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Dr. Michael McVey visits Japan Submitted by Michael McVey | Published November 2, 2011 Michael McVey teaches a Japanese student how to build a wooden bench Last spring, Teacher Education faculty member Michael McVey went to southern Japan. The initial goal was to prepare the way for a study abroad section with a focus on education in Japan but McVey had a personal connection with the place. Twenty years before, he taught there as part of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program. He was looking forward to seeing old friends with whom he had kept in contact. Additionally, he was excited to see how the schools had changed from his days there. In some cases, beautiful new buildings had replaced the old ferro-concrete breezy structures. They were now airy and open with honey colored wood, open stairwells, and inviting classrooms. Through his connections with a faculty member at Saga University, Michael also toured schools in some very rural areas. Schools nestled high in the mountains of rural Saga prefecture boasted the same quality facilities as did the schools near the larger cities. One afternoon, McVey assisted a team of instructors who were providing vocational education services to one of these remote schools. On that day, he and the entire class of ninth graders, all twelve of them, built wooden benches. Of course, throughout the trip, the topic of the devastating tsunami was never far from the conversation. Although it did not directly affect Saga, 800 miles to the south, the tragedy inspired waves of support from people all over Japan in the form of clothing, blankets, food, and labor. Soon after his return, McVey was asked to write an "encouraging essay" for the people working on reconstruction and cleanup of the damaged part of Japan. That essay was published in a large national newspaper, The Kyodo News, late last summer. The article appeared simultaneously in several other newspapers across Japan.

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Proposed national paid leave legislation could preempt state laws By Paul Galligan November 30, 2017, 3:38 p.m. EST Three Republicans from the House of Representatives hailing from states with paid family and sick leave laws have sponsored the Workflex in the 21st Century Act. This proposed law signals the increasing frustration with the complexities of multi-state compliance among business owners. Representatives Mimi Walters of California, Elise Stefanik of New York, and Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington have pitched a bill that would exempt employers who offer certain amounts of paid time off from complying with state paid leave laws. In its current form, the bill would serve to drastically reduce employee access to paid leave, but would also grant employees alternative work arrangements, known as “workflex” options. The Workflex in the 21st Century Act, H.R. 4219, was proposed on October 26, 2017 as an amendment to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act to “Include a voluntary option for qualified flexible workplace arrangements.” Under the law, employers would be exempt from state paid leave law requirements, but since the bill only reaches employees eligible for employer-provided benefits, employers would still have to comply with state and local leave laws for employees ineligible for the company’s benefits. Employers with a unionized workforce must incorporate the rights of employees to compensable leave and workflex options pursuant to applicable collective bargaining agreements into the plan. The bill provides that plans which meet all of these requirements will also satisfy the requirements of Executive Order 13706, or Paid Sick Leave for federal contractors. However, this law does not, on its face, amend or limit employees’ ability to use unpaid leave in accordance with the Family and Medical Leave Act. Employers wishing to take advantage of the bill’s preemptive effects must provide a minimum amount of “compensable leave” for employees based on their years of service. Compensable leave includes any leave permitted to be used for paid time off, sick leave, personal leave, or vacation. Employers are permitted to include up to six paid holidays towards meeting the minimum amounts reflected below. The bill makes clear that employers who wish to allow employees to take leave exceeding these minimum amounts are free to do so under the law. In that vein, employers who provide unlimited compensable leave, as defined above, are deemed to comply with the minimum amount of leave requirement. Employers may frontload the employee’s compensable leave at the beginning of the plan year, or allow the employee to accrue compensable leave proportionally as the calendar year progresses, and is available for the employee to use as the compensable leave accrues. It is unclear whether the employer can impose a waiting period to use compensable leave, or if there are further limits on accrual of leave based on the wording of the bill. Further, the employer has the option to offer both carryover and cash out of unused leave. The number of employees is determined by calculating the total number of monthly employees for each month of the preceding plan year and dividing by 12. To be counted, an employee must be considered an employee for first and last day of the month. Defining full time “Full-time” must be “reasonably” defined, but the bill does not give further guidelines regarding the definition. All other employees are considered “part-time,” but the method of determining how part-time employees may accrue compensable leave is not clear based on the bill. An employer may restrict the use of leave during the first 90 days of employment with the employer, and may also limit the use of leave to times when it does not “unduly disrupt the operations of the employer,” and whether to use the leave in full-day or partial-day increments. In addition to paid leave, the bill provides that an employer must offer each employee in the plan, so long as the employee meets eligibility requirements, at least one of the following “workflex” options, which are not limited in time according to the bill as written: Biweekly work schedule: A non-exempt employee may work up to 80 hours in a two-week period. In any one week, the employee may work between 40 - 60 hours. Employees must be compensated at their regular rate, and may only earn overtime for any time worked over the agreed-upon biweekly work schedule, or over 80 hours in the two-week period. It is unclear how this arrangement will interact with the Fair Labor Standards Act or state wage and hour laws. Compressed schedule work program: A non-exempt employee may work his or her regular weekly hours spread among fewer days, i.e., a 40-hour week over four days. Employees who choose this option earn overtime in accordance with the FLSA. Moreover, state wage and hour requirements would also apply. Job sharing program: An arrangement where the employer approves two or more employees to share one employment position. Flexible scheduling: An agreement under which the employee’s regular work schedule is “altered.” This term is not further defined in the bill. Predictable scheduling: A system whereby the employer provides a schedule to an employee with reasonable advanced notice and with as few alterations as possible. Telework program: An arrangement where the employee is permitted to perform the duties and responsibilities of his or her position from a worksite other than where the employee would otherwise work. 20 companies with the best benefits Not all workplace perks are equal, but there are some that are extremely popular among employees, according to Glassdoor research. Options offered may differ depending on the particular position. Employees eligible for “workflex” options must be employed for at least 12 months for at least 1,000 hours of service during the 12-month period. An employer may estimate the number of hours worked by the employee. However, the employer may not force an employee to use workflex options. If an employee elects to use a workflex option offered by the employer, a written agreement signed prior to starting the arrangement must set forth the employee’s work schedule with a description of the workflex option. Employees who elect to use a workflex option or compensable leave under the bill must be reinstated to their same or equivalent position, unless the employee has used more than 12 weeks of compensable leave in a 12-month period, or is a key employee as defined under the Family and Medical Leave Act. The bill also notes it is not intended to relieve an employer’s obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act. This bill, should it pass, would offer attractive alternatives to employers who find complying with various state and local paid leave regulations challenging. It would also offer flexible work arrangements to employees that could save employers money and reduce turnover of employees who would otherwise leave a job for family or personal reasons. It would ostensibly preempt paid leave laws that are popping up all over the country, including most recently paid family leave in New York and paid sick leave in various municipalities, including Cook County, Illinois and the state of Washington. However, its overlap with various laws, including ERISA, the FMLA, and the FLSA may necessitate complex legal solutions in order to implement it. Retirement plan advisers and employers should continue to track this bill as it moves through the legislative process. Paul Galligan Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP PTOPTO policiesWorkforce managementLaw and regulation

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Exquisite voices...Exhilarating performances. LEIPZIG: Music of Schelle, Kuhnau & J. S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in C Major (BWV 545) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) Darzu ist ershienen der Sohn Gottes Johann Schelle (1648–1701) Und ob die Feinde Tag und Nacht Johann Kuhnau (1660–1722) Laudate pueri Dominum Kuhnau Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe (BWV 22) Bach Teresa Wakim, soprano Thea Lobo, mezzo-soprano Jason McStoots, tenor Ulysses Thomas, bass-baritone Laura Gulley & Jesse Irons, violin Joy Grimes, viola Graham St-Laurent, oboe Tom Zajac, early trombone Audrey Cienniwa, cello Bálint Karosi, organ Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 5:30pm First Lutheran Church of Boston Notes on the Program Johann Schelle entered the Thomasschule in Liepzig when his voice broke in 1665, and later attended the university. After holding the post of Kantor in Eilenburg for seven years, Schelle succeeded his former teacher Sebastian Knüpfer upon his death in 1677 and held the post of Kantor in Leipzig until his death in 1701. During his tenure, Schelle replaced the Latin compositions written by Italian masters with music to German texts, much to the chagrin of the city's mayor. But the city council sided with Schelle, who began introducing into the Protestant liturgy in Leipzig not only the Gospel cantata to German texts, but later the chorale cantata. Almost all of Schelle's compositions are sacred works, most of them to German texts and in an older more traditional style. Born in Giesing, Bohemia, Johann Kuhnau enrolled in the Kreuzschule at Dresden ca. 1669, where he became a Rathsdiscantist, and obtained regular instruction in music. In 1680 the plague sent him back to Giesing, but he soon left for Zittau and worked in the school, till the excellence of a motet which he wrote for the Rathswahl, or election of the town council, procured him the post of Kantor. In 1682 he made his final move to Leipzig, where his fame preceded him, and in 1684 he succeeded Kühnel as organist at the Thomaskirche. In 1688 he founded a Collegium Musicum and in 1700 he was made musical dircotor of the University and of the two principal churches; he finally secured the post of Kantor upon the death of Johann Schelle in 1701. While all of Kuhnau's secular music is lost, he leaves us some excellent sacred cantatas that anticipate the style of J. S. Bach with lyrical vocal writing, powerful fugues, and dramatic contrasts of texure which stress the rhetorical sense. Though Johann Sebastian Bach is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Western musical tradition, a relatively small number of his church cantatas receive regular concert performances today. Two hundred sacred cantatas, or roughly three fifths of Bach's output in the genre, survive. The bulk of these date from 1723 to 1729, the first five years of the composer's tenure as Kantor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, during which he composed and performed cantatas at the rate of about one per week. Cantata 22 is one of the two cantatas written for his audition for the job of Kantor at Leipzig, and was performed under Bach's direction on February 7, 1723. The designated Sunday, Estomihi, is the last one before Lent, which is a period in which the congregation is to prepare itself for the time of Christ's suffering. Composed in Cöthen in 1723, Cantata 22 is modestly scored for SATB, strings, oboe, and continuo. In contrast to his other audition piece BWV 23, Bach tried to accommodate the listening public in Leipzig, which was more accustomed to a more cheerful operatic treatment and to Kuhnau's gentle melodies. © 2014 by Exsultemus. Proudly created with Wix.com

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The Sphinx Mystery Feature Articles The Sphinx Mystery Robert Temple’s The Sphinx Mystery delves into the history of a monument that is both unique and able to instil unique feelings in every human being. The standard view of the Sphinx is that it was built by Khafre, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, who built his pyramid at Gizeh, following in the footsteps of his predecessor Khufu, who had constructed the Great Pyramid on the same plateau shortly before. The link between Khafre’s pyramid and the Sphinx is “apparent” as it sits next to the causeway that connects the pyramid to the Valley Temple, next to the Sphinx, as well as the fact that the pyramid and the sculpted rock lie on the same line of sight. Egyptologists like Zahi Hawass are therefore convinced that the Sphinx is Khafre’s work, and refer to evidence on the Dream Stele – which sits between the Sphinx’s paws – as confirmation of their view. However, as such, the Dream Stele refers to a dream Pharaoh Tuthmoses IV had as a young prince, whereby he “thanked” the Sphinx for rendering him a vision of his future glory and ascendency to the throne – and therefore postdates the Fourth Dynasty by many centuries. For many years, the age and identity of the Sphinx have been hotly contested. For some, it is seen as being thousands of years older than the Fourth Dynasty. Many others have realised “something” is wrong with it, but are unable to lay their hand on the specifics. The latest person to have entered the debate is British author Robert Temple. Temple is perhaps best known for “The Sirius Mystery”, which tackles the Dogon mythological lore surrounding the star Sirius. Though Temple is a professor, he nevertheless prefers to write outside of his immediate field of study, tackling subjects such as lenses, oracles of the dead and the history and enigmas of ancient Egypt, a passion that is apparent throughout the 600-odd pages of this book, “The Sphinx Mystery”. Specifically, in “The Sphinx Mystery”, Temple argues that the Sphinx has only been a lion’s body with a human head since relatively recent times. He argues that “originally” – though he refuses to conclusively date the Sphinx – the structure was instead a statue of the Egyptian deity Anubis, in the shape of a dog. Anubis was the protector of the Underworld, which Temple believes was physically rendered at Gizeh, and which therefore explains the presence of such a statue here. However, though the book is subtitled “The Forgotten Origins of the Sanctuary of Anubis”, the book contains nothing about its dating, or its origins. Instead, we are told – numerous times – that this will be addressed in his upcoming book Egyptian Dawn. Though Temple does not mention this, the book has at present a release date of September 2011, or almost three years after the release of “The Sphinx Mystery”. Therefore, in a book that is said to explain the Sphinx, we are not told anything about its age or its likely builder. The big mystery that is the Sphinx is therefore not explained. This wouldn’t be such a problem, were it not for a number of factors: first, Temple makes it apparent he seems able to answer these questions, but keeps referring the reader to his next book. Secondly, the book is so badly written, that about 200 pages could have been removed from it, to be substituted with real information. Inserts like “I know Graham [Hancock] slightly, and Robert [Bauval] rather well, although we have lost touch these days” (p. 242) are totally irrelevant and if there were only a few, it would be tolerable, but there are literally hundreds of such diversions, some of them running as long as one page – including an explanation of what Chinese whispers are! But I digress… Thirdly, that Temple should have included much material to do with the Sphinx, which he failed to include. However, this does not make the book a waste of space or time. One has to agree that the book is a veritable treasure trove of anecdotes and eyewitness reports about the Sphinx across many centuries, providing us with a different perspective on its – recent – history. But the real enigma of the Sphinx is not its recent history, but its origins. Whether or not the Sphinx represents Khafre, has in recent years become seriously challenged, however much Hawass tries to maintain the status quo. Known depictions of Khafre on statues and the Sphinx reveal many differences, though one might defend – though no-one seems to have done so – that the sculptors got the precise features of Khafre slightly wrong, because of the uniqueness, the scale and challenge of working with the native rock at Gizeh, rather than with the much smaller scale and tested methodology of his known statues, some of which were recovered from the Valley Temple right next to the Sphinx. The “new kid on the Sphinx” is Dr Vassil Dobrev, who has studied the Sphinx since 1987 – though one might argue whether it is quality or length of research that is the more important factor – and at first speculated whether it might have been Khufu, rather than Khafre. Alas, nowhere in the book does Temple mention Dobrev, suggesting he is unaware of the man’s research at the time of writing the book. This is a serious omission. Dobrev argues that the facial features agree more with Djedefre, the pharaoh who constructed his pyramid at Abu Ruwash, of which hardly anything remains. Dobrev argues that Djedefre built the Sphinx to represent his dead father, Khufu, as resurrected. However, this theory fails to explain the alignment with the Second Pyramid, and not the pyramid of Khufu. To circumvent this problem, Dobrev has suggested that we should look towards the Sphinx in profile, as is customary, based on Egyptian hieroglyphs, at which point the Sphinx is indeed “aligned” to the Great Pyramid – somewhat. Though this makes his theory possible, it is far from plausible, for it is clear that hieroglyphs used profiles as they were two-dimensional renderings of three-dimensional realities; if we were to continue Dobrev’s logic, we should look at all Egyptian statues and judge their significance from their profile, not face-on. If we were to do this, it is clear that few Egyptian temples would make any sense… Temple is completely right – though not the first to notice this, whatever he might argue – that the head of the Sphinx is out of proportion with the rest of its body: it is too small. Somewhat imprudent, Temple bypasses the possibility that this might have been because of some visual effect, to be created from a certain perspective, a possibility that should remain open, though it is unlikely. Temple observes that the body of the Sphinx is not feline, as lions are known for a back that is curved and possessing a mane that is absent on the Sphinx; in short, the body of the Sphinx suggests a dog, whereby a visual rendering of an Anubis head on top of this body makes it clear that the Sphinx in origin could indeed have been a giant statue of Anubis. Furthermore, when looking at any Anubis statue, it is clear that with the upright ears and the other features of the head, it would have taken little to cause damage to such a monument. Though Temple claims that natural erosion was the likely cause as to why, in the Middle Kingdom, the statue was re-carved as a sphinx – an animal body with a human head – Temple actually seems to bypass a historical account which he himself has underlined in his book: Tuthmoses IV argued that following the dream he had, he equally destroyed the Sphinx/statue, so that no-one else would have similar visions: “A little while after his coronation he returned to the place where the head was, which he decapitated with an axe, saying: ‘It’s all very well that you have given me counsel so that I can secure Egypt; but from today on, you will not give any more counsel to anyone.’” As to who built this Anubis, Temple does not provide us with an indication or conclusion. John Anthony West introduced the possibility, following observations from the French alchemist R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, that the Sphinx predated the Fourth Dynasty, if not Egypt as a whole. This suggestion has become a pillar of many popular revisionist books when a geologist, Dr. Robert Schoch, argued that the erosion of one side of the Sphinx enclosure was due to water. Using theoretical models of the climate in ancient Egypt, Schoch dated the Sphinx to the 6th or 5th millennia, 2000 years older than the accepted date, though still five to six millennia too young for it to fit in the preferred timeslot of many, i.e. ca 10,000 BC, to make it “fit in” with theories of Atlantis and a lost civilisation. Recently, Colin Reader, an engineering geologist, has confirmed that the manmade enclosure walls are heavily eroded and that the Sphinx is older than the first pyramid, this based on the presence of a quarry behind the Sphinx which is known to have been used for the Great Pyramid. Unfortunately, Temple does not discuss Reader. He does address Schoch, by arguing that the Sphinx enclosure originally was a Sphinx Moat, and that the statue was surrounded by water. Temple’s point is made with bravoure and evidence, which means we should promote it as being a possibility, but it is also a double-edged sword. Temple shows that whereas the Book of the Dead has no room for a Sphinx, there are numerous references to Anubis, suggesting this deity played an intricate role. He equally finds references to “Anubis of the hill”, which he convincingly suggests are references to the Sphinx. But he then fails to find convincing evidence as to why Anubis should be surrounded by water or presented as an island – and such a small island at that. Though he argues correctly that the waters of the Nile came very close to if not at the Sphinx, there is a difference between allowing the waters of the Nile to touch the Sphinx, or these waters to be part of a pool. Specifically, Temple fails to highlight how long this pool would have been in existence, seeing that he has not dated the construction of the Sphinx, or whether this pool was an original feature, or a later addition. It means that the water erosion debate has merely become more complex, and as a means of trying to date the Sphinx, should be altogether abandoned, at least until some serious answers can be found as to what precisely did and did not occur around the Sphinx. Which brings us to another unaddressed issue: Dobrev noticed that the causeway connecting Khafre’s pyramid to the Valley and Sphinx temples was built around the Sphinx – meaning it was already in existence. It is indeed clear to anyone studying a drawing of the Giza plateau layout how awkward the Sphinx’s position is. Views of the Sphinx even today are largely obstructed, and we merely are confronted with the ruins of the buildings that once surrounded it. The wall of the Sphinx temple sits too close to the Sphinx, as does the causeway, for it to be visually pleasing. Even if the Sphinx played a functional part in the rituals enacted in and around the Gizeh plateau, it is clear that the Sphinx sits oppressively close to the causeway. Ideally, the pyramids should have been moved a few more metres, so that the Sphinx is less crowded in its immediate surroundings. In short, it is apparent that the “Giza Master Plan” required some specifics that were difficult to accomplish as a whole, and as such, some aspects simply could not feature as prominently as one would have liked. These “problems”, however, do not necessarily mean that the Sphinx was already there; the mere fact that the rock outcrop that would become the Sphinx sits where it sits, is sufficient reason for such a modification to be made to an ideal Master Plan – a possibility not addressed either by Dobrev or Temple. As mentioned, “The Sphinx Mystery” does show that there were many eyewitness accounts of the Sphinx in recent centuries, including the likelihood that the Sphinx was cleared much more frequently than we now believe. For example, rather than assuming Caviglia was the first to clean the Sphinx in 1817, Temple suggests that the French cleared it – partially – in 1798/1799. Of much greater interest, is his discussion about the “restoration work” of the Sphinx carried out in 1926 by Emile Baraize, and to some extent, Selim Hassan, and how these “restorations” could truly be seen as the eradication of evidence: Temple shows that before 1926, a subterranean tomb could be accessed from a vertical shaft at the location where the hips join the body, and where ancient photographs show a massive opening. Selim Hassan even wrote that “two vertical shafts in the back of the Sphinx, one of which ends in a tomb chamber, and contained coffin boards” could be observed in his time. Temple, however, is quick to point out that this tomb is not in the location predicted by Cayce to be the infamous “Hall of Records”, but equally, seeing Cayce wrote at that time, Temple does not explore the possibility that Cayce knew about this tomb through very mundane means, but nevertheless decided to work it into his “prophecies” – though placing it in the wrong location, as such detail might not have come to his ears. Temple also builds a case for the likelihood that the Sphinx was re-carved to its human head in the Middle Kingdom. For one, he argues that the eye-paint strips on the Sphinx made their initial appearance during the Sixth Dynasty and that the human head therefore has to be more recent than the Fourth Dynasty. He initially also draws the attention to Ludwig Borchardt’s theory – ridiculed by Egyptologists – that the Sphinx had been carved by Amenemhet III, as recently as 1773 BC. Using the design of the nemes – the Sphinx’s headdress – and the research of Egyptologist Biri Fay, Temple identifies the Sphinx as being created by Amenemhet II, 1876-1842 BC. However, Temple once again fails to address the research of Dobrev and others, who have equally used the nemes of the Sphinx, and have argued that it has markings representing two small pleats and one large, a feature with which Khufu is shown in at least one statue. Where does the leave the Sphinx? Following the Dobrev, Reader and Jonathan Foyle line of thinking, the Sphinx is older than the Fourth Dynasty, and originally equally might have been an animal – though their preference goes to the body of a lion. This possibility is once again not discussed by Temple, even though in my opinion he could forcefully argue this away, on the basis that there is no room for a lion in a three-dimensional rendering of the Egyptian Underworld. But it is clear that at present, there are two competing theories, both arguing that the Sphinx is older, but with no firm winner as to whether it was re-carved in the Fourth Dynasty (by whomever) or by Amenemhet II. Finally, it should be noted that Reader dates the Sphinx only several hundred years older, as does geologist David Coxill. Neither finding, however, is discussed, and both should have been in a book that deals solely with the Sphinx. Therefore, despite being a 600 page work, several key points are never addressed by Temple. For example, even though he has done a marvellous task in collating an enormous amount of eye-witness accounts, he has consulted very few Arab writers, which is specifically negligent as it were of course Arab writers who would be able to give most detail about the recent history of the Sphinx. Early on, Temple argues that the Sphinx might have been used as a dream incubation centre of Isis during Greek and Roman times, but he never addresses the obvious possibility whether there is not a straightforward connection with Tuthmoses IV, who had a … dream under the Sphinx. Temple also repeatedly draws attention to how the Sphinx became known as Ruti, which is a “double-lion god”. Elsewhere, he also mentions references to Anubis and how there are references to there being two statues… but Temple never addresses the issue whether or not there are two Sphinxes in or near the Giza plateau, a discussion that has been topical for several years and an issue he should address, irrelevant of whether he favours one, two or feels it is too early to draw a conclusion. Equally, he mentions the four cupolas that sit on the sides of the Sphinx and observes that none of the popular authors and most Egyptologists address them. True. However, when he later observes that, following the Book of the Dead, a statue of Anubis was used in rituals to do with the deceased, and specifically the washing of the parts of the deceased body that had been placed in the four Canopic jars, he fails to mention his own previous observation, and fails to query whether the four cupolas might have held the four jars – and whether this might also explain why the Sphinx enclosure might have been a moat – filled with water – for ritual washing of the pharaoh’s body. Equally, seeing that Anubis was the god of embalming, one could argue whether the embalming of a or several pharaohs therefore occurred in the so-called Sphinx Temple. Again, no discussion on the subject. Temple is clever enough not to refer to these jars as “Canopic”, as this is believed to be a misnomer. However, having drawn the conclusion that Anubis is a dog, he makes no connection either to his own beloved Sirius, or Canopus. And what to make of the line “One might say, therefore, that Osiris was originally a dog!” (p. 212). Equally, he points out that Anubis would have stared to the sunrise at the equinoxes and that this was important within the framework of Egyptian mythology. Of course, this is related to Canopus, the “Eye of the Dog”. There are further parallels to Canopus, which Temple should have explored – however much he may not have wanted to, seeing my stance on his Sirius B, as detailed in “The Sirius Mystery”. For example, Canopus is linked with a boat (Argo). In “The Canopus Revelation”, I have specifically pointed out that the star Canopus was linked with the “encoffined Osiris”, and this is precisely the part of the burial ceremony that Temple locates as occurring at the Sphinx. Temple must equally be aware of the classic image of a voyage to the underworld: one comes upon the Styx, which one has to cross, and the Ferryman has a dog. Once on the other side of the Styx, the river in the Underworld, one is in the realm of the dead. This dog – this Hound of Hell – is there to instil fear in the one entering the Realm of the Dead. Temple writes “Anubis was the standard guardian of necropolises, of graves, of the dead”, but fails to draw the parallel once again, including (p. 306), “I will cause him to enter the Place of Ferrying among the blessed ones”, from which a connection with Canopus – the Pilot of the Ferry known as the Argo – and the Styx should have been made. The latter chapters delve into the “golden angle”, which is indeed an interesting contribution, and though it largely is about the pyramids, Temple defends the relevance to the Sphinx and therefore the inclusion of such debate in this book. However, once you have identified the use of a Fibonacci series in Giza architectural design, he then falls short of knowing that decades ago, people came up with a uniform design, incorporating all three main pyramids and the Sphinx inscribing a rectangle that incorporated a Fibonacci spiral. It underlines once again that this book is largely snippets of information, but void of a proper framework. And contrary to Temple’s stance, the book is not all about the Sphinx – it even has several pages on Jesus Christ and Christianity! – and, specifically, the excursions into the Gizeh plateau he makes, do nothing to make us understand the role of the Sphinx within its setting. For example, he should have addressed Campbell’s Tomb, another enigmatic feature only thirty metres away from the Sphinx and which equally shows signs of “anomalous erosion patterns”. Vitally important, nowhere does Temple mention that in September 1980, engineers from the Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation measured the depth of the water table under the Sphinx and set up their drilling equipment ca. 50 metres to the east of the Sphinx. They were puzzled when at more than 50 feet deep, they hit a solid structure, which proved to be red granite, identical to that found in the antechamber of the King’s Chamber. As such granite is not found in Gizeh but was brought from Aswan, it is clear that this is an artificial construction, dating from the time when the pyramids were built, very close to the Sphinx. Alas, Temple does not even mention it, let alone discuss. Where does this leave us? As to its age, Temple includes some throwaway lines that there is evidence of the Sphinx as being already there in the Third Dynasty, referring to work by Du Quesne on a boundary stele at Saqqara, mentioning “Anubis, Foremost of the Secluded Land” and interpreting this as the Sphinx – with the “Secluded Land” being Gizeh. He points out that “The Great Sphinx of Giza” was a translation into stone of the huge Anubis shrines of the First Dynasty, suggesting that in his opinion the Sphinx therefore postdates the First Dynasty? As mentioned, the greatest problem is that the book fails to place the Sphinx into context, which is precisely what the entire Sphinx debate should be all about. The Sphinx is a unique structure – even if there were once two of them – an archaeological oddity. Once the Sphinx is properly inserted into the Gizeh framework, will one be able to find answers as to how precisely this complex came about. Judging from the cover and title of the book, this was precisely the premise this book would address, but in the end, however much we learn in the process, the book fails to deliver on any of the real Sphinx mysteries. Temple, Reader, Dobrev and all are nevertheless mounting a serious challenge to the status quo and it begins to prickle the powers that are at Gizeh. However, the evidence they use so far is too bespoke and too open to diverging interpretations. For all others, who use the Sphinx as a means to predate the entire Gizeh complex, it remains clear that the entire Pyramid Age was a project of the priesthood of Heliopolis. It is clear that the official historical time clearly shows improvements in building techniques and there is precious little difference between the Red Pyramid at Dashur and the Great Pyramid. Anyone who argues that the Great Pyramid was not built by Khufu, needs to explain the Red Pyramid and the Second Pyramid at Gizeh. If anyone argues the Great Pyramid is e.g. built in 10,000 BC, then they need to explain why the Red Pyramid or the Second Pyramid is not built in 10,000 BC either. But these are Temple’s immediate problems. Gizeh was a primeval hill, a place of creation. There is a “natural” role for a dog like Anubis to guard this site. We know that the dead and the living were ferried from one side of the Nile to the Gizeh plateau, at whose foot they were met by this creature, the Sphinx. This story, it is clear, is as old as Egypt. The question is whether the physical creation of a giant Anubis is as old, and whether the pyramids are contemporary, or whether official history does have it right, and that the priests of Heliopolis waited until the building skills were sufficiently evolved, so that the crowning glory of construction could finally be built at Gizeh, to underline its importance as a place of creation. That is the challenge for us all – and, when applied to Temple, the “Egyptian Dawn”.

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Sharon Lee Hoeft ROCHESTER — Sharon Lee Hoeft, 84, of Rochester, passed away peacefully Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, at her home. A celebration of her life will be held 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 869 7th Ave. SE in Rochester, Minn., with Rev. Ben Loos officiating and Rev. Craig Quiring co-officiating. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until time of the service. Burial will be in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery, Loon Lake, Minn. Ranfranz and Vine Funeral Home is honored to be serving the Hoeft family. To share a memory or condolence, please visit www.ranfranzandvinefh.com Sharon was born Jan. 4, 1935, in Mankato, Minn., to Myron and Doris (Johnson) Kammerer. She was a graduate of Mankato High School and attended Gustavus Adolphus College. On March 9, 1954, Sharon married Lee Hoeft. Sharon enjoyed camping, traveling and vacationing with her family, especially to the beach. She was an avid reader, a fantastic cook and loved to entertain. She was generous with her time, volunteering as a cub scout leader and later in life was a comfort to others as she volunteered with Hospice. Sharon was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Fairmont, Minn., St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Loon Lake, Minn. and a member of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Rochester, Minn. She was very active in church and also supported Lutherans for Life. Sharon was a spirited woman in a multitude of ways, believed in the power of prayer and had an immeasurable strength. She was strong willed, had a great sense of humor and was very proud of the family she raised. She is survived by her children, Leesa (Mike) Scott of Madelia, Minn., Marcie (Craig) Quiring of Coon Rapids, Minn., Vicki Hoeft Paskey of Fairmont, Minn., Bonnie Wolter Stadnick of Rochester, Minn., Kelly (Mark) Adamson of Oronoco, Minn., Dori (Doug Owings) Hoeft of St. Cloud, Minn., and Lee Paul Myron Hoeft of Rochester; 13 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and brother, Gary (Laurie) Kammerer. Sharon was preceded in death by her loving husband, Lee; son, Jess Hoeft; and her brother, Brian Kammerer. The family wishes to extend a special thank you to Interim Hospice for their kind and compassionate care.

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“It is dialectics that has given psychology its stability and its meaning, and which has delivered psychology from the alternatives of elementary materialism or vapid idealism, of crude substantialism or hopeless irrationalism. Through dialectics psychology is able to be at once a natural science and a human science, thus abolishing the division between consciousness and things that spiritualism has sought to impose on the universe. Marxist dialectics has enabled psychology to comprehend the organism and its environment, in constant interaction, as a single, unified whole.”- Henry Paul Wallon, Psychology and Dialectical Materialism, 1942. Henry Paul Hyacinthe Wallon was an accomplished French psychologist, philosopher, teacher, neuro-psychiatrist and an active politician. Born on June 15th, 1879, in Paris he was a thorough Marxist whose major works were in the field of child psychology and development. His theories were greatly influenced by Marxism’s interpretations in relation to the individual, social, emotional and cognitive development of children. He was the first psychologist who applied the concept of dialectical materialism in his psychological studies. According to the theories of Henry Wallon, child development is not a single step process. It takes place in continuous stages over a period of time. These stages are generally characterized by intelligence and affectivity. He also presented the concept of social and environmental factors impacting on the development of a child. He proposed his analysis on a dialectical model which comprised of concepts defining interpersonal bonds, attitudes and emotions in the development of a child. According to Wallon’s theories the primary stages concerning child development comprises of the impulsive and emotional stage, the sensorimotor and projective stage, the personalism stage, the categorical stage and the adolescence stage. Each of these stages has been characterized by the unique aspects essential to the development of a child. The first stage is the impulsive stage that starts from the time when a baby is born and lasts up to twelve months. This stage is characterized by affectivity where the infant develops his internal feelings through his environment. Then, the personalism stage is dominated by affectivity in which a child learns through an adult whom he assumes to be his role model. The next stage is known as projective stage characterized by intelligence. It lasts from one to three years and is dominated by intelligence. The child gets stimulated by the external world by developing his practical and discursive intelligence. The third stage is the categorical stage in which a child develops the capabilities of acquiring knowledge through memory and voluntary attention. The last stage is the adolescence stage which is characterized by affectivity. Henry Paul Wallon was also an active politician. He started his political career by joining the Socialist Political Party (SFIO) of French in 1931 as well as acquiring the membership of French Communist Party in 1942. He was also elected as Secretary of National Education in 1944.His literary works includes Psychological And Dialectical Materialism (1942), The Origins Of Thought In The Child (1947), Genetic Psychology (1956). He died on December 1st, 1962, in Paris. Henri Wallon . (2014). FamousPsychologists.org. Retrieved 04:07, January 29, 2020 from https://www.famouspsychologists.org/henri-wallon/ Henri Wallon [Internet]. 2014. https://www.famouspsychologists.org/henri-wallon/, January 29 " Henri Wallon ." 2014. FamousPsychologists.org 29 January, 2017 https://www.famouspsychologists.org/henri-wallon/ ' Henri Wallon ', FamousPsychologists.org,(2014) https://www.famouspsychologists.org/henri-wallon/ [accessed January 29, 2020] " Henri Wallon ," FamousPsychologists.org, https://www.famouspsychologists.org/henri-wallon/ (accessed January 29, 2020). Henri Wallon [Internet]. FamousPsychologists.org; 2014 [cited 2020 January 29]. Available from: https://www.famouspsychologists.org/henri-wallon/. Henri Wallon , https://www.famouspsychologists.org/henri-wallon/ (last visited January 29, 2020).

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US seeks to cement military foothold in Balkans. by vladimir Sun May 17th, 2009 at 05:42:20 AM EST ... or is it an attempt to further destabilise Europe? The US is apparently unhappy with the slow « progress » that the EU high representative has been making in bringing this international protectorate into NATO. In an effort to cement the US military presence in the region, on February 13 of this year, the US Congress voted in favour of scrapping the Dayton Agreements which brought peace to the region - and pushing in favour of a new political structure which would de facto abolish The Serb Republic and hand power to the Bosnian Muslims. Is this indeed just a step intended to protect Americas military gains or does it have some other purpose? Could it be a response... punishing Serbia for its acceptance of the South Stream project? Or could it be designed to foment instability and new military conflict on the European Continent? Whatever the answer, it seems clear that the European Union is being sidelined by the United States which is intent on running its own show in the Balkans... to the detriment of European interests. Here's the text approved by the US Congress. A Statistical Analysis of the ICTY's bias. by vladimir Sun Mar 15th, 2009 at 03:45:32 PM EST This diary follows up on an inconclusive discussion between JakeS and me regarding proof (or lack thereof) that the ICTY is a biased court. Here, I offer the results of a statistical analysis of the available data - mainly on war crimes in ex-Yugoslavia. In order to complete a statistically significant test, I started out by collecting specific data on the 3 separate conflicts in ex Yugoslavia: 1. the Bosnian conflict, 2. the Croatian conflict and 3. the Kosovo conflict. I went to the ICTY list of indicted individuals and separated according to the specific conflict where they stand accused of war crimes. For 7 Serbs (like Slobodan Milosevic) and others (mostly members of the FRY government or army and navy) who were not accused of a specific war crime in Bosnia or Croatia, I associated their indictment with events in Kosovo. This approach allowed me to isolate each war as an independent event, thereby eliminating the need to estimate which army killed which civilians. Here are the results of this analysis: These figure were then compared to the number of civilian casualties during each of these 3 wars. I limited the casualties to civilians because this is a priori what constitutes a war crime. Most of the civilian casualty figures were obtained from Wikipedia - which itself uses the ICTY, the Red Cross and for the Serbian civilian casualty figures in Kosovo, an EU funded project run out of Belgrade. You can easily find these estimates on Wikipedia. Here are the figures: In addition to a comparison of Serb versus non Serb accused by the ICTY, it is also pertinent to assess how the ICTY's treatment of Serbs (and others for that matter) compares to other tribunals established to prosecute war criminals - namely the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Nuremberg Trials. Here is the data that I found (on numerous sites for Nuremberg and the official ICTR site for Rwanda): The total casualty figure for Rwanda is 800 000. I subtracted 100 000 for military casualties and used the result for the analysis. For Nuremberg, I used a ballpark figure of 10 million civilian casualties, although the true number is probably much higher. Whether the figures used for civilian dead during WWII should be higher or lower is up to debate, but given the ratio of indicted and sentenced to civilian dead, another figure would have only a nominal impact on statistical significance test. Below is a table which offers a synthesis of the findings - per war and per ethnic group - all wars included (ex-Yugoslav wars, Rwanda and WWII). Ind : Cas = Ratio of Indicted to Casualties Snt : Cas = Ratio of Sentenced to Casualties By comparing the ratio of the Serb mean of Indicted versus enemy civilian casualties to the other group (Bosnians, Albanians, Tutsis, Germans and Croats) we see that we have 5,13 more Serbs convicted per enemy civilian casualty than the other groups. A `t test' analysis of the figures gives us a result of 2,89 for 6 degrees of freedom. This is equivalent to a 97,5% rate of certainty that the bias real (ie. that it's not just a statistical fluke). NB. For all those who want the original Excel analysis, I'll be more than happy to mail it to you. Below is a table which offers a synthesis of the findings - per war and per ethnic group - limited to the ex-Yugoslav wars. This analysis shows that 3,18 more Serbs are convicted per enemy civilian casualty than Bosnian Muslims, Albanians and Croats. This `t test' gives a result of 2,28 with 4 degrees of freedom - or a certainty rate in the range of 95%. A final comment on the casualty figures used for the war in Bosnia. Croats and Bosnian Muslims were lumped together (due to limited ICTY data) which puts my null hypothesis at a disadvantage in that the retained assumption (albeit forced and false) is that all Croat and Bosnian Muslim civilians were killed by Serbs - whereas in fact, there is ample evidence of ethnic cleansing and atrocities committed between Croats and Muslims (namely around Mostar). And now that the West has Karadzic by vladimir Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 at 06:21:11 PM EST The "world's most wanted war criminal" The "butcher of the Balkans" ... is now in the hands of Serb police and will soon be transferred to face justice in The Hague. A couple of weeks after Ramush Haradinaj was acquitted for his saintly activities in Kosovo... not long after Nasir Oric was released for his philanthropic activities around Srebrenica... at last we have a REAL WAR CRIMINAL in our hands. Although there is no doubt that atrocities were committed - indeed by all sides - this dragging of Serbia, its political leadership, its people through stale mud, systematically and without repeal over the past 15 years is, in my opinion, a systematized effort to show the world what happens when a nation refuses to kneel before Empire's boot. It's time for chicken in Ukraine by vladimir Tue Apr 22nd, 2008 at 04:33:37 PM EST Russian Information Agency (http://en.rian.ru/) just released a statement made by Alexei Ostrovsky, the head of the State Duma committee on CIS affairs: "Russia could claim Crimea if Ukraine joins NATO - MP A senior member of the Russian lower house of parliament said on Wednesday that Russia could claim the Crimea if Ukraine was admitted to NATO." This is the beginning of Ukraine's disintegration process. After the Crimea, it's likely that Eastern Ukraine will follow suit. In my opinion, this is precisely the outcome that US and European hawks are hoping for. A fratricidal war between Russia and the Ukrainians would weaken both and likely make it much more difficult for Russia to throw its diplomatic weight in other areas of the globe. Real power is the ability to preserve peace in your own territory. Diary rescue by Migeru Why Washington Plays 'Tibet Roulette' With China by vladimir Fri Apr 18th, 2008 at 04:57:57 PM EST By F. William Engdahl Washington has obviously decided on an ultra-high risk geopolitical game with Beijing's by fanning the flames of violence in Tibet just at this sensitive time in their relations and on the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. It's part of an escalating strategy of destabilization of China which has been initiated by the Bush Administration over the past months. It also includes the attempt to ignite an anti-China Saffron Revolution in the neighboring Myanmar region, bringing US-led NATO troops into Darfur where China's oil companies are developing potentially huge oil reserves. It includes counter moves across mineral-rich Africa. And it includes strenuous efforts to turn India into a major new US forward base on the Asian sub-continent to be deployed against China, though evidence to date suggests the Indian government is being very cautious not to upset Chinese relations. The current Tibet operation apparently got the green light in October last year when George Bush agreed to meet the Dalai Lama for the first time publicly in Washington. The President of the United States is not unaware of the high stakes of such an insult to Beijing. Bush deepened the affront to America's largest trading partner, China, by agreeing to attend as the US Congress awarded the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal. Full-article dump edited for copyright reasons by afew Towards Ukrainian separatism ? by vladimir Fri Dec 21st, 2007 at 07:19:07 AM EST Ukrainian Party of Regions to protect citizens in the face of political purges The Ukrainian Party of Regions will again be trying to protect and defend citizens in the face of political purges which began with the formation of the orange coalition government. The Party of Regions, led by ex-prime minister Viktor Yanukovich, said Thursday that highly qualified men and women who were doing their best for Ukraine were the first to be found redundant. The Party of Regions finds political persecution inadmissible. More than 18,000 employees of the executive branch of power were fired by orange President Yushchenko and orange prime minister Timoshenko about two years ago. Is this the beginning of a process to separate East Ukraine from West Ukraine? US policy in the Balkans: recipes for violence by vladimir Fri Dec 14th, 2007 at 05:21:16 AM EST There are theories circulating that US policy in the Balkans is benign and stability seeking. Those that promote these theories point to repeated US failures to facilitate peace in the region as blunders and errors for which they hold individual American diplomats accountable. The Vance-Owen plan, which was a real opportunity to reestablish the foundations of peace in the Balkans in January 1993, was scuttled by the US's James Baker. That led to a ruthless period of violence. The Rambouillet agreement was also scuttled, this time by the US's Madeleine Albright. That led to more violence. The current position expressed by Condoleeeza Rice will probably also lead to violence. What may help this final round of negotiations to succeed is the fact that today, contrary to 1993 and 1999, the American military is extremely overstretched and Russia is feeling significantly stronger. Nevertheless, it seems that whenever the US is involved in a peace plan in the Balkans, the result is not peace but war. The question of whether this is diplomatic blunder or orchestrated strategy is an important and controversial one that should have far reaching implications on EU-US relations. The theory put forth often by international experts is that US administrations seem to unintentionally (albeit systematically) mismanage international diplomacy, which then leads to accidental chaos. Simply put, this is unfathomable. If the United States government, with its nuclear arsenal and awesome military armada which annually spends $600 billion, or the equivalent of 50%-60% of the world's total spending on arms, can "unintentionally mismanage" international relations to the point of causing war then we all have grave cause for concern. If this is true, given their dismal track record, American Diplomats should be denied a space around future tables reserved for negotiating sensitive conflicts that can degenerate into violence. The other theory, which would seem more plausible, is that there is no smoke without a fire; US administrations are well oiled war machines with countless advisors, analysts and strategists receiving updated assessments from armies of informers throughout the world - including the Balkans. Baker and his colleague Warren Zimmerman must have known that by torpedoing the Vance-Owen plan Bosnia would slide into war. Madeleine Albright also knew that by including a clause demanding that Serbia allow NATO free reign within Serbia proper, the deal would become unpalatable to the Serbs and war would be inevitable. To make things worse, this clause was included following the Serb delegation's acceptance of an initial agreement tabled by the Americans, which would have granted Albanians in Kosovo self rule, guaranteed by an international military presence. Blunder or intent? In both instances, the evidence would support that war was the US regime's precise intent in the Balkans. And war was indeed the result. What, one would ask, does the US have to gain from violence in the Balkans? One of the answers is that the wars allowed the US to divide local ethnic groups in order to establish two military bases on ex Yugoslav territory; a modern, fully equipped air base in Tuzla, and another major army base in Kosovo - Bondsteel. It is highly likely that these military base would not be there today had the Vance Owen plan been implemented. Yet these bases form an integral part of a broader network of new military logistics and readiness centers throughout central and Eastern Europe. The justifications for intervention in the Balkans offered by the NATO protagonists are numerous, but certainly not linked to the humanitarian or philosophical considerations that are oh so often produced, such as ethnic cleansing, punishing aggression or rewarding democracy. These considerations have rarely and possibly never been drivers of American foreign policy anywhere in the world - whether in Saudi Arabia, Turkey or with South America's dictatorships. Likewise, Srebrenica, Gorazde and Racak are not the defining cornerstones of American policy in the Balkans, although they are atrocious realities of this war - as they could have been of any other war. The atrocities, real in many cases, serve the purpose of selling US foreign policy to the public and justifying the US regime's torpedoing of every viable peace plan which was or is on the table. This was the case with the Lisbon Agreement which was sunk because "the Serb aggressor should not be compensated". It was also the case in Rambouillet. Both resulted in a campaign of "bombing for peace" which should be understood in the context of a grander US plan in the region. The geopolitical motivation behind the US regime's quest for war in the Balkans is a subject that deserves a long discussion, but the major reason which was certainly on top of the Pentagon's priorities when it was advising Baker-Albright-Clinton and today Rice, was avoiding a return of Russian economic, political and eventually military influence in South-East Europe. This is still a key component driving US policy in South-East Europe as it is with Greece, where deep concern with the current military and energy deals that Athens signed with Russia are proliferating among the American intelligence community. The same geopolitical motivations were behind the Pentagon's efforts to separate Montenegro from Serbia. Here, the values of democracy and the rule of law were disregarded as the US administration provided financial and political support to Milo Djukanovic who is little more than a corrupt street thug wanted by Interpol. The geo-strategic objective was clear: by separating, then integrating Montenegro into Euro-Atlantic structures, the risk of resurgent Russia establishing naval bases in the Adriatic would all but disappear. The construction of NATO military infrastructure on ex Yugoslav soil to guarantee that Russians are kept at bay is truly impressive. The sheer size of the built bases speaks volumes of the US's geo-strategic intent to subdue the region and keep it by force for an undetermined period of time. Another reckless policy that the Pentagon has been promoting in South-East Europe with its efforts to support Albanian separatists in Kosovo is to do away with the concept that national boundaries are inviolable. It seeks to set a new precedent which could plunge Europe - from Spain to the Caucuses into chaos, by opening the door to demands emanating from all ethnic, linguistic or cultural minorities to establish their own nation states. Whether this could spell the beginning of slow disintegration of the European Union, from the Basques, to the Catalans, to the Flemish, Scots, Welsh and who knows which other ethnic group tomorrow, remains to be seen. But it is clear that the temptation will be significant for minorities throughout Europe to seek greater self-rule. To understand the motivations behind such Machiavellism, one need only look at the post WWII period during which the United States, relatively unscathed by the fighting, was left as the sole industrial and financial powerhouse on earth. Today, a destabilized, divided and bickering Europe would offer less attractive perspectives for investments and would serve to, inter alia, reinforce the US's positive net inflow of wealth. This would effectively reduce the threat of the Euro becoming the major international reserve currency at the expense of an already weakening dollar. Those who say that the Clinton-Baker-Albright (and now Rice...) teams have benign, stability seeking policies in Europe are apologists of the US regime's military efforts to subdue and dominate the Balkans at whatever the human cost. By propagating these beliefs, they offer comfort to the hawks that, whether on left or right, have nothing worthy to offer the world but violence. What is necessary is forceful condemnation of the US regime's multiple incursions to foment war in the Balkans, and its latest attempts to arm twist the international community into accepting Kosovo's independence without the UN Security Council's agreement. Not doing so is siding with the very same interest groups who are responsible for progressively eroding individual liberties within the United States. Human rights, freedom of expression or the freedom to live in peace shouldn't be the exclusive rights of American citizens. The deplorable demise of the US opposition is a result of the same forces which are at work in the Balkans. With the Democrats also trumpeting that "might is right" in the international arena, one can only question what their commitment will be to reversing the dramatic erosion of individual freedoms at home. Probably none. which leads us to the next question: where will the Pentagon stop? Breakdown of the American multi-party system - a slip towards dictatorship? by vladimir Tue Dec 11th, 2007 at 11:19:35 AM EST I urge you to read Hillary Clinton's international political agenda in a paper published in Foreign Affairs. (Security and Opportunity for the Twenty-first Century. Foreign Affairs, November/December, 2007). The article is fairly critical of a number of aspects of the current administration. Change in US foreign politics? Forget it. The criticism directed at the current Administration by Hillary shows that there are no fundamental changes in Washington's global policy to be expected in the foreseeable future. If elected, Hillary intends to continue with efforts to subdue Iraq. Her criticisms of Bush for the US military's involvement in Iraq should not be taken seriously. Bush also criticized Bill Clinton for the Yugoslav wars while he was a presidential contender. This is a game played often by the US Republicans and Democrats. In case Hillary makes it to the White House in 2008, she intends to complete the process of partitioning Iraq into three minor pseudo-independent states. Hillary's plans for Iraq and the withdrawal of the US troops from the country are immediately offset by the statement that «...we will have to replenish American power by getting out of Iraq, rebuilding our military, and developing a much broader arsenal of tools in the fight against terrorism». Same reasoning as that of Bush. We should expect to see « surgical strikes » against Al-Qaeda (a truly universal pretext) and some other terrorist groups, whose names are not hard to invent no matter what country is being dealt with. US military bases will remain in the Iraqi Kurdistan even after their withdrawal from the southern and central parts of Iraq. Bush is already creating the infrastructure for maintaining US troops in Kurdistan on a long-term basis. Minor differences exist between Hillary's and Bush's approaches to building up the US military might. For example, she says: «... I will work to expand and modernize the military ... the Bush Administration has undermined this goal by focusing obsessively on expensive and unproven missile defense technology... ». Seeking international consensus is not considered by Hillary. The plan is to pursue total and overwhelming US military and technological superiority. According to Hillary, Bush's major failure is that he hasn't done a sufficiently good job of this. Democratic controlled Congress recently allocated an extra $100 mln to create a space shuttle with a strike capability, which can hit targets from space orbit at distances over 16,500 km. Hillary also pledges to raise the efficiency of the US intelligence community, to turn it into «a clandestine service that is out on the street, not sitting behind desks». Obviously, this refers to a focus on the operations abroad. Reagarding Iran, the policy is the same as that of the current Administration. Regarding Russia, Hillary's opinion is that Moscow should support Washington's policy - stressing that this is of Russia's interest too. Balkan politics and EU values There are a number of reasons why leaders of the European Union are now supporting a small Muslim community to the detriment of an established Christian, European nation: It's difficult paddling upstream when your predecessors have gone halfway downstream If you nevertheless want to go back upstream, you need a motor - and in this case the motor is made in the USA Last, but not least, Serb values are at odds with the EU's - as you correctly point out - and this is the theme I'd like to develop a bit below. Post-Modern European Culture (let's call it PMEC) is based on the weakening of the central nation state, devolution of political, economic and cultural power to regions and the strengthening of the trans-national administration based in Brussels. Avoiding future wars, thought to be an ugly byproduct of multicultural competition in a limited geographic space, was to be made possible by reducing and eventually eliminating all aspects of national cultural heritage which could be eliminated. Take a look at Euro money - none of the monuments printed on it are for real - all imaginary. No mention of Christianity - even in the European Constitution. The new God is business. The new temple is the shopping mall and all else is perceived as a threat to stability. According to the new PMEC values, the European citizen is a consumer first and foremost - before being a Muslims, an atheist, a Catholic, a gay, a Frenchman or a Flamand. Anti discrimination is among the main preoccupations of Brussels. These values are supposed to create the foundation for a Universal European Super-state that transcends national and religious boundaries. Europe is built to espouse Muslim Turkey to the South and Orthodox Bulgaria to the East. Europe's values are Universal. In come the Serbs (damn them!) caught up not only in their 19th century infatuation with the ideals of the nation states but still unable to escape from the Battle of Kosovo against the Ottomans in 1389!!! Defiant and rebellious, they take up arms to fight for their ideal of a nation state, enshrining their cultural heritage above realpolitik. They burn mosques and their Muslim occupiers who threaten their physical existence in order to create culturally homogenous entities and preserve their "primitive" values. 100 years ago, their appeals would have been understood and supported in most of Europe's capitals. Today, it's not surprising that leaders of PMEC saw this as a danger and felt obliged to brand the Serbs as "barbaric" and "behind their time". But at closer look, Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Albanians are also promoting the ideals of the nation state with a single dominant culture. After all, are these values really so primitive? Look at what's happening with the Basques, with the Flemish and the Wallons, with the Scots, the Welsh, the Frisians. Europe can and will become irrelevant if it doesn't do more to promote its unique Judeo-Christian heritage, its languages, its national culture, ... And if it succeeds in whitewashing all of us into armies of consumer, it risks demise either by a nationalistic backlash or by today's Muslim minority which is the fastest growing segment of the European population. Most Muslims living in Europe haven't abandoned their cultural and religious values - and this will come to the foreground as soon as their communities are numerically and financially strong enough. If Europe is to thrive, its value system needs to grow beyond the confines of commerce. It needs to revive and celebrate its cultural heritage. EU close to full unity on Kosovo: REUTERS by vladimir Mon Dec 10th, 2007 at 07:36:41 AM EST This is a perfect example of our free, democratic and unbiased media in the "West". Not even unity... they're talking about FULL UNITY - when the following countries are opposed to a UDI : Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia. It gets better, read this: Leaders of the 27-nation bloc are expected to declare at a summit on Friday that negotiations have been exhausted and that the future of both Serbia and Kosovo lies in the European Union, diplomats said." Now, how would the French feel if US Congress declared that "negotiations have been exhausted and the future of France is within the United States". Or, how would the EU react if Russia proclaimed "negotiations have been exhausted and the future of Georgia and Abkhazia is within the Russian Federation." And it continues: Western diplomats say Russia has to recognize it is virtually isolated. "The question for the Russians is have they changed their position? They've had the further negotiating effort they wanted and there was no agreement," one senior Western envoy said. Of course there was no agreement. Camp Bond Steel (aka Kosovo) never wanted an agreement. If there is no Russian change, then the idea is to change the status of Kosovo on the basis of existing (Security Council) resolutions," the envoy said. That would effectively take the issue away from the United Nations. The conclusion is the best. It says: if the law doesn't allow it, then we'll do it anyway and say it's within the law. Let's shut the League of Nations and prepare for chaos. Now who could possibly profit from chaos in Europe? In the world?

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Home [english] Region Europe & Central Asia Russia RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Shameful RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Shameful anti-LGBT bill must be voted down! Urgent Appeal The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), calls for the Russian Duma to vote down Draft Federal Law n°44554-6, which is scheduled to be examined in first reading on December 19, 2012. Under the pretext of protecting the rights of minors, the Draft Federal Law n°44554-6 risks to sanction de facto public demonstrations and gatherings of human rights defenders advocating for the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals (LGBT). If adopted, this text would indeed amend the Russian Code of Administrative Law Violations and make the promotion of homosexuality among minors an administrative offence under federal law. Accordingly, organisations or individuals defending the rights of LGBT or showing their belonging to sexual minorities could be condemned, and fined to up to 500,000 rubles (about 12,500 euros). Since the concept of “promotion of homosexuality” is not defined in the bill, this would open the door to abusive interpretations, with the aim to stifle the legitimate activities of LGBT groups in favour of fundamental freedoms. The examination of the bill takes place in a context in which over the past years LGBT groups in the Russian Federation have increasingly been harassed – legally, judicially, verbally and physically. At the legal level, on February 29, 2012, a bill prohibiting public activities “promoting homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism among minors” was approved in third reading by the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg. It came into force shortly after. The prohibition of so-called “promotion of homosexuality” is already in force in a number of other regions such as Ryazan region since 2006, as well as Arkhangelsk and Kostroma regions since 2011. At the judicial level, a number of LGBT activists have been facing abusive charges for promoting activities defending the rights of LGBT persons: in Saint Petersburg, shortly before the passage of the local law, on February 8, 2012, six LGBT activists were arrested during a protest before the Legislative Assembly, as they were calling for LGBT rights. Five of them were then abusively charged under the Administrative Code. On May 4, 2012, the Zentralnyi District Municipal Court of Saint Petersburg sentenced Mr. Nikolai Alexeyev, a prominent LGBT rights activist, lawyer and head of the LGBT Human Rights Project GayRussia.Ru, to a 5,000 rubles fine (approximately 127 euros) under charges of “promoting homosexual propaganda” under the recently enacted legislation. Mr. Alexeyev had been arrested on April 12, 2012 while picketing alone in front of the Smolny Institute holding a sign which affirmed that “homosexuality is not a perversion”. He was then shortly detained by the authorities before being released. At the verbal level, a number of public figures have taken hostile stances against LGBT activities. In February 2012, the President of the Legislative Committee of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg, Mr. Vitaly Milonov, compared homosexuality with drug-trafficking and paedophilia. Most recently, an article published in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper alleged that people of “non traditional sexual orientation” were exploiting the government to impose their unusual lifestyles upon other people, and suggested that States should have the right to act as a censor in the private domain. Such slandering statements by officials fuel the level of homophobia within the Russian population, and lead to increasing acts of intimidation against LGBT persons and activists, notably from extremist groups. “I firmly denounce this shameful draft legislation, and I call for its immediate withdrawal, as well as for the immediate abrogation of similar legislations which are already in force at the regional level” FIDH President Souhayr Belhassen said today. “If adopted, such a text would further consolidate the repressive legislative arsenal, dramatically strengthened over the past months to further strike down all human rights activities in the country. This is unacceptable” she added. “This law runs directly counter a ruling by the United Nations Human Rights Committee in October of this year (Fedotova vs Russia) that held Russia in violation of human rights by penalising a picket for homosexuals. Rather than promoting tolerance and complying with the decision as one should have expected this piece entrenches discrimination and violations of freedom of speech and assembly”, said Gerald Staberock, OMCT Secretary General. The Observatory calls on the Russian authorities to fully conform with the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, and in particular with Articles 6 (b), 6 (c), and 12.2. Member organisations - Russia CITIZENS’ WATCH (CW) Human rights centre "Memorial" The Anti-Discrimination Center "Memorial" appelobs Russia: ‘Foreign Agents’ Bill Threatens Journalists Russia: Judicial harassment of members of "Siberia Without Torture" Mr. Svyatoslav Khromenkov and Ms. Natalya... Russia: Pro-Democracy Protesters Undeterred by Repression Iran: New report documents the systematic criminalisation of human rights defenders

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Standing Up To Federal Regulations that Harm Children & Families Anais Duran First 5 LA Government Affairs Strategist This past year, a tide of federal regulatory proposals from the Trump Administration has come out against immigrant and low-income communities — and that tide has not receded. On the surface, these policies appear to primarily impact immigrants and underserved communities. But when looked at more closely, these are ultimately policies that harm children the most. While the link between children and these proposed regulations is not always clear, further analysis demonstrates that these proposed rule changes — such as the expansion of the “public charge” rule, the cuts to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and the prohibition of mixed immigration status families living in subsidized housing — disproportionately impact young children. This is especially true in California, where there are three million children under the age of five, nearly half of whom are children of immigrants. Given the sheer number of Californians living in or close to poverty — including 26.1 percent of L.A. County children, as well as approximately 19.3 percent of California children who would live in poverty if not for safety net programs like CalFresh or the Earned Income Tax Credit — a lot is at stake for children and their ability to succeed and thrive. This is why First 5 LA — an organization that works to benefit all children in Los Angeles County — has played an active role opposing the various federal regulations that jeopardize the well-being of California’s youngest residents. At First 5 LA, we believe that a whole child approach is pivotal to ensuring the optimal development of children. This means fighting to protect the policies and practices that ensure children in communities have access to quality early learning, health services, adequate nutrition and housing. One of the main regulations First 5 LA has opposed is the Trump Administration’s attempted expansion of the “public charge” rule. Expanding the definition of public charge would make it easier for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to deny green card status to immigrants who have used or are likely to use public services to care for themselves and their children. This, in turn, would force parents to choose between accessing basic programs that safeguard their families’ health, nutrition, housing and economic security or seeking residency status that could lead to their citizenship. Though the public charge regulation (which was set to go into effect on October 15) is currently blocked by a legal injunction, its “chilling effect" is already being felt throughout the state and the nation.Out of confusion and fear, immigrants are preemptively dropping out of public programs to protect their immigration status. In collaboration with national, state and local partners, efforts made by First 5 LA have proved valuable given the current halt of the regulation. Over the course of more than a year, First 5 LA has worked with partners to shape the outcome of the regulation and has been a resource to policymakers and communities on how the public charge will harm children and families. In addition, First 5 LA, working with First 5 California and the First Association, was able to leverage the First 5 network across the state to educate our partners on the harmful effects of the proposal.More than 260,000 public comments were submitted to the Federal Register, with a significant number coming from California, and most of which opposed the regulation. Along with our philanthropic partners, First 5 LA was featured in a California newspaper ad opposing the proposed public charge rule. The ad highlighted the threat the rule posed to children and called for the protection of families. Throughout this journey, First 5 LA has advocated against the public charge rule with policymakers and their staff, and has been engaged in recruiting additional co-sponsors to Congresswoman Judy Chu’s (D-27) “No Federal Fund For Public Charge Act,” which would prevent DHS from using any federal dollars to implement the regulation. First 5 LA has taken steps to oppose other proposed regulations that would harm children and families, including: The “Consumer Inflation Measure Produced by Federal Statistical Agencies,” proposed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which would lower the nation’s poverty line and reduce both the number of income-eligible Californians who qualify for certain supportive services as well as the levels of assistance many children and families can receive, such as Medicaid, CHIP, Head Start and SNAP. The “Housing and Community Development Act of 1980: Verification of Eligible Status,” proposed by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which would prohibit “mixed status” immigrant families from living in public or other subsidized housing, and would force families to either separate in order to continue to receive housing assistance, forego assistance altogether, or face termination from the subsidy programs. This regulation would affect the stability of families and put them at risk of becoming homeless. The “Revision of Categorical Eligibility in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),” proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which would require states like California to restrict households with slightly higher incomes — yet still experience financial hardships — from participating in SNAP (called CalFresh in California). More than three-quarters of SNAP benefits go to families with children. Implementing the change would take benefits away from 3.1 million individuals nationwide and leave an estimated 1 million school-aged children without free and reduced school lunch. These are just a few snapshots of some regulations coming out of the Trump Administration that jeopardize the well-being of children. An attack on immigrant communities and underserved families is a direct attack on children and California’s future. Children deserve to live in households that have economic and housing stability. They deserve proper nutrition and access to health care and safety net services essential for their well-being. Most importantly, all children deserve an opportunity to succeed in school and in life, regardless of their family’s background, their zip code or the color of their skin. First 5 LA, in partnership with others, will always advocate for policies and regulations that best support this truth — especially when it means standing up to federal regulations that put the well-being of our state’s most vulnerable residents at stake. Tags: Blogs / News & Resources

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10 Contemporary Irish Authors You Need To Know There are many ways we can celebrate St. Patrick’s Day: go on a bender, kiss everyone in sight, projectile vomit into some shrubbery, be the bastard who pinches someone for not wearing an appropriate amount of green, or all of the above. In addition to the general acts of vandalism and stupidity that will take place in a matter of hours, we suggest you pick up a copy of The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story, edited by Anne Enright. We’ve come up with a list of ten contemporary Irish authors you need to know, because they’re masters of their craft, and because you’re going to need a big book to hide under when you commute to work tomorrow. As Enright writes in the introduction: “If Ireland loves you, then you must be doing something wrong.” Here’s to the dreamers, the misanthropes, and the lonely souls contained in this collection, and long live the short story. 1. Colum McCann – “Everything in this Country Must” A girl and her father attempt to save a horse caught in a deluge. Katie says, “He gave me the length of rope with the harness clip and I knew what to do.” McCann won the National Book Award for his last novel, Let the Great World Spin, about the death-defying feats of funambulist Philippe Petit. 2. Claire Keegan – “Men and Women” Keegan writes about a strained relationship between a couple attending a New Year’s Eve dance and the through the eyes of their young daughter. Antarctica is Keegan’s highly-praised debut, which The Observer proclaimed to be “among the finest contemporary stories to be published in English.” 3. Colm Tóibín – “A Priest in the Family” The author of Brooklyn writes about an elderly woman who receives a visit from her local priest one day, telling her that her pious son has molested his students. Her daughter arrives to console her, only to be met with the hostility of a woman who was kept in the dark. 4. John McGahern – “The Key” “As an army in peacetime their main occupation was boredom.” This story details the death of a character known as The Sergeant, and the fate of the youth that are under his care. McGahern’s best-known novel, Amongst Women, tells the story of an obstinate IRA veteran who intimidates his family into submission. 5. Mary Lavin – “Lilacs” Ros and her husband, Phelim, live with two prissy daughters who are ashamed that their father made his money through peddling dung. It’s an interesting take on class and gender issues by this notable short story author who published her first short story collection in the early 1940s. In a Cafe is a recent compilation of Lavin’s short stories, as chosen by her daughter, Elizabeth. 6. Neil Jordan – “Night in Tunisia” “He became obsessed with twilights; he would wait for them, observe them, he would taste them as he would a sacrament.” An oversexed teenage boy drifts through a summer and daydreams about an older girl. Jordan’s latest novel, Mistaken , was released last year. 7. Éilís Ní Dhuibhne – “Midwife to the Fairies” In this story, a midwife is called on one night to assist a woman in labor, only to have to keep a terrible secret from the police in the days that follow. Dhuibhne’s novel, Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow is an Irish take on Anna Karenina. 8. Seán Ó Faoláin – “The Trout” In this compact story, Ó Faoláin writes about a girl and her younger brother who find a “panting trout” in shallow waters. For those interested in following Ó Faoláin’s footsteps, the annual Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize is sponsored by the Munster Literature Centre, and offers a 1,500 Euro prize to the winner. 9. Clare Boylan – “Villa Marta” Sally and Rose are two young women on the hunt for a good time while in Spain: “They wondered if you were hopelessly, truly in love, would you know because you would even think a man’s thing was nice-looking.” Boylan’s Victorian mystery, Emma Brown, uses Charlotte Brontë’s last manuscript as the first two chapters of this novel. 10. William Trevor – “The Dressmaker’s Child” This heartbreaking story was published in The New Yorker in 2004, and Trevor received an O. Henry Award for it in 2006. His novel, Love and Summer , was released last year, and was a nominee for the Man Booker Prize. Trevor is known as a short story writer, and those who have read him consistently put him at the top of their list of favorite writers. The man can do no wrong.

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7 Things We’d Like to See in Any Prestige Cable Show About Witches By Michelle Dean Per the Hollywood Reporter, HBO and Jenji Kohan are developing a show related to the Salem witch trials. The creator of Weeds and Orange Is the New Black, Kohan cut her teeth in comedy, so it seems likely this would fall into that category too. Also, it remains to be seen if there will be actual witches in it or if it will be a Crucible-inflected interpretation of the genre. But I have to tell you that I am LONGING for a serious show about witches. I mean, a show that goes deep on witches. Takes them seriously, makes them pretty, isn’t afraid to be dark and twisted in the less jokey sort of way that shows like True Blood are. Approaches the level of seriousness, I’m saying, of a Game of Thrones, which is to say being quite solemn about the matter of witchcraft without jumping off the too-serious ledge. And I would like that show to contain the following elements: 1. Cats. I have been wondering this for awhile now, but: where are the cats on American Horror Story? Cats and witches are two great tastes that go great together. Doing a show about witches without a significant cat component is a totally ridiculous and unjustifiable deprivation. 2. Runes. Every time I think about witches on television I think about this scene from the Season 4 finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and wait for runes to pop up. But they seem to have fallen out of fashion since we all wore them as chokers in the mid-1990s. More runes please. 3. Any form of not-white-lady witchcraft other than Hollywood “voodoo.” Voodoo always pops up in these shows, in no small part due to the well-known story of Tituba, the slave woman who was at the center of the Salem witch trials. We don’t actually know for sure where Tituba was “from,” though often people assume she was from a Caribbean country, usually Barbados. Hence the voodoo connection. And not only is that association a casual one, the treatment of non-Western forms of witchcraft is usually crappy and trashy. I would really love to see a show with a serious understanding and address of magic. Seriously. 4. No sparkles. Nothing annoys me more than having sparkles shoot from the fingers of witches. Not everything associated with women needs to have sequins, and I count the dark arts as items whose existence is not improved by twinkling. 5. Sex. Like, real sex. Charmed was weirdly cute and prudish about the conduct of magic, and that aesthetic has been dominating witches in pop culture for quite a while now. The witches are always nice girls, and nice girls somehow don’t actually do the sex a lot, in the WB aesthetic. One of the stronger parts of American Horror Story is that it’s less afraid to touch on the eroticism, although this season has been a bit more reticent than those past to get explicit about it, by my gauge. I want a show that keeps the sex and tangles it with the magic. This is the joy of cable. 6. No “goody” this and “goody” that. Of course it’s quite possible that this hypothetical witch show will not be set in colonial Salem and that the whole “Goody” form of address, imposed on us by Arthur Miller, will be dropped anyway. But I guess what I want is less gobbledygook jargon as a whole. 7. Actual psychological depth. Witches, as a whole, are usually given surface treatment. They are usually Good or Evil, and might as well be residing in the cardinal directions for all the depth they’re given beyond that. I long for someone who has a subtler understanding of psychology dealing with this particular subject. The dark arts are sometimes just another defense mechanism, a mode of conflict avoidance that involves, I don’t know, simply sending your enemy up in magical flames. Some of the 1990s witch stuff approached this, particularly the Willow/Tara arc on Buffy and the underrated The Craft.

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North Melbourne defeats Hawthorn Round 20, Marvel Stadium, Attendance: 33226 Friday, 2nd August 2019, 7:50 PM AEST North Melbourne Betting Odds: Win 1.87, Line -1.5 @ 1.91 Brownlow Votes: 3: S Higgins, 2: J Ziebell, 1: J Worpel North Melbourne 1.2 5.6 9.11 12.14 86 Hawthorn 4.4 6.5 8.7 9.10 64 North Melbourne Player Stats | Hawthorn Player Stats | Match Head to Head Stats | Scoring Breakdown | Highlights North Melbourne Match Statistics (Sorted by Disposals) Coach: Rhyce Shaw Shaun Higgins 15 13 28 5 2 0 2 0 2 5 7 1 2 3 0 109 140 Paul Ahern 18 8 26 3 0 0 1 0 1 5 1 3 8 1 0 84 108 Jared Polec 16 7 23 2 0 0 2 0 0 6 0 3 0 0 0 76 67 Todd Goldstein 14 8 22 5 0 0 2 28 0 1 3 5 2 0 2 103 118 Ben Cunnington 7 14 21 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 8 3 1 0 0 60 66 Jasper Pittard 12 7 19 8 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 2 2 0 0 82 80 Trent Dumont 8 11 19 4 0 1 8 0 1 2 0 1 4 0 0 91 91 Jack Ziebell 13 5 18 3 3 1 5 0 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 97 120 Jamie MacMillan 11 7 18 6 0 0 4 0 0 2 1 3 5 1 1 79 85 Marley Williams 8 10 18 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 52 81 Robbie Tarrant 7 8 15 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 55 72 Jy Simpkin 8 7 15 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 4 2 2 2 1 61 62 Ben Brown 12 2 14 6 4 3 4 5 0 0 1 3 0 3 1 106 117 Taylor Garner 8 5 13 3 0 1 4 0 1 4 2 3 0 0 0 60 67 Mason Wood 8 4 12 2 2 3 1 0 0 3 0 3 0 2 1 56 65 Cameron Zurhaar 5 7 12 1 1 0 9 0 0 1 2 2 0 3 0 77 76 Tarryn Thomas 5 7 12 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 2 1 0 1 36 50 Scott Thompson 6 4 10 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 2 0 3 27 35 Kayne Turner 3 6 9 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 35 49 Sam Durdin 7 2 9 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 2 28 52 Nick Larkey 4 4 8 4 0 2 2 3 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 45 41 Luke D-Uniacke 5 3 8 3 0 0 3 0 1 2 2 3 0 2 1 41 36 Hawthorn Match Statistics (Sorted by Disposals) Coach: Alastair Clarkson James Worpel 21 16 37 5 0 1 5 0 2 6 11 5 3 1 2 126 149 Jaeger O'Meara 15 11 26 6 0 1 4 0 1 3 5 6 0 0 3 93 82 Liam Shiels 11 13 24 1 0 0 8 0 0 1 1 7 0 0 1 91 63 Shaun Burgoyne 12 11 23 7 0 0 6 0 0 1 2 0 7 0 0 103 101 Ricky Henderson 11 10 21 5 0 1 0 0 1 3 2 2 3 0 0 69 67 Daniel Howe 10 9 19 4 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 7 0 2 2 64 60 Blake Hardwick 9 10 19 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 2 4 0 0 68 92 Grant Birchall 10 7 17 4 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 66 57 Mitchell Lewis 8 8 16 4 3 2 4 1 0 2 0 3 0 3 0 92 95 Benjamin Stratton 4 10 14 4 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 49 74 Luke Breust 7 6 13 4 1 0 1 0 0 4 1 4 0 1 1 53 50 Tim O'Brien 8 4 12 3 1 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 59 83 James Frawley 7 4 11 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 7 0 2 38 41 Ben McEvoy 3 7 10 2 0 0 2 43 0 1 3 1 2 1 0 81 92 Paul Puopolo 2 7 9 1 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 38 55 Oliver Hanrahan 5 3 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 24 33 North Melbourne Statistic Hawthorn 12 Goals Kicked 9 North Melbourne Attribute Hawthorn North Melbourne Games Hawthorn North Melbourne First Quarter Hawthorn Trailing by 20 End of Quarter Leading by 20 North Melbourne Second Quarter Hawthorn Trailing by 5 Halftime Leading by 5 North Melbourne Third Quarter Hawthorn North Melbourne Final Quarter Hawthorn Won game by 22 End of Game Lost game by 22 North Melbourne First Half Hawthorn Lost half by 5 Result Won half by 5 North Melbourne Second Half Hawthorn

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The Best General Contractors in Kansas The 15th-largest state by area, Kansas is known for its vast farms, stunning Southwestern architecture, and friendly locals. With welcoming neighborhoods, great schools, a booming job market, a low cost of living, and affordable house prices (the median home value is $137,800), Kansas is the perfect place to settle down and start a family. And the state’s affordability is not limited to rural areas, as even the Kansas’ largest city, Wichita, is known for being both an affordable and pleasant place to live. Although there are several types of homes in Kansas’ neighborhoods, old, Southwestern-style homes are the most common throughout the state. Many Kansas residents (or “Kansans”) opt for buying these cheap old, homes so they can remodel the houses at a low cost. Completing these remodels and transforming old homes into beautiful, modern living spaces are talented contractors in Kansas and its border states, including Missouri. These contractors not only renovate kitchens and bathrooms, but also install home additions. Here, we list the 15 best general contractors in Kansas, based on notable accolades and significant projects. Five of these contractors are based in Kansas City, Missouri, but complete several projects in Kansas. If you are thinking about building a custom home, we recommend checking each builder’s license with the local licensing board, speaking to past clients, and using our bidding system to get competitive quotes from at least 3 contractors. Getting multiple bids is the best way to ensure you get a fair price and that bids include the complete scope of work. 15) Heiman Development Company 635 E 117 Terrace, Kansas City, MO, 64131 Established in 1985 by Greg Heiman, who wanted to provide the highest quality craftsmanship to his community, Heiman Development Company is one of the oldest contractors in Kansas City, Missouri. The firm is a staple in the community, and its designs are familiar and timeless. Sophisticated ranch-style remodels are prevalent in the firm’s portfolio, which also demonstrates the Heiman Development’s penchant for using wood molding and custom cabinetry to make designs both functional and stylish. Throughout its years in operation, Heiman Development Company has received several awards, the most recent of which are Remodeling Magazine’s Big50 Award and 2013 Remodel of the Year (REMY) award from the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI). With several years in the industry, the firm has become an expert in remodeling different spaces, including kitchens, bathrooms, basements, windows and siding, and decks and porches. In addition to residential and commercial remodeling, the firm provides room additions and even installs home theaters. 14) Built by Design 9393 W 110th St., Ste. 500 Overland Park, KS, 66210 Despite having successful careers in managing high-visibility, multi-million dollar remodeling and construction projects, Dave Schmidt and Mike Schwartz dreamed of owning a customer-centered firm that could provide direct and honest communication with its clients. So, in 2004 Schmidt and Schwartz abandoned their corporate jobs to establish Built by Design. Since then, Built by Design has received several prestigious awards, including four REMY awards and a “Best Whole Home Remodel” distinction from Prestige Magazine. Built by Design’s website is filled with helpful insights for homeowners. The firm’s articles range from budget tips to remodeling tips, or a combination of both, such as an article that discusses how to transform an outdated floor plan into a more functional home without breaking the bank. 13) ALH Home Renovations 4710 Mission Road, Roeland Park, KS, 66205 Although he has been leading ALH Home Renovations since 1999, Allen Harris has been involved in the remodeling industry since the young age of 12 working with his father Allen SR who gives all credit for any success with his remodeling and design career to his Father. With this extensive professional background, Harris has no trouble leading the firm, whose philosophy is to always find “a new way to think”— whether remodeling designs or the remodeling process itself. The firm’s design-build services include providing complex additions, such as in a home in Kansas City Missouri, which won the 2018 Chrysalis Award as well as the “2017 REMY Best of Show” Other awards that they won include 17 “REMY” Awards spanning from 2008 to 2018, 4 “REMY” Best of Show Awards, 4 “KCHG” awards (Kansas City Homes and Gardens Magazine), 4 National “Coty” awards (Contractor of the Year), 2 Chrysalis Awards, 4 National “Master Design Awards” for Qualified Remodeler Magazine and a National “Remodeling Magazines BIG 50” Award Class of 2011. ALH consistently demonstrates that it is progressive and open to change. Notably, ALH Home Renovations was featured on the KSHB channel for its excellent work in dismantling gender roles in the construction industry. The firm’s Certified Lead Carpenter is Alex Williams, who is one of the only 8.9% of women in the construction industry. Initially, the homeowners only wanted a simple remodel because some of the rooms were too small. ALH Home Renovations decided that the best solution would be a modern addition. The addition was expensive, but it was a practical choice because the existing floor plan was outdated. ALH ultimately improved the house’s value and thrives on the synergistic process that occurs when working intimately to achieve personal and unique designs for each invaluable client. 12) Brown Remodeling and Restoration 16250 Foster Overland Park, KS, 66085 Brown Remodeling and Restoration is one of the most popular remodeling firms in its area. Since its establishment in 1995, the firm has developed a loyal clientele through repeat customers and referrals. Now, the firm has gained more clients through regular appearances on KKLO (Fox News Radio’s Kansas affiliate). In addition, the firm has won three Contractor of the Year (CoTY) awards, four 2015 REMY awards, and five 2012 NARI awards. The firm’s style is mostly traditional Southwestern, but Brown elevates this style by giving it a more polished look. Also, the firm differentiates its style from the competition by pairing bold colors with traditional remodels. This project is a typical ranch-style kitchen, but a pop of red gives the space a more contemporary look, and the addition of hardwood floors makes the space more polished. 11) Mission Kitchen and Bath 5845 Horton Ste 201, Mission, KS, 66202 Established in 1994, Mission Kitchen and Bath boasts of having the most experienced team of builders in the remodeling industry. This team is headed by Certified Kitchen and Bath Remodeler Al Felman, who’s been in the industry since 1977. Felman has employed a team of superior craftsmen who are Certified, Lead Carpenters. In its 25 years of service, the firm has received more than 30 REMY awards. The firm was also part of Remodeling Magazine’s 2015 Top 550 builders in the nation. Mission Kitchen and Bath uses European elegance to refurbish the traditional Southwestern style often found in outdated homes in Kansas. The firm’s 2016 and 2017 REMY award-winning projects featured prominent European influences. The 2016 REMY kitchen remodel was a traditional kitchen designed with Victorian-style cabinets and European-inspired light fixtures, while the firm’s 2017 REMY bathroom remodel featured prominent European influences—specifically an open concept reminiscent of European baths. 10) Architectural Craftsmen 10312 Walmer St., Overland Park, KS, 66212 Architectural Craftsmen is run by husband and wife duo Joe and Mary Thompson. Joe specializes in architecture and history, while Mary has a design and project management background. This explains why the firm aims to bring a more architectural take to remodeling. The couple believes that every home has a story to tell. Architectural Craftsmen tells the stories of the homes it serves through intricate architecture that is executed with superior craftsmanship. Besides remodeling, the firm also specializes in historical renovations, as Joe and Mary are members of Historic Kansas City. The majority of the firm’s historical renovations are award-winning projects that have earned the firm multiple NARI and REMY awards from 2017 to 2010. One of these projects is an 1897 home that was transformed into a contemporary house. Its ranch elements are evident through the exposed wood beams, which feature intricate Victorian moldings. 9) CHC Design Build 15519 W 84th St., Lenexa, KS, 66219 CHC Design Build is a remodeler that specializes in custom work for every homeowner. Principal Designer Kevin Transue is personally involved in each remodel to ensure that his ideas are incorporated into all of the firm’s projects. One of Transue’s impressive designs is an equipment barn that was transformed into a beautiful party barn. This unique design won the Design with a Passion Distinction from HGTV’s Fresh Faces. In addition, the firm has a total of 14 REMY awards. CHC Design Build has produced many stunning addition projects, including the transformation of a simple porch addition into a unique screened deck. The project is reminiscent of a modern greenhouse; but instead of housing plants, the space serves as an entertainment room. The screened fireplace below the plasma television makes the space perfect for a warm, cozy movie night. 8) Remodel Moore 3115 Gillham Rd., Kansas City, MO, 64109 Remodel Moore is a product of Kevin Moore’s love for historical homes and remodeling. Founded in 2004, the firm is one of the leading historical restoration builders in Kansas City, Missouri. In addition, the firm completes several remodeling projects in Kansas. The firms remodel of a home in Kansas City’s Art District won a 2017 NARI for Historical Renovation/Restoration under $250K. The outdated 90s kitchen layout was not functional for the family anymore. The firm decided to maximize the kitchen’s space by granting more functionality to each part of the room. A butler’s pantry and a bar were installed for guests, and a cramped corner was transformed into a cozy corner that’s perfect for a cocktail at the end of the day. Notably, Remodel Moore also donates all of its unusable building materials and appliances to a local organization. Their awards include the 2015 NARI REMY- Interior Remodel over $150,000 (Gold), 2015 NARI REMY- Best of Show $150,000- $250,000, 2015 NARI REMY- Historical Renovation/Restoration Under $250,000 (Gold), 2016 NARI REMY- Interior Remodel $75,000-$150,000 (Silver), 2017 NARI REMY- Historical Renovation/Restoration Under $250,000 (Gold), 2014 Kansas City Home & Garden- Best Bathroom (Gold). 7) Kitchen Design Gallery 13406 Santa Fe Trail Dr Lenexa, KS 66215 Shawn McCune established Kitchen Design Gallery in 1995 to bring an exciting change to the monotonous lives of every homeowner. The goal of Kitchen Design Gallery is to provide high-quality remodels through the careful assessment of a home’s space and floor plan. One of the firm’s kitchen remodels won a 2012 REMY award for the transformation of a traditional kitchen into a Victorian colonial home. Its ceilings were raised, and French doorways were incorporated into the lower living area to make the rooms more open. Kitchen Design Gallery’s most recent awards include a 2014 National Kitchen and Bath award, two Kansas City Home and Garden Magazine awards, and four 2010 NARI CoTY awards. The use of open space in the firm’s projects is evident. For instance, in a recent project the open space concept was incorporated into the kitchen and family room. Before the remodel, the kitchen and family rooms were cramped and closed off, but when these rooms were combined there was more space for entertaining guests. 6) Kliethermes Homes and Remodeling 5251 W. 116th Place, Leawood, KS, 66211 With more than 40 years of experience, Kliethermes Homes and Remodeling is one of the longest-running firms in Missouri. Founder Dan Kliethermes has ensured that the business continues to be run by his family. His son, Cale, serves as the current president of the firm and recently expanded the firm’s services to Kansas. Although it has been winning awards since 1998, the firm has earned even more prestigious awards under Cale’s leadership. These recent distinctions include being part of Remodeling Magazine’s 2016 Top 550, Qualified Remodelers Magazine’s 2016 Top 500, and a 2018 Guild Quality Guildmaster award. Although Kliethermes’ designs have remained traditional throughout the years, the firm’s remodels are modern. Kliethermes often uses hardwood floors and ranch-style cabinets, which is updated with modern furniture. The firm’s designs also exude a warm, rustic feel. 5) Rhino Builders 1040 Merriam Lane, Kansas City, KS, 66103 In 1996, Terry E. Skilling founded Rhino Builders in hopes of being the leading residential remodeling and consulting firm in the Kansas metroplex. With more than 20 years of experience in the industry, Skilling aims for his firm to provide a wide range of services that cater to every homeowner. The firm’s versatility is reflected in its style, which spans from creative-themed rooms to modern Southwestern remodels. The style of one of the firm’s bathrooms remodels was inspired by a 15th-century sailing ship. Despite the dated theme, the firm kept the look of the space updated by blending antique timbers with blue quartz mirrors and LED shelf lighting. This project was featured in Kansas City Homes and Style Magazine. The firm consistently receives awards from prestigious building organizations. Rhino Builders’ most recent distinctions are a 2017 NARI CoTY award, a 2017 Chrysalis award, a 2016 REMY award, and a 2016 Qualified Remodeler Master Design award. The firm’s founder is also active in various organizations, such as the Better Business Bureau and the Home Builders Association. 4) KC Home Solutions LLC 13480 S. Arapaho Dr. Suite 101Olathe, KS 66062 Building homes have always been part of Nick Shepard. For more than 18 years, he worked on various construction projects. However, as the market for homebuilding plummeted, Shepard decided to become the Vice President of Operations for a logistics company. Despite finding success in the corporate world, his passion for homebuilding never left him, so he left his job and established KC Home Solutions in 2012. Although the company is fairly new in Kansas, KC Home Solutions has already won six REMY awards and three Johnson County Home and Garden Show awards. KC Home Solutions’ fresh take on remodeling has caught the attention of many residents in Kansas. Classic interiors are often retained but updated through a pop of color. 3) Winston Brown Remodeling 5600 SW 29th St., Topeka, KS, 66614 Founded by Gary W. Brown, Winston Brown Remodeling is one of Kansas’ leading builders and a household name in the remodeling industry. In 1974, Brown founded the first branch of the firm in Lawrence, Kansas, and, five years later, the firm expanded to Topeka, Kansas. When the public started taking notice of the firm, CBS cast Brown in the 1987 remodeling show, Home Revision. Soon enough, Brown’s television shows put his firm’s name on the map and this led to Winston Brown Remodeling’s unwavering success. Now, the firm is led by Gary’s son, Jake Brown, who is also a successful builder, with distinctions from Professional Remodeler Magazine and the National Association of Home Builders. Like his father, Jake is a passionate builder. Under his leadership, the firm was named by Qualified Remodeler and Remodeling Magazine as one of the top remodelers in the country. The Topeka Capital-Journal featured retired professor Barry Crawford’s renovated home office. The active collaboration between Crawford and Winston Brown Remodeling made the project memorable. Most notably, the space reflects Crawford’s serious and playful sides through “conversation pieces,” such as a jar on his desk that symbolizes the “ashes” of his former students. 2) Scovell Remodeling Inc. 8035 Ward Parkway Plaza, Kansas City, MO, 64114 Jim Scovell and former partner John Wolfe started out as speculative remodelers in Mission Hills and Sunset Hills. They would buy old homes in need of serious repair and resell them for a better price. In 1994, Scovell established Scovell Remodeling. Since then, the firm has made 400 homes worth over $50 million, making Scovell Remodeling one of the most in-demand luxury builders in the entire state. Moreover, the firm has won several awards, including a 2017 CoTY award, a 2014 Remodeler of the Year award, a 2014 REMY Gold award, and a 2017 REMY Gold award. Scovell Remodeling is also known for having a very successful team of builders. Two members of the firm’s team have received prominent distinctions, including being featured on Pro Remodeler Magazine’s 40 under 40 list and Thinking Bigger Business Magazine’s 25 under 25 list. Scovell served as the Chairman of Mission Hill’s Architectural Review Board for almost eight years, and this role helped him identify the best solutions for every kind of addition and remodel. His previous experiences as a speculative remodeler and chairman have helped him impart creative solutions and processes to home building. 311 West 80th St Kansas City, MO, 64114 From a young age, Jake Schloegel always knew that he wanted to be a builder. While he was still in school, his part-time job as a contractor piqued his interest in the building industry. So, a few years after he graduated he established Schloegel Design Remodel in 1980. Schloegel shaped the company on his own throughout the first years of the company. His hard work paid off, as Schloegel Design Remodel is now one of the most well-known firms in Kansas. Schloegel Design Remodel is popular across the state because it often appears on Kansas City Live as design experts. The firm has also won over 39 REMY awards. Schloegel Design Remodel is known for bringing elegance to the traditional Southwestern and ranch style commonly found in Kansas. As much as possible, the firm retains the foundation of a home to re-introduce the forgotten charm of a room. Schloegel Design Remodel’s additions always stand out because of how the rooms seamlessly blend with the home’s whole look. An example of this is a porch addition overlooking a swimming pool made for a ranch-style home. Traditionally, these homes do not have room for a pool or porch additions, so the firm extended the backyard and installed columns connected to the home’s roof to provide shade for the porch addition. Read our latest articles on the best contractors in and near Kansas. If you don’t see your project type below, just let us know – we are happy to create a tailored recommendation list just for you. Kitchen Remodeling Contractors in Wichita Kitchen Remodeling Contractors in Kansas General Contracting, General Contractors, Kansas, Residential General Contractors

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Mupple Corner Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey Review by Will Worrall March 28, 2017 August 13, 2018 It’s always nice to see a series break free from the region of its birth and make it out into the wide world. The Atelier series has been going on for a long time, since the PlayStation One days in fact, so you might wonder why you haven’t heard of it much before the last few years. The simple answer is that other than the last game, Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book, all of the games have been kept as Japan exclusives. So now that the series is finally making its way into international waters, has it been worth the wait? Well, yes and no. Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey concerns the story of a young girl named Firis, who is trapped in her boring hometown, dreaming of a life outside the confines of the same four walls. No, that plot couldn’t be more clichéd even if it tried. Despite the lack of originality in the plot, it does actually tell a slightly original story, straying away from global threats or grand quests and instead focusing on the journey of a young girl and her companions as she finally gets to explore the world that she has spent so long dreaming about. One of the most glaring faults that is to be found with the game is the main character. She is one of the most annoying and twee characters in the history of video games, and the voice actor does her best job to reinforce this with ear-bleedy death. Luckily, the character becomes less annoying as time goes by. As the game-world is populated by other characters, they manage to draw some of the focus from Firis and give you less annoying voices to listen too as well. The characters from the last game make an appearance at different points, some quite early on, others a lot further into the game. If you started but never finished the last game, you might notice that there are some appearance differences, which can be a little confusing at first. However, this doesn’t mean that you need to have played the last game at all to enjoy this one. The gameplay is split up into two major sections, much like the previous game. On the one hand, you have the alchemy, a mechanic where you combine various different materials in certain patterns to create useful items or equipment. On the other hand, you have the classic JRPG adventuring gameplay, where you fight your way through the monster infested world map slaughtering all in your path for experience points and new materials. Unlike the previous game the two portions of the gameplay are more closely linked. Obviously, the adventuring portion is supposed to furnish you with most of the items that you’ll need to create things in the alchemy side. This time around, however, you no longer have to constantly return to your atelier between adventuring trips, because you constantly carry a pop-up atelier with you. This simple change to the game has made a huge difference to how good the game feels to play. Instead of being forced back to town and having to wait through a long animation of your character scurrying across the map, you just find a nearby camp site and pop up shop where you are. It means that you don’t end up having to cover the same ground day in and day out just to explore a new area. On top of that the fast travel system is more useful than it was before. While you’re in an area, you can freely and instantly travel to any camp site or landmark that you’ve already encountered, and I do mean instantly. There is no loading screen and practically no time between pressing the button and arriving at your destination, keeping the pace a little more active. There is also the addition of the run feature, something that was sorely lacking in the previous title. The reason for the increase in movement speed and the new fast travel mechanics is that all of the maps are a lot more open than in the previous game. Other than major cities, each area tends to contain a small settlement of some kind than a wide-open space to harvest materials or fight monsters. As well as that, there is a natural need to explore as there are no, or at least very few, restrictions placed on where the player can go. While out exploring the world, you have a constantly depleting LP number. This number goes down while you walk, when you fight things and even when harvesting materials in the overworld. When it hits 0 the first time, your character has a little rest, but if it happens again, you pass out and restart back at your atelier. You can restore this number by going to sleep in your atelier, which also restores your health. So, it’s important to stop often. After a while you’re given the option of changing your outfit in the game. Far from being a simple cosmetic change, you also get different bonuses, like more attack damage or slower LP degeneration. Changing your outfits is done in your atelier at your desk, which is also where you can change the music that plays during different situations, which is a nice feature. The combat system is something else that has seen a fair few improvements as well. The entire screen is simplified compared to the last game, doing away with the clusterf**k of information. Now when you select an action, be it an item, a skill or a basic attack, you perform it instantly instead of selecting everyone’s abilities first then letting them all go. This change in battle pace gives you more down-to-the-minute control over everything that’s happening. Instead of having to know that someone’s going to need healing before they take damage, you can respond to a killer attack by healing them as soon as the next character’s turn pops up. The link system also makes a reappearance from the previous title, but this too has had a few changes made to it. Now, as well as allowing characters to act together, it increases the damage done every time someone else attacks while the link mode is activated. This mode activates when the link gauge fills up, but you can use the gauge for other actions as well. Because Firis is a magic user and is therefore quite weak, you can choose to have another character take her damage at the cost of some of the link gauge. After a certain point in the story, you also unlock the ability to perform a special, unique attack with a character. This is done by performing a link attack as normal but also by making sure that you have at least 3 people in the chain. When you do this, you’ll notice that the last person to act does a special, very damaging attack that can completely devastate the enemy. These attacks are unique for each character that uses them, so it makes seeking out all of the characters well worth the effort. On that note, the character/companion system can be a bit confusing at times. While exploring the world, you’ll come across different characters going about their business. These characters can be convinced to join you on your journey, sometimes just by talking to them, sometimes by performing a certain task and sometimes by paying them the right amount of money. The primary issue to be found with this system is that some of the characters you come across do not join you immediately. Instead, you are given a pop-up that tells you that you can now speak to them and ask them to join your party. However, it can be basically impossible to find these people once they leave the area in which you discovered them. Most of the time they seem to instantly teleport away never to be seen again. Fortunately, one of the first characters you come across joins your party immediately, meaning you’re not likely to get locked out of the special attack system by a lack of party members. The game’s day and night cycle passes really quickly, which can be both a blessing and a curse. When you’re trying to get to an NPC or a shop before nightfall, it can be annoying to see that clock tick by so fast. On the other hand, if it’s already nighttime, it’s nice to know that you don’t have too much real-world time to waste while you wait for morning to show its yellow shiny face. The alchemy in the game is basically unchanged from the previous game. You choose various materials and place them on differently sized grids to create items. Each of these grids has different lines that you have to try and fill out to get bonuses to the effectiveness of each item. As well as bearing that in mind, you also have to take into account the ‘‘quality’ rating of each material, as well as the traits that each material can have. These different traits can be transferred to an item once you’ve made it enough times, meaning that you can get a bonus to attack damage on a weapon or buffs on a healing item. Although the alchemy can be a little dull if you do too much of it, it’s certainly a lot better than the alchemy in the previous game. Here instead of having to synthesize different items to continue the story, you can just use alchemy as and when you need it and continue the story by completing missions. This is a lot more natural than the last game and allows you to do as much or as little alchemy as you’d like, with a few exceptions. The previous game also broke with the series’ tradition by dropping the time limit, something that had until that point been in every game in the series. The timer returns with a vengeance in this game, albeit very briefly. As you start the game, you are given a task to perform before the timer runs down, but once this first major quest is complete, you are left free to explore the world at your own pace. The time limit is also pretty lenient, giving you hundreds of days to make your way across the map to your end goal. There is one petty gripe against this game, and that is that it doesn’t track how long you’ve been playing it for, something which is pretty common in most games these days. It’s not exactly a huge issue, but it would have been useful to gauge exactly how long the game is going to last on an average playthrough. Visually and musically, the game isn’t very different from the previous game at all, in fact the same music is included as an option in the BGM menu. Having said that, there isn’t visually much difference in the location design, though it is quite stunning. The world is now populated by wide open locations and feels much more like a living, breathing world than the compartmentalized universe presented in the series’ last outing. Developer: Gust Co. Ltd Publisher: Koei Tecmo Platforms: PS4, PSVita, PC Release Date: 7th March 2017 Will Worrall 8.0 4.00 5 This Year’s Call of Duty Game Will Be Called Call of Duty: WWII, According to Report We Interview Ray Machuga, Founder of Higher Ground Publishing, on Their Newest Board Game Project, Dhovaine I'm a freelance writer and video producer living in the UK. I have an extensive collection of retro consoles and board games, and in my spare time I solder stuff together to see if it works. It usually doesn't. 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Trophy Heads Blu-ray Part Number: 968 Now all six episodes on one Blu-ray with 5.1 sound! I don't want to be in your fucking movie... It's the present day, and our heroines, real life Scream Queens Darcy DeMoss, Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens, Michelle Bauer, Jacqueline Lovell, and Denice Duff, who starred in those infamous movies back in the 80's and 90's, have gone on with their lives since those days, some still acting or in new businesses of their own. What none of them suspect is that somewhere, down in the basement of an old house, an obsessed fan, Max, sits in the dark, watching clips from those movies over and over, his obsession growing into a diabolical plan. One by one, with his mother's help, he begins to "collect" them, transporting them to a makeshift prison he's set up in his basement. The Scream Queens have no idea what's going on, until they find themselves forced to re-enact movie scenes from their horror heyday, a nightmarish process since Max remembers every line and gesture and they haven't watched them in years. And they definitely don't remember the new and terrible outcome of the scenes... Includes all 5 episodes! In the first episode, Max and Mom kidnap Darcy DeMoss and force her to reprise her role from the movie Forbidden Zone: Alien Abduction. Max then sets his sights on Brinke Stevens, who's now working as a massage therapist. The heist takes an unexpected turn when Mom knocks out Brinke's half-naked client Julia and brings her along for the ride. Meanwhile, "Sister" Linnea Quigley and her fellow converts Kristine DeBell and Carel Struycken are living the peaceful life going door-to-door and spreading the good word. Does Sister Quigley have what it takes to escape Max and Mom's clutches? In the second episode, Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens, and the half-naked Julia find themselves imprisoned in Max's homemade jail cells. After watching footage from Darcy Demoss's abduction, it soon becomes clear that Max and Mom plan on shooting "remakes" with each of the other girls. Brinke is snatched from her cage and finds herself caught in a most dangerous game as she's forced to reenact her role from Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity with Max and his fully-functioning crossbow. Then, Linnea and Julia get an unexpected cellmate in the form of Michelle Bauer, who has been unceremoniously whisked away from her independently owned juice stand. What, or who, can the girls expect next? In the third episode, the newly-imprisoned Michelle Bauer is quickly brought up to speed by her cellmates Linnea Quigley and the half-naked Julia. If the girls don't find a way to escape, they'll be forced to play out their final scenes in Max and Mom's twisted home movies. Things take a turn for the worse when Linnea is grabbed from her cell and coerced into reliving the post-apocalyptic nightmare of the film Creepozoids. If "Sister Quigley" doesn't play along, Julia will suffer a gruesome death! Meanwhile, we're introduced to Denice Duff and Jacqueline Lovell. Both still active in the industry, they find themselves facing a new generation of Scream Queens as they compete against Amy Paffrath, Jessica Morris, Jean Louise O'Sullivan, and Robin Sydney for a role in Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon's new horror film. After going through the grueling casting process, Denice receives an unexpected message about another audition. But she's about to learn that this movie is much more horrifying than anyone could imagine... In the fourth episode, it's revealed that Denice Duff and Jacqueline Lovell were set up. Their "audition" was actually a trap orchestrated by none other than Max and Mom. The girls soon find themselves imprisoned and dressed in costumes from their former films. Michelle Bauer, still locked in her own cell, tries to explain the gravity of the situation, but Denice and Jacqueline might end up killing each other before Max gets the chance! Michelle is suddenly spirited away and transported back to her cult classic movie Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama. If the avalanche of bowling balls doesn't do her in, the paddle-wielding Imp monster will! Meanwhile, Denice and Jacqueline have come to a temporary truce and begin working together to find a way out of the dungeon. But are they just escaping into even more trouble? In the fifth episode, Jacqueline Lovell and Denice Duff have miraculously found a way out of the dungeon. Or have they? Their escape route leads to a dead end, and the girls are suddenly separated and recaptured. Max and Mom are ready to shoot a double feature, with Jacqueline reprising her role in Head of the Family and Denice revamping her character from Subspecies II: Bloodstone. Our favorite Scream Queens won't go down without a fight, though. Max and Mom are about to learn just how much work goes into making an independent movie! Hold on to your head for the exciting series finale of Trophy Heads! Audio: 5.1 Surround Rated: NR Region Code: A/1 STARRING: Adam Noble Roberts, Maria Olsen, Brinke Stevens, Darcy DeMoss, Jacqueline Lovell, Linnea Quigley, Michelle Bauer, Irena Murphy, Denice Duff PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY: Charles Band Special Features: -Audio commentary by stars Darcy DeMoss, Brinke Stevens, and Jacqueline Lovell and producer/director Charles Band -VideoZone making-of featurette -Uncut behind-the-scenes footage -Rare original scream queen trailers -"Submit Your Head" photo gallery

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Take a tour of imagined Theatres INTERVIEW: Choreographer and Educator Charles O. Anderson on His New Work (Re)Current Unrest Charles O. Anderson is an Austin-based dancer, choreographer, and educator. He is head of the Dance Program at UT, associate professor of African Diaspora Dance Studies, and artistic director of Charles O. Anderson Dance Projects (formerly Dance Theatre X) an afro-contemporary dance theatre company. Anderson has performed in the companies of Ronald K. Brown, Sean Curran, Mark Dendy, and Miguel Gutierrez among others. His work has been presented nationally and internationally and has earned recognition by numerous grants and organizations such as the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, one of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine, and one of ‘12 Rising Stars in the Academy” by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Magazine. Anderson’s work Restless Natives premiered at the 2014 Fusebox Festival. Recently, Anna Gallagher-Ross talked with Charles about the development of his new work (Re)Current Unrest which will premier at the 2018 Fusebox Festival. Anna Gallagher-Ross: Could you tell us about the inspiration for (Re)Current Unrest and the context it came out of? Charles O. Anderson: It started because of that whole fury about Beyoncé being accused of stealing Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s choreography in her music video for the song Countdown. That controversy became a teaching moment, as you know I work at UT, and it got me thinking a lot about cultural appropriation, which caused to me think about De Keersmaeker’s work with the early compositions of Steve Reich. Reich has haunted me throughout my dance career. I started out at Cornell University and he was considered a god there. I always found my relationship to his work complicated…it was both familiar and strange to me, so I knew that at some point I wanted to work with his music. So in 2016, I started developing some work around one of his compositions, but right at the beginning of that process, one of my freshman dance students at UT, Haruka Weiser was murdered, and between that tragedy (committed by a young African American man) and the ongoing systematic killing of black men by law enforcement in this country, the piece started taking on larger dimensions than just these issues around cultural appropriation. So after we performed an early draft of the piece in Spring of 2016, I really started paying attention and going deeply into research on the Black Lives Matter movement and its parallels with the Black Power and Black Arts movements of the 1960s and ‘70s, and so the piece continued to make use of Steve Reich’s music, but also started to be focused on this idea of staying woke and what that means from a physical standpoint. AGR: Could you tell me a bit more about Steve Reich’s composition? COA: His early compositions It’s Gonna Rain, Part I and II (1965), Come Out (1966) and Pendulum (1968) for which he rose to fame always struck me because they have this really interesting Africanist presence inside of them, a couple of them quite literally use African American voices to drive the composition, and I know that he spent a great deal of time studying African music forms. Come Out samples interview tapes of Daniel Hamm who was was one of six black men, referred to as the Harlem Six, falsely accused of murder in 1964, and I was interested that when Come Out was played in the context of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s work all of the sociopolitical context behind it disappears. No one watching her work seemed to realize that Reich’s composition is based on the voice of a man who had just been brutalized by police. AGR: The title (Re)Current Unrest suggests that this history of brutality and inequality is very much a part of our present, recurring in different but tragically similar ways. COA: Yes. We are working with that history and that imagery. Integrated media designers Jon Haas and Robert Mallin are designing the digital projections for the piece and the visuals included depict different states of water juxtaposed with historical imagery that in different ways portrays this systemic inequality. AGR: These projections seem to have a kinetic relationship to the dancers, in a way, they feel like they are alive and performing as well, they seem to almost haunt the dancers. COA: This is exactly right! I’m really interested in breaking down “the fourth wall”—the illusion that the experience onstage is separate or disconnected from the experience of the audience—to me it just doesn’t exist. I connect this to WEB Du Bois’s writing on the black experience in America, especially his metaphor of “the veil,” which refers to the practices of racism and segregation that excludes black people from mainstream society but also provides them with a “double consciousness,” or insight into these racial divisions. In this work I’m interested in implicating everyone in the space in the experience. The idea is that we are going to project this imagery through the entire space so that everyone is immersed inside of this world, not just what’s on stage, but even where you’re sitting, you can’t help but feel you’re inside of it. AGR: That sounds incredible. You’ve said before that your goal is to create work that gives testimony. Could you talk about that? Does it relate to how you see the role of the audience? COA: I think it was my being raised in Southern Baptist churches—I come from a culture where when one person tells their truth, your responsibility is to bear witness and to hold space for that telling. And the writer James Baldwin is kind of like my intellectual father, and his writings, his non-fiction writings in particular, are what guided me towards art making as testimony, of literally bearing witness to the world in which you are a part. That idea drives my choreographic practice and my point of view. I guess I could be more abstract, it’s not that I am not interested in abstraction, but I am not interested in escapism, and bearing witness keeps us present. AGR: You want your movement rooted in something real. COA: Exactly. Part of me is a little riled up because when I was teaching at American Dance Festival (Durham, NC) this past summer we had so many debates about this idea. People were asking: “why does the work have to be so in your face” and my response was: “that’s because we go out of our way not to have these things in our face.” In my mind art for arts sake is lovely if you have that luxury but in this day and time, art needs to be for humanity’s sake. AGR: There is an urgency to the subject matter that certain kinds of abstract movement won’t address? COA: Yes. I hate the fact that concept of abstraction has been almost culturally colonized…Obviously my work is abstract in that I am not literally reenacting a riot, but it’s abstraction without a desire to distract or avoid socio-political and historical reality. AGR: Who are the dancers involved in (Re)Current Unrest? COA: Since moving down to Austin, I’ve been very interested in the millennial generation of dancers—the early 20-somethings are a whole other breed of human beings to me. So I made the choice to cast almost exclusively dancers under 25 and because of my relationship to UT, sixty per cent are UT dance alumni. I also had a core group that I had been working with in Philadelphia, prior to moving to Austin, and they are now entering their 30s but are still technically millennials. I’m also working with choreographer, Johnnie Mercer, who the first black male dancer I ever met who was born and raised in Richmond, VA, in the same neighborhoods as me; Abby Zibikowski who I taught at Temple when she was a freshman and danced with me for a few years in Philly; and Jeremy Arnold, who I taught at Muhlenberg College and was previously dancing with Tapestry, and who I now have working as a lecturer in tap at UT. Those three each have very specific roles within the piece. AGR: You are the head of the dance program at UT and a professor as well as a practitioner. How do these roles inform one another? COA: I started dancing late—I was almost 20 when I took my first dance class—so I had a sense of myself as a human being before beginning to formally train in dance. Those who have been dancing since the age of three don’t necessarily have that critical, intellectual relationship to dance. Prior to this I was an aerospace engineering major. I also needed to make a living and so I tried to combine dance with ways of making money, which was teaching, so in New York, I was both dancing and teaching high school chemistry and physics to pay the bills. Once I realized I liked teaching, I went to graduate school, and right out of grad school I got a professorship in the dance department at Temple University, so throughout my whole career, the theory and the practice, they made sense together. AGR: What are you reading / thinking about these days? COA: The writing of Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates are my bibles for this piece. They keep me honest in terms of what I want to do with this work. I also have been thinking about Octavia Butler, the late science fiction writer. In some ways her two books, Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) are also the catalyst for this. If you read her books you realize that ten years ago she predicted the current socio-political moment and national discord we currently find ourselves in. It’s kind of eerie: she predicted all of this and then she died. And beyond that, I don’t have kids, so in a lot of ways this work is the letter to my legacy, or to the folks I’m never going to have, biologically speaking, so that’s on my mind a lot. I ask myself on a regular basis: what is my legacy if I don’t have my own kids? I’m also thinking about the fact that in the dance world things are not what they were 5 or 10 years ago. I can’t figure out what’s driving dance now. When you look at the seminal work (and the primary demographics of the audiences that go to see the work) of the long-established dance companies I grew up up with—Paul Taylor, Martha Graham, and Mark Morris—it just seems so anachronistic and stuck in a cultural point of view…it’s not speaking to anything that is now. But when I look at what is considered contemporary it feels like So You Think You Can Dance; virtuosic, but lacking any intellectual depth or dramaturgical rigor. I think a lot about Generation X and how we are the cultural “middle children.” Baby boomers and millennials are dictating what dance is (or isn’t) and my generation is often facilitating that work as if we don’t have our own voice, and yet we are at the point where we are meant to be making these decisions as adults and artists. AGR: Does something feel like it’s going unsaid about dance for your generation? COA: We keep being on the precipice of acknowledging what so many of us already know—the systemic sexism, racism, homophobia and classicism in the dance world. And yet, it’s still not a deliberate call to action. We are still trying to buy into a system that is committed to establishing and maintaining elitist hierarchies that don’t really serve what we say we are about. Fusebox is one of the few examples I see in this nation that is genuinely trying to engage with a true diversity of art; that is in a conversation around values instead of aesthetics. I don’t see much of that. And we’re becoming more and more isolated from the rest of the world thanks to our dear 45th president, and as a result, I can’t exactly tell you what’s going on anymore. Then there are the gatekeepers of the world and the work. How can work get beyond the audiences that would automatically come see it anyway and those who can afford to see it? And how do you frame that work in such a way that doesn’t scare them away but instead empowers them and gives them an opportunity to hear and experience a different perspective on the world they are living in? These are the things I am thinking about. (Re) Current Unrest, all images by Chian-Ann Lu. Fusebox Office: 2023 E. Cesar Chavez

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Business News of Thursday, 10 October 2019 We’re handling Nigeria border closure issue – Foreign Affairs Ministry assures GUTA The Foreign Affairs Ministry has allayed the fears of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) over the impact of the closure of Nigeria’s borders to member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Sector Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey says the issue which is affecting the traders’ export of goods is being handled with the best of approaches. In a statement issued after meeting members of the association, the Ministry said: “we acknowledge the sensitivity of the issue at stake, as Ghanaian citizens are also involved in petty trading in the other ECOWAS Member States. The closure of the Igolor and Seme-Krake (Nigeria-Benin) borders by Nigeria, which is affecting Ghana’s export along that corridor is being handled at the highest level.” Nigeria closed its frontiers in what it says is to stop smuggling of products from its neighbouring West African countries into Nigeria. The action taken by Nigeria was to express its displeasure at the attitude of the Beninese authorities in order to elicit their cooperation. The closure of the borders would be in force for twenty-eight (28) days, however, if the issues remained unresolved, there was no guarantee that the borders would be reopened after the twenty-eight (28) days. But, the Minister said stakeholders within the trade chain are being up to the task to tackle the illegal trading activities within the sub-region. “Institutions responsible for trading activities i.e., Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), the Ghana Police Service (GPS) and Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) will have to continue to play their role to ward off illegal trading activities in our market places.” It also entreated the representatives of GUTA to use established channels to address grievances involving citizens of ECOWAS Member States and not to do anything to derail the peace of the country and the ECOWAS Region, whilst a lasting solution is found to their problems. The smuggling of goods and sale of substandard products through the eastern corridor is a phenomenon Ghana is battling with thereby having severe consequences on revenue mobilization. As a result of this development, GUTA has constantly asked authorities to strictly enforce the country’s laws on foreign trade.

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Media » The Home News The Home News Teen-agers and plastic surgery By KELLY-JANE COTTER Home News staff writer Ever since he could remember, Adam Greenspan was self-conscious about his nose. “I didn’t like the way my nose looked,” the 19-year-old East Brunswick resident said. “My feelings built up more and more as I got older. I wouldn’t let people see my profile.” Even though their son had resented his large nose for years, Greenspan’s parents were a bit taken aback when he announced his intention to undergo rhinoplasty – more commonly known as a nose job. “My parents kind of laughed at first. They were really surprised,” he said, adding that other people told him to leave his nose alone. “They said, ‘Don’t get a nose job. It gives you character, personality,”‘ Greenspan said. “I thought, ‘It does not! It’s just a nose.”‘ Greenspan felt fairly sure that his character and personality were somewhat more than nose-deep, so he went ahead with his plans. Using his computer, he sketched his face and drew in a new and improved nose. He then brought the print-out to Dr. Alvin I. Glasgold, a Highland Park-based facial plastic surgeon, who suggested a few modifications. Statistically, Greenspan differed from most plastic surgery patients. For one thing, he was a guy – it’s mostly women who go under the knife for aesthetic reasons. Secondly, Greenspan agreed to have the whole experience – before, during and after – filmed by a TV crew from the NBC morning show, “Today.” The episode has not yet been broadcast. It takes a lot of guts to have cameras breathing down your nose, as it were. But Greenspan wasn’t bothered by the attention. He was confident about his self-image – it was just his nose he didn’t like. “I’m a little more confident than I was before the operation,” he said. “And now I don’t care what angle people see me at.” According to Glasgold and other medical authorities, plastic surgery can have a positive effect on a teen-ager’s self-esteem – as long as the teen-ager isn’t trying to make scapegoats of a large nose or a receding chin. Glasgold said he evaluates a potential patient for physical and psychological maturity before agreeing to perform plastic surgery. “Generally I want someone who has stopped growing; someone who’s spent a lot of time looking in the mirror deciding what they want to change,” Glasgold said. “It’s a very individual thing. Generally, I operate only on girls 14 and up, though I will occasion-ally do a 13-year-old, and boys who are 15 and up, because they have a growth spurt later than girls.” Greenspan recalled feeling “sad and cold” when he woke up after his nose job. “1 woke up sad, thinking that I had done this. And I was all cold and my throat hurt because of the tube they had stuck down it,” Greenspan said. “But once I saw my new nose, I immediately started to feel better. After that, I cut my hair and I really looked like a different person.” Not only did Greenspan undergo rhinoplasty, but mentoplasty as well. Mentoplasty is a chin implant – a procedure that often goes hand-in-hand with rhinoplasty. “Many times, the problem is more a receding chin than a protruding nose,” Glasgold said. In the doctor’s summary of Greenspan’s condition, Glasgold wrote, “Adam had a moderately retarding chin which markedly exaggerated the nasal projection. His correction involved reducing the projection of the nose as well as augmenting the chin, which produced appropriate balance between the nose and chin.” Rhinoplasty or a combination of rhinoplasty and mentoplasty are by far the most common procedures requested by teen-agers, Glasgold said. Cheek implants, which give a flat or elongated face more of a shape, are becoming popular, he said. Adam Greenspan before surgery Adam Greenspan after surgery

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Friends of GP South High School athletics, The athletic program at Grosse Pointe South High School is rich in history and tradition. For 80 years - from the time South was simply called "The High" to its most recent Michigan State Championships - it has enjoyed a legacy of winning, a legacy that has been the source of great pride for the school district as well as the local community. While we applaud the athletic feats of our teams and our student-athletes, we are even more proud of their academic successes. Each year South is among the conference and state leaders in Academic All-State athletes, and Michigan High School Athletic Association Scholar-Athletes Award qualifiers and recipients. Recognizing the important role that both academics and athletics play in a student's high school career, the Grosse Pointe South Athletic Booster Club works diligently and enthusiastically to advance and support the endeavors of our student-athletes so they may become responsible, well-rounded leaders of the future. To ensure the ongoing successes of South's athletic programs, the need for parental involvement and financial support is never ending. Please consider participating in or supporting the Athletic Booster Club as we work to make Grosse Pointe South's program one of the BEST in the state.

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Leaf, Volt, Fiesta & More Named Green Car of the Year Finalists John Voelcker October 22, 2010 Comment Now! Five finalists were announced today for the 2011 Green Car of the Year Award, which will be presented next month at the 2010 Los Angeles Aut o Show. The five contenders span two plug-in cars, two hybrid-electric vehicles, and one high-efficiency subcompact gasoline car: 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid The Nissan Leaf is a battery electric vehicle with a range of 60 to 120 miles from its lithium-ion battery pack. It's the first pure electric car to be sold in substantial numbers by a major automaker since the 1920s. The Chevy Volt also runs on electricity, with an electric range of 25 to 50 miles. But after its battery is depleted, an onboard gasoline engine switches on to generate electricity to power the car after that, operating at a fuel economy range of 35 to 40 miles per gallon. One model of the Ford Fiesta is rated by the EPA 40 mpg on its highway test cycle. It's powered by a 1.6-liter gasoline engine, and represents the first subcompact car Ford has sold in the United States in well over a decade. The Lincoln MKZ Hybrid is closely related to the well-received 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid, though as a Lincoln, its interior is entirely resytled for greater luxury. Perhaps the MKZ Hybrid's most significant feature is its price: The base price of $35,180 is identical to that of the non-hybrid MKZ, which comes with a standard 3.5-liter V-6 engine. Finally, the Hyundai Sonata Hybrid is the first hybrid from the fast-growing Korean automaker. While not a dedicated hybrid like the Toyota Prius--the Sonata Hybrid shares a body with the standard gasoline Sonata--its front styling is significantly altered, giving it visual differentiation. It can run on electricity only as high as 70 mph. Last year, the Green Car of the Year was the 2010 Audi A3 TDI clean-diesel compact hatchback. While no clean diesels made this year's list of nominees, two were on the list for 2010 and the year before that, the 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI was the winner. [Los Angeles Auto Show] High-Res Gallery: 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid 2011 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid electric Electric Cars Green Car of the Year Green Cars Hybrids Hyundai Sonata News News Nissan Leaf News Nissan News Range-Extended Electric Vehicle Range-Extended Vehicle

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Features Business Grower Profiles An energy sparkplug ByDave Harrison By Dave Harrison Energy remains a hot topic in the industry. Ontario greenhouse growers have increasingly been working co-operatively over the past 23 years to rein in energy costs by negotiating more favourable rates and researching conservation technologies. Bierhuizen with a ‘Mikado,’ a strong seller the past few years. Energy remains a hot topic in the industry. Ontario greenhouse growers have increasingly been working co-operatively over the past 23 years to rein in energy costs by negotiating more favourable rates and researching conservation technologies. Robert Bierhuizen, president of Sunrise Greenhouses of Vineland Station, has been involved in these efforts since Day 1, often in a leadership role. He’s one of Ontario’s foremost experts in the field, both on the administrative side of energy management programs and services, and on the practical side, with the many upgrades implemented at Sunrise. In 1986, he formed Energrow Services, a company set up to buy natural gas directly from Alberta producers. Several growers signed on, allowing for volume price discounting and significant savings. Ontario growers were soon considering the merits of establishing a natural gas co-operative. The result was F&V Energby Co-operative, a company established in 1988 by Flowers Canada (Ontario) to purchase natural gas for greenhouse flower and vegetable producers. Because of his success with Energrow, Bierhuizen was asked by Barney Wilson – then the executive-director of FCO – to help out. Energrow was rolled over into the new venture. In 2003, Energby was spun off from FCO to be a stand-alone organization -– AgEnergy Co-operative. Membership eligibility was extended to all agriproducers in Ontario, not just those in the greenhouse sector. It now represents half of the natural gas and one-third of the electricity consumed by Ontario agriculture. Curtains have a short payback period; Rob holds ‘Primrose Jasmine’ (at left), with vibrant yellow flowers emerging from multiple nodes, and ‘Crown Princess,’ one of three Campanula varieties grown by Sunrise. ‘Crown Princess’ is one of three campanula varieties grown by Sunrise. The name ‘Sunrise’ has been synonymous with campanula for many years. Its ‘Original’ line of exclusive campanulas is well known throughout North America and Europe. FOCUS OF CO-OPERATIVE IS STILL EVOLVING ■ The Co-op has expanded its mandate to also offer electricity programs (2003), and actively researches alternative forms of energy, including bunker oil, biomass, trigeneration and cogeneration systems, and wind turbine applications, among others. Firefly Energy, designed for retail service, was launched by Ag Energy in Ontario in 2005, and was expanded to British Columbia in 2007. Energy Productivity is a new conservation and efficiency program available through Ag Energy Services, a division of Ag Energy Co-operative. It was prompted by a series of energy audits that concluded the Ontario agricultural community could achieve combined annual savings of $80 million – including $50 million in the greenhouse sector alone – through conservation and efficiency measures. The ag energy issue is continuing to evolve. Trigeneration and cogeneration projects, said Bierhuizen, should be getting more attention in North America. In the Netherlands, for example, such systems are quite common and provide considerable power to the grid. “It is widely accepted at the political level in Holland,” said Bierhuizen, who hopes Canadian politicians can be similarly convinced. “Greenhouses and cogeneration are a perfect fit. People in our industry know that. We just have to convince the politicians. I think we are making inroads in Ottawa and Queen’s Park.” Greenhouses in the Netherlands currently have some 4,000 megawatts of cogeneration power installed. This has helped keep many growers in business during tough economic times. “Growers can use the heat (and the CO2), and it’s a great revenue source.” GEOTHERMAL HEATING WILL BE EXPENSIVE ■ Geothermal energy may be an option in some regions of Canada. “It doesn’t leave an environmental footprint, and it’s completely clean.” In Europe, some projects are obtaining water of between 80ºC and 100ºC, though at considerable depths and expenditure. “You can imagine the level of investment that requires.” Governments would have to be involved, both to support the projects and to regulate the use of this hot water resource. Biomass will also be a major energy issue for agriculture, especially given newly elected U.S. President Barack Obama’s commitment to sustainability initiatives. “We will see more promotion of renewable energy, and this will lead to many more technologies brought off the shelf much faster than they have previously.” But growers don’t immediately have to think about totally new heating systems for dealing with heating headaches. Existing natural gas boilers can be fine-tuned, and conservation technologies – especially energy curtains – can be installed. Savings can be substantial, and with relatively short payback periods. There is no single solution to the energy challenge. Groups such as Ag Energy will play a major role in helping growers access leading edge technologies. More importantly, it will provide the research to ensure growers are comparing “apples to apples” when considering what energy investments make the most sense. “The technologies are changing so fast, it’s almost impossible for growers to keep up with them.” AFTER TWO DECADES, IT’S TIME TO STEP DOWN ■ After having served on various grower energy boards since 1986, Bierhuizen has decided to step down. He’s going to take a breather and spend more time with other boards on which he serves, including The Ontario Greenhouse Alliance (TOGA) and the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre. He was also recently appointed as one of 22 producer representatives from across Canada to serve on NPAC, the National Program Advisory Committee providing feedback on government programs to federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz. And while governments shouldn’t need much convincing of the economic impact of the greenhouse sector – it’s not only a significant exporter and creator of jobs, its ornamental plant sales are subject to GST, and that means considerable revenues for Ottawa – Bierhuizen has accepted the new challenge of representing the industry in liaising with levels of government. He will remind officials of the impact of the greenhouse industry, and especially the work of Ag Energy in handling energy issues. For starters, both the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and AAFC recognized energy as a separate component in the Growing Forward multilateral framework, which will include $1.3 billion in overall funding over five years for non-business risk management, cost-shared programs. “Energy is recognized as being an important issue in agriculture.” He’s the last of the original founders to “retire” from the energy co-operative, (though he’s not closing the door to a possible return in a few years). “I’ve enjoyed working with the board, but after more than 20 years, it’s time for a break.” ■ ‘Consumers want a quality plant at a reasonable price’ Sunrise Greenhouses was founded by Robert and Francis Bierhuizen in 1982. They had immigrated from the Netherlands five years earlier. First operating in St. Catharines, Sunrise was relocated to Vineland Station in 1989 to allow for future expansion. It has grown from 30,000 to 200,000 square feet and some rented space since then, along with four to five acres of field production. Potted plants have always been the main focus. It’s a family business. Robert is president, Francis handles the accounting and administration responsibilities, and son Rodney is general manager. Successful companies are market driven, and Sunrise is no exception. It is widely known for its work with specialty products. “We’re always on the lookout for new crops to introduce to North America.” Robert used to be the one chasing down new introductions, but now it’s Rod’s responsibility. “He’s even keener than I was in finding new crops,” quips Robert, noting his son had just returned from a trip to Israel. “He travels the world looking for new things, and he’s been quite successful in finding great plants.” Sunrise tries to have at least one or two new additions each year. As well, they’ve also enjoyed success re-introducing plants that were popular many years ago. (There’s a reason they were popular back then, as today’s consumers are confirming.) Sunrise has about 20 different crops, and each has different pot sizes. That’s quite a product range. “You can’t afford to become stale. You have to be receptive to market demands. Consumers want a good quality plant at a reasonable price. And they want to see something new.” • www.sunrisegreenhouses.ca Ag Energy presented Rob with a pair of paintings upon his retirement from the board after more than 20 years’ service. KANAKA GREENHOUSES: VALUE-ADDED ROSE SPECIALISTS INDUSTRY INNOVATORS IN B.C. OYF SPOTLIGHT Tribute to a pioneer OASIS® Grower Solutions Bouldin & Lawson McMinnville, TN Agriforest Bio-Technologies Ltd. Pick Ontario still blooming The solar solution

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‘Alexander’ reminds kids bad days don’t last SCCT stages Judith Viorst’s classic book about a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. ‘Alexander’ reminds kids bad days don’t last SCCT stages Judith Viorst’s classic book about a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Check out this story on greenvilleonline.com: http://grnol.co/1hsriuH Paul Hyde, phyde@greenvillenews.com Published 10:21 p.m. ET June 7, 2014 Drake King, from left, Graham Poore and Kristofer Parker rehearse for "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" at the South Carolina Children’s Theatre. (Photo: PATRICK COLLARD , Staff )Buy Photo Everybody has a rotten day every once in while. That’s why it’s easy to identify with Judith Viorst’s popular children’s story “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” “Everyone has one of those days, and it’s great to know that it does get better,” said Mia Phillips, who is directing South Carolina Children’s Theatre’s musical version of Viorst’s book. “Alexander” opens Friday for nine performances through June 22 at the Peace Center’s Gunter Theatre. The musical follows the 6-year-old Alexander on a day when nothing goes well. “He’s having a bad day from the moment he wakes up,” Phillips said. “He trips over the toys in his room. When he goes into the bathroom, his sweater falls into the sink. Then he goes to breakfast and there’s no prize in his cereal box. At school, his teacher likes his friend’s picture better than his. And his best friend doesn’t want to be his best friend anymore. He only wants to be his third best friend.” At the end of the day, however, Alexander learns an important lesson from his mother. “His mom sits down with him and says, ‘You know what, there’s tomorrow,’ ” Phillips said. “ ‘We can start again tomorrow.’ ” The local cast of 11 ranges in age from 10 to adult. A highlight for Phillips is two dance numbers, choreographed by Lauren Imhoff. “They’re really fun,” Phillips said. “One is called ‘Australia,’ about how Alexander wants to move to Australia. The whole cast is in the number, and we have a kangaroo and a koala bear, and the parents are in the number, taking photos of Alexander’s dream of Australia. Then we have another number called ‘Shoes,’ with everyone going to a shoe store and the shoe salesman breaking into song about all of the kinds of shoes he has.” Viorst wrote the lyrics for the show while the music is by veteran children’s theater composer Shelly Markham. “It’s toe-tapping, upbeat music,” Phillips said. “The songs are actually poems the author wrote for another book.” In Phillips’ fanciful production, the cast members play children and adults but also morph into set pieces: doors, sinks and other objects. The music direction is by Steve Griner. For the latest in local arts news and reviews, follow Paul Hyde on Facebook and Twitter: @PaulHyde7. What: “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” a musical version of the popular children’s book by Judith Viorst; music by Shelly Markham When: 7 p.m. Friday; 1:30 and 5:30 p.m. Saturday and June 15; 7 p.m. June 20; 1:30 and 5:30 p.m. June 21; 1:30 p.m. June 22 Where: Peace Center’s Gunter Theatre Tickets: $26 for adults; $17 for children 18 and under (special price of $16 per person on June 15 at 5:30 p.m.) Information: 864-467-3000 or www.peacecenter.org Read or Share this story: http://grnol.co/1hsriuH Bainbridge: How Greenville became a warehouse center USC president promises ice cream for beating Clemson When Elton John rocked house with four decades of hits at Greenville concert June 10, 2019, 12:39 p.m. Kevin Sorbo says he's 'blacklisted' by Hollywood for being Christian GSP adding new wine bar and gourmet market Thomas Creek looking to grow out West June 21, 2018, 9 a.m.

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Florida Keys Group Tours As Caribbean as it gets while remaining in the United States, the Florida Keys are a special kind of paradise. While the islands of the Caribbean are almost unanimously formed by volcanic activity, the Florida Keys are constructed of coral reefs. The ground on which you walk and the beaches on which you relax have their foundation in the ancient reefs. The peaceful atmosphere of the nature-oriented archipelago will have you smiling in no time. There are 1,700 islands officially belonging to the Keys, though only 43 are connected by overland bridges and thus are easily accessible. Of the 1,700, only five are immediately recognizable by the general touring community. Frankly, they're all you need for a vacation like no other. First, and closest to Miami, is Key Largo. Drive across the ocean using the amazing Seven Mile Bridge and escape into heaven on earth. Many of the Keys are known for their international record-breaking activities. For example, Key Largo is the diving capital of the world with everything from exciting scuba diving and snorkeling in shipwrecks and reefs to an underwater sculpture park and even an underwater hotel. From Key Largo, drive on down the Keys to Islamorada, the sportfishing capital of the world, and further down to Marathon Key, a popular destination for family vacations. A general favorite of the laid-back crowd and beachgoers, Big Pine Key and the Lower Keys fascinate with wildlife reserves, rich history, and a pervading aura of relaxation. Last but not least, you'll arrive finally in Key West, the southernmost city in the United States and favored destination of Ernest Hemingway. This close to Cuba, you'll definitely notice a change in atmosphere. Walking through the streets shaded with palm trees, lined with colorful mansions owned by even more colorful people, you'll feel right at home. Historic sites, delicious restaurants, snorkeling sites and fishing spots, and more await. The Keys are only a few hours away, so what are you waiting for? Treat yourself. Florida Keys Attractions

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Underwood: More issues to consider, reflect on after elections Underwood: More issues to consider, reflect on after elections Underwood: More issues to consider, reflect on after elections Check out this story on guampdn.com: https://www.guampdn.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/11/18/underwood-more-issues-consider-reflect-after-elections/2047184002/ Robert Underwood, Pacific Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK Published 9:48 p.m. ChT Nov. 18, 2018 | Updated 11:22 a.m. ChT Nov. 19, 2018 Robert Underwood(Photo: Courtesy of Robert Underwood) Happy Thanksgiving. We are grateful that the voting is over. The results of the election are “in” and we finally know who our elected officials will be next year. We are smarter than before Nov. 6 and we are all benefiting each other with our newfound wisdom. The easy observations to make are also the most critical. The Democrats almost had a clean sweep. They have a veto-proof majority of women senators in the legislature. We have a Maga’haga as governor for the first time in history. Congratulations to all of those who prevailed. More: Letter: Time for Guam's wonder women More: Underwood: The younger generation and the blank party But before we close the door on the 2018 election, we need to learn from the experience. We need to know more than just who won. This was the lowest recorded turn out in a gubernatorial election. There were over 1000 under votes for governor and 2000 under votes for the congressional seat. This is about right for the gubernatorial race, but unusual for the congressional seat. Easy to blame negative campaigning Combined with the lowest voter turnout in Guam history, this statistic is ripe for speculation. Were people turned off by the candidates or the campaigning? The easy answer is to blame the negative campaigning for depressing voter turnout. Was there more negative campaigning than before? We always have a touch of political amnesia on this question. We remember more recent incidents than previous ones. We also have the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive in keeping with psychologist Roy Baumeister’s assertion that “bad is stronger than good.” We are more likely to remember the one time we missed a plane than the dozens of time we didn’t. We certainly remember the single negative message than the positive ones. We recirculate them more and pass them along to our social networks with glee (when it favors out candidate) or with disgust (when it is against our candidate). Emojis are used since we no longer really see each other. We need to find ways to create a climate of accountability and transparency on these advertisements because they are long lasting. We will remember them. They corrode our confidence. We need to re-examine our electoral laws and fit them into the new social media world that we inhabit. Of course, Facebook and YouTube are not likely to regulate themselves. But something is happening in Washington DC which will affect our practices. But isn’t there something we can do locally about holding campaigns accountable for messages done on their behalf or by them surreptitiously? Usual excuses for political rallies While we are discussing electioneering, isn’t there another way to run debates than as excuses for political rallies? The noise and the excitement all crowd out the thinking and reflection. In some places, there are debate commissions. They establish the boundaries for who gets to participate, the format, the range of questions, etc. It isn’t a free for all. Of course, the result may be more boring, but for the minority of voters who watch to make their decision, we should give them a thoughtful and meaningful experience. Lastly, this is not the time to make it harder for write-in candidates. This campaign had a write-in effort that exceeded all expectations. It would be anti-democratic to start thinking of ways to make running as a write in more difficult. Put fabot. More: Our View: GEDA accountability step in the right direction More: Letter: Collect the taxes due Robert Underwood is the former president of the University of Guam and Guam’s former delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives. Read or Share this story: https://www.guampdn.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/11/18/underwood-more-issues-consider-reflect-after-elections/2047184002/

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West & Prime Ticket Channel Numbers XTRA Point Angels Schedule Clippers Schedule Ducks Schedule LA Kings Schedule Prep Zone Home Prep Zone Schedule Football Archives (2012-18) Best of the CIF-SS (2017-18) The Honor Bowl (2017) Year of the Defensive Back (2016) Year of the Wide Receiver (2015) Year of the Quarterback (2014) Ad Sales Opportunities UCLA loses game, maybe Pac-12 title at WSU foxsports Mar 6, 2013 at 7:48p ET No. 23 UCLA headed to Pullman, Wash., controlling its own destiny. On Wednesday in The Palouse, the Pac-12 regular-season championship didn’t slip out of the hands of the Bruins. It was thrown away, more or less, in a 73-61 loss to Washington State, in a game the Cougars led from start to finish. Ben Howland aknowledged he was “wary” of the game, despite the fact the Bruins had won 19 in a row at Washington State, a streak dating to 1993 that predated his time as UCLA’s head coach. The Cougars (12-18, 3-14 Pac-12) were determined to end that streak, and that determination was clear from the start. Washington State began the game on a 7-0 run, stamped by a layup by senior Brock Motum, who had game highs of 20 points and 11 rebounds while playing all 40 minutes. The Cougars led 25-4 as UCLA (22-8, 12-5) missed nine of its first 10 shots and was dominated on the boards early on, 10-2. The Bruins were out-rebounded 47-25 for the game. The Bruins didn’t score their sixth point of the night until the 8:21 mark of the first half. ”We didn’t come out with the emotion and intensity that we needed,” Howland said. ”We didn’t have the sense of urgency when so much was riding on the line for us.” All of this coming against the worst team in the conference playing without two of its top three scorers, Mike Ladd and DaVonte Lacy, and riding a nine-game losing streak. But it was the Bruins who looked like they were in over their heads. Facing the zone of the Cougars, the Bruins’ counter was to jack up shots from beyond the arc. More than half of the Bruins’ 57 attempts were from 3-point range. UCLA shot 27.6 percent from beyond the arc (8 of 29) and 38.6 percent from the field. Leading up to the game, there was a lot of attention centered around the futures of UCLA’s freshmen. Shabazz Muhammad didn’t say he was leaving after this season, but Howland did it for him after the win against Arizona. Guard Jordan Adams said he was returning for his sophomore season. Forward Kyle Anderson’s dad suggested his son was staying as well. Anderson, the reigning Pac-12 Player of the Week, finished with four points on 2-of-7 shooting and eight rebounds. It was a poor shooting night for Muhammad as well. He was just 4-of-19 and finished with 14 points. Adams was the lone bright spot with 18 points and four steals. He scored five in a row to end the first half and cut the deficit to 35-24. Muhammad connected on one of his 11 3-point attempts with 17:19 left in the second half to get the Bruins within 37-31, but they wouldn’t get any closer. The Bruins are now a half-game behind first-place Oregon. The Ducks are at Colorado and at Utah to end the season, while the Bruins finish at Washington on Saturday morning, which is double trouble: UCLA has struggled with early Saturday games, and has lost eight in a row in Seattle. Furthermore, the Bruins may be without big man Travis Wear, who left Wednesday’s game in the second half after aggravating a right foot injury. FOX Sports West

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About the AcSB The Accounting Standards Board (AcSB) is an independent body with the authority to establish accounting standards for use by all Canadian entities outside the public sector. We serve the public interest by establishing standards for financial reporting by all Canadian private sector entities and by contributing to the development of internationally accepted financial reporting standards. As an independent body, we develop and maintain Canadian accounting standards to support informed economic decision making by financial statement users through maintaining a framework that provides a basis for high-quality information about financial performance reported by Canadian private sector entities. Accounting standards specify how transactions and other events are to be recognized, measured, presented and disclosed in financial statements. Our activities are overseen by the Accounting Standards Oversight Council (AcSOC). AcSOC appoints our members and provides us input, primarily in terms of our strategic direction and priorities. AcSOC also assesses and reports to the public on our performance, including our compliance with due process. Our objectives are: to establish financial reporting standards that improve the quality of information reported by Canadian entities with due consideration for the costs and the benefits to the preparers and users of financial statements, and changes in the economic environment; to facilitate the capital allocation process in both the business and not-for-profit sectors through improved information; to participate with other standard setters in the development of a single set of high-quality internationally accepted financial reporting standards; and to support the implementation of financial reporting standards and the resolution of emerging application issues. Our stakeholders include preparers, auditors, advisors and financial statement users in the following sectors for which it sets standards: publicly accountable entities; private enterprises; not-for-profit organizations; and pension plans. We have 11 voting and two non-voting members, including a paid Chair. View current AcSB members. Our membership consists of a diverse group of members encompassing a broad range of experience. Members are geographically dispersed across Canada. The Board’s support staff comprises: a Director; 10 principals; and two administrative assistants. The Board also hires consultants as the need arises. We have meetings almost every month in private. Additional meetings and conference calls may take place. Our relationship with CPA Canada Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) provides funding, staff and other resources to support Canada’s standard-setting process. CPA Canada and the AcSB function at arm’s length from one another. As a result, we carry out our standard-setting operations in an independent manner.

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Tributes to former Mayor of Calderdale Olwen Jennings who has died aged 79 Olwen Jennings John Greenwood - Local Democracy reporter Tributes have been paid to the former Mayor of both Calderdale and Todmorden, Olwen Jennings, who has passed away at the age of 79. As Coun Jennings, representing Todmorden at Calderdale Council and Cornholme ward at Todmorden, she served its people for many years, including as first citizen of both councils – she had also been Deputy Mayor of both. Her most recent role as civic head was as Mayor of Calderdale in 2004-2005. Olwen moved to Todmorden with her husband Robert and their family from Cleethorpes 40 years ago and soon became involved in every aspect of the town’s life. When she lost her Calderdale seat in the 2011 elctions she had represented Todmorden ward for 13 years and served on Todmorden Town Council for 12 years before that. During her Calderdale Mayoral year she said she particularly enjoyed meeting its youngest residents, visiting almost every primary school. Senior roles at Calderdale included a spell chairing the Liberal Democrat group of which she was a member. When she lost her seat she responded with typical good grace, congratulating her winning opponent and saying: “I am disappointed to lose – but at the end of the day all’s fair in love, war and politics.” A councillor representing Cornholme ward on Todmorden Town Council until May’s elections, Lloyd Stephenson has also passed away aged 74. Jamaica-born Lloyd moved to England when he was young and although he graduated from Manchester University with a degree in engineering, a flair for fashion and design and a love of music shaped his life. Lloyd used to DJ and ran fashion outlets in London, Manchester and most recently Todmorden. He lost his Manchester shop Roxy’s when the city was bombed in 1996, after which he made his home in Todmorden. Also a cricket fan, Lloyd brought together his love of good clothes and good music when he opened the Okeh shop in Todmorden, naming it after the famous American soul record label. Everything you need to know about the music extravaganza 'Live at the Piece Hall' In 2015 he was elected to Cornholme ward as a Labour candidate. Friends paid tribute to his energetic, vibrant personality and he leaves his sons Leon, Zak and Christopher. His funeral service is at the Old School Chapel, Priestwell, off Cross Stone Road, Todmorden, on July 19 at 12.45pm. Halifax man armed with a knife grabbed vulnerable girlfriend around the neck and asked if she wanted to die Huge illegal cigarette bust sees Halifax man jailed for £760k tobacco fraud Man arrested after car ploughed into building during Halifax arson attack

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Hotels Food & Wine Local Adventures Arts & Culture Wildlife & Outdoors Itineraries Our Review Process Become a Member PDF Downloads Account Details Logout Login Search Classic Destinations Corisca Worldwide / Europe / Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) / England / London .destination-cta-top Expertly Curated Hotels Curated for the well-traveled, by the well-traveled. See all Recommended Hotels (...) .destination-cta-middle Food & Wine Experiences Savor the flavors. See all Food & Wine Experiences (...) Local Intel Activities, Sightseeing & Latest News See all Recommended Adventures (...) Favorite Itineraries Follow in our footsteps. See all Itineraries (...) .destination-cta-bottom London is one of the world’s most dynamic and cosmopolitan cities, despite the vicissitudes that have afflicted the financial world, on which its economy is heavily reliant. It is a place of pageantry and tradition, but also a fashion capital and a global center for contemporary art. The quality and variety of the city’s restaurants are astonishing, with recent years having seen a robust revival of authentic British cuisine. The period of the year to see the capital at its best is from mid-April, when the parks and squares burst into bloom, until mid-July and the conclusion of the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Midsummer also has its appeal, however, since this is the season when it’s possible to visit certain royal residences while their occupants are elsewhere. The State Rooms of Buckingham Palace are open from July 20 - September 29, 2019. If possible, book a quieter after-hours small-group tour, as the State Rooms are packed during regular visiting hours. We prefer the much more intimate Clarence House, formerly the residence of the Queen Mother and now home to Prince Charles, but it will be closed to visitors until August 2020. Read the Harper Way London City Guide Editor Tips A Growing Skyline A quarter of a century ago, London had few high-rise buildings and St. Paul’s Cathedral was a dominant presence on the skyline, as it had been since the beginning of the 18th century. In the past 20 years, however, London’s financial district and certain sections of the South Bank have sprouted dozens of glass-and-steel towers. Renzo Piano’s The Shard, a 1,016-foot skyscraper, overlooks London Bridge. The Shard contains a Shangri-La hotel, plus an open-air observation deck on the 72nd floor, at a height of 802 feet. An Exciting Art Scene London’s art scene was revolutionized by the opening of Tate Modern in 2000, housed within the vast former Bankside Power Station. After a visit, I like to take the 15-minute trip along the Thames aboard the Tate Boat to Tate Britain, London’s principal collection of British art, which contains major works by Turner, Constable and Gainsborough, as well as those by contemporary masters such as Henry Moore and Francis Bacon. A major extension, which opened in 2016, offers 10 floors of gallery space dedicated to film, temporary installations and interactive performance art. Visit the Royal Residences It is possible to visit several royal residences when their occupants are elsewhere. Perhaps the most fascinating is Clarence House, home to the Prince of Wales. Small guided groups will be admitted from August 1-31, 2018 (Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays only). At nearby Buckingham Palace, the State Rooms will be open from July 21-September 30, 2018. Visitors may also stroll through part of the palace garden. Private guided tours are available. Classical Music Performances The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts — universally known as “The Proms” — are a summer season of classical music. This year, from July 13-September 8, more than 100 events are planned, a majority to be held in the Royal Albert Hall. Up to 1,400 tickets are sold each evening. At any season of the year, London stages chamber music recitals in a number of more intimate venues. One of my favorites is Wigmore Hall, a 15-minute walk from either Claridge’s or The Connaught. My other favorite setting for chamber music is St. John’s Smith Square, close to the Houses of Parliament. Independent Book Shops London remains a bookish city, and there are still quite a few surviving independent shops defying the ravenous maw of the internet. Among my favorites is Daunt Books (83 Marylebone High Street, W1U), which contains the finest selection of travel literature I have ever encountered, displayed in a historic shop with long oak galleries, graceful skylights and William Morris prints. Charming Parks London’s parks form one of the city’s principal glories. Holland Park is centered on the ruins of Holland House, a Jacobean mansion partially destroyed by an incendiary bomb in 1940. This now provides a backdrop for a wonderful summer opera festival. On warm evenings, I like to stroll over to The Boathouse in Hyde Park to rent a small rowing skiff and scull gently up the Serpentine past the Sackler Gallery to The Long Water in Kensington Gardens. A Fascinating Museum The excellent Sir John Soane’s Museum houses a remarkable private collection that includes classical sculptures and mosaics; paintings by Canaletto, Watteau and Howard; drawings by Chambers and Adam; and, improbably, the sarcophagus of pharaoh Seti I. Smell Like James Bond One of my favorite London shops is Floris (89 Jermyn Street, SW1Y), a bespoke perfume store and an invaluable source of gifts. Sometimes I indulge in the No. 89 aftershave, the preferred fragrance of James Bond. The Perfect Martini One of the world’s best martinis is served at DUKES Bar (35 St. James Place, SW1A). With the ritual care of a Zen tea master, Alessandro Palazzi creates a perfect dry cocktail adorned with a graceful curl of lemon peel. Select Content Latest Editor Trips Hideaway Guides Wine Concierge Auctions & Travel Deals Contact a travel advisor Hideaway Report members have access to travel advisors with our partner Andrew Harper Travel. Open M-F 8AM-6PM CT © Copyright Hideawayreport.com 2020

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American History, Japanese Americans, World War II Manzanar internment camp. [Pearl ID: 82679] --by William R. Laws III At October's Sacramento Archives Crawl (a Northern California open house for history buffs), Heather Lanctot, who is the Archives Coordinator for rural Yolo County, expressed her profound sense of the importance of remembering the tragic WWII internment of Japanese Americans, a focus of PHS and other history institutions in 2017, the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066. “I was stunned leafing through the high school yearbooks of the time,” Lanctot said. “The Japanese children just suddenly disappeared.” School children, Manzanar Relocation Center, California. [Photograph by Ansel Adams, 1943] According to Lanctot, who has degrees in Musicology and a Masters in Library and Information Science from San Jose State, many of the Japanese citizens who use her archives today in the city of Woodland are researching the history of their own families. The years that a parent or grandparent spent at one of the California internment camps, Thule Lake or Manzanar, she explains, represent a piece of their own family legacy. With her strong background in music, Lanctot says that she would be interested in researching the use of liturgical music at the various confinements, which many describe as concentration camps. To varying extents, Japanese Americans were able to use song and other arts to make the horrific experience at least partially bearable. It gives a great deal of pause to think that Toshiaki Okamoto’s "Joyful Christmas Day is Here" (known as "Kurisumasu" in Japanese) may have been sung at the internment camps during the grueling incarceration. These days, as part of the Presbyterian Hymnal of Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Songs (1990, Westminster/John Knox Press), the music gives a joyful holiday comfort to millions of worshippers all over the world. Woman playing piano at Manzanar internment camp. [Pearl ID: 82662] Miwako Isano, who travels widely as a professional soprano vocalists, attends Parkview Presbyterian Church when she is at home in Sacramento. Isano is noted for her performance in The Sisters of Manzanar, an opera that tells the story of two siblings who survived the trials of confinement in a World War II internment camp. The opera by Paul Stuart (who has worked extensively for the California Opera Association) suggests that music informed camp life in ways big and small, to raise spirits and to transcend the dehumanizing details of day-to-day life. For example, one of the performance's songs is about coping with the necessity of eating the cheap organ meat provided to prisoners. Popular songs and the traditional music of many faith communities are just two possible ways prisoners survived their confinement. As we reflect on that tumultuous history three quarters of a century later, we should remember not only the injustice of the camps, but also the unbroken humanity of the imprisoned. --William R. Laws III is a member of the PHS Advisory Council. A working writer for Valley Communications in Sacramento, CA, Bill is "class-A history enthusiast" who is thankful for the strong interest in history in the PC(USA). Read his earlier post on Japaneses American incarceration, "Juxtapositions in Remembrance," here.

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Herman Miller Why Design It Starts With “Why?” Why Design celebrates the language Herman Miller uses to ask questions and seek answers to problems. The design process is a journey into the unknown—or as George Nelson once quipped, “I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were.” Before Herman Miller focuses on what or how to make something, they begin with a simple “Why?” In Why Design, we explore the world through the eyes of Herman Miller’s designers and their unique points of view. We partnered with Herman Miller to create their first global campaign. Our aim was to focus on the people behind the design, and what drives and inspires them. We used the opportunity to share their collaborative relationships with designers through a campaign that included a series of films, website, as well as outreach to inspire the creative community and reinforce Herman Miller’s design leadership. Passion Drives Design We approached 12 designers from 8 different design studios around the world to get a close-up look at their passions and how they influence each designer’s work in unexpected ways. From San Francisco to New York, from London to Berlin, we directed 8 films featuring world-renowned designers in the places where they produce creative work and draw inspiration—Yves Béhar of fuseproject; Don Chadwick, co-creator of Aeron; Irving Harper of the Nelson Office; Ayse Birsel, author of Design the Life You Love; Studio 7.5 who designed the Mirra and Setu Chairs; Steve Frykholm, Creative Director of Herman Miller; Gianfranco Zaccai, co-founder of Continuum; and Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of Industrial Facility. We captured 57 hours of video, snapped 7,268 photos, wrote over 6,000 lines of code, and flew over 17,765 miles around the globe. Irving Harper shared stories behind the hundreds of paper sculptures throughout his home. He made them in his free time to relieve stress over the course of 50 years. Irving Harper had more than 500 paper sculptures throughout his home—all handmade straight from his imagination. Yves Béhar compared surfing to improvisational jazz and the design process. Don Chadwick talked about using the camera as another set of eyes, which allowed him to see things others don’t see. Steve Frykholm, whose work is in MoMA’s permanent collection, gave us a tour of his horse farm and took us backstage at his local ballet. Designer Ayse Birsel uses design thinking beyond her work as an industrial designer to be a “designer of life.” The website features a dynamic interface that allows users to scroll through different designers. When users select a story, the interface automatically scrolls up into an immersive full-screen video mode. Each story also has a photo gallery that takes you deeper behind the scenes and a detailed designer profile featuring selected work. The films were released weekly on the Why Design website, giving people a reason to come back again and again to find new stories and inspiration. Why Design inspired design enthusiasts at a global scale, gaining earned media on publications including Fast Company, PSFK, Core77, Curbed, Hypebeast, and swissmiss. People across the world from New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil, Spain, Belgium, and Hong Kong shared the campaign and videos on social media, increasing Herman Miller’s global reach. “Every designer sees things differently, and in looking through others’ eyes, all may find inspiration. On Herman Miller’s Why Design...you may find yourself inspired by your career all over again.” — Architect Magazine Herman Miller Eames: The Architect and the Painter 40 Years of Iconic Design Herman Miller Hilda Stories A Look Back at Mid-century Design

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#HairGrowth #HelpHair #ProteinShake Is Saw Palmetto really good for hair loss? By Stephen Dowd on July 17, 2019 Benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) is a common condition in older people. The prostate grows bigger and impedes the flow of urine. It causes urinary tract and bladder symptoms that gradually get worse over time. It is increased levels of Dihydrotesterone (DHT) that can cause prostatic tissue to enlarge. That same hormone DHT is also associated with the miniaturisation of hair follicles in male pattern baldness. What is Saw Palmetto? In its raw form, Saw Palmetto is a plant native to the Caribbean and is currently found in the south-eastern United States. It grows in clumps or dense thickets in sandy coastal areas, and as undergrowth in pine woods or hardwood hammocks. Saw Palmetto is a plant with small berries that has been used by Native Americans as medicine and food for hundreds of years. What is Saw Palmetto used to treat? Saw Palmetto has been used to treat several health issues including bladder infections, prostate cancer, and a decreased sex drive. It has also been used as an alternative remedy to treat hair loss although evidence of its effectiveness in all of these symptoms is very mixed as you can see below! Hair loss in both men and women is called Androgenetic Alopecia, and it’s common as everyone ages. It’s caused by the hormone testosterone, and its conversion into the hormone Dihydrotestosterone (DHT). DHT is the hormone responsible for hair loss. The effects of Saw Palmetto are said to resemble the actions and effects of the drug Finasteride, also known by its brand name Propecia. Both are believed to inhibit a particular enzyme called 5-alpha reductase, which is an enzyme needed to convert Testosterone to DHT. And like Saw Palmetto, Finasteride is primarily used to treat prostate enlargement and hair loss. Saw Palmetto comes in several different forms, including: Whole dried berries Powdered capsules Although some early research suggested that Saw Palmetto could benefit people with BPH symptoms, later studies contradicted these findings. A study published in 2011 followed the progress of 306 men with moderate BPH symptoms over 72 weeks as they took either Saw Palmetto fruit extracts or a placebo. The results showed that there was no significant difference in the results between the two groups - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326341/ These findings support 2006 research, which found no improvement in BPH symptoms after 12 months of saw palmetto use - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa053085 Another study showed that Saw Palmetto has no efficacy at all for benign prostatic hyperplasia - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14665895 Despite its popularity as an herbal remedy, it seems there is no scientific evidence to suggest that Saw Palmetto is effective for any health condition. Side effects and interactions Saw Palmetto generally is considered to be safe, but it’s not recommended for children, or pregnant and breastfeeding women. Rare side effects include mild headaches and stomach pains. Stomach irritation can be avoided by taking the extract with food. There are more effective treatments for hair loss problems and one of those supplements, is a Help Hair Shake. Help Hair Shakes have been developed specially to provide the proteins you need, along with all the essential vitamins and minerals to support hair growth. Help Hair uses Whey Protein Concentrate in all the shakes. Protein is the most important nutrient for hair as each hair follicle consists of 97% protein content. Protein is broken down into amino acids and then processed into a fibrous structure, called Keratin, which is the key structural component of your hair, skin and nails. Help Hair uses all-natural Whey Protein Concentrate to provide the necessary blend of amino acids needed to accelerate healthy hair growth. The Help Hair shake not only tastes great, but it will also help you accelerate your hair growth! One scoop, twice a day is all you need to keep your hair looking healthier and fuller. #HairGrowth #HelpHair #ProteinShake Don’t worry, but can stress really turn your hair grey? Stephen Dowd Does clogged pores cause hair loss ? Is Hair Dye a problem? Does it pose health risks.

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Home>Hip-Hop History> Will Smith Met The Notorious B.I.G. For The First Time On The Same Night That He Died Will Smith Met The Notorious B.I.G. For The First Time On The Same Night That He Died By Keenan Higgins During his CRWN Interview to promote "Bad Boys For Life," Will Smith revealed an interesting Biggie story from the night he was killed. Bad Boys For Life is gearing up to be one of the biggest blockbuster films of year, and we're only 10 days in! While fans are sure to enjoy the action-packed blockbuster starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, it's what the latter leading man had to say during last night's TIDAL CRWN Talk to promote the film that had many people gasping, particularly fans of late rapper The Notorious B.I.G. While the entire hour-long convo at the iconic Apollo Theater was amazing overall — trust us, we were there! — it was when the convo got to the subject of Hip-Hop and Biggie that things got interesting. After Martin revealed a cool tale of his time with the "Juicy" emcee on the set of his wildy popular '90s sitcom, Will took things a step further to reveal that he actually met Biggie for the very first time hours before he was slain on March 9, 1997. Here's what Will Smith said exactly about his short-yet-memorable encounter with BIG: "I met Biggie the night he died. I met Biggie at the Soul Train Music Awards like 4 and half hours before he died. I met Biggie, we hung out, we took a picture and all of that. I went to sleep, woke up the next morning, and he was dead." — Will Smith R.I.P forever, Biggie. Watch the full interview right now below by logging into your TIDAL account: Hip-Hop History News Movies Will Smith bad boys 3 bad boys for life The Notorious B.I.G. Biggie biggie murder biggie death biggie smalls Neil Peart, Legendary Rush Drummer, Dead At 67 Apryl Jones Low Key Confirms Lil Fizz Break Up: "My Focus Is On My Children" HIP-HOP HISTORY Will Smith Met The Notorious B.I.G. For The First Time On The Same Night That He Died

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Bashey History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms Early Origins of the Bashey family The surname Bashey was first found in Hertfordshire at Stanstead Abbots, a parish, in the union of Ware, hundred of Braughin. The first record that we could find was of Edward Bashe, the son of a Worcester tradesman who served in the naval victualling department for 40 years, and obtained a grant of Stanstead Abbots in 1559. His son Ralph Baesh built the church "situated on an eminence one mile south-east from the village in 1578." [1] And his son, Sir Edward Baesh founded almshouses for six widows in 1636, and a free grammar school. A few years later in the same parish, Rye House was home to the plot laid in 1683 against the lives of Charles II., and James, Duke of York. Important Dates for the Bashey family This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Bashey research. Another 145 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1510, 1600, 1616, 1661 and 1671 are included under the topic Early Bashey History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Bashey Spelling Variations The English language only became standardized in the last few centuries. For that reason, spelling variations are common among many Anglo-Norman names. The shape of the English language was frequently changed with the introduction of elements of Norman French, Latin, and other European languages; even the spelling of literate people's names were subsequently modified. Bashey has been recorded under many different variations, including Bashe, Bash, Bashy, Baesh and others. Early Notables of the Bashey family (pre 1700) More information is included under the topic Early Bashey Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Bashey family To escape the uncertainty of the political and religious uncertainty found in England, many English families boarded ships at great expense to sail for the colonies held by Britain. The passages were expensive, though, and the boats were unsafe, overcrowded, and ridden with disease. Those who were hardy and lucky enough to make the passage intact were rewarded with land, opportunity, and social environment less prone to religious and political persecution. Many of these families went on to be important contributors to the young nations of Canada and the United States where they settled. Basheys were some of the first of the immigrants to arrive in North America: Bashor Michel Bashor, aged 22, who arrived at Ellis Island from Beyrouth, in 1906; Th. C. Bashor, who arrived at Ellis Island, in 1919; and Thurston Bashor, aged 20, who arrived at Ellis Island, in 1920. Bashey (English)

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Cormige History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms The surname Cormige is a Welsh name that was first held when the Cormige family lived in the English county of Cornwall. As a general rule, the greater the distance between individuals and their homelands, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, people who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original village, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came. Consequently, the name Cormige was not originally applied to a lifelong resident of Cornwall, but rather to someone who emigrated from Cornwall to another region. [1] Early Origins of the Cormige family The surname Cormige was first found in Devon, England where the "surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'the Cornish,' a Cornish man. We do not expect to find Cornish in Cornwall, but in Devonshire. Coming over the border the stranger would be called Cornish from the county he had left. Hence Cornish is rare in Cornwall and common in Devonshire. We may safely conclude that when we find Cornish in Cornwall the bearer has returned to the county whence his ancestors sprang." [2] "The manor of Trevorick, [in St. Issey, Cornwall] on which the family of Cornish had their seat, was for several generations in their possession." [3] "The Devonshire families of Cornish are now best represented in Newton Abbot and its neighbourhood. George Cornish was commander of one of the Bideford ships engaged in the Newfoundland trade in the reign of William III. " [4] Important Dates for the Cormige family This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Cormige research. Another 116 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1296, 1375, 1450, 1465, 1523, 1685, 1677 and 1689 are included under the topic Early Cormige History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Cormige Spelling Variations Although there are not an extremely large number Welsh surnames, there are an inordinately large number of spelling variations of those surnames. This variety of spellings began almost immediately after the acceptance of surnames within Welsh society. As time progressed, these old Brythonic names were eventually were recorded in English. This process was problematic in that many of the highly inflected sounds of the native language of Wales could not be properly captured in English. Some families, however, did decide to modify their own names to indicate a branch loyalty within the family, a religious adherence, or even a patriotic affiliation. The name Cormige has seen various spelling variations: Cornish, Cornishe, Corniss, Cornise, Carnish, Cornich, Corniche, Cornick and many more. Early Notables of the Cormige family (pre 1700) Prominent amongst the family during the late Middle Ages was William Cornysh the Younger (also spelled Cornyshe or Cornish) (1465-1523), an English composer, dramatist, actor, and poet. His only surviving poem, was written in Fleet Prison. Henry Cornish (died 1685), was a London Alderman of the ward... Another 47 words (3 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Cormige Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Cormige family In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many people from Wales joined the general migration to North America in search of land, work, and freedom. These immigrants greatly contributed to the rapid development of the new nations of Canada and the United States. They also added a rich and lasting cultural heritage to their newly adopted societies. Investigation of immigration and passenger lists has revealed a number of people bearing the name Cormige: Samuel Cornish was one of the first settlers in North America, settling in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1637; and James Cornish was the first Schoolmaster and Town Clerk in Westfield, Massachusetts.. ^ Hutchins, Fortescue, The History of Cornwall, from the Earliest Records and Traditions to the Present Time. London: William Penaluna, 1824. Print ^ Guppy, Henry Brougham, Homes of Family Names in Great Britain. 1890. Print. Cormige (Welsh)

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Marbeler History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms The history of the Marbeler family name begins after the Norman Conquest of 1066. They lived in Cheshire, at the manor of Marbury, from whence they took their name. However, we must look to Normandy to find the first record of the family. It was there that "Nicholas Merbury, Butler of the King, Normandy" [1] was found 1180-1195. Alternatively, the family could have descended from Marlborough, a borough and market-town, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Selkley in Wiltshire. "The name, anciently written Marleberg, or Marlbridge, is supposed to be derived from the marl, or chalk, hills by which the town is surrounded. At the time of the Norman survey [(1086]), Marlborough had a church, and was held in royal demesne; soon after, a castle was erected, which seems to have been the cause of the subsequent enlargement of the town. In the time of Richard I., and during his imprisonment in Austria, his brother John took possession of this fortress; but Richard, on his return from captivity, seized it, with all the other possessions belonging to his brother, and on their reconciliation he still retained the castle of Marlborough in his own hands. " [2] In this case, the first on record was Alured de Merleberge who held lands here at the time of the Domesday Book of 1086. [1] Early Origins of the Marbeler family The surname Marbeler was first found in Cheshire at Marbury, a township, in the parish of Great Budworth, union of Northwich, hundred of Bucklow. [2] [3] The place name dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086 when it was first listed as Merberie and was held by William Malbank, who held them from Earl Harold. [4] Literally, it means "fortified place near a lake," from the Old English words "mere" + "burh." [5] One of the first records of the family in England was Thomas of Marlborough (died 1236), a medieval English monk and writer, Abbot of Evesham Abbey in 1230. A few years later, the Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 listed John de Marleberge as holding lands in Oxfordshire at that time. [3] Important Dates for the Marbeler family This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Marbeler research. Another 120 words (9 lines of text) covering the years 1456, 1528, 1626, 1404, 1425, 1414, 1555, 1611, 1610 and are included under the topic Early Marbeler History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Marbeler Spelling Variations Anglo-Norman names are characterized by a multitude of spelling variations. When the Normans became the ruling people of England in the 11th century, they introduced a new language into a society where the main languages of Old and later Middle English had no definite spelling rules. These languages were more often spoken than written, so they blended freely with one another. Contributing to this mixing of tongues was the fact that medieval scribes spelled words according to sound, ensuring that a person's name would appear differently in nearly every document in which it was recorded. The name has been spelled Marbury, Marburie, Marberrie, Marberry, Merbury, Marburry, Marburrie, Marbery, Marberie and many more. Early Notables of the Marbeler family (pre 1700) Outstanding amongst the family at this time was John Merbury of Lyonshall and Weobley, High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1404 and 1425; John Merbury of Lyonshall and Weobley, High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1414; Sir Laurence Murberry, High Sheriff of... Another 40 words (3 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Marbeler Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Marbeler family to Ireland Some of the Marbeler family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 68 words (5 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Marbeler family For many English families, the political and religious disarray that plagued their homeland made the frontiers of the New World an attractive prospect. Thousands migrated, aboard cramped disease-ridden ships. They arrived sick, poor, and hungry, but were welcomed in many cases with far greater opportunity than at home in England. Many of these hardy settlers went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Among early immigrants bearing the name Marbeler or a variant listed above were: Gilbert Marburie who settled in Virginia in 1622; Richard Marbury settled in Virginia in 1643. ^ The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States Of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0636-X) ^ Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8) ^ Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4) Marbeler (English)

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Howard Milstein Abby Milstein Alumni Service and Support Both Howard and Abby Milstein earned graduate degrees from Harvard University. Howard Milstein earned his joint J.D./M.B.A. degree at Harvard University. Abby Milstein is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University (Radcliffe), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received a J.D. degree (cum laude) from Harvard Law School. Both Milsteins provide generous support to the Law School Fund and serve on the Visiting Committee and the Executive Committee of the Dean’s Advisory Council. Abby Milstein is a member of the Harvard Committee on University Resources and serves as a Harvard University Schools Committee interviewer. Visit Website: Harvard Law School Harvard Law School’s Northwest Corner Project consists of three buildings that will give the School an academic center, a student center, and a building for the clinical program, student organizations, and journals. Howard and Abby Milstein made major gifts to support the construction of the Northwest Corner. [-] click to enlarge Copyright © 2010-2020, Howard and Abby Milstein Foundation. All rights reserved.

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Netflix To Launch ‘Making a Murderer Part 2’ On October 19th! Written by Jason Price on September 25, 2018 Netflix has announced the highly-anticipated second chapter of the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning original documentary series M?aking a Murderer?, which followed the unprecedented journey of Steven Avery from DNA exoneree and reformer to convicted murderer. Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos return to the Midwest where they have exclusive access to Steven Avery and his co-defendant and nephew Brendan Dassey, their families and the legal teams fighting for justice on their behalf. Over the course of 10 new episodes, ?Making a Murderer Part 2 ?provides an in-depth look at the high-stakes postconviction process, exploring the emotional toll the process takes on all involved. “Steven and Brendan, their families and their legal and investigative teams have once again graciously granted us access, giving us a window into the complex web of American criminal justice,” said executive producers, writers and directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos. “Building on P? art 1?, which documented the experience of the accused, in ?Part 2,? we have chronicled the experience of the convicted and imprisoned, two men each serving life sentences for crimes they maintain they did not commit. We are thrilled to be able to share this new phase of the journey with viewers.” Part 2 i?ntroduces viewers to Kathleen Zellner, Avery’s hard-charging postconviction lawyer, in her fight to prove that Avery was wrongly convicted and win his freedom. Ricciardi and Demos follow Zellner, who has righted more wrongful convictions than any private attorney in America, as she tirelessly works the case and uncovers unexpected evidence about what may have happened to Teresa Halbach and about how and why the jury convicted Steven of her murder. Ricciardi and Demos also follow Dassey’s postconviction lawyers, Laura Nirider and Steven Drizin with Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, as they fight in federal court to prove their client’s confession was involuntary, a fight that could take Brendan’s case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Making a Murderer Part 2? is a Synthesis Films Production. Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos serve as executive producers, writers and directors.

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الرئيسية | نداءات | وظائف | أخبار | اتصل بنا | خريطة الموقع الاتحاد الدولي مجلس إدارة الاتحاد الدولي لجمعيات الصليب الأحمر والهلال الأحمر الهيئات واللجان سياسات محفوظات الاتحاد الدولي الحركة الدولية للصليب الأحمر والهلال الأحمر مقدمة – الموارد البشرية الأداء والمصداقية مجالات التركيز الصّحّة المتطوعون أين نعمل الأمريكتان أوروبا وآسيا الوسطى الشّرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا الأخبار والإعلام أنت هنا: تشغيل / ... حجم النص: -A A +A Turning up the volume on the ‘most exposed’ silent disaster of 2012 تم النشر: 15 مارس 2013 9:30 CET In Cuba, the Red Cross estimated that approximately 60 per cent of the country was affected by Hurricane Sandy. In Santiago, more than 160,000 experienced damage to their homes. IFRC Hurricane Sandy\'s path through Jamaica bought down houses and livelihoods in St Thomas. Anna-Maija Beloff/IFRC The Haiti Red Cross Society is adept at mass hygiene promotion campaigns which use everything from radio and SMS message to loudhailers on the streets of Port-au-Prince. IFRC By Andy Channelle, IFRC At the end of October 2012, Hurricane Sandy tore a path through the Caribbean before landing on the eastern seaboard of the United States. The storm caused hundreds of deaths and destroyed homes, farms and livelihoods in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and the Bahamas. Recovery is likely to cost billions of dollars. Hurricane Sandy also provided perhaps the perfect example of how a catastrophe can achieve blanket news coverage across the world, and yet become a silent disaster. As news teams descended on New York and New Jersey, celebrity-packed concerts were organized, and editorials were drafted on the triumphs and tragedies of the US response. Meanwhile, the five countries in the Caribbean affected by the storm were largely overlooked. A research project commissioned by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department of the European Commission (ECHO) examined the media response to Hurricane Sandy’s effects in the USA and compared it to media coverage of the storm’s impact in the Caribbean, and also to the other examples of ‘silent disasters’ covered over the last four weeks. The results were startling. After analysing 700,000 news articles and over 7 million tweets across 200 countries and territories, it was found that stories relating to Sandy in the USA accounted for almost 90 per cent of ‘silent disasters’ media coverage. Next in the hierarchy of global media concern was the passage of the storm through the Caribbean, which attracted 6.76 per cent of the coverage, and then the other 11 disasters which accounted for 3.83 per cent. This is not just academic. The media profile of a disaster is also likely to have a significant effect on the level of support available through institutional and individual donors. While the fundraising efforts for the response to the disaster in New York sailed past 40 million US dollars within a few days, modest Red Cross appeals to cover shelter, hygiene, cholera prevention and other vital operations for over 230,000 people in the Caribbean have yet to reach 50 per cent of their targets. The IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) exists to channel support based on immediate need, rather than the vagaries of the news cycle. It is an essential funding tool, supported by ECHO and many other valuable donors, used to offer immediate support to local Red Cross and Red Crescents around the world following small or medium-scale disasters, often silent disasters. Xavier Castellanos, director of the Americas for the IFRC, said that regardless of the scale of disaster, the Red Cross Red Crescent is concerned about making a difference: "Large disasters, and the response to them, can be spectacular, extraordinary and unexpected, magnifying people’s sympathy and solidarity,” he said. “But while there are sometimes competing agendas in the international media, the priorities of the Red Cross remain on humanitarian needs after a disaster of any size, responding with the help of volunteers, community leaders, and partnerships with authorities. Even after the disaster and the cameras are long gone, the Red Cross will remain to support those most in need." Dr. Bildard Baguma, Under Secretary General of Programmes and Projects with the Uganda Red Cross Society, speaking at the launch of the Silent Disasters campaign in Brussels said the challenge even went beyond response. The best response, he said, was being prepared: “It is much better down the line, for all of us to focus our efforts on addressing the risks and vulnerabilities that people face before emergencies happen.” This, in tandem with the development of programmes that help those affected by recurring disasters, will help break the cycle of vulnerability.” The multiple epidemic outbreaks - cholera, Ebola and Marburg - in Uganda in 2012 was the first silent disaster featured on 18 February in a month-long campaign in partnership with IFRC, ECHO and 11 European Red Cross societies to raise awareness on silent disasters around the world. In the Caribbean, in all the communities and countries the Silent Disasters campaign has covered over the past four weeks, and all other countries around the world, the Red Cross and Red Crescent with the support of ECHO and other partners, will continue to work long before and after any news crews have departed, attempting to raise the volume on crises that, for the people affected, are anything but silent. http://www.scribd.com/doc/128350003/Silent-disasters-campaign-media-analysis Copyright 2020 - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - Legal Disclaimer

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Copyright (c) Hua Hua Fencing Club, Markham, Ontario, Canada All Rights Reserved. Jon Li (Foil) Jonathan graduated from the Business Technology Management (BTS) Program at Ryerson University in Toronto. He started fencing training in 2008, and was a provincial champion. He is also an Ontario Fencing Association Community Instructor and a trained foil coach who has coached many students, including gold medalists in Ontario University Athletics Championship. Sooa Jeon (Foil) Ms. Jeon started to learn fencing in 1996 at SACA Fencing Club in South Korea when she was Grade 5. In 2002 she was qualified for South Korea Youth National Fencing Team and won gold medal in Foil at 2002 7th Asian Youth and Cadet Fencing Championship in Bangkok, Thailand. Sooa fenced in Kang Won Province Professional Fencing Team in 2004 and later started her coaching career in Hong-Chun Middle School for both beginner and advanced fencers. After coming to Canada, she begin to coach at Vango Fencing in 2015 and joined us in early 2019. Sooa currently coaches beginners at Hua Hua Fencing and also lead Sunday group trainings. Vincent Brazeau (Sabre) Vincent has more than 10 years of experience coaching at every level from beginner to national team members. In 2018-2019, he was one of the two sabre Provincial Coach for Quebec. He has been selected to coach Team Canada at the Cadet-Junior Commonwealth Championship, Junior World Cups and as been an assistant coach for Team Canada Sabre Squad. Under his tutelage, athletes have reach provincial and national medal as well as Top 8 at Junior Pan Am championship and Top 16 at Junior World Championship. Dmitriy Bogolyubov (Sabre) Led by novels of Alexandre Dumas, Dmitriy began fencing when he was ten years old. While competing, He travelled all over the former USSR. He met many other fencers, learnt many new technics, and shared his experience with them. He is focusing on youth development aiming to raise high performance athletes. Master of Sports (Uzbekistan - Fencing) in 1988 Competed in the former USSR & Canada Provincial Veteran Champion in 2017; Canada/America Cup Bronze and Silver Medalist (2017 and 2018), Provincial Championship 2019 - Bronze Medalist Licensed Fencing Referee Mark Peros (Sabre) Mark Peros is a veteran of the Canadian fencing program, having made his senior international debut in 2003. He has attended three FIE World Championships, posting his best individual result in 2010 when he finshed 60th. Peros achieved a career-high year-end world ranking of 62nd in 2012-13. In 2015 he was part of the sabre team that won silver at the Pan American Championships. David Chen-Li (Foil) David started training in foil fencing with Coach Huahua Li at the age of 12. He has since made some notable accomplishments in national and international tournaments and grew into the position of Assistant Coach at HHF. He was silver and bronze medalist in Canada Cup fencing tournaments and competed in the Euro Cup fencing tournaments. Dr. Linda Min The designated Doctor at HHF, Dr. Linda Min, is an experienced massage therapist and acupuncturist registered in Ontario. Dr. Min graduated from West China Medical University in 1983, was an Associate Chief Physician at Beijing Medical University First Hospital and the founder of the Emergency Center for Women and Children in this hospital. She has extensive experiences in medical treatments, research and teaching. Dr. Min combined a variety of therapies such as Swedish massage therapy, Japanese Shiatsu therapy, traditional Chinese massage therapy, Chiropractic therapy, fragrance therapy and hot stone massage to treat her patients and relax the muscle, reduce stress, dissipate fatigue and alleviate physical pains. Many fencers benefited from Dr. Min's treatment and are able to achieve excellent results.

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Home > Academics > Hult Business Challenge: Interview with Boston’s 2017 winner Hult Business Challenge: Interview with Boston’s 2017 winner Katie Reynolds, 2 years ago 0 6 min read As a Hult student, you learn about business by living it. And if you have entrepreneurial aspirations, what better way to incubate your ideas than by tapping into the network of global knowledge and skills on campus? Each year our MBA students embark on an intensive, seven-month project to find the best solution for a global corporation’s challenge or to launch their own startup venture. This is the Hult Business Challenge—the capstone to a global degree and a competitive test of leadership, teamwork, and resilience. We recently spoke to Michael Ballard, founder of the winning startup for the Entrepreneurial Track of this year’s Business Challenge in Boston. He told us about his idea for a more sustainable approach to agriculture and how a diverse, talented team of Hult students is helping to bring it to life. The winning team 1. Michael Ballard, USA 2. Fernando Ribiero, Brazil 3. Taffy Musoni, Zimbabwe 4. Gabriel Moreno, Mexico 5. Rachael Benton, Canada “What if we could grow food for livestock in a controlled environment and use 100 times less water on a pound-for-pound basis?” Tell us more about your business concept—what’s the objective? Our objective is to change the trajectory of water scarcity. 70% of the world’s water is consumed by agriculture—and 50% of that goes to livestock. That’s not sustainable. So we asked: what if we could grow food for livestock in a controlled environment, leveraging technology—robotics, automation—and use 100 times less water on a pound-for-pound basis? This is a really big problem on a global scale, and we believe we have a solution to it. Our goal is to bring the ability to grow feed into what we are currently calling “Controlled Environment AgTech Facilities” or CEAF. It’s healthier for the animals, cleaner for the environment, and reduces our carbon footprint. There’s even evidence that it reduces methane output, which is huge for climate change. There’s a lot of benefits to it. What was your inspiration? I came to Hult with the idea. It was an idea born out of my own need, and that can be the best starting point for an idea. I was a horse owner from an agricultural background and several years ago, I was browsing through Craigslist, looking to find the most economically priced alfalfa hay. I saw an ad that said: “Tired of paying high hay prices?” So I clicked the ad, called the guy, and had some great discussions. Through time the idea has been molded and shaped into potentially a very big project. How did you choose your team? “I needed a team of high achievers and people who were driven and passionate about making a difference in the world.” My reasons for getting an MBA were driven by my entrepreneurial ambitions. I wanted to get the right skills and the team to take this business idea forward. I knew that, in order to really make an impact, I needed a team of high achievers and people who were driven and passionate about making a difference in the world. At first, I had no idea what kind of talent was here. But I knew that we needed different skill sets to succeed, and I set out to find them. So I hustled. However, through the process, it was quite serendipitous. If I had to weigh it I would say it was about 20% hustle and 80% serendipity. How did you test the strength of your idea? Lots of feedback. We spoke to many people both inside the industry and outside the industry. I did what the lean startup method says: take a viable prototype out and test it on your market. The reality is that farmers require hundreds of tons of animal feed a day. That’s when I realized that the business wasn’t scalable using human labor. The only way to scale the business was to leverage technology like automation and robotics because the market will not let you play small—the volume of the need is just too great. What were the challenges? When you have a diverse team, often there are rambunctious discussions about what strategy we should implement, what our message is, and who should present. However, when we looked at these issues through the lens of entrepreneurship and leadership, which we studied in great detail at Hult, we were able to come to clear solutions. How did your classroom learning prepare you for the challenge? Pulling skills out of our leadership classes and putting them in the context of our team was incredibly helpful. Like the lesson about the importance of letting others shine. I thought that, as the founder, I needed to do the presentation. But actually, Rachel was better at presenting in a way that people understand. Navigating through team dynamics was very interesting and incredibly rewarding. We also saw a lot of things from our finance courses coming into play, like how to have a capital structure that maximizes shareholder returns. How do you feel this project has added to your MBA experience? It added tremendous confidence in myself and the knowledge that, through a great team, we can rise to the occasion and succeed. It also helped us understand the importance of the team environment: “if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” That is the epitome of the Hult Business Challenge experience. What’s next? Investment! After we won, two of the investors we pitched to at the finals were very interested. One of them has now taken on a very active role in helping us raise capital. We’re excited to have him on board—he’s an accomplished lawyer and businessman and he really thinks our project has a lot of potential. And he’s opening up doors to other investors. Our goal is to start in Arizona, then expand into California. From there we will see. I think what is important is that we stay flexible and see what doors open as we look forward to the future. We’ve seen incredible support from our fellow students. In fact, we had a lot of people come up and say “You’ve got to bring this to our country.”—people from the UAE, Nigeria, Israel—that have said this has so many applications in so many areas. That’s because there’s a lot of industries that you might not think of that also depend on water, like manufacturing and mining. But we’re also looking at how we can use the business to alleviate food scarcity. Have a business idea you’d like to bring to life? Find out more about our innovative MBA program and the Hult Business Challenge. Kickstart your career in this education and innovation hotspot by studying at Hult’s Boston business school. To find out more, take a look at our blog Life in Boston: Introducing Hult House. Download a brochure or get in touch today to find out how Hult can help you to learn about the business world, the future, and yourself. #hult business challenge #MBA #Postgraduate The Hult network: A world of opportunity Work-life balance. Is it achievable?

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'Freedom,' 'confidence' key Uni's Mexico plans 5:00 AM PDT 6/22/2007 by John Hecht , AP Amigos prep all-star first offering When Universal Pictures and its specialty division Focus Features International signed an ambitious five-film deal with Cha Cha Cha, the upstart shingle of helmers Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the groundbreaking venture al-lowed the partners to form a dream team of Mexican talent. An expected payoff is already evident with the company's first project, "Rudo y Cursi." Currently in production on Mexico's Pacific coast, the film's credits read like a who's who of contemporary Mexican cinema. Cuaron, del Toro and Inarritu, the so-called Three Amigos of a new wave of Mexican crossover hits, are co-producing the picture, which reunites Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, the stars of Cuaron's hit road movie "Y Tu Mama Tambien." "Y Tu Mama" scribe Carlos Cuaron, brother of Alfonso, wrote the script and is directing the film. Academy Award winner Eugenio Caballero is on board as production designer. Carlos Cuaron describes the story as a love-hate relationship between two brothers who play professional soccer. With a combined budget of about $100 million, the slate of five pictures is to include directorial efforts from del Toro, Inarritu and Cuaron as well as a new movie from writer-director Rodrigo Garcia, son of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. David Linde, co-chairman of Universal Pictures, said it's not every day that a U.S. studio is prepared to enter into this kind of deal. The unique partnership, he added, gives his company the opportunity to boost international production and distribution with the type of creative filmmaking that audiences are thirsting for. "You can't sustain our business creatively and financially by only making American movies. It has become a global business," he pointed out during a visit here. At a recent "Rudo y Cursi" production party near the Mexican resort town of Manzanillo, the cast, crew and production partners were buzzing with excitement. Some see the venture's first offering as part of a much larger package that may well mark a defining moment in the history of Mexican cinema. The fact that Universal Pictures has given Cha Cha Cha complete creative control speaks volumes of the trust that has been established over the years between the trio of Mexican helmers and Linde. "This is a big vote of confidence from David (Linde)," Alfonso Cuaron said. Linde executive produced Cuaron's "Y Tu Mama" when he was at Good Machine. Years later, Linde and Good Machine partner James Schamus formed Focus Features, the company that released Inarritu's "21 Grams." Now, as co-chairman of Universal Pictures, Linde is working with del Toro on "Hellboy 2." "The creative freedom comes from a long-term relationship," Inarritu said. In addition to Universal's production partnership with Cha Cha Cha, Focus has a deal in place with Canana Films, the Mexico City-based production company owned by actors Garcia Bernal, Luna and producer Pablo Cruz. The two deals give Universal and Focus a distinct edge in the Mexican market. Focus is confident enough in Canana that it is paying the shingle's overhead, even though it has never made a movie with the company. "It's a good investment because these are three guys who have great ideas," Linde said. John Hecht THRnews@thr.com @john_hecht

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Just how mighty will 'Evan' be? 5:00 AM PDT 6/22/2007 by Gregg Kilday , AP Carell spinoff leads b.o. fleet; '1408,' 'Heart' along for ride Will moviegoers flood the multiplex for the new comedy "Evan Almighty," opening this weekend, or will the modern-day take on the Noah's ark tale face a boxoffice drought? That's the question confronting Hollywood as it steers toward midsummer waters. Universal Pictures' pricey "Evan" -- the studio has pegged its budget at $175 million -- is destined to take the top spot from 20th Century Fox's "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," which opened last weekend to $58.1 million. But the question of how big the new comedy bows is a matter of some suspense. Although the spotlight will shine on "Evan," bowing in 3,602 theaters, several other titles also will get their feet wet. "1408," a high-end horror tale from the Weinstein Co. that MGM is distributing, looks as if it will trigger more excitement than the recent spate of hard-R horror outings, while Paramount Vantage's "A Mighty Heart" attempts to counter the summer fluff by appealing to more serious-minded moviegoers. In addition, Michael Moore's "Sicko" opens in one theater in New York before going wide next weekend. Technically, "Evan" is a sequel to 2003's "Bruce Almighty," in which Jim Carrey struck a bargain with God (the sly Morgan Freeman). That movie opened to a four-day Memorial Day weekend haul of $85.7 million; its three-day figure was $70 million. Like "Bruce," "Evan" is directed by Tom Shadyac and written by Steve Oedekerk, a co-writer on the original, but it actually is making its entrance more as a spinoff than a sequel. In place of Carrey, the new movie stars "The Office's" Steve Carell, who had a supporting role in the first film as a newscaster who is reduced to a blathering idiot. In the new film, he has been elected congressman and has moved his family to Virginia, when Freeman's God comes calling with a warning of severe weather ahead. The first film was rated PG-13, but the latest outing has secured a PG rating in hopes of attracting the family crowd with its zoolike array of animals. And because the film also pays homage to the story of Noah, Universal has been courting Christian audiences in hopes of igniting a faith-based hit. "Bruce" might have begat "Evan," but "Evan" isn't looking to match "Bruce's" opening numbers; readers of the tracking tea leaves expect the film to perform in at least the mid-$30 million range. But if a genuine fervor is developing around the film, the tracking might not be capturing that, in which case "Evan" could open in the neighborhood of $40 million or more. For moviegoers looking for darker amusements, "1408" offers up a spooky PG-13 adaptation of a Stephen King short story. Adapted for the screen by Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski and directed by Mikael Hafstrom ("Derailed"), the movie stars John Cusack as a skeptic who investigates a mysterious room at a New York hotel where suicides have taken place. While recent gorefests like "Hostel: Part II" have stiffed, "1408" is earning genuinely enthusiastic reviews. Cusack, though no superstar, has proven himself a reliable leading man. In 2003, he checked into an equally forbidding Nevada motel in the suspenser "Identity," which opened to $16.2 million in 2,733 theaters. Bowing in 2,678 locations, "1408" is shaping up as a solid performer in the midteen-millions range. Making its debut in 1,355 theaters, Michael Winterbottom's "Mighty Heart" isn't looking to take the weekend but instead to settle in for the long run as a drama that can hold its own against more lightweight summer entertainments. The film, which debuted at the Festival de Cannes in May, stars Angelina Jolie as journalist Mariane Pearl, whose husband, Daniel, was abducted and eventually killed by Pakistani militants. The film, shot on many of the locations in Pakistan where the real-life story unfolded, should establish itself in the $5 million-$10 million range.

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Sound picks: Golden Reel noms set 4:00 AM PST 1/26/2007 by Gregg Kilday , AP Clint Eastwood will be honored as Filmmaker of the Year at the 54th annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards, set for Feb. 24 at the Beverly Hilton. The Motion Picture Sound Editors also will recognize Richard L. Anderson, who has worked as a sound editor on such films as "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "The Color Purple," "Madagascar" and "Flushed Away," with the Career Achievement Award. The MPSE also announced nominees for the Golden Reel Awards, which acknowledge the year's best work in dialogue & ADR, effects & foley, and music. For domestic feature, dialogue & ADR, the nominees are "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," "Flags of Our Fathers," "World Trade Center," "The Last King of Scotland," "Letters From Iwo Jima," "Apocalypto," "Little Miss Sunshine" and "The Da Vinci Code." For domestic feature, effects & foley, they are "Dead Man's Chest," "Flags," "Blood Diamond," "Iwo Jima," "WTC," "Superman Returns," "Mission: Impossible 3" and "The Prestige." In feature animation, effects & foley, the nominees are "Cars," "Happy Feet," "Over the Hedge," "Flushed Away," "The Ant Bully" and "Ice Age: The Meltdown." For feature film music, the nominees are "Apocalypto," "Dead Man's Chest," "Babel," "Children of Men," "Click," "Lucky Number Slevin," "The Proposition" and "Bobby." For musical feature, the nominees are "Dreamgirls," "Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny," "Copying Beethoven," "Take the Lead" and "A Prairie Home Companion." The foreign features nominees are "Casino Royale," "Pan's Labyrinth," "Babel," "Children of Men," "United 93," "Curse of the Golden Flower," "Slevin" and "The Black Dahlia." The Golden Reels also include categories for TV, direct-to-video, special venues and computer entertainment.

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Madonna Univ. signs forensic science articulation pact The pact lets WCC students complete a bachelor’s degree at Madonna in forensic science. Madonna Univ. signs forensic science articulation pact The pact lets WCC students complete a bachelor’s degree at Madonna in forensic science. Check out this story on HometownLife.com: http://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/livonia/2015/03/24/madonna-univ-signs-forensic-science-articulation-pact/70397680/ Published 5:54 p.m. ET March 24, 2015 Lori Radwin of Ypsilanti, a senior in the forensic science program, and Stephanie Gladyck of Clinton Township, a master’s degree student from Syracuse University who is also completing the master’s certificate in Applied Forensic Science Research through a dual enrollment program, listen as Dr. Jodi Lynn Barta, Director of the Forensic Science program, instructs them in their lab work.(Photo: Submitted photo) Administrators from Madonna University and Washtenaw Community College (WCC) signed an articulation agreement Monday, providing WCC students an opportunity to complete their bachelor’s degrees at Madonna in forensic science. This agreement provides students who earn an associate degree in biology the opportunity to transfer up to 87 credits from WCC, enabling them to finish their bachelor’s degree at Madonna University in 40 credits. “We are grateful for this collaboration and look forward to providing WCC students with an outstanding degree through our forensic science program,” said Michael O. Kenney, vice president for planning and enrollment. “We are a mere 20 minutes from WCC, and with free parking and block scheduling, this is a win/win. That’s always our goal.” Currently, Madonna is the only school in Michigan to offer a bachelor’s degree in forensic science accredited by the Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission (FEPAC). Madonna also has a similar articulation agreement with Macomb Community College and is in the process of completing a comparable agreement with Mott Community College in Flint. This agreement offers a unique opportunity for students interested in a career in forensic science, said Jodi Lynn Barta, Ph. D., associate professor in biological and health sciences and director of Madonna University’s forensic science program. “We have an active forensic science research facility here at Madonna, which also provides students access to experiential learning in research and development,” Barta said. “Employers are now asking for forensic science technicians who have received a degree from a FEPAC-accredited program. We can provide our students with the tools they need to be successful in their field,” Barta said. The requirements for WCC students who follow this articulation agreement include: An Associate of Science in Biology degree with a Michigan Transfer Agreement (MTA) endorsement An overall grade point average (GPA) of 2.8 Students will enter the pre-forensic program as soon as they transfer and once they successfully complete the introductory survey course in forensic science, they will be eligible for acceptance into forensic science. “We are very happy to enter into another articulation agreement with Madonna University,” said William Abernethy, WCC interim vice president for instruction. “As with our other articulation agreements, it will benefit students at both institutions and we look forward to continuing our valuable partnership.” The agreement was signed by WCC President Rose Bellanca; William Abernethy; Brandon Tucker, WCC dean of advanced technologies and public service careers; Ruth Walsh, WCC department chair of public service careers; Madonna President Sr. Rose Marie Kujawa,; Ernest Nolan, Madonna provost and vice president of academic affairs; Theodore Biermann, dean, Madonna’s College of Science & Mathematics and Jodi Lynn Barta. For more information about the program at WCC, contact Brad Hoth at 734-973-3676 or Ruth Walsh at 734-973-3689. For more on the Madonna University forensic science program, call Sue Sayers at 734-432-5523. Read or Share this story: http://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/livonia/2015/03/24/madonna-univ-signs-forensic-science-articulation-pact/70397680/

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Owaisi compares Lok Sabha debate on triple talaq to day of Babri Masjid demolition The three-time Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad questioned the requirement for a three-year prison term in the Bill. MP Asaduddin Owaisi. Photo: India Today Owaisi equated the debate in the Lok Sabha with the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Owaisi also denied that the support of Muslim women for Prime Minister Narendra Modi riles him. Owaisi also questioned the logic for jail term in the Bill. Firebrand MP Asaduddin Owaisi, who staunchly opposed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill on Thursday, has equated the debate in the Lok Sabha with the demolition of the Babri Masjid. In an exclusive interview with India Today on Friday, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president said, "The scene in the Lok Sabha was like December 6 (1992). We can neither forget December 6 nor the scene in the Lok Sabha on Thursday." When asked that despite his staunch opposition, the Bill was passed, Owaisi said that if a Muslim man divorces his wife by saying the word 'talaq' thrice, it is a crime and should be stopped, but "there is no empirical data to support the argument that it is such a big social evil that harms society". The three-time Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad questioned the requirement for a three-year prison term in the Bill. "When the Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that merely uttering triple talaq cannot dissolve marriage, what is the requirement for a three years' jail? We have several laws like section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Sections 20 and 22 of the Domestic Violence Act 2005 and the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986 to protect women." Owaisi also questioned the logic for jail term in the Bill. "How will a man who has been jailed for uttering 'triple talaq'' provide allowance/compensation to his wife from prison?" Owaisi said that he had suggested amendments to desertion and abandonment provisions, but they were not included. "The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) avoids desertion and abandonment amendments due to vested interests while the Congress wants to prove that it is more pro-Hindu than the BJP," he alleged. Despite the SC ruling, Muslim men are divorcing their wives by merely saying 'talaq' thrice. Why Owaisi objects to a law that wants to end this practice? "Eighty per cent of cases under Section 498A of IPC and the Domestic Violence Act in family court involve non-Muslim women," he said. Agreeing that Muslim women should be literate and jobs, he demanded seven per cent reservation for educated women from the community. "If the government feels that Muslim women should be educated, they should be provided reservation." "What is the guarantee that Muslim women will get justice after the Bill becomes law? The practice of triple talaq cannot be ended by law. You are making a mountain out of a molehill." If Dowry Act, Domestic Violence Act, Vishaka Guidelines and other laws were passed for the safety and empowerment of women, why Muslim personal law cannot be changed? "Because we have the constitutional right under Section 25," he said. When asked whether he is peeved more at the BJP or the Congress after the Grand Old Party backed the Bill, Owaisi said, "All the parties have been exposed. Their stand on secularism has been exposed." Owaisi also denied that the support of Muslim women for Prime Minister Narendra Modi riles him and he fears losing votes of the community. Also watch | Lok Sabha passes Triple Talaq Bill 2017 For sports news, updates, live scores and cricket fixtures, log on to indiatoday.in/sports. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter for Sports news, scores and updates.

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Gravitas Ventures Acquires Bisexual Comedy-Drama ‘Appropriate Behavior’ Gravitas Ventures Acquires Bisexual Comedy-Drama 'Appropriate Behavior' Since premiering at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, “Appropriate Behavior” has been making its way through the festival circuit. Now, Gravitas Ventures has picked up the film, which is written, directed and starring Desiree Akhavan, for distribution (courtesy of Variety). Read More: The Indiewire Springboard: ‘Appropriate Behavior’ Breakout Desiree Akhavan On Threesomes, OkCupid and Lena Dunham The film stars Akhavan as a quirky Park Slope resident in her 20s navigating through a breakup, her traditional Iranian family and her sexuality. The film, which won the Grand Jury Award for a U.S. dramatic feature at Outfest also marks Akhavan’s debut. She will appear late this year in a guest stint on the upcoming season of HBO’s “Girls.” “Appropriate Behavior” will open in theaters and will be available on VOD early next year. This Article is related to: News and tagged Acquisitions, Appropriate Behavior, Desiree Akhavan, distribution, Gravitas Ventures

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Lars P. Feld Member , German Council of Economic Experts Prof. Dr. Lars P. Feld, Full Professor of Economics, particularly Economic Policy at the University of Freiburg; Director of the Walter Eucken Institute; Member of the German Council of Economic Experts (Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung); Member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the German Federal Finance Ministry (Lifetime Appointment); Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; Member of the Kronberger Kreis; Research Associate at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim; Managing Editor of Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik of the Verein für Socialpolitik; Research Fellow of the SIAW-HSG at the University of St. Gallen, of CESifo Munich and of CREMA Basel; Former President of the European Public Choice Society (2007-2009). 1993 Master in Economics (Dipl.-Volksw.), University of Saarland, Saarbrücken; 1999 Dr. oec. (eq. Ph.D.) and 2002 Habilitation, University of St. Gallen; 1998 Visiting Fellow at the University of Southern California and at the Université de Rennes 1 (France); 2002-2006 Professor of Economics at the University of Marburg; 2006-2010 Professor of Economics at the University of Heidelberg. Research Interests: Public Economics, Public Choice, Fiscal Psychology, Law and Economics; more specifically and recently research on tax competition, tax evasion and fraud, the shadow economy, institutional constraints on public debt, the effects of direct democracy on economic policy, judicial and prosecutorial independence, fraud in science. Numerous articles among others in the Journal of Public Economics, European Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Public Choice, Economic Policy, Kyklos, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Southern Economic Journal, European Journal of Political Economy, German Economic Review. Towards a New Monetary Constitution in Europe: The Proposal of the German Council of Economic Experts (GCEE) Paper Conference paper | By Lars P. Feld | Apr 2013 After the announcement of Mario Draghi, the ECB president, to do “whatever it takes” to preserve the integrity of the European Monetary Union (EMU) in July 2012 and the establishment of the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) program in September 2012, the crisis of EMU is far from being resolved.

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Law School Graduate's Career Guide The Complete Law School Graduate’s Guide to Choosing a Career By Charles R. Gueli, Esq. Published January 6, 2020 Explore your professional opportunities as a newly licensed attorney. Make an informed decision with insight into the pros and cons of different legal career options. Working in a Traditional Law Firm Starting Your Own Law Practice In-House Corporate Lawyer Careers Careers in Alternative Dispute Resolution Government and Military Attorneys Teaching Jobs for Lawyers Choosing the Best Legal Career for You Today there are over 1,352,000 licensed lawyers in the United States. ¹ With more and more attorneys graduating from law school each year, competition has become brutal for jobs in both the private and public sectors. As a result, many recent law school graduates have begun to “think outside the box,” pursuing non-traditional legal careers. In this guide, we’ll discuss traditional and non-traditional career paths for recent law school graduates. We’ll address career requirements, pros and cons of different careers, personality traits that fit best with certain jobs, average salaries, and more. Continue reading to determine which legal career is best suited to you. The traditional path for a young attorney is to join an established law firm, with the idea that after many years of dedication and hard work, you’ll be promoted to a partner in the firm. Law firms come in many sizes. Depending on a firm’s size and structure, the role and responsibilities of a newly minted attorney can be dramatically different. “Best Fit” Personality Traits for Working at a Law Firm If you’re considering seeking an associate’s position at a large, medium, or small law firm you must be able to follow orders, in some cases spending long hours away from your family. At some point, you will likely have to work for lawyers and staff you dislike, and be prepared to wait many years before making partner. You must also have excellent interpersonal skills to deal with other associates, partners, and even the clerical staff. If these are traits you don’t feel you have, then you may want to explore a different type of career in the legal field. Large Law Firms A large law firm is generally defined as a firm employing over 100 lawyers. Some of the largest law firms in the United States have thousands of attorneys practicing in multiple states. Working for a large firm has unique advantages and disadvantages. Advantages of working in a large firm: Substantial Salary: You can expect to receive a substantial paycheck within a couple of weeks of starting. The median salary for first-year associates at large law firms is $155,000. No Overhead: Starting your own practice right out of law school has substantial costs. Renting an office, hiring a secretary, paying for access to legal research, and other costs can be oppressive. In a large law firm, you’ll have access to office support and other tools of the trade, and you won’t have to worry about paying for them. Mentoring: Having experienced lawyers a few feet away can be a great benefit to a new associate. Some large firms have structured mentoring programs. Relying on colleagues’ advice and counsel will speed up your learning curve. Advancement Opportunity: As a newly hired lawyer you will likely begin your career as a “junior associate.” From there you can advance to a senior associate position, junior partner, and eventually a partner. Of course, along with advancement comes increasing income. Disadvantages to starting out in a large firm: Long Hours: Working 50 to 80 (or more) hours per week is common for new associates. If you don’t plan to work incredibly long and hard hours, a large firm may not be the best spot for you. High Billable Hours: According to a Yale University study, firms “average” stated annual billables typically range between 1700 and 2300, although informal networks often quote much higher numbers. Harsh Treatment: While your family and friends may consider your new Juris Doctorate degree a major achievement, the partners, associates, and even the secretarial staff may see you as nothing more than a green employee, whose first duty is to make coffee each morning. Competitive Environment: When looking to hire new associates, large firms have hundreds of recent law school graduates to choose from. Those hired are mostly competitive Type A personalities who will do anything necessary to move up the food chain, even if it means climbing over you along the way. Long Partnership Track: The road to partnership in a law firm, especially a large one, can take many years. Different law firms have their own requirements for advancement, including bringing in new clients, consistently working longer hours and billing more hours than other associates, being creative in legal applications, or just gaining the favor of one or more partners. Never Speaking Directly with Clients: It’s rare in large firms for a new associate to have direct contact with a client. As an associate, the only contact you’ll likely have with an existing client is sitting behind senior associates and partners at depositions. It can take months, and in some cases, years before you will be trusted to deal directly with an existing client. Mundane Tasks: As a new associate you can expect to do everything, including proofing other lawyers’ work, writing briefs in their names, preparing memorandums of law (which won’t be part of your billable hours), and other tasks for which you will receive little credit or recognition. Working in a Mid-size Law Firm Mid-sized law firms consist of anywhere from 10 to 50 lawyers. Mid-size firms often emerge when junior partners or even partners at a large law firm decide to break away and form their own practice. In many cases, these firms are “Boutique” firms, specializing in one or two areas of the law. The big attraction to working at a boutique firm is greater personal attention to clients. Advantages to mid-size firms: Salary: The average salary for first-year associates in mid-sized law firms is between $92,000 to $128,000. No Overhead: Starting your own practice right out of law school can be prohibitively expensive. Similar to large law firms, in a mid-size or boutique firm you will have access to office support staff and other tools you’ll need to do your job. Mentoring: Having experienced lawyers to review your work and show you the ropes is a huge benefit. In mid-size firms, it’s easier for new associates to have contact with partners and more experienced associates. Getting coached by senior associates and partners will make you a better lawyer, quicker. Client Contact: Because there are less staff, new associates are often given more responsibilities, which will help expand your knowledge base. Moreover, due to the smaller size of the firm, associates can expect to have greater client contact. Fast Track Advancement Opportunity: With fewer available lawyers in the firm, depending on the number of clients, newly hired associates have a better chance of moving up the chain faster than at a large law firm. Less Billable Hours: As a new associate at a mid-size firm, you may not have to bill as many hours to clients. But despite billing fewer hours, because there are fewer lawyers, you may still have greater access to clients, albeit only at the behest of a partner. Working in a Small Law Firm A small firm can consist of anywhere from 2 to 25 lawyers, or a few more. Smaller law firms tend to practice in very specific areas of the law, but frequently offer legal services in related areas of the law. Advantages: Working at a smaller law firm affords you benefits ranging from lower billable hour requirements, to helping clients early in your career (rather than working in the background doing research while the partners take the credit). Salary: The average salary for newly hired associates at small law firms is $62,250 to $90,500. Starting Your Own Law Practice – “Hanging a Shingle” Starting your own law practice can be exciting, challenging, financially rewarding, and yet fraught with obstacles. It’s always a risk to open your own firm. Some of the brightest graduates from law school often fail when opening their own law firm. And yet, there are some who succeed. If you’re thinking about starting your own practice right out of law school, you must think like an entrepreneur first, and a lawyer second. This is especially true if you’re relying on a bank or small business loan to get your practice off the ground. Banks don’t care about your grades in law school. They care about making money. If you’re relying on a bank or small business loan, or money from friends and relatives, you will be under extreme pressure to succeed. Advantages of a solo practice: Freedom and Independence: The main advantages of solo practice are freedom and independence. However, if you choose to go into solo practice, you should be prepared for a few lean years of modest earnings. If you can manage to get through the first couple of years, you should be on your way to a successful practice. No Waiting Period: Instead of applying to law firms all over the city, you can begin your legal career as soon as you have your state bar license. Your Time is Your Own: Unlike working for a large or mid-size firm, where there is little sympathy for your having to miss your daughter’s peewee soccer game or your wife’s Lamaze class, in a solo firm you can arrange your work schedule to live a fuller and more balanced life. Disadvantages of practicing on your own: The Buck Stops With You: You can’t blame anyone else for missing a client appointment, a court appearance, or for not making the rent payment on time. It’s all on you. Making Less Money: In most cases, as a solo practitioner you must be prepared to make less money than your counterparts at a mid-to-large size firm. That may change a few years down the road, but be prepared to scrimp and save for the first several years you’re in business. No Immediate Mentoring: As a solo practitioner, you won’t be able to walk a few doors down and ask a partner for advice on a case you’re working on. You are indeed “solo.” Of course, there’s always the telephone where you can call your lawyer friends, but if they’re working in large or mid-size law firms, don’t expect too much of their time. Loneliness: Loneliness is a part of practicing by yourself. In a solo practice, you will have much less contact with other people than you might at a small, medium, or large firm. If you can’t afford a secretary at first, you may spend 8 to 10 hours a day alone. That can play havoc with those of us who do better in a more social atmosphere. Average Salary: The median salary for a solo practitioner ranges from $78,000 to $140,000. Some Thoughts on Solo Practice To be a successful solo law practitioner begins with a business plan. This is a process of researching and thinking about your law practice in a systematic way. Planning helps you think things through. It includes setting goals and your strategy to achieve them. This can include a plan to obtain clients, financing, marketing, hiring staff, buying law books, and more. You must be able to keep the doors to your law office open for at least six months with little income. To do so, you will need either substantial savings, or a loan from the bank or someone else who trusts you enough to invest in your future. You will need a desk, computer, document scanner/printer, and other standard office supplies. Having your own office and secretary is helpful, but if you’re starting your firm on a shoestring, you can always work out of your home, a friend’s conference room, or even a Starbucks. There are also “executive offices.” These are offices manned by a receptionist where you can rent an office or cubicle for months, weeks, days, or even hours. There you can meet with prospective and existing clients. These are akin to coworking spaces. You must have excellent marketing and interpersonal skills. You can graduate first in your class, but if you can’t effectively market yourself and communicate with prospective clients, you’ll be sitting at your desk wondering how you’re going to pay next month’s rent. “Best Fit” Personality Traits for Solo Practice If you’re going to start your own practice right out of law school, you must be highly motivated and willing to work long hours. You must have an outgoing personality, be willing to advertise and sell yourself, be a risk taker, have a very understanding spouse or significant other, and be willing to work alone. In many cases, to keep the doors open, new lawyers starting their own firms must be willing to accept all sorts of cases, ranging from traffic tickets, to personal injury, family law, bankruptcy, and anything else that will produce immediate income. Large companies often have in-house legal departments consisting of a number of lawyers who specialize in specific legal issues. Many in-house attorneys come from bigger law firms, when substantial clients “poach” lawyers away to join their company full-time. In-house lawyers specialize in laws specifically related to their corporate clients. They work closely with their clients to ensure business risks are minimized and the business conforms to state and federal laws and regulations. In-house corporate lawyers specialize in a wide range of legal issues, including: Employee harassment suits Contract preparation Financial investment Corporate negotiations Advantages of In-House Attorney Positions: Salary: In-house corporate lawyers with one-to-three years’ experience are expected to make between $77,500 and $124,500. No billable Hours: As an in-house lawyer, you won’t have to worry about billing as many hours as possible. It’s all about the results, and not the time it takes to achieve the results. No Overhead: You won’t have to worry about the costs of secretaries, office rent, copy machines, state bar fees, etc. In most cases, whatever you need to better serve your client will be made available to you. State of the Art Legal Research: Westlaw and other legal research tools will likely be made available to you. The cost of continuing legal education (CLE), including costs of travel to seminars, will also be paid. Stock Options: In-house counsel are often offered salary and stock options in the company. If you land a job at a successful and growing company, those stock options may turn out to be worth a substantial amount over time. Reasonable Work Hours: As long as you are fulfilling your duties as in-house counsel, scheduling your work week will be up to you. You can work as many hours as it takes to supply the legal information your corporate client needs. Disadvantages of In-House Attorney Positions: You’re often a “Yes” Man/Woman: As in-house counsel you may have to report to several corporate superiors. Some will heed your legal advice while others may not. Some may like you, while others won’t. Dealing with multiple egos and personalities can be a juggling act. You’ll have to do everything you can to keep the balls from falling. Personalities and Egos: You will have a boss who will conduct your employee evaluation. Your success or lack thereof may depend on whether the boss likes you. This can be especially difficult if your boss hasn’t valued your legal advice or thinks they’re smarter than you. That’s not unusual when dealing with corporate client superiors. Skewed Legal Advice: To stay in the good graces of your superiors may require you to conform your legal advice to their objectives. If you disagree too many times, you may quickly find yourself out of a job. Unceremonious Termination: Unless you have a written contract of employment, you can be fired at any time. This can be oppressive and result in a great deal of stress, especially if you have a family, mortgage, and monthly bills to pay. One Client: Unlike working in a law firm or even as a solo practitioner, where you’ll deal with multiple clients and their varying needs, as in-house counsel you will have only one client – the corporation. That means all your energy must be focused on your one single client. The nation’s court dockets are overburdened. Judges have heavy caseloads and work long hours to resolve as many cases as possible. Even so, in most states it can take a year or more for a case to finally come to trial. To help resolve lawsuits, most states now require parties to submit to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in an attempt to settle civil and family law disputes. The most common types of ADR are arbitration and mediation. The annual salary for arbitrators and mediators ranges from about $36,600 to $124,500, with a the median salary of $62,270. Becoming an Arbitrator Arbitration is a process by which disputes are resolved without trial by an arbitrator. An arbitrator serves as a judge, and their decision is normally final and cannot be appealed (known as “binding” arbitration). Arbitrators are usually attorneys with expertise in a particular field. Arbitrators’ duties include: Review the general issues involved in the case, the parties’ positions, the attorneys who will be representing the parties (if applicable), and the pleadings already filed Settle procedural matters including the introduction of evidence and number of witnesses Dictate dates for arbitration, and allotted time for presenting evidence Apply relevant laws, regulations, and court precedents Prepare binding settlement agreements (if the parties mutually agree), or arbitration orders which will be binding on the parties Educational Requirements: Each state has its own requirements to become an arbitrator. Prospective arbitrators normally have at least ten years of experience in a related field. For example, to be an arbitrator in divorce proceedings, an arbitrator will likely have already practiced family law for at least ten years. Becoming a Mediator Mediation is another form of Alternative Dispute Resolution. Mediation’s purpose is to facilitate disputes between parties. Often a successful meditation will obviate the need for a lawsuit. In some cases, mediation occurs after a lawsuit has been filed. Often the presiding judge will order the parties to attempt to mediate their dispute before the case comes to trial. A mediator’s job is to provide direction and encouragement to the parties, often finding creative ways to resolve the dispute. Mediators and arbitrators are similar in that both attempt to bring the parties together to facilitate and ultimately resolve their dispute. But that’s where the similarity ends. An arbitrator serves as a “judge.” If the parties can’t resolve their dispute through arbitration, the arbitrator steps in and resolves the dispute for them. In most cases, arbitration is “binding” meaning the arbitrator’s decision is final and can’t be appealed. A mediator cannot decide and ultimately resolve the dispute. If mediation fails, both parties may decide to continue on with their lawsuit. Even then, before the case comes to trial, a judge may order the parties to submit to binding arbitration. Mediator duties include the following: Settle procedural matters including when the parties may present evidence to support their position, the number of witnesses, and the relevancy of their testimony, etc. Set the dates and time limits for the mediation process Prepare settlement agreements (if the parties mutually agree) “Best Fit” Personality Traits for Arbitrators and Mediators Excellent Communication Ability: Both arbitrators and mediators must possess excellent communication and negotiation skills, problem solving and analytical abilities, combined with an ability to be creative and think “outside the box.” They must also understand the industry terms and issues related to the area in which they work. Patience: While a successful mediator or arbitrator may see the solution soon after beginning, the parties may not be so quickly persuaded. If patience with people is not one of your strengths, then mediation or arbitration may not be for you. Adaptability: A good mediator or arbitrator can quickly adapt his or her personality, demeanor, and vocabulary to fit the circumstances and personalities of the parties. Remember, you won’t always be working with people who are like you. Some parties may have less education and communication ability than you’re used to. Interpersonal Skills: Interpersonal skills are required to deal with disputing parties’ varying personalities. A successful mediator or arbitrator must be good enough with people to keep the parties calm and focused in resolving their dispute. Writing Skills: Writing skills are paramount. A good mediator or arbitrator may be able to successfully resolve a dispute, but if they can’t effectively reduce the agreement to writing, the parties may not understand what they did and didn’t agree to. Educational Requirements: It’s fair to say most mediators and arbitrators are attorneys and former judges. However, in many states they are not required to have a law degree. Instead, they must have substantial knowledge and experience in the field in which they will be working. Recent graduates may consider working for the government. This includes federal, state, county, city and village agencies. Rewarding legal careers may also be found in all branches of the United States military. Prosecutors for the State, District or County Attorney’s Office Beginning your legal career as a prosecutor can be very rewarding. The best aspect of starting out as a prosecutor is you get immediate trial experience. Unlike other attorneys who may begin their career behind a desk at a law firm, a newly hired prosecutor is quickly thrown into the fray, trying cases against suspected criminals. As a new prosecutor, you’ll be trying misdemeanor cases such as traffic tickets, DUIs, and other non-violent crimes. Moving up the ladder, you’ll be involved in more serious cases, ranging from aggravated assaults to murder. Working as a prosecutor is best suited for recent law school graduates who want immediate trial experience. Salary: Depending on tenure, the average salary for prosecutors is between $50,000 to $81,500. Quickly getting into the courtroom to try cases Substantial trial experience Working with other law enforcement agencies Lower pay than the private sector Limited to criminal law What you learn as a prosecutor isn’t readily transferable to the private sector for employment in civil law firms Personality Traits: If you are thinking about being a prosecutor, you must enjoy being in front of a jury trying cases. If you are more introverted and would rather deal with contract, taxation, estate or other civil law, then being a prosecutor is probably not for you. The Public Defenders’ Office Public defenders are a special breed. They take on some of the most difficult cases. If the police arrested a suspect and the prosecutor’s office accepts the case, there is usually ample evidence of the suspected criminal’s guilt. As a result, public defenders must get used to losing trials or cutting deals with prosecutors. For a public defender, winning a case at trial is rare. To maintain sanity and morale, a public defender must be able to live with representing suspected criminals and losing most of their cases. Salary: The median salary for public defenders is $47,500. There are a number of law enforcement agencies where having a law degree can be a great benefit. Below are the primary United States government law enforcement agencies, along with information to help you decide if a law enforcement career is right for you. U.S. Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) The career of an Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agent is unique and one of the most challenging in federal law enforcement. Headquartered in Washington DC, the ATF has field offices throughout the United States and its territories. Highly trained special agents are responsible for investigating violations of federal laws relating to firearms, explosives, arson, and alcohol and tobacco diversion. These investigations involve surveillance, interviewing suspects and witnesses, making arrests, obtaining and executing search warrants, and searching for physical evidence. Special Agents are responsible for: Investigating criminal violations of Federal laws within the enforcement jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Justice Conducting investigations of violations relating to explosives, firearms, arson, and alcohol and tobacco diversion Preparing concise criminal investigative case reports Testifying for the Federal government in court or before grand juries Gathering and analyzing evidence through investigative leads, seizures, arrests, execution of search warrants, and a variety of other means Salary: The ATF entry-level salary is $34,865. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) The Drug Enforcement Administration enforces controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States. A DEA agent is empowered to investigate and remand for prosecution those who illegally grow, manufacture, or distribute controlled substances that appear in, or are destined for, the United States. DEA agents are responsible for: Investigating and preparing for the prosecution of major violators of controlled substance laws Managing a national drug intelligence program in cooperation with federal, state, local, and foreign law enforcement Helping in the seizure and forfeiture of assets derived from, traceable to, or intended to be used for illicit drug trafficking Coordinating interstate and international investigations with federal, state and local law enforcement officials Liaising with the United Nations, Interpol, and other organizations on matters relating to international drug control programs Salary: DEA agent salaries start at approximately $49,000 during the training period, followed by grade pay ranging from $49,000 to more than $55,000. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) The FBI’s investigative authority is the broadest of all federal law enforcement agencies. The FBI has divided its investigations into a number of programs, such as domestic and international terrorism, foreign counterintelligence, cyber-crimes, public corruption, civil rights, organized crime/drugs, white-collar crime, violent crimes and major offenders, and applicant matters. The FBI’s investigative philosophy emphasizes close relations and information sharing with other federal, state, local, and international law enforcement and intelligence agencies. A significant number of FBI investigations are conducted in concert with other law enforcement agencies or as part of joint task forces. FBI Agents are responsible for: Conducting overt and clandestine investigations of acts of terrorism Investigating cybercrime, including computer fraud, child pornography, and other such crimes Gathering intelligence and referring civil rights violations for prosecution Fighting public corruption Infiltrating organized crime Salary: An FBI agent’s starting salary is between $43,000 and $45,000. The average salary of special agents is $89,930. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) The Central Intelligence Agency’s primary mission is to collect, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the president and senior US government policymakers in making decisions relating to national security. The CIA does not make policy. It is an independent source of foreign intelligence information for those who do make national policy, including the Secretary of State and Homeland Security, the National Security Agency, and the President and Vice President. The CIA may also engage in covert action at the president’s direction, in accordance with applicable law. CIA officers are responsible for: Collecting information vital to the safety of the United States Analyzing information to decide whether it is credible Evaluating that information for the appropriate level for action Disseminating credible information to the President and the President’s senior officials Salary: A CIA special agent salary generally ranges from $74,872 to $136,771 “Best Fit” Personality Traits for Law Enforcement Honesty: A law enforcement officer must be completely honest, despite peer pressure, fear of reprimand or demotion, or other pressure. As a law enforcement officer, your statement alone can result in someone’s conviction and incarceration. Leadership: You must be comfortable in a leadership position. You must be able to step in and lead fellow law enforcement personnel, especially in critical and dangerous situations. If you’re not comfortable making leadership decisions, then a career in law enforcement is probably not for you. Tolerance of Others: As a law enforcement officer, you may be confronted with persons who disrespect you and the law enforcement agency your work for. These people may verbally abuse you or your partners. You must be able to tolerate and compartmentalize that disrespect and abuse. If you don’t have a high tolerance for such things, then law enforcement is probably not for you. Military Lawyers (Judge Advocate General) The Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) operates like a court system. Its lawyers are referred to as Judge Advocates, and are licensed attorneys qualified to represent the military and its soldiers in military legal matters. They operate in all branches of the armed forces, including the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard. While many Judge Advocates represent soldiers facing court-martial, they also represent soldiers and the military in other legal actions, including civil litigation, tort claims, labor law, and international law. Judge Advocates serve as full-time legal practitioners on active duty, or as part-time practitioners in the Military Reserve. Duty locations include the United States, and military bases and installations worldwide, including Germany, Korea, Japan, and Italy. Salary: While each branch of the U.S. Military Service has its own starting salary, the range is between $44,000 to $51,000. Keep in mind these are base pay numbers, and judge advocates are typically promoted within their first year. Whether it’s teaching pre-law courses in colleges and universities, or teaching at law schools, having a Juris Doctor degree can help open the door to a career in academia. Teaching jobs are difficult to come by however, and competition is fierce. To have a good chance at a teaching position requires: Superior Grades: Great grades in law school are required to obtain a teaching position at a well-known college, university, or law school. High grades can also be an invitation to the Order of the Coif. Law Review: Being on the law review is a step in the right direction. This is a student-run journal at your school focusing on legal issues. Order of the Coif : The Order of the Coif is an honorary scholastic society that encourages excellence in legal education by fostering a spirit of careful study, recognizing those who attained a high grade of scholarship, and honoring those who as lawyers, judges and teachers attained high distinction for their scholarly or professional accomplishments. Clerkship: Clerking for a U.S. District Court Judge, Appellate Judge, or State or Federal Superior Court Judge is another activity that can help you secure a teaching job. Advanced Degree: You will be more attractive as a candidate if you have an advanced degree, including a Masters, L.L.M. or PhD degree in an ancillary field related to law, such as history, economics, philosophy, sociology, or political science. Publishing: Publishing scholarly treatises in areas of the law while you were in law school and after you graduate can show you would be a contributing member of the teaching staff. Salary: Salaries for teacher positions for recent graduates varies greatly. It can depend on the type of school, the area of the country, and the student population. If you are fast approaching graduation or are a recent law school graduate who hasn’t yet decided which career path to follow, take some time to be introspective. Think about which career will best suit your personality and lifestyle. Any job you’re offered as a new graduate may sound exciting, but if it isn’t for you, you’ll end up miserable. Take some time to examine the various careers available to you. While we covered a good number of careers in this article, our list is not exhaustive. There are additional satisfying career paths out there – you just have to look for them. While doing your research, keep in mind your capabilities and limitations. You have a long legal career ahead of you. Choosing the right path can be the difference between a satisfying career, and one you come to regret. Remember, it’s not always about the money. It’s about happiness and fulfillment. It’s about getting up each morning looking forward to a satisfying day. Charles R. Gueli, Esq. is a personal injury attorney with over 20 years of legal experience. He’s admitted to the NY State Bar, and been named a Super Lawyer for the NY Metro area, an exclusive honor awarded to the top five percent of attorneys. Charles has worked extensively in the areas of auto accidents,... 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Forever 21 Issues Apology After Being Bashed For Sending Diet Bars To Plus Size Customers Monica SchipperGetty Images Elizabeth Randolph Forever 21’s customers aren’t pleased with the retailer’s latest promotional antics. CNN reports that the fashion company has been issuing Atkins bars along with their plus-size customers’ online orders. Many social media users have reportedly referred to the retailer’s decision to include the bars with plus-size clothing orders as “fatphobic.” Atkins sells low carb diet bars for those who are wanting to lose weight. Forever 21 issued an apology shortly after the social media outrage began to make headlines on Wednesday. The retailer claims that selling the bars were meant to be a way to gift all of their customers, not just those who are plus-sized. “From time to time, Forever 21 surprises our customers with free test products from third parties in their e-commerce orders,” the company said. “The freebie items in question were included in all online orders, across all sizes and categories, for a limited time and have since been removed. This was an oversight on our part and we sincerely apologize for any offense this may have caused to our customers, as this was not our intention in any way.” Many social media users expressed similar sentiments on Twitter. “Calm down, I got an Atkins Diet Bar in my @Forever21 order of literally necklaces. I’ve seen other brands do this too,” one user wrote on Twitter. TSR STAFF: Danielle J! @prettyaries16 ________ When the backlash gets to be too intense…the apologies will quickly follow! That’s exactly what happened when fast fashion retailer Forever 21 found itself in the middle of a firestorm of controversy when diet bars were found inside several plus size orders. Now, the company has issued an apology and attempted to explain exactly what happened. _________ Earlier this week, several Forever 21 customers took to social media to air out their disbelief and anger upon finding Atkins diet bars inside their plus size online orders. Clearing noticing the backlash was getting very intense, the company has issued an official apology, in a statement given to @USAToday. __________ The official statement from Forever 21 reads: “From time to time, Forever 21 surprises our customers with free test products from third parties in their e-commerce orders. The freebie items in question were included in all online—To Read More Click The Link In The Bio! A post shared by The Shade Room (@theshaderoom) on Jul 24, 2019 at 2:10pm PDT Atkins also released a statement concerning the outrage from multiple consumers. The health food company claims that its products aren’t just for weight loss, but for “overall health and well being.” The company also shared that the product placement was a way to “highlight” the benefits of the products under the brand. find your perfect fit ???? shop new denim now! (Shop link in bio) A post shared by Forever21Plus (@forever21plus) on Jul 21, 2019 at 11:34am PDT According to USA Today, the social media outrage for Forever 21 comes after longtime retailer Macy’s was put under fire. The company reportedly sold a dinnerware brand called Pourtions, in which three circles were drawn to reportedly help customers with their portion control. The smaller circle represented how much someone should eat to fit into “skinny jeans” while the larger portion was used to represent what someone would eat to fit into “mom jeans.” Pourtions was then taken off of Macy’s shelves after the retailer was accused of promoting eating disorders. Many other fashion companies, such as Victoria’a Secret, have also been put under fire for their lack of diversity and inclusion in their stores and online. The retailer reportedly doesn’t cater to plus-sizes nor a wide range of other sizes. The plus-size fashion industry is worth a reported $21 billion.

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NBA Rumors: GSW Could Trade D’Angelo Russell And Three 1st-Round Picks For Karl-Anthony Towns Zhong Zhi / Getty Images Despite the impressive performance of Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins, the Minnesota Timberwolves continue to struggle in the 2019-20 NBA season, sitting at the No. 12 spot in the Western Conference with a 12-20 record. With their inability to consistently win games, rumors have started to circulate that Towns is growing unhappy in Minnesota and could soon follow the footsteps of other NBA superstars and demand a trade from the Timberwolves. Once Towns becomes officially available on the trading market, several NBA teams are expected to express a strong interest in acquiring him from the Timberwolves, including the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors may be heading into the lottery this season, but they aren’t expected to remain at the bottom of the league for long. While waiting for the return of some of their core players – Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson – from injuries, reports have surfaced that the Warriors are “monitoring” Towns’ availability on the trade market. In his recent article, Andrew Ites of Fansided’s Dunking With Wolves suggested a hypothetical trade deal that would send Towns to Golden State. In the proposed trade deal, the Warriors would be sending a trade package including D’Angelo Russell and three future first-round picks to the Timberwolves in exchange for Towns. The deal works on ESPN‘s NBA Trade Machine. The departure of Towns would undeniably break the hearts of lots of Timberwolves’ fans, especially those who still believe that he would be the player that would end their decades of title drought. However, Ites thinks that acquiring Russell and multiple future first-round picks for Towns would “soften the blow” for the Timberwolves. “Getting another All-Star player in return would soften the blow for the Wolves, and it helps that Russell is under team control through the 2022-23 season. Minnesota fans could even get excited about the pairing of Russell and Wiggins while they have a treasure chest of draft picks. If worse comes to worst and KAT forces his way out of Minnesota, this wouldn’t be a terrible move for the franchise.” Meanwhile, for the Warriors, the potential arrival of Towns in Golden State would give them a strong chance of reviving their dynasty. Towns may only be 24-years-old but he’s already an All-Star caliber talent. His ability to knock down shots from beyond the arc would make him an incredible fit in Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr’s system. Once he builds good chemistry with Curry, Thompson, and Draymond Green, it wouldn’t be a surprise if the Warriors once again become the heavy favorite to fully dominate the Western Conference and win the NBA championship title.

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31 October 2018 at 2:25pm Former Arsenal boss Wenger targeting 2019 return to management Arsene Wenger says he will be back in management at the start of 2019 - but he does not know where yet. The 69-year-old, who ended his 22-year reign at Arsenal at the end of last season, is looking forward to returning to the game. Asked when he would be back in management, the Frenchman told Sky Sports News: "At the beginning of the year. "It will seem odd to go somewhere else but I can't tell you (where) because I don't know where I'll be. I'll be somewhere - but I don't know where. "I have had a good rest and watched football a lot. I have many good memories, so I miss them." Wenger is pleased with Arsenal's progress this season - the Gunners have impressed after losing their first two Premier League games under Unai Emery and currently lie four points off top spot. He said: "When Arsenal win I am happy. I felt I worked very hard and I think I left it (the club) in good shape. "After that, I'm a supporter like anyone else - I want them to win football games." Last updated Wed 31 Oct 2018 Cambridge United sack head coach Colin Calderwood Norwich City announce signing of young French midfielder Premier League football "an absolute necessity" for West Ham

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Join the International Union of Psychological Science Procedures for Admission of National Member Organizations to the International Union of Psychological Science Affiliated Status with IUPsyS Applying for Affiliate Status Admission occurs following the steps detailed below. A formal petition for admission to the IUPsyS is sent to the Secretary-General of the Union by the appropriate official of the national organization of psychology. The letter requesting admission should be accompanied by the following information in English: • A copy in English of the national organization’s constitution, statutes, and by-laws; • A list of current officers. • A list of current members (if available) and a brief statement describing the general characteristics of the membership (their academic qualifications, occupations, representativeness of scientific psychology throughout the nation etc., stated in general terms). • A brief statement on the history of the organization and some of its main past and current activities. • Any additional information providing assurances that the organization is a truly national organization of scientific psychology, regularly established. (Where there is more than one such national organization in a country, a federation or association that includes all of them shall be eligible for national membership in the IUPsyS). After ascertaining that the above information is complete, the Secretary-General sends the petition and supporting documentation to the IUPsyS Executive Committee for review and approval. If recommended by the Executive Committee, the petition will then come before the IUPsyS Assembly for review. The petition and accompanying information are distributed to all voting members of the IUPsyS Assembly for approval, either (i) by a simple majority if at least half the members are present and voting or (ii) by a two-thirds majority of votes by a mail ballot, provided at least half the members vote. The Secretary-General notifies the national organization of psychology of its admission to the IUPsyS, effective upon receipt of annual dues. The Membership Category is determined according to a score calculated from country resources, number of psychologists, and development of psychology in the country. The dues are set in terms of six-category system, as follows: National Members Score Annual dues (2014) 1300 and over US$15500 An additional temporary category, Category O (Observer status), is permitted, involving no annual dues or voting rights. The expectation is that Members in the Observer Category will become regular dues-paying Members in a timely manner. Admissions material should be sent to: Ann Watts, Secretary-General, IUPsyS Email: anndwatts@iafrica.com Please copy all emails to the Administrative Coordinator, Karl Swain Email: karl.swain@iupsys.org Enquiries should be sent to the Administrative Coordinator. Organizations may apply to become affiliates of IUPsyS. The IUPsyS cooperates with its affiliated organizations in various ways, such as in planning congresses and conferences, in special projects or through consultations. Current List of Affiliated Organizations Criteria for Becoming an Affiliated Organization The following kinds of international organizations of scientific psychology may be apply to be an Affiliated Organization of the IUPsyS: worldwide or regional international organizations whose members are individuals. regional international organizations whose members are national associations. The purposes of the organization must be essentially psychological in nature. There must be a strong presence of psychologists among its members. Potential Benefits of Affiliate Status Affiliate status does not confer membership rights in the IUPsyS but aids in communication and collaboration among organizations with mutual interests in the development and applications of psychology. Benefits for the Affiliate Include Affiliated organizations are invited to send an observer to the biennial IUPsyS Assembly meeting. Affiliated organizations receive electronic copies of the IUPsyS Bulletin. Affiliated organizations may be invited to contribute to the IUPsyS activities, including consultations, planning of events or participation in working groups, where this is of mutual benefit and relevant to their fields of expertise. Affiliated organizations may be invited to contribute to events organised by the IUPsyS. Where there are mutual benefits in doing so, the IUPsyS may facilitate communication between an Affiliate and the IUPsyS’ National Members. Enhanced networking opportunities within global psychology research, education and practice. Enhanced international reputation and profile through association with the IUPsyS. Benefits for IUPsyS Include Broader scope of input to the IUPsyS developments. Access to expertise for specific IUPsyS projects or other activities. Enhanced international reputation and profile through association with affiliates. Template For Bilateral Arrangements Between IUPsyS And Its Affiliates Organizations can only become an Affiliate by the vote of the IUPsyS Assembly, which meets every two years. Applications to become an Affiliated Organization are first considered by the IUPsyS Executive Committee. The application documents should include: A covering letter outlining why the organization is seeking Affiliate status. Brief information on the structure and purpose of the organization. A copy of the organization’s statutes (or equivalent). Information on the membership of the organization, including number of members and categories of membership. The Executive Committee and Assembly will consider the application in relation to both the Criteria for Affiliate Status described above and the potential benefits that Affiliate status will bring to the applicant and to the IUPsyS. There are no costs associated with applying for or holding Affiliate status. For further details, please contact the Union’s Administrative Coordinator, Karl Swain (karl.swain@iupsys.org).

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French company awarded 25-year contract to manage London 2012 Olympic Stadium By Nick Butler French company Vinci has signed a 25-year contract to manage the London 2012 Olympic Stadium as it continues its transition into a multi-use venue capable of hosting top-level athletics, football and rugby events. Vinci Stadium, a subsidiary of Vinci Concessions, a company founded in 1899 and based in Paris, will be responsible for all aspects of running and managing the Stadium on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on day-to-day basis, as well as bringing in new events and activity. Vinci currently alrady operate a network of French venues, including the Stade de France in Paris, the Allianz Riviera in Nice, the New Bordeaux Stadium and the MMArena in Le Mans. They will work alongside the E20 Stadium Partnership - a joint venture between the London Legacy Development Corporation and Newham Council - with the immediate focus being preparations for this year's Rugby World Cup. Five matches are due to take place there ahead of the Stadium's scheduled full re-opening in 2016. "This is more good news in our goal to deliver a long-lasting legacy from London's Olympic and Paralympic Games," said Mayor of London Boris Johnson when the deal was announced today. "Vinci is a world-class operator and set to be a key partner in the creation of a spectacular stadium offering a dynamic range of sport and attractions for Londoners to enjoy." Athletics action will continue at the London 2012 Olympic Stadium, but it will also become the home of football club West Ham United ©Getty Images In the longer term, Vinci, who employ more than 179,000 people worldwide and which is the largest construction company in the world by revenue will work to ensure the Stadium is ready to host Premier League West Ham United and athletics events in 2016, and then both the World Athletics Championships and International Paralympic Committee Athletics World Championships the following year. Among new elements to be installed will be 21,000 retractable seats to allow closer pitch side football views while retaining a top-level running track, as well as 428 wheelchair user accessible viewing spaces. The new Stadium capacity is projected to be 54,000 seats in football mode, 60,000 for athletics and 80,000 for concerts. They will also be responsible for managing the London Marathon Charitable Trust Community Track and events on the South Park Lawn, below the ArcelorMittal Orbit, as well as working with the E20 Stadium Partnership to promote sport and healthy living in the local area. This will include delivering mass participation events such as the Great Newham London Run, due to be held for the first time later this year. Vinci also manage the Stade de France Stadium in Paris ©AFP/Getty Images "The E20 Stadium LLP awarded the contract to run the former Olympic Stadium to Vinci Stadium in recognition of Vinci's expertise and the business model it has developed for the operation of multi-purpose arenas, including the Stade de France," said Pierre Coppey, chief operating officer of Vinci. "In addition to broadening the range of events offered at this amazing venue, VINCI Stadium will work with the E20 Stadium Partnership to develop and revitalise East London for the benefit of citizens." Ed Warner, chairman of UK Athletics and London 2017, added: "The Olympic Stadium will be the new home of British Athletics, staging a wide range of events from mass participation runs to elite track and field meetings. "We look forward to working closely with Vinci to deliver all of these events, and in particular the twin World Championships in the summer of 2017, in London's most iconic sporting venue." Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] January 2015: West Ham United appoint project manager to ensure Olympic Stadium "looks and feels" like home November 2014: Milestone first roof panel laid in London Olympic Stadium transformation October 2014: Problems with roof forces £36 million London 2012 Olympic Stadium conversion cost hike September 2014: West Ham United reveal details of Olympic Stadium hospitality package as new images released September 2014: West Ham offer fans chance to monitor progress on new Olympic Stadium home via time-lapse cameras Nick Butler Senior Reporter Follow @nickjmbutler Since joining insidethegames.biz in 2013, Butler has travelled to a variety of major global sporting events, including the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games as well as the most recent editions of the Asian, European and Pan American Games in Incheon, Baku and Toronto. He has also attended the last four International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sessions and has particularly enjoyed tackling the politics and diplomacy of the Olympic Movement. Read more of Nick's articles Follow @nickjmbutler on Twitter Kenya's athletes to undergo mandatory anti-doping tests prior to Tokyo 2020 Tokyo 2020 under fire from World Wildlife Fund

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IIHF President Fasel sets August deadline for NHL decision on Beijing 2022 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President René Fasel has set a deadline of the end of August for the National Hockey League (NHL) to confirm whether it will release its players to compete at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. China looking ahead to Beijing 2022 as 53-strong team selected for Lausanne 2020 By Daniel Etchells China has named a bumper 53-strong team of athletes for this month's Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne as the country continues preparations to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2022. More than 610,000 volunteers apply for Beijing 2022 By Nancy Gillen More than 610,000 people have applied to volunteer at the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing, Chinese organisers have revealed. China's high-speed rail links 2022 Winter Olympic Games cities in record time The high-speed railway line connecting Beijing and Zhangjiakou, the co-host city of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, officially went into operation today. Sapporo set to enter race to host 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games Sapporo is set to enter the race to host the 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games after formally expressing its interest in doing so. Snickers announced as official chocolate of Beijing 2022 Mars Wrigley-owned chocolate bar brand Snickers has become the official chocolate of the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing, it has been announced. Samaranch praises enthusiasm for winter sport on Beijing 2022 visit By Michael Pavitt International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Juan Antonio Samaranch has claimed the Chinese population are enthusiastic about winter sports as the country seeks to meet ambitious Beijing 2022 legacy targets. IOC Coordination Commission chair Essayah attends Milan Cortina 2026 Kick-off Meeting The Milan Cortina 2026 Organising Committee - officially established on Monday (December 9) - has held an introductory gathering of all associated with the future Winter Games, the Delivery Partners Kick-off Meeting. Milan Cortina 2026 Organising Committee established as IOC visit begins The Milan Cortina 2026 Organising Committee has officially been established as International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials began a visit to Lombardy. First international seminar on Milan-Cortina 2026 set to take place International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials will have their first chance to inspect Milan Cortina 2026's plans for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games during a seminar this week. Rejected Sion 2026 Winter Olympics bid cost $6.3 million The Swiss town of Sion's rejected 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic bid cost CHF6.3 million (£4.9 million/$6.3 million/€5.7 million), it has been reported. Finland's Essayah to chair IOC Coordination Commission for Milan Cortina 2026 By Dan Palmer Finland's Sari Essayah will chair the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Coordination Commission for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina D'Ampezzo. International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation hold first Beijing 2022 training course The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) held its first training programme in Beijing, as the Chinese capital prepares to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Novari named chief executive of Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games Vincenzo Novari has been named chief executive of the Organising Committee for the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. IOC vice-president Samaranch "very impressed" with Beijing 2022 preparations International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Juan Antonio Samaranch, the chair of the Beijing 2022 Coordination Commission, is reportedly "very impressed" by progress after a three-day site visit.

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Forest Health Protection in Hawaii Glen Canyon Mussel Update DOI. NPS. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Quagga mussel larvae, or veligers, were first confirmed in Lake Powell in late 2012 after routine water monitoring tests discovered mussel DNA in water samples taken from the vicinity of Antelope Point and the Glen Canyon Dam. As of early 2016, thousands of adult quagga mussels have been found in Lake Powell, attached to canyon walls, the Glen Canyon Dam, boats, and other underwater structures, especially in the southern portions of the lake. It is crucial to keep the mussels from moving from Lake Powell to other lakes and rivers. Utah and Arizona state laws require you to clean, drain, and dry your boat when leaving Lake Powell using self-decontamination procedures. Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk (HEAR) DOI. USGS. Biological Resources Division. Invasive in Illinois: Palmer Amaranth Invasive Species in Hawaii USDA. FS. Pacific Southwest Research Station. Mussel Decontamination - What Day Users Need To Know It is crucial to keep the mussels from moving from Lake Powell to other lakes and rivers. Utah and Arizona state laws require you to clean, drain, and dry your boat when leaving Lake Powell using self-decontamination procedures. Additional steps are required if you launch on other waters without a significant drying period or if you are on Lake Powell for more than 5 days. NRCS Utah Invasive Species List (Feb 2011) (PDF | 102 KB) Pacific Northwest Region - Invasive Species USDA. Forest Service. Pacific Region - Aquatic Invasive Species USDA Confirms Virulent Newcastle Disease in Backyard Exhibition Birds in Utah, Not a Food Safety Concern (Jan 29, 2019) The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed the presence of virulent Newcastle disease in a small flock of backyard exhibition chickens in Utah County, Utah. This is the first case of virulent Newcastle disease in Utah. This case is believed to be connected to the current outbreak of virulent Newcastle disease in California, as three of the birds at the premises were recently moved to Utah from Los Angeles County, California. Since May 2018, 299 cases of Newcastle disease have been confirmed in Southern California, primarily in backyard exhibition birds. Virulent Newcastle disease is not a food safety concern. No human cases of Newcastle disease have ever occurred from eating poultry products. USDA Declares New York City Free of the Asian Longhorned Beetle (Oct 10, 2019) On October 10, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in coordination with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation announced that they have eliminated the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) from the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. "I am proud to say that we have eradicated Asian longhorned beetle from Brooklyn and Queens," said Greg Ibach, USDA's Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs. "This officially marks the end of our 23-year long battle with this pest in New York City." USDA Establishes European Cherry Fruit Fly Quarantine in Niagara County, New York (Jun 14, 2018) The United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has established a quarantine for European cherry fruit fly (ECFF) in New York. A portion of Niagara County is quarantined for the invasive fruit fly following the detection of 51 flies in 2017. APHIS and the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM) are working collaboratively on this detection. The ECFF quarantine area encompasses approximately 92 square miles of Niagara County. See also: Fruit Flies for additional information. Voyageurs National Park - Aquatic Invasive Species Hawaii Remove Hawaii filter Oregon Remove Oregon filter Illinois Remove Illinois filter

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Apostle Islands National Lakeshore - Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia USDA. FS. Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. BLM California Weeds and Invasives Program DOI. Bureau of Land Management. European Grapevine Moth Cooperative Eradication Program: A Model for Fighting Future Invasive Species Threats (Nov 2, 2016) USDA. Blog. Key partners and contributors in Napa County, California, recently celebrated and recognized the critical safeguarding accomplishment achieved together, of eradicating the invasive European grapevine moth (EGVM) from the U.S. The keys to success were early detection, our rapid response, and a strong collaboration between federal, state and local officials, growers, university scientists and extension services. Such partnerships remain critical to our ability to safeguard agriculture and facilitate safe trade. Everglades National Park - Burmese Pythons Exotic Invasive Plants: Changing Our Natural Ecosystems DOI. NPS. Point Reyes National Seashore. HealthFinder.gov - State Health Departments DHHS. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Provides links and resources for State Health Departments, many of which have information about Zika virus and West Nile virus with specific state information. Interior Provides $1.5 Million to Combat Invasive Species and Protect Natural Resources in the Insular Areas (Aug 20, 2018) DOI. Office of Insular Affairs. Doug Domenech, U.S. Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs this week announced $1,488,890 in fiscal year 2018 grants to combat invasive species and protect natural resources in the U.S. Territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as the freely associated states of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau. "Invasive species in the islands are disruptive for both marine and terrestrial resources in the islands, which already face a delicate balance," said Assistant Secretary Domenech. "Secretary Zinke and I are pleased to help control and eradicate invasive species in the islands in order to protect public health, livelihoods, and fragile environments and economies." Interior Provides $409,885 to Guam to Mitigate Infestations of the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle and Little Fire Ant; Protect Natural Resources (Jul 2017) United States Department of the Interior. Interior Acting Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Nikolao Pula made available $409,885 to preserve natural and cultural resources and protect against invasive species on Guam. “We are especially pleased that Congress was able to provide some extra funding in FY 2017 to mitigate and control the coconut rhinoceros beetle and little fire ant on Guam,” said Pula. “All funding supports Governor Eddie Calvo’s efforts in protecting Guam’s natural resources now and for the future.” Invasive Animal Species: Mud Snails DOI. NPS. Yosemite National Park. Mitten Crab Watch Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Are you a crabber, waterman, or concerned citizen? We need your help to detect and assess the status of Chinese Mitten Crabs. The "Mitten Crab Watch" website provides information on the invasion of the mitten crab and allows users to more easily report catches. Please help us detect live mitten crabs by reporting any sighting in North America. We are especially interested in collecting sightings from the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, Hudson River, and San Francisco Bay --- where the crab has been common in the past. Please visit the Mitten Crab Watch website to learn more about the crab and to report sightings. National Park Service to Combat Invasive Plants in DC Area National Parks (Mar 16, 2017) The National Park Service (NPS) has finalized a long-term strategy to reduce the impacts and threats from invasive plants and to restore native plant communities and historic landscapes for 15 national park areas in D.C., Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. The Invasive Plant Management Plan will guide park staff in standardizing and streamlining their treatment of non-native invasive plants. The plan will also help the NPS identify areas with the most urgent needs in order to address the most immediate threats to park resources. Each of the 15 area parks will develop an annual non-native invasive plant treatment strategy that is based on science, is cost effective, and poses the least amount of risk to people and park resources. Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program - Regional and State Contact Information The Partners Program provides technical and financial assistance to private landowners and Tribes who are willing to work with us and other partners on a voluntary basis to help meet the habitat needs of our Federal Trust Species. Redwood National and State Parks - Exotic Plant Species List Redwood National and State Parks - Sudden Oak Death Regional Boundaries, State Offices and Centers NRCS offers technical and financial assistance to help farmers, ranchers and forest managers. San Francisco Bay Area Network - Invasive Plants Early Detection DOI. NPS. Inventory & Monitoring Program. 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The Libertines are an English band that formed in London, England in 1997 and disbanded in 2004. They reformed in 2010 to play the Reading and Leeds festivals. The band released two full-length LPs, both produced by Mick Jones of The Clash. Centered around the song-writing partnership and chemistry between Peter Doherty (vocals/rhythm guitar) and Carl Barât (vocals/lead guitar), while backed by John Hassall (bass) and Gary Powell (drums), the band was one of the cornerstones of the English independent scene in the early 2000's. Read more on Last.fm Most popular scores Music When the Lights Go Out Can't Stand Me Now What a Waster Don't Look Back Into the Sun Anthems for Doomed Youth Fame and Fortune You're My Waterloo Fury of Chonburi The Milkman’s Horse Glasgow Coma Scale Blues Dead for Love Sheet music for Can't Stand Me Now with bassoon, electric guitar, bass and drums Chords and lyrics for Can't Stand Me Now Sheet music for Can't Stand Me Now with electric guitar and bass Sheet music for Last Post on the Bugle with electric guitar, bass, drums and ensemble Chords and lyrics for Last Post on the Bugle Sheet music for Last Post on the Bugle with electric guitar and drums Sheet music for Last Post on the Bugle with electric guitar, bass and drums Sheet music for The Man Who Would Be King with drums, electric guitar, piano, bass and acoustic guitar Chords and lyrics for Music When the Lights Go Out Sheet music for Music When the Lights Go Out with electric guitar and drums Chords and lyrics for Narcissist Chords and lyrics for The Ha Ha Wall Chords and lyrics for Arbeit macht frei Chords and lyrics for Campaign of Hate Chords and lyrics for What Katie Did Sheet music for What Katie Did with alto, electric guitar, bass and drums Sheet music for What Katie Did with electric guitar and bass Tomblands Chords and lyrics for The Saga Chords and lyrics for Road to Ruin Sheet music for What Became of the Likely Lads with acoustic guitar Chords and lyrics for What Became of the Likely Lads Sheet music for What Became of the Likely Lads with electric guitar, bass and drums Sheet music for France with acoustic guitar Chords and lyrics for France Chords and lyrics for Never Never I Got Sweets What Became of the Likely Lads What Became of the Likely Lads (Reworked version) Chords and lyrics for All At Sea Sheet music for Boys In The Band with electric guitar, bass and drums Chords and lyrics for Boys In The Band Sheet music for Time For Heroes with electric guitar, bass and drums Chords and lyrics for Time For Heroes Chords and lyrics for Don't Look Back Into the Sun Sheet music for Don't Look Back Into the Sun with electric guitar and bass Sheet music for Don't Look Back Into the Sun with electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums and bass Death on the Stairs (new recording) Skint and Minted (demo) General Smuts (demo) Mr. Finnegan (demo) The 7 Deadly Sins Chords and lyrics for Plan A I Get Along Chords and lyrics for I Get Along Chords and lyrics for The Delaney Sheet music for Mayday with electric guitar, bass and drums Skag & Bone Man Time for Heroes I Get Along (original version) The Delaney Chords and lyrics for Mayday Chords and lyrics for Skag & Bone Man Bangkok (demo) Up the Bracket Sheet music for Vertigo with electric guitar, bass and drums Chords and lyrics for Vertigo Sheet music for Death on the Stairs with electric guitar and drums Chords and lyrics for Death on the Stairs Chords and lyrics for Horrorshow Chords and lyrics for Radio America Chords and lyrics for Up the Bracket Sheet music for Up the Bracket with electric guitar, bass and drums Chords and lyrics for Tell the King Sheet music for The Boy Looked at Johnny with electric guitar, bass and drums Chords and lyrics for The Boy Looked at Johnny Chords and lyrics for Begging Sheet music for The Good Old Days with acoustic guitar Sheet music for The Good Old Days with drums, electric guitar, bass and acoustic guitar Chords and lyrics for The Good Old Days Chords and lyrics for Heart Of The Matter Sheet music for What a Waster with electric guitar, bass and drums Chords and lyrics for Iceman Chords and lyrics for Anthem For Doomed Youth Chords and lyrics for Fame And Fortune Sheet music for Music When The Lights Go Out with alto, electric guitar, drums, bass and acoustic guitar Chords and lyrics for The Milkmans Horse Chords and lyrics for Belly Of The Beast Chords and lyrics for Barbarians Chords and lyrics for Glasgow Coma Scale Blues Chords (ver 2) Chords and lyrics for Dead For Love Chords and lyrics for Glasgow Coma Scale Blues Chords and lyrics for Fury Of Chonburi Chords and lyrics for What a Waster Chords and lyrics for Don´t look back into the sun Chords and lyrics for Cant Stand Me Now Chords and lyrics for Last post the bugle

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2 dead, 1 injured in Opelousas hit-and-run; victim allegedly ran onto highway after learning of son’s death By Mykal Vincent | Posted: Mon 9:11 AM, Dec 09, 2019 OPELOUSAS, La. (WAFB) - Three people were struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run crash Saturday in St. Landry Parish, according to Louisiana State Police. One of the victims was allegedly a grief-stricken woman who ran into the street after learning of her son’s death. LSP says the wreck happened just before 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 7 on La. 749 near Legion Lane. Two people, identified as Kizzy Greene, 42, and Angela Broussard, 41, both of Opelousas, sustained fatal injuries in the crash. The third victim was treated for minor injuries. All three victims were related, LSP confirmed. Earlier that day, just before 4 p.m., a spokesperson for the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office says the body of a young black male was discovered in a drainage ditch on Austin Road near Blossom Road. The sheriff’s office has not identified the body. According to The Advocate, one of the victims was the mother of the male found in the ditch. Neighbors told The Advocate that one of the victims was overcome with grief before she ran out onto the highway. Two other relatives worked to console her and tried frantically to stop oncoming traffic. No vehicle or driver information was available as of Sunday evening, according to LSP. Anyone with information on the hit-and-run is urged to call Louisiana State Police Troop I at 337-262-5880. Anyone with information on the body found along Austin Road is urged to call the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office at 337-948-6516. Copyright 2019 WAFB. All rights reserved. Audit shows LSU made $91 million on football program Lafayette Principal accused of drunk driving, hitting 3 cars Woman becomes first female African American captain in Louisiana State Police history Inspector General investigating Hard Rock collapse, Mayor Cantrell respond to City Council requests Mayor Cantrell isn’t giving the owners/developers of the Hard Rock site a pass on responsibility Alexandria Police investigating damage at Chili's on MacArthur Dr. kalb.com/a?a=565970381

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Wayne Thiebaudjoanna2019-05-16T22:19:14+00:00 Wayne Thiebaud is an American painter best known for his still lifes of edible treats and everyday objects in his singular illustrative style. His most popular subject matter includes colourful cakes, slices of pie, confectionary, and reference America’s consumer society. The streets of San Francisco were also a fascination and he sketched all over the city, turning several into etchings. Similarly to Edward Hopper, Theibaud’s paintings capture a uniquely American sensibility, and critics have compared his penchant for still life to painters like Giorgio Morandi. “A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording,” he reflected. “This results in a kind of abstraction, and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.” Born Morton Wayne Thiebaud on November 15, 1920 in Mesa, AZ, the painter moved to California soon after, where he became interested in stage design and lighting. He began his career as a commercial artist, but switched to fine art after during his education and earned an MFA from what is now the California State University at Sacramento. A trip to New York during the 1950s introduced him to Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others in the city’s art scene at the time. Although he continued to show on the East Coast, Thiebaud has remained in the Bay Area, and his work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. Hotel Corner Price does not include delivery, please ask for quotation. Just pick up the phone or send us an email: Joanna Bryant Projects Email: joanna@joannabryantprojects.com EU Cookie Law The Female of the Species City of London exhibition highlighted displacement and loss in our transient urban communities New Exhibition in the City of London will highlight Displacement and Loss in our Transient Urban Communities Silvia Lerin’s sculpture ‘Neons from Heaven’ on show in Yorkshire Perfectly Small Inner Construct Copyright © 2019 Joanna Bryant Projects

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Joshua Evan Artist & Experimental Filmmaker Order, Order Order, Order | single-channel full HD video | colour, sound | 3 minutes | 2019 Brexit, a monumental act of self-harm, the result of a narrowly won referendum where the people were misled and deceived. The social and financial impact will be felt for generations, as it tears apart one of the world’s oldest democracies and divides its people. Dangerous undercurrents are surfacing, people are experiencing anxiety, uncertainty is abundant and disorder is the order of the day. The government is in disarray, the opposition is no better. Watching events unfold is like watching a never-ending game of tug of war, but there is no winner. In this video, two and a half years of some of the most important speeches from the House of Commons parliamentary debates on Brexit are distilled into 3 minutes. The voices are many and opinions varied. As the politicians speak and disrupt one another, their speeches blend into a chaotic chorus of voices, with only fragments of them identifiable. And the ever-present Speaker of the House, John Bercow is there, trying to keep the politicians in line using his famous catch-phrase “order, order”. Meanwhile the flag of the United Kingdom gently waves, being pulled in all directions at an increasingly fast pace, as the Brexit deadline looms. Vimeo Flickr Twitter Instagram © 2005–2020 Joshua Evan

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Pete Conrad spent 29 years covering Miami University sports. He was editor of The Oxford Press and longtime Miami University sports reporter at the Hamilton Journal-News. ‘Gentle giant’ among 11 going into Butler County Sports Hall of Fame Rick McCrabb, Staff Writer Right about now, Pete Conrad would feel uncomfortable. Not because his 6-foot-1 frame was too large for his office chair, but because of the attention and praise being reaped on him, the man sometimes described as “a gentle giant.” Conrad made his living writing about people, mostly high school, college and professional athletes. He had a way with words, and he preferred others to grab the headlines. He was quiet, very unassuming, but his stories — those that appeared in Butler and Warren county newspapers for decades — had a way of drawing readers into the action. He painted pictures with prose. Like all the great journalists, Conrad’s talents looked effortless. His fingers seem to glide over the typewriter, then later the keyboard. Writer’s block wasn’t in his vast vocabulary. “Pete Conrad was a great guy and a consummate professional,” said Dirk Allen, who worked with Conrad at the Journal-News for nearly 20 years. “He was a pleasure to work with … unflappable on deadline. He was very creative, really enjoyed covering Miami University sports, and had that ability to write knowledgeably about whatever sport he was covering at the time.” “Pete never made himself the center of a story,” Allen said. Now, Conrad is part of the story. He recently was named an inductee into this year’s Butler County Sports Hall of Fame class, joining Jim Blount (Hamilton), Joe Giuliano (Hamilton), Ray Hamilton (Butler County), Marc Johnson (Middletown), Stan Kappers (Fairfield), Pam Goetz Mitchell (Middletown), Kyle Schwarber (Middletown), John Smith (Hamilton), Brenda Stieger (Fairfield) and Angela Tolbert (Hamilton). Those 11 will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Nov. 18 at the Courtyard by Marriott in Hamilton. Sports stories and beverages will certainly flow that night. Unfortunately, Conrad won’t be there to chronicle the ceremony. He died March 4, 2013, at University of Cincinnati Medical Center. He was 56, another “good one” taken too soon. This latest honor comes five years after Miami University hung a plaque in Yager Stadium’s press box honoring Conrad, who spent 29 years covering Miami sports. He was editor of The Oxford Press and longtime Miami University sports reporter at the Hamilton Journal-News. The 1974 Talawanda High School and 1978 Miami University graduate loved spending his fall Saturdays in Oxford. Oxford was his daily dateline and where he felt most at home. Stu Eversole, a former Butler County coach and athletic director, called Conrad “a tireless worker,” who understood that, in most cases, he was writing and sharing perspectives on young people. Conrad didn’t see the point in criticizing a 16-year-old for missing a last-second shot. Instead, he highlighted the kid who grabbed the rebound. “His sensitivities to the environment he was working in set him apart from those looking to sensationalize the high school sports scene,” said Eversole, who knew Conrad for more than 30 years. “He also was a very likeable guy who fit in with a variety of settings.” Steve Morrison worked with Conrad for about a decade and the two were friends for 30 years. Morrison was the driving force behind Miami honoring Conrad. “He was kind and gentle in a world full of folks in journalism who are gruff and cynical,” said Morrison, a copy editor at Cox Media Group. “He worked hard and he did his job quietly and beautifully.” Conrad served on the Butler County Hall of Fame Committee for many years and was instrumental in promoting the event. “Without question,” Eversole said, “he left a positive journalistic mark in Butler County and is missed.” WHAT: 2018 Butler County Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony WHEN: Nov. 18. Reception at 5 p.m.; dinner at 6 p.m.; program at 7 p.m. WHERE: Courtyard by Marriott, Hamilton COST: $25. Tickets available at Clark’s Sports Goods in Hamilton. Deadline to purchase is Nov. 14. No tickets will be sold at the event.

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The Myanmar Military's Loose Lips: Gaffe or Gambit? Imagining a Better World in a Kayan Mountain Village Military Gives EAOs until Feb. 12 to Cease Operating Outside Their Areas Int’l Crisis Group Urges China to Push for Army Ceasefire in Rakhine Myanmar Army Man ‘Rescued’ in Bangladesh Infographic: 30 Years of Chinese Investment in Myanmar ‘I Don’t Need to Explain Myself’: Scandal-Hit Tenasserim Chief Minister Loans from China Must Be Repaid ‘As Early As Possible’ President Honors Top Taxpayers Big Brands Revisit the Milkman Model to Cut Plastic Pollution Canada's Envoy to China says 'Misspoke' on Huawei CFO Case Aid Curbs in Myanmar's Rakhine Impact 'At Least 50,000 People'—UN Young Myanmar Photographer Living the Dream in New York China’s Six Belt and Road Projects in Myanmar to Watch in 2019 Govt Reports 2nd ARSA Attack in Northern Rakhine State This Month Yangon Ditches Campaign Ban on Party Logos For Local Elections Man Shot Dead Outside Home in Rakhine’s Minbya Township What We Can Hope For From the 70th Anniversary of Karen National Resistance Day Huawei Executive Has Strong Case to Fight Extradition: Canadian Envoy Focus on Thai Fishing Distracts from Worker Abuse in Other Sectors–Researchers Concept, Context, Contestation—Art That Asks You to Look Inside Yourself Yangon Municipal Body Must Strictly Enforce Its New Law Pro-Military Rally in Capital Organized by Central War Veterans Group: Ex-Soldier New Army Bases Spark Fears of Fresh Fighting in Kayah State Family of 3 Killed in Yangon Tea Shop Blaze Dozens of Rohingya Arrested for Traveling Illegally Projects Approved by Previous Gov’t Should Not Be Abolished: State Counselor Cambodian Leader, in Beijing, says China Pledges Nearly $600M in Aid Hong Kong to Unveil Bill Making Disrespect of China's National Anthem a Crime Indian Police Arrest Rohingya Muslim Group Stuck on Bangladesh Border Organizers of Yangon's 5th LGBTIQ Festival Promise Biggest Bash Yet Yangon Municipal Body Invites Firms to Participate in Smart Parking Project Myanmar Military Says Soldier Killed in Karen Rebel Attack Asean Must Make the EU a Strategic Partner Public Demands Transparency in Forced Resignation of Kachin Ministers Deputy Speaker of Irrawaddy Region Parliament Denies Embezzlement Claims Party Logos Banned for Yangon Municipal Election Cambodia Businesses, Unions Ask EU Not to Impose Trade Sanctions Rohingya Muslim Group Fleeing India to Bangladesh Stuck on ‘Zero Line’ China's Huawei in Unprecedented Media Blitz as it Battles Heightened Scrutiny Three Kachin State Ministers Told to Quit ‘on Suu Kyi’s Orders’ Obituary: David Abel, Economics Czar Under Myanmar's Military Regime, Dies Gov’t Silent on Army’s Claim that Suu Kyi Wants AA ‘Crushed’ Mandalay Govt to Receive 3rd Repayment of Development Funds Ghosn May Have Had Questionable Ethics, Co-Chair of External Nissan Probe Says From Pariah to Demi-God: Transgender Leader a Star at Massive Indian Festival Fresh ARSA Attack Injured Six Police Officers: Govt The Irrawaddy discusses the military's uncharacteristic disclosure of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's controversial remarks during a top-level closed-door meeting and the ensuing fallout. By The Irrawaddy 26 January 2019 Kyaw Zwa Moe: Welcome to Dateline Irrawaddy! Recently, spokespeople for the Tatmadaw (Myanmar military) said during a press conference that State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi instructed it to crush the Arakan Army (AA). The following day, a spokesperson of the President’s Office, U Zaw Htay, released a statement in response and said it was privileged information. We’ll discuss whether the military spokesperson disclosed something he shouldn’t have or did so with political or other motives, and what impact the claim will have on relations between the government and the military. U Kyi Myint, a lawyer and chairman of the Union Lawyers and Paralegals Association, and Dr. Min Zaw Oo, executive director of the Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security, join me to discuss this. I’m Kyaw Zwa Moe. Spokespeople for the Tatmadaw at their press conference revealed what was discussed at the top-level meeting between Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the president, the military chief and some Union-level ministers. U Zaw Htay said it was privileged information, which is defined as secret information that is barred from being disclosed to the public. Ko Min Zaw Oo, what is your assessment of this? Why did the Tatmadaw spokespeople disclose it? Do you think they have political motives, or other motives? Min Zaw Oo: I wouldn’t like to speculate about their intentions. According to procedure, the records of the meetings of state leaders are top secret. Privileged information is a formal term. Normally it is called classified information. Any piece of information that can negatively impact national security if it is exposed is treated as classified information. Once a piece of information is designated as classified information, it can’t be told to the public until it is declassified. Some of the issues discussed at the national-level meeting relate to policies. Then there must be discussion about whether or not to make those policies public. If something is to be made public, for example, (spokespeople) can say the Tatmadaw and the government share the same position on internal insurgency. But according to procedure, disclosing exactly who said what at the meeting is not allowed. It is difficult to say why [the military spokespeople] said it. But we can say that it is not in line with the procedures for handling and publishing classified information. KZM: Tatmadaw spokespeople named Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as the one who instructed it to annihilate the AA. It provoked widespread criticism on social media as well as from the Arakanese community, and criticism of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. What is your assessment of this from a legal perspective? Kyi Myint: I was quite taken aback by the statement of the Tatmadaw True News Information Team. I wouldn’t have believed it if it were not said by the Tatmadaw True News Information Team. It is in fact a violation of the Official Secrets Act. There is no higher-level meeting than the recent one. If somebody speaks about it the same day as the meeting, it might be because he was instructed (by the leaders) to do so. But if it is said at a different place at a different time, it is a violation of the Official Secrets Act. The term “privileged information” is used to cover up the violation of the Official Secrets Act. How justifiable is that? Union Parliament Law No. 11, Lower House Law Section 12 and Upper House Law Section 12 grant exemptions, but only for lawmakers and not for other people. Filing a complaint against someone under the Official Secrets Act needs the approval of the president. You can’t just file a complaint directly. Penalties vary depending on the degree of the secret — a maximum of 14 years and a minimum of two years in prison. Even if a piece of information is leaked, it depends on the opinion of the president and the state counselor. A lawsuit can’t be filed if they don’t approve it. It is, without doubt, a disclosure of official secrets to have revealed who said what at a top-level meeting. Though U Zaw Htay said it was privileged information, that is not enough justification. Only the state counselor and the president have the authority to decide whether or not to take action. KZM: We don’t know what political motives the military has. It seems the Tatmadaw spokespeople made the disclosure under instructions from their bosses. Some doubted Daw Aung San Suu Kyi really said it. Whether she said it or not, Arakanese political parties and the Arakanese community expressed their negative feelings towards Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her government on social media. So how bad was the impact? Didn’t the Tatmadaw leaders expect it, or did they just want to show that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is on their side on that issue? MZO: To make a fair assessment, what U Zaw Htay told the media made an impact even before the press conference of the Tatmadaw True News Information Team. And the impact intensified when the Tatmadaw spokesperson named Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in particular. The gulf between the National League for Democracy (NLD) and Arakanese parties widened. The Arakanese community’s view of the government and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has become more negative. There is more criticism from the Arakanese community on social media. The Official Secrets Act of Myanmar mainly lists the conditions under which the law can be violated and doesn’t clearly define official secrets. And there is no procedure regarding declassification. So there are related problems. KZM: Before the most recent one, there were top-level meetings in the past. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, while she was under house arrest, had meetings with former military chief Senior General Than Shwe, Vice Senior General Maung Aye and General Khin Nyunt during the military regime. And since the 2015 elections, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing have met four, five times including their private meetings. Their last meeting took place in January 2019 and focused on the Rakhine issue. Before this, there were no information leaks. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has never leaked information even though she might have discussed important issues. There were reports that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and U Than Shwe met two times in the past few years. But no information leaked about their meetings. There are no regulations about what information should and should not be disclosed. They are mainly concerned with the motives behind it. Today, our country is focusing on national reconciliation, mainly between the civilian government, Tatmadaw and ethnic armed groups. So I don’t think [the government] will take harsh action for saying so. But what can [the government] do in response in a moderate way? KM: The Official Secrets Act was enacted in 1923 as Act No. 19. Sections 3 and 4 of the law define the conditions deemed to constitute the disclosure of official secrets. And the law classifies actions that are punishable by 14 years [in prison] and punishable by 2 years. [And the Tatmadaw spokesperson’s disclosure of information] infringes on the Official Secrets Act. But then, the law doesn’t necessitate taking action for violations. (The recent meeting) is the highest-level meeting in the country. Everybody knows that such a disclosure negatively affects the image of a people’s leader both inside and outside the country. So I would like to suggest that responsible people should exercise caution with such information in the future. KZM: The Tatmadaw spokespeople quoted Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as saying there would be finger-pointing if the Tatmadaw did not attack the AA, (whose members are from a recognized) ethnic group, but crushed ARSA (Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army), (whose members) practice a different religion. Do you think the Tatmadaw spokespeople need to reveal such details? The disclosure has caused great division between Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her government and Arakanese political parties and the Arakanese community. How bad was the impact of the disclosure? MZO: It seems to have caused some friction between the government and the Tatmadaw. And it caused some friction between the NLD and Arakanese political parties and the Arakanese community. What can be done to prevent this? Suppose the top leaders hold a meeting and adopt a policy. The top leaders should discuss whether or not that policy should be made public. If they agree to make it public, they can do so. The nature of a meeting is that a decision reached at the meeting can be made public, but normally the details about who said what and why are not made public. If such things are disclosed, the classified information will no longer be secret. It would be good if everyone could work together to prevent this from happening again. KZM: Some scholars suggest that the disclosure of such information could undermine trust. MZO: In the peace process, there is a need to hold many talks with many ethnic armed groups. They are not lawful groups; they are outlawed. Even in talks with such groups, there are lines that can’t be crossed. Both sides know the other’s misdeeds, which they can use to criticize the other side. But they should not disclose them. Though there is no law [that prohibits the disclosure of information], certain things must be observed according to protocol. KZM: Thank you for your contributions! Translated from Burmese by Thet Ko Ko. Topics: Myanmar Military, Tatmadaw The Irrawaddy ...

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Pope Francis - Holy Mass for Caritas Internationalis 2019-05-23 The priests, ministers of my Son, the priests, by their wicked lives, by their irreverence and their impiety in the celebration of the holy mysteries, by their love of money, their love of honors and pleasures, and the priests have become cesspools of impurity. Yes, the priests are asking vengeance, and vengeance is hanging over their heads. Woe to the priests and to those dedicated to God who by their unfaithfulness and their wicked lives are crucifying my Son again! The sins of those dedicated to God cry out towards Heaven and call for vengeance, and now vengeance is at their door, for there is no one left to beg mercy and forgiveness for the people. There are no more generous souls; there is no one left worthy of offering a stainless sacrifice to the Eternal for the sake of the world. Our Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879) The chiefs, the leaders of the people of God have neglected prayer and penance, and the devil has bedimmed their intelligence. They have become wandering stars which the old devil will drag along with his tail to make them perish. God will allow the old serpent to cause divisions among those who reign in every society and in every family. Physical and moral agonies will be suffered. God will abandon mankind to itself and will send punishments which will follow one after the other for more than thirty-five years. Our Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879) In the year 1865, there will be desecration of holy places. In convents, the flowers of the Church will decompose and the devil will make himself like the King of all hearts. May those in charge of religious communities be on their guard against the people they must receive, for the devil will resort to all his evil tricks to introduce sinners into religious orders, for disorder and the love of carnal pleasures will be spread all over the earth. Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879) In the year 1864, Lucifer together with a large number of demons will be unloosed from hell; they will put an end to faith little by little, even in those dedicated to God. They will blind them in such a way, that, unless they are blessed with a special grace, these people will take on the spirit of these angels of hell; several religious institutions will lose all faith and will lose many souls.Our Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879) Several will abandon the faith, and a great number of priests and members of religious orders will break away from the true religion; among these people there will even be bishops. Our Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879) The holy places are in a state of corruption. Many convents are no longer houses of God, but the grazing-grounds of Asmodeas and his like. Our Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879) MARIA OF THE CROSS, Victim of Jesus nee MELANIE CALVAT, Shepherdess of La Salette "I protest highly against a different text, which people may dare publish after my death. I protest once more against the very false statements of all those who dare say and write First that I embroidered the Secret; second, against those who state that the Queen Mother did not say to transmit the Secret to all her people." Mélanie

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The Upper Room - Cenacle Labels: Cenacle, Christian Holy Places, Jerusalem, The Upper Room also known as the Coenaculum. The Upper room is according to tradition, the place where Jesus and his disciples held the Passover feast- the Last supper, before he was taken away to be tried. This is based on the account in the synoptics that states that Jesus had instructed a pair of unnamed disciples to go to the city to meet a man carrying a jar of water, who would lead them to a house, where they were to ask for the room where the teacher has a guest room. This room is specified as being the upper room; the institution of the Eucharist during the Last Supper, Jesus’ appearance before the Apostles after His Resurrection and the adjoining hall is the Chapel of the descent of the Holy Spirit over the Apostles at Pentecost. Despite the fact that there is a general agreement that the original building was a first-century CE synagogue, both Jews and Christians claim it as their own relying on a statement by Epiphanius (CE ca. 315- 402/3). Writing late in the fourth century, he claimed that when the Roman emperor Hadrian (CE 76-138) visited Jerusalem (ca. 131/132) a small “Church of God” and seven synagogues existed on Mount Zion. Christians argue that the present-day remains are those of the small Judeo-Christian synagogue, which Epiphanius called a Church of God, constructed on the site of the Upper Room by Judeo-Christian refugees returning from Pella about CE 73. Jews claim it as one of the seven synagogues of the Jews observed by Hadrian. An earlier account by a pilgrim from Bordeaux, presumably a Judeo-Christian who visited Jerusalem in CE 333, refers to the tradition of seven synagogues on MountZion as well. In 415 A.D. the bones of the first martyr, St. Stephen, were found in Kafar Gamaliel, at a site indicated in a vision experienced by the monk Lucien. John II the bishop of Jerusalem (served 387-419 CE.) ordered the bones to be handed over to him. Interpreting the monk’s vision, John declared, “The carriage, you have seen [in your vision], drawn by a large ox signifies Stephen. Sion, the first church, is the big carriage.” The date of the transfer of St. Stephen’s bones was December 26, 415 A.D., and this became the date of the feast of St. Stephen. Two more memorial tombs were added in the tenth century, one for David and one for Solomon. It was these two tombs, plus St. Stephen’s sarcophagus that the Crusaders found upon their arrival, as we have seen above. The Crusaders in the 12th century built a new church, which they named St.Mary of Mt. Zion: they had a tradition that after Jesus’ resurrection, Mary had lived on this hill until her death (today remembered in the nearby Dormition Abbey). The Franciscans purchased it in 1335 and gave it its present form. The Crusader church incorporated today’s Upper Room. The Room of the Last Supper lies just outside the Dormition Abbey behind the Franciscan house on Sion. The Tomb of King David is believed to be located beneath the Upper Room. After the Franciscan Friars’ eviction in the middle of the 16th century, both David’s tomb and the cenacle were transformed into mosques in order to hinder the Franciscans return. A prayer niche (mihrab) was inserted in the wall indicating the direction of prayer toward Mecca. It was exactly opposite the orientation of the niche of the first century Judeo-Christian synagogue-church, which pointed to the Holy Sepulchre. The Arabic inscription prohibiting public prayer at the site, is still nowadays behind the book shelves. The ceiling of the Upper Room is supported by three pillars which divide the room into three naves. With implicit reference to the Last Supper, a delicate Crusader capital (SW corner) reflects the belief that the pelican, if unable to find food for her young, will offer them flesh from her breast. See also: The Cenacle and the tomb of David

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Tag: BDS BDS IS WAGING A WAR OF EXTERMINATION BY DEMONIZING THE WORLD’S ONLY JEWISH STATE Fall 2018: BDS Returns to Campus and Politics: Alexander Joffe, SPME, Oct. 3, 2018— As the academic year begins, controversy over the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism — which includes demonization of Israel — has now spread to the United States. BDS New Low? Impeding Student Travel to Israel: Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS, Sept. 18, 2018— A teacher writing a letter of recommendation for a student is a commonplace event. Entertainment Industry Group Works to Thwart the Cultural Efforts of BDS: Shiryn Solny, Algemeiner, Sept. 28, 2018— Since its founding in 2005, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has targeted Israeli universities, businesses, and cultural organizations. Demonizing Israel and the Hijacking of Language: Melanie Phillips, Jerusalem Post, Sept. 14— Not so long ago, freedom and democracy seemed to be on the march in the world, with Turkey and Pakistan, two strategically important Muslim-majority nations, near the front of the parade. The True Origins of BDS (Video): Canary Mission, Sept. 3, 2018 Professor Draws Ire After Declining to Help Student Study in Israel: Tamar Lapin, New York Post, Sept. 20, 2018 Bridges, Not Boycotts: David Renzer, Steve Schnur, Jerusalem Post, Sept. 15, 2018 A BDS Lesson in Dishonesty via the New York Times: Daniel Pomerantz, Honest Reporting, Sept. 4, 2018 FALL 2018: BDS RETURNS TO CAMPUS AND POLITICS Alexander Joffe SPME, Oct. 3, 2018 As the academic year begins, controversy over the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism — which includes demonization of Israel — has now spread to the United States. Following the lead of the Department of State, the US Department of Education has adopted the IHRA guidelines, leading to accusations that it is “censoring” free speech on Israel. One result of the new policy is that a 2014 case from Rutgers University, where Jewish students were charged a different admission fee to an event, is being re-investigated. Protests that the IHRA definition is “dangerously broad” quickly emerged from hostile media outlets and pro-BDS sources. The IHRA controversy goes beyond semantics: BDS supporters and others now claim that demonizing language, such as calling Israel a “Nazi state,” allegations of dual loyalties, and other accusations are not antisemitic hate speech, but merely exercises of free speech. Overall, the right of Jews to define antisemitism is being removed. The clash between free speech and protections for Jewish students was also highlighted by reports that a faculty member at the University of Michigan rescinded his offer to write a letter of recommendation for a student after learning that she planned to study in Israel. In his email to the student, the faculty member stated his decision was in conformity with BDS guidelines. The university quickly expressed disapproval and reiterated its policy of no boycott, but refused to sanction the faculty member, as was called for by a coalition of groups. The BDS movement expressed support for the faculty member, while other academics questioned whether providing a letter of recommendation was a professional requirement or open to individual decisions. The case demonstrates another area where BDS has contaminated the personal relationships between individual students and faculty, going far beyond the classroom. Because individual faculty boycotts are almost always covert, there is no way to know how many BDS supporters have declined to write letters of recommendation for travel abroad, graduate programs, or other seemingly routine things simply because the student had some relationship with Israel. Systemic responses to the situation are difficult to imagine and unsavory, undermining further the integrity of academic institutions and student-professor relationships. For example, Jewish and Israeli students might be encouraged to investigate the background of professors before taking their classes. Realistically, however, most students are unwilling and unable to undertake this sort of due diligence, and even the suggestion is an infuriating admission that sectors of higher education are increasingly unsafe for Jews and Israelis. Needless to say, the harsh BDS standard related to study in Israel, and to Israeli or Jewish students supporting Israel, does not apply to students interested in or supporting countries with egregious human rights records, such as Turkey, China, or Qatar. The IHRA’s definition of antisemitism and the question of demonizing Israel are also at the core of the British Labour Party’s ongoing crisis. After a bitter controversy regarding IHRA definition, the party’s executive committee adopted it — but with a “free speech” clause that effectively neutered the guidelines. In a new development, Labour activists loyal to party leader Jeremy Corbyn have begun to push “deselection” of pro-Israel Members of Parliament as a means of driving them out of the party and politics. A Labour-associated union leader also accused Jewish organizations of “manufacturing” the antisemitism crisis as a means of undermining the party. Critics of Labour antisemitism are regularly assailed as “the lobby,” “right wing,” “Trump supporters,” and more. Meanwhile it was revealed that Corbyn had called for a boycott of the Arsenal football club over a minor Israeli sponsorship, and that Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, had participated in a protest calling for the boycott of all Israeli goods. Corbyn claimed further that describing the creation of Israel as “racist” was not antisemitic. The crisis reverberated into the Labour Party’s annual conference, where Marxist members handed out pamphlets comparing Israel to Nazis, Palestinian flags were waved, and other members decried the antisemitism-related “witch hunt.” Meanwhile, at least one Jewish party member required a police escort to enter the conference, while others chose not to attend. Corbyn himself announced that were Labour to come to power it would immediately recognize the “State of Palestine,” while the party passed a resolution calling for Britain to institute an arms boycott on Israel. The bizarre centrality of Israel to Labour politics is difficult to explain in terms other than antisemitism. At the same time, polls suggest that the general public is becoming alienated from Labour as a result of the crisis. Similar antisemitism crises are emerging in the US Democratic Party. The September primary elections were rocked by revelations that a BDS-supporting “democratic socialist” candidate for the New York legislature, Julia Salazar, had lied about being Jewish, foreign born, from an impoverished background, and a college graduate. When her deceptions were exposed, she and her supporters accused the “alt-right” media of conspiring to embarrass her — some at the behest of Israel. She further accused David Keyes, spokesman for Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of having sexually assaulted her during the brief period when she was a pro-Israel activist… [To Read the Full Article Click the Following Link—Ed.] BDS NEW LOW? IMPEDING STUDENT TRAVEL TO ISRAEL Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Sept. 18, 2018 A teacher writing a letter of recommendation for a student is a commonplace event. Teachers refusing such requests may also be common, but when it happens, we assume it is because the student is asking for an endorsement they don’t deserve. But what are we to think about a refusal that is based in prejudice, rather than lack of merit? That’s the upshot of a disturbing incident at the University of Michigan that was revealed this week. John Cheney-Lippold, an associate professor working in Michigan’s Department of American Culture, had promised a student (who chose not to reveal her identity) that he would write a reference required for her to take part in a semester-abroad program in Israel. But a few weeks later, Cheney-Lippold wrote back to tell the student that he had changed his mind. Rather than having misgivings about her qualifications or worthiness for the program, the professor said his refusal was about what he termed “politics.” He wrote her: “I am very sorry but … as you may know, many university departments have pledged an academic boycott against Israel in support of Palestinians living in Palestine. This boycott includes writing letters of recommendation for students planning to study there. I should have let you know earlier, and for that I apologize. But for reasons of these politics, I must rescind my offer to write your letter. Let me know if you need me to write other letters for you, as I’d be happy.” Is he within his rights to act in this manner? While the student government at Michigan passed a pro-BDS resolution, the university’s board of regents rejected the measure with six of its eight members. After the student referred Cheney-Lippold’s communication to University president Mark Schlissel, he told The Algemeiner that the criteria used by the professor was wrong. “Teachers shouldn’t have a right to inject their personal viewpoints about this.” Schlissel went on to say that BDS is “false” and “anti-Semitic,” and misrepresents Israel. He’s right about that, but was Cheney-Lippold breaking the law? According to BDS advocates, he was merely expressing his political opinion. He has a right to “support” “Palestinians living in Palestine” if that’s what he believes in, however amorphous that statement is defined. But as with the debates about anti-BDS laws—one of which happened to have been passed in Michigan—the issue is not the professor’s right to hold an opinion about Israel. His refusal to write a letter that he had already agreed to give her was an act of bias. Let’s be clear: The professor seems to be perfectly willing to endorse student visits to all sorts of nations governed by tyrants, including the Communists in China and Cuba, or the repressive regimes in Saudi Arabia or the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. He also seems to think that the one Jewish state on the planet is the only place that ought to be isolated in this fashion. Indeed, if he is a supporter of BDS, it’s likely that his line about “Palestine” is not merely a comment about the territories the Jewish state took in a defensive war in 1967, but a reference to pre-1967 Israel, which BDS advocates consider to be just as much an “occupied territory” as the West Bank. Anti-BDS laws are legal because they ban commercial conduct—economic boycotts that attempt to discriminate against only the Jewish state and are therefore inherently anti-Semitic—that would be illegal in this country under any other circumstances. But if you were wondering why a professor of American culture is doing seeking to prevent Americans from going to Israel, it’s actually not a coincidence. The American Studies Association (ASA) was one of the first such academic groups to vote to endorse BDS in 2013. That academics supposedly devoted to teaching about American values would support a program designed to eradicate the only Jewish state is bad enough. But it also happens to be illegal. In passing the boycott resolution, the ASA violated the terms of its corporate charter, which just happened to be approved by Congress when it was founded, and the District of Columbia Non-Profit Corporation Act that requires an organization to operate only within the provisions of its charter. Promoting a campaign to stigmatize Israelis and to deny them access to U.S. institutions and vice versa is not only an act of despicable prejudice, but has nothing to do with the ASA’s purpose of promoting scholarship about American studies. A number of ASA members have sued the leadership over this violation of its charter that, according to the plaintiffs, was accomplished by underhanded means that also violated the organization’s bylaws approved by Congress. While the litigation over this continues, JNS has asked the federal court presiding over the case to release materials related to this activity that the ASA has been forced to divulge during the discovery process. Among the materials that have already been revealed are documents that show the group has changed the rules governing its endowment that has allowed it to pilfer its funds to finance their defense against the suit, as well as public relations and lobbying activities. This might also be deemed illegal since that sort of political behavior is also prohibited to nonprofit groups like the ASA. But, like the University of Michigan professor, the ASA leadership is a lot more interested in promoting anti-Semitic attacks on Israel—in this case, through the means of a student merely wanting to travel and learn—than in promoting the study of American history or culture. The perversion of a group that was founded to promote scholarship about America into one that aims at attacking Israel is a scandal. That applies to both the ASA and Cheney-Lippold’s attempt to stop students from studying in Israel. That the academy has become a bastion of prejudice shows there is something very wrong about a certain sector of intellectual culture of this country. It’s up to the universities and the courts to demonstrate that responsible institutions won’t stand by while anti-Semitic discrimination is passed off as scholarship. ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY GROUP WORKS TO THWART THE CULTURAL EFFORTS OF BDS Shiryn Solny Algemeiner, Sept. 28, 2018 Since its founding in 2005, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has targeted Israeli universities, businesses, and cultural organizations. Most recently, its efforts against Israel’s music scene have made headlines. The chatter circulated around American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, who was attacked by BDS supporters for agreeing to perform at the Meteor Festival in Israel, a decision she originally defended on Twitter with a lengthy statement on August 19. The “Summertime Sadness” singer said at the time that “music is universal and should be used to bring us together,” and that her “plan” was for the concert to be done with “a loving energy with a thematic emphasis on peace.” But after facing a tremendous amount of pressure to call off the show, Del Rey did just that on September 1, a week before she was scheduled to perform — she said that she will reschedule when she is able to play in “both Israel and Palestine.” Afterwards, 15 or so other artists also cancelled their performances at the Meteor Festival. Del Rey’s original plan to perform in Israel came less than a year after New Zealand singer Lorde announced her intention to play in Tel Aviv, a move that also prompted an enormous amount of online pressure and resulted in the “Royals” singer canceling her show in late December. At the time, Lorde said her decision was made after an “overwhelming number of messages and letters” from those who opposed her performance. More than a few headlines about Del Rey calling off her concert attributed the cancellation, like Lorde’s, to “BDS pressure.” “We believe Lana genuinely wanted to postpone her performance, and reschedule concerts for both Israelis and Palestinians. Unfortunately, BDS has made it clear if an artist books in Israel, they will not play in a Palestinian venue,” said Aviva Miller, New York Regional Director of Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), a non-profit group comprised of prominent members in the entertainment industry who are “dedicated to promoting music and the arts as a means to peace and to countering the cultural boycott of Israel,” according to its website. The organization is in no way funded by the Israeli government or backed by any institution in Israel. As CCFP’s New York director, Miller — an entertainment attorney by trade — is focused on cultivating a group of supporters and creating a “community” of supporters in New York and on the East Coast. The community consists of entertainment executives and other supporters who will become part of a global network. New York City and its surrounding areas account for 40 percent to 50 percent of the entertainment industry in the United States, she said. CCFP co-founder David Renzer said that the organization offers the support and information artists and their representatives need to “resist boycott pressure when they come across it.” He added that “as an entertainment-industry organization, we utilize our deep network of relationships to reach out to artists to make sure they are receiving a ‘balanced’ view of the [Israeli-Palestinian] conflict, [as] opposed to the misinformation that pro-BDS groups promote. … Artists that boycott are not furthering peace and need to be educated about the true agenda of BDS.” It was the CCFP who helped Jewish actress Scarlett Johansson in 2014, when she was barraged with requests from BDS supporters to cancel her contract as the global brand ambassador for SodaStream, an Israeli carbonated-beverage company. Johansson’s publicist and manager turned to CCFP and asked for assistance in creating a narrative that allowed the actress to defend her decision to maintain the endorsement deal despite facing pressure from the BDS movement. “She did not listen to the BDS movement, but the chatter was so loud that it was horrifying,” recalled Miller. “They cut out photos of her sipping from a [SodaStream] glass … and they put it up against these horrifying pictures of people behind barbed wire and dead people — you don’t even know who these people were, but it looks as though she was standing in front of Palestinians who were being murdered and somehow oppressed.”…[To Read the Full Article Click the Following Link—Ed.] DEMONIZING ISRAEL AND THE HIJACKING OF LANGUAGE Jerusalem Post, Sept. 14 If there’s one refrain which gets me chewing the carpet, it’s the plaintive question, “Why is Israel unable to get its message across?” The naivety behind this question is itself a large part of the answer. It’s not just the fact that – as has now become all too obvious – the demonization and delegitimization of Israel is inextricably linked to the ineradicable poison of antisemitism. More pertinently, Israel has been up against a black propaganda exercise which has inverted truth and lies with devastating effect. Its only equivalent in scale, skill and evil intent is the manipulative mind control practiced by totalitarian regimes. No coincidence: This strategy of psychological warfare deployed by the Palestinians was devised by Yasser Arafat in cahoots with the Soviets, who knew a thing or two about subverting the values of an entire culture. And the war against the Jews is part of the broader war against the free world and the core tenets of Western civilization. The attempt to counter this by Israel’s defenders has been woefully misjudged. There’s the defensive-crouch response (“Hey guys, why are you dumping on us – can’t you see we’re the victims here?”) which, by responding on the enemy’s own distorted grounds of purported Israeli aggression, is itself halfway to conceding defeat. Or there’s the attempt to persuade the world of Israel’s elevated standards of ethical behavior (“Hey guys, look at all the Palestinians we’re treating in our hospitals, even including the ones who’ve just tried to murder us!”) Since the one thing the Western world does not want to hear is the perceived moral superiority of the Jews – of which it is pathologically, irredeemably and sometimes murderously jealous – this particular approach turns abject stupidity into an art form. Given that the demonization of Israel is the key strategy in the war of extermination being waged against it, “getting Israel’s message across” is the equivalent to using a leaky bucket to ward off a tsunami. The essence of such psychological warfare is as simple as it is seismic. It is the manipulation of language. Words have been hijacked so that they come to be understood as the opposite of what they really signify. The importance of this tactic can hardly be overstated. Many people know little or nothing about the Middle East and have even less interest in finding out. For them, it’s just background noise. But if the language which forms that background noise is hijacked, then the story of the Middle East is hijacked too. Key concepts have been presented as if in mirror writing so that Israel, the victim of aggression, has been turned falsely into the aggressor while its would-be exterminators are transformed into its victims. And that’s been achieved not just by telling lies about what’s going on today or happened in the past. Crucially, those falsehoods have been framed by language which conditions the listener to accept them because the language itself has been turned into a lie. Consider, for example, the word “colonialism.” In left-wing ideology, colonialism is the crime of crimes that defines Western iniquity: the subjection of indigenous peoples in the developing world by white-skinned westerners who occupied their lands and ruled, enslaved and oppressed them. Left-wingers believe that white, Western Israel has occupied the lands of the indigenous Palestinians whom it is proceeding to rule, enslave and oppress… CIJR Wishes All Our Friends & Supporters: Shabbat Shalom! The True Origins of BDS (Video): Canary Mission, Sept. 3, 2018—The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement claims to be a grassroots human rights movement but in reality, it is a carefully crafted continuation of anti-Jewish boycotts predating the state of Israel. Professor Draws Ire After Declining to Help Student Study in Israel: Tamar Lapin, New York Post, Sept. 20, 2018— A University of Michigan professor refused to help a student study abroad in Israel because of an academic boycott against the country — and claims he’s getting death threats for his decision. Bridges, Not Boycotts: David Renzer, Steve Schnur, Jerusalem Post, Sept. 15, 2018—The Meteor Festival in northern Israel opened on September 6 with dozens of artists from around the world. They included many performers who were pressured to boycott – such as Kamasi Washington, Pusha T, Soulwax, and Mura Masa – but instead created a space where Israeli fans of all backgrounds and opinions could set aside their differences and come together in peace. A BDS Lesson in Dishonesty via the New York Times: Daniel Pomerantz, Honest Reporting, Sept. 4, 2018—In a 2,000 word diatribe in the New York Times, Joesph Levine, philosophy professor and a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council, defends BDS, asking, “Is Boycotting Israel ‘Hate’?” He claims, “Opponents of the nonviolent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement are involved in a dishonest branding campaign.” Tagged as BDS BDS AIMS TO ISOLATE & DEMONIZE THE JEWISH STATE AND PRO-ISRAEL STUDENTS A New Approach to Fighting Campus Anti-Semitism: Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, JTA, June 12, 2018 — Campuses today are being challenged by profoundly intolerant behavior… Why it’s a Big Deal that Argentina Canceled its Soccer Game in Israel: Ben Sales, Times of Israel, June 7, 2018 — Israelis want nothing more than for their country to be considered normal. Will BDS win Latin America?: Daniel Laufer, Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2018— The cancellation of a World Cup warm-up match in Israel by the Argentine national football team should be a wake-up call. The Ongoing Myth of BDS Success: Mitchell Bard, Algemeiner, Apr. 29, 2018— Anytime that a student government votes to divest from Israel or a celebrity chooses not to perform in Israel… Giuliani: Argentina Soccer Team Let Terrorists Win by Canceling Israel Game: Chris Perez, New York Post, June 7, 2018 Talk About a Smoking Gun! BDS Umbrella Group Has Financial Ties to Palestinian Terror Orgs: Aussie Dave, Israellycool, June 4, 2018 Louisiana Becomes 25th US State to Prohibit Business Ties With Anti-Israel BDS Groups: JNS, May 24, 2018 Slew of British Musicians Join BDS Movement: Amy Spiro, Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2018 A NEW APPROACH TO FIGHTING CAMPUS ANTI-SEMITISM Tammi Rossman-Benjamin JTA, June 12, 2018 Campuses today are being challenged by profoundly intolerant behavior, whose goal is to prevent some individuals and groups from expressing their opinions, beliefs or identity, or from fully participating in campus life. For Jewish and pro-Israel students, such behavior has become especially prevalent and challenging. On many college campuses, not only are positive statements about Israel demonized and delegitimized, but individuals who express these opinions are often intimidated, ostracized and literally bullied into silence. In the past few months alone, pro-Israel events have been aggressively disrupted at New York University, Syracuse University, UCLA and the University of California, Irvine; numerous fliers, graffiti and chalking stating “Zionists Not Welcome on Our Campus” were found all over San Francisco State University after an SFSU professor wrote on her department’s Facebook page that welcoming Zionist students on campus was a “declaration of war”; and a formal complaint was filed by Jewish students at Columbia University against anti-Zionist student groups for systematically harassing and silencing them for more than a year. In the wake of recent controversies involving the disruption and canceling of campus events, many university leaders have adopted the University of Chicago’s statement on freedom of speech—a statement that has become the gold standard on free speech for universities across the country. Not only does the statement commit to upholding students’ rights under the First Amendment, it makes it crystal-clear that to do so, it must ensure students are protected from the harassment and intolerant behavior that directly impedes this right. In theory, the adoption and implementation of a free speech statement like the one at the University of Chicago should benefit Jewish students enormously. It promises to offer protection from the peer-on-peer harassment that has made it difficult and sometimes impossible for Jewish students to freely express pro-Israel views and fully participate in campus life. In practice, however, such a statement runs the risk of making Jewish students even more vulnerable to those same acts of aggression intended to silence them. Here’s why. While freedom of speech is constitutionally guaranteed to each and every student regardless of opinion, belief or identity, this is not the case when it comes to freedom from harassment. In fact, federal anti-discrimination law administered by the U.S. Department of Education, which defines “harassment” as behavior that is “sufficiently severe, pervasive or persistent so as to interfere with or limit the ability of an individual to participate in or benefit from the services, activities or privileges provided by any recipient [of federal funds],” only deems such behavior “harassment” if it is directed at individuals because of their race, color, national origin, gender or other federally protected characteristics. Identical behavior directed against students who do not share those protected characteristics is not considered harassment under federal law, and these students are denied the federal protection afforded their peers. This inequity trickles down to federally funded colleges and universities. For example, at the University of Chicago, protection from harassment is limited to students who are targeted on the basis of their “race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information or other protected classes under the law.” Although the list is quite long, many University of Chicago students remain unprotected from the harassing and intolerant behaviors that could impede their free speech and full participation in campus life. If, in implementing its free speech statement, the university were to rely on its own harassment policy—using it as a standard for determining when a student’s freedom of expression had been impeded—it would beg the question of whether the university’s commitment to ensuring its students free speech applies to all students or only to those who share certain characteristics. The same is true on campuses across the country. Take California, for example. Although the state’s two massive university systems—California State University (CSU) and the University of California (UC)—both tout the importance of freedom of speech for all members of the campus community, they also have harassment policies that effectively limit protection from behavior that suppresses speech to only some portion of their student body. At CSU, Executive Order 1074 defines harassment as “unwelcome conduct engaged in because of a Protected Status,” and a CSU student who wishes to file a university complaint form in order to find relief from harassing behavior must indicate “the protected status(es) that was/were the basis(es) of the alleged … harassment.” UC policy on harassment is similarly limited in its scope to protected classes, and so, too, is UC’s online form allowing students to seek redress from harassing behavior. In theory, federal anti-discrimination law and university harassment policies should afford protection to Jewish students, either by virtue of their ethnicity in the case of federal law or their religion in the case of university policy. But, in practice, Jewish students have been denied protected status in both cases when those same harassing and intolerant behaviors are motivated by anti-Zionism. This is a double whammy for pro-Israel Jewish students. They must not only suffer the routine suppression of their speech and assembly, as well as the freedom to fully participate in campus life, but must also accept the reality that their aggressors—often members of a protected class—will go unpunished and receive a free pass to carry on their unfettered, anti-Zionist-motivated harassment. For many Jewish students, this has created a sense of egregious inequity and increased vulnerability, which has led to further suppression of their willingness to freely express themselves. It’s relevant to note that there are important efforts afoot to ensure that Jewish students are afforded legally protected status at the federal and state levels. But these efforts will take time. There is, however, an immediate, easy and equitable solution to the problem. University leaders must make a public pledge that all students will be equally protected from behavior that violates their rights to freedom of expression and full participation in campus life. To be effective, the statement should include a description of all university policies, in addition to state and federal laws that prohibit harassment and discrimination, along with a firm commitment to their equitable enforcement for all students, regardless of identity, opinion or legally protected status. Harassment is harassment. The effects of this intolerant and exclusionary behavior on students are the same, regardless of the motivation of the perpetrator or the identity of the victim. And the abhorrent behavior that prevents students from an education free from discrimination must be addressed equitably. Students cannot freely express themselves and learn from their professors or each other if they face ongoing and pervasive intolerance, harassment and discrimination, as Jewish and pro-Israel students do now. Only once all students are secure in the knowledge that they will be equally protected from hateful, bigoted behavior can a university guarantee its students freedom of speech and the right to full participation in campus life. WHY IT’S A BIG DEAL THAT ARGENTINA CANCELED ITS SOCCER GAME IN ISRAEL Ben Sales Times of Israel, June 7, 2018 Israelis want nothing more than for their country to be considered normal. That may have to wait. A much-anticipated soccer game between the Argentine and Israeli national teams was canceled Wednesday because, Israeli and Argentine officials say, of physical threats made to the Argentine players — including megastar forward Lionel Messi. The exhibition game was set for Saturday night in Jerusalem, less than a week before the beginning of the World Cup. Beyond the disappointment of tens of thousands of Israeli soccer fans, the cancellation shows Israelis once again that even seemingly innocuous cultural events, like a soccer match, aren’t immune from the festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israelis want to portray their country as a thriving democracy like any other — violence on the border and the occupation notwithstanding — and a full member of the family of nations. And they appreciate when other countries treat them that way. Thousands of Israelis lined the streets for the Giro d’Italia cycling race last month, even though it’s not a popular sport in Israel. Celebrating that international sporting event, perhaps the largest to be held in Israel, one of Israel’s leading newspapers ran a full front-page photo with the headline “We’re on the map.” Last month an Israeli, Netta Barzilai, won the Eurovision song contest, a 43-country competition that this year drew some 186 million viewers. Such signs of normalization are manna for Israelis, and a setback for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which aims to isolate Israel internationally. So the BDS community seemed ecstatic to claim the Argentines’ decision as a result of their political pressure. The truth seems murkier. The president of the Argentine Football Association, Claudio Tapia, apologized to Israel and said players had received threats. Protesters outside the team’s practice facility in Barcelona also waved Argentine soccer jerseys covered in fake blood — leaving it up to observers to decide whether the blood was meant to symbolize Palestinians who died or soccer players who might. This cancellation, nevertheless, cuts especially deep. Israelis feel stung when foreigners cancel appearances because of the conflict. Earlier this year, the singer Lorde canceled a Tel Aviv concert after pressure from pro-Palestinian activists. And Natalie Portman, an American-Israeli, refused to show for a prestigious prize ceremony because of her opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Soccer is Israel’s most popular sport, and Messi’s professional squad, FC Barcelona, is the most popular international team in Israel, according to a recent survey. So watching him face off against Israel’s team on its home turf would have been an especially big deal. Israelis are outraged — and split on who is to blame. Even if the ultimate decision was not a direct response to BDS pressure, many accuse Culture Minister Miri Regev of inflaming the opposition by politicizing the game. Regev told Israel’s Army Radio that she moved the game from the northern city of Haifa to Jerusalem, specifically to exhibit Israel’s claim to the city. She also linked the game to “our fight over the [United States] embassy moving to Jerusalem,” which happened last month amid objections from Palestinians, the European Union and the United Nations. “From my perspective, the important thing is that Argentina’s national team and Messi are coming to Israel and playing in Jerusalem ahead of the World Cup,” Regev told Army Radio on Monday, two days before the cancellation. “Jerusalem is on the map. In this era — which includes BDS — in this era nothing is more important.” A Palestinian official also name-checked Regev, and the Jerusalem move, in a letter requesting that the game be canceled. “After political pressure took place from the Israeli government, as it was openly said by Israel’s Minister of Culture and Sports Miri Regev, the match was moved to Jerusalem,” Jibril Rajoub, president of the Palestinian Football Association, wrote in a letter to Tapia obtained by Haaretz. “The Israeli government has turned a regular sports match into a political tool.” Rajoub also called on Palestinians to burn their Messi jerseys in protest of the game. And this isn’t his first foray against Israeli soccer. In 2015, he unsuccessfully tried to get Israel kicked out of FIFA, the international soccer organization. In an informal online poll conducted by Ynet, a news website that tends to oppose Netanyahu, almost 60 percent of respondents blamed Regev for the match’s cancellation. Ben Caspit, a journalist for the Israeli daily Maariv, tweeted that Messi visited Jerusalem in 2013 without incident “because no one turned the event into a political campaign.” The Jerusalem decision, he wrote, “woke the Palestinians up and awakened the mob.” But Regev is known for being bombastic, and she isn’t backing down. In a fiery statement Wednesday night, she blamed Palestinian terrorism for the cancellation, and compared the threats against Messi to the murders of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics by the Palestinian Black September terror group. “We’re talking about an old-new terror that scares, deters and frightens players, the same teror that led to the murder of the 11 Munich victims in the 1972 Olympics,” she said. “The true story here is not Haifa and not Jerusalem. The true story here is the threats on Messi’s life.”… WILL BDS WIN LATIN AMERICA? Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2018 The cancellation of a World Cup warm-up match in Israel by the Argentine national football team should be a wake-up call. Most anti-BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) efforts usually focus on Europe and North America, but Latin America is emerging as a site of growing, significant anti-Israel activity. Diplomatically, Latin America is a mixed bag. Many countries are honored with street names throughout Israel for their votes for the UN Partition Plan and subsequent recognition of Israel. But while strong relations continued for decades, Palestinian violence in the early 2000s prefigured a shift as Latin American governments declared solidarity with Palestinians and regularly condemned Israeli responses to terrorist attacks. Several even recognized a Palestinian state. Still, countries such as Colombia, Mexico and Argentina have substantial economic or security ties with Israel, and a number of countries chose to abstain in the 2017 UN vote to condemn the US for moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Latin America in September 2017 was in many respects proof of Israel’s strong relations with the region’s governments. However, the furious public demonstrations that greeted the Israeli delegation’s arrival highlighted the growing presence of radical anti-Israel activists. While not yet as severe as in Europe, there are a growing number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Latin America actively promoting BDS, lawfare, and various other delegitimization campaigns against the State of Israel. These campaigns draw on a mix of religious antisemitism and local neo-Marxist and anti-colonialist ideologies, accompanied by demonizing, antisemitic rhetoric. They do not speak of a Green Line or two states, but instead define Israel’s very existence as a wrong to be righted. While it appears that these organizations are not supported by area governments, new NGO Monitor research indicates that their campaigns do benefit from significant, constantly increasing assistance from international BDS groups, as well as from Palestinian, Israeli, European and American NGOs. Many of these international NGOs are themselves supported by European governments. An overall lack of transparency among both NGOs and government donors within Latin America reflects a lack of accountability. In the case of Argentina, the phenomenon matured under the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (and earlier, under her husband, Nestor Kirchner), when numerous NGOs – including the Federation of Argentine-Palestinian Entities (FEDERPAL), the Organization of Human Rights for Palestine, and the Palestinian organization Stop the Wall – launched a campaign against the Israeli water company Mekorot. In January 2011, the governor of Buenos Aires awarded a $170-million contract for a water treatment plant to a business consortium that included Mekorot. Over the next three years, local groups organized against the contract, falsely accusing Mekorot of “criminal actions in Palestine” and denouncing that “public Argentinian money would benefit Mekorot and, through this, finance Israeli apartheid in Palestine.” The fact that the project would improve infrastructure and access was tellingly erased. As a result, the deal was suspended and became a model for other Latin American BDS campaigns, including the one targeting Argentina’s athletes… THE ONGOING MYTH OF BDS SUCCESS Mitchell Bard Algemeiner, Apr. 29, 2018 Anytime that a student government votes to divest from Israel or a celebrity chooses not to perform in Israel, a cry goes out throughout the Jewish world that Israel is in danger and the antisemitic boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign is winning. But this is untrue. Take the example of celebrity boycotts. When Lorde cowardly gave in to pressure to cancel her Israel concert, the BDS trolls crowed and the pro-Israel activists expressed outrage. What was the impact? A lot of disappointed Israeli fans. Meanwhile, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, the Backstreet Boys, Nick Cave, and Bryan Adams were among those who did perform in Israel. Upcoming shows include performances by Foreigner, Ringo Starr, Ozzy Osbourne, and Enrique Iglesias. Yes, some celebrities (mostly B- and C-listers) are shunning Israel, but the BDSers have failed completely in orchestrating a mass artistic boycott. Perhaps the biggest recent celebrity news was the vigorous attack on antisemites by author J.K. Rowling, a vocal opponent of BDS. After tweeting the definition of antisemitism in response to efforts by some of her followers to contort its meaning, she asked, “Would your response to any other form of racism or bigotry be to squirm, deflect, or justify?” After revealing that Jews on her timeline were bombarded by anti-Jewish comments, Rowling said, “perhaps some of us non-Jews should start shouldering the burden.” BDSers kvelled over Natalie Portman’s decision not to attend an awards ceremony in Israel. While she gave some comfort to them, her explanation for skipping the gala made one thing clear: “I am not part of the BDS movement and do not endorse it.” Hysteria over the situation on campus is also misplaced. As I’ve written many times, the BDS movement is confined to a very small number of campuses, fewer than 3%. Also, contrary to claims that elite schools are particular targets, fewer than one-third of schools ranked in the top 50 have had a BDS vote in the last 13 years. Only 35 schools in the entire country have passed a divestment resolution and 64% of resolutions have been defeated. Concern was justified three years ago, when it appeared the BDS movement was gaining momentum. The number of schools considering divestment resolutions jumped from 10 in 2012-13 to 19 in 2013-14 to 27 in 2014-15. Rather than continue that trend, however, the number of votes has declined. Last year, only 18 votes were held. And this academic year, which is nearly over, has seen only 11. Remember all the publicity about BDS activity on University of California campuses, such as Berkeley and Irvine? There has been only one vote this year, at UC Riverside, which failed. Last year Riverside was the only UC school to pass a divestment resolution. Irvine and Berkeley have not had votes in the last four years. School is still in session in California, so resolutions may emerge, but we will not see anything like the eight votes in 2013-14. Make no mistake, the campus climate on the 63 schools that have had BDS campaigns is toxic. Jewish students often feel under siege and, not surprisingly, those campuses often have displays of antisemitism. Besides poisoning the environment, the drumbeat of attacks on Israel erode Israel’s image. Interestingly, students do not become pro-Palestinian, but they are more skeptical of Israel’s commitment to human rights, treatment of Arabs, and desire for peace. Worse, on many campuses the BDS advocates have succeeded in building coalitions with other student groups that buy into their propaganda. At NYU, 51 student groups pledged to boycott Israel, two pro-Israel campus organizations, and a group of off-campus pro-Israel groups… Giuliani: Argentina Soccer Team Let Terrorists Win by Canceling Israel Game: Chris Perez, New York Post, June 7, 2018—Rudy Giuliani called out Argentina’s national soccer team on Thursday for canceling their exhibition match against Israel — saying “you should never succumb to fear induced by terrorists.” Talk About a Smoking Gun! BDS Umbrella Group Has Financial Ties to Palestinian Terror Orgs: Aussie Dave, Israellycool, June 4, 2018—Regular Israellycool readers will know that so many members of the BDS movement are supportive of palestinian terrorists and what they do. I have time and again shown just how many BDS-holes love themselves a terrorist – Jew haters have this terrible habit of wanting Jews dead, after all (go figure). Louisiana Becomes 25th US State to Prohibit Business Ties With Anti-Israel BDS Groups: JNS, May 24, 2018—Louisiana Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards issued an executive order on Tuesday prohibiting his state government from doing business with companies that boycott Israel. Slew of British Musicians Join BDS Movement: Amy Spiro, Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2018—A number of British musicians and bands announced their support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel this week. In a coordinated push by the Artists for Palestine UK group, several musical acts expressed support for BDS on social media on Tuesday, including Portishead, Wolf Alice and Shame. Tagged as Academics, BDS ANTI-ISRAELI LEFT & MUSLIM EXTREMISTS ARE THE PRE-EMINENT THREATS TO JEWISH PEOPLE Zionism and the Wedge Between US and Israeli Jews: Dr. Asaf Romirowsky, BESA, May 24, 2018— In Mandatory Palestine, Jews began to accumulate power – economic, political, and military – which caused other Jews to immediately question the enterprise itself. The Disintegration of American Jewry: Isi Leibler, Arutz Sheva, May 1, 2018 — American Jewry, apart from the Orthodox and a minority of committed non-Orthodox, is demographically imploding. Why Do You Hate Israel?: Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, Apr. 11, 2018— Why do you hate Israel more than any other nation? Why does Israel anger you more than any other nation does? Bernard Lewis: Editorial, Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2018— One of the most influential Middle East scholars, Bernard Lewis, died Saturday, two weeks short of his 102nd birthday, in Voorhees Township, New Jersey. Bernard Lewis, Influential Scholar of Islam, Is Dead at 101: Douglas Martin, New York Times, May 21, 2018 An Open Letter to Natalie Portman: Amichai Shikli, Jerusalem Post, May 21, 2018 Why the Left Buys Into Every Anti-Israel Smear: Gil Troy, New York Post, May 20, 2018 Cornell Student Presents Senior Thesis In Her Underwear: Dennis Prager, Townhall, May 15, 2018 ZIONISM AND THE WEDGE BETWEEN US AND ISRAELI JEWS Dr. Asaf Romirowsky BESA, May 24, 2018 In Mandatory Palestine, Jews began to accumulate power – economic, political, and military – which caused other Jews to immediately question the enterprise itself. Old anti-Semitic tropes came to the fore, like the notion that a Jewish state would be based on “exploitation” or even Zionist “world domination”. The prospect of a Jewish state generated non-Jewish hostility and, among a Jewish minority, feelings of guilt. Decades before the state was founded, Judah Magnes anxiously said: “It is not only the end which for Israel must be desirable, but what is of equal importance, the means must be conceived and brought forth in cleanliness.” But no state has or could achieve that desired level of purity, particularly one surrounded by implacable enemies. Powerlessness was the preferred – even the ideal – situation, and the rootlessness that accompanied it. A century after Balfour, the strength of his declaration is grounded in the political understanding that Jews are indeed a nation. Zionism is thus Jewish nationalism in its purest form. Yet today, the word Zionism is unique. No other term for a national movement evokes such a visceral reaction. No other word has been infamously defined in the UN as “a form of racism and racial discrimination” by a coalition of racists led by the Soviet Union, as occurred in 1975. No other national movement has a global boycott movement aimed against it that positions itself on a moral pedestal and strives to rewrite history and control the definition of Zionism itself. Among the most pernicious consequences of the BDS movement is the wedge that has been driven between Israel and liberal Americans, including liberal American Jews. The relentless misappropriation of human rights and anti-racist discourse, the slanderous talk of Israeli “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide,” and the bitter ad hominem attacks on Israelis, their international supporters, and the peace process itself have taken a severe toll on American civil discourse. Jews and Israelis are now called upon to demonstrate their “moral fiber” by using their own Jewish identity as a vehicle to question Israel and its legitimacy. More perverse are the use of Jewishness to passionately make pleas for the Palestinian cause and the assertion that Jewishness is somehow based on pro-Palestinian beliefs as a “progressive” value. For Jews on the far Left, as for Arab Palestinians, the events of 1948 are the original sin. Seen through a colonialist prism, Western powers implanted a Jewish state in the Middle East to control the region. Jews, the true indigenous population, are cast as doubly illegitimate. Jewish apathy, religious ignorance, and the deliberate substitution of “social justice” for traditional Jewish liturgy account for the decline – and show the danger of placing antipathy towards the Jewish state of Israel at the center of religious belief. Historically, from before 1948 all the way through the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War, there was an appreciation of Israel – not only as the fulfillment of the ancient longing for return, but also as a haven. In the aftermath of the Holocaust the threat of annihilation was understood to be real. Moreover, Zionism was viewed as part and parcel of American Jewish identity, especially in the years leading up to 1967. There was no contradiction between being a liberal American and a Jew. Justice Louis Brandeis expressed this well: “Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism…There is no inconsistency between loyalty to America and loyalty to Jewry. The Jewish spirit, the product of our religion and experiences, is essentially modern and essentially American…Indeed, loyalty to America demands rather that each American Jew become a Zionist. For only through the ennobling effect of its striving can we develop the best that is in us and give to this country the full benefit of our great inheritance.” Albert Einstein had a similar appreciation for Zionism and the Jewish State: “Zionism springs from an even deeper motive than Jewish suffering. It is rooted in Jewish spiritual tradition, whose maintenance and development was for Jews the raison d’être of their continued existence as a community. In the re-establishment of the Jewish nation in the ancient home of the race, where Jewish spiritual values could again be developed in a Jewish atmosphere, the most enlightened representatives of Jewish individuality see the essential preliminary to the regeneration of the race and the setting free of its spiritual creativeness.” Both Brandeis and Einstein clearly understood the need to maintain and incorporate Zionism within their Jewish identity even if they did not agree with certain policies of the State of Israel and its leadership. The Zionism of 1948-1967 is not the Zionism of 2018; each generation needs to find its own form of Zionism. But eliminating Zionism in the name of Judaism negates Jewish history instead of embracing and remembering it. As Yigal Allon correctly stated, “Zionism is, in sum, the constant and unrelenting effort to realize the national and universal vision of the prophets of Israel.” Many of the problems faced by Israel at 70 are manifested within the Jewish community, above all a false distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. At the end of the day it will have to be understood that hatred of Israel can no longer be separated from loathing of Jews, even by Jews themselves. THE DISINTEGRATION OF AMERICAN JEWRY Arutz Sheva, May 1, 2018 American Jewry, apart from the Orthodox and a minority of committed non-Orthodox, is demographically imploding. Paradoxically, this is taking place at a time when support for Israel among the American people is at an all-time high and traditional anti-Semitism is at its lowest level. Jewish education among non-Orthodox Jews is catastrophic with widespread ignorance of Judaism and understanding about Israel. Assimilation is rampant with intermarriage levels reaching 70%. Although right-wing racist anti-Semitism has made headlines, the real threat emanates from the viciously anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic Left and the growing numbers of Muslim extremists. Under normal circumstances, a proud Jewish community supported by most Americans could neutralize these negative elements. However, the crisis is largely internal. In the past, American Jews, with valid historical justifications, have always had a penchant for liberalism. Their attachments to Israel and Judaism were synonymous and liberal political forces were Israel’s strongest supporters, while conservatives were less inclined to support the Jewish state. However, over the past two decades, the far Left has become viciously anti-Israeli, even supporting terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and depicting Israel as an imperialist occupier. This trend reached a climax under U.S. President Barack Obama, who made overtures to the Iranians and treated Israel politically as a rogue state. Aside from ZOA head, Morton Klein, not a single mainstream Jewish leader had the courage to stand up and protest Obama’s bias against Israel and his constant bracketing of Israeli defensive actions as morally equivalent to the actions of terrorists. Despite this, incredibly, aside from African-Americans, the Jews remained consistently Obama’s greatest supporters. When Donald Trump was elected president, the hatred manifested against him from the bulk of the Jewish leadership reached hysterical levels. Many of the so-called leaders intensified the anti-Israeli hysteria by falsely accusing Trump of fascism and even anti-Semitism – despite his Jewish friends and family members and outstanding support for Israel. In fact, the administration’s wholehearted ongoing support for the Jewish state even seemed to intensify their anti-Israeli inclinations. The Anti-Defamation League, headed by Jonathan Greenblatt, relinquished any pretense of being apolitical. It continuously lashed out against the administration and behaved like an extension of the extreme anti-Trump opposition. The ADL frequently seemed more inclined to defend Muslim extremists than Jews, maintaining that organizations like Canary Mission, which exposes anti-Semitism on college campuses, are Islamophobic and racist. It also ignored or dismissed much of the left-wing anti-Semitism and soft-pedaled its criticism of Black Lives Matter, an organization that accused Israel of ethnic cleansing and exaggerated the influence of far-right radicals, seeking to link them to Trump. The ADL also took upon itself to repeatedly condemn Israeli policies and the so-called “occupation.” The Reform movement leader, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, behaved similarly, usually with the support of leaders of the Conservative movement. Jacobs initially even condemned Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. In this environment, the anti-Israeli-government J Street was absurdly promoted by sectors of the establishment as a moderate and a legitimate vehicle to soften the more delusional Jewish groups openly seeking the demise of Israel and even defending Hamas. By remaining silent and appealing for tolerance even toward groups castigating Israel like Jewish Voice for Peace, the Jewish establishment created a defeatist climate, paving the way for the chaos currently prevailing in the Jewish community. This has impacted on large numbers of Jews, especially youth with virtually no Jewish education and for whom Israel has already become a marginal factor. In turn, this has strengthened the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and created an atmosphere in which it is chic for unaffiliated Jews to distance themselves from, or in some cases even publicly condemn, Israel. Twenty years ago, it would have been inconceivable to have any other than delusional Jewish fringe groups attacking Israel. Today, especially on campuses, it requires courage to even stand up against these perverted anti-Israeli Jews. These self-hating Jewish deviants have combined with Muslim extremists and the far Left to intimidate Jews committed to Israel, making life for them unbearable particularly on campuses. They are at the forefront of the BDS movement, deny Israeli spokesmen the right to speak, disrupt their lectures and support the depiction of Israel as an “apartheid state.” The extent of the madness is reflected in groups of Jewish radicals publicly reciting kaddish for Jihadist Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers defending their borders. Sadly, many Jewish leaders urge supporters of Israel to be tolerant of these hostile Jewish groups and, rather than confronting them, entreat them to engage in dialogue. Regrettably, many Hillel groups encourage and provide venues for such dialogue. It is hardly surprising that, in such an environment encouraged by the anti-Israeli media and the radical wing of the Democratic Party, whereas in the past Jewish support for Israel was almost a given, today the preponderance of liberal Jews – especially their leaders – feel awkward supporting Israel. Wishing to conform to their self-image as “enlightened,” in most cases they feel comfortable publicly condemning the Israeli government. The current, almost unprecedented unity of the Israeli people transcends politics over issues such as war and peace, defense of the borders and deterring terrorism, including the violent efforts by Hamas to breach Israel’s borders. This is ignored by many liberal American Jews living in an atmosphere in which they not only feel the need to conform and condemn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his democratically elected government but in many cases, go even further, castigating the IDF for allegedly responding disproportionately to terrorists who use human shields as a tactic in their warfare… WHY DO YOU HATE ISRAEL? Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Apr. 11, 2018 Why do you hate Israel more than any other nation? Why does Israel anger you more than any other nation does? Why do Israel’s military activities aggravate you and disturb your conscience and provoke you to outbursts of street protesting or Twitter-fury in a way that no other state’s military activities do? These are the questions that hang darkly over today’s so-called progressives. Which eat away at their self-professed moral authority, at their claims to be practitioners of fairness and equality. They are the questions to which no satisfactory answer has ever been given. So they niggle and fester, expertly avoided, or unconvincingly batted away, a black question mark over much of the modern left: why Israel? The question has returned in recent days, following violent clashes on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. Like clockwork, with a predictability that now feels just mostly depressing, these clashes that resulted in the deaths of many protesting Palestinians magically awoke an anti-imperialist, anti-war instinct among Western observers that was notably, stubbornly, mysteriously dormant when Turkey recently laid waste to the Kurdish town of Afrin or during any of the recent Western-backed Saudi barbarism visited upon the benighted people of Yemen. A member of the IDF raises his gun and suddenly the right-minded of the West switch off Spotify, take to Twitter, engage their emotional fury, and say: ‘NO.’ Their political lethargy lifts, their placards are dusted down, and they remember that war and violence are bad. They even go on to the streets, as people did in London and across Europe in recent days. This is evil, they declaim, and that question rises up again, silently, awkwardly, usually ignored: why is this evil but Turkey’s sponsored slaughter of hundreds of Kurdish civilians and fighters in Afrin was not? Why Israel? Israeli activity doesn’t only elicit a response from these campaigners where Turkish or Saudi or Syrian activity does not – it always elicits a visceral response. The condemnation of Israel is furious and intense, the language used about it is dark, strikingly different to the language used about any other state that engages in military activity. Israel is never just wrong or heavy-handed or a country that ‘foolishly rushes to war’, as protesters would say about Tony Blair and Iraq, and very occasionally about Obama and Libya, and, if they were pressed for an opinion, would probably say about the Turks and the Saudis, too. No, Israel is genocidal. It is a terrorist state, a rogue state, an apartheid state. It is mad, racist, ideological. It doesn’t do simple militarism – it does ‘bloodletting’; it derives some kind of pleasure from killing civilians, including children. As one observer said during the clashes at the Gaza border, Israel kills those whose only crime is to have been ‘born to non-Jewish mothers’. Israel hates. This Jewish State is the worst state, the most bloodthirsty state. Following the deaths of 18 Palestinians on the Gaza border, Glenn Greenwald denounced Israel as an ‘apartheid, rogue, terrorist state’, like a man reaching for as many ways as possible to say ‘evil’. One left-wing group says Israel’s behaviour at the Gaza border confirms it is enforcing a ‘slow genocide’ on the Palestinians. The ‘scale of the bloodletting’ is horrifying, says one radical writer. Israel loves to draw blood. A writer for Al-Jazeera says the clashes are a reminder that Israel has turned Gaza into ‘the biggest concentration camp on the surface of the Earth’, and that question, that unanswerable, or certainly unanswered, question, rises up once more: why is Gaza a concentration camp but Yemen, which has been subject to a barbaric sea, land and air blockade since 2015 that has resulted in devastating shortages of food and medicine, causing famine and the rampant spread of diseases like cholera, is not? By any measurement, the blockade on Yemen is worse than any restrictions that have been placed on Gaza. People in Gaza are not starving to death or contracting cholera in their tens of thousands, as Yemenis are. Yet Gaza is a concentration camp while Yemen, when they can be bothered to comment on it, is a war zone… Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2018 One of the most influential Middle East scholars, Bernard Lewis, died Saturday, two weeks short of his 102nd birthday, in Voorhees Township, New Jersey. Lewis, who will be buried at the Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv on Thursday, had a major impact on US foreign policy, particularly under the presidency of George W. Bush. He briefed vice president Dick Cheney and defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld before the invasion of Iraq in 2003. His phrase, “the clash of civilizations,” was made famous by American political scientist Samuel Huntington, who argued that cultural and religious identities would be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War era. Lewis attributed the 9/11 attacks to a decaying Islamic civilization that enabled extremists such as al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to conduct an international terrorist campaign. The solution to the growing problems of fundamentalist Islamic ideology was, in a word, democracy. “Either we bring them freedom, or they destroy us,” Lewis wrote. In many ways he was a modern-day prophet, although he was sometimes wrong and was often accused by his academic colleagues of being Eurocentric. “For some, I’m the towering genius,” Lewis told The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2012. “For others, I’m the devil incarnate.” He warned in 2006 that Iran had been working on a nuclear program for some 15 years. But he wrongly predicted that Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could be planning an apocalyptic attack, perhaps against Israel, on August 22, to coincide with Muhammad’s night flight to Jerusalem. As Israel deliberates again whether to recognize the Armenian Genocide, it is timely to recall that in the first editions of his well-known book, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, Lewis described that genocide as “the terrible holocaust of 1915, when a million and a half Armenians perished.” In later editions, he changed the text to “the terrible slaughter of 1915, when, according to estimates, more than a million Armenians perished, as well as an unknown number of Turks.” Critics accused him of “historical revisionism.” In a visit to The Jerusalem Post in 2007, the London- born Lewis eloquently discussed the situation in an interview with then-editor David Horovitz and reporter Tovah Lazaroff. He predicted that one way for Muslims to alleviate their growing rage would be “to win some large victories, which could happen. They seem to be about to take over Europe.” Lewis was asked what that meant for Jews in Europe. “The outlook for the Jewish communities in Europe is dim,” he replied. “Soon, the only pertinent question regarding Europe’s future will be, ‘Will it be an Islamized Europe or Europeanized Islam?’” In reviewing Lewis’s 2010 collection of essays – Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East – Post International Edition editor Liat Collins pertinently noted a line of thought appearing throughout the essays was that the Western concept of separating church and state was not compatible with Islam. “The emergence of a population, many millions strong, of Muslims born and educated in Western Europe will have immense and unpredictable consequences for Europe, for Islam and for the relations between them,” Lewis wrote. Collins commented: “I don’t want to hear a ‘Told you so’ so much as an update in the wake of the current mass migration to Europe’s shores.” Although he didn’t get everything right – who can? – Collins added that his special touches are well-worth noting, such as this classic quotation: “In America one uses money to buy power, while in the Middle East, one uses power to acquire money.”… Bernard Lewis, Influential Scholar of Islam, Is Dead at 101: Douglas Martin, New York Times, May 21, 2018—Bernard Lewis, an eminent historian of Islam who traced the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to a declining Islamic civilization, a controversial view that influenced world opinion and helped shape American foreign policy under President George W. Bush, died on Saturday in Voorhees Township, N.J. He was 101. An Open Letter to Natalie Portman: Amichai Shikli, Jerusalem Post, May 21, 2018—It would take more than one infuriating statement to make me lose my deep affection for Natalie Portman. She’s talented, gorgeous and genteel – but in the present case, she happens to be wrong and misleading. I’m not bothered by the fact that she’s given BDS – a movement that has lost its momentum and vitality and is doomed to failure – further ammunition with which to attack Israel. Why the Left Buys Into Every Anti-Israel Smear: Gil Troy, New York Post, May 20, 2018—Eight armed Hamas terrorists fought Israeli troops last Monday. All were killed — then counted in the day’s death toll of “60 protesters.” Hamas itself identified 50 of the 60 “martyrs” as Hamas members and admitted to “terminological deception,” because it was deploying “peaceful resistance bolstered by a military force.” Cornell Student Presents Senior Thesis In Her Underwear: Dennis Prager, Townhall, May 15, 2018—The most remarkable thing about the title of this column, “Cornell student presents senior thesis in her underwear” is that not one reader thinks it’s a joke. That, my friends, is further proof of the low esteem in which most Americans hold our universities. Tagged as BDS, Jewish World, universities IRAN’S NUCLEAR GOALS AND “MISCHIEF” IN SYRIA, LEBANON, IRAQ, & YEMEN THREATEN U.S. ALLIES Calm, Poised and a Steady Hand: Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 5, 2018— May is going to be quite the month for US President Donald Trump. Trump and the Fading Ghost of an Illusion.: Amir Taheri, Gatestone Institute, Apr. 1, 2018— Does the appointment of John Bolton as National Security Adviser indicate President Trump’s determination to formally renounce the so-called “nuclear deal” concocted by his predecessor Barack Obama? The Return of Imperialism: The Islamic Republic of Iran: Prof. Hillel Frisch, BESA, Apr. 4, 2018— After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Francis Fukuyama, in a widely publicized book, announced the ultimate triumph of liberal democracy and with it the strong prospect of a longstanding democratic peace. Iran’s Role in the Boycott Israel Campaign: Asaf Romirowsky & Benjamin Weinthal, National Interest, Mar. 15, 2018— The Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement, better known by the acronym BDS, targeting Israel has largely been viewed as a Palestinian- and Western European-driven campaign with the alleged goal of advancing Palestinian statehood. US Pro-Iran Lobby’s Attack on NSA Pick John Bolton Highlighted by Tehran Regime’s Official Media: Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, Mar. 23, 2018 Can the Iran Deal Be Fixed? And Should it Be?: Omri Ceren, Commentary, Mar. 15, 2018 Iranian Nuclear Weapons and ‘Palestine’ — Twin Dangers for Israel: Louis René Beres, Algemeiner, Mar. 29, 2018 Saudi Crown Prince, on U.S. Visit, Urges Tough Line on Iran: Ben Hubbard, New York Times, Mar. 27, 2018 CALM, POISED AND A STEADY HAND Yaakov Katz Jerusalem Post, Apr. 5, 2018 May is going to be quite the month for US President Donald Trump. At some point in the coming weeks, he is expected to sit down for a historic tête-à-tête with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. Around the same time, on May 12, he will come up against the deadline for the Iran nuclear deal. And then there is the planned transfer of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on May 15 as well as a proposal to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the White House has been working on for the past year. While the Palestinians’ recent anti-American rhetoric made it seem like the proposal had been shelved, the administration is claiming that the plan is still in the works. When will it be presented? That remains to be seen. Even for Trump – a man who prides himself on being a brilliant deal-maker – this is a lot to handle. Most presidents would choose one or two massive foreign policy challenges of similar scale to tackle throughout their entire presidency, let alone in the span of just a few weeks. For Israel, the issue of utmost concern right now is Iran. On the one hand, there is complete agreement within Israel’s defense and political echelons that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran is bad. It gave the Iranians astounding financial breaks and left them with almost all of their nuclear infrastructure in place. Once the deal’s sunset clauses kick in, Iran’s breakout time to a bomb will be just a few weeks. On the other hand, there is no arguing the fact that the deal has given Israel a respite. Just a few years ago, the government appeared on the verge of ordering an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. With that threat postponed, the IDF has been able to spend the last few years honing its capabilities ahead of an eventual confrontation while investing in other fronts and needs. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a vocal proponent of seeing America pull out of the nuclear deal, the question is whether he – or anyone for that matter – knows what will happen the day after. Trump is trying to use the threat of America’s pending withdrawal from the accord as leverage to negotiate a newer and better agreement that will, for example, place restrictions on Iran’s ballistic missile program, its regional aspirations and the problematic sunset clauses. The Europeans warn that the chances of that happening are slim. The French and German foreign ministers came to Jerusalem recently to explain to Netanyahu that Iran will not agree to a new deal and that if America pulls out, so will Iran. If that happens, they warned, the only way left to stop Iran will be with military force, and who has the appetite for that? What Europe might not be taking into account though is the possibility that Netanyahu has received assurances from Trump that he will attack Iran if it leaves the deal and begins racing toward a bomb. It is possible that if Iran withdraws and begins enriching uranium to military grade levels, the “fire and fury” Trump once threatened North Korea with, will be diverted to Iran. But what if that doesn’t happen? What if Trump decides to nix the deal but then fails to follow through with tough negotiations or the threat of military force? Is Israel better off with the deal gone and Iran an even greater threat, or not? What if Trump connects the peace process to the nuclear deal and tells Netanyahu that he will happily take care of Iran, but only if Israel ensures progress on the Palestinian track? This would be the revival of the famous “Bushehr-for-Yitzhar” deal – Bushehr is the site of some of Iran’s nuclear reactors, and Yitzhar is a settlement in Samaria – that Barack Obama reportedly offered Netanyahu in late 2009. Under that deal, Obama was supposed to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program would be stopped, and Israel would, in exchange, facilitate the establishment of a Palestinian state. The deal, of course, never materialized. A Palestinian state was never established and the 2015 nuclear deal failed to completely stop Iran’s race to the bomb. Is Trump planning such linkage between Iran and the Palestinians? It remains to be seen, although the timing of how this all plays out could be a sign of what is coming. Just days after making a decision on Iran, the US will hold a ceremony marking the moving of its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Some security cabinet members are nervous of what will come next. As one member told me recently: “Even between friends, there never really is a free lunch.” Whatever happens, Trump is going to have his hands full in the coming weeks. For any of these efforts to work – North Korea, Iran or the Israel-Palestinian peace process – the president will need to be personally involved, become intimately familiar with all of the details, and be prepared to use the full weight of his office when necessary. Israel is just one piece on the presidential chessboard. It might seem that Israel and the US are aligned as never before, but Netanyahu will need to be careful to ensure Israel’s interests are not disregarded. As demonstrated by Trump’s surprising and off-the-cuff announcement last week that he plans to withdraw US forces from Syria, Netanyahu already knows that, with this president, anything is possible… TRUMP AND THE FADING GHOST OF AN ILLUSION Amir Taheri Gatestone Institute, Apr. 1, 2018 Does the appointment of John Bolton as National Security Adviser indicate President Trump’s determination to formally renounce the so-called “nuclear deal” concocted by his predecessor Barack Obama? The common answer of the commentariat is a resounding yes. Long before Trump promised to tear-up the deal, Bolton was on record denouncing it as an ugly example of appeasement. Thus, next May, when the “deal” comes up for its periodical renewal, President Trump’s idea of “tearing up a bad deal” is likely to have broader support in his administration. And that seems to be exactly what Tehran is expecting. In fact, just days after Bolton’s appointment, the spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency, Behruz Kamalvand, broke a year of silence to boast about ambitious new plans for speeding up and expanding the Islamic Republic’s nuclear project. The buzz in Tehran is that the ruling establishment expects Trump to refuse to sign another waiver linked to the “deal” and, perhaps order a tightening of the existing sanctions. However, Tehran seems determined to continue its formal commitment to the “deal” as part of a strategy to drive a wedge between the Europeans and a Trump administration already unpopular in the old continent. Tehran’s calculation is that the mid-term elections in the US may deprive Trump of crucial Congressional support and pave the way for his defeat in the following presidential election. Thus the wisest course is to keep everyone focused on the nuclear issue that the Europeans, and part of the political establishment in the US, believe they have solved thanks to the “deal,” while the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) continues its 20-year long equivocation on the issue. Only Iran really knows its own intentions on that score. Iran is right in saying that it is not producing nuclear weapons. What Iran is doing is to set up all the technical, industrial and material means needed to produce such weapons, if and when it decides to do so. While not producing nuclear weapons now, Iran has a program designed to make such weapons within months. It is like a chef who brings in all that is needed for making a soup but does not actually start the cooking until he knows when the guests will be coming. In the past three decades Iran has trained and deployed the scientists and technicians needed, built the research centers required, and set up structures for a complete nuclear cycle, from raw materials to the finished product. Part of the Iranian national defense doctrine is based on the capacity to produce and deploy nuclear weapons within a brief time span. Before the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran regarded its northern neighbor, the nuclear “super-power” Soviet Union, as the sole serious threat to its national security. The assumption was that in case of a Soviet invasion, Iran should be in a position to use tactical nuclear weapons while waiting for the great American ally to ride to the rescue. After the mullahs seized power, Iran’s national defense doctrine was based on the assumption that it will, one day, fight a war with the United States plus its Arab allies and/or Israel. The central assumption of Iranian strategists is that the US cannot sustain a long war. It is, therefore, necessary to pin down its forces and raise the kill-die ratio to levels unacceptable by the American public. In the meantime, Iran would put its nuclear-weapons program in high gear, and brandish the threat of nuclear war as a means of forcing the US to accept a ceasefire and withdraw from whatever chunk of Iranian territory they may have seized. Former President Hashemi Rafsanjani publicly evoked the possibility of using nuclear weapons against Washington’s regional allies, especially Israel. “In a nuclear duel in the region, Israel may kill 100 million Muslims,” Rafsanjani said in a speech in Tehran in October 2000. “Muslims can sustain such casualties, knowing that, in exchange, there would be no Israel on the map.” Iran’s top military commanders also speak about a military clash with the United States as the only serious threat to the Khomeinist regime in Tehran. They believe they have three trump cards to play. The first is that Iran has a demographic reserve of some 20 million people of “fighting age” and is thus capable of sustaining levels of casualties unthinkable for Americans. The second is that Iran is already the missile superpower of the Middle East and could target all of Washington’s allies in the region. Iran’s third trump card is its nuclear program. Without it, the other two cards will not have the desired effect, especially if the US unleashes its new generation of low-grade nuclear weapons designed for battlefield use. The real issue, as far as US and its allies are concerned, is that the regime in Iran has been, is and most likely will remain, a threat with or without nuclear weapons. Iran did not seize the US diplomats as hostages with nuclear weapons; nor did it massacre 241 US Marines in Beirut with an atomic bomb. The mischief that Iran is making in Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and Bahrain is not backed by nuclear power either. So the real question is: How to deal with a maverick power that has built its strategy on fomenting discord and instability not only in the Middle East but anywhere else it gets a chance? Washington hawks, among them Bolton perhaps, believe that the only realistic policy towards Iran is one of regime change before the Khomeinists build their nuclear arsenal. They believe that could be achieved with a mixture of military and diplomatic pressure, combined with moral and material support for a pro-democracy movement in Iran. The Europeans, however, fear that any attempt even at soft regime-change may push the Khomeinists on the offensive in Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, Iraq, the Caucasus, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories. Could a realistic policy be developed through a sober assessment of both positions? If yes, that would requires far more sophistication than the “to waiver or not to waiver” debate over what is; in fact; the fading ghost of an accord wrought from dangerous illusions. THE RETURN OF IMPERIALISM: THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN Prof. Hillel Frisch BESA, Apr. 4, 2018 After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Francis Fukuyama, in a widely publicized book, announced the ultimate triumph of liberal democracy and with it the strong prospect of a longstanding democratic peace. He called it, in a moment of hubris, the end of history. The wars in the Balkans (the first to take place in continental Europe since WWII) and the wide-scale ethnic and religious massacres that accompanied them, followed by the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington DC, severely dented this vision. It was probably laid to rest altogether with the rise of Putin in 1999 and the return of geopolitics on Europe’s fringes in the war with Georgia in 2009, Putin’s assault on eastern Ukraine in 2014, and his troops’ bold annexation of Crimea the same year. Putin has contributed greatly towards pulling the world back to the twentieth century after the illusions it harbored about what the 21st century was likely to be. The same can be said of Beijing as its policy of peaceful engagement gave way to an assertion of power in in the China Seas. Both Russia and China have seriously alarmed their neighbors and other states. It seems, however, that the world might be reverting further backward than one century. It is regressing back to the Age of Imperialism, only this time the major catalyst is eastern, not western; Muslim, not Christian; Shiite, not (predominantly) Protestant; “radical”, not conservative. The Islamic Republic of Iran, which ranks only 17th in terms of economic output in the world, is hardly a major power. It hovers somewhere around the same score in terms of scientific contributions (barring patents, which it largely keeps in-house for military purposes). Yet it is demonstrating almost daily its imperialist reach in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Gaza, and is developing ballistic capabilities to threaten Europe. The reader may be puzzled. How is Iran different from Russia, China, and the US? The answer lies in focus, capabilities, and responsibility. China’s and Russia’s assertions of power are focused on land and seas contiguous to their borders. Relative to its capabilities, Russia’s recent foray in Syria is a minor affair justified in some sense by a desire to fight jihadists, many of whom came from the Caucuses, which are part of the Russian Federation. Russia is also a player in the great power game. If the US felt compelled to fight ISIS, Russia had to take part to check American power in the area. All three powers, especially the US and China, have far-flung interests that necessitate a presence worldwide. It is the role of the US in preserving the freedom of the seas, so indispensable to global trade, that leads to tensions between China and the US and its allies. These powers have the responsibility and capabilities (one hopes) to resolve their many issues of contention. Iran is different in that it is the only country whose focus is on political, military, and terrorist intervention and involvement in areas beyond its contiguous borders against states that have not struck the homeland. Israel, the state it vows to destroy, never wanted a fight with the Islamic State of Iran. Not only is it not in the Jewish tradition to tell other states how they should be ruled, but a strong lobby within Israel believed for many years that Iran would renew ties for mutual benefit, as it did in the days of the Shah. So strong was this conviction that Israel allegedly sold weapons to Iran during its protracted war with Iraq. Yet it was the Islamic Republic of Iran that created Hezbollah in faraway Lebanon to fight Israel and which today threatens the Jewish state with 100,000 missiles. It has placed its launching sites in the homes of Lebanese villagers and townspeople. Naturally, these villagers, along with the Israeli civilian population, are at great risk. Prior to the Syrian civil war, the Assad regime – while allied with Iran – placed limitations on an Iranian military presence in Syria. Now that the Assad regime has been weakened, Iran is exploiting the new dynamic to transform Syria into another Lebanon. Imported Shiite militias under Iranian Revolutionary guidance and command create missile sites similar to those in Lebanon. Terrorist activity is being increased, and munitions factories and forward bases are being established inside Syria and along the border of the northern Golan. Israel vows to stop Iran and is probably behind the “unidentified” air attacks, the most recent a massive one, to prevent Iran from realizing its immediate objective… IRAN’S ROLE IN THE BOYCOTT ISRAEL CAMPAIGN Asaf Romirowsky & Benjamin Weinthal National Interest, Mar. 15, 2018 The Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement, better known by the acronym BDS, targeting Israel has largely been viewed as a Palestinian- and Western European-driven campaign with the alleged goal of advancing Palestinian statehood. Yet the Islamic Republic of Iran’s key role in stoking the BDS movement has increasingly become a key factor in economic warfare against the Jewish state. All of this helps to explain why it is often important, as a counter-terrorism project, to decipher the BDS movement. Take, for example, Iran’s efforts to promote genocidal anti-Israel sentiment in Europe: the annual al-Quds Day rallies, which were called into global action in 1979 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of Iran’s theocracy, urges individuals to support the BDS movement and the destruction of Israel. Al-Quds Day rallies blanket European cities such as Berlin, London and Vienna. Iranian-backed Islamists have no qualms about marching together with an amalgam of neo-Nazis, German political leftists and supporters of the U.S.- and EU-designated terrorist entity the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Iranian regime-owned Islamic Center of Hamburg charters buses with Iranian regime and Hezbollah supporters to travel to Berlin to march in the al-Quds Day rally. Since 1996, there have been twenty-one al-Quds Day marches in the German capital. Hamidreza Torabi, an Iranian religious leader who has called for Israel’s elimination at the rallies, heads the Islamic Academy of Germany—part of the Iranian regime-owned Islamic Center of Hamburg. At the 2016 rally, he held a poster urging the “rejection of Israel” and calling the Jewish state “illegal and criminal.” The Berlin government has made half-hearted efforts to rope in the pro-Iran regime mini-movement by banning Hezbollah flags at the rallies. Berlin’s state government refuses to outlaw all of Hezbollah. It is worth recalling that the United States, Israel, the Arab League, Canada and the Netherlands have outlawed all of Hezbollah. The European Union has merely proscribed Hezbollah’s so-called military-wing as a terrorist organization, leaving the organization free to recruit, raise funds and otherwise operate in most of the EU. Hezbollah—a wholly-owned Iranian subsidiary—uses its organizational presence to expand the BDS movement in Europe. Iran’s grassroots campaign to shape European and American opinion is not limited to demonstrations. In 2016, the Bavarian city of Bayreuth awarded 10,000 euros to a U.S.-based activist group—Code Pink—that supports a boycott of the Jewish state and has participated in a conference in Iran with Holocaust deniers. The women’s organization Code Pink has gone to great lengths to defend Iran’s regime. In January, the Israeli government banned representatives of Code Pink and an additional nineteen BDS organizations from entering the country because of their campaign to dismantle Israel. A second NGO—the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL)—an entity set up by the now-defunct Soviet Union—supports the BDS movement while providing a legal defense for the Iranian regime’s controversial nuclear program.The U.S.-based bank Comerica terminated the bank account of the IADL after its connections to Iran and the BDS movement were exposed in the media. ​Moreover, on the grassroot donor involvement front, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) has played a role in promoting the nuclear deal with Iran, especially since Stephen Heintz became its president in 2001 and looked to involve RBF in “peace building/making” through fostering ties between Washington and Tehran. RBF at large has been a staunch supporter of the BDS movement with its support of the organizations Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Breaking the Silence. It is worth to note that JVP has been designated as one of the groups that are forbidden from entering Israel today given their work to destroy the country… US Pro-Iran Lobby’s Attack on NSA Pick John Bolton Highlighted by Tehran Regime’s Official Media: Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, Mar. 23, 2018—An Iranian official news agency on Friday highlighted the furious response of a Washington, DC-based pro-Tehran lobbying organization to the announcement that John Bolton will replace Gen. H.R. McMaster as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser. Can the Iran Deal Be Fixed? And Should it Be?: Omri Ceren, Commentary, Mar. 15, 2018—President Trump and his administration are approaching a make-or-break May deadline for deciding whether to stay in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Lawmakers, analysts, and journalists have been struggling to reestablish something approaching a healthy debate in the aftermath of the factitious salesmanship of the Obama “echo chamber.” Iranian Nuclear Weapons and ‘Palestine’ — Twin Dangers for Israel: Louis René Beres, Algemeiner, Mar. 29, 2018—Although difficult to calibrate or measure, Iranian nuclearization and Palestinian statehood are likely progressing at roughly the same pace. To be sure, this coincident or near-simultaneous progression is proceeding without any dint of conscious intent or coordinated design. Saudi Crown Prince, on U.S. Visit, Urges Tough Line on Iran: Ben Hubbard, New York Times, Mar. 27, 2018—Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia has renewed his attack on the Iran nuclear deal during a visit to the United States, saying the agreement would delay but not prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Tagged as BDS, Iran, Peace process, Trump WITH PALESTINIAN “HOUSE OF CARDS” UNDER THREAT, BDS SEEKS ELIMINATION OF ISRAEL The Speech in Which Abbas Dug His Own Grave: Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Arutz Sheva, Jan. 15, 2018 — Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, has delivered a speech triggered by his rage at the President of the United States Donald Trump… Having Missed the Boat, Palestinian Authority Is Sinking: Charles Bybelezer, The Media Line, Jan. 15, 2018— Given the turbulent political climate, one wonders whether Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has any regrets and, if so, if he would gladly roll back time a decade. The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Seeks the Destruction of Israel, Not a Two-State Peace with Palestinians: Patrick Dunleavy, Fox News, Jan. 18, 2018— The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement pretends to be working toward peace between Israel and the Palestinians, but in reality many of its supporters want to destroy Israel as a Jewish state. Middle East Studies Association (as Usual) Singles Out Israel for Attack, Excuses Palestinian Perfidy: Mitchell Bard, Algemeiner, Jan. 3, 2018 — The Middle East Studies Association gave up all pretense of being a scholarly organization when it was taken over by the followers of Edward Said in the 1980s… 99 Percent of “Palestine Refugees” Are Fake: Daniel Pipes, Jewish Press, Jan. 17, 2018 How a U.S. Quaker Group That Won the Nobel Peace Prize Ended Up on Israel's BDS Blacklist: Allison Kaplan Sommer, Ha’aretz, Jan. 8, 2018 Professor Claims Antisemitism and ‘Islamophobia’ Are Equal Threats: Cinnamon Stillwell, Algemeiner, Jan. 11, 2018 Academic Freedom Goes on Trial: George F. Will, Washington Post, Dec. 29, 2017 THE SPEECH IN WHICH ABBAS DUG HIS OWN GRAVE Dr. Mordechai Kedar Arutz Sheva, Jan. 15, 2018 Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, has delivered a speech triggered by his rage at the President of the United States Donald Trump, going so far as to hurl the most bitter curse in the Arabic language at the POTUS: "May your house be destroyed." This imprecation does not merely relate to someone's present home, but to all the members of his family being thrown into the street to lead lives of destitution, humiliation and shame. Only someone familiar with Middle Eastern culture understands the real significance of this curse. The question that naturally rises is what happened that brought Abbas to the point where he is willing to burn his bridges with the US President and deliver a speech whose import is the severing of relations with the country which serves as chief funder of UNRWA, also pushing the US president towards a negative stand on the "Palestinian Issue." "Jerusalem, Capital of Palestine," is an idea created after the Six Day War and further developed after the Oslo Accords were signed in September 1993. Arafat turned it into a mantra, while official Israel – Shimon Peres, Yossi Beilin, Alon Liel and their cohorts – did nothing to stop him. They told us that the expression is meant for a Palestinian Arab audience, i.e. for "internal use" only. "Millions of shahids are on the march to Jerusalem!!" Arafat shouted day and night, but they told us to ignore it, that these were empty words, merely a pipe dream. The world, led by Europe, went along with this Palestinian house of cards, financing it with billions of dollars over the years in the hopes of turning it into a real concrete structure, simply ignoring reality. Europe supported the establishment of a "Palestinian peace-loving state alongside Israel" while forgetting the fact that the PLO ideology calls for destroying the Jewish State and that its logo includes the map of that "Palestine" reaching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. The world perpetuated the "Palestinian refugee problem" despite the fact that not one refugee remains of all the others who existed in the 1940s. Even Germany, which absorbed and rehabilitated the Sudetenland residents expelled from Czechoslovakia, did not demand that the Arab world do the same and absorb the "Palestinian refugees," whose problem was created as a result of the Arab armies' invasion of Israel one day after the Jewish State declared its independence. Europe saw Germany as the party responsible for the Sudeten refugee problem and its solution, but did not do the same for the Arab states and the Palestinian refugees. That double standard is what perpetuated the Palestinian Arab refugee problem, turning it into a central bargaining chip in negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, reaching the point where Ehud Barak agreed (in the Taba talks of 2001) to a "symbolic return" of tens of thousands of those refugees – and he was not the only one to agree to this idea. The world did not recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and allowed Jerusalem to turn into another major bargaining chip in the "Peace talks" whose only purpose – at least according to the Arab side – was to weaken and shrink the State of Israel and bring it to a state of collapse that would make the Jews lose hope and leave the region for the countries they had lived in before they came to rebuild their ancient homeland. Enter Donald Trump, a businessman who deals with construction – not houses built of cards, but the kind meant to last for generations. He understood that the Palestinian structure is made of cards, left standing only because of the world's going along with European leadership, American liberal circles, the Arab states and a few Israelis suffering from burn-out. Trump understood that the Palestinian ideological structure is full of holes and decided to pull two foundational cards out of the ephemeral structure: the Jerusalem card and the refugee card. From the minute Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital the Palestinians – both Hamas and the PLO – began engaging in frenzied activities, disturbances on the ground and political maneuvering in international corridors. They understood that Jerusalem as Israel's capital is an insurance policy of sorts for the Jewish state. To the Jews, Jerusalem is real, backed up by history and the Jewish religion, while it is nothing but "fake news" for the Arab and Muslim world. Jerusalem, however, is still not the capital of a non-established "Palestine" and remains a theoretical bone of contention, so that it could be pulled out of the Palestinian house of cards without Abbas burning his bridges with the United States. And then Trump pulled the refugee card from the house of cards by announcing that he would cease to fund, support and perpetuate it. That act is a thousand times worse than recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, because the refugee issue has been capitalized on for seventy years, with billions of dollars poured into it, all going to waste. UNRWA operates a massive system of wage-earners, schools and aid services running on American money, whose cessation is sure to limit the organizations' ability to breathe life into the "refugee problem". Without adequate funding, the "refugees" are liable to spread out and be absorbed in the areas to which they move on, within the Arab world and outside it. The "refugee problem" and its threat to Israel might even disappear… HAVING MISSED THE BOAT, PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY IS SINKING Charles Bybelezer The Media Line, Jan. 15, 2018 Given the turbulent political climate, one wonders whether Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has any regrets and, if so, if he would gladly roll back time a decade. In 2008, the PA boss was firmly entrenched in Ramallah despite a year earlier having been unceremoniously—that is, violently—ejected by Hamas from Gaza in an internecine war. Nevertheless, the world was seemingly at Abbas’ doorstep, his Muqata compound the address where kings, heads of state and a never-ending parade of diplomats flocked to with a view to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, considered at the time by many as the central malaise plaguing the Middle East. It was within this context that then-Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert offered Abbas a fully comprehensive peace deal that would have created a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, with only minor land swaps, and with east Jerusalem as its capital. A limited—read: symbolic—number of Palestinian refugees would have been allowed to “return” to Israel. But when Olmert, after a score of meetings, urged Abbas to sign on the dotted line, the PA leader said he needed to consult with other officials but never got back to the Israeli premier. Sometime later, Abbas was the first of his colleagues to receive a phone call from newly-inaugurated U.S. President Barack Obama, who vowed to put “daylight” between Washington and Jerusalem. This manifested in pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to implement an unprecedented ten-month construction freeze in Jewish communities located in the West Bank. But Abbas still refused to negotiate for the first nine months of the building suspension and, when he finally did, demanded that the policy be renewed indefinitely. It was an untenable political situation for Netanyahu precluding the possibility of talks getting off the ground. This pattern repeated itself during Obama’s second term, when a new initiative, spearheaded by then-secretary of state John Kerry, forced Netanyahu to release, in four tranches, more than 100 terrorists from Israeli jails. But once again Abbas found a pretext to walk away from the peace process. By then, the Middle East had descended into total chaos in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring, while Shiite Iran was flexing its muscles throughout the region. The outbreak of wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and beyond had little to do with Israel or solving Palestinian “problem,” effectively marginalizing the conflict. This confluence of events, in turn, stimulated a rapprochement between Sunni Muslim nations and the Jewish state, which share a desire both to curb Tehran’s expansionism and potential nuclearization and counter the threat posed by terrorist groups such as the Islamic State. As the geopolitical situation slowly changed, countries that previously supported the Palestinians unconditionally no longer viewed matters in shades of black and white, but, rather, increasingly in blue and white; this, prompted by a growing acknowledgment that Israel, as opposed to the PA, has much to offer to regimes that likewise view the Islamic Republic as an existential threat. Enter U.S. President Donald Trump, who is perhaps the least ideological—and unpredictable—American leader in history. While his White House has invested political capital into jump-starting the peace process, President Trump is not to be beholden to any preconceived notions nor does he appear willing to pander to Palestinian sensibilities. This was made stark by his recognition in December of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, to which the Palestinians reacted with unhinged fury. Instead of accepting the new playing field and adapting, the PA adopted a scorched-earth policy, effectively boycotting Washington and threatening to withdraw recognition of Israel, thereby abrogating the Oslo Accords. This, notwithstanding the apparent tacit acceptance by Arab states of President Trump’s Jerusalem declaration, and while the U.S. Congress moves to cut-off aid to the PA over its “pay-for-slay” policy of disbursing salaries to Palestinian prisoners. Domestically, the situation is not much better, with a recent survey showing that some seventy percent of Palestinians want Abbas to resign. Under his rule, the PA has lost legitimacy within the eyes of its people, who near-uniformly view the leadership as a corrupt kleptocracy unable to advance their interests. Specifically, the West Bank economy is completely underdeveloped and the territory lacks almost all of the basic infrastructure of a functioning state despite the tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid that have flooded into the PA’s coffers. Moreover, the Palestinians remain divided between the West Bank and Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, with the latest attempts to forge national unity, like those before them, having thus far amounted to nothing. According to Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Gilead, formerly the director of policy and political-military affairs at the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the PA leader does not believe that his positions are being adequately considered, leading to increased inflexibility as his days become numbered. “This may be the last call, as Abbas is very old and has said he may not be here next year. So it looks like there is no hope for the peace process. “Abbas may not take any concrete steps moving forward,” Gilead expounded, “but he does not have to. He is telling us what his legacy will be. As such, Israel should reconsider its positions and try to find way to forge a peace agreement with him or it may need to abandon the process entirely. Nobody knows who or what will come after Abbas and whether they will have the legitimacy to deal with Israel. It is bad news that it appears as though he will be leaving no options for peace.” Abbas has found himself stuck between a rock and a hard place, and while European nations, along with Russia and China, may agree to step in and fill part of the vacuum left by the U.S., without the firm backing of Sunni countries, who are closely aligned with Washington, there appears little chance for the PA to secure a soft landing. “Abbas appears to be desperate,” Dr. Anat Kurz, Director of Research at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies and a former member of track-II Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, told The Media Line. “He is shooting in all directions and acting as if there is nothing to lose with the American administration or in terms of resuming talks with Israel. The Palestinians feel as though they have lost the ability to influence the course of developments,” she elaborated, “not only because it appears the international community is exhausted after years of failed efforts to forge a settlement, but also because of what has happened in the region, mainly the ongoing tensions between the Sunni Gulf monarchies and Shiite Iran. “There are also the wars going on throughout the Middle East,” Kurz concluded, “which has lessened the importance of the Palestinian issue. Given all of these elements, Abbas does not know who to turn to or how to proceed.”… THE ANTI-ISRAEL BDS MOVEMENT SEEKS THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL, NOT A TWO-STATE PEACE WITH PALESTINIANS Patrick Dunleavy Fox News, Jan. 18, 2018 The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement pretends to be working toward peace between Israel and the Palestinians, but in reality many of its supporters want to destroy Israel as a Jewish state. For this reason, BDS has attracted support from terrorists, convicted killers and anti-Semites in the U.S. and abroad. In fact, at many of BDS demonstrations – like ones filmed by the Investigative Project on Terrorism – demonstrators make no secret of their aims. “And the people of Palestine will wipe the Zionist entity (Israel) off all the world maps” one demonstration leader shouts on the IPT-recorded video. On the same video demonstrators chant: “We don’t want no two-state, we want 48,” referring to 1948, before Israel was created from the British colony of Palestine. And for good measure, they chant: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” meaning a new Palestinian state will go from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and swallow up all of Israel. And yet other chants: “Death to the peace accords,” “smash the settler Zionist state,” and “there is only one solution, intifada revolution.” Law enforcement officials in the U.S. should keep a close eye on demonstrators like these, knowing that inflammatory anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric often leads to violence. The New York City Police Department and other law enforcement agencies have investigated a number of plots directed specifically at Jewish citizens and institutions. BDS seeks to isolate Israel from world, ostensibly to protest Israel’s presence in the West Bank and to call for creation of a Palestinian state. BDS seeks: a worldwide boycott against Israeli products, universities and cultural institutions; divestment from companies that provide equipment to the Israeli military; and international economic sanctions against Israel. The willingness of young leaders of many BDS-supporting groups, such as the Blacks for Palestine, to look to violent terrorists for support exposes BDS’s claim of a commitment to nonviolence as a fraud. Several U.S. domestic terrorists who are now serving life prison sentences for killing law enforcement officers have announced their support for BDS with the goal of destroying Israel. Inmates such as Herman Bell, Anthony Bottom, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Clark Edward Squire – who were members of the Black Liberation Army – as well as the Weather Underground’s David Gilbert, have posted statements calling for the end of “US/Zionist Imperialism in Palestine.” They also have encouraged the use of any means necessary – including violence – to achieve the goal of “driving the Zionist oppressors out of your land.” Gilbert, incarcerated for killing two police officers and a Brinks security guard in 1981, has received visits from several advocates for the Palestinian Solidarity Movement, now known as the International Solidarity Movement. While the movement states that it is nonviolent, it goes on to say: “our nonviolent approach does not mean that we have the right to dictate to Palestinians how to resist military occupation and apartheid.” In other words, we don’t condone violence. But if you use it we’re OK with it. Another of Gilbert’s prison visitors is a leader in the Syracuse Peace Council, which has advocated for the BDS movement’s campaign to isolate Israel economically and politically… MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION (AS USUAL) SINGLES OUT ISRAEL FOR ATTACK, EXCUSES PALESTINIAN PERFIDY Algemeiner, Jan. 3, 2018 The Middle East Studies Association gave up all pretense of being a scholarly organization when it was taken over by the followers of Edward Said in the 1980s, and began propagating Orwellian interpretations of Middle East history and politics to advance a political agenda that promotes or rationalizes Islamism, parrots Palestinian propaganda, and engages in unbridled attacks on Israel’s legitimacy and the West. Nowhere was this more evident than last month’s annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in Washington, DC, at the overflow panel, “Thinking Palestine Intersectionally,” featuring Sherene Seikaly, Noura Erekat, Samera Esmeir, Judith Butler and Angela Davis. I don’t recall hearing the word “scholar” in the introductions and discussion, but the word “activist” was repeatedly used to describe the participants and their work. The panel was organized by Seikaly, a historian from UC Santa Barbara, who is a co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya, “an independent ezine produced by the Arab Studies Institute.” If you visit the site, you will be invited to sign up for a newsletter and will be requested to choose your country. It appears that every country in the world is listed except one — Israel. One country that does not exist — Palestine — is listed. Noura Erekat, a co-editor of Jadaliyya, is a law professor who admits that she is an activist. A gifted speaker, Erekat rattled off the standard leftist clichés about Israeli occupation, militarism, racism and settler colonialism. She displayed her ignorance of basic history by claiming armed groups took control of the PLO in 1968.Erekat denounced Israeli actions in Gaza, omitting any reference to the Hamas rocket bombardment that precipitated the IDF operations, lauded convicted liar and terrorist Rasmea Odeh as a freedom fighter who empowered Arab women, and defended the virulent Israel-hater Linda Sarsour. Perhaps the best example of her extremism was repeating the big lie that Israel murdered Yasser Arafat. Before getting to the predictable bashing of the Trump administration, Erekat labeled US support for Israel “emblematic of everything that is wrong with the United States.” She praised the Black Lives Matter movement for doubling down on support for Palestinians because of their shared opposition to “structural racialized violence.” The audience laughed when she ridiculed a feminist whose New York Times op-ed expressed concern that “my support for Israel will bar me from the feminist movement” because, inter alia, the International Women’s Strike platform called for the “decolonization of Palestine” as part of “the beating heart of this new feminist movement.” Erekat bragged that the Palestinian cause is rising, while support for Israel declines. As evidence, she cited a Pew survey revealing Democrats as less sympathetic to Israel and more supportive of Palestinians than Republicans. But one poll is hardly a trend and, as I’ve written elsewhere, Democratic support for Israel is actually at the same level that it was in the 1970s. Panelist Judith Butler, whose field is comparative literature rather than Middle East studies, might be more aptly called a specialist in contortion studies, given her effort to redefine antisemitism to exclude BDS. Butler claimed that critics of Israel are not antisemitic, but Zionists could be antisemitic if they support Israel. Angered that people she finds abhorrent, such as Steve Bannon, would be lauded as pro-Israel, she was nostalgic for the day when the UN voted to equate Zionism with racism, and was unhappy with its 1991 repudiation. As part of her jujitsu interpretation of BDS, Butler maintained that BDS advocates, as supporters of social justice, must oppose antisemitism, as if there is no contradiction in supporting a campaign denying Jews the right to self-determination in their homeland while condemning antisemitism. Her explanation? One should oppose racism and colonialism, but the boycott targets only Israeli “institutions,” not Jews or Israelis. Setting aside her ignorance of “colonialism,” and Zionism’s historic opposition to it, who does she imagine that BDS will harm other than the Jews and Israelis who staff these “institutions”?… 99 Percent of “Palestine Refugees” Are Fake: Daniel Pipes, Jewish Press, Jan. 17, 2018—In the words of a veteran Washington hand, the problem of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main UN agency dealing with Palestinians, is always important but never urgent. How a U.S. Quaker Group That Won the Nobel Peace Prize Ended Up on Israel's BDS Blacklist: Allison Kaplan Sommer, Ha’aretz, Jan. 8, 2018—A Quaker organization that received the 1947 Nobel Peace Prize for its work assisting and rescuing victims of the Nazis is among the blacklisted groups whose senior activists have been barred from entering Israel. Peace activists in Israel who have worked with the group expressed surprise at the decision. Professor Claims Antisemitism and ‘Islamophobia’ Are Equal Threats: Cinnamon Stillwell, Algemeiner, Jan. 11, 2018—Are “Islamophobia” and antisemitism comparable? Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, a senior lecturer in history at King’s College London, maintains that the answer is yes. Academic Freedom Goes on Trial: George F. Will, Washington Post, Dec. 29, 2017—Wisconsin’s Supreme Court can soon right a flagrant wrong stemming from events set in motion in 2014 at Milwaukee’s Marquette University by Cheryl Abbate. Although just a graduate student, she already had a precocious aptitude for academic nastiness. Tagged as Academics, BDS, judith butler, Mahmoud Abbas, PALESTINE AUTHORITY (PA), Peace process, Trump Universities Descend into Illiberal, Anti-Israel Playpens For a PDF of Israfax 294 click the following link EDITORIAL: AS CAMPUS BDS INANITIES CONTINUE HERE, SERIOUS EVENTS IN THE M.E. MAY INDICATE RADICAL ISRAEL U.S. REORIENTATION Frederick Krantz This Hanukkah issue of ISRAFAX confronts the sad descent of our university campuses into the vicious inanities of antisemitic and anti-Israel BDS campaigns. Sustained by “speech codes” and so-called “diversity” quotas, pro-Palestinian propaganda, in fact, violates core academic values like free speech, free thought, and individual rights. Insofar as such well-funded campaigns have a practical purpose, it is to delegitimate the Jewish state and so prepare it for destruction. (So far, thankfully, this purpose has been without any practical consequence.) Yet at this very moment serious events involving real issues and power politics are underway in the Middle East, which may throw the heinous, yet ultimately inconsequential, campus shenanigans into high relief. The outcome of moves currently underway may well result in a marked strengthening of Israel’s regional strength and position. As we go to press, President Trump is about to make good on campaign promises and recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital (whether the Embassy will actually be moved there at this point remains moot). The fact of an impending move is confirmed by the squeals of protest and ominous threats already issuing from P.A. head Abbas, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Arab League. This move, in turn, reportedly reflects an improved Saudi Arabian Israel-Palestinian peace plan, issuing from the ascendancy of the reformist Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (“MBS”), First Deputy Prime Minister, president of the Council for Economic and Development Affairs., and the youngest minister of defense in the world. This plan, while reinforcing Israel’s current, defensible, borders and reportedly recognizing Jerusalem as its capital, would create a Palestinian statelet by combining some West Bank areas, Gaza and, innovatively, territory in northern Sinai Under MBS, Saudi Arabia has embarked on an aggressive, anti-Iranian foreign policy. Movement on Jerusalem and the Saudi-backed peace process should, therefore, be seen in conjunction with several other recent developments. Saudi-supported Lebanese President Saad Hariri, responding to Saudi pressure, first “resigned”, and then agreed to be recalled to office, calling in the process for an end to Iranian-backed Hezbollah’s domination of Lebanon and its interventionist role in Syria. Simultaneously, Israel—after warning Teheran not to build permanent bases—has attacked several suspected new Iranian military sites in that country with missiles. Meanwhile, the situation of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen has deteriorated, after they assassinated their erstwhile ally, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Saleh, who aligned with Iran-backed Houthi rebels against Yemeni President Abd–Rabbo Mansour Hadi, had recently called for opening “a new page” with the Saudi-backed Hadi. This earned him the title of “traitor” and led to his recent murder by the Houthis. (Saudi-backed Hadi has now called for unity in the battle against the Houthis and their Iranian backers.) The common denominator connecting these recent events seems to be U.S.-led and Saudi- and Israeli- (and, indirectly, Egyptian- and Jordanian-) pushback against hitherto unopposed Iranian expansion in the Middle East. Having defeated the IS terrorist caliphate in Iraq (Mosul) and Syria (Raqqah), the U.S.-backed coalition may finally be turning to deal with Iran. This Israel-supported Sunni political-military force has obvious implications not only for Iran’s Shiite-related imperialism but also for the Iranian nuclear project. Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action not only licensed ultimate Iranian nuclear and missile development, it also agreed to, and indirectly funded, Iran’s regional political expansion. Now, this is under attack, and behind it too lies the deepening North Korean crisis. Here direct action against either Teheran or Pyongyang (who have helped one another in both nuclear and missile development) can have practical, sobering, and reciprocal consequences for both rogue states. A resumed and more realistic Saudi/Egyptian-backed peace process, conjoined with consistent pushback against, and blockage of, Iran’s expansionism, will also negatively affect three of the other major players in the region—Russia and Turkey, and Iraq. Russia and Turkey have backed Assad and excluded the U.S. from their Syrian “peace talks” in Astana, and both have played ball with Iranian expansionism. And a weak Shiite-dominated Iraq has fallen under Iranian domination. Russia acts like, but in fact is no longer, a Great Power, while Turkey—increasingly Islamist and authoritarian (and economically unstable)—has alienated its former ally, the U.S. A defeat of Iranian expansionism in Syria and Yemen, conjoined with a successful Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative and a clipping of Hezbollah’s Lebanese wings, would isolate and weaken both Russia and Turkey, and increase American influence in Iraq. Although the Middle East is ever unstable and often disappoints projections, it is possible that we are looking at the beginning of a profound re-ordering of the region. If so, events there will throw into high relief the utopian dimensions of the BDSers’ dream of playing a role in Israel’s destruction. What may work here in ivory towers isolated by student ignorance, faculty hypocrisy, and administrative cowardice has little to do, ultimately, with the power relationships and civilizational values marking the “real” world. North American society, unlike some of our campus play-pens, is deeply pro-Israel, and temporary Russian and Hezbollah-Iranian gains in the Middle East may well be erased as the U.S. recovers the world and regional leadership role it formerly played during and after World War II and the Cold War. Insofar as Israel’s, and the Jewish people’s, enemies are concerned, on campuses as well as in the Middle East, it is well for them to understand that propaganda lies, “safe spaces”, and “magical thinking” are not political facts. And that Jews today, since 1945 and the re-founding of the state of Israel in 1948 are, like their Maccabean forebears who defended Jewish freedom against the Greeks, not powerless. (Professor Frederick Krantz [Liberal Arts College, Concordia University] is Director of CIJR and Editor of its ISRAFAX and Daily Isranet Briefing journals) Posted in Israfax Tagged as Academics, BDS, universities Frederick Krantz: AS CAMPUS BDS INANITIES CONTINUE HERE, SERIOUS EVENTS IN THE M.E. INDICATE RADICAL ISRAELI-U.S. REORIENTATION Posted on December 8, 2017 December 8, 2017 by Frederick Krantz This Hanukkah issue of ISRAFAX confronts the sad descent of our university campuses into the vicious inanities of antisemitic and anti-Israel BDS campaigns. Sustained by “speech codes” and so-called “diversity” quotas. pro-Palestinian propaganda, in fact, violates core academic values like free speech, free thought, and individual rights. Insofar as such well-funded campaigns have a practical purpose, it is to delegitimate the Jewish state and so prepare it for destruction. (So far, thankfully, this purpose has been without any practical consequence.) Yet at this very moment serious events involving real issues and power politics are underway in the Middle East, which may throw the heinous, and ultimately inconsequential, campus shenanigans into high relief. The outcome of moves currently underway may well result in a marked strengthening of Israel’s real regional strength and position. As we go to press, President Trump is about to make good on campaign promises and recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital (whether the Embassy will actually be moved there at this point remains moot). The fact of an impending move is confirmed by the squeals of protest and threats already issuing from P.A. head Abbas, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Arab League. This move, in turn, reflects an improved Saudi Arabian Israel-Palestinian peace plan, issuing from the ascendancy of the reformist Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (“MBS”), First Deputy Prime Minister, president of the Council for Economic and Development Affairs., and the youngest minister of defense in the world. This plan, while reinforcing Israel’s current, defensible, borders and reportedly recognizing Jerusalem as its capital, would create a Palestinian statelet by combining some West Bank areas, Gaza and, innovatively, territory in northern Sinai Under MBS, Saudi Arabia has embarked on an aggressive, anti-Iranian foreign policy. Movement on Jerusalem and the Saudi-backed peace process should, therefore, be seen in conjunction with several other recent developments. Saudi-supported Lebanese President Saad Hariri, responding to Saudi pressure, first “resigned”, and then agreed to be recalled to office, calling in the process for an end to Iranian-backed Hezbollah’s domination of Lebanon and its interventionist role in Syria. Simultaneously, Israel—after warning Teheran not to build permanent bases–has attacked several suspected new Iranian military sites in that country with missiles. The common denominator connecting these recent events seems to be U.S.-led and Saudi- and Israeli- (and, indirectly, Egyptian- and Jordanian-) pushback against hitherto unopposed Iranian expansion in the Middle East. Having defeated the IS terrorist caliphate in Iraq (Mosul) and Syria (Raqqah), the US-backed coalition may finally be turning to deal with Iran. This Israel-supported Sunni political-military force has obvious implications not only for Iran’s Shiite-related imperialism but also for the Iranian nuclear project. Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action not only licensed ultimate Iranian nuclear and missile development, it also agreed to, and indirectly funded, Iran’s regional political expansion. Now, this is under attack, and behind it too lies the deepening North Korean crisis. Here direct action against either Teheran or Pyongyang (who have helped one another in both nuclear and missile development) can have practical, sobering, and reciprocal consequences for both rogue states. Russia and Turkey have backed Assad and excluded the US from their Syrian “peace talks” in Astana, and both have played ball with Iranian expansionism. And a weak Shiite-dominated Iraq has fallen under Iranian domination. Russia acts like, but in fact is no longer, a Great Power, while Turkey–increasingly Islamist and authoritarian (and economically unstable)–has alienated its former ally, the U.S. North American society, unlike some of our campus play-pens, is deeply pro-Israel, and temporary Russian and Hezbollah-Iranian gains in the Middle East may well be erased as the US recovers the world and regional leadership roles formerly played during and after World War II and the Cold War. And insofar as Israel’s, and the Jewish people’s, enemies are concerned, on campuses as well as in the Middle East, it is well for them to understand that propaganda lies, “safe spaces”, and "magical thinking" are not political facts. And that Jews, since 1945 and the re-founding of the state of Israel in 1948 are, like their Maccabean forebears who defended Jewish freedom against the Greeks, not powerless. (Professor Frederick Krantz [Liberal Arts College, Concordia University] is Director of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research and Editor of its ISRAFAX and Daily Isranet Briefing journals.) Tagged as Academics, BDS, Jerusalem Status ANTISEMITISM: AN “ANCIENT CANCER OF THE SOUL THAT REFUSES TO DIE” The Rise of Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: Philip Carl Salzman, FCPP, Nov. 14, 2017— At one of Canada’s elite universities, McGill University in Montreal, a series of disturbing anti-Semitic incidents have drawn wide attention and unsettled Jewish students and faculty members. A New Anti-Semitism is Growing in America and We Must Unite Against It: Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman, Fox News, Nov. 24, 2017 — Hatred of Jews is an ancient cancer of the soul that refuses to die. Antisemitism As a Gateway to Terrorism: Ramy Aziz, ISGAP, Nov. 27, 2017— Antisemitism is one of the most lethal diseases of hatred that has ever faced humanity… Amid Celebrations of Martin Luther, Some Want to Talk About His Anti-Semitism: Verónica Zaragovia, Tablet, Oct. 31, 2017— Is the war in Syria won? Alberta Professor Accused of Anti-Semitic Views Reinstated: J.W. Schnarr, Lethbridge Herald, Nov. 23, 2017 Roger Waters Hits Another Wall, Losing German Broadcasters’ Backing Because of His Support for BDS: Liel Leibovitz, Tablet, Nov. 29, 2017 France Submits to Terrorism, Muslim Anti-Semitism: Guy Millière, Gatestone Institute, Nov. 28, 2017 The Plame Truth About Antisemitism in America: Gary C. Gambill, The Jewish Exponent, Nov. 1, 2017 THE RISE OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY Philip Carl Salzman FCPP, Nov. 14, 2017 At one of Canada’s elite universities, McGill University in Montreal, a series of disturbing anti-Semitic incidents have drawn wide attention and unsettled Jewish students and faculty members. There have been repeated campaigns to “Boycott, Divest, and Sanction”(BDS) Israel, the homeland of the Jewish People. The McGill Daily student newspaper has an established policy of rejecting any article supporting or defending Zionism, the national movement of the Jews, or presenting Israel in any but a negative fashion. Most recently, in response to the failure of the BDS movement to be validated at McGill by the Student Society Judicial Board , disappointed supporters voted down three nominated members of the Student Society Board of Directors, one Jewish and two not, on the grounds that their ties to Jewish organizations and/or their supportive attitudes toward Israel made them biased. Some Canadian Jewish organizations have raised concern about this, and, for its own part, the McGill Administration, which does not support the BDS movement, and favours inclusiveness, has launched an investigation. Anti-Semitism is not a new phenomenon. For two thousand years there was an element of anti-Semitism in Christianity, with Jews being blamed for rejecting the Messiah and even for the death of Jesus. Anti-Jewish texts can be found among both Roman Catholics and Protestants, most notably in the (work) of Martin Luther and other reformers. But over the years, traditional Christian anti-Semitism gradually declined in Western Europe and most of North America, although not in much of Eastern Europe and not in Quebec. After World War Two, and the Holocaust, anti-Semitism because less fashionable in Western Europe and North America Nonetheless, in both the U.S. and Canada, hate crime against religion has traditionally overwhelmingly targeted Jews. In the 21st century, anti-Semitism has taken a new form, hatred of the Jewish people in their collective representations, particularly hatred of Israel. This is not a matter of criticism of government policies of Israel, as one might make of policies of the U.S., Russia, or China. Rather, this hatred is reflected in the demand and intention that Israel be destroyed. We hear this regularly from Iran, Palestinian Hamas, Hezbollah, and, more stealthfully from Palestinian Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, as well as from the European, Canadian, and American supporters of these organizations. Hatred of Jews is also manifested in identifying Jews as a cause of evil in the world, which is common among Imams during mosque sermons, as well as in the intention to cleanse the world of all Jews: “the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: ‘The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews)….’” This hatred is seen in the double standard applied to Israel, in which it is uniquely condemned for crimes against humanity, without ever considering other states, such as Iran, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Syria, for their crimes against humanity. But, of course, for anti-Semites, only Israel in all the world is to be condemned. There are two main sources of contemporary anti-Semitism, particularly of hatred of the Jewish People and of their homeland, Israel. One source is the “progressive” left, which dominates higher education, especially in the social “sciences,” humanities, social work, and education. Remarkably, after Marxism failed in many places in the world, having mainly produced despotism, poverty, and death, it was wholeheartedly adopted by Western academics as the new Truth. Marxism-Leninism became the framework through which most Western academics viewed the world. After celebrations of the classical Marxist class struggle which never arrived, attention turned to Lenin’s imperialism theories, and became the dominant model, under such labels as “political economy”, “globalization”, “political ecology”, and, most popular, “postcolonialism”. This approach is applied to the Jewish state, arguing that Israel was a colony of the West, that it was an imperialist settler state, oppressing and supplanting the” “indigenous” Palestinians, and, in the last weeks, that it is a white, supremacist state. This is the account of Israel taught by many professors in Western colleges and universities. In my own faculty, for example, dozens of professors from Anthropology, Political Science, Islamic Studies, History, and other departments published a letter announcing that they took this particular view of Israel and they supported BDS. In the BDS vote held last year by the American Anthropological Association, almost half of the Anthropoligists voting, voted in favour of boycotting Israel. In contrast, no boycotts were proposed in any BDS supporting academic organization for boycotting China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Syria, or even the Islamic State. Nothing in the Marxist, postcolonial model actually fits Israel. As is well known, Jews occupied the entire area of ancient Judea and Israel, and were the only people there when the Romans invaded prior to the birth of Christ. It was, after all, the Romans who renamed the territory “Palestine,” to erase the memory of the Jews who fought against them for two centuries. As for modern Israel, no Western country sent Jews as a colonial force to their ancient homeland in Palestine; rather, Europeans, especially the British, did everything possible to keep Jews from emigrating to Palestine. As for being Western and white, half of all Israeli Jews are of mizrahi or of Sephardic origin, that is, of Middle Eastern ethnic background. This does not include the Israelis from East Asian, South Asian, and Ethiopian origins, who add to population of non-European Jews in Israel. Arabs came relatively late to Palestine, initially in the 7th century, replacing the Roman Byzantines. Today, Arabs represent around 20% of Israelis, most of whom are Israeli citizens, and of whom around 80% are Muslims. All citizens of Israel, Jews, Christians, and Muslims, have the same legal status. All can vote in the only democracy in the Middle East. As well, Arabs and Muslims have positions in all professions and institutions, governmental and civilian. Accusations of apartheid are risible… [To Read the Full Article With Footnotes Click the Following Link—Ed.] A NEW ANTI-SEMITISM IS GROWING IN AMERICA AND WE MUST UNITE AGAINST IT Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman Fox News, Nov. 24, 2017 Hatred of Jews is an ancient cancer of the soul that refuses to die. For thousands of years, successive generations of bigots have embraced it, each trying to sell anti-Semitism in a new and more attractive way, with new lies and slanders. One of the most prominent peddlers of this vile doctrine in America today is Palestinian-American Linda Sarsour. And now, in a supreme irony, Sarsour has been invited to head a panel discussion Tuesday at the New School for Social Research in New York City on combating anti-Semitism. This makes as much sense as inviting a Ku Klux Klan leader to head a discussion on combating racism, or inviting disgraced filmmaker Harvey Weinstein to head a discussion on combating sexual misconduct. Sadly, Sarsour is just one of many enablers and inciters of a troubling new anti-Semitism growing in America today, especially on college campuses, where it is poisoning young minds. Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, this new anti-Semitism seeks to disguise itself – often by posing as a progressive movement supporting human rights of Palestinians. But like the wolf that masquerades as a sheep, the modern-day Jew-haters are what they are, regardless of how they seek to cover it up. Sarsour gained instant media celebrity status as co-chair of the National Women’s March protesting in Washington against President Trump the day after his inauguration. She was warmly embraced by many as a leader of the so-called “resistance” to our new president. Speaking to the Islamic Society of North America in July, Sarsour said that Muslims are “struggling against tyrants and rulers not only abroad in the Middle East or on the other side of the world (she means Israel), but here in these United States of America where you have fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White House.” And Sarsour is also a strong supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The movement compares Israel to South Africa under its former white minority government that discriminated against nonwhites. BDS seeks to isolate Israel from the world as an international pariah, calling for the end to investment, trade, cultural and academic ties with the Jewish State. The BDS movement echoes the boycott of Jewish businesses ordered by Adolf Hitler after he became the dictator of Germany in 1933. The Star of David was painted on the doors and windows of businesses owned by Jews, along with anti-Semitic slogans and signs saying “Don’t Buy from Jews.” And while Sarsour asserts she is not against the existence of Israel, her claim is absurd. She wants to replace Israel with a “one-state solution” in which the culture and identities of over 6 million Jewish citizens would be extinguished and subsumed under a nation combining Israel, the West Bank and Gaza that would quickly have an Arab majority. Making Jews a minority in the land of Israel, which was created to be the only Jewish state on Earth, would turn the country into yet another Arab-majority Mideast nation. From Morocco to Iraq, those nations drove out most of their Jewish citizens decades ago and have a long record of discrimination against the few who remained. Israeli Jews would meet a similar fate, or worse. Sarsour is a symptom of worsening anti-Semitism in America. In 2016, despite constituting under 2 percent of the U.S. population, Jews were the targets of 684 of the 1,273 anti-religion incidents tallied by the FBI – more than double all other anti-religious attacks combined. Most of the incidents involved damage or vandalism against synagogues and cemeteries. But 238 involved ugly intimidation on our nation’s campuses. FBI findings are echoed by an Anti-Defamation League report that shows anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. surged by more than one-third in 2016, and by an astounding 86 percent in the first quarter of 2017. This includes a doubling of anti-Semitic bullying and vandalism at schools. Fortunately, there is no indication that most Americans have embraced anti-Jewish attitudes. A 2017 Pew Poll shows that 67 percent of Americans have “warm” views about Jews. However, there are troubling signs. For example: Anti-Semitic incidents on America’s top college campuses from 2014 to 2015 are increasing. Most involve intimidation of Jewish students who support Israel, pressure to disinvite or silence pro-Israel speakers, and the de-legitimization of Israel by a double standard applied to no other nation; The BDS movement is growing on college campuses, supporting by vicious lies alleging Israeli atrocities against Palestinians. Some professors support this movement and its lies; Vandalism continues at synagogues and Jewish cemeteries. Jewish institutions are forced to spend large sums on security measures, fearing attacks like the recent murderous rampage at a church in Texas… ANTISEMITISM AS A GATEWAY TO TERRORISM Ramy Aziz ISGAP, Nov. 27, 2017 Antisemitism is one of the most lethal diseases of hatred that has ever faced humanity; it led to the Holocaust, a horrific and premeditated tragedy of human history, which resulted in the murder of millions of innocent lives and erased thousands of towns and villages from the map. Yet, despite centuries of antisemitism, this genocidal ideology still exists today. In fact, it is increasing at alarming rates, both in the East and in the West. In fact, antisemitism has become one of the most common tools used by political Islamist terror groups as a way of gaining sympathy and support, spreading extremism, and recruiting new members. This process is carried out using different methods, depending on the receiving audience. As demonstrated below, terrorist groups market extremist ideologies differently in the East and in the West. In the West, specifically in Europe, terrorists and extremist groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, and Hamas — a designated terrorist organization according to the European Court of Justice— are working under the cover of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and student unions, thereby engaging in clear and severe violations of European laws, while simultaneously taking advantage of European freedom and democracy. These extremist groups exploit their presence in universities and other social and political circles to promote lies, falsify facts, and present a distorted narrative of the ongoing conflict between Israel and terror organizations. They solicit empathy by using the rhetoric of “resistance” in order to gain the support of young people and the European community, who remain unaware of the nuances and context of the Arab-Israeli conflict or the destructive role of terrorist organizations in the Middle East. These terrorist groups cooperate with other factions of political Islam that have been gaining traction in Europe in order to organize events that urge Europeans to put pressure on their governments and parliamentary and economic institutions to boycott Israel. They use speech that is loaded with hatred and violence against the Jews, presenting an outrageous picture of antisemitism in Europe, the continent that bore witness to one of the most terrible crimes in human history. Today, antisemitism in Europe has reached dangerous levels, enabling prominent European politicians, such as Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labour Party, to call for removing terror organizations, including Hamas and Hezbollah, which he calls ”friends,” from both the British and European lists of terrorist organizations. This shows how many young Europeans and politicians have moved to support terrorism from the gateway of antisemitism, which remains deeply rooted in European societies until today. In the East, terrorist and extremist groups, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and others, depend on the principle of Jihad against the Jews and the restoration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque to recruit Muslim youth and use them to carry out various terrorist activities. To perform this task, these groups use religious texts and interpretations, which present Jews as the enemy of Islam and promote the idea that God has ordered Muslims to kill Jews “wherever you may find them.” Extremist Islamic currents are competing to use antisemitism and the fight against the Jews as a way of gaining legitimacy and attracting the largest number of supporters and fighters to their ranks. The Muslim Brotherhood has used this ideology since its establishment, as is evident in many of the organization’s writings, most notably in Muslim Brotherhood leader Sayyid Qutb’s book, Our Battle with the Jews. Hamas also uses antisemitic propaganda, based on the same doctrinal interpretations, in order to raise funds to execute terrorist operations, under the banner of Jihad against the Jews, while also attempting to gain support in an effort to displace Fatah, its main political rival… AMID CELEBRATIONS OF MARTIN LUTHER, SOME WANT TO TALK ABOUT HIS ANTI-SEMITISM Verónica Zaragovia Tablet, Oct. 31, 2017 In Wittenberg, Germany, right now, walking around without a city map in one hand and camera in the other makes you stand out. The Protestant Reformation began, one could argue, 500 years ago this month, and tourists have been coming in droves to its birthplace. Martin Luther did not begin the Reformation but gave it a major kick in the pants here, and just about everything here is named after him, including the city’s official name, which in 1938 became Lutherstadt Wittenberg… According to legend, on Oct. 31, 1517, Luther nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the wooden doors of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. In his theses, Luther criticized the pope and Catholic Church practices like the selling of indulgences for redemption (when in reality, Luther wrote, the money was for renovations of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome). The doors burned down in 1760, but because of the printing press’s advent, copies of Luther’s work went viral, and he helped splinter the Catholic Church. But Luther wrote more than just the 95 Theses. He’s also the author of a corpus of virulent anti-Jewish writings. Over the next 30 years, as Protestantism took root, Luther evolved from being tolerant of Jews, hopeful they could become good Christians, to being disgusted with them. He described Jews as blasphemous, contaminators and murderers who should be expelled by Protestant authorities. Helena Fuentes, a nun with the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary in Darmstadt, near Frankfurt, wants people to acknowledge this dark side of Luther before celebrating the Reformation. On Wednesdays, she joins other members of the Sisterhood who stand by Wittenberg’s main square with Pastor Thomas Piehler of the Andreas Church in Leipzig. Together, they’ve been hosting silent vigils calling for an anti-Semitic stone relief on a historic Wittenberg church to come down. The relief is called a Judensau, or Jewish sow, high up on an exterior wall of St. Mary’s Town Church, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where Luther preached. “Praise of God and Jew hate do not belong together,” Piehler added. He and the nuns hold banners with statements, in German, like “Luther used the Judensau for his anti-Semitism” and “Let’s call it Luthersau. Then would you take it down?” Luther wrote about this relief in 1543 in On the Schem Hamphoras. The title of his work refers to the nonsensical name of the Wittenberg relief, apparently a play on the Hebrew term shem ha-meforash, which refers to God’s name. Luther describes the rabbi as looking under the sow’s tail into the Talmud, insinuating that the ancient writings on Jewish law and tradition were in her bowels. Earlier this year, the Wittenberg city council voted to keep the Judensau on the church, arguing that to do so preserves history. Piehler, though, hopes the attention paid to this Judensau could renew the debate. “So many articles have been published in Germany and this question has once again come to the table,” Piehler said. “That is very important to me—that the discussion does not stop there, and of course, our hope is that the Judensau is taken down in the Jubilee year.” Historian Mirko Gutjahr, of the Luther Memorials Foundation, points out the downside of taking it down. Gutjahr is a curator of the Wittenberg exhibit “Luther 95 Treasures 95 People,” which includes pieces related to Luther’s anti-Judaism. If a museum displays the Judensau within its walls, only people “coming to the museum to learn things,” would see this stone relief, Gutjahr said. He doesn’t think that’s an effective way to combat anti-Semitism. Instead, everyone should have access to the Judensau. It should stay exposed in the city “like an open wound,” Gutjahr said. But he, like Piehler, believes the topic, and Luther’s anti-Judaism more generally, should be debated. “Parts of the world are taking up ideas which we thought would be now in the backdrops of history again,” Gutjahr said, referring to current anti-immigrant sentiment—in medieval Germany, a Judensau was supposed to deter Jews from settling in an area. You should not leave it out, he believes, “since it’s part of the history as well, part of the Reformation and part of Martin Luther.” Another question, still unresolved, is how much to blame Luther for Nazism, centuries later. Julius Streicher, who published some of the most hateful propaganda against Jews in his anti-Semitic newspaper, Der Stürmer, brought up Luther during his trial before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. “Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants’ dock today if this book had been taken into consideration by the prosecution,” Streicher said in the morning session on April 29, 1946. “In the book The Jews and Their Lies, Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent’s brood, and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them…” Later that year, the tribunal convicted him of crimes against humanity, and he was hanged. Others ask whether this is an anachronistic reading of history. Luther certainly was not the only one of his time to bash Jews. Plus, Luther also attacked Turks, Islam, and the papacy. “This is precisely the opportunity to ask those kinds of questions,” said Dean Bell, professor of history at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago, who’s been speaking at and attending recent events on Luther… Alberta Professor Accused of Anti-Semitic Views Reinstated: J.W. Schnarr, Lethbridge Herald, Nov. 23, 2017—A professor accused of espousing anti-Semitic views has been reinstated at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. Roger Waters Hits Another Wall, Losing German Broadcasters’ Backing Because of His Support for BDS: Liel Leibovitz, Tablet, Nov. 29, 2017—When activist Malca Goldstein-Wolf learned that former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters was slated to play Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany next June, and that the concert will be sponsored by the public broadcast Westdeutscher Rundfunkshe (WDR), she took to Facebook to protest against using taxpayer money to fund a man she labeled a “Jew-hater.” France Submits to Terrorism, Muslim Anti-Semitism: Guy Millière, Gatestone Institute, Nov. 28, 2017—In Bagneux, France, on November 1, 2017, a plaque placed in memory of Ilan Halimi, a young Jew murdered in 2006 by a "gang of barbarians", was destroyed and covered with graffiti. When a few days later, another plaque replaced it, the French government issued a statement that "hate will not win". The Plame Truth About Antisemitism in America: Gary C. Gambill, The Jewish Exponent, Nov. 1, 2017—No one born into this world makes it very far without developing subconscious prejudices of one kind or another. Tagged as BDS, islamic antisemitism LEFTISTS—NOT LIBERALS—EMBRACE DIVISIVE IDENTITY POLITICS, “INTERSECTIONALITY”, AND “RESISTANCE” Two Resistances: Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, Sept. 6, 2017 — The quiet resistance — the one without black masks and clubs — is the more revolutionary force, and it transcends race, class, and gender. Leftism Is Not Liberalism. Here Are the Differences: Dennis Prager, Daily Signal, Sept. 12, 2017— What is the difference between a leftist and a liberal? Liberals' Addiction to Identity Politics Bad for Parties, Political Life: Robert Fulford, National Post, Aug. 25, 2017— Since the ignominious failure of the 2016 election, the Democrats have been searching their souls. Israeli “Occupation”: The BIG LIE: Sally F. Zerker, CIJR, Sept. 15, 2017— The time has come to tell the world’s “liars”, boldly and forthrightly, that Israeli “occupation” is the BIG LIE of our age. 9/11 Sixteen Years Later: Lessons Put Into Practice?: John Bolton, Algemeiner, Sept. 11, 2017 Cultural Approbation: Weekly Standard, Sept. 04, 2017 The New Manichaeans: Michael Knox Beran, National Review, Aug. 28, 2017 The Coming Terror: Mark Steyn, Jewish World Review, Sept. 5, 2017 TWO RESISTANCES National Review, Sept. 6, 2017 The quiet resistance — the one without black masks and clubs — is the more revolutionary force, and it transcends race, class, and gender. After the election of Donald Trump, there arose a self-described “Resistance.” It apparently posed as a decentralized network of progressive activist groups dedicated to derailing the newly elected Trump administration. Democrats and progressives borrowed their brand name from World War II French partisans. In rather psychodramatic fashion, they envisioned their heroic role over the next four years as that of virtual French insurgents — coming down from the Maquis hills, perhaps to waylay Trump’s White House, as if the president were an SS Obergruppenführer und General der Police running occupied Paris. Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone wrote admiringly about the furious Resistance’s pushback against Trump, with extravagant claims that his agenda was already derailed thanks to a zillion grass-roots and modern-day insurgents. Hillary Clinton belatedly announced that she too had joined up with the Resistance (“I’m now back to being an activist citizen and part of the Resistance”), apparently in approbation of both its methods and agendas. Appropriating the name of heroic World War II fighters to characterize a loosely formed alliance of Trump resisters has since proven a mockery of history — and creepy as well. Powered by Resisters of various sorts have made use of repugnant assassination pornography: a Shakespearean troupe ritually stabbing Trump-Caesar every night, a widely viewed Trump decapitation video, loud boasts by Hollywood’s stars such as Robert De Niro and Johnny Depp of their desires either to beat Trump to a bloody pulp or to do a John Wilkes Booth hit on him, street demonstrations where the likes of multimillionaire exhibitionist Madonna dream out loud off blowing up the White House, while various state legislators, professors, and activists talk of presidential assassination. Is there a new division at the Secret Service whose sole task is solemnly informing the media that it is “investigating” the latest celebrity’s threat? In more mainstream fashion, Democrats in Congress have often stalled Trump’s appointees, blocked Obamacare reform, and talked of removing Trump through impeachment or the 25th Amendment or the Emoluments Clause. The Resistance has gone from melodramatic charges of Trump’s collusion with the Russians, to amateur diagnoses of his mental incapacity, to fear-mongering about his supposed wild desire for a Strangelovian nuclear war with North Korea, to castigating him for his apparently callous and uncaring reactions to Hurricane Harvey victims. The Democratic National Committee leaders in their speeches resort to scatology to reflect their furor at Trump’s victory. The media, led by CNN in its visceral hatred of Trump, has given up past pretenses of disinterested reporting. Indeed, a number of journalists have sought to ratify their prejudices by claiming that Trump is so toxic that old-style protocols of fairness can no longer apply. Street brownshirts such as those of Antifa (too rarely and belatedly disowned by a few mainstream Resistance leaders) justify their anti-democratic and anti-constitutional violence on the grounds that Trump is found guilty of being a Nazi — and therefore those alleged to be Nazis have to be resisted by any anti-Nazi means necessary. In the olden days, demonstrators decked out in black, with masks and clubs, would have been deemed sinister by liberals. Now are they the necessary shock troops whose staged violence brings political dividends? Antifa’s dilemma is that its so-called good people wearing black masks can find almost no bad people in white masks to club, so they smash reporters, the disabled, and onlookers alike for sport — revealing that, at base, they perversely enjoy violence for violence’s sake. As the cowardly Klan taught us in the 1920s and 1960s: Put on a mask with a hundred like others, and even the most craven wimp believes he’s now a psychopathic thug. For the most part, the Resistance leadership is not the modern version of a group of grass-roots idealistic outsiders living hand-to-mouth between missions in the scrub. Their announced leaders, such as Hillary Clinton, are often the embodiment of the status quo rich, influential, and elite America. The Resistance sees nothing incompatible in attacking Trump while working out of a townhouse in Georgetown, living in a Malibu compound, flying in a private jet, making a quarter-million a year as a university-endowed professor or a Southern Poverty Law Center grandee, or being a life-time Washington fixture or corporate CEO. Indeed, anti-Trump activism and privilege may be symbiotic. If one were to look at a county map of the United States calibrated by average income, the Resistance leaders could be identified by their homes clustering in the nation’s most affluent enclaves on the two coasts. They are most certainly not resisting the market capitalism, Washington-establishment politics, and old-boy networking that so empowered them. Nor is it very brave to loudly announce one’s membership in the Resistance, given that the powerful organs of popular culture and the American status quo — both the Republican and Democratic intellectual establishments, the foundations, universities, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Wall Street — are, in orthodox fashion, anti-Trump. Which of the following is a smarter career move at Google, at an Aspen Institute colloquium, on the set of Disney, in a CNN newsroom, at a Citibank retreat, in the Yale faculty lounge, on the beach at Martha’s Vineyard, while sunning on David Geffen’s yacht, or talking on a panel at the National Press Club: to admit to voting for Donald Trump, or to proudly proclaim you are a member of the Resistance?… [To Read the Full Article Click the Following Link—Ed.] LEFTISM IS NOT LIBERALISM. HERE ARE THE DIFFERENCES Daily Signal, Sept. 12, 2017 What is the difference between a leftist and a liberal? Answering this question is vital to understanding the crisis facing America and the West today. Yet few seem able to do it. I offer the following as a guide. Here’s the first thing to know: The two have almost nothing in common. On the contrary, liberalism has far more in common with conservatism than it does with leftism. The left has appropriated the word “liberal” so effectively that almost everyone—liberals, leftists, and conservatives—thinks they are synonymous. But they aren’t. Let’s look at some important examples. Race: This is perhaps the most obvious of the many moral differences between liberalism and leftism. The essence of the liberal position on race was that the color of one’s skin is insignificant. To liberals of a generation ago, only racists believed that race is intrinsically significant. However, to the left, the notion that race is insignificant is itself racist. Thus, the University of California officially regards the statement, “There is only one race, the human race,” as racist. For that reason, liberals were passionately committed to racial integration. Liberals should be sickened by the existence of black dormitories and separate black graduations on university campuses. Capitalism: Liberals have always been pro-capitalism, recognizing it for what it is: the only economic means of lifting great numbers out of poverty. Liberals did often view government as able to play a bigger role in lifting people out of poverty than conservatives, but they were never opposed to capitalism, and they were never for socialism. Opposition to capitalism and advocacy of socialism are leftist values. Nationalism: Liberals deeply believed in the nation-state, whether their nation was the United States, Great Britain, or France. The left has always opposed nationalism because leftism is rooted in class solidarity, not national solidarity. The left has contempt for nationalism, seeing in it intellectual and moral primitivism at best, and the road to fascism at worst. Liberals always wanted to protect American sovereignty and borders. The notion of open borders would have struck a liberal as just as objectionable as it does a conservative. It is emblematic of our time that the left-wing writers of Superman comics had Superman announce a few years ago, “I intend to speak before the United Nations tomorrow and inform them that I am renouncing my American citizenship.” When the writers of Superman were liberal, Superman was not only an American but one who fought for “truth, justice, and the American way.” But in his announcement, he explained that motto is “not enough anymore.” View of America: Liberals venerated America. Watch American films from the 1930s through the 1950s and you will be watching overtly patriotic, America-celebrating films—virtually all produced, directed, and acted in by liberals. Liberals well understand that America is imperfect, but they agree with a liberal icon named Abraham Lincoln that America is “the last best hope of earth.” To the left, America is essentially a racist, sexist, violent, homophobic, xenophobic, and Islamophobic country. The left around the world loathe America, and it is hard to imagine why the American left would differ in this one way from fellow leftists around the world. Leftists often take offense at having their love of America doubted. But those left-wing descriptions of America are not the only reason to assume that the left has more contempt than love for America. The left’s view of America was encapsulated in then-presidential candidate Barack Obama’s statement in 2008. “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” he said. Now, if you were to meet a man who said that he wanted to fundamentally transform his wife, or a woman who said that about her husband, would you assume that either loved their spouse? Of course not. Free speech: The difference between the left and liberals regarding free speech is as dramatic as the difference regarding race. No one was more committed than American liberals to the famous statement, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Liberals still are. But the left is leading the first nationwide suppression of free speech in American history—from the universities to Google to almost every other institution and place of work. It claims to only oppose hate speech. But protecting the right of person A to say what person B deems objectionable is the entire point of free speech. Western civilization: Liberals have a deep love of Western civilization. They taught it at virtually every university and celebrated its unique moral, ethical, philosophical, artistic, musical, and literary achievements. No liberal would have joined the leftist Rev. Jesse Jackson in chanting at Stanford University: “Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Western civ has got to go.” The most revered liberal in American history is probably former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who frequently cited the need to protect not just Western civilization but Christian civilization. Yet leftists unanimously denounced President Donald Trump for his speech in Warsaw, Poland, in which he spoke of protecting Western civilization. They argued not only that Western civilization is not superior to any other civilization but also that it is no more than a euphemism for white supremacy. Judaism and Christianity: Liberals knew and appreciated the Judeo-Christian roots of American civilization. They themselves went to church or synagogue, or at the very least appreciated that most of their fellow Americans did. The contempt that the left has—and has always had—for religion (except for Islam today) is not something with which a liberal would ever have identified. If the left is not defeated, American and Western civilization will not survive. But the left will not be defeated until good liberals understand this and join the fight. Dear liberals: Conservatives are not your enemy. The left is. LIBERALS' ADDICTION TO IDENTITY POLITICS BAD FOR PARTIES, POLITICAL LIFE Robert Fulford National Post, Aug. 25, 2017 Since the ignominious failure of the 2016 election, the Democrats have been searching their souls. How could a once-great party have fallen so low? Was it the lacklustre campaign of their presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton? Was it the failure of the Democrats to grasp Donald Trump’s vote-getting power? Was it a complete breakdown of the party’s national machine? Mark Lilla, a widely praised social critic and Columbia professor, believes he has the answer. He delivers it in The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (Harper/Collins), a sharply intelligent and highly persuasive book. He deals with American politics, but his perceptions also apply to Canada. A large part of our public life is conducted through identity politics. Canadians anxious to better the lives of Indigenous people, for example, increasingly tend to express themselves in issue-specific organizations rather than through political parties. A long-time leftist, Lilla claims that the Democrats have become addicted to pressure groups that slice the public into ethnic, national and sexual elements. These slices have together overwhelmed the Democratic Party itself and rendered it irrelevant. The left has now balkanized the electorate and invested its energies in social movements rather than party politics. Lilla yearns for the big-tent appeal of the old Democrats. He looks back in history to Roosevelt’s New Deal as a golden age of liberalism. He wants public life to emphasize “what we all share and owe one another as citizens, not what differentiates us.” He calls for an end to movement politics. “We need no more marchers. We need more mayors. And governors, and state legislators, and members of Congress.” He imagines a healthier form of politics that transcends identity attachments. Organizations claiming to speak for repressed Americans are usually given the benefit of the doubt by the public. Lilla isn’t so generous. A few days after the 2016 election he wrote in a New York Times article that “Liberals should bear in mind that the first identity movement in American politics was the Ku Klux Klan. Those who play the identity game should be prepared to lose it.” Born in 1956, Lilla grounds his account of identity politics in what he knows of the 1960s and its effects. From 1965 or so, war and the rise of feminism together left many of the young dissatisfied with conventional politics. To side with the Democrats was to embrace Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam policy. That was okay for parents, but the furious young needed something different. In the early stages of revived, second-generation feminism, women with leftish inclinations wanted a more specific approach. In 1970 a slogan arose, “the personal is political.” It raced through women’s discussions and found a permanent place in the rhetoric of feminism. It was a time when women met in groups for “consciousness-raising,” which meant sharing various forms of dissatisfaction with their condition as women. Encouraged to confess or complain, women turned their meetings into variations of therapy groups or prayer meetings. They expressed themselves (as the literature on the subject demonstrates) in purely personal terms. In trying to research the subject, they turned inward, examining their own feelings. A sense of identity took hold, setting the pattern for scores of later movements, fundamentally altering the structure of liberal politics. As Lilla says, a young woman of today “may come from a comfortable, middle-class background” but “her identity confers on her the status of one of history’s victims.” Now she has claims to make—not claims for the whole of society but claims for her particular slice. Her politics will be based on this self-definition. If she’s in college she may join a women’s organization. Soon her views on women’s issues become non-negotiable. Her teachers, always ready to identify and endorse popular new ideas, become willing mentors…. ISRAELI “OCCUPATION”: THE BIG LIE Sally F. Zerker CIJR, Sept. 15, 2017 The time has come to tell the world’s “liars”, boldly and forthrightly, that Israeli “occupation” is the BIG LIE of our age. We’ve all seen the propaganda effectiveness of “the big lie” many times before, and this one too is working its indecorous distortion of the truth. The truth is that Jews cannot be occupiers of the Biblical lands, which include present-day Israel, Judea, Samaria, and some of the country of Jordan. The term occupation is meant to signify larceny, theft of others’ property, abuse of the Other, cheating, immorality, and dreadful deeds. Obviously, this is a very offensive concept. But Jews are not, and cannot be guilty of these crimes, for two reasons. One, Jews are the extant aboriginal people of this land, and two, Jews have international legal rights to this territory. These two concepts, historical and legal, require elucidation. What defines Jewish indigenousness is the consistency of modern Jews with their ancestors of thousands of years ago. They live in a country with the same name, Israel, as that which existed in 1312 B.C.E. Today’s Israelis speak the same language that was spoken by Jews in that land more than 3000 years ago. We do not need a Rosetta stone to understand ancient Hebrew scripts because the language and letters are the same as current Hebrew. Israelis chant from the same biblical texts that their ancestors did millennia past. Their Jewish law presently is derived from that found in their Talmud which was originally oral and later written down about twenty-five hundred years ago. Their Temple, which was destroyed by invaders twice, can be archaeologically located in their original site in Jerusalem. And Jerusalem which was founded by their biblical King David, still stands as the centre of Jewish sovereignty, as it did when King David ruled the Jews. In reality, the Jewish people established a distinct civilization in their ancient homeland approximately 3500 years ago, and the roots of that civilization are still much of the source of Jewish life in Israel right now. And, despite a series of conquests and expulsions over the centuries, (Roman, Muslim, Crusaders), Jews retained and rebuilt communities in Jerusalem, Tiberius, Rafah, Gaza, Ashkelon, Jaffa, Caesarea, Safed and elsewhere. Years before the Zionist migrations began in the 1870s, Jews lived continuously over time throughout the land of Israel. Anthropologist Jose Martinez-Cobo, a Special Rapporteur for the UN who studied the place and condition of indigenous peoples and nations, defined such communities as those that have continuity, with the land, with shared culture in general, such as religion, lifestyle etc., with intrinsic language, with common ancestry, and other relevant factors. By that respected definition of indigenousness, it is irrefutable that Jews are indeed the indigenous people of the land of Israel. On the other hand, there were no Muslims in existence until almost 2000 years after Jews had already settled in Israel, because Islam was the religion that Mohammed founded. Arabs, who are the ethnic peoples out of the Arabian Peninsula, had not come to the region through their conquests until after Mohammed’s death in 632 ACE. It is important to understand that no independent Arab or Palestinian state has ever existed in this region, which came to be called Palaestina, after the Romans so renamed it in the second century. The Romans purpose for this alteration was to break the link of the Jews with their past, after they had crushed the Jewish revolt in ACE 135. Thus, when the Arabs did conquer and occupy parts of the land, they did so as occupiers of previously settled territories by Jews. As for more recent Arab settlers, if one looks at the period when Jews began to immigrate to the region in large numbers in 1882, there were fewer than 250,000 Arabs living in the region, and the majority of these had arrived in recent decades. According to many observers and authorities, the vast majority of the Arab population in the early decades of the twentieth century were comparative newcomers, either late immigrants or descendants of persons who had immigrated into the territory in the previous seventy years. BDS supporters, who accept the premise that the Palestinians are indigenous and oppressed by white colonialists have it backward according Barbara Kay, columnist for the National Post (Canada). “It is the (non-white) Mizrachi Jews in continuous habitation in Israel from time immemorial who were oppressed under a series of imperial regimes, up to and including the British Mandate.”… Dr. Sally F. Zerker is Professor Emerita, York University, and Academic Co-Chair of CIJR’s Toronto Chapter. 9/11 Sixteen Years Later: Lessons Put Into Practice?: John Bolton, Algemeiner, Sept. 11, 2017—Today marks the 16th anniversary of Al Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks. We learned much on that tragic day, at enormous human and material cost. Perilously, however, America has already forgotten many of September 11’s lessons. Cultural Approbation: Weekly Standard, Sept. 04, 2017—The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity chapter at the University of Michigan had what it thought was a delightful theme—antiquity on the Nile—for a party kicking off the school year. They invited guests to come as a “mummy, Cleopatra, or King Tut, it doesn’t matter to us. Get your best ancient Egyptian robe and headdress and be ready to party in the desert.” The New Manichaeans: Michael Knox Beran, National Review, Aug. 28, 2017—In November 2016, Mark Lilla, the humanities scholar, published an essay, “The End of Identity Liberalism,” in the New York Times. “In recent years,” he wrote, “American liberalism has slipped into a kind of moral panic about racial, gender and sexual identity that has distorted liberalism’s message and prevented it from becoming a unifying force capable of governing.” The Coming Terror: Mark Steyn, Jewish World Review, Sept. 5, 2017—Most of the news bulletins I'm exposed to are on the radio, as I'm tootling around hither and yon. So it took me a while to discover that what the media call "peace activists", "anti-racists" and "anti-Nazis" are, in fact, men and women garbed in black from head to toe, including face masks. Tagged as Academics, BDS, democrats, Hillary Clinton, Leftists, Trump, US Politics LEFTIST CONTEMPT FOR WESTERN CIVILIZATION CONSTITUTES ITS GREATEST THREAT FOR SURVIVAL The Atlantic Publishes All You Need To Know About the Left: Dennis Prager, Daily Wire, July 11, 2017— Last week, The Atlantic rendered a great service to those of us who contend that America is in the midst of a civil war between the right and the left. The Science of Racism is Back: Philip Carl Salzman, C2C Journal , June 30, 2017— The founder of anthropology in North America was Franz Boas, a German Jew who began his work in the early 20th century, when racial explanations of human behaviour were popular. Are Biased Textbooks Turning Young Americans Against Israel?: Rafael Medoff, JNS, July 11, 2017— According to some experts, anti-Israel bias in the textbooks used by many American high schools may be to blame for the decrease in sympathy for Israel among young adults. France Marks 70 Years Since Historic 'Exodus' Voyage to Israel: Arutz Sheva, July 9, 2017— Seventy years ago this week, some 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivors gathered aboard a rickety old steamer in the French Mediterranean port of Sete, destined for a journey that would help spur the creation of an independent Jewish state. Israel Built A 9/11 Memorial Out Of Ground Zero Wreckage – You Have To See it: Benny Johnson, IJR, 2015 Leading Researcher on Campus Jewish Life Rejects Report of ‘Devastating Loss’ of Support for Israel Among Young Jews: Rachel Frommer, Algemeiner, June 23, 2017 Jewish Voice for Peace Is Spreading Hate on Campus. It’s Time for Jewish Academics to Speak Up.: Jarrod Tanny, Tablet, July 5, 2017 The Appalling Protests at Evergreen State College: Charlotte Allen, Weekly Standard, June 9, 2017 THE ATLANTIC PUBLISHES ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LEFT Dennis Prager Daily Wire, July 11, 2017 Last week, The Atlantic rendered a great service to those of us who contend that America is in the midst of a civil war between the right and the left. It provided a smoking gun — actually, the gunshot itself — to those of us who contend that the left (never to be confused with liberals) is intent on dismantling Western civilization. It published articles by two left-wing writers, one by Peter Beinart titled "The Racial and Religious Paranoia of Trump's Warsaw Speech," and one by its national correspondent, James Fallows, written on the same theme as Beinart's. The subject of both articles was President Donald Trump's speech in Warsaw, Poland, last week, a speech described by The Wall Street Journal as "a determined and affirmative defense of the Western tradition." Yet, to the Atlantic writers, defending Western civilization is nothing more than a defense of white racism. Beinart begins his piece saying: "In his speech in Poland on Thursday, Donald Trump referred 10 times to 'the West' and five times to 'our civilization.' His white nationalist supporters will understand exactly what he means. It's important that other Americans do, too." And Fallows begins saying, "what he called 'civilization' … boils down to ties of ethnicity and blood." Is there one liberal or conservative American who thinks that the words "the West" and "Western civilization" mean a celebration of white-blood purity? I doubt it. What we have here are two vital lessons. One is that leftism is the primary racist ideology of our time, seeing everything in terms of race, whereas mainstream liberalism and conservatism advocate a race-blind society as manifest in Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "content of his character" line. The left disdains this view. To cite one of innumerable examples, the University of California has published a list of biased "microaggression" statements students and faculty are to avoid. One of them is "There is only one race, the human race." In other words, the left, which controls our universities, teaches American students that it is wrong to believe in one human race. That was precisely what the Nazis taught German students. And now, we have another expression of this doctrine enunciated in the pages of The Atlantic: that those who wish to protect or save Western civilization are talking about saving the white race. I am certainly not equating leftism with Nazism. The left doesn't seek to annihilate all Jews (it merely supports the Palestinians, who seek to annihilate the Jewish state). I am merely stating an unassailable truth: No significant political movement since the Nazis has "honored" race or equated Western civilization with race, as Beinart and Fallows do. The second service provided by The Atlantic writers is proof that the left loathes Western civilization and therefore has become the internal enemy of Western civilization both in America and Europe. In the left's eyes, the mere suggestion that Western civilization needs to be saved is, by definition, a call for the preservation of the white race. Therefore, the left opposes calls to save Western civilization. As Beinart wrote: "The most shocking sentence in Trump's speech — perhaps the most shocking sentence in any presidential speech delivered on foreign soil in my lifetime — was his claim that 'The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.' … Trump's sentence only makes sense as a statement of racial and religious paranoia." Those of us who have long equated the left with opposition to Western civilization are vindicated. We didn't need Beinart and Fallows — we already had innumerable examples, such as the University of Pennsylvania English department removing its longstanding poster of William Shakespeare because he was a white male — but in their explicit articulation of the left's view, they are immensely helpful. Shakespeare is read in every language that has an alphabet not because he was white or European but because he is regarded as the greatest playwright who ever lived. But the leftists who run that English department place race (and gender) above excellence — a thorough rejection of Western values. Ironically, outside of liberals and conservatives, those most likely to celebrate Western values are likely to not be Western. The Japanese would scoff at the idea that Bach and Beethoven did not write the greatest music ever composed. That is why some of the greatest Bach recordings of our time come from Japanese musicians living in Japan. Nor would the Japanese deny that their modern country's democratic values come from the West… THE SCIENCE OF RACISM IS BACK C2C Journal , June 30, 2017 The founder of anthropology in North America was Franz Boas, a German Jew who began his work in the early 20th century, when racial explanations of human behaviour were popular. Decades before European racism would come to fruition in the Holocaust, Boas was arguing against race as a way of understanding people. It would not have eluded Boas that the Canadian peoples he studied, the Inuit and First Nations of the Northwest Coast, were viewed by many with racist disparagement and discriminated against. In opposition to such views, he maintained that “nurture,” the learning of ideas, values, and actions from parents, peers, and community, rather than “nature,” biology and genetics, determined the course of human lives. By mid-century racism was not just out of fashion, but actively reviled. Biological anthropologists assembled evidence showing how promiscuous gene flow led to gradual variations, or clines, within and among populations, such that no clear or immutable race-based characteristics existed. Thus there was no scientific basis for identifying races, or for believing that they had a reality in nature. How times have changed! Racism is now back as an accepted and, indeed, celebrated way to explain human differences. And nowhere is it trendier than on university campuses in Canada, the United States, and beyond. Not just among radical students demanding race-based entitlements, but also within institutional processes such as faculty hiring. Aboriginals are preferred to teach Aboriginal Studies. Middle Easterners are preferred to teach Middle East Studies. African Studies ditto. East Asian Studies ditto. The logic is partly borrowed from the tenets of modern feminism and sex and gender minority rights, which hold that only members of such groups can fully understand them. Attempts by outsiders to speak for or even about others is decried as “cultural appropriation”. You might imagine that this would not sit well with cultural anthropologists, who often go to distant lands to study people who are different from them. But even anthropologists are now keen for racial hiring. At my university, McGill, where a big thrust is underway to expand First Nations Studies, anthropology professors are insisting on hiring a First Nations anthropologist. There is no way to square this with deracinated anthropology; it is simply, fundamentally, racist. Ironically, these new racist hiring policies are prescribed to fight racism. In March, a pair of McGill Anthropology students published an article in the McGill Daily titled “Classroom Colonialisms: Calling out racism and working towards decolonial anthropology at McGill.” Leaving aside that the Daily is a student newspaper renowned for its anti-Semitic racism, the students’ solutions for racism in anthropology are hiring non-white staff and purging the classics of anthropology from the program because most were written by white males. It is sad that people claiming to be students of anthropology do not grasp the simple and irrefutable logical point that making decisions on the basis of race is racism, no matter which races you favour. Perhaps they believe, as some of my colleagues in the McGill Anthropology Department do, that there is good racism and bad racism, and that they are advocating good racism. Yes, you read that right; “good racism.” We have heard such arguments many times in human history, and seen their consequences. Reducing people to demographic categories, rather than treating them as the unique individuals they are, is a betrayal of liberal values and the Enlightenment and of the idea of the university as an institution of civilization founded on universalistic criteria such as merit. The hottest new idea among “social justice warriors” is “intersectionality,” which means that the interests of victim groups intersect, and that they should seek liberation through unity. Thus women, gays, people of color, and Muslims should unite to throw off their oppressors: men, heterosexuals, whites, and Jews. This idea ought to be dismissed as incoherent given that most women are heterosexual, that homosexuality is forbidden and women are obliged to be subservient in Islam, and that Jews are historically victims of Christians and Muslims. But, inspired by intersectionality, the Black Lives Matter movement has expanded its fight against white police violence against blacks to ally with Palestinians against Jews, despite the long history of Arab involvement in the African slave trade and the institutional racism against blacks that persists today in many Arab countries. Black Lives Matter is equally blind to the realities of black homicide in America, where the 13 percent of the population which is black suffers 45 percent of the murders, of which 90 percent are committed by other blacks. The new racism, predicated on the belief that there are good races, but also bad races, generally holds that white people are bad, because they are “privileged” and, in most developed countries, the majority. They have not suffered as victims of racism like other races. But even that rule is selective and willfully ignorant of facts and history, not least the serial persecution of Jews and centuries of enslavement of white Europeans by Arabs. It is no accident that the revival of racism coincides with the re-demonization of Jews. The Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement on North American campuses is nominally aimed at Israel. But Jewish students are sometimes targets of invective, and even violence. In my Anthropology Department at McGill, professors have aligned themselves with BDS, as has the Anthropology Graduate Students Association, even though BDS fits the U.S. State Department criteria for anti-Semitism, as it selectively singles out and disparages Israel and advocates for termination of the country. Supporters of BDS stand with Palestinian Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and others that promise variously to place Jews under the disabilities of subordinate-class dhimma status, expel them entirely from their historical home, or murder Israeli Jews and all Jews around the world (see the Hamas Charter). So my colleagues and students have thrown their support to people who advocate racial genocide… Prof. Philip Carl Salzman is a CIJR Academic Fellow ARE BIASED TEXTBOOKS TURNING YOUNG AMERICANS AGAINST ISRAEL? Rafael Medoff JNS, July 11, 2017 According to some experts, anti-Israel bias in the textbooks used by many American high schools may be to blame for the decrease in sympathy for Israel among young adults. According to the Brand Israel Group, only 54 percent of US college students lean more toward Israelis than the Palestinians, down from 73 percent in 2010. The decrease was even sharper among Jewish college students, dropping from 84 percent to 57 percent. “The problem starts in high school,” Dr. Sandra Alfonsi, the founder of Hadassah’s “Curriculum Watch” division, told JNS.org. “There’s no doubt [that] the lack of sympathy for Israel on college campuses today is at least partly the result of several generations of teenagers being educated with textbooks that are slanted against Israel.” One of the most controversial texts used in high schools around the country is the Arab World Studies Notebook, a 540-page volume authored by Audrey Parks Shabbas. Shabbas heads Arab World and Islamic Resources and School Services, a curriculum publisher that seeks to promote a positive image of Arabs and Muslims in US schools. After parents in Anchorage, Alaska, complained to their local board of education in 2004 about the book’s slant against Israel, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) prepared a 30-page analysis of the textbook. The AJC found it to be riddled with “overt bias and unabashed propagandizing,” such as depicting Israel as the aggressor in every Arab-Israeli war, and praising Muslim conquerors throughout the ages for their “gentle treatment of civilian populations.” As a result, the Anchorage Board of Education removed the Notebook from the local high school curriculum. School authorities in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have also withdrawn the text. Shabbas has claimed that the Notebook has been distributed to more than 10,000 teachers, and “if each notebook teaches 250 students a year over 10 years, then you’ve reached 25 million students.” “The most important statistic is the number of workshops that Shabbas has given to instruct teachers in how to use the book,” Curriculum Watch’s Alfonsi said. “She has conducted hundreds of such three-day teacher-training sessions.” Shabbas’s website names 211 schools where she ran teacher workshops from 2000-2006. Other years are not listed. Shabbas did not respond to requests for comment from JNS.org. The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) recently published a 108-page monograph, “Indoctrinating Our Youth,” which describes how high schools in the Boston suburb of Newton have been using biased texts such as the Arab World Studies Notebook, and also are inviting anti-Israel speakers to address their students. One controversy began in 2011, when a Newton South High School parent complained about a passage from the Notebook that accused Israel of torturing and murdering hundreds of Palestinian women. Other parents soon joined the protests. Matt Hills, vice chair of the Newton School Committee, dismissed the critics as “McCarthyesque.” In early 2012, Newton Superintendent of Schools David Fleishman said that the Notebook had been removed from the curriculum because it was “outdated.” But an investigation by Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), a Boston-based activist group, found that the Notebook was still being used in Newton as late as the 2013-2014 school year. The dispute has been complicated by the refusal of Newton school authorities to identify which Israel-related materials were being used by teachers. Many school districts around the country list their curriculum materials on their websites. APT President Charles Jacobs told JNS.org that his group “will continue to build support for a policy of transparency, so that parents and citizens can know what is being taught to Newton’s students.” In response to a request for copies of these materials, Fleishman said that the requester would need to pay $3,643 to cover photocopying expenses. Eventually, a Freedom of Information request filed by community activists forced the release of some of the materials. Newton Mayor Setti Warren, a member of the nine-person School Committee, attended committee meetings on the textbooks issue, but did not actively participate in the discussions, according to community members. The mayor, who is now a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Massachusetts governor, did not respond to requests for comment from JNS.org. Several mainstream Jewish organizations in Boston, including the local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League, initially denied that biased materials were being used in local schools. They also criticized the APT for organizing protests against the Newton school authorities. Later, the New England ADL changed its position, agreeing that the Arab World Studies Notebook and another anti-Israel text, A Muslim Primer, should not have been used in schools… FRANCE MARKS 70 YEARS SINCE HISTORIC 'EXODUS' VOYAGE TO ISRAEL Arutz Sheva, July 9, 2017 Seventy years ago this week, some 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivors gathered aboard a rickety old steamer in the French Mediterranean port of Sete, destined for a journey that would help spur the creation of an independent Jewish state. On Sunday the city marked the audacious attempt to reach what was then the British-controlled Mandate of Palestine in the presence of a few of the remaining survivors of the voyage, along with France's Grand Rabbi Haim Korsia. "It's the last time that we have survivors: in 10 years they'll be gone," said Freddy Dran, co-president of the "Exodus Committee" and a representative of the Jewish community in Sete, near Montpellier. "We've found that in Sete and the region, half the population has no knowledge of this event, which had a profound impact on 20th-century history," he said, calling the commemoration "an educational project for younger generations". The plight of those onboard was memorably dramatized in the 1960 Otto Preminger film of the same name, starring Paul Newman. "Boarding this ship was like climbing Mount Sinai," according to Isthak Roman, whose father was onboard, speaking at Sunday's ceremony. On the night of July 10-11, 1947, a strange-looking boat overflowing with people, most of them survivors of Nazi concentration camps, began slowly making its way out of the harbor, officially destined for Colombia. The operation was mounted by the Haganah, a Jewish pre-state organization in the Land of Israel, which had acquired the flat-bottomed boat originally intended for only river navigation from an iron yard, before discreetly bringing it to the Mediterranean. At the same time, the group began bringing thousands of would-be immigrants to Sete aboard more than 170 trucks. "If we hadn't decided quickly to load these 4,554 people we would have had serious problems," a leader of the truck convoy, one of five Sete residents at the time who attended the anniversary ceremony. "Haganah was behind this entirely clandestine operation, very few people in Sete were aware of what was going on," said Gustave Brugidou, president of a Sete historical society. Most residents were focused on the Tour de France racers as the cycling race passed through the city on July 10, and "were astounded to see all these people arriving on Mole Saint Louis dressed in winter clothes in the middle of summer," he said, referring to the port's jetty. The passengers, representing a multitude of nationalities and including about 1,700 women and 950 children, squeezed themselves onto the boat still known as the "President Warfield". Their goal was to break through the infamous British blockade on Jewish immigration to Palestine, where the Zionist movement hoped to create a Jewish state, and the ship was renamed the "Exodus 47" on July 16, a reference to Moses's biblical exodus, and a flag bearing the star of David was hoisted. Had European Jews been allowed into British Mandate-controlled Palestine, many could have been saved. As it was, the British caved to Arab pressure, preventing Jews from escaping the Holocaust and did not change their policy to accept survivors. Two days later, a British navy vessel that had been trailing the Exodus seized it just a few dozen miles from the Palestine coast, in a confrontation that resulted in at least two deaths. "The ship's commander asked them to stop the fight, he said, 'My mission is to bring Jews to Israel alive, not dead'," Yossi Bayor, who was 15 when he boarded the Exodus, told the ceremony in Hebrew. The passengers were rounded up by the British and put on prison ships bound for the French coast, where they refused to disembark, and after several weeks were brought to Hamburg, Germany, in the British-controlled zone where the Holocaust survivors were put back in camps. "The conditions were terrible, we had no sleeping berths, everyone was on the floor," Bayor recalled. The ordeal sparked a global outcry, and most of the passengers were later interned on Cyprus, then a British colony, and did not reach Israel until it declared statehood in 1948. "Thanks to — or because of — the odyssey undertaken by this ship from Sete, the State of Israel was created a few months later," said Brugidou, underscoring its influence on the decisive United Nations vote to divide Palestine in November 1947. The name Palestine for the area was coined by the Roman conquerors who destroyed the Second Temple in 70 C.E. in revenge for the fight put up by the Jewish forces. It referred to the ancient and now long gone Philistine tribes who came from the Greek Isles and were an implacable enemy of the Jews in biblical times and has no connection with the Arabs who call themselves Palestinian today.. Israel Built A 9/11 Memorial Out Of Ground Zero Wreckage – You Have To See it: Benny Johnson, IJR, 2015—It is called the 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza, and was initiated and designed by Eliezer Weishoff. Completed in 2009 for $2 million, it sits on 5 acres of hillside, 20 miles from the center of Jerusalem according to Wikipedia. Leading Researcher on Campus Jewish Life Rejects Report of ‘Devastating Loss’ of Support for Israel Among Young Jews: Rachel Frommer, Algemeiner, June 23, 2017—A leading social scientist and researcher of campus Jewish life told The Algemeiner on Thursday that a new report claiming there has been a “devastating loss” of support for Israel among US Jewish students did not match his findings from nearly 20 years of systematic study of the topic. Jewish Voice for Peace Is Spreading Hate on Campus. It’s Time for Jewish Academics to Speak Up.: Jarrod Tanny, Tablet, July 5, 2017—I am a professor of Jewish history in North Carolina, and I find it very discouraging that so few young academics, particularly tenured ones, in Jewish studies are willing to speak out against Jewish Voice for Peace’s ideology and its increasingly vitriolic tactics. I am calling on my colleagues who believe that dialogue and justice are not incompatible with Zionism to recognize Jewish Voice for Peace’s demagoguery. The Appalling Protests at Evergreen State College: Charlotte Allen, Weekly Standard, June 9, 2017 —At Evergreen State College, the revolution will be televised. And it already has been, thanks to the smartphone. Tagged as Academics, BDS, Exodus, Holocaust, Leftists, Trump CIJR Gala 2019- Manfred Gerstenfeld Communiqué Vol #866-Quel avenir pour la Cisjordanie? 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New Typhoid Vaccine Could Help Reduce Threats Posed By Antimicrobial Resistance STAT: A new vaccine against typhoid fever will also help fight antimicrobial resistance Seth Berkely, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance “…Until relatively recently, antibiotics were a major part of the solution in the fight against typhoid fever. … But through the widespread overuse and misuse of antibiotics, the typhoid-causing pathogen has developed resistance to multiple drugs. … The solution to this problem is to prevent typhoid fever in the first place. … [The typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) is] one of the most widely anticipated vaccines … Demand for the vaccine is expected to be high. Not just because TCV should save three lives for every 10,000 doses administered, but also because of the significant role it will play in reducing the growing threats posed by antimicrobial resistance, and the associated economic burden it brings. … With an estimated 50 million doses of antibiotics prescribed for typhoid every year, one solution is simple: prevent the disease in the first place through vaccination and continued improvements in water and sanitation” (11/30). Opinion/Editorial

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'It's not over yet.' High winds threaten progress made fighting California fires David McNew <p>Los Angeles County firefighters attack flames approaching the Salvation Army camps in Malibu Creek State Park during the Woolsey Fire on November 10, 2018 near Malibu, California. The Woolsey Fire began as residents in thousand Oaks were still reacting to a mass shooting in their community. The fire has reached the Pacific Coast at Malibu and continues grow. </p> Powerful winds are expected to sweep through California on Sunday, exacerbating three major fires that have ravaged the state from both ends for several days. The Camp Fire -- the most destructive fire in state history and the third-deadliest -- has killed at least 23 people and 110 are missing. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been displaced and thousands of homes and structures have been destroyed. Saturday saw a brief reprieve in the fierce winds fueling the fires, and firefighters hoped to use the break to their advantage. PHOTOS: 3 wildfires rage in California But on Sunday a Cal Fire unit chief warned that "it's not over yet." Here's the latest on the fires: • Camp Fire: The largest of the trio, the Camp Fire has burned 109,000 acres across Northern California and is 25% contained as of Sunday morning, according to Cal Fire. It's destroyed an estimated 6,700 buildings, most of which were homes. • Woolsey and Hill fires: In Southern California, the Woolsey fire has spread to 83,275 acres and was 10% contained, up from 5% the night before. The smaller Hill Fire covered 4,531 acres and was 70% contained. Together, responsible for the destruction of 179 structures, but another 57,000 are threatened, according to fire officials. • Massive evacuations: More than 300,000 people have been forced from their homes statewide. The majority of those residents are in Los Angeles County, where 170,000 were evacuated. Winds, climate change provoking fires While firefighters made headway on containing the fires Saturday, the return of powerful winds a day later threatened that progress, particularly for the Woolsey Fire in Southern California. "Sadly, with these winds, it's not over yet," Scott Jalbert, chief of Cal Fire's San Luis Obispo Unit, told reporters at a news conference. He said the gusts have officials "very concerned." Officials previously warned gusts would peak at around 40 mph, which could affect the viability of using aircraft to combat the fires. Authorities are worried that embers from the Woolsey Fire could reach unburnt buildings, spark new fires or add to the blaze, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said. They also told people in mandatory evacuation zones that if they hadn't left yet, they needed to. Ventura County Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen warned the rate by which the fire is spreading is "exponentially more" than has been seen in fires in years past. Echoing a comment Gov. Jerry Brown made during last year's Thomas Fire, Lorenzen said extreme fire conditions were "kind of the new normal," thanks to climate change. Osby said the challenges presented by climate change are clear across California. Authorities in the southern part of the state used to be able to rely on help from their counterparts up north around this time of the year, Osby said, when the threat of fire was much less prevalent in those communities. But that's no longer the case. Photos: Here's what California's wildfires look like from space "And as evident by the Camp Fire in Northern California -- which is larger than this, more structures have been lost than this, more lives have been lost -- it's evident from that situation statewide that we're in climate change and it's going to be here for the foreseeable future," Osby said. Though the state's drought has eased slightly, it's still abnormally dry, according to CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward. That leaves a lot of dry vegetation to feed fires. Crews searching for the dead Crews have been combing through blackened ruins throughout the weekend. The number of dead more than doubled late Saturday with the news that officials discovered 14 more sets of remains, bringing the total to 23. Ten victims were found in or near Paradise, California, a town of about 26,000 that's been all but leveled by the Camp Fire. Officials are also investigating the deaths of two people in Southern California. Their charred remains were found in a car in Malibu, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Chief John Benedict said, but homicide investigators were still working the case. The painstaking process of finding the missing and identifying the dead is challenging, with some of the bodies recovered burned beyond recognition. "In some cases, the only remains we are able to recover are bones or bone fragments," Butte County Sheriff and Coroner Kory Honea told reporters. "I know that members of the community who are missing loved ones are anxious, and I know that the news of us recovering bodies has to be disconcerting." Many bodies recovered from the Camp Fire were found inside or near homes or in vehicles, officials said. Authorities said they have reports of 110 people still missing in the area affected by the blaze. Hours after the fire broke out, fleeing residents who were being evacuated from Paradise found themselves trapped in gridlock traffic as the fire closed in. In the chaos, some drivers abandoned their vehicles and attempted to escape on foot. Woolsey Fire: Some return home after 'firestorm' Craig Clunies-Ross and his wife had seen wildfires before and they were prepared when it was time to evacuate their Malibu home. But what they saw when they stepped outside shocked them. "It was a 100-foot wall of flames. It was like a firestorm, it was roaring," he told CNN affiliate KABC, referring to the Woolsey Fire. The family quickly took photos, a few clothes and other essentials hoping they could come back to their home. On Saturday, they were among several families who drove through scorched hills and discovered their homes were leveled.

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Right to Life East Texas director speaks out about Waskom abortion ban Director of Longview based group: “They made the right choice” By KLTV Digital Media Staff | June 14, 2019 at 7:06 PM CDT - Updated June 14 at 7:25 PM WASKOM, TEXAS (KLTV) - The man who led an imitative to outlaw abortion in an East Texas city says he’s in talks with other cities to do the same. Mark Lee Dickson is the director for Longview-based Right to Life East Texas. The action taken this week by the Waskom city council started with Dickson expressing fear of an abortion clinic coming to town after Louisiana lawmakers passed a bill banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. “I was reminded in the early 1990s that an abortion clinic by the name of Hope Medical Group for Women at one time had plans to move to Waskom if abortion ever shutdown in Louisiana, and so I was thinking, man, our cities are vulnerable," Dickson said. The city’s news ordinance calls for a fine of up to $2,000 for anyone providing an abortion in the city. Those penalties would only be enforced if Roe V Wade is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, according to our sister station KSLA. “There is no right to abortion in the constitution,” Dickson said. “It is time for our cities to really stand up and believe in that constitution that all people have that right to life.” Dickson says the ordinance does make exceptions for cases of rape, incest, and the health of the mother. He says since Tuesday’s vote, he’s been contacted by both residents and officials from cities across East Texas and the country. “There have been some people raising questions of interest and I don’t want to give their cards too soon," Dickson said. "But there are city council members that have expressed interest in doing something in their city.” The American Civil Liberties Union says the ordinance demonstrates a lack of concern for citizen’s health. A statement reads in part, "the ability to access contraception and abortion care is critical to people’s health and dignity. No one’s access to health care should depend on where they live.” RELATED: East Texas city declares itself a sanctuary for unborn

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Cass County storm spawned EF1 tornado Monday, NWS confirms Lightning (Source: Morguefile) By Christian Terry | October 22, 2019 at 5:58 PM CDT - Updated October 22 at 5:59 PM CASS COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - The National Weather Service has confirmed a third tornado in East Texas from storms that took place Sunday night into Monday morning. According to the National Weather Service, the EF1 tornado touched down on County Road 2617 in Cass County at 3:08 a.m. They said it tracked almost due east through rural parts of central Cass County for nearly 10 miles. The weather service said almost all the damage was confined to trees along the entire path. They said there were a few spots where small amounts of tin roofing material were wrapped in among tree debris, but the source of the roofing material was never located. The weather service said at the surveyed ending point of the tornado on County Road 1145, there was a very small shed structure whose roof was removed. The tornado ended 5 miles south of Douglassville at 3:21 a.m. The weather service estimated the peak winds of the tornado to be 100 mph. It had a path length of 9.12 miles and a path width of approximately 150 yards. No one was injured in the tornado. Christian Terry Christian Terry is a digital producer for KLTV 7. He comes to KLTV from KAUZ in Wichita Falls, Texas.

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Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life The first edition of Full Steam Ahead! pioneered the concept of vision as the vital ingredient for truly satisfying long-term success. It became an international bestseller that was translated into twenty-two languages. In this newly updated edition, Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner offer new content and new resources to help you create and communicate a vision that will radically transform your work and your life. We need vision during times of growth, change, or opportunity, to see if we’re headed in the right direction. We also need vision during times of uncertainty—when we’ve lost confidence in our leaders, our institutions, or ourselves. Instead of focusing on “what’s next,” we need to refocus on “what’s first.” Getting back to the basics means knowing who you are, where you’re going, and what will guide your journey—having a vision. This is where we must start (or revisit) if we want to thrive. When work is meaningful and connected to what we truly desire, we tap into a productive and creative power that is stronger than we ever imagined. Ken Blanchard and Jesse Stoner show how to create a vision for your organization, and for your own life, that will unleash your power and potential and allow you to go Full Steam Ahead! They offer numerous examples of effective visions and show exactly how to create an enduring vision that will guide you on a daily basis. The lessons of Full Steam Ahead! are revealed through the inspirational story of two people who are able to create a vision for the place they work and for their own lives. Together they discover the three elements of a compelling vision: a significant purpose, a picture of the future, and clear values. By understanding how a vision is created, communicated, and lived, they discover how to make a vision come alive. "A powerful, simple guide for a journey we all need to take." ~ Margaret J. Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science and coauthor of Walk Out Walk On Category: Managing teams ISBN-13: 978-1-60509-875 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Edition description: Revised and updated Available in audio, paperback, and e-reader formats Ken Blanchard, one of the most influential leadership experts in the world, is the coauthor of the iconic bestseller, The One Minute Manager, and more than 60 other books whose combined sales total more than 21 million copies. His groundbreaking works have been translated into more than 42 languages and in 2005 he was inducted into Amazon’s Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 bestselling authors of all time. He is also the cofounder with his wife, Margie, of The Ken Blanchard Companies® , an international management training and consulting firm in San Diego, California. Jesse Lyn Stoner, founder of Seapoint Center, has spent more than twenty years working with leaders and studying vision in organizations. She has consulted in a wide range of industries, from Fortune 500 and small businesses to nonprofit and government agencies, helping organizations create shared visions and the strategies to achieve them. Leading at a Higher Level, 3rd Edition Go Team! Take Your Team to the Next Level

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Radnor Real Estate (19080) And Community Information Radnor is thriving picturesque small Main Line town with sophisticated shops and businesses. Radnor has a strong community life, with many parks and playgrounds for sports and family activities, a rich cultural heritage, and is home to many global companies. Radnor Township school system has been rated as one of the finest in the nation. SEPTA train systems has stops within Radnor, allowing residents an easy commute to Center City Philadelphia and surrounding areas. Radnor Township was named one of the top 100 “Best Places to Live and Launch” by Fortune Small Business Magazine and as “The Best Place to Live in the Suburbs” by Philadelphia Magazine. There are many private institutions located on the Main Line for PK-12 education; for a Roman Catholic education there is St. Katherine of Siena School, Archbishop John Carroll High School, Villa Maria Academy for Girls, Devon Prep and Malvern Prep. The Episcopal Academy is a private PK-12 institution located nearby in Newtown Square; The Shipley School and The Baldwin School, both located in Bryn Mawr. If you are looking for a nationally recognized college or university, the Main Line is home to many institutions that are renowned for their academic excellence. The Main Line offers thousands of students close proximity to Philadelphia, with easy access to public transportation, while still living within the comfort and safety of an affluent residential area. Bryn Mawr College, is a small all women’s only liberal arts college; Cabrini College, a coed Roman Catholic; Eastern University, a private, co-education Christian university. Harcum College is a two-year, private college with academic programs in health-sciences, liberal arts, business and professional studies. Haverford College is one of America’s most outstanding liberal arts colleges founded on Quaker values. Immaculata University is a Catholic coeducational institution sponsored by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Rosemont College is Catholic independent liberal arts institution. Saint Joseph’s University, located on City Avenue bordering Philadelphia and the Main Line, is a Catholic university seeped in Jesuit tradition. Saint Joseph University’s alumni network of 50,000 plus are eager to help students find meaningful employment after graduation. Also located on the Main Line is Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, which prepares men to be ordained into the Roman Catholic Priesthood. Valley Forge Military Academy and College, is two-year college prep school, for both young women and men. Villanova University is the oldest and largest Catholic university in Pennsylvania and is located in the heart of the Main Line. Radnor Community Information Radnor is home to many exciting things to do; the Main Line Newcomers Organization and Newcomers Club of Great Valley are good resources for those who are relocating to the Main Line. If you are looking for art, music or dance opportunities, Wayne Art Center, Contrempa Dance Center and Theater, Dance Sport Academy, Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music and Harcum Medley Music School all offer lessons for students, young and old. The Main Line is home to a plethora of fitness-related facilities, including the Main Line YMCA, Main Line Health & Fitness, Still Point Yoga Studios and Verge Yoga. There is something for everyone along the Main Line, from golfing at Aronimink Golf Club or Radnor Valley Country Club, to playing tennis at the Radnor Racket Club. Whatever your interests and hobbies are, you will find all of your needs met in the Main Line communities. For all other Radnor Township questions contact me at Kevin.Toll@LongandFoster.com or 610-609-1096.

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Bullock announces emergency rules to ban sales of flavored vaping products in Montana By: Jonathon Ambarian Montana Gov. Steve Bullock said Tuesday that the use of e-cigarettes and other vaping products has become a public health crisis in Montana. He pointed to a growing number of lung illnesses that have been linked to vaping – so far, more than 1,000 cases across the country and two in Montana. “Young Montanans are using e-cigarettes at an alarming rate, while officials investigate the possible causes of a national outbreak of e-cigarette-related injury and death, leaving us really at a crossroads,” Bullock said. “Today, I choose action.” Bullock announced he will ask the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services to implement emergency rules, temporarily prohibiting the sale of flavored vaping products. “This is the right thing to do during the outbreak of these illnesses and deaths, and it’s the right thing to do for our future leaders of our state,” he said. Bullock said DPHHS has the authority to make temporary emergency rules to address quickly developing public health crises. The ban is set to take effect on Oct. 22. It will last for 120 days – the longest time allowed by law – and expire on Feb. 19. Leaders said the ban on flavored products is aimed at what they call an “epidemic” of youth e-cigarette use. The 2019 Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey showed more than half of the state’s high school students have tried e-cigarettes, and almost a third are currently using them. DPHHS estimates 43,000 Montanans between the ages of 12 and 18 have tried vaping products, and 22,000 currently use them. Brett Zanto, principal of Capital High School in Helena, said he’s seen a significant increase in vaping in just the last two years. “It occurs in classrooms, bathrooms, hallways, foyers and the cafeteria,” he said. “Bathroom use is probably the most prevalent. Many of our bathrooms smell like bubble gum or strawberries.” State health leaders said young people are at a particular risk from e-cigarette use because nicotine can have a greater effect on developing brains. Dr. Greg Holzman, Montana’s state medical officer, pointed to a study showing 96% of youth who had tried vaping started with flavored products. Bullock noted that the Trump administration has discussed possible additional restrictions on flavored vaping products, but he said he wasn’t willing to wait for federal action. “We’re not asking retailers to destroy products," he said. "Rather we’re requiring that they be taken off of the shelves while we allow researchers and public health authorities to further research and coordinate evidence-based responses to arrest the growth in e-cigarette-related injuries and deaths." The ban will apply to all in-person and online sales in Montana. It will not apply to tribal reservations, though DPHHS leaders said they are encouraging tribes to adopt similar policies. Vaping advocates immediately blasted the governor’s announcement. In a statement, the American Vaping Association called it “senseless.” Ron Marshall is the co-owner of Freedom Vapes, LLC, which operates vape shops in Bozeman, Belgrade and Hamilton. He said vaping retailers in Montana are well-regulated and haven’t had any connection to the recent illnesses, which he blamed specifically on illicit vape cartridges containing THC. “Our industry’s been in business for almost 20 years now,” Marshall said. “We’ve never had any serious complications from anything related to the e-cigarette nicotine industry.” Marshall estimated about 95 percent of his sales are for flavored products. He said adult customers who use e-cigarettes to help them quit smoking prefer flavors because they want to get away from the taste of tobacco. “By banning all flavored e-liquids, you’re probably going to put every vape shop in the state out of business at the end of 120 days, because there’s no business out there that I know of that can stay up and running by being overregulated to stop selling a product,” he said. Montana joins at least six other states that have sought to ban flavored vaping products: Michigan, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Washington and Oregon. Several of those bans have been delayed because of court challenges. Marshall said he knows several legal challenges to Montana’s rules are already in the works. However, Bullock said he’s confident the state has the authority to make this decision. “I would love to think that industry would do the responsible thing and not bring action on this, but if they do, we’re prepared for that,” he said.

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KU Jayhawks MU Tigers KSU Wildcats Quick links... 🏈 Road to Miami Chiefs Royals Sporting KC KU Jayhawks MU Tigers KSU Wildcats High Schools SportsOlympics Mirai Nagasu leaps into history with Olympic triple axel Maddie Meyer <p>GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 12: Mirai Nagasu of the United States of America celebrates after competing in the Figure Skating Team Event Ladie's Single Free Skating on day three of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 12, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)</p> Mirai Nagasu made her triple axel look elegant and effortless. But in landing one of the most challenging jumps in figure skating, she accomplished a feat that made her the first female American figure skater to nail the triple axel at the Olympics. At the end of her routine, Nagasu triumphantly threw her hands in the air and a bright, exuberant smile spread across her face. Nagasu became only the third woman to successfully complete the triple axel at the Olympics -- the other two being Japanese skaters Midori Ito and Mao Asada. The axel is considered so difficult because it is the only jump in which the skater takes to the air while facing forward. A triple axel requires three-and-a-half rotations before landing. In September, the 24-year-old from Arcadia, California, became just the third US woman to complete the triple axel in a competition and now, she did it at the Olympics. Tonya Harding landed the jump in 1991, as did Kimmie Meissner in 2005. Nagasu finished with a 137.53 overall score, which was second-best of the ladies free skate and helped Team USA win bronze for the team event in figure skating. She said afterward that she "knew in my heart that this day would come." "This is definitely history, or herstory, whatever way you want to put it," Nagasu said in comments carried by Team USA. This is Nagasu's second Olympics. She competed at the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver, where she finished fourth. She sought to return to the Olympic games in Sochi in 2014, but wasn't selected to the US team in what was a controversial decision. Nagasu had finished third at the 2014 US Figure Skating Championships, but was passed over for fourth-place finisher Ashley Wagner, who was believed to have a stronger international resume. So Nagasu had to sit out of the Sochi games. Fellow US figure skater Adam Rippon recalled the disappointment that year, in an interview with NBC. After the friends were both not selected for the Olympics, Rippon and Nagasu grabbed In-N-Out burgers and went to eat them on the roof of her house. "We were eating In-N-Out because we were so upset that we weren't at the Olympic games," Rippon said. But both figure skaters were very determined. Nagasu homed in on the triple axel. In January, she finished second in the US Figure Skating Championships and made her triumphant return to the Olympics, becoming the first US woman to return to the Games after missing an edition, according to Team USA. So far, 2018 has turned out to be a completely different story for both Rippon and Nagasu who are roommates at the PyeongChang Olympics. "Tonight, the Olympics are truly magical..." Rippon told NBC. "We gave each other a hug and I said, 'Mirai, we're here! We did it.'" Rippon, who skated to a score of 172.98 in the team figure skating men's free skate, has also become a social media darling as his name trended worldwide Sunday. The two friends would clutch Olympic medals instead of burgers after the team event.

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Study says guests are finding hidden cameras inside rental properties, hotel rooms Posted: 10:21 PM, Jul 29, 2019 By: Austin Carter A suspected package thief in the Las Vegas valley has been arrested. Las Vegas police say a man stole more than $4,000 worth of packages from the homeowner's front step. Well-positioned surveillance cameras showing the driveway and the vehicle helped officers track the suspect down, police say. There’s a disturbing trend of hidden cameras being found in rental properties and hotel rooms, and security experts are explaining how they’re getting there and what folks should do if they find one. LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — There’s a disturbing trend of hidden cameras being found in rental properties and hotel rooms, and security experts are explaining how they’re getting there and what folks should do if they find one. A vacation in paradise quickly turned south for a couple in California who took a video after finding a hidden camera inside a fake smoke detector. “I actually came up to it and noticed that there was a hidden camera right here,” says the man. This was inside the rental property they were calling home for their getaway, and unfortunately these kind of finds are part of a disturbing trend of people finding hidden cameras inside rental properties. “I don’t ever think to check for it, kinda creepy to think about,” says Amy Billeaudeaux, visitor. A 2019 survey by IPX1031 found that 58% of participants were worried about hidden cameras inside Airbnbs, and 11% of them actually say they found a hidden camera inside an Airbnb property before. “Look around the room, does something look out of place? Is something not looking like it should be in that room,” says Adam Coughran. Coughran spent nearly 20 years as a police officer in Orange County, California assigned to the tourist orientated policing unit, which focuses on crime around the Disneyland area. He says hidden cameras are an emerging trend, not only in rental properties but in hotel rooms too. And they are not placed there by the hotels. “Hotels are primarily concerned with cameras in the big public areas, the lobbies, play or recreation area,” says Coughran. “To find cameras inside a hotel room is not common practice.” The cameras could be hidden in nearly anything from smoke detectors to lights, even fans. It’s no doubt unsettling. But what laws protect you if one is found? Coughran says it can be a bit of a gray area when it comes to the laws. “In some states things are very cut and dry. Where they can be, where they can’t be. And virtually every state has some sort of law that discloses where they are on the premises, whether interior or exterior,” says Coughran. While the laws can be dicey, Airbnb has already taken action against hosts who have had cameras on their properties. Their rules now state: "If you’re a host and you have any type of security camera or other recording device in or around a listing, even if it’s not turned on or hooked up, we require that you indicate its presence in your house rules. We also require you to disclose if an active recording is taking place. If a host discloses the device after booking, Airbnb will allow the guest to cancel the reservation and receive a refund." For those we spoke to staying in one of the 150,000 hotel rooms in Las Vegas, some say they’ll think twice. “I think it’s something you need to keep your eye out for, for sure, because someone is watching you on the other end,” says Carlisa Singleton, visitor.

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A Day in the Life of a Spanish Missionary Spanish Missionaries by Jose Cisneros Friar Alonso de Benavides, known as the Custodio y Conversión de San Pablo, the newly appointed ecclesiastical dignitary of the New Mexico mission field, he arrived with a supply caravan in 1626. The Portuguese Franciscan missionary was accompanied by 12 Franciscans, who joined 14 missionaries who were already residing in New Mexico. Benavides’ arrival signaled a new beginning for the New Mexican missions. The tireless friar toiled in the expanded mission field and promoted it with his prolific quill. Written for the Pope and Spanish king, his Memorial of 1630, and a revised version in 1634 were published in five languages before the end of 17th century. An offshoot of the colonial Mexican Church, the New Mexico missions were not unlike other mission provinces in the Americas. In his Memorial, Benavides offered a composite, albeit romanticized, view of “the pious tasks of the friars in these conversions.” Of a day in the life of a missionary, Benavides, seeing through the eyes of a colonial missionary, wrote a description of a friar’s daily routine that could be applied anywhere in the Americas during the Spanish colonial period. Benavides’ Memorial embellished the successes of the New Mexico missions and brushed off the American Indian view — in particular that of anti-mission Pueblo Indians. Their view was often expressed as a rejection of the missionaries. When passive resistance failed, the Indians turned to armed rebellion. Despite their goals, the friars ultimately settled for imperfectly converted Christian Indians who integrated Christianity, native beliefs and spirituality into their customs and traditions. The missionaries had satisfied the Spanish government’s objectives to pacify the frontier, and the church’s quest to save souls and spread Christianity. Benavides’ universal description of a day in the life of a missionary resonated in the daily lives of missionaries in remote lands. He wrote: Spanish Missionary “Since the land is very remote and isolated and the difficulties of the long journeys require more than a year of travel, the friars, although there are many who wish to dedicate themselves to those conversions, find themselves unable to do so because of their poverty. Hence, only those who go there are sent by the Catholic King, at his own expense, for the cost is too excessive that only his royal zeal can afford it. This is the reason that there are few friars over there and that most of the convents have only one religious each, and he ministers to four, six, or more neighboring pueblos, in the midst of which he stands as a lighted torch to guide them in spiritual as well as temporal affairs. More than 20 Indians, devoted to the service of the church, live with him in a convent. They take turns in relieving one another as porters, sextons, cooks, bell ringers, gardeners, refectioners, and in other tasks. They perform their duties with as much circumspection and care as if they were friars. At eventide, they say their prayers together, with much devotion, in front of some image. In every pueblo where a friar resides, he has schools for the teaching of praying, singing, playing musical instruments and other interesting things. Promptly at dawn, one of the Indian singers, whose turn it is that week, goes to ring the bell for the Prime, at the sound of which those who go to school assemble and sweep the rooms thoroughly. The singers chant the Prime in the choir. The friar must be present at all of this and takes note of those who have failed to perform this duty, in order to reprimand them later. When everything is neat and clean, they again ring the bell and each one goes to learn his particular specialty; the friar oversees it all, in order that these students may be mindful of what they are doing. At this time those who plan to get married come and notify him, so that he may prepare and instruct them according to our holy council;if there are any, either sick or healthy persons, who wish to confess in order to receive communion at mass, or who wish anything else, they come to tell him. After they have been occupied in this manner for an hour and a half, the bell is rung for mass. All go into the church, and the friar says mass and administers the sacraments. Mass over, they gather in different groups, examine the lists, and take note of those who are absent in order to reprimand them later. After taking the roll, all kneel down by the church door and sing the Salve in their own tongue. This concluded, the friar says: “Praised be the most Holy Sacrament,” and dismisses them, warning them first of the circumstances with which they should go about their daily business. At mealtime, the poor people in the pueblo who are not ill come to the porter’s lodge, where the cooks of the convent have sufficient food ready, which is served to them by the friars; food for the sick is sent to their homes. After mealtime, it always happens that the friar has to go to some neighboring pueblo to hear a confession or to see if they are careless in the boys’ school, where they learn to pray and assist at mass for this is the responsibility of the sextons and it is their duty always to have a dozen boys for the service of the sacristy and to teach them how to help at mass and how to pray. In the evening, they tolled the bell for vespers, which are chanted by the singers who are on duty for the week, and, according to the importance of the feast, they celebrate it with organ chants as they do for mass. Again the friar supervises and looks after everything, the same as in the morning. On feast days, he says mass in the pueblo very early, and administers the sacraments and preaches. Then he goes to say a second mass in another pueblo, whose turn it is, where he observes the same procedure, and then he returns to his convent. These two masses are attended by the people of the tribe, according to their proximity to the pueblo where they are celebrated. One of the weekdays which is not so busy is devoted to baptism and all those who are to be baptized come to the church on that day unless some urgent matter should intervene; in that case, it is performed at any time. With great care, their names are inscribed in a book; in another, those who are married; and in another, the dead. American History Main Page

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Legal Aid Agency spends £93m on cases not heard in court By Monidipa Fouzder2016-03-01T00:01:00+00:00 The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has spent more than £93m funding defence counsel in cases that did not go to trial, the National Audit Office has found. According to the public spending watchdog’s Efficiency in the criminal justice system report, published today, two-thirds of cases did not progress as planned despite case management improving since 2010-11. The proportion of trials that go ahead as planned in the magistrates’ court increased from 34% in the year ending September 2011 to 39% in the year ending September 2015. The proportion of Crown court cases that collapsed on the day of the trial fell from 30% to 24%. However, in 2014-15 the LAA funded defence counsel ‘to the tune of £93.3m’ to represent defendants whose cases never went to trial, excluding guilty pleas. The Crown Prosecution Service spent £21.5m preparing cases that were not heard in court. The report states that police officers in London who spend a day waiting to give evidence cost £139 a day. Expert witnesses, whose legal aid hourly rates vary between £40-£200, may still be paid even if a case does not progress as planned. Although fewer cases were entering the criminal justice system, the NAO backs up the lord chief justice's assertion that cases have become more complex. The number of sexual offences cases in the Crown court has risen by 12% in the past five years, from 9,178 in 2010-11 to 10,309 in 2014-15. The CPS 'expects a further rise’ in 2015-16. This includes ‘historic’ sex abuse and child sex abuse cases, involving vulnerable victims and witnesses. In magistrates’ courts, the number of domestic violence cases, which require ‘significant victim support’, has increased. Prosecutions for other serious offences are also increasing, including terrorism, organised crime, drugs and fraud. 'These cases can involve complex evidence, and trials with multiple defendants,' the report states. In the Crown court, backlogs increased by 34% between March 2013 and September 2015. The waiting time for a hearing has increased from 99 days to 134 days since September 2013. The report also highlights ‘significant regional variation’ in performance. A victim of crime in North Wales has a seven in 10 chance that the trial will go ahead at Crown court on the day it is scheduled. This drops to a two in 10 chance in Greater Manchester. In 2014-15, the length of time between the offence and completion of the case ranged from 243 days in Durham to 418 days in Sussex. Citing examples of inefficiencies when a case comes to court, the report states that court listing was the ‘single most common reason’ that a case had to be rescheduled last year, accounting for 21% of ineffective trials in the Crown court and 30% in the magistrates’ court. In some cases, technology and facilities ’may not function as intended’. During one of its case study visits, the NAO witnessed a trial where ‘the police had so little faith in the court’s equipment that they told us they hired their own at a cost of £500 a day’. Concluding that the criminal justice system is ‘not currently delivering value for money’, the report recommends that the Criminal Justice Board agree on what ‘good’ looks like for the system as a whole. With 'no common view of what success looks like', the NAO says organisations 'may not act in the best interests of the whole system'.

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The Sorrows of Young Werther Book 1: Oct 20, 1771-Feb 20, 1772 Summary & Analysis LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Sorrows of Young Werther, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Some ten days later, Werther writes Wilhelm to inform him that he’s begun work for the ambassador. It’s a difficult job, especially after having had so much free time in Wahlheim, but Werther admits that it’s just what he needed. Those who don’t work, he says, always think of themselves as inferior beings in need of some vague, but poetic, improvement. Working keeps the mind grounded and that makes for happier, more genuine people. Werther, as usual, seems to be an expert on everything as soon as he’s begun it. His philosophizing on work is a bit hard to take from a character who hasn’t worked a day up until now and who will, very shortly, begin to complain bitterly about having to work at all. By the end of November, Werther has made a friend out of Count C. The Count’s education and warmth impress Werther, and he feels they have a genuine friendship that extends beyond the workplace. The ambassador proves another matter. Werther already detests the man’s inflexibility and stringent work habits. The ambassador, for his part, is jealous of Werther’s friendship with the Count and constantly sends Werther’s work back for revision. Werther’s ability to exist naturally amongst members of either the upper or lower class sometimes seems to make him forget his own class position and the limits it has. Though he can be friends with the Count, that friendship has limitations that he fails to recognize. Another friend that Werther has made in his new position is Miss von B. This friendship, however, causes Werther to bemoan the strict class divisions of his day and age. Miss von B. is an aristocrat, and her aunt (with whom she lives) disapproves of her friendship with Werther, who is of a lower class. Werther writes angrily to Wilhelm about this, saying that even kings must take some guidance from those of the lower class if they wish to be successful. This, he feels, proves that class (and the noble titles that come with it) is essentially meaningless. Up until now, Werther has only been shown interacting with members of the lower class. While he clearly admires them and respects them to some degree, it’s equally clear that he also feels superior to them. He uses his higher class as a way to distance himself from them. When others do the same to him (as Miss von B.’s aunt does) he is instantly outraged at the injustice without pausing to consider his hypocrisy. On the 20th of January, Werther finds himself in a small country inn, weathering a storm. He decides to write to Lotte to tell her about his new life as an employee of the ambassador. He likens his job to a game that he is playing but not truly invested in. His thoughts turn to Miss von B., and he admits that he has spent a lot of time with her, often daydreaming about nature side-by-side. But, in the end, their conversations always end with Werther telling Miss von B. everything he can about Lotte. Most storms in the book come when Werther has whipped himself up into some emotional frenzy (as when he first met Lotte). While he’s upset about Miss von B.’s aunt here, his emotions aren’t nearly at that level when this storm rolls through. His decision to write to Lotte out of the blue, however, suggests that maybe Werther is still dealing with his feelings for her—just silently, for now. A full month later, on February 20, Werther again writes back to Wahlheim. This time he writes to congratulate Albert on his marriage to Lotte. The two married without telling Werther. Werther had previously decided that he would remove Lotte’s picture from his bedroom wall on her wedding day. Since Albert and Lotte hid their marriage from Werther, however, the day has passed without the picture being removed. Werther decides to leave it on his wall. Though Werther congratulates Albert, there’s an unasked question between the two: why did Albert feel the need to hide the marriage from Werther in the first place? There are no cut-and-dry answers to this question, but two possibilities are that Albert feared Werther would create some scene or that he hoped Werther had moved on. Gill, Sean. "The Sorrows of Young Werther Book One: October 20, 1771-February 20, 1772." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 3 Aug 2017. Web. 28 Jan 2020. Gill, Sean. "The Sorrows of Young Werther Book One: October 20, 1771-February 20, 1772." LitCharts LLC, August 3, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2020. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-sorrows-of-young-werther/book-one-october-20-1771-february-20-1772.

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Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk Person Male Born 3/4/1893 Died 1/6/1943 Categories: Theatre, Cinema Countries: USA Actor and film director. Born Leslie Howard Steiner at 31 Westbourne Road, Forest Hill. He began his career as a stage actor in Britain and the USA. In films, he appeared in 'Berkeley Square', 'The Petrified Forest' and most famously as Ashley Wilkes in 'Gone With the Wind'. Died when his plane was shot down by enemy fire over the Bay of Biscay. It has been suggested that he met his death because he was working for British Intelligence, or that Winston Churchill was thought to be a passenger on the plane. Leslie Howard, 1893 - 1943, actor and film director, lived here. English Heri... Eadweard Muybridge Photographer and motion picture pioneer. Born Edward James Muggeridge in King... Alison Steadman Actress. Born Liverpool. Married Mike Leigh. Has worked very successfully in ... Noel Coward Estate The estate of Sir Noel Coward. Film director who settled in London and made many of his films here. Born New... Actor, director and visionary who recreated Shakespeare's Globe. Born Chicago...

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Person Male Born 21/11/1694 Died 30/5/1778 Categories: Seriously Famous, Literature Countries: France Born in Pairs as Francois Marie Arouet. Adopted the name Voltaire aged 24. The traditional story is that the intolerance of Catholic France forced this free-thinker to escape to the land of liberty. Alternatively: he had insulted the regent and, after imprisonment in the Bastille, he escaped the socially embarrassing situation by moving to London for two years. At the time the French and English generally disliked each other but Voltaire was an anglophile, seeing it as the land of progress. He also found London a convenient place to be since there were many Huguenot French publishers and printers (real exiles) who were keen to publish material attacking Catholic France. He arrived in 1726, not speaking English. Initially lived in Wandsworth and learnt English, at least in part, by attending performances of Shakespeare's plays at the Drury Lane Theatre. To the English he claimed not to appreciate Shakespeare but later, when back in France, he promoted the English playwright, producing some of the earliest translations. With fluent English he went on to mix with English high society and the great figures of the Enlightenment. In 1728 he returned to France, where he became a key figure in the French Enlightenment. In 1733 he published "Letters on the English Nation" which clearly showed his Anglophilia. Died in Paris. The plaque was stolen some years ago. In 1994 (300th birthday) the Voltaire F... Earl of Ellesmere, Francis Egerton Politician, poet, founding trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. One of t... Gavin Maxwell Author and Naturalist. Born at House of Elrig, Mochrum, Wigtownshire. During ... Writer. Born at 66 Braxfield Road, Brockley. His best known work, 'Tarka the ... Elizabeth Rundle Charles Born Tavistock, Devon. Née Rundle, married Andrew Charles. Wrote and translat... J.B. Priestley Novelist, playwright and essayist. Wrote "When we are married" and "An Inspe...

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Using the Holocaust: Review Essay of Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust: The Concept of the Body Politic by Liah Greenfeld This is Part I of Professor Greenfeld's essay. To read the entire essay on our website, click here. Called "one of the most original thinkers of the current period" and "the great historian of Nationalism," Liah Greenfeld is University Professor and Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Anthropology at Boston University, and Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. By the Reviewer, Liah Greenfeld Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience For information on purchasing this book through Amazon at a special, discounted price, click here. It’s the American dream — unfettered freedom to follow our ambitions, to forge our identities, to become self-made. But what if our culture of limitless self-fulfillment is actually making millions desperately ill? Mind, Modernity, Madness challenges the most cherished assumptions about the blessings of living in a land of the free. “[A] magnificent sweep of several fields”—The American Journal of Psychiatry Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust: The Concept of the Body Politic Author: Andreas Musolff This book provides a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. About the Author: Andreas Musolff is a Professor in the School of Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. Today, knowledge about the Holocaust must be a central element in every person’s education. This singular historical episode has changed the image of the West, including its self-perception, negated Western civilization’s claims to moral authority, and for all times destroyed its self-confidence; it has also forever altered our sense of human reality as such. Please send comments for Library of Social Science and/or Professor Greenfeld to oanderson@libraryofsocialscience.com To the extent that the role of education is to orient the individual in the world, each one of us must be daily reminded of the look of terror in the eyes of a boy, at most ten years old, led with his hands up, to a place of slaughter, of the silent scream of never-to-be-relieved suffering on the faces of even smaller children, starving on the streets of Warsaw ghetto, of the gas chambers and ovens of the crematoria, of the tons of women’s hair, shorn before the women were processed there, of the row of headless bodies in a clean, industrial-looking space, laid out in such an orderly fashion on iron tables to be dismembered and made into soap, and their heads in a tidy metal bowl on the well swept floor. Someone with a camera obligingly took these pictures. To know what kind of world we live in, we must look at them again and again, for our world is the world in which, however incredible, this did and was allowed to happen. The pictures, of course, do not help us understand. And neither do Kazetnik’s or Primo Levi’s descriptions, other testimonies, and documentaries such as Lanzmann’s Shoah. All these are just food for thought, to internalize, though never digest, and leave us with the question: how was this possible? how was it possible that some people in an advanced European nation, insisting on the glory of its civilization and accepted by others as highly civilized – Germany – conceived of the plans for the final solution of the Jewish question; that thousands of educated Germans articulated and creatively implemented these plans, achieving undreamt-of efficiency in the killing and inventing ever more sophisticated ways of inflicting unnecessary even for the realization of the plans but most gruesome suffering on the millions of defenseless men, women, and children, ingeniously operationalizing the original concepts and deriving from this the sense of achievement and pride in a job well done; that millions of other Germans – the majority of the German population – knowingly acquiesced in this orgy of violence, clearly unprecedented both in its colossal scale and in the absolute monstrosity of its wanton cruelty, often enthusiastically condoned it and quite contentedly consumed its by-products, such as soap made from human bodies, cloth woven of human hair, objets d’art crafted from human skin, and slave labor of those not yet dead? How could such people exist in a civilization based on the Bible – the Jewish Bible – with its commandment “thou shalt not kill,” its distinction between good and evil, its ideas of justice and the value of human life? What was it that Germany brought to this civilization, what kept this culture from ever fully becoming of it, made it an exception? And how could the rest of this civilization allow the Holocaust to go on, despite knowing what was going on, for six years, without any concerted effort to extricate the victims or, at the very least, destroy the infernal machine that made the still living among them envy the dead? These are not academic, not even intellectual questions, and no satisfaction can be derived from answering them. They are, in fact rhetorical; their significance is our protest: this should have never happened, but did! The damage done is irreparable. Still we ask. And, as in our time knowledge rarely comes unsupported by expert scholarship, there are scholars dedicated to the study of the Holocaust. Many document it, uncovering and publishing new testimonies, photographs, memoranda of the participating German officialdom. Some attempt to explain it, if only for therapeutic reasons, for explanation here just begs the question again. Andreas Musolff uses it as a case in point. Musolff’s book, Metaphor, Nation, and the Holocaust is published among Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse. As its subtitle indicates, it is a book on “the concept of body politic.” Musolff believes that a metaphor, i.e., an instance of linguistic practice of highlighting an aspect of a phenomenon by referring to it in terms reserved for an entirely different class of phenomena, has the power to so misrepresent reality for large masses of people as to make them literally see the referent of the metaphor as belonging to that different class and act according to this misrepresentation. (An example of this would be taking the metaphor of “Lion Heart” attributed to Richard Plantagenet in “Richard the Lion-Hearted” to mean that the famous crusader actually had a heart transplant from a lion or was a monster born with a heart of a big cat species, and treating him as an invalid in constant danger of cardiac arrest or as a freak of nature.) The metaphor with which Musolff is concerned is that of the body politic – the reference to a political community as an organic body – with all the health and sickness implications that may follow. With roots in deep antiquity, this metaphor, as Musolff demonstrates, was very common in European political discourse and central in Nazi rhetoric, in general, and in Hitler’s Mein Kampf, in particular, where it was applied to Germany attacked by parasites – Jews. “The imagery used by the Nazis,” writes Musolff on page 2 of his book, “to legitimize their genocidal policies provides us with an extreme ‘test-case’, so to speak, of a metaphor that was turned into a horrendous reality of World War and Holocaust.” This tremendous power of a metaphor to shape reality and the causal significance of the body-politic-attacked-by-parasites metaphor in bringing about the Holocaust is hypostatized (that is, assumed), rather than hypothesized, in the book. The question is only why specifically this metaphor had this power. Introducing his project, Musolff writes: “How could the conceptualization of a socio-political entity as a human body acquire such sinister connotations? Is it a specific historical phenomenon of German political culture in the twentieth century? Or is the metaphor inherently racist, suggesting as it does a physical/physiological concreteness of politics, which perhaps ‘lends itself’ to physical ‘solutions’ of any perceived problems? Should anyone who employs body-related metaphors in politics be viewed as a potential advocate of genocide? These are some of the questions that this book will engage with, with a view to determining the function of metaphor in political communication, i.e. the basic issue of how a metaphorical concept can impact on people’s political perception and behavior, even turn them into genocide perpetrators (or at least, passive bystanders).” The Holocaust here is, then, a doubly representative phenomenon: on the one hand, it represents the impact of a metaphor on people’s political perception and behavior – the basic issue the book examines; and, on the other, it represents the effects of racism. Therefore, one can use the Holocaust to a double benefit: to help one to determine the function of metaphor in political communication and to identify racist metaphors that may potentially lead to other racist episodes in the future, valuable lessons both. It is up to every individual to decide on the ethics of using the Holocaust in this way. I myself find it morally repulsive. But here I shall address the book as a work of social science and won’t be concerned with the morality of the enterprise.

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At that time two secular trends were taking hold in the market that shaped the firm�s growth strategy: talent acquisition and open architecture. The talent acquisition movement was being driven by a strong trend of high-quality investors wanting to be connected to a company solely focused on investment management where they could execute their own investment process without distractions. The secular trend of open architecture gave the firm confidence that there was a huge opportunity to distribute high-quality products more freely through consultants and mutual fund platforms if it had the right talent and results. In the beginning, Artisan Partners had one team and a vision shaped by these trends. Since then the firm�s business model has allowed it to attract best-in-class talent resulting in seven autonomous investment teams today. Open architecture provided investors with choice and through the firm�s distribution networks, Artisan Partners has grown to over $108 billion in assets under management across multiple channels as of March 31, 2015. The firm is managed by a dedicated business leadership team, which is distinct from the investment teams, and dedicated marketing and client service teams to oversee the numerous operational, legal and client service aspects of the business. This model maximizes the time the investment teams spend on investment decisions. PRODUCT TIMELINE: -U.S. Small-Cap Growth � April 1, 1995 -Non-U.S. Growth � January 1, 1996 -U.S. Mid-Cap Growth � April 1, 1997 -U.S. Small-Cap Value � June 1, 1997 -U.S. Mid-Cap Value � April 1, 1999 -Non-U.S. Small-Cap Growth � January 1, 2002 -Non-U.S. Value � July 1, 2002 -Value Equity � July 1, 2005 -Emerging Markets � July 1, 2006 -Global Opportunities � February 1, 2007 -Global Value � July 1, 2007 -Global Equity � April 1, 2010 -Global Small-Cap Growth - July 1, 2013 -High Income - April 1, 2014 Artisan Partners Limited Partnership and Artisan Partners UK LLP are wholly owned operating subsidiaries of Artisan Partners Holdings LP, an independent investment firm controlled by its general partner Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. [NYSE: APAM], a publicly traded company that is controlled by a stockholders committee consisting of three employee partners. As of March 31, 2015, the company�s investment professionals, senior management and other employees collectively owned approximately 29% of the economic interests in the company and a Stockholders Committee consisting of three employees possessed approximately 65% of the voting power in APAM. As required by SEC rules, the firm has disclosed in its public filings information about APAM capital stock held by its named executive officers and any holders of more than 5% of any class of APAM equity securities. Assets by Client Category Professional Categories Assets # of Clients Amount ($Mil) Individuals/Trusts : Limited Partnership : Foundations : ERISA : Unions, Taft-Hartley : Total # of Professional : 80 Analysts : 33 Portfolio Managers : 18 Traders : 14 Client Service : 88 Operation : 104 Artisan Partners Limited Partnership Personnel Mr. Craigh Cepukenas Email: info@artisanpartners.com Craigh A. Cepukenas, CFA, is a managing director of Artisan Partners and a portfolio manager on the Growth team. In this role, he is the lead portfolio manager for the Artisan U.S. Small-Cap Growth strategy and a portfolio manager for the Artisan Global Opportunities and U.S. Mid-Cap Growth strategies. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in November 1995 as an analyst, Mr. Cepukenas was an equity research associate at Stein Roe & Farnham, where he began his career in 1989. Mr. Cepukenas holds a bachelor�s degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master of Business Administration from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Mr. Andrew Euretig Andrew J. Euretig is a managing director of Artisan Partners and a portfolio manager on the Global Equity team. In this role, he is a portfolio manager for the Artisan Global Equity strategy and an associate portfolio manager for the Artisan Non-U.S. Growth strategy. He also conducts research, primarily focusing on companies within the industrials sector. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in June 2005, Mr. Euretig was a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley. He previously served in the United States Navy as an amphibious operations officer. Mr. Euretig holds a bachelor�s and a master�s degree in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley. Mr. James Hamel James D. Hamel, CFA, is a managing director of Artisan Partners and a portfolio manager on the Growth team. In this role, he is the lead portfolio manager for the Artisan Global Opportunities strategy and a portfolio manager for the Artisan U.S. Mid-Cap Growth and U.S. Small-Cap Growth strategies. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in May 1997, Mr. Hamel was a financial associate, cost analyst and operations manager of Kimberly-Clark Corporation from March 1990 to May 1997. He began his career at Carlson, Posten & Associates. Mr. Hamel holds a bachelor�s degree in Finance from the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis where he was a three-time Academic All-American. Mr. Charles-Henri Hamker Charles-Henri Hamker is a managing director of Artisan Partners and a portfolio manager on the Global Equity team. In this role, he is a portfolio manager for the Artisan Non-U.S. Small-Cap Growth, Global Equity, and Global Small-Cap Growth strategies and an associate portfolio manager for the Artisan Non-U.S. Growth strategy. He also conducts research, primarily focusing on companies within the consumer sector. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in August 2000, Mr. Hamker worked on the European Equities Desk in the New York office of Banque Nationale de Paris. Earlier in his career, he worked in the Paris and London offices of J.P. Morgan. Mr. Hamker holds a bachelor�s degree with a specialization in Finance and Economics from the European Business School in Paris. He is fluent in French and German. Mr. Matthew Kamm Matthew H. Kamm, CFA, is a managing director of Artisan Partners and a portfolio manager on the Growth team. In this role, he is the lead portfolio manager for the Artisan U.S. Mid-Cap Growth strategy and a portfolio manager for the Artisan Global Opportunities and U.S. Small-Cap Growth strategies. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in May 2003, Mr. Kamm was an associate equity research analyst at Banc of America Securities. Earlier in his career, he was a senior operations analyst for NYU Medical Center. Mr. Kamm holds a bachelor�s degree in Public Policy from Duke University and a Master of Business Administration, with a specialty in Finance and Operations Management, from New York University. Mr. Daniel Kane Daniel L. Kane, CFA, is a portfolio manager on the U.S. Value team. In this role, he is a portfolio manager for the Artisan Value Equity, U.S. Mid-Cap Value and U.S. Small-Cap Value strategies. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in March 2008, Mr. Kane was a senior small cap investment analyst at BB&T Asset Management, Inc. from August 2005 to March 2008. Mr. Kane began his investment career as a domestic equities securities analyst at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board in 1998. Mr. Kane holds a bachelor�s degree in Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master of Business Administration from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Mr. James Kieffer James C. Kieffer, CFA, is a managing director of Artisan Partners and a portfolio manager on the U.S. Value team. In this role, he is a portfolio manager for the Artisan Value Equity, U.S. Mid-Cap Value and U.S. Small-Cap Value strategies. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in August 1997, Mr. Kieffer was a research analyst at the investment firm McColl Partners. Mr. Kieffer began his investment career at Wachovia Corporation working with Scott Satterwhite from 1989 to 1996, initially as a personal trust portfolio manager and later as a general equities and small-cap value research analyst in the institutional portfolio group. Mr. Kieffer holds a bachelor�s degree in Economics from Emory University. Ms. Maria Negrete-Gruson Maria Negrete-Gruson, CFA, is a managing director of Artisan Partners and a portfolio manager on the Emerging Markets team. In this role, she is the portfolio manager for the Artisan Emerging Markets strategy. Prior to joining Artisan in April 2006, Ms. Negrete-Gruson was the portfolio manager for DuPont Capital Management�s emerging markets equity portfolios. Before assuming responsibilities as portfolio manager, she was an international equity analyst at DuPont covering the developed Asia-ex Japan region. Earlier in her career, she was a foreign exchange trader for Banco Ganadero in Bogot�, Colombia. Ms. Negrete-Gruson holds a bachelor�s degree in Finance and International Relations from Universidad Externado in Colombia and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. Mr. N. David Samra N. David Samra is a managing director and founding partner of the Global Value team. He is lead portfolio manager of the Artisan Non-U.S. Value strategy, which he has managed since the portfolio�s inception on 1 July 2002. In addition, he is the portfolio co-manager of the Artisan Global Value strategy, which he has co-managed since its inception on 1 July 2007. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in May 2002, Mr. Samra was a portfolio manager and a senior analyst in international equities at Harris Associates LP, from August 1997 through May 2002. Earlier in his career, he was a portfolio manager with Montgomery Asset Management, Global Equities Division from June 1993 through August 1997. Mr. Samra holds a bachelor�s degree in Finance from Bentley College and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School. Mr. Scott Satterwhite Scott C. Satterwhite, CFA, is a managing director of Artisan Partners and a portfolio manager on the U.S. Value team. In this role, he is a portfolio manager for the Artisan Value Equity, U.S. Mid-Cap Value and U.S. Small-Cap Value strategies. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in June 1997, Mr. Satterwhite was senior vice president and portfolio manager at Wachovia Corporation responsible for management of assets of over $1.5 billion. Mr. Satterwhite managed the Biltmore Special Values Fund from August 1993 through May 1997 in addition to being a personal trust portfolio manager since 1984 and managing the Georgia Personal Trust Portfolio Group at Wachovia since 1991. Mr. Satterwhite holds a bachelor�s degree in Economics from The University of the South and a Master of Business Administration from Tulane University. Mr. George Sertl George O. Sertl, CFA, is a managing director of Artisan Partners and a portfolio manager on the U.S. Value team. In this role, he is a portfolio manager for the Artisan Value Equity, U.S. Mid-Cap Value and U.S. Small-Cap Value strategies. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in January 2000, Mr. Sertl was a research analyst at Schwartz Investment Counsel. Mr. Sertl began his investment career at Pauli & Company working as a research analyst in 1992. Mr. Sertl holds a bachelor�s degree in Economics and History from the University of Richmond and a master�s degree in Economics from St. Louis University. Mr. Jason White Jason L. White, CFA, is an associate portfolio manager on the Growth team. In this role, he is an associate portfolio manager for the Artisan Global Opportunities, U.S. Mid-Cap Growth and U.S. Small-Cap Growth strategies. He also conducts fundamental research, focusing on technology companies. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in June 2000, Mr. White was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, serving aboard the USS LAKE ERIE as the ship�s fire control officer. Mr. White holds a bachelor�s degree in History from the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated with distinction. Mr. Mark Yockey Mark L. Yockey, CFA, is a managing director of Artisan Partners and a portfolio manager on the Global Equity team. In this role, he is a portfolio manager for the Artisan Non-U.S. Growth, Non-U.S. Small-Cap Growth, Global Equity, and Global Small-Cap Growth strategies. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in December 1995, Mr. Yockey was the portfolio manager of the United International Growth Fund and vice president of Waddell & Reed from January 1990 through December 1995. Before assuming responsibility for the United International Growth Fund, Mr. Yockey was an analyst for Waddell & Reed from 1986 through 1989, specializing in the worldwide health care industry and international special situations. Earlier in his career, he was a health care analyst for the State of Michigan Retirement Fund for five years. Mr. Yockey holds a bachelor�s degree and a master�s degree in Finance from Michigan State University. He completed one year of undergraduate work at the Universit� d�Aix-en-Provence in France. He also worked for the French bank, La Soci�t� G�n�rale. He is fluent in French. Mr. Daniel OKeefe Daniel J. O�Keefe is a managing director and founding partner of the Global Value team. He is lead portfolio manager of the Artisan Global Value strategy, which he has managed since the portfolio�s inception on 1 July 2007. In addition, he is the portfolio co-manager of the Artisan Non-U.S. Value strategy, which he has co-managed since October 2006. Prior to becoming portfolio manager in 2006, Mr. O�Keefe was a research analyst for the Global Value team beginning at its inception in 2002. Before joining Artisan Partners in May 2002, Mr. O'Keefe was an analyst in international equities at Harris Associates LP, from July 1997 through May 2002. Preceding his days at Harris Associates, he was an associate in mergers and acquisitions at BancAmerica Securities from February 1995 through July 1997, and was an analyst with Morningstar, Inc. from June 1993 through February 1995. Mr. O�Keefe holds a bachelor�s degree from Northwestern University. Ms. Alyssa Allister Data Preparer Email: alyssa.allister@artisanpartners.com Artisan Partners Limited Partnership Product Name Artisan Non-U.S. Growth:Privately Managed Accounts Artisan U.S. Mid-Cap Growth:Privately Managed Accounts Artisan U.S. Small-Cap Growth:Privately Managed Accounts Artisan U.S. Small-Cap Value:Privately Managed Accounts Artisan U.S. Mid-Cap Value:Privately Managed Accounts Artisan Non-U.S. Value:Privately Managed Accounts Artisan Value Equity:Privately Managed Accounts Artisan Global Value:Privately Managed Accounts Artisan Emerging Markets:Privately Managed Accounts Artisan Global Opportunities:Privately Managed Accounts Artisan Global Equity:Privately Managed Accounts Artisan Global Small-Cap Growth:Privately Managed Accounts Report Created: January,29 2020. Copyright Money Manager Review , All rights Reserved.

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WOW To Do List: Tigertail discussion, more The Marco Pass/Tigertail lagoon area is constantly evolving and changing. In an effort to keep the mouth of the pass open. WOW To Do List: Tigertail discussion, more The Marco Pass/Tigertail lagoon area is constantly evolving and changing. In an effort to keep the mouth of the pass open. Check out this story on marconews.com: https://www.marconews.com/story/entertainment/2019/09/10/wow-do-list-tigertail-discussion-more/2230558001/ Marco Eagle Published 5:02 a.m. ET Sept. 10, 2019 | Updated 7:51 a.m. ET Sept. 10, 2019 TNP Comedy Nights Select times through Sept. 14, at The Naples Players, 701 5th Avenue South, Naples. Each show will consist of improvisational comedy games and songs from topics suggested by the audience. Cost: $20 per person. Information: 239-263-7990, naplesplayers.org. More: 3 To Do: Book titles inspire art National Guacamole Day Monday, Sept. 16 at Agave, 2380 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Naples. In honor of National Guacamole Day Agave is offering $10 in Agave Dinero with the purchase of their signature table-side prepared guacamole. The Agave Dinero can be used like cash and must be redeemed on a separate visit by Oct. 15. 239-598-3473. Information: agavenaples.com. Mangrove Trimming & Regulations Workshop From 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., Sept. 17; $25. This workshop will provide attendees a better understanding of proper mangrove maintenance, the value of mangroves, and the rules and laws that govern mangrove trimming. Attendees also will learn basic mangrove biology and identification. The course will consist of a combination of demonstrations, hands-on learning, discussion and lecture. Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and is located at 300 Tower Road, Naples. Information rookerybay.org or 239-530-5940. File: Lesser yellowlegs at Tigertail. (Photo: Neil Hughes/Special to the Eagle) Tigertail discussion The Marco Pass/Tigertail lagoon area is constantly evolving and changing. In an effort to keep the mouth of the pass open, allowing tidal flow to continue into and out of the lagoon, the Hideaway Tax District has underwritten dredging near the northern tip of Sand Dollar Spit every few years. However, over time, an area adjacent to and just north of the lagoon has become increasingly shallow, severely restricting tidal flow, creating potential issues for the health of the lagoon water. If this situation is not addressed, wildlife and fish populations will decline as lagoon bacterial levels rise. Even now, boating, kayaking, and paddle boarding have become difficult in that section. Scientific data have suggested that without intervention in this area of the pass, named "zone 3," the lagoon will be completely cut off from tidal flow. Friends of Tigertail is hosting an in depth presentation regarding the lagoon issue from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 18, in the Marco Island Library Rose Hall. Interested citizens and groups are encouraged to attend and hear the facts about this topic. Reservations are not required. Information: friendsoftigertail.com. Hilton Marco Island Spa opening From 3 until 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the Hilton Resort Marco Island, 560 South Collier Blvd., Marco Island. Meet educational advisors from Eminence and Aromatherapy Associates. Receive complimentary skincare and body mini-treatments with free samples to take home. Enjoy Hors d’ oeuvres and champagne throughout your visit. Pre-register for services, limited availability. Information: 239-642-2144. Naturalist Grub Club – Butterflies Noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, at Koreshan State Park, 3800 Corkscrew Road, Estero. Topics will touch on differences between moths and butterflies, butterfly development, plants that support butterflies, netting techniques, tagging and more. Free with paid park admission. Bring your own lunch. Floridastateparks.org/koreshan. 239-992-0311. Tigertail cleanup Friends of Tigertail is hosting the annual International Coastal Cleanup from 8 until 11 a.m., Sept. 21, on Tigertail Beach (meet at the kiosk). Wear shoes that may get wet. Sunscreen and a hat are recommended. All debris collected will be tallied and separated for recycling by volunteers. Bring a grabber and bucket if you have one. All youth participants receive a certificate of appreciation. Garbage bags, water and plastic gloves provided by Keep Collier Beautiful. Sign up early for free t-shirts from Keep Collier Beautiful. Information: Susan LaGrotta, 239-394-1470. For all events, pictures and newsletters visit FriendsofTigertail.com. Introspection in Preparation for the Jewish New Year The Jewish community is observing September as a season of spiritual introspection leading up to the new moon inaugurating Rosh haShanah, the Jewish new year, at the end of the month. As Rabbi Mark Gross of the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island explains it, “before we can merit the fresh start represented by the New Year, the entire previous month calls for the spiritual discipline we call cheshbon ha-nefesh, an audit of our souls.” Just as important, the Rabbi points out, is the activity of reaching out to and mending fence with family and friends. Part of that process is the daily recitation of the S’lichot penitential prayers, and attendance at a culminating late-night S’lichot program and service on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 21. Those interested in acquiring a free meditative booklet of S’lichot prayers, or more information about the Saturday night S’lichot event, are invited to contact the Synagogue office at 991 Winterberry Drive, 239-642-0800. National Estuaries Day Celebration From 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., Sept. 28. Free admission and free activities (including boat rides and kayaking). Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is celebrating National Estuaries Day with a free day of fun and activities at the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center. This free event includes entrance to the Environmental Learning Center, staff-narrated boat trips, kayaking, stand-up paddle boarding demos, touch tanks, live animal presentations, crafts, Junior Scientist lab activities and more! Additionally, foods truck will be on site during lunch hours. Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and is located at 300 Tower Road, Naples. Information rookerybay.org or 239-530-5940. Rookery Bay Touch, see and explore Southwest Florida’s coastal environment at the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center. Experience hands-on, interactive exhibits including marine-life touch tanks and habitat displays. Enjoy trails, naturalist-led programs, nature-viewing bridge over the water and more. Kids and adults alike can explore the center and discover the plants, fish and wildlife that call Rookery Bay Research Reserve’s 110,000 acres home. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for kids 6-12, and free for kids under 6. Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and is located at 300 Tower Road, Naples. Information rookerybay.org or 239-530-5940. ‘Building A Dream’ Entitled “Building A Dream,” the exhibit is the 25 year history of the Marco Island Historical Society. The exhibit will be on display from now through Sept. 26, in the museum’s Sandlin Gallery thanks, in part, to a generous grant from the Island Country Club Charitable Foundation. The exhibit tells the story of what began as a small-but-passionate friends’ group ultimately resulted in the construction of an award-winning institution now staffed by a team of career professionals. This exhibit celebrates the 25th anniversary of the MIHS by looking back at its history, exploring not only how the organization’s role has changed since its establishment, but also asking the visitor where it goes from here. The museum is located at 180 South Heathwood Drive, Marco Island. Rookery Bay’s Science Saturdays are now year-round and free for kids 12 and under. Different coastal theme each Saturday. Admission $5 for adults, free for kids 12 and under. Enjoy eco-crafts, a presentation, a featured film and our “Lessons in Laboratories” program from 11-11:45 a.m. Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and is located at 300 Tower Road, Naples. Information rookerybay.org or 239-530-5940. Senior Softball The Marco Island Senior Softball League has resumed play at Winterberry Park on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Pick-up games are scheduled each of those days at 8:15 a.m. Anybody interested in a friendly game of softball can participate, with all skill levels welcomed. While the minimum age for regular league games is 55, age limits are not strictly enforced for pick-up games. Information: 239-642-2930. Key Marco Cat The Marco Island Historical Society (MIHS) celebrates its 25th Anniversary with the culmination of their quest to bring home the enigmatic Key Marco Cat and other rare 500 to 1,500-year-old Pre-Columbian Native American artifacts discovered on Marco Island in 1896. The artifacts return on loan from the Smithsonian Institution and University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. They will be showcased in an exhibit at the Marco Island Historical Museum from now through April 2021. The Marco Island Historical Museum is located at 180 S. Heathwood Drive. Open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is free. For information, call 239.389.6447 or visit www.theMIHS.org. Naturalist-Led Kayak Tours Join Rookery Bay Research Reserve for a kayak adventure into the beautiful back waters of Rookery Bay Reserve with our exclusive ecotour partner, Rising Tide Explorers! All the guides are active local biologists, certified naturalists and certified kayaking instructors making them the most qualified guides in the region. The whole family can enjoy a memorable and educational adventure into the estuary. With our kayak tours, guests paddle through beautiful mangrove tunnels, teeming mudflats and intricate oyster reefs while searching for amazing wildlife like sea stars, large snails, birds, dolphins and manatees! Get out and explore the backwaters Rookery Bay Research Reserve. Visit rookerybay.org to register for tours today. Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and is located at 300 Tower Road, Naples. Information rookerybay.org or 239-530-5940. Calling all friends over 60 Join the Marco YMCA and Our Daily Bread Food Pantry for a free lunch the third Wednesday of each month at Marco Lutheran Church. With the support of local restaurants, businesses and sponsors, a luncheon (free of charge) is open to all area residents “60 or better.” Each monthly event includes a time for networking, lunch, a program, and door prizes. Rides are also offered. Information: 706-566-8532. Lupus support The Marco/Naples lupus support group meets the third Saturday of each month at Physicians Regional Medical Center, 8300 Collier Blvd, Naples. Meetings are held from 10:30 a.m. until noon in the Palm Dining Room. Open to all patients, families and interested parties. Learn to live and cope with Lupus, get current information. Contact Marilyn, 239-398-4800 or Jan, 239-389-2749. Round Robin Tennis Round Robin Tennis is available at various times and days for men and women at the Greater Marco Family YMCA, 101 Sand Hill Street, Marco Island. Eight clay courts are available. Round Robins are free to Marco YMCA members and $15 for community participants. Players must register to play in Round Robins. Registration or information: 239-394-3144, ext. 224. The Common Good Conference From 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 777 Mooring Line Drive, Naples. A Church for Monday: The Common Good Conference is a one-day, multi-site gathering to help equip and encourage attendees to more thoughtfully connect their faith and their work, embrace God’s calling in all aspects of life, and explore ways the Church can be a faithful presence in our communities. This conference is opened to the public and will include local and national speakers. Tickets are $39 until Sept. 15 and $59 after this date. Information: 239-596-7990, commongoodconference.com. Auditions for “The Golden Charm of Marco Island” will be held at the Mackle Park Community Center from 1 until 3 p.m., Sunday Oct. 6. The production is seeking as many as five men and five women (some double casting is possible; a costume designer, props person, and technical director, as well as other crew to help run the show. Rehearsals will begin in early January, 2020. All cast and crew will receive a stipend of $100 each, as well as several opportunities for additional income. For those who would like to make an appointment or cannot make it to the audition, email sharkeyetheater@gmail.com. World Habitat Day World Habitat Day, Oct. 7, reminds people of the basic need for adequate shelter. In order to build an adequate shelter for ourselves, we must nurture and support a healthy ecosystem or environment. Visit the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center for buy one get one free entrance on Oct. 7 and find out how Rookery Bay Research Reserve helps keep our estuary ecosystem thriving! Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and is located at 300 Tower Road, Naples. Information rookerybay.org or 239-530-5940. Essentials of Digital Photography From 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., Oct. 7; $55. If you want to get the best pictures possible, and truly understanding your camera’s features, this camera workshop is for you. The class covers the essentials of your digital camera. You will learn how to use your camera's shutter, aperture, ISO control and the drive modes to create images with impact and creativity. Sonny Saunders has over 35 years of experience in photography and instruction and is renowned for his ability to communicate to a wide variety of students. Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and is located at 300 Tower Road, Naples. Information rookerybay.org or 239-530-5940. Local Author Book Fair From 11 a.m. until 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 9, at the South Regional Public Library, 8065 Lely Cultural Parkway, Naples. Authors are provided a table where they can display their books, talk with the public and sell their books. There will also be food trucks and activities for the whole family. Free. Information: 239-252-7542, collierlibrary.org. For more event listings, navigate to the Entertainment section and click on the WOW To Do List at marconews.com. Calendar items must be emailed to mail@marconews.com and should be submitted at least a week before desired publication. Read or Share this story: https://www.marconews.com/story/entertainment/2019/09/10/wow-do-list-tigertail-discussion-more/2230558001/ Horoscopes, Oct. 22-28

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Intellectual Principles Data Groups Ministry Publications Publishers’ Publications Role Of The Committee Resigtration Youth Centers You are here: link » Youth » Youth Advisory Committee » About The Committee The Youth Committee was established by virtue of Resolution No. (3) of 2017 as an advisory committee to HE the Minister of Culture and Sports, with the aim of providing advice to the Minister on matters that would improve the cultural, youth and sports work in the State, and promoting a culture of dialogue on concepts, systems and practices in the fields of culture, youth and sports, achieving the objectives of the Ministry’s strategy. The Committee was inaugurated by HE Salah bin Ghanim Al Ali, Minister of Culture and Sports during the events of the First Qatari Youth Forum, organized by the Youth Affairs Department at the Ministry of Culture and Sports, which currently consists of 20 young members who are elected every two years by the General Committee, and its statute was amended so that the new cycle would include only 7 members instead of 20 members. All rights reserved to Ministry of Culture and Sports - State of Qatar © 2020

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Community: introduction “The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth – that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community – and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.” – Wendell Berry A community is a group of people who interact – usually tied to a geographical place, but not necessarily (e.g. nomadic communities; and now online communities). Humans (and in fact all primates) are social animals that have always lived in groups, from hunter-gatherer tribes and medieval villages to city neighbourhoods and business communities. We’re focusing here on communities of place, but not just on intentional communities or ecovillages, where people come together deliberately to form community. It’s the spirit of community that’s important – people living near to each other don’t automatically make a strong community. There can be several communities in one geographical area – based on interests (music, sport, etc.), on religion, culture, age, profession etc. Individuals could be part of one or more of them, and all will contribute to the overall community of place. All primates, including humans, evolved to live in social groups. Since the dawn of humanity, we’ve lived in strong communities. It’s only recently that community has deteriorated. All humans lived in hunter-gatherer bands pre-agriculture, and some hunter-gatherer tribes survive today, with extremely strong kinship ties and sharing of resources. Agriculture allowed tribes to settle in one place, after which resources could be stored, and accumulated in the hands of a few (usually an alliance between the warrior and priestly class). Wealth concentrated, empires grew, but community remained for ordinary people. Communities were largely rural until the end of feudalism, when enclosure of common land pushed peasants into the cities to work in the new factories, and vital skills were lost. Local economies had always been about producing useful things for some sort of exchange medium, which was then used to purchase things that other people had produced. Now the aim of the economy was to make money from money, through investments, lending money at interest, and charging rent on property. The industrial revolution brought trains, then roads, then commuting, and both local economies and community began to break down. Front porches are popular in the US – they allow people to chat with passers-by. Friendly (or mutual) societies grew up as a response to these developments. They were essentially social security organisations, providing insurance for sickness, accident, old age etc. for a subscription; but they provided community cohesion too, in the form of social clubs, lectures, ceremonies, emotional support for the bereaved or sick etc. They’re still strong in many poorer countries. Mutual societies provided health care in the UK before the NHS. The state caused the demise of the friendly societies in the UK by introducing mandatory national insurance in 1911 – when there were around 9 million members of registered and unregistered societies. Communities are now being weakened further by the ‘sharing economy’ (companies like Über and Airbnb), and by corporate supermarkets and chains in every community, sucking out wealth to pay shareholders. Worse, local people drive to supermarkets and back without meeting local traders, there’s no feeling of ownership, there are fewer (and more boring) jobs than in economies of small, local businesses. We’re becoming a nation of ‘clone towns’. Streetbank – a charity enabling people to share things in their communities. But glimmers of hope are appearing. There’s renewed interest in local food and craft produce, and many local authorities are looking into ‘community wealth building’. In Preston, the council give contracts to local businesses to provide services for hospitals, education, police etc. and if no local business exists to provide those services, they’ll help set up and provide training for a co-op to do it. What are the benefits of community? Community is essential to human well-being. ‘You need a village to raise a child’, but you need a village (or at least a community – which could be urban) to support adults too. Well-being depends on meaningful interactions – to feel that you mean something to others; that you belong; that you have emotional connections; that you’d be missed if you left the community. Loss of community has caused a loneliness epidemic in the West – especially among the elderly. How to kill community: Cradley Heath High Street (West Mids) in the 1990s and now. Strong communities instill moral accountability, which results in less crime. Social interaction means that neighbourhoods become safer, friendlier and more interesting. It also helps us meet our practical needs (in a cost-effective way) – sharing tools or equipment, finding babysitters or people to feed your pet while you’re away etc. Online communities can’t meet our requirements for human contact in the same way. Community often becomes stronger in times of crisis, and will be vital in case of future crashes – economic or ecological – to provide security, plus the essentials of life where long-distance transport becomes prohibitively expensive or impossible. Economy: community-embedded local economies provide more, and more interesting, jobs. The scale of businesses (small) is important too in building community. This isn’t an ideological position – people of every political persuasion likes and benefits from living in a strong, resilient community. Banner of the Fivehead Friendly Society (Somerset), 1865-1939 Environment: a good local social life and economy reduces the need to travel and therefore burn fossil fuels. ‘Stuff’ doesn’t have to travel so much either, and its amount can be reduced in communities where there’s lots of sharing. Plus strong communities can come together to fight the removal of or damage to natural capital such as forests or rivers. Real community can’t be designed from above. We have to do it ourselves. It’s about taking responsibility for doing things in your local area to build and sustain community. The instinct to be social animals can’t really be stifled – community will always try to return. We need to counter the trends that are killing it. Decentralisation and the principle of subsidiarity are key to a vibrant community, community-based economy and potentially, governance. Market traders bring character to, and help keep wealth in, the local economy. Get to know your neighbours. Smile at people – what’s the worst that can happen? Talk to an old person – offer to dig their garden, take their dog for a walk, anything they might find difficult. Join things – a drama group, Transition group, choir, sports club, supper club, book club, any club that takes your fancy. Get an allotment, start a local seed club, invite people to a picnic, volunteer, build a front porch (seriously). Ceremonies, parties and festivals are good for building community. So throw a party! Here are 300 ways to share more in communities, from Shareable. Stand for local office – but not in a divisive, party-political way. Stand as an independent instead. That’s what they did in Frome, Somerset – and they won every seat on the council! ‘Flatpack democracy’ in Frome, where independents have taken over the council and rejected the usual divisive party politics. Inspiring stuff. Support your local economy Patronise local businesses and alternatives to the corporate giants. To make it easy, we’ve collated the different ways you can obtain the essentials of life from non-corporate sources on NonCorporate.org. It’s a modern take on the ‘friendly society’ approach, which includes various community-based initiatives like: community energy community-supported agriculture / veg boxes / local food various ‘commons’ sources co-operatives of all kinds In Preston, Lancashire, the local authority has angled procurement towards local businesses, and food provision from Lancashire farms. Other councils are following suit. We all have to make a decision. Do we want to get our food, energy, clothes and consumer goods from low-quality corporate sources, probably produced by virtual slave labour, unsustainably, with tax deftly avoided, to the detriment of your community, or do you want to consume sustainably, giving your money to people who care about good food, the environment, craft skills, quality produce and their communities? Then you have to do a bit of work to find those sources and be prepared to pay a fair price. Become part of your local economy You might even take it further and start or join a local initiative, so that you don’t have to work for an organisation that sucks wealth out of your (or someone else’s) community. You might work for a local business, a co-op or not-for-profit, or become a sole trader. That could mean skilling yourself up to produce something useful for your community. But be sure to support others who are doing the same. You might find the prices of artisanal goods / organic food etc. high, but you’ll be producing the same kinds of things, so you’ll be both a consumer and a producer. You can host a restart party in your town – specialists will come along and help the public fix their broken electrical goods. You could take it further still, and become a mover and a shaker in the local economy – there’s an awful lot you could do, from helping start community land trusts, housing co-ops, cohousing projects, hosting a REconomy event, getting your council to look at the Preston Model etc. You could also talk to us about becoming a local convener for the Open Credit Network. As it’s based on trust, mutual credit could be the ‘glue’ that holds local economies together, and links them to others, potentially in a global system. As Tom Greco says: ‘What the world needs now is a means of payment that is locally controlled but globally useful’. Whilst you’re here, why not take a look at the other 25+ day-to-day living topics available? And don’t forget to visit our main topics page to explore over 200 aspects of low-impact living and our homepage to learn more about why we do what we do. The specialist(s) below will respond to queries on this topic. Please comment in the box at the bottom of the page. Paul Bragman has 30 years’ experience as a community & economic regeneration practitioner in the community, voluntary and statutory sectors in the UK and developing countries. He runs Community and Economic Regeneration Consultants Ltd., offering community & economic development and organisational management services to housing associations, local authorities, voluntary and non governmental organisations. We'd love to hear your comments, tips and advice on this topic, and if you post a query, we'll try to get a specialist in our network to answer it for you. Printable intro (PDF) Transition initiatives 'Small is beautiful' Walking / hiking Local / independent currencies Farmers' markets / direct farm sales Simon Lennane said on March 3, 2018 The town I work in has a closed facebook page where lots of good things are going on, offers for help, especially in the snow (“anyone need a prescription picking up?”) & offers of lifts, but the single platform is an exclusive and very closed source / corporate model. Are there ways of tapping into resources within the community that are more inclusive? Dave Darby said on March 3, 2018 It has to be face-to-face, surely? But I’ll ask around for non-corporate messaging / social media. homeminderuk said on January 9, 2020 It’s all very well hitting those of us stuck to our sofas by inertia over the head with inspiring videos, but how EXACTLY does one ‘…helping start community land trusts, housing co-ops, cohousing projects, hosting a REconomy event, getting your council to look at the Preston Model etc…’ Dave Darby said on January 9, 2020 homeminderuk – each one of those terms in the main article has a link to a topic introduction that explains more about how to do those things, or to organisations that will help you do it. Plus each topic has a links page with various organisations that offer practical help, including funding, plus documents on their websites, and they’ll pick up the phone too. From the ‘housing co-ops’ topic, for example, there’s a link to a page called ‘how to set up a housing co-op’, which contains links to organisations such as Radical Routes, who have a guide that explains exactly how to do it, in quite some detail. All of our topics include basic info on what to do, plus a range of books, links to specialists who can help you, courses you can go on etc. All those existing institutions were started by somebody, at some point.

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Physician Finds Iowa an Unexpected Field of Dreams From locum tenens to permanent placement After 30 years of practicing medicine in Alabama, a small town in Iowa was the last place Jonathan Hood, MD, envisioned himself working and living. But along with his wife Kristi and their three children who are still at home, Hood has fallen in love with his new practice and adopted hometown in Primghar, Iowa. Looking back, he also realizes that his work experiences have uniquely prepared him to thrive in his current role. Early in his career, while fulfilling a public health scholarship assignment, Hood decided to remain in Oneonta, Alabama. His physician jobs spanned 12 years in family practice and 18 years in emergency medicine. “I worked throughout Alabama in many ERs to support my frequent mission trips to 30 nations,” he said. “However, one wife and five kids later, I found myself needing a real job. Despite having the American dream in our small town of Oneonta, my full-time ER job ended when the hospital closed.” After that, Hood took a number of locum tenens physician jobs in ERs across Alabama and Wyoming. While these jobs paid the bills, they kept him away from family and provided little security. He longed for a permanent job with benefits where he could successfully complete his career and support the increasing overhead of his family, which now included two kids in college. So, he took a few months to look for his next opportunity, with a little help from his family. “Using a whiteboard in our job ‘war room,’ the family reviewed 10 job options -- listing pay, benefits, location and job desirability,” he explained. After a long process of interviewing and receiving offers in Wyoming, North Carolina, Michigan and Alabama, he and his family decided to stay in Alabama with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). “I initially accepted a VA job offer, persuaded by the 51 paid days off and generous retirement our federal government provides. Yet, I wasn't completely excited about the bureaucracy involved or the relatively mundane, extensive daily computer clinic work,” he recalled. SEARCH CURRENT PHYSICIAN JOBS across the U.S. An unexpected call Yet, something interrupted Hood’s plans; it was a call from Justin Thompson, a physician recruiter with Merritt Hawkins, who happened to contact him just one day before finalizing plans with the VA. Hood admits he was kind of rude to his unexpected caller. “I really was tired of the job search process!” he said. “Nevertheless, after my return call to Justin to apologize, I considered his offer for a job in Iowa, a place I've never been nor ever entertained going to.” The family then made a last-minute jobsite visit and fell in love with the town, the people, the hospital CEO and the job itself. Shortly after that visit, Hood made the decision to sign a contract and move to Iowa. A change in circumstances “Life is unpredictable, and circumstances changed dramatically as leadership changes at the hospital were made around the time we were traveling in our family caravan, making the 16-hour trip,” Hood said. “The hospital leadership was a big part of why we signed up in the first place! I then found myself in a totally different environment than expected.” However, the family strived to make it work. The kids got involved in scouts, sports and dance, and made close friends at school. The family also got involved in a church and made friends in the neighborhood. Kristi volunteered at the hospital. But the job changes were out of Hood’s control. “Despite going beyond my job requirements by accepting two nursing homes directorships, giving lectures to businesses and taking extra courses for coding, I found myself in an unsustainable position,” he said. “Once the new permanent CEO came on board, I decided to meet with him. He generously supported my graceful departure, giving my family the means to find yet another opportunity.” Thompson found out about their predicament and stepped back in to help with his physician job search. “He was committed to following through to find us a most suitable career position—again! I think he had both professional pride to get the job done as well as a personal concern to take care of our family,” Hood explained. Finding that “one in a thousand” “At this point, we preferred to remain in Iowa since we had come to love the state and the people,” Hood reported. “Again, after considering numerous options and several offers, we interviewed here at Primghar with Justin's encouragement. He indicated I was ‘one out of a thousand’ docs who would fit in this position.” The job, in a town of 900 people, involves full-time ER coverage, clinic coverage, admitting inpatients and making rounds in the hospital and nursing homes, along with caring for patients at the county jail. As the only physician, Hood also oversees a talented crew of midlevel providers. The town had been served well for 20 years by the previous physician, but he had left a year earlier for family reasons. Hood has found the people to be quite resilient, including many who are farmers. “They are strong, but many are in their eighties and nineties and need medical care,” he explained. “With the closest medical center over an hour away, and no doctor to count on, the community was hurting.” He has enjoyed providing this much-needed care. While some physicians may be reluctant to take on such a wide range of responsibilities, Hood has found his new role to be a perfect fit. "This is my best and the most enjoyable job yet. There is no typical day and it's not boring nor is it overbearing,” he reported, adding that it has been the best scenario for both him and his family. Hood appreciates that his new physician job allows him to use his extensive experience and expertise; he also got a pay raise. The people in this friendly town are also quick to offer assistance; in fact, the local sheriff has offered to show him the best places to go hunting, should he decide to give that a try. “There is nowhere else I’d rather be than in this community, and the employer of the hospital (Mercy Sioux City) is a great employer as well. They are faith-based, family-oriented, and offer their physicians plenty of time off so you can really have a true work–life balance.” So, thanks to an unexpected job offer and great follow-through from his physician recruiter, the Hoods are firmly planted in their new hometown of Primghar, Iowa. When asked if he would recommend that a colleague use Merritt Hawkins for a job search, Hood answered, “Unequivocally yes. The reason why is that they have an extensive network of professionals and diligence to serve clients, and genuine interests of the client in mind.” How to Kick Off a Physician Job Search: 5 Keys to Success MERRITT HAWKINS has hundreds of career opportunities across the country for physicians and advanced practitioners—and candidates never pay a fee for our placement services. FIND YOUR IDEAL JOB or CONNNECT WITH A RECRUITER to learn more.

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Grandmother-of-six accused of stabbing 35-year-old woman to death Tracy Phillips, 48, today appeared in court charged with murdering 35-year-old Natasha Davies Court: A woman charged with the murder of 35-year-old Natasha Davies has appeared in court (Image: Getty) A grandmother-of-six is accused of stabbing a 35-year-old woman to death in Chelsea. Tracy Phillips, 48, today appeared in court charged with murdering Natasha Davies at an address in the upmarket west London area on Sunday August 2. Phillips, wearing a grey t-shirt and grey trousers, spoke only to confirm her name, age and address as she appeared at West London Magistrates Court. Phillips of Downe House, Springfield Grove, Charlton, was remanded in custody and will next appear at the Old Bailey on Wednesday August 5. District Judge Elizabeth Roscoe said: "This matter will be sent to the crown court and that will be the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, and all future hearings will be at that court. "You will next appear there on the 5th of August. This court does not have the power to grant bail and any bail application will be heard at the crown court." The killing is alleged to have happened at a party at the flat on a fashionable street in west London where properties sell for an average price of 1.5 million. Police said they were called to a ground floor council flat in Stadium Street, which is just a stone's throw from the Thames, at around 1.20am yesterday. Paramedics also attended but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. CoronavirusBREAKING: Brits fearing Coronavirus stuck in China even longer as UK flight BANNED from take off The British government had anticipated flying around 200 UK citizens out of the country but it is understood Chinese officials have not yet granted permission for the chartered flight to depart

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Museum of the Bible Appoints Ken McKenzie Chief Executive Officer in Run-Up to Institution’s First Anniversary Posted In: Press Releases Longtime Business Executive Among New Leadership Team at DC Museum Focused on Bible Engagement WASHINGTON, September 4, 2018—Museum of the Bible announced today that former Airbus executive Ken McKenzie will come on board as the museum’s chief executive officer, a new role established to lead the museum in its post-grand opening era. In this role, McKenzie will set the vision for and lead the staff in its daily operations at the 430,000-square-foot museum in Washington, which opened last November. “After an extensive search, Museum of the Bible’s board of directors selected Ken McKenzie to lead the museum in this new and exciting phase,” said Steve Green, Museum of the Bible’s chairman of the board. “We are thrilled to welcome him on board and are confident his leadership skills and expertise will strengthen this institution as we look toward the future.” McKenzie’s career began in the Royal Canadian Air Force, where he served 14 years as an officer and pilot. His career advanced in the aviation industry as McKenzie held leadership positions with AirServ International, Jazz Aviation, WestJet and Spirit Airlines before landing at Airbus, where he served as executive vice president of customers, responsible for the overall productivity and effectiveness of sales, marketing and contracts within North and South America. “Museum of the Bible’s mission to invite all people to engage with the Bible is what inspired me to take on this remarkable role,” said McKenzie. “I am honored to be given the opportunity to lead this innovative, world-class educational institution in conveying the history, narrative and impact of the world’s most influential book.” Assuming the role of chief curatorial officer at Museum of the Bible is Jeffrey Kloha, Ph.D. The former seminary professor, provost and chief academic officer oversees the museum’s collection of rare biblical texts and artifacts and its curatorial and educational staff. Business professional Chris Lyons joins Museum of the Bible from the Houston Zoo to serve as the museum’s chief operating officer, helping to manage the museum’s day-to-day operations. Additionally, Cary Summers has transitioned from his role as the museum’s president to become its museum relations officer, allowing him to parlay his relational strengths and contacts to focus full-time on cultivating existing partnerships and pursuing new donors. “The highlight of my professional career as a visionary and entrepreneur was engaging the best in architectural, technological and exhibit design to create a memorable, world-class experience for museum guests,” said Summers. “As we approach the museum’s first anniversary, we are all looking forward to working with Ken to make the museum a place people from around the world continue to visit.” McKenzie officially assumes his role as the museum’s chief executive officer on Nov. 1, 2018, while Kloha, Lyons and Summers are now engaged in their leadership positions. Museum of the Bible is an innovative, global, educational institution whose purpose is to invite all people to engage with the history, narrative and impact of the Bible. Website | museumoftheBible.org Twitter | @museumofBible

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Cakewalk announces Z3TA+ 2 synth By Ben Rogerson 2011-06-28T11:24:00.178Z Z3TA+ 2 will be available in July. Cakewalk's Z3TA+ has proven to one of the most enduringly popular plug-in synths ever created. It was originally released by rgc:audio back in 2002, yet only last year, MusicRadar users voted it one of the 17 best VST plug-in instruments in the world today. We're delighted, then, that Cakewalk has just announced that a successor, Z3TA+ 2, will finally be released in July. Little is known about the specifics of the update, but Cakewalk has said that Z3TA+2 will feature "a redesigned user interface, deeper editing controls, new effects, and superior sound quality". New sounds are also promised, designed by many of the same people who concocted the original Z3TA+ presets. Z3TA+2 is being launched as part of Cakewalk's Summer Of Sonar X1 promotion, and we're told that existing users will be able to pick it up for "a very special price". It seems that it'll be available to non Sonar users too, though we're guessing that it'll retain its PC-only status. More details as we get them.

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Who is Ryan Nelson? By Carrie Campbell Severino About Carrie Campbell Severino Ryan Nelson is President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from Idaho. Current Position: General Counsel, Melaleuca (Idaho Falls, ID) J.D., J. Reuben Clark Law School (Brigham Young University), with honors; Order of the Coif; Lead Articles Editor, BYU Law Review Judicial Clerkships: Judge Karen Henderson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit 2009-Present: General Counsel, Melaleuca, Inc. (Idaho Falls, ID) 2009: Special Counsel to the Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (Washington, D.C.) Deputy General Counsel, White House Office of Management and Budget (Washington, D.C.) Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice (Washington, D.C.) Associate, Sidley Austin LLP (Washington, D.C.) Law Clerk to the Senate Legal Counsel, U.S. Senate (Washington, D.C.) Legal Advisor, Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal (The Hague, Netherlands) Notable Matters: Mr. Nelson currently serves as General Counsel to Melaleuca, Inc., a $1.75 billion company based in Idaho Falls, Idaho. As Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division at the DOJ during the administration of President George W. Bush, Mr. Nelson oversaw over 500 of the Division’s appeals, and personally argued 13 appeals before nine different federal appellate courts.The appeals he supervised and argued involved issues of Indian law, constitutional law, administrative law, and environmental law. In his capacity as Deputy General Counsel at OMB, Mr. Nelson coordinated agency regulations and Executive Orders for final approval. In 1998, the Senate Legal Counsel hired Mr. Nelson to assist with preparing for the impeachment trial of President William J. Clinton. In 2009, Mr. Nelson served as a Special Counsel to the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to assist with the vetting of Justice Sotamayor’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Biographical Notes: Mr. Nelson is a native of Idaho Falls, Idaho. He is a sixth-generation Idahoan and descends from ancestors who lived in Idaho before it was admitted to the Union. Mr. Nelson is married and has seven children. Carrie Campbell Severino — Carrie Severino is the president of the Judicial Crisis Network. More in Law & the Courts Impeachment Questions That Need Answering Impeachment Questions That Need Answering Dreaming of a Dreamer Deal Dreaming of a Dreamer Deal Bolton Blows Up Trump Team’s Foolhardy Quid Pro Quo Defense Bolton Blows Up Trump Team’s Foolhardy Quid Pro Quo Defense The Fifth Circuit Rejects the Lie of Transgender Pronouns The Fifth Circuit Rejects the Lie of Transgender Pronouns

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What's New > NATS Foundation 2018 Voice Pedagogy Award goes to Julia Bentley NATS Foundation 2018 Voice Pedagogy Award goes to Julia Bentley posted on 12:51 PM, April 3, 2018 Julia Bentley is this year’s recipient of the Voice Pedagogy Award from the NATS Foundation. The prize is awarded annually to a NATS member for the purpose of study on voice pedagogy and/or voice science. Julia Bentley Congratulations to Julia Bentley, this year’s recipient of the Voice Pedagogy Award from the NATS Foundation. The $500 prize is awarded annually to a candidate who is a member of NATS, for the purpose of study at a seminar or workshop on voice pedagogy and/or voice science. The decision was made by a committee of three NATS Foundation Board members, including Sarah Holman, Dian Lawler-Johnson, and Martha Randall. The award will be applied toward Bentley’s attendance at The Voice Foundation’s Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice (May 30–June 3). Bentley has attended the symposium for the past three years, most recently as a workshop presenter. She has found the event to be utterly astounding and revelatory in refining the content of her teaching. Bentley will also be attending the NATS National Conference in Las Vegas (June 22–26), where she has been invited to present “Southern Harmony: A Song Re-cycle” during a mini-recital performance. After teaching at the DePaul University School of Music, Concordia University and the graduate Art Song Seminar at North Park University, Bentley joined the voice faculty at the University of Missouri at Columbia, teaching studio voice and graduate voice pedagogy. She has received grants for Course Design and Technology Support, was selected as a Faculty Scholar (a state-wide interdisciplinary cohort), and was recognized by the Student Activities Council for outstanding creativity and collaborative initiative. Since completing degrees at Indiana University and apprenticeships with the Santa Fe Opera and the Chicago Lyric Opera, mezzo-soprano Bentley has appeared in leading operatic roles from Anchorage to New York and been featured as a soloist with orchestras led by George Manahan, Raymond Leppard, Oliver Knussen, Robert Shaw and Pierre Boulez. She has performed with Chicago's many fine ensembles, including the Chicago Civic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Chicago Lyric Opera. She has appeared to critical acclaim at Weill Hall with Pierre Boulez as the soloist in Le Marteau Sans Maître. Her discography includes the complete Jugendlieder by Alban Berg with pianist Kuang-Hao Huang, and the 2015 Grammy-nominated As Dreams Fall Apart (Cedille Records). Click HERE for more information about the NATS Foundation Voice Pedagogy Award. Application deadline is February 15 of the year in which the seminar will take place.

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07.05.2004 Regional News Fifty-three lawyers made Notary Public Officers Accra May 7, GNA - Professor Justice A.K.P Kludze, a Supreme Court Judge on Friday swore into office 53 senior legal practitioners as "Notary Public Officers" at a ceremony in Accra. "Notary Public Officers" are senior legal practitioners, who notorise genuine document to judicial officers and other public officers in and outside Ghana. They are selected by the Judicial Service and approved by the Ghana Bar Association. Prof. Justice Kludze urged the lawyers to use their offices to de-mystify the law to the public. "You must discharge your duties in a manner that would be re-assuring to the general population, especially those not tutored in the nuances of the law, that the law is an instrument for social justice and is at the service of the people", he said. He however, asked them not to misuse their offices by lending credibility to documents or processes whose genuineness they would doubt. "If you fail to promote and extend the respect and authority that your notarised documents command abroad, you cause an irreparable damage to the reputation of our country and you undermine the high pedestal on which notaries public are placed," he told the officers. Prof. Justice Kludze advised the officers not to indulge in any conduct that might cast doubt on the administration of justice or bring the administration of justice into disrepute. He reminded the officers that the Supreme Court had jurisdiction under Notaries Public Act to suspend officers from practising if there was a reasonable cause for such disciplinary action. "In a serious case, the Supreme Court may even order that the name of the notary be struck off the Roll of Notaries Public maintained by the Judicial Secretary," he added.

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Through the choice of written and spoken words, ideas, concepts, emotions, thoughts, and opinions are exchanged. Unfortunately, miscommunication is common – the listener or reader fails to understand what is said or written. Dale Carnegie, author of “How to Make Friends and Influence People,” said, “90 percent of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.” When you consider the tensions between men and women, young and old, friends, and family members, it seems that most people are guilty of poor communication. But it’s possible to develop effective communication skills by learning how to speak and write simply and clearly, using plain language that’s easily understood by most people. Common Miscommunications “If you have time, try to mow the lawn this afternoon,” said the father as he walked out the door to go to his office. His teenage son, head down, concentrating on breakfast, grunts in reply, “Uh-huh.” To the father’s dismay, the yard remained untouched when he returned home. The son, when confronted by his angry father, excused his lack of action with the explanation, “You said ‘if I had time,’ and I was at the mall all day.” This scene is repeated every day in thousands of homes across the country. The father was guilty of not saying what he really meant: His intent was to instruct his son to cut the grass that afternoon, even if that meant he had to rearrange his schedule or miss another activity. In an effort to avoid seeming controlling, the father added the false condition “if you have time,” expecting his son to interpret the underlying meaning of his statement. His son naturally focused on the conditional “if you have time,” rather than the direction “mow the lawn.” As a consequence, both parties felt unfairly treated by the other. Similar misunderstandings arise at work, in schools, on the playground, and at home. Whether in speaking or writing, misunderstandings arise due to poor word choice and the failure to realize that communication includes two equally critical components: the speaker and the listener, or the writer and the reader. As the NBA Hall of Fame coach of the Boston Celtics Red Auerbach said, “It’s not what you tell them…it’s what they hear.” The Test of Effective Communications Communications are effective when the recipient of a thought, whether by listening or reading, understands the meaning intended by the speaker or writer. Good communication is simple and direct, sometimes intensified by emotion, but never confusing. For example, when asking his son to mow the lawn, the father from the previous scenario would have been more successful if he had taken the time to make sure his son was listening, and had chosen his words more carefully: “Mike,” said the father addressing his son as he walked out the door to work. The father paused, waiting for the teenager to raise his eyes from the cereal he was gulping down. “We are going out of town this weekend, so you need to mow the lawn today. Any problem with that?” “No, sir. I was going to the mall with Ted and Jim, but I can get it done before I leave.” “Great. I appreciate it. See you tonight,” said the father, heading out the door. The lawn was mowed and edged, and the family had a non-eventful evening. The speaker and listener agreed on the message “mow the lawn today.” The father did not add a false choice, and the son repeated his understanding of the message, confirming the communication. Whether a policeman talking to a criminal, a parent talking to a child, a manager to his or her staff, or a preacher to his or her flock, plain language combined with other communication skills increases understanding and rapport between parties. Causes of Miscommunication According to scientists, humans began speaking about 100,000 years ago, and writing began around 4000 B.C. Prior to written language, humans used pictures (cave drawings), which evolved to word symbols. The evolution of language, what some have called the “human system of communication,” proves false the old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words,” since it’s almost impossible to convey conditional, complex, or complicated ideas with a simple image. While some linguists suggest that an accurate accounting of the number of words in the English language is impossible, the Global Language Monitor claimed that there were 1,013,913 words on January 1, 2012, with a new word created every 98 minutes. Due to the sheer number of words available to choose from, the opportunity for muddled communication is high, even when two people have similarly sized vocabularies. The specific words known to each person, as well as the understood meaning of each word, can vary significantly due to different environments, cultures, and experiences. 1. Misaligned Vocabularies “Plain language” refers to the preference for words that are in everyone’s vocabulary – what linguists term the “core vocabulary” – consisting of about 200 to 300 words. These words are mostly verbs, pronouns, and demonstratives, such as “his” and “that,” which help distinguish the subject the speaker or writer is referring to. These words are used frequently and across many contexts to express meaning and intent, usually without misunderstanding. As the initiator of communication, the speaker or writer must choose words that are easily understood by the listener or reader. For example, a 10-year-old is unlikely to understand the meaning of “plethora,” so “plenty” or “a lot” would be better choices. A communicator should always consider his or her audience when communicating. 2. Messy Thinking Messy thinking results in messy speaking, which usually occurs when someone begins speaking before completing his or her thought process. As a consequence, listeners are taken on long, convoluted journeys filled with contradictions, extraneous information, and premature conclusions. Messy thinking usually happens during periods of stress or high emotion. Remember Plato’s observation: Wise men speak because they have something to say, while fools speak because they have to say something. In other words, think about the intent of your message before speaking, and when speaking, choose language that is precise, clear, and easily understood. 3. Faulty Definitions Homophones are words that sound alike or nearly alike, but have different definitions. For example, “discreet” means careful and circumspect, while “discrete” means distinct or separate. Other examples include: abhorrent – aberrant alternate – alternative disassemble – dissemble emigrate – immigrate flounder – founder horde – hoard Your choice of words is important because the wrong word can confuse the listener or reader. When in doubt, consult a dictionary – or simply don’t use the word. 4. False Civility While civility is a desirable trait in all societies, it’s often misunderstood and misinterpreted. Civility is a matter of context – what might be considered rude or thoughtless in one situation could be proper in another. A parent warning a child to get out of the street shouldn’t value the child’s feelings over his or her safety; a supervisor disciplining a subordinate for poor results shouldn’t dilute or confuse the message in the hopes of being perceived as “nice.” Civility means being conscious and considerate of how actions and words affect others, but it does not mean beating around the bush or faking emotions. 5. Sloppy Language Habits Unconscious patterns of thinking, speaking, and interacting are developed over time. These habits affect your daily activities and your relationship with your environment. They surface in speaking and writing, and they often lead to miscommunication. Be careful when you use the following: Acronyms. Acronyms are abbreviated versions of phrases or organization names that are formed by combining alphabetical characters to create a new word, such as OSHA – shorthand for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the Federal Government. Acronyms save time and may improve recall of the underlying meaning. Unfortunately, acronyms are so ubiquitous in speech and print that their meanings are often misinterpreted. For example, the meaning of the acronym “ACA” could be correctly interpreted as “Affordable Care Act,” “American Correctional Association,” “American Camp Association,” or “American Chiropractic Association.” If you use an acronym, be sure to provide its meaning so your audience is not confused. Jargon and Colloquialisms. Many social, business, or professional groups develop special vocabularies to describe concepts and activities specific to their group (“jargon”). Examples include “baluster” in architecture, “arabesque” in ballet, and “all in” in poker. Colloquialisms are phrases and words from specific geographic regions typically used in conversation, but not formal writing. The meaning of “pot liquor,” a term used to describe the juices left in a pot after cooking peas or collard greens, would be readily understood in the South, but less so above the Mason-Dixon line. Jargon and colloquialisms can add color to speech and writing, even enhancing understanding where their meanings are understood, but the possibility of misunderstanding remains high. Assumptions, Stereotypes, and Allusions. It’s well known that the use of assumptions – taking something for granted or without proof – can make you look bad. Stereotypes (inaccurate simplistic generalizations) and allusions (indirect, often incorrect references) can have the same result: muddying your intended message and confusing listeners or readers. There is little to gain from their use and much to lose, so avoid them whenever possible. Buzzwords. Words that sound impressive but convey no special meaning are in a special class by themselves. They have no place in intelligent speech or writing. Use of buzzwords is so flagrant that drinking games are built on their use in political speeches. However, politicians are not the only guilty parties – some corporate cultures are infamous for their use. Scott Adams, the creator of The Dilbert Principle, even suggests that employees learn to use big, vague words as they progress up through management, preferring a sentence such as “I utilized my multi-tined tool to process a starch resource” to “I used my fork to eat a potato.” 6. Government-Speak and Legalese Legal and regulatory documents are especially open to confusion due to both their use of technical terms and a culture that often rewards quantity of words over quality and intent. According to Slate writer Matthew Yglesias, “Hard-to-understand rules are a lawyer’s best friend, and the need for companies to lawyer up is a huge [competitive] advantage to large or established entities.” Poorly written government documents ultimately led to the passage of the Plain Writing Act of 2010, and the establishment of a public plain language website, PlainLanguage.gov, to “promote the use of plain language for all government communications.” As you might expect, the need for improved written communication extends beyond the American borders and even the English language. There are organizations around the world that are dedicated to improving government document understanding through the use of plain language: Plain Language Association International in Canada, COSLA in France, and CHIARO! in Italy. Plain language, when combined with other good communication skills, helps to increase accurate communication of pertinent information. By incorporating an iterative “feedback loop” into important or critical communications, you can dramatically improve understanding and retention of spoken and written word. Simply ask the listener or reader to repeat back his or her understanding of the communication in his or her own words to ensure that the correct information has been received and remembered. And when in doubt, recall the words of Academy Award winning screen writer Charlie Kaufman: “Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.” How do you make sure you’re communicating effectively? 9 Tips for Lending Money to Family & Friends 4 Reasons Why You Should Write an Autobiography or Personal Memoir How To Stay Safe And Avoid Getting Ripped Off On Craigslist How to Improve Public Speaking Skills and Overcome Your Fear Opening a Joint Bank Account & Merging Finances After Marriage - Pros & Cons 10 Simple Ways to Improve Your Business Writing Skills Michael R. Lewis is a retired corporate executive and entrepreneur. 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A call to end torture using the law Silence engulfed Old Kampala Primary School last Thursday when refugees living in the different suburbs of Kampala shared chilling stories of the torture they are being subjected to A suspected thief was seen beaten up seriously with both ears cut, tied on a UPDF lorry in Lira town File Photo Cases of torture are many and varying. As the world marks the Anti-Torture Day tomorrow, there is a call for the anti-torture law to be implemented in order to reduce cases and help victims get justice. Joseph Kato Silence engulfed Old Kampala Primary School last Thursday when refugees living in the different suburbs of Kampala shared chilling stories of the torture they are being subjected to. They expressed their agony through a song dubbed Sisi Wote Ni wa Afrika (We are all Africans) accompanied by a play. In the chorus damu ni moja, juko wandugu, sisi ni wandugu (same blood, brothers and sisters), the refugees cried out for peace, respect, justice and equality highlighting that they did not wish to abandon their home countries. This was the precursor of the community dialogue to create awareness of the international and national law against torture as the world prepares to mark the Anti-tTorture Day on tomorrow. The dialogue was organised by the Uganda Human Rights Commission in (UHRC) in collaboration with Coalition Against Torture (CAT). Police take Anatoli Muleterwa, the Kampala Metropolitan community liaison officer, says police are committed to implementing the anti-torture law. He adds that under the principle of vigorous liability, any officer found guilty of breaking the law is always held accountable. “Everyone needs security and we should help each other through reporting cases of torture in time so that action can be taken. We are not God to know that someone has been tortured unless he or she reports to us,” he says. Anti -torture activists Samuel Hebert Nsubuga, the chairperson of coalition against torture (CAT), appeals to the government to implement the law against torture so as to protect vulnerable persons in the country. “Most vulnerable people and refugees are not aware of the law that protects them and often keep quiet when their rights have been abused,” he says. Nsubuga urges victims to report cases of torture to organiSations like African Center for Treatment and rehabilitation of Torture Victims (ACTV), Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC), and police, so that action can be taken. Ruth Ssekindi, the director investigations at UHRC, says: “Before the law was passed, UHRC used provisions of the Constitution but now that the torture law is in place, victims should not remain tight-lipped.” She explains that any person found guilty of torture is liable to 15 years’ imprisonment whereas aggravated torture such as defilement, infecting the victim with HIV/ Aids and use of deadly weapons calls for life imprisonment. David Onen Ongwech, the programmes director of gender and sexuality at Refugee Law Project, says implementation of the law against torture is one of the priorities that should be undertaken to protect vulnerable persons such as refugees and forced migrants. “We are training police officers and prison warders about torture and we are happy that the Uganda police are actively involved in the fight against torture,” he says. He appeals to government to translate the law into various languages that can be understood by a wide section of the population. Ongwech adds that the project registers more than 200 new torture cases every year, adding that victims do not report because they are threatened, intimidated or persuaded with handouts by perpetrators. Besides, most of the torture victims are unable to identify the culprits. Elsa Bokhre, the community services officer at the UNHCR, says legal practitioners and police should have good will towards the implementation of the anti-torture law. What the anti-torture Act of 2012 says According to the Prevention and Prohibition of torture Act (2012), torture means causing great physical or mental pain or suffering to a person, who is held in detention. This can be done by doing something to a person, but also indirectly by not doing anything to stop or prevent torture. Examples of torture include beating a person with sharp objects or with parts of a gun, refusing to give food or forcing someone to eat spoilt food, animal or human faeces, using electric shock, burning a person with a cigarette, electricity, heated metals, hot oil and acid. Other examples of torture include, cutting off someone’s body parts, forcing the victims to witness or accept an offence, stripping the victim naked, public parading and over questioning the victim and covering someone’s eyes so that they cannot see what is happening among others. The wrong doer will be imprisoned for a period of up to seven years, or pay a fine of up to Shs3.36m, or both. A prisoner or detainee who is at risk of torture should not be sent to another country where he is likely to be tortured. This covers extradition law which states that a person shall not be extradited if they are likely to be tortured. Anybody has the right to file a complaint about torture, even if he or she is not the victim. A complaint can be made verbally or in writing, signed by the person who is complaining. If made verbally, it should be written down by the magistrate and signed the complaint. If the magistrate finds the complaint valid, they prepare and sign a formal charge. It is illegal to use information obtained through torture in a court case. This crime attracts two years imprisonment or a fine of up to Shs960,000. The chief magistrate court of Uganda can try cases of torture anywhere the crime has been committed, both inside and outside of Uganda. Any person living in Uganda can be tried for torture, even if they are not Ugandan citizens, with permission from the Director of Public Prosecution. The amnesty law cannot be used to forgive or pardon a person accused of torture. Victims’ tales Last month ACTV said they receive 1,200 to 1,400 cases of torture every year at their centres in Kamwokya, Kampala and Gulu District. Probably one of the most publisised cases of torture in recent times was the video that went viral of a maid torturing baby Arnella. Then there is the ongoing case of journalist, Andrew Lwanga . The numbers are many. About a month ago, Erias Lukwago sued the Attorney General, claiming to have been violently arrested by the police on November 19, 2013 at his home in Rubaga Division before being driven at a breakneck speed to Naggalama Police Station in Mukono District. In his complaint now before court, Lukwago said it all began on November 18, 2013 when he was arrested at his home and detained at Kira Police Station without any charge. He says he was later released at around 10pm in the night before being rearrested the following morning and driven at a breakneck speed to Naggalama Police Station without an explaination as to why he was being arrested as the law demands. The Lord Mayor adds that while in Naggalama police station, he was not given any reason as to why he was arrested, let alone being subjected to inhumane, demeaning and degrading treatment. The Lord Mayor further narrates that in the wee hours of November 20, he was then bundled on a pick-up truck and driven through Jinja Road, Kololo area, and eventually dumped at Kira Road Police Station where he spent a day before being arraigned at Buganda Road Court alongside Dr Kizza Besigye. The case is still pending in court with the Attorney General set to respond to the allegations. For the people with knowledge of the ani-torture law, seeking justice is made easy. However, not everyone has that privilege, as is the case of Muhoza Bizimana, one of the refugees who narrated her ordeal during the dialogue. “I am a Congolese refugee. I came to Uganda in 2008 after our village was attacked and destroyed by militias. Many of my colleagues settled in camps. I declined because I was once in the camp in my home country and I saw the highest degree of moral decay. I decided to come to Kampala hoping to get a job that would provide me with food and accommodation. I slept on the streets until I got someone who recruited me to vend her merchandise. As time went by, I got some money and rented a room in Kabalagala. While hawking goods one evening, two men intercepted, beat me and vanished with my merchandise. I was left with injuries on the body particularly the shoulders. Since I was familiar with their faces, I filed an assault case at Kabalagala Police Station. Afterwards, the officer who was handling my file referred me to a police surgeon for medical check-up. The surgeon asked me to pay Shs20,000 which I didn’t have at the moment since all my money and merchandise had been taken by the thugs. My case was abandoned since I had no medical report. Later on, I went to UHRC for help but all was in vain. At UHRC, I was asked to present a police letter, medical report and identification documents which I didn’t have. I tolerated the pain, relied on good Samaritans until the shoulder healed. Afterwards, I got a job and rented a room somewhere else. - Anthony Wesaka and Joseph Kato editorial@ug.nationmzdia.con

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Naha/Okinawa Discovering the Japanese Tropics The sophistication, elegance and ages-old culture of Japan. On an MSC Grand Voyages Cruise, you can discover the ancient beauty of the Okinawa islands. Belonging to the archipelago of Ryūkyū, their capital is Naha. There are many attractions and monuments that can be visited. These include Shuri Castle, the medieval residence of the Ryūkyū dynasty, the center of government and religious headquarters, and one of nine UNESCO World Heritage sites in Okinawa. Another UNESCO World Heritage site is Shikinaen Garden , where you can admire the characteristic wooden buildings with red tile roofs that overlook an artificial lake and vegetation that inspires meditation and peace. Peace Memorial Park has a great emotional impact: near the end of World War II, Okinawa was the scene of a bloody battle between Japan and the US, which killed about 200,000 people, more than half of which were civilians. The shopping and restaurant street in Naha isKokusai : two kilometers of bars, cafes, hotels and boutiques where you can linger and enjoy yourself sipping awamori , a typical liqueur from the island served with ice. The capital is also home to the museum of the former underground headquarters of the Japanese Navy and the Okinawa Prefectural Museum , where you can discover the history and culture of Okinawa. To understand how the inhabitants lived, you can also visit Ryukyumura Village , a small theme park that recreates a village where craftsmen shape pottery, weave clothing and blankets and where musicians play the sanshin guitar. Located in front of the East China Sea, the cliff of Cape Manzamou is a true natural sculpture shaped by the ocean: a part of it looks like the trunk of an elephant. It is impossible to leave without taking a photograph.

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Section 63 Action Plans in Scotland Section 63 Action Plans - Improving energy efficiency in large buildings in Scotland In addition to the current EPC regulations, as of 1st September 2016 new energy regulations require further action to assess and improve energy efficiency and reduce the associated greenhouse gasses for larger buildings in excess of 1,000 sq m. The target to reduce emissions will be met through identifying and carrying out improvement works agreed in an Action Plan. The Action Plan is in addition to the EPC and there is a legal requirement to carry out the specified improvement measures or report on actual energy use through a Display Energy Certificate (DEC). These new regulations will have implications when selling and letting property. Why force further action for energy efficiency in existing large buildings? Research in 2014 conducted by Consumer Focus shows that only 17% of those who have received an EPC have acted on the recommendations. EPCs were introduced to reduce energy use and CO2 emissions and partly a lack of action by building owners has required mandatory improvements to be made. The relevant Section 63 legislation Relevant legislation: Climate Change Act Scotland 2009 (section 63) and The Assessment of Energy Performance of Non-domestic Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2016. Under Section 63, ‘Energy Performance of Non-Domestic Buildings’ of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009,” owners" of qualifying buildings are required to improve the energy performance of and reduce emissions. The new regulations are generally known as the ‘Section 63 regulations’. When do Section 63 regulations become effective? Buildings exempt from ‘Section 63 regulation’' l Buildings with a floor area of less than 1,000 sq m. l Properties that have met or exceed the equivalent energy standards of the 2002 Scottish building regulations. This may exempt older buildings that have had comprehensive upgrades to their HVAC and lighting. l Temporary buildings – Intended life of 2 years or less. l Workshops and agricultural buildings meeting the “low energy demand” rule. l Buildings participating in the Green Deal scheme. l Prisons and young offender institutions. Trigger point for Section 63 The trigger point for the section 63 part of the new legislation would be a sale or new lease. A sub-let or assignation is not considered a new lease. Section 63 exempt transactions for Action Plans means the lease of a building on a short term lease (12 weeks or less), the sale or lease of a building or building unit at any time before the construction of that building or building unit has been completed or the renewal of an existing lease with the same tenant. What do the regulations require? Where the regulations apply, the owner of the building must undertake further assessme nt to produce an ‘Action Plan’. This document identifies targets to reduce the carbon consumption and energy performance of the building and how these targets would be met through physical improvements to the property. Types of Action Plan The two types of action plan are a Prescriptive and Alternative Action plan. Prescriptive Action Plan measures are: 1. Adding central time heating controls to the HVAC system. 2. Upgrading lighting controls to manual and photoelectric switching. 3. Draught-stripping windows and doors. 4. Adding insulation to the hot water storage cylinder. 5. Replacing incandescent lamps with compact fluorescent lamps. 6. Replacing the boiler if older than 15 years. 7. Insulating accessible roof space. An alternative Action Plan can be tailored to meet the target rating by choosing different improvement works. The owner has the choice of carrying out the improvement measures within 42 months to create a building that would be deemed compliant with Section 63 requirements. Deferring the required Action Plan measures Where the responsible party does not want to implement the action plan measures they are able to defer them by carrying out a Display Energy Certificate (DEC) on an annual basis. A DEC is an operational energy rating and considers the actual energy use. All Action Plans and DECs are lodged to the Scottish EPC Register. As is the case with an EPC, the Action Plan must be made available to prospective buyers or tenants and provided to the new owner or tenant. An Action Plan will be produced by a registered ‘Section 63 Advisor’. The EPC Action Plan and Improvement Measures Where a relevant non-domestic building or building unit is to be sold or let the owner must make a copy of the Action. An Action Plan must include the energy performance target and the emissions target for the building or building unit, specify any identified improvement works for the building or building unit and specify the timescale for implementation. The time allowed for implementing Action Plan Improvement Measures The maximum permitted timescale for the improvement works is to be 42 weeks from date of the action plan being issued. The energy performance data relating to the action plan must be lodged with the register before the action plan is made available to a prospective buyer or a prospective tenant. Differences between English and Scottish minimum regulations It is important to note that these Scottish requirements are different from the regulations to be introduced in England and Wales. After autumn 2018 buildings in England or Wales being marketed for sale or to let will be required to meet a minimum EPC rating of an English E before they can be legally marketed for sale or let. It should be remembered that an English E is often easier to achieve than a Scottish E as the rating system is different. Reference to owner The regulations require ‘owners’ of such buildings to take steps identified by such assessments. Interpretation of this will evolve and it may be that where a lease refers to the tenant being responsible for statutory regulations then they may be liable for dealing with the result of an Action Plan through improvements or carrying out an annual Display Energy Certificate (DEC). Every local authority is an enforcement authority for the purposes of these Regulations and it is the duty of each enforcement authority to enforce these Regulations in its area. EPCs, Section 63 Action Plans and Display Energy Certificates are lodged on a central database and progress can be tracked by the Scottish Government. A penalty charge notice applies for non-compliance. Background to energy efficiency in buildings in the UK Energy Efficiency regulations of buildings in the UK came into force on 4 January 2003. The objective is to promote improvement of the energy performance of buildings and to reduce the amount of carbon produced as a result of their energy use. Buildings account for 37% of the total greenhouse gases in the UK. Reducing energy consumption and using energy from renewable sources are of paramount importance in reducing UK energy dependency and greenhouse gas emissions. Metro Commercial specialise in producing Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), Section 63 Action Plans and Display Energy Certificates (DECs) for non-domestic buildings.

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