disease, many soldiers stood no chance. They drowned or burned, or gave out to hypothermia while clinging to debris and fighting a brief struggle in the water. The Tennessee and Arkansas riverbanks were hard to find, shrouded in darkness and high floodwaters. Survivors told of the stench of burning flesh coming off the boat. Decomposing corpses would be found along more than a hundred miles of the river for months — including Captain Mason’s, who never made his fortune. Bodies had to be picked out of trees as far south as Vicksburg. Many victims were never found. Evansville Daily Journal, May 11, 1865. When survivors and the dead began to float past Memphis, citizens and riverboat crews hurriedly paddled out in skiffs and recovered as many as they could. (It is fascinating to reflect that labor activist Mother Jones, who lived in Memphis during the war, was probably a witness.) The city hospitals filled up with men and the few women and children who were on board, victims of severe burns from steam and fire, exposure and hypothermia. A large number of Hoosiers were among the wounded and dead. The list of men admitted to Memphis’ Gayoso General Hospital included a long list of soldiers from Indiana and Kentucky. Evansville Daily Journal, May 5, 1865. Around 1,800 people died, a bigger toll than the Titanic. Yet newspaper accounts of the horrors on the river gave surprisingly few details. Like another devastating blast — the Allegheny Arsenal explosion in Pittsburgh, which blew up 78 ammunition workers, mostly young women, on the day of the Battle of Antietam in 1862 –and like the USS Indianapolis sinking in 1945, which was overshadowed by the atomic bomb, the news got drowned out by bigger events: the end of the Civil War, coverage of Lincoln’s funeral train, and the death of John Wilkes Booth, who was shot to death in a burning barn in Virginia the night before the Sultana exploded. The St. Louis Republican — a river-town paper, like the Evansville Daily Journal — provided some of the scanty coverage that made it into the press. The stories are hair-raising and gloomy. Evansville Daily Journal, May 5, 1865. William D. Snow, U.S. Senator-elect from Arkansas, had been awakened by the boiler explosion. Opening his door, he was confronted by “a large volume of steam” careening through the cabin and many scalded passengers. Snow said that as he prepared to jump ship and swim almost a mile to the Arkansas shore, the river presented itself as “a sea of heads, so close together that it was impossible to leap without killing one or more.” Amazingly, in those days before government safety regulations, Snow saw “several husbands fasten life-preservers to their wives and children, and throw them overboard into the struggling mass below.” The Senator washed up, alive, among “overflowed cottonwood lands” at about 4:00 in the morning. He was rescued by a passing steamer. One of the Hoosier survivors, Uriah J. Maverty, came from Lebanon, Indiana, west of Indianapolis. Maverty, who survived incarceration at Andersonville and Cahaba, was an invalid in a wheelchair when he wrote a graphic account of the disaster before his death in 1910. He remembered that “several times was I pulled under water by others drowning,” but a love of his mother in Indiana helped him hang on. “If you ever longed to see your mother, even in the prison-pen or on the battlefield, you know the feelings which came over me were too deep to be described.” Maverty watched an Irish soldier, whose face had been crushed by “flying missiles,” cry out in loud prayer, but he died just after they were dragged to shore. Grown men were seen weeping profusely as they floated among dead comrades and severed body parts. Veterans of Gettysburg and Chickamauga thought the sight was worse than things they had seen on the battlefield. A number of the victims and survivors came from Henry County, Indiana. More than a century later, a monument to 55 victims from Delaware County was erected at Muncie’s Beech Grove Cemetery. Most victims, however, were buried in Memphis. Though no one was ever prosecuted for the disaster and investigations pinned the explosion on carelessness, one theory sprouted up right away: a coal torpedo or bomb planted by a disgruntled Confederate had destroyed the boat. The website Civil War St. Louis even presents a lengthy, detailed (though skeptical) case for-and-against the sabotage of the Sultana. Irish-born Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay, Confederate Secret Service Agent and bomb-maker. Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay, a native of Belfast, Ireland — where the Titanic was built and launched in 1912 — had immigrated to St. Louis in 1844, aged 22, and also lived around Vicksburg. Ironically, Courtenay sold fire and marine insurance in St. Louis and even served as sheriff of St. Louis County in 1860. The Irish immigrant’s loyalties were to the Confederacy, and early in the war he joined up with the Confederate Secret Service as a clandestine agent. In 1863, Courtenay invented the coal torpedo, a hollow iron casting loaded with explosives and disguised inside a clump of hardened coal dust. Hidden in Union coal piles by Confederate saboteurs, coal torpedoes were meant to be shoveled unsuspectingly into the boilers of vessels, where they would heat up, cause the boiler to burst and lead to a larger, catastrophic secondary explosion. Confederate President Jefferson Davis approved a plan to target Union gunboats with Courtenay’s secret bombs. Several U.S. Navy vessels were actually blown up by coal torpedoes, including one in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1864. After the war, Courtenay traveled overseas and tried to sell his deadly invention to foreign governments, with no success. To protest the British occupation of Ireland, the Fenian Brotherhood, radical Irish nationalists based in the U.S. and Australia, reportedly considered putting coal torpedoes into furnaces in New York City hotels and aboard English transatlantic steamships. Fenian coal bombs were blamed for the explosion of a British Navy vessel in Patagonia in 1880, which inspired a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, inventor of Sherlock Holmes. This model of a coal torpedo was found by Union General Edward Ripley at Jefferson Davis’ office in Richmond in April 1865, the month the Sultana blew up and after much of Richmond itself was incinerated. As bodies started to float in, a mate aboard the Sultana told a writer for the Memphis Argus that he suspected a bomb. And during a yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans in 1867, Robert Louden, a Confederate agent and “terrorist” who sank several Union vessels on the waterfront in St. Louis, claimed on his deathbed to have planted a bomb on the Sultana — probably while its crew were unloading sugar at Memphis. Louden may have been bluffing, and the evidence is not totally convincing, especially since some of the passengers aboard the steamboat were ex-Confederates headed home to Kentucky and Tennessee. The ruins of the Sultana floated downstream a few miles, burned to the waterline, and sank in a mud bank. In 1982, archaeologists discovered what may be the steamboat’s remains — but they aren’t in the river. The ever-meandering Mississippi has moved two miles east since 1865, placing the site of the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history square in the middle of an Arkansas soybean field. Survivors’ reunions were held well into the 20th century. The last two survivors — one from the North, one from the South — were still alive in the 1930s. Though the memory of many was consigned forever to the restless river, the lights finally went out on January 9, 1936, with the death of 94-year-old Albert Norris. A private in the 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Norris, aged 23, had been lying directly above the boilers and fell down onto the hot furnace as men came raining down around him from the hurricane deck. Though he was one of the closest to the blast, he lived the longest to tell the tale. Albert Norris of Ohio, last survivor of the Sultana, died in 1936. Contact: staylor336 [AT] gmail.com cemeteriesCivil WarEvansville Daily Journalmaritime historymedical historymilitary historyPOWssoldierssteamboatsveterans African-American History, Civil War, Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization A Railroad “Chartered in Heaven” The “religion vs. science” debate has been a hot media sensation since 9/11. Syria’s refugee crisis is causing further argument over why some believers haven’t helped people obviously in need, though many have. But venomous debates over religion and refugees aren’t new to American history. Black History Month reminds us that religious voices have played a profound role in American struggles for justice — with many of the most religious Americans being treated as criminals for their pains on behalf of others. Some historians have even remarked that the Civil Rights movement was “primarily a religious and spiritual movement.” The work of Martin Luther King, Jr., Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, William Wilberforce, David Livingstone, and many others drew powerfully on their interpretation of faith. In fact, you could even argue that the African and African American encounter with Christianity — and vice-versa — eventually unlocked religion for many Europeans and Americans who were only nominally Christian to begin with. Whatever the truth there may be, radical Christianity rang out loud and clear during one of America’s (and Canada’s) first refugee crises — the exodus of fugitive slaves seeking asylum under “the North Star.” That exodus took thousands of refugees across the rural Midwest. Abolitionist history is certainly full of iconic Christian imagery. When a slave from Virginia, Henry Brown, experienced a “heavenly vision” and decided to mail himself out of bondage in 1843, he had himself concealed inside a 3-foot by 2-foot dry goods box or “pine coffin.” Lined with wool and containing only a few biscuits and some water, the box and its occupant were carried north, delivered after a week on the road to the office of Passmore Williamson, a Quaker merchant active with the radical Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Like a well-known Byzantine icon of Jesus, “the Man of Sorrows” — which shows Jesus rising from the dead and an equally tiny box — Henry “Box” Brown climbed out in front of a group of Philadelphia abolitionists and asked “How do you do, gentlemen?” A fabulous engraving of the event was given the name “The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown.” (Passmore Williamson, a Pennsylvania Quaker, at Moyamensing Prison in 1855, where he was jailed for helping Jane Johnson and her two sons escape from slavery. Williamson was also an early advocate of voting rights for women.) Several major “routes” of the Underground Railroad passed through Indiana, leading to farmhouses and barns in the Wabash Valley, the fields around Quaker-dominated Richmond and Fountain City, and the swamps and prairies north of Indianapolis. Yet Hoosiers — like other Americans — were deeply torn over whether to obey the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, a controversial law that made it illegal for any citizen to assist a runaway slave and exacted harsh penalties for helping refugees. The federal law was absolutely designed to protect humans defined as “property” and even as “livestock.” Many Christians, of course, were slaveholders themselves, though their views often depended on whether they lived in the North or South. Northern and Southern Baptists, for example, had sharp differences of opinion on slavery. Though Methodism’s founder John Wesley wrote against human bondage in 1778, Southern Methodists often owned slaves. Ministers who didn’t take their congregation’s — or government’s — line on slavery were sometimes kicked out of the pulpit or physically attacked. At least a dozen chapels built by anti-slavery Baptists and Methodists in Jamaica were burned down by white settlers. The religious situation was never simple. The Jesuits, whose famous South American missions were admired by Enlightenment philosophers as an experiment in earthly utopia, had long owned slaves. Just two years before Pope Gregory XVI spoke out against the slave trade in 1839, Jesuit priests in Maryland were putting slaves to work on plantations to support Georgetown University, a Catholic school built by slave labor and where students brought their slaves to class. (In 1838, the Jesuits sold thirty of them to the ex-governor of Louisiana, whose son was a student of theirs.) One Maryland priest used the Bible to defend slave ownership. Yet the Jesuits were no more guilty than the religious freethinker Thomas Jefferson, who along with forty other signers of the Declaration of Independence, owned slaves while announcing “All men are created equal.” Jefferson used a blade to create a famous Bible of his own, cutting out the miracles and superstition to focus on Jesus’ ethics and morals. Jefferson, however, went to his grave a slave-owner, having thought about it for fifty years. (The cutting-room floor of Jefferson’s Bible. Though he included Luke 12:48 — “To whomever much is given, of him much shall be required” — the master of Monticello must have been uncomfortable with the next passage, “I am come to cast fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! …Do you suppose that I am come to send peace on earth? Nay, but a sword.” Jefferson sliced it out. As the English critic of slavery, Dr. Samuel Johnson, put it, “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negros?” Contemporary science was no help to Africans. Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz, the most famous American scientist of his time, commissioned the best-known daguerreotypes of African slaves to provide evidence for the old theory of “polygeny,” or “separate creation” of the human races. Originally a heretical religious theory, the scientific version was given credence by the atheists Voltaire and David Hume. Voltaire believed that whites and blacks were different species.) Not all American Christians appreciated the politicizing of the pulpit. Under the pen name “Q.K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.,” humorist Mortimer Thomson satirized their reaction to “politico religious hash” — i.e., hyper-political sermons. “Doesticks,” who grew up in the Midwest, wrote for Horace Greeley’s anti-slavery New York Tribune and even did a famous undercover report on a huge slave sale in Savannah, Georgia, where he posed as a potential buyer to get the full scoop. Thomson received death threats for his exposé of slave auctioneering. As a satirist, he was much admired by Mark Twain. (Weekly Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, October 2, 1856.) Indiana was no stranger to this religious battle. In 1855, the year Passmore Williamson went to prison in Pennsylvania, the Reverend Thomas B. McCormick got into hot water with congregations and the law in Princeton and Mechanicsville, Indiana, two small towns between Evansville and Vincennes. Gibson’s flock were Cumberland Presbyterians, a branch mostly centered in Kentucky and Tennessee. Princeton lay on a main line of the Underground Railroad running up the Wabash Valley. Unlike most “agents” and “stationmasters” on the Railroad, Rev. McCormick made no secret of his hatred for the Fugitive Slave Act. He actively aided runaways from Kentucky and preached on the topic of slavery and its sinfulness. A native Kentuckian himself, McCormick had been a minister in southern Indiana for fourteen years when he ran afoul of the law. At a session of the Indiana Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterians, who met at Washington in Daviess County in 1855, church elders passed a resolution (17-3) stating “That it is not expedient to discuss the subject of American Slavery from the pulpit.” McCormick had just preached an anti-slavery sermon. He ignored the elders. (Indiana American, Brookville, November 16, 1855.) McCormick then put forward a resolution of his own, which was rejected by the presbyters: When the Cumberland Presbyterians tried to silence Thomas McCormick from preaching, the reverend left and joined the Congregationalists — a denominational cousin of the Presbyterians but who were more united in their condemnation of slavery. McCormick’s activity piloting fugitives north toward Michigan and Canada, however, soon got him indicted by a Kentucky grand jury. Under the 1850 federal law, Kentucky Governor Lazarus Powell was authorized to request the governor of neighboring Indiana — a technically “free” state, though many Hoosiers were pro-slavery — to extradite any Hoosier caught helping refugees evade slave catchers, who often traipsed onto Indiana soil. Governor Joseph Wright (namesake of Wright Quadrangle at Indiana University) complied with the noxious law. Like those he helped, Rev. McCormick himself had to flee to either Ohio or Canada, as “a large sum of money was offered for his body.” McCormick ran for the governorship of Ohio in 1857 on “the Abolition ticket” and wasn’t able to return to Indiana until 1862, when Governor Oliver P. Morton assured him he would be safe here. He died in Gibson County in 1892. Calvin Fairbank, an abolitionist and Methodist minister who ferried slaves over the Ohio, was less fortunate than McCormick. For over a decade, Fairbank helped at least forty runaways slip into the interior of Indiana, many of them making it to the farm of Levi and Catherine Coffin in Fountain City, just north of Richmond. Coffin, a Quaker from North Carolina, was called the “President” of the Underground Railroad. In 1851, with the complicity of Governor Wright and the Clark County sheriff in Jeffersonville, Fairbank was arrested on the way to church by Kentucky marshals, who extradited him across the river to Louisville. (Some versions say he was “kidnapped.”) Fairbank eventually spent thirteen years at the old Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort, where guards mercilessly beat him and lashed him with whips, by some accounts a thousand times, by others 30,000 times. With his body broken, he moved to western New York, where he died in poverty in 1898, an almost forgotten hero of American freedom. (Calvin Fairbank.) The great abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass, who lashed out at American hypocrisy, once proclaimed: “Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” The Anti-Slavery Bugle, a newspaper published in Lisbon, Ohio, quoted Douglass’ words on the fervently Baptist Newton Craig, cruel superintendent of the Kentucky State Penitentiary and Fairbank’s torturer. According to an 1860 history of the prison, written by a friend of Captain Craig’s, the jailer’s ancestors had been imprisoned in colonial Virginia “for preaching the gospel” as dissenting Baptists, against the Anglican state church. In spite of his fervent religion, Craig, as abolitionists said, nevertheless had “the most inveterate hatred” toward “negro-stealers.” The jail-master earned a small fortune during his eleven years in charge, using convicts on nearby plantations, and is said to have “delivered long sermons to the inmates in his care.” According to a story mentioned by Frederick Douglass, he broke an expensive cane on Calvin Fairbank’s head: (Frederick Douglass on Newton Craig. Anti-Slavery Bugle, Lisbon, Ohio, April 12, 1856.) (Kentucky State Penitentiary. The note reads: “This is some Bird Cage. Looks like a church.” Frederick Douglass once wrote of America: “The church and the slave prison stand next to each other… [T]he church-going bell and the auctioneer’s bell chime in with each other; the pulpit and the auctioneer’s block stand in the same neighborhood.”) Not long after Fairbank’s arrival behind bars, several other resisters joined him, including Delia Webster (a Vermont-born schoolteacher from Lexington and the only woman at the prison) and former slave Lewis Hayden. A lesser-known inmate was the Irish immigrant Thomas Brown, who with his wife Mary McClanahan Brown had posed as a traveling merchant and “notions pedlar” downstream from Evansville, Indiana. Operating on the Kentucky side of the river near Henderson, the Browns smuggled refugees under curtains in their wagon to the riverbank. Brown was arrested by marshals near the mouth of the Wabash and sentenced to a prison term in Frankfort, where he witnessed the murder of a free black man from Evansville by guards. Released in 1857, Brown wrote an exposé of the wardens, published in Indianapolis that year as Three Years in Kentucky Prisons. By the end of the 1850s, anti-slavery voices had grown stronger than ever. The religious undertones were clear: from the fascinating dream-visions and out-of-body experiences of Harriet Tubman to the fiery Old Testament furor of John Brown. While the actions of Christians like prison warden Newton Craig and many more made Frederick Douglass’ suspicion of the churches a fair criticism, the “voice in the wilderness” was now crying strong. (Weekly Reveille, Vevay, Indiana, August 18, 1853.) Hoosier State Chronicles provides access to many other fascinating news clips about the Underground Railroad, all of them available for free on our search engine. Here’s a few of the best: A reprint in the anti-Underground Railroad Daily State Sentinel (Indianapolis) about the impact of the refugee crisis on public opinion in Vermont, “A Change of Sentiment,” July 8, 1858. An editorial from the Daily State Sentinel criticizing Indiana judges for protecting “the n—-r population,” October 12, 1857. “Calvin Fairbank Dead,” Indianapolis News, October 14, 1898. “A Kidnapper Caught,” [on Thomas Brown], Evansville Daily Journal, June 2, 1854. “A Collision on the Underground Railroad,” Terre-Haute Journal, September 15, 1854. An article against “The Abolition Editor of the [Indianapolis] Journal,” Daily State Sentinel, May 5, 1856. An editorial against Illinois abolitionist Owen Lovejoy, brother of murdered abolitionist printer Elijah Lovejoy, Daily State Sentinel, August 9, 1856. “Return Trips of the Underground Railroad,” about the miserable conditions refugees that found in Ontario, Daily State Sentinel, October 24, 1857. A reprint from the Detroit Advertiser equating the Underground Railroad with theft, “Arrival of Twenty-Six Fugitive Slaves at Detroit,” Daily State Sentinel, November 8, 1859. A statement from a Senate report arguing that the Underground Railroad would be cause for war with a foreign nation, Evansville Daily Journal, January 23, 1861. A reprint from the New York Express, written during the Civil War, mocking abolitionists as part of a procession leading the American people toward “the Limbo of Vanity and the Paradise of Fools,” Daily State Sentinel, October 17, 1862. 1850sabolitionismAfrican American historyAfrican Americansanti-slaveryChristianityCivil WarFugitive Slave ActprisonsreligionslaveryUnderground Railroad Civil War, Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization, Medical History A Skeleton’s Odyssey: The Forensic Mystery of Watson Brown October 21, 2015 Stephen J. Taylor When the fiery abolitionist John Brown, “The Meteor” who tried to ignite a slave rebellion in the South, was hanged for treason, authorities turned the body over to his family. In December 1859, Brown’s remains traveled north by train from the hanging grounds in Charles Town, Virginia, to the family farm in New York’s Adirondack Mountains. Around Christmastime, he was laid to rest next to a huge chunk of Appalachian granite. Twenty-three years later, a Hoosier geologist who studied such rocks for a living helped ensure that one of John Brown’s fellow raiders at Harper’s Ferry — his son Watson, who was gunned down during the raid — would finally be buried next to his father. In the meantime, Watson’s bones went on a long odyssey out to the Midwest. Watson Brown was born October 7, 1835, in Franklin Mills, Ohio. His father, the great abolitionist, moved back and forth between northern Ohio and his native New England several times. After John Brown went out to “Bleeding Kansas” to fight the extension of slavery into the West, Watson left home, too, though he apparently didn’t join in the combat on the Plains. His father and brothers, however — considered terrorists by some — waged war on pro-slavery factions with guns, fire and on one occasion, with broadswords used to hack their enemies to death. A letter from Watson to his mother Mary, written in Iowa in 1856, mentions that on his own way west with a team of emigrants — armed with “Sharp’s rifles and cannon” — they met with ex-slave Frederick Douglass and the reformer Gerrit Smith. Smith, a failed presidential candidate, secretly financed the later raid on Harper’s Ferry. Watson himself may have helped carry caches of firearms out to the Great Plains, guns paid for by New England anti-slavery committees. John Brown in Springfield, Massachusetts, 1846. Watson Brown, circa 1859. John Brown traversed the Midwest many times on trips back East to win the support of reformers like William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and even Henry David Thoreau. In 1859, Brown and a small band of followers — sixteen white and five black — tried to pull off their most spectacular assault on slavery yet, an attack on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry, where the Shenandoah flows into the Potomac. The target: 100,000 muskets, to be handed over to slaves for use in a massive insurrection. Harpers Ferry, Virginia, now West Virginia. Optimistic supporters in the U.S. and Canada originally planned for 4,500 men to participate in the raid. Instead, just twenty-one attacked Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859. After cutting telegraph wires and taking hostages on nearby farms, Brown’s band moved into town. Local militia, farmers and shopkeepers, opening fire, quickly pinned down the abolitionists, driving them into a brick engine house. Under siege, John Brown sent his son Watson and another man out with a white flag. The crowd shot them. Watson, aged twenty-four, with a bullet just below his stomach, struggled back to the engine house, fatally wounded. He begged his father and comrades to “dash out his brains,” then tried to commit suicide. The Liberator, Boston, Massachusetts, November 18, 1859. Brown’s son Oliver was also killed in the raid, while Watson lay in agony. “With one son dead by his side, and another dying, he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand and held his rifle with the other.” (James Redpath, The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, 1860) The outbreak of the Civil War was still a year and a half away. In fact, the raid was put down by Colonel Robert E. Lee — of the U.S. Army. John Brown was hanged for treason in December. Spectators at his execution included Stonewall Jackson, John Wilkes Booth, and the poet Walt Whitman. Ten of Brown’s men died in the raid, including two sons. What became of their mortal remains is a fascinating and rarely told part of the tale. Eight of the bodies were gathered up by townspeople of Harpers Ferry. The locals, understandably, didn’t want the raiders buried in the town’s cemetery. They gave a man named James Mansfield five dollars to take care of the corpses. Packing eight men into two large wooden store boxes, Mansfield buried them along the Shenandoah River about a half-mile from town. The grave, half forgotten, remained there until 1899, when Dr. Timothy Featherstonehaugh, Captain E.P. Hall, and Orin Grant Libby, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin, exhumed the corpses for transfer to the Brown family farm in upstate New York. Professor Libby took femur notes while examining the skeletal remains, comparing them for size against his own leg. On August 30, 1899, the mingled raiders’ bones were re-interred at the Brown plot — in a single silver-handled casket. (New England Magazine, April 1901.) This wasn’t the first time, however, that a box of old bones was brought to North Elba, New York, to lie next to John Brown’s. Two of his followers were never initially buried at all. One of them was his son Watson. Remarkably common in the nineteenth century, body-stealing was a feature of reality at a time when medical schools had trouble acquiring corpses for anatomy classes. Rarely able to do so legally, they had to steal them, giving rise to the “resurrectionists” who nabbed the dead out of fresh graves. Yet other examples of body-theft involved mere curiosity seekers and bogus scientists. During the heyday of phrenology — the long-discredited study of bumps on the skull, which, it was believed, actually determined one’s personality, creative genius, or propensity to crime — “cranioklepty” (the theft of skulls) was far from rare. The more famous the head, the better. When the composer Joseph Haydn died in Vienna in 1809, wealthy robbers paid a cemetery attendant to open up the new grave and cut off his head. “Scientists” then boiled off the flesh or used acid to remove the skin and muscle in order to examine Haydn’s cranial bumps. Until 1954, the famous skull remained on display in a glass case in Vienna, when it was reunited with the rest of Haydn’s bones. After the coffins of Beethoven and Schubert were exhumed for relocation in the 1860s, their skulls were also examined, as was the entire mummified body of American naval hero John Paul Jones, unearthed in subterranean Paris in 1905 — a hundred-and-thirteen years after he died. Watson Brown and Jeremiah Anderson — two Midwesterners gunned down at Harpers Ferry — were considered “fine physical specimens.” Southern doctors took them to Winchester Medical College in Virginia, where, like Joseph Haydn, they had (most of) the flesh stripped off them. John Brown’s 24-year-old son, who had left behind a widow, Isabella, and a young child who died in 1863, was turned into a model skeleton for the instruction of future Southern medical men. Dr. Jarvis Johnson, surgeon of the 27th Indiana Volunteers. Yet Winchester, Virginia, just thirty miles from Harper’s Ferry and the Potomac River, changed hands several times during the Civil War. In the spring of 1862, two and a half years after Watson Brown’s death, the 27th Regiment of Indiana Volunteers marched into town with the Union Army. Among them was regimental surgeon Dr. Jarvis Jackson Johnson. Born in Bedford, Indiana, in 1828, Johnson practiced medicine in Martinsville, half way between Indianapolis and Bloomington. He would have been 34 when he walked into Winchester Medical College and found out what doctors had done to the remains of Watson Brown — an action for which, Virginians believed, Union troops burned down the college, the only case of arson during Winchester’s military occupation. In 1882, the Indianapolis Journal printed the most widely-accepted version of the tale. It came in the aftermath of a visit by John Brown, Jr., who visited Morgan County, Indiana, with several other investigators to examine a set of human remains there. Dr. Johnson had stated that while serving as commander of a military hospital in Winchester, he acquired Watson Brown’s body from the museum of the medical college — then shipped it on a train to Franklin, Indiana, the nearest railroad depot to his home in Martinsville. Like the Virginia doctors, Johnson kept the body in a case at his medical office. For twenty years, the raider’s bones were a strange part of the life of a Hoosier country town. Indianapolis Journal, September 11, 1882. In 1882, word of the skeleton’s whereabouts came to John Brown, Jr., Watson’s elder brother and the abolitionist’s oldest son, after Jarvis Johnson put a notice in the Chicago Tribune looking for family members. The doctor claimed, probably disingenuously, that he hadn’t realized any of the Brown brothers were still living, and he hadn’t wanted to upset Watson Brown’s mother. Though John Brown, Jr., had fought in “Bleeding Kansas,” he in fact wasn’t part of the raid on Harpers Ferry. During the Civil War, he helped recruit troops for the famous “Jayhawk” border fighter James H. Lane. (Before Lane became an anti-slavery senator from Kansas and a famous target for Confederates, he had been the lieutenant governor of Indiana.) Brown, Jr., visited Indiana in September 1882, having already moved back east to Ohio, where he grew grapes for the wine business on South Bass Island in Lake Erie and took an interest in geology. John Brown, Jr. The other main forensic investigator to come to Martinsville that September was one of Indiana’s most prominent scientists, the impressively-bearded State Geologist John Collett. Remembered as a beloved “Santa Claus” figure, Collett was a Wabash Valley native who lived in Indianapolis and often weighed in on scientific and agricultural questions — from the study of caves and killer meteorite hoaxes to how to improve celery crops. Collett traveled to Martinsville with several doctors to look over the badly-treated remains of the bygone Harpers Ferry raider. Hoosier geologist John Collett, who drew the first maps of Wyandotte Cave, helped Watson Brown get back to New York. The Indianapolis Journal printed this description of the scene at Dr. Johnson’s office: The body has received careless treatment during the last few years. It has been carted about from place to place, and has been doing duty in all the anatomical exhibitions about town. During the first few years it was in the possession of Dr. Johnson it was in a remarkably fine state of preservation, but ill usage has ruined it. For several years, it has been lying in the Knights of Pythias hall, and, it is whispered, was used in the mystic ceremonies of the order. The best of care had not been bestowed upon it, and it was infested with worms and insects. Knowledge of its ill-usage was sedulously kept from Mr. Brown. When he intimated that he would like to see the body, he was considerately kept in waiting until it could be removed from the lodge-hall to the residence by way of a back street, and there placed in better condition for the examination. At the time, it wasn’t clear whether the skeleton was that of Watson or 22-year-old Oliver, John Brown’s other son killed in October 1859. Watson and Oliver looked alike. Both stood six feet tall. An office assistant of Dr. Jarvis’ showed John Brown, Jr., a “coffin-shaped box standing against the wall.” Then he removed a cloth covering, exposing “a bare and hideous skeleton.” “Gentlemen, if it is either of my brothers, I am now inclined to think that it is Oliver,” Brown exclaimed after picking up and poring over skeletal fragments and examining the shape of a half-missing skull. Yet the more he looked, the more he came to think he was looking at his other brother, Watson. Geologist John Collett wasn’t a qualified expert in forensic facial reconstruction, a process that would actually be pioneered in the next decade. (When Johann Sebastian Bach’s bones showed up at a church in Leipzig, Germany, in 1894, Swiss anatomist Wilhelm His reconstructed a face from the skull, which resembled an old painting of Bach — who became an unwitting helper in the baby science of crime-scene forensics.) After comparing all the forensic evidence available, however, including written descriptions of Watson Brown’s gun wound, it was John Collett’s opinion that the cadaver standing before him in Martinsville, Indiana, was, in fact, the man in question. True to the often bogus science of the time, though, some of the “professor’s” statements expose how ludicrous phrenology was. The Inter Ocean, Chicago, September 14, 1882. Then came a fascinating insight. Dr. Jarvis Johnson’s written affidavit, notarized by Morgan County lawyers, also shed light on why doctors in Virginia wanted to preserve Brown’s corpse in the first place. When he was put in charge of local Union Army medical operations, “A number of the prominent citizens of Winchester called upon me at the hospital, and each and all declared that [these were] the remains of a son of John Brown.” Amazingly, the doctor who “prepared” the body, whom Johnson never identifies by name, also stopped by — and pleaded with Johnson to give him back this “exceedingly valuable piece of property.” Like the medieval Europeans who condemned criminals to be drawn-and-quartered, Virginia doctors held up the corpse as a warning to their state’s enemies. Sic semper tyrannis? (The Inter Ocean, Chicago, September 14, 1882.) Who was this doctor, then? He was surely on the faculty list — and it’s a small one. Founded by Dr. Hugh Holmes McGuire, Winchester Medical College had only four instructors in 1859, including the founder’s son, Hunter Holmes McGuire (1835-1900). At age 24, Hunter McGuire, already a professor anatomy at his father’s school, would have been an exact contemporary of the “fine specimen” killed at Harpers Ferry. Hunter McGuire, however, was probably not the culprit. In late 1859, he was studying medicine in Philadelphia. The young doctor was even there during the famous walk-out of Southern medical students, which occurred after John Brown’s body was paraded through the streets by Northern admirers. Insulted, McGuire led an exodus of about three-hundred Southern students from Jefferson Medical College, who dropped out, went down to Richmond, and re-enrolled at the Medical College of Virginia. Some sources say that he financed the trip of all these students with his own savings. Dr. Hunter McGuire later enlisted in the Confederate Army and even served as Stonewall Jackson’s personal surgeon, amputating the general’s arm after Chancellorsville. He went on to become the president of the American Medical Association. In the 1890s, McGuire would contribute to the debate over eugenics, racial purity, and the castration of rapists, especially African Americans — arguments that eventually led to Virginia’s “Racial Integrity Act” of 1924, a major victory for the controversial eugenics movement and one of the worst misapplications of science in history. He also strove to ensure that Southern school textbooks “would not poison the minds of Virginia schoolchildren” by teaching a northern revisionist history of the Civil War. The Medical Pickwick (1918) states that Watson Brown was “dissected by students.” McGuire, as stated, was in Pennsylvania in the aftermath of Harper’s Ferry. But did he have anything at all to do with this man’s bizarre fate? It seems that he did. Mary Greenhow Lee, a famous diarist in Winchester during the Civil War, wrote that when Union soldiers torched the medical school on May 16, 1862, “They buried in the yard what they supposed were [Oliver Brown’s] bones, but the genuine ones had been removed by Hunter McGuire, thus foiling their malicious designs.” Were the bones buried those of Jeremiah Anderson, a native of Wisconsin who fought with John Brown? Lee might have been mistaken about the identity of the bones. It’s harder to believe she was mistaken about Dr. McGuire. After all, he was fighting in northern Virginia and may have been the doctor who approached Jarvis Johnson. Twenty years later, Johnson willingly handed over to the Brown family the cadaver he claimed to have shipped by train from the Shenandoah Valley to the Midwest. In October 1882, Watson Brown’s strange post-mortem odyssey finally came to an end. On an autumn day in the Adirondacks, he was laid to rest in a patch of soil near his famous father, who — as the old Union song put it — had long lain “mouldering in the grave.” Isabella Thompson, aged just 22 when the Harpers Ferry raid left her a widow, married Watson’s cousin, Salmon Brown. For decades, the couple lived in Kilbourn City, Wisconsin — later renamed Wisconsin Dells. Isabella may have died near Traverse City in northern Michigan in 1907. Her second husband died in neighboring Antrim County, Michigan, in 1921. “Bella” was buried at North Elba, New York, near her first husband, his final whereabouts pinned down at last. John Collett passed away in March 1899 and was buried in Terre Haute. Dr. Johnson died that September, just a few weeks after the mass re-interment of Brown’s other missing men, among whom was his son Oliver, who had lain in a merchant’s box on the Shenandoah for forty years. Johnson rests at East Hill Cemetery in Morgantown, Indiana. cemeteriesCivil WardoctorsJohn BrownJohn CollettMartinsvillemedical historymedicinemilitary historyMorgan CountyWatson Brown The Fall of the House of Ford April 14, 2015 Stephen J. Taylor Exactly 150 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln, who spent part of his rail-splitting boyhood in Spencer County in southern Indiana, fell victim to the bullet of the 26-year-old actor John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater. Soon, the president’s body headed west by train, stopping in Richmond, Indiana, for a public viewing at 2:00 in the morning on April 30, then on to Indianapolis and Michigan City, with short stopovers at small Hoosier train stations along the way. In a downpour, possibly fifty thousand Hoosiers viewed Lincoln’s open casket in the rotunda of the old State House. (At a time when the population of the capitol city was less than 40,000, the crowd of black-draped mourners must have been a spectacle in itself. Many were African Americans clutching copies of the Emancipation Proclamation.) Just before midnight, a carriage brought the president’s coffin through the rainy streets of Indianapolis, lit by torches and bonfires, to Union Depot, where it departed north by train for the south shore of Lake Michigan, en route to Chicago and eventually to Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln funeral cortege in Michigan City, 8:00 a.m., May 1, 1865. An exhibit running through July 7 at the Indiana State Museum, So Costly a Sacrifice: Lincoln and Loss, includes some actual “relics” of that fateful Good Friday in 1865 when Booth shot Indiana’s favorite son. Among the artifacts are a few that seem like medieval religious relics: clothing with spots alleged to be the blood of Honest Abe, and a piece of the burning barn in Port Royal, Virginia, where the assassin met his own fate at the hands of a Union soldier, the eccentric street-preacher Boston Corbett. One of the most interesting things to me about the Lincoln assassination and the funeral that came after is the apparent curse on the people and even the physical things involved in it. Poe’s Raven could be telling the story, and the bird of death keeps on talking, quawking not “Nevermore” — just “More.” What happened to Booth and Corbett is pretty bizarre and appalling. Basil Moxley, a doorman at Ford’s Theater who claimed that he served as one of Booth’s pallbearers in Baltimore in 1865, fed a conspiracy theory in 1903 when he asserted that another man is buried in the plot and that Lincoln’s murderer actually escaped to Oklahoma or Texas. A mummy hoax brought the assassin back to life as a sideshow attraction in the 1920s. But perhaps the moody English-American actor would have been thrilled to know that the morbid tragedy he let loose wasn’t over yet. For instance, Booth’s own killer probably went down surrounded by flames. It is thought that Boston Corbett died in the massive forest fire that consumed Hinckley, Minnesota, in 1894. And oddly enough, the very train car that carried Lincoln’s corpse west to Illinois from Washington also burned in Minnesota. In March 1911, while in storage in the northeastern outskirts of Minneapolis, the historic Lincoln funeral car perished in a “spectacular prairie fire.” Minneapolis Sunday Journal, March 19, 1911. This decorative fan now on display at the Indiana State Museum commemorates the Lincoln assassination. John Wilkes Booth goes down in smoke on the far right. In 1893, a year before the inferno in the North Woods probably claimed Corbett’s life, news readers followed the ghastly story of Ford’s Theater’s own doom. On June 10, the Indianapolis Journal ran this especially sentimental, tear-jerking news piece on the front-page: As the Journal tells it: Hundreds of men carried down by the floors of a falling building which was notoriously insecure; human lives crushed out by tons of brick and iron and sent unheralded to the throne of their Maker; men by the score maimed and disfigured for life; happy families hurled into the depths of despair. . . Words cannot picture the awfulness of the accident. Its horrors will never be fully told. Its suddenness was almost the chief terror. . . Women who kissed their loved ones as they separated will have but the cold, bruised faces to kiss to-night. . . In the national capitol of the proudest nation on earth there has been a catastrophe unparalleled in the annals of history, and in every mind there is the horrible conviction that its genesis is to be found in the criminal negligence of a government too parsimonious to provide for the safety of its loyal servants by protecting its property for their accommodation. At 9:30 a.m. on June 9, the front part of Ford’s Theater, a notoriously rickety and rotten old structure then being used as a government office building, collapsed, sending beams, iron, and over a hundred employees plummeting toward the basement. Twenty-eight years after Abraham Lincoln was shot here, twenty-two men were killed and sixty-eight injured in one of the deadliest disasters in Washington, D.C.’s, history. (In a twist of irony, the same day the theater collapse made national headlines, John Wilkes Booth’s brother, the great American actor Edwin Booth, was laid to rest at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Many said that Edwin Booth’s life and death were overshadowed by two different tragedies and the curse of Ford’s Theater.) Ford’s Theater draped in mourning for President Lincoln. Collapsing structures were a major news item in the 1890s. Almost every week, American papers reported mass casualties at overcrowded factories and apartment buildings, especially in Chicago and cities back on the East Coast, where poor construction and dry rot led to the deaths of thousands of industrial workers and tenants — often women and children. During the Progressive Era, such tragedies inspired reformers like the photographers Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine (who documented child workers in Indianapolis in 1908) to illustrate the real peril of shoddy, dilapidated buildings in the workplace and at home. In 1893, Ford’s Theater was probably one of the most dangerous structures in America. Built in 1863 by the 34-year-old entrepreneur John T. Ford, the building occupied the site of a Baptist Church-turned-theater that had burned down a year earlier. John Ford’s business was a victim of Booth, too. After the Lincoln assassination, public opinion and the U.S. government both decided that it was inappropriate to use the site of the nation’s great tragedy for entertainment. Ford wanted to re-open his theater, but received arson threats from at least one Lincoln mourner. The Federal government appropriated the playhouse, compensating its owner with $88,000 in July 1866. Even before the government actually paid for the building, renovations were underway. In December 1865, the suitably morbid Army Medical Museum moved onto the third floor. “A far cry from the once jovial theater,” the famous local landmark now housed an array of skeletons in glass cases, body parts, surgical tools, and other gory reminders of military medicine. The Library of the Surgeon General’s Office soon occupied the second floor. From 1866 to 1887, Ford’s Theater housed medical exhibits. An active theater for just two years, the place was a literal showcase of death for more than twenty. The museum later moved to a new location at 7th & Independence. A section of John Wilkes Booth’s vertebrae was on display here for years. The Terre Haute Saturday Evening Mail reprinted an incorrect rumor that the skull of Charles Guiteau, assassin of President James Garfield, was on display at Ford’s Theater when the building collapsed in 1893. Guiteau’s skeleton did go on exhibit there, but had been moved to the new museum at 7th & Independence, where his brain and partial skeleton are still in the collections of the National Museum of Health and Medicine. Guiteau’s head was also reported to be touring southern Indiana during World War I. The other floors of the former theater housed the War Department’s Office of Records and Pensions. The unstable, visibly bulging building was the workplace of several hundred employees and was further imperiled by probably a few tons of heavy paperwork, the red tape of veterans’ pensions. After the building succumbed to gravity and rot in 1893, American public opinion was almost as outraged as at the assassination of Lincoln. The Indianapolis Journal wrote: As long ago as 1885, this building. . . was officially proclaimed by Congress an unsafe depository for even the inanimate skeletons, mummies and books of the army medical museum, for which a safer place of storage was provided by an act of Congress. But notwithstanding the fact that in the public press, and in Congress, also, continued attention was called to the bulging walls of the building, its darkness and its general unsuitability and unsafety, it continued to be used for the daily employment of nearly five-hundred government clerks of the pension record division of the War Office. According to a riveting coroner’s inquest that whipped up public excitement, workers at what the Indianapolis Journal dubbed “Ford’s death trap” had been intimidated and cowed into silence by their tyrannical boss, former army surgeon Col. Fred Ainsworth. Afraid of being fired, the endangered clerks didn’t protest the condition of the building and later testified that Ainsworth’s assistants had told them to tip-toe on the stairway to keep from falling through. Investigators determined that the “old ruin’s” collapse finally came while a low-bidding contractor, George W. Dant, was making repairs to the building. (A support in the basement gave way.) Court testimony relayed in the Journal resonated with public opinion. “The government did not want skilled men to execute its contracts, and it would not pay fair prices for good work. . .” the paper claimed. “An architect testified that the cement used in underpinning the piers supporting the old building was ‘little better than mud.’ A builder said the manner of the work was suicidal.” Another report said that for years the decaying structure also suffered from “defective sanitary conditions.” One of the public figures who weighed in on the federal investigation was Indiana Congressman William S. Holman. A Dearborn County native, Holman sat in Congress from 1859 to 1897 and was once ranked as the longest-serving U.S. Representative. He was also a notoriously frugal hawk on government spending. (Yet far from being a total naysayer, Holman passionately advocated the Homestead Act that tried to break up the domination of Western public lands by big railroads. He also indirectly helped establish the U.S. Forest Service by providing for Federal timber reserves.) U.S. Representative William Steele Holman of Aurora, Indiana, kept a famously tight wallet but was a great opponent of land monopolies and unregulated corporations after the Civil War. He helped establish Yellowstone National Park and was described as “a botanist of no mean ability” and a friend of public forests. As chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, the curmudgeonly Holman oversaw a lot of government funding. On June 23, 1893, the Jasper Weekly Courier reported that after Ford’s Theater collapsed, even the arch-fiscal conservative was ready to “deal liberally in the matter of providing safe public buildings, and enact such legislation as would look to the preservation of human life.” The Indiana Congressman supported moving the U.S. Government Printing Office — ranked with the old theater as one of the worst potential death traps in Washington, D.C. — to a new location. (The weight of printing equipment housed on upper stories was part of the problem.) Yet once it was rebuilt after the 1893 collapse, Ford’s Theater returned to government use — oddly enough, as a storage warehouse for the Government Printing Office. The building narrowly survived being condemned for demolition by President Taft in 1912. From 1931 until renovations in the mid-1960s, the historic structure housed a government annex and a first-floor Lincoln museum. Restored to its 1865 appearance and now run by the National Park Service, it opened as a public museum in 1968. Liberty Express, Liberty, Indiana, February 11, 1921. Ford’s Theater in an early 20th-century stereograph. The Indianapolis Journal took note of the strange coincidence that Ford’s Theater crumbled on the very day that Edwin Booth was buried in Massachusetts. Edgar Allan Poe, author of “The Fall of the House of Usher,” would have appreciated the irony. Abraham LincolnCivil WardisastersFord's TheaterIndianapolisJohn Wilkes BoothLincoln funeral trainmedical historyMichigan Citypoliticspublic safety Civil War, Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization, Notable Hoosier Obits, Women in the news George C. Harding: Editor, Prankster, Gunman April 2, 2015 Stephen J. Taylor Nature lover, friend of dogs and underdogs, journalistic joker, and shooter-up of men he considered his enemies, George C. Harding once edited newspapers from Cincinnati to Houston but was always most connected with the Indianapolis Journal and the Indianapolis Herald, which he edited in the 1870’s. Part Mark Twain, part Ambrose Bierce, part proverbial “man gone postal,” Harding was called “the most picturesque man in Indianapolis journalism” by city historian J.P. Dunn. Since he wielded a pistol several times in the capitol city and may have suffered from a mental illness, it’s hard to know exactly how to see him today. But since he’s also been mostly forgotten, here’s a bit of his story. Born in Clinton, Tennessee, in 1830 to a family of thirteen kids, the future editor of the Indianapolis Journal lived in Knoxville until age seven. In 1837, the family moved to Edgar County, Illinois, where his father, Jacob J. Harding, eventually edited the Prairie Beacon in Paris, twenty miles west of Terre Haute, Indiana. At fourteen, Harding ran away to St. Louis, but came back “penniless and disheartened” and probably worked in a brick factory. A long obituary published in the Indiana State Sentinel in 1881 says that “When about fifteen or sixteen years of age [Harding] went to Terre Haute and learned the printing art in the office of the Terre Haute Express.” When the Mexican War broke out, he enlisted as a private but got sick (either in St. Louis or New Orleans) and never made it to Mexico. Around 1848, he was co-editing his father’s paper just over the Illinois state line. George Orwell famously said in 1946 that “Bad writers – especially scientific, political, and sociological writers – are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.” When the Indiana State Sentinel published a piece that praised Harding for shooting the alleged seducer of his teenage daughter Flora in 1874, the paper curried public sympathy by praising everything about the man. “His letters at this time, written in strong, sensible, and positive Anglo Saxon,” it said, reminiscing on Harding’s early days in the news business, “without redundancy, attracted considerable attention among readers of the Beacon.” In the 1850s, he grew restless and floated down the Mississippi to New Orleans, where he may have gotten work as a newspaper correspondent for the Cincinnati Commercial. Before the Civil War, Harding also edited the Courier in Charleston, Illinois, founded the Coles County Ledger in Mattoon, and did editorial work for papers in Louisville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Houston. During the Civil War, the itinerant news man served as Lieutenant in the 1st Indiana Heavy Artillery, the so-called “Jackass Regiment.” (The name came from the Hoosier regiment’s use of mules to haul cannon and supplies.) He saw action at the Battle of Baton Rouge and Port Hudson, Louisiana, before being captured by Confederate cavalry, allegedly while stumbling drunk over a fence. While held as a POW at New Iberia, Louisiana, Harding and two other Indiana captives drank from gourd cups and used ox-shoulders as silverware. Because he had given his word of honor not to attempt an escape, he was freed during a prisoner exchange at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863. (Harding served with “The Jackass Regiment” in Louisiana.) Harding’s knife-sharp prose is best when he’s telling the hard truth, though he could occasionally flip on the sentimentality switch if he had to, to sell papers. One of the best things to come from his pen is this priceless description of U.S. Grant reviewing new recruits in Mattoon, Illinois, in 1861. Watching Grant inspect the dirty “ragamuffins,” who “looked as if they had been run down with hounds in the wilds of Effingham County,” Harding found it hard to escape “the infernal odor of cabbage [wafting] right into my face” as the slovenly, smelly commander (not yet a famous general) smoked a cigar. Originally published in the Indianapolis Mirror, the passage was syndicated in the Memphis Public Ledger in 1869, a paper Harding had connections with. The passage reads like something his fellow Hoosier, the cynical skeptic of war Ambrose Bierce, might have written. (Bierce grew up in Warsaw and Elkhart.) Resigning his lieutenancy in 1864, Harding took an editorial position for six months on the New Orleans Times and the True Delta. Some of what he wrote down South was reprinted after his death, including a humorous piece called “Duck Shooting in Louisiana.” At war’s end, he came north to Cincinnati to work on the staff of the Commercial, then moved to Indianapolis. Several dailies and weeklies that he wrote for or edited after the war include the Mirror, the Journal, the Saturday Herald, and the Sentinel. Historian J.P. Dunn said that “Harding’s great forte was as a paragrapher. . . The public really enjoyed seeing a victim squirm when he gigged him.” He often attacked public figures whom he considered a fraud. The Rev. Myron Reed, who delivered his eulogy at Central Avenue Methodist Church in 1881, said: “Every abuser of money or official power, every masked man, every man who writes anonymous letters, will sleep more peacefully tonight because George Harding is dead.” Yet the popular editor published several fraudulent stories on purpose as practical jokes, as George S. Cottman remembered in a 1922 op-ed piece on famous Hoosier hoaxes. “Many remember the Charley Ross abduction, which took place on July 1, 1874,” Cottman wrote, referring to a famous Philadelphia kidnapping that was never solved. (Dunn called the ensuing hoax Harding pulled off “a very plausibly written story.”) Nearly two years later, or, to be exact, on April 1, 1876, there appeared in the Indianapolis Saturday Herald, edited by George C. Harding, a three-column article with this heading sensationally arranged in display type: Charley Ross, the long lost boy, recovered at last. He is found with Italian organ grinders on Potomac alley [in Indianapolis], dressed as a girl and called Telsla. How Detective Hollywood worked up the case. The father and the child at the Grand Hotel. . . . As a consequence, within half an hour after the Herald appeared on the street, people began to throng the lobby of the Grand Hotel. The hotel clerks, overwhelmed with questions, were at first bewildered, then “tumbling” to the situation, hung a few placards about, displaying the simple legend, “April fool!” (The Grand Hotel at the corner of Maryland and Illinois Streets, seen in 1889, witnessed one of the city’s great April Fool’s jokes. Today, this is the site of Circle Centre Mall. ) Harding himself was hoaxed by a fake space rock in 1879, as told in Wednesday’s post. Whether the meteorite really killed a farmer named Grover or not, Harding himself tried to kill several men in the 1870s. In 1879, he got into a hot mudslinging dispute with Calvin A. Light, a radical leader of the Knights of Labor and editor of a rival newspaper called The Democrat. (Light had played a big role in the Railroad Strike of 1877.) As Dunn put it, “Harding took an intense dislike to Light, and on one occasion ordered him out of the Herald office — with variations. . . On May 4, he went to Light’s house and tried to shoot him, but after one ineffective shot, was dragged away by neighbors. The next day he went to The Democrat office and shot at Light three times, but only succeeded in wounding a printer named Lizius. He was duly arrested and tried, and got off on a plea of insanity.“ In 1917, a writer named David Gibson remembered another shooting, or mixed up two shootings entirely, claiming that Harding also once shot at Sol Hathaway, editor of the “spicy” Independent. In the midst of a raving editorial feud, “Harding printed an item in the paper alluding to Hathaway as ‘the long-nosed dead beat editor that loafed about hotel lobbies and slipped into the dining room when the manager was not looking.'” As Gibson narrated it in a trade magazine, The Inland Printer: Hathaway responded with a series of buck type interrogations, for in those days you could evade libel in Indiana by putting a charge in the form of a question. . . The following Friday, Hathway was seated in his office at an old cherry desk with a flap that let down in front, with his back to the door, which certainly was a breach of the most ordinary editorial precaution. Suddenly the door opened. Harding appeared in a “beastly state of intoxication” and began showering the place with bullets as big as birds’ eggs from an army horse-pistol. Hathaway jumped under the imposing table at the first shot. Two printers, setting type at the front of the room, leaped out the open windows at their sides, lit on an awning over an undertaking establishment and rolled off onto the roof of a hearse that was standing at the curb. The horses of the hearse proceeded to run away and started a stampede of other horses. Gibson made the claim (I haven’t been able to verify this) that one of Harding’s bullets grazed a printing machine with type ready to go to press. Later on, Hathaway “set up in large Gothic type an account of the affray, tore out a lot of type paralleling the furrow and set in two brass rules and a line of type: ‘The track of the would-be assassin’s bullet!'” Harding kicked the Independent’s editor down the stairs, but Hathaway survived. He committed suicide in 1911, aged eighty-two. Five years before his assault on labor leader Calvin Light, a tragic suicide had driven George Harding to his most celebrated shooting. Perhaps he was, in fact, mentally insane, but the family tragedy that drove him to seek revenge was very real, and his gun was aimed at another man named Sol. In 1874, Solomon Moritz was a 36-year-old merchant tailor in Indianapolis. Born in Germany, he emigrated to Cincinnati at about age fifteen, then moved to Indiana in 1868. The Sentinel wrote that “Mr. Moritz is well known in the city, and is one of the most prominent of the Jewish citizens of Indianapolis.” A version of the events published in the Daily Record of the Times in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, says of Harding and Moritz: These gentlemen have been warm friends and very intimate in their social relations. Moritz, who is a Hebrew, aged about forty years and married, took advantage of this intimacy and succeeded in seducing Harding’s daughter, who is about eighteen years of age. This was accomplished last March, and improper relations have been maintained by the parties since that time. . . Mrs. Harding, [the girl’s stepmother] has stated that Moritz had also made improper proposals to her. Flora Harding, the editor’s eighteen-year-old daughter, was a talented writer and translator who taught German in the Seventh Ward district school. “During the absence of her father to the Hot Springs [Arkansas?], she filled the editorial chair and most ably,” said the Sentinel. Flora probably also suffered from lifelong depression and feared the ruin of her reputation. If Moritz had in fact taken advantage of her, she would likely have become an outcast in those days of a strict female “honor” code. On August 20, Harding’s daughter poisoned herself by taking “twenty-four grains of opium.” Death was a few hours coming, and her father discovered her in her bedroom before she died. She confessed to him that she had been having sex with Solomon Moritz. Then, as he wrote in a tribute in his newspaper, “two great tears came from the filmy eyes and rolled over the face, across which was stealing the shadow of the Death Angel.” She often jested on the subject of suicide, and, on one occasion, being reproved and told that God frowned on self-murder, she said, “Papa, I am not afraid of God.” While walking to get a doctor, at about 1:30 in the afternoon Harding met Moritz “at the junction of New Jersey and Vermont Streets with Massachusetts Avenue.” “Mr. Moritz’s first exclamation was ‘George, what are you doing here?’ Mr. Harding made no answer, but pulling out a pistol, began firing at Mr. Moritz.” Harding chased Moritz up Vermont Street, toward an alley behind Roberts Park Methodist Church, sinking two bullets into him, and tried to get in two more, “the blood meanwhile flowing from [Moritz’s] mouth and nose.” Luckily for his target, Harding’s fourth shot jammed his revolver and the alleged seducer escaped by hailing a wagon. (Moritz supposedly lost an arm, but lived to see Harding go on trial. When questioned by police, he denied that he had seduced Flora, instead blaming “a Jew liquor dealer on South Meridian.”) Though the bereaved gunman was taken to jail that night, public opinion was overwhelmingly in his favor. When Harding went to trial, one of his lawyers, Major Jonathan W. Gordon (profiled on this blog during his grave-robbing days), defended Harding on the basis of common law. The whole community have fully approved and justified the act for which my friend Harding stands indicted. . . It is the common law of the West, and, indeed of the whole country, that he who seduces an innocent female MAY BE SLAIN by her father, brother, or husband with impunity, and in the case at bar the grand jury have, in effect, already said so by returning a bill of indictment for a simple assault and battery. Harding was acquitted, and as the judge announced the verdict, “the pent up feeling of the large crowd broke forth in applause, which was both loud and protracted.” Perhaps this free pass from the state criminal court made the editor consider other public shootings in the future. In 1880, Harding moved to Minnesota, where he had bought the Lanesboro Journal. But “his active brain required more scope,” says the Fillmore County history. Tragically, in May 1881 George C. Harding had an odd death back in Indianapolis. The Terre Haute Saturday Evening Mail picked up the story: Dead! How suddenly he went out! Two weeks ago last Wednesday, he was walking along a street in Indianapolis, and stepped aside to allow some ladies to pass. He stepped on a cellar grating, just as a man was raising it. His right foot went into the opening, and the flesh of his leg was cut to the bone. He died at six o’clock last Sunday morning, of congestion of the brain and blood poisoning, resulting from the accident. In the death of George C. Harding, Indiana journalism has lost one of its oldest, most familiar and rarely original characters. . . We know of no one who can take up the pen which Harding has dropped, never to pick up again. . . Dying at the age of 51, his life was cut off in the very midst of his powers. . . there is not another George C. Harding any more than there is another Charles Dickens. Civil WarCivil War in IndianacrimeeditorsgunshoaxesIndiana State SentinelIndianapolisIndianapolis HeraldIndianapolis JournalJudaismlawyersTerre Hautewriters

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by The Zooniverse in Meetings, Site News ZooCon 13 Today we have a guest post from Andy Martin, one of our dedicated Planet Four Talk moderators, who attended ZooCon13 in Oxford, UK this past weekend. In a previous life as a chartered chemist, Andy tested the air at the House of Commons, assessed the quality of food, water and nuclear fuel testing, and worked on standards for breathalysers and dairy farm milking parlours. He now runs a campsite in Cornwall where there are lots more stars to stargaze at in the night sky than there were inside the M25. And so to Oxford. Walking to the venue was a little like being outside Ikea on a Sunday afternoon. The streets were littered with parents come to transport their student offspring home for the summer, only to find they’d accumulated too much stuff to fit in the car – in one case three cars! I’m not sure that anyone counted heads but there were around 40 delegates present with large contingents from Planet Hunters and Old Weather (some of who brought cakes). It has been a while since I was audience side of the lectern and I quickly found that I now have an ocular choice, see the presentation screen or read what I’m writing. I chose the former and thus my limitations with the latter takes the blame for any errors, omissions or inaccuracies in what follows. The afternoon started with presentation by Aprajita Verma on the Space Warps project which looks for examples of gravitational lensing. In the simple version of this you have a star a long way off with another star in between. Instead of being obscured by the intervening star the light from the distant one gets bent around it to give two (or more) images around the middle star. In practice they are mainly looking at galaxies and the images are somewhat more complicated than the simple model would suggest. All very interesting, but why, you might ask and this is where all gets very technical. In essence these objects allow an estimate of the mass of the lensing object to be made – its a way of weighing galaxies. The project has been very successful, 2 million images in the first week, and has around 80000 participants around 40% of which remain active. As I said the things they are looking for are very rare but the image set contains a number of control images. When you get one of these and flag the feature, up pops a little “well done” window with some information about the type of lens you just found. Karen Masters from the University of Portsmouth gave the next presentation, highlighting some of the scientific highlights of the Galaxy Zoo project so far. Galaxy Zoo has been running since 2007, there are 200 thousand participants and to date some 40 million images have been classified. Participants are asked to locate galaxies in the images they are presented with and decide which characteristic group they belong to. Galaxy Zoo has seen a number of published papers and scientific discoveries perhaps most celebrated being a strange object discovered amongst the images on Galaxy Zoo by a lady called Hanny who I had the pleasure of talking to later in the pub. Photos were duly taken of my amazement when she showed me her Voorwerp. The next presentation brought us back to Earth, Phil Brohan from the Met Office gave an insight into the Old Weather project. This involves the transcription of archived ships logs from a hundred or more years ago. The logs contain details of position, pressure, temperature, wind speed/direction, extent of sea ice and more, enabling a picture to be built up of weather systems in the past. Each log contains readings taken several times a day and the archive includes logs from more than a thousand ships. This picture of historic weather can be used to compare the weather today with the past and may help to answer the question “has the weather changed?”. As an example the recent ‘super storm’ Nemo which hit the North East USA had similar weather patterns to the great blizzard of 1880 which affected the same area. As well as the weather data the ships logs also contain information of the voyages of the vessels concerned and details of the people on them. The logs are transcribed from start to finish by the same person enabling them to follow the story of the ship and its crew. The current task is to transcribe records from the US archive which contains 75 million pages, and work is underway to include more archives in the future. Back then to the GalaxyZoo and Brook Simmons from Oxford University who gave a taste of what the future holds for the project. The next phase will look at images taken in the infrared which will enable images from further away, and thus older, to be looked at. Current images from the Hubble telescope are able to show objects back to around half the age of the universe, the new set of images will push that back to cover around 80% of the age of the universe. There are plans to provide online tools to make it easier to examine and work with the data and to enable more collaboration between individuals. Following a short tea/coffee/beer we regrouped to hear from Meg Schwamb via webcam from the USA. Meg gave an update on progress with Planet Four so far and gave a tantalising glimpse of some of the first results from the analysis of the data so far; Plotting of fan/blotch position onto the surface on a larger scale. Left image: Volunteer marks overplotted. Red crosses are centers for blotches marked by Planet Four volunteers. Blue Circles are starting points of fans marked by Planet Four volunteers. Right image: Same as left but without volunteer classifications drawn Meg mentioned the plans to look at the North in the future and discussed some of the differences that are observed between the two poles. She also showed part of this video of fan formation in the North: Back to Earth again for the next item entitled “Only you can save planet Earth” and detailing the work of Solar Stormwatch. This project is concerned with looking at data from two cameras, one positioned slightly ahead of the earths orbit and one slightly behind which give a stereo image of the material ejected in solar mass ejections. The data from the cameras in can be combined to give an estimate of the direction and speed of the ejections and enable an early warning to be given of any activity which is headed our way. As you all probably know solar storms of this type can affect electronics, satellite communications and even the weather so any prior knowledge is of great use. The project looks at both historical data and live real time data. The historic data provides a much fuller data set than the live data but it is the patchy data in real time, which is being analysed round the clock by the people involved with the project, which can give an advanced warning of an incoming storm. Part of the presentation was a video from the cameras which shows the effect of a mass ejection on a comet, the tail is literally ripped away as the ejection front passes. Chris Lintott was next up to talk about Planet Hunters. My notes kinda dry up here so either I was swept away by his oration or I didn’t understand a word of it – all I managed to write down was that the first exoplanet was only discovered in 1995 and the rate and number of subsequent discoveries have led to a recent estimate that there may be as many as 17 billion earth sized planets in our galaxy. Lack of notes notwithstanding the success of the Planet Hunters project in identifying new candidates for exoplanets was clear from Chris’ presentation and particularly in finding things which have been overlooked by computers previously. Part of the current data are a set of images which are felt to contain the best bets for exoplanets – the message being if you want to find a planet now’s the time to go look. Many of the systems found to date are somewhat strange by comparison to our home system with many systems containing 2, 3 or 4 suns, and planets of similar sizes to those in our solar system have been identified including a many which fall into the category of “Earth like”, at least so far as size goes. The bad news is that the Kepler spacecraft which has provided much of the data for the project is now on its last legs. The good news is that another space mission is planned, there is still a huge amount of data from Kepler to be examined and other teams looking for exoplanets are keen to harness the power of the Zooniverse. To finish the day Rob Simpson gave us a snapshot of what the future holds for the Zooniverse. He started by comparing the billions of hours spent watching TV with the 100 million hours that Wikipedia has taken to put together. The TV box filled the screen, Wikipedia just a small box by the side. By comparison Zooniverse currently attracts 2 months of effort every day, small by comparison but how much better do you all feel for it? This image below shows the relative ‘size’ of the various Zooniverse projects over the past year. Rob has recently written a post for the Zooniverse blog about how the human effort for the last year is divided by project and how he calculated it. Image Credit: Rob Simpson/Zooniverse Rob mentioned Snapshot Serengeti which provides BushCam images for you to identify the animals in view and what they are up to. This project has been very popular and from the quick visit I’ve made since returning from Oxford I can see how it could be almost as addictive as marking fans on Planet Four. With the ‘formal’ part of ZooCon13 at an end we all retired to the nearest hostelry where, overlooked by a large oil painting of Patrick Moore, the workings of the universe were discussed long into the evening. My first ZooCon and hopefully not my last, everyone I met and talked to was friendly and keen to chat about all the workings of Zooniverse. Many have been coming to ZooCon for several years and it’s clear that many firm friendships have resulted. It was a pleasure to meet all of you and my thanks for the warm welcome to the fold you all gave me. About The Zooniverse Online citizen science projects. The Zooniverse is doing real science online,. 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The gohenry guide to… gaming Do you worry about the amount of time and money your child spends on gaming? Many parents do — and we understand why. Data captured from gohenry prepaid debit card transactions tells us that video games are the number one expenditure for boys, and Xbox and Playstation are boys’ two most popular merchants. There are many popular free games for kids, including Fortnite, Roblox and Minecraft, but most players buy add-ons like V-Bucks, Robux and Minecoins to customise their game. Many of the most popular video games, like the FIFA series, let players buy points to improve their team. Although these are available at pocket money prices, the cost soon adds up. Of course, girls enjoy gaming too – but our data shows that they don’t spend nearly as much money as boys, perhaps because they tend to prefer mobile games, which are free to play. An expensive hobby Game consoles for kids aren’t available at pocket money prices – which is why they’re a frequently-requested Christmas or birthday gift. In fact, the best games consoles for kids, including PS4 Pro, XBox One X and Nintendo Switch, all cost well over £200, and new video game releases will set you back around £50. Given the costs involved, you might be surprised to know that kids’ spending on video games rises steadily from the age of just six, when our data shows that they’re spending an average of £15.00 per year; by the age of eight, this rises to an average of £65. It’s teenage boys who are the biggest spenders: over the course of 2018, 13 year-old boys spent, on average, £195 each on video games for kids, which is the highest sum across all age groups. But when we look at the percentage of pocket money dedicated to gaming, it’s boys aged 11 and 12 who spend more of their money – 46% of their income goes on video games. Ben, age 15, says that he occasionally buys new games, but finds it particularly hard to resist in-game purchases. He says: “I’m a big gaming fan and I spend money on add-ons or bonuses within games I love like FIFA. You can buy points to get better and improve your team. They cost anything from less than £1 to £50 and beyond. As the price goes up the points get better. I do try to be disciplined and not spend too much but it is tempting.” So how long should a child be allowed to spend playing video games? Although many parents worry about their child’s gaming habits, a recent study from McAfee found that 82% still allow their children to play on game consoles for between one and four hours per day. And, in 2018, the World Health Organisation included ‘gaming disorder’ in the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases – which means that it’s now recognised as a significant syndrome which can affect physical and mental health. Scary stuff! Fortunately, gaming disorder is rare – but it might not feel like it if your child spends every possible minute playing video games like Fortnite. Most parents like to set some limits on the amount of time that kids spend playing games, but there are no hard and fast rules. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has refused to give specific guidelines, suggesting that parents should consider whether their child’s screen time interferes with family time, their social life or their sleep. If it doesn’t, then there’s unlikely to be a problem. Don’t forget, it’s also important to ensure that new games are age appropriate, parental controls are in place and children understand the dangers of sharing personal information, including their name, age and location, with other players. Are video games good for kids? Despite all the worrying headlines, game playing does have its good points: it’s a fun and accessible hobby enjoyed by children and adults alike. Many parents would struggle to keep their kids occupied throughout the school holidays without video games, and children of all ages enjoy playing them with friends. Some of the best video games for kids can also be educational. As well as helping children to improve their coordination, playing video games can also boost problem-solving skills, memory and concentration. Gamers are often required to multi-task, especially when playing action games – and some educational games have been designed to aid learning, and are widely used in schools. Believe it or not, some popular video games can even improve social skills as they allow multiple gamers to play simultaneously. As a result, employers are beginning to wake up to the value of skills acquired through computer games, such as problem solving, decision making, strategic planning and the ability to stay calm under pressure – so your child could ultimately make a career out of their game playing hobby. 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(SAVANNAH, GA) COMMUNiTY HEADLiNES, February 27, 2017 By Carriage TradePR | Local NewsWIRE SAVANNAH COMMUNITY HEADLINES™ – The Local NewsWIRE – Click here to receive COMMUNITY HEADLINES™ every Monday Or visit our website at www.carriagetradepr.com NATIONAL MAGAZINE FEATURES SPEROS (SAVANNAH, GA) Keith Fletcher of Speros was recently featured by national tech magazine, Business Solutions. He was specifically chosen because of his innovative program that allows business owners to rent their hardware giving them access to state of the art tech at a fraction of the upfront cost. For more information, visit http://speros.com/keith-fletcher-speros-featured-national-magazine-business-solutions/ ENMARKET RAISES $15,000 TO FIGHT OBESITY (SAVANNAH, GA) Enmarket has announced that during its recent campaign for The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), it raised $15,000 in support of the partnership’s mission to help solve the nation’s childhood obesity crisis. For more information, visit https://carriagetradepr.com/enmarket-raised-15000-partnership-healthier-america-help-end-childhood-obesity/ HILTS RETIRES (SAVANNAH, GA) Linda Hilts, executive director of Park Place Outreach – Youth Emergency Shelter, has announced she will retire after 20 years with the organization. Under Hilts’ leadership, Park Place Outreach has helped more than 6,200 area young people find emergency shelter and thousands more find stability through its non-residential programs. For more information, visit www.parkplaceyes.org HURRICANE DAMAGE (SAVANNAH, GA) Hurricanes may only be an imminent threat for a short time but their effects on your home can be long lasting and costly. In Chatham County alone, costs are now estimated at close to $37 million dollars. Full Turn Services’ water intrusion division is the biggest in the area. Problem Solved. For more information, visit www.fullturnservices.com (SAVANNAH, GA) Carriage Trade Public Relations® Inc. is celebrating 22 years in business this March. They help businesses increase the positive word-of-mouth in the community and online using their trademarked REPUTATION MATRIX™ method. For a PR Assessment contact marjorie@carriagetradepr.com, call 912-844-9990 or visit www.carriagetradepr.com (SAVANNAH, GA) Business and entertainment attorney Charles Bowen has announced his new company Southern Gateway Production Services. The company’s mission is to strengthen Savannah’s reputation as a desirable shooting location and help more out-of-towners make movies in Savannah. To read more, visit http://businessinsavannah.com/bis/2017-02-20/savannah-lawyer-makes-helping-film-productions-business (SAVANNAH, GA) The Savannah Jaycees recently announced their 2017 Board of Directors and Executive Officers. Cynthia Wright, Junior Partner of Carriage Trade Public Relations®, is the incoming President and will serve in this position until 2018. To see a complete list of the Board or for more information on the Savannah Jaycees, visit www.savannahjaycees.com YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING STRATEGY (INC) Mistakes To Avoid http://www.inc.com/carlos-gil/heres-everything-thats-wrong-with-social-media-marketing.html DISTILLERY OPENS IN DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH (SAVANNAH, GA) After three years of hard work, planning and construction, Ghost Coast Distillery has begun production on some of the finest spirits in the Southeast, right in the heart of Downtown Savannah in their newly renovated 17,000 sq. ft. facility. Guests can select from two historic tour options to see the facility and taste-test the spirits. Felder & Associates was the architecture firm that repurposed the building. Updates include installing two large storefront windows to shine light on the eye-catching large copper stills and other equipment, removing a small patio area, replacing doors and windows and applying new paint and signage. For more information, visit https://ghostcoastdistillery.com (SAVANNAH, GA) The University System of Georgia has named Dr. Jennifer Frum as the interim president of Armstrong State University. She will begin on July 1. To read more, visit http://www.wtvm.com/story/34532409/dr-jennifer-frum-named-interim-president-of-armstrong-state-university THRIFT SHOPPE (SAVANNAH, GA) The Hospice Savannah Foundation has signed a lease to open a thrift shoppe in Pooler later this spring. Donations are being accepted at 1674 Chatham Pkwy., and volunteers are being recruited to aid in this new endeavor. A short online application is available at www.HospiceSavannah.org/Thrift. For more information please call 912-629-1055. CHANGE OF COMMAND (SAVANNAH, GA) The Hunter Army Airfield Garrison Command Sergeant Major Change of Responsibility Ceremony will occur Wednesday, March 1, at 11 a.m. The Command Sergeant Major (CSM) is the garrison’s most senior Noncommissioned Officer, and CSM Bruce Rock will relinquish responsibility to CSM Lavander Wilkerson. For more information on Hunter Army Airfield, visit http://www.stewart.army.mil/homepage/default.asp GET PAID TO TRAVEL (TIME) http://time.com/money/4669756/get-paid-to-travel-the-world-and-drink-cocktails/?xid=newsletter-brief (SAVANNAH, GA) Personal Chef Nora Von Duyke is celebrating eight years in business. She is known for her small dinner parties of up to 20 people and her four-course meals, prepared at your home. She plates, serves and cleans up. Great for birthdays, anniversaries, bachelorette parties and bridal luncheons. www.pantryelf.com 912.898-8458 (SAVANNAH, GA) The Happily Ever After Ball was held by The Next Generation benefiting the Children’s Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center this past weekend at Brockington Hall. Robyn Shirley of Matilda Jane Clothing was delighted to be a sponsor of this worthwhile event. To learn more about Matilda Jane clothing, visit https://www.facebook.com/mjcrobyn/?fref=ts (From Left to Right) Pictured are Clara Vaughn, Annabelle Vaughn, Robyn Shirley, Adelaide Shirley and Anna Camden Shirley. ACCORDING TO THE INTERNET… (INC) The Best And Worse Airlines http://www.inc.com/erik-sherman/what-to-know-which-airline-to-fly-heres-what-the-internet-says.html THE IMPORTANCE OF SAVASANA (SAVANNAH, GA) Every class at Savannah Yoga Center end with savasana. Here’s why: http://www.active.com/outdoors/articles/why-savasana-is-important-to-your-yoga-practice SALICYLIC ACID: FRIEND OR FOE? (SAVANNAH, GA) Salicylic Acid is a common ingredient seen in acne products. To learn more about this ingredient, what it is, and how it treats acne, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzk3PSA2uSY. For more information, visit http://lcderm.com/ SAVANNAH’S ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM (SAVANNAH, GA) 1 Million Cups is a weekly meet up to connect and help grow Savannah’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Be active in our community and share your ideas, experiences and be surrounded by like-minded folks that care about Savannah’s future success. Each week 1MC showcases 2 presenters for 6 minutes each, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A from the audience. No cost. Location: Creators’ Foundry. Every Wednesday 9-10a. See the speaker line up: http://www.1millioncups.com/savannah TEA AT MRS. DAVENPORT’S (SAVANNAH, GA) Davenport House Museum will host a special Tea program Thursdays and Fridays in March (2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 23 and 30) at 5 p.m. Learn about tea traditions and experience an early 19th century tea in the historic atmosphere of the Davenport House Museum. Patrons will tour areas of the historic home where tea service took place and will participate in an afternoon tea with costumed interpreters. Tickets are $18. For more information, visit http://www.davenporthousemuseum.org/ 5 ARGUMENTS BUSINESS OWNERS SHOULD AVOID (BUSINESS INSIDER) http://www.businessinsider.com/sc/arguments-business-owners-avoid-2017-2 ANTIQUES & ARCHITECTURE WEEKEND (SAVANNAH, GA) Savannah Antiques & Architecture Weekend, March 3-4, is filled with luncheons, lectures, tours, a live auction, and cocktails in a historic mansion. Bring your treasures to What’s in Your Attic for valuation by professional appraisers seen on TV. Proceeds will benefit the Andrew Low and Green-Meldrim houses. http://savantiquesweekend.com/ (SAVANNAH, GA) Grab your gal pals and head to “Steel Magnolias,” opening March 3 at 7:30 and running through March 12 at Asbury Memorial Theatre in Savannah. As Clairee might say, “You’re gonna love it more than your luggage.” Tickets are available at the door and online at http://asburymemorial.org/theatre/ 3RD ANNUAL LOUISE LAURETTI HOOPS FOR HORIZONS TOURNAMENT (SAVANNAH, GA) The 3rd Annual Louise Lauretti Hoops for Horizons 3 v 3 charity basketball tournament will be held March 4 at Savannah Country Day School starting at 9:00 a.m. This tournament is named for beloved Horizons teacher Louise Lauretti, who lost her battle with melanoma in 2014. All proceeds benefit Horizons Savannah. For more information, visit http://carriagetradepr.com/3rd-annual-louise-lauretti-hoops-horizons-tournament/ LEGAL RISKS OF LIVE-STREAMING (SAVANNAH, GA) Charles Bowen, of The Bowen Law Group, will present the second in a two-part series, The Legal Risks of Live-Streaming Videos, at the Small Business Council Smart Luncheon on Tuesday, March 7 beginning at 11:30 a.m. For more information, visit http://www.savannahchamber.com/for-members/business-calendar/530 CORNHOLE TOURNEY (SAVANNAH, GA) The teen board at the Ronald McDonald House has planned a cornhole tournament to raise funds for the House on Saturday, March 11, from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. at Forsyth Park. For more information, visit https://carriagetradepr.com/ronald-mcdonald-house-coastal-empire-cornhole-tournament-set-march-11/. LEARN TO GROW HEALTHY FOOD (SAVANNAH, GA) The Mindful Eating series offers mindfulness tools to approach food and eating (habit) patterns with new awareness, intention and attitude. On March 23, 6-7:30 p.m. at the Baha’i Unity Center, 2416 Waters Avenue, learn how we begin to live garden to table. For more information or to reserve a spot, visit https://events.blackbirdrsvp.com/mindful-eating-series FLY IN (MIDWAY, GA) Grass Strip Foundation presents its 8th Annual FLY IN & Open House on March 25. Fly or drive to Berg Park Aerodrome 9GA2 – Unicom 123.00 or drive to 580 Old Gress Island Road, Midway, GA 31320. Call Steve Berg for more information, 912-884-8666. Donations are encouraged. For pilots: Nonprofit dedicate to vintage and general aviation aircraft and their preservation. MARATHON & 5K (SAVANNAH, GA) The Publix Savannah Women’s Half Marathon & 5K highlights Savannah’s beautiful Historic District in 13.1 miles of tree-lined streets and city squares on April 7-9. The event will also be featuring a fashion-fitness expo and post-race party. To learn more, visit http://www.savannahchambernews.com/events/publix-savannah-womens-half-marathon-5k-april-7-9/ or to register, visit http://www.savannahwomenshalf.com MEET ANCHOVY (SAVANNAH, GA) Anchovy is such a sweet little guy, it’s crazy to think he was initially found on his own on a ramp for I-16. He’s been without a good groom for awhile, thus his Rasta style. Anchovy enjoys cuddling and sits perfect in a chair. He also gets along well with other dogs his size. For more information on Anchovy and other dogs, visit http://coastalpetrescue.org/adopt/view/2017-d-023-anchovy/ Keith Fletcher of Speros Featured in National Magazine, Business Solutions (SAVANNAH, GA) Business Solutions, a monthly publication dedicated to helping IT solutions providers grow their businesses, featured Keith Fletcher, Chief Operating Officer of Speros, a full-service technology company headquartered in Savannah. According to the article, “The Real Secret To Creating A Managed Services Differentiator,“ written by Jay McCall, Speros has solved a common pain point for a majority of its customers and increased the company’s monthly recurring revenue. McCall is the publication’s editor of networking, managed services and storage. Susan Speros brought Keith Fletcher onboard 3 years ago as Chief Operating Officer, making him the newest member of the management team to facilitate growth and expand the company. Over the last 3 years, Speros has evolved from a telecom consultant with an IT division to the largest technology services company in the region and in doing so has more than doubled business over a three-year period. The growth was fueled by focusing on monthly reoccurring revenue, and one major component has been a unique Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) program which started with Speros’ firewall manufacturer, SonicWALL, but the article also credits him with an even bigger win. Several months ago he approached Speros’ routing and switching manufacturing partner, ADTRAN, got them on board with HaaS and, in doing so, found new opportunities to further strengthen the company’s partnerships as well as its bottom line. “When I approached ADTRAN about the possibility of starting a HaaS program, I was pleasantly surprised to find that they liked the idea,” Fletcher said. “After all, switches are a key component of the network infrastructure and even wireless access points have to connect to switches, which can slow down a network as they age. But when ADTRAN said they also wanted to bundle their management suite with the hardware, I knew we were on to something that would allow our technicians to see and do much more in managing their network’s performance, health and data usage.” Since the ADTRAN HaaS program kicked off in June 2016, Fletcher said, “there has been a fantastic reaction by our customers, being able to have a truly state of the art infrastructure for a small monthly fee is very attractive to everyone.” The difference between the Speros/Adtran/Blue Socket/SonicWALL program is that this is a true manufacturer’s program. All of these enterprise class technology companies have developed programs that Speros administers to provide the highest caliber technology to the business community. This is very different from programs from other technology companies where the technology company purchases the equipment and then “rents” it to their customers. “An average company with 100 employees and the usual office IT infrastructure might spend about $15,000 on switches and firewalls, compared to $500 a month to rent,” Fletcher said. “When you add additional costs for PCs, printers, telephones and paying someone to run your IT department, the capital outlay would be huge compared to pennies on the dollar to rent all of it. Also, instead of having to buy equipment that depreciates every five years, HaaS allows entrepreneurs to stay current across the board.” To read the full article, visit http://www.bsminfo.com/doc/the-real-secret-to-creating-a-managed-services-differentiator-0001 Keith Fletcher, COO of Speros Speros, which was founded 1984, has reported a 2015 sales growth rate of 40 percent and a 2016 projected sales growth rate of 25 percent. The company has 27 employees. For more information, visit speros.com, call 912-354-8900 or email info@speros.com. MORE INFORMATION ON SPEROS Established in 1984, Speros provides technology solutions for businesses, offering telephone systems, IT services, surveillance systems, web design and branding solutions and cloud computing. Speros team members continually stay updated on leading-edge, certified technologies to maximize solutions and ensure businesses succeed in this fast-paced, technology-driven world. For more information, visit speros.com, call 912-354-8900 or email info@speros.com. Find Speros on Twitter at @sperostech Keith Fletcher Speros kfletcher@speros.com Marjorie Young Carriage Trade PR, Inc. visteam@carriagetradepr.com The Ronald McDonald House of the Coastal Empire Cornhole Tournament Set For March 11 (SAVANNAH, GA) The Teen Board of the Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) announces plans for the 4th annual cornhole tournament set for Saturday, March 11 in Forsyth Park from 12 noon until 3 p.m. Cornhole team registration is now open for two-member teams and is open to all ages. The cost is $50 per team. Space is limited and participation will be based on the date of registration. Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. The event proceeds directly support families who need a place to stay while a child seeks treatment in a nearby hospital. Sponsorship opportunities are also available for the event, ranging from Presenting sponsor at $1,000 to a supporter at $100. Individuals, businesses, or organizations are encouraged to sponsor the RMHC fundraiser. The Teen Board is comprised of students in grades 10 through 12 who volunteer at the Ronald McDonald House or family rooms at area hospitals. “This is my second year serving as a teen volunteer, and I know we are making a difference,” said Malcolm Williams Green. “We really try to cater to the families we serve by preparing meals, running errands, or just giving parents a short break from being in the hospital with a sick child.” For more information or to register a team for the cornhole tournament, please visit https://www.rmhccoastalempire.org. ABOUT RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE Ronald McDonald House Charities® (RMHC) of the Coastal Empire is a registered 501©3, non-profit that operates solely on donations. The cornerstone program is the Savannah Ronald McDonald House that provides more than 4170 family night stays each year with a “Home away from home.” Other core programs include the Ronald McDonald Family Rooms® in St. Joseph’s/Candler Hospital and Children’s Hospital at Memorial Hospital Medical Center and the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile®, a mobile dental clinic providing free dental cleanings and examinations, care to underserved, school-aged children in Beaufort County (SC). Bill Sorochak Ronald McDonald House Charities® (RMHC®) of the Coastal Empire bill@rmhccoastalempire.org t. (912) 350-7641 ext. 304 c. (864) 906-8496 https://www.rmhccoastalempire.org 4710 Waters Avenue Cynthia Wright info@ceciliarussomarketing.com Enmarket Raised $15,000 for the Partnership for a Healthier America to Help End Childhood Obesity (SAVANNAH, GA) Through a month-long customer donation campaign, enmarket, a convenience store chain operating in more than 60 locations in the U.S., raised $15,000 to support the Partnership for a Healthier America’s mission to ensure all kids grow up at a healthy weight. Customers at enmarket’s convenience stores in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina could add $1 to purchases at checkout in support of a healthier future for our nation’s children. PHA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works with the private sector and PHA Honorary Chair First Lady Michelle Obama to make healthier choices easier. “Access to healthy foods is essential for making sure kids live long, healthy lives. This campaign and enmarket’s commitment to providing healthier options in convenience stores will help us make healthy choices easier for children and families — no matter where they live,” said PHA President and CEO Lawrence A. Soler. Since partnering with PHA in May 2016, enmarket has increased the number of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat and nonfat dairy available in its stores. Additionally, enmarket works to provide healthier options for Grab and Go items and makes sure healthier options remain affordable. “Enmarket is proud of our strong partnerships both in the local community and with the nationally renowned Partnership for a Healthier America. We are pleased to be able to assist them in their efforts to help eliminate childhood obesity,” said Matt Clements, enmarket’s director of marketing. “We are grateful for the generosity of our customers in support of our continued mission to provide healthier food options and make a positive difference in the lives of the people and communities we are fortunate to serve.” To learn more about enmarket’s commitment to making healthier choices easier, visit http://www.enmarket.com. ABOUT PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHIER AMERICA The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) is devoted to working with the private sector to ensure the health of our nation’s youth by solving the childhood obesity crisis. In 2010, PHA was created in conjunction with – but independent from – First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! effort. PHA is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that is led by some of the nation’s most respected health and childhood obesity experts. PHA brings together public, private and nonprofit leaders to broker meaningful commitments and develop strategies to end childhood obesity. Most important, PHA ensures that commitments made are commitments kept by working with unbiased, third parties to monitor and publicly report on the progress our partners are making. For more information about PHA, please visit http://www.aHealthierAmerica.org and follow PHA on Twitter @PHAnews. ABOUT ENMARKET Founded as Interstate Stations in 1963 by Robert Demere, Enmark Stations, Inc., which recently rebranded as enmarket, is a family-run business committed to offering its customers top-notch service and superior products. Today, the Savannah-based company, which celebrated its 50-year anniversary in 2013, operates 60 stores in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Enmarket’s mission is to Enrich Life! Stores offer freshly prepared food and healthy snacks, high-quality double filtered gasoline, beverages, lottery services and more. Enmarket customers can save up to $.10 per gallon by using the company’s Cash Card, a reloadable stored-value card that can be used directly at the pump. Coupons, promotions, and a location finder are available on the free mobile app. For more information on enmarket, please call 912-236-1331 or visit http://www.enmarket.com. Follow enmarket on Twitter at @enmarkenjoy. Matt Clements MClements@enmarkstations.com http://www.enmarket.com marjorie@carriagetradepr.com College and Career Fair Open to the Public at Sol C. Johnson High School (SAVANNAH, GA) The MEGAGENESIS XI College and Career Fair is set for Saturday, February 25 from 9 a.m. to 3:10 p.m. at Sol C. Johnson High School in Savannah, GA. The event, sponsored by the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Chatham County Youth Commission, The 100 Black Men of Savannah, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., includes college recruiters, career workshops, and corporate exhibits. The program is designed to highlight the importance of higher education and is open to all students, grades 5-12, and their parents. High school seniors are encouraged to bring their transcripts. Some colleges will conduct on-site admission and provide scholarship information. A complimentary lunch will be provided for all attendants, participants, and presenters. “In the past ten years, students have received over $6 million in scholarships through connections at MEGAGENESIS,” said Dr. Zke Zimmerman, event coordinator. In addition, the event includes a presentation from Semaj Clark, Motivational Speaker and founder of the FIRE organization, which stands for forgiveness, introspection, respect, and education. His program is dedicated to the empowerment of young people through the teaching of basic life skills that are necessary for success. Some of the participating colleges include Armstrong State University, Auburn University, Claflin University, Georgia State University, South Carolina State University, Savannah State University, University of Alabama and many more. For additional information or registration, please contact Dr. Zke Zimmerman at Javarorlz@aol.com or visit https://www.facebook.com/MegagenesisSavannah/ About MEGAGENESIS MEGAGENESIS was founded in 1995 in Newport News, Virginia by Dr. Zke Zimmerman. In 2007, he began the program in Savannah at Sol C. Johnson High School. Last year’s event included 417 attendees from Savannah, Effingham, Vidalia, Charleston, SC, and Orangeburg, SC. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/MegagenesisSavannah/ Lula L. Baker Home: (912) 232-2015 ENMARKET BRIDGE RUN RAISES $24,000 (SAVANNAH, GA) Partners in the Enmarket Savannah Bridge Run presented a check for more than $24,000 to The Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion at St. Joseph’s/Candler, the official charity of the Bridge Run, from proceeds of the 2016 race. To read more, visit http://www.savannahchambernews.com/visit-savannah-news/enmarket-savannah-bridge-run-presents-donation-nancy-n-j-c-lewis-cancer-research-pavilion/ MARJORIE YOUNG TO SPEAK AT SOUTHERN PRESS INSTITUTE ON CRISIS PR (SAVANNAH, GA) Majorie Young, president of Carriage Trade Public Relations®, will speak at the 66th annual Southern Regional Press Institute (SRPI) in the workshop titled, “How PR Pros Can Anticipate Crises at Their Own Organizations (Public Relations Workshop).” This presentation is scheduled to be held on Thursday, February 23. For more information, visit https://www.savannahstate.edu/news/article.shtml?id=670 GEORGIA REAPS ECONOMIC IMPACT OF ENTERTAINMENT (SAVANNAH, GA) Charles Bowen, of the Bowen Law Group, spoke to the West Chatham Rotary on the economic impact of the entertainment industry in Savannah. Georgia is currently the 3rd largest state for production, trailing only New York and California. RETIREMENT RULE WORTH REMEMBERING (SAVANNAH, GA) Sam Hubbard, of Coastal Capital Management LLC, breaks down what the Department of Labor’s review of the Fiduciary Rule will mean to you, your savings, and who is acting in your best interests. To read more, visit http://savannahnow.com/opinion-column/2017-02-10/retirement-advice-rule-worth-saving (MASHABLE) 5 Digital Marketing Trends That Will Die in 2017 http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/5-digital-marketing-trends-that-will-die-in-2017/?utm_cid=mash-prod-nav-sub-st#z7sPlDyt2OqR SHAD MASTER (SAVANNAH, GA) Charlie Russo, Jr., of Russo’s Seafood, can tell you everything you might need to know about Savannah’s seasonal fish delicacy of Shad. To read more, visit http://www.connectsavannah.com/savannah/local-tradition-sounds-fishy-shad/Content?oid=3995636 or learn more about Russo’s Seafood at www.russoseafood.com (SAVANNAH, GA) The city of Savannah’s summer internship program will return this year and once again needs help from the local business community to provide hands-on summer work opportunities for high school students. For more information, visit http://www.savannahchambernews.com/member-news/city-savannah-seeking-business-participation-summer-internship-programs/ SIRI VS. ALEXA (BUSINESS INSIDER) Apple Just Revealed A Big Way Siri Will Take On Amazon Alexa http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-opens-siri-to-third-party-developers-on-apple-watch-2017-1 COMMUNITY RAISES $10,000 FOR HOSPICE (SAVANNAH, GA) A community organized Oyster Roast Fund Raiser for Hospice Savannah raised $10,000. These funds will go toward programming run by Hospice Savannah. To learn how you can help raise money or volunteer call 912-629-1043. ENCOURAGE HEALTH NONPROFIT CONTEST (SAVANNAH, GA) Enmarket invites area nonprofit organizations to apply to be selected as one of the four grant recipients in the 2017 Encourage Health Educational Series. The application process will be held through a Facebook contest at https://www.facebook.com/enmarkstations. (MASHABLE) 5 Ways To Improve Communication With Colleagues http://mashable.com/2017/02/14/5-ways-to-improve-coworker-communication/?utm_cid=mash-prod-nav-sub-st#tEM6JnZzDmqf YINSTORATIVE (SAVANNAH, GA) This new class is a unique combination of Yin and restorative, designed to allow you to relax and recharge. This class is suitable for all, regardless of limitations or prior injury. Yinstorative is available Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. For more information, http://savannahyoga.com/ THINNER DOESN’T MEAN YOUNGER (SAVANNAH, GA) A rigorous exercise regimen will make you fitter, but it won’t make you look younger. Thinner and more athletic people over age 40 have less fat under their skin and can look older than overweight people. For more information, visit http://lcderm.com/ PARTICIPATE IN SAVANNAH’S ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM YOU CAN BLOW IT WITHOUT SAYING A WORD (INC) 14 Body Language Mistakes http://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/ss/body-language-mistakes-that-make-a-terrible-first-impression.html?cid=hmside3 (SAVANNAH, GA) Living Independence for Everyone (LIFE), Inc. will host a Spirit Night fundraiser at Tijuana Flats, 405 Pooler Parkway, Pooler, GA, on Monday, Feb. 20, from 5 -8 PM. Join us for great food and fellowship while supporting people with disabilities who live in our eleven-county service area. Make sure to mention LIFE when making your purchase. For additional information, contact Fran Todd at ftodd@lifecil.com or visit www.lifecil.com. BUSINESS WORKSHOP (SAVANNAH, GA) SCORE Savannah announces a free workshop called “Taking Care of Business” on running a small business. It deals with how you can become aware of business practices to avoid common pitfalls. The event is on Feb. 22 from 11:30-1:00 pm. For more information, visit www.scoresav.org 5 KEYBOARDS THAT CAN MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER (TIME) http://time.com/4663073/best-keyboards-replacement-upgrade/?xid=newsletter-brief THE HISTORY OF BASKETBALL (SAVANNAH, GA) St. Andrew’s School announces plans for a community-wide program on Thursday, Feb. 23 which highlights the history of basketball. The program, open to all ages, begins at 7 p.m. For more information, visit https://saslions.com POTABLE GOLD (SAVANNAH, GA) Davenport House Museum will host a special Madeira (wine) program Fridays and Saturdays in Feb. (3, 4, 10, 11, 18, 24, 25) at 5:30 p.m. Patrons are oriented to the long and rich tradition of Madeira as it relates to the history of Savannah and then they will participate in a Madeira party. For more information, visit http://www.davenporthousemuseum.org/ 12 HABITS OF HAPPY PEOPLE (INC) http://www.inc.com/jonathan-alpert/the-12-habits-of-happy-people.html?cid=hmside4 DISC DOGATHON (SAVANNAH, GA) World Canine Disc Championship Qualifier February 24-26, 2017 to be held in Savannah. This Classic Disc Dogathon Qualifying event is only given to one city per state. Attendance is free of charge. Event will benefit Local Pet Rescue, Islands High School and Homeless Veterans. For more info, visit https://mysavannah.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/world-canine-disc-championship-qualifier-february-24-26-2017-to-benefit-local-pet-rescue-islands-high-school-and-homeless-veterans/ POLIO SURVIVORS TO HEAR SPECIALIST (SAVANNAH, GA) The Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association will meet Saturday, Feb. 25, 10:30 am at the LIFE office, 5105 Paulsen St., Suite 143-B, Savannah. The speaker will be Dr. John T. Prather, foot and ankle specialist, of Chatham Orthopaedic Associates. Polio survivors and guests are invited. For information, call 912-927-8332. COLLEGE AND CAREER FAIR (SAVANNAH, GA) The MEGAGENESIS XI College and Career Fair is set for Saturday, February 25 from 9 a.m. to 3:10 p.m. at Sol C. Johnson High School in Savannah, GA. Some of the participating colleges include Armstrong State University, Auburn University, Claflin University, Georgia State University, South Carolina State University, Savannah State University, and University of Alabama. For additional information or registration, please contact Dr. Zke Zimmerman at Javarorlz@aol.com or visit https://www.facebook.com/MegagenesisSavannah/ BIKE BEAUTIFUL BEAUFORT (SAVANNAH, GA) To get a taste of how other bike trails are making communities better, the Savannah Bicycle Campaign is organizing a trip to Beaufort’s Spanish Moss Trail on Sunday, Feb. 26. The ride is free but registration is required, to register visit, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/february-2017-bikecurious-ride-spanish-moss-trail-tickets-31541594759?mc_eid=08fa9719ff&mc_cid=e6b64bcf5c (SAVANNAH, GA) The 3rd Annual Louise Lauretti Hoops for Horizons 3 v 3 charity basketball tournament will be held Mar. 4 at Savannah Country Day School starting at 9:00 a.m. This tournament is named for beloved Horizons teacher Louise Lauretti, who lost her battle with melanoma in 2014. All proceeds benefit Horizons Savannah. For more information, visit (MASHABLE) Hulu VR-Sit in Your Virtual Living Room with Your Virtual Friends http://mashable.com/2017/02/08/hulu-vr-app-oculus-avatars-oculus-touch/?utm_cid=mash-prod-nav-sub-st#Fr12NKVSDSq9 DOGGIE CARNIVAL (SAVANNAH, GA) The Humane Society for Greater Savannah will host its 17th annual Doggie Carnival on Sunday, May 7 from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. at Forsyth Park. Admission to the carnival is free and all proceeds benefit the Humane Society for Greater Savannah. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/events/771789232972402/ COASTAL PET RESCUE CELEBRATES 14 YEARS (SAVANNAH, GA) February marks the 14th anniversary for Coastal Pet Rescue. They have grown from an organization of one woman to nearly 130 volunteers; or a little under 20 pets in 2003 to 489 canines and 207 felines in 2016, and 63 canines and 20 felines so far in 2017! For more information on this organization, visit www.coastalpetrescue.org Savannah Business Attorney Charles Bowen to speak about “The Legal Risks of Live-Streaming Videos” at the SMART Luncheon March 7 (SAVANNAH, GA) Business and entertainment attorney Charles Bowen of The Bowen Law Group will speak on Tuesday, March 7 at the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Council SMART Lunch Series. Bowen will present the second installment of the two-part series “The Legal Risks of Live-Streaming Videos” during the monthly luncheon at the Savannah Morning News auditorium, 1375 Chatham Parkway. Bowen’s presentation comes as the rise in popularity of livestreaming apps such as Periscope and Meerkat, along with new features in mainstream apps such as Facebook, has inspired many smartphone users to get into the livestreaming game, broadcasting any event live using their device. While these apps ban users from posting content that violates others’ copyright, trademark, privacy and publicity rights in their standard Terms of Service, their warnings are often ignored. Bowen will address these issues and the challenge of privacy concerns from a legal perspective, particularly when it comes to commercial use. “Some users have tried to claim that the Digital Millennial Copyright Act’s ‘safe harbor’ provisions should shield them from liability, but that law only protects the livestreaming service itself, not the actual broadcaster,” Bowen said. “That law, which YouTube constantly relies upon to protect itself, states that streaming services are protected if they respond promptly to rights owners’ takedown requests and don’t have ‘constructive’ knowledge of infringement. But this will not protect you from an infringement claim if you knowingly broadcast illegal material.” Bowen also will review basic livestreaming rules and how ignoring them could land some users in legal hot water. “Livestreaming is likely here to stay, as it seems to be a perfect fit for today’s smartphone-carrying, internet-connected world,” said Bowen. “The best advice I can give is simply to be smart and use common sense. Do not broadcast copyrighted material that you do not own, do not be creepy and invade people’s privacy and procure releases if you are using your broadcast for business purposes. “If you follow these simple rules, you will very likely protect yourself from any potentially expensive legal claims.” The luncheon will begin with registration at 11:30 a.m. and the program at 12 p.m. The cost is $12 for Chamber members. For more information or to RSVP, contact Stephanie Painter at SPainter@SavannahChamber.com or 912-644-6458. MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOWEN LAW GROUP Based out of Savannah, Charles Bowen is a business attorney who focuses on commercial and entertainment law and also offers comprehensive mediation services. Bowen attended Mercer University in Macon, Ga., where he graduated summa cum laude with honors in both psychology and political science. Upon graduating from Georgetown University Law Center in 1995, he moved to Savannah and established a corporate law practice. Bowen was named “Business Advocate of the Year” in 2015 by the Savannah Morning News. He won the “2016 Helen V. Head Business Leader of the Year Award” presented by the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce. He also chaired the 24th Annual Kiss-a-Pig campaign on behalf of the American Diabetes Association. Bowen has received the Martindale-Hubbell® AV® Preeminent™ rating, the highest rating based upon confidential surveys sent to other attorneys. He also has been selected by the members of the State Bar of Georgia as one of Georgia Trend’s 12th Annual Legal Elite in two categories: Business Law and Corporate Law. He is the author of three eBooks. With panoramic views of the city and the Savannah River, The Bowen Law Group is located on the top floor of the Manger Building at 7 East Congress Street. For more information, call 912.544.2050 or visit http://www.thebowenlawgroup.com. Follow The Bowen Law Group on Twitter at @bowenlawgroup. Charles J. Bowen, Founder cbowen@thebowenlawgroup.com http://www.thebowenlawgroup.com Carriage Trade PR cynthia.wright@carriagetradepr.com Kiwanis of Skidaway to Hold Annual Pancake Fundraiser to Benefit Local At-Risk Youth (SAVANNAH, GA) The Kiwanis Club of Skidaway Island announces the annual Pancake Breakfast to be held Saturday, February 25. From 7 a.m. until 11 a.m., at Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church, located at 50 Diamond Causeway, Savannah, GA 31411. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Children 8 and under eat free. To purchase tickets in advance, visit http://www.kiwanisofskidaway.com/event/pancake-breakfast/. “This is one of four events we hold throughout the year to raise funds for our service partners,” said Kevin O’Neill, chairperson for the Pancake Breakfast. “We will have great raffle prizes again this year and encourage the entire community to join us for breakfast.” All net proceeds from the event directly benefit Savannah’s at-risk youth through community partners, to include: America’s Second Harvest — Kids Cafe, Backpack Buddies, Family Promise of Greater Savannah, Junior Achievement, Local Outreach Volunteer Educators, Park Place Outreach – Youth Emergency Shelter, Special Olympics and Wesley Community Centers of Savannah. Last year, the club mobilized $62,500 to support these and other projects and programs that serve children. For a complete list of their service partners, visit http://www.kiwanisofskidaway.com/community-involvement/. Kiwanis Club of Skidaway is a service organization comprised of 125 men and women in the Savannah area. Since 1988, the club has raised and distributed over $1.4 million and invested over 300,000 service hours toward their mission of supporting children in our region. For more information on the club, visit https://www.kiwanisofskidaway.com. SEAFOOD OWNER EARNS THE MANTLE ‘SHAD MASTER’ PR EXEC TALKS LIVE-STREAMING IN BUSINESS WORLD (SAVANNAH, GA) Marjorie Young, CEO of Carriage Trade Public Relations, presented to the Small Business Council SMART Luncheon on “5 things to know about live-streaming.” To watch the presentation, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of3s1z8vEqY TAKE ON A SUMMER INTERN ENCOURAGE HEALTH NONPROFIT CONTEST LAUNCHED NEW SUPERINTENDENT (SAVANNAH, GA) Following the retirement of Superintendent, Dr. Thomas B. Lockamy, Jr., at the end of the 2016-17 School Year, the Board of Public Education is conducting a search for his successor. A third-party firm has been hired to aid in the search but SCCPSS has also announced a public survey to gain input into the top qualities desired in a superintendent. To read more or to complete the survey, visit www.sccpss.com. BRING IN THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST (INC) 6 Keys to Bringing In and Hiring Top Talent http://www.inc.com/workpop/the-6-keys-to-bringing-in-and-hiring-top-talent.html BIKE BEAUTIFUL BEAUFORT TRAIL (SAVANNAH, GA) Savannah Mayor Eddie DeLoach presented his first ‘State of the City’ speech at the Civic Center, and reviewed the accomplishments of his administration’s first term. To read more, visit https://savannahbusinessjournal.com/news-categories/politics-local-govts/6514-in-state-of-the-city-speech,-mayor-deloach-announces-a-savannah-shines-campaign-and-citys-first-early-childhood-program-with-dr-tom-lockamy.html 2017 InnovateHER COMPETITION (ATLANTA, GA) SBA announces the 2017 InnovateHER, a nationwide women business competition designed to drive attention and resources to innovative products and services that help impact and empower the lives of women and families. Contestants have until May 12 to enter and vie for $70,000 in prize money. For more information, visit https://www.sba.gov/offices/headquarters/wbo/resources/1465581 TO DELETE OR NOT TO DELETE? (BRAUDCAST) Crisis communications expert Gerard Braud asks media relations experts, “If someone writes something negative on your corporate Facebook page, should you delete it?” To watch video, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsLOJ2_XQAs&list=TLGGZAAfkaW512kwOTAyMjAxNw WTC WORKSHOP TO FOCUS ON TRADE (SAVANNAH, GA) World Trade Center Savannah will host the Global Education Program, Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act – Compliance Awareness Workshop, on Feb. 16, 1 p.m. at the World Trade Center Savannah. Tickets are $50 per person. To register or learn more about the event, http://www.wtcsavannah.org SOUTHERN GATEWAY PRODUCTIONS SERVICES (SAVANNAH, GA) Business and entertainment attorney Charles Bowen has announced new venture, Southern Gateway Production Services (SGPS). The company mission is to strengthen Savannah’s reputation as a desirable shooting location. By offering new incentives and benefits to movie and television production companies, SGPS will ensure that those coming to the Savannah area are properly vetted and legitimate while also protecting union and non-union workers. For more information, visit https://carriagetradepr.com/local-savannah-attorney-founder-savannah-film-alliance-launches-southern-gateway-production-services-meet-growing-demand-film-industry-georgia/ OFFER HELP DURING A CRISIS (MASHABLE) Facebook’s Safety Check http://mashable.com/2017/02/08/facebook-safety-check-community-help/?utm_cid=mash-prod-nav-sub-st#swzh8uXM2Eqo WHY SAVANNAH LACKS BIKE TRAILS (SAVANNAH, GA) John Bennett, Executive Director of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign, examines the reasons behind Savannah’s lack of bike trails within city limits and the economic benefits that go along with them. To read more, visit http://www.connectsavannah.com/savannah/economic-benefits-of-bike-trails-are-passing-savannah-by/Content?oid=3983174 11 WAYS TO HIGHLIGHT YOUR REPUTATION ON LINKEDIN (SAVANNAH, GA) Cynthia Wright, Junior Partner of Carriage Trade Public Relations, provides a ‘how-to’ checklist all business professionals can benefit from on “11 ways to highlight your reputation through your LinkedIn profile” and how to leverage social media to grow your business. To read more, visit http://businessinsavannah.com/bis/2017-02-08/wright-11-ways-highlight-your-reputation-linkedin-0 SAVANNAH WEDDINGS MAGAZINE ON SALE NOW (SAVANNAH, GA) From gown inspiration to creative elopements, Savannah Weddings Magazine Spring/Summer 2017 reveals the best and brightest of all things nuptial in the Hostess City. To purchase or learn more, visit http://shopsavannahmagazine.com/products/savannah-weddings-spring-summer-2017 5 WAYS TO KEEP YOUR BUSINESS SECURE (SAVANNAH, GA) Heather Radtke of the Savannah-based technology company, Speros, presents on a subject every business owner has to address, “5 Ways to Keep Your Business Secure.” To watch her presentation, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0-tvxNC1YA MILLENIALS DUMP SOCIAL MEDIA FOR FASHION ADVICE (PR NEWSWIRE) Fewer than 7% of Millennials surveyed in new fashion study reported that they are influenced by social media when deciding what apparel and accessories to buy. To learn more about this survey, visit https://www.bulldogreporter.com/millennial-pr-twist-study-reveals-social-media-is-not-a-major-influence-on-gen-ys-fashion-purchases YOGA CENTER , TREE FOUNDATION PARTNER FOR FUNDRAISING EFFORTS (SAVANNAH, GA) Savannah Yoga Center holds two commUNITY yoga classes a week, along with various events through the year, with all proceeds going toward a particular non-profit. From now until June 30, all fundraising efforts will be donated to the Savannah Tree Foundation. Find out more about this partnership at www.savannahyoga.com/yoga-friends. LEADERSHIP SOUTHEAST GEORGIA ANNOUNCES 2017 CLASS (SAVANNAH, GA) Leadership Southeast Georgia (LSEGA) is pleased to announce 28 program participants from across the region have been selected for the LSEGA class of 2017. The five-month program is designed to equip and empower community leaders to effectively work promoting positive growth while improving the quality of life in the Southeast Georgia Coastal Region. For more information, visit https://carriagetradepr.com/leadership-southeast-announces-2017-class/ NO MIRRORS FOR SKIN CARE, PLEASE (SAVANNAH, GA) A magnifying mirror makes you want to pick and squeeze, which is the worst thing you can do to your skin. If you have acne, think of your face as a no-fly zone for your hands. For more information, visit lcderm.com THE TOUGHEST JOBS TO FILL IN 2017 (FORBES) https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2017/02/08/the-toughest-jobs-to-fill-in-2017/#25aa80057f14 GET MARRIED IN THE DAVENPORT HOUSE GARDEN FEB 14 (SAVANNAH, GA) For the first time, Davenport House Museum’s garden will be available for wedding ceremonies on Valentine’s Day, Tuesday, Feb. 14. There are 24 slots available, and ceremonies will be offered every 15 minutes. For more information, visit http://www.davenporthousemuseum.org/ (SAVANNAH, GA) The Skidaway Island Rotary will present The Savannah Theatre Company’s “Love is in the Air” Supper Club show on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 14 and 15 beginning at 6:00 p.m. at The Plantation Club at The Landings. Proceeds benefit the Savannah Early Childhood Foundation and other local children’s charities. For more information, visit http://www.skidawayrotary.org/ WomenHeart (SAVANNAH, GA) St. Joseph’s/Candler and The National Coalition for Women With Heart Disease announce an open house on Feb. 16 from 5-6:30 pm, to offer support and education for survivors of heart disease or those at a high risk of developing cardiovascular disease. For more information, visit sjchs.org/womenheart BUILDING A NEW LIFE (SAVANNAH, GA) Hospice Savannah invites you to join the caring and compassionate bereavement counselors of Hospice Savannah’s Full Circle for a day of healing as you journey towards building your new life on Saturday, Feb. 18. To find out more or to register, visit www.HospiceSavannah.org/fullcircle SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY NOT WORKING? HOW TO FIX IT (FORBES) http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysondemers/2017/02/03/is-your-social-media-strategy-not-working-here-are-9-ways-to-fix-it/#12af34361aa8 DAVENPORT SOIREE (SAVANNAH, GA) Enjoy an afternoon of merriment, fine spirits, and silent auctions celebrating the Davenport House Museum, at the inaugural Davenport Soirée, Sunday, Feb. 19 from 2-5 pm. Tickets are $95. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.davenporthousemuseum.org (SAVANNAH, GA) World Trade Center Savannah will host the Global Education Program, Doing Business in Belgium, on Thursday, Feb. 23, 9 a.m. at World Trade Center Savannah. For more information, visit www.wtcsavannah.org LEARN TO SELL SERVICES TO FILM, TV PRODUCTIONS MAR 3 (SAVANNAH, GA) Attend Georgia’s Business Development Center’s Class on March 3 on on how to become a camera ready vendor. Learn how to sell your services and products to film and TV productions in the Savannah Area. For more information, visit https://www.georgiasbdc.org/becoming-a-camera-ready-vendor/ 3RD ANNUAL LOUISE LAURETTI HOOPS FOR HORIZONS TOURNAMENT MAR 4 ANTIQUES & ARCHITECTURE (SAVANNAH, GA) Savannah Antiques & Architecture Weekend, Mar. 3 and 4, is filled with luncheons, lectures, tours, a live auction, and cocktails in a historic mansion. Bring your treasures to What’s in Your Attic for valuation by professional appraisers seen on TV. Proceeds will benefit the Andrew Low and Green-Meldrim houses. http://savantiquesweekend.com/ MARYLAND MIXER MAR 22 (SAVANNAH, GA) If you are from the Maryland area, please join us for an after-hours MARYLAND MIXER on Wed, Mar. 22 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Cohen’s Retreat, 5715 Skidaway Road, Savannah, Ga. RSVP with Marjorie Young at marjorie@carriagetradepr.com or 912-844-9990 PR EXEC TO BRING TIPS TO THE CLASSROOM (SAVANNAH, GA) Cynthia Wright, Junior Partner of Carriage Trade PR, will present a Social Media tutorial to Georgia Southern students on Mar. 24. To learn more about Carriage Trade PR, please visit www.carriagetradepr.com PUBLIX SAVANNAH WOMEN’S HALF MARATHON & 5K PR INTERNSHIP (SAVANNAH, GA) Carriage Trade Public Relations and Cecilia Russo Marketing are currently accepting applications for our spring internship program. Intern responsibilities will include media relations, writing press releases and awards, photography, videography, search engine optimization, researching keywords, social media management, and community relations. For more information or to apply, email Cynthia Wright at savannahpublicrelations@gmail.com or visit http://carriagetradepr.com/internship/ MEET TALBERT (SAVANNAH, GA) Talbert is your typical yellow lab: up for adventure or a good belly rub. He loves his twice daily walks and would do great in a home that will give him regular exercise to keep him physically and mentally fit. To get more information on adopting Talbert, visit www.coastalpetrescue.org (SAVANNAH, GA) COMMUNiTY HEADLiNES, February 6, 2017 MAYOR DELOACH TO PRESENT STATE OF CITY ADDRESS (SAVANNAH, GA) Mayor Eddie DeLoach will issue the State of the City address during a Town Hall Meeting at 6:30 pm Feb. 9, in the Johnny Mercer Theater at the Savannah Civic Center. The public is encouraged to attend. To learn more, http://www.savannahtribune.com/articles/mayor-deloach-to-give-the-state-of-the-city-address-thursday-feb-9th/ HOW TO HANDLE DIVORCE LATER IN LIFE (SAVANNAH, GA) Financial Analyst Sam Hubbard discusses the increasing trend of “gray divorces,” which have more than doubled in recent years. To learn more, visit http://businessinsavannah.com/bis/2017-01-24/hubbard-how-handle-divorce-later-life WHAT TO DO IF A BAD PRESENTATION GOES VIRAL (BRAUDCAST) Crisis communications and media relations experts weigh in on, “What should you do if an executive does a presentation that goes badly and it ends up going viral on social media?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpHsWotrTI0&feature=em-subs_digest 2017 GEORGIA LEGISLATIVE GUIDE AVAILABLE (GEORGIA TREND) The 2017 Georgia legislative guide was recently released as lawmakers reconvened at the beginning of Jan. and began working on the new session. The guide contains contact information for legislators and other elected officials and a brief overview of the topics to be addressed. To read more, visit http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/?i=379224&p=57# GLOBAL TRADE EDUCATION WORKSHOP AT WTC SAVANNAH SOCCER PLAYER INVITED TO MLS ACADEMY (SAVANNAH, GA) Caleb Drabek is going places with soccer. The 12 yr. old will participate in Atlanta United’s Youth Development Academy, the program that will develop talent for the MLS expansion team. For more information, visit http://www.wtvm.com/story/34381084/good-news-savannah-united-player-invited-to-mls-academy SAVANNAH VISITOR CENTER LISTS HOTEL ROOMS (SAVANNAH, GA) The main Visitor Center on Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd keeps a file of daily deals for Savannah’s hotels, motels inns and B&Bs. Make sure visitors know about your rates and specials by faxing in your daily rate to 912-944-0441 CHATHAM COUNTY STORM RECOVERY COSTS TOP $36 MILLION (SAVANNAH, GA) Chatham County’s budget for Hurricane Matthew is now $36.6 million, and the county’s chief administrator says that number could climb even higher. This new figure is now well over double what Chatham County officials initially estimated for the hurricane’s immediate costs. http://savannahnow.com/hurricane-guide-news/2017-01-27/chatham-county-s-storm-recovery-costs-now-top-36-million CAT DROPS LATE-NIGHT WEEKEND BUS (SAVANNAH, GA) The officials of Chatham Area Transit (CAT) have decided to discontinue bus route #75, the weekend late night service. The discontinuation of this route will result in roughly $29,000 in savings for the remainder of the budget year. For more information, visit http://www.catchacat.org RECOGNIZE, HONOR YOUR GOOD NEIGHBOR (SAVANNAH, GA) The City of Savannah announced the Good Neighbor Awards. The program honors those who make a difference in the community without seeking or receiving recognition for their efforts. For more information or to make a nomination, visit http://www.savannahga.gov/goodneighbor HOW YOUR PHONE CAN MAKE YOU MORE PRODUCTIVE (SAVANNAH, GA) Heather Radtke of the Savannah-based technology company, Speros, presented to the Savannah Chamber of Commerce “Five Things Your Phone Can Do To Make You More Productive.” To watch her presentation visit, https://youtu.be/xmR-5qNwGYk STARLAND FOOD TRUCK PARK MOVES FORWARD (SAVANNAH, GA) A food truck park could be coming to the Starland District after the City of Savannah Zoning Board of Appeals approved the use of the vacant lot at 2411 DeSoto St. For more information, visit http://businessinsavannah.com/bis/2017-01-26/starland-food-truck-park-gets-early-ok SCHNEIDER LOGISTICS SUPPORTS LOWCOUNTRY DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY (SAVANNAH, GA) The Lowcountry Down Syndrome Society (LDSS) recently received a donation from Schneider Logistics in support of the nonprofit organization’s program and educational endeavors. For more information about LDSS, visit http://www.ldssga.org/ PORT OF SAVANNAH SETS DECEMBER RECORD (SAVANNAH, GA) The Port of Savannah reported its busiest December ever due to a 12% jump in container cargo volume. For more information, visit http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/associated_press/news/state/port-of-savannah-reports-record-cargo-numbers-for-december/article_3c107480-ef81-531e-9b3b-a4d615ab230c.html MIGHTY EIGHTH CELEBRATES 75th ANNIVERSARY (SAVANNAH, GA) 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of the Eighth Air Force. The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force is located right in our backyard. For more information, visit www.mightyeighth.org NEW JOBS THAT ARE SO 2017 (MONEY) 7 new jobs that reflect what’s important in 2017. To read more, http://time.com/money/4631366/new-jobs-2017/?xid=newsletter-brief INTENSIVE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING Savannah Yoga Center will hold an intensive 200 hr. 24-day yoga teacher training beginning Feb. 20. This training will inspire potential yogis to increase their own practice while learning the tools to share the gift of yoga to others. There a still a few spots available. More information can be found here: http://savannahyoga.com/pages/yoga-teacher-training-200hr-24days RANSOMWARE ATTACKS ON THE RISE (SAVANNAH, GA) Jason Ryals, chief technology officer at Savannah-based technology firm, Speros, warns of ransomware – a type of malware that encrypts your company’s data so you can’t access it, and holds it hostage. In the wake of another hospital falling victim to a ransomware attack, it is more important than ever to be vigilant when online. For more information, visit http://businessinsavannah.com/bis/2017-01-17/ryals-ransomware-attacks-rise-0# DAVENPORT HOUSE OFFERS TASTE OF SAVANNAH’S “POTABLE GOLD” MARJORIE YOUNG AT SAVANNAH CHAMBER’S SMART LUNCHEON FEB 7 (SAVANNAH, GA) Marjorie Young of Carriage Trade Public Relations™ will present the first of a two-part series, Five Things to Know about Live-Streaming Videos, at the Small Business Council Smart Luncheon on Tuesday, Feb. 7 beginning at 11:30 a.m. For more information, visit http://www.savannahchambernews.com/events/small-business-council-smart-luncheon-february-7/ NATIONAL GREAT BLACKS IN WAX MUSEUM COMING TO SAVANNAH (SAVANNAH, GA) The Traveling Exhibit will be in Savannah at the Beach Institute Cultural Arts Center from Feb. 4 through Feb. 8. The Center will be open noon – 5:00 pm daily. Admission is free. For Group tours, call 912-335- 8868 To learn more about the exhibit, http://www.savannahtribune.com/articles/the-national-great-blacks-in-wax-museum-coming-to-savannah/ CITY OF SAVANNAH SEEKS BUSINESSES FOR SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS (SAVANNAH, GA) The city needs help from the business community to provide hands-on summer work opportunities for high school students. Mayor Eddie Deloach and the city of Savannah will host a thank you reception Feb. 8 from 5:30-7 pm to thank last year’s participants and share upcoming plans for the program. For more information, visit http://www.savannahchambernews.com/member-news/city-savannah-seeking-business-participation-summer-internship-programs/ DIGITAL MARKETERS FIND NEW METHODS (ENTREPENEUR) 5 tactics that haven’t worked for digital marketers until now. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/287884 BEAT THE CANCER BASH FEB 11 (TYBEE ISLAND, GA) Beat the Cancer Bash will be held on Saturday, Feb.11 at 2:00 p.m. at North Beach Grill, Tybee Island. The event will benefit native Tybee Island resident, Leigh Ryan, as she battles cancer for the second time. For more information, visit http://www.wherevent.com/detail/North-Beach-Bar-Beat-The-Cancer-Bash-for-Leigh-Ryan BICYCLE CAMPAIGN TO HOST 4TH ANNUAL SAVANNAH TWEED RIDE FEB 12 (SAVANNAH, GA) The fourth annual Savannah Tweed Ride will leave from Forsyth Park (near the basketball courts) at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12 for a leisurely ride around Savannah. Following the ride, there will be a Lords and Ladies English Lawn Games Tourney featuring traditional English lawn sports. To register, visit http://home.savannahsportandsocial.org/tournaments/222333-lords-and-ladies-english-lawn-games-tourney-charity-event?mc_cid=299a085326&mc_eid=08fa9719ff “LOVE IS IN THE AIR” SUPPER CLUB SHOW SET FOR FEB 14 & 15 SOIREE TO CELEBRATE DAVENPORT HOUSE MUSEUM RE-ENGAGE YOUR EMPLOYEES (FORBES) 3 Reason Employee Engagement Is Declining https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2017/02/01/3-reasons-employee-engagement-is-declining-and-how-managers-can-improve-it/#5026e5e2dc17 WEEKEND TO FEATURE ANTIQUES, ARCHITECTURE AND MORE (INC) The No 1 Reason Why You’re Not As Productive As You Want To Be http://www.inc.com/laura-garnett/the-number-1-reason-why-youre-not-productive-even-though-you-want-to-be.html PUBLIX SAVANNAH WOMEN’S HALF MARATHON & 5K SCHEDULED (SAVANNAH, GA) The Publix Savannah Women’s Half Marathon & 5K highlights Savannah’s beautiful Historic District in 13.1 miles of tree-lined streets and city squares on April 7-9. 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Gotham Season 1 Posted by Richard Willis on September 23, 2014 at 12:53pm in Movies and TV Now that the show has debuted, what are your thoughts? Replies are closed for this discussion. Permalink Reply by ClarkKent_DC on April 29, 2015 at 3:59pm ClarkKent_DC said: He's made that point before -- that Bruce Wayne is stealing from his company whenever he appropriates Wayne Enterprises products for Batman's use. Bob Buethe said: True, but the paragraph that caught my attention was: Then in the late 70s, something changed. Batman got retconned so that he wasn’t just the rich son of a rich doctor. Starting with Batman v1 #307, Bruce Wayne was the head of Wayne Enterprises. He was a captain of industry. The latest scion of a long-standing family of incredibly rich industrialists that dated back to the 19th Century when Judge Solomon Wayne started up WayneCorp and used the money he earned to found Gotham City. Over the ensuing decades – through Alan Wayne, Kenneth Wayne, Patrick Wayne, Thomas Wayne, and up to Bruce Wayne – the family fortune never waned. Okay, thank you ... and the link goes to the cover image of Batman #307, January 1979 on the DC Wikia. I'm sure I must have read it and maybe even have it ... but Commander Benson notes "all of the references in that story still state 'the Wayne Foundation'." It doesn't surprise me that the notion of Bruce Wayne being one of the "idle rich" evolved over time to him being a captain of industry. But it also appears the writers don't know that a charitable foundation and a corporation are different things. By the way, I remember "V.I.P." I wish they hadn't dropped that idea. I like the notion of a Batman who thinks helping people with his resources is as much a part of his mission as beating up crooks. Permalink Reply by Richard Willis on April 29, 2015 at 4:36pm Commander Benson said: The two earliest mentions that I was actually able to lay eyes on came from "The 50-Story Killer", from The Brave and the Bold # 113 (Jun.-Jul., 1974) and "The Family That Fled the Earth", from World's Finest Comics # 234 (Dec., 1975). I don't have access to the comics or their reprints, but looking at GCD I see that both of these stories were written by continuity maven Bob Haney. My inclination is to discount them as Haney not knowing or not caring what the Wayne Foundation was. Of course, other writers may have unknowingly run with this. Permalink Reply by Commander Benson on April 29, 2015 at 8:33pm The DC Comics Database insists that Batman # 307 is the first mention of Wayne Enterprises (which is probably the source of Mr. Ingersoll's reference). That is, in fact, where I started my research, and why. Yes, the story does mark the introduction of Lucius Fox and it does depict Bruce Wayne as an active executive (big desk, penthouse office, secretary, lots of paperwork on his desk, Fox briefing him on competitor activity, etc.) and the man in charge. However, I went through the story twice and never saw any reference to "Wayne Enterprises"; it was always referred to as the Wayne Foundation. My guess is, whomever wrote that DC Comics Database entry extrapolated the existence of Wayne Enterprises from the depiction of Bruce Wayne as a corporate executive. If so, then the writer was wrong; as I pointed out, The Brave and the Bold # 113 showed Wayne as a captain of industry first. (That is, unless Haney doesn't count---but I think Mr. Willis is correct in his surmise that later Batman and Detective Comics writers ran with the idea.) But that's not surprising; I've found the DC Comics Database to be littered with errors when it comes to Silver-Age and Bronze-Age details. I'll keep checking my stacks, when I get the time. Permalink Reply by Ron M. on April 29, 2015 at 9:12pm Can you steal from yourself? I guess if Wayne Enterprises is incorporated and has a board of directors yes, but if Wayne is sole owner? (I remember reading Walt Disney had to raise money for Disneyland because his brother Roy, who was in charge of the money, said he was crazy wanting to build a carnival and refused to fund it.) Perhaps Bruce Wayne needs to do something like what Tony Stark did with Iron Man, admit he's financing Batman's battle against crime. This would get him kidnapped a lot, but he's a millionaire so he's probably used to that. Then he could say "I need the fastest car ever built because I'm making it a birthday present to Batman for stopping the Riddler from stealing the company payroll last month." Permalink Reply by Dave Elyea on April 29, 2015 at 10:36pm In the Silver Age, when the orphaned Bruce was taken in by his Uncle Phillip, instead of raised by Alfred, they noted that Bruce wound up inheriting Phillip's fortune as well as Thomas', so there's at least one other rich relative on file. Luke Blanchard said: It could be that Bruce is richer than his father because some even richer relatives died while he was growing up and left him their money. A couple of stories in the 70s represented him as a significant Galaxy shareholder. One was the Calculator story from Detective Comics #468. Permalink Reply by Richard Willis on April 29, 2015 at 11:33pm I think the concept of Alfred being Thomas Wayne's butler is a ret-con, just like his current ex-military-commando persona. Was he introduced (in his previous chubby version) as starting to work for Bruce or was he just there? Permalink Reply by Commander Benson on April 30, 2015 at 12:19am Both the Earth-Two and the Earth-One Alfreds were depicted as having arrived unannounced at Wayne Manor to presumptuously assume duties as Bruce Wayne's butler. ("Here Comes Alfred", Batman # 16 [Apr., 1943], in the case of the former; "With Friends Like These . . . ", The Untold Legend of the Batman # 2 [Aug., 1980], et al., for the latter.) And in both cases, Alfred's arrival had been prompted by a deathbed promise made to his father, Jarvis, who had been the butler to Thomas and Martha Wayne. Permalink Reply by ClarkKent_DC on April 30, 2015 at 10:50am Ron M. said: Bob Ingersoll's point has always been that as long as there are stockholders in Wayne Enterprises, Bruce Wayne is NOT the sole owner and is stealing from them when stuff gets "lost" and is repurposed for Batman. I suppose if Bruce Wayne was the sole owner, that wouldn't apply. Permalink Reply by Bob Buethe on April 30, 2015 at 10:54am That's exactly what he did, in Batman, Inc. (Admitted he's financing Batman, I mean. Not giving Batman a birthday present.) I think the way it works is if Bruce is "doing business as" Wayne Enterprises and there is no corporation then it's definitely all his. All the income is reported as personal income and he can give himself money or other assets whenever he wants (as long as sales figures, etc, are accurate). The downside is there is no separation between his assets and the Wayne Enterprises assets. If someone obtains a legal judgment against Wayne Enterprises they can take everything up to the judgment, including Wayne Manor. A corporation is a "fictional person" with its own Tax I.D. number in lieu of a Social Security number. If Bruce is the sole owner with no stockholders he still has the legal separation so his home and other personal assets are protected from a judgment against Wayne Enterprises, and vice versa. He can't, however, take assets from Wayne Enterprises and just put them in his pocket. A corporation likely must have a board of directors even if it has a sole owner. They would have no stock or other ownership, presumably being paid for their time. Bruce as CEO would draw a salary. Alfred's father was named Jarvis? That would help explain why Marvel was worried about Jarvis being seen as an Alfred rip off and made him an artificial intelligence instead of a butler that kind of resembled original portly Alfred. They knew DC would probably notice and point that out. I remember Marvel suddenly selling stock in the 80s. Presumably they'd been a corporation since Goodman sold out, but they made a big deal about the fact they hadn't sold stock before that. Was that Perelman's idea?

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Category Archives: Cognitive science Includes cognitive architecture, modelling of emotion and motivation. What is a Cognitive Architecture? Some of my research involves the computational modelling of cognition and how it interacts with emotion. Computational modelling is useful for the study of human or animal cognition, as well as for the building of artificial cognitive systems (e.g. robots). The cognitive process being modelled may be understood as an autonomous system which senses information from its environment and uses this information to determine its next action. Such an autonomous system is often called an “agent” [Russel and Norvig 2010]. A cognitive architecture is a specification of the internal structure of a cognitive agent, defining the components of cognition and their interactions. The concept of “architecture” is important because it integrates the various functions of cognition into a coherent system. Such integration is necessary for building complete autonomous agents and for the study of interactions between different components of natural cognition, such as reasoning and motivation. Architectures can be defined at different levels of detail. For example, [Marr 1982] defines three levels which can be applied to cognitive architecture as follows: Level 1: “Computational theory”: this specifies the functions of cognition – what components are involved and what are their inputs and outputs? Level 2:. “Representation and algorithm”: this specifies how each component accepts its input and generate its output. For example, representations may include symbolic logic or neural nets; algorithms may include inference algorithms (for logical deductions) or learning algorithms. Level 3: “Implementation”: this specifies the hardware, along with any supporting software and configurations (e.g. simulation software, physical robot or IT infrastructure). At level 1, the architecture specifies the components and their interfaces. For example, a perception component takes raw sense data as input and identifies objects in a scene; a decision component generates an action depending on objects identified by the perception component. Level 2 fills in the detail of how these components work. For example, the perception component might generate a logic-based representation of the raw data that it has sensed, while the decision component uses logic-based planning to generate actions. Level 3 provides an executable instantiation of the architecture. An instantiation may be a physical robot, a software product or prototype, or a model of an agent/robot which can be run as a simulation on a particular platform. Environment and requirements When designing an architecture, the environment of the agent needs to be considered. This defines the situations and events that the agent encounters. It is also important to define requirements that the agent must satisfy in a given environment. These may be capabilities (e.g. to detect the novelty of an unforeseen situation or to act on behalf of human values sufficiently accurately so that humans can delegate tasks to the agent in the given environment). If a natural system is being modelled (e.g. an animal), the requirements may simply be survival in the given environment. Assumptions made about the environment help to constrain the requirements. Architecture examples Example architectures that are particularly relevant to my research include H-CogAff [Sloman et al. 2005] and MAMID [Hudlicka 2007]. Both are modelling human cognition. H-CogAff emphasises the difference between fast instinctive reactions and slower reasoning. MAMID focuses on emotion generation and its effects on cognition. Architectures need not necessarily be executable (i.e. defined at levels 1 to 3). For example, H-CogAff is not a complete architecture that can be translated into an executable instance, but it is a useful guideline. Broad-and-shallow architectures Executable architectures can be developed using iterative stepwise refinement, beginning with simple components and gradually increasing their complexity. The complexity of the environment can also be gradually increased. To experiment with ideas quickly, it is important to use a rapid-prototyping methodology. This allows possibilities to be explored and unforeseen difficulties to be discovered early. To enable rapid-prototyping, an architecture should be made executable as early as possible in the development process. A useful approach is to start with a “broad and shallow” architecture [Bates et al. 1991]. This kind of architecture is mostly defined at level 1, with artificially simplified levels 2 and 3. For example, at level 2, the perception component may be populated temporarily by a simple data query method (does this object exist in the data?) and the decision component might include simplified “if-then” rules. For level 3, a simulation platform may be used which is suitable for rapid-prototyping. In later posts, I will discuss how this methodology fits in with AI research more generally and ethical AI systems in particular. [Russell and Norvig 2010] Russell, S. J., Norvig, P., & Davis, E. (2010). Artificial intelligence: A modern approach. [Marr 1982] Marr, D. (1982), Vision: A Computational Approach, San Francisco, Freeman & Co. Full text: http://s-f-walker.org.uk/pubsebooks/epubs/Marr]_Vision_A_Computational_Investigation.pdf [Bates et al. 1991] Bates, J., Loyall, A. B., & Reilly, W. S. (1991). Broad agents. Proceedings AAAI Spring Symposium on Integrated Intelligent Architectures. Stanford, CA: Reprinted in Sigart Bulletin, 2(4), Aug. 1991, pp. 38-40.) [Sloman et al. 2005] Sloman, A., Chrisley, R., Scheutz, M. (2005). The Architectural Basis of Affective States and Processes. In: Fellous, J.-M., Arbib, M.A. (eds.) Who Needs Emotions? New York: Oxford University Press. Full text: http://www.sdela.dds.nl/entityresearch/sloman-chrisley-scheutz-emotions.pdf [Hudlicka 2007] Hudlicka, E.(2007): Reasons for emotions: Modeling emotions in integrated cognitive systems. In W. Gray (Ed.), Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems, 137. New York:Oxford University Press. This entry was posted in Cognitive science, Emotion modelling, Integrated systems, Interdisciplinary research and tagged agent, cognition, software engineering on January 9, 2020 by catmkennedy.

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Global Landscapes Forum 2015 In Paris, the Forum will bring together 2,500 stakeholders from across sectors, including forestry, agriculture, water, energy, law and finance. Photo: Global Landscapes Forum Sat, Dec 5 2015 (All day) to Sun, Dec 6 2015 (All day) GMT +1 The year 2015 constitutes a major landmark for climate and development policy as countries are set to agree on climate action beyond 2020. As world leaders convene in 2015 to agree on Sustainable Development Goals and a new climate deal, the Forum will leverage this historic opportunity to shape the world’s development agenda for decades to come. Over the past two years, the Global Landscapes Forum has evolved into the world’s leading platform for discussing land-use issues. In Paris, the Forum will bring together 2,500 stakeholders from across sectors, including forestry, agriculture, water, energy, law and finance. Side event: 6 December 2015, 09:00 - 13:15 From farmer’s fields to landscapes. Food security in a new climate regime? Investing in agriculture is critical if we want to reduce poverty, address climate change, and tackle hunger. A climate change agreement in Paris is not likely to explicitly address agriculture – but countries are leading the way, by including action on agriculture in their Intended Nationally Determined Commitments (INDCs). Will these pledges be enough to deliver food security for billions of people and reduce agriculture’s climate change footprint? What further actions, commitments and finance are needed to safeguard the future of food and farming? The side event will consist of three interrelated sessions on ensuring food security under climate change through policies, integrated land use, new technologies and practices, and empowering women and youth. 09:00 - 09:10 Opening remarks by Peter Holmgren, Director General, CIFOR & Marion Guillou, President, Agreenium and CGIAR Consortium Board Member 09:10 - 09:30 Opening presentation: "Transformational change towards Climate Compatible Agriculture: Can INDCs lead the way?" by Sam Bickersteth, CEO, Climate and Development Knowledge Network The opening presentation will discuss the INDCs and how they include agriculture, food security and land use, and if there is a link to the SDG agenda. It will ask the question of whether we need provision for food security under a new climate regime, or If that is a gap in the INDCs. 09:30 - 10:30 Panel discussion: "The INDCs and how they address food security, agriculture and land use?" Sunny Verghese, CEO, Olam Theo de Jager, President, PAFO Ana Paula Tavares, President, Rainforest Alliance Martin Frick, Director of Climate, Energy and Tenure Division (NRC), UNFAO. ​10:30 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 12:15 High Level Panel: "Commitments to food security in a climate-constrained world" A bold climate agreement in Paris will launch a new era for building food security. In this session, various approaches to tackling food insecurity will be highlighted, from new initiatives in Research for Development to ambitious targets for the agricultural sector to inspiring land and seascape management proposals. Frank Rijsberman, CEO, CGIAR Consortium Timothy Groser, Minister of Trade, New Zealand Thomas Esang Remengesau, Jr, President of Palau John A. Bryant, CEO, The Kellogg Company Dr Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility (GEF) 12:15 - 13:00 Panel discussion: Gender, youth, the INDCs, and food security The panel will follow from the morning’s discussions on the implications for food security, agriculture and land use in relation to the INDCs and discuss the implications for gender and social inclusion. Ms Sithembile Ndema Mwamakamba, FANRPAN Philippe Leveque, Executive Director, CARE France Giovanna Valverde, Climate Change office, Ministry of Foreign Relations, Costa Rica Sophia Huyer, Gender and Social Inclusion Research Leader, CCAFS 13:00 - 13:15 Closing remarks by Michael Hailu, Director, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) Moderator: Elwyn Grainger-Jones, Director, Policy and Operations, Global Environment Facility (GEF) The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS); the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), and the Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), Pricewaterhouse Cooper (PwC). Side event: 6 December 2015, 11:00-17:25 Gender Perspectives on Climate Change. Sessions on gender-responsive climate change mitigation and adaptation For more information, and to register visit the official GLF website View the full list of CCAFS events at COP21 in Paris.

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Tag: CDFW CDFW Celebrates Earth Day April 18, 2019 by DanaMichaels2013, posted in Earth Day Monday, April 22 is the 49th annual Earth Day and the 2019 theme is “Protect Our Species.” The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) works to protect our state’s native species every day of every year. CDFW performs and oversees wildlife habitat conservation and restoration to maintain healthy ecosystems throughout the state. No matter where a native plant, fish or animal lives—in a marine, brackish or fresh water environment, on land, in trees or underground—all living things need clean, healthy habitats. Some people see a wetland, grassland, desert or any undeveloped landscape and think, “There’s nothing there.” But there are numerous plant, animal and fish species living there, hidden underwater, underground, under rocks and in rock crevices. Those “unused” spaces are home to many species that are part of the elaborate web of life on which all living things depend. In the past, people thought natural resources—like fresh, potable water—were unlimited. We know better now, yet still produce millions of tons of garbage each year and often dispose of it in ways that harm wildlife. With more than seven billion people on the planet, such a careless lifestyle causes irreparable damage to the very ecosystems all forms of life need to live. It’s easy to reduce, reuse and recycle the products we use each day. And when we do, our behavior benefits wildlife as much as it does ourselves. Californians have been celebrating Earth Day with festivals, learning opportunities, and activities such as trail and habitat clean-up and restoration since 1970. It’s a day to think about how each of us affects our world’s limited natural resources, and what we can do as individuals or as groups to tread lightly on the Earth, make up for past damage and restore what we can. For links to environmentally healthy living suggestions, Earth Day festivals and other activities throughout California, please visit CalRecycle’s Earth Day webpage. CDFW staff will participate in Earth Day activities around the state, and would be pleased to discuss ways we can conserve wildlife with you at any of these events. Newport Beach: Upper Newport Bay Earth Day event, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Peter & Mary Muth Interpretive Center. CDFW ecological reserve Science Discovery booth. Fresno: Earth Day festival in Radio Park. Booth with animal mounts and information about CDFW and volunteering. Live music, green vendors, EV test drives, food, kids’ activities. Rancho Cordova: The Nimbus Hatchery preschool story time program, Tot Time, will feature an Earth Day theme. Sacramento: Earth Day Festival at Southside Park. CDFW will have hands-on children’s activities and the Salmon Wheel of Fortune. Tagged annual, California, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, CDFW, clean-up, conservation, displays, Earth Day, ecology, ecosystems, environment, festivals, habitat, Pollution, Protect Our Species, recycle, reduce, reuse, special events, waste, wildlife Wildlife Conservation Board Funds Environmental Improvement and Acquisition Projects March 7, 2019 by DanaMichaels2013, posted in California Wildlife Conservation Board, Habitat Conservation At its March 7 quarterly meeting, the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) approved approximately $8 million in grants to help restore and protect fish and wildlife habitat throughout California. Some of the 21 approved projects will benefit fish and wildlife — including some endangered species — while others will provide public access to important natural resources. Several projects will also demonstrate the importance of protecting working landscapes that integrate economic, social and environmental stewardship practices beneficial to the environment, landowners and the local community. Funding for these projects comes from a combination of sources including the Habitat Conservation Fund and bond measures approved by voters to help preserve and protect California’s natural resources. Funded projects include: A $680,000 acquisition in fee of approximately 32 acres of land as an expansion to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Battle Creek Wildlife Area for the protection of terrestrial and aquatic habitats supporting salmonid species, to enhance habitat linkages and connectivity, and to provide future wildlife-oriented public use opportunities near Anderson in Shasta County. A $440,000 grant to CDFW for a cooperative project with California State Parks to improve the parking lot, provide an ADA-accessible viewing platform, and install a new ADA-accessible toilet at North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve, eight miles north of the Oroville, in Butte County. $1.3 million for two grants to The Trust for Public Land to acquire approximately 1,415 acres of land for the protection of threatened and endangered species, preservation of desert springs with year-round surface water and a riparian corridor, and provide future wildlife-oriented public use opportunities near Lake Isabella in Kern County. Two grants for a total of $480,000 to the Transition Habitat Conservancy to acquire in fee approximately 120 acres of land from two separate owners for the protection of deer and mountain lion habitat, to maintain a migration corridor for the deer herd, and to provide future wildlife-oriented public use opportunities in the hills northwest of Portal Ridge, in Los Angeles County. A $757,000 grant to the Natural Communities Coalition for a cooperative project with CDFW, Orange County Parks and California State Parks in Crystal Cove State Park and Laguna Coast Wilderness Park – both in Orange County. The project will construct 16 seasonal pools and restore approximately 15 acres of adjacent upland coastal sage and cactus scrub habitat that will provide breeding and foraging habitat for the western spadefoot toad. For more information about the WCB please visit https://www.wcb.ca.gov. John Donnelly, WCB Executive Director, (916) 445-0137 Tagged ADA, Battle Creek, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California State Parks, California Wildlife Conservation Board, CDFW, Crystal Cove State Park, desert springs, environment, environmental grants, habitat protection, Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, Los Angeles, North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve, Orange County Parks, Portal Ridge, salmonid, Transition Habitat Conservancy, Trust For Public Land, WCB, western spadefoot toad November 15, 2018 November 16, 2018 by DanaMichaels2013, posted in California Wildlife Conservation Board At its Nov. 15 quarterly meeting, the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) approved approximately $3.18 million in grants to help restore and protect fish and wildlife habitat throughout California. Some of the eight approved projects will benefit fish and wildlife — including some endangered species — while others will provide public access to important natural resources. Several projects will also demonstrate the importance of protecting working landscapes that integrate economic, social and environmental stewardship practices beneficial to the environment, landowners and the local community. Acceptance of a no-cost conservation easement over approximately 2,325 acres of Humbug Valley land by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), to be held with the Feather River Land Trust as co-grantee for a cooperative project with the Maidu Consortium and Pacific Gas and Electric. This project will protect the culturally significant Tàsmam Koyòm homeland of the Maidu, and provide wildlife corridors, future wildlife-oriented public use opportunities, and protection of the Yellow Creek fishery, near Chester in Plumas County. (photo above) A $96,000 grant to the Mojave Desert Land Trust to acquire approximately 320 acres of land for the protection of desert habitat corridors in the Morongo Basin, near the community of Joshua Tree in San Bernardino County. Desert habitat in San Bernardino County’s Morongo Basin. WCB photo A $1.7 million grant to the City of Arcata and Humboldt State University for a cooperative project with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CALFIRE), CDFW and the Resources Agency to acquire approximately 967 acres of land within the Jacoby Creek watershed, and the acceptance of a conservation easement over the property by CALFIRE. Jacoby Creek, near Arcata in Humboldt County. WCB photo A $250,000 grant to the East Bay Regional Park District for a cooperative project with the Bureau of Reclamation to replace the fishing dock, upgrade restrooms and provide ADA access at the Channel Point area of Contra Loma Regional Park, in the City of Antioch in Contra Costa County. Fishing dock at Channel Point in Contra Loma Regional Park, Contra Costa County. WCB photo For more information about the WCB please visit www.wcb.ca.gov. Tagged Antioch, Arcata, Bureau of Reclamation, CALFIRE, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California Wildlife Conservation Board, CDFW, Contra Costa, Contra Loma Regional Park, East Bay Regional Parks, ecosystem, environmental grants, Feather River Land Trust, habitat protection, Humboldt State University, Humbug Valley, Jacoby Creek, Joshua Tree, Maidu Consortium, Mojave Desert, Morongo Basin, PG&E, WCB, wildlife conservation, Yellow Creek Wildlife Conservation Board Funds Stream Flow Enhancement Projects March 22, 2018 by DanaMichaels2013, posted in California Wildlife Conservation Board, Grants At a March 22 meeting, the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) approved approximately $33.1 million in grants for 22 projects to enhance stream flows to benefit fish and wildlife habitat throughout California. The Legislature appropriated funding for these projects as authorized by the Water Quality, Supply and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 (Proposition 1). A total of $200 million was allocated to the WCB for projects that enhance stream flow. A total of $38.4 million—including $5 million designated for scoping and scientific projects—was allocated to the WCB for expenditure in Fiscal Year 2017/18 for the California Stream Flow Enhancement Program. Projects were chosen through a competitive grant process, judged by the WCB, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the State Water Resources Control Board. Guided by the California Water Action Plan, funding is focused on projects that will lead to direct and measurable enhancements to the amount, timing and/or quality of water for anadromous fish; special status, threatened, endangered or at-risk species; or to provide resilience to climate change. A $4.8 million grant to The Wildlands Conservancy for a project to enhance stream flow on Russ Creek by reestablishing channel alignment to provide continuous summer base flows suitable for fish passage. The project is located on the southern portion of the Eel River Estuary Preserve in Humboldt County, approximately four miles west of Ferndale. A $693,408 grant to the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District for the purpose of dedicating a portion of the District’s diversion water rights to instream flow use that will benefit fish and wildlife by increasing habitat for salmonids and special status species in the Mad River. The project is located on the main-stem Mad River in the Mad River Watershed with releases coming from Matthews Dam at Ruth Reservoir, approximately 48 miles southeast of Eureka and 53 miles southwest of Redding. A $726,374 grant to Mendocino County Resource Conservation District for a cooperative project with Trout Unlimited, The Nature Conservancy and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to reduce summer diversions and improve dry season stream flows for the benefit of Coho salmon and steelhead trout. The Navarro River watershed is located approximately 20 miles south of Fort Bragg. A $5 million grant to the Sutter Butte Flood Control Agency for a cooperative project with the Department of Water Resources and CDFW, to improve roughly 7,500 linear feet of existing channels to connect isolated ponds. This will provide fish refuge and eliminate potential stranding. This project’s design was funded by the Stream Flow Enhancement Program in 2016. The project site is within the Sacramento River watershed and is less than one mile southwest of the town of Oroville, on the east side of the Feather River. $609,970 grant to the University of California Regents for a cooperative project with the University of Nevada, Reno and the Desert Research Institute, to expand monitoring, scientific studies and modeling in the Tahoe-Truckee Basin. The results will guide watershed-scale forest thinning strategies that enhance stream flow within an area that provides critical habitat for threatened species. The project is located in the central Sierra Nevada mountain range, primarily on National Forest lands in the Lake Tahoe Basin and Tahoe National Forest. A $851,806 grant to the Sonoma Resource Conservation District for a cooperative project with the Coast Ridge Community Forest and 29 landowners, to install rainwater harvesting tanks and enter into agreements to refrain from diverting stream flow during dry seasons. The project area consists of 29 properties within the coastal Gualala River, Russian Gulch and Austin Creek watersheds, which discharge to the Pacific Ocean approximately 40 miles northwest of Santa Rosa. A $5.3 million grant to the Alameda County Water District for a cooperative project with the Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, California Natural Resources Agency, State Coastal Conservancy and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to modify flow releases in Alameda Creek and construct two concrete fish ladders around existing fish passage barriers. This will provide salmonids access to high value habitat upstream of the project location, approximately 17 miles north of San Jose and 22 miles southeast of Oakland. A $3.9 million grant to The Nature Conservancy for a cooperative project with U.C. Santa Barbara and the Santa Clara River Watershed Conservancy to remove approximately 250 acres of the invasive giant reed (Arundo donax), which will save approximately 2,000 acre-feet of water annually for the Santa Clara River. The project is located in unincorporated Ventura County approximately two miles east of the city of Santa Paula and three miles west of the city of Fillmore, along the Santa Clara River. Details about the California Stream Flow Enhancement Program are available on the WCB website. 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NPR's Up First is the news you need to start your day. The biggest stories and ideas — from politics to pop culture — in 10 minutes. Hosted by Rachel Martin, David Greene and Steve Inskeep, with reporting and analysis from NPR News. Available weekdays by 6 a.m. ET. Subscribe and listen, then support your local NPR station at donate.npr.org. http://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition Senators are preparing to vote on allowing witnesses at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he doesn't yet have the votes to block them. How might that alter the record and the politics? The president made a peace plan with Israelis, which he says Palestinians should like. Why does the Palestinian side not see a win? Also, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is on his way to Ukraine. Days ago, he said in an interview with NPR that Americans... The president's lawyers will conclude their defense of his actions toward Ukraine on the Senate floor on Tuesday. They've hardly mentioned new allegations in an unpublished book by former National Security Adviser John Bolton. What are they saying instead? President Donald Trump is also expected to release his Middle East peace plan later on Tuesday. What's in the plan, and why was there almost no input from from the Palestinian side? In New York, Harvey Weinstein's trial continues. We'll... An excerpt of former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton's upcoming book has leaked, and it undercuts President Donald Trump's impeachment defense. Could it change things? The sports world mourns a basketball icon. Former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant died yesterday in a helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others. We'll look back at Bryant's remarkable career. And there are now five confirmed cases of a strain of coronavirus in the U.S. Are the travel bans in... President Trump's legal team begins his defense now that Democrats have finished their arguments against him; millions of people are affected as China limits travel during a busy holiday season to stem the coronavirus outbreak; and new details from Guantanamo Bay about how the U.S. used torture techniques on suspected terrorists after 9/11. Friday will be the last chance for House Democrats to make their case for the removal of President Donald Trump. How have Republicans pushed back, and what can we expect as the president's lawyers get ready to launch their defense? Friday's "March for Life" rally is a chance for President Trump to shore up an important part of his base. Will these voters support him in 2020? And a former "Sopranos" actress testifies in Harvey Weinstein's trial about the trauma she suffered. Democrats will take the stage again on Thursday in the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump. Are any of their arguments winning over Republicans? China has stopped all transportation within the city of Wuhan and canceled all outgoing flights and trains. At least 17 people have died so far from a new strain of coronavirus. What is causing this disease to spread? And the International Court of Justice ruled on a request for "emergency measures" in Myanmar to protect Rohingya... The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump will continue Wednesday afternoon. The first day of the trial was dominated by partisan fighting over the rules of the trial. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had to make some last-minute changes. How will these changes affect the process? A new virus thought to have originated in China made it all the way to Washington state. How is the Chinese government responding to the outbreak? And some more news from Washington state. More than a... The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump starts on Tuesday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., released his trial rules late on Monday, and Democrats are incensed. How is McConnell limiting the trial? A new virus is causing international concern. Health authorities say the disease can spread from person to person. How dangerous is this virus? Also, more than a week after a volcano erupted in the Philippines, we get a view from right above it. How long before the next... The Senate impeachment trial against President Donald Trump starts on Tuesday. Democrats argue it won't be a fair trial unless new witnesses are being called to testify. What's the White House's response? Virginia's capital is under a state of emergency because of who might come to a pro-gun rally Monday. What's the mood in Richmond? And Prince Harry goes public after he and Meghan Markle begin their split from lives as full-time working royals. What is the new arrangement? With the President's impeachment trial in the Senate set to begin next week, Trump assembles his legal team. Also, a scandal over stealing signs is roiling Major League Baseball. And Taal Volcano in the Philippines may be in a lull but it's still dangerous. President Donald Trump broke the law. He did it by withholding aid to Ukraine. That's the conclusion of a report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. But will it affect the Senate impeachment trial? Three men were arrested this week in connection with a white supremacist group called "The Base." The suspects planned to build an assault rifle and had amassed over 1,600 rounds of ammunition. Who are they and what were their plans? Also, after more than 1,000 earthquakes in... President Donald Trump "knew exactly what was going on" in Ukraine. That's according to Rudy Giuliani's associate Lev Parnas. But how credible are his claims? In Russia, the prime minister and his entire cabinet resigned. The dramatic move came shortly after President Vladimir Putin proposed sweeping constitutional changes. Many see the shakeup as Putin's doing. We also get an inside view from China of the newly signed "Phase One" trade deal. What are Chinese officials telling people about... The House on Wednesday will vote to send articles of impeachment to the Senate. This as new details come to light about the pressure campaign against the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Will it amplify calls to allow new evidence in the upcoming Senate trial? In the final Democratic presidential debate before the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) confronted doubts over a woman in the White House head on. And 18 months after he began his trade war with China, President... Can U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper explain the intelligence that led to the killing of a top Iranian general? And what's the strategy if Iran retaliates in the future? In an interview with NPR, Esper answered those questions and more. Also, the Democratic presidential race is getting more personal. Tonight is the last Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses. Apple is refusing to comply with the FBI's demand to unlock the phones of an alleged mass shooter. U.S. Attorney General William... Iranians are in the streets protesting again, but they have turned their rage away from the U.S. They're demonstrating against their own government after it admitted to shooting down a Ukrainian airliner. President Donald Trump said Iranian general Qassem Soleimani posed an imminent threat to U.S. interests. So why did Defense Secretary Mark Esper say he didn't see any specific evidence? Also, Puerto Rico is dealing with the aftermath of some strong earthquakes. How are people coping, and... Iran admitted that it shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane this week — blaming it on human error. We'll have reaction to the admission. Also, President Trump claims that multiple embassies were part of the "imminent threat" that led to the U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian military commander last week. Power is returning to Puerto Rico after an earthquake earlier this week, but people are still sleeping outside there, as strong aftershocks continue to shake the island. Iran said that it will let U.S. government experts help investigate an airplane crash in Tehran. The U.S. is saying nothing in public about the cause of the crash, but officials of several other nations suggest Iran apparently brought down the plane by mistake. The House told the president to consult Congress before taking further military action against Iran. But what will happen to that demand in the Republican-controlled Senate? Also, newly released documents show that some Boeing... The House will vote on a resolution to limit President Donald Trump's use of military force. Even some Republicans in the Senate now say they're concerned. Trump himself called on U.S. allies to take a stand against Iran. But how have the recent events affected one of U.S.'s closest allies, Saudi Arabia? And Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are calling it quits — not with each other — but with the royal family, at least in part. Wednesday, January 8th, 2020 Iran fulfilled its promise to retaliate after a U.S. airstrike killed a top general. Iranian missiles struck bases housing U.S. forces in Iraq. President Trump tweeted "All is Well!" But is this a step closer to a war? What are officials in Iran and Iraq saying about the possibility of further escalation? Also in Iran, a Ukrainian passenger plane crashed just after takeoff, killing all 176 people on board. Why did the plane go down, and who were the victims? Tuesday, January 7th, 2020 Are American troops really leaving Iraq? Iraqi lawmakers voted to kick them out following the U.S. airstrike that killed an Iranian general and an Iraqi commander, but the Pentagon says there's no plans for a troop withdrawal yet. What's the response today on the ground in Baghdad? Also, as the second day of Harvey Weinstein's criminal trial begins in New York, he's facing new charges of sexual assault in Los Angeles.

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Right-Leaning Groups Back International Data Privacy Bill The Hill published an article covering the Communications Privacy Act and references the Competitive Enterprise Institute. A coalition of right-leaning groups is pressing Congress to act on legislation that would create a new legal framework that allows law enforcement to access U.S. electronic communications held on servers abroad. The bipartisan bill, called the International Communications Privacy Act, has been introduced by Reps. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in the House, and Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Christopher Coons(D-Del.) and Dean Heller (R-Nev.) in the Senate. The bill seeks to clarify the process by which law enforcement obtains electronic data on U.S. citizens for investigations, regardless of the location of the communications. It would require law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant for all content. It would also allow law enforcement to, in certain circumstances, obtain electronic communications on foreign nationals. On Wednesday, right-leaning organizations including Americans for Tax Reform and the R Street Institute wrote to leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees pressing them to swiftly consider the bill. “The current laws were written for the era of the floppy disk, not the world of the cloud,” Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith wrote in a blog post last week reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision. “We believe that rather than arguing over an old law in court, it is time for Congress to act by passing new legislation, such as the International Communications Privacy Act.” Wednesday’s letter was also signed by leaders of the National Taxpayers Union, Competitive Enterprise Institute, and FreedomWorks, in addition to other groups. Read the full article at The Hill. More about Tech and Telecom Understanding an Internet Sales Tax Jessica Melugin Op-Eds and Articles Deepfakes and Beyond: Who Wins if Social Media Platforms are Regulated? Clyde Wayne Crews Another California Job Buster Ryan Radia More Media Appearances

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Football ManagerFootball Player Marcelo Bielsa Height, Age, Body Measurements, Wiki Marcelo Bielsa (Football Manager and Football Player), born on July 21, 1955 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. Marcelo Bielsa's age 63 years & Zodiac Sign Cancer, nationality Argentinean (by birth) & Race/Ethnicity is White. Let's check, How Tall is Marcelo Bielsa? Marcelo Bielsa Bio Birth Name:Marcelo Bielsa First Name: Marcelo Last Name: Bielsa Birth Date: July 21, 1955 Birth Place: Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina Nationality: Argentinean Birth/Zodiac Sign: Cancer Eye Color: Dark brown Hair Color: Gray Feet/Shoe Size: N/A Dress Size: N/A Marcelo Bielsa Height Height (in Feet-Inches) 6 ft 1 in Height (in Centimeters) 184 cm Weight (in Pounds) 181 lbs Marcelo Bielsa Body Measurements Marcelo Bielsa's full body measurements are . Marcelo Alberto Bielsa Caldera is an Argentine football manager who was last in charge of Lille. Bielsa has managed football clubs and also the national teams of Argentina and Chile. In Chile, he achieved cult status due to the improved results of the national team under his leadership. His personality and gestures during his stint in Chile captured the attention of media and unleashed a series of minor controversies both in sports and politics. On 8 August 2015, Bielsa resigned as Marseille's coach. In 1980, after retiring from playing in football, Bielsa decided to start a career as a football manager. His first job was coaching the youth divisions of Argentine club Newell's Old Boys. In 1990, he was given the task of managing Newell's first team, where he would later go on to win the 1990 Torneo Apertura and the 1990–91 Torneo Integración, defeating Boca Juniors on penalties. "El Loco" managed the squad that competed in the final of the 1992 Copa Libertadores, losing to São Paulo on penalties. Weeks later, after enduring defeat in the Copa Libertadores final, Bielsa and Newell's won the 1992 Torneo Clausura. Previous articleMegan Lee Next articleDana Loesch Arefin Emon - December 17, 2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/B4YWLwDH02W/ Morgan Gibbs-White Arefin Emon - November 17, 2019 Morgan Gibbs-White Biography Morgan Gibbs-White is a British professional football player. Currently, he plays for Wolverhampton Wanderers as a midfielder. At the international level, he has already...

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Tyler Perry said ( about In The ) : “In one of the scenes, it was very emotional for her [Crystal],” eurweb Saturday, January 25, 2020 4:24:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry responded : “I think hair is very, very important, but figure that sh*t out before we go on camera is my whole thing,” “As long as y’all figured it out before it’s time to shoot, I’m good. I don’t got time to waste five hours and spend spending $10 million to figure out which curl is better for you” Tyler Perry wrote : “My heart breaks today at the death of my dear friend,” eurweb Friday, January 24, 2020 9:48:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry told : “While it takes people in Hollywood seven days to shoot one episode of a primetime drama, we shoot two in six to seven days,” independent-UK Wednesday, January 22, 2020 1:44:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry says : “I love how somebody can pick up on those things,” “But that wasn’t my intention. Maybe that was the intention of my art director. This film has a lot of characters living dual lives. I was just trying to tell a story” houstonchronicle Friday, January 17, 2020 10:16:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : “As I’m writing, I’m really a fly on the wall, listening to the characters and letting them tell me their experience. I’m not judging them,” suntimes Friday, January 17, 2020 3:06:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry said : “And I want to invite every white person to see it,” “Be open-minded. Don’t automatically assume it’s one thing because it’s an all-black cast. It’s a thrill ride for everyone” Tyler Perry : “I think that a group would be great, but if you wanna watch it alone, you can. You just may have to cover your eyes toward the end, but yeah” wsvn Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:50:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry : “I’ve done 20 movies, and I’ve been proud of everything I’ve done, but to have someone like this, who has been in this business all these years and now getting her shot, and has a billboard with her face in Times Square, man, that makes me so proud” Tyler Perry : “That’s it. Remember your worth. Even if you start dating someone new, remember your worth” Tyler Perry tells : “TBS isn’t paying me the money upfront — I’m financing these shows myself. I’m not Sony, I’m not Disney; I need to work out a deal for pay rates,” eurweb Thursday, January 16, 2020 2:20:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry explains : “I’m getting calls that I fired writers for trying to unionize. What? I came to the WGA on my own to try to work with them! I fired the writers because they weren’t giving me what I wanted. Period. It was a mess. The press says I fired writers who were trying to unionize. Not true, and it pissed me off,” “Later on, my mom got sick. So I put a writers’ room in place for one of my shows. Now we’re a WGA show and I’m paying WGA rates. Scripts they’re turning in? Ratings are going down. So now I have to go in and give notes on how to rewrite them. And if I still don’t like it, I have to pay them again for another rewrite,” Tyler Perry told : “TBS isn’t paying me the money upfront — I’m financing these shows myself. I’m not Sony, I’m not Disney; I need to work out a deal for pay rates,” thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry told : “I’m getting calls that I fired writers for trying to unionize. What? I came to the WGA on my own to try to work with them! I fired the writers because they weren’t giving me what I wanted. Period. It was a mess. The press says I fired writers who were trying to unionize. Not true, and it pissed me off,” Tyler Perry said : “Later on, my mom got sick. So I put a writers’ room in place for one of my shows. Now we’re a WGA show and I’m paying WGA rates. Scripts they’re turning in? Ratings are going down. So now I have to go in and give notes on how to rewrite them. And if I still don’t like it, I have to pay them again for another rewrite,” “At one point, I thought they were submitting scripts that would need rewrites in order to get paid multiple times. And these are Black people” Tyler Perry said : “They felt like I was asking for too many changes and would never accept the script. I was furious,” Tyler Perry said : “Look, one year, we overpaid the WGA by a million dollars,” Tyler Perry responded : “After dealing with all that bullshit? No. I ain’t doing it,” Tyler Perry explains ( about Tyler Perry ) : “I do and I will. We have four shows coming up with showrunners who will have their own writers and their own writers’ room. There will always be opportunities at Tyler Perry Studios for writers. Always. But for these particular shows, my audience wants my voice,” Tyler Perry said : "You know what? You just make up the rules. It's your show, go ahead," upi Wednesday, January 15, 2020 3:53:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry told : “There is no need in going back and forth, or fighting, or protesting. It is what it is. This is how it is in Hollywood, and it’s how it will always be,” brownsvilleherald Wednesday, January 15, 2020 3:15:00 AM EAT news4jax Wednesday, January 15, 2020 2:14:00 AM EAT actionnewsjax Wednesday, January 15, 2020 1:41:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry said : "I just think that if I can build this beautiful place where children, families, LGBTQ youth who have been displaced, put out of their homes can come to a beautiful campus and live. Be reinserted into life," upi Monday, January 13, 2020 8:06:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : "I don't know if you know this, but all shows on television have a writers room," usaToday Wednesday, January 8, 2020 8:49:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry writing : "Why am I telling you this? I wrote all of these scripts by myself in 2019. What's my point? Work ethic!" Tyler Perry said : “So, I don’t know if you know this, but all shows on television have a writers room,” thegrio Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:54:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : "So, I don't know if you know this, but all shows in television have a writer's room. And most of the time, there are ten, twelve people -- whatever -- that write on these television shows," "I have no writers room. Nobody writes any of my work. I write it all... I wrote all of these scripts by myself in 2019. What's my point? Work ethic!" business-standard Tuesday, January 7, 2020 4:01:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry wrote : “Another reason I’m so excited is that this is Crystal Fox’s first time playing the lead role in a movie… Can you believe that?!” eurweb Saturday, January 4, 2020 5:41:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry said : “I want everybody here to congratulate Ozzie,” latimes Monday, December 16, 2019 6:26:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry wrote : "My next movie guys!!! This is an amazing thriller!!!" business-standard Sunday, November 24, 2019 12:58:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry told : "It's 330 acres and 12 sound stages," npr Wednesday, November 20, 2019 1:49:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry insisted : "The two of them in Sister Act , that should happen. Let's make it happen," click2houston Thursday, October 24, 2019 9:45:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : “I’ve been hard at work on ‘The Oval’ and can’t wait to share this story with audiences,” eurweb Wednesday, October 16, 2019 6:01:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry explained : “He was really rude to the nanny and he was in the bathroom arguing with her…I get down to his level and I’m talking to him and I say ‘Listen, what are you doing? You don’t do this. This is unacceptable. You’re not going to disrespect her. You’re not going to disrespect your mom. You’re going to do what they say to do,'” thegrio Tuesday, October 15, 2019 5:11:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry told : “I’ll tell you what I’m most excited about next is that, pulling this next phase off, is building a compound for trafficked women, girls, homeless women, LGBTQ youth who are put out and displaced,” newnownext Saturday, October 12, 2019 5:55:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry told : “Having a compound that is a beautiful place right here somewhere on this 330 acres, where they’re trained in the business and they become self-sufficient, they live in nice apartments, there’s daycare, there’s all of these wonderful things that allows them to re-enter society and then pay it forward again,” wtsp Friday, October 11, 2019 10:49:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : “Having a compound that is a beautiful place right here somewhere on this 330 acres, where they’re trained in the business and they become self-sufficient, they live in nice apartments, there’s day care, there’s all of these wonderful things that allows them to re-enter society and then pay it forward again. That’s what I hope to do soon” actionnewsjax Friday, October 11, 2019 5:11:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : “First of all, when you put a quarter of a billion dollars in the ground in one place, you can’t just go ‘Okay I’m out,’” “I still feel very strongly that the great thing about living in a democracy is every four years, you get an opportunity to change things” nbcnews Thursday, October 10, 2019 8:40:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry recalled ( about Tyler Perry ) : “This may sound cliché, but [ Tyler Perry Studios] being the home of Dr. King and having ‘the dream’ and being able to come here and live here. I’m telling you when I first came here, I saw Black people doing well, which blew my mind,” “This is what I tell people — exposure is so important. If you see it, that means you can do it. And when I got here, I saw something, something vibrated in me that I thought, ‘This is where you need to be.’ So to see all of this happening and know that that moment was right, that was my God voice leading me here, that’s been really phenomenal” Tyler Perry explained : “It’s been incredible working with Oprah. I loved it, the only issue is OWN is one channel,” “When you have a facility like this, you have the capacity to do many, many different things. So the great thing about the Viacom deal and BET is starting off with those two shows, which is soon to be 5 or 6 shows and then launching BET Plus … and also being able to program VH1 and Comedy Central and Nickelodeon” Tyler Perry said : “I just moved through it. Go onto the next thing. ‘Boys don’t cry, shut up and move on.’” fox35orlando Thursday, October 10, 2019 8:38:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry told : "I clearly believe that I'm ignored in Hollywood, for sure," click2houston Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:28:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry told : "My audience and the stories that I tell are African-American, stories specific to a certain audience, specific to a certain group of people that I know, that I grew up with, and we speak a language," Tyler Perry told : "I know what I do touches millions of people around the world," Tyler Perry said : "Every black person that comes to work here, they go, 'Oh, my God, it's heaven. Here we are. We're represented,' " "LGBTQs represented. Black, white, gay, straight, whatever. We're all represented, working hand in hand, arm in arm" Tyler Perry told : "For people to drop what they're doing in their very busy schedules to come and join me in this moment is beyond anything I could've imagined. It makes me happy. It makes me want to cry. It makes me grateful. It's just I'm beyond," business-standard Wednesday, October 9, 2019 5:20:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry told : "I clearly believe that I'm ignored in Hollywood, for sure, and that's fine. I get it," business-standard Tuesday, October 8, 2019 8:20:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry told : “I clearly believe that I’m ignored in Hollywood, for sure, and that’s fine I get it,” eurweb Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:52:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : “I’ve been on sets where I’ve been the only black face on, only black face, as recently as 2019 going, ‘Where are the black people in this movie?’ Back behind the camera?” “So, when I come to work here and every black person that comes to work here they go, ‘Oh my God, it’s heaven. Here we are. We’re represented.’ Where everybody’s represented. LGBTQ’s represented. Black, white, gay, straight, whatever. We’re all represented, working hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm” Tyler Perry told : “I think it’s pivotal in everything that we’ve done, everything that we’re doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,” fox35orlando Tuesday, October 8, 2019 4:23:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry recalled : "There was a moment that happened in 2005 at [Oprah's] Legends Ball " CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry added ( about Yolanda Adams ) : "Yolanda Adams is sitting next to me," Tyler Perry said : "At 28 I went into the shell, 'cause I started touring, doing 300-something shows a year," "So somewhere around 44, 45 I came out of it, and I go, 'Wait a minute, where did all those years go?' So now I feel like I'm still 35. So I feel like I'm just getting started. There's nothing about me that feels like 50, whatever that's supposed to mean" Tyler Perry added : "This entire journey of telling stories was born out of of pain, born out of heartache, born out of being an abused kid who could go inside of his head and create a world and imagination," "Also that same abused kid watching his mother getting beat and there's nothing he can do, my desire and heart to make her laugh and feel better was so strong. And you know, if I could make a joke or if I could imitate her or my aunt and make her laugh, or some of the women she played cards with on Friday nights, all of that was so powerful and so important to me" Tyler Perry said : "I look at him and I'm looking at myself at that age," "And I'm wondering how anybody could be cruel and unkind to this level of pure innocence and beauty and love" Tyler Perry said : "So I'm trying to finish and he's just crying...'" "He said, 'Papa, I'm so sorry' I run outta the room without him noticing it, because it broke me. I realized that nobody had ever talked to me like a person as a child Nobody had ever talked to me like a human being. Right? So that's what I mean when I say my healer" Tyler Perry said : "Every time I talk to him, every time I hug him, every time I love him, let him know he's special, there's something in me that's being healed," Tyler Perry said : "You know, the studio's gonna be what it is," "I'll tell you what I'm most excited about next is pulling this next phase off, is building a compound for trafficked women, girls, homeless women, LGBTQ youth who are put out and displaced somewhere on these 330 acres, where they're trained in the business and they become self-sufficient. They live in nice apartments. There's daycare. There's all of these wonderful things that allows them to reenter society. And then pay it forward again. So that's what I hope to do soon" Tyler Perry told : “I clearly believe that I’m ignored in Hollywood, for sure, and that’s fine. I get it,” foxnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 7:16:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry told : “Atlanta has been the dream. It has been the promised land,” Tyler Perry told : "I think it's pivotal in everything that we've done, everything that we're doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people," fox5atlanta Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:46:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry told : "I clearly believe that I’m ignored in Hollywood, for sure, and that's fine I get it," usaToday Monday, October 7, 2019 11:55:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : "I know what I do is important. I know what I do touches millions of people around the world," "I know what that does for the people where I come from and the people that I’m writing for" Tyler Perry said : "I've been on sets where I've been the only black face on, only black face, as recently as 2019 going, 'Where are the black people in this movie?' Back behind the camera?" "So, when I come to work here and every black person that comes to work here they go, 'Oh my God, it's heaven. Here we are. We're represented.' Where everybody's represented. LGBTQ's represented. Black, white, gay, straight, whatever. We're all represented, working hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm" Tyler Perry told ( about Oprah Winfrey ) : "In 2005, Oprah invited me to her Legends Ball," click2houston Monday, October 7, 2019 10:48:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said ( about Tyler Perry ) : "Thank you Ms. Carroll for how you showed the world that black people are special, strong, beautiful and powerful," "I know you will live on in our hearts, but I'm so glad to know that your name will live on at Stage 5 at Tyler Perry Studios. Thank you for letting me honor you, and thank you for lending your legend to my studio to inspire generations to come" upi Monday, October 7, 2019 4:45:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : "I think it's pivotal in everything that we've done, everything that we're doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people," arkansasonline Monday, October 7, 2019 11:11:00 AM EAT fox35orlando Monday, October 7, 2019 6:05:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry said ( about Diahann Carroll ) : “Thank you, Ms. Carroll, for how you showed the world that black people are special, strong, beautiful, and powerful,” theepochtimes Monday, October 7, 2019 5:56:00 AM EAT thegrio Monday, October 7, 2019 12:46:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry said : “It’s beyond moving, inspiring, exciting. I can’t even put it into words,” eurweb Sunday, October 6, 2019 10:42:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : "I have never known anyone with so much class and grace, black, white, or other. She was the epitome of all that is inspiring and encouraging. My whole hope is for everyone who doesn't know who she is. They need to find out. She did a lot for all of us," fox5atlanta Sunday, October 6, 2019 8:34:00 PM EAT missoulian Sunday, October 6, 2019 8:21:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : “I think it’s pivotal in everything that we’ve done, everything that we’re doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,” independent-ie-regional Sunday, October 6, 2019 8:20:00 PM EAT wwlp Sunday, October 6, 2019 6:58:00 PM EAT ABCnews Sunday, October 6, 2019 5:37:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry said : “When I came here in 1992, I came with a dream,” thegrio Saturday, October 5, 2019 2:37:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry said : “I think they will go hand in hand,” Tyler Perry said : “I want you to walk past this star in particular and know that I’ve been there,” thegrio Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:33:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : "For anyone whose dreams may be on life support, I want you to walk past this star in particular and know that I've been there," actionnewsjax Thursday, October 3, 2019 9:21:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry said ( about Brian Robbins ) : “I’m excited to work with Brian and the team at Nickelodeon and find creative ways to reach new audiences,” “I love creating comedy television and can’t wait to work with the talented Young Dylan” businesswire Thursday, October 3, 2019 2:33:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry told : "I don't think I ever felt safe or protected as a child," irishsun Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:44:00 PM EAT 4-traders Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:13:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : “This one in particular is for the underdogs,” “This one in particular is for the ones who want to do it there way. This one in particular is for the ones who want to bring as many people through the door as they can” eurweb Wednesday, October 2, 2019 6:39:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry tells : “I don’t think I ever felt safe or protected as a child,” Tyler Perry said : "So my hope is that anyone in this town--cause I see lots of people come here with their dreams in their hands and sometimes it doesn't work out or sometimes they give up," news4jax Wednesday, October 2, 2019 5:44:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry said : "When I came here in 1992, I came with a dream," fox5atlanta Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:23:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry said : "I think they will go hand in hand," voanews Wednesday, October 2, 2019 7:39:00 AM EAT therepublic Wednesday, October 2, 2019 3:31:00 AM EAT Tyler Perry told : “Also, I put $250 million in the ground here and in the studio. So when you have a quarter of a billion dollars sat down in the ground, you can’t just up and leave,” thegrio Tuesday, October 1, 2019 8:12:00 PM EAT Tyler Perry told : “What I know about this industry is that there are 94,000-plus or 98,000 people who are in this industry and who are benefiting from it greatly, and that’s a lot of votes. I’m in a wait and see moment right now. But that’s a lot of votes. That’s a lot of votes that can determine an election” “I don’t believe any man should be able to tell a woman what she can do with her body or reproductive organs,” seattletimes Tuesday, October 1, 2019 7:51:00 PM EAT actor 21.17% EN 09/14/201714/09/2017 colleague 0.73% EN 08/18/201718/08/2017 star 2.19% EN 08/10/201710/08/2017 creator 6.57% EN 07/28/201728/07/2017 producer 29.20% EN 07/26/201726/07/2017 entertainer 0.73% EN 06/26/201726/06/2017 director 27.01% EN 06/23/201723/06/2017 ator 0.73% PT 02/24/201724/02/2017 philanthropist 0.73% EN 01/03/201703/01/2017 cómico 0.73% ES 10/24/201624/10/2016 writer 0.73% EN 10/20/201620/10/2016 diretor 0.73% PT 10/14/201614/10/2016 atriz 0.73% PT 10/14/201614/10/2016 acteur 8.03% FR 03/03/201403/03/2014 Tyler Perry EN 73.61% Tyler Perry PT 8.38% Tyler Perry FR 5.44% Tyler Perry ES 4.42% Tyler Perry IT 3.62% Tyler Perry EU 3.62% TYLER PERRY EN 0.57% Tyler Perry AR 0.23% Tyler Perry SW 0.11% Cynthia Erivo 1.38% Phylicia Rashad 1.29% Queen 1.19% Eddie Murphy 0.99% British 0.99% Image Awards 0.89% Angela Bassett 0.89% Cicely Tyson 0.89% Lupita Nyong o 0.89% Golden Globe 0.89% Johnny Depp 0.89% Steven Tyler 0.89% Sammy Hagar 0.89% Foo Fighters 0.89% Joe Perry 0.89% Rolling Stones 0.89% Tom Hamilton 0.89% Alice Cooper 0.89% Russell Brand 0.89% Brad Whitford 0.89% John Legend 0.89% Recording Academy 0.89% Chadwick Boseman 0.79% Jennifer Lopez 0.79% Billy Porter 0.79% Regina King 0.79% Alfre Woodard 0.79% Barack Obama 0.79% Tom Petty 0.79% Dolly Parton 0.79% Robert H Frank 0.0133 Phylicia Rashad 0.0123 Jessica Lutz 0.0118 Eddie Murphy 0.0101 Tom Hamilton 0.0101 Russell Brand 0.01 Image Awards 0.0098 Lion King 0.0096 Sammy Hagar 0.0092 Rolling Stones 0.0091 Angela Bassett 0.009 Johnny Depp 0.009 Fabienne Colas 0.0087 Lupita Nyong o 0.0086 Golden Globe 0.0086 Cynthia Erivo 0.0084 Joe Perry 0.0084 Chadwick Boseman 0.0083 Andrew Currie 0.0083 Cicely Tyson 0.0082 Foo Fighters 0.0082 Tom Petty 0.0082 Fleetwood Mac 0.0082 Alfre Woodard 0.0081 Joey Kramer 0.0081 Leann Rimes 0.008 Brad Whitford 0.0079 Alice Cooper 0.0078 Steven Tyler 0.0077 Elton John 0.0077 Extracted quotes about Paul Howard said ( about Tyler Perry ) : "And if you simply call that number, Mr. Perry says you can start work on Monday, here at Tyler Perry Studios," 13newsnow Tuesday, January 14, 2020 9:27:00 AM EAT wcnc Saturday, January 11, 2020 5:12:00 PM EAT khou Friday, January 10, 2020 5:01:00 PM EAT 12newsnow Thursday, January 9, 2020 6:06:00 PM EAT Stephen Johnson told ( about Tyler Perry ) : "I appreciate everyone's support...especially Tyler Perry," cbs46 Wednesday, November 27, 2019 1:36:00 AM EAT Will Smith wrote ( about Tyler Perry ) : “You can’t put Bad Boys 3 next to Coming to America 2 at at Tyler Perry Studios and expect us to get ANY work done,” eurweb Monday, November 4, 2019 2:57:00 AM EAT Halle Berry said ( about Tyler Perry ) : “It means that we’re here, and we ain’t going nowhere,” “And you’re going to remember us a hundred years from now … and that we’re important. We matter. We have a right to be. And I love Tyler for that” eurweb Sunday, October 27, 2019 10:28:00 PM EAT Samuel L Jackson said ( about Tyler Perry ) : “This is more about Tyler the entrepreneur. The visionary. A guy who understands that ownership means that you can do what you want,” Oprah Winfrey said ( about Tyler Perry ) : "Tyler is my little big brother. To see him rise to this moment that I know he's dreamed about, planned, defined, clarify for himself, it's just a fulfilment of a dream. It's wonderful to see" southernminn Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:11:00 AM EAT Samuel L Jackson said ( about Tyler Perry ) : "This is more about Tyler the entrepreneur. The visionary. A guy who understands that ownership means that you can do what you want," Oprah Winfrey stated ( about Tyler Perry ) : "Listen, I'm just honored to be a part of all of it," "I have seen this from the very beginning when there wasn't a stage or anything and I rejoice in this evening and what it means for [Perry] and what it actually means for the industry. He created his own and did it his own way. I mean, 'My Way' should be his theme song from now on. It's just really remarkable" Ana Martinez said ( about Tyler Perry ) : “Tyler Perry is a force in the entertainment world. Coming from a world of poverty and pushing his way to the top his creative work has been an inspiration for many people. We are proud to honor him for his work and perseverance and welcome our newest Walk of Famer!” Ana Martinez said ( about Tyler Perry ) : "Tyler Perry is a force in the entertainment world. Coming from a world of poverty and pushing his way to the top– his creative work has beenan inspiration for many people. We are proud to honor him for his work and perseverance and welcome our newest Walk of Famer!" fox35orlando Friday, September 27, 2019 7:35:00 AM EAT

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Remembering together: Commemoration in Northern Ireland Ch 4 Remembering Together (1).pdf Embargo: Dunn, Jonathan University of Chester; University of Manchester This chapter addresses the challenge of remembering conflict together in the context of a society still divided by “legacy issues”. Its focus is on the particular challenges presented by efforts to commemorate the conflict in the author’s native Northern Ireland. In light of this series’ theme of ‘living together after empire’, the task of commemoration is re-imagined as ‘co-memoration’; a public remembering which has the potential at least to include all elements within society. The author explores the possibilities and challenges posed by re-imagining commemoration as co-memoration, drawing on the insights of public theology and his own experience of Christian ministry in the context to do so. Objections and motivations which have hitherto represented barriers to co-memoration are reconsidered in light of historian Michael Ignatieff’s concept of ‘keeping faith with dead’. In doing so the author suggests that these deep-seated commitments, which have long been viewed in terms of assumed allegiances to national identities, must be understood as primarily personal loyalties owed to family, friends and community. The chapter then moves to assess the possibilities for co-memoration within Protestant places of worship in Northern Ireland, by considering issues which arise from the interaction of the personal and communal loyalties with physical symbols and liturgical practices. The conclusion considers the possibilities and challenges ahead and suggests the shape of the further research which is required in this area. Dunn, J. (2019). Remembering together: Co-memoration in Northern Ireland. In Dunn, J., Joziasse, H., Patta, R.B., Duggan, J. (Eds.) Multiple Faiths in Postcolonial Cities: Living Together after Empire. New York : Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030171438 Part of the Palgrave Macmillan series "Postcolonialism and Religions." Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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Commission on human rights concludes review of rights of children 19990416 Stephanie Tremblay1999-04-16T00:00:00-04:00Friday, 16 April 1999| HR/CN/917 GENEVA, 15 April (UN Information Service) — The Commission on Human Rights heard tonight from many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) urging greater protection of children before concluding its annual debate on the topic. The NGOs called repeatedly for increased efforts to aid children caught up in situations of armed conflict and for eradication of child prostitution, child pornography, and other forms of child sexual exploitation. Two groups criticized the United States, saying it was carrying out the death penalty on persons below age 18. The Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization charged that Pakistan had no federal law for compulsory education, while Rural Reconstruction Nepal contended that many Burmese children could not go to school because unofficial fees were too high; because many children and their families had been forced by the military to move away from their land to towns near military bases where there were no schools or not enough schools; and because schools were being closed by the Burmese regime. The Commission for the Defence of the Human Rights of Central America called for appointment of a Special Rapporteur on the human rights of street children. And Franciscans International, in a joint statement with the Dominicans and the Lutheran World Federation, said there was a connection between economic policies of international financial institutions and the full realization of children’s rights — that international foreign-debt payments were forcing the world’s most impoverished countries to use scarce resources to pay debt, rather than invest the money in the well-being of their children. The following NGOs delivered statements:Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internazionale AVSI; Commission for the Defence of Human Rights in Central America; World Federation of United Nations Associations; International Federation of Social Workers; International Human Rights Law Group; HimalayanResearch and Cultural Foundation; Human Rights Advocates; International Institute for Peace; International Institute for Non-Aligned Studies; World Federation of Trade Unions; Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization; Aliran; Rural Reconstruction Nepal. Also, African Commission of Health and Human Rights Promoters; Interfaith International; Federation of Cuban Women; Baha’i International Community; Liberation; Franciscans International (joint statement with the Dominicans and the Lutheran World Federation); World Christian Life Community (joint statement with the World Jesuit Refugee Service); Latin American Federation of Associations of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees; World Organization of Former Pupils of Catholic Education; European Union of Public Relations; and Indian Council of Education. A representative of Malaysia spoke in exercise of the right of reply. The Commission will reconvene at 10 a. m. Friday, 16 April, to begin its review of the human rights of migrant workers, minorities, displaced persons, and other specific groups and individuals. LUCIA CASTELLT, of Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internazionale (AVSI), said Uganda was still suffering from a continuation of violence perpetrated by different groups, and in which the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) continued to use unspeakably brutal tactics towards children and adolescents, abducting them, manipulating them, and forcing them with brutality to torture and kill others. These and other children were still in captivity. Respect of human rights was the foundation of true peace; there was a need for sincere peace talks for a solution to the conflicts in northern and western Uganda. To defend children’s rights meant first of all to listen to their needs, to their will. To support families was the first step in achieving this task. The international community should not forget the plight of abducted children in any country in conflict, and should support the cancellation of the unpayable external debt in many developing countries as a way of reducing child poverty. CELIA CRISTINA SANJUR PALAOIOS, of the Commission for the Defence of the Human Rights of Central America, said the Government of Guatemala had postponed implementation of its Code of the Child and Youth, which had been approved in 1996. The number of children, especially young girls, who had been exploited for revenue and for prostitution had increased. There should be a Special Rapporteur for the human rights of children living in the street. Meanwhile, it was vital to complete elaboration of a draft optional protocol on the Convention on the Rights of the Child to combat the sale of children, child prostitution and the use of children for pornography. The Government of Guatemala should be urged to implement the Code of the Child and Youth, and all Governments of the region should be urged to commit all of their efforts to the improvement of the material, social and spiritual conditions of the lives of their young girls and women. HORACE PERERA, of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, said all were in agreement that child labour and the selling of children into prostitution and pornography were horrendous crimes. The movement to abolish all these offences was supported enthusiastically. But when children were freed from these atrocities, the question arose of what to do with them. Obviously the answer was school, but frequently there were no schools for such children. One example of this was the recent closure of a factory in Pakistan that employed many children in near-slavery conditions. A survey showed that while some parents complained about the loss of income to the family, they were even more worried that the children, without a school nearby, were idling toward the streets or other secluded areas, where they would be potential victims of other forms of abuse. Education should be free and compulsory for all, but governments had not prioritized school development and school construction, nor had they prioritized the relevant training of teachers. These problems had to be rectified. ELLEN MOURAVIEF-APOSTOL, of the International Federation of Social Workers, said that a country which respected and integrated minorities and the most vulnerable groups of its society into life of the State was a most civilized one. This could be measured by the protection of the children of that State. One way to ensure this would be done was through implementation of article 16 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Birth certification was often a guarantee of health services and had consequences such as protection from child trafficking, child prostitution and child pornography, since an identified child was a protected child. Steps needed to be taken to help with access to registrars and to make child registration free. There was still a long way to go, since many births remained unregistered every year, but this was one problem that could easily be solved. There was a need for universal child registration. ISAIAH GANT, of the International Human Rights Law Group, said the organization welcomed the report of the Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions, notably her conclusion that the current practice of imposing death sentences and executions of juveniles in the United States violated international law. The United States led the world in executing persons for childhood offences. It was ahead of Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen combined. The use of the death penalty against juvenile offenders in theUnited States violated established human rights norms. The International Human Rights Law Group insisted that the United States Government pass legislation establishing a minimum age for death penalty eligibility in the same way that the Government had established federal “standards” for age eligibility for alcohol and tobacco consumption. The Commission should call on States retaining the death penalty to cease its administration against children. K. WARIKOO, of the Himalayan Research and Cultural Foundation, said attention should be drawn to the worst manifestation of the exploitation of children in Jammu and Kashmir. There, foreign mercenaries and terrorists, in blatant disregard of United Nations Conventions and resolutions, forced children to become gun-runners and human bombs. One boy belonging to the Dalgate locality of Srinagar was forced to carry out the operations of the terrorists and coerced to throw handgrenades in busy market places to create terror among the public. The boy should have been enjoying a trouble-free childhood in primary school, but he had become a dreadful tool for terrorists. Many parents were haunted by fears that their children would be waylaid or kidnapped by armed gangs while commuting to and from school. The kidnapped boys were trained to use automatic weapons and encouraged to kill. Kidnapped girls suffered in terms of gender violence, sexual abuse, and exploitation. In the Kashmir Valley, childhood had become a nightmare. The Commission must act to end this situation. BIRTE SCHOLZ, of Human Rights Advocates, said children were not allowed to vote, enter into legally binding contracts, smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol until they reached majority — yet, they were subject to the death penalty in many countries. This was axiomatic and contradictory. Only six countries had imposed the death penalty on children since 1990. It was unclear how many juvenile offenders were on death row in these countries. Currently, there were 73 in the United States. The Convention on the Rights of the Child had been ratified by all countries except the United States and Somalia. The United States had signed it, however, and thus was legally obligated not to apply the death penalty to children. It was ignoring this obligation. In order to achieve absolute world-wide application of the prohibition of the execution of children, the United States and Somalia should ratify the Convention. The Commission should request all States to exercise a moratorium on the execution of child offenders. TATIANA SHAUMIAN, of the International Institute for Peace, said women and children accounted for over three-quarters of the victims of armed conflicts in over 50 countries, and the use of weapons of high destructive power had had devastating consequences on women and children in such places as Afghanistan, Rwanda, Chechnya and Bosnia. Kashmiri children had become the victims of militants and mercenaries, and Kosovo children had been attacked and massacred because of their ethnicity while Serbian children were the victims of bombing by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). There were alarming increases in the participation of children in armed conflicts, and too many were being killed and maimed by land mines. The International Institute for Peace expressed deep regret and surprise over the statement earlier of one of the NGOs which had virtually called on the Muslim youth of Kashmir to continue armed rebellion against “the repressive Indian Government. “ HARISH GUPTA, of the International Institute for Non-Aligned Studies, said the global race to implement new economic policies had forgotten to take into account the affect it had on children. In the technological boom, there was a significant social cost. It had resulted in wide-scale migration to cities, where people were met with high costs of living. Many ended up living in slums where there were great hardships for children. Often families were pressured to put their children to work to bring in more money. This was especially true among poorer nations. Children were leaving for factories, small workshops, or the streets in the morning when they should be going to school. These children were sentenced to lives of illiteracy and low wages. These hardships also resulted in several other factors that created discrimination between male and female children. These factors gave a boost to child prostitution, the sale of children for begging, and the marriage of female children to wealthy men. Violence again women was widespread as a result. GENEI SHIMOJI, of the World Federation of Trade Unions, said children were the future of humanity. Only by safeguarding their rights and enabling them to grow in the best possible environment could human society prosper and progress. The Federation felt great concern for the condition of children in South Asia, who for a variety of reasons completely beyond their control were increasingly being deprived of their basic needs, such as access to education and the freedom to enjoy their lives as children. Child abuse and child labour were on the rise, and parents were abandoning their children to live in poverty or worse. All State parties should make the Convention on the Rights of the Child more effective. These children needed special attention, since their condition was deteriorating day by day due to economic recession and traditional cultural and social practices. A. M. ALI, of the Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organization, said a large number of children remained deprived of the guarantees, protections and benefits of human rights not only due to lack of economic resources but because of lack of political will or pressure from the international community and national governments. Pakistan had no federal law for compulsory education and neither the federal nor provincial governments provided sufficient resources to assure universal education. There were several madrasas (religious schools) where children had been illegally confined and kept in unhealthy conditions, and a boy had been killed while escaping from a madras in 1997 near Multan. The number of children smuggled to the Gulf States had spiralled during 1997. The Commission was requested to take note of the causes which ultimately led to children growing up to be fundamentalists, mercenaries and terrorists; it should intervene to halt this process in the interests of the rights of the child. DEBORAH STOTHARD, of Aliran, said the situation in Burma, as noted by the Special Rapporteur, was deplorable. Women and children faced forced relocation and constant military attack. Those children who survived military atrocities still had to cope with the effects of witnessing parents, relatives, and friends being tortured or killed. There were cases where boys as young as 12 joined rebel armies so they could avenge such atrocities. The military regime has caused severe economic mismanagement, and spending on health care and education had been diminished to build up the military budget. Burma was in the middle of a health crisis, and UN statistics indicated that the regime spent 222 per cent more funds on military matters than on health and education combined. Children there were brought up to expect violence and repression from the very institutions which were supposed to protect and support them. The long-term effects of this ultimate betrayal should be feared. CHARM TONG, of Rural Reconstruction Nepal, said children in Burma could not experience the rights elaborated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was strange, since Burma had ratified the Convention. Many Burmese children could not go to school because the unofficial fees were too high. Many children and their families had been forced by the military to move away from their land to towns near military bases, where there were no schools or not enough schools. Schools were also being closed by the regime. In addition, there was a lack of food in many regions. Children also were also being raped; around the country, an entire generation had become used to war and insecurity. FATOU THIAM, of the African Commission of Health and Human Rights Promoters, said only six countries had ratified the African Charter on Human Rights, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Maurice, Uganda, Seychelles and Zimbabwe. All African countries were urged to ratify and implement the Charter. Traditionally, children of Africa had benefitted from a privileged place in the family, but today African children were suffering as victims of armed conflicts, malnutrition, and infant mortality. Female children had been exposed to sexual violence, forced marriage and sexual mutilation. The Commission should invite member States to take the necessary measures to dismantle all groups which used children as soldiers and to aid in the demobilization and rehabilitation of child soldiers. RIYAZ PUNJABI, of Interfaith International, there was a great need to devise mechanisms to safeguard the rights of children during wartime because of all the armed conflicts in the world today. The impact of war on a child manifested itself in two ways. The first was the use of children as soldiers, and the second was the impact of armed conflicts on the physical, mental, psychological and emotional state of the child. Both aspects should be addressed by this Commission. Children who were trained for combat these days in various parts of the world were expected to be future terrorists, out to destabilize social order. These children have been coerced and lured at an early age to transport small arms and in some cases to handle and use the arms. According to a report written by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and the International Save the Children Alliance, at least 300,000 children under the age of 18 had taken part in armed combat recently. International action had to be taken to end these widespread abuses. RITA PEREIRA, of Federation of Cuban Women, said there was still a large gap between the text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and reality. Many children across the world still suffered — living in the streets, being forced into prostitution, even being forced into war. Girl children especially suffered from a range of scourges such as genital mutilation, prostitution, lack of food, preference for the boy-child, exposure, and even death. It was possible to ensure basic conditions that protected and promulgated the respect of the rights of children, such as was the case in Cuba. These rights were set in an ethical and moral framework. Much work on the economic and social level remained to be done, however. MACHID FATIO, of Bahai International Community, in a joint statement, said the possibility of harm could be seen in the influence of the mass media on the rise of child violence as documented in many studies. Mass media, including the World Wide Web, had the potential for good; it could become a tool for social, spiritual and moral well-being, as well as for the physical and mental health of the child, as stated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Commission should include the media in its omnibus resolution on the rights of the child by inviting the Special Rapporteur on the right to education to encourage governments to use the mass media for applying the principle of making primary education available to all. Governments alsoshould be urged to take all necessary measures to encourage the mass media to disseminate information of benefit to the child. IQBAL SINGH, of Liberation, said 200 million children between the ages of five and 14 were in employment worldwide in 1996. Only two years later, that figure had risen to 300 million, a 50 per cent increase in just two years. More than 80 million children were at work today in Africa, which had the highest child employment rate – 41 per cent. Asia was second at 21 per cent, followed by Latin America at 17 per cent. But the industrial nations were also a part of this. In the United Kingdom, for example, more than 2 million school-aged children were working, and their salaries were less than a third of the recommended adult minimum hourly rate. It was the International Labour Office’s Convention 138 that had been the standard child labour language. But only 46 countries had ratified 138, and there were talks of drawing up a new, weaker standard that would be universally ratified. A new standard would mean acceptance and legitimization of all child labour except the most extreme forms. The Commission was urged to recognize the scourge of child labour, and asked to recognize that ILO Convention 138 had to be maintained as the child-labour standard. CELINE MONTEIRO, of Franciscans International, in a joint statement with the Dominicans and the Lutheran World Federation, said there was a connection between economic policies of international financial institutions and the full real realization and protection of children’s rights. International foreign- debt payments were a serious obstacle to human development, forcing the world’s most impoverished countries to use scarce resources to pay debt rather than invest in the well-being of their children. Heavily indebted poor countries had higher rates of infant mortality, disease, illiteracy and malnutrition than other countries in the developing world. This was inadmissible. There was a need for long-term development programmes that would address education, hunger and public health, thus stabilizing families, enhancing people’s security, and empowering citizens to construct a stronger civil society. The burdens of foreign debt should be alleviated. EVE LESTER, of the World Christian Life Community, in consultation with the World Jesuit Refugee Service, said there was nothing appropriate about the deprivation of the liberty of a child-asylum seeker. Despite international conventions which set out criteria for determining whether a person was subject to arbitrary detention or unlawful detention, and despite the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) guidelines on detention of asylum-seekers, children continued to be detained in breach of the Convention on the Rights of the Child or because the violating country had not even ratified the Convention. The Commission must deplore the detention of child asylum-seekers, urge governments find alternatives to detention, and call on them to develop meaningful and independently reviewable release procedures. It also should appeal to States that had not yet done so to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child. BENJAMIN CUELLAR, of the Latin American Federation of Associations of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees, said the disappearance of children was a major problem the Commission should investigate. Families who had lost children faced enormous difficulties in locating them, especially in nations that had not been helpful in providing resources and information. There were 145 cases in El Salvador of parents who had lost their children who could not get the Government to help them out. Although El Salvador was now a model of a peaceful nation, none of these cases had been brought to justice. The Federation had recommended to the Government a

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Home Business Green mandate Green mandate on: November 01, 2009 In: Business, Energy & EnvironmentTags: No Comments Tianping Auto Insurance is on a "green travel" crusade. In addition to competitive vehicle insurance packages, the Shanghai-based company has taken to using its 12-province network to distribute information to clients on energy saving and low-carbon lifestyles. There is even talk of reforming product and marketing lines so that the company can become paper-free. "Environmental protection is everyone’s responsibility and obligation… As an insurance enterprise in a risk management industry, Tianping is duty-bound to practice it," the company told CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW. Tianping’s decision in August to become the first Chinese company to go carbon neutral – it paid US$40,627 for 8,026 tons of carbon credits accumulated by commuters during the 2008 Olympics – was, therefore, a logical and ethical step. Commercial interest and positive PR were not factors, the company stressed, although the purchase of the offsets inevitably brought media attention. Hu Wu, chairman of Tianping, tried to stay on-message during a video interview with Sohu.com, but was finally cornered by a question about the kudos that might come with being name-checked as corporate China’s carbon-neutral pioneer. "I think it is lucky," he admitted. How long Tianping’s luck holds out largely depends on how quickly Beijing can get the carbon bandwagon rolling. Tianping stands out from the crowd because domestic firms are not required to limit their greenhouse gas emissions. In the meantime, China has emerged as the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2). The country’s coal, oil and natural gas consumption generated 6.89 gigatons of CO2 last year, over 20% of the global total, according to calculations by BP. The US placed second with 6.37 gigatons. Growth at a cost China’s rapid economic growth has come at a severe environmental cost – air pollution, land degradation and contamination, water scarcity and pollution – and Beijing has begun to address this. But policymakers are in no mood to make specific commitments on CO2 emissions: Growth will continue to be driven by two engines, industrialization and urbanization, and both are hungry for energy. China’s basic stance differs little from those of other developing nations. These countries’ long and prickly dialogue with the developed world over who should do what – and when – about climate change will take center stage in Copenhagen next month. The Danish capital is playing host to talks intended to deliver a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012, but optimism is muted on the Chinese side. "I see some opportunities to reach an agreement, but I also see large gaps between the parties on several key issues," said Dr Zou Ji, a professor in the Department of Environmental Economics and Management at Renmin University. Zou, who until recently was a member of China’s climate change negotiation team, thinks a deal will come out of Copenhagen, but that it’s likely to be short on detail – little more than a political face-saving exercise. The Kyoto Protocol itself took time to complete, eventually being ratified a good four years after its adoption in 1997, once the operational details were finalized. Any substantive deal would require compromise on all sides. The draft agreement for Copenhagen refers to the developed world making collective emission cuts of 25-40% on 1990 levels by 2020 while developing countries take "nationally appropriate mitigation actions." China wants developed nations to make cuts of at least 40% by 2020 and contribute 0.5-1% of GDP to help the developing world mitigate emissions. So far, the EU has agreed to a minimum 20% cut in emissions and the US has agreed to nothing. A cap-and-trade bill – outlining cuts of 17% on 2005 levels by 2020 – is making its way through the US Congress, but not without political opposition. Much of it focuses on China’s refusal to put a date on promises to cut emissions. This is not to say Beijing has been uncooperative. Addressing the UN climate change summit in New York in September, Chinese President Hu Jintao said efforts would be made to reduce carbon intensity, the amount of CO2 produced per unit of GDP, by 2020 from 2005 levels (although this doesn’t mean overall emissions won’t continue to rise). This extended an efficiency pledge in China’s 11th Five-Year Plan. Carbon intensity, efficiency and pollution reduction targets are all expected in the next five-year plan, which runs from 2011 to 2015. A recent report by the China Academy of Sciences concludes that China could achieve a 40-60% reduction in energy intensity by 2020 from 2005 levels, thereby cutting carbon emissions per unit of GDP by about 50%. However, the same report observes that developed and developing nations approach climate change in very different ways. While the developed world can tackle emissions early on, the priority of developing countries is development. All Beijing’s environmental goals must therefore be viewed in the context of its objective to maintain strong economic growth. The energy intensity target is a case in point. "The plan was for a four-fold increase in GDP growth while doubling energy consumption by 2020," said Yu Jie, head of policy for China at the Climate Group, a NGO. "Within five years – so, 15 years early – China reached the energy consumption figure. The government realized it couldn’t sustain its economy in terms of energy security and this led to the target in the 11th Five-Year Plan." A similar sensitivity to domestic needs lies behind China’s unwillingness to commit to specific emissions cuts. The country’s urban dwellers will increase from 46.8% of the total population in 2009 to 63.3%, or 827.9 million people in 2029, according to Global Demographics, a research firm. More urban dwellers and the creation of new urban centers will create huge new demand for energy. (See: Juggling trick, p35). Zou of Renmin University estimates that people in urban areas use 2.7 times more energy per capita than those in the countryside. Where’s the peak? Subject to these forces, the official government line is that China’s carbon emissions might not peak until around 2050. A report published in August by a group of Chinese think tanks, including the State Council Development Research Center, suggests that emissions could peak in 2030 under a "low-carbon" or "advanced low-carbon" scenario. It’s debatable whether either of these approaches would be sufficient. (McKinsey & Company estimates that if China continues on its current energy efficiency trajectory annual emissions will still more than double to reach 14.5 gigatons by 2030.) But analysts are united in their belief that China can’t act alone: Significant technological support is required from overseas if the goals are to be realized. "Technological advances are the way out," said Zou. "You cannot stop the increase in population or the increase in income levels, but you can do something to change the technology." Consequently, technology transfer has emerged as a significant negotiating point at Copenhagen. Indeed, the possibility of a Sino-US agreement on the issue is highlighted as one of the major potential breakthroughs of President Barack Obama’s visit to China in November. Yet for all the hype, technology transfer is nothing new to China – it happens all the time through mergers and acquisitions, licensing deals, joint ventures, and so on. And according to Dr Zhang Xiliang, deputy director of the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy at Tsinghua University, certain areas of the country’s cleantech market have already benefited significantly from these transfers, wind power in particular. Technology transferred China’s installed wind power capacity stood at 12 gigawatts by the end of last year, up from just 550 megawatts in 2003. Between 2004 and 2008, domestic and joint venture manufacturers’ share of the market rose from one-quarter to three-quarters. The three largest local operators, Goldwind, Sinovel and Dongfang Electric, accounted for more than 57% of the increase in installed capacity last year. The numbers appear to tell the story of a successful transfer: Favorable government policies brought in foreign technology and manufacturing became localized. As expertise and output rose, costs per unit sold declined, and the market moved toward mass commercialization. The solar power sector has undergone a similar evolution, with companies reporting a 50% drop in production costs. A partnership between Goldwind and German wind turbine maker Vensys that began as licensing deals and joint development projects culminated last year in the former taking over the latter. Transfers are rarely that pure, though. As Zhang noted in a recent report on the wind power sector, foreign companies hand over technology as a "black box" – the design systems are there but not the databases and know-how used to develop these systems. This makes it harder to tailor products to local conditions. "[Foreign participation] has taken China’s wind industry directly to a high level, avoiding many detours," a Dongfang Electric spokesperson told CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW. "However, we still need to develop our own core technology and R&D capabilities." Ineffective mechanisms This is the crux of the dispute over technology transfer. Under the Kyoto Protocol, developed countries agreed to provide the developing world with technological support. But in China’s eyes, the system intended to facilitate this – the clean development mechanism, or CDM (See: Carbon trading: A divisive issue, p18) – hasn’t lived up to expectations. "We haven’t given them any intellectual property (IP), at least not in the sense they were hoping for," said a Beijing-based diplomat familiar with the negotiations, who asked not to be named. China’s preferred mechanism for large-scale technology transfer is a central, UN-mandated body that oversees all exchanges. This body would be responsible for administering the international funds that Beijing is calling for. Western critics say this system is dated, reflecting a time when China didn’t have much of the technology it now possesses. It also fails to acknowledge that much Western technology is privately owned. If there were to be a direct transfer of IP, foreign firms would prefer a sector-based system that has a tangible impact on China’s emissions – for example, where the value and scale of the technology transferred depends on the size of carbon intensity cuts Beijing commits to a particular area. "Western nations think some developing countries see technology transfer as getting a free lunch," said Chen Dongmei, director of the climate change and energy program for the WWF in Beijing. The private sector, meanwhile, scorns any approach that involves international bureaucracy. Asked what system he would like to see introduced to work alongside CDM, Andrew Aldridge, director for Greater China at Climate Change Capital, which operates the world’s largest private carbon fund, said, "A mechanism that is not administered by the UN." Various experts have drawn up models to fill the gap. Li Lailai, Asia center director at the Stockholm Environment Institute, advocates an inter-country joint mitigation plan. A developing country would put together a plan for reducing carbon intensity in a particular sector, identifying the technology and financial backing required from overseas. Developed countries would participate where they see commercial opportunities and the resulting emissions reductions would count toward their mitigation commitments, subject to evaluation by a UN body. Li believes this kind of broad, government-driven mechanism is the only one capable of delivering significant technology transfer. However, she admits that the administrative challenges would be large. Governmental or institutional involvement in these processes is often contentious, but it is seen by many as a necessity. Christopher Hazen, Asia director for WSP Environment & Energy, and formerly head of the US Commerce Department’s technology transfer office in Hong Kong, says that technology transfer by definition means government support. "It is something that doesn’t happen naturally," he said. "It is governments acting on behalf of what they see as national interest and there may be some aggregation of private sector interests in this." There are many ways in which this can happen: funding industry benchmarking projects that uncover discrepancies ripe for commercial exploitation; carrying out pre-feasibility studies of technologies that uncover business opportunities; and funding demonstration projects to show how mature foreign technologies, which require point-of-use engineering to work in China, can be economically viable. "It accelerates the creation of a market which might eventually develop," said Hazen. "Once a pre-feasibility study comes up with some pretty attractive results, the private sector jumps in, finalizes the concept and gets it out the door." According to Tsinghua’s Zhang, the German government played a key catalytic role in the early stages of wind power technology transfer, helping to fund Goldwind’s development efforts. Now that wind power has been commercialized in China, there are plenty of investors. Companies with less proven technologies, however, still struggle to find funding. Chinese banks’ tendency to eschew small- and medium-sized enterprises in favor of lending to state-owned firms means that loan applicants without a solid financial history may well lose out. Meanwhile, venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) investors, used to the relatively short development periods of internet enterprises, are often put off by the amount of time, capital, and regulatory negotiations required to commercialize clean technologies. "PEs are more willing and better-placed to invest in more proven technologies," said Ruth Dobson, the sustainability and climate change partner for PricewaterhouseCoopers’s Beijing practice. Capital and care Dobson believes local governments – already under pressure from Beijing to promote alternative energy strategies – can play an obvious nurturing role, offering emerging cleantech firms places in high-tech investment parks and providing business development services. A good example of this overseas is the Carbon Trust, an organization supported by the UK government that provides incubation services and VC investment to fledgling companies with low carbon technologies. The Carbon Trust is hoping to recreate its business model in China and recently signed a joint venture agreement with state-owned China Energy Conservation Investment Corporation. The fund’s startup capital – about US$16 million – is tiny compared with the average VC deal. But Tim Lancaster, the trust’s China director, stresses that the money is only intended as early stage funding. "With any new technology, the price starts out high and this is typically where governments provide funding. When things are closer to market then companies are willing to pay. In the middle you’ve got the valley of death. An awful lot of good ideas fail here, and this is where we try to help – to carry them across," Lancaster said. Whatever the appropriate mechanism for technology transfer – and whatever the nature of government involvement – it is clear to all concerned that success depends on acceptance by the market. This means creating a platform for commercial development. In the context of the developing world’s cleantech needs, 0.5-1% of GDP is not a lot of money; but if put to proper use this cash could leverage vast private sector commitments. Confidence is the key, and once all the politicking is stripped away, this is perhaps what a post-Kyoto climate change agreement could deliver. "In terms of people making investment decisions, you need more than a three-year window," said Aldridge of Climate Change Capital. China business travel leads recovery Increased wages, escaped crocodiles, drunk drivers, and a botched mine robbery China opens up oil and gas exploration, production for foreign, domestic firms China suspends national rollout of ethanol mandate Tesla turns up heat on rival carmakers in China China must cancel new coal plants to achieve climate goals: study China falls back on coal China’s state grid acquires 49% stake in Oman power network China phase-one trade deal ‘totally done’ and will ‘nearly double’ US exports: Lighthizer

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Tag Archives: black widow It’s very refreshing to go to the movies and pay a shit ton of money and know that you are going to be entertained. Very few films come with that kind of guarantee. The Avengers is one of those movies. It has everything you want in a summer blockbuster: a great cast, a great director, great characters, great special effects, and great story. Joss Whedon knows how to direct large ensemble casts, and every character gets adequate screen time and at least one memorable moment. The Avengers kicks off the summer blockbuster season, and it’s going to be a tough act to follow. The world is in trouble and the Avengers must assemble, and it takes a while, but they learn to overcome their differences and become a team (and a family), and save they New York City and the world. There is a huge cast. Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Samuel L. Jackson all show up. And they all get their moment to shine. There is no lead, but Robert Downey, Jr. wants you to think it’s him. Quick props to Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson. He has no powers, but he was no doubt a hero. He inspired the Avengers to become the Avengers, with a little manipulation from Nick Fury. It might be helpful to first watch Iron Man, Iron Man 2, the Incredible Hulk, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger but it’s not necessary. I never saw Captain America, and I don’t feel like I had to. I understood his role and position on the team, and each Avenger gets ample screen time to establish or reestablish characters. Hawkeye and the Black Widow each get a good introduction scene; you learn their personalities, their capabilities and get a sense of who they are. Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America all have dramatic entrances. You know the real heroes have arrived when they show up. The first half hour to 45 minutes kind of drags, but it’s important for the plot and it’s never really boring. As soon as the Helicarrier gets attacked and Banner transforms into the Hulk, the movie kicks into overdrive and never gives up. The action is intense and overwhelming. It’s sensory overload like Transformers, but unlike Transformers you are aware of what’s happening. You know who the villains are, who the heroes are, and what’s at stake. Some of the funniest moments happen in the midst of battle. The Hulk in particular had some great moments (throwing the ejected pilot, sucker punching Thor, beating the shit out of Loki). Mark Ruffalo became the best Hulk with the shortest amount of screen time. BTW, Lou Ferrigno voiced the Hulk, a little nerd knowledge for you. Each hero has their share of quips though. It’s very reminiscent of comics: some spectacular display of violence followed by a witty remark. Comic book fans will jizz in their pants. There are so many hidden Marvel moments to get excited about. Everyone loves a good Stan Lee cameo, but there are so many references to the Marvel Universe that your geeky head will explode. There is too much to take in, and you have to see it multiple times and talk about it to people nerdier than you are just to calm down a little. It makes you feel like a little kid, asking who that was, or what this was about. It’s rare to be excited about a movie these days. Don’t take it for granted. I saw it in 3D. I was a little skeptical, because most films shot in 2D that get converted to 3D look terrible. The 3D is shoddy and the characters look like cardboard cutouts. A simple test is to take off your 3D glasses: blurry means that it is 3D, unblurred and in-focus means you wasted your money. This movie is actually 3D, and it’s worth paying a few extra bucks for the full experience. The cinematography alone is impressive, so seeing it in 2D is not missing out on much. Everybody wins. There are some great shots in the NYC battle. There’s a rapid shot where the camera is looking through the shattered rear window of a cab. Another great shot shows Captain America’s reflection in an overturned motorcycle’s mirror. So this movie has already been ridiculously hyped. It has made over $207 million in its first 3 days in the US. It’s made over $1.008 billion. It’s already the #11 movie of all time. It wont be Avatar status, but it’s going to be in the top ten for sure. This isn’t the best movie of all time. But it will be a lot of people’s favorite movie. And you can’t fault them for that. This movie is a great blockbuster. There are a lot of great characters, funny moments, and jaw-dropping special effects. And it has heart. Joss Whedon compares the Avengers to a family. They don’t always get along. They fight and bicker and argue with each other. But they come together when the need to. They work together and they save New York City. And saving New York City is always good. This movie appeals to everyone. I saw it with three lesbians and an old man. We all had a blast. This is an awesome movie and I can’t wait to see it again. It is one of those movies that you geek out over and you do your best Iron Man and Hulk impressions to try and recreate the magic. Just see it already. Don’t be the only one left out. Critically Rated at 15.5/17 Tagged as black widow, blockbuster, captain america, chris evans, chris hemsworth, clark gregg, comic book movies, comics, entertainment, film, gwyneth paltrow, hawkeye, hollywood, hulk, iron man, jeremy renner, joss whedon, mark ruffalo, marvel, nick fury, phil coulson, robert downey jr, samuel l. jackson, scarlet johansson, summer blockbuster, superheroes, the avengers, thor, tom hiddleston

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The Ego’s Place in the Art World: Is There Such a Thing As “Egoless” Art? I would like to develop my understanding of the ego through the exploration of spiritual and philosophical ideas. I would then like to look at the art world(s) and find examples in which I think the ego is particularly evident in the process, meaning or reasons for the artwork. I would also like to try and find artwork where the ego appears not to have existed in the production, therefore tackling my query; is there such a thing as “egoless” art? One of the early explorers of the notion of the ego was Sigmund Freud. (1856 – 1939) He described the ego as “the idea that in each individual there is a coherent organisation of mental processes” (Freud 1923: 8) He relates the presence of the ego to consciousness, whereby the external world is linked to our internal world through the ego (Freud 1923: 8) I am also in agreement with Freud on the link between the ego and human consciousness and before further defining the ego I would first like to touch on the theory of consciousness. There are several meanings relating to the concept of consciousness. I however am concerned with consciousness as ‘mind.’ Whilst some definitions relate to behaviour and experience, I am looking at “our growing understanding of the neural basis of the waking state and the contents of our experience” (Zeman, 2002: 21) A good example of consciousness and it’s relation to the ego is in Jacques Lacan’s (1901 – 1981) concept The Mirror Stage. Lacan uses Freud’s ideas on narcissism that occurs when a person becomes conscious of their own body and when “the libido passes through from auto erotism” their body then becomes their love-object, (Mc Feely, n.d) a love-object in this instance is an object to feel love for. (Benevenuto and Kennedy, 1986: 50) Lacan also works with Freud’s analysis of ego formation; the relationship between the theoretical super-ego and Lacan’s idea of the Ego-Ideal. We will explore Freud’s model of the Human Psyche later on. Where Lacan disagrees with Freud, is that when a child recognises his or her own reflection in a mirror, alienation and discordance occurs (Benevenuto and Kennedy, 1986: 58) as opposed to Freud’s concept; that perception is organised by the reality principle (Benevenuto and Kennedy, 1986: 60) (The reality principle is the Freudian Theory of “striving to satisfy…..desires in realistic and socially appropriate ways” (Cherry, n.d) The discordant Lacanian view of the child in the mirror stage, referred to as meconnaissance; a French word meaning recognition, was used by Lacan to describe the imaginary image seen during the mirror stage being the ideal (or the “ego-ideal” (Cherry, n.d)) as opposed to reality. This means that the subject is forever striving for an unobtainable perfection. (Anon, 2013) However you look at the minor details, the development of the start of consciousness is evident in this experiment as well as negative effects such as anxiety, neurosis and psychosis. (Cherry, n.d) Earlier I spoke about Freud’s model of the Human Psyche; I would like to discuss this now and then compare it to other theorists who have concerned themselves with the ego. Fig. 1 is a visual representation of Freud’s theory. Firstly it deals with the levels of consciousness, whereby unconscious stands for repression and the inability therefore to become conscious. The second form of the unconscious has a capability of becoming conscious and this is referred to as “preconscious.” Finally there is the conscious, which is the perception of experience. “The conscious mind includes such things as the sensations, perceptions, memories, feeling and fantasies inside of our current awareness” (Anon, 2009) Within the unconscious lies the ego with its counterparts; the Id and the Superego (Anon, 2013) The Id is the psyche working to satisfy basic urges and desires. (Cherry, n.d) It works with the pleasure/pain principle; “an instinct seeking to avoid pain and to obtain pleasure” (Anon, 2014) The Id is with us from birth; however the Superego is a construct of social standards gained from our parents and society. It is made up of two parts – the Ego Ideal (rules and standards for good behaviour) and the Conscience (more concerned by things deemed as bad by parents and society) Floating between all three levels of consciousness is the ego. This works to satisfy the desires of the Id, through the control of the Superego. (Cherry, n.d) As discussed previously, this organisation is otherwise known as the Reality Principle (Cherry, n.d) Jung had a different approach to the ego. He agreed that it was the bridge between the external and internal world, but was associated to different corresponding parts. These deal with the objective and subjective parts of the human psyche. The ego is the subjective identity, part of the conscious mind (which was defined by Freud) and Jung believed that the ego is intrinsically connected to the part of the psyche called “The Self” which is the objective identity (Edinger, 1972: 3) and is the “all embracing symbol of the unconscious” (Jung, n.d) The Self and the ego are paradoxically separate and yet also part of the same thing. “We generally define the Self as the totality of the psyche, which would necessarily include the ego…..If we speak rationally, we must inevitably make a distinction between ego and Self which contradicts our definition of Self” (Edinger, 1972: 6) Jung believed that the ego was one of three parts of the psyche, the second and third being the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. He groups the Self as an archetype of the collective unconscious. Archetypes are “innate, universal and hereditary. Archetypes are unlearned and function to organize how we experience certain things.” (Cherry, n.d) Other main archetypes are The Shadow which represents the parts of the personality that has been repressed, and also the Anima or Animus (gendered) which is the part of the personality that coaxes us out of our internal world, the narcissism of the ego and the comfort of our close family circle to experience the wider world (Stephenson, n.d) The last of the four main archetypes is the Persona. This is the “mask” that we use in different social situations (Cherry, n.d) The dominant archetype is the Self; “it surrounds and contains them [other archetypes]” (Edinger, 1972: 39) Therefore any alienation between the ego and any of the abundance of possible archetypes is alienation between the ego and the Self; this relationship is called the ‘ego-Self’. Jung discusses the relationship between the ego and the Self at different stages of our life proposing that there is a potential for the ego and Self to become disconnected (Edinger, 1972: 6) see Fig 2. I would like to explore this as well as the ego-Self relationship more later on in the essay in relation to spiritual theory. I would first like to look at the development of consciousness as the development of discomfort. As the ego separates from the Self, consciousness develops. Jung uses the Garden of Eden myth as an example of this: “There is a deep doctrine in the legend of the Fall; it is the expression of a dim presentiment that the emancipation of ego consciousness was a Luciferian deed” (Jung, 1959) In Ego and Archetype, Edward Edinger further discusses this example as a representation of the birth of the ego and with it the discomfort of consciousness (Edinger, 1972: 17-21) “They [Adam and Eve] sacrifice the passive comfort of obedience for greater consciousness. The serpent does indeed prove to be a benefactor in the long run if we grant consciousness as a greater value than comfort” (Edinger, 1972: 21) Where Jung differs to spiritual theorists is the context in which the relationship between the ego and the Self is deemed successful. Edinger using Jungian theory, discusses that a complete separation of the ego from the Self, or a break in the ‘ego-axis’ as illustrated in Fig.2 can result in “emptiness, despair, meaninglessness and in extreme cases psychosis or suicide” (Edinger, 1972: 43) Without the attachment of the ego to the Self, the ego would be representing us from a completely subjective perspective without the control of the Self and the other contributes that allow our development and place within the external world “the ego is the Self’s representative in external reality” (Shepherd, n.d) Buddhist philosophy celebrates the egoless state. “…a perfected one who had reached the egoless state of nirvana” (Fowler, 1999) The ego in Buddhist terms is “a collection of mental events classified into five categories, called skandhas” (Butler, n.d) Skandhas is a term for five types of existence – Form, Sensation, Perception, Mental formations, Consciousness (O’Brien, n.d) From the Skandhas the ego can then choose which of the six realms of existence it can manifest itself in (Butler, n.d) The six realms are heaven, humanity, angry gods, hungry ghosts, animal and hell. Although these are the realms that a soul can be reborn into during reincarnation, all realms are interlinked and humans can experience all realms. Whether it is the anger of the realm of angry gods, the craving and dissatisfaction of the realm of the hungry ghost or the ignorance of the animal realm (Anon, 2009) Eckhart Tolle (1948) also discusses the different types of ego-based suffering. He calls this the ‘pain-body’ which is the emotional part of the ego (Anon, n.d) just as Jung denoted that the ego is the subjective part of the psyche. “There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain. It comes together with other energy forms from other instances and so after some years you have a pain-body, an energy entity consisting of old emotion” (Tolle, 2010) All theories seem to agree that the ego is a link between the internal and external world. It is not however a complete representation of the human psyche or personality, but a part of the self which seeks pleasure and avoids pain and seeks to connect emotionally to the world. They all disagree on the particulars displayed by the ego, but all agree that the ego is the cause of internal conflict and discomfort. Freud and Lacan both spoke of object love “Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can’t control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.” (Freud, 1923: 20) Lacan also spoke of the struggle to attain the Ideal-Ego and the negative psychological effects sometimes caused. Freud spoke of the conflict between different areas of the psyche in relation to instinctual desires our attempt to attain them in a socially appropriate way (the Id, the Superego and the Reality principle). More simplistically, Jung described the birth of the ego as the start of consciousness and the discomfort that this brings. “The biblical fall of man presents the dawn of consciousness as a curse,” (Jung, 1933: 99) He also spoke about the internal conflict between the Self and the ego. Buddhism aims for an egoless state, where Eckhart Tolle aims for awareness of the pain-body and the integrity of egoic traits. (Tolle, 2010) All theories agree that the ego causes emotional suffering. I would now like to explore some contemporary artist’s stories and discuss where this suffering is evident in their artwork as well as how they deal with the subject of the ego. I would like to make three case studies of artists that display the ego in different ways. My first case is Andy Warhol. (1928 – 1987) Warhol’s childhood was a poor one. Growing up in the great depression, his mother struggled to put food on the table. He was struck down with a childhood illness which left him shy and reclusive, so his family kept him occupied inside with magazines, films and colouring books. These started Warhol’s obsession with popular culture and famous celebrities. The explosion of consumerism and branding that then transpired in the 1950’s further fascinated Warhol and when he started to make it big on the art scene he created a brand out of his own self-image. He was obsessed with fame and wanted to be famous himself. “Someone [Warhol] who wanted something very much, which was fame” (Anon, 2013) He was his own love-object in Freudian terms showing narcissistic tendencies. (Anon, n.d) In his reflection he saw what Lacan would describe as the Ego-Ideal. Warhol describes his own reflection: “self-admiring carelessness….The knobbly knees. The roadmap of scars. The long bony arms, so white they look bleached….The pinhead eyes. The banana ears…” (Warhol, 1975:10) Warhol however strived for his Ideal-Ego. He had a large collection of wigs that he said he wore so you can’t tell how old he is (Anon, 2013) He also had work on his nose “At one time the way my nose looked really bothered me…and I decided that I wanted to have it sanded” (Warhol, 1975: 10) The image that Warhol had created was in fact one of Jung’s four main archetypes – The Persona. Warhol’s artwork was an extension of his narcissistic obsession with fame, beauty and the creation of a brand. He created many pieces using famous icons such as Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley as well as brands such as Brillo and Coca Cola. Ultimately, Warhol’s idea which he executed throughout his career was to take things which you wouldn’t immediately think of as an object of beauty and turn it into a work of art (Anon, 2013); whether that was a soup can, a photograph or himself. He was striving for the Lacanian Ideal-Ego (Lacan’s “ideal ego” is the ideal of perfection that the ego strives to emulate (Anon, n.d) and therefore as well as being a product of the times, Warhol’s artwork was a product of his ego. My second case is Tracey Emin. A lot of her work reflects painful past experiences and she uses her emotional ego struggles to create her artwork. She writes openly in a column for the Independent where we get an insight into her emotional states: “I went on a bit of a journey today. For at least half an hour my mind went into an upset, jealous rage, full of imaginary graphic detail” (Emin, 2008) Historically, Emin had suffered sexual abuse, abortions and miscarriages as well as bullying in her home town Margate. She revisits these experiences frequently throughout her work such her drawings about abortions and her films “Scream” and “Why I Never Became a Dancer.” This is reflective of Eckhart Tolle’s pain-body theory, where all the pain of Emin’s earlier life is carried with her and manifests itself as artwork. “My Bed” Fig. 3 shows the effects of the pain-body. You could also relate Jungian theory to the emotional issues that she was having, where her past experiences may have created a separation between the Self and the ego. One of the symptoms of this, as we have discussed previously, being psychosis as is described by Emin in relation to the inspiration for the work “I was at a point in my life where I was pretty low and hadn’t got out of the bed for four days….drinking like an absolute fish….also I was in this weird nihilistic thing, where I thought well if I die it doesn’t matter.” (Emin, n.d) Emin has admitted that “There’s parts of my [her] character that I [she] absolutely hate[s]…getting jealous, violent, paranoid..” (Emin, n.d) We can compare her in this instance to the five Skandhas of Buddhist philosophy where these emotional states are true of the realm of the angry gods. Her alcohol abuse was famously exposed publically and such would be true of someone experiencing the realm of the hungry ghosts. My third case is Bill Viola (1951). I would like to step away from the negative effects of the ego and use Viola as an example of how the ego can take us on a journey of self-discovery. Like Jung, Viola agrees that the ego is the conscious part of the psyche whereas the Self is the unconscious and there is a separation between both, unless a gate is found whereby harmony is found and awareness begins. The gateway he uses is nature, which includes the human psyche (Anon, n.d) In ‘Tactics of the Ego’ the ego is discussed in terms of “I,” “identity” and “individualism.” (Brockhaus, 2003: 8) Cornelia Bruninghaus-Knubel discusses Viola’s film “I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like”: “Man and animal, nature and technology, consciousness and subconsciousness are inseparably interwoven in the infinite cycle of birth and death, and the artist’s self makes sure of itself by his subjective perception of the outside world through the camera” This piece is a typical representation of Viola’s exploration of self and its passage from birth through to death and beyond. Most of his work follows suit – “Nine Attempts to Achieve Mortality,” Five Angels for the Millennium,” and “The Passing” for example. David Morgan discusses “The Passing”: “Without doubt ‘The Passing’ epitomizes a narcissistic attitude[…] For what could be more narcissistic than the opening up of one’s own private family album to a large audience of television viewers, to share in the joys and grief of lived human experience” (Usselmann, 2013) As discussed by David Morgan Viola’s films can be taken as narcissistic exploitations of particularly sensitive subjects, however they are also simply examples of someone sharing their experiences of self-discovery through a medium that just so happens to be particularly graphic and real. So we have looked at the different theories on and interpretations of the ego and explored where these different takes are evident in the art world. Artists are generally known for being emotive, troubled and somewhat narcissistic, and now we have an insight into the psychology behind these troubles. “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” (Picasso, n.d) “A new British study finds people with narcissistic tendencies are more likely than others to think of themselves as creative, and to engage in creative activities. If your opinion of yourself is unusually high, there’s a good chance you long to share your brilliance with the rest of the world.” (Jacobs, 2013) I think in my conclusion I was hoping to find some pure, untainted artwork without a trace of humanity attached to it. Through my exploration of the ego however I have realised that the ego is an intrinsic part of being human and whether you are trying to communicate ideas on things internal or external to you, it will have to go through the ego first. So my answer to my original question “is there such a thing as egoless art?” would have to be no; although not all artwork has to identify with the discomfort and suffering that sometimes accompany the ego it still has come from inside us, through the human consciousness and the ego to the outside world. “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” Henry Ward Beecher (Beecher, n.d) This entry was posted in Art Theory and tagged Archetypes, Carl Jung, Consciousness, Eckhart Tolle, Ego, Freud, Psyche.

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Here we go again: Mara Jade, The Mandalorian, and some thoughts on canon Entertainment Weekly is dropping the name “Mara Jade” again, this time in reference to The Mandalorian and Jon Favreau keeps things mostly diplomatic: “I don’t want to talk about anything that might be fun for people to discover,” Favreau says. “We do have conversations. Part of what’s fun to see if we could merge the worlds of the original trilogy, the prequels, the sequels, The Clones [sic] Wars, and what’s been considered canon up to this point and what’s been considered part of Legends. I think this show offers an opportunity to bring in all those elements so no matter what your flavor of Star Wars ice cream you like there will be something to enjoy. But you’re asking the right questions.” They also mention Thrawn, who of course has already been brought back, and while canon, currently resides in a plot limbo of Dave Filoni’s making. So him returning in The Mandalorian is somewhat possible – though, I suspect, unlikely. But never say never, particularly with Filoni involved in the show. But Mara Jade, on the other hand… My own take on her coming to canon is only a little different than the last time something Mara-adjacent was unearthed – also involving Mandos, and at the hand of Dave Filoni, when her “Emperor’s Hand” title showed up on Rebels being used by… Some dude. (Sorry, Clone Wars fans. I can’t.) As I said then, she’s not a simple port, like Thrawn was. Continue reading “Here we go again: Mara Jade, The Mandalorian, and some thoughts on canon” So about that one Episode IX rumor… A VERY iffy but extremely interesting Episode IX rumor has emerged this weekend, and it’s of particular interest to long-time readers of our site. This is SUPER SKETCHY information, from a Youtuber no less, but it’s also something I don’t feel I can ignore. Head under the cut for possible (or not, it’s that sketchy) spoilers, and some additional thoughts. Continue reading “So about that one Episode IX rumor…” Analysis: The Last Jedi Trailer #2 and our adventures with misdirection I’m convinced there are (at least) two big misdirects in The Last Jedi trailer. But that’s not all! Stills, GIFs and the obligatory gallery under the cut. Continue reading “Analysis: The Last Jedi Trailer #2 and our adventures with misdirection” When can we expect The Last Jedi’s next trailer? It seems like half the fandom is (understandably!) chomping at the bit for the next trailer for The Last Jedi. But, if the past is anything to go on, we still likely have nearly a month to go. Continue reading “When can we expect The Last Jedi’s next trailer?” Analysis: The Last Jedi behind-the scenes reel It took me a few days, but here are some thoughts on The Last Jedi behind-the-scenes reel we got at D23 Expo on Saturday. Head below the cut and go to the gallery. Note, there are a few references and links to rumors/possible spoilers within! Also, irreverence. But if that bothers you, man are you at the wrong blog… Continue reading “Analysis: The Last Jedi behind-the scenes reel” The term “Emperor’s Hand” is canon again. Should Mara Jade follow? (I’m not so sure.) Yeah, we all heard it: “Emperor’s Hand” in Saturday night’s Rebels, ‘Legacy of Mandalore.’ The Hand in question is Gar Saxon, governor of Mandalore, a character who’s appeared on Rebels before. So no, it’s not Mara Jade, the first and best known “Emperor’s Hand” in the no-longer-canon Star Wars Legends timeline. Per Dave Filoni himself, it was just a reference. He told ComicBook.com it’s “probably just a little sly nod to a character type.” Probably: I think it would probably be meant more innocently, but the minute you say it I’m like, ‘Good grief.’ I know exactly where everyone’s going to go with that,” Filoni told us with a laugh. “I know, with the hopefulness of it all, but I wouldn’t dwell too much on that. It’s more of a generic reference to that type of character that exhibits in history of the world, like the emperor has a hand, there’s someone who’s always sitting at the right hand that’s gained great power.” Yeah, Filoni could be playing games. But I’m willing to take the comments at face value for now… Even though giving the title to both a man and a Mandalorian seems particularly tone-deaf. But the fact is, I’ve been rather wary of Mara returning to canon and would prefer it not be on Rebels – if at all. (Rebels is fine for what it is, but it just doesn’t do it for me. Take all the Thrawn you like, but I’m selfish and want more for Mara.) But, you know… It’s complicated. Continue reading “The term “Emperor’s Hand” is canon again. Should Mara Jade follow? (I’m not so sure.)” Hey, doubters: Let’s give the Han Solo movie a chance Well, of course the Han Solo movie is rumored to be about Han winning the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian. Of course. It’s only the most iconic Han and Lando story, the bare outline direct from The Empire Strikes Back. That said, the rumor does come from a tweet by The Hollywood Reporter’s Borys Kit, who claims to have heard it from “a couple of sources” – though not, apparently, enough for an actual story. Still, it would be bigger news if the film didn’t involve the Falcon. Now, we’re all a little (a lot, truth be told) sick of people complaining about how this film is going to be “predictable” or “boring.” About how people would rather have an Obi-wan movie, or whatever. (No, you’re not the first person to say it. You’re not even the thousandth.) And this rumor isn’t going to help matters, I’m sure. But the film is in pre-production. It has two key roles cast – Han and Lando – with a third that probably isn’t far behind. (Not to mention Chewbacca is probably locked in, as we know Ehrenrich tested with either Peter Mayhew or Joonas Suotamo.) Most importantly, It also has a pair of directors who are best known for taking “horrible” ideas and actually making great films out of them. If you somehow managed to miss Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s The LEGO Movie or 21 Jump Street remake, please give them a try. And remember Lawrence Kasdan? He co-wrote the thing. These are not a bunch of random dudes off the street making a fan film. They, and everyone else at Lucasfilm, have a clear concept of the character and the film – check out those Celebration Europe clips again. What do we, the audience, have? Hints and rumors and speculation – not the most solid ground for judgement. I’m not going to discount the possibility that the movie could still turn out so-so. Hell, I’m still a little wary about the whole spinoff concept myself. Fact is, this movie is happening. You don’t have to like it, but that’s not going to change at this point. But it’s far, far too soon to write it off. Give Han Solo a chance, just like you’re going to give Rogue One a chance. Hopefully, they both manage to surprise us. Droids, gender, and BB-8: Why does it matter? Believe it or not, there’s been a lot of buzz about BB-8’s gender recently. And that raises a question: Why does it matter? Continue reading “Droids, gender, and BB-8: Why does it matter?” Posted on June 5, 2015 July 31, 2016 Inside the Star Wars generation gap: Why we still care about Mara Jade I had a lot of mixed feelings the other day watching the new video on Ahsoka Tano. I’m not in The Clone Wars generation by any means – I’d been active in fandom for more than a decade when Ahsoka came around – hell, this blog was four years old in 2008. But what Ahsoka is to that generation, Mara Jade was to mine. She was, back in the day – or at least to some of us – just as big a Star Wars figure as Leia. In fact, she was only the second female in the whole franchise to get anywhere near that much development. For nearly a decade – before the prequels – Mara Jade was the second-most important woman in Star Wars. But she’s not canon any more. And though I don’t really care about that, I have to admit it hurts to see her effect ignored. Oh, I know that to mention her in that video would just muddy the waters, but so much of what you see with Ahsoka and fandom right now mirrors what was happening with Mara and fandom back in the day. Continue reading “Inside the Star Wars generation gap: Why we still care about Mara Jade” On Star Wars spoilers, and how I treat them I’ve avoided saying much about my spoiler policy here on Club Jade, mainly because I firmly believe in taking these things on a case-by-case basis. But there is one hard fact here: I will not treat officially released material as spoilers. That doesn’t mean I’ll spoil something that’s in The Force Awakens novelization or art book, on the chance they come out before the film does. But any officially released publicity material is fair game. That means trailers, commercials, press releases and anything else that Lucasfilm very clearly wants people to know. Continue reading “On Star Wars spoilers, and how I treat them”

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Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations 1500-2000 Collaboratory for members The databases of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations contain information on worldwide labour relations during five cross-sections in time i.e.: 1500, 1650, 1800, 1900, [Africa: 1950] and 2000. Regional experts from different disciplines participated in this collaboratory, gathering and sharing their data and its critical annotations on this site, in their papers and by means of regular workshops and papers. Our preliminary results can be divided into various parts, namely into databases, explanations of the databases, the publication of a special issue of the IRSH entitled, The Joy and Pain of Work. Global Attitudes and Valuations, 1500–1650 edited by Karin Hofmeester and Christine Moll-Murata, other publications, presentations and spin off projects. We have Excel and Access databases on labour relations, compiled by our participants on cross sections in time and area of their expertise. Please note that the data in the databases is not simply a copy of the primary source, but involved a process of aggregations, calculations and estimations on the basis of the primary sources in combination with additional sources. The labour relations in the database are encoded. For an explanation of this encoding and the labour relations in general, see the page on labour relations. The second part of our results is therefore an explanation of this process: the methodological paper. All participants made a methodological paper accompanying their data, to add source critical remarks and explain the steps towards constructing their database. For more information on the methodological papers, see the specific page. The table below shows which databases are available per area and cross section. By clicking on the area you will link to the specific page, where you can download the area specific databases and methodological papers. A selection of databases and papers that are not yet published and still in a preliminary stage can be accessed in the personal directories in the members-only area. During 2016, our project pages and data files will be moved to a new platform. All published data is available here. For all the datasets (and accompanying methodological papers listed below, click here. For an explanation of the Excel/Access database: Explanation of the Excel/Access database; The Codebook. Available datasets on global labour relations in the period between 1500 and 2000 EAST and SOUTHEAST ASIA Java (Indonesia) In the future, we hope to expand this list of databases. Data is currently being collected from various parts of the world, including for instance India (1800-2000), United States (1850-2010), the Lusophone world, the Low Countries/Dutch Republic (1500-1800), the Ottoman Empire, various parts of Africa (1800-2000) and many other regions. Do you feel you could make a meaningful contribution to this list? Please let us know!

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Chinese democracy activist sentenced for online writing New York, March 25, 2011--The harsh sentencing of a pro-democracy activist and journalist is yet another example of China's growing intolerance of independent expression, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. A court in western Sichuan province sentenced Liu Xianbin to 10 years in prison for inciting subversion of state power through articles published on overseas websites between April 2009 and February 2010, according to The Associated Press. One was titled "Constitutional Democracy for China: Escaping Eastern Autocracy," the BBC reported. Liu also signed the pro-democracy Charter 08 petition drafted by Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, who is serving an 11-year term on the same charge. Both sentences are unusually heavy. The charge normally carries a penalty of up to five years in prison except in serious cases. Police detained Liu in June 2010, international news reports said. Chinese police have since rounded up several more bloggers and activists in unusual numbers following online calls for anti-government demonstrations modeled on recent Jasmine revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa, according to CPJ research. "Liu Xianbin has every right to express his opinions on overseas websites without facing jail time," said Bob Dietz, CPJ Asia program coordinator. "The harsh 10-year sentence is a troubling indicator of what lies ahead for anyone sharing information or opinion which challenges the Chinese Communist Party." Liu has already served two and a half years in prison in China for involvement in 1989 anti-government protests in Tiananmen Square, and ten years of a 13-year prison sentence he was given in 1999 after founding a branch of the China Democracy Party, according to The New York Times. China has been at or near the top of CPJ's list of countries that imprison the most journalists for over a decade, challenged only by Iran. Liu Xianbin Chinese court sentences journalist Huang Qi to 12 years in prison Taipei, July 29, 2019 -- The Mianyang Intermediate People's Court today sentenced Huang Qi, publisher of the human rights news website 64 Tianwang, to 12 years in prison on charges of "deliberately leaking state secrets," and "illegally providing state secrets to foreign countries," according to a statement published on... Pro-democracy underground station Citizens' Radio vandalized in Hong Kong July 2, 2019 12:30 PM ET Taipei, July 2, 2019 -- Authorities in Hong Kong should swiftly investigate the vandalism of the Citizens' Radio office and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.... Hong Kong police attack journalists with batons, tear gas amid protests Taipei, June 14, 2019 -- Hong Kong authorities should immediately and thoroughly investigate police use of tear gas on journalists and allegations that officers hit and pushed journalists with batons during protests on June 12, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.... CPJ calls for withdrawal or modification of Hong Kong extradition bill May 13, 2019 11:25 AM ET Hong Kong, May 13, 2019 -- The Hong Kong government should withdraw a proposed bill amending its extradition law that potentially exposes journalists and others in Hong Kong to criminal trial in mainland Chinese courts, or modify the bill to include additional safeguards to prevent arbitrary rendition, the Committee... Labor rights website editor Wei Zhili arrested in China; another is missing Taipei, March 21, 2019 -- Chinese authorities should immediately release ILabour.net editor Wei Zhili and ensure that editors and reporters will not be arrested for reporting on workers' rights....

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Faculty of MedicineDepartment of Cellular & Physiological Sciences Department Head’s Message Research – Health Themes Research – Scientific Approaches Research – Resources Institutes and Sites Fall/Winter Courses Body Program Clinical Anatomy Heartfelt Images Virtual Histology Dept Holiday Party 2018 » Faculty of Medicine » Home » About » Department Head’s Message The Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences (CPS) was formed in 2004, under the leadership of Dr. Christian Naus, as a merger between the Departments of Physiology and Anatomy and Cell Biology. These two founding departments were established in 1950 as part of the new UBC Medical School, and their firsts Heads, Dr. D. Harold Copp and Dr. Sidney Friedman, remained in their positions until 1980. Under the leadership of Dr. Copp and Dr. Friedman, these departments played a vital role in establishing medical undergraduate teaching, which remains as a central mandate for the CPS department. An Honours Degree Program in Physiology and two courses in Anatomy were developed later for students in the Faculty of Science, and these remain as oversubscribed courses in the UBC academic calendar. The popularity of these courses is sustained by current faculty, many of whom have received UBC Killam Teaching Awards and authored some of the internationally most highly regarded textbooks in their disciplines. This commitment to undergraduate science teaching remains as a core component of our mission, and we will soon be transforming our science program into a new Cellular, Anatomical and Physiological Sciences (CAPS) program, with the objective of offering both an Honours and Majors streams.In addition to our undergraduate programs in science, CPS faculty members have primary responsibility for all aspects of physiology, gross anatomy, histology, and neuroanatomy teaching in the MD Undergraduate program. Faculty and postgraduate teaching assistants also run a wide range of laboratory courses, and provide tutoring throughout all of the teaching blocks in the first two years of MD undergraduate training. The department is responsible for the Body Donation Program (a provincial resource used by both teachers and researchers) and also provides gross anatomy teaching to students within the Faculty of Dentistry and in the allied health professions, as well as workshops for residency training and postgraduate continuing medical education. Other teaching innovations including the creation of a “virtual slide box” for histology students, and internet-based teaching methods in Neuroanatomy for UBC’s medical students at other university campuses throughout British Columbia. Over the years, our faculty members have made outstanding contributions in research. Major achievements include the discovery of four hormones, including calcitonin and teleocalcin (Dr. Copp) and GIP and motilin (Dr. John Brown), and seminal contributions to the fields of excitatory and inhibitory amino acids (Dr. Hugh McLennan), hypertension (Dr. Friedman) and muscle function (Dr. Bill Ovalle). As you will see when you visit the web pages of our current faculty members, a tradition of outstanding discovery research, which promises to transform medical knowledge and human health care, remains central to the CPS department’s vision. With the formation of CPS, most of our faculty moved to the Life Sciences Institute when it opened in 2005. Other CPS Faculty members have research laboratories in the Brain Research Centre or the Biomedical Research Centre, both of which are in close proximity to the LSI on UBC’s Point Grey Campus. These research centers provide outstanding facilities for research and postgraduate teaching, and CPS faculty members contribute to teaching in a variety of graduate programs, including the Graduate Programs in Cell and Developmental Biology and Neuroscience. Other research strengths within the CPS department include faculty who are core members of the LSI Cardiovascular, Diabetes & Obesity, and Cell and Developmental Biology research groups. Through collaborative research interactions with UBC faculty based at other sites, our faculty members strive to translate their basic research findings into practical applications with the health care system of British Columbia. These interactions will be facilitated by improving internet-based conferencing and data exchange portals, and by engaging faculty on other sites as adjunct or associate faculty members of the CPS department. As you explore our website, I hope you gain a sense of how privileged I feel to be given opportunity to work with such a dynamic and progressive group of colleagues who create an exceptional academic environment, in which undergraduate and postgraduate learners and postdoctoral research scientists from across the globe can excel and enjoy the truly remarkable place in which we live and work. Edwin Moore, PhD Professor & Interim Head Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences 2350 Health Sciences Mall Website cps.med.ubc.ca Email cps.info@ubc.ca

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Drama, Crime Rated: PG-13 93 min The Old Man & the Gun is based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession. Also with Danny Glover and Tom Waits. – Peter Biskind “…the movie is like a brand-new song carefully engineered to seem timeless. [It’s] gracious and skillful…” — A.O. Scott, New York Times “[Redford] delivers a glorious, sly performance in a gloriously sly movie that masks its idiosyncrasy in brisk and breezy storytelling.” — Richard Brody, New Yorker “Redford fans will be gratified by watching him play a gentleman thief in the tradition of David Niven and Cary Grant — and, come to think of it, himself.” — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post David Lowery and David Grann Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits

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Tag Archives: identity. sign language Today, I am a Deaf adult. Recently, I’ve been reading a new blog over at Becoming Deaf, written by Indi, whose experiences I can identify with. She even has her own ‘things not to say to deaf people’ list, and I suspect she’s been much gentler in her responses than I was in my own lists… I digress. As well as discussing the issue of speech, which I may well take up in a future post, she blogged about being ‘Somewhere Between Deaf and Hearing’ and throws open a question about how people have come to accept their identity. I’ve also been reading Melissa Mostyn-Thomas’ musings over at her Journal on ‘Writing, BSL, my Deaf identity and me’, and with all the stuff I’ve been reading for my dissertation, I’ve got identity themes swirling around. Identity is a fluid, complex subject at the best of times. Today, I identify as a Deaf adult. With or without the capital ‘D’, I’m deaf. Functionally, I’m missing an average of 90 – 95dB, which makes me profoundly deaf. In non-technical terms, I’d be hard put to it to notice a pneumatic drill or a low-flying aircraft without my hearing-aids. Well, I’d still be able to see them, but you get my drift. I’m D/deaf. But I didn’t always see myself this way. A little while ago, someone called me ‘hearing impaired’ to my face. Right to my face. I’ll admit it, I blinked. I looked across to the interpreter to see if I’d lip-read them correctly, but they chickened out and signed ‘deaf people’. Aha, a bit of cultural interpreting there, I fancy, but I know what I saw. I should say at this point, I am not in any way criticising the phenomenon of cultural interpreting, it is a commonplace, even necessary part of translation; languages are so different that colloquial phrases are often ‘lost in translation’ and culturally sensitive interpreting keeps the meaning. When this person said ‘hearing impaired’ they did mean deaf people in general. It just took me by surprise. Nobody has called me ‘broken’ to my face in years. Besides, the interpreter in question probably (correctly) guessed that signing ‘hearing impaired’ would get some reaction that the hearing person I was talking to would notice, be it anything from a raised eyebrow to slamming down my pen and screaming “they said what?!” Then I had a dilemma. To correct or not to correct? “Excuse me, please don’t call me deficient”. In the end, I decided to let it lie. Then I wondered why it was even a big deal. Really, it’s just a phrase. Hearing people often think they’re being politically correct when they use it. It’s used in an official capacity, and is almost commonplace. Why did I even have an urge to correct her in the first place? I think ‘Hearing Impaired’ came about as an attempt to be a) PC and b) to cover all hearing losses from hard-of-hearing right the way through to profoundly deaf whilst being suitably vague as to not reveal level of actual deafness, in one fell swoop. The problem with that is, ‘hearing impaired’ effectively says ‘hearing damaged’ (the sign it translates to) ‘hearing deficient’ ‘hearing broken’ ‘a hearing person who HAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEIR HEARING’ ‘hearing abnormal’. Not really the image one wants when one is trying to present deafness as just another spectrum within the bounds of ‘normal’ (See Georges Canguilhem’s book for a fascinating discussion on ‘The Normal and The Pathological’). To me, my deafness is not what holds me back. What holds me back is society’s inability and sometimes even unwillingness to adapt to it. If there were visual display systems everywhere as a matter of course and all children taught basic sign language (studies have shown that sign language at a young age can improve language uptake, so why not use that instead of bloody phonics?) then the lives of many deaf / HoH / ‘hearing impaired’ people would be improved. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with me at all (iffy legs notwithstanding). Plus, ‘deaf’ is, to me anyway, a neutral, factual term, whilst ‘hearing impaired’ says ‘broken hearing person’. The thing is that until I was about 19, I did see myself as hearing impaired. I’d been told I was hearing impaired all my life, been complimented on my speech, been told that I ‘didn’t need to sign’, congratulated for not doing so, told I was doing ever so well, congratulated for even being able to talk, constantly told that being hearing impaired wasn’t going to hold me back at all because I was so clever. Honestly, there are a few people I’d like to take aside now and have a word with them about messing with kids’ heads. The problem with the above was that I was still struggling. I was falling behind in school and I couldn’t cope in social situations at all. I can hear voices, certainly well enough to mimic words and be complimented on how well I can do so, but only if the voice is clear, with no distractions, and I can only make sense of the voice if I can see the lips, or have other visual clues such as, say, subtitles. Otherwise it’s just random noise. I can’t understand people if there’s any background noise and group conversations are just impossible, it’s like trying to watch multi-player tennis with an invisible ball. My point being, I was a very unhappy teenager. Whilst I wasn’t officially diagnosed until 20 or so, I’m willing to bet I was severely clinically depressed from about 13 / 14 onwards. Adults kept telling me I had such a good voice and I was going to do ever so well, and yet I wasn’t. I struggled socially, had only one good friend, rarely understood anything going on round me, was mocked by my peers and occasionally by teachers, teased to death, pushed around, and didn’t do as well in my exams as I knew I should be doing. The school’s own tests in year 7 (for non-UK, the first year of high school), which weren’t based on the curriculum but on aptitude, put me in the top 3% of the entire year. Literally, I was one of the dozen or so smartest out of 300-odd kids. Why was I still getting ‘D’s and ‘C’s? I just couldn’t understand it at all. I started to think it was my own fault for not trying hard enough. Looking back, the answers are obvious now. Heck only knows how much social information and curriculum I was missing. What got me through was science fiction and books. I’ve always liked reading; curling up and losing myself in a book, creating a whole other world in my head. I credit my love of reading for my English skills; I certainly didn’t get them from school. By the time I was 14, I was reading Terry Pratchett and Isaac Asimov. Sci-fi shows such as Babylon 5, Space Precinct, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek TNG, DS9 & Voyager, Farscape, Stargate, any sci-fi show that was subtitled, I watched faithfully. Despite not understanding much of ‘real life’ going on round me, my vocabulary was way ahead of most of my peers. So why wasn’t I doing better in school? You’ve no idea how much I used to beat myself up over this. As Indi says: “For most of my life, I felt like a broken hearing person… my conversations were mostly guessing games and hard work… People get tired of being asked to repeat themselves all the time, and it really doesn’t take long before you start to internalize that you’re just not trying hard enough, that your communication needs are an inconvenience, that there’s something wrong with you.” Replace the word ‘people’ with ‘moody teenagers who can sense weakness like sharks sense blood’ and you have my pre-Uni education in a nutshell. Leaving school at 18, I was a shy, socially awkward, nervous hearing-impaired wreck. My life only began to change when I started Uni, started learning sign language, and started to see myself as ‘D/deaf’. A Deaf person who knew their legal rights, a Deaf person who could adapt to different situations, a Deaf person who could have a conversation in the noisiest, rowdiest places, up to and including next to the speakers in nightclubs. A Deaf person with friends. Friends, plural! In short, a Deaf person who wasn’t embarrassed, ashamed or afraid to ask for or even demand help. Is it any wonder I still flinch when someone calls me ‘hearing impaired’? It gives me flashbacks to a time when I really thought it was my own fault for not trying hard enough or not being good enough at lip-reading, at fitting in with a world that for the most part has no idea what it’s like to be deaf. That’s not to say that I’ve found total acceptance in the signing Deaf world. I was lucky at Uni, but in the years since then I’ve done things like make the mistake of making a joke based on an English pun in front of a Deaf person that I didn’t know well. After I had to explain the joke, which had fallen totally flat, they gave me a look of vague disgust, signed “good English”, and then ignored me for the rest of the night. That hurt. So does being called ‘half-hearing’, ‘oral’, and a sign that translates roughly to ‘speaks well’, but not in a nice way. Thankfully, I’ve not had to put up with too much of that, and on the rare occasion that it happens, I’ve learned to ignore it, or even make a joke of it. And the truth is, despite all this, I’ve found far more understanding and acceptance within the D/deaf world than I have in the hearing world. Even so, when I picture myself in terms of the hearing and Deaf worlds, I usually see myself in the middle of a Venn diagram, not fully part of either world, yet part of both. Today, I am a confident Deaf adult. I get on stage and perform sign language poetry, sign songs and occasionally plays. I do presentations for the NDCS. I write, whether it’s short plays or blog posts or a potentially controversial dissertation. I try to educate people on how to communicate with me, how to help me, and what it’s like to be deaf. It’s taken me ten years to get here. It’s taken counselling, some medication, support of friends and family and a lot of hard work. Here I am. My name is Donna Williams, aka DeafFirefly, and I am Deaf. Addendum: And I would like to thank everyone at the University of Central Lancashire, 03-06. I really don’t know where I would be today if I hadn’t chosen to study Deaf Studies and Philosophy there, if the other D/deaf students hadn’t accepted me so quickly, and taught me to sign. Choosing to study there was the single most important decision I ever made. It changed my life. This entry was posted in Deaf, Identity, Sign Language and tagged Deaf, identity. sign language on August 20, 2012 by DeafFirefly. @BeckyCBarry @EHowlett @StephWeller @graeae @weareunltd @RampsOTM @DancingPhoenix @BSLterplife @CMinamimura… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 hours ago RT @AnnaArticulates: Looking forward to this... frustrating truths and humour are cleverly woven together by Athena, inspired by real events 3 days ago Catch it @BunkerTheatreUK before it's gone! 4 days ago #TheProcess: incredible, powerful stuff. A dystopian future rooted in current, real life discrimination & harking b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 days ago She's truly a brilliant actress. Also, I wanted to slap her characters a few times. #TheProcess twitter.com/BAZ_production… 4 days ago

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TIFF Cannes Critics Week Panel Discussion Fabian Gaffez, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Liam Lacey, Peter Howell, TIFF It’s no surprise that the job of the film critic has never been in more danger. Film criticism has had an interesting career: at its beginning having no serious appreciation from audiences, then a gradual shift to public proclivity in the 60s, and finally has arrived at a point where anyone with wireless internet and ten minutes of free time can elucidate their thoughts on Avatar (2009). The abundance of opinion in this digital age, the rapidity in its delivery, and the public’s ceaseless desire to always be in the know has made the once well regarded ideas of the film critic a small fish in a sea of online opinion. On Friday January 20th, the Bell TIFF Lightbox hosted a Q&A with the members of its Cannes Ciritcs Week Panel in order to get a better idea of the state of film criticism industry today. “There are two types of people who set out to be film critics” says Liam Lacey, critic for The Globe and Mail, “those who set out to be film critics, and those who are too old for the rock beat”. Cinema gurus Lacey, Jonathan Rosenbaum (former critic for The Chicago Reader), Fabian Gaffez (Positif), and Toronto’s own Peter Howell (The Toronto Star) were all smiles as they greeted a small audience of aspiring and established film reviewers alike. Between them, these film virtuosos have more than half a century of critic experience. Although they sat down to discuss the specifics of their careers, their insight showcased just how much change has come about to the practice and reception of film criticism in the last 50 years. “I’ve been pretty lucky that my two biggest passions in life, movies and music- that I’ve been able to get paid for and that probably makes you all jealous” explains Howell. Howell, now chief reviewer for the Toronto Star recalls his days as a journalism student at Carlton University. “I remember all of us (students) anxiously awaiting the arrival of the newspaper, hoping to be the first to be able to read the reviews”, remarked Howell with a comment that pushed the panel to discuss their thoughts on the role of the film critic. Rosenbaum, the veteran reviewer amongst the group, remembers seeing every film that came to the chain of theatres his grandfather owned in Florence, Alabama where he grew up. Even after developing from these rural cinematic roots, Rosenbaum insists that the role of the film critic is to “assist in the discussion of film and to improve and shift the level of discussion”, and Gaffez alike feels that the critic is “a go between- a boatman between language and film”. Besides expressing their disdain for being forced to judge films with a rating system, the panel has a pretty positive outlook for this industry that seems to be eroding with every click of the mouse. Even after lamenting about reviewers and critics forcibly let go (J. Joberman formerly of The Village Voice), Howell says that although “there are so many things going on the internet, it makes sense to be afraid, but to be excited” is the key here. The panel points out that online authorship has allowed for authority to be eradicated, and now any one can have their thoughts about a film heard just as loud and fast as any publication certified authority. Howell says that the film reviewer’s job is to “be a resistor, to persuade your editor and people of your picks”, and with this transgression of authority through the internet it may be that the role of the modern day film critic is getting back to what it was once all about: reading in between the lines. While this piece chronicles the development of popular online film rating bible Rotten Tomatoes, this clip gives a sense of just how much the world of online criticism as changed in the last ten years. If you read the video’s comments section, its clear that even a site like Rotten Tomatoes, which purports itself as being all about communal criticism, has managed to show signs of adhering to a specific agenda.

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Analyzing the Impact of Matthew’s Death on Downton Abbey January 10, 2015 September 18, 2015 ~ ADMIN ~ 2 Comments Note, while I dislike spoiler notes immensely, as Downton Abbey is currently airing in America, I thought it was polite to note that this article contains minor spoilers through season five as it’s completed its run in England already. It’s hard to believe it’s been two years since the abrupt car accident took Matthew Crawley away from Downton Abbey at the tail end of the season three Christmas Special. Perhaps it feels longer because of the drop in quality since the heir to Downton left the show. The excellent season five Christmas special shows that DA does have some life left, making now an appropriate time to take a look at how Matthew’s death changed the show. Downton Abbey, being an ensemble drama, means that it’s hard to argue that Matthew’s death changed the storylines for every single character on the show, even though he was a main character. Matthew didn’t frequently interact with everybody on the show, making it hard to really say that his death impacted everyone equally. You could argue that he might have played a part in Mrs. Patmore’s dead nephew storyline, but you wouldn’t really say that his death altered her arc in any substantial way. I’ve organized the impact of Matthews’s death on the cast by five tiers. I’m going to exclude Lord Gillingham, Charles Blake, and the rest of Mary’s suitors who were introduced post season three as it’s unlikely they would have been even introduced had Matthew stayed on the show. Tier 1 (Major): Mary, Molesley Tier 2 (Secondary): Lord Grantham, Isobel Crawley Tier 3 (Unknown): Lady Rose, Tom Branson, John Bates, Anna Bates Tier 4: Everyone else. Tier 1 is fairly straightforward. Mary’s entire storyline was completely altered because of her husband’s death. No Matthew means no suitors. It’s possible that either Lord Gillingham or Charles Blake could have been introduced in a similar fashion to Simon Bricker, but most of her storylines would be in conjunction with Matthew’s. Maybe she would be a better mother. Molesley is the other one whose entire storyline was impacted by Matthew’s absence. Matthew’s death caused Molesley’s complete fall from grace, going from valet to second footman. This might have been for the best from a screen time perspective, but he was already comic relief. He might have been in a better positon to court Miss Baxter, but Fellowes has always found ways to screw Molesley. Matthew’s death took much of his dignity, but perhaps it made him more endearing to the audience. Tier 2 might be a point of debate for some, especially considering that Isobel is Matthew’s mother. But his move to Downton set up Isobel’s relationship with Violet quite nicely and I think that would have happened regardless of whether or not Matthew died. Obviously there were grief moments that wouldn’t have happened, but I don’t think her storyline took the drastic turn that Mary and Molesley experienced. Lord Grantham fits largely under the same category. Aside from the will stuff, Robert’s storylines would have happened anyway. Matthew would have been involved with the business matters, but you can mostly swap Mary out with him to see what would have happened there. I don’t think Matthew’s death necessarily precluded him from any particular storyline. We can split up the Tier 3 Unknowns into two categories. Lady Rose and Tom likely experienced slightly larger roles due to Matthew’s death. But I don’t think it’s fair to say that Matthew’s presence would lead to any major changes for either one. Rose could have still come to Downton to represent the younger side of the aristocracy. There was the role of Sybil to be replaced as well, though she was hardly a major character in season three. Tom is a bit trickier. There’s no denying that he filled some of Matthew’s role, both in Lord Grantham’s eyes and the viewer’s. But would Matthew’s presence prevent his relationship with Miss Bunting or interfere with his desire to move to America? I don’t think so. Matthew meant a great deal to Tom, but his path wasn’t blocked by having a friend and similar (relative) outsider. As for the Mr. and Mrs. Bates, they seem like an interesting choice to put in the mix considering neither shared much screen time with Matthew. But Matthew’s death lead to Lord Gillingham, which led to Mr. Greene and Anna’s subsequent rape. If Greene hadn’t done it, there’s certainly the possibility that someone else could have. But Matthew’s presence and the need to give him something to do might have cancelled that one out entirely. We don’t know. Hence the unknown. Which is sort of the same for the rest of the cast. You could say that Matthew might have developed a rapport with Carson, but that’s pure speculation that isn’t really rooted in anything. He could have gotten caught up in a Barrow plot or maybe not. One element worth speculating on is whether or not Alfred, Ivy, and Jimmy would have left if Matthew hadn’t died. While Matthew didn’t really have anything to do with those three, he was at the forefront of Downton’s “youth movement” in season three, as he and Tom worked with Lord Grantham to modernize things from a business perspective. Entering season six, that youth moment is largely gone, though there’s a new footman in Andy who could bring down the servant’s average age by quite a bit. One could point to Matthew’s death as indirectly causing Alfred’s departure as Molesley took his place as footman. I wouldn’t say that necessarily needed to be the case and the subsequent departures of Ivy and Jimmy suggest that if that hadn’t have happened, something else might have. Unless you want to make the argument that Matthew’s death elevated the importance of Molesley as a character, rendering some of the servants redundant since there’s only so much screen time to go around. Which isn’t an unfair point. Matthew’s death took much of the “let’s bring Downton into the modern times” away and instead created a sort of holding pattern that did the show no favors in its lackluster forth season. It’s fair to suggest that the show would have been more business related if for any other reason than it would’ve needed something to take the place of all the grieving over Matthew’s death. Matthew’s death may not have created much of a visible “void” considering Downton’s large cast, but it had a tremendous impact. Shows like DA tend not to get better with age, but much of the complaints over the past two years fall on Mary’s storylines and the stunting of the plot that was forced by his death. That was avoidable, but it still happened because Dan Stevens wanted off the show before Fellowes could figure out how to adjust properly.

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Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) as a Transport Layer for RADIUS RFC - Experimental (September 2014; No errata) Was draft-ietf-radext-dtls (radext WG) draft-dekok-radext-dtls SECDIR Last Call Review (of -10): Ready GENART Last Call Review (of -10): Almost Ready GENART Early Review (of -07): On the Right Track SECDIR Early Review (of -06): Has Issues Jouni Korhonen RFC 7360 (Experimental) Benoît Claise Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. DeKok Request for Comments: 7360 FreeRADIUS Category: Experimental September 2014 Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) as a Transport Layer for RADIUS The RADIUS protocol defined in RFC 2865 has limited support for authentication and encryption of RADIUS packets. The protocol transports data in the clear, although some parts of the packets can have obfuscated content. Packets may be replayed verbatim by an attacker, and client-server authentication is based on fixed shared secrets. This document specifies how the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol may be used as a fix for these problems. It also describes how implementations of this proposal can coexist with current RADIUS systems. published for examination, experimental implementation, and evaluation. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741. DeKok Experimental [Page 1] RFC 7360 DTLS as a Transport Layer for RADIUS September 2014 1.1. Terminology ................................................5 1.2. Requirements Language ......................................5 1.3. Document Status ............................................5 2. Building on Existing Foundations ................................6 2.1. Changes to RADIUS ..........................................7 2.2. Similarities with RADIUS/TLS ...............................8 2.2.1. Changes from RADIUS/TLS to RADIUS/DTLS ..............8 3. Interaction with RADIUS/UDP .....................................9 3.1. DTLS Port and Packet Types ................................10 3.2. Server Behavior ...........................................10 4. Client Behavior ................................................11 5. Session Management .............................................12 5.1. Server Session Management .................................12 5.1.1. Session Opening and Closing ........................13 5.2. Client Session Management .................................15 6. Implementation Guidelines ......................................16 6.1. Client Implementations ....................................17 6.2. Server Implementations ....................................18 7. Diameter Considerations ........................................18 9. Implementation Status ..........................................18 9.1. Radsecproxy ...............................................19 9.2. jradius ...................................................19 10. Security Considerations .......................................19 10.1. Crypto-Agility ...........................................20 10.2. Legacy RADIUS Security ...................................21 10.3. Resource Exhaustion ......................................22 10.4. Client-Server Authentication with DTLS ...................22 10.5. Network Address Translation ..............................24

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When the going gets tough, get a woman 64 women to sue in 3 Japanese courts over health woes from cervical cancer vaccines A group of lawyers for 64 women who are suffering health problems from cervical cancer vaccines said Tuesday the victims will file damages lawsuits against the government and two drug makers that produced the vaccines through four district courts on July 27. Of the 64 women, 28 will lodge their suit with the Tokyo District Court, six with the Nagoya District Court, 16 with the Osaka District Court and 14 with the Fukuoka District Court, according to the lawyers. Initially, the victims, mainly teenagers, will demand ¥15 million in damages each, for a total of ¥960 million, and increase the amount later depending on their symptoms. The victims’ health problems include pain all over the body. The average age of the 28 planning to file their suit with the Tokyo court is 18. They received the vaccination when they were between 11 and 16 years old. Noting that the cervical cancer vaccines have caused nerve disorders and other problems due to the excessive immune reactions they caused, the lawyers claimed that the government’s approval of the ineffective vaccines was illegal. The drug makers bear product liability, they added. Masumi Minaguchi, one of the lawyers, said, “We aim to clarify the responsibilities of the government and the drug makers through the lawsuits so that the victims can live without anxiety:’ Cervical cancer vaccines were included in routine vaccination programs in April 2013. But the government stopped its recommendations for the use of the vaccines in June the same year after receiving reports on complaints of health damage. Meanwhile, the Japan Pediatric Society and 16 other institutions in April recommended active use of the vaccines, saying it is clear they are effective in preventing cervical cancer. The organization behind this action is MedWatcher Japan, who have been one of the most effective organizations in the world at holding Pharma to account. Two of their key players Masumi Minaguchi and Hiro Bepu are seen here. Masumi Minaguchi is the lawyer taking this case. In this case MedWatcher have capitalized on the fact the HPV Vaccine is given primarily to girls and women who are old enough to be able to complain when things go wrong afterwards. The science behind the MedWatcher case is presented in their refutation of the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety position which can be accessed HERE. The HPV vaccines look like being a problem for vaccine advocates in that they puncture the claim that vaccines are safe and the only risks stem from not giving them. Earlier this year Merck admitted their Shingles vaccine could cause eye damage. Again the difference is that the people suffering the harm are old enough to make their voices heard. The response from vaccine advocates in the case of HPV vaccines has been to push for giving these vaccines in infancy. Vaccines are a conundrum. They can clearly be effective and most of us would want to avail of most of them. But where elsewhere in medicine, it is legitimate to be against over-medicalization, being against over-vaccination puts anyone who advocates it beyond the pale. Drug Development Technology.. “The decision to immunise girls as young as 12–13 years has caused much controversy. Given that the virus is only transmitted through sex, some parents felt uneasy that their children had to be immunised at such low age. Adding to this are the fears generated by adverse reactions caused by the vaccine in younger children. According to a report released by the UK government in March 2009, the vaccine caused 1,340 instances of adverse reactions such as nausea, convulsions, fatigue, fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, paraesthesia and myalgia (muscular pains). However, the UK government has defended the decision, with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announcing that most of the adverse reactions were in line with expectations and were due to recognised side effects. The Department of Health and MHRA started the immunisation programme for 12–13-year-old girls in September 2008 and the vaccine will be offered to 17–18-year-old girls during 2010. Why, not? Beyond, the pay.all? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gsk-china-vaccine-idUSKCN0ZY0PX GSK’s China unit said in a statement Cervarix will be the first HPV vaccine licensed for use in the country and is expected to be launched there in early 2017. GSK has had a rough ride in China. It has struggled to rebuild sales after being fined nearly $500 million in 2014 for bribing doctors in the country. In May, Chinese health authorities sharply cut the prices of three drugs, including GSK’s hepatitis B drug Viread. http://www.gsk.com/en-gb/media/press-releases/2009/fda-approves-cervarix-glaxosmithkline-s-cervical-cancer-vaccine/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214662/GlaxoSmithKline-challenged-safety-Cervarix-anti-cancer-vaccine-left-girl-partially-paralysed.html ..consulting lawyers about taking action against pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and wants a full investigation into the safety of the drug Cervarix. Drug Development Tec.. http://www.drugdevelopment-technology.com/projects/cervarix/ It is noted that aluminium adjuvant is neurotoxic in high doses in the Nordic Cochrane Centre’s complaint to the European ombudsman over maladministration at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in relation to the safety of the HPV vaccines (10 October 2016): http://nordic.cochrane.org/sites/nordic.cochrane.org/files/public/uploads/ResearchHighlights/Complaint-to-ombudsman-over-EMA.pdf Dr Tom Jefferson is one of the authors of this complaint to the EMA, which acknowledges that “aluminium adjuvant is neurotoxic in high doses”. However, previously, Tom Jefferson has defended the use of aluminium in vaccines, and downplayed the risks. In 2004, The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal published a review by Tom Jefferson et al of the Cochrane Vaccines Field in which they stated: “We found no evidence that aluminium salts in vaccines cause any serious or long-lasting adverse events. Despite a lack of good-quality evidence we do not recommend that any further research on this topic is undertaken.”[1] In their review Jefferson et al admitted that “Overall, the methodological quality of included studies was low”. And yet “despite a lack of good-quality evidence” Jefferson et al advised “we do not recommend that any further research on this topic is undertaken”. Is this not bizarre? I challenged Tom Jefferson about this, and also wrote to the Editor of The Lancet Infectious Diseases requesting that Jefferson et al’s poorly evidenced review be retracted. I received no response. My letters on this topic can be accessed via this link: https://over-vaccination.net/aluminium-and-vaccine-safety/ Certainly children are now being subjected to more and more aluminium-adjuvanted vaccines, e.g. repeat shots of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccines, multiple shots of HPV vaccines, and recently the meningococcal B vaccine Bexsero has been added to the UK schedule, in very dubious circumstances, as summarised by John Stone: http://www.ageofautism.com/2015/12/gsk-document-appears-to-show-vaccine-committee-chair-used-position-to-favour-own-product.html I suggest Jefferson et al’s 2004 review on aluminium and vaccine safety facilitated poorly evidenced acceptance of the safety of aluminium-adjuvanted vaccines, and the result is the burgeoning number of aluminium-adjuvanted vaccines and revaccinations we are seeing today. When is Jefferson going to address the fallout of his 2004 review, which he admits was based on studies of low methodological quality? 1. Jefferson T, Rudin M, Di Pietrantoni C. Adverse events after immunisation with aluminium-containing DTP vaccines: systematic review of the evidence. Lancet Infect Dis. 2004 Feb; 4(2):84-90: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14871632 CORRECTED VERSION It is a very great conundrum: it seems like commonsense but it also turns the basic medical principle of medical ethics “First do no harm” on its head. In some cases the principle of not doing harm can be violated in absurd ways (for instance, with the nasal flu vaccine which actually puts the unvaccinated population at risk by uncontrolled shedding while being largely useless at preventing the disease). If preventing harm was really the fundamental motivation of of the program (as opposed to making loads of money out of a captive market) why would such a product be licensed and added to the schedule? Another basic issue, which I highlighted in these columns is the repressive measures (which occur at various institutional levels) to prevent real harm ever being publicly discussed. If vaccines were that good, what would be the problem? Or we could consider the hundreds of millions of vaccine products that have been issued and administered in the UK since 2010 without a single case of injury ever having been compensated (as far as I know) amid all but complete suppression of public discussion. We have an incredible machine for asserting the benefits and denying the harms (and most particularly for trashing anyone dares ever to speak up). Although vaccines are not scrutinised very carefully, we still have pretty good idea that in many cases they are not that effective, and not that safe. My own view is that if this is going to be any kind proper public policy it should be done more carefully, later (in the case of small children), and less – while victims and critics have to be listened to respectfully. The vast hostility which is unleashed on anyone who speaks up in itself skews any scientific base for the safety of product and may also give the impression that they are much more effective than in reality (for one thing doctors stop diagnosing the disease). I remember a Nuffield consultation on bioethecs a decade ago which made the claim that vaccines had eradicated whooping cough, which was not at all the case (it was just nobody diagnosed it because they were not looking) and it is also very dangerous vaccine. The JCVI and the DH long ago buried the evidence and this awful story was reported by Bill Inman (founder of the UK Yellow Card Scheme) in his book ‘Don’t tell the patient’. But in 1990, a decade and a half after the problem was discovered, they deliberately stepped up the risk by intensifying the program with an accelerated schedule. Do we want “most” vaccines? If you look at the US and UK schedules for infants and young children, they are bulging: the ACIP and the JCVI scarcely know how to fit any more in, but many more are on their way. Vaccines are being proposed as an answer to antibiotic overload but we have no test basis for believing the present schedule is sustainable, let alone a further greatly expanded one to combat other forms of institutional/industrial lassitude. The question is “How do we prevent disease?” and I think we have probably vastly over-estimated the role of such products. I don’t think Tom Jefferson has been above reproach in this saga but I also think of his comment when Der Spiegel quizzed him about what he would do about the swine flu virus in 2009, and he remarked that he washed his hands rather a lot. The primary elements in controlling disease are clean water, sanitation, good nutrition, decent housing. Vaccines, if and when they work do so by artificially stimulating inflammation while evading the body’s normal immune defences. I think it is only something which could be done very cautiously – and require a very different ethos. You could not call what we have now an ethos at all: it is more like the witches in Macbeth “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”. Incidentally, all submissions to the Nuffield consultation were supposed to be posted on the web. Mine did not appear and they denied ever having received it. It did not appear after being re-submitted either. It also points to another bioethicist trick of arguing on the basis of a false scientific premise. Of course, if the scientific premise was true then the conclusion might follow – in this instance it is always the case for forced vaccination – but actually it is just a bureaucratic construction (and often a deeply corrupt one), not science. http://www.ageofautism.com/2013/12/dorit-rubinstein-reiss-and-the-weakness-of-vaccine-science.html It is fortunate at least that the Nuffield consultation’s report stepped back from recommending forced vaccination – after all the great and good would have to have their own children and grandchildren vaccinated. This is probably a different situation from the US and Australia since financial sanctions against non-vaccinators would probably not be politically acceptable here (ie you buy out if you are rich enough). Here’s some information on HPV vaccination from an Australian layperson’s perspective, which I suggest is relevant to the international situation, including Japan. In particular, I suggest there should be more critical analysis of the implementation of HPV vaccination in Australia in 2006/2007. In this regard please see the detailed letter I forwarded to Irish Senator Paschal Mooney in November 2015, which includes background on the questionable implementation of Gardasil HPV vaccination in Australia, an action that had a domino effect with the implementation of HPV vaccination around the world. The letter is available via this link: https://elizabethhart.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/letter-to-senator-paschal-mooney-re-hpv-vaccination.pdf In my letter I include information on the way the Gardasil vaccine was fast-tracked in Australia in 2006/2007, after it was initially knocked back by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, a decision that was over-turned within 24 hours by the then Australian Prime Minister John Howard, after pressure from senators and vested interests. This occurred in the lead-up to the 2007 Australian Federal election. This political decision to fast-track HPV vaccination in Australia had massive consequences. I suggest more attention should be paid to the very questionable way this vaccination was implemented in Australia, and subsequently fast-tracked around the world. Some academics challenged this at the time, i.e. Marion Haas et al and Elizabeth Roughead et al, (as detailed in my letter to Senator Mooney), but this appears to have been suffocated. This matter needs to be resurrected. Not only did we have questionable implementation of this vaccine in the first place, but subsequently we’ve been inundated by so-called ‘peer-reviewed’ material backing HPV vaccination, safety etc. But how objective is this material? Much of it is associated with industry funding, and with academics who have been involved with HPV vaccination since its inception, e.g. Julia Brotherton, Suzanne Garland and Peter McIntyre in Australia, and Lauri Markowitz (CDC) in the US. It is inappropriate that these people are also reviewing the effectiveness and safety of HPV vaccination. Markowitz is an author of the Cochrane HPV vaccine review – which has not as yet seen the light of day. I followed up on this with Cochrane’s Editor-in-Chief, David Tovey, recently, and it’s still not ready… The aggressive promotion of the HPV vaccines is astounding, only lip service is paid to any idea of real evaluation of risks and benefits and ‘informed consent’ before this vaccination. At this stage we have no idea of the long-term repercussions of these vaccine products, but how many children and parents know that? Precious few I would wager. The children are guinea pigs and they don’t know this. In regards to the way the death rate of cervical cancer is promoted, e.g. that cervical cancer kills 250,000 annually, (a figure used by Ian Frazer in his HPV vaccine promotion), I suggest use of this figure is alarmist in countries such as Australia, where the death rate from cervical cancer is low, and has been declining before the implementation of HPV vaccination. We hear that cervical cancer is more deadly in developing countries. Is it? Where’s the evidence? It’s my understanding the alarming 250,000 figure is an estimate. It’s wrong that ‘estimates’ are being used as fact to sell this vaccine, particularly in countries where this figure is absolutely not relevant, such as Australia. Also, in regards to cervical cancer being more prevalent in developing countries, it’s ironic that it’s mostly girls and women in developed countries who are getting the jab, see this report on CIDRAP: First estimate of global HPV vaccine uptake finds wide disparities (scroll down this webpage for the article: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2016/06/news-scan-jun-21-2016 ) Of course HPV vax is being promoted in developed countries, these are the countries that are being hit for the high cost of this vaccine, around $400 for the three doses in Australia I understand, although there is much secrecy about the cost of vaccines in this country, an expense that is hidden from taxpayers. Again, I suggest it’s time to revisit the questionable way HPV vaccination was implemented in Australia in 2006/2007 and subsequently around the world, including the vested interests of promoting parties such as academics and the pharmaceutical industry. Benzo, opioids, SSRI’s, vaccine, drugs who are almost all right on the edge of being illicit on the molecular level. But they are pharmaceutical drugs, we still need them in one shape or form. But right now they aren’t treated with the necessary respect. We need a system like the “NTSB” (And other air traffic inspectionary agencies) The “NTSB” is probably not free from corruption, I’m sure Boeing and Airbus spends alot on greasing the inspectors to withhold information. But from the outside their system seems to work. But their “essence” is what we need, men and women who are almost obsessed with finding the cause, the root cause, in literal seas of debris. Finding such humans are not hard, I believe this page is set up by one. The internet contains many others, from vaccine to opioids, from GMO’s to global warming. The issue is to get Big Pharma to see the importance of costumer relations, and to stop their blockage of truly unbiased science. Well, it’s an ‘Utopia’, not very likely to happen, but all of humanity would need it, so we should atleast strive for it? Ove2016 I can remember the pressure for our children to have the Whooping Cough and other vaccines, and only just managing to get them excluded from the former because they had both had small fits in early babyhood. They never contracted Whooping Cough. I can also remember chatting with a headmaster during the lunch break when I was running an arts workshop for his primary school. He told me about his young daughter, who had been fine until the day she had her injections. Overnight, she had fever, and she changed. She was brain damaged. No one would listen to him and his wife explaining how they just absolutely KNEW the injection had done this. They were told it would have happened anyway, maybe it was just the way this child had naturally developed. There was no compensation, which might at least have helped the family pay for physical help with round-the-clock care for her. Backs were turned, walls of denial went up, from the medical profession and Government. No boat rocking here please! As John Stone states, ‘there are institutional directives to stop these real harms being discussed’, or even I feel, admitted. Another friend of mine has a son who suddenly became ?autistic almost immediately after vaccination. He has had great struggles getting employment, and being treated with respect by his peers. He is a fine person and was a great friend of my son’s, but he has had his life’s chances compromised for the sake of the many. His sister has struggled to get single vaccinations instead of the 3-in-one for her child. I think in Australia you have to have had all three to be accepted for a school place. Another friend’s daughter did not want to have the cervical cancer vaccine, which was being rolled out routinely at her school. The fight she had over establishing her daughter’s expressed wish and right not to have it, caused great stress. You can’t have it both ways. If you insist that these vaccines be used on all, then you must admit when they cause damage (even if you scientifically cannot prove causal link – you MUST credit the parents with knowing their own child and reporting linked change, even if you overcompensate in some cases) and expend all possible resources and understanding for anyone badly affected by them. In medicine there seems to be an acceptance of ‘collateral damage’ – a few are sacrificed for the supposed benefit of the majority. We’ve heard it from the mouth of an MHRA representative ourselves in front of MPs, regarding the acne drug RoAccutane/isotretinoin, made by Roche. And then there was the anti-malarial drug Lariam, routinely dished out to the Army, thousands badly affected. Lariam, also made by Roche…. And then, quietly, they hush it up. Of course, it’s Catch 22 isn’t it; if you admit there is any damage at all, then word will get around and the herd will stampede away from the risk and refuse the meds. Maybe we need to go back to the painstaking hand washing, and other kinds of hygiene and behaviour, to avoid the need for quick fix vaccines at all. having taught for 40 years in primary schools, the final 12 or so years as nursery teacher,special needs co-ordinator and special needs teacher in mainstream primaries, I have lost count of the number of pupils that we came across who had been ‘damaged by vaccines’. The parents could pinpoint the day that things changed for their child and even tell you how many hours that was after the vaccination. The ‘damage’ were mainly in specific language areas all the way up to, and including, autism. The ‘evidence’ was from parents – no-one, psychiatrists, psychologists nor speech and language specialists would accept the reality of the situation. I recall one family where the child concerned was their 8th. You would expect a mum of eight to be on the ball as regards progress suddenly lost and replaced by regression, and she was. She harassed the LEA to have a Statement of Need for her son – and, eventually, got it. All along she was told things like ‘ choosing Welsh-medium education for a child from a non-Welsh speaking family’ had caused the problem. All of her children had been through the school – so that argument didn’t hold water. They also tried to say that ‘he was communicating non-verbally because the older siblings were speaking on his behalf’. That didn’t hold water either as the poor lad couldn’t, and didn’t wish to, give eye-contact never mind any communication. All that he was really expressing was “leave me alone in my little world”. The professionals had to eat their words when, with many hours spent 1 on 1, he became a Welsh speaker and managed fairly well within mainstream classes. We had insisted all along that being in our nursery class would give him a second chance at language acquisition since roughly 1% only of the intake came to school with a command of the Welsh language – and it certainly worked for him. It is disgusting that parents have to suffer like this. It is distressing to see your child falling back rather than making progress, having to fight the system to get their entitlement is soul destroying. It happens at all levels and needs to be fought tooth and nail so that the rights of parents, on behalf of their children, takes priority over the ‘commands of governments’. When the going gets tough, get a girl.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3958640/I-never-forgive-GP-gave-daughter-anxiety-pills-used-life-anguish-mum-kept-dark-16-year-old-s-prescription.html I put up this mother’s petition to Holyrood last week and yes, it is a Scottish Petition to Parliament, and, yes, it should be signed by anyone and everyone in the world. Police launched an investigation and interviewed the GP. Dr. Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs: “Prescribing is a core skill for GPs and we will only prescribe medication after a full and frank discussion with the patient to see if this is in the best interests of their health.” There is not one word of truth in this Statement. These Parasites of the Nations stick together like Araldite.. Did anyone detect the sympathy..the concern,..sweet sixteen and for what…28 Beta Blockers http://rxisk.org/drug/2195/propranolol/ https://www.parliament.scot/GettingInvolved/Petitions/PE01627 Annie, thank you for alerting us to this desperately sad story. We’ve signed up to the petition. Once again, here we see a death happening and parents being sidelined and kept out of the loop by a GP. The whole ‘family ethic’ is being lost. Everything in our society is being stood on its head. To think that a 16 year old would feel she had to be so ‘strong and grown up’ that she went alone and confidentially to the GP for help with anxiety, and then, even when she overdosed, she spent precious time Googling overdose effects of the beta blocker, and Facebooking her friends for help, when mum and dad were a few steps and seconds away in their bedroom and might have saved her if they’d known in time. Is this what our children’s world has become? These are young people, with so many vulnerabilities, with loving families who care, but their caring is not trendy these days, it’s not cool, it can’t be normal…. Those poor, poor parents, who have nurtured and loved that daughter for 16 years, and now three packets of pills and a thoughtless GP has taken her away for ever. How utterly mad is that. When the going gets tough, get an Adam.. Paul Ivsin @ivsin Once again, #AllTrials takes a good idea and treats it shoddily. Nice clear review of their latest halfassed work: Adam Jacobs @statsguyuk New blogpost: the #TrialsTracker and post-truth politics http://bit.ly/2eWxnUW #medcomms #alltrials http://www.statsguy.co.uk/the-trials-tracker-and-post-truth-politics/ One thought on “The Trials Tracker and post-truth politics” Caroline Struthers says: 22nd November 2016 at 2:59 pm Fabulous work. I think the job you did of tracking down the pharma sponsored trials which Trial Tracker claimed were undisclosed would be a fantastic “citizen science” task which would get interested members of the public engaged with this issue better than All Trials and Open Trials have done up to now. As you point out, the main undisclosers are from academia not industry. Tracking down conflicts of interest could be another interesting task to crowd source. Why? Because we want to fix medicine and science. “Then, GlaxoSmithKline joined the campaign, the game changed. With Pharma on board it would be impossible for people to pretend that this problem didn’t exist.” ThestoryofAlltrials http://www.senseaboutscienceusa.org/alltrials/ Alltrials USA featuring the one and only GlaxoSmithKline which happens to rhyme with Study329 Why?? Not only has the Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners completely misled the public by exclaiming in the National Press that ALL GPs are knowledgeable about psychotropic drugs but the MHRA is also totally misleading with claims of ‘Serotonin’ boosting qualities and accordingly not paying attention to the Long Lists of ADRs in the PIL Leaflets? These Two Complete Errors of Judgement are given to us as if we are born yesterday…? Bob’s ‘chemical imbalance’ correspondence: Dear Mr Fiddaman Apologies for the delay in responding. Regarding your below enquiry, benefits are considered to be the therapeutic effects of the product to improve the medical conditions for which a product licence has been granted. These are set out as the Therapeutic Indications in the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) and in the uses of the product in the Patient Information Leaflet (PIL). To further understand these benefits, you have asked what positive thing is going to happen to alleviate your depression. The way in which the therapeutic effects are achieved is also explained in these documents. In the case of fluoxetine, it raises the level of the neurotransmitter, serotonin, in the brain which can improve symptoms of depression (and the other indications listed). The MHRA does not promote medicines, but agrees in the SmPC a factual summary of the effects of taking a particular medicine based on the results of clinical and non-clinical studies. I hope this answers your question. The FOI Licensing Team So, in essence you are telling me that, “In the case of fluoxetine, it raises the level of the neurotransmitter, serotonin, in the brain which can improve symptoms of depression.” is the one benefit and that this one benefit has been measured against the risks and the MHRA have granted Prozac a licence because they see that this one benefit outweighs the following reported risks with Prozac use… Please try and help me (and others) understand how one benefit of a product outweighs the following risks associated with Prozac use. All risks taken from the MHRA fluoxetine Drug Analysis Print (DAP) (http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/groups/public/documents/sentineldocuments/dap_19529665880175380.pdf) Benefits v Risk Prozac Use. It raises the level of the neurotransmitter, serotonin, in the brain which can improve symptoms of depression Ear disorders Asthenic conditions Death and sudden death Febrile disorders Feeling abnormal Feeling jittery Gait disturbance Peripheral swelling Face oedema Drug withdrawal syndrome Hepatic disorders Exposure during breast feeding Foetal exposure during pregnancy Fractures and dislocations Electrocardiogram QT prolonged Heart rate increased Abnormal liver function Blood sodium decreased Weight decrease Weight increase Blood prolactin increase Platelet count decrease Haemoglobin decrease Blood creatine phosphokinase increase Blood pressure increase Blood pressure decrease Muscle & tissue disorders Seizures and seizure disorders Foetal growth complications Foetal death Abnormal behaviour Homicidal ideation Personality change Violence-related symptoms Confusion and disorientation Depersonalisation/derealisation disorders Emotional and mood disturbances Fluctuating mood symptoms Impulsive behaviour Orgasmic disorders and disturbances Nightmares and abnormal dreams Acute psychosis Psychotic behaviour Libido decrease Libido increase Dysphemia Akathisia Completed suicide Intentional self-injury Thinking abnormal Renal & urinary disorders Reproductive & breast disorders Homicide completion Bob Fiddaman. http://fiddaman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/prozac-benefits-vs-risks-mhra.html Would the appropriate authority mind telling us in a succinct paragraph ‘what is wrong’ with this Statement of Fact? This is important as this seems to be the basis on which Pharma has ‘educated’ Doctors to deliver. From the Wall Street Journal Stopping the Spread of Japan’s Antivaccine Panic – WSJ http://www.wsj.com/articles/stopping-the-spread-of-japans-antivaccine-panic-1480006636 “Japanese women’s health is increasingly at risk as public-health policy is driven by conspiracy theories, misguided political interference and bureaucratic caution. This is particularly evident in the government’s handling of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to protect against cervical cancer. In June 2013, just two months after the HPV vaccine was included in the National Immunization Program, the Japanese government made the unusual and perplexing decision to keep the vaccine in the NIP but suspend “proactive” recommendations for it. This was evidently in response to highly publicized accounts of alleged adverse reactions. The result was that girls in the target age group, from the 6th grade of primary school to the third grade of high school, stopped receiving the vaccine. Vaccination rates dropped to below 1% from about 70%…. The Vaccine Adverse Reactions Review Committee, a task force established by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare’s Health Science Council, has repeatedly concluded that no causal link exists between HPV vaccines and professed symptoms, and that most reported cases were likely psychosomatic. …” “These events are reminiscent of the biggest vaccine scandal in history. In 1998, Andrew Wakefield published “scientific data” in the Lancet as evidence that the MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella caused autism. Mr. Wakefield’s data was later found to be manipulated, but it was not until 2010 that his paper was retracted and his medical license revoked. Earlier this year, Mr. Wakefield released a movie called “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe.” Robert De Niro, whose son is autistic, tried to premiere this movie at the Tribeca Film Festival. This once again fueled antivaccine sentiment in the U.S. We can’t afford to sit back and allow a similar situation to develop in which unscientific claims jeopardize lives around the world. The Japanese government should reinstate its proactive recommendation for the HPV vaccine..” Very crude stuff. No mention of the fact, of course, that when Wakefield’s data was reviewed by a High Court judge in the case of his senior colleague Prof Walker-Smith it was found to be perfectly in order, but of course it does not tell you anything about HPV vaccine (two completely different products anyway). What links the stories is that with vaccine culture you have to have a vitriolic campaign against anyone who doubts (and like the Sunday Times who went after Wakefield the WSJ is Murdoch owned). You can employ the same same machine and invoke the public good irrespective of the product.

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Tag Archives: South West Peninsula Eleven Genomics Medicine Centres Planned for England (BBC News / Department of Health / NHS England) Posted on December 22, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News Summary The NHS has announced further steps in a genetics project, which will involve 11 Genomics Medicine Centres being created in English hospitals to gather DNA information. 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Woman Found Dead In Tarrant County Jail UPDATED | October 18, 2015, 9:34 PM October 18, 2015 at 4:44 pm Filed Under:Attorney general, dead, Death, Fort Worth, investigation, jail, jail cell, North Lamar Street, Tarrant County, Tarrant County Medical Examiner, Tarrant County Sheriff, Tarrant County Sheriff's Department, Texas Attorney General FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) — A woman was found dead inside Tarrant County jail Saturday night. Lupita Hernandez, 38, was alone when her body was discovered, Tarrant County Sheriff’s Department representative Terry Grisham said. Records indicated Hernandez died at 9:43 p.m. Saturday in a jail cell at the Tarrant County Corrections Center on North Lamar Street, but Grisham later said she was inside the medical unit of the jail when she died. There are two medical units — one for men and one for women. The medical unit is a 33-bed facility operated by John Peter Smith Hospital to provide medical services, according to Grisham. Grisham did not say what Hernandez was being treated for, but did confirm officers found no obvious signs of trauma. Grisham earlier said Hernandez did not die as a result of a fight. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner will determine the cause and manner of death. The department is awaiting those results. The department will conduct an internal investigation and send the report to the Texas Attorney General for review, Grisham said.

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Home / Film / Interviews / Talking To The King: Bruce Campbell and “Ash Vs. Evil Dead” Roundtable Talking To The King: Bruce Campbell and “Ash Vs. Evil Dead” Roundtable Posted by: Rob Dilauro in Interviews, Slider October 31, 2015 0 There are many incredible things to be happy about when it comes to “geek-dom”, the best example would be Star Wars which will crush the box office like the Empire upon its release, but for horror fans, the greatest thing that could happen is only days away, the return of Ash Williams from the Evil Dead franchise! It has been twenty-four years since Bruce donned the chainsaw and the “boom stick”, we begged and pleaded for it, and the team of Raimi, Tapert, and Campbell himself finally listened. The world that we loved for years has returned in the new STARZ series, Ash Vs. Evil Dead. I can tell all of you, I have witnessed the first two episodes, and with no “pillow talk”, this is EXACTLY what we desired and then some, it is Ash in all of his glory, and Ray Santiago and Dana DeLorenzo are excellent additions to his Deadite fighting crew. This week, I have sated my thirst for something I have wanted since Army Of Darkness, the true return of the classic film series, and I also had the extreme pleasure of joining a Q&A session with the man of the hour himself, Bruce Campbell, and talk to him about the upcoming show. The following is a complete transcript of a round-table discussion that took place October 27th. Bruce Campbell: Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Bruce Campbell: Good morning. Mr. Eric: Okay. Hi, Bruce, how are you today? Bruce Campbell:: Good, sir. Thank you. Mr. Eric: All right. So, I guess I have to ask, what was it like to play Ash again after so much time, and is Sam still torturing you the way he did when you guys were growing up? Bruce Campbell: The answer is good and yes. I mean, it’s great to get back to this character, it’s probably the most fun character there is to play. Now, we can use all of our experience to build on this character again and flesh him out even more. And yes, Sam is just as cruel as he always is. Mr. Eric: But you guys are still having fun, yes? Bruce Campbell: Yes, pretty much. Mr. Eric: How does it feel putting the chainsaw back on , and having fake blood thrown all over you again? Bruce Campbell:It reminded me of how much I hate fake blood. (Laughs) That hatred it runs deep, it runs really deep. It’s one of my least favorite things, it’s adhesive, surgical adhesive, and they had to use that for appliances, make up appliances and, yes, fake blood. Because it gets everywhere. Unidentified Woman 1: And is there a connection between the Evil Dead (2013), which I know you had a cameo in? Bruce Campbell: No connection, whatsoever. That was a director who had a whim, who goes I have this great idea, it has nothing to do with anything, but I want to do it. I was like, yes, whatever. So no, no connection whatsoever. Christopher Hermanez: I was wondering, now you said in the past that the video games that had come out for Play Station were Evil Dead sequels and we should look at them that way. Will any of those storylines be referenced, or did you use them for any personal reference inside of your head? Bruce Campbell: I’m glad i’m not running for office, because guys like you would dig up crap I said randomly sixteen years ago, so that’s why i’m not a politician. Because to you I could say something that was bologna I made up at the time. Okay, I lied, you got it? I lied. So now we move onto the truth, and the truth is i’m glad we had something to finally show fans where I’m not put on the spot all the time to try to make crap up. Look, we have to clarify, Army Of Darkness bombed, we didn’t make any money and it was the most expensive. So, people began to think we were lazy, or we didn’t want to go back to it. I got news for you, pal, there’s no money in the bank for it. You’re not making anything if there’s no money, so it’s just the raw truth of it. Thankfully, the fans have stepped up through all of the DVD reissues, there were eighty-six versions of Army of Darkness after that, and it became an American Movie Classic, you know, the channel. And so fans drove it, and they drove it at these personal appearances since ’88. They haven’t let it go, so they finally got it, regardless of what I said, when I said or how I said it, we’re here, and it’s a good day. Krisha Plalica: Great. Okay, Bruce, you’ve done so much with this character. What are you looking forward to doing with him now that you have all this experience and the opportunity to do it? Bruce Campbell: Well, you know, people have only seen four and a half hours worth of Ash. In this first season alone, we’re going to do five new hours of Ash, so i’m actually looking forward to finally seeing that Ash is going to interact with other people now. He has to be a leader, so it’s a slightly different story in that the character has to evolve, the story has to get bigger. And I’m looking forward to that so that I can take enough time to finally be with Ash. The other movies, you know, I had a week that went by without any dialogue, like shooting Evil Dead 2 got trapped in the cabin, so it’s Ash getting out in the wild, you know, getting into suburbia. (Laughs) So, that’s the fun thing to do is interact with other people. Travis Dale: You just mentioned how much of a bomb Army of Darkness was, and I was curious because nothing from Army of Darkness was mentioned in the theme Ash explaining the Evil Dead to Pablo. Is that intentional, are you guys not going to reference any events to that movie in the series? Bruce Campbell: Correct. Travis Dale: Correct like you’re skipping it over it, it’s not canon anymore, or he’s not going to be going back to the other world? Bruce Campbell: Correct in that that’s not material that we can do legally, so we’re not going to do it. It’s a whole complicated bunch of legal mumbo jumbo that’s not even worth going into. The three movies were made by three different companies, so that should tell you to call your uncle the lawyer and talk to him about it. He’ll laugh, and he’ll go, “Three movies, three companies, and you want to make a T.V. show? This should be fun.” So, it’s very complicated to put together, and i’m just really grateful that it all worked out, here we are. But it means there are things we can include, things we can’t, but you know, everything that Ash needed was in the first two movies anyway, anything he ever used, so it’s all good. Cinnamon Vokrow: Okay, so we have shows like Southland that have gotten cancelled and then picked up by other stations and then the ratings had gone through the roof. And then you have shows like The Walking Dead that have got turned away by other stations and then picked up, and then the ratings have gone through the roof, so how does STARZ enter into this? Bruce Campbell: They had what we needed. They gave us the budget we were looking for and they gave us the leeway we were looking for, and they give us unrestricted content that those movies demand. So they were really, out of the suitors that we had, they were actually the only company that i’m aware out there that could give us that criteria, and that did it. That sealed the deal right there, and you know, look, these guys are growing as a company. I like being part of companies that are growing and expanding rather than shrinking and contracting, and they’re willing to stay on the cutting edge. They want to do shows that people not only like but they like a lot, and I think we provided something like that for them, and I think we’re attracted to them because this show can actually play around the world. Not all shows can. We started overseas and in the UK and then spread all over the world, I think we’re good partners. I think we’re good for each other. Tony Simms: Hi, Bruce. I got a chance to check out the pilot, it’s fantastic. Bruce Campbell: It’s the subtly, you know. Tony Simms: I have another question concerning the ‘Easter Eggs’ in hidden things. Should we be looking for more than just Oldsmobile, the ’73 Delta 88. Bruce Campbell: Well, it’s not even like we’re hiding anything, you know we are bringing back all that stuff. The problem is, you know, it’s a lot of Michigan stuff mostly, it’s Michigan Easter Eggs. There’s Michigan State University, Camp Chappaqua, the place where Sam went to camp, Faygo Red Pop, Coney Island, you know, like chili dogs that everybody eats in Michigan, And it takes place in Michigan. So, yes, there’s tons of Easter Eggs, There’s no question about it. You’ll see them in the show, we don’t hide them. The ’72 Delta 88 is the same car that’s been in all the movies, it’s the exact car, it’s not a different car which is pretty incredible. We had it put on a boat and shipped to New Zealand. Mike Davis: Evil Dead was inspired by part, I think it said at least in part, by Sam Raimi’s interest in H.P. Lovecraft. You guys grew up together, I believe, were you also a fan of Lovecraft when you were growing up as he was? Bruce Campbell: No, I didn’t give a rat’s ass about Lovecraft. I read a comic called Sad Sack, it was a silly, army-comedy comic, so that was me. I didn’t really get into that. You know, we didn’t get into horror until we decided to make our first feature film, because horror was the only type of genre that you could make cheap movies and no one cared. Like you couldn’t make a cheap drama, that would be too low budget. No one would, dramas had to have good photography and well-known actors and stuff, and horror films, you could still make drive in movies back in those days, so that’s what we did. And horror I appreciate now, it is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention, I kind of like that. It’s one of the few genres that can be very manipulative. Daniel Wilder: So, i’ve always thought that Ash appeals to genre fans because he’s sort of a societal outcast, but he has one really specific skill set, in his case fighting demons. Do you think that is why the horror fans embrace Ash? Bruce Campbell: Yes, I think it’s the correct assessment, plus the fact that he has no special skill, he is not trained. He was not part of any government agency, nothing, so I think when you watch him you go that could be me. The guy that works at 7-11, I mean I could do that, why not? I’m sick of trained heroes, I’m really bored with that, guys that are just ripped to shreds and, you know, full of skills. That’s boring to me. Give me the mechanic that picks up a weapon, you know? Now I’m interested, that’s my hero. Laura Gallagher: In Ash vs Evil Dead, are there any advancements in special effects that you are grateful for that you did not have while shooting the films? Bruce Campbell: [Laughs] Well, we tried to keep the blood real, digital blood is not effective. We had that in a couple of cases in this pilot. You know, we’re not a big proponent of digital, so the funny thing is we have better ways of delivering the blood, but it doesn’t make any of it easier or better, it just makes them better at hitting me. Their aim is better now, the chance of getting it right on the first take is better now. We do a lot more testing, we’ve used anything from a seed spreader to a paint brush dipped in blood, you know, splattered it on us that way, to a Hudson sprayer to a beer keg that converted to a pressurized, basically a blood sprayer, and then we had a cannon. So, the good news, the systems are all better, but it doesn’t make my life any easier, it makes it worse. Rob DiLauro: Oh, man, it’s so good to have you back, I just want to let you know that, man. This is like my Star Wars. Bruce Campbell: [Laughs] That’s funny that you say that, Ash vs Evil Dead, and Stars Wars. Rob DiLauro: This is it for me, man. “Star Wars”, you know, what is that? Bruce Campbell: [Laughs] Rob DiLauro: My question is when you’re working away from Sam, obviously there are a bunch of different directors on the series. Was there any difficulty for you to move away from Sam when it comes to this particular character, and just being familiar working with him? Bruce Campbell: Yes, it’s heartbreaking, because, you know, you’re used to the old man yelling at you. If somebody starts yelling at me, i’m like “I’ll punch you in the face, man.” So, there’s definitely an adjustment, and we looked we found a great set of directors. The guys were really happy with the directors that we had, I have no complaints, but it’s hard on everybody. It was me missing the old man and probably directors going, you know, “What’s with this guy?” Because we had to figure everything out. But, you know, I feel I’m the voice of Ash, so I can be at least a constant influence on the character. Kristen Clark: Sir, can you talk a little bit about the ways that we’re going to see Ash fighting personal demons, you know, as well as literal ones within these series? Bruce Campbell: Well, if it was an hour show, we’d go into his past. Thank the heavens it’s a half hour show, so we’re going to get into Ash and there will be enough about Ash that will make us want him to be our hero forever and ever for all times. And in order to do that, we have to humanize him a little bit, so I think we’ll start to see more of a leader with Ash, a little more hero qualities,-and, you know, the jerk stuff will still be there. Pure Ash, I mean you’ll get that. But I mean this time around we’re going to hopefully see a likely improved Ash, but we’ll see. Christopher Chain: Hey, big fan and I watched the pilot. My question is, what are the modern day trends in horror you wish to avoid in your show? Bruce Campbell: Torture porn, just because it’s a bore. I don’t care one way or another about it, I don’t want to rail too much about torture porn, it’s just low grade film making. I would just like to focus on a variety of horror. I want to mess with people’s minds, you want to startle them, you want to shock them, you want to disturb them, and you want to keep them on edge. Horror films are great. You can grab an audience by the scruff of their necks and force them to look at that screen, I think that’s really cool. Mike Spring: So, what’s been the biggest differences in filming Ash for a television series versus filming him in the motion picture world? Bruce Campbell: Speed is the number one only because you’re on a TV base, And TV is a very efficient medium. You get in, you get out, you do it. And I love TV, I love the pace of it because nothing gets stale. Making the other Evil Dead movies, they were great, and very informative, and very educational for all of us, but they are tedious as hell. I think movies are tedious, so bring your big, thick book to work in a big Hollywood movie. But the TV pace will never let you get that bored, you know by lunchtime you’ve given little Billy his medicine back, kissed the girl, and killed the bad guy. Shanna O’Neil: I watched the first episode and one of the things I noticed is that Ash is very different when he’s actually fighting and when he’s just being Ash. And I’m wondering where that comes from, because I notice it is literally a shift in personality. He goes from kind of bumbling, lovable kind of thing to badass, tell me what that’s about? Bruce Campbell: It’s about contrast. You know, I think with your characters you’ve got to do that, there’s Mickey Mantle at the plate and Mickey Mantle out to drink with the boys, I don’t know, I think its kind I think with characters. I heard a note from a director to an actor, this is related to me by a friend, and the director said, “I want you to be a different character in every scene.” And the actor was astounded, “What are you crazy. I’m only playing one character.” His point was that there was so much depth to humans and each individual, so in order to come close to the complexity to the most boring average person, you’d have to play each scene as a completely different character to even start to see the glimpses of all the sides of a person or even a character. So, even though I’m doing a cheesy horror series there is still some art to it. Tony Collette: It looks like from the pilot, which I thoroughly enjoyed by the way, it seems like this might be more of a road series a little bit, maybe around Michigan, or maybe beyond that too if you can comment on that? Bruce Campbell: Well, part of that depends on how the story evolves. The first season I think is definitely putting “the genie in a bottle”, after that, you got to see what roots take hold. So, I think there might be some information that’s gleaned that might take it in whatever direction it goes, so I don’t know that it’s necessarily going to be a road series, but it’s definitely becoming a slightly nomadic situation with the car, with the trailer. Yes, they are able to roll because they kind of have to roll, so that could easily change at any time. Richard Keller: I was wondering, the tone of the pilot, it’s spot on. It really nails the original all three films really, so I was wondering how much work you did on getting back to that tone? Bruce Campbell: We don’t. (Laughs) What we do is do whatever entertains us on the set, and that’s really the bottom line. The tone meetings I think come after Sam leaves the directors and talks about it, but Sam and I never talk about films. He’s the one that’s like, you know, if you put the star of your show in a man girdle hat takes balls for a director, a writer or director, to create that or do that with his character. I challenge other directors, I’m like, “I bet you can’t be as daring as Sam as far as messing with the character and really showing their flaws, their naked flaws.” Judith Ramer: The huge variety of media and genres that you worked with, from your responses it seems that it’s more where you can delve into, where you can extend your creativity and just go, that seems to be what draws you. But, is there any particular genre and or media that does draw you a little more that you might be interested in working in further? Bruce Campbell: Interesting question. It’s funny, yes, I go where the work is good. I had some people who represented me years ago who could not understand why I would go to Auckland, New Zealand, into the southern hemisphere to work on the show Hercules and then on Xena and Jack of All Trades, they just couldn’t understand it. It was a syndicated show, there’s no network, they got no respect at all. No Emmys, no nothing. And I’m like, “You don’t get it, you’re not down there on the set with us. We can get away with murder, murder. and we do.” We take the script, and we look at it, and we see what we can do. We can work with the director, work with the other actors. if somebody has an idea, they do it. It’s the most creative set I’ve ever been on, and the last time I checked as actors, that’s what you’re looking for is creativity, you’re not looking for the Rolls Royce and, you know, the big fancy trailer. Those are supposed to be the by-products of having fun, and then getting good at what you do. So, I’ll chase that to the end of the Earth, which is one of the main reasons when I was going to be Auckland, New Zealand for this show, I mean I have crew members that I know down there that I’ve known for twenty years. These people are extremely gifted at what they do and it makes our job easy because they make it look good and we make it look easy. You see them come out of their trailer, you’re cracking jokes, you punch them in the arm, you know, you’re messing with them when they’re on camera trying to get them to break up. You know, there’ s a lot of work play involved, and that’s a big appeal to it too. But other than that, the comedy, the comedy can lift your spirits. Laura Gallagher: My question is about Lucy Lawless. What was it like being reunited with her, and what is her presence added to this show? Bruce Campbell: She’s a badass, she’s a great addition to the show. She can step in and do anything we need her to do which is spectacular. She’s a great actress with an incredible amount of versatility, she can do comedy, which is great, and she can kick ass. So we’re lucky, lucky, lucky. I think you can look forward to her having an increasingly expanding role in this show, and that’s critical to me because I’ve always loved Lucy. She was great when I worked with her on Xena, and knowing that she was getting available, she wasn’t available right away during this first season, so when she was I said, “Rob, you better sit down with your wife at dinner and you better lock this in.” So, yes, it’s important to get her back, we’re really happy, and lucky. Ashley Baker: [B]eing from Michigan, I’m very ecstatic to see this show play out the way it has. And, well, I was wondering if there’s going to be any, if you will, some Michigan spoilers like Flint or Detroit? Bruce Campbell: Well, I hope so. I hope that Michigan references will never end, because if you’re setting your show in Michigan, we’re definitely going to have that. I want Ferndale, I want Royal Oak in there where I was born, you’re going to see a whole lot of references in the show, yes, it’s all Michigan all the time. Daniel Wilder: Have you had any desire to write or direct an episode of the series? Bruce Campbell: No, this is really Sam’s baby and I’m sort of in Burn Notice territory as a director also, which gives me a great position with the star because I didn’t get in any kind of authoritative figure with them. I’m a fair director when I direct, I kind of want what I want. And, no, this works great. I have so much to do with Ash, I don’t really have any desire for that. Chelsea Charatoi: Sam Raimi explained at the Comic-Con panel that other than his deed, Ash hasn’t really grown in the last thirty years. But do you think during the course of this season we’ll get to see an evolution of his character? Bruce Campbell: Yes, and thanks for asking that, because you have to. Ash is going to be, you know, he’s always sort of a pronounced character, and he’s always going to have his quirks. But, yes, he has to be a leader. The other people in this show around him have to see something in him to make them want to follow him on this quest, and they obviously do because of what’s going to happen to them, and they will have a personal stake in this as well. Ash has to be a guy who you can actually sit down and reason with from time to time, and try to convince him of something. Yes, there’s a lot of decision making to be done, and he will have to involve other people against his will. Nick Buck: I got the chance to watch the pilot episode and, holy shit, it was glorious. How do you think the fans will react once it’s released on Halloween, and was it complicated to get back in the mindset of Ash? Bruce Campbell: No, it’s not complicated to get back in the mindset of Ash. It’s difficult to get out of the bed the morning after you do a fight scene, my recuperative powers aren’t as strong. What was the first part of your question? He can’t hear me anymore; can he? Oh, fan reaction to coming out on Halloween. Well, you know, we did it for them, so I hope they like it. It’s got everything they’ve always demanded, so this time it’s maybe done a little classier. Sean Mobilehill: I’m just wondering, I mean, are there already any talks about a season two because I just want more and more? Bruce Campbell: Well, the only hints that I would say that production has to prepare for the next season, meaning you have to send the leases on warehouses, and you have to get a writer’s room going, so there are things that are taking place that would indicate that. But, there’s been no official announcement, but we haven’t been stopped from doing the necessary press for another season. How’s that for you? (Laughs) [Editor’s note: Season 2 has now been confirmed by STARZ] Derek Anderson: I know that you mentioned that Ash, he’s no longer just by himself in the cabin, he has a pair of friends and companions in Ray and Dana’s characters. I was just wondering what it’s like to kind of share the blood splatter this time around with them? Bruce Campbell: I like it because now I only get a third of it. Now, they get part of it, spread the love, man, spread the blood around, and it was great to see them all being initiated. That was a wonderful experience to see the true horror and shock on their faces when they see that stuff, they just nail them, right in your face. The reactions on each face, you could tell Ray’s expression was totally pissed, and it’s great because it works perfectly for the scene, because when they first get hit with the blood, none of us have to act because we’re all like, “Oh my God”, because you act just like you would. Ash Hamilton: It’s interesting that the franchise has evolved through the comics and the games, also the fan fiction, and that it has definitely evolved the character of Ash. Was there any of that discussed before going into the series that the expectations from fans might be a little bit different? Bruce Campbell: No, I don’t think the fan’s expectations have changed from the basics. We will always give them the basic which is carnage, mayhem, some good one-liners, an unusual hero, I think part of the attraction that fans will continue to like is that he’s a good guy. He might be an idiot but he’s a good guy, and he’s always going to try to do the right thing against ridiculous odds. Kyle Wilson: Hey, Bruce. I wanted to talk about the scale of the rest of Season One because in Evil Dead, you guys are all trapped in a cabin, this time you’re out in sort of the free world. It seems to be hinting the Deadites are going to be a more global or at least national scale. Can you talk a little bit about the overall threats? Bruce Campbell: Well, I don’t think it’s one of these situations where it’s like World War Z or something like that. I think this is something more local-regional, at least for right now. But it’s definitely a threat, and it’s definitely coming from one area, it’s definitely near where Ash was. Risa Dryer: So, the first episode captured that great balance of horror and comedy from the films, I was wondering if you’re going to keep with that balance, or if we’re going to see more episodes that are more horror and more serious, or ones that are completely slap-sticky, or is the balance going to be more maintained? Bruce Campbell: I think we’re going to keep a pretty good balance. It’s a horror show where we do take the horror seriously, so a fan of only horror, I don’t think will be insulted by our approach of horror. We take it very seriously and hopefully we’ll give them some good stuff to freak out about. The comedy for me lets everybody know that wink, that this is ultimately entertainment. For me, it takes the creepiness out a little bit because it’s still over the top, but it becomes nothing that you can see on the six o’clock news. That’s what has always appealed to me about this approach. Adam Monroe: Over the years I imagine you’ve probably been approached by any number of writers with all kinds of ideas for Ash and the Evil Dead. For years, there was the “Ash vs Freddy vs Jason” rumor floating around, can you talk about maybe a few of the things, some of the more crazy ideas that people pitched you about The Evil Dead that you’re probably much happier to have done this show instead of? Bruce Campbell: Oh, yes, I mean this TV show, look, the good news here is none of us are tormented about doing some bastardized version of the show or the movie. This is going to be as true to form as possible with the whole approach. As far as the second part of your question, it was the conversation with New Line about doing “Ash Versus Jason Versus Freddy”, and I was interested because I wanted to kill them both. But we were informed that no one is killing anybody and we would only have control over what happens to the Ash character, we couldn’t control the story, we couldn’t control what Ash does to anybody else. I’m like, “This sounds really not creative.” I’m so glad that we’re back to this again because we can finally do it right. Rob Delario: In the Army of Darkness uncut version you’ve got a love scene where it’s very passionate, and the silk sheets and all of that. and this Ash gives a woman a piece of Ash in the bathroom. How awkward was that scene to shoot in the bathroom? Bruce Campbell: Awkward? Sex scenes are always awkward. I don’t dig them, but it works either for comedic or story effect. In this case, we used it to trigger a story point, so I didn’t have a problem with it, because it wasn’t completely random. It was actually leading up to something. John Espinosa: So you’re basically the cause and solution of all of his problems. What do you think makes him so prolific to audiences. Bruce Campbell: Because he’s just like you, we make our own problems every time, everything that we complain about is something we can solve. So that’s why I think Ash is universal, because it’s like looking into the mirror. John Longley: I was wondering, first of all the pilot was just amazing. What I really noticed was that scene with the doll was very much like the scene with your hand from Evil Dead 2. I was wondering how it was acting with, you know, something that was going to be CG rather than, you know, in Evil Dead you actually had a hand, messing around, you were holding it, hitting it and all that kind of stuff because it was, you know, your hand. What was the difference there? Bruce Campbell: Well, everything. You have a physical thing and something ethereal in another case. It’s all acting so it doesn’t really matter whether you’re fighting with your actual hand or fake hand, it’s all fake. So the level of fakery doesn’t go up or down, it’s all fake. Like where does the music come? Whenever I get a logic question I go, “Where does the music come from in the movies?” There’s never any answer. Laura Dengrove: . I just wanted to let you know Evil Dead is like my dream come true, that whole film is perfect. Bruce Campbell: Now who dragged you into it though? Laura Dengrove: Well, my actually family. I have an “Evil Dead family”, it’s kind of been passed down to all of us. Bruce Campbell: Okay. Laura Dengrove: So it’s a real staple in the family. Bruce Campbell: Okay. Well, give them all my fondest regards. Laura Dengrove: Oh, I shall. So I wanted to talk about one of my favorite things in some of Sam’s other films, the cameos that you do. They are usually the funniest parts of the films to me. I’m just wondering, Sam has done cameos, I’m wondering if we can expect any cameos from him at all throughout the season? Bruce Campbell: Oh, cameos from Sam? Oh my God, I don’t think so. Sam is more like Howard Hughes these days, Sam is “Oz the Great and Powerful”, you know, hiding behind the curtains. He just wants to work his magic in a mysterious way. Krisha Plalica: I really like the supporting cast. I wondered how they were going to do against you, and the chemistry with you and Ray Santiago is really great. I’m wondering how long it took to find him and what it’s like working together the two of you, because you two are wonderful on screen? Bruce Campbell: You never know, you never know until you audition. So, as Executive Producer, I pick my battles in what I get involved in, and one of them is casting because I know I’m going to be stuck on a set with those people. So we went through a lot of rigorous stuff, we had to make sure these people were healthy and rigorous, and had a lot of patience, and could deal with a lot of special effects , a lot of just difficult, uncomfortable film making. So, I thought we got fortunate with Ray. he’s got a spectacular way about him, he’s got a great mug, and is a sweet guy. And so, my hope is to go to conventions with those guys and watch them get swamped. That would be the greatest joy of mine, to watch Dana and Ray, and (Jill Marie Jones, go to these conventions and be tormented, it would make me very happy. Mitchell Long: I’m really glad you mentioned working as an Executive Producer on Ash vs Evil Dead. I’m curious, what are some of the challenges as well as benefits of assuming multiple roles in a project? Bruce Campbell: Well, the challenge is it just takes up more of your life, but the benefits are that you can control more of what your output is and try to make it something you’re happy about, sometimes you don’t really have an input. I was in this position on Burn Notice, and I knew they never really had to listen to me, so when I made suggestions they were always happy, they were very friendly, and I would send them to the Executive Producer knowing that I didn’t expect anything. In this case, it’s a little more, it goes beyond suggestion. You know, it’s more like, let’s do this and do that. But I have two great partners, Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi, and we never really hit an impasse because we have three people. If anyone ever wants a partnership, go in with three people, you’ll never hit an impasse. Anthony Krogas: Good to know, good to know. I wanted to ask why the show is only a half hour show. Why isn’t it an hour long drama? Bruce Campbell: Because then it would be boring. Anthony Krogas: Oh, okay. Bruce Campbell:: And not what we wanted and not a comedy. A half hour is the only format that gives us the pace that we need and the tone that we need, and I think it’s perfect for a modern audience. I don’t know if we need a ponderous Ash, we need a quick witted, fast moving Ash. Dana Ancrobmie: I was wondering, you’ve been with Ash on and off for several years now, what personally would you like to change about his character on the series from than which we see on the movies as he grows, evolves, and changes? Bruce Campbell: Well, I don’t want to get too ethereal about it. There’s not a whole lot I want to change. He’s just becoming more of a leader, more of a guy that’s going to, you know, inspire people, and you know he’s going to be like a teacher, educator, kind of mentor tormentor, so there will be a little more of that, you know, kind of Father Figure. You’re going to have a little bit of that, like an Uncle-Father type, so that’s what I’m looking forward to. Christopher Chain: What has some of the fan reaction been like since you’ve been promoting Ash vs Evil Dead? Bruce Campbell: They’re like, “It’s about time!” I mean, they’re really, they’re not angry but they’re like, “Okay,” I think they feel like they’ve marched, their years of tormenting us have finally paid off, and I think they’re actually satisfied that it’s as close to the real thing as you’re going to get putting the original elements back together again. Christopher Hermanez: I was also wondering as the show starts off, you’re in a trailer just as you were in My Name Is Bruce, so what’s the deal with the trailer? Bruce Campbell: Well, that’s your own parallel. One is a movie and one is just Ash, but trailers are akin to, at least in people’s minds, low budget situations, and that was the goal there. So I wouldn’t draw too much into it. Mark Krava: I was surprised to see that Ash still has the Necronomicon in his possession after all he’s been through. Will we find out why he had it, maybe in a flashback, and also, is this season self-contained in case there’s not a second season? Bruce Campbell: Well, every show that’s designed as a TV show has to be designed for multiple seasons, it will feel contained. I think you will feel very satisfied by the end of the Season, but there’s no question about it, it’s designed for more. And as far as the Necronomicon, I wouldn’t get too much into why Ash did or didn’t have the book. I think it’s an Ash thing not to do anything, to chuck it away. e tried to burn it and it didn’t work anyway. Derek Anderson: Ash Vs Evil Dead has the perfect feel for Halloween, and I was just wondering are there any favorite horror movies that you like to watch around this time of year? Bruce Campbell: I like the original Exorcist, the very first one done by William Friedkin. It’s just so well done, it’s a professionally made movie but it’s really, really disturbing, and Linda Blair is just off the charts great. Simon Larocke: After completing your first film, did you guys expect to get this big? And the second part of that question is, why now instead of ten years ago to produce this show? Bruce Campbell: Well, no one can expect anything to happen. The film industry, the entertainment industry, it’s always, you never know what’s going to happen next. So, no, no one had any idea. We didn’t think we were going to finish the stupid movie. It took at least three years to finish the movie. Second part, well, because I think TV finally caught up to us. Until you had these premium services where they were not worried about content, our show wouldn’t have worked. It wouldn’t work as a TV show. This show would not work on cable, and this show would totally not work on broadcast. The only way it worked under these circumstances are now. Plus, we realized economically making a $200 million feature was not the answer here, if you want to entertain people continuously with Ash, it’s got to be in the form of a TV show. Tony Collette: Bruce, speaking of the Necronomicon, it just seems like you have the opportunity to expand upon the mythology of it and kind of expand what kind of creatures Ash will face. Is that going to happen in Season One? Bruce Campbell: Well, absolutely. You know, it’s not like we’re going to have a “Creature Of The Week”, but Ash is going to face many new demons and entities, and forces he had not encountered before. That’s the cool thing of doing a weekly TV show, you can hit him with a bunch of demons. Chelsea Proboti: Do you think Ash has ever used his chainsaw for yard work and what do you think the recipe is for the perfect Evil Dead episode? Bruce Campbell: Well, the recipe is the right mix. It’s like baking a cake. You know, if you use baking powder instead of baking soda, it’s a disaster, so in our case if our flour gets a little dark, we can lighten it with a little humor, and if we get a little loopy, we can hit it with some horror, you know? But pace and a sense of fun is also very important too. Tony Simms: If you could expand on another character that you played, who would that be? Would you expand Briscoe, Ace, Boomer, Fantail, who would that be? Bruce Campbell: I would expand Briscoe for sure, because you know, every actor wants to be a cowboy. That was a great year, it was one pretty much solid year of being a cowboy and promoting, and doing this stuff. If I never did it again, I’d be okay with it because it was a very fulfilling year, very hard working year. But I wouldn’t mind going back to that, he was a good character. He was really fun, and it’s probably the closest to an actual good guy, like a real heroic type who hopefully, you know, was smart enough to be interesting. Ash Hamilton: Yes, you know, looking at the first episode we see Ash trolling for some last call ass and just happening to grab some Magnum condoms. Was that your personal contribution to the beginning of the episode? Bruce Campbell: No, mine was that he was going to take two condoms. He goes to take one condom, he thinks about it and he goes, “I think I might need two. It might be a two condom night”. The Magnum is what it is. Laura Gallagher: Are you like Ash in every way? Bruce Campbell: Oh, Dear God. Every actor is going to have a little of something of them in any character they play, any actor that says they crawl inside their role and disappear, they’re not telling the truth. I think what you do is, with a character you take the worst sides of yourself and you amplify them, or you take the best sides of yourself and you amplify them, or you kind of mix it all around. Yes, there’s going to be a little bit of Ash in me and a little bit of me in him. No way to get around it. Travis Dale: Bruce, it raises the stakes when there is something for the hero to lose. Is Ash going to have a significant love interest in the series or is he going to be satisfied with having two condom sex with the strange? Bruce Campbell: You’re going to see. Ash considers himself an aging lothario, he’s not giving up on that. You’re going to see a little something-something from the old man. Thank you very much for all of you fine journalists for your time and attention. We appreciate it, we need your support. Some of you are our fans, and some of you don’t know anything about the series. Hopefully, you can find out and enjoy it. This is for the fans, it’s truly for the fans. Well, you have heard it from the man himself, this is for the fans, and we welcome our favorite anti-hero with open arms. You can catch the Series Premiere of “Ash Vs. Evil Dead” Halloween Night at 9pm est/ 6 pm pst on STARZ. Hail to the King, it is going to be a groovy Halloween weekend! Ash Ash Vs. 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Home / Art, Culture, Literature / Feature Articles / Young Goodman Brown: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Nightmare Young Goodman Brown: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Nightmare Posted by: Cody Noble in Feature Articles, Slider August 30, 2016 1 Comment Goya Witches Sabbath 1821-3 Edgar Allen Poe stands as one of the most prominent names regarding classic American horror literature and rightfully so, considering his works The Telltale Heart (1843) and The Raven (1845). Likewise, Washington Irving also stands as a notable name in American horror given The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820). But who else could be considered as being one of the country’s founding fathers of fear? Enter Nathaniel Hawthorne, who lived from 1804 to 1864. Best remembered for his novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne doesn’t seem a likely candidate for one of America’s great classic horror authors. Yet, his contribution to American horror manifests in the form of his short, Young Goodman Brown (1835). Taking place at sundown in the village of Salem, Massachusetts, the short details the titular character’s nighttime venture into the New England forest and his encounter with the Devil. While the man is never formally introduced as such, his identity is heavily insinuated throughout. When Brown meets with the traveler, for instance, it’s written: “the only thing about him, that could be fixed upon as remarkable, was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought, that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent”. Likewise: “As they went, [the traveler] plucked a branch of maple… and began to strip it of the twigs and little boughs, which were wet with evening dew. The moment his fingers touched them, they became strangely withered and dried up, as with a week’s sunshine”. There are other indications to his identity, but the lifelike serpentine staff and his unnatural ability to poison life through mere touch suggests the Prince of Darkness — or at least someone/something otherworldly. The notion of meeting the Devil personified along a lonely road is an old storytelling tradition, with the myth of blues legend Robert Johnson being a popular instance in American folklore (read our article here). Other examples can be found across other media including Neil Jordan’s 1984 film The Company of Wolves and television’s Supernatural. Today, the concept of meeting the Devil in this fashion tends to be cliché, and it was even parodied in the popular Adult Swim cartoon, Metalocalypse. However, within the context of Hawthorne’s story, the suggestion of his presence feels genuine — much like the purity of Clint Eastwood playing the tough-as-nails detective archetype back in 1976. This notion of dealing with the Devil can also be found in Stephen Vincent Benet’s The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937). But, even with the presence of the Devil in Benet’s story, The Devil and Daniel Webster can’t really be classified under the genre largely in part due to a lack of any real imagery and mood. This is where Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown successfully merits the term of being ‘horror literature.’ In fact, one of the main strengths of Hawthorne’s piece is his atmospheric depictions of the New England nightscape. When Brown first sets off upon his journey, Hawthorne writes: Goya’s Witches Sabbath 1798-98 “He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and there is this peculiarity in such a solitude, that the traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead”. It’s classic horror imagery – spooky, foreboding and memorable. Hawthorne’s vision of the early American wilderness grows more terrifying as Brown heads deeper into the woods: “The road grew wilder and drearier, and more faintly traced, and vanished at length, leaving him in the heart of the dark wilderness, still rushing onward, with the instinct that guides mortal man to evil. The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds; the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts and the yell of Indians”. One of the interesting properties of horror fiction – either literary or cinematic – is how it can reflect the fears commonplace in a given society at a certain point in time. For example, the two passages above, shaping the forest into a frightening entity, also reflect a certain wariness the New England settlers had towards the land in which they inhabited. In particular, Hawthorne refers to the forest as “the heathen wilderness” where “no church had ever been gathered, nor solitary Christian prayed.” Given the vast and uncharted expanse that was the New World, it makes sense that settlers would be fearful of their new environment and, in turn, associate it with the source of evil. In general, fear is largely derived from the concept of the unknown. Chances were back then, if it couldn’t be explained, it could either be claimed as the work of God or an agent of the Devil. Similarly, the short does a good job of also encapsulating the religious paranoia of that period in spite of having been published in 1835 — a good century after the Salem Witch Trials. As Brown continues to press onward into the forest, he comes upon a clearing where the members of his town are all gathered, singing satanic hymns. When Brown and his wife, Faith, are just about to be converted via an unholy baptism, Brown suddenly finds himself alone in the clearing. When Brown returns home from his overnight escapade the following morning, he is greeted by his wife in the streets. However, he does not share her joyful enthusiasm and, in turn, does not reciprocate her welcome. It’s here that Hawthorne begs the question, “Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?” Regardless of whether or not the events of the night prior had actually transpired, Brown has since become a different man. In the final sentence of the story, Hawthorne writes: “And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave, a hoary corpse… they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone; for his dying hour was gloom”. Up until his death, Brown had since become paranoid and distant from his family and townsfolk — an act which earned him no love, remorse or respect from others. Hawthorne and his work might not be as fondly remembered compared to someone like Poe, but Young Goodman Brown is still an excellent foundation from which American horror has since spawned. It offers a moody retreat back in time to when the country-to-be was still in its infancy, when religion guided fear and evil lurked around ever tree trunk. This is one deal with the Devil worth considering. American Gothic Edgar Allen Poe Salem Witch Trials The Devil in Literature The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Scarlet Letter Washington Irving Young Goodman Brown 2016-08-30 Cody Noble Tagged with: American Gothic Edgar Allen Poe Salem Witch Trials The Devil in Literature The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Scarlet Letter Washington Irving Young Goodman Brown Previous: Danger on the Road aka The Ballad of Howard Martin: Irvin Berwick’s Hitch Hike to Hell Next: Provocative Pessimism: Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog About Cody Noble Cody Noble, despite being a lowly cashier, is an ongoing student of film studying at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg, New Jersey. His favorite directors include Guillermo Del Toro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Adam Green, and James Gunn. On a side note, Cody enjoys rollerskating, playing videos games, and reading the works of Scott Snyder, Brian K. Vaughn, and Stephen King. Making a Monster: The Headless Horseman The Mausoleum of All Hope and Desire: Southern Gothic Cinema, Part Three Devil in the Woods: Love, Lust, Death & Life in 1980s American Post-Punk Part Two – The Seven Days in the West Edition Massacres and Traps: Tobe Hooper’s Southern Horror Films Danger on the Road aka The Ballad of Howard Martin: Irvin Berwick’s Hitch Hike to Hell I Love the Night: Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark David Noble You are a Towering literary God! Still suffering from post-Christmas blues? Rekindle that festive feeling with some Christmas goblins... https://t.co/KjY0jhNa8H 2020/01/28

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Wimbledon gave us more great memories this year. Roger Federer showed why he is the greatest of all-time, winning his 19th major championship and eighth gentleman's singles crown, both records. He beat Marin Cilic in straight sets in the finals. At age 35, he showed why he is so special. Last year, he was sidelined with a knee injury and his future looked bleak. Now he has won two of the three Grand Slam events so far this year. How impressive was he at Wimbledon this year? He beat Cilic, Milos Raonic, Thomas Berdych and Gregor Dimitrov en route to the title, four highly-ranked, talented players. Venus Williams went for her sixth Wimbledon women's crown but fell to Garbine Muguruza of Spain. Muguruza won the final nine games of the match to prevail.

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Freedom Of The Press In China New York Times reporter Austin Ramzy has been forced to leave mainland China because of failure to receive a visa. Foreign journalists in China continue to face restrictions that impede their ability to do their jobs. “The United States is deeply concerned that foreign journalists in China continue to face restrictions that impede their ability to do their jobs, including extended delays in processing journalist visas, restrictions on travel to certain locations deemed ‘sensitive’ by Chinese authorities and, in some cases, violence at the hands of local authorities,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a recent statement. The Chinese government’s restrictions on and treatment of foreign journalists working in China are not consistent with freedom of the press and stand in stark contrast with the United States’ treatment of Chinese and other foreign journalists. We are very disappointed that New York Times reporter Austin Ramzy was forced to leave China because of processing delays for his press credentials.” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney “We are very disappointed that New York Times reporter Austin Ramzy was forced to leave China because of processing delays for his press credentials,” Press Secretary Carney said. “We remain concerned that Mr. Ramzy and several other U.S. journalists have waited months, and in some cases years, for a decision on their press credentials and visa applications.” Mr. Carney further said “the United States has raised concerns about the treatment of journalists and media organizations repeatedly and at the highest levels with the Chinese government, and will continue to do so.” by VOA Mr. Carney stressed that “Our two countries should be expanding media exchanges to enhance mutual understanding and trust, not restricting the ability of journalists to do their work.” “We urge China to commit to timely visa and credentialing decisions for foreign journalists, unblock U.S. media websites, and eliminate other restrictions that impede the ability of journalists to practice their profession,” said Mr. Carney. “Around the world, the United States strongly supports universal rights and fundamental freedoms — central among them, freedom of speech and freedom of the press.” Samantha Power On Civil Society Chinese Rights Advocate Convicted Reflecting the Views of the U.S. Government as Broadcast on The Voice of America U.S. Space Policy: Artemis is an International Effort Cuban General Sanctioned For Rights Violations President Trump on Iranian Aggression and Way Forward U.S. Space Policy: To the Moon and Beyond Labor Rights are Human Rights Martin Luther King Day 2020

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My Tiny Laboratory Assistant: The Fruit fly Student writer: Sarah Robbins Student editors: Rita Chakrabarti, 23andMe editor: Becca Krock, Thao Do Animal models help scientists to figure out how cells, genes, organs, and physiological pathways work in order to better understand these same processes in other species, including us. New discoveries in medicine often rely on trials in animals before they are tested in humans. What animal are we talking about today? The fruit fly, scientifically known as Drosophila melanogaster. A fruit fly? Really? Yes, really! Despite our many differences, fruit flies share many similarities with humans. Fruit flies, like humans, are animals, so our cells are very similar in structure. For example, fruit fly cells have a cell membrane, but no cell wall — which is different in plants, which have a cell wall. Flies have eyes, brains, and muscles, even if they are a little different than ours, which makes them useful model organisms. Tell me more about the fruit fly genome. Fruit flies have approximately 14,000 genes across 168 million base pairs of DNA. But how does this help scientists learn about human genetics? Flies and humans share about two-thirds of disease-causing genes, meaning we can study these shared genes in fruit flies [1]. Because of these genetic similarities, Drosophila are used as models to study diseases like Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and cancer. Discoveries made using model organisms can lead to valuable insights about diseases and potential targets for developing new treatments. Who decided to start studying fruit flies? Thomas Hunt Morgan, an evolutionary biologist, is largely credited with establishing the fruit fly as a model for genetic studies. His flies studies began in 1907, later leading to the foundation of his “Fly Room” at Columbia University [2]. Dr. Morgan discovered that some traits only affect males, as a result of the differences in chromosomes between male and female flies. This holds true in humans as well, and it is now known that there are sex-linked diseases, such as color blindness. These studies, along with his work on the role of the chromosome in inheritance, won Morgan the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 [3]. How did studying fruit flies win Thomas Hunt Morgan the Nobel Prize? Dr. Morgan bred many fruit flies, looking for any offspring that had unusual characteristics, such an uncommon wing shape or eye color [4]. One day, Morgan noticed a fly with white eyes, which was very different from the normal red color of fruit fly eyes. He did experiments breeding many other flies and found that white eye was a trait only inherited by male flies [5]. This was the way he made the connection between sex characteristics and other traits. Why study fruit flies instead of something else? Drosophila are great model organisms because they are small, and thousands can be kept in a tiny laboratory space. Fruit flies are also inexpensive to feed and house, which can leave a researcher more money for other lab supplies. Drosophila are more similar to humans than some other common model organisms – yeast or worms – which makes them useful for studying diseases that affect humans. Also, flies only have four chromosomes, which makes figuring out how genes are arranged a bit easier. Flies are also especially useful for working out complicated pathways or interactions since you can generate lots of flies in a small amount of time. They also grow and mature quickly, making it easy to breed many flies and complete many experiments more quickly than in larger animals. Their entire life cycle is only about one to two months, so their development is easily observed in the lab [6]. Who uses flies for research today? Many researchers still use flies for genetic studies. Kathleen Cunningham, a fifth-year PhD student at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine working in the lab of Tom Lloyd, uses fruit flies as a model to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. To dive further into this research, I spoke with Kathleen about her work in the lab with her tiny laboratory assistants. SR: Can you tell us about more about ALS? KC: “ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, affects neurons in the brain that control movement. When the neurons that control our muscles lose their connections to other cells around them, they start to die. The disease usually affects people in their 50s and 60s and progresses rapidly within 3-5 years.” SR: How do you spend your days in the lab? Kathleen spends most of her time in the fly room, at the microscope taking cool images, and working out the pathways involved in ALS. Kathleen estimates that only about 10% of the gene variations that contribute to ALS are already known. Eventually, Kathleen and her colleagues in Dr. Lloyd’s lab hope to use fruit flies to contribute to personalized medicine approaches to ALS treatment. SR: What’s your favorite thing about your work? KC: “There isn’t as much translational [or disease-oriented] work in flies, so studying disease in flies is more unique. [I found it] compelling to study a disease but I’m very interested in the mechanisms of basic biology. When they converge, you can make a breakthrough. It’s a balance between patient care and increasing our understanding.” Thanks for your help, Kathleen! Good luck in your studies! And don’t forget – the fruit fly is just one of many tiny laboratory assistants! NHGRI. “Background on comparative genome analysis.” 12/2002. https://www.genome.gov/10005835/background-on-comparative-genomic-analysis/. Genome News Network. “Genetics and Genomics Timeline: 1910.” 2004. http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/resources/timeline/1910_Morgan.php. Miko I. “Thomas Hunt Morgan and Sex Linkage.” 2008. https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/thomas-hunt-morgan-and-sex-linkage-452. Kandel ER. “Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia University.” http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Legacies/Morgan/. Morgan TH. (1910.) “Sex limited inheritance in Drosophila.” Science. 32(812):120-122. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17759620. [Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1635471.pdf] Yourgenome. “Why use the fly in research?”. 6/9/2015. https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/why-use-the-fly-in-research.

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A Very Important and Emotional Message Delivered To Young St George’s Students In Special Assembly Posted by Dave Stevens | Feb 14, 2018 | School News | 0 | Year 9 Students from St George’s Church of England Foundation School recently attended a very poignant and emotional assembly involving a number of organisations and charities. The assembly, brought together by Neil Butcher, from Kent County Council Trading Standards, and School Nurse, Carol Salter, was organised to highlight the dangers of alcoholism and the support that is available for young people and their families. Organisations involved in delivering the assembly included The Community Alcohol Partnership (CAP), Addaction, Kent Fire & Rescue Service, Pie Factory Music and Educational Life, but the main focus was an inspirational young man called Henry Maybury and his mother, Sally. Henry is a successful singer/songwriter who has had millions of views on his YouTube channel, but there is a heartbreaking, and very personal story behind his music. On February 22nd 2013, Henry lost his 29 year-old brother Tom to alcohol addiction after a battle lasting several years. Henry wrote the song ‘Lost Days’ in memory of his brother and, recognising that multiple charities and support groups had helped Tom, wanted to give something back by giving 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the song to charity. Rather than give the money to a single charity, the ‘Lost Days Charitable Trust’ was set up . Alongside Henry and his Mum, a special committee was set up to allocate funds to multiple Addiction and Recovery charities globally. ​ Henry’s moving acoustic performance Henry’s presentation to the young students in the audience was very poignant and emotional. Some students cried, and others sat completely transfixed, as he described his experiences of alcoholism and its effects upon his family. The presentation included videos of his songs “Lost Days” and “You’re Beautiful” as well as some fond, fun memories Henry had of his brother growing up. The students were then treated to a live, acoustic performance which was listened to with so much respect, then greeted with a huge round of applause as Henry finished his presentation. Henry then introduced his mum, Sally, who also spoke about her own loss and how it affected her, before explaining to the students how the charity was now helping those in a similar situation. Sally also talked of her pride in Henry who’d had his own battles as a young teenager, having been struck down at the age of 14 with a debilitating illness, spending years in and out of treatment to ease the pain from the resulting arthritis. As well as travelling around schools, sharing this powerful and moving story, Henry also tours prisons, where he performs and talks to the prisoners, trying to give them hope to go out into society, succeed and stay clean. He truly is an inspiration, and this was evident by the response he received from the youngsters in the audience. The next speaker at the assembly was Alan Faulkner, from Kent Fire and Rescue Road Safety Experience. Alan is a hugely experienced member of his team who has worked in schools for a long time now, delivering safety talks from the perspective of his role in Kent Fire and Rescue. Alan spoke with the students about the unflinching nature of his role and how alcohol is often the root cause of accidents he and his colleagues attend. Alan explained about the work that the Road Safety Experience does to engage with young people and how it hopes to cut down the number of incidents occurring on our roads. Gillian Powell, from CAP Next up in this informative assembly was Gillian Powell, the Community Alcohol Partnership‘s Programme Manager, who runs the scheme in the South East. Gillian explained a little about her role within CAP before presenting several of St George’s Year 11 Ambassadors with their certificates. These young Ambassadors will now become peer mentors, able to offer help and advice to others in the school who may be experiencing issues. They will also help to spread the word about the risks of underage drinking. Following on from Gillian was Aiden Kay, from Addaction. Addaction are an organisation which supports adults, children, young adults and older people to make positive behavioural changes in their lives, whether with alcohol, drugs, or mental health and well-being. Their focus for this assembly was how alcohol related companies target their branding towards young people. This was effectively proven through an interactive quiz where the students were asked to ‘Name That Brand’ as a logo was gradually revealed on the large screen. It was surprising how any of the youngsters were quickly able to name alcoholic drink brands with just a glimpse of the label, especially when you consider they are all another four years away from buying the products legally. Even more shocking was the fact that the one logo they struggled to name quickly, was Cadbury. Zoe, Pie Factory Music The last two organisations to contribute to this assembly were Pie Factory Music and Educational Life. Firstly, I was given the opportunity to speak with the students about the importance of positive news stories and how Educational Life are ensuring that young people are given a platform to be heard. The consensus was overwhelming as a show of hands demonstrated that these students were being subjected to far too many negative stories about their generation. Zoe, from Pie Factory Music then spoke with the students about the role her organisation has, engaging with young people through music production and performance. As the assembly ended, the young year 9 students applauded as Henry came back to the centre of the stage, and rightfully so. His story clearly resonated with everyone there. As the youngsters returned to their lessons, you could hear them discussing what they’d just heard. Some remained behind to speak individually with the morning’s speakers … some to thank them, some to ask specific, pertinent questions. I would like to take this opportunity to praise every single year 9 student present for this assembly. It was a long time to be seated and quiet but the managed to remain engaged, thoughtful and respectful throughout. I see these young people and it gives me great hope for the future. They were a credit to their school , their parents and to themselves throughout, what was at times, a very difficult and emotional assembly. Thank you to everyone attending this special assembly, and thank you to St George’s for allowing us to all visit. A very special mention, however, must go to Henry and Sally. Your extremely personal story has resonated with so many that have heard it and your strength and determination to help others is truly inspirational. Thank you. If you would like to read more about any of the organisations mentioned in this article, here are some links to their websites … http://www.henrymaybury.com/home.html http://www.kent.fire-uk.org/your-safety/road-safety/road-safety-experience/ http://www.communityalcoholpartnerships.co.uk/ https://www.addaction.org.uk/ Please take a look through our gallery of the assembly and feel free to share this article with anyone who may be interested. PreviousPeer Mediators Now Stand Out In A Crowd NextStone Age Journey of Discovery Caspar’s Squash Success in Top Tournament Ping Pong Power: Laleham Gap goes early and goes big! 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94.73(3)(g) (g) If the discharge occurred at a pesticide mixing and loading site owned or operated by the applicant, the applicant has fully complied with rules promulgated by the department under sub. (11) (d) requiring registration of pesticide mixing and loading sites. 94.73(3)(h) (h) If the applicant was required to submit a work plan under sub. (4), the corrective action taken by the applicant was in accordance with a work plan approved by the department. 94.73(3m) (3m) Costs not eligible for reimbursement. An applicant under sub. (3) is not eligible for reimbursement of any of the following costs: 94.73(3m)(a) (a) Costs for corrective action taken in response to a discharge that is an intentional use of an agricultural chemical for agricultural purposes, unless the corrective action is ordered by the department under sub. (2) or by the department of natural resources under s. 292.11 (7) (c). 94.73(3m)(b) (b) Costs of reimbursing the department of natural resources for action taken under s. 292.11 (7) (a) or 292.31 (1), (3) or (7) because the applicant failed to respond adequately to a discharge. 94.73(3m)(c) (c) Costs for corrective action that a pesticide manufacturer or labeler takes in response to a discharge by that pesticide manufacturer or labeler. 94.73(3m)(d) (d) Costs for corrective action taken in response to a discharge that occurs while the agricultural chemical is being held or transported by a common carrier. 94.73(3m)(e) (e) Costs for corrective action taken in response to a discharge from a facility that is required to be licensed under s. 289.31 or that would be required to be licensed except that the department of natural resources has issued a specific exemption under s. 289.43 or rules promulgated under s. 289.05 (1) or (2). 94.73(3m)(f) (f) The cost of an activity that the department determines does not contribute to cleaning up a discharge. 94.73(3m)(g) (g) A cost related to the repair, replacement or upgrading of a facility, structure or equipment, except that, if a responsible person who applies for reimbursement demonstrates to the department's satisfaction that the removal of an existing structure is the least expensive corrective action alternative, the department may reimburse the responsible person the depreciated value of the structure as determined by the department by rule. 94.73(3m)(h) (h) Loss of income. 94.73(3m)(i) (i) Attorney fees. 94.73(3m)(j) (j) Costs of permanent relocation of residents. 94.73(3m)(k) (k) Decreased property values. 94.73(3m)(L) (L) The cost of a responsible person's time spent in planning and implementing the corrective action. 94.73(3m)(m) (m) Costs incurred for the review of corrective action work plans. 94.73(3m)(n) (n) Costs of aesthetic improvements. 94.73(3m)(o) (o) The cost of corrective action that is not in compliance with federal, state or local safety codes. 94.73(3m)(p) (p) A cost payable under an insurance or other contract. 94.73(3m)(q) (q) The cost of replacing discharged agricultural chemicals. 94.73(3m)(r) (r) The cost of providing alternative sources of drinking water, except that, subject to sub. (6) (b) to (f), the department may reimburse a responsible person who applies for reimbursement a total of not more than $50,000 for the replacement or restoration of private wells or for connection to a public or private water source if the department or the department of natural resources orders the well replacement or restoration or the connection in response to a discharge. 94.73(3m)(s) (s) Liability claims. 94.73(3m)(t) (t) Costs incurred by any federal, state or local governmental entity. 94.73(3m)(u) (u) Corrective action costs incurred by a responsible person in response to a discharge caused by that responsible person's intentional or grossly negligent violation of law, including ss. 94.645 or 94.67 to 94.71, a rule promulgated under those sections or an order issued under those sections. 94.73(3m)(v) (v) Other costs excluded by the department by rule. 94.73(4) (4) Work plan requirements. 94.73(4)(a)(a) Except as provided in par. (d), no responsible person may receive reimbursement for corrective action costs exceeding $7,500 unless the responsible person submits to the department in writing, and the department approves, a work plan for the corrective action before the corrective action is taken. 94.73(4)(b) (b) Except as agreed under sub. (12), the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection shall promptly furnish the department of natural resources with a copy of each work plan submitted to the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection under par. (a) for comment by the department of natural resources. Within 14 days after it receives a copy of a work plan or within a different time period agreed to under sub. (12), the department of natural resources may provide the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection with any comments of the department of natural resources on the work plan. If the department of natural resources timely submits written comments on a proposed work plan, the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection shall either incorporate those comments into the approved work plan or give the department of natural resources a written explanation of why the comments were not incorporated. 94.73(4)(c) (c) The department shall approve or reject a work plan submitted under par. (a) within 30 days after its submission. If the department fails to approve or reject the work plan within 30 days after its submission, the work plan approval requirement in par. (a) no longer applies. 94.73(4)(d) (d) This subsection does not apply to any of the following: 94.73(4)(d)1. 1. A reasonable and necessary corrective action taken on an emergency basis. 94.73(4)(d)2. 2. A corrective action taken before August 12, 1993. 94.73(5) (5) Application. 94.73(5)(a)(a) A responsible person who seeks reimbursement for corrective action costs shall submit an application to the department. The application shall be made on a form provided, and shall contain information reasonably required, by the department. 94.73(5)(b) (b) A responsible person may not submit more than one application under par. (a) within a 12-month period for the same discharge site. 94.73(5)(c) (c) Within 10 days from the date of the receipt of an application under par. (a), the department shall notify the applicant of the receipt of the application. The department shall grant or deny the application within 90 days after receipt of the application unless the applicant agrees to an extension. 94.73(5)(d) (d) Before or after the department receives an application under par. (a), the department may issue a preliminary opinion on whether an applicant is eligible for reimbursement of corrective action costs. The opinion is not binding on the department. 94.73(5)(e) (e) No person may make a false statement or misrepresentation on an application submitted under this section. A person who makes a false statement or misrepresentation on an application related to a corrective action is ineligible for reimbursement related to that corrective action and is ineligible for any reimbursement related to any other corrective action taken or ordered within 5 years after the date of the false statement or misrepresentation. If the responsible person has received any reimbursement for which the responsible person is ineligible under this paragraph, the responsible person shall refund the full amount of that reimbursement to the department. The amounts refunded to the department under this paragraph shall be deposited in the agricultural chemical cleanup fund. 94.73(6) (6) Amount of reimbursement. 94.73(6)(a)(a) If the department determines that a responsible person is eligible for reimbursement of corrective action costs under sub. (3), the department shall authorize reimbursement in the amount specified in this subsection and in the manner provided in sub. (7). 94.73(6)(am) (am) If more than one responsible person is eligible for reimbursement under sub. (3) for corrective action taken in response to one or more discharges at the same site, the combined amount paid to those responsible persons may not exceed the maximum amount specified for a single responsible person under this section, except as provided by the department by rule. The department shall allocate payments among the responsible persons according to rules promulgated by the department. 94.73(6)(b) (b) Except as provided in pars. (c) and (e), the department shall reimburse a responsible person an amount equal to 75 percent of the corrective action costs incurred for each discharge site that are greater than $3,000 and less than $400,000 for costs incurred before July 1, 2017, or that are greater than $3,000 and less than $650,000 for costs incurred on or after July 1, 2017. 94.73(6)(c) (c) Except as provided in par. (e), the department shall reimburse a responsible person an amount equal to 75 percent of the corrective action costs incurred for each discharge site that are greater than $7,500 and less than $400,000 for costs incurred before July 1, 2017, or that are greater than $7,500 and less than $650,000 for costs incurred on or after July 1, 2017, if any of the following applies: 94.73(6)(c)1. 1. The responsible person is required to be licensed under ss. 94.67 to 94.71. 94.73(6)(c)2. 2. The responsible person employs more than 25 persons. 94.73(6)(c)3. 3. The responsible person has gross annual sales of more than $2,500,000. 94.73(6)(d) (d) For the purposes for pars. (b) and (c), a discharge that occurs in the course of transporting an agricultural chemical is considered to have occurred at the site from which the agricultural chemical was being transported if the site from which the agricultural chemical was being transported is under the ownership or control of the person transporting the agricultural chemical. 94.73(6)(e) (e) The department may not reimburse corrective action costs that exceed $100,000 for any one discharge for which groundwater remediation is not ordered unless the criteria in rules promulgated under par. (f) are satisfied. 94.73(6)(f) (f) The department may promulgate rules under which it may provide reimbursement under pars. (b) and (c) for corrective action costs that exceed $100,000 at a site at which groundwater remediation is not ordered if the applicant obtains the approval of the department before incurring the costs and if the contamination is extensive or complex cleanup strategies are required. The rules shall establish criteria for exceeding the $100,000 limit, such as the size of the area contaminated or the type of agricultural chemical that is involved. 94.73(7) (7) Payment. 94.73(7)(a)(a) The department may make payments to a responsible person who is eligible for reimbursement under sub. (3) if the department has authorized reimbursement to that person under sub. (6). The department shall make payment from the appropriation account under s. 20.115 (7) (wm), subject to the availability of funds in that appropriation account. If there are insufficient funds to pay the full amounts authorized under sub. (6) to all eligible responsible persons, the department shall distribute payments in the order in which applications were received, unless the department specifies, by rule, a different order of payment. 94.73(7)(b) (b) The department may promulgate rules specifying the procedure by which, and the order in which, it will distribute payments under par. (a). The department may establish distribution priorities or formulas based on the severity of contamination, the time elapsed since corrective action costs were incurred or other factors that the department considers appropriate. 94.73(8) (8) Subrogation. The department is entitled to the right of subrogation for the reimbursement of corrective action costs to the extent that a responsible person who receives reimbursement of corrective action costs may recover the costs from a 3rd party. The amounts collected by the department under this subsection shall be deposited in the agricultural chemical cleanup fund. 94.73(11) (11) Rules. The department shall promulgate rules to implement this section. The department may promulgate rules regarding all of the following: 94.73(11)(a) (a) The form of the application required to be filed with the department by persons seeking reimbursement of corrective action costs. 94.73(11)(b) (b) The procedures to be used by the department in determining eligibility for and the amount of reimbursement for corrective action costs. 94.73(11)(c) (c) The procedures to be used in making annual payments under sub. (7). 94.73(11)(d) (d) Registration requirements for persons who own or operate pesticide mixing and loading sites. 94.73(11)(e) (e) Reasonable and customary charges for corrective action costs. 94.73(11)(f) (f) Payment priorities under sub. (7) among eligible responsible persons. 94.73(11)(g) (g) Requirements related to the contents of orders under sub. (2) or work plans under sub. (4) (a). 94.73(11)(h) (h) Corrective action costs that are not eligible for reimbursement under this section. 94.73(12) (12) Memorandum of understanding. The department and the department of natural resources shall enter into a memorandum of understanding establishing their respective functions in the administration of this section. The memorandum of understanding shall establish procedures to ensure that corrective actions taken under this section are consistent with actions taken under s. 292.11 (7). The department and the department of natural resources may request that the secretary of administration provide assistance in accomplishing the memorandum of understanding. 94.73(12m) (12m) Sample collection and analysis. For the purpose of investigating a discharge or exercising its authority under this section, the department may collect and analyze samples of plants, soil, surface water, groundwater and other material. 94.73(13) (13) Penalty. Any person who violates this section or an order issued or rule promulgated under this section shall forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $5,000 for each violation. Each day of continued violation is a separate offense. 94.73(14) (14) Enforcement. The department, the department of justice at the request of the department or any district attorney at the request of the department may bring an action in the name of the state to recover a forfeiture under sub. (13) or to seek an injunction restraining the violation of an order issued by the department under this section. 94.73(15) (15) Surcharge adjustments. 94.73(15)(a)(a) On May 1 annually, the department shall determine the amount available in the agricultural chemical cleanup fund. 94.73(15)(b) (b) If the amount determined under par. (a) is more than $1,500,000, the surcharges for the subsequent year shall be as follows: 94.73(15)(b)1. 1. Under s. 94.64 (3r) (b) 1. and 2., $0. 94.73(15)(b)2. 2. Under s. 94.64 (3r) (b) 3., $0. 94.73(15)(b)3. 3. Under s. 94.64 (4) (a) 5., $0. 94.73(15)(b)4. 4. Under s. 94.681 (3), $0. 94.73(15)(b)5. 5. Under s. 94.685 (3) (a) 2., $0. 94.73(15)(c) (c) If the amount determined under par. (a) is $1,500,000 or less, but more than $750,000, the surcharges for the subsequent license year shall be as follows: 94.73(15)(c)1. 1. Under s. 94.64 (3r) (b) 1. and 2., $10. 94.73(15)(c)2. 2. Under s. 94.64 (3r) (b) 3., $12.50. 94.73(15)(c)3. 3. Under s. 94.64 (4) (a) 5., 5 cents per ton. 94.73(15)(c)4. 4. Under s. 94.681 (3), $15. 94.73(15)(c)5. 5. Under s. 94.685 (3) (a) 2., $10. 94.73(15)(c)7. 7. Under s. 94.703 (3) (a) 3., $12.50. 94.73(15)(c)8. 8. Under s. 94.704 (3) (a) 2., $5. 94.73 History History: 1993 a. 16, 437; 1995 a. 27, 227; 1997 a. 27, 86; 2001 a. 16; 2003 a. 33; 2005 a. 347; 2007 a. 20; 2013 a. 20; 2017 a. 59. 94.73 Note NOTE: 2005 Wis. 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Dog Brothers Public Forum Welcome to the Dog Brothers Public Forum. INSTRUCTORS FORUM TRIBE FORUM Dog Brothers Public Forum » Politics, Religion, Science, Culture and Humanities » Politics & Religion » US-China (& Japan, South China Sea-- Vietnam, Philippines, etc) Author Topic: US-China (& Japan, South China Sea-- Vietnam, Philippines, etc) (Read 203214 times) DougMacG US: Breaking the China dependency "Chinese manufacturing, much of which migrated to it from Japan via South Korea, is already moving on to Vietnam, India, and Mexico (now America’s biggest trading partner)." I have been watching for the great conclusion of the tariff trade war with China and anticipating how that will help our economy, Trump's reelection and the advancement and winning of free market ideas and policies that I see as in the best interests of the country and the globe. I've been watching for problems and chokepoints in China and the Chinese economy wondering when they will finally give in, drop their trade barriers and stop stealing our technology. Maybe I have this wrong. Maybe a fabulous trade deal with an oppressive totalitarian regime that enriches and empowers both sides forever is a) not going to happen and b) not the ideal outcome anyway. Without a doubt, the trade war is disruptive to the otherwise healthy US economy. This has political, not just economic consequences, at home. On the other side, the trade war has thrown the leaders of China on their ear. They have lost market share, lost economic growth, lost manufacturing and export jobs. People are losing confidence in their leaders and the leaders risk losing control. I have opined and quantified that China is 5 times more dependent on exports to us than we are on exports to them. The disruption is taking its toll. China has responded by devaluing their currency (devaluing their country) and dropping their prices, and profits. Add to Xi and the politburo concerns, the Hong Kong protests that risk spilling over into the mainland. Meanwhile the adversarial policies and rhetoric on both sides escalate. My reaction to each new chapter in this deteriorating drama is that now we must now be close to a deal. But maybe we aren't. Maybe the outcome of this is the endless struggle we see now. It occurs to me now that maybe more good comes out of it without a settlement. Instead of legitimizing this regime and pretending to approve of them as we rely on them to supply our consumer economy, under this more adversarial relationship, we can more freely call them out and oppose their egregious acts. New suppliers in other countries are replacing our economic dependencies on Communist China. Vietnam, Mexico and India are mentioned above. Maybe we can start pulling rare earth elements out of the ground elsewhere. Also, Chinese military oversteps in the South China Sea are causing us to form new alliances in the region. Back to US politics which is what the Chinese are watching in negotiations, maybe President Trump would rather have the issue of China in reelection than have the win over China. Re: US-China (& Japan, South China Sea-- Vietnam, Philippines, etc) "Back to US politics which is what the Chinese are watching in negotiations, maybe President Trump would rather have the issue of China in reelection than have the win over China." Trump should start looking being able to hold an all out war against the crats if he loses the election claiming he lost due to outside foreign power interference - the Chinese! no doubt they will do whatever they can to get him to lose. Crafty_Dog They already have Goolag hard at work for them. Sec Def Espers: China destabilizing Indo-Pacific https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-destabilizing-indo-pacific-us-defense-secretary_3029413.html?utm_source=Epoch+Times+Newsletters&utm_campaign=799969d7e0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_05_11_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4fba358ecf-799969d7e0-239065853 China messing with Mekong River flow? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mekong-river/missing-mekong-waters-rouse-suspicions-of-china-idUSKCN1UK19Q?fbclid=IwAR2Ytf4mB_zxojhg9laI9Uwpxy9X1Ge_ROBIqI1qDGzpn0tEbJ1RhxrKwUQ Stratfor: China messing with Philippines Washington is hesitant to react to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's informal call for the U.S. Navy to act against China in line with the country's Mutual Defense Treaty. But in the wake of Chinese aggression against Philippine interests in the South China Sea, Manila is likely to continue questioning the utility of the pact unless Washington provides more forceful backing. Ultimately, a lack of action to oppose China will allow Beijing to fortify its position in the South China Sea. Floating in the South China Sea near Recto Bank, or Reed Bank as it is also known, the crew of the Philippine vessel F/B Gimver 1 braced for impact as the Chinese-flagged Yuemaobinyu 42212 steamed directly toward their craft. Ignoring the Philippine crew's entreaties to rapidly change course, the Chinese captain plowed his ship into the smaller vessel, seemingly oblivious to his responsibilities under international collision regulations to avoid the crash. Crippled and sinking, the Gimver 1's crew abandoned ship, confident their Chinese counterparts would pick them up. That, however, was not what happened: Ignoring his responsibilities for a second time, the Yuemaobinyu's captain abandoned the Filipinos to their fate. Though the 22 mariners were eventually rescued by a Vietnamese ship, the incident early on the morning on June 9 increased tensions between Beijing, on one side, and Manila and its allies on the other. The reaction from the United States was as forceful as it was expected. Without mentioning the incident directly, the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, Sung Kim, made reference to a militarized fishing fleet, or maritime militia, when suggesting an attack by "government-sanctioned militias" could trigger the U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT). His comments served as a warning to China — going further than those made by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who tried to reassure a skeptical Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in February that the 1951 treaty remained in Manila's best interests. Though Duterte is more vocal than his predecessors about his concerns surrounding the deal, his skepticism toward the treaty is not new among the country's leaders. Both sides in the long and occasionally troubled U.S.-Philippine alliance have used the MDT to shape each other's behavior, most recently with regard to its applicability to the South China Sea. But as foreign policy experts around the world mull the content of Kim's statements about Recto Bank, some key wording suggests the intended audience may be Manila — rather than Beijing — and that Washington isn't all too eager to dive into a battle with China. What's in an 'Armed Attack'? Pompeo and Kim were both very careful with the terms they used to describe the incident. The phrase "if an armed attack occurs" refers to Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, which codifies states' inherent rights to self-defense in the event of an armed attack. But understanding the U.S. response to the Recto Bank incident and how it affects the MDT requires an understanding of what the Chinese maritime militia is and what it is not. The Recto Bank incident amounts to a deliberate attempt to avoid classification as an "armed attack," making it a classic indicator of hybrid warfare. According to U.S. Naval War College professor Andrew Erickson, the People's Armed Forces Maritime Militia is a "state-organized, -developed, and -controlled force operating under a direct military chain of command to conduct Chinese state-sponsored activities" — which makes it anything but a group of zealously patriotic fishermen. The militia is trained, manned and equipped with vessels purpose-built for ramming other craft and armed with non-lethal munitions that allow the organization to avoid designation as a naval unit. According to Erickson, the militia is a component of the Chinese military that responds through the chain of command to President Xi Jinping himself. Despite this, the militia falls through the cracks of Article 51 of the U.N. Charter and other international agreements — including the MDT — that govern the use of force between states because it is not, officially, a naval unit. In this respect, the militia resembles other emerging and poorly regulated tools of state power such as teams that engage in cyberattacks and information warfare on behalf of a country. The Recto Bank incident amounts to a deliberate attempt to avoid classification as an "armed attack," making it a classic indicator of "hybrid warfare." When packaged into a coherent hybrid warfare campaign, these tools can present a significant threat to international peace and stability as occurred in Crimea in 2014. Friendly Deterrence Following the Recto Bank incident, Washington intimated that Chinese provocations in the South China Sea could result in the application of the MDT. In time, however, the United States has somewhat muddied the waters on the MDT: While the United States certainly wishes to maintain access to the Philippine bases identified in the treaty, it is less eager to invoke the pact's Article IV — which spells out the defense relations between Washington and Manila — over a wrecked Philippine fishing vessel. Perhaps the United States' hedging is what prompted Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to demand clarity about the MDT's applicability to these types of incidents. Without clarity, he argued, Manila ought to review the treaty to determine its relevance to the country's defense. Lorenzana's point is a valid one. Reading between the lines of the U.S. ambassador's statements revealed that Washington is more interested in deterring the Philippines from questioning the utility of the MDT than in preventing China from employing hybrid warfare in the South China Sea. The American tactic, however, appears to have worked a bit too well: During the periodic U.S.-Philippine Bilateral Strategic Dialogue, held July 15-16 in Manila, the Philippine ambassador to the United States, Babe Romualdez, announced the two countries were in talks to "strengthen" the decades-old treaty. Duterte took it a step further the next day, informally invoking the MDT and inviting the United States to send its 7th Fleet to protect the Philippines from China. Having called America's bluff, the skeptical Duterte may decide the Mutual Defense Treaty is actually as hollow as he has previously suggested it is. The request presents a dilemma for the United States. Duterte made his surprise demand without following a formal consultative process (he made it abruptly during a TV interview), while his call also lacked any of the coordinating details necessary to invoke the constitutional requirements stipulated in the treaty. Still, Washington is under pressure to demonstrate the pact's credibility after previously communicating verbal guarantees regarding its viability. But almost two months since the Recto Bank incident, there does not appear to be any appetite to commit U.S. naval forces in response to an incident that China presented as an accident between two fishing vessels. At a certain point, however, China's repeated coercion in the region cannot go unanswered. Manila's perception that Washington is dragging its feet gets to the heart of the MDT. Having called America's bluff, the skeptical Duterte may decide the MDT is actually as hollow as he has previously suggested it is. At stake is a strategic effort to maintain American access to the South China Sea amid an ongoing Chinese consolidation of its position there. And unless the United States and the Philippines reconcile their views of mutual defense in the face of such "unarmed attacks," they will soon find themselves faced with an unbreakable chain of heavily fortified Chinese islands immune to any pressure short of war. Sure looks like China has bought Duterte https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2018/12/23/duterte-opens-up-the-philippines-to-chinese-workers-as-filipinos-seek-jobs-overseas/amp/?fbclid=IwAR3O8HO1zIMwOu0UfwZ3YhbXVZ1sZyw_j5aC89__XGLT6TD5CysUgN2yfoU#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s China freezes permits for individuals to Taiwan Michael Yon says China is freaking out , , , https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China-freezes-permits-for-individual-travel-to-Taiwan?fbclid=IwAR1N2ebFTmzkQCVri2qYHJCBJdnq2jV3GDJYAZPXJk2zpfrD15si5e3zGLA D1: China's credibility problems https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/08/chinas-credibility-problem/158956/?oref=defenseone_today_nl "Satellite Photo Shows China's Military Buildup in Response to Hong Kong Protests" If you live in Hong Kong, wise to prepare for invasion. Nobody knows what is coming next, including China. Possible that the airport will be stuffed again but this time with people scrambling for flights out. Nobody knows. I do know that if Hong Kong had a second amendment, 12,000 troops would sustain massive casualties if there were serious resistance. Stuff like this is what the second amendment is all about. It's not about deer hunting. China is not in a position of ultimate power over Hong Kong. These things do not happen in a vacuum. One massive advantage that Hong Kongers have is that they generally are very likable and intelligent, while ChiComs tend to be the opposite and savage. Watch the comments from ChiCom trolls on my page. They will talk about "white dogs," "jap dogs," and on and on. Very crass people, and extremely savage. The absolute last people you would want to see armed while you are disarmed. A lot of Japanese have not woken up to this yet, but Hong Kong and Taiwan's futures are barometers for Japanese future. The unrest today between Korea and Japan is caused by China exploiting Korean psychological vulnerabilities. Chinese information experts hacked the collective-Korean mind and installed a virus. The general plan in bare, bare bones: 1) Split Korea-USA-Japan. (Korea has no passwords on their brains. They are easy.) 2) Control vast swaths of land and sea such as the South China Sea 3) Extend reach to Africa, etc, (including around Thailand -- knock knock) 4) Take complete control of Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. 5) Extend influence in Europe/USA -- through places like Hollywood (Jackie Chan, one example of many) 6) Attack Japan economically/politically, and eventually militarily. (Most Japanese seem to be in denial, and those who see the monster are labeled in the normal ways.) 7) Contain India -- which is not difficult. India can barely contain itself and the IAF aircraft fall out of the sky practically monthly, and the Indian navy is not ready for much. Many Indians seem in denial and besieged with false pride about their ability to stand up to China. My bet: within 30 years, China will mostly control Nepal and Bhutan, as examples. (Unless we take out CCP, and then all this likely is moot.) India is being constricted on all sides. Exercise control/influence in places like Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar. Thailand is sleeping or in denial about where Thailand stands with China. 9) Much more, such as influence in Philippines, Australia, NZ, Central America. 10 ) Mitigate and heavily influence USA through economic, military, political containment including using our own democracy to elect influencers. The penultimate goal is to take USA out of the equation. Ultimate goal is China as the lone superpower. Hong Kong is a D-Day to Taiwan and a lot more. Hong Kong is a major battlefield. That's how I ended up in this cheap hotel waiting for invasion. G M Re: Michael Yon Damn. I love Hong Kong. I really dread what is coming. Quote from: Crafty_Dog on August 15, 2019, 10:32:56 PM GPF: George Friedman: China and a Global Economic Contraction To view this email in your browser, click here. By George Friedman George Friedman’s Thoughts: China and a Global Economic Contraction The protests in Hong Kong must be understood in the context of a global economic slowdown. There has been much talk recently about economic problems in key economies around the world. Early Wednesday morning, for example, I spoke on Bloomberg Surveillance about the situation in China. Before I went on air, Bloomberg News was covering multiple stories on the decline in bond yields and its effect on the U.S. economy, weakness in the German economy, and so on. I then realized how closely this issue is linked to the protests in Hong Kong. It has been about 10 years since the last U.S. recession, and we would expect to see another one soon. Since the United States is the world’s leading importer, an American recession always leads to a weakening of the global economy. Massive exporters like Germany and China are particularly vulnerable to such downturns. China’s economy was significantly weakened by the 2008 financial crisis. It has, until recently, managed to stave off U.S. attempts to try to level the imbalance between Chinese exports to the U.S. and U.S. exports to China. But it has now lost the ability to manage the United States. And at the same time, Hong Kong is rising. The uprising occurred because China was increasing its control over Hong Kong, including taking much greater control of the criminal justice system. In 1997, when the United Kingdom relinquished control of Hong Kong to China, Beijing was willing to allow Hong Kong to have a high degree of independence because Hong Kong was the financial interface between China and the world. China could not afford to undermine Hong Kong’s dynamism. But China is in a very different position today, and it can no longer accept a strong and independent Hong Kong. Even before the U.S. trade actions, the Chinese economy was in serious trouble, and its banking system was nearly in shambles. The introduction of new tariffs by its largest customer has created deeper problems in the economy, which are seen in industrial production data and other sector statistics. The accuracy of these statistics is always uncertain to me, but that China is publicly revealing its economic weakness is significant. When it admits that it has problems, it likely means the problems are serious indeed. Today’s China was built on economic growth and the promise of prosperity. Maoism still exists, but it is on the margins. Chinese elites, like elites everywhere, expect greater wealth and, at minimum, that the wealth they have already accumulated will be protected. And the public expects a better life for themselves and especially their children. The Communist Party of China, therefore, now derives its legitimacy not from communist ideology but rather from the promise to deliver prosperity to the people, coupled with national pride. But as the economy weakened, China engaged in major international initiatives to try to encourage pride in its global standing, from exaggerating its military power, to lending money to other countries, to building a route to Europe. The more concerned China was about delivering prosperity, the more it leaned on pride in Chinese power and the idea that the U.S. would be bypassed by the Chinese in every way possible. But the Chinese realize that their relationship with the United States has gotten out of control. On one hand, they depend on the U.S. to buy their goods. On the other hand, they want to show that they are pushing back against the United States. In the end, national pride goes only so far in a country that is divided into many social classes, with millions left out of the economic boom and others having benefited but remaining resentful of the avariciousness of the elite. The foundation of China is prosperity; national pride is just a substitute. Right now, that prosperity is threatened not only by U.S. demands to redefine economic relations between the two countries, but also by the last thing China needs: a global economic slowdown. It is always the exporters who are hurt the most by such downturns. China tried to dramatically increase its control of Hong Kong, not out of confidence but out of fear. If the Chinese economy contracts, Hong Kong doesn’t want to be taken down with it. But the people of Hong Kong couldn’t predict how far they would be able to separate the island from China’s problems, so they wanted to ensure their security apparatus had control of Hong Kong. The Chinese resistance to these steps was what really led to the uprising. From my point of view, it also points to a critical Chinese weakness. China relies on its internal intelligence system to maintain order, but it failed to anticipate the uprising in Hong Kong. That raises the question of whether a pillar of the Chinese system, its internal controls, is weakening. Another major concern for Beijing is that the unrest in Hong Kong may spread to the rest of the country. People in other Chinese cities might sense Beijing’s weakness and, facing tough economic conditions, take their concerns and resentments into the streets. This is why Beijing cannot appear to have lost control of Hong Kong. If it does, China’s global image as a confident, leading power would be transformed into one of a brutal and repressive regime, fighting its own people. Hong Kong has not triggered a reaction on the mainland, but Chinese President Xi Jinping has been wrong on several fronts, so the Central Committee may not be in the mood to let him handle this problem. But it is caught between its need to suppress the protests in Hong Kong and its fear of the consequences if it does. When decisive action becomes a threat, it’s a sign that a regime is in trouble. China has tried to appear patient, but it is increasingly appearing impotent to its own people. And that is the one thing it can’t tolerate. Economic downturns have a tendency to trigger political responses. Consider 2008 and how the political landscape changed in many countries in the following years. While 2019 may not be as intense as 2008, many countries’ economies are struggling, having never fully recovered from the global financial crisis. It is in this context that I am beginning to think of China. It’s easy for an exporter to prosper in a robust global economy. It’s much harder to sell to a world facing an economic downturn. Such exporters are battening down the hatches – China’s approach to Hong Kong is one example. Having encountered resistance, it fears the consequences of decisive action. And it fears not acting. China doesn’t know quite what to do, and that is not the behavior of a formidable rising power. Trolling level of ten https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3023002/white-house-appoints-uygur-american-elnigar-iltebir-top-china?fbclid=IwAR1br0W6ix8Ng54znqGC1gPFiC8QMNbBafCJorPTBVsF7PDN87Lwss4IJGc Re: Trolling level of ten Ha! Well done! US China trade War, China's currency devaluation One thing missing in China's prosperity through devaluation strategy is the phenomenon of capital flight. If you know your wealth will be devalued, out it goes. Before they announce devaluation they need to lock the exits. https://www.ft.com/content/28c9bd82-c27a-11e9-a8e9-296ca66511c9 « Last Edit: August 21, 2019, 06:22:19 AM by DougMacG » Re: US-China, Hong Kong Protests scmp.com South China Morning Post This is the defining issue of our time. Not transsexual bathrooms. China universities deploy facial recognition for student registration China’s elite Tsinghua University is among the first batch of large academic institutions that have implemented face scans to expedite the enrollment process this month https://www.techinasia.com/day-university-china-means-face-scan-enrol Yes, it's to "expedite the enrollment process", wink, wink. We could merge our liberal fascism, Communist China and Goolag threads any day now. What's the difference, location? Re: China universities deploy facial recognition for student registration Quote from: DougMacG on August 22, 2019, 07:34:54 AM What? No DNA swabs and forensic scans of cell phones as part of the enrollment process? Slackers. Stratfor: A decisive moment draws nigh A Decisive Moment for China Draws Nigh The 2019 Beidaihe meeting of Chinese officials was thought to have started on Aug. 3. (SIMON SONG/South China Morning Post via Getty Images) Following this year's annual gathering of political elites in Beidaihe, China’s response to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, as well as the next phase of its trade war with the United States, could soon take shape. China's tougher stance in trade negotiations is likely an attempt by its leaders to appear strong against Washington — the country's most formidable external threat for the foreseeable future. That approach risks drawing even more U.S. trade salvos, which could further damage China's already slowing economy and increase the likelihood of social instability in the country's wealthier coastal and urban areas. Domestic economic and political unease will compel China to further solidify control over its buffer regions, a driver that could tempt Beijing to directly intervene in Hong Kong's political crisis. Nearly 70 years after its founding, China has once again found itself at a historic crux. As Beijing's rivalry with the United States grows increasingly hostile, its future relations with Hong Kong hang in the balance — all while the country grapples with an economic slowdown that risks blunting 30 years of unrestrained expansion. Suffice it to say, China's political leaders had their plates full when they gathered in Beidaihe this year for their annual meeting, which reportedly just wrapped up. But while China has faced similar internal threats over the decades, its leaders are unlikely to find answers in precedent this time around. And that's because the economic and political challenges the country faces today are occurring in a vastly different domestic context. Any speculation or leaks from this year's summit won't cover all the solutions to the complex challenges Beijing's leaders now face both at home and abroad. But any decision made behind closed doors during the summer retreat could very well dictate not only China's trajectory in the coming decade but also the rest of the world's. For decades, the summer resort of Beidaihe, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) east of Beijing, has served as the site of numerous historical decisions — as well as a microcosm of factional struggles among China's ruling elite. Amid Hong Kong protests and a trade war with the United States, coupled with a 30-year ebb in economic growth, this year's meeting took place at a particularly crucial moment for the world's second-largest economy. A Perfect Storm The U.S.-China trade war — punctuated by a cycle of negotiation, truce and retaliation — recently entered its 18th month. Since the last round of talks broke down in late April, Beijing has notably hardened its negotiating position. China, for example, has frozen its purchases of U.S. agricultural goods until Washington extends export licenses or reduces controls on the Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies. But such a stringent position risks further escalating the trade war — the effects of which have already taken a sizable toll on China's domestic economy. This raises the question of whether Chinese leaders will be able to maintain their tough stance without exacerbating the country's economic slowdown. Even with the trade war bubbling in the background, the unfolding situation in Hong Kong undoubtedly garnered its share of attention in Beidaihe. Protests — drawing anti-government demonstrators and members of radical and more violent cells to Hong Kong's streets — have entered their third month with no immediate end in sight. The demonstrations, sparked by the city's now-tabled extradition bill, have evolved into a symbol of Hong Kong's anxiety over deepening economic and cultural integration with China, mixed with antagonism over Beijing's tightening political influence there. That said, the prospects of seeing an independent Hong Kong in the near future remain unlikely. But the ongoing protests nonetheless risk undermining the city's 50-year transition under China's one country, two systems policy. At the bare minimum, Chinese leaders will have to figure out some sort of short-term solution to quickly de-escalate the volatile issue — ideally before the People's Republic of China celebrates its 70th anniversary on Oct. 1. But the high-profile and unrelenting unrest will also continue to pose critical questions about what red line must be crossed before Beijing ultimately takes matters into its own hands and directly intervenes. More Money, More Problems Compared with other eras, China's current economy is in much better shape. After all, both the massive push to reform state-owned sectors in the late 1990s and the global financial crisis in 2008 put tens of millions of Chinese citizens out of work. And even the most pessimistic estimates project that the costs of the current trade war will pale in comparison to those inflicted by post-1989 international sanctions, which virtually isolated China from Western economies for more than a year. There's only so much more that China's cooling economy can absorb before U.S. tariffs begin to generate greater domestic pressure. Unlike past economic crises, though, the issue this time around won't be the scope of the damage itself, but rather how that damage is perceived by the country's now wealthier population — and whether that perception leads to a significant backlash against the government. China's economic transformation over the past 30 years has made its citizens more affluent, on the whole, than they've ever been. But that also means they'll be much less tolerant of any disruptions of the lifestyles to which they've grown accustomed. Thus, should China's economic slowdown start to directly affect jobs and pocketbooks, it could increase the likelihood of social instability — particularly in the country's urban and coastal economic hubs — by bringing brewing political grievances to the surface. Beijing's tougher stance in trade talks could risk making that a reality by drawing further retaliation from the United States — something Chinese leaders surely want to avoid. But at the same time, with their global rivalry only set to grow, Beijing's current position against Washington could very well set the tone for how the country will be perceived — and positioned — as international power shifts in the coming decades. And thus, the Chinese leadership will hesitate to let down its guard for fear of appearing weak against the United States. China's political leaders have always been highly sensitive to perceived external threats, even when internal challenges linger. This mindset likely stems from an astute understanding of the difficulties that come with ruling such a geographically massive and socially diverse country whose position also makes it uniquely vulnerable to outside influence. There's a chance, then, that Beijing will bet on its authoritarian strength and still-intact nationalist support to give it room to maintain its hard line against the United States. But with more U.S. tariffs set to take effect Sept. 1., and more trade pressures likely to follow, there's also only so much more that the country's already cooling economy can absorb before the repercussions start to generate greater domestic problems. Peripheral Power Grabs Meanwhile, China's economic slowdown is propelling its leaders to diversify trade routes and develop new financial footholds in more remote regions of the world. Combined with the subsequent risk of domestic social instability, this outreach will compel Beijing to grasp its buffer regions even tighter. This could increase the likelihood of Beijing intervening in Hong Kong's political crisis, should the situation continue to escalate before the national day in October. But in the longer term, it also means that Beijing will likely further tighten its already heavy security and surveillance regimes along its Western periphery. For decades, China had pursued a much more hands-off approach to Tibet and Xinjiang's incremental assimilation. But the need to develop its peripheral states amid economic restructuring has worn Beijing's patience thin — hence its decision to pursue a more ruthless and discriminatory approach in recent years, including the establishment of re-education camps. And as external and internal threats continue to rise, ensuring that these two historically restive buffers remain firmly under control will become all the more important to Beijing. With Bated Breath The measures Beijing takes in response to these challenges will undoubtedly have significant implications for China and elsewhere. And as a result, the importance of this year's Beidaihe summit has been elevated. For decades, the rumored policy and personnel decisions made at the private gathering have closely intertwined with the country's political path. Many of its key national strategies — including the Great Leap Forward, the hallmark economic and social campaigns of the Mao era — had their genesis at Beidaihe. Over the intervening years, the annual meeting had become more of an informal forum. But at a time when so much affecting China's future remains in flux, the world will be waiting with bated breath to see what decisions the elite leaders made to respond to the myriad challenges that lie at their feet. US ship through Taiwan Straight https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taiwan-china-miitary/u-s-military-ship-passes-through-strategic-taiwan-strait-idUSKCN1VD0YT?fbclid=IwAR2lbIOz6iLfkirFIDo5D4tR9YI46_SJFmBhjryyF5ikIK0uWCvKSPeUbRI Trump presses US to produce Rare Earth metals https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3024249/trumps-military-rare-earths-drive-opens-doors-new-us-mines-amid-threats « Last Edit: August 25, 2019, 01:44:40 PM by DougMacG » Almost nobody in Hong Kong under 30 identifies as “Chinese” Three-quarters of 18- to 29-year-old residents of Hong Kong self-identify as Hongkongers, not Chinese, twice the share that did so in 2006. The data show that the younger the respondents, the more negative their sentiments towards mainland China. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/08/26/almost-nobody-in-hong-kong-under-30-identifies-as-chinese US denounces Chinese bullying against Vietnam https://www.theepochtimes.com/pentagon-accuses-china-of-bullying-tactics-in-waters-off-vietnam_3055903.html?utm_source=Epoch+Times+Newsletters&utm_campaign=f459e320a5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_26_04_46&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4fba358ecf-f459e320a5-239065853 Google to shift Pixel smartphone production from China to Vietnam as sales soar. https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Tech-scroll-Asia/Google-to-shift-Pixel-smartphone-production-from-China-to-Vietnam China doesn't feel that? It's time for the endgame of the trade war. Re: Google to shift Pixel smartphone production from China to Vietnam as sales soar. I don't think the PRC feels like it is winning. I think the fact that Hong Kong hasn't been crushed yet demonstrates this. WSJ Stop the bully in the South China Sea Stop the Bully in the South China Sea Beijing must pay a price for allowing its coast guard and proxies to impede freedom of the seas. By Gregory B. Poling and Murray Hiebert Aug. 28, 2019 7:02 pm ET A Chinese coast guard ship attempts to block a Philippine vessel in the South China Sea, March 29, 2014. Photo: Bullit Marquez/Associated Press The State Department weighed in forcefully last week on China’s harassment of Malaysian and Vietnamese oil and gas operations in the South China Sea. Spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus blasted Beijing’s “continuing interference with Vietnam’s longstanding oil and gas activities,” which “calls into serious question China’s commitment . . . to the peaceful resolution of maritime disputes.” The department was right to fire diplomatic shots across Beijing’s bow, but the U.S. and its partners need to do more to persuade China to rein in its coast guard and militia ships before they cause a deadly collision that could spark a wider crisis. The situation off the Vietnamese coast has attracted the most attention, but China’s bullying started in May on the other side of the South China Sea. Two vessels contracted by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell had finished one of their regular runs from Malaysia’s Sarawak State to a drilling rig operating off its coast in the South China Sea on May 21 when things went awry. A large Chinese coast guard ship, the Haijing 35111, appeared on the horizon. Sailing at high speed, the Chinese ship circled the commercial vessels, approaching to within 80 meters. These maneuvers were tracked by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies using the identification signals transmitted by the ships. The incident was one episode in a two-week effort by the Haijing 35111 to harass and impede Shell’s drilling operations. At the end of May, the Chinese vessel gave up and returned to port in China’s Hainan province, but not for long. By June 16 the Haijing 35111 had made its way to Vietnamese waters, where the Russian energy company Rosneft had contracted a Japanese rig to drill a new offshore well. The coast guard ship and others like it began harassing the rig and vessels servicing it—and still are. The Chinese ships have been using the same risky maneuvers seen off the Malaysian coast to create a threat of collision to pressure Vietnam and Rosneft to halt drilling. Natural gas from offshore drilling in this area provides as much as 10% of Vietnam’s energy needs. And keeping Rosneft from folding to Chinese pressure is critical to Vietnam’s offshore energy industry. Beijing has coerced most other major foreign companies—BP, Chevron , ConocoPhillips and most recently Repsol —out of their investments in Vietnamese offshore energy blocks. If Rosneft is forced to halt its work, the last holdouts—especially Exxon Mobil , which is preparing to undertake a large natural gas project dubbed “Blue Whale” in waters farther north—will likely rethink the wisdom of their investments. The Haijing 35111 has failed to stop the drilling in the Vietnamese and Malaysian cases, but the resistance hasn’t been without cost. A Chinese government vessel, the Haiyang Dizhi 8, arrived off the coast of Vietnam on July 3 and began conducting its own survey for oil and gas. That survey, which continues, covers the seabed over which Vietnam has indisputable rights under international law. Transmissions show numerous Chinese coast guard ships and members of the People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia—an official paramilitary force that operates from fishing ships—escorting the survey ship. Vietnam quickly dispatched its coast guard vessels to protect its rig and to shadow the Chinese survey ship. This creates a volatile situation in which collisions, intentional or not, could easily occur. That could lead to an overt military standoff. Another Chinese state-owned survey vessel, the Shi Yan 2, spent a week in early August surveying Malaysian waters, including areas in which the oil and gas rigs contracted by Shell and others are operating. Since Aug. 14, a third Chinese survey vessel, the Haiyang 4, has been surveying an area of the continental shelf jointly claimed by Malaysia and Vietnam. There are no military solutions to this pattern of Chinese coercion. If Washington wants to avert a crisis and prove it is serious about upholding freedom of the seas, it will need a robust diplomatic and economic strategy in lockstep with international partners. The goal should be to raise the costs to Beijing for its behavior and convince Chinese leaders they will lose more on the global stage than they will gain locally from their campaign of coercion. Such a strategy must begin with the State Department recruiting other countries—including European states, Japan, India and Australia—to call on China to abide by its legal obligations. The broader the coalition calling on Beijing to alter its behavior, the higher the reputational costs China will pay for staying its current course. The U.S. and allies should couple this with the imposition of direct economic costs. If China wants to rely on civilian actors and paramilitaries to coerce its neighbors, then those forces should be unmasked. The U.S. and partner countries should publicly identify Chinese civilian actors and their owners who engage in militia activities targeting China’s neighbors. Washington should block those entities from doing business in the U.S. or accessing international financial markets through a vehicle like the South China Sea Sanctions Act, currently before both houses of Congress. There is a precedent: The U.S. and Europe responded similarly to Russia’s use of paramilitary forces in eastern Ukraine in 2014. China is engaged in a long-term campaign of bullying, intimidation and paramilitary violence against Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines. Its aggressive pursuit of claims that flout international law at the expense of the rights of Southeast Asian nations is a serious challenge to the international maritime order and regional stability. Mr. Poling is director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Mr. Hiebert is a senior associate at CSIS’s Southeast Asia Program. Re: WSJ Stop the bully in the South China Sea When China's pirates start getting sunk, that will put this garbage to an end. Laowhy86 on China vs. Hong Kong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4wbx9hIN4E Re: Laowhy86 on China vs. Hong Kong Quote from: G M on August 28, 2019, 09:03:29 PM Being afraid to speak up is one thing, but hard for me to understand how people in the mainland actually support the oppression. The Chinese public knows communism is garbage. The CCP uses nationalism to fill the void. Where Do Hong Kong's Protests Go From Here? With new protests and potential violence in Hong Kong a distinct possibility in the weeks ahead, the city's police force is striving to stay a step ahead of its competition. Authorities detained seven prominent activists, including Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Andy Chan, on Aug. 29 and Aug. 30 on charges that they were organizing protests. The arrests coincided with a ban on a major rally that the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), a key organizer against the contentious extradition bill that first ignited Hong Kong's protests, had scheduled for Aug. 31. As a result of the prohibition, the CHRF called off the rally, during which it had planned to demand universal suffrage on the fifth anniversary of Beijing's controversial white paper that effectively rejected the request. Now nearing its 14th week, anti-government protests in Hong Kong have escalated violently and dramatically in recent weeks, putting the city's all-important business and transportation activities at risk and raising the prospect of a harsher crackdown or direct intervention by Beijing. The general course of the protest movement and the demonstrators' deep — and still unaddressed — grievances make the chances of a de-escalation remote. China in TransitionAsia-Pacific: Among Great Powers Meanwhile, the Hong Kong airport authority said it would strictly enforce an earlier court injunction to ban demonstrations at the hub amid some protesters' plans to conduct another nearby "stress test" (efforts that have, in effect, disrupted the airport for several days since earlier this month). At present, the situation on the street remains volatile, as protesters plan new rounds of industrial strikes and class boycotts and the police prepare for a harsher crackdown with advanced equipment, including water cannon. At the same time, Hong Kong's authorities have been in discussion about making a final roll of the dice — a far-reaching emergency ordinance that would further restrict people's ability to protest — in an effort to head off the nuclear solution: direct intervention by Beijing. Despite the ban on the Aug. 31 rally, the detentions and the ongoing crackdown, the authorities' actions are unlikely to quell the situation on the ground due to the fluid nature of the opposition movement and the demonstrators' deep-seated grievances against Hong Kong's government and Beijing over their refusal to meet protesters' demands. In fact, the measures could provoke more radical protesters to resort to more aggressive tactics, inflaming the situation. With a political settlement a remote possibility and the police unable to suppress the unrest at this point, Hong Kong's authorities are increasingly looking into legal options to beat back the demonstrators. One such means that has attracted heated debate is the potential invocation of the 1922 Emergency Regulations Ordinance, which could grant Chief Executive Carrie Lam near-unrestrained power to control the internet, seize key transport hubs and arrest and deport demonstrators. But given the potential legal hurdles to such a step, as well as the disruptions it would cause to businesses and the wider public, Hong Kong authorities are likely to apply the ordinance only in a small geographic area and avoid censoring the internet too much. In the end, however, the law might be Lam's last chance to quell the protests on their own — and preempt Beijing, which would intervene reluctantly, though heavy-handedly. And given that Oct. 1, China's National Day, is just a month away, Hong Kong will be under unprecedented pressure from Beijing to stabilize the situation, which China's central authorities believe Lam's government made on its own. At this stage, however, it is unclear whether the Hong Kong police are powerful enough to halt the protests even if authorities invoke the ordinance, meaning Beijing's foreboding presence will continue to loom over proceedings. What to Watch for Next Protest movement: The success of the upcoming protests and strikes will be critical in gauging the trajectory of the movement and, in turn, evaluating the government's options. If the protests remain peaceful, there will be less need for the emergency ordinance or Beijing's intervention — something that would help restore business confidence, which has been shaken by the crisis. But a further escalation in which protesters overwhelm the airport, key transport links or politically symbolic buildings such as Beijing's liaison office will strengthen the hand of those advocating a harsher crackdown through the imposition of the ordinance. Internal debates: The Hong Kong government remains extremely divided over the emergency ordinance, with some in the administration even unclear as to which authority would approve the move. A possible legislative process to impose the act would likely have to wait until the Hong Kong Legislative Council reconvenes in October, but Lam's government could take the unilateral step to invoke the act if it deems it necessary, although that would ignite a firestorm of controversy and risk further splitting the government. At the same time, the administration is debating the scope of the possible ordinance, with some recommending the implementation of an anti-mask law (such laws exist in the United States and Canada) to discourage violence. Coordination with Beijing: Beijing, which does not want to take blame for the crisis, would certainly prefer that Lam's government and police handle the unrest instead of conducting an intervention that would immediately result in U.S. sanctions and disrupt its efforts at maintaining its "one country, two systems" with regard to Hong Kong. Given the high stakes in Hong Kong and the prospect that Beijing may feel compelled to intervene if local police fail to enforce the emergency ordinance, signs of coordination between the central government and Lam's administration will be critical in tracking Beijing's position. Other signposts would include the mobilization of the Chinese People's Armed Police, the security forces just over the border in Shenzhen, as well as the military in the Hong Kong garrison to see whether these forces could play an assisting role. Reaction from the business community and foreign governments: Foreign and domestic businesses are stuck between a rock and a hard place, as they have no desire to see the ongoing crisis or a possible state of emergency — let alone an intervention from Beijing. Besides the toll on Hong Kong's economy, sentiment among the all-powerful business community and foreign governments, particularly the United States, will be key to follow regarding a possible emergency ordinance – since their opposition could go a long way to restraining both Lam's government and the one in Beijing. Read on Worldview GPF: Naval cooperation Maritime security in the Asia-Pacific. This week will see several significant developments in Asia-Pacific security. The U.S. kicked off its first-ever military exercises with the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The location of the exercises, jointly led by the U.S. and Thai navies, will range from the Gulf of Thailand to the South China Sea. Japan and India’s defense ministers met yesterday in Tokyo to advance their talks on security cooperation, in particular on establishing a bilateral acquisition and cross-servicing agreement. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha signed a memorandum of understanding on military intelligence cooperation. While such memorandums themselves do not carry much weight, it is notable that South Korea is pursuing intelligence sharing with its neighbors after scaling back such cooperation with Japan. Last but certainly not least, there are signs that the government of the Solomon Islands may be rethinking its relationship with China. A Solomon delegation of eight ministers recently paid visits to both Taiwan and Beijing. The Solomon Islands have recognized Taiwan for the past 36 years, and a shift toward Beijing would raise concerns for both the U.S. and Australia, for whom the islands play a strategic role in maritime security objectives Re: GPF: Naval cooperation Quote from: Crafty_Dog on September 03, 2019, 09:55:55 AM Winning. I thought our allies were all turning against us. Oops, another false narrative. China human rights dissident writes, Trump gets China https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-has-the-right-strategy-on-beijing-as-a-chinese-dissident-id-know/2019/08/30/2579b5ba-ca81-11e9-8067-196d9f17af68_story.html Presidents before Trump naively believed that China would abide by international standards of behavior if it were granted access to institutions like the World Trade Organization and generally treated as a “normal” country. But that path proved mistaken, and Beijing ignored Western pressure on matters from human rights to the widespread theft of intellectual property. Trump, whatever his flaws, grasps this reality. Unlike many of his predecessors in the White House, Trump appears to understand innately the hooliganism and brutality at the heart of the CCP. He comprehends that — whether in the realm of trade, diplomacy or international order — dictatorships do not commonly play by the rules of democratic nations. While past administrations have curried favor with the CCP (“appeasement” is not too strong a word), Trump has made excising the party’s growing corrosion of U.S. society — from business and the media to education and politics — a focus. Which past administrations failed to understand China? Think of Richard Nixon marveling at staged supermarkets and shoppers in Beijing, and paving the way for the severing of ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan) in favor of the communist regime. Or Bill Clinton, after talking tough, declining to make “most favored nation” status for China conditional on human rights reviews, effectively eliminating any leverage the United States had over China with respect to fair trade, not to mention rights. As China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization moved toward reality, in 2000, Clinton described it as “the most significant opportunity that we have had to create positive change in China since the 1970s.” He said there would be no downsides to freer trade: It was “the equivalent of a one-way street.” Following the attacks of 9/11, George W. Bush turned a blind eye when Beijing used the U.S. war on terror as cover for persecuting ethnic minorities; Barack Obama repeatedly shied away from mentioning human rights to CCP officials, notably during a visit in 2009. It is different with Trump: During his administration, the Justice Department has ordered that CCP-run media companies operating in the United States register as foreign agents. His is the first administration to subject Confucius Institutes at U.S. colleges and universities — which serve as the eyes and ears of the CCP — to intense scrutiny, leading to the closure of several. Trump is the first American president to take a call from a Taiwanese president since the United States cut off formal diplomatic ties with the island in 1979. He has placed sanctions on Chinese nationals, including a CCP official responsible for the death of a human rights activist and three people involved in trafficking fentanyl. He has met with persecuted people of a broad range of religious beliefs in the Oval Office, including Uighurs, Tibetans and Christians from independent Chinese “house churches.” He’s said that a deal on tariff depends on China working “humanely” with Hong Kong. China is a deep-pocketed, rapacious regime that poses a significant threat not just to American interests but to the entire civilized world. Yet after decades of empty talk about nudging China toward reform, we’re at a point where it is American companies, news outlets and universities that feel pressured to play by Beijing’s rules or risk losing access to its markets and resources. Trump, with an admittedly unorthodox style, is trying to break down the systems, and the concessions, that have allowed the CCP to operate unchecked for too long. He deserves credit, not criticism, for saying: Enough. Trump has not yet attacked China's human rights abuses, but by attacking their power and control he is arguably helping that cause. « Last Edit: September 04, 2019, 07:39:35 AM by DougMacG » GPF: Duterte's trip to China Duterte’s trip to the Middle Kingdom. For the fifth time in three years, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is visiting China, where he will hold talks with President Xi Jinping and meet various other officials during a four-day visit. A few hours before Duterte was due to arrive, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs sent an apology letter from the Guangdong Fishery Mutual Insurance Association to the Philippines’ Foreign Ministry regarding an incident in which a Chinese ship collided with a Philippine fishing boat in June near Reed Bank. The conciliatory move is a nice touch but hardly enough to provide much of a release on the internal domestic pressure Duterte is facing over his government’s pursuit of a closer relationship with China. Duterte and Xi are reportedly set to sign a number of impressive-sounding deals. The two countries have signed many deals totaling billions of dollars in recent years, but their execution has been less impressive. Meanwhile, the Philippine navy announced earlier today that it will acquire multiple new ships, including two submarines. US-China, Hong Kong protesters sing Star Spangled Banner, appeal for Trump to... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hong-kong-protesters-sing-star-spangled-banner-appeal-trump-liberate-n1051166 Hong Kong protesters sing Star Spangled Banner, appeal to Trump to 'liberate' city HONG KONG — Thousands of Hong Kong protesters on Sunday sang the Star Spangled Banner and called on President Donald Trump to "liberate" the Chinese-ruled city, the latest in a series of demonstrations that have gripped the territory for months. Police stood by as protesters, under a sea of umbrellas against the sub-tropical sun, waved the Stars and Stripes and placards appealing for democracy after another night of violence in the 14th week of unrest. "Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong," they shouted before handing over petitions at the U.S. Consulate. "Resist Beijing, liberate Hong Kong." Hong Kong has been rocked by a summer of unrest kicked off by a proposed law that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial. Many saw the extradition bill as a glaring example of the Chinese territory’s eroding autonomy since the former British colony was returned to China in 1997. Hong Kong’s government promised last week to withdraw the bill — an early demand of protesters — but that has failed to appease the demonstrators, who have widened their demands to include other issues, such as greater democracy. Sunday’s rally followed overnight violent clashes between protesters and police at several metro stations. Image: Anti-Government Protest Movement in Hong Kong Police have responded to violence in recent weeks with water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas.Carl Court / Getty Images The unrest has become the biggest challenge to Beijing’s rule since Hong Kong’s return from Britain. Beijing and the entirely state-controlled media have portrayed the protests as an effort by criminals to split the territory from China, backed by hostile foreigners. Protesters on Sunday urged Washington to pass a bill, known as the Hong Kong Democratic and Human Rights Act, to support their cause. The bill proposes sanctions against Hong Kong and Chinese officials found to suppress democracy and human rights in the city, and could also affect Hong Kong’s preferential trade status with the U.S. Pro-Hong Kong rallies in U.S. met with pushback from China supporters The State Department said in a travel advisory Friday that Beijing has undertaken a propaganda campaign “falsely accusing the United States of fomenting unrest in Hong Kong.” It said U.S. citizens and embassy staff have been the target of the propaganda and urged them to exercise increased caution. Some U.S. lawmakers have spoken out strongly in support of the Hong Kong protesters and voiced concern about the potential for a brutal crackdown by China. Trump, however, has indicated the U.S. would stay out of a matter he considers between Hong Kong and China. He has said he believes the U.S. trade war with China is making Beijing tread carefully. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Saturday urged China to exercise restraint in Hong Kong. China's economy is worse than they admit Official numbers have long exaggerated growth but more so now to hide the decline. Auto sales down 15 of the last 16 months. As growth slows, the private sector share of the economy in China is shrinking making the economy more state-run and less dynamic. This is a prescription for failure, IMHO, becoming less like Silicon Valley and more like the Soviet Union. https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-says-growth-is-fine-private-data-show-a-sharper-slowdown-11567960192?mod=hp_lead_pos5 https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-state-driven-growth-model-is-running-out-of-gas-11563372006?mod=article_inline GPF: Chinese purchase of Duterte paying off The snark in the subject line about having bought Duterte is mine, not GPF's, but note well the Chinese strategy here: else, it’s clear that he’s keeping communication open with his erstwhile ally. China and the Philippines at sea. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday that Manila intends to move forward with a contentious maritime oil and gas exploration deal with China – and that his government would ignore The Hague’s landmark 2016 arbitration ruling invalidating China’s sweeping claims in the South China Sea, including waters around the resource-rich Reed Bank in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. Duterte said that, during last week’s visit to Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping had agreed to a 60-40 revenue sharing scheme favoring the Philippines. As we’ve previously noted, China’s primary goal here is not to take the hydrocarbons for itself but to force regional states into joint exploration agreements that implicitly acknowledge China’s distended territorial claims. As a result, it has repeatedly blocked Manila’s attempts to launch joint exploration with firms from other countries. The Philippines needs the gas, and thus it’s reluctantly going along with China. But the deal may run afoul of the Philippine constitution, not to mention nationalist political forces in the country. Indeed, attempts at energy cooperation with China have contributed to the downfall of a Philippine leader in the past China moves into Middle East, including Israel https://www.meforum.org/59338/how-china-disrupts-the-middle-east?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=146ba48b9f-MEF_Pipes_2019_09_11_11_49&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-146ba48b9f-33691909&goal=0_086cfd423c-146ba48b9f-33691909&mc_cid=146ba48b9f&mc_eid=9627475d7f Grim analysis from Spengler https://www.lawliberty.org/2019/09/12/we-need-our-mojo-back-vis-a-vis-china/?utm_source=LAL+Updates&utm_campaign=01145ca698-LAL_Daily_Updates&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_53ee3e1605-01145ca698-72519097 We aren't winning. Re: Grim analysis from Spengler Quote from: G M on September 12, 2019, 05:56:02 PM The 5G thing is mystifying. "Huawei owns 40 percent of the patents related to fifth-generation broadband, largely because it spent twice as much on research and development as its two largest rivals (Ericsson and Nokia) combined." None of these three are American. Where is Qualcomm? Where is Silicon Valley? While we were f*ing around with solyndra and windmills, cash for clunkers and "shovel-ready jobs", they were changing the nature of espionage and war. The one thing worse than being the world's only superpower is to have a brutal, hostile, repressive totalitarian regime take that place. "As we examine the details, the picture of a Soviet-style communist regime bent on world domination falls apart. China’s concept of world domination is so different from what we imagine that it has halfway come to fruition before we noticed it." "Foreign students earn four-fifths of all doctoral degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at U.S. universities" But we direct our best and our brightest to become lawyers, social justice warriors and gender and climate non-scientists. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3026822/taiwan-steps-trade-war-breach-us-saying-it-will-buy-us36?fbclid=IwAR1FISstpxjgz7NS9qj121ogpw3Uu3lc58MFKxHicGRf9MA1vXRb7CSAr9w Re: Taiwan Quote from: Crafty_Dog on September 13, 2019, 02:37:08 PM Smart move by Taiwan. HK and Taiwan I believe are the keys to ending the Chinese Imperium's global domination. Re: US-China, pork, soy, protein shortage Michael Yon via Instapundit ”There is a tiny, tiny notice in the news today that China has backed off on its tariffs on US soy and pork. Ya don’t say… First of all, soy and pork are protein, which is a chronic problem in all national food chains, but more so in China. Between their traditional plant based diet and the cultural prestige of eating pork (the middle class literally measures its affluence by how many nights a week they eat pork and the lower classes and villages use pork as a celebratory meal), China’s protein consumption is very narrowly restricted to soy and pork (fish is common, but not nearly as available as soy and pork). Second, by lifting the tariffs, China has just admitted it cannot produce enough protein for national consumption, both as a staple or as a preferred meat. Imagine a US shortage of wheat and chicken, with no real access to corn or beef, and a couple dozen urban areas of 20 millions or more with just a third arable land as now. That’s China. So, what’s the problem with China’s agricultural industry? Basically, they simply do not have enough land to grow the volume of soy they need; and, their pork production is highly diffused and is ravaged by a massive and seemingly uncontrollable swine flu epidemic. In fact, it is estimated that up to 60% of China’s pigs are infected with the flu. To compound a bad situation to worse, Chinese officials are both incapable of enforcing a quarantine and too corrupt to stop the spread of the flu. While this seems to have little to do with defense or military matters, I would suggest it is a huge red shift event offering insights into both the underlying economic and organizational civilian support system of the Red Army and suggestive of a wider indigenous structural and organizational condition of the military and government writ large. I believe we can draw significant conclusions from closely studying China’s responses to this food supply crisis and extrapolating our observations to the military to understand what they do under stressful conditions, what resources they deploy, and how they organize their response. Not to mention, how the civilian population responds to the military’s demands. “Stipulated: The food supply chain is in fact a national security issue and it is a function of the military’s most basic needs. A lot can be learned by studying this issue.” Interesting thinking there , , , The Spengler piece is dead on. US-China, Hong Kong protester shot, Great fall of China? Protester shot in chest with live police round during Hong Kong National Day protests https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3031044/chaos-expected-across-hong-kong-anti-government-protesters Is the great fall of China coming? These protests are the biggest challenge they have faced in the modern era. People have been waiting for China to overstep with the protesters. This bullet overshadows all the military hardware in their phony celebration. Sometime soon in the trade and intellectual property theft negotiations, Pres. Trump should note that the impasse on trade issues frees the US to mount a massive campaign for human rights for the people of China that includes self determination with free and fair elections and end their regime. Trump has set aside the calling out of their human rights violations in hope of getting agreement on trade and economic concerns. But if that fails and further stalling is failure, then the campaign of pressure for human rights in China [that we should be doing anyway] needs to start and escalate. The Soviet Union was our greatest security threat for decades. After years of American appeasement, President Reagan stood at the gate and said, open this gate Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Down it came. Today our biggest security threat is China and for the first time in a long time they are suffering from economic weakness. Does anyone in the Chinese regime think Trump would not make a similar challenge to China? Nothing would solve our trade and security issues faster than the fall of the regime and making the PRC a free people's republic. The tragedy that is China, New anthem of Hong Kong On a similar note to my rant: https://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-tragedy-of-communist-china/90852/ Also New Anthem of Hong Kong introduced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=138&v=0ZUtV9NsikM Creepy and telling that it is performed by masked musicians. The world recognized PRC instead of free China to the UN in 1971, accepted the Handover of Hong Kong to totalitarian China in 1997 on their word of "one country, two systems". How about we support one country, freedom? For how long does this tragedy continue? « Last Edit: October 01, 2019, 07:31:20 AM by DougMacG » Is our military becoming a Maginot Line? https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/10/new-drones-weapons-get-spotlight-chinas-military-parade/160291/?oref=defenseone_today_nl Trump's UN Speech Popular - in China Previously, "then the campaign of pressure for human rights in China [that we should be doing anyway] needs to start and escalate" They didn't get to hear the whole speech with his specific criticisms of China, but he is starting to break through. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3031373/donald-trumps-un-speech-about-patriotism-and-sovereignty A quote from Trump’s speech, translated into Chinese and posted by the US embassy in China on its official Weibo account on Wednesday, attracted thousands of comments and shares and more than 38,000 likes, with many users saying it could apply to them.

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Bindeshwar Pathak Named 2009 Stockholm Prize Winner As the founder of the Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, Pathak is known for his wide ranging work in the sanitation field to improve public health, advance social progress, and improve human rights in India and other countries. His accomplishments span the fields of sanitation technology, social enterprise, and healthcare education for millions of people in his native country, serving as a model for nongovernmental agencies and public health initiatives around the world. Since he established the Sulabh Sanitation Movement in 1970, Pathak has worked to change social attitudes toward traditional unsanitary latrine practices in slums, rural villages, and dense urban districts, and developed cost-effective toilet systems that have improved daily life and health for millions of people. He has also waged an ongoing campaign to abolish the traditional practice of manual "scavenging" of human waste from bucket latrines in India while championing the rights of former scavengers and their families to economic opportunity, decent standards of living, and social dignity. "The results of Dr. Pathak's endeavors constitute one of the most amazing examples of how one person can impact the well being of millions," noted the Stockholm Water Prize nominating committee in its citation. "Dr. Pathak's leadership in attaining these remarkable socio-environmental results has been universally recognized and not least by those who have secured the freedom of human dignity as a consequence of his efforts." Pathak will formally receive the 2009 Stockholm Water Prize at a Royal Award Ceremony and Banquet during the World Water Week in Stockholm in August. First presented in 1991, The Stockholm Water Prize is the world's most prestigious prize for outstanding achievement in water-related activities. The annual prize includes a US$150,000 award and a crystal sculpture. An international nominating committee appointed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for reviewing the nominations and proposing a candidate. The founders of the prize are Swedish and international companies in co-operation with the city of Stockholm. The prize program is administered by the Stockholm International Water Institute. The patron of the Stockholm Water Prize is H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. COP25: The ‘Point of No Return’ Climate Summit This Week

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Prof. Dr. Sjoerd Douma Sjoerd Douma (1976) is Professor of International and EU Tax Law at Leiden University and Deputy Director of the International Tax Center Leiden. He is the Director of the Master of Advanced Studies in European Tax Law and Director of Leiden University’s Honours College Law. Sjoerd is also affiliated with PwC, where he plays a leading role in its EU Direct Tax Group. Prior to joining Leiden University and PwC in 2004, Sjoerd was a legal clerk with the Tax Chamber of the Dutch Supreme Court. He obtained an LLM in tax law at Leiden University in 1998 and degrees in criminal law and civil procedural law at Leiden University in 2003. In 2011, he defended his PhD thesis entitled ‘Optimization of Tax Sovereignty and Free Movement’ at Leiden University (published in the IBFD Doctoral Series, No. 21). In 2012, this PhD thesis won the bi-annual Dissertation Prize awarded by the Dutch Association for Tax Research (Vereniging voor Belastingwetenschap). Sjoerd is a Deputy Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arnhem, the Netherlands. He is a member of the permanent committee of contributors to leading Dutch and international tax journals. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications on national, international and European tax law. Sjoerd is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. Rethinking International Tax Law

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Murray Baumgarten Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature http://humweb.ucsc.edu/dickens/ Murray Baumgarten (B.A. Columbia, Ph.D. Berkeley) is a Distinguished Professor of English & Contemporary Literature in the Literature Department, the Co-director of Jewish Studies and Founding Director of The Dickens Project at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has published books and articles on modern Jewish and English writing, as well as original fiction and translation. Recently, Mr. Baumgarten has focused on the Jews of Venice and the afterlife of the Ghetto. With Professor Peter Kenez for many years he has taught “Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry.” He is the recipient of a campus award for excellence in teaching. The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry

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Shambles (Part Five) – The African Mentality The Recurring Mentality With Hassan Shehata – arguably the best coach in African history – out of the running, the African Mentality had struck again. A European coach would get the job of coaching the Super-Eagles at the World Cup with little or no knowledge of African football. A few months ago Guinea’s coach Aboubacar Sidike (Titi) Camara bemoaned the way that African coaches were undervalued by African Football Associations.1 Paul le Guen was appointed coach of Cameroun with lavish reception upon his arrival in Yaoundé, capital of the former French colony. Le Guen at least revitalised the Indomitable Lions’ flagging bid to reach the World Cup Finals and he was the Camerounian FA’ s first choice. Wasted Opportunity It worked for Cameroun, even though there is no reason why it should have until the African Cup of Nations in Angola, when le Guen was out-thought by Shehata in the quarter-final. Nevertheless, Nigeria decided to tread a path again that its own FA had done much to discredit despite qualifying for the World Cup, achieving its pre-determined target in the African Cup of Nations and securing the right to talk to Africa’s best coach, Shehata. Even the best Africa has to offer cannot find work with an African team at the World Cup despite a vacancy. That went to a European who failed to take his country to the World Cup Lars Lagerbäck. The Swede knew nothing of Nigeriaʼs football culture and philosophy. This is perhaps the worst example of the phenomenon that the legendary Ghanaian coach Cecil Jones Attuquayefio refers to as the African Mentality. “Sometimes we are inclined to believe that our own people are discriminating against local coaches, but why I can’t say”, he told us exclusively. He makes it clear that even the best African coaches have proved themselves. “I’m telling you, it’s the African mentality – they believe that the only people who can save the football is white”, he says. “But Africans who have had the opportunity have been able to prove their worth – C K Gyamfi and Hassan Shehata.”. So what can African coaches do about being treated with such disrespect? “What you can do is accept it or have a plan and complain about it”, Attuquayefio said, “but it is the African mentality – ‘it is the white man who can do it.’ It is the African local way and I don’t like to be doing that because I personally want to change the will. That’s some of the feeling that we have against our own people and not the white people that come”. The rejection of Shehata in favour of a European that has not matched his achievements reasserts the African Mentality just two years after Berti Vogts failed so miserably. Will they ever learn? 1See http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/sep/09/cameroon-world-cup-south-africa for further information. Posted in Aboubacar Sidike (Titi) Camara, Berti Vogts, C K Gyamfi, Cameroun, Cecil Jones Attuquayefio, Hassan Sehata, Lars Lagerbäck, Nigeria, Paul le Guen, the African Cup of Nations, the African Mentality, the Super-Eagles, the World Cup, Yaoundé

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Our suppliers are held to global fundamental principles of human dignity. Our Ethical Sourcing Standards are the foundation of our global supply chain initiative, requiring our direct suppliers to protect the health, safety and human rights of their associates. We will not conduct business with suppliers who do not support the fundamental principles of human dignity and rights of workers to fair and equitable treatment. Driving Customer Impact How We Lead Investing Where It Matters Sustainability Goals and Performance Impact Through Stewardship Packaging Principles Regulatory Policies and Practices Abiding by Ethical Sourcing Standards Suppliers must meet our standards regarding forced labor, child labor, health and safety in the workplace, fair pay, harassment, diversity and ethics, and environmental policies. We require that our suppliers identify and act swiftly to eliminate any unacceptable conditions or practices in their facilities. We base our supplier requirements on international standards including the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Conventions of the International Labour Organization, including its Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Verification. In order to evaluate and address risks of human trafficking and slavery in our supply chains, Ecolab has developed a detailed supplier ethical assessment that our top suppliers must complete in order to verify compliance with Ecolab's ethical sourcing requirements. Ecolab has required our top suppliers in the chemical, packaging, equipment and contract manufacturing categories to complete the assessment, and we continue to expand the number and scope of suppliers required to complete the management practices and specific performance related to protection of employees' human rights and prevention and elimination of trafficking and slavery. Ecolab does not currently conduct on-site audits of suppliers related to trafficking and slavery in supply chains, but is evaluating whether to expand its existing assessment program to ensure compliance with trafficking and slavery standards. Certification. Ecolab requires all suppliers to comply with applicable government regulations, as well as with Ecolab policies and procedures. We incorporated a certification requirement to that effect into our supplier ethical assessment in 2012. Accountability. Ecolab's employees are held accountable for ensuring we meet our standards regarding slavery and trafficking as expressed in Ecolab's Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct requires employees and contractors to engage in ethical source selection. It also makes clear that compliance with applicable government regulations and Company policies and procedures is required of all Ecolab suppliers, agents and consultants. Training. Ecolab provides training to our supply chain and purchasing employees, as well as to our suppliers, regarding Ecolab's ethical sourcing policies and procedures. In 2014, we finalized a process for managing conflict minerals (tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold—collectively known as 3TG) in our supply chain and filed our first Conflict Minerals Report for the 2013 reporting year as required by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)*. Our conflict minerals management infrastructure established in 2014 includes robust supplier disclosure and procurement management systems. In subsequent years we have implemented a number of process improvements, including enhanced supplier engagement and further refinement of the scope of materials to review. Our scoping work identified the equipment portion of our supply chain as the nearly exclusive source of the potential for conflict minerals and therefore, in the limited cases where we put equipment into commerce, we have established a process to efficiently provide a 3TG disclosure to customers to facilitate their own SEC reporting. *In response to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Section 1502, approved by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in August 2012. Ecolab has developed and adopted an official Conflict Minerals policy outlining our company commitment and expectations for our suppliers. We are a member of RMI. For more information about the initiative visit www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/.

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Yemen crisis among thorny issues at UN meeting A U.N.-mediated cease-fire agreement between Yemen’s government and the rebels last year called for a mutual withdrawal of fighters from the key port of Hodeida, the main entry point for international humanitarian aid to Yemen. Last update: 25 September 2019 | 15:36 In this Aug. 1, 2019, file photo, Houthi rebels fighters chant slogans as they take off to a battlefront following a gathering aimed at mobilizing more fighters for the Houthi movement, in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP Photo) The ongoing conflict in Yemen , which has killed tens of thousands of people and sparked a humanitarian crisis, is among the thorniest issues facing world leaders this week as they meet at the United Nations. The U.N. envoy saw reason to hope after Yemen’s Houthi rebels announced late Friday that they were halting drone and missile attacks against Saudi Arabia, one week after they claimed responsibility for a strike that crippled a key oil facility in the kingdom. Saudi Arabia has led a military coalition fighting the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen since 2015. U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths called the Houthis’ announcement an opportunity and called for “moving forward with all necessary steps to reduce violence, military escalation and unhelpful rhetoric.” However, any path toward ending the conflict remains unclear. A U.N.-mediated cease-fire agreement between Yemen’s government and the rebels last year called for a mutual withdrawal of fighters from the key port of Hodeida, the main entry point for international humanitarian aid to Yemen. But the deal was never fully implemented. A look at the war, its origins and the devastation it continues to cause: The country is divided between the Houthi rebels and the Saudi-led, U.S.-backed military coalition that supports the government of Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. The Houthis control the capital of Sanaa and much of northern Yemen. Hadi has been based in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, since 2015, causing some to refer to his administration as the “hotel government.” Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen have hit schools, hospitals and wedding parties, and killed thousands of civilians. After nearly four years, the war’s stalemate and the increased Houthi attacks into Saudi territory have cast doubt on the kingdom’s strategy. Yemen’s late president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, ruled for more than three decades until a popular uprising that was part of the larger Arab Spring movement forced him to step down in 2012. He eventually allied himself with the Houthi rebels, whom he had fought in the past, hoping to exploit their strength to return to power. They captured Sanaa in 2014. As the Houthis and their allies marched south and threatened to take the port city of Aden, Saudi Arabia announced in March 2015 it would lead a coalition of Arab nations to join the conflict. The country has been embroiled in a grinding war since then. An estimated 94,000 people have been killed in the conflict, according to the latest data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Project. The international nonprofit group Save the Children estimates that 85,000 children under age 5 have died from starvation or disease since the war began. Some observers have attributed Yemen’s near-famine conditions to the coalition’s blockade of ports that supply Houthi-controlled areas. Investigations by The Associated Press , however, found that large amounts of food are making it into the country but aren’t getting to those who need it most. The discovery has raised questions about the ability of U.N. agencies and other big aid organizations to operate effectively in Yemen. Earlier this month, a U.N. report said that all warring parties, including the governments of Yemen, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Houthis, were possibly implicated in war crimes. A RIFT IN THE COALITION In July, the UAE, which is the main partner in the Saudi-led coalition, began to reduce its troop levels in Yemen. The Emiratis argued it was time to double down on talks with the Houthis. The move left the coalition with a weakened ground presence and fewer tactical options. The anti-Houthi bloc was then dealt another blow in August. UAE-backed separatist militias seized Aden, the temporary capital, from forces loyal to Hadi, which are backed by Saudi Arabia. The fighting between the former allies exposed a potential rift between the Saudis and the Emiratis and threatened to further destabilize the Arab world’s poorest country. THE ATTACKS IN SAUDI ARABIA On Sept. 14, the Houthis claimed responsibility for sophisticated drone-and-cruise-missile attacks in the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry. The strikes cut the kingdom’s oil production by half and caused oil prices to surge by at least 20%, and were by far the most damaging in a series of assaults claimed by the Houthis on the kingdom’s oil infrastructure. The Saudis claim the attacks were sponsored by Iran. For its part, Iran denies being responsible and has warned any retaliatory attack targeting it will result in an “all-out war.” On Sept. 20, the Houthis said they were halting all such attacks against Saudi Arabia. Since then, two more Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen have killed at least 20 civilians. UN food agency says aid looted in Yemen’s Houthi-held area Death toll from major Yemeni rebel attack climbs to 111

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UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Belgium There are 12 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Belgium. All 12 of these sites are cultural. Belgium UNESCO Sites Belfries of Belgium and France (1999) Flemish Beguinages (1998) La Grand-Palace (1998) Major Mining Sites of Wallonia (2012) Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (2000) Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (2000) Notre Dame Cathedral in Tournai (2000) Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex (2005) Stoclet House (2009) The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier (2016) The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louviere and Le Roeulx (1998) This is a collection of 56 historical buildings that recognizes the link between architecture and civic independence in Belgium and France. The buildings concerned in this collection of sites include civic and church towers, wherein some of these were constructed under the pretext of being watch or bell towers. A few of these towers are stand-alone structures but some others are part of other buildings. This is an architectural complex in Bruges who was created specifically to house beguines, aka unmarried adult women. This is a cultural site that was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list in 1998. It is commonly referred to as a convent, although this type of living setup is much different. An association of beguines had chosen to live in close proximity to each other wherein they are governed by a prioress or a superior. The historic city of Brugge has earned the nickname “The Venice of the North” because of its canals, of which Venice is known for. Aside from that, the city also plays an important role in the economy due to its port. In fact, it was once considered as the world’s chief commercial city. The city was included in the UNESCO list in 2000. The Grand Palace is located in Brussels, Belgium. The palace itself is an architectural attraction in the central square of which it is located. However, there are several other major attractions within the area such as the guildhalls, Breadhouse and the Town Hall. The square near the palace is also an important landmark in Belgium. The Blegny Mine in Wallonia, Belgium In the 19th century, mining and heavy industry associated with coal were the backbones of Belgium’s economy. Most of this activity took place in a small mining town in Wallonia. At the onset of the 20th century, the mining activity declined. Today, the four mining sites that are encompassed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list are no longer operational. Today, these sites are open as museums and are frequented by visitors. Victor Horta is a famous architect in Belgium that was known for his use of Art Noveau architectural style. There are four surviving buildings in Brussels that feature his architectural works and those are listed by UNESCO in their World Heritage Sites list in 2000. These are the largest and oldest Neolithic mines in Europe. It is believed that these mines remained active until the late Neolithic period. Notre Dame Cathedral is a Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Tournai. The construction of the church started in the 12th century wherein the building is a result of three design periods. Hence, it is striking how the Romanesque and Gothic styles were incorporated into the architecture of the church. However, its most distinctive feature is the transept. This museum is located in Antwerp that showcases early modern printing and famous printers. You can find the museum at the former site of the printing establishment near Friday Market. This private mansion is a work of architect Josef Hoffman from 1905 to 1911. The mansion is located in Brussels, Belgium and was created for Adolphe Stoclet, who was a banker and art lover. This was considered to be one of the most luxurious private homes during the 20th century. This is the newest addition to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Belgium. It is a collection of works from architect known as Le Corbusier. There is a total of 17 sites included in this list, all of which were recognized by UNESCO for their exemplary use of Modernism in terms of architectural style and construction. The lifts on the Canal du Centre are composed of four hydraulic boats located within the historic district of silicon industrial belt. To overcome the water level rise along a 7-km stretch in Canal du Centre, the first lift was created in 1888. The other three lifts that are recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site were constructed in 1917. View the list of all of the UNESCO World Heritage sites I have visited on my travels.

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Operations and Efficiency Intensive English Language Programs Can be More Than Just Language Instruction Lisa Springer | Associate Dean, School of Professional Studies, New York University —With Robyn Vaccara | Academic Director of the American Language Institute New York, New York University— Sharing expertise, knowledge and advice on working with international students is critical for today’s intensive English-language program providers, given the growing importance of the international marketplace to institutional viability. The growing importance of the international marketplace to institutional viability has led many colleges and universities to invest more time and resources in their intensive international English-language programs. After all, these programs often act as a welcoming mat for international learners who need to gain language competency before being fully accepted into a degree-granting program. Some universities have simply strengthened their commitment to their in-house language educators, while others have outsourced their intensive English programs to vendors. In this interview, Lisa Springer and Robyn Vaccara reflect on NYU’s approach to the international English language market and discuss the role their American Language Institute plays, not only for international students, but also for the entire campus. The EvoLLLution (Evo): How can a strong intensive English program, like the one offered by the ALI, help professional education divisions strengthen their relationship with the rest of campus? Lisa Springer (LS): We offer our classes to many people across the university. While we are housed in the School of Professional Studies and serve our degree students, we are also a source of expertise for the other units at the university. For example, a College of Arts and Science student who is an international student may take a class with us. Our existence at the School of Professional Studies really brings a certain kind of expertise. Students are learning how to communicate, how to speak well and how to write well, which supports their studies in other units. Evo: How important is the ALI to the university when it comes to increasing the number of international students that enroll in full-time degree programs? LS: We’re not part of the discussion on admissions decisions but once the students are here, we are a source of information. In addition to classes for students, we sometimes provide faculty with information about how to teach in a multicultural environment. We recently held a full-day conference called “Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom” for faculty in our School of Professional Studies. We are going to hold that conference in the fall for faculty across the rest of the university. Robyn Vaccara (RV): We also did a workshop for advisors where we helped them to better understand the levels of expertise and competency awarded by the ALI, and what kinds of issues and challenges ALI graduates may run into when they matriculate into credit-bearing programs. LS: We also work with residence assistants to train them on how to help students be roommates with those from other countries and how to be more culturally sensitive. People generally believe that international students need to learn how to live in the US and how to succeed in an American classroom and in the American culture. That’s true, but the missing piece is for Americans to learn how to interact in a multicultural setting. How can faculty members be very effective with students all over the world? How can a residence assistant be effective with students on their floor with people from all over the world? And how can Americans take full advantage of living in a multicultural setting? Evo: At many institutions, the entire intensive English language program has been outsourced to vendors. Why is this not an issue at NYU? LS: We have the support of leadership to be doing that work internally. We feel that we have a much better understanding of what our students need. It’s never come up in any conversations that I’ve had with leadership that we would be using outside vendors. RV: The ALI has been serving international students for 60 years. We’re one of the early providers of support for international students. Many of our faculty have been here for a long time and there’s a culture of dedication to these students. LS: We’re very fortunate. Many other directors are really struggling with this issue and they’re struggling with enrollment. We feel that our model, as currently configured, is viable. Evo: What are a few of the factors that help NYU stay competitive against the lean, proprietary international language program providers? LS: The ALI’s connection to NYU gives us a big edge, as does the fact that we’re in New York City. The support and commitment of the NYU leadership to us also gives us an edge. We are not just a language provider; we’re also a source of expertise to the various other constituents that we’re talking about—to the RAs, to the advisors, to the faculty. We have an International Student Support Centre for our international students in the School of Professional Studies, which is also a model for units across the university and we’re encouraging other schools to establish international support centers. These are all things a school wouldn’t have if they just had a vendor that simply providing language instruction. We also don’t just teach language, we also teach the critical thinking skills you need to succeed in academic settings and we teach international professionals in the city the various skills they need to succeed in their profession. Evo: NYU operates a number of international branch campuses, allowing the institution to provide language programming to students much closer to their homes. How valuable are branch campuses for the delivery of this programming compared with online offerings? LS: We have numerous branch campuses but we also do have online offerings. In fact, we’re about to put our international English program entirely online in the fall and we have several online offerings now. We are certainly big proponents of online learning. Face-to-face learning is also excellent and at ALI Shanghai and ALI Tokyo, it’s possible for people to study in their home countries prior to travelling to the US. This is especially important in China, where there are so many students who eventually come to study in the US. Being able to study language and all the other things you need for academic success in your home country before going abroad is much more affordable, and allows the student to transition more slowly, as they can complete many of the requirements they need prior to arriving in the US. Evo: Is there anything you’d like to add about the value of a strong intensive English division for the wider university? LS: Many of the things that Robin and I have spoken about are new initiatives. With the increase in the number of international students, it seems really important to have those units like the International Student Support Centre and the American Language Institute play a central role in the conversation we’re having across the university. It’s extremely important for universities that have large numbers of international students to have strong language units that are engaged actively. There are times where people are not considering the needs of international students. These are automatic considerations for us and it’s good to have that voice as part of the dialogue. This interview has been edited for length. Author Perspective: Administrator, International and Specialty Higher Ed Intensive international English language program providers can expand their role across the institution by supporting faculty, staff and students in better connecting with international learners. Internally operated intensive English language programs can contribute more to the wider university community than those that are outsourced. Branch campuses and online offerings create access to intensive English language education that allow international students to gain a linguistic footing before relocating to the US. Evolving Into a Data-Driven Organization: Understanding the Roadblocks and Identifying the Benefits Travis Carter | Manager of Enrollment Information Systems for Continuing and Professional Education, Virginia Tech Overcoming Siloes: Promoting More Collegial Collaboration Within Postsecondary Institutions Angela Baldasare | Senior Strategic Consultant, Civitas Learning 22 Musings: Reflecting on 34 Years of Community College Presidency Bruce Leslie | Chancellor, Alamo Colleges Understanding and Sharing Impact Critical to Growth for Community Colleges Bill Pink | President, Grand Rapids Community College Emma Coyle 2015/08/17 at 10:39 am This is a pretty solid argument for keeping IELPs in-house rather than outsourcing. It takes time to build that culture of commitment to international students and their success, and it definitely takes time to build the skills necessary to make that sustainable. Being in NYC definitely offers some advantages on that point, but I think there are certainly some transferable principles here. Alison King 2015/08/18 at 5:05 pm It’s heartening to see that we’re finally recognizing that it’s not enough (in fact is not really desirable at all) to demand that international students fully adapt to the “American” way of life and education. These students bring unique strengths, both personal and cultural, and we need to be spending more time teaching domestic students that they are not the default, but simply one of many different ways of being a student.

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In preparation for a trial on co-prescription of heroin to chronic treatment-resistant addicts, a pharmaceutical dosage form for smokable heroin was developed. During development of this product (a mixture of diacetylmorphine and caffeine), in vitro experiments were performed simulating ‚chasing the dragon‘: the technique used by addicts for inhalation of heroin after volatilisation. Samples were heated on aluminium foil using a heating device and the vapours were collected and analysed using a HPLC-UV method. The recovery of diacetylmorphine and caffeine in vapours was studied after volatilisation of different powder mixtures at temperatures between 200 and 350 degrees C. Furthermore, the volatilisation set-up was combined with an Andersen sampler to determine the sizes of aerosol particles. Only small differences in recovery of diacetylmorphine and caffeine were found between temperatures and between powder mixtures: 46-62% of diacetylmorphine from the sample was recovered in vapour and 65-83% of caffeine. The only degradation product detected in vapour was 6-acetylmorphine (4.1-7.1%). In the temperature range studied, temperature mainly influenced the volatilisation rate. Mass median aerodynamic diameters of aerosols from diacetylmorphine-containing samples ranged from 1.8-4.1 microm; 45-60% of each sample was recovered as aerosol particles <5 microm. Volatilising pharmaceutical smokable heroin resulted in sufficient amounts of diacetylmorphine in vapour and in particles suitable for effective deposition in the lungs. Pharmaceutical heroin for inhalation was developed for a clinical trial on co-prescription of heroin and methadone to chronic treatment-resistant heroin addicts. Diacetylmorphine base was selected as the active pharmaceutical ingredient for this product with caffeine anhydrate added as an excipient. Differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis showed that addition of caffeine resulted in a lower melting temperature and a higher volatilisation rate for the mixture than for diacetylmorphine base alone. Recovery experiments showed that 40.8+/-5.3% of diacetylmorphine base could be found in smoke condensate after volatilisation of diacetylmorphine-caffeine tablets. All of the caffeine from each tablet was recovered unchanged in the fumes, while 85.6% of the diacetylmorphine from each tablet was recovered, either unchanged in the fumes or as non-volatilised residue. Recovery was found to be reproducible and only small differences were found between the tablet types. The experimental set-up was found to efficiently collect the vapours resulting from heating the powder. Under the tested experimental conditions, no evidence was found that degradation products of diacetylmorphine or caffeine, other than 6-acetylmorphine (5.9%) had volatilised, even though a decomposed residue was present after heating diacetylmorphine-caffeine samples. Diacetylmorphine-caffeine was found to be a suitable basis for pharmaceutical heroin to be used by ‚chasing the dragon‘. source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16039820 Schlagwörter: Pharmaceutical heroin for inhalation « Oral heroin in opioid-dependent patients: pharmacokinetic comparison of immediate and extended release tablets Endogenous Opiates and Behavior (a lot of Theorie) »

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Motion Picture Production Code (Redirected from Production Code) "Production Code" redirects here. For the television broadcasting term, see Production code number. "Hays Commission" redirects here. For the investigation by Arthur Garfield Hays into the 1937 incident in Ponce, Puerto Rico, see Ponce massacre. The Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral guidelines that was applied to most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1934 to 1968. It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Will H. Hays, who was the president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) from 1922 to 1945. Under Hays' leadership, the MPPDA, later known as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), adopted the Production Code in 1930 and began rigidly enforcing it in mid-1934. The Production Code spelled out what was acceptable and what was unacceptable content for motion pictures produced for a public audience in the United States. From 1934 to 1954, the code was closely identified with Joseph Breen, the administrator appointed by Hays to enforce the code in Hollywood. The film industry followed the guidelines set by the code well into the late 1950s, but during this time, the code began to weaken due to the combined impact of television, influence from foreign films, controversial directors (such as Otto Preminger) pushing boundaries, and intervention from the courts, including the Supreme Court.[1][2] In 1968, after several years of minimal enforcement, the Production Code was replaced by the MPAA film rating system. 2 Pre-code: "Don'ts" and "Be Carefuls", as proposed in 1927 3 Creation of the code and its contents 4 Enforcement 4.1 Pre-Code Hollywood 4.2 Breen era 4.3 Decline of the Production Code 4.4 Production Code abandoned In 1922, after several risqué films and a series of off-screen scandals involving Hollywood stars, the studios enlisted Presbyterian elder Will H. Hays to rehabilitate Hollywood's image. Hollywood in the 1920s was rocked by a number of notorious scandals, such as the murder of William Desmond Taylor and alleged rape of Virginia Rappe by popular movie star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, which brought widespread condemnation from religious, civic, and political organizations. Many felt the movie industry had always been morally questionable.[3] Political pressure was increasing, with legislators in 37 states introducing almost one hundred movie censorship bills in 1921. Faced with the prospect of having to comply with hundreds, and potentially thousands, of inconsistent and easily changed decency laws in order to show their movies, the studios chose self-regulation as the preferable option. Hays was paid the then-lavish sum of $100,000 a year (equal to $1,527,435 today).[4][5][6] Hays, Postmaster General under Warren G. Harding and former head of the Republican National Committee,[7] served for 25 years as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), where he "defended the industry from attacks, recited soothing nostrums, and negotiated treaties to cease hostilities".[4] The move mimicked the decision Major League Baseball had made in hiring judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as League Commissioner the previous year to quell questions about the integrity of baseball in the wake of the 1919 World Series gambling scandal; The New York Times even called Hays the "screen Landis".[8] In 1924, Hays introduced a set of recommendations dubbed "The Formula", which the studios were advised to heed, and asked filmmakers to describe to his office the plots of pictures they were planning on making.[9] The Supreme Court had already decided unanimously in 1915 in Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio that free speech did not extend to motion pictures,[10] and while there had been token attempts to clean up the movies before—such as when the studios formed the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry (NAMPI) in 1916—little had come of the efforts.[11] New York became the first state to take advantage of the Supreme Court's decision by instituting a censorship board in 1921. Virginia followed suit the following year,[12] with eight individual states having a board by the advent of sound film,[13][14] but many of these were ineffectual. By the 1920s, the New York stage—a frequent source of subsequent screen material—had topless shows, performances filled with curse words, adult subject matter, and sexually suggestive dialog.[15] Early in the sound system conversion process, it became apparent that what was acceptable in New York might not be so in Kansas.[15] Film-makers were facing the possibility that many states and cities would adopt their own codes of censorship, necessitating a multiplicity of versions of films made for national distribution. Self-censorship was deemed a preferable outcome. In 1927, Hays suggested to studio executives that they form a committee to discuss film censorship. Irving G. Thalberg of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Sol Wurtzel of Fox, and E. H. Allen of Paramount responded by collaborating on a list they called the "Don'ts and Be Carefuls", which was based on items that were challenged by local censor boards. This list consisted of eleven subjects best avoided and twenty-six to be handled very carefully. The list was approved by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Hays created the Studio Relations Committee (SRC) to oversee its implementation;[16][17] however, there was still no way to enforce tenets.[8] The controversy surrounding film standards came to a head in 1929.[18][19] Pre-code: "Don'ts" and "Be Carefuls", as proposed in 1927Edit The Code enumerated a number of key points known as the "Don'ts" and "Be Carefuls":[20] {{quote|Resolved, That those things which are included in the following list shall not appear in pictures produced by the members of this Association, irrespective of the manner in which they are treated: Pointed profanity – by either title or lip – this includes the words "God", "Lord", "Jesus", "Christ" (unless they be used reverently in connection with proper religious ceremonies), "hell", "damn", "Gawd", and every other profane and vulgar expression however it may be spelled; Any licentious or suggestive nudity – in fact or in silhouette; and any lecherous or licentious notice thereof by other characters in the picture; The illegal traffic in drugs; Any inference of sex perversion; White slavery; Miscegenation (sex relationships between the white and black races); Sex hygiene and venereal diseases; Scenes of actual childbirth – in fact or in silhouette; Children's sex organs; Ridicule of the clergy; Willful offense to any nation, race or creed; And be it further resolved, That special care be exercised in the manner in which the following subjects are treated, to the end that vulgarity and suggestiveness may be eliminated and that good taste may be emphasized: The use of the flag; International relations (avoiding picturizing in an unfavorable light another country's religion, history, institutions, prominent people, and citizenry); Arson; The use of firearms; Theft, robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, etc. (having in mind the effect which a too-detailed description of these may have upon the moron); Brutality and possible gruesomeness; Technique of committing murder by whatever method; Methods of smuggling; Third-degree methods; Actual hangings or electrocutions as legal punishment for crime; Sympathy for criminals; Attitude toward public characters and institutions; Sedition; Apparent cruelty to children and animals; Branding of people or animals; The sale of women, or of a woman selling her virtue; Rape or attempted rape; First-night scenes; Man and woman in bed together; Deliberate seduction of girls; The institution of marriage; Surgical operations; The use of drugs; Titles or scenes having to do with law enforcement or law-enforcing officers; Excessive or lustful kissing, particularly when one character or the other is a "heavy".[21] Creation of the code and its contentsEdit In 1929, a Catholic layman, Martin Quigley (editor of the prominent trade paper Motion Picture Herald) and the Jesuit priest Father Daniel A. Lord created a code of standards[22] and submitted it to the studios.[4][23] Lord was particularly concerned with the effects of sound film on children, whom he considered especially susceptible to their allure.[22] In February 1930, several studio heads—including Irving Thalberg of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)—met with Lord and Quigley. After some revisions, they agreed to the stipulations of the Code. One of the main motivating factors in adopting the Code was to avoid direct government intervention.[24] It was the responsibility of the SRC (headed by Colonel Jason S. Joy, a former American Red Cross Executive Secretary[16][25]) to supervise film production and advise the studios when changes or cuts were required.[26][27] On March 31, the MPPDA agreed it would abide by the Code.[28] The production code was intended to put a limitation on films which were distributed to a large audience, making it more difficult to appeal to all individuals in the audiences.[29] The code was divided into two parts. The first was a set of "general principles" which prohibited a picture from "lowering the moral standards of those who see it", so as not to wrongly influence a specific audience of views including, women, children, lower-class, and those of “susceptible” minds, called for depictions of the "correct standards of life", and lastly forbade a picture to show any sort of ridicule towards a law or "creating sympathy for its violation".[30] The second part was a set of "particular applications", which was an exacting list of items that could not be depicted. Some restrictions, such as the ban on homosexuality or on the use of specific curse words, were never directly mentioned, but were assumed to be understood without clear demarcation. Homosexuals were thus included under the forbiddance of sex perversion.[31] The depiction of miscegenation was forbidden. It also stated that the notion of an "adults-only policy" would be a dubious, ineffective strategy that would be difficult to enforce;[32] however, it did allow that "maturer minds may easily understand and accept without harm subject matter in plots which does younger people positive harm".[33] If children were supervised and the events implied elliptically, the code allowed "the possibility of a cinematically inspired thought crime".[33] The code sought not only to determine what could be portrayed on screen, but also to promote traditional values.[34] Sexual relations outside marriage—which were forbidden to be portrayed as attractive or beautiful—were to be presented in a way that would not arouse passion or make them seem permissible.[35] Any act considered sex perversion, including any suggestion of same sex relationships, sex, or romance.[31] All criminal action had to be punished, and neither the crime nor the criminal could elicit sympathy from the audience,[8] or the audience must at least be aware that such behavior is wrong, usually through "compensating moral value".[30][36] Authority figures had to be treated with respect, and the clergy could not be portrayed as comic characters or villains. Under some circumstances, politicians, police officers, and judges could be villains, as long as it was clear that those individuals portrayed as villains were the exceptions to the rule.[37] The entire document was written with Catholic undertones, and stated that art must be handled carefully because it could be "morally evil in its effects", and because its "deep moral significance" was unquestionable.[32] It was initially decided to keep the Catholic influence on the Code secret.[38] A recurring theme was "that throughout, the audience feels sure that evil is wrong, and good is right".[8] The Code also contained an addendum commonly referred to as the Advertising Code, which regulated advertising copy and imagery.[39] EnforcementEdit Pre-Code HollywoodEdit Main article: Pre-Code Hollywood The Kiss (1896), starring May Irwin, from the Edison Studios, drew general outrage from moviegoers, civic leaders, and religious leaders, as shocking, obscene, and immoral. A famous shot from the 1903 film, The Great Train Robbery. Scenes where criminals aimed guns at the camera were considered inappropriate by the New York state censor board in the 1920s, and usually removed.[40] On February 19, 1930, Variety published the entire content of the Code and predicted that state film censorship boards would soon become obsolete;[41] however, the men obliged to enforce the code—Jason Joy (head of the Committee until 1932) and his successor, Dr. James Wingate—were generally unenthusiastic and/or ineffective.[27][42] The first film the office reviewed, The Blue Angel, which was passed by Joy with no revisions, was considered indecent by a California censor.[42] Although there were several instances where Joy negotiated cuts from films and there were definite—albeit loose—constraints, a significant amount of lurid material made it to the screen.[43] Joy had to review 500 films a year with a small staff and little power.[42] He was more willing to work with the studios, and his creative writing skills led to his hiring at Fox. On the other hand, Wingate struggled to keep up with the flood of scripts coming in, to the point where Warner Bros.' head of production Darryl Zanuck wrote him a letter imploring him to pick up the pace.[44] In 1930, the Hays office did not have the authority to order studios to remove material from a film, and instead worked by reasoning and sometimes pleading with them.[45] Complicating matters, the appeals process ultimately put the responsibility for making the final decision in the hands of the studios.[27] Doctor Frankenstein's creation; actor Boris Karloff, the 1931 film, Frankenstein, in the famous monster make-up. By the time the film's sequel, Bride of Frankenstein, arrived in 1935, enforcement of the Code was in full effect, and the doctor's overt God complex was forbidden.[46] In the first picture, however, when the creature was born, his mad scientist creator was free to proclaim "Now I know what it feels like to be God!"[47] From Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross (1932) One factor in ignoring the code was the fact that some found such censorship prudish, due to the libertine social attitudes of the 1920s and early 1930s. This was a period in which the Victorian era was sometimes ridiculed as being naïve and backward.[48] When the Code was announced, the liberal periodical The Nation attacked it.[41] The publication stated that if crime were never to be presented in a sympathetic light, then taken literally that would mean that "law" and "justice" would become one and the same. Therefore, events such as the Boston Tea Party could not be portrayed. If clergy must always be presented in a positive way, then hypocrisy could not be dealt with either.[41] The Outlook agreed, and, unlike Variety, The Outlook predicted from the beginning that the Code would be difficult to enforce.[41] The Great Depression of the 1930s led many studios to seek income by any way possible. Since films containing racy and violent content resulted in high ticket sales, it seemed reasonable to continue producing such films.[49] Soon, the flouting of the code became an open secret. In 1931, The Hollywood Reporter mocked the code and quoted an anonymous screenwriter saying that "the Hays moral code is not even a joke any more; it's just a memory"; two years later Variety followed suit.[27] Breen eraEdit On June 13, 1934, an amendment to the Code was adopted which established the Production Code Administration (PCA) and required all films released on or after July 1, 1934, to obtain a certificate of approval before being released. The PCA had two offices - one in Hollywood, and the other in New York City. The first film to receive an MPPDA seal of approval was The World Moves On (1934). For more than thirty years, virtually all motion pictures produced in the United States adhered to the code.[50] The Production Code was not created or enforced by federal, state, or city government; the Hollywood studios adopted the code in large part in the hopes of avoiding government censorship, preferring self-regulation to government regulation. Father Daniel A. Lord, a Jesuit, wrote: "Silent smut had been bad. Vocal smut cried to the censors for vengeance." Thomas Doherty, Professor of American studies at Brandeis University, has defined the code as "... no mere list of Thou-Shalt-Nots, but a homily that sought to yoke Catholic doctrine to Hollywood formula. The guilty are punished, the virtuous rewarded, the authority of church and state is legitimate, and the bonds of matrimony are sacred."[50] What resulted has been described as "a Jewish owned business selling Catholic theology to Protestant America".[51] In 1934, Joseph I. Breen — a prominent Catholic layman who had worked in public relations — was appointed head of the new Production Code Administration (PCA). Under Breen's leadership of the PCA, which lasted until his retirement in 1954, enforcement of the Production Code became notoriously rigid. (Even cartoon sex symbol Betty Boop had to change from being a flapper and began to wear an old-fashioned housewife's skirt.) Breen's power to change scripts and scenes angered many writers, directors, and Hollywood moguls. Breen influenced the production of Casablanca, objecting to any explicit reference to Rick and Ilsa having slept together in Paris and to the film mentioning that Captain Renault extorted sexual favors from his supplicants; however, both remained strongly implied in the finished version.[52] Adherence to the Code also ruled out any possibility of the film ending with Rick and Ilsa consummating their adulterous love, making inevitable the ending with Rick's noble renunciation, one of Casablanca's most famous scenes.[53] The first major instance of censorship under the Production Code involved the 1934 film Tarzan and His Mate, in which brief nude scenes involving a body double for actress Maureen O'Sullivan were edited out of the master negative of the film.[54] Another famous case of enforcement involved the 1943 western The Outlaw, produced by Howard Hughes. The Outlaw was denied a certificate of approval and kept out of theaters for years, because the film's advertising focused particular attention on Jane Russell's breasts. Hughes eventually persuaded Breen that the breasts did not violate the code, and the film could be shown.[55] The PCA also engaged in political censorship. When Warner Bros. wanted to make a film about Nazi concentration camps, the production office forbade it—citing the above-mentioned prohibition on depicting "in an unfavorable light" another country's "institutions [and] prominent people"—with threats to take the matter to the federal government if the studio went ahead.[when?][56] This policy prevented a number of anti-Nazi films being produced. In 1938, the FBI unearthed and prosecuted a Nazi spy ring, subsequently allowing Warner to produce Confessions of a Nazi Spy,[57] with the Three Stooges' short subject You Nazty Spy! (January 1940) being the first Hollywood film of any sort to openly spoof the Third Reich's leadership.[58] Some films produced outside the mainstream studio system flouted the code. One example is Child Bride (1938), which featured a nude scene involving a twelve-year-old child actress (Shirley Mills). The Code began to weaken in the late 1940s, when the formerly taboo subjects of rape and miscegenation were allowed in Johnny Belinda (1948) and Pinky (1949), respectively.[citation needed] In 1951, the MPAA revised the code to make it more rigid; the 1951 revisions spelled out more words and subjects that were prohibited. In 1954, Breen retired, largely due to ill health, and Geoffrey Shurlock was appointed as his successor. Some of Hollywood’s creative class managed to find positives in the Code’s limitations. Director Edward Dmytryk later said that the Code "had a very good effect because it made us think. If we wanted to get something across that was censorable… we had to do it deviously. We had to be clever. And it usually turned out to be much better than if we had done it straight."[59] Decline of the Production CodeEdit Hollywood continued to work within the confines of the Production Code throughout the 1950s, but during this time, the movie industry was faced with very serious competitive threats. The first threat came from a new technology, television, which did not require Americans to leave their house to watch moving pictures. Hollywood needed to offer the public something it could not get on television, which itself was under an even more restrictive censorship code. In addition to the threat of television, there was also increasing competition from foreign films, such as Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948), the Swedish film One Summer of Happiness (1951), and Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika (1953). Vertical integration in the movie industry had been found to violate anti-trust laws, and studios had been forced to give up ownership of theaters by the Supreme Court in United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948). The studios had no way to keep foreign films out, and foreign films were not bound by the Production Code. Some British films — Victim (1961), A Taste of Honey (1961), and The Leather Boys (1963) — challenged traditional gender roles, and openly confronted the prejudices against homosexuals, all in clear violation of the Hollywood Production Code. In 1952, in the case of Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overruled its 1915 decision (Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio) and held that motion pictures were entitled to First Amendment protection, so that the New York State Board of Regents could not ban The Miracle, a short film that was one half of L'Amore (1948), an anthology film directed by Roberto Rossellini. Film distributor Joseph Burstyn released the film in the U.S. in 1950, and the case became known as the "Miracle Decision" due to its connection to Rossellini's film. That reduced the threat of government regulation, which had formerly been cited as justification for the Production Code, and the PCA's powers over the Hollywood industry were greatly reduced.[2] By the 1950s, American culture also began to change. A boycott by the National Legion of Decency no longer guaranteed a film's commercial failure, and several aspects of the code had slowly lost their taboo. In 1956, areas of the code were re-written to accept subjects such as miscegenation, adultery, and prostitution. For example, the re-make of a pre-Code film dealing with prostitution, Anna Christie, was cancelled by MGM twice, in 1940 and in 1946, as the character of Anna was not allowed to be portrayed as a prostitute. By 1962, such subject matter was acceptable, and the original film was given a seal of approval.[60] Some directors found ways to get around the Code guidelines; an example of this was in Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film, Notorious, where he worked around the rule of three-second-kissing only by having the two actors break off every three seconds. The whole sequence lasts two and a half minutes.[1] By the late 1950s, increasingly explicit films began to appear, such as Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Suddenly Last Summer (1959), Psycho (1960), and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1961). The MPAA reluctantly granted the seal of approval for these films, although not until certain cuts were made. Due to its themes, Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959) was not granted a certificate of approval, but it still became a box office smash, and, as a result, it further weakened the authority of the Code.[61] At the forefront of contesting the Code was director Otto Preminger, whose films violated the Code repeatedly in the 1950s. His 1953 film The Moon Is Blue, about a young woman who tries to play two suitors off against each other by claiming that she plans to keep her virginity until marriage, was released without a certificate of approval. He later made The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), which portrayed the prohibited subject of drug abuse, and Anatomy of a Murder (1959), which dealt with murder and rape. Like Some Like It Hot, Preminger's films were direct assaults on the authority of the Production Code, and their success hastened its abandonment.[62] In the early 1960s, films began to deal with adult subjects and sexual matters that had not been seen in Hollywood films since the early 1930s. The MPAA reluctantly granted the seal of approval for these films, although again not until certain cuts were made.[63] In 1964, the Holocaust film The Pawnbroker, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Rod Steiger, was initially rejected because of two scenes in which the actresses Linda Geiser and Thelma Oliver fully expose their breasts, as well as due to a sex scene between Oliver and Jaime Sánchez described as "unacceptably sex suggestive and lustful". Despite the rejection, the film's producers arranged for Allied Artists to release the film without the Production Code seal, with the New York censors licensing the film without the cuts demanded by Code administrators. The producers appealed the rejection to the Motion Picture Association of America. On a 6-3 vote, the MPAA granted the film an exception, conditional on "reduction in the length of the scenes which the Production Code Administration found unapprovable". The requested reductions of nudity were minimal; the outcome was viewed in the media as a victory for the film's producers.[64] The Pawnbroker was the first film featuring bare breasts to receive Production Code approval. The exception to the code was granted as a "special and unique case" and was described by The New York Times at the time as "an unprecedented move that will not, however, set a precedent". In Pictures at a Revolution, a 2008 study of films during that era, Mark Harris wrote that the MPAA approval was "the first of a series of injuries to the Production Code that would prove fatal within three years".[65] In 1966, Warner Bros. released Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the first film to feature the "Suggested for Mature Audiences" (SMA) label. When Jack Valenti became President of the MPAA in 1966, he was faced with censoring the film's explicit language. Valenti negotiated a compromise: the word "screw" was removed, but other language remained, including the phrase "hump the hostess". The film received Production Code approval despite the previously prohibited language.[30] That same year, the British-produced, American-financed film Blowup was denied Production Code approval. MGM released it anyway, the first instance of an MPAA member company distributing a film that did not have an approval certificate. That same year, the original and lengthy code was replaced by a list of eleven points. The points outlined that the boundaries of the new code would be current community standards and good taste. Any film containing content deemed suitable for older audiences would feature the label SMA in its advertising. With the creation of this new label, the MPAA unofficially began classifying films.[30] Production Code abandonedEdit By the late 1960s, enforcement had become impossible and the Production Code was abandoned entirely. The MPAA began working on a rating system, under which film restrictions would lessen. The MPAA film rating system went into effect on November 1, 1968, with four rating symbols: G means for general exhibition, M means more suitable for mature audiences (not suitable for children under 12), R means restricted to persons aged 16 and older unless those under that age are accompanied by an adult, and X means extremely limited to persons aged 18 and older. By the end of 1968, Geoffrey Shurlock stepped down from his post.[30][66] In 1969, the Swedish film I Am Curious (Yellow), directed by Vilgot Sjöman, was initially banned in the U.S. for its frank depiction of sexuality; however, this was overturned by the Supreme Court. In 1970, because of confusion over the meaning of "mature audiences", the M rating was changed to GP meaning "for general exhibition, but parental guidance is suggested". and then in 1972 to the current PG, for "parental guidance suggested". In 1984, in response to public complaints regarding the severity of horror elements in PG-rated titles such as Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the PG-13 rating was created as a middle tier between PG and R. 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Cybernet This article is about the British television programme. For the fraudulent company that called itself CyberNet Engineering, see Barton H. Watson. Original language(s) Production company(s) Capricorn Programmes Original network Cybernet (also known as Interactive) was a weekly video gaming magazine programme, originally broadcast overnight on the ITV network in the United Kingdom. The programme was commissioned by Yorkshire Television and produced by Capricorn Programmes[1] (who also produced the similar Movies, Games and Videos) and also aired on GBC TV in Gibraltar. It was broadcast overseas in many countries on various television stations, including Multishow in the Netherlands and Brazil, OnceTV in Mexico, Canal 13 in Chile, TG4 in Ireland, SuperMax in the Czech Republic, The Kids' Channel in Israel, Premiere 12 and Mediacorp Channel 5 in Singapore, TV3 in Estonia, NS+ in Yugoslavia, 2M TV in Morocco, CNBC-e in Turkey, Fox Kids in Australia, the defunct children's cable channel Fun Channel in the Middle East, Channel 33 in the Emirates, TV2 and Astro Ria in Malaysia, IBC 3 and UBC in Thailand, ATV Home and ATV World in Hong Kong, Bahrain TV Channel 55 in Bahrain, Bop TV and SABC2 in South Africa, RTB in Brunei, SkjárEinn and the 4 channel in Iceland, MNCTV in Indonesia and ATV Stavropol in Russia. Kuwait Television channel 2 (KTV2), another Middle-Eastern channel that aired Cybernet, had its own original English voice-overs. The programme featured reviews, previews, tips and reports on video gaming and computer technology. The programme began airing on the former children's satellite and cable network TCC (who also aired various television series based on video games and television series related to video games such as the Earthworm Jim, Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons) in 1995, before airing on ITV on terrestrial television. Voice-overs[edit] During its thirteen-year run, Cybernet was presented out-of-vision by a number of voiceover artists: Steve Priestly (1996, 1998) Lucy Longhurst (1994–2002) Steve Truitt (2002-2004) Catherine Fox (2004-2008) ^ Capricorn Programmes Filmography on BFI Retrieved on 2007.03.14 Cyberlink titles Cybernet on IMDb This animated television series–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cybernet&oldid=924165163" Television programs about video games Video game culture British non-fiction television series ITV television programmes Television series by Yorkshire Television 1995 British television series debuts 2008 British television series endings Animated television series stubs This page was last edited on 2 November 2019, at 06:20 (UTC).

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Midweek Discipleship FC Cares Serve Portal How it all started... Fellowship Church is a church that lives for the good of its community, the glory of Christ and the salvation of all. We launched in August of 2011 as the first campus of Lenexa Baptist Church. Not only were we launching as a second location but as a legacy church plant. First Baptist Church of Greenwood, Missouri a 175 year old church had been in decline for several years. They had a leadership of godly men who did not want to close the doors but instead wanted to see God move in a new way and extend their legacy of ministry into the future. In a tremendous declaration of faith, prayer and purpose they donated all their assets to see this new church plant become a reality. Since 2011, through a major team effort of dozens of people, the Fellowship has grown into a thriving and growing ministry for all generations creatively fulfilling their mission to make disciples. In January of 2018, Fellowship Church became an autonomous congregation set on continuing to do its part to in fulfilling the Great Commission. Expanding the vision... As we endeavor to do our part to fulfill the Great Commission, by 2019 we had grown to three worship services at the Greenwood campus and began to think about reaching more people through church revitalization, church planting and multi-site. In March of 2018, the church began the Great Commission Initiative, a strategy to do our part in fulfilling the Great Commission. By 2019 these initiatives were coming to fruition, and we were preparing to launch the Raymore campus in September of 2019. This location was created through the selfless giving of First Baptist Church Raymore. Fellowship Church had come full circle. Starting as a legacy church replant and now expanding through a second legacy replant. This allowed us to reach the 3rd fastest growing community in the metro and fastest growing city in Cass county. Living To Bless Internationally… Jesus continues to extend the reach of the Fellowship here in southeast Kansas City and around the world. Through irrational generosity to missions and extensive involvement in short-term trips we believed we could do more. The opportunity to be a part of God’s plan to bring salvation to the nations was a calling we couldn’t miss out on. The church began to see people give up high-paying jobs, sell their possessions, and commit their lives to go and share the good news of Jesus among those who have yet to hear. In 2018, we launched the Fellowship School of Hope in a remote farming village outside Pignon, Haiti. By mid 2019, over 200 salvations had been recorded and it was time to launch our first international church. Additionally, we desired to take the Word of God and the gospel to the unreached people groups of the world. In 2018, we began the process of partnering with the International Mission Board to take on an unreached people in the Mexico city area. In 2019, we fully funded the gospel of Matthew in a language that had never had the written word in its language. We believe our work globally is just beginning. Lord willing, we will continue to be a people living on purpose and for the great purpose for which we were saved. Where we are headed... God has done so much more than we could ever think or imagine. He has blessed the Fellowship on purpose, so we can live to bless others. Our desire is to partner with the people of our community and assist them in discovering they were created on purpose and for a great purpose. Namely, they were made for a relationship with their Creator through faith in Jesus Christ. Through our growth steps we help men and women, boys and girls engage with God’s purposes and to live the life they were redeemed to live. A life that lives for the good of others, the glory of Christ and the salvation of all. Would you join us? Be a part of our story... Join us every Sunday as we gather to worship together at 8:00 am, 9:30 am and 11:00 am at the Greenwood Campus, and 11:00 at the Raymore campus. Fellowship Church is a church for all generations, living to bless for the good of the city, the glory of God, and the salvation of all. Staff Email Login. Greenwood Campus 8:00am, 9:30am & 11:00am Raymore Campus Greenwood, MO 64034

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IT’S ALIVE! TPP 11 attempt to resuscitate trade deal that Trump tried to kill The chief negotiators of the 11 TPP 11 attempt to resuscitate trade deal that Trump tried to kill Photo: Reuters/Toru Hanai The chief negotiators of the 11 remaining Trans-Pacific Partnership countries will meet in Japan today to discuss the pact’s future. In January, the US pulled out of the regional trade deal which was signed in 2016, withdrawing 60% of the combined GDP of the original TPP states and casting uncertainty over its future. Now, members of the “TPP 11” are trying to revive the deal under Japanese leadership. The TPP still faces enormous hurdles. Vietnam and Malaysia signed it to widen access to the lucrative US market for their cheap textile goods, making them reluctant to sign a deal without the US. Additionally, the rules of the original agreement make it impossible to finalise without US ratification, meaning the implementation framework would have to be re-written. When the US pulled out of the deal, many feared that China would dominate the economic rules of the region through its Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. However, the push to revive the TPP suggests that regional powers like Japan and Australia are working to rival Chinese economic influence even without US leadership. BRIDGING THE GULF GULF Tillerson holds talks in Kuwait to resolve Qatar crisis Photo: Saudi Press Agency Yesterday, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Kuwait to discuss the Gulf Crisis with Kuwait’s Emir, who has been mediating the spat between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, and the UAE. The Secretary of State’s visit comes days after the Saudi-led bloc vowed to escalate month-old old crisis with all “political, economic and legal measures” required to bring Qatar to heel, which could include boycotting businesses that trade with Qatar or suddenly pulling deposits from Qatari banks. Tillerson’s task is made difficult by apparent divisions in the administration. The State Department has called for dialogue and called Saudi actions “mystifying,” while President Trump has repeatedly sided with the anti-Qatar coalition. Mr Tillerson will spend the week mediating between crucial allies; Bahrain is home to the US Fifth Fleet, while Qatar hosts 11,000 US military personnel at the al-Udeid air base, and all involved countries are part of the anti-ISIS coalition. Tillerson hopes to repair the anti-Iran and anti-terrorist coalition the US assembled at the Riyadh Summit in May. If he fails, the biggest victor will be Iran, the very country that Saudi Arabia had hoped to counter with its blockade. CELEBRATING WORLD POPULATION DAY Family planning in focus Photo: Marcos Brindicci/Reuters World Population Day, which was established by the United Nations Development Programme in 1989, takes place today. The day raises awareness of negative effects of population increase and encourages nations to address them. This year’s theme is family planning, which includes safe contraception and female education. Despite annual growth rates having declined since 1969, the world’s population is expected to reach 9.7 billion people by 2050. Sub-Saharan African nations are set to be a major part of this increase. As infant mortality in these nations decreases, many women still lack resources to effectuate family-level population control. To curb this, the 2012 London Family Planning Summit set a goal to give 120 million women access to appropriate resources by 2020. Only 25% of that goal has been reached. Cultural barriers, such as many Sub-Saharan Africans viewing contraception as immoral, further complicate the issue. This year’s Family Planning Summit consequently aims to address both structural and cultural factors hindering progress. HAPPENING ELSEWHERE… Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was meant to be in Estonia today to discuss cybersecurity—a subject the Baltic state takes extremely seriously after a 2007 attack crippled the country. But Abe has cut short his tour of Europe to deal with a crisis at home. Opinion polls show support for the Japanese leader have plummeted to 36%, the lowest since he came to power in 2012. Amazingly, the prime minister sported a 61% approval rating just two months ago. Mr Abe has been dogged by claims he and his wife showed favouritism to associates and is expected to announce a cabinet reshuffle next month. NASA’s Juno spacecraft is expected to fly over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a giant storm system that’s rumoured to be 350 years old and possibly even older. The probe, which has been orbiting Jupiter for a year, will provide the first ever close up of the Spot. Due to the 590 million kilometres separating Earth from Jupiter, the images aren’t expected to reach NASA until the weekend at the earliest. Theresa May will attempt to reenergise her premiership in a parliamentary address. The PM is expected to acknowledge that last month’s disastrous election results have weakened her hand but will reiterate her “commitment to change” and seek the “broadest possible consensus” on Brexit. Much of the text of the speech has been leaked and can be read here. Paraguay’s president will visit Taiwan to mark 60 years of sustained relations between the two. Paraguay is one of just 20 countries—most of which are Pacific island-nations—that formally recognise Taiwan, also known as the Republic of China, as the ‘one China’. On June 13, Panama became the latest country to officially recognise the People’s Republic as the ‘one China’. Despite this, many countries, including the United States, maintain unofficial diplomatic ties with Taiwan, which irks Beijing.

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The GOP Takes A Big Step Toward Passing A Big Policy Goal Dec. 2, 2017 , at 8:56 AM By Perry Bacon Jr. Filed under Taxes The Capitol at dawn as Senate Republicans worked to pass their sweeping tax bill this week. J. Scott Applewhite / AP Friday was really bad for the Republican Party in that President Trump’s one-time national security adviser Michael Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI and there are indications that he might testify to politically damaging and possibly illegal actions by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and maybe even the president himself. But Friday (and early Saturday) was really great for Republicans in that the party took a huge step towards a goal it had long before Trump was even running for president: a huge cut in corporate tax rates that GOP leaders say will encourage American companies to increase their current workers’ pay and hire more employees. (Many economics experts strongly dispute these claims.) The Senate voted 51-49 to pass its version of the tax bill. That does not guarantee that the provision will become law. The policies the GOP are trying to pass are unpopular with the public and have the potential to substantially increase the national deficit. The House and Senate versions, moreover, have some major differences, and getting all of the hard-to-please members and factions in each chamber (think Maine’s Susan Collins, Arizona’s John McCain and the House Freedom Caucus) all on board for the same bill won’t be simple. But this tax bill has advanced much further than the Obamacare repeal, which stalled in the Senate, in a much shorter time period. It has a good chance of becoming law, perhaps even before Christmas. If it does, it’ll have big implications — both in terms of policy and politics. 1. Both the House and Senate versions of this legislation radically overhaul America’s tax system, mostly notably in cutting corporate taxes from 35 to 20 percent, while getting rid of many existing tax deductions in order to make up for the lost revenue. They also substantially cut taxes on certain kinds of businesses that do not organize themselves as corporations. And the bills cut some taxes that disproportionately hit wealthy people. These changes will benefit wealthy business owners like Trump. In short, this is a full-on embrace of trickle-down economics, premised on the idea that corporations and businesses taking in more money will pass that down to workers. Once enacted, these policies will likely be difficult for Democrats to undo — much like Republicans are having a hard time rolling back the increased Medicaid spending and protections for pre-existing conditions that were key features of Obamacare. It’s just hard to imagine Democrats will find it easy to raise the corporate rate substantially in the future. Companies are likely to suggest any hike in that rate will force them to layoff employees. 2. The Senate version repeals Obamacare’s individual mandate. I expect the House to agree to include the mandate repeal, so it’s likely to be included in whatever law Trump would potentially sign. In other words, this legislation could become part of a series of moves made by Trump’s executive branch that some say amount to a “synthetic repeal” of the Affordable Care Act, even if Republicans couldn’t find the votes to kill that entire law. 3. If ultimately passed by both chambers and signed by Trump, the tax bill gives the president and congressional Republicans their first big legislative win since the start of Trump’s tenure. What does that mean politically? Well, here’s one thing it doesn’t necessarily mean: more congressional seats for Republicans. Since this bill is so unpopular, it’s hard to see this legislation helping boost the congressional Republicans ahead of the 2018 midterm elections — and it may hurt them. It’s also not clear if this bill’s passage means congressional Republicans will rally around Trump — in general or on the Russia investigation specifically. Sure, Republicans could decide that the success of the tax bill shows that Trump is an effective governing partner, even if he behaves erratically. But Republicans on Capitol Hill could also go in the opposite direction, deciding that a tax overhaul is probably the only big bill that will pass during Trump’s presidency. Under that theory, they would begin to more forcefully distance themselves from him, perhaps even clearing the path for Trump to be impeached and removed from office if the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller shows serious misconduct by the president. The safest bet, in terms of what the passage of the tax bill tells us about the future workings of Trump and Congress, is perhaps “maybe not that much.” Congressional Republicans are likely to continue to flail both legislatively and in terms of how they deal with an unpredictable president, defending Trump at times, attacking him at others. But if nothing else, the enactment of the tax bill would shift Trump from a do-nothing president who can’t implement an agenda even with his party in control of both houses of Congress to the president who signed the most extensive tax overhaul in three decades. Trump will likely brag about this bill as a huge accomplishment — a big league one, he might say. He will demand that the “fake news” ” cover the bill’s passage intensely, and that coverage will never be enough for him. Trump spoke often as a candidate about “winning,” and now, after a first year full of political and policy setbacks, he is closer to a huge win as president. Perry Bacon Jr. is a senior writer for FiveThirtyEight. @perrybaconjr Donald Trump (1198 posts) The Trump Administration (687) Congress (413) Taxes (89)

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Geek News, Movie News, News Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends Announced for Disney Junior ANAHEIM, CA (August 23, 2019) – Marvel Animation & Family Entertainment announced today during their panel at Disney’s D23 Expo, a new original animated series for Disney Junior, “Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends.” Geared toward preschoolers and their families, the series is set to debut in 2021 and will be the first full-length Marvel series for the Disney Junior audience Our favorite neighborhood web-slinger is used to working solo, but now Peter Parker must discover what it takes to become a truly amazing super hero: being a spider friend who works well with others. Together with his friends Miles Morales and Gwen AKA Ghost-Spider, they will team up with heroes such as Hulk, Black Panther and Ms. Marvel, to defeat evil foes and learn that teamwork is the best way to save the day. “Preschool kids already love Spidey, so they’ll be delighted to have Peter Parker thwipping across their screens in this new series” said Cort Lane, senior vice president, Marvel Animation & Family Entertainment. He added, “Everyone at Marvel is thrilled to launch our first preschool series on Disney Junior, the gold standard platform for the audience. We believe parents and kids will be excited about these stories filled with themes of friendship, cooperation, solving problems and using your abilities to help others.” Joe D’Ambrosia, senior vice president, Original Programming and General Manager, Disney Junior said “We’re thrilled to be working with Marvel on this new series showcasing the exciting adventures of Spidey and his friends as they model the importance of teamwork and helping others in their community. This is the perfect series to introduce preschoolers to the super hero powers of friendship and working together to help others in need.” “Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends” is executive produced by Alan Fine (“Marvel’s The Avengers”), Joe Quesada (“Marvel’s Avengers Assemble”), Dan Buckley (“Marvel’s Spider-Man”), Cort Lane (“Ultimate Spider-Man”), and Eric Radomski (“Marvel’s Avengers Assemble”); co-executive produced by Marsha Griffin (“Marvel’s Spider-Man”), and supervising producer Harrison Wilcox (“Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy”). Alfred Gimeno (“Marvel Rising”) serves as supervising animation producer, and Ashley Mendoza (“PJ Masks”) as story editor. d23 d23 expo disney marvel Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends walt disney studios Previous postUbisoft Unveils PAX West 2019 Plans Next postDisney Unveils Disney+ Lineup including Obi-Wan Kenobi Series DiRT Rally 2.0 Celebrates Colin McRae with...

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Home»About Arístides About Arístides Arístides P. Carrillo Fernández is a Ph.D. student in School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He was previously an export business development manager at a Spanish radio communications company in Madrid, Spain for over six years. He was in charge of developing new distribution dealer networks in South Europe and West Africa countries. He earned his M.S. in Electronics and Systems of Telecommunication at ESIGELEC (École Supérieur D'Ingénieurs en Génie Électrique) at Rouen, France in 2009, and his B.S. in Systems of Telecommunication at Polytechnic University of Madrid at Madrid, Spain in 2006. Arístides' research interests include the role of empathy and reflection in engineering education and practice, and engineering practice in global environments.

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Study Music Community Music School Faculty by Discipline 377 N. McIlroy Avenue Billingsley Music Building 201 E-mail: music@uark.edu Benjamin J. Pierce Professor, Tuba and Euphonium (ARSC)-Arts & Sciences (MUSC)-Music Email: bjp02@uark.edu Benjamin Pierce is an accomplished low brass artist and teacher. He is a professor at the University of Arkansas, teaching a large studio of tuba and euphonium players and directing the tuba/euphonium ensemble. His studies took place at Bowling Green State University and the University of Michigan. His primary teachers were David Saygers, Velvet Brown, Fritz Kaenzig, and Wesley Jacobs. Pierce has notably been the winner of some dozen international tuba and euphonium artist competitions held in the United States, Japan, Germany, Finland, South Korea, England, and Italy. He is a frequent soloist at home and abroad performing many solo recitals as well as concerti with such ensembles as the premier United States military bands, top American brass bands, and such orchestras as the Tokyo Symphony, Oulu Symphony (Finland), and Vogtland Philharmonie (Germany). Enjoying a varied ensemble career, Pierce has performed with the Detroit Symphony, the Detroit Chamber Brass, the Toledo Symphony, the Flint Symphony, and the Tulsa Symphony. He has served as principal tubist of the Ann Arbor Symphony and is principal tubist of SONA, formerly the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. He is a member of the acclaimed Brass Band of Battle Creek, featuring many of the world’s greatest brass players. With the BBBC, he has performed on three different instruments. Recently Pierce was appointed Editor in Chief of the Journal of ITEA (International Tuba Euphonium Association.) Benjamin Pierce can be heard on three recordings available from major online retailers. He is a Miraphone performing artist. D.M.A. University of Michigan

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2nd February 2017 / Anonymous The targets on our backs First Persongal-demPolitics Catching up on the news this weekend has been a laborious, saddening and frightening task. Whilst I was away seeing friends abroad, President Trump executed his promised “Muslim ban”, forbidding those from majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. Countries such as Iraq, Iran, Libya and Yemen have been affected. Not only this, the ill thought-out Executive Order has meant that green card holders, who are technically residents of the US, but with a Yemeni, Iraqi etc. background have been reported to have been denied entry to a place they call home. Trump’s presidency is one that shocked the world as it signalled the legitimacy of the “alt-right”, as well as feeding into the anti-Muslim rhetoric that has existed since 9/11. For nearly 16 years Muslims around the world have had to contend with the long-term consequences of that fateful day, with its repercussions being felt all the more in the last year. Executive orders such as the ban on Muslims only further reinforce the divide between Muslims and the rest of the world. The sense of “otherness” is as profoundly deep as it has ever been. However, in spite of this, there has been a huge outpouring of support from the international community, as seen on 30 January, where marches took place up and down the country, standing in solidarity with Muslims, the scapegoats of Trumps’ policies. As a British Muslim, whose parents hail from Pakistan, I am all too aware of the threat that people like me face. There is a target on our back, shot at whenever a tragic event occurs, just so the blame can be placed somewhere before the grief can begin. My family’s car back window being smashed just after the 7/7 attacks, and the glares my mother has received on account of her wearing a headscarf are just two, of very many, examples of this. Thus, I stand in solidarity with those who are unable to travel home or to the Land of the Free, all because of their nationality and their religion. I stand with those who will be attacked for their religion, and those whose lives will change as a result of the new President. What is desperately needed during times of crises is a sense of togetherness, an unwavering, unrelenting collective of Muslims, putting sectarian beliefs asides and coming together to support one another through such trying times, as Trump is just but one part of the problem. The rise in hate-crime, the legitimisation of the alt-right and Theresa May’s apparent refusal to confront Trump’s policies has meant that already-marginalised groups are now, perhaps more so than ever, pushed to the outskirts of society, the target on our backs more used and abused as each day passes. However, I would be lying if I said that I was not still in a state of shock over the ban. I know that it was something that was coming, we were even informed about it in the last year, as it was an integral part of Trump’s campaign, but to have genuinely signed and swiftly executed such an Order without any apparent pre-planning and a deep level of thought is just terrifying. The people of the United States successfully voted in a man whose whole campaign was based around fear-mongering, something that will no doubt be a keystone of his presidency over the next three years. Through my shock and sadness, one of the many questions I have running through my mind is: “what happens next?” There have already been rumours circulating of expanding the list of countries banned from the United States, with Pakistan being at the forefront. Will we get to a point where all Muslim-majority countries and its citizens will be barred from entering the United States? Will there be clarity regarding those with dual-nationality, or those working in the States, but originally from Muslim-majority countries? The fact that there are so many questions to be asked regarding the Executive Order is a sad sign of its ill thought-out nature, which will come and continue to come at the expense of Muslims, both in the United States and around the world. More from gal-dem Keyboard Warrior: Aleesha Khaliq on why the Labour leadership election leaves her uninspired Aleesha Khaliq Stop all the clicks: we need to cease feeding the outrage industrial complex Moya Lothian McLean Peace talks for Libya? Sorry, it’s nine years too late Shahed Ezaydi Watching Nas get sidelined on Love Island is pissing me off Meera Sharma Facial recognition can’t tell black and brown people apart – but the police are using it anyway

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Beijing City Stay – 2012 Operation Homecoming Intro Dec. 11th | Posted by stevep 0 comments This event, held on June 13-19, 2005 in Branson, MO and welcomed home Vietnam War veterans. Homecoming USA Introduction Steve Presley, West Point Class of ’72 and a career soldier retired in the Branson/Lakes areas, and Gary Linderer, a decorated Vietnam Veteran and published author on the Vietnam War, were co-founders of this event. “Gary and I kept noticing the absence of Vietnam Vets at the various veteran events we were both involved in supporting,” Presley said. “Talking with Gary helped me understand why the men and women who served so heroically in Vietnam were staying away from these celebrations. As a nation we had not given Vietnam Vets the recognition they had earned. So we decided to give them the homecoming they never received.” National support had to be garnered for an event of this magnitude. “We approached leaders of industry, sports, education and government,” said Linderer. “And the response was overwhelming. Mr. Ross Perot, an acclaimed veterans advocate and benefactor, served on our Board of Directors and made this project a reality. Jim Amos, former CEO of Mail Boxes etc. and Chairman and CEO of Sona International Corp served on the board from the project’s inception. Jackie Smith, NFL Hall of Fame tight end, shared our enthusiasm and offered his assistance as a national spokes person for the event.” “This project took off because it was the right time, the right place, and the right thing to do,” said Presley. “We needed to honor those brave men and women who answered their country’s call during a very difficult time in our nation’s history. By honoring their service, we passed a legacy of duty, honor and country to our American sons and daughters who will be called to serve in other difficult conflicts still to come.”

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July 22, 2019JPEG Plunging deep into the ground, the gaping hole of an open-pit mine is unmistakable from space. People have excavated such pits on every continent except Antarctica. The mine pictured here has been growing vertically and horizontally near Phalaborwa, South Africa, for more than 50 years. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired this image of the Palabora mine on July 2, 2019. It is South Africa’s largest open-pit mine, measuring almost 2 kilometers wide. It is about half the width of the world’s largest open-pit mine, which is at Bingham Canyon in Utah. Copper mining began at Palabora in 1965, and by 1967 the open-pit mine was fully operational. The hole reached 800 meters down into the Earth before the depletion of resources made it uneconomical to continue mining in the pit. Operations moved underground (below the pit) and mostly out of sight in the early 2000s. The new mining method, known as block caving, involves extracting rock below an ore body, letting the ore break under its own weight, and then hauling the ore back to the surface. Three years after the start of underground mining at Palabora, cracks grew in the wall of the pit until the northwest wall collapsed. The second image shows a detailed view of that landslide, which is still visible in 2019. The collapse damaged some infrastructure—roads, power and water lines, and a railway line—but critical mine infrastructure stayed intact and underground mining continues there today. The site has become a case study in the challenges in transitioning from surface to underground mining. For example, researchers started using satellite data to improve the models that predict how mining underground will deform the surface. People were mining South Africa’s copper and iron resources long before the advent of open pit mines. Some archaeological estimates date mining artifacts back to at least 800 CE. In neighboring Kruger National Park, more than 250 archaeological sites show signs of human occupation back about 1 million years ago. NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens and Allison Nussbaum, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Story by Kathryn Hansen. Image of the Day for July 30, 2019 Landsat 8 — OLI Space Shuttle — SRTM Image of the Day Land Human Presence Basson, I. et al. (2017) Structural analysis and 3D modelling of major mineralizing structures at the Phalaborwa copper deposit. Ore Geology Reviews, 83 (2017), 30–42. Brummer, R. K. et al., The Transition From Open Pit to Underground Mining: An Unusual Slope Failure Mechanism at Palabora. The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy International Symposium on Stability of Rock Slopes in Open Pit Mining and Civil Engineering . Eberhardt, E. et al. (2007) Transition from surface to underground mining: Integrated mapping, monitoring and modeling data to better understand complex rock mass interaction. Conference: International Symposium on Rock Slope Stability in Open Pit Mining and Civil Engineering, At Perth, Australia . European Space Agency (2006, January 3) Radar Satellite Service Checks Stability of Africa's Largest Artificial Hole. Accessed July 25, 2019. Minedat.org, Palabora mine. Accessed July 25, 2019. Plug, I. and Pistorius, J. C. C. (1999) Animal Remains from Industrial Iron Age Communities in Phalaborwa, South Africa. African Archaeological Review, 16 (3), 155–184. Siyanbona Africa (2017) Ancient history of mining protected by modern mine. Accessed July 25, 2019. Viljoen, M. (2015) The Kruger National Park: Geology and Geomorphology of the Wilderness. Landscapes and Landforms of South Africa, 111–120. Rio Tinto Borax Mine One of Earth’s richest borate deposits is at the center of the largest open-pit mine in California. Jwaneng Diamond Mine, Botswana otswana ranks first among the world’s gem-quality diamond producers, and diamond mining makes up 70 percent of the nation’s export revenue. The Jwaneng Diamond Mine, in south-central Botswana, sits atop the convergence of three kimberlite pipes—diamond-rich geologic formations. Because the pipes meet just below the surface and cover some 520,000 square meters (128.5 acres) at ground level, the diamonds are mined from an open pit rather than a mine tunneled below the surface. Mining Peru’s Cerro de Pasco The city’s economic engine is also a worrisome source of pollution. Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah The Bingham Canyon Mine (image center) is one of the largest open-pit mines in the world, measuring over 4 kilometers wide and 1,200 meters deep. Mining first began in Bingham Canyon in the late nineteenth century, when shafts were sunk to remove gold, silver, and lead deposits that played out by the early 1900s. It would take the advent of open-pit mining in 1899 to turn the Bingham copper deposit into an economically favorable resource. Image of the Day Land

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November 4, 2019JPEG Tropical Cyclone Maha has taken a sharp turn over the Arabian Sea and is now poised to brush India’s west coast on November 7, 2019. By landfall, forecasters expect the storm to have weakened from its extremely severe peak on November 4, which was when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image. At the time, sustained winds measured 185 kilometers (115 miles) per hour—the equivalent of a category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale. Considered in isolation, there’s nothing particularly unusual about Maha. However, in the context of the season and the basin, it is the latest in a series of strong tropical cyclones in an area that typically doesn’t see many. In fact, the North Indian basin is usually the least active in the Northern Hemisphere. 1842 - 2017PNG Activity in the world’s major ocean basins is visible in this map, which shows the historical tracks of storms between 1842 and 2017 as chronicled by NOAA. Brighter areas indicate where a large number of storm tracks have overlapped. Notice the scarcity of storm tracks in the North Indian basin—particularly west of India—compared to other basins. On average, this North Indian region sees 4.8 storms per year that reach the strength of a “cyclonic storm” (tropical storm) or greater. Of those, just 1.5 reach the strength of “very severe cyclonic storm” (category 1 hurricane) or greater. For comparison, the northwestern Pacific—the busiest basin—sees an average of 26 tropical storms and 16.5 typhoons every year. Maha is the sixth cyclonic storm of 2019 in the North Indian basin, and the fifth to exceed category 1 strength. It follows Kyarr in October (category 4), Hikaa in September (category 2), Vayu in June (category 2), Fani in May (category 4), and Pabuk in January (tropical storm). Most cyclones in this region tend to form before or after the monsoon season. It is also notable that four of these cyclones formed west of India over the Arabian Sea. In a typical year, most cyclones form east of India in the vicinity of the Bay of Bengal. October 17, 2019JPEG The surge of strong storms this year is likely related to a climate phenomenon known as the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). Similar to the way phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation shift sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, the IOD shifts temperatures in the Indian Ocean in ways that can affect seasonal weather patterns. In a positive phase of the IOD, winds and ocean circulation cause warmer than usual waters in the basin’s west side and cooler than usual waters to the east. This sets up a convection pattern that results in more rain and storms over the Arabian Sea. The strong IOD is visible in the map above, which shows sea surface temperature anomalies on October 17, 2019. The map does not show absolute temperatures, but how much the surface layer was above or below that day’s average temperature (measured between 2003 and 2014). The warmer than usual (red) water contrasts sharply with colder than usual (blue) water near Indonesia. According to news reports, the current “positive” phase of the IOD started in June 2019 and strengthened quickly in September due to strong easterly winds. The same report notes that the IOD this year is the strongest it has been in at least 60 years. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) project, storm track data from NOAA, and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen. Image of the Day for November 7, 2019 Terra — MODIS 2019 Cyclone Season in the Northern Indian Ocean Cyclones tend to form between April and December, fueled by changing seasons (in the west) and the monsoon (in the east). Hindustan Times (2019, September 28) Cyclone in Arabian Sea rare in Sept; climate change effect? Accessed November 6, 2019. India Meteorological Department (2019, November 6) Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre for Tropical Cyclones Over North Indian Ocean. Accessed November 6, 2019. India Meteorological Department (2019, November 6) Ministry of Earth Sciences. Accessed November 6, 2019. NASA Earth Observatory (2019, September 25) Cyclone Hikaa Hits Oman. NASA Earth Observatory (2019, June 13) Cyclone Vayu Approaches Western Coast of India. NASA Earth Observatory (2019, May 1) Tropical Cyclone Fani. NOAA Hurricane Research Division (2017, June 1) Record number of storms by basin. Accessed November 6, 2019. Scientific American (2019, October 28) Tropical Cyclone Kyarr (150-mph Winds): Arabian Sea’s 2nd Strongest Storm on Record. Accessed November 6, 2019. Severe Weather Europe (2019, October 19) Unusually strong positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event develops, powers severe droughts in Australia, and supports warmer October in Europe. Accessed November 6, 2019. The Weather Channel (2019, September 16) 2019 to Be One of Strongest Indian Ocean Dipole Years On Record: Expert. Accessed November 6, 2019. Cyclone Nilofar The storm became the third strongest on record for the Arabian Sea, but it was ripped apart by wind shear before reaching land. Image of the Day Atmosphere Water Severe Storms Tropical Cyclone Gonu Cyclone Ilsa This image shows Category 3-strength Tropical Cyclone Ilsa on March 19, 2009. Atmosphere Severe Storms Cyclone Hikaa Hits Oman The storm reached the coast of the Arabian Peninsula with maximum winds between 120-130 kilometers per hour. 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Cornell Chronicle Vol. 24, No. 1 - No. 39, 1992-1993 Division of University Communications Cornell Chronicle The Cornell Chronicle began publication in 1969 as a weekly newspaper delivered to campus newsstands. It is a publication of the Division of University Communications and serves as the primary source of news about Cornell University. The Chronicle includes news, research and features about university programs, students, faculty and the administration. Beginning in 1996, the Chronicle developed an online version of the print publication. In August 2009, the newspaper ceased print production and distribution, providing print-on-demand capability from their online version. The Cornell Chronicle issues available here are volumes 1:1 (1969) through 28:7 (1996). For more recent issues, please visit the Cornell Chronicle Online. Cornell Chronicle Vol. 24, No. 38 (July 22, 1993)  Unknown author (Cornell University, 1993-07-22) The Cornell Chronicle, a weekly news publication of Cornell University. Cornell Chronicle Vol. 24, No. 39 (August 05, 1993)  Cornell Chronicle Vol. 24, No. 36 (June 24, 1993) 

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Economics Alumnus Helps Brew a Coffee Change Author: Scott Frano Plenty of American office workers have used a Keurig coffee maker for a boost by now, and they can thank a Domer for the ubiquitous caffeine machine. Chris Stevens ’74 is one of the original four co-founders of Keurig Premium Coffee Systems. Launched in 1998, the company is now the largest seller of coffee brewers in America. Stevens, who was an economics major in the College of Arts and Letters, is now vice president of corporate relations for Keurig. Stevens had found success on teams before. As a senior, he was part of the Notre Dame basketball team that ended UCLA’s 88-game winning streak and he was vice president of his senior class. A Keurig machine allows coffee drinkers to brew one cup of coffee at a time, rather than a full pot. Machines come with “K-Cup packs,” small containers of coffee for a single cup. In addition to Green Mountain Coffee (Keurig’s parent company), Newman’s Own, Caribou Coffee, and Starbucks all make packs compatible with the machine. Stevens said the idea came from noticing the inefficiency of coffee brewing. “We consume coffee a cup at a time but we brew it a pot at a time,” Stevens said. “There was tremendous waste and limited variety. The whole idea was if we could give people variety, freshness, and convenience one cup at a time, then we might have something here.” Stevens still has deep ties to Notre Dame. He serves on the Monogram Club Board of Directors and for the past three years has taught an annual course at the Mendoza College of Business for second-year M.B.A. candidates. Students give up their fall or spring break to take the week-long course. Based in Reading, Mass., Keurig is involved with many local outreach programs, as well as larger campaigns. “With our parent company, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, we commit at least five percent of all of our profits toward corporate social responsibility initiatives,” Stevens said. “Helping the poor, the hungry, helping farmers in countries that grow the coffee have a better way of life. We also help local organizations and communities here, and we give our employees 52 hours a year of paid time off to volunteer into the community. As we continue to grow the business, we can give back more to those who need help.” In addition to his role at Keurig, Stevens also owns three commercial websites, a real estate company based in Washington, D.C., and a Hollywood production company. But even with all the work Stevens is involved in, it still gives him a bit of satisfaction to see Keurig machines in so many places. “When we started this 16 years ago, we were trying to do coffee totally different than how the rest of the world was, and it was a multi-billion dollar industry,” Stevens said. “Now Keurig is the number one selling coffee brewer in America, not just single cup, but of any coffee brewer …. There is definitely a sense of pride.” Originally published at mynotredame.nd.edu Originally published by Scott Frano at al.nd.edu on September 17, 2012.

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Founded by Matt Niutta, Fractel has begun to create a community of like-minded followers and advocates around the world who share a passion for running and adventure. Matt has always been a passionate runner, and it wasn’t until he was diagnosed with an eye condition that prevented him from driving did he realise the real benefit of being outdoors and commuting by foot. With a greater appreciation for the small things in life, running became more than just beating the clock. Finish lines are great, but it was the process, shared with your mates that became the motivation to get up and run day in day out. With plenty of time to think on the daily commute to work, it became evident that there was a need for a representation of both performance and style within the running and adventure community. With that thought, Fractel was born. Fractel originated from the term ‘fractal’. A fractal can be defined as an infinite pattern and is often used to describe natural features such as trees, rivers and mountains. This connection with the natural environment and potential to be infinitely occurring was the inspiration behind the name. Our logo is the simplest version of a fractal. Starting from a single origin, two branches grow. This principle of endless iterations can be applied to all aspects of life. We want to replicate this theory and show the world that with one idea, anything is possible. To create the world’s best headwear using our own experience and passion, in a style that promotes adventure and uniqueness, for a community that loves to get outside and run.

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China Seminar: Xi and Obama Meet: Observations on a More Competitive but Vital Relationship On August 19, 2015 August 19, 2015 By friendsofewcIn China Seminar Thursday, 10 September, 2015, 12 noon Xi and Obama Meet: Observations on a More Competitive but Vital Relationship The relationship of China and U.S. has emerged as the world’s most critical. It is also unprecedented in its complexity. The rise of certain tensions have caused some to question whether a cooperative relationship has moved beyond being competitive to a condition in which it is becoming adversarial. At the same time a powerful paramount leader of China – perhaps matching Deng or even Mao in influence – has taken office at Zhongnanhai in Beijing. This September brings China’s leader, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of the PRC to Washington for his first State Visit hosted by President Barack Obama. James Kelly will seek to stimulate discussion about some of the possible outcomes from the visit, as well as comment on the many of the larger ongoing issues. As a frequent speaker and writer about economic and political issues of East Asia and the Pacific, James Kelly has been a think tank head and businessman. Before retiring, he was the Assistant Secretary of State (East Asian and Pacific Affairs) from 2001-2005, under President Reagan (1983-1989) as Special Assistant for East Asia (NSC Staff), and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. Mr. Kelly was past President (1994-2001) of the Pacific Forum, CSIS, and is the current President of EAP Associates, LLC and a Trustee of The Asia Foundation. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, National War College and Harvard Business School (MBA), and retired in 1982 as a Captain in the U.S. Navy. He is now a member of the Advisory Board of Marvin & Palmer, Inc. an equity management firm in Delaware and lives in Honolulu with his wife, Sue. China Seminar: China-US Strategic Philanthropy: Surprising Changes in China China Seminar: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly The Current Immigration Trend of the Chinese to America

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Clear Thinking on the South China Sea On September 19, 2016 September 19, 2016 By friendsofewcIn Uncategorized Thursday, 13 October 2016, 12 noon Maple Garden Restaurant, 909 Isenberg Street, Honolulu Dave Stilwell The South China Sea is a hot topic these days. Brigadier General Stilwell will offer his thoughts on the current state of the US-China relationship since the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea invalidated China’s 9-dash Line claim. He will offer his assessment of China’s long-term strategy, including Beijing’s intent behind East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone, as well as the many issues surrounding a South China Sea ADIZ. Brigadier General Dave Stilwell retired from the Air Force after 35 years in uniform and is currently Adjunct Senior Fellow at the EWC. He began his career as a Korean linguist and later majored in Asian Studies and Chinese language as an East West Center participant 1987-1988. BrigGen Stilwell has flown 2500 hours in the F-4 Phantom II and the F-16 Fighting Falcon with deployments to South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. He most recently served as the Base and Wing Commander at Misawa Air Base, Japan; as Defense Attaché to the People’s Republic of China 2011-2013; and most recently as the Policy and Strategy advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for all Asia security issues. He is married to former East West Center staff member Jan Watanabe, and they have two children, Dane and Janae. The seminar is $20.00 for Friends of the East-West Center members, EWC and UH students and $25.00 for non-members with luncheon served after the talk. Payment may be made in advance or at the door. Checks should be made payable to Friends of the East-West Center. Seating is first-come, first-served at the Maple Garden Restaurant. Please return the form below by mail, fax or email. Reservations must reach us by noon of the day before (October 12). Changes cannot be accommodated thereafter No-shows please honor your reservation with payment. Please reserve______place(s) for the October 13, 2016 meeting of the CHINA SEMINAR. RSVP to friends@eastwestcenter.org China Seminar: A Chinese Journalist’s Life In North Korea: What Are The Realities? The US Presidential Election: A View from a Chinese Political Reporter

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Foothills Municipal District (Alberta, Canada) Municipal District of Foothills No. 31 Last modified: 2011-09-10 by rob raeside Keywords: foothills municipal district | alberta | image located by Valentin Poposki, 21 June 2011 Variant flag Municipalities in Foothills Municipal District: Municipal and County Flags of Alberta The flag of the Municipal District of Foothills No. 31, Alberta, is white with district logo on it. The logo has octagonal shape with sky, mountains, foothills, grass and "M.D. / of / FOOTHILLS / No.31" in white. The flag is symbolic of our beautiful region: the lush prairies leading into the foothills, with the mountains in the distance. Information courtesy of Leslie Lambert, Corporate Communications. About the town: "The Municipal District of Foothills No. 31 is a rural municipality located adjacent to and immediately south of the City of Calgary. The M.D. covers an area of approximately 3,600 square kilometres in the foothills of sunny southern Alberta. It surrounds the Towns of Okotoks, High River, Turner Valley, and Black Diamond, the Village of Longview, and the Eden Valley Indian Reserve. The M.D. celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2004.The results of the 2006 Census indicated that 19,736 people live in the M.D. of Foothills." - from the district website. image located by Darrell Neuman, 7 July 2011 This variant employs the same design as the logo flag above, but stretched to the dimension of the flag and surrounded by a dark blue rectangle.

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The Tenets of the C.B.C. What did Marie Stopes’ Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress stand for? The “Tenets of the C.B.C.” were set out in an appendix in the first edition of Aylmer Maude’s biography of Marie Stopes. The “C.B.C.” was the shorthand acronym for the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress set up by Dr Marie Stopes in 1921. The objects for which the C.B.C. was founded are as follows:— The objects of the Society are (a) to bring home to all the fundamental nature of the reforms of the conscious and constructive control of conception and the illumination of sex life as a basis of racial progress; (b) to consider the individual, national, international, racial, political, economic, scientific, spiritual and other aspects of the theme , for which purpose meetings will be held, publications issued, Research Committees, Commissions of Enquiry and other activities will be organized from time to time as circumstances require and facilities offer; (c) to supply all who still need it with the full knowledge of sound physiological methods of control. As these objects indicate, the scope of the Society is very wide, its interests far-reaching, and its possibilities of future development very elastic. Even to-day the tenets which appear fundamental to different members of the Society will naturally vary, hence no one of the following is binding on an individual member. General agreement with the objects of the Society suffices for membership. Nonetheless, it has been felt that it would be useful explicitly to state in concise form what may be described as the bedrock of general agreement of the Society. This is as follows:— 1.—The hygiene of sex is as suitable and proper a subject for scientific and serious study as the hygiene of nutrition, locomotion, or any other human function. 2.—Owing to the shamefaced attitude which has until recently characterized our dealings with the subject, all the manifold data involved in the different aspects of sex life have not had the direct scientific and physiological handling they deserve and require. We deplore this and shall endeavour to remedy it. 3.—We maintain that the highest spiritual development, the noblest intellectual illumination, and the sweetest romantic possibilities of individual sex experience, are not damaged by sound scientific knowledge, but contrariwise, are enhanced and elevated. 4.—We consider that in relation to the procreation of additional members of the community, the best possible knowledge of scientific and technical details should be available to those undertaking this important social duty. 5.—We believe that the haphazard production of children by ignorant, coerced, or diseased mothers is profoundly detrimental to the race. We believe, therefore, that parenthood should no longer be the result of ignorance or accident, but should be a power used voluntarily and with knowledge. 6.—We maintain that to achieve this result a knowledge of the simple hygiene of contraception is essential. 7.—We advocate that no individual contraceptive measure as final or fundamental, but maintain that the best measures available at any time should be taught and known by the people. 8.—We desire to keep constantly in touch with all advances in science which may have a bearing on the practical details of contraceptive measures, and for this purpose we have organized a Medical Research Committee to keep our Society informed as to the current scientific position of the hygiene of contraception. 9.—AS REGARDS THE POPULATION AT PRESENT. We say that there are unfortunately many men and women who should be prevented from procreating children at all, because of their individual ill-health, or the diseased and degenerate nature of the offspring that they may be expected to produce. These considerations would not apply to a better and healthier world. 10.—There are many women unfortunately so constructed—suffering from weakness of certain organs—that they would risk death if they were to attempt to bear children, and who, therefore, should not bear them. 11.—There are unfortunately many couples so ill-provided with this world’s goods, or with means to acquire them, that they cannot support further children, and therefore should not bear them. Women, owing their own or their husband’s incapacity to be self-supporting, may be permanently or temporarily in such a position owing to disaster or unemployment. The following Resolution was passed by our Society: Resolution passed at General Meeting November 22nd, 1921. “Both to spare your own personal distress and to avoid bringing a weakly child into the world, it is important that all should realize that no one should conceive in times of individual misery or ill-health. Of course wherever a child is already on the way, the best must be made of it. But sound and wholesome methods of Birth Control (Control of Conception) are known, and advice will be given free by a qualified nurse to all unemployed married persons who present this slip at the Mother’s Clinic, 61 Marlborough Road, Holloway, London, N.19.” 12.—The Society approves and welcomes the work done by the first British Birth Control Clinic (The Mother’s Clinic, 61 Marlborough Road, Holloway, London, N.19.), where the very poor and ignorant receive personal instruction; but we consider that this public service should not be left to private enterprise to maintain, and hence the Ministry of Health should supply suitable help and contraceptive instruction to working-class women at the many Ante-natal Clinics, Welfare Centres, etc., already in existence all over the country. 13.—We maintain that science has already made available contraceptive measure as safe and as simple to use as any other hygienic measures widely known and practised, such as brushing ones’s teeth, or the removal daily of a dental plate by one who has artificial teeth. We, therefore, maintain that knowledge and instruction in these matters for the normal and healthy is an hygienic and not a medical matter. The problem of controlling conception on the part of those who are diseased, abnormal and unhealthy is on the other hand a purely medical matter and may involve measures which this Society would not advocate for general use. 14.—We as a Society are at present working for the dissemination of the best possible hygienic knowledge to all who are intelligent enough to be capable of using it, but we recognize the grave National problem raised by the fertility of those too degenerate or too careless to be capable of using any form of contraceptive. 15.—We are convinced that children spaced by voluntary means have a less mortality, and that the mother of such children has time to recover her health and attend to the young children in a better way, than if the pregnancies follow rapidly one after the other, and we are therefore in favour of voluntarily spacing all the desired children of even the healthiest woman. 16.—In short, we are profoundly and fundamentally a pro-baby organisation, in favour of producing the largest possible of healthy, happy children without detriment to the mother, and with the minimum wastage of infants by premature deaths. In this connection our motto has been “Babies in the right place,” and it is just as much the aim of Constructive Birth Control to secure conception to those married people who are healthy, childless, and desire children, as it is to furnish security from conception to those who are racially diseased, already overburdened with children, or in any specific way unfitted for parenthood. 17.—We hold no fixed opinions concerning the total numbers wither of individual families or of populations, desiring only that the optimum shall be obtained. Passed by the Executive Committee, C.B.C. March 1923. Everyone who is interested in securing the best future for our Race should join the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress. Apply for membership forms to the Hon. Secretary, C.B.C., 4-5, Adam St., Adelphi, London, W.C.2. Gerrard 4431. This website celebrates the life and work of Dr Halliday Sutherland (1882-1960), a doctor, author and opponent of eugenics. Sutherland is sometimes remembered today as the defendant in the Stopes v. Sutherland libel trial of 1923. This infographic (and fact-check sheet) provide the background to the case. Some of the materials on this site are from Dr Sutherland’s personal papers and, as such, represent a useful resource for researchers and historians that are not available elsewhere. 3 comments on “The Tenets of the C.B.C.” Kevin ODoherty Gruesome reading. Kevin O’Doherty Tempus Carum Valde Utendum Pingback: Babies in the Right Place | Dr. Halliday Sutherland Pingback: The steady evil | Halliday Sutherland This entry was posted on 15 May 2018 by markhsutherland in C.B.C., Eugenics, Marie Stopes biography. https://wp.me/p2yipn-4a3

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National Institute on Aging (NIA) Comparative Biology of Neurodegeneration (R21) August 23, 2019 - Clarifying Competing Application Instructions and Notice of Publication of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Regarding Proposed Human Fetal Tissue Research. See Notice NOT-OD-19-137. July 26, 2019 - Changes to NIH Requirements Regarding Proposed Human Fetal Tissue Research. See Notice NOT-OD-19-128. March 25, 2019 - Notice of Change to PAR-17-039. See Notice NOT-AG-19-014. November 26, 2018 - NIH & AHRQ Announce Upcoming Updates to Application Instructions and Review Criteria for Research Grant Applications. See Notice NOT-OD-18-228. NOT-OD-18-009 - Reminder: FORMS-E Grant Application Forms and Instructions Must be Used for Due Dates On or After January 25, 2018. September 20, 2017 - Updates to Active Funding Opportunity Announcements to Prepare for Policy Changes Impacting Due Dates On or After January 25, 2018. See NOT-OD-17-114. May 10, 2017 - New NIH "FORMS-E" Grant Application Forms and Instructions Coming for Due Dates On or After January 25, 2018. See NOT-OD-17-062. PAR-17-039 This FOA invites exploratory comparative biology research projects assessing how different animal species respond to challenges and damage to cellular physiology pathways that might influence the onset of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases as well as resilience to them, such as adaptation to stress, macromolecular damage, proteostasis and stem cell function and regeneration. Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates. Standard dates apply There are several options available to submit your application through Grants.gov to NIH and Department of Health and Human Services partners. You must use one of these submission options to access the application forms for this opportunity. Use the NIH ASSIST system to prepare, submit and track your application online. Use an institutional system-to-system (S2S) solution to prepare and submit your application to Grants.gov and eRA Commons to track your application. Check with your institutional officials regarding availability. Use Grants.gov Workspace to prepare and submit your application and eRA Commons to track your application. The overall objective of this initiative is to identify both molecular and physiological targets that are potentially amenable to intervention strategies for the prevention, mitigation and treatment of Alzheimer's disease as well as other neurodegenerative diseases. The number of persons with neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases (AD, PD, HD) is on the rise as well as that of other, rarer conditions such as Pick’s disease, Creutzfeld-Jacob’s disease (CJD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Finding effective cures or prevention strategies for neurodegenerative diseases is still elusive in spite of intense research efforts over the last few decades. The challenges to achieve this goal are many. A major one is the identification of common molecular, cellular or environmental causes for any single disease. For instance, while a number of conditions share several common features, subsets of patients, even within a single disease category, display distinct clinical and pathological features. Some conditions, such as HD, appear to have a direct genetic cause. In the case of other NDs, the majority of patients do not share any common genetic trait. Within the small subset of individuals with an associated genetic linkage, neuronal degeneration and death results from one or more distinct mutations causing aberrant protein folding, abnormalities in protein degradation, mitochondrial dysfunction, or compromised axonal transport processes. Some of these pathological manifestations have served as primary targets for therapeutic interventions. Success, however, has been limited to temporary symptom relief without any significant alteration of disease progression. Beyond an incomplete understanding of CNS physiology, a major impediment to the discovery and clinical development of therapeutics is our still rudimentary grasp of ND etiology, in large part due to a lack of animal models that can simulate the long course and symptomatology of these diseases and allow the assessment of therapeutic effectiveness. Loss of brain functional ability and neurodegeneration are common features of aging throughout the phylogenetic scale. However, most animal models of terminal neurological diseases currently used in research consist of introducing known causative genetic mutations that are linked to human NDs into rodent models (mice and, in a few cases, rats). Most of them do not fully recapitulate neuronal loss, supporting the idea that neuronal death is caused by a combination of genetic, cellular, and environmental factors. Some models even fail to display the phenotypic alterations associated with the modeled diseases, evidence that humans could be more vulnerable than mice to the same triggers of degeneration. Taken together, these observations suggest the existence, in some species, of compensatory mechanisms that protect neurons from neuronal degeneration. Understanding what these mechanisms are might help identify the preclinical defects that trigger pathogenesis and underlie the presymptomatic phase of the disease. Comparative studies of cellular/molecular pathways that affect aging in different genetic backgrounds can provide a solid foundation to discover critical factors that may explain differences in ND protection between humans and other animal species. Research on model organisms such as mice, roundworms, fruit flies, and yeast has dramatically advanced our understanding of aging over the past 50 years. Comparative biology research can provide new insights into cellular and molecular mechanisms of aging and disease susceptibility by leveraging natural variants produced over evolutionary time. Several examples of the power of comparative biology come from studies recently supported by NIA. For instance, comparisons of long-lived and short-lived animal species have shown a strong correlation between longevity and enhanced proteostasis, in both vertebrates and invertebrates. Whether this enhanced proteostasis translates into improved resistance to neurodegenerative diseases remains to be investigated. Other studies conducted in multiple species of rotifers, on the other hand, have made a unique contribution in exploring the effect on lifespan of a variety of caloric restriction regimens, small molecule inhibitors, and dietary supplements, and have probed pathways using RNAi. By capitalizing on a broad range of genetic backgrounds, comparative biology approaches are likely to provide valuable insights into evolutionarily conserved cellular/molecular pathways that affect aging-related neurodegenerative diseases and conditions. Research Goals Studies involving comparative approaches, both across a broad range of species and across closely related species or strains with different degrees of neurodegeneration and/or resilience to it, could identify components in the pathways that are conserved in function and therefore, potential targets for intervention. At the molecular level, several major pathways that could be involved in resilience to terminal neurodegenerative diseases have been identified. They include autophagy and glycolysis, as well as signaling through metalloproteases, neurotrophins, noradrenaline, ERK and PKCdelta; further exploration of these pathways in different contexts is necessary. The fact that these pathways are highly conserved among vertebrates (and some even in invertebrates) makes them potentially informative targets for comparative biology approaches, as well as druggable targets for potential intervention into humans. The long-term goal of this initiative is to identify novel interventional targets, conserved across a number of species, for the prevention, mitigation and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. This FOA will support exploratory comparative biology research projects that exploit similarities and differences among different species (or strains within a species) in important molecular, cellular and physiological pathways which affect neurodegeneration and resilience to it. Applicants are invited to submit innovative applications using comparative approaches to explore cellular physiology pathways that might influence neurodegeneration such as adaptation to stress, macromolecular damage, proteostasis and stem cell function and regeneration. Proposed projects should include but not be limited to comparative studies of how different species respond to challenges and damage to these pathways and thereby resist or succumb to age-related neurodegeneration. Approaches can be across vertebrate or invertebrate species or across strains of a given species (i.e. recombinant inbred mouse strains) and will include in vivo research in animal models or in vitro research in cells. This initiative utilizes the R21 funding mechanism for exploratory and early stage research with a focus on comparative biology that examines how different animal species respond to challenges and damage to cellular physiology pathways that might influence the onset of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases as well as resilience to them. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a breakthrough in a particular area or to the development of novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or applications that could have a major impact on the field of neurodegeneration and of Alzheimer's disease. Clinical Trial? Clinical Trials Not Allowed for due dates on or after January 25, 2018: Only accepting applications that do not propose clinical trials Need help determining whether you are doing a clinical trial? The number of awards is contingent upon NIH appropriations and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. NIA intends to commit $2.2M in FY17 to fund up to 10 awards. The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000. No more than $200,000 may be requested in any single year. The project period is limited to 2 years. o Hispanic-serving Institutions o Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) o Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs) o Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions o Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs) Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are not allowed. Form only available in FORMS-D application packages for use with due dates on or before January 24, 2018. PHS Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information Form only available in FORMS-E application packages for use with due dates on or after January 25, 2018. When involving NIH-defined human subjects research, clinical research, and/or clinical trials follow all instructions for the PHS Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information form in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, with the following additional instructions: If you answered "Yes" to the question "Are Human Subjects Involved?" on the R&R Other Project Information form, you must include at least one human subjects study record using the Study Record: PHS Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information form or a Delayed Onset Study record. Study Record: PHS Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information Delayed Onset Study: All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed. Upon receipt, applications will be evaluated for completeness and compliance with application instructions by the Center for Scientific Review, NIH. Applications that are incomplete or non-compliant will not be reviewed. Important Update: See NOT-OD-18-228 for updated review language for due dates on or after January 25, 2019. Does the project address an important problem or a critical barrier to progress in the field? Is there a strong scientific premise for the project? If the aims of the project are achieved, how will scientific knowledge, technical capability, and/or clinical practice be improved? How will successful completion of the aims change the concepts, methods, technologies, treatments, services, or preventative interventions that drive this field? Are the PD(s)/PI(s), collaborators, and other researchers well suited to the project? If Early Stage Investigators or those in the early stages of independent careers, do they have appropriate experience and training? If established, have they demonstrated an ongoing record of accomplishments that have advanced their field(s)? If the project is collaborative or multi-PD/PI, do the investigators have complementary and integrated expertise; are their leadership approach, governance and organizational structure appropriate for the project? Applications will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by (an) appropriate Scientific Review Group(s) convened by the Center for Scientific Review, in accordance with NIH peer review policy and procedures, using the stated review criteria. Assignment to a Scientific Review Group will be shown in the eRA Commons. Applications will be assigned on the basis of established PHS referral guidelines to the appropriate NIH Institute or Center. Applications will compete for available funds with all other recommended applications . Following initial peer review, recommended applications will receive a second level of review by the appropriate national Advisory Council or Board. The following will be considered in making funding decisions: For additional guidance regarding how the provisions apply to NIH grant programs, please contact the Scientific/Research Contact that is identified in Section VII under Agency Contacts of this FOA. HHS provides general guidance to recipients of FFA on meeting their legal obligation to take reasonable steps to provide meaningful access to their programs by persons with limited English proficiency. Please see https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/special-topics/limited-english-proficiency/index.html. The HHS Office for Civil Rights also provides guidance on complying with civil rights laws enforced by HHS. Please see http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/civilrights/understanding/section1557/index.html; and https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-providers/laws-regulations-guidance/index.html. Recipients of FFA also have specific legal obligations for serving qualified individuals with disabilities. Please see http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/civilrights/understanding/disability/index.html. Please contact the HHS Office for Civil Rights for more information about obligations and prohibitions under federal civil rights laws at https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/about-us/contact-us/index.html or call 1-800-368-1019 or TDD 1-800-537-7697. Also note it is an HHS Departmental goal to ensure access to quality, culturally competent care, including long-term services and supports, for vulnerable populations. For further guidance on providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services, recipients should review the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care at http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlid=53. Francesca Macchiarini, Ph.D. Email: francesca.macchiarini@nih.gov Maqsood Wani, Ph.D. Email: wanimaqs@csr.nih.gov Linda Whipp Email: WhippL@nia.nih.gov

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Sacred Cod Sacred Cod chronicles the collapse of the historic cod population in New England, delving into the role of overfishing, the impact of climate change, and the measures that scientists and policymakers are taking to restore the region’s iconic species. First In Human Narrated and executive produced by Emmy winning actor Jim Parsons, “First In Human” is a three-part, medical documentary series taking viewers inside the crucial beginning phase of scientific research. These brave pioneers develop breakthrough treatments for patients. Hot Grease Set in Houston, Texas in the shadow of the nation's oil industry, Hot Grease tells the surprising story of how the biodiesel industry is turning an worthless raw material—spent kitchen grease—into a renewable energy source capable of fueling cars, buses and trucks. Outrageous Acts of Science on Discovery Outrageous Acts of Science proves that mind-boggling experiments are not just conducted in laboratories anymore. The fast-paced series scours the Web for the best amateur and professional scientists whose homegrown research has gone viral. Smash Lab Smash Lab is an explosive adventure in engineering that uses science to solve real-world problems by putting ordinary objects to the test in extraordinary circumstances. Ron Pitts brings clip after clip of the most shocking destructions caught on tape and explores the cause behind the effect of those catastrophes. Jaw-dropping computer animation breathes life into fantastic, but possible, creations that come to life as builders and engineers design and construct the largest, most outrageous and awe-inspiring projects ever conceived. Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design Professor Stephen Hawking unfolds his personal, compelling vision of the biggest questions of all. Stephen Hawking's Brave New World Professor Hawking presents his unique vision of the future; calling a summit of the world's most forward thinking contemporary scientists in order to identify the innovations that will have the most impact in years to come. Penn and Teller: Tell a Lie Penn & Teller bring their unique vision of the world to Discovery in Penn and Teller: Tell a Lie. They present a series of stories with unbelievable claims including you can melt steel with bacon. And each week one of the stories is a BIG FAT LIE! This is BattleBots, where competitors design and operate remote-controlled armed and armored machines designed to fight in an arena combat elimination tournament. Unchained Reaction In Unchained Reaction, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of MythBusters present the next ultimate, most extreme build-off series in which two teams of varying backgrounds compete against each other to build massive, ingenious chain reaction machines. Cosmic Collisions Right now, massive meteors and asteroids are orbiting dangerously close to Earth. Scientists believe that it's not a question of if they'll strike again, but when. Extreme Bodies Extreme Bodies is an incredible series that looks deep into the structures of the most amazing human bodies that nature has ever created!

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Powers Pleasant Drops "Life Is Beautiful" EP Featuring Joey Bada$$, G Perico & More August 22, 2019 | 9:08 PM YouTube/PowersPleasant Pro Era DJ/producer Powers Pleasant has stepped into the foreground with his debut EP Life Is Beautiful. Powers first told HipHopDX about the eight-track entry during a Joey Bada$$ show in Denver last year and now, it’s finally come to fruition. Boasting features from Joey, G Perico, Buddy, A$AP Ferg, IDK, Denzel Curry and The Underachievers, among others, the project is a wild rollercoaster ride of West Coast gangsta rap, East Coast boom bap and raw, in-your-face anthems. As for the title Life Is Beautiful, Powers chose it very carefully. “It’s a reminder to stay positive and to see the best in everything and not get brought down by things that might not be positive,” Powers tells DX. “It’s about keeping your eyes on the prize through the sun and the rain. “‘Life is a beautiful’ is a common thing I used to say a lot. People would think I was saying it for everyone else, but a lot of time I was saying it to myself, to see the beauty in everything. There’s definitely been some challenges and some ups and downs, but me saying that consistently and doing that got me through it.” Combined with the cover art — which was inspired by Malcolm Browne’s iconic photo of a self-immolating monk — the project is a well-thought-out juxtaposition of the positives and negatives of life. “That’s me in the photo actually,” he says. “That’s funny. Nobody really notices. That [photo] was the inspiration for the cover, and I think I’m kind of a pyro so I think fire is cool. The monk, positivity and protest — it’s a lot of different things in one. Then there’s the skull in the background and it’s kind of distorted.” Can’t Fucc Wit it: The Movie Premieres 8/14 3PM EST 🤮🤮🤮 @bgperico @buddy A post shared by 🤮GOT THE BEAT BY POWERS💜 (@powerspleasant) on Aug 12, 2019 at 9:27am PDT The album’s lead single, “Can’t Fucc Wit It” featuring G Perico and Buddy, recently got the video treatment and the song itself is a clear standout. Powers says he made the beat in one night. “I was at a session with G Perico and it was my first time working with him,” he explains. “I’m from New York, but he came through like super L.A. with the Jheri curls dripping and a shower cap on. He’s like 100 percent himself. “So, he came in and I think I was playing some beats. It was cool and he rapped over one beat. It was dope, but I was like, ‘Nah, I gotta to give him some real crazy West Coast shit.’ I just fed off the energy of his vibe and I made that shit in one night.” Powers, who just signed a publishing deal with Sony/ATV, has his eyes firmly set on the future. But for now, check out the Life Is Beautiful album stream, cover art and tracklist below. Sway’s Intro Vintage Chanel f. Joey Bada$$ & Kirk Knight Please Forgive f. Denzel Curry, IDK & Zillakami Can’t Fucc Wit It f. G Perico & Buddy Pull Up f. Joey Bada$$ & A$AP Ferg Hit My Line f. Jay Critch, Joey Bada$$ & AKTHESAVIOR Purified f. Joey Bada$$, CJ Fly & Aaron Rose Pull Up f. The Underachievers & Joey Bada$$ (Beast Coast Remix)

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Obama Holdover/Fmr Ukrainian Amb Caught Spying On Trump Supporting Journalists Says Judicial Watch OPINION| Elder Patriot – The scope of illegal surveillance on U.S. citizens conducted by members of the Obama administration keeps on growing. That would be the case if recent information obtained by Judicial Watch, indicating that former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch targeted certain U.S. persons using State Department resources, is true. (Judicial Watch) Judicial Watch has obtained information indicating Yovanovitch may have violated laws and government regulations by ordering subordinates to target certain U.S. persons using State Department resources. Yovanovitch reportedly ordered monitoring keyed to the following search terms: Biden, Giuliani, Soros and Yovanovitch. Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the State Department and will continue gathering facts from government sources. Prior to being recalled as ambassador to Ukraine in the spring Yovanovitch reportedly created a list of individuals who were to be monitored via social media and other means. Ukraine embassy staff made the request to the Washington D.C. headquarters office of the department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. After several days, Yovanovitch’s staff was informed that the request was illegal and the monitoring either ceased or was concealed via the State Department Global Engagement Center, which has looser restrictions on collecting information. “This is not an obscure rule, everyone in public diplomacy or public affairs knows they can’t make lists and monitor U.S. citizens unless there is a major national security reason,” according to a senior State Department official. If the illicit operation occurred, it seems to indicate a clear political bias against the president and his supporters. The guys at The Conservative Treehouse raised some important questions when this news broke: “How exactly does the U.S. State Department monitor people or persons they define as adverse to their interests? How does the state department monitor their adversaries? Why is the NSA FISA(702) database used to monitor non-foreign persons? The Global Engagement Center first came to our attention in December 2016 when the lame duck congress signed away our right to free speech with the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. At that time we expressed our opinion that: Hidden in the new law – Section 1287 – are the funding and guidelines necessary to establish a Global Engagement Center. The wording is sufficiently vague enough for the GEC to become a Ministry of Truth. Section 1287, (a) Establishment, (2) Purpose: The purpose of the Center shall be to lead, synchronize, and coordinate efforts of the Federal Government to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining United States national security interests. It didn’t take a genius to understand the power this bestowed upon a corrupt government in the name of national defense. The downstream consequences were predictable and continue to manifest themselves in our body politic. In the Information Age, he who controls information controls the people. For President Obama, those he couldn’t seduce with his rhetoric, he would crush using their personal information… even if he had to have his minions in the intelligence community make it up and rely on a corrupt Congress to repeat it. FUBAR! Pelosi Suffers Massive Setback As “In The Know” Democrats Refuse to Back Impeachment According Reports Gaemchanger: Court Filing Reveals The AG Barr Has Joseph Mifsud’s Cell Phones

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Papadopoulos Warns Clapper on Upcoming Revelations: “His Perjury Is Going to Come Back” Opinion| Mark Sidney| ICYMI| George Papadopoulos is back with a vengeance. After a short term in federal prison, and sometime in what is called “supervised release,” for “making false statements to FBI agents,” George has seemingly decided to ‘pull a Trump,’ and counterpunch the people who he says set him up … with a Buick, as Joe Dan Gorman likes to say. Papadopoulos has been foreshadowing what is to come next in the Spyg*te investigation for some time now. He has become a leading source for the next ‘puzzle piece’ for those of us trying to wrap our heads around exactly how this scandal went down. Last week Mr. P spoke to Martha McCallum of Fox News to discuss the latest developments in, Attorney General, William Barr & his right hand man in these matters, US Attorney, John Durham’s, investigation into the alleged abuses by the intelligence community leading up to, and likely following, the 2016 election. “We now have growing evidence that the UK and Australia were overtly and actively working with the CIA at the highest levels to spy on the Trump campaign. William Barr and John Durham are not on a wild goose chase… These countries were willfully complicit in what I believe was an international conspiracy to undermine the Donald Trump campaign and assure that if he was elected president that he would be handcuffed.” The Gateway Pundit reported: “On Monday George Papadopoulos posted a warning to James Clapper. Papadopoulos warned the former DNI, “His perjury is going to come back.” Clapper previously said in November 2017 that he was not aware that a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, George Papadopoulos, was told about the Russian “dirt” on Clinton last April and had been trying for months to arrange a meeting between then-candidate Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Soon all of the lies will be exposed. George Papadopoulos warned Clapper early Monday.” Clapper has gone awfully silent since his month long adventure in Australia where he discussed how to cover up both his and Australia’s involvement in spying on me and others. Remember his testimony to Congress. “I never heard of Papadopoulos.” His perjury is going to come back. — George Papadopoulos (@GeorgePapa19) October 21, 2019 You can watch the full clip below: Looks like time may be running out for those who, we believe plotted to, in essence, fix the 2016 election and when their scheme failed, seem to have moved to undo the election results via, what we are convinced amounted to, a coup d’etat against the sitting President of the United States of America. I have been wrong before, and I am sure I will be wrong again, however, there is one thing that I do know … it is going to be one hell of an election cycle come 2020! Mike Huckabee Crushes Mitt Romney Over Fake Twitter Account: It’s “The Work of Kids, Cowards, Couch Potatoes & Perverts” Here’s Mark Sidney’s Take On Mark Zuckerberg’s Interview With Fox News

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Tag Archives: Birthdays Celebrations, Identity, Immigrants My Many Names 29 January 2019 Ilse Munro 5 Comments Ibsen’s controversial character “Nora,” first seen in the 1879 production of A Doll’s House, remains relevant today. (Photo: Old Globe Theater) There was a time when I had two birthdays, one in the winter and another in the summer. The winter one was a Latvian nameday, but that didn’t matter to me since it was celebrated the same way, with presents and a cake. The American kids that I met had never heard of such a thing. Nor had they heard of my name. Originally “Ilze,” it had been changed to “Ilse” by the time that my parents and I became naturalized citizens of the United States. I sort of liked it since it was a variant of “Elizabete,” which was my maternal grandmother’s name. And Oma more or less raised me since my mother worked a lot. What I didn’t like was that my mother was called “Elza,” which she changed to “Elsa.” Americans pronounced my name like her’s and assumed that we had the same name. What I liked even less was having my name pronounced “Elsie.” That belonged to the Borden Dairy Company’s mascot, and my classmates got a kick out of calling me “Elsie the Borden Cow.” Even though I wasn’t the least bit bovine. Fortunately, my mortifying moniker was dropped well before I took my seat at the cool kids’ table. Still I never lost the feeling that meeting people for the first time involves unpleasantness. Particularly when my name is read, not heard. It doesn’t help that the first two letters–“Il”–look similar. So I try to cut those calling me “Ise” or “Lse” some slack. I even avoid correcting those who haven’t a clue how to pronounce a short “e” at the end of a word. After all, they consistently screw up “Porsche.” But I draw the line at people with no sign of a reading disorder turning dyslexic at the sight of my name. Surely they can see that I don’t resemble a tract of land surrounded by water, which is what “Isle” means. So when those types then ask how my name should be pronounced, I say, “Pretty much how it’s spelled.” And to those who then exclaim, “What an unusual name!” I respond, “Not really.” At last count, “Ilze” was the only given name of some 12,226 females in little Latvia alone. And there are the countless others called “Ilse” in the rest of Europe and beyond. As well as several rivers, an asteroid and a plant. But no islands, as far as I can tell. Choosing a research career made me more apprehensive. Somehow, I kept coming across data that showed that strange names put people at a disadvantage. As far back as 1948, a Harvard study found that men with unusual names were likely to flunk out or display signs of neurosis. Subsequent studies showed that names could affect nearly every aspect of life. While some conclusions had to be withdrawn due to methodological flaws, findings on name-signalling—what names say about ethnicity, religion, social sphere and socioeconomic status—remained robust. Even when siblings with different names but of the same background were used. Moreover, changing names was found to have beneficial effects. Stockholm University economists, for instance, found that re-named immigrants made an average of 26 per cent more in wages than those who kept their original names. I wondered why I’d only assumed my husband’s Scottish surname when we married and retained it when we divorced when I could’ve easily changed my given name on either occasion. What stopped me, I suppose, was how my family might react. But even after my grandmother and father died and my mother came to live with me in Maryland and told me that she, too, had never liked her name, I did nothing. Even after I’d started writing and, at least, could have picked a pen name. The basic reason was that no other name felt right. I knew that since I’d systematically considered every imaginable possibility. I had lots of time during my daily commute to and from Washington, DC, where I worked as a NASA and Defense Department consultant. It was 80-some miles and included three of the worst bottlenecks in the nation, I went from “A” to “Z” for several days, dismissing most. “Anna” wouldn’t work since it was reserved for my nascent novel, Anna Noon”; “Zelda” was as weird as “Ilze” and too closely associated with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s schizophrenic wife. In the end, only one name remained: “Claire,” a Latin word meaning “clear” in the French feminine form. It described how I saw myself at the time, which was open and transparent. And brought me back to the Sixties, when I devoured New Wave films such as Claire’s Knee. While I never did anything with “Claire,” the process reminded me how much effort it takes to name a child. And how little was expended on me. I don’t know what I expected since neither my conception nor my parents’ marriage was planned. And my father, at least, assumed that I’d be a boy based on the size of Mom’s baby bump. He’d even started to call me “Maks,” meaning “Max,” Which had a rakish ring I liked when learning about it later. But after seeing me ex utero, my father knew that he had to find a female name for the registry. And fast. Fortunately, a friend—a fraternity brother and drinking buddy, no doubt—had recently named his newborn. So, why not call me “Ilze,” as well? I know that we were in the middle of World War II. That the Soviet Army was advancing. That Valmiera, the city where my parents were sent to work and where, by chance, I was born, was about to be burned to the ground. Still, it might’ve been nice if someone had done more than merely name me after some random baby. It took 60-some years for me to learn that someone had given my name some thought. Shortly after her 90th birthday, my mother casually mentioned that she never intended to name me “Ilze.” That, even in the womb, she’d called me “Nora.” After the iconoclastic character in Henrik Ibsen’s protofeminist play A Doll’s House. Only she’d never said a word to my father. At first, I was furious. Then, I allowed that she, like others living amid political turmoil, had made a habit of keeping her cards close to her chest. Still, I couldn’t help feeling unduly cheated. Having a familiar, pronounceable name like “Nora” would have made life in the States much easier. More than that, it would’ve made me more secure in my identify, even my place in the world. Instead of feeling that I was a disappointment to my family because I struggled against societal constraints every step of the way, I could’ve felt that this was what I was meant to do. I might have even seen my mother’s disinterest in teaching me what I needed to know to be a wife and mother as something more than mere neglect. Of course, I kept these thoughts to myself. Instead, I imagined how my mother might’ve shared her hopes and dreams with me as a one-month-old infant in my first short story, “Making Soup.” It took a contentious presidential campaign to convince me that I never needed some name change to empower me. In writing my essay “No Big Deal” about Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, I referenced some remarkable women on both sides of my family whose accomplishments dated as far back as the Nineteenth Century. And my native land, which installed the first female president back in 1999. As to the careless way that I was given my name, a big brown beard celebrating both her birthday and her nameday in January took care of that. She just happened to live in a nature preserve in Līgatne, Latvia, which is less than 12 miles from Cēsis, where my father grew up on the family farm. And my father—in fact, most family members that I knew—used the diminutive “Ilzīte” unless I did something to deserve the severe-sounding “Ilze.” And “Ilzīte” just happened to be the bear’s name, and it so perfectly conveyed how lovable bears could be that I almost cried. Then cried for real when I remembered that all of my immediate family members were gone, and no one had called me “Ilzīte” since my cousin in England died five years ago. Celebrating a birthday, then a nameday. (Source: Līgatne Nature Trails) BearsBirthdaysCesisChildrenDiminutivesFeminismIbsenLigatneNamedaysNamesParentsResearchValmieraWorld War II

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Anthology-Six of the Best We have a fun little anthology today. Six British authors got together to bring us some short stories out of British history. We have stories from the Restoration to the late Victorian period. While they may all take place in different points in time, they all include an Alpha male spanking his wife. I wouldn’t strictly call them Doms and subs, but closer to domestic discipline, I think. Well, until you get to Katie Douglas’s story, but that’s a whole other tale. LOL. So, without further ado, let’s look at the 6 stories that go into making up Six of the Best. Ashe Barker starts us off with her story, A Scandalous Career. Cecily is the only sensible member of her family. Her mother and her sister are both feather-headed, and her brother is too young to take care of the family. After her sister got married, Cecily is trying to handle all the debts that the lavish affair accrued plus trying to keep her mother’s lavish spending under control. The problem is that there just is no money coming in, which means that King Charles can’t come stay with them. Cecily goes to a neighbor’s house and tells the neighbor that they are passing over hosting duties to them. Benedict Avery is the neighbor’s prodigal brother. On his long-delayed trip home, he’s robbed by a highwayman. This is a fun little story, and I have to admit that I really like Cecily. She’s stubborn, resourceful, and sometimes a little too smart for her own good, but she’s also loyal and loves her family. Felicity Brandon’s The King’s Vice brings us up close and personal with King Charles II. Lady Jane Pembroke has been told by her mother and uncle that she needs to go to court, snag a rich husband, and keep them in the manner to which they would like to be accustomed. She’s accepted to work as a lady-in-waiting. And she’s brought to the attention of the King. Now, King Charles II had a reputation in real life. He had a number of mistresses and illegitimate children. He was a party boy and wanted to eat, sleep, and fuck. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, not at all. King Charles is enamored with Lady Jane and takes her down to his little sex rooms, where he introduces her to the pleasures of the flesh, including being spanked. Even though I’m not British, I tend to have my favorite English royals. I’m a real fan of the Tudors. Charles has never really done anything for me, but that’s OK, Felicity’s version of Charles is better than the one I ever imagined. She does take some liberties with history, but that’s all good. Altogether, a pleasing story, and one I’ll read again. Gracie Malling’s His Impertinent Wife brings us up to the Regency. The Regency is the time period of Jane Austin and the Scarlet Pimpernel. Good manners and high fashion were all the rage. So, what happens when those manners start to run against two deeply unpleasant people? Well, if you’re Lettie Hunter, your arse gets paddled. Lettie has recently married Andrew. They have a fine house and live near his half-brother who is married to her sister. Lettie is impetuous and has a temper. However, she’s generally very polite. But, when new people move into the neighborhood and they are rude to her, her husband, her sister, and her brother-in-law, Lettie’s mouth runs away from her and writes checks her bottom has to pay. The Nicholsons do deserve every word that Lettie said to them. I’m not kidding, they are really fucking rude by today’s standards, which is even worse back in the day. Jane Austin would’ve eviscerated them. I think, of all the heroines, Lettie is the one I identify with the most, mostly because I have problems with my temper, I’m deeply sarcastic, and I do not suffer fools gladly. I do love this story a lot, and was really pleased with how it came out. Vanessa Brooks takes us back a step from Regency England to Georgian England with Petticoat Tyrant. Owen Rackham has just found out that he is the new Lord Rackham. And not just that, but he has also just inherited an almost 18 year old ward named Cassandra. The majority of her family died in a fire, and her grandmother arranged with the previous Lord Rackham to be her guardian in case something happened to her. Well, dear Grandmama shuffled off the mortal coil much sooner than anyone expected, leaving Cassandra with a stranger, living in the country in isolation. She’s got issues, and she tries really hard to take control as she can and to make everyone feel as miserable as she does. When Owen decides that he’s going to marry her off as soon as possible, Cassandra does everything she can to drive as many of the men away as possible. Jaye Peaches brings us back up into the Victorian era with The Accused Wife. Caroline Dewhurst is a beauty but doesn’t have a large dowry. She needs to find a rich husband so that her family can continue to keep her mother in the hospital. Maximillian Hampton sees her and tells Alexander he’s going to marry her. Alexander doesn’t think much of it, since he’s getting ready to go to Greece. However, when he comes back, he finds out that she’s in jail for murder. She stands accused of murdering her husband, Maximillian. Alexander knows she didn’t do it and is determined to make her his bride. Poor Caroline, she has such bad luck. But, Alexander does what he can to help her with it and to help her feel better about everything that’s happened. I feel sorry for Caroline. She really was in between a rock and a hard place, and they kept moving towards each other. She just ended up squished in the middle, no matter what. Alexander, though, was a blast of dynamite that let her free. Very awesome story. Katie Douglas rounds out our 6, and she gives us His Reluctant Bride, set in Scotland in the late Victorian period. Laura and Andrew have just been married for 3 weeks. You would think that everything would be great, right? Well, not so much. They still haven’t consummated the marriage. Laura has come up with an excuse every night. She has a book that is all about married women keep their modesty, in other words, their maidenhead. Laura’s heard horrible things about sex and how men are ravening beasts and no woman ever likes it. Andrew’s not willing to not have sex with the woman he loves and is attracted to. With the help of a friend, he’s bound and determined to show his wife that sex isn’t a bad thing. I think that this was my favorite story of all. Mostly because of the sex scenes, which are very, very hot. So, that’s all of our stories. It’s hard to talk about short stories because I don’t want to spoil anything, so if it seems like I’m not telling you much about the story, well, I’m not. You need to go read the book and find them for yourself. They are a great bunch of stories, and you are going to read sweet, hot, sexy, and romantic stories. No spoilers, today, but an appropriately themed picture. Author inbetweenthepages2017Posted on March 24, 2018 Categories BDSM, Fiction, Reviews, RomanceTags Ashe Barker, BDSM, Felicity Brandon, Gracie Malling, Historical Romance, Jaye Peaches, Katie Douglas, Review, Romance, Spanking, Vanessa Brooks 2 thoughts on “Anthology-Six of the Best” Reblogged this on Felicity writes… and commented: I love this new review of Six of the Best! Thank you, In Between the Pages. inbetweenthepages2017 says: You’re welcome! Glad you like it! Leave a Reply to felicitybrandonwrites Cancel reply Previous Previous post: Jane Henry & Maisy Archer-Boston Doms Boxset Next Next post: India Kells-Lost Bastard

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Tag: bishop hugo aufderbeck For Erfurt, the wait is over – Ulrich Neymeyr appointed as new bishop It’s taken two years but at long lost the Diocese of Erfurt has a bishop again. From Mainz comes 57-year-old Bishop Ulrich Neymeyr as the successor of Bishop Joachim Wanke, who retired on the first of October of 2012 for health reasons. Bishop Neymeyr, until today the sole auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Mainz, becomes the second bishop of Erfurt, which was established in 1994. Before that, since 1973, it had been the Apostolic Administration of Erfurt-Meiningen. Over the past two years, Erfurt has been led by auxiliary Bishop Reinhard Hauke, who has served as diocesan administrator and has made no secret of the vacancy being exceptionally long. Other bishops, like Bishop Gerhard Feige of neighbouring Magdeburg, have likewise done so, especially when other dioceses, such as Cologne, seemingly were given precedence when needing new bishops. And although the daily affairs of Erfurt are ensured by the presence of a diocesan administrator, general governmental procedures and documents could not be adapted or retracted while there was no proper diocesan bishop. Those limitations are now gone with the appointment of Bishop Neymeyr. Bishop Ulrich Neymeyr was born in Herrnsheim, a part of the city of Worms on the River Rhine, south of Frankfurt. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Mainz in 1982 by Cardinal Hermann Volk. His successor and the current bishop of Mainz, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, consecrated him a bishop after St. John Paul II appointed him as auxiliary bishop of Mainz and titular bishop of Maraguia in 2003. After 11 years fulfilling that position, Bishop Neymeyr now moves to Erfurt. For Mainz the move means the beginning of a complete change in bishops. Bishop Neymeyr was Mainz’s only auxiliary bishop, which leaves the ordinary, 78-year old Karl Cardinal Lehmann. His retirement should be accepted between now and May of 2016, when the cardinal turns 80. The diocese is home to some 800,000 Catholics and includes such cities as Mainz, Worms and Darmstadt. As a priest, Bishop Neymeyr was the conrector of the seminary of Mainz and later parish priest in Rüsselsheim, east of Mainz, and Worms, in the south of the diocese. As bishop he was episcopal vicar with special responsibility for youth, a task field he is also active in in the German bishops’ conference. Additionally, he also sits on the conference’s media commission. The Diocese of Erfurt encompasses the major part of the German state of Thuringia and was initially created in 1973 from parts of the dioceses of Würzburg and Fulda, which now border it to the west and southwest. At the time it wasn’t a full diocese because of the unique circumstances of being within the Communist state of East Germany. As the Apostolic Administration of Erfurt-Meiningen, it was first led by Bishop Hugo Aufderbeck, who died in 1981 and was succeed by Bishop Joachim Wanke. In 1994, following the German reunification, Erfurt-Meiningen was made a full diocese under the name Erfurt and Bishop Wanke was made its first bishop. He stayed on until 2012 when he retired for health reasons. During that time he hosted Pope Benedict XVI when he visited in 2011 (see image at right). There has in fact been an earlier Diocese of Erfurt, established by Saint Boniface in 742, but that was suppressed again in 755, seemingly without ever having had its own bishop. The cathedral of Erfurt is rooted in that time however. The current St. Mary’s dates from 1154, but was built on the site of the first church built around 742. Erfurt is home to some 150,000 Catholics in 63 parishes. Photo credit: [1] © Bistum Mainz, [2] © Bistum Mainz / Matschak, [3] Kay Nietfeld dpa/lth (cropped version) Posted on September 19, 2014 Categories World ChurchTags bishop gerhard feige, bishop hugo aufderbeck, bishop joachim wanke, bishop reinhard hauke, bishop ulrich neymeyr, diocese of erfurt, diocese of fulda, diocese of mainz, diocese of würzburg, german bishops' conference, germany, hermann cardinal volk, history, karl cardinal lehmann, papal visit, pope benedict xvi, pope john paul ii, saint boniface1 Comment on For Erfurt, the wait is over – Ulrich Neymeyr appointed as new bishop Double retirements leave four German dioceses vacant Pope Benedict XVI today accepted the retirement of Bishop Joachim Wanke of Erfurt and Wilhelm Schraml of Passau. Bishop Wanke, 71, requested retirement in 2010 for reasons of health, but it wasn’t accepted until today. Bishop Schraml is 77 and therefore two years over the mandatory retirement age. With these retirements the number of vacant dioceses in Germany stands at four. In addition of Erfurt and Passau they are Regensburg, whose archbishop, Gerhard Müller, was called to Rome to lead the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Dresden-Meiβen, whose bishop, Joachim Reinelt, retired in February. Today’s double retirements may be an indication that we will soon see four quick episcopal appointments in a row: the long wait that Bishop Wanke and Schraml had before their retirement was accepted could indicate that something was going on behind the scenes, such as the smelling out of good candidates for the four sees. Bishop Joachim Wanke, pictured above with the Holy Father as the latter visited Erfurt in 2011, started his episcopal career in 1980, when he became Coadjutor Apostolic Administrator of Erfurt-Meiningen, then not yet a full diocese in Communist East Germany. Three months after his appointment he automatically succeeded Bishop Hugo Aufderbeck upon the latter’s death. In 1994, as Germany was now unified, Erfurt-Meiningen became the Diocese of Erfurt and Bishop Wanke became its first bishop. Bishop Wilhelm Schraml, left, started as auxiliary bishop of his native Archdiocese of Regensburg, and in 2001 he came to Passau as that diocese’s ordinary. Both bishops hosted Pope Benedict XVI during the Holy Father’s visit to Germany in 2011. Photo credit: [1] Kay Nietfeld dpa/lth (cropped version), [2] dpa Posted on October 1, 2012 October 1, 2012 Categories World ChurchTags archbishop gerhard müller, archdiocese of regensburg, bishop hugo aufderbeck, bishop joachim reinelt, bishop joachim wanke, bishop wilhelm schraml, congregation for the doctrine of the faith, diocese of dresden-meißen, diocese of erfurt, diocese of passau, germany, health, papal visit, pope benedict xvi2 Comments on Double retirements leave four German dioceses vacant

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Adelaide Monday April 10, 2017 Australians want faster move to renewables: poll A national poll shows two thirds of Australians believe the nation is moving into renewable energy too slowly. David Washington @davidwashingto2 Starfish Hill wind farm at Cape Jervis. Monday April 10, 2017 48 Comments 48 Comments Print article The poll of 1420 people by the Australia Institute, a progressive, pro-renewables think tank, found 67 per cent of respondents believed Australia was “moving into renewable energy” too slowly. The result was similar among South Australians, with 64 per cent of those surveyed saying the move to renewables was too slow. Nationally, a majority of Coalition voters – 55 per cent – also wanted a faster move to renewables. Clear majorities were also recorded on questions about whether those polled support an increase in state renewable energy targets (77 per cent in favour, 78 per cent in South Australia), and whether a new national renewable energy target, to be put in place for 2030, should be higher than the current target (73 per cent in favour, 66 per cent in South Australia). Australians were less enthusiastic about the current RET for 2020, with 52 per cent wanting to increase the target (50 per cent in South Australia), and 26 per cent wanting it to remain as it is (same figure for SA). Asked what would happen to power prices if the renewable energy target was removed, 45 per cent believed they would increase, 19 per cent said they would decrease, 13 per cent thought they would be unchanged and 24 per cent did not know. The results were similar among South Australians, with 48 per cent believing energy prices would go up if the RET was scrapped. The survey found that 55 per cent of Australians rated Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s performance on renewable energy and climate change as “poor”, with 25 per cent rating it as “good”. Among South Australians, 62 per cent rated the PM’s performance as poor, while 23 per cent believed it had been good. The results fly in the face of intense political attacks on the speed of Australia’s move to renewable energy, with South Australia coming in for particular attack from the Federal Government following last year’s statewide blackout. The State Liberals have vowed to scrap South Australia’s renewable energy target, also arguing the state has destablised its electricity grid by moving too quickly into renewable energy. Australia Institute executive director Ben Oquist said the war on renewables was “the political version of the Somme”. “Furious attacks have not made any ground on the popularity of renewable energy,” he said. “As prices for renewables and battery storage tumble, clean energy options continue to look better economically and politically. “Changes to national electricity market rules – such as the introduction of the ‘5-minute rule’ – can ensure renewables, batteries and demand management are priced fairly and this this trend will accelerate.” The survey was carried out from March 17-24. Australia Institute 48 Show comments Hide comments

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Credit: Chris Gloag Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi | Bayerische Staatsoper Japanese soprano Eri Nakamura first shot to prominence as a Jette Parker Young Artist when she stepped in to replace Anna Netrebko as Giulietta I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Since then she has made notable debuts in Europe, Asia, North and South America, capturing worldwide acclaim for her assured singing and artistic intensity. Upcoming highlights of the 2019/20 season include her staged role debut as Cio-Cio-San Madama Butterfly at Opera Philadelphia, directed by Ted Huffman and conducted by Corrado Rovaris, and Woglinde Götterdämmerung as part of National Taichung Theater’s four year Ring Cycle programme, directed by Carlus Padrissa. In concert Nakamura will perform Cio-Cio-San Madama Butterfly with the The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder, and with The Japan Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra with a range of concert performances and recitals throughout Japan. Recent operatic highlights include Mimi La bohème at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, Woglinde Götterdämmerung with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Clorinda La Cenerentola at the Wiener Staatsoper, Susanna Le nozze di Figaro at the New National Theatre Tokyo and Hyogo performing Arts Centre, and Liù Turandot at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; a role which she has also performed to great critical acclaim at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera de Oviedo, and Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse. Other recent highlights include Juliette Roméo et Juliette at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, Gilda Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Salzburger Landestheater, and Pamina Die Zauberflöte for Washington National Opera. Between 2010-2016, Nakamura was a member of the ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper where roles included Adina L’elisir d’amore, Gretel Hänsel und Gretel, Susanna Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Woglinde Götterdämmerung, Zerlina Don Giovanni, Frasquita Carmen, and Giulietta I Capuleti e I Montecchi. On the concert platform, recent highlights include Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Japan and Osaka Philharmonic and Tokyo Philharmonic orchestras, Mahler Symphony No.4 and Rossini Stabat Mater under Yannick Nézet-Séguin with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, St Cecilia Mass with Alain Altinoglou and Orchestre National de France, Dvorak Stabat Mater with the Czech Philharmonic, Ravel Shéhérazade with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, and Woglinde Das Rheingold with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Jaap van Zweden. Nakamura is an alumna of the Osaka College of Music, the Opera Studio at the New National Theatre Tokyo, the Opera Studio Nederland and the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House. Whilst on the Programme, roles at Covent Garden roles included Musetta La bohème, Frasquita Carmen, and Lauretta Gianni Schicchi. Upon her graduation from the programme, she returned to Covent Garden as a guest to sing Susanna Le nozze di Figaro under Sir Colin Davis and Sophie Werther under Sir Antonio Pappano, which was recorded by Deutsche Grammophon. 2019-20 season / 476 words. Not to be altered without permission Micaëla Carmen Marguerite Faust* Antonia Les contes d'Hoffmann Title role Manon Pamina Die Zauberflöte Donna Anna Don Giovanni Cio-Cio-San Madama Butterfly Lauretta Gianni Schicchi Mimi / Musetta La bohème Liù Turandot Tatyana Eugene Onegin Maria Simon Boccanegra Desdemona Otello* Violetta La Traviata Woglinde Das Rheingold / Götterdämmerung *in preparation Canteloube Chants d'Auvergne Fauré Angel, Symphony No.8 Concert Arias Exultate Jubilate 1st or 2nd soprano, Mass in C minor Coronation Mass Shéhérazade* Petite messe solonnelle Strauss, R. Vier letzte Lieder* Best of the cast was Eri Nakamura, whose Liù had a creamy high register, seamless control, bright agility and a great sense of dignity. She rightly earned the audience’s wildest cheers at the end of the night. The beautifully sung and touchingly acted Liù of Eri Nakamura reminds us of how much better Puccini’s lines sound when the notes are joined together and given light and shade. ...a wonderfully characterful singer – both in terms of the voice itself, but also her charming ability to step swiftly and convincingly into a role. Intermusica represents Eri Nakamura worldwide, excluding Japan. Eleanor Freedman Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera efreedman@intermusica.co.uk Zara Fyfe zfyfe@intermusica.co.uk

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Treasury Note What is a Treasury Note? Treasury notes, also known as T-notes, are intermediate-term bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury. They mature in two, three, five, or ten years How Does a Treasury Note Work? T-notes make semiannual interest payments at fixed coupon rates. The notes usually have $1,000 face values, although those with two- or three-year maturities have $5,000 face values. Treasury notes help fund shortfalls in the federal budget, regulate the nation's money supply, and execute U.S. monetary policy. Like any bond issuer, the U.S. Treasury considers the market's risk and return requirements in order to successfully and efficiently raise capital. As with all Treasuries, T-notes are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. This means default is extremely unlikely and would really only occur if the U.S. government could not print additional money to pay off its debt. For this reason, the notes are generally considered risk-free investments and act as benchmarks against which other investments are compared. Their low risk and extremely high level of liquidity cause Treasury notes to usually have the lowest yields of any bonds on the market. Birth of a Treasury Note: The Auction Process First, the Treasury announces the sizes of any upcoming auctions and the bidding deadline. The Treasury then awards the securities to the highest institutional bidder first, then the second-highest, and so on. This way, the government takes in the most revenue. Individual investors can buy at the average price bid by the institutional dealers. Ways to Purchase Treasuries Institutional investors make up most of the market for Treasuries, but individual investors can easily purchase and trade the notes as well. Investors interested in purchasing Treasuries can do so directly from the Treasury Department's TreasuryDirect web site or through banks and brokers. Many investors hold Treasuries through mutual funds. The fund-management fees do cut into returns, but the funds offer diversification among all the types and maturities of Treasuries, which is hard for the individual investor to achieve without significantly more cash than mutual funds require. Why Does a Treasury Note Matter? All investors, even those who don't own Treasury notes, should understand that Treasury rates affect the entire economy. This is partially because the government's sale or repurchase of Treasuries affects the money supply and influences interest rates. For example, when the Federal Reserve repurchases Treasuries, sellers deposit the proceeds at their local banks, which in turn lend to customers, who deposit their loan proceeds in their bank accounts, and so on. Thus, every dollar of Treasuries repurchased by the government increases the money supply by several dollars. This causes the supply of money for lending to increase, causing lending rates to fall. T-notes are widely regarded as some of the safest investments around. They can be especially attractive for the most risk-averse investors and those primarily interested in preserving capital or maintaining a consistent stream of income. But there are several factors the investor should consider before investing -- interest rate risk, inflation risk, and taxes. A bond, also known as a fixed-income security, is a debt instrument created for the purpose of raising capital. They are essentially loan agreements between... See More Coupon Rate In the finance world, the coupon rate is the annual interest paid on the face value of a bond. It is expressed as a percentage. See More In the finance world, a note is debt. See More Maturity is the date on which a bond or preferred stock issuer must repay the original principal borrowed from a bondholder or shareholder. See More Money is a medium of exchange for goods or services within an economy. See More Monetary policy is the means by which the Federal Reserve manipulates the U.S. money supply in order to influence the U.S. economy's overall direction,... See More

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How Greyscale In Game Of Thrones Compares To The Real Story Of Leprosy Philip Alcabes — The Conversation Filed to:virology To fans of Game of Thrones, Greyscale and its disruptive terror might be a reminder of the Black Death or those mysterious poxes and fluxes that chroniclers wrote about in the era before modern medicine. But Greyscale’s allure for contemporary audiences can actually be traced back to a biblical mistranslation of leprosy. In the neighborhood where I lived as a graduate student in the mid-1970s, there was a man whose face was remarkably disfigured. Half of it seemed melted, as if it had been fashioned of candle wax. You would spot him after dark on the streets near my university, holding one hand in front of the burned part of his face while he walked. Seeing him filled me with pity, but also horror. And then shame at my own horror. I thought of my long-ago reactions to the burned man when I heard about Greyscale, the fearsome disease that afflicts some of the characters on Game of Thrones (and also in the series of books the TV shows is based on). Characters with Greyscale are sometimes sent into lifelong quarantine – or exile, depending on how you look at it – in a ruined city. We’ve always been fascinated by disfiguring diseases like leprosy. Wikimedia Commons There’s been considerable discussion about what to make of Greyscale, and which modern diseases it might imitate, and why it is only sometimes curable. Evidently, Greyscale resonates. The world Game of Thrones takes place in is ostensibly based on the medieval and early modern eras. To readers and viewers of the series, Greyscale and its disruptive terror might be a reminder of the Black Death or those mysterious poxes and fluxes that chroniclers wrote about in the era before medical advances allowed physicians to make specific diagnoses. But I wonder if Greyscale’s allure for contemporary audiences has to do with disfigurement. We have always been fascinated (and repulsed) by disfiguring diseases. And disfigurement has long been burdened with presumptions about permanent moral taint. The capacity of this fantasy disease to grab so many people’s attention is an extension of a long historical line: the tension between loathing of the unsightly and shame over our own repulsion. It goes back at least to medieval Europeans’ dealings with lepers. A biblical mistranslation shaped how the medieval world understood leprosy As with leprosy, Greyscale can leave survivors alive, but disfigured – bearing a permanent mark of the disease. In the books, one character describes a girl who survived Greyscale saying that “the child is not clean.” And like leprosy in the medieval era, Greyscale disfigures, but how it is transmitted is not well understood. A mistranslation in the Bible lead to leprosy’s infamy. Chapter 13 of Leviticus concerns people whose spiritual impurity is reflected in a set of skin afflictions known collectively astzara’at. The thrust of Leviticus, at this point, concerns the dramatic tension between polluting forces in the natural world and humans’ marshaling of nature’s pure, or purifying, forces (cedar, hyssop, clean water and so forth) in opposition. Indeed, Leviticus makes clear that tzara’at could be seen on cloth and the walls of houses, too. The crucial passage on tzara’at of human skin orders the spiritually impure person to dwell “outside the camp” for eight days. Reflection, along with priestly ministration, will restore the sufferer’s wholeness and allow him to be return to society. Image: The disease called leprosy in the Bible probably didn’t exist in the Near East at the time. St Anthony with a leper. Hans von Gersdorff via Images from the History of Medicine (NLM) When the text of the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek in the Septuagint in the third century BC, tzara’at was ambiguously rendered as lepra, from the Greek leprei, already in use by Hippocrates to describe a collection of scaly patches. The wordlepra carried over into the commonly used Latin translation of the bible, called the Vulgate. Thus, while medieval Christians’ banishment of lepers was supposed to be based on the Bible, the disease medieval Europeans called leprosy (and that we now know as Hansen’s disease) is the result of infection with Mycobacterium leprae. Yet, that bacterium almost certainly had not existed in the Near East at the time the relevant biblical text was being handed down, in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Biblical “leprosy” was not medieval leprosy. Being a leper didn’t always mean you had leprosy Leprosy came to denote not only those disfigured by Hansen’s disease – which was by then present in Europe – but people with all manner of skin conditions, or people who simply looked like they shouldn’t be allowed to circulate freely. Rationalizing ostracism in biblical terms gave the shunning of lepers the force of moral imperative. And as time went on, the postulate in Leviticus that the leper, once cleansed, could return to normal society was lost. In its place came a sensibility about leprosy as fearsome. Although Hansen’s disease is not easily transmitted, the medieval Europeans sought ways to cleanse society of its disfigurement. Shunned. Richard Tennant Cooper via Wellcome Library, London In the eighth century, for instance, Pope Gregory II said that lepers should not mix with healthy Christians at sacred events. By 1179, a papal council decreed that lepers be provided with their own churches, cemeteries and priests. On that basis, thousands of leprosaria were built in Europe to house the people deemed unfit. Not only was leprosy itself disfiguring, but it carried moral taint through rumors that it was associated with sexual impropriety or resulted from a superabundance of melancholic (black) bile. By this thinking, disfigurement of Hansen’s disease was inextricably linked with moral condemnation. Consider a statement by a 12th-century monk from the Abbey of St Victor, near Paris: “fornicators, concubines, the incestuous, adulterers, the avaricious, userers, false witnesses, perjurers … all are judged to be leprous by the priests.” We still associate disfigurement with moral failings And perhaps disfigurement is even more terrifying today than in the Middle Ages. Certainly, when AIDS appeared in America in the early 1980s, the dark blotches of Kaposi’s sarcoma, the pallor, and the cachexia (wasting) that it often conferred made it both fascinating and repulsive. Susan Sontag noted AIDS disfigurement’s “esthetic” aspects: that it made grotesque exactly those who were young and beautiful, in the prime of their erotic appeal, was one of the ways AIDS acquired cultural baggage. And indeed, the disfigurement AIDS produced was never far from the moral disapprobation heaped, in those days, on its sufferers, who were usually gay men or drug injectors. As late as the 1990s, a survey showed that one in six Americans still admitted to feeling “disgust” at people with AIDS. We are more tolerant of homosexuality today (and, to a lesser extent, drug injectors). And leprosy no longer bears the stigma it once did. But our culture is more than ever oriented to image. And there are more ways to do something about undesired aspects of physiognomy: orthodonture, cosmetics, smoothing and lifting, surgeries of all kinds, and so on. Not surprisingly, we find other ways to layer moral disapproval on disfigurement. Isn’t this why obesity lends itself to narratives of gross (literally!) distortion of nature – eating too much, moving too little? We are so accustomed to looking at obesity as symptomic of a failure of sociability that a popular strain of research can claim that obesity “spreads” through social networks. The overlarge are the lepers of today. I don’t know why so many people think that nature is always pretty, and that unpretty people must be, somehow, incontinent – why so many of us still make assumptions not too far from those about lepers in medieval Europe. But it’s not surprising that, in our culture, a disfiguring and incurable condition like Greyscale has an arch sort of allure. This article originally appeared at The Conversation and is republished here under a creative commons license.

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Euronet Worldwide Reports Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2007 Financial Results/ Euronet Worldwide Reports Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2007 Financial Results February 20, 2008 at 12:00 AM EST Euronet Worldwide Reports Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2007 Financial Results 305.1 KB EEFT Image.gif 197.8 KB LEAWOOD, KANSAS, USA — February 20, 2008 — Euronet Worldwide Inc. ("Euronet" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: EEFT), a leading electronic payments provider, today announced its full year and fourth quarter 2007 financial results. Euronet's full year 2007 financial highlights included: • Consolidated revenues of $917.6 million, an increase of 46% over 2006 revenues of $629.2 million. • Adjusted EBITDA of $133.3 million, an increase of 50% over 2006 Adjusted EBITDA of $88.8 million. • Operating income of $77.2 million, an increase of 49% over 2006 operating income of $51.9 million. • Net income of $53.5 million, or $1.11 diluted earnings per share, compared to net income for 2006 of $46.0 million, or $1.16 diluted earnings per share. • Diluted cash earnings per share of $1.27, compared to $1.21 for 2006 (see reconciliation of diluted cash earnings per share in the attached schedules). The 2007 diluted cash earnings per share does not include $0.14 per share for the non-recurring excise tax refund discussed below. • Transactions of 1,250.6 million, compared to 921.7 million for 2006. Euronet's fourth quarter 2007 financial highlights included: • Consolidated revenues of $263.7 million, compared to $166.8 million for the fourth quarter 2006. • Adjusted EBITDA of $46.7 million, compared to $24.0 million for the fourth quarter 2006. • Operating income of $31.1 million, compared to $14.5 million in the fourth quarter 2006. • Net income of $19.6 million, or $0.37 diluted earnings per share, compared to net income for the fourth quarter 2006 of $15.3 million, or $0.38 diluted earnings per share. • Diluted cash earnings per share of $0.34, compared to $0.33 for the fourth quarter 2006 (see reconciliation of diluted cash earnings per share in the attached schedules). The fourth quarter 2007 diluted cash earnings per share does not include $0.13 per share for the non-recurring excise tax refund discussed below. • Transactions of 346.6 million, compared to 260.2 million for the fourth quarter 2006. A significant factor in comparing Euronet's full year and fourth quarter 2007 results with the results for the same periods in 2006 was its acquisition on April 4, 2007 of RIA Envia Inc. ("RIA"), the third-largest global money transfer company. Commencing in the second quarter, Euronet included the results of RIA in its consolidated financial statements, together with the related equity and debt issued to complete the acquisition. RIA's operating results are reported in the Money Transfer Segment. In the fourth quarter 2007 the Company recorded a federal excise tax refund claim of $12.2 million. The refund resulted from an Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") announcement that IRS Code Section 4251 (related to communications excise tax) would no longer apply to prepaid mobile airtime services, such as those offered by the Company's US prepaid processing subsidiary. Additionally, companies that paid this excise tax during the period beginning March 1, 2003 and ending on July 31, 2006 are entitled to a credit or refund of previously paid amounts. During the fourth quarter 2007 the Company determined that its refund claim was probable of recovery and, accordingly, recognized the related benefit in the fourth quarter. During the fourth quarter 2007, in connection with the Company's interest to acquire MoneyGram International, Inc. ("MoneyGram"), the Company purchased 1.3 million shares of MoneyGram common stock at a cost of $20.0 million. At December 31, 2007 the value of the investment had increased to $20.6 million. However, subsequent to December 31, 2007 the trading price for MoneyGram stock dropped significantly as a result of MoneyGram's announcement of investment portfolio losses and its intention to recapitalize the company. The aggregate value of the Company's investment in MoneyGram as of February 19, 2008 was reduced to approximately $6.1 million. The Company also announced that, in view of the "go shop" provision that expires March 7, 2008 and is included in the purchase agreement for the investment in MoneyGram by Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. ("THL") and Goldman, Sachs & Co. ("Goldman Sachs"), the Company is currently evaluating certain alternatives which would enable it to make an acquisition proposal to the board of MoneyGram. Consistent with the terms of the THL and Goldman Sachs offer, the Company currently expects that any offer by the Company would be conditioned upon the sale of specified securities from MoneyGram's investment portfolio prior to any additional investment in MoneyGram. The Company will only consider an offer that it believes will be accretive to its stockholders. The Company can give no assurances that it will ultimately submit an acquisition proposal or that, if it does, the MoneyGram board of directors will find it superior to the proposal submitted by THL and Goldman Sachs. Segment and Other Results As stated above, beginning in the second quarter 2007, Euronet reported the results of RIA as a separate business segment, the ‘Money Transfer Segment.' This Segment also includes the Company's pre-existing money transfer business, which was previously included in the Prepaid Processing Segment. The Segment results reported below have been restated for prior periods to reflect the pre-existing money transfer business in the Money Transfer Segment and the combination of the EFT Processing and Software segments for comparative purposes. These restatements were for comparative purposes only and had no impact on Euronet's consolidated results. The EFT Processing Segment reported the following results for 2007: • Revenues of $188.9 million, compared to $158.3 million for 2006. • Adjusted EBITDA of $54.6 million, compared to $50.1 million for 2006. • Operating income of $37.1 million, compared to $35.3 million for 2006. • Transactions of 603.8 million, compared to 463.6 million for 2006. The EFT Processing Segment reported the following results for the fourth quarter 2007: • Revenues of $53.1 million, compared to $42.2 million for the fourth quarter 2006. • Operating income of $10.7 million, compared to $9.5 million for the fourth quarter 2006. • Transactions of 169.8 million, compared to 128.1 for the fourth quarter 2006. The EFT Processing Segment ended 2007 with 11,347 ATMs owned or operated compared to 8,885 ATMs at the end of 2006. Euronet owns and/or operates ATMs primarily in Hungary, Poland, Germany, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Greece, Romania, Slovakia, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Ukraine, Bulgaria, India and China. The year-over-year increases in revenues, operating income and Adjusted EBITDA were primarily attributable to a 28% increase in ATMs under management together with transaction growth from those ATMs. Improvements in operating income and Adjusted EBITDA in the fourth quarter 2007 compared to the fourth quarter 2006 were offset by key growth investments in China, Eastern Europe and the development of merchant acquiring products. Moreover, during the fourth quarter 2007, the Company recorded losses of approximately $1.7 million, primarily in Poland and Hungary, as a result of certain fraudulent transactions completed through its network. The Company is taking remedial action to block similar transactions and expects the losses to be reduced significantly in the first quarter 2008 and eliminated in the second quarter 2008. The Prepaid Processing Segment reported the following results for 2007: The Prepaid Processing Segment reported the following results for the fourth quarter 2007: • Revenues of $155.4 million, compared to $123.7 million for the fourth quarter 2006. • Operating income of $23.2 million, compared to $10.0 million for the fourth quarter 2006. The full year and quarterly improvements in revenue were primarily attributable to organic transaction growth as well as the benefit from the first quarter 2007 acquisition of a U.K. based prepaid processing company that contributed approximately half of the segment's revenue growth. Adjusted EBITDA and operating income expanded in the fourth quarter compared to the third quarter 2007, excluding the excise tax refund discussed below. As discussed above, the company recorded a $12.2 million refund claim related to communications excise tax in the fourth quarter 2007. This refund is included in the results of the Prepaid Processing Segment. The Prepaid Processing Segment processes electronic point-of-sale prepaid transactions at approximately 396,000 point-of-sale terminals across more than 193,000 retailer locations in Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the U.S. The Money Transfer Segment reported the following results for 2007: • Annual revenues of $158.8 million, compared to $3.2 million for 2006. • Adjusted EBITDA of $20.8 million, compared to a loss of $2.9 million for 2006. • Operating income of $7.1 million, compared to a loss of $3.3 million for 2006. • Transactions of 12.0 million, compared to 0.3 million for 2006. The Money Transfer Segment reported the following results for the fourth quarter 2007: • Revenues of $55.2 million, compared to $0.9 million for the fourth quarter 2006. • Adjusted EBITDA of $7.8 million, compared to a loss of $1.2 million for the fourth quarter 2006. • Operating income of $3.2 million, compared to a loss of $1.3 million for the fourth quarter 2006. • Transactions of 4.1 million, compared to 0.1 million for the fourth quarter 2006. On a pro forma basis, transfers increased by approximately 12% for the full year 2007 and approximately 13% for the fourth quarter 2007 while revenues grew 13% for the full year and 17% for the quarter. The growth rate of revenues exceeded the transfer growth rate largely as a result of the strong increase in transfers from non-US locations, which was approximately 70% for both the full year and the fourth quarter 2007. The increase in transactions from non-US locations was instrumental to the Segment's pro forma growth, including: 15% Adjusted EBITDA growth and 44% operating income growth for the full year 2007; and 30% Adjusted EBITDA growth and 78% operating income growth for the fourth quarter 2007 when compared to the same periods of 2006. Corporate had $19.8 million of operating expenses for 2007, compared to $17.8 million for 2006. Fourth quarter 2007 operating expenses were $6.0 million compared to $3.7 million for 2006. These increases were largely due to $1.3 million of professional fees and settlement costs related to an acquisition which the Company abandoned in the fourth quarter 2007 as well as software licensing fees. For the full year share-based compensation charges increased $0.4 million. The Company's unrestricted cash on hand was $267.6 million as of December 31, 2007 as compared to $321.1 million at December 31, 2006. Euronet's total indebtedness was $557.8 million as of December 31, 2007, compared to $373.5 million as of December 31, 2006. The decrease in cash and increase in debt was largely the result of the April 2007 acquisition of RIA. Euronet also announced that it expects diluted cash earnings per share for the first quarter 2008 to be approximately $0.29 to $0.30. In the third quarter 2007 the Company corrected an immaterial error related to foreign currency translation adjustments for goodwill and acquired intangible assets that resulted in a change to previously reported amounts on a consolidated basis and in the Prepaid Processing Segment. The adjustment increased intangible amortization expense by $0.4 million for the full year 2006 and by $0.1 million for the fourth quarter 2006, and decreased net income by $0.3 million for the full year 2006 and $0.1 million for the fourth quarter 2006. We believe that Adjusted EBITDA and diluted cash earnings per share provide useful information to investors because they are indicators of the strength and performance of our ongoing business operations, including our ability to fund capital expenditures, acquisitions and operations and to incur and service debt. These calculations are commonly used as a basis for investors, analysts and credit rating agencies to evaluate and compare the operating performance and value of companies within the payment processing industry. The Company's management analyzes historical results adjusted for certain items that are non-operational, not necessarily ongoing in nature or that are incremental to the baseline of the business, and management believes the exclusion of these items, as well as the inclusion of pro forma results, provides a more complete and comparable basis for evaluating the underlying business unit performance. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as operating income excluding depreciation, amortization and share-based compensation expenses. While depreciation and amortization are considered operating costs under generally accepted accounting principles, these expenses primarily represent a non-cash current period allocation of costs associated with long-lived assets acquired in prior periods. Similarly, the expense recorded for share-based compensation does not represent a current or future period cash cost. Diluted cash earnings per share is defined as diluted GAAP earnings per share excluding the impacts of a) foreign exchange gains or losses, b) discontinued operations, c) debt restructuring or early debt retirement charges, d) tax-effected share based compensation, e) tax-effected acquired intangible asset amortization and f) other non-operating or unusual items that cannot be accurately projected. Pro forma financial information is not intended to represent, or be indicative of, the results from operations or financial condition that would have been reported had the related transaction been completed as of the beginning of the periods presented. Moreover, the pro forma financial information should not be considered representative of future results of operations or financial condition. The attached schedules provide a full reconciliation of these and other non-GAAP financial measures to a corresponding GAAP financial measure. Euronet Worldwide will host an analyst conference call on Wednesday, February 20, 2008, at 9:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time to discuss these results. The conference call will be broadcast on the Internet and can be accessed via the Euronet Worldwide Internet site at www.euronetworldwide.com or via Vcall at http://www.vcall.com/IC/CEPage.asp?ID=125409. Participants should go to the web site at least 15 minutes before this event to download and install any necessary audio software. For those without Internet access, the conference call-in number is +1-877-407-9210 (USA) or +1-201-689-8049 (non-USA). For those unable to attend the live broadcast, a replay will be available beginning approximately one hour after the event at http://www.vcall.com/IC/CEPage.asp?ID=125409 as well as via phone. To dial in for the replay, the call-in number is +1-877-660-6853 (USA) or +1-201-612-7415 (non-USA). The account number is 286 and the conference ID number is 271994. The call and webcast replay will be available for one month. You can also access the Earnings presentation at http://www.vcall.com/IC/CEPage.asp?ID=125409 or http://www.eeft.com/investors/library/presentations.asp. No fees are charged to access any event. About Euronet Worldwide Euronet Worldwide is an industry leader in processing secure electronic financial transactions. The Company offers payment and transaction processing solutions to financial institutions, mobile operators and retailers which include comprehensive ATM and POS operation and management services; credit and debit card outsourcing services; card issuing and merchant acquiring services; software solutions; consumer money transfer and bill payment services; and electronic distribution of top-up services for prepaid mobile airtime and other prepaid products. Euronet operates and processes transactions from 40 countries. Euronet's global payment network is extensive – including over 11,347 ATMs and approximately 50,000 EFT POS terminals which are under management in 20 countries; a growing portfolio of outsourced debit and credit card services and card software solutions; a prepaid processing network of 396,000 point-of-sale terminals across 193,000 retailer locations in 14 countries; and a consumer-to-consumer money transfer network of more than 71,000 locations serving approximately 100 countries. With corporate headquarters in Leawood, Kansas, USA, and 33 worldwide offices, Euronet serves clients in 130 countries. For more information, please visit the Company's web site at www.euronetworldwide.com. Statements contained in this news release that concern Euronet's or its management's intentions, expectations, or predictions of future performance, are forward-looking statements. Euronet's actual results may vary materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including: technological developments affecting the market for the Company's products and services; foreign exchange fluctuations; and changes in laws and regulations affecting the Company's business. These risks and other risks are described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. Copies of these filings may be obtained by contacting the Company or the SEC. Euronet does not intend to update these forward-looking statements and undertakes no duty to any person to provide any such update under any circumstances. Shruthi Fielder (formerly Dyapaiah) Euronet Worldwide, Inc. sdyapaiah@eeft.com

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Tag Archives: ATP The story in the Washington Post reads (in part) as follows: MASON, Ohio — Nick Kyrgios was fined $113,000 by the ATP for expletive-filled outbursts in which he smashed rackets, insulted a chair umpire and refused to get ready to return serve during a second-round match at the Western & Southern Open. The tour announced the penalties Thursday, a day after Kyrgios berated chair umpire Fergus Murphy and left the court to break two rackets during a 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4), 6-2 loss to Karen Khachanov. The ATP listed a breakdown of eight fines ranging from $3,000 to $20,000 each for violations such as unsportsmanlike conduct, verbal abuse and audible obscenity. The tour also said it is “looking further into what happened during and immediately after the match” to determine whether additional fines or a suspension is warranted. Kyrgios is a 24-year-old Australian who is ranked 27th this week. He is a volatile sort who repeatedly has gotten in trouble for on-court actions. He was kicked out of the Italian Open in May after throwing a chair and being suspended by the ATP in 2016 for not trying to win and insulted fans during the Shanghai Masters. You may not have heard about this if you are not a sports fan, or if you have been preoccupied with current world events, but this is an event worth noting because it is a symptom of a deep malaise; I suspect it is not restricted to Nick Kyrgios. It is a sign of the complete freedom that many liberal-minded folks prize as the virtue worth having above all others. It is freedom without restraint. As I have noted on numerous occasions, freedom without restraint is not freedom; it is chaos. And Kyrgios’ behavior — in this instance and in numerous others — may be a sign of the times. Without sounding like a preacher looking for work, I would remind readers that in a world that does not prize restraint but which instead applauds behavior such as that of Nick Kyrgios there is a real danger of watching the threads that hold us together tearing apart. Ours is a culture, including Australia apparently, in which parents for years now have been told by the “experts” not to restrain the young because it inhibits their potential. Never say “No!” The result is a world in which the behavior of out-or control athletes and celebrities, not to mention ordinary folks like you and me, is not only tolerated but frequently met with applause. This athlete, in particular, is immensely popular and when he plays on television it is “must see TV.” The crowds wait breathlessly for an outburst which they label “honesty” and regard as worthy of emulation. And we must, really we must, ask what’s wrong with this picture? Nick Kyrgios is slowly becoming the rule, not the exception. He has a huge following and openly admits that he doesn’t really like tennis where he makes a small fortune showing signs of his undeniable brilliance and occasionally winning — while always being on the brink of a meltdown. He is much more interested, it would seem, in drawing attention to himself than in winning tennis matches. He is a showman in an age of entertainment when those who behave erratically are the main attraction. After all, ordinary people going about their business, no matter how successful they might be, are not much fun to watch. It’s the out-of-control athletes and public figures generally who make a stir that interest those who present television pictures to large audiences. The more erratic the behavior the more likely the audience will be large and appreciative — and buy the sponsor’s products, needless to say. Thus we do eschew restraint as boring and prize the Nick Kyrgioses of the world (who will pay this fine with the small change out of his tennis shorts) because they make life interesting. We flavor our infatuation with the sensational by calling such behavior honest. But if we are honest we will admit it is extreme and not worthy of respect and certainly not admiration. It is freedom gone amuck and self-indulgence of a sort, when adopted by more and more people, that ultimately strains the thin threads that hold civilization together. Entertainment is not the most important thing. Not in the end. And honesty does not equate with outrageous behavior. Tagged ATP, civilization, fines, freedom, Nick Kyrgios, restraint, tennis

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One man's quest for the perfect music library, one review at a time But Is It Any Good? So What’s It All About? Uggggh! Compilation Quickies Live Pop Stars Maybe It’s Live The A-List Radio Show Category: Ron Sexsmith Ron Sexsmith – Ron Sexsmith ARTIST: Ron Sexsmith TITLE: Ron Sexsmith CHART ACTION: None SINGLES: Secret Heart OTHER SONGS YOU MAY KNOW: I know you’d know this record if you went to Luna Music in Indy in 1996 or so. LINEUP: Ron Sexsmith, Daniel Lanois and Mitchell Froom produced this, so there were session guys afoot too. WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT: Introspective singer songwriter from Canada strikes a nerve with his gentle, yet evocative tunes. SOME WORDS, PHRASES AND CLAUSES ABOUT THIS RECORD: Finally getting his career on track after a couple of false starts, Sexsmith gets some great producers behind him, and they do his songs justice. Sexsmith also brings a great batch of songs to the party as well. He sounds like a gentle, Canadian soul that is both optimistic and weary. He sounds fragile, but sings with great emotion. The arrangements fit the songs but aren’t simple. Sexsmith knows his way around melody and chords. It’s a good mellow, chill album, perfect for Canadian summers, eh? NOTES & MINUTIAE: At first, he had a songwriting contract, but finally Interscope ponied up and he recorded this album. IS THERE A DELUXE VERSION: No. GRADE: A-: It grows on you – Sexsmith’s voice and melodies shine through. Ron Sexsmith – Grand Opera Lane TITLE: Grand Opera Lane SINGLES: No OTHER SONGS YOU MAY KNOW: Mega-fans yes. This was a Canadian indie release. LINEUP: Ron Sexsmith, Bob Wiseman, Don Kerr, Steve Charles and others. WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT: Independently recorded and released album from Canadian singer-songwriter is more rocking than his later, more popular albums. SOME WORDS, PHRASES AND CLAUSES ABOUT THIS RECORD: Ron Sexsmith befriended Canadian songwriter and actor Bob Wiseman at an open stage in Toronto, and from there recorded an album with Wiseman that every Canadian record company rejected. So Wiseman released this on his own and it wound up getting Sexsmith signed. The arrangements here are more rock-oriented than his later releases, but the singer songwriter and introspectivity that later releases show up in cuts like “Speaking With The Angel”. Fans would love this side of Sexsmith, and his song-craft is definitely present. NOTES & MINUTIAE: He had a couple of self-produced cassettes that he recorded and sold before recording this album. GRADE: B: Sexsmith’s songs and voice are all there. It’s not the best place to start but fans would love it. 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Pope Francis Lashes Nuclear Weapons As ‘Immoral’ During Trip To Japan In a somber visit to Hiroshima and Nagasaki Sunday, Pope Francis condemned nuclear weapons as “immoral” and called for a world without them. “The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral — as is the possession of atomic weapons,” he said at the peace memorial in Hiroshima, where an American atomic bomb attack in 1945 — the first in the world — killed at least 140,000 people. “We will be judged on this,” he warned. Francis spoke with survivors there, one of them who was a 14-year-old factory worker at the time. “No one in this world can imagine such a scene of hell,” Yoshiko Kajimoto said as she described fleeing the scene, The Associated Press reported. Victims’ “bodies were so burned and totally red. Their faces swollen to double size, their lips hanging loose, with both hands held out with burnt skin hanging from them. They no longer looked human.” Earlier in the day, the pontiff visited Nagasaki, which the U.S. attacked three days after Hiroshima, killing some 74,000 people. “Peace and international stability are incompatible with attempts to build upon the fear of mutual destruction or the threat of total annihilation,” the Catholic leader said in remarks there in the driving rain. The pope emphasized that resources wasted creating nuclear weapons could far better be used helping humanity. “In a world where millions of children and families live in inhumane conditions, the money that is squandered and the fortunes made through the manufacture, upgrading, maintenance, and sale of ever more destructive weapons are an affront crying out to heaven,” he said. Francis’s trip was the first papal visit to Japan in nearly 40 years. On the last trip in 1981, Pope John Paul II also visited Nagasaki. Francis is the first pope to speak out against nuclear weapons, even for “deterrence.” fbq('init', '1848440758782548'); // Edition specific fbq('track', "PageView");// custom event(s) for bpages fbq('trackCustom', 'EntryPage', { "section_name": "Religion", "tags": [ "society-and-culture", "pope-francis", "religion-and-beliefs", "nuclear-weapon", "atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki", "atomic-energy", "the-possession", "hiroshima-peace-memorial" ], "ncid": "" });

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Trade union 'deeply concerned' for Flybe staff A TRADE union that represents hundreds of workers for Flybe say they are 'deeply concerned' for the futures of their staff after it emerged the airline was on the brink of collapse. Picture: ROB CURRIE. (26885538) Garry Graham, deputy general secretary for Prospect, said UK government support for the services the airline provides would be an 'early acid test' for its commitment to regional airports across the country – many of which rely on Flybe for most or all of its scheduled services. On Monday Flybe was on the brink of collapse, a year after the company was bought by a Virgin Atlantic-led consortium as part of £2.2 million rescue deal. The airline, which has served the Channel Islands for more than 30 years and operates ten routes out of Jersey, was believed to be working to secure a bailout package. It was reported that Flybe officials had met representatives from the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Transport about whether emergency financing could be secured. However, according to Sky News, accountancy firm EY has been lined up to handle the company’s administration ­– if it is unable to be saved. Mr Graham said in a statement: 'As the largest union at Flybe we are deeply concerned about the future of our highly skilled members’ jobs. 'Large numbers of Flybe’s routes provide important transport connections to and from parts of the UK where other viable options don’t exist. Indeed, a number of regional airports are highly reliant on Flybe for most or all of their scheduled services. 'This means that support for the services that Flybe provides will be an early acid test of this government’s commitment to every region of the UK.' Flybe currently offers ten routes from Jersey – seven on which are not operated by any other airline. By Jack Maguire Pair jailed after smuggling £60m of cocaine on yacht UK News | Jan 27, 2020

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in Law and computer games, Law on the Internet Together with the new media state treaty, there will also be some changes in the Youth Media Protection State Treaty or JMStV for short. 1 What’s new? 2 Definition of children 3 Video portals in duty 4 Streamers need to flag streams that are harmful to young people? For Internet and gaming providers, article 5 is probably the most well-known in terms of development-damaging offers. It is precisely these rules that are easily revised. The full changes can be found in this article. Perhaps one of the most relevant changes is probably the following. The provisions of this State Treaty also apply to providers who are not established in Germany in accordance with the provisions of the Telemedia Act and the Media State Treaty, insofar as the offers are intended for use in Germany. This is to be assumed if they are addressed to users in the Federal Republic of Germany in the overall view, in particular by the language used, the content or marketing activities offered, or if in the Federal Republic of Germany a not insignificant part of the refinancing. It will be interesting to see whether this provision also applies to providers in other EU countries and thus may be in breach of EU law, or whether this provision only applies to providers outside the EU or can apply, because other rules would be of higher importance to EU law. Definition of children The recast only creates clear definitions of who is a child (under 14 years of age) and who is a teenager (14-18 years). A very important definition of the term. Photo warnings of clothes circles Video portals in duty It also responds to the JusProg problem to a certain extent (see these contributions) and creates Article 5a, which applies to video portals. 1) Without prejudice to the obligations under Sections 4 and 5, providers of video-sharing services shall take appropriate measures to protect children and adolescents from development-deprecation offers. 2. Measures referred to in paragraph 1 shall include in particular: 1. the establishment and operation of age verification schemes; 2. the establishment and operation of systems through which parents can control access to development-dedependent services. Video-sharing service providers set up systems that allow users to rate the offers they upload and which can be read out by the systems according to sentence 1. Streamers need to flag streams that are harmful to young people? Relevant for streamers who, for example, publish games without age rating or from 16 years of age, the new section 5c JMStV is likely to become relevant. 1. If shipments are announced outside the airtime limit applicable to them, the contents of the announcement shall not be detrimental to development. (2) Broadcasts for which a developmental effect on children or adolescents under 16 years of age is to be assumed must be announced by acoustic signs or appropriately identified by optical means as unsuitable for the corresponding age group; Section 12 remains unaffected. AmendmentJMStVJusProg in Law and computer games, Law on the protection of minors Play from 4 p.m. to stream only from 10 p.m.? The JusProg Dilemma in Law on the protection of minors Let’s stream plays on events? What about the protection of minors? Typical errors in publishing contracts

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Martian Hari ( zegeekgirl) wrote in jamiebambernews, Martian Hari zegeekgirl 'John Doe: Vigilante': Jamie Bamber Radio Interview + Our Review OK, first off! - 100% spoiler free and containing 100% more actual Jamie Bamber than the ramble I'm about to post below ;) Above is a YouTube clip featuring a radio interview Jamie did earlier this week for John Doe: Vigilante. It's a good listen, nearly 15 mins long so check it out! Anyone who follows the JBN Twitter might have noticed a couple of tweets that went out Wednesday; we were lucky enough to get to see the John Doe: Vigilante screening & Q&A in LA last week. Well, when I say "we" I mean "me"; sadly, asta77 lives very far across the country, and the film isn't even playing in her state. The places where it is playing in CA are quite far for me, and I've been preparing for Emerald City Comicon for my job for the past couple of weeks so I was really grateful for the opportunity. (Road trip just wasn't happening.) Since Main Street were kind enough to give us a chance to see the film, wanted to post a review; also since it's something we and many of you have been waiting a very long time for. (As is the case with indie films often, long gestation period; they shot this three years ago!) The thing is, though we've allowed spoiler filled reviews in the past I really don't want to post too many spoilers for this. I do feel like people should watch it unspoiled so that they can see how their reactions to various things pan out. So here's an honest review that doesn't have spoilers in it per se, but singles out stuff I felt was worth noting. I do think the film is totally worth seeing if you have the opportunity particularly if you're a fan of Jamie's, and hopefully more of you can see if you feel the same/different soon!: Here's the nutshell takeaway: I didn't love the film, I feel there's a lot in it that could be much stronger and other stuff that undercuts the impact it's attempting to make. That said, there were definitely things in it that I enjoyed very much, some of which were surprising and unexpected given what I anticipated the film would be. Let's start where you'd expect: Him w/ his name above the title. ;) By about 15 minutes into the film it's not hard to understand what appealed to Jamie about taking this role; while he has played menacing roles in the past (see: Outcasts, Dollhouse), he doesn't get to do it often and there's a lot here that probably took him outside his comfort zone, which is something actors (well the ones who are worth their salt, anyway) are keen to do. And he is pretty terrific throughout; outside of a few brief moments where the accent slips ever so much (he mostly nails it!), he runs an massive gamut from very tightly controlled and cagey to total emotional collapse. There is a confrontational setpiece in the middle which, I'll be honest, some aspects of it really bugged me but it's got nawt to do with Jamie, he's stunning in it. (So is the actor in it with him, Brendan Clearkin, but I can't tell you who he plays) The degree to which John Doe is constantly 10 steps ahead of everyone else does stretch the believability of the character as well, but because Jamie does have that quality that conveys thoughtfulness and intelligence, he helps mitigate that a fair amount. It's a strong turn for him, although I have to say that with a couple of exceptions, most of the cast are really very strong; they pulled an excellent crop of Aussie actors for the supporting roles. One of the surprising things to me was exactly how many extended, dialogue-heavy scenes there are in comparison to most films in this genre; there are a lot of two-handers which give the film the intimate air of a play a lot of the time and I wasn't not expecting that at all. And on the night, I liked that aspect of it a lot because I liked the opportunity to watch the actors work without the mise-en-scene getting in the way which it does in a lot of thrillers. A few days after the fact, though, I can sort of reevaluate it and I do feel like a few of those scenes (whether it's the jailhouse interviews / Lachy Hulme's character, or all of his investigative interviews along the way) could really stand to be tightened up and complemented with one or two more strong set pieces. I would not jettison the talky scenes at all, like I said I did enjoy them!; just... balance. (There are, I admit, a few visually striking moments that work quite well. Usually the ones that aren't too effects-heavy, the budget shows on some of the effects stuff; it's a more effective film when it relies on what it has to work with that's actually in the frame.) Also, I think Steve Coates' script definitely has an ambitious slate of ideas and thoughts that it delivers to an audience to ponder as the story moves along, but sometimes the dialogue isn't always as finessed as it could be. To put it into context, I really do appreciate that the film doesn't come down too strongly on one side of the debate about vigilantism or the other, and it offers a lot of pretty extreme scenarios of that argument spiraling out of control; thing is, if you are going to be ambivalent in that sense then really cracking dialogue goes a long way toward satisfying the audience while leaving them to their own devices to decide how they felt about the film. Also I did feel several times as though portions of the script were too prone to putting exposition into characters' mouths and that's frequently a pet peeve of mine. Again, most of the actors in the film are good enough that they manage to accomplish a lot regardless. I do have a couple of characterization-related beefs I need to point out, one of which involves the female characters. Insomuch as True Detective has gotten a just plain ridonkulous amount of ink written about it lately, one of the key criticisms of that show (which also explores dark themes that involve horrific crimes) is how the female characters are portrayed. Not only as primarily victims but sometimes oversexualizing them, portraying them as scolds, etc. (For some good reading on that, go have a look at Willa Paskin in Slate, Mo Ryan at HuffPo and Emily Nussbaum in the New Yorker.) John Doe actually doesn't transgress in the last two areas there, but as far as portraying all the major female characters as victims... yep, pretty much. There are key minor roles that don't, sure. But it would actually have been refreshing to see some women turn up in places you wouldn't expect; for example, there are women at the Speak 4 the Dead rallies in the film but we never actually see a woman among those who are going out with copycat John Doe masks on and fighting back. And there's no reason why they can't be there; it would be really affecting if they were, to be honest. Additionally, there's at least one major character played by a man who would have been reeeally interesting if that person were female, but I don't actually want to say who that is until I can discuss associated spoilers. That said, two of the most effective performances in the film are by actresses: One, Erin Dewar, plays a woman shown interacting with John Doe at his job (can't say what that is without giving away a significant spoiler, either) and she's terrific. Also worth nothing, that scene one of Jamie's strongest moments, too; it might be my favorite scene in the film. The other is the actress who plays John Doe's wife, Mary, she's called Brooke Ryan and there is one scene midway through the film in which she is - I'm not exaggerating on this one - heartwrenchingly excellent. The other thing that I found frustrating is that all of the criminals who are John Doe's victims (and later, victims of the copycat mob) are so clearly the worst sort of boo-hiss badguys that, for my own personal outlook on the themes, it undercuts the moral questions that the film is trying to pose. For me, personally, I'm pretty liberal and I don't believe in vigilantism at all; if you're going to make me question that, sure show me some clear-cut cases of really reprehensible criminals... but TBH, your case is stronger if you also take time to reflect on cases that are a stickier from a moral standpoint. I told myself I wouldn't make too many comparisions to other shows/films, but I really have to bring up Prisoners here; I didn't think that film was perfect either, particularly the last reel which was pretty wobbly narratively, but one thing it did amazingly well was give you a potential perpetrator (Paul Dano's character) who you truly have to question whether he is entirely aware or responsible for the horrible thing he might have done. And then, force you to think about whether you'd take action the way Hugh Jackman's character does given that information. I would have liked to have seen at least one perp in John Doe with that kind of really uncomfortable complexity to them. Now, though I won't address specific spoilers there is one thing I do want to bring up in vague-ish terms: There is a HUGE twist in the last reel that, while structurally it pays off something that is set up early on, I don't think needs to be in the film at all really. I didn't feel like it connected with any of the other storylines in a significant way so, ultimately it felt like something that was done in order to really gobsmack the audience at the end and a little bit unnecessary. Also, now is probably the time to point out that yes, there are a few sequences in the film that are very violent, although I'll be honest... fewer than I expected, I've seen worse on any given episode of Game of Thrones. ;) It's more the intensity that is upsetting (though that's definitely the film's intent, and fair play to them); a couple of moment of violence are not specifically gory-bloody at all, but they're extremely hard to watch because they are depicted and shot so in a realistic way. With regard to the film's ending: The spoiler-free version is "it works, and yet it doesn't." There is a key piece of information that the film chooses not to address at the end and I actually loved that because, ultimately, it proves to be irrelevant to where the story ends up. Though all the promo is about "is John Doe a hero or villain," in the end the film wants to remind you that the subject matter is bigger than just one man. Also, the final scene is open-ended in a way which in one sense, compliments that sense of "this issue, regardless of how you feel about it personally, has the potential to spiral far out of anyone's control." And that's pretty effective. But also, there is room for it to be interpreted in a slightly disingenous manner regardless of what the filmmakers' intentions were and that's a little bit "well, hmph." (There was a really interesting revelation about this in the Q&A by the way, if anyone's interested... ) I feel like dancing around spoilers like I did might have made some of what I just wrote VERY confusing. ;) Let's do this: Anyone who wants to read the spoiler-free version can do so here... but if you want to discuss some of what hinted at in more detail, we'll do so in the comments below. I'll tag anything that is a spoiler reply VERY clearly, so anyone who doesn't want to read it can avoid it. Cool? Tags: film: john doe, interview: john doe

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Nutrition in Foods What Does a Carbohydrate Do? Bread is a rich source of carbohydrates. bread. slices of bread with seeds image by L. Shat from Fotolia.com 1 Does Sucrose Have Any Carbs? 2 Three Common Simple Sugars 3 What Is the Difference Between Sucrose, Glucose & Fructose? 4 What Does Carbohydrate Literally Mean? The term carbohydrate is synonymous with saccharide, which is a chemical group consisting of simple and complex sugars. Carbohydrates are commonly found in many foods, especially breads, pastas, dairy products, fruits and vegetables. Carbohydrates provide your body with its primary source of energy, although it can also produce energy from fat if you are on a low-carb diet. Eating too many carbohydrates causes the byproducts to be quickly stored as fat. Saccharides Saccharides are divided into four groups: monosaccharides, disaccharides, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. Monosaccharides and disaccharides are the smallest types of carbohydrates and have the lowest molecular weight. Glucose is a monosaccharide and the most common sugar in the blood, which is why it's sometimes called blood sugar. Insulin, which is produced in your pancreas, is needed to transport glucose from your bloodstream into your tissues, where it's burned to produce energy. Common disaccharides include sucrose, or table sugar, and lactose, or milk sugar. Polysaccharides, such as starch and glycogen, store energy reserves, whereas ribose is used to make coenzymes and genetic material such as RNA, according to the “Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition." Other saccharides play important roles in immune response, blood clotting and cellular development. Your body can reduce most saccharides into glucose, which is the simplest carbohydrate. Simple Carbohydrates Simple carbohydrates, or “carbs,” are also called simple sugars and include monosaccharides and disaccharides. Simple sugars are found in refined sugars, such as table sugar, brown sugar and molasses. Virtually all candies, chocolates and cakes are rich sources of simple sugars, but so are fruits. The primary simple sugar found in fruit is fructose, which can be reduced to glucose in your liver. Generally speaking, the sweeter tasting the fruit, the more fructose it has. Good examples include pineapple, melons and grapes. Furthermore, fruits increase their sugar content as they ripen. Relying on fresh fruits for your simple carbohydrates is a healthy strategy because most fruits are good sources of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, according to the book “Contemporary Nutrition: Functional Approach." Complex Carbohydrates The main type of complex carbohydrate most people consume is starch. Starch is found in many grain products, such as bread, crackers, pasta and rice. Especially starchy vegetables include potatoes, corn, beans, parsnips and sweet potatoes. Eating too many starchy carbohydrates often has the same effect as eating too many simple carbohydrates: weight gain. However, unrefined whole grains also are rich in fiber, which promotes digestion and helps you feel full, so you are less likely to overeat. Insulin is needed to transfer glucose from your blood into your cells, but simple sugars are metabolized quickly and consuming too many at a time can temporarily lead to hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar levels. Temporary hyperglycemia is also called a “sugar rush,” but chronic hyperglycemia is often a symptom of diabetes and pancreatic dysfunction. In general, complex carbohydrates take longer to digest and give you energy over a longer period of time, which lowers the risk of hyperglycemia. Consult with a nutritionist about the pros and cons of a low-carbohydrate diet. Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition; Benjamin Caballero, et al. Contemporary Nutrition: Functional Approach; Gordon M. Wardlaw, et al. Sirah Dubois is currently a PhD student in food science after having completed her master's degree in nutrition at the University of Alberta. She has worked in private practice as a dietitian in Edmonton, Canada and her nutrition-related articles have appeared in The Edmonton Journal newspaper. Dubois, Sirah. "What Does a Carbohydrate Do?" Healthy Eating | SF Gate, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/carbohydrate-do-1033.html. Accessed 29 January 2020. Dubois, Sirah. (n.d.). What Does a Carbohydrate Do? Healthy Eating | SF Gate. Retrieved from http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/carbohydrate-do-1033.html Dubois, Sirah. "What Does a Carbohydrate Do?" accessed January 29, 2020. http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/carbohydrate-do-1033.html Can Diabetics Use Stevia? Do You Need to Worry About Fructose Intake? Carbohydrates Found in Grains, Fruits & Vegetables Sugar & Triglycerides Does Fruit Cause Insulin to Go Up? Importance of Amylase Does Drinking Cause Your Glucose to Be High? Glucose & Fructose Metabolism What Does It Mean if You Have No Sugar in Your Blood? Digestion & Metabolism of Carbohydrates Astragalus & Blood Sugar Starchy Carbohydrate Limits

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Zac Efron Gay, Age, Girlfriend Dating By heightline ActorsMusicians Zachary David Alexander, also known as Zac Efron is a famous American actor and singer. He has managed to create a name for himself in the American film and music industry by releasing some of the best-selling movies, albums and tracks. He was catapulted to fame when he was dubbed ‘teen idol’ after lead roles he played in Disney Channel original movie titles High School Musical, the 2007 film version of the Broadway musical Hairspray as well as the WB series Summerland, Beside his key roles in those movies, Zac has attracted attention by the controversies surrounding his personal life. In this post, you will find out more about Efron’s personal life including his real age and romantic relationships. You may be surprised to learn some things about the superstar’s that you never knew before even though you are his ardent fan. Zac Efron Age: How Old Is Zac Efron? As previously mentioned Zac Efron is the stage name of Zachary David Alexander Efron born on October 18, 1987 (age 28) in San Luis Obispo, California, U.S. The family later moved to Arroyo Grande, California where he was raised. His father is the one who awoke his talent by encouraging him to start acting when he was eleven years of age. He later appeared in theater productions at high school and worked in the theater The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville before he formally began taking singing lessons. His real acting career began in 2002 when he was just 15 years of age. At the time he only played guest roles and I believe his great performance is what earned his greater roles in subsequent years. His biggest breakthrough came in 2006 when he was 19 years old starred in the Disney Channel original movie High School Musical as Troy Bolton playing the place of a popular student and captain of the basketball team. Is Zac Efron Gay? Questions emerged in 2012 when word got out that Efron is actually confessing his true feelings about being gay. This prompted his very first gay-press interview in which he shocked his fans and the world that he saw nothing wrong with such sex affiliation. The rumors that he could be gay started surfacing from as early as his high school days and had followed him along. Is it possible that he is actually gay or it was merely a rumor with a simple soft spot for the gay community? See Also: Zac Efron Hairstyle Tattoo and Abs The rumors spread like bush fire after a picture of him wearing a t-shirt saying “Some Dudes Marry Dudes. Get Over It” went viral on social media. It was later realized that the picture was actually photoshopped. The curious thing that made many skeptics believe that Zac could actually be gay is his response that he would have absolutely no problem wearing shirt T-shirt. In April 2015, the rumors resurfaced when a video revealed a curious relationship between Dave Franco (best known for Scrubs) and Zac Efron. In a particular scene from their hit comedy, Neighbors they recreated at the 2015 MTV Movie Awards, a shirtless Zac Efron was seen grabbing Dave Franco’s crotch. This led to Franco doing the same to him immediately fueling the rumors. It is now widely believed that the two are actively dating even though neither Zac Efron nor his supposed date has confirmed or denied the allegations. Zac Efron Girlfriend and Dating History Zac Efron and Current girlfriend Sami Miro Despite the serious allegations that Zac is gay, one thing we cannot be sure about is the fact that he has a girlfriend he has been dating for over one year. Her name is Sami Miro. They celebrated their first anniversary September 2015. It is not clear whether the relationship will end up in marriage and neither of the two has said anything to that effect. See Also: How tall is Shaq, Selena Gomez height, Lil Wayne height, Vin Diesel wife, Shaquille O’Neal wife Zac Efron and ex-girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens Prior to dating Miss Miro, the actor and singer had dated a number of women including Vanessa Hudgens, Tereza Palmer, Lily Collins, Alexandra Storm, Rumer Mills, Lindsay Lohan and Halston Sage. It is Vanessa who he dated for the longest time of six months. It remains to be seen if Zac will go all the way with Miro to the isle but from his dating history, it is almost certain that he will have more girlfriends. The one he will ask to be his wife will be the luckiest one I guess. Who is Antonio Garza and What Exactly is Her Gender, A Boy or a Girl? Media Personalities Chidiebube - February 25, 2019 The American beauty enthusiast and makeup artist, Antonio Garza, has become one of the most prominent social media influencers out there and no doubt...

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Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File Neptunes, Outkast, REM up for Songwriters Hall The Neptunes, the innovative production-songwriting duo of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo who shaped pop and urban radio from the '90s well into the 2000s thanks to crafting hits for Britney Spears, Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake, are nominated for the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame. AP Photo/Kevin Wolf Bush gets tributes at Kennedy Center Honors program By Ashraf Khalil, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Last year's Kennedy Center Honors ceremony was almost overshadowed by controversy surrounding the sitting president. This year's event took place in the shadow of the death of a former commander-in-chief. Sunday night's ceremony honoring lifetime...

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Lewis Capaldi – ‘Before You Go’ Lyrics Meaning Longs For a Proper Relationship Closure Posted November 19, 2019 December 14, 2019 Laviasco Lewis Capaldi – Before You Go Lyrics Meaning Lewis Capaldi gets personal and emotional in his new song. As always, Lewis has been able to perfectly time the heartbreaking spree upon his new music release to relate to his listeners too well. The song talks about the need and importance of closure in a breakup so that you wouldn’t repeat the same mistakes again. Maybe, pointing out your mistakes might cause you to rage on your ex but it was the same problem that your partner was facing from you. Let’s learn the meaning behind the lyrics of the song ‘Before You Go’ by Lewis Capaldi. We won’t dive into the fact that the song was written about Lewis’s late aunt. Instead, we are trying to relate the song with our daily lives in this article. Did you really think Lewis Capaldi was just going enjoy his holiday season on the back of his massive hit “Someone You Loved”? This song, by the way, is sitting pretty atop the Billboard Hot 100 for the third week in a row. You were wrong all along for thinking about it. He is back with a new single. According to MTV, this song is an inspiring acoustic number with a driving, powerhouse vocal — in other words, usual Lewis Capaldi. On Instagram, Lewis said, ” This song means a lot to me, but it will mean even more if it becomes successful.” Introduction: Before You Go Lyrics From his debut album ‘Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent’ in May, Lewis has enjoyed massive success throughout 2019. On Twitter, the singer shares his joys and thankfulness to his listeners for turning his life around. He says it’s his most personal song till the date. But we will only know about it after we decode the meaning behind the lyrics of “Before You Go”, Lewis. We will be the judge of your song. Don’t you worry! Human life is too short and yet extremely complicated. We can only get perplexed by the overall concept of life, friends, family, and relationships. People come into your life and they just leave. You’ll believe “This is it” for a point. Then, you’ll know “This is the same thing as before”. Yet, we yearn for the comments on why our relationship couldn’t work out with a certain person. We remain too focused on this concept as we don’t always get closures and then, songs like these get released. Before You Go Lyrics Meaning Let’s dissect the meaning behind the lyrics of the song “Before You Go” by Lewis Capaldi section-wise. Lewis Capaldi initiates his verse by saying his love for his romantic interest threw him by the wayside. This is a common theme for the heartbroken ones. With every attempt of moving on, the thoughts of “I don’t love you anymore” or “I hate you” might help ease the extreme pain. But in the long run, you know you’re lying to yourself because you love this person. Then, the phase of deep introspection comes to its way. We wish to replace all of our mistakes but we barely know the problems of our failed relationship. Now, Lewis sits with a harsh reality that there are no other ways to fix the already broken relationship. This type of thought can bring you down to hit the rock bottom. But you know time will heal everything. Even though the time can help you move on to another emotional turmoil, your heartbreak will always be there with you. Your heartbreak will always be your story. Your integrity and dignity are under attack. The pride that you’ve lost, it will never go away from your memories. Before Lewis finally parts with his ex-partner, he wishes to know if the situation could have changed in any way possible. He desires to know if he could reduce the anxiety induced by him in his partner. The singer feels worthless for not being able to comprehend what his romantic interest must have been feeling all along. So, he wishes to know if there was a way to fix all of these even though he knows it’s too late now. Lewis wants to know his problems so that the same pattern wouldn’t repeat in his next relationship. The singer addresses the mistakes that he thinks were the issues of their relationship failure in the second verse of the song. He could never pick up the phone calls from his lover since he was always very “busy” whenever his phone rang. These small bits compounded to lose the interest of Lewis’s lover in him until there was no bit of interest left in his romantic interest. He is overthinking about the situation even if he doesn’t want to do that. Every time he gets himself into the emotional distress, the face of his romantic interest just appears in his head making it impossible for him to move on. In the lyrics for the Bridge section of ‘Before You Go’, Lewis Capaldi tries to reconnect with her lover with the imagined meaning behind the “deserved” closure. The singer admits to being emotionally unavailable for his romantic interest when it was needed the most. He subtly asks if everything could have been fixed only if he was available emotionally for his lover. But he knows he will never know the way to get back to his lover. Only his lover knows but it would be harsh for his love to get back together with Lewis. Conclusion: Before You Go Meaning People always yearn for proper closure. But the idealistic closure discusses the problems in a relationship. Therefore, people try to avoid closures because they don’t want to go back to the same relationship. It’s better for people if they don’t expect closure from anyone. No one owes you anything! What do you think is the meaning behind the lyrics of “Before You Go” by Lewis Capaldi? Let us know in the comments section below. Read the meaning behind the lyrics of the song “Before You Go” by Lewis Capaldi on Genius in detail. Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go Lyrics ⟵Do You Wish To Vanish Secretly? Taylor Swift – Beautiful Ghosts Lyrics Meaning Can You Feel the Sense of Pain Here? Ariana Grande – Raindrops (an angel cried) Lyrics Meaning⟶ 10 thoughts on “Lewis Capaldi – ‘Before You Go’ Lyrics Meaning Longs For a Proper Relationship Closure” Sorry but this is incorrect. He said in an interview that the song is about suicide after talking to his mother about his auntie taking her own life Laviasco says: Yeah, I realized it later as there wasn’t much information on the web when I had posted this. But this is how I feel about this song! Yes, it is about his aunt who took her own life. David Walklin says: Yes my girlfriend committed suicide and this song brings me to tears every time I hear it . Its so close to what happened only days before. I was working, she called me 3 times that day . I answered the phone happy to hear from her but told her I had to work and I would come over latter that night . Well I was tired and completely forgot to go over. . Didn’t hear from her the next day but that wasn’t unusual. Then the next day her councilor called me to tell me she had set herself on fire with Kerosene ! She had been taken to the hospital with 80% burns was induced into a coma then it was decided to turn of the life support and she passed away. I heard all this after it was all over . So when in the lyrics he says; Was there something I COULD HAVE DONE TO MAKE HART BEAT BETTER. IF ONLY I HAD KNOWN YOU HAD A STORM TO WEATHER.. Just rips me up to this day and it all happened more than 10 years ago Hey, it is not your fault. Please stay strong. It’s another nightmare. timing is wrong. she must have gone through real hell. I’m the nicest girl. music is nice. Your comment is so cute I definitely relate it to suicide of a loved one x Yeah, that’s relatable.

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SciFi Weekend: The Big Reveal on Game of Thrones; Orphan Back; Person of Interest; DC & Marvel News; Star Trek; The Handmaid’s Tale May 8, 2016 — Ron Chusid While technically a spoiler for those who have not seen lase week’s episode of Game of Thrones, there was little doubt that Jon Snow would return in some form. While he has returned to life, so far all we have seen is his eyes open and beyond that he might not be entirely the same. Vulture looks at some of the possibilities, including that his wounds might never heal or that he might not have his memories. They also speculate that his death might have terminated his vow to to the Night’s Watch which “shall not end until my death.” If so, this would allow him to take other roles, such as leading the North and/or returning to aide the surviving Starks. Regardless of what happens to him, Kit Harrington is happy that he no longer has to lie to everyone. Orphan Black started out the season with a bit of a reboot and simplification of all the various conspiracies. The show is always at its best in dealing with the characters as opposed to overly complex conspiracies. While Tatiana Maslany is generally the show, supporting characters do have a lot to add, such as seeing Donny and Felix posing as a gay couple as part of the investigation of one of those conspiracies. It got even better when Donnie called Alison to help him provide a sperm specimen with phone sex in yet another classic scene in this series. Person of Interest returned for its final season on CBS. A sneak peak from Comic-Con is above. The AV Club spoke with executive produces Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman. Here is a portion: The A.V. Club:Since the beginning, this show that’s ostensibly been about artificial intelligence is really about human connection. What’s it like to thread that needle and how has it evolved over time? Jonathan Nolan: It’s a great question. And it’s a big challenge. I remember Greg and I talking from the beginning about the collision between the more esoteric ideas in the pilot and how we were going to draw emotions and humanism and a recurring interest from the audience out of all those ideas. There are a lot of ideas in the show, and it’s something I’m very proud of. It’s funny, it’s not a normal show for CBS, but people kind of found it, which is exciting. That link between the big ideas of the show and the characters—we’ve concentrated on it so hard from the beginning, because we wanted to explore all these crazy ideas about the surveillance state, big data, and AI—and the collision of all of that on a personal level. And from the beginning, I’ve felt like there was a great connection there between big data and the kind of “normal” violent crimes that you find in a major city like New York. I’m just kind of fascinated by the idea of the collision of all of those things. But the thing that people keep tuning in for is the characters. Week in, week out, you’re looking not for ideas, necessarily, although it’s great when your shows have ideas in them, but for the characters to become extended family. Especially in broadcast TV, that’s what happens on that level: When you’re on weekly, your characters come back and you connect with them every week. So, as you said, threading that needle becomes the challenge throughout all five seasons. AVC:One of the great things is how you were able to connect to The Machine, even on a very personal level. The Machine was gendered female, whereas Samaritan has stayed relatively genderless. Can you expand on that? JN: I think the gender question, you know, they’re obviously connected. If you want to understand the impact that any SI, or super intelligence, will have—and it’s pat, but it’s accurate—but it’s as if there were no gods and we made them, right? God has often been gendered in the West in a masculine light, which is absurd, but it evolved sort of organically, talking about The Machine as a person. Finch always referred to The Machine as “it” or a thing, but for Root there’s always been more of a personal connection there, a belief in The Machine as a being. So her personification of it—sadly, in the West, we have to gender things to personify them—it seemed most apt that she would think of it in those terms. There’s also something else we’re doing with that: If you’ve paid close attention to the show and where we’re going, there’s a little bit of foreshadowing there as well. AVC:It seems as though The Machine went through a rebellion phase when it really started to only speak through Root. Will this season be about The Machine becoming more mature in that sense and answering to everybody? JN: I’m picturing a hormonal artificial super intelligence. Greg, what are you thinking? Greg Plageman: I think the interesting relationship for me is Harold Finch and his creation. And there’s always been a troubling conundrum for Finch, building this thing that’s so powerful yet that could overtake us. He’s never been quite comfortable with the idea of an ASI—building something that’s more intelligent than us and us expecting that we could still actually control it. So he’s always had that dilemma that he’s been grappling with, and that caused him to put a limiter on The Machine. What Root has always implored Harold Finch to do is take the gloves off the thing because we’re losing—we’re losing to a much more diabolical creation. So I think the evolution of that relationship of Harold Finch and his machine this season, in terms of reconstituting it, and how it’s going to be different this time, it’s almost like, what’s the point? What’s the point, Harold, if you’re going to put a limiter on this thing all over again, as Root has always told him in terms of her wanting to let this thing go and to see what it can do. It becomes an exploration of Harold Finch’s character that I think the audience is going to find very fascinating. AVC:Do you think that if we had been watching the team behind Samaritan from the beginning, rather than the team behind The Machine, that we would be pro-Samaritan? JN: I think that’s one of the delicious things about what we’ve been doing with this storyline and where we’ve gone with it in this last season. I’m always most excited about and drawn to villains who have a point of view and have a plan. One of the most exciting things about The Joker in The Dark Knight is, he may be a villain in your eyes, but he’s the only person who hasn’t broken his own rules. Everyone else has, everyone else has corrupted themselves, but he’s in many ways one of the most ethical people in the film in terms of their own ideas. He had an idea, and it drives the story forward. We applied a similar approach here, but even more rationally. A lot of things that Samaritan espouses are believed by the people who work for Samaritan, the same way that I’m sure people who work for Facebook don’t believe that they’re working for the company that will destroy the world. But, you know, they are. And everyone gets through the day rationalizing their own existence. GP: It’s sort of fascinating right now what’s happening in Russia with Putin’s control of the media and the way the everyday Russian views the West now or the United States. It just depends on who’s telling the story. There was a moment where Root met Greer and he sort of said these things to her: “You and I are not all that unalike.” CBS has not decided yet about renewing Supergirl, with cost being an issue. Ideas being considered include moving the show to Vancouver and airing fewer episodes. It might also move to CW with the other Berlantiverse shows. (If necessary to make room for all the superhero shows, I’d suggest cancelling Legends of Tomorrow and airing Supergirl instead). At ABC, it has not been decided whether to return Agent Carter or go ahead with Marvel’s Most Wanted. If they don’t air the second, I wonder if they would write Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood back into Agents of SHIELD. With the way they were written out, it wouldn’t be hard for Coulson to decide he doesn’t care what the Russians think and bring them back–especially as they are operating secretly. We should have news on May 17 from ABC. Needless to say, there has been a lot out in the past week on the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the release of Captain America: Civil War. To avoid spoilers I will postpone discussing this until a later date. Here is one link of interest–the backstory from the comics of the history of fights between Captain American and Iron-Man. CBS All Access remains on track to begin the new Star Trek series in January, 2017. They will be releasing one episode per week. Hulu will be showing a ten-episode miniseries based upon Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale in 2017. It will star Elizabeth Moss (Mad Men) had will be written by Bruce Miller of The 100. Miller will c0-executive produce the series along with Daniel Wilson (who worked on the movie version of the book), Fran Sears (The Sophisticated Gents) and Warren Littlefield (Fargo). I suspect they will also be releasing an episode a week as they did with the adaptation of 11.22.63. Speaking of Mad Men, here’s a chance to explore Don Draper’s apartment in 3-D. It would be even more fun to have an apartment like this to spend some time at in Manhattan. Posted in Science Fiction, Television. Tags: 11/22/63, Adrianne Palicki, Agent Carter, Agents of SHIELD, Captain America, Elizabeth Moss, Facebook, Fargo, Game of Thrones, Iron Man, Jonathan Nolan, Legends of Tomorrow, Mad Men, Margaret Atwood, Marvel's Most Wanted, Orphan Black, Person of Interest, San Diego Comic Con, Science Fiction, Star Trek, Supergirl, Tatiana Maslany, The 100, The Handmaid's Tale. No Comments » SciFi Weekend: Mr. Robot; Hannibal; The Flash; Sense8 Mr. Robot began with a flashback showing how Elliot first met the character who was killed last week, but overall the episode concentrated more on the other characters. (The initial scene did have me puzzled for a moment until I realized it was a flashback.) Angela is proceeding with her plan, but now must face the fact that it will put her friends out of work. Tyrell is increasingly looking like he is a far more warped character than Elliot, as one more character, although a minor one who was only introduced recently, has been violently removed from the cast. Earlier in the season there was a fan theory, suggested in the pilot, that Mr. Robot is an imaginary character, present only in Elliot’s head. Some have suggested that nobody was interacting with him other than Elliot, but more recent scenes have cast doubt on that theory. Another theory is that he is “real” but another manifestation of Elliot. For example, Alan Sepenwall noted: Both of Mr. Robot’s scenes take place independently of Elliot, which can be read as a clear sign that he’s meant to be an independent character, or just more examples where we’re seeing Mr. Robot as an Elliot stand-in. And when Darlene and Trenton discuss what motivates the other members of the group, they don’t mention either Elliot or Mr. Robot, which makes more sense if they’re meant to be the same person — and the group’s leader — than if Elliot is just another guy recruited to fulfill Mr. Robot’s anarchic vision. Hannibal continues the Red Dragon storyline, and returned Bedelia (Gillian Anderson) to the mix. During …And the Woman Clothed in the Sun, Will met with both her and Hannibal, and even had a chance encounter with Dolarhyde. While the Tooth Fairy doesn’t eat people as Hannibal does, he did show a strange appetite of his own. Hannibal is still locked up, but this is not enough to keep him with interacting with the outside world. Bedalia also was shown with a former patient of Dr. Lecter, played by Zachary Quinto, showing us the true story of the patient who died under her care. Plus there was a tiger–and we saw inside its mouth. The Flash‘s new costume was displayed at Comic Com, and there is further news about the second season. Both Wally West and Jay Garrick have been cast, with Jay Garrick’s Flash foreshadowed in the first season finale. Entertainment Weekly also reports that we will not only see the Earth 2 Flash, but also see glimpses of the alternate Earth: Well, it sounds like that singularity leads to a pretty familiar place. In speaking about the great care they took with making their version of time travel both easy to digest and complex enough to be exciting for the diehard fans in season 1, executive producer Andrew Kreisberg says, “We’re trying to do the same thing this year with Earth 2 and the concept of the multiverse and the concept of dopplegangers. We’ve been having a lot of fun with that and getting glimpses of Earth 2 probably sooner than people would’ve thought.” Netflix finally announced that they are renewing Sense8 for a second season last week, which provides a good excuse to write a bit about the show. I’ll try to avoid significant spoilers, but those who want to go into the show without knowing anything about it might look away. The story does develop slowly, with the first few episodes primarily being devoted to introducing the characters and setting matters up. The story centers around eight people from different part of the world: Nomi (Jamie Clayton) a transgender character played by the transgender actress, Will, a Chicago cop (Brian J. Smith), Lito, a telenovela star who is secretly gay (Miguel Ángel Silvestre), Icelandic DJ Riley, who started out the series living in London (Tuppence Middleton), Korean business executive Sun (Bae Doona), Indian pharmacist Kala (Tina Desai) who is engaged to her boss, German safecracker Wolfgang (Max Riemelt), and Nairobi bus driver Capheus (Aml Ameen). What is remarkable about the series is that each character has a life of their own, with supporting cast, and their scenes are actually filmed where they are said to occur. This includes former Doctor Who companion Freema Agyeman in rather explicit lesbian love scenes with Jamie Clayton, and a rather fun threesome in Mexico City. Plus there is ultimately an orgy involving most of the cast. Did I forget to mention that this is an R-rated series? The combination of all these characters gets even more complicated as the characters find they are tied to each other and can interact with other Sensates in other parts of the world. A character involved in a fight might be helped out by another who is a better fighter, along with taking advantage of other skills processed by others. After watching the final episode it is worth watching the show on Netflix as to how the series was filmed. (I watched this immediately after watching the final episode as I was not ready to leave this world or these characters.) Rather than filming the show chronologically, the entire cast traveled together around the world.When a scene involved a connection between characters in two (or more ) parts of the world, the scene was filmed at separate times in each location and later put together as viewed. The plotline might be simplified to a group of people with a special power who wind up being chased by an evil group. While this has done many times before, it has never been done like this. The show goes far beyond this concept in the development of each character and location. Instead of superpowers, the characters have normal abilities, other than their ability to connect with other Sensates. While sometimes slow, I found this to be definitely worth watching. If anyone is tempted to give up midway through because of some episodes which deal more with explanation than action, the action does pick up tremendously in the last few episodes. Just prior to the renewal news, J. Michael Straczynski was interviewed about plans for the second season, and working with the Wachowski brothers: On whether the characters will take on each other’s abilities… J. Michael Straczynski: Yeah, we’re looking at expanding that as far as logic goes. What’s kind of fun about the characters is that what they’re sharing are not necessarily superpowers. They have ordinary abilities, and we’re trying to say that there is value and merit and power whether you’re an actor or you are a martial arts person or a bus driver. You have something to contribute. Some of the hardest parts of making that process work visually was in choreographing this entire thing. So, for instance, in the scenes with Sun, we had to stage her fights both in Korea and in Nairobi twice. She would literally start a punch in Korea and then finish that punch in Nairobi. That process of really making that work visually was very involved, very detailed, but sells the illusion of it… On whether, if they are renewed for another season, there is a five-year plan for the show… JMS: The way that the Wachowskis and I tend to work, as we created the show together, wrote it together, we are long-game kind of people. We look down the road to say, “Okay. We’re setting this up now. Where is this going to go?” That doesn’t guarantee we’re going to go five seasons, but for ourselves, for the writing process, we need to, kind of, know where we’re going, where this all pays off, what this means. So season 1 is like the origin story. Season 2 has its own particular arc. And we’ve figured it out from there. But to spoil that here would not be in the best interest of the surprises we have in mind. On collaborating with the Wachowskis… JMS: If they have their strengths, first it’s action and character, then plot and structure. I think they would agree that’s kind of their dynamic. I’m a structure demon, so I’m really focused on keeping the story going from here to here to here so it all makes sense in the end. Light on action, decent on plot. So the good thing is that you lay our two skills over one another, and it’s a perfect fit. So the collaboration process was a great deal of fun for all of us. We learned from each other’s strengths and compensated for each other’s weaknesses. The full post includes also questions for some of the cast members. Posted in Science Fiction, Television. Tags: Andrew Kreisberg, Gillian Anderson, Hannibal, J Michael Straczynski, Mr Robot, San Diego Comic Con, Sense8, The Flash, Zachary Quinto. No Comments » SciFi Weekend: Hannibal; San Diego Comic Con Highlights Including Doctor Who, Arrow, The Flash, SHIELD, Muppets, Star Wars, Orphan Black, Heroes Reborn, Superman v Batman, & More July 19, 2015 — Ron Chusid This week’s episode of Hannibal, Digestivo, involved a lesbian relationship between Margot and Alana, a pig-baby, and an escape from Muskrat Farms. We learned that Mason’s plan was to cut Will’s face off, place it onto his face, which had been destroyed, and then eat Hannibal piece by piece with Will’s face. His butcher/surgeon, Cordero, is at least as sadistic as Mason, and planned to both cut off Will’s face without anesthetic (but paralyzed) and keep Hannibal alive while he is eaten piece by piece. Mason’s best line of the episode, discussing another cannibalistic murder was, “you go to all that trouble to eat a friend, and you overcook his penis.” In telling this story, Mason did promise not to overcook Hannibal’s penis. Alana and Margot, who became lovers, had major roles in this episode. Alana knew that Mason’s sadism would work to her advantage: “He’ll torture them and take the time to enjoy it: That gives us time.” Alana even warned Mason as to how this would all turn out: “Play with your food, Mason, and you give it the opportunity to bite back.”Alana and Margot set Hannibal free, while Chiyoh was nearby to shoot anyone pursuing them. Finally Chiyoh’s presence in the earlier episodes this season had a reason. Instead of getting Will’s face, Mason saw himself with Codero’s face lying on his own before he was killed in his eel tank. Hannibal gave up on his earlier desire to eat Will, possibly because of how intrigued he was when Will took a bite out of Cordero’s face. Regardless of motivation, Hannibal kept a to promise he made to Alana to take Will to safety, but was shocked when Will realized he was all through with Hannibal–so shocked that Hannibal surrendered. Now there is going to be a three-year time jump, and on to the events of Red Dragon. Caroline Dhavernas and Katharine Isabelle discussed their characters’ romance in the episode post-mortem video above. Bryan Fuller discussed the episode with TV Guide, answering the big question I had as to why Hannibal surrendered, and discussed future plans: This episode felt like a finale, and particularly brought back many of the emotions I had watching the Season 2 finale. Bryan Fuller: This was the breakup that we had been driving toward. One of the benefits of having two distinct chapters in the season is you get two distinct climaxes. This one had to serve as a stopping place for the story before it can be launched again next week three years later. So, this is the breakup, and when we pick up in the second half of the season, it’s that awkward moment when you have to see your ex again. Will’s motivation has always been hard to read. Should we believe him when he says he wants Hannibal out of his life? Fuller: We come back to that moment in the final episode of the season and break it down between those two characters, and they address it themselves. Will is telling Hannibal, “I don’t need you anymore, I don’t want you anymore, I release you.” And Hannibal is saying, “No you don’t. You’re telling yourself that. You don’t want to know or think about where I am? I am going to give you the knowledge of exactly where I am and let that eat away at you for as long as it takes you to come back into my orbit, and I am patient enough to wait.” Does Hannibal surrender to Jack out of spite towards Will or is he once again heartbroken? Does he no longer feel like playing this game without Will as a willing participant? Fuller: Will realizes that he can’t win and Hannibal can’t win. So, the only option for him at that moment is to stop playing. That, for Hannibal, is a huge rejection. It’s an even stranger rejection than the betrayal of Season 2 because Will has gone into Hannibal’s past and understands him better than ever. Will has realized that this is not an evil man, this is just a monster doing what he has always been designed to do essentially. So, he can’t give him any more energy. For Will, a magic door presented itself that he could step through and leave Hannibal and all of this behind him. But what Hannibal knows is going to come around again on the cannibal carousel is that that Will can’t live without him… As Will predicted/suggested, Alana played an active role in Mason’s demise. What kind of impact will that have on her moving forward? Fuller: Once Alana made the devil’s bargain with Mason, it felt fated that she would play a role in bringing Mason down. In her mind, she always knew that she was going to stab him in the back one way or another. She put up with his ugliness inside and out for the purposes of capturing Hannibal, but she always intended to bring in the cavalry at the last moment. … We continue Alana’s shift into a less naïve, more hardened spirit in the Red Dragon arc. We see who she’s become three years later as a result of this pact and her relationship with Margot and this cabal against Mason. There’s a lot of bargains that were struck between various characters that, even though we’re picking up three years later, we still feel them resonating in the next arc of episodes. And, of course, Hannibal reminded Alana that he always keeps his promises…. Fuller: Yes, and that’s something we carry through into the Red Dragon arc. Alana is fully aware that if Hannibal gets away in any way, shape or form, he is absolutely intending to kill her. Is this the last we’ll see of Chiyoh this season? Fuller: Yes. She told Hannibal that she was going to be his keeper. She was always going to be that angel in the bushes with the rifle making sure that no one further was killed by him. That’s the penance she’s willing to pay for 20 years of keeping a prisoner out of the interest of not taking a life. In essence, she’s saying to Hannibal, “I’m not going to cage you, but I’m going to serve as your jailer.” But as she’s watching the takedown of Hannibal, she realizes her job is done and she’s free, for the first time in her life, to go off and pursue her own life. You mentioned that the next episode jumps ahead in time three years. How big of a reset should we expect? Fuller: It feels huge. We’ve leapt forward in all these people’s lives. Everyone is stained in their own way from the experiences of the first two and a half seasons, and yet everyone has a sobriety and they go into this new chapter with eyes open. But even so, they’re in for some horrible, horrible surprises. Will it feel different tonally than the first half of the season? Fuller: It’s a slightly more grounded narrative than what we experienced in the first part of the season. So much of the first arc was all about the grieving process and also the trauma of what these people had experienced. I didn’t want to skip over what these characters were feeling, and that’s why so much of the first part of the season was contemplative and brooding and surreal. Everyone was in shock. Red Dragonhas already been adapted into two different movies. How do you think your version will be different? Fuller: The version of Red Dragon that we are telling is very faithful to the literature with the exception of the relationship we’ve been building over the last two and a half seasons. Will and Hannibal’s relationship in the previous adaptations was nowhere near as wet and dark and sticky as what we’ve come to learn of the dynamic between the men in this version of the telling. So, to have Will and Hannibal truly possess a history together that informs their approach to the Red Dragon didn’t necessarily feel like an opportunity to change the story, but to provide many more layers of the tiramisu for the audience to enjoy. Posted in Humor and Satire, Science Fiction, Television. Tags: 12 Monkeys, Agent Carter, Agents of SHIELD, Alison Brie, Arrow, Batman, Batman v Superman, Bill Prady, Bryan Fuller, Community, Conan O'Brien, Dan Harmon, Daredevil, Doctor Who, Emily Bett Richards, Extant, Fantastic Four, Gotham, Hannibal, Heroes, Heroes Reborn, iZombie, Legends of Tomorrow, Man In The High Castle, Muppet Show, Olivia Munn, Orphan Black, Outlander, San Diego Comic Con, Science Fiction, Star Wars, Stephen Amell, Suicide Squad, Superman, The Big Bang Theory, The Flash, The Last Man On Earth, Wonder Woman, X-Men. No Comments » SciFi Weekend: Daredevil; Hannibal; X-Files; Twin Peaks; Mr. Robot; Doctor Who Season two of Daredevil has started filming and will be available in April, 2016. Elodie Yung, who preciously appeared in GI Joe: Retaliation and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, has been cast to play Elektra (played by Jennifer Garner in the movies). Her appearance was foreshadowed by Foggy during the first season with a reference to a “smokin” Greek girl from Matt’s past. Marvel’s description of the character; Yung will play Elektra, a mysterious woman from Matt Murdock’s past whose dangerous and exotic ways may be more than he can handle. Jeph Loeb, Executive Producer and Head of Marvel Television, said: “After a worldwide search, we found in Elodie the perfect actress to embody both Elektra’s impressive and deadly physicality, as well as her psychological complexity. Paired with Charlie as Matt Murdock, the two will bring one of the most beloved and tumultuous comic book relationships to life with all the accompanying sparks and spectacular action sequences the show is known for.” Being released on Netflix makes it much harder to cover shows such as Daredevil in blog posts such as this, with everyone watching at different times, but the first season is highly recommended. While technically taking place in the Marvel cinematic universe, it is a much darker and grittier show, providing more variety in superhero styles. This week’s episode of Hannibal, Dolce, got into Will’s head and ended Hannibal’s stay in Florence. Bedelia told Hannibal, “I knew that you intended to eat me. And I knew that you had no intention of eating me hastily.” She added, “I have not marinated long enough for your tastes,”but also acknowledged, “You may make a meal of me yet.” But the episode ended with both Hannibal and Will slowly being turned into a series of meals for Mason Verger. Both Amazon and Netflix have passed on picking up a fourth season of Hannibal. Amazon was considered the best hope as they have rights to the previous seasons ,which also decreased the likelihood that Netflix would be interested. Besides the relatively low ratings, selling the show elsewhere is now complicated by the cast being released from their contracts and Bryan Fuller being committed to work on American Gods. Perhaps they could do periodic episodes when Fuller and key cast members are available similar to what is being done with Sherlock. There is also speculation that Hulu, Yahoo, or a cable network might consider the show. I still think the show belongs on The Food Network. Trailer for the return of The X-Files in January, 2016. The reboot of Twin Peaks is now being delayed until 2017. Entertainment Weekly has teaser promos for season two of Fargo. The third episode of Mr. Robot helped alleviate any fears I had that they might not be able to sustain the quality of the pilot. The episode helped to make some of the characters more rounded characters. Elliot, briefly thinking he was free of FSociety, tried to act more normal. Gideon summed it up with the puzzled question, “Was he drinking Starbucks?” Angela, who previously was “too good for this world” was ready to infect her company’s computers with a virus when threatened by hackers. Shayla moved from drug dealer to girl friend. Tyrell Wellick and his wife are a very bizarre couple. The BBC has summarized what is known about next season’s episodes of Doctor Who. Guest stars include Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark on Game of Thrones. She will appear in Episode 5, entitled The Girl Who Died. The trailer for the season was released at Comic Con and it was announced that the season will begin September 19. More news from Comic Con to follow in another post. Posted in Science Fiction, Television. Tags: American Gods, Bryan Fuller, Daredevil, Doctor Who, Fargo, Game of Thrones, Harnnibal, San Diego Comic Con, Science Fiction, Sherlock, The X-Files, Twin Peaks. No Comments » SciFi Weekend: Tuesday Shows Go Dark (SHIELD and Person of Interest); Sleepy Hollow; Under The Dome (“Nothing But A Giant Suck Hole”); Doctor Who; Outlander; Arrow; Gotham; Shatner Star Trek Rumors; If Ayn Rand Wrote Buffy Tuesday night featured the return of two television shows which have both changed for the post-Snowden era, Agents of SHIELD and Person of Interest. On each show the heroes are now working in secret, or even greater secrecy than they had operated in the past. The premiere of Agents of SHIELD was not as good as the final episodes of the first season following Captain America: The Winter Soldier but did show promise of setting up a far better second season than the first was. A couple problems from the first season are now solved. No longer can the team theoretically call upon the vast resources of SHIELD. This group is also easier to root for in the post-Snowden era. There is no doubt that the old SHIELD would have been listening in on our phone calls, reading our email, and have no problem with extraordinary rendition or even torture. That SHIELD no longer exists. We can dislike General Talbot as the nominally good protagonist (wondering if Bruce Banner is also in the neighborhood) and root for SHIELD in opposing him. The episode started with a flashback of Agent Carter, including a glimpse of a green being in a box, suggesting the alien which was used to save Coulson, and later Skye (who works far better as an agent rather than the outsider) along with connecting to Guardians of the Galaxy.The show now makes mention of multiple Marvel characters, and included a super-villain, which gives the show much more the feel of being in the Marvel universe than seen in the first season. Lucy Lawless made her appearance as Isabelle Hartley and lost her arm if not her life. There is certainly the possibility of her return on a show where two characters have returned from death or near-death, and now we have Dr. Whitehall, who hasn’t aged since seen in 1945. While we don’t know whether Lucy Lawless will return, there is news that Adrianne Palecki of Friday Night Lights (and who almost became Wonder Woman) will be guest starring as Mockingbird later this season. There were additional consequences to the events of last season beyond the breakup of SHIELD. Fitz is more interesting than last season now that we found that he did not recover from the lack of oxygen to his brain, and is imagining that Simmons is with him after she left. I would anticipate some recovery on his part and probably a Fitzsimmons reunion down the road. Agent Ward is also a bit nuts compared to last season, and may or may not really know anything about Skye’s father. I suspect he really does, and we might be in store for some Hannibal/Clarice type scenes between Ward and Skye this season. Go Dark was the strategic order from Director Coulson on Agents of SHIELD, and also describes the strategy Root devised with the Machine to keep everyone alive and hidden from Samaritan on Person of Interest. The increased concern over the dangers of the surveillance state has been fortuitous for the show. Initially the Machine’s surveillance was primarily a gimmick to get the heroes into the story of the week, but last season the show transitioned far more into a series about the dangers of government surveillance and artificial intelligence in the wrong hands. The show has largely been rebooted this season, and shows promise of being even better than previous seasons. Series co-creator Greg Plageman compared artificial intelligence to the creation of the atomic bomb at San Diego Comic-Con: I think when we started out this show we were answering a lot of questions about the Orwellian surveillance state and people asking us if that was science fiction and now, in a post-Snowden era, no one’s asking those questions anymore. So what does the show become now? I think the most interesting question in terms of our show and technology that is emerging is artificial intelligence. We’re living in a world now where not just nation states—Israel, United States, the Russians, whoever—are trying to build an artificial intelligent. The thing closest to this was the Manhattan Project, the greatest existential risk the world has ever faced: the development of the atomic bomb, and the race to get it, and who was going to get it first and what that meant in terms of ending World War II. We are now at a similar crossroads with artificial intelligence. The only difference is it’s not just DARPA. It’s not just nation states. It’s a bunch of billionaires in their 30s up in Silicon Valley who are buying up all the artificial intelligence companies. It’s fascinating. Look up ‘Deep Mind,’ see what’s going on. No one really knows. Harold Finch built a machine, an artificial intelligence, that he supposed was sympathetic to humankind. But what if someone built one that didn’t take that into consideration at all? And I think we’re dealing with the next great existential risk to the world and I think that’s something our show can deal with in a really cool way. The Blacklist was among other shows which returned, once again turning what would otherwise be a mediocre show into a hit due to the presence of James Spader. Mary Louise Parker makes an excellent addition as his ex-wife. Sleepy Hollow also returned with a strong season premiere. This is a series which I am reluctant to write much about as any description of the show sounds absurd. They manage to pull off its absurdities very well (far better than Under the Dome does). It is always fun to see what they come up with to tie early American history into their mythology, such as revealing that they key used on Benjamin Franklin’s kite is used to unlock Purgatory. As I said, it sounds like it makes no sense, but the show is so much fun. Under the Dome ended and the series could be summed up by what Noreen said: “It’s nothing but a giant killer suck hole!” The giant suck hole appeared the previous week after Melanie, a character who came back from the dead, was apparently killed a second time. In other recent episodes there was a tunnel under the school in which people could jump off a cliff and appear in another city, until Big Jim messed that up. Recently it became cold and nobody in town had any warm clothes to put on. The Dome started contracting, and when they began to time the contractions I wondered if next they were going to say the Dome was pregnant. In the second season, and hopefully series, finale, everyone in town who could make it went through a tunnel where the giant suck hole had appeared. The final moment showed Melanie once again back from the dead, saying “Follow me, we’re going home.”But isn’t Chester’s Mill their home? If the show returns next summer, we will presumably see where Melanie leads them. I wouldn’t be surprised if they follow her, perhaps to an intermediate destination, and they ultimately wind up back in Chester’s Mill, like Patrick McGoohan trying to leave The Village. I imagine that if it doesn’t return, we can just assume that they escape, possibly coming back to rescue those who didn’t make it. On Doctor Who, The Caretaker returned to its 1963 roots at Coal Hill School, and Gareth Roberts, writer of episodes such as The Lodger, once again showed the Doctor attempting to blend in with humans. The killer alien story was weak, and primarily existed as a vehicle to have the Doctor finally meet Danny Pink. Along the way the Doctor got mislead when seeing Clara speaking with a fellow school teacher wearing a bow tie, thinking that she had fallen for someone who looks like his previous regeneration. While we had long been led to believe we will have another couple in the TARDIS, with Clara and Danny replacing Amy and Rory, it now looks like there once again might be two schoolteachers and a student, with Courtney joining along, at least temporarily, despite being a disturbance: Clara: “I would say, yes, I’m afraid Courtney is a disruptive influence.” Response: “Yeah, but last year you said she was a very disruptive influence. So I suppose that counts as an improvement.” Courtney discovered the TARDIS after ignoring the Doctor’s sign to keep out, or more precisely, “Go Away Humans.” The meeting between the Doctor and Danny Pink didn’t go very well. The Doctor continues to object to soldiers, apparently forgetting all the time he spent with UNIT, along with many other individual soldiers over the centuries. Danny sees the Doctor as an arrogant aristocrat, concentrating on the Lord part of Time Lord. He also wondered about about Clara (“Are you a space woman?”). The episode also introduced another gadget for the Doctor, an invisibility watch. This raises the question of why this was never used on many occasions when it could have come in handy in the past, and whether it will be used again. Another plot hole which we will just have to ignore. Among other top lines of the episode: “You’re running out of time.” “For what?” “Everything! Human beings have incredibly short lifespans. Frankly, you should all be in a constant state of panic. Tick tock, tick tock.” After not seeing this in recent episodes, The Caretaker also showed a character who died in the episode wind up in the Nethersphere, or perhaps Heaven. Saturday night’s other time travel series, Outlander, got deeper into time travel in the mid-season finale. Frank heard of the possibility of time travel at Craig na Dun, and by the end of the episode was willing to accept it as a possibility. In addition to seeing a poster with a reward for information related to Claire, there was another poster in Frank’s era seeking information about someone who sure looks like Jaime, suggesting that he might also wind up traveling in time. It was surprising that a spy like Frank would fall into such an obvious trap when seeking information about Claire, but he was quite well prepared to take care of himself. He seemed to enjoy beating up his attackers too much, perhaps intending to show a comparison between the violence of his evil ancestor and Frank. Are we to question which husband Claire is really best off with? The episode had a tease that Claire might return home. At very least she did hear Frank calling out to her through time, but it was intentionally left ambiguous as to whether Frank could hear Claire calling back. Just before getting a chance to return, she fell into the hands of Black Jack once again, with her attempts to deceive him failing. We don’t know how Jaime managed to get into his window, but he came to attempt to save Claire just before she might have received an involuntary mastectomy. We will see what happens next when Outlander returns in April. Arrow returns October 8 and Marc Guggenheim has discussed the upcoming season: “He is going to get some new toys to play with,” Guggenheim said. “One of them is a new bow that looks identical to the old bow, but it does something that you’ve never seen before.” Guggenheim disclosed that the explanation behind Oliver’s new equipment will be detailed in DC Comics‘ currently unfolding digital-first series “Arrow: Season 2.5,” taking place between the second and third seasons. While “Arrow” has traditionally been more grounded, the show’s second season embraced superpowers a bit more, both in laying the groundwork for spinoff “The Flash” and in Slade Wilson and his Mirakuru-fueld army that served as primary antagonists. With “The Flash” now its own series on The CW, Guggenheim stated that “Arrow” will return to a more realistic direction. “We’re not really planning on revisiting superpowers or enhanced abilities during season three,” Guggenheim told Weiland. “We are really returning to the show’s roots of a very grounded world where it’s very realistic. We may take occasional artistic license with things, but for the most part, everything is pretty well and truly grounded in real-life things and real-life science.” Another DC comic-based series began with the premiere of Gotham. I think we will need to see more to determine if is worth watching a show with Bruce Wayne before he became Batman. While it includes the origins of several villains, I think we will have to view this as another version of the legend, not connected chronologically with other Batman stories. While we think of the murder of Bruce’s parents as occurring years ago, Gotham appears to take place in the present (or a parallel universe were cell phones have been around a lot longer). Syfy has renewed both Defiance and Dominion. There have been a number of rumors, denials, and perhaps an admission that J.J. Abrams has spoken to William Shatner about doing a cameo for his third Star Trek movie. I have my doubts as to whether it is a good idea, but it is more plausible now than in the first Abrams movie in which Spock from the original time line went back in time. Kirk could not do that because in that time line he was dead. However this doesn’t prevent a future Kirk from being seen from the Abrams time line. There is yet another rumor that the next Avengers movie will be split into two parts. If Ayn Rand wrote Buffy The Vampire Slayer Posted in Civil Liberties, Science Fiction, Television. Tags: Adrianne Palicki, Agent Carter, Agents of SHIELD, Amy Pond, Arrow, Ayn Rand, Batman, Captain America, Clara Oswald, Danny Pink, Defiance, Edward Snowden, Friday Night Lights, Gotham, Guardians of the Galaxy, JJ Abrams, Lucy Lawless, Marc Guggenheim, NSA, Outlander, Person of Interest, San Diego Comic Con, Science Fiction, Sleepy Hollow, Star Trek, The Avengers, The Caretaker, The Lodger, The Prisoner, Under The Dome, William Shatner, Wonder Woman. No Comments » SciFi Weekend: Babylon 5 and Blake’s 7 Reboots; Doctor Who; Captain America; Agent Carter; Agents of SHIELD; Defiance; Big Bang Theory; Google Maps Adds The Moon and Mars August 10, 2014 — Ron Chusid J. Michael Straczynski has announced plans to reboot Babylon 5 as a movie. One reason for doing it his way is that Warner owns the television rights but Straczsynki retained the feature film rights: Speaking at San Diego Comic Con last week, Straczsynki announced that he would soon be sitting down to write a Babylon 5 feature film, which is envisioned as a reboot of the iconic sci-fi series. JMS said that he plans to get the script locked down by the end of 2015 and the film would then enter production the following year in 2016. Next to nothing is known about the plot for this Babylon 5 feature film, beyond the fact that it is a reboot of the concept seen in the series. That said, J. Michael Straczynski has stated that he would like to use cast members from the series, such as Bruce Boxleitner and Mira Furlan, in new roles in the feature film. “I’d love to see Bruce as the President of the Earth Alliance”, he said. The hope is that Warner Bros, who produced the Babylon 5 television series, would step up and green-light a “big budget” feature film once the script has been completed. But owing to the nature of the deal that Straczysnki inked with the studio to produce Babylon 5 in the early 1990s, he, rather than Warner Bros, owns the feature film rights to the show. Should Warner Bros. choose not to greenlight a B5 movie, Straczynski would still proceed with the feature, which would then be funded and produced through his Studio JMS banner on a budget of $80 – $100 million. Although Syfy passed on the show, there is still some hope for a remake of Blake’s 7. The BBC has renewed Doctor Who for an eighth season since the show returned, again staring Peter Capaldi, with the shows to be presented in a continuous run. Steven Moffat said recently that there are no plans for either the return of the Master or for a tenth anniversary show (which would seem strange after doing a 50th). Moffat has also expressed a willingness to do a Doctor Who/Sherlock cross over, but others involved are not interested. Would it look something like the video above, except with Peter Capaldi instead of Matt Smith? Above is, perhaps, how Captain America: The Winter Soldier should have ended. Directors Joe and Anthony Russo discussed their upcoming projects, Agent Carter and the third Captain America movie: Before turning their attention to the next feature, the Russos are directing several episodes of the spin-off TV series Agent Carter, debuting on ABC in January 2015. The miniseries follows the solo adventures of Peggy Carter, the love of Captain America’s life and founder of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the 1940s. From there, the brothers will tackle the third film, which picks up “a couple years” after Winter Soldier left off. Although the heart of the movie will be Steve Rogers’ complicated relationship with his childhood friend Bucky Barnes, the themes of politics and power will still be in play. “The character was invented for an explicitly political purpose. So it’s hard to get away from that nature,” Anthony tells Yahoo. It’s also important to the directors that Captain America doesn’t become another disillusioned antihero. As Joe sees it, “his morality is part of his superpower.” While they’re not leaking any major details from the 2016 film, the Russo brothers promise that they’re “bringing some new elements to the table that will give us a twist on Winter Soldier.” Does this mean that Steve Rogers will pass the Captain America shield to Bucky Barnes (aka the Winter Soldier) or Sam Wilson (aka the Falcon), both of whom have donned the stars-and-stripes in the comics? With actor Chris Evans shifting his focus to directing, and Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie already in place as the Winter Soldier and the Falcon respectively, the next film could allow a new hero to step in. Elsewhere in the Marvel universe, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks) will be meeting SHIELD. Kyle MacLachlan has been cast to play Skye’s father on Agents of SHIELD. Chloe Bennet said at Comic-Con that next season will also involve more hair. Skye will have bangs and Brett Dalton will do the evil-Spock thing of the mirror universe and have a beard as the evil Grant Ward. Defiance has done a good job of creating a world with numerous well-developed characters and alien races, but often while watching I wonder if there is any point to it all. It lacks the big story ideas of a Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galactica. The showrunner, Kevin Murphy, did work on BSG and I am glad that he got away from the idea of doing the show as a “science-fiction crime of the week.” AX: How did DEFIANCE started and how did it change when you came onto the project during its development? KEVIN MURPHY: The original version was a little more of a closed-ended procedural, it was kind of more of a science-fiction crime of the week, and we were in the process of changing that when CULT got picked up and [original DEFIANCE co-creator/show runner] Rockne O’Bannon left. I then had a choice that I wasn’t sure that the show was going to work in the incarnation that it currently was in, and I didn’t want to have responsibility for something that didn’t work. So I gave Syfy a choice. I said, “I’ll transition you into your next show runner, and I’ll make sure that casting continues and produce the pilot, but I’m not going to stay on for the series unless I believe in the show.” And they were like, “Well, what would you want to do to it?” And it was basically, “Well, it involves getting rid of pretty much all the scripts, and let me give you my pitch.” So I did the pitch, worked it out with the writing staff, and at this point, it was Rockne’s last day, and he was helping us to kind of reconceive it, and Scott Stewart, the director, was very involved in the process, and so was Michael Taylor, who had worked on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and was a member of staff under me. And we pitched the whole thing to [then-Syfy Channel president] Mark Stern while he was driving in his car on vacation with his family in Palm Springs. And he had his wife and kid in the vehicle with him, and the pitch lasted about ninety minutes, because we pitched the entire story from beginning to end, every single beat, and by the time he pulled into the hotel in Palm Springs, we had finished our pitch and he was like, “Okay, I love it. Go write it.” AX: Did you make major changes to the characters? MURPHY: The PAPER MOON thing I added, the idea that Nolan [the town’s new law officer, played by Grant Bowler] came in from the outside and that he was a con man and a drifter and a huckster and a criminal. That was all stuff that I added. The idea that Amanda has only been mayor for six weeks and she’s the former mayor’s assistant and no one takes her seriously, that was an addition; the idea that Irisa [Nolan’s adopted Irathient daughter, played by Stephanie Leonidas] uses knives and Irisa being sort of the feral badass was an invention of mine. And Michael. When I say “me,” I’m including Michael Taylor, who was definitely my partner in crime. We would not have gotten that script in the shape it needed to be in without Michael at my side. In follow-up of an item from last week, the cast of The Big Bang Theory did settle on a new contract. The top three stars, Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco, will each earn $1 million per episode for the planned upcoming three seasons, and there is talk of potentially adding an eleventh season. Google Maps has added maps of the moon and Mars. I imagine that going off the earth was inevitable once they added the TARDIS to their maps. Posted in Humor and Satire, Science Fiction, Television. Tags: Agent Carter, Agents of SHIELD, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Blake's 7, Captain America, Chloe Bennet, Defiance, Doctor Who, J Michael Straczynski, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Kyle MacLachlan, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, San Diego Comic Con, Science Fiction, Sherlock, Steven Moffat, The Big Bang Theory, Twin Peaks. No Comments » SciFi Weekend: Arrow; Agent Carter; Under The Dome; True Blood (vs. Sarah Palin); Utopia; Sleepy Hollow; Doctor Who (and flirting); Big Bang Theory;Allison Williams as Peter Pan This picture of the cast of Arrow might very well be the best selfie to come out of Comic-Con last weekend. The latest news on Arrow is that Charlotte Ross has been cast as Felicity’s mother. Last week Collider asked Stephen Amel about topics including the Justice League and Oliver’s true love at Comic-Con: Are you happy you don’t have to answer any more Justice League questions? Stephen Amell: Yes — and by the way, there’s a The Flash show, we have Firestorm, we have Canary, we have The Atom… The actual Justice League film — I don’t know when that’s coming out. You can watch The Justice League on television now. But the reason I’m happy to not have to answer the question anymore is because I think it undersold what we did on TV. I would put our degree of difficulty – having to produce twenty-two episodes of television every year, spinning off the show, giving people the confidence to green-light other DC properties — up there with producing a two hundred million dollar film. They’re very different things. I never want to feel as though our existence is only going to be justified by being part of the cinematic universe. That has nothing to do with anything. We are stamping out our own spot. [What is the romantic situation like for Oliver this season?] Stephen Amell: There’s one lady in Oliver’s life. Just one? Stephen Amell: Just one. There’s one woman in Oliver’s life this year. Is that his sister? Stephen Amell: No — it’s Felicity. It just seems he’s got Sarah out there and Laurel… Stephen Amell: The ship has sailed on those romances. I don’t think we’ll ever see Oliver & Sarah or Oliver & Laurel together again. I mean – they’ll be together but just not ‘together-together’. They’ll be teammates. We discover in the premiere the way that Oliver feels about Felicity. Because of that — if we just introduced random love interests, it would undersell what we do in the premiere. How aware are you of the direction of the character throughout this season and for future seasons as well? Stephen Amell: I really do think we are moving to a spot where we will refer to my character as ‘The Green Arrow’. We are moving to a spot where we will continue to embrace the fundamental classic elements of the character. Because we have that license now. We’re 46 episodes in. People like it. They buy into it. But unless this character is evolving — The Hood to Arrow to The Green Arrow — then people are going to lose interest. So I always want there to be a journey for him. And this year’s journey is really interesting. Does that evolution involve the goatee? Stephen Amell: No. There’s more information on Agent Carter in the above interview with Hayley Atwell. The show is being described as being like Fargo or True Detective in being like an eight hour movie, and it sounds like it takes place before the formation of SHIELD. It might also contain one major Marvel villain who is unnamed. Also above is the full Agent Carter panel from Comic-Con. After True Blood, Under the Dome has to be the worst show I watch. Among its many faults, anything can happen with no apparent rules. In one recent episode there was reason to have a character get a message from outside to propel the plot so for an unknown reason email briefly went through, and then stopped again. Last week they checked out the locker at the site of the death of a character and found that there was a tunnel coming out of the locker. Does it go deep enough underground to get under the dome? I’ve also wondered since the start of the show why there is not major activity going on outside the dome to try to both figure out what it is and how to get through it, including an effort to tunnel underneath from outside. Despite all the implausible things which happen, the show somehow remains interesting to watch. On the other hand, I primarily stick with True Blood because I’ve gone on this long and want to see the ending. I had hoped that with this being the final season they would come up with a better storyline to end the series, but so far they have not done this. I can’t even blame Sarah Palin for her snub of the show in response to attacks such as calling her type of people (even if more monstrous than many of the characters on True Blood) Republic*nts. Utopia has been the best summer genre show on, but as it has not aired in the United States I will avoid any spoilers. I was concerned by the end of the first season whether they could keep up the quality of the show once they began to reveal the secrets behind the conspiracy. They are pulling this off well in the second season. The first episode was a flash back which fills in may of the details about the conspiracy and how the major characters are interconnected. From there, instead of being a mystery about what is going on, the series has done an excellent job of moving on with the story now that we understand the full setup. New trailer for season two of Sleepy Hollow above. More videos here. Back in July, 2012 Doctor Who made news by being the first British television show to make the cover of Entertainment Weekly. The show has returned several more times as it has become a bigger hit in the United States, including this week as we head towards the introduction of a new Doctor. On August 23, Peter Capaldi will begin his first season starring in Doctor Who when the long-running British science-fiction show returns to BBC America. But it wasn’t so long ago that the Scottish actor and lifelong Who fan was certain he would never get his hands on the controls of the Time Lord’s TARDIS. “I wouldn’t have thought I would be the guy,” Capaldi says. “I wouldn’t have thought it would be me.” Why not? “Because of my age. I would have thought they were automatically heading younger.” It was a reasonable assumption to make. At 56, Capaldi is roughly the same age as William Hartnell when he originated the role of the two-hearted, monster-battling alien way back in 1963. But since the BBC relaunched Doctor Who in 2005 after a lengthy hiatus, the actors playing the lead role have all been younger than Capaldi—and have gotten younger over time. The first of the new Doctors, Christopher Eccleston, was 41 when he first appeared on the show, while his successor David Tennant was 34. Capaldi’s immediate predecessor Matt Smith was just 26 when he was cast in the role. But what Capaldi saw as a barrier to him playing the Doctor was actually an asset as far as Doctor Who executive producer and head writer Steven Moffat was concerned. “I did say, ‘No, we probably won’t end up with another quirky young man,’” says Moffat. “I didn’t think there was any space around Matt to have another Doctor of that kind, because he sort of sums up what you could do with that. I very very quickly, very quickly just thought about Peter. There is no right age to be the Doctor.” Capaldi agrees. “I’m technically too young for the part,” chuckles the actor. “Because he’s over 2,000 years old.” In contrast to Matt Smith and David Tennant, Peter Capaldi will not be flirting with his companion: Incoming Doctor Who Peter Capaldi has revealed there will be no flirting with co-star Jenna Coleman in the new series. The previous Doctor was engaged in a close relationship with his sidekick Clara that even led to a passionate kiss. But Capaldi, 56, insisted his Time Lord would not be following in Matt Smith’s footsteps by getting intimate with 28-year-old Coleman’s character. “There’ll be no flirting, that’s for sure,” he told the Sunday Times Magazine. “It’s not what this Doctor’s concerned with. It’s quite a fun relationship, but no, I did call and say, ‘I want no Papa-Nicole moments’. I think there was a bit of tension with that at first, but I was absolutely adamant.” The Papa-Nicole comment relates to a series of 1990s Renault Clio car adverts which hinted at a romance between an older man and a younger woman, before they were revealed to be father and daughter. Capaldi also had good news for those Doctor Who purists who believe the show’s storylines have become over the top. “It’s going to be a bit different from what we’ve seen over recent years. A bit more gravity,” he said. “Some situations are more sombre and I think there are more rooted dramatic scenes. Over the past two or three years, which I’ve loved, there has often been a breathless vigour; we still have that attack, but we have another level of drama, another tone. And the scenes are longer.” There’s optimistic news that the contracts will be settled with the cast of The Big Bang Theory. While filming has been postponed due to the lack of a contract, I don’t think anyone doubts that it is has just been a matter of haggling over exact dollar amounts and this will ultimately be settled, whether or not the stars get the full one million dollars per episode they are demanding. Both sides have have good reason to eventually come to an agreement. NBC is following up their live broadcast of The Sound of Music with Peter Pan. Allison Williams of Girls has been cast in the title role. She says she has wanted to play Peter Pan since she was three years old. While she very well might have obtained the role without any help, it might not have hurt to have some major connections with NBC. While excited about the role, Williams wonders, “what could go wrong in a live televised production with simultaneous flying, sword fighting and singing?” Posted in Republicans, Sarah Palin, Science Fiction, Television. Tags: Agent Carter, Allison Williams, Arrow, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Doctor Who, Fargo, Firestorm, Hayley Atwell, Jenna Coleman, Justice League, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, Republicans, San Diego Comic Con, Sarah Palin, Science Fiction, Sleepy Hollow, Stephen Amell, The Big Bang Theory, The Flash, True Blood, True Detective, Under The Dome, Utopia, William Hartnell. 2 Comments » SciFi Weekend: Arrow; Constantine; SHIELD; Hannibal; Big Bang Theory; Community; Orphan Black; True Blood; Fargo; Sleepy Hollow There’s a lot of news coming out of San Diego Comic-Con. The Arrow panel is above, followed by the season three trailer. Ra’s al Ghul will be the main villain next season. Flashbacks next season will include characters who died earlier on the show, and will deal with characters beyond Oliver. Thea will be back (but changed) and there will be a flashback to when she first got into Malcolm’s limo. John Barrowman will be a regular as Malcolm Merlyn. Brandon Routh will join the show as The Atom, and will also be the new head at Queen Consolidated and there will be a triangle between his character, Oliver, and Felicity. There will be cross over episodes with The Flash, with the other CW show being lighter than Arrow. The Constantine preview above was unveiled at Comic-Con. There has also been a lot of talk this week about a change in the female lead. Patton Oswalt discussed Agents of SHIELD as Agent Koenig x2 n the above video. Lucy Lawless will be joining the cast. There will also be a another new character, code name Mockingbird. More at the Marvel panel, video below, which includes Director Coulson: Bryan Fuller reports that the third season of Hannibal will get into the plot of Red Dragon. The first half of the season will primarily deal with Hannibal, with Gillian Anderson also a regular. The second half will deal more with Will. The Hannibal panel is above. Among the things learned about The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon getting on the train doesn’t necessarily mean disaster for Sheldon and Amy. Despite the fact that he died, Bob Newhart’s character Professor Proton could be back. The elevator will probably never be fixed. It’s unlikely that we will ever see Penny’s (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) movie Serial Ape-ist 2: Monkey See, Monkey Kill but there was a sneak peek of the trailer at Comic-Con which included the line, “This film is not yet rated, but don’t worry, she gets naked in it.” There will be a comic book store to hang out at despite Stuart’s store burning down. Penny and Leonard will have a very long engagement: “They are engaged, but the wedding is sometime off in the future. Penny’s first goal is to put the date far enough in the future so everyone knows that she’s not pregnant.” The real challenge for the writers will be getting through the ceremony without revealing Penny’s last name. Bernadette and Howard will have babies, not not anytime soon. Community probably won’t return until late 2014 or in 2015 and there will probably not be any holiday episodes this year so we don’t wind up having a Halloween episode showing in the winter. It does not sound like much will be different despite the increased freedom of being off network television, but there is talk of an orgy episode. There might be more paintball, and Dan Harmon says he will do anything to get Donald Glover back. Interview with Dan Harmon in the video above. Part I of the Orphan Black panel is above, with links available there to the rest of the panel. Information on the final five episodes of True Blood here, which will deal more with Bill and Sookie. Fargo was renewed for a a second season and information was revealed at the Television Critics Association fall previews. The second season will take place in 1979 around Luverne, Minnesota, Fargo, and Sioux Falls, showing events which were alluded to in the first season In the first season, cop-turned-diner owner Lou Solverson (Keith Carradine) often mysteriously referred to a major incident that occurred back in Sioux Falls. At the time, he was 33-years-old and recently back from the Vietnam War. “Lou Solverson is a state police officer. His wife Betsy, her dad is the sheriff of Rock County,” Hawley said. “[Lou’s] father-in-law is a character in this next go-round. I don’t know if we see any other Solversons… I’m excited to spend time with Molly’s mom.” He also added that Molly did not get her plucky spirit only from her dad News from earlier in the week on Sleepy Hollow here. Posted in Science Fiction, Television. Tags: Agents of SHIELD, Arrow, Bryan Fuller, Community, Constantine, Dan Harmon, Fargo, Gillian Anderson, Hannibal, John Barrowman, Kaley Cuoco, Lucy Lawless, Orphan Black, San Diego Comic Con, Science Fiction, Sleepy Hollow, The Flash, True Blood. 2 Comments » SciFi Weekend: SDCC Part 2–Avengers; Karen Gillan Bald for Guardians of the Galaxy; Captain America; X-Men; Superman and Batman; Doctor Who; Matt Smith as Bart Simpson; True Blood; Person of Interest; Revolution; Community; How I Met Your Mother; Veronica Mars There was lots of news on the Marvel Cinematic Universe out of San Diego Comic Con–video of panel above. This includes the name of the next Avengers movie, Age of Ultron, and a bald Karen Gillan (head shaved for Guardians of the Galaxy). Co-directors Joe and Anthony Russo were interviewed, explaining how Captain America: The Winter Soldier will bridge the two Avengers movies. Among other news is the report of star Chris Evans kissing Scarlett Johansson. News on X-Men: Days of Futures Past is here. The rumors of a combined Batman and Superman movie have been confirmed. Matt Smith walked on the floor at Comic Con disguised at Bart Simpson (video above). Steven Moffat says “we’re likely never going to see that final date night on Darillium with the Doctor and River Song, the one where he cries because he knows she’s going to die/get digitized on a library planet.” The reason: Moffat’s too prude to put the Doctor and River in a room alone together. That said he might change his mind. ”I always felt that there were certain things between the Doctor and River that we should never see. So, I don’t know. He sort of said his goodbye in ‘The Name of the Doctor.’ There’s always the possibility, because it’s always out of sequence and you can do anything you like with that. It’s a tough one. I remember I wrote some extra scenes for the DVDs and all that we had available were Alex (actress Alex TK] and Matt, so I had to write scenes for the Doctor and River alone in the T.A.R.D.I.S. and I go, ‘Dear God, that’s the situation I’m always tring to avoid for obvious reasons.’ What does that woman do to him the moment the door is shut? What were they doing that night in Durillion. There are somet things surely the Time Lord must keep to himself. “The implication is that she had met many more Doctors than just the two of them, so it’s always possible. But I quite liked the good bye in “The Name of the Doctor” and I think there should always be stuff that we never saw, and I don’t just mean that as a laugh.” The above preview of the remainder of this season of True Blood was shown. There has been talk for a while that a major character would die this season and there does appear to be a funeral in these clips. Cast secrets revealed in these videos. The show has been renewed for another season. While the show has had its problems (including too many characters and story lines), I do see hope for improvement: Executive Producer, Brian Buckner wants to bring the show back to its roots. While he acknowledges True Blood has a large cast, he wants to condense the number of stories they are telling and “really come home.” And as for bringing in new creatures, right now he thinks no. He believes the show is about vampires, humans and the town. And wants to bring that back. The big news on Person of Interest is that, as I had been rooting for, Amy Acker will become a regular next season. Cast interviews here. Despite all its flaws, Revolution keeps me curious enough to keep watching. A trailer for the second season is above. The cast and crew revealed spoilers regarding the cliff hanger at the end of the first season. From Tracy Spiradakos (Charlie): “I can tell you that the bombs do drop, so there’s an aftermath to dealing with that.” Holy moly! Randall completed his mission in destroying Atlanta and Philadelphia, apparently, and the destruction of those cities will completely change the feel of the show. The militias will be broken up, the show that was once all about being on the road will now settle into a particular spot near Texas, characters will be more consistent, and the stories will have some room to breathe since people won’t be as busy running from Point A to Point B. Additionally, even though the power went on in the finale, there will be a time-jump of about three months, and you can expect that it will be shut off again pretty soon.” More spoilers from this, and other reports: The power is off permanently and the Tower is no longer functional. The Patriots supporting the old United States government represent a serious threat which forces Miles and Monroe to work together. Ronald Moore on Helix and Battlestar Galactica. Dan Harmon interviewed about season 5 of Community in the video above. News includes the departure of Donald Glover. News on the final season of How I Met Your Mother posted here. More news here including comments from the kids. Kristen Bell suggests that Veronica Mars might continue after the upcoming movie, possibly on Netflix as a way to get around contractual restrictions on appearing in two television shows: CNN: Is this film finally going to give you a sense of closure on “Veronica Mars”? Bell: No. This could be my whole life. And by the way, what a lucky life it would be if it were. There’s no formula for it, because it just has never been done before. Except — and I’m just throwing it out there — “Star Trek” did it. They did a TV show and then nine movies. Who knows? Why can’t we make a couple films? Or continue to produce content of “Veronica Mars”? It gets tricky because television contracts legally only allow you to do one episode of a different show. They purchase you. I am now the face of “House of Lies.” So the only way I would be able to reprise Veronica Mars (on TV) is in movie form. CNN: What about if it were on Netflix? Bell: There are some loopholes that we are already investigating. Earlier news from San Diego Comic Con was posted here. Posted in Science Fiction, Television. Tags: Amy Acker, Battlestar Galactica, Captain America, Community, Dan Harmon, Doctor Who, Guardians of the Galaxy, Helix, How I Met Your Mother, Joss Whedon, Karen Gillan, Kristen Bell, Matt Smith, Person of Interest, Revolution, River Song, San Diego Comic Con, Scarlett Johansson, Science Fiction, Star Trek, Steven Moffat, The Avengers, True Blood, Veronica Mars. No Comments » SciFi Weekend: SDCC Part 1–SHIELD, Matt Smith, Sherlock, Big Bang Theory, Hannibal, Dexter, Orphan Black, Veronica Mars, Game of Thrones, and More There’s a lot of news coming out of San Diego Comic Con. Here’s some reports on panels held so far, with more to come. The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. panel is above. They also showed the pilot at ComicCon. A description of the pilot can be read here. Cobie Smulder will be reprising her role as Maria Hill in the pilot, and will have further appearances throughout the season. Blastr has more: The unofficial gag order surrounding the details of ABC/Marvel’s new drama, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., finally lifted at San Diego Comic-Con. With the unveiling of the pilot episode and the first press tour at the Con, we have a better sense of what the show will revolve around, aside from the mysterious return of assumed dead Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg). According to executive producers Jeff Bell and Jeph Loeb, the series will focus on the humanity and smaller scale heroics dished out daily in the S.H.I.E.L.D trenches. “To me, the movies have always been about people,” Bell explains. “There are all these giant monsters and heroes, but there have always been really interesting humans. Nick Fury is just a guy.” Loeb adds, “Out tagline is “not all heroes are super” and that’s really important to us. It’s not just a tagline but it talks about the human condition in a way that is really important.” Bell continues, “Jeph has a thing that I really like, although we can’t say [mutant] on our show because that’s not part of our world, but he says every person has a mutant gift and your job in your life is to figure out what your mutant gift is and how best to use it. I think that’s really cool.” The embodiment of that everyday heroism is Coulson, a character that has become beloved to audiences. Why? “Easy,” says Bell. “Clark Gregg. He showed up in the first Iron Man with a couple of lines and people watching said he was interesting. Along the way, he got in a little bit more. In The Avengers they made him a fan. He liked the cards and S.H.I.E.L.D. history. He was the audience surrogate in the movies. You could be this guy who shows up and does his job around these superheroes and is taken for granted. The way Clark presents the lines, people love it, so he is our way into the world. Matt Smith makes his final appearance as the Doctor at the Brave New Warriors Panel. Geek Tyrant on the Sherlock Panel: They dove right into last season’s cliffhanger: How did he survive? They aren’t telling, but they did know how it worked before they filmed it, so they aren’t just flying by the seat of their pants. It is a rational answer, not black magic. Depsite reports that Andrew Scott was back on set to film scenes for the third season, they swear Moriarty is actually dead. “What, did they fake suicide at each other? Were you faking? I was faking, too!” That’s not going to happen. As for speculation that he can’t be dead because they didn’t show the back off his head come off–sorry to say they just aren’t allowed to show that level of violence on BBC1. Moffatt knows people are excited to learn how Sherlock managed it, but he doesn’t think it’s that interesting. That’s just an answer. But when John Watson realizes that Sherlock is alive, when they come face to face again? “That moment is electrifying.” And it’s funny. Moffatt calls it “the showstopper of the season.” Moffatt always gives hints about what Sherlock Holmes stories the next season will hit, and for Season 3, he’s said, “Rat, Wedding, and Bow.” The first episode is called “The Empty Hearse” and is very slightly based on “The Adventures of the Empty House.” It is mostly an exploration of the affect of Sherlock’s “death” and reappearance on the people who loved him. The writers realized that there would be a lot of fallout from the events of last season, but they couldn’t spend all of this season talking about last season, so it sounds like they’re going to deal with it in this episode. Episode 2 is called “The Sign of Three,” and seems to focus on Watson’s wedding, and you guys? They showed us a clip, and it was amazing! They asked us not to even tell anyone about it, but eff that noise! We’re at Watson’s wedding reception, and Sherlock is beginning his toast. Yeah, amazing. He begins awkwardly (of course), “John… John Watson…” and explains that when Watson asked him to be his best man, he was confused. Then it flashes back, to Watson walking in on Sherlock appleying a blowtorch to a disembodied eyeball, which he promptly dips in his cup of tea. Watson says that they need to talk about the best man, and Sherlock starts going on and on about who he thinks the best man is. Watson interrupts and says he means the best man at his wedding. Sherlock starts talking about one of Watson’s friends, Watson says not him, then another, Watson says that he isn’t his best friend, and says that at his wedding he wants the two people who are closest to him and mean the most to him by his side, and tells Sherlock that it’s him. Sherlock’s jaw drops. Cut back to the wedding, and Sherlock is explaining his reaction, how he told him how he was touched and honored… cut back to Sherlock still standing there, speechless. He knew it would be an important and difficult task… cut to Sherlock, still standing there, speechless. Sherlock says he then realized he hadn’t said anything out loud. Sherlock accepts, and promptly drinks the eyeball tea. There wasn’t much information on the third episode but it was subsequently revealed that the title will be The Last Vow. Mark Gatiss will be appearing in Season 4 of Game of Thrones. If this sort of combines Sherlock and Game of Thrones, how about combining two other genre franchises? What if Ned Stark and Tony Stark were brothers? There were reports that the cast of The Big Bang Theory wouldn’t be present at SDCC due to other commitments but Johnny Galecki made a surprise appearance, posing as a fan in costume waiting to ask a question and Melissa Rauch hosted the panel. Steven Hawking had the recorded message above. The Hannibal DVD and Blu-ray will be released September 24 (same day as the pilot of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. airs), including a gag real (video above) and an unaired episode. No specific news on the unaired episode, but I want to see it. Screen Rant has this news from the panel: HitFix kept a comprehensive live blog of last night’s Hannibal panel at SDCC, which featured show creator Bryan Fuller, director David Slade, producer Martha De Laurentiis and stars Hugh Dancy and Aaron Abrams. The team were pretty brave going up against an audience of fans after the rage-inducing season finale that left poor Will Graham behind bars, Hannibal Lecter smiling at him from the other side, and a whole lot of people throwing objects at their televisions. If you think that Bryan Fuller was enjoying Will’s pain, you’re absolutely right: “Will knows something no one else knows, and it’s a great place to put a character. One of the things I was most excited about in Season 2 was seeing Will Graham hit rock bottom.” Given the fact that Will spent most of season one hallucinating, perspiring, or doing both simultaneously, it will be interesting to see what happens when he really hits rock bottom. Apparently he will be “scrappy” and “feisty,” though, so that’s definitely something to look forward to. Season two will begin with a two-parter that will serve as “a new pilot for what the season can be” now that the old dynamics are gone and Will is in jail, and the third episode, according to Fuller, “will be a trial.” That sounds ominous. Video of the full Hannibal panel follows: The Dexter cast made their final appearance before the show ends and, not surprisingly, there were no hints as to how the show ends. Walking Dead stars on a bigger season. The Federal Express truck pulled up with my copy of the Blu-ray of the first season on Orphan Black. I haven’t seen any of it, but the reviews I’ve read this week have sounded fantastic. I’m avoiding the details to limit spoilers, but here’s a report on news of the second season of the show. More here and here. Video of the panel above. (I’ll come back and watch after I finish the first season). Report on the DC Comics Panel here. DC has its greatest success in movie adaptations with Superman and Batman. It will be necessary to reboot Batman once again for him to appear in the Justice League of America and in further solo films. It now appears that Batman might return in a joint movie with Superman. As for the last reboot of Batman, a panel even considered the question of whether Bruce Wayne was crazy for dating Catwoman. The Flash is the next DC character to get a solo film. The Marvel universe is divided in the movies, with Sony holding the screen rights to Spider-Man. Information on plans for this series here and here. Sneak peak at the Veronica Mars movie above. Those of us who donated through Kickstarter to make this movie possible are acknowledged in the clip. More on the movie here. In Memoriam–Those who died on Game of Thrones. Update: More Comic Con news posted here. Posted in Science Fiction, Television. 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Phelps Becomes Greatest Olympian of All-Time with Gold in 4 x 200 Freestyle Relay Michael Phelps stands alone as the greatest – or most prolific, you call it – Olympic athlete of all time. No modern Olympic athlete, in any sport, Summer or Winter, from any country, ever, has won more medals than Phelps. It was a historic gold medal for Michael Phelps in the Men’s 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay – the 19th of his Olympic career. It capped a field day for Team USA in the pool Tuesday, with Americans winning medals in every final event, including gold in the Women’s 200m Freestyle. Men’s 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Final The American men were heavily favored to repeate as gold medalists in the Men’s 2 x 400m Free, but I certainly didn’t expect the dominating performance begun on the second 100m of the leadoff swim by Ryan Lochte and ended on the resolute determination of Michael Phelps’ anchor leg. It was an interesting shift in strategy for Team USA, taking the pressure of the finish off Lochte and shifting it to their best swimmer. While Lochte, Conor Dwyer and Ricky Berens share in the golden glory, the weight of the moment belongs to Phelps. His gold medal in this event was his 19th Olympic medal, which is the most of any athlete in any sport from any country in the modern history of the Olympic Games. Phelps’ family – watching from the grandstands – was clearly emotional, and Phelps hugged the lane divider for quite a while following the race’s conclusion to take in the moment. France finished 3.07 seconds behind Team USA for the silver, and China was 6.6 seconds behind for the bronze. Men’s 200m Butterfly Final Phelps was not invincible on the day, however, faltering in his best event in probably the best race of the day. Phelps had the lead at every touch of the wall by tenths of a second and was seemingly on his way to gold at the final turn, but South African Chad le Clos, swimming in the lane to Phelps’ right, rode his wake and chased him down in the last half-length of the pool for the gold medal. Phelps lost his signature event by only five-hundredths of a second. Japan’s Takeshi Matsuda won the bronze, and American Tyler Clary finished fifth. It came down to the finish, which was the exact opposite of the same event in Beijing in 2008. Then, Phelps took a final stroke into the wall, overtaking an opponent who stayed underwater, stretching for the wall, by one one-hundredth of a second. This time around, Phelps was the one stretching underwater, and le Clos took the extra stroke. Women’s 200m Freestyle Final Allison Schmitt has hit for the cycle, topping her silver medal in the women’s 400m freestyle and bronze in the 4 x 100m free relay with an Olympic record time of 1:53.61 for the gold medal in the 200m free, blowing away the field. Schmitt was fourth after the 50m mark but posted the best time at each split the rest of the way. French swimmer Camille Muffat took silver and Aussie Bronte Barratt took bronze. Missy Franklin, the gold medalist in the women’s 100m backstroke, was in medal contention at each split but finished .01 seconds out of a tie for bronze. Women’s 200m Individual Medley Final Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen, amid allegations of doping after she posted a better freestyle split time than male American swimmer Ryan Lochte in a previous semifinal, chased down American Caitlin Leverenz and Australia’s Alicia Coutts in the last 50 meters on the freestyle to win her second gold medal of the Games. Shiwen’s time of 2:07.57 was an Olympic record. Coutts also overtook Leverenz, who led at the 150m mark after the breaststroke, for silver, though Leverenz held on for the bronze after coming back from sixth place at the 100m mark following the backstroke. World record holder, American Ariana Kukors, finished fifth. Men’s 100m Freestyle Semifinals Cullen Jones and Nathan Adrian, swimming in the same semifinal, were in contention for the lead at the 50m mark, with Adrian touching the wall first. Adrian pulled away from the field with 25 meters to go to win an intense semifinal, but Jones struggled visibly, finishing last and missing the final. Adrian’s 47.97 second result was the second-fastest time in the semis. Men’s 200m Breaststroke Semifinals Americans Scott Weltz and Clark Burckle advanced to the Men’s 200m Breaststroke Final, swum tomorrow at 1:30 p.m., with times of 2:08.99 and 2:09.11, respectively. Weltz qualified in the fourth position, and Burckle qualified sixth. Women’s 200m Butterfly Semifinals Kathleen Hersey enters the Women’s 200m Butterfly Finals with the top qualifying time of 2:05.90, .2 seconds quicker than Jiao Liuyang of China. American Cammile Adams also qualified for the finals, finishing seventh. The finals will be swum tomorrow at 2:12 p.m. CT. Posted on July 31, 2012 Author lsuguyCategories OlympicsTags Alicia Coutts, Allison Schmitt, Ariana Kukors, Caitlin Leverenz, Cammile Adams, Chad le Clos, Clark Burckle, Conor Dwyer, Cullen Jones, Kathleen Hersey, London 2012, Michael Phelps, Missy Franklin, Nathan Adrian, Olympics, Ricky Berens, Ryan Clary, Ryan Lochte, Scott Weltz, swimming, Team USA, Ye Shiwen Leave a comment What’s Your Favorite Olympic Event? If you’re like me, flipping to coverage of any Olympic event will get your blood pumping. During the Winter Olympics, I’ll go back and forth between hockey games, bobsled and cross-country skiing and be sure to keep myself aware of every single curling match on CNBC. The Summer Olympics, which for me are easily the better of the two, it’s the same way. Swimming is by far my favorite event. I love the water, and the intensity of the races and seeing all those flags in the pool, there’s just something about it. Gymnastics, beach volleyball and track and field are up there also and – maybe surprisingly for you – rowing as well. But when NBC and MSNBC’s coverage goes to commercial, I’ll happily catch a random boxing match on CNBC. So what’s your favorite Summer event? Air rifle? Triathlon? Water polo? Or, is there a Winter Olympics event that is tops for you? Let us know! Posted on July 31, 2012 Author lsuguyCategories OlympicsTags London 2012, Olympics Leave a comment The US A-Team: Thoughts from the Beginning of Olympic Men’s Basketball Play Editor’s Note: Sebastian Henao is a friend I met while attending LSU. He is one of the more passionate and observant fans of basketball and the NBA that I know, and he has offered to provide some analysis and – as you can see – color commentary on basketball at the 2012 Olympic Games. LeBron James and Chris Paul are back for Team USA in defense of the gold medal. Before I begin, I would love to thank Mary Carillo, Olympics tennis commentator, for introducing me to the NBC Olympics Live Extra app. You have saved me from another Dan Patrick monologue about his love for the L.A. Kings. If you own cable and need to get your updates, live feed, and replays, this is a must! (See our post on how to Live Stream the Olympics) What if I told you that you can choose the best 12 players in the world and put them on one team? What if I also told you that we will move the 3-point line three feet closer so your best player can be even more versatile? Finally what if I told you that you were playing against Boris Diaw? Is that something you might be interested in? For our casual fans, Boris Diaw is an NBA player. Unfortunately, he has the motor of a sloth after eating a Grand Slam at Denny’s. Throughout the Olympics, the U.S. of A will be playing scrubs like this. Watching USA versus France taught me a few things. Kings at Court First, no matter how much international talent has increased, USA will always be the kings of basketball. Led by the current King James of South Beach, Coach K (Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski) has enlisted an army even Leonidas would fear. Although the losses of Dwight Howard, Blake Griffin and Chris Bosh have diminished our front court, have you watched the NBA lately? The days of Sky Hook and The Dream Shake are over. Enter Run n’ Gun and a million free throws. Both NBA finals teams – the Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder – which consisted of two former Olympians and four current ones, led the league in free throws. Coach K knows his team’s strengths and knows them well. His job is to control all these superstars and stop them from making my second point relevant. Recklessness!!! Keeping such an up-tempo offense also has its weaknesses. If you are at a bar or watching the game with your boys, you may hear a few common phrases. “Why did you take that shot?” “Quit turning the ball over.” “Just give the ball to Durant.” High tempo offenses have just as much risk as reward. Turnovers and forced jumpers are very common in such game plans. At the end of the 1 st quarter, the US led France by only 1 because they made 7 out of 24 shots. Unfortunately, no one gave the French a memo that the 2 best players on Team USA were run n’ gun specialists. Imagine a 265-pound behemoth running the floor either jamming it in your face or passing the ball to someone with the prettiest shot in the NBA. Did I forget to mention that the shooter is also 6’10 with a 7’5 wingspan? I just described either a giraffe and a rhino or LeBron and Durant. Either way, there is no way those two should be on the same team let alone the same watering hole. Parity or Unfair-ity Touching on my last point, there is no reason why these guys should be on the same team. It is just unfair. I know this might upset people, but I think the 23 and under rule is a great idea. (One proposal is to have basketball follow the same rules as soccer, by which countries may have no more than three players over the age of 23). I love the drama, the emotion, and the feel-good stories during the Olympics. The only emotion I got out of this game is Melo getting up in de Colo’s face yelling, “YOU WANT TO GO NIGHT NIGHT!” I also feel like I’m watching Space Jam 2, except this time the MonStars win and the French are working like slaves at Six Flags. As a basketball fan, I love watching teams like the Spurs dismantle teams with their teamwork and high basketball IQ and watching Chris Paul make scrubs like Aaron Gray and Jannero Pargo look like Olympians. Don’t get me wrong, though. I love Space Jam, and I love Team USA. If we don’t get 10 alley oops a game, then I’m disappointed. I hope Parker lets me come back for a sequel so I can give you a more in-depth background on the final four teams. Posted on July 31, 2012 Author lsuguyCategories OlympicsTags basketball, Chris Paul, Kevin Durant, LeBron James, London 2012, men's basketball, Mike Krzyzewski, Olympics, Team USA 2 Comments Tired of Spoilers? Beat the Tape Delay with NBC Live Extra! Know how the Women’s Gymnastics Team Final turned out? The next question is, did you WANT to find out? Millions of Americans are struggling with NBC’s decision not to show some of the most popular Olympic events live as they happen from London, choosing instead to air these events in prime time on a tape delay. That would have worked fine back in 1992 when the Games were in Barcelona, but these days, it just won’t fly. Sports fans hoping to avoid hearing the results until they can see the events in their full glory in prime time must run a gauntlet of mobile app push notifications, website coverage and word of mouth if they want to avoid hearing the results in advance. But fear not! The London 2012 Games have been dubbed the “Digital Olympics” because of the prolific content being disseminated to audiences the world over in real time. And you can be a part of it! To watch live coverage of the Olympic events – ALL of the Olympic events – you need three simple things: 1) A cable, satellite or digital subscription which includes NBC (most do). You’ll need your account login ID and password. If you don’t have a login ID, you’ll need your account number and may have to call your cable company. 2) A computer, smartphone or tablet with Internet, data or wi-fi connectivity 3) TIME! NBC has provided streaming access to all Olympic events, everything from gymnastics to swimming to the qualifying matches in air rifle and table tennis. Additionally, you can watch full replay coverage of every event, every match, online at NBCOlympics.com. If you want to use your phone or tablet, you can download the Live Extra app from NBC, absolutely free. Here’s how to do it. It takes just a few minutes and in most cases, you only have to do it one time. 1) Go to http://www.nbcolympics.com/liveextra/index.html. 2) Click the red “Get Ready” box, where you’ll be prompted with an array of cable and satellite choices and a pulldown box with more choices. Pick yours. 3) Enter your login information. Kids, ask your parents for permission first. 4) Watch the Games! 1) Go to your AppStore and search NBC Live Extra, or NBC Olympics. 2) Download the NBC Live Extra App, fo free. 3) Open the app and, when prompted, select your cable or satellite provider. 4) Enter your cable or satellite provider login information. Posted on July 31, 2012 Author lsuguyCategories OlympicsTags London 2012, NBC Live Extra, Olympics 3 Comments 2012 Summer Olympics – Day 4 Schedule Today’s action. All times Central. NOW: Women’s Gymnastics Team Final (streaming online); Team USA Men’s Volleyball vs. Germany (NBC); Women’s Tennis – Varvara Lepchenko vs. Germany’s Julia Goerges; Women’s Tennis – Huber/Raymond vs. Radwanska/Radwanksa (POL) and Williams/Williams vs. Kerber/Lisicki (GER) 11:15 a.m.: Women’s Soccer vs. North Korea, Group Play 12:45 p.m.: Men’s Tennis vs. Russia, Bryan/Bryan vs. Davydenko/Youzhny 1:00 p.m.: Women’s Field Hockey vs. Argentina, Group Play 1:30 p.m.: Swimming, Americans Cullen Jones and Nathan Adrian swim in the semifinals of the Men’s 100m Freestyle 1:40 p.m.: Men’s Water Polo vs. Romania, Group Play 1:41 p.m.: Swimming, American medalists Allison Schmitt and Missy Franklin swim for gold in the Women’s 200m Freestyle Finals 1:49 p.m.: Swimming, American Olympic hero Michael Phelps swims for gold in his best event, and Tyler Clary also swims in the Men’s 200m Butterfly Finals 2:12 p.m.: Swimming, Americans Kathleen Hersey and Cammile Adams swim in the Women’s 200m Butterfly Semifinals 2:20 p.m.: Swimming, Americans Clark Burckle and Scott Weltz swim in the Men’s 200m Breaststroke Semifinals 2:43 p.m.: Swimming, Americans Caitlin Leverenz and world record holder Ariana Kukors swim for gold in the Women’s 200m Individual Medley Finals 2:51 p.m.: Swimming, Team USA will swim for gold in the Men’s 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay, likely to feature Michael Phelps 3:00 p.m.: Men’s Beach Volleyball vs. Spain, Dalhausser/Rogers vs. Gavira Collado/Herrera Allepuz 4:15 p.m.: Men’s Basketball vs. Tunisia, Group Play 5:00 p.m.: Women’s Beach Volleyball vs. Netherlands, Ross/Kessy vs. Van Iersel/Keizer May-Treanor, Walsh Jennings Continue Dominance When will the world acknowledge the greatness of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings? Actually, most of the world has seemingly accepted this fact, which has only been proven by science time and time again, but for some reason pairs of volleyball players from countries far and wide are determined to challenge the reigning beach queens. The Czech Republic was the latest nation to fall to May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings – as good of an example of Olympic royalty as there is, having never lost a set of volleyball in the Olympics, let alone a match. Walsh Jennings and May-Treanor won their 16th consecutive Olympic match and 32nd consecutive set, defeating Marketa Slukova and Kristyna Kolocova, 21-14, 21-19. The women showed brief hints of mortality in the second set, much like they did in their previous match against Australia, but both athletes tapped their respective strengths to pull out a clutch victory in the end. After a timeout, down 18-15 in the second set, May-Treanor made several acrobatic digs and three successful kills to bring the score back to even. The Czech pair broke the American serve to go up one point, but then they presented the Americans with a couple gifts before Walsh Jennings, serving for match point, came up with a huge block to clinch. May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings (boy, that’s a lot less fun to type and say than the good old May/Walsh) will next take on the Austrian Schwaiger sister act under the lights on Wednesday. The live stream will begin 5 p.m. Central Time, and NBC will undoubtedly broadcast the match on prime time. Posted on July 30, 2012 Author lsuguyCategories OlympicsTags Kerri Walsh, London 2012, Misty May-Treanor, Olympics, Team USA, women's beach volleyball Leave a comment Men’s Gymnastics Falters, Places 5th in Team Finals The bad fortune of other countries that vaulted the United States men’s gymnastics team to the top qualifying spot cruelly reversed course today, sending the American men tumbling from both the apparatuses and the standings. China and Japan – traditional gymnastics powerhouses – recovered from atypical subpar scores in the qualifying rounds to earn the gold and silver medals, respectively, with host nation Great Britain earning a surprising bronze medal in third. This was only Great Britain’s third men’s gymnastics medal – and second bronze – in Olympic history. Team USA finished a disappointing fifth behind Ukraine, which had qualified seventh. The Americans were competitive – relatively – in the floor and bar exercises, but they lost nearly a point in their floor score from qualifying, and inherent weakness on the pommel horse and a disastrous performance on the vault doomed hopes for any medal, let alone gold. Team USA dropped nearly 1.5 points on the vault, going from fourth in the qualifying on the event to sixth in the finals. Sam Mikulak and Jake Dalton did well but stepped off on their landings, and John Orozco missed his vault completely. The Americans posted a low score again on the pommel, the apparatus that proved the deciding factor in the medal standings. The Americans’ lowest score for any event in qualifying was on the pommel horse, but it was good enough for third place then. The team’s performance in the finals was more than 3 points worse, dropping them to seventh in the field on that apparatus. Danell Leyva and Orozco, both considered proficient on the apparatus, faltered, posting scores in the 13’s and 12’s, respectively. Had Team USA simply maintained its performance on the pommel from the qualifying round, it would have comfortably won Team Silver. In fact, Team USA regressed on every apparatus except parallel bar, where they gained nearly half a point. But in order to match rejuvenated Japanese and Chinese squads, they needed to replicate or nearly replicate their qualifying totals and were unable to do so. The qualifying score of 275.342 would have put USA quite comfortably in silver position. Jonathan Horton, the sole gymnast returning from Beijing’s rotation, posted the sixth-best score on rings, but this was his only officially tallied event score on the day. Orozco performed on five of the six apparatuses (floor exercise was the sole omission). He was eighth-best on high bar, 13th-best on rings and tied for 15th on parallel bars. Please don’t mistake what I can only classify as cold analysis for malicious criticism. The U.S. men have some fantastic personalities and great back stories, and they provided the world with quite the show in the qualifying rounds. And to be sure, there is no shame in finishing fifth-best in the world at anything. The Americans’ fall paved the way for a memorable moment for host nation Great Britain, which stuck in silver position after completing the final rotation, initiating a raucous explosion of applause and cheers from the home crowd, which included princes William and Harry. However, the final Japanese vault score was incorrectly tallied, and after a formal inquiry by Japan’s delegation, the score was reverted and Japan took silver, with Great Britain taking bronze. Lleyva, who posted the top all-around qualifying score, and Orozco will move on to compete in the Men’s Individual All-Around finals. In terms of individual event finals, Dalton qualified for the floor exercise (Mikulak just missed), Lleyva is a reserve for pommel horse and parallel bars, Horton is a reserve for rings, Mikulak qualified for vault, and Horton and Lleyva qualified on horizontal bar. 1 CHN 275.997 2 JPN 271.952 3 GBR 271.711 4 UKR 271.526 5 USA 269.952 6 RUS 269.603 7 GER 268.019 8 FRA 265.441 Points Breakdown by Event TEAM USA TOTAL QUALIFYING SCORE: 275.342 TEAM USA TOTAL FINAL SCORE: 269.952 Differential: -5.39 Qualifying: 46.165 Final: 45.266 Differential: -0.899 Parallel Bar Differential: +0.583 Posted on July 30, 2012 Author lsuguyCategories OlympicsTags China, Danell Leyva, Great Britain, gymnastics, Jake Dalton, Japan, John Orozco, Jonathan Horton, London 2012, Men's Gymnastics, Olympics, Sam Mikulak, Team USA Leave a comment

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An Act relative to net metering By Mr. Smizik of Brookline, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Frank I. Smizik relative to electricity net metering. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. Frank I. Smizik 1/27/2014 House Referred to the committee on House Rules 2/10/2014 House Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy 3/5/2014 Joint Hearing scheduled for 03/11/2014 from 02:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1 5/5/2014 House Reporting date extended to Sunday June 15, 2014, pending concurrence 5/8/2014 Senate Senate concurred 6/18/2014 House Accompanied a new draft, see H4185 S.1974 191st (Current) An Act relative to municipal net metering facilities An Act relative to improving reliability and resiliency of electricity distribution infrastructure An Act relative to net metering for on-site renewable energy facilities An Act relative to fair and stable electricity

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Posts Tagged ‘Janani Suraksha Yojana’ Radha’s Story: Unforeseen Consequences of Cash Payments for Institutional Deliveries Posted in Browse by Country, India, tagged American India Foundation, ASHA, cash incentive, CCT, community health workers, conditional cash transfer, eclampsia, home birth, home delivery, India, institutional delivery, Janani Suraksha Yojana, Jharkhand, JSY, maternal health, National Family Health Survey of India, National Rural Health Mission, NRHM, pregnancy, quality of care, rural health, Seraikela Block, Tata Steel Rural Development Society, three delays, three delays framework for understanding maternal mortality, Time of India on June 14, 2011| 4 Comments » This is the third post in a series on maternal health in rural Jharkhand, India. At 4am, Radha’s body became completely stiff. Then came the convulsions. Radha, a newly married young woman in a small village in rural Jharkhand, was pregnant with her first child and her due date was just one week away. Radha’s story paints a personal picture of the issues that pregnant women face in rural Jharkhand–and it points to conceptual questions and unforeseen consequences of Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), a national program that aims to increase institutional deliveries across India. Her story raises big picture questions that merit further investigation, especially given the scope, cost, and potential of JSY, the largest conditional cash transfer program of its kind in the world. Radha’s story also sheds light on some of the implementation challenges and the pockets of the population that seem to be left out, beyond the reach of JSY. Radha wears dramatic sindor along the part of her hair, the unmistakable red powder that makes clear she is a married woman. Photo by: Kate Mitchell Against the wishes of her in-laws, Radha had left her husband’s village and returned to her parents’ home in a small village in the Seraikela block of Jharkhand. She was planning to deliver her baby in her parents’ community and at home, just as her mother, Prema, had given birth to her at home 18 years earlier. Radha’s decisions to return to her parents village and to deliver at home are not uncommon practices in India. Returning to the parental village In India, women are often married at a very young age. In rural Jharkhand, 73.4% (National Family Health Survey of India, NFHS-3) of women are married before the age of 18. Once they are married, they go to live with their husband’s families where they take on the often demanding role of daughter-in-law that traditionally involves cooking, cleaning, and collecting water and firewood for the entire family. It is an age-old tradition that once women reach the 8th or 9th month of pregnancy with their first child, they return to their parents’ community where they spend the final month(s) of pregnancy and deliver the baby. This tradition is often cherished by women as it offers them some much-needed respite from their daughter-in-law duties, and a chance to reconnect and spend time with their families. According to the National Family Health Survey of India, only 40.8% of deliveries in India occur in an institution–and in rural Jharkhand, where Radha lives, significantly fewer women opt for institutional care with only 11% of babies born within health facilities. Prema, Radha's mother, is the mother of six children--Radha was the fourth, but the first to survive beyond one year of life. Photo by: Karl Gruschow. According to Prema, Radha’s in-laws had recently learned about a government program that is providing a cash payment of 1650 rupees (approximately 40 US dollars) to women who opt for institutional delivery over the traditional practice of home delivery. Prema said that the decision of where Radha would deliver caused a conflict between the two families. She said that Radha’s in-laws wanted Radha to deliver in an institution in their district—and Prema did not seem to believe that their motive was entirely about a safe delivery. It is unclear what motivated Radha’s in-laws to push for her to remain in their district for the delivery. Did they believe that institutional delivery was a safer option and want to keep her close to ensure that she delivered in an institution? Or, were they pushing Radha to deliver within their district so that they would have access to the cash payment? Was it a combination of the two—a promise that Radha and the new baby would receive care in the event of a complication, sweetened with a little cash? Whatever their motives were, the conflict that arose between the two families is one unforeseen consequence of Janani Suraksha Yojana. While a little tension between in-laws might not seem like such a big deal, it points to bigger questions about the unanticipated repercussions of providing women, who may or may not have the autonomy within their families to command how and when to use the money, with cash on a conditional basis linked to a new behavior, institutional delivery, that they may or may not want to adopt. The idea that JSY might be becoming a source of conflict among other families, as it is in Radha’s family, and influencing in-laws to try to keep daughters-in law in their districts for delivery, leaves me with several questions: To what extent might JSY be creating barriers for women hoping to follow the cherished tradition of returning to their parents’ community for the last month of pregnancy and delivery of their first child? What ethical considerations does cash introduce to women’s decisions about where to give birth? The money is obviously aimed at encouraging women to pursue a safe delivery, but the women involved are often younger than 18 and often have only limited capacity within their husband’s families to influence decisions about new behaviors. Who actually controls the money? Whom is actually incentivised by it? If it is the parents and the in-laws who are most concerned with and/or motivated by the cash payment (and will have the most control over how the cash is used), how can JSY be modified to ensure that the wants and needs of rural women are not overlooked? How might policy makers ensure that JSY does not interfere with the tradition of going to the parental village for delivery or further restrict the autonomy of young newly married women to make decisions, while still promoting institutional delivery? During our time talking with women in the Seraikela block of Jharkhand, it seemed to me that women were far more motivated by an awareness of potential complications and an assurance that they and their babies would be cared for than they were by the promise of a one time cash payment. A few weeks back, we met a woman named Sita who had just delivered her second baby. Her first child is now four years old. Sita initially planned to deliver at home but when her labor seemed to go on for too long, she chose to go to an institution. In her case, this was a feasible and reasonably safe plan—as the institution was only a half an hour away from her home and her family had access to a vehicle that could be used to reach the facility. Sita explained that the reason she went to the institution was because she was afraid; “If I die, what will happen to my son?” To Sita, the cash seemed like a nice bonus—but far from a deciding factor. Sita, mother of a four-year old, chose to deliver her most recent baby in an institution due to her fears about who would care for her four-year old if she did not survive the delivery. Photo by: Kate Mitchell This idea that women are motivated to seek care when they believe institutions will provide them with high quality care is illustrated by the three delays framework for understanding maternal mortality. The framework shows a direct arrow between the quality of care within the facility (perceived or actual) and a woman’s decision to seek care. This means that her perception of the quality will play a big role in whether she seeks care for the first time, but it also means that if the woman seeks care, and it turns out to be poor quality, she might not ever choose to seek care again and her experience might also influence the behavior of other women. Through the National Rural Health Mission, the government has hired an extensive system of community health workers who are working to increase awareness and identification of maternal and newborn danger signs, and encourage women to seek care. Through JSY, the government is providing women with a cash payment that sometimes serves as an incentive and other times as a partial reimbursement for costs associated with seeking care. But, what happens when the women reach the institution? It is important to remember that the type of care they find will play a role in whether they (and their sisters, sisters-in-law, and friends) continue to seek care. Just a few days ago, the Times of India ran a story about this issue: “…The NRHM hired over 8.5 lakh* women as Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), mostly village women with minimum Class VIII education, to provide preventive health services in villages including taking pregnant women for antenatal check ups, organising immunization camps, dispensing basic drugs and educating people about hygiene practices. About 6.5 lakh have completed their training and have started work. Though ASHAs have boosted the utilisation of public health facilities in many places, the facilities themselves have not been upgraded to take the increased load.” Sita’s story combined with an understanding of the three delays framework makes me wonder what would happen if the government, who aims to increase institutional deliveries, took on the challenge of dramatically improving the quality of care within institutions as one of their strategies for increasing the number of women who deliver within health facilities. In Radha’s case, it seemed that tradition, Radha’s parents’ wishes, and Radha’s own wishes would trump Janani Suraksha Yojana, the cash provided by the program, and the wishes of the in-laws. It also seemed that, for Radha and her parents, cash was not enough to persuade them to choose institutional delivery over home delivery. For she was home with her parents when the convulsions began, and she had no plans to go to an institution. But when Radha’s family was awakened by her uncontrollable shaking, the trajectory of events changed course. Radha’s story will continue in upcoming posts… *One lakh, part of the Indian numbering system, is equal to 100,000. Note: We have changed the names in this series, in order to provide a level of privacy to the families who shared their stories. Tata Steel Rural Development Society, my host organization for my fellowship, provided us with transportation and interpreter services. Many thanks to Shabnam Khalid for her help with translation. Janani Suraksha Yojana and the Bumpy Road to Maternal Health in Rural India Posted in Browse by Country, India, tagged American India Foundation, cash incentive, community health workers, conditional cash transfer, EngenderHealth, Gates Foundation, health policy, home delivery, human rights, India, institutional delivery, Jamshedpur, Janani Suraksha Yojana, Jharkhand, JSY, Kate Mitchell, Lancet, maternal and newborn health, maternal death, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal mortality, National Rural Health Mission, neonatal mortality, newborn health, newborn mortality, perinatal mortality, Sarah Blake, Seraikela Block, transportation, UNFPA, Women Deliver on May 30, 2011| Leave a Comment » This post is the first in a series on maternal health in the Seraikela block of Jharkhand, India. In 2009, Sarah Blake and I worked together at the Maternal Health Task Force, a Gates Foundation funded maternal health initiative based at EngenderHealth in New York City. Since then, Sarah went on to work as a consultant with several non-profit organizations, including UNFPA and Women Deliver. I took off for India as a Clinton Fellow with the American India Foundation where I have been working for the past nine months on a maternal and newborn health project in Jharkhand, a state with high levels of maternal and newborn deaths. A new mom holds her newborn in a small community called Sini, in the Seraikela block, as community members look on. Sarah and I recently teamed up again (this time, in India) to explore our common interest in maternal health. Over the past two weeks, we have visited hospitals, health centers, government offices, rural villages, and homes in the Seraikela block, a rural area with rugged terrain and limited infrastructure outside the industrial city of Jamshedpur, in the state of Jharkhand. We conducted a series of interviews with women, families, health workers, and government health officials. We asked questions about pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. We learned about the women’s experiences with home and institutional deliveries–and the factors that influence their decision to deliver at home or in an institution. We explored the implementation of and attitudes toward Janani Suraksha Yojana, a conditional cash transfer program that aims to increase institutional deliveries across India. A collapsed road on the way from Jamshedpur to the Seraikela Block of Jharkhand. Conditional cash transfers are trendy. Various governments, non-governmental organizations, and private enterprises across the globe are supporting cash transfer initiatives in efforts to improve school attendance, reduce child under-nutrition, improve maternal and newborn health, and to address other development goals. What is a conditional cash transfer program? According to the World Bank, “conditional cash transfer programs provide cash payments to poor households that meet certain behavioral requirements, generally related to children’s health care and education”. Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is a widely discussed (mostly within the global health community but to some extent in mainstream media) and frequently praised cash transfer program. JSY was launched by the Indian government as part of the National Rural Health Mission in 2005, in an effort to reduce maternal and newborn deaths by increasing institutional deliveries. JSY provides cash incentives to women who deliver in government health institutions as well as accredited private health centers. The program also provides a cash incentive to the health worker who supports the woman throughout her pregnancy and accompanies her to the facility. (For details and FAQs on JSY, click here.) A community health worker accompanies a pregnant woman to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Jamshedpur, the main referral hospital for the surrounding rural communities. Maternal and newborn death rates have gradually been declining across India (and the world), but the problem has yet to be resolved. Both maternal and newborn deaths in India continue to make up an extremely large percentage of the overall global burden. According to a study published in the Lancet last year, 20% of global maternal deaths and 31% of global newborn deaths in 2005 occurred in India. JSY is a big program (the biggest of its kind in the world) that aims to deal with a big problem. The lessons that are drawn from it have the potential to influence global health policy in a big way. The 2010 evaluation of JSY published in the Lancet suggested that the program is having a significant impact on perinatal and neonatal health, but the paper asserted that the verdict was still out in terms of any impact on maternal mortality. The lesson that has emerged from JSY for newborn health is that giving women money increases institutional deliveries and reduces perinatal and neonatal mortality. It is likely that the same message will emerge in terms of reducing maternal mortality—and there is a good chance that this approach will be picked up in national health programs in numerous other countries that also have high levels of maternal and newborn mortality. Our concern is that JSY is far more complex than providing women with money—and reducing maternal mortality is far more complex than increasing institutional delivery. Given the scope, cost, and potential of JSY; it is incredibly important that we ask questions about the nuances of JSY—the role of money as an incentive for women, families and health workers; the readiness of institutions; the challenges with transportation; the human rights implications of the program; and a variety of other related factors. Over the next week (or couple of weeks), Sarah and I will share our experiences and insights from our time with the women, families, health workers, and government health officials of the Seraikela block of Jharkhand, a focus state for JSY. We will highlight stories from the people most impacted by and involved in Janani Suraksha Yojana. We believe that we have scratched the surface of some interesting issues related to JSY, but our time in Seraikela certainly left us with more questions than answers, and we will be sharing those questions in upcoming posts. We will also be asking our colleagues working in maternal and newborn health to share their thoughts through guest blog posts. If you are interested in submitting a guest post, contact us at katemitch@gmail.com and sarahcblake@gmail.com. Tata Steel Rural Development Society, my host organization for my fellowship, provided us with transportation and interpreter services. Many thanks to Shabnam Khaled for her help with translation. Can Conditional Cash Transfers for Women Who Deliver in Health Facilities Reduce Maternal Mortality in India? Posted in India, News, tagged Bihar, commentary, conditional cash transfer, Hindi, India, Indian health workers, institutional deliveries, invest in women, Janani Suraksha Yojana, JSY, Lancet, Marie-Claire Mutanda, maternal health, maternal mortality, medical facilities, neonatal health, neonatal mortality, newborn health, payment program, perinatal health, perinatal mortality, research, skilled birth attendants, study, UNICEF, Uttar Pradesh, Vinod K Paul, Washington Post on July 25, 2010| 1 Comment » A recent study in the Lancet took a close look at a conditional cash transfer scheme to entice women to deliver in health facilities. The scheme, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), aims to reduce maternal, perinatal, and neonatal mortality. Published along side the study was a commentary by Vinod K. Paul that summarizes several of the key findings of the study–pointing out successes and challenges with the scheme. “…In just 4 years, its beneficiaries multiplied 11-fold, from 0·74 million in 2005—06 to 8·43 million in 2008—09 (thus covering nearly a third of the 26 million women who deliver in the country annually). Budgetary allocation for the JSY increased from a mere US$8·5 million to $275 million in the same period. Surely, it is time to ask the question about what health outcomes are achieved by this massive and expensive investment and effort. On the face of it, by promoting a strategy of deliveries in the facilities, attended by skilled providers, JSY should lead to a reduction of maternal, perinatal, and neonatal mortality…” Click here to read the full commentary. You will need to register (free) with the Lancet to access this article. Excerpt from a Washington Post story on the study: “…The payment program seems to be working, according to Indian health workers and researchers who conducted the study for the Lancet. ‘The cash payments mean that India is really starting to invest in women. That trickles out to the rest of the family and the rest of society,’ said Marie-Claire Mutanda, a health specialist with UNICEF, which is supporting the program. In two of the poorest states in India — Bihar and Uttar Pradesh — the number of women giving birth in medical facilities soared from less than 20 percent in 2005 to nearly 50 percent in 2008, according to the most recent data available. Doctors here attribute that to the payment program, whose Hindi name translates to ‘women protection scheme’…” Click here to read the full story in the Washington Post. Click here to read the study, India’s Janani Suraksha Yojana, a conditional cash transfer programme to increase births in health facilities: an impact evaluation, in the Lancet. You will need to register (free) with the Lancet to access this article.

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Is the “Black” vote relevant to a nation built on lies and deception? What is the point of voting when the deck has obviously been stacked against people of indigenous descent? Black, Brown and Yellow people of this United States Corporation have no voice, never did…but that’s my opinion…what do you think? Congress once again is taking the so-called bulls by the horns to make sure the voices that should be heard are not. Timeline: A History of the Voting Rights Act – American Civil liberties Union 1869 – Congress gives the right to vote to African-American men… 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870) To former abolitionists and to the Radical Republicans in Congress who fashioned Reconstruction after the Civil War, the 15th amendment, enacted in 1870, appeared to signify the fulfillment of all promises to African-Americans. Set free by the 13th amendment, with citizenship guaranteed by the 14th amendment, black males were given the vote by the 15th amendment. From that point on, the freedmen were generally expected to fend for themselves. In retrospect, it can be seen that the 15th amendment was in reality only the beginning of a struggle for equality that would continue for more than a century before African-Americans could begin to participate fully in American public and civic life. Jim Crow Laws began their tricks and games were played to disenfranchise African-Americans from being able to vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes and just plain out-and-out not allowing them into the voting houses were tactics used and successfully so to keep Blacks from voting. Back to the 13th Amendment there has always been the question as to whether or not it had been ratified, meaning were those held as slaves in the southern states actually free? In 1863 President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Nonetheless, the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation. Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery. The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress. Although the Senate passed it in April 1864, the House did not. At that point, Lincoln took an active role to ensure passage through congress. He insisted that passage of the 13th amendment be added to the Republican Party platform for the upcoming Presidential elections. His efforts met with success when the House passed the bill in January 1865 with a vote of 119–56. 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865) Florida passed a law that restricts voter registration and made cuts to early voting. The majority of African-Americans in Florida rely on early voting to cast a ballot, and register to vote through community based registration. Under the VRA, the DOJ blocked South Carolina’s voter ID law, saying it discriminates against minority voters. The DC federal district court later precleared the lawbut only because the state agreed that an ID was not required for voting. The ACLU represented the NAACP’s Alabama chapter in Shelby v. Holder. In the decision, the Supreme Court crippled one of the most effective protections for the right to vote by rendering ineffective the requirement that certain jurisdictions with a history of voting discrimination get pre-approval for voting changes. States have wasted no time enacting potentially discriminatory laws including Texas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, South Dakota, Iowa, and Indiana. The good news is that we have the chance to fix it now. Congress can pass a new, flexible and forward-looking set of protections that work together to guarantee our right to vote — and it’s not just wishful thinking. Since 2006, Congress extended the key sections of the Voting Rights Act on four occasions in overwhelming, bipartisan votes. Once again, a bipartisan group of lawmakers have come together to work on these critical protections In January 2014, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced the Voting Rights Amendment Act to repair the damage done by the Shelby decision. Congress can pass a new, flexible and forward-looking set of protections that work together to guarantee our right to vote — and it’s not just wishful thinking. Since 2006, Congress extended the key sections of the Voting Rights Act on four occasions in overwhelming, bipartisan votes. The last three extensions have been signed by Republican presidents. If this is not passed soon, 2014 will be the first election in 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act for minority voters. Although we have made significant gains in voting rights, discrimination at the polls persists today and cannot be dismissed as a relic of the past. Minority voters still face significant obstacles in registering to vote and casting ballots. That’s why we need Congress to act decisively, and to act now References: Timeline: A History of the Voting Rights Act There are articles by notable authors who ask the question “why bother to vote”? Democracy: Why bother to Vote? From the Observer The Guardian Why Bother Voting? Psychology Today From my perspective there are no viable candidates for the general public to seriously consider. The deck is stacked and has been for a very long time. Money runs the government and its minions that pretend to be for the people. As for the “Black” vote there is no one truly interested in righting the humanitarian wrongs of slavery to our people. It does not benefit the corporations and the banks that rape up daily, year in and year out. This is my personal opinion and you don’t have to agree or disagree. Until the masses wakes up and do a deep study on the “factual history” of this country and the fact that this country was initially founded on the principles of a “republic” and turned into a democracy after it was forced into bankruptcy we as a nation will continue to be dominated by liars. The fact of the matter is, the United States did go “Bankrupt” in 1933 and was declared so by President Roosevelt by Executive Orders 6073, 6102, 6111 and by Executive Order 6260 on March 9, 1933, under the “Trading With The Enemy Act” of October 6, 1917, AS AMENDED by the Emergency Banking Relief Act, 48 Stat 1, Public Law No. 1, which is presently codified at 12 USCA 95a and confirmed at 95b. You can confirm this for yourself by reading it on FindLaw. Thereafter, Congress confirmed the bankruptcy on June 5, 1933, and thereupon impaired the obligations and considerations of contracts through the “Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard And Abrogate The Gold clause, June 5, 1933” (See: HJR-192, 73rd Congress, 1st Session). When the Courts were called upon to rule on various of the provisions designed to implement and compliment FDR’s Emergency BANKING Relief Act of March 9, 1933, they were all found unconstitutional, so what FDR did was simply stack the “Court’s” with HIS chosen obsequious members of the bench/bar and then sent many of the cases back through and REVERSED the rulings. The Bankruptcy of the United States HINT: A LOT MORE HAPPENED THAN JUST THE CONFISCATION OF THE PEOPLE’S GOLD! [The following is excerpted from Judge Dale’s The Great American Adventure – Secrets of America.] The bankruptcy of America 1933 The power the people may yet have lies within their own municipalities, cities and townships. This is where the power actually lies and if change is to be effective it has to be a grass roots change. Fight back from your backyard… the idiots on Capitol Hill are there to stay until we actually put them out… but that’s my opinion… MATruth Greetings with much love and appreciatoin, I am MATruth. I am a free spirit who is experiencing the magic of life as we know it on this plane called Earth. Recently I updated my CV and discovered I am very talened and gifted so I thought, wow! Time for me to do me; so here I am welcoming all who care to participate in my magical world of my truth. From a professional standpoint, I am a semi-retired Executive Assistant. Another glorified way of saying a "damn" good secretary. I am a author and have been bloggin with Word Press since 2009. I also have an established YouTube account where I share what I think is great information for those who like to challenge themselves. Mother, grandmother and in a loving reltaionship with my signifcant other. Welcome to my world... MATruthAuthor website Civics, Education, Government, News, Opinion TREASON AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION Imprisonment is Involuntary Servitude

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Royal welcome for Kiwi singing sensation Riding high on a wave of success teen singing sensation Lorde received a New Zealand homecoming fit for a queen. A 10-minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland, the historic suburb of Devonport features ornate century-old wooden houses, the green volcanic cones of Mount Victoria and North Head, and a relaxed beachside lifestyle. Download Image (3872x2592px, 5593KB) Lorde - real named Ella Yelich-O'Connor - flew back to her hometown of Auckland after wowing viewers around the world with a stellar performance of her global smash hit Royals at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The 17-year-old became the name on everyone’s lips after landing two of the four Grammys she was nominated for, winning ‘Song of the Year’ with co-writer Joel Little, and ‘Best Solo Performance’ for Royals. Loyal New Zealand fans After the awards ceremony Lorde took to the internet to thank her loyal New Zealand fans, many of whom crowded around their televisions watching with baited breath as her name was read out. "I just wanted to say thank you for the time you’ve given me these past 14 months. Finding out about me online or in between these pages or in your headphones. "Without your support, there’s no way I would ever have gotten to stand in the middle of the Staples Centre and perform in my school shoes……." Lorde’s whirlwind trip to Los Angles came to a quick end as she flew back to New Zealand to perform a highly-anticipated, sold-out concert at Silo Park - Auckland’s premier urban waterfront space. The singer expressed her delight at being back in her hometown, telling the crowd "Auckland, it is so good to see you!" She then went on to sing various tracks from her debut album Pure Heroine as the sun went down on what had been a beautiful day in the region, known as the City of Sails. Background Lorde: Hailing from the historical suburban village of Devonport on Auckland’s North Shore, Ella Yelich-O’Connor has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame. From performing with friends on stage at Takapuna Grammar School to hitting the No.1 spot on charts around the world with her debut single Royals. In 2013 Lorde was named Woman of the Year by MTV’s college channel MTVU. She was also named one of Time magazine’s Most Influential Teenagers of the Year in a list that also included Kiwi golfer Lydia Ko, and hailed as an Emerging Dominant Player in the music world by The Washington Post. New Zealand singing sensation - Lorde Tourism Auckland website

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SDOH Academy Rule change: HRSA recognizes civil legal aid as “enabling service” for health centers By Health Resources and Services Administration Download a list of HRSA health center service descriptors The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, modified its funding eligibility rules to allow health centers to use federal “enabling services” funds to pay for on-site civil legal aid to help meet the primary care needs of the population and communities they serve. Enabling services, outlined in Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act, are not clinical in nature, but help facilitate access to care and can improve patients’ health; they include things like transportation, interpretation, outreach, and case management. Civil legal aid helps health centers improve health and well-being by combatting health-harming social conditions health-harming legal needs such as housing, public benefits, insurance and domestic violence. This change opens the door for the 23 million people who get health care at a health center to potentially gain access to critical civil legal aid services, and it represents a significant advancement in the long-term sustainability of medical-legal partnerships. In the video below, Suma Nair, Director for the Office of Quality Improvement at the Bureau of Primary Care at HRSA, describes what the change means for civil legal aid and medical-legal partnership. © 2020 MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHIP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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How YV Subba Reddy silenced TDP on TTD issue? YV Subba Reddy When unassuming YV Subba Reddy took over as the chairperson of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam, the opposition TDP ed him pronto. It tried to portray that he too was a practicing Christian like YS Jagan. It started painting him a Christian and tried to portray his appointment as a sacrelage of TTD traditions. The fact is that despite being YS Jagan's maternal uncle, YV Subba Reddy is a diehard Hindu and has taken Ayyappa Deeksha many a time. He is also known to worship the cow regularly at home. He is a devout Hindu and adheres to various religious practices quite steadfastly. But, the TDP persisted with its misinformation and began blaming him for anything that happened in the TTD. He was blamed for the allegations of Christian proselytization activities atop the holy hillock. He was blamed for the presence of Christian employees among the TTD staff. But, YV took all these in his stride and went ahead with his work. While on hand, he tried to dispel the misinformation by the TDP with his personal example, he tried to improve the amenities and facilities for the common devotees on the other. The various measures that he has taken in the TTD, he has endeared himself to the devotees. Today, the TDP misinformation campaign has not just failed, but its attempts are being roundly criticised by the devotees. YV Subba Reddy's demeanor and his active interest to the TTD affairs has helped dispel the rumours. Today, the TDP stands completely isolated on TTD. The devotees are fully with YV and are appreciative of his contribution to improve the conditions in the temple.

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Sony PlayStation Games Coming to iPhones and Android Smartphones After the surprise earlier this week that Sony were to close Evolution Studios, Sony has today come out with yet another massive piece of news that Sony PlayStation games will be coming to Android and iOS devices. The PlayStation manufacturer has also announced that it’s forming a new company called ForwardWorks, specifically to focus on “offering new services toward the ever-expanding smart device market.” In simple terms, they will create smartphone games. The new business unit will be part of the wider Sony group and will begin operations on April 1. It will be lead by Atsushi Morita, Sony Computer Entertainment’s (SCE) head in Japan and Asia. April 1 is also the date when Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) officially changes its name to Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE). PlayStation Games on Mobile Devices According to Sony, the new unit will focus on bringing PlayStation titles and characters to smartphone users in Japan and Asia. We have no word when Sony intends to bring the PS titles to the US and other countries. A statement from Sony revealed that the aim of ForwardWorks will be to: “leverage the intellectual property of the numerous PlayStation® dedicated software titles and its gaming characters as well as the knowledge and know-how of gaming development expertise which was acquired over the years with PlayStation® business to provide gaming application optimized for smart devices including smartphones* to users in Japan and Asia.” This makes Sony the latest gaming company to move into smartphone apps, after rival Nintendo. Nintendo’s Smartphone App Nintendo’s first smartphone app, Miitomo, was released in Japan last week, and initial reports are positive. The app/game is reported to have reached number one in the Japanese iOS charts, garnering more than 1.7 million downloads and earning over $553,000. This comes as a surprise to many, as it was poorly received when first announced, causing Nintendo’s stock to fall by 9 percent. This shows that there is huge interest in mobile gaming and it is left to the gaming companies to make an impact. Miitomo is less like a traditional game and more like a social experience. The app asks users personal questions and shares the answers with friends. Sony’s Full-Fledged Game Titles Sony seems to be taking a different route. The company says that it will offer “full-fledged game titles in the new field of the smart device market.” It will also use existing PS games and characters in the new apps. This is not the first time Sony has ventured into the smartphone gaming market. In 2012, the Japan-based company launched PlayStation Mobile with the intention of bringing Android smartphone games to the PlayStation Vita, its dedicated handheld console. That initiative ended in failure. Sony appears to be making another effort at filling that void in the handheld sector. Hopefully for Sony, this attempt will be more successful. Gaming fans will be waiting to see what PlayStation games make their way to their iPhone and Android smartphones.

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Status Of Men’s Rights Bills The last couple months have featured a variety of states proposing, adopting or rejecting numerous men’s rights bills that primarily addressed outdated alimony and child custody laws. Some states are clearly moving in the right direction toward promoting father’s rights (Ohio, Oklahoma and Tennessee) while others have stalled (Alabama). Thanks to our partners at CordellCordell.com, here is a snapshot of the status of some of the more important bills from around the country. If you know of new legislation that is not mentioned, please let us know by leaving a comment at the end of the article. (You can also read our summaries about the status of shared parenting bills.) A bill that would have helped fathers win more child custody rights was shelved until the next legislative session. The Alabama Children’s Family Act would have required judges to order equal, joint custody of children in all divorce settlements that parents cannot work out themselves. A bill designed to reduce the amount of alimony paid has been making its way through the legislature over the past few months When determining alimony, the bill would require courts to consider “the extent to which income for support was already capitalized and paid to the other spouse in the division of community property, in order to avoid double counting the income when the result would be inequitable.” MensRights.com has covered Massachusetts’ alimony reform attempts before. Lawmakers in the state have proposed the Massachusetts Alimony Reform Act of 2011, which would allow judges to base alimony awards on the recipient’s actual financial need for spousal support and end payments for long-term marriages at retirement age. The bill would significantly alter how alimony payments are determined in the state and place caps on payment duration. In June, Ohio joined more than 30 other states in passing laws that secure child custody rights for military members. The state’s child custody bill ensures parents who are active in the U.S. military will not have their existing custody order altered solely due to their military service. Most recently, Oklahoma passed similar legislation in early June. Tennessee has been the most active state recently in tackling issues that directly affects men’s rights and father’s rights. First, a “common sense” bill was signed into law that requires judges to consider how to maximize both parents involvement in their child’s life when making custody decisions. Hopefully this law will lead some judges to increase visitation time and designate equal 50-50 parenting time more often. The Tennessee Supreme Court has also agreed to hear two cases involving family law – a paternity fraud case and an alimony case. The court could decide if a man has legal grounds to sue for being tricked into supporting a child that is not biologically his. It appears this may be the first time a state Supreme Court tackles the issue of whether paternity fraud is grounds for a lawsuit. In another case, the court could determine the future of how alimony is awarded. This case involves a woman who claims she deserves $15,000 a year in alimony despite the fact she earns $72,000 a year. Her initial request for alimony was denied because of her income and earning potential, but upon appeal, a Court of Appeals found that the mother did deserve that much money from her ex-husband. The ex-husband appealed that decision and now the case is now before the Tennessee Supreme Court. In West Virginia, lawmakers are advocating a bill that would not require an individual to pay alimony if their partner had an affair during their marriage. If you find yourself in the midst of a fathers rights battle, contact the divorce attorneys for men at the Cordell & Cordell Law Firm or read the divorce resources available at DadsDivorce.com. Tags: Alimony, Child Custody, Laws

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