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Tunisian PM urges continued focus on economy after election Tarek Amara, Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, a candidate for president in next month’s election, said on Thursday the country should press ahead with his government’s focus on the economy and security if it is to “join the club of strong democracy”. Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, a candidate in the upcoming presidential elections race, gestures during an interview with Reuters in Tunis, Tunisia, August 29, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi Chahed told Reuters that the “difficult” reforms could cost him politically, but he said they had stopped the economy from collapsing and that things were improving. Spending cuts and tax and fuel price increases have caused frustration among many Tunisians, prompting strikes and protests, and raising concern over disaffection in a country that embraced democracy only after a 2011 revolution. “We have to focus on the economy in order to give Tunisians prosperity and welfare, in order to give jobs for young Tunisians and in order to prepare for a new sustainable model of development in Tunisia,” Chahed said in English. While Tunisia emerged as the only relative success story of the “Arab spring” revolts that it triggered that year, analysts have said economic troubles and a string of jihadist attacks could blow its transition to democracy off course. Nationally, unemployment has risen from 12% before the revolution to 15.2%, but in some cities it stands at about 30%, with poverty aggravated by poor public services. Tunisia’s post-revolutionary constitution splits power between the president and prime minister, giving the head of state control only over foreign and defence policy. However, Chahed said that if elected in the Sept. 15 vote, he would use his position as president to focus on security issues, bringing foreign investment and securing stronger European Union support due to Tunisia’s place on the front line of the Mediterranean migration crisis. “The economy is no longer threatened by high deficits, but of course now we should look to the future, we should boost the economy through boosting foreign direct investment, tourism activity, agricultural activity,” he said. “We have to work on a new deal with our friends in the EU... Tunisia is protecting the south border of Europe and we can no longer do that in this condition,” he said, urging more European investment and political engagement. He said the economy had been on the verge of collapse when his government took over in 2016, a year after jihadist attacks devastated the country’s crucial tourism sector. While cutting the deficit, the government diverted more money towards security. Tunisia had only 5.6 million tourist visits in 2016, but 9 million are expected this year and “we can target” 10 million next year, he said. The fiscal deficit will be 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) next year, compared to about 3.9% now and 7.4% three years ago, while inflation would drop to about 5% by the end of next year from the high of 7.8% last year, he said. “All the difficult measures we have taken are for the benefit of the country, such as reducing energy subsidies, raising contributions to social funds and imposing some taxes,” he said. “We did so despite the enormous political cost that we know, but the country’s interest required that,” he added in Arabic. Reporting by Tarek Amara and Angus McDowall; Editing by Frances Kerry

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Yes Featuring Anderson, Rabin, Wakeman, ’50th Anniversary Live at the Apollo': DVD Review Dave Swanson Eagle Rock Entertainment Yes, for a long time now, have been a fluid entity. Over their 50-year history, band members have come and gone with almost alarming regularity. It's no surprise that, as of September of 2018, there are two versions of Yes on the road. Guitarist Steve Howe and drummer Alan White hold down one version, but the heart and soul of the band remains with founder and singer Jon Anderson, who, along with guitarist Trevor Rabin and keyboardist Rick Wakeman, has been leading another lineup since 2016. Originally touring as ARW, the trio claimed the original band name and hit the road to celebrate Yes' legacy. During that tour, they recorded a stop at the Apollo Theater in Manchester, England, a show that's been preserved on the DVD and Blu-ray 50th Anniversary Live at the Apollo. (There's also two-CD and triple-LP editions available.) The sound and visual are fantastic -- sharp and encompassing, they transport viewers right into the concert. The set list is pretty much everything a fan could ask for, from relatively obscure deep cuts like "Rhythm of Love' (from 1987's Big Generator) and "Lift Me Up" (from 1991's Union) to classics tracks "I've Seen All Good People," "Perpetual Change" and the tour de force, "Heart of the Sunrise." Also included is the epic "Awaken," from the 1977 Going for the One LP, presented here in its full glory by Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman, who are joined by drummer Lou Molio III and bassist Lee Pomeroy. It's nearly impossible to fill the vacancy left by late co-founder Chris Squire, so Pomeroy avoids trying to be a carbon copy, while Wakeman, always a master showman, proudly sports a bejeweled cape. Still, the star of the show is Anderson, whose signature voice still sounds warm and strong after five decades, and is clearly having a great time leading this edition of the band. For the most part, the group sticks close to the original songs, but they're not afraid to throw in some twists and turns along the way -- a forward-looking way to pay tribute to its illustrious past. Yes Lineup Changes Next: Yes Albums Ranked Filed Under: Yes Categories: Album Reviews, News

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Turkey - Turquie Turkish Constitutional Referendum: Evet (Yes) or Hayir (No) and how Erdogan’s regime silences the Opposition April 15, 2017 Sofroniy Le Bon 2 Comments Voices inside and outside Turkey we all observe the same thing: The referendum campaign in Turkey was not made under equal democratic terms; Tayyip Erdogan used almost every sources of state to gain his islamist “totalitaire” dictatorship during last two months. ‘Evet’ or ‘Hayir’? That’s the Question in Polarised Turkey regarding the Constitutional Referendum taking place the 16th of April. Wandering around Istanbul and the photos we see from pro and anti Erdogan media, it’s clear that the resources of the campaign backing an expansion of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers in the April 16 referendum vastly exceed those of his opponents. The constitutional referendum will take place on 16 April. It will be conducted under a state of emergency following an attempted military coup on 15 July 2016 that resulted in a number of arrests, detentions, and dismissals. Several OSCE/ODIHR NAM interlocutors raised concerns about holding a referendum during a state of emergency, while those from the state institutions, including the election administration, noted that the restrictions arising from the emergency decrees will not affect the referendum campaign. The referendum package contains 18 amendments to the Constitution. The amendments include the introduction of an executive presidency to replace the existing parliamentary system of government; the abolition of the prime-ministerial office; and most of the oversight responsibilities of the parliament; a number of judiciary reforms, and; an increase in the number of seats in parliament. Turks will vote “Yes” or “No” ,essentially, on whether to shift governmental powers from the parliament to the president’s office, currently held by Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Recent polls (that a lot of sources and media are questioning their validity) show results are too close to predict, with about 10 percent of voters remaining undecided. “For the nation and for the flag: ‘Yes’ (‘Evet’ in Turkish) with all our hearts,” one poster reads. “‘Yes’ for our tomorrows” says another, advertising a mass meeting by Erdogan earlier this month. “A country with a strong leadership guarantees stability”, journalist Nagehan Alçı stresses, making a case for the presidential system in Milliyet. Advertising for the “No” campaign (“Hayir” in Turkish) is less widespread but still conspicuous, showing a simple picture of a young girl and the slogan “For our Future”.According to Penguen, the airtime for live broadcasts for the “Yes” campaign on television outstrips 10-fold that of the “No” campaign. For DW.de reporting from Turkey’s capital Ankara, it is hard to think amidst the noise these days. Campaign buses are parked daily on opposite corners of Kizilay square, each one blasting propaganda as shoppers snake through crowds of flag wavers and flyer distributors.Foot traffic is heavy and campaigners from across the political spectrum work side by side to sway voters for the upcoming referendum. That outburst was a reference to national news coverage of the referendum, in which “Yes” vote supporters were getting significantly more airtime than their counterparts. A recent study of TRT Haber, the publicly-owned and financed national broadcaster, found that President Erdogan and officials from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had been given 4,113 minutes of coverage in the first three weeks of March. During the same period, opposition advocates with Republican People’s Party (CHP) were on air for 216 minutes while the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) had just one minute of coverage. Erdogan’s Party bans Opposition’s rallies: According to soL International, (1 & 2) the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) ‘s rallies have been banned twice this month. The Communist Party of Turkey(TKP), the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), the Communist Party of Poland and the Communist Party of Albania made statements regarding the ban of the İstanbul Governer on the rally of TKP in İstanbul. (source) HANDS OFF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF TURKEY! Upon recent unlawful bans, TKP has made a public declaration: “The Governorship of İstanbul has disallowed the rally of the Communist Party of Turkey that is scheduled to be held on April 8 in İstanbul. The Governorship has conveyed our Party administration that two other meetings other than the rally of TKP will be held in that day in İstanbul, thus there is no adequate police force due to the meetings of AKP and HDP.” Revealing the unlawful and biased decision of the Turkish Interior Minister, the statement of TKP continues: “The Interior Ministry, therefore, has announced that it will mobilise its all forces to protect Erdoğan in Yenikapı. However, the Communist Party of Turkey does not need any police force to hold a secure and disciplined meeting in Kartal. Indeed, the Governorship has exactly implied, ‘We do not have enough police force to prevent, isolate and intimidate those citizens who will participate your meetings’.” Indicating that the government imposes bans on referendum activities in order to portray the ‘no’ side of the referendum as “provocateurs”, TKP’s statement says: “Those who also banned an outdoor activity of TKP last week intend to silence the voice of the people. This is yet another scandal during the referendum process which is continuing with complete injustice and biases.” TKP concludes the statement: “We will not allow President Erdoğan to say ‘They instigate troubles again’ in Yenikapı. We will pursue this incident in terms of laws. We will politically prove once again that they will not be able to silence the voice of the working people.” Europe , Turkey and Human Rights Erdoğan’s plan for gaining more power hasn’t convinced anyone in Europe. There is no such presidential system practically anywhere on the Old Continent, and consequently it is viewed with considerable distrust. Nevertheless, this is not just a debate about political principles. … The referendum campaign has intensified the people’s distrust of the Erdoğan regime. This distrust was first awakened after the so-called Sultan’s wave of arrests in the summer of 2016 and remains intact today. The result of the referendum is open, but one effect can already be seen: relations between Turkey and the EU have become considerably more tense. In the eyes of the Europeans, Erdoğan has already lost. For Die Welt “should President Erdoğan win the referendum and transform his country into an absolutist presidential system, in the first place it would bring stability to the country. The president would no doubt become more pragmatic and at least curtail the violations of basic democratic rights. An amnesty for political prisoners would then be on the cards. What’s more, such a situation would lead to détente between Turkey and the West. … And if the referendum fails? Then he’ll try to call new elections as soon as possible. He would do his utmost to obtain a two-thirds majority in parliament, which would in turn allow him to push through his longed-for constitutional reform. Such a scenario would lead to huge instability and insecurity. Turkey would face chaotic times. Power technocrat Erdoğan would then use force and even violence to close the ranks behind him. And he would step up his policy of repression”. The Yes camp conducted an aggressive and intimidating campaign outside Turkey too. The Dutch paper De Volkskrant reports that Turkish-Dutch voters who don’t necessarily support Erdoğan have been bombarded via Diyanet [Turkish state] mosques, Turkish TV channels and social networks to such an extent that they fear for themselves and their relatives in Turkey. The Yes camp has deepened the rifts in Turkish community in the Netherlands. This is absolutely undesirable and lamentable. Unfortunately there is barely any tolerance within the Turkish community for Turkish-Dutch who belong to the No camp. They therefore deserve our support and solidarity and even our admiration if they have the courage to openly voice their rejection of the Erdoğan regime International Observers Report The “OSCE/ODIHR NEEDS ASSESSMENT MISSION REPORT” hold between the 22 to 24 February 2017 regarding the upcoming referendum assessed that currently the Constitution and the legal framework do not sufficiently guarantee the freedom of expression in Turkey . In particular, unduly broad provisions in the Anti-Terrorism Law and the Criminal Code, including on insult of the president, allow prosecution and imprisonment of journalists. Moreover, some provisions of the decrees enacted under the state of emergency further restrict the freedom of expression.The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) in a recent statement “condemned continued arrests of journalists and called on authorities to restore media pluralism in Turkey.” Similarly, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe noted that “the deterioration of media freedoms and freedom of expression in Turkey, had already reached seriously alarming levels, and has intensified even further under the state of emergency.” The OSCE RFoM, the CoE Commissioner, the PACE have also expressed concerns over the freedom of expression on Internet.1 ‘We expect fraud’ For the OSCE/ODIHR Needs Assessment Mission Report, the legislation allows for observation by representatives of political parties and stipulates that the vote count is public. However, it does not contain provisions permitting effective observation by international and citizen observers, despite a previous OSCE/ODIHR recommendation that the legislation be amended to provide for access of international and citizen observers to all stages of the electoral process, in line with the commitments from the 1990 OSCE Copenhagen Document.26 Representatives from some civil society organizations that observed past elections informed the OSCE/ODIHR NAM that they will either refrain from observation or significantly limit their efforts due to the overall political and security situation. During a phone interview given to DW.de , Hakan Ozturk, a board member for the opposition-affiliated Unity for Democracy (DIB), said, “We expect fraud.” “In our country you cannot just vote and go home and wait for results,” Ozturk said. “You have to protect votes one by one, because we have witnessed fraud many times.” Citing occurrences of ballot box stuffing and the use of fake names in past elections, he highlighted the importance of observers at polling sites, who help count votes and document results through cell phone pictures that they upload to databases. Generally, Ozturk said, the most difficult votes to track were those of state employees, particularly members of the armed forces who are stationed away from their home towns and have more flexibility in choosing voting sites. In the run-up to, during and after the Turkish general election of June 2015, numerous accusations of electoral fraud and violence were made by opposition parties. Electoral fraud in Turkey has usually been most extensive during local elections, where individual votes have significantly larger impact in determining local administrations. Although the 2014 presidential election saw little evidence of electoral misconduct, issues regarding voter records as well as extensive media bias have been controversial issues that have remained largely unaddressed.In both the local and presidential elections in 2014, several voters reported that ballot papers had been sent to addresses that are wrong or do not exist as well as voters that have been dead for a substantial amount of time. “The Washington Post” reported that the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) “by most measures benefited from the extensive frauds that we detect, especially in eastern Turkey,” in areas where voters tend to lean towards the HDP. Journalist Necati Doğru complains in Sözcü that state funding is being abused and the unequal campaign conditions work in the governing AK Party’s favour: “Public buildings have been plastered from top to bottom with Yes posters. Life-sized posters of the statesman who ‘wants to be president and party leader’ have been put up on mountain trails and at road junctions. Governors, district administrators, mayors and imams have been mobilised. Even schoolchildren have been taken to propaganda events for the Yes campaign on the grounds that they’re being prepared for exams. The president, prime minister, ministers, advisors and party friends all fly in planes and helicopters paid for by the state to campaign for the referendum. … They are abusing the administration and state funding for their propaganda, to win Yes votes. The people see these abuses of power and should teach these people a lesson.” #Erdogan Unstable Dictator must be stopped HAYIR #Turkey #Turkeyreferendum @PinarTremblay @RT_Erdogan pic.twitter.com/SW6ZhmauaM — Wally Sarkeesian (@gagrulenet) 15 avril 2017 Sources: Wikipedia, DW.de, Twitter (photos), WashingtonPost, CNN, Sözcü, Hurriyet Daily English (Sorry for the big post, but we tried to cover a lot of aspects of tomorrow’s referendum as this will shape the country’s near and long-term future. In any case we wouldn’t like to see Turkey transforming in a new Iran or Saudi Arabia as we don’t trust Erdogan.Thank you ) AKPCHPcommunist party of turkeyDW turkeyevetfreedom of speechhayirHDPhuman rightsinternational observersτουρκίαKKEmedia freedom turkeyMHPpolls referendum turkeyRecep Tayyip ERDOGANreferendumreportTKPturkeyTurquie Previous PostAhmet S. Yayla,former senior counter-terrorism official, exposes NATO’s member Turkey and its collaboration with ISISNext PostLa Grèce, Chypre, l’Italie et Israël signent “Est Med” le nouveau projet de Gazoduc en Méditerranée de l’Est (FR/en) 2 thoughts on “Turkish Constitutional Referendum: Evet (Yes) or Hayir (No) and how Erdogan’s regime silences the Opposition” vengodalmare says: gumusdis.com says: 😔 no Atatürk my love

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SLU-TV The University News Staff Manual The University News About UNews Keeping it Reel “Shuffle” deals a strong hand [email protected]|November 20, 2011 Kurt Kuenne’s new film “Shuffle” sounds a lot like “Memento.” It’s shot in black and white and chronicles a man who starts experiencing his life out of order, but does not know why. The comparisons stop there, though. Where “Memento” focused on gimmicks, “Shuffle” delivers with cleverness and heart. TJ Thyne (“Bones”) stars as Lovell Milo. The film begins with Lovell trying to make sense of his experience to a psychiatrist. Heavy-eyed and throwing back coffee, Lovell knows that if he falls asleep he will wake up in a different day in his life. Some days, Lovell is 8 years old, or 14, but some days he has not yet lived. What is causing this experience? What is he supposed to learn from it? Will it ever stop? I had the pleasure to talking with Mr. Kuenne on the phone. Kuenne, whose last feature, the documentary “Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father” also played at SLIFF and won the Audience Choice Award, decided to switch back to narrative features after directing a few shorts. One of those shorts, “Validation” starring TJ Thyne, has garnered a sort of cult status on YouTube where it has accumulated several million hits. “Shuffle,” came from Kuenne’s earlier screenplay which was awarded a prestigious Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The project had to be shelved, however, because a similar project directed by Chris Columbus was slated to be released around the same time. Kuenne, tired from traveling coast to coast with “Shuffle,” mentioned that “Shuffle” was inspired by films he grew up watching. He cited Spielberg as an influence and “E.T.” as his favorite film. He described “Shuffle,” though, as Frank Capra (“It’s a Wonderful Life”) meets “The Twilight Zone.” That connection certainly explains the use of black-and-white in the film. It looks beautiful. Kuenne uses lighting and shadowing to make his film appear much more glossy than independent films with such a small budget might. But the Capra influence was particularly appropriate. Kuenne’s film has a delightful sense of awe and wonder to it. It exists in a universe where there is order and meaning to everything, and you can find it if only you look hard enough. The world of “Shuffle” is not naive, simple and devoid of conflict, however. Without giving away too much of the plot, some of the complications that ultimately lead to tragedy are quite heartbreaking. Kuenne puts some of his characters through dark and dangerous times, but when they emerge they are fully realized people with a metanoia that is beautifully life-affirming. It is worth noting that Kuenne served as writer, director, producer, editor and cinematographer on “Shuffle.” Oh, and he also composed the soundtrack. Yet, the efforts of this cinematic Renaissance Man never feel tired or insistent. “Shuffle” still feels like a complete work, the result of a singular vision, and I mean that in a good way. Perhaps my only complaint about the film comes from my own philosophical cynicism. Watching “Shuffle,” I wished that everything was not so tidy in the end, that everything did not have meaning. I am willing to admit that this says more about me than it does about “Shuffle.” Kudos to the film for making me rethink my own worldview and assumptions about reality. I cannot recommend “Shuffle” strongly enough. It plays at 6.30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 20, at the Tivoli Theatre. Go and see it. If you miss it, put it on the Netflix queue. And watch out for this Mr. Kuenne. Seek out “Dear Zachary.” Kuenne is an assured and experienced filmmaker with a lot of heart, an inspiring trust in humanity, and a whole lot to tell us. Listen up. “Compliance” contemplates the stand-by effect quite compellingly “Hope” for romantic comedies for the retirement crowd “Campaign” not a compelling candidate ‘Total Recall’: fun, if forgettable ‘Ruby Sparks:’ a modern ‘Pygmalion’ ‘Watch’ out for hit-or-miss laughs Chaos, clutter and emotions in Batman’s third act The Almost ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ “Ted” is nearly un-bear-able Oscar-winner ‘The Iron Lady’ The Student News Site of Saint Louis University

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The boundary between Europe and Asia The 2500km Ural Mountain range is the boundary line between Europe and Asia. Despite being mostly wilderness, there is a complex human history that has evolved in the foothills of this mountain range; such as the indigenous Bashkir’s trading links with Middle Eastern merchants from the 10th Century onward and the Mongol Empire’s influence on its northern Arctic reaches, which resulted in the Khanate of Sibir, the northernmost Muslim state. History aside, this prominent geographical feature on the Eurasian Continent has numerous possibilities for trekking, climbing, skiing and cultural trips, that are little explored by non-Russians. POLAR AND NETHER-POLAR URAL Beginning in the Shchugor River and extending for 600km north all the way to the fringes of the Kara Sea on the Arctic Coast, the Polar and Nether-Polar Urals is a region of true Siberian wilderness. It’s in this section as well that one will find the Ural’s highest mountains. Whilst they aren’t the towering peaks one would find elsewhere in Russia and the Former Soviet Union, the remoteness of the region’s highest peak – Mount Narodnaya (1895m) – makes any trek to the peak, or in its vicinity, a very serious undertaking. NORTHERN URAL Starting by the Usa River and stretching due north for 560km, the Northern Ural’s landscape holds some deeply intriguing and unsolved mysteries. These include the Dyatlov Pass incident where in 1959 nine students embarked on a winter ski trip. All of them perished under still unexplained circumstances. Explanations range from murder, a yeti, to extra-terrestrial influences. If you’re not interested in conspiracy theories, there’s the geological oddity of Manpupuner’s rock towers to be seen, along with countless archaeological sites to be explored; such as the location of the Shigir Idol, the world’s oldest wooden structure created 11,000 years ago, and a nearby region in the tundra where non-natural, perfectly geometric objects estimated to be 300,000 years old, were discovered. Some say they’re evidence of ancient alien visitation… CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN URAL The central and southern section of the Ural Mountains run south from the Ufa River, all the way to the border of Kazakhstan. The highest point is Mount Yamantau (1640m) and intriguingly enough it’s within this unremarkable peak that the United States claims Russia is housing an extensive, top secret bunker complex for Russian Armed Forces. Whatever your opinion, it’s clear that the isolated nature of this section of the Urals is a great getaway from such paranoia. January temperature range: -13 °C to −30 °C. July temperature range: +13°C to +25 °C. Reliable wifi in major towns and cities near to the Ural Mountains. No internet connection outside of these areas. Typical of Russia: Dill. Dill. And more dill. Lots of potatoes, beetroot and root vegetables. Meat and fish centre in most dishes. Bulgar wheat is a popular grain. Berries, mushrooms, fowl, reindeer and dried/raw fish also heavily feature in northern Siberian cuisines. Tatar cuisine – which is rich and varied – also emerges in the Northern/Central/Southern regions of the Urals. It is characterised by cereals and livestock. Russian. Tundra Nenets, Mansi and Khanty in the Polar and Nether-Polar regions of the Ural. Bashkir, Tatar and Ob-Ugric in Northern, Central and Southern regions of the Ural. Russian Orthodox Christianity. Shamanism. Animism. Islam. The FCO considers Ural Mountains to be a low risk region to travel. Interested in a trip to Ural Mountains?

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Unexplored Svalbard Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen - Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen Flight Paris/Longyearbyen + transfers + flight Longyearbyen/Paris PONANT invites you to experience something exceptional by discovering the Far North and the immense open spaces of the polar Arctic and its ice floes that extend to the North Pole. You will board the ship at Longyearbyen in Norway for an 8-day expedition cruise to the heart of the Svalbard archipelago. Over these expedition at sea aboard your ship, in the company of our specialist teams, you will discover the exceptional flora and fauna that lives in these extreme conditions, where temperatures reach -30°C in winter. Your ship will first sail in the direction of the magnificent glaciers of Kongsfjorden, and then to the superb landscapes of the Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park. The deep blue waters of its fjords surrounded by snow-capped mountains are home to many species of cetaceans while its islands, beaches and wide bays shelter the remains of old whaling stations and trappers’ cabins. You will then set sail eastbound to try to reach the coasts of the Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve, and the Hinlopen Strait, a real polar desert sheltering many basaltic islets, majestic glaciers and a rich marine ecosystem: colonies of sea birds, walruses, polar bears and Arctic foxes come to feed here. Perhaps you will also be lucky enough to be able to observe these emblematic species as you sail along the islands of Barentsøya and Edgeøya (also known as Barents Island and Edge Island respectively), in the Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve, which is the largest protected zone in Norway. During this unforgettable expedition, our ship will sail to latitudes of 80° north and you will discover that unique feeling of having reached the top of the world. We are privileged guests in these remote lands where we are at the mercy of weather, ice, tidal and current conditions. Landings on certain sites and the observation of certain wildlife cannot be guaranteed. They vary from day to day, making each PONANT cruise a unique experience. The Captain and the Expedition Leader will make every effort to ensure that your experience is as rich as possible, while complying with the safety rules and instructions imposed by the AECO. Ref : LL5445 - A260621 A brand-new cruise to discover the countless riches of Svalbard. Outings and shore visits in Zodiac® inflatables with a team of experienced naturalist guides. Hiking opportunity. Sail in the Hinlopen Strait... Windbreaker – Mandatory Mosquito repellent, anti-itch balm and mosquito head net (Greenland) A brand-new cruise to discover the countless riches of Svalbard. Sail in the Hinlopen Strait between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet. Landscapes: ice floes, jagged mountains, icebergs, ice caps, steep-sided valleys, sheer cliffs, huge glaciers. Discover Europe's largest ice cap in Nordaustlandet. Wildlife: polar bears, walruses, Arctic foxes, Svalbard reindeer, cetaceans, sea birds. June 26, 2021 Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen Longyearbyen is the capital of the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago, located on Svalbard’s main island, and is the northernmost territorial capital on the planet. With winter temperatures dropping to below 40°C, the landscapes of this mining town are simply breathtaking. The glaciers, the mountains stretching as far as the eye can see and the untouched nature, make you feel like you’re in completely unexplored territory. June 27, 2021 Kongsfjorden (King Bay), Spitsbergen Very close to the former mining town of Ny-Ålesund, set off to discover Kings Bay. Your ship will sail in one of the most beautiful fjords in Svalbard: Kongsfjorden (the fjord of the King), a gateway to grandiose landscapes. Here, the snow-capped mountains are reflected in the water where superb icebergs try to outdo each other in their beauty, a delight for photographers. Bearded seals, reindeer, barnacle geese and black guillemots frequent these places that have a unique atmosphere. Once you arrive at the end of the fjord, admire the Kongsbreen (glacier of the King) and its three characteristic rocky points, which take their names from three Scandinavian countries: Svea (Sweden), Dana (Denmark) and Nora (Norway). June 28, 2021 Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park Like the other protected areas of Svalbard, the Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park was established in the early 1970s to protect this exceptional environment against the growing interest of the mining industry. Nunataks, glaciers, islands and large bays, arctic tundra scattered with moss and lichen in shades of silver and gold... This region will fascinate you with its landscapes and with the numerous vestiges that bear witness to the history of the men ─ whale hunters and those involved in the first expeditions to the North Pole ─ who found themselves on these shores from the start of the 17th century. In this pristine environment, you will be able to observe arctic sterns or seals on the rocks that emerge at low tide. June 28, 2021 Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve The Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve has been protecting the northernmost and coldest part of the archipelago, Nordaustlandet (North East Land), since 1973. This vast polar desert covered by two ice caps is the second largest island in the Svalbard archipelago. Protected by the gulf stream, the fjords and cliffs in the west and north are home to large colonies of birds and walruses. The landscapes in the colder east and south are dominated by imposing glaciers that calve majestic icebergs in the vast Hinlopen Strait. Large colonies of thick-billed murres have taken up residence on the sheer cliffs. You may even get the chance to see a bear or an Arctic fox roaming in the vicinity. June 29, 2021 Sailing toward the ice floes Your captain will sail right up to the limit of the ice, to the edge of the ice floe. Weather conditions and state of the ice allowing, you will be able to go out in a Zodiac® dinghy for a unique experience in the middle of these floating slabs of ice. In addition to this grandiose journey through the middle of these floes with their cut and blue-tinged edges, sometimes over 2 metres thick, it is also often an opportunity to see a particular kind of fauna, totally dependent on the ice floe: birds, seals and polar bears. June 29, 2021 June 30, 2021 Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve July 1, 2021 Soraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve The Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve is the second largest protected area in Norway. Established in 1973, this nature conservation area stretching over more than 21,000 km2 will offer you stunning panoramas including coastal landscapes, rocky islets, mountain plateaux, vast tundra plains, and ice floes. With a little luck, you will be able to observe a wide variety of seabirds, given the site is listed as an Important Bird Area, as well as cetaceans, Svalbard reindeer, or even Arctic foxes. Among other things, Edgeoya Island is renowned for providing shelter to a number of polar bears during the breeding season. July 2, 2021 Isfjorden The vast Isfjorden is one of the main fjords in Svalbard. These different branches reach the heart of the island of Spitsbergen. Located deep inside the Billejforden, the Nordenskiöld Glacier is one of the very beautiful discoveries of your cruise. Its front of ice, nearly 5 km wide, is one of the most spectacular in the Svalbard Archipelago. You will perhaps have the opportunity to discover the ghost town of Pyramiden. Constructed at the foot of a mountain in the form of a pyramid, this former mining town, founded by Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century before being sold a few years later to the Soviet Union, and abandoned in 1998, has conserved all the buildings from its glory days, when it lived off coal mining. July 3, 2021 Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen For your serenity, PONANT selects flights and organizes transfers between the airport and the port. This package is included in your cruise fare. Embarkation day - Paris/Longyearbyen Flight Paris/Longyearbyen selected by PONANT. Approximate flight duration: 4h30 We highly recommend you arrive in Paris the day before this flight. We suggest you to be at the check-in counter 2 hours before departure. Meet & greet at the airport by our local English-speaking representative. 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Young Love and Old Technology Because Laughter is the Best Medicine by Mark Spearman on October 26, 2012 Note from PW: Here’s another fantastic movie review by my friend Mark Spearman. The timing on this is perfect, as I just watched The Descendants last night for the very first time. All I can say is…”What Mark said.” Wow. I loved it. If you haven’t seen the movie, I highly recommend it. By Mark Spearman. At first, we hear only the sound. The pitched, angry roar of the obscenely powerful engines of a massive racing boat. The picture fades in on the face of a middle-aged blonde woman we will later learn is Elizabeth King. She is happy, exhilarated, blissful even, as the wind and sea spray whip her hair in all directions; she smiles broadly, squinting to see her way through the salt water and sun. Elizabeth is waterskiing on a typically beautiful Hawaiian afternoon. Despite the lurches and swings of the camera, we see, behind her, powder blue sky and lush, puffy clouds. The sleek boat pulls her across the water at tremendous speed. Her smile intensifies. She breaks into a laugh. The picture fades to black. A moment later, but weeks in the lives of the characters in this story, we realize that we’ve been witness to Elizabeth’s last moments on Earth. At least her last moments as a conscious, thinking-and-feeling person. She has been in a deep coma since the boat accident, and her husband, Matt, is soldiering through Day 23 of a solemn vigil. These events shape the landscape of The Descendants, a movie from 2011 that at first blush, in the theater, I found to be quite a good movie. But after seeing it again on the small screen, I believe it to be a great movie. Maybe even an important one. For some reason, watching it at home, the film struck me differently. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. So I read the book – the original novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings – and couldn’t stop thinking about that. The story is remarkable in its adherence to the physical laws of family, loss and betrayal, with characters expressing emotions and behaving in ways that feel real and true. It also acknowledges that grief is a process, unique to each of us, and a matter of some complexity. The Descendants was criticized by some for not being edgy enough, or for lacking emotional oomph. Life is often dramatic, but not always cinematic. I suspect those critics wanted to see one of the characters break down in the shower and weep uncontrollably. Because for some reason movie characters love to break down, more than any other location, in the shower, and then weep uncontrollably. Sometimes fully clothed, sometimes not. Sometimes clutching a bottle of Jack Daniels, sometimes not. But they always weep uncontrollably and then slide, very, very slowly, down the tile wall behind them to the shower floor. And then they cover their faces with their hands and we’re clued in that something dramatic has happened. This movie doesn’t have that. What this movie does have is a pretty good grasp of the mechanics of real life, where tragedy often ushers in a “new normal” accepted more quickly than we register in the moment. Where people do their best to push on through uncertainty and ambiguity. Where it takes time for the shock of loss to penetrate hearts and minds. A gray place where answers and closure come slowly, if at all. And a place, where, somehow, there are moments in which we cannot help but laugh at the tragic sting of it all. Truth + Pain = Funny, and I’m always in awe of smart writers and directors who can sprinkle it in at just the right moments. Much of this revolves around Matt’s relationship with his daughters, 10-year-old Scottie and 17-year-old Alex. He has not been the most hands-on dad. And with Elizabeth gone, he’s getting a sudden introduction to the vagaries of daughterhood. His puzzling thoughts on ten-year-old Scottie, for instance (a passage from the book): I hope she can’t see that I’m appraising her and that I’m completely worried by what I see. She’s excitable and strange. She’s ten. What do people do when they’re ten? She runs her fingers along the window and mumbles “This could give me bird flu” and then she forms a circle around her mouth with her hand and makes trumpet noises. She’s nuts. Older daughter Alex is tough, smart, much like her mother, and the strongest of the lot. She has a rebellious history, a dark attitude, and intense anger toward mom for reasons she initially refuses to reveal. The movie relies heavily on Matt’s voiceover narration. That’s a screenwriting device that some abhor as lazy storytelling, but in the hands of director Alexander Payne, who uses it to great in effect in his other films, like Paris, Je t’aime, About Schmidt and Election, it adds a layer of beauty and texture. The Descendants lifts many passages from the novel. Like this one, in which Matt, flying to the Big Island to fetch Alex from boarding school, gazes down at the scattered points of land that are home: “My family seems exactly like an archipelago – all part of the same geographic expression but still islands – separate and alone, always drifting slowly apart.” Matt and Elizabeth’s marriage is seriously flawed, and, as Matt comes to learn, more so than he ever realized. I’ve heard it said that in every relationship there is a gardener, and there is a flower. Matt is the gardener, but not a very good one. That would be at odds with his path-of-least-resistance personality. Elizabeth not only needs close tending and attention, she has an addiction to risk. She also likes to be take-charge, decisive, in control. Accordingly, she has a Living Will. No action is to be taken to artificially sustain her. As her life slips away, Matt is tasked with “arrangements,” principally informing Elizabeth’s close friends and family that her time is limited. Yet he keeps encountering people who tell him everything is ok. They are well meaning, but, as people often are, allergic to unpleasant truths. “Elizabeth is a fighter, she’ll be fine,” he is told more than once, by people who then quickly change the subject. It brought to mind a couple of books I’d read, the memoir of the writer Christopher Hitchens, and, sadly, a book published only two years later, in which he chronicles his last days, ill with cancer. He compares the experience of losing one’s health to the sudden deportation to a distant, foreign country, one he calls the “The Land of Malady.” Hitchens calls it “a place where everyone smiles encouragingly … humor is a touch feeble… there seems to be almost no talk of sex, and the cuisine is the worst of any destination I have ever visited.” It’s also a place where people do not say quite what they mean, where they minimize illness as a battle, one in which we can prevail if only we fight. The unfairness inherent in that notion is that presumably, those who don’t survive just didn’t fight hard enough. Elizabeth is in this land now, but it is Matt who is left to deal with its odd customs. He also grapples with the revelation that his wife was unfaithful. This news sets in motion a quest of sorts. In this matter, Matt is as much in search of who he really is as husband and father, as he is of his wife’s elusive boyfriend, a dimpled real estate agent he tracks down with Alex’s help. Wait, there’s more, a complicated backdrop to Matt’s family troubles. He’s a descendant of Hawaiian royalty. Matt holds the deciding vote in a trust that owns thousands of acres of breathtakingly beautiful coastland, owned by his family since the early history of the islands. Most of his cousins want quick sale and a huge payday. The fate of this land will affect many; a decision is required by week’s end. On the surface, this situation has no connection to Elizabeth’s decline or his relationship with the girls, but as Matt ponders his obligations to family, it opens his mind to what is owed to the past. There isn’t an iffy performance in the movie. Standouts are Shailene Woodley as the troubled but wise teenager Alex, and the great Robert Forster as Elizabeth’s angry, bitter, but ultimately tender father. As for Clooney, he is neither the suave guy in the tux showing just the right amount of cuff, nor is he a goofy caricature. He somehow manages to pull off ordinary and average, up to and including looking stupid running in flip-flops. Saying something new about the subject of loss is a bold aspiration for a movie. There are so many that have sought to define, explain or quantify. Some of the finer that come to mind include Ordinary People, Sophie’s Choice, A River Runs Through It, Philadelphia… there are hundreds more, all the way to Lion King and Bambi, if you think about it. In fact, when you break it down, loss is one of a handful of themes you’ll find across all of the films ever made. The Descendants certainly isn’t the definitive movie on the subject, but it does manage a certain quiet honesty. It reminds us that goodbyes are often complicated, layered with regret, anger, guilt, and a longing for what might or should have been that never really leaves us. There’s a scene in the final act in which Matt, Alex and Scottie set out in a canoe to scatter Elizabeth’s ashes in the Pacific. They each take a turn pouring the contents of the urn into the water. Matt’s thoughts, excerpted here from the novel, will resonate with anyone who has lost a parent too early in life. The girls paddle slowly, and Scottie stops and rests her paddle across the hull. Her back is hunched and she looks at her lap and I wonder if she’s crying. She turns, holding up her hand. “Mom’s under my nails,” she says. I look, and yes, there she is. Alex turns and Scottie shows Alex her fingers. Alex shakes her head and gives Scottie this look that seems to say, Get used to it. She’ll be there for the rest of your life. She’ll be there at birthdays, at Christmastime, when you get your period, when you graduate, have sex, when you marry, have children, and when you die. She’ll be there and she won’t be there. We see them again, later, settled in at home. I’ll say of the ending only that I greatly admire any film that concludes with a quiet coda with modest ambitions. One by one, Matt, Alex and Scottie flop down on the sofa and watch TV. No words are spoken. They share ice cream and wrap themselves in a quilt, the yellow one that covered Elizabeth’s hospital bed. It is neither cheerful nor dark, just an affirmation of the resilience of family. Because, more than anything, it is the simple rhythm and flow of ordinary life, minus one, that defines the struggle of those of us who remain. Mark Spearman Mark Spearman, a writer who lives in Oakland, California, loves unforgettable movies and great TV. A Midwest boy, Mark is a direct descendant of bold patriots of the American Revolution, yet understated enough to pass for a native Canadian. More Posts by Mark Spearman (34) Follow Mark Spearman: Mark Spearman's blog: Once again, one of Matt’s reviews touches me in a way I didn’t think the movie he’s blessed with his words could. I’ll be seeing this one now. He hasn’t steered us wrong yet. Christine...again... Mark Mark Mark. Sheesh. http://www.raineality.blogspot.com Rainey This is on my “must see” list, and now, it has definitely moved to the top of that list. Thanks for the great review! I enjoyed the story of this movie, but I really, Really, REALLY didn’t like all of the “F” words used throughout the film. I felt the amount of “bad” language detracted from the performances. http://www.chickenblog.com Natalie, the Chickenblogger Nicely stated, Mark. I would add that Island life and culture were captured, beautifully… a significant and appreciable care was taken there. We read the book in my book club and I enjoyed it very much! It IS a very lovely movie, for many of the reasons Mark mentioned. I tend to really get into soundtracks myself, how they can transport you into a time and place. They just add so much to a story. This is one of those that really adds another layer to the movie. You may not think you like Hawaiian music, but give this a try and you may just change your thoughts on that. Really perfect. Great review on an understated movie, Mark. wonderful, tender story and the scenery and island music added so much! loved it!!! http://davisonacresoilfield.blogspot.com Kristin Davison Your movie reviews are absolutely poetic. I have not read one so beautifully written. Thank You. I loved this movie, i watched in on a cross country flight sitting in an aisle seat right by the bathroom… I had tears streaming down my face at times… I was transfixed, i would recommend this movie despite the fact I may have come across as a crazy pants when watching it 🙂 Wow. I’m teary eyed just reading the review. This movie just moved to the top of my rental list. Thank you for a wonderful review of a movie I completely missed. We had the privilege of attending a premier showing of the film, before it opened nationally, AND then the showing was followed by a Q & A hosted by Alexander Payne. AND then a reception, lots of fun! “The Descendants” will forever by a movie favorite for me. Especially the quiet, calm coming together of the family, wrapped in their mom’s quilt, at the end. Has anyone seen “The Artist”? (the movie that won the Oscar best film nomination last year). Also a good movie, but I was going for my hometown favorite. Cat Cooks in WI Another brilliant post from Mark. Very fine. jaxc Mark, you have a magic way with words. You nailed it in the paragraph about the “new normal”. Our lives changed instantly when my husband was in an accident that paralyzed him from the neck down. Our family’s reactions were all different, and none followed the “usual” movie version. I was faced with instantly switching from the flower to the gardener. When he passed 10 years later, I realized I was not only mourning the loss of my beloved soulmate but also the passing of two lives, the one we had before his accident and and one we had after his accident. Thank you for so eloquently expressing the thoughts and feelings I have experienced. http://justininsa.blogspot.com Claire H. Mark, you have articulated much better than I ever could the reasons I loved this film. The concept of the ‘new normal’ which I didn’t realize until you stated, but not see 100% is so true-to-life and beautifully demonstrated in The Descendants, is one of the many reasons. I’m off to go read the book now, thank you, thank you, thank you(!) for this review. Did not like the movie! The acting was very good, but I thought the script was weak. I shouldnt read such posts early in the morning when I am still volunerable! I knew I wanted to see this movie before reading the review so this just increased the need to watch soon. Nareht Great movie. I just watched it a couple of days ago for the first time. Watch and enjoy! Nancie I love Mark Spearman’s reviews, whether it’s movies I’ve seen or ones I’ve never seen. I really wish he’d be a regular here! Please? Amy R Mr. Spearman, you are either a very gifted writer, or have personally gone though a loss (or maybe both). Your last sentance pretty much nailed it. Grief IS a very personal process, different for everyone, and something that only you can go through. In the end, it is about moving on, beacuse that’s what life does, it goes on. You have made me see this movie from a different perspective, thank you. Bridget in Minnesota Peace, Jaxc. Amazon had this for a rental one weekend, so I tried it. Watched it once. Then a few hours later, watched it again and began to get the same sorts of reaction you did, Mark. But I hadn’t quite processed it as well as you have. You are so right about how a sense of some acceptance after a family tragedy often comes more quickly than one might expect and how dealing with the fallout is a matter of unwrapping layers for years. You’re a gifted reviewer. Thank you. Interesting. I’d only heard that the storyline was weak and while the kids were good, Clooney was unbelievable in the role. I had opted to just pass on it. Maybe I’ll watch it now. Then again, coming up on the 10th anniversary of losing my own spouse, this might not be the right time to watch it. (While I did do some crying in the shower, I never took a bottle of anything with me, and certainly never slid down the wall!) While I didn’t love this movie, I like this review a lot. I thought George Clooney was the weakest actor of the bunch, and the movie was really overhyped. I thought it was a good movie, but not a great movie.

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Looming Recounts Mean Election May Not Be Over Yet If you thought the election was over except for the protests and the formality of the Electoral College, prepare to be disappointed. One recount has already been requested and experts are urging Hillary Clinton file for recounts in three states. The first recount was requested by Pat McCrory, governor of North Carolina, on Tuesday according to Politico. McCrory, the Republican candidate, was trailing Democrat Roy Cooper, by more than 8,500 votes according to the Cooper campaign. McCrory’s campaign has alleged widespread voter fraud. The first recount of this election season may not be the last. New York Magazine reports that a team of computer scientists has urged Hillary Clinton to file for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania citing signs that vote totals could have been manipulated. J. Alex Halderman, director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, was among the scientists who found a suspicious pattern of Clinton performing more poorly in counties with electronic voting machines than where paper ballots were used. The group said that the seven percent difference was large enough to raise the possibility that election computers could have been hacked. So far no proof of tampering with the election has been found, but the large difference between counties with electronic voting machines and paper ballots is an anomaly that Halderman believes should be investigated. There may be other explanations for the discrepancy as well. Donald Trump’s margins of victory in Michigan and Pennsylvania were less than one percent. Michigan has not been formally decided, but Clinton trails by 11,000 votes there. She lost Pennsylvania by 68,000 votes. Wisconsin had a margin of one percent, about 27,000 votes. Halderman’s statistical analysis, focused on Wisconsin, shows that there were enough suspicious votes to throw the outcome of these states into question. It would take a reversal of all three states to change the outcome of the Electoral College election, although faithless electors may change that total. As many as six electors have said that they will not vote for Donald Trump. It is not clear if the suspicious pattern extends to other states as well. Also unclear is whether the North Carolina recount will examine presidential as well as gubernatorial votes. The deadline to apply for a recount is looming in all three states. NY Magazine reports that Clinton supporters are lobbying for recounts and a forensic examination of voting machines, but the Obama Administration does not want the results challenged in order to smooth the transfer of power. The possibility of Russian tampering with election results was raised prior to the election. The Obama Administration has blamed Russia for the hack of Democratic National Committee emails. Donald Trump has remained skeptical of the Russian connection, but Mike Pence has indicated that he believes that Russia was behind the email hack. Whether Hillary will ask for a recount hasn’t been determined yet. The outcome of any recounts and investigation may not change the election, but it does raise the possibility that the election that everyone thought was settled might not be over yet. As the old saying goes, two wrongs don’t make a right. by Steve Berman Hold Up a Second: We Don’t Know If Kelly Loeffler Can Campaign, Do We? It would be very useful to know if Kelly Loeffler can campaign before she gets to November. It would be useful for Gov. Kemp to know this, and useful for every Republican in Georgia to know it. John Bolton is Another Example of How House Democrats Rushed Impeachment Multiple press outlets are claiming John Bolton, President Trump’s former National Security Advisor, has written his memoirs and includes a passage that the President did want to hold up aid to …

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Movie Review – Scream 2 (1997) Following the overwhelming success of 1996’s Scream, Scream 2 (1997), also directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson, was released just shy of a year after the first film. Following the same winning whodunit slasher formula, the film nevertheless suffered considerable production problems, most notably being that the screenplay was leaked onto the internet revealing the identity of the killers. Major rewrites, therefore, had to be completed as the movie was being filmed. The actors did not even know who the killers were until those scenes were set to be shot. Set two years after Scream, the film once again centers around Sidney (Neve Campbell) at her college campus as murders begin to spread familiarly around her. The script ups the meta ante, having a film within a film as the events of the first movie are dramatized in a feature called Stab. As Scream was partly inspired by the very real Gainesville Ripper murders, it’s fitting that the Woodsboro murders would get their own satirical Hollywood treatment complete with bad acting and even worse wigs. Craven shows just how skewed and shallow the Hollywood version of reality ultimately is. While there are still horror film references, this time focusing more on Friday the 13th (1980) instead of Halloween (1978), many more references are dedicated to the other projects of the actors and actresses involved, such as Courtney Cox’s Gale Weathers mentioning Friends co-star Jennifer Aniston or the character of Sarah Michelle Gellar, who had recently begun playing the titular television role on Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, watching 1922’s Nosferatu. These are certainly timelier and, as a result, have not aged as well. In addition to this self-analysis Scream 2 also confronts the nature and quality of horror sequels, which historically have been largely terrible. As Randy (Jamie Kennedy) comments, “The entire horror genre was destroyed by sequels.” Randy also, as in the first film, lays out the guidelines for the audience: “There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to create a successful sequel. Number one: the body count is always bigger. Number two: the death scenes are always much more elaborate – more blood, more gore – carnage candy. And number three…” Here he’s cut off in the film, though the movie’s trailer has him continue with: “never, ever, under any circumstances, assume the killer is dead.” True to form, Craven gives the audience a higher body count and some elaborate tension-filled set pieces, the first involving Sidney and her friend trapped in a police car with the unconscious killer and the second involving Gale Weathers in a soundproof booth. The performances from our returning cast are strong, including David Arquette who adds a sympathetic vulnerability to Deputy Dewey. His and Gale’s story arc is the best written. That being said, the new characters are never really fleshed out. We learn too little about them to be emotionally invested, and also too little to suspect them to any real degree, with the exception of Liev Schreiber’s Cotton Weary. The movie becomes less of a whodunit mystery and more of a waiting game, as the red herrings are not nearly as convincing as in the first film. Scream began strong and ended strong, and this film inverts that, though not purposefully. The opening scene is rather over-the-top and the ending not nearly as satisfying. However, considering the re-writes that occurred it’s impressive that Scream 2 is as solid a sequel as it is, even if it does not quite meet the standards of its predecessor. When compared to the other teen slashers that were being released or about to be released, including Williamson’s own I Know What You Did Last Summer (also starring Gellar) which came out the same year, Scream 2 is definitely a superior entry. 1997, Horror, Movie Review, Scream 2 2 thoughts on “Movie Review – Scream 2 (1997)” Movie Review: Scream 3 (2000) | The Revenant Review Movie Review - The Changeling (1980)

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8 USC 1408: Nationals but not citizens of the United States at birth Text contains those laws in effect on January 28, 2020 §1408. Nationals but not citizens of the United States at birth Unless otherwise provided in section 1401 of this title, the following shall be nationals, but not citizens, of the United States at birth: (1) A person born in an outlying possession of the United States on or after the date of formal acquisition of such possession; (2) A person born outside the United States and its outlying possessions of parents both of whom are nationals, but not citizens, of the United States, and have had a residence in the United States, or one of its outlying possessions prior to the birth of such person; (3) A person of unknown parentage found in an outlying possession of the United States while under the age of five years, until shown, prior to his attaining the age of twenty-one years, not to have been born in such outlying possession; and (4) A person born outside the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a national, but not a citizen, of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than seven years in any continuous period of ten years- (A) during which the national parent was not outside the United States or its outlying possessions for a continuous period of more than one year, and (B) at least five years of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years. The proviso of section 1401(g) of this title shall apply to the national parent under this paragraph in the same manner as it applies to the citizen parent under that section. (June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, §308, 66 Stat. 238 ; Pub. L. 99–396, §15(a), Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 842 ; Pub. L. 100–525, §3(2), Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2614 .) 1988-Par. (4). Pub. L. 100–525 amended Pub. L. 99–396. See 1986 Amendment note below. 1986-Par. (4). Pub. L. 99–396, as amended by Pub. L. 100–525, added par. (4). Pub. L. 100–525, §3, Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2614 , provided that the amendment made by section 3 is effective as if included in the enactment of Pub. L. 99–396. Pub. L. 99–396, §15(b), Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 843 , provided that: "The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall apply to persons born before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act [Aug. 27, 1986]. In the case of a person born before the date of the enactment of this Act- "(1) the status of a national of the United States shall not be considered to be conferred upon the person until the date the person establishes to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State that the person meets the requirements of section 308(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act [par. (4) of this section], and "(2) the person shall not be eligible to vote in any general election in American Samoa earlier than January 1, 1987."

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'It cost me a seat': Ozie Davis on campaign mistake and two more CPS election takeaways Max Londberg | Cincinnati Enquirer As the dust settles on Tuesday's election results, we take a look at the effects of issues involving Cincinnati Public Schools and specifically the voting for school board candidates. Here are three takeaways: Davis received 'high vote count' as write-in A new face will be on Cincinnati Public Schools' Board of Education next year. But his victory was narrower than early results indicated. Ben Lindy, who overcame a rebuke from the teachers union and criticism of his leadership, beat out incumbent Ozie Davis III, who had been appointed to the school board last year. Davis, who had to run as a write-in candidate because he had not secured enough signatures on his petition, had just 2,000 votes around midnight on Election Night, when more than 97% of precincts had reported vote totals. But by Wednesday morning, his vote count had soared to nearly 13,000, about 6,500 votes shy of Lindy. Lindy garnered 17.8% of the vote, and Davis nearly 12% in the six-way race for three seats. Incumbents Eve Bolton and Carolyn Jones easily retained their seats. In the second race for an unexpired term, incumbent Pamela Bowers won by earning more than half the votes against two challengers. Davis said Wednesday that had he secured enough signatures to have his name appear on the ballot, he would have retained his seat. But he submitted 51 signatures fewer than the required 300 to do so. Davis turned in 429 signatures, but dozens were invalidated for various reasons, including signature style. For example, if voters printed their signature for Davis' petition but used cursive on their voter registration cards, Ohio law precluded them from counting. Sherry Poland, the director of the Hamilton County Board of Elections, said Davis turned in 37 non-matching signatures. Other issues included petition signees not being registered voters or listing addresses that didn't match their voter registration. "We thought we had them," Davis said of collecting enough signatures. "I don’t want people to think we didn’t try." As a write-in candidate, Davis still managed to garner 12,994 votes, better than two other candidates whose names appeared on the ballot. "That is a high vote count for a write-in candidate," Poland said, adding that Board of Elections employees stayed up through the night to count write-in votes cast for Davis, finishing around 7 a.m. Wednesday. Davis said he'll continue to attend committee meetings and work to ensure his perspective is heard. "I want to make sure my experience is in the room," he said. Carolyn Jones, the school board president, said by phone that Davis was an asset to the board and expressed disappointment in his loss. Davis himself acknowledged his errors in failing to collect enough signatures to get his name on the ballot. "I'm accountable for that. It was a helluva snafu," he said. "It cost me a seat." Davis said he plans to run again for a seat on the school board in 2021, the earliest possible date he can do so, and he'll collect more signatures, and earlier, to ensure his name gets on the ballot. But before his term ends later this year, Davis hopes to address one particular issue. $100 million deal with city expires soon A $100 million agreement in place for two decades between the city of Cincinnati and the school district expires on Dec. 31. Millions of dollars are at stake for the district as it works with the city on a new pact. If no deal is reached, the city may have to scale back the size and length of its economic incentives. The 1999 agreement called for the city to pay Cincinnati Public Schools $5 million each year for 20 years. The agreement was made as part of a commitment by the city due to tax breaks for what then were new Bengals and Reds stadiums. Hamilton County also paid an additional $100 million to the district. Davis said there have been discussions with the city to extend the agreement at least into the first six months of 2020, but agreeing on a figure has proved difficult, Davis added. "At this time the city is continuing to use the state funding formula to suggest that there are other mechanisms that can make the school district whole," Davis said. "But that is an erroneous way of looking at the state funding formula." The agreement also allows the district to receive more in state and local funding, as it directs payments in lieu of taxes entirely to the district instead of to other public entities that would receive a portion of those dollars under normal taxing conditions. Those payments to the district also don't count as local tax revenue, so the district receives more in state dollars as a result. Jones, the board president, said the school district is currently compiling information to present to the city's finance committee. "The city is basing their decision on the school state formula, which really doesn’t have anything to do with the tax abatement piece," Jones said. "...If the city continues to give tax abatements to commercial development in particular then there’s a lot more money, and the $5 million doesn’t make the district whole." Davis added: "I'm definitely concerned about the abatement discussion. My view is ... the school district has to be made whole." Casey Weldon, a spokesman for the city, did not immediately return a request for comment Thursday. Councilman Greg Landsman said the key is to "make sure our school district is held harmless, financially, and that we continue to attract new investments that help our neighborhoods grow. Like anything, we need everyone in a room to finalize the details, that's all." He added that his office is working to ensure new abatements "lead to more local jobs, better wages, more inclusion and better housing." Lindy and the teachers union Lindy, on Election Night, told The Enquirer that he supports collective bargaining: "Always have, always will." He added he's "always been interested in working alongside the teachers union ... true during the election and going to remain true after the election." Before the election, the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers passed a resolution designed as a protest of Lindy's connection to Teacher for America, where he works as the director of the Southwest Ohio branch of the nonprofit. Throughout his campaign, he said he was on leave from the organization. He told The Enquirer he'll return to his role with Teach for America on Nov. 13. After Lindy's win, the teachers union struck a conciliatory tone on its Facebook page, writing, "We look forward to working with him (Lindy) to improve student achievement."

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Ethical aspects of genetic engineering and biotechnology 6 maggio 2012 a 09:05 (Diritti umani e bioetica, I miei libri) Tags: A brief history of eugenics, Act to Preserve Racial Integrity, animal-human hybrids, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, autonomy, bioethics, biological inheritance, biopiracy, bioprospecting, biotechnology, Buck v. Bell, Charles S. Peirce, chimeras, choice, civil liberties, civil rights, cloning, commodification of life, cyborgs, determinism, Diamond v. Chakrabarty, dignity, disability, discrimination, Doctrine of Discovery, empowerment, Eternal Recurrence, eudaimonia, eugenics, euthanasia, feeble-minded, fetal therapy, Francis Galton, fundamental rights, Gattaca, gene diagnostics, gene hunting, gene patenting, gene sequences, Genes ‘r’ Us, genetic consumerism, genetic engineering, genetic testing, genomics, genotype, germline, germline engineering, Great Chain of Beings, Great Depression, habeas corpus, handicap, Hertwig, Hitler, human dignity, human embryos, human evolution, Human Genome Project, human nature, human procreation, human rights, humanzee, Immigration Restriction Act, In vitro fertilization, inheritability, intellectual property, Joseph Fletcher, Kant, made-to-order, market, Mitochondrial DNA, Moore v. Regents, mtDNA, Nazi Germany, Nicholas Agar, Nietzsche, patents, paternalism, phenotype, posthuman, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, prenatal screening, quality of life, Rand Corporation, Reprogenetics, res extra commercium, res nullius, screening, Skinner v. Oklahoma, slavery, Sophocles, Stefano Fait, sterilisation, sterilization, Third Reich, Thirteenth Amendment, transhumanism, UN Convention on Biological Diversity, welfare, Zarathustra A breeder of people should possess a supermanly foresight. But it is precisely those persons who are ethically and spiritually superior that are conscious of their weaknesses, and would not volunteer for such a tribunal, much the same as earlier on it was certainly not the best people who pressed for the office of Grand Inquisitor Oscar Hertwig, German cell biologist, 1849 – 1922. What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame. F. Nietzsche, Zarathustra’s Prologue, 3 In assessing the ethical implications of genomics and biotechnology, it is important to acknowledge that science, technology, and bioethics do not exist in a vacuum and are not socially, politically and ethically neutral. Certain technologies have a greater social impact, may require the State to intervene in the private sphere, and may be differentially accessible to users. Also, science and technology can change our relationship with other people and with our environment. Hence the importance of ethnographic, historical, and cross-cultural studies for the analysis of today’s thorniest bioethical controversies. This chapter discusses some of the most contentious issues surrounding the use of genetic technology in human procreation and gene patenting, including eugenics, genetic consumerism, animal-human hybrids (chimeras), the commodification of life, disability and genetic testing. Even a casual observer would not fail to notice the pervasiveness of bioethics in contemporary society. How did bioethics come to take on such significance in Western societies? This is a rather puzzling phenomenon given that, in a pluralist society, philosophy cannot deliver incontrovertible moral verdicts and the philosophers’ views are no more binding than those of the man in the street (Maclean, 1993). As logician Charles S. Peirce noted long ago, absolute certainty, absolute exactitude and absolute universality cannot be attained by reasoning and, in a world in which human reason and knowledge are socially, culturally, and historically embedded, it would be misguided to expect bioethicists to provide objective and rigorously codified precepts and indications. Their speculations can only tell us what they believe is right and fair, and their logical demonstrations must be first evaluated against the empirical evidence. Accordingly, this paper only provides one among many possible interpretations of the ethical issues involved in genetic technology, one that is rooted in a specific tradition (Continental/Mediterranean Europe), period of time (early twenty-first century), and discipline (political anthropology). Following an account of the history of the trans-national movement known as eugenics in the opening section, the chapter then proceeds to examine the future of eugenics as a consumer purchase (designer babies) and the limits of parental decision-making, epitomised by the upbringing of Francis Galton, the founder of modern eugenics. The third section, entitled “Human nature and speciation,” provides a brief outline of some of the issues arising from the Human Genome Project and also covers the debate, which is still in its infancy, on the possible redefinition of personhood and human nature that might be required by future applications of genetic engineering. Questions concerning the commodification of body parts are discussed in the third section. In the fourth section, entitled “Disabilities and genetic testing” I draw the reader’s attention to the impact that biotechnologies are likely to have on the life of people with non-standard bodies and minds. In the concluding remarks I engage with libertarian bioethics, seek to identify some of its most glaring shortcomings and urge bioethicists in general to pay greater attention to social, cultural and political factors in their ethical deliberations. A brief history of eugenics The term “eugenics” was coined in 1883 by Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911), after the Greek εύγενής, meaning “wellborn”. The logo of the Third International Congress of Eugenics, held in New York in 1932, defined eugenics as “the self direction of human evolution.” Negative eugenics was concerned with the elimination of inheritable diseases and malformations and involved prenuptial certificates, birth control, selective abortion, sterilization, castration, immigration restriction and, in Nazi-occupied Europe, involuntary “euthanasia.” Positive eugenics would instead encourage the propagation of desirable characteristics via tax incentives for “fit parents”, assortative mating and, in the years to come, cloning and germline engineering. A combination of Eternal Recurrence – human beings as expressions of an immortal germplasm – and natural teleology of history – biology as destiny – stamped the arguments of early eugenicists and genealogy researchers, who linked folk hereditarian beliefs about the transmission of patrimonial and biological inheritance and the religious notion of the inheritability of sins. They fostered notions of evolutionary throwbacks and of populations as bundles of lineages, and arbitrarily equated genealogical perpetuation with social distinction. When these deterministic explanations of human behaviour were finally challenged, eugenics did not lose its appeal. Mainline eugenics gave way to ‘reform eugenics’, family planning and population control, characterized by a greater emphasis on environmental factors, birth control, the rational management of human resources, and the repudiation of an overtly racist language. This tactic made eugenics far more palatable and effective: if the impact of nurture was so important, then children should be raised in healthy home environments. In order to redress nature’s essential randomness and synchronize biological and socioeconomic processes, irresponsible citizens unable to meet the challenges of modern society would be forced, blackmailed, or cajoled into accepting sterilization or castration. Consequently, by the early 1930s, sterilisation programmes were in full swing. Following the moral panic generated by the Great Depression, few families were prepared to put up with the social protection of what was perceived to be a disproportionate number of dependent people (Paul, 1995). Some argued that, under exceptional circumstances, basic rights could be withheld and that social services should only be granted to those whose social usefulness and biological capability were certain. The theoretical foundation of constitutional rights were undermined by prominent legal scholars in North America and Northern Europe, who argued that the state was the source of a morality more in line with the demands of modernity, and therefore was not necessarily bound by constitutional principles and norms. Radically realist and functionalist jurists submitted that personal rights were not inalienable, for they really were culturally and historically relative legal fictions or superstitions, their existence being, to a large extent, contingent on the majority’s willingness to uphold them, that is, on considerations of general welfare and public utility. Enlightened governments, like good shepherds, would foster virtues and restrict personal rights for the sake of communal rights and civic responsibility (Alschuler, 2001; Bouquet & Voilley, 2000). This led to the paradoxical result that involuntary sterilizations and confinements were almost exclusively carried out in the most advanced and progressive democracies, the only exception being Nazi Germany. The following states or provinces adopted laws permitting the eugenic sterilisations of their citizens: Tasmania (1920), the Swiss canton of Vaud (1928), Alberta (1928 and 1933), Denmark (1929 and 1935), the Mexican state of Veracruz (1932), British Columbia (1933), Sweden (1934 and 1941), Norway (1934), Finland (1935), Estonia (1937), Latvia (1937), Iceland (1938), Japan (1940), and thirty-one American states. In 1936, the ‘Lebensborn e. V.’ (‘Spring of Life, registered association’) was launched by the Nazis, which involved the selective breeding of ‘racially superior’ children and the kidnapping of ‘racially valuable’ children across occupied Europe. By 1914, in the United States, marriage restriction laws targeting “feeble-minded” citizens had been enacted in more than half the states and, by 1917, 15 states had passed sterilization laws. But “only” a few thousand sterilizations had been actually performed, mainly because nearly half of such laws had been struck down on the ground that they violated due process, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, and the equal protection clause. A second wave of eugenics laws followed the Immigration Restriction Act (1924) and Virginia’s Act to Preserve Racial Integrity (1924). In 1924, Virginia also passed a law authorizing the involuntary sterilization of alleged mental defectives. This law was upheld, 8-1 by the Supreme Court, in Buck v. Bell 274 U.S. 200 (1927). As a result of this decision, taken in a country that prided itself on its commitment to individual freedom but favoured scientifically unverifiable notions of social progress over clear constitutional principles, nearly half the U.S. states passed eugenics laws authorizing compulsory and non-voluntary sterilization. The ostensibly progressive civic religion of eugenics was seen by many as essentially fair and morally unassailable. Various representatives of the judicial branch became self-appointed guardians of the public morality and urged state governments to intrude in people’s private lives “for their own good”. Wayward citizens, namely those who could not be converted to an acceptable lifestyle, and whose behaviour remained unpredictable, were liable to being sterilized or institutionalized. This kind of society, at once ready to embrace an abstract notion of humankind and reluctant to put up with certain categories of human beings, was so insecure, apprehensive, and self-doubting, that it was willing to carry out self-mutilation in order to become risk-free, while refusing to consider the motives of the offenders and “miscreants.” In the United States, as in Sweden or Alberta, this Machiavellian interpretation of public law made ethics the handmaid of politics: rights could only be granted by law, and social utility overruled the “untenable notion” of human rights. Virtues, rather than rights, were the defining attribute of citizenship. Instead of protecting the citizens, law legitimized the persecution of certain categories of people, purportedly unable to enjoy freedom and to pursue happiness, by gradually stripping them of their rights and legal protections. Such policies were described as politically necessary and ethically indisputable. In a tragic reversal of roles, according to the dominant “discourse of truth,” those who violated the physical integrity of other citizens were fulfilling a constitutionally sanctioned civic duty, while the victims of involuntary sterilization and confinement were a social threat and, as such, subject to legally mandated sterilization or confinement “for the good of society” (Colla, 2000; Morone, 2003). Eugenicists were persuaded that what stood in the way of the modernizing process was the result of ignorance, parochialism, and backwardness. Those who questioned their ostensibly sophisticated and rational arguments were labelled as uncooperative or reactionary. In a burst of self-serving enthusiasm, they regarded themselves as modern, progressive and boldly experimentalist. This made resistance to ethical self-scrutiny particularly strong, because the project of a rationalist utopia was inextricably bound up with social systems that many believed were a model of humanitarian and enlightened administration, the embodiment of intrinsic benevolence and farsightedness, and therefore eminently fair and morally unassailable. Explicit coercion was often unnecessary, as thousands of people genuinely believed, or were led to believe, that eugenics measures were desirable, and they had themselves or their family-members sterilized or confined. This should remind us that informed consent is not just a signature on a form but a two-way process involving information exchange, education and counselling. Most North American and Scandinavian laws were only repealed in the late 1960s and 1970s, even though the Supreme Court ruling in Skinner v. Oklahoma 316 U.S. 535 (1942) defined procreation “one of the basic civil rights of man” and sterilization an invasion of fundamental interests which, according to Justice William O. Douglas, “in evil or reckless hands,” could have genocidal consequences. As late as the 1980s, 44 percent of the American public was still in favour of compulsory sterilization for “habitual criminals and the hopelessly insane” (Singer et al. 1998). By contrast, in those same years, law-makers in Holland, Britain, in Latin American and Latin Rim countries[1] objected to selective breeding, involuntary sterilization, the assault on the notion of free will, the spurious conflation of modernization and liberation, and the linear extension of natural laws into the social sphere.[2] Eugenics, genetic fatalism, and the marriage between bureaucratic rationality and scientism did not resonate with every Western repertoire of values and symbols (Baud, 2001). This finding is of signal importance for the analysis of current trends in bioethics, social policy and biotech regulation. Eugenics as a consumer choice Western societies are today on the verge of a eugenics revival in the form of reprogenetics, germline engineering, and cloning, a trend which is indirectly reinforced by courts’ recognition of wrongful birth and wrongful life claims, by the commodification of healthcare, by the diffusion of testing for genetic predispositions, and by the rhetoric of genetic responsibility, involving new forms of discrimination and exclusion. Medical, cosmetic, and enhancing technologies are being pursued to meet our needs, such as the self-imposed obligation to be fit, active, self-sufficient and responsible citizens, and an almost universal desire to control our own lives and possibly improve them. What measure of genetic and personality enhancement are we going to tolerate? In this section I explore continuities and discontinuities between past and future eugenics. Opponents of genetic engineering of the human germline and human cloning point out that a society in which parents can avail themselves of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) tests has no use for them. If embryos are affected by serious genetic disorders, they can be discarded and only the healthy ones will be implanted in the womb. Therefore, critics argue, the advocates of germline engineering and cloning do not have therapy in mind, or the noble goal of redressing genetic injustice, but species enhancement. Promoters of human genetic enhancement counter that it would be more sensible and economical to try and eradicate genetic conditions instead of treating them each generation. Their detractors respond that “simple”, single-gene disorders are very rare, and that most severe genetic conditions are complex, involving a combination of genetic and non-genetic factors. The risk of unanticipated inheritable negative consequences that the reconfiguration of human biology entails is simply unacceptable, even if germline manipulation could be made reversible, because the more complex the trait that is changed, the less simple it will be to undo the change. I will not object to these procedures on philosophical or religious grounds, nor will I dwell on the inevitable widening of the ontological and social gap between the rich and the poor that they are likely to cause, including the prospect of a future caste of uninsurable and unemployable. These arguments have already been addressed “ad nauseam.” A different case against designer babies and the medicalization of childhood can be made, which draws on the life of Francis Galton himself, the father of modern eugenics. Galton (1822-1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was destined to a life of fame and academic prestige, to fulfil his father ambitions (Sweeney, 2001). Persuaded that heredity was destiny, and given the outstanding pedigree of the Galton-Darwin-Wedgwood family-stock, his parents decided that he would be taught how to realize his full potential and become the genius he was meant to be. As a result, in the family diaries Francis is only mentioned for his educational achievements and intellectual exploits. Such were the forces at work in the shaping of the character of the proponent of the theory of hereditary genius: destiny was implanted like a programme into Francis, who would grow into a man “suffering considerable angst as a result of seldom achieving the heights of intellectual acclaim to which his parents had encouraged him to aspire and for which he had worked assiduously hard.” (Fancher, 1983). At the age of four, he was already saving pennies for his university honours and four years later he was encouraged to study French, Latin and Greek. But when he confronted the highly selective environment of Cambridge, he crumbled under the pressure of harsh competition and constant mental strain: dozens of exceptionally-gifted students made it exceedingly hard for him to excel and a sudden and severe nervous breakdown ensued (Sweeney, 2001). Little by little, Galton drifted away from his family and devoted himself to those fields of knowledge in which he felt he could stand out. He tried his hand at poetry, soon to realise that he had no literary talent, then he turned his attention to mechanics and devised a number of contrivances that were never patented or manufactured. Even his statistical calculation of the relative efficiency of sailing came to naught when the steam engine was invented (Forrest, ibid.). This series of failures brought him to a second and more severe mental breakdown in 1866. It’s easy to see where his unhappiness and frustration came from: not from state coercion, but from parental despotism (Forrest, 1974). Authorizing the creation of designer babies may have dire consequences, because embryo selection carried out for the sake of ‘quality control’ in reproduction is far more restrictive of a child’s freedom and places much more pressure on the offspring. Intuitively, one would expect that it would be more difficult for these children to develop into autonomous beings and to be free to choose not to fulfil the wishes and aspirations of their parents, irreversibly inscribed into their DNA, at least at a symbolical level. Even assuming that most of us would justifiably reject the fallacy of “Genes ‘r’ Us” determinism, “made-to-order” children would be hard put to do the same. As American sociologist W.I. Thomas once said, “if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.” What would the consequences be, in terms of their development as nominally independent and responsible moral agents, if the alterations were of a non-medical nature? Would they take pride in their achievements in the same way as ordinary people do, even if their talents are inherited? Why, in a meritocratic society, should they feel they owe anything to the less fortunate? What could be their response to personal failure: would they assume that they are entitled to the best of everything? Finally, and more importantly, those parents so preoccupied with the uncertainties of life that they would rather have their children genetically engineered, how are they going to deal with the unavoidable challenges of parenting and the realization that control can never be complete? Are we going to rear children who cannot face life’s challenges without the help of chemical and genetic enhancers of mood, memory, cognition, sex life and athletic performances? If the goal posts are constantly being pushed forward, how are we going to avoid that what was once regarded as unnecessary should become imperative? Victoria University ethicist Nicholas Agar (Agar, 1998) has argued that if a 6-year-old Mozart had mixed with children of his own age instead of performing in the courts of Europe, today we would not be enjoying The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni. But we could counter that perhaps Wolfi might have preferred to play with his peers and live a longer and less tormented life instead of complying with the requests of his authoritarian and manipulative father. Even a strictly utilitarian perspective should not contemplate a scenario in which kids are sacrificed for the greater good and in the parents’ pursuit of reflected fame and status, to the point of transforming them into biological artefacts designed by others. Even though past government-sponsored coercive eugenics programmes have been discredited, the mere defence of reproductive freedom is not sufficient in itself to protect citizens from abuses and harm. Unfortunately, the history of libertarianism is replete with examples of citizens claiming liberties for themselves while demanding restrictions for other “less deserving” citizens. Also, there is no such thing as a government stubbornly refusing to cater to the demands of powerful lobbies. Apart from the fact that, under more strained socio-economic circumstances, democratic states may at some point be forced to recommend compulsory screening for certain genetic conditions, we might also want to consider the historical evidence pointing to a growing presence of the State in the family sphere in Western democracies, motivated by the imperative to better protect the children’s rights (Cavina, 2007). In point of fact, a proposal has been made in Texas, to the effect that the state should embark on mass presymptomatic diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in schoolchildren, followed by widespread prescription of psychoactive drugs (Rose, 2005). This should be a sufficient warning that the so-called consumerist eugenics will not be a democratic panacea: treating shyness and liveliness as biochemical imbalance, and medicalizing our children to make them well-behaved and cooperative, as though they were faulty devices – regardless of the unforeseeable long-term side-effects of taking drugs at such an early age – is, for all intents and purposes, an experiment in social engineering on an unprecedented scale, and one which can only disempower parents and children and suppresses human diversity. In sum, the language of autonomy, empowerment, choice, and rights ought not to obscure the fact that: a. it is a rather apposite way for medical professionals and the State to be released from their responsibilities vis-à-vis patients and citizens; b. the randomness of sexual fertilization is, alas, the closest thing to freedom (Sandel, 2007) in societies where choices are constrained by legal restrictions, social and gender-related expectations, obligations and imperatives, as well as by prejudices, ignorance, practical impediments, and huge economic and social disparities, which translate into a dramatic differential distribution of power and authority. A society where individuals are expected to responsibly monitor their health and lifestyle and to act on the available knowledge – “free choice under pressure” is a fitting definition of life in advanced democracies – will look on those who do not fulfil that obligation as reckless and uncaring. This is also what we gather from Nancy Smithers, 36, an American lawyer, and from her first-hand experience of how the line between care and desire is becoming blurred and how the range of human variability that is deemed socially acceptable is being inexorably narrowed: “I was hoping I’d never have to make this choice, to become responsible for choosing the kind of baby I’d get, the kind of baby we’d accept. But everyone – my doctor, my parents, my friends – everyone urged me to come for genetic counselling and have amniocentesis. Now, I guess I’m having a modern baby. And they all told me I’d feel more in control. But in some ways, I feel less in control. Oh, it’s still my baby, but only if it’s good enough to be our baby, if you see what I mean.” (Rapp, 1988: p. 152). Human nature and speciation While Sophocles thought that “there are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man,” Nietzsche famously portrayed man as das noch nicht festgestellte Tier , “the animal which is yet undefined.” The Human Genome Project, an international collaboration to code the information contained in the human genome through DNA-sequencing and store the resulting information in databases, was heralded as the means whereby we would attain a more precise definition of human nature. The first working draft of a human genome sequence was published in 2001, but it is important to stress that the genome sequenced by the publicly funded Human Genome Project does not represent the genetic make-up of the human species. Based on blood and sperm samples submitted by several anonymous donors, it really is a statistical artefact, the abstraction of a non-existent species-being standing for all of us, individually and collectively, without being us. Therefore, genomes are benchmarks against which individual genotypes can be examined and described. This is because the genome is not a fixed essence that we all share in common. Each one of us possesses a unique combination of nucleotides and genes coding for proteins (genotype) and even the same genes shared by identical twins express different phenotypes under different environmental circumstances. In other words, we are at once very similar and very different from one another. Suffice it to say that while we differ from each other by 0.1 percent, humans are reportedly 98 percent genetically identical to chimpanzees, proving that such seemingly slight discrepancies have far-reaching consequences, when combined with environmental factors. In human beings, variation is the norm and, strictly speaking, by “human genome” we should refer to the sum of all genotypes in the human species, a goal that is currently beyond our reach. One of the outcomes of the Human Genome Project has been the recognition that genetic determinism is incompatible with the evidence provided by the preliminary analysis of the base pair sequence of the “human genome.” From a strictly deterministic point of view, defined by the single-gene single-biological function paradigm, our 30,000 genes, approximately twice the number of genes of a fruit fly and far fewer than most geneticists expected, are simply not enough to make us the way we are. We have not found the “secret of life” and are not anywhere near to being able to explain human nature, let alone control it. However, the finding that the human genome is a dynamic landscape has important ramifications. Assuming that the “genome” is, to some extent, malleable and adaptable without apparent adverse effects, those who still assume that a common genome plays an important part in the definition of human nature (and human rights) will be inclined to regard human nature as infinitely malleable and its characterization as too fluid to serve any meaningful legal, scientific, ethical, and political purpose. They might raise the question that if the social order reflects a society’s conception of human nature, and there is no fixed human nature, then who is to decide what is just and moral, and on what grounds? Traditionally, personhood has only been attributed to human beings: then, what would a valid criterion for species differentiation be if we are going to grant personhood to great apes and to create human chimeras, cyborgs, or a new posthuman species/race? The problem really comes down to what makes us human: if patients in permanent vegetative states and severely mentally impaired persons are human, then some commentators would argue that it would be fair to grant human chimeras the same status. In other words, we need to clarify the defining criterion that we use to self-identify as humans: what we can do, what we are, or something else? In 1974, Joseph Fletcher, Episcopal minister, academician, and one of the founders of bioethics, published a controversial treatise in which he argued that certain “retarded children” should not be viewed as persons, that procreation was a privilege, not a right, and that devising ways to obtain chimeras and cyborgs to be put in the service of humankind would be a morally legitimate enterprise (Fletcher, 1974). In much the same way, in the early Seventies, a Rand Corporation panel agreed that genetic engineering would also be used to create parahumans, namely humanlike animals, or chimeras: these beings would be more efficient than robots, and would be trained to perform low-grade domestic and industrial work or else provide a supply of transplantable organs (Rorvick, 1971). Given the relative genetic proximity of chimpanzees and human beings, and the fact that the evolutionary split between the two species may have occurred fairly recently, it is conceivable that the first human hybridization would generate a humanzee, that is, a cross between a human and chimpanzee. But there remains the problem of the unpredictable consequences of interspecies transplantations at the embryonic stage, when bodies and brains are highly malleable and every new insertion of non-human stem cells is likely to cause random alterations in the development of the organism and, as a result, in the identity of the individual. Nobody can really anticipate the dynamic interactions of animal mitochondrial DNA and the nuclear DNA of a human embryo. It may even be the case that a chimera might look like a member of one species and behave like the members of the other species. Supposing that the procedure is successfully and safely applied and repeated, we should then broach various topics related to artificial hominization, and discuss the moral and legal status of these beings. If law only recognizes people (including juridical persons) and property, to which category will they belong? Will they be patentable, that is, could they be owned by a company? Will researchers need their informed consent prior to their inclusion in a medical study? Is personhood coterminous with humanity? Are we going to establish a juridical and moral continuum from inanimate things, to animals, semi-human beings (e.g. chimeras, replicant-like androids), and fully autonomous persons? The idea of a seamless gradient is reminiscent of the medieval notion of the Scala Naturae, or Great Chain of Beings, a linear hierarchy for the zoological classification of living beings which generated the visual metaphor behind the theory of evolution. Yet this model is not without its problems, for it was also employed to establish a pecking order of social worth and, simultaneously, thwart the extension of civil rights to certain categories of “diminished” human beings like women, workers, children, minorities, etc. (Groce & Marks, 2001). Modern advanced democracies will be compelled to blur the boundaries along the abovementioned continuum and make it as inclusive as possible. But this can only mean that many human chimeras and artificial intelligences with highly developed cognitive skills and self-consciousness will be allowed to become our moral equals and, as such, enjoy the attendant legal protection. Ideally, the “borderlines of status” of “artificial human beings” will be removed, with no detriment to senile, foetuses, and the vegetative: human rights will no longer be the monopoly of Homo Sapiens. The commodification of life “Does it uplift or degrade the unique human persona to treat human tissue as a fungible article of commerce?” was Justice Arabian’s rhetorical question in his concurring opinion in Moore v. Regents (1990). For centuries, millions of people were enslaved on the ground that certain human beings could be assimilated to Aristotle’s “natural slaves.” Chattel slavery, that is the extension of market relations to the human person as a marketable property and human commodity (res commerciabilis) or legal tender, outside the domain of mutual obligations, was officially abolished only in the nineteenth century. In the United States, the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery and involuntary servitude, was ratified in 1865: it meant that no human being could be owned by another human being and, by extension, that people’s genotype cannot be patented. But isolated genes and partial gene sequences from human tissue samples can be patented for research purposes, provided that the applicant can “prove” that a “natural” object has been transformed into an “invention.” Ironically, mathematical formula are not patentable, because they are assumed to be already out there, like laws of nature or natural phenomena, whereas genes, which are verifiably part of nature, can be patented when they are discovered, regardless of the fact that the assignees may have failed to demonstrate a use for their discoveries. As a result of the 5 to 4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980), which determined that “anything under the sun made by man” is patentable, today more than 6000 human genes from all around the world are covered by U.S. patents (Lovgren, 2005), on the ground that the mere isolation and purification of genes from their natural state, by now a routine operation, allows an applicant to be issued a patent. This sentence and the Senate’s refusal to ratify the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD),[3] which had been designed to protect the interests of indigenous peoples, have paved the way to “bioprospecting” (gene hunting), also known as “biopiracy,” of pharmaceutical companies in the developing world, so that U.S. private firms and public agencies are granted exclusive rights to decide who can use those cell lines that are profitable for pharma-business, and how much they will have to pay to do so. There are a number of remarkable analogies that can be drawn between today’s biopiracy and the nineteenth century westward expansion of the United States, when Native Americans were thought to be an inferior race incapable of fulfilling the moral mission of harnessing natural resources. The Doctrine of Discovery meant that the land inhabited by the indigenous peoples was terra nullius (no man’s land). The aboriginal occupants had no legal title to the land because they had no fixed residence and did not till the soil according to European standards. They could only exercise a right of occupancy, under the American “protection and pupilage.” White people had “discovered” the land – and nowadays the genes – and therefore they owned it. In a multibillion dollar market, enormous economic interests are involved in the search for “biovalue” (Waldby, 2002) and ethical considerations are not binding rules and are not always high on governments’ agendas. In the United States, where individual autonomy is oftentimes equated with the privilege of disposing of one’s body as one sees fit, there is a trend to extend market relations to DNA and body parts. Thousands of patents have been granted, mostly to private companies, on human genes whose function is still unknown. This process of parcelization allows companies to gradually take control of the human genome in the form of immortalized cell lines, and put a price on them, without violating the constitutional principle of the non-patentability of human beings. Today, advances in biotechnology raise new questions about the treatment of individuals and their bodies, which can now be seen – a vestige of Cartesian dualism? – as collections of separable, interchangeable, and commercially transferable parts. Bioscientists will, unwittingly or intentionally, play an increasingly important role in this process by introducing technologies that will facilitate the exchange of body parts and DNA – now endowed with a social life of their own –, in commercial transactions, and by selecting (PGD) or cloning donor babies, namely babies who can supply compatible tissues to treat sicksiblings. This will raise a host of new questions such as: who is the owner of someone’s separated human tissue? If people are the owners of their cell-lines, should not they be entitled to share in the profits from scientific findings and commercialization? Are patent claims for intellectual property of DNA from indigenous peoples morally and legally justifiable? In general, who can demand a share of the profit from the commercial exploitation of human DNA? Most jurists and legislators of Continental Europe, where the intellectual establishment is generally opposed to the idea of the market as a civilizing and liberating force, will presumably continue to favour social cohesiveness, altruism, and an ethics of the good life (eudaimonia) (Gracia, 1995). The primacy of autonomy will most likely be underplayed for the sake of social justice and equality (Braun, 2000). Reasoning that it would be unrealistic to expect societies to be able protect all citizens, especially the destitute and disenfranchised, from coercion and exploitation, it is to be expected that most will refuse in principle to regard the human body as a repository of economic value, a marketable property and a source of spare parts. They will stress that Western civilization, from habeas corpus to the abolition of slavery as commerce of “human commodities”, and to the emancipation of women, has developed in opposition to the objectification of the human body and to the idea that anything can be converted into a commodity and into an object of contractual relationships: the argument that human body was a res extra commercium[4] was at the heart of the abolitionist movement, for there is no person without a body, and a subject cannot be the object of commercial transactions. Some will further argue in favour of the Kantian normative position, whereby one should always treat human beings as ends in themselves, that is, as having intrinsic value or worth (non-use goods), and therefore as the source of our valuation process, and not as the means to satisfy our values (use goods). They will point out that bodies, babies, and life are gifts, and money is no substitute for them (Crignon-De Oliveira & Nikmov, 2004), mostly because allowing market forces to define a scale to measure the value of all things would be degrading to our sense of personhood and to our values (Gold 1996). Accordingly, Article 18 of the European Human Rights and Biomedicine Convention, signed in Oviedo in 1997, forbids the “creation of human embryos for research purposes”, while article 21 states that “organs and tissues proper, including blood, should not be bought or sold or give rise to financial gain for the person from who they have been removed or for a third party, whether an individual or a corporate entity such as, for example, a hospital.” Its proponents were preoccupied, among other things, that relaxing the restrictions on ownership of human body parts would lead to the proverbial slippery slope with companies legally owning potential human beings (or chimeras) from embryo to birth. In Europe, people cannot make their bodies a source of financial gain.[5] While excised body parts, like hairs or placentas, are usually treated as res nullius, that is, free to be owned by the first taker, like an abandoned property, European civil codes prohibit the removal of a body part when it causes permanent impairments, unless it is done within a formalized system of transplant donations. The principle of market-inalienability has gradually replaced the former principle of absolute inalienability. It is now argued that people do own and control their bodies (and tissues) but have no right to sell them, for they cannot exist without them and their rights as human beings and as consumers cannot trump the right of society to attempt to stave off the process of commodification of human life. Negotiating the economic value of bodies and body parts is therefore out of question, as it used to be before 1900, when insurance companies reassured their clients that “the term life insurance is a misnomer . . . it implies a value put on human life. But that is not our province. We recognize that life is intrinsically sacred and immeasurable, that it stands socially, morally and religiously above all possible evaluation” (Zelizer, 1978). Disabilities and genetic testing In most societies, and especially those with a greying population, people with disabilities constitute the single largest minority group. Depending on how disability is defined, there are currently between 3 to 5 million Canadians, 50 million Americans, and 40 million Western Europeans with disabilities. In half the cases it is a severe impairment. Disability is therefore a fact of life, and the boundary between ability and disability is permeable. It is reasonable to assume that, at some point during one’s life, everybody is going to have to deal personally with a disability or to look after a disabled person, and that it is therefore in everyone’s interest that societies should strive to accommodate disabled people, instead of viewing them as “damaged goods” (Asch, 2001). This is all the more important now that biotechnologies are poised to make the boundary between “abled” and disabled even more porous: the notion of disability will be presumably extended to more individuals (e.g. alcoholism, obesity, predispositions to chronic diseases, etc.). How is this going to affect the social model of disability and the issue of status recognition? Are further adjustments to accommodate the needs of “asymptomatic ill”, that is, people with an “abnormal” genetic constitution necessary? Is it possible that that is going to magnify the problem in unpredictable ways (viz. proliferation of identity groups)? In everyday life, there remains an enduring tendency to view human beings as worthwhile not for who they are but for what they do and to confuse facts and values, is and ought. The status of physically and cognitively impaired persons – that is, people with non-standard bodies and minds – best illustrates one of the most glaring antinomies of advanced democracies: they classify their citizens by making up new social categories, labels, and group identities, and they attempt to maximise their potential in order to better include them but, in doing so, they cause the already marginalised to become even more vulnerable and less visible, and they also affect the common perception of what is normal, and therefore acceptable and appropriate, that is, normative (Hoedemaekers & Ten Have, 1999). Nevertheless, the boundary between “normal variation” and “genetic disease” is in part a social construction, because the notions of “normalcy” and “deviance” are historically and culturally relative. What is more, the consequences of physical impairments can be mitigated by the provision of personal and technical support. It follows that this classificatory exercise is completely out of place (Lewontin 2001). No one, not even the State, can arbitrate normality (Rapp, 2000) and, it should be added, it is not at all clear that disability is a kind of harm that is qualitatively different from other socially constructed “harms”, such as poverty or race (Shakespeare 1999). Historically, there is no such thing as a linear transition from discrimination to acceptance, as far as people judged to be abnormal and pathological are concerned. Instead, economic, social and political determinants (ideologies, cultural trends, and societal arrangements) have changed the experience of disability along an erratic course (O’Brien, 1999). Their dependence on an artificial environment has been a constant reminder of human imperfections and frailty, and of medical and scientific powerlessness. Furthermore, economic setbacks have often resulted in growing concerns over the financial burden of social spending on people with disabilities. In the Twenties, when the German economy was in a state of collapse after WWI but prior to Hitler’s rise to power, it was revealed that a majority of parents with handicapped children would consent to their “euthanasia” if the medical authorities decided on this course of action (Burleigh, 2002). They sincerely believed that, under those circumstances, it would be best for their children. Unfortunately, too much insistence on the values of autonomy and self-sufficiency, coupled with cost-benefit considerations on how people might best contribute to production and bolster the economy, are likely to devalue people who are not self-sufficient. If detected abnormalities cannot be treated, prenatal diagnosis and subsequent selective pregnancy termination could still be regarded by many as a quick fix to an intractable social problem, namely society’s unfair treatment of the disabled. The mixed message that society is sending to people with disabilities is that they are mistakes that will hopefully be redressed by technological progress; yet they are still welcome. The two goals of trying to eradicate disability while steering society towards a more embracing and supportive attitude to diversity may well prove incompatible. We must also consider that prenatal genetic testing and, in the future, fetal therapy, that is, the medical treatment of babies in the womb, will not guarantee a “normal” baby. Even the systematic screening of foetuses cannot prevent all “defective children” from being born. This raises the issue of how they will be treated in a society which tends to value competence and intelligence more than anything else, that is to say, one where they would be “better-not-born” (Baroff, 2000). We are already witnessing the clash between constitutional equality and the inequality of bodies (Davis, 2002). It is a situation in which women’s rights are pitted against the civil rights of people with disabilities and of unborn children, while individual rights, values, and interests are played against those of the larger society. Today, prenatal screenings are largely performed by midwives and obstetricians. In some countries, these techniques have already reduced the prevalence of spina bifida and Down syndrome by 30 percent or more, and the incidence of neural tube defects, Tay Sachs, and beta thalassemia (Cooley’s Anemia) by 90 percent (Asch et al., 2003). Genetic testing, which can analyse thousands of mutations, is instead usually carried out by genetic counsellors and clinical geneticists. We might want to speculate about the range of possible short-term and long-term effects of the application of new technologies in the field of genetic medicine, albeit they cannot be predicted with certainty. Following the adoption of gene diagnostics (when there is an indication that someone might be affected by a genetic condition) and genetic testing in carrier screening (when no such indication is present), a new class of citizens could arise, which will include people who have been diagnosed as ‘asymptomatic ill’, that is at a higher risk of contracting certain illnesses. Passing specific legislation to prevent discrimination against them would paradoxically make them seem more different from other people than they really are. It has been suggested (Macintyre, 1997) that discrimination in insurance, employment, and healthcare provision – to contain the costs of healthcare benefits – could be the logical consequence of a double-bind whereby you will be treated differently whether you agree that you and your children should be genetically tested, and test positive, or you refuse, for in such case it will be assumed that you might be concealing some inheritable condition. The bottom line seems to be that an epistemological shift has taken place, so that whenever human life does not conform to increasingly high standards of health and quality, it is likely to be deemed a grievous miscalculation. Human dignity, a notion that law cannot define unequivocally, lies at the foundation of the human rights doctrine, but it is also indissolubly bound up with the concept of quality of life, which is relative. Because of this, quality and equality are pitted against each other and developments in biotechnology could undermine the constitutional principle of equality of all human lives, which is the glue that holds society together. Finally, because prenatal screening is an expensive procedure, it is even possible that, in countries without universal healthcare, more and more people with disabilities will be born into poverty (Asch et al., 2003). Studying the ethical implications of the new biomedical technologies involves much more than simply assuming that totally rational agents, altogether free from social and cultural strictures and contingencies, and from their physicality, would arrive at the same conclusions, following a single, completely reliable deductive mode of reasoning or, alternatively, starting from some unverifiable articles of faith. A reality made of moral flexibility, discrimination, inequality, differential power relations and access to healthcare cannot be wished away for the sake of conceptual clarity and simplicity. Yet, historical, political and social issues – including the discussion of the common good, the unfairness of healthcare in the United States and elsewhere, and the sheer nonsense of applying the ethical standards of affluent societies in developing countries –, are seldom the object of critical investigation on the part of mainstream bioethicists. These “secular moral experts” understandably prefer to rely on hard logic rather than on the disputable evidence, multiple constraints, relative values, nagging contradictions, and subjective feelings of everyday reality. But that untidy reality, with its attending uncertainty, is the only one there is, at least for most of us, and this is why there can be no univocal, logically necessary solution to our moral quandaries. Condemning the tendency of ordinary people to cling on to their beliefs as a matter of course seems unwarranted. On various important ethical issues people trust their own judgment because they see that their views are widely shared and because they have strong reasons to believe that such a consensus is not going to vanish into thin air any time soon. Indeed, most of us generally subscribe to those moral precepts that have stood the test of time.[6] It is our appreciation of the practical insights and moral expertise of those who came before us which, for instance, lead many to maintain that human dignity is important even though it is hard to define. 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(2001).“Fighting for the good cause” reflections on Francis Galton’s legacy to American hereditarian psychology. Independence Square, PA: American Philosophical Society. Waldby, C. (2002). Stem cells, tissue cultures and the production of biovalue. Health, 6(3), 305-323. Zelizer V. A. (1978). Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th-Century America The American Journal of Sociology, 84(3), pp. 591-610. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) – is a mental condition affecting children and adults and is typified by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. Hundreds of scientists and medical professionals in both North America and Europe claim that there is no clear evidence to support the existence of ADHD and contend that most cases fall within the normal range of variation in human behaviour. Base pair – a structure made of two complementary nucleotides (strands of DNA molecules) joined by weak hydrogen bonding. The base pairs are adenine (A) with thymine (T) and guanine (G) with cytosine (C) for DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine for RNA. This is where genetic information is stored. It is estimated that the human genotype contains around 3 billion base pairs which, together, give DNA its double helix shape. Chimera – Legendary creature with a lion head and chest, the belly and a second head of a goat, and with a serpent for a tail. In biology and genetics, a distinction is drawn between mosaics, that is, those plants and animals that contain different sets of genetically-distinct cells (e.g. humans with mismatched eyes, but also serious genetic conditions such as Turner’s syndrome) deriving from a single zygote, and chimeras, whose cell populations originated from more than one zygote. Animal chimeras are routinely experimentally produced, whereas the creation of part-human, part-animal hybrids (parahumans) is currently unfeasible and illegal. Germline engineering – The genetic modification of individuals whose alterations will be passed on to their progeny. It involves altering genes in eggs, sperm, or early embryos, by insertion (e.g. of artificial chromosomes), gene deletion or gene transposition. Germplasm – hereditary material (chromosomes and DNA) of living organisms. Sometimes it is also the name given to a species’ “genome”, namely the entire repertoire of that species’ genotypes. Human cloning – If it were legal, reproductive cloning would be used to create children who are genetically identical to a cell donor. At present, it would be a very expensive procedure with a staggering rate of failures (about 90%). Therapeutic cloning refers to the creation of identical embryos and tissues in order to harvest stem cells for research and transplantation purposes. There are two main cloning techniques: (a) by embryo splitting (also known as artificial twinning, because it occurs naturally with identical twins): an embryo is split into individual cells or groups of cells that are then artificially prompted to grow as individual embryos; (b) by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), which is done by transferring genetic material from the nucleus of an adult cell into an enucleated egg, that is an ovum whose genetic material has been taken away. This is the technique used to generate Dolly the sheep. Hyperparenting – A form of child-rearing in which parents become too involved in the management of their children’s lives. In vitro fertilization (IVF) – An assisted reproductive procedure in which a woman’s ova (eggs) are removed and fertilized with a man’s sperm in a laboratory dish (the Petri dish). Each IVF cycle is very expensive and has a success rate of no more than 30 percent. It is estimated that there may currently be about half a million IVF babies worldwide. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) – The portion of the maternally inherited cell DNA which is contained in the mitochondria, tiny organelles that generate energy for the cell by converting carbohydrates into energy. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) – Cells taken from embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) are examined in a Petri dish. Embryos carrying harmful and lethal mutations are discarded and only “healthy” ones are subsequently implanted in her mother’s uterus. Reprogenetics – The combination of reproductive medicine and biology and genetic technologies. Embryonic stem cell research, the alteration of select genes, as in germ line therapy and in the genetic manipulation of early embryos, cosmetic gene insertion, human embryo cloning, and embryonic pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PDG and IVF) are reprogenetic techniques. [1] Spain, Portugal, Italy, and France. [2] In those countries, most scientists and social analysts correctly understood that Charles Darwin had historicized nature without closing the gap between nature, human history and society. Elsewhere, Social Darwinists, who held that the Darwinian revolution had paved the way to the naturalization of history, found a more receptive audience. [3] In 2007, the United States, Andorra, Brunei, Iraq, and Somalia were the only countries that had not ratified this treaty [4] Meaning “beyond commercial appropriation.” [5] This position finds expression in the principe de non patrimonialité du corps humain of the French civil code, in the principio di gratuità (principle of gratuitousness) of the Italian civil code, and in the Article 3 of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. As an aside, Article 25 of the Civil Code of Québec, states that: “the alienation by a person of a part or product of his body shall be gratuitous; it may not be repeated if it involves a risk to his health.” [6] In the words of Spanish bioethicist Diego Gracia Guillén: “la historia es tambien el gran tribunal de la moralidad,” that is, as it were, “ethics is the daughter of time.” [7] « Entre le fort et le faible, c’est la liberté qui opprime et la loi qui affranchit. »

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Category Archive: Art Armenian sculptor Ruben Isaakovich Shaverdyan Kinto Street Singer. 1968. Slipwear. Work by Armenian sculptor Ruben Isaakovich Shaverdyan (1900-1977) Tiflis of early XX century, with carefree-cheerful kinto, with the traditions of street festivals, noisy circuses and feasts, gives inexhaustible material for the most diverse artistic embodiment. In pre-revolutionary Tiflis next to the world of city governors, military, bankers, officials, artisans, kinto and shopkeepers, there was a world of educated, famous and obscure, rich and poor artists. And at the turn of the 1910s and 1920s, at a turning-point in the history of Georgia, a constellation of masters gathered here that made the specific atmosphere of the artistic Tiflis even brighter. Ruben Isaakovich Shaverdyan received an art education in the school of painting and sculpture at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. His teachers were Yeghishe Tatevosyan, BA Fogel and AA Saltsman. These three different artists to some extent complemented each other as teachers, and each of them sought to make their artistic ideal – the property of the students. Shaverdyan finished his studies in 1924, and since 1926 he has been a regular participant of art exhibitions. Italian Renaissance sculptor Luca della Robbia Tondo Female portrait. 1465 glazed terracotta. National Museum of Bargello, Florence. Work by Italian Renaissance sculptor Luca della Robbia (1399 or 1400 – 23 February 1482), mainly remembered as a pioneer of colored glazed terracotta as a sculptural medium Sculptor and jeweler of the Renaissance, full name was Luca di Simone della Robbia, the founder of the dynasty of artists, he devoted his whole long life to the service of art. Born in Florence in 1399 or 1400, trained in textiles and as a goldsmith before sculpture, however, he became known as a prolific sculptor of the early Renaissance. Patronized by the Medici, he achieved fame and wealth through glazed terracotta artworks. He performed many works, which rightfully occupy a prominent place in the history of the sculpture of the Renaissance. Worked in stone and terracotta, he was the follower of the humanistic movement. Noteworthy, he invented a type of representation of the Virgin and Child shown half-length in white on a blue background that proved highly popular. Set up successful studio in Florence, he kept the formula of his tin glazes a secret. However, the technical formula soon became the basis of a flourishing business. Worked closely with his nephew Andrea della Robbia (1435–1525). Unfortunately, Luca’s successors tended to sentimentalize his warm humanity. October, 2017. The “Dubrava” park of Klimovsk (urban district of Podolsk). Work by sculptor Alexander Rozhnikov. Russian artist Vasily Polenov monument In the “Dubrava” park of Klimovsk appeared a monument to outstanding Russian painter Vasily Polenov. On the sculptural composition worked a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honored Artist of Russia, sculptor Alexander Rozhnikov. The sculptural composition, made of bronze, is a figure of the artist and a frame mounted on an easel. Besides, the author of the monument attached a tablet to the frame with the name of the work “Klimovsk. Oak trees. 2017”. The landscape behind the frame will change constantly, together with the seasons and people who visit this part of the park. A cloth thrown on the frame, as if opening a new masterpiece of fine art. In addition, two more sculptures decorate the composition – a small dog at the feet of Vasily Polenov, and a cat. Less than a week has passed since the opening of the sculpture, however among the people have already appeared a legend – to make money, you need to rub the cat’s right ear. Fairy Tale characters wooden sculpture park Three epic heroes. Fairy Tale characters wooden sculpture park in Yalta, Crimea Fairy Tale characters wooden sculpture park in Yalta “Glade of Fairy Tales” – a unique children’s museum of sculptures on a fairy-tale theme in the open air. Located in one of the most beautiful corners of the Southern coast of Crimea, in the picturesque surroundings of Yalta near the Wuchang-Su waterfall. Initially, it was folk master Pavel Bezrukov, who chose the forest at the foot of the quaint rock of Stavri-Kaya and founded a sculptural park in 1960. Today the exposition of the museum consists of more than 300 sculptures. On them worked by folk craftsmen and professional artists not only from Yalta, but also other cities of Crimea, Moscow, Pervouralsk, Yerevan, Vilnius, and others. In the hands of talented craftsmen a simple tree, ordinary clay, cold metal and concrete turned into characters of fairy tales, epics, legends and myths. Three Graces monuments and sculptural compositions Fragment of Three Graces, Spring, Botticelli. Three Graces monuments and sculptural compositions Many masterpieces of sculpture live throughout the centuries, and sometimes even millennia have enjoyed constant success. Their attraction, thanks to beauty and inner meaning, remains unchanged at all times and for all peoples. As a rule, these masterpieces survive to our time through replicas created often after the lapse of centuries after the emergence of the original idea and its implementation. The same as it’s impossible to count the diamonds in stone caves, one can’t count how many monuments and sculptural compositions on the plot of “Three Gracia” exist all over the world. How did the theme of the Three Graces appeared in the world? It originates from ancient Greek mythology. The Charites, as goddesses of grace, charms and beauty, were inspiration muses, close to art. In Roman mythology they were called graces (Latin gratia – “charm, grace, attraction, gratitude”). In ancient Rome, the graces are the wonderful companions of Venus and Aphrodite. They give mortals gaiety, dexterity, a pleasant disposition of the spirit, as well as generosity and prudence. Their attributes are a rose, a myrtle or an apple. Work by sculptor Alexander Kapralov. Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh sculpture in Omsk Almost in the center of Omsk, and more specifically on Lubinsky Avenue, near the entrance to a beautiful restaurant Bevitore appeared a sculpture, by which it is impossible to go without paying attention. Because this unusual monument is world famous painter Vincent Van Gogh. The author of the composition is a local sculptor Alexander Kapralov. He depicted the outstanding post-impressionist artist with the painting “Sunflowers” in his hand, and sitting in close proximity to a bottle of Absinthe… According to the author, this great Dutch artist had bad habits, especially in the last years of his brilliant and fruitful life. Among alcohol drinks he used to drink was Absinthe, in particular. The monument is made of black metal covered with a special paint. The sculpture weighs nearly 200 kilograms. It is noteworthy that in the neighborhood of Van Gogh is a monument of another well-known personality – Hollywood actor Rutger Hauer, who played in his time in the cult film “The Legend of the Holy Drinker” (1988, Italy)

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Stanley accelerates growth with Oberon buy Stanley Inc. will acquire Oberon Associates Inc., a provider of engineering, intelligence operations and information technology services, for $170 million in cash. The transaction is in line with Stanley's acquisition strategy that calls for the development of new customers, contract vehicles and service offerings, said Phil Nolan, Stanley's president, chairman and chief executive officer. The acquisition "reinforces Stanley's strategy of expanding our presence in key markets positively impacted by the base realignment and closure process?.We also believe the acquisition will provide meaningful cross-selling opportunities as we seek to continue our strong record of growth," he said. Oberon is expected to generate revenue of about $80 million in its fiscal year ending June 30, Stanley officials said. Moving forward, Oberon is expected to meet or exceed Stanley's annual organic growth goals of 10 to 15 percent. Oberon, of Manassas, Va., has contracts with the Army, Air Force, Defense Information Systems Agency, Transportation Security Administration and several intelligence agencies. The company's core capabilities are biometrics, intelligence, communications engineering, IT and enterprise data management. Oberon has more than 600 employees and 10 regional offices in the United States and seven countries overseas. The transaction likely will close in the company's second fiscal quarter, which ends Sept. 30, Stanley officials said. The Vienna, Va.-based investment banking firm KippsDeSanto and Co. served as exclusive financial adviser to Oberon on the transaction. Oberon ranks No. 1 on Washington Technology's 2007 Fast 50 list, which ranks the fastest growing small businesses in the government market. The company had a compound annual growth rate of 191.75 percent. Stanley ranks No. 48 on Washington Technology's 2008 Top 100 list of the largest federal government prime contractors.

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Home › Entertainment News Lil Kim To Be Honored With “I Am Hip-Hop Award” At BET Hip-Hop Awards Lil Kim recently performed at New York Fashion Week at the Pretty Little Things Fashion Show in New York City. tffhthewriter Source: WENN/Avalon / WENN Hip-Hop legend and fashion icon Lil Kim is slated to be honored in a big way. On Thursday (Sept. 26), BET announced Lil Kim is set to be honored at the 2019 BET Hip-Hop Awards with the prestigious “I Am Hip-Hop” Award. After releasing her debut album Hard Core in 1996, Lil Kim has trailblazed her way to the top in music, fashion, and even film. The self-dubbed Queen Bee definitely lived up to the title and beyond as she continued to make history. From Hard Core reaching double platinum to dropping three consecutive number one classic singles(“No Time,” “Not Tonight (Ladies Night Remix),” and “Crush on You”), making Lil Kim the first female rapper with three consecutive number-one singles on Billboard’s Rap Songs chart. In 2003 Kimmy Blanco made history again after both of her subsequent albums, The Notorious K.I.M. and La Bella Mafia were certified Platinum, making her one of the only female rappers to have at least three consecutive Platinum albums.; but Lil Kim didn’t stop there. Her iconic and head-turning looks helped to pave the way for urban culture to be accepted on runways and in magazines while also changed the narrative for what was considered high fashion. Her colorful wigs and mafioso personality helped inspired a legion of rappers in the 23 years since her debut. Recently, Lil Kim took to social media to announce that she has something in the works, but that fans would have to wait until Friday (Sept. 26) for the reveal. The announcement will come just one day after she released the third single, “Found You” featuring City Girls and OT Genesis, off of her highly anticipated album 9. Although many fans are hoping the announcement is finally a release date for 9, many are speculating that Kim could finally be free to sign to another label-either way, we are a tuned in. The 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards will be hosted by Lil Duval and will premiere on Tuesday, October 8, 2019, at 8:00 PM ET/PT. Lil Kim To Be Honored With “I Am Hip-Hop Award” At BET Hip-Hop Awards was originally published on hiphopwired.com Also On 97.9 The Box: Family Lawyer Speaks Out After Lamar CISD Teacher… Candiace Dillard Talks Infamous RHOP Fight, No Reality… See All Interviews Meet The 12 Finalists For The ‘I Am… 50 Cent Checks MSNBC’s Alison Morris Over Her… Why Kobe Bryant Traveled By Helicopter

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How the EU played a key role in smoothing relations between London and Dublin June 8, 2016 11.11am EDT Colin Murray, Newcastle University Senior Lecturer in Law, Newcastle University Colin Murray receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (alongside A. O'Donoghue (Durham), S. de Mars (Newcastle) and B. Warwick (Durham)) to support "the project “Constitutional Conundrums: Northern Ireland, the European Union and Human Rights". This article does not reflect the views of the research councils. Newcastle University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. In it together: David Cameron and Enda Kenny. Andy Rain/EPA When Ireland’s prime minister, or Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, spoke glumly in January of the “serious difficulties” a British exit from the European Union would create for Northern Ireland, the veteran unionist politician David Trimble was incredulous: “There’s absolutely no connection between the peace process and the European Union.” But on June 6, UK Chancellor George Osborne said that in the event of a Brexit, the end of Europe’s financial support for the peace process would contribute to a profound “economic shock” for Northern Ireland. In May, the House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, a body well-stocked with high-profile Brexiteers, was content that the relations between London, Dublin and Belfast would “continue to be very strong” even if the UK left the EU. In a report on the issue, they maintained that the EU has been less important for conflict resolution than the United States. Bruising border relations Prior to 1974, partition had long overshadowed the UK’s relations with Ireland. In 1956, the Northern Ireland government produced Why the Border Must Be, a staunch defence of partition capped by a grudging recognition that “although Ulster and Eire cannot unite, they can be good neighbours”. But in spite of the UK and Ireland’s Free Trade Agreement in 1965, and the meetings that year between the Taoiseach Seán Lemass and the Ulster Unionist prime minister of Northern Ireland, Terence O’Neill, official interactions remained limited. As the UK remained Ireland’s biggest market, it was all but obliged to follow the UK’s efforts to join the then-European Economic Community (EEC) in the 1960s. With the onset of the Troubles, UK-Ireland relations became entangled within the increasingly bloody conflict. In 1971, Ireland challenged the UK’s use of “enhanced interrogation” practices to get information out of internees as amounting to torture before the European Court of Human Rights. Archival releases show that UK officials regarded this response as tantamount to “a diplomatic declaration of war”. Shared objectives EEC membership in 1974, however, brought a new dimension to this fraught relationship. Ireland and the UK, as English-speaking islands on Europe’s north-west periphery, shared many interests in terms of European policy. European summits obliged ministers from both countries to participate in the communal “family photographs” and enabled them to forge working relationships in a context less burdened with expectation than the intermittent bilateral meetings of the 1970s. Thatcher and Haughey at Downing Street in 1980. PA Archive In 1980, at a time when UK prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, and then Taoiseach Charles Haughey, remained cagey about dealing with each other, the EEC summit in Venice offered a forum for both to address pressing concerns regarding the security situation in Northern Ireland and build up good will. By the mid-1980s, the Haughey-Thatcher relationship had soured. Their mutual distrust and the shock of the Hunger Strikes by republican prisoners held at the Maze limited the possibility for an inter-govermental process and made the conflict appear as intractable as ever. At this juncture, the leader of Northern Ireland’s Social Democratic and Labour Party, John Hume, was instrumental in securing the European Parliament’s Haagerup Report into the conflict in Northern Ireland. The report approached the conflict as a clash of national identities and conceived of Europe’s role as supporting the UK and Ireland in their efforts to promote peaceful expression of these identities within Northern Ireland. As such, it provided a starting point for the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement negotiations. The peace process The Haagerup Report also emphasised the need for Europe to support these efforts with funding. The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee’s recent report makes out that Europe was late to the party, providing funding through its PEACE initiative (now in its fourth cycle) only after the peace process was under way. But by focusing only on one stream of funding, the committee deliberately downplays Europe’s intense regional development funding in Northern Ireland since the 1970s and payments into the International Fund for Ireland in the 1980s. The four cycles of PEACE funding alone have provided Northern Ireland with over €2 billion, three-quarters of which has come from the EU. The UK and Ireland’s shared EU membership was emphasised in the 1998 Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, building on previous references in the Anglo-Irish Agreement. The need to implement EU law provides one of the agreement’s major conduits for co-operation between Belfast and Dublin. The responsibility of the North-South Ministerial Council, set up after the Good Friday agreement, for discussing harmonious approaches to the implementation of EU law in both parts of the island of Ireland provides much of its workload. The peace process will not implode in the event of Brexit, nor will Ireland’s close relations with the UK degrade overnight. Nonetheless, the EU’s role in building this relationship should not be forgotten. Whereas the European project drew Ireland and the UK closer together, Brexit would impose new strains on the relationship. Ireland’s trade with the rest of Europe has dramatically increased since 1974, making its economy less dependent upon the UK for imports and exports. But in purely economic terms it will still be the EU country most affected by Brexit. Over time, Ireland’s increasing integration with Europe would likely put it at odds with a UK which is no longer playing on the same team. In that event, the mutual trust which has provided the bedrock for the peace process will inevitably be under threat. Northern Ireland peace process Northern Ireland politics

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So Jane Caro thinks traditional marriage was ‘prostitution’ … September 3, 2014 2.35am EDT Michelle Smith, Deakin University Research Fellow, Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention, Deakin University Michelle Smith has previously received funding from the Australian Research Council. Deakin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The legal doctrine of coverture effectively suspended women’s legal existence. D. Sarle This week’s episode of ABC’s typically male-dominated show Q&A involved a panel of women who were speakers at Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI). While the show presented far more conservative than radical ideas about gender, author and social commentator Jane Caro was provocative with her suggestion that marriage was historically “a form of prostitution”. In answer to a question about sex workers, Caro explained that in the past marriage was in some respects a kind of economic exchange of women’s bodies. Conjugal rights and expectations about child-bearing were integral to the deal. Caro was asking viewers to consider how some of the conditions of sex work, which are often used to demean women in the industry as lesser beings, have applied more broadly to women throughout history, especially prior to the 20th century. Jane Caro on traditional marriage, conjugal rights and prostitution on Monday’s Q&A. Some viewers interpreted Caro’s comments to imply a connection between today’s stay-at-home mums and “prostitutes” and “whores”. Those angry reactions expose the continued denigration of women who sell sex, while the men who are their clients – around 15% of Australian men – do not become lessened by the interaction. Caro subsequently published an article to calm the critical reaction and clarify that she was not referring to heterosexual marriages in contemporary society. But was she correct to say that marriage historically shared similarities with prostitution? The recent history of love and marriage We understand love as the basis for marriage. When we presume that a woman, in particular, is marrying for financial or personal gain, we apply terms such as “gold digger” to indicate disapproval. From Anna Nicole Smith wedding an 89-year-old billionaire to the union of Brynne Gordon to entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten, we condemn women who we cannot imagine have married solely for our idea of love. Yet criticism of people who married without love dates back to at least the 18th century in Britain. And, perhaps surprisingly, several notable writers of the period explicitly compared such marriages to a form of prostitution. Daniel Defoe, of Robinson Crusoe fame, wrote in Conjugal Lewdness or, Matrimonial Whoredom (1727) that: He or She who, with that slight and superficial Affection, Ventures into the Matrimonial Vow, are to me little more than legal Prostitutes. In 1790, the English writer Mary Wollstonecraft argued that for women to “marry for a support” was “legal prostitution”. Other British feminists made connections between the male dominance inherent in both institutions, as well as the ways in which both could “enslave” women’s bodies. Though the notion of marriage as a strategy for financial or social gain, or merely survival, was being criticised in the 18th century, the absolute belief that love was a requirement for a marriage was still developing. As Jennifer Phegley shows in her book Marriage and Courtship in Victorian England (2011), it was really only at the beginning of the 19th century that the notion of a “companionate marriage” was idealised. It took centuries for marriage to evolve from a transaction arranged by families to exchange status and wealth into an institution grounded in romantic love. Nathan Congleton But the reality was that marriage in the Victorian period was still influenced by laws that meant women usually didn’t inherit property (it went to male heirs) and often, depending on their class status, were unable to work outside the home. Marriage, for many women, was a necessity to ensure that they would be housed and fed into old age. The legal doctrine of coverture meant that marriage merged the husband and wife as one legal entity, effectively suspending the wife’s legal existence. Even if a woman was able to earn a wage or had inherited money, until the late 19th century, it automatically become her husband’s property. Unless otherwise provided for by her family, a woman might be left destitute if her husband sought a divorce, or if she went through the difficult process of seeking one. (The 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act required a woman to prove both her husband’s adultery and that he had treated her cruelly, deserted her, or committed incest or bigamy.) Her legal rights to any of her children after divorce were also limited. How was marriage like prostitution? Many sex workers today emphasise the choice and agency involved in their employment. Historically, women from lower-class families who did not have sufficient means to provide for them had limited options for employment. In comparison with low-paying menial work with long hours, prostitution could offer young women a greater income and degree of independence than other forms of work. Both marriage and prostitution were among the limited options available to women to ensure that they could gain access to money through men, who controlled the vast majority of wealth and property. Within marriage, a woman’s freedoms were legally more constrained than those of an unmarried sex worker. Social conditions and laws made it difficult for women to remove themselves from an unhappy marriage or from prostitution, which carried great moral stigma. With few other options available for economic survival, it was certainly the case that there were both married women and sex workers who were compelled to continue sexual relationships with men when they desired to do otherwise. Ultimately, Caro’s comparison has a real historical basis. The facts of traditional marriage should not be forgotten as we continue to address the vestiges of sexism in a culture that was once grounded in the economic exchange of women.

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Swimming & Diving › Longhorns finish first round of Bryan Regional in tie for eighth Published on May 6, 2016 at 1:31 am Last update on May 6, 2016 at 1:32 am By Jacob Martella The Longhorns overcame an up-and-down day to finish the first round of the NCAA Bryan Regional in a tie for eighth at five-over par. Texas’ round puts them three shots back of Miami, who currently holds the sixth and final spot to qualify for the championship round at the end of the month. Junior Julia Beck led the way for the Longhorns, shooting two-under par to finish the day in a seven-way tie for seventh. Beck recovered from a bogey on the 10th hole with four birdies in the last five holes to finish as the only Texas player under par. Junior Haley Mills had the most up-and-down day for Texas. Mills began the round with a bogey and two birdies, but bogeyed the eighth, ninth and 10th holes. She then birdied three-straight holes before bogeying two of the last three holes to finish the day at one-over par and in a tie for 28th. Sophomore Sophia Schubert and senior Natalie Karcher each shot three-over par to end the round in a tie for 46th. Senior Tezira Abe bogeyed eight of the first 11 holes and double bogeyed the 14th hole to end the day seven-over par and in tie for 79th. Georgia currently holds a one-shot lead over Arizona at four-under par. Bianca Pagdanganan of Gonzaga currently leads the individual field at five-under par while Daniela Darquea of Miami trails in second by a shot. Four players are tied at three-under par for third. The top six teams after Saturday’s final round and the top three individuals not on those teams will advance to the NCAA Championship later this month in Eugene, Oregon. The Longhorns will start the second round at 8 a.m. today and cap off regional with the final round on Saturday.

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Panel will prove gaming jobs exist Published on November 17, 2010 at 12:00 am Finding a job in the video game industry has long been thought to be an extremely difficult task with success limited to a few lucky computer science majors. A panel on finding a career in video games sought to dispel this myth and others to UT students on Wednesday. High school fitness coaches and parents often tell teenagers that getting a job in video game development is a pipe dream. Karen Weems and Joel Driver, career counselors at the Sanger Learning and Career Center, have talked to many kids over the years who have been told the same. “A lot of times we are talking and I’ll ask, ‘What’s your interest?’ and they say, ‘I like to play video games, but that’s not a career,’” Weems said. “So we are doing this panel to show that, yeah, there really are careers associated with that interest that could be viable.” Weems develops iPhone apps when she isn’t on campus, and Driver plays video games with old classmates as a way to keep in touch, but putting together the panel has been a learning experience for both of them, Weems said. Through a partnership with International Game Developers Association’s Austin chapter, the career center will bring five local game designers representing different aspects of game design to speak to UT students about a career that is open to them, “more so then the ones people usually think of,” according to career center assistant Matthew Seymour. “Considering the market right now with the way the recession is going, I think a lot of people would probably be interested just to see if there is another field,” Seymour said. He has been running around the past week posting flyers and letting students know about the event. “I don’t think video games instantly comes to mind.” Driver admits to not knowing the average salary of a video game designer ($75,573 according to Game Developer Research’s 2009 report), but he says there are still commitments to be made, as with any competitive industry. “If it’s going to take you four more years, are you willing to commit to that? If it’s going to take an internship, are you willing to commit to that?” Driver said. “At the end of the day, it’s really your decision. We are just lucky enough to be facilitators of that conversation.” Tess Snider, a programmer who has worked in the industry for nearly a decade, will be one of the panelists to join the conversation. She has worked for three Austin game developers, but now does contract work and runs her independent studio Pixelsea Entertainment. “There is enough game development and support activity in Austin at any given point in time that there are always jobs for people with the right skills,” Snider said. The event will be organized into two sections. The first will be a panel with four questions posed by the moderators, followed by audience questions. Afterward, the panelists will invite audience members to converse with them, giving students a rare opportunity to network with Austin game industry professionals. “It’s one of those careers that I think that if you lived in any other city, probably getting six people who work in video game design wouldn’t be possible,” Driver said. “I can tell you right now, back in Florida I couldn’t have done it.” WHAT: Video Game Career Panel WHERE: UTC 2.102A WHEN: Wednesday 3:30 - 6 p.m. WEB: lifelearning.utexas.edu

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The Destinationship Home Macedonia From A Local Point of View 25 facts indicating that Macedonia might be the coolest country in the... Macedonia From A Local Point of View 25 facts indicating that Macedonia might be the coolest country in the world Kristina L. Macedonia is a small, mountainous country located on the Balkan Peninsula right between Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Greece, and Bulgaria. Covering a total area of just 25,713 km², it is a home of around 2 millions of people,including myself,who are proud to say that they live in a small country but with a huge and impressive history. In fact, this small Balkan country back in ancient time used to be the greatest empire the world had ever seen! Well let’s just not spoil the things for you, better let’s get started with all the facts that indicate that Macedonia actually might be the coolest country in the world: Macedonia is that old that it was actually mentioned in the New Testament of the Bible- making it a real Biblical country! Macedonia is the leading country in the entire world when it comes to the number of mountains and mountains peaks. Most of those mountain peaks to this day remain unexplored even by the locals! Macedonia has the fifth highest average elevation in Europe. More than 50 lakes and 35 mountains in the country are higher than 2000. Macedonian opium has even 14 morphine units, making it the best opium in the world. Macedonia was the number 1 country in the entire world to have full access to a wireless broadband connection in 2006. Mother Theresa of Calcutta was not actually from Calcutta, but from Macedonia. She was Catholic Albanian who was born and raised in the capital of Macedonia, Skopje. The Millennium Cross located on Vodno Mount in Skopje with its 66 meters height is considered to be the highest cross in the world! The monasteries St. Jovan Bigorski, St. Georgij Pobedonosec (both located in Debar and St. Bogorodica Prechista (located in Kichevo) are believed to have in their foundations portions of the cross on which Jesus was crucified. Macedonia has the deepest underwater cave in the entire world! Cave Vrelo has a depth of 77 meters! In Macedonia Lord of the Rings’ fans have a special opportunity to visit a cave identical like the one in their favorite show. New York Times claims that Cave Pesha (located in Makedonski Brod) is identical as Helm’s Deep! Cyrillic alphabet, the foundation of the Slavic literacy, was actually established in Macedonia by the scholars St. Clement and St. Naum- students of the two brothers St. Cyril and St. Methodius who invented the Glagolitic alphabet. Macedonia used to be part of one of the most influential communist countries of the 20th century- Yugoslavia and the only member of Yugoslavia who managed to gain independence in a peaceful way back in 1991. Kokino observatory (near Kumanovo) was declared to be the fourth oldest astronomic observatory in the world by NASA. The first Christian on the Balkan peninsula was actually a Macedonian woman known as Lidija. If you are into ruby gemstones and you are in Europe- the only place where you can find them is Macedonia! One of the most iconic singers of all the time on the Balkan Peninsula, who also was declared by BBC to be “Elvis Presley of the Balkans”, was actually a Macedonian! Toshe Proeski, who tragically died in a car accident in Croatia in 2007, was a pop-rock singer, humanitarian and UNICEF Goodwill ambassador. After his death he was declared as “Honorable citizen of Macedonia” by the government while people from all around the world to this day come to visit his grave and memorial house located in Krushevo, a tiny Macedonian town where Toshe was born and raised. Macedonia was even 5 centuries long under Ottoman reign and still in 1913 managed to expel the Ottomans from their territory to then years later become part of Yugoslavia. One of the most remarkable buildings of Islamic architecture is the colorful Painted Mosque built in 1945 in Tetovo. Macedonia has its own “Mini Chinese” Wall known as the Devil’s Wall. Located near Sveti Nikole, this mysterious wall is 12 meters tall and 2 meters wide. There are many theories about the origin of this wall, but according to one of them this wall was built by the devil and brought down by God. The capital of Macedonia, Skopje is a home of a quarter of Macedonia’s entire population. Macedonia could be a real ‘paradise on Earth’ for poets as well! In fact, world’s largest yearly poetic event actually takes place every summer in Struga, small town in Macedonia located right on the shore of Ohrid Lake. Vechani, a small idyllic Macedonian village located near Struga, considers itself to be an independent country with its own passport and currency! Ohrid Lake is believed to be the oldest and one of the deepest lakes in entire Europe! And not only that- 200 species found in this lake could not be found in any other place in the world! Town of Ohrid and its Ohrid lake were listed on the list of World Heritage Site by UNESCO 39 years ago and one of the main reasons behind this is because Ohrid is a home of 365 churches and monasteries (so the people could honor a different saint every day of the years), the foundations of the first university in Europe (established by the scholars St. Clement and St Naum) and the throne of the first medieval Macedonian empire. And talking about empires- it is time to finally explain why Macedonia back in ancient time used to be the biggest empire that the world had ever seen… You may have already heard that one of the biggest emperors of all the times was the famous Alexander the Great, right?! Well, Alexander’s huge empire that people to this day are impressed by was actually the Kingdom of Macedonia or, today known just as, Macedonia. Vodno Mount Millennium Cross St. Jovan Bigorski Monastery Stone Bridge, Skopje Ohrid Lake & Church St. John at Kaneo Warrior of Horse, Skopje Previous articleTop 5 locations in Dubrovnik that every traveler should explore Next articleLearn how to prepare pasta carbonara like a real Italiano https://kristinalaskova.pb.online/ There are two things that I'd never get tired of - traveling and writing. Traveling has taught me that the world could be a scary place if you don't have the courage to fall in love with the intensity of the unknown. 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Hooked on Sonics: David Fincher, Composer Jason Hill Bend Sound and Time on ‘Mindhunter’ 10/14/2017 by Paula Parisi The year is 1972. On May 7, Tony Orlando & Dawn is in the middle of a four-week ride atop the Billboard Hot 100 with “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree,” and Edmund Kemper is indicted on eight counts of murder in Santa Cruz, Calif. Welcome to the world of David Fincher’s Mindhunter, a circa 1970s crime drama that debuts on Netflix this weekend. Set within the FBI’s elite Behavioral Sciences Unit, the show delves into the psyche of high-profile serial killers because, “How do we get ahead of crazy, if we don’t know how crazy thinks?” In other words, as sophisticated a study in depravity as audiences are likely to see outside of a theater showing a Fincher film, and he wanted the music to match. Fincher’s facility with score has been validated with an Oscar, a Grammy and two noms for his past four films, which include Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. House of Cards, another show Fincher executive produces for Netflix, has accumulated five Emmy nominations for composer Jeff Beal (who won this year). And he famously convinced Trent Reznor to score 2010’s The Social Network, resulting in Oscars for the Nine Inch Nails principal and collaborator Atticus Ross. But Fincher is surprisingly modest about accruing any of that acclaim. “I just hire people that are great and get out of their way,” says the man who was the enfant terrible of ’80s music video. The muted, subterranean Mindhunter soundtrack is composed by erstwhile alt pop comet Jason Hill — he soared, he shined, he fell short of being a star with bands Louis XIV and Vicky Cryer. But the 42-year-old rose to the occasion for Fincher, who asked him to craft a score that wouldn’t sound, literally, like music. Read the full profile Author Leonard ZeligPosted on October 14, 2017 May 29, 2018 Categories 2017. Mindhunter. Season 1, Fincher, People & CompaniesTags Atticus Ross, Jason Hill, Jeff Beal, Soundtrack, Trent Reznor One thought on “Hooked on Sonics: David Fincher, Composer Jason Hill Bend Sound and Time on ‘Mindhunter’” Pingback: David Fincher on the Music of ‘Mindhunter’ – The Fincher Analyst Previous Previous post: Why David Fincher’s ‘Mindhunter’ DP Believes ‘There Are No Rules’ in Lighting Next Next post: The minds behind David Fincher’s Mindhunter

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Sequels May Shoot Next Year By Blake Dew 8 years ago David Fincher has revealed that the sequels to one of 2011’s most anticipated films, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, will shoot in the next 12 to 18 months. Fincher recently spoke with The New York Times and also revealed that he hasn’t committed to directing either of the other two parts of the Millenium trilogy, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest, as of yet. It is unclear if the two will shoot back to back, but I’d say that it would likely be the case. If all goes to plan we will hopefully see the other two parts by the end of 2014, at the latest. Fincher has a couple of projects currently in development including a Cleopatra biopic with Angelina Jolie, and a remake of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, which is expected to be his next film, though nothing has been confirmed yet. Furthermore, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo‘s writer Steve Zallian has been hired to write the second part of the trilogy, but nothing has been confirmed for the third. Also not confirmed is the futher involvement of any of the cast. It is expected that Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig and Robin Wright, will all be back, along with some of the other supporting cast that return in the trilogy, but again, nothing has been made offical. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo will be in cinemas on December 21st. Tags: David Fincher, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Star Wars Theory Explains How Ki-Adi Mundi Caused The Fall Of The Jedi Order Avengers: Endgame Concept Art Unveils Alternative Hairdos For Captain Marvel

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WhatsAnswer Get Your Answer WhatsAnswer National Animal of Nigeria Eagle is the national animal of Nigeria, which belongs to the family of Accipitridae, class of Aves and kingdom of Animalia. Nigeria’s national animal Eagle is one of the largest birds in the world. Generally, 60 species of eagles are from Eurasia and Africa and only 14 species found in Central and South, two in North America, America, and Australia that means eagle can found all over the world except on the New Zealand and Antarctica. Nigeria’s national animal, Eagle is the very attractive animal, which is accepted by most of the countries. It has different symbolic meanings, such as; Opportunity, Protection, Guardianship, Masculinity, Dominance, Control, Freedom, Community, Command, Action Authority, Skill, Focus, Determination, Vision, Power, Liberation, Inspiration, Ruler and Judgment. Eagle became the national animal of Nigeria. It is also the national animal of Austria and coat of arms of Mexico. National animal of Nigeria Facts Common name: Eagle, animal bird. Habitat: Freshwater lakes, reservoirs, and rivers, although they can sometimes be found near the coast at the mouths of rivers or lagoons. Also prefers mountains, canyons, forests, open plains. Diet: Variety of mammals such as rabbits, marmots, mice, hares, fish, the odd wounded or dead lamb or other similarly motionless larger prey, as well as other sporadic animals and carrion (dead animal carcass). They also eat foxes and young deer. Song and Calls: A series of high pitched whistling or piping notes, rather weak for such a powerful bird. Weight: Males weigh from 2.8 to 4.6 kg with an average 3.69 kg while females weigh from 3.8 to 6.7, with an average of 5.17 kg. Length: Male wing length is from 56.5 to 67 cm with an average 62 cm while female wing length is from 61.5 to 71.2 cm with an average 67 cm. Wingspan: The male wingspan of 1.89 to 2.15 m with an average of 2.02 m, while the female’s usual wingspan range is 2.12 to 2.2 m, with an average of 2.16 m. Average lifespan: around 20 years. Incubation period: 34-36 days. The national animal of Nigeria, Eagles is one of the most magnificent birds of prey in Nigeria. Dark brown bodies and wings and tails with white heads. Some species are golden or black in color. Their legs and bills are bright yellows. Golden eagles have a quadrangle shaped tail and legs with fully feathering covered. Golden eagles’ wingspan is the fifth biggest among living eagle species. Eagles have heavier heads, larger, more powerfully curved beaks and more influential and larger bodies evaluate with other raptors. Some eagles have short wings and long tail, while others have long, wide wings and the short tail. https://www.nationaleaglecenter.org/eagle-diet-feeding/ http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/managed/bald-eagle/information/biology/ http://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/eagle_facts/ https://readnational.com/eagle-national-animal-of-nigeria/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle Nigeria Post Copyright © 2017-2020 WhatsAnswer All rights reserved. | Powered by wp redox

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Wheeless and Perkins Promoted at WBU Williams Baptist University has granted tenure and a promotion in rank to two of its faculty members. Dr. Charlotte Wheeless and Dr. Blake Perkins were promoted from assistant to associate professor, in addition to receiving tenure, following recent action by the WBU Board of Trustees. Wheeless, who is from Powhatan, Ark., has taught on the university’s teacher education faculty since 2009. In addition to her new rank, she was named the La Delle Moody Chair of Education. She earned her bachelor’s degree at WBU, and she holds a master’s and Ph.D. from Grand Canyon University. Perkins is chair of the history department at Williams, and he has served on the WBU faculty since 2013. He holds a bachelor’s from Lyon College, a master’s from Missouri State University, and a Ph.D. from West Virginia University. He lives at Lynn, Ark. “Dr. Wheeless and Dr. Perkins exemplify the academically excellent, Christ-centered education WBU provides, and they are highly valued members of our campus family. They are both richly deserving of the status that has been conferred upon them. We look forward to the continued contributions they will make in our students’ lives for many years to come,” said Dr. Stan Norman, WBU’s president. The status of tenure is a mark of academic freedom, assuring faculty members of an ongoing position at an institution under ordinary circumstances. Colleges and universities bestow tenure on faculty who, over a period of years at the institution, have demonstrated a high level of academic achievement and teaching excellence. Williams is a private, Christian university in Walnut Ridge, Ark. PreviousPrevious post:WBU Presents Service AwardsNextNext post:WBU’s Meridith Appointed to State Library Board

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Transition Heathrow Posted on July 27, 2015 August 1, 2015 by winter oak Anarchy resurgent! East London Rising! Anarchism, capitalism and industry Anarchism in chains? Terror and the capitalist system Anti-terrorism is not what it says it is UK anarchists pull off cheeky repeat factory occupation Anti-road resistance in Rize 1. Anarchy resurgent! Hopeful signs are emerging that anarchism is on the point of an invigorating worldwide resurgence in the second half of the second decade of the 21st century. The abject sell-out of Syriza in Greece, together with the general redundancy of the Left (see Acorn 11) and the increasing irrelevance of “democratic” institutions in the face of total corporate-military control are all paving the way for a revival. And anarchism itself is responding by rediscovering some of the vigour and spirit it lost in the course of a 20th century in which radical idealism was crushed not just by capitalism but by its fake adversary, state-capitalist communism. Anarchists are increasingly leaving behind the dull bureaucratic brand of anarchism (see below) that has sometimes given it a bad name in past decades. And they are deepening their commitment to action as well as to words, to a heart-felt belief in the rightness of the anarchist ideal rather than to a dusty dogmatic affiliation, to an urgent need to challenge and confront the capitalist beast wherever it rears its head. This real anarchism understands that while fascism has to be fought in the streets, it has hidden strongholds in the board rooms, in the police stations, in the prisons and detention centres. It understands that to oppose militarism is to oppose capitalism in its most raw and directly murderous incarnation. It appreciates that capitalism also takes on a physical form in all its infrastructure – the roads, airports, factories, power stations and high-speed rail lines that are destroying this world in a never-ending hunger for profit. There is nothing new in all this, of course. This authentic anarchism, which has never entirely died out, was the anarchism of the great figures of the 19th and early 20th centuries – giants like Mikael Bakunin, Voltairine de Cleyre, Emma Goldman and Gustav Landauer. And now today’s rebels are ready to turn their backs on the sterile libertarianised marxism that has too often been passed off as anarchism, as they embrace the power and glory of the real thing! 2. East London Rising! A good example of this budding anarchist renaissance is the East London Rising event being staged by the Anarchist Action Network at the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), Whitechapel, from Monday August 3 to Sunday August 9. With a whole week of free workshops and discussions on various themes, it sets out to bring together a diverse spectrum of campaigning issues, while explaining how they all form part of the one anarchist struggle. Of particular significance, perhaps, is the Environment and Degrowth day, on Tuesday August 4, which emphasises the way that the anarchist fight against capitalism is also a fight against industrialism and ecocide. As The Acorn went to press, this day was due to start at 2-3pm with a workshop by Luddites200 on “Thinking about technology and degrowth – a Luddite perspective.” This is to be followed from 3 to 4pm with a presentation by Earth First! and then from 5-6pm the London Mining Network will talk on “Collective, horizontal and consensus-based: How Indigenous self-organisation has stopped international mining giants”. From 7pm to 8pm Transition Heathrow will do a workshop on resistance, degrowth and anarchism and then from 8pm Corporate Watch will be dealing with climate change and anti-capitalism. Also worth noting is the anti-militarism day, which is part of the build-up of resistance to the DSEI arms fair being held in East London this September. The full week’s line-up is as follows: Monday Aug 3 – Anti-racism, Anti-borders Tuesday Aug 4 – Environment & degrowth Wednesday Aug 5 – Skillshares Thursday Aug 6 – Benefits claimants and workers rights Friday Aug 7 – Housing struggles and anti-eviction Saturday Aug 8 – Anti-militarism and anti-imperialism Sunday Aug 9 – Anarchism LARC is situated at 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London, E1 1ES. The nearest underground stations are Whitechapel, Aldgate East and Aldgate. https://www.anarchistaction.net/east-london-rising/ 3. Anarchism, capitalism and industry Neither anarcho-capitalism nor anarcho-industrialism make any sense because anarchism stands directly opposed to capitalism and to the industrial infrastructure on which it depends. That is the conclusion to a recent article by anarchist writer Paul Cudenec, in which he questions whether this is always fully understood by anarchists. In particular, he challenges the received wisdom that the only issue that need concern anarchists about industry relates to who controls it. He asks whether fracking would suddenly become acceptable if Cuadrilla was a workers’ co-op. Cudenec adds: “I find it hard to believe that anyone’s idea of a future anarchist society could include factories of any kind. Who would be working in them if we didn’t live in a capitalist society where people desperately need to earn money to survive? Why would anyone work in a factory if they didn’t have to? In an anarchist society, what kind of social, economic or physical compulsion could be applied to make people work in factories if, as seems likely, they didn’t particularly want to? “Why do anarcho-industrialists think that factories came into existence in the first place? To help the workers? To make life better for all of us? Because we collectively needed the mass production of the things that factories make? “Or was it so that a small group of entrepreneurs could make profit out of them? Isn’t industrial society entirely a product of capitalism?” The full article can be read at network23.org/paulcudenec 4. Anarchism in chains? Some thought-provoking reflections on the smothered state of anarchism in the UK are contained in a controversial booklet called Anarchy – Civil or Subversive, now updated and online here. In the introduction, the late Darko Matthers condemns “civil anarchism” as “a horizontal citizenism which speaks the language of democracy (rights, laws, social inclusion, consensus, protest).” He adds: “Apart from maintaining democracy’s image of dialogue and permitted dissent, civil society also is a recuperating mediator and handily picks up services for the state and business, curbing some of their excesses to allow the smoother functioning of the system. Many ‘anarchist’ (or rather libertarian) activists work for NGOs, trade unions and the parasitic den of academia. “There’s a direct feedback loop through academia, activists and the social bureaucracy about the bizarre language codes and identity politics of political correctness.” One contributor to the booklet writes: “Civil anarchism turns on any anarchist or activist who dares reject the group-think and organise themselves outside of ‘acceptable limits’; and like all political groups, the civil anarchists tend toward homogeneity, centralisation, hierarchy, delegation and censorship, however much it is all dressed up as consensus”. On a positive note, reflecting the new resurgence in authentic anarchism, another writer declares: “Anarchy appears to us as the life force of the planet, the creative destroyer which has never been extinguished from the pages of civilisation by the determined forces of ignorance and repression”. 5. Terror and the capitalist system The massacre at the Amara Culture Centre in Suruç (Pîrsus), Kurdistan (within the Turkish state), last week has raised fears of a new phase in so-called “terrorism”. At least two anarchists were killed in the bombing of the left-wing centre – they have been named as Alper Sapan from Anarchy Initiative Eskişehir and Evrim Deniz Erol from Urfa. The attack is seen as an assault on the initiative to rebuild Kobanê after the ISIS attack last year. A report on the Rabble website reports: “Comrades in Turkey and Kurdistan say that it was done by ISIS in collusion with the Turkish state”. It is not just Turkey that colludes with ISIS – along with other Islamist guerrilla groups, ISIS has many traceable links to Western intelligence. These have been apparent in various armed conflicts from Afghanistan to Bosnia to Algeria. Author Nafeez Ahmed has been at the forefront of exposing what he described as long ago as 2006, in his important book The London Bombings, as “the covert alliance between British state interests and Islamist terrorist networks”. He writes: “The international terrorist network implicated in the London bombings extends to a number of regions, including the Balkans, Asia and Africa (namely North and West). In all these areas militant Islamist networks have operated in collaboration with the military and intelligence institutions of Britain, the US and European countries. “These policies and operations, many of which continue to exist today, can be linked to concerted attempts by American, British and European states to secure a variety of regional strategic and economic interests, largely related to energy concerns.” The current wave of Islamist terrorism is often regarded as the modern equivalent of the Cold War “Gladio” network of far-right extremists controlled by US and UK intelligence. As Ganser sets out in his book NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, right-wing extremists including surviving Nazis and Fascists were recruited by US and British intelligence at the end of the Second World War to form an “anti-communist” terror network. Ostensibly intended to fight any Soviet invasion of Europe, it quickly switched to countering the threat to capitalism posed by radicals, carrying out “false flag” attacks blamed on leftists and anarchists as part of a “strategy of tension” to create fear and drive the public into the “safe” hands of the capitalist state. In Turkey, from the 1960s, there was an extreme right Turkish militia called the Grey Wolves (Bozkurt), described by author Daniele Ganser as “a brutal network of trained and armed men ready to use violence to further the cause of Pan-Turkism”. The Grey Wolves were eventually exposed as having been part of a CIA-run secret army dedicated to protecting Western capitalist interests. One of those who spoke out was General Talat Turhan, himself involved in a coup d’etat, who later declared: “This is the secret unit of the NATO countries”. Although the Gladio network was exposed most fully in Italy (the Bologna bombing was one of its murderous acts, for instance), it operated across Europe, including the UK, where the conflict in the north of Ireland was an ideal training ground. The worrying lack of knowledge and understanding, even in radical circles, of the extent to which terrorism was secretly deployed by the capitalist system from the 1940s to the 1980s sadly means that there is little to stop it using the same techniques again today. 6. Anti-terrorism is not what it says it is “Anti-terrorism” is not at all what it seems – it is in fact the deliberately misleading label given to a global psychological war waged against most of humanity by a controlling elite. That is the message from an article in Guccio, a new international radical magazine. The authors begin by stating that, despite all appearances, anti-terrorism’s main target is not the people it declares to be “terrorists”, but the population as a whole. Fear as a means of control – anti-terrorist propaganda They add: “There is no one legal definition of terrorism, and this is why there are so many definitions – more than a hundred different ones all across the world. ‘Terrorism’ is a political category.” Essentially the label “terrorist” is an attempt to translate into legal terminology the vaguer notion of an enemy – an enemy of the system. Since the system itself designates its enemies, it also controls the definition of “terrorist”. The idea that anti-terrorist laws are a reaction to actual “terrorist” threats is false. The authors point out: “It is known that among the 11 proposals for international anti-terrorist legislation submitted by the EU during the autumn of 2001 ‘in reaction to 9/11’, six had already been formulated before the attacks, four were already in preparation and only one, concerning asylum and immigration was actually new. “We also know that the UK, one of the main engines behind this whole process, had already passed the Terrorism Act 2000 which, without saying so openly, was aimed at ‘subversive’ political movements, mainly the anti-globalisation movement.” Redefined as “terrorism” – the anti-globalisation protests in Genoa in 2001 For the Italian General Fabio Mini, after the anti-capitalist protests in Genoa in 2001 there was already no doubt that “violent contestation of the global system is equal in this case to terrorism”. The Guccio article explains that a 2002 EU framework defines as terrorism any action likely “to severely undermine a country or an international organisation”, with the aim of “severely intimidating a population” or to “severely destabilize or destroy the fundamental political, constitutional, economic structures of a country or an international organization”. While Margaret Thatcher had already tried to use anti-terrorist laws against striking miners in the 1980s, the practice has now become widespread. From indignados in Barcelona to occupiers of a city hall in Greece, from the alleged authors of The Coming Insurrection in France, to environmental activists from the No Tav movement in Italy – all have been accused of “terrorism” for daring to challenge the capitalist system. Even organisers of protests against the 2014 World Cup in Brazil were arrested under “anti-terrorist” legislation. Why do we even have to say that we are not “terrorists”? It is not just the legal route that is used by the industrial capitalist system as part of its “anti-terrorist” war on dissent. The article cites a paper on defeating anti-globalisation movements which suggests “disinformation and infiltration by agents provocateurs seeking to control and sabotage”. British police spy Mark Kennedy – infiltrated the anti-capitalist movement on a European scale The authors comment: “If we have in mind the European scale of the infiltration carried out by British police spy Mark Kennedy, as well as the police’s strategies during some anti-summit protests, we can be certain that these few lines are not empty rhetoric, but a global policy being conducted against us. We therefore need a counter-strategy, on a scale as global as the enemy’s manoeuvres. “It is very unfortunate that we failed to turn the scandal raised in England by the Mark Kennedy case into a European affair challenging the activities of the various police forces that resorted to his services.” They stress this international aspect more than once, pointing out that “nowhere we have succeeded in our attempts to neutralise anti-terrorism. One of the reasons why we fail may be that we have always struggled against it at a national level, whereas it represents a global policy. “When the enemy’s victories arise from the fact that it has a global strategy against us, whereas we do not have one against it, we have to undertake a new international strategic debate, at least European-wide, in order to be able once again to address the situation.” They also suggest that the way we conduct our struggles can help undermine the absurd smear of “terrorism”. “When their tactic consists in ascribing a feeling of terror to any revolutionary movement, we must make people laugh, mock our enemies, show a great deal of wit. A funny terrorist is already not a terrorist anymore.” They say that for years now, the anti-terrorist establishment has tried to associate direct action against the system with a feeling of fear, whereas the feeling for those on the streets is one of liberation: “It is crucial to break this spell… spark complicity. Bind together once again the idea of revolution with the idea of increasing power, of joy.” The joy of protesting – the Carnival Against Capital in London on June 18 1999 7. UK anarchists pull off cheeky repeat factory occupation The Kent occupation on July 6 2015 Activists from the Anarchist Action Network formed part of the second rooftop occupation of an Israeli factory in Kent on Monday July 6. This marked the anniversary of the 2014 attack on Gaza and coincided with the Block the Factory protest in Shenstone, in the Midlands. Alongside Palestine solidarity campaigners and other anti-militarist comrades, the AAN participants launched an early-morning assault on Instro, a fully-owned subsidiary of drone manufacturer Elbit, which makes optical guidance components. The compound and roof were both taken by 4am, with a sound system on the ground inside, a lock-on to the main gate and other protesters remaining outside the premises on the Broadstairs industrial estate. Police turned up, initially in large numbers, and at one point were spotted trying to climb on to the roof from the back of the building – however, their ladder was not long enough and they retreated! The factory was closed for the whole day and the occupation crew exited the premises under their own steam after a 12-hour stint. The same factory was previously occupied, again with AAN involvement, in February this year. No arrests were made on either occasion. (See “What is Elbit scared of?” in Acorn 3) 8. Anti-road resistance in Rize The Turkish state sent in military police to attack local people in the Black Sea province of Rize who had formed a human chain to halt road-building bulldozers. Fierce resistance to the ecocidal industrialist project broke out in Rize’s Çamlıhemşin district where locals opposed the connection of Yukarı Kavun and Samistal pastures, fearing that the new road would push housing and industry into the untouched nature of the region. Havva Bekar, one of the most senior members of the group, has become a social media phenomenon. In a video shared by thousands of social media users on July 11, Bekar was heard rebuking security forces at the construction site with a stick in her hand. “We don’t want this road. We are the people. Who is the state? The state is a state thanks to us,” she said. Infrastructure projects threatening Turkey’s Black Sea region have become a source of growing conflict between the capitalist Turkish state and the population. Most recently on July 9, tension rose between gendarmerie forces and locals in Artvin, with local activists trying to prevent untouched forest in the region from being cleared for new mining facilities. Activists from Plane Stupid staged a dramatic lock-on protest at Heathrow on Monday July 13 in opposition to a third runway there – and to any other airport expansion. One of them told The Independent that they had a direct message to the Government and the aviation industry: “We want to be clear that the anti-airport expansion movement is back and we’re here to stay. ‘No, ifs, no buts, no third runway’. We mean it.” “A polite knock on the door of a Mr John Shaw of Hastings got Emily Johns a visit from the police. How so? He’s the CEO of a secretive ‘non-profit company’ that’s using tens of millions of pounds of public funds to build white elephant business parks and destroy valuable nature sites. And avoiding accountability looks like a major point of the exercise.” An article exposing the activities of SeaChange in Sussex, UK, (see Acorn 8) has been published by The Ecologist. Worth a read. Prison abolition is on the agenda at the Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton, on the evening of Monday July 27. From 7pm Sussex Anarchists will be hosting a workshop from the Open Cages Collective, calling for anarchist resistance to prisons and in particular the new super-prison to be built at Wrexham. Online dissent is being systematically sabotaged by a special intelligence unit run by the British state, an article has revealed. Documents published by The Intercept demonstrate how the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), a unit of the signals intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), is involved in efforts against political groups it considers “extremist”. The spooks’ work includes creating fake online identities to promote state and corporate agendas and disrupting “extremist” websites and emails. The full report can be read here. A robot killed a young man at one of Volkswagen’s production plants in Germany on Monday June 29, the firm has admitted. The machine grabbed the 22 year old and crushed him against a metal plate. A spokesman blamed “human error” – yes indeed, human error in creating robots in the first place! “Why we hate the police” is the title of an anonymous online leaflet from France. It reads, in part: “We hate the police because there will soon no longer be a single move we can make, a single road we can walk down, the smallest corner of our existences in which we can escape from their surveillance and their punishment. We hate the police because we hate control. We hate the police because a good cop is always more dangerous than a bad one. Because the police are the last bulwark stopping this rotting society from collapsing. Because they are the armed wing of the thing that is slowly and surely killing us. Because the police will always be an obstacle between the life we have and the life we want…” Acorn quote: “The same era that saw the English peasant expropriated from his common lands saw the Bengal peasant made a parasite in his own country”. Edward J. Thompson, The Life of Charles, Lord Metcalfe. Posted in Anarchism, Brighton, Cowley Club, Degrowth, London, The AcornTagged anarchism, Anarchist Action Network, anarchy, anti-capitalism, anti-industrialism, anti-terrorism, Bakunin, Bengal, Block the Factory, Brighton, civilization, Corporate Watch, Cuadrilla, Daniele Ganser, Darko Matthers, degrowth, DSEI, Earth First!, East London Rising, elbit, Emma Goldman, Fracking, france, Gladio, Grey Wolves, Guccio, Gustav Landauer, Hastings, imperialism, industrialism, ISIS, Kurdistan, LARC, London, London Mining Network, Luddites200, Mark Kennedy, Nafeez Ahmed, NATO, Open Cages, Paul Cudenec, Plane Stupid, prisons, Rize, roads, robots, SeaChange, Suruc, Sussex, Sussex Anarchists, technology, terrorism, the left, Transition Heathrow, Whitechapel, Wrexham1 Comment

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Automotive industry in Spain In 2015 Spain produced 2.7 million cars which made it the 8th largest automobile producer country in the world and the 2nd largest car manufacturer in Europe after Germany.[1] The forecast as of 2016 was to produce a total of 2.8 million vehicles[2] from which about 80% is for export.[1] During the first half of 2016, with exports valued over 24,000 million euros over that period, the automotive industry accounted for 18.9% of the total Spanish exports.[3] Laboratoris Fàbrica Seat (Barcelona) In 2016, the automotive industry was generating 8.7 percent of Spain's gross domestic product, employing about nine percent of workers in the manufacturing industry.[1] In all, there are 13 factories located in Spain.[2] which are supported by a thriving local car components industry,[1] including rapidly growing Spanish multinationals such as Gestamp Automoción or Grupo Antolin. The main manufacturers established in the country are Daimler AG (manufacturing plant in Vitoria), Ford (its plant located in Almussafes is Ford's biggest in Europe),[1] Opel (Figueruelas), Nissan (Barcelona), PSA Peugeot Citroen (Vigo), Renault (with plants in Palencia and other Spanish locations), SEAT (Martorell), Volkswagen (Pamplona). From these production plants, as of 2016 the two biggest by volume are the ones of SEAT in Martorell and PSA in Vigo.[2] Historical development Early Spanish manufacturers included a world-class brand like Hispano-Suiza, originally founded as "La Cuadra" in 1898, as well as smaller companies such as Elizalde or Ricart. Foreign makers started to set up local subsidiaries in the 1920s, with Ford Motor Ibérica opening its Cádiz premises in 1920[4] and General Motors Peninsular in Málaga in 1927.[5] By 1936, the industry had reached a significant volume, and was in continuous growth and modernisation.[6] The Spanish Civil War interrupted this development, and the decade of economic isolation that followed made it very difficult for it to resume. In the mid 1940s, a number of home-grown companies started to emerge, led by Enasa, a state-owned conglomerate built around the remains of Hispano-Suiza, with brands like Pegaso or Sava. Things started to change for the Spanish car industry in the 1960s when an industrial policy was launched with measures which contributed the Spanish miracle. In the years from 1958 to 1972 the sector grew at a yearly compound rate of 21.7%; in 1946 there were 72,000 private cars in Spain, in 1966 there were 1 million.[7] This growth rate had no equal in the world. The icon of the time was the SEAT 600 car, produced by the Spanish company SEAT. More than 794,000 of them were made between 1957 and 1973, and if at the beginning of this period it was the first car for many Spanish working-class families, at its end it was the first second one for many more. Later on, in the 1980s the Spanish automotive flagship, SEAT, was sold to the Volkswagen group, but by then the manufacturing cluster had already been consolidated and other international manufacturers were already producing in Spain. Spanish brands See also: List of Spanish cars Present Spanish brands GTA Spano IFR Aspid SEAT is the sole active Spanish brand with a mass production potential and capability of developing its own models in-house. Today it operates as a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, formed in 1950 by the Instituto Nacional de Industria (INI) and six Spanish banks with FIAT assistance, under a name that stands for Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo (Spanish Saloon/Sedan Car Company). In 1953 the company produced their first model, the SEAT 1400. This 44 hp (33 kW) four-door saloon car had a top speed of 75 mph (120 km/h). When production ceased in 1964 over 98,000 had been made. Models produced licensed by FIAT in the 1960s include the 600, 850, 1500 and 124. 815,319 of the 800 models were made between 1964 and 1967. SEAT produced its one millionth car in 1968. By 2003 this figure had risen to more than 14 million. During the 1970s SEAT produced the 67 hp (50 kW) 1200 model (1975 to 1980) and over 1.5 million 131 models (1974 to 1984). The SEAT 1200 Sport was a 2-door coupé produced by SEAT from 1975 to 1979. The car was known as the "Bocanegra" because of the shape of its always black plastic nose panel, which embraced the front grille and the headlights and incorporated, by 1970s standards, a prominent front bumper. "Boca negra" means "black mouth" in Spanish. Other models produced at this time include the 127, 128, 132, 133 and the Ritmo. FIAT’s assistance ended in 1981 and was replaced by a cooperation agreement with the Volkswagen Group in 1982. Up to 1981 most SEAT cars resembled FIAT models. The 1982 Ronda model was the first car produced by SEAT without assistance from FIAT. SEAT became a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group in 1986. Other cars produced during the 1980s include the Fura (1981–86), Marbella (1986–98), Málaga (1985–92) and Ibiza. The Marbella was a re-badged Fiat Panda, while the Giugiaro styled Ibiza (launched in 1984) was the company's first new product after the split from FIAT. The Malaga was the saloon version of the Ibiza, but the Ibiza was far more popular. Models produced between 1990 and 2007 include the Arosa, León, Córdoba, Toledo, Alhambra and the Altea. In 2008 the company introduced the 1.4-litre, 170 hp (127 kW) Bocanegra (4th generation Ibiza) concept car. The Ibiza was in its fourth generation by 2008. The Toledo, launched in 1991, was SEAT's first large family car since its split from FIAT. The Cordoba, which ran between 1993 and 2008, was the saloon version of the second and third generation Ibiza hatchbacks, and was slightly more popular than the earlier Malaga. The Alhambra was SEAT's first MPV, launched in 1996 and based on the Volkswagen Sharan and Ford Galaxy. The Leon, launched in 1999, was a small family hatchback aimed at the likes of the Ford Focus and Opel Astra. SEAT's replacement for the long-running Marbella was the SEAT Arosa, launched in 1997; it formed the basis of the Volkswagen Lupo which was launched over a year later. 2009 models include the León Mk2, Córdoba Mk2, Toledo Mk3, Alhambra Mk1, Ibiza Mk4 and Altea and the new flagship sedan model Exeo. The Exeo being derived from the Audi A4, shares the same fundamental powertrain layout and platform. Until the mid 1980s, SEAT cars were rarely seen outside Spain, but have since become popular in many export markets, including Britain, where sales began in the autumn of 1985. Just under 6,000 SEATs were sold in Britain in 1986, the company's first full year of trading there, exceeding 10,000 sales in 1988 and exceeding 20,000 a year by 2000, peaking at more than 45,000 in 2013. Tauro Sport Auto Historic Spanish brands Francisco Abadal, who used to work for Hispano-Suiza, produced two luxury models between 1912 and 1923. They were fitted with either a 3,104cc four-cylinder engine or a 4,521 cc six-cylinder engine. From about 1917 Buick engines were fitted and these cars were called Abadal- Buicks. Approximately 170 Imperia-Abadals were built in Belgium, including a 2,992 cc sports model. The Authi Car Company, which was formed in 1965, was the result of a collaboration agreement between Nueva Montana Quijano and the British Motor Corporation. The company produced the following models: Authi Mini (1968–1975), Authi Mini Cooper (1973–1975), Morris 1100/1300 (1966–1972), Austin Victoria (1972–1975) and the Austin de Luxe (1974–1975). In 1976 the company was purchased by the SEAT Car Company. Barreiros-Dodge 3700 made in Spain. The company was founded in 1954 as Barreiros Diesel S.A and initially it produced diesel engines. In 1963 a licensing agreement was reached with Chrysler to build the Dodge Dart in Spain. Between 1965 and 1977 a total of 17,589 Barreiros Darts were produced. These were based on the Dodge Dart GL, the Dodge Dart GT (“sporty" version) and the Dodge 3700GT (using the body of the argentinian Dodge Polara/Coronado). A diesel version called the “Barreiros Diesel" was also produced. In 1969 Chrysler Europe took over the company. From the mid-1970s Barreiros started manufacturing the Chrysler 180 and later the Simca 1307 (called the Chrysler 150 in Spain) and the Simca Horizon. In 1978, PSA Peugeot Citroën purchased Chrysler Europe and former models were renamed; the Chrysler 150 becoming the Talbot 150. Barreiros later produced the Talbot Solara and Talbot Samba. Biscuter In the late 1940s Gabriel Voisin (French) designed a small car called the Biscooter. The license to build the vehicle was obtained by Autonacional S.A. The first Biscuter car was launched in Spain in 1953 and was called the Series 100 or the Zapatilla (little shoe). The original models did not have doors, windows or a reverse gear. It was powered by a one-cylinder, 197 cc, two-stroke 9 hp (7 kW) engine which supplied power only to the right front wheel. The Biscúter car was produced for about ten years. Elizalde In 1909 Arturo Elizalde Rouvier started a company was called "Sociedad Mercantil J. M. Vallet y Cia" to manufacturer car parts. A prototype called the Tipo 11 was launched in mid-1914. In 1915, King Alfonso XIII owned a 20cv Biada-Elizalde cabriolet Tipo 20. A 25cv sports version of the Tipo 20 was produced in 1919 as the Reine Victoria (name of the Queen consorts). It is believed to be the first Spanish car to feature four-wheel brakes. In 1920 the company started production of the four-cylinder, 3,817 cc, Model 29. Variants of this model were built until 1927. Production of the 8,143 cc straight-eight model, known as the Tipo 48, also began in 1920. The car had a built in tire pump which could also be used as a vacuum cleaner. A 5,181 cc straight-eight Gran Sport version of the Tipo 48 model, capable of 100 mph (160 km/h), was also produced. Production of Elizalde cars ceased in 1928. ENASA ENASA sort of (Empresa Nacional de Autocamiones S.A.) was a Spanish truck manufacturing company, incorporated in 1946 having bought the automotive assets of the Spanish arm of Hispano-Suiza. It produced trucks, buses sport-cars and military armored vehicles under the Pegaso brand and, for a short while, Sava brands. Pegaso built about a hundred high-end Z-102 sports cars in the 1950s. The cars were in many ways advanced for the time, as they had all-wheel independent suspension, a five-speed gearbox, very powerful supercharged engines, and were offered with the choice of Touring, Saoutchik, Serra or Enasa's own luxury bodies. Enasa belonged to the state-owned INI industrial holding. In 1990 Enasa was sold to Fiat S.p.A. - Iveco. Eucort The Eugenio Cortes SA (company) manufactured cars from 1945 to 1951.Or 1953? The first Eucort model, which was based on a pre World War II Germany Dampf Kraft Wagen (DKW) design, was fitted with 764 cc twin-cylinder two-stroke engine. Four-door sedan and a three-door estate versions were available. In 1950 the company started production of its final model, the two-stroke 1,034 cc Victoria. By the time the company ceased car production in 1951 (1953?) about 1,500 Eucort cars (including taxis) had been built. Hispano-Suiza 1924 H6B ultra-luxurious automobile. In 1898 Emilio de la Cuadra started a company in Barcelona called “La Cuadra” to produce electric cars. Four years later it was acquired by J. Castro. He changed the name to “Fábrica Hispano-Suiza de Automóviles” (Spanish-Swiss Car Factory). By the end of 1903 this company went bankrupt, re-emerging in 1904 as “La Hispano-Suiza Fábrica de Automóviles”. In 1906 Hispano-Suiza produced two models of 3.8 and 7.4 litres. Between 1907 and 1914 the company mass-produced a range of cars, plus a number of hand-built racing models, including the Type A (1907), Type 15 (1910) and the four-cylinder 3,620 cc 65 hp (48 kW) Alphonse XIII (1911–14). In 1911 a factory called “Hispano France” was established just outside Paris, moving to another location in 1914, when they took the name "Hispano-Suiza”. The Stork statuette fitted on top of each car’s radiator was based on the squadron emblem painted on the side of the aircraft used by a World War I French ace, who owned a Hispano-Suiza car. The Hispano-Suiza H6 range was introduced in 1919. It was mainly built at the Paris factory. A few model built in Spain were called the T41. About 2,350 of these ultra-luxury models were made up to 1933; the 6,597 cc H6B (1919–32), and H6C (1926–33). Between 1924 and 1927 about 50 H6Bs were built under license by Skoda of Czechoslovakia. The H6 was one of the first cars to be fitted with power-assisted brakes and originally came with a 6.5-litre engine. An 8-litre engine was fitted to the H6C model. In 1923 the French part of Hispano-Suiza became known as the Societé Française Hispano-Suiza . The 8-litre T56 model was produced from 1928, plus a 3,750 cc T49 model. Other models produced in Spain the 1920s include the 4.7-litre T30 4.7 (1914–24) and the 3,089 cc T16 (1921–24). In 1930 Hispano-Suiza took over Ballot, the French car manufacturer. The six-cylinder 4,580cc Junior model was produced from about 1930 to 1934. It was replaced by the 5.1-litre 120 hp (89 kW) K6 (1934–37). The 9,425 cc Type 68, which was produced in 1931, later evolved into an 11,310 cc version. A six-cylinder version, the K6, succeeded the Junior in 1934. During the 1930s the company produced a range of luxury cars, including the 4.5-litre 95 hp (71 kW) HS26 (1932), the 9.4-litre 210 hp (160 kW) and 11.3-litre 260 hp (190 kW) J12 model (1932–38) The last model produced by the company in Spain was the T6ORL. The car was produced from 1934 to about 1943. After the Second World War, Hispano-Suiza France was primarily an aerospace firm. from 1955 Their attention turned increasingly to jet engine manufacturing and, in 1968, they became a division of SNECMA. In 1999, they moved their turbine engines operations to a new factory in Bezons, outside of Paris, using the original factories for power transmissions and accessory systems for jet engines. In 2005, SNECMA merged with SAGEM to form SAFRAN. In Spain the Hispano-Suiza company sold in 1946 their automotive assets to “Empresa Nacional de Autocamiones S.A” (Enasa), a Spanish vehicle manufacturing company. It has become Pegaso brand. Automóviles y Autoscooter Kapi produced cars from 1950 to 1955. The first model was a three-wheeled two-door car that was powered by a 125 cc single-cylinder two-stroke engine. Other models include the Chiqui, a three-wheeler with single wheel at the rear, the Platillo Volante, a four-wheel coupé and the M190 with miniature Mercedes 190 body. Bus manufacturing Spain has the largest number of independent coachbuilders in Europe, producing bespoke models for the international market.[8] Contrary to the large European bus manufacturers, who build their buses as standard models on an integral chassis, most Spanish manufacturers build a bodywork on a chassis supplied by a third party, allowing for a large variety of designs. As of December 2017, active coachbuilders include: Castrosua[9] Ferqui[10] Nogebus Obradors[11] Sunsundegui[12] Unvi[13] Vectia[14] Multinational subsidiaries Many foreign car and truck makers - like Volkswagen, Nissan, Daimler AG, Ford, Renault, Opel, PSA Peugeot/Citroën, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles-Iveco etc. - as well as suppliers have facilities and plants in Spain today developing and producing vehicles and components, not only for the needs of the internal market but also for exportation purposes,[15] with the contribution of the automobile industry in 2008 rising up to the second place with 17,6% out of the country's total exports.[16] Ford opened a factory at Valencia in 1976 to build its new European supermini, the Fiesta, which is still being built there 40 years and several incarnations later, although it has also been built in Britain and Germany. The Escort and Orion were also built there in the 1980s and 1990s, as was the Ka from 1996 until 2008, when production of its successor was switched to the Fiat factory in Poland. The Escort's successor, the Focus was produced at the Valencia plant from 1998 until 2011, since when all European production of the third generation Focus has been concentrated in Germany. The C-Max version of the third generation Focus, however, was built there from 2010 until 2014. The factory also hosted production of a Mazda model, the Mazda 2, from 2002 to 2007, as part of Ford's venture with the Japanese carmaker. Nissan has been building cars in Spain at its Barcelona factory since 1983. The first model to be produced there was the Patrol four-wheel drive. It current builds several model ranges for the passenger car and commercial vehicle markets, the most recent addition being the Pulsar family hatchback in 2014. Renault set up a production facility at Valladolid in 1951, producing some of its French made products for the Spanish market. The Spanish production of some Renault models originally took place under the FASA-Renault banner, and from 1974 to 1984 the company actually built its own saloon version of the hugely successful Renault 5 hatchback, which was known as the Renault 7, and was only built at the Valladolid plant. Nearly 160,000 R7's were sold, most of them on the Spanish market. The Spanish operations were rebranded Renault Espana from 2000. General Motors Europe opened a new factory at Zaragoza in 1982, for production of its new Corsa supermini - which was imported to the United Kingdom as the Vauxhall Nova. Production of the Opel Kadett/Vauxhall Astra also commenced at Zaragoza in 1986. The Meriva was built there between its launch in 2003-2017. Volkswagen has concentrated production of its Polo supermini at SEAT's Barcelona plant since it bought the company in 1986. All versions of the SEAT Ibiza produced since 1993 have featured the same floorpan and engines as the Volkswagen Polo of that generation. Economy of Spain AFA (automobile) a 1943 car Car Makers Pour Money Into Spain | WSJ Cinco Dias (in Spanish) El record de exportaciones españoles reduce un 31,4% el déficit comercial|Economía|El País (in Spanish) GESTIONMAX. "Historia de la marca MOTOR IBÉRICA". motorgiga.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-02-24. "ABC (Madrid) - 19/10/1927, p. 14 - ABC.es Hemeroteca". hemeroteca.abc.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-02-24. María, Ortiz-Villajos, José. "Aproximación a la historia de la industria de equipos y componentes de automoción en España". Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (in Spanish). doi:10.1016/S1698-6989(10)70037-0. ISSN 1698-6989. J.L. García Ruiz, "Barreiros Diesel y el desarrolo de la automoción en España" (PDF) ftp://ftp.funep.es/phe/hdt2003.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)[permanent dead link]. 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Home > World Economics Journal > Authors > Theodore Pelagidis Theodore Pelagidis Theodore Pelagidis is a NR Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, USA, and professor of economics at the University of Piraeus, Greece. He has also been a NATO scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; an NBG fellow at the Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics; and a Fulbright fellow at Columbia University. He is the co-author of Understanding the Crisis in Greece. From Boom to Bust, MacMillan/Palgrave 2011 & 2012 (2nd edition), Greece. From Exit to Recovery? Brookings Institution Publ. 2014 & Who’s to Blame for Greece? MacMillan/Palgrave 2016 & Who’s to Blame for Greece? How Austerity and Populism are Destroying a Country with High Potential, MacMillan/Palgrave 2018, 2nd Edition. He has published extensively in academic journals such as Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Studies, Int. Review of Law and Economics, Journal of Policy Modelling, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, etc. He has also served as an expert to the International Monetary Fund in the Internal Evaluation Office (2015) and as Expert in the EC (2018). He is a senior economic advisor to the president of the New Democracy, the main opposition liberal party in Greece. Davos 2019 in the Uncharted Waters of Digital Globalization Understanding the Greek Crisis Free Trade, Protectionism, and the Global Economy An Economic Comparison of Greece and Italy The Ten-Year Crash Anniversary The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and China’s European Ambitions Greece and Ireland

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Writer’s Diaries Part III: Woolf’s Split-Voiced Self Posted by megjensen in Uncategorized. Tagged: Diaries, Feminism, Virginia Woolf, Womenh's Writing, writing. 1 comment ‘A Sketch of the Past,’ the longest of a series of autobiographical sketches unpublished in Woolf’s lifetime, makes use of all of the central images of her fiction—windows, mirrors, waves and the sun. Her diaries, by contrast, rarely engage with those tropes. Instead, they serve to highlight how central was the business and the craft of writing to her sense of self, both as the descendant of a distinguished literary family, and as a writer of experimental fiction. On the pages of her diary, Woolf mediates between these two positions: what the critic Emily Dalgarno calls Woolf’s ‘resemblance to her lineage,’ and her need to forge a voice of her own. Many of the earliest entries, written before her career successes, present Woolf’s reflections on other writers, both contemporary and canonical, listing books she should read, and offering mini-essays in the style of her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, on those she has read.Later entries detail the publishing life: her deadlines, the work of the Hogarth Press, who is publishing what and the sizes of their print runs, her envy of friends and enemies when their books succeed and, often, her gloating when they do not. Further pages are devoted to the reviews and the sales of her own books. After the lukewarm reception given to Woolf’s second novel Night and Day in 1919 another preoccupation surfaces on these pages: structure. In the years that produced Woolf’s greatest modernist experiments (1920−1931) she used her diary to interrogate her groundbreaking techniques in light of her desires and ambitions. In April 1919, Woolf noted what she wanted from these diary entries, stating ‘I might in the course of time learn what it is that one can make of this loose, drifting material of life; finding another use for it than the use I put it to, so much more consciously, and scrupulously, in fiction’ (Diary 1: 231–2) Woolf’s breakthrough as a writer was soon to come, and was predicated on just this discovery: finding a voice for the ‘loose, drifting material of life’ within her fiction. This entry thus suggests the transformative power of her journal reflections and the divide the diary helped her to negotiate: on one side one loose and drifting life, on the other conscious and scrupulous fiction. The Silence of Eve Posted by megjensen in Uncategorized. Tagged: Adam and Eve, Feminism, Poetry, women, writing. 3 comments I have been thinking in verse this week (as a way in to thinking about prose) about women and writing and here’s what came out. I have thought of silence for some time now, imagined the space between us disappear inch by inch, or expand in exponents settling at the average human distance: abyss. I like the sudden drop when I turn off the street, shut my door the squeal light bulbs make when even the cat is sleeping. But today I heard the sound of falling. The quiet that followed the bite of the apple, the slip out the gate that gap before Adam first shouted her name. What inspires writing: The Hurricane Posted by megjensen in Uncategorized. Tagged: Blogs, Diaries, Inspiration, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, women's writing, Writing Novels. 2 comments I have begun working on a new novel. Don’t tell anyone. Because they say that the moment you start talking about it you stop writing about it, and to some extent that’s true. When my students ask me how to get published, I say “finish writing something good,” and I am not being facetious. What I mean is that while most would-be JK Rowlings stand little chance of making a living as a novelist – they have no chance at all if they don’t finish writing something good. It’s sort of like my sister said to me when my marriage failed. “You might not ever fall in love and be happy in the future – but at least now you have a chance to fall in love and be happy in the future!” She was right. You have to be in it to win it. And the same with writing. But where does the inspiration come from? If Woolf and Mansfield used their diaries as “practice grounds” for their fiction, what do others use? For me, an image comes first – right now it is the image of the life guard shack at Long Beach New York, slamming into the boardwalk during hurricane Irene last summer. I had been to that beach the day before with my family, and was due to go to a wedding at a hotel on the boardwalk the night of the hurricane. The hotel flooded, the wedding was postponed and thereby seeds of a novel were sown. How they will grow, I have no idea, yet. Or I should say I have lots of ideas, still. And I should be writing them down now instead of telling them all to you. Maybe this blog is becoming my Woolfian ‘practice ground.’ Writer’s Diaries Part II: Katherine Mansfield’s Windows Posted by megjensen in Uncategorized. Tagged: Feminism, Katherine Mansfield, Life Writing, Women's Writing; Diaries. Leave a comment Katherine Mansfield’s fiction drew heavily upon images of both windows and mirrors, images that appear almost obsessively in her notebooks as well. In her childhood writing, rain beating against the windows is a frequent metaphor for the interior struggles of her protagonists while later in her career the view changes radically: the world outside is portrayed as altogether fresher, more beautiful and more vital than the life being lived behind the curtains. In 1914 for example, Mansfield wrote a story about Elena, a famed singer, and her dying child, Peter. As in her earlier notebook entries, this story draws upon themes of illness, death and waiting, framed by the image of the window. Set inGermany, the tale begins in ‘brilliant sunny weather,’ but Elena, trapped in her hotel room caring for her child, has no chance to enjoy it: The frau tapped […] ‘Shall I draw the curtains, gnadige frau?’ she whispered. […] ‘No,’ said Elena, ‘I will draw them later. The light is so lovely.’ […] The lovely light shone in the window. She loved to think of the world outside under the mingled snow & moonlight. (Notebooks 1: 302) Elena gets up to check on Peter and sing him a lullaby, but he begs her not to. Despite his plea, Elena crosses to the window and sings softly. Later, when the Doctor announces that Peter is dead, this window becomes the frame through which Elena recalls the rail journey that brought them to this place. Then, too, Elena was unable to refrain from performing: She could not bear that even so small an audience—half a dozen people in a railway carriage—should go away indifferent or unsatisfied. She felt bound to play exquisitely for them. […] Sometimes in front of the mirror she played most exquisitely of all. She would have acknowledged the fact frankly. […] I find it frightfully difficult to keep my private & my public life apart (1:303). This contrast between the falsified public ‘mirror’ self and the vulnerable private self that looks out the window returns again and again in Mansfield’s fiction. Indeed, her greatest work of fiction, Prelude, begins with the frightened child protagonist Kezia in front of a window and ends with her refusing to look at herself in the mirror. Similarly, Mansfield’s last, incomplete, story ‘The New Baby’ contrasts a group of women on a yacht cruise who powder their noses in the ‘flat cabin mirrors’ with the freshness of ‘the sun flowing through the saloon porthole’ (Notebooks 2: 323). As this negotiation between public and private is arguably the central theme in Mansfield’s fiction, it is intriguing to see it ‘mirrored’ and ‘framed’ symbolically throughout her journals. As Mansfield reflected in 1921: ‘I don’t mean that any eye but mine should read this. This is—really private’ (2:280). For Mansfield, then, the writer’s diary was a borderland that enabled her to reflect and then restate the really private self into a public, publishable form, to turn repeatedly from the window to the mirror and back again, writing, recording and reimagining those negotiations into new forms of prose fiction. Writer’s Diaries: Part 1 Katherine Mansfield Posted by megjensen in Uncategorized. Tagged: Diaries, Feminism, Journals, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, women, women's writing, Women's Writing; Katherine Mansfield. 1 comment I am working on a piece about how women writers make use of their diaries in different ways to as what Virginia Woolf called a “practice-ground for fiction.” As my own writerly imagination tends to draw me back and back again to certain key images, sounds, and words from my childhood and my writing practise engages with creative ways to confront and reimagine this “primal” material, I have always been curious about how other writers negotiate this challenge. The New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield ( 1888-1923) is a case in point. One only has to read twenty or thirty pages into her journals to see the similarity between the imagery Mansfield used in her journals and in her fiction. To read more than thirty pages of her journal is to be shocked at the limitations of her palette.Mansfield’s fiction is wide-ranging and encompasses urbane ‘bad marriage’ tales, stories about and for children, fairy tales, rural and urban stories. Her repetitive use of windows, mirrors, trees and dreams in all of those stories and in her journals and notebooks is therefore the more startling. The changing frame through whichMansfieldunderstood her own place in literary history, however, is revealed by her varying approaches to these images over time. Mansfield’s younger brother Leslie died in army training in 1915, soon after he had visited her inLondon. Her reflections on this event stand out as one of few moments of revelation about her sources for writing in the notebooks. In an entry written as if to Leslie, soon after his death, Mansfield noted: I want to write poetry. I feel always trembling on the brink of poetry. The almond tree, the birds, the little wood where you are, flowers you do not see, the open window out of which I lean and dream that you are against my shoulder […] but especially I want to write a kind of long elegy to you—perhaps not in poetry. No, perhaps in Prose. (Notebooks 2:33). That prose elegy found its form in Mansfield’s most well-known story, Prelude (1918) that begins with the child Kezia standing at a window and continues with further images of trees, flowers, birds, woods and the rhythms of poetry. What Mansfield’s notebooks illustrate, however, was that these same tropes had already surfaced repeatedly in her writing—indeed they appear in the first extant sample of her fiction, composed when she was nine years old. This early piece begins withMansfield’s central trope—that of the protagonist at a window, judging the temperature of the outside world: ‘Oh, mother, it is still raining, and you say I can’t go out.’ It was a girl who spoke; she looked about ten. She was standing in a well-furnished room, and was looking out of a large bay window. ‘No, Enna dear,’ said her mother, ‘you have a little cold and I don’t want it made worse.’ (Notebooks 1:1) This scene, so like that of Kezia pressing her palms against the ‘big bay window’ in Prelude, is just the first example of this image inMansfield’s fiction: story after story on page after page of her notebooks begin and/or end in this same way. Such images, moreover, provide a haunting foreshadowing of illness and sick-room enclosure from a writer who was an invalid for much of her career. At twelve, Mansfieldwrote several versions of a story entitled ‘She’ that begins with a gravely ill boy in a dark room. ‘Out of the window he saw the night, the stars, and the tall dark trees[…] He had been in pain all day.’ As he ‘lay in his little bed and gazed out,’ a stranger enters his room, ‘Death’ (Notebooks 1:31). In these childhood tales, the window suggests the character’s fragility and the dangers of the outside world but also implies that separation from the world is itself deadly. Thus from the start of her writing life, windows frame the gaze of the Mansfield’s protagonists, either representing the division between them and the world, or, instead, the eyes of the soul—the gatekeeper between the private and the public. Too Many Mothers Posted by megjensen in Uncategorized. Tagged: Celebrity Memoir, Feminism, Jermyn Street Theatere, Life Writing, Peter Guinness, Reunion, Roberta Taylor, women, writing. Leave a comment I don’t often get to the theatre, which is ridiculous as I live in London’s West End where every show is on my doorstep – but lack of time and money seem to collude to keep me away from the dramatic arts. But last night I saw a great show – a new play called Reunion by playwright John Caine with really extraordinary performances by Peter Guinness and Roberta Taylor. http://www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk/ Here with a little blurb on each of them: Peter Guinness is a hugely respected stage and screen actor. His recent theatre credits include; The Pianist (Manchester International Festival, Royal Exchange Theatre and Hong Kong Festival) and Reading Hebron (Orange Tree Theatre). He has recently been seen on television in: Hidden, Zen, New Tricks, Ashes to Ashes, Silent Witness, Kipling: A Remembrance Tale, The Bill and Bleak House whilst his film work includes roles in Secret Passage, Greenfingers, Conclave, Sleepy Hollow, Christopher Columbus: the Discovery and Aliens 3. Roberta Taylor has a rich and varied career in theatre and television and is probably best known for her work on Eastenders as Irene Hills and her portrayal of Gina Gold in The Bill. Her stage roles have included seasons at The RSC and Glasgow Citizens Theatre as well as parts at The Royal Exchange and in the West End. I have been friends with Pete and Rob for several years now, and my few outings to the theatre usually involve seeing them individually in various notable productions, but I have never seen them work together and they were mesmerising playing a husband and wife facing the ethical and judicial dilemma of assisted suicide after the husband has been diagnosed with and incurable degenerative disease. But I first got to know Roberta through her writing. When I first met her about five or six years ago, I had been a fan of her acting for a decade, following her from Eastenders on, but when we sat next to each other at a mutual friend’s party, we talked about writing autobiography, and her then recently published memoir Too Many Mothers (2005). http://www.amazon.co.uk/Too-Many-Mothers-Roberta-Taylor/dp/1843543001 This wonderful book is miles away from the celebrity tell-all that you might expect from the rather un-literary cover image. In fact, I won’t be giving anything away to say that it ends well before the young Roberta has any inkling of her future career, and not much hope of any kind of success at all. Too Many Mothers tells a true story set in south London in the 1950s, at once more intriguing and more shocking that any soap opera, of a family at war with itself and the outside world. From petty crime to pet monkeys, tender romance to emotional blackmail, illegitimacy, adoption and even murder. For Roberta, travelling from her real South London childhood to the ersatz one she inhabited as Irene Raymond in Eastenders must have been a strange journey. Unlike narcissistic and mainly ghost-written celebrity memoirs that tend to portray their subjects as “chosen” or “Special” or triumphing over adversity, and unlike much contemporary misery memoir, that feeds on the willingness of readers to side with victimised authors in their uncorroborated portraits of the past, Too Many Mothers, written entirely by Roberta, and with style, offers enormous amounts of wry humour and a great deal of love for the family she writes about, admiration for their strengths and deeply felt compassion for their weaknesses. A gem of a book, and no assisted suicide in it at all. Women and Hard Work Posted by megjensen in Uncategorized. Tagged: Feminism, Mary Elizabeth Braddon; victorian novels; sensation fiction, women's writing. Leave a comment Kids home, house to spring clean, a book proposal in gear and working on a funding bid to do life writing workshops for women suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and related conditions in post conflict regions. And I am having a meeting with my agent and a dinner party next week. Typical week in the life of many working women, and has been for some time. But nothing compared to the hard work done by sensation novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon author of one of my very favourite Victorian novels: Lady Audely’s Secret Here’s a bit about Braddon: Mary Elizabeth Braddon (October 4, 1835 – February 4, 1915) • A crooked, womanizing lawyer who abandons his family. • A strong-willed, independent woman who becomes the main bread-winner. • Assumed names. Secrecy. • A withered cripple with Svengali like powers. • Adultery. A wife hidden in a lunatic asylum. Accusations of bigamy. • A close friend imprisoned for homosexuality. • An actress who becomes a leading figure in Victorian society. These may seem like a list of probable ingredients for a ‘novel of sensation’. In fact, they are elements of Mary Braddon’s own life story. While her readers may have read her novels as a form of literary escapism, for Braddon they reflected a lived reality. Born in London, Braddon was privately educated and worked as an actress for three years in order to be able to support herself and her mother Fanny, who had separated from her father Henry when Mary was just three. In1860 Braddon met John Maxwell, a publisher of periodicals, and began living with him 1861. Maxwell was married with five children and his wife was living in an asylum. Mary acted as the stepmother of the children till 1874, when Maxwell’s wife died, and they could get married. She then had six children by him. Braddon was an extremely prolific writer, producing some 75 novels. The most famous is her first, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862)which won her fame and fortune. The novel has been in print ever since, and has been dramatised several times. Braddon also founded Belgravia Magazine (1866), which presented readers with serialized sensation novels, poems, travel narratives, and biographies, as well as essays on fashion, history, science. The magazine was accompanied by lavish illustrations and offered readers a source of literature at an affordable cost. She also edited Temple Bar Magazine. 75 novels, 6 children, 5 stepchildren, journalist, editor, publisher – and I think I’m busy? Here’s what one of the male characters in Lady Audely has to say about women and work: “Who ever heard of a woman taking life as it ought to be taken? Instead of supporting it as an unavoidable nuisance, only redeemable by its brevity, she goes through it as if it were a pageant or a procession. She dresses for it…and gesticulates for it. She pushes her neighbors, and struggles for a good place in the dismal march; she elbows, and writhes, and tramples, and prances to the one end of making the most of the misery. She gets up early and sits up late, and is loud, and restless, and noisy, and unpitying. She drags her husband on to the woolsack, or pushes him into Parliament. She drives him full butt at the dear, lazy machine of government, and knocks and buffets him about the wheels, and cranks, and screws, and pulleys; until somebody, for quiet’s sake, makes him something that she wanted him to be made. That’s why incompetent men sometimes sit in high places, and interpose their poor, muddled intellects between the things to be done and the people that can do them, making universal confusion in the helpless innocence of well-placed incapacity. The square men in the round holes are pushed into them by their wives. The Eastern potentate who declared that women were by the bottom of all mischief, should have gone a little further and seen why it is so. It is because women are never lazy. They don’t know what it is to be quiet. They are Semiramises, and Cleopatras, and Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeths, and Catharines the Second, and they riot in battle, and murder, and clamor and desperation. If they agitate the universe and play at ball with hemispheres, they’ll make mountains of warfare and vexation out of domestic molehills, and social storms in household teacups. Forbid them to hold forth upon the freedom of nations and the wrongs of mankind, and they’ll quarrel with Mrs. Jones about the shape of a mantle or the character of a small maid-servant. To call them the weaker sex is to utter a hideous mockery. They are the stronger sex, the noisier, the more persevering, the more self-assertive sex. They want freedom of opinion, variety of occupation, do they? Let them have it. Let them be lawyers, doctors, preachers, teachers, soldiers, legislators — anything they like — but let them be quiet — if they can.” ≈ Robert Audeley, in Lady Audeley’s Secret (1861) As Louisa May Alcott once wrote “Housework is no joke” and a writer like Braddon demonstrates that such tasks are only part of the hard work that women take upon themselves for the good of themselves and their families. Speaking of which, I’d better go see what the kids are doing. By the way – here is a very nice (though sadly unusual I think) male perspective on parenting: http://brianbrivati.com/2012/04/14/indifference/ writingwomendotorg

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https://www.accessnow.org:443/civil-society-groups-privacy-shield-not-enough-must-return-negotiating-tables/ Transatlantic coalition... Transatlantic coalition of civil society groups: Privacy Shield is not enough, must return to negotiating tables 16 March 2016 | 10:03 am (March 16, 2016) — Today, more than two dozen civil society groups sent a letter to European leaders reviewing the “Privacy Shield” data-transfer agreement with a singular message: this arrangement is not enough. The Privacy Shield is intended to allow companies to share data about customers across the Atlantic. Unfortunately, the Privacy Shield fails to provide sufficient clarity, oversight, remedy, or protections for the human rights of E.U. citizens against U.S. surveillance practices. The letter specifically calls for legislative reform of U.S. surveillance laws, increased protections for personal data, and additional redress and transparency mechanisms. “The Privacy Shield does not guarantee adequate protection for E.U. personal data as required by E.U. law and the E.U.’s highest court,” said Estelle Massé, Access Now Policy Analyst. She added, “to add insult to injury, the agreement fails to establish a sufficient mechanism for E.U. citizens to raise complaints about U.S. practices. We must return to the negotiating tables.” The Privacy Shield, announced at the beginning of February and published a month later, is an arrangement between the European Union and the United States intended to allow companies to transfer data on E.U. citizens to the U.S. Under European law, companies are only allowed to transfer data to a country that guarantees adequate levels of data protection. The Privacy Shield is intended to provide rules for that protection. The Privacy Shield replaces the “Safe Harbor” arrangement, which was invalidated by the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) late last year. The Safe Harbor had been broadly criticized for its system of self-certification, lack of transparency and oversight, and insufficient privacy protections. The CJEU further found that the Safe Harbor specifically failed to protect data against disproportionate government access. The CJEU explained that adequate protection, as required under E.U. law, required a level of protection that was essentially equivalent to what was provided for in the E.U. The Privacy Shield must be approved by the European Commission with guidance from the E.U. member states who are tasked with delivering a binding opinion via their membership within the Article 31 Committee, which includes representatives from the 28 E.U. member states and the E.U. Commission. Non-binding opinions and comments from the Article 29 Working Party of Data Protection Authorities and the E.U. Parliament must also be considered. The letter from civil society organizations calls on the Article 29 Working Party, the European Parliament, and the Article 31 Committee to reject the Privacy Shield and send it back to the U.S. and the European Commission for further negotiations. “The negotiators of the Privacy Shield utterly failed to protect the human rights of Europeans against U.S. surveillance. U.S. law must be reformed if this arrangement has any hope of providing the certainty for transatlantic data transfers that users, and companies, need,” said Amie Stepanovich, U.S. Policy Manager at Access Now. “There can be no shield for the privacy of European citizens without true reform of the United States’ disproportionate government surveillance of non-U.S. persons,” said Danny O’Brien, International Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “EPIC urges both the U.S. and the E.U. to strengthen data protection. The Privacy Shield negotiators should start over and put in place a framework that provides meaningful protection for transatlantic data flows,’ said Fanny Hidvegi, EPIC International Law Fellow. “The U.S. is incapable of addressing how its own digital industry continually expands data collection on consumers. Until the U.S. enacts a law protecting privacy, no one is safe—whether they live in the E.U. or America,” said Jeff Chester, Executive Director, Center for Digital Democracy. “The most sensitive personal information, bar none, is health data about our minds and bodies. If we cannot protect our most sensitive data, what hope is there for protecting any other personal data?” said Dr. Deborah Peel, Founder of Patient Privacy Rights.

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90-day trials watered down, but survey shows they work Wed, 01 May, 2019 As the Labour-led Government waters down ACT’s 90-day trial policy, a new survey of almost 1000 firms shows it is working well, says ACT’s Small Business and Employment spokesman Stephen Berry. From 6 May, the Employment Relations Amendment Act will restrict 90-day trial periods to employers with fewer than 20 staff. But according to a new nationwide survey conducted by the Employers and Manufacturers Association: • 77 per cent of firms say the 90-day trial period is an extremely important part of hiring decisions • 90 per cent said they kept employees on after a trial period, with 94 per cent of workers remaining for more than 18 months • 38 per cent said they had not let any employees go and 37 per cent had let between one and two employees go • 39 per cent of respondents who had between 19 and 50 staff said removing 90-day trial periods would negatively impact the way they hire staff. “Firms are very clearly saying that 90-day trials have given them the opportunity to take a chance on workers they wouldn’t otherwise. Young or low-skilled workers, or people who have been out work, have the most to gain from being employed on a trial basis”, says Mr Berry. “If an employer discovers they’ve taken on a worker who can’t perform or isn’t a good fit, it’s a cumbersome process to manage their performance, and can be financially catastrophic if they get it wrong. “The survey shows claims that firms would exploit new workers by terminating the employment relationship at 89 days are false. Motu’s research on 90-day trials also found no evidence of firms exploiting the law. “Recruitment is an expensive and risky exercise. The idea that firms would hire and train new staff only to then fire them is fanciful. “Removing the ability of firms to use 90-day trial periods will increase the risk associated with hiring and will hurt the very people Labour claims to care about. “A truly compassionate government would make it easier for vulnerable New Zealanders to find work and live independent and productive lives.”

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K. Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. Announces Amendments To Exchange Offers And Consent Solicitations Date : 11/22/2019 @ 4:55AM Stock : Hovnanian Enterprises Inc (HOV) Quote : 30.2 -1.16 (-3.70%) @ 9:01PM Hovnanian Enterprises share price Chart Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE:HOV) Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: HOV) (the “Company”) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, K. Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (the “Issuer”), has amended certain terms of its previously announced offers to exchange (the “Exchange Offers”) its outstanding 10.000% senior secured notes due 2022 (the “Old 2022 Notes”) and outstanding 10.500% senior secured notes due 2024 (the “Old 2024 Notes” and, together with the Old 2022 Notes, the “Old Notes”) for up to $240,000,000 aggregate principal amount (the “New Notes Cap”) of 10.000% 1.75 Lien Notes due 2025 (the “New 2025 Notes”) to be issued by the Issuer and guaranteed by the Company and substantially all of its subsidiaries, other than the Issuer, its home mortgage subsidiaries, certain of its title insurance subsidiaries, joint ventures and subsidiaries holding interests in joint ventures (collectively, the “Guarantors”) and related solicitations of consents from holders of the Old Notes to certain proposed amendments to the indenture governing the Old Notes (the “Consent Solicitations”), which Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations are being made on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Confidential Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated November 4, 2019 (as amended by the Confidential Supplement, dated November 21, 2019, and as may be further amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Offering Memorandum”). Additionally, the Company and the Issuer announced today that the early participation date had passed and the withdrawal deadline had expired for the Exchange Offers at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on November 18, 2019. The Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on December 5, 2019, unless extended or earlier terminated by the Issuer. The amendment to the Exchange Offers amends the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness” in the indenture governing the New 2025 Notes to clarify the allocation of New 2025 Notes issued in the Exchange Offers and in exchange for unsecured debt obligations. The amendments to the Consent Solicitations (i) remove all references to the asset dispositions covenant being eliminated as part of the Consent Solicitations for the applicable series of Old Notes, and (ii) clarify that the proposed amendments under each of the Consent Solicitations will not affect the obligation of subsidiaries that are Guarantors on the effective date of the applicable Supplemental Indenture giving effect to the applicable proposed amendments to continue to grant their assets as collateral for the Old Notes. In addition, the Company and the Issuer announced that, if New 2025 Notes are issued in an amount less than the New Notes Cap, then in connection with the completion of the Exchange Offers, the Issuer expects to exchange certain of its outstanding unsecured indebtedness for debt that is secured on a pari passu basis with the New 2025 Notes (the “New Pari Passu Debt”) to be issued or borrowed by the Issuer and guaranteed by the Guarantors in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount equal to the New Notes Cap less the amount of New 2025 Notes issued in the Exchange Offers. The terms of the New Pari Passu Debt may differ from the New 2025 Notes. Other than the amendments described above, the terms of the Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations remain the same as set forth in the Offering Memorandum. None of us, the Dealer Manager (as defined below), the Exchange Agent, the Information Agent or any other person is making any recommendation as to whether or not you should tender your Old Notes for exchange in the Exchange Offers, or provide consents in the Consent Solicitations. You must make your own decision whether to tender your Old Notes in the Exchange Offers and provide consents in the Consent Solicitations, and, if so, the amount of your Old Notes to tender. Global Bondholder Services Corporation is serving as the exchange agent and information agent for the Exchange Offers. Any question regarding the Exchange Offers or the Consent Solicitations or the procedures for tendering Old Notes and requests for copies of the Offering Memorandum may be directed to Global Bondholder Services by phone at 866-470-3800 (toll free) or 212-430-3774. This press release is neither an offer to purchase or sell nor a solicitation of an offer to sell or buy the Old Notes, the New 2025 Notes or any other securities of the Issuer or the Company, including any securities to be offered to the holders of the unsecured term loan, nor shall there be any such offer, solicitation or sale in any state or other jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. This press release also is not a solicitation of consents to the Proposed Amendments to the indenture governing the Old Notes. The Exchange Offers are being made solely on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offering Memorandum and the information in this press release is qualified by reference to such Offering Memorandum. The New 2025 Notes have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or with any securities regulatory authority of any State or other jurisdiction. The Exchange Offers will only be made, and the New 2025 Notes are only being offered and will only be issued, to holders of Old Notes either (a) in the United States, that are “qualified institutional buyers,” as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act, in a private transaction in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act or (b) (i) outside the United States, that are persons other than “U.S. persons,” as that term is defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act, in offshore transactions in reliance upon Regulation S under the Securities Act, (ii) if located or resident in any Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented Directive 2003/71/EC, as amended (the “Prospectus Directive”), who are “Qualified Investors” as defined under the Prospectus Directive and (iii) if located or resident in Canada, is an “accredited investor” as defined in National Instrument 45- 106 – Prospectus Exemptions (“NI 45-106”) or section 73.3(1) of the Securities Act (Ontario) and is a “permitted client” as defined in National Instrument 31-103 - Registration Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations (“NI 31-103”). Documents relating to the Exchange Offers will be distributed only to holders of Old Notes who complete a letter of eligibility confirming that they are within the category of holders that are eligible to participate in this private offer. Additionally, holders of Old Notes that are resident in Canada are required to complete, sign and submit a Canadian eligibility form. To access these documents, click on the following link: http://gbsc-usa.com/eligibility/khov. ABOUT HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES, INC.: Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., founded in 1959 by Kevork S. Hovnanian, is headquartered in Matawan, New Jersey and, through its subsidiaries, is one of the nation’s largest homebuilders with operations in Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia. The Company’s homes are marketed and sold under the trade name K. Hovnanian® Homes. Additionally, the Company’s subsidiaries, as developers of K. Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons communities, make the Company one of the nation’s largest builders of active lifestyle communities. All statements in this press release that are not historical facts should be considered as “Forward-Looking Statements” within the meaning of the “Safe Harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to statements related to the Company’s goals and expectations with respect to its financial results for future financial periods. Although we believe that our plans, intentions and expectations reflected in, or suggested by, such forward-looking statements are reasonable, we can give no assurance that such plans, intentions or expectations will be achieved. By their nature, forward-looking statements: (i) speak only as of the date they are made, (ii) are not guarantees of future performance or results and (iii) are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict or quantify. Therefore, actual results could differ materially and adversely from those forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to, (1) changes in general and local economic, industry and business conditions and impacts of a significant homebuilding downturn; (2) adverse weather and other environmental conditions and natural disasters; (3) high leverage and restrictions on the Company’s operations and activities imposed by the agreements governing the Company’s outstanding indebtedness; (4) availability and terms of financing to the Company; (5) the Company’s sources of liquidity; (6) changes in credit ratings; (7) the seasonality of the Company’s business; (8) the availability and cost of suitable land and improved lots and sufficient liquidity to invest in such land and lots; (9) shortages in, and price fluctuations of, raw materials and labor; (10) reliance on, and the performance of, subcontractors; (11) regional and local economic factors, including dependency on certain sectors of the economy, and employment levels affecting home prices and sales activity in the markets where the Company builds homes; (12) fluctuations in interest rates and the availability of mortgage financing; (13) increases in cancellations of agreements of sale; (14) changes in tax laws affecting the after-tax costs of owning a home; (15) operations through unconsolidated joint ventures with third parties; (16) government regulation, including regulations concerning development of land, the home building, sales and customer financing processes, tax laws and the environment; (17) legal claims brought against us and not resolved in our favor, such as product liability litigation, warranty claims and claims made by mortgage investors; (18) levels of competition; (19) successful identification and integration of acquisitions; (20) significant influence of the Company’s controlling stockholders; (21) availability of net operating loss carryforwards; (22) utility shortages and outages or rate fluctuations; (23) changes in trade policies, including the imposition of tariffs and duties on homebuilding materials and products, and related trade disputes with and retaliatory measures taken by other countries; (24) geopolitical risks, terrorist acts and other acts of war; (25) loss of key management personnel or failure to attract qualified personnel; (26) information technology failures and data security breaches; (27) negative publicity; and (28) certain risks, uncertainties and other factors described in detail in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2018 and subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as otherwise required by applicable securities laws, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, changed circumstances or any other reason. Contact: J. Larry Sorsby Jeffrey T. O’Keefe Executive Vice President & CFO Vice President, Investor Relations Latest HOV Messages

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Flight JT610 final report points nine failures that caused the accident Lion Air’s Boeing 737 MAX crashed on October 29, 2018 killing the 189 people on board by Thiago Vinholes October 26, 2019 Lion Air 737 MAX registration PK-LQP (Tangerangonline) Nearly a year after the crash of the Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8, Indonesia’s air accident investigators committee released its final report on the crash of the aircraft on October 29, 2018. The 322-page document points out that failures of the Boeing, the airline and the pilots caused the disaster that killed 189 people. “As far as we know, there are nine things that contributed to this accident. If one of the nine had been avoided, the accident might not have happened,” Indonesian air accident investigator Nurcahyo Utomo told a news conference. Five months after the Lion Air jet crash, another 737 MAX from Ethiopian Airlines crashed near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing all 157 occupants on board, leading to the worldwide shutdown of the 737 MAX. The report points out that the jet should not have taken the fatal flight because of a previous cockpit problem. However, as the problem was not properly recorded by the company’s crews, the plane was allowed to take off without correction, the Indonesian authorities said. Another flaw pointed to a crucial sensor, purchased from a Florida company, had not been properly tested by Boeing, according to the report. Moreover, it was a unique system without redundancy. This sensor provided information to the aircraft’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, the MCAS. The malfunction of this software has been the focus of investigators to find the cause of the crashes of Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines. The MCAS is a flight control system that is designed to assist crew in specific conditions. The program adjusts the horizontal stabilizer to lower the nose of the aircraft when a possible aerodynamic stall (loss of lift) situation is detected based on data from the airspeed, altitude and angle of attack sensors of the aircraft. Indonesian experts identified problems with the system, which repeatedly pushed the nose of the Lion Air plane as pilots tried to regain control. Situations like this are also cited in the investigation into the Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash. Flight JT610 took off on October 29, 2018 with 189 people on board (PK-REN) The report also found that the co-pilot, when taking command of the aircraft, had difficulty executing a list of procedures that he should have memorized. The finalized document also confirmed that the aircraft maintenance record was missing 31 pages. Previously, Indonesian officials had warned that design problems and mechanical failures were key factors in the crash of the JT610. Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said there was a sequence of events that resulted in the Lion Air crash. But at the heart of this chain was the MCAS, a control system that pilots were unaware of and vulnerable to a single sensor failure. The Indonesian authorities’ finding indicates serious flaws in Lion Air operations, but also suggests that Boeing and the 737 MAX-certified regulators allowed the defective control system to be approved in this way. Boeing Statement In a statement, Boeing said it was meeting the recommendations of the Indonesian Investigation Committee, which calls for the redesign of the MCAS and the provision of appropriate information in pilot manuals and training. Ethiopian Airlines has an order for 32 737 MAX (Boeing) jets The manufacturer said it is “taking actions to enhance the safety of the 737 MAX to prevent flight control conditions that occurred in this accident from ever happening again.” “Since this accident, the 737 MAX and its software are undergoing unprecedented level of global regulatory oversight, testing and analysis. This includes hundreds of simulator sessions and test flights, regulatory analysis of thousands of documents, reviews by regulators and independent experts and extensive certification requirements, ”says the manufacturer’s report. The pressure on Boeing to explain the problems with the 737 MAX has been intensifying. This month, a company document revealed that MAX pilots had exchanged messages about MCAS failures while the plane was being certified in 2016 and the defect was not reported to the FAA – the MAX series debuted in May 2017. Boeing reports that it already has a fixed version of MCAS and sensors for the 737 MAX and is “working with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other global regulators to make software updates and other changes” to safely return the aircraft to market. The return of the 737 MAX is still uncertain and has no date set, although Boeing has already pointed out that it must have released the plane by the end of this year. MAX’s new certification process is causing points of contention between the FAA and EASA, the European civil aviation agency, which intends to do a separate certification process with other requirements. Tags: 737 MAXBoeingCrash reportIndonesiaJT610Lion AirMCAS Malaysia Airlines will have airplanes monitored in real time Emirates will receive 100th A380 by the end of this year With few flights, Rio’s international airport becomes the destination of low cost airlines Next story Same aircraft or different planes for each route? 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Reading: Using the Risk Factors of Pancreatic Cancer and Their Interactions in Cancer Screening: A Ca... Using the Risk Factors of Pancreatic Cancer and Their Interactions in Cancer Screening: A Case-Control Study in Shanghai, China Xiaojie Bo, Department of Pediatrics, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, CN About Xiaojie Jianwei Shi, School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai; Department of General Practice, Yangpu Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, CN About Jianwei Xiaojie Bo and Jianwei Shi are co-first authors in this article. Rui Liu, About Rui Shasha Geng, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, CN Qingqing Li, Yang Li, Hua Jin, Department of General Practice, Yangpu Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai; Academic Department of General Practice, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai; Shanghai General Practice and Community Health Development Research Center, Shanghai, CN About Hua Sen Yang, About Sen Hua Jiang , Zhaoxin Wang Department of Pediatrics, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai; School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, CN About Zhaoxin Pediatrics;Hua Jiang and Zhaoxin Wang are co-corresponding authors in this article Background: The incidence of pancreatic cancer has increased annually, but the risk factors and their interactions are still unknown. Objective: The aim of this study was to identify risk factors and the effects of their interactions on pancreatic cancer occurrence among patients in Shanghai, China. Methods: We conducted a hospital-based case-control study. The case group consisted of pathologically diagnosed pancreatic cancer patients, and the control group consisted of a healthy population. The Pearson Chi-square test was used to compare the distribution frequencies of data between groups. Multivariate analysis and interaction analysis were conducted to explore possible risk factors and interactions between various variables. Findings: Among the 4,821 recruited participants, 1,392 were pancreatic cancer patients and 3,429 were controls. Multivariate logistic analysis suggested that age (>50 years old) (AOR: 16.20 [95% CI 6.78; 38.69]), diabetes (AOR: 5.40 [95% CI 2.70; 10.80]), chronic pancreatitis (AOR: 27.43 [95% CI 2.14; 351.77]), smoking (AOR: 8.86 [95% CI 3.07; 25.58]), and family cancer history (AOR: 2.10 [95% CI 1.09; 8.56]) were the primary risk factors for pancreatic cancer. Interestingly, synergistic interactions between risk factors were found, especially between age and chronic pancreatitis (RERI = 447.93, API = 96.74%, SI = 32.78), age and smoking (RERI = 187.42, API = 94.97%, SI = 21.99), and diabetes and smoking (RERI = 14.39, API = 48.06%, SI = 1.99). Conclusions: Age, diabetes, chronic pancreatitis, smoking, and family cancer history have been verified as the primary risk factors for pancreatic cancer in this study. Moreover, the interaction effects between old age, diabetes, chronic pancreatitis, and smoking substantially increase the probability of the development of pancreatic cancer. Cancer screening should be conducted extensively among people with these multiple factors to improve the efficiency. How to Cite: Bo, X., Shi, J., Liu, R., Geng, S., Li, Q., Li, Y., Jin, H., Yang, S., Jiang, H. and Wang, Z., 2019. Using the Risk Factors of Pancreatic Cancer and Their Interactions in Cancer Screening: A Case-Control Study in Shanghai, China. Annals of Global Health, 85(1), p.103. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2463 Published on 11 Jul 2019 Strengths and limitations of this study are as follows This study confirmed the significance of previously established risk factors for pancreatic cancer. This study found significant synergistic interactions between some risk factors for pancreatic cancer. The results of this study contribute to the early prevention and screening of pancreatic cancer. As a hospital-based case-control study, selection bias was inevitable. The study period was limited by relevant information on body mass index and diet, and detailed information on the amount of smoking and alcohol consumption was not available. Pancreatic cancer is a highly lethal disease, with a mortality rate that is very close to its incidence rate [1]. With no specific observable symptoms until in its advanced and incurable stage, pancreatic cancer develops insidiously [2] Due to the late diagnosis, patients with pancreatic cancer have one of the worst five-year survival rates of all cancers (6% in the US) [1]. Currently, the number of deaths from pancreatic cancer is increasing, and it is predicted to be the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in the US by 2030 [3]. Similarly, an increase in pancreatic cancer mortality has been reported in European populations [4]. In China, the incidence and mortality rates of pancreatic cancer increased steadily from 2000 to 2011. In 2015, the number of male and female pancreatic cancer patients in China reached 52,200 and 37,900, respectively, and the numbers of deaths were 45,600 and 33,800, respectively [5]. Similar to most malignancies, pancreatic cancer results from the combination of environmental factors and genetic factors [6]. Although studies have reached a consensus on the etiology of pancreatic cancer, the epidemiological causes of pancreatic cancer identified in different studies have varied, and the influence of these factors on pancreatic cancer is still under debate [7]. At present, smoking has been identified as the most well-established risk factor for pancreatic cancer on a global scale [8, 9, 10]. Other factors, such as age, diabetes and chronic pancreatitis, have also been associated with pancreatic cancer in most recent studies [11, 12]. Possible interactions between the risk factors may exist due to the multifactorial nature of pancreatic carcinogenesis. However, few studies have examined the possible interactions, and no large case-control studies have been conducted on the interactions among the risk factors for pancreatic cancer. Considering that there are few studies on the interactions between various risk factors for pancreatic cancer in China, we conducted this study to identify these risk factors and their interactions, aiming to contribute to the early prevention of and screening for pancreatic cancer. A hospital-based case-control study was conducted to identify the risk factors for pancreatic cancer and their interactions based on data from pancreatic cancer patients from 14 tertiary hospitals in Shanghai, China. A total of 4,821 participants were recruited, including 1,392 with pathologically verified cancer and 3,429 healthy controls. All participants were selected from fourteen tertiary hospitals in Shanghai. All of the primary pancreatic cancer patients were diagnosed in the oncology departments of the above fourteen tertiary hospitals between January 1, 2012, and December 12, 2017. The inclusion criteria for the case group were as follows: pathologically diagnosed pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and literate. The exclusion criteria were as follows: patients diagnosed with other types of pancreatic disease, such as neuroendocrine tumor, adenomas, cysts, or other unknown primary tumors; concurrent cancer at another organ site; and a history of other cancers. Participants in the control group were recruited from the physical examination center of the same hospitals; their physical medical examination results indicated that they were healthy. According to the ages recorded on the physical examination form, we chose the control group such that their age composition matched that of the total population of Shanghai. Moreover, controls and cases were matched according to sex and race. The eligibility criteria for the controls were the same as those for the patients, except for the cancer diagnosis. Study participants In this study, a total of 1,903 pancreatic cancer cases were selected through the hospital registry system once they were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. For the controls, 4,848 were chosen when they received a health examination. Then, each participant was asked to provide informed consent to participate in a structured questionnaire. Some of the questionnaires were finished when the participants were in the hospitals, and the rest were finished over the telephone. All the questionnaires were administered by our trained investigators. Finally, we checked the information pertaining to medical history on the questionnaire by comparing it with the participant’s medical file and then excluded the participants with inconsistent information. In total, the participation rates of patients in the case group and the control group were 73.15% (1392/1903) and 70.73% (3429/4848), respectively. The loss was due to the following reasons: inconsistent information and refusal to answer the questionnaire. A total of 4,821 (1,392 cases, 3,429 controls) participants were enrolled, and there were no significant differences between the case group and the control group in terms of the characteristics of gender, race, marital status, and so on. Questionnaire data The questionnaire was designed by relevant experts from the hospital and university who have abundant experience in clinical diagnosis or screening for pancreatic cancer. The hospital staff members were available for assistance if participants had enquiries regarding the questions. The questionnaire was divided into three sections: section 1 contained questions on demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, race and marital status; section 2 contained questions on smoking status and alcohol consumption; and section 3 was about the participant’s medical history and family cancer history. All information was collected by self-report. All questionnaires were cross-checked daily by the investigators. All analyses were performed with SPSS software (version 21.0; SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Chi-square tests were used to assess the differences between the case and control groups. First, univariate analysis was conducted for each relevant risk factor. Based on univariate analysis of the relevant risk factors combined with literature reports and clinical experience, all the risk factors with screening value were then included in multiple logistic regression models to evaluate their independent effects. Multivariate analysis was adjusted for potential confounders, such as sex, race, and marital status, to evaluate the association of exposure risk factors with the risk of pancreatic cancer. The adjusted odds ratios (AORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of the associations between the risk factors and pancreatic cancer risk were calculated by multivariate logistic analysis. Moreover, we used multiple logistic regression models to investigate possible interactions between the risk factors. We chose to use an additive model rather than a multiplicative model because the former has a more appropriate scale for addressing biologic interactions and public health concerns. To assess deviation from the additive model (which assumes there is no interaction between variables), the relative excess rate due to interaction (RERI = OR11 – OR01 – OR10 + 1), the attributable proportion due to interaction (API = (RERI/OR11) and the synergism index (SI = [OR11 – 1]/([OR01 + OR10] – 2) were calculated, where OR11 = the OR of the joint effect of two risk factors, and OR10 and OR01 = the OR of each risk factor in the absence of the other [13]. Participant demographics This hospital-based case-control study included 1,392 cases of pancreatic cancer patients and 3,429 healthy cases. Table 1 summarizes the demographic characteristics of our sample in both the case and control groups. The ratio of male to female was slightly higher than 1:1, and there was no significant difference in the sex ratio between the case and control groups. All patients in the case group and the vast majority in the control group (97.75%) were of Han ethnicity. There was no significant difference in the sex ratio or the race ratio between the cases and controls. Concerning marital status, most of the participants in the case (99.43%) and control groups (82.62%) were married, but there was still a significant difference between the two groups (P < 0.001). We chose to adjust for all demographic factors in the multivariate logistic regression models. Characteristics of the study participants. Study Variables Patients (N = 1,392) Controls (N = 3,429) OR(95% CI) Male 830 59.63 1,981 57.77 0.16 0.689 / Female 562 40.37 1,448 42.23 Han ethnicity 1,392 100.00 3,352 97.75 3.29 0.069 / Others 0 0.00 77 2.25 Married 1,384 99.43 2,833 82.62 25.18 0.000 / Unmarried 8 0.57 596 17.38 Age (years) <50 71 5.10 1,507 43.95 1.00 50–59 249 17.89 721 21.03 21.87 0.000 25.00 (3.41–200.00) 60–69 501 35.99 452 13.18 63.18 0.000 76.92 (10.20–500.00) 70–79 313 22.49 228 6.65 91.48 0.000 111.11 (1.52–1000.00) ≥80 258 18.53 521 15.19 108.51 0.000 142.86 (19.23–1000.00) Yes 660 47.41 1,038 30.27 12.76 0.000 2.08 (1.39–3.11) No 732 52.59 2,391 69.73 1.00 Yes 23 1.65 671 19.57 26.41 0.000 0.06 (0.02–0.25) No 1.369 98.35 2,758 80.43 1.00 Yes 511 36.71 359 10.47 45.89 0.000 4.94 (3.03–8.05) Yes 38 2.73 14 0.41 50.01 0.001 6.85 (3.70–12.68) No 1,354 97.27 3,415 99.59 1.00 Biliary disease Yes 391 28.09 622 18.14 5.95 0.015 1.77 (1.12–2.80) History of surgical trauma Yes 232 16.67 112 3.27 268.31 0.000 5.92 (4.68–7.49) Family cancer history Yes 94 6.75 124 3.62 22.56 0.000 1.93 (1.47–2.54) Univariate analysis Table 1 shows the results of the univariate analysis by Chi-square tests. According to the preliminary results, we found that there were no significant differences in the risk of pancreatic cancer among people aged 18–29 years old, 30–39 years old, and 40–49 years old; hence, they were combined in one group under 50 years old. The results show that increasing age can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer; with less than 50 years old as the reference, the odds ratios are as follows: from 50 to 59 years old (OR = 25.00, 95% CI [3.41–200.00]), 60 to 69 years old (OR = 76.92, 95% CI [10.20–500.00]), 70 to 79 years old (OR = 111.11, 95% CI [1.52–1000.00]), and 80 years old or older (OR = 142.86, 95% CI [19.23–1000.00]). The risk of pancreatic cancer increases gradually as age increases. The results also suggest that other possible risk factors include hypertension (OR = 2.08, 95% CI [1.39–3.11]), diabetes (OR = 4.94, 95% CI [3.03–8.05]), chronic pancreatitis (OR = 6.85, 95% CI [3.70–12.68]), biliary disease (OR = 1.77, 95% CI [1.12–2.80]), a history of surgery or trauma (OR = 2.04, 95% CI [1.37–3.04]), smoking (OR = 5.92, 95% CI [4.68–7.49]), and family cancer history (OR = 1.93, 95% CI [1.47–2.54]). In contrast, hyperlipidemia (OR = 0.06, 95% CI [0.02–0.25]), is a protective factor. However, alcohol consumption (P = 0.721) was not statistically significant in the univariate analysis. To assess the independent effects of different risk factors on the incidence of pancreatic cancer and to control for interference from potential confounding factors, we conducted a multivariate analysis using a logistic regression model. Based on the results of the univariate analysis, we divided the participants into two age groups, with the cutoff value of 50 years old. We incorporated all the potential confounding factors and the risk factors into a multiple regression model, and the final model equation contained a total of five variables (Table 2). The results showed that people with diabetes (AOR = 5.40, 95% CI [2.70–10.80]), chronic pancreatitis (AOR = 27.43, 95% CI [2.14–351.77]), old age (AOR = 16.20, 95% CI [6.78–38.69]), smoking (AOR = 8.86, 95% CI [3.07–25.58]), and a family cancer history (AOR = 2.1, 95% CI [1.09–8.56]) had a higher risk. All of the results were obtained after adjusting for sex, race, marital status, and other risk factors. Risk factors for pancreatic cancer in multivariable logistic regression analysis. SE (β) Wald (χ2) AOR (95% CI) Yes 1.69 0.35 22.73 5.40 (2.70–10.80) 0.000 No 1.00 Yes 3.31 1.3 6.47 27.43 (2.14–351.77) 0.011 Yes 1.14 0.23 20.21 2.1 (1.09–8.56) 0.000 Age, years <50 2.79 0.44 39.3 16.20 (6.78–38.69) 0.000 ≥50 1.00 Adjusted for gender, race, marital status, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, biliary disease, history of surgical trauma, and drinking. For the above four primary risk factors that were statistically significant in the multivariate logistic regression model with an AOR value larger than 1, an interaction analysis was further performed with the logistic regression model and the additive model. Table 3 shows the independent and interactive effects of age, diabetes, chronic pancreatitis, and smoking on pancreatic cancer incidence. The results indicated additivity and synergism between age and chronic pancreatitis, age and smoking, and diabetes and smoking, after adjusting for the effects of other significant risk factors. Synergistic interactions among age, diabetes, chronic pancreatitis and smoking. Interaction Variables RERI Variable 1 Age1 Diabetes1 ≤50 years No 1 –31.43 –26.38% 0.79 ≤50 years Yes 123.06 (10.22–1482.18) >50 years No 28.50 (9.38–86.62) >50 years Yes 119.14 (33.91–418.55) Age2 Chronic pancreatitis2 ≤50 years No 1 447.93 96.74% 32.78 ≤50 years Yes / >50 years Yes 463.03 (29.54–7258.03) Age3 Smoking3 Diabetes4 Chronic pancreatitis4 No No 1 / / / No Yes 23.25 (1.58–342.12) Yes No 5.35 (2.67–10.71) Yes Yes / Diabetes5 Smoking5 No No 1 14.39 48.06% 1.99 No Yes 10.48 (3.38–32.52) Yes Yes 29.94 (5.36–167.33) Chronic pancreatitis6 Smoking6 No Yes 8.83(3.05–25.55) Yes No 26.21 (1.76–389.40) 1 Adjusted for sex, race, marital status, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, biliary disease, history of surgical trauma, alcohol consumption, chronic pancreatitis, and smoking. 2 Adjusted for sex, race, marital status, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, biliary disease, history of surgical trauma, alcohol consumption, diabetes, and smoking. 3 Adjusted for sex, race, marital status, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, biliary disease, history of surgical trauma, alcohol consumption, diabetes, and chronic pancreatitis. 4 Adjusted for age, sex, race, marital status, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, biliary disease, history of surgical trauma, alcohol consumption, and smoking. 5 Adjusted for age, sex, race, marital status, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, biliary disease, history of surgical trauma, alcohol consumption, and chronic pancreatitis. 6 Adjusted for age, sex, race, marital status, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, biliary disease, history of surgical trauma, alcohol consumption, and diabetes. /: P > 0.05. The RERIs were 447.93, 187.42, and 14.39 for the age/chronic pancreatitis, age/smoking, and diabetes/smoking interactions, respectively. Using the RERIs, we estimated that the attributable proportion due to interaction (API %) values explained by age/chronic pancreatitis, age/smoking, and diabetes/smoking interaction were 96.74%, 94.97%, and 48.06%, respectively. The estimated SI values were 32.78, 21.99, and 1.99, respectively. This may indicate that the interaction effect of the above three groups of pancreatic cancer risk factors is super additive. Additionally, the results revealed that there was a negative interaction between age and diabetes (RERI = –31.43, API = –26.38%, SI = 0.79). No other significant interaction was observed between groups, such as diabetes and chronic pancreatitis and chronic pancreatitis and smoking. Studies have suggested that the development of pancreatic cancer is a complex and multistep process with a multifactorial etiology, as many factors (genetic susceptibility, environmental factors, lifestyles, and physical conditions) may contribute to its occurrence [14, 15, 16]. In our study, we found that pancreatic cancer is more common among older adults, and there was a significantly higher risk associated with older age. Consistent with our results, Qi Dong et al. retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 207 patients with pancreatic cancer, and their study showed that age is an independent risk factor for the incidence of pancreatic cancer. The relative risk of pancreatic cancer increased approximately 1.78 times in the older group compared with the younger group [17]. One possible reason may be that aging causes the body to accumulate more carcinogens and changes some of the body’s defense mechanisms [18]. This can be one of the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the development of pancreatic cancer. It is predicted that the incidence of pancreatic cancer will continue to rise as the aging of the population continues to accelerate. Diabetes can be a cause and a complication of pancreatic cancer, although reports are not consistent. Our results indicated that diabetes is an important risk factor for pancreatic cancer. This is in accordance with the results of the meta-analysis conducted by Huxley et al., which analyzed 19 cohort studies and 17 case-control studies between 1966 and 2005 [18]. Zhan et al. conducted a retrospective study of 2,405 patients with malignant tumors and found that 28% of the patients had been diagnosed with diabetes before developing cancer. Among them, the percentage of pancreatic cancer patients (57.1%) was the highest, which suggested that diabetes may be a risk factor for pancreatic cancer, and it is advisable to perform conventional screening of diabetic patients for the early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer [19]. However, according to Liao et al.’s 10-year population-based cohort study (49,803 vs. 199,212) based on the Taiwan National Health Insurance Database, diabetes with <2 years’ duration was associated with pancreatic cancer and could be an early manifestation of pancreatic cancer, but long-standing diabetes was not found to be a risk factor for pancreatic cancer [20]. However, we did not obtain information on the duration of diabetes in this study. Therefore, the association of diabetes with pancreatic cancer warrants further investigation. Some studies have concluded that various types of chronic pancreatitis, including alcoholic, non-alcoholic, hereditary, and tropical pancreatitis, are associated with pancreatic cancer to some extent [21]. A significant association between chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer risk was found in our study. The results of our multivariate logistic analysis showed that the risk for pancreatic cancer was 20-fold higher among patients affected by chronic pancreatitis after adjusting for potential confounders. In previous studies, most authors had drawn similar conclusions, and the relative risks for pancreatic cancer in chronic pancreatitis patients varied from 2.3 to 18.5 [22]. Furthermore, a recent meta-analysis conducted by Raimondi et al. of 22 studies that found that the risk of developing pancreatic cancer in patients with chronic pancreatitis was 20 times higher than among those without chronic pancreatitis [23]. In addition, chromosomal instability in patients with chronic pancreatitis is also conducive to the occurrence of pancreatic cancer. Therefore, we believe that patients with chronic pancreatitis should be considered at high risk for pancreatic cancer, and they would benefit from preventive measures and early detection programs. According to other studies, smoking has been definitively identified as the most important environmental risk factor for pancreatic cancer [24]. To date, at least 30 epidemiological studies have confirmed this view [8, 9, 25, 26, 27, 28]. The results of our multivariate analysis also revealed that smoking was associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer. Consistent with our results, a nested case-control study conducted by Lynch S.M. et al., including 1,481 cases and 1,539 controls, found that the ORs of pancreatic cancer were 1.1 (95% CI, 0.9–1.3) for former smokers and 1.8 (95% CI, 1.4–2.3) for current smokers compared to nonsmokers [29]. Similar findings were obtained in a large hospital-based case-control study (808 vs. 808) and a 40-year follow-up cohort study [30, 31]. According to pathological studies, the effect mechanism may result from the carcinogens in tobacco acting on the pancreas through the blood or duodenal fluid and bile reflux [32]. Consistent with our results, Schulte’s study, which included 591 pancreatic cancer patients and 646 controls, reported that a family history of pancreatic cancer (OR 2.20, 95% CI 1.16–4.19) and melanoma (OR 1.74, 95% CI 1.03–2.95) were risk factors for pancreatic cancer [30]. Hassan’s case-control study showed that family histories of cancer in general and of pancreatic cancer in particular were associated with a significantly elevated risk for pancreatic cancer. The effect of a positive family history of pancreatic cancer was significant in women and men. The pattern was consistent with the familial predisposition reported for pancreatic cancer and with the array of tumors associated with hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer. In our analysis, hyperlipidemia had a negative association with pancreatic cancer. The results are inconsistent with other studies showing that high blood lipid levels increase the risk of pancreatic cancer [33], and possible reasons were related to the use of statins for treating hyperlipidemia. Regular statin use before the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer was associated with modest increases in survival times in two large prospective cohort studies [34]. In our study, it is possible that the patients did not take statins to treat hyperlipidemia. However, we did not obtain this information from the questionnaires, and the association needs to be explored in future analyses. The most noteworthy finding of our study was the interactions between certain risk factors. Our results showed that there were significant positive synergistic interactions between age and chronic pancreatitis, age and smoking, and diabetes and smoking after adjusting for the effects of other significant risk factors. This supports the hypothesis that people with a combination of two or more risk factors are more vulnerable to pancreatic cancer. Similar to our research design, a large case-control study (808 vs. 808) conducted by Hassan et al. found that synergistic interactions did exist between cigarette smoking and a family history of pancreatic cancer (AOR = 12.8, 95% CI 1.6–108.9) and between smoking and diabetes (AOR = 9.3, 95% CI 2.0–44.1) in women. Moreover, a recent study in Italy in 2014 found that important synergistic interactions existed between smoking and alcohol consumption (SI = 17.61) and alcohol consumption and diabetes (SI = 17.77) [35]. However, in our study, similar to in other studies, we did not find a significant interaction between chronic pancreatitis and smoking, and a possible mechanism still needs to be explored. To a certain extent, this study provided insight into whether the performance of pancreatic cancer screening among people with multiple risk factors, such as old age, diabetes, and smoking, would substantially improve the efficiency of cancer screening. The limitations of the study should be taken into account. First, our study is a case-control study that applies an analytical epidemiological research method that has inherent limitations and disadvantages. The selection bias and recall bias cannot be eliminated completely. To address the selection bias problem, we adopted a multicenter design in which the cases and controls were recruited from the same hospitals. We selected newly diagnosed cases and avoided using proxy respondents, minimizing recall bias. Second, we did not obtain relevant information on body mass index, diet, details regarding smoking and alcohol consumption, or the duration of diabetes. Therefore, further investigations into pancreatic cancer risk factors are warranted. The results of this study show that age, diabetes, chronic pancreatitis, smoking, and family cancer history are risk factors for pancreatic cancer. Moreover, the interactions of the risk factors increase the probability of developing pancreatic cancer. This study provides important clues for the prevention of pancreatic cancer. We believe that identifying individuals with the highest risk of pancreatic cancer can contribute greatly to the development of prevention programs and the early detection of pancreatic cancer. More large-scale epidemiological studies with different populations on the interactions among risk factors are warranted, with stratification by sex. AOR: Adjusted Odd Ratio CI: Confidence Interval RERI: Relative Excess Rate due to Interaction API: Attributable Proportion due to Interaction SI: Synergism Index Ethics and Consent Ethics approval was given by the medical ethics committees of all participating hospitals. All participants gave informed consent before being enrolled in the study. We are grateful to Shanghai East Hospital for allowing us to perform this study and helping us collect data. The design of this study involving some previous investigations was supported by the Key Developing Disciplines of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning (2015ZB0602). Data extraction was financially funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China (71774116). The analysis and interpretation of the data guided by statisticians were funded by the Soft Projects of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Science and Technology (17692105200), and the writing and revision, including the language editing, were supported by the Surface Project of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning (201740202) and the Shanghai Excellent Young Talents Project in Health System (2018YQ52), National Natural Science Foundation of China (71603182), National Natural Science Foundation of China (71804128). The authors have no competing interests to declare. XJB and JWS participated in the epidemiological investigation and drafted the manuscript; HJ and ZXW participated in the overall design, study coordination, data analysis and final draft of the manuscript. 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Tobacco and the risk of pancreatic cancer: a review and meta-analysis. Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2008; 393(4): 535–45. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00423-007-0266-2 Bosetti C, Lucenteforte E, Silverman DT, Petersen G, Bracci PM, Ji BT, et al. Cigarette smoking and pancreatic cancer: an analysis from the International Pancreatic Cancer Case-Control Consortium (Panc4). Ann Oncol. 2012; 23(7): 1880–8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/annonc/mdr541 Kuzmickiene I, Everatt R, Milinaviciene E, et al. Smoking and other risk factors for pancreatic cancer: A cohort study in men in Lithuania. Cancer Epidemiology. 2013; 37(2): 133–139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2012.10.001 Lynch SM, Vrieling A, Lubin JH, et al. Cigarette smoking and pancreatic cancer: A pooled analysis from the pancreatic cancer cohort consortium. Am J Epidemiol. 2009; 170: 403–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwp134 Hassan M, Bondy M, Li D, et al. Risk factors for pancreatic cancer: Case-control study. 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Investigating the synergistic interaction of diabetes, tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, and hypercholesterolemia on the risk of pancreatic cancer: A case-control study in Italy. Biomed Research International. 2014; 2014: 481019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/481019 Bo, X., Shi, J., Liu, R., Geng, S., Li, Q., Li, Y., Jin, H., Yang, S., Jiang, H. and Wang, Z., 2019. Using the Risk Factors of Pancreatic Cancer and Their Interactions in Cancer Screening: A Case-Control Study in Shanghai, China. Annals of Global Health, 85(1), p.103. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2463 Bo X, Shi J, Liu R, Geng S, Li Q, Li Y, et al.. Using the Risk Factors of Pancreatic Cancer and Their Interactions in Cancer Screening: A Case-Control Study in Shanghai, China. Annals of Global Health. 2019;85(1):103. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2463 Bo, X., Shi, J., Liu, R., Geng, S., Li, Q., Li, Y., … Wang, Z. (2019). Using the Risk Factors of Pancreatic Cancer and Their Interactions in Cancer Screening: A Case-Control Study in Shanghai, China. Annals of Global Health, 85(1), 103. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2463 Bo X and others, ‘Using the Risk Factors of Pancreatic Cancer and Their Interactions in Cancer Screening: A Case-control Study in Shanghai, China’ (2019) 85 Annals of Global Health 103 DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2463 Bo, Xiaojie, Jianwei Shi, Rui Liu, Shasha Geng, Qingqing Li, Yang Li, Hua Jin, Sen Yang, Hua Jiang, and Zhaoxin Wang. 2019. “Using the Risk Factors of Pancreatic Cancer and Their Interactions in Cancer Screening: A Case-control Study in Shanghai, China”. Annals of Global Health 85 (1): 103. 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Mucha brings Art Nouveau to the Walker Art Gallery Posters of Art Nouveau beauties with golden flowing locks graced the walls of more than a few student bedrooms in the 1980s – thanks mostly to Athena stores across the country. Now there is a chance to see the original stunning works by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, which are currently on show at the Walker Art Gallery. Alphonse Mucha: In Quest of Beauty is a touring exhibition from the Mucha Foundation no less, showcasing around 100 works including drawings, paintings, photographs and a rare Mucha sculpture, all exploring the theme of beauty. The show also includes a number of key Aesthetic and Art Nouveau works from National Museums Liverpool’s own collections, as well as sculptures by Auguste Rodin, a friend of Mucha’s. Alphonse Mucha rose to prominence in Paris in the 1890s, where he became renowned for his beautiful and elegant decorative designs and illustrations that featured on posters and product advertisements. Works due to be on show include Gismonda, the first of six theatrical designs produced by Mucha for the French actress Sarah Bernheardt, and which helped to make his name. Xanthe Brooke, the Walker’s Curator of European Fine Art, says: “The works of Alphonse Mucha are undoubtedly some of the most widely-recognised examples of the Art Nouveau style, and still a popular choice for interior decoration and design. “We’re looking forward to welcoming visitors to the Walker to see a huge array of his works, showing the depth of style and skill that Mucha employed to ensure an artistic legacy that lives on today.” Alphonse Mucha: In Quest of Beauty runs until October 29. Tickets are £7/£5 concessions available to buy online at www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mucha. Visitors aged 18 and under go free, as do NML members. Top: Waverley Cycles 1898. Copyright Mucha Trust

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HG ACCESSIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE POLICY AutoPark Barrie | Accessibility Providing Goods and Services to People with Disabilities The Humberview Group (‘HG’) is committed to fostering a healthy and positive environment that respects the personal worth of each member of the Dealership Community – Team Members, Customers, Vendors, Contractors. In partnership with our Team Members and other organizations, HG is committed to ensure that our dealerships are barrier-free – free of attitudinal, communication, physical, technological, and procedural barriers. Our Accessibility Objective is to continue HG’s journey toward accessibility for all persons with disabilities by preventing, identifying, and facilitating the removal of barriers to equal access among such persons including Customers, Team Members, Visitors, and members of the Dealership Community. HG will promote accessibility through its policies, procedures and practices, and by ensuring they have the same address integration, independence, dignity, and equal opportunity. 1. Purpose and Background Information The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (‘the AODA’) is a Provincial Act with the purpose of developing, implementing and mandating accessibility standards in order to achieve accessibility for persons with disabilities, with respect to goods, services, facilities, accommodation, employment, buildings, structures and premises. Under the AODA, Ontario Regulation 429/07, entitled “Accessibility Standards for Customer Service” (‘the Regulation’), came into force on January 1, 2008. The Regulation establishes accessibility standards specific to customer service for public sector organizations and other persons or organizations that provide goods and services to members of the public or third party parties. Effective January 1, 2012 all business with 1 or more employees must meet the requirements of the Regulation. The objective of this policy is to identify what the equal treatment provisions of the Ontario Human Rights Code, through the AODA and the Regulation, require as a minimum legal standard in program design and service delivery to persons with disabilities and addresses the following: The provisions of goods and services to persons with disabilities The use of assistive devices by persons with disabilities The use of service animals by persons with disabilities The use of support persons by persons with disabilities Notice of temporary disruptions in service and facilities Customer feedback regarding the provision of goods and services to persons with disabilities HG strives at all time to provide services in a way that respects the dignity and independence of persons with disabilities. It applies to all members of the Dealership Community, including Team Members, customers, visitors and third party contractors. 3. Policy Statement In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Ontario Regulation 429/07, Accessibility Standards for Customer Service, HG herein also referred to as ‘the Dealership’, is committed to providing a working and learning environment that is accessible and inclusive to all persons who work, purchase goods and services, provide third party services or visit the Dealership. It is the policy of the Dealership that is working and service environments will be free from discrimination and harassment as defined by the Ontario Human Rights Code. 4. General Principles The Provision of Goods and Services to Persons with Disabilities The Dealership will strive to ensure that its policies, practices and procedures are consistent with the following core principles as outlined in the AODA. Dignity – Goods and services are provided in a manner that is respectful to persons with a disability and does not diminish the person’s importance. Independence – Accommodating a person’s disability means respecting their right to do for themselves and to choose the way they wish to receive goods and services. Integration – Persons with disabilities can access all goods and services. This may require alternative formats and flexible approaches. It means inclusiveness and full participation. This is a fundamental human right. Equal Opportunity – Service is provided to persons with disabilities in a way that their opportunity to access goods and services is equal to that given to others. 5. Components of the Policy 5.1 Communication with Persons with Disabilities When communicating with a person with a disability, the Dealership will do so in a manner that takes into account the person’s disability. The Dealership commits to provide training on customer service to all current and future employees. This training will, in particular, include how to interact and communicate with persons with various types of disabilities. 5.2 Notice of Planned or Unplanned Disruption in Services and Facilities In the event of a service disruption at the Dealership affecting Team Members, customers, visitors and third party contractors, it is the responsibility of individual department areas (i.e. Sales and Showroom, Parts, Administration, Service) to take reasonable steps to report such disruption in a timely fashion through appropriate channels. Such channels include, but are not limited to, the HG / Dealership websites, physical postings (temporary signage) on or immediately adjacent to the affected area, and/or communication via email to affected individuals, departments or groups. In accordance with AODA, notice must be conspicuous and indicate any alternatives that exist to allow access to persons with disabilities during the disruption. The required information necessary for any communication of a temporary disruption may include: The time, date and location of the disruption Information about the reason for the disruption Anticipated duration of the disruption Descriptions of alternative facilities or services, if any Contact information for the responsible service area 5.3 Assistive Technology Personal assistive technologies are permitted and unrestricted in all areas of the Dealership to which Team Members, Customers, visitors and third party contractors have access, except when subject to operator safety and Dealership integrity. The Dealership will train, on an ongoing basis, current and future Team Members in the use of various assistive devices and related policies. The Dealership will provide an updated list of various assistive technologies available to Team members and customers (see Appendix A). it should be noted that the provision, use and safety of personal assistive devices is the responsibility of the person with a disability. 5.4 Service Animals Persons with a disability who are accompanied by a service animal may access premises owned or operated by the Dealership, if the public has access to such premises and the animal is not otherwise excluded by law. If a service animal is excluded by law, the Dealership will ensure that alternate means are available within reasonable time and location to provide persons with a disability access to the Dealership’s services. There may be rare circumstances where, for reasons of health and safety of another person, allowing a person with a disability to enter a premise accompanied by a service animal needs to be considered. Example of such situation includes but is not limited to a) where a person is allergic to animals and adversely affected if they are in close proximity to a service animal. If deemed necessary, a risk assessment will be conducted the Dealership’s Joint Health and Safety Committee (‘JHSC’). This assessment will identify a) the risks inherent with the service animal being in the area of concern; and b) alternate measures available to enable the person with a disability to access this service. If it is not readily apparent that an animal is a service animal, the Dealership Management Staff may ask the person with the service animal to provide verification of the animal’s duty. It should be noted that the use and safety of the service animal is the responsibility of the person with a disability. 5.5 Support Persons The dealership welcomes Team Members, customers and visitors who are accompanied by a support person, when the support person has been hired or chosen by the person with a disability to accompany them in order to assist in accessing goods or services and/or for the purposes of providing support with ability, personal assistance and/or communication. Persons with a disability who require a support person may access premises owned and/or operated by the university with their support person, provided the interaction between the person and their support person does not compromise the Dealership’s integrity. Support persons are permitted to accompany person with a disability as they interact with the Dealership Team Members. Individuals who are accompanied by a support person are encouraged to inform relevant persons of their participation (e.g. Reception; Call Centre when booking appointments; Service Advisors; etc.) There may be rare circumstances where, for reasons of health and safety of another person, allowing a person with a disability to enter a premises accompanied by their support person needs to be considered. Examples of such situations include potential fire code violations. If deemed necessary, a risk assessment will be conduct by the JHSC. This assessment will identify: a) the risks inherent with the support person being in the area of concern; and b) alternate measures available to enable the person with a disability to access this service. Support persons shall be permitted entry to all Dealership facilities and meeting areas that are open to the public. 5.6 Feedback Feedback about the delivery of services to persons with disabilities is welcomed, as it may identify areas that require change and assist in continuous service improvement. Such feedback may be by telephone, in person, in writing or by delivering an electronic text via email, or otherwise. The Dealership will make best efforts to provide a response in the same format in which the feedback was received. Where possible, feedback will be addressed immediately. Some feedback may, however, require more effort to address and may need to be reviewed before an action is taken. The Dealership will respond within 21 working days. Information about the feedback process will be posted at the Dealership. Feedback may be provided directly to the Dealership concerned and/or to: The Humberview Group Attn.: Brian Kalte Email: bkalte@humberviewgroup.com 5.7 Training The Dealership shall provide training on AODA customer service to all current employees and, in particular, to those providing services and who are involved in the development and approval of customer service policies, procedures and practices. New employees will be provided such training as part of their orientation, through the New Team Member Orientation program conducted monthly. Such training shall include: A review of the purposes of the AODA and the requirements of the Accessibility Standards for Customer Service; How to interact and communicate with persons with various types of disabilities; How to interact with persons with disabilities who use an assistive device or require the assistance of a service animal or a support person; How to use the available equipment or devices that may assist with the provision of services to persons with disabilities; What to do if a person with a disability is having difficulty in accessing Dealership services; How to develop and review policies, procedures and practices relating to the provision of services to persons with disabilities. 5.8 Availability and Format of Documents (Alternative Formats) All documents required by the Accessibility Standards for Customer Service, including the Dealership’s Accessible Customer Service Policy, notices of temporary disruptions, training records and written feedback process are available upon request, subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (‘FIPPA’). When providing these documents to a person with a disability, the Dealership will endeavor to provide the document, or the information contained in the document, in a format that takes the person’s disability into account. Notice of the available of documents required by the Accessibility Standards for Customer Service will be posted on the HG website, http://www.humberviewgroup.com/ Accessible means obtainable, usable, readable, audible, visible, understandable, clear, able to be entered and exited, flexible, etc. To be accessible to all people, a variety of accessibility plans are necessary and under review. Ensuring inclusive practices will ensure that all goods and services can be accessed by a larger audience. Alternative Formats refers to alternate ways to provide goods and services. This may be through forms of communication such as speech or writing, or methods such as in person or over the phone. Other examples are large print, electronic text (Word or html), Braille, sign language interpretation, communication devices, media caption, etc. Assistive Devices are equipment that people with disabilities utilize to assist in their daily lives at home, work, school, etc. Such devices could be a walker, scooter, can, magnification or specialized learning software, communication board, etc. Assistive Technology is equipment or software such as screen reading, audio recording and voice recognition which people with disabilities use to obtain information and communicate with others. Customer is the term used in the AODA Legislation to describe patrons, stakeholders or anyone in receipt of goods and services. The primary recipients of a Dealership’s services are the Team Members, Customers, who use its facilities. Dealership Premises are any buildings and/or lands owned, leased, operated, controlled or supervised by the Dealership. Disability Under the AODA, the definition of ‘disability’ is the same as the definition in the Ontario Human Rights code: (a) Any degree of physical disability, infirmity, malformation or disfigurement that is caused by bodily injury, birth defect or illness and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes diabetes, epilepsy, a brain injury, any degree of paralysis, amputation, lack of physical coordination, blindness or visual impediment, deafness or hearing impediment, muteness or speech impediment, or physical reliance on a guide dog or other animal, or on a wheelchair or other remedial appliance or device; (b) A condition of mental impairment or a developmental disability; (c) A learning disability, or a dysfunction in one or more of the processes involved in understanding or using symbols or spoken language; (d) A mental disorder; or (e) An injury or disability for which benefits were claimed or received under the insurance plan established under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997. Team Member refers to any Dealership employee. Service Animal The Regulation defines a ‘service animal’ as an ‘animal for a person with disability.’ In this policy, a service animal is any animal used by a person with a disability for reasons relating to the disability or where the person provides a letter from a physician confirming that they require the animal for reasons relating to their disability; or where the person provides a valid identification card signed by the Attorney General of Canada or a certificate of training from a recognized guide dog or service animal training school. Support Person is someone who accompanies a person with a disability in order to assist them. Their assistance may include, but is not limited to, communication, mobility, personal care, medical needs or with access to goods or services. This policy may be made available in alternative formats upon request.

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Fort Wayne Man Sentenced to Prison For Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm FORT WAYNE – Tyson Hudson, age 34, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady upon his plea of guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Hudson was sentenced to 90 months in prison followed by 2 years of supervised release. According to documents in this case, in February 2019 Hudson was found in possession of 3 handguns after being convicted and sentenced in federal court for distribution of 5 grams or more of crack cocaine in 2007. The handguns found during the search warrant of Mr. Hudson’s residence consisted of .45 caliber pistol, a 9mm pistol, and a .25 caliber pistol. Mr. Hudson was also in possession of ammunition. The case was investigated by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Fort Wayne Police Department. The case was handled by Assistant United States Attorney Lesley J. Miller Lowery.

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Home > Atlas Network The Atlas Network Every day you go new places. Sometimes it's just a small change in how you do things in your organization. Sometimes it's actually moving things to new places on the globe. As an agent of Atlas Van Lines - one of the world's best known and most trusted names in moving - we're here to help. Whether your need is in household goods moving and relocation services, commercial/office and industrial, or specialized transportation and logistics, we look forward to serving you. We're proud to be part of a strong network that works together to provide our customers with the very best solutions in the industry. Nearly 500 Atlas agents span the U.S. and Canada, and hundreds more international partners help us serve customers globally. The combined network enables Atlas to move anything or anyone, virtually any place in the world. Atlas agents bring innovation and the utmost in value to their customers on a daily basis. Each Atlas agency is individually owned and operated by independent business men and women who share a commitment to the standards for service and customer satisfaction that set Atlas apart as a worldwide moving leader. As an agent-owned van line, Atlas operates to further the success of its agents and their ability to serve customers. Likewise, each Atlas agency has a personal stake in the satisfaction of all Atlas customers, regardless of the agency who is performing their move. This commitment distinguishes the Atlas brand with a reputation for excellence, and it is why both Atlas agents and headquarters staff calls this network The Atlas Family. Whatever it takes to get the job done right, Atlas agents are there for each other to ensure every customer is satisfied. Whether it's coordinating an office relocation from one end of the country to another or moving an employee to a new country for a company work assignment, Atlas agents do what it takes to make the process as smooth as possible for everyone involved. Every day we go new places with you.

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Rural schools in S.D. face unique challenges that can affect learning South Dakota is one of the most rural states in the nation when it comes to public education, with 40% of students statewide attending rural schools. Rural schools in S.D. face unique challenges that can affect learning South Dakota is one of the most rural states in the nation when it comes to public education, with 40% of students statewide attending rural schools. Check out this story on argusleader.com: https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2019/11/15/south-dakota-news-watch-education-rural-schools/4201638002/ Bart Pfankuch, SD News Watch Published 10:31 a.m. CT Nov. 15, 2019 Small, rural school systems in South Dakota and across the country face sometimes daunting challenges in providing a strong education to students. Limited funding, difficulty in hiring and retaining good teachers, remoteness and transportation challenges, high poverty rates among students and reduced access to college-preparatory courses can all hamper learning in small, isolated school districts. South Dakota is one of the most rural states in the nation when it comes to public education, with the vast majority of school districts located in rural areas and with 40% of students statewide attending rural schools. Rural educators often tout the generally lower student-teacher ratios and close relationships formed between students and staffs, and scores on standardized tests show that students in some rural South Dakota districts match and occasionally outperform their urban peers. But a new national study of small, rural school systems ranked South Dakota as fifth-highest in the nation in terms of challenges faced and need for improvement. More SD News Watch: Severe dental diseases persist in S.D. due to chronic poverty and lack of access to dentists The study by the Rural School and Community Trust, titled “Why Rural Matters 2018-19,” used census information and data from the U.S. Department of Education and other sources in an attempt to shine a light on the need for states to focus more attention on and provide greater funding to rural schools. “We do this study because rural schools and communities really matter to our nation, and they’re often forgotten,” said Alan Richard, a spokesman for the Rural School and Community Trust. “The financial and logistical challenges that rural schools face are really immense.” The study found that nationally, nearly one in six rural students lives in poverty, that one in seven qualifies for special education and that one in nine rural students has moved in the past year. All of those factors put rural students at risk of falling behind or not graduating. A high student-mobility rate is one of the factors hampering rural education in South Dakota, the study found. Researchers also said South Dakota is one of only seven states that decreased funding for rural schools in recent years, and that the state has a high rate of students living in poverty. The study also pointed out that about one in six rural students in South Dakota fails to graduate high school, and that less than 4% of those who do graduate have passed an Advanced Placement course, which can qualify them for college credit or enhance their ability to get into universities. Rural educators in South Dakota acknowledge that they face many of the challenges highlighted by the rural school study. They sometimes struggle to find, hire and retain highly qualified teachers, to reach students in poverty and to fully prepare students for college. But Amy Ferley, superintendent of the Edgemont School District in far southwestern South Dakota, said there are intangible benefits to a rural education that may not show up in statistics or in standardized-test results. In the remote Edgemont district, teachers and administrators are able to form close relationships with students and their parents that allow for more individualized learning. Students hang out quietly in the commons area at Woonsocket High School. Research shows that a lack of funding and resources provided to rural schools can sometimes hamper learning, though testing data shows that small schools sometimes outperform larger districts in South Dakota. (Photo: Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch) “We have 160 kids, so we know their names and their siblings’ names and their parents’ names and probably their dogs’ names,” Ferley said. “We’re trying to meet those kids at an individual level because it takes a special relationship between teachers and students to understand what kids need, and what they don’t, and how they shine in different areas.” Those close relationships — and strong support from the local community — help offset some of the funding, staffing and logistical challenges faced by small districts, said Rod Weber, superintendent of the Woonsocket School District in east-central South Dakota. “I credit our school for having a staff that makes our school the best in the area,” he said. “A lot of it also has to do with what our community has done to support the schools and make a lot of improvements to make it a viable place to live for young families.” Research highlights rural school issues Recent research in South Dakota and nationally backs up many of the conclusions of the Rural School and Community Trust study. A 2017 study of the South Dakota teacher workforce by the Rockefeller Institute of Government highlighted some of the challenges faced by small, rural districts. Across the state, the study found that the student population increased at double the rate of hiring of new teachers from 2006-2016. The study also found that teacher turnover was higher in rural districts compared with urban school systems, and that small, rural schools had fewer experienced teachers, fewer teachers with advanced degrees and fewer certified teachers than in larger urban districts. A 2018 study by the Center for Public Education within the National School Boards Association found that rural schools are often left out of critical policy discussions and are therefore less likely to be the target of state efforts at reform, improvement or funding increases. The study found that, counter to conventional wisdom, child poverty exists at a higher rate in rural counties (64%) compared with urban areas (47%) and tends to be more persistent and experienced more deeply than in urban areas, where more public resources may exist. News Watch logo (Photo: Submitted) Some rural areas, such as Native American-dominated communities in South Dakota, also have much higher rates of minority students who face learning challenges related to language and poverty. Several studies have shown that schools with high minority populations undergo the highest rates of teacher turnover. The CPE study also found that rural districts in America receive only 17% of total education funding, even though roughly half of school districts in the country are considered rural, and that more than 20% of students attend rural schools. The study concludes with the statement that, “The image many have of rural America — pristine, idyllic and untouched by modern problems — is obviously outdated.” The study urges educators and policymakers to ensure that rural schools are given greater focus in terms of study, discussion and efforts at improvement. The “Why Rural Matters” schools study placed South Dakota well above other Great Plains states in terms of needing improvement in its rural schools. According to the study, South Dakota ranked fifth in highest priority for improvement, compared to 21st for North Dakota, 28th for Montana, 30th for Minnesota, 36th for Nebraska and 42nd for Wyoming. Funding limits heighten challenges Insufficient funding — a challenge also faced by South Dakota’s larger school districts — exacerbates many issues that arise in rural schools, educators and researchers said. Research has consistently shown that while increasing teacher pay may or may not improve learning, improved funding of education overall has a positive impact on learning. “Unfortunately, the lower investment states make in their rural schools and student achievement often correlate,” said Richard. “It just makes sense because if you don’t have the same resources as other schools, you’re going to struggle to find, keep and support the educators you need, and you will struggle to support the same educational programs that urban schools will have.” Like many states, South Dakota funds its public school system through a combination of direct state funding and local property-tax collections, which have a maximum cap set by the state. General school funding has risen only slightly in recent years in South Dakota. Education did get a boost in the state starting in 2016, when a .5% hike in the state sales tax began generating about $67 million a year in new revenue for education, though the vast majority went toward raising teacher salaries out of last place in the nation. Allen Pratt, executive director of the National Rural Education Association, said some states have aided small-population or rural school districts by creating a special funding stipend based on school population and need. States could also alter per-student funding formulas to account for funding shortfalls in rural districts with small student counts or low local property-tax bases. “If you take the Dakotas and other states that are really high in rural population, there needs to be a shift or an adjustment to help fund those rural schools to level the playing field,” Pratt said. South Dakota does have a special allocation available to “sparse” rural school districts that are taxing local properties at the maximum level and still show a need for more funding, though the payment tops out at $110,000 per district. The high need for additional funding among South Dakota school systems is evidenced by the high number of districts that have enacted so-called “opt outs,” in which local school boards agree by vote or a community referendum to tax local properties at a higher rate than the state allows to raise new money for education. In 2018, about 45% of the state’s 149 school districts — many of them rural in nature — had an opt-out in place to generate more tax revenues for education. Another option for rural states is to enact programs or policies that create “wraparound” services, or those that engage state agencies to work both in communities and in schools, Pratt said. For example, a mental-health counselor who works for a state agency in a small town could schedule visits to the local school to help students who are struggling, thereby helping the school avoid hiring its own counselor. The same arrangement could provide help to students with drug and alcohol problems or even gifted students who need help to reach their full potential. “I know there’s only one pot of money, but it’s important to find other agencies within the state that can help address the needs of the schools,” Pratt said. Two leaders push schools forward Weber, who has spent 17 years as superintendent in Woonsocket (population about 650), said the biggest challenge in raising the quality of education in a small district is hiring and retaining good teachers. The district tries to remain competitive with bigger neighbors in terms of pay, offering a $37,000 starting salary and a $12,000 annual benefit package. Weber said he encourages teachers to settle in or around town and preferably buy a home as a way to increase their connection to the community. Of the 39 staff members in the system, only two live outside the district boundaries, he said. Small districts also must work through highly shifting enrollment levels, Weber said. His district has grown by about 100 students in recent years, which is a good sign that has led to more state revenues. But fluctuations still cause stress, he said. “In these small schools, you’re on a roller coaster for enrollment,” he said. “You might have a class of 25 kids graduate as seniors and have only eight come in as kindergarteners. At that point, you’re looking at next year’s funding being down about $85,000 to $100,000.” Instability like that has led Woonsocket to approve several opt-outs over the years, including one that now enables the district to raise the tax levy by up to $250,000 if needed. The Woonsocket, S.D. school complex lies across the street from a lake and next to a church, underlying what administrators of rural schools say is an often close connection between small schools and the communities where they reside. (Photo: Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch) Like many small school administrators and teachers, Weber serves multiple roles, also working as the school principal and athletic director. The district’s most recent state report card test results (53% proficient in English language, 40% in math and 28% in science) are all slightly below state averages (54% in English, 46% in math and 40% in science), but Weber wonders if that is only because students are ambivalent about taking standardized tests. Weber has tried to be innovative and flexible to keep educational standards high. His school promotes college readiness by offering courses through the South Dakota Virtual School, and has a program through Northern State University to offer some dual-enrollment classes. On a recent day, Weber walked through the high school commons where a few students were studying or quietly chatting. He pointed out that the school library was merged with the community library as a way to save money and keep both libraries open. Late that afternoon, Weber saved the time of a classroom teacher by monitoring an upper-class study hall with a single pop-in visit and by then watching the students through a window in his office. Overall, Weber said he feels good about the education his district is providing to students. “I really do think we have good teachers in our small schools and we’re offering everything, all the classes, that bigger schools are,” he said. Ferley, the superintendent in Edgemont (population about 700), agreed that developing a strong instructional staff is a challenge in small, remote districts. Several veteran teachers in Edgemont are soon to retire, and many teachers must handle several subjects or multiple variations of a single subject. Finding specialized teachers, such as those certified in special education, is difficult for a remote district, she said. Starting teachers make $36,450 with about $7,200 in benefits for a single person. The Edgemont schools have a relatively high rate — about 56% — of all students receiving free or reduced lunches, a common standard of low-income students. The district also sees significant transience among students, which Ferley said can make learning a challenge for students who come and go. Despite those factors, the district’s most recent standardized proficiency scores are close to the statewide averages in English (45%) and science (41%), though lower in math (33%). While she said most teacher requests for equipment and supplies are quickly met, the district has larger logistical concerns while due to operating mostly in buildings constructed 80 to 90 years ago. Rod Weber, superintendent of schools in Woonsocket, also serves as principal of the high school and district athletic director. Weber also enables a teacher to have more classroom time by agreeing to monitor an afternoon study hall by watching students through his office window. (Photo: Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch) Rather than seeking opt-outs or borrowing to generate new money, she said the district has saved up to pay for major improvements in recent years, including for a new boiler and air-conditioning system. The Edgemont district has found other innovative ways to save money. Several years ago, the district stopped running buses — which was expensive and left some students to endure extremely long bus rides — and now instead provides parents with mileage reimbursement for transporting their children. Ferley also spoke proudly of a recent effort she said illustrated the deep commitment that the Edgemont community has to its schools. When the district needed to upgrade its sports fields, local donors provided most of the money, equipment and labor to build a sparkling new track and football complex, Ferley said. That level of commitment, she said, can also be found within the teachers and staff who work in the district. “The teachers here work hard and they really care, and I would put my teachers up against those in any district in the state,” Ferley said. “There is hope and we’re working really hard because we really love these kids and we want the best for them.” Read or Share this story: https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2019/11/15/south-dakota-news-watch-education-rural-schools/4201638002/ Suspect in kidnapping, homicide charged with murder Deutsch: Transgender surgeries resemble Holocaust medical experiments Taco Town Buffet closes Sioux Falls location, according to Facebook post 'I ain't do (expletive)': Murder, kidnapping suspect has outburst in court Sioux Falls transient arrested for groping woman at local motel, police say 'Legend.' How Kobe Bryant is being memorialized on Sioux Falls billboards

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Dayhoff: Annual Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair steeped in history and tradition By Kevin Dayhoff Carroll County Times | A “program of events” found in an 1871 publication of the American Sentinel, refers to a “Grand Exhibition of Farm machinery under the auspices of the Carroll County Agriculture Society on the Fair Grounds, Westminster, MD…” (Courtesy of “Legacy of the Land” by Carol Lee) This year’s annual Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair at the Agriculture Center officially runs from July 27 through Aug. 2. On Tuesday, July 16, local agriculture historian, Andy Cashman, the longstanding Maryland State Fair manager, gave a talk on the history of agricultural fairs for the Historical Society of Carroll County Box Lunch Talk (BLT.) End of summer harvest festivals and “fairs” are a tradition that is as old as the history of agriculture. In the United States, before 1865, the business of farming was, for the most part, a subsistence existence. Economic historians note that it was the period between 1865 and 1900 when there was intense agricultural unrest in the country which had profound economic and political repercussions that remain a part of public policy to this day. Historian Carol Lee, the author of “Legacy of the Land,” refers to this period in Carroll County, from 1861–1895, as the “Long Depression.” 2019 Carroll County 4-H Fair Schedule » The first mention of an actual Carroll County "fair" seems to have been in 1869. However, Dr. Joshua Hering describes, in a history of Westminster, "Recollections," that in the days immediately following the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-4, 1863, "A temporary camp was made in a field on the 'Fairground Hill,' immediately to the left of the turnpike." Certainly an agriculture based community such as Carroll County had harvest "fairs" before 1869? Surprisingly no research at this point supports that premise. Why this area, northeast of Colonial Avenue and East Main Street, was called "Fairground Hill" as early as 1863 remains a mystery. Historian Nancy Warner writes in her book, "Carroll County Maryland, A History," that on Jan. 11, 1869, the Carroll County Agricultural Society was organized "at a meeting at the Court House… [Subsequently] Thirty acres of land was bought between the present location of Fair Street and Malcolm Drive…" It is believed that the first fair after the January 1869 meeting took place that year on July 4. Several years later, a "program of events" found in an 1871 publication of the American Sentinel, refers to a "Grand Exhibition of Farm machinery under the auspices of the Carroll County Agriculture Society on the Fair Grounds, Westminster, MD…" President Ulysses Grant visited the Carroll County Agricultural Fair on Oct. 2, 1873, according to Catherine Baty, the curator of collections at the Historical Society of Carroll County. Carroll’s talents will compete at Fair to open for up-and-coming country star Riley Green » Nancy Warner notes in her book that," Grant "arrived in Westminster at 12:30 p.m. for a 'day at the fair.' After a reception at the railroad depot the president, waited upon by the mayor and City Council, visited the fair, toured the town… the Western Maryland College grounds… At 5:20 p.m. the president's train left Westminster for Baltimore." According to a history published in the 1997 Carroll County Fair Guide, the current version of the fair celebrates its roots going back to a picnic held Aug. 14, 1897 at the Otterdale Schoolhouse, in Taneytown. The current fair’s website reports, “In the morning there was a parade to the Goulden’s Grove, preceded by the Taneytown Band, then had prayer and music before lunch. In the afternoon speakers from the Maryland Agriculture Institute were asked to address the crowd and bring the farmers up to date on the new institute. … By July 29, 1899, 2,000 attended and a “WELCOME” arch was erected at the approach which remained a tradition at the entrance of the fair for years to come.” According to Cashman, in those days the fair progressed “From seven acres of carriages in Goulden’s Grove to July 30, 1904 when 2000 automobiles came to the event [at a subsequent location at] Ohler’s Grove…” The fair moved to Westminster in 1954, to what we now know as the Carroll County Agriculture Center, which was established as a private organization on March 20, 1954. At the time, the land was purchased at the end of an old dirt farm lane off Gist Road, way outside of town, by visionary local farmers and community leaders. The annual fair is a favorite topic of mine — and portions of this discussion have been published before. For more information on the annual Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair, and this year’s fair schedule, go to carrollcountyfair.com. For more information on the Maryland State Fair, go to marylandstatefair.com The Historical Society Box Lunch Talk (BLT) program attracts scores of local history enthusiasts every month. These hour-long events begin promptly at noon on the third Tuesday of every month in Grace Hall, Grace Lutheran Church; 21 Carroll Street, Westminster: gracelc.org. Free parking is available in the lot on Carroll Street. To see the current Historical Society BLT schedule, check out the calendar online: hsccmd.org/programs-and-events, or give the Historical Society a call at 410-848-6494. Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. Email him at kevindayhoff@gmail.com.

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SIKTH Begins Work On New Studio Album SIKTH, the U.K.'s progressive metal forefathers, have commenced recording their brand new studio album. The as-yet-untitled third LP will be their first new full-length since 2006's "Death Of A Dead Day" and follows on from last year's acclaimed "Opacities" EP, recorded after their reunion performance at the U.K.'s legendary Download festival. The new album is scheduled for a May 2017 release, with the first single and video, titled "No Wishbones", due to be released on Friday, February 10. SIKTH vocalist Mikee Goodman reveals how the recording sessions are progressing: "We've started recording and it is sounding really vibey so far. This album should be a lot more aggressive than our 'Opacities' EP on the whole. A lot of slamming grooves there, also lots of intricacy and dynamics as always." He goes on to explain the creative process within the band. "There is a formula in SIKTH which works well," he says. "I always take the lead in the early stages and also I write all lyrics. But, of course, I am open to Joe Rosser, our new vocalist's melodic input later on. We have not entered that stage yet. These initial steps are me laying my ideas in. Since I have a great studio setup, if I do something awesome now, it goes straight on the record. That's a great thing, because, as most vocalists will tell you, it's all about the vibe and feeling. It's all about the moment." The vocals are primarily being recorded at Mikee's own studio and at Adrian Smith's (IRON MAIDEN) R&R Studios; Mikee and Adrian Smith worked together previously on the PRIMAL ROCK REBELLION project. The guitars and drums will be recorded at the renowned Monkey Puzzle House studios. Dan Weller will be producing, alongside Adam "Nolly" Getgood (PERIPHERY), handling mixing duties. The new album is to be released via Millennium Night, the newly created imprint from Snapper Music, home of Peaceville Records and Kscope. The label imprint name, chosen by SIKTH, comes from the track taken from their debut 2003 album, "The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait for Something Wild". Mikee explains: "We have signed to Millennium Night, which is a new division of Snapper Music; they decided they would invent a new label just for us, we don't fit in and we never felt the need to." Ahead of the release of the new studio album, SIKTH will head out on tour across Europe with TRIVIUM. Tags: sikth SLIPKNOT, ROB ZOMBIE And LIMP BIZKIT To Headline ROCK USA Festival STYX Drummer TODD SUCHERMAN To Release 'Last Flight Home' Solo Album NIGHTWISH Becomes First Band Ever To Be Given Permission To Hold Shoot At London's Natural History Museum IRON MAIDEN's NICKO MCBRAIN Offers Detailed Look At His Signature Icarus Drum Kit (Video) BUTCHER BABIES' CARLA HARVEY: 'I've Been A Huge PANTERA Fan Since I Was A Kid' Space Ninjas From Hell VESSEL OF LIGHT Thy Serpent Rise

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Balkans Blog BALKAN BLOG: Apathy greets suspected top-level coverup in Bulgaria The Apartmentgate scandal concerned purchased of luxury properties — mostly high-end flats in Sofia (pictured) or country villas — by top officials at well below market value. By Denitsa Koseva in Sofia June 29, 2019 When Bulgaria’s anti-corruption body found no signs of any irregularity in the “Apartmentgate” scandal that had gripped the nation for months, it raised serious questions about the lack of institutional independence and in-depth investigation. Most people, however, greeted the news with apathy and there was a general lack of energy to protest. The silence from Bulgarians comes at a time when in Czechia hundreds of thousands are protesting against their Prime Minister Andrej Babis and demanding his resignation because of a corruption scandal. In Bulgaria’s neighbour Romania, mass protests have several times stopped attempts by the authorities to impede the fight against corruption. The Apartmentgate scandal, which broke a few months before the May EU parliamentary election, concerned purchases of high-end properties — mainly luxury Sofia apartments and country villas — by government and ruling party officials. As the revelations piled up, the scandal cost the jobs of several top politicians from the ruling Gerb party and threatened the party’s election victory. However, in a decision announced in late June, Bulgaria’s anti-corruption commission found no irregularities. From anger to apathy Unlike back in 2013, when thousands of Bulgarians protested for months, angered by the attempt of the then government to appoint businessman Delyan Peevski as head of the State Agency for National Security, now no one seems to care anymore. This also contrasts with earlier protests during the current Gerb-led government headed by Boyko Borissov. Apartmentgate is just the latest of many scandals accompanying Borissov’s third government. In the first few months, many Bulgarians were out protesting for various reasons. The peak came at the beginning of Bulgaria’s six-month presidency of the European Council, when Sofia saw 11 different protests in just one day. However, over time the energy for protests seems to be fading away and now people are more inclined to voice their objections on social media rather than going out on the streets. Many have commented that if the ruling of the anti-corruption commission is not enough to get people onto the streets, then nothing will. Lost energy In short it seems that Bulgarians have lost the energy to fight against corruption after being faced with so many examples of dependence between institutions and lack of justice for those in power. The country has been widely criticised for the lack of any progress in the fight against top level corruption. The prosecution has attempted to deliver some results, but so far the only people who have actually been sentenced were an independent mayor of one of Sofia’s districts and her deputy. The two were accused of taking a €70,000 bribe for allowing the construction of building and arrested in a highly controversial action by the special forces. Dessislava Ivancheva, mayor of Sofia’s Mladost district, and her deputy Bilyana Petrova were arrested in April 2018 and held handcuffed on the street for hours without being allowed to use a toilet. Many people were angered by the arrest, claiming that Ivancheva was arrested as she was independent and had been chasing corrupt practices among construction companies operating in her district. The trial of the two was also marred by controversies and when they were sentenced to 15 and 10 years in jail respectively, many people, including judges and lawyers, had serious doubts as to whether their guilt was actually proven. Ivancheva and Petrova are appealing the sentences and suing Bulgaria in Strasbourg for breach of their human rights. It was a similar story with Apartmentgate: virtually all the top officials accused of acquiring apartments at well below market price — including the head of the anti-corruption body — were exonerated. The one exception was the wife of Supreme Court of Cassation head Lozan Panov, whose activities the commission said needs further investigation. This development has raised concerns as since the beginning many within Bulgaria saw the scandal as an opportunity for the prosecution to find a way to remove Panov from his position due to his apparent independence and refusal to serve those in power. Moreover, the report on Panev’s wife was not published by the same investigative media that revealed the property purchases by members of the ruling party and by the anti-corruption body’s head Plamen Georgiev, but appeared on a website belonging to media mogul Peevski. Other than Ivancheva and Petrova, no politician has ever been sentenced for corruption. All investigations and trials so far have either been against members of the opposition, or have been quickly ended. More of the same on the horizon While the belief that state institutions will not take any action anyway is one major driver for the lack of any significant reaction to the end of the Apartmentgate scandal, the fear that there is no meaningful alternative to Gerb is the other big factor that is killing the desire of Bulgarians to protest. The other major party in parliament, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) has lost even more credibility than Gerb as its leader Kornelia Ninova has chosen to take more radical stances, bringing the party closer to the far-right United Patriots — Gerb’s junior coalition partner — rather than offering better alternative to the current government. Meanwhile, newcomers like the anti-corruption coalition Democratic Bulgaria, while gaining popularity, are far from having any chance of winning a majority for the moment. It remains to be seen whether representing itself as alternative to Gerb and so far refusing the option to enter into coalition with Borissov’s party will help Democratic Bulgaria gain momentum in the local elections this autumn. BALKAN BLOG: North Macedonia’s ex-chief special prosecutor on trial BALKAN BLOG: Straightforward handover of power to Kosovan opposition suddenly gets complicated About Balkans Blog Reflections from our correspondents on the ground in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Romania.

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A non-profit newspaper serving the Beach, Beach Hill, Birch Cliff, Cliffside, Crescent Town, East Danforth, Gerrard India Bazaar, Leslieville, and Upper Beach since 1972. Everyone Has a Story to Tell Eye on Business Beach Memories The Main Menu Reel Beach On The Wild Side Design and Style Views East Ender Environment Views Horticultural Matters On The Child Side Veterinary Views A Child’s World Glenn Cochrane’s Corner Money, Life and Law School Views Welcome at Home Write on Health Garden Views: Arrival of new year means rebirth of local gardens can be looked forward to January 29, 2020 Super Bowl party planned for Feb. 2 at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 11 January 29, 2020 Beach director Robin Bicknell’s documentary to be featured on upcoming episode of The Nature of Things January 29, 2020 Gang Prevention Town Hall meeting to be held at Crescent Town Club January 28, 2020 Open house on Ontario Line plans set for Metropolitan Community Church on Jan. 28 January 28, 2020 In the Beach, every memorial plaque tells a story January 14, 2020January 13, 2020 Hundreds of memorial plaques on trees and benches along the lakefront in the Beach pay tribute to and tell the stories of those they were intended to honour. Erwin Buck recenly decided to find out more about some of the people who are mentioned on those plaques, and to photograph them. Photos by Erwin Buck. By ERWIN BUCK For years I’ve walked past the memorial plaques on local benches and at the foot of trees without really paying much attention to them. Last year, one of the tree plaques caught my attention – Dorothy Adams: “Dorothy Has Left The Party”. I know Adam’s daughter, Cynthia, so I asked her for the back story. Her mother loved parties, and after a stroke, she held a “Thank God I’m Alive Party”. Some years later when she passed away at age 82, her family discovered that she had planned her own wake, complete with guest list and a caterer. She wanted it to be called “Dorothy Has Left the Party”. I started looking at other plaques. A bench dedication, along the Boardwalk near the Balmy Beach Club caught my attention – Daniela Withers: “She never missed a deadline” made me want to know more, so I did some digging. Daniela, or Danny as she was known, was a journalist in Johannesburg. Although apartheid had ended and there were free elections, the country was still plagued by violence and crime. She and her husband Gary decided, along with their two young children, to move to Canada. Soon Danny became one of the first employees at the about-to-be-launched National Post. She became a Canadian citizen and was proud of her new home with its peaceful multicultural society. These two plaques piqued my curiosity enough to start a project of photographing every plaque between Silverbirch and the far western end of Ashbridges Bay Park. There are more than 500 plaques and I probably missed a few. After photographing them, I was able to read them more closely at my leisure. And then with the help of the internet, I began to fill in some of details of the lives of those memorialized. In the outer part of Ashbridges Bay Park is a memorial plaque to Donald Peter Kerr: “Geographer, Scholar and a Gentleman”. Kerr was indeed a renowned geographer who had the distinction of being one of the first babies delivered at the new Women’s College Hospital. Among other positions, he was chairman of the department of geography at U of T where he co-authored many academic papers and books on climate and urban studies. Close to the Balmy Beach Club are several memorials to former club members – Frank “Ike” Commins, who played in the 1927 and 1930 Grey Cup, and “Colonel” William John Worthy who was the War Canoe Champion and, in his own right, a “Legend by the Lake”. Also, long-time Beach residents may remember Larry “Hot Tub” Hayes, a long standing BBC member, to whom “every day was Christmas” according to his memorial plaque. Larry is well remembered for his “infamous” annual charity hot tub event. The entire age spectrum from infancy to old age is celebrated by these plaques. A dedication for Eadgar Isaac Gradek-Szabunio reads: “Imagine a love so strong that saying hello and goodbye in the same day was worth it.” An unsigned plaque reads: “Though we never held you in our arms, we will forever hold you in our hearts.” Beside the Silverbirch Boat House, grandmother Theresa Kelly is remembered with “The Gramma Tree” while at the other end of the Beach, grandfather Ronald Forshaw, known as “Craggy” to his five grandchildren, has a plaque that reads “May the 4th be with you”. The back stories of some memorials are well known because they touched the Beach community deeply. At the foot of Lee Avenue is a well-tended memorial to 18-year-old Reese Fallon, a victim of the Danforth Shooting in July of 2018. Jane Creba is memorialized near the volleyball courts. She died on Boxing Day of 2005 on Yonge Street at the age of 15, also a victim of gunfire. As tragic is Dominic Parker who was the victim of a random act of violence while sitting in a cafe on the Danforth. The 45 year old father of two is memorialized on a bench and a tree. Along the boardwalk by the snack bar at Kew Gardens Park is a plaque dedicated to Reed Curtis Burmingham. Affectionately known as “Batman”, Reed was a lifeguard at the Leuty Lifeguard Station and a student at the Centennial College’s Police Foundations program. At age 21, he was diagnosed with a rare form of Hodgkin lymphoma. He succumbed to the disease eight months later. A plaque in the same area is dedicated to Jamieson Kuhlmann, a 15-year-old player with the Toronto Beaches Lacrosse team. During a game, there was an on-field collision and Kuhlmann died of his injuries. Further along the Boardwalk are two plaques dedicated to Alex Gillespie, a teenager who died on Lake Shore Boulevard East while trying to cross to catch a bus. Family relationships are often celebrated with plaques. Nana and Pop Campbell are remembered on a bench which reads: “Jay sat here, and Johnny sat beside her.” Ken and Vera Ainsworth “fell in love walking the boardwalk and watching the boats.” Pauline and Alf Best “met at this boathouse in 1940. Lived, loved and served The Beach.” In front of the Donald D. Summerville swimming pool, are eight tree memorials in a row dedicated to Con and Eithne Carrol and their children. At the bottom of Hammersmith, there is an older bronze plaque dedicated to Earl Seymour who died in 1999. Earl was a well known saxophonist who played with Blood, Sweat and Tears, among others, and toured with Neil Sedaka. You can still find him on YouTube, playing Gimme that Wine. Another musician I came across was Richard George Tait, a trumpet and keyboard player, composer and producer. “Not bad for a kid from the Prairies” he used to say. Leonard Cohen’s lyrics turned up on two plaques: Hershel Russell’s has a lesser known verse of Hallelujah and an unsigned memorial reads: “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”. Between Leuty and Lee avenues is a lane named after Peggy Delaney. Lovingly called the “Matriarch of the Irish Community,” she played an immense role in many Irish cultural and aid organizations over the years including the annual Bloomsday Festival held in The Beach on June 16. There’s a bench at the foot of Fernwood Park dedicated to “the Eternally Elegant Peggy Delaney” and to her husband, “the Eternally Charming Cormac O’Shea”. I was pleased to rediscover a tree dedicated to a former neighbour and friend – Irene Taylor. A mother of four, Irene and her family were well known in the halcyon days on Leuty in the 1980s when there were many young families and the neighbourhood was teeming with children. Sadly, Irene lost a battle with cancer in her mid-forties. Every plaque has a story to tell. I have only scratched the surface of some of the back stories of the lives of the people to whom the memorials are dedicated. No doubt there is a story for every plaque. If you have a back story that you would be willing to share, please email me at erwinbuck@hotmail.com. And finally, here are some words of wisdom to live by, found on the plaques: “As soon as you forget yourself, you’ll find yourself” (Liisa), and “Live well, laugh often, love much” (Ed & Vicky Jacko). Did you enjoy this article? If so, you may consider becoming a Voluntary Subscriber to the Beach Metro Community News and help us continue providing the community with more local content such as this. For over 40 years, our staff have worked hard to be the eyes and ears in your community, inform you of upcoming events, and let you know what and who’s making a difference. We cover the big stories as well as the little things that often matter the most. 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Three BA cabin crew were killed in New Year’s Eve lorry crash, airline says Two men and a woman travelling in a Toyota Yaris car died at the scene in Stanwell, Surrey. The scene of the crash in Stanwell, Surrey (PA) By Helen William, PA January 1 2020 12:37 PM The three people who were killed in a New Year’s Eve lorry crash near Heathrow Airport were British Airways cabin crew, the airline has said. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/three-ba-cabin-crew-were-killed-in-new-years-eve-lorry-crash-airline-says-38826631.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/a2f9c/38826628.ece/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_719d54d5-94fd-4a11-9353-dae4eb80310a_1 The two men, aged 25 and 23, and a 20-year-old woman who died at the scene – along with a 25 year-old woman in a serious condition in hospital – are all believed to have been friends. A BA said: “We’re deeply saddened to learn of the death of our colleagues involved in a road traffic collision last night. “Our thoughts are with their family and friends, who we are supporting at this distressing time.” Sadly we're now able to confirm that three people died following the collision in #Stanwell last night. If you saw the collision involving a HGV and Toyota Yaris on Bedfont Rd at 11.39pm, please get in touch. https://t.co/aRzZnuGxFe pic.twitter.com/1nWQziqbZf — Surrey Police (@SurreyPolice) January 1, 2020 The off-duty BA cabin crew were in a white Toyota Yaris when was involved in a crash with a white Mercedes HGV at the junction of Bedfont Road and Long Lane in Stanwell, Surrey, at 11.39pm. The lorry, which was part of a fleet which is operated by air services provider dnata, left the road and ended up in nearby Longford River. The lorry driver was taken to hospital as a precaution. It is believed that all four cabin crew were friends and two of them had finished work at about 6pm, while the other two were on a day off and not scheduled to be on duty. British Airways has said three of its staff were killed in a lorry crash in Surrey (Andrew Matthews/PA) Sergeant Chris Schultze, of Surrey and Sussex Roads Policing Unit, said: “Our thoughts are with the family and friends of those involved in this collision at what is an extremely difficult time. “We are continuing to appeal for witnesses to what happened and would urge anyone who may have any video footage, CCTV or dash cam or any other kind, to get in touch with us.” A spokesman for dnata – which provides ground handling, cargo, travel, and flight catering services to airlines – said: “We can confirm that one of our trucks was involved in a road traffic accident on the evening of December 31. “We are fully assisting relevant authorities with their investigations. Our thoughts and condolences are with the families of those affected by this very sad incident.” We’re deeply saddened to learn of the death of our colleagues involved in a road traffic collision last night British Airways A local driver, who did not want to be named, said the crash scene looked “bad”. He described it as “a bad road” that needs widening, adding: “You would be amazed how many accidents have happened down that road.” The road was closed on Wednesday morning while the lorry was recovered. More than £37,000 had been pledged on a charity page, billed as the “BA Angels Fund“, on by 6.10am on Thursday. The Go Fund Me page, which said it aimed to help the bereaved and injured, was signed off with the message “Rest In Peace Guys, Go Fly The Skies Eternal”.

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Home Tags Posts tagged with "drug addicts" Michael Lohan stages dramatic intervention at Lindsay’s home believing she suffered a relapse Lindsay Lohan’s Los Angeles home was overrun by police on Friday after her father, Michael Lohan, attempted to stage a dramatic intervention. Michael Lohan turned up at his daughter’s Beverly Hills home, believing the actress had suffered a relapse in her sobriety, according to TMZ. The website claims the 52-year-old patriarch, who is estranged from his daughter, led a group of “several others” to the property in an attempt to force Lindsay into treatment. A call was placed to Beverly Hills Police Department to report a trespassing. Before leaving the property, Michael Lohan told the website his concerns for Lindsay grew after she failed to show up to carry out post-production work on her upcoming movie, The Canyons. Lindsay Lohan told reporters at the scene: “Lindsay needs help. She’s around all the wrong people. “They are a bunch of alcoholics and drug addicts. “She’s around the wrong people and it’s getting worse and worse. “I’m not going to stand for this anymore. She has to get better. I’m not going to watch my daughter die.” Michael Lohan suggested his daughter’s “whole team”, referring to her army of managers, agents and publicists – supported his actions. He also claimed Lindsay Lohan was “very resistant” to getting the help he claims she needs. Michael Lohan said he only wanted to “talk some sense into her and get her some help”, adding, “that’s all we want. We want the best for her”. But Lindsay Lohan has reportedly hit back at the claims, telling TMZ that she does not have a problem and does not require rehab. The website reports she has not relapsed and believes Michael Lohan is trying to stage an intervention in reaction to her cutting him off after he recorded a conversation with her. Lindsay Lohan reportedly believes her father is trying to feign interest in her welfare to try and get back in her good books. Apparently Lindsay Lohan was at the house when her father and the team arrived, but someone claiming to be her boyfriend tried to make them leave. The “boyfriend” allegedly told Lindsay Lohan’s father she was inside, but suggested that any problems she may have would not be solved by her father’s antics. Later Michael Lohan revealed on Twitter he did not ask her mother for help because it would be like the “blind leading the blind”. When asked on Twitter if Dina Lohan was involved in the attempted intervention, he wrote: “Aaah what do you think! That is like the blind leading the blind.” He also tweeted personal trainer Josh Chunn – who he claims is Lindsay Lohan’s latest boyfriend – after the actress reportedly kicked him out of her house for attempting to help her dad. Michael Lohan wrote: “You are one of the best people that Lindsay has ever met! Sorry but the ones who care get it the worst.” However, Lindsay Lohan then insisted she is single, tweeting: “I don’t have a boyfriend. I have Chanel, Hermes and diamonds.” Lindsay Lohan and her father Michael The incident comes after writer Bret Easton Ellis accused the actress of skipping out on work for the movie The Canyons on Thursday. Referencing his American Psycho character, Bret Easton Ellis, who penned the script, tweeted: “Patrick Bateman has just headed over to Lindsay Lohan’s hotel to confront her as to why she missed her f***ing ADR on <<The Canyons>> today…” ADR is the technical term given to overdubbing lines after a scene has been recorded. Lindsay’s spokesman, Steve Honig, rebutted the claims the actress missed work. “Lindsay is busy right now promoting her new film Liz & Dick and [Canyons work] had to be rescheduled. That’s it,” he said in a statement. Michael Lohan brushed off the explanation, saying the real reason was she was “around the wrong people doing the wrong things”. He seemed to foreshadow his actions in a recent email he sent to the New York Post, in which he angrily derided the people his daughter has surrounded herself with. Michael Lohan wrote: “I am very upset with the crowd around Lindsay. My advice to ALL the negative influences in Lindsay and my other children’s lives is, this time, you have crossed the line and bitten off a lot more than you can chew! “My family will not be subject to your misguided morals and ways! There WILL BE changes!! Just watch.” Lindsay Lohan claimed she was “done” with her father earlier this month after he released a recording in which she claiming her mother was “on cocaine” and spewing verbal abuse at her on their way home from a Manhattan nightclub. She subsequently backtracked, and defended her mother after the dispute between the pair saw police called to the family’s New York home. Lindsay Lohan has a complex legal history that includes drink driving convictions and her infamous no-contest plea to stealing a necklace in 2011. Drug addiction could be linked to brain abnormalities, scientists at the University of Cambridge say Scientists at the University of Cambridge suggest that abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts. The researchers found the same differences in the brains of addicts and their non-addicted brothers and sisters. The study, published in the journal Science, suggested addiction is in part a “disorder of the brain”. Other experts said the non-addicted siblings offered hope of new ways of teaching addicts “self-control”. It has long been established that the brains of drug addicts have some differences to other people, but explaining that finding has been more difficult. Scientists were unsure whether drugs changed the wiring of the brain or if drug addicts’ brains were wired differently in the first place. This study, funded by the Medical Research Council, attempted to answer that by comparing the brains of 50 cocaine or crack addicts with the brain of their brother or sister, who had always been clean. Both the addicts and the non-addict siblings had the same abnormalities in the region of the brain which controls behavior, the fronto-striatal systems. The suggestion is that these brains may be “hard-wired” for addiction in the first place. Lead researcher Dr. Karen Ersche said: “It has long been known that not everyone who takes drugs becomes addicted. “It shows that drug addiction is not a choice of lifestyle, it is a disorder of the brain and we need to recognize this.” However, the non-addicted siblings had a very different life despite sharing the same susceptibility. “These brothers and sisters who don’t have addiction problems, what they can tell us is how they overcome these problems, how they manage self-control in their daily life,” Dr. Karen Ersche said. Dr. Paul Keedwell, a consultant psychiatrist at Cardiff University, said: “Addiction, like most psychiatric disorders, is the product of nature and nurture. “We need to follow up people over time to quantify the relative risk of nature versus nurture.” It is possible that the similarities in the sibling’s brains may not be down to genetics, but rather growing up in the same household. Research on the relationship between addiction and the structure of the brain is far from over. However, many specialists believe these findings open up new avenues for treatment. “If we could get a handle on what makes unaffected relatives of addicts so resilient we might be able to prevent a lot of addiction from taking hold,” said Dr. Paul Keedwell. The chief pharmacist for Derbyshire Mental Health Trust, David Branford, said the study, “implies that addiction does not produce noticeable changes to brain structure and function which means that there may be provision for looking at new treatment techniques for addiction”. Prof. Les Iversen, from the department of pharmacology at the University of Oxford, said: “These new findings reinforce the view that the propensity to addiction is dependent on inherited differences in brain circuitry, and offer the possibility of new ways of treating high-risk individuals to develop better <<self control>>.” Coronal Mass Ejection: Massive Solar Explosion The Sun had a massive solar explosion on April 16th. A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a massive burst of …Read More » Cecil the Lion: Zimbabwean Hunter Theo Bronkhorst Bids to End Trial Zimbabwean hunter Theo Bronkhorst, who led the expedition that killed famed lion Cecil, bids to end his trial. 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Home Tags Posts tagged with "Germany" Nord Stream 2: Russia and Germany Angered by US Sanctions Against Companies Involved In Gas Pipeline’s Construction Image by Christian Dorn from Pixabay Russia and Germany have reacted angrily to sanctions approved by President Donald Trump on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between the two countries. The sanctions target companies building the undersea pipeline that will allow Russia to increase gas exports to Germany. The US considers it a security risk. However, Germany accused Washington of interfering in its internal affairs, while Russia and EU officials also criticized the sanctions. Congress voted through the measures as part of a defense bill last week and the legislation, which described the pipeline as a “tool of coercion”, was signed off by President Trump on December 20. The almost $11 billion Nord Stream 2 project has infuriated the US, with both Republican and Democratic lawmakers opposing it. The Trump administration fears the pipeline will tighten Russia’s grip over Europe’s energy supply and reduce its own share of the lucrative European market for American liquefied natural gas. President Trump has said the 1,225km (760-mile) pipeline, owned by Russia’s state-owned gas company, Gazprom, could turn Germany into a “hostage of Russia”. House Votes to Impose Fresh Sanctions on Russia Donald Trump on Angela Merkel, Brexit and NATO Speaking on German TV, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said the sanctions were an infringement of sovereignty. He said: “It is up to the companies involved in the construction of the pipeline to take the next decisions.” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has said the sanctions amount to “interference in autonomous decisions taken in Europe”. The US sanctions have also angered Russia and the EU, which says it should be able to decide its own energy policies. An EU spokesman told AFP on December 21: “As a matter of principle, the EU opposes the imposition of sanctions against EU companies conducting legitimate business.” Russia’s foreign ministry also strongly opposed the move, with ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accusing Washington of promoting an “ideology” that hinders global competition. The consortium behind Nord Stream 2 confirmed that it would build the pipeline as soon as possible, despite the sanctions. It said: “Completing the project is essential for European supply security. We, together with the companies supporting the project, will work on finishing the pipeline as soon as possible.” However, Allseas, a Swiss-Dutch company involved in the project, said it had suspended its pipe-laying activities in anticipation of the sanctions. Russia currently supplies about 40% of the EU’s gas supplies – just ahead of Norway, which is not in the EU but takes part in its single market. Nord Stream 2 will increase the amount of gas going under the Baltic to 55 billion cubic meters per year. Breitscheidplatz Truck Incident: Berlin Police Investigate Probably Terrorist Attack A “probable terrorist attack” is being investigated in Germany after a man ploughed a truck into a Christmas market in the heart of Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 48. German police have detained the driver, who security sources reportedly say is an Afghan or Pakistani asylum seeker. The man arrived in Germany in February as a refugee, the DPA news agency said. According to the Tagesspiegel, he was known to the police for minor crimes, but not terror links. Berlin police tweeted: “All police measures related to the suspected terrorist attack at Breitscheidplatz are progressing at full steam and with the necessary diligence.” German politicians had avoided branding the bloodshed a terror attack in the hours immediately following, but Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told ARD television, “there are many things pointing to one”. The Christmas market is at Breitscheidplatz, close to the Kurfuerstendamm, the main shopping street in Berlin’s west. The crash happened in the shadow of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, which was damaged in a World War Two bombing raid and preserved as a symbol of peace. The truck, which was loaded with steel beams, veered into the market at 20:14 local time,one of its busiest times. It crashed through wooden huts and stands packed with tourists and locals. The truck driver was reportedly seized after leaving his truck and fleeing on foot. Image source Twitter Berlin police spokesman Winfried Wenzel told die Welt that the man ran down the street towards the Tiergarten, a large public park. A witness followed him at a distance for more than a mile, and called the police, who quickly detained him near the Victory Column monument. The police spokesman speculated that the driver may have wanted to “find shelter in the darkness of the park”. According to German media, the suspect was from Afghanistan or Pakistan and had entered the country as a refugee in the past year. Police confirmed that a passenger was found dead in the truck, and said he was a Polish national. There are fears he may have been the original driver of the vehicle, and that he was subject to a hijacking. Ariel Zurawski, the Polish owner of the truck, confirmed that his driver was missing and had been unreachable since 16:00 on December 19. “We don’t know what happened to him,” he told the AFP. “He’s my cousin, I’ve known him since I was a kid. I can vouch for him.” The truck was registered in Poland and police said it was believed to have been stolen from a building site there, the AP reports. Both ISIS and al-Qaeda have urged their followers to use trucks as a means to attack crowds. The US labeled the tragedy an apparent “terrorist attack” and pledged its support. President-elect Donald Trump blamed “Islamist terrorists” for a “slaughter” of Christians in Berlin. Donald Trump tweeted: “Today there were terror attacks in Turkey, Switzerland and Germany – and it is only getting worse. The civilized world must change thinking!” Germany Regional Elections 2016: Angela Merkel’s CDU Challenged by Anti-Migrant AfD Voters in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania are going to the polls in a vote seen as a test of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policies towards migrants and refugees. The anti-migrant and anti-Islam Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) could get more votes than Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU). This would weaken Angela Merkel ahead of national elections in 2017. However, all Germany’s other parties have ruled out forming a governing coalition with the AfD. So the AfD stands no chance of forming a government in the state. However, the party has seen huge gains in various regional elections over the last year. Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, in the former East Germany, is where Angela Merkel’s own constituency is located. Polls show Merkel’s CDU polling behind the AfD, and the chancellor told voters in the state: “It’s going to be a tight race – every vote counts.” One voting intentions poll showed the centre-left Social Democrats first with 28%, while the AfD edged ahead of the CDU with 23% to 20%. The AfD is believed to be attracting voters away from the center-right CDU. Germany is taking in large numbers of refugees – 1.1 million in 2015 – and anti-immigrant feeling has increased. The AfD, initially an anti-euro party, has become the outlet of choice for voters frustrated by the chancellor’s policy of welcoming migrants. The party’s slogan nationwide is: “Let’s end asylum chaos.” On September 3, Angela Merkel told Bild newspaper: “We did not reduce benefits for anyone in Germany as a result of the aid for refugees. In fact, we actually saw social improvements in some areas. “We took nothing away from people here. We are still achieving our big goal of maintaining and improving the quality of life in Germany.” Only 2% of refugees arriving in Germany have gone to live in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. Gina-Lisa Lohfink Convicted of Making False Rape Allegations Model Gina-Lisa Lohfink has been convicted of making false rape allegations against two men in a case that has sparked debate across Germany. Gina-Lisa Lohfink was fined €20,000 ($22,600) by a court in Berlin. The two men were cleared of rape and Gina-Lisa Lohfink was accused of making false testimony. Gina-Lisa Lohfink is a former competitor on reality TV show Germany’s Next Top Model, and the high-profile case partly informed a recent change to Germany’s rape laws. Photo Facebook A new law was passed in July clarifying that “no means no” even if the victim did not fight back. After the verdict was read out, Gina-Lisa Lohfink cried: “I don’t need to put myself through this” before storming out of the courtroom. He defense lawyer described the verdict as “a scandal”. Burkhard Benecken said he would discuss with her whether she had the strength for an appeal. She was now concerned for all women who wanted to report a rape, he said. The case has been extensively covered throughout the German media. Bild reported the verdict as “a bitter setback” for Gina-Lisa Lohfink, and said the verdict was greeted with boos from the public gallery. Die Zeit said that the trial showed “how disrespectfully we treat people, when it comes to the accusation of rape”. The case will stigmatize all parties in the long run, the newspaper said. Recep Tayyip Erdogan Insult: Angela Merkel Approves Inquiry Into Jan Boehmermann German comedian Jan Boehmermann could be prosecuted for insulting Recep Tayyip Erdogan after the Turkish president filed a complaint. Jan Boehmermann had recited a satirical poem on television which made sexual references to Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Under German law, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government had to approve a criminal inquiry. Angela Merkel stressed that the courts would have the final word, and it was now up to prosecutors to decide whether to press charges. The chancellor added that her government would move to repeal the controversial and little-used Article 103 of the penal code, which concerns insults against foreign heads of state, by 2018. Jan Boehmermann is a satirist and TV presenter well-known for pushing the boundaries of German humor. He was given police protection earlier this week. Some experts say the comedian has a strong defense against potential charges, because his poem could be seen as part of a wider piece of satire about free speech, rather than a deliberate insult. An earlier remark by Angela Merkel that the poem was “deliberately offensive” had led to accusations in Germany that she was not standing up for free speech. The poem was broadcast on ZDF TV two weeks ago. The public TV channel has decided not to broadcast Boehmermann’s weekly satire program this week because of the furor surrounding him. Before announcing that Jan Boehmermann could be prosecuted, Angela Merkel stressed her government expected Turkey to comply with EU democratic norms in the areas of free speech and judicial independence. “In a state under the rule of law, it is not a matter for the government but rather for state prosecutors and courts to weigh personal rights issues and other concerns affecting press and artistic freedom,” the chancellor said. “The presumption of innocence applies,” Angela Merkel added, explaining that she was not making any prejudgement about Jan Boehmermann. In her statement in Berlin, Angela Merkel said that the approval of the federal government was a legal precondition for the prosecution of this specific offence. “The foreign office, the justice ministry, the interior ministry and the chancellery took part in this review,” she said. “There were diverging opinions between the coalition partners… The result is that in the present case the federal government will grant its approval.” Recep Tayyip Erdogan has drawn much criticism in Turkey and internationally for attacking opponents, including harassment of journalists. Many accuse him of authoritarian methods, stifling legitimate dissent and promoting an Islamist agenda. Some Germans worry that Angela Merkel is compromising on freedom of expression in order to ensure Turkey’s continued co-operation to stem the influx of refugees into the EU. VW Emissions Scandal: 98,000 Petrol Vehicles Affected by CO2 Issue In Germany According to Germany’s transport minister, around 98,000 VW petrol vehicles are caught up in the automaker’s latest emissions scandal. That follows an admission by VW that it had found “irregularities” in CO2 emissions levels that could affect 800,000 vehicles. It came to light as a result of an internal investigation by the firm following the diesel emissions scandal. On November 3, VW admitted that an internal investigation had revealed that carbon dioxide emissions and fuel consumption were understated during standards tests on about 800,000 cars. The company said the issue mainly affected diesel cars. However, on November 4, Germany’s Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the country’s parliament: “Today we were told that among the affected vehicles are 98,000 petrol vehicles”. VW, Skoda, Audi and Seat vehicles could be affected and the company estimates the CO2 problem could cost it about €2 billion. Volkswagen had already set aside €6.7 billion to meet the cost of the initial emissions scandal. News of the issue with CO2 emissions sent VW shares down by 5.6% on November 4. The company’s shares have lost about a third of their value since September, when the scandal first broke. It came to light after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found VW software had detected when vehicles were undergoing emissions tests, and altered the way they operated to give more favorable results. On November 2, the EPA also alleged that VW had fitted nitrogen oxide defeat devices on 3.0 liter diesel engines used in Porsche, Audi and VW vehicles – a claim VW denied. Porsche also denied the allegations, but its North American division announced it is discontinuing sales of Porsche Cayenne diesel sport utility vehicles until further notice. The carmaker is recalling 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide that were fitted with the software that circumvented tests for emissions of nitrogen oxide. That recall is for cars with variants of the EA 189 diesel engine built to the “Euro 5” emissions standard. Meanwhile, VW is recalling 92,000 cars in the US over a mechanical problem that could affect vehicles’ brakes. The German carmaker said part of the camshaft could shear off, causing loss of vacuum in the power brakes, which could lengthen stopping distances. Today’s recall includes Beetle, Golf, Jetta and Passat models from 2015 and 2016. The cars have 1.8 liter and 2 liter turbocharged petrol engines. VW discovered the problem after getting reports of camshaft failures. A fix is expected by the end of March. Refugee Crisis: 120,000 Additional Migrants to Be Distributed Among EU Countries In a “state of the union” annual address in front of the European Parliament, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has announced plans that offer a “swift, determined and comprehensive” response to Europe’s migrant crisis. Under the proposals, 120,000 additional asylum seekers will be distributed among EU countries, with binding quotas. It comes after a surge of thousands of mainly Syrian migrants pushed north through Europe in recent days. Jean-Claude Juncker told the European Parliament it was “not a time to take fright”. He was heckled by UK anti-European Union politician Nigel Farage, but dismissed his comments as “worthless”. Germany, the main destination for many migrants, supports quotas, but some EU countries oppose a compulsory system. Hungary – a key point on a migrant route – has been warned to expect an additional 40,000 migrants by the end of next week. In a separate development Australia, which has been under pressure to do more to help displaced people, has announced plans to take in more Syrian refugees. The Australian government said it would accept 12,000 Syrian refugees from persecuted minorities. During his address, Jean-Claude Juncker outlined the priorities of the European Commission. He opened his speech by admitting the European Union was “not in a good situation… There is a lack of Europe in this union, and a lack of union in this union”. He said tackling the crisis was “a matter of humanity and human dignity”. “It is true that Europe cannot house all the misery in the world. But we have to put it into perspective. “This still represents just 0.11% of the EU population. In Lebanon refugees represent 25% of the population, which has just a fifth of the wealth of the EU. Who are we to never make such comparisons?” Among Jean-Claude Juncker’s proposals: EU member states to accept their share of an additional 120,000 refugees, building upon proposed quotas to relocate 40,000 refugees which were set out in May (though governments then only actually agreed to take 32,000) A permanent relocation system to “deal with crisis situations more swiftly in the future” Commission to propose list of “safe countries” to which migrants would generally have to return Efforts to strengthen the EU’s common asylum system A review of the so-called Dublin system, which states that people must claim asylum in the state where they first enter the EU Better management of external borders and better legal channels for migration “It’s 160,000 refugees in total that Europeans have to take into their arms and I really hope that this time everyone will be on board – no rhetoric, action is what is needed,” Jean-Claude Juncker told the European Parliament. The proposals will be discussed by EU home affairs ministers on September 14 in Brussels. The new plans would relocate 60% of those now in Italy, Greece and Hungary to Germany, France and Spain. The numbers distributed to each country would depend on GDP, population, unemployment rate and asylum applications already processed. Countries refusing to take in migrants could face financial penalties. The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Romania have opposed the idea of mandatory quotas. On September 8, though, Poland appeared to soften its position. PM Ewa Kopacz said Poland would accept more migrants than the 2,000 it first offered to take. Germany has welcomed Syrian migrants, waiving EU rules and saying it expects to deal with 800,000 asylum seekers this year alone – though not all will qualify as refugees and some will be sent back. The mass migration has seen those seeking an end to persecution, conflict and hardship travel by boat, bus, train and on foot, from Turkey, across the sea to Greece, through Macedonia and Serbia, and then to Hungary from where they aim to reach Austria, Germany and Sweden. Who Gained from Greece’s Debt Crisis? According to a German IWH institute study, the Greek debt crisis has saved the German government some €100 billion ($109 billion) in lower borrowing costs because investors have sought safety in German bonds. The IWH study says that even if Greece defaults on all its debt, Germany would still benefit. Greece is hoping to reach a third bailout agreement, worth up to €86 billion, with its creditors this week. Germany has funded €90 billion so far and wants tough conditions for a new deal. Greece missed two key payments to the IMF in June and July, before a deal on a bridging loan was thrashed out by EU leaders. The terms of the third bailout need to be reached by August 20, when Greece’s next debt repayment to the European Central Bank becomes due. Greek officials said negotiations were in the “final stretch”, prompting shares in Athens to jump more than 2%. But leading figures in Berlin were cautious that a final deal was close. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said “thoroughness comes before speed”. German officials are keen for Greece to sign up to credible pension reforms and privatization plans, while the Athens government is looking for urgent funding to recapitalize the country’s ailing banks. Any deal will have to be ratified by German parliament, many of whom object to handing more funding to the left-wing Syriza government of Alexis Tsipras. However, the study by Halle Institute for Economic Research said Germany had made interest savings of more than 3% of GDP between 2010 and 2015, and much of that was down to the Greek debt crisis. Greece sought its first EU-IMF bailout in 2010 and Germany provided funding over the past five years either directly or through the IMF or the European Stability Mechanism. The IWH study says every time this year there was a spike in the Greek debt crisis, which made Greece’s exit from the euro appear more likely, German government bond yields fell. Whenever the news looked better, Germany’s bond yields increased. Even if the situation were to calm down suddenly, Germany would still be expected to profit from the situation, the IWH argues, because medium- and long-term bonds issued in recent years are still far away from maturing. Harald Range: Germany’s Top Prosecutor Fired over Netzpolitik Treason Investigation Germany’s top prosecutor Harald Range, who had accused the government of interfering with a treason investigation, has been fired by Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection Heiko Maas has announced. Heiko Maas said he no longer had confidence in Harald Range, dismissing his statements as “incomprehensible”. Prosecutors are investigating whether the Netzpolitik website revealed state secrets in articles about plans to step up state surveillance. News of the case sparked street protests last week over press freedom. The outcry put the German government on the back foot, with senior officials stressing that Germany was committed to press freedom and casting doubts over whether the articles constituted treason. On August 4, in a rare public row between the German judiciary and the state, Harald Range said the government had asked him to drop an independent investigator from the inquiry, who concluded that one of the articles published did amount to a disclosure of a state secret. The request, said Harald Range, amounted to “an intolerable encroachment on the independence of the judiciary”. He said that while the freedom of press was valuable it was not “limitless”. Minister Heiko Maas responded at a news conference in which he called Harald Range’s comments “incomprehensible and misleading”. He said his trust in the prosecutor’s ability had “suffered lasting damage” and he had requested his dismissal. Harald Range, who is 67-year-old, was due to retire in 2016. Munich’s chief public prosecutor, Peter Frank, has been named by Heiko Maas as his successor. The state investigation, into two journalists at Netzpolitik.org, is currently paused. The journalists have called for the case to be dropped. Their first story, in February, alleged that Germany’s domestic intelligence agency wanted additional funds to increase its online surveillance program. A later article in April concerned the spy agency’s efforts to set up a special unit to monitor social networking websites. Critics have accused Harald Range of double standards, with the prosecutor earlier this year dropping an investigation into alleged tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone by the US National Security Agency (NSA) over lack of evidence. Reem Sahwil: Angela Merkel Criticized over Crying Palestinian Refugee German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been criticized for appearing to be unsympathetic when a 14-year-old Palestinian refugee described what her life was like under threat of deportation. Angela Merkel had told Reem Sahwil that not all migrants can stay in Germany. However, Reem Sahwil has defended the way Angela Merkel dealt with her after she burst into tears while talking about her future. Angela Merkel “listened to me and she also told me what she thinks about it, and I think that’s OK,” Reem Sahwil told ARD TV. The conversation took place during a government-organized forum for young people, which was filmed and then broadcast. In the video, Reem Sahwil tells Angela Merkel that her family had been waiting four years to gain permanent residency in Germany. They were told they would have to return to a camp in Lebanon imminently – only to receive a last-minute temporary German residency permit, she said. “I would like to go to university,” said Reem Sahwil, in fluent German. “It’s really very hard to watch how other people can enjoy life and you yourself can’t. I don’t know what my future will bring.” Angela Merkel replied that “politics can be tough”, adding: “You are an extremely nice person but you also know that there are thousands and thousands of people in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.” Germany could not manage if all of them wanted to move there, she said. When Reem Sahwil began to cry, Angela Merkel went over to her and began stroking her on the back and telling her she had done well to highlight the difficulties facing refugees in Germany. Within hours of the video being broadcast, the term #Merkelstreichelt (Merkel strokes) trended on Twitter. Some social media users complained that Angela Merkel had “petted” the girl and failed to show enough sensitivity, although others defended the leader’s reaction. Germany says it expects 400,000 asylum applications by the end of 2015 – more than double the amount it received in 2014. The right-wing Pegida group has marched against what it calls the Islamization of Germany, and the country’s newest political party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), has called for tighter immigration control. Ahmed Mansour: Al-Jazeera Reporter Freed in Germany Al-Jazeera reporter Ahmed Mansour has been freed in Germany after being detained following an extradition request from Egypt, German prosecutors confirmed. Ahmed Mansour, who works for the network’s Arabic-language service, was held on June 20 as he tried to board a flight from Berlin to Qatar. A court in Egypt’s capital Cairo sentenced Ahmed Mansour to 15 years in prison in absentia last year on torture charges. Al-Jazeera says the accusations against Ahmed Mansour are absurd and false. “This was an unfortunate incident in Germany, but we are pleased that the mistake has been rectified,” said al-Jazeera’s acting director general, Mostefa Souag. “We hope that this will be a lesson to the Egyptian authorities that the rest of the world values freedom of the press,” he added. Ahmed Mansour’s lawyer, Patrick Teubner, told Associated Press that there were no further legal matters pending against his client in Germany. Ahmed Mansour was released into a cheering crowd on June 22. “Thanks to people around the world who supported me in the last days,” he said, according to AFP. Earlier, the German government had said that it could veto an extradition decision from the court. Foreign ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer told a news conference that Germany has repeatedly questioned the rule of law in Egypt. “Against this background, you will surely understand that there are doubts in the Mansour case,” he said. “I don’t think one can say this loudly enough: Of course, nobody will be extradited from Germany who risks being sentenced to death abroad.” Ahmed Mansour, along with two Muslim Brotherhood members and an Islamic preacher, is accused of taking part in the torture of a lawyer in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011, during protests against then President Hosni Mubarak. Video footage of the incident shows the lawyer being kicked but does not show Ahmed Mansour, according to AP. The journalist later interviewed the preacher about the incident, the news agency says. Ahmed Mansour: Al-Jazeera Journalist Detained in Germany at Egypt Request Al-Jazeera senior journalist Ahmed Mansour has been arrested in Germany at the request of Egypt. Ahmed Mansour, who works for the channel’s Arabic-language service, was detained as he tried to board a flight from Berlin to Qatar. Egyptian authorities had issued an international arrest warrant for Ahmed Mansour, a German police official said. A Cairo court sentenced Ahmed Mansour, 52, to 15 years in prison in absentia in 2014 on torture charges. Al-Jazeera says the claims made against Ahmed Mansour, who has dual British and Egyptian citizenship, are absurd and false. Ahmed Mansour tweeted on Saturday night: “I am still under arrest at Berlin airport, waiting to be taken before an investigating judge.” Al-Jazeera reporter that Ahmed Mansour is expected to remain in custody until June 22 when he will go in front of a German judge. A police spokesman said the arrest was made at 15:20 local time. He added that the Egyptian-issued arrest warrant accused Ahmed Mansour of committing “several crimes” but he gave no further details. Al-Jazeera said the Egyptian warrant was previously rejected by international police body Interpol as it did not meet its rules. In a video recorded while detained, Ahmed Mansour described the incident as a “misunderstanding” and said he hoped it would be resolved quickly. “It is quite ludicrous that a country like Germany would enforce and support such a request made by a dictatorial regime like the one we have in Egypt,” he added. “Other countries must not allow themselves to be tools of this media oppression, least of all those that respect freedom of the media as does Germany,” said al-Jazeera acting director General Mostefa Souag. Relations between Doha and Cairo have been strained by Qatar’s support for the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood organization in Egypt. Three al-Jazeera journalists, including Australian Peter Greste, were arrested in Egypt in 2013 on charges of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi visited Germany earlier this month and met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. German Man Killed by Runaway Elephant A German walker was attacked and killed by an elephant which had escaped from a circus, police say. The 65-year-old man was taking his regular morning walk in woods near the town of Buchen, south-west Germany, when he encountered the female African elephant, called Baby. The 34-year-old elephant was later captured and returned to the circus. German police are now investigating how the elephant got out of its enclosure and why it acted so aggressively. “There’s evidence of third-party involvement,” Heidelberg police spokeswoman Yvonne Schmierer told the AP news agency. “Either someone forgot to shut the enclosure, or the elephant was released intentionally.” The elephant had previously injured at least two people – including a man who was thrown in the air and a 12-year-old boy who suffered a broken jaw when he was hit by its trunk, local news agency Stimme reported. PETA Germany was urging the authorities to remove the elephant from the circus, the agency reported. Germanwings Plane Crash: First Victims’ Remains Return to Germany The first victims’ remains of Germanwings plane crash have arrived in Dusseldorf, Germany, where they will be returned to families for burial about 11 weeks after the disaster that killed all 150 people onboard. Lufthansa sent 44 coffins by cargo plane on Tuesday night from Marseille. Elmar Giemulla, a lawyer for some of the families, said the arrival of the remains would give relatives “closure”. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz is believed to have intentionally flown the Airbus A320 into the French Alps in March, killing 150 people. Sixteen of the victims were from the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium school in Haltern and were returning from an exchange trip in Barcelona when the plane crashed. Families will be allowed to visit the coffins inside a hangar in Dusseldorf on Wednesday, June 10. Elmar Giemulla told AFP: “The families are in denial. They cannot and do not want to realize that their children are dead. “It will be brutal when they see the coffins tomorrow, but it is necessary, because they need closure.” The remains of the rest of the victims will be sent back over the coming weeks. The passengers were from 18 countries, including Australia, Argentina and Japan, but most of those on board were either Spanish or German. The repatriation of some of the bodies was delayed last week because of errors on the death certificates in France. MH17: Germany Knew Risks of Flying over Ukraine Before Crash Germany was told of the risk of flying over eastern Ukraine shortly before Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down last July, but failed to pass on the alert, reports say. According to diplomatic cables sent two days before the crash, the situation had become “very alarming”, German media say. The cables cited the downing on July 14 of a Ukrainian air force plane at a height of about 20,000ft. Flight MH17 was brought down three days later, with the loss of 298 lives. The Malaysia Airlines plane had been flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and 196 of those on board were Dutch. Photo PA A Dutch-led international inquiry says one of the main scenarios for the disaster was that the plane was shot down by a Russian-made Buk missile launcher. Investigators have appealed for witnesses to the launcher’s arrival in a rebel-controlled area shortly before the crash. Their final report is due to be published in October. According to German public TV channels NDR and WDR and Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the foreign ministry cables had assessed the downing of the Antonov military plane on 14 July 2014 as a significant development because of its altitude at the time. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 had been flying at 33,000 ft when it was hit. German intelligence had repeatedly warned of the risk to aviation security, the report adds. A Lufthansa source tells German media that no communiqué was given to the airline of a change in the situation. Three Lufthansa planes flew over the area on the day of the disaster – including one 20 minutes beforehand – and it was pure chance that none was hit, the report says. Other German airlines had been avoiding the region for some time. Greece debts: Germany warns over finding creditors outside EU and IMF According to German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble, Greece would struggle to find creditors outside the EU and IMF. Wolfgang Schauble said Greece would be welcome to try to find investment from Beijing or Moscow, but may have difficulties. His warning came after fears of a Greek debt default saw its borrowing costs jump 3.5 percentage points to 27%. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said his government refuses to consider leaving the EU: “Toying with Grexit… is profoundly anti-European.” Yanis Varoufakis also promised to “compromise, compromise, compromise without being compromised” to satisfy current creditors. Wolfgang Schauble and Yanis Varoufakis were speaking at talks in Washington. On April 15, ratings agency S&P downgraded Greece’s credit rating. Yields also rose on longer-term Greek borrowing, with the 10-year bond yield – the amount investors demand for lending – rising one percentage point to 13%. Wolfgang Schauble said that the Greek government needs to find creditors. “The Europeans have said, OK, we are ready to do it [lend money] until 2020… If you find someone else, whether it’s in Beijing, in Moscow, in Washington DC, or in New York who will lend you money, ok, fine, we would be happy. But it’s difficult to find someone who is lending you in this situation amounts [of] €200 billion.” He added that Greece must focus on increasing its competitiveness and primary surplus. Wolfgang Schaeuble was speaking after the Greek government’s borrowing costs surged on April 16. According to the Financial Times, Greece had made an “informal approach” to the International Monetary Fund to have its bailout repayments delayed, but had been rebuffed. However, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said at the World Bank spring meeting in Washington: “We have never had an advanced economy asking for payment delays. “Payment delays are analysed as additional financing granted to that country. Additional financing means additional contribution by the international community – some of which are in much direr situations than the country eventually seeking those delays. “Payment delays had not been granted by the board of the IMF in the last 30 years and it was eventually granted to a couple of developing countries and that delay was not followed by very productive results. “It’s clearly not a course of action that would actually fit or be recommendable in the current situation.” Greece owes the IMF some €1 billion ($1.06 billin) in repayments next month. Many in the markets think the Greek government will struggle to make those payments if it does not agree an economic reform package with European creditors soon. Failure to agree a plan with creditors will mean that the country will default, a development that could force the government to put limits on money transfers and even lead Greece to leave the euro. EU spokesman Margaritis Schinas said on April 16 that the EU was “not satisfied with the level of progress made so far” in debt negotiations. Wolfgang Schauble had warned that he did not expect an agreement between Athens and its creditors in the next week. However, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras on April 16 said he was “firmly optimistic” the Greek government could reach a deal with its creditors. “Despite the cacophony and erratic leaks and statements in recent days from the other side, I remain firmly optimistic that there will be an agreement by the end of the month,” Alexis Tsipras said. According to Alexis Tsipras, several points of agreement had been found since talks first started, including on areas such as tax collection, corruption and initiatives to distribute the tax burden on those who have the ability to pay. HEe said the two sides still disagreed on four areas: labor issues, pension reform, an increase in value-added taxes and privatizations, which he referred to as “development of state property”. In a later tweet, Alexis Tsipras said he was “certain that Europe will choose the path to democracy”. Greece claims Germany owes it $303 billion in reparations for Nazi occupation Germany owes Greece nearly €279 billion ($303 billion) in war reparations for the Nazi occupation during World War Two, the Greek government says. It is the first time Greece has officially calculated what Germany allegedly owes it for Nazi atrocities and looting during the 1940s. However, the German government says the issue was resolved legally years ago. Greece’s radical left Syriza government is making the claim while struggling to meet massive debt repayment deadlines. PM Alexis Tsipras raised the reparations issue when he met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin last month. The new figure given by Greek Deputy Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas includes €10.3 billion for an occupation loan that the Nazis forced the Bank of Greece to pay. “According to our calculations, the debt linked to German reparations is 278.7 billion euros,” Dimitris Mardas told a parliamentary committee investigating responsibility for Greece’s debt crisis. Dimitris Mardas said the reparations calculation had been made by Greece’s state general accounting office. Berlin paid 115 million Deutschmarks to Athens in 1960 in compensation – a fraction of the Greek demand. Greece says it did not cover payments for damaged infrastructure, war crimes and the return of the forced loan. Germany insists the reparations issue was settled in 1990 legally and politically before Germany reunified. Syriza politicians have frequently blamed Germany for the hardship suffered by Greeks under the tough bailout conditions imposed by international lenders. PM Alexis Tsipras is trying to renegotiate the €240 billion EU-IMF bailout that saved Greece from bankruptcy. Greece has not received bailout funds since August last year, as the lenders are dissatisfied with the pace of Greek reforms. A Greek repayment of €448 million to the International Monetary Fund is due on April 9. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has said that Greece “intends to meet all obligations to all its creditors, ad infinitum”. [youtube LUIdBavsA9c 650] Storm Niklas: At least nine people killed in northern Europe Nine people are reported dead after a strong storm hit Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the UK. Seven people were killed in Germany, including two men whose car was hit by a tree. German media reports that there have been dozens of injuries from flying branches. In Austria, a man fell from a ladder and suffered fatal head injuries while securing an awning over his patio. Forecasters said that on Germany’s highest mountain, the Zugspitze, winds of more than 118 mph were recorded. Rail services were disrupted and the main station in Munich had to be evacuated due to concerns that parts of the roof might collapse. A man in the UK was seriously injured when his car was crushed by a falling tree. The biggest winds in the Netherlands were put at 75mph by weather site Weeronline. Toppled trucks were left scattered across Dutch roads. As the storm, dubbed Niklas, swept from the west across Germany, regional rail services came to a halt in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, while many Germans were trying to get away ahead of the Easter holiday period. A man was killed when a concrete wall fell on top of him in the eastern town of Gross Santersleben, police said. Flights were disrupted at airports in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich. [youtube 3dVCGC5RCZU 650] Greece threatens Germany over Nazi occupation debt Greece has threatened to seize German property as compensation for a Nazi atrocity in World War II. Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos said he was ready to approve a Supreme Court ruling from 2000 backing payment to relatives of the 218 victims. The debt-ridden government is already calling for Germany to pay billions of euros in wartime reparations. Germany insists the issue of compensation was settled in 1990, before the country was reunified. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said on March 11 it was Germany’s firm belief that the question had been resolved legally and politically. “We should concentrate on current issues and, hopefully what will be a good future,” he said, referring to Greece’s financial crisis and the Athens government’s proposals for a renegotiation of its bailout package from the EU and IMF. Greek PM Alexis Tsipras told parliament late on March 10 that he had a duty to pursue reparations dating back to the Nazi occupation of 1940-1944, arguing that Germany had adopted “silence, legal tricks and delays” since reunification in 1990. However, the justice minister went further, saying he was prepared to enforce the Supreme Court’s ruling in 2000 relating to the massacre of 218 civilians in the central Greek village of Distomo on June 10, 1944. The court ruled that Germany should pay €28 million to the relatives of those killed, although the decision was not enforced, and the dispute effectively reached stalemate in international courts in the following years. The ruling allowed for German-owned property to be seized as compensation but it was never acted on by then-Justice Minister Michalis Stathopoulos. Among possible assets are property belonging to Germany’s archaeological school and the Goethe Institute, a cultural association. Greek relations with Germany have deteriorated in recent years because of the financial crisis, with Germany one of the big contributors to the eurozone bailout that began in 2010. German ministers have been among the most vocal advocates for budget and income cuts in Greece, which has led to growing resentment among Greeks. The new leftist government in Athens argues that austerity measures be relaxed, a demand opposed by Germany and other eurozone creditor nations. Germany did pay compensation of 115 million Deutsche marks in 1960, as part of an agreement with several European countries for the Nazi occupation. Greece says the 1960 deal did not cover key demands, including payments for damaged infrastructure, war crimes and the return of a forced loan exacted from occupied Greece. PM Alexis Tsipras said Greece would honor its bailout creditors, but that he would not “abandon its irrevocable demands'” for World War II reparations. [youtube un3TPlgK2Zg 650] Greece bailout: German parliament backs loan extension by 4 months German lawmakers have voted to extend Greece bailout by another four months. The bailout extension – approved by international creditors last week in exchange for a series of Greek government reforms – needs to be ratified by eurozone members. Some German lawmakers had expressed doubts about the deal and there is substantial public skepticism but the vote passed easily. It comes after police and protesters clashed during anti-government demonstrations in Athens on February 26. They were the first such disturbances since Greece’s leftist Syriza was sworn in as the main government party exactly a month ago, promising to renegotiate the country’s debt and end austerity. Dozens of activists hurled petrol bombs and stones at police and set cars alight after a march involving hundreds of protesters. Some carried banners calling for Greece to leave the EU and for its debt to be cancelled. Eurozone finance ministers on February 24 approved a set of reform proposals submitted by Greece. As the dominant economic power in the EU, Germany’s approval was regarded as crucial – and on February 27 the overwhelming majority of lawmakers granted it. A total of 542 voted for the proposals, with 32 voting against and 13 abstentions. The vote was preceded by a ferocious debate, with catcalling and jeering. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble spoke in favor of the deal, telling parliament: “We Germans should do everything possible to keep Europe together as much as we can. “We’re not talking about new billions for Greece… rather it’s about providing or granting extra time to successfully end this program.” There has been a chorus of skepticism about the deal inside Germany – with Thursday’s edition of the largest tabloid, Bild, emblazoned with the word “No!”, adding “No more billions for the greedy Greeks!” Hawkish elements within Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU (Christian Democratic Union) and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU (Christian Social Union), have portrayed the extension deal as leniency for Greece. Wolfgang Schaeuble himself has expressed doubt about the Greek government’s commitment to reform. However, German legislators felt they had no choice but to pass the vote, as a eurozone breakup could prove even more expensive than the bailouts and potentially undermine the credibility of the euro. In Greece, the proposed bailout extension has also triggered dissent within the governing party. Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has defended it, but some on the hard left have accused Syriza of going back on pre-election pledges. Even if the bailout extension goes through Greece still faces the formidable task of trying to service its debt obligations. Greece will need to flesh out its reform program in detail by April and prove that reforms are bedding in before receiving a final disbursement of 7.2 billion euros. In the meantime Greece has to repay several billion euros in maturing debts, including about 2 billion euros to the IMF in March, and 6.7 bilion in European Central Bank bonds maturing in July and August. [youtube j9d8TztoCkI 650] Greece bailout: Germany rejects six-month loan extension request Germany has rejected Greece’s request for a six-month loan extension to eurozone. The rejection came despite the European Commission calling the Greek request “positive” only minutes earlier. Greece had sought a new six-month assistance package, rather than a renewal of the existing deal that comes with tough austerity conditions. However, a German finance ministry spokesman said the new plea was “not a substantial proposal for a solution”. The Greek request letter includes a pledge to maintain “fiscal balance” for a six-month period, while it negotiates with eurozone partners over long-term growth and debt reduction. The Greek government was also reported as saying that its extension proposal was in order to give Athens enough time, without the threat of “blackmail and time deficits”, to draw up a new agreement with Europe for growth over the next four years. The German finance ministry spokesman said the Greek request was an attempt at “bridge financing, without meeting the requirements of the program. The letter does not meet the criteria agreed upon in the Eurogroup on Monday.” Shortly before the German rejection of the proposal, a European Commission spokesman said that Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker regarded the letter as a “positive sign, which, in his assessment, could pave the way for a reasonable compromise in the interest of the financial stability in the euro area as a whole”. “The detailed assessment of the [Greek loan] letter and the response is now up to the Eurogroup,” the spokesman added, referring to the discussions due to take place on February 20 when European finance ministers meet in Brussels. In comments aimed at Germany, a Greek government source said the Eurogroup had “just two choices: to accept or reject the Greek request. We will now discover who wants to find a solution, and who does not”. Tomorrow’s vote on the Greek proposals must be unanimous. If no agreement appears likely before the ministers gather, the meeting could be postponed. The uncertainty was reflected on stock markets, with the FTSE 100 and Frankfurt’s DAX index both losing early gains after Germany’s rejection. Greece could run out of money by the end of February without a deal and deposits continue to flow out of its banks. [youtube 0FYb-UQXmBQ 650] Tugce Albayrak: Surveillance video shows fatal strike A car park surveillance video shows a man striking Tugce Albayrak, who died after trying to stop the harassment of two girls. Tugce Albayrak’s death on November 28 left Germany in shock. There were candle-lit vigils in Berlin and other cities. The girls whom Tugce Albayrak defended have not yet given statements to police. Bild newspaper published the video of the November 15 attack, outside a fast-food restaurant in the town of Offenbach, near Frankfurt. Another man is seen trying to restrain the suspect, named only as Senal M, before he throws the fatal punch which leaves Tugce Albayrak lying flat on the ground, motionless among a group of people. The student teacher was in a coma for two weeks before her life support was switched off on November 28, her 23rd birthday. Tugce Albayrak had intervened when she heard cries for help from the toilet of a fast food restaurant, German media report. A post mortem examination was expected to be carried out on December 1, to determine whether it was the punch that killed her or the impact to her head when she hit the ground. Thousands of Germans paid tribute to Tugce Albayrak at the weekend. Germany’s President Joachim Gauck said she had shown “exemplary courage and moral fortitude”. Police in Offenbach were hopeful that the release of the video would stir further witnesses to come forward. The suspect, 18, is in custody. He is from the Sandzak region of Serbia and has confessed to striking Tugce Albayrak, German public radio station Deutsche Welle reports. A petition calling for Tugce Albayrak, an ethnic Turk, to be awarded the national order for merit posthumously has gathered more than 100,000 signatures. Confirming he would consider the award, President Joachim Gauck wrote to her family to say: “Like countless citizens, I am shocked and appalled by this terrible act. Tugce has earned gratitude and respect from us all. “She will always remain a role model to us, our entire country mourns with you.” [youtube JAt8S410OHU 650] Tugce Albayrak: Germany pays tribute to student killed for helping harassed teenage girls Germany is paying tribute to student Tugce Albayrak who was killed after defending two teenage girls reportedly being harassed by a group of men. Around 150 people attended a vigil in Berlin in Tugce Albayrak’s memory on November 30. President Joachim Gauck has described the student as a “role model”. A18-year-old man is in custody over the November 15 attack, which left Tugce Albayrak in a coma. Her life support was switched off on Friday. Tugce Albayrak had intervened when she heard cries for help from the toilet of a fast food restaurant in the town of Offenbach, near Frankfurt, where the two girls were being harassed, German media report. Later, one of the men returned and attacked her in the car park, striking her head with a stone or a bat. Tugce Albayrak’s parents made the decision to turn off life support on her 23rd birthday when doctors told them she would never regain consciousness and was brain-dead. A petition calling for Tugce Albayrak to be awarded the national order for merit posthumously has gathered over 100,000 signatures. “Where other people looked the other way, Tugce showed exemplary courage and moral fortitude.” Before today’s “civil courage” vigil on Oranienplatz in Berlin, tributes were paid in Offenbach, with people holding signs which read “Thank you, Tugce”. Oranienplatz is in the heart of Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, which has a large Turkish community. Tugce Albayrak, who was from the town of Gelnhausen, also near Frankfurt, was Turkish by origin. Her attacker, named only as Senal M from the Sandzak region of Serbia, has confessed to striking Tugce Albayrak, German public radio station Deutsche Welle reports. Germany celebrates 25th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall Germany is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Concerts and exhibitions are being staged in the city and Chancellor Angela Merkel will later attend a huge open-air party at the Brandenburg Gate. White balloons marking a stretch of the Berlin Wall will be released to symbolize its disappearance. The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop people fleeing from Communist East Germany to the West. Its fall in 1989 became a powerful symbol of the end of the Cold War. Angela Merkel will be joined for the festivities by former Polish trade union leader Lech Walesa and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader. White balloons marking a stretch of the Berlin Wall will be released to symbolize its disappearance The wall stretched for 96 miles through Berlin but today only about 2 miles of it still stands. Within a year of its collapse, Germany – divided after its defeat in World War Two – was reunited. More than a million visitors have descended on Berlin for the weekend of festivities that will culminate at the Brandenburg Gate. The monument itself was inaccessible during the partition of Germany and is seen as a symbol of the country’s reunification. On November 8, people posed for photos in front of the few remaining graffiti-daubed slabs of the wall, or read information boards about life under Berlin’s 28-year division. Others admired the art installation of almost 7,000 white balloons, pegged to the ground and winding along a 9 miles stretch of the wall’s route. At the bustling Potsdamer Platz, which was once cut in two by the wall, a small crowd watched archive footage of East German demonstrators chanting: “We are the people.” [youtube 2ml5rTgoVU8 650] Germany spied on John Kerry and Hillary Clinton Germany recorded calls of US Secretary of State John Kerry and his predecessor Hillary Clinton, German media reports say. According to Der Spiegel magazine, the calls were collected accidentally and the recordings were destroyed immediately. John Kerry has reportedly spoken to his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, about the claims. Correspondents say the reports will embarrass Germany after a row about the US spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel. Germany recorded calls of Secretary of State John Kerry and his predecessor Hillary Clinton Der Spiegel said the German intelligence agency had tapped a satellite phone call John Kerry made in 2013. Reports in German daily newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung and public broadcasters NDR and WDR said documents passed to the CIA show German spies had also eavesdropped on Hillary Clinton when she was US Secretary of State. German government sources told the newspaper and two broadcasters, that they intercepted the call by chance, and she had not been deliberately targeted. They also said it happened just once. However, media reports said it had not been an isolated case. A spokesman for the US embassy in Berlin declined to comment on the reports. 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How do I buy Bitcoins with a debit card Then, in early 2009, an anonymous programmer or a group of programmers under an alias Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin. Satoshi described it as a ‘peer-to-peer electronic cash system.’ It is completely decentralized, meaning there are no servers involved and no central controlling authority. The concept closely resembles peer-to-peer networks for file sharing. Who is the real creator of Bitcoin cryptocurrency how to start Every transaction is a file that consists of the sender’s and recipient’s public keys (wallet addresses) and the amount of coins transferred. The transaction also needs to be signed off by the sender with their private key. All of this is just basic cryptography. Eventually, the transaction is broadcasted in the network, but it needs to be confirmed first. Can I sell Cryptocurrency for cash All of those factors make mining cryptocurrencies an extremely competitive arms race that rewards early adopters. However, depending on where you live, profits made from mining can be subject to taxation and Money Transmitting regulations. In the US, the FinCEN has issued a guidance, according to which mining of cryptocurrencies and exchanging them for flat currencies may be considered money transmitting. This means that miners might need to comply with special laws and regulations dealing with this type of activities. How do I withdraw from Yobit Various journalists,[215][220] economists,[221][222] and the central bank of Estonia[223] have voiced concerns that bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. In April 2013, Eric Posner, a law professor at the University of Chicago, stated that "a real Ponzi scheme takes fraud; bitcoin, by contrast, seems more like a collective delusion."[224] A July 2014 report by the World Bank concluded that bitcoin was not a deliberate Ponzi scheme.[225]:7 In June 2014, the Swiss Federal Council[226]:21 examined the concerns that bitcoin might be a pyramid scheme; it concluded that, "Since in the case of bitcoin the typical promises of profits are lacking, it cannot be assumed that bitcoin is a pyramid scheme." In July 2017, billionaire Howard Marks referred to bitcoin as a pyramid scheme.[227] “If the trend continues, the average person will not be able to afford to purchase one whole bitcoin in 2 years. As global economies inflate and markets exhibit signs of recession, the world will turn to Bitcoin as a hedge against fiat turmoil and an escape against capital controls. Bitcoin is the way out, and cryptocurrency as a whole is never going away, it’s going to grow in use and acceptance as it matures.” Ethereum is an open source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It supports a modified version of Nakamoto consensus via transaction-based state transitions. Ether is a cryptocurrency generated by the Ethereum platform and used to compensate mining nodes for computations performed.[3] Each Ethereum account has an ether balance and ether may be transferred from one account to another. Does Wells Fargo sell bitcoins Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain. Bitcoin was invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto[15] and started in 2009[16] when its source code was released as open-source software.[7]:ch. 1 Bitcoins are created as a reward for a process known as mining. They can be exchanged for other currencies, products, and services.[17] Research produced by University of Cambridge estimates that in 2017, there were 2.9 to 5.8 million unique users using a cryptocurrency wallet, most of them using bitcoin.[18] Once you bought your cryptocurrency, you need a way to store it. All major exchanges offer wallet services. But, while it might seem convenient, it’s best if you store your assets in an offline wallet on your hard drive, or even invest in a hardware wallet. This is the most secure way of storing your coins and it gives you full control over your assets. Using Ethereum’s “Turing complete” smart contract language, Solidity, developers are able to deploy a set of instructions to the blockchain that operate indefinitely with a high degree of finality and fraud-resistance. With the first block being mined in July 2015, Ethereum has since become the largest smart contract platform of its kind, and the second largest blockchain of all time as measured by market capitalization. What is the most widely used Cryptocurrency Markets are dirty. But this doesn‘t change the fact that cryptocurrencies are here to stay – and here to change the world. This is already happening. People all over the world buy Bitcoin to protect themselves against the devaluation of their national currency. Mostly in Asia, a vivid market for Bitcoin remittance has emerged, and the Bitcoin using darknets of cybercrime are flourishing. More and more companies discover the power of Smart Contracts or token on Ethereum, the first real-world application of blockchain technologies emerge. Is crypto to Crypto a taxable event In Charles Stross' 2013 science fiction novel, Neptune's Brood, the universal interstellar payment system is known as "bitcoin" and operates using cryptography.[238] Stross later blogged that the reference was intentional, saying "I wrote Neptune's Brood in 2011. Bitcoin was obscure back then, and I figured had just enough name recognition to be a useful term for an interstellar currency: it'd clue people in that it was a networked digital currency."[239] Transaction fees for cryptocurrency depend mainly on the supply of network capacity at the time, versus the demand from the currency holder for a faster transaction. The currency holder can choose a specific transaction fee, while network entities process transactions in order of highest offered fee to lowest. 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All Shows and Events Loge Club Discover Theatres & Community Wang Theatre Shubert Theatre Boch Center Tours Education and Community Programs City Spotlights Teen Leadership Programs IN-SCHOOL ARTS RESIDENCY PROGRAM About Us > News > Anuel AA Second Show Added at Wang Theatre July 11 BRIAN GALE NAMED VICE PRESIDENT AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF BOOKING SHOW MARKETING Job and Internship Opportunities Anuel AA Second Show Added at Wang Theatre July 11 TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, MAY 31 AT 10:00AM Boston, MA (May 29, 2019) – The Boch Center and Zamora Entertainment announced that Anuel AA will add a second show to his “Real Hasta La Muerte Part 2” tour – an extension to his first tour that took place in 2018 – to the Boch Center Wang Theatre on Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 8:00PM. Tickets for the newly added show go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 31 at 10:00AM. After having great success during the first part of his tour in the US, where his shows were sold out in over 10 cities, the interpreter of “Ella Quiere Beber” is now announcing the second part of his tour, “Real Hasta La Muerte”. “I feel very blessed being able to announce a second tour in the United States in less than a year of returning to the music industry; I want to give back to my fans all of the love that they give me on a daily basis.” – Anuel AA Tickets for the newly added Anuel AA show go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 31 at 10:00AM and will be available at the Boch Center Box Office, www.bochcenter.org, by calling (800) 982-ARTS (2787) and via Ticketmaster. WHAT: Anuel AA: Real Hasta La Muerte Part 2 WHEN: JUST ADDED: Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 8:00PM ON SALE NOW: Friday, July 12, 2019 at 8:00PM WHERE: Boch Center Wang Theatre TICKETS ON SALE: Friday, May 31, 2019 at 10:00AM TICKETS: Tickets start at $53.00 Tickets are available at the Boch Center Box Office, www.bochcenter.org, by phone at 800.982.ARTS and via Ticketmaster. About the Boch Center The Boch Center is one of the nation’s leading nonprofit performing arts institutions and a guardian of the historic Wang and Shubert Theatres. As New England’s largest cultural venue, the Boch Center is home to theater, classical and popular music, dance, comedy, opera, Broadway musicals, family entertainment, and more. Located in Boston’s historic Theater District, the Boch Center also offers a diverse mix of educational and community outreach initiatives, including the City Spotlights Leadership Program and ArtWeek; collaborates with artists and local nonprofit arts organizations; preserves historic venues; and acts as a champion for Greater Boston’s arts and cultural community. Learn more at bochcenter.org. Our nonprofit theatres and programs are sponsored in part by the following and you: The Boch Center is a nonprofit innovator and guardian of iconic venues, providing arts, entertainment, cultural, and educational experiences to the greater community. BOCH CENTER 270 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116 City Spotlights Leadership Programs The Metropolitans News and Releases Ticket prices subject to change without notice. Boch Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit institution COPYRIGHT 2020.

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The People / Bolshoi Orchestra / Alexander Lazarev Studied at the Leningrad Conservatoire, than – at the Moscow Conservatoire (L. Ginsbourg’s class) graduating with first class honors. In 1971 he won first prize in the Soviet Union’s national competition for conductors, and the following year went on to win first prize and gold medal in the Karajan Competition in Berlin. In 1973-87 Alexander Lazarev was Bolshoi Theatre conductor, from 1987 to 1995 he was Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Theatre. His repertoire is particularly enterprising in its scope, ranging from the eighteenth century to the avant-garde. In 1978 he founded the Ensemble of Soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre whose most important aim was the programming and wide dissemination of contemporary music by both Soviet and foreign composers. In recent years he has worked as a regular guest with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, appearing with them in London, Paris and Vienna. Other orchestras he has conducted include the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre National de France, Oslo Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, NHK Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Montreal Symphony and the London Philharmonic, and he has appeared with opera companies such as the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Arena di Verona, Paris National Opera, Lyon National Opera and the Bavarian State Opera. He has been a regular visitor to the UK since his debut in 1987. From 1992-1995 he was Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and from 1997 to 2005 he was Principal Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. His activities with them included complete cycles of the symphonies of Shostakovich and Prokofiev, appearances at the Proms and extensive foreign tours. Alexander Lazarev has made over 35 recordings for Melodiya and Erato with the Bolshoi Symphony, and has also recorded for Virgin Classics, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Sony Classical, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Hyperion and BMG, and with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for BIS and Linn Records. In 2008 he takes up the position of Principal Conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. The 2009/10 season sees Lazarev take on the position of Conductor in Residence at the Bolshoi Theatre. All in group Jader Bignamini Semyon Bychkov Laurent Campellone Paolo Carignani Philipp Chizhevsky Igor Dronov Michail Jurowski Kirill Karabits Michał Klauza William Lacey Francesco Lanzillotta Jesús López-Cobos Andrea Marcon Enrique Mazzola Stefano Montanari Pier Giorgio Morandi Christopher Moulds Alexander Polyanichko Alexei Repnikov Julian Reynolds Evan Rogister Ainars Rubikis Giacomo Sagripanti Aziz Shokhakimov Stefan Soltesz Marcelo Spaccarotella Robert Trevino Alexander Vedernikov Keri-Lynn Wilson Timur Zangiev

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30 Most Inspiring Facts About M.S Dhoni That Every Fan Should Know NEXT> 30 Intriguing Facts About Faf du Plessis We Bet You Never Knew Before 11 June 2019, 4:09 pm EDT By Ruby Karnick MS Dhoni, considered an effective "finisher" in limited-overs formats, holds numerous captaincy records such as the most wins by an Indian captain in Tests, ODIs and T20Is. He is regarded as one of the best wicket-keepers in modern limited-overs international cricket. Here are some really interesting facts about the Indian international cricketer: He hails from Ranchi, Jharkhand, a discrete city in the cricketing map of India, but who went on to captainthe Indian cricket team from 2007 to 2016 in various format. He honed his cricketing skill at Commando Cricket Club, from 1995 to 1998, though he was equally good at badminton and football at school in DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Ranchi. He took to cricket seriously in 1998, when he was selected to play for Central Coal Fields Limited team. In the same year he went on to represent Bihar U-19 squad and subsequently East Zone-Under-19 in 1999 for the C.K Nayudu Trophy. Dhoni worked as Travelling Ticket Examiner with Indian Railways at Kharagpur railway station from 2001 to 2003. He was spotted by divisional railway manager of SER, Animesh Kumar Ganguly and he got the job on sports quota. With effective stumping of South African batsman Aiden Markram, in the third ODI on February 07, 2018, Dhoni, became the first Indian wicket-keeper to effect 400 dismissals in ODIs. He is the fourth keeper in the world to do so. He made his first-class debut for Bihar against Assam on January 12, 2000, in the Ranji Trophy tournament scoring 40 and 68 not out and effected a stumping in the match. He started gaining attention with his hard hitting style of batting down the order and his talent was spotted by Prakash Poddar, the Talent Resource Development Officer in 2003. He was also part of 2003-04, Deodhar Trophy champion East Zone. Dhoni was selected in the India-A team for the tour of Zimbabwe and Kenya in 2003 and he performed brilliantly with 362 runs at an average of 72.40. But he just missed out to Dinesh Karthik on being selected to the senior team. He made his senior team debut on December 23, 2004, against Bangladesh, in Chittagong, in an ODI match. Though he was run out for duck facing just one ball, he made it up with a century his first with a score of 148 against Pakistan at Visakhapatnam off only 123 deliveries in April 2005. Dhoni recorded the highest score by wicket keeper with an unbeaten 185 of 145 balls against Sri Lanka at Jaipur on October 31, 2005. After being promoted up the order batting order, he exhibited ‘Uninhibited, yet anything but crude’ according to 2006 Wisden Almanack, in setting a record of highest individual score in the second innings of an ODI. He made his Test debut for India on December 05, 2005 in the first test against Sri Lanka and scored 30 of 54 balls in a drawn encounter. His consistent performance propelled him to the top of the ICC ODI batting ranking on April 20, 2006, since making his debut in December 2004. He averaged 52 in 42 matches, at an enviable strike rate of 103. On March 18, 2007, following India’s shock defeat against Bangladesh, in the first match of 2007 World Cup match, Dhoni’s effigy was set on fire andhis property ransacked at Ranchi by cricket fans. Dhoni captained India for the first time in the first World Twenty20 tournament and led it to the title in South Africa on September 24, 2007. Following his success at South Africa, he was appointed captain of India One-Day team for the series against Pakistan and Australia, in 2007. He was the world leading scorer in the One-Day Internationals in 2009 with 1198 runs in 24 innings with a an average of 70.43. He had to his credit two centuries and nine fifties. In December 2009, he was suspended for two ODI matches by the ICC match referee Jeff Crowe as India was three over short of the specific over rate per innings. He had faced suspension twice more for the similar offence in 2012. The high point of his cricketing career was captaining India to its second World Cup victory in 2011. He played a captains knock of 91 not out in the finals against Sri Lanka and rightly closed the match with his customary helicopter shot six to lift the title. When he led India to 2013 Champions Trophy title in England and Wales, he became the first captain in the world to lift all the ICC trophies. India defeated England in the finals by five runs. His 224 against Australia at the MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai in 2013, stands as the third highest score by an Indian captain in test. It is also the highest test score by an Indian wicketkeeper. Dhoni announced his retirement from test cricket on December 30, 2014, after guiding India to a draw in the third test against Australia at Melbourne with resolute 24 not out. He bowed out in style to become the first Indian wicketkeeper to effect nine dismissals in a test match. On March 19, 2015, when Dhoni led India to victory against Bangladesh in the quarter-finals of world cup, he became the first non-Australian to win 100 ODI matches in the world. He relinquished his ODI captaincy on January 2017, before the ODI series at home against England. Dhoni was the most expensive cricketer in the inaugural IPL auction with a price tag of $ 1.5 million contracted by the Chennai Supper Kings. He led them to two IPL titles and the 2010 Champions League Twenty20. On July 04, 2010, he married his school mate Sakshi Singh Rawat. They have been blessed with a baby girl named Ziva on February 06, 2015. He is the most successful Indian captain with 27 test wins, which includes longest unbeaten run in test with 11 matches. He is the co-owner of Chennaiyin FC, a Chennai based football club in the Indian Super League. He also owns Ranchi based Hockey club Ranchi Rays, a franchise of Hickey India League. A biographical sports film based on his life written and directed by Neeraj Pandey, was released on September 30, 2016. Dhoni was conferred Padma Vibhushan, the India’s third highest civilian award in the Republic day award list of 2018. He is recipient of Padma Shri and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awards earlier in his career. He had scored 4876 runs in 144 innings in tests with six centuries and 33 fifties. As a keeper has affected 38 stumpings and have taken 256 catches. Mahendra Singh Dhoni Net Worth: $170 Million Mahendra Singh Dhoni facts, Mahendra Singh Dhoni records, Mahendra Singh Dhoni stats, Mahendra Singh Dhoni net worth, Mahendra Singh Dhoni things to know

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American first lady Betty Boyd Caroli Last Updated: Dec 9, 2019 See Article History Mary Todd Lincoln, née Mary Ann Todd, (born December 13, 1818, Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.—died July 16, 1882, Springfield, Illinois), American first lady (1861–65), the wife of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States. Happy and energetic in her youth, she suffered subsequent ill health and personal tragedies and behaved erratically in her later years. Britannica Explores 100 Women Trailblazers Meet extraordinary women who dared to bring gender equality and other issues to the forefront. From overcoming oppression, to breaking rules, to reimagining the world or waging a rebellion, these women of history have a story to tell. Mary Todd was the daughter of Robert Smith Todd, a prosperous businessman, and Eliza Parker Todd, who came from a distinguished and well-connected family. Mary was given an excellent education for a young woman of her time, and she later boasted about how well she had learned French. After her mother died in 1825, her father remarried, and Mary, who despised her stepmother, spent more time with her grandmother. In 1832 she enrolled in boarding school. In 1839 she moved to Springfield, Illinois, to live with her sister Elizabeth and Elizabeth’s husband, Ninian Edwards, whose family was active in local politics. As an attractive and accomplished member of a prominent household—her sister’s father-in-law was a former governor of Illinois—Mary received much attention, particularly from Abraham Lincoln, then a struggling country lawyer with no firm prospects. After a tempestuous courtship in which Abraham once broke off their engagement, the couple married on November 4, 1842, despite Elizabeth’s objections. During the early years of their marriage Mary was fairly happy, despite the untimely death of her three-year-old son, Edward, in 1850 and her husband’s protracted absences while he campaigned or served in Congress. Mary became first lady on the eve of the Civil War. Her position was a difficult one given her Southern birth and the fact that some of her relatives (including her half brothers) were fighting for the Confederacy. Her gracious performance as hostess drew initial praise, but she was later criticized for extravagant spending on her wardrobe and on White House furnishings, which caused her husband considerable distress. The death of her second son, Willie, in 1862 of typhoid fever added to her strain, and reports began to circulate about her irrational behaviour. The assassination of President Lincoln in April 1865, which she witnessed, was nearly more than she could bear. At about this time she developed a powerful and lasting delusion that she was in dire poverty, though she continued to buy extravagantly. The wide public credence given the claim of William H. Herndon, her husband’s former law partner, that Ann Rutledge, a family friend who had died in 1835, was the only woman Abraham ever loved, bewildered and saddened her. In 1868 she traveled to Europe with her youngest son and lived for a time in Germany and England. As the widow of an assassinated president—the first in the nation’s history—she received public sympathy, and in 1870 Congress responded by granting her an annual pension of $3,000, raising it to $5,000 in 1881. She considered the sum inadequate, however, and continued to believe that she was poor. In 1871, shortly after her return to Chicago, her youngest son, Thomas (Tad), died. In 1875 her eldest and only surviving son, Robert Todd Lincoln, arranged for a hearing on her sanity, which resulted in her confinement for several months in a private sanatorium in Batavia, Illinois. A second hearing in 1876 reversed the earlier finding of insanity and ended her confinement but left her publicly humiliated. She spent the next four years in Europe, returning in late 1880 to Springfield, where she remained in declining health until her death in 1882. She was buried beside her husband at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield. Abraham Lincoln: Private life …love of Lincoln’s life was Mary Todd. High-spirited, quick-witted, and well-educated, Todd came from a rather distinguished Kentucky family, and her Springfield relatives belonged to the social aristocracy of the town. Some of them frowned upon her association with Lincoln, and from time to time he, too, doubted whether he… Abraham Lincoln: Reputation and character As for his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, she married him out of spite, then devoted herself to making him miserable. So Herndon would have it, and after him countless biographers, novelists, and playwrights elaborated upon his views, which persist as accepted knowledge about Lincoln despite their refutation by historical… first lady: 1829 to 1901 Mary Todd Lincoln (1861–65), the wife of Abraham Lincoln, though insecure in a visible role, prevailed on her husband to grant favours to friends and hangers-on. Julia Grant (1869–77), the wife of Ulysses S. Grant, was an extravagant and popular hostess during the Gilded Age… July 16, 1882 (aged 63) title / office first lady (1861-1865) The White House Historical Association - Biography of Mary Lincoln The White House - Biography of Mary Todd Lincoln National Park Service - Mary Todd Lincoln House HistoryNet - Biography of Mary Todd Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11) Mary Todd Lincoln - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)

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For Labor Day, facts about US jobs and workers Brookings Now Brennan Hoban Friday, September 1, 2017 President Donald Trump has made it clear that the condition of U.S. workers and the economy is a priority for his administration and he has pledged to increase the number of U.S. jobs and decrease the unemployment rate. Trump’s economic plan aims to create 25 million new jobs over the next decade, a plan the described as “the most pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-family plan put forth perhaps in the history of our country.” So who in America isn’t working? And what determines labor force participation and unemployment rates in the U.S.? Research from Brookings highlights who in America is not working and why. The out-of-work are a diverse group and there is no one-size-fits-all solution The question of how to help people find work is more usefully conceptualized as “what works best for whom?” To better understand Americans on the sidelines of the labor market, Martha Ross and Natalie Holmes of the Metropolitan Policy Program used cluster analysis to sort out-of-work people at the local level into different groups most likely to benefit from similar types of employment-related assistance, based on their demographic characteristics and work history. Correspondingly, they identified a number of evidence-based employment, education, and training strategies suitable for the different groups, including bridge programs for people with low reading and math skills, two-generation programs for parents of young children, and transitional jobs/social enterprise for people with very limited work experience. About 24 million “prime-age” Americans are not in the labor force Of the nearly 38 million men and 56 million women over the age of 16 who are not in the labor force, more than 7 million men and 16 million women are between 25 and 54 years old, according to a Hamilton Project report. The report also details reasons why these nearly 24 million men and women of prime working age were not in the labor force in 2016. Caregiving is an important part of the story, accounting for about 40 percent of all prime-age nonparticipants, while disability accounts for roughly 30 percent. Hamilton Project director Jay Shambaugh and policy director Ryan Nunn discussed recent analysis on labor force participation: Prime-age men, in particular, are out of the labor force at much higher rates than women. About 12 percent of all men aged 12 to 54 are not working; they are disproportionately low-income men without higher education, as Senior Fellow David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, discusses in this video with Jason Furman, then chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers: The unemployment rate varies greatly from city to city Brennan Hoban In May 2017, the U.S. unemployment rate dipped to 4.3 percent (though in the August report it ticked up a tenth of a percent). The last two times the national unemployment rate was that low were in April 1998 and just before the Great Recession in 2007. Alan Berube explains that while the rate varies considerably from city to city, from a low of 1.7 percent in Ames, Iowa to a high of 19.2 percent in El Centro, California, the unemployment rates across the nation’s 388 metro areas vary less now than they did in 1998 or 2007. The gap is growing between the skills demanded by today’s employers and those supplied by the labor force Eleanor Krause and Brookings Senior Fellow Isabel Sawhill explain that the decline of labor force participation for prime-age men and women (ages 25 to 54) is due to both changes in what type of labor is in demand and a decline in the supply of labor. Developments in trade and technology have changed what type of skills employers require. While other sectors are creating jobs (such as high-wage managerial and technical jobs and low-wage service sector jobs), they often require different skills or pay lower wages. Krause and Sawhill demonstrate increased automation has decreased the demand for low-skilled jobs, especially in the manufacturing industry. Manufacturing only employs two-thirds of the labor force that it did 30 years ago, even though manufacturing’s share of U.S. GDP has remained stable. This trend is especially stark in the auto-manufacturing industry. At the same time, they highlight alarming trends in the supply side of the labor market, including a dramatic increase in premature mortality and high rates of disability and pain. Increased rates of disability and poor health affect the number of people who are able to work. This trend has the most harrowing effect on Americans aged 25 to 59 who have education levels lower than a four-year college degree. While rates of pain and disability have decreased for all Americans who hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, they have spiked for less educated Americans. Apprenticeships can help solve America’s workforce issues Richard Reeves praises President Trump’s recent executive order to expand industry-recognized apprenticeships in the United States. Reeves explains that this order could encourage employers to provide more training in the skills that they require. These apprenticeships could be an alternative for young people who want qualifications without a traditional academic degree. Likewise, Brookings Fellow Elizabeth Mann highlights how partnerships between community colleges and employers can provide high quality education and training to students in the skills that employers are seeking in potential hires. To learn more, see more Brookings research on Labor Policy and Unemployment. Fit Mind, Fit Job Assessment of Labour Provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements By International Labor Office Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) Labor Policy & Unemployment

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From Seed to Skin Ana Lyman ’04 can tell you everything about how her company, Bio Óleos de Miombo, makes its basil cardamom lip balm. The tree oils were sustainably harvested from forests in Swaziland and Zimbabwe, and the beeswax came from beekeepers in rural Mozambique. She can even tell you about the background of the craftsperson who engraved the wooden packaging. It’s all put together into a finished product by women working in a little factory in Inhambane, Mozambique. Courtesy Anan Lyman Ana Lyman '04 makes beauty products that can provide paying work to local residents. Similar to the farm-to-table trend in food, Lyman produces sustainable, socially conscious cosmetics by controlling production from “seed to skin.” Lyman is using fair labor and sustainable natural resources from a country—Mozambique—known for neither. Bio Óleos de Miombo is Portuguese for Bio Oils of the Miombo, the dry woodlands of southern Africa. (Portuguese is Mozambique’s official language.) The company aims to respect the environment and split the profits with all the workers along the chain of production. Lyman, who launched Bio Óleos in 2010, is not trying to put L’Oréal and Revlon out of business. “I don’t have any profound interest in the cosmetic industry,” she says. What interests her is helping the people of Mozambique. “It’s about bang for the buck,” she explains. “The vision began with an analysis of the local resources and what we could do with them.” Bio Óleos now has five employees on staff and contracts with eight wood craftsmen, who make the packaging, and a large network of harvesters trained to extract tree oils and other raw ingredients for body butter, perfume, and lotion. Government bureaucracy “is thick and slow,” Lyman says. Properly trained accountants are in short supply. But it turns out that a cosmetics business in Mozambique still has the potential to be lucrative. “There’s a lot of traditional knowledge around these [plant] species,” Lyman says, “but they [the people] never envisioned that a well-crafted custom product would come from a resource that grows on a tree in their yard.” Lyman’s mother’s family traces its roots to the Cape Verde Islands off Africa’s western coast, which, like Mozambique in the southeast, was colonized by the Portuguese. Lyman didn’t speak Portuguese well, though, until she spent a semester abroad in Brazil, which sparked her interest in other reaches of the bygone empire. About a year after graduating with a double major in Portuguese and Brazilian studies, and public policy and American institutions, she went to Mozambique as a Peace Corps volunteer. She never left Africa, even though she grew disillusioned while working on a project to prevent the spread of HIV. She thought the Peace Corps and aid organizations unwisely allocated their limited funds on public health education programs that didn’t improve the economy. “Any 12-year-old could tell you how HIV was transmitted,” she says, “but that had no bearing on what a young woman might do if she needs to feed her family.” For now, only a select number of spas, cafés, hotels, and other shops in Mozambique and South Africa carry BOM products—which are priced out of reach of most Mozambican shoppers—but they’ll make a targeted debut in boutiques in New York City and California’s Bay Area in November under the name Miombo. Lyman wants to start a second, less expensive line that the people of Mozambique may be able to afford as well. “The longer you stay here,” Lyman says of Mozambique, “the more opportunities you see. “It feels a little like the Wild West. There’s a million challenges, but there’s a chance to do something new.” Reader Responses to From Seed to Skin

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Man whose car ended up in a ditch following a crash at Chatteris thanks the passers by who helped him The A142 at Chatteris at the junction wiht New Road A thank you has been sent to passers-by who stopped to help a motorist when his car ended up in a ditch following a crash. The man, who asked to remain anonymous, said he was overwhelmed by people’s kindness when they stopped, fetched a blanket and waited with him following the incident on the A142 at Chatteris. He has also called for traffic lights on the busy road junction. The man, in his 40s, was driving to Ely to collect his daughter from school when the incident happened at about 4.30pm He said: “I think I must have fallen unconscious for a while because I don’t remember all of it. I just remember kind words from people and being confused. “I think one of the helpers was called Martin. “I want to thank them and also Police, Fire and ambulance crew. “I’m very grateful to them all. I feel lucky to be alive.” The accident happened near the Wenny Road junction with the A142 on Thursday December 6 on the A142 near Chatteris at about 4.30pm. The man was hospitalised for “observations” following the incident and is still off work from his job as an engineer as he recovers from the ordeal. The crash involved his Honda Civic and a Citroen Dispatch van. The two vehicles collided, leaving his Honda in a nearby ditch. He added: “I have travelled this road every day for 11 years. At peak times of day traffic is constant. “It needs a traffic light junction like there is at the Skylark junction.” • Were you one of the helpers? If so the man would like to hear from you. Please email kath.sansom@archant.co.uk.

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'I'll make your Christmas fab-u-lous' says Strictly's Craig By John Anson @LT_Features Features Editor FOR the past 15 years, Craig Revel Horwood has been the man we have loved to hate as one of the judges on the hit TV show Strictly Come Dancing. On the show he’s always been something of a pantomime villain, handing out harsh criticism and low scores with barely disguised relish. But now he’s in Manchester as the real thing, playing the Wicked Queen in the annual festive pantomime at the Opera House, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which runs until Saturday, December 29. This will be the 11th successive year that Craig has taken a central role in a major pantomime - all the more surprising to learn then that he came to pantomime relatively late. “Sadly Australia doesn’t really have pantomime, and it certainly doesn’t have the same popular appeal as it does in the UK,” he said. “So I never got to see one as a child.” Craig, now 54, was born in Ballarat in Western Australia and didn’t move to the UK until he was 24 to pursue his dancing career. “The first pantomime I saw I actually ended up starring in,” he recalls. “Producers Qdos Entertainment first offered me a job directing one of their productions, but due to work commitments I had to turn them down - they quickly called back and asked if I’d appear in one instead. “I fancied something a bit different after a few years on the panel of Strictly so I jumped at the chance of dusting my heels off and giving it a go. “From that first panto I was sold - I’ve been back every Christmas ever since.” At the Opera House, Craig joins an all-star cast for the festive family treat. Eric Potts, best-known for his role as Coronation Street’s eccentric baker Diggory Compton play Dame Nora Crumble; West End star Zoe George who has starred in Wicked, will play the heroine Snow White and Ben Nickless, who starred in last year’s Opera House show, Cinderella, returns in the comedy role as Muddles. Craig will be living up to his name, revelling in the role of the Wicked Queen. “Being the Wicked Queen means I can be really nasty to Snow White and her ghastly friends,” he said. “Although I like to think the Queen is just a bit misunderstood, and a rather desperate woman in the midst of a mid-life crisis, which explains everything!” At the weekend, Craig gave TV audiences a glimpse of what theatregoers can expect when he did a routine on Strictly singing Hello Dolly in drag. For Snow White, some of his costumes will be among the most spectacular things on view. “They are fabulous and I’ve been allowed to have input into her general look - including doing my own make up, darling!” he laughed. “But ask any woman in heels and they’ll soon tell you how difficult that can be, and doing two shows a day in them is quite painful. I’m also pulled into a corset for my costume, but ultimately I need to look wickedly glamorous at all times, so no pain, no gain… Again, on Strictly, Craig has given audiences a taste of what they can expect with his waspish wit knocking down hecklers who have criticised his marking on the show. And for pantomime it is very much part of the show. “I’m always heckled, and I’m disappointed when I’m not. Putting them back in their place keeps me on my toes!” he said. “My favourite audience moment wasn’t a heckle, but after my big number I looked out into the audience and saw an entire row of people holding up paddles of ‘10’s, that was fab-u-lous.” Having become something of an expert on the genre, Craig is the man to ask what makes a great panto. “You’ve got to treat it like you would a musical and fill it with great music, a great script, a great cast and plenty of glitz and glamour... and a lot of hard work,” he said. “When it works it’s wonderful. “Panto is a fantastic introduction to theatre and is often the first taste of live entertainment for children. In a time where we’re all so transfixed by screens, it’s a brilliant opportunity to sit back, be entertained and let the imagination soar for a few hours with loved ones. And Boo and Hiss me as loudly as possible, darling…” Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Manchester Opera House, until Saturday, December 29. Details from www.atgtickets.com Before the Bench: A teenage drink driver and other cases sentenced Rail firm Northern to be put under government control M60 motorway roadworks and overnight closures to cause disruption Police warn Bury homeowners about spate of 'lock snapping' Police increase patrols along popular footpath after safety concerns Today could be the end of the line for struggling Northern train franchise Free bus travel for schoolchildren could be rolled out further following review Man who murdered wife by stabbing her more than 75 times sentenced to 28 years behind bars

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Home finance For people with student debt, 2020 could be the year everything changes For people with student debt, 2020 could be the year everything changes Outstanding education debt has outpaced credit card and auto debt. The average college graduate leaves school $30,000 in the red today, up from $10,000 in the 1990s. Nearly 40% of students who took out loans in 2004 will default on their debt by 2023, according to the Education Department’s own figures released this week. Meanwhile, five years after graduation, half of borrowers are still only paying the interest on their debt. Which proposals come to fruition remains to be seen, but one thing is clear: As discontent with the current system remains, discussions about changing it will, too, wear on. U.S. Education Department weighs changes Betsy DeVos, United States Secretary of Education Michael Brochstein | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images DeVos is proposing to spin off the $1.6 trillion federal student loan portfolio from the Education Department to its own agency. “Congress never set up the U.S. Department of Education to be a bank,” DeVos said this week at a conference of financial aid professionals. However, Mark Kantrowitz, a student loan expert, doubts the move would solve any problems. “Perhaps it’s seen as a first step in privatization?” Kantrowitz said. Indeed, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that the Education Department was considering selling all or portions of the outstanding portfolio to private investors. Diane Auer Jones, principal deputy under secretary at the U.S. Education Department, recently said that the government may offer income-sharing agreements. The contracts are often framed as a potential solution to the student debt crisis, although consumer advocates have concerns about them. Here’s how they work: Unlike a traditional loan, the recipient doesn’t pay anything back until he or she secures a job following graduation. Then the borrower is on the hook for a certain percentage of his or her income for a set period of years. “It’s simply a disguised form of borrowing,” said Ann Larson, co-founder of The Debt Collective, an activist group. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on stage at Bernie Sanders Rally “Bernie’s Back” in Queensbridge Park. She endorses him for President of USA. Lev Radin | LightRocket | Getty Images Most people struggling with student loans probably didn’t imagine debt forgiveness could be in their future. Now, leading Democratic presidential candidates are calling for such a reset. Sen. Bernie Sanders has proposed wiping out the country’s $1.6 trillion outstanding student loan tab. Essentially, all borrowers would be freed from their debt. “This is truly a revolutionary proposal,” Sanders told The Washington Post. Under Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan, borrowers with household incomes of less than $100,000 would get $50,000 of their student debt forgiven. People who earn between $100,000 and $250,000 would be eligible for forgiveness on a sliding scale – that $50,000 in debt relief drops by $1 for every $3 a person earns over $100,000. And those who earn more than $250,000 would be ineligible for debt forgiveness. A. Wayne Johnson, who used to oversee the country’s outstanding student debt and might be running for a Senate seat in Georgia, made headlines earlier this year when he proposed forgiving $50,000 in student debt for all borrowers, about $925 billion. “It’s the first Republican support for widespread student loan forgiveness,” Kantrowitz said. “That makes it a bipartisan issue.” Every four or five years, The Higher Education Act, which controls the shape and scope of federal student aid, is updated. It’s gone more than a decade without a tweak this round, making the changes likely to be rolled out next year highly anticipated. House Democrats this month introduced their plan to overhaul the bill. “I think it’s a really constructive first step toward re-authorization,” said James Kvaal, president of the Institute for College Access & Success. “There’s a lot of potential common ground in the bill, particularly around student loan issues.” Republicans and Democrats have shown interest in reducing the number of repayment plans to just two — there are currently 14 ways to repay your student loans, a complicated system critics say leads to needless defaults. One plan would simply spread a borrower’s monthly payments across a decade. The other would cap monthly payments at a percentage of a borrower’s income, and their repayment timeline could be 20 or more years. There is also bipartisan support for eliminating the origination fees on student loans. “It doesn’t make sense that if you borrow $1 for college, the check is actually 99 cents,” Kvaal said. Democrats want to cut interest rates on student loans and make it easier for borrowers to refinance their debt. They also want to allow people who’ve climbed out of default to get their credit reports cleared of the incident. At least one Republican, in addition to a host of Democratic lawmakers and presidential candidates, wants to allow student debt to be discharged in normal bankruptcy proceedings. Currently, borrowers have to exhibit a “certainty of hopelessness” to walk away from their student debt in court. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has said he’s “at a loss to explain” why student loans are treated differently than other types of debt in bankruptcy. There’s no sound reason struggling borrowers shouldn’t be able to get a fresh start, Kantrowitz said. “Credit cards can be discharged, but not student loans?” he said. The Times They Are A-Changin, for Corporations Too – Total Retail Hilltowns Senior News for Wednesday, January 29, 2020 – The Altamont Enterprise U.S. Treasury Yields Fall After Fed Decision Boeing concerned about coronavirus impact on air travel UPDATE 7-GE shares jump 10% on profit beat, higher 2020 cash target Local tech entrepreneurs give Portland State $4.5 million to kickstart upgrades to aging science building – OregonLive

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Lessons Stormzy Download 'Lessons' on iTunes J Cole J Cole Home J. Cole was in the front row at Dave Chappelle's movie Block Party. J. Cole Facts: 15 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About The Fayetteville Rapper 8. J. Cole was in the front row at Dave Chappelle's movie Block Party. Directed by Michel Gondry, Dave Chappelle's Block Party took place in Brooklyn with performances from the likes of Kanye and Common - and J. Cole was in the front row! The rapper won tickets to the event and can be seen making a cameo in the accompanying film. See the full gallery: J. Cole Facts: 15 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About The Fayetteville Rapper

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CHEMARK History…a market force for over 40 years CHEMARK was founded in 1975 by Howard Ellerhorst. Howard launched the CHEMICAL MARKETING SERVICES GROUP during August of that year. He believed that there was fundamentally something missing from the management of specialty chemical companies. Simply put that was a commitment to deliver clients accurate data from which they could make better strategic and tactical decisions. In 1976, shortly after he opened his new company doors in Cincinnati, OH, Howard developed a 10-page questionnaire (145 questions) targeting the paint and coatings market. He then established a 4,000-person Delphi-Panel comprised of key individuals from all elements of the supply chain that included a cross section of job responsibilities. To Howards’ surprise and delight, he received back 64% of the questionnaires totally completed. Howard’s first coatings & paints research report of over 450 pages of data was launched in hard copy only. Howard was rewarded with great accolades for his data accuracy along with a nice payday. In 1983, Howard changed the company name from the CHEMICAL MARKETING SERVICES GROUP to the CHEMARK Consulting Group, Inc. In 1985, Dr. Phil Phillips joined CHEMARK as Vice President & Director of Strategic Development. During the 1980’s and early 1990’s, CHEMARK developed more sophisticated research methods and broadened its geographical footprint from North America to include Europe and South America. CHEMARK also broadened the companies market reach from paints & coatings to include adhesives, sealants, inks and specialty chemicals. In 1998, Dr. Phillips acquired CHEMARK from Howard Ellerhorst who had just announced his retirement. At that time CHEMARK moved its home office from Cincinnati to Southern Pines, NC. Under the direction of Phil Phillips, CHEMARK continued the process of broadening the companies geographic and market footprints. Over the next five years, from 1998 through 2003, CHEMARK established branch offices in Clinton, CT; Phoenix, AR; Brixworth, Northants, UK; Salzburg, Austria; Dorking, UK.; San Palo, Brazil and Louisville, KY. While the process of growing and strengthening the company continues, CHEMARK has endeavored to maintain Howard’ founding thesis . . . “In all markets, an accurate database is an essential element in assisting clients in developing and implementing successful business strategies”.

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The Right Honourable Dame Cheryl Gillan DBE FCIM DipM was first elected Member of Parliament for Chesham and Amersham at the 1992 General Election. She is the longest serving Conservative female MP in Parliament. Cheryl was born in Llandaff, Cardiff and educated at Cheltenham Ladies College, the University of Law and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. In 1985 she married Jack Leeming; Jack died earlier this year. Her business career has included working for Mark McCormack at the International Management Group 1977-84; Director of British Film Year 1984-86; Senior Marketing Consultant, Ernst and Young 1986-91, Marketing Director, Kidsons Impey 1991-1994 and other individual consultancy work. Joining the Young Conservatives in 1968, she has held several offices in Conservative organisations, eventually becoming Chairman of the Bow Group 1987-8 (only the second woman to be elected to the Chair). In 1989 she contested Greater Manchester Central in the European Parliamentary Elections. Among others, Cheryl has held the positions of: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for schools, employment, women and equal opportunities at the Department for Education and Employment 1995-1997. Shadow Minister Department of Trade and Industry 1997 – 1998 Shadow Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and International Development 1998 – 2001 International Treasurer of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) 2003 – 2006 Opposition Whip, 2001 – 2003 Shadow Minister for Home, Constitutional and Legal Affairs, 2002 – 2005 Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, 2005 – 2010 Secretary of State for Wales, 2010 – 2012 Assistant Chairman of the International Democratic Union Member of the Political Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee (PACAC) Vice Chairman of the 1922 Committee; Acting Co-Chairman from May to September 2019 Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Epilepsy Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sepsis Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Rare, Genetic and Undiagnosed Diseases Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Eye Health and Visual Impairment Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Electric Vehicles Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on National Parks Representative of the UK on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 2012-present; Vice President of the Political Affairs and Democracy Committee 2014-2015 and Rapporteur on the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development 2014 – 2016; Vice President of the European Conservatives in the Council of Europe Member of the Conservative Party Board and Unionist Party President of Buckinghamshire CPRE (Campaign to Protect Rural England)

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Tag Archives: ringside Association Of Ringside Physicians Feels McGregor Isn’t “Safe Fighting Mayweather” If there’s one thing boxers and mixed martial artists have in common, it’s a universal awareness of how dangerous combat sports can be. Although MMA may prove to be more painful, with it’s torturous holds and tapouts, boxing may arguably be more dangerous thanks to the steady and relentless head trauma boxers are apt to receive at a breakneck pace throughout the course of a bout. And, indeed, it’s the matter of physical danger that has led many of boxing’s ring doctors to publicly object to Saturday’s super bout between undefeated boxing king Floyd Mayweather and MMA superstar Conor McGregor. The New York Times, which doesn’t seem to be any kind of fan of the mouthy McGregor, nonetheless published an article on Friday titled “Is McGregor Safe Fighting Mayweather? Ringside Physicians Say No.” Written by Joe DePaolo, the piece focuses on the Association of Ringside Physician’s beleif that McGregor is risking more than a single loss when fighting Mayweather Saturday night – he’s risking his own well being in a quite notable way. “The thing I really fear, truly fear,” Association president Larry Lovelace is quoted as saying, “is that somebody’s going to get really hurt in this upcoming fight.” It’s obiovus that Lovelace and his Association are particularly concerned with McGregor’s safety this weekend. “We are,” Lovelace, himself an M.D., states earlier in the same paragraph, “very surprised this bout was even sanctioned and was going to be permitted to carry on.” Most followers of boxing and, in particular, those who follow the Nevada State Athletic Commission, probably weren’t as surprised as Lovelace. For, fair or not, the Commission has a reputation for putting money first and foremost. And Mayweather-McGregor is so much about money, it’s actually being promoted as “The Money Fight.” The issue here is that McGregor, tough and talented though he may be, has never boxed professionally in his life. And boxing, with all that brutal punching, is a lot different from mixed martial arts. The article goes on to quote famed boxing referee Richard Steele, who claims he has concerns of his own. “Here’s a guy from one sport,” he says, “challenging the world’s best in his own sport – I really don’t know how it’s going to work.” Despite whatever questions Steele and others may have, the fight is most certainly a go – an event which will unquestionably bring in an overwhelming amount of eyeballs and money. The world may have to wait until Saturday to see if the words “safety first” really carry much weight when faced off against massive sums of money and public interest.

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Clear Lake Classical Info/Schedule Videos/Multimedia The Headmaster Minute CLC Videos Macbeth Trailer Band/Sports ​Meet our Headmaster Dr. Gerdts Dr. Gerdts has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Chicago. He is the Director of Innovation and Customer Solutions for Protein BioSolutions and has worked in Biotech for 10 years. He is also a small business owner in Clear Lake and is serving as Acting Headmaster at Clear Lake Classical. Cory and his wife, Emily have one child and reside in Clear Lake and are passionate about supporting classical and Christian education in North Iowa. Meet Our Kindergarten Teacher Mrs. Sokol ​Mrs. Sokol grew up in a suburb of Chicago and graduated from Trinity College in Deerfield, Illinois. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education and is certified K-6 in Iowa. She has 13 years of successful teaching experience with all levels of education in the public and private schools and also home schooled her 5 children. Her two youngest children currently attend Clear Lake Classical. She believes that each child is a unique individual created by God who needs a secure, caring, and stimulating atmosphere in which to grow and mature spiritually, intellectually, and socially. It is her desire as an educator to help the students at Clear Lake Classical meet their fullest God-given potential in these areas by providing loving, yet firm discipline, an atmosphere of learning that is formal, yet fun, and fostering critical thinking and lifelong learning skills. She and her husband of 23 years are members of the Garner Evangelical Free Church where she is actively involved with youth ministries. Her family has also been involved for the last 11 years in directing the Children’s Festival, which is a ministry to reach children and families in North Central Iowa with the love of Jesus. As she enters her 4th year of teaching at CLC, she is excited to instill a strong foundation for a lifetime of learning in each student. Meet Our 1st and 2nd Grade Teacher Mrs. Burton ​Mrs. Burton grew up in Richmond, Virginia. She attended Greensboro College and University of North Carolina-Greensboro where she studied Nursing. A move to the Midwest brought her to Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from the Paralegal Program at Rockhurst College in 1995. During this time she met her husband and started a family. Mrs. Burton has been married for 23 years and has 5 children. Her passion for Classical education began during the 15 years she homeschooled her children. She and her family attend Praise Community Church where Mrs. Burton teaches in the children's ministry on Wednesday nights. Her family has also been involved with Children's Festival, a city wide outreach in Mason City, for 8 years. Mrs. Burton has been with Clear Lake Classical since September of 2015 and is very excited to help the children grow in knowledge and in Christ. Meet Our 3rd-4th Grade Teacher Mrs. Eakins ​Mrs. Eakins grew up in Bloomfield, Iowa. She attended Iowa State University and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education, with endorsements in math and reading. She has taught 6th grade and been a substitute teacher for the past 7 years. Mrs. Eakins and her family are members of the Garner Evangelical Free Church where she is actively involved in Children's Ministry. She is currently the chair of the Christian Education Board, teaches Sunday School for pre-schoolers, organizes and schedules volunteers for Children's Church, and directs VBS. Since a young age, Mrs. Eakins has had a passion for working with children, and she is excited to bring that passion to Clear Lake Classical. She believes that God should be the center of all things, and education is no exception. It is her desire to actively and purposefully teach children the love, discipline, and understanding of God's Word. That way, when learning academic skills, children will begin to value all things from the perspective of their creator. Meet Our 5th-6th Grade Teacher Mrs. Gerdts Mrs. Gerdts grew up in South Dakota as part of a large farm family. Since then, she has travelled, lived, and worked in an array of places. She holds degrees in Christian education and ministries from Dakota Bible College and Lincoln Christian University. A highly-creative person, she loves finding and using an array of methods and tools to teach age-old truths -- especially to children. Her experience includes nine years as a pre-school teacher and director in Lincoln, IL; five years as Project Coordinator and Director of Partnership Development for Academic Development Institute in Lincoln, IL; and six years as Coordinator of Partnership Development and Early Childhood for the Parent Information Resource Center in Concord, NH. Mrs. Gerdts has also been a presenter at many national, state, and local conferences. An eager volunteer, she has served as a middle school choir director, family and youth camp worker, and women's ministry leader. She is eager to help her students become life-long learners who will give themselves fully to the cause of God's Kingdom. She and her husband, Tom (Associate Pastor at Clear Lake Evangelical Free Church), live in Clear Lake, are parents of five grown children living in five different states, and have six grandchildren. ​ Mrs. Rietjens ​Mrs. Rietjens was born in Indiana, but grew up in Uruguay, South America where her parents have been missionaries for 41 years. She has a bachelor's degree in Biology and a master's in Christian Theology. She has taught high school level Spanish for 5 years and homeschooled her two sons for two and a half years. She has been a substitute teacher for the last year. Mrs. Rietjens and her husband, Drew, also taught English in China for five months. While working on her master's degree, Mrs. Rietjens realized that she truly loved to teach. Her goals have always been to teach Christ first and then information and skills that develop, challenge and transform her students. Classical education is exciting because it purposefully teaches in a way that gives students more than just information - it places the Triune God at the center of every subject and seeks to lead children to become learners , be disciplined, have useful skills, give reasoned defense, and bring glory to God. Since 2015, Mrs. Rietjens and her family have been members of Clear Lake Christian Church where her husband gets to be the senior pastor. She teaches the youth group, participates in the worship team, and gets to teach the Bible lessons for VBS. She and her husband have been married for 16 years, in vocational ministry for 11 years, and have four children. Mrs. Harting ​Mrs. Dawn Harting grew up in Frankenmuth, Michigan, then graduated from Concordia College (now Concordia University) in 1983 with a BA degree in Education and an emphasis in English and the Fine Arts, a Michigan Teacher's Certification, and a Lutheran Teacher's Diploma. She also has an Iowa Substitute Teacher License and this year received an Evangelical Lutheran Synod Teacher Certification. God has blessed her with thirty-four years of marriage to Robert who is a Lutheran pastor, four grown children, two daughter-in-laws, two grandchildren, and one child in heaven. Over the years Mrs. Harting has taught in many capacities: private tutoring, preschool/kindergarten/director at a Lutheran school, combined grades 3/4 teacher at a Lutheran school, Sunday school teacher, VBS teacher, Wednesday night Bible History teacher, substitute teacher, homeschool teacher, and now her second year of teaching in grades 5-8 at Clear Lake Classical School. Mrs. Harting is daily grateful for Christ's salvation, forgiveness, love, and aid. Growing in the knowledge of the truth, beauty and goodness God has created is the life-long goal for Mrs.Harting, and sharing that knowledge with children and adults is her joy. Soli Deo Gloria. ​Meet Our PreK Teacher & Kindergarten/First Grade Aid Mrs. Sauer ​Mrs. Sauer was born and raised here in Clear Lake, IA. She attended Trinity International University in Deerfield, IL earning her Bachelor's Degree in Children's Ministry. After graduation she was hired at Calvary English Chapel in Wheeling, IL as the Director of their preschool ministry serving 50 children and their parents. After having their first child her husband Matt along with herself desired to get back to their small town roots making the move back to Clear Lake where Mrs. Sauer has served in every area of children's ministry for 10+ years at Clear Lake Evangelical Free Church including: teaching 2's and 3's Sunday school, leading children's church, leading the Cubbies program at AWANA and directing their Vacation Bible School. Mrs. Sauer has also had the priviledge of caring for her 3 girls and multiple other children by having a Christian in-home daycare for the last 7 years. Mrs. Sauer believes that learning starts with our youngest students and desires to give them a foundation in Christ in which they can build their lives upon. Classical education could not be a more perfect tool for creating this all encompassing, Christ-honoring environment. We are excited to have Mrs. Sauer join us for the 2016-17 school year and beyond! Meet Our Music Teacher Mrs. Nicholas Mrs. Nicholas grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she attended and graduated from St Olaf College with a degree in Music Education. Mrs. Nicholas has always been passionate about music and has worked as a music teacher in local schools as well as adjunct flute instructor at NIACC. She has also enjoyed being an active member in the Clear Lake Municipal Band. She, along with her husband, are members of the Clear Lake Evangelical Free Church where she works with AWANA, choir, praise team, children’s church, and leads a small group. Mrs. Nicholas has been excitedly teaching our PreK-8th grade students using her talents in music to help them learn their material using chants, songs, and just plain fun. Over the course of the last 4 years Mrs. Nicholas has introduced them to various instruments, taught them songs, their recitations, and Bible verses and has been a great help to carry out the daily curriculum plan. She is committed to working with our school and has immensely enjoyed the work at CLC. Mrs. Nicholas’ prayer is for God to use her in our students' lives. Meet Our Curriculum Consultant & Mrs. Lund Mrs. Lund brings ten years of teaching experience (including two at CLC) as well as a passion for classical education and a love for Jesus Christ to Clear Lake Classical. Mrs. Lund graduated from Bethel University in St. Paul, MN with a B.A. in Elementary Education and a 5-8 science endorsement. She received her Master of Education in curriculum and teaching from the University of San Diego in 2010. Her experience is varied; she has taught PreK, sixth grade, middle school science, biology, and Talented & Gifted (7-8th grade). Mrs. Lund is a licensed teacher in the state of Iowa, certified K-6 in Iowa and K-8 in Minnesota. Mrs. Lund is passionate about teaching children to reason as thoughtful Christians, cultivating their hearts and minds. A classical education allows her to do that not only because classical education is academically rigorous, language-based, historically integrated, and age-appropriate; but also because it has been proven to work over the past 1500 years. It also gives students the “tools of learning” – skills in knowledge, logical analysis, and oral & written communication in order to build a legacy of thoughtful and intelligent leaders. Lastly, as a lover of Jesus Christ, Mrs. Lund adores the fact that in a classical, Christian school she can demonstrate to students how God is the author and perfector of all knowledge in each and every subject. Soli Deo Gloria ​It's her joy to serve CLC as its curriculum consultant. Mrs. Lund also teaches science and math to our logic students three mornings a week. She and her husband, senior pastor at Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church in Garner, have three young children, two of whom are blessed to attend CLC. Meet Our Art Teacher/Administrative Assistant! Mrs. Quandt Mrs. Quandt grew up in Garner, Iowa and graduated from Iowa State University with her Bachelor’s Degree in Integrated Studio Arts, her emphasis on drawing and painting. During her time at Iowa State University, Mrs. Quandt fell in love with the art of teaching. She has moved back to Garner with her husband, Damon, and they are so excited to be back in the wonderful North Iowa area to raise their family. Mrs. Quandt is passionate about teaching students to see and respond to the beauty of the world that God created. She loves to see students see the value of understanding art and the impact it has on the world around them. Mrs. Quandt desires to encourage students to understand as well as appreciate all forms of art. She and her husband are members of the Garner Evangelical Free Church where she serves on the Christian Education board, on the worship team, as well as in the Children’s Church room. Mrs. Quandt considers it a great privilege to serve at Clear Lake Classical, seeing the students learn and love in the light of the Gospel. What our CLC Parents are saying: "Clear Lake Classical is such a blessing to our family. Our daughter has throughly enjoyed her years at CLC. She has been challenged both academically and personally and as a result has grown tremendously in both areas. The joy that radiates from her upon learning it is a school day is a credit to her teachers and the way they integrate learning and fun. I could go on and on about all the reasons we chose CLC for our child. Thank you Clear Lake Classical! We look forward to next year! from Clear Lake Classical.

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Last month, The Christophers held our 70th annual Christopher Awards ceremony, where we honored books, film, and television that affirm the highest values of the human spirit. Our Leadership Award went to Frank Siller for his dedication to helping disabled veterans, first responders, and Gold Star families through the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which he and his siblings started to honor the memory of their brother Stephen, a NYC Firefighter who gave his life to save others during 9/11. God bless the Siller family for their commitment to bring good into the world in the face of tragedy, and we are so grateful to Frank Siller for his inspiring words upon receiving the award. There were so many amazing stories surrounding our winners this year, such as our children’s book winner Rescue and Jessica, written by Jessica Kensky and inspired by her experiences as a double amputee who forms a bond with a service dog in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing. We also had an amazing crowd this year and are especially appreciative of the presence of those who were recipients of our awards, such as historian David W. Blight, who we honored for his book Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom in the same month that he also won a Pulitzer Prize. On June 24, we celebrate the Feast of Saint John the Baptist, who had such a deep connection to Christ throughout his lifetime. His words paved the way for Christ’s light to enter the world and to reach those in need of hearing a message of hope. The Christophers pray that Saint John the Baptist intercede for all Christians today, that we have the courage to proclaim the fullness of Christ’s message to a world that is at times so in need of rediscovering the love of God. We are so grateful to our donors and for the kind notes we receive throughout the year. God bless to everyone! Joyfully, Mary Ellen Robinson Vice President/COO

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Winter/Spring 2020 Program Registration Only programs that require registration are listed here. (Eventbrite registration links activate 30 days before the program date, but you can visit the site and request a reminder.) January 2020 Events Nail Art Manicures (ages 10-19 years), 5:30pm, 01/27/2020 Slime Party (All ages), 5:30pm, 01/30/2020 The Google World -- Google Docs, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 01/31/2020 Tiny Food Party (ages 10-19 years), 1:30pm, 02/01/2020 Minecraft Challenge (ages 7-17 years), 2:30pm, 02/01/2020 Learn to Make: Cheese, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 02/03/2020 Guiness World Record Challenge, (all ages), 5:30pm, 02/06/2020 Cookbook Club, (ages 18+ years), 6:00pm, 02/07/2020 STEAM: Mad Scientists (All ages), 2:30pm, 02/08/2020 Under 6 EPICS, 4:00pm, 02/10/2020 Valentine Boxes & Cards, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 02/10/2020 Handmade Valentines, (ages 5-17 years), 5:30pm, 02/13/2020 Learn to Make: Truffles, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 02/13/2020 Makerspace: Book-a-palooza (Ages 10+ years), 12:30pm, 02/15/2020 Macrame Art, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 02/20/2020 The Google World -- Google Sites, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 02/21/2020 Story Hike and Nature Play at Pecan Park, (all ages), 10:00am, 02/22/2020 Learn to Make: Tortillas, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 02/24/2020 Kids Art Series, (ages 10 years & younger), 5:30pm, 02/27/2020 Makerspace: Coding Boot Camp (Ages 10+ years), 12:30pm, 02/29/2020 Beginning Cross Stitch, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 05/04/2020 Library After Hours: Nerf Battle (ages 10-19 years), 5:30pm, 03/06/2020 Basic Embroidery, (ages 18+ years), 2:30pm, 03/07/2020 Sparkly Soap (ages 10-19 years), 5:30pm, 03/09/2020 STEAM: Robotics, (all ages), 2:30pm, 03/14/2020 Fabric Dyeing, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 03/16/2020 Escape Room: Carnival Row (ages 10-19 years), 5:30pm, 03/20/2020 Escape Room: Carnival Row (18+ years), 7:30pm, 03/20/2020 Story Hike and Nature Play at SFA Mast Arboretum, (all ages), 10:00am, 03/21/2020 Makerspace: Weird Circuits, (Ages 10 & up), 12:30pm, 03/21/2020 Learn to Make: Pots de Creme, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 03/23/2020 Kids Art Series (ages 10 years & younger), 5:30pm, 03/26/2020 Mi Cocina Latina: Capirotada (Mexican Bread Pudding), (ages 8+ years), 7:30pm, 04/02/2020 Paracord & Hemp Bracelets, (ages 10-19 years), 5:30pm, 04/06/2020 Resin Jewelry, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 04/13/2020 The Google World -- Google Sheets, Part I, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 04/15/2020 STEAM: Natural Science & Picnic in the Park, (all ages), 12:00pm, 04/18/2020 Blackout & Visual Poetry Workshop, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 04/20/2020 The Google World -- Google Sheets, Part 2, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 04/22/2020 Wreck This Journal! Party, (ages 10-19 years), 5:30pm, 04/24/2020 Toy Party Sleepover, (ages 3-12 years), 5:30pm, 04/24/2020 Beginning Crochet, (ages 18+ years), 2:30pm, 04/25/2020 Learn to Make: Crepes, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 04/27/2020 Candy Olympics, (ages 5-12 years), 5:30pm, 05/08/2020 STEAM: Light & Color, (all ages), 2:30pm, 05/09/2020 Learn to Make: Summer Rolls, (ages 18+ years), 5:30pm, 05/11/2020 Escape Room: Heist, (ages 10-19 years), 5:30pm, 05/15/2020 Escape Room: Heist, (ages 18+ years), 7:30pm, 05/15/2020 Story Hike and Nature Play at Clint Dempsey Soccer Complex, (all ages), 10:00am, 05/16/2020 Makerspace: Soldering & Basic Electronics, (ages 10+ years), 12:30pm, 05/16/2020 eBooks & Online Databases Nacogdoches Library of Things Spring Activity Guide 2020

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CIA Grad Who Has Run Major Resort & Cruise Line Food Operations Returns for Commencement Hyde Park, NY – John Suley, vice president of food and beverage for Great Wolf Resorts, delivered the commencement address at the New York campus of The Culinary Institute of America on January 19. A 1996 CIA graduate, Chef Suley develops and delivers inspired food and beverage experiences for guests at the largest family of water park resorts in North America. Before joining Great Wolf Resorts, he held a similar position at Royal Caribbean International, where he was responsible for food and drink operations for the cruise line’s 25-ship fleet. Prior to Royal Caribbean, he oversaw food and beverage operations for Celebrity Cruises. His professional experience also includes cooking at big-name hotels such as the Fontainebleau and Ritz-Carlton, South Beach in Miami; Waldorf-Astoria and St. Regis in New York City; The Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC; and the Palms Casino and Resort in Las Vegas. He has worked with many renowned chefs during his career, including Daniel Boulud, Laurent Gras, Gray Kunz, and fellow CIA alumnus Alfred Portale. The entire CIA commencement ceremony, including Chef Suley’s address to associate degree graduates, can be seen online. CIA President Dr. Tim Ryan and keynote speaker John Suley congratulate a graduate during commencement ceremonies at the New York campus of The Culinary Institute of America on January 19, 2018. (Photo credit: CIA/Phil Mansfield) Jeff Levine Communications Writer Jeff.Levine@culinary.edu

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Panthertown Valley to grow, improve access Panthertown Valley in Jackson County set to receive an important parcel for new entrance, camping. Panthertown Valley to grow, improve access Panthertown Valley in Jackson County set to receive an important parcel for new entrance, camping. Check out this story on citizen-times.com: http://avlne.ws/2jYmjHs Karen Chávez, kchavez@citizen-times.com Published 1:04 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2017 | Updated 3:42 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2017 A look at Panthertown Valley, an area of Jackson County known as the "Yosemite of the East." Jordan Smith, left, of Mainspring Conservation Trust, and Mike Purdy of Friends of Panthertown, standing just off of the Hipp property and Salt Rock Gap trail looking into Panthertown where the view would be affected if the land is developed.(Photo: Courtesy of Mainspring Conservation Trust) CASHIERS - As president of the nonprofit Friends of Panthertown, Margaret Carton has worked for years to protect her beloved Panthertown Valley in Jackson County. As the “feet on the ground,” the group has worked since 2005 to maintain trails, install steps around waterfalls to create safe footing, and give educational programs. With a deal underway with Mainspring Conservation Trust and the U.S. Forest Service, the friends group will get to care for a bigger chunk of Panthertown. If fundraising is successful, the Mainspring land trust is set to purchase a 16-acre, privately owned parcel known as the Hipp property, at the west entrance to Panthertown Valley. The valley comprises 6,295 acres of recreation area in the Nantahala National Forest. ASHEVILLE CITIZEN TIMES A hiking gem: Prowling through Panthertown Valley The parcel is a prime piece of real estate. “We saw this property for sale for years and thought it would be an important acquisition for Panthertown Valley proper,” Carton said. “We’re a small organization focused on maintenance of trails and conservation. We came to Mainspring to ask if there would be interest in a partnership.” The property is directly to the right of the Salt Rock entrance, which is basically a gravel area at the end of Breedlove Road, with no parking area, but a sign indicating Panthertown Access. “We had a lot of people already using it even though it was private property, and parking and camping there,” Carton said. “It will offer wonderful hiking, camping and access to other trails. If a housing development went in there it would ruin the view line from Panthertown Valley.” Sharon Taylor, executive director of Mainspring, said the 16-acre property contains a knoll that looks into the rugged and rolling hills of the protected Panthertown Valley, which is open to hiking, mountain biking, fishing, camping and horseback riding. “Conserving this land fits our mission to conserve, restore and connect,” Taylor said. “It’s perfect. We can conserve this knoll that creates that view out of Pantherown Valley and we can connect people to the natural resource.” Hayne Hipp, who owned Liberty Corp., a holding company that included a real estate operation, owned 12,000 acres of land in Panthertown in the 1950s and ‘60s. Some property he sold to real estate developers and some he sold to Duke Energy in the ‘80s to build a power line. In 1989, the North Carolina Chapter of the Nature Conservancy purchased all but Duke’s right-of-way for $8 million as an addition to Nantahala National Forest. Today Panthertown is managed by the U.S. Forest Service with funding and volunteers provided by Friends of Panthertown. Hipp said he never logged the land, and instead, he and his family used it as a Christmas tree farm. “I carved out about 16 acres and held that for years. We realized it was an important piece of real estate. We felt strongly that if there was a way to preserve it, we would do so,” Hipp said. Nicknamed the “Yosemite of the East,” by longtime Panthertown explorer, researcher and educator Dan Pittillo, the backcountry recreation area has 30 miles of trails, and contains the headwaters and the east fork of the Tuckasegee River. The many creeks form 11 waterfalls, and the varied forest types, mountain bogs and range of elevations create highly diverse habitats for wildlife and rare plant species. It is designated as a Blue Ridge Natural Heritage Area and as one of North Carolina’s “Mountain Treasures” by The Wilderness Society. The remote area does not have well-marked trails so a map and compass or GPS unit are recommended. The east entrance at Cold Mountain Gap has a parking area. The western Salt Rock access has no parking, so visitors must park on the roadsides. The hope, once the land is transferred to the U.S. Forest Service, is to build a parking area to provide better access, and to create camping sites, Taylor said. But all that can’t happen until the needed $195,000 is raised. Taylor said a major donor has agreed to match donations dollar for dollar up to $100,000. Mainspring is in the midst of a fundraising campaign and so far has raised $14,000. The group has until April to close on the property. "That’s a place you’ll always take your children and grandchildren, " said Hipp, who has three children and six grandchildren. "I hope everyone loves it as much as we do." To donate to the Panthertown Valley land purchase, visit www.mainspringconserves.org. Want to visit Panthertown? West entrance: From downtown Sylva, follow Main Street to the Business 23/N.C. 107 intersection at Bogart's. Follow N.C. 107 south about 27.6 miles to its intersection with U.S. 64 in Cashiers. Turn left (east) onto U.S. 64 and go 2 miles to Cedar Creek Road (S.R. 1120). Turn left onto Cedar Creek and go about 2.3 miles to Breedlove Road (S.R. 1121). Turn right onto Breedlove Road and follow about 3.5 miles to the Panthertown gate. East entrance: Follow directions above to the N.C. 107/U.S. 64 intersection in Cashiers. Turn left (east) onto U.S. 64 and go about 13 miles to the U.S. 64/N.C. 281 intersection. Turn left onto N.C. 281 and continue about 0.8 miles to Cold Mountain Road (S.R. 1301). Turn left and follow Cold Mountain Road about 5.8 miles to a sharp left turn. Turn left and go about 0.1 mile to a gravel road on the right. Take the gravel road about 0.1 mile to the parking area at the gate. For more, visit www.panthertown.org. A 16-acre parcel of land is set to become part of Panthertown Valley if enough funds can be raised by April. (Photo: Courtesy of Mainspring Conservation Trust) Read or Share this story: http://avlne.ws/2jYmjHs Answer Man: Southern States sign making me nuts! Black Mountain Alderman Carlos Showers dies

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Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the appointment of the members of the High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement Content provided by APO Group. CNBC Africa provides content from APO Group as a service to its readers, but does not edit the articles it publishes. CNBC Africa is not responsible for the content provided by APO Group. Following his statement of 22 October announcing the establishment of a High Level-Panel on Internal Displacement, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has today appointed its eight members. The Panel will be co-chaired by Federica Mogherini, the former High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and former Vice-President of the European Commission, and Donald Kaberuka, the former President of the African Development Bank and current Chair of the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. As the first high-level panel established to address this global challenge, it draws together expertise from government, international organizations, civil society and the private sector. It also includes representation from countries particularly affected by displacement. Last year the number of people displaced as a result of conflict reached an all-time high of more than 41 million. In the same year, an additional 17 million people were displaced by natural disasters. The Secretary-General has tasked the Panel with finding concrete long-term solutions to and raising global awareness of internal displacement for Member States and the United Nations to improve their efforts to help all those affected, including both the displaced and their host communities. The panel comprises: Co-Chair: Ms. Federica Mogherini (Italy) is the former High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and former Vice-President of the European Commission. She served previously as Italy's Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and as a Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Co-Chair: Mr. Donald Kaberuka (Rwanda) is Chair of the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is a former President of the African Development Bank Group and Minister of Finance and Economic Planning in Rwanda. Ms. Paula Gaviria Betancur (Colombia) is the Director-General of Fundacion Compaz, the foundation created by Nobel Prize laureate Juan Manuel Santos to work on peacebuilding. She is the former Presidential Counsellor on Human Rights in Colombia and former head of the Government's Victims Unit. Mr. Nasser Judeh (Jordan) is a member of the Senate of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation. He served previously as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan as well as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Information, Minister of State for Media and Communications and official spokesman for the government of Jordan. Mr. Per Heggenes (Norway) is the CEO of IKEA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Swedish home furnishings company IKEA. Previously, Mr. Heggenes was the Global Head of Corporate Affairs for the shipping and logistics company Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics. Mr. Mitiku Kassa Gutile (Ethiopia) is the Commissioner for Emergency Response in Ethiopia and responsible for the country’s efforts to address internal displacement. Ms. Pauline Riak (South Sudan) is the Chair of the Board of Directors at the Sudd Institute and Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Juba. She is a former Sudanese refugee who founded the Sudanese Women’s Association in Nairobi (SWAN). Ms. Sima Samar (Afghanistan) is the Special Envoy of the President and State Minister for Human Rights and International Affairs in Afghanistan. She served previously as Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), as Minister of Women's Affairs of Afghanistan, and as UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Sudan. The Panel will submit its final recommendations to the Secretary-General one year after its first meeting in early 2020. It will convene at least four times in Geneva, New York and other locations. The Secretary-General also established an Expert Advisory Group to help guide the Panel. The Advisory Group comprises: Mr. Chaloka Beyani (UK/Zambia) is Associate Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics (LSE). He served previously as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons and as a legal advisor to a range of UN entities and international organizations. Ms. Alexandra Bilak (France) is Director of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and served previously as Country Director and Programme Manager for several international non-governmental organizations and research institutes in sub-Saharan Africa. Mr. Walter Kälin (Switzerland) is Professor Emeritus of International Law at the University of Bern, Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement and Special Adviser on internal displacement to the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinators in Ethiopia, Somalia and Ukraine. He served previously as Representative of the Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons. Ms. Elizabeth Ferris (US) is a research professor at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. She previously was non-resident fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and Co-Director of the Brookings Project on Internal Displacement. In 2016, she served as senior advisor to the UN General Assembly’s Summit for Refugees and Migrants in New York. A Geneva-based Secretariat, headed by George William Okoth-Obbo, at the Assistant Secretary-General level, will provide substantive, administrative and logistical support. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations – Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Previous articleComoros: World Bank Group Pledges $175 Million in Additional Support for Development Programs Next articleGuinea Implements the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Enhanced General Data Dissemination System Speech by H.E. Ms. Jacobsen at Arusha Technical College Graduation Ceremony UAE has prioritised relations with African countries: His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020) Cubans and Namibians commemorate the Birth of the Apostle Remarks by the Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in Zambia on the Outbreak of Pneumonia caused by the Novel Coronavirus Egypt: African Development Bank approves $22 million to expand leasing financing to corporates and SMEs Blitzboks excited to restore pride

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Better safe than sorry over Kaspersky risk Concerns about the safety of Kaspersky’s anti-virus software continue to circulate so it’s a good idea to think about switching to another provider. On-going coverage of the issue in the media has stoked fears that using the company’s software might open up any business or individual to some kind of cyber-attack. Kaspersky Lab denies any wrong-doing but suggestions that the company assisted Russia’s spies refuse to dissipate. UK Members of Parliament and security experts have now called for a blanket ban on the software. That’s more than a month after the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a warning based on risk analysis rather than hard evidence. The warning was directed at government departments that use Kaspersky’s software for systems that support national security. However, non-government organisations are also taking heed of the warning. The NCSC’s concerns are clearly not pure hysteria. Last year, Bloomberg reported on emails that were written in 2009 where Kaspersky’s staff were directed to work on a secret project requested by the “Lubyanka side”. Lubyanka is a reference to the Moscow office of the Federal Security Service and commonly referred to as the FSB whilst also successor to the KGB. According to Bloomberg, Russian law requires service providers like Kaspersky to install communications interception equipment that allows the FSB to monitor all of a company’s data transmissions. And while Eugene Kaspersky denies his software contains a backdoor code that deliberately allows access to vulnerable information, a backdoor code isn’t really necessary says Bloomberg. Simply installing the software on your computer is an access pass to every corner of your network. Bank takes action UK government officials stressed they aren’t telling companies or members of the public to stop using the software but the loss of confidence has already started to have wider repercussions. Barclays Bank emailed 290,000 customers to announce it would no longer be offering free Kaspersky software describing the move as a “precautionary decision”. Gary Jowett from CNC in Brighton says: “We’ve never sold Kaspersky software but we’re advising customers who have it installed to change to Symantec Anti-Virus instead. The NCSC’s warning could affect procurement decisions made by local and national government and have an impact on businesses in Sussex and across the South East of England. Even if there’s no real risk, the continued poor perception of the anti-virus software means it’s a wise move to switch provider.” By CNCAdmin|2018-06-07T14:18:33+01:0024th March 2018|CNC News|Comments Off on Better safe than sorry over Kaspersky risk

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Tri-County Labor Council TwitterFacebookInstagramFlickrYouTube Support Our Right to Organize Unions help build a better life for working people, but outdated laws have hampered our basic right to join together and negotiate for better pay, benefits and working conditions. A new bill, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, would modernize our nation's labor laws. New York State AFL-CIO Central New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO NPR: AFL-CIO President Touts Labor's Role In Improving New Trade Deal Admin on Friday, December 20 2019 - 12:52pm A top national labor leader is touting a new multilateral trade deal, and says his union side much improved the Trump administration's initial proposal. The comments from Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, came Wednesday, just before the House overwhelmingly approved the pact called the USMCA. The new deal between the United States, Mexico and Canada, which now heads to the Senate, would replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. Get the full story at NPR 207 Peterson Rd Laurens, NY 13796 © AFL-CIO. All rights reserved. Photographs and illustrations, as well as text, cannot be used without permission from the AFL-CIO.

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Film & TV clients #FilmAndTV Theatre clients #Theatre Below the Line clients Comedy clients James Saunders Theatre Estate Imogen Sarre imogen@casarotto.co.uk James Saunders (1925-2004) was born in Islington, North London. He received an Arts Council playwright's bursary for THE ARK in 1960, and became a full-time playwright in 1964. His early plays led him to be considered one of the main British exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd. Later works continued to explore the limits of traditional theatre. In 1984 he was awarded a Major Bursary. NEXT TIME I’LL SING TO YOU ran at the Criterion Theatre 1962-63, winning for him an Evening Standard award for Most Promising Playwright (1963) and since then his plays have enjoyed enormous success both in the West End and with amateur theatre clubs. A SCENT OF FLOWERS was staged at the Duke of York's in 1964, THE TRAVAILS OF SANCHO PANZA at the National Theatre in 1969, and BODIES at Hampstead and subsequently at the Ambassador's Theatre in 1984. He was associated for a number of years with the Questors Theatre in Ealing, but from 1972 he worked closely with Sam Walters' Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, Surrey. Both FALL and BODIES were commissioned and first staged by the Orange Tree and in 1991 they presented his adaptation of Vaclav Havel's REDEVELOPMENT. RETREAT (1995), his last play, was premiered by the Orange Tree Company in their new theatre. Performance Rights Enquiries Casarotto Ramsay & Associates Limited 3rd Floor, 7 Savoy Court London WC2R 0EX info@casarotto.co.uk © Casarotto Ramsay & Associates

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Freestanding EDs Surgical C-Arms Cassling's Lindsay Cosimano Named One of Omaha's "40 Under 40" Omaha, Neb. (Nov. 30, 2012) - Lindsay Cosimano, APR, PCM, chief marketing officer, has been named one of the area's "40 under 40" by the Midlands Business Journal. Each year, the Midlands Business Journal honors 40 greater Omaha, Council Bluffs and Sarpy County entrepreneurs, executives and business professionals under the age of 40. The winners are selected based on their contributions to their businesses and their communities. Cosimano joined Cassling in 2000 and has more than 14 years of health-care marketing experience. She is chair elect of the Wellness Council of the Midlands Board of Directors, past president of Nebraska Healthcare Marketers and past president of the Nebraska Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. She is a founding member of the Omaha American Marketing Association Health-care Special Interest Group and member of the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development. www.cassling.com Join our team: Careers Cassling Updates: Sign Up Today! Send secure e-mail: Zix Message Center © 2020 Cassling. All Rights Reserved.

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Academic Freedom, Electronic Communications and Social Media CAUT Policy Statement Academic freedom includes the right, without restriction by prescribed doctrine, to teach and discuss; freedom to carry out research and disseminate and publish the results thereof; freedom to produce and perform creative works; freedom to engage in service to the institution and the community; freedom to express one’s opinion about the institution, its administration, and the system in which one works; freedom to acquire, preserve, and provide access to documentary material in all formats; and freedom to participate in professional and representative academic bodies. Academic freedom always entails freedom from institutional censorship. This Policy Statement on Academic Freedom, Electronic Communications and Social Media clarifies and reaffirms the rights articulated in the Policy Statement on Academic Freedom. It neither diminishes nor dilutes these rights — rights which remain essential if post-secondary institutions are to continue serving the common good of society. The rights of academic staff to exercise their academic freedom do not vary according to the medium in which they are exercised. These rights are as essential to academic activities undertaken electronically as to those undertaken in speech, writing, and/or other media. The right to exercise academic freedom is the same regardless of whether that exercise takes place within or outside the bounds of any particular institution. The following list of examples is intended to be illustrative rather than exhaustive. In making instructional materials available electronically, including on institutional and/or publicly accessible platforms, academic staff have the same rights of academic freedom as when they circulate such material in printed, audio and/or visual form. Academic staff also have the right to promote and guide student participation in class discussions and in public fora (including electronic sites). In posting information about their research, teaching, and intellectual interests on web sites or other electronic platforms, regardless of location or source of the host, academic staff have the same rights of academic freedom as when they present such material in speech, print and/or other media for the benefit of students, colleagues, publishers, community groups, and so on. In publishing their work in electronic fora, academic staff have the same rights of academic freedom as when they publish their work in other forms. In expressing in electronic fora and social media their views on topics of public interest, whether or not those topics fall within their area of professional expertise, academic staff have the same rights of academic freedom as when they engage in any other form of public discourse. In searching electronic fora and social media to pursue topics of research there should be no restriction to access any sources of information due to web filtering or other means. Having material censored and inaccessible due to these platforms hinders the exercise of academic freedom. Academic staff are entitled to privacy rights, including the right to be free from surveillance and data collection. Administrators have the responsibility to protect electronic communications from surveillance and data collection. Electronic mail, feeds, postings or links sent or received by academic staff have the same protections as communications by conventional mail (through national and institutional postal services and private carriers and couriers). Administration and academic staff must treat electronic mail as private and inviolable. Outsourcing information technology services poses a significant threat to privacy protection and academic freedom. Because of the significant risk, outsourcing of IT services should be prohibited. Approved by the CAUT Council, May 2019.

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Debate:Was the United States right to drop atomic bombs so quickly on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Dgrjr (Talk | contribs) at 14:11, 23 May 2007. It may differ significantly from current revision. Revision as of 14:11, 23 May 2007 by Dgrjr (Talk | contribs) It saved lives! Operation Downfall was the allied plan to invade the Imperial Japanese mainland. Operation Olympic on November 1, 1945 and then Operation Coronet on March 1, 1946. Allied bombing raids would've continued into 1946 and by the end of hostilities there would've been massive civilian casualties. The Second World War would have ended with a much greater toll in human lives then it did. Droping two atomic bombs on two cities that would've been destroyed by conventional means expedited an end to that conflict. Waiting any longer would have resulted in implementing Operation Downfall. Waiting would have meant continued warfare and loss of lives.--Roopilots6 19:42, 11 April 2007 (EDT) Hey its either 200000 of them or 2 million marines? i chose them. not because i am american, but because 2 million lives is a whole lot!!! i may sound savage but i think it was nessecary. --Will N. 20:16, 11 April 2007 (EDT) Amen. It wasn't ethical or moral to drop the bombs, but it was most certainly the lesser of two evils. And honestly, it was war; you're supposed to use your advantageous weapons.--Hojimachongtalk 20:18, 11 April 2007 (EDT) also all is fair in love and war. if we could end it then its our duty to end it. And if ending it saved 1,800,000 then go for it. --Will N. 20:28, 11 April 2007 (EDT) It was to keep the Soviet Union out of Japan The allies had agreed to a partitioning of Germany after the victory over Hitler. The United States, however, had conducted the Pacific War practically alone and we did not intend to share the fruits of victory with the Soviet Union after a protracted sea-land invasion of the home islands by both countries. Therefore, Harry Truman undertook to force Japan to capitulate before the USSR could mobilize by knocking out two Japanese cities with the nuclear bombs. The detonations also had a dampening effect on further Soviet aggression until 1949 when they obtained their own atomic devices. Teresita 20:11, 11 April 2007 (EDT) Retrieved from "https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Debate:Was_the_United_States_right_to_drop_atomic_bombs_so_quickly_on_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki%3F&oldid=174526"

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Mountain Valley Pipeline Still Faces Hurdles Before Construction Mon October 23, 2017 - National Edition Duncan Adams The Mountain Valley Pipeline nailed a major milestone Oct. 13 by winning the blessing of a key federal agency. But the company can't crank up the bulldozers yet. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's order certifying the $3.7 billion interstate project noted that other federal and state agencies must weigh in before construction can begin on the 42-in.-diameter buried natural gas pipeline. For example, FERC noted that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality “have the opportunity to impose conditions to protect water quality” tied to the Clean Water Act. FERC observed that Mountain Valley “must obtain all necessary federal and state permits and authorizations, including the water quality certifications, prior to receiving Commission authorization to commence construction.” Many pipeline foes have responded to FERC's approval of the Mountain Valley project by vowing to concentrate now on convincing other regulatory agencies that the pipeline's environmental, social and economic costs outweigh its benefits. Could those efforts actually yield the opponents' most desired result, which would be stopping the pipeline? The odds seemed stacked against that outcome but opponents have vowed to try. They have noted that New York's Department of Environmental Conservation has blocked two pipeline projects by refusing to issue water quality permits. However, in mid-September, FERC overturned the department's denial of water quality certification for Millennium Pipeline's proposed Valley Lateral project. FERC said the New York agency took too long to make the permit decision. The state is challenging FERC's decision. Carolyn Elefant, a former FERC lawyer who now often represents individuals and groups fighting pipelines, was asked whether she recalls any decisions by federal agencies that have halted projects. “I have been involved in one or two cases where the [Army Corps of Engineers] has been very critical of the FERC environmental analysis and has required additional mitigation and/or conditions and taken more time to issue a permit,” Elefant said. “But offhand, I cannot think of a case where another federal agency denied an authorization.” Sanctioning Impacts Carolyn Reilly, co-owner of a family farm in Franklin County that is on the pipeline's route, noted that FERC Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur, a Democrat, dissented when the commission approved the pipeline in a 2-1 decision. Commissioners Neil Chatterjee and Robert Powelson, Republicans who recently joined the commission, opted to green light the project. Reilly works with Bold Alliance, a group that's opposed too to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which also received FERC approval Oct. 13. “As we witnessed FERC's new Trump-appointed commissioners steamroll over a seven-year veteran of the agency to rubber-stamp these pipeline approvals, we're now determined to persevere in pushing the powers of the state,” Reilly said Oct. 11. “States must do everything they can to be a firewall against federally sanctioned fossil fuel projects that escalate climate disaster for our communities, our cities and our nation,” she said. The pipeline's route would travel through a total of approximately 3.5 miles of the Jefferson National Forest. Construction there cannot begin without a right-of-way grant from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which is responsible for issuing such grants for pipelines across federal lands under the jurisdiction of two or more federal agencies. The Forest Service and the Army Corps of Engineers are assessing the environmental effects of the Mountain Valley Pipeline on the national forest. Joby Timm, Roanoke County-based supervisor of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, said in September that the bureau anticipates a decision about the right-of-way grant by Oct. 31. A bureau statement issued after FERC's release in June of the final environmental impact statement for the Mountain Valley Pipeline seemed to suggest the agency is poised to embrace the project. It quoted Karen Mouritsen, then the land management bureau's eastern states director and now an acting director in Alaska, saying that the pipeline, if approved, “will help fuel America's economy and help support good-paying energy sector jobs.” The bureau's decision must be preceded by the Jefferson National Forest opting to amend its land and resource management plan to sanction variances necessary to allow pipeline-related impacts to soils, streamside vegetation, old growth trees and the Appalachian Trail and its viewsheds. Rebecca Robbins, a Forest Service spokeswoman, said Oct. 20 that a decision about amending the plan will be announced once the agency completes the process of resolving objections to proposed amendments. The objection resolution period ended Oct. 14. What would happen if the Bureau of Land Management declined to OK the pipeline's passage through the Jefferson National Forest, through land managed by the Forest Service and Army Corps of Engineers? “Without a right-of-way from the federal government, the pipeline could not cross these lands,” said Lesley Elser, a spokeswoman of the bureau. The Bureau of Land Management will not issue a right-of-way grant until the federal agencies managing the land have concurred with that decision, she said. “If concurrence is not reached, the Secretary of the Interior, after consultation with these agencies, may issue the right-of-way,” Elser said in an email. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke was nominated by President Donald Trump, a vocal supporter of pipeline projects. Natalie Cox, a spokeswoman of Mountain Valley, declined to say what the company might do if barred from traveling through the national forest. “We are unable to provide comment or answer to speculation,” she said. Mountain Valley also needs a permit from the Virginia Marine Resources Commission because the pipeline's construction will, as described in state law, “encroach upon” state-owned beds of rivers, streams or creeks. Randy Owen, an environmental engineer with the commission, said its review is independent of federal Clean Water Act regulations, driven instead by state laws. He said Mountain Valley's plans to install a pipeline beneath the bed of 18 streams in Virginia with drainage areas greater than five square miles triggers a review of crossings in Giles, Montgomery, Roanoke, Franklin and Pittsylvania counties. A recent legal ad placed by the agency inadvertently omitted Roanoke County. The commission plans to run the ad again on Oct. 25, Owen said. Although the ad will call for public comment within 15 days, the commission typically accepts comment for a longer period, he said. “For any request that is denied, the applicant may re-apply [for a permit] in modified form,” Owen said. Mark Haviland, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, confirmed Oct. 19 that the corps will review the Mountain Valley project under its Nationwide 12 permit process, which critics have described as a streamlined “blanket permit.” According to the corps, the permits “provide expedited review of projects that have minimal impact on the aquatic environment.” If the Army Corps determines that a proposed project doesn't meet the terms and conditions of a Nationwide 12 permit — or if the proposed impacts are “more than minimal” — the applicant will be directed to apply for a different type of permit that would bring a more comprehensive evaluation by the corps, said Doug Garman, another corps spokesman. The project could still be authorized, but it could require a more rigorous evaluation process, he said. Virginia's DEQ plans to make recommendations to the State Water Control Board about water quality certification and the Mountain Valley Pipeline during meetings Dec. 6 and 7 in Richmond. Separately, the department is reviewing erosion and sediment and stormwater control plans for the project. The deadline for public comment on those plans, which require DEQ approval but not a permit, was Oct. 15. In September, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection announced it was withdrawing the Clean Water Act 401 water quality certification it had granted in March to Mountain Valley. The department's action followed litigation alleging its evaluation of the project had been inadequate. On Oct. 17, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit formally vacated the certification, sanctioning the department's return to the drawing board — an action celebrated by groups that challenged the March decision. “MVP has charted a brutally challenging and destructive route across 200 miles of West Virginia mountains, forests and farmlands,” said Judy Azulay, president of the Indian Creek Watershed Association in Monroe County. “It is clear in its order that FERC is relying on DEP to fill the holes that the FERC certificate does not address,” she said. 'Not Too Late' The pipeline would be buried in a trench ranging in depth from about 5.5 to 9 ft., depending on terrain. The construction right-of-way would be about 125 ft. wide in most places and be cleared of all vegetation, setting the stage for potential erosion until vegetation is reestablished. The full 303-mile route of the pipeline and its access roads would require about 1,108 water body crossings. About 216 miles of the route would cross shallow bedrock that might require blasting. About 67 miles would travel through karst landscapes characterized by sinkholes, caves, springs and underground aquifers vulnerable to contamination. The pipeline would cross thousands of acres of soils prone to erosion. All these realities have raised significant concerns about impacts to water quality, leading many pipeline opponents to contend that anticipated violations of water quality standards should preclude certification by DEP and DEQ. Opponents in Virginia of both the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Atlantic Coast Pipeline worry that Gov. Terry McAuliffe's support for both projects could sway the DEQ's recommendations. “It's still not too late for Gov. McAuliffe — who has signaled his intentions to run for president — to be on right side of history and the climate fight and protect Virginia citizens from these dangerous, fracked gas pipelines,” Reilly said. FERC's order approving the Mountain Valley Pipeline also included more than two dozen requirements or conditions that must be met before construction begins. As one example, the project must identify prior to construction “the location of all water wells, springs and other drinking water sources within 150 ft. [or 500 ft. in karst terrain] of construction work areas and above-ground facilities” and must submit a plan for post-construction monitoring of these water sources. On July 20, the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation observed that the 500-ft. criteria was arbitrary because “unanticipated releases” in karst landscapes “have the potential to travel more than 500 ft. and impact wells, cave streams and springs.” Source: The Roanoke Times Mountain Valley Pipelinepipeline Mountain Valley Pipeline pipeline

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Becoming An Artist "Painting and drawing really didn't play an important role in my life throughout my childhood and teenage years. In college I studied to be an accountant. I found my passion for painting and drawing in 1987, after my son was born. The genesis of my life as an artist unfolds here. I was searching for an occupation that would allow me to stay at home and raise my child, and still make ends meet. A desire to listen to my own voice and express myself through my paintings quickly became a passion." Style And Color "I have not had any formal art schooling. I am self-taught as an artist, and have worked hard to develop my own style of expressing myself on paper and canvas. My paintings come from my heart. They are a contemporary expression of my subject matter, both through my choices of vibrant color and textures that I use. While I was drawn to use a similar color palette in my work since I first began to paint, I feel my use of color and technique of layering vibrant hues in more complex ways is constantly evolving. Currently my medium of choice is oils, as I have found that the more I explore them, the more entranced I become with their vibrant hues and depth. I strive to learn from each and every painting I do, and plan to always remain the eternal student. It is in this manner that I feel my work can continue to evolve and grow." "I was born in 1962 in Central City, Nebraska, but at the age of seven, my family moved to Montana, and I have lived there ever since. Spending much of my life in Montana has allowed me to nurture a deep love of the West, it's fascinating history, stunning landscapes, and the people and animals who inhabit it...all subjects that find their way into much of my current work. Several trips to the Southwest have inspired me to paint scenes from that part of the West as well. The Southwest exudes such raw beauty and unique architecture. I have particularly enjoyed exploring the back roads, and painting the old churches there. The animals and scenic beauty the West holds are subjects that I will always enjoy painting."

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Lab Members Research Research Labs Shah Lab Lab Members Shah Lab Shah Lab Toggle mobile sub-nav Back to Shah Lab Reagents and Resources Prediman K. Shah, MD Bojan Cercek, MD, PhD Physician Scientist; Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Bojan Cercek, MD, PhD, is a graduate from the University of Ljubljana and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He completed his residency and fellowship at Cedars-Sinai and worked several years in the experimental laboratory of William Ganz, MD. Cercek's initial research was directed to thrombolytic therapy of acute myocardial infarction. He has completed the largest trial of antibiotic treatment of acute coronary syndromes. His experimental research is investigating the early phases of atherosclerosis and he has established several experimental models of early vessel wall thickening. Kuang-Yuh Chyu, MD, PhD Physician Scientist; Associate Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Kuang-Yuh Chyu, MD, PhD, received his medical degree from the National Yang-Ming Medical College in Taiwan and earned his doctorate degree in physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center and his clinical fellowship in cardiology at Cedars-Sinai, where he also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship. Chyu joined the Division of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai as a faculty and physician scientist in 2000. His interests include critical cardiac care and atherosclerotic vascular disease. His current research includes defining the role of LDL and its related peptides as potential immune modulation antigens to reduce atherosclerosis; studying the role of HDL, and apoA1 and its mutant (apoA1milano) in modulating atherosclerotic vascular disease. Behrooz G. Sharifi, PhD Behrooz Sharifi, PhD, earned his doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Kansas. He has worked on various aspects of biochemical and molecular signaling in developing an understanding of the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases. His research expertise covers gene expression and signaling in the regulation of cell differentiation, proliferation, migration and apoptosis. Specifically, Sharifi has a long-standing interest in identifying the role of matricellular protein tenascin-C (TNC) in cardiovascular diseases. Paul Dimayuga, PhD Paul Dimayuga, PhD, earned his doctorate in experimental cardiovascular research at the Malmo University Hospital, Lund University, Sweden in 2001. He joined the Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center that same year as a postdoctoral researcher investigating the role of the immune system in the host response to vascular injury. Using the knowledge gained from these studies, he has focused on the role of CD8+ T cells in atherosclerosis and other vascular diseases in the P. K. Shah Laboratory. He is currently involved in the atherosclerosis vaccine project and is investigating methods to identify antigen-specific CD8+ T cells in atherosclerosis. Ana Arias, BSc Ana Arias, BSc, earned her bachelor's degree in biology at the University of El Salvador. She joined the lab of Rocio Sierra-Honigmann, MD, PhD, as a research laboratory assistant in 2003 to investigate the angiogenic mechanisms of leptin during wound healing. In 2006, she continued her role as a research associate with Behrooz Sharifi, PhD, and his group in the P. K. Shah Lab. Arias provides her expertise in tissue analysis by immunohistochemistry, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and handling of mouse colonies for experimental procedures. She feels privileged to participate in the studies on the mechanisms and therapies of atherosclerosis. Fuqiang Li, PhD Fuqiang Li, PhD, earned his doctorate in preventive veterinary medicine at the China Agricultural University, Beijing in 2000. After, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher on phage display library of porcine immunoglobulin at University of Glasgow with a Wellcome Trust Fellowship. He joined the P. K. Shah Lab in 2004 to investigate the genetic and molecular mechanisms of atherosclerosis using animal models and state of the art molecular biology techniques. Li has been actively involved in the studies of expression and regulation of pleiotrophin in macrophages, and its role in neovascularization of atherosclerotic plaques. Wai Man Lio, BSc Wai Man Lio (Nicole), BSc, earned her bachelor's degree in biochemistry at University of California, Los Angeles in 2007. She joined the P. K. Shah Laboratory in 2008 to study various therapeutic approaches for atherosclerosis, focusing on the immunology side of the underlying mechanism. She is experienced in Flow Cytometry, immune cells culture, molecular biology techniques, microdissection of mice and tissue staining techniques. One of her projects focused on how the effects of lipid environment on T cells show that T cells are more active under high cholesterol condition associated with changes in lipid rafts, cellular cholesterol content, immune biomarkers and T-cell antigen receptor ligation signaling molecule activation. Julieta Magalong, BSc Research Lab Assistant Julieta Magalong, BSc, earned a bachelor of science in commerce, majoring in accounting at the University of Pangasinan, Dagupan City, Philippines. After graduating in 1977 she worked as a secretary in engineering department in Central Pangasinan Electric Company, San Carlos Cit. After she transferred to the capital city of Manila for a government position in National Mapping & Resource Information Authority as a budget officer. In 2001, Magalong joined Behrooz Sharifi, PhD, and his group performing administrative duties in support of the P. K. Shah Lab research projects. Magalong's expertise ranges from purchasing, equipment maintenance, tracking records and inventory, and research lab compliances. Minghui Qin, PhD Minghui Qin, PhD, earned her bachelor’s degree from the Norman Bethune College of Medicine, Jilin University in China, and her PhD in microbiology from the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, in Japan. She then joined the laboratory of Murty Madiraju, VVS, PhD, at the University of Texas at Tyler, to study the replication mechanism of mycobacteria as it relates to its intracellular pathogenesis. Qin joined the group of Behrooz Sharifi, PhD, in the P. K. Shah Lab in 1999. Her current research is the focus on cardiomyocyte regeneration and the effect of eosinophils in response to lipid overload. Colleen Sam, DO, CCRP Colleen Sam, DO, CCRP, is a clinical research coordinator at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. She earned her doctoral degree from the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and then moved to Southern California to complete her internship. She began her research career at Cedars-Sinai in 1998 and later joined the Division of Cardiology in 2009 working with in the P. K. Shah Lab. She is excited to be working in a dynamic field of human clinical trials studying investigational therapies for patients with high cholesterol, statin intolerance and atherosclerosis. Lei Song, MD Lei Song, MD, earned his medical degree at Shanghai Second Medical University in 1991. He studied mechanisms of sudden cardiac arrest in the lab of Max H. Weil, MD, PhD, a pioneer of critical care medicine, for two years. Song then joined the P. K. Shah Laboratory in 2002. Song is involved in investigating mechanisms of cardiac hypertrophy; ischemic heart disease and atherosclerosis using applied pathophysiology and small animal models including mouse models such as arterial/vein graft, myocardial infarction, aortic banding and heterotopic cardiac transplantation. His research interests are also in the areas of cardiovascular bioengineering. Fang Tian, MD, PhD Fang Tian, PhD, earned her doctorate in the Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China. After postdoctoral studies at the Department of Tumor Immunology, at the Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences investigating the tumor suppressor gene RIZ in cancer gene therapy. Tian was promoted to associate professor to continue her research focused on tumor immunology. From 2005 to present, Tian worked in the lab of P. K. Shah, first as a postdoctoral researcher and then as research associate investigating the molecular mechanisms of ApoA1 Milano and KLF14 involved in atherosclerosis and diabetes. Lai Wang, MD Lai Wang, MD, received her medical degree at the School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. After post-doctoral training at UCLA, she joined the group of Behrooz Sharifi, PhD, in the P. K. Shah Lab studying varying aspects of cardiovascular diseases. Her research is focused on the role of gene therapy in cardiovascular diseases and Alzheimer’s employing various viral vectors including adeno-associated virus and retroviruses. Her research also includes identification of function of novel genes such as tenascin C, pleiotrophin, GATA 3 and KLF 14 in cardiovascular diseases and their signaling pathways in order to develop novel therapeutic strategies to control cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases. Mingjie Yang, PhD Mingjie Yang, PhD, earned his doctorate in preventive medicine at the Third Military Medical University, China in 2001. He joined the P. K. Shah Laboratory under the direction of Behrooz Sharifi, PhD, in 2007, and is currently working as a project scientist to investigate molecular biological mechanisms involved in atherosclerosis. Yang’s research interests include macrophage phenotype detection, gene promoter activity analysis and transcription factor binding site analysis. He is taking part in the projects on the role of macrophage GATA3 gene expression in atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction. Juliana Yano, BSc Juliana Yano, BSc, earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry at the Institute of Food Chemistry in Prague, Czech Republic. She began working under the leadership of William Ganz, MD, in the cardiology research lab at Cedars-Sinai, and then joined the P. K. Shah Laboratory in 1993 as a lab manager. Yano provides technical support to PIs on experiments investigating the mechanisms of action of immunization with ApoB-100 peptide p210 in reducing atherosclerosis. She conducts animal experiments, analyzes animal specimens and research data and prepares Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee applications, maintaining charge of the logistics for animals, supplies and equipment. Ada Yukht, BSc Ada Yukht, BSc, earned her bachelor's degree in genetics from the University of California, Davis in 1991. After she graduated, she joined Cedars-Sinai to work with Philip Kern, MD, in the Department of Endocrinology, designing and performing complex experiments in LPL research. In 1995, she moved to the Ophthalmology Research Laboratories under the leadership of Steven Wechsler, PhD, to study ocular HSV-1 latency and reactivation. The experience that she gained in this laboratory included recombinant DNA techniques and virology that proved to be a considerable asset when she joined the Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center in 2002. Since then she has become a central figure in molecular cloning projects within the lab leading to the development of viral vectors. These have been used in a variety of gene therapy projects either to deliver a therapeutic protein or to be used in proof-of-concept studies. Xiaoning Zhao, PhD Xiaoning Zhao, PhD, earned her doctorate in molecular epidemiological science at the Fourth Military Medical University in China. Before coming to the United States, she investigated a DNA vaccine against HCV at Fourth Military Medical University. She joined the P. K. Shah Laboratory in 2000 and was involved in a variety of research projects, mainly including: clarifying the molecular mechanism of atherosclerosis and developing Peptide-based vaccine to reduce atherosclerosis; demonstrating the inhibitory effect of green tea derived epigallocatechin gallate on vascular smooth muscle cells in vivo and in vitro and identifying the effect of nitric oxide on proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells. Jianchang Zhou, PhD Jianchang Zhou, PhD, earned her doctorate from the Third Military Medical University, China, and joined the P. K. Shah Laboratory in 2007. Her current research involves various aspects of immune-modulating therapies to treat atherosclerosis, including: the role of CD8 T cells, subtypes of CD8 T cells and its cross-talk with macrophages in atherogenesis; exploring the mechanisms of a peptide-based vaccine in reducing atherosclerosis and strategies of cholesterol profile modulation for reducing atherosclerosis. Contact the Shah Lab 127 S. San Vicente Blvd. Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion, 9th Floor

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Diabetes and Celiac Disease Celiac Disease & Related Diseases and Disorders HLA-typing Can Help Spot Celiac Disease in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes By Jefferson Adams By Jefferson Adams • March 7, 2019 Reviewed and edited by a celiac disease expert. Can HLA-DQ2/DQ8 haplotypes help to spot celiac disease in type one diabetes patients? A new study says yes. Caption: Image: CC--Ninara Celiac.com 03/07/2019 - Researchers don’t have much good data on the distribution of the related alleles in the type 1 diabetes Iranian population. In an effort to generate better data, a team of researchers recently set out to assess the frequency of HLA DQ2 and DQ8 haplotypes in patients with type 1 diabetes, with and without celiac disease, and to compare them to the healthy population. The research team included Ali Moheb-Alian, Flora Forouzesh, Amir Sadeghia, Kamran Rostami, Elham Aghamohammadi, Mohammad Rostami-Nejad, Mostafa Rezaei-Tavirani, and Mohammad Reza Zali. The team looked at 70 type 1 diabetes patients who did not have celiac disease, 60 type 1 diabetes cases with celiac disease, and compared them with 150 healthy individuals. They collected ten milliliter Gheparinized blood samples, extracted genomic DNA, and genotyped alleles in Real-time PCR using SYBR Green as a low-resolution method. They found HLA-DQ2 genotypes in 51% of type 1 diabetes patients without celiac disease, and HLA-DQ8 in 23% of such patients. Just over twenty percent of those patients carried both alleles, while 5% carried neither allele. More than 70% of type 1 diabetes patients with celiac disease had DQ2, while nearly 12% carried DQ8. Compared to diabetes patients without celiac disease and the control group, 14% carry both alleles, and 3% carrying neither allele. The frequencies of DQ2 and DQ8 alleles in Iranian healthy population were 19 and 5% respectively. The similarities in genetic background for celiac disease and type 1 diabetes show that HLA-typing can be serve as a helpful tool for spotting celiac disease in people with type one diabetes. Read more in the Journal of Diabetes and its Complicationshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2018.10.001 The researchers are variously affiliated with the Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; the Department of Genetics, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran; the Department of Gastroenterology MidCentral District Health Board, Palmerston North Hospital, New Zealand; the Basic and Molecular Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Disorders Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; and the Proteomics Research Center, Faculty of Paramedical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Jefferson Adams is Celiac.com's senior writer and Digital Content Director. He earned his B.A. and M.F.A. at Arizona State University, and has authored more than 2,500 articles on celiac disease. His coursework includes studies in science, scientific methodology, biology, anatomy, medicine, logic, and advanced research. He previously served as SF Health News Examiner for Examiner.com, and devised health and medical content for Sharecare.com. Jefferson has spoken about celiac disease to the media, including an appearance on the KQED radio show Forum, and is the editor of the book "Cereal Killers" by Scott Adams and Ron Hoggan, Ed.D. Celiac on the Rise in Middle Eastern and North African Countries Celiac.com 07/01/2010 - Celiac disease is a genetic auto-immune disease which, until now, has primarily been considered a Western epidemic. However, we are seeing a rise of celiac disease in Middle Eastern and North African countries. Celiac disease prevalence is grossly underestimated by the medical profession and as such, there is very little data available regarding ma... Celiac Disease Rates in Iran Similar to Europe Celiac.com 04/08/2011 - A medical research team recently conducted an epidemiological review of celiac disease in Iran. The team included M. Rostami Nejad, K. Rostami, M. H. Emami, M. R. Zali, and R. Malekzadeh. They are associated variously with the Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, with the Digestive... Iranian Study Finds Connection Between Helicobacter pylori and Celiac Disease Celiac.com 04/25/2011 - Research shows that celiac disease is associated with numerous gastric abnormalities. An international research team recently set out to examine the association between rates of celiac disease and Helicobacter pylori infection in an Iranian population of 250 patients. The research team included Mohammad Rostami Nejad BS1, Kamran Rostami MD PhD, Yoshio... Rates of Gluten-Related Disorders as High as 11.8% in Some Asia-Pacific Groups Celiac.com 03/05/2019 - The mechanics of how celiac disease and gluten-related disorders develop is still poorly understood. In order to shed light on the subject, a team of researchers recently conducted a systematic review of the current epidemiological knowledge of gluten-related disorders. They focused on variations in reported cases and rates of gluten-related disorders in ... Safe Gluten-Free Food List (Safe Ingredients) Gluten-Free Alcoholic Beverages Unsafe Gluten-Free Food List (Unsafe Ingredients) What Are the Symptoms of Celiac Disease? Baton Rouge, LA - Celiac Emotional Healing Support Group Effingham, IL - HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital Offers Celiac Disease And Gluten Intolerance Support Group New York City - Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University's Biennial Symposium Netherlands - TULIPS & WINDMILLS RIVER BOAT CRUISE GLUTEN-FREE GETAWAY

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Papa John's CEO John Schnatter steps down He's blamed the company's poor performance recently on the NFL. Papa John's CEO John Schnatter steps down He's blamed the company's poor performance recently on the NFL. Check out this story on courier-journal.com: https://usat.ly/2BgoA7o Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY Published 5:06 p.m. ET Dec. 21, 2017 | Updated 8:37 p.m. ET Dec. 21, 2017 John Schnatter is leaving as CEO of Papa John's Pizza. No reason was given for Schnatter's decision, but he recently faced criticism for blaming protesting NFL players for slumping pizza sales. Papa John's founder and CEO John Schnatter is stepping down.(Photo: Mark J. Rebilas, Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports) Papa John's CEO John Schnatter, who overcame the odds to build his home-delivery pizza chain into a national powerhouse against entrenched rivals, is stepping down. Schnatter, who founded the pizza chain in 1984, will remain as chairman of the board. No immediate reason was given for his decision, which takes effect Jan. 1. He is being replaced CEO is company President Steve Ritchie. As the founder, Schnatter has been one of the biggest names in fast food. But he recently ran into controversy when he blamed NFL players' mass move to drop to one knee during the playing of the national anthem as affecting his company's sales. Schnatter has been one of the last CEOs who also act as their brand's advertising pitchman, a list that once included Col. Harland Sanders for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Dave Thomas of Wendy's. By stressing that Papa John's had better ingredients and a better tasting product, he was able to turn the burgeoning chain into a national force against giants like Domino's Pizza and Pizza Hut. Papa John's, which lays claim to being the nation's third-largest pizza chain, could not be reached immediately for comment. The company, which has more than 5,000 locations worldwide, said in a statement that Schnatter will continue to "pursue his personal passion for entrepreneurship, leadership development and education." But his impending title change caught restaurant industry watchers by surprise. “At the very least, it was distracting and I’m wondering whether this was board-driven or if it was John’s choice,” said restaurant consultant John Gordon of the Pacific Management Consulting Group. CFRA equity analyst Efraim Levy said he had anticipated a shift was coming soon in the company. “I see mostly strategic continuity, but I expect Steve Ritchie to also put his own imprint” on Papa John’s," he said. More: Papa John's tweets apology for being 'divisive' when ripping NFL More: Papa John's condemns endorsement from white supremacist publication More: Halal pizza lawsuits against Little Caesars dropped after racist threats Louisville-based Papa John's is the official pizza sponsor of the National Football League, which Schnatter slammed in November for not dealing with players who've been kneeling during the Star Spangled Banner to protest racial injustice. The movement began with then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in 2016. "The NFL has been a long and valued partner over the years. But we're certainly disappointed that the NFL and its leadership did not resolve the ongoing situation to the satisfaction of all parties long ago," Schnatter said during a Nov. 1 analyst call. "This should've been nipped in the bud a year-and-a-half ago." On Nov. 14, the company sent out an I'm-sorry tweet: "The statements made on our earnings call were describing the factors that impact our business and we sincerely apologize to anyone that thought they were divisive." Schnatter isn't the first founder to step away recently from CEO duties at the company he built from scratch. Last month, Chipotle Mexican Grill CEO Steve Ells would become executive chairman and Panera Bread's Ron Shaich announced that he would step down, but retain his position as board chairman. Pizza and beer is a pretty iconic combination, and one pizza chain is now testing out delivering both to your door. Josh King has the story (@abridgetoland). And Schnatter himself has said goodbye to the CEO gig before. He stepped down in 2005, but returned in 2008. In 2010, he took on a co-CEO, Jude Thompson, but that arrangement ended the following year. Now Papa John's may decide to find a new pitchman besides Schnatter. “He’s in every ad," Gordon said. "That’s very CEO-centric marketing, which is pretty unusual these days. We’ll see if he steps back from that.” He added, “He and/or the board see the need to get him out of the line on fire and to continue his involvement in a less visible way.” Papa John's stock closed at $59.23, down 2 cents or 0.03% on Thursday.The CEO announcement was made after the market has closed. Follow USA TODAY reporter Zlati Meyer on Twitter: @ZlatiMeyer Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2BgoA7o

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Edwards wins duel in Auto Club 500 Posted: Feb. 27, 2008, 3 a.m. By Mike Harris FONTANA, Calif. - The latest race-winning performance by Carl Edwards was no surprise to his team's co-owner. "Carl is approaching the top of his game and I hope we'll be able to keep him there for a long time," Jack Roush said Monday after Edwards charged from third place late in the race to grab a victory in the rain-delayed Auto Club 500. For Edwards, his eighth Cup victory was a sign that he is back to the form that saw him win four races and finish third in the points in 2005, his first full season in Cup. It was also a signal that at least one Sprint Cup team is ready to take on Hendrick Motorsports. Edwards finished ahead of Hendrick teammates Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon. In a race that resumed with the 88th of 250 laps, Edwards assumed the lead for good with 13 laps left. "I hope it's an indication we've caught up with them," Edwards said after the eighth victory of his career. "They still were second and third and they were the guys to beat today. I hope this is a sign we're up to their standards, to their level." Johnson took the green flag for the final restart in the lead with 26 laps left, but Edwards surged from third. He then showed fine form on his traditional victory backflip after capturing the checkered flag in a race that ended under caution when Dale Jarrett spun on the final lap. Edwards had it all but wrapped up at that point, driving his Roush Fenway No. 99 Ford to a lead of more than 4 seconds over Johnson. It was his first victory at Fontana but his seventh top-10 finish in eight starts at the track formerly known as California Speedway. Gordon, who dominated Sunday's rain-interrupted racing, finished third. He was followed by Kyle Busch and Roush's Matt Kenseth, who had won the two previous February races at this track. Another Roush driver, Greg Biffle, won this event in 2005. A year ago, Johnson and Gordon ended 1-2 in the season points. Johnson won his second straight Cup title and the team rolled up 18 victories in 36 races. The Hendrick contingent also won nine of the 16 races in which NASCAR's new Car of Tomorrow was raced. Clarence Herring Jr. Taldmedge "Speedy" Hamlin Record crowd runs for Fuzz House candidate discusses views

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Uphall, West Lothian Driver Status: Status Text: Driver Height: Driver Weight: Paul di Resta Biography Paul di Resta appeared destined for the very top level of motorsport from the very start, carrying a famous racing name and being related to a couple of other Scots performing on the world stage. Although not related to 1916 Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Resta, the young Scot is the cousin of Dario and Marino Franchitti, the former a three-time winner of America's best-known race, and a keen follower of di Resta's career since he began karting at the age of eight in his native Scotland. A seven-year career on the lowest rungs of the motorsport ladder highlighted the talent that lay within, as di Resta claimed several Scottish titles before elevating his profile further by taking a string of UK national crowns in Cadets and JICA between 1994 and 2001, and finishing second in Europe, in the latter class, in 1999. Buoyed by his success, the Scot took the decision to try his hand in single-seaters in 2002, combining an outing in the British Formula Renault Winter Series with further karting outings, before taking the plunge and graduating full-time, again in Formula Renault the following year. His first full season in cars, running with Team JVA, yielded seventh overall, with one win, while returning to Manor Motorsport for another year of FRenault in 2004 saw him rise to third in the standings on the back of four wins and four podiums. Being with Manor allowed di Resta access to the team's other programmes, and he ended the 2004 campaign by getting his first taste of F3, racing against the likes of Lewis Hamilton in the Bahrain Superprix, where he finished fifth. That performance, as well as those in FRenault, helped the Scot land the prestigious McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year award, following the footsteps of fellow Scots David Coulthard, Andrew Kirklady and one Dario Franchitti.... Moving into F3 full-time for 2005, di Resta was obliged to contest the Euroseries in order to remain with Manor, but managed a creditable tenth overall in his debut season. The following year pitted him against future F1 drivers Romain Grosjean, Sebastien Buemi, Kamui Kobayashi and Kazuki Nakajima, as well as a young German talent by the name of Sebastian Vettel, with both di Resta and the German running for the crack ASM outfit that had claimed a string of titles in previous years. While Vettel was heavily tipped to take the title, di Resta matched him throughout the year, eventually claiming the crown by eleven points on the back of five wins and four podiums. He also added to the list of Britons winning the F3 Masters event at Zandvoort. Despite testing GP2 machinery with a view to following in the footsteps of Lewis Hamilton, his predecessor as Euroseries champion, di Resta's career took a surprise turn when Mercedes offered him a chance to join the DTM touring car series. While many assumed that the cost of graduating had denied the Scot the chance to continue in single-seaters, he later revealed that his height had made it nigh on impossible to fit into a GP2 cockpit comfortably... The single-seater world's loss was the DTM's gain, and di Resta made an immediate impact on the world of 'tin tops' by claiming fifth in the overall standings in his debut year, despite being saddled with a two-year-old C-Klasse. His four podium finishes in 2007 left Mercedes with little choice but to promote him to a works seat - and contemporary spec car - for the following season, and again the Scot rewarded the company's judgement, taking second overall, and adding his first two wins in the category, as he trailed champion Timo Scheider by just four points. Another win helped him to third overall in 2009, before di Resta bounced back in style to claim the 2010 title, using back-to-back wins at Brands Hatch, Oschersleben and Hockenheim as a springboard to securing the crown at the final in Shanghai. The continued success in DTM kept di Resta's name in the mix when it came to discussing the best young talent on the verge of possible F1 graduation, and his links with Mercedes again came good as he was signed as reserve driver by the Force India team. Despite focusing on his DTM campaign, the Scot got to drive one of the Silverstone-based team's cars in Friday practice at the majority of grands prix. His performance in those limited outings was enough to convince team owner Vijay Mallya to promote him to a full race seat for 2011, where di Resta partnered the experienced Adrian Sutil throughout the 19-race campaign. Although he lucked into a point on debut, when both Saubers were disqualified in Melbourne, di Resta quickly showed that he deserved the seat, scoring another tenth place finish next time out in Malaysia and, after a string of near misses, adding further points in seven of the final ten rounds, with a best of sixth in Singapore. Although he ended the year 13th overall with 27 points to his name, perhaps more importantly, di Resta matched Sutil in qualifying - eventually losing the head-to-head 10-9 - and that was enough to make the Scot a lock for the 2012 season, while debate surrounded the identity of his team-mate. That role eventually went to his replacement as reserve, Nico Hulkenberg, and, while the pair went into the campaign equal on experience, much was expected of di Resta. The Scot responded positively with points in five of the first eight races, but the second half of the season proved to be an exercise in frustration, with just a brief flurry of top ten finishes capped by a career best fourth in Singapore raising hopes of a strong finish. In the end, di Resta added just two points in the final half-dozen outings, leaving him 14th overall, his 46-point total having been overhauled by his team-mate. A trip into the Interlagos wall somehow symbolised the disappointing end to a year in which the Briton, like Hulkenberg, had been mentioned in connection with a possible move to either Ferrari or McLaren. Instead, he will return with Force India in 2013, looking to re-establish the team’s top six credentials after being beaten to the spot by Sauber in the 2012 standings. 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Home > Legislation > 116th Congress > S.846 All Information (Except Text) for S.846 - Transit Infrastructure Vehicle Security Act116th Congress (2019-2020) | Back to this bill Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] (Introduced 03/14/2019) Senate - Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Senate - 06/04/2019 Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. (All Actions) There are 2 versions of this bill. View text Click the check-box to add or remove the section, click the text link to scroll to that section. TitlesTitles Actions OverviewActions Overview All ActionsAll Actions CosponsorsCosponsors CommitteesCommittees Related BillsRelated Bills SubjectsSubjects Latest SummaryLatest Summary All SummariesAll Summaries Short Titles Short Titles - Senate Short Titles as Introduced Transit Infrastructure Vehicle Security Act Official Titles - Senate Official Titles as Introduced A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to limit certain rolling stock procurements, and for other purposes. Actions Overview (2) 04/09/2019 Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation discharged by Unanimous Consent. 03/14/2019 Introduced in Senate All Actions (4) 06/04/2019 Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. 04/09/2019 Referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 03/14/2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]* 03/14/2019 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]* 03/14/2019 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]* 03/14/2019 Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] 03/28/2019 Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] 03/28/2019 Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] 04/01/2019 Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] 04/01/2019 Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE] 04/03/2019 Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS] 04/03/2019 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] 04/09/2019 Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] 04/09/2019 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] 04/09/2019 Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS] 04/29/2019 Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI] 04/29/2019 Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO] 04/30/2019 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] 04/30/2019 Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC] 04/30/2019 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] 05/02/2019 Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] 05/02/2019 Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC] 05/06/2019 Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA] 05/06/2019 Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR] 05/06/2019 Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND] 05/08/2019 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] 05/08/2019 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] 05/08/2019 Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] 05/08/2019 Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO] 05/08/2019 Sen. Jones, Doug [D-AL] 05/13/2019 Sen. Romney, Mitt [R-UT] 05/13/2019 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] 05/13/2019 Sen. Tillis, Thom [R-NC] 05/13/2019 Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK] 05/14/2019 Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] 05/14/2019 Sen. Thune, John [R-SD] 05/15/2019 Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS] 05/16/2019 Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV] 05/16/2019 Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] 05/16/2019 Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT] 05/20/2019 Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] 05/20/2019 Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL] 05/21/2019 Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX] 05/21/2019 Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] 05/23/2019 Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI] 05/23/2019 Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] 06/04/2019 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] 06/11/2019 Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [R-AL] 06/13/2019 Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] 09/12/2019 Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND] 10/17/2019 Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] 11/12/2019 Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] 12/16/2019 Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] 12/16/2019 Committees, subcommittees and links to reports associated with this bill are listed here, as well as the nature and date of committee activity and Congressional report number. Committee / Subcommittee Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation 03/14/2019 Referred to 04/09/2019 Discharged from Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 06/04/2019 Hearings by A related bill may be a companion measure, an identical bill, a procedurally-related measure, or one with text similarities. Bill relationships are identified by the House, the Senate, or CRS, and refer only to same-congress measures. Latest Title Relationships to S.846 Relationships Identified by Latest Action H.R.2500 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 Related bill CRS 09/10/2019 Received in the Senate. H.R.2739 Transit Infrastructure Vehicle Security Act Identical bill CRS 05/16/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. S.1663 Metro Safety, Accountability, and Investment Act of 2019 Related bill CRS 05/23/2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. S.1790 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 Related bill CRS 12/20/2019 Became Public Law No: 116-92. One Policy Area term, which best describes an entire measure, is assigned to every public bill or resolution. Computer security and identity theft Foreign and international corporations Free trade and trade barriers Latest Summary (1) There is one summary for S.846. View summaries Introduced in Senate (03/14/2019) This bill prohibits the awarding of a contract to an entity for the procurement of rolling stock for use in public transportation if the manufacturer of the rolling stock is (1) incorporated or has manufacturing facilities in the United States; and (2) is owed or controlled by an entity based in a country that is identified as a nonmarket economy country, was identified by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) as a priority foreign country (e.g., a country that does not protect intellectual property rights), and is subject to monitoring by the USTR. This includes the People's Republic of China. Any recipient of financial assistance for public transportation that operates a rail fixed guideway service must certify that it will not award any contract for the procurement of rail rolling stock for use in public transportation to a manufacturer of rolling stock that is described by this bill. A recipient that operates a rail fixed guideway public transportation system must certify that it has a written plan for identifying and reducing cybersecurity risks. All Summaries (1)

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Some faculty worry president’s new positions… Some faculty worry president’s new positions make CU system admin-heavy Mark Kennedy plans to hire four to tackle regent prioritie University of Colorado President Mark Kennedy, pictured at the Board of Regents retreat in July, on Thursday outlined his year-long strategic plan initiative to the University of Colorado Boulder Faculty Assembly. By Madeline St. Amour | mstamour@timescall.com | Boulder Daily Camera The new president of the University of Colorado system is adding four administrative staff positions, and some are questioning whether they are necessary. Mark Kennedy at the retreat for the Board of Regents earlier this month announced that he plans to hire a chief diversity officer at the system level, a person for engagement and outreach, and a support person. He has already hired his former chief of staff Angelique Foster to serve as assistant vice president for strategic initiatives with a $132,000 annual salary. The regents do not have to approve any of the positions. The system will conduct “searches that follow our typical processes” to hire for the three open positions, according to CU system spokesman Ken McConnellogue. The new positions will help Kennedy prioritize the goals the Board of Regents outlined for him in his contract, McConnellogue said. The goals provide financial incentives for visiting rural communities, initiating a strategic plan, reaching out to governmental leaders, donors and alumni, and supporting diversity and inclusion efforts. McConnellogue said it would be “unreasonable” to expect Kennedy to do all of the work in these areas alone. “For instance on outreach, he wouldn’t secure a meeting room and caterers in Sterling, or schedule a meeting with the mayor, or send invitations to an alumni event, or any of the other several dozen details to be worked out for an outreach day,” he said. “He wouldn’t set meetings or produce minutes or create a webpage for campus strategic planning groups, then draft and edit the plan. He wouldn’t work in the system HR office to ensure diversity in hiring decisions. These are big, complex initiatives that are not accomplished single-handed.” He added that Kennedy will still be heavily involved in the efforts. Some faculty members said they are concerned about the new hires. “I, personally, would say that one of the cornerstones of CU’s efforts to be careful stewards of student tuition dollars and the state’s financial contribution to our system has been to operate with a relatively lean administrative structure so all of this hiring at the system level is something of a surprise,” said Joanne Addison, chair of the systemwide Faculty Council. “It’s not clear to Faculty Council how these additional positions at the system level will advance the university in ways not already being addressed at the campus level.” This reaction is common enough that Cecilia Orphan, assistant professor of higher education at the University of Denver, said it’s considered “risky” for new presidents to make big changes in their first year. “There’s a rule in administration that you don’t make any major changes in the first year … because you don’t want to ruffle too many feathers,” she said. “Adding new lines so quickly could be difficult for his mandate as president when he’s engaging with faculty.” However, Orphan said there are a lot of factors that go into such decisions, and the regents’ priorities might be a large one. Robert Ferry, chair of the University of Colorado Boulder Faculty Assembly, referred the Daily Camera to a memo sent by a Faculty Council committee to the system administration in 2017, and said it is “still on the money.” The memo explores concerns about a proposed vice president of diversity, inclusion and retention position that was never hired. The committee questioned whether a system-level position was needed, as each campus has a chief diversity officer. “… The biggest challenge to promoting diversity and inclusion is not any particular deficiency in the strategic plans that already exist, nor any deficiency in the numbers of administrators with responsibility in this area,” the memo states. “It is a deficiency in the amount of resources available to support the accomplishment of these priorities.” The memo also raises the issue of being able to hire diverse faculty “opportunistically, when such candidates become available, regardless of their specific expertise.” More faculty lines would be helpful for that issue, it states, rather than an administrator. In response to the memo, McConnellogue said the current proposed position is not at the executive level. “(Kennedy) has had productive conversations about it over the past month with leadership of the Faculty Council, as well as with chief diversity officers on all four campuses,” he said. Addison said the council has asked that a member of its Committee on Racial and Ethnic Equity and a member of its LGBTQ+ Committee be part of the search committee for the chief diversity officer, “in the spirit of both shared governance and transparency.” Orphan said there are a lot of reasons for an increase in administrators in higher education, like increased demands for accountability from the state. Faculty often take issue with this because there is also a decline in tenure-track faculty nationwide. “This creates a lot of tension,” she said. Orphan also said CU campuses tend to have more senior administrators than other campuses in Colorado, such as Metropolitan State University of Denver, and higher tuition rates. On the flip side, she said, the universities have larger populations and large research initiatives. Duplication of positions also is an issue, she said. While it’s possible the positions are necessary, Orphan said it also is possible that Kennedy could have tasked campus-level administrators with some of the initiatives. Kevin McClure, assistant professor of higher education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, said he’s skeptical of the idea of “administrative bloat.” “I haven’t seen compelling evidence to support administrative bloat beyond the rhetoric of it,” he said. Most administrators are being hired at the lower levels according to data, McClure said. “There has been an increase in spending on administration, but it’s also the case that many university have been growing and the expectations that have been placed on them in some places have called for additional people,” he added. That doesn’t meant every campus is operating efficiently, he said, but there isn’t enough research on the issue partly because it’s a hard thing to research. However, regional universities are probably “operating in a leaner way,” even if they’d like to hire the same number of people as larger universities, McClure said. Another aspect is state funding, he said. As that has dried up, especially in states such as Colorado, universities have had to compete for students, grants and donations to keep budgets afloat, which are strategies that can require more administrators. “The irony is that some of these institutions may not need as many administrators if they were supported by state funding as they once were,” he said. As the nation likely heads toward a recession and higher education faces an “enrollment cliff,” Orphan said universities also need to consider how to prepare their finances. “This is really an important time for institutions to be developing efficiencies and trying to develop reserves to buffer from these challenges,” she said. “In that broader economic context, those things would be on my mind for sure and I would be thinking hard about whether to add positions.” Still, the few administrators are likely not huge financial drains for a budget as large as CU’s, which is $4.8 billion, she said. Madeline St. Amour Madeline St. Amour covers the University of Colorado at the Boulder Daily Camera. She previously has covered local crime and breaking news at the Times-Call; and has covered six municipalities in Maine, the New York State Legislature and breaking news in the capital of New York. Follow Madeline St. Amour @madelinestamour More in CU News CU Boulder expands grad student benefits Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks of rights for women, girls at University of Colorado event Solar system’s “Great Divide” linked to sun New proposal for CU regent civics initiative

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New Jersey students bringing diverse entrepreneurs together The first YED Corp. campus tour stop is Thursday in Philadelphia New Jersey students bringing diverse entrepreneurs together The first YED Corp. campus tour stop is Thursday in Philadelphia Check out this story on dailyrecord.com: https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/money/business/2018/10/02/new-jersey-students-bringing-diverse-entrepreneurs-together/1420280002/ Jane Havsy, Morristown Daily Record Published 5:36 a.m. ET Oct. 2, 2018 | Updated 5:39 p.m. ET Oct. 3, 2018 The founders of YED Corp and executive board: Alex Motley, Brandon Moorer, Paige Garrison, Jordan Williams and Leo Moronta, at the first summit in New York City.(Photo: Courtesy of Brandon Ballard) Allen Motley dropped out of high school and started a janitorial business, sold it, and launched an apartment management company. His grandson, Alex Motley, has been inspired to follow his own entrepreneurial path. Alex and his brother Justin "got involved with the little things" in the family business, Motley Apartment Management in the Branch Brook Park section of Newark, when they were just kids. The company — with Allen as CEO and grandmother Evelyn president — manages 460 units in Essex County. A Morristown-Beard alumnus and Lehigh University junior, Alex Motley is one of the co-founders of Youth Entrepreneurs Diversity Corp., a nonprofit created to help young entrepreneurs network with established professionals. All the founders are college students. YED Corp. will hold the first stop on its campus mixer tour Thursday night in Philadelphia. Former Morristown-Beard lineman Alex Motley, a Lehigh junior, is the head of strategic partnerships for YED Corp., which helps young entrepreneurs network with established professionals (Photo: Courtesy of Brandon Ballard) "We want to network, collaborate and be inspired," said Motley, whose official title is head of strategic partnerships. "We want to bridge the gap between young entrepreneurs in college who haven't made it and established entrepreneurs. We want to include everyone, and we want to provide resources for people to achieve their entrepreneur dreams." The fledgling entrepreneurs already hosted 150 student attendees at a national summit in New York City on July 21. They're planning other events in Boston, New York and Atlanta this school year. "We have no clue what we're doing in terms of being entrepreneurs," InXAthlete co-founder Max Wessell, 26, said at YED Corp.'s inaugural summit. "No one does. Everyone's entrepreneurial journey is going to be so individualized," he said. "But if I had a resource like YED Corp., where I could speak with entrepreneurs like myself and learn from them, it's a huge benefit. The adults were thinking, 'Man, I wish I had something like this to be part of.' " Business: Swax Lax exporting soft lacrosse balls worldwide from New Jersey Wessell and his business partner, Cody Ferraro, launched InXAthlete, which helps athletes connect with potential employers, while still Lehigh undergraduates. Wessell felt very connected to YED Corp. because he had "a different perspective on doing this while in college." Brandon Moorer of West Orange, YED Corp's CEO and a junior at Northeastern, came up with the idea after attending an entrepreneurship conference during a summer internship. He wanted to find more events, but the few he turned up were unaffordable. He reached out to Jordan Williams, at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, and about a month later, Northeastern track and field teammate Leonardo Moronta. Brandon Moorer, a Seton Hall Prep alumnus from West Orange, runs the 400 meters for Northeastern. (Photo: Courtesy of Northeastern University) They started planning the national event almost immediately, bringing Motley — then in season with Lehigh's football team — and content lead Paige Garrison on board shortly thereafter. The first challenge was finding fellow students who might want to attend the event. Social media took care of that, advertising via Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. They secured SquareSpace's Manhattan headquarters, and have also partnered with WeWork. The next big test was lining up speakers like Fox Sports broadcaster Chris Broussard and Monica Brown, the executive director of product management at Comcast/NBC Universal. The first YED Corp. summit sold out all 150 tickets, as the co-founders sweated out a late surge in the last two weeks before the event. Students traveled from as far as California to share their perspectives. "We all definitely have an entrepreneurial spirit," said Moorer, who is studying marketing and entrepreneurship. "We knew we had something special. We didn't give up. That's a big part of being an entrepreneur: being true to your vision and seeing it through." Though Broussard said he isn't an entrepreneur, he was particularly interested in bringing more people of color into the business world and spreading economic empowerment. He discussed the importance of networking, to "find something you enjoy, plus something you're gifted at, and figure out how you can combine that to make a productive living." He also brought up the importance of giving back to the community, as through his Christian men's movement, K.I.N.G. YED Corp.'s goal is to have campus mixers in every major city and to grow the national summit. They also hope to have campus chapters, as a local meeting place for budding businesses. "It's a lot, but I always tell people you make time for things you truly care about," Motley said. "If you have a passion, you don't look at it as a burden or a chore. It's just your life." Staff Writer Jane Havsy: 973-428-6682; jhavsy@gannettnj.com; www.dailyrecord.com/writerjane/ Read or Share this story: https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/money/business/2018/10/02/new-jersey-students-bringing-diverse-entrepreneurs-together/1420280002/

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New “visually striking” national newspaper The New Day set to launch The newspaper features a cyan masthead and will be printed on “high-quality” paper. It is understood to have been designed in-house. By Angus Montgomery February 22, 2016 11:15 am February 22, 2016 2:01 pm Publisher Trinity Mirror is set to launch The New Day, which it claims is the UK’s first standalone national daily newspaper for 30 years. A dummy issue of the newspaper has been released, and it will be available across the UK from 29 February. The New Day has been designed in house by a team led by Trinity Mirror group creative director Susan Topping. Its publisher says: “The New Day will cover news and topical content but with a modern style and tone, aimed at a wide audience of women and men who want something different from what is currently available.” The New Day will, according to Trinity Mirror, “report with an upbeat, optimistic approach” and be “politically neutral”. The newspaper is described by its publisher as “visually striking”. It features a cyan masthead and will run to 40 pages each day. The newspaper will be printed on “high-quality” newsprint and is understood not to feature a leader column. According to a spokesman for Trinity Mirror, “page creators” will responsible for every aspect of each page’s content, including writing, captioning, headlines, layout and checking for legal issues. Print only – no website The New Day will be available for free from more than 40,000 retailers on its first day, Monday 29 February, and then will trial at 25p for two weeks before retailing at 50p after that. It has been reported that, while it will have a social media presence, The New Day will not have a website. Alison Phillips, editor of The New Day, says: “There are many people who aren’t currently buying a newspaper, not because they have fallen out of love with newspapers as a format, but because what is currently available on the newsstand is not meeting their needs. “Designed for people’s modern lifestyles” “This paper has been created as a result of customer insight and is the first newspaper designed for people’s modern lifestyles.” Simon Fox, chief executive of Trinity Mirror, says: “Over a million people have stopped buying a newspaper in the past two years but we believe a large number of them can be tempted back with the right product. “Revitalising print is a core part of our strategy in parallel with digital transformation and there doesn’t have to be a choice between the two – newspapers can live in the digital age if they have been designed to offer something different.” 22-28 February 2016 Projects Editorial Print “Action breeds confidence” – how to grow as a design business Wolff Olins rebrands New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art “I wanted to be a dentist – but dentistry sucked…” – Egypt’s Twins Cartoon Paula Scher: “The maps convey a spirit of place” What does it mean to be a designer today?

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HomeNewsMultimedia hubThe vital intelligence keeping our communities safe The vital intelligence keeping our communities safe In her latest blog, Alison talks about the charity Crimestoppers and encourages crime reporting. Video credit: Crimestoppers Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m enthusiastic about urging people to report crime. It’s only when victims let the police know about an incident that we get a true picture of what’s going on, so police and our other partners can put the right services in the right areas. The 101 service allows people to report non-emergency incidents directly to the police online and via the phone. Wait times with its telephone service have been a source of frustration, especially in the summer months when we see a huge spike in the numbers of calls, but a project to reduce get callers through to the right person more quickly has been under way for a number of months, so people should notice an improvement. For those of you who are happy using digital methods the live WebChat and online form at devon-cornwall.police.uk are very effective. Of course, in an emergency you should dial 999. For many people though reporting a crime can cause difficulties. That’s where the charity Crimestoppers comes in. It enables people to report crimes anonymously, and that information is then passed on to police. It provides a really important source of intelligence for officers, particularly around crimes like the organised drug dealing which blights so many communities. My office pays for a regional manager for Crimestoppers who helps to promote the charity’s work inside the force and to members of the public. The latest figures show an increase in the number of reports of criminal activity sent from the charity to the force. In the 2016-17 year Crimestoppers logged 2,581 reports with Devon and Cornwall Police, this rose to 3,386 in 2018-19. The vast majority of these were deemed actionable by the police, proving what a valuable source of information Crimestoppers has become. Crimes reported in this way ranged from assault through to the possession of firearms but around a third relate to drug trafficking and supply. It’s no surprise to me that people hate to see drug dealing in their communities. Because it safeguards the anonymity of those who call in Crimestoppers allows people to report without fear of reprisals which can give free reign to criminals and serious and organised crime. We’ve seen major drug dealing operations disrupted recently, sending a clear message to those dealers from outside the force area that they target Devon and Cornwall at their peril. Crimestoppers also offers rewards of up to £10,000 to help police get to the bottom of unsolved crimes. One of these rewards is offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the murder of Brixham man David Williams. It was a brutal crime that shattered a community and I hope, with the help of Crimestoppers and the member of the public who doubled the reward to £20,000, that it will not remain unsolved. Of particular use in our force area is the charity’s Rural Reporting Line. Rural communities suffer a wide range of criminality that is harmful and costly and there is a reluctance by some to speak up about what they know because of reprisal. Crimestoppers is now working with the National Farmers Union to provide a dedicated service for farmers and the public to give information about these crimes. It is also seeking to engage young people with its project Fearless. Fearless is a youth service aimed at 11-16 year olds. It is tasked with increasing awareness of the dangers surrounding street crime, drugs and violence. The charity’s aims very much fits with my vision of creating safer, resilient and connected communities across Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and is seeking out volunteers to help in its mission to reduce crime and the fear that criminality causes. It has roles for volunteers with a range of skills from fundraising through to community engagement and finance. The charity is available in people’s hour of need 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you would like to report a crime in your community to Crimestoppers, anonymously you can call it on 0800 555111 or report online at crimestoppers-uk.org. If you have information on rural crime call the Rural Crime Hotline on 0800 783 0137 or complete the online form.

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RESOURCES > Federal Register Notices > Registrant Actions - 2017 > Paul E. Pilgram, M.D.; Decision and Order [Federal Register Volume 82, Number 32 (Friday, February 17, 2017)] Paul E. Pilgram, M.D.; Decision and Order On November 29, 2016, the Assistant Administrator, Diversion Control Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), issued an Order to Show Cause to Paul E. Pilgram,\1\ M.D. (Registrant), of West Jordan, Utah. The Show Cause Order proposed the revocation of Registrant's DEA Certificate of Registration, on the ground that he does not have authority to handle controlled substances in Utah, the State in which he is registered with the Agency. Show Cause Order, at 1 (citing 21 U.S.C. 824(a)(3)). \1\ Registrant's name in the Order to Show Cause is spelled "Pilgrim"; however, all other documents in the record, including Registrant's Certificate of Registration, use the correct spelling (Pilgram). As the jurisdictional basis for the proceeding, the Show Cause Order alleged that Registrant is registered as a practitioner in schedules II through V under DEA registration No. AP1393038, at the registered address of 1561 West 7000 South, Suite 200, West Jordan, Utah. Id. The Order alleged that Registrant's registration does not expire until March 31, 2017. Id. The Show Cause Order then alleged that on October 17, 2016, the State of Utah revoked Registrant's authority to prescribe and administer controlled substances and that he is "without authority to handle controlled substances in . . . the [S]tate in which [he is] registered with the" Agency. Id. The Order then asserted that as a consequence of the loss of his state authority, "DEA must revoke" his registration. Id. (citing 21 U.S.C. 802(21), 823(f) and 824(a)(3)). The Show Cause Order also notified Registrant of his right to request a hearing on the allegations, or to submit a written statement in lieu of a hearing, the procedure for electing either option, and the consequence for failing to do elect either option. Id. at 2 (citing 21 CFR 1301.43). The Order further notified Registrant of his right to submit a corrective action plan. Id. at 2-3 (citing 21 U.S.C. 824(c)(2)(C)). On December 6, 2016, a Diversion Investigator (DI) from the DEA Salt Lake City District Office effected service by hand-delivery of a copy of the Show Cause Order to Registrant at his registered address of 1561 West 7000 South, Suite 200, West Jordan, Utah. GX 2, at 1-2 (Declaration of Diversion Investigator). According to the Government, since the date of service of the Show Cause Order, the Agency "has not received a request for hearing or any other reply from" Registrant. Request for Final Agency Action (RFFA), at 2. On January 10, 2017, the Government forwarded this matter to my Office for final agency action along with an evidentiary record. RFFA, at 1. Based upon the Government's representation and my review of the record, I find that more than 30 days have now passed since the date of service of the Show Cause Order, and that neither Registrant, nor anyone purporting to represent him, has requested a hearing or submitted a written statement in lieu of a hearing. I therefore find that Registrant has waived his right to a hearing or to submit a written statement in lieu of a hearing, and issue this Decision and Order based on relevant evidence contained in the record submitted by the Government. 21 CFR 1301.43(d) & (e). I make the following findings of fact. Id. Sec. 1301.43(e). Registrant is the holder of Certificate of Registration AP1393038, pursuant to which he is authorized to dispense controlled substances in schedules II through V as a practitioner, at the registered address of 1561 West 7000 South, Suite 200, West Jordan, Utah. GX 2. His registration does not expire until March 31, 2017. Id. On October 17, 2016, the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing, Department of Commerce (the Division), issued an order revoking Registrant's license to prescribe and administer controlled substances in the State. GX 3, at 2. Therein, the Division adopted the recommended order of the Utah Physicians Licensing Board (Physician's Board), which the latter issued following a hearing it held on August 24-25, 2016 at which Registrant was represented by counsel. Id. at 5. The Physician's Board found that Registrant "did not [ ] meet the standard of care of the profession for pain management patients" and failed to follow the Model Policy for the Use of Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Pain (2004) in his treatment of nine patients. As support for its finding, the Board specifically cited: (1) "[t]he inadequacy of the documented evaluation of the patients," (2) "[t]he failure to obtain or document informed consent as to major risks of the high opioid regimes," (3) "[t]he perfunctory consideration or enforcement of agreements for treatment," (4) "[t]he improperly low level of consultation with other health and mental professionals [sic])," and (5) "[t]he failure to maintain accurate and complete medical records." Id. at 6-7. The Board further found that Registrant "failed to demonstrate a legitimate medical purpose for his prescribing practices, [that] there was an absence of sound clinical judgment on [his] part . . . and the pattern of prescribing practices was not based on clear documentation of unrelieved pain." Id. at 7. The Board then made detailed findings with respect to nine patients. Id. at 8-26. The Physician's Board thus concluded that Registrant had engaged in unprofessional conduct: by failing, as a prescribing practitioner, to follow the Model Policy for the Use of Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Pain, 2004 [ ], in [his]evaluation of the patient, obtaining or documenting informed consent, giving more than perfunctory consideration to, or enforcement of, agreements for treatment, conducting periodic reviews, consultation with other medical specialists, maintaining accurate and complete medical records, and complying with the state laws referenced in [its] conclusions. Id. at 27 (citing Utah Admin. Code r. 156-1-501(6)).\2\ The Board further concluded that "[t]he prescribing of controlled substances by [Registrant] on too many occasions did not have a legitimate medical purpose, did not show sound clinical judgment and was not based on clear documentation of unrelieved pain." Id. at 28.\3\ \2\ As for Registrant's conduct after the Board adopted its 2013 Model Policy on the Use of Opioids Analgesics in the Treatment of Chronic Pain, the Board also found that he engaged in unprofessional conduct. GX 3, at 28 (citing Utah Admin. Code r. 156-1-501(7)). \3\ Under the Division's rules, "unprofessional conduct" includes: "failing, as a prescribing practitioner, to follow the 'Model Policy for the Use of Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Pain,' 2004, established by the Federation of State Medical Boards," and "failing, as a prescribing practitioner, to follow the 'Model Policy on the Use of Opioid Analgesics in the Treatment of Chronic Pain,' July 2013, adopted by the Federation of State Medical Boards." Utah Admin. Code r. 156-1-501(6) and (7) (2016). The Board thus recommended that Registrant's state "license to prescribe and administer controlled substances . . . be revoked." Id. at 29. On October 17, 2016, the Division adopted the Board's factual findings, legal conclusions and recommended order "in its entirety." Id. at 2, 4. According to the online records of the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing of which I take official notice, Registrant's controlled substance license remains revoked as of the date of this Decision and Order. \4\ See also https://secure.utah.gov/llv/search/index.html. I therefore find that Registrant is without authority to dispense controlled substances under the laws of Utah, the State in which he holds his registration. \4\ In accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), an agency "may take official notice of facts at any stage in a proceeding--even in the final decision." U.S. Dept. of Justice, Attorney General's Manual on the Administrative Procedure Act 80 (1947) (Wm. W. Gaunt & Sons, Inc., Reprint 1979). In accordance with the APA and DEA's regulations, Respondent is "entitled on timely request to an opportunity to show to the contrary." 5 U.S.C. 556(e); see also 21 CFR 1316.59(e). To allow Respondent the opportunity to refute the facts of which I take official notice, Respondent may file a motion for reconsideration within 15 calendar days of the date of service of this Order which shall commence on the date this Order is mailed. Pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 824(a)(3), the Attorney General is authorized to suspend or revoke a registration issued under section 823 of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), "upon a finding that the registrant . . . has had his State license . . . suspended [or] revoked . . . by competent State authority and is no longer authorized by State law to engage in the . . . dispensing of controlled substances." Moreover, DEA has long held that the possession of authority to dispense controlled substances under the laws of the State in which a practitioner engages in professional practice is a fundamental condition for obtaining and maintaining a practitioner's registration. See, e.g., James L. Hooper, 76 FR 71371 (2011), pet. for rev. denied, 481 Fed. Appx. 826 (4th Cir. 2012); Frederick Marsh Blanton, 43 FR 27616 (1978). This rule derives from the text of two provisions of the CSA. First, Congress defined "the term 'practitioner' [to] mean[ ] a . . . physician . . . or other person licensed, registered or otherwise permitted, by . . . the jurisdiction in which he practices . . . to distribute, dispense, [or] administer . . . a controlled substance in the course of professional practice." 21 U.S.C. 802(21). Second, in setting the requirements for obtaining a practitioner's registration, Congress directed that "[t]he Attorney General shall register practitioners . . . if the applicant is authorized to dispense . . . controlled substances under the laws of the State in which he practices." 21 U.S.C. 823(f). Because Congress has clearly mandated that a practitioner possess state authority in order to be deemed a practitioner under the Act, DEA has held repeatedly that revocation of a practitioner's registration is the appropriate sanction whenever he is no longer authorized to dispense controlled substances under the laws of the State in which he practices medicine. See, e.g., Hooper, 76 FR at 71371-72; Sheran Arden Yeates, M.D., 71 FR 39130, 39131 (2006); Dominick A. Ricci, 58 FR 51104, 51105 (1993); Bobby Watts, 53 FR 11919, 11920 (1988); Blanton, 43 FR at 27616. Because Registrant currently lacks authority to handle controlled substances in Utah, the State in which he holds his DEA registration, he is not entitled to maintain his registration. Accordingly, I will order that his registration be revoked. Pursuant to the authority vested in me by 21 U.S.C. 824(a), as well as 28 CFR 0.100(b), I order that DEA Certificate of Registration AP1393038, issued to Paul E. Pilgram, M.D., be, and it hereby is, revoked. Pursuant to the authority vested in me by 21 U.S.C. 823(f), as well as 28 CFR 0.100(b), I further order that any pending application of Paul E. Pilgram, M.D., to renew or modify this registration, be, and it hereby is, denied. This Order is effective immediately.\5\ \5\ Based on the extensive findings of the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing, I find that the public interest necessitates that this Order be effective immediately. 21 CFR 1316.67. Dated: February 9, 2017.

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The Final Sermon of St. Óscar Romero Resonates Today ColumnOctober 18, 2018 by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan On Sunday, Pope Francis sainted Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero. The pope was wearing Romero’s bloodstained rope belt, the one Romero wore when he was assassinated on March 24, 1980. The day before he was killed, the archbishop gave a sermon that commanded El Salvador’s soldiers to disobey the orders of their superiors: “I would like to make a special appeal to the men of the army, and specifically to the ranks of the National Guard, the police and the military. Brothers, you come from our own people. You are killing your own brother peasants when any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God which says, ‘Thou shalt not kill.’” He went on, “In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cries rise to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God: Stop the repression.” Matt Eisenbrandt, human-rights lawyer and the author of “Assassination of a Saint: The Plot to Murder Óscar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to Justice,” described that sermon on the “Democracy Now!” news hour: “You can hear on the audiotapes of the radio broadcast the way that that applause built as he led up to that line saying, ‘Stop the repression.’ That then echoed throughout the radios around the country into every corner of El Salvador.” A day later, at a hospital chapel, a gunman shot Romero once in the heart, killing him. Archbishop Óscar Romero gave that sermon as the U.S.-backed military violence against civilians that ravaged Central America in the 1980s and early 1990s was growing in intensity and brutality. Death squads allied with the right-wing Salvadoran junta dumped bodies on city streets nightly. Romero’s assassination shocked the world and helped galvanize a global solidarity movement. In 1980, one year after the revolutionary Sandinistas overthrew the U.S.-backed dictator in nearby Nicaragua, the Pentagon and the CIA intensified clandestine support for violent right-wing governments, arming and training their militaries and paramilitaries. Sadly, with the support of President Ronald Reagan, a reign of terror and mass slaughter swept the region, from Guatemala to Honduras to El Salvador, with hundreds of thousands of civilians tortured and killed, and countless villages razed. Liberation theology, a movement within the Catholic Church, had been growing for decades, seeking to empower the masses to escape poverty and inequality. This was seen as a threat to the ruling elites, who began a campaign of assassination against priests advocating for liberation. Months after Romero’s assassination, four U.S. Catholic Church women were raped and murdered by Salvadoran soldiers. In 1989, the military killed six Jesuit priests and their housekeeper and her daughter. “All of these cases, along with the thousands of others, they have been graduates of the U.S. Army School of the Americas [SOA],” Father Roy Bourgeois said on “Democracy Now!” The SOA (now called WHINSEC, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation — “new name, same shame,” Bourgeois told us) is a military training program at the U.S. Army base in Fort Benning, Georgia. Bourgeois has led a vigorous protest movement against the SOA. One night in 1981, Bourgeois climbed a tree on Fort Benning grounds, outside barracks housing 525 Salvadoran troops, and blasted an audio recording of Romero’s last sermon. For that protest, Father Bourgeois served a year and a half in prison. The organization he founded, SOA Watch, held annual protests for years outside Fort Benning. SOA Watch now rallies each November at the U.S.-Mexico border, as Bourgeois says, “in solidarity with our migrant brothers and sisters.” Father Roy Bourgeois sees a direct connection between the violence in Central America in the 1980s and the massive number of refugees fleeing the region today: “The militarism of the School of the Americas, with 70,000 Latin American soldiers trained in the art of killing, coupled with U.S. economic policies today, is an important part of the root cause of why so many flee their countries,” he told us. “They are doing what we would do in their situation. If they stay, they die.” Web ExclusiveOct 15, 2018“Assassination of a Saint”: Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero Is Canonized as Murder Remains Unsolved Web ExclusiveOct 15, 2018 “Assassination of a Saint”: Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero Is Canonized as Murder Remains Unsolved

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Indie Music Album Reviews John Martine Interview ​Q: Can you talk about your musical history? A: Sure, the album title is Better With Age for a reason. I started playing guitar in the ’70s and did the usual progression. High school bands which turned into working bar bands doing covers. All of those bands included my best friend Brian Brown who the album is dedicated to. Brian lost his battle with cancer a few years ago. We were both recruited to play in an east coast hair band (Frenzy) in 1987 that had some measure of success opening for the likes of Extreme and Britny Fox among others. We generated some management and record company interest but it didn't pan out. From there I played in a few upstate NY bands and hit the wall in the ’90s and needed to take a break. Long story short I became very interested in recording and engineering and my solo album is my first release. Q: There was a clear ’80s rock influence to the music. Can you talk about where that came from? A: See above. Seriously, I grew up listening to and learning from bands like Boston, Bowie's Ziggy phase, Queen, Sweet, U2, Tom Petty, etc. I am definitely dating myself here but I love guitar rock and songs with hooks. Maybe that makes me a dinosaur in some regards but that's where I was musically when I wrote most of the songs on the album. I still believe that a well-crafted guitar solo can elevate a song and really miss that in most of the new stuff that I hear these days (where "these days" equals the past couple of decades). Q: The songs on Better With Age are a full band yet it’s a solo album. Did you play every instrument? What was the songwriting process like? A: I played almost all of the guitars, all of the keys, bass on a couple of songs and did all of the lead vocals. My collaborator Travis Eby did the bulk of the bass playing and sang a ton of backup vocals. Alex Roberts also contributed some guitar. The drums were a combination of me, Liam Rainwater and some software (don't tell anybody...wait, what?). I love layering instruments and vocals and hope that comes to the fore on the album. I wrote all of the music and did all of the arranging. I have no set process but find that my best songs pour out of me without a lot of tweaking. Lyrically there's some fun stuff but there's also a lot of scars and darkness. I hope people find some of that darkness, especially in the love songs where it isn't so obvious. Q: What were your thoughts in regards to the aesthetics. How did you achieve the tones and textures you were able to capture in the studio? A: A lot of angst, sweat, cursing, and some eureka moments. The entire album was done in the box (i.e. digitally) and I continue to be blown away by the recording possibilities that are now possible in a small space. I love experimenting with mic placement, different rooms and plug-ins. Recording is a never-ending learning process and I can't wait to use what I've learned on this album with my next batch of songs where I’ll be looking for a more organic sound with songs that are more raw. ​Q: Are you currently playing these songs live with a full band? A: I'd love to but most of the musicians I know these days have lives that don't revolve around gigging. I am toying with doing a couple of shows with some good players to promote the album locally where "locally" means Central Pennsylvania. Q: What else should we know about your solo project? A: I love that technology has advanced to the point where people like me (you kids get the hell out of my yard) have an avenue to share their music with the public at-large without playing tons of live shows. Learning the technology to the degree that you can create art is no small feat but the dividends are there if you have the acumen and desire. I'm also happy that my album was selected for review as I definitely have an old-school style that's somewhat of an outlier compared to the music I've listened to and mostly enjoyed on your site. Check out my website at www.johnmartinemusic.com for more info. Check out the full critique Book Your Band © Divide and Conquer 2019. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Dr. Still in his office The history of Des Moines University reflects a continuing commitment to teach, to learn and to serve. Founded in 1898 by Dr. Summerfield Saunders Still and his wife, Dr. Ella Still, the Dr. S.S. Still College of Osteopathy was located at 1422 West Locust Street, in downtown Des Moines. The College Infirmary, located across the street, provided an opportunity for students to work directly with patients during the course of their medical training. Students' coursework included classes such as descriptive anatomy, theory of osteopathy and dissection. From its founding through the early 1920s, the College admitted large numbers of female students, sometimes comprising over one-third of the class, who attended classes and trained alongside their male classmates as equals. Over the decades, female enrollment waned, but experienced resurgence during the 1970s. Today, female students make up over 55% of the student body. Microscope laboratory - 1905 In 1905, the school changed its name to the Still College of Osteopathy and continued to grow and prosper during the first part of the 20th Century. In 1909, the College purchased the Iowa Sanitarium building and opened the Des Moines General Hospital. The Hospital was sold in 1916 but remained closely tied to the School until closing its doors in 2000. Outside of class, student life flourished, as professional fraternal organizations, sports teams and a College band kept students busy in their spare time. By 1927, the College had outgrown its building and moved to 722 Sixth Avenue, just a few blocks north of the city center. The College was renamed the Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery in 1945 to reflect an expanding curriculum. One year later, the College opened the Still College Osteopathic Hospital and College Clinic, which provided enhanced clinical training opportunities for students and increased health care options for the community. In 1967, the Hospital became the Harrison Rehabilitation and Treatment Hospital, the first center in the state of Iowa to treat the disease of alcoholism. The clinic closed in 1972, when the College moved to Grand Avenue. The name changed again, in 1958, to the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery. Beginning in 1963, the College opened a number of off-campus clinics in Des Moines and the surrounding area. In 1971, the Dietz Diagnostic Center, located on Des Moines' south side, began operation as a major outpatient facility. Student Education Center In 1972, the college moved to its present 22-acre site on Grand Avenue. Originally the campus of St. Joseph's Academy, a former Catholic girls' school, the Grand Avenue location continues to provide faculty and students with the resources they need to succeed. During the ensuing years, enrollment in the college more than doubled and new buildings added to and replaced those used by the Academy. In 1980 The University established two new colleges, the College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery and the College of Biological Sciences (later renamed the College of Health Sciences)., These colleges, with the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, became the University of Osteopathic Medicine and the Health Sciences (UOMHS) in 1981. The college of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery was the first podiatry school to be affiliated with an academic health science center and is one of nine podiatric medical schools in the nation. In the College of Health Sciences, the charter class of the physician assistant program received the bachelor of science (B.S.) degree and the physician assistant certificate in 1983. The first graduates of the health care administration program received the master of science (M.S.) degree in 1986, and the first graduating class in the physical therapy program received the master of science in physical therapy (M.S.P.T.) degree in 1990. Now is the Time; Des Moines is the Place: A History of Des Moines University Order your copy today. In 1986, the ten-story, Clinic building opened, which offered primary care, medical specialties and ambulatory surgery. Adjacent to the Clinic is the 1,500-seat Olsen Medical Education Center. Renamed Des Moines University in 1999, DMU has completed some major changes to campus over the last decade. The former Science and Education Building, which was remodeled in 2002, was renamed Richard M. Ryan Hall in 2005, after the University's 13th president. The Student Education Center (SEC) opened in 2005, replacing the former St. Joseph's Academy building, and in 2006 the Munroe Building was remodeled to house two more classrooms. These changes reflect the needs of students and faculty, as the incoming class sizes have been increased for the osteopathic, podiatric, physician assistant and physical therapy programs. Along with enrollment numbers, entering GPAs have increased as well. As a state-of-the-art campus, today's student uses technology in order to achieve a top-notch education. The Iowa Simulation Center for Patient Safety and Clinical Skills, which opened in 2007, allows students to develop and improve their diagnostic and clinical skills and patient care abilities using cutting edge technology. With over 11,000 living alumni, Des Moines University has a vibrant history that continues to inspire. And as the second oldest osteopathic medical college in the United States, Des Moines University continues to prepare physicians and allied health care personnel for careers in the ever-changing field of medicine, while developing innovative programs to serve students and society. Summerfield Saunders Still, D.O. Expand President of Dr. S. S. Still College and Infirmary of Osteopathy, 1898-1905 Born on December 7, 1851 in Macon County, Missouri, in 1898 Summerfield Saunders Still, D.O., co-founded the Dr. SS Still College of Osteopathy with his wife, Dr. Ella Still, D.O. He received his D.O. degree from the American School of Osteopathy (ASO) in 1895 and taught anatomy there before founding Still College in Des Moines. Quoted as saying, "Now is the time, Des Moines is the place," Dr. Still served as the College's first president and taught anatomy from 1898-1905. A founding member of Associated Colleges of Osteopathy, Dr. Still served as the organization's president in 1902. He also founded the Iowa Osteopathic Association and the Polk County Osteopathic Society. The Stills remained in Des Moines until 1913, working in private practice. They returned to Kirksville, and in 1918, S.S. became ASO's vice president. He was promoted to president in 1922 and remained in that position until 1925. He died in November, 1931 and is buried in Des Moines. Charles Edgar Thompson, A.M., D.O. Expand President of Still College of Osteopathy, 1905-1911 Born in Momence, IL on December 14, 1864, Charles Edgar Thompson, D.O., was the son of John Milton and Phoebe Jane Mott Thompson. He received A.B. and A.M. degrees from Ewing College in 1888 and received his D.O. degree from Still College in June, 1902. Prior to his arrival at Still College, Dr. Thompson taught at Greek and Latin at Ewing College, Mary Nash College and Decatur Baptist College, where he also served as president from 1895-1898. Dr. Thompson arrived in Des Moines when his wife became ill and sought osteopathic treatment. Her recovery inspired him to study osteopathy. He served as a professor of chemistry from 1901 until 1911, also serving as dean (1902-1905) and as president (1906-1911). Thompson was a long-time member of First Baptist Church and served as a deacon for twenty-three years before passing away in April, 1956. Simeon LaFayette Taylor, D.O., M.D. Expand President of Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy, 1911-1926 Born on March 12, 1872 in Scottsberg, Kentucky, Simeon LaFayette Taylor, D.O., completed A.B. and B.D. degrees from Lombard College and received his D.O. from the Still College of Osteopathy in 1903. He received an M.D. from the University of Nebraska in 1908 and completed post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to his medical career, Taylor was a Pastor at the First Universalist Church in Hoopeston, IL. Dr. Taylor became the College's third president in 1911, a position he held until 1926. During this time, the College changed its name to the Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy. In addition to his presidential duties, in 1912 he served as president of the Associated Colleges of Osteopathy. In 1916, he purchased Des Moines General Hospital from the College and spent much time and effort improving both the Hospital and its Taylor Clinic. Dr. Taylor also served as a professor of surgery at the College and maintained a private practice. He passed away in August, 1954. Charles W. Johnson, D.O. Expand Born August 28, 1868 in Monroe, Wisconsin, Charles Johnson, D.O., moved to Ontario, Iowa (now part of Ames). He received a B.S. in Science and Agriculture at Iowa State College in 1891 and wrote a thesis about farm drainage in Iowa. Dr. Johnson served as the superintendent of schools in Exira, Iowa from 1892 until 1898, when he enrolled at Still College. A class of 1900 graduate, he was in private practice in Charles City, Iowa until 1905, when he returned to the college and assumed the role of professor of nervous diseases. He remained in this position for thirty years, also assuming the roles of dean (1922-1926) and president (1926-1935). During his time as president, he oversaw the College's move from Locust Avenue to its new location on Sixth Avenue. Dr. Johnson passed away in June, 1936. Arthur Dow Becker, D.O., D.Sci. Expand Born on August 20, 1878 in Austin, Minnesota, Dr. Becker received his D.O. from the Still College of Osteopathy with the class of 1903. Dr. Becker was an instrumental figure who, in 1903, worked for the passage of osteopathic legislation in Minnesota. He was in private practice in that state from 1903 until 1908, when he moved to Missouri to complete post graduate work at the American School of Osteopathy (ASO). He taught at ASO 1909 until 1912, after which he returned to Minnesota, where he remained in private practice until 1922. Dr. Becker was appointed dean of the newly chartered A. T. Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery in 1922 and remained at the College until 1935, when he returned to Des Moines and assumed the positions of College president and professor of osteopathy. He served as president until 1941. Dr. Becker served as the president of American Osteopathic Association (AOA) from 1931-1932 and was a trustee for fifteen years. In 1941, he received an AOA distinguished service certificate in osteopathic education and college administration, osteopathic organization, and literary activities. One year later, he retired to Lake Orion, MI; he relocated to Florida in 1945 and remained there until his death in 1947. John P. Schwartz, D.O., D.Sci., D.Hum. Expand Nicknamed Pinkie, JP, and Red (due to his red hair), John Peter Schwartz, D.O., was born in Batavia, NY in 1898. He graduated from ASO in 1919 and began his association with Still College in 1920. In 1921 he was named a professor of embryology and bacteriology and surgery and from 1921-1926 he was the assistant surgeon at Des Moines General Hospital, working under Dr. Taylor. He remained at Des Moines General Hospital for most of his career, serving as the surgeon in chief and head of Taylor Clinic from 1926-1940, as the chief of staff from 1940-1955 and as president of the board from 1926-1955. Concurrently, Dr. Schwartz held executive positions at Still College, including serving as dean from 1926-1942 and college president from 1942-1944. A founding member of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons, he served as the organization's president in 1936-1937 and helped found the ACOS/AHA hospital inspection program. The American Osteopathic Association presented him with a distinguished service award for osteopathic education in 1962. Dr. Schwartz passed away in April, 1972 in Des Moines, Iowa. Hugh D. Clark, Ph.D. Expand Born on April 15, 1914 in Pawling, New York, Dr. Clark received a B.A. from Clark University in 1934, followed by an M.A. and Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Michigan in 1941. In 1939 he joined the Still College faculty as an instructor in the basic sciences (biology, physiology and embryology) and studied osteopathic medicine. He was a Professor of Physiology at Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy from 1941 to 1945. Dr. Clark was named the assistant to the president at DMSCO in February, 1944, and was appointed to the presidency four months later. He left the college the following year to teach zoology at the University of Iowa, a position he held from 1945 until 1947. Dr. Clark joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut in 1947and became a full Professor in 1959. He specialized in developmental biology with a research interest in nitrogen excretion and metabolism. During his career at the University of Connecticut, he was active in many academic endeavors. In 1960, he was named Director of the Institute of Cellular Biology and he directed the Research Foundation from its origin in 1963 until 1983. From 1963-1982, he served as the Associate Dean of the Graduate School, and as Interim Dean from 1977-1979. In 1982, he was appointed Associate Vice President, a position that he held until his retirement on December 31, 1983. As an active member of his academic profession, Dr. Clark earned many distinctions and honors over the course of his career. He served on the governor's Committee on Environmental Policy in 1970, the Connecticut Research Commission from 1965-1971, and from 1966-67 he served on the Governor's Advisory Committee on Mental Retardation. In 1976, he received the Alumni Association Award for Leadership Excellence from the University of Connecticut. He also maintained membership in many professional societies including the American Society of Zoologists, the New York Academy of Science, and the Society for Developmental Biology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Association of University Professors. Dr. Hugh Clark died on August 24, 2005 at the age of 91 years. Edwin F. Peters, Ph.D. Expand President of Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery, 1945-1957 A native of Missouri, Edwin F. Peters, Ph.D., received his A.B. and B.S. from Drury College and an M.A. at the University of Missouri. From 1927 until 1934 he worked in secondary education. He then returned to school and received a Ph.D. from New York University in 1940. During WWII, Dr. Peters served as a Commander in the Army Infantry and Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. Dr. Peters' became president of the College in January, 1946 and remained in that position until his resignation in June, 1957. During his tenure, the College was renamed the Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy and the Still Osteopathic Hospital opened at 725 Sixth Avenue. He passed away in May, 1985. Merlyn McLaughlin, Ph.D. Expand President of the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, 1959-1966 Born Salem, IL 1901, Merlyn McLaughlin, Ph.D., received his B.A. Sterling College and his M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Colorado. Throughout his career, Dr. McLaughlin was involved with the military; he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserve, the liaison officer between the Air Force and the sixty-two colleges where Reserve Officer Training Corps programs were being established, and was commander of the Iowa Air Reserve Center at Fort Des Moines. He was also the official U.S. representative to the Federation Aeronautique Internationale and chairman for the International Council for Aviation Education for UNESCO. Dr. McLaughlin served as College president from 1959 until August, 1967. While in Des Moines, he served as chairman of the Armed Forces Committee of the Greater Des Moines Chamber of Commerce, was director of the Aerospace Education Council of Iowa and was a member of both Rotary International and the Board of International Education. He passed away in July, 1984, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Thomas Vigorito, D.O. Expand President of the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery (COMS), 1968-1971 A 1955 graduate of Georgetown University, Dr. Vigorito graduated from the Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery in 1960. He entered private practice in Dayton, Ohio, later moved to Des Moines and received the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery's (COMS) first M.S. degree in 1965. On June 1, 1965 he became an assistant professor of pathology at COMS and on December 1 was appointed to the position of dean. In 1966, he also assumed the position of vice president for academic affairs. Dr. Vigorito served as the College president from April, 1968 until his resignation in March, 1971. After leaving the College, Dr. Vigorito completed a residency in neurology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. J. Leonard Azneer, Ph.D. Expand President of the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, 1971-1981; University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, 1981-1993 J. Leonard Azneer, Ph.D., served as University president from 1971 until 1993. An ordained rabbi with a doctorate in philosophy, he came to the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery after twenty years on the faculty at Youngstown State University. During Dr. Azneer's tenure, the College moved to its current site at 3200 Grand Ave. The new location allowed for expanded facilities and faculty, and could accommodate a larger student body. The college also opened several community and outreach clinics during this time. Other major developments under Dr. Azneer's leadership included the creation of the College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery and the College of Health Sciences in 1981, prompting the institution to change its name to the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences (UOMHS). Also in 1981, a five-story Academic Center was added to campus. In 1987, the ten-story Tower Medical Clinic – now known as the DMU Clinic – opened. Dr. Azneer moved to Florida in 1993 and passed away in February, 2011. David G. Marker, Ph.D. Expand President of the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, 1994-1996 David G. Marker, Ph.D., received bachelor's degrees in physics and mathematics from Grinnell College and master's and doctoral degrees from Pennsylvania State University. Prior to his arrival in Des Moines, Dr. Marker held a number of faculty and administrative positions at Hope College, and served as the president of Cornell College. He was president of the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences from 1994 until 1996. Since then, he has held positions at institutions including the Science Center of Iowa, Morningside College, Maryville University, Chaminade University and Assumption College. He is also an emeriti provost at Hope College. He passed away in May, 2016, in Philadelphia. Richard M. Ryan Jr., D.Sci. Expand President of the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, 1996-1999; Des Moines University, 1999-2002 Dr. Richard M. Ryan Jr., D.Sci., received bachelor's and master's degrees from Boston University, followed by master's and doctoral degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health. In 1971 he was named assistant to the dean for rehabilitation planning at Harvard. He later became assistant dean for government health programs and associate dean for medical services. He also coordinated Harvard's affiliated teaching hospitals. In 1984, Dr. Ryan became dean for hospital and faculty affairs at Tufts University School of Medicine. One year later, he was named executive dean for the school of medicine, a position he held until leaving in 1994. During this time he also served as the interim medical dean (1990-1992). Dr. Ryan came to the University in 1996, serving as president from his arrival until 2002. During this time, he oversaw many important changes within the University. Under his leadership, the University established both the Geriatric Education Center and Human Performance Lab, developed the Public Health Program, achieved successes with college and regional university accreditation boards, upgraded the Physician Assistant program to a master's degree and the Physical Therapy program to a doctoral degree, greatly expanded both research space and scholarship funds, and complete a large-scale renovation of the Science and Education Building (later renamed Richard M. Ryan Hall) and began planning for the Student Education Center(SEC) which was completed in 2005. During this time, the University also changed its name to Des Moines University – Osteopathic Medical Center. After retiring, Dr. Ryan returned to his home in Winchester, Massachusetts. Governor Terry E. Branstad, J.D. Expand President of Des Moines University, 2003-2009 Born in 1946 in Leland, Iowa, Governor Branstad received his B.A. from the University of Iowa and his J.D. from Drake University. He served in the U.S. Army, ARCOM from 1969-1971 and was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1973. In 1979, he was elected Lt. Governor (for Governor Robert Ray) and four years later he won his first of four consecutive terms as the Governor of Iowa. He left office in 1999 and became the president of Des Moines University in 2003. During his tenure, student enrollment increased by one-third and the scholarship fund increased three-fold. In 2005, he presided over the opening of the 150,000 square-foot Student Education Center, and DMU became the first college/university in the country to achieve the "platinum well workplace" designation sponsored by the Wellness Council of America. In 2007, the master's of biomedical sciences and master's of anatomy degree programs debuted, and the University's state-of-the-art Iowa Simulation Center for Patient Safety and Clinical Skills opened. Also in 2007, the University began offering global health service trips; during the program's first two years, over 130 DMU students participated in service trips to 26 countries. Governor Branstad retired from the University in 2009 and was elected to his fifth term as Governor of the State of Iowa in 2010. Administration and Board of Trustees Code of Conduct for Educational Loans University-Wide Student Learning Outcomes

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Ecology Center » Population Dynamics Agricultural Inputs Last Updated on Wed, 05 Sep 2018 | Population Dynamics Miracle Farm Blueprint From the viewpoint of stability, all agricultural ecosystems (agroecosystems) may be divided into two groups. First are natural pastures and hayfields, which can preserve their stability without anthropogenic inputs. Second are arable lands, permanent crops, and artificial pastures and hayfields, which can only preserve their stability at the expense of anthropogenic inputs (management practices). Without them, these agroecosystems will be destroyed and replaced by different natural ecosystems. 'Energy' is a necessary resource for modern agriculture. Direct energy inputs (oil, electricity, etc.) ensure the work of tractors, harvesters, and other equipment, the initial processing of products, etc. World agriculture (2001) consumes 189 636 000 toe of direct energy (toe - metric tons of oil equivalent - measures the energy contained in a metric ton of crude oil; 1 toe is equal to 10 kcal, 41 868GJ, or 11 628 GWh). But it is only 2.5% of the total energy consumption in the world (to compare, industry uses 32% and transport, 25.2%). In different parts of the world, energy consumption in agriculture is different. The 'energy 5100000 5 000 000 4 900 000 4 800 000 4 700 000 4 600 000 JT 4 500 000 ^ 1 500 000 1 450 000 1 400 000 1 350 000 1 300 000 1980 1985 Year Figure 1 Dynamics of agricultural and arable lands in the world (1961-2003). ♦ Africa M Asia--Europe--North America South America Figure 2 The dynamics of agricultural lands in different parts of the world. Oceania pressure' (toeha-1) is maximum in Europe and Asia and minimum in Africa and Oceania (Table 4). Indirect energy consumption in agriculture is associated with energy spent for the manufacturing of tractors, equipment and fertilizers; with labor force, etc. The calculation of energy expenses makes it possible to compare different types of inputs in uniform (energy) units. In modern farms (Table 5), the input of direct energy averages about 40%; the input of indirect energy with fertilizers, about 32%; and with equipment and chemical weed-killers, 11-12%. The input of labor force is very small, but in traditional farms in developing countries it may reach 50% and more. 'Fertilizers' are necessary for restoring soil fertility. Organic fertilizers (manure, dung, peat) have been actively used throughout the history of agriculture. Now, their input reaches 10-40 tha-1. The application of mineral fertilizers began at the end of the nineteenth century. In 2005, their consumption reached 157 million tons annually. There are three main types of mineral fertilizers: nitrogen (93 million tons), phosphorus (39 million tons), and □ Areas before human developing Savannas Tundras Steppes Highlands Figure 3 Changes in the areas of major biomes (percent of the Earth area) as a result of human activity. Table 4 Consumption of direct energy in agriculture Africa Asia Europe N. America S. America Oceania World Energy consumption (1000toe) 12725 63086 50185 22721 13095 1995 189636 Energy consumption (toe ha~1) 0.046 0.132 0.164 0.085 0.113 0.036 0.127 Table 5 The consumption of energy in a modern farm (corn production, the USA) MJha-1 yr-1 Gasoline and gas Tractors and other equipment Herbicides and insecticides potassium (25 million tons); thus, they are applied in the following average ratios: N(55%):P(25%):K(20%). The world average input of mineral fertilizers is 91.1 kg ha- : from 32 kg ha- in Africa to 144 kg ha- in Asia (Table 6). In some countries, their application may be much higher (Ireland: 600 kg ha-1) or smaller (Congo: 0.1 kg ha-1). In many developing countries, the NPK input is less then the output of these nutrients with agricultural products, which leads to a decrease in soil fertility. At the same time, big 'fertilizer pressure' results in contamination of food and environmental pollution. A large portion of fertilizers is washed away from croplands into rivers and lakes, which is the cause of their eutrophi-cation (e.g., in Europe, Asia, and North America). Moreover, on the global scale, the use of fertilizers results in deep changes in the character of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium cycles in the biosphere. This is especially true with respect to nitrogen. The anthropogenic fixation of nitrogen via the production of nitrogen fertilizers (80 million tons per year) is only a little less than the biological fixation ofnitrogen by all terrestrial ecosystems (100-130 million tons). 'Herbicides' and 'insecticides' are necessary to control weeds and pests. Their active use began in the second part of the twentieth century. Now, the average world rate of their application is 300 gha-1 (fro m 0 in Laos to 2-3 kg ha-1 in the USA and Western Europe and 51 kg ha-1 in Costa Rica). Specialists say that these chemicals help save about one-third of the world agricultural produce. At the same time, their application results in the contamination of not only food products but also natural ecosystems on a global scale (hydrosphere, soils, etc.). Herbicide DDT was found even in Antarctica. Without 'machineries' and 'equipment', modern intensive agriculture is impossible, because it involves many manipulations with agricultural lands, primary processing, cattle, etc. The average world number of tractors per 1000 ha is 17.6 - from 7 tractors/ha in Africa to 36 tractors/ha in Europe (Table 6). Note that their use results in soil compaction on croplands and additional CO2 emission because of the utilization of fossil fuels. Therefore, agricultural lands, first of all arable lands, play the role of ecosystems with a negative carbon balance on the global scale. Table 6 Different types of agricultural inputs to croplands Labor force (men/100 ha) 80 210 10 10 20 5 90 Tractors per 1000 ha 6.9 12.4 35.9 21.7 11.1 7.2 17.6 Fertilizers (kg ha"1) 31.9 144 72.5 89.2 88.4 57.4 91.1 Table 7 Irrigated lands and water input for irrigation Asia (excl. East) Middle East Sub-and North Saharan Africa Africa N. America S. America Oceania World Irrigated lands (% of total cropland) Irrigation water use (million m3) Irrigation water (% of the total water consumption) 1 739480 132088 279196 81 33 86 99758 199601 111 812 88 38 68 18 855 2 661 624 72 70 In modern agriculture, 'labor force' is, foremost, the 'management block' of agricultural systems, and only in backward farming, it is the 'energy source'. At present, the average world 'labor force pressure' is 90 men/100ha (from 5-10 men/100 ha in Oceania, Europe, and North America to 210 men/100ha in Asia) (Table 6). 'Irrigation' is one of the biggest inputs to agriculture in arid zones. The world area of irrigated lands is not very large - only 277 098 thousandha, or 18.1% of the total cropland (from 5-8% in Oceania and Europe to 35.3% in Asia) (Table 7). But irrigated lands are the largest consumer of water resources: 2661.2 km3 or 70% of the total world water consumption is spent for irrigation (industry - 20%, domestic use - 10%). In some countries, the portion of irrigation water in the total water use may reach 95-99% (Mali, Cambodia, Thailand, etc.). In the case of normal irrigation, almost 50% of water is lost for evaporation; overhead (sprinkling) irrigation gives 30% losses; and only very capital expensive drip irrigation, 1-2%. Thus, irrigation is the crucial factor altering the water circulation, first of all in arid regions. For example, the disappearance of the Aral Sea is the result of irrigation of large areas in Central Asia. Moreover, intensive irrigation may result in soil sali-nization. Because of salinization, 0.2-0.3 million ha of irrigated land is being abandoned in the world every year. 'Drainage' is one of the types of agricultural inputs in humid zones. The world area of artificially drained lands is about 157 million ha, including 56 million ha in North and Central America, 40 million ha in Europe, and 15 million ha in the former USSR. In Finland, more than 90% of cropland is drained area; in Hungary, 74%; in the UK, 61%. This method of soil reclamation provides possibility to increase crop yields in overmoistened areas, but is also associated with the destruction of peat layers and with a decrease in soil fertility in 15-20 years. Moreover, drainage worsens the water regime of landscapes on a regional scale. 10 Ways To Fight Off Cancer Learning About 10 Ways Fight Off Cancer Can Have Amazing Benefits For Your Life The Best Tips On How To Keep This Killer At Bay Discovering that you or a loved one has cancer can be utterly terrifying. All the same, once you comprehend the causes of cancer and learn how to reverse those causes, you or your loved one may have more than a fighting chance of beating out cancer. Organic Farming Manual Energy Consumption, Modern Agriculture

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Jeep, 4x4, Hybrid, Electric, LTR The Future Is Coming: Jeep Aims for Full Line of Hybrid & Electric Vehicles by 2022 The First Porsche: Ahead of It's Time 3 Helpful Tips For Adjusting 4x4 Coilovers At Home First Look: Jeep 4xe 4xe is the Name: Jeep Teases its New Line of Electrified 4x4s for this Year Last month we heard news that Jeep was planning to electrify its entire lineup by 2022, and the brand has just confirmed its plans to do exactly that with a large showing up at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Three different plug-in hybrid Jeeps will be shown in Las Vegas—a Renegade, Compass and a Wrangler, and Jeep also announced the branding that its new line of plug-in 4x4s will wear. "4xe" will be the badging used on the new models, as the brand says it strives to "become the leader in “green” eco-friendly premium technology." But, in addition to being lower emissions, the new hybrid electric setups also promise greater torque, faster response and hopefully improved off-road capability. Jeep says the debut of the new 4xe plug-in hybrids is the first step of its aforementioned plan to electrify its whole line up by 2022. And while the hybrid versions of the Renegade and Compass have already been shown for other markets, the plug-in version of the iconic Wrangler is the one to keep an eye on. CES 2020 will kick off next week, and while it's unclear what sort of details will be announced, Jeep also said it will be revealing additional information about the three new models at the upcoming Geneva, New York and Beijing auto shows. We are just a few days into 2020 and it's already shaping up to be a big year for the Jeep brand as it moves toward the future. Stay tuned for more. And speaking of off-road technology, check out the new navigation trick Ford is using to keep off-roaders from getting lost while adventuring.

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Battle of Britain to be commemorated at Duxford Air Show COMMEMORATING the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, aircrafts which were vital in securing an Allied victory will be taking to the skies at this year s Duxford Air Show. Recreating the Battle of Britain the iconic Spitfire will on COMMEMORATING the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, aircrafts which were vital in securing an Allied victory will be taking to the skies at this year's Duxford Air Show. Recreating the Battle of Britain the iconic Spitfire will once again pit its skills against the German Messerschmitt Me 109 - the backbone of the Luftwaffe fighter force. Adding to the nostalgia will be flyovers from a mighty Lancaster bomber and the agile Hurricane fighter. The full flying programme has now being announced for the Duxford Air Show being held on Saturday (September 5) and Sunday (September 6) and featuring the best in historic and modern aviation. Bringing the air show right up to date with the latest in jet-engine technology, on Saturday only the Eurofighter Typhoon will thunder across the Duxford skies. Classic jet aircraft will include a Folland Gnat Pair (The Red Arrows' previous aircraft of choice), the Hawker Hunter F4 and the North American F-86 Sabre. Helicopter fans will be able to enjoy displays by the Agusta 109BA, flown by 18 Squadron of the Belgian Air Force, while the Boeing Chinook makes a welcome return after delighting fans at the Spring Air Show in May 2009. For visitors who prefer aircraft with a sense of nostalgia, a range of historic piston-engined planes will be on display, including the North American P-51 TF Mustang, the North American T28S Fennec, the North American T6 Harvard and the Douglas AD4 Skyraider, with a welcome return to the skies by the Duxford-based B-17 Flying Fortress Sally B. The centenary of Naval Aviation will be marked with a display by a Hawker Sea Fury and the Royal Navy's Hawker Sea Hawk. As previously announced, The Red Arrows will be closing the flying programme on Saturday, whilst on Sunday, Aerostars - the largest civilian formation aerobatic team in the world - will be closing proceedings in their Yakovlev Yak 52s. Ticket prices range from £9.95 for a child to £24.95 for and adult. Concessions are available for students and senior citizens. Gates open at 8am with access to the whole museum and flying will start at 2pm. The museum closes at 6pm. For a full flying programme and more information visit www.iwm.org.uk/duxford.

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Middleton in for More Midfielder makes it a Monday hat-trick. Harry Middleton has accepted the offer of a new contract, which will see him remain as a Doncaster Rovers player until 2015. Upon signing for a further year, the skilful midfielder has rounded off Monday’s flurry of transfer activity at the Keepmoat Stadium which saw Nathan Tyson and Alex Peterson pen respective deals. Middleton’s only senior appearance, to date, was a full ninety minutes in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy game against Crewe Alexandra at Gresty Road, which the hosts won on penalties after a 1-1 draw. The nineteen-year old came through the Youth Team set up with Rovers and has been widely tipped to make an impression during his football career.

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Fist Fight - D Quick Hit – Charlie Day is Charlie Day, and Ice Cube is Ice Cube. I don’t think there is much else of note. I completely understand the need for mindless comedies. For every Manchester By the Sea, there is probably a Happy Gilmore or a Liar Liar out there (maybe two times the amount of dramas). That’s because laughter is an intricate part of the human experience, and life gets tough. Sometimes you just need to turn your brain off a bit and laugh. However, I do think that sometimes we get a bit lazy and just throw jokes at a screen and expect it to be funny. Fist Fight (or what should have been named #TeacherFight) features Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny) as Andy Campbell, a sad sack English teacher who is essentially every character Charlie Day has played. When he is complicit in the firing of history teacher Strickland (Ice Cube), there is a fight to be had after school. Surrounding this are a myriad of “comedic” things, some driven by the pranking students on the last day of school, others driven by Campbell’s attempts to avoid the fight after school. Along the way, our hero learns something about standing up for himself. Honestly, the movie doesn’t sound that bad when you type it out. The problem is that the execution is way, way off. There are moments where you might get a modest chuckle in (one prank in particular involving a mariachi band is worthwhile), and the final fight is enjoyable, because everything becomes a weapon, and essentially the two characters become caricatures of themselves. But everything in between seems much longer than the 90 minutes. We have all the comedic tropes of the current crazes – side characters that spout crude sexual humor or drug jokes. That’s pretty much it. There is a much better movie hiding inside this one. That movie is filled with political and racial commentary, as well as providing a vehicle for a returning Tracy Morgan to the screen. It could also be a social commentary on the state of the American education system. For instance, Strickland really is a good teacher, yet in this movie he is made out to be the bad guy. Essentially, he’s the only person outside of a few scenes with Day that seems capable of actually running a classroom. There are also a lot of jokes that are almost funny, featuring a security guard and the principal of the school. With a little script editing, we could have gotten a film that accomplished its goals instead of flailing for 90 minutes. As I stated, the movie is a loss overall. But if you need to turn off your brain for a bit, I guess you can check it out. I’m giving it a “D”. For more on this movie check out IMDB. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – B- Quick Hit – Fun, with a terrific set of antogonists, you slowly start to feel a bit overwhelmed by it all. From the start of this film, you know that you are back in the world we left in the last one. It doesn’t take long for new characters to be introduced, and it’s extremely easy to hate them. First, there is Lord Beckitt (played by Tom Hollander), who it’s clear is as evil as it gets. He’s had run-ins with Jack Sparrow before (though this isn’t fully explained). There’s also Davy Jones (played terrifically by Bill Nighy), a creature straight from the depths of the sea, who has now taken to searching for Jack in order to fulfill a bargain they once had. All of this is delivered in the typical manic style of the Pirates series. There are so many Rube Goldbergian type activities in the fight scenes (specifically on the scene on the island) that you’re head starts to spin. However, Verbinski once again shows the ability to pivot between these scenes and some of the quieter ones. I wouldn’t say that the skill is as pronounced as the last film, and at times, we may get caught up in the score and the slap-stick action and just allow the wheel to roll. That... is freaking terrifying. Still focusing on the story of Will and Elizabeth, we start to see some cracks form. That’s because Will is now after rescueing his father, Bootstrap Bill (Stellan Skarsgård). There’s nothing wrong with the storyline, and Skarsgård turns in a fantastically creepy yet moving performance. It’s just that everything makes things feel overstuffed. There are so many storylines, and only some of them are interesting. I for one find the story of Jones most interesting – I want to know more about his backstory instantly, and Nighy sells the scare factor. The effects are amazing, with Jones using the tentacles as other appendages in a completely natural way. The main selling point for the film continues to be Depp, with Sparrow always being a welcome breath of fresh air every time he is on screen. His humor and delivery is incredibly on point, and never once do you seem bored by him. The originality continues throughout the film, even to the point of his final demise with the Kraken. That being said, I didn’t really like the total feel of this one. I found out while doing research that POC2 and POC3 were shot back to back, and that makes complete sense. It feels like this film is trying to do all the work of setting up a Pirates cinematic universe – it’s tying itself back to the first film, but it’s also trying to get the base for a third film. It makes things confusing, and means character storylines that could be much better (Lord Beckitt and Norrington) feel a bit extraneous. Overall, Dead Man’s Chest was a nice addition to the franchise, in that it introduced characters like Davy Jones who are worth remembering. But, it suffers from being the bridging film in a trilogy, and that’s why it is only going to get a “B-“ from me. Young Frankenstein - A- Quick Hit: Comedy at a full-blown tilt. I’ll be the first to come out and say that this is a movie that goes at a slapstick pace, constantly has humor hidden in different scenes and intonations, and has jokes hiding in the corners and crevices of the screen. For this very reason, I can’t recommend it to everyone, for the same reason that movies like Under the Skin or Manchester By the Sea aren’t for everyone – our tastes are very, very subjective in movies. However, if you’re looking for a comedy (or a musical for that matter) that will find you laughing at least once within its running time (and probably more if you are someone like me that appreciates spoof humor), Young Frankenstein is one of the best out there. Allow me to shed some light onto why I think so. First, spoof/parody humor hasn’t been around forever. I mean in some ways it has always been around – Charlie Chaplin was making films like The Tramp that capitalized on that type of humor in at least one way – but never to the degree that Mel Brooks started, where it is a complete and total spoof of a genre. This paved the way for the Scary Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, Epic Movie, Haunted House, Date Movie, etc. etc. movies (albeit, with some limited results there – talk about a formulaic movie trend!). In 1974, Mel Brooks released two movies in this vein, Blazing Saddles (which parodied the Westerns of the 50s) and Young Frankenstein (which parodied the horror movies of the 30s, 40s, and 50s, particularly the Universal Frankenstein series). Let’s talk about one of the reasons I love this movie – the attention to detail is astounding. That’s because the actual set was developed using the original props from the Frankenstein series. Mel Brooks found the set designer, who just had the stuff lying in his basement. That’s amazing, and it shows. The reality of the spoof is entirely on Brooks, Wilder, and Feldman. Wilder and Feldman are so strong delivering lines with sincerity and humor that would easily cause fits to anyone on set (and audience members as well). I can’t picture anyone else in these roles, so it makes it a little harder when I see the musical on stage. I think arguably Ygor is one of my favorite movie characters, and that's just because Feldman really sells the role. So much of his humor was ad libbed it's ridiculous. The only thing that could be conceived wrong with this film is the pacing at times. Most moments are fully realized, but there are some that go flat, and some that drag on. As you continue through the film, there are some moments that last much longer than they need to… but are almost always redeemed with humor. Take “Putting on the Ritz” for example – it starts slower than necessary, but builds to a fun exciting climax. Overall, I think this movie is classic comedy gold, and should be known as such. I’m giving it an “A-“. Me after writing this post.

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Clean Home Alabama Drake State helps neighbors through Clean Home Alabama campaign Students, faculty and staff from Drake State Community & Technical College worked to pick up trash, rake leaves and plant flowers on November 6 in the Edgemont subdivision located just south of the college's campus. The team also pressure washed the monument sign at MLK Elementary, picked up litter on the school grounds with the help of the school's student government officers who are in third, fourth and fifth grades. "We're proud to have been joined by the MLK students as well as Rep. Laura Hall (D-AL 19th District), Madison County Commissioner JesHenry Malone and students from Alabama A&M University's Association for Computer Machinery and Computer Science Club," said Regina Burden, Dean of Student Services at Drake State. "It's meaningful that these organizations and government officials took time to make our community cleaner." City of Huntsville's Operation Green Team were also on site to help out and Bennett Nurseries donated flowers. Coordinated through the Alabama Community College System, the event was one of nearly 80 creative beautification and litter pickup projects scheduled as a part of the Clean Home Alabama campaign. Projects across the state vary from Adopt-A-Mile and Adopt-A-Stream participation with the Alabama People Against a Littered State (ALPALS), to Pop-Up parks and Adopt-A-Home projects. Clean Home Alabama was established as a unified initiative for the community colleges to continue to serve communities both inside and outside of campus walls, as well as to lead one of several meaningful projects that coincide with the state's bicentennial celebration in December. Governor Kay Ivey signed a proclamation on September 14, declaring November 1-11, 2019, as Clean Home Alabama Days.

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Buildings & Homes Federal Energy Management Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Success Stories Success Stories Map EERE Success Story—New 3D Printing Aerospace Grade Carbon Fiber Method is Ahead of the Curve Home » EERE Success Story—New 3D Printing Aerospace Grade Carbon Fiber Method is Ahead of the Curve U.S. Department of Energy researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have found a way to successfully 3D print aerospace grade carbon fiber composites that has never been done before. The current generation of carbon fiber composites — while stiff, strong, and light —are limited in their broader application by their high cost of manufacture, variable reliability in service, and limited shapes in the parts that can be produced. But through a modified form of additive manufacturing (3D printing) called “direct ink writing,” researchers can complete the process, cure the material, and lock it into shape to get the final mechanical properties. During direct ink writing, a small nozzle extrudes ink and lays it down precisely within a 3D build space to construct a complete shape. This process is unique because it’s an additive process that allows researchers to ‘write’ using carbon fiber-containing inks in complex shapes, in real time, without the limitations of traditional manufacturing technologies. It also allows researchers to control fiber alignment in a 3D printed part. A team of engineers perform the computational modeling on LLNL supercomputers, using large scale computer simulations of the 3D printing process to optimize how carbon fiber is printed. This allows researchers to incorporate carbon fiber in a 3D structure and make a complex shape. Future applications could include high performance airplane wings, insulating satellite components so they don’t need to be rotated in space, and creating wearables that can draw heat from the body. This technology also has the potential to be a disruptive, offering new solutions to existing materials design problems, which are not accessible with conventional materials or methods. For example, if complex shapes were made out of carbon fiber materials, and were more widely available, objects could be lighter and stronger. This could translate to lighter cars or wind turbines built using carbon fiber instead of steel. The technology has the potential to allow researchers to manufacture a greater range of smart, structural components with improved strength, stiffness, and reduced weight. Until now, they have been made of metals using traditional fabrication methods. Researchers at LLNL believe this is only the first step in developing this technology. Jim Lewicki, a principal investigator on the project, said, “Right now it’s developmental. We’re actively seeking commercial partnerships to help us scale up the technology.” Lewicki said he would like to see parallelization of the process to allow larger, more complex parts to be built within reasonable timeframes. This can be achieved through a combination of print heads and more advanced implementation of real-time curing of inks during the printing process. If industrial partnerships are forged, these goals can be expected to be met within a 3- to 5-year timeframe. Currently, researchers are in discussion with commercial, aerospace, and defense partners to advance the development of the technology.

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EIPO awards $11 million in research grants to support innovations for the Power Generation sector The Energy Market Authority (EMA) announced today the award of research grants totalling more than $11 million to six research teams as part of the Power Generation Grant Call launched by the Energy Innovation Programme Office (EIPO). The six projects aim to address industry-relevant challenges that enhance availability, reliability, and overall system efficiency of the power generation sector in areas such as condition monitoring, generation efficiency enhancements, mitigating haze-related risks, and expert decision support system. Please click on the attached document for more details. Last Updated on 26 September 2014 ©2020, Government of Singapore Energy Market Authority of Singapore. All Rights Reserved

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