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More than 100 members of Congress call on Hollywood producers to come up with a fair deal at IATSE – deadline
More than 100 Democrats in the House and Senate and independent Bernie Sanders signed a letter urging the Alliance of Film and Television Producers to negotiate a fair contract with IATSE, saying: “We are united in our belief the importance of decent wages, sustainable benefits and reasonable rest periods between shifts and during the working day ”- three of the union’s fundamental demands.
The letter was signed by 31 senators and 87 representatives and sent to AMPTP president Carol Lombardini.
Union members begin voting on leave to strike on Friday ahead of what could be the last round of negotiations before a strike that would end film and television productions across the country.
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Politicians also reminded Lombardini that workers in the industry “risked their health and safety” during the pandemic, and that “the entertainment you jointly produce is helping to heal our nation.”
Here is their letter:
Dear Madame Lombardini:
As the elected representatives of the voters who make a living working behind the scenes in film and television production, we urge you to negotiate fair succession contracts with the International Alliance of Theater Stage Employees (IATSE). We support the principles of adequate sleep, meal breaks and a living wage for all workers.
These workers have risked their health and safety over the past year, working during the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure that the film and television production industry is left intact. Production has now returned to pre-pandemic levels, in large part thanks to the critical role these workers play in the creative process. The entertainment that you jointly produce helps heal our nation.
The contract under negotiation covers around 60,000 film and television production workers across the country. Failure to reach a deal would threaten not only the livelihoods of these workers, but also their family members who depend on work in your industry, sending shock waves throughout the U.S. economy and industry.
The key issues in this negotiation, as we understand them, concern the dignity of workers and basic human needs. We are united in our belief in the importance of a living wage, sustainable benefits and reasonable rest periods between shifts and during the work day.
It appears that IATSE members are mobilizing for a nationwide strike authorization vote on October 1, 2021, due to the announcement that AMPTP has no plans to make a counter-offer. A strike would seriously disrupt the industry, the economy and the communities we represent. We hope that the two sides can negotiate in good faith and reach a consensual agreement, which obliges both sides to continue to participate in the ongoing negotiations.
We call on AMPTP to negotiate with these workers to achieve a fair contract and meet the basic human needs that will allow them to do their jobs in safety and with dignity.
Truly,
The letter-writing campaign was led by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) And Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) and Whip of the Senate majority Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Minn.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (DN.J.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Ben Cardin (D-Md .), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Kirsten Gillibrand (DN. Y.), Martin Heinrich (DN.M.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Ben Ray Luján (DN.M.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Bob Menendez (DN.J .), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Jack Reed (DR.I.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeanne Shaheen (DN.H.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), And Ron Wyden ( Golden.).
The letter is also signed by Democratic Representatives Pete Aguilar (California), Cynthia Axne (Iowa), Nanette Diaz Barragan (California), Karen Bass (California), Earl Blumenauer (Oregon), Suzanne Bonamici (Oregon), Brendan Boyle (Pa .), Julia Brownley (Calif.), Tony Cárdenas (Calif.), André Carson (Ind.), Troy Carter (La.), Judy Chu (California), David Cicilline (RI), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ), J. Luis Correa (California), Angie Craig (Minn.), Charlie Crist (Florida), Danny K. Davis (Illinois), Madeleine Dean (Pa.), Val Demings (Fla.), Theodore Deutch (Florida), Debbie Dingell (Michigan), Anna G. Eshoo (California), Adriano Espaillat (NY), Bill Foster (Illinois), Jesús García (Illinois), Jimmy Gomez (Calif.), Jahana Hayes (Connecticut), Steven Horsford (Nev.) , Hakeem Jeffries (NY), Henry C. “Hank” Johnson Jr. (Ga.), Mondaire Jones (NY), Robin L. Kelly (Illinois), Daniel Kildee (Michigan), Andy Kim (NJ), Raja Krishnamoorthi ( Illinois), Ann Kuster (NH), Conor Lamb (Pa.), John B. Larson (Connecticut), Brenda L. Lawrence (Mich. ), Barbara Lee (California), Susie Lee (Nev.), Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM), Andy Levin (Mich.), Ted Lieu (California), Zoe Lofgren (California), Alan Lowenthal (California), Stephen F. Lynch (Mass.), Carolyn Maloney (NY)), Tom Malinowski (NJ), Betty McCollum (Minn.), James P. McGovern (Mass.), Grace Meng (NY), Kweisi Mfume (Md.), Joseph D Morelle (NY), Jerrold Nadler (NY), Grace Napolitano (California), Joe Neguse (Colo.), Marie Newman (Illinois), Donald Norcross (NJ), Eleanor Norton (DC), Scott H. Peters (California) , Charlie Pingree (Maine), Mark Pocan (Wis.), Katie Porter (California), Mike Quigley (Illinois), Jamie Raskin (Md.), Kathleen M. Rice (NY), Deborah K. Ross (NC), Bobby L. Rush (Ill.), Linda Sánchez (California), Mary Gay Scanlon (Pa.), Janice Schakowsky (Ill.), Brad Sherman (California), Bradley Scott Schneider (Ill.), Mikie Sherrill (NJ), Darren Soto (Fla.), Melanie Stansbury (NM), Haley M. Stevens (Mich.), Thomas Suozzi (NY), Dina Titus (Nev.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich. .), Norma Torres (California), David J. Trone (Md.), Juan Vargas (California), Peter Welch (Vermont), Susan Wild (Pa.) And Frederica S. Wilson (Florida).
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Max Wickert Short Curriculum Vitae
My Life in Brief
I was born in 1938 in Augsburg, Germany, the eldest and only boy of five children. My father was an artist who supported himself by working as a teacher and later in life, as an industrial designer. My mother was trained as a concert singer who chose not to pursue a career in order to devote herself to her family. Toward the end of World War II, I entered grade school in a small village where my family was evacuated after a bombing raid. By 1949, I was back in Augsburg and entered the gymnasium where my father taught art.
When I was 14, my family immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Rochester, N.Y. I finished high school there and went on to college at St. Bonaventure University and to graduate school at Yale.
After a brief spell on the faculty of Nazareth College in Rochester, I joined the English Department at SUNY/Buffalo, where I taught until my retirement. In the course of my career, I produced a handful of scholarly and critical essays (Spenser and Shakespeare, modern East Germany poetry, and early opera), but worked chiefly as a teacher of undergraduate literature courses and as a poet/translator. (During the late ‘60s and early ‘70s I was also fairly embroiled in anti-war and civil rights protests.) I began seriously working in poetry when I arrived in Buffalo, at a time when the campus was buzzing with literary activity. (John Logan, John Barth, Robert Creeley, Lionel Abel, Raymond Federman, Dwight MacDonald and Leslie Fiedler were all on the faculty).
My first substantial collection of poems, Pat Sonnets, appeared in 2000. Along the way, I also produced a chapbook, All the Weight of the Still Midnight (Outriders, 1972; 2nd. ed. 2013) and two self-published monographs. A new volume, No Cartoons, was published in 2011. Over the years, almost 200 of my poems appeared in journals including American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Poetry, Sewanee Review, and Shenandoah. My short story, “The Scythe of Saturn” was among the winning entries in the first annual Stand Magazine International Short Story Competition in Newcastle-on-Tyne (England).
From 1966 onward, I have also been active as a translator, at first principally of poetry from German, especially the Austrian expressionist, Georg Trakl. I also translated into German (in collaboration with Hubert Kulterer) Tulli Kupferberg’s 1001 Ways to Live without Working. This appeared in Vienna (Austria) in 1971 and has recently been reissued in Germany. I have also been a frequent regional poetry administrator, as a charter member of Niagara-Erie Writers, a regional writers' collective; and as director of several summer poetry festivals, including one at Artpark in Lewiston, N.Y. I have been Director of the Outriders Poetry Project since 1969. I ran it as a reading series between 1969 and 1980 and relaunched it as a small press in 2009. My most recent contribution to the press was as compiler and editor of An Outriders Anthology.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s I spent a series of happy summers in Perugia learning Italian, and eventually began to translate from that language. The Liberation of Jerusalem, my version of Torquato Tasso’s epic, Gerusalemme liberata, was brought out in 2009 by Oxford University Press. It was followed by my verse translation of Love Poems for Lucrezia Benadidia (the First Book of Tasso's Rime), published by Italica Press in 2011. In recent years, I completed the first English translation of Andrea da Barberino’s The Royal House of France . I am now working on a version of Tasso’s first epic, Rinaldo.
By my first marriage, I have a daughter who works as a therapist with troubled teens in Massachusetts. I retired from teaching in 2005, and married my second wife, Katka Hammond, in 2006. We live in Buffalo's pleasant West Side. For further details about me, please consult my Wikipedia profile. The dry career facts can be found in my Curriculum Vitae.


Montréal 2013 - GP Preview - Caterham Renault
Alexander Rossi, driving FP1 at the 2013 Canadian Grand Prix: "After Monaco I was home in the States for the first time since January, preparing for my FP1 session at the Canadian GP, and then for the start of my Le Mans work straight after Montreal! Looking back, Monaco wasn’t a great weekend for us in GP2 with Caterham Racing, but we’ll bounce back at Silverstone. We know the areas that we need to improve the situation.
"Returning to F1 action is obviously another important step in the plan I’ve worked over a decade for and I take all the opportunities I get very seriously. This will be my first outing in the CT03 and on the 2013 Pirelli tyres in F1 and it’s good that my 2013 F1 debut is on North American soil, in front of a crowd who are seriously passionate about F1 and really know what our sport is all about. I’ve raced and won in Montreal back in Formula BMW and I enjoy the circuit a lot - it will be a special feeling to play an active role in the race weekend with the team.
"Even though FP1 sessions always seem to be over in the blink of an eye, it’ll be good to play an important part in the team’s work on track. I was last in an F1 car in the CT02 2012 car in Abu Dhabi, last November for the young driver test so I’m looking forward to see how far the car has progressed since then. This year for the F1 team I’ve done aero testing, simulation work and I drove at the team’s filming day, so this will be a good session for me to use what I learnt about the car in the sim and the aero tests as a comparison to help the team progress this weekend. It will be all about working to the run plan for the session and helping the team set the car up for the race drivers for the rest of the weekend.
"I leave Montreal on Friday evening, straight after FP2 and head back to Europe for the first Le Mans sessions. That’s another boxed ticked on my list of things for my CV. It’s great to be taking part in one of the great races with a team that’s already been successful in endurance racing, and to help a bunch of Caterham guys I already know well. Like F1, my aim in the first few days with the Le Mans team will be to learn as much I can and build up to the performance, adding value where it counts. It’s a huge honour to be able to take part and it’s something I’ll remember for ever, but first my main priority is F1."
Charles Pic: "Straight after Monaco it’s on to another French speaking race as we go to Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix. Last year was my first time racing in Canada and I have to say it was one of the best races of the year, maybe not so much for the final result but for the atmosphere on track which was really good. We go to a few races where the track is full of fans from Thursday morning, and Montreal is one of those. I guess having Jacques and Gilles Villeneuve as locals to have supported in the past means F1 is very special to fans in Montreal, but whatever the reasons, they love F1!
"On track it’s a very good challenge. It’s a semi-street circuit, with the barriers very close for most of the lap, and it’s a very technical circuit. The track surface is smooth and on Friday morning there’s very little grip. It does evolve over the weekend but it’s still hard on tyres all weekend so managing deg levels is going to be even more important than normal. It’s also very hard on brakes - there’s a couple of very heavy braking zones and you need to be able to really attack those to get the best laptime in, so we’ll also be working a lot in the practice sessions on maximising braking stability and, depending on what the weather does, brake cooling.
"You also need to be able to attack the kerbs, both to maintain speed and to save time, so that’ll be another area we’ll look at in FP1 and FP2, making sure we can really hit the kerbs hard without losing stability and balance. If you get all that right it’s a very satisfying feeling when you get to the end of the lap as it’s quick, a lap that feels really good in an F1 car!"
Giedo van der Garde: "Next up it’s Canada, a track I’ve never raced at but one I went to last year with Caterham as Reserve Driver. I sat in on all the briefings and debriefs last year so I have quite a bit of information about what it’s going to be like from 2012, and I’ve spent quite a bit of time on my sim at home trying the track, but you obviously don’t really know what it’s like until you drive around it, but it will only take a couple of laps to get used to it.
"What I do remember from last year was how hardcore the fans are in Montreal! We have a couple of big North American sponsors, so the team had a lot of guests in the paddock and in the grandstands, but I remember that from early on Thursday morning the whole place was packed! In the city itself it was the same - there’s one street where the whole place is shut down for the race weekend and we had a team dinner there on the Saturday night. It was a fantastic atmosphere, a lot like it is at home in Holland for big sports events, so I felt really comfortable there and am excited about getting back, this time to race!
"On track I think it’ll be interesting to see where we are after Monaco. I was glad to bring the car home, but after the best Saturday of the year so far we obviously wanted to finish higher up. Even with that, there were some good signs in the race that we are making decent progress. Personally, for me it was another step in the learning curve, and for the team in general we saw that we’d fixed the rear wing issue we’d found in Barcelona, and had enough pace to get the car into Q2 and to record one of the fastest laps in the race in the early stages. Montreal is a medium to low downforce track and with the constant updates we’re making to the package we took to Spain, I think we could be ok."
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President Obama to appear at $33,400-per-couple…
President Obama to appear at $33,400-per-couple breakfast fundraiser at Hollywood star’s home
President Barack Obama reaches out to meet the crowd as he arrives at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday, April 7, 2016. The president is in California for a number of fundraisers. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
President Barack Obama and his daughter Malia arrive at LAX on Thursday, April 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
By City News Service | news@socalnews.com |
PUBLISHED: April 8, 2016 at 9:28 a.m. | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 6:27 a.m.
LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama is set to conclude an approximately 17-hour visit to Los Angeles today by raising funds for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
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The breakfast roundtable fundraiser will be held at the Brentwood home of actor Tobey Maguire and his wife Jennifer, the entertainment trade newspaper Variety reported. Tickets are $33,400 per couple, according to Variety.
The price is based on the $33,400 maximum amount an individual can contribute to a national party committee in a year.
Obama delivered an approximately 15-minute speech Thursday night at a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at the Bel Air home of Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn and his wife Cindy.
Obama criticized Senate Republicans for their refusal to hold hearings on his appointment of appeals court Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.
“Our democracy only works if there is a respect and appreciation of the process of self-governance,” Obama said.
Obama also told the approximately 90 people at the fundraiser “not to be complacent” about the general election.
“We can not be cynical because the stakes are too high,” Obama said.
Robert A. Iger, the chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Co.; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco; the Oscar-winning actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Julia Roberts and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the Emmy-winning star of the HBO political comedy “Veep,” were among those attending the fundraiser.
Tickets started at $15,000 per couple that included a photo opportunity and dinner. A $66,800 ticket provided a couple dinner, admission to a VIP reception and photo opportunity.
The visit is Obama’s 25th to Los Angeles and Orange counties as president. He conducted fundraisers during 22 of his visits. Thursday’s fundraiser was Obama’s 40th in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
Obama is set to leave Los Angeles shortly after noon, bound for San Francisco where he will participate in fundraisers for the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
City News Service is a regional wire service covering Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties. Its reporting and editing staff cover public safety, courts, local government and general assignment stories. Contact the City News Service newsroom at 310-481-0404 or news@socalnews.com.
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What is a residence permit (ikamet)?
Foreign nationals that enter Turkey with a valid passport or a substitute document as a passport are allowed to stay in our country during the term of their visa or a of a visa exemption. However, foreign nationals that wish to stay longer than the term of their visa or visa exemption period are obliged to get a residence permit.
When should you apply for a residence permit?
Foreign nationals that wish to get a residence permit must apply before their visa or visa exemption expires as of the date they enter in Turkey with their passport. Applications after expiration of their visa or visa exemption will not be accepted, and the foreign national will be asked to leave the country.
Where should you apply for a residence permit?
Residence permit applications will be made to our representation offices abroad as of January 1, 2015. However, applications will be made to the police departments or immigration offices, if any, in turkey until the preparations are concluded by the representation offices.
Which documents are required for applying for a residence permit?
Foreign national that asks for a residence permit must have entered in the country with a proper visa or visa exemption, and the passport must have been sealed with the last date of entry.
How to extend the expired residence permit?
Foreign nationals that have a residence permit are obliged to have it extended in a timely fashion if they wish to stay longer in Turkey. Foreign nationals that ask for an extension should apply for an extension two months before the residence permit expires.
Foreign nationals that fail to have the residence permit extended in the prescribed time may be categorised as “runaways”, and asked to leave the country. However application by foreigner nationals that have a “reasonable” excuse may be accepted.
What should be done in case the residence adress changes?
Foreign nationals that move to another province different from the province of residence permit must file an application in the new province latest in 20 business days for a new residence permit. If the type of residence permit remains unchanged, a new residence permit is issued only, without having to pay for fee a new.
What should be done in case the residence permit is lost?
In case the residence permit is lost, stolen or worn out, it will be re-issued. Foreign nationals that get their residence permit lost go t the police department in place of residence, fill out a “lost property report”, and apply to the relevant institution that issued the residence permit as soon as possible. In this case, the price of the residence permit will be fully charged, and the fee will be charged in half.
For more information go to http://www.e-ikamet.com/en.
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To protect us all, babies travelling overseas may need the measles shot at 6 months instead of 12
Nicholas Wood, University of Sydney; Alexis Pillsbury, University of Sydney, and Jean Li-Kim-Moy, University of Sydney
If you’re going overseas with your little one, you can vaccinate them against measles early. But they’ll still need their regular jab when they turn one.
This year, we’ve seen a resurgence of measles around the globe. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recorded more than 230,000 cases in the first five months of 2019, compared to 160,000 in a similar period in 2018.
Australia has had 128 measles cases since the beginning of the year compared to a total of 103 cases for all of 2018.
Measles causes fever, cough and a rash. But it can also cause more serious illness and even death. Babies and people with weakened immune systems are at the greatest risk of complications.
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The best protection against measles is vaccination. Two doses of a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has a success rate of more than 98%.
Under Australia’s National Immunisation Program, children receive two doses of MMR. The first dose is given at 12 months of age and a second dose at 18 months.
But given the rise of measles cases around the world, doctors are now calling for infants travelling overseas to be assessed by their GP to see whether they need the measles vaccine at six months.
Measles spreads easily
Many adult Australians may not have received two doses of MMR vaccine, as only one dose was recommended before 1992 (a single dose is around 95% effective).
Unvaccinated travellers to countries with a higher prevalence of measles can unknowingly bring measles back to Australia. Current measles hot spots include Israel, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Ukraine, Philippines and the United States (especially New York).
People can catch up on their measles vaccinations at any age.
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Measles is highly infectious. Once imported from overseas, it’s adept at seeking out and infecting the unvaccinated in a population.
The recent resurgence of measles has led experts to advise that people ensure they have had two lifetime doses of the MMR vaccine prior to travel.
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Mums protect their babies in the beginning
As the first MMR vaccine is not given until 12 months of age, infant travellers who are too young to have received their first dose of MMR are particularly at risk of contracting measles.
We don’t routinely recommend MMR immunisation for infants younger than 12 months because of the presence of maternal antibodies. During pregnancy, antibodies which protect against many diseases, such as measles, whooping cough and influenza, are actively transferred through the placenta to the baby.
Most mothers have antibodies to protect against measles either from receiving the MMR vaccine themselves during childhood or adolescence, or as a result of prior infection.
But during the first year of life, the antibodies protecting the baby naturally wane. The antibody levels are usually high enough in the first six months of life to protect against measles.
Once an infant reaches 12 months of age, the measles antibodies have usually sufficiently disappeared and can no longer provide protection. For this reason, we give the first dose of MMR vaccine at 12 months old.
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Changing the recommendations
Maternal antibodies can interfere with and reduce the response to an MMR vaccine given to an infant before 12 months of age.
The WHO Expanded Program on Immunisation recommends the first dose of MMR vaccine be given at nine months old. This is because in many countries the rates of measles are higher than in Australia, and the increased risk of infection outweighs any reduced vaccine response because of persisting maternal antibodies.
The WHO recommends that for countries like Australia that have achieved low rates of transmission, it’s better to give the first MMR vaccine at 12 months, because higher protection occurs among older infants as there is less interference from maternal antibodies.
No, combination vaccines don’t overwhelm kids’ immune systems
Until recently, our immunisation handbook stated that children as young as nine months could receive the MMR vaccine in certain circumstances, including travel to highly measles-endemic areas and during outbreaks.
But given the rise in measles globally, the recommended age at which Australian infants can receive MMR vaccine in special circumstances has been lowered from nine months to six months.
The US and England also state vaccination from six months of age can occur for travellers and to help control outbreaks.
Babies inherit antibodies that protect against measles from their mums while they’re in the womb, but these wane over time.
While MMR vaccines are normally free, because this early dose is not part of the National Immunisation Program, parents may need to pay an out-of-pocket fee to get it. Check with your GP.
Importantly, if MMR is given before 12 months old, infants still need two further doses of measles-containing vaccine. This is to account for the possibility the early dose may not have been completely effective because of interference from the maternal antibodies.
They should receive the next dose of MMR vaccine at 12 months of age or four weeks after the first dose – whichever is later. They should then receive their final dose of measles-containing vaccine – an MMR and varicella (chickenpox) combination, known as MMRV – at 18 months. Both these vaccine doses are free under the National Immunisation Program.
MMR is safe and effective for babies
A recent review of MMR vaccines in infants under nine months found the overall effectiveness was 72%. So it’s not quite as effective as the near complete protection afforded by vaccination at 12 months and older, but still has a very strong chance of being effective.
MMR vaccine in infants from six months old was considered safe, with no reports of serious events recorded across seven studies in the review. Fever and rash were the most common adverse reactions, occurring in 5-10% of infants. This is similar to vaccination at 12 months old.
Health Check: are you up to date with your vaccinations?
Parents of young infants planning international travel should talk to their GP. The GP will consider factors including the length of the trip and destination countries when giving advice.
Adult travellers, too, should review their own vaccination record and speak to their GP if they are unsure they are fully protected.
This article originally said parents would need to pay approximately A$50 to obtain the MMR vaccine for infants under 12 months. The text has been updated to say they may need to pay an out-of-pocket fee, as this can vary, and the cost of the vaccine may be covered in some jurisdictions.
Nicholas Wood, Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney; Alexis Pillsbury, Senior Research Officer, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, University of Sydney, and Jean Li-Kim-Moy, General Paediatrician; Research Fellow, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, University of Sydney
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iStar Inc. (STAR) is primed for evolution with the beta value of 0.75
iStar Inc. (STAR) is priced at $25.26 after the most recent trading session. At the very opening of the session, the stock price was $24.69 and reached a high price of $25.33, prior to closing the session it reached the value of $24.58. The stock touched a low price of $24.51.Recently in News on December 1, 2021, iStar Announces Adjustment of Conversion Rate for Convertible Notes. iStar Inc. (NYSE: STAR) announced today an adjustment to the conversion rate of its 3.125% Convertible Senior Notes due 2022 as a result of the common stock cash dividends to be paid on December 15, 2021. You can read further details here
iStar Inc. had a pretty favorable run when it comes to the market performance. The 1-year high price for the company’s stock is recorded $26.41 on 01/03/22, with the lowest value was $23.42 for the same time period, recorded on 01/11/22.
iStar Inc. (STAR) full year performance was 66.51%
Price records that include history of low and high prices in the period of 52 weeks can tell a lot about the stock’s existing status and the future performance. Presently, iStar Inc. shares are logging -8.97% during the 52-week period from high price, and 71.25% higher than the lowest price point for the same timeframe. The stock’s price range for the 52-week period managed to maintain the performance between $14.75 and $27.75.
The company’s shares, operating in the sector of Real Estate managed to top a trading volume set approximately around 561835 for the day, which was evidently higher, when compared to the average daily volumes of the shares.
When it comes to the year-to-date metrics, the iStar Inc. (STAR) recorded performance in the market was -2.21%, having the revenues showcasing -1.44% on a quarterly basis in comparison with the same period year before. At the time of this writing, the total market value of the company is set at 1.86B, as it employees total of 143 workers.
Specialists analysis on iStar Inc. (STAR)
During the last month, 0 analysts gave the iStar Inc. a BUY rating, 0 of the polled analysts branded the stock as an OVERWEIGHT, 0 analysts were recommending to HOLD this stock, 0 of them gave the stock UNDERWEIGHT rating, and 0 of the polled analysts provided SELL rating.
According to the data provided on Barchart.com, the moving average of the company in the 100-day period was set at 25.21, with a change in the price was noted -0.04. In a similar fashion, iStar Inc. posted a movement of -0.16% for the period of last 100 days, recording 555,622 in trading volumes.
Total Debt to Equity Ratio (D/E) can also provide valuable insight into the company’s financial health and market status. The debt to equity ratio can be calculated by dividing the present total liabilities of a company by shareholders’ equity. Debt to Equity thus makes a valuable metrics that describes the debt, company is using in order to support assets, correlating with the value of shareholders’ equity The total Debt to Equity ratio for STAR is recording 3.96 at the time of this writing. In addition, long term Debt to Equity ratio is set at 3.85.
Trends and Technical analysis: iStar Inc. (STAR)
Raw Stochastic average of iStar Inc. in the period of last 50 days is set at 50.40%. The result represents downgrade in oppose to Raw Stochastic average for the period of the last 20 days, recording 68.84%. In the last 20 days, the company’s Stochastic %K was 50.79% and its Stochastic %D was recorded 44.75%.
Now, considering the stocks previous presentation, multiple moving trends are noted. Year-to-date Price performance of the company’s stock appears to be encouraging, given the fact the metric is recording -2.21%. Additionally, trading for the stock in the period of the last six months notably improved by 8.88%, alongside a boost of 66.51% for the period of the last 12 months. The shares increased approximately by 4.34% in the 7-day charts and went down by 6.76% in the period of the last 30 days. Common stock shares were lifted by -1.44% during last recorded quarter.
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The future of complementarianism (3): tradition and clarity
Mark Baddeley | 27 April, 2012
The third observation is that those of us who disagree with what (at least seems to be) Piper’s approach of linking what men and women should be doing to claims that men more naturally do some things well and women more naturally do other things well need to realize that if that is Piper’s view then that is arguably also the basic way in which pre-feminist Christians for 2000 years explained the logic behind the relevant Biblical commands. (more…)
The future of complementarianism (2): the search for the One True Complementarianism
The second observation is that the debate over the place of gender in public ministry and the husband/wife relationship is more complex than it can appear on the surface. As I suggested in my previous series, underneath the term ‘egalitarian’ there are a huge number of mutually contradictory positions held for a wide range of mutually contradictory reasons. Underneath the term ‘complementarian’ appears to be a smaller number of positions but which seem to be increasingly concerned to differentiate themselves from each other and which are about as quick to shoot each other for being unbiblical as they are for apparently being egalitarianism. (more…)
A disturbing review
Life, Sola Panel
Tony Payne | 23 April, 2012 | 9 comments
It was in the Number 1 Bestseller bin at my local Christian bookstore when I strolled in for a browse last week. And it was hard to miss at other places around the store, with its bold, red, attention-grabbing cover: “Real Marriage: The Truth about Sex, Friendship, and Life Together” by Mark and Grace Driscoll. (more…)
Grace: all the way down
Lionel Windsor | 23 April, 2012
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.” The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on?” “You’re very clever, young man, very clever,” said the old lady. “But it’s turtles all the way down!” (Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (2nd ed.; London: BCA, 1998), p. 1.)
All Christians should be like that little old lady. Not, of course, that we should insist on cosmic turtles. But there’s something that Christians should insist on, constantly, in every situation, to ourselves, and to everyone we see. It’s God’s grace. All the way down. (more…)
The future of complementarianism (1): feeling, nothing more than (Christianity has a masculine) feeling
In case you missed it, there was a minor ripple through the evangelical portion of the web recently. John Piper was reported to have declared that Christianity has a masculine feel in a talk he gave on J.C. Ryle’s ministry to a men’s conference on ministry. Blogs and Facebook lit up as Christians reacted—and as is usual with the social media, with those unhappy with the statement responding first, and then others reacting to the first group’s stated disagreement with Piper. (more…)
When your children are sick
Jean Williams | 18 April, 2012 | 6 comments
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I woke up this morning with a headache. There’s nothing remarkable about that; but as I stood at the bench and gulped down a couple of pain killers, I was reminded of how unpleasant a headache can be, and how easy it is for me to get rid of it.
It’s not so easy for my son. (more…)
After the NIV, then what? The NIV.
Everyday Ministry, Life, Pastoral Ministry, Sola Panel
Sandy Grant | 17 April, 2012 | 12 comments
Some time ago I wrote about choosing a Bible translation for public use in church. At my church, St Michael’s Cathedral in Wollongong, we’ve decided to go with the 2011 version of the New International Version (NIV11), recently published by Biblica (a.k.a. the International Bible Society). I’d like to follow up on my previous article to tell you about our decision, and why.
Among the apostles
Pastoral Ministry, Sola Panel
Lionel Windsor | 16 April, 2012 | 1 comment
Our own experiences often affect how we read the Bible. Take Romans 16:7, for example:
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsfolk and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. (Rom 16:7)
There’s something in this verse that often catches the eye of the modern reader: a woman, Junia, is said to be “of note among the apostles.” This means that she was either a person of note to the apostles, or that she was herself “among the apostles.” Either way, the Bible seems to be saying that there was a woman who had a ministry role that was important in the early church. Surely then, as many argue, the example of Junia means that women today, too, can and should have significant ministry roles? At this point, our own experiences can play a big part, particularly our experiences of Christian ministry. (more…)
Professor versus Cardinal (#qanda)
Here in Australia last week’s Q&A on ABC television was an Easter Monday special, featuring Professor Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, and Sydney’s Catholic Archbishop, Cardinal George Pell for a live discussion of faith, science, and morality. The show’s audience was 863,000, its biggest audience since it covered the 2010 federal election. (more…)
Authentic wine tasting
James Croucher | 9 April, 2012 | 4 comments
“Thank goodness that’s over,” you sigh, laying your head on your pillow. As the organiser of your church’s ‘wine tasting’ event, your day had been very full. First thing this morning you had been to a number of superstores to chase down the twelve required varieties. As the rain poured down, you loaded the cases into your little old car. Puddle water soaked through your shoes, but you reminded yourself that it was all for the gospel. You arrived at the church and helped arrange the room with a small number of volunteers. Just as you sat down for lunch you received a call from the expert who was going to lead the tasting but now needed to pull out. A few hours, a lot of anxiety, and many phone calls later, you found someone who could fill in for him. Your phone beeped again as you received a message from the friend you invited. Unfortunately she could no longer get away from work in time and wished you a pleasant evening. You felt really disappointed. However, having an official role made it much less awkward for you than for other members of the church family who arrived without a non-Christian. (more…)
The Agony
Sandy Grant | 5 April, 2012
Some people would call me aesthetically challenged: I don’t know much about art and music and poetry and literature—but I know what I like. And I’m more a low-brow sort of guy, crime fiction rather than the English classics. (more…)
A different centre of gravity
Ian Carmichael | 4 April, 2012
This heartwarming feedback just came in from Dave, a pastor here in Sydney:
I’m not a teary kind of bloke. Last night, though, I was almost at the point of crying as we went around the room and people shared what they’d got out of doing The Course of Your Life. In the week following the weekend away one lady has told virtually everyone she’s met about Jesus and started praying all the time; another lady has cut back her excessive work hours and is praying far more frequently; three men shared how they’ve started speaking about Christian things in conversations at work where in the past they would’ve kept quiet; one of them gets in the car a few minutes earlier each day so he can pray for opportunities to speak about Jesus at work; another guy can’t stop reading Colossians because it’s just so exciting.
The hope of the resurrection
Nicholas Markham | Rory Shiner | 2 April, 2012
For Christians, the Bible’s teaching on Jesus’ resurrection is often a bit like a mystery box. It’s central to our faith, but in our minds its value often depends on its mystery. In 1 Corinthians 15 Paul urges us to move beyond the surface, open the box and delight in its truths. (more…)


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Walter Baseggio
Is a Belgian footballer who currently plays for R.E. Mouscron, as a central midfielder.In 2005-06, B
Is a Belgian footballer who currently plays for R.E. Mouscron, as a central midfielder.In 2005-06, Baseggio was transfer listed, joining Italy's Treviso F.B.C. 1993 in January 2006, being relegated in his first year. However, in the mid-season interval of the next season, he returned to Anderlecht. In his two stints with the Brussels outfit, he won four national leagues, although he was only a fringe player in the last.
Walter De Greef
Is a retired Belgian footballer.During his career he played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and Sporting Loker
Is a retired Belgian footballer.During his career he played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and Sporting Lokeren. He earned 5 caps for the Belgium national football team, and participated in UEFA Euro 1984.
Walter Godefroot
Is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer and former directeur sportif of Team Telekom, l
Is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer and former directeur sportif of Team Telekom, later known as T-Mobile Team, a professional cycling team. In his competitive cycling days, Godefroot was a specialist in the one-day classic cycle races, w
Walter Hekster
Is a Dutch composer, clarinetist and conductor of classical music, specializing in contemporary clas
Is a Dutch composer, clarinetist and conductor of classical music, specializing in contemporary classical music.Studying composition with Ton de Leeuw and clarinet with Bram de Wilde, he graduated from the Amsterdam Academy of Music in 1961. Upon his graduation he studied clarinet with Keith Wilson and composition with Mel Powell at Yale University, where he received a Master of Music in 1963. In 1966 he studied with Roger Sessions in Tanglewood.
Walter Meeuws
Is a retired Belgian footballer. During his career he played for K. Beerschot V.A.C., Club Brugge K.
Is a retired Belgian footballer. During his career he played for K. Beerschot V.A.C., Club Brugge K.V., R. Standard de Liège, AFC Ajax, K.V. Mechelen. He earned 46 caps for the Belgium national football team, and participated in UEFA Euro 1980 and the 1982 FIFA World Cup. As a player he won 4 championships, 2 with Standard in Belgium, 1 with Bruges in Belgium and 1 with Ajax in the Netherlands. He also won 2 cups and played the final of the European Championship with Belgium in Italy in 1980.
Walter Meijer Timmerman Thijssen
Was a Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Dutch boat Minerva Ams
Was a Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Dutch boat Minerva Amsterdam, which won the bronze medal in the eights.
Walter Middelberg
Was a Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Wannes Van De Velde
Was a Flemish singer, musician, poet and artist.His father, Jaak Van de Velde, was a metal worker an
Was a Flemish singer, musician, poet and artist.His father, Jaak Van de Velde, was a metal worker and talented singer, his mother a housewife and singer. He grew up in the Zirkstraat, near the Antwerp Red Light district. At home the young boy was always surrounded by music.
Warwick Estevam Kerr
A Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notabl
A Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. He is also partially responsible for the accidental release of experimental, Africanized bee queens in 1957, also called killer bees. Africanized bees are hybrids of European and African honey bees. These queens were eventually responsible for the spread of the Africanized bee to continental areas that were previously dominated by the more docile European bee.From March 1975 to April 1979 Kerr moved to Manaus, Amazonas, as director of the National Institute of Amazonia Research (INPA), a research institute of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He officially retired from the University of São Paulo in January 1981, but not from scientific life. Exactly eleven days later he accepted a position as Full Professor at the Universidade Estadual do Maranhão in São Luís
Wende Snijders
A Dutch singer. Her first name Wende is commonly used as her artist name.Wende moved to Indonesia wh
A Dutch singer. Her first name Wende is commonly used as her artist name.Wende moved to Indonesia when she was four years old and to Guinea-Bissau when she was six. When she was nine years old, she came to The Netherlands, where she lived in Zeist. She gr
Wendel Fräser
Was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he served Feyenoord Rotterdam and RBC Roosendaal.
Was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he served Feyenoord Rotterdam and RBC Roosendaal. He died at the age of 22, when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo.Fräser was a postman in Rotterdam and played in the youth squads of Feyenoord Rotterdam. He was known as a talented player and was promoted to the first team of Feyenoord in the 1987-88 season. He did not yet make his debut that season, but remained on the bench. The next season he was transferred to RBC Roosendaal where he made his professional debut. After that season he signed a new contract at SVV for whom he would have been playing from the 1989-90 season.
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Choosing a name for your baby is indeed one of the greatest moments of euphoria for parents. The arrival of a baby in the family is the culmination of many months of planning and anticipation punctuated with periods of anxiety and concern.
Wendy Alane Wright
A multi-racial actress and singer; and daughter of author W.D. Wright (Crisis of the Black Intellect
A multi-racial actress and singer; and daughter of author W.D. Wright (Crisis of the Black Intellectual, Racism Matters). Wendy is married to James T. Smith whose daughter Taryn Smith is the great, great, great granddaughter of American abolitionist John
Wendy Jans
Is a Belgian amateur snooker and pool player.
Werner Mund
Was a Belgian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual foil and team épée events at the 1932
Was a Belgian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual foil and team épée events at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Wesley De Ruiter
A Dutch football player who currently plays for FC Utrecht.
A Dutch footballer. He played for Ajax (2002–2007) and currently plays for Real Madrid. He is also
A Dutch footballer. He played for Ajax (2002–2007) and currently plays for Real Madrid. He is also a regular member of the Dutch national team.Although Sneijder was not born in Amsterdam, he started his career in the Ajax's famous youth academy. He made his debut for Ajax in a 2-0 win at Excelsior on December 22, 2002 when manager Ronald Koeman, troubled by an injury-filled squad called him up, advised by Danny Blind, the then-coach of the Ajax youth-squad. He rapidly established himself in the role of midfield general and occasional left winger. Despite his short height, he is pacy and quick and strong on the ball and his passing range is enhanced by his two-footedness (ambidextrous).
Wesley Sonck
Is a Belgian football player, who currently plays as a striker for Club Brugge and the Belgium natio
Is a Belgian football player, who currently plays as a striker for Club Brugge and the Belgium national football team. He played for K.R.C. Genk in the Jupiler League from where he joined AFC Ajax in 2003 for about £5 million. He finished as the top scorer of Jupiler League in 2002 with 30 goals and in 2003 22 goals, which he shared with Cédric Roussel.
Wesley Verhoek
A Dutch footballer who plays for ADO Den Haag. He is a striker who plays as a winger on both side of
A Dutch footballer who plays for ADO Den Haag. He is a striker who plays as a winger on both side of the pitch.Verhoek's career began when he signed a professional contract with ADO Den Haag, after the winter break in 2004/2005 he played his first match in the first team of ADO Den Haag. Verhoek also plays for the Dutch youth squad.
Wiebe E. Bijker
Is a Dutch professor, chair of the Department of Social Science & Technology at the Faculty of Arts
Is a Dutch professor, chair of the Department of Social Science & Technology at the Faculty of Arts & Culture in the Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Wieger Emile Mensonides
Is a former Dutch swimmer, who won the bronze medal in the 200 Metres Breaststroke at the 1960 Summe
Is a former Dutch swimmer, who won the bronze medal in the 200 Metres Breaststroke at the 1960 Summer Olympics. For forty years he was the only Dutch swimmer who had won an olympic medal. Pieter van den Hoogenband followed in his footsteps at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
Wieke Elisabeth Henriëtte Dijkstra
Is a Dutch field hockey player, who plays as midfielder for Dutch club Laren. She also plays for the
Is a Dutch field hockey player, who plays as midfielder for Dutch club Laren. She also plays for the Netherlands national team, however most of the time as a defender. She was part of the Dutch squad that became World Champion at the 2006 Women's Hockey W
Wiel Arets
Is a Dutch architect, theorist and industrial designer from the Dutch-German border town of Heerlen.
Is a Dutch architect, theorist and industrial designer from the Dutch-German border town of Heerlen. After graduating from Eindhoven University in 1983 he established Wiel Arets Architect & Associates in his hometown a year later and in 1997 the office was moved to Maastricht. In 2004 a second office was opened in Amsterdam, with a third office in Zurich opening in 2008. Bettina Kraus, born 1970 in Nuremberg, has been a partner of Wiel Arets Architects since 2000.[1]
Wiel Coerver
A football (soccer) manager from the Netherlands, who's the developer of the Coerver coaching method
A football (soccer) manager from the Netherlands, who's the developer of the Coerver coaching method. He won the UEFA Cup with Feyenoord Rotterdam in the 1973-1974 season.The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France saw the first Coerver student, Boudewijn Zenden who played for the Netherlands national football team, to make the FIFA World Cup.Coerver Coaching Technique is a soccer coaching technique which Coerver created. By analysing videotapes of various great players including Pelé, devised a new concept in football which advocates that skill could not only be inherent with the young players but could also be passed on in a comprehensive academic way. Under this technique, players progress in a structured manner,
Wietske Annechien De Ruiter
Is a former female field hockey striker from The Netherlands, who represented her native country at
Is a former female field hockey striker from The Netherlands, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics: 1992 and 1996. At the last tournament in Atlanta, Georgia the former player of Hockey Vereniging Victoria in Rotterdam (wh
Wijnand Ott
Is a Dutch musician.In 1980 Ott joined Diesel as a replacement for Frank Papendrecht. He had taken u
Is a Dutch musician.In 1980 Ott joined Diesel as a replacement for Frank Papendrecht. He had taken up a career as a bassist only recently before that (switching from guitar) and despite his shy demeanour, he was a quality bassist.
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9th Circuit affirms prosecution in O'odham case (August 12, 2008)
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed federal prosecution of a man who attempted to murder two members of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona. Miguel Angel Ramirez claimed that his victims were not "Indian" within the meaning...
La Jolla men win rural volunteer award (August 12, 2008)
Two members of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians received a $4,000 award for their efforts during the devastating Poomacha fire of October 2007. The fire destroyed 97 percent of the reservation. Brothers Ben and Tom Rodriguez made sure...
Letter: Sweetheart deal for Suquamish Tribe (August 12, 2008)
"Last Thursday, I went to watch the free concert at Port Orchard’s waterfront park. Prior to the show, I went for a walk along the breakwater of the Port Orchard Marina. As I got out to the water, I found...
Rumsey Band donates $500K to womens' safe house (August 12, 2008)
The Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians donated $500,000 to help an organization in Sacramento, California, build a safe house for victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence. The 12,000 square-foot WEAVE Safehouse will provide more space to help women and...
Nez Perce Tribe struggles to provide health care (August 12, 2008)
The Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho says federal funds fail to meet the health care needs of its people. The tribe receives about $8 million a year from the Indian Health Service. Chairwoman Julia Davis-Wheeler said that's not enough to...
Cherokee council overrides veto on districting (August 12, 2008)
The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma will adopt a new districting plan over the objections of Chief Chad Smith. The plan creates 15 districts, each with one representative. The tribe currently has nine districts. The plan was approved by the tribal...
Lawmaker in Abramoff scandal ending prison term (August 12, 2008)
Former Congressman Bob Ney (R-Ohio), the only member of Congress indicted in connection with the Jack Abramoff scandal, will be completing his sentence this weekend. Ney was sentenced to 30 months but only served a total of 17 months in...
Sen. McCain snubs tribes on South Dakota visit (August 12, 2008)
Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), the presumptive Republican nominee for president, was in South Dakota last week but didn't have enough time to meet with tribal leaders, according to his campaign. The Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association contacted McCain's campaign last...
Opinion: MOWA Choctaws are no longer Indian (August 12, 2008)
"Woe is me. It has been hard adjusting to the fact that we are no longer Indians as of a few weeks ago. A United States District Court in Alabama recently ruled that the MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians' lawsuit...
BIA to work with tribal college on law and order (August 12, 2008)
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is collaborating with the United Tribes Technical College of North Dakota on law and order issues. The BIA will station an officer to UTTC's campus to work with tribal communities. UTTC is also offering...
Seminole Nation for domestic violence shelter (August 12, 2008)
The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma will build its first domestic violence shelter. The tribal council approved $250,000 towards the safe house. Additional funds will be raised for the $500,000 project. The shelter will be open to tribal and non-tribal...
Hundreds attend Soboba Band forum on Public Law 280 (August 12, 2008)
A reported 200 people attended a forum hosted by the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians to discuss Public Law 280. Legal experts and tribal leaders discussed the law, which was passed during the termination era. It grants certain states, including...
Native woman, missing for four years, found dead (August 12, 2008)
The remains of a Native woman who was missing for four years were discovered in Saskatchewan on Friday. Daleen Kay Bosse, a member of the Onion Lake First Nation, was last seen after an Assembly of First Nations function...
City won't oppose Cherokee Nation land-into-trust (August 12, 2008)
The city council in Catoosa, Oklahoma, voted 6-1 not to fight the Cherokee Nation's land-into-trust application. The city opposed the application when it was first filed in 1996. "Things have changed since that time," Mayor Rita Lamkin was quoted as...
Seneca Nation opposes tobacco tax bill (August 12, 2008)
The Seneca Nation is calling on New York Gov. David Paterson (D) to veto a bill that imposes state sales tax on reservations. President Maurice A. John Sr. said the bill imposes on treaty rights. He promised litigation to prevent...
Opinion: Wasteful hunting shocks Alaskans (August 12, 2008)
"Recently, many Alaskans were shocked and appalled to see front page pictures of caribou calves trying to suckle from their dead mothers near Point Hope and Kivalina, where vandals who live nearby apparently shot and left at least 160...
Nighthorse Campbell stumps for Sen. McCain (August 12, 2008)
Ex-Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado), a registered lobbyist, is campaigning in Indian Country for Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona). Campbell, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana, recently spoke to the Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Nations to promote the...
Interior proposes endangered species change (August 12, 2008)
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced a "narrow" change to Endangered Species Act regulations that environmentalists and Democrats said would rewrite the landmark law. Kempthorne said the change brings existing regulations in line with recent court decisions and current practices. Federal...
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2 'At this rate the entire tribe will be extinct': Zuni Pueblo sees COVID-19 cases double as first death is confirmed
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Cruise CEO Tells Biden to Support US Autonomous Vehicles Companies
By Eric Tanenblatt and Chan Creswell
This week Reuters reported that Dan Ammann, CEO of Cruise, wrote a previously undisclosed letter to President Biden urging his administration to support the development of autonomous vehicles. In particular, Ammann encouraged the President to raise the cap on the number of vehicle exemptions per company to the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). He warned that failure to do so would only hurt US autonomous vehicle companies in their race against Chinese manufacturers. Cruise is a majority-owned subsidy of General Motors that has generated buzz in the AV community for its wealthy and connected backers, including Honda and Microsoft, and its “post-car” designs.
In 2020, Cruise debuted the “Origin,” a vehicle designed to move past the car. Unlike traditional motor vehicles, the Origin contains no driver’s seat or gas pedals since it is entirely autonomous. Cruise envisions that the Origin will operate as a ridesharing vehicle and its interior simply includes two benches facing one another and screens that display the vehicle’s itinerary. Although it is roughly the size of an SUV, it contains no hood or trunk and is oddly symmetrical.
Unfortunately for Cruise, FMVSS requires that motor vehicles contain specific mechanisms like a steering wheel. Although these standards were recently revised to accommodate autonomous vehicles, the Origin would still fail to comply. Additionally, Cruise is subject to particular scrutiny because, unlike its competitor Nuro, the Origin would transport passengers. While the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) can offer exemptions to companies, there is a cap at 2,500 exempt testing vehicles per manufacturer per year. In his letter, Ammann called this cap a “U.S.-only impediment to building these vehicles at scale in the United States.”
While there has been congressional interest in raising the cap, no action has ultimately taken place. For instance, in 2017, both the House and Senate extensively debated bills that would have raised the cap over a period of five years to 100,000 and 80,000 vehicles per manufacturer per year, respectively. Although the House bill, the SELF Drive Act, did pass its chamber, neither bill reached the Senate Floor. Recently, Senators Thune (R-SD) and Peters (D-MI) tried to generate momentum to attach an amendment raising the cap to a bill focused on economic competition with China but were unsuccessful.
Ammann’s letter may provide the first true interaction between the Biden Administration and autonomous vehicles. Although the President has been vocal and active in securing more investment into US infrastructure, including electric vehicle and electric vehicle infrastructure, there has been very little mention of autonomous vehicles. In a unique coincidence, one of Transportation Secretary Buttigieg’s only comments on autonomous vehicles comes from an Axios event, sponsored by Cruise. At the virtual event, he said that his office’s main concern would be safety and that, currently, “the technologies exist to assist drivers, but in the vehicles that exist today, not to replace them.”
In his letter, Ammann states that “China’s top-down, centrally directed approach imposes no similar restraints on their home grown AV industry.” Of course, the Chinese Government has actively encouraged the growth of their AV sector and helped guide its development. In his first address to Congress, President Biden categorized the competition between the US and China as a battle between the adaptability of two different philosophies of government in the 21st Century. He said, “[President Xi JinPing] and others, autocrats, think that democracy can’t compete in the 21st century with autocracies, because it takes too long to get consensus.” He later said, “In my discussions with President Xi, I told him we welcome the competition.” Ammann focused on this global dynamic in his letter, saying, “We do not seek, require or desire government funding; we seek your help in leveling the playing field.”
While Mr. Amann’s letter was sent on May 17th, it remains to be seen how the Biden Administration will approach autonomous vehicles. Dentons and the Driverless Commute will continue to track the latest developments in autonomous vehicles both in the US and globally. For more information on the global approach to autonomous vehicles, and the Chinese model in particular, check out our Global Guide to Autonomous Vehicles and subscribe to the Driverless Commute.
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About Eric Tanenblatt
Eric Tanenblatt is the Global Chair of Public Policy and Regulation of Dentons, the world's largest law firm. He also leads the firm's US Public Policy Practice, leveraging his three decades of experience at the very highest levels of the federal and state governments.
About Chan Creswell
Chan Creswell is a Senior Public Policy Analyst in the Atlanta office.
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Appeals Court Appears Skeptical Of Flynn's Bid To Force Judge To Dismiss Case
Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, pictured in June 2019, had a hearing on Friday about the government's effort to drop its case against him.
A federal appeals court appeared skeptical Friday of Michael Flynn's bid to force a judge to dismiss his case after the Justice Department sought to abandon the prosecution.
A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit considered Flynn's case after years of twists and turns that began in the first days of President Trump's administration.
Last month, the Justice Department requested to dismiss its 2 1/2 year prosecution of Flynn, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador. The federal district court judge presiding in the criminal case, Emmet Sullivan, has put a hold on that for now.
Instead, he's set up a process to evaluate the government's decision to drop the charges.
Critics have said the Justice Department's intercession in Flynn's case is improper, at least in part, because he is Trump's friend.
Flynn and the Justice Department, meanwhile, have criticized Sullivan for not yet dropping the case. Flynn's legal team took the matter to the appeals court to ask it to order Sullivan to immediately dismiss.
Dubious judges
The hearing on Friday lasted more than 90 minutes. Flynn's attorney, Sidney Powell, argued that Sullivan exceeded his authority by appointing an outside counsel to argue against the government and by scheduling a hearing for mid-July to address the department's decision to drop its charges.
Powell said the government has the sole authority to make prosecutorial decisions and that Sullivan has no choice but to toss the case since the Justice Department and Flynn both want it thrown out.
The Justice Department, meanwhile, called Sullivan's review process "intrusive" and said it would cause harm to the government to have to defend its decision publicly in a highly politicized environment.
DOJ attorney Jeffrey Wall said Sullivan's review and the hearing he's scheduled for mid-July would become a "public spectacle."
The Flynn matter is highly political and unusual, not least because Flynn already has admitted his guilt and cooperated with investigators. Attorney General William Barr has said he believes that doesn't matter because of other aspects of the story.
The appeals court judges on Friday appeared skeptical about Powell's argument that they should take the extraordinary step of intervening now and ordering Sullivan both to stop his review and dismiss the case altogether.
Judge Karen Henderson told Powell that a federal judge in a criminal case is "not merely a rubber stamp" when the government seeks to dismiss.
"There's nothing wrong with him holding a hearing, as far as I know," she said.
Judge Robert Wilkins, like Henderson, noted that Sullivan had not yet ruled on the government's motion to dismiss, only set up a process to evaluate it. That's why Sullivan appointed a former judge to advise him and scheduled another hearing.
Sullivan could assess the counsel he's received, conduct his independent review and still decide to drop the case.
"If he denies the motion, then you can come back here on appeal," Wilkins told Flynn's lawyers.
No, Powell said — the government has quit the case and "it's time to leave the field." She also said the impact of the drawn-out nature of this case on Flynn has to be taken into consideration.
"The toll it takes on a defendant to go through this is absolutely enormous," she said.
Latest twist in years-long melodrama
Flynn served as President Trump's first national security adviser for less than a month. He pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with Russian's then-ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, during the presidential transition.
Flynn cooperated extensively with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, but did an about-face last summer after bringing on a new legal team led by Powell, who has been a fierce critic on Fox News of the Russia probe.
Early this year, Flynn moved to withdraw his guilty plea, saying he was set up by the FBI. Transcripts of Flynn's phone calls with Kislyak were recently declassified and made public. They showed that the two men did discuss sanctions against Russia—one of the issues Flynn pleaded guilty to lying about.
In its motion to drop the case, the Justice Department argued that the FBI never should have interviewed Flynn, and that any false statements Flynn might have made were not material to a legitimate investigation.
The outside counsel appointed by Sullivan, former federal judge John Gleeson, disagreed. In a sharply worded brief this week, Gleeson said the department's stated reasons for wanting to dismiss the case are "so obviously pretextual, that they are deficient."
He continued: "Moreover, the facts surrounding the filing of the government's motion constitute clear evidence of gross prosecutorial abuse. They reveal an unconvincing effort to disguise as legitimate a decision to dismiss that is based solely on the fact that Flynn is a political ally of President Trump."
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'Fortress USA': How 9/11 produced a military industrial juggernaut
Since the September 11 terror attacks, there has been no hiding from the increased militarisation of the United States. Everyday life is suffused with policing and surveillance. This ranges from the inconvenient, such as removing shoes at the airport, to the dystopian, such as local police departments equipped with decommissioned tanks too big to use on regular roads.
This process of militarisation did not begin with 9/11. The American state has always relied on force combined with the de-personalisation of its victims.
The army, after all, dispossessed First Nations peoples of their land as settlers pushed westward. Expanding the American empire to places such as Cuba, the Philippines, and Haiti also relied on force, based on racist justifications.
The military also ensured American supremacy in the wake of the second world war. As historian Nikhil Pal Singh writes, about 8 million people were killed in US-led or -sponsored wars from 1945-2019 - and this is a conservative estimate.
When Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican and former military general, left the presidency in 1961, he famously warned against the growing "military-industrial complex" in the US. His warning went unheeded and the protracted conflict in Vietnam was the result.
The 9/11 attacks then intensified US militarisation, both at home and abroad. George W. Bush was elected in late 2000 after campaigning to reduce US foreign interventions. The new president discovered, however, that by adopting the persona of a tough, pro-military leader, he could sweep away lingering doubts about the legitimacy of his election.
Waging war on Afghanistan within a month of the twin towers falling, Bush's popularity soared to 90%. War in Iraq, based on the dubious assertion of Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction", soon followed.
The military industrial juggernaut
Investment in the military state is immense. 9/11 ushered in the federal, cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, with an initial budget in 2001-02 of US$16 billion. Annual budgets for the agency peaked at US$74 billion in 2009-10 and is now around US$50 billion.
This super-department vacuumed up bureaucracies previously managed by a range of other agencies, including justice, transportation, energy, agriculture, and health and human services.
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Centralising services under the banner of security has enabled gross miscarriages of justice. These include the separation of tens of thousands of children from parents at the nation's southern border, done in the guise of protecting the country from so-called illegal immigrants. More than 300 of the some 1,000 children taken from parents during the Trump administration have still not been reunited with family.
The post-9/11 Patriot Act also gave spying agencies paramilitary powers. The act reduced barriers between the CIA, FBI, and the National Security Agency (NSA) to permit the acquiring and sharing of Americans' private communications. These ranged from telephone records to web searches. All of this was justified in an atmosphere of near-hysterical and enduring anti-Muslim fervour.
Only in 2013 did most Americans realise the extent of this surveillance network. Edward Snowden, a contractor working at the NSA, leaked documents that revealed a secret US$52 billion budget for 16 spying agencies and over 100,000 employees.
Normalisation of the security state
Despite the long objections of civil liberties groups and disquiet among many private citizens, especially after Snowden's leaks, it has proven difficult to wind back the industrialised security state.
This is for two reasons: the extent of the investment, and because its targets, both domestically and internationally, are usually not white and not powerful.
Read more: Calculating the costs of the Afghanistan War in lives, dollars and years
Domestically, the 2015 Freedom Act renewed almost all of the Patriot Act's provisions. Legislation in 2020 that might have stemmed some of these powers stalled in Congress.
And recent reports suggest President Joe Biden's election has done little to alter the detention of children at the border.
Militarisation is now so commonplace that local police departments and sheriff's offices have received some US$7 billion worth of military gear (including grenade launchers and armoured vehicles) since 1997, underwritten by federal government programs.
Militarised police kill civilians at a high rate - and the targets for all aspects of policing and incarceration are disproportionately people of colour. And yet, while the sight of excessively armed police forces during last year's Black Lives Matter protests shocked many Americans, it will take a phenomenal effort to reverse this trend.
Read more: Police with lots of military gear kill civilians more often than less-militarized officers
The heavy cost of the war on terror
The juggernaut of the militarised state keeps the United States at war abroad, no matter if Republicans or Democrats are in power.
Since 9/11, the US "war on terror" has cost more than US$8 trillion and led to the loss of up to 929,000 lives.
The effects on countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, and Pakistan have been devastating, and with the US involvement in Somalia, Libya, the Philippines, Mali, and Kenya included, these conflicts have resulted in the displacement of some 38 million people.
These wars have become self-perpetuating, spawning new terror threats such as the Islamic State and now perhaps ISIS-K.
Those who serve in the US forces have suffered greatly. Roughly 2.9 million living veterans served in post-9/11 conflicts abroad. Of the some 2 million deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, perhaps 36% are experiencing PTSD.
Training can be utterly brutal. The military may still offer opportunities, but the lives of those who serve remain expendable.
Life must be precious
Towards the end of his life, Robert McNamara, the hard-nosed Ford Motor Company president and architect of the United States' disastrous military efforts in Vietnam, came to regret deeply his part in the military-industrial juggernaut.
In his 1995 memoir, he judged his own conduct to be morally repugnant. He wrote,
In interviews with the filmmaker Errol Morris, McNamara admitted, obliquely, to losing sight of the simple fact the victims of the militarised American state were, in fact, human beings.
As McNamara realised far too late, the solution to reversing American militarisation is straightforward. We must recognise, in the words of activist and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, that "life is precious". That simple philosophy also underlies the call to acknowledge Black Lives Matter.
The best chance to reverse the militarisation of the US state is policy guided by the radical proposal that life - regardless of race, gender, status, sexuality, nationality, location or age - is indeed precious.
As we reflect on how the United States has changed since 9/11, it is clear the country has moved further away from this basic premise, not closer to it.
Author: Clare Corbould - Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University


De Luca’s election goals
Nov 30, 2021 | Government, Narrabeen ward
Independent candidate for Narrabeen ward Vincent De Luca OAM says he is seeking a fourth term on Council to ensure risks of over-development are managed and Council services are improved.
Councillor De Luca, who was first elected to Warringah Council in 2008, has become popular with members of the community but a thorn in the side of consecutive Council administrations, often asking specific and difficult questions at Council meetings.
He feels his ability to turn over rocks and ask awkward questions is a reflection of his experience as a lawyer and time working in community services and government.
“I’ve been a solicitor, worked with the Attorney General’s department and I’ve served in Parliament as an advisor. I’ve balanced that with community work at the same time, I was the President of Curl Curl Youth and Community Centre for nearly two decades.
“Also, my aim is to raise money for causes including women’s refuges and safe houses, and cancer research and supporting cancer patients. I’ve been a cancer patient myself. I’m also a voluntary director of a sporting organisation,” said Cr De Luca.
Cr De Luca feels the promised benefits of the amalgamation have not been realised, with savings and improvements in services not delivered.
“When Michael Reagan spent $500k of Warringah ratepayers money to campaign for the mass amalgamation of the three councils, he said that unless all three councils were amalgamated, rates would go up, public land would be sold, and services would go down.
“Unfortunately that has occurred, rates have gone up by $30m, our rubbish fees have gone up as well, and services have definitely diminished. As a Councillor, it’s been pretty important to try and ensure services,” said Cr De Luca.
Cr De Luca said he was pleased with the ability to increase Council’s focus on youth crime and mental health.
“Coming from a youth worker/social worker background, we’ve had to work very hard because our area has experienced a huge increase in gang crime and drug and alcohol abuse. Sadly, we’ve also had a significant increase in suicide.
“Some of us have gone to the National Suicide Prevention Conference and we’ve introduced policies that are addressing our younger people, and indeed those older people who are also contemplating suicide. We’ve made it less of a stigma.
“With gang violence, we have run a successful campaign to preserve Mona Vale Police Station, but also ensure that the Police Commissioner intervened, particularly after the Warriewood attack on the Police Inspector and the gang attack at Newport Beach, and numerous attacks on children across the Northern Beaches to ensure greater police presence north of the Narrabeen bridge,” said Cr De Luca.
The implementation of the housing strategy and development planning controls is a key concern for Cr De Luca in the next term of Council.
“I think the next challenge of Council will certainly be the housing strategy, which I voted against. It’s the housing strategy that sets the destiny of our environment as well as our development targets. We’ve got the LEP [Local Environment Plan] coming up as well. We’ve got to be vigilant to stop over-development and those documents could actually facilitate that if they’re not written in certain ways,” explained Cr De Luca.
According to Cr De Luca the restrictions imposed on the Local Government Election by COVID-19 has made it harder for independent candidates to campaign and be elected.
“It’s exceptionally hard. I don’t have major resources and unfortunately the system has been changed by the government in such a way that the safety of independent candidates is actually at risk.
“The minister changed the legislation, whereby you can’t have a PO Box on your authorising material and you’ve got to have a street address. When I questioned that with the Office of Local Government, they said, ‘just hire a hot desk.’ Few people have the money to actually hire a hot desk.
“I’m concerned about the safety of candidates, particularly female candidates who didn’t have the money to either rent a hot desk or aren’t working. I’ve been able to rent a hot desk and others have as well. What about those people who haven’t been able to, and they’ve had to put their home address?
“In my lifetime as a public figure, I’ve received heaps of death threats. You just never know what can happen if someone gets your home address. So that’s been one of the biggest barriers.
“I think this is not an election for the people. We have been prevented from handing out how to vote cards, which will definitely have an adverse effect. So it’s definitely a difficult election and it’s going to be hard for people to know who to vote for, because they won’t have the information on all candidates.
“A lot of people have said to me that they don’t even know that there’s an election on. Most people wouldn’t know that postal votes closed on 29 November.
“The other concerning issue too is that usually nursing homes are declared institutions, so people can vote from there. This time they’re not having declared institutions. So I feel for those that would have had the opportunity to vote if the institutions were properly declared and the Electoral Commission would go to them to take their votes. Most of those people now won’t even bother to vote.
“In all my years in government and standing for office, I think it’s probably the worst election for democracy. It’s actually an insult to democracy that people don’t have the information they need, and some will be disenfranchised and not able to vote,” said Cr De Luca.
Cr Vincent De Luca is standing for the Narrabeen ward and is Group E on the ballot paper.
The Local Government Election is being held on Saturday, 04 December. Voting at pre-poll locations is available 9.00am – 5.00pm, Monday – Saturday, from Monday, 22 November until Friday, 03 December.
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Locke & Key Season 2 Promotes 2 to Series Regulars, 2 More Join Cast
Less than two weeks after Darby Stanchfield (Nina), Emilia Jones (Kinsey), Connor Jessup (Tyler), and Jackson Robert Scott (Bode) took to social media to announce that production on the second season of Netflix's Locke & Key was getting underway, we're learning who will be joining the Lockes on Netflix's adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's horror/fantasy comic book series. First up, Deadline Hollywood reports exclusively that Aaron Ashmore and Hallea Jones will be bumped up from recurring to series regulars for the upcoming season. In addition, Brendan Hines (The Tick) has joined as a new series regular while Liyou Abere (The Boys) will guest star.
Hines' Josh Bennett is a charismatic and mysterious new history teacher at Matheson Academy with a secret agenda. Ashmore's Duncan Locke has a history with the keys, helping guide the Lockes in their battle against Dodge. Jones' Eden Hawkins is a former high school "mean girl" who's now a newly-minted demon- and a surprising new force of antagonism to reckon with. Finally, we have Abere's Amie Bennett, a spirited 11-year-old who becomes fast friends with Bode and an ally against the evil forces threatening the Lockes.
Locke & Key is returning for a second season (Image: Netflix).
During an interview from earlier this year, co-showrunner Meredith Averill (with Carlton Cuse) detailed what she would change (and keep) if the series was assigned a second set of keys. Proudly preferring "suspense and tension" over "gory and graphic" when it comes to horror, Averill revealed that the second season would retain the first season's tone. But with the kids getting older and also more experienced with the keys and their powers, the topics, situations, and enemies they face will have to grow and deepen: "The first season, we always thought of as being the story of the kids learning that they're the new Keepers of the Keys. With season two, we want to explore what that responsibility means. What does it mean as they get closer to being 18 years old—the age when you age out of magic—what does that mean? What does that look like? We cover so much of the comics in the first season, but there's so much of the lore that we held back on and new keys we created for the show that we're excited to share."
Averill continued, "Tonally, I think we intend to keep the show the same, but we do want to deepen the characters' lives and the issues they're dealing with. The older kids are moving closer to their graduation, and while grief is something that you never fully let go of, the kids are going to be able to begin moving on because, at least for now, they know the truth of what happened to him. If you can believe it, the Locke kids are going to be dealing with things far heavier than the death of their father in season two."
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Netflix's adaptation of the horror/fantasy comic book series Locke & Key focuses on the Locke siblings – Kinsey (Emilia Jones), Tyler (American Crime's Connor Jessup), and Bode (Jackson Robert Scott) – who move to their ancestral home in Massachusetts with their mother Nina (Darby Stanchfield) after the gruesome murder of their father, only to find the house has magical keys that give them a vast array of powers and abilities. Standing in their way is a devious demon who also wants the keys and will stop at nothing to attain them. The first season also starred Petrice Jones, Thomas Mitchell Barnet, Laysla De Oliveira, Kevin Alves, Asha Bromfield, Griffin Gluck, Steven Williams, Felix Mallard, Coby Bird, Sherri Saum, and Eric Graise.
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First-Time Homebuying
Where to look for lawns in Boston
Certain neighborhoods in the city—including West Roxbury and Roslindale—lend themselves to the bucolic expanses
By Tom Acitelli@tomacitelli Mar 10, 2020, 8:37am EDT
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With its dense runs of side-by-side townhouses and rowhouses, its apartment and condo buildings one after the other, and its triple-deckers arranged tightly together (whatever the sunlight on four sides), it can be difficult to imagine, let alone find, a sizable lawn in Boston.
In fact, a prospective homebuyer’s best bet would be to look beyond the city, to suburbs such as Brookline, Newton, Dedham, and Needham for bonafide lawns—though even there greenswards might be difficult to locate compared with much of the rest of the U.S., never mind quite expensive.
But where to look within Boston proper? If you must have a lawn—and there’s a whole school of thought about why you should not—better to look in a handful of neighborhoods that, because of their topography and history, offer the most options.
Also, one final note: We’re taking lawns here, not small yards or brick patios. Such accoutrement are pretty common throughout Boston, but they don’t necessarily provide the green.
An 864-square-foot single-family on West Street retailing for $499,000.
Boston Trust Realty Group
Boston’s southernmost and youngest neighborhood (it wasn’t annexed until 1912), Hyde Park is named for the famous greensward in London. It’s appropriate. The neighborhood is full of smaller single-families and low-rise apartment buildings on neat plots of grass.
That lack of density and that distance from the city’s urban core lends Hyde Park to having more such lawns.
Roslindale resident Steven Gag in 2014 with his backyard orchard.
The potential for finding a lawn in Roslindale is right in the final syllable: Locals named it after Roslin, a bucolic village outside of Edinburgh, Scotland. Boston did not annex Roslindale until 1873, and the city has never really drawn the farther-flung neighborhood—one of Boston’s southernmost—into downtown’s aesthetic orbit.
Part of that’s the topography and the geography—primarily that distance—but also part of it is zoning that has long encouraged the development of single-families and other smaller properties, many of them converted into condos and apartments and touting the access to shared or private greenery.
West Roxbury’s Stratford Street is typical of much of the neighborhood.
Roslindale’s neighbor—the two have had a fierce, though good-natured rivalry stretching back decades—shares much of the same makeup and zoning. In fact, the once-independent town—Boston absorbed it in 1874—has more single-families.
And that brings with it some of the most sizable lawns in Boston proper, generally on streets with a decidedly suburban look and feel.
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A newly constructed, 2,800-square-foot single-family on Rockwood Terrace near Jamaica Pond. It’s asking $2.195 million.
The Muncey Group
Some areas of JP are lusher than others in terms of lawns. Look near Jamaica Pond for the most options. The neighborhood is famous for having more public parkland than any other Boston enclave, so the greenery is not that surprising.
Because its zoning has long encouraged developments larger than the typical single-family, JP doesn’t have quite the relative abundance of lawn options that a West Roxbury or a Hyde Park might have, but they’re there. And they’re generally in better shape.
This 1,664-square-foot colonial in Ashmont sold for $700,000 in late 2019.
Boston’s largest neighborhood has probably its most diverse housing stock, including likely around one-third of all triple-deckers ever built in Massachusetts. Part of that stock are sizable single-families—Victorians and colonials, a lot of them—and those houses tend to have larger yards. And the houses are not all that expensive compared with similarly sized properties in Boston.
Because Dorchester is so big—6 square miles, give or take—we suggest narrowing your search to its Ashmont (including Ashmont Hill), Savin Hill, and Neponset areas. These are your best bets for Dorchester lawns.
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