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Georgia Lottery Raises Historic $1.2B for Education
Governor Brian P. Kemp is proud to announce that the Georgia Lottery has transferred its fiscal year (FY) 2019 profits - a total of $1,207,369,000 - to the State Treasury’s Lottery for Education Account, marking the largest annual transfer in the Georgia Lottery’s 26-year history. Now, the total funds raised for education amounts to more than $21 billion.
Peter Carter: Airline Joint Ventures are Putting Atlanta Front and Center on the Global Stage
For Georgians, it has never been easier to travel internationally. Take for example, Delta’s non-stop flight between Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Seoul, Korea. This flight was made possible by Delta’s joint venture partnership with Korean Air, which gives travelers convenient access and a seamless experience across the Pacific, with easy connections beyond Seoul to more than 80 additional destinations across Asia.
Young Gamechangers to Present Big Ideas to Monroe/Walton County on August 9th
Since the beginning of the year 45 of Georgia’s brightest young professionals have been working on a project in Monroe/Walton County. They met with community leaders, toured businesses and schools, visited neighborhoods and parks, researched history, and re-imagined the area’s connectivity in their quest to come up with big ideas and innovative solutions to some of the area’s most persistent challenges.
Georgia Chamber Completes A Successful Regional Small Business Series
The Georgia Chamber of Commerce hosted a six-stop statewide tour throughout the early summer months. The Regional Small Business Series, also known as New Georgia Economy, offered half-day workshops to provide unique insight on the emerging business trends and risks, and the impact to small businesses, innovation and entrepreneurship that the state faces.
Members of Georgia Delegation Urge Timely, Effective Implementation of Disaster Relief Funds
U.S. Senators David Perdue (R-GA) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) wrote this week to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to encourage the Trump administration to work with the Georgia Department of Agriculture to ensure that farmers affected by Hurricane Michael receive needed aid as soon as possible. They applauded Secretary Perdue for his support of disaster aid legislation signed into law on June 6, 2019.
Georgia Power Investing Billions in Georgia’s Energy Future; Requests Funding for Grid Improvements, Storm Restoration, Environmental Programs
Georgia Power filed a request with the Georgia Public Service Commission to increase customer rates by approximately 7% in 2020 to enable the company to continue making investments in Georgia’s energy future.
Shan Cooper and Frank Blake Elected to Georgia Historical Society Board of Curators
The Georgia Historical Society announced that Shan Cooper and Frank Blake have been elected to serve as the newest members of the GHS Board of Curators.
Current Signs of the Times in Corporate Responsibility: A Conversation with Coxe Curry's Ann W. Cramer
The goBeyondProfit team had the privilege to sit with Ann and hear her perspective on trends in Corporate Responsibility. Ann has identified several signs of the time based on the Five Corporate Social Responsibility Trends to Watch in 2019, that are published annually by her friend and colleague Tim McClimon, president of the American Express Foundation.
Allen, Hice Help Secure Ft. Gordon Cyber Instructional Facility Funding
The budget process has been out of regular order for several years now. Under normal rules, Congress would pass 12 appropriations measures that form the annual budget. These 12 separate spending bills offer a lot of chances for disagreement and possible partisan wrangling. It is much easier to pass much, much larger bills that combine spending into a package – thus, the “omnibus budget.”
The Outlook for the U.S. Housing Market Hits its Highest Point in Three Years
Last year's sales slowdown, combined with the decidedly mixed data through the first half of 2019, certainly suggested that housing had passed its peak in this cycle. But the latest Health of Housing Markets Report (HoHM Report) from Nationwide Economics sees more positive, sustainable trends for the housing sector for at least the next year.
Georgia's Largest Technology Showcase Scheduled for March 2020
The premier showcase event for Georgia's technology industry, The Summit, returns March 3rd & 4th, 2020 at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta to shine a spotlight on the state's industry strengths and gather top leaders and innovative companies at the Technology Association of Georgia's (TAG) annual meeting.
AT&T Invests Nearly $5.4B Over 3-Year Period to Boost Local Networks in Georgia
At AT&T, we’ve invested nearly $5.4 billion in our Georgia wireless and wired networks during 2016-2018. These investments boost reliability, coverage, speed and overall performance for residents and businesses.
Congressman Tom Graves Introduces Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act
Congressman Tom Graves (R-GA-14) is concerned about criminal hackers in cyberspace. The Republican Congressman from Ranger, GA teamed with Democrat Congressman Josh Gottheimer (N.J.-05), to introduce a bipartisan bill that gives American businesses and consumers more tools to defend themselves online.
GMA Convention Guest Speakers Share Unique Roads to Success
The GMA 2019 Annual Convention themed: “Cities United: Lead to Succeed.” will take place this week at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center.
Georgia Awarded Gold Shovel for Jobs and Investment
Governor Brian P. Kemp announced Georgia was awarded a Gold Shovel by Area Development Magazine for generating the most jobs and investment in the United States for the eight to twelve million population category.
Georgia Small Business Leaders Profit from Speakers' Expertise/Experience at U.S. Chamber of Commerce Event
This past Wednesday nearly two hundred small business leaders from across Georgia had the opportunity to benefit from attending the U.S. Chamber of Commerce “Small Business Series” held in Atlanta: a notable list of fifteen, experienced peers and experts in the small business market segment shared practical advice, anecdotal narratives, and statistical information to help inspire owners, who might want to incorporate them in their business models and plans.
Governor Kemp Makes Historic Appointment for Insurance Commissioner
Governor Brian P. Kemp made history by appointing Doraville Police Chief and Brigadier General John King to serve as Georgia’s Insurance Commissioner and Safety Fire Commissioner. King is the first Hispanic Insurance Commissioner and statewide constitutional officer.
Freight and Logistics Commission will Look at All Options
Democrat and Republican lawmakers in Georgia agree that logistics and moving freight across the state will be a key issue when they meet under the Gold Dome again in January 2020. To prepare for those discussions, a Joint Commission of the state House and Senate has been appointed to study and consider different options.
Matt Arthur: Improve Horizons for Millions of Georgians Outside Metro Atlanta
Metro Atlanta continues to be the hub of economic activity in Georgia and the Southeast, with no sign of slowing down any time soon. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Atlanta has had a 43% growth in jobs since 1991, more than 20 percentage points higher than the national average. It has the fourth fastest population growth in the nation—nearly six million people live in the metro region.
Small Business Hiring and Wage Growth Hold Steady in May
The Paychex | IHS Markit Small Business Employment Watch for May shows job and wage growth were essentially unchanged from the previous month. The national jobs index stands at 98.76 and has been relatively stable throughout 2019. Hourly earnings have increased 2.53 percent ($0.67) over the past 12 months, remaining slightly ahead of the 2018 average growth rate (2.49 percent).
Georgia Chamber Partners With U.S. Chamber To Host Small Business Series June 12th
The Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will be partnering to host the Small Business Series on June 12, 2019 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Mason Fine Art and Events in Atlanta.
Georgia Power Customers to See Credit on June Bills
The second of three credits associated with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 will be applied directly to Georgia Power customers’ bills in June. These credits are a result of the reduction in Georgia Power’s federal corporate tax rate from 35% down to 21%.
Congress Passes Disaster Relief Bill
Help is on the way. Nearly nine months after farmers in South Georgia were devastated by Hurricane Michael, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a $19.1 billion disaster relief bill Monday, sending the measure to President Donald Trump. The legislation was approved 354-58 by Congress.
10 Most Expensive Places to Retire in the U.S.
Retirement might be a financial struggle for many retirees, but there is a segment for whom money is not a problem. To help those who like to dream big, Topretirements.com has developed a list of the 10 most luxurious places to retire. Communities where the hardest task is to choose whether it will be the beach club, marina, golf course, or take the plane out for a flight. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6605985760688782, "wiki_prob": 0.3394014239311218, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1164125"} |
Trump Campaign Advisor Details Sept. 2016 Meeting With FBI’s ‘Informant’
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The top Trump campaign official who assembled members of the foreign policy team that became the subject of the FBI’s probe into Russian election meddling went on an Iowa radio show Monday to detail his recollections of meeting with an informant reportedly working for the feds.
Sam Clovis told the Simon Conway Show that he and the informant — an American academic based in Britain — met at a DoubleTree hotel in Virginia just outside of Washington on September 1, 2016. The two sat for coffee and had a “high level” academic discussion about China, Clovis said.
“It was like two faculty members sitting down in the faculty lounge talking about research,” Clovis, who served as the campaign’s national co-chairman, said. “There was no indication or no inclination that this was anything more than just wanting to offer up his help to the campaign if I needed it.”
Clovis’ name popped up in a story last week about the informant in the Washington Post, which also identified the informant by name Monday evening.
President Trump met Monday with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who’s overseeing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, as well as FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats about turning over information about the informant to Congress.
Clovis, on the radio show, alleged that the informant meeting appeared to be “a deliberative and intentional effort on the part of the leadership of the FBI to create something that didn’t exist.”
The FBI, he claimed, was trying to “literally like plant evidence or to create an audit trail that would lead investigators on to something, then they would have justification to go back to their FISA warrants and all the other things.”
He said that the informant, in an email back and forth setting up the meeting, used his previous contact with Trump campaign foreign policy advisor Carter Page as “bonafides” to get in front of Clovis. Page had met the informant at a July 2016 conference, and was in touch with him on multiple occasions.
Clovis’ lawyer, Victoria Toensing, previously said, according to the Washington Post that the informant had not mentioned his other Trump contacts when reaching out to Clovis. Clovis said he wasn’t sure “where she got that information,” since she had access to the emails setting up the September 2016 meeting.
Toensing, in an phone interview Tuesday with TPM, backed up Clovis’ account. She told TPM that the informant had said in an email to Clovis that Page had recommended that they meet. She also claimed that the informant had told Page when they met at the conference that he was a big fan of Clovis’. Page confirmed Toensing’s account in an email to TPM.
Clovis suggested that the informant then used their meeting to get a meeting with George Papadopoulos.
The informant would eventually meet with Papadopoulos in mid-September, according to the New York Times, where he would ask Papadopoulos what he knew about Russia’s efforts to influence the election. (Papadopoulos denied having any insight, according to the Times.)
Clovis said Monday that his meeting with the informant was focused solely on the informant’s China research. Clovis claimed he didn’t think anything of the meeting, as the campaign already a had a “host” of people with China expertise, and that he didn’t even bother to open the attachments that the informant later emailed him on Sept. 27 with more of his research.
“I took a meeting like this probably once a day — I had somebody like this who would sit down with me,” Clovis said. “Literally dozens of people that had academic credentials that wanted to help and be involved, and I met with them all the time.”
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Belarus, UNECE discuss preparation of second Innovation Performance Review
MINSK, 14 March (BelTA) – The State Committee on Science and Technology (SCST) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe discussed the preparation of the second Innovation Performance Review of Belarus, BelTA learned from the SCST press service.
“Chairman of Belarus’ State Committee on Science and Technology Alexander Shumilin and international experts of the UN Economic Commission for Europe discussed the issues related to the preparation of the next Innovation Performance Review of Belarus (Innovations for Sustainable Development – the review of Belarus),” the State Committee on Science and Technology said.
The first project was implemented by the UNECE jointly with the State Committee on Science and Technology in 2010-2011. It was the result of joint work of leading foreign experts and specialists who gave an independent assessment of the status and trends of development of innovation activity in the country.
The second review of innovation development is needed to see the progress made since the first project in the light of the changed external conditions. In the second review the experts will pay close attention to the establishment of knowledge and innovation support institutes, innovations in the manufacturing and public sectors, innovative infrastructure, including the development of industrial parks and business incubators.
The visit of a delegation of the UNECE experts will be over on 18 March 2016. They are expected to hold a series of meetings in the ministries and departments, and visit a range of enterprises. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6599138975143433, "wiki_prob": 0.34008610248565674, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line885223"} |
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Search for New Physics with Low-Energy Precision Tests
The unexplained nature of dark matter and energy and the relative abundance of matter and antimatter are just two out of many reasons to expect physics beyond the Standard Model. In an attempt to resolve these issues, a variety of theoretical extensions to the Standard Model were developed. These extensions also predict new phenomena, such as the variation of fundamental constants and symmetry violation beyond allowed by the Standard Model. Sophisticated experiments are needed to detect these phenomena and thereby explore the physics beyond the Standard Model.
Low-energy precision tests are a very promising alternative to high energy accelerator research in this field. Using a combination of precision table-top experiments, electronic structure calculations and particle-physics theory, the understanding of the foundations of our universe can be tested at energies that effectively surpass those available at the largest particle accelerators. The search for new physics beyond the Standard Model using small-scale experiments is the topic of this summer school.
Leading experts will provide an overview of both experimental and theoretical aspects of this exciting field of research. Topics will include the status of the Standard Model and its extensions, parity violation, search for the electron electric dipole moment and for variation of the fundamental constants, methods to manipulate and control atoms, ions and molecules, and theoretical approaches. By bringing together enthusiastic scientists and students from different disciplines connected to the search for physics beyond the Standard Model, we hope to foster the development of this field and to encourage future collaborations.
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What Would The World Be Like If Video Games Didn’t Exist? Boring!
by Dana · 4 Comments
Have you ever wondered what would the world be like if video games didn’t exist? For some, a scary thought, for others a matter of indifference. I know it’s a bit silly to wonder about it when video games do exist and we should not dwell on what ifs but I thought that it’d be fun to look into it in one of my posts.
In short, there’s no way of knowing. But if video games didn’t exist, there would be other media to consume. However, the world would lose a great art form and many long-lasting friendships would not exist. Let’s look into how video games have changed the world and what it would be like without them.
Whether you are a fan of video games or not, you have to admit that video games created a whole new culture on top of already established entertainment such as TV, movies and theatre. That brings me straight to point one.
Entertainment substitutes
If video games didn’t exist, people would still stick with what they know: TV, board games, movies, theatre, music, fashion and with the vastness of the internet, social media and entertainment portals like Youtube.
Some people would pick out a new hobby (sports, musical instruments, crafts, writing, drawing), some would pick up more books as a result. Some people believe that children would be playing outside a lot more but I think that’s debatable. With social media and TV, they could still sit for hours on end, substituting video games for TV shows and youtube videos.
Video games as an art
Those who say that video games aren’t a form of art may have never touched a video game. Like books, movies, comics or TV, video games tell an engaging story with beautiful visuals. Not only that but they make the player a part of the story, allowing them to make decisions that can change the course of the game. Video games can provoke joy, sadness, grief, anger and everything in between, much like other media do. They make you think of your actions and their consequences, make you ask questions and maybe even see the world in a new light.
Not only that, but video games have inspired many artists to draw or write about their favorite characters, creating derivative works and expanding on the franchise. Just look at the stunning illustration of Ellie from The Last of Us!
A lot of hardware manufacturers would not be spending billions of dollars on making their products better and better. Graphic cards, while for everyone, are specifically marketed to gamers for great performance and best graphics. This is not limited only to graphic cards but also processors, headphones, gaming keyboards and mice. Technology advancement in this field develops very quickly.
Playing video games no longer carry (or should not carry!) the stigma of making people asocial. Nowadays video games can be an activity for the whole family or a group of friends. Not only that, thanks to online multiplayer games, we meet new people, socialize and bond over common interests, creating new friendships.
Many of these friendships are formed over long distances and in a world where video games wouldn’t exist, we most likely would never meet the same people. The fact that these friendships have been forged online makes them no less valuable or less “real”. I’m very thankful for video games; because of them I’ve met some of my closest friends and also my best friend. In fact, my friend wanted to make a post about his experience meeting friends online, which you can find here.
Of course there are people who prefer their own company to other people on most days and that’s okay. Being introverted isn’t necessarily a bad thing. And chances are if you’re introverted and love to play video games, you’d be introverted even if they didn’t exist.
Some people may find the thought that video games can help people ridiculous. There are many ways in which they can:
Career choices – some people may find inspiration for their career paths in their favorite fictional characters or even become a video game developer or writer. Sure, such characters also exist in movies, TV and books.
Questionable choices – Video games can often help people from making poor life choices (turning to alcohol, drugs to escape)
Ambition – Video games provide a lot of rewards and achievements, which can motivate people in their careers to strive higher.
Interest in various subjects – many video games have dealt with history and mythology and as such they made more people interested in these topics better than a school would.
Battling mental illness – Agoraphobia and anxiety disorder can be very limiting to a person to the point of isolation. With the mobile game Pokémon: GO, people with these disorders report that for the first time in a long time, they look forward to going out among others. Such idea before this may have seemed unfathomable.
Escape from real life – If a person is going through a tough time, battling depression or even abuse, playing video games can provide an escape, forgetting their problems for a while. I’ve read this touching (and horrifying) story of Scott, whose life was saved by video games by escaping abuse.
Move more/work out – When you picture a gamer, you just imagine a person sitting down for hours on end. While that may be true for some people, there are also games that promote working out, using motion controllers or Kinect sensors to interact. Such games can be dancing games (Zumba, Dance Dance Revolution) to fitness games on Nintendo Wii.
Charity – A number of gamers who support various charities are on the rise. Large influencers use their reach to raise money for charity. Youtubers like Markiplier, Pewdiepie, Jacksepticeye, and others have raised millions of dollars for various charities and continue to do so to this day just by live streaming themselves playing a video game. There are charities helping people play video games or making custom controllers for people with limited mobility (for example AbleGamers, Child’s Play). My friend Ian has done 5 or six 24-hour charity live streams, raising a lot of money in the process.
Video games made into broader entertainment
As I mentioned above, video games are an art form of their own. Video games have been taken and adapted for big screens, into novels and comics.
Notable examples of movies based on video games:
Some may argue that these movies were really bad. While that may be true, at least there was a lesson learned from them.
Video games are important
Whatever your stance on video games or gamers in general, the truth is that video games have become a large and integral part of our modern culture. So what would the world be like if video games didn’t exist?
I dare to say it’d be very different. Characters and stories that we love and play time and time again would not exist and some people would have never met in real life and become friends or even significant others.
What do you think would happen if video games didn’t exist? I’d love to hear your opinion, so make sure to comment down below!
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I know my fiancé uses them to destress. He is a plaintive care doctor, and his work is emotionally demanding. Without them he doesn’t bounce back after a really hard day as easy
Yes, that is very true, they’re very good at destressing. Until you can’t move past a certain point in a game and you get stressed even more. 😀 But even then I wouldn’t change it for the world. Thank you for your comment, Shannon! 🙂
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Before video games, I was obsessed with Monopoly board game and wanted to be the world champ
Emily Conway
I have such fun and fond memories with my brother playing video games (particularly Rock Band and the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion) in Elder Scrolls, we would be cracking up as we chased a deer in the woods and punched it to death. If that didn’t exist, I am not sure we would have too much common ground. TV is fine, but it is not interactive and you aren’t working together. There is an element missing from it.
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HANDS-FREE CELL PHONE BILL TO BE HEARD ON ASSEMBLY FLOOR
SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) announced he will present Assembly Bill 45, which requires cell phone users to use hands-free technology while driving, on the Assembly floor tomorrow, Thursday, May 29, 2003.
AB 45 passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee last Wednesday on a vote of 19 to 6. Earlier this year, the bill passed out of the Assembly Transportation Committee on a vote of 14 to 5, with 1 abstention.
Simitian is gaining momentum in his effort to make California the second State in the nation to have a hands-free cell phone law on the books. (New York passed a similar law in 2001.) More than 20 state legislators are co-authoring AB 45. The bill also has significant support from law enforcement, Global 500 businesses, and healthcare providers. If AB 45 passes out of the full Assembly on Thursday, it will go to the Senate Transportation Committee next.
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Who Is Destroying the Palestinian Dream?
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Hamas's totalitarian rule over the Gaza Strip seems to be nearing its end, as the Islamist movement faces increased challenges from various militias in the area. Many Palestinians are worried that Gaza will fall into the hands of Islamic State or Al-Qaeda.
"By Allah's will, we will uproot the state of the Jews and you [Hamas] and others will vanish as the Gaza Strip will be ruled by sharia, whether you like it or not." — Spokesman for the Islamic State.
In public, Hamas leaders do not admit that their movement is being challenged by Islamic State and Al-Qaeda supporters in Gaza. It is more convenient for them to blame "Israeli occupation" for the violence, on the pretext that only Israel is interested in removing Hamas from power. This claim, however, has proven to be untrue.
It is time for the international community to realize that the Palestinian dream of establishing an independent state is being destroyed by none other than the Palestinians themselves.
The Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, which Palestinians hope will one day become part of a future Palestinian state, is quickly sliding toward anarchy and chaos.
Since its violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007, Hamas has maintained a tight grip on the area, home to some 1.7 million Palestinians. But now Hamas's totalitarian rule over the Gaza Strip seems to be nearing its end, as the Islamist movement faces increased challenges from various militias and groups in the area.
Some of Hamas's rivals belong to more radical terror groups such as the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda-affiliated militias created by salafi-jihadis inside the Gaza Strip. Others belong to the secular Fatah faction, whose members continue to dream of the day when they will be able to topple the Hamas regime and regain control over the Gaza Strip.
The radical Islamist terror groups are seeking to overthrow Hamas because they believe that the movement is too "soft" when it comes to implementing sharia laws and fighting against Israel. The goal of these groups is to establish an Islamic caliphate in the Gaza Strip and wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
In a recent video posted on the Internet, the Islamic State announced that its men would soon reach the Gaza Strip and remove the Hamas "tyrants" from power. "By Allah's will, we will uproot the state of the Jews and you [Hamas] and others will vanish as the Gaza Strip will be ruled by sharia whether you like it or not," warned a masked spokesman for the Islamic State.
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip say that the Islamic State has managed over the past few months to recruit hundreds of young men to its ranks. According to the sources, most of the men who joined the Islamic State are former members of the armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, in addition to a number of disgruntled Fatah militiamen who are unhappy with the policies of the Palestinian Authority (PA), and the leader of its Fatah movement, Mahmoud Abbas -- especially his declared opposition to terror attacks against Israel.
Palestinians waving Islamic State flags attempt to storm the French Cultural Center in Gaza City, in January 2015. (Image source: ehna tv YouTube screenshot)
Late last year, a salafi-jihadi militia in the Gaza Strip pledged allegiance to Islamic State, posing yet another major challenge to Hamas.
Until recently, Hamas leaders used to boast about their movement's success in restoring law and order after years of anarchy and lawlessness under the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip. But the "utopia" that Hamas claims to have created is facing an existential threat, as the Gaza Strip witnesses a sharp increase in internal violence. Some Palestinians are even beginning to wonder whether Hamas has already lost control over the entire Gaza Strip.
The violence reached its peak last week when a series of simultaneous explosions rocked the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. The explosions targeted the cars of six senior commanders of the armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. No casualties were reported.
The latest bombings are considered a severe blow to Hamas, particularly in light of the fact that they occurred in an area heavily guarded by its security forces.
Some reports suggested that the Islamic State was behind the attacks, which came as a shock to Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders in the Gaza Strip.
A number of Hamas officials said they did not rule out the possibility that Fatah members were behind the explosions. The officials claim that Fatah has an interest in showing the world that Hamas is not in control of the situation in the Gaza Strip. In the past, Hamas accused Fatah of being behind another wave of bombings that also targeted its men in the Gaza Strip.
In public, however, Hamas leaders do not like to admit that their movement is also being challenged by supporters of the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda inside the Gaza Strip. For these leaders, it is more convenient to blame "Israeli occupation" for the violence, on the pretext that Israel is the only party interested in removing Hamas from power.
This claim, however, has proven to be untrue in wake of public threats by various Palestinian groups against Hamas. The attempt to lay the blame at Israel's door reflects the growing anxiety of the Hamas leadership, which has stubbornly and consistently denied the existence of Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorists inside the Gaza Strip.
Here is what Ismail al-Ashqar, a top Hamas official, had to say about the latest bombings: "Gaza shall remain secure and calm and stable, and there will be no return to the previous state of anarchy as the occupation and its collaborators wish. The Israeli occupation is fully responsible for the explosions."
Ashqar acknowledged that relations between his movement and Fatah were "very bad and tense," especially in the aftermath of the Palestinian Authority's recent crackdown on Hamas men in the West Bank. In recent weeks, according to Palestinian sources, PA security forces in the West Bank have arrested more than 250 Hamas men, on suspicion that they were plotting to undermine President Mahmoud Abbas's regime.
The confrontation between Hamas and its rivals inside the Gaza Strip is likely to escalate in the coming weeks and months. Hamas now has so many enemies inside the Gaza Strip that to combat them, it would have to step up its repressive measures. These measures, however, will only lead to more retaliatory attacks by anti-Hamas forces, and plunge the Gaza Strip into a state of increased anarchy and chaos. Many Palestinians are worried that the Gaza Strip will sooner or later fall into the hands of Islamic State or Al-Qaeda.
In the West Bank, meanwhile, such a threat does not exist, largely thanks to Israeli security measures against terror infrastructure and cells. The Palestinian Authority, for its part, is also waging a massive campaign against Hamas and other Islamist groups in the West Bank. The PA is not doing this out of concern for the "peace process" with Israel; Mahmoud Abbas and his lieutenants know that these Islamists will kill them first on their way to killing Jews.
The growing state of anarchy in the Gaza Strip, as well as the continued power struggle between Hamas and Fatah, do not bode well for those who still believe that the creation of a Palestinian state will bring about peace and stability in the region. The way things are going these days, particularly in the Gaza Strip, it seems that a future Palestinian state will be added to the list of Arab countries that are currently witnessing civil wars and bloodbaths.
It is time for the international community to wake up and realize that the Palestinian dream of establishing an independent state is being destroyed by none other than the Palestinians themselves.
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David M • Aug 3, 2015 at 13:08
Toameh's analysis,as usual, identifies a simmering pot that is not likely to remain quiet for long. Gaza remains an armed camp with Fatah looking for revenge against Hamas' violent takeover just a few years back. The Hamas thugs had fun shooting Fatah knee caps and throwing Fatah loyalists off roofs!
Now new threats from the likes of ISIL are likely to become reality. Will an unstable Gaza provoke an Israeli response? And what kind of response will it be? Given the nature of ISIL it is hard to see anything but more fighting and blood on Gaza's sand.
Fred Z • Aug 3, 2015 at 11:40
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What’s the difference between Irish and Gaelic?? 🙂
Good question! It’s important to clear up what we means. Here, we’re always referring to the Celtic language of Ireland.
What does Irish mean?
In Ireland, people generally refer to the language of Ireland simply as “Irish”. For example, you can ask someone on the street “Do you speak Irish?”, they might answer “Yes, I speak Irish”.
As well as calling it Irish, you could be a bit more specific and call it the Irish language.
What does Gaelic mean?
Gaelic is a bit more ambiguous. A lot of the time, it’s used to refer to the related Celtic language spoken in parts of Scotland.
People in Ireland when talking with tourists about the language may also refer to Irish as Gaelic. They would do this to try to make the term less ambiguous. Still, if you simply say “Gaelic”, it’s not absolutely clear if you’re referring to the Irish of Scottish Gaelic.
In another post, we went into the differences between Irish and Gaelic.
What does Irish Gaelic mean?
Irish Gaelic is more specific than Gaelic. It refers specifically to the Irish language.
This term is not used within Ireland, but it’s a good compromise if you’re speaking with people who might not know that “Irish” is a language.
What does Gaeilge mean?
Gaeilge is the name for Irish in the Irish language. Béarla is the name for the English language in the Irish language.
Gaeilge is the word where the English language word “Gaelic” is derived from.
If you’re speaking with a group of people who are all aware of the Irish language, then you can probably just call it Irish. Also, call it Irish if you’re speaking with an Irish person in Ireland.
If you’re outside of Ireland, it’s safe enough to refer to the language as Irish Gaelic. If you you “Gaelic” when referring to the Irish language, this might lead to misunderstandings.
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so what if you call it gaelige would this be the most pure form of the word and how is it pronounced?
Gaeilge is just irish in irish like detusch is german in german and Gaeilge pronounced is the Gwale-Ga
ok so i am getting a heritage tatto and im an 8th irish and i want it to say irish in the irish language would i want to put na hÉireann or would i want to put Gaeilge
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Master Class: Jookin with Lil Buck & Ron “Prime Tyme” Myles
Leader of the dance style known as Jookin, which originated in Memphis, TN, Lil Buck gained mass acclaim for his YouTube collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma in The Swan directed by Damian Woetzel. Lil Buck appeared with Madonna in her 2012 Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show and now performs with Madonna regularly. He has made guest appearances on The Colbert Report, and in 2017 was featured in two nationally-televised commercials, one for Lexus (during Super Bowl LI) and the acclaimed Apple AirPods spot, which has since received millions of views on YouTube.
Bessie-Award winner, Ron “Prime Tyme” Myles was born in Memphis, TN and specializes in Jookin, a type of freestyle dance developed on the streets of Memphis. Ron has appeared in the feature films Footloose (2011), Frank and Cindy (2014) and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip (2015). Ron has also starred in several commercials including Beats by Dre, Diet Pepsi (with Sofia Vergara), Kohl’s and Adidas Originals. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5951126217842102, "wiki_prob": 0.5951126217842102, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line92853"} |
Clay in Context at Hope High School
Installing the murals at Providence’s Hope High School
Next week when students return to Hope High School on the East Side of Providence, they’ll walk through an entrance hall that is anything but the ho-hum back-to-school norm. On glazed tile mosaics that cover four square columns in the main lobby, they will see gleaming fish scale patterns, Inca god designs and even an Art-Deco-inspired abstract staircase.
Installed in late May, the bold, imaginative Hope High murals represent the culmination of a unique spring semester collaboration between RISD’s Ceramics department, the department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design (TLAD) and TLAD’s signature after-school studio program for local high school teens, Project Open Door. The project brought six Ceramics majors from RISD and six teens from Hope High School together for a highly complex, physically demanding, multi-phase collaboration—mixing, measuring, firing, sanding and testing colors for hundreds of intricately laid tiles.
“Everyone rose to the occasion for this project, and in some cases did that in a very emotional way,” says Associate Professor Katy Schimert, who heads the Ceramics department. “The process was incredibly important—coming up with the concept, following through with drawings, colors, the firing of the clay, the installation. But the permanence of the end result is important, too. These students can come back years from now and look at their work, because it will still be there for the community to enjoy.”
The mural collaboration began simply enough—when a well-established Ceramics course, Clay in Context, prompted a brand new question in Schimert, who had just arrived at RISD.
“It was kind of a traditional class where the students went out and did some kind of project. One thing they did for years was make dishes for restaurants,” says Schimert, who taught the course last spring. “But I don’t live in Providence, and I wasn’t sure what I was going to do at all in terms of a project we could do in a public space.”
Schimert turned to her faculty mentor, longtime TLAD Department Head Paul Sproll, who suggested a project that combined Schimert’s goals for the course with RISD’s commitment to community engagement. “Basically he said, ‘This is great! There’s this high school, and they have a lobby that could really use something like that,’” Schimert says. “And that was it. We had the project and started working with six teens from Hope High School.”
As the course began to take shape, the collaboration grew to involve more and more stakeholders at Hope High School, from the art faculty to its custodial staff and its principal, Robert DiMuccio, whose support was instrumental.
“I was totally blown away by how invested the Hope students got in the whole project,” says Ian Buchbiner 11 CR/MAT 12, a former student teacher at Hope who served as a liaison for the project. “It’s very difficult to get any high school student to sit down for three hours after school just ended, and these kids were so eager to do things like paint tiles or clean up seam lines. They had that sense of ownership, because it’s their school. And now it’s a huge point of pride knowing that Hope students were involved in that.” | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8368321657180786, "wiki_prob": 0.8368321657180786, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line596068"} |
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PEW Research Center (a US nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the trends shaping the world) has conducted a survey of International attitudes on terrorism and has released its new findings. From the perspective of global war on terrorism, the report revealed that the support for suicide bombing and Osama bin Laden has been dramatically reduced since 2002 in Muslim countries allied with the United States. In Indonesia, Turkey and Morocco, 15 percent or less of the population back suicide bombers, and in Lebanon, the number has almost halved, to 39 percent of those polled. Meanwhile, confidence in Osama bin Laden has also plunged in Indonesia, Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon, the support for democracy is rising throughout the Islamic world, Pew found. But, startlingly, the survey showed increase in the popularity in Pakistan; - of the man who masterminded the mass murders of Sept. 11. "Pakistan has seen increases in its population's already substantial backing for Osama (more than 50 percent support him, meaning about 75 million people". The Pew quoted.
The report smacks of biasness and lacks objectivity in measuring the valid and reliable attitudes of the people of Pakistan. Pakistan is emerging as a tolerant and moderate Muslim state. Majority of Pakistanis are moderate and appreciate the thesis of enlightened moderation propounded by President Gen Pervez Musharraf. However, very few are extremists sitting on the fringe of the bordering area. So, therefore, it is misconstrued by western media that the imprint of every major act of terrorism invariably passes through Pakistan. Pakistan consistently denies giving the militants any type of moral, diplomatic and political support. Pakistan condemns terrorism in its all forms and manifestations. Already, Pakistan has handed over as many as 700 al Qaeda operatives into US custody including some high value targets in the al Qaeda leadership such as Khaled Sheikh Mohammad, Abu Zubaydah, and recently Abu Faraj al-Libbi. About 70,000 Pakistani troops have been deployed on the bordering areas along side Afghanistan to contain Al-Qaeda element on the Western front. Pakistan Army coupled with the security forces had fought vigorously against foreign terrorists, who had taken shelter in the Waziristan area of the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), losing nearly 230 officers and men. Most recently, Pakistan security forces have rounded up about 600 suspected militants and Islamic clerics in a week-long crackdown that followed the July 7 London attacks. Of those arrested, 295 belonged to militant groups banned by President Pervez Musharraf in the past three years. The remaining 300 detainees included clerics, mosque prayer leaders and others taken into custody for inciting anti-Western and sectarian hatred through sermons and provocative literature.
President General Pervez Musharraf's resolve to confront terrorism and extremism, is not adequately picked up by the western media especially survey organizations, rather they are dependent on the information of few NGOs already biased to the governmental efforts. The President has outlined a number of steps he intends to take, like setting of a December deadline for the registration of madrassas. Registration and careful monitoring may lead to some controls on funding and links with militant organizations. One thing that sparks controversy over Pakistan's selfless effort to curb terrorism is the dichotomous statements between the government and the ruling party. The President criticizes madrassas, the minister for religious affairs and the PML chief give them a clean chit. This indicates a sense of confusion at the highest levels. Some of it may be due to a difference of opinion between those who favour appeasement of religious parties as a way to neutralize them and those who want stronger action. It only gives wrong signals to the western societies - who often expect more from Pakistan on the war on terror. The President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has put a stop to the tide of hate-filled messages advocated by seminaries. Progress on Madrassa reform is difficult and dangerous, as raids on Madaris were pitting people against people, therefore, it may take a while.
Despite all positive efforts, it is regrettable the foreign media and key opinion-makers has refused to dislodge its venomous stance against the Government. Pakistan has made positive and substantive contribution in the fight against terrorism. It has paid the heavy price and has come a long way in rooting out the scourge of terrorism. Various research agencies must take a stock of the aspiration of the majority of the people of Pakistan who believe in democracy and civil liberties. Islam plays a greater role in politics and it is believed that's a good thing. Cautiousness is the right attitude to take toward the Pew findings. Nevertheless, we have to deal with the world as it is, not as we would like it to be. There is a lot of work left to be done.
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Mr Khokar are you sugesting Pew is biased against Pakistan?But its not biased against Turkey, Lebanon, Indonesia, Morocco and rest of the muslim world? Why the hell should it decide to get 'prejudiced' when it comes to Pakistan? Could it be that its findings are true? I think so. Just look at the articles on Paktribune, most are directed against the West.Many of writers seem to take pleasure in peeling the hypocracy of the West. OBL hardly gets any negative attention. Considering that Pakistan is in a mess, every day some innocent is tortured to death by Police but all our writers seem to be concerned about is death of Charles Mennez in London. We have a Mennenz happening in Pakistan every day, which of course non of our writers seem to think worth talking about.
How is the poor oppressed in Pakistan? Yet everybody is busy talking about Western oppression. The elite have the entire country intoxicated with the wrongs of West - After all that covers up whats being done to 10s of millions in Pakistan every day. Do we have justice in Pakistan? No, so should we not be sorting that out then babbling about whats happened in London or Washington, after all the millions of poor in our villages lead miserable lives which are not going to change one bit despite what happens in London or USA.
Rabid articles against the West are not going to change anything inside Pakistan. The principle inside Pakistan all poor and the weak know is 'Might is right' and then we have the galls to expect the West to drop its 'might is right'?
N. Khan, Pakistan - 24 August, 2005
Washington, DC: Surprise has been expressed at the lack of reaction in the Muslim world at the impending demolition of the house of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) by the Saudi authorities.
An op-ed article in Toronto Star, Canada's widely-circulated daily, by Tarek Fatah, a Pakistani-Canadian Muslim activist and broadcaster, finds it incomprehensible that while the demolition of the Babri Mosque by Hindu zealots at Ayodhya continues to remain an emotive issue with Muslims, what the Saudi authorities plan to do has evoked no protest at all.
Fatah writes, “What makes this demolition worse is the fact that the home of the Prophet is to make way for a parking lot, two 50-storey hotel towers and seven 35-storey apartment blocks; a project known as the Jabal Omar Scheme, all within a stone's throw of the Grand Mosque. Yet despite this outrage, not a single Muslim country, no ayatollah, no mufti, no king, not even a Muslim Canadian imam has dared utter a word in protest. Such is the power of Saudi influence on the Muslim narrative.”
The writer wonders if the lack of a response is because Muslims have become so overwhelmed by the power of the Saudi riyal that they have lost all courage and self-respect. Or is it because they feel a need to cover up Muslim-on-Muslim violence, Muslim-on-Muslim terror or Muslim-on-Muslim oppression? He notes that one man who is standing up to the demolition plan is Saudi architect Dr Sami Angawi, who is leading “a one-man campaign.” to save the sacred and historic edifice. He told a London newspaper, “The house where the Prophet received the word of God is gone and nobody cares ... this is the end of history in Mecca and Medina and the end of their future.”
According to Fatah, “The cultural massacre of Islamic heritage sites is not a new phenomenon. It is said that in the last two decades, 95 per cent of Mecca's 1,000-year-old buildings have been demolished. In the early 1920s, the Saudis bulldozed and leveled a graveyard in Medina that housed the graves of the family and companions of Muhammad. Today, the religious zealots in Saudi Arabia are not alone.
”Commercial developers have joined hands with them and are making hundreds of millions in profits as they build ugly, but lucrative high-rises that are shadowing the Grand Mosque known as the Kaaba. Today Saudi petrodollars have the ability to silence even its most vocal critics, but when all is said and done, history will render a harsh judgment on those who try to wipe out its footprints and steal the heritage of all humanity.”
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Putting this on a recent thread here where it’s more likely to be seen in a quick fashion….
Several things just to update folks.
First, many thanks to all those who sent along research suggestions and offerings to be of assistance on the project I can’t talk about.
I’ve been swamped with deadlines and unable to reply to any of the public notes and private emails, but as soon as I can get my head above water, be assured that I’ll be in touch with many of you.
Second, as noted in the original thread before I hijacked it, yes, the plan at the moment is that I will be at Comic Con San Diego this year, primarily doing my thing on Thursday and Saturday afternoons.
There is a *chance* mind you, it’s just a slim chance but to be honorable I must mention it that a work situation *may* preclude my appearance there. Or it may not. I’ll know more by the end of next week, and for now as far as I know, everything’s on target for me to be at SDCC. If that changes, I’ll be sure to let everyone know as far in advance as possible.
One final note re: recent discussions on TMoS and more Lost Tales.
B5:TLT was commissioned at a $2 million budget to, yet one more time, “test the waters” for B5. We did what we could with that, and that was that. As we did with Rangers, which also suffered from not having a lot of money because of concerns about “is there really a B5 audience?” Which is, of course, a foolish question from a studio that has never really understood what it has in B5.
Of late, there have been more discussions from WB about doing more DVDs, again at a low cost, or a cable thing, again with minimal investment.
So for the last few months, I’ve been giving this whole subject a lot of quiet thought. And I’ve come to a conclusion.
B5 as a five year story stands beautifully on its own. If anything else is to be continued from that story, it should be something that adds to the legacy of B5, rather than subtracts from it.
As well intentioned as Rangers and TLT were, as enticing as it was to return to those familiar waters, in the end I think they did more to subtract from the legacy than add to it. I don’t regret having made them, because I needed to go through that to get to the point where I am now psychologically, but from where I sit now, I wouldn’t make them again.
So I’ve let everyone up here know that I’m not interested in doing any more low-budget DVDs. I’m not interested in doing any low-budget cable things or small computer games. The only thing I would be interested in doing regarding Babylon 5 from this point on is a full- featured, big-budget feature film.
It’s that or nothing.
And if it’s nothing, I’m totally cool with that because the original story stands on its own just fine. I’m not lobbying for it, I’m not asking fans to write in about it (nor should you) because such campaigns never really have much impact…that’s simply the position I’ve taken up here. Lord knows I don’t lack for other things to do these days. I’m busier on more prestige projects with terrific people and great film-makers than at any other time in my career.
At the end of the day, for me, it’s not just a matter of getting more B5. It’s a matter of getting more *good* B5 that respects what came before it and doesn’t have to compromise visually or in terms of action. The original show deserves better than that, the surviving cast members deserve better than that, and the fans who have supported it over the years definitely deserve better than that. A lot better.
So I’ve drawn that line in the sand, and I’m happy living on whichever side of that line the universe puts me. Just thought you should know, ‘cause it’s your show too.
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Rick says
well this sucks beyond words, the situation obviously, not his reasoning. he’s talking about getting more money out of a studio that makes the Harry Potter franchise to a profit of millions and yet it took them 5 hit films to FINALLY decide to split book 7 into two movies. the saddest part of all this is that the idiots at warner who decide these things don’t care if we liked Lost Tales or not, just that we paid them to see it.
Mike H (Stark in 2nd Life) says
I’m glad he chose quality over quantity. I loved getting a new taste of B5 with TLT, but he’s right. Better to end it than to run it into the ground with work that isn’t up to par with the original. Having said that though, here’s to a new big budget film sometime in the near future!
Mike Tuck says
I have mixed feelings about the recent post from JMS. On one hand, I’m sad that we will not get another “Lost Tales” DVD. While I didn’t like last year’s “Lost Tales” as much as you guys did, I still somewhat enjoyed having two new stories in the B5 universe (even though I thought that they were both mediocre) . I also had hopes for future DVD stories to be better, especially the much-talked about Garibaldi story which was to feature a lot more special effects and action. On the other hand, I have to agree somewhat with JMS’s decision not to make any more Lost Tales.
I think that The Lost Tales and LOTR were nowhere near as good as the best seasons of the B5 series and, therefore, I agree with JMS that they “Subtracted from the legacy”. However, I still don’t know that the reason that they were not as good has a whole lot to do with the lower budget as JMS suggested. After all, didn’t he and his crew produce some of the best science fiction television ever made on a shoestring budget week after week for five years?! I hate to slam JMS (whom I think is, usually, a great writer), but I think the problems with Lost Tales and LOTR being less than great lie mostly with the writer.
It seems to me that JMS lost his mojo after the fourth season of the series. I’ve been somewhat disappointed in everything B5-related that he has done AFTER season 4. I know the reasons why season 5 seemed directionless and uneventful: He was told by the distribution company that season 4 was the end and to finish it up, thus leaving season 5 stories seeming like an afterthought or an extremely extended and unnecessary epilogue to the main story. He also had SOME excuses for “Crusade” not being what it could have been – the creative “tug-of-war” between JMS and TNT hurt and killed the show before it had time to grow. But what was his excuse on “Legend of the Rangers”? As far as I know, he was given free reign by the Sci Fi Channel on that pilot, but he delivered a mediocre (at best) movie. Also, from what I read of the summary of the plot for the proposed feature film “The Memory of Shadows”, it didn’t sound like it would have been a home run either. And finally, last year’s Lost Tales was also disappointing and odd (for me, at least). The devil-in-human-guise story, while well-acted, seemed totally out-of-place for the B5 universe. Also, the Sheridan tale had some truly funny dialogue and was more B5-appropriate, but ultimately, seemed uneventful and unnecessary.
So, JMS hasn’t exactly been “hitting them out of the ballpark” since the end of season 4. It seems as if he has lost interest in Babylon 5 and only keeps making more stories to earn a paycheck or to try to satisfy hungry fans (maybe both). His heart doesn’t seem like it’s in it anymore. He pretty much said himself that he is satisfied with the completed 5-year story and doesn’t seem too interested in doing any more now that he is getting big-budget feature film jobs. MAYBE with a bigger budget he could tell a more epic story like we were accustomed to during the best seasons of B5, but that remains to be seen.
I know I will probably stir controversy with my comments, but I felt it had to be said. I was THE biggest fan of Babylon 5 during its best years and couldn’t wait to see the next episode every week, but I’m getting tired of being constantly disappointed with sub-par B5 stories. I want to get back the excitement and epic storytelling of seasons 3 and 4, or even the unexpected satisfaction from a handfull of good episodes from seasons one and two. But since 1998, all we seem to get is more “season 5 – level” stuff.
So, in conclusion, I suppose I have to agree somewhat with JMS on this. If you can’t tell a good or great story, then why bother at all? I don’t hold out much hope for a big-budget B5 feature film, as Warner Bros will not pony up the dough for one. They also wanted to re-cast the TMOS movie, and that doesn’t sit well with me either. I can’t see anyone else in these roles. I don’t really see the money coming from any other outside interests in the future without ultimately falling through like the “Memory of Shadows” deal. I hope that I am wrong. I would love to see a B5 feature film as long as it has the feel of seasons 3 and 4. On another tangent, it is UNFAIR that Joss Whedon can get a feature film made of a failed series that only aired for about 7 episodes before being canceled due to low ratings (“Firefly”/ “Serenity”), while JMS can’t get a feature film made of a low-rated (but much beloved) series that lasted for 5 years and 110 episodes!! It doesn’t make much sense to me. (Sorry, “Firefly” fans. I watched that show for 6 or 7 episodes, but hated it. ) In the end, I guess that Whedon has more pull in Hollywood than JMS does (although I don’t know why). Isn’t JMS having dinner with the big boys now? It also seems unfair that other low-rated cult favorites such as Stargate SG-1 and even Futurama will continue on making direct-to-DVD films, while B5 will simply fade away into obscurity. Unfortunately, it seems that B5 will always be just a footnote in science fiction history. Anyway, I will miss Babylon 5. I don’t think that there will ever be another sci-fi series that I will love as much as I loved it.
Neil Ottenstein says
The critical issue here, is what is Summer going to do with the podcast intro now?
Brad Bowyer says
When TLT was coming out he said that if WB was intertested and TLT does well then he has ideas for more TLT volumes. Now all of a sudden he changes his mind?
This is nothing but a slap in the face to fans. We bought the DVD, supported the franchise as best we can in the hope that we would get more content. Now he trashes the very thing we supported by saying it diluted the franchise?
Fine JMS … go and pout, take you ball and go home. You’ve pretty much just lost yourself a fan with an arrogant attitude like that. Why would we want to support any of your future projects? After all … you’ll just say they were crap down the road.
Brad Bowyer,
Brad, I fully understand your position. But, let’s take a look at WB’s “interest”. The videocassettes sold out when they were released. The DVD sets are perennial strong sellers. TLT has had strong sales. All this despite WB’s lack of effort in promotion and merchandising. The BestBuy event that Jeffrey covered only points out how disinterested WB is in the show.
Also recall that TLT was to be three interlocking stories, but budget constraints forced the elimination of what, by all accounts, was to be the most ambitious (read: expensive) story of the lot. That also indicates low interest on the part of WB. What more would JMS need to do to finally make WB understand what they have in their hands?
Mike, you are entitled to your opinion, and I’m glad you feel comfortable enough to share it here. I would point out that a shoestring budget for a 22-episode season for a series is still bigger than the shoestring budget for a one-off direct-to-DVD piece. The series budget allowed them to build interesting sets and locales; the TLT budget allowed them to build ten pillars that had to double for station and Minbari cruiser interiors. I’m thoroughly convinced the sock puppet thing was JMS’ arrow at WB – “you want cheap? Here’s cheap!”
Please, in no way construe my comments as a JMS apologist. The tone in his message is quite arrogant. I understand and accept his feelings about B5 as the creator; but I think he underestimates the fans’ emotions. I’d be happy with JMS approved novels (like for Crusade, in Valen’s name!). I don’t think LotR or TLT “tarnished” the legacy of B5 in any way. Were they great? No. But they certainly weren’t unwatchable.
You want tarnish, look at the last ten years of Star Trek offerings. That’s tarnish.
Neil – looks like Summer’s gonna have to re-record the intro AGAIN….
“When TLT was coming out he said that if WB was interested and TLT does well then he has ideas for more TLT volumes. Now all of a sudden he changes his mind?”
he changed his mind because he’s tired of trying to make quality product without proper financial support from Warner.
Colin says
My feelings were mixed at first but the more that I think about it the more upset I get. Frankly I feel like I just got smacked in the face be a man who has gotten plenty of my hard earned money over the years and you can bet that I will look twice before giving him anymore.
JMS has been stringing future Lost Tale info out since before th e the release of the first and now only installment. He has a point about legend of the Rangers but I don’t think his point with Lost Tales is valid sure it’s not as strong as the best of Babylon 5 but it’s far better then the worst of it so I don’t think you can say that it takes anything away as a hole. I think that it might add something to it. Had JMS come right out and said that he did not want to do anymore DVDs right after the release I would have understood but he went on about how another one was in the works and had even said that he wanted to try to get other people in to write in the future.
Now I understand that he is mad with WB for not stepping up and putting money behind it right now but why not try to get more money placed into a DVD start small and work up try to get say a 10,000,000 budget for the next one and then move up from there why is it a movie or nothing? This rings even more true given the current state of the economy, Paramount has had to pull back funding on Transformers and Star Trek which every one knows will pull in big money, and if big names like that are having problems what chance does Babylon 5 have?
The great maker had what I feel is a great mistake.
Paul Hahn says
“I know the reasons why season 5 seemed directionless and uneventful: He was told by the distribution company that season 4 was the end and to finish it up, thus leaving season 5 stories seeming like an afterthought or an extremely extended and unnecessary epilogue to the main story.”
This is an oft-repeated canard. The wrapping-up was done more by truncation than compression, so by and large the storylines in season 5 were the ones originally intended, and not tacked-on. If he had known he had a guaranteed fifth season, the fourth-season finale/cliffhanger would have been “Intersections in Real Time”, which ended up not that far from the end of the season the way things actually happened.
A far greater contributing factor to the lameness of early season 5 was jms losing all his notes for that half-season, at the same convention at which he tried unsuccessfully to get Claudia Christian to sign back on. Housekeeping trashed them, he tore the place apart looking for them (including dumpster-diving) to no avail, and he ended up having to reconstruct those storylines as best he could from memory. Suddenly losing Ivanova didn’t help either.
All this can be searched on jmsnews.com.
“Now all of a sudden he changes his mind? This is nothing but a slap in the face to fans.”
The real slap in the face to fans was Warner forcing him to do TLT on next to no budget, when the jms/B5 combo has proven itself a safe investment many times over. I heard plenty of fans complain about the limited scope of TLT, which was obviously a result of the lack of money. Arrogant? Hardly. In my view it was an admirable, honorable decision.
Over in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated plenty of us have expressed disappointment, but not one that I recall has disagreed that this was the right decision.
I agree with Rick.
What some people don’t get is that the TLT ‘extras’ with the sock puppets were a rather pointed dig at WB. From what I’ve heard, when given the budget for TLT, JMS’s response was along the lines of “For that kind of money you can hire sock puppets, not actors.” At the panel at SDCC last year both JMS and Doug Netter said that any future Lost Tales would have to have a bigger budget.
JMS posted that before the writer’s strike WB started talking about another Lost Tales disk but refused to commission a script since they thought there’d never be a writer’s strike. From what I gathered at the Seattle con in May, there’ve been other meetings since the strike was settled.
Maybe to us the decision is sudden but it may be JMS’s way of telling them that he’s tired of having his time wasted and that B5 shouldn’t need to keep proving itself repeatedly.
I agree with Jan, Rick, and the Great Maker. If there was ever a time to go to WB and lay it all out, now is the time. They know how well the DVD’s have sold. We all know that JMS has other projects out there that are going to get the funding to make them great.
WB wants more Lost Tales. It’s time for them to put their money where their mouth is. B5 is a proven product. JMS is a proven product. I don’t want another rubber suit monster. More B5 if only we get proper funding so we can see what the show would have been like if they would have had a proper budge all long. Jerry Doyle has a nationally syndicated radio show. I think JD was supposed to be in the next set, right? JMS has plenty of projects on his table. Both guys probably both would love to do more B5, but it has to be worth our wild.
jerry doyle was supposed to be in the third, cancelled story-to be set on Mars. If memory serves, he was even under contract – until WB forced the story cut. His subsequent comments were rather curt and seemed to indicate that he was through with B5.
And i’ll also point out, to all those who have given their hard-earned money to JMS, he’s hardly grown fat and lazy on that income.
vakie says
All you people claiming JMS ‘changed’ his mind, seem to forget or simply missed what he was saying all along after TLT came out: that if there is to be more TLT, it will have to be at a bigger budget or they won’t do it, because what they had to work with was simply not enough. Frankly, even the CGI people worked overtime without pay to get things right, just because they were B5 fans.
So this is not a huge surprise to me, because this possibility came to mind when I heard that. I just hoped those people at WB wouldn’t be total mental cases and they would see the light, but I guess not. This is all on WB, not JMS.
And yeah, the whole sock puppet thing came from the moment WB told him what kind of budget he would have to work with. JMS replied, “for that kind of money I can do it with sock puppets, but not real actors.”
Brandon Atkinson says
Hey all greetings from Canada.
I agree with many here, WB screwed JMS over royally… Yeah they want more lost tales stuff but now it’s time to
(you certainly got enough out of me with the DVD set’s before the huge price drops! seasons 1-4 between $100 Canadian Dollars and $150! Season 5 was $65 (right after Andreas Katsulas died, to put my purchases in to context) and the movie box was around $80, TLT was $40, haven’t bought Rangers yet (might not since Scifi messed that up quite spectacularly!))…
At the very least double the budget (triple would help greatly).
however, WB doesn’t get B5 whatsoever… they never have. And so its time for JMS to move on, perhaps somone from MGM (Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, and many other shows i forget right now)is reading about this…
THEY KNOW HOW TO TO STUFF PROPERLY!
Alas, JMS has said that MGM is the worst he’s ever worked with, and would never work with them again.
He worked with them on Jeremiah, and apparently hated the experience (with MGM, not with Jeremiah).
G'Kwal says
So I’ll keep looking forward. At least some comics or canonized books would be nice, as I don’t think, that someone would pay for a movie.
But should a movie will come, about anything of babylon with JMS and some of the old crew, I’ll see it in the first weekend for getting the quota up (and I hate this crowding absolutely)
Brother Ambrose says
I got the feeling that this was not a total surprise to the Vorlon, and it did not surprise me, either. JMS and his ego could only handle being ignored for so long. Since he is now garnering attention from other aspects in his creative output, he would naturally want to apportion his time there. I, too, was disappointed at the Lost Tales DVD but kept quiet about it in hopes of its being the beginning of a steadily improving series.
JMS, as a creator, probably saw it as the first and the lowest rung on the journey of making the Lost Tales. He imagined that the next one would be better in every respect. (Wouldn’t you?) When the hoped-for support from the studio did not come, he probably imagined that he and it would be stuck in this low-budget DVD world for a long time. This level is very close to the world of fan-based production, which in most cases is relegated to sector not by for by profit. He would not be comfortable in this, and what career writer or producer would? So he cut himself off.
However, as a writer, he could have expressed himself better if he intended that fans could step in, a la Paramount and Star Trek. He concluded with “’cause it’s your show too.” This would seem to be inconsistent with the “closed door” attitude of the rest of his message. I think it’s easy to read arrogance into this post, but I suspect that arrogance is only one side of his three edged sword. It seems that the Great Maker still enjoys being cryptic, and so we must wait.
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For other places with the same name, see Hopewell, Virginia (disambiguation).
Hopewell is an independent city surrounded by Prince George County and the Appomattox River in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,591.[5] The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Hopewell with Prince George County for statistical purposes.
City of Hopewell
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Hopewell is in the Tri-Cities area of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).
City PointEdit
Main article: City Point, Virginia
The city was founded to take advantage of its site overlooking the James and Appomattox Rivers. City Point, the oldest part of Hopewell, was established in 1613 by Sir Thomas Dale. It was first known as "Bermuda City," which was changed to Charles City, lengthened to Charles City Point, and later abbreviated to City Point. (At this time, Bermuda, the Atlantic archipelago, was considered part of the Colony of Virginia and appeared on its maps.) Hopewell/City Point is the oldest continuously inhabited English settlement in the United States, Jamestown no longer being inhabited.
"Charles City Point" was in Charles City Shire when the first eight shires were established in the Colony of Virginia in 1634. Charles City Shire soon became known as Charles City County in 1637. In 1619 Samuel Sharpe and Samuel Jordan from City Point, then named Charles City, were burgesses at the first meeting of the House of Burgesses.
The burgesses separated an area of the county south of the river, including City Point, establishing it separately as Prince George County in 1703. City Point was an unincorporated town in Prince George County until the City of Hopewell annexed the Town of City Point in 1923.
During the American Civil War, Union General Ulysses S. Grant used City Point as his headquarters during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864 and 1865. Grant's headquarters, which President Lincoln visited, were located at Appomattox Manor, one of the three plantations of Richard Eppes, who cultivated wheat and other grains and held 130 slaves at the beginning of the war.[6][7][dead link]
His property included most of the present day city of Hopewell and Eppes Island, a plantation across the James River from City Point. Richard Slaughter, a former slave of Eppes, escaped to a Union ship during the Civil War,[8] as did all but 12 of Eppes' 130 slaves, choosing freedom.[7] Slaughter recounted his life story for a Works Progress Administration interviewer in 1936.[8]
The City Point Railroad, built in 1838 between City Point and Petersburg, was used as a critical part of the siege strategy. It is considered the oldest portion of the Norfolk and Western Railway, now a part of Norfolk Southern.
Hopewell Quaker originsEdit
Samuel Janney in his "History of Friends," says, "Alexander Ross about the year 1732, having obtained a grant for One hundred thousand acres of land in the Colony of Virginia, situated near Opequan Creek a tributary of the Potomac; a settlement was soon after begun there by Alexander Ross, Josiah Ballenger, James Wright, Evan Thomas and other Friends from Pennsylvania, and Elk River in Maryland. Under authority of Chester Quarterly Meeting they established in 1744 a Monthly Meeting, called Hopewell, which thus became a branch of Phila. Yearly Meeting." 10 acres was deeded to the Quakers April 2, 1751 for a Meeting House which afterwards became "Hopewell." This deed of 1751 is the first appearance of the Quakers in the old County. However, it is possible that the Hopewell described by Janney as a Virginia Quaker settlement is actually to the northwest of the Hopewell which is the subject of this entry.[9] The Hopewell Friends Meeting House (Frederick County, Virginia) describes the Janney settlement.
Hopewell FarmEdit
Hopewell, part of the Eppes' plantation, was developed by DuPont Company in 1914 as Hopewell Farm, an incorporated area in Prince George County. DuPont first built a dynamite factory there, then switched to the manufacture of guncotton during World War I.
Nearly burned to the ground in the Hopewell Fire of 1915, the city prospered afterward and became known as the "Wonder City" as the village of Hopewell grew from a hamlet of 400 in 1916 to a city of more than 20,000 people in a few short months. Unlike most cities in Virginia, Hopewell was never incorporated as a town, but it was incorporated as an independent city in 1916.
After DuPont abandoned the city following World War I, moving its manufacturing facilities elsewhere and specializing in other products, Hopewell briefly became a ghost town until 1923 when Tubize Corporation established a plant on the old DuPont site. The same year, the city of Hopewell annexed the neighboring town of City Point, which enabled it to expand and thrive. The Tubize plant was later acquired by Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and was a major employer in Hopewell for decades. Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation and Hercules Chemical also established plants on portions of the old DuPont site.
20th century populaceEdit
As early as its incorporation, Hopewell was a city of industrious migrants. Immigrants from Bohemia (now the western lands of the Czech Republic),[10] Italy, and Greece[11] populated the city, working in factories and opening small businesses. Others migrated from other parts of Virginia and neighboring states of North Carolina and West Virginia to work in Hopewell's industries.
As was the case in most southern cities, African Americans in Hopewell were subject to Jim Crow segregation until the success of the Civil Rights Movement. The picturesque theater in the middle of town, the Beacon Theater, only allowed Blacks in the balcony.[12] In August 1966, the Ku Klux Klan confronted the Reverend Curtis Harris and other Black Hopewell citizens when they attempted to petition the city manager to find an alternate location for a landfill that was going to be opened in the middle of a Black neighborhood.[13][14] Hopewell public schools were desegregated under court order in 1963, following Renee Patrice GILLIAM et al v. School Board of the City of Hopewell, Virginia.[15]
1935 bus tragedyEdit
Hopewell made national news when, on December 22, 1935, a bus plunged through the open draw of the Appomattox River Drawbridge on State Route 10 just outside Hopewell's city limits. Only one of the 15 occupants of the bus survived. The modern twin spans of the Charles Hardaway Marks Bridges were built to replace that bridge and cross the river nearby.
Urban renewalEdit
Like many cities, Hopewell embarked on an urban renewal plan in the 1960s in an attempt to revitalize its downtown retail area. The plan was a failure because many of the retail businesses that had been located downtown moved elsewhere to new shopping centers being developed outside the city limits in Petersburg, Chester, and Prince George County.
However, a new urbanization is occurring and many long vacant storefronts are now refurbished and occupied. Several others are now under construction. Further, the City invested $12 million in a new beautiful state of the art flagship library for the busy Appomattox Regional Library System, the Maude Langhorne Nelson Library. The Library has a cyber cafe, extensive YA and children's collections, and a replica of the historic, 1600s-era frigate ship, Hopewell, installed as a centerpiece.[16][17] The City also restored the Beacon Theater, which was built in 1928, and there are 70 or more concerts and other events annually. Some performers in the past two years have been The Temptations, The Four Tops, Vince Gill, Travis Tritt, Clint Black, Amy Grant, The Average White Band, Vanilla Ice, The Commodores, Pure Prairie League, Delbert McClinton, and many more. New plantings and street beautification projects have been put into place, to attract more businesses and shoppers to the East Broadway area.
Recent historyEdit
Smokestacks rise from Hopewell's skyline
Hopewell is located at the confluence of two historic rivers, the Appomattox and the James. From many points in the city, beautiful views of the rivers or the tidal marshes are seen. The river access makes the area popular with waterfowl hunters and freshwater fisherman; it is particularly known for excellent catfishing.[18][19]
Hopewell is the location of several large chemical plants owned by the Honeywell Corporation, Ashland, Evonik Industries, as well as a Green Plains Inc. ethanol plant and paper mill owned by WestRock. Such industries have required the city and residents to deal with many environmental issues over the years, particularly as they learned more about the effects of the industries. The Kepone debacle of the 1970s received the most national attention.
Kepone (or Chlordécone) was an insecticide produced by Allied Signal Company and LifeSciences Product Company in Hopewell. The improper handling and dumping of the substance into the nearby James River in the 1960s and 1970s drew national attention to its toxic effects on wildlife. As a result of the contamination the James River from Richmond to the Chesapeake Bay was closed to fishing for over a decade. The product was similar to DDT and is a degradation product of Mirex. In 2009, Kepone was included in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which banned its production and use worldwide.
The Federal Correctional Complex, Petersburg (FCC Petersburg), two federal prisons which house 3400 inmates, are located just outside the Hopewell city limits, in Prince George County[20][21]
In 1977, Hopewell again made the national news due to another accident involving a drawbridge when the tanker S.S. Marine Floridian outbound under the command of a James River pilot suffered a steering malfunction just after dawn on February 24 that caused it to veer out of the channel and hit the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge just east of town. The accident caused serious damage to the bridge and it was closed for months.
In 1983, Hopewell again received negative publicity from the national news media when it was discovered that Evelyn Rust Wells, an elderly woman, had been held captive and terrorized in her home in the City Point section. Her captors, mostly male teenagers under 18, cashed her Social Security checks at local grocery stores. A local grocer noted a change in purchases from when neighborhood kids assisted Wells, and called the police. They investigated and freed Wells who was by then severely malnourished.[22]
Although still an important industrial city, Hopewell has struggled with transitions through loss of jobs due to plant closures, changes in residential housing patterns, and the costs of environmental clean-up. Much of its middle class population moved to neighboring Prince George and Chesterfield Counties for newer housing during the suburban expansion of the 1960s and 1970s. The city's housing stock is dominated by relatively small homes with a significant percentage being offered as rental properties. Of these, many were hastily constructed over a century ago by DuPont to house plant workers during the First World War.
Hopewell has encouraged re-development along its waterfront areas along the James and Appomattox Rivers, in the downtown area, and the City Point Historic District, as well as the sites of several long vacant industrial plants. Due to its hasty construction as a mill town during the First World War, Hopewell had a large number of kit homes that were hauled in and erected in neighborhoods laid out by DuPont known as "A Village" and "B Village". The city has a surviving group of Sears Catalog Homes, with several available for exterior viewing on a self-guided tour. The city also has numerous Aladdin Kit Homes; at one time, it may have had the most such homes in the nation. Because residents moved to newer houses and the Aladdin Homes were abandoned and deteriorated, many have been razed.[citation needed]
Since 1994, Hopewell has been twinned with Ashford, Kent, U.K.[citation needed]
In late 2012, press reports indicated the city had the highest rate of violent crime on a per capita basis in the state.[23]
The former Hopewell High School, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was renovated from 2009-2010 and now serves as an apartment building.
In September 2010, a series of explosions occurred at a controversial new ethanol plant that had recently been constructed on a long vacant site formerly occupied by a Firestone plant. In 2007, former Hopewell Mayor and civil rights leader Curtis W. Harris, had marched against the proposed ethanol plant being built in Hopewell with support from the national Southern Christian Leadership Conference.[24] The plant had not yet become fully operational when the explosions occurred. There was no loss of life due to the accident but shortly after the explosion Osage BioEnergy, the owners of the $150 million facility, announced that the plant was for sale. Although the facility was sitting idle through 2013 with the city of Hopewell taking legal action to recoup unpaid taxes on the property, the facility was eventually purchased by another firm and operations were restarted in 2014.[25] In 2015 the troubled ethanol plant closed again for a second time after less than a year in operation with its owners citing a lack of profitability as the reason for the shutdown.[26] The plant has since been purchased and re-opened by Green Plains Inc. of Omaha, Nebraska.
Hopewell has come to the attention of AAA because some of its members have complained that Hopewell is a speed trap for its practice of citing drivers for speeding along a 1.7 mile stretch of Interstate 295, nicknamed the "Million Dollar Mile" by disgruntled drivers. AAA, claimed in a press release that Hopewell employs 11 sheriff's deputies working in 14-hour shifts to patrol less than two miles of the highway that lie within the city limits of Hopewell. However, this statistic has been denied by the sheriff of Hopewell, who was baffled as to where that information was generated as he said the deputies working on I-295 only work eight-hour shifts.[27] This practice, which it has been claimed, annually generated $1.8 million in revenue from speeding tickets, of which 75% were issued to out of state drivers, triggered a court clash between the Commonwealth's Attorney and the city prosecutor, and elicited an official ruling from the Attorney General of Virginia.[28] Sheriff Luther Sodat said that the almost two-mile stretch of highway "is a safety issue for Hopewell."[27] Virginia's urban interstates have a fatality rate about one-third the Statewide rate for all roads combined.[29][30]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.8 square miles (28.0 km2), of which 10.2 square miles (26.4 km2) are land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2) (4.9%) is water.[31]
Climate data for Hopewell, Virginia (1980-2010)
Average high °F (°C)
(8.8) 51.2
(29.7) 89
Average low °F (°C)
(−2.7) 28.8
Average precipitation inches (mm)
(110) 4.5
Source: USA.com[32]
NeighborhoodsEdit
City Point – annexed in 1923
City Point National Cemetery
Chesterfield County, Virginia - north
Prince George County, Virginia - east, south, west
Charles City County, Virginia - northeast
Petersburg National Battlefield Park (part)
1930 11,327 710.8%
1950 10,219 17.7%
1980 23,397 −0.3%
Est. 2017 22,621 [2] 0.1%
1790-1960[34] 1900-1990[35]
1990-2000[36] 2010-2012[5]
As of the census[37] of 2000, there were 22,354 people, 9,055 households, and 6,075 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,182.3 people per square mile (842.9/km²). There were 9,749 housing units at an average density of 951.7 per square mile (367.6/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 47.1% White, 43.5% Black, 0.8% Asian, 0.4% Native American, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.2% from other races, and 1.8% from two or more races. 3.7% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 9,055 households, out of which 32.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.6% were married couples living together, 21.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.9% were non-families. 27.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 2.94.
The age of the population is spread out, with 26.7% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 28.6% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 14.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there are 87.7 males. For every 100 women aged 18 and over, there were 82.2 men.
The median income for a household in the city was $39,156, and the median income for a family was $49,730. Males had a median income of $34,849 versus $25,401 for females. The per capita income for the city was $21,041. About 15.8% of families and 17.73% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.6% of those under age 18 and 10.4% of those age 65 or over.
The following are schools in the Hopewell, Virginia school division.
High schoolEdit
Hopewell High School
Middle schoolEdit
Carter G. Woodson School
Elementary schoolsEdit
Dupont Elementary School
Harry E. James Elementary School
Patrick Copeland Elementary School
All of the schools above are accredited by the Virginia Board of Education and by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Hopewell City Schools consistently rank near the bottom of the state in Standards of Learning (SOL) scores, graduation rates, and student discipline.
Charter and technologyEdit
Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts And Technology Petersburg, VA, Open to students entering the 9th grade, with approval of passing through the admittance process.
LibrariesEdit
Appomattox Regional Library serves as the library system for Hopewell, Virginia.
Notable peopleEdit
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Nelson Barclift, choreographer and dancer, was born in Hopewell.[38]
Sam Bass, artist, graduated from Hopewell High School.[39]
Robert Bolling, American settler and planter, and his wife, Jane Rolfe, lived at Kippax Plantation, in what was then Prince George County, in the 17th Century.[40]
Samuel Face, American inventor, was born in City Point.[41]
Peter Francisco, soldier in the American Revolutionary War, found abandoned on the docks at City Point[42]
William Haines, actor and interior designer, ran a dance hall in Hopewell in 1914 while in his early teens.[43][44]
Curtis W. Harris, minister, civil rights activist, 1st African-American mayor of Hopewell[45]
Steven R. Taylor, Politician, was a previous mayor of Hopewell[46]
Dorothiea Hundley (aka Seka), adult film actress, attended Hopewell High School.[citation needed]
Charles Hardaway Marks, Virginia politician, was born in Hopewell.[47]
Monsanto Pope, former defensive tackle for the Denver Broncos
Rebecca Beach Smith, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
MediaEdit
The Hopewell News, locally managed and operated by HPC Media, was an 8,000 circulation twice-weekly newspaper that covers local news, sports and events of interest to the communities of Hopewell, Enon and Prince George. [2] For more than 90 years, The Hopewell News served the greater Hopewell and Prince George communities. The paper was shut down on Jan. 18, 2018. HPC Media also published the News-Patriot newspaper covering Colonial Heights and communities in Southeastern Chesterfield County.
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Hopewell has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.[48]
2016 43.1% 3,885 52.4% 4,724 4.4% 399
2008 43.6% 4,149 55.5% 5,285 0.9% 90
1992 47.5% 3,818 35.6% 2,863 16.9% 1,361
1948 28.8% 570 62.7% 1,242 8.5% 169
1920 29.5% 41 69.8% 97 0.7% 1
1916 10.7% 3 85.7% 24 3.6% 1
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hopewell, Virginia
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^ a b "State & County QuickFacts". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
^ Bowman, Shearer Davis. "Conditional Unionism and Slavery in Virginia, 1860-1861: The Case of Dr. Richard Eppes", Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 96 (January 1988): 31-54, accessed 13 June 2012
^ a b https://icecreamtrikehire.co.uk
^ a b "Autobiography of Richard Slaughter", pp. 46-49, Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, American Memory, Library of Congress, accessed 13 June 2012
^ Early Settlements of Friends in the Valley of Virginia, by Kirk Brown The West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly, Volumes 3-5 https://books.google.com/books?id=6_QxAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
^ "The Bohemians in Virginia 1880s - 1930ish". Marie Blaha Pearson - A Bohemian Journey. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "Appomattox Regional Library System Historic Newspapers -- Microfilm Image Viewer". appomattoxcl.archivalweb.com. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ Making the American Dream Work : A Cultural History of African Americans in Hopewell, Virginia, Lauranett L. Lee (auth), Hampton, Va. : Morgan James Pub., 2008
^ Ibid.
^ Interview with Curtis Harris http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/4
^ "332 F.2d 460 - Renee Patrice GILLIAM and Reuben Lemuel Gilliam, Jr., infants, by Reuben L. Gilliam and Joy T. Gilliam, their father and mother and next friends, et al., Appellees, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF the CITY OF HOPEWELL, VIRGINIA, and Charles W. Smith, Division Superintendent of Schools of the City of Hopewell, Virginia, and E. J. Oglesby, Alfred L. Wingo and E. T. Justis, constituting the Pupil Placement Board of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Appellants". www.freelawreporter.org. Archived from the original on 2018-04-04. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2014 ARLS "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2016-11-09. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
^ Official Website of the City of Hopewell http://hopewellva.gov/library/
^ See Tidal River Blue Catfish https://www.dgif.virginia.gov/waterbody/james-river-tidal/
^ "Cat fishing out of Hopewell". pierandsurf.com. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "FCI Petersburg Medium". bop.gov. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
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^ "Woman freed after two months", New York Times, 31 January 1983, Section A, p. 10
^ 25 years after her rape claims sparked a firestorm, Tawana Brawley avoids the spotlight, by Michael Gartland,New York Post
^ "2001 Honorees - Curtis W. Harris". Dominion. Archived from the original on 2008-03-15. Retrieved 2008-02-02.
^ Johnson, Katherine (22 September 2014). "Plant has produced over 11 million gallons of ethanol". The Progress-Index. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
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^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpt8-HcEYy8
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^ "U.S. Decennial Census". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
^ "Nelson Barclift". Internet Broadway Database. 2019. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
^ correspondent, RANDY HALLMAN Special. "NASCAR artist Sam Bass, a Hopewell High grad, holding auction in N.C. after filing for bankruptcy". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
^ "UK Archaeologist Locates 17th Century Merchant's House, Plans Excavation With Students". www.uky.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
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^ Lazo, Luz. "Hopewell mayor leaving office". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
^ 'Charles Hardaway Marks-obituary,' Hampton Daily Press, November 17, 2004
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Kobach has asked Schmidt to rule on whether a new state law allowing concealed carry in most public buildings applies to polling places on Election Day.
Throughout the state, polling sites are often situated in places where guns are not usually allowed, such as churches, schools, universities and charity organizations.
“We’ve invited the attorney general to weigh in before we issue any guidance to the counties,” Kobach said.
As a general rule, guns have been prohibited from polling places to prevent voter intimidation or interference with elections, Kobach said.
He said now there’s “some ambiguity in the law” over whether Kansas polling places – rented or borrowed by counties just for election days – would be considered “leased” property under the concealed-carry law.
If they are, the law mandates that licensed gun owners must be allowed to carry their weapons on the premises, unless the county files a detailed security plan for each site and provides protective measures such as metal detectors and guards to run them.
Brad Bryant, elections director in the Secretary of State’s Office, said it would be impractical to try to provide that level of security.
“Counties aren’t going to buy all that equipment to use for one day,” he said.
Bryant updated election commissioners and county clerks from throughout the state on the issue during a Kansas Association of Counties convention in Wichita last week.
“Our understanding right now is that a building, a facility, that is owned or leased by a municipality, including for a polling place, would be subject to the (concealed carry) law,” he said. “When you lease a private property, it becomes a municipal property on Election Day, that’s our understanding.”
Bryant said the request for an attorney general’s opinion has a series of detailed questions about the legal status of properties used for polling places and if it matters whether the county pays to use the site or gets it for free.
He said the office is also asking whether it makes any difference if there’s a written contract or just a verbal agreement allowing use of the property.
Public officials usually request an attorney general’s opinion on legal questions that have not been decided by a court. The opinions don’t carry the force of law but can be used as guidance by agencies until an issue is tested.
Weapons in polling places has been an issue that has flared periodically in other states. Nationally, there have been numerous charges of voter intimidation from both sides of the political spectrum because of advocates stationing themselves at and around polling places carrying weapons and/or wearing security uniforms.
Kobach said if someone displays or brandishes a weapon at a Kansas polling site, they could be prosecuted under other laws banning voter intimidation.
Two state legislators who attended Bryant’s speech said the idea of guns at the polls is unsettling, even if they aren’t openly displayed.
“That’s scary,” said Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, D-Wichita, the ranking minority member on the Senate elections committee. “We really are going back to the Wild Wild West.”
Rep. Tom Sawyer of Wichita, ranking Democrat on the House elections committee, said he foresees difficulties in finding adequate polling sites if weapons have to be allowed.
He predicted some churches and nonprofit groups that open their property for voting sites in Sedgwick County may have second thoughts if they have to allow guns in their buildings.
“It’s hard enough as it is to come up with a building that’s going to be open all day and that’s handicapped-accessible,” he said.
Sedgwick County doesn’t use school buildings for polling places, although many counties in Kansas do. Most local polling stations are in churches – and they appear to be split on the question of guns in their buildings.
If the ruling is that guns have to be allowed, Grace Presbyterian Church would have to talk about it in a meeting of the Session, the church’s governing body, said Martin Burch, executive pastor.
The church serves as a polling place for the Crown Heights area of east Wichita.
“We wouldn’t just automatically continue,” Burch said. “I don’t know how that decision would go.”
First Mennonite Brethren Church, which serves as a polling place in northwest Wichita, probably wouldn’t have a problem with concealed carry on Election Day, said executive pastor John Oelze.
“We’d still welcome the polling place either way, I’m sure,” he said.
Sedgwick County Commissioner Richard Ranzau, a leading local proponent of gun rights, said he doesn’t think concealed-carry permit holders would cause problems at the polls.
But he said he’d be uncomfortable forcing private institutions whose property is occasionally used for a public purpose to accept guns in their buildings if they don’t want them there.
“I’m not sure that the law would apply to those,” he said.
The law is intended for “when we lease buildings and put people in them for a long time,” he said.
He said he hopes the concealed-carry law can be clarified with regard to polling sites before the 2014 elections in August and November.
“Obviously in general I support the law,” he said. But, he added, the polling-place issue “is something that is going to have to be sorted out at the state level.”
Independence police investigating early morning shooting at Gates Bar-B-Q
Community Center in Prairie Village
By Glenn E. Rice
So far this year, more than a dozen teens have been killed in shootings in the Kansas City area. Leaders say more is needed to address the issues of gun violence among youth.
Woman admits role in crashing car into KCK sports store to steal shotguns and rifles
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Coast Guard boat overturns off NYC, crew safe
Frank Franklin II
<p>A Fire Rescue vessel passes a Coast Guard vessel that has overturned Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, in the Queens borough of New York. Authorities say the Coast Guard vessel overturned while assisting a fishing boat that ran aground in an inlet off New York City. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)</p>
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a Coast Guard vessel overturned while assisting a fishing boat that ran aground off New York City.
Five Coast Guard crew members and seven fishermen escaped without serious injury during the incident early Thursday off the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens.
The Coast Guard crew members, wearing protective gear, swam to shore. A helicopter with a rescue basket was used to lift fishermen to safety.
Coast Guard spokeswoman Ali Flockerzi says an overnight storm may have been a factor. She says the 25-foot Coast Guard boat was hit by 10 to 12 foot waves.
The Coast Guard got a distress call at 2 a.m. from the 76-foot fishing boat, the Carolina Queen III. The fishing boat initially was taking on water. Its crew got that under control, then ran aground. The boat eventually came to rest in shallow water just off the beach.
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The list of shipwrecks in September 1942 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during September 1942.
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List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1942
Crown City United States The 5,433- gross register ton, 410-foot (125.0 m) motor vessel was wrecked on the coast of Sledge Island in the Bering Sea off the west-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. Much of her cargo – foodstuffs, mobile machinery, Quonset huts, clothing, coal, ore, gasoline, airplane parts, and a deck load of lumber – was salvaged. [1]
Ilorin United Kingdom World War II: The coaster was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of Guinea off Legu, Gold Coast ( 5°00′N 1°00′W / 5.000°N 1.000°W / 5.000; -1.000) by U-125 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 33 of her 37 crew. [2]
Purga Soviet Navy World War II: The Uragan-class guard ship was sunk in Lake Ladoga by German aircraft. [3]
U-756 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 57°41′N 31°30′W / 57.683°N 31.500°W / 57.683; -31.500) by HMCS Morden ( Royal Canadian Navy) with the loss of all 43 crew.
Gazon United Kingdom World War II: The freighter was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of Aden north of Cape Guarafui ( 13°01′N 50°41′E / 13.017°N 50.683°E / 13.017; 50.683) by I-29 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). [4]
HMS LCP(L) 83 Royal Navy The landing craft, personnel (large) was lost on this date. [5]
Oktyabr Soviet Navy The auxiliary gunboat was sunk on this date. [6]
Passat Germany World War II: The tanker was bombed and sunk at Saint-Nazaire, France in an Allied air raid. The wreck was raised and scrapped in 1949. [7]
Rostov-Don Soviet Navy The auxiliary gunboat was sunk on this date. [8]
PB-35 Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The patrol boat, a former Momi-class destroyer, was bombed and sunk off Santa Isabel Island ( 07°16′S 158°03′E / 7.267°S 158.050°E / -7.267; 158.050) by a US Army Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft of the 11th Bomb Group. 92 crewmen were killed. [9]
RTShch-124 Soviet Navy The K-15/M-17-class river minesweeping launch was sunk on this date. [10]
Sperrbrecher 164 Bitsch Kriegsmarine World War II: The Sperrbrecher struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands. [11]
Teikyu Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk off Kinkasan Harbour, Honshū ( 42°08′N 141°15′E / 42.133°N 141.250°E / 42.133; 141.250) by USS Guardfish ( United States Navy). One crewman was killed. [12]
U-222 Kriegsmarine The Type VIIC submarine collided in the Baltic Sea off Pillau, West Prussia ( 54°25′N 19°30′E / 54.417°N 19.500°E / 54.417; 19.500) with U-626 ( Kriegsmarine) and sank with the loss of 48 of her 51 crew. [13]
Arnon Palestine World War II: The coaster was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) north of Tartus, Syria by U-375 ( Kriegsmarine). All crew survived. [14]
Chita Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk at Kinkasan Harbour by USS Guardfish ( United States Navy). [12]
Donald Stewart Canada World War II: Convoy LN-7: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ( 50°32′N 58°46′W / 50.533°N 58.767°W / 50.533; -58.767) by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 20 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMCS Shawinigan and HMCS Trail (both Royal Canadian Navy). [15]
F 355 Kriegsmarine The Type A Marinefahrprahm was sunk on this date. [16]
Hollinside United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) of Cape Sines, Portugal (approximately 38°N 19°W / 38°N 19°W / 38; -19) by U-107 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of the 51 people on board. Survivors were rescued by Spanish trawlers. [17]
Kaimei Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk off Kinkasan Harbour, Honshū ( 40°14′N 141°51′E / 40.233°N 141.850°E / 40.233; 141.850) by USS Guardfish ( United States Navy). [18]
Miriam Palestine World War II: The sailing ship was shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) north of Tartus, Syria by U-375 ( Kriegsmarine). All crew survived. [19]
Ocean Might United Kingdom World War II: The Ocean ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 0°57′N 4°11′W / 0.950°N 4.183°W / 0.950; -4.183) by U-109 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of four of her 54 crew. Survivors reached land in their lifeboats. [20] [21]
Oktyabr Soviet Navy World War II: The gunboat was torpedoed and sunk in the Black Sea off the Taman Peninsula by S 27, S 28, S 72 and S 102 (all Kriegsmarine). [11]
Penrose United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off Cape Sines (approximately 38°N 19°W / 38°N 19°W / 38; -19) by U-107 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her 45 crew. Survivors were rescued by a Spanish trawler. [22]
Proletari Soviet Union World War II: The tug was torpedoed and sunk in the Black Sea off the Taman Peninsula by S 27, S 28, S 72 and S 102 (all Kriegsmarine). [11]
Rostov-Don Soviet Navy World War II: The gunboat was torpedoed and sunk in the Black Sea off the Taman Peninsula by S 27, S 28, S 72 and S 102 (all Kriegsmarine). [11]
S 27 Kriegsmarine World War II: The E-boat was sunk in the Black Sea off the Taman Peninsula by one of her own torpedoes. [11]
Salina Palestine World War II: The sailing ship was shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) north of Tartus, Syria by U-375 ( Kriegsmarine). All crew survived. [23]
Tenyu Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk off Kinkasan Harbour by USS Guardfish ( United States Navy. [24]
U-162 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type IXC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean north east of Trinidad ( 12°21′N 59°29′W / 12.350°N 59.483°W / 12.350; -59.483) by HMS Pathfinder, HMS Quentin and HMS Vimy (all Royal Navy) with the loss of two of her 51 crew.
U-705 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Bay of Biscay ( 46°42′N 11°07′W / 46.700°N 11.117°W / 46.700; -11.117) by an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft of 77 Squadron, Royal Air Force with the loss of all 45 crew. [25]
USS Wakefield United States Navy The troopship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean. She was taken in tow by Foundation Frankin ( Canada) on 5 September and beached at McNab's Cove, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on 8 September. Refloated on 14 September, eventually towed to Boston, Massachusetts, where she was declared a constructive total loss but was repaired and returned to service.
41 Soviet Union World War II: The barge was torpedoed and sunk in the Black Sea off the Taman Peninsula by S 27, S 28, S 72 and S 102 (all Kriegsmarine). [11]
Amatlan Mexico World War II: The tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico ( 23°27′N 97°30′W / 23.450°N 97.500°W / 23.450; -97.500) by U-171 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of ten of her 34 crew. [26]
Kashino Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The ammunition ship was torpedoed and sunk in the South China Sea off the east coast of Formosa ( 25°45′N 122°42′E / 25.750°N 122.700°E / 25.750; 122.700) by USS Growler ( United States Navy). [27]
Padenna Italy World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea approximately 45 nautical miles (83 km) north of Tobruk, Libya by HMS Thrasher ( Royal Navy). [28]
Polluce Regia Marina World War II: The Spica-class torpedo boat was sunk by British aircraft north of Tobruk, Libya. [29]
HSwMS Sjöborren Swedish Navy The Sjölejonet-class submarine collided with Virginia ( Sweden) and sank in the Baltic Sea off the east coast of Sweden. [11]
Albachiara Italy World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk off Derna, Libya by HMS Traveller ( Royal Navy). [30]
USS Gregory United States Navy World War II: The high-speed transport, a former Wickes-class destroyer, was sunk in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalcanal by the destroyers Hatsuyuki, Murakumo and Yūdachi (all Imperial Japanese Navy).
USS Little United States Navy World War II: The high-speed transport, a former Wickes-class destroyer, was sunk in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalcanal by the destroyers Hatsuyuki, Murakumo and Yūdachi (all Imperial Japanese Navy).
Lord Strathcona Canada World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in Conception Bay, Newfoundland ( 47°35′N 52°29′W / 47.583°N 52.483°W / 47.583; -52.483) by U-513 ( Kriegsmarine). All 44 crew survived. [32]
Myrmidon United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Cape Palmas, Liberia ( 0°45′N 6°27′W / 0.750°N 6.450°W / 0.750; -6.450) by U-506 ( Kriegsmarine). All 245 people on board were rescued by HMS Brilliant ( Royal Navy). [33]
Saganaga United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in Conception Bay, Newfoundland ( 47°35′N 52°29′W / 47.583°N 52.483°W / 47.583; -52.483) by U-513 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 30 of her 44 crew. [34]
Aeas Greece World War II: Convoy QS-33: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Saint Lawrence River ( 49°10′N 66°50′W / 49.167°N 66.833°W / 49.167; -66.833) by U-165 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her 31 crew. [35]
Anshun United Kingdom
The wreck of Anshun in Milne Bay.
World War II: The cargo ship was sunk in Milne Bay by gunfire from the light cruiser Tenryū ( Imperial Japanese Navy) in a night attack. Two American gunners were killed. [36]
Britannic Finland World War II: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Aalborg, Denmark. [11]
Helen Forsey United Kingdom World War II: The schooner was shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 500 nautical miles (930 km) east south east of Bermuda ( 28°35′N 57°35′W / 28.583°N 57.583°W / 28.583; -57.583) by U-514 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her six crew. [37]
John A. Holloway Canada World War II: Convoy GAT 2: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Caribbean Sea north of Gallinas Punta, Colombia ( 14°10′N 71°30′W / 14.167°N 71.500°W / 14.167; -71.500) by U-164 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 24 crew. [38]
No. 44 Soviet Navy The G-5-class motor torpedo boat was lost on this date. [39]
Taika Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the South China Sea off the east coast of Formosa by USS Growler ( United States Navy). She split in two and sank in two minutes. [27]
Turkian Egypt World War II: The sailing ship was shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 20 nautical miles (37 km) off Khan Yunis by U-375 ( Kriegsmarine). All 19 crew survived. [40]
Tuscan Star United Kingdom World War II: The cargo liner was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 300 nautical miles (560 km) south west of Cape Palmas, Liberia ( 1°34′N 11°39′W / 1.567°N 11.650°W / 1.567; -11.650) by U-109 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 51 of the 114 people on board. Survivors were rescued by Otranto ( United Kingdom). [41]
USS YP-74 United States Navy Carrying a unit of Seabees, the yard patrol boat sank in Unimak Pass in the Aleutian Islands with the loss of four lives after colliding in fog with the merchant cargo ship Derblay ( United States). [42] [43]
Mount Pindus Greece World War II: Convoy QS-33: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence south of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada ( 48°50′N 63°46′W / 48.833°N 63.767°W / 48.833; -63.767) by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her 37 crew. [44]
Mount Taygetus Greece World War II: Convoy QS-33: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence south of Anticosti Island ( 48°50′N 63°46′W / 48.833°N 63.767°W / 48.833; -63.767) by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her 28 crew. [45]
Oakton Canada World War II: Convoy QS-33: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence south of Anticosti Island ( 48°50′N 63°46′W / 48.833°N 63.767°W / 48.833; -63.767) by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her twenty crew. Survivors were rescued by HMCS Q083 ( Royal Canadian Navy). [46]
Puchero Panama The cargo ship was driven ashore at Punta Herrero, Mexico ( 19°18′N 87°27′W / 19.300°N 87.450°W / 19.300; -87.450) and was declared a total loss. The wreck was broken up in 1943. [47]
HMCS Raccoon Royal Canadian Navy World War II: Convoy QS-33: The armed yacht was torpedoed and sunk in the Strait of Belle Isle ( 49°01′N 67°17′W / 49.017°N 67.283°W / 49.017; -67.283) by U-165 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 37 crew. [48]
Tor II Faroe Islands World War II: The trawler was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south of Iceland ( 62°30′N 18°30′W / 62.500°N 18.500°W / 62.500; -18.500) by U-617 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 18 of her 21 crew. [49]
Ocean Venture United Kingdom World War II: The Ocean ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 37°05′N 74°46′W / 37.083°N 74.767°W / 37.083; -74.767) by U-108 ( Kriegsmarine). [50]
Tynningö Sweden World War II: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Borkum, Lower Saxony, Germany. [11]
Henca Netherlands World War II: The coaster was bombed and sunk in the English Channel by aircraft of 263 Squadron, Royal Air Force. She was on a voyage from Cherbourg, France to Alderney, Channel Islands. [11]
K-2 Soviet Navy World War II: The K-class submarine struck a mine and sank in Tanafjord. [11]
MAS 571 Regia Marina World War II: The MAS 552-class MAS boat was bombed and sunk at Yalta by Ilyushin Il-4 aircraft of the Soviet Naval Air Force. [51] [52]
USCGC Muskeget United States Navy World War II: The weather ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 53°00′N 42°30′W / 53.000°N 42.500°W / 53.000; -42.500) by U-755 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 121 people on board. [54]
Peiping Sweden World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 23°50′N 50°10′W / 23.833°N 50.167°W / 23.833; -50.167) by U-66 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 34 crew. [55]
USS YP-346 United States Navy World War II:The yard patrol boat was shelled and sunk in the Solomon Islands off Tulagi by Sendai ( Imperial Japanese Navy). [56]
Zhan-Tromp Soviet Union World War II: The tanker was torpedoed and sunk at Novorossiysk by S 102 ( Kriegsmarine). [11]
For the loss of the Dutch cargo liner Alhena on this date, see the entry for 28 January 1941.
List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1942
American Leader United States World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 800 nautical miles (1,500 km) west of Cape Town, South Africa ( 45°44′7″S 9°46′1″E / 45.73528°S 9.76694°E / -45.73528; 9.76694) by Michel ( Kriegsmarine). [57]
Arno Regia Marina ( Red Cross): World War II: The hospital ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by Royal Air Force aircraft 40 nautical miles (74 km) north east of Ras el Tin, Libya.
Elisabeth van Belgie Belgium World War II: Convoy ON 127: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 51°30′N 28°25′W / 51.500°N 28.417°W / 51.500; -28.417) by U-96 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 56 crew. [58]
Empire Oil United Kingdom World War II: Convoy ON 157: The tanker straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean ( 51°23′N 28°13′W / 51.383°N 28.217°W / 51.383; -28.217) by U-659 ( Kriegsmarine). She was then torpedoed and sunk the next day by U-584 ( Kriegsmarine). All 53 crew were rescued by HMCS Ottawa and HMCS St. Croix (both Royal Canadian Navy). [59] [60]
Haresfield United Kingdom World War II: The freighter was torpedoed and sunk in the Arabian Sea ( 13°05′N 54°35′E / 13.083°N 54.583°E / 13.083; 54.583) by I-29 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). [4]
HMS MGB 335 Royal Navy World War II: The Fairmile C motor gunboat was shelled and sunk in the North Sea by Kriegsmarine surface vessels. [61]
Sveve Norway World War II: Convoy ON 127: The tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by U-96 ( Kriegsmarine). All 39 crew were rescued by HMCS Sherbrooke ( Royal Canadian Navy). [63]
Zuiun Maru Japan World War II: The coaster collided with Kuroshio Maru ( Imperial Japanese Army) whilst in convoy from Moji to Takao, Formosa and sank. [64]
HMCS Charlottetown Royal Canadian Navy World War II: Convoy SQ 30: The Flower-class corvette was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St Lawrence 11 nautical miles (20 km) off Cap-Chat, Quebec by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of eight of her 64 crew.
Cornwallis Canada World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk at Bridgetown, Barbados ( 13°05′N 59°36′W / 13.083°N 59.600°W / 13.083; -59.600) by U-514 ( Kriegsmarine). She was raised, repaired and returned to service in August 1943. [65]
Delães Portugal World War II: The schooner was shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 50°03′N 29°32′W / 50.050°N 29.533°W / 50.050; -29.533) by U-96 ( Kriegsmarine). All 54 crew survived. [66]
Empire Dawn United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south west of Cape Town, South Africa by Michel ( Kriegsmarine). The attack continued after ship surrendered. Michel's captain, Helmuth von Ruckteschell was convicted of a war crime over this incident.
Fjordaas Norway World War II: Convoy ON 127: The tanker was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean ( 51°16′N 29°08′W / 51.267°N 29.133°W / 51.267; -29.133) by U-218 ( Kriegsmarine) and was abandoned by her crew. She was later reboarded and reached the Clyde on 15 September. Subsequently repaired and returned to service in December 1942. [67]
Helgeland United States The 82-ton, 76-foot (23.2 m) halibut schooner was seen for the last time at Port Vita ( 58°03′50″N 153°04′20″W / 58.06389°N 153.07222°W / 58.06389; -153.07222 (Port Vita)) on Raspberry Island in the Territory of Alaska′s Kodiak Archipelago. She subsequently disappeared with the loss of her entire crew of 10. [68]
Hindanger Norway World War II: Convoy ON 127: The cargo ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean ( 49°39′N 32°24′W / 49.650°N 32.400°W / 49.650; -32.400) by U-584 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 40 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMCS Amherst ( Royal Canadian Navy), which scuttled the ship. [69]
Hokushu Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sun in the Pacific Ocean off the Marshall Islands by USS Narwhal ( United States Navy). [70]
Jussi H. Finland World War II: Continuation War: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk by a S-13 ( Soviet Navy) off Öregrund, Sweden ( 60°21′N 18°00′E / 60.350°N 18.000°E / 60.350; 18.000). [71] [72]
Kanto Maru Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The aircraft transport was torpedoed and sunk in the central Makassar Straits, 30 nautical miles (56 km) northwest of Kendari, Celebes, Netherlands East Indies ( 03°15′S 118°27′E / 3.250°S 118.450°E / -3.250; 118.450) by USS Saury ( United States Navy). 13 passengers and 26 crewmen killed. [73] [74]
Yayoi Imperial Japanese Navy
Yayoi under attack
World War II: The Mutsuki-class destroyer was bombed and sunk 8 nautical miles (15 km) northwest of Vakuta Island in the Solomon Sea ( 08°45′S 151°25′E / 8.750°S 151.417°E / -8.750; 151.417) by Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and North American B-25 Mitchell aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces and Lockheed Hudson aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force; 68 crewmen were killed and 83 survivors were rescued by the destroyers Isokaze and Mochizuki (both Imperial Japanese Navy) from Normanby Island on 26 September. [75]
Bonden Finland World War II: Continuation War: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk by Shch-309 ( Soviet Navy) south of Mariehamn, Åland ( 59°55′N 19°54′E / 59.917°N 19.900°E / 59.917; 19.900). [11] [76]
Empire Moonbeam United Kingdom World War II: Convoy ON 127: The cargo ship straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean by U-211 ( Kriegsmarine). She was then torpedoed and sunk by U-608 ( Kriegsmarine) at 48°55′N 33°38′W / 48.917°N 33.633°W / 48.917; -33.633 with the loss of three of her 55 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMCS Arvida ( Royal Canadian Navy). [59] [77]
Hektoria United Kingdom World War II: Convoy ON 127: The whale factory ship, a former White Star Line ocean liner, straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean by U-211 ( Kriegsmarine). She was then torpedoed and sunk by U-608 ( Kriegsmarine) at 48°55′N 33°38′W / 48.917°N 33.633°W / 48.917; -33.633 with the loss of one of her 85 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMCS Arvida ( Royal Canadian Navy). [78]
Hera Finland World War II: Continuation War: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk by Shch-308 ( Soviet Navy) north of Åland ( 60°56′N 19°06′E / 60.933°N 19.100°E / 60.933; 19.100). [11] [79]
Ida S. Italy World War II: The sailing vessel was sunk La Maddelena, Sardinia by HMS Sahib ( Royal Navy). [11]
Laconia United Kingdom World War II: Laconia Incident: The troopship, carrying British and Polish troops, civilians and Italian prisoners of war, was torpedoed and sunk in the South Atlantic near Ascension Island by U-156 ( Kriegsmarine). Approximately 1,600 killed, 1,100–1,500 rescued by Vichy French ships.
Niyo Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk off Burma by Royal Air Force aircraft. [80]
Robert Bornhofen Germany World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed (or mined) and sunk in Porsangerfjord, Norway ( 70°43′N 25°58′E / 70.717°N 25.967°E / 70.717; 25.967). [81]
Stanvac Melbourne Panama World War II: The tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off Trinidad ( 10°30′N 60°20′W / 10.500°N 60.333°W / 10.500; -60.333) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 49 crew. [82]
Trevilley United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 4°30′S 7°50′W / 4.500°S 7.833°W / -4.500; -7.833) by U-68 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of the 53 people on board. Two survivors were taken by U-68 as prisoners of war. Others were rescued by Cubango ( Portugal) and Dumont d'Urville ( Vichy French Navy) or reached land in their lifeboat. [83]
U-88 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Arctic Ocean south of Spitzbergen, Norway by HMS Faulknor ( Royal Navy) with the loss of all 46 crew.
Woensdrecht Netherlands World War II: The tanker was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean south west of Trinidad ( 10°27′N 60°17′W / 10.450°N 60.283°W / 10.450; -60.283) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of the 74 people on board, a survivor from Cressington Court ( United Kingdom). Survivors were rescued by two United States Navy patrol boats. U-515 fired three more torpedoes at Woensdrecht, which broke in two. The stern section sank and the bow section was towed to Trinidad. The ship was declared a total loss. [84]
Africander Panama World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The freighter was sunk by a torpedo from an aircraft off the Lofoten Islands. [85]
Empire Beaumont United Kingdom World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Arctic Sea by aircraft of KG 26, Luftwaffe.
Empire Lugard United Kingdom World War II: Convoy TAG 5: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 12°07′N 63°32′W / 12.117°N 63.533°W / 12.117; -63.533) by U-558 ( Kriegsmarine). All 47 crew were rescued by Vilja ( Norway). [59] [86]
Empire Stevenson United Kingdom World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Barents Sea off Bear Island, Norway ( 76°10′N 10°05′E / 76.167°N 10.083°E / 76.167; 10.083) by Luftwaffe aircraft. [59]
John Penn United States World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The Liberty ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Barents Sea ( 76°00′N 10°00′E / 76.000°N 10.000°E / 76.000; 10.000) by Luftwaffe aircraft. [87]
Lima Sweden World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Liberia ( 2°35′N 11°22′W / 2.583°N 11.367°W / 2.583; -11.367) by U-506 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 33 crew. [88]
Macbeth Panama World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The freighter was damaged by two torpedoes from a German Heinkel He 111 off the Lofoten Islands and was scuttled by convoy escorts. No casualties. [89]
Nimba Panama World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 10°41′N 60°24′W / 10.683°N 60.400°W / 10.683; -60.400) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of twenty of her 32 crew. Survivors were rescued by USS Barney ( United States Navy). [90]
Ocean Vanguard United Kingdom World War II: The Ocean ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 10°43′N 60°11′W / 10.717°N 60.183°W / 10.717; -60.183) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 11 of her 51 crew. Survivors were rescued by Braga ( Norway). [50] [91]
Oliver Ellsworth United States World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The Liberty ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Greenland Sea ( 76°10′N 10°05′E / 76.167°N 10.083°E / 76.167; 10.083) by U-408 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 70 crew. Survivors were rescued by Copeland ( United Kingdom and HMT St. Kenan, which scuttled the ship. [92] [93]
Oregonian United States World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Barents Sea off Bear Island, Norway ( 76°00′N 09°30′E / 76.000°N 9.500°E / 76.000; 9.500) by Luftwaffe aircraft.
Patrick J. Hurley United States World War II: The tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 950 nautical miles (1,760 km) north east of Barbados ( 22°59′N 46°15′W / 22.983°N 46.250°W / 22.983; -46.250) by U-512 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 4 gunners and 13 of her crew. 22 survivors were rescued by Etna ( Sweden on 19 September, and 23 by Loch Dee ( United Kingdom) on 2 October. [94]
Stalingrad Soviet Union World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Greenland Sea ( 75°52′N 7°55′E / 75.867°N 7.917°E / 75.867; 7.917) by U-408 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 21 of her 88 crew. Survivors were rescued by Royal Navy minesweepers. [95]
Stone Street Panama World War II: Convoy ON 127: The cargo ship straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 48°18′N 39°43′W / 48.300°N 39.717°W / 48.300; -39.717) by U-594 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 13 of her 52 crew. Survivors were rescued by Irish Larch ( Ireland). [96]
Sukhona Soviet Union World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The freighter was sunk by torpedoes from a German Heinkel He 111 northwest of Bear Island, Norway. [97]
Suriname Netherlands World War II: Convoy TAG 5: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Caribbean Sea ( 12°07′N 63°32′W / 12.117°N 63.533°W / 12.117; -63.533) by U-558 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 13 of her 82 crew. Survivors were rescued by a United States Navy ship. [98]
Vilja Norway World War II: Convoy TAG 5: The tanker was torpedoed and damaged in the Caribbean Sea ( 12°15′N 62°52′W / 12.250°N 62.867°W / 12.250; -62.867) by U-558 ( Kriegsmarine). The 34 crew abandoned ship but later reboarded her and sailed to Port of Spain, Trinidad, rescuing the survivors from Empire Lugard ( United Kingdom) on the way. Vilja reached New Orleans, Louisiana on 16 January 1943 and was declared a constructive total loss. She was scrapped in July 1944. [99]
Alabastro Regia Marina World War II: The Acciaio-class submarine was sunk off Algiers, Algeria ( 37°28′N 04°34′E / 37.467°N 4.567°E / 37.467; 4.567) by a Short Sunderland flying-boat of No. 202 Squadron RAF. [100]
Atheltemplar United Kingdom World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The tanker was torpedoed and damaged in the Greenland Sea south of Bear Island, Norway by U-457 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 61 crew. Survivors were rescued by Copeland ( United Kingdom) and HMS Offa ( Royal Navy). HMS Harrier ( Royal Navy) attempted to scuttle the ship, but was unsuccessful. Atheltemplar was later shelled and sunk at 76°10′N 18°00′E / 76.167°N 18.000°E / 76.167; 18.000 by U-408 ( Kriegsmarine). [101]
HMS Coventry Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The C-class cruiser was bombed and damaged in the Mediterranean Sea north west of Alexandria, Egypt, by Junkers Ju 87 aircraft of the Luftwaffe. She was scuttled by HMS Zulu ( Royal Navy).
F 159 Kriegsmarine The Type A Marinefahrprahm was sunk on this date. [102]
Harborough United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 40 nautical miles (74 km) east of Galera Point, Trinidad ( 10°03′N 60°20′W / 10.050°N 60.333°W / 10.050; -60.333) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of five of her 50 crew. [104]
I / 43 Kriegsmarine World War II: The flak boat was sunk at Tobruk, Libya by shore-based artillery. Survivors were taken as prisoners of war.
HMS ML 352 Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The Fairmile B motor launch was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Tobruk, Libya by Italian Macchi 202. [105]
HMS ML 353 Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The Fairmile B motor launch was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Tobruk, Libya.
HMS MTB 308, HMS MTB 310,
and HMS MTB 312 all Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The Elco 77' PT boats were bombed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by Luftwaffe or Italian aircraft. [81]
HMS MTB 314 Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The Elco 77' PT boat was ran aground and abandoned, possibly sunk, off Tobruk. Salvaged by the Germans and put in German service as RA-10 ( Kriegsmarine). [106]
Mary Luckenbach United States World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The freighter blew up and sank 600 nautical miles (1,100 km) west of North Cape, Norway ( 76°00′N 16°00′E / 76.000°N 16.000°E / 76.000; 16.000) during a German air attack when her cargo of 1,000 tons of TNT exploded. All 24 gunners and 41 crewmen were killed. [107]
Nojima Maru Japan World War II: The ammunition transport ran aground off Kiska, Alaska Territory, United States, and was wrecked. [11]
HMCS Ottawa Royal Canadian Navy World War II: Convoy ON 127: The C-class destroyer was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 47°55′N 43°27′W / 47.917°N 43.450°W / 47.917; -43.450) by U-91 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 114 of her 183 crew.
HMS Sikh Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The Tribal-class destroyer was shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Tobruk with the loss of 115 of her 190 crew.
Sperrbrecher 142 Westerbroek Kriegsmarine World War II: The Sperrbrecher struck a mine and sank in the English Channel off Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium. [11]
U-589 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Arctic Ocean by a Fairey Swordfish aircraft of 825 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm based on HMS Avenger and also by HMS Onslow (both Royal Navy) with the loss of all 44 crew. [108]
Wacosta United States World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The freighter was disabled by concussion from the explosion of Mary Luckenbach ( United States), later sunk with out casualties by German torpedo bombers west of North Cape, Norway ( 76°05′N 16°00′E / 76.083°N 16.000°E / 76.083; 16.000). [109]
HMS Zulu Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The Tribal-class destroyer was bombed and damaged in the Mediterranean Sea off Tobruk by Macchi C.200 aircraft of the Regia Aeronautica. She sank the next day.
Boston Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship collided with USS Seal ( United States Navy) in the Pacific Ocean off Palau and sank. [110]
Breedijk Netherlands World War II: The cargo ship was torpeoded and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 5°05′S 8°54′W / 5.083°S 8.900°W / -5.083; -8.900) with the loss of two of the 52 people on board. Survivors were rescued by Cubango ( Portugal), Royal Navy vessels or reached land in their lifeboats. [111]
Inger Elisabeth Norway World War II: Convoy SQ-36: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Cap-des-Rosiers, Quebec, Canada ( 48°49′N 64°06′W / 48.817°N 64.100°W / 48.817; -64.100) by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 26 crew. [112]
Kioto United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean east of Tobago ( 11°05′N 60°46′W / 11.083°N 60.767°W / 11.083; -60.767) by U-514 ( Kriegsmarine). She went aground at Columbus Point. U-514 shelled her the next day and she burnt out with the loss of twenty of her 74 crew. Survivors were rescued by Trinidad ( Trinidad). [113]
HMS LCP(L) 29, Royal Navy The landing craft, personnel (large) was lost on this date. [114]
HMS LCP(R) 617 Royal Navy The landing craft, personnel (ramped) was lost on this date. [115]
USS O'Brien United States Navy World War II: The Sims-class destroyer was torpedoed and damaged in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalcanal by I-19 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). She sank on 19 October between Suva, Fiji and Pago Pago, American Samoa due to damage inflicted. All crew were rescued.
R 66 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Räumboot struck a mine and sank in the Gulf of Finland. [11]
Ravens Point United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was sunk at Gibraltar by Italian frogmen. [11]
Saturnus Netherlands World War II: Convoy SQ-36: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Cap-des-Rosiers ( 48°49′N 64°06′W / 48.817°N 64.100°W / 48.817; -64.100) by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 36 crew. [116]
Sonderberg Germany World War II: The factory ship was bombed and severely damaged at Cherbourg, France by Douglas Boston aircraft of 107 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Gutted by fire, she was subsequently scuttled as a blockship in June 1944. The wreck was dispersed by explosives in January 1947. [117]
Sørholt Norway World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 10°45′N 60°00′W / 10.750°N 60.000°W / 10.750; -60.000) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of seven of the 38 people on board. Survivors were rescued by Royal Navy motor torpedo boats. [118]
Star No. 71 United States The 39- gross register ton, 61.4-foot (18.7 m) scow sank off the Territory of Alaska. [119]
U-261 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean west of the Shetland Islands, United Kingdom ( 59°50′N 9°28′W / 59.833°N 9.467°W / 59.833; -9.467) by an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft of 58 Squadron, Royal Air Force with the loss of all 43 crew. [120]
USS Wasp United States Navy
World War II: The Wasp-class aircraft carrier was torpedoed and damaged in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands by I-19 ( Imperial Japanese Navy) with the loss of 193 of her 2,167 crew. She was scuttled by USS Lansdowne ( United States Navy).
Commercial Trader United States World War II: The Design 1099 cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 75 nautical miles (139 km) east of Trinidad ( 10°30′N 60°15′W / 10.500°N 60.250°W / 10.500; -60.250) by U-558 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of ten of her 38 crew. [121]
Empire Soldier United Kingdom World War II: Convoy ON-127: The cargo ship was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean east of St. John's, Newfoundland ( 47°35′N 51°44′W / 47.583°N 51.733°W / 47.583; -51.733) in a collision with Tanker F. J. Wolfe ( United Kingdom). [122]
Joannis Greece World War II: Convoy SQ 36: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ( 49°10′N 67°05′W / 49.167°N 67.083°W / 49.167; -67.083) by U-165 ( Kriegsmarine). All 32 crew survived. [123]
Ocean Honour United Kingdom World War II: The Ocean ship was torpedoed, shelled, and sunk in the Gulf of Aden ( 12°48′N 50°50′E / 12.800°N 50.833°E / 12.800; 50.833) by I-29 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). 15 crewmmen and 5 Gunners killed. Her Captain, 29 crewmen and 3 Gunners rescued from a remote Island by R.A.F. aircraft. [4]
HMS Talisman Royal Navy World War II: The T-class submarine struck a mine and sank in the Sicilian Passage with the loss of all 63 crew. [81]
U-457 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Barents Sea ( 75°05′N 43°15′E / 75.083°N 43.250°E / 75.083; 43.250) by HMS Impulsive ( Royal Navy) with the loss of all 45 crew. [124]
Astrid Denmark World War II: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Skaggerak 15 nautical miles (28 km) south east of the Hals Lighthouse. Her crew survived. She was salvaged in 1943. [125]
Carbonia Italy World War II: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Hammamet, Tunisia by British aircraft. [11] [18]
Karpfanger Germany World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk by Handley Page Hampden aircract of 489 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force south of Egersund, Norway. Twenty-three survivors were rescued by M 5209 ( Kriegsmarine). [11] [126]
Mae United States World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 41 nautical miles (76 km) north of Georgetown, British Guiana ( 8°03′N 58°13′W / 8.050°N 58.217°W / 8.050; -58.217) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 41 crew. Survivors were rescued by Gypsum King ( United Kingdom and Sørvangen ( Norway). [127]
Peterton United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean north west of the Cape Verde Islands, Portugal ( 18°45′N 29°15′W / 18.750°N 29.250°W / 18.750; -29.250) by U-109 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of nine of her 43 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMS Canna ( Royal Navy) and Empire Whimbrel ( United Kingdom). [128] [129]
Rostro Italy World War II: The salvage vessel was sunk with gunfire by HMS United ( Royal Navy) off Zliten, Libya. [130]
V-39 Giovanna Regia Marina World War II: The auxiliary submarine chaser was sunk with gunfire by HMS United ( Royal Navy) off Misurata, Libya. [131]
HMT Waterfly Royal Navy World War II: The naval trawler was bombed and sunk in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent by Axis aircraft. [132]
F 533 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type C Marinefahrprahm was bombed and sunk in the Black Sea by Soviet Naval Air Force Ilyushin Il-4 aircraft. [133] [134]
FZ-3 Kriegsmarine World War II: The minesweeping boat was bombed and sunk in the Black Sea by Soviet Naval Air Force Ilyushin Il-4 aircraft. [135]
SS Kentucky United States World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The freighter was attacked by German aircraft and sunk by aerial torpedo without casualties 35 miles (56 km) off Cape Kanan, Soviet Union. Survivors were rescued by two British minesweepers. [136]
Norfolk Canada World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean north east of Georgetown, British Guiana ( 8°36′N 59°20′W / 8.600°N 59.333°W / 8.600; -59.333) by U-175 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of six of her 19 crew. Survivors were rescued by Indaucha ( Spain). [137]
Olaf Fostenes Norway World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 44°56′N 41°05′W / 44.933°N 41.083°W / 44.933; -41.083) by U-380 ( Kriegsmarine). All 36 crew were rescued by HMS Firedrake ( Royal Navy). [138]
HMS Alouette Royal Navy World War II: The naval trawler was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 10 nautical miles (19 km) west of Cape Espichel, Portugal by U-552 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 17 of her 44 crew. [139]
Monte Gorbea Spain World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 60 nautical miles (110 km) east of Martinique ( 14°55′N 60°00′W / 14.917°N 60.000°W / 14.917; -60.000) by U-512 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 52 of the 77 people on board. [140]
HMS Pentland Firth Royal Navy World War II: The naval trawler was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off of the Ambrose Lightship off Sandy Hook, New Jersey ( 40°25′N 73°55′W / 40.417°N 73.917°W / 40.417; -73.917) in a collision with USS Chaffinch ( United States Navy). [141]
Quebec City United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 2°12′S 17°36′W / 2.200°S 17.600°W / -2.200; -17.600) by U-156 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of five of her 46 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMS Decoy ( Royal Navy). [142]
Shirogane Maru Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The Kogane Maru-class transport was torpedoed and damaged in the Bougainville Strait, 11 miles east of Lulaui Point, Bougainville ( 06°33′S 156°05′E / 6.550°S 156.083°E / -6.550; 156.083) by USS Amberjack ( United States Navy). Three crewmen were killed. The ship was towed to Buin and beached on 20 September and abandoned on 16 October 1942. [143] [144]
Wichita United States World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 300 nautical miles (560 km) northeast of Barbados by U-516 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 50 crew. [145]
Empire Hartebeeste United Kingdom World War II: Convoy SC 100: The Design 1013 cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 56°20′N 38°10′W / 56.333°N 38.167°W / 56.333; -38.167) by U-596 ( Kriegsmarine). All 46 crew were rescued by Norhauk and Rio Verde (both Norway).
HMS Leda Royal Navy World War II: The Halcyon-class minesweeper was torpedoed and sunk in the Greenland Sea south west of Spitsbergen, Norway by U-435 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 45 crew, whilst providing escort duties for Convoy QP 14. Survivors were rescued by Rathlin and Zamalek (both United Kingdom). [81] [146] [147]
M 4448 Antoine Henriette Kriegsmarine World War II: The auxiliary minesweeper struck a mine in the Bay of Biscay and sank or was beached. [11] [148]
Reedpool United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 240 nautical miles (440 km) south east of Trinidad ( 8°58′N 57°34′W / 8.967°N 57.567°W / 8.967; -57.567) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of five of the 58 people on board. Survivors were rescued by Millie M. Masher ( United Kingdom). [149]
Silver Sword United States World War II: Convoy QP 14: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Greenland Sea ( 75°52′N 0°20′W / 75.867°N 0.333°W / 75.867; -0.333) by U-255 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 64 crew. Survivors were rescued by Rathlin and Zamalek (both United Kingdom). [150]
HMS Somali Royal Navy World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The Tribal-class destroyer was torpedoed and damaged in the Greenland Sea ( 74°40′N 2°00′W / 74.667°N 2.000°W / 74.667; -2.000) by U-703 ( Kriegsmarine). She was taken under tow by HMS Ashanti ( Royal Navy), but broke her back and sank four days later at 69°00′N 15°30′W / 69.000°N 15.500°W / 69.000; -15.500) with the loss of 67 of the 105 people on board.
Diamant Kriegsmarine Originally she sailed under a Belgian flag, the ship was wrecked on the Dogs Nest rocks outside St Helier harbour, Jersey, Channel Islands [151] [152]
Agnes United States The 10- gross register ton, 33.6-foot (10.2 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by fire off Brothers Island ( 57°18′N 133°50′W / 57.300°N 133.833°W / 57.300; -133.833 (Brothers Island)) in Frederick Sound in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. [153]
Aquila Regia Marina World War II: The auxiliary minesweeper was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by HMS Unruffled ( Royal Navy) off Tunisia. [154]
Koei Maru Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The net tender was torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific Ocean south of Truk South Pacific Mandate ( 06°54′N 151°51′E / 6.900°N 151.850°E / 6.900; 151.850) by USS Trout ( United States Navy). [155]
Liberia Vichy France World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by HMS Unruffled ( Royal Navy) off Tunisia. [156]
Predsednik Kopajtic Yugoslavia World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 8°30′N 59°30′W / 8.500°N 59.500°W / 8.500; -59.500) by U-175 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 31 crew. [157]
HMS St. Olaves Royal Navy The Saint-class tugboat was wrecked off Duncansby Head, Scotland. [158]
Tone Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the East China Sea, east of Shanghai, China ( 31°18′N 123°27′E / 31.300°N 123.450°E / 31.300; 123.450) by USS Grouper ( United States Navy). [159]
U-446 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine struck a mine and sank in the Gulf of Danzig off Kahlberg, East Prussia. She was raised on 8 November, repaired and returned to service. [160]
Apuania Italy World War II: The ship was bombed and damaged at Ras Hammamet, Tunisia by British aircraft. She was declared a total loss. [11]
Bellingham United States World War II: Convoy QP 14: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Greenland Sea west of Jan Mayen, Norway ( 71°23′N 11°03′W / 71.383°N 11.050°W / 71.383; -11.050) by U-435 ( Kriegsmarine). All 75 crew were rescued by Rathlin ( United Kingdom) or the convoy's escort ships. [161]
Esso Williamsburg United States World War II: The tanker was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean 500 nautical miles (930 km) south of Cape Farewell, Greenland ( 53°12′N 41°00′W / 53.200°N 41.000°W / 53.200; -41.000) by U-211 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 60 crew. The drifting wreck was torpedoed and sunk on 3 October at 55°00′N 33°00′W / 55.000°N 33.000°W / 55.000; -33.000 by U-254 ( Kriegsmarine). [162]
RFA Grey Ranger Royal Fleet Auxiliary World War II: Convoy QP 14: The Ranger-class tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the Greenland Sea west of Jan Mayen ( 71°23′N 11°03′W / 71.383°N 11.050°W / 71.383; -11.050) by U-435 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of six of her 39 crew. Survivors were rescued by Rathlin ( United Kingdom). [163]
Kano Maru Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The transport was torpedoed and damaged by USS Grunion ( United States Navy), with only one of three torpedoes that hit actually detonating, off Kiska, Alaska, on 31 July 1942. She was towed to Kiska Harbor, and remained there until she was washed ashore and wrecked by a storm on 22 September 1942 1 1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Kiska Harbor. [164]
Leonardo Palomba Italy World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 8 miles (13 km) off Kuriat, Tunisia by HMS Unruffled ( Royal Navy). [165]
Ocean Voice United Kingdom World War II: Convoy QP 14: The Ocean ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Greenland Sea ( 71°23′N 11°01′E / 71.383°N 11.017°E / 71.383; 11.017) by U-435 ( Kriegsmarine). All 89 people on board were rescued by HMS Seagull ( Royal Navy) and Zamalek ( United Kingdom). [50] [166]
Paul Luckenbach United States World War II: The freighter was torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean 800 miles (1,300 km) off the coast of India ( 10°03′N 63°42′E / 10.050°N 63.700°E / 10.050; 63.700) by I-29 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). [4]
RTShch-121 Soviet Navy The K-15/M-17-class river minesweeping launch was sunk on this date. [167]
Athelsultan United Kingdom World War II: Convoy SC 100: The tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Cape Farewell, Greenland ( 58°42′N 33°38′W / 58.700°N 33.633°W / 58.700; -33.633) by U-617 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 51 of her 61 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMS Nasturtuim ( Royal Navy) and HMCS Weyburn ( Royal Canadian Navy). [168]
B D Co. No. 5 United States The 37-ton, 49-foot (14.9 m) scow foundered in the Bering Sea near Sledge Island ( 64°29′N 166°13′W / 64.483°N 166.217°W / 64.483; -166.217 (Sledge Island)), Territory of Alaska. [169]
Bruyère United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 250 nautical miles (460 km) south west of Freetown, Sierra Leone ( 4°55′N 17°16′W / 4.917°N 17.267°W / 4.917; -17.267) by U-125 ( Kriegsmarine). All 51 crew were rescued by HMS Decoy, HMS Petunia and HMT Sir Wistan (all Royal Navy). [170]
Lindvangen Norway World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 9°20′N 60°10′W / 9.333°N 60.167°W / 9.333; -60.167) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 15 of her 23 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMS Helene ( Royal Navy). [171]
HMAS Siesta Royal Australian Navy The patrol boat suffered an explosion and burned to the waterline at Fremantle, Australia. Four of her crew were injured.
Tennessee United Kingdom World War II: Convoy SC 100: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Cape Farewell ( 58°40′N 33°41′W / 58.667°N 33.683°W / 58.667; -33.683) by U-617 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 15 of her 35 crew. Survivors were rescued by USCGC Ingham ( United States Navy) and HMS Nasturtium ( Royal Navy). [172]
Vibran Norway World War II: The refrigerated cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 42°45′N 42°45′W / 42.750°N 42.750°W / 42.750; -42.750) by U-582 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 56 people on board. [173]
Antinous United States World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Trinidad ( 8°58′N 59°33′W / 8.967°N 59.550°W / 8.967; -59.550) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine). She was abandoned by her 48 crew but was later reboarded. She was taken in tow by HMS Zwarte Zee ( Royal Navy) but was torpedoed and sunk on 25 September by U-512 ( Kriegsmarine). All crew survived and were rescued by HMS Zwarte Zee. [174]
Defoe United Kingdom The cargo ship exploded, caught fire and was abandoned off Rockall, Inverness-shire. She was on a voyage from Manchester, Lancashire to Famagusta, Cyprus. [175]
Everett United States The dredge was lost at Cape Pankof on Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands. [176]
Fiume Italy World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Aegean Sea 7 nautical miles (13 km) south east of Rhodes, Greece by Nirefs ( Hellenic Navy). [177]
John Winthrop United States World War II: Convoy ON 131: The Liberty ship straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 56°00′N 31°00′W / 56.000°N 31.000°W / 56.000; -31.000) by U-619 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 52 crew. [87] [178]
Losmar United States World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean east of One and a Half Degree Channel 08°06′N 74°23′E / 8.100°N 74.383°E / 8.100; 74.383 by I-165 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). 3 crewmen killed in the sinking and 24 did not survive before being rescue. [180]
Penmar United States World War II: Convoy SC 100: The cargo ship straggled behind the convoy due to damaged steering gear. She was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 58°12′N 34°35′W / 58.200°N 34.583°W / 58.200; -34.583) by U-432 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her 62 crew. Survivors were rescued by USCGC Bibb ( United States Navy). [181]
Roumanie Belgium World War II: Convoy SC 100: The cargo ship straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 58°10′N 28°20′W / 58.167°N 28.333°W / 58.167; -28.333) by U-617 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 42 of her 43 crew. The survivor was taken on board U-617 as a prisoner of war. [182]
Sphinx Egypt World War II: The sailing ship was shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Tiros, Lebanon by U-561 ( Kriegsmarine). [183]
West Chetac United States World War II: The Design 1013 cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 100 nautical miles (190 km) north of Georgetown, British Guiana ( 8°45′N 57°00′W / 8.750°N 57.000°W / 8.750; -57.000) by U-175 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 31 of her 50 crew. Survivors were rescued by USS Roe ( United States Navy). [184]
Boston United Kingdom World War II: Convoy RB 1: The passenger ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Farewell, Greenland ( 53°23′N 27°54′W / 53.383°N 27.900°W / 53.383; -27.900) by U-216 ( Kriegsmarine). All 65 crew were rescued by HMS Veteran ( Royal Navy). [185]
Empire Bell United Kingdom World War II: Convoy UR 42: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 62°19′N 15°27′W / 62.317°N 15.450°W / 62.317; -15.450) by U-442 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of ten of her 41 crew. Survivors were rescued by Lysaker IV ( Norway).
HMS LCV 798 Royal Navy The landing craft, vehicle was lost on this date. [186]
Navigator Finland World War II: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea off Trelleborg, Sweden. [187]
Teibo Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the South China Sea east of Saigon, French Indochina ( 10°31′N 109°31′E / 10.517°N 109.517°E / 10.517; 109.517) by USS Sargo ( United States Navy). [188]
U-253 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine struck a mine and sank in the Atlantic Ocean northwest of Iceland ( 67°00′N 23°00′W / 67.000°N 23.000°W / 67.000; -23.000) with the loss of all 45 crew. [189]
Vledderveen Netherlands World War II: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Öresund. [187]
HMAS Voyager Royal Australian Navy World War II: The W-class destroyer ran aground off Timor ( 09°15′S 125°45′E / 9.250°S 125.750°E / -9.250; 125.750) on 23 September. Discovered by the Japanese on 24 September and bombed beyond repair under the circumstances. Scuttled on 25 September. Crew rescued by HMAS Kalgoorlie and HMAS Warrnambool (both Royal Australian Navy). [190]
I-33 Imperial Japanese Navy The B1 type submarine sank at Truk due to a loss of buoyancy from a bungled retrimming attempt while being repaired. 33 crewmen killed. Raised 29 December 1942. Towed to Kure for repairs in March 1943. Repairs finished 1 June 1944. She sank again in the Iyo Nada near Kure, Japan during diving trials 16 June 1944. [191]
M-60 Soviet Navy World War II: The M-class submarine was sunk by a mine of a flanking barrage laid by the minelayers Amiral Murgescu, Regele Carol I and Dacia ( Royal Romanian Navy). [192]
New York United Kingdom World War II: Convoy RB 1: The passenger ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 54°34′N 25°44′W / 54.567°N 25.733°W / 54.567; -25.733) by U-91 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 54 crew. They are named on the Tower Hill Memorial, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. [193] [194]
Tambour Panama World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 8°50′N 59°50′W / 8.833°N 59.833°W / 8.833; -59.833) by U-175 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of eight of her 32 crew. Survivors were rescued by Thalatta ( Norway). [195]
HMS Veteran Royal Navy World War II: Convoy RB 1: The V-class destroyer was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by U-404 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 134 crew, and 63 of the 65 survivors from Boston ( United Kingdom). The two survivors from Boston were rescued by New Bedford ( United States). [185]
Yorktown United Kingdom World War II: Convoy RB 1: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 550 nautical miles (1,020 km) west of the Butt of Lewis ( 55°10′N 18°50′W / 55.167°N 18.833°W / 55.167; -18.833) by U-619 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 18 of her 60 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMS Sardonyx ( Royal Navy). [196]
Francesco Barbaro Italy World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Ionian Sea off Navarino, Greece by HMS Umbra ( Royal Navy). [11]
Gazelle Kriegsmarine The patrol boat collided with Themis ( Norway) and sank off Lervik, Norway. [197]
Radio United States The 76- gross register ton, 74.8-foot (22.8 m) fishing vessel was wrecked on a reef in Shuyak Strait ( 58°29′N 152°36′W / 58.483°N 152.600°W / 58.483; -152.600 (Shuyak Strait)) between Shuyak Island and Afognak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago. Her crew of nine survived. [198]
Stephen Hopkins United States World War II: The Liberty ship and the auxiliary cruiser Stier ( Kriegsmarine) shelled and sank each other in the South Atlantic Ocean at 28°08′S 11°59′W / 28.133°S 11.983°W / -28.133; -11.983. The survivors of Stephen Hopkins reached Brazil in lifeboats a month later. During combat with Stier and the month-long ordeal in the lifeboats that followed it, 41 of the 55 men aboard Stephen Hopkins – 32 of 40 civilian crewmen and nine of the 15-man United States Navy Armed Guard detachment – died. [199]
Stier Kriegsmarine World War II: The auxiliary cruiser and the Liberty ship Stephen Hopkins ( United States) shelled and sank each other in the South Atlantic Ocean ( 28°08′S 11°59′W / 28.133°S 11.983°W / -28.133; -11.983). Two of her crewmen were killed. Survivors were rescued by the cargo ship Tannenfels ( Kriegsmarine). [200]
U-165 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type IXC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Bay of Biscay ( 47°00′N 5°30′W / 47.000°N 5.500°W / 47.000; -5.500) by a Vickers Wellington aircraft of 311 Squadron, Royal Air Force with the loss of all 51 crew. [201]
Alcoa Mariner United States World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 20 nautical miles (37 km) off the mouth of the Orinoco River, Venezuela ( 8°57′N 60°08′W / 8.950°N 60.133°W / 8.950; -60.133) by U-175 ( Kriegsmarine). All 54 crew were rescued by Turret Cape ( Canada). [202]
Antonico Brazil World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off the mouth to the Marowijne River ( 5°30′N 53°30′W / 5.500°N 53.500°W / 5.500; -53.500) by U-516 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 16 of her 40 crew. [203]
HMS LCP(R) 1019 Royal Navy The landing craft, personnel (ramped) was lost on this date. [204]
Lagés Brazil World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Amazon Estuary 75 nautical miles (139 km) north of Salinas ( 0°13′N 47°47′W / 0.217°N 47.783°W / 0.217; -47.783) by U-514 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 49 crew. She was salvaged, repaired and returned to service post-war. [205]
Nefco No. 2 United States The 30- gross register ton, 55.4-foot (16.9 m) scow sank off Naked Island ( 60°40′N 147°25′W / 60.667°N 147.417°W / 60.667; -147.417 (Naked Island)) in Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. [206]
Ozório Brazil World War II: The Design 1074 cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Amazon Estuary 75 nautical miles (139 km) north of Salinas ( 0°03′N 47°45′W / 0.050°N 47.750°W / 0.050; -47.750) by U-514 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of five of her 39 crew. She was salvaged, repaired and returned to service post-war. [207]
Tamon Maru No. 6 Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific Ocean south of Hokkaido by USS Nautilus ( United States Navy). [11]
Baron Ogilvy United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south west of Cape Palmas, Liberia ( 2°30′N 14°30′W / 2.500°N 14.500°W / 2.500; -14.500) by U-125 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of eight of her 40 crew. Survivors were rescued by Mouzinho ( Portugal). [208]
Empire Avocet United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off Liberia ( 4°05′N 13°23′W / 4.083°N 13.383°W / 4.083; -13.383) by U-125 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her 56 crew. Two survivors were taken on board U-125 as prisoners of war, the rest were rescued by HMS Cowslip ( Royal Navy).
Franz Rudolf Germany World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Baltic Sea by Shch-310 ( Soviet Navy). [11]
Lifland United Kingdom World War II: Convoy SC 101: The cargo ship straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 56°40′N 30°30′W / 56.667°N 30.500°W / 56.667; -30.500) by U-608 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 29 crew. [209]
Registan United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 140 nautical miles (260 km) off Barbados ( 12°37′N 57°10′W / 12.617°N 57.167°W / 12.617; -57.167) by U-332 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 16 of her 54 crew. Survivors were rescued by Rio Neuquen ( Argentina). [210]
V 312 Hanseat Kriegsmarine The Vorpostenboot ran aground and was wrecked. [211]
USS YC-898 and USS YC-899 United States Navy The non-self-propelled covered lighters sank while under tow off Key West, Florida. [212]
Alipore United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean north east of Georgedtown, British Guiana ( 7°09′N 54°23′W / 7.150°N 54.383°W / 7.150; -54.383) by U-516 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of ten of her 83 crew. Survivors were rescued by the fishing schooner United Eagle ( British Guiana). [213] [214]
Amiral Pierre Vichy France World War II: Battle of Madagascar: The cargo ship was intercepted in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar by HMAS Nizam ( Royal Australian Navy) and was scuttled. [81] [215]
Camila Panama World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Indian Ocean by I-166 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). She was beached on the Indian coast and was subsequently declared a total loss. [11]
Kumsang United Kingdom World War II: The passenger ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 300 nautical miles (560 km) south of Freetown, Sierra Leone ( 4°07′N 13°40′W / 4.117°N 13.667°W / 4.117; -13.667) by U-125 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of four of the 114 people on board. [216]
HMS MGB 18 Royal Navy World War II: The BPB 70'-class motor gun boat was shelled and sunk by Kriegsmarine surface ships off Terschelling, The Netherlands. [217]
Siam II United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean south west of Monrovia, Liberia ( 3°25′N 15°46′W / 3.417°N 15.767°W / 3.417; -15.767) by U-506 ( Kriegsmarine). She was sunk by a coup de grâce in the early hours of 1 October. All 39 crew were rescued by Nagpore ( United Kingdom). [218]
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Gene United States The 8- gross register ton, 32.5-foot (9.9 m) motor cargo vessel was wrecked on Rye Island on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. [219]
No. 64 Soviet Navy The Sh-4 Type motor torpedo boat was lost sometime in September. [220]
PSB&D Co. #6 United States The 247- gross register ton, 92-foot (28.0 m) cargo scow was lost at Unimak Bight ( 54°35′N 164°10′W / 54.583°N 164.167°W / 54.583; -164.167 (Unimak Bight)) off Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands. [221]
Smeraldo Regia Marina The Sirena-class submarine was lost in the Mediterranean Sea. Last report was received on 16 September off Sollum. [222]
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Chloe Sevigny Talks ‘American Horror Story: Asylum’
Chloe Sevigny Talks American Horror Story: Asylum
— November 7th, 2012
American Horror Story is one of the few shows on the air where fans will be treated to a new cast of characters each season. This year, the show moved to the East Coast insane asylum Briarcliff, where one of the patients is the nymphomaniac Shelley, played by Chloë Sevigny. The actress recently held a conference call to discuss her role on American Horror Story: Asylum, which continues with "I Am Anne Frank" Wednesday, November 7 at 10 PM ET on FX. The actress first discussed what drew her to the show.
"I guess it was having watched the first season and just being a fan of the show. I just thought it was so rich, the production design and costumes and how much detail went into it and I just thought it was wildly entertaining. I was hoping the second season would be as much so. I didn't get to read any scripts prior to signing on, so I was kind of going in on blind faith hoping that it would be what I wanted it to be and it's proven so."
She also revealed that the wealth of female characters in the asylum was also a selling point.
"I think with this season, he's exploring different things from the first like you said before. I think there's a lot of really good characters, how women are accused of being this, that, and the other thing. I think it's like they're wildly represented in the season. As a woman, as a female viewer I like that pitch."
The actress talked about the shocking revelation that Shelley lost both of her legs on the operating table, and the challenges that brings to her performance.
"I think she's pretty pissed off. I think she feels pretty helpless and I think in the beginning you kind of like not so much rooting for her. You think she's this bad girl and then see her helping Evan's character and ... character trying to escape and you realize that she's pretty selfless in that regard. I think after she gets in the clutches of the evil doctor, I think you're then kind of more rooting for her and hoping that she can escape or find a way out. So I think the character goes through a lot. The audience goes through a lot with the character. The prosthetic pieces that they put on made it impossible to straighten my legs, so I had to keep my legs bent all day and I had to be wheeled around in a wheelchair and I was feeling quite helpless. It was a strange feeling to have to need assistance to do lots of different things. And that was probably the most challenging part, feeling kind of helpless in that way. "
Shelley is diagnosed as a nymphomaniac, although the actress herself doesn't exactly believe there is such an affliction.
"I don't know if people truly are addicted to that. There's so much talk about it as of late. I think that she was a little wild and her husband had it within his power to commit her and I think kind of once she's in there, she kind of goes with it to come to who she is and how she identifies herself. So I think that she probably yes really likes sex. All the reaction, I don't know if she's quite a real nymphomaniac."
She also teased that Arden (James Cromwell) has some intriguing plans in store for Shelley.
"I guess it's kind of under wraps, but yes, he transforms her into something else. I don't how much more dialogue I have. There's lots of gurgling. You see her transformed into something, something not so pleasant to look at."
The actress also said she surprised herself during an early scene where she touches herself during a fight at the asylum.
"I found myself like during that scene where Kit is fighting in the first episode, like her being turned on by the violence. Like oh my God I'm really like going for it with this part, so I guess I surprised myself in that sense, in that scene."
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Jakarta Palembang 2018: Closing Ceremony
42 sports and 484 events will be contested at the 2018 Asian Games.
A total number of 462 medal sets will be awarded at the 2018 Asian Games across 47 sports.
Forty-five nations are set to participate at the 2018 Asian Games.
The 2018 Asian Games will mark the second time that Indonesia has hosted the event with Jakarta having done so in 1962.
The 2018 Asian Games will be the 18th edition of the event, which was first held in 1951 in New Delhi.
China go into the 2018 Asian Games as the all-time medal count with 2,976 - 1,355 gold, 928 silver and 693 bronze.
Venues at the 2018 Asian Games will be divided into four clusters, located in South Jakarta, North Jakarta, Jakarta's suburbs and in Palembang.
Palembang is a 47-minute flight from Jakarta.
The Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, built for when Jakarta hosted the 1962 Asian Games, will host athletics and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the 2018 Asian Games.
The Athletes' Village for the 2018 Asian Games will be located in North Jakarta.
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo inaugurated the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, which will host athletics and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the 2018 Asian Games, in January 2018.
Bridge, jet ski, jujitsu, kurash, paragliding, pencak silat, sambo, skateboarding and sport climbing are all set to make their Asian Games debut at Jakarta-Palembang 2018.
Athletics is a compulsory sport has featured at all 17 previous editions of the Asian Games.
The Asian Games basketball tournaments were seen as the unofficial Asian championships until the Asian Basketball Confederation Championship was formed in 1960.
Bridge will become the fourth mind sport to appear at the Asian Games when it makes its debut at Jakarta-Palembang 2018, following in the footsteps of chess, go and xiangqi.
India has won all nine of the gold medals awarded in kabaddi since the sport made its Asian Games debut in 1990.
A total of 13,000 volunteers will be required for the duration of the 2018 Asian Games, including some 2,000 in Palembang.
Volunteer roles are available for high-profile duties such as protocol assistants, National Olympic Committee assistants and liaison officers.
Volunteers at the 2018 Asian Games will wear specially designed, distinctive, eye-catching uniforms.
The Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2018 Asian Games, at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta, will feature around 10,000 performers.
There will be a 5,000-strong paid workforce on duty during the 2018 Asian Games.
The trio of animal mascots chosen for the 2018 Asian Games are bird of paradise "Bhin Bhin", single-horned rhinoceros "Kaka" and Bawean deer "Atung".
The first Asian Games to introduce a mascot was New Delhi 1982 when Appu, an elephant, was chosen.
Aice, Samsung, Asia Pulp Paper and Danone Aqua are all official sponsors of the 2018 Asian Games.
Ssangyong Information and Communications Corp, Canon, Pocari Sweat and Indofood are all official partners of the 2018 Asian Games.
Indonesia signed a Host City Contract for the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang during the Olympic Council of Asia General Assembly in Incheon in 2014.
Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia and located on the northern coast of West Java.
Jakarta is home to nine million people.
Jakarta was officially proclaimed the national capital of Indonesia in 1949, four years after the country’s independence from The Netherlands.
Jakarta has hosted the Southeast Asian Games more than any other country in the region, having staged the multi-sport event in 1979, 1987, 1997 and 2011, when they co-hosted with Palembang.
Palembang is the seventh-largest city in Indonesia.
2018 Jakarta Palembang Asian Games Medals Table
China 132 92 65
Japan 75 56 74
Korea, Republic Of 49 58 70
Indonesia 31 24 43
Balich Worldwide Shows to create Opening and Closing Ceremonies at 2018 Asian Para Games
Balich Worldwide Shows will create and produce the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2018 Asian Para Games in Indonesia, it has been announced.
The Italian firm, involved in 20 Olympic and Paralympic Ceremonies including at Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016, will work alongside the Indonesian group Royalindo Convention International to create the shows.
The 2018 Games in Jakarta will be the third edition of the Asian Para Games and will run from October 6 to 13.
The Opening Ceremony will be held in the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium and will celebrate the “spirit of one country”, it is claimed.
It will celebrate the importance “that Indonesia is a multitude of different individuals”.
The Opening Ceremony will be held in Jakarta's Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium, which also hosted the Ceremonies of the 2018 Asian Games ©Getty Images
Balich said in a statement it would be an “honour” to help create the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of this year’s event.
The 2018 Asian Games has already taken place across Jakarta and Palembang, having run from August 18 to September 2.
China topped the medals table with 132 golds, 92 silvers and 65 golds.
China also finished top of the medals table at the last Asian Para Games in 2014, where they won 174 golds, 95 silvers and 48 bronze medals.
This year's Asian Para Games are already set to break records, according to organisers.
The Organising Committee have announced they are expecting nearly 3,000 athletes to compete, more than any other previous edition.
There will also be more nations competing, 43, and more medals on offer, 568, than at any other Asian Para Games.
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DS TECHEETAH HEADS TO MONACO TO EXTEND ITS CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD
The ninth round of the ABB FIA Formula E 2018/2019 Season sets sail in Monaco on 11 May 2019. DS TECHEETAH enter the round as championship leaders for the Teams, with drivers André Lotterer and Jean-Éric Vergne in second and sixth place respectively in the Drivers' championship.
The famous Monaco circuit plays host to the all-electric street racing series for the third time in championship history. The two DS E-TENSE FE19 Gen2 cars will battle it out with the 20 other Gen2 cars on an adapted street circuit in the municipality across 12 turns and 1,765 km.
Mark Preston, DS TECHEETAH Team Principal: “We head to Monaco seven points ahead of our nearest rival so it’s still a very close championship order. Both of our drivers are in a good position for the drivers’ title and André also is current leader of the voestalpine European races.
“We’re once again in a fortunate position to be leading the Teams’ championship and be in the mix for the Drivers’ one, and it’s all down to our incredible team. In all my years in motorsport, I’ve never seen a group of people this passionate and dedicated. We may be a small team, but we’re a very efficient one.”
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New Chinese mega-resort in Bahamas points way to future
Baha Mar, a $3.5 billion seaside gambling resort, will be the largest such development in and around the Caribbean. Given the boost in Cayman’s tourism numbers and demographics of the Islands’ visitors, the giant hotel and casino is not expected to have much of an impact here.
The tourism industry of an island nation near Cuba and only a short flight from the United States is about to make worldwide news with the opening of a $3.5 billion seaside gambling resort that will become the largest such development in and around the Caribbean.
And by the way, the travel and hotel executives and financiers readying their announcement, chilling bottles of celebratory Champagne and preparing to count proceeds from hundreds, even thousands of new paying visitors don’t have anything to do with the Cayman Islands.
They are, in fact, investors in and employees of Baha Mar, a 1,000-acre super-resort on New Providence island in the Bahamas, a warm, sunny stroll from the Commonwealth’s biggest city, Nassau.
The build-out has been somewhat slow going, and, as with many projects in the Caribbean, developers say, the grand opening has been moved back over and over, and deadlines have been reset time and again. But then, the scope of this particular development is vast. Within the coming months, after the construction dust settles and the roar of earth movers fades, the sprawling site will include:
Some 3,000 feet of manicured beach
A convention, arts and entertainment center comprising 200,000 square feet of flexible space, along with a 30,000-square-foot gallery exhibiting the largest collection of Bahamian art in the island chain
The 100,000-square-foot Baha Mar Casino, described as the largest gaming center in the Caribbean
An attached 1,000-room luxury hotel, the Baha Mar, replete with ocean views and spas, and corridors that zip people onto the gaming floor
The Grand Hyatt at Baha Mar, a 700-room resort hotel
An 18-hole, 72-par Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course
The Rosewood 200-room beach-view hotel with 5,000-square-foot ballroom
The SLS Lux 300-room hotel, including private residences and luxury amenities
The Melia Nassau Beach Resort, an existing 694-room hotel that is undergoing renovation
Residential condominiums priced as high as $10 million
An ocean of swimming pools amid a grove of slender palm trees
And 40 restaurants, bars and lounges encompassing shops and kiosks, all filling 74,000 square feet of what the developers call “the Bahamian Riviera.
Beyond its array of architectural, cultural, commercial, culinary and entertainment features, Baha Mar also has an unexpected genesis.
What has been rising over a wedge-shaped plot since 2011 is the first major resort site conceived, largely financed and designed by both private and state investors from China.
Baha Mar could become the very place that connects the rapidly expanding Asian economic behemoth with one of the great outdoor playgrounds of the Western world – the Caribbean.
Over the last couple of years, this sun-kissed basin between Central America and the Atlantic Ocean, from Florida to the Colombian and Venezuelan coasts, has seen leisure travel heat up from the world’s economic chill. Cruises are more numerous, flights more frequent, and hotel occupancy higher than in the previous seven years, studies show. The Cayman Islands have benefited as well.
Not a threat to Cayman tourism
Does the addition of a giant gambling resort near Nassau threaten tourism prosperity in the rest of the Caribbean? Ken Hydes, president of the Cayman Islands Tourism Association, thinks not.
“To tell the truth, I haven’t thought much about this development in the Bahamas,” he said. Hydes and the CITA board are confident the visitor economy in Cayman is on sound footing, without mega-resorts or mega promotion budgets – and without gambling.
In part, that’s because the travelers Cayman has always attracted still seek a Cayman-like experience, not that of Las-Vegas-by-the-sea. CITA and the government’s Tourism Department have focused on marketing to their traditional demographic niche.
That niche is changing, Hydes acknowledges. Just as the Bahamas expects a flood of visitors from the world’s largest emerging nation, China, “We’ve been seeing more Russians and other Eastern Europeans visiting here” as they move up the economic ladder, he said.
“We’re seeing all kinds of change in this industry, but we’re not threatened by it. I’d be more worried about Baha Mar if I were running Atlantis.”
He was referring to the other Bahamas jumbo-resort with a casino, Atlantis on Paradise Island.
With all the developments, “We think the Caribbean is going to benefit from growth in leisure travel in the years to come,” Hydes said.
The Cayman Islands Department of Tourism also welcomes the gambling resort to the region’s tourism mix. Director of Tourism Rosa Harris said the department “has been aware of the Baha Mar project for many years,” adding, “its introduction will no doubt bring new travelers to the Caribbean.”
She expressed similar confidence to Hydes that “we are able to deliver on a brand experience that cannot be duplicated anywhere else in the world. We call it ‘Caymankind.’”
In short, Harris said, Baha Mar is no threat to Cayman’s tourism success, which has increased significantly in recent years.
Similarities, differences
Technically, the Bahamas archipelago doesn’t rise from the Caribbean Sea. The Commonwealth’s 700-plus islands lie solidly in the Atlantic Ocean. But the demographic mix, economy, culture and political alliances make it a longtime member of the Caribbean community. In fact, its British heritage and principal economic features – dependency on tourism and offshore banking are aspects it has in common with Cayman.
And, in recent history, the visitors who have come to enjoy these two paradises have come from the same places – the U.S., Canada and the U.K., as well as the rest of Western Europe.
Cross-cultural experiment
Travel industry experts, like those at STR, the Nashville, Tennessee-based global brand benchmarking company focused on hotel and travel brands, hint that Baha Mar might be a giant cross-cultural experiment that could change international leisure travel.
“There is this huge rising middle class in China,” notes Bobby Bowers, senior vic president of operations at STR. “It’s only natural that with the Chinese building this big resort in the Caribbean, they will reach out and try to encourage some of their own people, the ones with more wealth and their relatively new freedom to travel internationally, to vacation in the Caribbean.”
Indeed, a year-old report from Oxford Economics, which studies and consults on travel, said China, chief among some other emerging nations, will become the driving force of the travel industry through the mid-2020s.
Now that an international economic crisis has loosened its grip on leisure spending, some citizens of emerging countries like Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and, of course, China, the biggest of them all, will find the means to roam the globe. Plus, as Bowers said, “Along with their increased wealth, middle class people in China finally have more freedom to travel, too.”
Travel agency giant Amadeus, which helped finance the 2014 Oxford Economics study, said China’s global travel could become a full 20 percent of the total by 2023, crowding the industry beyond what we can now imagine.
For Chinese interests to own and run a gambling resort on the scope of Baha Mar would seem to be part and parcel of this international trend in travel – and a good bet for the resort’s owners.
China’s role in Bahamas resort
China flexed its muscles in many ways during the development of the huge Bahamas resort. In negotiations over how the multi-billion-dollar project would proceed, the Chinese government and companies insisted that they would ship more than 4,000 Asian workers to live in barracks near Nassau and toil at the construction site.
China has used this labor model for a range of projects and in other locales, including in Sri Lanka and Angola.
That was a feature the developers wanted in their deal with the Bahamian government, and it was one to which the host nation agreed, despite the Bahamas having an unemployment rate of 15.7 percent at the beginning of 2015. Further, on the more urbanized island of New Providence, where Baha Mar has been under construction, the unemployment rate reached 16 percent this year.
The Tribune newspaper in the Bahamas reported yet worse economic news: “Youths between 15 and 24” – the ages of many of the construction workers on New Providence – “continued to face a considerably higher rate [of unemployment].”
The paper said that recent data put the unemployment rate for young workers at 31 percent. Meanwhile, at the peak of construction, a study showed that 70 percent of the resort’s labor was made up of foreign nationals, most of them the then-4,200 Chinese brought there by the main contractor, China State Construction Engineering Corp.
However, a 2,900-room resort community requires a lot of resident workers year after year, not just the ones who build the structures.
Kimberly Hanson, a spokeswoman for the Dallas, Texas-based Rosewood Hotel Group, which has a small luxury hotel on the Baha Mar property, said, “We expect visitors from all over the world there, but we do expect lots of Chinese visitors.” Thus, the flow of Chinese nationals as guests, lured to the Caribbean by promotional messages, could make it easy to discount the economic contributions of a few thousand construction workers for a couple of years.
Baha Mar executives also think the China connection will aid the resort in its cross-island competition with Atlantis. Just weeks ago, Brookfield Asset Management, with majority ownership of Atlantis, announced the departure of its top executive, George Markantonis. His replacement, Paul Burke, now serves as president and managing director.
In its published statement about the transition, Atlantis said nothing about the towering Baha Mar buildings taking shape just a few miles away. Markantonis, who left for a job in Las Vegas, expressed his “full confidence the property will continue to flourish under Paul’s leadership.” Meanwhile, the new mega-resort was chugging toward its launch.
Opening delayed
There remains the issue of when, exactly, Baha Mar will open to guests. In 2014, the promise was that the Rosewood, the Grand Hyatt and the Baha Mar Casino & Hotel would open by December 2014, in time for most of the development to reap a fine harvest from the high-impact winter season. Delays shifted the opening to early March, then to late March and now to early May. Rosewood’s Hanson said that is still the target for launching the resort.
The Grand Hyatt says likewise, and so does Baha Mar management.
But why all the delays? Labor issues surfaced for one thing. In January, a hotel workers union voted to strike over compensation. Restaurant and bar management companies along with financial executives and bureaucrats back in China wanted to reduce their gratuities below the standard 15 percent, negatively effecting their wages. The dispute went on for months.
A group of 60 Chinese workers marched on Nassau’s central business district, protesting that some of them had not been paid in months. Another delay.
Day-to-day decisions that, in the Chinese central-government manner, had to be deferred to functionaries in Beijing caused yet further slowdowns. Pretty soon the bitter cold 2015 winter in much of Canada and the Midwest and Northeast United States gave way to signs of spring, when the get-away-to-the-Caribbean season becomes a memory.
After initial delays, resort executives set March 27 as opening day. On March 25, executives blamed construction managers for more delays. “Subsequently,” they said in a statement, “it has become clear that the contractor has not completed the work with an attention to detail consistent with Baha Mar standards of excellence.” Hence, the latest delay until early May.
Also, resort managers said not all four new hotels are guaranteed to open in May. The Grand Hyatt, they said, may open “shortly thereafter,” and renovations on the fifth hotel will continue for an indeterminate time.
The loss of business of its once-planned first high season will cost the development tens of millions, resort executives say. Plus, the setbacks have won Baha Mar some unkind digs.
A hotel industry blog, “Hotel Chatter,” gave the resort a backhand award for “worst Hotel Hype,” saying its continuing delays seriously undercut the project’s credibility and made it appear bush-league.
But then, common wisdom has it that the Chinese have shown themselves to be patient people. By the end of 2015, another winter will be taking hold, and tourists from cold-climate centers of wealth will be thinking about getting in a round of golf in the Caribbean sunshine or snorkeling and diving in warm waters.
“We think we see diversity in our clientele now,” said Maria Ruiz, a nighttime desk clerk at a tourist hotel in Miami Beach. “We’ve got Brazilians, loads of Latin Americans, Russians, Indians, Japanese, Saudis, Nigerians.
“But in a just a few years, you can bet we’ll be checking in people from absolutely everywhere, Chinese by the thousands, Indonesians, Vietnamese,” she said. “International travel is going to make the world flatter than ever.”
The Cayman Islands will benefit from that flatter world too. Bobby Bowers, with the consulting firm STR, said,
“We track the occupancy of hotels all over the Caribbean – and other places, too,” he said. “[Tourism] was up last year. It’s up this year.
And there’s building going on throughout the region.”
Cayman tourism on the rise
As reported in the Cayman Compass earlier this year, 2014 was a successful year for Cayman Islands tourism and was reflected across the region with almost every island in the Caribbean seeing an increase in visitation in what officials describe as the “best ever year” for the industry. Overall tourism arrival figures for the Caribbean were up just over 5 percent in 2014.
The Cayman Islands, which had a record year, was one of the top performers, seeing gains of just over 10 percent. Further, the Cayman Islands accounted for 1.4 percent of the 26 million visitors to the Caribbean in 2014.
“Last year, we received more visitors than ever before – recording our fifth straight year of growth – and visitors spent more money in the Caribbean than they ever did before,” CTO chairman Richard Sealy said in a state of the industry report. The report indicates that tourists spent US$29.5 billion in the region last year.
Air and cruise arrivals continue to set record levels in Cayman, and the outlook is positive again for this year.
The Caribbean Tourism Organization anticipates tourism growth to continue, forecasting a further 5 percent increase across the region in 2015.
Compass reporter James Whittaker contributed to this article.
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Guest opinion: Junior Achievement volunteers offer much to SW Florida students
The term "philanthropy" is often made in reference to monetary donations, but sometimes, it's not just about cutting a check.
Yes, financial assistance is critical, but time is just as important. Eight years ago, I joined a group of successful business, government and nonprofit leaders who offer their time and valuable insight to students through Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida.
Junior Achievement is our way to share tricks of the trade with aspiring business leaders, life lessons we wished someone told us when we were teenagers or pre-teens. It can be advice on picking a college major, why it's important to have a savings account or how to be a leader and winner in life.
Brandon Box
Ten years ago, I started working at IBERIABANK as a commercial banking intern. A decade later, my responsibilities as executive vice president and market president for the Sarasota and Fort Myers markets are vastly different. Yes, I've worked hard in advancing to this position so quickly in my career, but I didn't do it alone. I had help along the way, wisdom and guidance from my colleagues, friends and local business leaders who took the time to guide me down this path.
With my background in banking, most of my discussions with students center around money. Their financial decisions - good and bad - can change their lives for better or worse. Many students don't have a financial expert living in their home, and Money Management 101 isn't part of the standard school curriculum. That's why I help explain debt load, lending and borrowing, the importance of saving, basics of budgeting, paying for college and one element that seems to trip up most Americans - credit card debt.
My advice boils down to making sound financial decisions. Don't spend money that you don't have.
Following our discussions in the classroom, students often pull me aside for questions about complex or personal issues like bankruptcy, foreclosure and options for parents who are out of work. It's questions like these that must be answered, and it's exactly why Junior Achievement is such a critical program for our youth.
On April 25, Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida will recognize two of my colleagues who graciously have given their time to the organization and area schoolchildren. Pason Gaddis, co-founder and CEO of Florida Media Group, LLC, and Gary Griffin, P.E., president and CEO of B & I Contractors, Inc., will be inducted into the 2018 Business Hall of Fame, Lee County. Since it was established in 1999, the Business Hall of Fame has recognized outstanding entrepreneurs and role models who demonstrate a strong commitment to the community and our next generation of leaders.
I invite you to share in this fantastic event and help make a difference in the lives of local students. The Business Hall of Fame event will take place Wednesday, April 25, at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa, 5001 Coconut Road in Bonita Springs. A cocktail reception at 5 p.m. kicks off the event, followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. and the induction ceremony.
To reserve tables, purchase individual tickets or become a sponsor, call the Junior Achievement office at 239-225-2590 or visit www.JASWFL.org. Proceeds benefit local Junior Achievement programs.
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Scandalous vote result annulled in North Caucasus
Published time: 4 Dec, 2009 13:50 Edited time: 4 Dec, 2009 20:38
Mayoral election results have been annulled in the city of Derbent, in Russia’s Dagestan, the first such case in the North Caucasus and the first time a vote’s outcome has been cancelled not in favor of the ruling party.
On December 3, the Derbent city court in the Republic of Dagestan nullified the results of the October 11 election, which was marked by a number of scandals and violations.
According to official results, Felix Kaziahkmedov from the pro-Kremlin United Russia party won the mayoral seat for a second term with 67.5 per cent of the vote.
The action against the outcome of the vote was brought by three other candidates for the mayor’s post, including Kaziahkmedov’s main opponent, former prosecutor of the republic Imamali Yaraliev. The court ruling was based on Elkhan Kazimov’s and Salikh Ramazanov’s complaints, whilst the court hearing on Yaraliev’s complain is yet to be held.
It’s most likely that that the court’s decision will be appealed by the opposite side and the case will be brought before the Supreme Court, Yaraliev’s representative told gzt.ru.
“In the lawsuit we filed, we presented proof that the elections were held with serious violations of the law – there was administrative pressure. For no reason, citizens were robbed of their right to vote. In other words, their constitutional right,” Khadir Yusupov is quoted as saying.
According to official data, out of 36 polling stations in Derbent, only 23 opened on the Election Day. Yusupov, however, claims 20 polling places had their doors opened for the voters.
“Moreover, they [the polling stations] repeatedly interrupted their work, explaining it by different reasons, including a bomb threat,” he said. Yusupov also added that there were cases when voters were expelled and said that evidence of that was provided to the court.
So far, the only reaction issued from Russia’s Central Election Commission has been a short statement on its website saying that the Derbent court’s decision can be appealed within 10 days.
Earlier, the CEC Chairman Vladimir Churov said that after the voting in Derbent, eight criminal cases were launched, including alleged bribery of electors by one of the candidates, forged ballots and threats to a chairman of one of local election commissions.
“It was not easy to hold elections there by a long way,” he said in an interview with “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” paper. The situation in Derbent is really complicated because of political infighting among the candidates and a “special economic situation”, he said back in October
Show case?
The Derbent case is, in a way, unique and some are calling it “symbolic”. So far, despite opposition protests and claims of violations, no other October 11 election results have been annulled.
“Court decisions like that are generally pretty rare,” political analyst Aleksandr Kynev is quoted as saying by Kommersant daily. It’s the first time ever in the North Caucasus – “where elections are always held with violations”- that the vote result has been cancelled.
The federal power, he said, intended to show that outrageous violations did not slip through the cracks and that consequences will follow even when United Russia candidates are involved.
Some other observers go even further, saying that the Derbent case is a bad sign for Dagestan President Mukhu Aliyev, since he failed to prove he controls the situation in the republic. Aliyev’s term ends in February 2010 and chances that he will remain the Dagestan’s leader are not that high now.
Earlier, a court in Moscow ordered a ballot recount and the city election committee filed a request to instigate a case against certain wrongdoings. The reason for the recount was a complaint by Sergey Mitrokhin – the leader of the opposition party Yabloko – who discovered that not a single vote had been cast for his party in the Khamovniki District in central Moscow where he and his family voted.
Opposition protests
On October 11, about 7,000 elections for local and municipal legislatures of all levels were held in 76 of 83 constituent parts of the Russian Federation, most of them very small scale though. United Russia’s victory in almost all regions didn’t come as a surprise and the Communist Party came second in most elections, but, as usual, with a huge gap between them.
Three days after the voting day, in protest against the election results, all three opposition parties – The Communists, the Liberal Democrats and Fair Russia – refused to take part in the State Duma session and walked out of the lower house of parliament. They claimed widespread voting irregularities and demanded an urgent meeting with President Medvedev.
Two days later, the Liberal Democrats and the Fair Russia party ended their boycott, whilst the Communists remained defiant, demanding an investigation into alleged vote-rigging.
In order to calm the opposition, Medvedev held a meeting with the three parties’ representatives on October 24 – three days earlier than the meeting was initially scheduled for.
“There are special rules in the Constitution for disputing voting results. This is essential. There can be no electoral system without it,” Dmitry Medvedev said.
Following the meeting, the Russian leader asked the CEC chief to look into the alleged fraud claims.
There have been very few cases in Russia’s modern history when city or regional vote results have been annulled.
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Prior to joining OGE in 2005, Mr. Myers was with Westar Energy in Kansas as director of finance and corporate development. While at Westar, he spent three years in France, where he managed Westar's unregulated investment in Protection One Europe.
Mr. Myers has an undergraduate degree in business with a concentration in geology and a Master of Business Administration degree, both from the University of Kansas. He currently serves on the KU Business School's Dean's Advisory Board. In Oklahoma City he currently serves as the Treasurer of Allied Arts and is a member of the Board of Junior Achievement of OKC, where he is a former Chairman of the Board. Mr. Myers previously served on the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. Mr. Myers and his wife Janie have two boys and live in Edmond, Oklahoma.
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Case Name EEOC v. FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION aka FEDEX EE-TN-0042
Docket / Court 98-2235GA ( W.D. Tenn. )
State/Territory Tennessee
Case Type(s) Disability Rights-Pub. Accom.
Equal Employment
On March 9, 1998, the Washington D.C. and Memphis offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII and the Americans with Disabilities Act against Federal Express Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. The EEOC alleged ... read more >
On March 9, 1998, the Washington D.C. and Memphis offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII and the Americans with Disabilities Act against Federal Express Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of the complainant by discriminating against him on the basis of his deafness.
On July 9, 1998, the complainant intervened in the lawsuit, but on January 12, 1999, he agreed to a stipulated dismissal of his private claims against the defendants. On April 8, 1999, the parties reached a consent decree. Under the terms of the decree, the defendants were prohibited from discriminating or retaliating against any individual who complained of discrimination. The defendants agreed to revise their recruitment and application practices to accommodate applicants who were hearing impaired. The defendant also agreed to post notice of employment discrimination laws in a conspicuous place for their employees. Within 30 days of the execution of the consent decree, the defendant agreed to write a letter to the Regional Attorney in this litigation detailing all measures that they took to comply with the decree.
Justin Kanter - 02/22/2008
Discrimination Prohibition
Follow recruitment, hiring, or promotion protocols
Other requirements regarding hiring, promotion, retention
Post/Distribute Notice of Rights / EE Law
Retaliation Prohibition
Utilize objective hiring/promotion criteria
Accommodation / Leave
Disability (inc. reasonable accommodations)
Private Party intervened in EEOC suit
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12111 et seq.
Defendant(s) Federal Express Corporation
Nature of Relief Injunction / Injunctive-like Settlement
2:98-cv-02235-jsg (W.D. Tenn.)
EE-TN-0042-9000.pdf | Detail
Stipulated Order of Dismissal as to Intervening Plaintiff, Robert H. Cook, Jr. [ECF# 28] (W.D. Tenn.)
Order on Plaintiff's Motion to Compel [ECF# 36] (W.D. Tenn.)
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Britain's Stateless Citizens
by Daniel Simpson
An ongoing crime ignored by U.S. media
Diego Garcia: The Special Relationship's Dirty Secret
CRAWLEY, England - Allen Vincatassin is an immigrant with a difference: he wants to go back to where he came from but the British government won't let him. So he's importing his compatriots instead.
Five hundred have joined this exodus since the chilly September dawn that greeted Vincatassin and the 18 friends and relatives he'd persuaded to trade tropical sunshine for a one-way ticket to Gatwick airport, where they hunkered under strip lighting by the toilets while he badgered officials to find them a hotel. The letter he'd received from London a few days earlier failed to deter him. "There is no question of our offering any temporary accommodation or other means of short term financial support," a Foreign Office minister had insisted. No matter. After three days of belligerent phone calls and eating out of cans, they were given 30 pounds each for food and rooms in the airport Travelodge. Vincatassin's audacity had paid off; their bills were covered for six months until they'd cobbled together enough cash between them to decamp to suburbia.
This was no asylum-seeking stunt, however, and it drew none of the usual tabloid newspaper hysteria about refugees exposing Britain as a "soft touch". All 19 carried British passports, thanks to an Act of Parliament offering them the right to settle in a country they'd never seen, although its flag still flies over the coral atolls they called home until their families were expelled to make way for an American military base. For decades, these dispossessed exiles have demanded the right to return to their islands in the Indian Ocean, but to no avail. Most remain where the retreating British Empire dumped them: in the shantytowns of Mauritius and the Seychelles. Appeals for assistance have gone unheeded since 1982, when a meagre payout was authorised on the condition it would never be repeated.
"The passport came as a lifejacket," Vincatassin reflects. A short man of 35, given to grandiloquence, he puffs out his chest and surveys the living room of a squat terraced house he shares with his wife and brother in Crawley, a drab commuter belt New Town, barely five miles from the London runway where they landed three years ago. "It was like enlightenment for me and I said, yes! At least if we are on their doorstep they'll have to do something."
Not all of his fellow islanders are impressed by Vincatassin's quest to secure welfare payments for new arrivals to a community dispersed across the cul-de-sacs and crescents of Crawley's post-war housing estates. To some, it's a distraction from their ongoing struggle to resettle the depopulated Chagos archipelago and, as such, a symptom of identity crisis. The disputes over how best to seek redress from the British establishment reflect conflicting notions of what it means to be Chagossian; whether suffering is something to escape or to exhibit, whether a felicitous future lies in reviving a bygone way of life or in making the most of present opportunities.
Olivier Bancoult, chairman of the Mauritian-based Chagos Refugee Group and claimant in a legal challenge to Britain's decree that the islands should remain uninhabited, is clear on how he sees it. "Here is not our country," he said during a recess at his High Court hearing in London, which he's flown in from Port Louis to attend. "If Allen Vincatassin cared about his fundamental right to return to his homeland, he should have taken up the case against the British government, not come here and settled."
Of the two-dozen Chagossian visitors shivering alongside Bancoult in the court's public gallery this winter, just three speak enough English to have more than the faintest idea what's going on. The case unfolding beneath them turns on arcane constitutional principles and its two judges have no power to send them home, but might just reinstate a theoretical right of return that Bancoult's lawyers have already established once, before the government revoked it. Anything further-reaching is almost unthinkable: the island of Diego Garcia hosts a precious Pentagon outpost and the United States remains as opposed to the presence of indigenous people as it was when it ordered Britain to deport them 40 years ago.
"Our view," wrote Eric Newsom, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, in a letter to British officials in 2000, "is that any settlement of a resident civilian population even on the outer islands of the archipelago would significantly degrade the strategic importance of a vital military asset unique in the region to both our governments." In other words, forget about it. Four years later, Britain duly obliged. Although the High Court had ruled in November 2000 that the original expulsion of the Chagos islanders constituted "an abject legal failure", ministers simply reinstated the law that banished them, only this time it was even tougher. Magna Carta be damned; "No person has the right of abode," declared the July 2004 ordinance. To bypass Parliament, which would almost certainly have slapped down the legislation, the government used the Queen's ancient Prerogative power as a rubber stamp. As Britain has no written constitution, it is now up to the courts to determine whether, as the government insists, Her Majesty still has the right to do whatever she pleases to her subjects in colonial dominions.
"There is no precedent that we have been able to find in statute, case law, or indeed in history for what has been done," argues Bancoult's barrister, Sir Sydney Kentridge, who made his name defending Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko in their struggles against apartheid. Kentridge's opposite number says he has "a knockout blow", however, in the form of an 1865 statute granting the Queen unlimited power under colonial law unless Parliament expressly forbids a particular course of action. Regardless of which side the judges take when they hand down their decision later this year, the losing party is almost certain to appeal. An eventual Chagossian victory would be virtually meaningless in any case, the islanders' solicitor concedes, because it would change nothing in practice. "I don't see any hope that the government will take anything approaching a humane view or what one might call a rational view of these people's rights," regrets Richard Gifford, a London lawyer who has devoted much of the past eight years to preparing Bancoult's two cases and an unsuccessful class action for compensation. "I think they've made a policy decision: the exercise is simply to serve their master as best they can."
The United States itself has long since washed its hands of its role in what the Washington Post described in 1975 as an "act of mass kidnapping". Even if there were no legal duty to recompense the Chagossians, the chairman of a House of Representatives committee stressed later the same year, "it is certainly not a glorious chapter in the compassion of the United States to deny responsibility for those people." Three decades later, following Bancoult's initial victory in London, an American attorney filed a lawsuit against a string of secretaries of defence, from Robert McNamara to Donald Rumsfeld, but a judge ruled they had immunity against litigation by foreigners. Either way, both the Pentagon and the State Department lay the blame for what happened at Britain's door and refer probing questions to Whitehall. "Every time the British government feels uncomfortable they point the finger at the United States and every time the American government feels uncomfortable they point it at the United Kingdom," says Bancoult's Washington lawyer, Michael Tigar, who is appealing the decision against his client. "The two parties acted in concert all along the way."
Undeterred by all the stonewalling, Olivier Bancoult swears he'll never give up. An electrician by trade, he sill lives within walking distance of the tin-shack slum where he grew up in Mauritius, juggling his campaigning work with appointments to read meters. His family lost its hut on the Peros Banhos atoll, 100 miles north of Diego Garcia, when he was four. After a cart ran over his youngest sister's leg, Bancoult, his eight siblings and their parents boarded a boat for the nearest hospital, 1,000 miles away in Port Louis. When they tried to return home, they learned the local shipping company had cancelled all departures. Their island was officially off-limits; it had been "sold" to the U.S. military. This was depopulation by stealth: like hundreds of others in the late 1960s, the family had inadvertently signed up for a one-way passage. Their possessions were lost, their future bleak. Bancoult's father, an unskilled coconut farmer like his peers, failed to find work in Mauritius and died within a few years. One of his sisters set herself ablaze in despair. Two brothers drank themselves to death. "Animals have better treatment than us," he protests. "We have never asked for the closure of the base. As far as we are concerned we should just have the same rights as all human beings."
Fighting talk and faith may not be enough to sustain the expectations generated by Bancoult's original success in court. Five years on, fewer and fewer Chagossians believe they'll ever set foot on their islands again. "Many people want to move here," their leader acknowledges over dinner at his suburban hotel, "but the ticket from Mauritius is very expensive. Life in London is very expensive." Supporters in Britain chipped in to pay for Bancoult and his party to fly over to watch the case; another local sympathiser cooked the chicken and rice they're devouring in a corner of the hotel restaurant; all they've eaten since the morning are the leftovers they pocketed from the breakfast table. One of their number is here to stay; unlike most of the other Chagossians in the room, Jean-Paul Selmour is not wearing a woolly hat; he's acclimatising. "I think England will become my second country," he says. "I will take any job I can find. My 12-year-old daughter wants a better education."
Most mornings, from first light, Crawley's extravagantly named central artery plays host to impromptu gatherings of Chagossians. Singularly lacking in greenery, The Boulevard is landscaped out of concrete and tarmac and flanked by poky discount retailers. In the shadow of the T.J. Hughes department store, and its prominently displayed sales pitch: "Because everybody loves a bargain", two recent immigrants swap job-hunting tips. An open-air public telephone stands beside the bench where they've congregated; across the street lies an employment agency specialising in temporary work. Dieson Tiatous, a sprightly 19-year-old, has just finished his first night shift at a bakery. Already, he's looking for something different. "It was the same thing all night – very boring," he says. "I went to this office now," he nods in the direction of the agency, "and I asked them if they have other work and they told me yes, come back at one o'clock. Every day I need to come here in the morning and afternoon. I like it here but it's difficult to find a job."
Apart from the language barrier – Chagossians speak a Creole dialect and many, especially the elderly, are illiterate – there's paperwork to process and bureaucracy to negotiate. Enter Allen Vincatassin, pioneer of the Crawley community and now a one-man citizens' advice bureau, dispensing the insights he's gleaned from his own struggle to navigate his way around the system. Whether you need a translator, a new house, or guidance on getting a national insurance number, Vincatassin's your man. And he's indignant at the rumours that he charges for his services. "It's my mission," he says. "I help this community and I do it with joy." It's not just Chagossians who benefit, either. Other immigrants seek him out, so well established is his reputation as a fixer at the local social security office. "Everybody knows Allen," the duty manager says. When his mobile phone rings, Vincatassin flips into a different gear. "Do you have any witnesses?" he asks a woman from the Cayman Islands, who's just been evicted by her landlord and wants help finding temporary accommodation. "Is it your first year in the country? Tell them that you don't know the rules on how it works here."
Judging by the religious references that pepper his speech, including a self-conscious comparison of himself to Moses, Vincatassin derives much of his inspiration from his Catholic faith, bequeathed to Chagossians in part by their original colonial masters, the French. The rest seems to stem from the memory of his grandfather Michel, who put his name to the first attempt to claim compensation from Britain in 1975. "Every time my grandfather talked about the islands, he would cry," Vincatassin recalls. "I remember one day he stopped me and said Allen, if there is one thing that you need to do, the most important thing in your life and that's where success lies, it's to fight for this cause."
Michel Vincatassin's writ against the British government was filed on the strength of an eviction notice. As a supervisor on the Diego Garcian coconut plantation, he'd been summoned by the island's administrator and told there'd be no work once the Americans arrived: everyone still remaining would have to leave. Michel insisted on having the order in writing; when a prominent Mauritian lawyer got wind of this document several years later, he contacted Michel and took up the appeal. Although Britain had awarded the Chagossians £650,000 in 1973, the money was paid to the Mauritian government, which waited five years to pass it on. Inflation had eaten away most of its value in the meantime and nobody had given any thought to the housing projects it was supposed to fund. After protracted legal hearings and a series of rejected offers, Britain eventually agreed to a second payout of £4 million in 1982, provided Michel Vincatassin dropped his case. He reluctantly agreed. There was another proviso, however: to qualify for compensation, the Chagossians had to sign a document waiving their rights both to future claims and to return to their islands. Debate has raged ever since as to whether they understood the papers they marked with inky thumbprints. Either way, at less than £3,000 a head, the payout was a pittance, considering the indebted and impoverished state of its recipients.
"If you're thirsty, the first glass of water that appears before you, you are going to drink," muses Allen Vincatassin. "You won't take into consideration whether there is any poison in it." Arguments such as these drew little sympathy from the British legal establishment when the Chagossians filed a fresh suit in 2002. "Justice does not require an obviously unmeritorious case to be allowed to proceed," ruled the judge who threw out the claim, dismissing testimony from witnesses who swore they had no clue what they were supposed to have renounced. "Ill-treatment does not require a hopeless case to be allowed to continue." Mindful of these damning statements, Vincatassin has focused his attention on a different form of financial assistance: benefit payments.
Under the 1948 National Assistance Act, a cornerstone of Britain's welfare state, local authorities are obliged to house adults "who by reason of age, illness, disability or any other circumstances are in need of care and attention which is not otherwise available to them." This was the safety net that caught Vincatassin when he landed at Gatwick: West Sussex County Council stepped in to foot his bills. It set an expensive precedent that's cost more than £750,000 as fellow nationals flock to the same destination. Many recent arrivals have found work at the airport itself and the vast majority have settled within a 10-mile radius. Since more than 5,000 Chagossians remain eligible to relocate to the United Kingdom, local politicians are worried about the long-term implications. "Plainly the British government owes the Chagos islanders a substantial moral debt," says Crispin Blunt, the Conservative MP for Reigate and Banstead, "but if repaying this debt is left to a very small proportion of the British population then the goodwill these people deserve may rapidly dissipate."
Vincatassin agrees this is a concern, although he reports no hostility from Crawley residents. He's taking the government to court later this year to appeal against its ruling that Chagossians need to live here for six months before they're eligible to sign on for unemployment benefit and other centrally administered welfare payments, as he himself has done. Having been awarded full British citizenship in 2002, the islanders should be entitled to the same rights as UK natives, he argues: "I'm a British islander born on Diego Garcia, therefore a British Diego Garcian." When the council sought to cut its costs by offering people plane tickets back to Mauritius, Vincatassin was incensed. "I said if you want to send us back, send us back to Diego Garcia," he recalls. "If you can't send us there then we will settle here."
Paradise is a vision debased by countless package holiday brochures, but the U.S. Navy wasn't exaggerating when it dubbed Diego Garcia "Fantasy Island". Its vast deep-water lagoon, framed by a palm-clad horseshoe of coral limestone, offers "unbelievable recreational facilities and exquisite natural beauty," a Pentagon website boasts; living conditions on "the Best Kept Secret in the Navy" are described as "outstanding". Of this the former inhabitants are well aware. They once led simple lives there, husking the bountiful supply of coconuts and drying their kernels in kilns to yield a substance called copra, which they ground in donkey-driven mills to extract an oil used in cosmetics and confectionary. Although they owned no title to their land, the plantation managers let them build houses where they liked, providing sheets of tin and wooden planks, straw for the roofs and the stone that paved their floors, as well as rations of rice and corn. They kept chickens, pigs and goats, planted sweet potatoes and manioc in the fertile soil and cooked fresh fish over fires on the beach. Many never had to buy anything except clothes.
Life was not always so idyllic, however: the original Chagossians were slaves, imported from east Africa by French plantation owners. After defeating Napoleon in the early 19th century, Britain took control of the 65 "Oil Islands", as the archipelago was then known, and supplemented the workforce with contracted labourers from its newly acquired colonies in Mauritius and the Seychelles. When slavery was abolished, these groups inter-married and their children mostly remained on Diego Garcia and the neighbouring clusters of atolls, Peros Banhos and Salomon. By the 1960s, when American strategists were scouring the Indian Ocean for a foothold to replace bases the British could no longer afford, the permanent population of the Chagos islands had swelled to about 2,000. This was unacceptable to military planners, who feared they would be obliged, under Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter, to honour their "sacred trust … to develop self-government" for these people, thereby handing them the power to veto a foreign presence. Once the United States had decided to build what it euphemistically termed "an austere communications facility" on Diego Garcia, diplomats preoccupied themselves with the question of how to rid the island of its inhabitants without attracting worldwide condemnation.
"We must surely be very tough about this," declared Sir Paul Gore-Booth, the permanent under-secretary at Britain's Colonial Office, in a 1966 briefing. "There will be no indigenous population except seagulls." A junior colleague appended a hand-written note to this document, presumably amused at its wit: "Unfortunately along with the birds go some few Tarzans or Men Fridays whose origins are obscure and who are being hopefully wished on to Mauritius." A £3 million backhander and the promise of independence secured the latter objective; the Chagos islands were duly hived off and reconstituted as the British Indian Ocean Territory, complete with its own flag: a bastardised Stars and Stripes featuring a Union Jack in the top left corner, 13 blue-and-white wavy bars and a palm tree embellished with a crown. Reclassifying the resident population as Mauritian migrant workers was more complicated, but Britain's willingness to "make up the rules as we go along", to quote a Foreign Office legal adviser, ensured it was done. In return, Washington rewarded Harold Wilson's Labour government with a $14 million discount on the Polaris nuclear missile system, which the Prime Minister had previously pledged not to buy. These agreements were concealed from Parliament and Congress, while officials concocted "a whopping fib", as one memo put it, to tell the United Nations. All that remained was to evict the islanders.
It would be difficult to find a Chagossian who could not recount in detail what happened next, regardless of whether it actually happened to them; their "deracinement", or uprooting, defines them as a people. It was a piecemeal process, drawn out over five years, in part to keep the plantations active for as long as possible so the cost of removing the workforce might be defrayed. Rations were gradually run down to persuade people to leave and those who ventured offshore found it impossible to return. Eventually, in 1971, a ship docked at Diego Garcia to evacuate those who remained. Before their eyes, the island's administrator demanded that their dogs, numbering around a thousand, be rounded up and poisoned with strychnine. So gruesome was the sight of the animals' plight, however, that he changed his mind and ordered them to be shot by an advance detachment of U.S. Navy Seabees, who had landed earlier in the year to bulldoze a runway. When this proved too difficult to accomplish quickly, the dogs were herded into a shed used to dry copra and gassed with exhaust fumes from military vehicles. Distraught, the Diego Garcians boarded their boat with a few bags of possessions and crammed into the hold for a 10-day voyage in the company of a cargo of fertiliser. Two years later, the Peros Banhos plantation closed and the final group of islanders set sail for Port Louis, where they, like the others, were simply left on the wharf to fend for themselves.
"The Chagossian cultural identity is all about suffering," stresses Steffen Johannessen, a Norwegian anthropologist who spent a year living with exiles in Mauritius. "In order to change their situation they have to expose it, because they're dependent on other people to help them." Most Mauritians treat "les Ilois", as the islanders are known in Creole, with disdain. On arrival, they received no practical assistance to integrate themselves into local society; nobody provided training that might have helped them find work. It is hardly surprising that many turned to drugs and prostitution, or that "sadness" is blamed for a spate of deaths and suicides in the 1970s. The communal sense of grief can take on a life of its own, as the Chagossians found to their cost when the judge who dismissed their compensation claim accused witnesses of falsifying evidence. "There was an element of 'collective' or 'folk memory'," he ruled. "Stories went round which became lodged in people's minds as events which had happened and then as events which they had witnessed."
For a while, a few years back, it seemed their luck might finally be turning. After declining to appeal a High Court judgement that invoked Tacitus ("They make a desert and call it peace") to declare the expulsions unlawful, the British government agreed in 2000 to investigate how to repopulate the archipelago's outer islands. The first phase of their study concluded resettlement was only feasible if the Chagossians had transport links to the outside world. Diego Garcia's 2.5-mile runway is reserved for the stealth bombers and B-52s stationed on what U.S. officials regard as "an all but indispensable platform" for policing the world. Without another airstrip elsewhere, it would be difficult to exploit the islands' tourist appeal, although they're already a popular yachting stopover. It's rare to find less than a dozen boats moored in the lagoons of Peros Banhos and Salomon, where they're allowed to lay anchor for months at a time on payment of daily fees to British officials. An organisation funded by the Foreign Office even publishes a leaflet suggesting visitors step ashore. "There is nowhere in the world like Chagos," it proclaims. "Get out and look for yourself."
The islanders themselves yearn for such an opportunity. For five years they've been waiting for Britain to honour a promise to let 100 of them visit the graveyards where, in a uniquely Chagossian tradition, they buried their umbilical cords beside the bodies of their ancestors. On five separate occasions, a date has been set, only for the trip to be cancelled at the last minute. In the meantime, phase two of the feasibility study on their resettlement concluded it would cost too much. The report ignored potential funding from a €20 billion European development budget for overseas territories and said rising sea levels caused by global warming would make human habitation "highly precarious". There are no plans to evacuate Diego Garcia, however, where two thirds of the 3,500 personnel at "Camp Justice" are Filipino civilians hired to work on the base. Chagossians who apply for jobs there are routinely rejected, as are their requests to return to the eastern half of the island, a designated nature reserve unused by the military. For them, the options are limited: lives of penury in Mauritius and the Seychelles or a struggle to escape by whatever means possible. "If I were Chagossian," ventures a retired British diplomat, "I would make for the UK and derive all the benefits of living here, with a future for myself and my children."
Even the Grande Dame of the struggle has lost hope. Tired of wrestling policemen and starving herself on the British ambassador's lawn, Charlesia Alexis has come to Crawley to die. She spends her days sleeping, or squinting at the television in a Turkish-run guesthouse under the flight path into Gatwick. "I don't have a future, that's why I say the future is here," she announces, as if addressing a crowd. "What else can I do? The British government owes me." At the age of 71, she may be little more than a figurehead, albeit one with the thickset neck and splayed nostrils of a prize fighter, but she remains an inspiration and a whack of her palm is still enough to shake a table. "When I met Charlesia at the airport I had goose bumps," remembers Allen Vincatassin, who is helping her apply for a pension that will buy plane tickets for her family. "I had tears in my eyes because she represents the old battles." Back in the 1970s, a return to her birthplace on Diego Garcia seemed as improbable to Alexis as it does today, but the hunger strikes and street protests she coordinated persuaded British officials to improve their original compensation offer. She sees her decision to move here in the same light. "I have come to open a door for my children so they can join me," she explains. "If they don't, their children will always have problems."
Vincatassin agrees. "This is the place they should have sent us originally," he says. "That decision would have been wrong too, but at least the islanders who are in the UK are in a better position." Over the past three years, he's personally welcomed seven parties of Chagossians to this enclave on the outskirts of London; others have arrived independently after learning of the example he set. "My role is to force the authorities to do what needs to be done," he stresses. Instead of spending more than £1.5 million on fighting the islanders in court, the government could have paid for their airfares and taught them all English, argues Xavier Siatous, who arrived in Crawley last summer, and promptly ran up a £600 phone bill speaking to the children he left behind. It's a moot point, but one that would resonate with Chagossians in Mauritius who can't afford to take advantage of their right to full British citizenship. Were it possible to resettle the islands tomorrow, only a minority of exiles would be likely to return, primarily the 900 or so survivors who were born there. Four decades on, even they are divided. "You can't undo a crime against humanity," says Siatous, once a fisherman on Peros Banhos. "When something like this happens you look for the way to go back, but really you have to find the way forward."
Charlesia Alexis still dreams about her island every day. A diet of fresh seafood would cure her diabetes instantly, she quips. But her days of shouting: "Give us back our Diego!" are past. Instead, she writes songs about her loss and awaits the free bus pass that will come with her pension. Her latest composition describes the journey to Britain, which was funded in part by royalties from a CD she recorded a couple of years ago. "Here, I will get my compensation," her husky lament concludes. "I will eat until I die." Although she's lonely without her three remaining children, and the 16 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren they've spawned, she prefers life in Crawley to the hardships of Mauritius and believes the other islanders would be wise to follow her. "I'm not saying they're leaving hell and coming to heaven," she cautions. "It's kind of purgatory here unless you can speak the language." For now, she copes by looking forward to a reunion with her family, although the memory of her mortality is never far away, and with it her fear that the campaign she started will wither once she's gone. "It's very sad," she reflects, looking vulnerable for the first time since she lowered herself into a chair. "To struggle you need natives, but we're dying every month. In a few years there won't be any native Chagossians left."
Photo in header by Steffen Johannessen
UPDATE (March 2015)
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Where is McMafia filmed? - Complete and updated filming locations for the BBC series
The new BBC eight-part drama is based on the book by The Guardian journalist Misha Glenny. McMafia is a thriller about how corporations are becoming international criminal organisations. You can expect a cocktail of money-laundering, drugs, violence and -of course- Russian mafias.
Iranian-British screenwriter Hossein Amini directs the series, starring James Norton as Alex Godman (Grantchester, War & Peace). Most actors have a background that matches the country of their character. This way, the cast is composed by a multicultural troupe with Aleksey Serebryakov, Maria Shukshina, David Dencik, Merab Ninidze, Juliet Rylance, Oshri Cohen, Karel Roden and Caio Blat.
This expensive production has travelled all over the world. McMafia was filmed primarily in England and Croatia, but the filming location list also includes Russia, India, Turkey, Israel, Qatar, Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovenia, Belize and Egypt:
Only in London 75 different locations were used. Lancaster House in the West End is a 19th century mansion that doubled as the Palace of Versailles in France. Image courtesy of BBC and Andrew - Map
The exterior shots were filmed at the Waddesdon Manor country house in Buckinghamshire.
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The top-floor restaurant Sky Garden served as the venue for the Sydney Bloom Foundation event.
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In the first episode a charity gala is held at the Victoria & Albert Museum (image with director Hossein Amini and James Norton at the John Madejski Garden). Image courtesy of BBC and Giles Moss - Map
A scene was filmed at Hyde Park with the Royal Albert Hall providing the backdrop.
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The Victorian pub Crocker's Folly (24 Aberdeen Pl) was used in the 7th and 8th episodes.
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Some scenes were filmed in the luxurious hotels The Langham (pictured) and the The Dorchester, in central London. Image courtesy of BBC and Andrew - Map 1 - Map 2
McMafia was also filming in the British Museum, Heathrow Airport and Ravenscourt Park tube station. According to The Guardian, Alex and Rebecca's place was set in a real Victorian house in Wandsworth, south London.
Image courtesy of BBC and Mike Peel - Map
McMafia Filming Locations in Croatia
The next filming locations are set in Croatia, although none of the action takes place in this country. Depending on the context of the episode, Zagreb is doubling as Moscow, Prague and Tel Aviv. Several scenes were filmed at the landmarks of the city: St. Mark's Church (pictured), Kamenita Vrata, Dverce Palace, the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Strossmayer Square and several streets in the center.
The party in Moscow from the seventh episode takes place in the Mestrovic Pavilion, also known as the Home of Croatian Artists. Image courtesy of BBC and Diego Delso
The crew was also shooting in one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world, Mirogoj.
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Some other locations across the country include the Hotel Milenij in Opatija. Boat scenes where filmed around the Rovinj Riviera. Also, according to a local newspaper, the production was filming for a couple of days in the Port of Koper (Slovenia). Image by Google Maps
The house of Israeli businessman Semiyon Kleiman (David Strathairn), were shot at Golden Rays Luxury Resort in Primosten near Sibenik. Image by Google Maps
The hotel in the French Riviera from the 3rd episode is the Villa Dalmacija in Split.
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Also it would be interesting to see if we can recognise the moonlike landscape of the unique island of Pag, that can be used for scenes in barren and desertic countries. Image Public Domain
A production unit was filming on location during a week in the city of Mumbai (India).
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Stablishing shots were filmed in Moscow (pictured, one of the Seven Sisters: the Moscow State University), Prague, Cairo and other minor filming locations. Image by courtesy of BBC
Belgrade doubled as Moscow on episode 8. Alex goes out the metro near the iconic Hotel Moskva, and later on walks in the popular street Kneza Mihaila. Image by courtesy of BBC and Jorge Láscar
Can you help to improve this article about the filming locations of McMafia? To complete and correct this report, any feedback, info or images that you may have are more than welcome, thank you!
For further information we recommend the original book by Misha Glenny that inspired the series, McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld . It is also available as an audiobook:
In the 5th episode Hotel Amber in Tel Aviv is actually Hotel Ambasador in Opatija/Croatia.
Richard_Gough February 4, 2018 at 2:16 PM
The circular building at the end of episode 7 is the House of Artists in Zagreb, Croatia
Ra Moon February 5, 2018 at 10:57 AM
Thanks, updated!
Clive O as Doctor Fixit February 6, 2018 at 3:47 PM
I believe that the scenes in the cafe where Alex and his dad met the
guy from the Russian embassy in ep7 was shot at Crockers Folly, Aberdeen Place London NW8.It's a Victorian/Edwardian pub now a Lebanese restaurant
I was at a party there recently.
Paul Eyre February 13, 2018 at 7:12 AM
Thanks you’re absolutely right - looks amazing !
Ra Moon February 14, 2018 at 11:05 PM
Cool, thanks for your help!
Where is the bar that Alex father and the Russian embassy guy meet in episode 8
GlobalEagle February 20, 2018 at 9:53 AM
In the opening sequence, there is a desert (urban) coastline, looks like it could be somehere in the Gulf - where is it?
...found it: it's Doha, looking south.
I recognized the White Palace in Belgrade Serbia. I believe it was used in the episode when Alex and Vadim were signing an agreement. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9766409993171692, "wiki_prob": 0.9766409993171692, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line20704"} |
Sir Peter Bazalgette: " The Empathy Instinct" | Talks at Google
Sir Peter Bazalgette in conversation with VP Comms, Peter Barron. Sir Peter was instrumental in creating the independent TV production sector in the United Kingdom. He was Chief Creative Officer at Endemol, President of the Royal Television Society, Deputy Chairman of the National Film School, Chair of Arts Council England, and is now Chair of the UK broadcaster ITV. He’s spent his career arguing for the role and importance of the arts and creative expression.
He joined us at Google to talk about his new book, The Empathy Instinct, which seeks to address the essential question of how we create a more civil society when so many of us are divided. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5025247931480408, "wiki_prob": 0.5025247931480408, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1381568"} |
One hundred days of broken promises – Troy
Posted on July 13, 2011 in News
No amount of spin will disguise the fact that Fine Gael and Labour have reneged on a litany of election promises within their first 100 days in office, according to Fianna Fáil TD Robert Troy.
Deputy Troy commented, “The Fine Gael/Labour Government set themselves the deadline of 100 days for the delivery of a series of election promises. It was the Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny who set the time-frame of 100 days, in which his Government could be judged on their performance. But now we are 100 days on and a litany of promises, which were unleashed to secure the maximum number of votes, have been broken.
“Over the past 100 days, we have seen some spectacular u-turns from Ministers who were elected to office on the basis of the promises they made. There has been immense public concern about Finance Minister Michael Noonan’s refusal to rule out hikes in income tax, Education Minister Ruairí Quinn’s u-turn on college fees, and the confusion over extra household and water charges next year.
“The Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has rowed back on protecting social welfare rates and child benefit, causing serious concern among Donegal families who are fearful of cuts to payments next year. Despite the clear pledge in the Programme for Government that Fine Gael and Labour would protect social welfare rates, Minister Burton refused to stand by this commitment when questioned in the Dáil by Fianna Fáil this week.
“On jobs, Fine Gael and Labour also promised to set up a NewERA company with billions in funding and ready to create 100,000 jobs. Where have these promises disappeared to?
“These issues affect every single family in the country, and each of them represents a key promise made by Fine Gael and Labour during the general election campaign in a bid to win votes. Now that they are in Government, they are only too willing to forget these promises.
Deputy Troy concluded: “In reality, it is early days. We would not be judging this Government on its first 100 days in office if they hadn’t set this deadline themselves. Enda Kenny set out a list of 25 solemn promises for delivery in 100 days, and unfortunately he and his Government colleagues have ignored most of them.” | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.899387001991272, "wiki_prob": 0.899387001991272, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1593685"} |
United Nation’s World Interfaith Harmony Week
In News by February 7, 2012
FEB 13 Posted by youthpeacecouncil
By Robin Marsh
Last night Universal Peace Federation -UK held a meeting in Parliament to remember the Holocaust, to examine the dynamics of forgiveness, reconciliation and remorse. This was held to comemorate the UN’s World Interfaith Harmony week. There were many precious contributions and stirring testimonies.Chaired by Rev. Dr. Marcus Braybrooke, President of World Congress of Faiths, the event featured presentations by Marina Cantacuzio, founder of the Forgiveness Project, Jack Lynes, Chair of Harrow Bereavement Care and a leading member of the Jewish community for interfaith, Shaykh Dr Hazim Fazlic, a Bosnian Imam now in Birmingham, Ruth Barnett, a Holocaust & Genocide Educator as well as a Kindertransport child, Jack Corley, Chairman of the Universal Peace Federation-UK and Sukhbir Singh who introduced the Forgiveness Charter on behalf of Bhai Mohinder Sahib Singh, spiritual leader of Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha – Birmingham UK.
Imam Dr Abduljalil Sajid JP attended the meeting and presented a paper on ‘Forgiveness and Reconciliation: From an Islamic Perspective’ to accompany the report.
Marina Cantacuzio writes on her website, ‘Forgiveness is an inspiring, complex, exasperating subject, which provokes strong feeling in just about everyone. Having spent all of 2003 collecting stories of reconciliation and forgiveness for an exhibition of words and images which I created with the photographer, Brian Moody, I began to see that for many people forgiveness is no soft option, but rather the ultimate revenge. For many it is a liberating route out of victimhood; a choice, a process, the final victory over those who have done you harm. As Mariane Pearl, the wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, said of her husband’s killers, “The only way to oppose them is by demonstrating the strength that they think they have taken from you.”
The exhibition tells some extraordinary stories – stories of victims who have become friends with perpetrators, murderers who have turned their mind to peace building.
As I talked to friends, colleagues and strangers about this exhibition, I noticed that forgiveness cuts public opinion down the middle like a guillotine. There are those who see forgiveness as an immensely noble and humbling response to atrocity – and then there are those who simply laugh it out of court. For the first group, forgiveness is a value strong enough to put an end to the tit-for-tat settling of scores that has wreaked havoc over generations. But for the second group, forgiveness is just a copout, a weak gesture, which lets the violator off the hook and encourages only further violence. This is why we called the exhibition, The F Word. For some people forgiveness is a very dirty word indeed.
She added in her paper on ‘Forgiveness’, ‘Forgiving someone does not mean you reconcile with them, it means taking hold of your painful emotions and deciding to let them go. (It means) a refusal to let the pain of past dictate the path of the future healing the memory of the harm, but not erasing it (not forgive & forget). If F is a struggle for understanding, then it’s a realisation that, “if I had lived your life perhaps I would have made your choices”. Forgiveness is not forgetting that something painful happened. By forgiving the people who hurt you, you do not erase painful past experiences from your memory. Those experiences have a great deal to teach you, both about not being victimized again and about not victimizing others.’
Jack Corley explained Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s perspective on ‘Forgiveness and Reconciliation’ particularly in his meeting with the late North Korean President Kim Il Sung. He also elucidated the principles behind the forgiveness earned by Jacob from his older Brother Esau.
He added that gestures are very important in higher levels of forgiveness, reconciliation and peace building. He highlighted the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland in 2011 that won her great respect from the Irish people. The 1977 visit of Anwar Sadat to the Israeli Knesset was a gesture that opened the way to peace between two nations that had been frequently at war.
He asked where the religious leaders were when there are efforts for peace? Universal Peace Federation’s founder Rev. Dr Sun Myung Moon has promoted the establishment of an Interreligious Council at the UN. There religious leaders, who business is peace, centred on the wisdom of their faith built up over many generations, can take an innovative approach from politicians whose agenda and focus is different.
The Universal Peace Federation seeks reconciliation on many levels. However as we are now sitting in Parliament we do want to urge our political leaders to establish or maintain the moral foundation that is necessary for peace and reconciliation. (Full Speech)
Rev Dr Marcus Braybrooke introduced the evening with a prepared speech saying, ‘Interfaith Harmony week is so important. Sadly so often in the past religious exclusivism and contempt for the other has been a contributory factor in the genocidal killings that scar human history. It is time for people of faith to make deep apology to members of other faiths whom they have hurt and offended as Pope John Paul II did at the Western Wall in Jerusalem It is also vital that as people of faith we work together for a more just and peaceful world. Some people have expressed surprise that we should link a belated observance of Holocaust Memorial day and World Interfaith Harmony Week. At first, I felt the same, but increasingly I have seen how appropriate it is. Rightly in a time of silence we shall remember the six million Jews and many others who died in the Holocaust and many more who have been slaughtered in terrible genocides – especially we pray for comfort to those whose family members died, and those who were injured.But perhaps the least we can do in memory of the voluntary and involuntary sacrifice of so many people is to pray and act to ensure that such horrors are never repeated.This is why Interfaith Harmony week is so important. Sadly so often in the past religious exclusivism and contempt for the other has been a contributory factor in the genocidal killings that scar human history. It is time for people of faith to make deep apology to members of other faiths whom they have hurt and offended as Pope John Paul II did at the Western Wall in Jerusalem It is also vital that as people of faith we work together for a more just and peaceful world
In a speech entitled HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY, INTERFAITH HARMONY, FORGIVENESS AND HEALING, Ruth Barnett explained that ‘Forgiveness is an extremely complex issue which I see very much in terms of an individual process of self-acceptance. By this I mean acceptance of the aspects of our self that we would rather not own.’
‘Reverend Braybrooke opened the evening by expressing the horror we all feel at the utter brutality and depravity of what was perpetrated in the Holocuast – and, sadly, in so many genocides and atrocities since. Expressing horror at such evil is natural and human but at the same time locates the atrocities outside ourselves. Forgiveness begins, in my opinion, by owning the capacity in oneself (which is part of every human being) for acting in this same evil manner. Only by owning our darkest thoughts, urges, ideas and interest in evil, are we in a position to take control and choose not to act violently but responsibly, not to retaliate or exact revenge but to seek understanding through dialogue.
‘We need to develop the courage to care and the will to act before it is too late when atrocities against humanity are developing. In my opinion, the Holocaust could have been prevented if the Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks under cover of WWI, had been brought to justice and closure. In the 50 years after the end of WWII, silence and disbelief inhibited the process of Holocaust acknowledgement and healing, which is even now not yet complete. This has created impunity for further violence and genocides, further traumatisation and retreat into ignorance and indifference.’
‘A part of the Holocaust has yet to be fully acknowledged, memorialised, compensated and closure through acceptance of the survivors. At least half a million Sinti and other Gypsies were deliberately murdered by the Nazis for the same reason that Jews were murdered – because the Nazis decided they could not fit into the Aryan ‘master-race’. Since 1945 Roma/Gypsy/Travellers have been persistently and increasingly persecuted, evicted, deported, their homes torched or bull-dozed, and murdered Gypsies not considered important enough by police to find the perpetrators. We have another genocide emerging under our noses all over Europe, including England. Are we going to develop the Courage to Care and the Will to intervene this time? Or are we going to allow the persecution and injustices suffered by Gypsies to continue until the massacres begin?’
Imam Dr Abduljalil Sajid commented in his paper, ‘Forgiveness and Reconciliation: An Islamic Perspective’ that, ‘The God, Allah is the ultimate power Who can forgive. Forgiveness means closing an account of offense against God or any of His creation. However, forgiveness must meet the criteria of sincerity. God, the All-Knowing, has the knowledge of everything including whatever a person thinks but does not express in words or deeds. An offense may be against (a) a person, (b) a group of persons or society, (c) other creation of God such as animals, plants, land, atmosphere, bodies of water and the life therein, and (d) God, Allah. Muslims understand that an offense against the creation of God is an offense against God.’ | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.566975474357605, "wiki_prob": 0.433024525642395, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1280906"} |
UPDATED — In Wake of Vegas Massacre, Massachusetts Lawmakers On Verge of Passing “Bump Fire Stock” Ban
By State House News Service | October 11, 2017, 12:48 EDT
Printed from: https://newbostonpost.com/2017/10/11/in-wake-of-vegas-massacre-massachusetts-lawmakers-on-verge-of-passing-bump-fire-stock-ban/
Las Vegas Police Department file photo of the room where gunman Stephen Paddock allegedly carried out his massacre. (Contributed)
(4:30 p.m. update — the House has passed this legislation)
By Matt Murphy
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
STATE HOUSE, OCT. 11, 2017…..Legislation banning devices known as bump stocks that may have been used in the Oct. 1 Las Vegas massacre and can enable a semi-automatic weapon to fire like an automatic weapon is expected to surface for a House vote Wednesday afternoon, according to a senior House official.
Following the Las Vegas shooting, Rep. David Linksy filed legislation to ban bump stocks in Massachusetts, as well as high-capacity magazines that carry more than 10 rounds of ammunition. That legislation has not emerged for a public hearing yet, but Linsky has filed an amendment to a $123 million budget bill that the House plans to take up on Wednesday afternoon.
The amendment does not address high-capacity magazines but would ban the possession or sale of any device “which attaches to a rifle, shotgun, or firearm, except a magazine, that is designed to increase the rate of discharge of the rifle, shotgun or firearm.”
Those who violate the proposed law would face a mandatory minimum sentence of three years in state prison, with a 20-year maximum allowable sentence.
Bump stocks are devices that can be used to modify semi-automatic weapons to get them to act as automatic weapons. The stock uses the recoil action of the firearm to slide the weapon back and forth allowing it to fire rapidly. The devices escape the state’s ban on automatic weapons because the user’s finger technically remains on the trigger, pulling to initiate each shot.
“I’ve yet to find any legitimate reason for someone to own a bump stock or any other device that turns semi-automatic rifles into automatic rifles. Frankly, I can’t come up with a legitimate reason,” Linsky said.
The Gun Owners Action League, which is the local affiliate of the National Rifle Association, has so far raised no objections to banning bump stocks. House and Senate Republicans have also said they support the measure.
And Gov. Charlie Baker said last week he would sign such a bill if it landed on his desk.
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Home » News » Alaska Could be the First State to Allow On-Site Marijuana Consumption
Certain cities have allowed on-site consumption but Alaska is on the road to becoming the first place where it is permitted statewide.
Alaska could be close to making marijuana history. More specifically, it could soon become the first state to allow for on-site cannabis consumption at dispensaries. State lawmakers are currently looking at a bill that would make this type of on-site consumption legal. But given that the bill is still in the early stages of legislation, it’s unclear whether or not on-site consumption will become a reality.
Alaska Considering New Marijuana Laws
Yesterday, lawmakers in Alaska approved rules that could allow people to legally consume weed at state-approved dispensaries.
Before the proposal becomes law it still needs to pass through a few other rounds of review and approval. Most notably, the Alaska Department of Law will need to do a thorough review of the new rules.
But if the bill is eventually passed into law it will introduce a number of new changes. For starters, dispensaries that receive state and local approval will be allowed to have a separate space set aside for consumption.
Customers will then be able to go the shop, purchase weed or other weed products, and then consume their purchases in the consumption space.
At this point, the proposal would allow dispensaries to establish separate consumption rooms. Additionally, weed shops could also allow customers to smoke weed or consume edibles in outdoor spaces like rooftops or patios.
If the bill passes into law, Alaska will be the first state to establish a legal framework for on-site dispensary consumption. Currently, there are certain locations in different parts of the country that allow for on-site consumption. But nothing at the statewide level.
Regulations and Restrictions for On-Site Consumption
Of course, as with any cannabis regulations, the new laws come with a number of new regulations and requirements. For starters, shops will be required to apply for a special license for on-site consumption.
In order to receive approval, dispensaries must meet the following requirements:
Consumption spaces must be separated from the retail portion of the shop.
Customers will only be allowed to consume products purchased at that dispensary.
Customers who want to consume at the shop can only purchase up to one gram of flower or edibles with no more than 10 mg of THC.
Shops must have a smoke-free room where employees can monitor consumption spaces.
Outdoor consumption places must not interfere with neighboring buildings.
Indoor consumption rooms must have their own ventilation systems.
The scent of weed cannot reach beyond the shop’s property line.
Even though the new bill is being considered at the state level, USA Today reports that local jurisdictions will still be able to ban on-site consumption. Additionally, local governments can also institute their own specific requirements or restrictions.
Currently, there are 76 cannabis retail shops in Alaska. At this point, it’s unclear how many of those shops might choose to apply for an on-site consumption license.
Either way, the question of on-site consumption has been on the table for a while now in Alaska. The issue first picked up traction in 2016. Then, last year, the idea was abandoned.
But this time around things could be different. At least for now, the bill for on-site consumption has cleared its first legislative hurdle. It will now move on to additional reviews by multiple lawmaking bodies.
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That's over 4,000 pounds of the good stuff.
A Denver CO was caught allegedly trying to smuggle a burrito with all the fixings into...
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Saint Mother Théodore Guérin
Feast Day October 3
Today people fly from Paris to New York City on the Concorde in hours. In 1840 Saint Mother Théodore Guérin left France on July 27. She and five other Sisters of Providence traveled by ship, train, steamboat, canal boat, and horse-drawn carriage. They arrived in Vincennes, Indiana, on October 22. The journey across the ocean took 26 days, going overland and by river another six weeks.
Why did the sisters make this long, difficult journey? The bishop of Vincennes begged the superior of the Sisters of Providence in France to send sisters to open schools and to care for poor sick people. Forty-two-year-old Sister Theodore was chosen to lead the group. When the sisters arrived, they went directly to the log cabin chapel in the deeply forested hills. There Mother Theodore dedicated their mission to Mary, and named it St. Mary-of-the-Woods.
Pioneer life is very hard. The sisters struggled to survive the first winter in a drafty little farmhouse. It was very cold, they were very poor, and food was scarce. They worked hard at learning English. By the following summer, they welcomed their first student. Within a year they opened three schools. Other young women saw the good work they were doing and joined them.
The community dealt with many difficulties. Once a fire destroyed their barn and the harvested crops. They faced prejudice against Catholics, especially Catholic religious women. But they persevered. When Mother Theodore died 16 years after the community was founded, the sisters had many schools, two orphanages, and two pharmacies to dispense free medicines to the poor.
As a girl, Mother Theodore was named Anne-Thérèse. She was home schooled by her mother. Her father was an officer in the French navy. When Anne Thérèse was 10 years old, she knew that she wanted to be a nun. Anne-Thérèse liked to go to the rocky shore near her home to pray. When she was 15, her father was killed by bandits on his way home. After that, Anne-Thérèse took charge of the house and garden, and cared for her sick mother and younger sister.
She joined the Sisters of Providence when she was 25 years old. For years she taught and received a medal of honor for excellence in teaching. She also studied medicine in order to care for people who could not afford a doctor. Then she was assigned to America. She thought there must be someone else who would be much better suited for the job.
Mother Theodore always told her sisters, “Put yourself gently into the hands of Providence.” Mother Theodore Guerin was declared Blessed in 1988 and canonized in 2006. She was the right person for this incredible journey after all.
Draw Your Prayer Place
Remind the children that when Mother Theodore was a child, she liked to pray on the rocky shore near her home. Ask them to think about their favorite place to pray, and then have each student draw a picture of himself or herself in that place.
Make Up Skits
Unlike some educators of her time, Mother Theodore believed in gentle discipline for her students. Ask the children to think of common infractions in the classroom and act out skits showing how they could be corrected with fairness and gentleness.
from Saints and Feast Days, by Sisters of Notre Dame of Chardon, Ohio
Image credit: Mother Theodore Guerin by unknown artist, unknown date. Public Domain via Wikimedia.
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BWW Review: HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED at Pyramid Theatre: An Evening of Reflection
by DC Felton
BroadwayWorld.com Jun. 9, 2019
Have you ever taken the time to look back at the people who have influenced your life? What has those influences taught us? They teach us what to do and what not to do. Pyramid Theatre's production of "How I Learned What I Learned," which opened on June 8, ask us to do just that. But they ask in a unique way, by letting us look at a playwright telling the stories that influenced the plays he wrote. That playwright is one of America's most prolific playwrights, August Wilson.
August Wilson was born in April 1945 in Pittsburgh, PA. He dropped out of High School in 1960. He would later receive an honorary high school diploma. He started working different odd jobs he could find, which you hear about in the play. Eventually, August became a poet, which led him down the path of becoming a playwright. He is best known for his series of 10 plays, known as the Pittsburgh Cycle. Each of the plays in this series centers around the African American experience in a different decade of the 20th century. Some of the most known plays in this series are "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson." His play "Fences" is listed as the first show produced by Pyramid Theatre.
In the lead role of Troy Maxon in Pyramid's production of "Fences" was Aaron Smith. So it was very fitting that he played the role of August Wilson for this production. Aaron expertly weaves his way through this 90-minute play telling stories from August Wilson's life. He does an amazing job of bringing out the humor in the show but also brings heart to the challenging lessons he learned in his life. One of the lessons is that something is not always better than nothing. This is a story about August Wilson's mother winning a washing machine. I don't want to give the story away, but it is the part of the show that to me showed how rooted Aaron was in the performance. The way he delivered the story showed his full range of emotions as an actor.
The acting was not the only highlight of the evening. I found myself enjoying the projections used as part of the play. The projections are used to tell the tiles of each section of the show. They come up as though they are being written on a typewriter, which considering the author talking about his life, was very fitting. As the show goes on, the titles became a character. Some of them told exactly what was going to happen and others the theme of what August was about to discuss. There is one moment where the title of a section is humorously skipped over.
The most poignant and timely lesson came from the night for me came at the beginning of the show. August talks about a job where he was mowing lawns and a lady whose lawn was mowing didn't want him mowing her lawn because of the color of his skin. His boss at the time told him to just go on to the next yard to mow. His boss could have said if he doesn't mow your lawn then it isn't going to be mowed but chose to send him on. The lesson he took from this, was that the people were good honest American's but due to the way they grew up and how they learned, they became the people they were today. It made me think about how quick we are to judge people today. We often think people are terrible if they have an opposing view from us, but how often do we take the time to think about how they came to that view.
There are many more things that people can learn from the life of August Wilson. "How I Learned What I Learned," challenges us to take a look at not only ourselves but the people around us and ask how we got to the place we are today. I appreciate Pyramid Theatre Company for presenting us with this story and with this challenge. As this show continues over the next few weeks, if you have not seen it, I would recommend that you make plans to. Performances will continue June 14 and 21 at 7:30 PM and June 23 at 2:00 PM. To find out more about this production, visit http://pyramidtheatre.org/how-i-learned-what-i-learned
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B.A.A. Runners Ramble on at the USATF Masters 10K Championships
Karolyn Bowley repeats her runner-up finish in the Women’s Masters USATF 10K Championships.
In 2018, Karolyn Bowley was new to the B.A.A. team and just getting her feet wet in the New England Masters racing scene at age 49. Since her 2nd place finish in 2018 at the USATF Masters 10k Championships, Bowley has been posting noteworthy performances in the 45-49 age division showing off her range of ability from placing 4th in the 2019 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Masters Mile in 5:10.91 to her 2:55:01 personal best in the marathon at Hartford last fall.
The 2019 edition of the James Joyce Ramble proved to be her best performance of the past year lowering her personal best in the 10k from 37:38 to 37:17. While Bowley was able to beat last year’s winning time of 37:19, younger legs prevailed with Melissa Hardesty of Binghamton winning the women’s Masters 10k in 37:06. Still, a gutty performance by Bowley as she prepares to move into a new age category this summer.
The B.A.A. Masters Men were also runner-up finishers in the 2018 10k team competition behind rival CMS. The B.A.A. and CMS Masters Men are constant companions on the New England team racing circuit with no shortage of talent on either side. In this year’s race, Kevin Castille, of Baton Rogue, ran away from the competition finishing 1st in 30:47 and ninety seconds ahead of the runner-up finisher and former B.A.A. athlete, Eric Blake of West Hartford. Blake, who turned 40 in January, stayed ahead of the 2017 and 2018 Masters 10k winner, David Angell to finish in 32:17.
B.A.A.’s Brendan Prindiville was the first of the three B.A.A. team scorers to finish in 4th place with a time of 33:14. David Bedoya who finished 5th in 2018 crossed the line in 6th place this year in 33:28, the exact finish time Bedoya clocked in 2018. Andy Gardiner who missed the Boston Marathon this year due to a late season injury used his marathon training strength to finish strong with a top ten place in 9th overall in 33:44 and good for 1st place in the 50+ senior division. With three in the top ten, the B.A.A. Masters returned the 10k team title to the B.A.A. Running Club.
While the team scoring for National USATF Masters races only count the top three, notable performances were notched by two new, and former, B.A.A. runners. Chris Georgules who recently returned to racing finished 11th in 33:49 and Donal O’Sullivan, recently relocated back to Mass, finished 12th in 33:58. Both Georgules and O’Sullivan ran for the B.A.A. in the early 2000 years. Welcome back!
The B.A.A. was also represented by Harry Carter who won the 80-84 age division finishing in 56:03 and part of the B.A.A. Men’s Senior Team finishing in 7th place. Also on the team were Dennis Herman who finished in 49:30 and Kevin Grant in 52:22.
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A Brief History Of Intellectual Property In China And India
from the ups-and-downs dept
Wed, Jul 1st 2009 3:45pm — Kevin Donovan
This is the second post in a series of posts looking at the question of intellectual property rights in both China and India. We'll be adding new posts to this series each week for the next few weeks.
To fully understand why increased intellectual property in China and India is unnecessary and objectionable, it helps to understand the relationship intellectual property has with economic development. Historically, intellectual property has generally increased with economic development, but the relationship is not straightforward. Although there is no reliable cross-country index of intellectual property policy, in large part due to the difficulty of quantifying concepts like enforcement quality, some trends are discernable. When a country is poor, IP is unnecessary for a host of reasons, not the least of which is the limited access to productivity enhancing technologies that intellectual property brings and the domestic inability to innovate in a commercially viable manner. But instead of constantly increasing with wealth, IP actually falls with an initial increase in wealth before dramaticaly growing (Maskus 2000). As a country develops, it obtains imitative abilities that make legal prohibition on copying foreign technologies an artificial obstruction to economic growth. However, with further global integration and increased domestic innovative capabilities, patent protection tends to increase. However, China and India have both realized that their relative poverty makes access to technology a more pressing concern, justifying relaxed IP standards.
India's On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With Intellectual Property
India' colonial status brought with it patent legislation, so by 1911 India's IP regime conformed with developed world status (Graff 2007). However, seeking to develop a domestic pharmaceutical industry, in 1970, India abolished patents on pharmaceutical products. This allowed domestic firms to imitate and adapt foreign therapeutic inventions. The policy was a success: the 2,237 licensed drug manufacturers in 1969-1970 grew to 16,000 by 1991-1993, production of drugs grew at an average rate of 14.4% per year from 1980 to 1993, India became a net exporter of pharmaceutical products, and the market share of foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) dropped from 80-90% to 40% (Fink 2005). In 1995, six of the top ten pharmaceutical firms in India were domestic, and employment in the sector had reached half a million people (Lanjouw 1997).
However, to gain access to the global market enabled by the World Trade Organization, India had to ratify the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), the most influential treaty on global intellectual property. Doing so included introducing full product patents on pharmaceutical innovations, extending all patents from 5-14 years to 20 years, and accepting limitations on compulsory licensing (Abramson 2007). Observers noted that this was likely to lead to a loss of consumer surplus (Chaudhuri et al.). However, the government agreed against its wishes to TRIPs for the additional benefits of WTO membership (Lanjouw 1997). Under TRIPs regulations, patenting has accelerated in India (Dahlman 2005).
China As The Late Bloomer
China was a latecomer to intellectual property. Its first patent law came into effect in 1985, followed by a copyright law in 1990 (Graff 2007). However, since then, the pace of progress has been rapid; it has now joined all major international IP treaties (Maskus 2005). Its patenting activity is increasing rapidly, too, with domestic firms nearly doubling the number of patents they received in the past four years (“Chinese firms…”). China’s Patent Office now leads the world, reviewing 800,000 applications in 2008, and in 2009, domestic firms are poised to receive more patents than foreigners for the first time ever (“Battle of Ideas”). Chinese firms are also receiving more patents abroad: in 1999 they only won 90 patents in America, but by last year they had increased that number to 1,225, demonstrating a desire to use their inventions globally (“Battle of Ideas”).
Chinese intellectual property, however, is still frequently critiqued. Enforcement is notoriously weak with the United States citing “rampant counterfeiting and piracy problems.” Strikingly, according to the USTR, China was the origin for 67% of seizures of counterfeit goods at the American border in 2008. In response to these and other concerns, China has recently updated its patent laws, increasing statutory damages and expanding the investigative power of the patent office (Lim 2009).
In the next post, we'll take an extended look at the case made for stronger intellectual property in China and India.
Other posts in this series:
Do China And India Really Want Stronger Intellectual Property?
Why Might China And India Want To Strengthen National Intellectual Property Policy?
Why Increased IP In China And India Is Likely To Disproportionately Benefit The Developed World
In China And India, Stronger Intellectual Property Is Unnecessary
There Is No Harmony In A Patent Thicket
The Way Forward On Intellectual Property For China And India
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Michael L. Slonecker, 2 Jul 2009 @ 8:32am
Re: Re: not creative?
No one can seriously argue that countries such as China and India possess potentially significant "intellectual wealth". At this point in time, however, they have not as yet realized the full advantage of such wealth. In some regards they seem to resemble post-war Japan through the early 60's, i.e., their R&D capabilities lag far behind the major industrialized nations.
A first step towards parity with such other nations necessarily involves the establishment of basic manufacturing capabilities, with the growth of R&D capabilities to follow after implementation of the former. Thus, "copycapting" and "free riding" on the work of those in other nations is only natural in their growth towards becoming a major force in the international market for new products.
It should be readily apparent that any country embarking on the above course will at first be quite reluctant to embrace IP rights to the full extent expressed in current international treaties. At the same time, however, that reluctance will have to be reassessed as and when such a country desires a "seat" at the "table".
Simply put, and like it or not, at some time in the future, and likely sooner than later, I expect both India and China to adopt national laws that afford significantly more substantive protection than is now the case. Until this happens they will continue to be viewed askance by the major industrial powers, and will consistently encounter difficulties having their products imported into other nations. Call it "protectionism" if you will, but this is simply a fact of life.
Merely as an aside, I find it somewhat interesting that a pharmaceutical manufacturer of generic drugs in India, despite having built its business based on the manufacture and sale of generics, is just starting to secure patents in India and other industrialized countries in which it seeks to conduct business. The same can be said of businesses situated in China.
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The Presidency has confirmed the release of abducted students of Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State.
The girls were abducted by the terrorists sect, Boko Haram, sect on February 19.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed this when contacted.
Shehu promised to give further details on the development later.
“Yes, the girls are being transported to safety. We will give details later. We thank God,” he said.
The girls’ release came exactly one week after President Muhammadu Buhari visited the school where they were kidnapped.
Buhari had during the visit last Wednesday reassured parents of the abducted schoolgirls that the Federal Government will not rest on its oars, until their wards are safely brought back home.
The President, who was accompanied by Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State, said he had directed full scale aerial surveillance and investigation to ensure that the girls were returned safely.
“I have read the full report of what happened in Dapchi. As I received the report, I was saddened and I am praying that God will continue to console you,” he said.
Buhari also said government will ensure that the Boko Haram menace is totally brought to an end.
“Boko Haram was in control of many local councils in Borno and some parts of Yobe State before we came. Now it has resorted to using young girls for suicide missions in mosques, churches and motor parks.
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Gideon’s Army at Guantanamo
by Phil Hirschkorn
Despite enormous logistical and legal hurdles, defense attorneys for high value detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison, say they press on for the judgment of history, if not for a fair turn before the embattled military commissions that substitute for trials in federal court.
Attorneys for alleged 9/11 attack planners Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) and Ramzi Bin al-Shibh and alleged USS Cole bombing plotter Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri described their challenges to an audience gathered by the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School in Manhattan on Wednesday night.
Even though all the defense attorneys are vetted and cleared to access Top Secret documents, they agree that secrecy remains the root of most delays and dysfunction.
“If you sat down to design a system and said, ‘I want to create a legal system where everything will move slowly, glacially,’ you would design this,” said Richard Kammen, who represents al-Nashiri. For example, if Kammen, who is based in Indianapolis, wants to read a classified court document, he must travel to a secure facility in Washington, D.C. to do so. Once, Kammen said, he was ordered to respond to motions he was not allowed to read.
Even when the attorneys are at Guantanamo to meet in person with their clients, a detainee’s own words are considered secret.
“We were told that anything that came out of client’s mouths were considered to be ‘presumptively classified,’” said Jason Wright, who represented KSM until this August. “This phrase ‘presumptive classification’ is something that has never existed before in the laws of the United States.”
To make sure he understood, Wright, a former Army JAG, received a power point presentation at Guantanamo.
“I had a briefer who told me, when you meet with your high value detainee, you have to treat everything that he says as presumptively classified – every word, every utterance, every gesture,” Wright recalled.
“I said, ‘Hypothetically, what if he told me he liked peanut butter sandwiches? Is that classified?’”
“Yes,” he was told.
Wright said, “What country in the world believes it can actually classify someone’s thoughts and beliefs? What they’re classifying were the words that would come out of their mouths about the torture experiences.”
Wright, Kammen, and James Harrington, who represents Bin al-Shibh, see a persistent effort to block any disclosures about detainee mistreatment, particularly when the detainees were held overseas in CIA custody.
“Virtually all the restrictions we operate under are designed to protect CIA information,” Kammen said. “The government takes the position that even we can’t be trusted with it.”
Instead, defense attorneys have been provided vague summaries of their client’s past interrogations and statements. How vague? As an example, Kammen shared his itinerary of the previous 48 hours – flying on Tuesday, October 28, from his home in Indianapolis to Chicago for a presentation at Loyola University. After spending the night there, on Wednesday, he flew to New York for meetings related to his Guantanamo case during the day and then attended the Fordham panel in the evening.
Kammen said, “The summary would probably read something like this: ‘On a day in the fourth quarter of 2014, Rick left his home and went from one place to another place, and then he went onto a third place, and then he returned.’ Literally that’s how general the summaries are.”
Harrington believes the information about detainee torture is being kept secret to protect officials who carried it out or allowed it to happen.
“Whether it’s the people who engaged in the torture, many of whom were assured by their government that if they did these things no one would ever know, and they would never be prosecuted,” Harrington said. “We want to believe still that this [country] is the shining city on the hill. This is a real black hood put over the light.”
At Guantanamo, everywhere the defense attorneys go seems to be bugged. Microphones at the defense tables have picked up their conversations. Fake smoke detectors in attorney-client meeting rooms hid eavesdropping microphones. During a hearing, someone off site set off an alarm when his agency thought classified information had been revealed. Just as bad, Harrington believes, is the lack of indignation over these discoveries by the military commission judges.
“I cannot imagine a federal judge who would let somebody – anybody – interfere with his or her domain, which is the courtroom, that he or she did not know about and did not sanction for approval,” Harrington said.
Even getting to Guantanamo is not easy. Charter flights from south Florida to Cuba leave you stuck there for a week, because the planes go down only on Monday and return only on Friday. Compounding that, according to Michel Paradis, an attorney in the DOD’s office of chief defense counsel, is the alphabet soup of agencies that control different parts of the base – the courtroom, the detainee center, lodging.
“Every single time you go to Guantanamo, you spend about a day – a full working day — simply getting the keys to your office, or the badges you need to get where you are going, to get a car to so you can drive around this base,” Paradis said.
Despite the hassles, the defense attorneys find the work purposeful and important. Standing up to the government and holding it accountable, even when top al Qaeda members are the clients, is what they signed up for.
Kammen said, “These cases will be reviewed in history – 10, 20, 30 years from now. The question that’ll be asked is, ‘Were the lawyers doing what lawyers are supposed to be doing? Were they telling the truth?’ And I hope when they look back on me, they’ll say, ‘Yeah, that guy was in there, and he was fighting.”
Paradis added, “In some respects, we are the immune system for the American justice system. We caught a disease after September 11th, which led us to torture, which led us to give up our values.”
Paradis recently argued an appeal of the one life sentence that has resulted from a Guantanamo military commission. He said, “Trying to heal the legal system, if that doesn’t sound too trite, I think does motivate me.”
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AGIG plans additional development at WA facility
The Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG) will undertake new expansion works at its Tubridgi Gas Storage Facility in Western Australia.
AGIG announced it will complete a seismic survey and expand the injection and withdrawal capacity of the facility to 90 TJ/d and 60 TJ/d respectively.
The seismic survey will produce detailed 3D mapping of the location’s underground reservoir, which sits approximately 550 m below the surface, in order to define the maximum storage volume of the area and de-risk any additional wells that may be installed in the future.
AGIG Chief Customer Officer Andrew Staniford said developing the facility was an essential operation.
“The new expansion works are a necessary part of ensuring that AGIG can continue to meet market demand in the longer term and provide our customers with the flexibility they require to meet their energy requirements,” he said.
“These latest projects further increase our role as an owner and operator of critical infrastructure in the state and demonstrate AGIG’s confidence in WA as an investment destination.”
Located in WA’s northwest, the Tubridgi Gas Storage Facility was redeveloped and commissioned by AGIG in 2017 at a cost of $74 million.
The facility is the largest of its kind in the state and the third largest in Australia.
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NATO puts pressure on Afghanistan to sign troop agreement
By By David S. Cloud
BRUSSELS -- The U.S. and its European allies on Wednesday turned up the pressure on Afghanistan to authorize foreign troops on its territory after 2014, even as officials acknowledged that they may have to wait for President Hamid Karzai's successor to resolve the standoff.
At the opening of a two-day NATO meeting, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned that all alliance troops serving in Afghanistan would follow the U.S. in withdrawing at the end of the year if Kabul refuses to sign an agreement with Washington.
"If there is no agreement, there will be no NATO troops in Afghanistan after 2014," he said. "This is not our preferred option, but it might be the unfortunate outcome if the security agreement is not signed."
The warning from NATO was closely coordinated with the White House and came a day after President Obama told Karzai in a telephone call that the U.S. was planning for a complete withdrawal over Karzai's refusal to sign the troop agreement.
NATO has been negotiating a separate agreement with Afghanistan that would authorize other countries to keep troops there after this year, but alliance officials have said from the beginning that the deal was contingent on Afghanistan concluding an accord with the U.S.
The stalemate over the troop agreement has frustrated the White House and the Pentagon, but it has taken even more of a toll in Europe, where the idea of keeping troops in Afghanistan after this year is even more controversial than it is in the U.S.
A senior NATO official said Italy, Germany and Turkey, each of which had pledged to play small but important roles in the post-2014 mission, face deadlines starting later this summer for getting parliamentary approval for the mission and the funds to carry it out.
Allied countries thus may not be able to wait as long for a decision on whether foreign troops will remain as the United States, which could delay until as late as October and still get its remaining troops out of the country by the end of December, officials said.
On Thursday, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and other NATO ministers are expected to approve guidance for alliance planners to begin preparing for possible full withdrawal later this year, officials said.
The U.S. has about 33,000 troops in Afghanistan, though the number will drop substantially over the summer, officials say, leaving a small force in place that will take over the post-2014 mission or depart completely. There are about 19,000 troops from other countries.
U.S. officials say they are increasingly resigned to waiting until Karzai leaves office after elections to choose a successor this spring, in hopes that the new Afghan leader might sign the deal. In a clear sign of growing exasperation with Karzai, Rasmussen also raised that possibility Wednesday.
"It appears that President Karzai is not ready to sign a security agreement," he said. "We are ready to engage with a new president."
But officials concede that even that option is not foolproof, because the elections could drag on for months due to runoffs and the possibility of contested results. Nor is there any guarantee Karzai's successor would sign the agreement.
The U.S. and Afghanistan reached a draft bilateral security agreement in November, laying out the terms for keeping U.S. troops in the country past 2014, when all combat troops are to be withdrawn.
Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is proposing a plan that would keep around 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan until the end of 2015, with 5,000 NATO and other international troops based in the north and west of the country as part of a NATO mission, officials said.
Most of the troops would be limited to training and advising Afghan units, though a portion of the U.S. forces would be designated for counter-terrorism operations against the remnants of Al Qaeda and its affiliates. White House officials have been exploring the possibility of a smaller troop presence but no decisions have been made, officials said.
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Fast-Growing Law Firm Expands in Downtown Baltimore
Offit Kurman is closing its Owings Mills offices and moving its Baltimore-area team of attorneys into a single location in downtown Charm City.
Adrian Maties
300 East Lombard St.
Offit Kurman, one of the fastest-growing law firms in the Mid-Atlantic, is closing its Owings Mills offices and moving its Baltimore-area team of attorneys into a single location in downtown Charm City.
Offit Kurman’s new home will occupy the entire 20th floor of the Class A office tower located at 300 East Lombard St. The location offers 16,650 square feet of renovated space and will house 28 attorney offices, eight paralegal offices, 12 administrative stations, and five conference rooms. Twenty-two of the company’s attorneys will work there.
This is Offit Kurman’s second expansion in the Baltimore area. The law firm posted a video of its new home on its Youtube account.
The office building changed owners at the start of the year, just a few months after hitting the market. PWA Real Estate LLC, a Pittsburgh private equity firm, purchased the property for $38.3 million, from Ireland-based CMC Investments. The rapid sale was a direct result of the former owner’s management strategy. CMC acquired the 237,000-square-foot office building in 2004 for $40 million, and invested an additional $2 million to renovate the asset. In 2014, the company signed leases with new and old tenants for about 100,000 square feet of space, bringing the tower’s occupancy to 91 percent.
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Well past the strike of midnight, Austin City Council votes to decrease housing occupancy limit
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Published on February 14, 2014 at 4:09 am Last update on March 22, 2014 at 2:43 pm
By Amanda Voeller
At approximately 2:30 a.m. Friday, Austin City Council approved an initial vote to limit the number of adults who are not related to each other allowed to live in a residence built on single-family zoned property.
In a 6-1 vote, council members voted to amend city code to limit “stealth dorms” — groups of six or more adults, often students, living together in a single-family house. If the council makes the same decision over two more rounds of votes in the coming weeks, the legal limit of unrelated adults living together will be reduced to four.
According to The Austin-American Statesman, the measure would only affect homes built in the future, while homes that currently house six unrelated people would be unaffected.
In November, councilman Chris Riley said the council has received various complaints from residents in areas near stealth dorms, which mainly exist north of campus. Those in favor of decreasing the occupancy limit say stealth dorms result in overfull trash cans and a lack of street parking, which can have detrimental effects on other residents’ lives.
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Chirac says he opposes NATO force in Lebanon
French President Jacques Chirac said Monday that NATO should not lead a proposed international force in Lebanon, saying the alliance is seen in the region as a "the armed wing of the West." "As far as France is concerned, it is not NATO's mission to put together such a force," Chirac was quoted as telling Le Monde newspaper in an interview, adding, "Whether we like it or not, NATO is perceived as the armed wing of the West in these regions, and as a result, in terms of image, NATO is not intended for this." | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5032011866569519, "wiki_prob": 0.5032011866569519, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line235494"} |
Danny Boyle's 'Yesterday' Gets First Trailer; Here's Everything We Know
February 12th 2019, 1:38 pm
Danny Boyle's music-themed comedy has nabbed a title, Yesterday. Its rather startling premise has also come into focus with the release of its first trailer. Read onward for all we know about the movie.
After an automobile accident during a "mysterious global blackout," a struggling musician discovers that he is the only person on the planet who remembers The Beatles. His "original" songs then cause a worldwide sensation, straining his longtime friendship with a young woman.
Who stars?
Himesh Patel plays Jack Malik, the musician who can't believe he is suddenly the only person who remembers The Beatles. Lily James portrays Ellie, Jack's childhood best friend, a school teacher who fears she may be left behind in the wake of his unexpected fame. Kate McKinnon stars as a crafty music industry agent who swoops in to capitalize on Jack's "original" songs. Ed Sheeran also stars.
Who wrote the screenplay?
Richard Curtis, probably best known for Love, Actually. His other credits include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, About Time and many others.
Who directed?
Danny Boyle. He won an Oscar for directing Slumdog Millionaire and has also earned Academy Award nominations for writing and producing 127 Hours. More recently, he directed Steve Jobs and T2 Trainspotting. He previously tackled unexpected fortune in his delightful family film Millions.
When can we see it?
The film is set for release on June 28, 2019.
Watch the first trailer below.
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Aaron Burr
3rd Vice President of the United States
March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1805
from New York
Philip Schuyler
3rd Attorney General of New York
Richard Varick
Aaron Burr Jr.
(1756-02-06)February 6, 1756
Newark, New Jersey, British America
Staten Island, New York, U.S.
Princeton Cemetery
Democratic-Republican
Theodosia Bartow Prevost
Eliza Jumel (m. 1833)
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Aaron Burr Sr. (Father)
Esther Edwards (Mother)
Princeton University (BA)
Continental Army
• Battle of Quebec
• Battle of Monmouth
Aaron Burr, Jr. (February 6, 1751, – September 14, 1836) was an American politician, Revolutionary War hero and the third Vice President of the United States (1801 – 1805). He was born in Newark, province of New Jersey. Burr fought in the American Revolutionary War, reaching the rank of Colonel. After the war, Burr was a leader of the Democratic-Republican Party and served in the New York State Assembly, as New York State Attorney General, and as a United States Senator before serving as Vice President.
Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804, when Burr was still Vice President.
Burr conspired to form a new country in Mexico. He wanted to be present if and when Spain and Mexico went to war. Some people, including President Thomas Jefferson, who had picked a different Vice President for his second term, saw Burr's actions as treason. However, in 1807 Burr was found innocent of the charges. He was often thought of by his enemies as unreliable. Burr died in 1836.
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Jason Openo
It's NOT all relative!
by Jason Openo
Last night’s presenter is conducting her research from a relativist ontology. I believe a relativist ontology is an illogical, self-refuting orientation. The proof: no one lives as a relativist.
Once upon a time, I was facilitating an Instructional Skills Workshop. One of the new instructors going through the course was a long-term paramedic (an expert), and their 10-minute mini-lesson was on making triage decisions in emergency situations. When her lesson began, she explained: “You are at a crash site. You have to find, diagnose, and determine who is going to get medical attention. There are four index cards in this room. You have to find them. On the back of each index card are indicators that will tell you how to determine (a) whether they have a chance to live with immediate attention, (b) if they have a chance to live with moderate attention (1-2 hours), or (c) if they are likely to die no matter what you do. You need to make these decisions quickly and you should direct your attention to those who have the best chance of survival. In the next three minutes, I will tell you what to look for, and you will have five minutes to find the casualties and make your decisions. Then we will have a short debrief.”
She quickly outlined the criteria to look for, and we listened intently and took notes. Then she said, “Go save some people,” and we launched into action. We matched the likelihood of survival indicators to the four patients, and we sorted them accordingly. We followed the instructions perfectly. Person 1 needed immediate attention – without it, they were likely to die. Person 2 could wait a couple of hours (broken bones). Person 3 showed weak vital signs, meaning they were unlikely to survive. Person 4 showed signs they were near death and no intervention was possible.
And then the instructor revealed:
Person 1 was a drunk driver who was seriously injured, but with the right attention would likely survive.
Person 2 was the drunk driver’s passenger. They had broken bones and potential internal injuries, but based on their vital signs would likely survive without immediate attention.
Person 3 was an in utero child near term. Even with an emergency C-section, they were unlikely to live.
Person 4 was a pregnant mother with a serious head injury.
The lesson, as the instructor revealed at the debrief, was not actually about identifying vital signs. It was about making professional judgments. It was applied ethics for paramedics. It was about making the moral judgment to save the life of a person you might hate. The point of the lesson was that paramedics have to transcend habitually inherited value systems and just see the body, not the person. They needed to be able to look past their instinctual inclinations about who should be saved. As we sat in a state of shock, the instructor said she believed saving people you didn’t want to save is an unexplored part of post-traumatic stress disorder in paramedics, but there was no way to prove this.
It was the best ISW lesson plan I have ever seen, and it proves no one lives as a relativist.
Foucault, in The Order of Things, said that truth was an “arbitrary play of power and convention.” The argument that all truth is arbitrary and relative has been a powerful argument. The eminent historian Paul Johnson believes relativism was misappropriated from science but is the dominant ideology of modernity. Einstein saw moral relativism as a disease and social pandemic that led him to say towards the end of his life that he sometimes wished he had been a simple watchmaker (Johnson, 1992, p.4).
Relativism is powerful until you dare to ask Foucault: “You say all truth is arbitrary. Is your presentation itself true?” (Wilber, 1995, p. 29). Relativists exempt themselves from the very criteria they apply to other value systems. They make truth claims that deny all truth claims, except the privileged stance of relativism, itself a truth claim. It is worth listening to Ken Wilber at length on this point.
Nobody is denying that many aspects of culture are indeed different and equally valuable. The point is that that stance itself is universal and rejects theories that merely and arbitrarily rank cultures on an ethnocentric bias (which is fine). But because it claims that all ranking is either bad or arbitrary, it cannot explain its own stance and the process of its own (unacknowledged) ranking system. And if nothing else, unconscious ranking is bad ranking, by any other name. And the relativists are very bad rankers.
In short, extreme cultural relativity and merely heterarchical value systems are about as dead as any movement can become. The word is out that qualitative distinctions are inescapable in the human condition, and further that there are better and worse ways to make our qualitative distinctions.
In many ways, we want to agree with the broad conclusions of the cultural diversity movements: we do want to cherish all cultures in an equal light. But that universal pluralism is not a stance that all cultures agree with; that universal pluralism is a very special type or ranking that most ethnocentric and sociocentric cultures do not even acknowledge; that universal pluralism is the result of a very long history hard-fought against dominator hierarchies of one sort or another. (pp. 29-30)
Only when we admit that universal pluralism is a value stance can judgment systems such as nursing ethics, Cultural Safety and Human Flourishing make any sense. They are not all relative. The values of tolerance and appreciation for diversity are not values simply relative to our particular cultural circumstance. They represent some of the most highly evolved ideas of humankind, ideas that are still evolving and not universally shared across the globe. The individual human being, no matter who they are or where they are, matters. From the relativist perspective, however, if all value systems are equally valid, then all value-based decisions are equally worthless.
"Someone once remarked that the two great errors in moral philosophy are the belief that we know the truth and the belief that there is no truth to be known" (Wilson, 1993, p. 12). Without pretending to know the truth or be in possession of a dogmatic truth, we can affirm that we know quite a bit about what contributes to human flourishing and what does not. There should never come another day or time when the idea of Residential Schools makes sense or can be justified. It was wrong and will always be wrong. It’s NOT all relative. What if we encountered, as Wilson absurdly suggests as a philosophical counter-example, a society that believed torturing babies produced better crops?
Absurd, yes, but it is a variation of this absurdity that explains why feminists and those fighting for social justice have completely given up on relativist ontologies. Bloland (1995) describes the inevitable endpoint of relativist ontology very well:
If there are no legitimate bases for rewarding the privileged in our society, there are also no foundational standards for rewarding marginal groups. There are no grounded assumptions or moral grounds from which marginal groups can claim privilege. From this postmodern perspective, there is no compelling reasons for controlling groups to give grounds to others. (p. 529)
An uninformed opinion becomes as valuable as an enlightened opinion, and who needs nurses at that point? The death of values also means the death of expertise, and so let’s bring back leeches and bloodletting!
Bloland suggests that the only course of action left is to "listen and listen very hard and long to the 'other'” (p. 553), and in listening, create space for dialogue. I listened hard to the presentation last night and offer this in the spirit of dialogue. I hope the last night’s presenter will give up relativist ontology and choose instead to stand on these values of tolerance, diversity, and universal pluralism.
Done. Axe ground. I am stepping off the soap box.
Bloland, H. (1995). Postmodernism and higher education. Journal of Higher Education, 66(5).
Johnson, P. (1992). Modern times: The world from the Twenties to the Nineties. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
Wilber, K. (1995). Sex, ecology, spirituality: The spirit of evolution. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
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Jazz Fest 2019: Top Picks for Friday, April 26
HEADLINER DECISION:
Santana vs. The Revivalists
This is a particularly tough choice, at least for me. The Revivalists are hometown heroes, whom I first saw open the Gentilly Stage years ago. The funk-infused rock band has gradually built a name for themselves far outside of our city, but it's hard to easily pick them over the other option here. Santana is a legend and a guitar god that can mix Latin rock, voodoo elements, and great jams. He's also been at the game for decades, which means he absolutely knows what he's doing.
VERDICT: The Revivalists are great and will be around for years to come, but Santana is a legend in the music world, whose time performing is finite. Go with Santana. -Landon Murray
REMAINING PICKS:
The Subdudes
Gentilly Stage, 1:50 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
This New Orleans rock group, formed in 1987, is prepared to take the stage with an abundance of hits off their 11 albums. Swampy jazz combines with New Orleans rock to create The Subdudes' unique sound. The band has taken several hiatuses throughout their career, so don't miss out on this chance to see them!
Haitian Rara Parade with DjaRARA
This traditional Haitian festival music makes its way to Jazz Fest and features DjaRARA, a band dedicated to preserving Haitian culture and inspiring Haitian Americans with rich, traditional folklore music. Don't miss the bamboo trumpets and metal drums parading around the Fair Grounds.
Before the release of their upcoming fourth album, The Head and The Heart prepares to blow away Jazz Fest-goers. This indie-folk band, formed in 2011, is best known for their songs "Down in the Valley," "Rivers and Roads," and their new single "Missed Connection." Don't miss this six-person band hitting the stage with their beautifully catchy tunes.
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Congo Square Stage, 4:05 p.m. - 5:05 p.m.
After 40 years and 12 studio albums, countless tours, and several collaborations, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band makes its way to the Congo Square Stage with its blend of jazz, funk, soul, and R&B. The seven-member brass band started cookin' up their "musical gumbo" in 1977 and have been dominating the New Orleans jazz scene since. In other words, don't miss the chance to see them perform!
Darlingside
Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage, 4:40 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.
What band has a mascot? Darlingside, best known for their indie sound and hailing from Boston, is proud to claim the Unicorn of Friendship as their mascot. The four-person band is bound to add a layer of calmness and unity to the sure-to-be hectic Jazz Fest. If you need a break from the craziness or if you're dying to listen to a different kind of sound, check them out.
Congo Square Stage, 5:45 p.m. - 7 p.m.
"The Man" is another act that you'd be crazy to miss! After coming alive with his timeless hit "Wake Me Up," featuring Avicii, Aloe Blacc has released his third album and has proven that he is able to capture the complexities of human emotion in his songwriting. His upbeat, fun, and meaningful songs are sure to leave you in a good mood.
Old-Fashioned Hand-Made Ice Cream Sandwiches by Francofonte on Wheels
If you need some time away from the sweaty crowds and loud bands, head on over to Heritage Square to cool off with a hand-made ice cream sandwich, guaranteed to put a smile on your face. This delicious ice cream sandwiched between two cookies is unlike any other Jazz Fest dessert and is perfect for a refreshing snack.
Crawfish Strudel by Cottage Catering
Food Area II
This Jazz Fest favorite is an absolute must-try! Who doesn't love crawfish or strudel? Cottage Catering combines them both in a simple and delicious pastry. Craving a dessert? Their white chocolate bread pudding is a perfect end to this quick and delicious Jazz Fest meal.
Hand-built Acoustic Guitars by Steve Walden
Tent F
We're sure that all this Jazz Fest music has you itching to learn how to play an instrument yourself, just to see if you have the potential to be the next act on stage. Look no further than Steve Walden's hand-built acoustic guitars. With one of these carefully crafted instruments, you'll be sure to discover your hidden musical talent.
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The Ecosystems Center was founded in 1975 as a year-round research center of the MBL. Its mission is to investigate the structure and functioning of ecological systems, predict their response to changing environmental conditions, apply the resulting knowledge to the preservation and management of natural resources and educate both future scientists and concerned citizens.
Because the complex nature of modern ecosystems research requires a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach, Ecosystems Center scientists work together on projects bringing expertise from a wide range of disciplines to bear on a variety of questions. Center scientists are currently conducting more than 50 research projects all over the world, many in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions.
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Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
The National Science Foundation established the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network in 1980 to support research on long-term ecological phenomena in the United States. There are 28 LTER sites that represent diverse ecosystems and research emphases. Two LTER projects are based at the Ecosystems Center: Arctic and Plum Island. In addition, researchers at the center are actively involved in research at the Harvard Forest LTER.
The long-term goal of Arctic LTER project is to understand and predict the effects of environmental change on arctic landscapes. To achieve this goal the Arctic LTER studies the ecology of the surrounding tundra, streams, and lakes. We hope to gain an understanding of the controls of ecosystem structure and function through long-term monitoring and surveys of natural variation of ecosystem characteristics, through experimental manipulation of ecosystems for years to decades and through synthesis of results and predictive modeling at ecosystem and watershed scales.
The Plum Island Ecosystems LTER (PIE LTER), located in northeastern Massachusetts, is an integrated research, education and outreach program with the goal of developing a predictive understanding of the long-term response of watershed and estuarine ecosystems to changes in climate, land use and sea level and to apply this knowledge to the wise management and development of policy to protect the natural resources of coastal zones.
Increases in soil temperatures associated with global warming have the potential to accelerate soil organic matter decay and alter nutrient cycling patterns in forested ecosystems. By increasing soil temperatures we can explore the effects of global warming in our forests, we can examine ecosystem responses to warming and the resulting feedbacks to the climate system. At the Harvard Forest LTER site we have established soil warming studies in a range of forest types and soil conditions on various spatial and temporal scales examining the implications of global warming on different ecosystem processes.
Other Research Projects
Ecosystem Modeling. The foundation of any science is an underpinning theoretical structure that ties together the components and processes that are addressed by the science. This foundation is particularly important in ecology because of the extraordinary complexity of ecological systems. At The Ecosystems Center, we use mathematical models both for formulating theories and for making quantitative predictions based on them. The models we have developed include the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM), the Multiple Element Limitation model (MEL), and models to address how microbial communities are structured by their use of energy and nutrients and how these environmental “microbiomes” and the ecosystem services they provide change subject to environmental pressures. We use these models to study how organisms optimize resource acquisition from their environment, how various ecosystems around the world are likely to respond to elevated CO2, climate warming, changes in precipitation, and disturbances like wildfire and clear cutting. We also use these models to assess the potential of the biosphere to mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration. To develop these models, we rely on field and laboratory data collected by Ecosystems Center scientists and our colleagues around the world. Our model results help guide future field and laboratory studies, and inform resource use and environmental policy.
Since 1978, the Oceanic Flux Program (OFP), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has continuously measured particle fluxes in the deep Sargasso Sea. The OFP is the longest running time-series of its kind, and has produced a unique record of temporal variability in the “biological pump,” a term applied here to material transfer from the surface to the deep ocean resulting from the interplay between physical, biological and chemical processes.
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Closed Captioned / Drama / Family / Gay / Lesbian Interest
Out In The Dark
Out in the Dark is as much a political and societal commentary as it is an original romantic story. Compelling and intimate, Michael Mayer's taut first feature follows a border-crossing relationship between an Israeli lawyer and an increasingly desperate Palestinian student.
Nimer, an ambitious Palestinian student in the West Bank, dreams of a better life abroad. One fateful night in Tel Aviv, he meets Roy, an Israeli lawyer, and the two fall in love. As their relationship deepens, they are both confronted with the harsh realities of a Palestinian society that refuses to accept Nimer for his sexual identity, and an Israeli society that rejects him for his nationality. When Nimer?s close friend is caught hiding illegally in Tel Aviv and sent back to the West Bank where he is brutally murdered, Nimer is to choose between the life he thought he wanted and his love for Roy.
Director: Michael Mayer
Producer: Michael Mayer
Producer: Lihu Roter
Writer: Michael Mayer
Released: Nov 05 2013
Added: Oct 27 2015
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Loai Noufi
Alon Pout
Jameel Khouri
Nicholas Jacob
Michael Aloni
4 Reviews for Out In The Dark
Review by Kelly Burkhardt
By: Kelly Burkhardt
In-House Review - Jul 30 2013
Out in the Dark, the debut feature from director Michael Mayer, is simply brilliant. The film, centering on race and sexuality, follows a young, affluent and ambitious Palestinian grad student and a Jewish lawyer who fall in love.
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The adorable Nimr (Nicholas Jacob) crosses the border to study and occasionally to meet his friends at a gay nightclub in Tel Aviv. One night, he is introduced to the handsome and wealthy Roy (Michael Aloni) and an instant attraction ensues.
While Tel Aviv is ostensibly more accepting of Palestinians being present, Nimr's homeland is not. He struggles to keep the peace with his Muslim family - especially his brother, who is now a member of a radical, extremist anti-Palestinian organization. Despite being surrounded by all of these weighty (and sometimes dangerous) obstacles, the budding couple cannot help but fall immensely in love.
Everything soon comes to a gripping head. Nimr is to choose between the life he once dreamed of... or Roy, his true love.
From the opening scene to the final frame, Out in the Dark is a timely and poignant film that should not be missed!
Review by chromo_man
By: chromo_man
This film has so much for which to recommend it: a sweet romance developing between handsome strangers, mixed with political intrigue and several types of familial dramas, stirred into a tasty cocktail. Something for everyone.
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Filmmakers take note: The fourth star I am giving is partially for having perhaps the best subtitles I have ever seen. While I cannot vouch for how well they translate the words actually being spoken onscreen, they were large and clear and readable throughout the film, and contained none of the painful grammatical errors found in far too many foreign films; nor did they disappear before they could be read. Note: the small subtitles in the trailer for the film are NOT the same great subtitles as those in the film itself
Review by NightTim
By: NightTim
This is one of the best gay films I've ever seen. It has a lot of moving parts: love story, social/political commentary, and thriller, all woven together in a poignant, complex drama. I thought it was touching, sexy and exciting, tragic, maddening,... Read More
This is one of the best gay films I've ever seen. It has a lot of moving parts: love story, social/political commentary, and thriller, all woven together in a poignant, complex drama. I thought it was touching, sexy and exciting, tragic, maddening, frightening, and tension-filled.
The basic storyline is not new: someone falls in love with a person from the wrong side of the tracks (in this case, something the families on both sides feel). But the Palestinian/Israeli divide makes it modern and relevant, and it brings to life the conflict we usually only read about in the papers.
Both Nimr (Nicholas Jacob - how did he get that name??) and Roy (Michael Aloni) are beautiful to look at, and it makes every minute of the film a viseral pleasure to watch. For some reason, though both characters are shirtless in plenty of scenes, Jacob's body is the only one we usually get to see. It would have been nice to see more of Aloni's - but Jacob is beautiful enough for the both of them.
The love scenes are some of the best I've seen in gay films - meaning not that the sex was scorching hot and animalistic, but that it was so tender and real and aching that it was hard to believe these were two actors. (They just have to be boyfriends in real life!) If it's sex you want, porn is cheap and plentiful. This, however, is rare on film.
It starts out as a fun, flirty, harmless love story but then turns dark as the political and social realities surface and become undeniable. Then this viewer found himself forgetting to breathe as the stakes became clear and danger and desperation took over as drivers of the story. The loose ends are not tied up neatly at the end, but it's enough to know that Nimr makes it.
Unforgettable, especially as we know this is not just a made-up story but reality in the Middle East, where being gay can literally be a life or death issue. Twenty bucks and two hours well-spent.
Hard-hitting and highly recommended.
We hear so much about the Israel/Palestine situation that we begin to think that the two peoples will never get along. We see here that this is not true. This is the story of a romantic relationship between an Israeli lawyer and a Palestinian graduat... Read More
We hear so much about the Israel/Palestine situation that we begin to think that the two peoples will never get along. We see here that this is not true. This is the story of a romantic relationship between an Israeli lawyer and a Palestinian graduate student who has a permit to study in Israel. (There are some in the pink washing camp who will claim that Israel does not allow Palestinians to study within her borders and that is simply not true). Each man has to deal not just with his sexuality but also with his family because of whom he loves. There are the personal issues like language, class, nationality, religion and culture and these are difficult enough without adding the broader problems of the political situations because the two men are involved with one-another despite the tensions between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. (I must admit that the word "occupied" bothers me a great deal because it seems to be something new-what were once the spoils of war are now considered occupied territories.
Nmir and Roy, our two lovers quite naturally are at the center of the film and they become the symbols of the two sides-each wanting peace and security but also were slow to understand that their futures are bound together. There is no blame on either side in the film nor is there examination of righteousness on either side. Each side is looked at honestly whether dealing with Palestinian fanaticism or the use of power by the Israel Defense and security services. (This is an achievement for director Michael Mayer who as an Israeli could easily have taken sides). There is even a hint here that each side may play into the hands of the other and this is something we have not seen much of. We do, however, feel a pervading sense of fear and we are surely aware of the toll fear can take.
For a love story this is both gritty and gorgeous. While the tension of the situation is felt throughout the film (keep in mind that we have all been tempered by Romeo and Juliet stories), so is the love that the men share. There is a figurative and literal darkness almost throughout the entire film but there is also love-not just between Nimr and Roy but between the men and their families.
Michael Aloni is Roy Shaefer, the young Israeli lawyer and his ability to show the entire range of emotions is brilliant. He lives in a state of hopelessness yet he thinks that Israel will eventually do right by coming to terms with her Palestine problem. Nicholas Jacob is stunning as Nimr and this is his first film role. Interesting that his parents are Arab/Italian and he grew up between Haifa and Nashville and is not gay. His role requires him to deal with demons, the kind of which we will never experience but which he does not let take him over. The other actors also do fine jobs-Alon Oleartchik (whom you may remember as a band member of Keveret and whose name came to prominence with the Poogy stories) is Roy's father who suffers from conflicting emotions about his son, Alon Pdut is excellent as an Israeli security officer who has become cold because he is worried about the future of his country, Jamil Khouri plays Nimr's brother who is caught up in the terror movement and Loai Nofi as a stereotypical yet Palestinian gay Arab gives a wonderful cameo.
I found myself so involved in the film that I am having difficulty writing about it. The love story of Nimr and Roy is super intense and we see this against the backdrop of the political situation. Roy and Nimr leads us to believe that they are living for themselves and for each other and this is in contrast to the sad picture of what is going on around them.
The real beauty of the film is that it is for everyone and sexuality and Israel/Palestine politics do not matter. This is first and foremost a love story. The ending is ambiguous and purposefully so. While there is no resolution there are signs of hope and let's face it, we all live for hope. Michael Meyer has united taboo with politics to give us a new way of looking at the Middle East. He examines if it is possible to remove the personal self from one's ideological background and political identity and does this though Palestinian psychology student Nimr who develops a romance with Jewish lawyer Roy.
At first the two guys flirt and it all seems okay but then Roy brings Nimr home and introduces him to his parents by telling them that this is new boyfriend. This horrifies Nimr as well since at home he is not out of the closet. Mayer sees the idea of self as a union and mixture o social and political environments that deal with both reality and love. I can continue writing all day about the film but whatever I say does not do justice to the film and I urge everyone who can to see it. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6296560764312744, "wiki_prob": 0.6296560764312744, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1307496"} |
Watch Alicia Keys, Beyoncé and Other Celebrities Describe 23 Ways You Could be Killed If You’re Black
By Melissa Chan
Alicia Keys, Beyoncé and a group of other celebrities describe 23 ways a black person could be killed in the U.S. in a new video that urges Americans to sign a petition that calls on Congress for “radical transformation,” including funding for healthcare, education and criminal justice reform.
The nearly two-dozen musicians and actors, including Chris Rock, Rihanna, Taraji P. Henson and Pharrell Williams, use real-life incidents to highlight the various ways black people have died in the country.
The video, a collaboration between Mic.com and the We Are Here movement, begins with Keys saying, “failing to signal a lane change,” when referring to the death of Sandra Bland, who last summer was arrested during a routine traffic stop in Texas and later died in police custody. Her death was ruled a suicide.
The deaths mentioned in the video also include the recent fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, alongside the other high-profile killings of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice and the nine black people shot dead inside a Charleston church last year.
“The time for change is now,” Keys says at the end of the video. “We demand radical transformation to heal the long history of systemic racism so that all Americans have the equal right to live and to pursue happiness.”
The petition specifically asks for the government to direct $150 billion toward education, healthcare, housing, employment and nutrition in “poor communities” over the next decade, as well as an “overhaul” of the criminal justice system.
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The Ride to Creston Station
Jun 18, 2016 | People, South Napa County
By Marie Bowen
1876 Parcel Map
Tracing the California Pacific Railroad (later Southern Pacific) tracks across the 1876 and 1895 “Official Map of Napa County,” one often encounters railroad depots named for nearby residents, past or present: Buchli, Thompson, Trubody, Bale, and others, depending on which map you’re viewing. But names of other stations whose origins long since forgotten are worthy of research. One of those is Creston, a station located in the southeasterly portion of Napa County and found on both official maps. The station, in fact, lay along part of what we know as Jameson Canyon Road, with the next westerly stop being Napa Junction.
The 1876 and 1895 maps show the station to be near or within acreage owned by a R. A. Brownlie. After some digging I discovered him to be Robert A. Brownlee. Slocum & Bowen’s 1881 book History of Napa and Lake Counties devoted several pages to Mr. Brownlee, a Scottish stonemason born in 1813. He arrived in New York in 1836 and from there went to Arkansas, where he helped build what are now several historic landmarks in Pulaski County. After arriving in California during the Gold Rush, he mined for a time in Mariposa County and subsequently married Annie Lamont. By 1857 the family had settled “fourteen miles north of Vallejo” on an 1,100-acre wheat and barley farm. Slocum & Bowen also noted that “The line of railroad to Sacramento from South Vallejo passes his gate.” Could this be Creston Station? I did more research online and found a few references to Creston Station as an unincorporated area in Napa County and Creston Station Ranch along Jameson Canyon Road – over which the Land Trust received from the ranch’s owners an easement in 2003.
Brownlee family, courtesy California Historical Society
Referring back to Brownlee family trees at Ancestry.com, I learned that his home, described by Slocum & Bowen as a “magnificent two-storied building,” was called Sunnyside Farm and was, indeed, Creston. He and Annie’s seven children were born there. One of Robert and Annie’s sons-in-law, Thomas Urquhart, was a Southern Pacific dispatcher who was buried at Tulocay Cemetery after his death on November 19, 1897. Additionally, various mentions of the Brownlee family were found in the Napa Register, including one entry on August 31, 1937, which noted that the sister of George Brownlee was visiting the family home at Creston. And, foretelling Creston’s semi-anonymous future, a front-page article in the Register’s January 5, 1943, edition stated, “The Worswick Construction Company has stopped work on the state highway near Creston in the Jamison [sic] Canyon…until spring.”
I knew the property owners who had provided the 2003 Land Trust easement had names other than Brownlee. Could I find the link between those owners and the Brownlee family and thus feel sure that Creston Station Ranch was the former Sunnyside? Yes, and easily. Thanks to Napa County Recorder’s online Official Records-Public Index, I found the 1945 Deed from Robert Lamont Brownlee, surviving son of Robert and Annie, to one of the property owners named in the 2003 news article.
I have not, however, learned why California Pacific Railroad named the station “Creston” when its Vallejo-Suisun route was completed in June 1868. Ancestry.com records showed no families in the area with the surname Creston. The Brownlee family owned the surrounding land pre-railroad, and, had the station been named “Brownlee,” this entire search would have been considerably shorter. Bill Bryson’s book Made in America provides an entire chapter on sources of place names, noting that a vice president of Milwaukee Railroad had the task of naming communities to be built along the Milwaukee line, including Othello, Ralston, and Purina. It is possible that Creston was intended to become a community, which it did to a small extent, and that someone, somewhere, within the California Pacific Railroad hierarchy bestowed the name.
Bryson, Bill. MADE IN AMERICA. New York: Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers, 2001
Delaplane, Kristin. “Railroad brings Solano on track in 1860s.” Historical Articles of Solano County Online Database, January 7, 1996
Etter, Patricia A. “Robert Brownlee.” The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture (online), January 3, 2007
Napa Register, August 31, 1937, and January 5, 1943
Napa Valley Register, February 3, 2003, “Land Trust Holdings Spread,” and September 7, 2006, “Land Trust Donors are Neighbors”
Official Maps of the County of Napa, 1876 and 1895
Slocum, Bowen & Co. HISTORY OF NAPA & LAKE COUNTIES. San Francisco: Slocum, Bowen & Co., 1881 | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7909595966339111, "wiki_prob": 0.7909595966339111, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1459205"} |
Stranded by Dani Pettrey
When Her Friend Goes Missing,
Every Minute Counts
Darcy St. James returns to Alaska to join a journalist friend undercover on the trail of a big story. But when Darcy arrives, she finds her friend has disappeared. Troubled by the cruise ship's vague explanation, Darcy uses her cover as a travel reporter to investigate further.
The last person Gage McKenna expects to see during his summer aboard a cruise ship leading adventure excursions is Darcy. And in typical Darcy fashion, she's digging up more trouble.
He'd love to just forget her--but something won't let him. And he can't help but worry about her as they are heading into more remote regions of Alaska and eventually into foreign waters. Something sinister is going on, and the deeper they push, the more Gage fears they've only discovered the tip of the iceberg.
Dani Petrey is a fairly new author on the Christian fiction market, having her first book just come out in May of 2012. In my personal opinion, she is one of the best new authors to have come along in recent years.
She had me hooked with her first book, Submerged, which is also the first book in this series, Alaskan Courage, and she has only gotten better with each book. This third book, Stranded is the best yet. I like it when an author has the same characters in a series, focusing more on different ones in each book, but using them all. In the last book, she started setting up for this book. In Stranded, she picks up Darcy and Gage's story where she left off in Shattered.
Stranded has all of the suspense, drama, great plot and characters, and romance Dani has had in her previous novels, but it is even better than the other two. The setting is on a cruise ship, which I think would be more of a challenge, but Dani shows she can write a great book in any setting.
Dani is one of the authors who is not afraid to make her books Christian and have her characters struggle with issues of faith. I found myself relating a lot to that of Gage in this story, and appreciate her addressing struggles of faith and showing through fiction that not everyone gets it as easily as some of us do.
This book also addresses an issue we all need to be made more aware of: the human trafficking issue.
I could not have enjoyed this book any more than I did. I devoured every page and read it through in the same day I received it in the mail. I give it 5 stars out of 5 stars. This is a Christian suspense masterpiece.
Dani Pettrey is a wife, homeschooling mom, and author. She feels blessed to write inspirational romantic suspense because it incorporates so many things she loves--the thrill of adventure, nail biting suspense, the deepening of her characters' faith, and plenty of romance. She and her husband reside in Maryland with their two teenage daughters. Visit her website at www.danipettrey.com.
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Stranded is available from Bethany House Publishers.
Thanks to the author and Bethany House for the review copy.
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Raw Edges by Sandra Bricker
This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Raw Edge Abingdon Press (September 17, 2013) by Sandra D. Bricker
For more than a decade, Sandra D. Bricker lived in Los Angeles. While honing her chosen craft of screenwriting in every spare moment, she worked as a personal assistant and publicist to some of daytime television's hottest stars. When her mother became ill in Florida, she walked away from that segment of her life and moved across the country to take on a new role: Caregiver.
The Big 5-OH! was released by Abingdon Press in the Spring of 2010, and the novel was very well-received, garnering a couple of nibbles from Hollywood.
Always the Baker, Never the Bride was released by Abingdon Press in September 2010. With its phenomenal reviews, the novel spawned a series of three more books based on the popular cast of characters at The Tanglewood Inn, a wedding destination hotel in historic Roswell, Georgia. The series cemented Sandie's spot in publishing as a flagship author of Laugh-Out-Loud romantic comedy for the inspirational market.
"Being allowed to combine my faith and my humor with my writing dream," says Bricker, "well, that's the best of all worlds, as far as I'm concerned!"
Grayson McDonough has no use for teal ribbons, 5k runs, or ovarian cancer support groups now that his beautiful wife Jenna is gone. But their nine-year-old daughter Sadie seems to need the connection. When Annabelle Curtis, the beautiful cancer survivor organizing the memory quilt project for the Ovacome support group, begins to bring out the silly and fun side of his precious daughter again, Gray must set aside his own grief to support the healing of Sadie’s young heart. But is there hope for Gray’s heart too along the way?
If you would like to read the first chapter of Raw Edge, go HERE.
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The 40 Most Influential Christians
Learn From the Greatest Teachers and Thinkers in Christian History
The Bible is the bedrock of Christian belief, yet how Christians think and talk about God, the Bible, and faith has been shaped by influential thinkers from the first century right up through the twentieth. In this book, Dr. Daryl Aaron tells the powerful stories of forty who have helped us better understand what we believe and why we believe it.
With insight--and some surprises--Dr. Aaron explores the lives and most important teachings of these giants of church history, from Justin Martyr and Augustine to Martin Luther, John Calvin, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and many others, underscoring how their teaching has influenced the church--for better or, occasionally, for worse.
Let your faith be strengthened as you encounter those who paved the way for us, often risking their lives for the sake of the very beliefs we hold today.
I'm not sure I agree with the author on all forty people in this book being the most influential Christians, but it is an interesting read. Each chapter is dedicated to a different person, and most are around six pages in length, though a few are longer.
Some of the people in the book are people I have never heard of, hence my statement that I am not sure some of them belong in the book. I studied church history and don't remember hearing of some of them, but it was still interesting reading about them and about what they contributed to Christianity. Even with the people I am familiar with, I learned some new things about.
This isn't a book you would read rapidly through, but one you would read a chapter or two at a time. The author did a great job of compiling information, putting the people in order that they came in
history, and making it and interesting and helpful book.
Daryl Aaron earned his ThM at Dallas Theological Seminary and his PhD at Graduate Theological Foundation. He spent fourteen years in pastoral ministry before becoming a professor of biblical and theological studies at Northwestern College. He lives with his wife in Mounds View, Minnesota.
The 40 Most Influential Christians is available from Bethany House Publishers.
Thanks to Bethany House for the review copy.
Fatal Tide by Lis Wiehl and Pete Nelson
In East Salem, the elite St. Adrian’s Academy is at the nexus of a satanic apocalypse—and the fatal tide is rising.
When Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is reunited with the pagans who commissioned it, a dark prophecy begins to unfold in East Salem, beginning with a savage double-murder by hellish creatures straight out of the painting itself. The lone survivor of the attack, a seventeen-year-old Brit, finds sanctuary at Tommy Gunderson’s home—and the place is soon surrounded by demons who seem to be biding their time…but for how long?
Tommy’s pond has been contaminated with Provivilan—an insidious drug that could transform New York City’s children into an army of violence-addicted murderers. But for an occult cabal in the upper echelons of Linz Pharmaceuticals, contaminating the water supply is just part of an ancient conspiracy against all of humankind.
As the clouds gather, Tommy and Dani realize they must infiltrate Linz and St. Adrian’s to stop the dissemination of Provivilan. Even then, it could take a tangible eruption of the battle between angels and demons to save humanity from the supernatural evils that have been summoned to East Salem.
The three books in this series have been my favorite books that Lis Wiehl has written. They have also been the most Christian, so that may play into why I like them the best. Of the three books in this series, this one was the best and most exciting, in my opinion.
The authors brought back the same characters from the other two books, and in this book the stakes are higher and the danger more prevalent.
I took me a few pages to remember what had happened in the last book, but I quickly got caught up. This book brings everything to a head and conclusion, and ends the series in a very satisfying way.
I really like the combination of these two authors. I have read all of Lis Whiehl's books, and she has used different co-authors, and I think Pete Nelson is her best choice yet. The writing style is better, the plot better and more complex.... I thoroughly enjoyed this series, and especially this last book. As with the other books, there were appearances by angels and demons, and people physically fought some demonic creatures, which I know we don't actually do, but it was a neat way to show that spiritual warfare is very real.
There were a couple of words in this book that are inappropriate for a Christian book, but they weren't as bad as some I have run onto. Overall, this was an awesome book.
Lis Wiehl is a New York Times best-selling author, Harvard Law School graduate, and former
federal prosecutor. A popular legal analyst and commentator for the Fox News Channel, Wiehl appears on The O'Reilly Factor and Imus in the Morning, and was co-host with Bill O'Reilly on the radio for seven years.
Pete Nelson lives with his wife and son in Westchester, New York. He got his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1979 and has written both fiction and non-fiction for magazines, including Harpers, Playboy, Esquire, MS, Outside, The Iowa Review, National Wildlife, Glamour, Redbook. He was a columnist for Mademoiselle and a staff writer for LIVE Magazine, covering various live events including horse pulls, music festivals, dog shows, accordion camps and arm wrestling championships. Recently he was a contributing editor and feature writer for Wondertime, a Disney parenting magazine. He's published twelve young adult novels, including a six-book series about a girl named Sylvia Smith-Smith which earned him an Edgar Award nomination from the Mystery Writers of America. His young adult non-fiction WWII history, Left For Dead (Randomhouse, 2002) about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis won the 2003 Christopher award as was named to the American Library Association's 2003 top ten list. His other non-fiction titles include Real Man Tells All (Viking, 1988), Marry Like a Man (NAL, l992), That Others May Live (Crown, 2000) and Kidshape (Rutledge Hill, 2004). His novel The Christmas List was published by Rutledge Hill Press in 2004. He wrote, with former army counterintelligence agent Dave DeBatto, a four book series of military thrillers, including CI: Team Red (2005), CI: Dark Target (2006), CI: Mission Liberty (2006) and CI: Homeland Threat (2007) published by Time-Warner. A More Unbending Battle; The Harlem Hellfighters' Struggle for Democracy in WWI and Equality at Home, was published in 2009 by Basic Civitas books. His novel, I Thought You Were Dead, will be published by Algonquin in 2010. He also has two CDs out on the Signature Sounds label, the first entitled The Restless Boys Club (1996), the second called Days Like Horses (2000).
Fatal Tide is available from Thomas Nelson Publishers.
Unlimited by Davis Bunn, an interview, and giveaway
Simon Orwell is a brilliant student whose life has taken a series of wrong turns. At the point of giving up on his dreams, he gets a call from an old professor who has discovered a breakthrough in a device that would create unlimited energy, and he needs Simon's help.
But once he crosses the border, nothing goes as the young man planned. The professor has been killed and Simon is assaulted and nearly killed by members of a powerful drug cartel.
Now he must take refuge in the only place that will help him, a local orphanage. There, Simon meets Harold Finch, the orphanage proprietor who walked away from a lucrative career with NASA and consulting Fortune 500 companies to serve a higher cause.
With Harold's help, Simon sets out on a quest to uncover who killed the professor and why. In due time, he will discover secrets to both the worldchanging device and his own unlimited potential.
Occasionally I run across a book that sounds good, and upon reading it I find it far better than I had anticipated from the book description, and this is one such book. I have read several of Davis Bunn's books in the last few years and have yet to be disappointed. They are full of action and suspense, and Unlimited was not exception.
The plot of the book is about people trying to make unlimited energy from unused energy. I loved the characters, setting, and plot for the story, and especially liked the main character, Simon. He is a young man who has made some bad choices in life, and it seems nothing is going right for him, but as the book progresses, we see God can change and save even a misfit like him.
Davis Bunn did a great job of describing scientific and technological terms in language that is easy to understand and be interesting to the reader. I was far from bored while reading this book. A lot happened, and it was written in a way to be very believable and likely to happen.
The book has it all: action, suspense, bad guys, good guys, romance, corrupt politicians, and God working things out for those who serve Him.
Interestingly, this story is based on true events. Davis Bunn has done a great job of putting the events in a fictional novel and coming up with a book definitely worth reading. And as an added benefit, I learned a lot.
Davis Bunn is a four-time Christy Award-winning, best-selling author now serving as writer-in-residence at Regent's Park College, Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Defined by readers and reviewers as a “wise teacher,” “gentleman adventurer,” “consummate writer,” and “Renaissance man,” his work in business took him to over 40 countries around the world, and his books have sold more than seven million copies in sixteen languages.
Unlimited is Davis’s first screenplay to be released as a major motion picture. The book, Unlimited, is a novelization of the screenplay.
The inspiration behind the Unlimited film and novel is Harold Finch's book, Success: Four Keys to Unlock Your Unlimited Potential. Download a free copy of Success here: http://unlimitedthemovie.com/4-keys-book/.
Unlimited is available from Broadman and Holman Publishing.
I received a complimentary copy of Unlimited from B&H Publishing Group in exchange for my honest review.
Read the first three chapters here.
Movie trailer:
Q and A with Davis Bunn
The storyline in Unlimited is inspired by true events. What actual events inspired the story?
Harold Finch was formerly the founder and CEO of the first management-leadership consulting groups in the US. In the mid-seventies he sold the company to H&R Block for over a hundred million dollars—back when a hundred million actually meant something. Answering God’s call, he has spent the past three decades traveling the world, teaching his concepts for free and helping underprivileged children learn that they do indeed have both a purpose in God’s eyes, and the potential to succeed. His experiences form the basis for this story.
What ignited your idea for the characters to create a device that would convert raw wasted energy into useable power?
I actually wrote the screenplay for the film before writing the novel. This happens occasionally—Godfather and Love Story were both conceived in this order. While working on the film script, the producer and Harold and I were discussing what might work as a basis for the story’s suspense element. We were looking for something that had the means of revealing this ‘unlimited’ potential in people. I don’t actually remember who first came up with the idea of wasted energy, but soon as it was said, we all jumped on it.
Simon Orwell, the protagonist in Unlimited, is a brilliant, cynical electrical engineering student who finds danger irresistible. Did you model his character traits after yourself or anyone you know?
Alas, we all know a Simon. These days, this type of person is all too common. An individual with huge potential, who allows himself or herself to become distracted by the multitude of temptations that basically define modern life. And yes, I do know several such people. Some turn this into hugely productive directions, thank goodness. Usually to do so requires divine help, a clarification of focus, and strength they must reach out and ask to receive.
Armando Vasquez and Harold Finch are important mentors in Simon’s life. Who has been a critical mentor in your life, Davis? How has that person encouraged you to push beyond the boundaries of what you thought possible?
There have been several such mentors, for which I remain extremely grateful. One such person is Carol Johnson, who recently retired as editor-in-chief at Bethany House Publishers. Carol has been instrumental in my becoming the best writer I could be, and continues to act as a sounding board for new ideas and characters. Another, I am happy to say, is Harold Finch. His lessons on combining God’s teachings with lifelong aims have been a genuinely rewarding experience with far-reaching results.
Many of the characters in the story are orphans. What parallels do you see between the orphans in the story and real-life spiritual orphans?
A beautiful question. While researching the core components of this story, orphanage leaders repeatedly stressed the need to teach orphans to believe in themselves and their natural abilities. Too often they see themselves as lost, without purpose, without a role to play, without chances, without love. What made this story work, I think, is how Simon Orwell shares these same feelings about himself. And how he comes to realize God is the only one to fill this need.
Many people believe they must wear a mask to hide the parts of themselves they are ashamed of. How is this story about removing that mask?
So much of life remains hidden away. The darker elements of a life without God only amplify this falseness. Simon has spent so much of his life, so much of his energy and time, in hiding. As the story unfolds, he discovers that an essential element of arriving at his full potential is being honest with himself. This is where the mask is most damaging, and also where it is often hardest to release. We seek to hide the truth, even when we know the act is a lie in itself. And the mirror we require to see the truth about ourselves is the one that God offers, in infinite patience, in gentle love.
The title, Unlimited, has multiple layers of meaning. What does that title mean to you?
Unlimited was the title brought to me by the film’s producers. When I first began working on this story, it was just that, a title. But as I grew to know Harold, and heard him teach, and read his lesson plan, and then actually applied what he has come to call his ‘Dynamic Life Retreat’ (see Harold full teachings on his website, HaroldFinch.com) I have come to agree with them in their choice. Bringing God into the equation of life’s direction, success, and reaching full potential does reveal the true meaning of Unlimited.
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Dangerous Passage by Lisa Harris
She's dedicated her life to ending violence. But has she moved too deep into a treacherous world?
When two Jane Does are killed on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia, detective and behavioral specialist Avery North discovers they share something in common--a magnolia tattoo on their shoulders. Suspecting a serial killer, Avery joins forces with medical examiner Jackson Bryant to solve the crimes and prevent another murder. As they venture deep into a sinister criminal world, Avery and Jackson are taken to the very edge of their abilities--and their hearts.
Dangerous Passage exposes a fully realized and frightening world where every layer peeled back reveals more challenges ahead. You'll be hooked from the start.
I have only read one book by this author before I read this one, and remember thinking it was OK, but nothing spectacular. Maybe it is because she has more writing under her belt, but this book was a terrific read. In addition to being a great suspense novel, the author tackles the human trafficking issue, which is something we all need to be aware of and learn more about.
I liked everything about this book: plot, characters, setting. This book is classified as romantic suspense, but that part of the book took a back seat to the action and suspense, and was not overdone at all, and it wasn't all wrapped up in a neat package at the end either. As with many books like this one, I had a hard time putting it down and read it in one sitting.
This is the first book in a series, and I look forward to reading the other books that will follow. The author has a plot going on that will cover at least one more book, and has me hooked, waiting to see
how it will work out.
Lisa Harris is an award-winning author with more than 400,000 copies of her works in print. She was a 2011 Christy Award finalist for Blood Ransom and lives in Mozambique together with her husband, Scott, and their three children. Visit her website at www.lisaharriswrites.com.
Available September 20 from Revell Publishing, a division of Baker Books Publishing.
Fired Up by Mary Connealy
This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Fired Up (Bethany House March 1, by Mary Connealy
Mary Connealy writes romantic comedy with cowboys. She is a Christy Award Finalist, a Carol Award Finalist and an IRCC Award finalist.
The Lassoed in Texas Series, Petticoat Ranch, Calico Canyon and Gingham Mountain. Petticoat Ranch was a Carol Award Finalist. Calico Canyon was a Christy Award Finalist and a Carol Award Finalist. These three books are now contained in one large volume called Lassoed in Texas Trilogy.
The Montana Marriages Series, Montana Rose, The Husband Tree and Wildflower Bride. Montana Rose was a Carol Award Finalist.
Cowboy Christmas—the 2010 Carol Award for Best Long Historical Romance, and an Inspirational Readers Choice Contest Finalist.
The Sophie's Daughters series. Doctor in Petticoats, Wrangler in Petticoats, Sharpshooter in Petticoats.
She is also the author of; Black Hills Blessing a 3-in-1 collection of sweet contemporary romances, Nosy in Nebraska, a 3-in-1 collection of cozy romantic mysteries and she's one of the three authors contributing to Alaska Brides with her Carol Award Winning historical romance Golden Days.
Rollicking Wild West Adventure and Romance from Bestselling Author Mary Connealy
Dare Riker is a doctor who saves lives, but someone seems determined to end his. It may have something to do with the traitors he dealt with during the Civil War, or it might be related to the recent incident with Flint Greer and the ranch. Whoever the culprit is, he or she seems really fired up, and Dare can't let his guard down for a moment, which is a challenge, since right now he's trying to win the heart of the recently widowed Glynna.
Glynna Greer came west as a mail-order bride and ended up in a bad situation. Now her husband, Flint, is dead, and she's determined to care for her son and daughter on her own. She wants to believe Dare Riker is as decent as he seems, but she's terrified to lock herself into another marriage. She plans to support her small family by opening a diner--never mind that cooking is not her greatest talent. The men in Broken Wheel, Texas, are so desperate for home cooking that they seem willing to overlook dried-out beef and blackened biscuits.
Glynna can't help but notice that danger follows Dare wherever he goes. There's the avalanche. And then the fire. But things really get out of hand when someone plunges a knife from Glynna's diner into Dare's back. Are Flint's cronies still plotting revenge? Is Glynna's son engaged in a misguided attempt to protect his mother? Is a shadowy outsider still enraged over past injustices? And can Dare survive long enough to convince Glynna to take another chance on love?
If you would like to read the first chapter of Fired Up, go HERE.
Born of Persuasion by Jessica Dotta
This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Born of Persuasion Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. (September 1, 2013) by Jessica Dotta
Born in the wrong century–except for the fact that she really likes epidurals and washing machines–Jessica Dotta writes British Historicals with the humor like an Austen, yet the drama of a Bronte.
She resides lives in the greater Nashville area—where she imagines her small Southern town into the foggy streets of 19th century London. She oversees her daughter to school, which they pretend is an English boarding school, and then she goes home to write and work on PR. Jessica has tried to cast her dachshund as their butler–but the dog insists it’s a Time Lord and their home a Tardis. Miss Marple, her cat, says its no mystery to her as to why the dog won’t cooperate. When asked about it, Jessica sighs and says that you can’t win them all, and at least her dog has picked something British to emulate.
The year is 1838, and seventeen-year-old Julia Elliston’s position has never been more fragile. Orphaned and unmarried in a time when women are legal property of their fathers, husbands, and guardians, she finds herself at the mercy of an anonymous guardian who plans to establish her as a servant in far-off Scotland.
With two months to devise a better plan, Julia’s first choice to marry her childhood sweetheart is denied. But when a titled dowager offers to introduce Julia into society, a realm of possibilities opens. However, treachery and deception are as much a part of Victorian society as titles and decorum, and Julia quickly discovers her present is deeply entangled with her mother’s mysterious past. Before she knows what’s happening, Julia finds herself a pawn in a deadly game between two of the country’s most powerful men. With no laws to protect her, she must unravel the secrets on her own. But sometimes truth is elusive and knowledge is deadly.
If you would like to read the first chapter of Born of Persuasion, go HERE.
The Machine by Bill Myers
For ages 8 to 14, Truth Seekers is a fast-paced, thoughtful, and funny new series using a 21st century approach to sharing ancient Bible truths.
In book one, The Machine, twin siblings Jake and Jenny have just lost their mother and are not thrilled about moving to Israel to stay with their seldom seen archaeologist dad. They don’t yet understand how “all things work together for good to those who love God.” But they will when a machine their father invented points them to the Truth.
This is the first book in The Truth Seekers series, and the first part of it is taken up with setting up the story and giving information about the main characters, twins Jake and Jen.
I'm obviously an adult, and this book is geared for ages 8-14, but I found the book very entertaining and interesting. I could see my 12 year old nephew loving the story. It is funny, and has a lot of gadgets and wacky inventions that are used in the story. The book also deals with the issue of trusting God, and one of the main characters struggles with that especially.
This book is a great beginning to what has the makings of being a very good series of books for this age group. I would recommend it.
Bill Myers is an accomplished writer and film director whose work has won more than sixty national and international awards including the C. S. Lewis Honor Award. Among his best-selling releases for kids are The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle and The Forbidden Door. He has sold more than eight million books and videos and lives with two cats, two kids, one dog, and one wife near Hollywood, California.
The Machine is available from Broadman and Holman Publishing.
Labels: Book Review, Christian fiction, Juvenile fiction/kid's books
Shades of Mercy by Anita Lustrea and Caryn Rivendara
This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Shades of Mercy River North; New Edition edition (September 1, 2013) by Anita Lustrea
Caryn Rivendara
Authentic. That’s the word heard over and over when women describe Anita Lustrea. She is a popular speaker at women’s conferences and retreats, and an amazing communicator as co-host of the award winning Midday Connection radio broadcast. Her deep desire is to communicate freedom to women and help them nurture and care for their soul. Anita is the co-author of “Come to Our Table: A Midday Connection Cookbook” and “Daily Seeds from Women Who Walk in Faith”, a Devotional for women. Her first solo venture as an author releases in November, 2010, “What Women Tell Me: finding freedom from the secrets we keep.” Anita and her husband, Mike Murphy, a pastor, along with her teenage son John live in the Chicago suburbs. When she’s not traveling or speaking, you can find her reading and drinking a venti hot tea at her local Starbucks.
Caryn is a sought-after writer and speaker. She’s the author of four books—Shades of Mercy: A Maine Chronicle (River North, September 2013), Known & Loved: 52 Devotions from the Psalms (Revell, April 2013), Grumble Hallelujah (Tyndale House, September 2011), and Mama’s Got a Fake I.D. (WaterBrook Press, March 2009)–and a regular contributor to Christianity Today’s Her.Meneutics as well as columnist for Re:Frame Media’s ThinkChristian blog. She has written dozens of magazine article. Her work has appeared in such publications as Christianity Today, Relevant, FamilyLife, and Engineering and Mining Journal (you read that right). Caryn leads workshops and speaks at conferences and church groups across the country. She’s also a regular guest on Moody Radio’s Midday Connection with Anita Lustrea and Melinda Schmidt and has been featured on such radio shows as The John and Kathy Show, Changing Worldviews/WOMANTalk with Sharon Hughes, I Thought She Said with Faith Daly, The Paul Edwards Program with Paul Edwards, and Talk from the Heart with Rich Buhler, among many others. Caryn also appeared on The Harvest Show. Caryn earned a B.A. in English from Calvin College and attended the University of Chicago’s publishing program. She lives in the western suburbs of Chicago with her husband, Rafael, her three kids, a rescued pit bull terrier, two hermit crabs, and several tank fulls of who-knows-what-kind-of fish. Caryn and her family are members of Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church in Elmhurst, Illinois, where Caryn recently joined the worship staff.
It's 1954 and the world-even the far Northwoods of Maine-is about to change. But that change can't happen soon enough for fourteen-year-old Mercy Millar. Long tired of being the "son" her father never had, Mercy's ready for the world to embrace her as the young woman she is-as well as embrace the forbidden love she feels. When childhood playmates grow up and fall in love, the whole community celebrates. But in the case of Mercy and Mick, there would be no celebration. Instead their relationship must stay hidden. Good girls do not date young men from the Maliseet tribe. At least, not in Watsonville, Maine. When racial tensions escalate and Mick is thrown in jail under suspicion of murder, Mercy nearly loses all hope-in love, in her father, and in God himself.
If you would like to read the first chapter of Shades of Mercy, go HERE.
Critical Pursuit by Janice Cantore
Officer Brinna Caruso has built a reputation at the precinct as the cop to call when a child goes missing. For Brinna, it’s personal because she was once one of them. Brinna and her K-9 search and rescue dog, Hero, will stop at nothing to find a missing child, no matter the stakes.
Detective Jack O’Reilly isn’t ready to return to his homicide duties, after losing his wife to a drunk driver. He’s on the downside of his career, and bent on revenge, when he’s assigned as Brinna’s partner. While on patrol, Jack struggles between his quest for personal justice and his responsibility to those around him, especially his partner.
Skeptical of Jack’s motives, Brinna isn’t sure she can rely on her new partner, whose reckless abandon endangers the safety of those around him. But when a man surfaces with an MO similar to the criminal who abducted Brinna twenty years earlier, Brinna and Jack must cast aside previous judgments and combine efforts to catch the kidnapper, and finally allow Brinna the peace stolen from her as a child.
Janice Cantore is a fairly new author, with this being just her fourth book on the Christian market, but she has quickly become one of my favorite authors. The fact that she was a police officer for several years makes the police action in her books all the more believable.
As with her other books, this book is full of action, drama, suspense, and police action. It was lacking in romance, though there were signs that may come in the sequel.
I like it when a Christian author isn't afraid to actually have Christian content and a Christian message in their books, and this one had a great message. The two main characters both struggled in different ways and for different reasons, the question of there being a God, and if there is, why He allows suffering and doesn't always intervene and answer prayers the way that we want Him to. This theme played a big part in the book, and the author did as good of a job addressing that question as she does with writing a great suspense novel. I don't want to give too much away, but one of them is dealing with it much better at the end of the book, and the other one seems more open to it, but it isn't tied up in a neat bow.
I did read the book in one sitting, and loved it. It dealt with a tough crime: crimes against children, but it wasn't graphic and it was handled well. The book was a great suspense novel worth reading, but it is also a great reminder that there are evil men in this world who are intent on kidnapping and molesting young children, and we can't be too careful with the kids in our life. The book was also a great reminder that God is good, and it is men's evil deeds who cause us pain and harm, not God.
Note: Critical Pursuit was previously published with another publisher under the title Kevlar Heart.
Janice Cantore is a retired Long Beach police officer who now writes suspense novels to keep readers engrossed and leave them inspired. Her twenty-two years of experience on the force lend authenticity to her stories. Her Pacific Coast Justice series has met with critical acclaim. Critical Pursuit is the first book in her latest series. Visit Janice's website at www.janicecantore.com and connect with her on Facebook.
Critical Pursuit is available from Tyndale House Publishing.
Thanks to Tyndale for the review copy.
Labels: Book Review, Christian fiction, favorite authors, Janice Cantore, read-in-one-sitting book, suspense/mystery
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Trapped by Irene Hannon
A runaway teen, a desperate sister, and an intrepid PI determined to discover the truth
When Laura Griffith's sixteen-year-old sister disappears on a frigid February day, leaving only a brief note behind, Laura resolves to do whatever it takes to track down the runaway teen. That includes recruiting ATF agent turned private investigator James Devlin to help. Dev knows time is of the essence with runaways--just forty-eight hours can mean the difference between recovery and ruin.
But the deeper he and Laura dig, the more Dev begins to suspect that something sinister is at work in the girl's disappearance. And in the icy winter weather, the trail is going cold . . .
In her latest thrilling read, queen of romantic suspense Irene Hannon outdoes herself with a fast-paced tale of fear, deception, and just the right dose of romance.
Christian suspense is my all time favorite genre', and Irene Hannon is one of my favorite authors who writes it.
This is the second book in the Private Justice Series, and like the first book, it does not disappoint. This book centers on another of the trio of investigators, "Dev". He is investigating the disappearance of a teenager. The book had a slow start, but quickly became the nail biter Irene is known for. It turned out to be an excellent read that kept me turning the pages as fast as I could read them. And when I say it had a slower start, I don't mean it was boring. It just took a while for the stage to be set.
I liked the fact that the book showed what was going on with the missing girl and those who were looking for her.
As with all of Irene's books, there was also romance in the book, but it was not overdone and was a secondary part of the story. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and am looking forward to the third book in the series.
Irene Hannon is the author of more than 35 novels, including the bestselling Heroes of Quantico and Guardians of Justice series. Her books have been honored with two coveted RITA Awards from Romance Writers of America, a Carol Award, a HOLT Medallion, a Daphne du Maurier Award, and two Reviewers' Choice Awards from RT Book Reviews magazine. Booklist also included one of her novels in its "Top 10 Inspirational Fiction" list for 2011. She lives in Missouri.
For more information about her and her books, Irene invites you to visit her website at www.irenehannon.com.
Available August 2013 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Labels: Book Review, Christian fiction, favorite authors, Irene Hannon, read-in-one-sitting book, suspense/mystery
The Promise by Dan Walsh and Gary Smalley
One home, two hearts, and the power of a promise kept . . . For the last five months, Tom Anderson has been without a job, a fact he's been hiding from his wife Jean--and everyone else. He leaves each morning, pretending nothing has changed, and spends his disheartening day rotating through coffee shops and the library, using their wifi to search job listings online. The stress of keeping this secret is beginning to put serious strain on his marriage.
But Tom's not the only one hiding something. Jean Anderson has a secret of her own--one that will seriously complicate their situation. Will the promises they made on their wedding day hold firm?
I don't read a lot of Christian fiction books outside of the suspense genre', but Dan Walsh is one author whose books fall into that exception. When faced with the decision to read one of his books or a suspense novel, I'll pick his book any day.
This is book two in a new series by Dan and relationship expert Gary Smalley. These books aren't simply good fiction. They are filled with great relationship advice.
The first book, The Dance, centered on Jim and Marilyn Anderson and their failing marriage. This book centers on their oldest son, Tom, and the issues he is facing. I like a series as they usually have the same characters in all of the books and you get to know and love them more, so that alone makes this series appealing. The Promise deals with more issues in marriage, and also deals with the issues between a father and his children. Through a fictional story, the authors show how a father's action and approval or disapproval can and does affect his children, even as adults.
I devoured The Promise just as much as if it were a suspense novel. It is a very gripping story and has the ability to change people and help their relationships.
And there may be a woman on the cover, but this is a book for men and women, and both should read it.
Dan Walsh is the bestselling author of several books, including The Dance and The Promise with Gary Smalley, as well as The Unfinished Gift, The Discovery, and The Reunion. He has won three Carol Awards, and two of his novels were finalists for RT Book Reviews Inspirational Book of the Year for 2011 and 2012. A member of American Christian Fiction Writers, Dan served as a pastor for twenty-five years. He lives with his wife in the Daytona Beach area, where he's busy researching and writing his next novel. Visit www.danwalshbooks.com for more.
Gary Smalley is one of the country's best known authors and speakers on family relationships. He is the bestselling and award-winning author or coauthor of 16 books, along with several popular films and videos. He has spent over 30 years learning, teaching, and counseling, speaking to over 2 million people in live conferences. Smalley has appeared on national television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Extra, The Today Show, and The Sally Jessy Raphael Show, as well as numerous national radio programs. Gary and his wife, Norma, have been married for 49 years and live in Branson, Missouri. They have three children and six grandchildren.
Labels: Book Review, Christian fiction, Dan Walsh, favorite authors, read-in-one-sitting book
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(The Pharaoh said,) “Then, we will most certainly produce before you... (Tā-Hā 20:58-59)
by Fethullah Gülen on 27 December 2012 . Posted in Sūrah Tā-Hā
فَلَنَأْتِيَنَّكَ بِسِحْرٍ مِثْلِه۪ فَاجْعَلْ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكَ مَوْعِدًا لَا نُخْلِفُهُ نَحْنُ وَلَۤا أَنْتَ مَكَانًا سُوًىقَالَ مَوْعِدُكُمْ يَوْمُ الزّ۪ينَةِ وَأَنْ يُحْشَرَ النَّاسُ ضُحًى
(The Pharaoh said,) “Then, we will most certainly produce before you sorcery like it. So appoint a meeting between us and you, which neither we nor you will fail to keep, in an open, level place convenient (to both of us).” (Moses) said: “The meeting will be on the Day of the Festival, and let the people assemble in the forenoon.” (Tā-Hā 20:58–59)
How many dazzling lights and mysteries flow into our spirits from the verses above, the first addressee of which was Prophet Moses, peace be upon him. Having had a mysterious experience of speaking to God in the valley of Tuwa in the Sinai, having seen his staff change into a snake and his right hand become a shining hand, and having felt his theoretical certainty transformed into experienced certainty, this exalted Prophet had perfect confidence in and reliance on his Lord. Therefore, when the Pharaoh challenged Moses to a contest against the sorcerers of Egypt, Moses was perfectly sure that he would defeat the Pharaoh’s sorcerers regardless of what they would do. Hence, based on his Prophetic insight, Moses made the offer, “The meeting will be on the Day of the Festival, and let the people assemble in the forenoon.” Through this counterchallenge, Moses meant the following:
The competition which would distinguish right from wrong or truth from falsehood should not take place behind walls; rather, it should occur in an open, level place where people would be able to watch and witness.
The competition should take place on a festive day so that whoever wanted to watch it could come.
Forenoon was the most convenient time for such an encounter. It is a time when people are free from exhaustion and drowsiness and feel energetic and vigorous. Also, it is the best time for minds to think and judge.
Thus, in order to watch the competition between Moses and the sorcerers, the people of Egypt came to the meeting area in crowds in the early morning on the Day of Festival. Sorcery was a popular and esteemed occupation in Egypt at that time. Sorcerers were not ordinary people; they were the intellectual elite of the time, who could contact jinn and who had certain knowledge of spiritism or spiritualism and parapsychology. Therefore, their defeat in the face of Moses and their possible conversion would mark the beginning of a revolution in the country in favor of belief. And so it came to pass. Having understood that the miracles God created at the hand of Moses were not magic or sorcery, the sorcerers believed in Moses’ Message immediately despite the Pharaoh’s threats that he would hang them and cut off their hands and feet alternately.[1] Many among the common people who witnessed the submission of the elite to Moses came to belief, and doubts about their own religion appeared in the hearts of many others. The goal was achieved and absolute unbelief was broken. People in general came to the point where they felt hesitant to choose between Moses and the Pharaoh, who had made his subjects ascribe Divine power to him, telling them that he knew no god for them but himself.
The most significant point drawing our attention in this verse is the time and place which Moses chose for that important encounter. There are important lessons in this event that today’s Muslims will learn. First of all, a believer should never despair because of the lack of or shortage in material necessities. They should use the credit that God granted them carefully without wasting it. As the proverb says, “killing two birds with one stone,” a Muslim should always plan to be able to achieve not only two but hundreds of results with one action and search for the ways to succeed in doing so. Consider how, according to God’s usual practice, a seed buried in the earth grows into an ear containing hundreds of seeds of the same kind or into a tree producing hundreds of fruits. Thus should we try to act in a way that we sow one grain but harvest seven, seventy, or even seven hundred in return and in the name of serving belief, the Qur’ān, our nation, and the whole of humanity. This was what Moses did. When, having left the Pharaoh’s palace and come into the open, he expressed himself in front of all people and on a proper day in full trust in and reliance on God, he was able to influence thousands of people with one act, making many among them his followers.
This is what the Qur’ān teaches us by means of Moses, while the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, contributes to our understanding with a different event:[2]
According to a report from the Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings, a tyrant attempted to kill a young believer, who never agreed to return to the tyrant’s faith. He was thrown down from the top of a mountain, yet he came back walking. Then he was thrown into the roaring waves of a sea, but he was saved and returned. Whatever they did to kill that young believer, it proved useless. In the end, the young man said: “If you gather all the people together and shoot an arrow at me saying, ‘In the name of the Lord of this boy’, then you will be able to kill me.”
A believer should always think like this young man: “You will die in any case, and these furious people will not let you live. Therefore, you should not go to the next world at a small cost.” Indeed, a believer should make plans to be able to do something for the sake of their cause even in their last moment as they go to their Lord. However valuable it is, even the desire for martyrdom is of little significance compared to a life lived with this consideration. In other words, believers should always think about what they can do at every moment of their life on behalf of their religion, nation, and humanity. The young man in the example would have only been martyred if he had died when he had been thrown down from the top of a mountain or into the waves of a sea. He would most possibly have gained his eternal life of happiness in the other world, but his reward would have been limited only to himself. However, after he was martyred in front of the people in the way he told, he caused hundreds of people to embrace belief. Thus he both served his cause and the conversion and eternal happiness of many others.
To conclude, Muslims should know the value of the Religion with which they are favored and the value this Religion has gained them. They should be aware of the fact that this universe has been created for them, with all that it contains at their service. Therefore, aware of their exceptional value, they should not leave this world in return for a low price. Their consideration should be as follows: “I am leaving the world, but I should leave a world which has found its true orbit—which has achieved its goal of creation. My death should also be a mysterious key to open the doors of Paradise for me, and while my personal tiny light is being distinguished, innumerable new lights should begin to shine.”
[1] See Sūrah Tā-Hā 20:71.
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EVENTS Event Archive GRAND PRIX MANILA 2015
MEET TZU CHING KUO
Posted in GRAND PRIX MANILA 2015 on January 3, 2015
By Chapman Sim
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Considered to be one of the best in Asia Pacific, it would seem that Tzu Ching Kuo knows a thing or two about Standard. After all, he did just win a Pro Tour Qualifer last Sunday in his hometown, qualifying him for Pro Tour Dragons of Tarkir.
It seemed like a great opportunity to have a quick chat with Kuo about the state of Standard, as well as the story of how he became the player that he is today.
Tzu Ching Kuo
Kuo's resume is more than startling. World Magic Cup 2012 Champion. Ten Grand Prix Top 8s. Top Pro Points in Asia Pacific. Most Nationals Top 8s and most National Champion titles. Level 50 Archmage.
Some also consider him the best player to have never made it to the Sunday Stage of the Pro Tour. Ever since Owen Turtenwald won his first (and second) Grand Prix, Kuo is now tied with Eric Froehlich as the player with the most Grand Prix Top 8s without a win. Not sure if praise or mild mockery.
Regardless, while songs are frequently sung and tales frequently told about him, few people know who is the person behind the menacing facade and how he grew to become the player he is today.
Kuo has always been a Spike, the type of player who plays solely to win. Most gamers in their infancy are drawn to the beauty of Scaled Wurms and the like. But not Kuo. In his very first sanctioned tournament, he was already armed with a hardcore Tier 1 deck. A relentless predator whose motivation is to win. To go for the throat like a hunting dachshund. He didn't make Top 8 of that one, but he had tasted blood.
Kuo's very first deck contains a three-card combo that produces as many Pegasi as you want!
Kuo fondly recalls the first of his ten Grand Prix Top 8 fifteen years ago, at Grand Prix Taipei 2000. At that time, a relative-unknown, he shocked the local community when he broke into the Top 8 alongside superstars such as Tsuyoshi Fujita, Alex Shvartsman and Satoshi Nakamura. "RecSur" was his weapon of choice, a deck utilizing the classic combo Recurring Nightmare and Survival of the Fittest.
The cornerstone of Kuo's very first Grand Prix Top 8 Constructed Deck.
"I remembered I was paired against Alex Shvartsman, the man with the most lifetime Grand Prix Top 8s at that time. It was very scary to an amateur like me but the matchup was so good I thought there was no way I could lose."
But he did.
Outplayed. Outclassed. Ousted.
Experience and skill does count in this game.
Up until then, Kuo still considered himself to be a casual player. Only attending local events such as National Championships and local Grand Prix, Kuo seldom ventured abroad and was far from being the road warrior that he is today.
Most of his victories at that time were all on local soil. His second and third Grand Prix Top 8 came a year later in Kaohsiung and Taipei, and he quickly rose to prominence. Kuo went on to win his first of five National Champion titles in 2002, and made the Top 8 three consecutive times in 2004, 2005 and 2006. With this series of victories, he cemented his place as the best Taiwanese player of the era, a reputation he has been able to uphold even until today.
"I've also won a lot of Pro Tour Qualifiers in the past. Back then, cash awards of USD$375 or USD$500 were given out instead of travel awards. I usually kept the cash prize and never ventured to Europe or the States, playing only a couple of Pro Tours in Japan." To this day, he regrets his decisions to not have attended all the Pro Tours that he could have.
After a couple of quiet years in addition to crashing out at Pro Tour Nagoya 2005, he was disheartened to the point where he shared with some of his friends that he wanted to quit the game, and drown his sorrows in online gaming.
Old friends meet each other in the Featured Match Area at Grand Prix Yokohama.
Under the encouragement and inspiration of Chen Liang, Kuo decided to stay in the game but it was not until 2009 that he decided to give this whole "Pro Player" affair his best shot. Unknown to the rest of the world, this confidant and good friend of Kuo's was actually the brains behind most of Kuo's winning Constructed decks. A Grand Prix Top 8 competitor himself, Chen often built and tuned Kuo's weapons of choice and they playtested together regularly.
The road was not easy for him and it was a few seasons of wrenching misses. He ended his very first professional season at 29 points, one point short of achieving the Gold Level equivalent. Despite being a brilliant attempt for a first-timer, Kuo was disgruntled. How typical of a Spike!
Tzu Ching Kuo at Grand Prix Kobe 2009, making his sixth Grand Prix Top 8. He lost to eventual champion Tomoharu Saito in the elimination rounds.
His next season was similarly impressive, but equally heartbreaking. Kuo finished with 38 points, two points short of the Platinum equivalent. Regardless, his consistency on the Pro Tour is not something to be sneezed at, finishing two seasons at Silver, three at Gold and the 2012 season at Platinum in the past six seasons.
Magic World Cup Champions 2012
2012 also happened to be the pinnacle of his career. He scored his highest lifetime Pro Tour finish at Pro Tour Avacyn Restored. That event was miraculous, literally. Kuo started off 1-4 and was on the brink of elimination. He went on to rattle off 11 straight wins to finish 10th and locked up Platinum for that season. That year, he also won the very first Magic World Cup.
Despite being slightly past his heyday, Kuo remains passionate about the game and hopes to run the tables today in Manila. Kuo feels like he has given so much of his life to the game and can't walk away just yet. At least not now.
"I am a part of Magic and Magic will always be a part of me. Forever."
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Carson Valley Bridge Club welcomes all players
Activities & Events | January 11, 2014
by Caryn Haller
challer@recordcourier.com
Al Walker of Gardnerville plays bridge on Friday.
Shannon LItz | The Record-Courier
With each new hand dealt on Monday, a silence fell over the room as close to 30 players put their best bridge faces on.
The Carson Valley Bridge Club started Jan. 3, and welcomes all duplicate bridge players.
“It’s open to anybody. There’s no restrictions other than being able to play bridge,” club manager Al Walker said. “We’d love to have people come. Everybody plays for fun. We have players ages 60-97.”
Walker, 70, played card games such as euchre, Pinochle, cribbage and poker most of his life, and took up bridge two years ago after a friend introduced him to it.
“I fell in love with the game. It’s the most sophisticated of all the games. There’s more to it,” he said. “I’m the least experienced player in our unit. If you’ve never played bridge, there would be a significant amount of time you’d have to put into it to learn. A person who’s played other bidding games could pick it up easier.”
Bridge is a trick playing game that involves four players — with two partners forming each team.
Each hand progresses through four phases — dealing the cards, the auction (or bidding), playing the hand, and scoring the results. The concept of bidding involves each player identifying the strength of their hand — hearts, spades, clubs or diamonds — and trying to communicate that strength to their partner. Once partners win the “bid,” they need to take a certain number of “tricks” in order to win the hand.
The highest-finishing players are awarded specified numbers of masterpoints, which are recorded with the American Contract Bridge League, a national governing body for competitive bridge. Most players value the increase in their masterpoint total as a measure of their success at the game. Unlike the Elo rating system developed for chess, the masterpoint system is strictly one of accumulation. A player’s masterpoint total can never decline.
“The goal for people joining the game is to become a life master,” Walker said. “It’s a tradition of the game as a sign that you are a good player.”
The Carson Valley Bridge Club uses the duplicate bridge method of scoring, where the luck of getting a series of good hands doesn’t necessarily mean a better score.
“The bidding and play of the game are basically the same as party or contract bridge,” Walker said.
Silver Life Master Thelma Nelson, 97, credits playing bridge to keeping her mind sharp.
“I started when I was 15, and I directed games for 40 years in San Dimas, Calif.,” Nelson said. “It’s good for old people because you exercise your mind. For young people, it’s good for them because they learn mathematics and reasoning.”
Bob Meyer, 75, has played bridge for 50 years.
“This is a disease you don’t want to catch,” he joked. “You’ll never master the game. It’s a continuous challenge.”
The Carson Valley Bridge Club meets 1 p.m. Mondays and noon Fridays at 1321 Waterloo Lane in Gardnerville. Cost is $7 per game.
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Season 5 • Episode 14
In the early hours of May 1st, 2010, Jersey City escort Shannan Gilbert goes missing on the shores of Long Island. Police launch a search through the dense underbrush, and what they find hidden in the weeds will spark a gruesome investigation.
43 min|TV-PG|Premiered 04/10/2012
What Happened to Devin Bond?
In the early morning hours of March 31, 2017, 16-year-old Devin Bond got out of bed and walked out of his Murfreesboro, Tennessee, home. He was never seen nor heard from again.
Where is Savannah Spurlock?
At 2:30am on January 4, 2019, 22-year-old mother Savannah Spurlock called her mother to tell her she was leaving the bar where she had enjoyed a much-deserved night out. Savannah told her mother she'd be home soon, but she was never seen again.
Is Jesse Ross Still Out There?
On November 21, 2006, 19-year-old Jesse Ross was attending a Model United Nations conference in Chicago. Jesse called his parents to tell him he was having a great time. They would never hear or see their son again.
Has Akia Eggleston Vanished?
On the morning of May 3, 2017, 8-months-pregnant Akia Eggleston was excited to finally get out of her home to attend her baby shower. However, when the 22-year-old was hours late, loved ones rushed to her home to find Akia gone without a trace.
Will Tara Calico Ever Be Found?
On September 20, 1988, Tara Calico left her home to go on a bike ride she took almost every morning. When she didn't return home, her mom anxiously drove along Tara's usual bike route, but never finds her. 30 years later, Tara is still missing.
The Darkest Winter
In 1976, the first of four children is abducted and murdered in the suburbs of Detroit. After more than 30 years the families of the four murdered children and Detroiters like J. Reuben Appelman are determined to find the Oakland County Child Killer.
Children of the Snow
Queens, NY, 1965. Two children are found dead. The cops are convinced the parents Eddie and Alice Crimmins are guilty. Even after two trials both condemning Alice, it will take years to unravel the mystery of who killed Eddie and Missy.
A Crime To Remember
The Career Girl Murders
New York, NY, 1963. Two young women are brutally murdered in their Upper East Side apartment. If these girls aren’t safe, who is? The NYPD is under pressure to solve the high-profile case but make a tragic misstep while investigating.
Judge, Jury, Executioner
West Palm Beach, FL, 1955. Esteemed Judge Curtis Chillingworth and his wife say goodbye to friends at a dinner party and are never seen again. Police unravel a tale of corruption and evil that leaves Florida in shock.
Denver, CO, 1955. United Airlines Flight 629 explodes in mid-air, killing everyone aboard. Crash investigators wonder if it was an accident at all. What follows is the discovery of the first-ever act of murder-by-airplane-bombing in the U.S.
A New Kind of Monster
Michigan, 1967-69. A series of young females from Michigan universities are murdered one by one. The young women of Southeastern Michigan are terrified and the police commence a massive hunt for the monster they call The Co-Ed Killer.
Who Killed Mr. Woodward?
New York, NY, 1955. Ann and Billy Woodward are the darlings of New York society when tragedy strikes after a drunken dinner party. Billy lies in a pool of his own blood. Ann pulled the trigger by accident...or so she says.
Lies, Lawns & Murder
In North Carolina, a retired Vietnam veteran sells off a piece of his land to a young family. No one can predict the modern day Hatfield McCoy neighbor feud that will ensue and the midnight shootout that will end it.
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BREAKING: Targeted Killing at Oregon High School
Posted at 2:53 pm on June 10, 2014 by Bob Owens
Troutdale Police Chief Scott Anderson : 1 student and gunman dead at Reynolds High School #koin6news #RHShooting
— KOIN News (@KOINNews) June 10, 2014
Reynolds High School, the only high school in Troutdale, Oregon, is the scene of the nation’s most recent school shooting. The situation is now believed to be stable.
The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the situation is now stabilized at Reynolds High School in Troutdale.
Scott Anderson, the chief of the Troutdale Police Department, confirmed the deaths and called the events a “tragic day” for the community.
Troutdale Sgt. Carey Kaer told Fox News that the victim was a male student and the shooter was a teenage male, but it is not known whether the gunman was a student at the school.
Kaer said the victim was shot inside the school’s gymnasium and the shooter’s body was located by a police robot in a bathroom. He added that there are no other victims or current threats to the public.
It will be some time, of course, before the details of this incident are known, and we can expect for their to be copious amounts of misinformation and spin dished out as fact.
Here is what we do know.
At this time, there is no evidence to suggest that this was an attempted mass murder or spree killing. It appears to have been a targeted killing. That the attacker’s body was found in a bathroom suggests that this was a murder/suicide (for reasons that psychiatrists or psychologists would likely better explain, public murderers seem to prefer some privacy for their own suicides) .
Perhaps the attacker left behind something explaining the decision to target this one student. If so, we should know in the days ahead.
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American Communists Travel to Cuba to Increase Support for Castro Dictatorship
March 26, 2015, 11:11 am by Trevor Loudon Leave a Comment
From left, Alberto Prieto, (Communist Party of Cuba International Relations Department), Zenobia Thompson, Camila Valenzuela, Fernando Gonzalez, Kenia Puig (ICAP president), Josh Leclair, John Bachtell
A delegation from the Communist Party USA, led by new National Secretary John Bachtell, recently visited Cuba. On Feb. 27th, the delegation stopped by the the Cuban Intelligence connected Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples to “discuss building friendship, cooperation and people to people exchanges in light of the Dec. 17 announcement to reestablish diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba.”
Among those who warmly greeted the delegates were Fernando Gonzalez, one of the infamous “Cuban 5” who was jailed in the U.S. in 1998 as part of a “mission to monitor right-wing Cuban terrorist activities in Miami being directed against Cuba.” Several people died as a result of Gonzalez’s espionage.
According to Bachtell:
We found Gonzalez warm, gracious and eager to speak about exploring ways to build friendship with the U.S. people. He also shared stories about his time in U.S. prisons, the people he met and the extraordinary solidarity he and the Cuban 5 received over the years.”
The most important thing to say, to express on my behalf, my family and relatives, is my deep gratitude to the CPUSA because of the years of participation in the struggle, the solidarity you accorded us during the time we were in prison and for our liberation.
You were side by side with us. Even when things look dark, there’s always a bright side. No one wants that experience (of imprisonment). It gave us the chance to experience the best of the U.S. people and those we worked with for many years, side by side in that fight.
Gonzalez made it clear that the Castro regime made no concessions in return for Communist Party connected President Barack Obama‘s diplomatic recognition of the dictatorship.
During the second round of negotiations between the U.S. and Cuba we haven’t made any concessions. And with the return of all the Cuban Five it was a great victory for the Cuban people and all friends in the U.S. who have participated in struggle and for friendship between our countries.
Diplomatic recognition of Cuba is a “win win” for Marxists, both in Washington DC and Havana.
Soon Obama “crony capitalists” will be able to export more American jobs to Cuban sweatshops, while Cuban communists can more easily export spies, revolutionaries and drugs to the United States.
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Canada: Foreign Yet Familiar
Canada: Foreign Yet FamiliarMay 8, 2019
Our Neighbor Brings to Mind a Single Idea for Planners, But it Has a Lot More to Offer Than Clichés By Sara Churchville
Our Neighbor Brings to Mind a Single Idea for Planners, But it Has a Lot More to Offer Than Clichés
Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise offers 36,000 sf of flexible meeting and event space as well as stunning views and world-class skiing in the winter. In the summer, attendees can participate in activities such as hiking, canoeing and more.
We had to change from Mounties — [they’re] not sexy enough,” says Chantal Sturk-Nadeau, executive director, Business Events Canada, says of Canada’s image. “It’s not just the landscape and nature. That was not resonating enough with [attracting] meetings. We had to change the story: Why would you choose Canada over the US? Why and how?”
So Business Events Canada (BEC), a division of Destination Canada, set out to organize strategic partnerships with meetings organizations such as Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) and incentive houses. BEC also created priority economic sectors to align with certain cities and lure meetings that would lead to foreign investment — and the other way around.
“It’s a long game to attract the C-suite, not just the day-to-day of where meetings are hosted to grow business in Canada,”
Chantal Sturk-Nadeau
Just an hour and a half from New York City by air, Montréal feels like a European getaway but with a much more favorable exchange rate. Even in the heart of winter, the 2.5-mile Promenade Fleuve-Montagne walkway calls on attendees to bundle up for a walking tour from the river to the mountain thanks to clear signage all along the route.
For foodies, there is dry-aged beef at Maggie Oakes in Old Montréal, longtime favorite Schwartz’s Deli for smoked meats and Au Pied de Cochon for an upscale, playful version of Québécois specialties beyond poutine. The restaurant offers an especially popular traditional sugar shack meal during maple syrup season.
“It’s an electric city that’s got a great vibe,” says Jeffrey M. Weinman, principal, Summit Event Management, Inc. His client of 17 years, a Fortune 100 company, in August was looking for a “new and exciting destination that would motivate, be easy to work with and have cultural areas” for an incentive meeting of some 400 attendees and their spouses.
Montréal fit the bill, and not just anywhere in Montréal: Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth. “We did a site inspection, and it was the best value for that fit. One property would have been a better value dollar-wise, but the flow wouldn’t have worked. It was important to get that ‘wow’ factor.”
That factor involved, as it so often does, getting the food and beverage (F&B) right by spending time with the chef to “touch on things Montréal is famous for and that we know our people like.” Results: buckets of fresh, hot French fries made with different types of potatoes; a make-your-own poutine station with several gravies, cheese curds and pulled pork; and a grilled cheese night with various cheeses and fillings in a panini maker.
At the welcome reception, performers from Montréal-based Cirque Éloize put on a show in the hotel’s 21st-floor C2 Space, with its windows that overlook the city, a roof deck, patio and removable furniture for an arrangement that can accommodate up to 220 attendees.
“We set it up reception-style, with a stage, a contortionist and juggler. The entertainment right away as you walk in was a woman with a giant Hula-Hoop, then a rolling skating duo on a 6-foot [high] circular stage.”
For the general welcome reception, Weinman and the hotel agreed to combine rooms with multimedia takes on old and modern Montréal on pillars, walls and ceilings. “They were wonderful in making it appetizing for us,” he says. “It just set the weekend; it was the exclamation point on the weekend.”
He also provided attendees with a Passport MTL card good for 48 hours so they could experience the city in their own way, with free unlimited transportation and 28 attractions discounted or free.
Weinman says the people of Montréal, both in the meetings industry and the residents themselves, seem very welcoming and open.” They immediately change to English from French; no attitude about not speaking the language,” he says. “[I’m] hearing from the C-levels what a great job we’ve done and how much people are enjoying it; watching people’s reactions to everything that’s going on — that makes all the work worth it.”
The Vieux-Québec area’s undisputed shining city on the hill continues be the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, which under various management has been wowing visitors since it opened in 1893. For a 250-attendee convention of doctors in June 2018, the F&B team whipped up a themed menu where each course and cocktail was based on a Beatles song. There was soup in a 1970s beer can, Sergeant Pepper beef, Lady Madonna trout and a cake the shape and color of a yellow submarine. The G7 meeting of seven industrialized democracies, as it happens, was in town at the same time, creating more security without actually interrupting the festivities.
“I used to work with the Canadian Embassy in Paris; this evening reminded me of this,” a planner summed up. “If you think it’s something a hotel can’t do, Frontenac can do it.”
Also in Old Québec is the Hôtel Manoir Victoria, with 156 rooms and meeting/banquet space for 175 attendees. The onsite restaurant, Chez Boulay-Bistro Boréal, serves cuisine it describes as “Nordic” — local Québec fish, duck terrine, blood pudding and bison tartare.
Another hotel, The Relais & Châteaux Auberge Saint-Antoine has several meeting rooms as well as jazz nights at its Bar Artéfac.
The Québec City Marriott Downtown is, like the rest of Old Québec, within walking distance from the Québec City Convention Centre. The center can accommodate up to 9,000 attendees and connects by underground walkway to the Hilton Québec and Delta Hotels by Marriott Québec. After a day of meetings, attendees can amble over to the Plains of Abraham or Le Musée du Chocolat, which offers history and artifacts of chocolate making going back 200 years. Get the chocolate, of course, at the adjacent chocolatier, Érico.
Planners looking for an unusual incentive space can do as a Portland, OR-based IT start-up did for its September 2018 annual retreat of 65 attendees: stay at a monastery. Le Monastère des Augustines is a converted monastery built in 1639 that offers a complimentary breakfast, yoga and meditation, and “cozy” monks’ cells. It has Wi-Fi, but no TVs.
“[The IT start-up attendees] were looking for something a little more exotic, boutique, with a full buyout, that has more character than a generic hotel,” the planner says of the group. “They chose Québec City as the right mix of a small, walkable place but at same time enough variety about the property.”
Some of that variety included La Revanche, a snacks, beer and board games spot in the old city, as well as a nearby BeaverTails food truck serving up Canadian “queues de castor” — large, flat pastry in the shape of the rodent’s tail to which any number of sweet topping and/or fillings can be applied. As a team-building exercise, curling was the sport of choice, with a rink, workshop and tournament outside; in September, that was still possible.
The monastery has a chapel area that can be used as a meeting space, along with a restaurant, catering and banquet menus that can provide, as it did for this group, a poutine station.
“We were surprised how affordable things were,” the planner noted. Still, he acknowledges that the language barrier, lack of “lift” comparable to other cities and weather unpredictability can be a challenge for some. “Québec has a very rich and palpable personality; take advantage of the fact that it’s a unique destination — language, food, people, history — do the best to unearth and share that.” Planner tip: “The safety net of a local DMC helps with transfers, so you don’t have to do it in Québécois French.”
With 192,000 sf of meeting space 20 minutes from Ottawa International Airport, and a bridge leading directly to the 492-room Westin Ottawa and gigantic CF Rideau Centre shopping mall, the Shaw Centre is probably Ottawa’s most obvious draw for meeting planners. It can and will host anything from a Parent & Child Show to a Cannabis and Hemp Expo (complete with a bake lounge) with the same degree of verve. The center’s four levels all overlook the city’s Rideau Canal, which during Canada’s frigid winters famously transforms into the Rideau Canal Skateway. Attendees can glide along the world’s largest skating rink — it’s 4.8 miles long — for 24 hours a day in season.
The Delta Hotels by Marriott Ottawa City Centre provides just more than 24,000 sf of meeting space. Though it’s not specifically offered as such, an enterprising planner might find the outdoor rooftop terrace just the thing for a small gathering in kind weather.
Cher, Def Leppard and Michael Bublé are just a few of the 2019 headliners at the Canadian Tire Centre, about a 15-minute drive from the downtown area. Among the sports bars and casual dining spots at the hockey arena is The Vault, the private dining space in the members-only Club Red steakhouse that promises select attendees some face time with the chef and sommelier. The nearby Sens House Sports Bar & Grill in the Byward Market offers fans who can’t make the hockey match an authentic arena experience; this one complete with a 1,500-sf portion of the dining room with a retractable roof and floor-to-ceiling windows.
Ottawa is also home to the National Gallery of Canada, which will soon exhibit among many other things, the portraits of Paul Gauguin and International Indigenous Art Exhibition 2019, and home to the National Arts Centre, celebrating 50 years.
Tips from a planner who has met often in the city: “Morning runs along the Ottawa River over the bridges are what makes Ottawa, Ottawa. The airport is well-designed but busy; consider flying to Montréal and driving in.”
Home to Canada’s three largest hotels — the 1,590-room Chelsea Hotel, Toronto; the 42-story, 1,377-room Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel; and the 1,365-room Fairmont Royal York — Toronto has also become a kind of watchword for “multicultural.”
That’s one of its many draws for Brianna Mark, CMP, senior event planner, Internal Communications, with Mozilla Corporation. “Even if not backed by fact, people feel safer traveling into Canada than the U.S.,” she says, an especially important consideration for Mozilla, where some 50 percent of employees work remotely all over the world.
To keep people connected, Mozilla holds an “all hands” event every June and September, remassing its far-flung workers for five days of togetherness. In June, some 1,400 attendees will converge in Toronto, where Mozilla has one of its nine offices.
“The exchange rate is always in our favor,” Mark says. “There’s really good airlift from most of our destinations, the airport to the core is easy and the city is walkable and safe. Toronto is on our list every single time we source. It’s a natural fit; a cultural match for flying people from all over the world.”
She says she appreciates how responsive Tourism Toronto is, and is a fan of Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, where she convened the semiannual meeting a few years ago. “When we did a site visit, they pulled out all the stops with a bunch of people in fox outfits (Mozilla’s logo) greeting us and specific elevators with branding. It showed that they took time to know us and our brand.”
For Mark, who has food allergies, negotiations about food come foremost. “We want everyone to eat something they want and something they can [eat]. Part of that is working really closely and making sure we understand the ingredients and things are properly labeled.” She offered build-your-own buffets at every meal and specified a gluten-free buffet with dedicated accoutrements.
Isn’t this rather expensive? Not necessarily. “I go in with my budget, and I let them propose something. I find that hotels want to deliver as much as I want them to deliver, so the more info I give them up front, the better. You’d be surprised what they can come up when you allow them to be creative.”
Elsewhere in Toronto, the 65-story, 260-room former Adelaide Hotel Toronto has been up-marketed to The St. Regis Toronto. The hotel has more than 100 new suites, a new design of the common spaces and an ornate restaurant, LOUIX LOUIS, serving craft cocktails and a sumptuous take on American cuisine such as a burger topped with brie, foie gras and tomato compote while overlooking Lake Ontario from its perch on the 31st floor.
The CN Tower’s LookOut Level observatory has a new glass floor one level up from the original that offers a vertiginous look straight down to complement the floor-to-ceiling “Window Walls.”
In other venue action, the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto recently moved into a 55,000-sf former industrial space, and Four Seasons Hotel Toronto remains a hot spot thanks to its Café Boulud and, from the same chef, a bar and charcuterie space called d|bar.
Two words: Aurora Sky. The 800,000-sf space is the world’s largest legal cannabis production facility — 100,000 kilos per year when fully operational, and it has recently moved into producing hemp as well. The city views this facility as part of its next wave in economic expansion.
Edmonton EXPO Centre, with 522,000 sf, and the now-named Edmonton Convention Centre (known for decades as the Shaw Conference Centre until its naming rights ended in 2018), with 150,000 sf, are the city’s convention hubs. The city’s 12,000 rooms in 55 hotels offer plenty of options for meetings of all sizes.
The La Ronde restaurant on the 24th floor of the 307-room Chateau Lacombe Hotel offers attendees a revolution every 88 minutes, accompanied by views of the Saskatchewan River and, if diners choose, a Chateaubriand for Two on Wednesdays or, on Thursdays, Steak Diane and Cherries Jubilee. Planners have 14,000 sf of event space to manipulate.
Another venue within walking distance of the Edmonton Convention Centre, the Quarter Note Hotel Edmonton Downtown, features 150 blockable rooms for a total of 255, and nearly 9,000 sf of meeting and event space, including banquet space for 240.
Winters see the Silver Skate Festival in Hawrelak Park. Along with the expected skating and ice sculptures, highlights of the festival include the opportunity for attendees to cook “bannock” — a Native American fry bread — over an open fire.
Between a four- and five-hour drive south and a little west — about 470 km — sits the venerable Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. Built more than 100 years ago as a base for outdoor enthusiasts and skiers, the resort offers 36,000 sf of flexible meeting and event space.
“I would live there. If it were up to me, I would hold every meeting there.” That’s how Jason Gross, assistant vice president, travel, Captive Resources feels about Vancouver, where he regularly holds meetings at Fairmont Waterfront, Fairmont Pacific Rim and Rosewood Hotel Georgia. But a group of some 350 entrepreneurs — nearly 600 attendees including spouses — who meet every January and June wanted to visit St. Thomas in the Caribbean for their January 2018 meeting. Hurricanes Irma and Maria had other plans, so as Gross scrambled for a new place, he naturally looked north. Available was the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, a venue he’d seen years ago, and not with great excitement.
“At this time, we had no other options. We were a little hesitant; we’re used to being on the waterfront, not the city center, so it wasn’t something that we jumped at,” Gross says. What began as a last resort soon became a favorite. “They blew it out of the park,” he says. “It was as close to a perfect meeting as we’ve ever had. We are now choosing them over the [Fairmont] Waterfront.”
In the planning stages, the hotel didn’t take advantage of the bind he was in, he says, and he didn’t feel put upon even though the hotel had the upper hand in negotiations. They were responsive, contracting went completely smoothly and they returned emails. It also didn’t hurt that the hotel looked completely different — “night and day” — from when he’d last seen it in 2015, thanks to a $55 million renovation of the common areas, lobbies, restaurants and the addition of 8,000 sf of meeting space in a dedicated wing, all within walking distance of the Vancouver Convention Centre.
And on the attendee front, no long lines at the check-in, no complaints about the rooms — even though the rooms were of varying layouts and square footage. “They must have been that good, that clean, that fresh,” Gross speculates.
He organized a president’s dinner onsite in the British Columbia ballroom for 400 people using standard menus with only slight changes — “there was zero push back when we asked for surf and turf.”
The group also ate at the onsite restaurant, Notch8 Restaurant & Bar, which serves “very modern/slightly upscale, Canadian-geared farm to table,” including fresh Dungeness crab. “I heard the greatest compliment: ‘I would go to it even though it’s in another hotel’,” he says. He also steered attendees to Chambar, a Belgian and seafood restaurant in Downtown Vancouver; and the sustainable seafood restaurant Blue Water Cafe.
Attendees had plenty of time to take in many of the sights of the region. They took the North Shore tour, visiting Stanley Park with its rainforest, Grouse Mountain, and Capilano Suspension Bridge Park; went on a Discover Vancouver bus tour that included the Olympic Village and some popular craft beer spots; made time for the Sea to Sky Gondola sightseeing tour; and browsed in the Museum of Anthropology and the Botanical Garden at University of British Columbia. By far the most popular outing, requiring a second round for foodies, was the tour of the Granville Island Public Market.
Now, there’s talk of returning in 2022.
“Vancouver as a destination; go for it and don’t look back,” Gross says. “When it comes to activities, live music and nightlife, it’s the best total package destination we go to. They really understand group business.” Most of his attendees are not from big cities, he says, so a place like Toronto strikes them as too big. But “nature in Vancouver with a strong urban core really speaks to people.”
“Nothing says Calgary better than the Stampede,” says one planner who held his annual convention there in August 2018 with 900 franchisees and families of a U.S. auto industry company.
The ‘hot-diggity-dog’ excitement of the rodeo held in this city in the Mountain Time Zone infects some 1 million people every July. His group stayed in three hotels connected via walkway to the Calgary TELUS Convention Centre — the Hyatt Regency Calgary, the Fairmont Palliser and the Calgary Marriott Downtown Hotel.
His group does a charity 5K walk every year, working closely with Tourism Calgary to find “a safe and interesting route” that included the Calgary Tower, home of the Sky 360 Restaurant & Lounge, which revolves once per hour 510 feet up, the scenic walking path along Bow River and Canada Olympic Park. The dream of the Olympics is still alive as the city mulls bidding to host the 2026 Olympics.
BMO Centre at Stampede Park, the larger of the city’s convention centers, offers 500,000 sf of event space. Plans in 2016 to create even more meeting space by demolishing the Stampede Corral have so far come to nothing; one of the local hockey clubs plans to play a “Corral” series in the space this year.
And the $245 million, oval-shaped architectural marvel that is the Calgary Central Library opened late last year, levitating over a public plaza below and beckoning with meeting spaces and conference rooms. C&IT
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What’s Ryan’s Story?
Ryan Thewes, a native of southern Indiana, graduated from the Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning in 2000. While in school, Ryan studied the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, which made a strong impression on his development as a designer. He felt a kinship with Wright’s ideas on architecture, which seemed to closely resemble his own. Ryan was inspired by Wright’s bold use of geometry, veneration of nature and his ability to integrate a building with its site. Wright called his work “Organic Architecture,” which came from his belief that a building’s essence or character should derive from the design process in the same way a living organism grows from a seed–logically and naturally from the inside out.
After Ryan graduated, he broadened his education of organic architecture by working for the late Don Erickson, an architect in Chicago, and Robert Green, an architect practicing in the Atlanta area; both successful former apprentices of Frank Lloyd Wright.
In 2002, Ryan accepted a job with architect Bart Prince in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Prince, well known for his fantastic if not surreal designs often featured in magazines such as Architectural Digest, had been an apprentice, friend and design partner of the maverick architect and educator Bruce Goff. Although Prince and Goff were both influenced by the work of Wright, they translated many of his principles in entirely new and dramatic directions. Ryan’s apprenticeship with Prince allowed him to expand his own vision of organic architecture—starting his first architectural commissions while living in New Mexico.
In 2006, Ryan and his wife Shay, moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he set up his own architectural practice. Ryan continues to press the boundaries with award winning Organic and Modern structures that are unique to the area. His designs have received national as well as world wide attention and have been featured in many online and print media sources. He has also been recognized widely for his advancements in green construction and the green building industry, with his focus on building science and performance.
Ryan is a licensed architect in the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia and is a member of the National Council of Architects Registration Board.
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Barbara York (b. 1949, Winnipeg, Canada) has been working in both Canada and the U.S. for over 45 years as a concert accompanist, choral and theatrical music director and composer. Her score and lyrics for the Canadian musical Colette won a Dora Mavor Moore Award (Canada’s version of a Tony) in 1981. She has received commissions from two Canadian symphony orchestras (Mississauga and Saskatoon), the Boise State University Symphonic Winds and the Boise State Symphony Orchestra, plus numerous private groups and soloists in both the US and Canada.
She has presented compositions at three World Saxophone Congresses and at the 2003 International Double Reed Symposium. Her 50-minute scripted, children’s piece, A Butterfly in Time was nominated for a Canadian “Juno Award” for recordings in 2006 and is available through Amazon.com and elsewhere on the Children’s Group label. Her first tuba piece, Sea Dreams, was on the required repertoire list for the International Tuba Euphonium Association’s 2004 Young Artists Competition in Budapest. In 2006, Barbara, won the Harvey Phillips Award for Euphonium in Chamber Music at the International Tuba Euphonium Congress. Her Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra was recorded by Tim Buzbee with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and is available internationally through Albany Records.
As an accompanist, Barbara plays regularly at school, university and professional concert venues throughout the United States and Canada, has recorded for CBC Radio and has premiered numerous works for other composers at International congresses. Barbara lives in Pittsburg, KS where she works part-time as a staff accompanist at Pittsburg State University.
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Kurt Schrader & Neal Dunn
Compare the voting records of Kurt Schrader and Neal Dunn in 2017-18.
Kurt Schrader
Represented Oregon's 5th Congressional District. This is his 5th term in the House.
Represented Florida's 2nd Congressional District. This is his 1st term in the House.
Kurt Schrader and Neal Dunn are from different parties and disagreed on 61 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
Sept. 7, 2018 — Community Safety and Security Act
July 13, 2018 — Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act
July 12, 2018 — Reclamation Title Transfer and Non-Federal Infrastructure Incentivization Act
June 8, 2018 — Making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes
Nov. 8, 2017 — Hydropower Policy Modernization Act of 2017
Nov. 7, 2017 — Save Local Business Act
Sept. 28, 2017 — Control Unlawful Fugitive Felons Act of 2017
July 19, 2017 — Promoting Interagency Coordination for Review of Natural Gas Pipelines Act
March 22, 2017 — Small Business Health Fairness Act
March 16, 2017 — Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
March 2, 2017 — Regulatory Integrity Act
Feb. 7, 2017 — Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior relating to Bureau of Land Management regulations that establish the procedures used to prepare, revise, or amend land use plans pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976
Jan. 12, 2017 — SEC Regulatory Accountability Act
Jan. 11, 2017 — Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017
Dec. 21, 2018 — Alaska Remote Generator Reliability and Protection Act
July 18, 2018 — Rothfus of Pennsylvania Amendment No. 85
July 18, 2018 — McMorris Rodgers of Washington Amendment No. 46
July 18, 2018 — Supporting the officers and personnel who carry out the important mission of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
May 18, 2018 — Banks of Indiana Amendment No. 31
Nov. 8, 2017 — Rush of Illinois Amendment No. 4
Nov. 1, 2017 — Pearce of New Mexico Amendment No. 7
Nov. 1, 2017 — O’Halleran of Arizona Amendment No. 3
Nov. 1, 2017 — Khanna of California Amendment No. 2
Nov. 1, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2936) Resilient Federal Forests Act and for other purposes
Oct. 25, 2017 — Johnson of Georgia Part A Amendment No. 3
Sept. 13, 2017 — Polis of Colorado Amendment No. 76
Sept. 7, 2017 — Grijalva of Arizona Amendment No. 18
Sept. 7, 2017 — Austin Scott of Georgia Part B Amendment No. 92
July 19, 2017 — Tsongas of Massachusetts Part A Amendment No. 1
July 19, 2017 — Tsongas of Massachusetts Part B Amendment No. 2
June 21, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 1873, the Electricity and Reliability and Forest Protection Act; and H.R.1654, the Water Supply Permitting Coordination Act
May 25, 2017 — Jackson Lee of Texas Part B Amendment No. 1
May 24, 2017 — Huffman of California Amendment No. 2
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26/04/2017 3:14 PM AEST | Updated 02/05/2017 2:03 PM AEST
Men Are Killing Themselves To Be 'Real Men'
Suicide has the highest gender disparity of any cause of death in Australia.
By Emily Verdouw
In Australia, we're at a crisis point with suicide.
The stigma of mental illness not only works to keep people suffering in silence but can blind us to its symptoms. Indeed, eight Australians now take their own lives every day.
You do not need to be diagnosed with a mental illness to come face-to-face with suicidal thoughts. A relationship breakdown, losing a job or any significant moment could suddenly have you on the edge.
And while no particular part of our society is left untouched, no one person exempt from the mental and physical aches that life can bring, men are three times more likely to take their lives than women.
One of the central drivers is in the way we define what it means to be a man in Australia, explains Dr Michael Flood, sociologist on men and masculinities.
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"It's broken down a little, so it's shifted in some ways in Australia and it's uneven across Australia. But there's still a powerful ideal of what it means to be a man," he told HuffPost Australia.
"It's the idea that to be a man is to be tough, to be strong, to be invulnerable, to be heterosexual, to be in control, to avoid feelings and so on.
"If we teach men to always be tough, to be stoic, to not show pain, then we stuff up men's physical and emotional health, we limit men's friendships with other men and women, we limit men's relationships and we limit men's participation in society."
To limit men's ability to talk about how they're feeling is to interrupt their ability to seek help when they confront mental health challenges, or when they have suicidal thoughts.
This idea of what it means to be a man and its interference in help seeking was a key finding in a study from BeyondBlue and the Black Dog Institute, who researched the drivers behind men's suicide attempts.
"All of the men we interviewed, spoke to growing up in a culture where the message was implicit that they should not be speaking about their feelings," Dr Andrea Fogarty, research fellow at Black Dog Institute, told HuffPost Australia.
And for those who confront and overcome suicide, sharing their story of recovery can go a long way in helping others to make a different decision when it comes to those moments where everything seems to much, and they don't understand why.
Especially for men.
Lifeline is exploring Australia's suicide crisis with business and community leaders at the #StopSuicide Summit on May 1, in partnership with HuffPost Australia and Twitter Australia.
If you need help in a crisis, call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For further information about depression contact beyondblue on 1300224636 or talk to your GP, local health professional or someone you trust.
Emily Verdouw Associate Video Editor, HuffPost Australia
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California Supreme Court Ruling on Right to Statewide Discovery in PAGA Actions Is Not as Bad for Employers as It Looks
By Ramon A. Miyar and Jaime D. Walter
In a blow to the defense bar—and, in particular, retail employers—the California Supreme Court, in Williams v. Superior Court (Marshalls of CA, LLC), S227228 (July 13, 2017), held that there is nothing unique about claims filed under the California Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA) that would justify restricting the scope of discovery under California law. The Supreme Court reversed a decision of the California Court of Appeal that would have precluded PAGA plaintiffs from obtaining the contact information of other potentially aggrieved employees beyond the discrete location at which they work(ed) without first making a threshold evidentiary showing that (a) they were aggrieved employees and (b) they had knowledge of systemic statewide Labor Code violations. Rather, to justify disclosure of the contact information of all employees in California, the Supreme Court found that it is sufficient for a named plaintiff to allege that the at-issue violations occurred, that plaintiff himself or herself was aggrieved, and that the defendant employer had a systemic, statewide policy that caused injury to other employees across California.
While the decision deprives employers of the ability to limit the scope of discovery to some extent, the holding in Williams is actually quite narrow and should not be read as a carte blanche invitation to propound unlimited statewide discovery without any preliminary showing of good cause. The Supreme Court emphasized that its decision was limited to the particular facts before it—i.e., interrogatories seeking the contact information of similarly situated (allegedly aggrieved) nonexempt employees throughout the State of California. It specifically noted that its decision did not apply to other discovery devices—including requests for production, where, the Court noted, a statutory good-cause requirement exists.
Separately, the Supreme Court found that privacy objections typically will not merit altogether withholding contact information. In reaching this conclusion, the Court expressly endorsed the reasoning of Belaire-West Landscape, Inc. v. Superior Court, 149 Cal. App. 4th 554 (2007), noting that, in general, any concerns about keeping contact information private are adequately addressed through the issuance of a Belaire-West-style notice of the claims to employees, and permitting them an opportunity to opt out from disclosure of their contact information.
The takeaway? Absent unusual circumstances, be prepared to turn over contact information for all potentially aggrieved employees, but continue to push back with respect to any overbroad discovery requests that seek statewide information prematurely.
Procedural History and Background
Plaintiff Michael Williams (“Williams” or “Plaintiff”) was a retail worker for defendant Marshalls of CA, LLC (“Marshalls”). In 2013, Williams sued Marshalls under PAGA, alleging that Marshalls failed to provide Williams and other similarly situated (i.e., aggrieved) employees meal and rest periods under Labor Code sections 226.7 and 512. Slip op. at 2.
At an early stage of discovery, Williams propounded on Marshalls two special interrogatories seeking the name, address, telephone number, and company employment history of each nonexempt California employee during the alleged statutory period. Id. at 3. Marshalls responded that there were 16,500 employees, but it refused to provide their contact information on the grounds that the request (a) exceeded the scope of permissible discovery because it sought information beyond Williams’ particular store and job title; (b) was unduly burdensome because Williams sought private information without first showing that he himself was an aggrieved employee or that any other similarly situated employees were aggrieved as alleged in the complaint; and (c) invaded the privacy of third parties under California Constitution, article I, section 1. Id. at 3.
Williams moved to compel disclosure of the contact information of Marshalls’ nonexempt employees statewide. The trial court granted Williams’ motion in part and denied it in part. Id. at 3. It ordered Marshalls to provide the contact information of other employees, but only at the Costa Mesa location at which Williams worked, subject to an opt-out notice under Belaire-West. As to the remaining 130 store locations, the court denied Williams’ request for contact information but left open the door for a renewed motion after Williams sat for at least six hours of deposition and established that there was some evidentiary basis for his allegations of a statewide, unlawful practice of violating the Labor Code. Id. at 4.
The Court of Appeal affirmed the ruling. See Williams v. Superior Court, 187 Cal. Rptr. 3d 321 (2015). Relying on statutory language that requires that requests for production be justified by “good cause” (Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 2031.310(b)(1)), the Court of Appeal reasoned that Williams’ request for statewide contact information was premature. Id. at 325. Specifically, it found that Williams had failed to “evince any knowledge of the practices of Marshalls at other stores [or] any fact that would lead a reasonable person to believe he knows whether Marshalls has a uniform statewide policy.” Id. (emphasis added). Absent such a threshold showing, the Court of Appeal held Williams was not entitled to the contact information of employees beyond his store location. Alternatively, the Court of Appeal held that because his request for contact information implicated third-party privacy interests, Williams “must demonstrate a compelling need for discovery” by showing “the discovery sought is directly relevant and essential to the fair resolution of the underlying lawsuit.” Id. at 327.
Reversal by the Supreme Court
The Trial Court Abused Its Discretion by Limiting Discovery to Plaintiff’s Store Location
The California Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeal’s decision, holding that the trial court had abused its discretion by requiring Williams to demonstrate good cause for the production of contact information. In sweeping terms, the Court noted, “The disclosure of the names and addresses of potential witnesses is a routine and essential part of pretrial discovery. Indeed our discovery system is founded on the understanding that parties use discovery to obtain names and contact information for possible witnesses as the starting point for further investigations ... ” Slip op. at 10 (quoting Puerto v. Super. Ct., 158 Cal. App. 4th 1242, 1249-50 (2008)) (internal citations and quotation marks omitted). While recognizing that “in a particular case there may be special reason to limit or postpone a representative plaintiff’s access to contact information for those he or she seeks to represent[,] ... the default position is that such information is within the proper scope of discovery, an essential first step to prosecution of any representative action.” Slip op. at 11.
That the action was a PAGA action and not a putative class action did not change the outcome. According to the Court, nothing in the text of PAGA requires a particular threshold of evidentiary weightiness “beyond the requirements of nonfrivolousness generally applicable to any civil filing.” Id. at 12; see also Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 128.7. Moreover, although restricting access to confidential information could help curb abuses by plaintiffs or plaintiffs’ counsel, such protection is unnecessary. Class certification requirements exist to protect the due process rights of absent litigants because class actions result in the final adjudication of the private, personally held claims of absent plaintiffs. PAGA actions, by contrast, are public rights of action brought on behalf of the state. No such private due process concerns are at issue and, in any event, Court approval is necessary in order for any final settlement to be binding.
More relevant to the Supreme Court was the fact that the statutory scheme “imposes no obligation” on parties propounding interrogatories to establish good cause or show an evidentiary basis for their claims. Slip op. at 19. Although Code of Civil Procedure section 2031.310(b)(1) requires that demands for inspection, copying, or sampling be supported by good cause, no such requirement exists for interrogatories.
The Court rejected Marshalls’ argument that not requiring good cause would lead to unwarranted “fishing expeditions.” It noted that the California Legislature was aware of such a risk when it granted a broad right to discovery and that it “granted such a right anyway, comfortable with the conclusion that ‘[m]utual knowledge of all the relevant facts gathered by both parties is essential to proper litigation.’” Id. at 20.
According to the Court, that the eventual proper scope of Williams’ representative action was uncertain did not render his statewide request for contact information premature. “[A] party may proceed with interrogatories ... precisely in order to ascertain that scope.” Id. at 20 (citing Union Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Super. Ct., 80 Cal. App. 3d 1, 9-12 (1978)).
This was not to say that Marshalls could not have delayed or modified the scope of discovery had it adduced evidence of the administrative burden of producing this information, or made a proper, timely motion to modify the timing and sequence of discovery. Crucially, the Court noted that the burden was on Marshalls to support its “undue burden” objection with evidence of the amount of work that would be required to respond. Id. at 18. The Court found that Marshalls had failed to produce any evidence showing that the production of contact information on a statewide basis would be burdensome and instead chose to rely solely on legal arguments as to the scope of discovery. The Supreme Court also noted that Marshalls failed to file a motion pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 2019.020, to modify/set a special sequence or timing for discovery, and that it therefore had no occasion to determine whether the production of statewide contact information might have been properly delayed on that basis. Id. at 19-20.
A Belaire-West-Style Opt-Out Notice Is Sufficient to Protect the Privacy Interests of Non-Party Employees
The Supreme Court also reversed the alternative basis for the Court of Appeal’s ruling—i.e., Marshalls’ objection that the disclosure of contact information would invade the privacy rights of the third-party employees under Article I, section 1 of the California Constitution. In weighing the privacy rights of employees, the Court found that the appropriate balancing test to employ is that under Hill v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass’n, 7 Cal. 4th 1, 35 (1994) and Pioneer Electronics (USA), Inc. v. Super. Ct., 40 Cal. 4th 360, 370-74 (2007). Under the test established by those cases, the party asserting a privacy right must establish (a) a legally protected privacy interest, (b) an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in the given circumstances, and (c) a threatened intrusion of that interest that is serious. Id. at 22. Assuming these threshold requirements are met, the party seeking the information must establish countervailing interests served by disclosure sufficient to overcome the proffered privacy interest. The court must then balance the competing considerations.1
In the context of the contact information of other potentially aggrieved employees in a wage-and-hour representative action, the Court found that the employees had a legally cognizable privacy interest, but that the final two factors—i.e., a reasonable expectation of privacy and a serious intrusion—were not satisfied. The Court expressly endorsed the Belaire-West reasoning, holding that the balancing of interests falls in favor of disclosure of the contact information of putative class members in wage-and-hour class and representative actions. The issuance of a Belaire-West-style notice, which provided notice of the nature of the claims at issue and an opportunity for employees to opt out of the disclosure of their contact information, was sufficient to protect the privacy interest in the employees’ contact information. Id. at 27-32.
Prior to Williams, the restriction of the scope of pre-certification discovery to the specific location at which the named plaintiff worked was a key device in limiting discovery costs and burdens at the early stages of a class action. The Supreme Court’s reasoning in Williams will make it significantly more difficult for employers to avoid disclosure of the names and contact information of all putative class members/potentially aggrieved employees in wage-and-hour class actions/representative PAGA actions.
That said, it is critical to view the decision as limited to the record that was before the Court. The decision applied only to interrogatories seeking contact information and did not foreclose the possibility, based on appropriate facts, of postponing the disclosure of contact information. It acknowledged, moreover, that requests for production, which were not at issue in Williams, must be supported by good cause. It stands to reason, therefore, that at an early stage of discovery, legitimate bases exist for limiting the scope of pre-certification document productions to the location at which a plaintiff works.
In addition, it bears noting that in opposing Williams’ motion to compel, Marshalls failed to provide specific evidence supporting the administrative burden and cost it would be under to produce statewide contact information for 16,500 employees. Likewise, the Court specifically noted that Marshalls had failed to bring a motion under Code of Civil Procedure section 2019.020 for the Court to set a specific sequence and timing for discovery.
Accordingly, while Williams creates a less hospitable discovery framework for employers at the early stages of discovery, it is not a fundamental re-ordering of discovery procedures as we know them. Employers can still avail themselves of a full array of tools to oppose overbroad requests and manage the timing and scope of pre-certification discovery.
1 The Supreme Court found that the Court of Appeals erred in requiring Williams to show a “compelling interest” sufficient to justify disclosure of contact information. It noted that a compelling interest is necessary where the interest at issue is one fundamental to personal autonomy; otherwise, where a lesser interest is at stake, the Hill and Pioneer Electronics framework applies, “with the strength of the countervailing interest sufficient to warrant disclosure of private information varying according to the strength of the privacy interest itself, the seriousness of the invasion, and the availability of alternatives and protective measures.” Slip op. at 28.
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Doctors Find Brain Abnormalities in Patients of Mysterious Cuba Embassy Attacks
Physicians, FBI investigators and U.S. intelligence agencies have spent months trying to piece together the puzzle in Havana, where the U.S. says 24 U.S. government officials and spouses fell ill starting last year in homes and later in some hotels
By Josh Lederman
Published Dec 6, 2017 at 3:25 AM | Updated at 8:23 AM PST on Dec 6, 2017
The Sound Heard By Americans in Cuba Attacks
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The Associated Press has obtained a recording of what some U.S. embassy workers heard in Havana as they were attacked by what investigators initially believed was a sonic weapon. (Published Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017)
Doctors treating the U.S. embassy victims of suspected attacks in Cuba have discovered brain abnormalities as they search for clues to explain hearing, vision, balance and memory damage, The Associated Press has learned.
It's the most specific finding to date about physical damage, showing that whatever it was that harmed the Americans, it led to perceptible changes in their brains. The finding is also one of several factors fueling growing skepticism that some kind of sonic weapon was involved.
Medical testing has revealed the embassy workers developed changes to the white matter tracts that let different parts of the brain communicate, several U.S. officials said, describing a growing consensus held by university and government physicians researching the attacks. White matter acts like information highways between brain cells.
Loud, mysterious sounds followed by hearing loss and ear-ringing had led investigators to suspect "sonic attacks." But officials are now carefully avoiding that term. The sounds may have been the byproduct of something else that caused damage, said three U.S. officials briefed on the investigation. They weren't authorized to discuss it publicly and demanded anonymity.
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(Published Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017)
Physicians, FBI investigators and U.S. intelligence agencies have spent months trying to piece together the puzzle in Havana, where the U.S. says 24 U.S. government officials and spouses fell ill starting last year in homes and later in some hotels. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday he's "convinced these were targeted attacks," but the U.S. doesn't know who's behind them. A few Canadian Embassy staffers also got sick.
Doctors still don't know how victims ended up with the white matter changes, nor how exactly those changes might relate to their symptoms. U.S. officials wouldn't say whether the changes were found in all 24 patients.
But acoustic waves have never been shown to alter the brain's white matter tracts, said Elisa Konofagou, a biomedical engineering professor at Columbia University who is not involved in the government's investigation.
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"I would be very surprised," Konofagou said, adding that ultrasound in the brain is used frequently in modern medicine. "We never see white matter tract problems."
Cuba has adamantly denied involvement, and calls the Trump administration's claims that U.S. workers were attacked "deliberate lies." The new medical details may help the U.S. counter Havana's complaint that Washington hasn't presented any evidence.
Tillerson said the U.S. had shared some information with Havana, but wouldn't disclose details that would violate privacy or help a perpetrator learn how effective the attacks were.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the White House holds Cuba responsible for finding out who carried out the accoustic attack on American personnel in Havana.
(Published Friday, Aug. 11, 2017)
"What we've said to the Cubans is: Small island. You've got a sophisticated intelligence apparatus. You probably know who's doing it. You can stop it," Tillerson said. "It's as simple as that."
The case has plunged the U.S. medical community into uncharted territory. Physicians are treating the symptoms like a new, never-seen-before illness. After extensive testing and trial therapies, they're developing the first protocols to screen cases and identify the best treatments — even as the FBI investigation struggles to identify a culprit, method and motive.
Doctors treating the victims wouldn't speak to the AP, yet their findings are expected to be discussed in an article being submitted to the Journal of the American Medical Association, U.S. officials said. Physicians at the University of Miami and the University of Pennsylvania who have treated the Cuba victims are writing it, with input from the State Department's medical unit and other government doctors.
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But the article won't speculate about what technology might have harmed the workers or who would have wanted to target Americans in Cuba. If investigators are any closer to solving those questions, their findings won't be made public.
The AP first reported in August that U.S. workers reported sounds audible in parts of rooms but inaudible just a few feet away — unlike normal sound, which disperses in all directions. Doctors have now come up with a term for such incidents: "directional acoustic phenomena."
Most patients have fully recovered, some after rehabilitation and other treatment, officials said. Many are back at work. About one-quarter had symptoms that persisted for long periods or remain to this day.
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Earlier this year, the U.S. said doctors found patients had suffered concussions, known as mild traumatic brain injury, but were uncertain beyond that what had happened in their brains. Concussions are often diagnosed based solely on symptoms.
Studies have found both concussions and white matter damage in Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who survived explosions yet had no other physical damage. But those injuries were attributed mostly to shock waves from explosions. No Havana patients reported explosions or blows to the head.
Outside medical experts said that when the sample of patients is so small, it's difficult to establish cause and effect.
"The thing you have to wonder anytime you see something on a scan: Is it due to the episode in question, or was it something pre-existing and unrelated to what happened?" said Dr. Gerard Gianoli, an ear and brain specialist in Louisiana.
As Cuba works to limit damage to its reputation and economy, its government has produced TV specials and an online summit about its own investigation. Cuba's experts have concluded that the Americans' allegations are scientifically impossible.
The Cubans have urged the U.S. to release information about what it's found. FBI investigators have spent months comparing cases to pinpoint what factors overlap.
U.S. officials told the AP that investigators have now determined:
The most frequently reported sound patients heard was a high-pitched chirp or grating metal. Fewer recalled a low-pitched noise, like a hum.
Some were asleep and awakened by the sound, even as others sleeping in the same bed or room heard nothing.
Vibrations sometimes accompanied the sound. Victims told investigators these felt similar to the rapid flutter of air when windows of a car are partially rolled down.
Those worst off knew right away something was affecting their bodies. Some developed visual symptoms within 24 hours, including trouble focusing on a computer screen.
The U.S. has not identified any specific precautions it believes can mitigate the risk for diplomats in Havana, three officials said, although an attack hasn't been reported since late August. Since the Americans started falling ill last year, the State Department has adopted a new protocol for workers before they go to Cuba that includes bloodwork and other "baseline" tests. If they later show symptoms, doctors can retest and compare.
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Doctors still don't know the long-term medical consequences and expect that epidemiologists, who track disease patterns in populations, will monitor the 24 Americans for life. Consultations with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are underway.
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Grace is the only Canadian author invited to contribute an essay in the best selling book, If Women Ruled the World supported and endorsed by Marie C. Wilson of the White House Project. All profits from the sale of this book go to help women’s charities. Grace is a mentor to her own daughter and women of all ages and sits on the board of several women’s organizations. Twelve years ago, Grace founded the “Goddess Club”, a monthly women’s circle focusing on emotional and spiritual growth which has become a beautiful and loving community of women supporting women. Regulars will drive hundreds of miles each month to attend Grace’s monthly workshops.
Grace has authored a number of CD programs including: Journey to the Self: Finding Meaning in a World of Change, Cultivating Gratitude, a meditation program to alleviate stress and negativity as well as Connecting with Your Spiritual Guide.
Media Attention: Grace has been interviewed on national radio and television talk shows, including CBC TV, CBC Radio, CTV, City TV, CHCH TV, TLN, CFRB Radio 1010 and many private radio stations across Canada and the United States about her best selling book and her work. Grace has been a columnist for Business Woman Canada, and HEART: Women’s Business Journal, as well as various trade journals. Grace’s articles and ideas have appeared in national newspapers, magazines and many internet newsletters and sites.
Grace is a former faculty member with the Canadian Management Centre having participated in their Management and Leadership Courses as well as designing training courses and keynotes for their corporate clientele. Grace started her speaking career by working as an International Seminar Leader with Fred Pryor Resources, the world’s largest one-day seminar company. She delivered hundreds of seminars to business professionals in Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Grace was well loved by her attendees boasting one of the highest “satisfied customers” ratings in the company.
Former Life: Grace Cirocco is a former broadcast journalist with CBC Radio having worked as a reporter, editor and producer for CBC National News and Current Affairs programming in Toronto and Calgary. In 1988 she received an award of distinction in broadcasting for her coverage of the Calgary Winter Olympics. She also worked in private radio in San Diego, California where she produced a three-hour business and financial show whose listening market was estimated at 20 million people. She brought the show, “Money Matters” from #10 in the ratings to #1 in just a few months.
Personal: Grace has been married to her best friend for over 30 years, and together they have raised a son and a daughter. She lives in her beloved Niagara peninsula and sees clients in her downtown St. Catharines, ON office.
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Journalism and Mass Communication Faculty Handbook
Matters of School Governance and Related Procedures
Close Matters of School Governance and Related Procedures Overview
Revision of the Handbook
Faculty Instructional, Professional and Ethical Responsibilities
Faculty Workload
RTP Criteria and the Criteria and Processes Relating to Other Faculty Personnel Actions
Close RTP Criteria and the Criteria and Processes Relating to Other Faculty Personnel Actions Overview
Reappointment, Tenure, Promotion for Tenure-Track and Full Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Criteria, Performance Expectations and School Procedures Relating to Merit Awards
Close Criteria, Performance Expectations and School Procedures Relating to Merit Awards Overview
Other School Guidelines
Close Other School Guidelines Overview
Structure and Organization of the School
Close Appendix Overview
Reappointment for Tenure-Track Faculty
The policies and procedures for reappointment are included in the University Policy Register 6-16 and Addendum C of the Tenure-Track Collective Bargaining Agreement (TT CBA). Each academic year, reappointment guidelines for faculty are distributed by the Office of the Provost. These guidelines will be given to all tenure-track faculty and Ad Hoc Committee members. Tenure-track faculty members are reviewed by the Department’s Ad Hoc Reappointment Committee.
For tenure-track faculty, reappointment is contingent upon demonstration of appropriate progress toward the requirements for tenure. Performance expectations develop from initial letters of appointment, any additional written initial expectations and the Director’s annual reappointment letters. These expectations of individual faculty members may differ significantly, given each faculty member’s experience, background and assignments. In annual reappointment materials, the faculty member must establish and articulate both short- and long-term goals, then document progress toward meeting those goals. Specific concerns expressed by the Ad Hoc Reappointment Committee members and/or the Director in annual reappointment reviews during the probationary period must be addressed by the faculty member in subsequent reappointment reviews.
According to the University Policy Register (6-14) and Addendum B of the TT CBA assistant professors following the traditional tenure clock are granted or denied tenure by March 15 of their sixth year. However, if an assistant professor carries some years of credit toward tenure, he or she could be eligible earlier. The maximum credit toward tenure is typically two years, but “in extraordinary circumstances” additional credit may be granted at the time of appointment after consultation with the Faculty Advisory Committee. Faculty members appointed as either associate professors or professors have a three-year probationary period before they are eligible to apply for tenure.
For faculty members following the traditional tenure clock for Assistant Professors, the review after completion of three (3) full years in the probationary period at Kent State University is particularly critical. Upon completion of the third year of the probationary period, faculty reviewing a candidate for reappointment should consider the record of the candidate’s achievements to date. This record should be considered a predictor of future success. The hallmark of a successful candidate is compelling evidence of positive development in teaching, scholarly/creative activity, and service, per the criteria detailed in this section of the Handbook.
If concerns about a faculty member’s performance are raised during the reappointment process, the Ad Hoc Reappointment Committee and the Director shall provide detailed, prescriptive comments to serve as constructive feedback. If such concerns arise during a review that occurs after completion of three (3) full years in the probationary period, the Director and the candidate’s mentor, in consultation with the FAC, will advise and work with the candidate on a suitable, positive plan for realignment with the School’s tenure and promotion expectations; however, the candidate is solely responsible for her/his success in implementing this plan. Failure to meet performance expectations or failure to satisfactorily address concerns expressed by the Ad Hoc Reappointment Committee or by the Director may result in a negative reappointment recommendation to the Dean.
Tolling Policy
From time to time, personal and/or family circumstances may arise that require a probationary faculty member to request that her/his probationary period be extended. Upon request, a faculty member may be granted an extension of the probationary period, which has been traditionally called “tolling” or “stopping the tenure clock.” The University policy and procedures governing modification of the faculty probationary period are included in the University Policy Register. (See University Policy Register 6-13)
Tenure and Promotion for Tenure-Track Faculty
The policies and procedures for tenure and promotion are included in the University Policy Register 6-14 and 6-15 and in Addenda A and B of the TT CBA. Each academic year, tenure and promotion guidelines for Kent and Regional Campus faculty are distributed by the Office of the Provost. These guidelines will be given to all tenure-track faculty and Ad Hoc Committee members.
Tenure and promotion are separate decisions. The awarding of tenure must be based on convincing, documented evidence that the faculty member has achieved:
1. a strong record of effective instruction and curricular engagement
2. a significant body of scholarly/creative work that has undergone meaningful peer review and that has had a demonstrable impact on her/his discipline and profession, meeting or exceeding expectations as defined in initial appointment letters and other written initial expectations and in annual reappointment letters (See below for further detail.)
3. a track record of effective service relevant to the mission of the School and to the mission of the University
Tenure considerations may include evaluation of accomplishments prior to arrival at Kent State University, but primary emphasis should be on work conducted while on the tenure track. Such considerations also may include grant proposals submitted but not funded, proposals pending, creative works and papers “in review” or papers “in press,” graduate students currently advised, and any other materials that may reflect on the candidate’s potential for a long-term successful career. The tenure decision is based on all of the evidence available to determine the candidate’s potential to pursue a productive career.
Promotion, on the other hand, is based solely on a candidate’s accomplishments completed during the review period.
Candidates for promotion to Associate Professor must meet all the qualifications for tenure. They must also show potential for a career likely to achieve national/international recognition, as evidenced by the body of work presented in the promotion file.
Promotion to Professor recognizes the highest level of university achievement and national/ international prominence. Evidence for this prominence includes:
1. sustained excellence in teaching and service;
2. a record of scholarly/creative activity in highly significant venues that has undergone meaningful peer review and that has had a demonstrable and sustained impact on the candidate’s discipline and profession;
3. a record of substantial prominence in and impact on the field.
External funding for scholarly/creative activity or programmatic support also provides strong evidence of prominence and external validation of excellence. Many factors and criteria, both subjective and objective, are considered in recommending a faculty member for tenure and advancement in academic rank. The overall evaluation of a candidate for tenure and promotion shall include consideration of the faculty member’s personal integrity and professional behavior, as recognized by the University community. A sound ethical approach to all aspects of teaching, research, publication, and the academic profession are expected of all who seek tenure and promotion in the School.
Criteria for Tenure and Promotion for Tenure-track Faculty
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication hires tenure-track faculty at the assistant professor level, generally with a terminal degree of either a Ph.D., J.D., or a M.F.A.; or a master’s degree with significant professional experience, as determined by the search committee in consultation with the Director and Dean.
Faculty are expected to develop a strong track record in the classroom, as exhibited by responsiveness to teaching evaluations from professional colleagues and teaching peers, as well as students, professional improvement and industry engagement as appropriate. Criteria for the evaluation of teaching are listed in Table 1 in the Appendix to this Section of the Handbook. Course revision is defined as making a substantial modification to a course, such as addition of distance learning options or multi-media instruction, formally proposing to change course content/format, etc. Other information, such as written comments from students, colleagues within and beyond the School, College, or University administrators shall be considered when available. Peer reviews and summaries of Student Surveys of Instruction (including all student comments) must be submitted as part of a candidate’s file for reappointment, tenure and promotion. Copies of representative syllabi, examinations, and other relevant teaching material also should be available for review.
Scholarly/Creative Work
The School’s tenured and tenure-track faculty are expected to be engaged in endeavors that support the School’s mission. It is expected that these activities will lead to presentation and then to publication in quality scholarly or professional venues. Evaluation criteria are listed in Table 2 in the Appendix to this Section of the Handbook.
The quality of the work and the venues are important components in tenure and promotion decisions. Tenure is granted with the expectation that the faculty member will continue to be engaged at the same or a higher level of quality.
Given the School’s professional mission, published journalism of the highest quality qualifies as published research, using standards defined in more detail below.
Publication, for purposes of this document, is used in the broadest sense to include multiplatform distribution to defined audiences in print, web, audio, video, or mobile formats. Considering the proliferation of open-access information and audience-generated content, we anticipate that scholarly/creative activity may be published and evaluated in new ways, such as online or in other digital venues. It is up to the tenure or promotion applicant to assess and document how his or her work is significant in leading professional change. Such documentation must include meaningful peer review conducted in a detached and dispassionate manner.
Generally, the School expects tenure-track faculty to build a body of scholarly, journalistic, and/or creative work that:
a. shows substantial and consistent engagement by exhibiting focused growth that is documented by professional evaluations or assessments.
b. extends to publication or presentation in appropriate professional or academic venues as defined below.
c. engages peer or juried review or other evidence of detached, dispassionate vetting by peers or recognized experts as defined below.
d. creates a positive recognition and reputation for those scholarly and creative endeavors, leading in time to national recognition measured by citations or letters of recognition, invitations to present or publish, awards and honors, or other documented means.
e. aids communities and media organizations in better understanding their roles in a democratic society and/or advances the body of knowledge about the processes, economics, uses, effects, freedoms, and responsibilities of professionals and audiences of journalism and mass communication. The School recognizes the importance of faculty working in and with emerging media and technologies. Such work is essential to the future of media-related businesses and organizations. We also encourage faculty to build partnerships locally, regionally, and nationally.
The School defines service as administrative service within the university, professional service through academic and professional associations and provision of professional expertise to public and private entities beyond the university.
Service activity is expected and required; however, service of any magnitude cannot be considered more important than a candidate’s teaching and scholarly/creative responsibilities. Nonetheless, a faculty member’s willingness to make contributions to the overall progress of the School is an important measure of the faculty member’s fitness for tenure or promotion.
Contributions as a University citizen include service to the School, the College, and the University as outlined in Table 3. The merits of University service should be evaluated as to (1) whether or not the candidate chaired the committee listed and (2) the importance of the service to the mission of the unit served. Other components of citizenship include active participation in School events, such as faculty- undergraduate- and graduate-student recruitment, seminars, and department meetings, etc.
Additional components of service include public outreach and professional or academic service. These may differ in their importance among faculty members, depending on each faculty member’s duties and responsibilities within the School.
Expectations in service for promotion to Professor are higher than for promotion to Associate Professor.
Note on external funding and collaboration
The School recognizes and supports the value of teaching, scholarly/creative, or service endeavors that generate external funding, particularly when the work is aligned with the goals and missions of the School, College, University, or our professions. Similarly, collaboration among colleagues within the School, College, and University and other universities is encouraged.
Evaluation tables and documentation examples
The text in this section and the tables in the Appendix to this section are designed to facilitate assessing performance of candidates being evaluated for tenure and promotion. During the probationary period, these tools should be used for developmental assistance and projection of future success in achieving tenure and promotion and for determining the faculty member’s qualification for reappointment.
Tables 1, 2, and 3 in the Appendix provide worksheets for use in the evaluation of candidates. For promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor, the faculty member must meet the criteria for at least a “very good” evaluation in scholarly/creative activity and at least a “very good” evaluation in teaching. University citizenship must at least meet the minimum School criteria as outlined in Table 3. These same categories and assessment tools apply for tenure decisions.
A candidate for promotion to Professor must meet the criteria for an “excellent” evaluation in either scholarly/creative activity or teaching and no less than “very good” in the other category. Service must exceed the minimum School criteria. A candidate for promotion to Professor may not have equal activity in scholarship, teaching and service, as he/she becomes more specialized.
Given the wide range of venues in which scholarly/creative work may be published or presented, faculty are expected to provide clear documentation regarding publication or presentation of scholarly/creative work. Such documentation should include an assessment of its quality, impact or contribution to the body of professional or scholarly knowledge.
Conference papers and presentations, for example, generally do not carry equal weight with published articles or creative work. Original scholarship or journalism based on original reporting or research, for example, generally would be weighted more heavily than analysis or review of another’s work. In collaborations, the contributions of each author should be clear.
Assessment may be through traditional scholarly peer-review processes, demonstrated by client or external colleague evaluation, or adjudication (e.g., critical reviews, letters from acknowledged experts). Examples of acceptable assessment are provided below. Reviews by close colleagues and collaborators do not carry the same weight as dispassionate reviews by more objective, detached, external colleagues.
For peer-reviewed articles, faculty are expected to document:
quality of the publication
impact of the article
For peer-reviewed paper sessions, faculty are expected to document:
significance of the organization
indication of how paper or presentation may advance to publication
For invited papers or presentations, faculty are expected to document:
the significance of the organization
significance of the presentation, cited in a letter from the person who extended the invitation
audience for the paper or presentation
Books also represent scholarly/creative activity. The relative weight depends on such factors as the original research behind the text, the importance of the book to the field and the candidate’s role as single author, multiple author or editor. Faculty are expected to document:
copies sold
reviews or other evaluations
For articles in professional media, faculty are expected to document:
the circulation of the publication
description of audience
significance of the article, cited in a letter from the supervising editor, when available
other external validation such as awards or contests
citations, references
description of the reporting, research and/or creative process used to produce the article
For articles and blogs online, faculty are expected to document:
unique visitors or other accepted measures
significance of the organization that owns the web site
significance of the work, cited in a letter from the supervising editor, critical reviews or other evidence or in the case of a blog, qualified outside resources
other documented citations
For video/broadcast work in professional reporting or production, faculty are expected to document:
selection for distribution by a television station, network or online
significance of the work, cited in a letter from the supervising producer, when available
assessment through professional or academic awards competitions
reviews from relevant professional or academic experts.
In addition to reporting/writing/producing, the practice of journalism encompasses such creative activities as editing, photography, and design for print and digital media. These are to be vetted in a similar fashion to the three preceding examples.
The practice of public relations, on behalf of businesses and/or nonprofit organizations, encompasses:
Conducting formal communication audits and/or research initiatives.
Developing strategic public relations campaigns or programs that produce measurable results.
Developing and executing substantial public relations initiatives such as websites, social-media campaigns, large-scale events, etc.
Providing senior-level counsel leading to the adoption of more effective and ethical public relations practices.
Although the School puts the highest value on original research and creative activity, the following also are valued as part of a candidate’s portfolio: book reviews, grant proposals, as well as reviewing manuscripts and programs.
Faculty also may apply their expertise as advisers or consultants in significant problem-solving activities for an organization and may create workshops and seminars for professional audiences. Candidates will be expected to provide evaluation and impact of their work.
Because of the heavy teaching responsibilities for tenure-track faculty members at the regional campuses, expectations for scholarly and creative activity will not be as great as they are for faculty on the Kent campus.
Negative Decisions on Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion
In the event of negative decisions on reappointment, tenure or promotion, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication will follow the procedures described in the TT CBA and the University Policy Register.
Full Time Non-Tenure Track Appoint, Renewal and Promotion
Appointment and Renewal of Full Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Assignments for full time non-tenure track (FTNTT) faculty vary widely. Terms for renewal are explained in Article X of the Collective Bargaining Agreement for Full Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty (FTNTT CBA). Criteria are developed by the academic units. Documentation guidelines for FTNTT Full Performance Reviews are provided in the FTNTT CBA, Addendum B. For regular FTNTT faculty, formal third-year reviews are required. For FTNTT faculty in JMC, evaluation should follow standards for teaching and service in Tables 4 and 5. Evaluation criteria for professional development are outlined in the next section and standards are noted in Table 6. For FTNTT faculty with duties other than teaching, evaluation appropriate for their assigned duties will be developed.
Promotion of Full Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Faculty may apply for promotion in the third year of a cycle of three one-year appointments.
There are six academic ranks for FTNTT faculty members: Lecturer, Associate Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor. Criteria for promotion are set forth in Addendum C of the FTNTT CBA. Candidates are eligible for promotion to Associate Lecturer or Associate Professor after completing five consecutive years as an FTNTT and successfully passing one three-year performance review. They are eligible for promotion to Senior Lecturer or Professor after five full years in rank as an Associate Lecturer/Associate Professor. They will be assessed on their performance of assigned duties, professional development and university citizenship. See the FTNTT CBA, Addendum C, Section 1, Paragraph F for a more complete statement of criteria.
According to the FTNTT CBA, evidence of “significant and continuous accomplishments in Performance, Professional Development, and Professional and Creative Activity” is required for promotion. Contributions in university citizenship will help the candidate’s file and may be required. The Provost ultimately makes promotion decisions after receiving recommendations from the college Dean. The Dean is advised by the Non-Tenure Track Promotion Advisory Board, whose members review the candidates’ files.
Criteria for Promotion of Full Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication hires most full time non-tenure track faculty at the assistant professor level, generally with a terminal degree of either a Ph.D., J.D., M.F.A., or a master’s degree with significant professional experience, as determined by the search committee in consultation with the Director and Dean.
Full time non-tenure track faculty generally teach more than tenure-track faculty, and they are evaluated primarily on their track record in the classroom, as exhibited by responsiveness to teaching evaluations from professional colleagues and teaching peers, as well as students, professional improvement, and industry engagement as appropriate. This rigorous review is detailed in Table 4 of the Appendix to this Section of the Handbook.
Full time non-tenure track faculty in JMC who have service obligations specified on their workload statements or letters of appointment are expected to provide service to the school. A faculty member’s willingness to make contributions to the overall progress of the School is an important measure of the faculty member’s fitness for promotion.
Contributions as a University citizen include service to the School, the College, and the University as outlined in Table 5. The merits of University service should be evaluated as to (1) whether or not the candidate chaired the committee listed and (2) the importance of the service to the mission of the unit served. Other components of citizenship include active participation in School events, such as faculty- undergraduate- and graduate-student recruitment, seminars and department meetings, etc.
Expectations in service for promotion to Senior Lecturer/Professor are higher than for promotion to Associate Lecturer/Associate Professor. The former requires that the candidates exceed service expectations. The latter requires that the candidates meet them.
In addition to showing significant success in teaching, full time non-tenure track faculty candidates for promotion must show they have accomplished a great deal professionally. Given that the areas for professional development within JMC are broad, professional development is evidenced via the effective alignment of activities to the workload statement/appointment letter. Examples might include (but are not limited to) professional awards, active roles in professional organizations, or publication / appearance / presentations in an industry specific outlet, or creative works relevant to the field. Table 6 in the Appendix to this Section of the Handbook outlines evaluation criteria.
Expectations in professional development for promotion to Senior Lecturer/Professor are higher than promotion to Associate Lecturer/Associate Professor. The former requires that the candidates exceed professional development expectations. The latter requires that the candidates meet them.
Other Faculty Personnel Actions
Appointment and Employment Procedure and Regulations of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication
In accordance with the definition in the University Policy Register, the sum of a faculty member’s “teaching, research, and/or administrative responsibilities and assignments constitutes full-time employment (one hundred percent full-time employment) at Kent State University.” JMC faculty include employees who are either tenure-track (those both tenured and probationary) or full time non-tenure track at the Kent and regional campuses.
Graduate student appointees who are assigned responsibility for sections of structured courses are considered members of the instructional staff for the period they have such classroom or laboratory responsibilities.
Faculty Additions and Replacements
Should a faculty position become available, after approval of the Dean and Provost, the Director will convene a search committee from among the full-time faculty members, though members may also come from other schools, departments and the student body. This committee will institute a formal search, in line with University, College, Equal Opportunity Commission and Affirmative Action regulations.
When any candidate is interviewed on campus, all faculty members shall have the opportunity to meet with the candidate and express their confidential observations and recommendations, either written or oral, to the Director. The Director will consider these observations and recommendations, and, after formal consultation with the search committee and the FAC, nominate a candidate to the Dean.
Formal letters of appointment for both probationary tenure-track and full time non-tenure track faculty shall be formulated, stating terms and expectations for the individual faculty member in teaching, scholarly/creative activity and service, so that he or she may be positively considered for reappointment, tenure, and promotion. This is normally done at the time of hiring.
The letters must be approved and agreed to by the Dean, the Director, and the faculty member and may be revised with the permission of the faculty member. Ultimate approval of letters of appointment is the responsibility of the Provost. In addition to the formal letters of appointment, the Director and the new faculty member, in consultation with an assigned mentor, may develop additional written expectations for specific teaching, scholarly/creative activity, and service in the initial year of work.
Graduate Faculty Membership
1. Graduate faculty membership shall be assigned to those faculty members with appropriate educational backgrounds, who have produced scholarly/creative activity of sufficient quality and consistency to merit professional recognition and who are effective in providing the appropriate training for graduate students (or have the potential for providing such training).
“Appropriate educational background,” as it relates to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, normally shall mean possession of the doctorate or terminal master’s degree. It also may mean possession of a non-terminal master’s degree with significant professional experience. Appropriate degrees vary within mass media-related disciplines and across the country, depending upon the emphases of the program and the academic/professional expertise of the faculty member.
Scholarly/creative activity of sufficient quality to merit professional recognition as it relates to JMC should be interpreted through Tenure and Promotion criteria described in this section.
Graduate Faculty Status for Kent Campus Faculty Members
Graduate Faculty status for Kent Campus faculty members is obtained by preparing documentation (application and supporting data sheet) and submitting it to the Graduate Faculty Committee of the School for evaluation and recommendation to the Director, who in turn recommends to the College Dean and to the Associate Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies.
2. The following statuses may be recommended for a graduate faculty member:
a. Associate Member, Level 1 (A1): May teach graduate courses and serve on master’s thesis and project committees.
b. Full Member, Level 1 (F1): May do the above and may direct projects and comprehensive exams at the master’s level. Before serving as a sole director of a project, the member must first co-direct two projects with a graduate faculty member eligible to be the sole director of a project. Before serving as a sole director of an exam, the member must first co-direct two exams with a graduate faculty member eligible to be the sole director of an exam.
c. Full Member, Level 2 (F2): May do the above and may direct theses. Before serving as a sole director of a thesis, the member must first co-direct two theses with a graduate faculty member eligible to be the sole director of a thesis.
d. Full Member, Level 3 (F3): May do the above and may serve on doctoral committees and co-direct doctoral dissertations.
e. Full Member, Level 4 (F4): May do the above and may direct a doctoral dissertation.
Criteria for Membership in the Graduate Faculty
General criteria for membership is set forth in the University Policy Register (6-15.1).
1. In JMC, a Full Member (Level F1) of the Graduate Faculty:
a. Must possess a doctorate or other appropriate terminal degree and demonstrate the potential for substantial scholarly research or creative activity, or
b. Must possess a master’s degree and significant professional experience and a record of substantial and sustained professional publication or creative activity, or
c. Must possess a bachelor’s degree, along with significant and prominent professional experience in his or her field and an outstanding record of professional publication or creative activity.
2. A Full Member (Level F2) of the Graduate Faculty:
a. Must hold a doctorate or equivalent terminal degree appropriate to the faculty member’s teaching and research discipline, and must demonstrate a substantial and sustained record of appropriate scholarly research or creative activity, or
b. Must hold a master’s degree for which a thesis was written, along with significant professional experience in his or her field, and must demonstrate a substantial and sustained record of appropriate scholarly research or creative activity.
a. Must meet all criteria for Level F2, and
b. Must demonstrate a significant record of graduate teaching, advising, and research direction, including experience in directing or co-directing graduate-student research, and
c. Must have demonstrated significant scholarly or creative activity in the past five years, and
d. Must demonstrate a significant record of professional involvement.
b. Must demonstrate a significant record of research direction, including experience in directing or co-directing graduate student research, and
c. Must demonstrate a current and continuing record of scholarly or creative activity, and
d. Must demonstrate a continuous record of significant professional involvement.
5. An Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty:
b. Must possess a master’s degree and significant professional experience, and demonstrate the potential for substantial scholarly or professional research or creative activity, or
c. Must possess a bachelor’s degree plus significant and prominent professional experience and must demonstrate the potential for outstanding professional publication or creative activity.
6. Temporary Graduate Faculty Member: This status shall be assigned to a faculty member whose participation in the graduate program is desired by the graduate department for a limited period or for a limited objective. Normally, this status should be assigned to lead to the appropriate instruction of a graduate course for a semester or appropriate service on a graduate examination committee, a thesis committee, or a dissertation committee. Upon the completion of the temporary assignment, the status of Temporary Graduate Faculty Member is withdrawn.
Summer Teaching
While summer teaching is not included as part of regular 9-month faculty contracts and appointments, faculty wishing to teach during the summer will be given the opportunity to do so, primarily on the basis of program need and secondarily on the basis of available financial resources. Generally, all faculty members shall be consulted by the Director and/or sequence coordinators concerning their desire to teach during the summer. The Director follows the guidelines and procedures for summer employment set forth in Article IX, Section 4 of the TT CBA and Article IX, Section 2 of the FTNTT CBA.
Evaluation of Teaching
Formal student evaluations, using KSU-mandated evaluation questions, plus additional questions devised by the School, are conducted for each course taught during regular academic semesters by full- and part-time faculty. Results of the evaluations are made available to the individual faculty member, along with the average score for courses in the appropriate norming group. Evaluations are public records.
1. Travel:
Faculty are encouraged to attend professional and academic meetings and conferences for professional enrichment. Attendance at such meetings is considered an authorized absence, provided that appropriate arrangements have been made for class coverage. The required forms for this type of leave are available from the Director. The form must be completed and approved before the faculty member’s leave.
2. Leaves of Absence:
Leaves of absence, including sick leave, shall follow College and University regulations as stated in the University Policy Register 6-11 and must be approved by the Dean. Appropriate documentation must be completed by all concerned parties.
3. Professional Improvement Leave for Tenure-Track Faculty:
Faculty professional improvement leave may be available to all those who qualify, in accordance with regulations and provisions in the University Policy Register 6-12 and 6-12.101. Faculty members requesting a faculty professional improvement leave must submit a proposal to the FAC and the Director for review, after which it is reviewed by the College Advisory Committee, the Dean and other appropriate University officials and committees. Final approval comes from the Provost and is subject to available funding.
4. Professional Development Leave for FTNTT Faculty
Full time non-tenure track faculty may apply for leaves of absence for professional development according to the provisions of the FTNTT CBA, Article XVI, Section 2.
Faculty Grievance and Appeals
A. University Procedures
Kent State University maintains a formal grievance and appeals procedures established by the TT CBA (Article VII) and the FTNTT CBA (Article VII).
B. School Procedures for Informal Resolution
The faculty and the Director are encouraged to maintain open communication to the extent that formal University grievance and appeals procedures will normally not be required. To this end, the following procedure is recommended for the internal arbitration of a faculty grievance, should it be necessitated:
Step 1: The grieving faculty member shall meet with his/her sequence coordinator, and a reasonable effort shall be made to resolve the grievance.
Step 2: If the grievance is not resolved in Step One, the faculty member may elect to bring his/her grievance before the FAC, which shall make an advisory recommendation to the Director.
Step 3: If the grievance is not resolved in Step Two, the faculty member shall meet with the Director who will make a final effort to resolve the grievance at the School level.
Should the issue remain unresolved at the School level, the Director’s Office will notify the Dean regarding the unresolved grievance and the results of the informal actions that have occurred in Steps One through Three.
In regard to the above procedure, it is important to note the following from the University Grievance and Appeals Procedure: “Any settlement, withdrawal, or other disposition of a grievance at the informal stage shall not constitute a binding precedent in the settlement of similar complaints or grievances.” | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5968223214149475, "wiki_prob": 0.5968223214149475, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line906452"} |
Living and Working in Glasgow in 2019
2. Working in Glasgow
3. Financial Services in Glasgow
4. Education in Glasgow
5. Living in Glasgow
6. Moving to Glasgow from Abroad
7. Culture in Glasgow
You most likely know Glasgow as one of the friendliest cities on earth or for its reputation as the former shipbuilding capital of the world.
But what you might not know is that Glasgow is one of the best places to live and work in the UK.
Scotland’s biggest city, Glasgow is known for its rich history, excellent shopping and vibrant nightlife.
Dynamic and ever-changing, both residents and visitors never fail to be impressed by what the city has to offer.
As one of Europe’s leading financial centres, financial services also play a key role in the city, with some of the biggest companies in the sector having a presence in Glasgow.
If you are considering a move to Glasgow, this guide should give you a flavour of what the city has to offer its residents.
Key Info:
Glasgow sits at the heart of Scotland’s only metropolitan region of 1.8 million people, while the population of the greater Glasgow region is around 2.3 million – making up 41% of the entire population of Scotland.[1]
Language: English is the main language with Scots, British Sign Language and Gaelic as recognised languages. Other languages spoken in the city including Spanish, Urdu, Mandarin and Polish. Strong numbers of foreign language speakers including Asian, Eastern European and Western European languages.
Currency: Pound Sterling (GDP)
Time Zone: UTC+00:00
Climate: Temperate. Glasgow benefits from long summer days with as much as 17 hours of sunlight. However, winter days tend to be much shorter and darker. There are on average 170 days of rainfall and between 15-20 days of snowfall in Glasgow.[2]
Similar to the rest of the country, the weather in Glasgow can sometimes be unpredictable and it’s not uncommon to experience all four seasons in one day.
No matter what career path you choose to pursue, Glasgow is one of the top places to work in the UK.
The city’s workforce combines the strong Scottish work ethic with the friendliness of its residents. This had made it an attractive location and some of the biggest companies in Scotland have a base in Glasgow.
Glasgow has the largest economy in Scotland, with a GDP of 41.6 billion in 2013. Glasgow contributes approximately £20.74 billion GVA to the Scottish economy annually. 19,000 companies make their home in Glasgow, generating an annual turnover of £38 billion.[3]
There are plenty of opportunities and there has never been a better time to work in Glasgow, with the number of vacancies advertised having risen by 52% since 2016.[4]
Residents in Glasgow benefit from an average monthly take-home salary of £1,814[5] which is higher than the UK average.
Formerly one of the world’s leading manufacturing hubs, Glasgow has moved away from a production-based economy to a service-based one, with up to 84% of jobs in the service sector.[6]
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce recently identified six key sectors for the city: low carbon industries; financial and business services; life sciences; engineering; tourism, and education.[7]
But the city is also developing in some of its newer growth sectors, such as software development and biotechnology. The tech sector in Scotland is worth £3.9bn with digital tech turnover per employee reaching £80,000.[8]
Glasgow has particular strength in space tech, as the city rockets towards becoming a world leader. CBRE ranked Glasgow 2nd in the UK in its annual Tech Cities survey.
Glasgow is at the forefront of healthcare and innovation across the UK and Europe. Glasgow is also the biggest media hub in Scotland and has an excellent creative sector.
Glasgow is one of the top places to work in the UK.
Tax and Employment Benefits
Employment benefits offered in Glasgow vary depending on your employer but are likely to include leave from work, sick pay, maternity pay and a pension.
The average working week for a full-time job is between 37 and 40 hours a week. Those working full-time are entitled to at least 28 days of paid holiday each year. If you work part-time, you are also entitled to paid holiday each year.
While it’s not compulsory, many organisations also close for public and bank holidays as an added incentive. Many bank holidays in Scotland are different to the rest of the UK.
If you’re pregnant, you may be eligible for maternity pay from your employer. Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) allows you to take time off work both before and after your baby is born. SMP is paid for up to 39 weeks from when you take leave from your job. Your partner is also entitled to up to two weeks of paternity leave – in addition to another 26 weeks if you decide to return to work early.
If you are eligible, the government will pay you a State Pension when you reach the national retirement age – normally between 60-65 years old. However, the amount you’re eligible for depends on the number of years you have paid National Insurance from your salary in the UK.
The majority of people working in Scotland have tax and National Insurance payments automatically deducted from their weekly or monthly pay. The amount of Income Tax and National Insurance you pay depends on several factors including how much you earn.
If you are not a UK national, you will need to apply for a National Insurance number from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and give it to your employer.
The financial services industry in Scotland is booming, and Glasgow is no exception. One of Europe’s top 20 financial centres, there are 40,500 jobs related to the financial services centre sector in Glasgow.[9] This makes up almost 10% of total employment in the city.[10]
Financial services are a rapidly growing sector in Glasgow, with plenty of jobs and investment. Since the creation of the International Financial Services District (IFSD), there has been over £1 billion invested and more than 15,000 new jobs.
Glasgow is the location of choice for some of the biggest names in the sector. There are over 3000 companies operating in this sector.[11]
Most of Glasgow’s finance sector is based around the IFSD. This includes companies like JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Barclays and BNP Paribas. Glasgow is a base for major global corporations in the financial and services sector, such as Barclays Wealth, Aon and others.
The second largest financial hub in Scotland, Glasgow’s main strengths lie in general insurance, asset administration, legal services and accountancy.
Scotland has a long and distinguished history in banking. You will find many long-established and newer challenger banks in Glasgow including The Royal Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank, Tesco Bank, TSB, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays.
Glasgow is also a base for many international banks such as the Bank of China, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Santander and State Bank of India.
With 8,000 people working within the banking field in Glasgow, the city is the perfect place to build your banking career.
Glasgow is one of Europe's top 20 financial centres.
Scotland has a significant concentration of life and pensions activity, accounting for 27% of employment in the sub-sector in Britain.[12]
Glasgow is Scotland’s insurance hub, employing 8,500 people across hundreds of businesses.
Allianz, Axa, Zurich, Hiscox Plc, Aviva and Direct Line Insurance are just some of the big names located in Glasgow.
Asset servicing is a key growth area in Glasgow’s financial services industry. Scotland is now a leading European centre for asset servicing offering a comprehensive range of services, including: custody, securities servicing, investment accounting, performance measurement, trustee administration, shareholder services, compliance, client management and retail fund administration.
Three out of the top ten largest asset servicing organisations operate in Glasgow. They are BNP Paribas, JP Morgan and HSBC.
Scotland is a renowned centre of excellence in investment management with its origins dating back to the nineteenth century.
The sector encompasses a broad mix of large institutional and smaller businesses that deliver a wide variety of innovative investment services to institutional and personal clients around the world.
While this sector is smaller than that of Edinburgh, Glasgow maintains a high quality of asset management expertise.
Glasgow has a large community of professionals providing services to the financial services industry. There are over 13,000 people working in legal and accounting services, and over 4,500 in management consulting.
The UK has high quality professional and support services; it has the largest and most developed market in Europe for legal services, management consulting and accounting.[13] These three sectors contributed £20.1bn, £14bn and £26.8bn respectively to UK output in 2017.
The Scottish legal sector is consistently strong. Corporate and commercial areas of law firms will continue to be busy, and in-house functions of financial sector companies will continue to grow.
Accounting and finance is also an area of expertise in Glasgow. Many leading companies have a presence in Glasgow or neighbouring city Edinburgh. The great bio-diversity of businesses ensures a steady flow of opportunity in this sector.
Scotland’s financial services industry benefits from an extensive chain of providers that deliver the wide spectrum of business services required by businesses operating in the Glasgow financial sector.
This includes companies offering services such as outsourcing, human resources, business consultancy, and technology.
With over 6,000 people working in this area in Glasgow, there are plentiful opportunities with a variety of companies supporting the financial sector.
Named a “fintech powerhouse” by Fintech Scotland, the digital tech sector in Glasgow is growing at a rapid pace. Over the past decade there has been over £37 million worth of investment in Scottish fintech[14] and significant further investment is anticipated.
There are currently 12 fintech companies in Glasgow[15] and many of the world’s largest financial institutions have technology teams located in Glasgow, such as JP Morgan’s Technology Centre.
The city also plays a key part in the development of the Scottish fintech industry. Strathclyde University was the first in the UK to offer a masters course in fintech.
The future of the Glasgow fintech sector is bright as Scotland aims to become one of the world’s top five fintech hubs. The next 12 months will see the emergence of a more broadly connected fintech ecosystem across Scotland[16] and it is expected that 15,000 new roles will be created over the next 10 years.[17]
Scotland is famous for its first-class education system. It is one of the most highly educated countries in Europe and among the most well-educated in the world, with over 55% workforce educated to at least degree level.[18]
The city’s excellent educational system is one of the driving forces behind its talented workforce. 46% of all Glaswegians in employment are educated to degree level, making the city's workforce one of the best qualified in the UK.
Glasgow has a reputation for educational excellence and provides a wide range of options across all levels. The city’s institutions of higher and further education graduate around 20,000 individuals per annum ensuring a healthy talent pipeline.
Glasgow's Universities
Glasgow is home to four universities: the University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of the West of Scotland. The city also hosts the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
The University of Glasgow, one of the oldest in the world, is globally recognised as a top-class institution. Business schools at the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde are both triple accredited – only 1% of business schools worldwide hold this accreditation.
The Glasgow city region has the largest student population in Scotland and the second highest in the UK. More than 185,000 students from 140 countries live and study here.
Thousands of students graduate each year with qualifications directly relevant to the needs of the financial services industry. Glasgow also has the highest student retention rate of any city in the UK, with over half staying to build their careers in the city.
The University of Glasgow is one of the oldest in the world.
Further and Higher Education Colleges
There are 6 further and higher education colleges across the Glasgow city region offering a wide range of courses and diplomas.
Three are located in the city centre - City of Glasgow College, Glasgow Kelvin College and Glasgow Clyde College – and a further three colleges are in the wider Glasgow region – West College Scotland, South Lanarkshire College, New College Lanarkshire.
Independent and State Schools
Glasgow has a rich variety of renowned schools catering for a full range of educational needs, spanning the state and independent sectors.
The city council provides 149 primary schools and 29 secondary schools for children up to the age of 18. The city council has also undertaken a massive modernisation initiative, with nearly all schools in Glasgow newly built or renovated.
Glasgow also offers 14 independent schools, and three specialist schools; the Glasgow School of Sport, the Dance School of Scotland and the Glasgow Gaelic School.
Pre-school early learning and childcare
Pre-school early learning and childcare aims to encourage children aged between two and five years old to learn and develop in a caring and nurturing setting. All children can get a free part-time place at a council nursery, or funding towards a place at a private one.
You can find local nurseries and read about alternative childcare options for two to five-year olds on the Glasgow City Council's website.
The standards of living in Glasgow are consistently ranked among the best in the UK and the world. Glasgow was ranked 3rd highest in UK and 48th in the world for quality of life in 2018.[19]
There are excellent transport, housing and living options in the city with something to suit all lifestyles and budgets.
Glasgow has a wide range of facilities and has more green space per mile than any other city in the UK with over 70 parks in and around the city.
As Scotland’s biggest city, Glasgow has excellent transport links, both in the city and to the rest of the UK and world.
Not only is the city easy to navigate on foot but cyclists can enjoy more than 301km of cycle lanes connecting the city, which a great way to explore and get a feel for the city.
Glasgow is the only city in Scotland with an underground network. There is a frequently running and easy to use Subway system connecting different parts of the city.
Glasgow is served by two main railway stations, Central Station and Queen Street Station, and has the largest suburban rail network in the UK outside of London. There are also excellent rail links to the rest of the country with 8 trains per hour to Edinburgh and 23 trains per day direct to London, taking around 4hrs 30 mins.
Glasgow Airport is Scotland’s principal long-haul airport. You can fly direct to North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as frequent domestic flights.
Glasgow is also well connected by road. The main motorway route is the M8, connecting the city centre to the M74, M77 and M80.
Not only are there excellent facilities in Glasgow, it is also an affordable place to live in comparison to other cities in the UK. Living costs are 26% lower than London.[20] In the Independent’s 2015 list of the Best Places in the UK to Make a Living, Glasgow placed 32 out of 64 in the cost of living rank.
Out of 20 major cities across the UK, Glasgow offers young professionals the highest level of disposable income.[21] Expatistan ranks Glasgow as the 9th most expensive city out of 15 in the UK.
Comparison site Numbeo estimates a litre of milk costs £0.85 while a pint in your neighbourhood pub will come in at around £3.84. Two cinema tickets will cost about £20 in Glasgow and the average monthly gym membership costs £26.24.
The National Health Service (NHS) offers free healthcare services to people with a visa allowing them to live the UK for at least one year
You need to be registered with a GP to receive NHS treatment (you can find your nearest GP here).
Services covered include:
Medical advice from a doctor
Emergency and non-emergency medical treatment in a hospital
Medicines prescribed by your GP
There also companies offering private healthcare and health insurance, which is more expensive but may lead to quicker, more comprehensive treatment and aftercare.
Dental care is provided by the NHS, with check-up appointments covered for those over 18. Additional dental treatment is not fully NHS funded and prices vary depending on the service and treatment required.
Private dental care is also available, with many dental practices in Glasgow offering both private and NHS services.
Housing Hunting
Whether you are looking to rent or buy a home in Glasgow, there is a wide variety of choice. Glasgow boasts an excellent range of housing options. From trendy apartments on the River Clyde to Victorian flats in Glasgow's west end and easily commutable suburbs, there is something for everyone.
Popular areas include:
West End – made up of any area west of Charing Cross, Glasgow’s West End includes the sought-after areas of Dowanhill, Kelvingrove and Hyndland. The Finnieston area of Glasgow was voted the hippest place to live in Britain.
One of the most desirable parts of the city, there is a mix of large period houses and flats. Popular with students, professionals and families, there is something for everyone although this popularity can be reflected in the prices.
Further west of the city centre, places to keep an eye out for are Scotstoun, Knightswood and Anniesfield. These areas are attractive for buyers and renters alike, with a good balance of reputation and affordability.
North – Bearsden and Milngavie are some of the most sought-after areas outside of Glasgow city centre. Bearsden has the lowest social housing of any Scottish town and has featured in the top 10 wealthiest areas of the UK.[22]
Both areas are popular spots for commuters who prefer less hustle and bustle and more green spaces.
City Centre – right in the heart of the city and one of Glasgow’s oldest areas, the Merchant City has a mix of modern flats with an abundance of bars, restaurants, and boutiques right on your doorstep.
Just a short walk from the city centre is Glasgow’s East End which has been undergoing a regeneration. Many homes in this area are purpose-built and more affordable for those starting on the property ladder.
South – areas located south of the River Clyde such as Whitecraigs and Giffnock in East Renfrewshire. These areas are perfect for those seeking detached houses and bungalows.
Giffnock has a wide variety of properties, lots of shops and restaurants within walking distance and excellent schooling.
Many choose to live outside the city, in the towns and villages from which the city is easily commutable.
Although prices in rural Britain have been falling in the last years, the cost of living in the Scottish countryside is still up to 40% higher than in many British cities.[23] The reason for this is that living in remote areas of Scotland is more expensive when it comes to the costs of commuting, clothing, food, and household goods.
Living standards in Glasgow are consistently ranked among the best in the UK.
The cost of buying property in Glasgow is around 72% lower than London, 9% lower than Manchester and 11% lower than Edinburgh.[24]
While most properties are sold through estate agents or solicitors, you can also buy privately from the owner – though you will still need the help of a solicitor to do the legal work.
Zoopla.com and rightmove.co.uk are popular resources for those looking to buy property in Glasgow and the surrounding areas.
Price levels for property in Glasgow vary but the average sale price is as follows:
Detached - £265,113
Semi-detached - £167,665
Terraced - £171,760
Flat - £134,209[25]
Glasgow also offers very competitive rental costs compared to other UK cities.
The average monthly rental cost is £771[26] , and the average monthly cost per number of rooms is as follows:
1 bed flat - £583
3 bed flat - £1,037
Popular resources for finding rental properties in Glasgow include:
Zoopla.com
Citylets.com
Most rental properties are furnished flats, though houses and unfurnished properties can also be found.
Many letting agencies and private landlords will usually require a deposit, which is returned at the end of the tenancy.
It is also worth noting that most rental properties in Glasgow usually do not include utility bills, Wi-Fi or council tax within the monthly rent. These are additional costs.
All residential properties in Scotland are subject to Council Tax. Council Tax is a local tax, with annual receipts contributing directly to the funding of local services. In Scotland, all residential properties are assigned to one of eight bands (from A to H), based upon the value of that property.
Glasgow council also a range of discounts and exemptions for those who qualify. More information on Council can be found at the Glasgow City Council website.
Glasgow is an attractive location for people from all over the world and is known for being an extremely welcoming city to move to.
The fDi Intelligence Quality of Life ranks Glasgow higher than Los Angeles and Rome. Glasgow benefits from shorter commuting times, lower living costs and better work-life balance than other cities around the world.
With excellent national and international transport links, Glasgow is well connected to the rest of the globe. North America can be reached in as little as five hours and mainland Europe in over an hour.
Meetup.com, InterNations.org and Facebook groups are great ways to connect with other expats in Glasgow and find out about events.
Visa and immigration requirements
Scotland is governed by the same visa rules and legislation as the rest of the United Kingdom, though there are several special business visa categories to ensure Scotland remains a competitive destination for investment.
If you are from a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), you will need a visa to live and work in Scotland. The UK Government website allows you work out which visa you require based on your nationality and reason for coming to the UK.
There are a number of options open to people who require a UK visa. The two most common categories are Tier 1 and Tier 2. "Skilled worker visas" (Tier 2) address the needs of skilled laborers and employees. There’s also a separate sub-category for intra-company transfers. "High value workers" fall into the Tier 1 category.
The process will need to be started at least 3 months prior to your move to Glasgow and it is worth noting that there can be substantial fees.
More information on the different UK visa classifications and how to apply can be found on the UK Government website.
EU Nationals working in Scotland & Brexit
The Scottish Government continues to welcome EEA nationals in Scotland as the status of Europeans living and working in Scotland has not changed.
However, if you want to stay in the UK beyond 31 December 2020, you need to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme. The scheme will be fully open by the end of March 2019 and you will have until 30 June 2021 to apply. If you have been a resident in the UK for more than 5 years you will be eligible for settled status. If you have been a resident for less than 5 years you will be eligible for pre-settled status.
In the meantime, it remains open to EEA nationals and their family members living in Scotland to apply for documentation from the UK Home Office that certifies their right to live and work in the UK. This can be done by applying for an EEA Registration Certificate (known as an EEA Residence Card), a Permanent Residence Card, or even British nationality depending upon your circumstances.
It is recommended that you sign up for email alerts from the Home Office regarding EU Nationals working in Britain for the most up to date information.
Named "the UK's Coolest City” by National Geographic Traveller magazine, you will never be short of things to do in Glasgow.
The city centre’s Style Mile is a hotspot for shopping lovers and Experian's annual retail vitality index has named Glasgow as offering the best shopping in the UK outside of London for several years.
Glasgow also has a thriving food and drinks scene and some of the best nightlife in Scotland. Glasgow is a UNESCO City of Music - the only one in Scotland - and there can be as many as 130 music events taking place in the city each week. [27]
There are 20 museums and galleries throughout Glasgow, most with free entry. There include the Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery, The People’s Palace, the Hunterian Museum and The Riverside Museum. Other great places to visit in Glasgow are the Science Centre, Glasgow Green the Botanic Gardens, Glasgow Cathedral and the Necropolis.
Glasgow is famous for it's cultural scene.
Glasgow is famous for its excellent sports events and for being home to local, national and international sports teams across a vast number of sports.
The city hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games to a resounding success. In 2020 Glasgow will be one of the host cities of the UEFA Euro 2020 football tournament.
Throughout the year, Glasgow hosts a number of festivals and special events, including Celtic Connections, The Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow International Comedy Festival and Glasgow Mela.
Outside of Glasgow
While there is plenty to do in the city, Glasgow provides an excellent base to explore the rest of Scotland too. Some of the world’s most beautiful scenery, like Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, can be reached in as little as an hour.
Scotland’s other cities, such as Edinburgh, Dundee and Stirling can be easily reached by train, bus or car and each offer a range of things to do and see, including the newly opened V&A museum in Dundee.
While Glasgow may be Scotland’s second city, it certainly is not second best. Combining excellent facilities and infrastructure, world-class talent and some of Scotland’s best companies, Glasgow is fast becoming one of the top places to live and work in the UK.
With over 300 years of expertise in financial services, Glasgow is the perfect place to develop your career and to work for some fantastic companies.
Glasgow has something for all tastes and lifestyles with a thriving cultural scene and many desirable places to live.
But one of Glasgow’s biggest attributes is its residents, who are some of the friendliest in the whole of the UK. The pride Glaswegians have for their city is infectious. Anyone moving there will soon be sharing this same passion for life in Glasgow.
Hopefully you will now have all the necessary information to make a smooth transition into Glasgow life.
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70th Venice International Film Festival
28 Jul 2013 | Redazione Portale di Venezia
28 August 2013 10:00 to 7 September 2013 23:00
Speech by the Director of the 70th Venice International Film Festival
Alberto Barbera
Some people say that “history runs, cinema walks, and festivals mark time.” This cruel synthesis summarizes a certain widespread impatience with contemporary cinema and with what, until a short while ago, had been considered invaluable opportunities for promoting new movies and meeting new filmmakers. There are greater nuances in Paul Schrader’s comment, “It’s a changing world. Festivals are both more and less powerful than they used to be. More powerful because they come across like the new museum and art gallery curators. Less powerful because the exclusiveness of participating at festivals has been weakened by new, direct channels of distribution.” This problem scarcely bothers the public, a faithful and constant presence flocking by the thousands to the large and small festivals that continue to pop up here and there, often replacing events whose life cycle has come to an end.
However, with a touch of pride it can be claimed that, while this year’s Venice Film Festival might not provide any answers, it does supply a few indications as to why festivals are still necessary and how they can adapt themselves to this new situation. In drawing up the list of films to offer our audience this year, we have tried to keep in mind the growing fragmentation and schizophrenia that seems to affect the universe of images in motion. These images are characterized by progressively contrasting production methods and by no means coherent models of reference; they explore the new potential offered by digital technology and are open to experimentation with new distribution and promotional platforms. But festivals are still burdened by economic complications, by the reduction of financial resources which once seemed almost unlimited, by new promotional strategies, and by the difficulty of overcoming the opaque resistance of the world of communication.
The Festival’s four sections – Competition, Out of Competition, Orizzonti, and Venezia Classici – are like a snapshot of the present state of contemporary cinema: intentionally stratified and varied.
There are established filmmakers whose participation is both proper and logical, since they represent the reason we love cinema and serve as a guarantee of its continuity.
There are debut directors and those in search of that hoped-for triumph, to which the Festival can contribute, sometimes decisively so, thanks to the prestige and the authority conferred by its selections.
There are the so-called genre films, for which no form of bias can exist but which are not always easy to position within the programming of important festivals.
There are documentaries, which are progressively gaining importance in the Festival’s scheduling, to the point that two are participating in the Venice 70 Competition. This “first time ever” is not only in recognition of the quality of these films, but of modern cinema’s gradual overlapping between fiction films and documentaries, a sign of an acknowledged identity that reflects shared creative processes. This is also an indication of aesthetic and linguistic enrichment, which appears to be to the benefit of all.
There are restored films and documentaries about cinema which indicate the growing importance of investments (in every sense of the word: cultural, aesthetic, emotional, distributing) in the immense patrimony and heritage of the cinema of the past, bringing it back into circulation to nourish the knowledge of young spectators, encourage the vocation of new directors, and enhance our education with cultural and linguistic reference points that should not be disregarded.
There are shorts, a valuable training ground for the filmmakers of tomorrow, to which the Festival has always ascribed the same artistic dignity as feature films, not confining them within a “reserve” but inserting them with full rights in the programming of the Orizzonti section.
There is the Film Market, improved and enlarged, with more services and areas at the disposal of commercial professionals, after the gratifying reception the first Market received last year.
And then, there is the Sala Web, the web theatre that was launched last year and that offers the virtual audience of the web the opportunity to watch, in streaming, the films of the Orizzonti section simultaneously with their official presentation at the Lido.
And, of course, there are also new entries. The first is represented by the three feature films made in conjunction with Biennale College Cinema, the project that supports, develops, and finances first films. The project was launched last year and is now concluding its first edition with concrete and positive results. The names of the twelve filmmakers selected for the second edition will be announced during the Festival.
The second new entry is the special project Final Cut in Venice, which provides economic support for the post-production of four African films which will be chosen during a special Film Market workshop reserved to producers, buyers, distributors, and programmers of international festivals, in order to encourage possible coproduction partnerships and market access.
The Venice Film Festival is turning seventy, the first time in the history of the Seventh Art that a festival has achieved this venerable age. This birthday will be celebrated in an imaginative way, thanks to the contribution of seventy filmmakers from all over the world who have accepted our invitation to make a micro-film lasting between 60 and 90 seconds. All these films will be projected during the Festival, and can be watched in streaming on the special website that has been created by the Biennale di Venezia, as can forty clips from historical newsreels that have been chosen and restored by the Istituto Luce Film Archives.
Thus, the past and the future of cinema symbolically join hands, in an edition of the Festival that looks to the future, in the conviction that its mission is far from over.
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Former Lincoln Tokyo nightclub owner fined £144k for putting lives at risk
Photo: The Lincolnite
The owner of the former Tokyo nightclub in Lincoln has been found guilty of putting lives of staff and customers at risk and fined £143,952.30.
Aaron Mellor, 44, of Deans Gate in Manchester, was on October 5, at York Crown Court, found guilty of fifteen charges of failing to comply with fire safety requirements at his Tokyo nightclubs in Lincoln and York.
As previously reported, the Tokyo nightclub in Lincoln was inspected in April 2014, where fire safety officers from Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue closed the basement area after serious concerns were raised about access to emergency exits, lack of emergency lighting and inadequate signage.
On the inspection, Paul Mead of Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue, said: “Fire exits were blocked by chairs, tables and bags of rubbish and the emergency exit signs pointed in the wrong direction.
“One of the fire escape doors at the club had to be kicked and subsequently broken by a member of staff in order to open it.
“If a fire had occurred some people would not have reasonably been able to escape due to the fire exits not being available.”
As well as visits to the nightclub in Lincoln, Fire Safety officers from North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue visited Tokyo in York on numerous occasions.
They found the emergency lighting system, fire alarm and fire detection system not to be working.
The property’s fire risk assessment was also not adequate and there was sleeping accommodation found on the premises.
For the Lincoln charges, Mellor was fined £66,000 and ordered to pay £44,504 in prosecution costs.
For the York charges, Mellor was fined £10,000 and Tokyo Industries (One) Limited was fined £30,000. Charges were £23,448.30.
Paul Mead added: “This is the first time in the country that two Fire and Rescue services have acted together to successfully bring a prosecution against a company and business operator, when offences have taken place in different counties.
“It sends a clear message out to owners of this type of venue that when they put company profit before public safety, we will take action.
“We continue to work with other agencies in an attempt to improve safety standards.
“Many of the business premises that we visit are conscientious about fire safety matters. However, some of the buildings which are brought to our attention because of fire incidents or complaints, turn out to have serious fire safety concerns which endanger those working in or visiting it.
“We would encourage all business owners and those with responsibility for any premises, where the fire safety order applies, to ensure that they are aware of the legislative obligations they need to comply with, including having an up-to-date fire risk assessment.”
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Do trusts still make sense in light of the new tax rules?
Michael Stubbing 04 Dec 2018
Recent changes in tax legislation have affected the way that trusts can be used, as well as the information they are required to report. Many have speculated that these changes have limited the usefulness of trusts as a tool for holding assets, but there are still many advantages to setting up a trust.
What has changed?
Limits on income splitting
The extension of the income splitting rules that came into effect on January 1, 2018 has made certain business owners question their current corporate structure. This is because the manner in which shares are held (i.e. through a holding company or through a trust) will affect whether the income received will be subject to tax on split income (TOSI), which imposes tax at the highest marginal rate on certain types of income.
For example, where shares of a private corporation (meeting the definition of a “related business” for the purposes of TOSI) are held by a family trust, and an inactive spouse and inactive adult children are beneficiaries of the trust, none of the family members will be able to exempt themselves from TOSI through the use of the “excluded shares” exemption (which may be available to taxpayers owning shares with at least 10 percent of the votes and value of a corporation). That’s because this exemption requires that the shares be held by the individual directly. As a result, taxpayers who own shares of a private corporation through a family trust will need to look to the other TOSI exclusions to alleviate the potential tax burden.
For some taxpayers this is an undesirable result, as the remaining exclusions typically require a certain level of involvement within the business, either through labour or capital contribution, while the “excluded shares” exemption allows individuals to receive income from a corporation simply on the basis of share ownership.
New reporting requirements
Another way that the advantages of using a trust may be limited in the future is through the new reporting requirements that will come into effect in 2021. These new rules will require that certain types of trusts file a T3 return more frequently and provide more personal identification information relating to beneficiaries, settlors and protectors of the trust.
The impact here is that by increasing these reporting requirements, the government will now have more information at its disposal regarding Canadian property and those who are entitled to it.
For example, where residential property is owned by a bare trust, the trust will now be required to file an annual T3 return that will notify the government when beneficiaries of the trust—in other words, those who are entitled to the property—change. This increased information is likely to form the basis for future tax changes. At the very least, it is sure to lead to additional scrutiny of taxpayers.
Advantages to using a trust
While these changes mean that some of the advantages to using a trust may be limited, there are still multiple tax and non-tax advantages to using a trust.
Multiplication of the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption (LCGE)
From a tax perspective, one of the major remaining benefits of using a trust—when it comes to holding shares of a private corporation in particular—is that by having multiple beneficiaries to the trust, it is possible to effectively multiply the LCGE on the disposition of shares of a qualified small business corporation (QSBC).
Multiplying the LCGE will allow each family member that is a beneficiary to the trust to shelter from tax $848,252 (in 2018) of any gain that has been allocated to them on the sale. A family of four would therefore be able to jointly shelter $3.39 million in gains from tax through the use of a trust, which provides a significant tax advantage.
Maintaining QSBC status of shares
In light of the new income splitting rules, it is helpful to ensure that your private corporation meets the criteria for being considered a QSBC. This is due to the fact that taxable capital gains on the disposition of QSBC shares are exempt from TOSI. Where a private corporation is not considered a QSBC (as a result of holding a large value of passive assets), a trust can be a helpful tool for purifying the corporation to meet the definition.
For example, a trust with a corporate beneficiary could be introduced (through a reorganization) as a shareholder of an operating company (Opco). Opco could then pay dividends to the trust, which would then allocate the income to the corporate beneficiary, thus allowing for constant purification of Opco using inter-corporate dividends.
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Ebola outbreak over, but vigilance must remain, experts warn
By Tom Murphy on 14 January 2016 0
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The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is over. More than 42 days passed since the last case in Liberia, marking the end of the outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people. The World Health Organization made the official announcement today, but it was accompanied by warnings that cases may emerge in the region and the wider lessons learned must be put into action to prevent another health crisis of this magnitude.
“We are now at a critical period in the Ebola epidemic as we move from managing cases and patients to managing the residual risk of new infections,” said Dr. Bruce Aylward, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) special representative for the Ebola response, in the announcement. “The risk of re-introduction of infection is diminishing as the virus gradually clears from the survivor population, but we still anticipate more flare-ups and must be prepared for them. A massive effort is under way to ensure robust prevention, surveillance and response capacity across all three countries by the end of March.”
What began as an infection of a child in Guéckédou, Guinea, became a deadly outbreak that infected more than 28,000 people. It spread across Guinea and into Sierra Leone and Liberia. Single cases were discovered in the U.S. and Nigeria, leading to global concerns that the outbreak could spread beyond West Africa. Doctors Without Borders was among the first international groups that responded to the outbreak. Both they and Samaritan’s Purse increased their operations and made vocal calls for more support. Unfortunately, governments and the U.N. were slow to meet the need at the moment when the spread of the virus was spiraling out of control.
(Economist)
“Throughout the epidemic, I witnessed how communities were ripped apart,” Hilde de Clerck, a Doctors Without Borders epidemiologist who worked in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, said in a news release. “Initially, the response from the global health community was really paralyzed by fear. It was a horrible experience being left on our own and constantly running behind the wave of the epidemic. But it was very empowering to see how extremely dedicated all the national staff were, and fortunately other international actors eventually got involved. For the next epidemic, the world should stand ready to intervene much faster and more efficiently.”
Reviews of what happened during the outbreak exposed the major problems of the health systems in all three countries, as well as the shortcomings of the international community. The WHO came under some of the most intense criticism for its handling of the crisis from the onset. A road map outlined by an independent group of global health experts focused heavily on the reforms that the WHO needs to undertake in order to better prepare it for the next global health crisis.
And while celebrations are taking place across the world now that the outbreak is over, concerns remain that new cases could emerge. Liberia was declared Ebola-free just a few months ago, before a flare-up reset the clock. There have been 10 such flare-ups at the end of the outbreak, due largely to the persistence of the virus in survivors. It is likely more cases will be found and the rhetoric from leaders indicates that precautions are being taken to ensure the virus does not spread.
With the outbreak behind the countries, they all must now look to the long road of recovery. The outbreak cost roughly $2.2 billion to the economies of the three countries, according to estimates from the World Bank.
“Ebola has exacted an enormous toll on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It has not only taken thousands of lives, it has devastated economies, health systems, social structures and families—reversing many years of development gains,” Jim Kim, head of the World Bank, said in a news release. “Ebola’s scars will not soon fade, especially for survivors and their families, and for the heroic health workers who cared for the infected.”
Efforts will now focus on ways to recover the economic losses and build up the woeful health systems that struggled to manage the crisis. The heroic response by health workers and volunteers in the countries showed the resilience inherent in the region. Getting back to normal life will not be easy, particularly for the 17,000 Ebola survivors who face health problems from the Ebola and social stigma.
“Today is a day of celebration and relief that this outbreak is finally over,” Joanne Liu, president of Doctors Without Borders, said in a news release. “We must all learn from this experience to improve how we respond to future epidemics and to neglected diseases. This Ebola response was not limited by lack of international means but by a lack of political will to rapidly deploy assistance to help communities. The needs of patients and affected communities must remain at the heart of any response and outweigh political interests.”
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David’s Steleae: The Psalms as Public Memorials and Private Prayers
“I will tell of the marvellous things You have done.” Psalm 9:1b
“I will exalt You, Lord, because You have rescued me.” Psalm 30:1a
A stele is “an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.” [Source: Dictionary.com] They were widely used in the Near East millennia before David, and well after his time. It was standard practice for kings to have steles and statues of themselves made as positive propaganda to support their reign. However, David didn’t follow this practice. In line with the *ten commandments, he didn’t have himself pictured with a representation of YHWH behind him, neither did he carve his achievements in stone. Apart from the book of Samuel and 1 Chronicles, the only memorials we have to David are his Psalms, some of which could be likened to victory steles, and others which have an interesting function.
Roughly half of all the Psalms that are attributed to David were sent to the choir director and made public, and 50% of those Psalms were written when he was in great distress. We don’t know how the other Psalms were used, but it is possible that the ones which have not been specifically marked as “for the choir director” were in his personal collection, then organised into books after his death. His Psalms which are marked as prayers: 17, 86, and 142, were notably not sent to the choir director.
Some of the Psalms that were made public had national themes: Psalm 60 was written while David grappled with Israel’s failures in the battle in the Valley of Salt, and is noted as being useful for teaching; the wording of Psalm 67 is a mix of a prayer and a benediction; and Psalm 58 is an outspoken challenge to the people of Israel on justice [see the final chapter below for clarification]. David also sent Psalm 53 to the choir director, making a public statement of faith with “only fools deny God.”
Using my own classification of the Psalms (I get lost in the theological classifications, so I divided them further for my own use), these are the victory Psalms that David wanted sung before the Lord:
Psalm 9: I will tell of all the marvellous things You have done.
Psalm 18: When rescued from Saul and the enemies in that period of time.
Psalm 20: May the LORD answer all your prayers.
Psalm 21: How the king rejoices in Your strength, O LORD!
Psalm 30: Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.
The Psalms of joy and wonder, plus David’s statements of faith that were sent to the choir director include Psalms 8, 11, 19, 62, 65, 66, 67, 53 and 58.
One thing which occurred to me when looking at which Psalms were attributed to specific events and could be considered memorials, is that there are no Psalms specifically linked to David’s most notable victories such as killing Goliath, bringing the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem, or his battle achievements. He didn’t mention God’s special covenant with Him, or his plans to build the temple; (neither did David ask for it to be named after him.) This is a testament to David’s humility, despite the moral dips which occurred with Bathsheba and the census.
The stone tablet with the code written on it. This was placed in a public space so that all could read it.
God is always the focus of David’s songs, which is another significant difference between him and any other ruler. He never claims honour or victory for himself. For an example, read the **Code of Hammurabi which has massive chunks at the beginning and end, glorifying and justifying the rule of Hammurabi. For example: “Hammurabi, the prince… making riches and increase, enriching Nippur and Dur-ilu beyond compare… who conquered the four quarters of the world, made great the name of Babylon…who enriched Ur; the humble, the reverent, who brings wealth…”
David’s work shows that he was transparent in how he talked about his life in public and that he wasn’t hung up on appearances. He freely admitted his faults and struggles and the glory for his successes always went to the Lord. Psalm 51, which speaks of his correction by Nathan over Bathsheba, and how sin affected him, was made public. Whether that was to address his sin because it was public knowledge, or whether it was to be used as a teaching aid to strengthen the faith of the people and encourage righteousness, or both, I honestly don’t know.
Psalm 3, which was about when he fled from Absalom, Psalm 34 where he escaped from Philistine territory feigning madness and Psalm 52, where he was betrayed by Doeg to Saul, weren’t marked for use by the choir director either. Not using Psalm 52 appears odd, as all the other betrayal Psalms were publicly sung. Perhaps it wasn’t copied or notated correctly, or perhaps David had some private reason for not sending it on? I wish I knew.
These are the Psalms which have a definite event associated with them and could be considered a form of victory stele.
7 – concerning Cush of the tribe of Benjamin
18 – rescued from all enemies and Saul [PUBLIC]
30 – dedication of the temple / house [PUBLIC]
54 – betrayed by Ziphites [PUBLIC]
56 – seized at Gath [PUBLIC]
57 – when fled from Saul and went to the cave [PUBLIC]
59 – soldiers watching his house [PUBLIC]
The last point of interest is David’s request that two Psalms which relate to persecution by Saul, (57 and 59,) be sung to the tune “Do Not Destroy.” Knowing the old title attached to that melody would add a clear message to the Psalm, which would be noted by anyone knowing that piece of music. Other Psalmists also requested the same for their work.
“Do Not Destroy” is also the melody which was selected for Psalm 58: “Justice—do you rulers know the meaning of the word?” In Bible Hub’s interlinear Bible, “ruler” is elem, or congregation. [Strongs Number 482] It is a masculine word, which is culturally correct as the assembly of believers was all male in David’s time. Some Bibles say gods, some say sons of men. There is no correct consensus. It is a source of profound frustration to me that words such as this are so poorly translated in our Bibles, and a reminder to dig deeper to find the true meaning of the Word of God.
*“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.” Exodus 20:4-6
**The Code of Hammurabi translated by L.W. King http://www.general-intelligence.com/library/hr.pdf and the Louvre Museum’s page on it: http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/law-code-hammurabi-king-babylon
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Biblical Celebrity: the Hazard of Fame Based Thinking
A year ago, if you had asked me what I will say to King David when I meet him face to face, I would have had trouble finding an answer. I expected to be really nervous! It’s because he’s so famous. He’s a King and he’s… well, he’s David. I also have no idea what I am going to say to Jonathan, or Moses, or Esther, or Paul… and I kind of want to hide from the prophets, because I feel so inadequate beside them. Can you relate to that?
My instinctive reaction prods me into assessing about how much the worldly values of celebrity culture have crept into how I perceive Biblical heroes. The sad answer is, the secular image of fame has influenced my thinking far too much. Celebrity fills a spiritual void in the secular world. It gives lost people aspirational role models, regardless of whether they are saints or sinners. Who doesn’t want to be comfortably wealthy, good looking, healthy, happily married and successful? In moderation, I could take it.
For that matter, as Christians, who doesn’t want to be like David? Don’t we want to slay giants, rule nations and live a spiritually successful life? Of course we do! I own kosher salt with David’s name on it, and many secular and Christian movies and books have been written, using David as a symbol of success. God did promise David fame, but it has gotten way out of hand. [Ref. 2 Samuel 7:9] As with secular celebrities, we get caught up in all the glamour, excitement and intrigue of David’s life, and we can easily, unconsciously make the fleshly mistake of treating him like a famous person, not like the servant of the Lord that he is.
Fame has nasty connotations. We all know who Oprah Winfrey is, but as much as we may relate to her and want to be like her, we know that we cannot be her. That is the unconscious lesson we apply when we look at any celebrity. “If only we could… but we can’t.” David is of such a calibre that we look at him in awe. We see him as an impossible person to equal, let alone beat. This can stop us from trying to follow his lead in spiritual areas and that should never happen. David should motivate us to imitate him through prayer, praise, studying the Word, submission to God, obedience, fasting and adoring the Lord. That is the pivotal core of every area of David’s success; he didn’t win because he was brave and strong, it was because he daily practiced those things, thus the Lord was able to use him.
Please stop there and read those last seven words again: “the Lord was able to use him.” There is the real problem that Biblical celebrity causes: when we look at David and all he achieved, we stop looking at the simplest of facts: that GOD did it THROUGH David. As David submitted to God he became God’s channel and all the success he had, really was God’s… and David readily, publicly, often admitted that. (See The Anti-King: David and Humility link below.) But our culture teaches us to look at the man and not the boring, routine factors that shaped him, so we lose this humble perspective.
Ephesians 1:19-21 proves we can be like David: “I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead…” God’s power worked through David as it worked through Jesus and Paul and now, all of us. Think of how much more we could grow if we caught hold of that truth and stopped looking at the people in our Bible as elite celebrities that we cannot be like. We must focus on how they allowed God to work through them, as we CAN copy that successfully. If we imitate David’s spiritual habits, God can carry out His perfect Will through us, which is our ultimate goal. We need a God fixation, not a hero-seeking one. (Please also read The Habits That Built King David’s Faith, the link is below.)
David was a humble man. He would never want to be seen as a celebrity, as he delighted in placing his focus on the Lord. For our thinking to be swept away by the glory and glamour of kingship and success, is to to negate every precept that the Psalms teach us. David’s words through the Psalms always push us in the direction of the Lord as the answer, we need to go in that direction and stop being distracted by wanting to be a giant slayer, or a king ourselves. It makes me sad when I hear Christians say how much they want to rule and reign with Christ, over and above them telling me how much they love to pray or hear God’s voice. We’re aching for fame and big, visible success: the things that are most likely destroy us; and in wanting them, we ignore building our character and making ourselves usable by the Lord.
We need a reality check that pulls these worldly standards out of our heads! You have heard it before, Romans 12:2 “Don’t copy the behaviour and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” (New Living Translation)
Anything the Lord does in your life won’t look like it did in David’s and it shouldn’t. God’s love for you is so great, He will give you what is going to fit, bless and build you and the people around you. You don’t need to battle Philistines, when you can conquer your own fears and hurts. You don’t need to liberate a nation, when you can bless people around you and move them towards Jesus. We’re not judged on not being like David, we’re judged on whether or not we did what the Lord asked US to do. So let’s get our heads out of the bright lights and go about our work with our eyes fixed on Jesus. It’s exactly what David would also advise you to do.
“Trust in the Lord and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
Take delight in the Lord,
and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in Him and He will do this:
He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,
your vindication like the noonday sun.
Be still before the Lord
and wait patiently for Him…” Psalm 37:3-7a
– The Habits That Built King David’s Faith
– The Anti-King: David and Humility
– How to Kill Giants: Searching for the Deep Secrets Behind King David’s Success
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Bill Cosby ordered to give deposition in sexual abuse lawsuit
By: Reuters |
Published: August 6, 2015 9:41:49 AM
Bill Cosby has been ordered to give a sworn deposition in a lawsuit brought by a woman accusing the comedian of plying her with alcohol and sexually abusing her at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles when she was 15 years old.
It marks the first time Bill Cosby, 78, has been directed to testify under oath in response to a complaint of sexual misconduct against him since a deposition he gave in a separate Pennsylvania case he settled out of court nine years ago.
The latest order, made public on Wednesday, a day after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge entered it, requires Bill Cosby to submit under oath to questions from the lawyer of his Los Angeles accuser, Judy Huth, on Oct. 9. Now in her 50s, Huth must likewise answer questions from his attorneys on Oct. 15.
Huth gained somewhat of a tactical advantage from the judge’s decision compelling Bill Cosby to go first.
The precise times and places were not revealed, but Huth’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, has said she expects to depose Bill Cosby in Massachusetts, where he resides.
The way for the depositions, a key part of the discovery process in civil litigation, was cleared when the California Supreme Court last month denied Bill Cosby’s petition to review the case, dealing a final blow to his efforts to fend off Huth’s lawsuit.
Her complaint, brought in December 2014, charged that Bill Cosby sexually abused her by putting his hand down her pants and then “taking her hand in his hand and performing a sex act on himself without her consent.”
Huth alleged the encounter occurred days after she and a female friend met Bill Cosby at a park where he was filming a movie. According to her account, Bill Cosby invited the girls the following weekend to his tennis club, where they all had drinks together before he led them on to the Playboy Mansion.
Bill Cosby’s attorney Martin Singer has called Huth’s allegations false and “defamatory”.
Huth is one of more than 40 women who have come forward in the past year to say that they were raped or molested by Bill Cosby after he gave them alcohol or drugs in incidents dating back decades.
In 2006 Bill Cosby reached a confidential settlement for an undisclosed sum with a former Temple University employee, Andrea Constand, who accused him of sexual assault. Parts of the deposition he gave in that case were made public last month.
Huth’s complaint is one of at least four pending civil suits against Bill Cosby stemming from such accusations.
However, Allred has said Huth’s is the only one seeking damages for the alleged misconduct itself, citing repressed psychological injuries that she claims were only discovered in the last three years, and therefore are allowed under the statute of limitations.
The other plaintiffs are suing for defamation instead.
Bill Cosby has never been criminally charged. He and his lawyers acknowledge marital infidelity on his part but have consistently denied allegations of criminal wrongdoing.
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As Chief Commercial Officer, Harlan drives Dow’s global Marketing and Sales strategy and organization. He also has executive oversight of the Company’s presence in North America,
Harlan joined Dow in September, 2011, bringing three decades of diverse geographic, business, operational and customer experience to the organization from 3M Corporation where he was Executive Vice President of the Consumer and Office business. In 2012, he added executive oversight of Dow’s Chemicals, Energy and Performance Materials businesses and oversight responsibility for Dow Asia Pacific. He was named to his current role in 2014 and expanded his geographic responsibilities in 2015.
Prior to 3M, Harlan spent 20 years with the General Electric Company (GE), where he held various finance, business development, and operational roles in their Plastics, Appliance and Medical Systems businesses, eventually serving as vice president and CFO of GE Lighting. In 2001, Harlan joined 3M as Vice President, Financial Planning. He then spent two years in Japan with Sumitomo 3M Limited, its Japanese subsidiary, where he served first as executive vice president, and then as president and chairman of the board. He became executive vice president of the 3M Electro and Communications business based in Austin, Texas, in 2004. He was named to his most recent position in 3M in 2009.
Ted Leonsis is the founder and chairman of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns and operates three professional sports teams (Washington Capitals, Washington Wizards and Washington Mystics) and the Verizon Center. He also serves on the board of governors for the NBA and NHL.
Ted is the co-founder of Revolution Growth, a fund investing in disruptive businesses that can change the world. Ted is also an investor, a member of the board of directors and co-CEO of Groupon. He also serves on the board of directors at AddThis, American Express and Georgetown University.
In 2008 Ted founded SnagFilms, which enables online audiences to watch, share and support documentary films. SnagFilms grew out of Ted’s experience as a producer of award-winning documentary films, including Nanking, which won Peabody and Emmy awards.
David Levy is president of Turner, overseeing the company’s leading portfolio of domestic entertainment, sports, kids and young adult brands, including TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, truTV, Turner Classic Movies, Bleacher Report and ELEAGUE, the company’s entry into the red hot esports category. He also leads Ad Sales and Distribution, the company’s two primary U.S. domestic revenue divisions, and has oversight of Turner Sports.
Since assuming executive leadership of the company’s domestic portfolio in 2013, the Turner networks have maintained top competitive rankings in key metrics for TNT, TBS, Adult Swim, truTV and Cartoon Network, as well as a leading portfolio of digital brands, including Bleacher Report.
He has led a significant expansion in digital media for Turner including the company’s acquisition of Bleacher Report and acquiring a majority stake in streaming video pioneer iStreamPlanet. In 2016, Turner launched FilmStruck, the company’s first U.S. domestic subscription video-on-demand service.
Mr. Levy has been instrumental in deepening and expanding Turner’s sports media rights. Turner’s premium sports content includes partnerships with the NBA, the NCAA for the Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, Major League Baseball and the PGA.
He has received many accolades during his career, including induction into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame.
Anthony is COO at Twitter, overseeing the company’s business operations as well as its revenue generating organizations including global advertising sales, global partnerships, business development, live content, data, revenue product, and MoPub.
Anthony also continues to serve as Twitter’s CFO, a position he has held since July 2014, as the company looks for a new CFO. As CFO, he oversees the company’s financial operations, corporate development and strategy. Prior to joining Twitter, Anthony was a partner and the Head of the Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking Group at Goldman Sachs & Co. from 2010 to 2014.
From 2008 to 2010, Anthony was Chief Financial Officer of the National Football League. He led the league through the financial crisis and many of the key deals that transformed its media business. From 1999 to 2007, he served in various roles at Goldman Sachs, including Partner in the Equity Research division, the lead Internet analyst, and the lead Media and Entertainment Equity Research analyst.
Anthony holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Gary Bettman has served the National Hockey League as Commissioner since February 1, 1993 and has guided the world’s top professional hockey league through more than two decades of growth on and off the ice. Record revenues, record attendance, more media platforms and numerous fan-friendly and community-minded initiatives are just a few examples of the ways Commissioner Bettman has brought the NHL to a broader audience.
Commissioner Bettman has fostered unprecedented economic stability for the League’s Member Clubs. League revenues have increased more than tenfold during Commissioner Bettman’s tenure and franchise values have increased exponentially.
On the ice, the NHL’s competitive balance may be unrivalled in professional sports: Combined with the strongest Collective Bargaining Agreement in sports and the implementation of rules designed to accentuate the speed, skill and creativity of the players, a different team has earned the most historic trophy in professional sports – the Stanley Cup – every year since 1998.
A calendar of innovative events, including iconic outdoor games, has driven fan engagement and sponsor participation to unprecedented levels. Charity, community service and diversity also have been at the forefront of Commissioner Bettman’s tenure. Hockey Fights Cancer has raised millions in support of cancer research and awareness. Mr. Bettman also prioritized grass-roots initiatives that bring hockey to youngsters. In addition, the NHL in 2013 signed an historic partnership agreement with the “You Can Play Project” which is dedicated to ensuring equality, respect and safety for all athletes, without regard to sexual orientation.
Tina started her career at advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy and came to Citi in 2005 as the VP of North American Advertising. In 2011, Tina took on an enhanced role when Citi first decided to get involved in the Olympics ahead of the London Games.
After the 2012 Games, Tina built out an entire new group to oversee all of Citi’s sponsorship efforts – the Games, Citi Field, Presidents Cup, the Citi Open, Harlem EatUp and more. She was promoted to Managing Director, Corporate Sponsorship and Marketing at the bank late last year.
Tina holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from UCLA.
Francesco Calvo is FC Barcelona’s new Chief Revenue Officer, having previously working as Commercial Director and Chief Revenue Officer at Juventus FC. Calvo worked for many years at the prestigious Italian club, where he has gathered in-depth knowledge of the football business, the generation of income and sponsorship deals.
Calvo was put in charge of the Juventus’ commercial plans and strategies, generation of income, financial sustainability, licenses and the implementation and development of new digital platforms. Calvo has also held managerial positions at Philip Morris International and Marlboro Motorsports Global Communication, and his representation of these companies led to his involvement in the business side of such events as the World F1 Championship and Moto GP
Jess runs R/GA’s activation strategy team, which is a home for hybrid thinkers with deep knowledge of content and social, contemporary communications planning, and strategic media partnerships. The activation strategy team is charged with bringing bottom-up cultural insights into the creative process, and delivering the work in the most relevant way possible. Over the last four years, Jess has overseen strategy for a broad spectrum of work for clients including Nike, Verizon, Tiffany and Google.
One of the first journalists to make the leap into brand strategy, Jess joined R/GA from Contagious Magazine, where she oversaw the editorial team and hatched Insider, the company’s strategic consultancy. Following a stint in the Creative Partnerships team at Google, she returned to R/GA to build out this new approach to strategy.
Jess is a founder member of Papel e Caneta, a global collaboration between strategists across the world to solve some of society’s toughest problems; moonlights as designer of her own fashion line, and is a committed karaoke ringleader.
Christian has been CEO at the German Bundesliga since 2005 where he oversees the strategic orientation and overall leadership of the DFL and has led the league to record revenues in every area of the business. He currently also serves as Vice President of the German Football Association and as a member of the board of the League Association. Prior to joining the Bundesliga, Christian spent five years at KarstadtQuelle New Media AG, latterly as Chief Executive Officer, and 2 years as Director of Marketing (Central Europe) for MTV Networks.
Frank McCourt is an American businessman, Chairman and CEO of McCourt Global and current owner of the French football club Olympique de Marseille. Prior to purchasing Olympique de Marseille, Frank owned the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2012 to 2014. In 2004, he purchased a controlling interest of the Dodgers from Fox Entertainment Group, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and sold the team in 2012 for an historic $2.15 billion. In 2008, McCourt bought the operating rights to the Los Angeles Marathon. McCourt’s group changed the route of the Marathon so that it would start at Dodger Stadium. His “Stadium to the Sea” course revitalized the Marathon and in 2010 it drew the largest field in the history of the race. On top of his ownership of the LA marathon and Olympique de Marseille, McCourt has a 50% stake in the Global Champions Tour which brings together the top 30 riders in the FEI Jumping World Rankings and recently launched Global Champions League, an innovative league of franchised showjumping teams.
Crane Kenney is a Major League Baseball executive with the Chicago Cubs, serving as their President of Business Operations. He formerly served as president of the Cubs in 2010 and 2011. The Cubs won back-to-back World Series championships in 1907 and 1908, becoming the first major league team to play in three consecutive World Series, and the first to win it twice. Most recently, the Cubs won the 2016 National League Championship Series and 2016 World Series, which ended a 71-year National League drought and a 108-year World Series championship drought, both of which are record droughts in Major League Baseball. The 108-year drought was also the longest such occurrence in all major North American sports. Since the start of divisional play in 1969, the Cubs have appeared in the postseason eight times through the 2016 season.
Andrew Barroway became the Majority Owner, Chairman and Governor of the Arizona Coyotes on December 31, 2014.
Mr. Barroway is the Managing Partner of Merion Investment Management LP, an event driven hedge fund that currently manages more than $1 Billion. Merion was founded in January 2009. Barroway graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1991.
Stephen Pagliuca is a Managing Partner and Executive Committee Member of the Boston Celtics. As a Managing Partner and Chairman of the Basketball Committee, Pagliuca has focused on enhancing the development and improvement of the Celtics basketball operations. Mr. Pagliuca also serves as a member of the NBA Board of Governors and the NBA Competition Committee.
Pagliuca currently is a Managing Director of Bain Capital. He has helped build Bain Capital into a leading global private equity firm with approximately $80 billion capital under management.
Pagliuca received a B.A. from Duke University where he also played freshman basketball, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
He is currently the Chairman of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Chairman of the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, Co Chair of the Inner City Scholarship Fund and serves on the international board of The Right To Play, a worldwide children’s development group that utilizes Olympic athletes to promote children’s health and safety. He is also a Trustee of the Bain Capital Children’s Charity.
Pagliuca is a member of the Board of Directors of Gartner Group, Burger King, HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) and Warner Chilcott. Pagliuca has been active in youth basketball from kindergarten to the AAU level. He and his wife, Judy, with their four children are longtime Massachusetts residents.
Elyssa Byck joined BuzzFeed in 2014, and serves as the Director of Global Business Strategy. She develops and implements growth opportunities to drive revenue; shaping the company’s business strategy. She also manages strategic initiatives and most recently was tapped to oversee the NBCUniversal business partnership. Before joining BuzzFeed, Byck worked at OMD and focused on digital and social initiatives for clients such as Warner Bros. and Frito Lay. She studied the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and lives in New York City.
Chloe is a strategic creative leader skilled in creating connected experiences for global clients and their customers. As R/GA’s Executive Creative Director, US, she works alongside Taras Wayner to guide hundreds of multidisciplinary teams toward the creation of breakthrough products, services, and communications for global brands such as Nike and Samsung.
In her previous role at R/GA, Chloe built the largest Experience Design team at any global agency. Happiest when collaborating at the intersection of storytelling, design, and technology, she has been applying her unique skills as a mentor in the R/GA Accelerator program, where she helps emerging startups in the Internet of Things space develop their branding, customer experience, and communications.
Chloe was named one of the “Most Creative People in Advertising” by Business Insider in 2014 and 2015. Her work for Nike, Nokia, Verizon, Alvio, and the Ad Council has garnered the industry’s most esteemed awards at top competitions including the Cannes Lions, One Show Interactive, the CLIOs, the ADC Annual Awards, and the ANDYs. Chloe has been named a New York Times Digital Scholar and published an article on data-driven motivation in Business Week.
Prior to R/GA, Chloe expanded her expertise at Razorfish, where she engaged in deep ethnographic and insight-related engagements, working on diverse brands from Condé Nast (embracing social networks on Flip.com) to Mercedes-AMG (creating an immersive, user-driven experience on Mercedes-AMG.com).
Joe Puglisi used to head up Creative strategy for BuzzFeed and has an obsession with how content spreads. Currently figuring out how to make that happen for native advertising in the BuzzFeed Creative department, educating and assisting always-on partners.
Working with a variety of brands and their agencies to better their social voice and run programs on BuzzFeed, including, GEICO, General Electric, SC Johnson, Pepsi, MillerCoors, AirBnB, Durex, Showtime, HBO, Netflix, AMC, Quiznos, and more.
At heart a storyteller, writer, editor, creative content specialist in the media business space having previously worked as a music critic/journalist for a video production website as their main editorial outlet, with a focus on music. Joe has recently moved to Players Tribune where he is now Director Of Branded Content.
Mark manages all national and local media investments on behalf of the AT&T business units which includes national TV, 3-screen content, paid search and social networks. He extends the company’s brand reputation among key stakeholders and strengthens AT&T’s competitive advantages.
Mark oversees sponsorship strategy and negotiation efforts across sports entertainment. He leads numerous key sponsorship initiatives including the naming rights of the AT&T Stadium, the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, College Football Playoff and Championship, The Masters Tournament and the Tribeca Film Festival.
Prior to joining AT&T, Mark served as Vice President, Media, Sports and Entertainment Marketing for Anheuser-Busch, Inc., where he directed media planning for the company’s beer brands and managed sports, entertainment and local marketing efforts.
Sports Business Journal has named Mark both the “29th Most Influential Executive in Sports” and the “16th Most Influential Person in the NFL.” He was also one of Advertising Age’s Media Mavens.
David Scott is President and Chief Executive Officer of Comcast Spectacor, and serves as Governor of the Philadelphia Flyers for the National Hockey League. As CEO, Scott is responsible for the growth and optimization of Comcast Spectacor’s three core businesses: the National Hockey League’s Philadelphia Flyers; the Wells Fargo Center Complex; and Spectra, a hospitality firm specializing in Venue Management, Food Services & Hospitality, and Ticketing & Fan Engagement.
Since his arrival, Scott has propelled Comcast Spectacor’s business operations and winning culture behind a unified go-to-market approach and a renewed commitment to operational excellence and client satisfaction. His primary focus is shaping and developing Comcast Spectacor’s strategic vision for sustainable, long-term growth.
In 2015, Scott spearheaded a complete re-branding of Comcast Spectacor’s wide-ranging client solutions into Spectra, a singular and cohesive business unit that offers an unmatched blend of integrated services. Spectra’s innovative and tight coordination of hospitality offerings present incremental revenue opportunities for clients and enhanced experiences for fans visiting more than 400 venues, primarily in North America.
Scott joined Comcast Spectacor as President and COO in December 2013 following a 20-year tenure at Comcast Cable. Scott served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Comcast Cable from 2005-2013. During his time as CFO, Comcast acquired approximately five million new customers and launched Digital Voice and Home Security under the Xfinity brand, as well as Comcast Business Class Services.
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Growing America’s Number 1 Sport
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Growing Live Sports on Twitter
Establishing Truly Strategic Partnerships
Making Your Brand Stand Tall in A Crowd
Investing in Sport
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OMNIGON is a team of digital strategists, artists and technologists working exclusively in the areas of consumer loyalty, audience growth and digital content delivery. Since its founding in 2008, OMNIGON has established itself as a market leader, focused on helping clients achieve returns on the strategic, creative and technical investments they’ve made. OMNIGON, headquartered in New York and with teams in Los Angeles, London, Toronto, Kiev and St. Petersburg, works with celebrated, global brands including the PGA TOUR, AS Roma, the German Football Association (DFB), NASCAR, the United States Golf Association, Verizon INDYCAR, and CONCACAF, among countless others.
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Gay and bisexual men are over four times as likely to have attempted suicide in their lifetime as heterosexual men
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There are a multitude of poorer health outcomes and indicators for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender plus (LGBT+) people. In recent years there have been significant advances in securing equality for LGBT+ people. However, the remaining differences, not least in relation to mental health and wellbeing, are starkest in the levels of suicide and self-harm. There are higher levels of drugs and substance misuse amongst LGBT+ people as well as poorer sexual health and social isolation (especially for younger and older people).
As well as having longstanding mental health problems lesbians, gay men and bisexuals are more likely to have bad experiences with nurses and doctors in a GP setting. Of these sexual orientations, bisexual people experience the highest rates of reported psychological or emotional problems. This may in part be due to experiencing “double discrimination”; homophobia from heterosexual people as well as being stigmatised by the gay and lesbian communities as not being “properly gay” (biphobia). People who are transgender have a plethora of unique barriers and challenges to accessing the GP and other health services, which results in further health disparities.
For example, a barrier for a trans male asking for help is that they are experiencing typically female health issues such as menstruation complexities and health issues around female anatomy. Another example is lesbian women reporting the frustration at repeatedly being asked if they are pregnant because they have answered in the affirmative to being sexually active.
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Possible health problems
• Lesbian, gay and bisexual people are at least twice more at risk of suicide attempts than the general population. Gay and bisexual men are over four times as likely to have attempted suicide in their lifetime as heterosexual men
• Lesbian, gay and bisexual people are 1.5 - 3 times more likely to experience depression, anxiety and substance use.
• Across all age groups, lesbian, gay and bisexual people are up to seven times more likely to use substances; longer substance use than heterosexuals. Lesbian and bisexual women are at high risk of substance dependence
• RaRE report in 2015 by PACE: 70% of young lesbian, gay and bisexual people and 89% of young trans people had considered suicide, in adults this is 84% but drops to drops to 3% post transition
Why Is LGBT+ Health Important?
It is estimated that between 3 and 7% of the population are lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans, yet LGBT+ communities remain poorly understood. Eliminating LGBT+ health disparities and enhancing efforts to improve LGBT+ health are necessary to ensure that LGBT+ individuals can lead long, healthy lives.
Make sure GP/health services clearly extend to LGBT+ people. Do this by creating a safe, inclusive and diverse working environment that encourages respect and equality for all and a space that values and recognises the differences between sexual orientation and gender identity and proactively addresses these
Extend training on LGBT+ issues to all staff members and medical students to increase provision of culturally competent care
Use gender neutral terms, such as ‘partner’ and don’t make assumptions
Make links with LGBT+ organisations and consider advertising services at these places. Leadership and collaboration is key across organisations, for example voluntary and community sector, local businesses, local council, GPs, and hospitals. No single organisation can effect real change at scale on its own
Collecting sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data in health-related surveys and health records in order to identify LGBT+ health disparities
Appropriately inquiring about and being supportive of a patient's sexual orientation and gender identity to enhance the patient-provider interaction and regular use of care
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The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 1 – All That Remains Review
By Peter Parrish December 19, 2013 0
This review contains at least one honking great spoiler for The Walking Dead Season 1. If you don’t want to see that, stop reading. I’ll be avoiding descriptions of specific events in Season 2, but may still touch on aspects of this first episode that you would rather not know. Okay, that’s the end of the warning!
The big problem with the episodic format is that it’s difficult to offer a definitive critique that will stand up to the release of the rest of the series. Episode 1 of The Walking Dead’s second season is one fifth of the game, which, in any other circumstances, would make this article a preview. Telltale’s heavy focus on character and narrative makes this even more of an issue, as the full realisation of (say) the Lee/Clementine story arc was only possible to see in retrospect.
That explains why the individual episodes of the first Walking Dead season one received more cautious review scores in comparison to the full, five episode release. The game grew in stature as it progressed, but it was impossible to judge properly until it was complete.
Terrible things are happening and Clementine is afraid.
So, I have to look at All That Remains in more specific terms. How well does it continue The Walking Dead narrative that Telltale established with season one? Does it provide a compelling set-up for further episodes? And how does the change in protagonist from Lee to Clementine affect matters?
The glib answers to those questions would be “pretty well,” “mostly” and “in some interesting ways.” Telltale had a relative blank slate to work with in the first season, but this follow-up comes with certain expectations and baggage.
All That Remains is as much a post-script to season one as it is set-up for season two. Clementine’s remaining ties to the old group are cut, and she’s driven into a situation with a new, suspicious community. Between those two events, we also have some scenes where our heroine has to fend for herself. All of this is squeezed into an episode lasting just over an hour and a half.
It provides plenty of powerful, gut-battering moments, but leaves you with a sense that the rapid pace has been somewhat to the detriment of properly introducing a new cast.
Terrible things are happening and Clementine is upset.
That, of course, is something which will doubtless be rectified over the course of The Walking Dead’s forthcoming episodes. Nonetheless, All That Remains feels closer to a post-script running immediately into a prologue, rather than a self-contained episode.
Still, it’s one hell of a post-script/prologue combo. Few titles can compete with The Walking Dead when it comes to setting up and executing moments of stomach-sinking, eye-averting grimness. In this opening episode, the rare pieces of brevity must be snatched at and held dear, because the rest is unrelenting bleakness. Clementine is really put through the wringer, to the extent that I worry slightly where Telltale might opt to go if they feel the need to ramp up the deep hurting even further. For anybody wondering whether the developer would wimp out on the depictions of on-screen Clem-death for the various “game over” sequences, here is your answer: nope.
That should hopefully give you enough incentive to do your best in the usual quick-time, use-item-in-reach-A-on-zombie-body-part-B mini-games that constitute a fair amount of the player input in these titles. If anything, this season of The Walking Dead seems to be shying even further away from being anything approaching a point-and-click ‘puzzle’ game. There are set-ups that appear as though they could be from a traditional adventure puzzle (multiple objects in a single room with a clear objective) but they no longer require any major logistical reasoning.
Terrible things are happening and Clementine is steadfast.
Moments of player interaction now seem to work purely as beats of pacing; quieter periods, where you’re not having to make a quick dialogue choice or hoof it away from danger in quick-timey style. Those who abandoned The Walking Dead for its lack of wide-ranging player interaction will not be won back by anything in All That Remains.
Most, though, play Telltale’s series for its character conflicts, plot progression and dialogue choices, with only a side-order of occasional clicking on stuff. In All That Remains, an action that may once have been part of a puzzle instead becomes a chance for the player to choose and reflect on how “their” Clementine is coping with Lee’s death, or her present circumstance.
Perhaps the biggest success for this new season is the way in which it handles Clem’s move from strong supporting character and Lee’s moral compass, to the lead role itself. To say that not many videogames would even attempt to make a ten year old girl their protagonist, let alone do it well, is an understatement.
The Walking Dead takes a couple of liberties with Clem’s capabilities, but these can perhaps be justified by her exposure to the harsh realities of the game’s universe. In fact, the episode even makes a point of juxtaposing Clementine’s world-weary pragmatism with the naive, sheltered existence of another, older girl.
Terrible things are happening and Clementine is alarmed.
Clementine makes one particularly foolish (and unavoidable) mistake early in the episode that most will notice instantly, though it’s impossible to prevent. In that sense it’s frustrating, but it serves as a formative experience and reinforces the idea that Clem, not matter how smart and savvy she may be, is still a child.
During her lonelier moments, Telltale occasionally give Clementine one monologue too many (when looking at a photo of a happy family, for example, I’m not sure I need the line “they look like they were a happy family,”) but these missteps are rare and the majority of Clem’s lines hit the right sort of tone. Towards the latter parts of the episode, it’s possible to manipulate the adults with your youth in ways that would never have been open to Lee. Where once you may have been guarding your actions for fear of what Clementine might learn from you, now you’re deciding precisely how she’s putting those survival lessons into action.
I played through the first season of The Walking Dead on the 360, so it wasn’t possible for me to fully interpret what impact (if any) the choices I’d made there were having on this episode. It was a little annoying, actually, not to be able to simply tell the game which choices I’d made before (rather like the comic book opening in Mass Effect 2.) Instead, those options were randomised.
A couple of incidents were raised through conversation, but it didn’t appear to extend much further than that.
Terrible things are ha … hold on, this doesn’t look so bad. Terrible things WILL happen though. You mark my words.
While we’re on the subject, people are still reporting issues with season two being unable to detect a saved game from season one (or the 400 Days DLC.) This technical issue has plagued the PC version of the game since it was launched, and it would be outrageous if the very same bug remains in the code of season two.
Telltale had further technical problems delivering the game to those who’d purchased it directly through the company site. Unnecessary DRM, while not on the scale of the SimCity debacle, prevented people who owned the game from actually being able to play it. Meanwhile, the Steam version was working as intended. The lack of support during this incident, and particularly the unresolved saved game issues from season one, do not reflect well on the developer.
All That Remains shows that The Walking Dead can survive the departure from Telltale of lead writer Sean Vanaman and co-lead developer Jake Rodkin. It’s a confident release that uses the expectations established by season one to peer at the zombie apocalypse through a younger pair of eyes. The running time of 90 minutes is too brief to do justice to the attempted arc of post-script to prologue to full introduction, but while new cast members are too lightly sketched at present, Clementine herself is skillfully established in the lead role. That achievement, alongside some significant moments of poignancy, mean this first episode is an uneven but broadly successful opener.
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Last night at the 40/40 Club in New York, the sports club co-owned by Jay-Z, the hip-hop artist and wife Beyoncé hosted the president and approximately 100 guests for what we originally anticipated would be the candidate’s coolest campaign fund-raiser yet. While we cannot comment on whether this expectation was realized—because the White House press-pool report disappointingly fails to note whether the 40/40 Club’s catwalk, 18-foot-tall illuminated champagne tower, and custom pool tables were utilized—we can say that it was notably better than George Clooney’s May fund-raiser in one capacity.
Readers of the Hollywood Blog may remember how, following the Oscar winner’s $15 million gala at his home in L.A., the press pool cattily dismissed the event’s ambiance: “the tented setting on [Clooney’s] b’ball court was just so-so.” Triumphantly, Jay-Z and Beyoncé did not earn such middling reviews. Instead, the write-up matter-of-factly describes the couple’s sports-club affair as taking place in a “large, dark glassy room” filled with donors, who paid $40,000 each, wearing suits and dresses, and sitting on sofas. The reports continues, “Small tables of wine, champagne and finger food, including sliders, were in front of them.”
The president had a more effusive assessment of his hosts, with whom he is apparently on nickname basis:
Let me just begin by saying to Jay and Bey, thank you so much for your friendship. We are so grateful. Michelle and Malia and Sasha are mad at me because they are not here. (Laughter.) That doesn’t usually happen. Usually they’re like, we’re glad you’re going—we don’t need to go. But every time they get a chance to see these two they are thrilled, partly because they are just both so generous, particularly to my kids. And Malia and Sasha just love both of them.
Beyoncé couldn’t be a better role model for our daughters because she carries herself with such class and poise—(applause)—and has so much talent. And Jay-Z now knows what my life is like. (Laughter.) We both have daughters, and our wives are more popular than we are. (Laughter and applause.) So we’ve got a little bond there. (Laughter.) It’s hard, but it’s okay. It’s okay. (Laughter.)
Last night Obama also appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, where he discussed the violence in Libya, Mitt Romney’s most recent damning tapes, and his weight (180 pounds.)
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Lisa C. Risi serves as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, since July 2012, following an interim CFO role at the American Lung Association.
In her current role, she is responsible for Finance, Administration, Human Resources and Information Technology and plays an important role in Strategic and Operational planning.
Lisa served as the CFO for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society from January 2009 through March 2012. Ms. Risi began with the MS Society in March 1997 as the Accounting Manager. She was promoted to Controller in September 2000 and served as Vice President of Finance from January 2003 to May 2005.
Ms. Risi also served the Society as Chief Operating Officer of the New York City chapter where she was responsible for Finance, Administration, Information Technology, and Volunteer Development from December 2005 through December 2008.
Prior to joining the National MS Society, Ms. Risi worked in Ernst & Young’s financial services audit group and as Audit Manager for Citibank’s Investment Banking Division. She also managed the accounting department for Hilton International’s US based real estate development subsidiary, London and Leeds.
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What are the commercial effects of terrorism?
Two University of Queensland students have developed a framework to determine the short-term and long-term commercial effects of terrorism thanks to a scholarship established by UQ alumni.
Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) student Jake Sullivan and Bachelor of Econometrics (Honours) Zi Yin focused on the September 11 attacks and the consequences of these attacks for financial markets as part of a research project with UQ’s Australian Institute for Business and Economics (AIBE).
The students each received a $5625 Matthew McLennan and Richard Howes Outstanding Honours Collaboration Scholarship, which encourages teamwork between high-performing Honours students from the UQ Business School and School of Economics at UQ.
Mr Sullivan said the framework might help some people recognise effects of terrorism that they may not have considered before and highlighted some areas for further research in the area.
“One of the long-term effects we consider is a so-called “terror tax” – whereby terrorism raises the cost of doing business through higher insurance premia, expensive security precautions and larger wage costs to compensate at-risk employees,” he said.
“This scholarship says a lot about the culture here at UQ and that people who go on to have such great success feel compelled to share their success with people at the School is in no small part attributable to the School’s teaching staff.”
Mr Yin said the biggest benefit of the scholarship was being able to work with someone who approached problems in a different way.
“Without this scholarship, I wouldn’t have had the chance to explore this topic and work with someone with different skills to me,” he said.
“I have learned a lot in terms of applying econometrics theory into the practice question, for example how time series modelling could be used to estimate the effect of terrorism into different industries.
AIBE Director Professor John Mangan said the scholarship recognised top performing business and economics students.
“By receiving this scholarship, it sets the students apart, and it provides them with an opportunity to work on current topics in business and economics and to work collaboratively on a piece of work, which is similar to the working environment.”
Following graduation, Jake will start a position at the Commonwealth Treasury in Canberra.
Zi has applied for a PhD in econometrics with various universities in the US and the UK with the plan to pursue a career in academia.
Matthew McLennan and Richard Howes (both UQ alumni) donated gifts for The Matthew McLennan and Richard Howes Outstanding Honours Collaboration Scholarship, which was established in 2014 and awarded annually to two students.
AIBE leverages world-class collaborative research capabilities across the UQ Business School, School of Economics and TC Beirne School of Law. The focus for the institute is on Australian and global innovation with new horizon research addressing industry’s current needs and future challenges.
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Smog Expert Says Focus on Specific Sources to Cut Air Pollution
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Bexar County has failed to meet air quality standards set by the EPA.
Lowering San Antonio’s ozone levels might require sleuthing out specific sources of pollution instead of imposing widespread measures across the city, a scientist who helped improve Houston’s air quality told City Council members.
Harvey Jeffries, who served as science adviser to a Houston air-quality group, spoke about air pollution in San Antonio at a City Council meeting Wednesday. The City’s Metropolitan Health District has hired Jeffries to study where Bexar County’s ozone pollution comes from and how to reduce it.
If true, Jeffries’ conclusions could mean that current efforts to deal with the ozone issue, such as banning idling by trucks and closing a coal plant, might not be as effective as some had hoped.
Jeffries’ first report came three months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Bexar County’s air quality no longer meets federal standards for ozone, a key component of smog that’s been tied to asthma, other chronic lung conditions, and premature deaths.
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Harvey Jeffries, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has studied Houston’s air quality.
A professor for 44 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jeffries has studied air quality issues extensively, especially in Houston. In the early 2000s, scientists in Houston found that occasional belches of air pollution from chemical plants, tanks, and barges made a big difference in ozone levels.
“I’ve always had an interest in other parts of Texas after spending lots of time in Houston,” Jeffries said at the meeting. “It’s interesting to find out that many of the underlying scientific issues that we’ve examined in Houston apply to many other parts of Texas.”
The City paid Jeffries’ company, Othree Chemistry Research and Service, $45,000 for the first phase of his study and recently approved another $45,000 for a second phase.
Where does ozone originate?
Ozone forms when nitrogen oxide emissions interact with volatile organic compounds in the presence of heat and sunlight. Nitrogen oxides most often come from vehicle exhausts, power plants, industrial sites, cement plants, and other combustion-related sources. Volatile organic compounds are tied to chemical use, chemical storage tanks, and gas stations, to name a few sources.
Instead of using computer models to study where San Antonio’s ozone comes from, Jeffries used measurements of pollution levels and weather patterns taken every hour in the years 2012, 2015, and 2016. He did this for 17 air-monitoring sites around the city.
“I actually look at the observations hour by hour, detail by detail – everything,” he said.
San Antonio has 21 air-monitoring sites, but only three that measure ozone levels for regulatory purposes: one at Calaveras Lake on the Southeast Side, one near John Marshall High School on the Northwest Side, and one just inside the southern fence of Camp Bullis on the far North Side.
Wind patterns make a huge difference in what these monitors record, Jeffries found. Almost every high-ozone day in San Antonio was characterized by winds that shifted in direction in a full or three-quarters circle throughout the day.
At the Camp Bullis air monitor, at least half of the days in the year feature those circular wind patterns. But in 2012, for example, only 18 of those days were high-ozone days.
That means you need both the right wind conditions and the right chemistry for high-ozone days, Jeffries said.
Overall, Jeffries found that on days when the Marshall High and Camp Bullis monitors pick up high ozone, morning winds are often coming from the north-northwest, the opposite direction of the city’s core.
Because of a lack of data, Jeffries could only speculate on the exact source of certain ozone-forming chemicals, but his suggestions for possibilities included storage tanks, road construction, and a wastewater treatment plant at Camp Bullis.
“I don’t understand what the heck is up there,” Jeffries said. “It’s weird, whatever it is, but it certainly comes from that quadrant up there.”
Councilmen Clayton Perry (D10), a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, and Manny Pelaez (D8) exchanged glances when Jeffries brought up the Army training base.
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Councilwoman Ana Sandoval (D7)
“We don’t go and dictate terms to Camp Bullis, ever,” Pelaez said. “They’re our lifeblood here in town. … In fact, what we try to do is make sure that their missions are as easy to accomplish as possible. I want to make sure that’s not on the list – go and push them around.”
“No,” Metro Health Director Colleen Bridger replied.
Councilwoman Ana Sandoval (D7), who once worked for an air-quality agency in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, called Jeffries’ conclusions “potentially good news.”
“What it means to us as policymakers is we don’t have to implement some citywide or even countywide measure right now to find a reduction in ozone,” she said. “We can use a scalpel and look at that area where the wind is coming from.”
Different studies, different conclusions
Much of the discussion revolved around how different Jeffries’ conclusions are from those reached by the Alamo Area Council of Governments (AACOG).
In the past, local officials have heard how AACOG’s computer modeling of ozone suggests that nearly 80 percent of the ozone in San Antonio’s air in 2017 came from outside the San Antonio metro area, as AACOG Executive Director Diane Rath testified before a U.S. House committee in June.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s staff cited AACOG studies frequently in letters to the EPA, arguing San Antonio should not face additional regulations in part because of air pollution wafting in from elsewhere, including “foreign sources.”
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But Jeffries said Wednesday that ozone being formed in the morning near Camp Bullis is coming from only about 12 to 18 miles away.
“So you’re not looking at Mexico – it’s the wrong direction,” he continued. “You’re not even looking at some of the other states – wrong direction. You’re not looking at Austin. You’re not looking at Houston.”
“You’re looking at something over there,” he continued, pointing to the north.
Rath called Jeffries report “interesting” but said she questioned the validity of certain sections that compared San Antonio to Houston.
“We are so different from Houston,” Rath said. “We don’t have the petrochemical industry, we don’t have refineries, and our topography is very, very different. … I’d just like more insight into his conclusions.”
Jeffries said the two cities have similar circular wind patterns, but said the pollution in their air does have little in common.
Current policies might not help
The chemistry of ozone formation is extremely complicated. It’s often difficult for policymakers to figure out whether to try to reduce nitrogen oxides or volatile organic compounds and, if so, by how much, Jeffries said.
“There’s a case if you’re a policymaker, you’re gonna go out and spend a billion dollars and reduce [nitrogen oxides], and the ozone problem’s going to get worse,” he said. “That makes this very difficult to deal with.”
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Local ordinances to improve air quality include a ban on heavy truck idling.
So far, state and local officials have focused mostly on reducing nitrogen oxides. This includes local ordinances banning heavy truck idling, CPS Energy’s planned closure of its Deely coal-fired generators, and the pursuit of $73 million in Volkswagen settlement funds to convert vehicles from diesel to more efficient fuels.
Regardless of their effect on ozone, those strategies remove other types of air pollution and cut down on greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change, Bridger said.
Jeffries said data on volatile organic compounds is scarce for San Antonio. He suggested using an infrared camera to survey for plumes of pollution in the area, as has been done in Houston.
“We’re not talking about large quantities,” he said. “It could be one guy up there with some particular thing. … You could have a tank that’s sat there forever and nothing shows up, and one day a hole appears in it, and all kinds of [pollution] show up.”
The City has issued a request for information for potential consultants to propose how they might address volatile organic compounds, Bridger said.
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Former Liberty University VP Raises Concern After Calling for Meeting With ‘Your Holiness’ to Unite Evangelicals, Catholics
By Heather Clark on August 11, 2017 28 Comments
Concerns are being raised as Johnnie Moore, the former vice president of communications for Liberty University—which heralds itself at the world’s largest Christian university—and travel assistant to President Jerry Falwell, Jr., recently sent a letter to Roman Catholic leader Jorge Bergoglio, also known as “Pope Francis,” to request a meeting to discuss Moore’s objection to “efforts to divide Catholics and Evangelicals.”
Moore, who serves as a member of President Trump’s evangelical advisory board, wrote to Bergoglio following the publication of an article in La Cattolica Civilitas—written by Catholic priest Antonio Spadaro and Presbyterian minister Marcelo Figueroa—that condemned what they perceived as a joining together of American Catholics and Evangelicals in an “ecumicism of hate” against immigrants, Muslims and others different from them.
“The panorama of threats to [Evangelicals’] understanding of the American way of life have included modernist spirits, the black civil rights movement, the hippy movement, communism, feminist movements and so on. And now in our day there are the migrants and the Muslims,” the article read.
It said that some professing Catholics are now seemingly “using tones much closer to Evangelicals” when it comes to various social issues, and have apparently united on the subjects.
“Both Evangelical and Catholic Integralists condemn traditional ecumenism and yet promote an ecumenism of conflict that unites them in the nostalgic dream of a theocratic type of state,” Spadaro and Figueroa asserted. “This meeting over shared objectives happens around such themes as abortion, same-sex marriage, religious education in schools and other matters generally considered moral or tied to values.”
The men asserted that this type of ecumenism is different than that exemplified by Bergoglio in terms of other religions and those different from him, which is rather “an ecumenism that moves under the urge of inclusion, peace, encounter and bridges.”
In an article published by Fox News, Moore said that the “caustic language” in the Civilitas piece concerned him, as he “cannot imagine that the article’s authors understand the beautiful relationship that Catholics and Evangelicals have had in the last thirty years in the United States.” He said that he believes the collaboration between the two has produced much good in the world.
“Together, we have worked in pursuit of the fall of communism, led a vast resurgence of pro-life sentiment in the United States, and we have fought for religious liberty here and abroad. Our humanitarian collaboration has also saved millions of lives among the poor and persecuted,” Moore wrote.
He therefore wrote to Bergoglio, who Moore referred to as “Your Holiness,” to request a meeting between Catholic and Evangelical leaders to discuss concerns about those who cause division, and to dialogue about how the two groups can work together. Moore said that “God put it on [his] heart” to write to the Roman Catholic leader.
“I speak for many Evangelicals when I say that we have looked upon your appointment with great gratitude to God and with great optimism for the new spirit that you have brought to the Catholic Church,” the letter read, which also noted that Moore feels “all the respect in the world” toward the pontiff. “Your commitment to the poor and to pastoral ministry and your efforts to build bridges and to spread the doctrine of mercy around the world have been a light and hope to us all.”
He said that in the midst of religious persecution, as well as political polarism, that “we have also witnessed efforts to divide Catholics and Evangelicals.”
“We think it would be of great benefit to sit together and to discuss these things,” Moore wrote. “Then, when we disagree we can do it within the context of friendship. Though, I’m sure we will find once again that we agree far more than we disagree, and we can work together with diligence on those areas of agreement.”
“We feel like this conversation is an urgent one, and I will bring a half dozen or so of our denominational heads and significantly influential Evangelicals for our time together,” he said. “We would also like to use the time to meet with various other high level officials throughout the Vatican to find ways in which we can cooperate on matters of great concern to us all, especially as it relates to refugees, the poor and the persecuted.”
However, Mike Gendron of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministries—a former Roman Catholic of more than 30 years who now teaches Christians how to evangelize Catholics—told Christian News Network that he is deeply troubled by Moore’s endeavor. He outlined several aspects of Moore’s letter that he found to be cause for concern.
“Moore’s request for a meeting with a pope who has blasphemed the triune God by stealing His titles—Holy Father, Head of the Church, and Vicar of Christ—is deplorable,” Gendron stated.
He bristled at Moore’s reference to Bergoglio as ‘Your Holiness.'”
“By the authority of God’s Word, we can see that the pope is under divine condemnation for preaching another gospel (Gal.1:6-9),” Gendron stated. “The pope’s gospel denies the sufficiency of Jesus Christ and His finished work of redemption by adding sacraments, good works, law keeping and indulgences for salvation.”
He also found Moore’s desire to combat division between Evangelicals and Catholics to be demonstrative of “the disturbing ignorance among many Evangelicals concerning Church history.”
“The division between Evangelicals and Catholics took place five hundred years ago when the Roman Catholic Church sealed her departure from the Christian faith by deliberately and dogmatically rejecting the gospel of Jesus Christ at the Council of Trent,” Gendron outlined. “Her apostasy is well documented by over 100 infallible anathemas that condemn Evangelicals who do not believe Rome’s corruption of the gospel.”
He said that God does not need His children to link with those teaching and propagating error in order to combat evil in the world.
“Moore’s attempt to unite Evangelicals and Catholics is playing into the pope’s agenda to rebuild the religious tower of Babel,” Gendron opined. “Our sovereign and omnipotent Lord does not need the help of unbelievers to fight the social and cultural wars. There is something much more important at stake and that is the purity and exclusivity of the Gospel. More than ever we need to contend for the faith because divine division in truth is far better than satanic unity in error.”
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Glasgow celebrates its busiest-ever May for conferences as over 22,000 delegates flock to the city
June 11, 2018 Business Tourism
Glasgow experienced its ‘busiest-ever’ May for conferences after more than 22,000 delegates flocked to the city for a range of business events.
City coffers were boosted by an estimated £25.5 million in local economic impact making it a record for business tourism, according to Glasgow Convention Bureau (GCB).
It began with the arrival of 7,000 attendees at the All Energy Conference and Exhibition, swiftly followed by two major medical meetings held at the SEC, attracting a combined total of over 8,000 delegates.
Other venues across the city were also busy with conferences as the University of Strathclyde’s Technology & Innovation Centre welcomed 1,000 delegates to the Annual Conference of the European Marketing Academy.
Aileen Crawford, Head of Conventions at Glasgow Convention Bureau, said: “Glasgow is recognised as one of the world’s leading conference cities with business tourism featuring as a key pillar within the city’s Tourism and Visitor Plan to 2023. Glasgow’s reputation for innovation, the strength of our knowledge hub economy and the strong partnerships which exist between businesses and academic institutions set us apart from other potential host cities. This enables us to successfully bid to secure prestigious meetings to our city.”
Similarly, both the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) and Strathclyde University’s Technology and Innovation Centre, the city’s two major conference venues, celebrated their busiest-ever May.
Kathleen Warden, Director of Conference Sales at the Scottish Event Campus, said: “The Scottish Event Campus has successfully delivered major conferences in the past month, including the World Federation of Hemophilia and the European Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy Congress, and has accounted for 76% of all delegates in the city in May. These conferences take many years to secure, often against tough international competition, so we feel immensely proud to take these events from bid to delivery. Not only do these events demonstrate the value of the venue in delivering economic impact for the city, they help to internationalise the city’s reputation, and the SEC is proud to work with the many stakeholders involved in bringing these events to Glasgow.”
Designed to accelerate the way in which researchers in academia and industry ‘collaborate and innovate together’, Strathclyde University’s Technology and Innovation Centre officially opened for business in March 2015 and has secured a number of venue awards and industry recognition as a centre of events excellence. Last month, it hosted 68 events and welcomed a total of 3,624 delegates – a 55% increase on May last year and a 277% increase on May 2016.
Gordon Hodge, Head of Conferencing and Events at the University of Strathclyde, said: “We’re delighted to have played our part in Glasgow’s busiest May ever, which is a real testament to the collaborative approach that continues to win a wide range of high-profile, influential business events for Glasgow. What makes us truly unique at Strathclyde is our Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC), which is much more than an award-winning city-centre conference venue. It’s first and foremost our world-class research hub, a facility where our academics work in partnership with industry and the public sector on solutions to many of society’s ‘wicked problems’. Combining our research activity with flexible event spaces that are available all year round, TIC is a place where new innovations are showcased; where new relationships are forged; where the seeds of future collaborations are sown; and where ideas become legend.”
Other developments in the city inclyde the opening of the Clydeside Distillery, the first whisky distillery to be built in Glasgow in over a century, and the launch of the first new-build Radisson RED hotel in Europe.
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Mumbai, 2nd December 2016: Nissan today launched their flagship sports car - the 2017 Nissan GT-R in India. The GT-R goes on sale for the first time in the country priced at INR 1.99 Crore, ex-showroom, New Delhi in European spec Premium Edition.
The 2017 edition of the legendary GT-R series features a new signature V-motion grille and an upgraded interior. Speaking on the occasion, Guillaume Sicard, President – Nissan India Operations, said, “The GT-R is a very special car for Nissan and we are delighted to add it to our Indian line-up for the first time in its history. It is the epitome of Nissan’s technology and design, and demonstrates our brand promise of 'Innovation and Excitement'. It also continues our commitment to our Indian customers to offer an evolving range of dynamic and exciting new models. The GT-R will give a great boost to the Nissan brand in India and is guaranteed to turn many heads.”
Presenting the new car in India, Hiroshi Tamura, Nissan Motor Corporation’s Chief Product Specialist for the GT-R, said, “We have continued to push the GT-R’s performance boundaries to the outer limits making it even more potent than before. At the same time, we have also added refinement to take the driving pleasure to an entirely new level. India is a new market for the GT-R and we’re proud to bring what we feel is the ‘ultimate GT’, possessing amazing performance, comfort and a rich racing heritage”.
In keeping with GT-R’s image, deliveries of the new model started with Bollywood action star and Nissan Brand Ambassador, John Abraham, receiving the keys to his very own GT-R.
Excited about the latest addition to his garage, Abraham said, “I have had my heart set on the GT-R from the first time I saw one. I consider it to be an embodiment of myself on four wheels - powerful, muscular and fast. When I drove a GT-R earlier this year I knew I had to have one, and today my dream has come true.”
The 2017 Nissan GT-R is produced at Nissan’s state of the art plant in Tochigi, Japan, and will be brought to India as a CBU (Completely Built-up Unit). It will be sold exclusively through the Nissan Dealership in Noida, National Capital Region (NCR). This dealership will also house India’s first Nissan High Performance Centre (NHPC), which will be solely responsible for the service of the car.
Nissan started taking orders for the GT-R in India in September this year and deliveries to customers who have already booked will be among the first lucky group to receive one.
About the 2017 Nissan GT-R
Nissan unveiled the new 2017 GT-R at the New York International Auto Show in March this year, highlighted by an exciting new look both inside and out, as well as major driving-performance enhancements and key new features. They represent the most significant changes made to the model since it was introduced in 2007.
The new GT-R’s exterior gets a complete makeover across the front end. The new matte chrome finish “V-motion” grille represents one of Nissan’s latest design signatures. It has been enlarged to provide better engine cooling and now features an updated mesh pattern.
A new hood, which flows seamlessly from the grille, has been significantly reinforced, contributing to stability during high-speed driving. A freshly-designed front spoiler lip and front bumpers with finishers situated immediately below the headlamps give the new GT-R the look of a pure-bred racecar, while generating high levels of front downforce.
The GT-R’s familiar wind-cutting shape defines its profile, but the side sills have been pushed out to improve air flow. The rear of the car also received a thorough makeover. While the GT-R’s hallmark four-ring taillights remain, look closely and you’ll notice new bodywork to help improve air flow, as well as side air vents next to the quad exhaust tips.
Also, the belt line that separates the lower black section from the body panel has been heightened to make the car look wider and more aggressive from the rear. These exterior changes don’t result just in a sportier-looking car, but an aerodynamically efficient one, with less drag but retaining the same amount of downforce as the current GT-R to keep the car stable at high speeds.
Step into the cabin, and you’re greeted by a premium interior that is befitting a high-performance sports car of this caliber. The entire dashboard and instrument panel are new and covered with high-quality leather artfully stitched together with TAKUMI precision. The shape of the dashboard adopts a “horizontal flow” that delivers a sense of high stability for the car’s front-seat occupants, while the line from the instrument cluster to the center console provides a distinct driver-oriented environment for those behind the steering wheel.
The center dashboard layout has also been improved and simplified. Integrated controls reduce the number of switches from 27 in the previous model to only 11 in the 2017 model. An enlarged 8-inch touch-panel monitor features large icons on the display screen to make it easy to operate. A new display command control on the carbon-fiber center console allows easy operation.
The shift paddles are now mounted to the new steering wheel, allowing drivers to change gears in mid-turn without having to take their hands off the wheel. The paddles themselves, along with the ventilation controls, have improved feel and better sound when engaged or adjusted.
The GT-R’s 3.8-litre V6 24-valve twin-turbocharged engine - each unit handcrafted by its own TAKUMI technician - now delivers 565 hp of power at 6800 rpm and 637Nm of torque. The improved output, which are the result of individual ignition-timing control of the cylinders and extra boost from the turbochargers, allow the new GT-R to have better acceleration in the mid- to high-ranges (3200 rpm and above).
It comes mated to a 6-speed dual-clutch transmission that features smoother shifts and less noise. That familiar GT-R tone also has been upgraded with an engine that has never sounded better. The resonance of the new titanium mufflers and Active Sound Enhancement (ASE) enhance the driving experience during acceleration.
The GT-R has always been regarded as one of the world’s best handling machines, and for 2017, its cornering abilities have become even better. A more rigid body structure and new suspension result in better stability through quick lateral transitions and higher overall cornering speed. Providing the grip are sticky 20 inch tires, wrapped around new “Y-spoke” machine-finished forged aluminum wheels.
The everyday supercar
Despite all the performance enhancements, the 2017 GT-R is the most comfortable model to date, with a new sense of elegance and civility that one would rarely find in such a high-performance supercar. The new GT-R exhibits a smoother ride quality than the outgoing model, and its cabin remains much quieter at all speeds and new sound absorption materials. New for the 2017 GT-R are fresh colors inside and out that complement the car’s sophisticated character.
In India, the GT-R will be offered in the European spec Premium Edition and will be available in Katsura Orange (new for 2017), Vibrant Red, Pearl Black, Pearl White, Racing Blue, Gun Metallic and Ultimate Silver. The choice of interior trim includes Red, Tan, Ivory & Black.
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Arjun 9 December 2016 at 12:32
That is too much expensive!
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Too much special too
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Police, organizers report no major problems in first two days of Dogwood Festival
Gregory Phillips Staff writer
Apr 28, 2013 at 12:01 AM Apr 28, 2013 at 5:23 AM
Police and organizers reported no major problems through the first two nights of the Fayetteville Dogwood Festival.
"It's business as usual," said Carrie King, the festival's executive director, Saturday night. "Our vendors are happy, our sponsors are happy, and our patrons are happy."
Five young men were cited for trespassing in downtown the first two days of the festival, as police followed through on a warning mailed earlier in the week to about 50 suspected gang members.
Police said threats of violence between gangs prompted the letters from festival organizers, which warned the recipients to stay away or face citations.
Police said organizers had the power to bar citizens from downtown because they are essentially renting the area for the festival.
Two were cited for second-degree trespassing in Festival Park on Friday night. Another three were cited by 9 p.m. Saturday.
All were from Fayetteville and were 18 to 20 years old.
Magistrates reported a handful of other misdemeanor arrests involving drunkenness and domestic disputes. Police reported no major incidents.
"It's not over yet," King said, "but so far it's been a great day and a great evening."
The festival wraps up today at 6 p.m.
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The Assassin Gambit
By William R. Forstchen
Read by George Newbern
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The Gamester Wars Series: Book 2
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Category: Fiction/Science Fiction
Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
Alexander the Great. Napoleon. The Forty-Seven Ronin. Long dead, but the future still rides on their successes at war!
First there was war, then there were wargames, growing more and more realistic until the games themselves surpassed war as mankind’s most popular sport. But with no blood, guts, or glory, boredom began to set in and strategy lost its edge. Something was needed to bring fresh excitement to an old, old game. And so the past was mined for the greatest warriors and generals history had to offer: Napoleon, Alexander, the Forty-Seven Ronin, assassins from ancient Persia—all brilliant at either combat or at tactics and strategy.
It was just a game—until mock war turned real on an unimaginable scale, and only those legendary warriors could turn the tide …
Author Bio: William R. Forstchen
William R. Forstchen has a PhD from Purdue University with specializations in Military History and the History of Technology. He is a Faculty Fellow and Professor of History at Montreat College. He is the author of fifty books, including the New York Times bestselling John Matherson series, the Lost Regiment series, and the award-winning young adult novel We Look Like Men of War. He has also authored numerous short stories and articles about military history and military technology.
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Dancing for Life – The Place is 50!
22 hours ago by Wonderful News
In Autumn 2019, The Place enters its sixth decade as a driving force for dance development pushing the art form forward. Looking to the future with a global vision of a world with more dance, The Place will invest in independent artists, expand impact locally and internationally and continue its pioneering dance education and research.
“The Place is a landmark institution that has led innovation in contemporary dance in the UK and internationally for five decades. Its illustrious alumni and staff team have irrefutably shaped the world of contemporary dance as we know it today. The Place sees no barriers to dance and its ultra-special, incubatory environment is designed to power imagination through dance like no other in the world. The love for dance and artistic expression so dutifully gifted by our founders Robin Howard and Sir Robert Cohan has endured over this time and we are truly energised in the pursuit of our global vision to engage more people with dance over the next 50 years.” – Clare Connor, Chief Executive
INVESTING IN INDEPENDENT ARTISTS
“Over The Place’s 50 year history we have supported the journey of many of the UK’s greatest contemporary choreographers. The next decade will see us make a new, era-defining commitment to connect the breadth of creativity in today’s independent dance makers to more people and places than ever before.” – Eddie Nixon, Artistic Director Over the next two years, The Place is investing £700,000 to expand its producing and touring within the UK and internationally to become a producing house for a large and diverse pool of independent artists. This year, The Place will work on ambitious new productions from artists including Requardt and Rosenberg, Avant Garde Dance, Lost Dog and Sivan Rubenstein and commission the development of 36 other new performances. In September 2019, The Place will launch a new Commissioning Studio. This pioneering fundraising programme supports The Place’s commitment to create high profile professional opportunities, empowering independent artists to create ground-breaking work.
EXPANDING IMPACT LOCALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY
“This is a momentous time for The Place as we look to the next 50 years through a global lens, strengthening existing relationships and fostering new ones. Our ambition to lead the dance sector forward on local, national and International scales is a strategic priority for all activity planned in our 10-year vision.” – Martin Hargreaves, Director of Undergraduate Studies Spring 2020 will see the second of a three-year partnership with the Korean Cultural Centre and Korean Arts Management Service to showcase Korea’s eclectic and dynamic dance scene through the Festival of Korean Dance in London. Building on international dance networks, The Place and LCDS will further develop their partnerships with the Merce Cunningham Trust, USA, Beijing Dance Academy, China, and School of the Arts, Singapore to create new opportunities for research, knowledge exchange, student progression and international artist networks. The Richard Alston Dance Company (RADC) will embark on its Final Edition tour across the UK and overseas, including an At Home season at The Place with special guest Siobhan Davies, founding member of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre. The final RADC performances will be celebrated at Sadler’s Wells on 7 & 8 March 2020. The Place’s investment in touring will then focus on supporting independent artists to bring their work to national and international audiences in small, mid-scale and outdoor venues. The Place continues to be a partner in the Rural Touring Dance Initiative bringing outstanding performance to over 70 venues in all corners of the country connecting more people to dance.
LCDS – Theo Clinkard. Photo by Camilla Greenwell
EDUCATION AND INNOVATION
“Dance brings out the very best in people, it allows people to explore their inner passion and The Place is very much the environment for that exploration.” – Vicky Evans, Programme Manager, Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) The pioneering MA Screendance offers the only Masters Programme in the world specialising in dance filmmaking and exploring the intersections between choreography and moving image. Through research and opportunities such as the student led and curated Screendance Festival: Framerush (Spring 2020), trailblazing students lead and shape this flourishing art form. This anniversary year will further build on the artistically rich Collaborations (5&6, 10-12 DEC); a programme of student work devised together with design and film students from longstanding partners University of the Arts London and composers from Guildhall School of Music & Drama. The shared sense of invention in these inspiring opportunities supports the next generation of artist-collaborators. Over the summer, The Place will offer 18 independent artists a research residency through the Choreodrome programme, a development opportunity to explore new artistic territory, allowing for experimentation and innovation. Choreodrome now includes a Startin’ Point Research Residency Commission for artists whose work is rooted in dances of the African diaspora, conceived by changemaker Hakeem Onibudo in 2018. Other highlights this year include:
• Touch Wood, a series of bite-size extracts of new work being developed over the summer (3 – 6 SEP 2019)
• students from LCDS present work created in response to the Leonardo Da Vinci drawings exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace (10 OCT 2019)
• Richard Alston at Home, featuring legendary dancer/choreographer Siobhan Davies and a brand-new commission for LCDS students (27–30 NOV 2019)
• RADC’s final performance at Sadler’s Wells (7 & 8 MAR 2020)
• The Little Prince, a magical dance adaptation of the classic children’s tale (17 – 24 DEC 2019) • Place’s Youth Dance Platform: around 150 young people from London take to the stage at The Place over two days (FEB 2020)
• Splayed Festival, exploring disruptive femininities (27 APR – 2 MAY 2020)
• Camden Primary Schools Festival featuring work by 12 local primary schools and over 600 local children (SUMMER 2020)
• Changing the Face of British Dance. 50 years of London Contemporary Dance School a book by Henrietta Bannerman tracing the history of LCDS from its trailblazing role in establishing a British Contemporary Dance scene, to the globally renowned dance training institution it is today (launching spring 2020)
Championing the value of dance in all its forms, this anniversary year will run under the tagline ‘Dancing for Life’. Inviting the dance community to join the celebration of The Place’s history and what dance means to them, a year-long social media campaign will collect #BestPlaceMoments (theplace.org.uk/bestplacemoments). The memories will be used to populate a commissioned visual artwork to be displayed in the building from 2020.
Here’s to the next 50 years!
Tags: LCDS, London contemporary dance, The Place, The Place UK
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Rebuilding body parts with lab grown cartilage
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Reconstructed body parts such as noses and ears, which have been grown in a lab, could soon be available to patients needing surgery. Swansea researchers hope to be the first in the world to start using it on humans within three years.
The process involves growing someone’s cells in an incubator and then mixing them with a liquid which is 3D printed into the jelly-like shape needed.
It is then put back in an incubator to grow again until it is ready.
“In simple terms, we’re trying to grow new tissue using human cells,” said Prof Iain Whitaker, consultant plastic surgeon at the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery at Morriston Hospital.
“We’re trialling using 3D printing which is a very exciting potential modality to make these relatively complex structures.
“Most people have heard a lot about 3D printing and that started with traditional 3D printing using plastics and metals.
“That has now developed so we can consider printing biological tissue called 3D bio-printing, which is very different.
“We’re trying to print biological structures using human cells, and provide the right environment and the right timing so it can grow into tissue that we can eventually put into a human.
“It would be to reconstruct lost body parts such as part of the nose or the ear and ultimately large body parts including bone, muscle and vessels.”
The team of surgeons are working with scientists and engineers who have built a 3D printer specifically for this work.
Prof Whitaker, who is also the chairman of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Swansea University’s medical school, said the project started in 2012 but research in the field has been going on for more than 20 years.
He said the work would have to be tested on animals and go through an ethics process before being used on humans.
“The good news in the future is, if our research is successful, within two months you’d be able to recreate a body part which was not there without having to resort to taking it from another part of the body which would cause another defect or scar elsewhere,” he added.
Cells are taken from a tiny sample of cartilage during the initial operation and grown in an incubator over several weeks
The shape of the missing body part is scanned and fed into a computer
It is then 3D printed using a special liquid formula combined with the live cells to form the jelly-like structure
Reagents are added to strengthen the structure
It is put into an incubator with a flow of nutrients to supply the cells with food so they can grow and produce their own cartilage
The structure will then be tested to see if it is strong enough to be eventually implanted into patients
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Johansson Confirmed As Assistant Coach
Sunday, 09 April 2017, 17:00
RANGERS FOOTBALL CLUB is delighted to confirm Jonatan Johansson as an assistant coach at the Club.
Currently working as assistant manager with Finland’s national team, Jonatan brings a wealth of experience to the role and his extensive knowledge of Scottish football will be invaluable to the new management team.
Johansson spent three successful years at Ibrox between 1997 and 2000 – scoring 25 times in 71 appearances – with 18 of his strikes coming during the Treble-winning campaign of season 1998-99.
Johansson’s career began in Finland with Pargas IF before switching to TPS and FC Flora ahead of his move to Glasgow and he also enjoyed a productive spell in the English Premier League with Charlton Athletic followed by a loan spell at Norwich City.
Malmo in Sweden was his next destination but he returned to Scotland to feature for Hibs and St Johnstone before ending his playing career back at TPS in 2011.
As a coach, Jonatan spent three years in charge of Motherwell’s under-20 side – between 2012 and 2015 – before landing the Finland number two job in December.
He retired with 106 full international caps for his country and is looking forward to taking up his new role with the Light Blues.
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Do babies feel pain in the first trimester? New study shows incredible nerve development
That the nervous system develops sooner than thought could have implications for whether babies feel pain in the early weeks. Image: Just The Facts.
Although there's no logical reason why a human lack of capacity to feel pain justifies ending the life of an unborn baby, it's a common argument for why abortion is acceptable in the early stages of pregnancy. However, the prevailing wisdom that babies don't feel pain in the first trimester may have to be re-examined, as Live Action reports.
Adult-like nerves
A study published in the Journal Cell on 23 March 2017 reveals that the nervous system of embryos and foetuses may be greatly more developed than was previously believed. Entitled "Tridimensional Visualization and Analysis of Early Human Development" the study shows that unborn babies in the first trimester have "adult-like" patterns of nerves. Researchers "combined whole-mount immunostaining, 3DISCO clearing, and light-sheet imaging to start building a 3D cellular map" and found that "the adult-like pattern of skin innervation is established before the end of the first trimester, showing important intra- and inter-individual variations in nerve branches."
It's too early to conclude that the system of nerves observed in embryos and fetuses would allow the infant in development to feel pain. However, this new research shows that the nervous system develops much sooner than had previously been thought, which could point to pain sensitivity.
What evidence is there for foetal pain?
For now, it's almost conclusively provable that preborn babies can feel pain at 20 weeks gestation, although they respond to touch as early as eight weeks. There is also increasing evidence that unborn babies can feel pain much earlier than 20 weeks — possibly as early as five weeks. Some evidence exists to show that foetal pain may be even worse in the first trimester, due to the uneven maturation of foetal neurophysiology.
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Swift Names Pérez-Tasso CEO
Pérez-Tasso will take over from current CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt, who will step down in June.
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Global payments messaging utility Swift has named Javier Pérez-Tasso as its new chief executive, following an internal and external search to find a replacement for current CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt, who will retire in July after 14 years at the organization.
Pérez-Tasso, who has been with Swift for almost 25 years, was most recently CEO of Swift Americas and UK region. He will take up his position on July 1.
Pérez-Tasso joined Swift in 1995 as an analyst before working his way up to chief marketing officer where he was responsible for developing Swift’s five-year strategy, Swift 2020. The strategy focuses on the firm’s cross-border payments program, expansion into financial crime compliance and a larger presence in market infrastructure.
He became CEO of the Americas and UK region in 2015, based in New York. Once he moves into his new role, Pérez-Tasso will relocate to Swift’s headquarters in Belgium.
“[Pérez-Tasso’s] record of impressive leadership, coupled with his in-depth understanding of the company and its business, means that he is expertly positioned for this new role. I am confident that his appointment will ensure that SWIFT can continue to build on its tradition of excellence and innovation in support of the global financial community, while also enabling the acceleration of its endorsed strategy,” says Swift chairman Yawar Shah in a statement. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9882699251174927, "wiki_prob": 0.9882699251174927, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line355550"} |
The museums in Alabama vary from historical institutions that help modern generations reconnect with the areas rich past to locations that help foster appreciation for the local environment and the natural resources it produces.
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute was created to document and present to the public the long history of the black community's struggle for equality in Birmingham and throughout the South. BCRI's permanent exhibitions allow visitors to take a self-guided journey through the story of blacks and whites in Birmingham. From the period of segregation following WWI through integration in the 50's and on to the landmark the civil rights movement of the 1960's, these exhibits give the public a chance to understand Birmingham's significance in Civil Rights history. The Institute's Education Department facilitates Outreach Presentations for schools and community organizations throughout the greater Birmingham metropolitan area.
www.bcri.org
Anniston Museum of Natural History - (Pell City/Anniston)
The seven exhibit halls of the Anniston Museum of Natural History vary from a representation of the African wilderness to artifacts from ancient Egypt to a full-scale replica of an Alabama cave. The museum also features one of the nation's oldest ornithological collections, with more than 400 mounted specimens of North American birds (including some that are now endangered and extinct). The hands-on learning continues with nature trails, a children's discovery room, and art exhibits.
www.annistonmuseum.org
Rosa Parks Museum
By all standards just an ordinary woman before the morning of December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks's refusal to give her bus seat to a white man became one of the most recognizable and unifying images of the Civil Rights Movement. The Rosa Parks Library and Museum on Troy University's Montgomery campus details the history of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Movement as a whole. The museum also honors the courage of the stand that Rosa Parks took against inequality.
www.troy.edu/rosaparks
Mann Wildlife Learning Museum
A great educational resource for children, the Mann Wildlife Learning Museum gives visitors a unique chance to get up close to a wide variety of preserved North American wildlife. Feel the soft fur of a massive grizzly bear, the soft belt of a fox's back or the rigid antlers of the mighty moose. Each of the animals is shown in recreations of their natural habitat to enhance the experience.
www.mannmuseum.com
Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center
Located in downtown Mobile, the Gulf Cost Exploreum is a regional science center designed to educate and entertain children and adults alike. Interactive exhibits teach children many about many core scientific areas such as chemistry, simple mechanics and biology. In addition to the exhibits, the Exploreum also features an amazing IMAX theatre.
www.exploreum.net
The Rosenbaum House Museum
An architectural treasure by the master of modern design, Frank Lloyd Wright, the house was originally built for newlyweds Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum in 1939. Wright even designed an addition to the home in 1948 when the family grew to include four sons. The house is the only structure in the entire state of Alabama designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It is one of the best examples of Wrights Usonian Style, and is the only Wright-designed house in the southeast that is open to the public.
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Good Comics – Part 1
I’ve been reading comics for so long, I sometimes forget how difficult it is, and how intimidating it can be, to walk into a comic shop, or browse in a book shop, or search online, and pick up a comic worth reading. Yes, it’s all subjective and what I think qualifies as a ‘good’ comic, other people might loathe and think is boring and dull. There are other opinions out there, but hey, it’s my website.
If you’re interesting in buying any comics, either from this list or anywhere else, please support your local comic shop. The Comic Shop Locator will help you find your nearest, and even if it is too far away to drive or walk, many will deliver comics to you through the post. Please support your local comic shop if at all possible. The website is for comic shops around the world.
Recommending the Wrong Thing
There are now so many comics out there, it can very hard to know where to start. Far too often when I hear that someone wants to get into comics people will point them towards classic superhero titles, the most well known stories which people may have heard about, such as Watchmen, or The Dark Knight Returns, which I think is a terrible idea. Because they’re complex stories, steeped in the genre and the mythology and history of comics, and in the case of DKR it’s steeped in decades of the character’s history. New readers can understand the stories, and they may enjoy them, but I think they will have far less of an emotional impact. Also, and most importantly, why always recommend superheroes?
Comics are a medium not a genre
Superheroes are just one genre. Comics are a medium. That’s worth repeating, because sometimes when I mention that I read comics people say, oh like The Beano and The Dandy (which are children’s comics) or comic strips (Garfield, Marmaduke, etc.), or they say like Spider-man. It’s the same as when someone says they read fantasy books and people say oh, you mean like Lord of the Rings, or now, the new touchstone is Game of Thrones. The attitude towards comics is changing, but every time I think we’re moving away from the stereotype of comics being one thing, a stranger comes out with the same old chestnut. Or they insist on saying graphic novel, as if comics are a dirty word and graphic novels are something completely different. Then I wince and realise we’re still decades away from more widespread understanding.
For every genre there is a comic book
If nothing else, please remember that there is a comic for every single genre you would find in a book shop. Every one, and many that blend genres together too. With all of that preamble out of the way, below is a short list of different comics from a range of genres. I’ve split them into Complete Series (which are finite stories available as several trade paperbacks or hardcover collections in some cases), and Ongoing Series. Also, this is only part one, as there are a lot of great comics available right now, so I will add to this list with other posts in the future.
Sleeper – An espionage story where a man named Holden Carver goes undercover in a dangerous international crime organisation, in an attempt to destroy it from the inside. Several people in the story have powers, but there are no capes and tights. These are dark, sometimes subtle and nasty powers, such as the ability to twist the mind, to confuse, or in Holden’s case, store up pain and then inflict it on others. To be clear, this is very much a crime and espionage comic, not a superhero comic. The main problem for Holden is that the only person who knows he was going deep under cover is now in a coma. All of his former friends and colleagues think he has turned and is now a villain and terrorist. So the story is really about how far can he go, how much can he do, supposedly in the name of good, before he becomes evil? Is he just pretending that he doesn’t enjoy what he does and his new life? And is he just acting or does he really care about some of the people he now works beside every day? A brutal, adult story, full of twists and turns.
Y: The Last Man – One day Yorrick wakes up to find that every other male mammal and human male on the planet has died. This is an epic road trip and adventure story across a transformed modern day America where he, and a small group of friends, try to unravel the mystery, but also survive in this brave new world. All major industry has effectively ended and society has collapsed, and out of the ashes of the old world, new tribes are emerging. New ways of looking at the future and how to remake the world, but of course, everyone has different ideas. Also does it matter who you were in the old world when everything you knew is gone? Who is Yorrick and why was he spared?
Preacher – This is the story about a man named Jesse Custer and his two friends, Tulip and Cassidy, an Irish vampire. Jesse has lost his faith in God and he wants answers. This is a very violent, very bloody, very wordy, road trip across modern day America. The writer is well known for over the top antics and this is full of extremes, but he doesn’t do it just to be naughty or to show off. Beneath the language and blood, there is a story about faith, friendship, honour, love, doing the right thing and family. During Jesse’s search they get into all sorts of trouble with serial killers, angels, demons, immortal killers and Jesse’s insane and very dangerous family. It’s over the top and wordy, a Tarantino film is probably the easiest shorthand description, but with a lot more substance and heart.
Ex-Machina – Mitchell Hundred is the newly elected Mayor of New York, but once he was a superhero known as The Great Machine. This is in our world, one without superheroes and this is not a superhero comic. It’s a political action story about modern society and trying to do the right thing in a world that is infinitely more complex than it used to be. Mitchell was an ordinary civil servant until something exploded when he was at work on the Hudson river. The device didn’t kill him, and was probably alien in origin, but it did change him. It made him able to speak to and control machines. As the Great Machine, he saved many people, but also realised his inadequacies and the limitations of being a superhero, as it was reactive and done one person at a time. This comic covers a whole host of hot topics from racism, to sexist, art, homophobia, the media, and it also looks at power and how it corrupts.
Sweet Tooth – Most of the world’s population has been wiped out by a terrible disease. No one knows the cause or why it happened. Since then, the only children being born are human animal hybrids, kids with tails, wings, feathers, or in the case of the story’s main character Gus, he has antlers. Gus is raised in seclusion by his very religious father, who has told him how evil and dangerous the world is outside. When Gus’s father succumbs to the disease Gus finds himself thrust into the new world. At the other extreme is Jepperd, a tough old man who seems born to survive in this post apocalyptic world. Jepperd and Gus make an unlikely pair, and what follows is a touching and sometimes harrowing story about living versus surviving. Beautifully drawn and written by Jeff Lemire, the last single issue has been published and the last trade paperback collection is out later this year. So technically it’s all a complete series.
Scalped – A gritty, crime and noir series set on a modern day Native American reservation. After years of living off the reservation, Dashiell Bad Horse comes home. The rez is awash with organised crime, drugs and gambling and Bad Horse has not come back to make friends. Minor spoiler, but it is very early on and critical to the story, he is actually an undercover FBI agent investigating a murder. While the very basic premise may sound slightly similar to Sleeper, this is a very very different comic. Sleeper is espionage and this is a straight crime comic. Bad Horse struggles to cope with the two sides of his life being together in one place, staying loyal to the Bureau, while also getting hip deep in rez politics. At times the rez feels like the wild west, as they have their own laws and operate in a bubble in some ways, and many of the characters and stories are tinged with despair. If you like gritty cop shows, shows like The Wire, where it’s full on but clearly going somewhere and not just for show, I’d recommend this.
Strangers in Paradise – This is one of my favourite comic book series ever, so I’m bias. However, I will try not to gush too much. This is best described as a slice of life story about an unorthodox love triangle, mixed with some crime aspects, but ultimately it’s a massive sprawling story about life and love. It’s a contemporary story set in the real world, with no magic or super powers, and the story focuses on two girls who meet in high school, one of who harbours a lot of secrets. As the story develops and with flashbacks to their time in school, we learn about Katina’s dark past, Francine’s daily struggles with her weight, finding a job she likes, and dealing with difficult men in her life. David is the third side of the triangle, and he loves Katina, but there again he is keeping secrets and he is far more than just an arty student type. It’s quite a complex story to describe without spoiling, but this is definitely an adult comic, exploring adult themes of sexuality, love, passion, crime, fear, family and pain. There are guns and the occasional murder, a crime syndicate, a plane crash, break-ups and tears, but mostly it is a story about three people. I say people rather than characters, because they are so well developed, both emotionally and physically. I don’t want this to sound like a bleak read, because it isn’t, and all of the dark is balanced with humour and comedy. As I say it is difficult to describe and this can be a bit of a marmite book for some people. Terry Moore wrote and drew the series and no one draws women like him. They look like real people. Fat, thin, tall and short, every character looks realistic. Overall, a remarkable book and it’s why I have a special print from the series on my study wall.
Bon e – Back when self publishing comics was a radical and new idea, long before the internet opened up and digital, print on demand and web comics made it even easier to reach your audience, three men were creating comics. Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise), Dave Sim (Cerebus) and Jeff Smith, writer and artist of Bone. Like all of them, Bone was originally printed in single issues but is now available in giant collections. This is an all ages comic full of wild, wacky and very inventive ideas, wonderful characters, and adventure. It’s about the journey of three little bald headed, cartoony characters through a fantastical world. It’s light, silly, and a refreshing and fun story. It has won numerous comic book awards and is very highly regarded.
Saga – An epic space opera with unusual spaceships, magic, bounty hunters, sex planets, giants, sentient planets, dinosaurs, and animal headed aliens. Two lovers, from different sides of a conflict, are tired of war, and trying to get out with their new born baby, who is loathed by many for being a cross-breed. This comic is for adults only due to the language, violence and other adult sexual content. It’s a huge tale that is gradually unfolding, and it is told from a very unique perspective, as the narrator is the child being born at the start of the first issue. The main story follows the girl’s parents as they try to escape and start a new life. A quick touchstone is Lord of the Rings meets Romeo and Juliet, although to me, it’s more like Star Wars meets Romeo and Juliet. The story is clearly influenced by many comics, films and TV from the SFF world and it’s a thrilling, interesting and exciting adventure where you have no idea what is going to happen next and what is around the next corner. There are no limits, each issue ends on a cliffhanger and you care about the main characters. One trade paperback is out now, plus you can get single issues or digital copies.
Chew – This is a story set in the modern world where a bird flu epidemic killed millions of people and this has resulted in the ban on all chicken and chicken like meat. Speak Easy diners sell black market chicken and the enforcement of the ban has resulted in the Food and Drug Administration FDA branch of the Government becoming incredibly powerful. Tony Chu is a cop who has an unusual talent, he is a cibopath, which means he gets psychic impressions of whatever he eats and know their history. So if he eats a burger, he will see the cow being cooked, then ground up, then killed, and so on all the way back to it grazing happily in the field. Everything he eats gives him the same mental imagery, except beets, so he eats them a lot. This is, in the most loose terms, a detective comic, but it is incredibly dark and with lots of black humour. It has lots of weird and wacky characters, as Tony’s ability is not the only one, and all of the other abilities are related to food in some way. Overall this is an incredibly funny comic but it is very odd and I admit, not to everyone’s taste.
The Sixth Gun – This is a mix of several genres where the sum is far greater than its parts. It’s a spooky and creepy horror western with supernatural elements, where six guns bestow unnatural powers on the people who wield them. For the longest time they were in the hands of some terrible people, with some fairly unpleasant results (I’m being fairly vague on purpose so I don’t spoil the fun!), but now they’re after the 6th gun and they want to find their leader, General Hume. At the beginning of the story it focuses on several groups trying to track and then retrieve the 6th Gun, which has now fallen into the hands of the heroine Becky. She and Drake Sinclair, a man with an unpleasant past trying to make amends, are thrown together as they try to outsmart and outmanoeuvre the dangerous group of killers on their heels. This story has touches of magic, ghosts, unnatural dark powers, legendary weapons steeped in a dark and twisted history, and bags and bags of fun. It’s bright, colour, explosive and a really great and exciting read. I love westerns, and the supernatural, and this is the perfect blend of the two. It’s not really suitable for kids, despite the style of art, and so far there are four trade paperback collections available. With each chapter the story and the world expands, but there is a resolution, so the writer is not just stringing you along. It’s one of the most unique and interesting comics I’ve read in quite a while.
Spider-Man – Miles Morales – I’m being careful about the number of superhero comics I put on this list, because the market is dominated by them, also it’s hard to know where to start sometimes when a comic has been going for decades, and as I said, they’re just one genre in the medium. However, if you want to read a Spider-Man comic then I would suggest you start with this one because it is fairly new and you can read it without knowing much about what came before. It is also suitable for younger readers, probably anyone ten and over I would say. I’ve put Miles Morales because this is about a new Spider-man called Miles. He is a modern kid and the story is set today, so he has the internet and a mobile phone and a whole set of new issues to deal with as a child growing up in the 21st century. It’s about a boy who is given great powers and how he copes with the responsibility that comes with them and what he chooses to do. It’s very refreshing as well because there is very little you need to know before picking this up and a quick internet search would fill in any blanks. The story plays with familiar archetypes for those who have read Spider-Man before, so there are lots of nice Easter eggs for us older readers, but you don’t need to know any of that to enjoy the series. A really entertaining, fresh and fun comic about a new hero in the making and the decisions he makes. There are several trade paperback collections available already.
Manhattan Projects – This series is written by Jonathan Hickman, who I think is one of the most interesting writers to have come into the comics industry in the last ten years. He has big ideas. I mean epic. He did a long run on the Fantastic Four that wrapped up last year that was one big story with lots of interlocking pieces. He’s doing the same sort of grand story on The Avengers right now, and he’s talked about in interviews how the idea he pitched was pretty big, and will unfold over several years. He also has a vivid imagination and this comic, and all of his other creator owned comics, demonstrate that fact. The story revolves around the idea that the term ‘Manhattan Project’ was actually an umbrella under which several weird and wonderful scientific experiments were being developed by leading scientists from all over the world. This story includes nasty and dark scientific ideas, touches of sci-fi, aliens and creating portals to other worlds and parallel dimensions, historic figures re-imagined and twisted slightly through a lens. It mixes small touches of fact with a lot of fiction, so at one point we see Einstein working on something that is far beyond what most people would assume. It is one of the most unpredictable comics I read and jammed full of strange ideas. If you like shows like Eureka and Fringe, where lots of different things are jammed together and strange geniuses are walking to the beat of their own drum, then this is for you. I like alternate history stories, or stories that suggest a secret history of the world that most people don’t know about, and this is both of those really. It’s a lot fun and two trade paperback are available.
All Star Western – A self explanatory title. It’s focuses on different characters in a western setting, and although technically it is a DC comic, don’t expect any superheroes or people with super powers. There are amusing Easter eggs, such as famous names that will later come to mean something in 200 years time in DC comics continuity, like Arkham, but these are proper, down and dirty, six gun, stories of crime, passion, greed, lust, envy, hatred and bravery. Some of the characters don’t talk about their feelings, they shoot them in the street and move on. They have goals and objectives and the law can only do so much in a country so big, so people turn to those on the edges of the law, bounty hunters and men of action with a conscience. The story focus on Jonah Hex, a scarred and famous bounty hunter and man with iron principles, and the back up stories have other characters. A really solid western comic, and if you enjoy the Hex stories and want more of him, then you can dig out lots of Jonah Hex trade paperbacks.
Morning Glories – Six very different and exemplary students are chosen to attend the prestigious Morning Glories academy. They’re known for being excellent and all are delighted by this opportunity, until on the first day one of the teachers tries to drown everyone. This story is a giant mystery and a huge puzzle box that is slowly being unravelled. I’m delighted to say the writer knows how it ends and where the story is going. He is not doing a Lost, and has explicitly said this in interviews. None of the students remember how they arrived at the school as they were unconscious, so no one knows where it is. After several attempts on their lives, often at the hands of teachers but sometimes other students, they begin to realise they’re being tested and challenged for some greater purpose. The story involves ghostly apparitions, time travel (maybe), conspiracies, cults, and a whole host of other elements I won’t spoil. If you like mysteries, and complex intriguing stories, if you like TV shows like The Prisoner, with people trapped and having their strings pulled, then I would definitely recommend Morning Glories. Three trade paperbacks are currently available. Definitely an adult story for adult readers, despite having teen protagonists.
Elephantmen – In a distant future, a twisted and deranged scientist, working for a powerful corporation, created some human / animal hybrids using African animals. These bulky and incredibly dangerous children are trained from birth to be soldiers and brutal killers, denied freedom of thought and essentially brainwashed into believing they are unkillable machines. When the UN discovers what has been going on the programme is shut down, but not before the Elephantmen inflict heavily casualties. They are released, given independence and they try to live normal lives. Some of them are loathed, some become celebrities, some powerful businessmen, some just want to disappear and some can’t shake off their past and they become dangerous criminals and rulers of the underworld. This comic has a real Blade Runner vibe to it, as when you look at the art there is a lot of dark shadows, bright neon lights and signs, and a blending of many modern and historic elements to create a future that is a mix of many cultures. The story focuses on different characters, including Hip Flask, a hippo hybrid who is a private eye, Ebenezer Hide, who is an Elephantman, who works with Hip from time to time, and Obadiah Horn a rhino hybrid who is now a successful businessman. The artwork in this book is simply amazing, gorgeous painted covers by Ladronne, and the colours are so important. The stories are a mix of genres, but ultimately about these unusual and rather remarkable outsiders who are trying to find a place in the world. An incredible and unique comic book. Five big trades are currently available.
Well done if you’ve made it this far. This post turned out to be much longer than anticipated. I’m going to do this again at some point, but if you would like me to recommend comics from a particular genre, then let me know in the comments section.
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Five star cruise ship puts in at Nha Trang
(Oct 17, 2010) The Diamond Princess cruise ship, carrying 2,500 international tourists from 47 countries and territories, anchored at Nha Trang Bay in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on October 14.
Festival of Asian Children’s Art held in Hanoi
(Oct 14, 2010) The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan opened the Mitsubishi Asian Children’s Enikki Festa 2010-2011 in Hanoi on October 13.
German, Vietnamese artists exhibition in Hanoi
(Oct 14, 2010) An art exhibition called “Deutschland shop – Vietnam branch” by a group of German and Vietnamese artists opened at Goethe Institute, Hanoi on October 12.
Exhibition named “Imperial Citadel of Thang Long – the 1000-year history from the earth’s entrails”
(Oct 13, 2010) On October 2, the opening ceremony of the exhibition on typical vestiges of Thang Long – Hanoi with the theme “Imperial Citadel of Thang Long – the 1000-year history from the earth’s entrails” was held in Central Sector of Imperial Citadel of Thang Long – Hanoi. This is the first time the vestiges of Imperial Citadel of Thang Long – Hanoi has been displayed and introduced to Vietnamese people and international visitors.
Nha Trang to host international yacht race again
(Oct 13, 2010) The central coastal city of Nha Trang will host the fourth VinaCapital Hong Kong-Vietnam International Yacht Race from October 20-24. The race is expected to draw more than 200 contestants from Hong Kong , Singapore , the Philippines , Australia , New Zealand and several European and American nations.
Hanoi to host Japanese language festival
(Oct 12, 2010) The Japan Foundation for Cultural Exchanges in Vietnam and the Vietnam-Japan Human Resources Corporation Centre (VJCC) will hold a Japanese language festival in Hanoi on October 17.
Visa fee exemption takes effect
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Richard Long is a preeminent pioneer of walking as art, beginning with his seminal piece A Line Made by Walking, 1967. This work was considered – and is still considered, nearly 50 years later – a key moment in the development of a number of new art movements still flourishing today, including conceptual art, land and environmental art, performance art, the blurring of boundaries between different practices, and the idea that art does not need to be limited solely to the production of an art object.
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In, this simple line of flattened turf, made by his walking backwards and forwards in a field, Richard Long is saying that sculpture can be an act of walking, and that art can be ephemeral, performative – not necessarily able to be bought or sold or viewed in a gallery. All that remains is the now famous photograph that he took at the time, through which we can share the original experience of his walk in our own imaginations: the experience of being fully connected to the natural world around us through the natural and repetitive movement of the body.
Still highly influential today, Richard Long has made epic walks in many of the world’s remotest regions, as well as close to home – often marking the landscapes of his journeys through archetypal geometric patterns (circles, spirals, lines…) either through his own movement or through making sculpture with the stone and natural materials to hand. These large outdoor sculptural works are short-lived – working always with deep respect for nature, Long will dismantle the pieces after he has documented them with photography.
He also makes work for gallery viewing – his photographs, text works, maps and other forms of presentation bring us vivid impressions of his human experience during the walks, and his floor-based stone pieces and mud works made directly on the gallery walls give an immediate physical sense of the land through which he has travelled.
I wrote before on this blog about Richard Long – at the time of his wonderful Heaven and Earth exhibition at Tate Modern, London, 2009. Here is a glowing account of the exhibition, with which I completely agree, but could never say so well! Jonathan Jones – Heaven and Earth
And I was surprised to find my views haven’t changed very much since 2009, so rather than repeat what I have already said – please read my earlier post if you would like to.
‘One thing leads to another: everything is connected’. Made for
Art on the Underground, in London. 60,000 copies were given away to customers on the Jubilee Line in June 2009.
Richard Long seems to be ‘flavour of the month’ here in Devon, much to my pleasure – for I have seen three separate exhibitions here recently, where his work has been featured.
Detached and Timeless, at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Exeter, was a superb exhibition of significant British artists from across the last 60 years, whose work has been inspired by nature and spirit of place. Unfortunately here, I felt Long’s small stone floor piece suffered somewhat from being squeezed up against a dividing wall, making it difficult for me to get a sense of its geometry in relation to the space. But it was right it should be there, representing his contribution to contemporary land-related art, and there were many other fascinating and inspiring works on show to catch my attention! The exhibition closed on Nov 2nd, but there is a little info on the RAMM website, under ‘What’s On/ past exhibitions’.
In Plymouth, I visited Walk On (40 years of Art Walking – From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff), a wide-ranging and very interesting exhibition, which was promoted as ‘… the first exhibition to examine the astonishingly varied ways that artists, from the 1960’s onwards, have undertaken a seemingly universal act – that of taking a walk – as a means to create new types of art’.
The part of the exhibition held in Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery was my favourite. This was partly perhaps because of its emphasis on landscape and nature, with important works from Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, and a number of other distinguished figures such as Alec Finlay, Chris Drury, Julian Opie… But it was also because of the strength of the exhibition presentation itself, with two of Long’s stone circles rightly, I believe, taking a pivotal place in the centre of the floor, holding the exhibition together and setting it into context. The circles reflected his lifelong connection with Southwest England. Other smaller wall-based works of his represented significant moment during the course of his career. For me, there is often something timeless, almost Zen-like in the disciplined simplicity and repetitive nature of Long’s processes. The works are full of movement, and a sense of his own mental and bodily movements – and at the same time they carry a pervading sense of absolute stillness beneath the movement.
The ‘Walk-On’ exhibition is open until Dec.13th and well worth seeing if possible, for all the other artists too, that I haven’t been able to mention here.
Here’s a recent short film from Lisson Gallery, London: Richard Long at Frieze Masters.
The third exhibition I have seen recently in Devon, is: Artist Rooms: Richard Long, at the Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford. I approached it with some trepidation, for somehow I had got it into my head that the space was going to be too small, too dark and too cluttered… I could not have been more wrong, for as I pushed open the door to the first room, my eye, and indeed my footsteps, were drawn as if by a magnet to the central stone sculpture Cornish Slate Ellipse, 2009 (which Richard Long had personally reassembled in the gallery).
As I walked very slowly around the ellipse, one of my favourite quotations (from Isamu Noguchi) flitted through my head: ‘Stone is the visible history of time, feeding us through a calm and radiant presence’. I breathed in the strong physicality of the stone, and the clear, clean spaciousness of the surrounding gallery. The two were in perfect balance. (Though, on a second visit, I found the balance was somewhat disturbed by the intrusion of a large donations receptacle into a prominent position in the space. This put an interesting new reading on the entire exhibition!)
However… continuing my earlier walk around the ellipse, a relaxed sense of being out in the open landscape slowly grew in me. I sat to look at the work more closely. Its simple geometric form allowed my mind to wander free.
I admired the machine-cut precision of the stone pieces, set against the occasional glimpses of natural mineral veins and stains within the stone itself. And in the massed tightly-packed arrangement of the pieces within the ellipse, I began to see patterns, curves and alignments – drawing me to contemplate the never-ending movement of life – and a felt sense of geological time.
There was a second stone piece, of Delabole slate: Spring Circle 1992, in the second room of the gallery – both sculptures acting as reference points for exploring the surrounding display of photographs, text works, lithographic prints and a small book of mud-dipped pages.
It was very nice to view these small-scale wall-based works at close-hand and so clearly and logically presented in the comfortable rooms of the Burton Gallery. Quite a few of them were made in our region, the Southwest: River Avon Mud Drawings: ten mud-dipped papers, 1988, for instance, or the purely textual piece: Three Moors, Three Circles, 1982, representing walks made on Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor and Exmoor.
All of them, I believe, were made in the British Isles, covering a range of different types of work and key moments during Long’s career. All of them convey a strong sense of his moment by moment relationship with the land through which he passes. And in the images where he has worked directly with earth material on paper, we can see his relaxed mastery of his medium.
In this second room, the first work I viewed was the renowned A Line Made by Walking, 1967 … and the final one was In the Cloud 1991: a fairly large framed text piece of an eight day walk across Scotland… ‘Coast to Coast West to East 1991.’ Chronologically, this led me straight back to the Delabole circle, then back out through the first gallery and the Cornish slate ellipse.
Here’s a video of another exhibition, that includes what I think is an earlier iteration of Cornish Slate Ellipse.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that Richard Long’s practice (long solitary walks, often in remote parts of the world, focusing on nature and getting away from human contact) is a sort of romantic escapist fiction, as opposed to the reality of social interaction. I would say it is the exact opposite – that our deepest reality lies in our being part of this planet. The fiction can be seen in the games and manoeuverings of our dominant culture. Richard Long is an explorer, and very much involves himself in bringing his work back to galleries around the world, for us to consider and enjoy.
The exhibition, at the Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford, continues until 10th Jan 2015, so there is still lots of time to see it!
For finding out more about Richard Long – here are a few good links among the many:
RICHARD LONG OFFICIAL WEBSITE – www.richardlong.org
He states: “Art about mobility, lightness and freedom.
Simple creative acts of walking and marking
about place, locality, time, distance and measurement”.
Lisson Gallery – http://www.lissongallery.com/artists/richard-long
TATE: A Line in the Himalayas
Richard Long Exhibition (Heaven and Earth) – http://wp.me/p4mYE-ug
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Singer/Songwriter Patrick Rock (Greensboro, NC) has been writing, recording and playing over 200+ shows a year for over 20+ years. 2017 began the involvement of his current touring line-up "The Wreckage" made up of stellar musicians George Westberry on Bass(The Deluge, None The Wiser), David McLaughlin on Guitar(House of Fools, Paris Ave.) and Rob Wojnar on Drums(Lube, Ultraviolet). (more)
Original Band from Charlotte, NC (112 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
A High energy & charismatic duo, (featuring prolific & influential songwriter Paleface & darling drummer Monica "Mo" Samalot), that has been charming audiences from coast to coast with their dynamic & interactive performances that get crowds in great spirits, dancing and singing along. Their eclectic sound is influenced by Rock N Roll, Folk, Blues, Americana, Pop and Punk music and features dynamic compositions, vocal harmonies, and acoustic instruments (mainly guitar & drums) combined with a... (more)
Radiojacks
Variety Band from Charlotte, NC (118 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
Close your eyes and listen… Is that Taylor Swift or Bruno Mars playing your party? Who invited Justin Timberlake? This is what happens when RadioJacks takes the stage. You see, the songs that are just making the charts are already part of RadioJacks set. With uncanny accuracy, this band delivers today's top 40 so close to the original that you will think you have the original artist right there with you. Now open your eyes and see the dynamic, youthful energy of a band that is... (more)
Emerald Empire Band
Cover Band from Asheville, NC (120 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
High Energy Live Music to Pack Your Dance Floor! We're live music experts, wedding enthusiasts, and party starters, infusing every event with energy and full dance floors. We're here to make your wedding the greatest party of your life! The Emerald Empire are a premium, customizable 3-14 piece band specializing in high-energy music for festivals, weddings, corporate events and private functions–at a sensible price. Our talented and professional musicians have performed regularly with... (more)
Cover Band from Raleigh, NC (150 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
The Whiskey Rebellion
Cover Band from Moseley, VA (183 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
Skillful picking and expert three-part harmonies are just part of what you can expect from the Whiskey Rebellion, who have been plying their brand of high-energy acoustic music across the Southeast (and as far west as the Pacific Ocean) for the last eight years. The band has recorded two regionally-acclaimed original albums, shared the stage with the Sam Bush Band and Carolina Chocolate Drops, and had their 2011 tour of the Pacific Northwest captured by filmmaker Tony Morin for a forthcoming... (more)
Bergamot Rose - Nouveau Alternative & French Band
French Band from Purcellville, VA (240 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
Bergamot Rose | Nouveau Alternative, Chamber Pop, World Jazz and French Fusion A sound palette of world rhythms infused with a French twist. Inspired by early '90's new wave, Bergamot Rose is composed of tart lyrics balanced by vibrant rhythms and instrumentation. The group also performs world jazz and is well known for their performances at The French Ambassador's Residence in DC in addition to The French Embassy and Canada OAS. The music of Bergamot Rose reflects a musical... (more)
Sonic Spectrum Band
Variety Band from Wilmington, NC (248 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
Sonic Spectrum brings the party by building a one of a kind show of both live and DJ songs to create the customized experience you deserve. From Shag to Soul; from Motown to Metal, we cover the Spectrum to go beyond just the wedding and party basics. Sonic Spectrum hails from Wilmington, NC and powerfully delivers an eclectic mix of funk, rock, pop & soul. Mike Lewis (lead vocals) presents an impressive range, accurately recreating Al Green, Prince, Axel Rose and Rick James just to name a... (more)
The Lone Rangers
Variety Band from Charlottesville, VA (161 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
The Lone Rangers are on a mission to save the world from boring. Sporting a deep catalog of hits from the '70s, '80s, '90s, and today, the band can elevate any social gathering to a sing-along, dance-along, riotously good time. The Rangers draw on the talents of several established local acts, combining their powers towards a singular goal: to bring you the party. In a world of increasing tedium, the Lone Rangers are prepared to deploy epic amounts of fun. Will you join them? (more)
3 Shades Of Blue
Alternative Band from Glenmoore, PA (363 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
3 Shades of Blue is an alternative rock band from Philadelphia PA. They have opened for bands such as Panic at the Disco, Switchfoot, Skillet, and many more. They are best known for their time on America's Got Talent season 10, where they placed top 20. 3 Shades of Blue plays original music along with top 40's and recent alternative covers. The band travels with a full sound system when needed. Please reach out for any booking inquiry's. (more)
7 Sharp 9
Cover Band from Atlanta, GA (278 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
Hire TheKnot.com's Hall Of Fame Inductee and Best Of Weddings Winner (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), WeddingWire.com's 'Couple's Choice Award winner 2016 and 2017, and #1 rated Cover Band AND Wedding Band in Georgia on Gigmasters! 7 Sharp 9 pride themselves on their versatility, musicianship, professionalism, and high energy. If you're looking for variety, fun, and you want your dance floor to stay packed, 7 Sharp 9 is your band! You will see on their song list music from all time periods and... (more)
Mod Society
Jazz Band from Brooklyn, NY (465 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
Mod Society combines modern-chic style with top quality music entertainment that will keep your guests on the dance floor all night! We specialize in blending indie rock, classic rock, and Top 40 in our arrangements to present a unique performance at every event. Mod Society has been performing throughout Boston and NYC for the past 10 years. Our music spans from straight-ahead traditional jazz to highly energized latin jazz and salsa. High-energy Top 40 dance songs and indie covers are... (more)
Variety Band from Baltimore, MD (293 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
Cover Band from Chicago, IL (496 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
Patrick & the LVB - Chicago Cover Band / Top 40 Band / Party Band (Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chicago, Denver, Orlando) Patrick Sieben has quickly become one of Las Vegas' top performers. He currently holds a 4 night per week residency at Aria Resort and Casino located at the heart of the Las Vegas strip, performing a young and energetic mix of modern pop tunes, classic hits and originals. While maintaining his residency in Vegas, Patrick and his band travel across the country... (more)
Vinyl Underground
Cover Band from Detroit, MI (404 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
The Vinyl Underground is Detroit's Premier Party Band. Composed of five of Detroit's most decorated musicians. The Vinyl Underground boasts a range of material unmatched by any other band in the Midwest. The Vinyl Underground has performed at the North American Auto Show for 5 consecutive years, Autorama, The Motor City Casino, The Gem Theater and private parties from Traverse City to West Virginia. Fronted by national and local award winning singer, Chris McCall, the Vinyl Underground... (more)
OnLive
Variety Band from Pelham, AL (407 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
Creating the best and most memorable event is important to you! OnLive understands this, and is dedicated to helping ensure that you receive the best in quality music and entertainment. If you are looking for a wide variety of musical genres and a band that is dedicated to meeting all of your expectations, then look no further! OnLive is a "full-service" entertainment group with a host of musical backgrounds and years of public performances. We have traveled thousands of miles to perform... (more)
The Jump Cut
Hey there! We are The Jump Cut, a 4-piece band from Atlanta, and we would love to help you make your next event one to remember! Our members have spent the better part of the last decade in a variety of positions throughout the Atlanta music scene, from studio musicians to sound engineers, even traveling the country performing with national touring acts. We believe that this breadth of experience has given us a unique ability to adapt and excel in any situation that calls for live music, and... (more)
Smitty's Polka Band
Polka Band from New York City, NY (463 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
** SMITTY'S POLKA BAND -- ROLLIN' OUT THE BARREL w/ the hottest session players in the NY music scene today--classic rock takes on polka, plus pop, Top 40 and Dance Music. ** Smitty's combines classic Old World beer hall accordion with vocals, electric guitars, brass, bass guitars and drums, in a rock band setup. And no genre is safe from the SMITTY'S, who will do whatever it takes to get your groove on! ** SMITTY'S rapidly growing client list includes names like Tussey Mountain PA,... (more)
Talking Machine
Acoustic Band from Newburgh, NY (490 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
Married couple Chris Holub, AKA Tin Monk, and Di Holub are Talking Machine, available as an acoustic duo or three piece band with the addition of long time drummer/percussionist, Sam Allen. Talking Machine's sound and approach are an amalgamation of their musical tastes in all genres, old and new. Although the group is acoustic, song arrangements and instrumentation are that of a fully formed rock group, delivering a full sounding, rhythmically driven musical experience. Chris (Monk) ... (more)
Jose Conde Bands, Ola Fresca
Cuban Band from New York City, NY (464 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
A consistent choice of celebrities and top party planners for over 20 years, Jose Conde is "one of NY's most important Latin voices" (TIMEOUT NY), and a dynamic and charismatic Cuban American singer, performer, producer and bandleader. Recent gig activity for Conde includes leading bands in top public and private venues in notable spaces such as MOMA, Museum of the City of New York, Lincoln Center, Sunset Beach-Shelter Island, Mexico City's Publico Prim Museum, Miami Beach Bath Club, Dumbo... (more)
56DAZE
Variety Band from Toledo, OH (363 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
***The KNOT's Best of Weddings Pick for 2018 (9 Years Straight!) *** 2017 BRIDE's CHOICE AWARD from WEDDING WIRE *** Since 2005, 56DAZE has been the PERFECT entertainment for many "MUST BE PERFECT" events! 56DAZE is equally at home performing at wedding receptions, corporate events, street fairs, festivals, private parties, and many local and regional night spots. We'll work with you and adjust our song list to play the music you want to hear. We're not the typical stuffy "wedding band"... (more)
Cover Band from Washington, DC (259 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
The 80’s vs. 90’s Show
90s Band from New York City, NY (464 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
The 80's vs. 90's Show is a unique and mind blowing experience featuring the best music from two very different decades. Whether it's big hair, neon, Doc Martens or flannel, this band will keep your guests partying on the dance floor all night long! MTV videos play during the set, which bring you back to your favorite decade or decades! The band performs in era specific costumes, raising the bar and raising hell! If you're looking for for something completely new and exciting for your party,... (more)
Jupiter Vinyl
Folk Band from Pittsburgh, PA (251 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
We take songs that are well-loved, time-honored classics and make them our own. We give them a new twist so that they can be enjoyed all over again with a fresh hip sound. We are a trio that has written original music as well as covered a wide variety of popular songs. We play everything from the Beatles to Radiohead in our unique style. We can provide our own high-quality sound system that can handle 50-500 people. We are also happy to travel lighter and plug into your house system. We have... (more)
Lost Love Horizon
Rock Band from Harrisburg, PA (329 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
"Lost Love Horizon," is a central Pennsylvania based, high-energy rock, pop, country, classic, current hit band that also performs LLH originals. The 4-MAN band tours throughout the Northeast, performing at various venues, reaching a wide audience while traveling with state-of-the-art sound & lighting production. The band delivers top-shelf vocals, & rock-solid musicianship combined with a variety of all styles of music. There is something for everyone. All four members of the band... (more)
The Cosmic Collective
Jazz Band from Nashville, TN (323 miles from Ivanhoe, VA)
The Cosmic Collective covers multiple styles of music; from Jazz and Bossa nova to Pop, R&B, Funk, and Motown. The group boasts a range of accomplishments, including house dance band at The Grand Hotel in Mackinac Island, MI and a feature on Greg Pogue's Jazz Station on ACME Radio. The band consists of formally trained musicians active in the Nashville area, vocalist Nikki Elias, bassist Tyler Enslow, Drummer Jed Smith, Keyboardist Jeff Goodkind, and saxophonist DeVante' Buford. Regulars in... (more) | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6409679651260376, "wiki_prob": 0.6409679651260376, "source": "cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1261601"} |