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Tuba Pedagogy from Day One Clinic Synopsis: Day One clinics are intended to be short, content-rich, “nuts-and-bolts” presentations to assist instrumental music educators in starting students properly their instruments. These sessions will also be of great benefit for any teacher in need of a primer for a proven method of achieving success on a wind or percussion instrument. Clinician Name: Patrick Sheridan (patsheridan@mac.com) Clinic Time: 12/19/2018 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM Clinic Location: Meeting Room W182 Clinician Biographical Information Patrick Sheridan is one of the most celebrated tuba soloists in his instrument's history. He has performed more than 3,000 concerts in over 50 countries in venues ranging from the White House to NBA half-time shows to the Hollywood Bowl. He is a former member of "The President's Own" United States Marine Band and has been featured on NBC's "Today Show" and NPR's "All Things Considered." Beyond his busy performing life, Patrick's commitment to education is extensive. His wind students occupy positions in major international ensembles. Mr. Sheridan has served on the music faculties at Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, The Rotterdam Conservatory, The Royal Northern College of Music and The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He most recently served on the music faculty at the UCLA where he conducted the Brass Ensemble and Wind Ensemble and taught tuba/euphonium. Along with Sam Pilafian, he is the co-author of the world's best selling method for instrumental improvement, The Breathing Gym, which won the 2009 EMMY Award for Instructional/Informational Video Production. He is the Chief Design Consultant for Jupiter Band Instruments and XO Brass. In the community, Patrick is also the Music Director of The Salt River Brass. Patrick also frequently works across the United States as a guest conductor with university bands and orchestras as well as high school and middle school all-state and regional honor bands and orchestras. Patrick is a member of ASCAP, an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi and a Trustee of The International Music Camp.

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To explain a no-deal Brexit, we should call it “the Venezuela option” It’s ironic that those who say a Labour government will lead to us “becoming like Venezuela” are often the same people who want us to have a Venezuela-style trade relationship with the EU. By Steven Toft Getty. The various options for the UK’s future relationship with Europe are often described using the names of countries which have similar arrangements. We have the Norway Option for remaining in the single market, Norway Plus for single market plus customs union, the Swiss Option for a series of bilateral deals, the Turkey Option for a customs union and the Canada Option for a free trade agreement outside both customs union or single market. Michel Barnier even illustrated the various options with a series of flags on his now famous slide. But what about leaving the EU with no deal, the WTO model promoted by hardline Brexiters? Does any other country have a similar relationship with the EU? Despite claims that the UK does much of its trade under WTO terms alone, it’s not quite true. The EU has some form of trade agreement with most countries, even those with whom it doesn’t have full free trade deals. As the Institute for Government explained: “In 2016, of the top 10 trading partners with the EU by total trade, the US, China, Russia, Japan and India have a substantial number of bilateral agreements that go well beyond the terms of WTO trade. Of the top 20, there are no countries that trade on WTO rules alone with no bilateral agreements and no free trade deals. “If the UK left the EU with no agreements of any kind, then technically its relationship with the EU would be weaker than any of the EU’s main trading partners.” For the last four decades, almost all of the UK’s commercial agreements with other countries have been negotiated through the EU. Around two-thirds of UK exports in 2017 went either to the EU or to countries with EU free trade agreements. According to the Financial Times, there are 759 agreements with 168 countries that will need to be renegotiated if the UK is to maintain its current trading relationships after Brexit. As things stand at the moment, unless something is agreed very soon, overnight on 29 March, the UK’s relationship with its largest trading partner will transform from the best it could be to worse than that of most other countries. On ceasing to be a member of the EU, most of the UK’s current commercial agreements will disappear. In terms of its relationship with the EU, only one country comes close to where the UK would be after a no-deal Brexit. Apart from those countries not under some sort of EU sanctions, the only one which has no trading agreements with the EU is Venezuela. Furthermore, having severed its relationships with the Andean Community and Mercosur, it has acrimonious relationships with its near neighbours, which is what the UK would have with the EU in the event of leaving without a withdrawal agreement. As former Australian government trade negotiator Dmitry Grozoubinski pointed out: “A threat in a No-Deal Scenario is that a huge volume of the UK’s trade with the EU which currently treats moving from Dover to Calais like moving from London to Oxford will have to be treated like Dover to Venezuela. That’s a logistical and administrative nightmare and a huge shock. “I maintain the WTO Only/No Deal model should be named the ‘Venezuela Model’ after the country whose trading relations with the EU it will most closely replicate. “All the other models are named after a country with that relationship to the EU (Norway, Canada.) Venezuela is the closest proxy for No Deal.” In other words, then, in the event of a no-deal Brexit, UK goods will have the same status in the EU and its trading partners as goods from Venezuela. The consequences of the Venezuela Option would be severe. The Institute for Government warned in its recent paper that the government and businesses are nowhere near ready to cope with a change on this scale: “A customs and regulatory border would be introduced between the UK and the EU under no deal. The legal basis for free movement of goods would disappear –tariffs, paperwork and checks on standards would be required by law. “The EU has said it will apply checks to UK goods as required under EU law. That will put major demands on traders. The Government – particularly HM Revenue and Customs – has begun to communicate with businesses about the new processes they will need to comply with, but not all businesses are aware of the changes they will face.” Economies evolve based on assumptions and expectations. The single market has been in place for a quarter of a century. Many companies that trade with the EU have no experience of anything else. Some advocates of no deal argue that the UK managed perfectly will before it joined the EU. That may be true, but that was a very different economy with different expectations and different people working in it. The 1960s economy also managed without an extensive motorway network but if all the motorways were closed indefinitely next month there would be chaos. People have built businesses on the assumption that the motorways are there. The same is true of the EU’s single market and customs union. As former UK government trade negotiator David Henig says, never mind the speculation, the things we can be certain about in a no-deal scenario will be bad enough. Among the consequences he lists are: UK products will face tariffs if sold into the EU - for example cars at 10 per cent and shoes at 8 per cent. Some UK producers will become uncompetitive when facing these tariffs, especially compared to EU producers, and will therefore cease production; UK products which require testing to be placed on the EU market will need a test carried out within the EU, a UK test will not be sufficient. This will add costs to production; There will be no customs cooperation between the UK and EU, thus for example no mutual recognition of the Authorised Economic Operator scheme. Products are therefore likely to take more time to go through customs checks; The tariffs on goods, and restrictions on services, will also apply to countries with who the EU has a current trade agreement that the UK fails to replicate - for example there is likely to be no agreement with Turkey; Over 50 per cent of UK trade will be affected by these changes. Less than 10 per cent of EU trade will be affected by these changes. UK costs will rise, EU costs are unlikely to do so. This will be a major change to the terms of trade between us. That last point is important. Much is made of the fact “they sell more to us than we sell to them” – but relative to the size of the EU, that’s still not a large percentage of its trade, whereas it is a considerable part of the UK’s. Exports to the EU are a much larger slice of the UK economy than exports to the UK are for most EU member countries. This is simply a function of size. With the possible exception of Ireland, no country faces as much risk to its export market from a no-deal Brexit as the UK. Much of this trade is integrated within EU supply chains. According to the Bank of England, around 30 per cent of the entire value of UK exports, goods and services, is made up of inputs to products that are finished in the EU. As Mark Carney remarked: “The proportion of UK exports that are intermediate components of EU value chains has increased from about 1/5th of exports in 1995 to about 1/3rd in 2014. Increasingly the UK doesn’t so much export to Europe as through Europe; it is a supplier of components to final goods that are exported beyond the continent.” The level of interdependence between EU economies has increased because of the single market. The assumption of frictionless trade has seen the development of EU-wide production lines. UK business is more dependent on inputs from the EU than vice versa, as this chart by the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows: Image: Institute for Fiscal Studies. Again, this is a function of size. The disruption to these supply chains will be less of a problem for firms based in the EU, which can, if necessary, re-source supplies from other EU countries, than for UK firms dependent on EU suppliers. The EU will also still have all its existing trade agreements in place on 30 March. So, while a no-deal Brexit would be inconvenient for the EU it would be nowhere near as damaging as it would be for the UK. None of this is to say that the UK economy would sink to Venezuelan levels of growth and inflation after Brexit: Venezuela’s economic problems go way beyond its trade relationships. It is ironic, though, that the people who threaten us with “becoming like Venezuela” if we vote for a Labour government are the same people who want us to have a Venezuela-style trade relationship with the EU. Those who casually advocate ripping up four decades worth of trade arrangements are threatening to set the country on a very dangerous path. The idea of flipping from being a major pillar of the world trade order to a borderline pariah state overnight ought to be unthinkable. Instead, it is being promoted by many of our elected representatives. Let’s stop calling it by the respectable-sounding WTO Rules, and give it a name that befits the chaos and misery it would bring: the Venezuela Option. › Jill Abramson’s Merchants of Truth fails to reliably report on the new media Steven Toft is the author of the Flip Chart Fairy Tales blog China’s slow response to coronavirus has shown the weakness of its centralised model By Jessie Lau

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Logogram Previous (Logical positivism) Next (Logos) Abugida A logogram, or logograph, is a written or pictorial symbol that is used to represent an entire word, unlike phonograms, which represent phonetic sounds. Logograms are commonly known as “ideograms” or “hieroglyphs” although, technically, an ideogram represents an idea rather than a specific word. As a purely logographic script would be impractical for most languages, writing systems that incorporate logograms also make use of phonetic elements. Thus, such writing systems make use of a combination of phonetic and logographic symbols, including ideograms. A significant advantage of using logographic symbols is that they can be easily understood no matter what language is spoken, which is not the case with writing systems like alphabets or syllabaries which are purely phonetic. Thus, the use of logograms allows people of different cultures to communicate even when their spoken languages are mutually unintelligible. On the other hand, the number and complexity of logograms seriously reduces their utility as a common language for all people. It takes many years of education to master a large enough set to support the communication of detailed and complicated ideas and concepts, and thus the less educated find themselves functionally illiterate. Thus, while logograms have many benefits, and certainly were a great advance for humankind in supporting written language, the development of the more functional phonetic alphabets allowed all people to be able to express themselves in written form with greater ease. 1 History of logographic systems 1.1 Sumerian cuneiform 1.2 Egyptian hieroglyphs 1.3 Other hieroglyphic writing systems 1.4 Asian languages 2 Numbers and symbols 3 Phonetic and logographic elements 4 Advantages of logographic systems 5 Disadvantages of logographic systems History of logographic systems Logographic systems, or logographies, include the earliest true writing systems. The first historical civilizations of the Near East, China, and Central America used some form of logographic writing. Sumerian cuneiform Cuneiform writing was developed by the Sumerian people of Mesopotamia around 3300 B.C.E., and had a strong influence on the development of a number of other writing systems, including the Akkadian and Babylonian scripts. Cuneiform evolved from the use of clay tokens to count agricultural and manufactured goods. Multiple clay tokens were sealed into jars, and a stylus was used to imprint an image of each clay token contained inside. Eventually, symbols were developed for representing multiple numbers, and the symbols began to replace the clay tokens altogether. Early Sumerian writing included pictographic images. The image for “bird” was clearly a bird, for example. After 3000 B.C.E., however, these images began to evolve into the familiar groupings of wedge shapes that are recognized as cuneiform writing. Around this time, the writing system also began to change into a more phonetic-based system.[1] The image below shows the development of the sign SAG "head."[2] Stage 1 shows the pictogram as it was drawn around 3000 B.C.E. Stage 2 shows the rotated pictogram as written around 2800 B.C.E. Stage 3 shows the abstracted glyph in archaic monumental inscriptions, from ca. 2600 B.C.E., and stage 4 is the sign as written in clay, contemporary to stage 3. Stage 5 represents the late third millennium, and stage 6 represents Old Assyrian of the early second millennium, as adopted into Hittite. Stage 7 is the simplified sign as written by Assyrian scribes in the early first millennium, and until the script's extinction.[3] Egyptian hieroglyphs Egyptian hieroglyphs, many of which function as logograms. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs were used from about 3200 B.C.E. until almost 400 C.E. Egyptian hieroglyphs are often clearly recognizable as the objects they represent; pictographic representations of humans, animals, and tools require little guesswork as to the word they represent. While hieroglyphic writing is generally done phonetically, nearly all the phonetic glyphs can also serve as logograms. A silent vertical stroke accompanying a glyph indicates that it should be read as a logogram. Many of the phonetic values of Egyptian glyphs are also influenced by the meaning of the glyph when used as a logogram. In English, this would be similar to an image of a book being assigned the phonetic value “B,” because “B” is associated with “b”ook. Thus, for example, with the vertical stroke the logogram dšr, means "flamingo:" The corresponding phonogram, without the vertical stroke, means "red" because the bird is associated with this color: Other hieroglyphic writing systems While Egyptian hieroglyphs may be the most well-known, a number of other hieroglyphic scripts employ the use of logograms. These include Anatolian hieroglyphs (used to write Luwian), Mayan hieroglyphs, Olmec hieroglyphs, Mi’kmaq hieroglyphs, and Dongba script. With the exception of the Dongba script, which is still used by the Naxi priests in China and Tibet, hieroglyphic writing systems are no longer in use. Asian languages A number of Asian languages (most notably Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) employ heavy use of logographic characters. Chinese and its derivative, Japanese kanji, are perhaps the most widely cited examples of predominantly logographic scripts still in use today. When discussing Asian languages, the term “character” often replaces the term “logogram.” In the Chinese language, there are over 50,000 characters, 2,000 of which are considered necessary for basic literacy. In Japanese, knowledge of 1850 characters is required. While not all of these characters are technically logograms, most have logographic elements. For example, a character may represent only a part of a word as well as the word itself. Excerpt from a 1436 primer on Chinese characters Chinese characters are traditionally divided into six types, of which only a very small number are true logograms, representing a single word. Some of the oldest Chinese characters are stylized pictographs, like 人 for "man," 木 for "tree," or 山 for "mountain." There are also a number of ideographs (representing abstract ideas), such as 上 for "up" and 下 for "down." Many characters are "compounds," combinations of elements (called radicals) in which each radical hints at the meaning. For example, 休 for "rest" is composed of the characters for "man" (人) and "tree" (木), with the intended idea of someone leaning against a tree, thus resting. The majority of Chinese characters, however, are compound characters called “semantic-phonetic compounds.” These characters, which represent approximately ninety percent of existing characters, are made up of a radical that hints at the meaning of a character, as well as a phonetic component that helps clarify the pronunciation of the character.[4] Within the context of the Chinese language, Chinese characters by and large represent words and morphemes rather than pure ideas; however, the adoption of Chinese characters by the Japanese and Korean languages (where they are known as kanji and hanja, respectively) have resulted in some complications to this picture. Many Chinese words, composed of Chinese morphemes, were borrowed into Japanese and Korean together with their character representations; in this case, the morphemes and characters were borrowed together. In other cases, however, characters were borrowed to represent native Japanese and Korean morphemes, on the basis of meaning alone. As a result, a single character can represent multiple morphemes of similar meaning but different origins (and thus different pronunciations) across several languages. Because of this, kanji and hanja are often described as morphographic writing systems. Numbers and symbols There are a number of logograms in use today that are understood world-wide. For example, symbols for currency like "$," "€," and "£" are universally recognized to mean "dollar," "euro," and "pound" respectively. The vast majority of universal logograms are related to mathematics, such as numerals (1, 2, 3, and so forth) and mathematical symbols like “+” (plus), “<” (less than), and “π” (pi). While the spoken representation of these symbols may change according to the language, the symbols themselves transcend language barriers. This is the reason many have referred to mathematics as “the universal language.” Phonetic and logographic elements All logographic scripts, both ancient and modern, include a phonetic system that works in tandem with logographic elements of the script. In some cases, like Egyptian hieroglyphs, most glyphs are used for their phonetic values and not their logographic meaning. Many logographic systems also employ an ideographic component (“determinatives” in Egyptian hieroglyphs or “radicals” in Chinese) that serves to clarify the meaning of a particular logogram. Scripts can also use phonetic complements to give clues as to the intended interpretation of a logogram. Advantages of logographic systems One of the clearest advantages to the use of logographic symbols or characters is their universality. This can be seen in mathematics, where mathematical formulas and problems can be easily understood by mathematicians from any country. This advantage is also evident in China, where hundreds of spoken dialects make use of the same (or similar) written language. Chinese who speak different dialects may not understand each other through speech, but can communicate effectively through writing. Even Japanese and Korean people, familiar with a smaller set of Chinese characters, can achieve better communication among their different cultures through the use of these logograms. Disadvantages of logographic systems Logographic writing systems have clear disadvantages as well, one of the most obvious being that they are more time consuming to learn. Instead of the small number of letters that constitute a phonetic alphabet, logographic writing systems require the memorization of a large group of logograms. Also, while most logographic languages have phonetic components, the pronunciation of a word is generally dependent on the reader knowing the meaning of a particular logographic symbol. Words in many alphabetic writing systems such as Italian can be sounded out if they are not known to the reader; this cannot be done in more logographic languages like Chinese or Japanese. Logographic characters can also create difficulty with electronic devices. Instead of the reasonably small set of characters that make up most alphabetic systems of writing, logographic scripts like Chinese are much more cumbersome to type. With advances in technology, various methods have been developed for typing logograms: Chinese can be typed on a computer either by breaking a character up into its constituent parts, or by entering a phonetic pronunciation and selecting the correct character from a list. ↑ Lawrence Lo, “Sumerian,” Ancientscripts.com (2007). Retrieved February 23, 2009. ↑ Rykle Borger, 184 sag, Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon, Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding. Retrieved February 23, 2009. ↑ Samuel Noah Kramer, Thirty Nine Firsts In Recorded History (University of Pennsylvania, 1998, ISBN 0812212762). ↑ Simon Ager, “Types of Chinese Characters,” Omniglot (2009). Retrieved February 23, 2009. DeFrancis, John. The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy. University of Hawaii Press, 1984. ISBN 0824810686. Hannas, William C. Asia's Orthographic Dilemma. |University of Hawaii Press, 1997. ISBN 082481892X. Hoffman, Joel M. In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language. NYU Press, 2004. ISBN 0814736904. Kramer, Samuel Noah. Thirty Nine Firsts In Recorded History. University of Pennsylvania, 1998. ISBN 0812212762. History of writing · History of the alphabet · Graphemes Writing systems · Languages by writing system / by first written account · Undeciphered writing systems · Inventors of writing systems Alphabets · Abjads · Abugidas · Syllabaries · Ideogrammic · Pictographic · Logographic Logogram history History of "Logogram" Retrieved from //www.newworldencyclopedia.org/p/index.php?title=Logogram&oldid=935149

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'Security Council reform essential for balance of power, diversity' United Nations, Jan 13: The Security Council should be reformed to ensure a balance of power at the global organisation and to make it more democratic, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. He said he shared the desire of the Group of 77 (G77) developing countries for a "more democratic UN, with power divided in a more balanced way and with more effective diversity in the regional representation at all bodies of the UN". "And, of course the centre of that is the reform of the Security Council," he said. The process for reform of the Security Council has been stalled for more than a decade and the next negotiating meeting on the subject is set for January 29. Guterres was speaking on Friday at a ceremony at which Egypt took over the chairmanship of the G77 from Ecuador. The G77 is a coalition of developing countries that works collectively on development and international economic issues. It currently has 134 members, making it the largest group in the UN. Guterres said that the G77 has been the "central pillar in the defence of multilateralism" when "these are not easy times for multilateralism". He expressed appreciation for the role of the G77 in "avoiding a dramatic reduction in our budget and in preserving the development sector in those negotiations". On fighting climate change, he said India has seized the leadership. "We have a very solid commitment to climate action," he said. "We cannot be defeated by climate change and we are not yet winning this battle" and the biggest victims of climate change are the developing countries that are members of the G77. "In a moment when others are failing," he said, of "the largest economies in the world, the two largest economies of the G77 are strongly committed to the leadership in climate action and I refer to China and India." He said he saw India and China "assuming the leadership in climate action to make sure that we don't suffer the dramatic and devastating impact of climate change", he added. Assuming G77's chairmanship, Egypt's Permanent Representative Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta said that the group will work unitedly for combating climate change in a way that also promotes development. Development and eradication of poverty will be a priority of the group, he said. Poverty remains the root cause of the bulk of the problems that the world faces. For this employment and the productive capacities of the developing countries have to increase and, in particular, development has to be labour intensive to provide jobs for the youth, Aboulatta said. One of his priorities, he said, would be to create a clear, multilateral roadmap for dealing with the frontier issues that are arising from technologies. Another G77 priority is promoting the rights and role of women, he said. General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak said that G77's involvement will remain crucial for dealing with the challenges that UN faces. White House confirms President Trump will attend historic ‘Howdy, Modi’ rally in Houston on Sept 22 Amit Jani, former aide to NJ Gov. Phil Murphy, hired by Joe Biden’s 2020 Presidential campaign Ajay Dhingra, 43, of Texas, first to be indicted for illegal possession of a riffle bump stock since its ban in the US President Trump names Shireen Matthews, former US Attorney, to serve as judge on the US District Court for the Southern District of California Pioneering data scientist Dr Ganapathi Pulipaka receives ‘Top 50 Technology Leader’ award for contributions to artificial intelligence GoDaddy, world’s largest web host, names Aman Bhutani as Global CEO Dr Kiran Patel-backed company gets key FDA designation for product that could reduce leg amputations Team led by Prof. Balaji Panchapakesan at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts develops unique chip to capture circulating tumor cells Distinguished Visiting Chair established at IIT Gandhinagar by Vanderbilt Univ. Prof Amrutur Anilkumar New US rule would deny visas and green cards to immigrants who use public benefits https://www.nayaface.com/post/9321/security-council-reform-essential-for-balance-of-power-diversity/?c=4

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Hartford Bar Celebrates Success of Manchester Moonshine Maker Onyx Moonshine will be swag bags. By Robert Quinn • Published on February 8, 2012 at 11:55 am Onyx Moonshine A local distillery will host a red carpet event on Thursday at the Russian Lady to celebrate its brand’s selection as the official spirit of the 2012 Grammy Awards. Manchester-based Onyx Moonshine will be placed in gift bags to be given to all presenters and performers at the awards show. The spirit, which uses a prohibition-era recipe, is the “first legally-produced premium moonshine in Connecticut,” according to a statement from the company. Onyx’s website does not clearly define what constitutes a moonshine, but says that it is “a truly American spirit,” despite relatively low popularity. “We've only been open a few months and it's amazing to see how many people are excited to try our moonshine,” Adam von Gootkin, co-founder of Onyx Spirits Co, said in a statement. The company's site promotes its product as an “exciting replacement for vodka or whiskey” in many cocktails. Adam von Gootkin and Peter Kowalczyk, co-founders of Onyx Spirits, as well as Brady of Kiss 95.7 FM, will attend the event at the Russian Lady. The Russian Lady recently reopened after a 14-year hiaius. Tonight, it's the place to be. Promotional prizes will include a Grammy gift bag for one attendee. The event is open to the public and will begin at 9 p.m. Thursday.

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Justin Bieber to Star in Biopic, Pen Memoir Bieber fever hits Hollywood and the publishing world By DANIEL MACHT • Published on August 2, 2010 at 11:00 pm Telemundo Houston Creative Department All hail the teen. Justin Bieber will extend his reign over popular culture with a new biopic and memoir, according to reports. The 16-year-old pop star will first release the memoir in the U.S. and U.K. in October on HarperCollins, the publisher announced on Monday. The illustrated tome entitled "Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story" will likely chart the singer’s rise three years ago from YouTube phenom to global pop star and contain unseen photos, according to Reuters. In February, Paramount Pictures is expected to release a 3-D chronicle of Bieber’s life by famed “Inconvenient Truth” director Davis Guggenheim, E! News reported. “This is so sick!! Gonna come out in theatre's Worldwide Valentine's 2011!!!” Bieber tweeted on Monday. “I'm taking this thing worldwide thanks to u all!! Hyped!! the story the songs the concert.” News of Bieber’s latest media conquests comes on the heels of the teen sensation’s music video “Baby” becoming the most-watched video on YouTube with more than 246 million views. Bieber is also set to take on the small screen with a guest spot on “CSI.”

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News & Events > Awards > We are one of Five Hospitals in Idaho to Receive a Five-Star Ranking! We are one of Five Hospitals in Idaho to Receive a Five-Star Ranking! NCMC TIMES-NEWS / MAGICVALLEY.COM – Jan 9, 2018 GOODING • North Canyon Medical Center in Gooding has received the highest-possible hospital rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. It received a five-star rating for overall hospital quality, the hospital said in a statement Monday. It’s among five Idaho hospitals — and the only one in the Magic Valley — to receive it. “We work hard to provide the highest quality of patient care and it is wonderful to be recognized for our efforts. We remain focused on our mission and committed to providing levels of professionalism, advanced medical technology, and patient comfort that is without equal.” Tim Powers, Chief Executive Officer Ratings are based on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey, where patients weigh in. Hospitals are scored based on survey responses to questions about topics such as communication with medical providers, pain management, how clean the hospital is and whether a patient would recommend the hospital to others.

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HomeHFA NewsWHEDA Receives... WHEDA Receives ‘AA’ Issuer Credit Rating From Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings Published on May 2, 2019 by Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority MADISON, WI – Standard and Poor’s Global Ratings (S&P) has affirmed its issuer credit rating for the Wisconsin Housing & Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) as ‘AA’ saying WHEDA’s outlook is stable. In 2018, S&P raised WHEDA’s rating to ‘AA’ from ‘AA-‘. In its review, S&P stated the rating reflects its view of WHEDA’s: Strong leverage ratios, as demonstrated by an S&P Global Ratings fiscal 2018 adjusted equity position; Low-risk asset base, which consists of single-family mortgage loans, mortgage-backed securities (MBS) guaranteed by Fannie Mae, and multifamily mortgage loans; Stronger financial performance compared with similarly rated peers; and Strong administrative and financial management supported by a culture of constant improvement, with a good working relationship with the state government. “S&P’s review provides reassurance in WHEDA’s ability to meet its mission while remaining financially stable to its partners,” said WHEDA Chief Financial Officer Sherry Gerondale. “This positive rating also serves to motivate our devoted WHEDA employees as we continue to expand housing and small business opportunities throughout Wisconsin.” The following are highlights from S&P’s credit report of WHEDA: WHEDA has a strong and active management team that has repeatedly proven proactive and successful in meeting its mission of financing affordable housing for residents of the state of Wisconsin through the administration of various programs. WHEDA staff is highly competent, well trained in their areas of expertise, and proactive with addressing key issues. S&P believes WHEDA’s asset base remains strong and relatively stable. WHEDA’s profitability in terms of its return on assets and net interest margin continued to strengthen, increasing to 2.3% and 2.2%, respectively, in fiscal 2018. WHEDA’s five-year averages of profitability ratios are higher than those of its ‘AA’ rated peers. WHEDA’s equity base has continually strengthened over the years, increasing to $777 million in fiscal 2018, its highest level to date. S&P believes budgetary stress at the state level no longer exists. The stable outlook reflects S&P’s expectation that WHEDA’s financial position will remain relatively stable, given the very strong credit quality of its seasoned portfolio of mortgage loans and MBS, along with the authority’s careful oversight and management of its loan programs to preserve credit quality. For over 45 years, WHEDA, as an independent state authority, has provided low-cost financing for housing and small business development in Wisconsin. Since 1972, WHEDA has financed more than 73,000 affordable rental units, helped more than 129,600 families purchase a home and made more than 29,000 small business and agricultural loan guarantees. For more information on WHEDA programs, visit wheda.com or call 800-334-6873. Connect with your HFA peers for best practices, advice, and solutions. HFA and Associate Members NCSHA Community Members NCSHA Online Community

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The governance model for the National Disability Insurance Scheme is outlined in the NDIS Act 2013. The National Disability Insurance Scheme is a nationally based scheme with funding and governance shared amongst all governments. All Australian governments will continue to be involved in decisions relating to the scheme’s policy, funding and governance. The key governance arrangements are: The scheme is administered by the National Disability Insurance Agency which has been established under Commonwealth legislation, the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (NDIS Act) and is governed by a Board. The Standing Council on Disability Reform (the Standing Council), a Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Ministerial Council made up of Treasurers and Ministers responsible for disability from the Commonwealth and each State and Territory is the decision-maker on the National Disability Insurance Scheme policy issues. The National Disability Insurance Agency holds all funds contributed by the Commonwealth, States and Territories in a single pool, manages scheme funds, administers access to the scheme and approves the payment of individualised support packages. The Board of the National Disability Insurance Agency is responsible for the performance of these functions and strategic direction of the National Disability Insurance Agency. The Board manages its costs and liabilities from year to year including through the development of a reserve and investment of funds. The National Disability Insurance Agency Board is advised by the National Disability Insurance Scheme Independent Advisory Council. The Commonwealth Minister is responsible for administering the NDIS Act, and exercises statutory powers with the agreement of states and territories, including a power to make the NDIS Rules and direct the National Disability Insurance Agency.

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National Family Business Day honours iconic leaders The names behind prominent family businesses Haighs Chocolates and Kennards Hire have been honoured as part of celebrations to mark National Family Business Day. Organised by industry body Family Business Australia (FBA), the national day is designed to acknowledge the contribution that family-owned and operated businesses make to the Australian economy. According to the FBA, the average family business has a turnover of around $12 million and employs 37 people. When combined, that equates to roughly half of Australia’s jobs, and a combined value of an estimated $4.3 trillion. The association also maintains a Hall of Fame to give special recognition to family business leaders who make an outstanding contribution to the wider business community and the country at large. In 2018, Life Membership Awards have been given to Andy Kennard of Kennards Hire (pictured, sitting in the truck with his family around him) and Alister Haigh of Haighs Chocolates, while the Family Business of the Year Award was given to Kyvalley Dairy, which has been owned and operated by the Mulcahy family in Victoria for more than 160 years. Mr Kennard’s son Angus, who now heads up Kennards Hire, has previously spoken on the My Business Podcast about some of the strategies his family have used over the years to help the business grow from a small regional hardware store to an iconic national business. “There are plenty of great family businesses that have fallen apart not because of the business family apart, but because the family has fallen apart,” Mr Kennard said. In announcing the honours, FBA’s Greg Griffith said that family businesses form a crucial part of the nation’s economy and community. “Most family businesses are Australian-owned and provide critical investment, workplaces and employment for our cities and towns. A healthy family business sector equals a healthy economy,” he said. “When you spend money on a family-owned Australian business, it remains in our communities.” Regulator accused of ‘inconsistent’ punishments Unlicensed adviser given permanent ban

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Bulgaria in EU Eurobarometer: 55% of Bulgarians Believe in the EU, but Only 20% Support the Euro Politics » BULGARIA IN EU | August 6, 2019, Tuesday // 08:45| Views: | Comments: 0 An EU study has revealed new data on Europeans' confidence in the EU, which countries are most optimistic and pessimistic about the future of the European Union, their support for the euro, their attitude to immigration, unemployment, climate change and more. This latest Eurobarometer standard survey was conducted after the European elections between 7 June and 1 July 2019 in all 28 EU countries and five candidate countries. In Bulgaria, 55% of citizens believe in the EU, and together with Croatia, our country has the lowest percentage in support of the euro (20%). The average level of skepticism among European citizens is 34%, Eurobarometer results show. The survey shows that in all but one EU Member State, the majority of those surveyed are "optimistic about the future of the EU", with the only exception being Greece (51% pessimists versus 45% optimists). High rates of "European pessimism" are also observed in the UK (46%, while optimists are still higher - 47%), France (45% vs 50%), the Czech Republic (43% vs 54%), Italy (38% vs 56 %). The highest percentages of optimists were observed in Ireland (85%), Denmark (79%), Lithuania (76%) and Poland (74%). Compared to the fall of 2018, optimism for the future of the EU has increased in 24 EU Member States, especially Cyprus (65%, + 12%), Hungary (68%, + 11%), Denmark (79%, + 9%), Austria (66%, + 8%) and even "pessimistic" Greece (45%, + 8%). However, optimism has declined in four countries: the United Kingdom (47%, -2%), Sweden (64%, -2%), the Czech Republic (54%, -1%) and Ireland (85%, -1%) . In 27 Member States (compared to 23 countries in the fall of 2018), the majority of respondents were "satisfied with the way democracy works in the EU" with the highest rates being in Ireland (77%), Denmark (75%), Portugal (72%) and Poland (70%). At the other end of the scale are France (45%) and the United Kingdom (46%). Greece is the only country in which the majority of respondents are not “satisfied” (60% vs. 36%). Confidence in the EU has increased by 20 Member States, with the highest results in Lithuania (72%), Denmark (68%) and Estonia (60%). In addition, more than half of the respondents were "reluctant to trust" the EU in Malta (56%). In Bulgaria and Hungary, the results are the same (55%). Most Europeans agree that "their voice is counted in the EU". The EU average reaches 56% (+ 7 percentage points from autumn 2018), with the highest results observed in Sweden (86%), Denmark (81%) and the Netherlands (76%). In the EU as a whole, support for the euro is stable at 62%. The majority of respondents in 17 Member States stated that the national economic situation was good. Luxembourg (94%), Denmark (91%) and the Netherlands (90%) are the highest performing countries. The lowest rates of positive opinions were observed in Greece (7%), Croatia and Bulgaria (both 20%). A large proportion of EU citizens support "the free movement of EU citizens who can live, work, study and do business anywhere in the EU" (81%), with more than two-thirds of respondents in each EU Member State sharing this view, from Lithuania (94%) to Italy and the United Kingdom (both 68%). Immigration remains the main concern at EU level by 34%, despite a sharp decline (-6 percentage points since autumn 2018). Climate change, which was ranked fifth in the fall of 2018, is now the second most important concern after a sharp increase. Three concerns receive the same assessment: the economic situation, the public finances of the Member States and terrorism (18%). Unemployment, currently ranked seventh at EU level (12%), remains the main concern at a national level (21%, -2 percentage points), together with price/inflation/ cost of living increases (21%, unchanged) and health and social security (21%, +1). Overall, the EC notes that a new poll on citizens' attitudes in European countries shows "best results since June 2014" Bulgaria in EU » Be a reporter: Write and send your article More from Bulgaria in EU » The Juncker Plan Will Provide Financial Assistance of BGN 10 million For 320 Micro-Enterprises in Bulgaria » EP Supports Accession Talks with Albania and Northern Macedonia » New Report: EC Reports on Bulgaria's Progress, Considers Dropping Monitoring (REVIEW) » Today's EC Monitoring Report on Bulgaria is Likely to be the Latest » The Latest Monitoring Report on Bulgaria is Expected to be Submitted Today » Six Countries Sign Common Document on Mobility Package

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Down to 'The Wire' for Crime Drama Writer and producer Ed Burns draws on his experience as a former Baltimore detective to create the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, now in its fifth and final season. It's a crime drama with a central theme of surveillance technology used to capture drug dealers. Down to 'The Wire' for Crime Drama November 30, 200711:00 AM ET Writer and producer Ed Burns draws on his experience as a former Baltimore detective to create the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, now in its fifth and final season. It's a crime drama whose themes revolve around the surveillance technologies used to capture drug dealers. This interview was originally broadcast on Nov. 22, 2006. 'The Wire' Tackles Troubled Baltimore Schools September 7, 20062:45 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered Michele Norris Maestro Harrell plays middle-school student Randy Wagstaff in the fourth season of HBO's The Wire. Paul Schiraldi hide caption Paul Schiraldi Writer and producer Ed Burns taught in Baltimore public schools after serving on the city's police force. He says he doesn't think audiences could handle going into a Baltimore public school for a week. Paul Schiraldi hide caption The Wire has been described as "the most demanding, intelligent hour on television." The show's long-anticipated fourth season begins Sunday on HBO. In its first three seasons, the gritty police drama set in Baltimore — and largely shot there — exposed viewers to some of the city's most intractable problems: its drug wars, corruption at its ports, the dysfunctionality of its police department. Season four tackles yet another: the city's public school system, cited as one of the worst in the nation. One of the story lines this season follows a group of middle-school students and their goings-on — in and out of school. The show's writer and producer is Baltimore native Ed Burns. He spent seven years as a teacher in the inner city, after serving 20 years with the Baltimore police. So Burns has had plenty of experience with kids leaving the classroom ... and making their way onto the street. Burns says that was the genesis of the season, to "go back to when choices are made." Initially, the show's writers thought they would focus on a high school. But then they realized that by high school, many choices were already made. Middle school is a "testing ground for the street," Burns says. "I don't think an audience could handle going into a middle school in Baltimore for a week," he says. "This is the tragedy of their school experience. They spend time in class warring with the teacher. They're suspended. They go to time-out rooms, and then they hit the streets, and within five years, a lot of them are victims of murders or are committing murders," he says. Burns hopes the show's harsh critique of the school system will entertain, disturb and ultimately teach audiences something about kids. He wants them to understand that when kids like those portrayed on the show go in the directions they do, it's not from personal choice, but from other doors shutting around them. "The trick is to keep all the doors open," he says. "If we can begin to understand that, then maybe we've done something." Related NPR Stories 'The Wire's' David Simon and George Pelecanos Sept. 23, 2004 HBO's 'The Wire' Returns for a Third Season Sept. 17, 2004 Crime Novelist George Pelecanos March 26, 2004 HBO's 'The Wire' Ed Burns Makes First Straight-to-iTunes Movie Nov. 20, 2007

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Business|Hans Tietmeyer, Banker Who Led German Transition to Euro, Dies at 85 https://nyti.ms/2huwF0v Hans Tietmeyer, Banker Who Led German Transition to Euro, Dies at 85 By Jack Ewing Hans Tietmeyer, president of the Bundesbank in the 1990s.Credit...Oed/ullstein bild, via Getty Images FRANKFURT — Hans Tietmeyer, the central banker who led Germany’s transition from the deutsche mark to the euro despite reservations about a single European currency, died on Tuesday. He was 85. The Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, announced his death but did not give the cause or say where he died. As president of the Bundesbank from 1993 until 1999, Mr. Tietmeyer was the most powerful central banker in Europe and a leading advocate of policies that prized price stability above all else. But in contrast to some of his more dogmatic predecessors, he was also known as a politically savvy pragmatist capable of compromise. In the years leading up to the creation of the euro in 1999, the Bundesbank under Mr. Tietmeyer set the tone for other central banks in Europe because of Germany’s status as Europe’s largest economy and the stability of Germany’s currency. When the Bundesbank raised or lowered its benchmark interest rates, the central banks of France, Italy and other European countries had little choice but to follow suit. Mr. Tietmeyer played a leading role in the years of negotiations that preceded the euro. He was among those insisting that countries joining the new currency union should be held to strict spending limits, and that the European Central Bank’s top priority should be to contain inflation. After the Bundesbank and other central banks in the eurozone ceded power over monetary policy to the European Central Bank in 1999, Mr. Tietmeyer remained a visible and influential speaker and commentator. In a 2004 book, “Herausforderung Euro” (“The Euro Challenge”), he lamented that many countries — including Germany — had violated the spending limits he had worked so hard to establish. Mr. Tietmeyer expressed doubts about whether the euro could be sustained without a strong European central government to enforce fiscal discipline. “One must not underestimate the risk to the euro of faulty budget discipline,” he told the German magazine WirtschaftsWoche in 2007. His views seemed to be vindicated in 2010, when the government of Greece was discovered to have systematically concealed its runaway public debt, provoking a crisis that nearly destroyed the euro and remains a source of tension. Mr. Tietmeyer was born on Aug. 18, 1931, in Metelen, a village northwest of Münster close to Germany’s border with the Netherlands. He was one of 11 children of Helene and Bernhard Tietmeyer, a financial inspector for the local government. There was no immediate word on his survivors. When he completed secondary school in 1952, Mr. Tietmeyer initially studied Roman Catholic theology. But after three semesters he switched to economics and went on to earn a doctorate from the University of Cologne in 1960. At the same time, he became expert at table tennis, winning medals at national championships. In 1962, Mr. Tietmeyer took a post at the West German Ministry of Economics, beginning a long career in Civil Service, often in jobs that involved coordinating economic policy with other European countries. As European leaders were beginning to discuss the idea of a common currency, Mr. Tietmeyer, in 1982, became a state secretary in the Finance Ministry, a position just below the minister. The job included responsibility for issues related to what was then known as the European Community. In that role, he became a close adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, preparing for West German participation in international summits. Mr. Tietmeyer was powerful enough to become a target of terrorists. In 1988, members of the far-left Red Army Faction fired at his Mercedes-Benz outside Bonn, striking the car numerous times but leaving Mr. Tietmeyer and his driver uninjured. Mr. Kohl’s government nominated Mr. Tietmeyer to the Bundesbank’s board in 1990, and he became president three years later. After his retirement from the Bundesbank, he remained something of a spiritual godfather to German economists and policy makers who have insisted — to much international criticism — that fiscal austerity is the cure for countries, like Greece, with too much government debt. “Monetary stability is not everything,” Mr. Tietmeyer said in a 2008 speech, “but without it there is nothing.”

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Oceania Football Confederation > Vanuatu Football Federation Vanuatu Football Federation Vanuatu has one of the most advanced technical programmes in Oceania, particularly at youth level. The Melanesian nation of around 220,000 inhabitants was chosen as one of six countries globally for a FIFA pilot project whereby players are identified at a young age and selected to train and stay full-time at the national academy. As part of that two-year programme for players aged 15-17, consideration is given to continuing school or vocational education. The main objective, however, is to facilitate national team players’ entry into professional football. These activities will make full use of the infrastructure of the technical centre in Teouma, Port Vila, built with funding from the FIFA Goal Programme. The success of the project, which started in 2008, led to Vanuatu being nominated to represent Oceania at the first ever Youth Olympic Games in 2010. Under the leadership of President Lambert Maltock, Vanuatu Football Federation (VFF) has worked hard to establish the academy and national headquarters in Teouma, as well as the decentralisation of football activities which led to the establishment of the regional technical centre in Luganville, Santo. VFF has also focused on developing beach soccer and futsal which has resulted in strong performances at OFC tournaments. As a football-devoted nation, it would only be a matter of time before Vanuatu qualified for a FIFA event, after close shaves at the OFC U-17 Men’s Championship, U-20 Men’s Championship, and on the club scene when Amicale finished runners-up at the OFC Champions League in 2014. In 2016 the nation finally achieved that long-awaited dream when the U-20 side finished runners-up to New Zealand at the OFC U-20 Championship on home soil, securing tickets to the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2017. VFF House Lini Highway Tel: +678 27 161 Fax: +678 25 236 Website: www.vanuafoot.vu Language: English, French, Bislama Shirt: Gold / Black Short: Black Socks: Gold / Black Affiliated 1988 Vanuatu News Stories Mabon keen to keep guiding young keepers Cagous held in second encounter VACANCY | Vanuatu National Coach

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Sheffield United have a double standard for West Ham and Iain Hume By Ian Winwood 28/11/2008 (Daily Mirror) Sheffield United were unusually blasé this week following the FA's decision not to take any further action regarding defender Chris Morgan's elbow smash to the head of Barnsley striker Iain Hume earlier this month. Speaking on BBC Radio Sheffield, Blades assistant manager Sam Ellis said his club now consider the matter "closed." Actually, make that almost closed, because Ellis couldn't resist one final parting shot. "We didn't think there was anything more [to the incident]," he continued. "We think people have made a little bit more out of it than they should have." Oh really, do you? It's a fact of football journalism that interviewers don't ask those being interviewed to expand on their answers, so we don't know who Ellis thinks these "people" actually are. But let's try and have a guess. Could Mr Ellis be talking about Iain Hume himself? Leaving aside the question of intent, the facts of the incident are as follows: Chris Morgan planted his feet on the ground and swung his elbow into the Barnsley player's head with enough force to fracture his opponent's skull, leaving a scar the size of a breakfast bagel. It's probably safe to assume that Iain Hume did not undergo this life-threatening misfortune so he could get himself on the telly. Is it, then, the FA who have made more of this matter than they should? No it's not, because the FA have done nothing at all. Chris Morgan was awarded a yellow card for his foul (rather than a three month prison sentence) and that's how it's going to stay. The Football Association would consider further punishment were the 'circumstances' more 'exceptional', but everyone knows that in the Championship fractured skulls are as common as throw-ins. So it must be that Sheffield United are referring to Barnsley Football Club as the people who have made too much of the unpleasantness at Oakwell. It is, after all, Barnsley who are threatening to bring a civil action against Morgan and his club. United obviously think this is all wrong, and that the FA's ruling should be a final end to the matter. This, by the way, is the same Sheffield United who refused the official ruling on the West Ham saga, and are using their own lawyers to try and grab £30 million. The double standard at work here is both hilarious and pitiful. If Sheffield United can have their day in court, then why can't Barnsley? If an official ruling is the end of the matter in one thing, then why not in everything? Why not? Because Sheffield United's talk of fairness only applies when it's fair to them, that's why. Anything else gets the elbow.

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Singapore Celebrates Colonialism to Justify Modern Shortcomings Source Shutterstock, Composite by Ned Colin Interviews, op-eds, and analysis to help you make sense of the news of the day and the news of the future. Why is this city-state commemorating the 200th anniversary of British rule? Because many of its institutions hark back to that time. By Ned Colin and Sonia Sarkar A 37-year-old White man sailed to Singapore on Jan. 28, 1819, and transformed “an obscure fishing village to a great seaport and modern metropolis.” Or so the story goes — never mind that British statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles’ mission was actually part of the colonial plan. Today, his marble statue stands tall at this site — as if he’s looking at Singaporeans with a sense of pride. And a bicentennial is on throughout the island nation with art installations, musical performances, exhibitions and multimedia-storytelling to “commemorate” Raffles’ arrival. But many Singaporeans are in no mood to celebrate. Instead, they’re raising a pertinent question: “Is there a need to celebrate the arrival of a colonizer?” In this nanny state, where free speech isn’t encouraged, people have taken to social media to register their protest. One post on the official Facebook page of Singapore Bicentennial mockingly says: “By PAP’s [the ruling People’s Action Party] logic, I think, we will soon celebrate the Japanese occupation from 1942–1945 renaming Singapore as ‘Syonan-to’ [Japanese renamed Singapore Syonan-to meaning ‘Light of the South’].” Another Singaporean’s post says, “The romanticized version of Raffles and British Empire in Singapore highly questionable” given the “atrocities committed by the British Empire in their colonies,” including the murder of many indigenous people. The marble statue of Sir Stamford Raffles looms large in more ways than one in modern Singapore. Source Getty Images That sentiment is echoed by a section of students, historians, sociologists and political analysts. “The celebratory emphasis of the bicentennial adds to the impression that there is less desire to have a serious conversation about the less palatable aspects of colonialism and its consequences,” says Ja Ian Chong, a political scientist at the National University of Singapore. But there’s a reason why it makes sense for Singapore to look uncritically at its colonial history. Recalling the British era with fondness helps draw a line of continuity that justifies why so many of the country’s policies, institutions and mechanisms still mirror colonial rule. Singapore still relies on laws of repression from those times, such as the Internal Security Act. This allows preventive detention of those committing acts deemed subversive by the regime, and it’s been used against political opponents and trade unions. Then there’s mass surveillance — the government has the right to access all communication data of citizens — that remains a reality for Singaporeans. The country’s heavy reliance on “low-wage labor, particularly from Bangladesh and the Philippines, who live and work in quasi-slavery conditions,” says historian Pingtjin Thum, also carries shades of the indentured labor brought to the Malay peninsula by the British in colonial times. Nobody is being told the precolonial Singapore was already modern. Nazry Bahrawi, cultural critic For sure, the British colonial period saw economic prosperity and stability that remain hallmarks of Singapore today, including that it has the world’s eighth-highest per capita GDP, second only to Qatar in Asia. The city’s free port, built by the British, is one of the world’s most important maritime hubs. But British rule also came with a significant human cost. According to historical evidence, the British segregated the working class into enclaves according to race and forced them to live in subhuman conditions. Critics have accused the British of fanning racial conflicts first, then suppressed them with laws in order to exercise “control.” Opium addiction took a toll on the working class. You won’t find these dark tales at the bicentennial though. The skyline of Singapore’s financial district. In that embrace of colonialism, Singapore is rare. Other ex-British colonies in Asia, such as Malaysia, Sri Lanka and India, have been overtly critical of their former colonizers. What’s also irking many Singaporeans is the narrative that Singapore’s success story began only with the British — devaluing the contributions of Malays, Javanese, Bugis, Indians and Chinese, who were part of the island’s history long before Raffles arrived. “Nobody is being told the pre-colonial Singapore was already modern,” says cultural critic Nazry Bahrawi of Singapore University of Technology and Design. He points to the 17th-century Johor Sultanate naval base on the island by way of example. Only recently has Singapore installed statues of four early community leaders, including of Prince Sang Nila Utama, who founded the Kingdom of Singapura (pre-colonial name of Singapore) in 1299, next to where Raffles stands today on the banks of the Singapore River. Multimedia messages about Bugis, Javanese, Orang Lauts and other communities who lived in the precolonial era have been posted on the Facebook page of Singapore Bicentennial following the criticism. But the celebrations remain centered on the British period and its legacy. There’s another reason to view the bicentennial celebrations with skepticism. The PAP has ruled Singapore continuously since the country’s separation from Malaysia in 1965 — and even earlier, when it was part of Malaysia. For its political future, the party needs to defend the country’s modern history with pomp and show — the PAP, after all, can’t blame anyone else for continuing colonial institutions and laws. Four years ago, in August 2015, the PAP government marked 50 years of separation from Malaysia with extravagant celebrations — just before elections that brought it back to power by defeating a fragmented opposition. So, it was really no surprise when, at the inauguration of the bicentennial celebrations, Prime Minister Lee Hsein Loong was uninhibited in his praise of the British colonial period. “Without 1819, we may never have launched on the path to nationhood as we know it today,” he said. So it’s a legitimate question to ask: Are the bicentennial celebrations also a political ploy in the run-up to the country’s next elections next year? (Sonia Sarkar is a freelance journalist who reports from South Asia and Southeast Asia, including Singapore.) Ned Colin, Assistant Visual Editor Contact Ned Colin | Sonia Sarkar, OZY Author Contact Sonia Sarkar OZYOpinion OZY Takes You Ahead of the Curve in Business and Economics It’s our business to stay ahead of the global business stories that matter most. OZY Takes You Ahead of the Curve in Good News OZY was first to report on these uplifting stories of people making their corner of the world a little bit better. Hidden Boomers These economic innovators are thriving in surprising places. The Long Coin This OZY original series explores wha’s next for cryptocurrencies around the world. 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Alberta Would Make A Good 51st State, Eh? Posted by Paul Jacobs, CFP®, EA photo by Wilson Hui When most Americans mention a possible 51st state, they are often thinking of Puerto Rico or Washington, D.C., both of which have expressed desire for statehood. But serious disagreements north of the border might suggest a more unusual candidate: the Canadian province of Alberta. Alberta, part of Western Canada, is home to an array of flora and fauna across four distinct climatic zones. But the province’s wildlife is not the fulcrum for the conflict between Alberta and Canada’s national government. Ottawa is more concerned with a different sort of natural resource: oil. Alberta’s oil sands represent the third-largest oil reserves on the planet, trailing only Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. In addition, 68 percent of the natural gas produced in Canada comes from Alberta. Yet despite Alberta’s position as an energy powerhouse, and despite booming production, the price of oil in Alberta is far below world averages. As of fall 2018, Canadian crude sold for about $50 less per barrel than West Texas Intermediate oil, the American benchmark; it recently sold for $10 per barrel, 80 percent below the worldwide average at the time. This problem has been a major contributor to ongoing economic struggles in the province. Albertans have their fellow Canadians to blame, at least in part. Neighboring provinces have repeatedly opposed pipeline construction, a major problem for landlocked Alberta. British Columbia, Alberta’s western neighbor, recently elected a premier who explicitly ran on a platform of opposing pipeline expansion. In December Quebec’s premier, Francois Legault, said there was no “social acceptability” for a pipeline that would carry “dirty energy” through his province. In an attempt to bolster oil prices, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley imposed production cuts in December. At the same time, Notley announced plans to buy 7,000 rail cars to get Alberta’s oil to the market in the absence of pipelines. Shipping oil by rail is more dangerous and more expensive than using a pipeline, but it is generally safer than transport via truck, Alberta’s only other option in the absence of sufficient pipeline construction and expansion. The production cuts were designed to clear an existing backlog, as well as to boost prices. The strategy worked, at least in the short term, but came with political costs. Some indigenous First Nations organizations within Alberta claimed that the provincial government had no right to dictate production levels on native-controlled land. And though most oil producers supported the production cuts, some complained that the government action would create winners and losers in a marketplace that has long been deregulated. The cuts were designed to be a short-term measure, and they were eased – though did not entirely end – in late January, in response to rising oil prices. But the curtailment ultimately is a symptom of a longer-term struggle between Alberta and the rest of Canada, which seems to regard Alberta’s energy output with feelings that can be described as lukewarm at best. Alberta’s oil producers are concerned about Ottawa’s evident lack of enthusiasm for pipeline construction or other measures to support the industry. Canada’s Parliament is considering legislation, Bill C-69, which would revamp the approval process for energy projects at the national level. Critics say that the changes would make future pipelines more difficult to build. In addition, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has publicly vacillated on the subject in the past. He committed 4.5 billion Canadian dollars to rescue the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in May 2018. A little over a year prior, he drew criticism for saying Canada needed to phase out Alberta’s oil sands entirely. Trudeau’s ambivalence seems to mirror that of his party; the Liberal Party supports both Bill C-69 and Bill C-48, which would ban oil tanker traffic on British Columbia’s northern coast, meaning that even getting oil out of Alberta may not end the industry’s supply chain struggle. In response, Alberta has hosted numerous protests. A truck convoy recently caravanned to Ottawa, stopping along the way to hold a series of rallies to bring attention to the pro-pipeline cause. Protesters also want the government to abandon its recently announced carbon tax and to stop advancing Bill C-69 and Bill C-48. This brings us back to the idea of Alberta breaking away from Canada altogether. Unlike in the U.S., secession is not always illegal in Canada. A 2000 law, the Clarity Act, set out the steps necessary for a province to legally declare its independence; it was drafted largely in response to the 1995 referendum on independence in Quebec. Despite this legal exit mechanism and rising social media chatter on the subject, the majority of Albertans are not clamoring to break away from the rest of Canada. A recent survey conducted by Research Co. found that 25 percent of Albertans favor independence, while 58 percent are strongly opposed. In addition, 31 percent consider themselves “Albertans first and Canadians second.” Americans may find the concept of a large, energy-producing region with a significant minority of its population harboring feelings of exceptionalism familiar. While Alberta, unlike Texas, has the legal option to break away, it does not seem significantly more likely to do so, at least for now. The tensions between Alberta and Ottawa do, however, create the basis for an interesting thought experiment. Alberta would face major challenges as an independent landlocked nation. But if Alberta decided to ditch Canada, would Americans be inclined to welcome it as the 51st state? While statehood has been a difficult privilege to secure in modern times, I suspect many Americans, regardless of their politics, might have sympathy for Albertans who can’t make a living from the natural resources available in their home. Given that Alberta, even with its current struggles, boasts the third-largest provincial gross domestic product in Canada, welcoming Alberta into the fold would have an economic benefit for Americans, too. An opinion column in The Wall Street Journal recently compared the situation in Canada to a Norwegian TV show, “Okkupert” (“Occupied” in English). That show portrays the geopolitical fallout when a major oil exporting country comes under the control of politicians determined to curtail fossil fuels. “Okkupert” is a fictional drama, but it reflects the very real tensions between those who are determined to put a stop to the flow of oil in the name of protecting the environment and those who recognize the economic reality involved in turning off the tap with no transition period. While Alberta as a new U.S. state remains purely a thought experiment, Canada’s treatment of the province may eventually have very real consequences for Albertans and other Canadians alike. Vice President and Chief Investment Officer Paul Jacobs, of our Atlanta office, contributed several chapters to our firm’s book, Looking Ahead: Life, Family, Wealth and Business After 55, including Chapter 12, “Retirement Plans;” Chapter 15, “Investment Approaches and Philosophy;” and Chapter 19, “A Second Act: Starting a New Venture.” The Big Rigs Run Through It Human Flags At The Top Of The World Clintons Can Only Be Rented, Not Bought Another Protest Movement Loses Its Way The views expressed in this post are solely those of the author. We welcome additional perspectives in our comments section as long as they are on topic, civil in tone and signed with the writer's full name. All comments will be reviewed by our moderator prior to publication. Alberta, Canada, Justin Trudeau, Natural Resources, Oil, Pipelines, Rachel Notley, Secession One Response to "Alberta Would Make A Good 51st State, Eh?" Richard Garcia March 11, 2019 - 7:27 pm I have always looked forward to Alberta and certain other Provinces joining the U.S.. And the hopes seem best when either there is consideration by the Province, including ordinary citizens, economic problems that would be eliminated or significantly reduced if joined the U.S., greater economic benefits if joined, better growth through better infrastructure in vastly isolated, such as Quebec. Also, if the U.S. relations are already or have already been more like as if the Province or any part of Canada were a U.S. State, such as Newfoundland. I wish the U.S. had taken Canada’s offer for annexation of British Columbia to the U.S.. Anyway, so I continue to read any news update, about anymore consideration or motivation of a Province that wants to join the U.S., or anymore significant disputes by any Province against Canada, such as unfair tax payments in Alberta for example. Or over its own problems with the environment and their own inability to afford to overcome those challenges like they could if only they were a U.S. State. Such as infrastructure for towns +100 miles apart or geographically divided by mountain ranges, and for better growth across the Province, such as Quebec. And territories, especially Yukon, have more to gain if joined the U.S.. In the case of Yukon, unlike Nunavut, Yukon shares a border with the U.S.. By just simply moving the Alaska-Yukon border east to the Yukon-Northwest Territories and becoming a part of Alaska instead of a separate State, joining the U.S. would be far easier, quicker and far less costly. Then as a former Territory, they could make a lot of economic progress as a State conjoined with another, and be better prepared to secede back from Alaska and become a separate State. Or they could just remain part of Alaska. 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Stan Foote, at the top Oregon Children's Theatre's artistic director wins a major national award. Next stop: the brave new world of retirement. May 9, 2019 // CULTURE, THEATER // Bob Hicks Sometime today, Stan Foote will be standing on a stage in Atlanta, accepting one of the highest honors in the tight-knit creative world of American children’s theater. Foote, artistic director of Oregon Children’s Theatre in Portland, will receive the Harold Oaks Award for Sustained Excellence in TYA, along with Rosemary Newcott of the host Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, at the 2019 Theatre for Young Audiences/USA national festival and conference. It’s an honor well-deserved and well-timed: Foote, who’s been working for OCT since 1991 and became its first artistic director a decade later, announced in February that he’ll be retiring after the company’s current season. During his tenure he’s directed close to 50 plays and guided OCT through 20 world-premiere productions, including highly acclaimed collaborations with leading children’s authors such as Lois Lowry (The Giver; Gossamer) and Louis Sachar (Holes), as well as prominent playwrights and adapters such as Eric Coble (The Storm in the Barn; Sacagawea; The Giver). He’s co-commissioned plays with companies across the country, firmly establishing OCT as a significant player nationally, and contributing greatly to the repertoire of plays for young audiences: Coble’s adaptation of Lowry’s The Giver has had more than 300 productions in the United States and internationally. Ross McKeen, who’s worked alongside Foote as OCT’s managing director for a dozen years, says the relationship has been “a gift for me.” “His artistic vision in this field is remarkable,” McKeen said in a statement in February when Foote announced his impending retirement. “More than that, he has given this company a solid foundation of guiding values and vision, particularly in his respect and care for young people and his commitment to reaching every child.” Stan Foote, grabbing the microphone and talking to the crowd at an Oregon Children’s Theatre gala. Photo: Rebekah Johnson LAST FRIDAY MORNING FOOTE SAT DOWN in a meeting room at Oregon Children’s Theatre headquarters off Northeast Sandy Boulevard for a long conversation, including, briefly, about the national award he’s receiving today. “That’s a cool thing,” he said, grinning. “The list of people who have gotten that award is pretty amazing.” He’d just got back from two weeks in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, a town he’s been visiting regularly for 22 years, and he was relaxed, well-tanned, and casually talkative, moving easily from reminiscences of his childhood to his life and career in Portland and his plans beyond. Much of his talk was about OCT, which has been his main professional home, and which he began working for early in its existence: Sondra Pearlman founded the company in 1988 as a branch of the old Portland Civic Theatre, and when PCT shut down two years later she took the children’s theater out on its own. Under Foote’s tenure Oregon Children’s Theatre has developed a reputation not only for producing new works and clever adaptations aimed at young audiences of different ages, but also for maintaining high professional standards and not playing down to its audiences, but respecting their ability to meet the storytelling on its own terms. Theater is theater, Foote says. He objects to the belief “that directing a children’s play is different from directing for adults. It’s directing. It has all the same techniques; all the same elements of telling a story to an audience.” He’ll be 67 by the time he leaves OCT in September, and until a few months ago he’d been thinking he might retire in three years. But he was coming off a run of three shows – And in This Corner: Cassius Clay, which he co-directed with PassinArt: A Theatre Company’s Jerry Foster; Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience; and, this spring, the original musical The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors – that both exhilarated and exhausted him. He loved working on all three. Rock Paper Scissors, which OCT commissioned along with First Stage Children’s Theatre in Milwaukee, Wis., represented for Foote “that beginning, middle and end of a whole process, which is something I love.” He could match the quality of the work on those shows, he thought, but could he better it? Between directing and managing, he said, he often works ten-hour days, six days a week. “I just felt, my energy level. I don’t have the energy to do this all the time. I was sitting on my couch, and I said, ‘What are you waiting for? What is it you want to do?’” The Cassius Clay project, which starred the rising actor La’Tevin Alexander as the young fighter who would become Muhammad Ali, in particular satisfied him. “When you enter a rehearsal hall, I’m always afraid I’m going to let the play down, I’m going to let the people down,” Foote said. “And with Cassius Clay, it was just … everything was there.” Co-directing with Foster, whose PassinArt is an African American company producing African American plays, was enormously rewarding, Foote said: “I told Jerry, ‘I don’t know the black experience, but I know how to put this onstage.’” OCT’s And in This Corner … Cassius Clay. Photo: Owen Carey/2018 Foote can seem far more low-key than a lot of more expressive leaders. He doesn’t push his profile, and he’s not a Ted Talks sort of guy. He can be drily funny and self-deprecating. But he also exudes a quiet confidence in his abilities, one of which is to draw the best work out of other people: “I know I’m not the smartest guy in the room. But I know how to get the smartest guy to give the information we need to get the job done. I think probably my biggest skill is, never knowing everything. I like actors. I like asking actors what we ought to do.” He praises Dani Baldwin, who started at OCT working in the box office and is now education director and artistic director of the innovative Young Professionals Company of older teen actors; and Marcella Crowson, the company’s associate artistic director, who’ll serve as interim artistic director while the company’s board seeks a permanent replacement for Foote. And he’s grateful for the dozen years he’s worked with McKeen: “Our minds work well together. I watch the budget like crazy. The bottom line is important to me. And art is important to him. So it’s a nice balance.” FOOTE WAS RAISED IN SHINGLETOWN, a small logging community in the fire-prone regions of Northern California, between Redding and Lassen Volcanic National Park. His dad was a logger, and the family didn’t have a lot of money. His father, Foote says, was very smart, in a very practical way: He could eye a tree and tell you how many board feet of lumber it would yield. Football was big, in Shingletown and in his father’s expectations for him. Culture in the aesthetic sense wasn’t. School offered music, once a week, and maybe a chance to do a school play if it didn’t get in the way of football practice. “My family never took me to the theater. To any art thing,” he remembers. Alice in Wonderland: A Rock Opera. Photo: Owen Carey/2010 In the 1960s, when he was in eighth grade, a music teacher took him to see an orchestra in Redding – “and I don’t even know if it was a good orchestra. But it was amazing to me.” That experience helps explain why Foote is devoted to bringing kids from far-flung towns into Portland to see OCT shows, and to sending teams of actors out beyond the city. “I don’t want any kid to grow up in a world where they can’t imagine a different world. I never did,” he said. “Busloads of kids come from Tillamook, Oregon, or Hermiston, Oregon – it’s always been a priority that we have diverse representation onstage. And not just so kids of color can see people like themselves onstage, but so kids from mostly white communities can see a rainbow of culture out there.” When hordes of kids from different places come together in a theater for a shared experience, he said, you can feel the excitement and hear the roar: “It’s a big damned thing.” And such experiences can make life-altering differences, as they did for him. “I just didn’t want to live in Shingletown, and I didn’t want to be a logger. Not only didn’t I want to be a logger, I would’ve been a dead logger. Because I’m stupid. My mind doesn’t work that way.” He ended up going to college, he said, “on the eight-year-plan,” working and going to school at the same time, and finally graduating from Sacramento State. Shortly after, he found himself in Portland, and something clicked: “stopped to see a friend, stayed overnight, got an apartment, got cast in a show two weeks after I got here.” That was 1978, and he just kept working. He was an actor or director on shows like The Fantasticks, Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down, the musical Chess. He played a comical television addict named Boring G. Boring on tour for three years in Professor Bodywise’s Traveling Menagerie, a Sesame Street-like health care show sponsored by Kaiser Permanente. He spent a year as production manager for Oregon Public Broadcasting. He worked with Artists Rep in its early days, when it performed in a tiny upstairs space in the downtown YWCA, and gained an appreciation for “the things you can do in those little spaces; you can reach people’s hearts.” Greg Tamblyn and Stan Foote in Sugar, the musical stage version of the movie comedy “Some Like It Hot,” at Lakewood Theatre, 1984. Foote played the Tony Curtis role; Tamblyn the Jack Lemmon role. He’s directed, for other companies, such shows as Into the Woods, Jesus Christ Superstar, Psycho Beach Party, Strange Snow, Pump Boys and Dinettes. He directed The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later as a benefit for Basic Rights Oregon and the Matthew Shepard Fund, and Falsettos in Concert to benefit Our House of Portland, which provides health care, housing, and other services to people living with HIV. Through all of it he’s stored up experiences and built skills. Shortly after moving to Portland he met an actor named R Dee, a dynamo who was in the company of the long-running hit Angry Housewives and emcee for the legendary Storefront Theatre burlesque Babes on Burnside, among many other shows. “We were together 35 years. We met on a blind date,” Foote recalled. Dee died five years ago after a decade of early-onset dementia, and Foote stayed with him and cared for him through it all. “I was devoted to R Dee,” he said. “That I was able to care for him in the house so long was amazing. He was only in care for seven months. We were a good couple in this community. You know, we loved each other.” OREGON CHILDREN’S THEATRE PERFORMS in downtown Portland in the 880-seat Newmark Theatre, an Edwardian-style hall that cups its audience in velvet glamour and plays more intimately than its size, and the flexible-space Winningstad Theatre, which has a top capacity of about 300 and can play like a crackerbox about to explode. But when Foote started at OCT the company was performing in the giant Keller Auditorium, and busing schoolkids in by the thousands: The theater has 3,000 seats, and when they were filled with kids on a field trip the energy in the room could rival the raucousness of an arena rock show. The space called for a lot of big-gesture, declarative acting, but it also could show off set and costume designs, and its broad deep stage could create some splendid epic moments. Foote remembers one magical one, in the first production of Lowry and Coble’s The Giver, which he directed: an isolation, amid the vastness, of the lead character, 12-year-old Jonas, who seemed to shrink against the universe, perfectly mirroring the moment in the book. For all the advantages of more intimate stages, he said – and there are many – it’s tough to create something like that without sheer size. Ryan Stathos rides like the wind as the 12-year-old hero Jonas in OCT’s hit premiere production of The Giver, based on Lois Lowry’s novel, with a script by Eric Coble. Photo: Owen Carey/2006 The Giver, which OCT premiered in 2006, was the show that gave. “That was the one that really put us on the national charts,” Foote said. “And that was dumb ol’ boy luck.” He’d been asking kids what they’d been reading, what they really liked, and Lowry’s Newbery Medal 1993 novel, about a supposed utopia that turns out to be a dystopia of squeezed-off emotion and enforced sameness, kept cropping up. “I just stupidly contacted Lois’s agent, and said, ‘Is this available?’ and she said, ‘Yes,’” Foote recalled. Actor Jeff Bridges had held the rights to the book for 10 years, but there was a brief break, and Foote happened to catch it at the right moment. What’s more, what he got was rights to adapt the novel itself, not just to produce an already existing stage script that Foote didn’t like much. That’s where Coble came in. Eventually Bridges did produce and star with Meryl Streep in a movie version, which was released in 2014. But by then the OCT/Coble stage version was an international hit, and Foote and Lowry had established an enduring friendship. OCT’s version of her story Gossamer followed. Foote visited her at her Maine farmhouse; he went to her 80th birthday party. “We are friends,” she told him. “This is not about doing plays for me.” OCT had also premiered Coble’s 2002 play Sacagawea, which Foote considers another landmark for the company. (Another version of Sacagawea’s story, Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Crossing Mnisose, just completed its premiere production at Portland Center Stage at The Armory.) OCT’s show included seven Native American actors – a rarity at the time – and the stage was given a ritual cleansing smudge. It became a national hit, too, eventually getting a production at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. And it presaged a major change at OCT that’s happening now, an increased emphasis on inclusion and equity in everything the company does. “It’s a huge mind shift,” Foote said. Then he put the importance of the shift in personal terms, looking back on his journey from isolated logging town to winning a prestigious national theater award. “I’m surprised and fascinated. Lucky,” he said. He added: “If I was a kid of color in this circumstance, this never would have happened.” Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience. Photo: Owen Carey/2019 WHAT NEXT? PUERTO VALLARTA, the beach town of about 200,000 people on Mexico’s Pacific coast, is very much on Foote’s mind. He’s been visiting it for more than 20 years, and it’s an unofficial vacation spot for a lot of Portland theater people. Brian Haliski, a longtime actor and theater teacher in town, retired there three years ago. Come September, Foote’s going to do the same. Part of moving there, he said, is to answer the “What am I going to do next?” question. He plans to work on his Spanish speaking skills. Puerto Vallarta has a large American expat community, and it’s relatively easy to get by just speaking English. But learning Spanish, he says, is respectful – a word that crops up often and naturally in his conversation. The building he’ll be moving into, he said, has a small, 45-seat performing space that’s sometimes used for community theater shows, and he’s eyeing it. Maybe … who knows? Something small, something personal, something just for the art. He’s got these skills. And when you’re starting over, anything can happen.

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Allogene Therapeutics Announces Data Presentations Suppor... Allogene Therapeutics Announces Data Presentations Supporting Its Allogeneic CAR T Pipeline Program at 60th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALLO), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of allogeneic CAR T (AlloCAR T™) therapies for cancer, today announced that it will present data supporting its allogeneic pipeline program during the 60th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting & Exposition, taking place December 1-4 at the San Diego Convention Center. “ASH is the first significant medical meeting where we will present data on programs led by Allogene,” said David Chang, M.D., Ph.D., President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Allogene. “Our teams have spent years doing extensive preclinical research across our pipeline and the development of UCART19 with our partner Servier continues to provide insights that inform and accelerate the strategy for ALLO-501 (anti-CD19) in non-Hodgkin lymphoma. This work is important as we look ahead to our first Investigational New Drug (IND) applications for ALLO-501 and ALLO-715 (anti-BCMA) in multiple myeloma in 2019.” The ASH abstracts are now available at www.hematology.org. The oral and poster presentations will include additional data not available in the abstracts. Details are as follows. Allogene Oral Presentation Session: 652. Myeloma: Pathophysiology and Pre-Clinical Studies, excluding Therapy: Development of Novel Immunotherapeutic Approaches in Multiple Myeloma Abstract #591 Title: ALLO-715, an Allogeneic BCMA CAR T Therapy Possessing an Off-Switch for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma Presenter: Cesar Sommer, Ph.D., Allogene Therapeutics Session Date & Time: Monday, December 3, 7:00-8:30 a.m. PT Presentation Time: 7:30 a.m. PT Location: Ballroom 20D Allogene Poster Presentation Session: 703. Adoptive Immunotherapy: Poster II Abstract #3335 Title: ALLO-819, an Allogeneic Flt3 CAR T Therapy Possessing an Off-Switch for the Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Session Date & Time: Sunday, December 2, 6:00-8:00 p.m. PT Location: Hall GH Oral Presentation in Collaboration with Development Partner UCART19, sponsored by Servier1, is in Phase 1 development for the treatment of relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Session: 612. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Clinical Title: Preliminary Data on Safety, Cellular Kinetics and Anti-Leukemic Activity of UCART19, an Allogeneic Anti-CD19 CAR T-Cell Product, in a Pool of Adult and Pediatric Patients with High-Risk CD19+ Relapsed/Refractory B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Presenter: Reuben Benjamin, MBBS, MRCP, FRCPath, Ph.D., King’s College Hospital, London Session Date & Time: Monday, December 3, 4:30-6:00 p.m. PT Presentation time: 4:45 p.m. PT Location: Room 6A UCART19, ALLO-715 and ALLO-819 utilize the TALEN® gene-editing technology pioneered and owned by Cellectis. UCART19, initially developed by Cellectis, is now exclusively licensed to Servier and is under joint clinical development between Servier and Allogene. ALLO-715 and ALLO-819 were progressed under a joint research collaboration with Cellectis, and are directed at targets that were licensed exclusively from Cellectis. Allogene holds the exclusive global development and commercial rights for these product candidates. About Allogene Therapeutics Allogene Therapeutics, with headquarters in South San Francisco, is a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor T cell (AlloCAR T™) therapies for cancer. Led by a world-class management team with significant experience in cell therapy, Allogene is developing a pipeline of “off-the-shelf” CAR T cell therapy candidates with the goal of delivering readily available cell therapy faster, more reliably and at greater scale to more patients. AlloCAR T™ cell therapies are engineered from cells of healthy donors, which is intended to allow for creation of inventory for on demand use in patients. This approach is designed to eliminate the need to create personalized therapy from a patient’s own cells, simplify manufacturing, and reduce the time patients must wait for CAR T cell treatment. The Allogene portfolio includes rights to 16 pre-clinical CAR T cell therapy targets and UCART19, an AlloCAR T™ therapy candidate currently in Phase 1 sponsored by Servier for the treatment of relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). For more information, please visit www.allogene.com, and follow @AllogeneTx on Twitter and LinkedIn. This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The press release may, in some cases, use terms such as "predicts," "believes," "potential," "proposed," "continue," "estimates," "anticipates," "expects," "plans," "intends," "may," "could," "might," "will," "should" or other words that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding intentions, beliefs, projections, outlook, analyses or current expectations concerning, among other things: the progress and success of the allogeneic CAR T clinical program and the timing of filing Investigational New Drug applications relating to ALLO-501 and ALLO-715. Various factors may cause differences between Allogene’s expectations and actual results as discussed in greater detail in Allogene’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including without limitation in its Form S-1 originally filed with the SEC on September 14, 2018. Any forward-looking statements that are made in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. Allogene assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date of this press release. 1 Servier is an independent international pharmaceutical company, governed by a foundation, with Headquarters based in France Allogene Therapeutics, Inc.

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Polish Europe Minister Konrad Szymański | Maciej Kulczynski/EPA Threats to Poland over refugees are ‘European populism,’ says minister Polish Europe Minister Konrad Szymański said EU plans to disperse 160,000 migrants around Europe are ‘not implementable.’ By Jacopo Barigazzi Threats to cut EU funds to Poland as punishment for refusing to take in refugees as part of a Continent-wide agreement have been dismissed as "European populism" by the country's Europe minister. Konrad Szymański, a former MEP, said the Polish government would block any attempt to punish the country financially over its migration stance. “It's European populism to say cut the funds,” he told POLITICO, adding that the government would be prepared to use its veto to block agreement on the EU budget if a compromise could not be agreed. “Everyone is ready to stop it, at the end we need to find a new [European budget] which could be defendable in our parliaments.” Poland, along with Hungary, has refused to take in any refugees under a 2015 deal that was supposed to allocate 160,000 people among EU member countries in order to take the load off Greece and Italy. That has led to frustration in some European capitals over what is seen as Poland's lack of solidarity with its EU partners and prompted a hard line from Brussels. European Commissioner for Justice Vera Jourová proposed making the distribution of EU funds in the next multi-year budget contingent on upholding fundamental European values — seen as a threat to bring Poland into line. The country is heavily reliant on EU funds: it is set to receive €86 billion in structural and investments funds over the period 2014-2020, compared to a GDP of €420 billion. But Szymański said the funds are not for Poland but to advance Europe-wide goals. “When you fund an infrastructure in Poland it works well for the whole common market, because not only German but also Italian and French investors use those infrastructures.” Separately, the European Commission has said it is prepared to open infringement proceedings against Poland over its refusal to take refugees. It if does, Szymański said that his government is ready to go to court. "We're prepared to do it," he said. He pointed out that the target to relocate 160,000 people is far from being reached — only 20,000 refugees have so far been relocated — and that Poland was being unfairly singled out. “We understand this decision has a legal value, and it is valid,” he said, “[but] it says something that you produced a law that is not implementable.” Szymański was also bullish on the issue of an ongoing probe by the European Commission into the right-wing government's clampdown on its Constitutional Tribunal — something that the Commission believes is against EU principles on upholding the rule of law. The issue was discussed at ministerial level for the first time last week, but ministers decided to resume talks and not to take action such as pursuing the potential withdrawal of Poland's voting rights in the Council. Why Poland doesn’t want refugees Jan Cienski Poland’s WWII museum under political bombardment Claudia Ciobanu “[It] is definitely not a defeat, because all [that] we have heard is an invitation for a dialogue and the message of the majority of member states that the EU is a community of values. I fully agree with both sentences,” said Szymański. He rejected the idea that the Commission should get involved, though. “I don't believe the Commission can sort this problem because it's already solved according to our rules and to choices made by the Polish parliament — which is much more legitimate than the Commission.” He said there are no plans for a meeting on the subject with Commission First Vice President Frans Timmermans — who initiated the investigation from the EU side. Jacopo Barigazzi Konrad Szymanski Funding Global Health R&D: What’s next to meet public health needs? Register Now Learn more

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Las Vegas Tries to Prevent a Water Shortage The debate over a plan to pump water out of the Nevada desert could be the next battle in the war over the West's most vital natural resource. When a well pumps water from an aquifer, it lowers the water table in a "depression cone." In severe cases this can deplete streams on the surface. Monitoring wells can track the depression cone as it expands. (Illustration by Flying-Chilli.com) Two simple facts about Las Vegas: Its population has doubled since 1990, to 570,000; and 90 percent of its water comes from the Colorado River, which is in the throes of the worst drought in recorded history. To meet the looming water crunch, the city, along with the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), proposes to build a 285-mile pipeline to haul groundwater from six valleys in eastern Nevada. The $2 billion project would mean sinking up to 195 production wells as deep as 1700 ft. below the surface to bring more than 50 billion gal. of water per year to the parched desert metropolis. But there's no such thing as a free drink. When pumping outpaces an area's ability to replenish its water reserves, entire ecological systems slowly wither. Starting in 1913, Los Angeles siphoned water away from Owens Valley, eventually turning a 100-square-mile lake into a dust bowl, and kicking up clouds of cadmium and iron. And in 1998 the United States Geological Survey found that groundwater pumping had lowered the water table in parts of Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas by more than 100 ft. The water Sin City is eyeing starts as snowmelt from mountains, and seeps into the ground, filling an aquifer -- an underground reservoir filled with rocks and gravel. The SNWA says the pumped water would be replenished by runoff. Hydrologist John Bredehoeft, a critic of the project who was hired by the Western Environmental Law Center, agrees -- but says the aquifer won't refill quickly enough. Ironically, the basis for Bredehoeft's argument is a study drawn up by the SNWA, showing the rate at which one part of the aquifer refills. Looking at the study, he worries that the plan will amount to a water "mining operation," which could lead to dry wells and sinking land. The SNWA won't draw conclusions based on its own study, saying that it's impossible to accurately predict how the water table will react until pumping starts. "That's why we're looking at having so many wells," says J.C. Davis of the SNWA, "to diffuse the effects of pumping." Safeguards such as monitoring wells, which detect falling water levels (see illustration), could alert hydrologists before serious damage is done. "If a well is causing problems, it can be pumped more gently," Davis continues, "or rotated out of service." As cities across the Southwest boom, such wrangling over water projects seems destined to accelerate. Meanwhile, the Las Vegas plan is moving forward. The SNWA hopes to complete the approval process in 2009, and turn on the faucets by 2014. More From Earth Look What Vesuvius Did to This Poor Guy's Brain Two Guys Made an Earth Sandwich The World's Largest Flower Absolutely Reeks The 100-Year-Search for a Missing Impact Crater Is How to Make Dry Ice What is the Hottest Place on Earth? Iron Snow Is Falling Onto Earth's Inner Core A Pyroaerobiologist Finds Life Up in Smoke Scientists Find Deepest Spot on Land in Antarctica Why the White Island Eruption Was So Dangerous The World's Wildest Water Slides: Pictures Watch This Water Wheel Clean Up Trash from the Baltimore Harbor The Inspiration for Mind-Control Conspiracy Theories Faces Its Demise Analysis: Why Companies Such as Virgin Galactic and Orbital Take Risks and Endure Losses Scientists Create Synthetic Yeast Chromosome (And Unlock the Future of Beer) The 10 Ugliest Cars in Las Vegas at SEMA 2008

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Home » Browse » Academic journals » General Humanities Journals » African American Review » Article details, ""In the Land of Cotton": Economics and Violence..." Academic journal article African American Review "In the Land of Cotton": Economics and Violence in Jean Toomer's 'Cane.' (African-American Woman Author) By Foley, Barbara Critics of Jean Toomer's Cane disagree about the text's relation to the economic and social realities confronting rural and small-town Georgia blacks in the early 1920s. Some scholars read the novel as a nostalgic celebration of a vanishing peasant existence close to the earth. If the text acknowledges the harshness of racism and poverty, it subordinates social protest to lyricism, the representation of the here and now to the search for prophetic truths beyond the limits of history. Bonnie Barthold, for example, noting that the text eschews "linear development," argues that "the achievement of Cane" is its "mythic portrayal of a mythic truth on the verge of destruction" (159). Bowie Duncan, reading the text as an "oracular" articulation of post-Einsteinian notions of space and time, remarks that "the meaning of [Cane's] oracle is its multiplicity and uncertainty of meaning" (329). Alain Solard reads "Blood-Burning Moon" as only incidentally the story of a lynching: As the narrative unfolds, the "outline of reality gives way to the haunting presence of a visionary world" (552). Catherine Innes stresses the influence upon Toomer of P. D. Ouspensky's idealist view of "a living universe in which the hidden meaning of all things will be realized and felt, and the unity of all things understood" (155); in this context, Innes reads the Lewis of the text's "Kabnis" section as "a man capable of the cosmic vision, of penetrating the world of appearances, and of fusing together past and present, anguish and joy, 'soil and the overarching heavens'" (163). All the critics who read Cane as subsuming history under myth do not necessarily applaud the political implications of its idealism. Robert Jones notes that "Toomer's reification of thought is evident in the way he consistently proposed idealism as the solution to racism and social problems, yet without the praxis of social activism" (17). Maria Caldeira chides Toomer for his "belief that he would be able to transcend or solve his conflicts with reality through Art" and charges that he "substituted mysticism for his craving for equality and harmony among people" (548). Edward Margolies contends that Cane achieves a specious unity by "celebrating the passions and instincts of folk persons close to the soil, as opposed to the corruption of their spirit and vitality in the cities." Even the text's representations of violence reflect Toomer's "primitivism" and "neoromantic attitudes": "Is Toomer unconsciously saying that beauty resides in the pain and suffering of black men? . . . Are passivity and withdrawal from life ultimate fulfillment?" (Margolies 39-40). Donald Gibson argues that, by "locating historical causation outside of time and space," Cane offers not "a revelation of the essence of black life" but a "politics of denial" (163, 155). Susan Blake observes that "the central conflict in Cane is the struggle of the spectatorial artist to involve himself in his material"; never fully resolving this conflict, the text "advocate[s] . . . [al retreat into mysticism" (196, 211). To these critics, Toomer's mythic ahistoricity does not enable transcendence of historical tragedy, but instead constitutes an ideological accession and accommodation to that tragedy. While many Toomer scholars stress Cane's efforts - successful or unsuccessful - to transcend concrete historicity, a number read the book as an intense engagement with the actualities of 1920s Georgia life. Arthur P. Davis, in an early appreciation of Cane, observed that "[u]nderneath all of [the] elusive meanings, . . . one finds a profound knowledge of the Southern scene. . . . There is no overt protest here, but Toomer was always aware of the South's cruelty" (49). Nellie McKay remarks that Cane is about not only "the intrinsic worth of black culture" but also "the pain and struggle wrung from the soul of a people" and the author's own "confrontation with the meaning of that awful reality" (177). Discussing the role played by music in Cane, Nathaniel Mackey notes that Toomer "celebrates and incorporates song but not without looking at the grim conditions which give it birth, not without acknowledging its outcast, compensatory character" (36). … Publication: African American Review Publication date: Summer 1998 Foley, Barbara African American Women Writers--Criticism and Interpretation Violence--Economic Aspects Violence--Portrayals Social Problems--Portrayals Toomer, Jean--Criticism and interpretation Cane (Book)--Criticism and interpretation Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible By Katherine Clay Bassard University of Georgia Press, 2010 Mules and Dragons: Popular Culture Images in the Selected Writings of African-American and Chinese-American Women Writers By Mary E. Young Greenwood Press, 1993 Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature By Emily J. Lordi Rutgers University Press, 2013 In Their Own Voices: Codeswitching and Code Choice in the Print and Online Versions of an African-American Women's Magazine By Hobbs, Pamela Women and Language, Vol. 27, No. 1, Spring 2004 Judging the Degree of Violence in Media Portrayals: A Cross-Genre Comparison By Riddle, Karyn Eyal, Keren Mahood, Chad Potter, W. James Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Vol. 50, No. 2, June 2006 The Context of Graphic Portrayals of Television Violence By Potter, W. James Smith, Stacy Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Vol. 44, No. 2, Spring 2000 New Insight into Sexuality, Gender Issues, and Gender-Based Violence in South Asia By Population Briefs, Vol. 20, No. 3, December 2014 Media and Juvenile Violence: The Connecting Threads By Doi, David Nieman Reports, Vol. 52, No. 4, Winter 1998 Violence: The Biggest Obstacle By King, Angela E. V. UN Chronicle, Vol. 30, No. 3, September 1993 'Terrible Portrayals' By Jordan, Mark The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), November 7, 2013 Doctors Prescribe More Violence in Your Movies By Dobson, Roger Sunday Mirror (London, England), June 4, 2000 Powerful Portrayals of Human Struggle Two Strong Movies from New Zealand and Macedonia Land Squarely on the World Cinema Map By David Sterritt, writer of The Christian Science Monitor The Christian Science Monitor, March 1, 1995 FREE! aggression The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2018 FREE! Papua New Guinea The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2018 Still not finding what you're looking for? Try exploring these related topics. Toomer, Jean Cane (by Jean Toomer) Related topic categories Famous African-Americans

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Helen Catherine Hardwicke (born October 21, 1955) is an American film director, production designer, and screenwriter. Her directorial work includes Thirteen (2003), which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed, the film's co-star, Lords of Dogtown (2005), The Nativity Story (2006), Twilight (2008), Red Riding Hood (2011), Plush (2013), Miss You Already (2015), and Miss Bala (2019). ... more on Wikipedia lists about Catherine Hardwicke The Best Movies Directed by Catherine Hardwicke 119 votes List of all movies directed by Catherine Hardwicke ranked from best to worst with photos. Films directed by Catherine Hardwi... Catherine Hardwicke is ranked on... #74 of 122 The Greatest Female Film Directors 9k VOTES The best female directors include an Academy Award winner, members of Hollywood's royal families, and a whole bunch of ladie... Famous People Named Katherine 33.4k VIEWS List of famous people named Katherine, along with photos. How many celebrities named Katherine can you think of? The famous ... Catherine Hardwicke is also found on... TV Actors from Texas List of Famous Film Art Directors Famous People Born in 1955 Famous Film Actors From Texas Famous Female Film Directors Famous Screenwriters from the United States List of Famous Television Directors most popular swing music butters south park quotes who plays superman study of evolution us mini series who is justin bieber dating emory university notable alumni it's good to be king song famous danish people adam sandler wife

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Who designed the Diestelhorst Bridge a hundred years ago? It was one Augustus V. Who designed the Diestelhorst Bridge a hundred years ago? It was one Augustus V. Check out this story on redding.com: http://reddingne.ws/2jDWkoX Redding Published 2:30 a.m. PT July 10, 2013 It was one Augustus V. Saph, Sr. From CH2M Hill's 2007 "Diestelhorst Bridge Preservation and Rehabilitation Plan": "Criterion C applies to this structure for its association with A.V. Saph, an important bridge designer; this bridge is considered an important example of his work. Born Augustus Valentine Saph in San Jose, California, in 1871, A.V. Saph was educated at the University of California's College of Engineering and received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1902. Following his graduation, Saph was employed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Nevada, between 1903 and 1906. One of his projects in Nevada was the Truckee-Carson Project (the Newlands project), where he was responsible for the design of diversion dams and other structures. This project also included the construction of the Derby Dam and the Truckee Canal and allowed for the diversion of water from the Truckee River for irrigation of farms in the area (Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, 2006). "Saph left for the private sector in 1906 and was employed for 2 years in the office of John B. Leonard, a San Francisco-based engineer. Saph and Leonard might have become acquainted in Reno, where Leonard's firm was designing the Virginia Street Bridge (1905) across the Truckee River (Jackson, 1988). Leonard's company was responsible for many bridges in California, including some of the first reinforced concrete bridges on the Pacific Coast. Of note is the Lower Blackburn Grade Bridge in Humboldt County on State Route 36, a 258-foot-long rainbow arch bridge that was one of his last designs and one of his most visually appealing, surviving spans (Jackson, 1988). "Saph left Leonard's firm in 1908 and took a position as an assistant engineer with the City of San Francisco's engineering department. Between 1908 and 1911, he was responsible for the design of the College Hill Viaduct, as well as other bridges, several pumping stations, and retaining walls around the city. After leaving the city engineer's office, Saph spent a year as assistant state engineer of California, during which time he was acting chief engineer for the Board of State Harbor Commissions at San Francisco. Saph was also the engineer on the special design for the Spring Valley Water Company. He was in charge of the design of the water tower for the Calaveras Dam in Alameda County, east of the city. "In 1914, Saph went out on his own, opening an office in San Francisco. He became well known for his knowledge of reinforced concrete construction and his experience as a structural engineer. It was during this time that he designed the Diestelhorst Bridge in Redding, which might have been his first private commission. He passed away 6 years later, and his son, Augustus V. Saph, Jr., took over his business." Read or Share this story: http://reddingne.ws/2jDWkoX

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Why Did Erika Flores Leave Dr. Quinn? Erika Flores left "Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman" to pursue other interests. After she left the show, she auditioned for other parts in movies and on television, but her primary reason for leaving the show was to pursue her educational career. CBS asked Erika Flores to sign a five-year contract, and Flores left the show after this request because she did not want to make this time commitment to the show. The show's regular cast members were required to sign five-year contracts. The show's producers attempted to offer Flores additional salary to stay on the show, but Flores declined. Jessica Bowman replaced Erika Flores' character, Colleen Cooper. Is Lonnie Quinn Divorced? Is Dr. Joel Fuhrman a Quack? What Are the Side Effects of Drinking Dr. Pepper? What Is It About Dr Pepper That Leaves a Cinnamon Taste in Your Mouth?

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CONNECTED COMMERCE DEEP RETAIL DATA MARKETING & AD CAMPAIGNS PHYSICAL SPACES PODCASTS NEWS RESOURCES SOLUTIONS Retail Rundown – September 16, 2019 September 16, 2019: Target’s new loyalty program, JCPenney’s category moves, Nordstrom Local comes to NYC. No time for news? We’ve got you covered. Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to deliver the top trending news stories in retail. Julia Raymond: Our guests today include Trevor Sumner and Carol Spieckerman. Trevor is the CEO of Perch, a recognized leader in in store product engagement, marketing, interactive retail displays in augmented reality. Carol is a RETHINK Retail advisor and president of Spieckerman Retail. A globally recognized retail consulting training and speaking firm. Carol and Trevor, thank you for joining us today. Carol Spieckerman: My pleasure. Great to be here. Trevor Sumner: Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. So the first retailer we’re going to speak a little bit about is Target. They seem to be in the news a lot recently. Casual shoppers and brand fanatics will soon have something to celebrate because after more than a year of testing, Target announced its plans to roll out its free loyalty program. They’re naming it Target Circle. And it rolls out nationwide next month. So, members can expect 1% back on purchases, personalized deals, early bird access to promotional sales, and the opportunity to vote on which local nonprofits they’d like to see Target give back to. So along with these added benefits, the new program will help the retailer widen its own data circle to include customers that do not have the red cards and those who are simply hesitant to download Target’s app. Carol, what do you think of Target Circle? Is this new loyalty program a bullseye for Target? Where’s your head in this? Well, initially, Julia, I was thinking maybe not a bullseye so much as a one to many arrows in the quiver. But it does look like Target has put a lot of thought into this and they’ve taken some really meaningful steps to avoid confusion, which I think was the number one peril of doing this. First of all, it’s good that they didn’t just layer Target Circle onto Cartwheel. You know, ’cause Cartwheel has wide Adoption, people are familiar with it, they love it. They integrated Cartwheel into Target’s Circle and then they renamed Cartwheel Target Circle Offers. Now, that doesn’t actually roll off the tongue, it’s not a fancy name. I think it’s the right way to go because it allows Target to expand the benefits but without creating multiple disconnected loyalty brands, which really gets retailers into trouble when they do that. Also too, I love that there’s an automatic registration built into it. Anyone that has a Red Card, anyone that already participates in Cartwheel, they’re automatically registered. I think this is going to be critical for Adoption and for sort of continuity between the programs, rather than expecting people to figure it out and sign up for that program by itself. And then when you look at the 1% back, that seems like kind of a, not a very impressive figure. But when you combine it with the 5% savings that a lot of the folks that are participating in red card already get, you know, it adds up. So I think the way they’ve structured it, it’s like this plus this plus this, and they’re looking at it as a suite of solutions and benefits that are connected, which I think is the right approach. So they’ve done the groundwork, but I think from this point, what they’re going to really need to do is make sure they have a tight communication plan in place that’s going to bring customers along. You know, they need to be talking to customers through the app, through email, through in-store signage, through store associates, to make sure that the benefits are really clear and that customers are really clear on how to use this program and benefit from it. I agree. I think it’s probably a give and take. So they’ll get more data from customers, but they might even potentially lose money with this program at first if there is a significant Adoption offering that 1% cash back on purchases. Trevor, what are your thoughts? I think this is a really smart move and I think it’s really all about the fact that this program is solely driven by mobile Adoption, right? You need a mobile app to participate in this program. So as part of this, you’re converting Cartwheel and existing Red Card customers into your mobile app download strategy, where Cartwheel has, I think, about 27 million users. That’s a big number for most retailers, but leaves open a large market segment for Target. And if you think about all the mobile apps that you are downloading, you suddenly get access to a wide variety of data about your customers, where they purchase even outside of Target. And I think this is also about building a community that ties in-store to online. Once you have that mobile app and you think about Target as a place where you do electronic transactions, not just physical transaction, you’re going to see a sizable lift on the eCommerce side of the house, not just because you have the data for what in-store purchases you can now message and personalized messaging to shoppers to convince them to go to Target.com. But also just kind of bridging that gap. So I think this is a brilliant move. I think I can trust it. I think yesterday Walgreens announced that they’re taking a completely different approach and offering 3% as part of the new Apple card and Apple Pay program. And so I think of that as an interesting contrast because, on one hand, that 3% is pretty valuable when you compare to most credit cards. On the other hand, one of the things that Apple does is it really hides customer transaction data. So while you’re attracting a demographic that is Apple friendly, which is typically affluent, young, hip, cool, right? You’re losing a lot of the data. And so if I look and compare the two approaches here, certainly bringing people to the store by seeming hip and cool is great, but having a data in your own community is much more powerful. And I think one of the things that I really liked about it was being able to chance to vote on Target’s community giving initiatives in the app, which really makes it feel local and personalized in a way that Amazon will never be able to do. And so it really ties in local communities, mobile app, data, and then offline to online shopping behaviors. Yeah, I love your recap and I agree that the ability to give back, it does add that next level of personalization. We see that with some regional grocers. For example, Lucky’s allows you to get a coin if you bring your own reusable bag and donate it to one of the different charities that they’re sponsoring. So I do like that. And I think that was a huge distinction that you pointed out with that Target rolling out their own program to avoid some of the data issues that other retailers are facing when it comes to offering everything through Apple Pay versus their own app. Is that something that you think will hinder adoption? ‘Cause I will say from my personal experience, I have gone into Target and been a little displeased with having to open the app to get my Cartwheel barcode to scan, and then also having to go back and like get the Apple Pay out and do that. For me, I mean, I love my Apple Pay. The notion that I don’t have to take out my wallet and then search for the credit card and then you put it in the chip reader, which just going to wait 15 seconds, I can just and tap it. I think those behaviors are going to become just more natural and less friction for customers. But there is going to be an Adoption curve, but which is why they’re creating an incentive for it and for that mobile app adoption. So I think they’ve balanced this really well, in terms of, what are the costs for launching a community and mobile app such as this to drive the types of adoption that I think that they’re going to see. Yeah, there will always be people who don’t like to use it. I think the data is another issue. Target famously used data to put out that a teen was pregnant before they knew. So there’s always the issues of data. But I think ultimately people have given up on this notion of privacy. And if you can use the data in a way that makes my shopping experience that much better, by focusing on rewards that are relevant to me, focusing on email marketing from Target.com that is relevant to me, ultimately the benefits a will outweigh any notion of loss of privacy. And it’s been really impressive just to see the amount of adoption that they’ve gained with their Cartwheel app and the consolidation they’ve done with their apps over the years. So exciting stuff. Carol, did you want to add anything else? Well, I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times, the big question is, in retail, is always buy, build or bridge. And as Trevor pointed out, some retailers are taking of a bridge approach by using Apple Pay and sort of linking to other platforms. And then others are taking more of a build approach, to where they want to own that data and sort of own the ecosystem. And neither is wrong, it’s just different decisions and retailers are shifting between them for different reasons. Sometimes they’re actually using bridge platforms and partnerships and then they’re saying, “You know what, now we’re going to take it in-house because we want to own the data.” So there’s a lot of migration between those strategies. But for Target, to me, this program is very much geared toward existing customers that already trust the Target ecosystem and the Target digital environment. So to me, they’re just kind of building a pathway to a new suite of solutions for those existing customers, rather than trying to reach out to completely new customers through Target Circle. I think Carol makes a great point here, that it’s a spectrum, where everybody wants their own community. The question is whether you can execute on it. And so at first you may ride on other platforms, but everybody wants to eventually get that. And Target has the scale, the customer loyalty, and the ability to execute and create this community for themselves. And so as a result, I think they’re going to see outside gains because of this. And when I look at people writing on other platforms, I think it tends to be shortsighted. You really want to be at the center of the customer community, the customer brand identity. And you just need to find a way to bridge the way there to that ambition. I think that they probably have a competitive advantage already from all the work they have done. And this is a launchpad in a way for even more personalized offers that every retailer is trying to eventually get to with one-to-one marketing. The next retailer in the news, yet again is Penney’s. So just in time for those fall fishing trips, it launched a new in-house line of men’s outerwear. Rolling out in 600 stores across the country, it’s new St. John’s Bay line includes windbreakers, waterproof pants, vests, and woven sweaters. So coupled with the new apparel line, they’re also launching a new store within a store concept. It’s going to be called the Outdoor Shop, and will feature products from St. John’s Bay and other select outerwear brands. And the Outdoor Shop debuts in 100 stores and online on October 4th. Meanwhile, it’s chief merchant, Michelle Wlazlo, says the retailer is moving into this category as quote, “America spends more time outdoors” unquote. To recap, just the other week, the news was about recycled clothing with threadUP. And this week it’s about the great outdoors. So is Penney’s grasping at trends in an attempt to escape oblivion, or will this category bring a breath of fresh air? Trevor, I’m going to pass that on to you first. It’s a tough one, right? I’m rooting for all retailers. And I believe there’s a renaissance happening with brick and mortar retail, but I just don’t see how JCPenney works their way out of this. They’re at high risk at defaulting on their billion and a half loan balance. And now it’s hard for me to see that. Certainly private labels is an active type of strategy that everybody seems to be migrating to for two reasons. One is because you can capture more margin, but two is because you want exclusive items that only shoppers can get in your stores, right? If you’re carrying just the same products as everybody else, it’s hard to compete on anything other than price, where you have a disadvantage against people like Amazon. I think the private label strategy makes a lot of sense and JCPenney has seen some strengths in men’s apparel. However, I just don’t think that this is going to really move the needle enough. Now, I think the street may disagree with me because after the announcement of this, the stock price went up about 50%. It went from $0.80 To $1.20. That said, it’s down 10% today. So I think people are just reacting to whatever news there might be across JCPenney. So as I said, I’m hopeful, but if you’re looking for outdoor wear and this notion of sustainability, it’s really hard to compete with Patagonia and REI and all the content they’re putting out there. Or the fact that they’re only giving there their fleece vests to companies who have sustainable … like they won’t sell it to you as a branded company unless you have sustainable programs. The types of things and community and nonprofit work that they do is just much stronger and the quality of the products is higher. So I think they’re aiming at a different customer base, the REI’s and what Patagonia’s of the world, but I just don’t see it. I don’t see a lot of a market share being switched over to them. But their current target market, the people that already shop at JCPenney, do you think it’s good for those customers? Like they’ll spend more? Look, I mean I think what JCPenney is focused on right now is increasing profitability even while sales are decreasing year over year. So sales dropped 7.4% compared with year over year. But part of that is they’re trying to get out of the deal and discount mindset. And launching your private label is a great way to do that. I just think it’s too late, I think you need something like this across the entire store. And they’re just not capitalized to make massive enough changes to truly change their brand image. Interesting note on that they’re only rolling out in 100 locations at first. Carol, what are your thoughts on Penney’s move into outdoor? Well, I think whenever you’ve got a retailer like JCPenney that’s struggling, you know, the tendency is to meet every announcement with, “Is this going to save them? Is this going to save them?” Kind of separating it from that conversation, I like sometimes to extract that piece of it just to look at what’s happening with that particular program. And there are a lot of things I like about it. For one thing, this is JCPenney really putting a stake in the ground on an emerging category. You look at categories like athleisure that I’ve had a really good run, a lot of people made a lot of money on it, but it’s getting kind of played out and reaching a saturation point. So you’ve always got to be looking for that next big thing. And I think outdoor crossover is definitely there. And I don’t think JCPenney has any delusions about beating a lot of outdoor retailers at their own game. That’s what I don’t think … I don’t think it’s about that. And Trevor mentioned the private label aspect, very smart. For a while, JCPenney actually had some of the most highly developed, high equity, multimillion dollar, if not billion dollar, private brands. They put them in the back seat for a while. And now they’re bringing them back, which I think is very smart for the reasons that Trevor mentioned. I’ve been forecasting a renaissance of private brands for a while and now it’s happening and accelerating because of the points that Trevor made. The margin and also the differentiation, so very, very good move on JC Penney’s part to go back to private brands. Also, too, St. John’s Bay is a well-known private brand at JCPenney, so I think it was also smart to position this almost as a spin-off of that with St. John’s Bay Outdoor. Because instead of getting arrogant and saying, “Oh, we’re going to create a brand from the ground up and build it from scratch,” they’re actually harnessing that existing equity and brand recognition from St. John’s Bay. I also like it though that they’re, again, sort of not being arrogant and saying, “Oh, we’re going to replace all those national brands with this new private brand.” Instead, they’re merchandising some very well-known national brands in with the program, which I think is going to really help it and create some balance. Brands like High Tech that are respected and well known in the outdoor space and in the performance space. I like it, too, that they’re launching the brand in advance of actually launching the shops, which will be in a few weeks. So that’s going to give the opportunity for St. John’s Bay Outdoor, the brand, to sort of gain some traction and awareness in the stores before they actually place it in those dedicated shops. And I like that they are doing dedicated shops. Because you don’t want that product getting lost in the shuffle. Come fall and winter, there are going to be a whole lot of flannel shirts and vests on the floor and you don’t want this program to get drowned out and all mixed in with that. So hopefully they’re going to be really playing up that dedicated space and merchandising it and maintaining it really well. I think it checks a lot of boxes, it’s very relevant for the times, it’s a good move for Penney’s, which is not to say that it’s going to necessarily save the day. I think also, too, it was prudent to launch it in 100 stores as a test. That’s not a small number of stores, but it’s also not chain wide, in case it doesn’t work. But hopefully they’re prepared to pull the trigger really quickly if it performs and roll it out to all 800 plus stores, because they really need something like that to move the needle. Yeah. I totally agree with you. I think in terms of execution and strategy, I think they’re doing the right things. I think everything you said is right and I think what they’re doing is smart. I also think with 100 stores, you can target the areas where it’s most likely to be successful. And so you can build upon that success and I’m not sure they’re going to do the store within a store concept across 860 some odd stores. I think it’s important as retailers look at these programs to help target and segment across the stores that matter most to them and to test concepts before going to the ones that where you don’t have as many inherent advantages. We’re seeing that with the Macy’s growth 150 strategy, which started as growth 50 then 100, then 150 and it’s moving quickly. But they’re learning a lot along the way. And so, yeah, I agree. I think it’s well designed, I think it’s smart, and I’m hopeful for them. But I’m pessimistic about the outcome. We’ve got some, I guess, you know, Best Buy is a big turnaround story, they are out there. But it does remain to be seen if they’re going to pull all the elements together. Right now, they’re having to eat a lot of spinach, but I am glad to see that they’re not just focusing on that and that they are continuing to look at some creative merchandising and brand partnerships because they got to do it. They’ve got to keep the interest going regardless of the state of affairs. And I would contrast Best Buy versus JCPenney, right? Because the Best Buy success was built upon having a strong market position where everybody knew what Best Buy stood for, an electronic. But augmenting that with a price guarantee to Amazon and really training the sales associates to be helpful, to provide employee programs so that you actually have happy employees that you’re talking to. And there’s a great deal of expertise in Geek Squad and installation and service so that their go to for electronics. What is JCPenney’s go to? Is it really going to be outdoor wear? I find it hard that it’s focused enough and sufficient enough to change their brand a meaningful way. And I think that that to me is the contrast between the types of turnarounds that we’ll see successful and those that will struggle, even if they do the right things. And I can see that. But you look at Kohl’s, they’ve been doing some impressive changes and it’s been making a difference for them. And I don’t think that JCPenney is saying, “Hey, this Outdoor Shop is going to solve all our problems.” I think we’re going to be looking at … I mean there was thredUp, as Julia mentioned, not that long ago. I think we’re going to see a series of announcements from JCPenney, especially now as the holiday shopping season starts to ramp up. And then they’re going to hope for sort of a cumulative effect. So it’s going to get interesting. That that that would be a wise strategy. We’ll see what the holiday season brings. I do like Carol’s point to athleisure was a huge trend, it’s a bit saturated now. And this could be the crossover that brings in some of those holiday sales because it is a bit discounted compared to other retailers, especially the niche players in the outdoor wear market. The last bit of news we will cover is about Nordstrom. So exciting stuff. After two years of testing in LA, they are finally bringing its local stores concept to New York City. And it’s a pivot from the imposing scale of traditional stores. However, Nordstrom local is small format, inventory free shop, it offers personal styling services, you can get alterations, stroller cleanings, and of course online in-store pickup. So with a heavy focus on in store services, local customers will be able to return products purchased online from Macy’s and Kohl’s, and a spokesperson said that Nordstrom local visitors spend, on average, two and a half times what the traditional Nordstrom customer spends. And it’s just one of long list of brands that are trying these small format service focus concepts. We see it with Ikea, with Target, both testing downsized shops. Casper Mattresses and Indochino, Warby Parker continue to cut ribbons across North America with new stores. Carol, can you speak a bit on this trend and tell us what you think of Nordstrom’s Local concept? Well, Nordstrom Local is a different animal. I really wouldn’t say that the primary role is as a small format store because it’s not a mini Nordstrom. It’s a completely different solutions and service oriented concept. And also too, you know, you look at the Casper’s and all that, those are really those digitally native brands hanging a shingle. So Nordstrom, to me, is neither one of those things primarily. It really speaks to what I call the movement away from just high tech and toward high touch. And really doubling down on that high touch advantage. Now that’s something that Nordstrom’s already somewhat known for in their main line stores. But this concept just really zeros in on that. Now I’m not as bullish on the taking returns for Macy’s and Kohl’s as I am on the rest of the elements. I don’t think it’s a bad thing. I think it’s kind of no harm, no foul. But I don’t see a lot of crossover there and I don’t see that being necessarily a compelling convenience option for shoppers. But when you look at the fact that they’ve had some time with the LA store, Nordstrom Local, from pundits, gets a lot of backlash and people say, “Well, I don’t get it. I don’t think it’s important.” But they get really great reviews if you’ve been to the store, it’s a really nice concept. It’s a very welcoming, unintimidating, the staff are beautifully trained. And they’ve obviously had some successes with that or they wouldn’t be rolling it out and launching it in Manhattan. But I think it also marks another big shift toward not just always pushing the product but really looking at ways to be helpful and using that as a way of building the brand. And that can be kind of an alien concept to some old-schoolers, “Oh, you’ve got to sell product.” But Nordstrom can sell a lot of product and its main line stores and then it can reach out to new customers, particularly new generations of customers, through these Nordstrom Local locations. So, even if it’s just a PR play, I mean, if they’re not even literally making money on the services in that location or those locations, I think it’s still really important because it’s an important outreach to new generations of shoppers and to shoppers that may not be near a Nordstrom store. Keeping in mind that Nordstrom currently has only like 120 locations, they’ve got to find some way to reach out and touch more potential Nordstrom customers and to onboard a new generation of shoppers. And those are the folks that are really responding to this concept and really are almost thinking of it as Nordstrom doing them a favor. So I think it’s all good. Yeah, and I like what you said about movement from high tech to high touch, because even though correlation doesn’t mean causation, I think that we could say potentially that’s why you’re seeing a two and a half times spend versus the traditional Nordstrom customer at the local stores. And then the services don’t necessarily even have to be profitable. They just sort of round out the proposition and create that flagship, you know, high touch sensibility. Trevor, do you think this is potentially a PR play or is this something that we’ll see rolling out more? I think it’s interesting. I mean the old joke is that somebody returns a tire to Nordstrom even though they don’t sell tires. And that joke has been true, it’s been true for 20 years. And this is almost taking that joke and saying, “Yeah, that’s part of our brand.” Almost the way that Target loves to adopt Tarjay, right? Be part of that kind of cultural zeitgeist about what your brand is about. And so it’s a little bit gimmicky, but I think it’s cute, I think it’s endearing, I think it plays into the notion of what’s different about Nordstrom versus some of their competitors. I like it. I mean, obviously, it’s piggybacking on some of the other trends such as being able to take returns from Amazon at Kohl’s. Obviously Amazon’s a much bigger player and returns are much harder because you don’t naturally have a place to go, unlike doing a return at Macy’s, for example. So I think it’s interesting, I think it’s fun. And I think that the idea around bundling services, alteration, styling tips really ingratiates and builds a brand towards Nordstrom. And I think that high touch service aspect is an area that people are looking for as a differentiation from low cost goods or goods that can be found anywhere else. So if you can augment that, you can charge a premium. I think this is extremely interesting. The big question to me is why such a small scale, right? As if you look at some of the other things that we’re talking about, you’re talking about mass rollout, even Macy’s growth 150. They’re quickly going to 150 stores or JCPenney’s doing 100 stores with their outdoor concepts. Why three stores in New York? New York is an ideal type of demographic in terms of they looked at markets where people were reluctant to go to multiple places because traveling is hard in New York because carrying bags between shops and you could be going long distances. LA because anybody’s whose ever driven in LA knows. Right? So how scalable is this concept and how are they looking at it to go beyond New York and LA and through the rest of the company, or the country, in a way that alters the perception of Nordstrom holistically and drives top and bottom line growth. That, I think, is the big question. In the meantime, I think it’s very PR-ish, very brand supportive, and I think they’re probably learning lessons. But to me, to take two years to go from the first instantiation to an expansion strategy is a long time. And it brings up some questions to me about whether they’re really looking at this in an expansive way. And I’m curious as to whether the app or the website integrates with the inventory available in the local stores, since it seems to be more of a curated offering and definitely a different scale. They’re using a bit of a hub and spoke model, in some cases, to where they can literally go and pull product from a local Nordstrom store. That would make sense. And additionally, you know, just opening up local stores, studies show have a 38% boost in eCommerce revenues. So part of this could be just really about having a local presence, providing local services. You don’t need to make money in-store because you’ll see it online. So I think it’s interesting, but again, a couple stores here and there aren’t going to change your eCommerce outlook. So they need to be much more aggressive and much more expansive in their vision. Carol Spieckerman.: I’ll just say as a slight counterpoint to that, it used to be that anytime a retailer launched a new concept, there was a rollout plan. And they would usually even publicize it, “Okay, we’re going to start with this many locations, then we’re going to roll out this many. And then this many months later we’re going to roll out this many.” And everybody got used to that. But things have changed really dramatically to where not every concept, even if it’s successful, has to scale up in order to serve a purpose. So, I do believe that Nordstrom Local can be beneficial to Nordstrom even if it doesn’t go large scale. I mean, already Nordstrom is not a particularly large scale retailer. You know, they do a lot with a little, at least compared to a lot of their competitors. I think that they could keep it at two or three locations, four locations, learn a lot about urban shoppers, learn a lot about new generations of shoppers. Have that outreach that, yes, drives customers to digital, as Trevor pointed out. And you know, have a nice story to tell about it. I don’t think it has to be in hundreds of locations in order to be successful. I think that’s an interesting point. And I agree that one of the things that is being more adopted within the retail industry is the notion of kind of agile development and strategy where you learn quickly and adjust your tactics. And so you’re not set in stone with the two to three month store plan, or sorry, two to three year store planning cycle. And I think that’s wise, to learn as fast as you can, to adapt your tactics based upon what you’ve learned. When we’ve talked to clients at perch, we mandate to them that they do 10 or 20 stores minimum just because single data points, basically, are only useful in qualitative data aspects. And I think that’s the case here, where you’re getting qualitative feedback, which might be extraordinarily valuable, but it’s Los Angeles and New York. So again, not necessarily as applicable to the nationwide strategy. I think the next litmus test, if this were a market research or qualitative feedback cycle, and that was part of the purpose, where are they going to do that next outside of some of the bigger urban cities? Where do they do that in a way that they get a more holistic view of the shopper? Or maybe, again, this could be just a value that’s similar to a pop up or similar to a PR brand strategy, which can absolutely add value. But I don’t think will change the trajectory of Nordstrom holistically. Well, I do agree Trevor, I think that’s a good point about the qualitative data. It’s definitely probably not a big enough sample size to have any data insights that would apply nationwide. But maybe this was a pilot where they’ll be able to fine tune the training that they have with those Nordstrom Local employees and be able to roll out even better programs to the stores that are existing across the U.S. Carol, Trevor thank you so much for being on The Rundown this week. 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Ben Cohen, Stephen Colbert (AP/Jason Decrow) Ice cream king Ben Cohen on campaign-finance reform: "Regular people can make their money talk" Ben & Jerry's founder Ben Cohen is traveling the nation getting citizens to stamp their dollars. Here's why Daniel D'Addario July 5, 2013 3:00AM (UTC) Ben Cohen's life isn't all Chunky Monkey peddling. The Ben & Jerry's co-founder has devoted himself to various political causes over the course of his career; this summer, it's a quest to remove corporate money from politics. After the broad interpretation of money as speech in the Supreme Court's Citizens United opinion, Cohen is among those pushing for a Constitutional amendment for campaign-finance reform. Cohen's protest is taking an unusual form -- the Vermont native is spending part of his summer traveling the nation with a rubber stamp, encouraging Americans to stamp their money with messages including "Not to be used for bribing politicians." He recently hit New York's Union Square and has delegated the truck to hit music festivals; it's already toured with Crosby, Stills & Nash in the month of May. While the quest seems quixotic -- amendments to the Constitution face an uphill battle in the first place, even when they're not voted on by politicians whose very presence in office depends on that which they'd outlaw -- the presence of money in politics, post-Citizens United, has lately been a hot topic. Consider, for instance, the vast sums spent on the 2012 election by single buyers like the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson. Recently, the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza tweeted a sad vignette about a congressman (potentially a New York Democrat) already begging for donations on the phone. The next House election is, recall, in November 2014. We spoke to Cohen, who sold his company to corporate giant Unilever in 2000, about how he's hoping to assemble a critical mass, whether Vermonters are out of touch, and what Ben & Jerry's can do to fight the obesity epidemic. How's the crusade going so far? It's pretty amazing, it's going really well. We were at the Clearwater Festival north of New York. This past weekend we were at the Electric Forest Festival in Michigan. Well, I wasn't there, but the people who went got to enjoy some nice music. Being from Connecticut, I can kind of sympathize -- but I think people from Vermont are often dismissed as out-of-touch, effete liberals who don't get "real America." Have you run up against that stereotype, and does it bother you? Not at all. I think people in Vermont are down-to-earth, reasonable, rational people. There's this farm ethic that's about being self-sufficient and doing things on your own and doing things in a way that's thrifty. It's a small state; you know your political representatives and see them around. It's not that hard to see and talk to them. In a big state it's really hard to get a high enough percentage of people together to have any effect on the politics. In Vermont, you dont need many people to be a big crowd. So given that most people in America, unlike Vermonters, don't know their representatives, how can they get a consensus and get politicians to act? This issue of getting money out of politics is something that eighty percent of the population wants to do. They all understand that the system is broken and it's the money in the system corrupting it. And people think it's kind of hopeless. In Vermont -- like fourteen other states -- we passed legislation. The beauty of making your voice heard by stamping money is that it's something that anybody can do, anywhere, anytime. You can live in the littlest rural hamlet or the biggest urban city. The big problem with money in politics is that they've [the Supreme Court] said money is free speech. When money is free speech, they're [corporations] able to buy so much amplification and advertising. Corporations make their money talk by bundling their money together and shoving it at politicians. Regular people can make their money talk by using it as a way of communicating a message, making their voice heard. Regular people can make their voice heard by stamping money. Every time you put a message on a dollar bill, it gets seen by 875 people. If you stamp five bills a day -- and take weekends off -- in a year you'd have 1 million impressions. We call it a petition on steroids. Normally, the only thing you can do if you're upset is sign a petition -- and no one sees it except, hopefully, the intended target. Why would politicians who got into office on corporate money vote against it? What's needed is a level playing field. There's a lot of politicians that don't like the idea that they have to spend at least half their time dialing for dollars -- but they have to do it in order to be on the playing field. If you havent raised enough millions of dollars, you can't run for office. But if the playing field gets changed so no one can raise those dollars, it's level, but it's an easier level. As someone who sold your namesake company to Unilever, isn't it a little hypocritical to rail against corporations? We understand that Unilever does not make donations to politicians or to parties. It's not part of the problem. Ben & Jerry's is out there fighting for GMO labeling -- the proposition in California. [That state's Proposition 37, which failed at the ballot box in November 2012, would have required the labeling of food products that had been genetically engineered; it was opposed with heavy donations from food companies.] Ben & Jerry's was for GMO labeling and Unilever was against it. I didn't like that at all. Unilever might be moderating their stance on GMO labeling. We might have had an effect on the giant. Do you have any day-to-day responsibilities at Ben & Jerry's? I'm not active in the company. I'm an employee of the company. I have no responsibilities, I have no authority. I show up at some events. Do you feel uncomfortable with the idea that your political activism might turn off some potential ice-cream buyers? No! Ben & Jerry's has taken a bunch of political stands over the years. This one is one that has the highest percentage of people that agree with it. Eighty percent of the population agrees, the other twenty percent... I don't know! This particular issue is an exception because it's so popular. I operate by the 30-30-30 rule: 30 percent will buy more ice cream because they really liked our stance, 30 percent don't care, and 30 percent will buy less. So it kind of evens out. Are there any issues that are too hot to handle? Two hot buttons are abortion and gun control. I don't think -- we've never taken a stand on either one of those things, but I know that we did something sometime that upset a bunch of NRA members. [The company is on the National Rifle Association's "enemies list," made after the school shooting at Sandy Hook.] Have you considered introducing politics to the flavors of your ice cream? Cherry Garcia is all well and good, but nonpartisan. There have been some political flavors. We had a flavor called American Pie -- and it had a pie chart of the federal discretionary budget on it and it advocated shifting money out of nuclear weapons and into education. The first political stand we took on our packaging was back when we came up with a chocolate-covered ice cream pop on a stick called a Peace Pop. This was before the end of the Cold War. We decided to use the packaging as media and instead of talking about how great this thing is you're about to eat, we proposed "One Percent for Peace," which was an initiative to shift one percent of Pentagon spending into peace through understanding activities between the people of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. And right after that the Cold War ended, so it was a great success. Do any politicians currently in office share your views? I feel like the same as for any elected official that does not advocate an amendment to the Constitution to get rid of money in politics, it's a lost opportunity. There's been a bunch of senators who've been pretty adamant about it: Al Franken, [both Mark and Tom] Udall, [Bernie] Sanders, there are twenty-some odd Senators that have signed on to a proposed amendment to get money out of politics, then there's about 100 members of the House. Did you ever consider running for office? I'm one of those guys that can be more effective outside than inside. Your political stands are inspiring, but it's hard not to consider the ongoing obesity epidemic as an issue worthy of consideration. Has it been difficult to contemplate this issue given your fortune earned from selling ice cream? Every once in a while I've thought of trying to make the ice cream taste shittier so that people don't eat as much. I don't think that'd be a service to anybody. It would be a horrible world if sugar no longer existed, if honey no longer existed, if butter no longer existed, if cream no longer existed. The key is you're not supposed to replace more than one meal a day with a pint of ice cream. I just think it would be -- I would hate to live in a world with no ice cream! And if we have it, it should taste good! MORE FROM Daniel D'Addario • FOLLOW dpd_ Ben Cohen Ben & Jerry's Citizens United Editor's Picks Check out this article! https://www.salon.com2013/07/04/ice_cream_king_ben_cohen_on_campaign_finance_reform_regular_people_can_make_their_money_talk/

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Big 12 commish wants decision on expansion by end of summer Commissioner of the Big 12 Bob Bowlsby speaks to reporters after the first day of the Big 12 sports conference meeting in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (AP Photo/LM Otero) By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer Kansas athletic director Sheahon Zenger, left, speaks as commissioner of the Big 12 Bob Bowlsby looks on after the first day of the Big 12 sports conference meeting in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione speaks to reporters after the first day of the Big 12 sports conference meeting in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Commissioner of the Big 12 Bob Bowlsby takes a seat before speaking to reporters after the first day of the Big 12 sports conference meeting in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Texas athletic director Mike Perrin speaks to reporters after the first day of the Big 12 sports conference meeting in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (AP Photo/LM Otero) IRVING, Texas (AP) — Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby wants conference leaders to make decisions one way or the other on the lingering topics of expansion, a football championship game and a league network by the end of the summer. Athletic directors spent about 90 minutes during the Big 12 spring meetings Wednesday in what were termed “philosophical discussions” about those issues that will ultimately be decided by the league’s board of directors comprised of school presidents and chancellors. The 10 directors, which include interim leaders at Baylor, Kansas State and Texas Tech, will join the conference meetings Thursday and Friday. They will have a significant amount of data to discuss this week and consider into the summer when returning to their campuses. “Unless we find that there is something we just have missed ... I don’t see any reason why we can’t stay on that timeframe,” Bowlsby said. Faculty athletic representatives deadlocked 5-5 regarding a proposed change in a league rule that would have given former Texas Tech walk-on quarterback Baker Mayfield an extra season of eligibility at Oklahoma. The proposal, which failed because it lacked a majority, would have eliminated the year of lost eligibility for non-scholarship athletes who transfer within the league. Mayfield left Tech after his freshman season in 2013, then had to sit out to a season to satisfy NCAA transfer rules while also losing a season of eligibility in the Big 12. The quarterback who led the Sooners to the College Football Playoff last season could conceivably play this fall at Oklahoma, then graduate from the school and transfer to play immediately for one more season for a team outside the Big 12. “We’re hoping we can make progress so we can get this changed before we get there,” Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione said. A research firm hired by the league has provided data that shows the conference would have a better chance to get into the College Football Playoff each season by expanding to 12 teams and playing eight conference games, along with a championship game. That is opposed to its current standing of 10 teams playing a round-robin conference schedule without a title game. “There’s an awful lot right about the way we conduct our competition. There’s a lot right about playing a full round-robin in football and double-round in basketball. I think we’re going to be a little bit slow to depart from that,” Bowlsby said. “We don’t want to give that away in any sort of way that doesn’t provide at least equal or more rewards than what we currently have.” Castiglione described the round-robin schedule as a distinguishing characteristic for the Big 12, and pointed out that having a conference championship game wouldn’t guarantee the winner going to the playoff like the Sooners did this season. When asked about expansion, Texas athletic director Mike Perrin said he believes “the prudent thing” is for the conference to stay at 10 teams. He seemed a little more open to discuss the possibility of a championship game without expanding. But the Longhorn Network remains a huge hurdle in any discussions about a league-wide network. While some other schools have contacted the Big 12, Bowlsby said the league doesn’t have what he would consider a list of expansion candidates and that such discussions “would be premature.” — The Big 12 meetings come a week after Baylor regents fired football coach Art Briles and removed Ken Starr as president over the school’s handling of sexual assault complaints against football players. Athletic director Ian McCaw was also penalized and has since resigned. “It’s a campus issue, it’s one that we certainly are watching closely,” Bowlsby said. “It’s not clear where we would engage in any sort of punitive way at this point.” Baylor is represented at the Big 12 meetings by interim President David Garland and Todd Patulski, the deputy athletic director. — ADs were presented data that showed concussions in Big 12 football have dropped by one-third since 2013. League officials attributed much of that to limited contact rules put in place over the past few years.

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Researchers: Asian bank hacks may be linked to North Korea FILE - In thus Dec. 16, 2014 file photo, North Koreans gather at the Mansu Hill where the statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung, and Kim Jong Il tower over them, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Cybersecurity researchers say it’s possible that North Korea is behind a recent hacking that resulted in the theft of millions of dollars from the Bangladesh central bank and the attempted thefts of millions more from other Asian banks. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File) By BREE FOWLER AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cybersecurity researchers say North Korea might be connected to a recent attack that resulted in the theft of over $100 million from the Bangladeshi central bank and the attempted thefts of millions more from other Asian banks. If the finding holds up, the attacks would amount to a new strategy for the rogue nation, whose state-sponsored efforts have been have long been motivated by politics, not money. Security researchers at Symantec say that the malware used in February to steal $101 million from the Bangladeshi bank’s account in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is similar to that used in the past by a group known as “Lazarus.” That group has been linked to a string of hackings largely focused on U.S. and South Korean targets dating back to 2009. That includes the crippling 2014 hack of Sony Pictures, which the FBI has blamed on the North Korean government . North Korea denied the allegation. According to the Symantec research, the malware’s rare code also showed up in the October 2015 hack of a bank in the Philippines and another of a Vietnamese bank about two months later, tying both to the breach of the Bangladesh bank. Earlier this month, the global money-transfer coordinator Swift reported a new cyberattack against another unnamed bank. Swift said the attack was part of a coordinated campaign following the theft from the Bangladesh bank. While Swift didn’t say if any money had been stolen, it did say that the attack allowed for the transfer of money and the tampering of bank documents. It also emphasized that its own system, which connects more than 11,000 banking and securities organizations as well as other clients moving billions each year, had not been compromised by the malware. Follow Bree Fowler at https://twitter.com/APBreeFowler. Her work can be found at https://bigstory.ap.org/author/bree-fowler.

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Gift membership Inbound Donate New study reveals lost birdsong of Britain Katie Phoenix New study reveals that yellowhammer dialects which it's thought previously existed in the UK have now been lost, but can still be heard in birdsong overseas, shedding new light on the cultural evolution of birdsong. Citizen science project to collect recordings enabled scientists to make comparisons between yellowhammer dialects in the UK and New Zealand, where over 600 birds were introduced in the 19th century. Due to rapid decline in UK yellowhammer population, some dialects may have been lost here, yet they have been retained in New Zealand yellowhammers. New research into bird accents has shown that some regional accents, once thought to be lost in the UK, can still be heard on the other side of the world. The study, published in Ecography, examined yellowhammer dialects in the UK and New Zealand, where the birds were introduced in the 1860's and 1870's and later became pests. It found some dialects that likely existed in the UK appear to have gone extinct, yet they still exist in New Zealand- a phenomenon which also occurs in human languages. The research was led by a Czech research team who encouraged volunteers to collect and submit recordings of singing yellowhammers using smartphones and cameras. Using these recordings from the citizen science project, scientists compared the patterns of yellowhammer dialects in the native range of Great Britain, and in the invaded range of New Zealand. Although they expected New Zealand yellowhammers to exhibit fewer dialects than those in the mother country, quite the opposite pattern emerged - New Zealand boasts almost twice as many yellowhammer dialects as Great Britain. Experts think the best explanation for their findings is that New Zealand yellowhammers have retained song structures which were originally from the UK. However, these dialects have subsequently been lost in the mother country, possibly due to the widespread decline in yellowhammers in the UK. Pavel Pipek, of the Charles University in Prague and lead author on the yellowhammer dialects paper, said: "It was fascinating to have this unique opportunity to study yellowhammer dialects from native and introduced populations and how they have evolved over 150 years. "This phenomenon of lost birds' dialect is an avian equivalent of what happens with human languages. For example, some English words, which are no longer spoken in Great Britain, are still in use in the former British colonies." British yellowhammers have experienced a severe population decline in recent decades, meaning the original variety of dialects might have diminished. Dr Mark Eaton, RSPB principal conservation scientist and study co-author, said: "Yellowhammers are a delightful farmland bird with unmistakeable bright yellow heads. At one time they were a common sight, but sadly their numbers have declined so rapidly that nowadays they are difficult to find in many parts of the UK. "It's likely the decline in yellowhammers has led to some of their original dialects being lost yet these have survived in the songs of the birds in New Zealand due to the abundant populations. This birdsong may therefore serve as a living archive of songs sung by yellowhammers in 19th century Britain." Tagged with: Country: UK Topic: Science

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Michael Cheika named Coach of the Year by RUGBY.com.au staff Wallabies coach Michael Cheika has been recognised for his rapid transformation of the national team with the World Rugby Coach of the Year Award at tonight's World Rugby Awards dinner in London. Cheika took over the Wallabies' reins less than a year out from the World Cup, on the eve of the team's 2014 Spring Tour, which they finished with one win from four matches. Splitting the role with the NSW Waratahs head coaching job during the Super Rugby season, Cheika worked to build a whole squad mentality with regular player briefings during the season. Cheika led the Wallabies to their first Rugby Championship win since 2011, including a victory over New Zealand in Sydney, putting opponents on notice in the lead-up to the World Cup. Overall in 2015 Cheika has taken the team to 10 Test wins from 12 matches this year, including an unlikely run to the World Cup Final, in which they showed character in a gripping encounter. It's an achievement that Cheika has said was not even on his radar when he was offered the job last year, but one he believed he could help work towards. In that run, the Wallabies had to face six of the world's top 10 teams, three of those before even making it out of the pool stages. As well as pure match results, Cheika influenced the change of eligibility laws this year, bringing France-based players Matt Giteau and Drew Mitchell back into the fold as well as allowing Dean Mumm and Kane Douglas to join the World Cup squad after signing with Super Rugby franchises for 2016. Cheika's charges have been vocal in their praise of him through the tournament, with vice-captain Michael Hooper saying it was impossible not to buy into his passion for the national team, despite having never donned a Wallabies jersey. The World Rugby Coach of the Year award is further recognition of his success as a mentor, in a career that has seen him become the only coach to win top domestic leagues in both the southern and northern hemisphere. Signed as Wallabies Head Coach until at least 2017, the national job will be Cheika's sole focus in 2016 and beyond. Wallabies Michael Cheika

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Tribal Supreme Court needs to abide by the rule of law I hope many of our Mescalero Apache tribal members took the opportunity to read the story “Push Made For New Election” in the Dec. 13 issue of the Ruidoso News. Tribal Supreme Court needs to abide by the rule of law I hope many of our Mescalero Apache tribal members took the opportunity to read the story “Push Made For New Election” in the Dec. 13 issue of the Ruidoso News. Check out this story on ruidosonews.com: http://www.ruidosonews.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/01/16/tribal-supreme-court-needs-abide-rule-law/1026294001/ Guest Columnist Published 7:34 p.m. MT Jan. 16, 2018 Editorial promo(Photo: The Daily Times stock image) I hope many of our Mescalero Apache tribal members took the opportunity to read the story “Push Made For New Election” in the Dec. 13 issue of the Ruidoso News. The story centered around the call for a new election for the office of Mescalero Apache tribal president. The purpose of this commentary is not to offer an opinion on the merits, or lack thereof, of calling another election. There is, however, a larger issue and one that should concern every tribal member. That issue is the administration of justice at Mescalero, given the constitutional and statutory requirements that govern everyday life for tribal members. Pursuant to the Constitution of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, the tribal council is designated as the tribal Supreme Court. This means the tribal council, in its role as Supreme Court, hears and decides matters that have gone through the tribal court system, but which still have issues of law and/or procedure that remain unresolved. This part of our tribal judicial system is undoubtedly strange to those of you unfamiliar with our tribal constitution and our tribal laws. It is akin to the Ruidoso Village Council being the Ruidoso Supreme Court and hearing appeals from the Municipal Court. Again, I leave the merits of our tribal judicial system to the pundits, tribal and otherwise. As the Dec. 13 article stated, Mr. Dennis Pilcher and I cited numerous procedural and legal mistakes made by the Mescalero Tribal Court, when we argued our appeal before the tribal Supreme Court. The Tribal Court had previously overturned the decision of the tribal election board which ruled that Arthur “Butch” Blazer did not meet the constitutional residency requirement and therefore was not eligible to have his name on the election ballot. The most serious error committed by the Tribal Court was the court’s failure to hear Mr. Blazer’s protest within three business days, as required by the tribal Election Code. Because the Tribal Court itself violated the election code, we argued that this violation alone was grounds for the tribal Supreme Court to grant us the relief we requested and remove Mr. Blazer’s name from the ballot. Although we were not permitted to remain in tribal council chambers while the tribal Supreme Court was discussing and deliberating our appeal arguments, information told to us by members of the court, after adjournment, was that the court had no doubt that Mr. Pilcher and I proved our case. Despite this, a majority of the tribal Supreme Court ruled against our request for relief. Three of the court members dissented and were in favor of granting us the relief we requested. In its written majority decision, the tribal Supreme Court offered no rationale, legal or otherwise, for its decision even though the election code requires the court to do so. The decision of the tribal Supreme Court is final in actions brought under the election code. Why should Mescalero tribal members be concerned by this decision of the tribal Supreme Court? The tribal Supreme Court is the final authority under our constitutional judicial system. It is the only place where tribal members may go when they have cases that remain unresolved in tribal court regardless of the subject matter. Once the tribal Supreme Court rules, that decision is final and there is no further avenue of appeal. Tribal members have a right to expect that their Supreme Court will abide by the laws, customs, and beliefs of the Mescalero Apache Tribe. Tribal members have a right to expect their Supreme Court to rule without fear or favor; without politics or personalities. If a majority of the tribal Supreme Court cannot or will not abide by the rule of law, then truly there will be no justice for tribal members. Mark R. Chino is a former Mescalero Apache Tribal President. 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A recent article on our Rule of Law Institute website by our Founder Robin Speed and our General Manager Sally Layson, is repoduced below and sheds further light on the status of the Rule of Law in Poland, to read our previous analysis of the status of judicial independence in Poland see our blog posts from 2016 and earlier this year. Rule of Law Update: Poland The highest court in the European Union has ruled that Poland has acted contrary to the rule of law by enacting legislation which lowered the retirement age of judges to 65 years. The legislation in question was seen as part of a sustained attack on judicial independence by the Polish Parliament. Judicial independence is one of a number of principles of the rule of law and has been described by Ursula von der Leyen (European Commission president-designate) as the “jewel in the crown” of the European Union. It is necessary to say a little about the Polish decision before commenting on whether Australia’s High Court would reach a similar conclusion if there was an attack on judicial independence through an attempt to “stack” the Court. The highest court in the European Union, the Court of Justice of the European Union, handed down its decision on 24 June 2019. The Polish authorities had been criticised for harassing and disciplining judges who they considered to be unfavourable to their cause. The particular legislation provided that all judges of their Supreme Court, the Sąd Najwyższy, the equivalent of our High Court, were obliged to retire on reaching the age of 65 years, and not, as previously, 70. On reaching 65 a judge could have his term extended up to a further 5 years by the President of Poland. Both provisions, the lowering of the retirement age and the provision enabling the President to extend the term of a judge, were challenged by the Polish Supreme Court judges on the basis that they breached the rule of law and in particular the principle of judicial independence and the immovability of judges. The judges pointed to Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union which expressly provided that the Union is founded on values, including the rule of law, that Article 19(1) of the Treaty on European Union required member states to provide remedies sufficient to ensure effective legal protection in the fields covered by Union Law and finally, Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union which provided that every individual is entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an impartial and independent tribunal. The Court of Justice of the European Union reached a conclusion that Article 19(1), read in the light of Article 47, required the preservation of the independence of the Supreme Court of Poland which had been infringed by the legislation. It was not the lowering of the retirement age by itself which resulted in the infringement but that the judges who were appointed as judges before the law entered into force were subject to the new retirement provision. This was seen as an attack on the principle of irremovability which is essential to the independence of the judiciary. It followed that Article 19(1) had been breached. In conferring on the President of Poland the discretion to extend the term of a judge past 65 years, the Court reasoned that the Supreme Court was no longer providing the guarantee that it acted impartially and independently. A reasonable doubt would arise as to the imperviousness of the judges concerned to external factors and as to the neutrality with respect to any interests before them. Accordingly, Article 19(1) was breached by the second provision. Articles 2 and 47 do not apply to Australia as are not part of the European Union. Nor is it subject to the provisions of an overriding Bill of Rights. Any and all protection has to be found in the express or implied terms of the Australian Constitution. Chapter III of the Australian Constitution expressly deals with the Judicature and, in particular, for the term of a High Court justice to expire on reaching 70 years and, except for misbehavior or incapacity, not earlier. It also includes a provision to ensure changes to the retirement age of Justices does not affect the term of offices of Justices under an appointment made before the changes to the retirement age. An Australian Parliament which is minded to “stack” the High Court is prevented by these provisions from getting rid of justices by lowering the retirement age, but what if it attempted to increase the numbers of justices from 7 to 15 and appointed judges more to its liking? In 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to do just this and attempted to “stack” the US supreme Court to overcome the concern that a majority of the judges were opposed to New Deal legislation. He announced that the extra judges … “will act as Justices “ and “save our national Constitution from hardening of the judicial arteries.” His plan was subject to a great deal of protests and never tested by reason of the retirement of one of the justices in the majority. “Stacking” of the High Court is not expressly dealt with in the Constitution. But the independence of the Judicature is assumed and is critical. 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The world's famous Hermitage. State Hermitage Museum Among the world's greatest museums, the Hermitage is a treasury of world art from throughout the ages, displayed in the magnificent halls of the Winter Palace. 2, Dvortsovaya Ploschad (Palace Square) Admiralteyskaya Daily 10:30am to 6pm. Last admission is at 5:30pm. Wednesday and Friday, till 9pm. Last admission is at 8:30pm. +7 (812) 571-3420; +7 (812) 710-9079 http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/ 600 RUB - entry ticket to the Main Museum Complex and the branches (the General Staff Building, Winter Palace of Peter the Great, Menshikov Palace, the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory) 300 RUB - entry ticket to one of the Hermitage branches (Winter Palace of Peter the Great, Menshikov Palace, the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre) Free admission: Preschool children, school children, students. Free admission to all visitors on the first Thursday of each month. Ticket purchase online: https://www.hermitageshop.org/tickets/ (You can avoid a long line at the museum ticket offices) Information for Visitors: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/visitus/ Photo and video: No flash. Audio-guides are available (deposit required) Accessibility note: The museum is wheelchair accessible (ramps/lifts). Free wheelchair rentals. Please call in advance as staff assistance may be required Book Taxi in St Petersburg hermitage thehermitage

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Home > News & Alerts > Ethanol storage and transport Ethanol is a highly flammable liquid (Class 3 Packing Group II dangerous good). The bulk storage and transport of ethanol (commonly known as SVR, Wine Spirit or Grape Spirit) at wineries carries an associated risk of fire and explosion. Risk control measures A thorough risk assessment must be conducted for all processes related to the manufacture and storage of flammable liquids such as ethanol. This must include temporary storage of flammable liquids and consideration of likely ignition sources, such as welding, grinding and other hot work, which could cause flammable vapours to ignite. The risk assessment must be reviewed immediately if there is a change to the type, quantity or usage of flammable liquids on site. For example, the seasonal use of ethanol for the fortification of wine will need to be included in the risk assessment. Safety procedures and any resulting changes must be communicated to all workers at the site. This includes drivers delivering products, such as ethanol, who must also comply with the requirements of the Australian Code for the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail (ADG Code) for the transfer of flammable liquids, and any contract workers who attend the site to perform work. The following risk control measures should be integral to a risk management plan to minimise the risk of fire and explosion: Storage and processing areas Flammable liquids should be stored in compliant containers and facilities according to Australian Standard AS1940: The storage and handling of flammable and combustible liquids. Flammable liquid storage areas should be clearly marked with warnings and signs. Flammable liquid containers and tanks should be clearly and correctly labelled. Pipes, hoses, pumps, valves and heaters should be clearly labelled for identification. The area around storage and processing should be kept free of combustible materials. Adequate natural cross-flow ventilation should be maintained in buildings that involve storage or processing of flammable liquids. If adequate natural ventilation cannot be achieved, an intrinsically safe mechanical method of ventilation may be required. Decanting of flammable liquids should be carried out in a well-ventilated area. Any hot work and smoking restriction zones should be clearly identified and sign-posted, and strictly enforced, including zones restricting mechanical grinding / cutting and other ignition sources. Refer to Australian Standard AS60079: Classification of hazardous areas. Examples of area classification – Flammable liquids for further guidance. Hot work such as welding or oxy-cutting should be authorised by work permit and carried out in accordance with the Code of Practice – Welding Processes, which lists comprehensive fire and explosion precautions. Empty containers must be free of any flammable or hazardous residues or vapours before work is carried out. Fire safety equipment should be provided and maintained in accordance with the requirements of AS1940 (e.g. alarm systems, fire extinguishers, hydrants, hoses, fire blankets). Workers should be instructed and trained in the storage and handling of dangerous goods, the emergency plan and the use of safety equipment. Refresher training should be conducted on a regular basis and updated as necessary. Deliveries and transfers The bulk transfer of dangerous goods must be carried out in accordance with Chapter 10.2 of the ADG Code. Persons engaged in transfer of bulk dangerous goods must ensure that recipient tanks are properly marked. Dangerous Substances (Dangerous Goods Transport) Regulations 2008 Code of Practice – Welding processes Australian Code for the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail AS 1940: The storage and handling of flammable and combustible liquids AS 60079: Classification of hazardous areas. Examples of area classification – Flammable liquids to Air quality, Asbestos, Chemicals & substances View all 20 Mar18 02 Aug18

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December 11, 2011 / 12:40 AM / 8 years ago Obama, at Army-Navy football game, praises troops Alister Bull LANDOVER, Maryland (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, attending his first Army-Navy football game as commander in chief on Saturday, praised the dedication of the country’s armed forces ahead of a week in which he will focus heavily on the end of America’s war in Iraq. U.S. President Barack Obama (C) and Vice President Joe Biden (R) walk on the field before the 2011 Army vs Navy football game in Landover, Maryland December 10, 2011. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas “As much fun as these things are, part of what we celebrate is the dedication and the sacrifice all these young men and young women who are in the stands are going to be making for our country,” Obama told the game’s commentators during the first half of the contest between the U.S. Army and Navy academies. Virtually all U.S. forces will have left Iraq by December 31, fulfilling an Obama pledge to Americans tired of the nearly nine-year-old war as the president accelerates his campaign for re-election next November. High unemployment and the fragile economy will likely weigh more heavily with voters than costly foreign wars. But Obama will try to keep the spotlight next week on what he sees as a key national security accomplishment, alongside the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces in May. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visits the White House on Monday and will travel with Obama to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Wednesday, where the president and first lady Michelle Obama will thank U.S. service men and women returning home from Iraq. Almost 4,500 U.S. troops have died in Iraq since President George W. Bush ordered the invasion more than 8-1/2 years ago, based on allegations of weapons of mass destruction that turned out not to exist. Greeted loudly by the crowd of 80,000 that filled Fedex Field outside Washington for the 112th annual competition between two of the oldest rivals in American college football, Obama tossed the coin at the start of the game. Under bright blue skies, and following a flyover by F-18 fighter jets and Apache helicopters, the president spent the first half of the game with Navy, chatting with midshipmen as well as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who also attended the game as well as Vice President Joe Biden. At half-time, he crossed the field from the Navy side to the Army side of the stadium, striding between a file of Army cadets in gray and Naval midshipmen in blue. During half-time, Obama and Biden visited 70 wounded service men and women, the White House said. Donning a headset, Obama told the game’s commentators that he had enjoyed playing high school football - until his classmates started getting bigger than him. “I played football in ninth grade, and then I realized I was built more for basketball,” he said. “I was a big kid in eighth grade and then in 9th grade suddenly everybody else started getting a little heavier than me.” The Navy beat the Army 27-21 for its 10th victory in a row. Reporting by Alister Bull; Editing by Xavier Briand

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News 2019 > The mental wellbeing of EU citizens after being... The mental wellbeing of EU citizens after being asked to #StayinScotland Writing for the Scotsman, Piotr Teodorowski, an early career researcher from RGU's School of Nursing and Midwifery connects the School's recent research into the impact of Brexit on the mental health of EU citizens to the Scottish Government's 'Stay in Scotland' campaign. In April, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon launched a new Scottish Government campaign called ‘Stay in Scotland’ – pledging support for EU citizens living in Scotland. An open letter, alongside an information package about migration, emphasises how welcome these citizens are in Scotland and encourages them to stay, despite the uncertainties surrounding Brexit. It also provides residents with support to register for the settlement scheme through Citizens Advice Bureau Scotland, which has received extra funding to deliver these services and cope with the additional demand. While the Scotland Act 1998 clearly states that issues around migration are restricted to Westminster jurisdiction, the Scottish Government last year added it to the official portfolio of the Minister for Europe, Migration and International Development. Has this intervention been relevant to EU citizens living in Scotland? Does this new campaign make a difference? Most importantly, how are EU citizens reacting to the messages coming from Holyrood? An interdisciplinary team of researchers from RGU, supported by Edinburgh-based charity Feniks – have published the findings of a study that explored the impact of Brexit on the mental health and wellbeing of EU citizens living in Scotland. The findings of this research project provide a narrative on people’s experiences since the referendum and how they feel about living here. We conducted several focus group interviews with EU citizens in Edinburgh and Aberdeen, where participants were asked to consider their feelings and if there were things that helped them cope with the current political situation. The results showed that the Brexit campaign, referendum, and subsequent political discourse has impacted the mental health and wellbeing of EU citizens. It is clear that for some the perception of the UK as a warm and welcoming country has shifted. However, our participants viewed Scotland as a more welcoming and safer place to live, especially when considering and comparing the more positive messages coming from Holyrood. The result of the referendum itself was seen as a surprise which affected participants’ sense of belonging in the UK – with one stating: “It doesn’t really feel like you’re very welcome here anymore and they don’t want you” – but that Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish Government have shown that EU citizens have someone fighting for them. These positive messages from the Scottish Government have partially addressed feelings of loneliness and isolation, but not fully diminished them. Uncertainty and anxiety about the future was a recurring theme across every one of our focus groups. With the launch of the ‘Stay in Scotland’ campaign, many suggested that such a pro-migration campaign should not only support EU citizens and be factually correct, but also give them a space to share their own stories. Some participants told us that – while their neighbours had shown real sympathy – they don’t believe the Scottish public understood the impact this political climate was having on EU citizens, who were having to justify their lives in this country. If the Scottish Government wants to achieve the main aim of its campaign – to reach EU citizens – it needs to directly involve them in its shaping, not only as recipients. This is particularly important, as many of our participants repeatedly remarked on their lack of opportunity to vote in the referendum, contrasted with their rights as citizens and taxpayers. As emphasised by grassroots organisation ‘the3million’ – EU citizens are not simply “bargaining chips”. The positive impact on mental health and wellbeing following the First Minister’s messages should be commended and not underestimated. Will this campaign be enough to encourage EU citizens to stay, live and work in Scotland? It is a start and can promote a welcome discourse for EU citizens – but clarity on these citizens’ status and future is urgently required. Piotr worked on a study exploring the impact of Brexit on the mental health and wellbeing of EU citizens. The results of this study were published on 12 June at an event hosted by the European Parliament Liaison Office in Edinburgh.

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Cloudy early with peeks of sunshine expected late. High 47F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.. Lee Enterprises to buy BH Media newspapers, including Richmond Times-Dispatch Jovan Burton, Partnership for Housing Affordability’s director of implementation for its regional housing framework speaks in Henrico, VA Wed. Jan. 15, 2020. MARK GORMUS/TIMES-DISPATCH Jovan Burton of the Partnership for Housing Affordability spoke Wednesday in Henrico County as his group suggested ways to help the region meet needs in coming decades. Amid rising rents and home prices, new framework emphasizes regional approach to housing challenges By MARK ROBINSON Richmond Times-Dispatch Median rents in the Richmond region increased by 20% over the past decade, while average income rose by 10%. As of 2018, 125,000 households in Richmond, Ashland and the counties of Chesterfield, Henrico and Hanover — 1 in 3 — were cost burdened, meaning they spent more than 30% of their monthly income on housing. The Partnership for Housing Affordability highlighted those and other data points Wednesday as it released a new regional housing framework aimed at helping localities plan to meet the housing needs of the next two decades. Developed over the past 20 months, the framework paints a daunting picture of the region’s overarching housing challenges, like rising prices and a growing senior population, and outlines recommendations for how to begin addressing them before they become insurmountable. The report draws on feedback from more than 1,900 people. Over the next 20 years, 1,000 new affordable units must be built each year in order to meet the projected demand by 2040. Over the past five years, about 240 such units have been built in the region annually. “It’s clear the supply needs to increase,” said Jovan Burton, program director for the partnership, which is led by a 17-person board of directors that includes representatives from regional governments and businesses. Among the recommendations in the framework are promoting the construction of new rental units reserved for families earning less than the region’s median income of $86,400, as well as incentivizing the preservation of existing ones; zoning neighborhoods with the best access to jobs, education and public transportation to allow new apartment complexes to rise; creating new programs to fund maintenance or repair of older homes; and establishing a regional hub to assist prospective or first-time homebuyers. Drawing on census, mortgage and other data, the framework lays out current and future housing needs in Richmond, Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico, as well as Ashland. Most of the existing housing stock that is reserved for people earning less than the region’s median income is more than 50 years old, researchers found. With those homes nearing the end of their useful life, residents who rely on them face uncertainty. As rents have climbed, so, too, have home values. Across the region, the average sales price rose by more than 20% between 2009 and 2018, according to the framework. In Richmond, where home prices have grown faster than anywhere else in the region, that figure is 56%. The surge in sales prices is fueling racial disparities in homeownership and wealth. In 2017, 26 homes were bought by white households per day on average. That same year, an average of six homes per day were purchased by African American buyers. For Latino buyers, the daily average was two. The poverty rate from 2000 to 2017 grew most in Richmond, from 18% to 22%. But in raw numbers, the city’s neighbors added twice as many people in poverty as Richmond during that time. “The regional approach presented in this framework is crucial because housing needs do not stop at city, county or town boundaries,” said James Napier, chairman of the partnership’s board. Yet in Richmond alone, there are 3,600 fewer black homeowners today than there were in 2000. In Jackson Ward and Church Hill, where reinvestment has fueled gentrification and displacement, the number of black homeowners decreased by about 30% as the number of white homeowners increased by more than 150%. Surging housing costs will intensify impending and existing issues in the region. Those include a ballooning senior population living in older housing that is ill-equipped for aging in place and an eviction crisis that has already prompted action locally. Some work the partnership recommends is already underway. For example, the framework cites the city’s eviction diversion pilot program, established last year after Richmond was found to have the second-highest eviction rate in the country. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney said earlier this month that the program has helped 76 families avoid an eviction since October. He set a goal of helping 500 families in the program’s first year. More than 150 people who work in local government, the private sector, and the nonprofit and philanthropic communities gathered Wednesday at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center for the framework’s release. Housing advocates heralded the results. “We’ve been involved in this important work for many decades, and this is the most thoughtful and comprehensive plan of action that I have ever been involved in,” said Greta Harris, president and CEO of the Better Housing Coalition. Burton will work with the localities to oversee implementation of the advisory recommendations. The partnership will track progress on its website to hold the region’s elected officials accountable. “We have tremendous work going on right now,” Burton said, “and this framework will serve as a road map to continue to promote those efforts and also improve them throughout the region for years to come.” mrobinson@timesdispatch.com Twitter: @__MarkRobinson Housing needs You can read the full framework at pharva.com/framework/about-the-framework. Jovan Burton Mark Robinson covers Richmond City Hall. Follow Mark Robinson DAVID MCCRAY Jan 15, 2020 6:14pm I dispute the statement in the article that housing 50 years old is nearing the end of it's useful life. Four years ago I purchased a brick house built in 1965 that is far more useful than most of these flimsy houses with siding built in the last 30 years. The website for Partnership for Affordable House (PHARVA) says it's a non profit organization, but the Board of Directors consists mostly of people working in local government. One example is Doug Dunlap who works for the City of Richmond as Deputy Director of Economic Development with a salary of $109,000. I keep thinking of the old adage "I'm from the government and I'm here to help". TRACY PETERS Jan 15, 2020 4:54pm You would have thought that by now we would have solved this housing problem … Barney Rubble and Fred Flintstone found out long ago it took mo money than they could afford. Period. Health department investigating 3 possible coronavirus cases in Virginia ‘World’s worst cat’ up for adoption at North Carolina shelter. ‘She’s just a jerk.’

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J.B. Van Hollen JB Van Hollen, Wisconsin’s 43rd Attorney General, was elected on November 7, 2006 and assumed office on January 1, 2007. He was re-elected by an overwhelming majority for a second four year term which he began on January 1, 2011. After serving two terms and accomplishing the goals he set to achieve, JB Van Hollen, elected to not seek a third term. While running for office, JB Van Hollen pledged to “fight crime and restore integrity.” He followed through with his pledge to restore the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) to its intended role as the State’s top law enforcement agency. As attorney for the State of Wisconsin, its officers and agencies, General Van Hollen emphasized integrity and adherence to the rule of law. During a time when partisan politics had increasingly polarized the people of Wisconsin, Van Hollen kept focused on enforcing and following the law as written without regard to the underlying political and public policy debates. He restored an emphasis on the rule of law to the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Professionally-reasoned legal advice and client representation became a hallmark of DOJ’s work. Van Hollen has a long history of working cooperatively with a multitude of agencies at the federal, state, county and local levels which contributed to his success and his ability to implement efficiencies to save tax payer dollars. These efficiencies resulted in millions of dollars being returned to the State Treasury during his time in office. Throughout his historic campaign, Van Hollen identified the backlog of forensic DNA evidence at the state crime labs as the number one priority for DOJ. JB worked hard to find new efficiencies, create partnerships with agencies and train additional DNA analysts to tackle the problems that existed when he took office. Identifying criminals and getting them off the streets was a top priority and by the end of Van Hollen’s first term he had completely eliminated that backlogs existing in the crime labs and worked to maintain those efficiencies throughout his second term in office. Attorney General Van Hollen’s agenda included an unprecedented effort to put sexual predators behind bars that also became his platform when he was elected by his peers nationwide to the office of President of the bipartisan National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) in 2013. Van Hollen worked to protect children against online predators by expanding the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. This Task Force educated parents and children as well as identified and prosecuted those who preyed on children. Since leaving office, JB Van Hollen formed Van Hollen Consulting, LLC and currently serves as a board member for the Cal Ripkin, Jr. Foundation which promotes positive values and exposure to baseball for inner city youth. Prior to becoming Attorney General for the State of Wisconsin, JB was appointed United States Attorney for Wisconsin’s Western District in 2002 where he served until 2005. He also served as a District Attorney in both Ashland and Bayfield Counties subsequent to serving as both an Assistant State Public Defender and an Assistant United States Attorney. Van Hollen graduated from St. Olaf College in 1988 with a degree in Political Science and Economics and earned his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School just two years later. JB lives in Waunakee, Wisconsin with his wife, Lynne, and their two children, Byron and Madelyn. Van Hollen Consulting, LLC 1303 Lawton Court jbvanhollen@tds.net

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You are at:Home»News & Politics»Politics»What Were All Those Protests About? What Were All Those Protests About? By Kayleigh Lavornia on February 19, 2019 Politics, Uni News By Grace Worsley Recently, students of Bangor, in their campaign against the proposed University budget cuts, organised a protest to voice their concerns. The plans to implement up to 60 staff redundancies and the proposed closure of the Chemistry department have attracted widespread concern among the student body. The protest took place on the 18th January 2019 and was intended to display solidarity among staff and students, place pressure on the University to safeguard the jobs at risk, publish full and detailed financial accounts to be openly scrutinised and ensure the protection of the Chemistry department. Arguably the most discussed element of the proposals, the closure of the Chemistry department would see the University reduce the teaching and research of Chemistry over a three year period, until the end of all undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the subject area in 2022. The University has stated that its motivation for proposals such as these is to ensure an annual saving of £5 million, however further analysis of the University Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income and Expenditure undertaken by student protestors has revealed a £20 million surplus following the 2017/18 academic year, something which has led to further confusion among the student body as to exactly why the closure of the Chemistry department is such a central part of the proposed cuts. The £20 million surplus is supposedly a mandatory financial requirement that is the result of the distribution of University costs in other areas. A spokesperson for the University previously stated that Bangor University is facing a significant drop in the population demographic in 18-20 year olds, and that the proposed cuts are a means by which to ensure healthy long term finances, particularly in relation to the reduction of staff members in correlation to the decreasing number of students. In a statement, the Bangor Needs Chemistry campaign gave their opinion on these issues and a notion of the future should the proposals be carried out: ‘While at a glance the proposed reduced ratio of staff to student makes sense, it actually reveals losing diversity of teaching, and with that, potentially also quality of teaching. It would also massively impact those students still on the course during the phasing out period, particularly in the lower years when choosing dissertation supervisors, with an ever narrowing choice. The demographic dip will be resolved in 5-6 years time, with a likely 16.77% increase in the population of 18-20 year olds, therefore the notion of closing the department for the benefit of long term finances doesn’t correlate to government statistics’. The Bangor Needs Chemistry campaign also indicates the impact of the school’s closure on other BU degree programmes: ‘the Chemistry department does run modules for various other degree programmes – for example (but certainly not limited to) environmental science degrees. Many of these require a lab module run by Chemistry. There are numerous other degree programmes that use our lecture staff and/or facilities’. It is clear from the protests conducted by students at Bangor University, and the passion with which many students and alumni speak on the proposed changes to the University, that there remains many avenues to be discussed and resolved. The business case for consultation in relation to the closure of the Chemistry department and the staff redundancies, among other policy changes, is still ongoing, with final arrangements being decided upon later this month. Kayleigh Lavornia Politics Editor 2017-19 Students Launch Campaign As Chemistry Department Faces Axe Bangor University students have started a campaign against the proposed plans to close the Chemistry department in its entirety. The… Chemistry Cuts and the Environment The Chemistry department has been threatened, having knock on effects to other departments throughout the Environmental Sectors of the University.… Student Protest Against Bangor University Cuts… A student protest has been organised to oppose proposed cuts made by Bangor University, it is being organised by two… TIMELINE: Redundancy, Retirement, Cuts & Chaos… Still struggling to grasp the various controversies that have surrounded Bangor University? Seren presents a concise timeline of the events… OPINION: Student Protestors – “We’re not attacking… The protest organised for the 18th of January against the proposed cuts has been accused by a slim number of… REVEALED: What Cuts Could Be Coming To Your School?… This evening, students have been emailed a breakdown of proposed cuts relating to their schools. These business cases provide an…

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Noble buys NJ Residence Inn property George Sell Uploaded 06 August 2018 The Residence Inn by Marriott Secaucus Meadowlands Noble Investment Group US: Noble Investment Group has acquired the Residence Inn by Marriott Secaucus Meadowlands. The all-suite extended stay hotel, which opened in March 2015, is located in Secaucus, New Jersey, three miles from New York City via the Lincoln Tunnel. The company says: "Secaucus, New Jersey is marked by a highly dense and affluent residential population, Class A office and strong leisure demand. The hotel is located within the Plaza at Harmon Meadows, a mixed-use development which features 30 restaurants and shops, a 14-screen AMC Theatre, the 61,000 square foot Meadowlands Exposition Center and more than two million square feet of Class A office space anchored by corporate tenants such as Ernst & Young, Quest Diagnostics and Oracle. In early 2019, the American Dream Mall will enter the market as the largest mall in the United States with 4.8 million square feet of retail. The hotel is also conveniently located to the Meadowlands Sportsplex, which includes MetLife Stadium and Meadowlands Racetrack." Noble principal Ben Brunt said: "The Residence Inn by Marriott Secaucus Meadowlands affords Noble the opportunity to acquire a newly-built asset, well positioned to experience significant future growth." The Residence Inn by Marriott Secaucus Meadowlands features 154 studio, one and two-bedroom suites, each with fully-equipped kitchens. The hotel offers a 24-hour business centre and fitness centre, complimentary hot breakfast, grocery shopping service, laundry facilities and complimentary internet access throughout the hotel. Other amenities of the pet-friendly hotel include an outdoor terrace with fire pit, an indoor, heated pool and BBQ & picnic area. The hotel also offers nearly 1,000 square feet of flexible meeting and board room space. Previous Stateside JV to acquire extended stay hotels Next Adagio launches The Circle aparthotel concept Extended Stay America on target for $275 million in quarterly earnings Remington Hotels to manage Colorado Residence Inn

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Other Books Offerings An Unusual Presentation Copy of J.R.R. Tolkien Writes his Proofreader with a Lengthy Discussion of the Lord of the Rings, Including Criticism of Radio Broadcasts of his Work “A Visit From St. Nicholas” - inscribed by Clement C. Moore Early Engineer’s Book for the Long Island Railroad, 1835-1872 A Dredful Decision, First Edition Accusing the Recently Retired Hamilton of Financial Malfeasance The Pentagon Papers: William Bundy’s Annotated Copy Father of the Erie Canal and Future Governor DeWitt Clinton’s Copy of New York City Ordinances Opposing the African Slave Trade - 1790 New Haven Sermon Dartmouth v. Woodward Landmark Supreme Court Case on Contracts & Corporations “To Secure These Rights”: The Landmark 1947 Report on Civil Rights American Christian Palestine Committee Scrapbook from 1951 Trip to Israel & Arab Lands John Brown, Jr.’s Copy of the “The Legislative Guide … Rules for Conducting Business in Congress; Jefferson’s Manual; and The Citizens’ Manual...” A Scarce Record of Thomas Dorr’s Trial for Treason After His Failed Revolt “Freedom to Serve”: Secretary of Defense’s Copy of Seminal Report on End of Official Racial Discrimination in the Armed Forces Boston Congregational Society Sermons Carrie Chapman Catt’s Book, with editor’s letter promoting the “Co-Workers Edition” – to a noted Chicago Suffrage leader, millionaire and vice chair of Republican Party Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Cabell on the University of Virginia A General Account of … Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Comprehensive Report on New York’s Institutionalized Poor Virginia Brief Supporting Segregation in Companion case to Brown v. Board of Education Extremely Unwoke Women’s Suffrage Views by a Chicago Italian-American Attorney “call us not weeds, we are flowers of the Sea.” [CIVIL WAR]. ANNA BIGELOW. Autograph Manuscript Signed unique calligraphy book with illustrations, pressed sea weeds, and hand lettered four lines of verse titled ‘Sea Weeds.’ New York, N.Y, 1864. 7½ x 10½ on 60-plus pages with 31 moss examples interleaved. Album donated to benefit Union soldiers, presented at the New York Metropolitan Fair held on March 28, 1864 to raise funds to aid sick and wounded Union soldiers. The Metropolitan Fair was organized to benefit the Sanitary Commission, a private relief agency authorized by federal legislation in 1861. The Commission raised an estimated $25 million in revenue (more than $386 million today), and enlisted thousands of volunteers. A New York Times article on Jan. 1, 1864 provided a preview: “Every branch of agriculture, trade, industry and art, will be invited to contribute its choicest and costliest products for exhibition and sale. Musical and dramatic artists will be invited to aid the common cause with their talent and genius. All the material resources of the great City of New-York and of the region directly tributary to it are to be invoked.” The great success of an earlier Chicago fair inspired many women in the North to become involved. The Metropolitan Fair included everything from “Architectural Ornaments” to “Wines & Liquors” to “Wholesale Millinery Goods.” Commemorative and ceremonial objects were often specially designed for the Sanitary fairs. Anna Bigelow’s album of sea mosses may have been displayed in the “Arrangements and Decoration” section. When Northerners attended fairs, donated money or goods, or volunteered their time, they were aiding the soldiers on the front lines. Autographs of leading Americans were often sold; Lincoln even donated an autograph manuscript of the Gettysburg Address to the New York Fair, where it sold for $1,000. For Chicago’s Great Northwestern Fair, Lincoln donated his original signed draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, with an accompanying letter stating his “desire to retain the paper, but if it shall contribute to the relief or comfort of the soldiers, that will be better.” The elaborately hand lettered and decorated title page of this album bears a small signature “Ellsworth” and “819 Broadway.” Henry W. Ellsworth is listed in New York’s Manual of the Board of Education as a penmanship instructor at School No. 47 on Twelfth Street, between Broadway and University Place (p. 295). There is also an inscription “Drawn by E. W. Gandy, 1864” at the top of the front free endpaper. All edges gilt. Elaborately gilt stamped brown morocco gift binding with white silk linings, with gilt title “Sea Mosses” at front board, and “Album” at spine. A bit chipped top of spine. Internally, a bit marked at the silk linings. The plates in very good condition, with the each sea moss plate a delicate floral arrangement. Front cover detached. Some soiling and foxing.

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https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/community/article/Rec-Notes-Jazz-it-up-preschool-music-and-more-13948941.php Rec Notes: Jazz it up, preschool music and more Published 7:53 pm EDT, Monday, September 15, 2014 The Shelton Parks & Recreation Department is offering the following classes at the Community Center, 41 Church Street. Pre-register in person; cash or check only. For information, call 203-925-8422 (main line), or 203-331-4120 (information/cancellation). Pilates — Wednesdays starting Sept. 17, 6-7 p.m., eight weeks, $45. Little Kickers — For ages 4-5, Thursdays, 10-11 a.m., starting Sept. 18, eight weeks, $90. Little Kickers — For ages 4-5, Fridays, 5-6 p.m., starting Sept. 19, eight weeks, $90. No class Oct. 31. Banging to the Beat — For ages 4-7, Mondays, 5-5:30 p.m. starting Sept. 22, eight weeks, $90. No class Oct. 13. Guitar — For ages 8-13, Mondays, 5:15-5:45 p.m., starting Sept. 22, eight weeks, $135. No class Oct. 13. Body Sculpting — Mondays and Wednesdays, starting Sept. 22, 8:30–9:30 am, eight weeks, $58. No class Oct. 13. Hoop Fitness — For ages 6–10, Tuesdays, 4:45-5:45 p.m., starting Sept. 23, eight weeks, $45. No class Nov. 11. Lil’ Dragons Karate — Tuesdays, 9:30-10 a.m., starting Sept. 23, eight weeks, $50 plus $25 for uniform. No class Nov. 11. Piano — For ages 8-13, Tuesdays, 6-6:30 p.m., starting Sept. 23, eight weeks, $180. No class Nov. 11. Animal Encounters — For ages 2-5 with caregiver, Wednesdays, 9:15-10 a.m., starting Sept. 24, $48. Jump Bunch — For ages 4-6, Wednesdays, 5-5:55 p.m. starting Sept. 24, eight weeks, $48. Music & Movement — For ages 1-5 with caregiver, Wednesdays, 10–10:45 a.m., starting Sept. 24, six weeks, $60. Zumba Kids — For ages 5-12, Thursdays, 5-5:45 p.m., starting Sept. 25, eight weeks, $35. Jazz It Up — For ages 6-10, Saturdays, 9:45-10:30 a.m., starting Sept. 27, eight weeks, $64. No class Nov. 8. Preschool Music — For ages 2-5, with caregiver, Saturdays, 9-9:30 a.m., starting Sept. 27, eight weeks, $90. Music Explorations — For ages 5-8, Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m., starting Sept. 27, eight weeks, $108. Zumba Toning Fusion — Saturdays, 8-9 a.m., starting Sept. 27, eight weeks, $45. No class Oct. 4. Tai Chi — Thursdays starting Oct. 2; beginner, 7:05-8:05 p.m., Intermediate, 6-7 p.m.; eight weeks, $48. Pottery — For ages 9-14, Saturdays, 10:45-12:15 or 12:30-2 p.m., starting Oct. 4, eight weeks, $76. Kiddie Clay — For ages 4-8, Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m., starting Oct. 4, eight weeks, $51. Even more at cityofshelton.org.

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> Bid to protect scuttled Scapa Flow World War I wrecks Bid to protect scuttled Scapa Flow World War I wrecks By Kenny Smith - 22nd February 2019 A diver exploring a section of mast from a German battleship in Scapa Flow (Photo: Bob Anderson) One hundred years ago, the German High Seas Fleet was scuttled at Scapa Flow on Orkney. Now, a century later, a consultation has been launched seeking views from the public on the designation of the site as a Historic Marine Protected Area (HMPA). The consultation was announced this week by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at Scotland’s International Marine Conference 2019, hosted in Glasgow by Marine Scotland. Historic Environment Scotland (HES), who advise Scottish Government on the designation of historic MPAs, has recommended that the Scottish Government recognise and protect this hugely important part of Scotland’s wartime heritage with Historic Marine Protected Area status. Historic MPAs aim to preserve marine historic assets of national importance, so that they can be protected, valued and understood. Orkney has one of the most outstanding collections of First and Second World War naval wreckage remains, both above and underwater. Second World War blockship Emerald Wing at Churchill Barrier 2 (Photo: Scapa Flow 2013 Marine Archaeology Survey / Paul Sharman) Since 2001, the remains of three battleships and four cruisers of the German High Seas Fleet scuttled in Scapa Flow in 1919 have been protected as scheduled monuments. The change to a Historic MPA is a more appropriate way to manage this fragile part of our history. Philip Robertson, deputy head of designations at HES, said: ‘Scapa Flow is an internationally significant heritage asset which attracts visitors from all over the world. ‘The launch of this consultation follows extensive public engagement with stakeholders over the past few years regarding Scapa Flow, from our online survey to meetings with those who live and work in and around the site. We have also been working closely with Orkney Islands Council on the way forward. ‘It’s important that the public have their say in how best to manage the site for the future, balancing the protection of Orkney’s important wartime heritage while taking account of other interests, including the importance of the harbour to Orkney’s sustainable economic growth. ‘We want to promote access to Scapa’s heritage and the Historic MPA will help to ensure that people enjoy marine heritage responsibly. ‘I’d like to encourage everyone with an interest in Scapa Flow to take this opportunity to share their views about our nation’s priceless marine heritage.’ The array of underwater archaeological remains at Scapa Flow includes wrecks from June 1919 when, as part of the Armistice agreement at the end of the First World War, Germany had to surrender most of its fleet. Wreck of the light cruiser Brummer (Photo: Dr Chris Rowland / Shiptime Project) A total of 74 ships of the German High Seas Fleet arrived in Scapa Flow for internment. On 21 June 1919, under the mistaken belief that peace talks had failed, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter gave the command to scuttle the entire fleet at Scapa Flow. A total of 52 ships went to the seafloor, making it the greatest loss of shipping ever recorded in a single day. A major resource for salvage from 1919 to the 1970s, nowadays the wrecks of the German High Seas Fleet are a significant heritage asset, attracting visitors from all over the world and contributing to the economy of Orkney. Recent survey work by HES and their partners on Orkney has shed new light on how much survives underwater. The research shows a hugely diverse range of archaeological material on and in the seabed and that just like landward archaeological sites, this fragile heritage is prone to deterioration and decay. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: ‘Marine protected areas are an undoubted success story. In the last seven years the network has doubled and they now account for more than a fifth of Scotland’s Seas. It is important that we conserve sites of historic interest and the public are able to have a say on how we do this. ‘Scapa Flow is clearly a very important part of Scotland’s maritime history, particularly during the World Wars. As we move towards the 2020 Year of Coasts and Waters, it is right that appropriate steps are taken to ensure this wartime heritage is preserved in a way that we can enjoy, remember and understand it responsibly.’ To view the full designation report, and to take part in the consultation, visit the HES website. German High Seas Fleet, historic environment scotland, Historic Marine Protected Area, Nicola Sturgeon, orkney, Scapa Flow, scottish, Scottish government, ships, Dundee designer to fly Scottish flag on Netflix A Dundee born contemporary womenswear designer Dr Hayley Scanlan is set to hit our screens in the much talked about Next in Fashion TV show. Read More Celtic Connections comes to an end this weekend Europe’s largest winter music festival, Celtic Connections, comes to an end this weekend. Read More

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Industry execs debate Netflix pros and cons at Rotterdam's Reality Check conference Source: IFFR Reality Check day one. The European film market is an increasingly challenging environment due to a surplus of content, but is the disruption caused by deep-pocketed SVoD companies such as Netflix and Amazon helping or hindering the industry? That question regularly entered discussion during the first day of Reality Check, International Film Festival Rotterdam’s new conference exploring the transforming landscape of film distribution. It’s not news that a surplus of film content is flooding the European market, but the industry continues to be challenged by the sheer number of releases. In France, up to 700 films were released in cinemas in 2017. The number in the UK was close to 900. “The problem is the volume of films that are being programmed. Does every film belong in the cinema?” asked Bobby Allen, senior vice president of content at arthouse steaming service MUBI, who was hosting a panel on the necessity of curation. His SVoD service curates a selection of 30 arthouse films every month for its subscriber base, with each release staying on the platform for 30 days – essentially a new film a day. He asserted that special interest models, such as MUBI’s curated arthouse approach or IFFR’s festival-based service IFFR Unleashed - which is launching fully at the festival this week - were a way to offer appropriate platforms for quality arthouse content. But can services such as the deep-pocketed Netflix and Amazon co-exist in the marketplace agreeably with their more indie competitors? David Grumbach, chairman of French distributor and sales agent Bac Films, said that a big money deal with Netflix could be short-termism and a more traditional approach could pay off in the long term. He used the example of his company’s relationship with director Paolo Virzì to illustrate the point. Grumbach pointed out that Bac could have sold Virzì’s 2013 feature Human Capital to Netflix, but opted instead to do a series of deals with local distributors in various territories, many of which found success with the title. In turn, those distributors, as well as the exhibitors who had success with the film, were then receptive to Virzi’s next two features - the bigger budgeted Like Crazy and The Leisure Seeker - and as such his company were able to secure bigger deals on those titles. Grumbach commented that they would never have had such sales success with Like Crazy and The Leisure Seeker if Human Capital had been solely on Netflix. Grumbach also pointed to another Bac sales title, Léa Mysius’s feature debut Ava, which premiered in the Critics’ Week strand of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The film has performed disappointingly in a sales sense, securing only a handful of deals, but had travelled to festivals around the world, which he said has “established the reputation of the filmmaker”, and that he was confident that her future projects would perform better. That journey would not have been possible if he had done a rights deal with an SVoD service. Bobby Allen chimed in to note that the title, which played on MUBI in December, had performed “extraordinarily” on the platform, becoming the most viewed film in the streaming service’s history, showcasing that Ava continues to have a life. Algorithm issues Allen said that the algorithmic approach to content taken by SVoD companies, rather than a more curated approach, had “distorted” the film industry and that the way platforms hoovered up so much content worldwide was driving up prices. “They buy loads, put it out there and see what works,” he continued. “Algorithms flatten out taste and you end with the most mainstream, accessible content rising to the top.” “Netflix is controlling so much taste,” warned filmmaker Dan Schoenbrun. “It’s very scary the idea that an algorithm can tell you what the best film is. There’s no discussion of what traditional curation means – enriching culture, challenging people, giving people a sense of their place in the world.” Schoenbrun referenced the recently released Netflix original Bright, which was widely derided by critics but celebrated by Netflix as a big success on the platform. “They said they’re more powerful than critics now – you can feel the commercial throttle,” he claimed. Source: Netflix Allen also highlighted Amazon’s blanket offer to films at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival to take their SVoD rights for a set amount of money detailed in a one-page info sheet given to all attending delegates. Since then, the offered amount for European films has decreased significantly. “It’s a very small commitment for them and maybe says something about how they curate with these algorithms. It challenges everyone who is interested in auteur cinema,” he claimed. Speakers also vocalised reticence around the idea of algorithms playing into production. In her keynote speech opening the event, Daniela Elstner, CEO of French sales agent Doc & Film, said: “I personally do not want to give in and leave my work to a business orientated machine that tells me which algorithm is the best one to make money. Culture can only survive if there are enough of us believing in it.” “I won’t change the films I make [based on data], I produce movies I like to watch myself,” commented Bertrand Faivre from French-UK production house The Bureau. ”As a creator I won’t make data-based creative decisions but I’ll be very happy to conduct date-based negotiations.” Pitching in from the audience, Daniela Elstner also detailed a mixed experience with Netflix after securing a world rights deal with the company for her documentary Strong Island. She noted that the lack of European distribution had meant the film “did not exist for the European public” but that in the US Netflix had invested a significant amount into P&A and an awards campaign, which had eventually ended with the film recently being Oscar-nominated. While this was an obvious positive, the lack of exposure for the project and its filmmaker in Europe had left her not knowing “whether to laugh or cry”, and she had suggested to director Yance Ford that he should look for a traditional model (rather than further collaborating with Netflix) on his next project so that he could build up his reputation on the other side of the Atlantic. Speaking on a panel later in the day, Uzma Hasan from UK-based production outfit Little House Productions took a positive view of the Netflix proposition. She said that following a deal she completed with Netflix for world rights to her company’s 2016 horror title FirstBorn she had been able to track the film’s subsequent success. “The really powerful and exciting thing about having sold a film to Netflix is that it’s been on [the platform] for a year now and people are still watching it,” she said. Both panels highlighted that the lack of available data, such as viewer figures, from a Netflix or Amazon release, was an issue. However, Hasan claimed that it has been possible for her company to mine some of its own data from the film’s release. “We discovered through social media that the film was doing amazingly well with audiences in Asia and that it had a huge following there, including fan websites. To have a tiny micro-budget British horror film be able to reach those people is incredibly powerful – it showed we were connecting with people globally. Netflix is discovering new fan bases.” Bertrand Faivre pointed out that data was a precious commodity for these companies and it was in their interest to monopolise it. “Their data is their asset, they would not share it,” he said, adding that the film industry should be looking to produce its own data studies on a European level. According to Isabel Davis, head of international at the British Film Institute (BFI), national organisations such as the BFI were already working on similar projects, “There is a concerted effort to assess statistics, a move towards coming up with proxies that will allow some form of intelligence to be gathered.” “We’ve had data ever since the film industry started and everyone ignored it,” commented Hasan. ”These conversations have been going on for a very long time. Hopefully [Netflix and Amazon] have accelerated the fact that data is really important and can be used intelligently.” Tomorrow (Jan 29), day two of Reality Check will include an in-depth discussion about how to harness data as well as a panel on how to attract new and diverse audiences. Read more: The latest Rotterdam coverage ‘The Evening Hour’: Rotterdam Review The grandson of a preacherman plies his trade in an opioid-afflicted West Virginia town

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Seabrook reaches zero raise contract deal with unions By Angeljean Chiaramida news@seacoastonline.com SEABROOK�� Selectmen announced Monday the successful negotiation of contracts with three of the town�s employee unions, which include no raises during the current fiscal year. Selectman Aboul Khan and Selectwoman Theresa Kyle had nothing but good things to say about the collective bargaining experience this year with members of the Seabrook Employee Association, the Seabrook Firefighters Association and the Seabrook Police Association. Kyle said the negotiations were �remarkable� because all involved were thinking about what was best for the town and its residents and not just their own paychecks. Khan added that the union members understood the selectmen were looking at a �very tight� spending scenario as they were putting together the fiscal 2020 budget and worked with officials. According to Town Manager Bill Manzi, the board and the union negotiators spent, �hours and hours and hours,� at the collective bargaining table to come to agreements that offered a �true zero� for raises in 2020, and modest raises after that. The board and Manzi encourage voters to approve the three contracts that will be on the March 10 warrant, saying the terms are in the best interest of the town. In addition, the board is hoping the contracts� terms will prevent town employees from leaving to assume jobs in other communities that pay more, as has happened in recent years. The largest of the town�s unions, the SEA�s last approved contract expired in 2018, meaning no across the board salary increases were given. Manzi said this new contract, if approved, would run for one year from April 2020 to March 2021. It provides no across the board raises during all of 2020 adding $0 to the budget or this year�s tax rate. As of Jan. 1, 2021, he said, all SEA members would get a 50 cents per hour raise, at a cost of $19,157 through March 31 of that year. The SPA�s previous contract also expired in 2018, with no across the board increase since then. The proposed contract also offers no raises in 2020, with a $0 impact on the budget or this year�s tax rate, Manzi said. In Jan. 2021, officers would get a 2.5 percent salary increase, at the cost of $31,376 through March 31 of that year. The SFA�s contract is the only multi-year contract proposed, running from April 2020 through March 2023. It also includes no across the board raises in 2020, having zero impact on the budget and this year�s tax rate. In fiscal 2021 and 2022, the only raises relate to educational stipends allotted to dispatchers who achieve certificates. That would be $2,970 each year. For the first three months of 2023, firefighters would receive 3 percent raises at a cost of $16,200.

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STW in India On-Going projects in India STW in USA On-Going Projects in USA Sudarshan Dec 09 Sudarshan Oct 10 Sudarshan Apr 11 Sudarshan Sep 12 Sudarshan Jan 13 Sudarshan May 13 Ujjain 2012 MDB Newsletters India's contribution Seed the World (STW) is a nonprofit foundation. It was founded on the belief that individuals can make a difference in the global village by helping others help themselves to obtain essentials such as food, shelter and education. A View from the other side (part-1) Tuesday, 01 April 2003 A view from the other side (Part-2) Wednesday, 02 April 2003 A view from the Other side (Part-3) Thursday, 03 April 2003 A view from the other side (part-4) Friday, 04 April 2003 A view from the other side (part-5) Saturday, 05 April 2003 Wise Stories View from other side Anti Hindu Seed the World is a U.S. based organization established in October 1996 in the state of Michigan. It is a 501 (c) (3) Foundation, tax deductible in the U.S.A., with federal tax ID #38-3333-880. © 2020 Seed the World

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$500 million ICO for Macau based cryptocurrency casino By Carl Wright, December 19, 2017 New South Wales hospitals accepting donations tied to poker machines Hospitals in New South Wales are increasingly taking offers of large monetary donations from local establishments that receive revenue from their poker machines. In recent years, NSW’s hospitals have accepted over $1.3 million in cash donations gifted from local poker venues’ and pubs’ machines known as “pokies”. Most recently, the Fairfield Hotel promised some $2.6 million to organizations, with $500,000 of that money going to the Fairfield Hospital. These donations have come under scrutiny however, as the pokie establishments are claiming that the growing demand for donations justifies their requests to acquire extra machines. Considering the circumstances, many charities have begun rejecting donations tied to the venues; claiming that the public hospital system is supporting a gambling scheme that increasingly benefits from donations, using loopholes to bypass strict gambling laws. Though the donations are offered to the hospitals and community organizations under the NSW government’s Local Impact Assessment scheme, its intention to offset the harm of concentrating more machines within community is now receiving backlash. Locals are displeased that the cash-strapped charities are essentially expanding the profits of the so-called pokie venues due to the long term acquisition of new machines. Within the last three years, hospitals within the region have received as many as 18 donations. This is nearly a four-fold increase compared to the previous three years. The biggest scrutiny has fallen on St George Hospital, as it has been the most frequent recipient of the pokie venues’ donations. One of the most recent donations to the sum of $30,000 to a local cancer unit gave the club Dooleys Waterview the go-ahead to acquire 20 new machines to match the considerable donations. For fear of becoming a “pokie saturated” community, some organizations, including the Salvation Army, have voiced opinions of potential unwanted side effects within the community caused by the encouragement of gambling. A recent statement from the Salvation Army said that the organization “does not support any conditional donations that utilizes our brand and reputation to increase the presence of gambling in our community.” Though the development of new machines has been down, an incredible $80 billion was pumped through the state’s poker machines between 2015 and 206 – a nearly $7 billion increase from years prior. Bankruptcy trustee to head Henderson casino The Nevada Gaming Commission has recently approved a bankruptcy trustee to take over operations of a Henderson based casino just outside Las Vegas City limits known as the Klondike Sunset Casino. The newly managed casino will be able to provide 50 new jobs to the local community. The emergency meeting saw a unanimous vote to ok the trustee with management rights or the recently renovated all-slots property would have seen foreclosure. Las Vegas attorney Brian Shapiro, an expert in bankruptcy law, received full-scale approval to head and continue operations of the property in question. The Klondike Sunset Casino sits on 2.2 acres of property near Boulder Highway and has remained popular among locals. The result comes from a petition set in motion by Shapiro to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to continue operations of the casino in conjunction with the property’s owner, Bruce Familian. Ultimately, the decision might be to sell the property at auction which would be decided in advance with the property owner. The casino first opened its doors in 1989, and closed in 2014 when its former owner died. The property was then newly acquired by Familian and a partner, through their company, Nevada Gaming Partners. Eight months later the casino was reopened with a completely refurbished interior. Back in 2016, regulators were impressed with the quick turn-around largely due to Familian being an 18 year veteran in the gaming industry. Unfortunately, due to Familian’s wife’s involvement in the licensed medical marijuana industry, Familian himself was unable to obtain the appropriate licenses for his casino. The Klondike reopened in August 2016 under Chapter 11 bankruptcy in order to protect its assets less than three months after the reopening. This filing was later overturned into a Chapter 7 liquidation due to a dispute among creditors over Familian’s operation of the casino property in question. According to Nevada law, Chapter 7 bankruptcy allows for the continued operation of establishments, including casinos, while steps taken to sell are underway. Public auction of the Klondike has been scheduled to take place just before the end of the year. $500 million initial coin offering for Macau based cryptocurrency casino Dragon Corp is pioneering risk-taking by making a record setting initial coin offering. The company, led by Chris Ahmad, plans to initiate a $500 million ICO to fund a new floating cryptocurrency casino the size of the legendary MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The autonomous region of Macau has become South Pacific Asia’s most famous gambling destination due to its plethora of mega-casinos on the famed Cotai Strip. Since gambling is illegal in China, Ahmad’s intentions to invest in Macau are more than practical. With the region bouncing back in revenue after recent corruption crackdowns, Macau is seeing a continued high global demand for gambling establishments. Its competitor, Las Vegas, is seeing stagnant growth in comparison to the mega-resorts of Macau. With the recent benchmark set by the value of a single Bitcoin surpassing $10,000 dollars, cryptocurrencies seem to be more than just a trend. Though the brand names like the aforementioned stand out, thousands of crypto currencies currently compose the market. Despite China’s ban on gambling and due to the fact that Macau is technically a part of China, gamblers to the casino hotspot must pass their money through junket companies that can provide them with gambling chips. These junket companies often take high transaction fees for gamblers to deposit and withdraw money. Dragon Corp functions as one of these junket companies and their announced ICO will fund part of the floating casino’s construction. The expected casino is estimated to cost some $300 million with construction expected to be ready by 2020. However, investors in the ICO won’t be purchasing stake in the casino, and instead will use the currency would as gambling tokens within the casino itself. The value of the chips can potentially increase exponentially based on the current cryptocurrency markets. Unfortunately Dragon Corp. has not been without its problems. It has faced corruption allegations in the past including links to convicted mobsters the likes of Wan Kuok-koi (he crashed a signing ceremony party recently). Projections to go ahead with the acquisition remain positive however, and we might just bear witness to the world’s first floating cryptocurrency casino in Macau. Carl Wright With over 15 years in copywriting, Carl is a content generating messiah when it comes to online gambling. He's also a frequent player of most casino games, making him your go-to man for money saving tips and effective strategies for beating the house.

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The digital resource for Henry William Ravenel, a preeminent naturalist in nineteenth-century America. An interactive database of 18th-century romantic poetry in musical form. The complete online resource for scholarship to the life and works of Edmund Spenser. Throughout the Center for Digital Humanities' short history, our faculty and staff have developed numerous projects, many of which are listed below. These initiatives feature a range of technologies, have fostered innovative uses of technology in the classroom, and have helped faculty, staff, and students across the campus explore possibilities created by digital humanities. Ghosts of the Horseshoe is a mobile augmented reality application that endeavors to make visible the largely unacknowledged history of slavery that is responsible for the physical site of USC's historic Horseshoe, or what was South Carolina College (SCC). The Humanities Gaming Initiative facilitated the exploration and development of humanities-based gaming across diverse technical platforms at the University of South Carolina. Manuscriptlink is a powerful collaborative research tool for librarians, teachers, and scholars worldwide. The digital resource for scholarship on the scientific pursuits and history surrounding Henry William Ravenel, a native of South Carolina and preeminent naturalist in nineteenth-century America. Romantic-Era Lyrics is an interactive database that houses scans and recordings of 18th-century romantic poetry as it was presented in its original time, in musical form. Spenser Online, a collaboration between Cambridge University, Washington University, St. Louis, and the CDH, is the complete online resource to support the reading, discussion, and enjoyment of scholarship pertaining to the life and works Edmund Spenser. A companion website for the release of Van Gogh: The Life, a new biography by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, authors of the Pulitzer-Prize winning biography of Jackson Pollock.

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Ronald Foster, 77, passed away July 29, 2017. He resided in Colorado Springs for 5 years after living in Vista, California for over 50 years. Ron was born January 10, 1940 in Midland, Michigan to Donald and Marguerite Foster (nee Muter). Ron had a twin and was the fourth of five boys born to the Fosters. Ron and Gay wed on June 1, 1963 in Vista, California. With much prayer and trepidation, they anxiously moved to Colorado Springs 5 years ago to live with four of their six grandchildren. Ron enjoyed watching or talking San Diego Padres baseball with all he met. He loved to fish and had an appreciation for the Los Angeles Lakers. Ron was a longtime member of Hope Church in Vista, California for all his years in California, and considered Hope Church his home, even while living in Colorado. After joining the Navy to see the world, he was promptly stationed in Phoenix, Arizona. He recalled his stint in the Navy with great fondness. Ron is survived by his wife, Gay Foster; his children: Steve (Iva) Foster, Melissa (Ken) Paulson, Jeni (Pete) Spiegel, and Chad Foster; his last remaining sibling, Floyd “Red” Foster; his grandchildren: Nicole (Phil) Matherly, Bryce Paulson, Megan, Haley, Samantha, and Nathanael Foster; his great grandchildren: Kyndle and Paisley Matherly; extended family: Tom (Judy) Foster, Sandy (Randy) Holcomb, Mike (Liana) Foster, Mary Kay (Charles) McCarty, Brian Foster, John (Brianna) and Kyle Kohlenberg, JoAnn (Dave) and Brennen, Braden, and Holden Casey, Gary (Candy) Kann; and his “fake son” Jeff Romine. He was preceded in death by his parents; and brothers: Chet, Ken, and twin Donald. A celebration of life service will be held at Hope Church, followed by a reception. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to: Hope Church, 1755 Thibodo Road, Vista, California 92081.

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Consulate of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in Singapore The Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Consulate is a diplomatic mission in Singapore and is appointed by the Embassy of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the region. Below you will find the contact details of the consulate as well as the name of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines consul serving in Singapore. Contact details of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Consulate in Singapore Addres: Consulate of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in Singapore - 9 Raffles Place, 58th Floor, Republic Plaza - Singapore 048619 hon.consulate@svg.sg www.svg.sg Consul: Philippe A. May - Honorary Consul Tue - Fri 14.30 - 16.30 The Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Consulate in Singapore is a lower level diplomatic representative office appointed by the Embassy of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in Singapore and is lead by Philippe A. May - Honorary Consul of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to Singapore. Type of Consulate Some Saint Vincent and the Grenadines consulates in Singapore are honorary consulates and do not handle visa or passport matters. Inquire the consulate in Singapore directly or visit the official website of the consulate www.svg.sg Consular Appointment Before you visit the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines consulate in Singapore, make sure that you first check if you need an appointment. For worldwide travel insurance including Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Singapore , click here Important notices related to consular matters - For Saint Vincent and the Grenadines visa applications, passports for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and other consulate matters related to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines please contact the consulate in Singapore directly by telephone +65 9698 1680 or email hon.consulate@svg.sg - In Singapore you will find consulates of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in Singapore. - Many other countries such as Ivory Coast, Botswana, Samoa, Iceland, Estonia, Comoros, Tuvalu, Papua New Guinea, Luxembourg, Cape Verde and more hold appointed consular departments in Singapore. www.singapore-consular.com - This is not the official website of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Consulate in Singapore. This website is in no way or form affiliated with the consular department of the consulate in Singapore. If you have any requirements for consular services you need to contact the consulate of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in Singapore directly.

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Pakistani judges rule court in Musharraf case was 'unconstitutional' - annuls death sentence © EPA-EFE People shout slogans during a protest against the sentencing to death of former President Pervez Musharraf in Peshawar on December 24. A Pakistani tribunal has ruled that the formation of a special court that has handed former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a death sentence was "unconstitutional." It was not immediately clear whether the January 13 ruling by the Lahore High Court would automatically nullify Musharraf's death sentence on treason charges. Musharraf ruled Pakistan between 1999 and 2008 and is currently receiving medical treatment in the United Arab Emirates. The 76-year-old is the first military ruler to stand trial in Pakistan, where the military maintains a strong influence. He was sentenced to death in absentia by a special court in December on treason charges stemming from his imposition of a state of emergency in 2007. Musharraf has slammed the case against him as a "vendetta," while the military accused the court of ignoring legal processes and defended Musharraf's patriotism. Prime Minister Imran Khan's government also questioned the fairness of the trial and said it had found "gaps and weaknesses" in the sentence. Comment: It's clear now: Lahore High Court (LHC) has annulled the death sentence handed to former president Pervez Musharraf, ruling that a special court which found him guilty of high treason was unconstitutional, according to a government law officer. Following the LHC ruling, the ex-president is now a "free man," Ishtiaq A. Khan, Additional Attorney General of Pakistan, who represented the government in the case, told AFP. The whole process against Musharraf - including the creation of a special court - was deemed to be void. LHC "has declared everything from the initiation of the complaint and its conclusion unconstitutional," Khan said, as cited by Reuters. Earlier in the day, Musharraf's lawyer Azhar Siddique told the media outside the court that the judges have "nullified everything" against his client. A provision to hang Musharraf's body in front of parliament for three days, should he perish before the death sentence could be carried out, was included in the verdict by one of the judges and sparked a backlash. It was branded "unprecedented and despicable" by Law Minister Farogh Naseem, who called for the "mentally unfit" judge to be ousted. ChewyBees · 2020-01-14T13:44:02Z Anything to do with a "court" is prostituional. The "court" serves the Lords and Ladies. It is a fraud served upon the people. In no way shape or form does any man, unless that man through idiocy agrees before witnesses to it, is bound by the court "laws and jesters. That statement doesn't mean the ruler's of the anthill can't just snatch up John Q and do their devilry against him. What it means is that what they do is fraud from the beginning of social contract until revolution. There is a reason behind why there are so many words in English that have double, triple, or more meanings outside the "court" and within. The word "court" itself can mean how many things? This is why the "Court" demands the "plaintiff" "hires" a "lawyer". Because some group of jackhells have to make determination of the application of the words in the text so eventually a sentence can be applied. Some really devious never-been-Semitics-but-claim-to-be thought all of this up, over a long period of time. ChewyBees There are? well, at least were, some good lawyers though? Pliny the Elder's remains found by pompeii, researchers believe Head of Russia's largest political party expelled after threatening journalists & humiliating local firefighter Astronomers discovered wave-shaped gaseous structure in our galaxy "Sort of like we are 'surfing the wave.'" Ain't that something . . .

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All About Solar Storms by Jonathan O'Callaghan, 3 May 2012 While we have a good understanding of the Sun’s atmosphere and its solar storms, there remains some mysteries that are still unsolved. Like the Earth the Sun has an atmosphere, but the two are incredibly different. The Sun’s is thousands of miles thick and has a variety of changeable layers that have different compositions and characteristics. Solar storms are violent outbursts of activity on the Sun that interfere with the Earth’s magnetic field and inundate our planet with particles. They are the result of outpourings of energy from the Sun, either in the form of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) or a solar flare. The former is a release of a large amount of material, mostly plasma, from the Sun while the latter is a sudden release of electromagnetic radiation commonly associated with a sunspot. While no direct connection has been found between CMEs and solar flares, both are responsible for causing solar storms on Earth. The reason why these two events occur is due to the Sun’s atmosphere and its turbulent interior, with all of its components playing a part in bathing our planet in bursts of energy. The lowest part of the atmosphere, the part directly above the Sun’s radiative zone, is the photosphere. This is the visible part of the Sun that we can see, it is 300-400 kilometres (180-240 miles) thick and has a temperature of about 5,530 degrees Celsius (9,980 degrees Fahrenheit). This produces a white glow although from Earth this usually appears yellow or orange due to our own atmosphere. As you travel through the photosphere away from the Sun’s core the temperature begins to drop and the gases become cooler, in turn emitting less light. This makes the photosphere appear darker at its outer edges and gives the Sun an apparently clearly defined outer boundary, although this is certainly not the case as the atmosphere extends outwards much further. Solar storms are responsible for auroras on Earth and other planets. Once you pass through the photosphere you enter the chromosphere, which is about 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) thick. The temperature rises to about 9,730 degrees Celsius (17,540 degrees Fahrenheit), surpassing that of the photosphere. The reason for this is that the convection currents in the underlying photosphere heat the chromosphere above, producing shock waves that heat the surrounding gas and send it flying out of the chromosphere as tiny spikes of supersonic plasma known as spicules. The final layer of the Sun’s atmosphere is the corona. This huge expanse of material can stretch as far as several million miles outwards from the surface. Oddly, the temperature of the corona averages 2 million degrees Celsius (3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit), far hotter than that of the photosphere and chromosphere. The reason for this is unknown; as far as we are aware, atoms tend to move from high to low temperature and not vice versa, so the process of material moving out of the Sun beyond the photosphere is not understood. On the photosphere, dark and cool regions known as sunspots appear in pairs as a result of intense magnetic fields. The magnetic fields, caused by gases moving in the Sun’s interior, leave one sunspot and enter another. Sunspot activity rises and falls on an 11-year cycle, as discussed in the next section. Sometimes clouds of gases from the chromosphere will follow these magnetic field lines in and out of a pair of sunspots, forming an arch of gas known as a solar prominence. A prominence can last up to three months and may extend up to 50,000 kilometres (30,000 miles) above the surface. Once they reach their maximum height they break and erupt, in turn sending massive amounts of material racing outwards through the corona, an event known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). When the sun’s magnetic field is concentrated in sunspot areas, the resultant magnetic field lines can extend and snap, causing a violent explosion on the surface of the Sun called a solar flare. At the moment of eruption vast amounts of radiation are emitted into space, which we call a solar storm when it reaches Earth. The particles within a solar storm often interact with particles in the atmosphere of planets in the Solar System, causing fantastic displays of light at their poles as the gases in the planet’s atmosphere are heated by the particles. On Earth we know these as the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere and the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere. Find out more about the Sun in issue 01 of All About Space. Tags: Chromosphere, Coronal Mass Ejection, Flare, Photosphere, Solar Storms, Sun, Telescope

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THEFTS 1820 MIDLAND BLVD.: A white 2007 Ford Mustang valued at $6,500 was reported stolen from Midland Motors. 2419 TOWSON AVE.: Property valued at $600 was reported stolen from D&J Auto Sales. JOHNNY PAUL RELEFORD JR., 30, AND AARON JAMES RELEFORD, 28, BOTH OF FORT SMITH, were arrested after interviews at the Fort Smith Police Department on suspicion of felony second-degree battery, according to a police report. OTHER INCIDENTS/ARRESTS LUCIO NIETO-GALAVIZ, 40, OF FORT SMITH was arrested during a traffic stop near North 41st Street and Grand Avenue on a felony warrant out of Kentucky, according to a police report. MICHAEL DAVIS, 33, OF VAN BUREN was arrested in the 5300 block of Towson Avenue on a felony warrant for a parole violation. NORTH 39TH STREET, 1500 BLOCK: Property valued at $4,000 was reported damaged at an unoccupied house.

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A new bank to fund the private sector Featured A new bank will be set up next year with a capital investment of between Rs. 30 billion and Rs. 35 billion to provide development funding for the private sector, said prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Addressing the annual awards ceremony of the CIMA, he also said the new bank would consist of a treasury, and would have three state banks as partners. The Central Bank governor and the treasury as well as the ADB will join together to negotiate as partners, said the premier. The new bank will eliminate the requirements to simplify the funding of business development and the maintenance of separate offices, he added. The PM went onto say that with the support of the new inland revenue act, the country would be made free of debt. The national debt of Rs. seven trillion will be paid back, he said, adding that he had to worry himself every day, thinking of how to do it as the prime minister, although his parents had taught him not to fall into debt. More in this category: « Ready to support, conditionally, even UNP at LG bodies The Body Shop invites shoppers to play for peace »

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Home » Formula 1 » New rules ‘won’t solve’ F1 says Aussie technical ace New rules ‘won’t solve’ F1 says Aussie technical ace By Mat Coch Saturday 10th August, 2019 - 6:00am Sam Michael believes F1’s 2021 rule changes don’t go far enough Former Williams and McLaren director Sam Michael believes the proposed rules changes for Formula 1 in 2021 don’t go far enough. With a range of technical and commercial changes set to be introduced, including a return to ground effect, it’s poised to be one of the most significant overhauls of the sport since the introduction of overt sponsorship in 1968. But while the changes look set to shake up the order by introducing a degree of uncertainty, Michael believes the sport will quickly revert to its current form as teams find the optimum solution. Having worked in F1 for two decades, rising to Technical Director for Williams, and Sporting Director at McLaren, Michael has a unique insight into the inner workings of the sport, and the hurdles it faces in making sweeping changes. It’s left the Australian suggesting F1 needs to do more than just introduce new aerodynamic rules and tweak the financial model if it is to keep it enticing to new and younger fans. “What they’re trying to do, I think it’s a good thing to do,” Michael told Speedcafe.com. “The move back to ground effect tunnels effectively reduces the amount of downforces created around external facing things like wings, etc. “So I think the objective is good, I’m guessing through their studies that they’ll be able to prove that they have improved the following conditions of the car behind.” It’s been suggested the new rules will see cars lose only 10 percent of their downforce when following another, while current cars lose as much as 50 percent. “If they achieve that, it would be a great outcome,” Michael agreed. “You would then in turn hope that that improves the racing, the ability to overtake or even just follow closely. “There’s obviously some anecdotal evidence from saloon cars and series that don’t have as much downforce so therefore don’t have as much to lose. “If they correctly met their objectives of enabling that following car then I think it will make a really good improvement, but I don’t think it’ll solve it,” he continued. “At the end of the day if those rules are really successful and they beat the engineers in Formula 1, you wouldn’t have engineers in Formula 1. That’s the nature of Formula 1, according to Michael, and the reason why technical change alone will inevitably see the sport return to a comparatively stagnant state. “F1’s got this diametrically opposed objective where you’ve got a technical driven sport,” he reasoned. “The more successful the engineers are, the more boring Formula 1 becomes. It can’t be any other way because that’s their job. “If they went to every race and they weren’t sure of the outcome and their models weren’t good enough, they’d get sacked. “So you’re only left with variables that occasionally we’ll get something slip through like reliability problem, or weather, or drivers; drivers making a mistake or running into you or something like that. “Those sort of external factors are pretty much the only variables they struggle to control. “And by the way, those they even try to model; all the F1 teams have proper sort of Monte Carlo simulation where they calculate the probabilities of different events happening, so they’re even trying to model the things they can’t control. “Unfortunately that means what you’ve got to do, I think in Formula 1, is you’ve got to create scenarios that are equal for everybody but improve the competition so it makes it possible for more people to win. “That’s the thing that I think they’ll struggle with to get that right.” If given charge of the sport, Michael would look to apply the engineer change management mindset to evolve the sport more broadly, though concedes it’d be difficult given teams’ involvement in rule making and their propensity for self interest over the greater good. “There’s two things that you’ll really struggle to get across the line in Formula 1; one is that grid order, because it’s very traditional, it’s been like that since the start of Formula 1, and the other thing is the race distance,” he suggested. “I would definitely consider doing that (reversing the grid). “I would also consider sprint races, potentially dividing them into two, doing what they’ve done here in Supercars where they’ve effectively got a Saturday and a Sunday race, which I personally think is more entertaining. “But again it throws away the traditional grand prix if you like and makes a disconnect right back to the ’50s. “I think if you’re going to keep trying to get young people involved in the sport and keep them entertained, they don’t have the attention span to sit through a 300-kilometre grand prix, they just won’t do it,” he added. “If they do watch it, they’ll watch the start, you’ll only keep them engaged if you have a situation like the German Grand Prix where it’s immediately apparent that this is going to be an unusual grand prix. “So it’s going to be one in 20 (races), the rest of the time they’re just going to turn it off. So the chance of actually get them to turn on the beginning is very low. “I think if motorsports in general and F1 as the pinnacle want to keep attracting a young crowd, they’ve got to do things to keep the attention span. “The challenge is there for all sports. So let’s say (we introduce) reverse grids, and I’d be flexible about it. One of the things that F1 is very good at internally is change. “The whole business model of Formula 1 is change management. “It doesn’t matter if you’re last on the grid or first on the grid, if you’re not changing and improving you’re going to die. “What’s really remarkable about Formula 1, although internally it’s pro-change, by that I mean I get the next new barge board, get the new front suspension, flat out, turn that around, F1 is fantastic at that. “What it is very bad at is actually applying that philosophy to the sport itself, and it’s also really contradictory. “I know why, it’s because the teams at the front don’t want to lose competitive advantage, but if they applied that model to the sport then you would turn the whole thing on its head. “I think if you can bring that actual internal mentality of the F1 teams to the sport, as a whole you’ll transform it within 12 months. “I actually think that if they don’t do that, they have a real long term risk to the entertainment of the sport.” Next Story Bottas has options if given Mercedes snub Previous Story Two generations of Johnsons to share car in Excel enduro More Formula 1 News » Pit lane launch for Haas F1 » VIDEO: Behind the scenes with McLaren » Renault confirms new technical boss's start date » Renault signs Aussie youngster to development academy » Test day reveal for new Alfa Romeo » Release date confirmed for Drive to Survive season two » F1 community gets behind Australian bushfire relief » Racing Point announces season launch date » Ferrari confirms F1 launch location » McLaren and Alonso part ways Speedcafe.com comment policy Comments require approval before being published. 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National Gallery, London Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019 Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance Ann Christopher: If You Stop Asking Questions - - - Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece Danh Vo: Untitled Now: Katie Paterson, Darren Almond, Shona Macnaughton and Lucy Raven Bartolomé Bermejo: Master of the Spanish Renaissance Junya Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion Leo Warner – interview: ‘If you put the technology first, you can end up with very hollow artwork’ Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art This exhibition includes some beautiful and touching examples of artistic hero worship, but the underlying concept is a strained addition to the misleading story of the origin of modern art 17 February – 22 May 2016 by EMILY SPICER The aim of this exhibition, we are told, is to reintroduce an artist who has been woefully neglected in British exhibitions for the past 50 years – to revive the image of an artistic giant. But little more than a third of the works on display are by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). This is because this exhibition isn’t just about Delacroix, but also his influence on the “rise of modern art”. Charting the origin of modern art is a noble and fashionable endeavour, but one that throws a narrow light on the history of art and colours it falsely. The notion of the rise of modern art is one that has preoccupied many curators in recent times and, as a result, many artists from the canon of the past 300 years have been lauded as the first modern artist. Turner, Goya, Manet and Monet are currently among the most popular. It is widely believed that art progressed, and continues to progress, in a linear fashion. One innovation, or artist, leads to another. To a limited extent, this is undeniably true. But if we hope to find the beginnings of modern art, where do we start – in the 19th century, the 18th, the 17th? Or do we go back to the cave paintings of the Ice Age and claim that those dark caverns house the works of the first abstract artists or cubists or fauvists, as the British Museum bizarrely appeared to suggest in an exhibition in 2013 titled Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind. This trend is clearly a hook used by curators to make the past relevant to a modern audience, but that surely underestimates the audience. Are we not capable of appreciating art on its own terms? So what of Delacroix in all this? It wouldn’t hurt to discuss the man himself. He had a keen intellect and a quick wit, and was a complicated, energetic man, equally criticised and revered in his own time. He had little patience for pretence and societal chest-puffing and constantly strived for excellence in his work, right up to his death. Charles Baudelaire, a life-long friend of the painter, wrote: “Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.” In many ways, Delacroix was the very embodiment of Romanticism, although his fiercely individualistic temperament made him reluctant to carry the mantle of chef d’école. Despite this, he admitted: “If by Romanticism they mean the free manifestation of my personal impressions, my effort to get away from the types eternally copied in the schools and my dislike of academic recipes – then I admit, not only that I am a Romantic, but also that I have been one since I was 15.” While he may have shied away from grand accolades, his was the work of a true artist of that movement that pitted itself against the rigid tenets of neoclassicism. And he ardently pursued the grand aims of Romanticism in his work, casting the sublime in shimmering paint and rendering passion and tragedy in sumptuously painted flesh. This exhibition – while omitting some of Delacroix’s greatest works – does allow us to get close to several of his masterpieces, masterpieces that undoubtedly had an impact on later generations of painters, although many are frustratingly represented by reduced copies the artist made of the grander originals. A study of The Death of Sardanapalus (1846), made by Delacroix himself, gives a good sense of the artist’s stunning understanding of colour and flare for dramatic compositions. This copy, looser and more expressive than the first, is a bewildering achievement in its own right but, for whatever reason, the larger original has not made the journey across the Channel from its home in the Louvre. Delacroix’s monumental Barque of Dante is represented here by Manet’s reduced study – a touching ode to the original, which sadly isn’t included here either. Renoir, made a lovingly faithful study of Delacroix’s Jewish Wedding in Morocco around 1875, putting his own impressionist stamp on this iconic piece by ever so slightly shaking loose Delacroix’s contours and adding accents of bright turquoise. But just as Delacroix’s paintings moved Manet, Renoir and even Van Gogh to make versions of his work, Delacroix, too, was as moved by those who had come before him. Veronese, Titian, Rubens, Gainsborough and Velázquez all left an impression on the young artist, which is the way artistic careers often begin. Delacroix’s direct influence on artists such as Gauguin and Cézanne feel exaggerated in the final rooms of this exhibition. Yes, these men, and many like them, revered Delacroix. Cézanne painted a strange little picture where a group of artists, including Monet and Pissarro, praise the ascendant figure of Delacroix as he rises into the clouds. But they owe as much to a host of other artists, including Delacroix’s antithesis, Poussin. And it is difficult to trace any direct influence on Kandinsky and Matisse, although the accompanying text tries to in the most tenuous terms. This exhibition feels like an academic exercise without a convincing thesis. Many of the connections between Delacroix and modern art feel forced and exaggerated, as though an art history student is struggling to flesh out a tired idea about their favourite artist for an end-of-term essay. Shine new light on Delacroix, expose unknown passions and influences, and tell us about his process and innovations, but leave modern art out of it. Delacroix is relevant for many other more compelling reasons. This exhibition, while full of beautiful works is like being invited to Delacroix’s house for tea, only to have to talk to his fan club instead.

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Four-night musical extravaganza Snowlive opens with Stax celebration, Booker T. Jones Booker T. Jones was the leader of the Stax Records house band Booker T. and the MGs. CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. – It takes a former bowling alley to put folks in the right frame of mind. Before it was a musical venue, the Crystal Bay Casino’s Crown Room was a bowling alley. The Brooklyn Bowl is used for bowling and concerts, and since 2010 it’s been the site for Bowlive, 10 nights of music hosted by the trio Soulive, which is accompanied by special guests for each performance. A four-night, Lake Tahoe version of the event began in 2012: Snowlive, which will be held for the second time starting Wednesday, Feb. 20. So strike up the bands. Soulive is a soul and funk trio which is accomplished in many musical styles. Its label is Royal Family Records, managed by Jeff Krasno, the co-founder of Squaw Valley’s annual Wanderlust Festival and whose brother Eric is guitarist for the company’s top two bands, Soulive and Lettuce. Soulive will be accompanied all four nights by the Shady Horns from Lettuce. Soulive’s rhythm section is brothers Alan Evans on drums and Neal Evans on organ. Opening night celebrates soul music and Stax Records, a Memphis studio in the 1960s famous for artists such as Otis Redding, Albert King, Johnny Taylor, Issac Hayes and, most notably, the house band Booker T. and the MGs. Booker T. Jones will headline Wednesday’s show and the featured singer is Orgone’s Niki J. Crawford. Thursday, Feb. 21 is Rock night with Robert Randolph, the Slide Brothers and Big Sam Williams. Friday, Feb. 21 is New Orleans night with Papa Mail, Meters bassist George Porter Jr. and Big Sam Williams. Saturday’s finale features Nicki Bluhm, Papa Mali, George Porter Jr. and surprise guests. A drummer with a distinct, aggressive sound, Evans was asked how he will change his approach each night. “I am going to lay on you,” Evans said, “the big secret: It doesn’t. When I was younger, there was a lot of effort trying to learn these different styles and trying to fit into whatever. As I have gotten older – it could be laziness but I don’t think so – I found my voice. It got to a point where I would listen to my recording and I liked my playing. I realized that’s my voice on the drums. I play other instruments, but on the drums, this is my sound.” Also an engineer and producer with his company Playonbrother, Evans produced On the Spot Trio’s two albums. On the Spot Trio plays the Soul-Stax night’s after-party in the Red Room. On the Spot Trio guitarist Danny Mayer also plays in the Alan Evans Trio, which releases, “Merkaba,” its second album (see review next week in Lake Tahoe Action). “The Crystal Bay Casino is extremely grateful to Soulive and Royal Family Records for allowing us to partake in the second year of what has become one of Lake Tahoe’s premier annual events, Bill Wood, the casino manager, said in a press statement. “The lineup for this year’s Snowlive is outrageous and literally no one knows exactly what the final cast will be from night to night. We can however fill you in on who will be guest starring each night with our favorite funk trio, Soulive.” Continuing with a bowling theme, concert-goers might not pin their hopes on getting walk-up tickets each night. Tickets are available online at HYPERLINK “http://www.crystalbaycasino.com&#8221; http://www.crystalbaycasino.com, by phone at 775.833.6333 or at the Crystal Bay Casino cashier cage. All shows are 21 and over general standing room only and smoke free. Guest appearances subject to change without notice. The fourth annual Bowlive begins March 7 in Brooklyn.

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Newsroom Careers Investors United States About Takeda How can we do more for our patients? Everything at Takeda starts with this question. Learn more Company Information Takeda in the U.S. Worldwide Offices Executive Leadership Our Business Takeda continues its transformation into an agile and innovative global pharmaceutical leader, serving the needs of patients and physicians worldwide. Learn more U.S. Product List Research & Development Our Pipeline Our Stories A selection of stories related to Innovation, Caring and Heritage Learn more Innovation In Their Shoes The Key Elements at the Heart of Our Innovation Partnerships as Catalysts for Innovation Caring Medicine for the World Heritage Keys to Aging Gracefully Takeda's CSR Takeda is committed to creating corporate value by developing outstanding pharmaceutical products and conducting corporate citizenship activities. Learn more Commitment to Community Our Environment Culture of Compliance Open Payments and Transparency Reporting Federal CPSIA State Independent Medical Education Grants Takeda Pricing Philosophy Lobbying & Political Contributions HOME Newsroom News Releases Takeda Announces Intention to Acquire TiGenix News Releases NATPARA Updates Takeda Announces Intention to Acquire TiGenix Expands Takeda’s Late Stage Pipeline and Leadership in Gastroenterology Deal reinforces Takeda’s commitment to patients living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), an area of high unmet medical need Acquisition extends existing collaboration between Takeda and TiGenix to develop and commercialize Cx601 (darvadstrocel) On December 15, 2017, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion recommending marketing authorization for Cx601 for the treatment of complex perianal fistulas in Crohn’s disease, one of the most disabling manifestations of the disease A global, pivotal Phase III trial for U.S. registration has been initiated with investigational medicine Cx601 for the treatment of complex perianal fistulas in patients with non-active/mildly active luminal Crohn’s disease Acquisition would expand Takeda’s late stage gastroenterology pipeline and strengthen presence in the U.S. specialty care market Osaka, Japan, January 5, 2018, 07:00 CET/15:00 JST – Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502) (“Takeda”) today announced its intention to acquire TiGenix NV (Euronext Brussels and NASDAQ: TIG) (“TiGenix”), an advanced biopharmaceutical company developing novel stem cell therapies for serious medical conditions, and as a result has entered into an offer and support agreement with TiGenix which provides for a recommended potential voluntary public takeover bid for TiGenix. The Takeda agreement has the unanimous support of the TiGenix board of directors (including its CEO). The acquisition is a natural extension of an existing partnership agreement between Takeda and TiGenix, which aims to bring new treatment options to patients with gastrointestinal disorders. “As a leader in gastroenterology, Takeda recognizes the complex physical, emotional and social barriers that people living with fistulizing Crohn’s disease experience,” said Andrew Plump, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Takeda. “Limited treatment options exist today and I believe we can be most effective in serving this population by working in collaboration with partners whose unique skill sets allow us to more efficiently explore innovative approaches, including stem cell therapies. I have had the opportunity to work alongside the TiGenix team throughout our collaboration and know that we have shared goals and varied, but complementary expertise. I am thrilled at the prospect of welcoming them as part of our organization.” In July 2016, Takeda and TiGenix entered into an exclusive ex-U.S. license, development and commercialization agreement for Cx601, the leading investigational therapy in TiGenix’s pipeline. Cx601 is a suspension of allogeneic expanded adipose-derived stem cells (eASC) locally administered for the treatment of complex perianal fistulas in patients with non-active/mildly active luminal Crohn’s disease, who have had an inadequate response to at least one conventional or biologic therapy. In December 2017, the CHMP of the EMA adopted a positive opinion recommending a marketing authorization for Cx601 in this indication, the first allogeneic stem cell therapy to achieve this. A decision from the EMA on the marketing authorization for Cx601 is expected in the first half of 2018. Complex perianal fistulas are considered one of the most disabling manifestations of Crohn’s disease and can cause intense pain, infection and incontinence.1, Despite modern and surgical advancements, they currently remain challenging for clinicians to treat and can have a severe impact on the lives of those affected.3 A global, pivotal Phase III trial investigating Cx601 for the treatment of complex perianal fistulas in patients with non-active/mildly active luminal Crohn’s disease has been initiated for U.S. registration. In the U.S., Takeda intends to work with the U.S. FDA to facilitate the development and potential approval of Cx601. Takeda is also exploring the steps required for regulatory filing of Cx601 for patients in Japan, Canada and emerging markets. Through the potential voluntary public takeover bid, Takeda intends to acquire 100% of the securities with voting rights or giving access to voting rights of TiGenix not already owned by Takeda or its affiliates at an acquisition price of EUR 1.78 per share in cash and an equivalent price per American Depositary Share, warrant and convertible bond, representing a transaction value of approximately EUR 520 million on a fully diluted basis. The bid will be subject to certain conditions precedent as further described below. Subject to its fiduciary duties and review of the final bid prospectus, the bid is unanimously supported by TiGenix’s board of directors (including its CEO). Takeda and TiGenix entered into an offer and support agreement confirming TiGenix’s support and the terms and conditions of the bid set forth in this press release. Gri-Cel S.A., holding 32,238,178 TiGenix shares, and its affiliate Grifols Worldwide Operations Ltd., holding 7,189,800 TiGenix shares in the form of American Depositary Shares, have irrevocably confirmed that they will tender their shares and American Depositary Shares into the potential public takeover bid. Transaction terms The acquisition is structured as an all cash voluntary public takeover bid by Takeda with respect to 100% of the securities with voting rights or giving access to voting rights of TiGenix that are not already owned by Takeda or its affiliates. The transaction is subject to the following conditions precedent: (i) the tender into the offer, in aggregate, of a number of securities that, together with all securities owned by Takeda and its affiliates, represents or gives access to 85% or more of the voting rights represented or given access to by all of the outstanding securities on a fully diluted basis as of the end of the first acceptance period, (ii) the absence of a material adverse effect occurring at any time after the date of this announcement, (iii) Cx601 obtaining marketing authorization in the E.U. from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and (iv) the expiration, lapse or termination as appropriate of any applicable waiting periods (including any extensions thereof) under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 in respect of the offer. Following closing of the potential voluntary public takeover bid, Takeda intends to launch a squeeze-out if the applicable conditions for such squeeze-out are met to delist the shares of TiGenix from Euronext Brussels and NASDAQ. After the squeeze-out, TiGenix would become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Takeda. This communication does not constitute a formal notification of a voluntary public takeover bid. In case Takeda would decide to formally launch the voluntary public takeover bid, full details of such public takeover bid will be covered by the prospectus to be filed with the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority and the offer documents which will be available at www.sec.gov. In the event that Takeda would decide not to proceed with the potential voluntary public takeover bid, then Takeda and TiGenix will issue a further public announcement to that effect. Tender offeror Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited Target company TiGenix NV (Euronext Brussels and NASDAQ: TIG) Class of shares to be acquired all outstanding ordinary shares (with the exception of ordinary shares represented by American Depositary Shares); all outstanding American Depositary Shares (each representing 20 ordinary shares); all outstanding warrants to acquire ordinary shares; and all outstanding convertible bonds. Tender offer price EUR 1.78 per share (and an equivalent price per American Depositary Share, warrant and convertible bond) Acquisition amount (Aggregate tender offer price) Approximately EUR 520 million (estimate) * The amount is an estimated amount calculated by multiplying the number of TiGenix’s ordinary shares (on a fully diluted basis and excluding the shares owned by Takeda or its affiliates) by the tender offer price per share. It does not include advisory fees. Funding from existing cash balances Period of tender offer To be determined, subject to regulatory approvals being obtained. Minimum number of shares to be purchased Consummation of the voluntary public takeover bid will occur if a number of securities is tendered that, together with all securities owned by Takeda and its affiliates, represents or gives access to 85% or more of the voting rights represented or given access to by all of the outstanding securities on a fully diluted basis as of the end of the first acceptance period and other customary conditions precedent have been satisfied. Financial advisor to Takeda Centerview Partners UK LLP Legal counsel to Takeda DLA Piper UK LLP DLA Piper US LLP Financial advisor to TiGenix Cowen and Company, LLC Legal counsel to TiGenix Osborne Clarke CVBA Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Overview of TiGenix Romeinse straat 12 box 2, 3001 Leuven, Belgium Eduardo Bravo, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer TiGenix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics from its platforms of allogeneic, or donor-derived, expanded stem cells EUR 27,428,719 and percentage of shares held* Gri-Cel, S.A./Grifols Worldwide Operations Ltd.** Cormorant Asset Management LLC Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG JPMorgan Securities LLC Others: BNP Paribas Investment Partners SA Relationships between Takeda Capital relationship Investee Personnel relationship Transactional relationship (9) Operating results and financial condition for the last three years (consolidated) Accounting period Fiscal year ended December 31, 2016 Fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 Fiscal year ended December 31, 2014 (EUR in thousands) 136,201 79,171 53,921 Net assets per share ( EUR) (3,027) (24,076) (12,563) Net profit/(loss) 3,802 (35,069) (12,990) Net earnings/(loss) per share 0.02 (0.21) (0.08) *Gri-Cel, S.A. and Grifols Worldwide Operations Ltd. holding as per irrevocable undertaking given to Takeda. Cormorant Asset Management holding as per TiGenix Schedule 13G dated February 14, 2017. Cormorant Asset Management liquidation of 129,032 American Depositary Shares as per Cormorant Asset Management’s filing Form 13F (OMB 3235-0006). Percentage of shares is calculated by dividing the respective shareholdings by the number of total shares outstanding of the target company of 274,287,190 as reported on November 30, 2017. **The potential voluntary public takeover bid is supported by Gri-Cel S.A. and its affiliate Grifols Worldwide Operations Ltd. Gri-Cel S.A. and Grifols Worldwide Operations Ltd. have irrevocably confirmed that they will tender their shares and American Depositary Shares in the potential voluntary public takeover bid. Change in ownership before and after acquisition (1) Number of shares already acquired 11,651,778 shares Percentage of voting rights: 4.2% of total shares outstanding (3.9% on a fully diluted basis) (2) Estimated number of shares to be acquired (on a fully diluted basis) 290,288,172 shares*** Percentage of voting rights: 96.1% (planned) (min. bid threshold is 85%) ***Excludes shares already held by Takeda or its affiliates. (1) Governance meeting resolution (2) Support and Offer Agreement signature date (3) Commencement date and settlement date of the tender offer (4) Completion of acquisition To be determined, subject to regulatory approvals being obtained and completion or waiver of any conditions precedents. Takeda Financial Outlook As the completion of the acquisition is expected to occur near the end of Q1 CY2018 or the beginning of Q2 CY2018, Takeda expects minimal impact on its FY2017 earnings. We will incorporate the financial impact in our FY2018 consolidated earnings forecast, which will be announced at the FY2017 year-end earnings conference in May 2018. Kazumi Kobayashi Media in Japan kazumi.kobayashi@takeda.com Elissa Johnsen Media outside of Japan elissa.johnsen@takeda.com Luke Willats Media in Europe luke.willats@takeda.com Takeda’s Commitment to Gastroenterology Gastrointestinal (GI) diseases can be complex, debilitating and life-changing. Recognizing this unmet need, Takeda and our collaboration partners have focused on improving the lives of patients through the delivery of innovative medicines and dedicated patient disease support programs for over 25 years. Takeda aspires to advance how patients manage their disease. Additionally, Takeda is leading in areas of gastroenterology associated with high unmet need, such as inflammatory bowel disease, acid-related diseases and motility disorders. Our GI research & development team is also exploring solutions in celiac disease, advanced liver disease and microbiome therapies. About Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502) is a global, research and development-driven pharmaceutical company committed to bringing better health and a brighter future to patients by translating science into life-changing medicines. Takeda focuses its R&D efforts on oncology, gastroenterology and neuroscience therapeutic areas plus vaccines. Takeda conducts R&D both internally and with partners to stay at the leading edge of innovation. Innovative products, especially in oncology and gastroenterology, as well as Takeda’s presence in emerging markets, are currently fueling the growth of Takeda. Around 30,000 Takeda employees are committed to improving quality of life for patients, working with Takeda’s partners in health care in more than 70 countries. For more information, visit https://www.takeda.com/newsroom/. This press release contains “forward-looking statements.” Forward-looking statements include all statements other than statements of historical fact, including plans, strategies and expectations for the future, statements regarding the expected timing of filings and approvals relating to the transaction, the expected timing of the completion of the transaction, the ability to complete the transaction or to satisfy the various closing conditions, future revenues and profitability from or growth or any assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Statements made in the future tense, and words such as “anticipate,” “expect,” “project,” “continue,” “believe,” “plan,” “estimate,” “pro forma,” “intend,” “potential,” “target,” “forecast,” “guidance,” “outlook,” “seek,” “assume,” “will,” “may,” “should,” and similar expressions are intended to qualify as forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by management of Takeda and TiGenix that are believed to be reasonable, though they are inherently uncertain and difficult to predict. Investors and security holders are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or experience to differ materially from that expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Some of these risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: required regulatory approvals for the transaction may not be obtained in a timely manner, if at all; the conditions to closing of the transaction may not be satisfied; competitive pressures and developments; applicable laws and regulations; the success or failure of product development programs; actions of regulatory authorities and the timing thereof; changes in exchange rates; and claims or concerns regarding the safety or efficacy of marketed products or product candidates in development. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release, and neither TiGenix nor Takeda undertakes any obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, future events or circumstances after the date of the forward-looking statement. If one or more of these statements is updated or corrected, investors and others should not conclude that additional updates or corrections will be made. About TiGenix TiGenix NV (Euronext Brussels and NASDAQ: TIG) is an advanced biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for serious medical conditions by exploiting the anti-inflammatory properties of allogeneic, or donor-derived, stem cells. TiGenix´s lead product, Cx601, has successfully completed a European Phase III clinical trial for the treatment of complex perianal fistulas - a severe, debilitating complication of Crohn’s disease. Cx601 has been filed for regulatory approval in Europe and a global Phase III trial intended to support a future U.S. Biologic License Application (BLA) started in 2017. TiGenix has entered into a licensing agreement with Takeda, a global pharmaceutical company active in gastroenterology, under which Takeda acquired the exclusive right to develop and commercialize Cx601 for complex perianal fistulas outside the U.S. TiGenix’s second adipose-derived product, Cx611, is undergoing a Phase I/II trial in severe sepsis – a major cause of mortality in the developed world. Finally, AlloCSC-01, targeting acute ischemic heart disease, has demonstrated positive results in a Phase I/II trial in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). TiGenix is headquartered in Leuven (Belgium) and has operations in Madrid (Spain) and Cambridge, MA (USA). For more information, please visit http://www.tigenix.com. About Cx601 Cx601 is an investigational administration of allogeneic (or donor derived) expanded adipose-derived stem cells (eASCs) for the treatment of complex perianal fistulas in adult patients with non-active/mildly active luminal Crohn’s disease that have previously shown an inadequate response to at least one conventional therapy or biologic therapy. Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine and complex perianal fistulas are a severe and debilitating complication. Cx601 was granted orphan drug designation by the European Commission in 2009 and by the FDA in 2017. TiGenix completed a European Phase III clinical trial (ADMIRE-CD) in August 2015 in which the primary endpoint was met, with a significantly greater proportion of patients treated with Cx601 (50%, n=107) versus control (34%, n=105) achieving combined remission as defined by clinical assessment of closure of all treated external openings that were draining at baseline and absence of collections > 2 cm of the treated perianal fistulas confirmed by masked central MRI at week 24 (97·5% CI 0·2-30·3; p=0·024).1 The most commonly reported treatment emergent adverse events were proctalgia, anal abscess and nasopharyngitis. A follow-up analysis was completed showing that the efficacy and safety profile of Cx601 were maintained at 52 weeks.4 The 24-week results of the Phase III ADMIRE-CD trial were published in The Lancet in July 2016.1 Based on the positive 24 weeks Phase III study results, TiGenix submitted a Marketing Authorization Application to the EMA, with the CHMP adopting a positive opinion recommending the granting of a marketing authorization. A global Phase III clinical trial (ADMIRE-CD II) intended to support a future U.S. Biologic License Application (BLA) started in 2017, based on a trial protocol that has been agreed with the U.S. FDA through a special protocol assessment procedure (SPA) (clinicaltrials.gov; NCT03279081). ADMIRE-CD II is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study designed to confirm the efficacy and safety of a single administration of Cx601 for the treatment of complex perianal fistulas in Crohn's disease patients. In July 2016, TiGenix entered into a licensing agreement with Takeda, a global pharmaceutical company active in gastroenterology, under which Takeda acquired exclusive rights to develop and commercialize Cx601 for complex perianal fistulas in Crohn’s patients outside of the U.S. This communication does not constitute an offer to purchase securities of TiGenix nor a solicitation by anyone in any jurisdiction in respect of such securities, any vote or approval. If Takeda decides to proceed with an offer to purchase TiGenix’s securities through a public tender offer, such offer will and can only be made on the basis of an approved offer document by the FSMA and tender offer documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which holders of TiGenix’s securities should read as they will contain important information. This communication is not a substitute for such offer documents. Neither this communication nor any other information in respect of the matters contained herein may be supplied in any jurisdiction where a registration, qualification or any other obligation is in force or would be with regard to the content hereof or thereof. Any failure to comply with these restrictions may constitute a violation of the financial laws and regulations in such jurisdictions. Takeda, TiGenix and their respective affiliates explicitly decline any liability for breach of these restrictions by any person. Important Additional Information for U.S. investors The voluntary takeover bid described herein has not yet commenced. This communication is for informational purposes only and is neither a recommendation, an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell any securities of TiGenix. At the time the voluntary public takeover bid is commenced, shareholders of TiGenix are urged to read the offer documents which will be available at www.sec.gov. At the time the voluntary public takeover bid is commenced, it shall be comprised of two separate offers – (i) an offer for all securities with voting rights or giving access to voting rights, issued by TiGenix (except for ADSs) (the “Securities”), in accordance with the applicable law in Belgium, and (ii) an offer to holders of TiGenix’s American Depositary Shares issued by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas acting as depositary (“ADSs”), and to holders of Securities who are resident in the U.S. in accordance with applicable U.S. law (the “U.S. Offer”). The U.S. Offer will only be made pursuant to an offer to purchase and related materials. At the time the U.S. Offer is commenced, Takeda will file, or cause to be filed, a tender offer statement on Schedule TO with the SEC and thereafter, TiGenix will file a solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9, in each case with respect to the U.S. Offer. Holders of TiGenix ADSs and Securities subject to the U.S. Offer who wish to participate in the U.S. Offer, are urged to carefully review the documents relating to the U.S. Offer that will be filed by Takeda with the SEC since these documents will contain important information, including the terms and conditions of the U.S. Offer. Holders of TiGenix ADSs and Securities subject to the U.S. Offer who wish to participate in the U.S. Offer, are also urged to read the related solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9 that will be filed with the SEC by TiGenix relating to the U.S. Offer. You may obtain a free copy of these documents after they have been filed with the SEC, and other documents filed by TiGenix and Takeda with the SEC, at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. In addition to the offer and certain other tender offer documents, as well as the solicitation/recommendation statement, TiGenix files reports and other information with the SEC. You may read and copy any reports or other information filed by TiGenix at the SEC Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the Public Reference Room. TiGenix’s filings at the SEC are also available to the public from commercial document-retrieval services and at the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. YOU SHOULD READ THE FILINGS MADE BY TAKEDA AND TIGENIX WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY BEFORE MAKING A DECISION CONCERNING THE U.S. OFFER. [1] Panés J, García-Olmo D, Van Assche G, et al., Expanded allogeneic adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (Cx601) for complex perianal fistulas in Crohn’s disease: a phase 3 randomized, double-blind controlled trial. The Lancet. 2016; 388(10051): 1281-1290. 2 Marzo M, Felice C, Pugliese D, et al., Management of perianal fistulas in Crohn’s disease: An up-to-date review. World J Gastroenterol. 2015; 21(5): 1394-1395. 3 Mahadev S, Young JM, Selby W, et al., Quality of life in perianal Crohn's disease: what do patients consider important? Dis Colon Rectum. 2011; 54(5): 579-585. 4 Panés J, et al., Long-term efficacy and safety of stem cell therapy (Cx601) for complex perianal fistulas in patients with Crohn’s disease. Gastroenterology. Published online 18th December 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2017.12.020. Terms of Use Privacy Notice CONTACT US PATENTS Copyright 2019 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. All rights reserved. Certified Top Employer You are about to leave www.Takeda.com/en-us and be redirected to another Takeda domain.

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St Margaret's Way Facilities and Map Our Traditons Governance - School Council Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Advent Volunteering at St Margaret's There's a way in which we strive to do things at St Margaret's; a way in which we seek to treat people throughout our community; and a way in which we aim to serve others. Underpinned by our school values, St Margaret's has developed a document which expresses the St Margaret's Way. Learn more about the St Margaret's Way. (PDF 62.6KB)

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A PC Pioneer Passes On By Harry McCracken | Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 10:31 pm Ed Roberts died today in Georgia at the age of 68. The development of the personal computer was too collaborative for any one person to deserve the honor of being the father of the industry…but as I think about it, I can’t think of anyone with a better claim on the title than Roberts. He may not have invented the PC, but he surely invented the PC industry. Roberts cofounded MITS in Albuquerque in 1969 and served as its president. The company made rocket kits at first, and then calculators, and was struggling when Roberts made the decision to launch the Altair 8800, the first PC to gain any traction. When it appeared on the front cover of Popular Electronics magazine’s January 1975 issue, a couple of young geeks got so excited by the issue they picked up at Harvard Square’s Out of Town News that they wrote a version of the BASIC programming language for it even though they didn’t have an Altair. They relocated to Albuquerque and ended up founding a company to write software for the system. The geeks were Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and they called their company Micro-Soft. The Altair also inspired the founding of Silicon Valley’s legendary Homebrew Computer Club, whose membership included numerous important PC-industry figures–including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who started their own computer company to compete with MITS in 1976. MITS’ dominance of the PC business was brief (by 1977, when the Apple II, Radio Shack TRS-80, and Commodore PET came out, the Altair already felt like a machine from an earlier era). But in many ways the business model that sprung up around MITS’ computers–including clones, upgrades, peripherals, books and magazines, computer stores, Intel processors, and Microsoft software–lives on to this day. In 1977, Roberts sold MITS and returned to his boyhood home state of Georgia, where he eventually fulfilled a long-time dream by earning a medical degree and becoming a country doctor. I asked David Bunnell, who was VP of marketing at MITS and went on to found PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld, among other businesses, to remember his friend and colleague: In my mind, Ed Roberts will always be the Father of the Personal Computer Industry. Whether the Altair was the first PC or not isn’t that material, what really matters is Ed launched the most dynamic, fastest growing industry the world has ever seen. There would be no Apple, no Google, no Facebook without his initial contribution. And for me, personally, he taught me all about the excitement and rewards of being an entrepreneur. And here’s a statement from Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Read more: MITS, Nostalgia

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Bill Gates: iPad users frustrated that 'post-PC' device is not PC enough Surface is the real post-PC device, says Bill Gates: Surface doesn't require users to sacrifice PC features Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has thrown a barb in the direction of tablets like Apple's iPad, claiming users are frustrated by the lack of PC-like features on the device. Speaking on US business network CNBC, Gates says tablet users miss having a keyboard, and using rich software like Microsoft Office. He said, "Tablets have so far been dominated by iPad-like devices. A lot of those users are frustrated, they can't type, they can't create documents, they don't have Office there." Instead philanthropist Gates suggested that the true post-PC devices are those like the Microsoft Surface, which bring a desktop-like OS, familiar software and a clip on keyboard, without the bulkiness of a laptop. Richness and portability "If you have the Surface or the Surface Pro, you've got the portability of a tablet, and the richness of a PC in terms of a keyboard and Microsoft Office," he said. "It's going to be harder and harder to distinguish between tablets and PCs. "We're providing [tablet users] with the benefits that they've seen that have made tablets a big category without giving up what they expect in a PC." Gates also went on to talk about Apple's recent stock woes and the predictions that the company's years of incredible growth may be coming to an end, as Microsoft itself experienced. He added, "With tech companies, whoever is the leader is always questioned. They say 'is this the end of them?' and there's more times people think that's the case than it actually is the case." Via Business Insider See more PC news

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Detroit: Become Human will show off Amazon Alexa skills in upcoming demo May as well get used to relying on androids now Sony has announced that it’s celebrating upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive, Detroit: Become Human, going gold by releasing a demo of the very first scene in the game. More interesting than the demo, however, is the reveal that it will have its very own Alexa skill. Named CyberLife, the skill will give players guidance and advice to help them make their first decisions in this choice-filled game world. Called Hostage, the demo will have players take up the role of an android called Connor, a hostage negotiator sent into a fraught situation where lives are on the line. Using the CyberLife skill, players will be able to ask Alexa questions relating to details in the crime scene and the backgrounds of characters to guide them through the decision making process. Players will even be able to ask Alexa to find out which decisions had which impacts and find out how they might be able to alter the course of the game by doing one thing differently. "Alexa, please help me choose" This isn't the first time a game has created its own Alexa skill – Destiny 2 did so very recently by allowing players to interact with their AI companion Ghost through their own devices. This skill is also very in-keeping with the story of Detroit: Become Human. Set in a dystopian future, Detroit: Become Human is a game which follows the story of three androids who have started to experience human emotions in a world that sees them as nothing more than machines built to obey. The fate of these androids and the characters around them will be entirely in your hands, with all of your decisions and actions opening up a branching story that will be individual to you. We don’t think Alexa is about to start offloading its feelings when you come home after a long day, but it is the first step towards fully-fledged androids, and a good example of how they might know more than you already. To use the Alexa skill you simply have to have access to any Alexa-enabled device and ask it to download the CyberLife skill by saying “Alexa, enable CyberLife.” The demo will be available for download on the PlayStation Store on Tuesday, April 24 at 12:01 am ET/ 5:01 am BST. Once excited fans get through this demo, they’ll have to wait until the game’s May 25 release date before they can play again. These are the best PS4 games you can play right now See more Digital home news

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Review - How It Was by Janet Ellis How It Was by Janet Ellis Publisher: Two Roads Books Back cover blurb: Marion Deacon sits by the hospital bed of her dying husband, Michael. Outwardly she is, as she says, an unremarkable old woman. She has long concealed her history - and her feelings - from the casual observer. But as she sits by Michael's bed, she's haunted by memories from almost forty years ago . . . Marion Deacon is a wife and mother, and not particularly good at being either. It's the 1970s and in her small village the Swinging 60s, the wave of feminism, the prospect of an exciting life, have all swerved past her. Reading her teenage daughter's diary, it seems that Sarah is on the threshold of getting everything her mother Marion was denied, and Marion cannot bear it - what she does next has terrible and heart-breaking consequences for the whole family. Janet Ellis writes of the exquisite pain of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, the complexity of family and a mother-daughter relationship that is as memorable as it is utterly believable. How It Was is what I would describe as a 'complex' novel, in that it required (from me at least) a certain level of concentration that I perhaps wasn't expecting. Fans of Janet Ellis' previous novel, will still enjoy this novel. But it is very different as it is not historical fiction. How It Was centres around Marion Deacon who is practically living in the hospital at the bed side of her dying husband. Through her memories we learn how they met, how they married, how their children arrived etc. It should be idyllic, but Marion's life has been far from perfect, mostly by her own doing. I have to say that Marion isn't a particularly likeable character, and I found it difficult to warm to her, but then perhaps that it is the point... Marion's daughter Sarah, is also pivotal to the story as it unfolds, as Marion begins to read her teenage diary behind her back, thinking that her daughter is growing up too fast, and becoming jealous of her life ahead of her. Theirs is an interesting relationship, as are most of the relationships explored in this novel, many of which are dysfunctional. How It Was is a fascinating insight into these relationships and how a split second decision can change the course of your life forever. How It Was is available from Amazon online. Thank You to the publishers who approved my request via netgalley in exchange for an honest reveiw.

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Philippines - Question for Short Debate Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:20 pm on 24th January 2019. Lord Alton of Liverpool Crossbench 3:20 pm, 24th January 2019 My Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend Lord Hylton on securing this debate. No one in this House needs persuading of his long-standing and tenacious commitment to human rights. It is characteristic of him not to have lost sight of the plight of suffering Filipinos. I hope the Minister will respond to the recommendations that he has made, and particularly to the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Anelay, that the Philippines should be officially designated as a country of concern. That would be a positive outcome of today’s debate. I have a non-pecuniary interest as a trustee of the Arise Foundation, an anti-slavery charity with a brilliant team that does superb work in various countries of origin for trafficked people, including the Philippines. In addition to the human rights abuses in the Philippines itself, we would do well to remember the many thousands of Filipinos working abroad who suffer exploitation. I was shocked when I first learned that over 10% of the entire GDP of the Filipino economy is remitted back to the Philippines from abroad from an estimated 2.3 million overseas Filipino workers. The principal countries of destination are: Saudi Arabia, which takes 25.4% of these workers; the UAE, 15.3%, Hong Kong, 6.5%; and Qatar, 5.5%. I know from work by the Arise Foundation that many of these Filipinos are exploited and enslaved in unimaginably cruel and inhumane conditions. I go so far as to say that the stories of Filipina women enslaved in the Middle East are the most extreme and unrepeatable I have ever heard. The situation is Qatar is so bad that the Philippine embassy has a rescue shelter attached to it which is reportedly always full. Can the Minister tell us whether the dire and well-documented human rights conditions of Filipino overseas workers in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar feature in our discussions with the respective Governments? While considering the difficulties faced by Filipinos abroad, we also need to look closer to home. Even if they find work, there is no guarantee that they can remit their earnings back to their families. What measures are in place to ensure that companies do not charge unfair and exorbitant fees to transfer money home? During the passage of the modern slavery legislation, my noble friend Lord Hylton and I divided your Lordships’ House on the issue of domestic migrant labour. Many Filipinos are tricked by unscrupulous employment agencies who prey on their hopes for a better life. Some take on huge debts to pay unaffordable agency fees which have to be paid back once work has begun—a well-worn pattern leading to debt bondage in the destination country. The UK is a significant destination for Filipinos seeking employment as domestic workers; sadly, the Philippines is never far down the list of source nations for modern slavery victims of our own national referral mechanism. What are we doing to disrupt the unethical recruitment corridor that clearly exists between the Philippines and the UK? The United Kingdom has a memorandum of understanding with the Government of the Philippines to enable the recruitment of nurses and other health professionals. In 2018 the number of Philippines-born workers in the National Health Service was 15,400. What guarantees can the Minister give that our recruitment methods are ethical and respect the communities from which these workers are sourced? Arise works with front-line charities in the Philippines which continue to do superb work in difficult circumstances. Many of them have stood bravely against Duterte’s Administration, as described so powerfully and so well by the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, a few moments ago. Unfortunately, bilateral funding for work such as theirs has decreased due to lack of confidence in that Government. Many of the charities working in the Philippines are struggling for support. I hope the Minister will assure us that, in allocating UK aid, we will not make the mistake of conflating worthy front-line work with a wayward Government, and will not falter in our commitment to the wonderful Filipino people. (Citation: HL Deb, 24 January 2019, c869)

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Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction Release date: 21st July 1987 In June 1985, just four days after new guitarist and former Hollywood Rose member Slash had been recruited, Guns N’ Roses left their Los Angeles base to embark on a short, disorganised tour of the US West Coast, from Sacramento, California, to Seattle, Washington. The so-called Hell Tour cemented the band’s first stable lineup, with bassist Duff McKagan later commenting, ‘This trip had set a new benchmark for what we were capable of, what we could and would put ourselves through to achieve our goals as a band.’ Little did the band (Slash, singer Axl Rose, second guitarist Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler) know of how much their worlds were about to change as members of the ‘Most Dangerous Band in the World’. Between regular LA gigs at the Whisky a Go-Go, The Roxy, and The Troubadour the band started to write songs for what would become their debut album, including ‘Welcome To The Jungle’, ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’, and ‘Paradise City’. Slash states in his autobiography that Paradise was written in the back of a rental van as they were on their way back from playing a gig in San Francisco, drinking and playing acoustic guitars when he came up with the intro. Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin started playing along. Slash started humming a melody when Axl Rose sang, ‘Take me down to the Paradise City.’ Slash chimed in with, ‘Where the girls are fat and have big titties.’ The band entered Rumbo Recorders in January 1987, (yes, the studio owned by Daryl Dragon, from successful 1970s pop duo The Captain & Tennille, who had been nicknamed ‘The Captain’ by Mike Love of the Beach Boys). While Kiss’ Paul Stanley was considered for producing the album, he was rejected after requesting changes to the songs. Engineer Mike Clink was chosen instead to make his debut as a producer, and the group and Clink set about laying down basic tracks. While the songwriting credits are credited to all five band members, many of the songs began as solo tracks, written by individual band members separately from the band, and completed later. These songs include ‘It’s So Easy’ (Duff McKagan) and ‘Think About You’ (Izzy Stradlin). ‘Rocket Queen’ was an unfinished Slash/McKagan/Adler song that survived from their earlier band Road Crew. Appetite For Destruction stands as one of the strongest debut albums of all time, history proving that sometimes an initial creative spark and energy can fuse together to deliver a killer debut. Like Led Zeppelin, The Clash, and Jimi Hendrix before them, this debut was as strong as they come. The combination of Rose’s lyrics and screeching vocals, the twin-guitar interplay of Slash and Izzy Stradlin, who rolled out riffs and solos better than any band since the Rolling Stones, made this the best metal record of the late ’80s. ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’, written about Rose’s girlfriend at the time, Erin Everly, whose father was Don Everly of The Everly Brothers, topped the US charts. The second single from the album, ‘Welcome To The Jungle’, (the first song co-written by Rose and Slash), was named the greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1 in 2009. Clint Eastwood requested to use the song in his film, The Dead Pool, which featured a then-unknown Jim Carrey (known as ‘James Carrey’ at the time), playing the part of a rock star by the name of ‘Johnny Squares’, who appears in the film lip-synching to ‘Welcome To The Jungle’. After the band was asked to be in the film, they can be seen briefly during Johnny Squares’ funeral scene, as well as during the shooting of a film within the film, when Slash, Duff, Izzy, and Steven are seen on a prop boat, with Slash firing a harpoon at a window. The harpoon was later used in the film to kill the antagonist. In 2011, Axl Rose stated that his original idea for the cover art had been the photo of the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding, as used on the cover of Time Magazine in 1986, but Geffen refused, saying it was in bad taste. The album’s original cover art, based on the Robert Williams painting Appetite For Destruction, depicted a robotic rapist about to be punished by a metal avenger. After several music retailers refused to stock the album, the label compromised and put the controversial cover art inside, replacing it with an image depicting a cross and skulls of the five band members (designed by Billy White Jr., originally as a tattoo), each skull representing one member of the band. Every once in a great while, an album, which by virtue of its sound and subject matter that was clearly never intended for vast mainstream success, breaks through. Appetite For Destruction became a turning point for hard rock in the late 1980s; a year after its release, this dirty, sleazy, dangerous, record sat atop the US charts for the world to see and has since seen worldwide sales in excess of 28 million. 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Jose Mourinho can help Spurs become the 'Special Ones' in the Premier League, believes Burnley boss Sean Dyche Sean Dyche believes that Jose Mourinho has all the tools at his disposal to make Spurs the 'Special Ones' in the Premier League. The Burnley boss felt the Londoners weren't too far away during Mauricio Pochettino's reign having landed a quartet of top four finishes in succession while adding a Champions League final appearance and reaching two FA Cup semi-finals. Burnley boss Sean Dyche with Jose Mourinho Dyche, 48, who made his managerial bow in the top flight against Mourinho's Chelsea in 2014, feels the one-time FIFA World Coach of the Year has an opportunity to further enhance his reputation. Spurs haven't won a league title since 1961, when they secured the double under Bill Nicholson, and they've gone almost three decades without lifting the FA's most prestigious cup competition. However, in Mourinho they've picked a strong-willed winner. He owns eight league titles in spells with Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid and his CV is decorated with countless other pieces of silverware. “Most people consider them a nearly club, so it’s his chance to make them THE club, or certainly push to that," said Dyche. "The last one where he did that would probably be Porto. “There’s a platform at a club like Tottenham to attempt to do that and take it to the level that everyone thinks. “And if you think about it everyone will go ‘no-one’s quite made it to be THE club’, although it’s got all the makings of it. “I could see why that’s attractive to him.” Asked if he was at all surprised by Mourinho's appointment at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Dyche added: “He has lived in London for a long time, that might be a factor. “It’s a fantastic new stadium, a young side still developing - or mostly young. (Jan) Vertonghen and people like that are a bit older and wiser if you like. “They've had a very strong academy there over the years - and I know he has been questioned about that, but I’m sure he has enough about him to know good players whether they are young or old. “So no, it didn’t surprise me. “They have an amazing training ground. I haven’t been through the building but I’ve been down there and it’s absolutely amazing. Top of the top training ground. “If you look at all those ticked boxes..." Dyche, who has backed Mourinho to go down as one of the greatest ever coaches in the game, boasts an encouraging away record against his adversary. They shared a 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge in 2015 when Ben Mee cancelled out Branislav Ivanovic's opener, and the Clarets have taken a couple of points away from Old Trafford, firstly in a goalless stalemate in 2016 and then in a 2-2 draw the following term. “The clubs he has been at, there’s an obvious divide in the Premier League," said Dyche. "We all know it’s there, it’s not rocket science. “The stats and the facts show a true sort of measure of the league. “I might be wrong but I don’t think there are that many teams like ourselves who have amazing records against the so-called top six. “But it doesn’t mean that any game is not winnable.” Dyche, when asked about Mourinho's early impact, added: "I think it is too early yet. There are certain signs of it, he knows they can pass and play. "I thought against United they went longer when they needed to and tried to stretch the pitch. I think he knows enough about the Premier League, he is a top manager. "In years to come he will be looked at as one of the best I think and he will adapt the side accordingly. He has gone into a very good situation, I don't think there any many things wrong. "The difference will be over time when he starts to formulate the players that are going to be his and the players that are going to leave or not get picked."

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Raising More Money, J Street Discloses Big Donors The liberal, pro-peace Israel lobbying group J Street doesn't typically disclose all of its funding, but it's been raising more of it each year since its inception in 2007. [See UPDATEs below and this story here.] According to estimates provided to The Atlantic by Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami, the group has brought in a total of $11.2 million since its inception: $1.2 million in 2008, $3.3 million in 2009, and $5 million so far in 2010 to its nonprofits, plus $576,000 in political contributions in the 2008 election cycle and $1.1 million since then. The group expects to grow its budget to $7 million in 2011. As with many issue organizations of its ilk, much of J Street's funding is concealed: the J Street umbrella entails a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization, the funding for which is not publicly disclosed by the IRS, in addition to a 501(c)3 nonprofit, whose funding the IRS publicizes after processing yearly tax forms, and a PAC (political action committee), which reports its finances to the Federal Election Commission on a quarterly basis. In an interview with The Atlantic, Ben-Ami discussed J Street's fundraising momentum and who the group's biggest donors are, including nonpublicized funding for the group's 501(c)4 nonprofit. Since 2007, the largest J Street donors have been: George Soros & family, who have given approximately $250,000 per year over the past three years Bill Benter, a Pittsburgh-based technology entrepreneur who serves as CEO of Acusis, an outsourced medical transcription service, has been able to raise and donate at least $800,000 over J Street's first two years of existence, including from associates in Hong Kong* The Skoll Global Threats Fund, a group whose mission is "to confront global threats imperiling humanity by seeking solutions, strengthening alliances, and spurring the actions needed to safeguard the future," gave at least $200,000 to J Street's 501(c)3 arm The Nathan Cummings Foundation, a Jewish organization that focuses on "democratic values and social justice, including fairness, diversity, and community," has given a "significant six-figure amount" according to Ben-Ami Israeli American businessman Davidi Gilo and Deborah Sagner, (of the Democracy Alliance board, also connected to New Jersey-based real estate development firm Sagner Companies), who serve on J Street's advisory council, have given a couple hundred thousand dollars to J Street since its inception J Street gets its money from a total donor base of about 10,000, Ben-Ami said. The organization has gained momentum since its inception, both in fundraising and in public notoriety. Posing itself as a liberal counterweight to the often conservative Israel advocacy establishment in Washington, and as an alternative to AIPAC for Americans who care about Israel but are less staunch in opposing concessions to Palestinians, J Street's main accomplishment has perhaps been to sustain itself after advertising such a splashy role. What does J Street do with all this money? It has expanded to 45 staff, opened up 35 local branches around the country, is developing its campus outreach program, and bring speakers in from abroad. It continues to lobby. Earlier this summer, it launched a TV ad praising Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak after his record on Israel was impugned by the conservative, recently formed Emergency Committee for Israel. J Street ran a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal this week. Its PAC, which raised $1.1 million this election cycle, is endorsing 61 candidates in the fall elections. UPDATE: Eli Lake of The Washington Times, who obtained a J Street IRS document, reported today that $811,697 came from one donor in Hong Kong, Consolacion Esdicul, which contradicts Ben-Ami's account. I'll update this post when more light is shed on this discrepancy. UPDATE II: J Street seemed to distort the source of this donation and its prior openness about donations from Soros. The $811,697 indeed came from Consolacion Esdicul, solicited by Benter. "Bill raised this money for J Street," a spokesman told me, noting that if Benter hadn't solicited it, it wouldn't have been donated. The group also had posted on its website, as of last night, that Soros was not a founder or J Street's primary funder (which is true) and that J Street would be happy to receive Soros's donations should he choose to give them (which seems to imply that he wasn't donating already--which he was). Moreover, J Street had acknowledged that it would welcome Soros's donations and saw no problem with him, but still implied that he wasn't giving money. Ben-Ami had, according to a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, acknowledged Soros's donations while speaking to a small group in Florida. That seems to be the only evidence of J Street's acknowledgement of this. [UPDATE III: A sometimes columnist for the Jerusalem Post wrote, in a comment posted below an op-ed Ben-Ami placed in the paper, that Ben-Ami had acknowledged Soros funding to a small group in Florida.] See more on this here. Chris Good is a political reporter for ABC News. He was previously an associate editor at The Atlantic and a reporter for The Hill.

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Road to Marriage Equality in Two Maps A state-by-state look at how marriage equality became the law of the land. Jordan T. JonesNational Journal Decades in the making, the historic SCOTUS decision that legalized same-sex marriage came after a meandering decades-long journey through state courts. This map tracks exactly which states were at the forefront of change and which had to be reluctantly lead to it. (Data curated by findthedata.com) Celebrating Outside the Day the Decision Came Down from SCOTUS. Jordan T. Jones is a former associate editor at The Atlantic, where he worked on social media. News and updates from the editors of National Journal magazine.

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Pennington, Christopher. "Facing Sir John A. Macdonald’s Legacy". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 24 June 2019, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/facing-sir-john-a-macdonalds-legacy. Accessed 29 January 2020. Pennington, C., Facing Sir John A. Macdonald’s Legacy (2019). In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/facing-sir-john-a-macdonalds-legacy Pennington, Christopher, "Facing Sir John A. Macdonald’s Legacy". In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published April 07, 2015; Last Edited June 24, 2019. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/facing-sir-john-a-macdonalds-legacy Pennington, Christopher. The Canadian Encyclopedia, s.v. "Facing Sir John A. Macdonald’s Legacy", Last Edited June 24, 2019, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/facing-sir-john-a-macdonalds-legacy Facing Sir John A. Macdonald’s Legacy Article by Christopher Pennington Published Online April 7, 2015 Last Edited April 15, 2015 To say that Macdonald was a man of his times is not to make apologies for views he held that are seen as unacceptable today, but simply to accept that he was, in fact, a man of his times. Of all the scholarly debates about the life and career of Sir John A. Macdonald, one of the most contentious pertains to his personal views on social issues. Based on the mountain of documentary evidence available, it is possible to arrive at bewilderingly different conclusions about whether Macdonald was, at heart, a reformer or a reactionary. Did he support a woman’s right to vote, for example, or did he suppress it? Was he an advocate of racial equality, or was he a racist and white supremacist? The only honest answer is that Macdonald was all of these things at different times and in different contexts over the course of his career in politics. This being the case, how can casual students of Canadian history make any sense of what he really thought? There is no easy solution, but there are a few important caveats to note while formulating a balanced understanding of the first prime minister’s views on these subjects. Macdonald was above all a pragmatist who was neither a political theorist nor a social scientist. P. B. Waite, one of Canada’s greatest historians, once said that if you had asked Macdonald to explain his political beliefs, “he would have passed you off with a story about those unfortunate politicians who stuck to their principles and sank with them.” He generally preferred conservative policies, but he worried primarily about staying in touch with the popular views of the electorate. Waite judged that he “was always rather uncomfortable too far away from the ideas of his time,” and Macdonald himself once admitted that one “must yield to the times.” That simple phrase conveys his perspective and sense of priorities better than any other. He had an extraordinary ability to suddenly abandon ideas that had lost public support in favour of more popular ones he had previously opposed (he performed such about-faces, for example, on responsible government, representation by population and even Confederation). Such innate flexibility, which can be regarded as a political principle in itself, allowed Macdonald to remain continuously in public life from 1843 to his death in 1891. It is also necessary to appreciate that Macdonald, who is too often assumed to have towered over his times, was never in complete control of his circumstances. This was especially true in the years leading to Confederation, and even at the height of his power during the final years of his career. Party discipline was relatively loose in his era, and he had to constantly consider how loyal his supporters would remain if he championed risky views that were contrary to their own. More importantly, the federal government he led was miniscule in size, and his policy-making was sharply constrained by this reality. In the politics of his time, Macdonald could not simply do as he pleased; the financial muscle and physical infrastructure of his government were limited, making it difficult to effect transformative changes to Canadian society. One cannot discern Macdonald’s views on a given subject from any individual public or private statement that he made, no matter how definitive and incontestable the quotation may appear to be. On 27 April 1885, for example, while defending a clause of his proposed franchise bill that would have given the vote to unmarried women and widows who met the property qualification, Macdonald told the House of Commons that “every year, for many years, I have become more strongly convinced of the justice of giving women otherwise qualified the suffrage.” This speech, which is entirely uncharacteristic of his usual habit of avoiding unpopular subjects, has been hailed by some scholars as evidence that he was a progressive thinker who was ahead of his times. But did he actually support women’s suffrage for “many years”? It’s possible. However, if he adopted this point of view at any time during the first four decades of his career, he did not discuss it in public. Perhaps his purpose was to use the clause as a bargaining chip that could be withdrawn later in exchange for some concession from the opposition. Perhaps he believed that women would be more likely to vote for his party when they eventually obtained the vote — he admitted in 1885 that he knew the House was against him — if he had put himself on the record as a suffragist. There’s no way to know what he was really thinking. The point is that, even when Macdonald’s views appear to be crystal clear, it is necessary to consider his quotations in the context of their utterance and to weigh their importance against his other statements and actions over the course of his long career. By the same token, it is important to avoid jumping on any one quotation by Macdonald on racial equality as incontrovertible evidence of his overall views on the subject. Even though he was broad-minded and inclusive in his management of English-French and Protestant-Catholic relations, there is no denying that Macdonald was, on some level, a racist. He accepted prevailing derogatory stereotypes about racial groups, particularly Aboriginal and Chinese persons, and his ingrained prejudices undoubtedly affected his policy-making towards them. Yet, his many statements about Aboriginal people, judged collectively, give strong evidence that he held no particular ill will toward First Nations or Métis peoples. They do, however, point to an extremely superficial understanding of those cultures and identities. Macdonald assumed, like most politicians of his generation, that First Nations and Métis communities could only survive in modern society by adopting the habits of white Canadians. The methods he used to pressure them to do so — most notoriously, his government’s practice of withholding food rations from Aboriginal communities in Western Canada until they moved onto reserves — were ruthless. His treatment of Aboriginal peoples — who suffered immensely as a result of these policies — stands as the greatest failure and black mark on his political career. But even if his handling of the situation is impossible to approve or forgive, it cannot be seen as surprising if one considers the political options that he reasonably had available to him. His entire legacy as prime minister cannot be made to rest upon it. All of the above-mentioned factors — Macdonald’s basic pragmatism, tendency to adapt his public and private statements to suit the needs of the moment, and limited control over the events of his era — have to be considered when attempting to draw conclusions about his personal views on social issues. To say that Macdonald was a man of his times is not to make apologies for views he held that are seen as unacceptable today, but simply to accept that he was, in fact, a man of his times. He was a practical man above all else, working within the confines of what was politically possible, and it is not realistic to expect that he could have succeeded in Canadian public life had he advocated modern-day views on the issues of his day, even if he had held them personally. P. B. Waite once attributed Macdonald’s success as a politician to the manner in which he managed people in spite of their faults and observed, “Macdonald took men as they were.” In order to evaluate the country’s first prime minister with a proper sense of historical balance, Canadians must try to do the same of him. James Daschuk, Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life (2014) Christopher Pennington, The History of Canada Series: the Destiny of Canada: Macdonald, Laurier,and the Election Of 1891 (2011) Patrice Dutil and Roger Hall, eds., Macdonald at 200: New Reflections and Legacies (2014) Sarah Katherine Gibson and Arthur Milnes, eds., Canada Transformed: The Speeches of Sir John A. Macdonald (2014) Wilfrid Laurier House National Historic Site of Canada Canada’s Century: Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s Bold Prediction

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Minister reveals struggle over her daughter’s desire for sex change op Posted by patrick | Jul 12, 2019 | Family, Local news | 0 Cleric admits faith was challenged when Eimear revealed desire to become a man By Allan Preston A minister has spoken about her initial struggle to accept that her child was transgender. Rev Linda Ballard said it had been a big shock emotionally when Eimear revealed a wish to change gender and become a male. The cleric admitted facing challenges from the religious community, but now wants to change the way people think. Ex-Civil Service chief told of his pride over transgender child Rev Ballard from Bangor was speaking after a recent survey found that over a fifth of people here were prejudiced against transgender people. While welcoming the report, she said her experience told her the real figure was likely to be much higher. Finn (36), born as Eimear, now lives in Berlin and works as a historian. He came out as transgender to his mum in his early 20s. Speaking during a quick break in a busy afternoon giving guided history tours, he told the Belfast Telegraph that Northern Ireland could still be “a very hard place” for transgender people to live in. He said he had preferred to move away to protect himself from negative reactions. Rev Ballard, who is married to Ronnie, is a former minister of First Dunmurry Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church. She stepped down last year. She said she had always imagined getting to watch her daughter grow older and that coming to terms with the change had initially been a painful experience. “I went through a phase of living in a complete fog about it and it took me quite a lot of time,” she said. “I was intellectually able to accept what he told me but it was a big shock emotionally.” Seeking out advice, she said her doctor at the time was only able to point her towards a radio interview on the topic for guidance. “Finn is extremely perceptive and may have realised this, but I avoided the conversation after he let me know he had something to tell me,” she said. “Deep down I think I already knew and I did my best not to have the conversation, but it was my son who compelled me to face up to realities.” Finn says he hadn’t even heard of the concept of being transgender while growing up, but had always felt “ill at ease”. “I had always presented myself as a boy when I was young, but when kids are so small people don’t notice so much,” he said. “When puberty comes along there’s pressure to wear certain clothes, I found that very difficult. The only way to express it was that I was a very masculine girl.” Standing out in this way, he said, made him an easy target for bullies in school. He added: “My mother maybe doesn’t realise I’d already experienced hard times. “She thought I would experience bullying when I started to transition to a male but I’d already done all that in school. Whatever happened to me after that, I thought I could manage it.” A turning point was the 1999 film Boys Don’t Cry starring Hilary Swank, which tells the story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man in Nebraska who eventually becomes the victim of a brutal hate crime. “That was a true story but also a very tragic story so I did worry about everything,” Finn said. “Before that, I just felt really alienated from myself but I began to see that’s not necessarily how it has to be and there are people who feel the same and change it.” He was already studying in England when he started hormone treatment to transition and could no longer avoid telling his mum and dad the truth. “Really, it just got to the point where I didn’t feel I had a choice and would have to transition medically in order to continue,” he said. “I wanted to let my parents know and I found it very difficult. I had moved away so it was a very distant thing. Part of that was about protecting myself, if there were any negative reactions at least they would be far away and contained. “It was hard enough for me to understand.” His mum said: “I don’t think any such conversation is likely to be easy because of the emotional complications around it. “But I think that underscores his courage and determination to be honest with me and let me see him as the real human being that he is, instead of the one I perceived him as. “I would hand all the credit to my son to how he dealt with it. However difficult it was for me, he had the inner strength to meet the challenge he was facing.” She stood down as minister of First Dunmurry Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church in September 2018. She revealed she initially feared how the religious community would react to her son being transgender. “I became a regular church attendee again around the time Finn came out as transgender,” she added. “After that I had a very strong sense of wanting to minister to transgender people and their families. “I applied to the non-subscribing church and my sense at that time was that I would probably be rejected and the church wasn’t the way to take this forward. But I was actually accepted as a minister and encouraged in my calling, so here I am. “Others frequently disagree with me, but my understanding of the gospel is one of love and I was in a theological framework that let me develop those ideas.” She also studied at the Presbyterian-run Union Theological College in Belfast to deliberately have her views challenged. “They remain unchanged, which may show how recalcitrant I am,” she said. “I’ve had challenges in my own religious community as well. I wouldn’t claim everyone was on the same page, we’re all human. “I’ve faced open challenges from people of other religious denominations. That’s understandable, it’s their right and how they think. “What I want to do is to change the way they think.” The change was not accepted by everyone, with many of Finn’s own friends reacting badly. “I think that he had a tough enough time in England. It destroyed some friendships where they didn’t support him, and strengthened others who were extremely loyal and dedicated,” Rev Ballard added. Here, she also became more keenly aware of the abuse others faced. “I personally know transgender people who are afraid to leave their homes because of social treatment they may receive,” she said. “People have had verbal and physical abuse as well as having excrement put on their doors. “Internationally, hundreds of transgender people around the world are murdered every year, usually those who transition from male to female.” Finn added: “To be honest, if people have problems with me over the most essential part of my identity then it’s not much of a friendship. “One struggle for me was that I had friends in the Pride society who thought of me as a lesbian. “It was hard for them, they were fixed in their notions of masculinity. Not only for straight people, but also LGBT people can often parrot those fixed concepts of gender. “I never really presented as hyper masculine or very macho. People would tell me: ‘You’re too soft to be a man, why not just be a lesbian?’ “That was a little frustrating and hurtful at times but I understand it, though people are much better informed now.” Finn said he considers himself one of the lucky ones, with the unusual support of having a pro-transgender minister for a mum. “I’m very proud of her and think it’s a fantastic thing she’s doing. Northern Ireland is a really religious place, I’m not really religious. So if change comes from the church, so much the better, it’s good for people to know they have a place of refuge there,” he said. “I hope it will improve. I don’t know what to say, the measures that need to take place for abortion, for gay marriage, I hope are imminent. “I saw the marches in the wake of the death of Lyra McKee with people calling for equal marriage. I do wonder what will need to happen for things to change — the DUP will certainly not change their minds.” Although he has now lived away from home for 20 years, Finn keeps up to date with developments in the LGBT community here. He added: “I have been back home and have some contact with trans people in Northern Ireland. “I think they’re gaining confidence but I think it’s still a very hard place to live as an openly trans person. “I’m not sure how much hostility there is on the street, but you have the DUP in such a powerful position who are, in my view, overtly homophobic. “I doubt they view trans people in a positive way. Certainly when you have a party like that legitimised by a large popular vote, you’re not going to feel comfortable.” Last month a study by ARK — a joint initiative by Queen’s University and Ulster University — found 21% of those questioned are prejudiced towards transgender people, but 72% describe themselves as “not prejudiced at all”. Rev Ballard welcomed the report, but noted most who had responded had self-identified as not being prejudiced. Offering advice to other parents of transgender children, she said: “We are all individuals, that we all bring our own talents and gifts and that it’s not something to be afraid of. If you meet and talk to a transgender person your perception is likely to be radically altered.” For further information on support for transgender individuals and their families in Northern Ireland, visit www.thefocustrust.com Previous“I knew from the outset that I was not being treated fairly” NextTransman fighting to be named as Father on child’s birth certificate

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Atlantic County Briefs: Sheriff’s Office hires eight Atlantic County Sheriff Frank X. Balles is pleased to announce the hiring of eight individuals. Atlantic County Briefs: Sheriff’s Office hires eight Atlantic County Sheriff Frank X. Balles is pleased to announce the hiring of eight individuals. Check out this story on thehammontonnews.com: http://vineland.dj/2k3rkvk Published 11:17 a.m. ET Feb. 8, 2017 Atlantic Cape Community College will present Bartending Training, a new 40-hour program covering the essentials of bartending, from 1 to 6 p.m., Tuesdays, from Feb. 28 through April 18. To register or for information, call (609) 343-5655 or visit www.atlantic.edu/conted.(Photo: Getty Images) Sheriff’s Office hires eight new officers MAYS LANDING - Atlantic County Sheriff Frank X. Balles is pleased to announce the hiring of eight individuals who will join the ranks of the Atlantic County Sheriff’s Office. “I am thrilled to be able to replace the officers we have lost due to retirement and transfers while allowing these individuals a chance to begin a rewarding career in law enforcement,” Balles said. The officers have completed extensive background investigations as well as mental and physical evaluations prior to beginning the Atlantic County Police Academy on Jan. 27. The newly hired officers were administered the oath of office by Sheriff Balles on Jan. 31 at the Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders’ meeting. The officers are: •Douglas Field, 28, of Pleasantville, Bachelor of Science from Penn State University. •Ryan Harris, 26, of Brigantine, New York Maritime College. •Cassandra Howie, 28, Atlantic Cape Community College and seven years’ experience at the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office. •Daniel Ruiz, 30, of Margate, son of retired Chief of Police Jose Ruiz from Pleasantville. •Raymond Snyder, 23, of Pleasantville, criminal justice at Rutgers University. •Richard Andres IV, 29, of Absecon, a Delaware National Guardsman with prior service at the Atlantic County Justice Facility. •Jose Roman, 36, Egg Harbor Township, emergency medical technician for the City of Pleasantville. •John Marciante, 26, Atlantic City, former Class II Officer for the Atlantic City Police Department. For information on careers in law enforcement, visit www.nj.gov/csc. Jazz pianist and specialist in African music visiting Stockton GALLOWAY - Benon Kigozi, a noted educator, jazz pianist and specialist in African music, will visit Stockton University from Feb. 11 to 23 for a residency, which includes two public events, workshops for Stockton students and visits to local schools, churches and community groups. Kigozi is also a senior staff member at the Department of Performing Arts and Film at Makerere University in Uganda. As a jazz pianist, he has performed in 14 countries and he will perform during his presentations both on- and off- campus, including a choral workshop at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Pleasantville on Feb. 16. “This is a tremendous opportunity for our music program at Stockton and for our community at-large,” said Beverly Vaughn, professor of music, who organized the visit and after receiving funding from the university’s 2020 Initiatives program. “Thanks to a 2020 global grant, this is the first time the music program has been able to bring in such an eminent specialist in African music traditions,” she said, adding that Kigozi is one of the continent’s leading music educators. Kigozi’s research is in technology in music education. He is doing “ground-breaking research in the adaption of the latest technology models in K-12 music education, with particular emphasis on its application in a 21st century East African country such as Uganda,” Vaughn explained “This research and/or application can be further expanded to address questions of technological implementation in music education throughout the continent.” He will present a free, public workshop, “A Sampling of Ugandan and East African Singing Music Traditions and Performance Practices,” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 in the university’s Alton Auditorium. Kigozi will also present a free, public lecture, “Indigenous Knowledge Systems as a Way of Africanizing Music Arts Education through Technology,” at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 14 in Room F111, sponsored by the Global Studies minor. There will be a “meet and greet” reception following the lecture co-sponsored by the African Students Association and the Music Program. Support for this residency is also provided by the School of Arts and Humanities, Africana Studies, the NAACP, the Unified Black Students Society, and the Highest Praise Gospel Choir. Egg Harbor City’s Safe Community schedules meeting EGG HARBOR CITY - Egg Harbor City’s Coalition for a Safe Community, in coordination with REACH and the Egg Harbor City Community School Climate Committee, will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 13 in the cafeteria of Egg Harbor City Community School at 730 Havana Ave. The coalition invites residents to attend and learn about the coalition and help in making Egg Harbor City a better community. Light refreshments will be served. Community college hosting social media workshop MAYS LANDING - Atlantic Cape Community College will offer four separate workshops focused on using social media effectively in the business and nonprofit sectors. Each workshop will meet from 6 to 9 p.m. on an upcoming Thursday at the Mays Landing Campus at 5100 Black Horse Pike. The following workshops will be offered: •Facebook for Small Business, Feb. 16, covers how to build a compelling presence for your business on Facebook and how to benefit from your page. •Social Media for Professional Business, March 16, focuses on using social media to engage customers and market your business and on discovering which social media tools potential customers favor. •Social Media Strategies for Nonprofits: Hashtags, Ice Buckets and Twizzlers, April 13, covers social media tools, tactics, content and fundraising strategies with a focus on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube. •Social Media Strategies for Real Estate Agents: Get Social, Get Sold!, May 4, demonstrates how to widen your pool of prospects while building your brand and community relationships, focusing on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube. These workshops are offered through the college’s Personal Enrichment/Community Education program which provides a variety of noncredit classes to the residents of Atlantic and Cape May counties throughout the year. To register or for information, call (609) 343-5655 or visit atlantic.edu/conted. Family Service Association holding Ladies Night Out NORTHFIELD - Family Service Association of South Jersey will host a Ladies Night Out at 6 p.m. Feb. 23 at the Atlantic City Country Club at 1 Leo Fraser Drive. The event features fine dining, wine tasting, designer bag auction and more. Tickets are $40. Proceeds benefit the association’s programs for families and children in South Jersey. For tickets or information, call (609) 569-0239 or visit FSAsj.org. College offering Heartsaver CPR/AED/First Aid workshop Atlantic Cape Community College will offer Heartsaver CPR/AED/First Aid, an eight-hour workshop that trains lay rescuers to recognize and treat life-threatening emergencies with adult, child and infant victims. Those who successfully complete the course will earn American Heart Association certification which is good for two years. Training will cover CPR/AED and relief of choking for adults, children and infants. This is ideal for first responders. In addition, the workshop will cover first aid for lay rescuers, focusing on how to manage illness and injuries in the first few minutes of an emergency until professional help arrives. The course will be offered from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 25, March 25 and April 22 at the Charles D. Worthington Atlantic City Campus, 1535 Bacharach Blvd., Atlantic City; and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 15 at the Cape May County Campus, 341 Court House-South Dennis Road, Cape May Court House. The fee is $79, including tuition and materials. Program teaches essentials of bartending Atlantic Cape Community College will present Bartending Training, a new 40-hour program covering the essentials of bartending, from 1 to 6 p.m., Tuesdays, from Feb. 28 through April 18. The workshop will meet primarily at Fuze Restaurant and Mirage Lounge in Avalon with some classroom instruction at the Cape May County Campus at 341 Court House-South Dennis Road in Cape May Court House. Participants, who may be considering a career in bartending, will learn to tend bar with confidence during this hands-on workshop. Students will become well versed in liquors, equipment and mixing techniques. In addition, they will develop an understanding of pricing, business management, beverage control and customer service. Fee is $349, including TIPS certification. This training is offered through the college’s Workforce Development program which provides a broad range of workshops, seminars and career training programs to the residents and businesses of Atlantic and Cape May counties. To register or for information, call (609) 343-5655 or visit www.atlantic.edu/conted. Learn about career in baking and pastry ATLANTIC CITY - Atlantic Cape Community College will present two hands-on training programs for people interested in fast entry to a career in baking and pastry or the culinary arts. The Culinary Training and the Baking and Pastry Training programs will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday, from Feb. 27 through June 27, at the Charles D. Worthington Atlantic City Campus at 1535 Bacharach Blvd. •Culinary Training Program covers the many areas of the professional kitchen, as students master cooking principles and practical techniques. Students learn to prepare professional and gourmet dishes and learn the basics of baking and pastry. •Baking and Pastry Training Program focuses on the fundamentals of baking and pastry, as students develop the skills required to work in almost any professional bakeshop. Topics include equipment use and safety, proper work methods and culinary math. In addition, students will learn about bread baking, cake baking and decorating, pies and cookies, custards, puddings and mousses. Both programs prepare students to take the National Restaurant Association Foodservice Sanitation Certificate exam, which is given at the end of each course. Those who successfully complete the exam receive a nationally recognized certification in sanitation. The prerequisite for each program is obtaining a reading score and a math score of 9 on the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE.) These noncredit programs will be taught by the college’s Academy of Culinary Arts chef educators, and classes will be held in state-of-the-art kitchens in the Caesars Entertainment Wing for Hospitality and Gaming Studies. Fee is $5,895, including tuition, labs and supplies. Buena Vista offering free rabies clinics BUENA VISTA - Buena Vista Township will offer the following free rabies clinics for residents: •Newtonville Fire Hall, 10 a.m. to noon March 4. •Richland Fire Hall, 1 to 3 p.m. March 4. •East Vineland Fire Hall 10 am to noon March 18. •Collings Lakes Fire Hall, 1 to 3 p.m. March 18. An adult must accompany the pet and vicious dogs must be muzzled. Cat Licenses are $7 for spay/neuter or $9 for non-spay/non-neuter and dog licenses are $12 for spay/neuter or $15 for non-spay/non-neuter and will be sold at all clinics. Exact change or checks are requested. Licenses are also available at the Clerk’s Office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and until 7 p.m. Tuesdays. A late fee of $7 will be applied for licenses renewed after March 31. For information, call (856) 697-2100 or (609) 561-5650 or visit www.buenavistanj.com. Hammonton Education Foundation sponsoring Taste of the Town HAMMONTON - The Hammonton Education Foundation will sponsor the 14th annual Taste of the Town from 3 to 6 p.m. March 5 at Hammonton High School at 566 Old Forks Road. About two dozen local eateries will serve samples of their signature dishes. Proceeds will help the foundation fund innovative projects in the Hammonton School District. BB&T Bank will sponsor the event, which will feature the theme “Food with Friends.” “We are very excited about this year’s event,” foundation trustee Lori Calderone said. “We will be introducing many new vendors to showcase their specialties, and several of our previous vendors will return with their delicious samplings. We encourage everyone to help us celebrate food, fun and family.” New vendors this year will include Costello’s Pizza, Taste of the Olive, Bun in the Oven, Mott’s Creek Inn, Pic-A-Lilli Inn, Roma Pizza, The Funky Cow and Atco Diner. Entertainment will be provided by students from the Susan Watson Leiser Piano Studio and dancers from the Dance Magic Studio. The cast of Hammonton High School’s production of “Anything Goes” also will perform, along with students from The Voice Studio of Marissa Carrafiello. The event also will include raffle prizes and a 50/50 drawing. Taste of the Town is a major source of funding for the Hammonton Education Foundation, which has given more than $400,000 to local schools since its inception in 2003. Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students. Tickets may be purchased at Casciano Coffee Bar & Sweetery, Joe Italiano’s Maplewood Inn, The Golden Feather and Atco Diner. A limited number of tickets will be sold at the door. For tickets or information, call (609) 432-7977, (609) 517-4731 or (609) 567-1734. Read or Share this story: http://vineland.dj/2k3rkvk © 2020 www.thehammontonnews.com. All rights reserved.

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Meet ocean's first vegetarian reptile-Hammerhead null | 9 May 2016 7:38 PM GMT -'Hammerhead-' creature was the world-'s first plant-eating marine reptile, according to a recent study. Washington D.C: "Hammerhead" creature was the world's first plant-eating marine reptile, according to a recent study. In 2014, scientists discovered a bizarre fossil of a crocodile-sized sea-dwelling reptile that lived 242 million years ago in what today is southern China. Its head was poorly preserved, but it seemed to have a flamingo-like beak. But in this new paper, paleontologists reveal what was really going on. That "beak" is actually part of a hammerhead-shaped jaw apparatus, which it used to feed on plants on the ocean floor. It's the earliest known example of an herbivorous marine reptile. "It's a very strange animal," says co-author Olivier Rieppel, Rowe Family Curator of Evolutionary Biology at The Field Museum in Chicago. "It's got a hammerhead, which is unique, it's the first time we've seen a reptile like this The reptile's name, Atopodentatus unicus, hints at its muddled past. It is Latin for "unique strangely toothed." But newly discovered fossils make it clearer how its "strange teeth" were actually configured. Its wide jaw was shaped like a hammerhead, and along the edge, it had peg-like teeth. Then, further into its mouth, it had bunches of needle-like teeth. "To figure out how the jaw fit together and how the animal actually fed, we bought some children's clay, kind of like Play-Doh, and rebuilt it with toothpicks to represent the teeth," says Rieppel. "We looked at how the upper and lower jaw locked together, and that's how we proceeded and described it." herbivorous marine reptile south china fossils atopodentatus unicus

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Forget Jack Nicklaus' record, Irish golfer Rory McIlroy just wants to win again null | 8 Aug 2018 4:12 PM GMT Seven years after being hailed by one of his peers as the man to challenge Jack Nicklaus record of 18 major titles, Rory McIlroy remains stuck on four... Seven years after being hailed by one of his peers as the man to challenge Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 major titles, Rory McIlroy remains stuck on four and is running out of time in his quest to get anywhere near the Golden Bear's mark. McIlroy blew away the field for his first major win at the 2011 U.S. Open at Congressional, after which his potential was hailed by fellow Irishman Padraig Harrington. "If you are going to talk about someone challenging Jack's record there's your man," said Harrington at the time. "Winning majors at 22 with his talent -- he would have 20 more years, so probably 100 more majors in him where he could be competitive. It would give him a great chance." McIlroy for a while lived up to the billing, quickly racking up his second, third and fourth major titles by the end of 2014, but he has spun his wheels since and comes into this week's PGA Championship at Bellerive on a 15-major drought. At 29, time is still on his side to reach double-digit major wins, but Nicklaus's record seems firmly out of reach, and McIlroy arrives at this week's PGA Championship if not entirely an after-thought, then not exactly the centre of attention. "From 2014 I've given myself some half chances at majors," McIlroy said on Tuesday, slipping easily into soccer vernacular. "The last time I won a major in 2014 at Valhalla, that's one of the best times I swung the club and I'm trying to get back to (that)." McIlroy has had a chance in two majors this year. Second starting the final round at the Masters, he faded to finish equal fifth, while his late charge at the British Open earned a tie for second, his first career runner-up finish in a major. "I've played in a lot of final groups and haven't played well enough when it's counted," he bluntly acknowledged. "That's something I'm trying to figure out, what I need to do to make that little step from contending to lifting trophies." McIlroy has fallen well behind the pace set by Nicklaus, who won seven majors before his 28th birthday. European Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn reckons the victory floodgates could open for McIlroy at any time. "You go through spells where you don't quite get over the line but he's still contending every week and I admire his patience and the way he goes about it," Bjorn said. "He is such quality and I think he's in a place where it's going to go 'boom' and then he's going to start winning a lot of tournaments. When he wins that one I think he'll just start rolling again. As a guy who's played golf since I was three years old, I'll pay money to go and watch him." Golf Ryder Cup

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RTI Act amended in the face of strong opposition Our Bureau New Delhi | Updated on July 22, 2019 Published on July 22, 2019 bl19_RTI The Congress dubs amendments as an ‘elimination’ of the transparency statute The Opposition dubbed the amendments to the Right to Information (RTI) Act, pushed in the Lok Sabha on Monday, as a move to ‘eliminate’ the statute because it militates against the, ‘culture of secrecy and arbitrariness’ in the ruling dispensation. The Lok Sabha passed the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which seeks to amend Sections 13, 16 and 27 of the RTI Act, a move that links the status of Central Information Commissioners with that of Election Commissioners and the State Information Commissioners with the State Chief Secretary. The move has been dubbed by rights activists as a ‘complete dilution’ of the structural mechanism around the statute. Leading the debate against the Bill, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said the amendments are aimed at undermining the authority of the Central and State Information Commissioners because the government wants to hollow out credible oversight mechanisms. Tharoor said the idea is to turn the RTI into another ‘toothless tiger’ like the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) because the government is threatened by disclosures that were ordered on issues ranging from ‘the Prime Minister’s educational qualifications to demonetisation’. ‘More power to govt’ Rejecting the criticism, the government said that these were ‘routine’ amendments aimed at streamlining the functioning of information commissions and the Opposition was “ ‘misleading’ the people. In his intervention, Tharoor said the proposed changes arm the government with powers to hire and fire independent information commissioners. “It is not an Amendment Bill but an elimination bill,” he said. The Act was a monumental achievement for the country’s democracy and it challenged the vested interests of the government, the former Union Minister said. He questioned why the Bill has been brought ‘without any public consultation’. “Why is the government desperate to rush through the Bill? Is it because the CIC delivered an order on the Prime Minister’s educational qualifications?” Tharoor asked. He said four posts of information commissioners are lying vacant in CIC. “The Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2019, is a deliberate attempt to undermine the RTI Act,” Tharoor alleged. Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Jitendra Singh said the opposition is ‘misguiding’ the people by saying the government wants to weaken the RTI Act by bringing the bill. “From the beginning of its first term in 2014, the Modi government has brought transparency in governance for greater public participation,” Singh said.

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From the Viewsroom Why India underperforms on HDI Venky Vembu | Updated on December 11, 2019 Published on December 11, 2019 The burden of social and economic disadvantage is hard to negate Looking beyond India’s unflattering 129th-place ranking on the Human Development Index, the long-term trend lines of its performance in the various sub-indices may seem disarmingly positive. As the UNDP’s HDR Report 2019 notes, India’s gross national income per capita has more than doubled since 2005, and the number of “multi-dimensionally poor” people fell by more than 271 million in the decade since 2005-06. Additionally, inequalities in “basic areas” of human development have reduced: for instance, historically marginalised groups are catching up with the rest of the population in terms of education attainment. But beneath these upbeat data points, there is disquieting validation that the malefic effects of deep-rooted societal and economic entrenchments are proving hard to negate. It is this that accounts for such a lowly rank for an economy that is in the global Top 5 by size. For instance, based on the pre-tax income share of the top 10 per cent, income inequality in India has risen from 31 per cent in 1980 to 55 per cent in 2016. In India the income growth of the bottom 40 per cent between 2000 and 2018 (58 per cent) was significantly below the average income growth for the entire population (122 per cent). Such income inequalities amplify failings on other HDI indices of human development. Intergenerational income mobility is lower in countries with high income inequality: it manifests at birth, and determines access to quality healthcare, education, and opportunities. The cumulative impact of this spills over across generations. Typically, policymakers respond to income inequality with a sledgehammer distributive approach: taxing the well-off and transferring money to the relatively dispossessed. But as the HDR Report points out, the impact of such redistributionthis varies: in developed countries, for instance, taxes and transfers led to a 17-point reduction in the Gini coefficient, whereas in developing countries it reduced by just 4 per cent. If the intergenerational cycle — which denies opportunities to those at the bottom of the pyramid — is to be broken, policymakers need to look beyond knee-jerk redistribution and address underlying social mechanisms as well. The writer is Associate Editor with BusinessLine

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You are here: Home > Warships > Amercom > US Warships Find by Brand Amercom (7) Amercom US Warships Ships of War is an exciting collection of warships that have helped shape our history. These superb models, scaled at 1:1,000, build into a remarkable collection. Each model has amazing detail and is true to the original. The accompanying magazine is fact-filled and builds into an encyclopaedia of the world's greatest warships - an indispensable reference source that will be returned to time and again. #AMERCOMSHIP09 - US Navy South Dakota Class Battleship - USS South Dakota (BB-57) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1100 Scale) US Navy South Dakota Class Battleship - USS Massachusetts (BB-59) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1100 Scale) USS Massachusetts (BB-59), known as "Big Mamie" to her crewmembers during World War II, was a battleship of the second South Dakota class. She was the seventh ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the sixth state, and one of two ships of her class (along with her sister Alabama) to be donated for use as a museum ship. US Navy South Dakota Class Battleship - USS South Dakota (BB-57) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1100 Scale) US Navy Iowa Class Battleship - USS Iowa (BB-61) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1000 Scale) The New Jersey was directly engaged in the conquest of Okinawa from March 14th until April 16th, 1945. As the carriers prepared for the invasion with strikes there and on Honshu, the New Jersey fought off air raids, used her seaplanes to rescue downed pilots, defended the carriers from suicide planes, shooting down at least three and assisting in the destruction of others. US Navy Iowa Class Battleship - USS Missouri (BB-63) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1000 Scale) Missouri arrived at Ulithi on May 9th, 1945, and thence proceeded to Apra Harbor, Guam, on the 18th. That afternoon Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., Commander 3d Fleet, broke his flag in Missouri. US Navy Iowa Class Battleship - USS New Jersey (BB-62) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1000 Scale) US Navy South Dakota Class Battleship - USS Alabama (BB-60) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1100 Scale) USS Alabama (BB-60), a South Dakota-class battleship, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy named after the US state of Alabama.Alabama was commissioned in 1942 and served in World War II in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. US Navy Iowa Class Battleship - USS Wisconsin (BB-64) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1100 Scale) USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa-class battleship, the second ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. She was built at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and launched on December 7th, 1943, (the second anniversary of the Pearl Harbor raid), sponsored by the wife of Governor Walter Goodland of Wisconsin.

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Uber Bans Passenger for Life After She Threatens to Accuse Driver of Rape: Report Breanna Edwards Filed to:News YouTube screenshot Updated Friday, April 7, 2017, 1 p.m. EDT: The Uber driver who went through a harrowing ride with a vile customer who threatened to accuse him of rape has uploaded a new video in which he thanked the community for supporting him and sharing the incident across social media. The still-unidentified man said that he met with Uber officials at the company offices and explained the situation to them and shared the video again. They commended him for recording the incident, noting that this type of documentation often helps to resolve issues with customers who launch allegations against drivers. The driver said that Uber told him it was going to give him “some amount of money,” an amount that he declined to specify. The company also gave him a lifetime supply of multiple types of phone chargers, presumably to pacify the next outrageous customer who becomes belligerent over such a small matter. The driver addressed some of the comments made about the video, explaining that he didn’t call the cops because he was using his only phone to record the incident and didn’t feel comfortable having a gap in the documentation. He added that he made a report and that the police were investigating. He ended the video by encouraging all ride-sharing drivers to get a dashboard camera and urging them never to get physical with clients even when they’re being belligerent. “I got a message for every single Uber driver out there. You better invest in a fucking dashcam, bro. Because being an Uber driver is putting your life in jeopardy if you don’t have a ... dashcam,” he said. “Make sure you buy a dashcam, bro. It could save your life. It saved my life.” A young Bronx, N.Y., woman who was caught on cellphone video apparently threatening to call the police and falsely accuse an Uber driver of rape wa banned from the app for life, according to a company spokesperson. “The behavior in this video is abusive and completely unacceptable,” an Uber spokesperson said in a statement, according to the New York Post. The footage, which was uploaded online this week, appears to show the unidentified female passenger hurling slurs and curses at the male driver for several minutes. “I’m going to start screaming out the window that you’re raping me, that you raped me,” she says. “I will punch myself in the face and tell the cops you did it,” she adds. “You wanna play?” The woman tells the driver, “Go back to your country” and says, “Donald Trump going to send you and your family back. Get the fuck out of my country.” The incident all seemed to unfold, according to the Post, because the driver did not have an iPhone charger. “If I don’t have a charger, politely ask me. I’ll politely tell you, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t have a charger,’” the driver says to the woman. “But you start disrespecting me.” The back-and-forth continues as the driver continues to record and even smiles at the camera. “I was taking you to your destination until you started talking shit,” he says, just before the woman realizes that the footage is being recorded. “Why are you recording me?” she yells, while punching the man’s seats. “He just hit me in my face!” The driver says that the passenger is free to “make up whatever lies [she] wants” before the woman eventually gets out of the car. Uber continued in its statement about the incident: “As our Community Guidelines make clear, this will not be tolerated by anyone who uses Uber. The rider’s account has been banned and Uber is looking into this incident.” Neither the driver nor the rider has been publicly identified. Read more at the New York Post. News Editor at The Root, animation nerd, soca junkie, yogi

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Gennaro Gattuso insists that AC Milan are not dead and buried just yet, but time and the results will tell by Chloe Beresford / 31 October 2018, 15:00Tweet Following a disappointing performance and a last-minute 1-0 derby defeat to crosstown rivals Inter and a subsequent 2-1 loss to Real Betis at home in the Europa League, AC Milan boss Gennaro Gattuso was feeling the pressure. On admitting that the side had “lost their way”, it was clear to see that his usual 4-3-3 was simply unable to bring the most from star striker Gonzalo Higuain, the talented hitman having failed to score in either of the aforementioned fixtures. “We are coming off two smacks in the face, but we’re not dead,” assured the former midfielder to reporters before the next match with Sampdoria. “I am not dead and buried, some of you still have to understand that. It hurts when there are defeats, but I know how much I can still give to these club colours. “It’s the whole team that isn’t working and that means Gonzalo Higuain doesn’t get the service,” Gattuso continued. “Having said that, I told him that he needs to be less irritable and should applaud his teammates rather than shout at them. I think there is too much talk about this situation, as if I’m the only Coach in the world who is on the edge. I know these lads believe in me, and we are struggling badly, but I put myself on the line for them.” Typical Gattuso, doing what he does best pic.twitter.com/vN5AxD8wJd — Utkarsh (@Jurgenology) October 28, 2018 “Tomorrow I want to see 23 lions with a sense of desire and belonging to this club,” he would add in his inimitable style. “I don’t even care about the tactics, I just want to see 23 rabid dogs eager to prove themselves.” Of course, without any top-flight experience before taking on such a high-pressure role at the club where Gattuso made 387 appearances between 1999 and 2012, many have accused him of being an all-out motivator without much tactical acumen. Indeed, those previous statements actively feed such perceptions, however what happened next proved otherwise. Milan weren’t perfect in their 3-2 win over a talented Sampdoria side, yet the Coach was successfully able to tinker with his setup in order to get Higuain back on the scoresheet once again. By changing to a 4-4-2 and adding young striker Patrick Cutrone alongside the Argentine, both players ended the match with a goal apiece and statistics highlighted exactly how much of a difference the change of shape had made. Versus Inter, Higuain touched the ball just 25 times in 90 minutes of action, firing two shots on goal, while his touches versus Samp amounted to 48 and his goal came from five shots in total. Gattuso was correct in his assessment that the figures in the derby weren’t entirely the striker’s fault, the number nine receiving just 13 passes from team-mates versus their Nerazzurri rivals as opposed to 38 in last weekend’s 3-2 victory. Perhaps rumours of a potential sacking for Gattuso seem premature as the Rossoneri climbed to fifth with that victory, with a chance to move up to joint-fourth with Lazio if they beat Genoa on Wednesday evening. That said, there has already been speculation that former Bologna boss Roberto Donadoni and even Antonio Conte could be waiting in the wings to replace him, with sporting director Leonardo being forced to come out and quash the gathering speculation earlier this week. “We can’t go around denying rumours on Gattuso every single time,” the Brazilian told RMC Sport. “Today Gattuso is the Coach of Milan and we want him to stay there, to win games and improve the team. We can’t always be talking about this. The only ones putting Gattuso up for discussion are outside the club. You forget that Gattuso, [development director] Paolo Maldini and I have a history together, which means we can always be clear and honest with each other.” It has to be said that the current situation is on a knife edge as Milan have seemingly reversed a negative trend, but warning signs remain. This side are the only team in Serie A to have failed to keep a clean sheet so far this term, however the current boss is firmly in control of his own destiny if he can improve both performances and results. Time may not be fully on his side, but a win and a clean sheet versus Genoa will certainly go a long way to confirming that the result versus Sampdoria was not a flash in the pan. It might even persuade Leonardo and Maldini that their former team-mate is the right man to reach the stated aim of putting Milan back in the Champions League.

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By Laurie EdmistonContributor Sun., Nov. 17, 2019timer2 min. read In the three decades I have worked in the field of HIV prevention and treatment, I’ve never seen a breakthrough quite like it. It’s not a vaccine. It’s not a cure. But it could mean the end of the HIV epidemic as we know it. The science is simple. When a person living with HIV takes their medication as prescribed on an ongoing basis, the virus can be suppressed to levels so low that it can no longer be detected in blood tests. And when it’s undetectable, doctors and scientists now agree, it’s intransmissible. Let me repeat that: a person on effective HIV treatment can’t pass it on to a sexual partner. This has opened up possibilities once considered unthinkable for couples with one HIV-positive and one HIV-negative partner, such as conceiving and having a baby, and sharing intimacy without the fear of passing on a virus. It’s now all possible, if a person living with HIV has access to effective treatment. These benefits extend to all of us. Mathematical projections have shown that if enough people living with HIV are diagnosed and start treatment by next year, the prevention benefits of treatment could mean the end of the HIV epidemic in just over a decade. This is a game-changer that other countries have already taken advantage of. In the United Kingdom, a combination of testing and treatment efforts mean the country is now on track to end HIV as a public health threat by 2030. Even some low- and middle-income countries are ahead of Canada on this measure. Why have we been punching below our weight? Despite the lauded accessibility and universality of Canada’s health-care system, we have many barriers that make it difficult for people to get tested and start treatment. Seventy-seven countries around the world have adopted policies that allow for HIV self-testing, meaning a person can administer an HIV test on their own, similar to a home pregnancy test. Health Canada has not yet approved HIV self-testing. Yet by far the most significant barrier to Canada achieving HIV epidemic elimination is linking people to treatment once they are diagnosed. According to the latest estimates, 19 per cent of Canadians diagnosed with HIV are not accessing treatment. Compared to all other G7 countries that have published figures on this measure, Canada ranks last. What sets us apart? For one, we are the only high-income country in the world with a public health-care system that lacks a country-wide pharmacare program. Expanding public health care to include pharmacare from coast to coast would streamline drug coverage across the country, make prescription medication as accessible as public health-care services, and achieve the buying power and efficiencies necessary to keep out-of-pocket costs to patients low. Other countries have rolled out free HIV treatment programs at a national level, and they are already seeing significant reductions in new HIV infections. What are we waiting for? Laurie Edmiston is executive director of CATIE, Canada’s source for HIV and hepatitis C information.

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Will there be an ABBA reunion, when are their new songs released, are they going on tour and who are the band members? From solo stars to international superstars... We have all the details about the Swedish pop group Chloe Kerr Joanne Kavanagh AFTER wowing audiences and storming the Eurovision Song Contest in 1972 with Waterloo, ABBA became one of the most popular bands in history. The group as still as popular to the present day - we look back at the history of the iconic band... The band won Eurovision back in 1974 - and their songs remain popular to this dayCredit: Getty Images Who are ABBA? ABBA is Sweden's biggest ever pop-group and one of the most popular bands in history. They have sold over 380 million albums and singles worldwide and were the first group from a non-English speaking country to have consistent success in English speaking countries. The band was named after the band members Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. They won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with their smash hit Waterloo before going on to enjoy worldwide success. Benny and Anni-Frid were married between 1978 and 1980, as were Bjorn and Agnetha married in 1971 but divorced in 1979; they had a son and a daughter together. The band became well known for their 70s style outrageous costumes throughout their career. The two couples married, but the relationships weren't always smooth sailingCredit: Getty Images What are ABBA's greatest hits? Their compilation album Gold: Greatest Hits (released in 1992) has become one of the most popular albums worldwide, with sales of over 28 million copies. Their best selling singles in the UK singles were: Knowing Me Knowing You Super Troupe In the UK, the group had nine Number One's in the chart between 1974 and 1980. The only recording artists with more UK number 1s by 1980 were Elvis Presley and The Beatles. The group had incredible success across the world, particularly in the UKCredit: Getty Images When did ABBA split? The band never formally announced a split but stopped performing together in 1982 and focused on their solo careers. As the stars concentrated on their own musical careers they denied that they had split over the next few years. Except for a TV appearance in 1986 they did not appear publicly together until 2008 when they reunited at the Swedish premiere of the Mamma Mia! movie. Are ABBA getting back together for a reunion? On April 27, 2018 ABBA confirmed they are making a comeback and have secretly recorded two new songs 35 years after band split. The Swedish pop stars are working on an "avatar tour project" and a TV special as well laying down new tracks. The band said in a statement: “The decision to go ahead with the exciting Abba avatar tour project had an unexpected consequence. "We all felt that, after some 35 years, it could be fun to join forces again and go into the recording studio. "So we did. And it was like time had stood still and we had only been away on a short holiday. "An extremely joyful experience! "It resulted in two new songs and one of them 'I Still Have Faith In You' will be performed by our digital selves in a TV special produced by NBC and the BBC aimed for broadcasting in December. "We may have come of age, but the song is new. And it feels good.” They signed off the letter from: "Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn, Anni-Frid - Stockholm, Sweden, 27 April 2018." When were ABBA last on stage? Their final public performance was on the UK show The Late, Late Breakfast Show on December 11 1982. Their first public reunion post-ABBA was for the Swedish premiere of Mamma Mia! the movie. Most recently the famous Swedes were reunited in Stockholm earlier this year for the opening of Mamma Mia! The Party - a new entertainment venture in the city. They joined together in Stockholm in 2016 What’s the Abba virtual experience? The Swedish group have signed a multi-million pound deal with Spice Girls mastermind Simon Fuller for a major ABBA fan experience in 2019. The shows will feature virtual reality versions of the band as well as virtual and live performances, the production will address the group’s history then and now. There is a strong chance all four members could also reunite to perform live as talks continue. Tickets for the huge global production will go on sale next year, with multiple dates around the world promised by organisers. Speaking about the planned shows, Benny said: “We’re inspired by the limitless possibilities of what the future holds and are loving being a part of creating something new and dramatic here. A time machine that captures the essence of who we were. And are.” Abba's best songs as they make new music after 35 years the band split

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Lift Up America, Kansas City Chiefs and Tyson Foods Team Up to Fight Hunger in Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Nov. 1, 2016 – Lift Up America and the Kansas City Chiefs teamed up with Tyson Foods, Inc. to tackle one of Kansas City’s most pressing issues – hunger. Kansas City Chiefs linebackers were on hand Tuesday to help unload and distribute the 30,000 pounds of protein donated by Tyson Foods. Harvesters–The Community Food Network distributed the food to more than 60 agencies throughout the Kansas City area. Tuesday’s distribution event, which kicked off at noon at Arrowhead Stadium, featured a news conference with speakers including Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt. For the past 13 years, Lift Up America has partnered with the Kansas City Chiefs and Tyson Foods to distribute food to Kansas City area agencies. “I’m so happy that the Lift Up America food distribution has become a Kansas City Chiefs tradition for the past decade. It’s something that I, as well as our players, have thoroughly enjoyed participating in each and every year. Knowing that this food will find its way into the hands of those in need makes the day a blessing to be a part of,” Hunt said. Lift Up America partners with corporations, colleges, professional sports teams and nonprofit organizations to help communities in times of need. The Kansas City Chiefs were the first professional sports team to provide assistance. “We have been so blessed to work with the Kansas City Chiefs and Tyson Foods year after year to support Harvesters–The Community Food Network. Through these efforts in fighting hunger, we hope that we can serve as an example for our youth and encourage the next generation to be Ambassadors of Compassion,” said Eric Hannah, president of Lift Up America. The need for food assistance is greater today than ever before. Across Harvesters’ 26-county service area, nearly 375,000 people are food insecure. As the regional Feeding America food bank, Harvesters provides food and household products to more than 620 not-for-profit agencies, serving 141,500 people every month. “This donation of protein is very important to Harvesters and to the clients we serve,” said Valerie Nicholson-Watson, Harvesters’ president and CEO. “Protein can be an expensive food item to purchase and is often difficult for families to access, but it is a key food group for a healthy diet. Harvesters is committed to providing the healthiest food possible, and this donation allows us to help meet the need of feeding one in seven people in our community.” Last year, Harvesters distributed more than 43 million pounds of food and household products which provided more than 37 million meals. Due to the slow economic recovery and continued high unemployment, the number of people seeking help from Harvesters’ network remains great. For the past 13 years, Tyson Foods has assisted Lift Up America in providing food in more than 20 cities to reduce domestic hunger in the United States. Since 2000, Tyson Foods has donated more than 100 million pounds of protein in the United States. “We want to make a difference in the lives of people struggling with food insecurity,” said Matt Pakula, Tyson Foods’ senior manager of corporate social responsibility. “To show our commitment to hunger relief, Tyson Foods has pledged $50 million in cash or in-kind donations over the next five years in the fight against hunger.” About Tyson Foods, Inc. Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN), with headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas, is one of the world's largest food companies with leading brands such as Tyson®, Jimmy Dean®, Hillshire Farm®, Sara Lee®, Ball Park®, Wright®, Aidells® and State Fair®. It’s a recognized market leader in chicken, beef and pork as well as prepared foods, including bacon, breakfast sausage, turkey, lunchmeat, hot dogs, pizza crusts and toppings, tortillas and desserts. The company supplies retail and foodservice customers throughout the United States and approximately 130 countries. Tyson Foods was founded in 1935 by John W. Tyson, whose family has continued to lead the business with his son, Don Tyson, guiding the company for many years and grandson, John H. Tyson, serving as the current chairman of the board of directors. The company currently has approximately 113,000 Team Members employed at more than 400 facilities and offices in the United States and around the world. Through its Core Values, Code of Conduct and Team Member Bill of Rights, Tyson Foods strives to operate with integrity and trust and is committed to creating value for its shareholders, customers and Team Members. The company also strives to be faith- friendly, provide a safe work environment and serve as stewards of the animals, land and environment entrusted to it. About Lift Up America Lift Up America, founded in 2004, is a 501c3 non-profit organization that collaborates with corporations, professional and college sports teams and local nonprofit agencies to help our nation’s less fortunate. For more information about Lift Up America, please visit www.LiftUpAmerica.org. In 2014, Lift Up America is focused on expanding its Ambassador of Compassion program across the U.S., including an active chapter in Cleveland. An interactive leadership program for youth, Ambassadors of Compassion helps transform junior-high and high-school aged youth into resilient, confident individuals motivated to embrace a strong work ethic and continue giving service in their communities. For more information and how to donate, please visit www.aoclife.org. About the Kansas City Chiefs This is another example of the Kansas City Chiefs commitment to playing an active role in our community. The Hunt family has made corporate citizenship and charitable giving a priority for the Chiefs. Those efforts focus on organizations and programs which improve the cultural climate in our region, support families and children in crisis, improve health and wellness among children as well as preserve the legacy and history of the game of football. One way the organization supports these efforts is through Chiefs Community Caring Team visits such as this Last year alone, the Chiefs Community Caring Team’s hunger relief programming was responsible for providing nearly 105,000 meals throughout Chiefs Kingdom. About Harvesters – The Community Food Network Harvesters is a regional food bank and was Feeding America’s 2011 Food Bank of the Year. Serving a 26-county area of northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas, Harvesters provides food and related household products to more than 620 not-for-profit agencies including emergency food pantries, community kitchens, shelters and others. Agencies in Harvesters’ network provide food assistance to as many as 141,500 different people each month. Harvesters, which was founded in 1979, is a certified member of Feeding America, a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks, serving all 50 states. For more information, visit www.harvesters.org. Derek Burleson Public Relations Manager, Corporate Affairs 479-290-6466 | derek.burleson@tyson.com

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How Mister Rogers made Friday the 13th less scary Image by PBS Television/Courtesy of Getty Images. If you're old enough to know who the man pictured above is, you're one of the lucky ones. That's Fred Rogers, better known as Mister Rogers of the legendary PBS children's show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." Before his passing in 2003, Rogers was a leader in the efforts to educate the mind, body, and spirit of children as well as nurturing the best in adults, too. (For an example of the latter, and you may want to have some tissues ready, watch his speech accepting a lifetime achievement Emmy award here.) And despite the fact that he played with puppets — such as the one pictured below — he took a very rational approach to the world. For example, he wasn't afraid of Friday the 13th, and he didn't want children to grow up fearing it either. Image via Emmy TV Legends/Archive of American Television. If you're old enough to know who the puppet pictured above is, you're also one of the lucky ones. That's King Friday, the ruler of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a fictional, puppet-populated realm to which Mister Rogers traveled in most episodes of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." "We just thought that was fun because so many people are so superstitious about Friday the 13th that we thought, let's start children out thinking that Friday the 13th was a fun day." Wikipedia describes King Friday as “relatively egocentric, irrational, resistant to change, and temperamental, although open-minded enough to listen when told he is wrong." But his name reveals another part of his biography. His full name is King Friday XIII — that is, King Friday the 13th. That's a reference not to his lineage (there wasn't a King Friday XII), but to his birthday. King Friday XIII was born on Friday the 13th, and regardless of month or frequency, every Friday the 13th was King Friday's birthday. In a 1999 interview with the Emmy's website, Rogers explained (full video here, and that link starts at the relevant part): "His name was King Friday XIII. We just thought that was fun because so many people are so superstitious about Friday the 13th that we thought, let's start children out thinking that Friday the 13th was a fun day. And every Friday the 13th would be his birthday. So we would celebrate his birthday every time a Friday the 13th came. And that was so wonderful about [broadcasting a live TV show] — when a Friday the 13th came, you knew it." As a nice bonus, if you were a kid who was celebrating a (real) birthday on a Friday the 13th, many grown-ups might have told you that your special day was cursed, but Mister Rogers was throwing the king — and you — a birthday party. For a generation of children, Friday the 13th became a day of celebration thanks to a guy and his make-believe neighborhood. Dan Lewis runs the popular daily newsletter Now I Know ("Learn Something New Every Day, By Email"). To subscribe to his daily email, click here. humanity and culture education teacher appreciation

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After El Paso shooting, Glendon Oakley Jr. is being hailed as a hero. He says attention is on the wrong person Jay Cannon In the mass shooting that killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, Army Pfc. Glendon Oakley Jr. emerged a hero. Oakley Jr. was reportedly walking outside nearby stores when he heard the gunfire, prompting him to run toward the chaos, where he and another man began carrying children to safety. Oakley Jr. told CNN he encountered about 13 children as he rushed toward the deadly scene, but could only carry three. "What I did was what I was supposed to do, and I understand it was heroic and I'm looked at as a hero for it, but that wasn't the reason for me ..." Oakley Jr. told reporters Sunday as he broke into tears. "I'm just focused on the kids that I could not get and the families that were lost." Support is strong in the face of tragedy:Hundreds lined up to answer the pleas for blood donations in El Paso after the shooting The 22-year-old private first class had returned recently from a deployment in Kuwait, according to Task & Purpose. He called Saturday's experience "the worst thing I've ever been through in my life." Officials on Monday updated counts of 22 dead and 25 injured in the tragedy that shook El Paso to its core. "All I thought of was how I would want another man to react if I had a child and I wasn't around my child at the time," an emotional Oakley Jr. said. He added, "I didn't get any sleep last night.I don't want to talk about what went on there, because I just want to forget about it all. I just want to focus on the people that are lost, the loved ones." The Texas resident repeatedly made a point to direct the spotlight away from himself. "I want to look out to the families that were lost and the families that lost their children, because the focus should not be on me, it should be on what happened in Ohio and what happened in Chicago and what happened yesterday," he said as he fought back tears. El Paso, Dayton, Chicago: Media doesn't treat all gun violence the same "I understand what I did was heroic, but I did that because that's what I was trained to do. That is what the military has taught me to do and that's why I'm thankful to be in the military and for what they have taught me ... But, I really want [the media] to focus on the people that are actually grieving through this." Reporters gave Oakley Jr. a break in the middle of his emotional interview on Sunday, noting that his story is a sign of hope amid a story of intense tragedy and grief. Oakley Jr. comes from a devout military family: his older sister, mother and father are all either active or retired members of the Army, according to Task & Purpose. We asked, you answered: you're holding onto your phone forever Fellow golfer calls Bryson DeChambeau a 'single-minded twit' for his slow play Despite warning signs, why wasn't Jeffrey Epstein on suicide watch when he died? Universal cancels release of 'The Hunt,' controversial film Trump appeared to criticize Like what you see? Download the USA TODAY app.

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Catching Up With ... Women's Open Champion Hilary Lunke June 23, 2013 | Hopkins, Minn. By David Shefter, USGA Happily retired from the LPGA Tour, Hilary Lunke now is a full-time mom. (Andrew Vick/Living Room Studios) The temptation was there. Hit by a brief moment of nostalgia, Hilary Lunke (nee Homeyer) momentarily thought about pulling up the 2013 U.S Women’s Open application form. Entering the final year of the 10-year exemption for her Cinderella-like playoff victory at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, Lunke, now 34, realizes there likely won’t be another Women’s Open in her future, especially one with a free pass. So taking a family vacation with husband Tylar and their three young daughters to Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y., seemed like an idyllic way to spend a week in late June. Then Lunke, whose only victory in seven LPGA Tour seasons was that 2003 Women’s Open, rationalized why she hasn’t competed in a Women’s Open since permanently retiring from professional golf in 2008. “As much as I want to do this, it would take a lot of effort,” said Lunke, who last played a Women’s Open in 2008 at Interlachen Country Club in her hometown of Edina, Minn. “I’m still nursing a baby. I’ve played 10 rounds in five years. Now suddenly I’m going to go play six rounds in a week? It sounded good in theory. But for me to go play golf right now – it would take a tremendous amount of effort.” These days, golf is not on Lunke’s short list. In many ways, Lunke’s life is more chaotic now than when she played the LPGA Tour. Last October, she gave birth to Linnea, who joined sisters Greta (5) and Marin (3). Someday, they might make for a great foursome on the course, but now they require the lion’s share of Lunke’s attention, whether it’s cleaning up toys, changing diapers or driving them to pre-school. “It’s a full-time job,” says Lunke. Yet this is what Lunke always wanted. Even after winning the Women’s Open, Lunke never saw herself playing professionally into her 40s. Having a family was more important than collecting trophies. She lauds the likes of two-time Women’s Open champion Juli Inkster and 2006 Women’s Open runner-up Pat Hurst, who have managed to balance tour and family life. Lunke found it difficult to be away from home once Greta was born in October 2007. The inability to compete consistently well against the elite LPGA Tour players also gave Lunke reason to retire. In 115 LPGA Tour starts, Lunke’s lone top-10 finish was that 2003 Women’s Open victory. “If every week was a U.S. [Women’s] Open, I probably would still be playing,” said Lunke. “I was always comfortable playing in USGA events where par was a good score. On tour, [the Women’s Open] was a welcome week for me. We were so used to playing wide-open fairways in sopping-wet conditions and just bombing it out there as far as you can.” Inside her modest suburban Minneapolis home, there are little reminders of Lunke’s past life on tour. She never purchased a replica of the Women’s Open trophy. Her gold medal is filed away in a box and there aren’t any framed articles or magazine covers. Someday she plans to create a scrapbook for her children to see. Most of the walls are filled with pictures of family, although there’s one showing Lunke teeing off at Turnberry in Scotland and another with her father, Bill, caddieing for her at the 1997 Minnesota Women’s State Amateur just before she entered Stanford University. Downstairs in the basement on a shelf above the jumble of toys, Lunke has one prized moment from the 2003 Women’s Open; it’s a framed photo of her winning putt taken from an angle that shows husband/caddie Tylar fist-pumping beside the green. Lunke’s children were unaware what Mommy did until one day they were in the living room when the television happened to be tuned to Golf Channel, which was airing one of its Top 10 shows. “I didn’t even know it was airing,” said Lunke. “The kids were like, ‘Mom, that’s you.’ They saw the trophy and me doing the fist pump. They still mostly don’t know anything about it.” Neither do most of the mothers Lunke regularly mingles with. Lunke tries to avoid mentioning it, but occasionally the subject is broached, and usually it’s the husband who recalls the dramatic victory. “If they ask what I used to do, I say I was a professional golfer,” said Lunke. “The response is then, ‘Oh, that’s cool.’ Most don’t know what that means. The next thing you know they’re mentioning it to their husband. Then he’ll go, ‘Hilary Lunke! What? Do you know she won the U.S. Open?’ ” Professional golf wasn’t a top priority when Lunke graduated from Stanford in 2001. The USGA had recently passed a rule allowing a player to go through Q-School as an amateur. So Bill Homeyer, who had played collegiately at the University of Minnesota before going into the insurance business, told his daughter, “it was like having a free swing in the batter’s box.” Lunke, a four-time All-American at Stanford and a member of the 2000 USA Curtis Cup and Women’s World Amateur Teams, entered Q-School with the caveat that if she didn’t gain full LPGA Tour status, she would look for another vocation. She earned conditional status and decided to play in 2002. Just before her rookie season she married Tylar, who also played at Stanford. His first job post-graduation was with a California-based golf company and he caddied for Hilary part-time over the next few seasons. He was on the bag when she won the biggest prize in women’s golf, defeating her 2000 Curtis Cup roommate Angela Stanford and veteran Kelly Robbins in that 18-hole playoff at Pumpkin Ridge in suburban Portland, Ore. That would be Lunke’s one celebrated moment as a pro. Tylar deferred going to business school at the University of Texas for a year, so he could spend time on tour with Hilary, however, the highs from that week could never be duplicated. “For the U.S. Open to be your first victory, I think a lot of people dump a lot of expectations and pressure on you that you really don’t deserve,” said Stanford. “I’ve always said there’s a reason for everything, and if I had been in Hilary’s shoes, then the same thing could have happened to me. We were both really young and [winning a major] changes your world.” By the spring of 2008, Lunke began to think about retiring. While playing in the Kraft Nabisco Championship in Rancho Mirage, Calif., five months after Greta was born, Lunke suddenly felt guilty. Even knowing that her parents were tending to Greta, she didn’t want to leave her toddler. “All I wanted to do was get off the course and be with her,” she said. Lunke made only five LPGA Tour starts in 2008, missing the cut in each one. Being president of the LPGA Tour and a mother was taking its toll. “I realized [professional golf] is not a part-time job,” she said. “It hit me that this is more than I thought it would be.” A year later, Lunkewas pregnant with her second child, leaving little doubt about a possible return. She briefly thought about entering the 2010 Women’s Open at Oakmont. “You don’t just show up not having played golf in 2½ years,” said Lunke. “That doesn’t sound like fun. We had a 2-year-old and a baby and no nanny. How could I practice? It doesn’t sound like the best vacation with my family. Once I skipped that one, it became too big of a hurdle to go back.” Getting away for any vacation can be challenging, especially with Tylar’s hectic work schedule as a portfolio analyst for a large investment bank. Hilary’s parents split time between Minneapolis and Arizona and occasionally assist with babysitting. That allows Lunke to travel to an annual charity pro-am each April in Houston. Her good friend and ex-LPGA player Kim Bauer brings in several current and former tour golfers for a one-day scramble to raise money for the Boys & Girls Clubs. For Lunke, it’s her one chance to reconnect with LPGA players and for at least 48 hours, decompress from being a full-time mom. It’s also a chance to reaffirm why she is no longer a regular on the LPGA Tour. “At the pro-am there were a bunch of players who had taken a red-eye in from Hawaii and then were flying to Dallas [for the next LPGA Tour stop],” said Lunke. “I thought, it’s so crazy for me to go and play one day and I can’t believe they’re doing this. It’s so foreign to think I even did that. “As hard as it is for me to travel, my thought was … ‘Oh man, it’s kind of nice.’ You’re staying up with friends and breakfast is already here for us [in the morning]. But I was literally gone a day and was thrown back into motherhood on Tuesday morning. It’s a shock to your system when all you hear is, ‘Mama, mama, mama!’ “It’s one of those things that seems like a former life. I’m in such a different place now.” David Shefter is a senior staff writer. Email him at dshefter@usga.org.

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Ing Foundation to hold Chang Qi semifinals at Harvard in September ’15 The Shanghai Ing Chang-ki Wei-ch’i (Go) Educational Foundation, will be holding the semifinals of 12th Annual Chinese Professional Chang Qi Cup Invitational Tournament in Cambridge, MA, next fall, along with two new side tournaments intended for the North American go community, the EJ has learned. The Chang Qi Cup, jointly hosted by the Ing Foundation and the China Go Association, now one of the most prestigious of the domestic Chinese go tournaments, was started in 2004 in memory of Taiwanese businessman and go benefactor Ing Chang-ki. Past winners have included greats such as Gu Li 9p, Kong Jie 9p and Chen Yaoye 9p. According to AGA President Andy Okun and Michael Fodera of the American Collegiate Go Association (ACGA), the Ing Foundation and Mr. Ing’s son, Ying Ming-haw, have decided to take advantage of the 2015 semis to provide a promotional event for American players and to strengthen ties between the North American and Chinese go communities. The semifinal matches will take place Sept. 26-28 at Harvard University Student Center. Alongside the main event, on Sept. 26-27 the Foundation will be sponsoring a tournament for college students to be run by ACGA and a tournament for amateurs to be run by the AGA, both with major prizes, Okun and Fodera said. There will also be simultaneous games with visiting professionals, commentary on the semis, and side trips to meet go players in Washington DC and New York on Sept. 29 and 30. “This event will have something for everyone, tournaments for those who crave the competition but also teaching events, an opportunity to watch the best players in action and a chance to get together with old friends and make new ones,” Okun said. Watch the EJ for further details as they’re available.

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Update from Burundi Unitarians (at home and in exile) By Eric Cherry Rev. Fulgence Ndagijamana, Minister of the Unitarian Church of Burundi, has distributed this important update via the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU). Dear friends, colleagues, partners and global UU family, It has been a while since we last sent out to you an update about the situation of Burundi Unitarians and how things stand in Burundi and in different countries that host our Unitarian refugees. Let me start by saying that the situation in Burundi has not improved as people continue to be jailed especially those who are suspected of not supporting the status quo in the country. People continue to go missing and as usual, only the prominent ones are talked about, like the recent disappearance of journalist Jean Bigirimana, allegedly in the hands of the secret services agents who arrested him – his whereabouts are not known ever since. But the daily laborers, those working small tasks and paid per day, if accused of collaborating with the enemy, they might be killed or disappear and no one will talk about them, except their loved ones and families who voices are not loud enough. The calls for peaceful talks between the government and the opposition have not been answered as the government party to the negotiation insists on having a say over who gets invited or not. As a result, the 2 opposed parties have not been able to meet face to face. All the facilitator has been able to do is to meet them separately, and now 9 months have passed since the talks were launched in Uganda in December 2015. We can be pleased with that first step but much more needs to happen for peace to prevail. Compared to when it started in April 2015, the situation is quieter now. But it may be the quiet time that precedes the storm. The regime has a private militia, trained and armed with an ideology of hatred and reminds all of us of a similar group in Rwanda in 1994. With foreign aid suspension, the country’s economy is at the edge of collapse and the living conditions are deteriorating by the day. Unitarians in Bujumbura are holding up despite the difficult situation. There is still 1 young adult member in prison. He was arrested in June 2015 while visiting his parents in an Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camp where they have been living since 1993. He has never appeared before a judge. During all the appointments, there was either a document missing or someone was not available. He is stuck in an overcrowded prison in the central part of Burundi. Worship services have been regularly held since the attack that happened to the church and the arrest of the Minister. The church President and the deacon ably took matters in their hands and organized the church and insured the premises were secured and our property is relatively protected. The fear is still real as anything can happen anytime. The church was and is still a place where they meet to comfort one another. Outside Burundi, Unitarian refugees are in Kenya and Rwanda, Belgium, USA and Canada. Unitarians in exile in Kigali, Rwanda: They were 12 people in the house. They were able to do some English classes. 2 of them were selected for University scholarships by Maison Shalom led by Miss Maggy Barankitse and options are being explored for 2 additional students to go to University in Rwanda as well. At the end of August, all the people in the shelters were encouraged to go live on their own. The goal is to encourage them to get integrated in the host community and think about self-development ways in the forms of training and largely networking with other refugees but also the host community. Thanks to a generous grant from the UU funding panel, we were able to provide a grant to each of the residents of the shelters and this grant will keep them going during the transition time. The same was done to people living in Nairobi except for one of them who has a sponsor who supports him. The ones living outside East Africa have some specifics, here are the information about them; Blaise Ntakarutimana is in USA and had his asylum application granted, in a relatively short time. What a relief! He now can think about his family and what the future (hopefully near) holds for the 4 of them! Richard Nduwayezu in in Brussels and still going through the immigration process as well. He misses his daughter and his aging mother and yes his brothers. Fulgence Ndagijimana is in Canada and is doing an internship with the Unitarian Congregation of Saskatoon, beginning a Clinical and Pastoral Education (CPE) and completing other requirements for fellowship with the UUA Ministerial Fellowship Committee. The situation in Burundi is still fragile and of very much concern. We would like to thank all of you for having being on our side from the beginning of this crisis. Without the knowledge and the feeling that we are part of a global active and caring family, our world would be a different and gloomy one. Rev. Fulgence Ndagijimana PREVIOUS: Burundi Resolution at the United Nations|NEXT: Asian LGBT Communities: Creating Safe and Tolerant Space Eric Cherry Eric was the Director of the UUA’s International Office since August 2007. Prior to this Eric served for 12 years as a parish minister with UU congregations in Burlington, Iowa and N. Easton, Massachusetts. Eric has long been involved in the UU Partner Church movement, serving...

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Back to Media Centre For all media inquiries, please contact Jeremy Hunka, Senior Public Relations Specialist, at 604 996 1417 or [email protected]. UGM announces new Stabilization Program for women seeking recovery from addiction Vancouver, BC—Union Gospel Mission is pleased to announce that after years of careful research and consultation with community members, service providers and academic researchers, the official direction for its emergent Women and Family’s Centre is announced. Opening in the summer of 2014, the Stabilization Program will help women in the Downtown Eastside bridge the gap between detox and recovery or from treatment to supported housing. Renovations have begun and construction in the east wing will be complete on Monday, March 31. Renovations of the west wing will begin shortly thereafter. The building, which until April 2011 existed as UGM’s main facility, will be retrofitted to facilitate a one to three month program with 24-hour staffing. The Stabilization Program aims to continue the success of the Women’s Day Shelter which has allowed UGM to reach transient, street-entrenched women who would have otherwise been difficult to engage with and help. Many of the women UGM is reaching have endured multiple forms of trauma and abuse, addiction and some are working in the survival sex trade. “Initially, we assumed we’d be turning the second floor into a recovery centre for women, since UGM has had so much success with its men’s program,” says Barb Atkins, UGM’s Manager of UGM’s Women and Families Centre. “But when we started researching the needs within the community, it became clear that the biggest gap was something a bit different, a bit outside the box of how we normally think about recovery. Many women here need a precursor to recovery, as well as a safe place to land after completing their recovery program.” Prior to entering a recovery centre, participants must be 72-hours sober. This often occurs via an offsite, three-day medical detox program. While many women enter detox with a desire for sober living, it is estimated that only one in five women exiting detox has a safe place to go (typically a recovery program). The other four often re-enter what’s thought to be toxic and dangerous environments only to slip back into their addiction. “Many women come so close to completely changing their lives, but without a safe place to land, and without specialized support, most fall through very large gaps,” says Atkins. “Often, individuals are not sufficiently prepared for recovery, for it requires a life-changing willingness to let go of things that have become a key element in coping with tragedy and stress—an element that has been woven into every aspect of her life.” Atkins explains that many women struggling in the Downtown Eastside and related communities are not only dealing with addiction issues, but inadequate housing, health issues and food insecurity. Their chance of living to age 75 is equal to that of a woman living in Guatemala, a country where much of the population lacks access to basic healthcare. Since 2005, homelessness among women has increased 16%. They desperately need tailored support services. The only current stabilization program is in Surrey. UGM’s program will prepare up to 15 women at a time for their transition into a life of healing and wholeness. Staff will provide tactical support, trauma-informed counselling, holistic grief support, health and wellness education, client-centered advocacy and care and acceptance without judgment. The official event opening is scheduled to be held this summer. At the official opening, UGM will be able to announce the generous funders of the program and will disclose the associated costs. A second stabilization program in the Women and Families’ building is in the works as well and could be announced as early as fall 2014. Union Gospel Mission has been feeding hope and changing the lives of men, women, and children for over 70 years. Through its 7 locations in Metro Vancouver and the city of Mission, UGM provides counselling, education, safe housing, and alcohol and drug recovery to those struggling with poverty, homelessness, and addiction. The heart of the mission is to demonstrate God’s transforming love, ease the burden of the most vulnerable, rebuild the lives of the broken, and offer dignity to those who feel cast aside. To find out more, visit www.ugm.ca. Give where needed most Want to Get to Know Us Better? Here at Union Gospel Mission, we’re committed to feeding hope and changing lives. To find out more and stay connected, please sign up for our emails. I'd like to make a donation. Read Gratitude About Homelessness Program & Meal Times Apply for Camp Union Gospel Mission 601 East Hastings St. Coast Salish Territories Vancouver, BC V6A 1J7 © 2020 Union Gospel Mission Feeding Hope. Changing Lives. Reg Canadian Charity · 13190 2348 RR0001

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West Bromwich Building Society PIBS This press release was issued following the announcement of a financial restructuring by the West Bromwich Building Society which adversely affects the PIBS holders. The latest news on this subject is at the bottom of this page. The announcement by the Society and the prospectus for the PIBS are no longer available online. This paragraph was on page 19: "Whilst Condition 4(3)(b) entitles the Society, in its sole discretion, to cancel, in whole or in part, any scheduled interest payment as required by current policy of the Supervisory Authority, it is the Society’s intention not to cancel any part of a scheduled interest payment other than in the circumstances described in Condition 4(3)(a)." Paragraph 4(3)(a) refers to the need by the society to meet the capital adequacy requirements laid down by the FSA, and nothing else. It was clearly intended that this provision should only operate temporarily and when the society was in financial difficulties. It was not intended to enable a permanent change to the terms of the PIBS. Here is the letter that Mr Morgan, one of the affected investors, planned to send to the PIBS holders: PIBS_Letter (which he could not do because of the difficult of communicating with them). On the 27th July this letter was sent by UKSA to the Chairman of the Society, so as to clarify various issues. GENERAL MEETING FOR PIBS HOLDERS. This note was issued on the 14th August about a meeting for PIBS holders called by the Society and our voting recommendations. PUBLIC MEETING FOR PIBS HOLDERS. UKSA is holding a public meeting for the holders of West Bromwich Building Society PIBS on the 5th September. See this press release for more information. REPORT ON SOCIETY'S MEETING AND UKSA MEETING. This report was issued on the 6th September concerning the meeting of PIBS holders held by the West Bromwich Building Society and the meeting held by UKSA the day after. BRIEFING PAPER. A full statement of the current position (as at the 7th September) was issued in this note. If you have an interest in these PIBS, please contact UKSA on 020-8467-2686 or email to uksa@uksa.org.uk

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UKZN Dean Honoured for Ground-Breaking Research on Hair Loss Home » News » UKZN Dean Honoured for Ground-Breaking Research on Hair Loss Dean and Head of the School of Clinical Medicine at the College of Health Sciences, Professor Ncoza Dlova, has been recognised for her research on hair loss in African women. In the past two weeks, Dlova received two certificates of recognition from the Durban Chamber of Commerce and from AfricaBio. ‘Dlova’s research work epitomises that of a true world-class clinical researcher providing opportunities for clinical development – we applaud her for driving African research to a global arena – we are extremely proud of her,’ said AfricaBio President, Dr Nhlanhla Msomi. Through her global collaborative work with several scientists, Dlova – an internationally renowned dermatologist – has helped identify a new gene that is a major cause of permanent hair loss among women of African descent. The scientists discovered the root cause of Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia (CCCA), one of the most common causes of primary scarring alopecia in African women. The ground-breaking study, titled: Variant PAD13 in Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia (CCCA), was published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, a high impact medical science publication. ‘Professor Dlova’s awards came in recognition of her global collaborative work with several scientists who identified a new gene that is a major cause of permanent hair loss in women of African descent,’ said Chief Marketing Officer at the Chamber, Ms Taweni Gondwe-Xaba at the 163 Annual Gala Awards held in Durban. ‘We appreciate her efforts and contribution towards this ground-breaking work which is the first to establish a genetic basis for the vexing cause of alopecia.’ Her research is regarded as probably the biggest breakthrough in South African dermatology because it has huge implications for early diagnosis, prevention and possible future targeted therapy of CCCA. This discovery is a first in the world, and it followed links to an earlier publication in 2013 in which, it was reported for the first time that a familial association existed in a cluster of Black South African families with CCCA. This study found that the peptidylarginine deiminase 3 (PAD13) gene – which mediates posttranslational modification of proteins essential for proper hair shaft formation – was mutated in the majority of affected patients, suggesting that the disease is genetically heterogeneous. The scientists also found that the distinct variants in PADI3 in each of the disorders may account for the difference in clinical outcomes. Congratulating Dlova for yet another achievement, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at UKZN’s College of Health Sciences Professor Busisiwe Ncama said, ‘She is not only a great asset to the University, but an asset to the community at large.’ Photographs: Supplied Prev article: Law Students Attend PTA High Court Case Next article: NO to GBV: UKZN Students Respond to the Call

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nav.selected Resistant Cancer Cells: 3D Structure of a Drug Transporter Decoded Resistant Cancer Cells: 3D Structure of a Drug Transporter Decoded The transport protein ABCG2 (center) is embedded in the cell membrane. It recognises over 200 substances in the cell interior (below) and transports them outside (above). (Image: ETH Zürich / Scott Jackson, Ioannis Manolaridis, Kaspar Locher) Drug resistance is not only a major problem in fighting infectious diseases. Also in the treatment of cancer it can jeopardize the success of chemotherapy. A reason for this are the so-called transport proteins that “pump” the drugs out of the cells. Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and the ETH Zurich have now been able to elucidate the three dimensional atomic structure of an important drug transporter. The results recently published in “Nature” provide a basis for counteracting such resistance in the future. In the course of evolution, the human body has developed diverse strategies to protect itself from harmful substances. In the intestine, the placenta and also in the blood-brain barrier are tiny transport proteins, which prevent the absorption of toxins by “pumping” them out of the cells. This protective mechanism, however, proves to be a double-edged sword, as these transport proteins also extrude a large variety of medical drugs from the cells. This is one reason why cancer cells become resistant to chemotherapeutics. These multidrug resistances are major obstacles in today's cancer therapy. Atomic insights into transport protein architecture One of these molecular “pumps” is the protein ABCG2, which was discovered in drug resistant breast cancer cells about 20 years ago and affects the efficacy of drugs. However, despite intensive research, important puzzle pieces regarding its composition were missing due to technical limitations. Prof. Henning Stahlberg, from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, together with Prof. Kaspar Locher, from the ETH Zurich, have now succeeded in determining the atomic structure of ABCG2. This knowledge is fundamental for the development of drugs to inhibit such drug transports, thus preventing drug resistance of cancer cells "Using high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy, we have been able to elucidate the 3D structure of the drug transporter ABCG2 on the atomic level for the first time," says Stahlberg. "My team from the technology platform C-CINA at the Biozentrum, has been working intensively to optimize the resolution of our electron microscopes as well as automating their function. This has now resulted in an extremely fast data analysis pipeline." Proposed transport mechanism Based on the atomic structure of ABCG2, the teams of Locher and Stahlberg have proposed a transport mechanism for the protein. Inside the protein complex – the transporter consists of two identical ABCG2 proteins – are two cavities separated by a plug. When a substrate, for instance a chemotherapeutic drug, enters the inward-facing cavity, the structure of the protein changes, whereby the plug opens and allows the substrate to move into the outward-facing cavity, where it is expelled into the surrounding medium. A mechanical coupling ensures that the protein converts to the inward-facing state using ATP energy only after substrate release in order to be prepared for a new substrate entering the inner cavity. Research group Prof. Stahlberg Counteracting drug resistance The comprehensive and detailed insights into the architecture of this drug transporter opens new possibilities for studying drug transport as well as the functioning of ABCG2. Furthermore, understanding the structural details facilitates the modeling and design of substances that specifically inhibit the transporter protein. In their study, the researchers could successfully “freeze” the state of ABCG2 using antibody fragments. The determined structure shows how such antibodies against ABCG2 can block the transporter and thus prevent the drugs being “pumped out” of the cell. The study was financed by the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) TransCure. Nicholas M.I. Taylor, Ioannis Manolaridis, Scott M. Jackson, Julia Kowal, Henning Stahlberg & Kaspar P. Locher. Structure of the human multidrug transporter ABCG2. Nature; published online 29 May 2017 | doi: 10.1038/nature22345 Further infomration Henning Stahlberg, University of Basel, Biozentrum, Tel. +41 61 387 32 62, email: henning.stahlberg@unibas.ch

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The values of United Response are derived from our mission and vision statements. Our mission is to ensure that individuals with learning disabilities, mental or physical support needs have the opportunity to live their lives to the full. Our vision is a society where everyone has equal access to the same rights and opportunities. In our work we aim to be: We are committed to improving the lives of the people we support. We do this chiefly through our person-centred approach, which puts people at the centre of all our activity – whether that’s day-to-day support or advocacy on matters that affect them. We respect and promote the rights of every person we support. As such, we campaign around issues that are important to and for them – in our own right, as well as members of the Voluntary Organisations’ Disability Group. In line with United Response’s values and the Equality Act 2010, United Response does not discriminate against anyone on the grounds of age, sex, race, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation or disability. In view of the values United Response holds, we intend to: Uphold and promote our belief that all individuals have the right to be treated with dignity and that each of us has a responsibility to treat others with respect Work together with the people we support, our colleagues and all partners and community groups to establish practices which express our values of diversity Endeavour to ensure that our facilities, resources and services are responsive, relevant and accessible to all who wish to access them Create and sustain environments which encourage both the people we support and our colleagues to develop to their full potential. Published: 23rd November, 2015 Updated: 22nd February, 2018 United Response works hard to be a great place to work for our employees, and to provide great quality services to all the people we support. Our annual review and impact report describes everything United Response has achieved, as well as our targets for the coming years. The charity's complete statutory accounts and financial summaries are also available here. These high profile supporters have helped fundraise for and draw attention to the cause we support.

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Does your family need assistance? 2-1-1 is here to help. Click here to contact us. Free Tax Preparation Available Through Erie FREE Taxes Success By 6 Family Stability FamilyWize Prescription Discount Program Erie Free Taxes Free Tax Prep FamilyWize Prescription Discount Card The Latest Blog Hagen honored with 2018 United Way of PA Keystone Spirit of United Way Award Wednesday Sep 12th, 2018 Harrisburg, PA – United Way of Pennsylvania presented its highest annual award, the Keystone Spirit of United Way award, to Erie County resident Thomas B. Hagen at a celebration hosted by Erie Insurance on September 12, 2018. The Keystone Spirit of United Way Award was created by the United Way of Pennsylvania to recognize exceptional and sustained volunteer and philanthropic leadership. The criteria for selection of an honoree reflect a philanthropic impact and personal commitment of time and talents reaching across community borders to highlight the interdependence and opportunities of the United Way network across Pennsylvania. The winner shows exceptional and sustained engagement with United Way in their own community, personal commitment to the voluntary system of human services as demonstrated by gifts of time and financial resources, with United Way being the main focus of his or her efforts, and a quality of performance that inspires others to serve. “Mr. Hagen’s impact in Erie County has been far-reaching, from fighting against poverty and for affordable housing, to mentoring young leaders. But he has always been steadfast in his commitment to investing in the community through United Way. This is what made him stand out in a very impressive field of nominees,” Kristen Rotz, President of United Way of Pennsylvania, said. United Way of Pennsylvania (UWP) presented the award at an event hosted by Erie Insurance Company on September 12, 2018 in Erie, PA. Timothy NeCastro, CEO of Erie Insurance, introduced Thomas Hagen to the assembled crowd and gave an overview of his achievements. “Tom is a friend and a mentor,” said NeCastro. “The impact of his leadership extends beyond our company, our community and our state. Through his selfless giving of time, talent and philanthropic support, Tom has lifted the lives of so many and his work is leaving an indelible mark that will have influence far into the future.” Hagen was nominated for this award by United Way of Erie County President Bill Jackson, who said, “Tom started as a United Way campaign volunteer decades ago and as he rose in the ranks of leadership, he never stopped being a tireless ambassador and advocate for United Way. As Chairman of the Boards of both Erie Insurance Group, where he is a former CEO, and Custom Group Industries, he has promoted a spirit of giving to United Way as part of the corporate social responsibility for these companies.” The Honorable Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf sent his congratulations, stating, “Tom’s passion and commitment to the United Way is improving the lives of thousands of his neighbors, and it is making Erie County stronger. As a member of the Tocqueville Society of United Way of York County, I am proud to join the United Way of Pennsylvania in honoring Tom for his generosity and leadership.” Bio of Thomas B. Hagen, 2018 Keystone Spirit of United Way Award Winner: Thomas B. Hagen is the current Chairman of the Board of Erie Insurance Group. He began his career at Erie Insurance as a part-time file clerk in 1953 and retired 40 years later as Chairman and CEO. Erie Insurance is the largest employer and the only Fortune 500 Company headquartered in Erie County. He is also Chairman of the Board of Custom Group Industries, the collective name for the three Erie, Pennsylvania based manufacturing companies in which he has had an ownership interest since 1997: Custom Engineering Co., Venango Machine Company and Lamjen, Inc. Hagen is a Tocqueville Society member from United Way of Erie County and was awarded the prestigious Keystone Spirit of United Way Award for his generosity, advocacy and commitment to improving the lives of Pennsylvania residents. Hagen and his late wife, Susan, have been Tocqueville Society members since 1992. Tom has been a tireless ambassador and advocate for United Way for decades. As Chairman of the Boards of both Erie Insurance Group and Custom Group Industries, he has promoted a spirit of giving to United Way as part of the corporate social responsibility for these companies. Hagen began volunteering in the annual United Way Campaign over 50 years ago and since then has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to the United Way and its work to improve lives. Hagen has volunteered to speak to United Way’s Young Leaders Society members about his belief in United Way’s mission and encouraged others to support United Way’s work. He has helped establish relationships between United Way representatives and numerous community leaders over the years, serving as an invaluable resource to grow United Way’s network of support throughout the region. Hagen has received numerous honors for his tireless volunteerism, including the naming of the Thomas B. Hagen History Center, Pennsylvania Governor’s Patron of the Arts Award, and the United Way of Erie County Tocqueville Award for community services. He was recently honored by Behrend College with its highest award, the Behrend Medallion, and by the Pennsylvania Society naming him a Distinguished Citizen of the Commonwealth. And, most recently, Hagen was named the 2018 recipient of The Erie Community Foundation’s Edward C. Doll Community Service Award. A retired U.S. Navy Captain, Hagen served on active duty during the Cold War as Supply Officer of the Atlantic Fleet destroyer USS Harwood and on Reserve duty with the logistics staff of the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet for a total of 30 years of service. Born in Buffalo, NY, Hagen was raised in Erie, where he attended public schools and graduated from Strong Vincent High School. Hagen attended Penn State Erie, The Behrend College and graduated in 1957 with a BS Degree in Business Administration (Insurance) from The Ohio State University, where he was a Griffith Scholar, President of the Insurance Society and Treasurer of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. Edinboro University of Pennsylvania conferred on Hagen the honorary degree of Doctor of Public Service in 1996 “In recognition of [his] leadership in the cause of civic and social responsibility...” and Mercyhurst University conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 2016. In 2015, Hagen established the Susan Hirt Hagen Fund for Transformational Philanthropy at The Erie Community Foundation with a $10 million gift on behalf of the Hagen family in memory of his wife, Susan Hirt Hagen. In 2016, this Fund granted $1.5 million to support a joint effort of United Way of Erie County and Erie’s Public Schools to increase access to coordinated health, social services and after-school programming by utilizing the nationally-renowned “Community Schools” strategy. Hagen, with his late wife Susan who was a prominent community leader, is the parent of two grown children and three grandchildren. 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Sunday 30 June 2019 (other days) Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Solemnity The Lord is the king of apostles; come, let us adore him. Year: C(I). Psalm week: 1. Liturgical Colour: Red. “I do so love St Peter,” says a friend of mine. “Whenever he opens his mouth, he puts his foot in it”. She is right, of course. Whatever else St Peter may be, he is not the model of a wise and noble hero. He walks on the water – but then panics and starts to sink. He makes the first profession of faith – and moments later blunders into error and is called Satan by the Lord. He refuses to be washed, and then, when the purpose is explained to him, demands to be washed all over. And, of course, he betrays his master soon after having been warned that he will and having sworn not to. If Peter is the rock on which the Church is built, what a fissured and friable rock it is! How much better, we think, to have chosen the Sons of Thunder, for their energy; or Judas Iscariot, for his financial acumen; or John, because he was loved the best. The choosing of Peter teaches us a lesson. The Church’s foundation-stone and its first leader is not all-wise, all-knowing, good, heroic, and beautiful. He is a very ordinary man who makes about as many mistakes as we would in his place, and kicks himself for them just as thoroughly afterwards. If St Peter had been a hero, we could easily have despaired of ever becoming like him. If St Peter had been great, and noble, and good, we could have told ourselves that the Church is for the saints, despaired, sat down, and not bothered. But the Church is not just for saints: it is for confused, impetuous, cowardly people like us – or St Peter. The rock crumbles, the ropes are frayed, the wood is rotten – but, although that improbable building, the Church, is made of such inferior materials, it grows (on the whole) faster than it collapses, and it is grace that holds it together. In the end, it was grace that gave the coward the courage to bear witness when it counted, grace that gave the fool the wisdom he needed to set the infant Church on her way, grace that taught the impetuous man patience and forbearance. We none of us admire ourselves, however much we would like to; let us not try to admire St Peter either, but admire instead the grace he was given, and pray that, weak as we are, we may be given it too, and may use it. See the article in the Catholic Encyclopaedia. St Paul is not an attractive figure today. We are still knee deep in the overripe fruit of late romanticism: we admire men who feel, not think; who enchant people into following them, not argue them into submission. There is even, nowadays, a fashion for saying that Paul invented Christianity as we know it, that he set out with the cynical aim of fashioning an enduring institution; and that the real Christianity, the Christianity of Christ, is something quite different from and far nicer than the Christianity we know. Yes, Paul’s mind did shape the early Church. Yes, without him things would have been different. And all the information that we have in the New Testament is entirely consistent with the whole thing being a Pauline conspiracy. But so what? “Consistent with” is a treacherous phrase. The evidence of my eyes is entirely consistent with there being an invisible lion in my fireplace, because you can’t see invisible lions; but I still don’t believe there is one. I trust the world, I have faith in it, and invisible lions are not part of that faith. I trust God, I have faith in the Holy Spirit – I say so out loud on Sundays – and I believe that God called Saul because he needed him, and that the renamed Saul did and said what needed to be said and done. Paul is not some cold and remote intellectual – just read the Epistles, and see if that stands up. Paul is always reminding people of his weakness – look, I know what I ought to do, and I keep on doing the opposite – look, I have this thorn in my flesh and God absolutely refuses to take it away. Paul is not all mind – he does have his troubles too. But yes, Paul does have a mind, and that raises problems in an age that doesn’t, that uses “clever” as a term of abuse. Remember, though, that we are commanded to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our strength. Perhaps we cannot love St Paul very much nowadays; but let us at least pray for the grace to love God with our minds, as he did. In other years: The First Martyrs of the See of Rome When the city of Rome had been devastated by fire in the year 64, the Emperor Nero launched a persecution against the Christians, who were thrown to the wild beasts in the arena or soaked in tar and used as living torches. Their deaths are documented in the writings of the Roman historian Tacitus and in Pope St Clement’s letter to the Corinthians. Their feast was celebrated the day after the feast of Saints Peter and Paul. Liturgical colour: red Red is the colour of fire and of blood. Liturgically, it is used to celebrate the fire of the Holy Spirit (for instance, at Pentecost) and the blood of the martyrs. Acts 15:7-9 © God chose that the pagans should learn the Good News from me and so become believers. In fact God, who can read everyone’s heart, showed his approval of them by giving the Holy Spirit to them just as he had to us. God made no distinction between them and us, since he purified their hearts by faith. Galatians 1:15-16,17-18 © God, who had specially chosen me while I was still in my mother’s womb, called me through his grace and chose to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach the Good News about him to the pagans. I went off to Arabia at once and later went straight back from there to Damascus. Three years later I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas. 2 Corinthians 4:13-14 © We have the same spirit of faith that is mentioned in scripture – I believed, and therefore I spoke – we too believe and therefore we too speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus to life will raise us with Jesus in our turn, and put us by his side and you with us.

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