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Strong summer demand drives meat category sales
By Anne-Marie Roerink
Despite some consumers pointing to planning to eat out less often to save money during these inflationary times, 80% of consumers have ordered from or eaten at a restaurant in the past few weeks.
More than half, 54%, have ordered restaurant takeout and 49% have dined in. Restaurant engagement is far higher among households in their prime child-rearing years: Older Millennials and Gen X, shoppers ages 32 to 56. The early pandemic months saw lower consumer mobility and more time in the kitchen. As life’s hectic pace has resumed, the eternal battle between time/convenience, healthfulness and money has intensified in the past year. This has resulted in very complex consumption and shopping patterns. We see the same household take to scratch cooking one day and value-added or deli solutions the next.
We see ultra-premium and pure value items in the same basket. We see consumers switch seamlessly between quick frozen meal solutions or fresh meal kits and spending hours on cooking meat on the smoker. There is no one-size-fits-all way to handle inflationary pressures in 2022.
The July edition of the IRI monthly survey of primary shoppers underscores the market complexity.
Awareness of grocery inflation is widespread and consumers list examples of price inflation across virtually every department in the store. Unchanged from last month, eight in 10 grocery shoppers made changes to what and where they purchased. The dominant changes are looking for sales specials (49%), skipping non-essentials (44%), finding coupons (31%) and buying more private or other low-cost brands (32%). Despite the high gas prices, 17% cherry pick specials across retailers and 15% now do some of their shopping at lower-cost retailers.
Sales specials, while popular, are only slowly gearing up and are still far below pre-pandemic levels. Consumers are taking notice: 54% say fewer of the items they want are on sale and 44% say items are not discounted as much as they used to be.
The share of home-prepared meals dropped to its lowest point in years, at a consumer-estimated 78.2% of all meals. The average share of home-prepared meals is higher among low-income shoppers, at 78.9%, versus high-income shoppers, at 76.1%.
Online shopping jumped up in July to 19% of trips. Those who have integrated online shopping into their lineup are enjoying the convenience but grocery e-commerce has also emerged as a money-saving measure to help control the total basket spend. Online shopping likely also got a bit of a bump due to the latest COVID-19 variant: 26% of Americans were extremely concerned about COVID-19 in July. While less than half of the initial level of concern, it still means changed shopping and consumption patterns for one-quarter of Americans.
These measures have resulted in prolonged unit and volume pressure across most categories, while dollar sales are boosted by inflation. To document the ever-changing nature of the marketplace, IRI, 210 Analytics and Marriner Marketing continue to team up to bring the latest trends and analysis relative to meat department sales, including fresh and processed items.
Inflation insights
The price per unit across all foods and beverages in the IRI-measured multi-outlet stores, including supermarkets, club, mass, supercenter, drug and military, accelerated further to an increase of 13.3% in the five weeks ending July 31st, 2022 (“July”) versus year ago. This is up from +12.3% in June. July inflation was +15.3% in the center of the store (grocery) and +12.6% for perishables. Compared with July 2019, prices across all foods and beverages were up 25.2%.
The average price per pound in the meat department across all cuts and kinds, both fixed and random weight, stood at $4.56 in July 2022, which was up two cents from the June level, though up 7.0% versus year ago. This means meat had below-average inflation compared to totals food and beverages. In the past few months, meat inflation has been milder than the 52-week average, indicating that the increases are moderating. Inflation in processed meat did stay in the double digits, at +12.8% in July 2022.
On the fresh meat side, July inflation was highest for chicken and turkey while beef prices were down. Fresh exotic prices were up a mere 0.5% in July. This includes bison that has consistently had much lower rates of inflation throughout the pandemic.
Meat sales July 2022
July pounds tracked slightly ahead of the volume sales seen in 2019. This meant slight year-on-year declines of -1.3%, predominantly driven by processed meat.
The strong July performance is a continuation of a sales trend line that has moved volume closer to year ago levels for a while now. The year-on-year volume declines were steepest in the second quarter of 2021 when sales went up against the incredible early pandemic peaks. Volume was a mere 1.3% behind year ago levels in July.
The strong July performance was especially impressive as the average assortment was down 3.5% versus year ago and 6% versus 2019. That means fewer items have to work harder to achieve the same sales results and assortment optimization becomes more important.
Fresh meat by protein
Total fresh meat sales were up 4.0% in July. Poultry delivered big, but this was inflation driven. The impact of the very inflationary levels in poultry is clear with beef and pork growing pounds year-on-year versus declines for chicken and turkey.
Processed meat dollars grew over the 2021 sales levels by +8.8% in July 2022 and the growth performance was supported by all areas. Packaged lunchmeat surpassed bacon in July sales with a big inflationary boost. In pounds, however, all items were down versus year ago levels, with two exceptions of processed chicken and frankfurters (hot dogs).
Grinds
July was a good month for power seller ground beef with dollar growth versus year ago, two years ago and the pre-pandemic 2019. The second-largest seller, ground turkey, also grew as did chicken. Areas that lost a little ground in comparison to last year’s sales were ground lamb and veal. While the fourth-largest seller, ground pork is winning story with a year-on-year volume increase of 16.8%. Ground pork was up 30.1% in pounds versus 2019.
The BLS Consumer Price Index came down some in July due to decreases in the cost of gasoline and airline tickets. This may provide consumers with some budgetary relief. However, grocery price increases continued to accelerate. As such, inflation will continue to have a profound impact on grocery and total food spending.
The July IRI survey found that:
45% of American households describe their financial situation as being worse than a year ago, unchanged from June.
43% are having some or a lot of difficultly affording needed groceries.
34% feel their financial situation one year from now will look worse than it does today.
The next performance report in the IRI, 210 Analytics and Marriner Marketing series will be released mid-September to cover the August sales trends.
Please thank the entire meat and poultry industry, from farm to store, for all they do.
Date ranges:
2019: 52 weeks ending 12/28/2019
Q1 2021: 13 weeks ending 3/28/2021
Q4 2021: 13 weeks ending 12/26/2021
July 2022: 5 weeks ending 7/31/2022
KEYWORDS: consumer trends Grocery Manufacturers Association retail
Anne-Marie Roerink is the President of 210 Analytics LLC.
Meat and poultry sales post a strong October; inflation moderating
Analysis finds demand for meat strong, represents $50.5 billion in sales for 2019
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Third-Person Self-Knowledge, Self-Interpretation, and Narrative
Julie Kirsch Patrizia Pedrini (ed.)
Cham: Springer Verlag (2018)
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Patrizia Pedrini, Julie Kirsch (ed.) (2018). Third-Person Self-Knowledge, Self-Interpretation, and Narrative. Cham: Springer Verlag.
This volume answers questions that lead to a clearer picture of third-person self- knowledge, the self-interpretation it embeds, and its narrative structure. Bringing together current research on third-person self-knowledge and self-interpretation, the book focuses on third-person self-knowledge, and the role that narrative and interpretation play in acquiring it. It regards the third-personal epistemic approach to oneself as a problem worthy of investigation in its own right, and makes clear the relation between third-person self-knowledge, self-interpretation, and narrative capacities. In recent years, the idea that each person is in a privileged position to acquire knowledge about her own mental states has come under attack. A growing body of empirical research has cast doubt upon the existence of what philosophers call ‘first person self-knowledge’, i.e., knowledge about our mental states that is often thought to be immediate, transparent, and authoritative. This line of thought has led some philosophers to claim that what seems to be ‘first-person self-knowledge’ is really just ‘third-person self-knowledge,’ i.e., knowledge about our mental states that is inferential, opaque, and fallible. This book discusses challenges for first-person knowledge and explores the true nature of third-person knowledge.
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Subjectivity and the limits of narrative.Joseph Neisser - 2008 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 15 (2):51-66.
Inhabiting conscious experience: Engaged objectivity in the first-person study of consciousness.J. Petranker - 2003 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 10 (12):3-23.
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Encountering Narrative in Medicine.Elizabeth Mcgovern Gibson - 2004 - Dissertation, University of Virginia
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What kind of knowledge is necessary for the interpretation of language?Jing Wang & Zhilin Zhang - 2008 - Frontiers of Philosophy in China 3 (3):409-423.
Evidentiality and Narrative.Jill de Villiers & Jay Garfield - 2009 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 16 (6-8):6-8.
Narrative practices and folk psychology: A perspective from developmental psychology.Katherine Nelson - 2009 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 16 (6-8):6-8.
Dennett and Ricoeur on the Narrative Self.Joan McCarthy - 2007 - Humanity Books.
The person of the voice: narrative identities in informed consent.Brendan McCormack - 2002 - Nursing Philosophy 3 (2):114-119.
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Guide to the Fairfax M Cone Papers 1947-1971
Series I: General Files
Subseries 1: 1947-1949
Subseries 2: 1951
Subseries 10: 1959
Subseries 21: 1970 (R-Z only)
Series II: Speeches 1945-1971
Series III: Speeches by Others
Series IV: Photographs
Cone, Fairfax M. Papers
85.5 linear ft (147 boxes)
Fairfax Cone rose from copy editor at the Lord and Thomas ad agency to partner in Foote, Belding and Cone. The Papers contain correspondence, business and organizational files, speeches and photographs.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Cone, Fairfax M. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
A man of many interests Fairfax Cone streamlined the advertising profession in the 1930's. Cone began attending the University of California at Berkeley in 1921. A natural and gifted writer he joined the San Francisco Examiner where he used his writing and artistic abilities in the promotions department. He joined Lord and Thomas, San Francisco, as a copywriter in 1929 and became executive Vice President of Lord and Thomas' successor agency, Foote, Cone and Belding, in 1942. Based in Chicago, he led FCB to $22 million in billings in its first year with landmark campaigns for Lucky Strike, Hallmark, Toni and Dial. Cone distilled information to its essence, then executed campaigns with balance, simplicity, unity and clarity. Impatient with noisy, intrusive, deceptive TV commercials, Cone became an early advocate of a TV "magazine concept," whereby networks, not agencies, produced commercial programming.
Cone's philosophy of advertising targeted the individual, "There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone."
The Papers contain correspondence, business and organizational files, speeches and photographs.The Papers are divided into four series. Series I: General Files, is organized by year, then alphabetically within each year, from 1947-1970. Series II contains the text of speeches given by Cone from 1945 to 1971. Speeches by speakers other than Cone are in Series III. Series IV contains photographs, most from the 1960s.
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Cone, Fairfax M, 1903-
Armour and Company
Beatrice Foods Company
Frigidaire Corporation
Foote, Cone and Belding
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
General Foods Corporation
Box 1 Folder 1-2
Advertising Council
American Association of Advertising Agencies. "Certain Attitudes of Top Decision Makers in Industry and Labor Toward Advertising." (A study conducted by Elmo Roper for the AAAA) Mimeograph copy, unbound (originally in spring binders). Advertising as an Economic Force, pp. [2], A1-A221
American Association of Advertising Agencies. B. Importance of Advertising to Own Industry and Company, pp. [2], B1-B220
American Association of Advertising Agencies. C Expected Trends of Advertising Expense, pp. [1], C1-C105
American Association of Advertising Agencies. D. Advertising Agency Operation, pp. [2], D1-D14
American Association of Advertising Agencies. Mimeograph copy, in paper binding. Subject A, pp. A1-A94 ("Volume I")
American Association of Advertising Agencies. Subject A1, pp. A95-A221 ("Volume II")
American Association of Advertising Agencies. Subject B1-3, pp. B107-B220 ("Volume IV")
American Association of Advertising Agencies. Mimeograph copy, in loose-leaf paper binding. Subject B1, pp. B107-B176
American Association of Advertising Agencies. Subject C-D1, pp. C1-C105, D1-D14
American Association of Advertising Agencies. Subject C, pp. C60-C105
American Association of Advertising Agencies. "Digest of Comments. The Elmo Roper study of top decision makers in industry and labor." (Note on title page; "The `pertinent excerpts from each interview' which comprise a lengthy part of Mr. Cone's digests have not yet been mimeographed.")
American Association of Advertising Agencies. "Summary of the Four A's Survey Among Business Leaders on the Subject of Advertising as an Economic Force." (Note on second page describes this as an abridgement consisting of "pertinent excerpts from each interview") Typescript (carbon)
American Association of Advertising Agencies. "Advertising in General" Chapter from "A Summary of the Four A's," pp. 44-91. Typescript Two additional pages of statistics of favorable, all unfavorable, and neutral comments are located at beginning.
American Association of Advertising Agencies. "Character and Quantity of Current Advertising." Digest of section A3. Typescript
American Association of Advertising Agencies. "Attitudes of Certain Key Executives Concerning the Function and Usefulness of Advertising." A preliminary study by Elmo Roper, February 1946. Mimeograph copy
American Association of Advertising Agencies. "Certain Attitudes of Top Decision-Makers in Industry and Labor Toward Advertising. By Elmo Roper, April 1947. Typescript Table of contents, foreword; discussion; and basic interview pattern. Volume I
American Association of Advertising Agencies. Consumer goods; producer goods. Volume II
American Association of Advertising Agencies. Banks and insurance companies; railroads and utilities; unions. Volume III
American Association of Advertising Agencies. "Education of Management and Man Behind Management with Functions of Advertising and Services of Advertising Agencies." Idea submitted by Leo Burnet
American Economic System Campaign. Agency control file
American Economic System Campaign. Armour and Company. Account Executive File
American Economic System Campaign. Hiram Walker-Gooderham Works, Ltd. Account Executive file
American Economic System Campaign. International Cellucotton Products Co. Account Executive file
Box 3 Folder 12-13
National Association of Secondary School Principals. The Consumer Education Study. "Looking at Distribution." A tentative manuscript prepared for criticism before revision and publication for use in the high schools. With cover letter from National Better Business Bureau, Inc
Advertising Advisory Committee,
Advertising Council, January-February,
Advertising Council, March
Advertising Council, April
Advertising Council, May-June,
Advertising Council, July-September
Advertising Council, October
Advertising Council, November-December
Advertising Council-bonds
Agency solicitations
American Association of Advertising Agencies, January-March
American Association of Advertising Agencies, April-June
American Association of Advertising Agencies, July-September
American Association of Advertising Agencies, October-December
American Association of Advertising Agencies-Bulletins
American Bakers Association
Annual Reports, 1950
Armour-Packers
Armour-Soap
Box 6 Folder 9-10
Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry
City Planning Board
Hall Brothers, Inc
House Committee
International Advertising Conference (London)
International Cellucotton
International Corporation
Libby, NcNeill and Libby
Memoranda
Minneapolis-Honeywell
Nejelski Meetings
Erma Proetz Award Competition
Box 10 Folder 1
Speeches-Invitations
Speeches (FMC)-Requests for copies
The Toni Company
Tumor Institute (Chicago)
Box 10 Folder 8-9
University of Chicago-Medical and Biological Research Center
Box 10 Folder 110
University of Chicago-Round Table
Box 10 Folder 11
University of Chicago-Trustees
Hiram Walker
Advertising Advisory Committee
Advertising Council, January-March,
Advertising Council, April-June
Advertising Council, October-December
Advertising Council-"Craham Plan"
Advertising Council-Planning Committee
Advertising Council-Round Table
Box 11 Folder 12-13
The Arts Center
Committee for New Chicago
Contribution Requests
Crowell and Leibman
General Foods Corp
Inter-Office
Libby, McNeill and Libby
Liebmann Broweries
Box 14 Folder 9-10
Personal-Glubs
Personal-Economic Club
Speeches-Requests for copies
Toni Company
University of Chicago-Citizens Board
University of Chicago-Letters from Kimpton
University of Chicago-Medical and Biological Research Council
University of Chicago-TV Station
Hiram Walker, Inc
American Association of Advertising Agencies
Beatrice Foods Co
Educational Television Station
Illinois State Chamber of Commerce
International Cellucotton Products Co
S. C. Johnson and Son, Inc
Kool-Aid (Perkins Products Co)
Personal-Advertising Age Articles
Personal-Clubs
Personal-Compliments
Plans Group
University of Chicago-Budget Committee
University of Chicago-School of Business
Advertising Federation of America
American Association of Advertising Agencies-Committee on Government, Education, and Consumer Relations
Bricker Amendment
Eisenhower Foundation
Foote, Cone and Belding-Campaign
Foote, Cone and Belding-New Business Booklet
Hallmark Cards, Inc
Institute of Design
S. C. Johnson and Son
Kimberly-Clark Copr
Box 26 Folder 1 16
Kraft Foods Co
La Choy Food Products
Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co
Perkins Products Co
Personal-Advertising Age
University of Chicago-Fund Campaign
Carl Byoir and Associates, Inc
City of Chicago-Commission on Human Relations
Economy of Advertising
Foote, Cone and Belding-New York Office
International Cellucotton Products Company
Kraft Foods Company
Liebmann Breweries
Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulation Company
Perkins Products Company
Printers' Ink Advisory Board
University of Chicago-Council on Medical and Biological Research
Byoir
Chicago-All-Chicago Citizens Committee (Advertising and Public Relations)
Chicago-Central Area Committee
Chicago-Litter Campaign
Christmas, 1956
Citizens Traffic Safety Board
Foote, Cone and Belding-Activities Reports
Foote, Cone and Belding-Western Offices (financial)
Ford (congratulations)
Ford Motor Company-Special Product Division (1955-56)
Ford Motor Company-Special Product Division (1956)
Lever Brothers
Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company
Paper-Mate
Perkins Products
Personal-Oil
Printer's Ink Advisory Board
University of Chicago-Steering Committee
Dr. Bender
Chicago-All-Chicago Citizens Committee
Chicago Central Area Committee
Chicagoland Fair
Cone-Taylor letter
Edsel, July-December
Edsel, January-June
Edsel, January-June-Compliments
Edsel, January-June-Copy
Edsel, January-June-Dealer
Edsel, January-June-Script for Edsel slides
Foote, Cone and Belding-Annual letter to clients
General Foods Advertising Conference
Hawaiian Pineapple
Hertz Rent-a-Plane
University of Chicago-School of Business Report
University of Chicago-Visiting Committee
Hiram Walker Incorporated
Arthur Anderson and Company
Chicago Boys Club
Community Fund-Joint Appeal Planning Board
Detroit-financial
Equitable
Famous Artists Magazine
Foote, Cone and Belding-Account Status Reports
Foote, Cone and Belding-Annual Report to Clients
Foote, Cone and Belding-Billing Policy
Foote, Cone and Belding-Budgets
Foote, Cone and Belding-Charity
Foote, Cone and Belding-Client Promotions
Foote, Cone and Belding-Community Projects
Lincoln-Continental
New York Times Article
Personal-Commercial Club
Personal-Commercial Club-Program Committees
Public Relations Society
Speech Invitations
University of California Student Center
Branch banking
Chicago-Mayor's Committee
Commercial Club-Homestead
Contributions-Requests
Foote, Cone and Belding-Annual Report Letter
Foote, Cone and Belding-History
General Foods Corp-Perkins Division
General Foods Corp-S O S Division
B. F Goodrich
Greater North Michigan Avenue Association
University of Chicago-School of Business-New York
University of Chicago-School Of Business-San Francisco
Crusade of Mercy
Crusade of Mercy-Assignments
Crusade of Mercy-Bulletins
Crusade of Mercy-Chairman
Crusade of Mercy-Congratulations [folder empty]
Crusade of Mercy-Joint Appeal-Public Relations Committee
Crusade of Mercy-Joint Appeal-Women's Division
Crusade of Mercy-Offers to help
Crusade of Mercy-Public Relations
Crusade of Mercy-Releases
Crusade of Mercy-Requests for Contributions
Foote, Cone and Belding-"Taken at the Flood"
B. F Goodrich Company
Hallmark-Kansas City's future
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Lever Brothers-FTC Complaint
Sunbeam Corporation
Board of Education, January-June 1961
Board of Education, January-June 1961, July-September 1961
Board of Education, January-June 1961, October-December 1961
Board of Education, January-June 1961, October-December 1961-Invitations
Committee for Economic Development
Crusade of Mercy, January 1961
Crusade of Mercy, February-June 1961
Crusade of Mercy, July-September 1961
Crusade of Mercy, October-December 1961
Crusade of Mercy, October-December 1961-Publicity
B F Goodrich
S. C. Johnson
New York World's Fair
University of Chicago-School of Business, January-March 1961
University of Chicago-School of Business, April 1961
University of Chicago-School of Business, May-June 1961
University of Chicago-School of Business, July-September 1961
Chicago Board of Education
Chicago Board of Education-Correspondence-Miscellaneous
Chicago Board of Education-Correspondence regarding Permissive Transfer Plan in Sayre School District
Chicago Board of Education-Correspondence regarding Proposed Social Maladjustment Center at Cleveland and Lovett Schools
Chicago Board of Education-Correspondence regarding Proposed Social Maladjustment Center at Cleveland and Lovett Schools-Letters without sender's address
Chicago Board of Education-Correspondence regarding Transfer of Seventh and Eighth Grade Students from Norwood Park to Ohnahan School
Chicago Board of Education-Invitations
Chicago Board of Education-School Survey, January 1962
Chicago Board of Education-School Survey, February-June 1962
Chicago Board of Education-School Survey, July-September 1962
Chicago Board of Education-School Survey, October-December 1962
Chicago Board of Education-School Survey-Newspaper Clippings
B F Goodrich Company
International-Harvester
The Menninger Foundation
University of Chicago-Development
University of Chicago-Promotion Material
Associates Investment Company
Board of Education, January-July 1963
Board of Education, August-December 1963
Board of Education, August-December 1963-Invitations
Board of Education, August-December 1963-Neighborhood Policy-Beale School
Board of Education, August-December 1963-Neighborhood Policy-Bogan School
Board of Education, August-December 1963-Neighborhood Policy-Waller High School
Board of Education, August-December 1963-School Survey, January-April 1963
Board of Education, August-December 1963-School Survey, May 1-21, 1963
Board of Education, August-December 1963-School Survey, May 22-31, 1963
Board of Education, August-December 1963-School Survey, June-December, 1963
Crusade of Mercy-1% Club
Famous Artists Schools
Foote, Cone and Belding-Stock Offer
Goodrich
Hallmark-People to People
Montgomery Ward-Benefit and Compensation Plan Committee
New York World's Fair, January-March 1963
New York World's Fair, April-December 1963
Peoples Gas
Sara Lee
University of Chicago-Brochures of other schools
University of Chicago-Center for Human Understanding
University of Chicago-Committee on Business Administration
University of Chicago-Corporate Support
University of Chicago-Development Committee
University of Chicago-Educational Values
University of Chicago-Foundation (Harper Court Foundation)
University of Chicago-Gifts-Acknowledgments
University of Chicago-Gift Dockets
University of Chicago-John Gunther
University of Chicago-Julian Levi
University of Chicago-Library
University of Chicago-Richard O'Brien
University of Chicago-President's letter
University of Chicago-Programs
University of Chicago-Public Relations
University of Chicago-School of Business, January 1963
University of Chicago-School of Business, February-March 1963
University of Chicago-School of Business, April-June 1963
University of Chicago-School of Business, July-December 1963
University of Chicago-Student Body
University of Chicago-Treasurer
University of Chicago -Trustees Committees
University of Chicago-Trustees Fund
University of Chicago-Why Business should support Universities
Crusade for Mercy
Foote, Cone and Belding-Annual Report
Foote, Cone and Belding-Card Shop
Foote, Cone and Belding-George Dawson
Hallmark-People-to-People
Hammond Organ
International Harvester Company
Box 100 Folder 1-2
Box 100 Folder 3
Box 100 Folder 10
Box 100 Folder 13-14
University of Chicago-Argonne National Laboratory
University of Chicago-Automation (booklet)
University of Chicago-Campaign
University of Chicago-Campaigns of other schools
University of Chicago-Children's Hospital
University of Chicago-Committees
University of Chicago-General
University of Chicago-Gift, Acknowledgments
University of Chicago-Hyde Park-Kenwood Urban Renewal
University of Chicago-Industrial Relations Center
University of Chicago-Medical and Biological Research
University of Chicago-Robie House
University of Chicago-School of Business-Booklets
University of Chicago-Seventy-fifth Anniversary
University of Chicago-Tax Credit
University of Chicago-Trustees Dinner June 11
Chicago Committee on Alcoholism
Famous Schools
Foote, Cone and Belding-Advertising Philosophy
Foote, Cone and Belding-Annual Statement Meetings
Foote, Cone and Belding-Fellowship Programs
Foote, Cone and Belding-Finance Committee
Foote, Cone and Belding-International
Foote, Cone and Belding-Retirement
Foote, Cone and Belding-Stock
Fortune article
Lincoln Academysary
Lincoln Academy of Illinois
Box 107 Folder 9-10
National Conference on Community Health Services
Protestant Foundation
Publicity-Fairfax Cone
Adlai Stevenson-Memorial
University of Chicago-Academy of Public Affairs
University of Chicago-Committee on Succession and Retention
University of Chicago-Hyde Park-Kenwood
University of Chicago-Charles E. Merrill Trust
University of Chicago-Nominating Committee
University of Chicago-Other Schools
University of Chicago-President's Suspense Fund
University of Chicago-School of Business-Selected Papers
University of Chicago-Trustees gifts
Agency Compensation
Mayor Daley
Foote, Cone and Belding-Executive Committee
Foote, Cone and Belding-New Officer
Kimberly-Clark-Action Committee on Export Promotion
Los Angeles-Account Status Reports
New Business-Frigidaire
New York Monthly Status Reports
Pioneer Trust and Savings Bank
Ralston Purina
Rapp and Collins
San Francisco-Monthly Status Reports
Speeches-Letters regarding speech to U. S Brewers-ST Louis, May 3, 1966. [See Box 135, folder 10 for speech]
Speeches-Material regarding speech at University of Missouri School of Journalism, December 5, 1956. [See Box 139, folder 12 for speech]
University of Chicago-Britannica Board
University of Chicago-Budget
University of Chicago-Campaign for Chicago solicitations
University of Chicago-Campus Planning
University of Chicago-Committee
University of Chicago-Comptroller's Reports
University of Chicago-Investment
University of Chicago-Trustee Gifts
Academy for Educational Development
Mayor Richard J. Daley
Foote, Cone and Belding-Minutes of Meetings
Foote, Cone and Belding-Stock-Stock Purchase Plan (May 6, 1967) and Stock Report (September 30, 1967)
Hallmark-Fee System
Kimberly-Clark-Action Committee on Export Promotion.
National Conference of Christians and Jews
University of Chicago-Alumni
Better Schools
Chicago Tribune.
Community Antenna Television (CATV).
Community Renewal
Inter-Office.
Ralston-Purina
University of Chicago-Beadle Retirement
University of Chicago-William Benton
University of Chicago-Campaign-Executive Committee
University of Chicago-Campaign-Solicitations
University of Chicago-Gift Acknowledgments
University of Chicago-Levi Inauguration
University of Chicago-Michael Reese Affiliation
YMCA (Chicago-West Side Medical Center)
Youth Program (Chicago)
Chicago-Account Status
Community Antenna Television (CATV)
Five Point Philosophy of Fairfax Cone
Machado-Income Tax
New York-Account Status
Reach Out (Chicago)
Speeches-ST Louis (October, 1969)
University of Chicago-Biographical Material
University of Chicago-Board Committees
University of Chicago-Campaign for Chicago
University of Chicago-Campaign Publicity
University of Chicago-Economic Study Group
University of Chicago-Gifts
University of Chicago-Sit-in
University of Chicago-Student Involvement
Folder 2: University of Chicago-Trustees Gifts
University of Chicago-Visiting Committees
San Francisco-Account Status
Toronto-Account Status
University of Chicago-Economic Study Committee
University of Chicago-Financial Reports
University of Chicago-National Development Council
Windswept-Bills for Cone's New Home
Advertising Age Creative Clinic, June 26, 1958
Advertising Age Summer Workshop, August 9, 1959. "Some Advertising I Would Like to Have Made-and Why"
Advertising Association of the West, San Francisco, June 23, 1953. "The New Challenge to Advertising"
Advertising and Sales Club-Campaign, January 16, 1957
Alpha Delta Signa, June 6, 1955. "If It Isn't Creative, It Isn't Advertising"
Boston Advertising Club, October 9, 1951. "Mobilization-For What?"
Chicago Advertising Club, April 4, 1970
Chicago Copywriters Club, September 3, 1957
CFAC (Chicago Federated Advertising Club), November 12, 1951. "On the Responsibility of Advertising People"
CFAC, September 13, 1951. "Mobilization-For What?"
CFAC, September 26, 1949. "The Advertising Business"
CFAC, November 20, 1947. "Cutting Advertising Costs by Increasing Advertising Efficiency"
CFAC-Copy Clinic, November 3, 1952
CFAC-Million Dollar Panel, September 20, 1955. "Advertising-The Best Job in the World"
CFAC-Workshop, November 14, 1955
Cleveland Advertising Club, November 13, 1953. "The New Challenge to Advertising" (See Box 132, Folder 132, folder 12 for copy of speech]
Dayton Advertising Club, October 2, 1952. "Advertising in the Third Dimension"
Detroit Adcraft Club, September 30, 1955. "Is the Advertising Bill Too Big?"
Detroit Adcraft Club, April 21, 1950. "Advertising Has a Bigger Job Ahead" [See Box 133, folder 9 for copy of speech]
Grand Rapids Advertising Club, January 27, 1950. "What Direction, Advertising"
Houston Advertising Club, November 11, 1952
Kansas City-Advertising and Sales Executives Club, October 27, 1960. "What Is This Thing Called Creativity?"
Kansas City-Advertising and Sales Executives Club, October 24, 1956. "The Dial Story"
Kansas City-Advertising and Sales Executives Club, September 13, 1956. "The Product and the Image"
Los Angeles Advertising Club, February 16, 1960. "Television; Everybody's Dilemma"
Los Angeles Advertising Club, April 10, 1956
Memphis Advertising Club, March 3, 1952. "The Challenge to Dignity"
Milwaukee Advertising Club, February 24, 1955. "Why Copy Counts More Than Ever"
Milwaukee Advertising Club, September 23, 1948
Minneapolis Advertising Club, January 18, 1962. "A Debt that Advertisers Owe the Public"
Minneapolis Advertising Club, April 7, 1954
Rochester (NY.) Industrial Advertising Association, November 28, 1950 "On the Place of Advertising People in the Profession of Business"
ST Louis Adcraft Club, June 13, 1950. "Advertising Has a Bigger Job Ahead"
Sacramento and San Francisco Advertising Clubs (Sacramento, September 18, 1957 and San Francisco, September 29, 1957) "Advertising Has a Bigger Job Ahead"
San Francisco Advertising Club, April 11, 1956
Washington Ad Club, March 22, 1966
Women's Advertising Club, November 16, 1948. [See Box 134, folder 20 for copy of speech]
Advertising Federation of America, 55th Annual Convention, Minneapolis, June 8, 1959. "Situation Report on Advertising; 1959"
Advertising Federation of America, Chicago, June 7, 1955
Folder 16: Advertising Federation of America, June 8-11, 1952
Advertising Federation of America, ST Louis, June 12, 1951. "Mobilization-For What?"
Advertising Federation of America, Detroit, June 1, 1950
Advertising Federation of America, Houston, May 30, 1949. "What Direction Advertising?"
Advertising Federation of America, Cincinnati, June 14, 1948
Agate Club, March 6, 1950; Junior Chamber of Commerce, February 28, 1950; American Legion, February 13, 1950. "Is Advertising Keeping Pace?"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Wieboldt Hall, 1967.
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Wieboldt Hall, October 26, 1966
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Wieboldt Hall, March 23, 1966. [Empty folder]
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Wieboldt Hall, November 3, 1965
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Wieboldt Hall, March 31, 1965
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Wieboldt Hall, November 11, 1964
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Boca Raton, April 23, 1960. "Some Problems to Dispose of in the 1960's."
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Northern California Council, September 20, 1957. "Advertising Has a Bigger Job Ahead"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Pacific Council, October 11, 1950. "Copy Is Still Our Number One Job"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Pacific Council, October 17, 1949
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Central Council, October 12, 1960. "Eleven Campaigns I Would Like to Have Made-and Why"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Central Council, October 16, 1953. "Ten TV Commercials I Wish We Had Done"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Central Council, October 26, 1951. "I Wish We Had Done These Campaigns"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Central Council, October 6, 1950
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Central Council, October 14, 1949
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Chicago Council, November 21, 1947
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Eastern Annual Conference, November 24, 1953. "Ten TV Commercials I Wish We Had Made"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Michigan Council, November 16, 1950. "Advertising's Challenge Today!"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Michigan Council, November 11, 1948. "What the Roper Study Tells Us About Being Better Advertising People"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Creative Workshop, New York, October 27, 1958. (Papers from the 1958 Regional Conventions)
American Association of Advertising Agencies, White Sulphur Springs, April 23, 1954. "The Dear Costs of Competition"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, White Sulphur Springs, April 21, 1951. "Mobilization-For What?"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, White Sulphur Springs, March 30, 1950. "On the Place of Advertising People in the Profession of Business"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, New York, November 18, 1947. [See Box 134, folder 3 for copy of speech]
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, April 16, 1947. "A Report of the Committee Appointed by the 4 A's to Make a Presentation of Advertising for Men Behind Management"
American Legion, Chicago #170, January 7, 1963
American Marketing Association, ST Louis Advertising Club, October 14, 1969
American Association of Advertising Agencies, Chicago, March 11, 1969 "Advertising As an Ingredient in the Marketing Prescription Needs Information Worse than Anything"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, William Wood Prince introduction, March 19, 1964
American Association of Advertising Agencies, December 27, 1952
American Association of Advertising Agencies, May 23, 1951. "Some Business Outside of Business"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, February 13, 1950. "Is Advertising Keeping Pace?"
American Association of Advertising Agencies, November 18, 1948
American Women in Radio and Television October 11, 1961
Annual Advertising Awards Dinner, January 9, 1953
Armour, April 18, 1949
Armour, April 1, 1947
Armour, August 23, 1945
Association of National Advertisers, December 10, 1969 "The Serious Business of Advertising"
Association of National Advertisers, November 9, 1964. "The Critical Areas of Responsibility in Advertising"
Association of National Advertisers, West Coast Meeting, Santa Barbara, April 4, 1963. "Let's Turn the Coin Over-What Should Advertising People Expect of Top Management"
Association of National Advertisers, Hot Springs, March 14, 1956. "Wanted: More Creative Advertising Power"
Association of National Advertisers, Fall Meeting, Chicago, September 26, 1950
Association of National Advertisers, March 15, 1948
Association of National Advertisers, October 1, 1946
Association of National Advertisers, November 18-20, 1945. "A Peek in the Looking Glass"
Audit Bureau of Circulations Annual Meeting, October 23, 1958. "Opportunities We Face Together"
Beatrice Foods Company, Sales Meeting, January 27 and 29, 1953
Beverly Forum, February 19, 1962. "The Case Against Advertising"
Board of Education, Education for Economic Competence, October 5, 1959
Boy Scouts, Fenger High School, Eagle Class of 1956, May 6, 1956.
U. S Brewers Association, ST Louis, May 3, 1966. "A Stance at the Public's Side"
Broadcasting Advertising Club, October 10, 1961. "The Two Publics of Television"
Broadcasting-Television, 1957. "Are TV Commercials Really So Bad?"
Business Writing Association Convention, December 29, 1958. "Make It Short"
Association of Canadian Advertisers, May 4, 1960. "Creativity-A Dire Need for the '60's"
Association of Canadian Advertisers, Toronto, May 4, 1955. "If It Isn't Creative, It Isn't Advertising"
Central Business District Association, Detroit, January 24, 1957. "Downtown is Big Town"
Chicago Historical Society, July 4, 1962. "The Meaning of Dignity"
Chicago Industrial Engineers, April 17, 1963. "The Opportunity That Exists in Thoughtful Employee Communications"
Chicago Press Club, January 28, 1961
Chicago Sunday Evening Club, January 14, 1963
Chicago Tribune Panel, May 20, 1957
Chicago Tribune Forum, May 18, 1954
Chicago Tribune Forum, November 15, 1960. "Selecting the Selling Theme"
Chicago Tribune Forum, November 8, 1949
Chicago Tribune Forum, December 10, 1945. "An Address" (at the 44th Contention of the Advertising Department of the Chicago Tribune)
Combined Jewish Appeal, June 24, 1954
Commercial Club, May 28, 1959 (Joint Appeal)
Commercial Club, September 9, 1958
Commercial Club, May 24, 1956. "Economic and Other Aspects of Chicago's Negro Problem"
Commonwealth Edison, January 8, 1945
Community Fund, Palmer House, January 21, 1959
Community Fund, Annual Meeting, January 29, 1958. "The Challenge"
Community Fund, Thanks to You" luncheon, May 26, 1955. "Some Penalties of Prosperity"
Community Fund, Illinois Bell, September 16, 1952
Community Fund, January 30, 1951
Contemporary Affairs Forum, March 21, 1964. "Living Together in 1976"
Copy Clinic, March 24, 1947
Crusade of Mercy, Kick-off, September 28, 1964. "Brower Introduction"
Crusade of Mercy, September 19, 1960
Dominican College, San Rafael, California, May 15, 1971
Eastern Industrial Advertisers Association, Philadelphia, December 4, 1952. "Advertising in the Third Dimension"
Ebony film, 1965
Economic Club, November 18, 1963
Economic Club, March 11, 1955'
Economic Club, Forum Luncheon, April 5, 1954
Edsel Meeting, July 25, 1958
Engineering Convention, Urbanization Section, Introduction to Chicago Plan Presentation, September 12, 1952
Equitable, June 18, 1960
Equitable, January 27, 1959. "Some Notes on Our Approach to the Equitable Advertising Assignment"
Evanston High School, April 13, 1966
Falstaff, ST Louis, January 15, 1968
Financial Public Relations Association, September 30, 1957. "The Obligation That Opportunity Opens Up"
Food Brokers, June 10, 1966
Foote, Come and Belding-Account Supervisors, August 21, 1958
Foote, Come and Belding-Advertising Conference, May 10-11, 1963
Foote, Come and Belding-Cameron's Group, December 13, 1966
Foote, Come and Belding-Cone's talk to Copy, Art Department Heads, June 4, 1962
Foote, Come and Belding-Creative Conference, New York, September 22, 1964
Foote, Come and Belding-Managers Meeting, May 18, 1965
Foote, Come and Belding-Meet the Men Behind You
Foote, Come and Belding-Toronto, November 9, 1966
Foote, Come and Belding-Trainees
Frigidaire, January 30, 1951
Fund Raising and Development, April 4, 1968
General Foods, March 27, 1962
General Foods, Advertising Conference, October 18, 1957
General Foods, Advertising Panel, October 18, 1957
General Foods, Jell-O Division, Princeton, NJ., June 23, 1959
General Foods, Marketing Conference, February 17, 1956
General Foods, Perkins Division, National Sales Meeting, December 12, 1957. "Advertising Has a Bigger Job Ahead"
General Outdoor Advertising, August 15, 1949
General Outdoor Advertising, 1946
Hallmark, Salute, Academy of TV Arts and Sciences, October 28, 1963
Hallmark, Salute, Sales Meeting, Kansas City, June 26, 1959
Hallmark, Salute, Hall Brothers, Kansas City, February 11, 1949
Hallmark, Salute, Hall Brothers, Kansas City, January 13, 1946
George Howland Club
Illinois Association of Park Districts and Illinois Recreation Association, Joint Annual Conference, September 25, 1964. "The New Dimensions of Leisure"
Illinois Bankers Association, February 27, 1955
Illinois Institute of Technology, Conference on Industrial Design, January 20, 1956. "Why Industrial Design Is Vital to Our Economy"
Illinois Petroleum Marketers Association, March 12, 1952
Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants, April 21, 1967. "Protecting the Consumer"
International Advertising Conference, London, July 9, 1951
International Cellucotton Products Co. Meeting December 12, 1950-December 17, 1945
Investment Analysts Club of Chicago, May 5, 1949
Jewish Community Centers of Chicago, February 1, 1962. "What's Right With TV" (for Mr. Spencer-U/P)
S. C. Johnson and Son, September 26, 1961
S. C. Johnson and Son, International Conference, June 22, 1964. "The Disciplines of Creativity"
Junior Association of Commerce and Industry (Toy Manufacturers), October 6, 1960. "Why Chicago's Promise for the Future is Unique"
Junior Chamber of Commerce, May 28, 1957
Junior League of Chicago, January 16, 1963, "The Best Public Relations Are Good Private Relations"
Junior Women's Ad Club, September 13, 1965. "Some Iron Rules of Advertising"
Kimberly-Clark, December 14, 1965
Kimberly-Clark, July 26, 1950
Kimberly-Clark, September 14, 1949
Kool-Aid meeting, October 27, 1953
Latin School of Chicago, June 15, 1961
Legal Club of Chicago, April 9, 1962. "The Case Against Advertising"
Lever Brothers Company, November 29, 1962
Lever Brothers Company, April 19, 1961
Lever Brothers Company, August 8, 1956
Los Angeles Office, May 18, 1966
Magazine Promotion Group, February 11, 1970 "A Hard Line to Hew To (Or A Plea for Indignation)" [2 copies, one with change on page 19]
Magazine Promotion Group, December 14, 1961. "The Hard Sell and the No Sell"
Magazine Promotion Group, November 10, 1965. "Color Me Red"
Magnificent Mile Art Festival, October 25, 1955. (Awards Banquet)
Monsanto, September 30, 1966
Mundelein College, October 14, 1967
Mundelein College, June 6, 1961
National Conference of Christians and Jews Award Luncheon, February 16, 1967
National Consumer Finance Association, September 22, 1950. "Why Advertise?"
National Industrial Advertising Association, July 1, 1952. "Advertising in the Third Dimension"
National Newspaper Publishers Association, November 20, 1951.
National Safety Council, October 21, 1957.
Newspaper Advertising Executives Association, January 19, 1960. "The Bad Apples."
Newspaper Advertising Executives Association, January 22, 1951. "Advertising in the New Economy."
North Shore Country Day School, April 13, 1964. "The Business of Chicago"
Northwestern University, December 11, 1963.
Northwestern University, Association for Education in Journalism, August 29, 1956. "If It Isn't Creative, It Isn't Advertising"
Northwestern University, "Careers in Industry," November 24, 1947. "The Advertising Agency."
Northwestern University, Industrial Engineers and Executive Group, June 8, 1949.
Northwestern Law School TV Symposium, August 3-4, 1961. (A Statement by Fairfax Cone)
Office Management Association, November 17, 1955. "Management Has a New Responsibility."
Office Management Association, Office of the Year Award to Foote, Cone and Belding, October 22, 1951.
Off-the-Street Club, June 10, 1964. "Living Together in 1976."
Outdoor Awards Luncheon, March 24, 1954.
Park Ridge Junior Chamber of Commerce, April 5, 1962. "The Meaning of Dignity."
Pepsodent, September 19, 1945. "Notes" for Pepsodent presentation
Perkins Brokers, December 12, 1958.
Printer's Ink Gold Medal Award Dinner, February 20, 1956. "This is Our Problem"
Public Relations Society of America, Chicago Chapter, November 15, 1966.
Public Relations Society of America, Chicago Chapter, January 21, 1958.
Publicity Club of Chicago, October 28, 1948.
Purex, Rancho Santa Fe, July 8, 1958.
Ralston, September 27, 1966.
Ralston Purina Company, June 13, 1966.
Regent Advertising Club, London, April 28, 1961. "The Case Against Advertising"
ST Paul Sales Managers Club, January 27, 1949
Sigma Delta Chi, November 11, 1950
Standard Oil Science Club, Whiting, Indiana, March 7, 1961. "The Case Against Advertising"
State Street Council, February 8, 1955. "State Street is Still Main Street"
Super Market Institute, May 11, 1965
Syracuse University, April 18, 1952. "The New Challenge to Advertising's People"
Toni, January 10, 1951. "Toni Blueprint"
Toni, Meeting, February 18, 1949
Toy Manufacturers, Regional Meeting, September 24, 1959. "Advertising for the Toy Manufacturer"
University of Chicago, September 24, 1967. "University of Chicago and the Community," (for Sol Tax)
University of Chicago, June 13, 1951. "Mobilization-For What?"
University of Chicago, Associates Dinner, Cancer Research Foundation, February 3, 1955
University of Chicago, Citizens Committee, May 31, 1956
University of Chicago, Corporate Support, Law School Center, May 7, 1964
University of Chicago, Corporate Support, Kellogg Center, April 22, 1963.
University of Chicago, Divinity School, May 4, 1964
University of Chicago, Nobel Prize Dinner, December 1, 1966
University of Chicago, School of Business, 65th Annual Alumni Dinner, June 6, 1963. "Government; Friend or Foe"
University of Chicago, School of Business, Meeting at the University Club, New York, June 19, 1959
University of Chicago, School of Business, November 26, 1958.
University of Chicago, Trustees-Faculty Dinner, January 10, 1968.
University of Chicago, Trustees-Faculty Dinner, January 8, 1964.
University of Illinois, Departmental Lecture, April 25, 1963
University of Kansas, April 11, 1966
University of Michigan, Annual Marketing Research Conference, March 16, 1951. "Marketing and Advertising in the New Economy"
University of Missouri, Freedom of Information Conference, School of Journalism, December 5, 1966
University of Missouri, May 9, 1952. "Advertising's Third Dimension"
Visual Communications Conference, New York, April 1, 1959. "Symbology in Advertising"
Hiram Walker, Meeting, Detroit, April 28, 1955
Hiram Walker, Meetings; Houston, January 6, 1950; White Sulphur Springs, August, 1950; Edgewater, August 15, 1949; Walker District Meeting, February 20, 1948; Walker meeting, April 30, 1946; undated meeting; 1st presentation, Walkerville, October 27, 1944
Wayfarer's Chicago Club, February 19, 1957. "The Truth About Advertising"
YMCA, Medical Center, Kick-off Luncheon, Duncan YMCA, March 14, 1968
Miscellaneous Speeches-
"Is Advertising Keeping Pace?" February 28, 1950
The Plain, Short Story of Good Advertising. One-page pamphlet
Ernest W Eversz, "Speech Before Professor Wooding's "Principles of Advertising' Class," University of Michigan, School of Journalism, May 2, 1962
Ernest W Eversz, "Speech Before Professor Steven's Advanced Creative Writing Students," University of Michigan, May 2, 1962
John E O'Toole, Alpha Delta Sigma Talk, University of Illinois, May 2, 1962
Hallmark talk, September 27, 1961
"What's the Big Idea? The Art of Moving Goods by Moving People," American Marketing Association, Kansas City Chapter, January 9, 1962
"Should You Consider Writing Advertising as a Career," Michigan Writers Conference, University of Michigan, Roundtable discussion, May 16, 1963
R D Aikins, "Potatoes, the Wallflower of the Dinner Table"
Margaret Carson, "The Billion Dollar Question-How do you rate with women?" Ohio State University Advertising Conference, October 11, 1957
Margaret Carson, Revisions of speech for Ohio State University Conference, [see Box 139, folder 27], September 27, 1957
Margaret Carson, "The Billion Dollar Question-How do you rate with women?" Rocky Mountain 4 A Council, Denver, March 8, 1958
Margaret Carson, Rochester Advertising Council, Rochester, NY., January 20, 1959
Margaret Carson, Advertising and Sales Executive Club, Annual Creative Clinic, Kansas City, Missouri, October 26, 1961
Short biography of Margaret Carson [This is attached to a list of slides for the Zonta Club-Neenah, October 16, 1957; there is no speech attached]
Bob Reardon, "If You're Going to Have an Idea, Have One Now," Creative Conference, February 12-14, 1968
Chicago Advertising Club speech, October 7, 1966
Chicago Advertising Club Speech, September 30, 1966
Margaret Carson, "Careers in Advertising," Edwin G Foreman High School, Chicago Career Day address, November 17, 1965
Margaret Carson, "Girl Watching Pays Off," Dallas Advertising League, October 5, 1965
Miscellaneous materials from 1971
Fairfax Cone, manuscript for Saturday Review article (2 versions), 1971
Annual Report, 1972
Dial Soap materials
Hallmark advertising materials
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions materials
Smokey the Bear materials
Fairfax Cone biographical information
Articles about Fairfax Cone
Transcript of Oral History recordings of Fairfax Cone, by Illinois State Historical Library, 1962. [Folder 10 contains letter regarding transcript; actual transcript begins in folder 11]
Oral History, Tape #1 (March 13, 1962)
Oral History, Tape #5, part 2 of 7 (March 30, 1962)
Oral History, Tape #6 (April 6, 1962)
Speech by Fairfax-Cone, Creative Conference, New York, September 22, 1964.
Remarks before the National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences, Northwestern Symposium, April 13, 1970
Interview with Fairfax Cone on advertising in America, The Voice of America, Washington, DC, September 12, 1968.
Fairfax Cone, With All Its Faults, manuscript of contents and part I
Fairfax Cone, part II
Fairfax Cone, part III
Fairfax Cone, part IV
Fairfax Cone, With All Its Faults, manuscript [early version]
Fairfax Cone, manuscript [another early version]
Fairfax Cone, related material, 1969
Fairfax Cone, Correspondence-Magazines
Fairfax Cone, Correspondence-Newspapers
Fairfax Cone, With All Its Faults, Correspondence-TV and Radio
Fairfax Cone, Correspondence-Clients
Fairfax Cone, Correspondence-Joe Consolino
Fairfax Cone, Correspondence-Robert Fetridge
Fairfax Cone, Correspondence-Harry Sions
Fairfax Cone, Publicity
Fairfax Cone, Suggestions for Book AD
Fairfax Cone, Book Lists-Media
Fairfax Cone, Book Orders-All Offices
Fairfax Cone, Book requests-Miscellaneous
Fairfax Cone, Book reviews
Fairfax Cone, Paperback rights
Fairfax Cone, Chicago reception
Fairfax Cone, New York reception
Fairfax Cone, Miscellaneous
Chairman's Award, 1969
Harvard Business Award, 1970
Newspapers and Magazine clippings, 1969-70-Miscellaneous
Newspaper and Magazine clippings, 1969-70-Regarding With All Its Faults
Fairfax Cone, portrait photographs
Fairfax Cone, proofs of portrait photographs
Fairfax Cone, negatives of portrait photographs
Fairfax Cone, portrait photographs by Stephen Deutch
Fairfax Cone, portrait photograph by Karsh
Emerson Foote, Fairfax Cone, and Don Belding
Miscellaneous photographs, proofs
Miscellaneous photographs, negatives
Annual Report 1965, photographs
Annual Report 1965, proofs
Annual Report 1965, negatives
Photographs, proofs, negatives related to With All Its Faults [most of these are of the Chicago reception]
Foote, Cone and Belding events
Foote, London
Foote, London, cocktail party at Claridges, April 26, 1961
Foote, London, Regent Club luncheon, April 28, 1961
Fairfax Cone presented with the Harvard Business School Award, 1970
Northwestern University Law School TV Symposium, August 3-4, 1961
Fairfax Cone at the University of Chicago
Edward H Levi
Crusade of Mercy, 1960. Fairfax Cone, General Campaign Chairman
Fairfax Cone receiving honorary degree from Mundelein College, June 1961
Fairfax Cone receiving honorary degree from Mundelein College, June 1961. [See also Box 146, folder 12]
Foote, Cone and Belding, Sixtieth Anniversary luncheon, December 12, 1967
Fairfax Cone, portrait photograph by Carlyle
Fairfax Cone, portrait photography by Karsh
Fairfax Cone, drawn portrait
Fairfax Cone, miscellaneous photographs
Photostatic pictures of the Chicago Medal of Merit, awarded to Fairfax Cone by Mayor Richard J. Daley, May 8, 1973
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contactScotland video relay service extended to third sector
4 March 2016 | complete • Deaf Access to Communications • Members News • Relay Campaigns • UK Council on Deafness
contactScotland, the service that provides access to public services in British Sign Language (BSL), has been extended. BSL users will now be able to contact community groups, voluntary organisations, charities, social enterprises and co-operatives in their own language. Jim Edwards, chair of the UK Council on Deafness, said: “The UK Council on Deafness applauds the Scottish Government’s […]
Summary and outcomes of telecoms conference
23 November 2015 | Deaf Access to Communications • Events • Members News • Relay Campaigns • to work on • UK Council on Deafness
On 4 November 2015 the UK Council on Deafness hosted the conference ‘Fair exchange: developments in telecommunication for people who are deaf or have a hearing loss’. The aim of the conference was to celebrate the advances that had been made in advanced telephony services, including video relay services (VRS); and learn more about what […]
Ofcom could fine BT over Next Generation Text Relay delay
19 June 2014 | complete • Deaf Access to Communications • Relay Campaigns • UK Council on Deafness
BT has been warned by the communications regulator Ofcom that it could be financially penalised for a delay in making available a new telephone service for deaf and hard of hearing people. Lidia Best, Trustee of UKCoD and Chairperson of NADP comments “National Association for Deafened People (NADP) is very disappointed with the delay and […]
Next Generation Text Relay Service
At a meeting in May with UKCoD’s Deaf Access to Communications group, BT apologised for the delay in launching the Next Generation Text Relhttp://deafcouncil.org.uk/deaf-access-to-communications.htmlay service and reiterated their commitment to delivering the new service. They acknowledge the disappointment, frustration and anger that many feel, and recognise the need to rebuild trust and confidence in the […]
Telephony equivalency for Deaf people
1 December 2013 | complete • Deaf Access to Communications • Relay Campaigns
In July we commissioned Cassiopeia Consultancy Limited to estimate the need, demand and cost of relay services for Deaf people. The final report,Impact assessment: telephony equivalency for Deaf people for UKCoD and Deaf Access to Communication group, is now available.
VRS – Ofcom Report
19 December 2012 | Campaigns • complete • Relay Campaigns • UK Council on Deafness
Ofcom have published their research into how video relay services are provided internationally. As UKCoD’s Deaf Access to Communication group is working to identify a model that will see greater provision in the UK, the research will be valuable in pointing the way for some of the policy and infrastructure challenges we face. Lessons from […]
The next generation of relay services
17 October 2012 | complete • Deaf Access to Communications • Relay Campaigns
Ofcom have published a statement about the next generation of relay services. The statement is a welcome step in the right direction and an important moment in ensuring a significant change in provision for deaf people. But there is still a long way to go before deaf people have access to 21st century telecommunication services. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5688206553459167, "wiki_prob": 0.43117934465408325, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1270987"} |
L. A. Smith
Fey historical medieval The Traveller's Path series time travel
Indie published
“L. A. Smith’s historical fantasy Wilding offers a lively journey through the foreign world of ancient Europe and the wild world of the Fey.”
—Lorehaven review, winter 2019
A young man’s shadowed destiny leads him to the past, and could change our world forever.
L. A. Smith · fantasy for adult readers · May 2019
On Halloween eve, a frightening encounter with mysterious creatures transports twenty-year old Thomas McCadden to an unknown and ancient world—7th century Britain. How did he get there? What does he do now? The answers to these questions change his life forever, revealing secrets that have long been hidden, and a truth that he would rather not know. As he tries to survive this long-ago time, Thomas encounters the unknown and the otherworldly; an exiled warrior, holy men, tribal kings, and something far more sinister shadowing them all.
Is he a tool for the dark forces of this land? Or the liberator sent to save them all? His strange journey forces these and even more important questions: Can he make it back home? Does he even want to return?
Wilding is the first book of The Traveller’s Path, a meticulously researched historical fantasy series set in Northumbria, AD 642. It introduces a long-ago world, and a young man whose choices could have disastrous ramifications for it—and ours.
Book 1 of the The Traveller’s Path series.
Review of Wilding
Lorehaven Review Team, winter 2019
Thomas, reeling from his mother’s death and feeling so alone, had little reason to be fond of the world. But when he stumbled out of his world and into ancient Europe on Halloween night, all he could think of was returning home. But that’s not easy, even for the Fey. In Wilding, L. A. Smith combines fantasy, historical fiction, and just a touch of biblical fiction. Seventh-century England is convincingly realized though largely unexamined in this novel. Its historical milieu is infused with rich veins of magic and legend, shaded slightly by the Bible’s oldest stories. Unfortunately, the hero is rarely proactive in his desires, and the plot meanders between loosely connected events. All the same, Wilding offers a lively journey through the foreign world of ancient Europe and the wild world of the Fey.
Best for: Young-adult audiences; fans of fantasy and historical fiction.
Discern: A serial killer murders an entire family off-screen, and his handiwork is briefly seen; a number of small-scale fights; a husband strikes his wife and a master beats a slave; animals are gruesomely butchered and the corpses left as threats; some language, mostly mild. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5906289219856262, "wiki_prob": 0.5906289219856262, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1459294"} |
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Opinion: State of emergency set to end Oct. 31, but COVID-19 vaccine mandate is permanent
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2022
in: Columns, Opinion, COVID-19
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center recalls how Gov. Jay Inslee’s policy caused severe harm to individuals and families as well as public services in our state for no demonstrable public health benefit
Elizabeth Hovde
Washington Policy Center
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee might be ending his state of emergency and rescinding all remaining COVID-19 emergency proclamations in October, but that won’t take away the COVID-19 vaccine mandate on some state employees. The requirement, as well as the government implication that unvaccinated people are hazardous to others’ health, is a COVID-19 hangover that won’t be going away.
The COVID-19-era Inslee policy caused severe harm to individuals and families, and it damaged public services in our state for no demonstrable public health benefit. There are two states with lower COVID-19 death rates than Washington that did not have vaccine mandates. Two other states beating us had less strict mandates that allowed for testing alternatives. Further, most people dying from or with COVID-19 are not of working age.
Inslee’s vaccine mandate is the nation’s strictest — and it’s permanent. Inslee made sure to arrange for this dictate to continue after the state of emergency was called off with a June 30 directive that was later amended in labor negotiations. (Read more about that here. That story continues to develop.)
The amended directive says he is requiring a permanent COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment for state executive and small cabinet agencies. It includes new employees, in addition to all the current employees who didn’t get fired because of the vaccine mandate enforced in the fall — after we knew both unvaccinated and vaccinated people could spread and contract COVID-19
Meanwhile, more private companies that had vaccine mandates for employees are bringing the requirement to a quiet end. They are reading the room and understanding the COVID-19 situation. “[Companies] decided that the rationale for [mandates] had become weak enough that they don’t want to continue,” Jeff Levin-Scherz, population health leader at Willis Towers Watson, told Axios. Boeing dropped its vaccine requirement in 2021, the story reports.
Employers are trying to reduce barriers to entry for new hires. Inslee should be leading the way. Vaccine mandates are a barrier that shouldn’t exist, given what we know about COVID-19 and the vaccines’ limitations.
The rationale for a vaccine mandate as a condition of employment was always weak. At this point, it’s embarrassing. Vaccines are lowering death from COVID-19. Mandates aren’t. Gov. Inslee should be sending apology letters and offering to hire back workers who were impacted. It might help some of the people whose careers with the state ended abruptly. It would also help rebuild the state workforce and end the discriminatory practice of excluding unvaccinated job applicants.
Eventually, the governor might need to defend his authority to make a COVID-19 vaccine mandate permanent in court. It’s not clear to me or others looking at this from a legal angle where that authority is found. The Legislature should address the issue in its next session and save us a court fight.
Right now, the Office of Financial Management is making rules for the governor’s directive mandating the vaccine. In its proposal, under a section titled, “Reasons supporting proposal,” it says, “The vaccination requirements set forth in these proposed rules will help establish and maintain a healthy and safe work environment to protect the welfare of all state employees.” The statutory authority for adoption cited is RCW 41.06.133 and RCW 41.06.150.
A hearing for the rulemaking will be on Zoom at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 27. See this document for the link to attend. Public comments are due to [email protected] by midnight on Sept. 20.
Inslee said in his press release about the end of his state of emergency, “I can’t express enough how grateful I am for all the health care workers, public health teams, and other frontline workers who have helped save thousands of lives during the past two years ….” Yet he fired many of them for lack of a shot that doesn’t stop the spread of a virus in a mandate that was enforced after we knew about vaccine limitations.
Elizabeth Hovde is a policy analyst and the director of the Centers for Health Care and Worker Rights at the Washington Policy Center. She is a Clark County resident.
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center explains that dictating what insurers cover and what their copays and deductibles look like impacts all those who buy insurance and pay premiums in Washington state.
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Utterly utterly ridiculous. It is a virus. For the love of all that is good, masks don’t work and these vaccines which are not even vaccines are not the answer. Please wake up and use some common sense. I see people outside by themselves wearing masks and I beg to understand why. Why do you want to wear a mask? Please stop.
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Very much the symptoms of cognitive imflexibility, ie dogmatic and extremely incapable of being open minded. How awful to live like that!
Viruses existed 3.5 Billion years ago, whilst humans have been around only for ~500,000 years. We have on average thousands of viruses in our body, same in ocean water and in the air around us. To be afraid of viruses is absurd and wasted energy.
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Perception of slipperiness and prospective risk of slipping at work
Theodore K Courtney1,2,
Santosh K Verma1,3,
Wen-Ruey Chang4,
Yueng-Hsiang Huang5,
David A Lombardi1,2,
Melanye J Brennan1,
Melissa J Perry2,6
1Center for Injury Epidemiology, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA
2Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
4Center for Physical Ergonomics, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA
5Center for Behavioral Sciences, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA
6Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Correspondence to Theodore K Courtney, Center for Injury Epidemiology, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, 71 Frankland Rd., Hopkinton, MA 01748, USA; theodore.courtney{at}LibertyMutual.com
Objectives Falls are a leading cause of injury at work, and slipping is the predominant cause of falling. Prior research has suggested a modest correlation between objective measures (such as coefficient of friction, COF) and subjective measures of slipperiness (such as worker perceptions) in the workplace. However, the degree of association between subjective measures and the actual risk of slipping at the workplace is unknown. This study examined the association between perception of slipperiness and the risk of slipping.
Methods 475 workers from 36 limited-service restaurants participated in a 12-week prospective cohort study. At baseline, demographic information was collected, participants rated floor slipperiness in eight areas of the restaurant, and work environment factors, such as COF, were measured. Restaurant-level and area-level mean perceptions of slipperiness were calculated. Participants then reported their slip experience at work on a weekly basis for the next 12 weeks. The associations between perception of slipperiness and the rate of slipping were assessed.
Results Adjusting for age, gender, body mass index, education, primary language, mean COF, use of slip-resistant shoes, and restaurant chain, each 1-point increase in mean restaurant-level perception of slipperiness (4-point scale) was associated with a 2.71 times increase in the rate of slipping (95% CI 1.25 to 5.87). Results were similar for area-level perception within the restaurant (rate ratios (RR) 2.92, 95% CI 2.41 to 3.54).
Conclusions Perceptions of slipperiness and the subsequent rate of slipping were strongly associated. These findings suggest that safety professionals, risk managers and employers could use aggregated worker perceptions of slipperiness to identify slipping hazards and, potentially, to assess intervention effectiveness.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2012-100831
Same-level falls are a leading cause of work-related injury in developed countries, and slipping is the predominant cause of same-level falls.
Prior research has shown modest correlations between objective measures (such as coefficient of friction) and subjective measures of slipperiness (such as worker perceptions). However, the degree of association between subjective measures and the actual risk of slipping in the workplace is heretofore unknown.
If subjective measures and the risk of slipping at work were observed to have strong association, then subjective measures, which can be more practical to implement, could also be valuable in identifying and evaluating workplace slip and fall hazards.
This is the first epidemiologic study to examine the association between worker perceptions of slipperiness and subsequent risk of slipping at work. We found that worker perceptions of slipperiness and the subsequent rate of slipping were strongly associated.
Aggregated worker perceptions of slipperiness could provide a scalable approach to identifying slipping hazards and, potentially, assessing intervention effectiveness.
Same-level falls are one of the leading causes of injury in the workplace and in the general population.1 Consistent with earlier US Bureau of Labor Statistics projections,2 between 2004 and 2010 (the latest available data), the proportion of occupational fall injuries leading to days away from work has steadily increased.3 According to the 2011 Liberty Mutual Work Place Safety Index, between 1998 and 2009, the direct cost of injuries from falls on the same level has also increased by 34.2%.4 With an ageing worker population in most industrialised countries, the burden of occupational injuries due to falls may continue to rise in the future.5–7
Slipping is a primary initiating event for same-level falls and contributes to between 40% and 85% of fall-related occupational injuries.8–11 Grönqvist et al defined slipperiness as ‘conditions underfoot which may interfere with human beings, causing a foot slide that may result in injury or harmful loading of body tissues due to a sudden release of energy’.12 ,13 They also stated that ‘there is no unambiguous slipperiness measurement methodology’. One of the underlying reasons is the complex nature of human sensory motor interaction with the external environment. For the most part, researchers have generally used one of two approaches for the measurement of slipperiness: mechanical slip tests to measure coefficient of friction (COF) or human-centred subjective assessments. Subsequent interest has developed in comparing and contrasting the two approaches and studying their interaction. A comprehensive review of human-centred assessments is provided in Grönqvist et al.13
Several laboratory studies have examined the correlation between objective slipperiness measurement approaches (eg, COF using mechanical slip tests) and subjective measures (including having participants visually evaluate, walk on and/or work on the contrasted surfaces). These have reported positive correlations ranging from 0.75 to 0.99 between the two approaches.14–16 However, these studies were conducted in laboratory settings with highly controlled and artificial conditions, generally involving a high contrast between conditions. Beyond the laboratory, Chang et al pioneered the study of the relationship between objective and subjective measures of slipperiness in active work environments.17 They investigated the relationship between measured friction levels and perception ratings of slipperiness in six major working areas of 10 fast-food restaurants in the USA, and observed a correlation coefficient of 0.34, a more modest degree of association than those observed in the laboratory.
Recent studies have started to examine how objective measures are associated with the risk of slipping in active work environments. Courtney et al reported significantly reduced odds of slipping with increasing mean COF among limited-service restaurant workers.18 Verma et al reported a prospective cohort study in which increasing mean COF was significantly associated with a reduced rate of slipping.19
However, few studies have examined how subjective approaches, such as worker ratings of slipperiness, are associated with the risk of slipping in active work environments. If subjective measures and the risk of slipping at work were observed to have strong association, then subjective measures (which can be more practical to implement) could also be valuable in identifying and evaluating workplace slip and fall hazards.
Slips and falls account for one of every three disabling injuries among US restaurant workers.20 ,21 Food service and drinking establishments are among the largest employers in the USA with about 7.5% of the total workforce.22 At this scale, restaurants contribute significantly to the overall occupational injury burden.3
As part of a large prospective cohort study of limited-service restaurant workers,19 ,23 ,24 we examined the association between perception of slipperiness and risk of slipping. We hypothesised that the subsequent rate of slipping would be higher in restaurants with higher worker slipperiness ratings at baseline, and in areas within a restaurant with higher slipperiness ratings at baseline than other areas in the same restaurant.
A prospective cohort study was conducted in 36 limited-service restaurants (establishments with North American Industry Classification System Code 72221) in the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin in the USA. Details of the overall study methods have been previously described and are therefore summarised here.19 ,23 ,24 These restaurants belonged to three major chains and had similar main menu items. Several approaches were used to recruit the restaurants for the study. These included approaching chains, stores or franchisees that had previously been receptive to research studies by the investigative team members, approaching restaurant trade associations, direct solicitation of stores or franchisees, and outreach via the loss control department of a large worker's compensation insurance company.
A total of 475 workers were recruited from these restaurants in the years 2007 and 2008. Additional details of the study participants have been previously reported.19 The study was approved by the concerned institutional review boards on human experiments.
Once permission to enrol a restaurant was received, members of the study team met onsite with the restaurant manager to explain the research study, administer a baseline manager survey, and set up an appointment to enrol and survey the restaurant's employees. Restaurant managers were given fliers advertising the study, with the date of the survey team's upcoming visit, which were posted in their employee break area. On the scheduled date, informed consents were obtained, participants were enrolled and surveys were conducted in the restaurant. Restaurant workers not working on the day of enrolment were encouraged to come to the restaurant sometime during that day, with their work shoes, if they were interested in participating in the study. The survey materials were made available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Main exposure
Perception of slipperiness
At baseline, participants were asked to rate floor slipperiness based on a typical workday in each restaurant kitchen in eight functional areas similar to those used by Chang et al17 ,26: front counter, drive-through, sandwich assembly, fryer, grill, sink, cooler/freezer and ice machine. A 4-point rating scale was used, where 1 was ‘not slippery’, 2 was ‘a little slippery’, 3 was ‘more slippery’, and 4 was ‘very slippery’.
Slipperiness ratings (the ratings for each of the eight areas) were first averaged within each individual, and then individual overall ratings were averaged within each restaurant to calculate restaurant-level mean rating of perception of slipperiness (one measure for each restaurant). For area-level analysis, the slipperiness ratings from all participants for a given area were averaged within each restaurant to calculate mean area-level slipperiness ratings for each restaurant (eight values per restaurant).
Slipping
A study team member carefully explained the definition of a slip to each study participant explaining that, ‘A slip is simply a loss of traction of your foot—you can slip without falling’. After completing the baseline survey, participants were asked to report their slip experience every week for the following 12 weeks. Participants chose from one of three modalities for their weekly report: phone via an interactive voice response system, internet-based survey or completing and mailing paper survey forms.
Each subsequent week, participants reported the number of slips and the number of hours they worked during the previous week. Participants had to remember the incidents until the subsequent reporting day. The rate of slipping was the primary outcome of interest (total number of slips reported/total number of hours worked during follow-up). Participants also reported the functional area within the restaurant where they slipped.
COF was measured on three tiles in each of the eight areas in each restaurant using a Brungraber Mark II slip meter with Neolite padding. Details of the tile selection approach are discussed further by Verma.19 Two measurements were taken on each tile in the direction of traffic and parallel to the equipment.26 Floor COF was measured according to the F-1677-96 standard method published by the American Society for Testing and Materials27 along with protocol refinements recommended by Chang.28 Measurement results were averaged at the restaurant level to calculate each restaurant's mean COF.
Slip-resistant shoes
Participants were asked to remove their right shoe for direct observation and photograph. Since clear classification criteria for slip-resistant shoes could not be found in the literature, shoes were classified as slip-resistant if the manufacturer indicated them to be so by embossing or printing ‘slip resistant’ on the sole. Any participant who was not wearing the usual work shoes on the day of the survey was categorised as a non-slip-resistant shoe user (n=20).
Worker and job characteristics
Demographic information about each participant was collected, including age, gender, education and primary language. Information about their weight and height was used to calculate body mass index (BMI). Participants also reported their job tenure at the restaurant.
In this study, two main associations were explored: first, the association between restaurant-level perception of slipperiness and the rate of slipping, and second, the association between area-level perception of slipperiness and the rate of slipping.
Association between restaurant-level perception of slipperiness and rate of slipping
Restaurants recruited in the study were clustered within chains, and workers were clustered within restaurants. To account for clustering of participants within restaurants, a negative binomial generalised estimating equation model with compound symmetry covariance structure29 ,30 was used to assess the association between the rate of self-reported slipping and restaurant-level perception of slipperiness. Two dummy variables for chains were included in the regression model to account for clustering of restaurants within chains. All covariates were selected a priori and were included in the model. Rate ratios (RR) for the main effects and their 95% CI based on robust SE estimates are presented.
Association between area-level perception of slipperiness and rate of slipping
In this study, participants reported the areas of their slips. However, we only collected information on hours worked at the restaurant and did not collect information on the hours worked in each area. Therefore, for area-level analysis, we assumed that participants worked equal numbers of hours at each area. For example, if an employee worked a total of 216 h during follow-up, we assumed that this employee spent 27 h in each of the eight areas (216/8).
A sensitivity analysis was also performed based on primary areas of work. Participants reported their primary areas of work at baseline. If an area was not reported as a primary area of work, five percent of the total work time was allotted to that area, and the remaining work time was equally distributed among primary areas of work. For example, if a participant reported primarily working in five of the eight areas, the three areas that were not primary areas of work were allotted 15% of the total work time (5% each), and the remaining 85% of the work time was equally distributed among the five primary working areas (each primary area in this example was allotted 17% of the work time).
Slips were clustered within each individual, hence, the individual participant was identified as the cluster for the area-level analysis. To account for this clustering, a negative binomial generalised estimating equations model with compound symmetry covariance structure29 ,30 was used to assess the association between the rate of self-reported slipping and within-restaurant area-level perception of slipperiness. Two dummy variables for chains were included in the regression model to account for clustering of restaurants within chains. All the main effects were selected a priori and were included in the model. RR for the main effects, and their 95% CI based on robust SE estimates are presented. All statistical analyses were done using the SAS system V.9.2 (SAS Institute, Inc, Cary, North Carolina, USA).
Out of 475 participants, 422 reported at least 1 week of follow-up data. On average, 9.8 weeks of data were collected for each worker (median=11). table 1 presents the demographic information for participants who provided at least 1 week of follow-up data and those who did not. The mean age of participants who reported at least 1 week of follow-up data was 31.5 years (range=15–78), and 22% were 19 years old or younger. More than two-thirds of the participants were women (68%). The primary language of 89% of participants was English, 9% was Spanish, and 2% was Portuguese. Participants reported working an average of 34 h per week, and mean job tenure in their restaurant was 37 months (median=18). Participants with no follow-up data were younger, more likely to be men, less likely to be English speaking and less likely to have some college education than participants with follow-up data. The prevalence of slip-resistant shoe use and mean perception ratings were similar in those with no follow-up, and those with at least 1 week of follow-up data.
Demographic characteristics of participants with no follow-up versus participants with at least 1 week of follow-up
On a 4-point scale where 1 was ‘not slippery’ and 4 was ‘very slippery’, average restaurant-level perception of slipperiness was 1.9, ranging from 1.3 to 2.3. Average area-level perception of slipperiness was also 1.9; however, it ranged from 1.0 to 3.7. Area-level perception of slipperiness and objective COF were weakly correlated (r=−0.16, p value < 0.01). The sink and fryer areas were rated most slippery with average slipperiness ratings of 2.4 each, and the front counter and drive-through areas were rated as least slippery with ratings of 1.3 and 1.4, respectively. The remaining average area values were rated as follows: grill, 2.1; ice machine, 1.9; cooler/freezer, 1.8 and sandwich assembly 1.7. The front counter and drive-through were also the primary areas of work most frequently reported by participants (70.9% and 70.1%, respectively).
The total number of slips reported during the follow-up was 1168, and the total number of hours worked was 105 240, resulting in an overall rate of slipping of 0.44 slips per 40 working hours. The mean of individual slipping rate was 0.69 slips per 40 working hours (median=0.14) or 34.5 slips per full-time employee per year.19
Restaurant-level mean perception of slipperiness was significantly associated with rate of slipping in the unadjusted regression model (table 2). In the multivariate model that adjusted for age, gender, BMI, education, primary language, mean COF, use of slip-resistant shoes and restaurant chain, a 1-point increase in the mean restaurant-level perception of slipperiness was associated with a 2.71 times increase in the rate of slipping (95% CI 1.25 to 5.87) (table 2). Increases in mean COF and use of slip-resistant shoes were also associated with reduced rate of slipping (table 2).
Rate ratios (RR) and their 95% CI from univariate and multivariate regression models modelling the rate of slipping with restaurant-level perception of slipperiness
Increased within-restaurant area-level mean perception of slipperiness ratings were significantly associated with an increased rate of slipping in both the unadjusted and the adjusted models (table 3). In the multivariate model which adjusted for covariates, a 1-point increase in the mean area-level perception was associated with a 2.92 times increase in the rate of slipping (95% CI 2.41 to 3.54). In the sensitivity analysis, which took into account primary areas of work and allocated time worked in each area, accordingly, the association between area-level perception of slipperiness and the rate of slipping remained significant but was somewhat stronger (rate ratio 3.88, 95% CI 3.21 to 4.69).
Rate ratios (RR) and their 95% CI from univariate and multivariate regression models modelling the rate of slipping with within-restaurant area-level perception of slipperiness
This study provides the first evidence that aggregate perception of slipperiness measured at baseline is associated with the subsequent risk of self-reported slipping (over a 12-week period). We also found that work areas that were rated more slippery compared with other areas in the same restaurants at baseline had a higher incidence of prospectively reported slipping.
Humans perceive floor slipperiness via many different mechanisms which can include sensory (eg, visual perception, proprioception, tactile feedback, etc), experiential (eg, prior history of slipping or falling by the respondent or observation of a coworker, a near miss, reports of slippery conditions by others, etc), and other factors. A few studies have shown that people adjust their gait when walking on slippery surfaces.31 ,32 Others have found humans to be relatively capable discriminators of floor friction when presented with classic psychophysical test paradigms, such as paired comparison scenarios under controlled, high contrast conditions such as dry, wet and contaminated.12 ,13 ,33–36 However, since these studies have been conducted in highly controlled laboratory environments, their generalisability to actual work settings has been limited. The current study provides evidence from actual work environments on the association between workers’ subjective perception of slipperiness and subsequent risk of slipping.
Both the mechanical slip-test approach which measures COF and human-centred subjective assessment approach have their strengths and limitations. Although susceptible to device-dependent measurement error and interoperator variability, mechanical COF measurement approaches are generally more precise and less susceptible to systematic individual biases. However, there are human aspects to slipping and falling—including visual cues, proprioception, gait adaptation, motor control, adaptive balance, memory, etc—that cannot be accounted for by COF alone. In addition, transient floor contamination plays an important role in determining slipperiness of an area. Point-in-time COF measurement may depend on floor conditions at the time of measurement and may not take into account the frequency and variability of contamination. Individual's perceptions of slipperiness, on the other hand, are shaped by experiences over time, and may be particularly valuable in occupational settings where workers have a comparatively long and recurring experience of working and walking in an area. Comparatively speaking, COF measurements require specialised expertise and equipment, while perception scales, properly constructed, are potentially less resource intensive and more scalable/accessible. Perception of slipperiness scales could, potentially, be used by slip and fall researchers, safety practitioners and employers to readily identify areas with high slipping hazards without waiting for an actual slip and/or fall injury to occur. Such scales could also potentially be applied to the evaluation of slip and fall intervention effectiveness (given appropriate control for bias).
We also observed that perception of slipperiness and mean COF were independently associated with the rate of slipping. Thus, it can also be argued that these measures are complimentary to each other, and, where both can be made available, provide more comprehensive slip risk assessment than either one alone.
The study was conducted in limited-service restaurants, which have a relatively high rate of slips and falls. It is unclear to what extent the study results are generalisable to other work environments, particularly those with a low slip and fall frequency.
Another limitation of the study is that we assumed equal time spent at each work area. If workers spent more time in slippery areas, the association between area-level perception of slipperiness and rate of slipping could have been biased. However, in the sensitivity analysis that took into account primary areas of work, the rate ratio was even higher. Secondly, front counter and drive-through were reported by the highest number of workers as their primary areas of work, and these were rated the least slippery. Therefore, it is unlikely that the association between area-level perception of slipperiness and rate of slipping can be fully explained by time spent in slippery areas.
Additionally, we measured perception as a ‘black box’ variable herein. We expected perception to integrate/include all the experiences and sensations that were part of a worker's exposure at an individual level. However, our study was not designed to assess which particular experiences or sensations influenced individual-level perception. These factors and their influence on perception are a potential subject for future research in this area.
This study had several strengths, chief of which was its prospective design with participant reporting of slipping over a 12-week period. Participants were asked to rate slipperiness at the beginning of the baseline questionnaire. It is unlikely that participants were then able to recall their baseline perception ratings during the subsequent prospective study period, and that such recall affected their reporting of slips. Additionally, restaurants belonging to three major chains, and across six different US states participated in the study. The survey materials were made available in three different languages, thus increasing the generalisability of the study findings.
This is the first prospective cohort study to examine the association between subjective perception of slipperiness and the risk of slipping in active work environments. Our results indicate a strong, positive association between average restaurant-level and area-level perception of slipperiness, and subsequent rates of slipping. The findings suggest that safety professionals, risk managers and employers could potentially use aggregated worker perceptions of slipperiness as a scalable approach to identifying areas with high slipping hazards and, potentially, to assessing intervention effectiveness. While further research is needed to confirm our findings, such a scalable, efficient approach to risk assessment could substantially impact same-level falls in the global workplace.
The authors are indebted to Marvin Dainoff and Raymond McGorry for their constructive criticisms of earlier drafts of the manuscript. The authors would like to thank Jacob Banks, Christopher Brunette, Albert Chang, Helen Corns, Niall O'Brien, Greg Schultz, Joanna Willetts, Joe Ferreira, Sandra Goncalves, Gabriela Herscovici, Patricia Boelsen and Monica Colon who contributed to the collection of data or study administration. The authors would also like to thank Margaret Rothwell for editorial support and proofreading of the manuscript.
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Contributors TKC contributed to conception and design of the study, data analysis and interpretation, and writing of the manuscript. SKV contributed to conception and design of the study, data acquisition, data analysis and interpretation, and drafting of the manuscript. W-RC contributed to conception and design of the study and revising of the manuscript. Y-HH contributed to conception and design of the study and revising of the manuscript. DAL contributed conception and design of the study and revising of the manuscript. MJB contributed to the study design, data acquisition and revising of the manuscript. MJP contributed to conception and design of the study and revising of the manuscript.
Competing interests None.
Ethics approval The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety and the Office of Human Research Administration at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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# Round-Up
Breakfast at Bebeto’s: All you need to know from the third night of World Cup action
We reflect on England-Italy, Costa Rica-Uruguay and the rest of last night’s action.
Jun 15th 2014, 8:00 AM
Mike Egerton Mike Egerton
(England’s Steven Gerrard battles for the ball with Italy’s Andrea Pirlo)
On Day 3
MARIO BALOTELLI SCORED the winner as Italy beat England 2-1 in their World Cup duel in the Amazon on Saturday. AC Milan striker Balotelli nodded past former Manchester City team-mate Joe Hart on 50 minutes to decide the tense Group D encounter at Manaus’s sweltering Amazonia Arena. Italy’s Juventus midfielder Claudio Marchisio had fired the Azzurri into a deserved lead on 35 minutes, rifling home a low shot from outside the area after a well-worked corner routine wrong-footed the English defence. England struck back with a fine goal on the counter-attack. Raheem Sterling released Wayne Rooney down the left and the Manchester United star’s cross was buried by Daniel Sturridge. The Italian victory leaves Cesare Prandelli’s side in pole qualifying position from Group D.
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Earlier in the day, Costa Rica kept the World Cup upsets going on Saturday with a shock 3-1 win over Uruguay. In yet another free-flowing, high-scoring match, minnows Costa Rica recovered from falling behind to an Edinson Cavani penalty to claim a surprise win at the Castelao Stadium in Fortaleza. That came just 24 hours after the Netherlands stunned and humiliated reigning champions Spain 5-1 in Salvador. Uruguay, the reigning South American champions, had initially looked to be on the way to all three points in the Group D opener after Cavani’s first-half spot-kick.
Stylish Colombia started the day off by shrugging off the absence of star striker Radamel Falcao to hammer Greece 3-0 in Group C. With Falcao watching from the stands, his Monaco team-mate James Rodriguez emerged as the star of the match, scoring one and setting up another for Teofile Gutierrez. Pablo Armero was Colombia’s other scorer.
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In the wee hours this morning, second-half goals by Wilfried Bony and Gervinho saw the Ivory Coast come from behind and beat Japan 2-1 in an enthralling World Cup Group C clash in Recife. Keisuke Honda had put the Asian champions in front with a rasping drive at the Pernambuco Arena, but the second-half introduction of Didier Drogba from the bench signalled the start of the Ivory Coast fightback. Bony and Gervinho were the goalscorers though, both heading in right-wing crosses from Serge Aurier to give the Elephants the ideal start to their World Cup campaign.
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Joel Campbell – The Arsenal player, who spent last season on loan at Olympiacos, was a revelation for Costa Rica, as they secured a surprise 3-1 victory over Uruguay.
The 21-year-old finished superbly to equalise for his team, before laying on a fine pass for the third goal, which effectively confirmed their victory.
The young attacker also scored eight goals in 32 appearances last season in the Greek League and stood out in Olympiacos’ Champions League 2-0 first-leg victory against Manchester United, while he was instrumental in getting his side back into the game during Costa Rica’s recent friendly encounter with Ireland.
While it’s far too early to give a definitive judgement on Campbell based on these few matches, the signs of late suggest Arsenal could have a potential star on their hands.
Football hipsters – Many people suggested that Uruguay were the dark horses to win the tournament, but even such cautious optimism looked fanciful in the extreme on yesterday’s showing.
Deprived of a less-than-fully-fit Luis Suarez, the South American side looked ordinary enough, and with England and Italy still to play, their qualification chances are now hanging by a thread.
Moreover, their defence was continually exposed by the pace and intelligence of the Costa Rica attack, enabling the underdogs to secure a deserved victory in the process.
On reflection, perhaps this inept display is not quite so shocking though — after all, they were unconvincing in securing a place at the tournament, needing a play-off to reach the World Cup after failing to progress automatically in a South American qualification league that didn’t even include Brazil.
Joga Bonito
Andrea Pirlo’s unreal swerving free-kick deserved a goal, but unfortunately for Italy hit the woodwork instead.
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What have we got to look forward to today?
Switzerland get their Group E campaign underway against Ecuador (5pm).
France will be hoping to overcome a potential banana skin in the form of Honduras (8pm).
One of the World Cup favourites, Argentina, are in action. They take on Bosnia, who looked impressive at times in qualifying, in the late kick-off game (11pm).
Additional reporting by AFP
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2 die in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway auto crashes
By Bose Adelaja
Two persons died, yesterday, in two separate accidents along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, while three others sustained injuries.
It was gathered that one of the accidents occurred at about 6a.m. at the Animal Care axis of the expressway, while the second accident occurred before Ogere Bridge at about 7.15a.m.
The first accident, it was learned, involved a private car, with number plates EGB 411 XA, with two occupants on board.
An eyewitness said: “The driver allegedly dozed off and the car skidded off the road. Though he escaped unhurt, the female occupant died on the spot.”
The scene of one of the accidents.
A Mazda bus with number plates RGB 336XK, with four passengers and loaded with farm produce, was involved in the second accident near Ogere bridge.
It was gathered from eyewitness that the driver of the bus, overloaded with farm produce moving inward Lagos, also dozed off, as he had been driving all night, before ramming into an oncoming tanker, leaving one of the occupants dead and three others injured.
The Public Relations Officer of Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, TRACE, Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the development to Vanguard, said the rescue operation was jointly carried out by his men and other traffic officers.
He advised motorists to avoid driving while feeling sleepy and to be conscious of their state of health.
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ICYMI: New Treatment for Alzheimer’s Offers Patients Benefits, Risks; Still in Review
Published19 Dec 2022
Author Christine Won
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After decades of research, the recent arrival of lecanemab may mean more remembered conversations with loved ones for people with Alzheimer's disease.
In a clinical study of 1,795 people with early stages of Alzheimer’s, the experimental infusion treatment from Eisai and Biogen decreased the rate of cognitive decline by 27%. But it has also been linked to two clinical trial deaths.
Over 18 months, the drug did a better job than placebo removing amyloid from the brain, long believed to be behind the disease, leading to “moderately less decline on measures of cognition and function,” according to a November 29 study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. However, no fewer than one in five patients treated with lecanemab experienced negative side effects such as bleeding or swelling in the brain. Other reported side effects include confusion, headaches, and visual disruptions.
The news of the second death in the phase 3 clinical trial ahead of the data reveal dampened initial anticipation for the drug, though the study results mark the latest promising research in Alzheimer’s that has the field all aflutter.
Big Picture: Though researchers differ on whether the benefits will outweigh the risks, they do agree on one thing: Longer studies are needed to determine the safety and efficacy of lecanemab in early Alzheimer’s.
Mindful of the millions affected by Alzheimer’s looking for hope, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing the treatment under its accelerated approval process and expected to make a decision early next year.
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Banksy Collaborates With BNE for a World Water Day Surprise
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Shortly after his unexpected alignment with the #WithSyria campaign, BNE.org has announced that Banksy has also joined their "Artists 4 Water" international art project. The project works to "raise awareness and funds to help solve the world water crisis." In the past, artists including Shepard Fairey, Invader, and FAILE have designed t-shirts to be sold on the BNE site along with natural lipbalms so that the proceeds could be given to the organization, and now Banksy will join that impressive list.
According to StreetArtNews, the Banksy drop is scheduled for March 22 at 12 Noon PST and the artwork won't be revealed until then. There will also be BNE x Banksy gifts given away via social media. For more information, check out the BNE Instagram page and check the site at the given time.
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The Muslim Vote in UP
A determined vote
By SEEMA MUSTAFA
|24 April 2019 3:16 PM GMT
In the first general elections after Indira Gandhi was assassinated the Congress party, under Rajiv Gandhi, came to power with a record 400 plus seats in the Lok Sabha. And while the Congress patted itself on the back, a RSS blueprint at the time had made it clear that this victory was only because the cadres of this organisation had been directed to support Rajiv Gandhi and the Congress party at the time. This was evident on the ground in Uttar Pradesh ---recorded by this writer in The Telegraph at the time---with the results sending out a strong message that really was a major, and very significant political signal: that the consolidation of Hindu votes could completely negate the influence of the minority votes, and that in circumstances it was very possible for this majoritarian consolidation to take place in India.
The Congress never really recovered from this overwhelming victory, with its secularism replaced with a desire and an ambition to repeat this feat over and over again. This was apparent in first the play with the Muslim fanatics over the Shah Bano issue, and then the quick reversal finding expression in the opening of the locks of the Babri Masjid for the first time since 1947 through a court injunction. This was followed by permission to the shilanyas, Rajiv Gandhi’s call for ram rajya and so on and so forth.
Today it is very clear that the BJP/RSS has taken the agenda to a point where the entire campaign is dominated by Muslim, Muslim, Muslim----with the usual concoction of Pakistan, Kashmir, Muslim, traitor, anti-national taken to new heights. Lynchings, threats, abuse, vicious assaults have become part of the systematic hate campaign against the Muslims.
In UP the campaign has been intense, to put it mildly. As one stopped for tea at a midway halt from Delhi to Moradabad, a couple of BJP workers with zari trimmed BJP scarves walked in. One was a brother of the candidate and asked how the campaign was going confided, “it is going well. These Muslims need to be dealt with. Everyone is convinced of that. We are winning, it will be PM Modi’s jai.” Vitriol poured out of the man, with the Muslim being the issue and not jobs and development.
This is the story across UP, particularly in constituencies ---most of them really--- where the Muslims are in large numbers. The campaign is insidious at places, open at others, as workers roam around the villages and visit the homes to convince voters to isolate the minorities. “They are traitors, you want a Hindu rashtra to take your lives forward, they are coming in the way” is the substance of the campaign that has further consolidated, and yet terrified, the Muslims in the state.
It is, thus, a vote that has developed huge stakes in security and democracy. It has faced the brutality of communal hatred over these past five years as never before. The campaign has been constant, the attacks vicious with even the police being used for the infamous ‘encounters’ that has entire villages of the marginalised fearful for their lives.
There is thus a determination that seems to have gripped this vote bank, with a consolidation behind the gathbandhan that actually defies the concept of tactical voting. After the SP-BSP came together, for the Muslims tactical voting is overwhelmingly in support of the gathbandhan candidates regardless of religion and caste. Even in Moradabad where rock star candidate Imran Pratapgarhi is being fielded by the Congress party, the muslims in the rural areas were clear that they were not going to budge from the gathbandhan. They admitted that the city Muslim vote was a little confused, as it indeed was within the town precincts with Imran Qureshi, a Congress supporter maintaining, “that Imran sahab is popular and people are looking at him.
But SP supporters just a little distance away were clear that eventually the dust created by the Congress would settle, and the 24 hours before polling would see a Muslim consolidation behind the gathbandhan.
BSP Lok Sabha candidate from neighbouring Amroha, agreed entirely laughing away a question about the Congress cutting into the gathbandhan’s vote with, “ no no this will not happen, its just a joke, the muslim have decided to vote for the gathbandhan all across.” This view was shared by Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh, the coalition candidate from Muzaffarnagar who told The Citizen that the “muslims have made up their minds, they are voting for us. They know that by voting for the Congress they will not make their candidates win as they have no other vote with them.”
Over the years, as insidious communalism started spreading its tentacles across UP with the demolition of the Babri Masjid marking this turning point, the Muslims have started what is referred to as ‘tactical voting’, casting the vote for the winning ‘secular’ candidate. This could be from different political parties ---Samajwadi, BSP, Congress--- in the UP context, any candidate who was projected as winning with a substantial section of the votebank. The coalition this time, has made the task infinitely easier for the Muslims who have been spared the confusion, except in some seats like Moradabad, Saharanpur, Bijnore in the first phases of the parliamentary elections where the Congress has seemingly strong candidates as well.
However, as the gathbandhan has its own vote ---Dalits, Backwards---the minorities have found it largely easy to support it by bringing the full weight of its substantial percentage in some of the constituencies to bear upon the election. All spoken to across spoke not of joblessness or agrarian distress, but of sheer survival that has come to dominate the minority discourse. Even though Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav have not spoken out on this issue as some might have liked, for the Muslims the alternative in itself is enough.
There is also a realisation that it is important not to contribute to polarisation. And thus to vote, with silence without giving much away. So once amongst the most vocal vote bank in UP, the Muslims have become almost as silent as the Dalits used to be. In fact over the years, given the political mobilisation of the community, the Dalits including the Jatavs are more willing to discuss politics than ever before. Instead of a ‘we don’t know’ shrug as they walk away from you and the question, the Jatavs now stop and actually discuss the political climate of the day. And if some remain quiet, there are many who make it clear they will be voting for the gathbandhan this time. Some admit that they did not last time, “the youth did not as they believed Modiji, but for us it is Behenji…”
Significantly, Muslims in UP have always been visibly reluctant to vote for political parties who have little, except them, on their agenda. For instance the Jamaat e Islami, in one form or the other, has often fielded candidates in both Assembly and Lok Sabha elections and not been able to get even one elected. Asked about this a Muslim scholar in Lucknow was categorical, “our votes have always gone for the secular parties, for us votes are political not religious.” Despite efforts by sections of the Wahabis to merge the two concerns into the ballot, the UP Muslims have resisted this stoutly since independence. Ashfaq, a tailor in Lucknow’s Hazratganj had no qualms in saying, “religion is what defines me as a Muslim, the vote is for my life as an Indian.”
This is the pragmatism that is visible throughout the state, where the political misuse of religion by one party might drive the voters into the embrace of another. The Muslim voters are no different, seeking security and development from those in the fray. In the process from being Congress voters ---stoutly so after Partition---they have moved to the Janata Party, the Janata Dal, the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party in different phases, in different constituencies depending on the candidate. This time around the BJP has played such havoc with the community, that the community along with other voters who are not enamoured of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has welcomed the gathbandhan and the alternative it offers with open arms.
As Arifa in Muzaffarnagar says, “we will vote for the party that will ensure our safety and treat us as equals.” The youth is aspirational, regardless of religion and caste, and the young Muslims are no different. For them security is important, more so now than before, but so are jobs and forward movement. Shoaib in Varanasi is clear, “our vote is not for Muslim leaders or political parties, we do not care about all this, our vote is for secular political parties who believe in an equal India.”
https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/2/16720/The-Jat-Vote-in-Western-UP
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Conditions favouring Brazilian timber exports
Publié le 26 March 2019 dans Categories Newsletter
The Amazon region on its own accounts for 39% of all the world’s tropical rainforest. Certain types of wood, known for their resistance to moisture, are particularly sought-after in the building industry, with European importers increasingly interested in Brazilian timber from traceable sources and certified by the IBAMA. A barometer of the appetite for this resource is the boom in traffic over the past year on Marfret’s South America service, which carries the timber to Europe’s Northern Range ports.
Between 40 and 50 high-cube containers stuffed with timber planks are loaded onto Marfret’s South America service ships every Monday at the Brazilian port of Vila do Conde.
“Business is thriving thanks to a booming market. We have seen a 50% increase in volumes over 2018. Due to sourcing and traceability issues in the African market, European importers are increasingly turning to Brazil for supplies,” says Patrice Le Bras, Marfret’s South America line sales manager.
The service uses two container ships, the Marfret Guyane and Marajo, which leave the Amazon port with loads consisting of 90% timber and 10% palm oil. The wood is shipped to Vila do Conde by river barge and cut into timber, treated and dried in one of the many sawmills around the port area before being stuffed into the containers.
Rouen buffer stock
Around 60% of the timber is offloaded in Le Havre, home to many timber importers, and the remaining 40% in Antwerp and Rotterdam.
“Our Fluvio-Feeder barge service transfers the containers to Rouen where the containers are unstuffed into a warehouse. The timber is then reloaded onto tilt trailers for delivery to La Pallice for example. Deliveries are made according to the clients’ requirements,” explains Le Bras.
The Amazon rainforest in Brazil covers 520 million hectares. Among the many types of wood present (rosewood, mahogany…) some are particularly sought-after in the building trade for their resistance to moisture.
Decking made from roble and tonka wood are often seen around pools and on terraces, likewise massaranduba, particularly valued for its reddish colours. Others may prefer the yellow tones of tatajuba, while itauba is becoming more and more popular for exterior use.
(*)IBAMA: Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources.
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Braves lose again to Reds, have dropped 5 of their past 7 games
Published 12:00 am Thursday, June 28, 2018
Atlanta Braves' Kurt Suzuki (24) beats the tag from Cincinnati Reds catcher Curt Casali to score on a Johan Camargo base hit, as home plate umpire Carlos Torres looks on, in the fourth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 27, 2018, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Braves aren’t exactly reeling.
They’ve held first place in the NL East since May 31 and still lead the league in runs scored.
Over the past seven games, however, manager Brian Snitker has watched his team lose five times in the first lull of the season.
“This is really the first grind-type thing team-wise that we’ve been through,” he said. “You’re going to go through it. Everybody goes through it. We’re not going to be immune to it.”
Adam Duvall had a two-run single in the seventh inning, Jose Peraza homered and scored twice, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Braves 6-5 on Wednesday.
The Reds have won two straight, nine of 10 and 12 of 15 after taking two of three at SunTrust Park. Closer Raisel Iglesias had a perfect ninth to earn his 15th save in 17 chances, giving Cincinnati its best 10-game stretch since June 19-29, 2012.
“We definitely don’t ever think we’re out of a game,” said Reds second baseman Scooter Gennett, the NL’s leading hitter with a .336 average. “At any moment we can tack on a few runs, take the lead and our bullpen’s been doing a great job of keeping it.”
Cincinnati took advantage of another shaky outing by reliever Sam Freeman (2-4), scoring three runs in the seventh inning for a 6-5 lead on Gennett’s RBI single and Duvall’s single.
Freeman allowed two hits, three runs in two-thirds of an inning and dropped to 1-3 with an 8.16 ERA in his past 15 appearances. Atlanta’s bullpen blew three leads on the homestand and posted a 5.46 ERA in 29 2/3 innings as the Braves missed an opportunity against Baltimore, the AL’s worst team, and Cincinnati, the NL’s third-worst.
It marked the first time this season Atlanta lost consecutive home series.
Next up is a 10-game road trip against three of the majors’ best teams in St. Louis, the New York Yankees and Milwaukee. Snitker said he’s not concerned about the personnel. The recent combination of rain delays and extra-inning games has gotten things out of sync.
“The bullpen is taxed. We’re getting guys on and have a hard time in the productive out situation,” Snitker said. “It’s going to happen.”
The Braves had gone 2 for 20 with runners in scoring position in the past two games, but four runners scored from second base in the fourth. They went 0 for 5 the rest of the way.
Jackson Stephens (2-0) struck out two in 1 2/3 innings to earn the win. Iglesias earned a save for the second straight day and has converted his past six chances.
Braves starter Sean Newcomb allowed seven hits, three runs and two walks with six strikeouts in six innings. He has a 2.13 ERA in his past six home starts, but threw a career-high 111 pitches.
The Reds made it 4-3 in the fifth when Peraza tripled and scored on Brandon Dixon’s single. Cincinnati led 2-0 on Billy Hamilton’s RBI single in the second and Peraza’s homer, his third, in the third.
Four straight singles in the seventh gave the Reds the lead for good.
Braves 2B Ozzie Albies got the day off after his left foot was hit by a pitch in the fourth inning Tuesday. He stayed in the game, but Snitker said he was sore when he woke up Wednesday. Albies, the NL doubles leader, is batting .459 during an eight-game hitting streak. … Atlanta CF Ender Inciarte left the game before the start of the eighth with a sore oblique. Snitker believes he will be ready by Friday.
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Reds 1B Joey Votto was ejected in the first inning for arguing a called third strike. It was the eighth of his career and the first since Sept. 9, 2015. Dixon took Votto’s place and went 1 for 2.
BREGMAN HITS 2-RUN SHOT IN 9TH TO LIFT ASTROS PAST BLUE JAYS
HOUSTON (AP) — Alex Bregman hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning to complete a big rally in the Houston Astros’ 7-6 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday.
It was Bregman’s third straight game with a homer and it capped a huge comeback for the Astros, who trailed 5-0 in the middle of the first inning after a terrible start by Dallas Keuchel.
The Astros trailed by one when Tony Kemp singled off Ryan Tepera (5-3) with no outs in the ninth and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Then with one out in the inning, Bregman sent a fastball to left field, where it bounced off the wall above the Crawford Boxes, to give Houston the victory.
Bregman also doubled twice after hitting a homer and doubling three times in a win on Tuesday night.
ROYALS 5, BREWERS 4
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Mike Moustakas’ solo homer opened a five-run seventh inning that snapped an extended run-scoring slump for Kansas City, and the Royals held off Milwaukee.
Danny Duffy (4-7) allowed five hits over six effective innings for the Royals.
Wily Peralta, a former Brewer, closed it out the game after Brad Miller hit a three-run homer off reliever Tim Hill with nobody out in the ninth to get the Brewers to 5-4.
PHILLIES 3, YANKEES 0
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Zach Eflin continued to shine for Philadelphia with a four-hitter over seven shutout innings, and Rhys Hoskins hit a three-run homer to help the Phillies beat the New York Yankees 3-0 on Wednesday night.
Eflin (6-2) became the first Phillies pitcher to win five starts in a month (he had a 1.76 ERA in June) since Cole Hamels went 5-0 in May 2012. Eflin has turned into a stopper of sorts for Philly: He won his fourth game this month following a Phillies loss. Eflin walked two, struck out six and helped the Phillies avoid a three-game sweep before beginning a key four-game series against the division rival Washington Nationals.
He also at last got most of the 42,028 fans at packed Citizens Bank Park to root, root, root for the home team. Yankees fans swarmed the stadium for all three games of the series, and “Let’s go Yankees!” chants boomed at first pitch.
By the time Searanthony Dominguez struck out Gleyber Torres to wrap up his fifth save, over two scoreless innings, Phillies fans were on their feet as Yankees fans trudged toward the exits.
D’BACKS 2, MARLINS 1
MIAMI (AP) — Robbie Ray pitched six scoreless innings in his first game in nearly two months to help the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Miami Marlins 2-1 on Wednesday.
Daniel Descalso homered and Deven Marrero knocked in a run for the Diamondbacks, who have won six of seven.
Brad Boxberger allowed a home run to Starlin Castro to lead-off the ninth and walked the ensuing batter before retiring the next three for his 19th save in 23 chances.
Ray (3-0) allowed two hits and issued two walks. He struck out six while throwing 56 of his 83 pitches for strikes in his first game since April 29.
RED SOX 9, ANGELS 6
BOSTON (AP) — J.D. Martinez hit his major league-leading 25th home run, Rafael Devers delivered a tiebreaking double and the Boston Red Sox beat the skidding Los Angeles Angels 9-6 on Wednesday night after squandering a six-run lead.
Martinez’s homer capped a six-run second for the Red Sox, who won for the fifth time in six games. Eduardo Nunez and Sandy Leon also went deep in the inning. Boston improved to 5-0 against the Angels this season and has outscored them 45-10.
Martin Maldonado launched a three-run homer and Ian Kinsler had a solo shot for the Angels. They lost their fifth straight and 12th in 16 games.
Los Angeles reliever Jake Jewell was carted off the field with what appeared to be a gruesome injury to his right ankle after covering the plate on a run-scoring wild pitch in the eighth.
RANGERS 5, PADRES 2
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Mike Minor took a perfect game into the seventh inning, Shin-Soo Choo reached base for the 40th straight game and Texas beat San Diego.
Minor (6-4) was perfect until Eric Hosmer’s single up the middle with one out in the seventh. One out later, center fielder Delino DeShields preserved Minor’s shutout by leaping to rob Hunter Renfroe of a home run. Minor struck out five and threw 85 pitches.
PIRATES 5, METS 3
NEW YORK (AP) — David Freese hit a go-ahead, two-run single and Pittsburgh rallied for four runs in the ninth inning to beat New York.
Gregory Polanco had an RBI single and Josh Bell added a sacrifice fly in the ninth as the Pirates, shut down by Zack Wheeler most of the night, came back against a beleaguered New York bullpen to win for just the second time in eight games.
MARINERS 8, ORIOLES 7, 11 INNINGS
BALTIMORE (AP) — Denard Span hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the 11th inning after Kyle Seager delivered a two-run homer in the ninth, and Seattle beat Baltimore.
Playing without injured Nelson Cruz for a second straight game, the Mariners got a home run from Ryon Healy and had 14 hits while improving their record in extra innings to 7-0.
Jean Segura led off the 11th with a double against Mychal Givens (0-5), and Span drove in the go-ahead run with a deep fly to center off Donnie Hart. Chasen Bradford (5-0) worked the 10th, and Edwin Diaz got three outs for his major league-leading 30th save, a club record before the All-Star break.
The Orioles trailed 5-4 in the eighth inning before Chris Davis interrupted his season-long slump with a three-run homer off Alex Colome. In the Seattle ninth, Mitch Haniger singled off Zach Britton and Seager delivered his 15th home run and second in two nights.
INDIANS 5, CARDINALS 1
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Edwin Encarnacion and Lonnie Chisenhall hit back-to-back homers, and rookie Shane Bieber pitched six strong innings to help Cleveland beat St. Louis.
Bieber (3-0) struck out seven to become the seventh pitcher in baseball’s modern era to strike out six or more batters in each of his first four major league starts. Bieber has given up just two runs in his last three starts and lowered his ERA to 2.22. Cleveland avoided a series sweep and has won eight of 10.
Bieber ambushed a first-pitch fastball from Jack Flaherty in the fourth for a double, his first major league hit. Jose Martinez snapped Bieber’s scoreless innings streak at 14 innings with a one-out RBI single in the third. Encarnacion and Chisenhall gave the Indians a 2-0 lead in the second, marking Cleveland’s fifth back-to-back home runs this season. Flaherty (3-3) was the loser.
Brewers starter Brent Suter (8-5) allowed six hits and four runs before leaving with the bases loaded and nobody out in the seventh.
ATHLETICS 3, TIGERS 0
DETROIT (AP) — Jed Lowrie hit an RBI double in the fourth inning and Chris Bassitt pitched six innings in Oakland’s victory over Detroit.
The A’s won for the ninth time in 11 games and moved five games over .500 for the first time this year. They did not clear the fences, ending their major league-record road homer streak at 27 games.
Lowrie had the winning RBI for the third straight game.
Bassitt (1-3) gave up two hits and five walks while striking out five. Lou Trivino pitched the ninth for his second save. Mike Fiers (5-5) was the loser.
REDS 6, BRAVES 5
ATLANTA (AP) — Adam Duvall had a two-run single in the seventh inning, Jose Peraza homered and scored twice, and Cincinnati beat Atlanta.
The Reds have won two straight and nine of 10, taking two of three from the NL East-leading Braves. Closer Raisel Iglesias had a perfect ninth to earn his 15th save in 17 chances.
Jackson Stephens (2-0) struck out two in 1 2/3 innings. The Reds took advantage of another shaky outing by reliever Sam Freeman (2-4), scoring three runs in the seventh inning for a 6-5 lead.
WHITE SOX 6, TWINS 1
CHICAGO (AP) — Jose Abreu and Avisail Garcia homered for Chicago, and James Shields limited Minnesota to four hits over seven innings.
Shields (3-9) struck out five and walked just two in his only scoreless start of the season.
Ehire Adrianza had four hits and an RBI for Minnesota, which has dropped two straight games and five of six. Twins starter Kyle Gibson (2-6) allowed five runs on 11 hits in seven innings.
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10 FunKo Mystery Minis We Wish They'd Make
Kathryn Calamia
27 May 2016 • 6 min read
There have been a lot of great FunKo Mystery Mini sets released over the past few years, and some of my favorites are the superhero themed sets. Mystery Minis are blind box vinyl toys featuring small figurines wrapped inside uniform packaging to keep their identities secret until they are opened. The reason I enjoy purchasing the FunKo Mystery Mini figures is in the name, it’s for the mystery. The tension of finding out if you nabbed a figure of your favorite character or bought a rare figure brings a sense of adrenaline to your purchase.
Even though there have been some great superhero related sets produced by FunKo, there are still a few heroes that I hope will be added in a future (or in some cases should have been added to the original set).
10. Batman Arkham Knight – Barbara Gordon
Barbara Gordon is debatably one of the most popular DC Comics female heroes, and plays a role as Oracle in the Batman Arkham games. It was just recently announced within the DC Comics August 2016 solicits that Batgirl and Oracle will be receiving action figures based on the game.
I am surprised that Barbara didn’t get any form of figure in the Mystery Mini: Batman Arkham Games set. Especially as this game also included a Batgirl DLC episode called Batgirl: A Matter of Family. Now, I am happy that this set doesn’t have a lack of female characters as it does include Catwoman, Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy. I hope if FunKo makes another Batman Arkham related set, we will see Barbara Gordon represented in some form.
9. Captain America: Civil War – Scarlet Witch
While doing research for this article, I was very surprised that Scarlet Witch wasn’t included in the recent Captain America: Civil War FunKo Mystery Mini set. I understand the exclusion of Spider-Man, which I will address with my next step down this list, but we all knew Scarlet Witch was going to be in this film as she was already introduced into the Avengers universe.
So why leave her out? In my opinion, she was one of the coolest characters from the film. Scarlet Witch has more screen time than characters like Crossbones and Hawkeye, yet they received their own representation in this set. I hope the next film where she’s featured nabs her a place in that FunKo Mystery Mini set.
8. Captain America: Civil War – Spider-Man
I told you I would talk about him. It’s easy to see why Spider-Man was one of the breakout stars from Captain America: Civil War. Now, I understand the inclusion of this character could have been a spoiler for the film, but you can’t really call it a spoiler if you show the character in one of your trailers.
That said if you want your fill of Spider-Man Captain America: Civil War in vinyl form, all is not lost. You can purchase Spider-Man holding Cap’s shield in a FunKo four pack, which also includes a Hawkeye pop, Captain America pop keychain, and Iron Man pop keychain.
7. DC Comics – Supergirl
FunKo released a DC Comics Mystery Mini set in 2014, before the new Supergirl television show debuted. This collection included Powergirl, but it is my hope that if this set ever makes a second series it will include Supergirl. Supergirl has always been a popular character in the DC universe and Superman family. With the added exposure television brings I think people will be searching for more of this character and her merchandise.
6. DC Comics – Zoom
That DC Comics Mystery Mini set I mentioned above was released a few months before the Reverse Flash’s appearance on The Flash television show. The Reverse Flash did appear in that set. I think his inclusion is mostly due to the hype the character was getting within the series.
If FunKo does make a second DC Comics Mystery Mini set, I hope we get to see an appearance made by Zoom. Especially with his increased significance as the main villain for The Flash season 2.
5. Guardians of the Galaxy – Dancing Groot
I am sure dancing Groot wasn’t included in the Guardians of the Galaxy mini set for fear of spoilers. But honestly, what’s cuter than a regular FunKo dancing Groot? A mini version of a dancing Groot, of course!
I have a feeling we probably won’t see a second series of minis dedicated to first Guardians film, but let’s hope dancing Groot finds his way into the second Guardians of the Galaxy movie (and associated mini set). Until then we’ll just have to wait and let our collectible love for Groot grow from the pot plant to the next film.
4. Marvel Comics – Kamala Khan
Today, Kamala Khan is one of Marvel’s most loved heroes. The Marvel Mystery Mini set, released in 2014, debuted just a few months before Kamala’s first appearance in her own series. She had a very small cameo in Captain Marvel before that, but I hope, if a second series of this set is released, it will include one of our most beloved modern day heroes.
3. Marvel Comics – Spider-Gwen
Spider-Gwen is another hero that has been receiving a lot of buzz since her debut in the 2014 Spider-Man comic book story arc Spider-Verse. The first Marvel set did feature Spider-Man, so count me as a fan holding out hope that a second set will have room for Spider-Gwen. Also, it would be interesting to see what style they would use for the character. Hopefully something that also integrates her drumming skills!
2. DC Comics – Green Arrow
I was surprised to not see Green Arrow in the DC collection. Arrow had already premiered and the character was starting to get more steam with mainstream audiences. Oliver Queen was already quite popular with comic book fans. A Green Arrow could even add some interesting props with the figure including his quiver and bow. A clear miss.
1. DC Comics – Black Canary
Another hero I felt should have been included in the original DC Comics Mystery Mini set was the Black Canary. She is much loved in the DC universe and one of the longer running female characters (having debuted back in 1947). Like Green Arrow, this is another hero who has become popular with mainstream television audiences thanks to the television series Arrow. They could do some interesting poses with her canary cry.
These are just a few of the heroes I would really like to see in upcoming FunKo Mystery Mini sets. Whether you add them to an order set or work them into future plans, I felt they deserved the recognition and invite you to share which heroes you would like to see included in upcoming sets. Who knows, FunKo might just be listening!
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Farmers say bird flu, other issues causing turkey shortage ahead of Thanksgiving
By Nicole Camarda
Published: Nov. 2, 2022 at 6:29 PM EDT
BOISE, Idaho (KIVI) - Chicken might be the bird of choice for some this Thanksgiving.
Farmers in Idaho are saying there aren’t enough turkeys to go around this year in their area due to various reasons.
“We started off the year as normal with 600 birds. They had not even left the rooting barn, but the bird flu came into the area,” said Cathy Cabalo, owner of Cabalo Orchard and Gardens.
Currently, there are about 225 turkeys at the farm but that is actually about half the amount it sees at this time of year.
The farm owner said workers had to sequester their animals after a nearby farm reported cases of bird flu.
“We locked them inside, 600 turkeys - the bread and butter to the season. We didn’t dare let them outside,” Cabalo said.
However, that forced her to leave her turkeys inside for an extra six to eight weeks
“It’s their natural behavior to cuddle very closely, and when they huddle closely they create a pile and unfortunately when they are small they will suffocate,” Cabalo said. “We lost almost half of our birds to a piling incident in the barn because they couldn’t go outside.”
Nearby Vogel Farms said its team had to do the same, bringing the birds inside to keep them safe from the disease.
“That kind of slowed their growth a little bit. We lost some that we normally wouldn’t have if they were allowed to go outside but it was a decision,” said Deborah Rae Engelhardt-Vogel, owner of Vogel Farms. “If they get bird flu, they are all dead. That decreased our numbers a bit.”
A heat wave that came through Idaho also hindered the birds’ growth
“The heat did not kill them off, but it slowed them way down,” Cabalo said. “They couldn’t continue to grow and live through the heat, so their bodies naturally reacted by slowing down their growth.”
When cooler temperatures finally arrived last month, growth started to pick back up but Cabalo said they’re already sold out.
“We usually sell out about the second week of November. If we have a year where there are no serious issues that cause them to go down, we don’t have a problem with selling out,” Cabalo said.
The farm owner said prices have also increased this year due to inflation, causing the prices of just about everything from feed to gasoline for equipment to go up which is impacting birds’ prices.
“The birds are a lot more expensive this year,” Engelhardt-Vogel said. “We had to increase our price, but I want everyone to be able to afford a turkey.”
According to the Department of Agriculture, frozen turkey inventories are 24% below a three-year average, with the shortage blamed on ongoing supply chain issues.
“Everything has gone up. We did have to raise prices,” Cabalo said. “Our world is changing, there’s a lot of supply chain issues. There are a lot of new diseases, and the weather changes have been immense. We’re doing the best we can.”
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‘Frequency Combs’ ID Chemicals Within the Mid-Infrared Spectral Region
APL Photonics
Our health, safety, and well-being depend on how well we know the chemicals that surround us, and the development of new laser sources will now make it possible to identify chemicals with greater sensitivity.
From the Journal: APL Photonics
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2018 — Chemical compounds all carry distinctive absorption “fingerprints” within the mid-infrared spectral region of 2 to 12 microns. This offers an opportunity to measure and study chemicals at extremely sensitive levels but researchers lack the tools, like lasers and detectors, needed to operate within the mid-infrared. Recently, there’s been a push to develop new tools to help see and measure these chemical compounds in greater detail.
In a breakthrough, a group of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed an on-silicon-chip laser source with outputs that consist of precisely defined and equally spaced optical lines within the mid-infrared spectral region. They report their findings in APL Photonics, from AIP Publishing.
These lasers, called frequency combs, “act as ‘rulers’ of light and have numerous applications — from transferring time standards and improving GPS signals to precision spectroscopy,” said Nima Nader, a postdoctoral researcher for NIST.
For spectroscopic applications, this type of coherent light source can pass through a sample cell containing unknown gases. These gases absorb some of the light and leave behind fingerprints on very specific comb lines. Researchers can check these lines against a database of gases to identify the specific chemicals present.
Beyond this, the coherent nature of the laser source “enables long-distance propagation of light so chemical samples can be studied remotely, without direct contact,” Nader said. “And since frequency combs are stabilized laser sources, they can detect very low levels of chemicals and enhance the sensitivity of our measurements.”
These sources are fabricated on a compact, silicon-based integrated photonics platform, which enables hundreds of devices — in this case, frequency combs — to be fabricated on a single small-area die.
“Each device is engineered to generate a mid-infrared spectrum of comblike optical lines with tailored spectral shape, bandwidth, and optical power distribution,” Nader said.
These laser sources are “as coherent and low-noise as conventional frequency combs developed prior to our work,” Nader said. “We also reported, for the first time, dual-comb spectroscopy of a gas sample with a mid-infrared frequency comb source that exploits a silicon-photonic platform.”
These developments improve conventional techniques such as Fourier-transform-infrared spectroscopy. A practical, broadband, low-noise mid-infrared frequency comb with moderate power and engineered spectrum may improve the frequency precision, sensitivity, and data acquisition rates of mid-infrared spectroscopy.
“Our user-controlled and engineered multiband spectra are ideal for applications in which parallel multicomb operation is desired — such as point sensors for real-time in situ chemical synthesis monitoring, near-field microscopy, and remote sensing,” Nader said. “These sensors can significantly increase the detection sensitivity of tools and techniques such as breath analyzers, cancer detection, explosives tracking and detection, and drug synthesis monitoring.”
The next step is to push the optical bandwidth of NIST’s frequency combs to longer infrared wavelengths and higher optical powers. “We’re also working to reduce their footprint and power consumption to create compact systems with improved efficiency,” Nader said.
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Some Brits Continue To Expose Gorbachov as British Asset
From Volume 36, Issue 37 of EIR Online, Published Sept. 25, 2009
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Sept. 15 (EIRNS)—As divisions rise among the British imperialists, where some want an alternative to what they see as the failed Blair-Obama policies, there has been exposure of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov's role as a British asset against German unification, simultaneous with early declassification of British Foreign Office files on the period of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In a letter appearing in the Financial Times today, Gorbachov's role is exposed by Alex Pravda, a top British expert on Soviet foreign policy. Formerly at Chatham House, Pravda is now at St. Anthony's College, Oxford. He gives no source for his assertions, but they probably come from certain Kremlin documents which have just surfaced in London.
Alex Pravda writes:
"Sir, Philip Stephens rightly reminds us that Margaret Thatcher was not only hostile to German unification but also concerned to avoid destabilising Mikhail Gorbachev ('A misreading of the past holds a lesson for the future,' September 11).
"Well before she shared her misgivings about German unification with François Mitterrand, she made her views clear to Mr. Gorbachev. Halfway through a meeting with him in Moscow on September 23 1989, she asked that notes not be taken of what she wanted to say about German developments. Mrs. Thatcher then proceeded to confide that she and Mr. Mitterrand were opposed to unification as they saw it bringing border change, undermining stability and posing a threat to security. The Soviet leader made no comment.
"At a politburo meeting on the eve of the fall of the Berlin wall, Mr. Gorbachev explained western opposition to unification as an attempt to use the Soviet Union to obstruct the process and sow conflict between Moscow and Bonn to prevent their reaching a deal. He underestimated Mrs. Thatcher's visceral fear of the Germans, just as he overestimated Helmut Kohl's personal assurances that he would cooperate with Moscow to manage a gradual change in relations between the two Germanys.
"Mr. Gorbachev was surprised and angry at what he saw as Mr. Kohl's opportunistic use of chaos in the German Democratic Republic to swallow East Germany. Resigned to unification, Mr. Gorbachev then went on to agree to NATO membership for a united Germany, not as 'an admission of defeat'—as Mr. Stephens implies—but as a price worth paying for partnership with Bonn and Washington."
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*** ABOUT THIS BLOG (@11/2011) There’s (still) No Excuse For Abuse, Including Economic Abuse of Taxpayers to Allegedly ‘EndAbuse.’
[This post is an exact (@ 11/26/2011) copy of a post by nearly identical title — except the PAGE function doesn’t enable tags, and that any “related articles” at the bottom are system-generated and may or may not reflect my POV]
A Few FAQs, but first
let me invite readers to something normally beyond my social media skillset: a Tuesday Night Blogtalk Radio show
My email alert said
“It’s going to be a hell of a show.”
(it was).
This is not your typical Battered Women’s Protective Mothers–Reform CPS–Involve More Fathers show.
(Nor is my blog typical)
Like me (nowadays) I don’t want to hear it. For one, we already tried (to cite a Bible reference) the
“widow and the unjust judge” theme, the “two women before King Solomon” theme,
and many also tried actually reporting to what we considered the proper authorities such things as:
Violations of Court Orders, Domestic Violence (or threats, stalkings, etc.) against us, violations of due process,
and in some cases, M.I.A. children the context of an ex who had threatened to run off with them.
ALSO this 64/34 effect show is NOT about
~ ~holding Congressional Hearings and Rallying in front of the White House in hopes that
the residential Change Agent (President Obama) will please help our cause ~ ~ ~ do something ~~ do anything! ~~ just make us feel heard!!
(As some have felt might be more effective the the representative form of government called one’s state & federal legislators)
NOPE. It is different. So I hope you will call or tune in next Tuesday at 9pm EST (til further notice):
THIS TUESDAY NIGHT @ 9pm, Abuse Freedom Presents: The 66/34 Effect Radio Show,
Funding in the Courts
With Host Athena Phoenix
November 15, 2011 at 9:00 p.m. EST
This week ABUSE FREEDOM UNITED welcomes our newest team member, Athena Phoenix to help us improve the justice system by bringing reformation to the apathetic and corrupt divisions of our state and federal governments.
Dear Abuse,
(From the Show Description, continued):
Have you ever wondered why the justice system and the media ignores some predatory CPS or child support enforcement programs which target and exploit families? Are courts and the Department of Children and Families receiving financial incentives from the Federal government to increase conflict in family court cases by awarding custody to unfit and unwilling parents, and even taking kids out of good homes and into the system?
Abuse Freedom Radio invites you to tune in this Tuesday night at 9:00 EST to welcome Host Athena Phoenix to the AFU family and support our newest program, The 66/34 Effect: Funding in the Family Courts with host Athena Phoenix. Guests this week will be:
LIZ RICHARDS, Founder of National Alliance for Family Court Justice (www.nafcj.net) For over 20 years, Liz has been a pioneer in the mother’s rights movement a national expert on HHS funding research, fraud, and political reform.
FRED SOTTILE, President of the LA Chapter of Fathers 4 Justice, author, radio host, and a prominent TANF Title IV-D abolition activist.
JACK KELLY, Democratic party political activist, Boston based blogger and columnist who wrote about the Penn State scandal.
See Jack Kelly’s article here:
A Message To PennState Prez
Rodney Erickson: Clean House!
Find out from special guest Fred Sottile why father’s rights groups are joining the fight to cut $5 billion in wasteful spending on IV-D TANF programs, including fatherhood programs funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [HHS]. Also learn about Fred’s work on judicial reform and transparency with activists like Richard Fine, Full Disclosure Networks, and Judicial Watch.
Liz Richards will educate listeners on the politics of HHS Fatherhood and Healthy Families program funding, and how these funds are used to effect the outcome of court cases. Are grant programs administered through child support enforcement agencies, such as Responsible Fatherhood programs and Access and Visitation programs meeting their funding and accountability requirements? Is there a connection to the Penn State scandal and Occupy Wall Street?
Please join us, and feel free to call in and join the discussion as we find ways to improve the system.
Jane Boyer & Josie Perez
Abuse Freedom United
IF HHS PROGRAMS ARE FAILING FAMILIES, WHY DO WE KEEP FUNDING THEM? What can we do to reform them?
Why is child support enforcement creating TANF programs which waive due process, collecting billions in child support, then fail to disburse it to the children it is intended to benefit? How much does your judge know about HHS funding and family services? How much of your tax dollars is being used to support programs like CPS, foster care, The Second Mile nonprofit, and Penn State who failed to protect the children raped by Coach Sandusky? Tune in and find out.
Join Athena Phoenix
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Or tune in on the web http://www.blogtalkradio.com/abusefreedomlive
I believe this 11/15/2011 show is now available to hear, and it will be weekly (though with which guests, I don’t know). However, the “64/34 Effect” — which has nothing to do with what most “expose the impact of domestic violence” or Train The Judges to recognize it — movements talk about. That 64/34 effect, however, has had greater influence in preventing families from getting out of it.
You’ll also note that there are both men and women on the show, and (for the record) that’s not men and women who are all pro-feminist, or pro-father. Rather, at least some people have started figuring out it’s time to stop playing the Good Cop Bad Cop (Men v. Women) themes that have been fed us by media campaigns — and instead look at some of what I have begun to (for some years now) report on this blog. I report on organizations, nonprofits, foundations, and funding behind the policies that messed with my family (yes, even my ex, who was also a batterer) and compromised our futures –badly.
(I hope the show is helpful//for the record, I’m not a regular listener and don’t know about previous episodes), or the hosts Boyer & Perez)
NOW —
ABOUT ME (& the Let’s Get Honest BLOG)
I am What I am, which is changing with time. . .. (so is the blog, only it’s an it).
I don’t tag consistently, so if you’re hunting for something, use the search field.
I don’t proofread, copyedit, and once the thing is off my chest and published, usually that’s it’s format (love it or leave it).
I know — and deduce, from who’s watching it — that this blog has information on it you will NOT typically find elsewhere. I know that, because I’m a diligent person and voracious reader, and I explored the usual alternatives –consistently and hard — during a seven-year period (and thereafter) between filing a domestic violence restraining order with kickout, and watching my children have a custody-switch overnight (not getting to say goodbye to them, or vice versa) after which they basically disappeared out of my life. This was a planned event, and an enabled event — and in this blog, I am going to talk about the CONTEXT in which planned and enabled events of this sort take place.
I quit dealing with nonprofits, or asking them for help, after I realized who they are actually answerable to — and that’s their funders, NOT their clients, who represent warm bodies that come and go through their doors, justifying the funding. This includes all kinds of nonprofits.
The most important things needed for a mother (specifically, but it can also help nonabusive fathers) to know in the court system — to possibly stop getting screwed with (pardon the French) will NOT be found on domestic violence prevention sides, family court self-help sites (naturally), or even protective mothers sites.
I can document a family law case (Sacks v. Sacks) that had all of the above type groups backing it from Florida to the Supreme Court of the USA (where it was declined for a hearing) and back, which chose to ignore what I blog, and think that the case was “about” their individual judges, custody evaluators, attorneys, or situation. It’s not. Get over it. Deal with it. Grow up. What happens in the courtroom — in the bottom line — is NOT about you, and in many cases, the outcome is often settled before you get there (if you have the privilege, which some don’t).
(Sample of the language — notice the drama — and people are supposed to write the judges about all this:) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
WE ARE ALL WITH YOU LINDA MARIE
We thank you Linda Marie for your courage, faith, and strength to speak for those who have been silenced by their abusers and the courts.
CASE UPDATE: JUNE 27, 2011 CASE
US SUPREME COURT: “WE DONT DO FAMILY LAW”
THE US SUPREME COURT DENIED LINDA MARIE SACKS PETITION FOR CERTIORARI IN SACKS V SACKS. WE ARE DISSAPOINTED BUT NOT SHOCKED AT THE US SUPREME COURTS COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN. DESHANEY V WINNEBEGO, CASTLE ROCK V GONZALES, TITELMAN V TITELMAN ARE PRIME EXAMPLES OF OUR NATIONS HIGHEST COURT IGNORING THE PLEAS OF PARENTS TRYING TO FIND JUSTICE FOR THEIR CHILDREN WHO ARE SEVERELY ABUSED OR MURDERED. OVER AND OVER AGAIN THE STATE SUPREME COURTS AND THE US SUPREME COURT REFUSE TO PROTECT VICTIMS AND POLICE THEIR OWN. WHY HAVE SUPREME COURTS THAT ARE DEAF TO THOSE MATTERS THAT REALLY COUNT. IS BURNING OUR FLAG, STRIP SEARCHING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN, SCHOOL PRAYER, AND THE LIKE-MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE RIGHT OF PARENTS TO PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN FROM ABUSE AND MURDER?
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN: FACTS FOUNDER ADELE GUADALUPE INTERVIEWS LINDA SACKS ABOUT HER CASE
Click on this link and then go to bottom of blue page to download and read full petition to the US Supreme Court
Battered Mothers-A Human Rights Issue
READ MORE www.CenterforJudicialExcellence.org
Write the judges in SACKS V SACKS
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ All the groups involved should thank her for free (negative) publicity at her children’s expense. However, ignorance — and this WAS ignorance, and pigheaded refusal to smell the coffee – – – – is no excuse, either. (I wouldn’t say this, but tried to present information to this mother as well.) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
This Petition for Writ of Certiori, i.e., to be heard by the US Supreme Court under “Other Authorities” cites Dr. Phil and the O (Oprah’s) magazine, a SF online weekly, a radio interview of Linda Sacks, and basically a laundry list of the nonprofits and individuals that did NOT inform this parent about what just happened to her. Or why a Supervised Visitation Center — or having a person on her case (Dr. Deborah O. Day) who just happened to be a founding board member of the Florida AFCC, and a Certified Family Mediator and is big on Munchhausen’s by Proxy — might relate to the problems she, like others, has been having. Instead, she focused on being “squeaky clean” and how unfair the system was to her — rather than studying the system. The groups cited (see the writ) don’t talk about AFCC, either, nor does a recent tome called Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and Custody (see the groups listed).
Meanwhile — in Lancaster, Pennsylvania very recently– a forum exists “Expose Corruption” exists, which reports on its local courts and potential corruption, and the moderator (I think it’s the moderator) simply sent off a “Right to Know” information request on one of the court personnel, and got payment vouchers,* (*it doesn’t look like Ms. Sacks ever did this) discovered no contract exists for the person in question, found out what a nice living she is making at public expense, as either Guardian Ad Litem or Parenting Coordinator. She sued him for inadvertently posting SS#s that the responding officials “forgot” to redact on the vouchers, and the game’s on. But it began with someone noticing that judges were steering cases to certain profiteers, and inquiring about the profit.
FBI searches court administrator’s office
BY BORYS KRAWCZENIUK (STAFF WRITER)
FBI agents executed a search warrant on Lackawanna County Court Administrator Ron Mackay’s office Monday afternoon as part of an investigation into a program that provides lawyers for children in family court cases.
Mr. Mackay declined to answer questions about the visit and answered “no” when asked if he would provide The Times-Tribune a copy of the search warrant.
The visit lasted less than an hour. For a while, as agents worked in his office, Mr. Mackay was required to stand in a waiting room outside the suite that houses his office. An FBI agent stood near Mr. Mackay guarding the entrance to the suite. Eventually, four men dressed in plain clothes, only one of whom acknowledged being an FBI agent, walked out, with one carrying a box with white papers sticking out of the top.
. . .The FBI has been investigating the county’s guardian ad litem system, which is in the hands of one lawyer, attorney Danielle Ross. The county court sometimes appoints a guardian ad litem to represent the interests of children in family court disputes between parents, often in cases of divorce or when custody is at stake.
Late last month, agents served subpoenas at the county courthouse and administration building as part of their investigation. In September, a federal grand jury subpoena ordered County Controller Ken McDowell to produce all bills, invoices, receipts and statements for every case assigned to Ms. Ross.
Now THAT’s how you investigate!
Read more: http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/fbi-searches-court-administrator-s-office-1.1232356#ixzz1e62IvTLL
Funny how Sacks’ coaches and/or centers of reference: Battered Women’s Custody Conference, Barry Goldstein, The Leadership Council, California Protective Parents Association, Center for Judicial Excellence, etc. But ordinary citizens (well, perhaps some “extraordinary” is involved here) on a forum can pick up:
(Kids 4 Kash, Lack. Cty) First Protest set for Friday, November 18 at 9:00 am at Family Court ( First … Last » )
Family Court’s Co-Parenting Coordinator, Ann Marie Termini vs. Pilchesky, (Court documents posted here) ( 1 2 3 4 )
(etc.)(who you know I’ve been looking at too — as I can’t see where Termini & Boyan are currently incorporated — and I don’t think they are. Termini’s making a good living in Lancaster County at the courthouse, since (it seems) about 2008. Coincidentally? The “National Association for Parent Coordination” in Georgia got dissolved in about 2008 (same dynamic duo in charge). now they run advanced parent coordination training (for a stiff price) and well they should — because in Lancaster at least, it seems to net $60/hour, plenty of referrals (and without a contract even??). . . We, too, can do “right to know” or “FOIA” inquiries, and should do more.
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On the other hand, knowledge — and knowledge you can act on locally — is empowering, even if the scenario is daunting. I have learned so much by having all systems fail in the family law, family, (religious institutions), criminal justice system (i.e., law enforcement), and a few more along the way. I know I am a better woman for it, though sorry it took so many years (i.e., I got older in the meantime) Forgot to add
I’m longwinded. The posting has really gotten out of hand, and while it may be a warm blanket to me, I’m getting ready to let go of it and go Facebook, Twitter, or something else. I don’t seriously believe anyone reads the entire posts. It’s where I keep (SOME, FYI, not all), of my research, for the record. The research has borne out, and there IS a clearer picture (in my understanding) of what to ignore and what to pay attention to in these systems. And of the country I live in (shudder!) as a woman, particularly a woman beyond kicking out some more babies, or with an appetite for raising someone else’s. That frees up a lot of thought time .. … ….
Oh yes — there are about 9 different pages on here. But only the main page, generally, is added to. It’s structured like this. I write until I’m done (and only a small portion of the screen is visible at a time; no hardcopy printouts or second drafts). When I’m done –or sometimes several paragraphs beyond that, then I stop, and usually hit “Publish.”
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(besides which it was seriously difficult to get those stats into the WordPress margins… )
IN THE BOTTOM LINE, THE QUESTION BECOMES — WHOSE LIFE IS MINE? WHOSE MONEY IS THE MONEY I EARN?
WHAT ABOUT CHILDREN? IF A MOTHER AND FATHER HAVE CHILDREN AND A CUSTODY DISPUTE, WHOSE CHILDREN ARE THEY?
By law, the ANSWER is here, and the answer is NOT his or hers….
The UCCJEA talks about which STATE has jurisdiction, when it’s a multi-state custody matter. But what about within a single state?
So what is jurisdiction? It is the right, the power, and the control that the court will have over a certain legal issue or subject. Thus there is geographical jurisdiction (where can the case be heard?), subject matter jurisdiction (which court has authority to hear and decide this particular legal issue?), personal jurisdiction (does the court have the power to make a person obey its orders?) and there are other jurisdictional questions.
What we normally call FAMILY COURTS ( as I am understanding this) are actually by statue “CONCILIATION COURTS….Now the type of people going to the family law system are not typically the happily married couples, but couples with often “irreconcilable differences” this may come of a bit of a shock — while you are figuring out how to separate, the court is actually (by legal purpose) trying to get you back together, apparently (I’ll use that word a lot so no one thinks about accusing me of practicing law ….).
No, seriously …..
WHAT IS A “CONCILIATION COURT” (ever heard the term?)
Conciliation Courts
California was one of the first states to establish conciliation courts. The purpose of a conciliation court is to encourage families to attempt reconciliation and reduce litigation in family law cases. In California counties with conciliation courts, parties may petition the court for help in resolving disputed family law matters prior to, or even after, filing an action for dissolution. While the matter is under advisement by the conciliation court, neither party may file an action for dissolution without permission of the court.
(taken from Robert L. Lewis site; San Jose Family Lawyer)
How many mothers or fathers are even aware that in having ANY custody dispute and going before a judge to settle it, they have entered “Conciliation Court Land” (I think. NOTE: I’m not an attorney, and reader is advised to consult, law, a licensed attorney or a better source before acting on any FYI information I post, from other sites, hereon!)
Basically when there is a custody DISPUTE (parents cannot work it out separately) in — I believe most counties in the US, but don’t know for sure — that opens the doorway for all THIS:
(CALIFORNIA LAW — which may explain where all the behavioral scientists get off in studying your children and collecting data from courthouses about this or that):
FAMILY CONCILIATION COURTS (California Code 1800ff (part, below:)
1814. (a) In each county in which a family conciliation court is
established, the superior court may appoint one supervising counselor of conciliation and one secretary to assist the family
conciliation court in disposing of its (ITS, not YOUR) business and carrying out its functions. In
counties which have by contract established joint family
conciliation court services, the superior courts in contracting
counties jointly may make the appointments under this subdivision.
(b) The supervising counselor of conciliation has the power to do all of the following:
(1) Hold conciliation conferences with parties to, and hearings
in, proceedings under this part, and make recommendations concerning
the proceedings to the judge of the family conciliation court.
(2) Provide supervision in connection with the exercise of the
counselor's jurisdiction as the judge of the family conciliation
court may direct.
(3) Cause reports to be made, statistics to be compiled, and records to be kept
as the judge of the family conciliation court may direct.
(4) Hold hearings in all family conciliation court cases as may be
required by the judge of the family conciliation court, and make
investigations as may be required by the court to carry out the
intent of this part.
(5) Make recommendations relating to marriages where one or both
parties are underage.
(6) Make investigations, reports, and recommendations as provided
in Section 281 of the Welfare and Institutions Code under the
authority provided the probation officer in that code.
(7) Act as domestic relations cases investigator.
(8) Conduct mediation of child custody and visitation disputes.
(c) The superior court, or contracting superior courts, may also appoint,
with the consent of the board of supervisors, associate counselors of conciliation
and other office assistants as may be necessary to assist
the family conciliation court in disposing of its business.
Which, for the record, may or may not relate to YOUR business or intents in being there.
In fact, the two purposes are often at odds. But did you know what its business was to start with?
This is not told you in the basic self-help legal center, but it appears to be so....
The associate counselors shall carry out their duties
under the supervision of the supervising counselor of conciliation
and have the powers of the supervising counselor of conciliation.
Office assistants shall work under the supervision and direction of
the supervising counselor of conciliation.
(d) The classification and salaries of persons appointed under this section shall be determined by:
(1) The board of supervisors of the county in which a noncontracting family conciliation court operates.
(2) The board of supervisors of the county which by contract has the responsibility to administer funds of the joint family
conciliation court service.
OK, Let’s review this: COUNTY (financial) vs. STATE (pays judges) responsibilities and associations:
And State to Federal ….
The county commissioners (or, “Board of Supervisors of the County”) in which a conciliation court operates appoint the classification and salaries of people helping there work. Got that? (Judges, in California, are to be paid by the state — not the counties).
SO — when here comes the United States (federal) Child Support & Welfare System and says — “we will fund you, only it’s a $2/$1 relationship (or the 66/34% effect), …
provided you follow our rules — some of which includes, we want to do social studies on your families, (Just whatever the Head (Secretary) of HHS says to ….)
and we also believe that you should be running some marriage, fatherhood promotion, abstinence education, supervised visitation, mediation, counseling and parent education classes too, or other “access/visitation” programs — to reduce the overall divorce rate, which WE assert relates to the overall POVERTY RATE for which we are (see?? ) giving your state $XX b/million per year — if you want it that is…”
— GENERALLY SPEAKING, THE STATES (AND COUNTY SUPERVISORS OF CONCILIATION COURTS) ARE GOING TO LISTEN.
AND JUDGES ARE LIKELY TO ORDER SERVICES — THAT’S HOW WE GET THE INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SOME OF THESE NONPROFITS AND INDIVIDUAL JUDGES ON SPECIFIC CUSTODY CASES THEY ARE TO HELP PARENTS SETTLE THEIR “DISPUTES,” and this JUST — PERHAPS — MIGHT INVOLVE FORCING THAT COUPLE TO GO SIT IN FRONT OF A COUNTY-PAID COUNSELOR (OR MEDIATOR), OR TAKE CLASSES BY A JUDGE- LAWYER-RUN PROGRAM THAT QUALIFIES FOR SOME OF THE GRANTS. . .
.Which may explain why American Lawyer Media — (or quite a few others visiting the same site) are somewhat interested in my post on “Kids Turn” . . . or why the California Judicial Council/Administrative Office of the Courts (perhaps) may be interested in my reporting on the A/V grants, or OCSE — or “AFCC” which includes personnel with a penchant for ordering a whole lot of these types of income-producing programs:
(CODE, continued — but in more normal print so it will wrap to the margins right):
1815. (a) A person employed as a supervising counselor of conciliation or as an associate counselor of conciliation shall have all of the following minimum qualifications: {{NOTICE THE FIELDS}}
(1) A master’s degree in psychology, social work, marriage, family and child counseling, or other behavioral science substantially related to marriage and family interpersonal relationships.
(2) At least two years of experience in counseling or psychotherapy, or both, preferably in a setting related to the areas of responsibility of the family conciliation court and with the ethnic population to be served.
(3) Knowledge of the court system of California and the procedures used in family law cases. {{notice this is qualification #3, not #1}}
(4) Knowledge of other resources in the community that clients can be referred to for assistance.
(5) Knowledge of adult psychopathology and the psychology of families.
(6) Knowledge of child development, child abuse, clinical issues relating to children, the effects of divorce on children, the effects of domestic violence on children, and child custody research sufficient to enable a counselor to assess the mental health needs of children.
(7) Training in domestic violence issues as described in Section 1816. {{notice this is #7, not #2, although DV issues do result in disputed custody situations that come before this court!}}
(b) The family conciliation court may substitute additional experience for a portion of the education, or additional education for a portion of the experience, required under subdivision (a).
(c) This section does not apply to any supervising counselor of conciliation who was in office on March 27, 1980.
Does that explain why your life as a disputed custody parent (if that’s you) are now filled with these social science, behavioral modification, psychopathology & psychology of families & psychotherapist personnel?
NOW — a voice from 1977. I notice that it was published in the National Council on Family Relations.
Who are they? Well not in this post, but this is the grant they got recently from our government (HHS) to keep marriages together or help persuade more people to marry
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON FAMILY RELATIONS MINNEAPOLIS MN 55421-3900 ANOKA 078679974
(click on name to see what the grant 90FM0001 was about, from 2004-2008)(then click on the grant# and see that its 2011 continuation for only $785,612 was continued at Utah State U. Utah appears to be a very marrying state, one might think, given the prevailing religion..
“CONCILIATION COUNSELING: THE COURT’S EFFECTIVE MECHANISM FOR RESOLVING VISITATION AND CUSTODY DISPUTES“
The Family Coordinator © 1977 National Council on Family Relations
Counseling processes utilized by the Santa Clara County Conciliation Court in in resolving litigated visitation and custody disputes are described. The responsiveness of parents and their children is discussed as are the roles of both counselor and judge in these matters. A sample case reflecting a broad range of family dynamics is presented and the procedure by which cases are received and evaluated is reported. The practical and salutary features of this court-oriented program are set forth.
(Excerpt): “It has been acknowledge for some time by judges and lawyers, as well as those inviduals affected (note order — judges & lawyers 1st, affected people, 2nd) that the process by which custody and visitation issues are decided is in need of change. With that in mind, THE CONCILIATION SERVICE OF THE SANTA CLARA COUNTY (California) SUPERIOR COURT IN 1972 LAUNCHED A PILOT PROGRAM WHICH HAS SINCE BEEN FULLY INTEGRATED INTO ITS FAMILY COURT PROCEDURES (caps & emphases= mine). PROFESSIONAL MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROGRAM’S IMPLEMENTATION….
At the calling of the Family Court Calendar each morning and each afternoon, all those awaiting hearing on visitation matters are promptly and directly referred to the court’s Conciliation Service. (etc.)
That’s how the counselors get in there. . . . Note the date –1972. The AFCC (which is an association of judges, lawyers, and exactly these types of counselors — must be coincidence!) didn’t actually finish getting caught and forced to incorporate (in IL) til around 1975. No-fault divorce was here or near, and FEMINISM was on the Ascent in America…. This caused some marital issues, obviously. ….
WHAT I WAS NOT TOLD — EVER — BY ANY COURTHOUSE I ENTERED< ANYWHERE< OR ANY MEDIATOR:
WERE YOU? WHOSE CHILDREN ARE THEY?
WHO HAS JURISDICTION IF YOU HAVE A CUSTODY DISPUTE?
THIS IS A 2009 blog from an attorney who works in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. It’s not hard to understand, it’s fairly clear — but were you told?
L.A. Divorce Blog (Nov. 24, 2009)
When a controversy exists between spouses, or when a controversy relating to child custody or visitation exists between parents (regardless of their marital status), and the controversy might otherwise result in divorce, annulment, legal separation, or the disruption of the household, and there is a minor child of the spouses or parents whose welfare might be affected thereby, the Family Conciliation Court has jurisdiction over the controversy, the parties to the controversy, and all persons having any relation to the controversy. Where the controversy involves domestic violence, the Family Conciliation Court has jurisdiction over the controversy, whether or not the parties have a minor child.
The purpose of filing a Petition for Conciliation is to invoke the Court’s jurisdiction to preserve the marriage, to effect a reconciliation of the parties, or to amicably settle the controversy to avoid further litigation over the issue.
While this is talking specifically about someone wishing to stop the divorce via a “petition of conciliation,” the existence of this code – has affected all “custody disputes” and also how domestic violence is adjudicated. Cindy Ross (also of California, and who writes better) described:
(notice — this is an older post, 2/19/2003) and talks more about the impact.
AFCC was originally established in California as the means to enact Conciliation Court Law (CA Family Codes 1800-1852), an obscure set of codes used to prevent divorce in counties where the court itself deems it necessary to “promote the public welfare by preserving, promoting, and protecting family life and the institution of matrimony“. [15] While the Conciliation Court identifies children’s rights to “both parents”, it is used only to assist fathers take custody away from mothers and/or to otherwise gain inappropriate or illegal “access” to children.
Enacting Conciliation Court Law gives the family court jurisdiction over domestic violence cases, in violation of appropriate family codes and “child’s best interests” laws. For example, in California, while Family Code §3044 establishes a presumption that sole or joint custody for a parent convicted of domestic violence is not in the best interests of children, Conciliation Court codes are used not only to assist abusive men get custody, but to help them avoid criminal prosecution. [16] Because blame is shifted to mothers by concealing evidence of paternal crimes against women and children, in the Conciliation Court, victims of abuse (not perpetrators) get convicted in accordance with PAS “threat therapy”. [17]
PAS court-ordered threats include jail terms for mothers and institutionalization of children to convince them that the abuse never occurred, but their mothers are crazy. [18] PAS threats have been linked to the death of at least one child. When forced to “choose” between visiting his violent father in a positive frame of mind, or having his mother jailed for his refusal, Nathan Grieco chose suicide instead. [19]
The Conciliation Court uses PAS methodology to give abusive men the legal upper hand. However, “shared parenting” has become the rallying cry of the fathers’ rights movement, primarily because joint custody also means no child support obligations. When AFCC affiliates assist fathers get custody and get out of paying child support, they instigate frivolous litigation for their own financial gain. They take kickbacks and other improper payments to rig the outcomes of the cases.
She hasn’t reported on a few others factors, but at least this explains why, when coming in for a divorce, the court seems more interested in assigning you a few (dozen) experts. As also explained (again, long ago) on
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To which I’d add — and related federal programs, as they may be available.
To people who file civil restraining orders — this information is not shown them (last I heard), but if children are involved, they are then escorted (at least in my area) to a quick run by the local family mediator –who just happens to be in this conciliation court. The place looks, acts, and sounds like a courthouse, but in fact it is a support service, under conciliation law, to a conciliation court. Funny that, when divorce actions sometimes read “irreconciliable differences” — and yet someone is going to give it a try, for public benefit. Or at least pretend to. Heck, it’s a job, right?
I know many women who filed for safety and ended up in this court before they knew what hit. Sometimes the actions are consolidated Ex Parte to get them into this venue. Then we wonder why, when we talk about matters of law, due process, (particularly DV law), or even crimiinal matters, the judges, GALs, and evaluators jsut cannot hear — and talk a different language (as above, see the code).
The entity which lobbied for conciliation code to start with, in California, is known as the AFCC (association of family and CONCILIATION courts — get it?). Their job is to extract as much wealth as possible for as long as possible (this may include from extended family, foster care situations, adoptive families, you name it) and try to convince — or force — you to believe that this is in the best interests of what you think are YOUR children, but they know (by knowing about this section of code) are actually NOT your children — not until you and the Dad can agree.
Your judge or lawyer is bad? Your ex done you wrong? Start a blog and unload there — but I am more interest in system change and reporting how systems have changed over time. When I feel I’ve said this well enough (or as well as I can on this blog), then I’ll stop saying it. Don’t hold your breath.
SO, ABOUT THIS BLOG:
Scroll down to “READ THIS FIRST” page for a history of family law starting from the consequences of it, back down to the shady beginnings, one generation after women got the vote and between the world wars. Yep, that’s when the first law was passed, which eventually morphed, evolved, or as one summary puts it, “metastasized” into what we have now. And, like Hollywood, and other exports, this one seems to have originated in Sunny California, Southern part…
This post doesn’t contain any porn, graphic violence, or disgusting images (as I recall), but it is going to include plain talk on what comes from papering over these things.
[2011 update]. I investigate and report on corporations and nonprofits taking business from the court system, and taking diversionary monies from needy families through the 1996 TANF welfare reform and OCSE loopholes.
Originally the blog was intended to develop and report on matters covered (since ab. 1993) at http://www.NAFCJ.net and others, which at least gave a sensible explanation for weird behaviors by family court officials. I continued researching, observing, and learning.
A good deal also covers the “Faith-Based Behaviors” which have been enabled to expand beyond even the “Fatherhood Factor Funding” of 1994 & 1995. In 2001, GWB began office with two executive orders, 13998 and 13999, which opened the door for these (crooks).
Recently, articles are hitting the press about the scandalous “take the money and run” grantees, the “steer the money to our friends” process exhibited by program managers at the state level, and more. Not to mention, the black hole of undistributed child support collections, which (as reported in part by Richard Fine in 1999) shows a system of bribery and kickbacks are steering custody results, and kicking too many kids into bad situations — or state care.
I also note that tools available to the public to study these things are indequate and limited; that there exists — both on database and (some indications) literally, a dual-docketing system, such that decisions made with a parent’s or child’s name on them — which bring federal program funding opportunities — can continue without that parent or child’s knowledge. Some of these do not seem to require a judge’s signature. Others may have such signature, but litigants somehow can’t get a copy of their own files. The database TAGGS is not set up to produce truly flexible reports which would help track down who is doing what and for whom. It is there for an appearance of transparency, as far as I am concerned. Before I re-read NAFCJ.net (Liz Richards’ site) and began my own research, I didn’t run into a single protective mother or DV advocate who even used this database, or told women — or men — about it.
Above all, it’s time to let the idols, the myths about justice hit the dust (which is where idols belong anyhow) and go roll up the sleeves and start looking things up.
My blog is dense to read, and shows affects of PTSD (many times) — BUT I’ll bet you will not find many others reporting what I do.
Fathers in custody battles need to know — it’s NOT about you, or your story, or a particular judge; it’s about the system. Fathers also need to know that SOME of us mothers, while we do not back up one inch on abuse is wrong, or buy your stories about how much false allegations of it exist, we do know that you, too, have been extorted by at least the OCSE system, and we will work along the non-rabid community of fathers to do something about the kickbacks and lack of accountability.
And I personally wish to tell leaders of domestic violence coalitions and certain other agencies receiving major HHS and/or DOJ funding that — we mothers exiting abuse do NOT appreciate our legitimate needs having been SOLD OUT by your groups, to take funding for speculative theories and PR/educational campaigns on what “prevents family violence” let alone “poverty.”
NOW –that’s the N.O.W. — has no excuse for basically dropping the ball, not when in 2002 an excellent Family Court Report laid out the roadmap, and 2005 your California Leader called for an investigation of HHS use of Fatherhood Funds. (What she didn’t realize then is WE have to do this investigation, then bring it to legislators). NOW is still active in matters of domestic violence, and has a Family Law Task Force — but other priorities. NOW has done a lot (and I think them), but here — for all to see — is a clear indication that (as with other DV groups) the “Family Law” issue is not seen as a Violence Against Women issue:
NOW’s Top Priority Issues: (the top 6, and the “other important issues”)
Abortion Rights / Reproductive Issues
Constitutional Equality
Promoting Diversity / Ending Racism
Lesbian Rights
Other Important Issues:
Family/Family Law
Fighting the Right
Global Feminism
Media Activism
Mothers/Caregivers Economic Rights
Working for Peace
Title IX/Education
Women-Friendly Workplace
Women in the Military
Young Feminist Programs
Suffice it to say, I think a more singular focus is needed, and as NOW didn’t continue to report some of the material about Bush, Fatherhood, Welfare Reform, and other issues. I don’t even share 100% of those issues, or agree with all of them. I want to stay alive and exercise my rights, and my kids to NEVER have to repeat what happened and what they witnessed, while growing up, half in violence, and half in a custody war with a basis in extortion from more than one sector, with them, their distress, their simply being minors, as the bait. But we all need some NOW — because without a dose of them, it’d be The USA of Shari’a (Christian, Jewish, Muslim & Mormon versions, plus the same general themes among the agnostics and atheists). It’d be off the deep end and in over our heads. But they lost the focus on the HHS matters, which are also national matters because they involve the economy and systems change to push marriage and fatherhood programs (notice, I didn’t say to push marriage, or fatherhood — but to push the programs).
LIKEWISE:
The NCADV and Domestic Violence Statewide Coalitions have no excuse. Stop SELLING stuff (including conference attendances, memberships) and start reporting — for free– on welfare reform and what it did to battered women who are also mothers’ chances of EVER getting completely free from such dangerous relationships. You do NOT speak for mothers who have their lives or kids’ lives on their line.
Family Violence Prevention Fund is now “Futures Without Violence” (facelift, namechange, physical move to the SF Praesidio). I went up down and around the SF Bay Area looking for help, only to find out (once I got regular internet access and knew to look) that you, too, believe that the real way to prevent violence by men against women is to take funding from wealthy foundations who believe that the way to stop violence against women is to make sure that there is a man in all their homes, and a father in every abused child’s life. Then I learned you were a resource center for women like me, and I know lots of us in the area.
FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION FUND SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103-5177 SAN FRANCISCO 618375687 $ 22,368,114
Family Violence Prevention Fund SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103-5178 SAN FRANCISCO 618375687 $ 31,000
2005 90XA0109 CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT 1 0 ACF 08-03-2005 618375687 $ 496,000
That’s from Health and Human Services. Overall (not that this site is usually complete) USASPENDING.GOV shows the OVW funding as well:
Total Dollars:$41,512,886
Transactions:1 – 25 of 92
$34 million of this was straight grants, some was contracts…..
Somehow (when I check “Grants/HHS” at USASPENDING.gov — only $13 million shows up)
so often, “Discretionary”:
Program Office Recovery Act Indicator Award Number Award Title Budget Year Action Issue Date CFDA Number CFDA Program Name Award Class Principal Investigator Sum of Actions
CB 90XA0109 CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT 1 08/03/2005 93670 Child Abuse and Neglect Discretionary Activities DISCRETIONARY ESTA SOLER $ 496,000
Used to write up a report on yourself?
Title: International Center to End Violence: Addressing Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and Neglect. Final Report to: DHHS/Administration on Children, Youth and Families under CAPTA. Grant Number 90-XA-0109. October 31, 2007.
Available from: Children’s Bureau
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/
Administration on Children, Youth and Families
1250 Maryland Avenue, SW, Eighth Floor
Abstract: This final report discusses the activities and outcomes of the federally funded Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF), an organization committed to building safer and stronger families by ending domestic violence, sexual assault, and other forms of abuse against women and children. Major activities and accomplishments of the FVPF are described, including: the development of an Interactive Learning and Exhibit Center, the development of the International Center to End Violence,** and the implementation of training programs and experiential learning for engaging everyday gatekeepers and young students. Activities of the FVPF’s Teacher Training Academy are also highlighted, as well as public educational and engagement activities and school-based programming.
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by Philip V. Scribano, Pediatrician
New International Center for Family Violence Prevention Fund
(in case graphic doesn’t show…)
“Violence against women is an issue that cannot wait . .. and we know that when we work to eradicate violence against women,
we empower our greatest resource fro development; mothers raising children; lawmakers in parliament;
chief executives; negotiators; teachers; doctors; policewomen; peacekeepers and more.”
..Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General, United Nations
And we were the first to engage men – as coaches, mentors, and positive role models to boys.
New Home, new name – in the SF Praesidio (while – in this area — I know women who went homeless after custody-switch in the family courts; I almost did. That’s partly a child support matter, and a child support motivation. Where’s your blog — your website — your publication of how child support and the state of the OCSE/welfare reform affects custody decisions?? Which, in the case of women leaving violence — affects their and their kids’ safety and well-being?)
Montgomery Street Barracks
Built in the 1890s, the six red-brick Montgomery Street Barracks that frame the Main Parade have become Presidio icons. All will be rehabilitated and will feature activities and services for visitors, such as restaurants, galleries, and cultural institutions. Activities will spill out on to the Barracks’ expansive front porches and the Main Parade Ground. The Walt Disney Family Museum opened in one of the barracks in fall 2009 and the International Center to End Violence will open in another in spring 2011.
(OVW grant for this center includes a 2009 one of $2,000,000)
Yes you did engage boys and men — jumped on the bandwagon: Fatherhood as a tool to stop domestic violence.
I saw the funding surge behind the change of tune, too:
Fatherhood can be a strong motivator for some abusive fathers to renounce their violence. Some men choose to change their violent behavior when they realize the damage they are doing to their children.
In partnership with the Office on Violence Against Women, we have trained practitioners from over 40 communities across the US, including: DV advocates, supervised visitation, batterers intervention and fatherhood programs, judges and other law enforcement, and child protection workers
Did you train whoever trained Scott McAlpin? Scott DeKraii? Cody Beemer?
(yet — no mention, for the sake of the single, female-headed households in the State of Ohio, that it has a Fatherhood Commission, Fatherhood Practitioners, Fatherhood Summits, and that a Legislator is still running around strengthening fatherhood to stop child abuse (like that’s the solution); that it had an Governor’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, that is ripping off the public – in a large way — in an effort to turn back the clocks to the 1950s, pre-feminism and pre-VAWA?
in 2011, it’s up to $3,000,000
2011 90EV0401 FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION & SERVICES 2 0 ACF 08-04-2011 618375687 $ 250,000
2011 90EV0414 FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SERVICES 1 0 ACF 09-17-2011 618375687 $ 1,100,000
2011 ASTWH110025 PROJECT CONNECT: A COORDINATED PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 1 00 DHHS/OS 08-26-2011 618375687 $ 1,650,000
Fiscal Year 2011 Total: $ 3,000,000
Never-Ending Education . . .
2010 ASTWH090016 FY09 HEALTH CARE PROVIDER RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN – EDUCATION, TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 1 03 DHHS/OS 11-17-2009 618375687 $ 1,500,000
And taking money and direction from Annie E. Casey Foundation, which virtually ensures that NONE of your media campaigns are going to tell women such as myself the relevant facts about 1996 Welfare Form, of the existence of the National Fatherhood Initiative (from the start, 1994, same year as VAWA) or how these funds have been used in family court situations. It sure has changed the tune — if, indeed, the tune ever was anything other than media campaign, technical assistance, and training since about 1997ff… While I am very thankful to be informed that strangulation, for example, is a high indicator of lethality, as a mother experiencing it in the home, I had that figured out (particularly in contexts of the talk that went along with it). Or that my dentist should’ve reported or further questioned (he didn’t) a certain suspicious & bloody incident involving my teeth.
Sample Annie E. Casey Fatherhood program (this is a small one)
“On Thursday, October 20th, eighteen men graduated from the Newark Y Fatherhood Program. Funded through the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 167 men have participated in our workshops during the past year. …A major highlight of theFatherhood Graduation was the presentation of awards from President Barack Obama to the Y’s CEO, Michael Bright and the Director of the Fatherhood Program, Daryl Brown. ThePresidential Award was given in recognition of their “devotion to service and for doing all you can to shape a better tomorrow for our great Nation.”
FVPF Program purpose (from the tax return, the 2009 Form 990, below):
“1. TO PREVENT VIOLENCE WITHIN THE HOME, AND IN THE COMMUNITY,
TO HELP THOSE WHOSE LIVES ARE DEVASTATED BY VIOLENCE BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO LIVE FREE OF VIOLENCE.”
4. Describe the exempt purpose achievements for each of the 3 largest program services by expenses:
INTERNATIONAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE – THE FVPF HAS HELPED CRAFT LANDMARK FEDERAL LEGISLATION, CO-FOUNDED A NATIONAL NETWORK TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST IMMIGRANT WOMEN , AND CONTINUES TO MUSTER THE FINANCIAL, POLITICAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE RESOURCES TO SAFEGUARD IMMIGRANT WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN – AMONG THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS. THE FVPF HAS FORMED PROGRAMMATIC PARTNERSHIPS AROUND THE WORLD IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CLINICS TO EXCHANGE WISDOM, IMPROVE HEALTHCARE, AND RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS.
HEALTH – THE FVPF HAS HELPED EXPOSE A CONNECTION BETWEEN HISTORY OF ABUSE AND CURRENT HEALTH,** FURTHER SPOTLIGHTING THE CRITICAL NEED FOR SUSTAINING ASSESSMENT, INTERVENTION, AND ADVOCACY IN CLINICAL SETTINGS. THE ORGANIZATION PROMOTES A HEALTHCARE RESPONSE THAT CONSIDERS THE ENTIRE LIFESPAN AND THAT INCLUDES PREVENTION. THE FVPF OPERATES THE NATION’S HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND INFORMATION TO THOUSANDS OF HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND OTHERS EACH YEAR. THE ORGANIZATION HAS ALSO DEVELOPED AND IMPLEMENTED STATE-WIDE PLANS FOR A COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
**astounding. And this was figured out when? …..
(this is the “We Got Fatherhood Funding” segment) PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS – THE ORGANIZATION LAUNCHED THE FIRST-EVER NATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – THERE’S NO EXCUSE FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – IN 1994. {{yes, but this is 2009!}} NOW THE ORGANIZATION IS REACHING YOUNG MEN AND BOYS THROUGH THE COACHING BOYS INTO MEN CAMPAIGN, ENCOURAGING MEN TO TALK TO THE YOUNG MEN AND BOYS IN THEIR LIVES THAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IS WRONG. THROUGH MEDIA AND THROUGH WORK WITH ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS, COACHES, AND OTHERS WHO REACH MEN AND BOYS, THE FVPF IS DELIVERING THE MESSAGE THAT MEN CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE ORGANIZATION’S RELATED FOUNDING FATHERS CAMPAIGN ENCOURAGES MEN TO STEP FORWARD ON FATHER’S DAY AND JOIN IN MAKING A PUBLIC STATEMENT ABOUT ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN.
Family Violence Prevention Fund CA 2009 $26,157,567 990 16 94-3110973
Family Violence Prevention Fund CA 2005 $9,114,506 990 31 94-3110973
Also described by them at
Grants — $11.5 million
Program income — $181K
Salaries this year — $4 million
One resource is ERI (Economic Research Institute or “http://www.eri-nonprofit-salaries.com”) which runs comparisons on non-profit organizations salaries;
the search I just did shows their assets about $22million — and their contributions and expenditures similar, at around $13 million. It shows a nice chart (I searched by EIN#)and has nice summaries, bar chats, etc.
Salaries in 2009 — not that running a large non-profit shouldn’t be well-rewarded. They have offices (it says) in Boston, Washington, D.C. & San Francisco.
Except that this group — in an area where women are still being stalked, robbed of (their children, among other things), having child support reduced to nothing or being forced to pay their former batterers (innumerable), finding next to no response with law enforcement when this occurs, women have been burnt and found hogtied around a road sign (2006, unidentified, Oakland-Temescal), kidnapped from their homes, stabbed repeatedly, then dropped off on the side of the road to bleed to death in front of motorists (Oakland/Orinda Elnora Caldwell), shot at work while IN tollbooths (2009, Ross), shot in church parking lots on a weekday morning (2007, McCall, Oakland), doused with gas and burnt alive, murdered and put in car trunks, shot (along with 6 others in beauty salons (2011, Seal Beach, CA Fournier 8 killed, 2008 Torres, Martinez 3 killed including responding officer),. . .
killed at court-ordered weekend exchanges and buried in a shallow grave only to be found when the murderer father plea-bargained it down by agreeing to locate the body (Wife missing 2006, conviction 2008, Oakland Reiser). Children have been also kidnapped galore, sometimes being murdered afterwards by overentitled fathers, while D.A.’s are soliciting campagns to standardize their Family Justice Center model in D.C. and in the California Legislature. I haven’t even linked to children and bystanders in this list; nor is it complete — but a LOT of it happened around divorce, separation and child custody — and yet where is even a mention of the AFCC, CRC, or the welfare reform that funds “increased noncustodial parenting time” and forces women to try to co-parent with their batterers under fatherhood theory — such as you also have??
Here is the California Charitable Registration results for their 2010 filing (as “Futures WIthout Violence”):
Fiscal Begin: 01-JAN-10
Fiscal End: 31-DEC-10
Gross Annual Revenue: $17,118,149.00
RRF Received: 14-JUN-11
Returned Date:
990 Attached: Y
Status: Rejected
(For the record, it was incorporated as a nonprofit in California, in a simple filing with Esta Soler and a few others, in August 1989. To get the VAWA passed in 5 years is indeed an accomplishment, or may reflect connections the women had initially, I do not know.)
C1648791 08/30/1989 ACTIVE FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE ESTA SOLER
September 10, 2010 notice from California Attorney General — they forgot their fee:
FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION FUND CT FILE NUMBER: 077397 383 RHODE ISLAND STREET, NO. 304 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103-5133
RE: NOTICE OF INCOMPLETE REPORT
The Annual Registration Renewal Fee Report submitted on behalf of the captioned organization is incomplete for the following reason(s):
1. The $225 renewal fee was not received. Please send a check in that amount, payable to “Attorney General’s Registry of Charitable Trusts”.
LETTER from California Attorney General, who handles charitable registrations:
RE: NOTICE OF INCOMPLETE REPORT (August 26, 2011)
In order to remain in compliance with the filing requirements set forth in Government Code sections 12586 and 12587, please provide the requested information, together with a copy of this letter, to the above address, within thirty (30) days of the date of this letter.
Must’ve just forgot — I’m sure they can afford $225.
Another notice says they forgot to attach a list of contributors; also 8/26/2011.
FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE CT FILE NUMBER: 077397 100 MONTGOMERY STREET, PRESIDIO – MAIN POST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94129
RE: IRS Form 990, Schedule B, Schedule of Contributors
We have received the IRS Form 990, 990-EZ or 990-PF submitted by the above-named organization for filing with the Registry of Charitable Trusts (Registry) for the fiscal year ending 12/31/10. The filing is incomplete because the copy of Schedule B, Schedule of Contributors, does not include the names and addresses of contributors.
The copy of the IRS Form 990, 990-EZ or 990-PF, including all attachments, filed with the Registry must be identical to the document filed by the organization with the Internal Revenue Service. The Registry retains Schedule B as a confidential record for IRS Form 990 and 990-EZ filers.
Within 30 days of the date of this letter, please submit a complete copy of Schedule B, Schedule of
Contributors, for the fiscal year noted above, as filed with the Internal Revenue Service. all correspondence to the undersigned.
I think that along with this many people earning over $100K per years, someone should’ve taken – I did — maybe an hour of their precious PR time to read some of the material put out by UNpaid mothers who have watched and documented what the family court systems is doing to their current safety levels. It’s not as though we aren’t on the web and aren’t talking !!!
2009 SALARIES OF FVPF, or, currently the ICEV: (Salary to left, “estimated other compensation from other organizations”) to the right of each name
$234,229 ESTA SOLER PRESIDENT + $71,069
$168,216 THOMAS FERGUSON CFO,CAO + $14,717
$ 166,265 DEBBIE LEE SR.VICE PRESIDENT + $34,928
(also a program director for a joint project with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, “Start Strong, Building Healthy Teen Relationships”)
“Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in collaboration with Futures Without Violence, formerly Family Violence Prevention Fund. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Blue Shield of California Foundation* are investing $18 million in 11 Start Strong communities across the country to identify and evaluate best practices in prevention to stop dating violence and abuse before it starts.
Or — take a look at the assemblage of personnel on the campaign to end teen pregnancy, underneath this study of “What Research Tells Us about Latino Parenting Practices and their Relationship to Teen Pregnancy” starting with Thomas Kean, Chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (and former Governor of NJ). These are, basically, the rich studying and categorizing the poor — by ethnicity and about every other category — in order to better manage the population. They are particularly interested in breeding habits, which I think is borne out of fear of being outbred (take a look at the U.S. Congress by ethnicity and gender, and make an educated guess why….)
$ 163,251 LENI MARIN SR.VICE PRESIDENT + $50,806. (That would probably, with creativity, feed & house 3 families in the Bay Area on those benefits alone….)
$ 196,620 RACHAEL SMITH DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR + $21,418
$ 148,996, BRIAN O’CONNOR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC COMMU + 13,426
$ 148,841 MICHAEL RUNNER DIRECTOR OF LEGAL PROGRA + $20,176
$ 136,681 KIERSTEN STEWART DIR OF PUBLIC POLICY PRO + $18,891
$ 125,685 LONNA DAVIS DIR OF CHILDREN’S PROGRA + $16,601
$ 112,139 COLLIN CASEY DIR OF ADMINISTRATION + $29,491 (any relationship to the Annie E. Casey people?)
In addition, contractors over $100K included:
LAURA HOGAN, PETER D. HART RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC., (WASHINGTON, DC), DEBORAH KARNOWSKY
@ $144,737. $143,855. $139,731. == for respectively: Project Building, Project Building, and Campaign Building.
Other projects on the 990 — grandiose in scope — described on Schedule O:
FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4D, OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES:
WORKPLACE – THE NATIONAL WORKPLACE RESOURCE CENTER ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT BETWEEN THE FVPF, EMPLOYERS, AND UNIONS AROUND THE NATION THAT HAS REACHED MILLIONS OF AMERICANS. THIS PROJECT MAKES POSSIBLE EMPLOYER AND UNION DISSEMINATION OF HELPFUL, EASY-TO-FOLLOW INFORMATION TO EMPLOYEES AND UNION MEMBERS ON PREVENTING AND REDUCING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DEVELOPMENT OF WORKPLACE POLICIES ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, AND WORKPLACE SUPPORT OF EMPLOYEES WHO ARE VICTIMS. THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES RESOURCES ONLINE THAT GIVE WORKPLACE LEADERS WHO WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE CLEAR AND IMMEDIATE EXPERT ASSISTANCE.
EXPENSES $ 110773.
and for “CHILDREN / YOUTH / YOUNG FAMILIES: EXPENSES $709,895 (no description) and “PUBLIC POLICY / NEW PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT” exp. $80,900.
and the plan to end all plans:
INTERNATIONAL CENTER TO END VIOLENCE – THE ORGANIZATION IS CREATING AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER IN SAN FRANCISCO AS A HUB OF EDUCATIONAL AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY TO ADVANCE US TOWARD A VIOLENCE-FREE SOCIETY. THE CENTER SEEKS TO PROMOTE THE VALUES OF RESPECT, EMPATHY, AND RESPONSIBILITY; EXPOSE THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE AND ITS IMPACT ON FAMILIES AND SOCIETIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD; ASSIST THE PUBLIC IN EXAMINING ROOT CAUSES OF VIOLENCE AND ITS INTERCONNECTIONS TO BIGOTRY AND HATE; AND ROUSE INDIVIDUALS EVERYWHERE TO TAKE A STAND AGAINST VIOLENCE, HATRED and BIGOTRY.
EXPENSES $ 220,101
and of course: another expense was “LEGAL $501,366
Well, I’ll find some of the descendants, if any, of the women mentioned above and tell them they didn’t die in vain, the
International Center to End Violence has a plan...
I believe a better use of time would for be for these directors to go hang out in homeless camps and at soup kitchens and ask the people how they came to be homeless, and in need of eating at soup kitchens. In the years that FVPF funds were doubling and increasing, I have noticed more and more women in those lines. Preach for hire in an open marketplace– not at their expense! While this group is not actually (that I can see) taking money direct from money dedicated to welfare, they ARE taking a helluva a lot from the HHS pot to forward the fund’s personal (shared by others, but it is personal to the fund) belief (or assertions) that more training will stop violence. Really? You just want my children and future grandchildren, currently this is in the USA, to fund your vision about fixing the WORLD? While in the entire time of their childhoods here, I can’t identify ONE thing that this group did to stop the battering in my home, or the family court gauntlet that followed. (And under what name is it doing business in San Francisco, anyhow?)
Incidentally (see TAGGS grants) — many of the grants which would otherwise go to shelters are going to this type of “training and technical support” activity – it’s lumped under the same labelThen.
To be fair, here is a 2010 statement with a California Assemblyperson naming FVPF (Futures without Violence) founder Esta Soler his 2010 Woman of the Year. It also says the organization was started — with a federal fund — in 1980 30 years ago. Perhaps in DC or Washington – the charitable and sec of state records in California both say about 21 years ago (as of 2010), i.e. 1989 – 1999 – 2009 -that’s 20 years.
Assenblymember Ammiano Names Esta Soler as ‘Woman of the Year‘
Contact: Quintin Mecke @ (415) 557-3013
Sacramento, CA – Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) chose Esta Soler, the head of the Family Violence Prevention Fund, as his 2010 Woman of the Year.
“I am proud to announce Esta Soler, one of the world’s foremost experts on violence against women and children, to be Woman of the Year for Assembly District 13”, said Ammiano. “Esta is a pioneer who founded the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) nearly 30 years ago and made it one of the world’s leading violence prevention agencies.”
Under her direction, the FVPF was a driving force behind passage of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 – the nation’s first comprehensive federal response to the violence that plagues our families and communities. Congress reauthorized and expanded the law in 2000 and again in 2005.
“It’s a tremendous honor to receive this award from Assemblymember Ammiano, a wonderful friend to all of us working to end domestic, dating and sexual violence and help victims,” said Family Violence Prevention Fund President and Founder Esta Soler. “At a time when state funding for domestic violence programs is in peril, we especially appreciate champions like Tom Ammiano.”
Esta Soler first established the organization with a federal grant in 1980.
This 1980 is commonly cited — BUT unless it’s in Washington, D.C. (a corporations search page I can’t seem to sign into yet), the SF one was definitely 1989 — and thus the 1980 statement is an exaggeration. If the grant was received in 1980, I’d like to know how much, from which department and under what name. Most on-line databases don’t go back that far. I hope to research this a little further perhaps to better understand this organization.
It has become the nation’s leading expert on violence against women and children, the source of numerous trailblazing prevention and intervention campaigns, and a major force in shaping public policies that prevent violence and help victims in the U.S. and worldwide.
Soler, along with the honorees, was recognized today in the 2010 Woman of the Year ceremony. Each year, members of the California State Assembly and California State Senate honor a woman from their district who has distinguished herself in service to her community.
MINNESOTA-STYLE DV ORGANIZATIONS
The Minnesoh-tans (DAIP, MPDI, BWJP, Praxis, et al.) have done heroic things — but that’s no excuse for ‘taxation without representation” and the early-on insistence that your model CCR and its institutional ethnography become a nationwide model, without proof it works. And, it doesn’t. I hit on this particular set of nonprofits pretty hard throughout this blog, s am giving them a break today, except to mention that it took me a long time to realize that what “MINNESOTA PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT INC.” was actually about — (and which its name says) — developing (and selling) programs,
Not stopping domestic violence
and some pretty good grants behind that business, too….
STATEWIDE COALITIONS AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Standardized & co-opted, used as heat shields for marriage entitites, didn’t include enough mothers leaving violence in their plans. DIDN’t PUBLICIZE FATHERHOOD COMMISSIONS, FAITH-BASED OPERATIONS, IN THEIR RESPECTIVE STATES. Didn’t teach women the 1996 welfare reform information in its context.
This sounds harsh, so here’s an example:
Tim Carpenter reportedrecently some juicy details about a secret April meeting to design Brownback’s marriage agenda. The Topeka Capital-Journal uncovered some information on Brownback’s plans through a Kansas Open Records request.
The Kansas government spent $13,000 to bring together 20 mostly far-right marriage “experts” for the closed door meeting.
Organizations represented included the Heritage Foundation, Institute for American Values, Georgia Family Council, National Center for Fathering, Stronger Families, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Marriage Savers, Kansas Healthy Marriage Institute, and National Center for African American Marriages and Parenting.
Thanks to information from Carpenter and sources, we know something of what Brownback has in mind, even though the details of the meeting remain confidential.
And (from a link in this article to another one) — ALL of these characters should be knowledgeable, household names, to anyone sitting under CADV state teachings or in their meetings. They deserve to know how things got started, and where they are going now, above the din of same-sex marriage and abortion rights issues. This affects mothers AND fathers:
Brownback program promotes marriage
Brownback is pushing a program to increase wedlock, cut divorce rates
July 2, 2011, Tim Carpenter, the Topeka-Journal
(listing attendees)
Wade Horn, who redefined President George W. Bush’s faith-based initiatives in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, preached a gospel that encouraged poor women to marry their way out of poverty.
Marriage Savers creator Mike McManus said clergy members typically did a lousy job preparing couples for marriage and secular therapists were more likely to increase divorce among spouses in crisis.
This threesome was among 20 people who met behind closed doors in Topeka to share marriage program ideas with Brownback and executives at the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services.
…In his follow-up letter to Brownback obtained by The Topeka Capital-Journal, [[Mike]] McManus said Kansas should prohibit no-fault divorce unless there was proof of physical abuse or adultery. A Kansas law ought to be passed, he said, allowing judges to select a “responsible spouse,” which would always be the person opposed to divorce. The statute would allow the responsible adult to receive up to 66 percent of child visitation and 100 percent of family assets in the divorce.
Any idea what this exposes women to? (read on). They are already being used as disposable wombs in too many marriages; if the beatings or abuse or virtual slavery (it happens!) can be severe enough that SHE wants out, then in Kansas he doesn’t even have to go through the motions of fighting for most of the kids and ALL of the assets! This does not protect women or children!
Horn, who resigned from HHS to take a job with Deloitte Consulting, departed the Bush administration amid reports of cronyism in awarding federal grants to the National Fatherhood Initiative he founded.
Helen Alvare, a member of the law faculty at George Mason who also was invited to Topeka, said she admired Sarah Palin’s devotion to family and professional achievement. In 2008, Alvare said Palin was “what a lot of women aspire to be on their best day.”
California writer Christelyn Karazin, who had a child out of wedlock before marrying, believed so strongly in the power of a man and woman to raise children she organized an event called “No Wedding, No Womb.”
This is portrayed as spontaneous blogging “NWNW” — so what was she doing in a secret meeting in Kansas? Flown in at Kansans’ expense, and in the company of people such as David Blankenhorn and Wade Horn? !! She saw the light (is now married) and so everyone else must see it the same way? Listen to some ex-married women, girl!
It was primarily a call to the black community to take action against the birth of children without the “physical, financial and emotional protection” of a father and mother, she said.
Joyce Webb, who works with Catholic Charities’ Kansas Healthy Marriage Institute, recommended SRS divert $1 million from federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to pay for a new marriage program. TANF money is earmarked for families living in poverty.
Syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher, who was included in one published list of participants but didn’t attend, said during a speech about the pro-marriage movement that Catholics and Christians had to be the “visible light” for people failing to grasp intricacies of the institution of marriage.
SRS Secretary Robert Siedlecki, responsible for implementing the governor’s marriage initiative, said thousands of Kansans who divorce each year lacked the skills and knowledge to form sustainable relationships.* Brownback wants SRS to help fill that information gap, he said.
*that “lack the skills” phrase is a buzz word to bring on the marriage educators, which is also a growing HHS trend and probably public law by now.
Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat who voted against confirmation of Brownback’s choice of SRS secretary, said he was intrigued by the governor’s simultaneous talk about removing government from the lives of the average Kansan and creating a state marriage program drenched in faith-based advocacy.
Siedlecki hired Richard Marks, the Jacksonville, Fla., director of the Marriage for Life, to join SRS and be involved in the initiative
(A little QUICK research on my part here See the URL above: He’s Baptist, Regent University, a Minister, adapted the PAIRS (which I think got HHS funding) curriculum for Christians, and just changed the FLorida nonprofit’s name to “CONNECTUS4LIFE, INC.” in 2002 (per Florida corporations search page called “sunbiz.org.” EIN#562283483. This is specifically incorporated as a “faith-based organization” and talks about the preachers involved. This one (I just looked) seems a tidy little income — $60K raised, he gets $16K as head of the nonprofit, and gets to write off $42 of expenses running marriage enrichment seminars.
“Believing that marriage is a covenant relationship ordained by God,
we as pastors and ministers in the Greater Jacksonville area are committed
to ensure that these marriages (WHICH ones?) will endure til death.”
That’s a creed — not an incorporation!
“we are dedicated to strengthening marriages as we seek to”
I attended domestic violence support groups, being a Christian, towards the end of my “cohabitation” (with my spouse). Getting there was not easy; they were night-times. Want to know what % of the women there were pastor’s and deacon’s wives? I can’t name names, but the answer is — PLENTY. At least one had tried to kill his wife; the deacons knew, and it was a LONG time before he lost that position….
He also had a role in Florida Government: Served “four years on FLorida’s Commission on Marriage and Family Support Initiatives.” That commission name was a new one on me, so I just looked up, to find out, from “www.Floridafathers.org” that:
The 2003 Florida Legislature passed Senate Bill 480, replacing the Florida Commission on Responsible Fatherhood with the Commission on Marriage and Family Support Initiatives as of July 1, 2003.
The new commission will take a broader approach to strengthening families by detailing comprehensive statewide strategies for Florida to promote safe, violence-free, substance-abuse-free, respectful, nurturing and responsible parenting; including connection or reconnection of responsible parents, both mothers and fathers, with their children.
From the Kansas article, above, we now know what is meant by “responsible” parent. It means the one that, if he resists divorce, will get 100% of the assets and (at least) 66% of the children. Mom can struggle to enforce 34% of her visitation after she’s kicked out of the house with 0% of the assets, which has already been the case when women FLED the home for safety (with or without kids). So, is this progress? But the CADVs should’ve been monitoring and reporting on these things — although I know that FL CADV had their hands full with FL-AFCC on “parenting coordination” matters, around this time as I recall.
The Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives will each appoint six members to the commission by August 1, 2003, with at least half of the commissioners representing the private sector
The wording starts like this – and yes indeed, Florida did vote this Commission into existence in 2003:
383.0115 The Commission on Marriage and Family Support Initiatives.
(1) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT. The Legislature finds that:
(a) Families in this state deserve respect and support. Children need support and guidance from both mothers and fathers, and families need support and guidance from community systems to help them thrive.
(b) There are many problems facing families.
(and it gets even more brilliantly deductive from there. I provided the link).
(e) Assisting states to end dependence of low-income parents by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage and assisting states in encouraging the formation and maintenance of two-parent families are the two of four stated purposes of federal welfare reform enacted in 1996 which have been largely neglected by states and for which states are now urging Congress to designate 10 percent of all welfare funds, specifically for relationship education and skills development, responsible fatherhood programs, and community support as it seeks to reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Act in 2002.
(2) ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION.
(a) There is created within the Department of Children and Family Services, for administrative purposes, a commission, as defined in s. 20.03(10), called the Commission on Marriage and Family Support Initiatives. The commission is independent of the head of the department. The commission is authorized to hire an executive director, a researcher, and an administrative assistant. The executive director shall report to, and serve at the pleasure of, the commission.
This “independence within a department” is key to steering grants to cronies. I’ve seen it in Ohio and we’re (above) witnessing it in Kansas, 2011, as we speak.
To understand some of this subculture — and after I’d been looking at the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative website for a good long while I finally noticed who was pushing the statewide Marriage Initiative, starting with at GRAB of TANF funds, and this was held up to other states as an example . . . .
I noticed “Jerry Regier” — and, for an example, here is the Wikipedia Timeline of his Job Descriptions. He came from OK in 2002, and by 2003, Florida is voting for a Commission on Marriage and Families within the Children and Family Services. (Mr. Regier eventually had to quit this post in FL under some scandal about steering grants to his, as I say, cronies — but ended up, for our purposes, in yet a worse place — back at HHS as Assistant Secretary of the ASPE (evaluates things) where he presided over glowing reports about his former work in Oklahoma. That’s how the Bush-based Babies Cookie-cutter commissions (etc.) generally crumbles. Scandal, scoot to another state, repeat… So look at this chart with some care, OK?
Jerry Regier
Florida Secretary of Children and Families
Kathleen A. Kearney
Oklahoma Secretary of Health and Human Services
April 6, 1997 – January 16, 2002
Frank Keating
Ken Lackey
Howard Hendrick
Executive Director of the Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs
Robert E. Christian
President of the Family Research Council
Post created
Gary Bauer
So, Jim Marks’ “Marriage for Life” organization was formed (I just learned) in 2002 as a “faith-based” organization — i.e., in the wake of GWBush’s open door executive orders for faith-based organizations of 2001. Many of these groups form to get the grants, spend the money, and then RUN, disbanding, or being dissolved for failure to file with the IRS (or their state).
In Kansas (this is yet another article on the same issue):
SRS says Faith-based initiatives are still around, just not getting as much attention**
Oct. 23, 2011 by Scott Rothschild in “LJworld.com”
**I have 1 or 2 comments on there on these matters. You’ll recognize which ones (just submitted another).
In a pre-Memorial Day (2011) announcement, Siedlecki reorganized SRS, which included putting Anna Pilato in a new position called Deputy Secretary for Strategic Development and Faith-Based Community Initiatives.
Are you getting a feel for this yet?
Pilato had served for five years in the Bush administration, including as director of the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
But Pilato, who is making $97,500 per year, says that in her job she wears two hats — strategic development and faith-based initiatives — and that the strategic development part of her job, which includes overseeing the design and development of staff for SRS, is by far the larger of the two.
Recently, SRS applied for a $6.6 million grant to pay for either faith-based or secular counseling that encouraged unwed parents to marry. Under the proposal, if the couple completed counseling, the state would pay the $86.50 marriage license fee.
But the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rejected the grant.
Kansas Health Initiative published the list of who attended. Recommend Memorizing. Coming to your state (or what’s left of it) soon. What’s kind of funny — Occupy Wichita made an appearance in the middle of a speech by Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation. (Protestors Disrupt Governor’s Poverty Forum (apparently, today 11/16/2011, KHI News service. I’m starting to like KHI…)):
Protesters interrupted the second of Gov. Sam Brownback’s town hall meetings on childhood poverty Wednesday, standing up during the keynote speech and reciting some of their objections to Brownback’s policies.
One of the 14 protesters was arrested and another was detained for a short period.
The protest began as Robert Rector, a Heritage Foundation fellow invited to give the keynote speech, delivered his remarks advocating marriage as a key way to end poverty. Protesters, most of them members of Occupy Wichita, stood silently with their backs to Rector for about 10 minutes, then began chanting their grievances once he completed his speech.
Organizers stopped the meeting for about 15 minutes, resuming after the protesters had left the downtown hotel where it was held.
That Rector should’ve had the podium at this second town hall, or the first, is a dire sign for Kansas: (article links to this):
By Jim McLean
KHI News Service
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Reducing the number of children born to single mothers is the most effective way to combat childhood poverty.
That’s according to Robert Rector, the Heritage Foundation fellow picked by Gov. Sam Brownback to keynote the first of his administration’s three planned meetings on childhood poverty this week.
Strong reaction
Shortly after Rector finished his remarks, Kari Ann Rinker, Kansas coordinator for the National Organization for Women, left the meeting room in anger.
“I was offended in there,” Rinker said. “The things he said, the inferences he made about women and women’s worth were offensive. As I looked around the room, I saw many other people looking to each other in shock and amazement.”
Rinker said the steady increase in births to young, single women was a cause for concern. But she said making available low-cost birth control and improving the women’s self-esteem and education would more effectively address the problem.
“The silver bullet is not wedded bliss,” she said.
Ms Rinker (appears very young, no?) should — with Kansas NOW — have been on top of this situation, should be teaching women about welfare reform and how the fatherhood movement got its two bits in on the situation diverting programs to promote fatherhood and marriage. (The information has been available on the web since 1993). For example, Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation (the article says) was instrumental in Welfare Reform. The Congressional Record debates ON this welfare reform are framed in concern about too many women of color having babies ! (in other words, it has severely racist overtones). To let him get up there and spout off, the same rhetoric — which is PAID FOR INFORMATION!
The number one factor behind poverty here in the state of Kansas is the death of marriage,” he said, noting that 38 percent of children in Kansas today were born to unmarried women, compared to about 5 percent in the 1960s. “This is the most dramatic social transformation in the 20th century.”
OH? How about a few world wars (creating untold orphans) and women getting the vote, the creation of the personal income tax, taking currency off the gold standard, and the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King, Jr.? How about the advent of the internet, the decline of public education, — and how about the 2001 enablements of people like Robert Rector to get up and speak at government functions and expect faith-based organizations to drive the primary institutions around?
Kari Ann Rinker, President of the Kansas Chapter of NOW,
on how the Budget Cuts have Affected the Justice System
Kari Ann Rinker is the President of the Kansas chapter of NOW and she joins us to talk about the budget problems in Topeka that led to end of prosecuting domestic violence cases.
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The protests illustrated how serious the issue of poverty is, said Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, D-Wichita.***
“These people are using this as an avenue to voice their opinion and exercise their freedom of speech,” she said.
(***search her name on my blog. She supported the last round of fatherhood initiatives in Kansas…. I commented on this).
The Heritage Foundation in Kansas is neither surprising, nor to be ignored. It explains a whole lotta backwards movement when it comes to safety for women and freedom for Americans — both genders, all ages.
I remember this site from a long time ago on the Heritage Foundation.
POWER ELITES: THE MERGER OF RIGHT AND LEFT
A. K. Chesterton once said: “The proper study of political mankind is the study of power elites, without which nothing that happens could be understood.”
He added: “These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.”
Chesterton described those agencies: “Their goal was to work through such agencies, and financial support received from one or other or all three big American foundations–Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford — provides an infallible means of recognizing them.”
The Rockefellers made $200,000,000.00 from World War I. Henry Kissinger’s brother Walter heads the Allen Group. The super-wealthy (with the exception of some Du Ponts and the Fords) have long supported the Republican Party — the party of plutocratic oligarchy. “If not kings themselves, they are king-makers.” They have quick access to the White House no matter who is President. Other super-rich, such as the Rockefellers, affiliate with the Democratic Party. Politics in the U.S., no matter what party, is under the control of the super-rich, large corporations and the international bankers.
A 1995 Wall Street Journal observed the formidable influence of the Heritage Foundation on government policies since the Reagan era:
“WASHINGTON — With the Republicans’ rise to control Congress, think-tank power in the nation’s capital has shifted to the right. And no policy shop has more clout than the conservative Heritage Foundation.
“When GOP congressional staffers met in June with conservative leaders to help map current legislative efforts to cut federal funding for left-leaning advocacy groups, the closed-door meeting took place at Heritage headquarters. The group’s involvement wasn’t unusual. ‘Heritage is without question the most far-reaching conservative organization in the country in the war of ideas.’ House Speaker Newt Gingrich said early this year.
“Think tanks have long churned out studies that have wound up in official policy proposals. During Democratic times of power, the more liberal Brookings Institution has been a leading player here. Now, the 21-year-old Heritage Foundation, which rose to prominence in the Reagan years, is taking academic involvement to a new level.
“Over the first 100 days of the current GOP Congress, Heritage scholars testified before lawmakers 40 times–more than any other organization, Hill staffers say. Its scholars are credited by congressional members and staff as key architects of the House-passed welfare-overhaul plan and with inspiring some provisions in the GOP balanced-budget plan. ‘They talk to me sometimes 12 times a week,’ said Heritage budget analyst Scott Hodge earlier this year, explaining his ties to the staff of the House Budget Committee. ‘We–I mean House members–are putting together a final list of cuts.'”(5)
FACIST CONNECTIONS
Paul Weyrich – considered the architect and mainstay of the conservative revolution – calls for “reclaiming the culture” and a “second American Revolution.” A look at the inflammatory, extremist rhetoric with racial and Inquisitorial overtones on the Free Congress Foundation web site should alarm Christians as to Weyrich’s real intent:
(etc.)
I encourage people to read this write-up on The Heritage Foundation from “SourceWatch.org” and understand (as I am beginning to)its relationship both financially and in purpose (ending TANF completely and eliminating the public education system in the United States) follows up on some serious international influence in the 1980s and 1990s. It took me a while to keep running across the information and understand it — but the Heritage Foundation, The Unification Church and its leaders’ intent to establish ONE world religion with him at the top (yep!) and the means by which the “faith-based operatives” (as I call them) move in and out of state-level, national-level posts and agencies, restructuring them IMMEDIATELY upon being hired (as happened with the Kansas SRS, above) – these are related. The fight is on. Read a segment — but don’t forget to go to the site and consider the international influence in covert wars by the US as well:
HERITAGE FOUNDATION – SOURCEWATCH
The Foundation also leaped to the defense of Ronald Reagan’s description of the former Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” a description that generated wide global rebuke as potentially inviting nuclear conflict and, at the very least, further poisoning East-West relations. But with strong support by Heritage and other influential conservatives, Reagan stood by the statement, refusing to retract it until the Soviet Union began to crumble.
In an attempt to build on its foreign policy influence, the Foundation also engages in domestic and social policy issues, but its effort in these two areas has never quite matched the influence it wielded (in the late 1980s and early 1990s) in altering the debate over American foreign policy. Yet, the Foundation continues to weigh in on these topics with varying levels of success. One of its undeniable successes has been serving as a breeding ground for many of the nation’s leading neo-conservative activists and intellectuals.
The following comments by former Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey, published in the summer 1994 issue of the Heritage Foundation’s Policy Review, exemplify the Heritage philosophy:
(Dick Armey being a Texas Republican during the “Contract with America” years. Below this quote…**)
Liberation is at hand…. A paradigm-shattering revolution has just taken place. In the signal events of the 1980s – from the collapse of communism to the Reagan economic boom to the rise of the computer – the idea of economic freedom has been overwhelmingly vindicated. The intellectual foundation of statism has turned to dust. This revolution has been so sudden and sweeping that few in Washington have yet grasped its full meaning…. But when the true significance of the 1980s freedom revolution sinks in, politics, culture – indeed, the entire human outlook – will change…. Once this shift takes place – by 1996, I predict – we will be able to advance a true Hayekian agenda, including…. radical spending cuts, the end of the public school monopoly, a free market health-care system, and the elimination of the family-destroying welfare dole. Unlike 1944, history is now on the side of freedom.”
(**Contract with America
In 1994, Armey, then House Republican Conference Chairman, joined Minority Whip Newt Gingrich in drafting the Contract with America. Republican members credited this election platform with the Republican takeover of Congress, rewarding Gingrich with the position of Speaker and Armey with the number two position of House Majority Leader. Gingrich delegated to Armey an unprecedented level of authority over scheduling legislation on the House floor, a power traditionally reserved to the Speaker. Armey has been accused of being involved in a 1997 attempt to oust Gingrich as Speaker,[7] something Armey has strongly denied. In 1995 Armey referred to openly homosexual Congressman Barney Frank, as “Barney Fag“. Armey said it was a slip of the tongue.[8] Armey and his staff, especially spokesman Jim Wilkinson, took the lead in spreading the idea that Al Gore claimed to have “invented the internet.”[9][10][11]
then-President CLINTON had to do something to respond to the Republican “Contract with America” — and 1996 TANF (Welfare Reform) was what he did — or at least signed. This 1996 TANF is a major topic of the post and has affected custody situations for years in “Conciliation Court.” It is also affecting the economy, diverting welfare money to support needy families into more and more brutal and upfront declarations that women should marry their way out of poverty — when many women are poor and single because they fled domestic violence in the home, which might have resulted in their deaths (and sometimes still does, after separation) had they stayed, valuing “marriage” good enough to satisfy these people. So, important to understand some of the context. More on Armey from Wikipedia (as the above segment was):
According to Armey, he also sparred with Focus on the Family leader James Dobson while in office. Armey wrote, “As Majority Leader, I remember vividly a meeting with the House leadership where Dobson scolded us for having failed to ‘deliver’ for Christian conservatives, that we owed our majority to him, and that he had the power to take our jobs back. This offended me, and I told him so.” Armey states that Focus on the Family targeted him politically after the incident, writing, “Focus on the Family deliberately perpetuates the lie that I am a consultant to the ACLU.”[20]Armey has also said that “Dobson and his gang of thieves are real nasty bullies.“[21]
Yes they are! Of course, here’s how they describe themselves:
They are just — and this whole divert welfare into marriage promotion and abstinence education and “responsible fatherhood” etc. — are just “helping families thrive.”
(The individual, especially not the individual female or mother, does not exist.…)
Whereas the truth is a lot closer to this:
God’s Batterers: When Religion Subordinates Women, Violence Follows
The Washington Post | On Faith blog
by Rev. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
Evangelical Christian ministries such as those run by Rev. Rick Warren at his Saddleback Church or James Dobson of Focus on the Family all stress “submission” as the Christian family role for wives. At the same time, these Christian Evangelical ministries staunchly deny that submission is a cause of violence against wives.
Some Evangelicals strongly disagree and have explicitly charged that it is submission that is responsible for wife battering in the “Christian” home. James and Phyllis Alsdurf, in Battered Into Submission: The Tragedy of Wife Abuse in the Christian Home, have noted that conservative Christian women can’t even get help because of this religious ideology of submission. “When she [the battered wife] musters up the courage to go public with ‘her’ problem (very likely to her pastor or a church member), what little human dignity she has retained can soon be ‘trampled underfoot’ with comments like: ‘What have you done to provoke him?’ ‘Well, you’ve got to understand that your husband is under a lot of pressure right now,’ or ‘How would Jesus want you to act: just submit and it won’t happen again.'”
In fact, Jesus gets invoked a lot to justify wife battering, especially as a model for suffering.
In calendar year 2006 the Heritage Foundation spent over $40.5 million on its operations. That year the foundation raised over $25 million from individual contributors and $13.1 million from foundations.
While corporations provided only $1.5 million – 4% of Heritage’s contributions in 2006 – they none the less have significant interest in the foundations policy output. There’s defence contractors Boeing and Lockheed Martin, finance and insurance companies such as Allstate Insurance, Mortgage Insurance Companies of America, and American International Group (AIG), auto company Honda, tobacco company Altria Group (Philip Morris), drug and medical companies Johnson & Johnson,GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, oil companies ChevronTexaco and Exxon Mobil, software giantMicrosoft, and chipping in over $100,000 each, Alticor (Amway), Pfizer, PhRMA, and United Parcel Service (UPS). [2]
Historical funding
Between 1985 and 2003, Media Transparency reports that the following funders provided $57,497,537 (unadjusted for inflation) to the Heritage Foundation [4]:
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Scaife Foundations: Sarah Mellon Scaife, Scaife Family, Carthage
John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
Castle Rock Foundation
It goes on — but these are foundations that are to be found behind (funding) so many fatherhood and responsible marriage studies, “Fragile-families” “Strengthening Families” etc. type projects.Whether or not these projects produce as they are supposed to, they continue getting funding and supporting Ph.D.s (Sarah McLanahan of Princeton? comes to mind) to justify more of the same.
When Dobson told Dick Armey that Focus on the Family (& friends, no doubt) “Delivered” the Christian conservatives, now they want something in return — he was probably telling the truth: Look at the amounts:
Focus On The Family CO 2006 $94,999,184 990 45 95-3188150
Focus On The Family CO 2004 $107,423,724 990 38 95-3188150
Focus On The Family Action CO 2008 $3,565,169 990O 23 20-0960855
Focus On The Family Action Inc. CO 2009 $3,953,111 990O 39 20-0960855
RIGHTWING WATCH partial bio of James Dobson gives an idea of the scope of influence and pull:
Dr. Dobson has been heavily involved with Republican administrations as an expert on the “family.” Dobson was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the National Advisory Commission to the office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1982-84. From 1984-87 he was regularly invited to the White House to consult with President Reagan and his staff on family matters. He served as co-chairman of the Citizens Advisory Panel for Tax Reform, in consultation with President Reagan, and served as a member and later chairman of the United States Army’s Family Initiative, 1986-88. Dobson served on Attorney General Edwin Meese’s Commission on Pornography, 1985-86.
Dobson also consulted with former President George H.W. Bush on family related matters.
In December 1994, Dr. Dobson was appointed by Senator Robert Dole to the Commission on Child and Family Welfare, and in October, 1996, by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission.
James Dobson also founded and helped establish another successful conservative group, Washington, DC’s Family Research Council. Established in 1981 by Dobson, the group was designed to be a conservative lobbying force on Capital Hill. In the late 1980’s the group officially became a division of FOF, but in 1992, IRS concerns about the group’s lobbying led to an administrative separation.
James Dobson has a PhD in child development from the University of Southern California.
Read PFAW’s in-depth report on James Dobson.
The Family Research Council (nndb listing of who’s on the board.)
Erik Prince Business 6-Jun-1969 Founder of Blackwater Worldwide
Military service: US Navy (SEAL Team Officer, 1993-96; Bosnia, Haiti)
Erik Prince is a multi-millionaire fundamentalist Christian, who co-founded the security and mercenary firm Blackwater Worldwide in 1997 with Gary Jackson, a former Navy SEAL. He is a major Republican campaign contributor, who interned in the White House of President George H.W. Bush and for conservative congressman Dana Rohrabacher, campaigned for Pat Buchanan in 1992.
His wealth came from his father, Edgar Prince, who headed Prince Automotive, an auto parts and machinery manufacturer. Prince’s sister Betsy DeVos is a powerful conservative in her own right — married to the son of Richard DeVos(Republican bankroller and co-founder of Amway), she served as chair of Michigan Republican Party in the 1990s.
Father: Edgar Prince (d. 1995, billionaire)
Dobson’s family background (He’s on the board too, obviously) included:
Dobson’s own family was a bit out of the ordinary. His father was a preacher who often told the story that he had tried to pray before he could even talk. His mother routinely beat their son with her shoes, her belt, and once, a 16-pound girdle. His parents somehow instilled so much guilt in young Dobson that he answered his father’s fervent altar-call, weeping at the front of a crowded church service and crying out for God’s forgiveness for all his sins, when he was three years old. “It makes no sense, but I know it happened,” Dobson still says of being born again as a toddler.
Families will fall apart, Dobson argues, if homosexuals have the right to marry, adopt, or raise children. For this reason, Dobson and FOTF support a Constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between one man and one women. Dobson and FOTF are also against abortion, against feminism, against pornography, against the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, against Oregon’s law allowing euthanasia, against Take Our Daughters to Work Day, etc.
(yes, women should stay home, that’s their business, really….)
He has proposed an innovative end run around “liberal” judges. The Republican-controlled Congress should, Dobson suggests, simply stop funding courts where judges make too many “liberal” rulings — stop paying salaries, stop sending security guards, stop paying the electric bills. “Very few people know this, that the Congress can simply disenfranchise a court,” Dobson says. “They don’t have to fire anybody or impeach them or go through that battle. All they have to do is say the 9th Circuit doesn’t exist anymore, and it’s gone.”
Well, he was raised with abuse at home, and bullying, and has grown up basically the same, as Dick Armey said.
Kenneth Blackwell Government 28-Feb-1948 Ohio Secretary of State, 1999-2007
Elsa Prince Broekhuizen Relative c. 1932 Conservative financier, mother of Erik Prince
Under Blackwell:
State Treasurer Ohio (1994-98)
Family Research Council Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment
Federalist Society
Freemasonry (!!!)
The Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow
Well, in case you want to know why I’m becoming more and more activitist — these are the stakes. The principles of
Bear a slightly different tone when one is dealing with the corporate giants and conservatives complaining that the republican congress and presidency they’d helped deliver weren’t delivering their constituency enough of the “goods” they wanted. While these people (most of the time) themselves have become unbelievably wealthy through corporations, foundations, or simply being born into it (Erik Prince, for example) — the society they are structuring is how to create “responsible fathers” who are willing (like them) to tweak the judicial AND legislative process, go get jobs — most likely low-paying ones — in (whose???) corporations and make sure they don’t let their females get too uppity. When legislative restrictions get in the way, they figure out an end-run around them. I have been seeing this in state after state (thanks to the internet, and networking with others).
I also witnessed this philosophy completely destroy 3 generations of my family line when I fought for the right not to be battered in the home AND the right to work independently to support what was left of this household in a profession of my choosing and for which both my own parents sacrificed to get the college training in. Throughout the court craziness — that would put any normal business underground within a year, without being propped up artificially — I had situations where a 20 minute hearing, or a short rubberstamping by an official who didn’t know our family, obviously hadn’t read the court record, and didn’t respect the existing laws (or court orders), even ones in his own hand — would completely restructure my, and my children’s lives.
We should be aware that the act of going before a “Conciliation Court” is going to expose people — your family & friends — to this treatment.
We should be aware that the act of taking ANY form of welfare (whether for food, cash aid — or, Moms, child support) is also exposing you to the same thing. I tried to get out – -and was pulled back in, as are others. We need forms of living which enable us to fight back against the complete undermining NOT of “Family Values” but of the US Constitution (which is probably in suspension by now, but it should not be so easily forgotten).
The public pays — and I have blogged this, after becoming aware — for public employees to pay membership in private nonprofits designed to help them run the child support business. At these meetings — in my state it calls itself a “COALITION OF EXPERTS COLLECTING BILLIONS FOR CALIFORNIA’S CHILDREN” — the collaborate and plan how to EXPAND the welfare state, not reduce it. They look for ways to have more families become “Title IV-D” families, which brings on the programs, brings program funding to the counties, and etc.
It’s a ridiculous state of affairs — and as far as I can tell the groups in this chart below have not been reporting on it or doing anything about it:
ALABAMA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MONTGOMERY AL 36101 MONTGOMERY 004344078 $ 3,793,073
ARIZONA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Phoenix AZ 85012-1263 MARICOPA 867401366 $ 3,204,336
CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EAST HARTFORD CT 06108 HARTFORD 088978429 $ 3,204,334
D.C. COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WASHINGTON DC 20013 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA $ 35,000
DC COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WASHINGTON DC 20001 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 942435124 $ 3,204,341
DE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WILMINGTON DE 19899 NEW CASTLE 025256293 $ 5,391,930
FLORIDA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TALLAHASSEE FL 32301-2756 LEON 053274101 $ 7,878,370
HAWAII STATE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HONOLULU HI 96819-2391 HONOLULU 160292587 $ 3,214,275
ID COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BOISE ID 83712 ADA 129850590 $ 4,104,341
ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SPRINGFIELD IL 62703-1716 SANGAMON 168547040 $ 3,204,337
INDIANA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, INC INDIANAPOLIS IN 46202-1002 MARION 024387230 $ 1,184,809
IOWA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Des Moines IA 50312-5259 POLK 942559469 $ 3,204,336
KANSAS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Topeka KS 66603-3706 SHAWNEE 179971957 $ 5,646,199
LOUISIANA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BATON ROUGE LA 70879-7308 EAST BATON ROUGE 837763630 $ 3,204,339
MICHIGAN COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OKEMOS MI 48864-4209 INGHAM 027986889 $ 7,025,767
MISSISSIPPI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE JACKSON MS 39296-4703 HINDS 927529420 $ 3,204,340
MISSOURI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Jefferson City MO 65101-7801 COLE 184477318 $ 2,438,927
MISSOURI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Jefferson City MO 65101-7801 COLE 868492646 $ 718,239
MONTANA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HELENA MT 59624 LEWIS AND CLARK 036541035 $ 5,648,340
NEW MEXICO COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Albuquerque NM 87102-3842 BERNALILLO 847508405 $ 3,274,336
NEW YORK STATE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, INC ALBANY NY 12206 ALBANY 009343934 $ 5,453,061
NH COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE CONCORD NH 03303 MERRIMACK $ 35,000
NORTH CAROLINA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DURHAM NC 27701 DURHAM 957020266 $ 5,926,704
Nassau County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Inc. HEMPSTEAD NY 11550 NASSAU 947923397 $ 381,000
OREGON COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE PORTLAND OR 97202 MULTNOMAH 790033500 $ 2,921,826
PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HARRISBURG PA 17112-2669 DAUPHIN 156527558 $ 39,965,461
PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HARRISBURG PA 17112-2669 DAUPHIN 166527558 $ 945,000
RHODE ISLAND COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WARWICK RI 02888-1539 KENT 025869715 $ 5,688,523
SOUTH CAROLINA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COLUMBIA SC 29202-7776 RICHLAND 035406367 $ 3,204,339
SOUTH DAKOTA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Sioux Falls SD 57103-7029 BROWN 556435980 $ 718,239
SOUTH DAKOTA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Sioux Falls SD 57103-7029 BROWN 614771058 $ 2,486,098
SOUTH DAKOTA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PIERRE SD 57501 HUGHES $ 34,271
TENNESSEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE NASHVILLE TN 37212-0972 DAVIDSON 787712454 $ 3,204,339
WASHINGTON COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OLYMPIA WA 98501 THURSTON 059534409 $ 3,254,000
WEST VA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARLESTON WV 25302 KANAWHA 192491629 $ 3,204,338
WISCONSIN COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MADISON WI 53703-3517 DANE 171537392 $ 6,931,703
(this has been rather an exhausting page to put up… but… it may prevent some detours in understanding the FAMILY courts specifically — which, after all, are really conciliation courts.)
Just a few words on the NCADV which is a Denver, Colorado-based nonprofit, and what they are marketing:
http://www.ncadv.org/membership/MembershipBenefits.php
(http://shop.ncadv.org/)
It is a membership organization (you don’t see it on the above states list, right?). It has sliding scale membership fees — but the public IS paying its dues, because the state organizations pay by % of their budget or — well, as it goes:
State Coalitions and National Organizations—0.1% of your annual budget, ($500 minimum) . . .
I think you can deduce at least some things they are selling, along with memberships — and it’s information and conference attendance, plus some other perks:
Programs and Agencies:
Non-Profit DV, SA or Dual Program—0.1% of your annual budget, ($250 minimum)
15% discount on NCADV products and merchandise
Special discounted registration rates to NCADV’s national conferences and trainings
NCADV electronic newsletters
Access to NCADV special publications such as The Voice: The Journal of the Battered Women’s Movement
One National Directory of Domestic Violence Programs for $84.95 (reg: $99.95)
Savings on Mutual of America’s Hotline Plus Retirement Plans
Discounts on ReadyTalk audio and web conferencing rates
Discounts and savings on AmCheck payroll processing services
Unlimited job and event postings on NCADV’s website
Other Non-Profit* or Government Agency** (includes law enforcement and military)—$250*/$300**
(etc. etc.) Great deals — if you’re in the business. As you can see, they are marketing to DV PRACTITIONERS. . They also do the conferences, where more speakers can also cross-market to attendees. Here’s 2012:
NCADV’s 15th National Conference Domestic Violence
NOMAS’ 37th National Conference on Men and Masculinity
Preserving Our Roots While Looking to the Future
Special Keynote Speaker: Ellen Pence
The fact that Ellen Pence is speaking (who is a Duluth person) shows the similarity of approaches.
Denver Registration: NCADV has been around since 1992 in Colorado (as a “foreign” corporation):
Found 1 matching record(s). Viewing page 1 of 1.
Formation Date
1 19921036251 19921036251 NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Application for Authority/
Entity Name Good Standing FNC 04/07/1992
and in 2008 picked up another trade name (good to check out where one can):
1 20081544805 20081544805 Domestic Violence Protection & Prevention Coalition Effective FNC 10/13/2008 03:53 PM
I found a group called “CFC” which lists (that new name) as “Best of the CFC” and links to an automated payroll deduction for contribution to it.
WHAT I WiSH TO SAY:
Our kids were not your kids to bargain their rights away for supervised visitation, batterers intervention, parent education classes, or for that matter the more recent “Family Justice Centers.” I personally am recommending a boycott of Verizon (which helps fund these) for that very reason, after a season of being unable to even obtain a single cell phone to help replace the last lost job through the “HelpLine” or anywhere locally that promised this.
I am not very hopeful for the USA, but I live here, so this is part of my contribution as a citizen to report, and part of the legacy I could NOT leave my daughters because they were taken overnight, illegally, and with no remedy: primarily to satisfy someone’s too-large ego, and enabled by what law enforcement, in our case, was not. What was the price? They don’t even have all the facts in their own case, yet, or why society wouldn’t let me simply live and let live after throwing out, or why pro bono legal services for women basically won’t touch this with a 10-foot pole; they are focused on the low-income noncustodial males, and their career tracks, while enabling the rich ones to torture insubordinate exes through the courts. (Note: not my situation, but I see the cases).
What you are doing here in this blog is exactly what I envisioned creating in the future since I was involuntarily drafted into the family court system and into the predictable course of dependency on assistance/ support programs. I refuse to allow this situation to become another senseless tragedy; I somehow will apply what is happening to benefit others or contribute to the reform. Prior to becoming another statistic I already knew that life/ government/social services do not work in the manner they are portrayed to the public. However, I could never have believed or accepted the extent of how destructive the true nature of these so-called initiatives and legislation could be until I experienced it first-hand.
You are quite right, parenting two little ones while dealing with the issues many mothers in my situation face makes it almost impossible to hold onto some semblance of composure. Right now my main focus has to be self (w/ children)-preservation. However, what is occurring in my situation validates the “truth” of your blog–and it also shows how the current scandal at Penn-State and sex abuse prevention are becoming the next buzz words tossed around to generate more initiatives and agencies that are approved for vast amounts of funding–but do very little to actually assist victims. Please contact me, I would appreciate your input so I can prepare for what’s coming and also get some tips on getting better research results…
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Vital Info/Alpha (Chrono shows Privatization of Courts by Nationally Organized Nonprofits, incl. AFCC)
LGH Top Picks, Themes … and Why My Gravatar is a Blue Jay Taking Flight, a.k.a. ‘Front Page.’ (Publ. Jan. 27, 2018; Updated Sept. and Dec. 27, 2019–and July, 2020).
For Current Posts, Most Recent on Top,** Click Here (**Displayed Below/After Several “Sticky” Posts: Some are Tables of Contents”)
New To This Blog | Want My Position Summary or a Review? These Ten Key Posts From 2012-2017 should help. (Very Short PAGE, Publ. Jan. 27, 2018)
For example, National Children’s Alliance, Alabama-based (legal domicile) and its network of CACs and Statewide CAC Coalitions (FY2014 Grantees) [Published Jan. 2, 2018].
Form 990 Lookup (IRS data ℅ “Foundatn Center” (itself a 501©3). GET EIN# HERE before using IRS | Org. names function here not reliable.
IRS Exempt Org Select Check Search (3 buttons READ DISCLAIMERS! “apps.irs.gov/app/eos”
IRS Exempt Org. Select Check (descr + link to tool)
Search a Business in DC (Corponline.DCRA.DC.gov, added May2017)
About My Blog Motto (formerly on Vital Info/Sticky Links post, moved here May 26, 2017)
Sixteen Years ‘Post-9/11,’ and Nearly Twice That ‘Post-PRWORA’, Yes I’m still asking Ordinary People to Modify Their Own Behavior(!) –> To Accept Individual ‘Response-Ability’ (for a change!) To Look Up, Look at and Compare: IRS Forms 990; Federal Grants; and State-level Corporate filings… To Consider Database Organization (for all of the above)… To Recognize White-collar Crime within the P3* sector, and To Reject, Protest, and Resist Propaganda, including ALL Irrational Excuses for P3*-Engineered Global Paradigm Shifts.
Understanding University Models [Preface to ”‘Human Ecology’ (Colleges of), Psychology, & Cornell. Why The History of American University System Still Matters.”) [March 4, 2018].
Belated Lessons from Baltimore and San Francisco’s CFCCs: How “Centers” Coordinating Planning and Advance PR with Private Trade Associations can Effectively Monopolize ANY Field of Practice and Bill the Public for both Startup, Capital Infrastructure, and Ongoing Operational Expenses. (Page Added 6/4/2017)
2003 “Evaluating the Evaluators” article in ABA “Judges Journal” Winter 2003, Vol. 42 #1 (An ABA Quarterly), by Lynn Hecht Schafran of NJEP References Battered Mothers Testimony Project (2002 Wellesly Ctrs for Women), Parental Alienation (some), NO reference to Fed. HHS incentives. (Link added 5-24-2016)
Battered Mothers Testimony Project (BTMP) came from 1995-formed “Wellesley Centers for Women” (merger of two pre-existing ones). Explore the site to see that WCW is a SOCIAL SCIENCE organization, one of previous funders was Ford Foundation (major funder of fatherhood programming) and consider why NO references to economic incentives paid by the federal governments made a passing mention in the BMTP. The perspective is Human Rights, not Legal Rights.
Abolishing Representative Gov’t through Presidential Executive Orders: How 50 States become 10 Federal Regions
A Stunning Validation //Emotional Tyranny,The Assault on Truth, Psychoanalysis (Page Added May 7, 2013)
AFCC Original Meyer Elkin (b1915-d1994) 1992 MUST-READInterview/WHY Conciliation Courts (incl. father-loss, plus the AA model, etc.)
***BASIC SORT & SELECT INFO you May Not Get Elsewhere (2013 post)!!NAMES: “Center, Council, Judicial, Legislative, Institute…” But WHO they are, and how legit, is in the LABEL.
***Look Up a Nonprofit (Impromptu How-To // Checkpoints) ~ With Too Many Illustrations
Business Filings (State by State Links) courtesy LLRX.com (for Corp Lookups)
2013? AFCC-CT/GALs etc. SEE THE PATTERNS! JournalistABC uploads Scribd DETAILED Library of AFCC & personnel’s incorporation, vendor, etc. records.
1983 AFCC Newsltr (Vol2#1) shows NCSC as “Secretariat” (national services), grants, personnel, related associations.
1983 AFCC Newsltr (Vol2#2) shows: Jessica Pearson (of CPR) over ‘Research Grants & Tech Assistance’ (AFCC already got a federal OCSE to study child suppt & custody); Hugh McIsaac (“Conciliation Court” 111 Hill St, Los Angeles) (cf. Marv Bryer rsrch) over “Finances,” Jeanne Ames (Dir. SF Family Court Svces), Conferences & Mailing Address=OregonHealthSciencesUniv, Dpt. of Psychiatry!
1984 News Article (AZ) shows, First set up Conciliation Courts, THEN mandate Mediation
1987 AFCC Honolulu Conference, see para.4, Pay Attention, Notice Names, States
1988 Mandatory Mediation Encouraging Results for the Courts (FCReview) Trost,Schoeneman,Braver
1993 AFCC Newsltr (Summer, Vol 12#2) 30th Anniv was at NewOrleans. Phil Bushard of Reno publishes “How to Establish Court-Connected Mediation, Eval & Conciliation Svces; Sample Supervised Visitatn Court Order, etc.)
1997 AFCC Newsltr (Vol 16#1 Winter) shows @ 329W.Wilson, Madison WI. AFCC & “2nd World Congress on Family Law & the Rights of Children & Youth” (Hillary Rodham Clinton et al.) Read it!
2006 (US/GAO audit,89pp) Faith-Based+Community Initiatives
2007 Ohio’s Governor seeks Audit of Ohio’s Office of Faith-based use of $22 million welfare SURPLUS funds …(State-level office created in 2003)
2011 Healthy Marriage/Responsible Fatherhood Grantees: Why we need to Speed-Date ALL the Recipients, ASAP [Published Oct. 16, 2011; “Tweaked” a bit for format Jan. 7, 2019]
2012 Jun House Ways’n Means Anne Stevenson Testimony re OCSE Fatherhood
2013 AVoiceForMen “courageously” gangs up on Anne Stevenson as “Radical Feminist” [NC]
Anne Stevenson HuffPost “Top 5 HHS Programs Most Endangering Women & Children” (May 2012 w lively debates in comments)
CAFR – Learn the Word. Start Somewhere (here will do!)
CAFRman-Locating the CAFR (then find Special Funds…)
Clint Richardson “realitybloger” (Logic, Documented)
Evidence HHS/OIG/OAS KNOWS states lack Internal Controls & Acc’te Reporting (5/12 sample: ARRA CSBD to Oklahoma)
Evidence HHS/OIG rarely audits OCSE stuff
Evidence HHS/OIG knows OCSE Undistributed ca. $50million for only 21 states (Rollup Review 2011)
Faith-Based Advisory Council Rept to Pres. (2010, 176pp) Clarifies this means (Item #3 of 6) “Fatherhood & Healthy Families” (A New Era of Partnerships..)
HowWellDoYouKnowYourMoon? (Added Dec 2013)
Blessed Marriages, SexRitual Purification (a Bush/Moon Legacy, see last sentence))
Pikareum. Perhaps why so many right-wing evangelists get caught up purifying the blood lines of their flock? (seriously, where do we think “Abstinence Training” came from?
Kirsti Nevaleinen (9/12/2012) on UC drug connection
“How Rev Moon’s ‘Snakes’ Infested [the]US” Richard Parry 5/1/2010 =>=>=>READ!!
If it’s Extreme RightWing, it Just Might be Moon
Family Court Franchise System
State Fatherhood Councils-Jeffrey Leving, IL Chair
Fees for Friends & FITTS
Franklin Coverup (John DeCamp)
HHS GRANTS Database (TAGGS.HHS.gov)
Leadership Council (The) and why it does NOT follow the money trail
How Money Works (Fitts “Myth of Rule of Law”)
Musicians4Freedom,’CQV’ trust, etc.
NAFCJ (FR Money Trail)
NAFCJ (short history Playahs: AFCC, CRC, CPR, FR, etc. — good, short summaries)
Finally (2012)– A Trial Court that tells mother to “get lost,” gets reversed on appeal [AH vs. CM]
Who Bought My Kids? (LGH blog)
USA versus “US” (see chart)
* …more from Let’s Get Honest.. PROOF of Cults in the Courts; my Christmas 2013 Appeal for Help!
Fitts Facts: Segments and Illustrations from “Dillon Read and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits”
Note To Readers: See New Page “Just HHS, Just Georgia, Just HMRF” grants
Extra Narrative, Goes with 2017 “Dear Readers” post (@Jan. 17, 2017) CalSWEC, CFPIC, CWDA (Following where the Facts Lead, No Matter How Daunting the Destination, or How affluent, how well-entrenched, and how well-networked the public institutions or private entities living there).
More Extra Narrative from “Dear Readers (2017 Themes)” Post — CAFRs (like, see USDOT’s 2016 one), Federal Agency Database Functionality Issues, Smart Cities|V2V|USA, Who?What is SXSW (and, for comparison, London-based global B2B Events Organizer/Conglomerate UBM)
Nine-Paragraph Summary of my Personal, Experiential “Understanding Government” Process (3-16-2017) (See nearby, related posts)
The tensions continue between [functionalism and citizen’s rights to know] –and they didn’t start yesterday! (This Page as Footnote to a Post, however, started 5-15-2017)
7 Posts from December 2017 (Intro, Links, + Extended Post ‘Abstracts’ + Images @March 14, 2018)
Censorship By Omission = Intent to Bypass Informed Consent = Tossing the Truth Overboard = Characteristic of Bullies, Abusers, Criminal Enterprises (RICO)~~>Symptoms of Ulterior (likely profit-oriented) Agenda and/or Previously Compromised Persons. It’s just ‘OFF’!! [Published Apr 26, 2018, as insert to Top Sticky Post)]
Welcome to My Blog (Extended Intro moved Jan. 6, 2019 from May 2, 2018, Top Sticky Post on the Blog to this Page).
WHY? Should I Stop! Look! and Listen! (to such long posts)? [Page publ. May 11, 2019]
DV LEAP’s New Website Still Derails OPEN (Uncensored) Discussion of The PROBLEM, Digging A Deeper Hole for Survivors of Abuse and Their Children (Started Jan. 27, 2018 | Publ. May 19, 2019).
If Parental Kidnapping (Domestic or International) is ALWAYS Child Abuse, Where do the UN CRC and Hague Convention fit in? Obstructing the Escape from Domestic Violence, even within the USA? (D. Huntington then ℅ AFCC-related* Center for the Family In Transition, M.W. Agopian, N. Faulkner (1999), Merle H. Weiner (2000, Fordham) etc. [Written, Stayed “Pending” Jan. 2018, Released/Published only Sept. 2019]. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5633878111839294, "wiki_prob": 0.5633878111839294, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1223717"} |
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Jaylin Christian Teen Killer Stabs Grandmother To Death
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Jaylin Christian is a sixteen year old from Florida who has been charged with the murder of his Grandmother. According to police reports Jaylin Christian was found at a home with his Grandmother where he would admit to officers that he stabbed his Grandmother “too many times to count” which led to her death. Apparently the teen had run away earlier in the day and was picked up at the police station by his grandmother who he would murder soon after. This teen killer would be charged with murder and be upgraded to adult court meaning he now faces a life sentence.
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Police swarmed a Rockledge neighborhood Thursday morning after a 16-year-old told two Brevard County deputies he had just killed his grandmother, according to police.
Rescue crews were called to South Carolina Avenue, west of Fiske Boulevard, to find the 57-year-old victim — later identified as Muriel Ladonna Emerson — dead in the kitchen of the home. Officers said they found the woman covered in a blanket with a large amount of blood pooled around her body.
Emerson was an investigator for the Florida Commission on Offender Review for the past ten years and worked as a probation officer prior to that, according to Rockledge Police Chief Joseph LaSata.
“The city experienced a heinous crime. It was calculated. It was brutal,” LaSata said during a news conference Thursday morning.
Investigators said the accused killer — Jaylin Christian, 16 — was spotted by deputies sitting on the ground near a gas station at 600 Clearlake Road in Cocoa. Deputies questioned the boy, who had cuts on his hand and blood on his shirt, and who told them he had just stabbed his grandmother, according to an arrest affidavit.
A deputy asked Christian how many times he stabbed his grandmother and the boy responded “Too many to count,” records show.
LaSata said several “large knives” were used in the attack.
Records show, Christian had skipped school earlier in the day and contacted 911 stating he had run away. Officers responded, contacted Emerson and had her come to pick up the 16-year-old.
Christian told police that once he was home, he started having homicidal thoughts and grabbed a knife from the kitchen, according to the affidavit. The boy then went into the victim’s office and began attacking her. The victim tried to run, according to police, and the knife broke, prompting Christian to get a second knife to continue his attack.
According to the affidavit, the boy then packed some belongings, stole some money from the victim and her briefcase, and took a picture of the body before covering the woman with a blanket and leaving the home.
LaSata said the boy stated why he attacked his grandmother but added that he could not say what those intentions were. The chief added that the boy had only been living with his grandmother for the past six to eight months.
A man who lives nearby said he didn’t know much about the woman who occupied the home.
“I don’t know her name. I just know she loves playing with the kids. She’s quiet, shy. That’s about it,” Derek Crowe said.
Jaylin Christian faces charges of first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Police said it would be up to the state attorney to determine whether the boy will be charged as an adult, but added that they believe he will be.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/09/08/rockledge-neighborhood-blocked-with-crime-tape-as-police-surround-home/
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An extension of North Country School and Camp Treetops, Rock-E House & Basecamp offers programs that focus on hands-on learning through the arts, sustainability, farm-to-fork education, and outdoor pursuits.
Rock-E House & Basecamp is ideal for private and public schoolchildren, college students, educators, outdoor enthusiasts, and families. Guests are welcome to enroll in one of our programs or groups (up to 24) can design their own stay.
Facilities and features include a 9-bedroom, 4.5-bath historic farmhouse, well-equipped kitchen, five acres of vegetable and flower gardens, a maple sugaring operation, a 25-trail ski hill, a 36-route rock climbing crag, and 4 miles of horseback and mixed-use hiking trails. There is walk out access to Cascade and Pitchoff Mountains, and ski out access to Mt. Van Hoevenberg Cross Country and Biathlon Center.
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To serve as a site for short-term educational programs for children and adults, in 2015 North Country School and Camp Treetops purchased an adjacent waterfront property on Round Lake, which includes 20 acres, a large 19th century farmhouse, boathouse, outbuildings, and 1000 feet of pristine shoreline. With a bold educational vision and a generous matching opportunity created by Eileen Rockefeller Growald (CTT ’63, staff ’69-’71, parent ’97-’99, NCS ’66, trustee ’76-’84 and ’92-’98), supporters of North Country School and Camp Treetops have made possible the acquisition and endowment of Rock-E House & Basecamp.
Under the direction of Executive Director David “Hock” Hochschartner, Rock-E House & Basecamp offered its first pilot programs in 2017.
Rock-E House & Basecamp is two hours north of Albany. From Albany take I-87 (the Northway) to Exit 30. Turn left at the end of the exit ramp, taking Routes 9 to 73 West toward Keene and Lake Placid. After 10 miles you will pass through Keene Valley and then Keene. In the center of Keene bear left again to stay on Route 73 toward Lake Placid. After 7.5 miles uphill, past the entrance to North Country School and Camp Treetops, turn right on Wrights Way. Round Lake Campus is at the end of the driveway.
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Craig Alan’s whimsical, thought provoking and detailed paintings contain a mix of raw technical ability and rich imagination. Working in a style with elements of pop-art and surrealism, the artist experiments with creative techniques, and the use of metaphorical imagery, developing the subject matter and direction for his artwork in the process.
Other Work by Craig Alan
Pulp Nation (44×36 limited edition giclee on canvas) $2,800
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Craig Alan’s thought provoking and detailed paintings contain a mix of raw technical ability and rich imagination. Working in a style with elements of pop-art and surrealism, the artist experiments with creative techniques, and the use of metaphorical imagery, developing his subject matter and direction in the process.
Populous Series:
The hundreds of tiny people which Craig depicts in his paintings, represent characters from all walks of life. These figures exhibit a variety recognized character and body types, conveyed through the artist’s brilliant use of posture and movement. The people are often arranged in patterns to form an iconic image; “connected” to each other on multiple levels. As Alan continues to explore and develop his subjects, this theme of connectivity remains consistent. His subjects range from nondescript urban environments and architecture, to technology and pop-culture. The paintings from his technology series, explore the inter-connection between the masses and our gadgets and devices that we use daily. Interpreting the “message” in Craig Alan’s artwork is part of the fun of viewing and owning one of his paintings or mixed media, high gloss resin pieces. The message can be subtle or direct; sincere, or tongue-in-cheek. And of course, everyone interprets them differently depending on their own personality and perspective. If you are interested in purchasing one of Craig’s paintings or prints, please let us know and we will be happy to email you a high resolution image so you may zoom in and see the individual people which are so critical to fully enjoying his artwork.
Craig Alan Artist Biography:
Craig Alan was born in 1971 in Southern California. During his childhood he moved to New Orleans ‘ an artistic city that helped influenced his creative path. The artist experimented with street portraiture, which gave him his foundation for accurately painting the human form. After earning money, Alan was able to pay for his education at the University of Mobile, Alabama. With his focus on studio arts, Alan earned an area award for academic excellence, and was featured in the university’s most prestigious exhibition, “Art with a Southern Drawl.” We have an excellent collection of Craig’s original and mixed media artwork for sale. Prices can vary considerably depending upon size and media. All paintings below are available for sale unless otherwise noted. Commissions available upon request!
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BMC Primary Care
Prophylactic treatment of migraine; the patient's view, a qualitative study
Frans Dekker1,
Arie Knuistingh Neven1,
Boukje Andriesse1,
David Kernick2,
Ria Reis1,3,
Michel D Ferrari4 &
Willem JJ Assendelft1
BMC Family Practice volume 13, Article number: 13 (2012) Cite this article
Prophylactic treatment is an important but under-utilised option for the management of migraine. Patients and physicians appear to have reservations about initiating this treatment option. This paper explores the opinions, motives and expectations of patients regarding prophylactic migraine therapy.
A qualitative focus group study in general practice in the Netherlands with twenty patients recruited from urban and rural general practices. Three focus group meetings were held with 6-7 migraine patients per group (2 female and 1 male group). All participants were migraine patients according to the IHS (International Headache Society); 9 had experience with prophylactic medication. The focus group meetings were analysed using a general thematic analysis.
For patients several distinguished factors count when making a decision on prophylactic treatment. The decision of a patient on prophylactic medication is depending on experience and perspectives, grouped into five categories, namely the context of being active or passive in taking the initiative to start prophylaxis; assessing the advantages and disadvantages of prophylaxis; satisfaction with current migraine treatment; the relationship with the physician and the feeling to be heard; and previous steps taken to prevent migraine.
In addition to the functional impact of migraine, the decision to start prophylaxis is based on a complex of considerations from the patient's perspective (e.g. perceived burden of migraine, expected benefits or disadvantages, interaction with relatives, colleagues and physician). Therefore, when advising migraine patients about prophylaxis, their opinions should be taken into account. Patients need to be open to advice and information and intervention have to be offered at an appropriate moment in the course of migraine.
Primary care is an important setting for the management of migraine and in many countries most migraine consultations occur in this context [1]. In the Netherlands, migraine is mainly managed in primary care and 95% of prescriptions for triptans are issued in this setting [2].
Prophylactic therapy is an option for patients with frequent or long-lasting migraine headaches [3–8]. The results of 6-12 months of preventive treatment are that in about 50% of patients the attack frequency decreases by 50%. Also, the attacks are often less severe [9]. Drop-out by adverse events is around 5%[10], drop-out due to ineffectiveness is unknown in usual care.
Dutch GP guidelines on headache recommend discussing prophylactic therapy with patients who suffer (on average) 2 or more attacks each month [11]. Despite it being a safe and more or less effective treatment option, only 7-13% of the migraine patients receive it [7, 12] and the benefits are not widely accepted. Little is known about the opinions of GPs and patients regarding prophylaxis, or the determinants behind decisions whether or not to start prophylaxis.
This qualitative study explores the opinions, motives and expectations of migraine patients about prophylactic migraine therapy. A similar study focusing on GPs' opinions is reported separately.
Three focus groups of migraine patients were formed, 2 from urban areas and 1 from a rural area. Patient selection was based on pre-specified criteria, aiming to reflect a broad range of experience (from young to old), gender (separate groups for males and females), attack frequency ≥ 2 attacks/months) and pain level (≥ 6 on a scale of 10 matching migraine,1 being almost no headache and 10 being the worst headache ever). Our goal was to achieve a diversity of migraine patients, corresponding to general practice and with a sufficiently high frequency to be eligible for preventive therapy [12, 13]. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Leiden University Medical Centre.
One group of 7 females and a second group of 6 males were recruited from 5 urban primary care health centres or group practices. See patient characteristics in Table 1. We selected patients based on the diagnosis migraine and all these patients used prescribed medication for acute treatment. Thirteen patients had consulted their GP or a neurologist for their migraine (2 groups). A third group, comprising 7 females from a rural area, was recruited by a researcher investigating consumer behaviour. In this group each participant was approached by telephone and selected if they had migraine according to the IHS criteria. In this group 2 participants had not received any medical supervision yet.
Table 1 Patient characteristics, 2 female and 1 male groups
The application form contained two questions on migraine (severity and frequency), one on the level of education and one about the number of hours in paid work. Based on this application form, the researcher made a comparison with national data on migraine patients in general practice [12]. Regarding the severity and frequency of the migraine, the composition of the three groups corresponded well with the average characteristics of migraine patients in Dutch general practice. The subject mentioned on the invitation was migraine headache in general, without a specific indication of our interest in preventive treatment.
The focus group meetings were chaired by an independent moderator experienced in focus group research. The principal investigator (FD) observed all meetings from an adjacent room via a monitor with sound, but had no influence on the discussions. The moderator used a specially prepared interview guide (compiled by AKN and FD) which started with an introduction and familiarization, followed by discussion on the characteristics of the patients' migraine experience (e.g. age at onset, changes in migraine over time, treatment for attacks, and treatment goals, etc.). Prophylaxis was discussed, including the advantages and disadvantages, and the patients' experiences and attitudes towards preventive medication. In all focus groups sessions a topic list was used, which included some provocative statements to stimulate discussion and the exchange of ideas. The quantitative data listed in the results section are based on this topic list. All sessions were digitally recorded on DVD.
The recordings were analysed independently by three researchers (FD, AKN and BA). Because the DVD recordings provided the most detailed information on both verbal and non-verbal communication, these served as the primary data source [14–16]. The researchers used regular DVD-reading software with good on-screen forward/backward and other search possibilities. The DVDs allowed both hearing and seeing of non-verbal indications as to whether or not an opinion was supported by others in the group. The three investigators individually identified 'themes', that is remarks containing information on prophylactic therapy, or relevant or closely related to it. A transcript was made of all the comments by the participants on preventive treatment. Subsequently these comments were grouped independently by three researchers. The identified themes were written out and then organised into categories and (sub-) themes by the principal investigator, according to the rules of 'thematic analysis [16–18]' into a draft analytical framework. This framework was consecutively discussed and decided upon with the other members of the team.
When there was disagreement between researchers in the analysis, the theme was analysed again by the disagreeing researchers and in case of a persisting discrepancy consensus was soughed and reached between the researchers. The analysis was coordinated by the principal investigator, who did put the remaining questions each time to both the other researchers. An interpretative analysis of the data with the help of this framework enabled the identification of several related but separate topics of experience and reasoning regarding prophylactic treatment for migraine and a tentative model for understanding patients' decision making regarding such treatment.
Five main categories of themes emerged from the focus group meetings.
1) Previous steps taken to prevent migraine
With regard to preventive measures, many participants were concerned that migraine was not well understood, and some found it hard to rely on prophylactic therapy because the mechanism was still unclear to them.
Almost all patients had experimented with behavioural, lifestyle or dietary actions, mostly without success and later therefore abandoned. However, some patients continued with these behaviours, even when they believed that they probably provided no benefit. Many participants avoided certain foods and other types of products. Some used specific products in order to promote their health.
'Stabilizing the biological clock', i.e., developing a stable day-night rhythm, was a widely used precaution by more than half of participants. Interventions were often supported by their physicians. For some patients, prophylaxis was the last resort.
"I 'did' the whole alternative circuit. I tried everything. Only after all that was I ready for prophylaxis." (Group 1, PT 1)
Many types of complementary medicines had been or were being used. Most patients believed that although prophylactic treatment is only moderately effective, it is still more effective than complementary therapies. Using a complementary therapy often hampered patients from considering prophylaxis; they were waiting for the effects of the complementary interventions. Once complementary therapies had failed, they were more willing to try regular therapies.
"In the beginning, when my migraines were first diagnosed, we tried everything and every therapy to treat the attacks. Later on, I stopped making appointments for my migraines, I was so disappointed ... and I tried everything myself, avoided all kinds of food, gulped down vitamins and other supplements, relaxation therapies, etc., etc." (Group 3, PT 5)
2) Satisfaction with current migraine treatment
Migraine patients differed in how they determined whether or not they were satisfied with their treatment. Some patients were satisfied when they were able to keep on functioning at work or at home, others were only satisfied when the headache disappeared.
A few participants kept a highly structured diary to ascertain whether there were any factors that influenced their migraine. Keeping a diary made patients more accessible to prophylactic medication.
"My GP gave a kind of brochure; later on I continued keeping record of my headaches. I think that's very important; noting parallel things, food and so, looking back whether medication works." (Group 1, PT 1)
According to the patients, preventing the overuse of attack treatment was only occasionally considered by the GP. According to the patients, almost no GP used that argument in the discussion about whether or not to start preventive treatment. Remarkably, some patients who used excessive attack treatment mistakenly called it 'prevention'. In their incorrect but exemplary way of thinking, they considered it to be prophylaxis because they used the attack treatment before a migraine attack occurred. Some patients showed very limited awareness about the risks of overuse of attack treatment.
"I already take so many medications, so don't do that preventive thing to me. When I feel a headache coming, I just take a tablet and that's prevention to me." (Group 2, PT 3)
Most patients agreed that effective migraine treatment consists of effective attack management in addition to effective prophylaxis. More than half of the patients wanted to reduce the use of attack treatment, because they felt they were using too many triptans or painkillers. However, patients still focused on the importance of attack treatment; prophylaxis took second place. This focus on attack treatment hampered their thinking about other strategies to reduce the burden of migraine.
"I'm afraid of the side-effects of triptans; that's making me more open to prophylaxis." (Group 1, PT 5)
The feeling of being in control of the migraine and not being controlled by it was considered a very important factor. Participants accepted a high frequency of migraine and/or long-lasting attacks as arguments for prophylaxis. However, the vast majority believed that if the attack treatment was extremely effective, there would be no need for prophylaxis. This was irrespective of the number of attacks and was in relation to what patients found 'normal' for them.
"I'm not stuffing my body with medication when I have an attack 3 times a month, even if it is terribly intense, but when it's good treatable." (Group 2, PT 7)
3) Taking the initiative for prophylaxis
Although not every patient had personal experience with migraine prophylaxis, almost everyone knew about its existence. Most patients received information from family members, physicians, the Internet, the media or pharmacists. Many participants had searched the Internet for specific information on prophylaxis and encountered both positive and negative information such as stories of patients who have had a lot to benefit from prophylaxis and others who had no good effect and suffered from significant side effects.
"I'm using preventive therapy now. I didn't hear anything about it from the doctor ... I found out myself that something like that was available. It was in a women's magazine, not via the GP. I'm unhappy about that..."(Group 3, PT 7)
Testimonies of other patients or information of a patient headache association was not clear enough or too ambiguous to make a first step. It did not have a direct influence on their own health-seeking behaviour.
"Anti-epileptics, that sounds dreadful. The sort of thing you associate with lying on the ground with foam around your mouth." (Group 2, PT 3)
There was no consensus as to who should take the initiative for prophylaxis. About half of the patients expected an active approach from their GP. Others (more urban and/or more highly educated) preferred to take the initiative themselves. All patients expected that their GP should be able to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of prophylaxis.
Patients found it important that discussion about prophylaxis should take place at the appropriate moment. This was not necessarily at the initial diagnosis, but when the patient knew more about the impact of migraine and the effectiveness of attack treatment. The need for prophylaxis could then be considered within a more realistic context.
"I never wanted it; I'm not a pill swallower. But I find it terrible to have to call my colleagues that I have another attack again. Then they stare at me with negatively loaden, piercing eyes. And I have started to think differently about daily treatment." (Group 2, PT 6)
Prophylaxis was often discussed when patients indicated they were no longer able to cope with the headache attacks.
"My migraines were so severe that I went to the doctor ... I couldn't do anything but cry. He tried to comfort me and offered prophylaxis." (Group 3, PT 4)
For a few participants, the initiative for prophylaxis was taken by the GP based on the amount of prescribed attack medication; these GPs actively monitored the use of triptans and painkillers. When confronted with such an active approach, the patients were initially cautious but subsequently regarded the GP's intervention as positive. Ultimately, almost all patients desired to have their own control over the final decision.
"Sometimes I'm afraid he'll phone again ... because I take too much medication. I once phoned for a repeat prescription, but the doctor called back and said: You've used too much this month. Then he mentioned preventive therapy. It feels OK, that he's concerned about me." (Group 1, PT 5)
4) Assessing the advantages and disadvantages of prophylaxis
From the patient's perspective, the decision to start prophylaxis is complex. There is a wide range of perceived advantages and disadvantages, migraine patterns often vary, and the underlying concerns also differ.
"The pattern of attacks of my migraine is too weird to be able to figure out whether prophylaxis will help me or not." (Group 3, PT 2)
"Accepting prophylaxis is difficult, because my attacks sometimes stay away for a long time. It's sometimes months before I have another attack, but once they start they're very frequent." (Group 3, PT 3)
"I'm now using so many triptans ... this can't be a good thing." (Group 3, PT 2)
"I just don't want to do it. I'm very anti-drugs." (Group 3, PT 1)
When considering prophylaxis, all patients experienced negative or obstructive elements, as well as positive factors. Participants had differing views on this subject, some mainly emphasised the positive aspects and others mainly the negative aspects.
The most important negative factors were the fear of side-effects, the assumption that prophylaxis will have little impact, and the feeling of becoming a chronic patient. The issue of 'becoming a chronic patient' was expressed in all sessions, and about 50% of the patients associated the use of prophylactic drugs with 'old age' and 'chronic disease'. Participants emphasised that they did not feel like a 'patient' in between the migraine attacks, so it did not feel appropriate to use medication on a daily basis. Despite a high impact of migraine and although many (daily) preventive measures and behavioural adaptations has been adopted, the use of prophylactic drugs was not easily accepted.
More than half of the patients stated that daily use of tablets for migraine would make them feel emotionally unhealthier. Other negative factors included the fear of drug dependency, a low assessment of their own capacity for compliance, and the negative reactions of persons in their direct surroundings.
"If I were to take tablets every day, I'd feel like I'm a patient. Now I just have a headache sometimes ... actually it's many times." (Group 3, PT 3)
"I think I'd forget it (medication) so often that it wouldn't be effective." (Group 3, PT 7)
"I'm afraid of becoming dependent on those drugs." (Group 3, PT 2)
"It's something in the head about not wanting to take tablets every day." (Group 2, PT 4)
"When you receive preventive therapy for something, people think you're a pitiful case." (Group 2, PT 6)
"The question is: how does migraine affect your life. I don't want migraine to affect my life, and taking drugs every day would have a major effect on my life." (Group 1, PT 6)
The factors that contribute to positive decision appear to rest on a more calculated way of thinking or approach; weighing the advantages against the disadvantages and assessment of the degree of effectiveness.
Half of the participants had benefited from prophylaxis. The main positive benefits were a reduction in the burden of migraine with an increase in the range of abilities; this was particularly important when the impact was high. Other positive features were the ease of administration, an overall general gain in health, a reduction in acute medication, less confrontations with the GP in case acute medication was used excessively, and less pressure from others close to them. When the benefits were clearer, patients were able to accept prophylaxis or were at least willing to try it. Most of the patients stated they would accept daily drug intake if their migraine frequency would be halved.
"I don't care what I have to do; I'd do anything to get rid of my headaches." (GR 2, PT 4)
"If it worked for 100%, I would certainly join the users!" (Group 3, PT 3)
"With prophylactic drugs you're able to participate much more in sport activities - which I enjoy very much." (Group 1, PT 4)
"If somebody said to me: "The migraines will disappear if I cut off your hand", then I'd say: Cut off my whole arm!" (Group 3, PT 3)
Many patients anticipated reimbursement problems with the healthcare insurance companies when receiving prophylactic therapy (in fact, in the Netherlands, all costs of prophylactic therapies are fully covered by healthcare insurance for all patients). Patients who had experience with prophylaxis reported that they had no problems with health insurance or the financial side of treatment costs.
Apart from the duration of the attack another important factor was the situation involved, e.g. being at school, at work, or with friends or family. For similar attack rates the perceived need for prophylaxis differed between patients.
Not being able to take care of others was a strong positive factor for prophylaxis. Apart from the impact of migraine on themselves also the impact on other persons for whom they are responsible (e.g. children, family members, colleagues, etc.) was an important argument for preventive treatment.
"I can't even make it to the meetings of my sports club. I might manage it once, but the second, third and fourth time they wouldn't understand. When you feel that negative impact from migraine, then you really want to start thinking about preventive treatment." (Group 3, PT 4)
5) The relationship with the physician and the feeling to be heard
At the time of diagnosis, being taken seriously about the burden of the migraine and acknowledgement of their suffering was considered most important. But this was not the appropriate time when patients were interested in prevention. Many migraine patients felt there was a limit to the extent to which their physician is able to comprehend the burden they bear. They considered that their GP unable to imagine how difficult it is to experience a migraine attack, whereas others mentioned a sympathetic response from their GP. Patients indicated that at a later stage a good empathetic relationship with the doctor was important for the acceptance of prevention.
"He (GP) was really concerned about me, about the enormous number of attacks I had. That was good and very considerate of him." (Group 1, PT 4)
"I think that he (GP) thinks: what on earth can I do for you anyway..." (Group 2, PT 2)
"I found that now something really has to be done ... so I went to the doctor. He said: It sounds like classic migraine; we'll see what we can do. I should have done this much earlier ... at last I felt that someone understood." (Group 1, PT 2)
"There's always that fear of the next attack, and my family doctor seemed to understand that fear. First and foremost, you have to be taken seriously by your doctor." (Group 1, PT 1)
An important influence was the way their GPs treated them. Positive factors in promoting prevention were having a positive interaction and the feeling being taken seriously. On the other hand, being dissatisfied about the approach of the physician hampered the willingness to consider prophylaxis.
"Primarily I want to be taken seriously, but I can not complain. He's handled it well, with the start of preventive treatment." (Goup1 PT 5)
"If you have more than two attacks a month, they just give you a prescription for anti-epileptics and - before you know it - you're outside again." (Group 3, PT 6)
Summary of main findings
The present study describes patients' subjective opinions about prophylaxis as a treatment option for migraine.
A number of conditions that must be met before preventive therapy is accepted and that these often are related to each other (Figure 1). These conditions can be patient related, clinician related or be related to the disease or the disease process. Knowledge on the importance of these issues for the decision making of patients is crucial for physicians dealing with migraine patients in daily practice.
Major influences in patients' decisions about preventive treatment in migraine.
Patients indicate a number of important factors in favour of the use of prophylaxis related to the perceived burden of migraine; a high frequency of attacks, severe attacks, and lack of effectiveness of attack treatment. These are characteristics of the migraine itself, on which physicians do not have much influence (however they have certainly on proper attack treatment). The patient makes a balance of pros and cons. Expectations of the beneficial effects, fear of side effects and drug dependency and negative health feeling in case of daily use of medication, play a considerable role in making this balance.
The willingness to try prophylaxis increased after other interventions had been tried (e.g. dietary changes, changes in lifestyle or previous complementary treatments). Patients prefer strongly to take the decision themselves and want to have responsibility themselves. The individual history of earlier interventions is pivotal. Several factors increase the resistance to accepting prophylaxis, such as changing the scope from seeing migraine as an intermittent to seeing it as a chronic disease.
When weighing the facts and reaching a decision on prophylaxis, the physician has a major influence, especially by providing relevant information. In the process of getting more insight on their migraine, patients feel that the physician can be helpful. Patients attach great importance to a good and trusted relationship with the physician and often prefer an active approach.
It is important to acknowledge that a patient is going through a process, and in time tend more and more towards a decision. It takes time to realize that one has a severe problem with migraine and that the migraine has a large impact. Keeping a diary can provide such an insight in an earlier stage [19]. From the management perspective, patients need to be receptive to the idea of prophylaxis at the right moment in their migraine history.
This focus group research aimed to explore opinions through a purposeful sample covering a range of subjects and doesn't provide numbers and clear conclusions such as quantitative research.
We decided to have separate male and female groups based on the assumption that their approaches to migraine differ, and that a mixed group may inhibit the exploration of some key elements of migraine for woman, such as a relation with menstruation.
Saturation of themes occurred within the three groups, when no new themes arose that had not been included in our topic guide. Within the groups, a diversity of approaches was found. For example, the urban group was more highly educated and displayed more resistance to prophylaxis, and needed a more rational and evidence-based requirement for its introduction.
The rural group had a more passive attitude and indicated more acceptance to the propositions from their physician.
A weakness of the present study is that it was conducted in the Dutch language and is reported in English. Qualitative studies aim to capture meaning from the narratives of respondents and some loss and/or distortion may have occurred in the translation process. However, we had the Dutch texts translated by two experienced translators and from the perspective of migraine a native English speaking expert physician on migraine looked into the patient remarks.
Comparison with other studies
Parallel to this study another qualitative study from the same research group, also on prophylaxis for migraine, explored the attitude of GPs [20]. That study confirmed the complexity of the decision-making process, which from the perspective of the GP was also not based on the impact of migraine alone. Patients and GPs showed a similar degree of hesitance, not because of lack of knowledge or lack of interest, but because of doubts about effectiveness, side-effects, and the risk of developing drug dependence.
Of the qualitative studies on migraine, only one has addressed preventive therapy [21]. In that study by Rozen, the method (questionnaire) and setting (third-line centre) were different to ours and all patients had prior exposure to migraine prophylaxis. The decision whether or not to start preventive therapy had already been made, and the questionnaire mainly addressed side-effects and the choice of drugs. That study provided no information on its aims or how the decision concerning prophylaxis was made.
Two qualitative studies show agreement with our study in relation to prevention. One study shows remarkable similarities on the patient communication with the GP and on the search for complementary therapies by patients. Because this study is not about prevention, is does cover the influence of these two issues on prevention [22]. The other study reports that self-efficacy scores were positively associated with the use of positive psychological coping strategies to prevent headaches [23].
Other studies which address patient factors in migraine do not address prophylaxis and focus on the needs of migraine patients [24, 25], decision-making in migraine [26–28], the burden of migraine and quality of life [29, 30], perimenopausal headache [31], migraine in midlife women [32], and pressure on patients related to referral [33], and therefore have almost no overlap to our study. The questionnaire study by Kowacs et al. on the patients' view on side effects of preventive treatment revealed that side effects are better accepted by patients with high use or actual overuse of attack treatment, which is consistent with our findings [34]. The questionnaire study of Kol et al. found that 55% of patients with two or more attacks per month wanted to use prophylaxis, while only 8% actually used this treatment. This paradox is one of the underlying themes in our study [12].
Similar studies have also been conducted with other chronic diseases. For example, the study of Adams et al. on acceptance of the preventive treatment for asthma [35]. Specific for prophylactic asthma treatment is that it is given even in asymptomatic periods, the inhalation therapy is visible to others and there is fear for side effects on the longer term ('steroid fear'). In contrast, in migraine only patients with frequent and severe attacks are treated, mainly the side effects on the short term are feared, and in general patients have no trouble with the acceptance of the migraine as such. This comparison shows that migraine has similarities, but also differences with other chronic diseases. Most likely the opinions of patients differ per indication.
The benefits of prophylactic medication for migraine are under-exploited. Future research should focus on the various aspects involved in decisions about preventive treatment, as reflected in the present study. An understanding by physicians of the patient's feelings and concerns towards prevention are important for more effective use of these agents. When advising migraine patients on prophylaxis it is important to explicitly address their underlying thoughts and emotions, and to consider the intervention at an appropriate moment in the course of the patient's migraine experience.
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The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/13/13/prepub
The authors thank J.A.G. Muller, MSc, moderator, and all the participating patients and GPs for their cooperation. This study had permission of the Medical Ethical Committee of the LUMC, Leiden, the Netherlands. The study received no external funding.
Leiden University Medical Center, Public Health and Primary Care, Postzone VO-P, P.O. Box 9600, 2300, RC, Leiden, The Netherlands
Frans Dekker, Arie Knuistingh Neven, Boukje Andriesse, Ria Reis & Willem JJ Assendelft
Headache Lead, Royal College of General Practitioners, London, UK
David Kernick
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ria Reis
Neurology LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands
Michel D Ferrari
Frans Dekker
Arie Knuistingh Neven
Boukje Andriesse
Willem JJ Assendelft
Correspondence to Frans Dekker.
Dr. M.D. Ferrari has received unrestricted research grants from, or served as a consultant to Almirall Prodesfarma, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Menarini, Johnson and Johnson, and Pharmacia. Dr. D. Kernick has acted in an advisory capacity to MSD and AstraZeneca. Dr. F. Dekker has received an unrestricted research grant from Janssen-Cilag, with no relation to the present study. All other authors state that there are no competing interests.
Original idea and conception of the study: FD, AKN. Development of the protocol: FD, AKN, WJJA. Organization and participation in the focus groups: FD, AKN. Qualitative analysis: FD, BA, AKN, RR. DK and RR participated in the study design and helped to draft the manuscript. Writing of the manuscript: FD. All the authors have read the draft critically, have made contributions, and have approved the final text.
Dekker, F., Knuistingh Neven, A., Andriesse, B. et al. Prophylactic treatment of migraine; the patient's view, a qualitative study. BMC Fam Pract 13, 13 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-13-13
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China Calls It A 'Wartime Mode' COVID-19 Lockdown. And Residents Are Protesting
By Emily Feng
Zhao Ge
Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images
Volunteer Ekebar Emet, a 21-year-old student, publicizes epidemic prevention measures in Urumqi in northwest China's Xinjiang region on Aug. 3. His messaging reaches an estimated 78 households each day.
Across China, life has largely returned to normal. Domestic travel is picking back up as a coronavirus pandemic brought under control recedes from memory. Businesses and factories have reopened.
Except in Xinjiang. A sweeping, western region nearly four times the size of California, Xinjiang remains largely cut off from the rest of the country and its some 22 million residents under heavy lockdown, an effort officials say is needed to contain a cluster of more than 800 officially diagnosed cases.
In mid-July, officials declared a "wartime mode" for the region. Community officials continue to go door to door, sealing doors with paper strips, tape and in some cases metal bars, to prevent residents from leaving their homes.
The region has effectively been penned off from the rest of the country, meaning scant information about the lockdown has emerged. In July, Xinjiang's train stations were closed, intercity bus routes canceled, and centralized quarantine imposed on residents returning to the region.
"It has been more than a week since we last had a case, but that does not mean we should relax," said Tang Shan, a Communist Party official who oversees Xinjiang's Ganquanbao district, an industrial zone just outside the region's capital of Urumqi. "We still ask our residents and the society at large, including our government organs, to work together in order to maintain the success we have achieved so far."
The monthlong lockdown has angered residents, thousands of whom took to social media this week to complain about what they said are heavy-handed quarantine and testing policies out of sync with the severity of the outbreak. The region's last new COVID-19 case was diagnosed on Aug. 17.
"The government has used an ax where a scalpel was needed," said a 21-year-old resident of Urumqi, where the vast majority of cases have occurred. He asked to remain anonymous because of potential legal retribution for talking to foreign media. "I just want government officials to refrain from lazy policymaking and combat the outbreak with scientific, reasonable measures."
Xinjiang is home to about 11 million Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic minority. Since 2017, local authorities with backing from the country's leader, Xi Jinping, have extralegally detained or imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other historically Muslim ethnic minorities. Those not detained live under heavy government surveillance and a web of restrictions that forbid most religious activities and travel.
Darren Byler, a researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder who has written extensively about Xinjiang, notes the region had already adopted particularly intrusive methods to lock down cities during the epidemic's start in January. Under a campaign called a "million police enter ten million homes," a combination of community officials and auxiliary police kept close tabs on each household and ensured that people did not leave their place of shelter.
"In some cases, the orders to shelter in place during the initial lockdown and the current lockdown were delivered with little to no warning, so some people were forced to stay in their place of work apart from their families and without supplies," said Byler.
Xinjiang's police state has mobilized over the last month to contain the latest coronavirus outbreak. Urumqi residents told NPR that they had been given mandatory tests for the coronavirus as many as three times in the last month and their temperature taken by local officials three times a day.
This past weekend, frustration from Xinjiang residents spilled over to social media, as the hashtag "Xinjiang refugees" briefly began trending on China's Twitter-like platform, Weibo. Most of the posts were soon deleted, and several accounts suspended. Videos shared on the platform by frustrated residents show Xinjiang residents cuffed to window bars and balcony railings outside their homes, a punishment for violating home quarantine rules.
"I want to strongly emphasize to everyone to now open your front door. Those who are discovered [outside their homes] by neighborhood officials will be reported to the nearest police station," read a warning sent to a chat group of residents in Urumqi's Tianshan district, according to screenshots sent to NPR by one of the group's participants.
The policy is similar to strict lockdown policies adopted for weeks at a time in other Chinese cities such as Wuhan and in coastal Zhejiang province during the height of the epidemic. To feed trapped residents, community officials and volunteers rallied to deliver daily essentials to each household several times a week.
With comparatively less-developed community services, residents in Xinjiang said they have been left hungry in their own homes. One woman in Kashgar, a former Silk Road oasis town, said she had been sealed into her house with a random assortment of groceries sent by community officials once a week — usually basic vegetables such as potatoes, carrots and cabbage.
Four Uighur residents told NPR they had also been forced to drink a brown, herbal Chinese traditional medicine packaged by a company called Beijing Donghuayuan Medical. China's state news agency has said asymptomatic cases in Xinjiang were given an "herbal concoction" to prevent symptoms from appearing and that participation in traditional Chinese medicine treatment had "reached one hundred percent" in Xinjiang, though there is no medical evidence proving its efficacy against the virus.
On Monday, the regional government softened its lockdown policy slightly, allowing residents living in compounds with no cases to leave their homes so long as they are wearing a mask.
To further quell public outrage this week, state media also published the mobile phone numbers for about a dozen senior officials and party members at the provincial and city level, encouraging irate residents to reach out directly with recommendations.
"There has been an endless queue of complaints coming in," said Ye Hailong, a county-level Urumqi official.
On Monday, the Xinjiang regional government softened its stance and said it would allow residents without diagnosed cases in their compounds to leave their homes.
But when asked when Xinjiang's "wartime mode" would be entirely lifted, officials declined to offer a specific date. "Our lockdown policies have to follow the timeline of the epidemic and when the epidemic ends," said Chen Xinjian, an Urumqi district official.
Amy Cheng contributed research from Beijing.
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Noelle A. Willbanks, PE – Principal Engineer
Professional Background:
Ms. Willbanks has 20+ years of experience in civil engineering, environmental engineering, water resources, permitting, compliance, and construction. Ms. Willbanks has been an integral part in the design, construction and implementation of groundwater, wastewater, and soil vapor treatment facilities at multiple sites throughout California. Her responsibilities include project management, regulatory agency interaction, remediation technology selection, environmental investigation, civil design, water system well, piping, utility, and pump design, construction oversight, and contractor interaction. She has extensive experience with local regulatory agencies and works closely with the RWQCB, DTSC, CDPH, and local municipal agencies on various projects. She oversees environmental site assessments and subsequent site investigations including soil, groundwater, and soil gas investigations. Her design experience includes groundwater wells and wellhead treatment facilities, soil vapor extraction systems, storm water, sewer and distribution piping systems, pumping systems, grading plans, excavation plans, and site clean-ups.
Relevant Project Experience:
Environmental Investigation/Remediation Projects
Pinedale Groundwater Site (Vendo), Fresno, CA – Project Manager responsible for the oversight of a former industrial facility that includes a chlorinated solvent plume that has impacted more than eight City of Fresno municipal water wells and extends two miles beneath an urban developed area. The project includes a groundwater monitoring network of over 60 wells. She is the primary contact with the City of Fresno Water Division for pumping priority schedules and maintaining treatment at the various supply well locations.
Ms. Willbanks has prepared design plans and specifications for multiple municipal groundwater extraction facilities and has had primary oversight of permitting and construction of the facilities. Several facilities required the installation of stormwater, sewer, and raw and treated water transmission piping design and construction. She is also responsible for compliance with National Pollution Discharge Elimination Systems (NPDES) permits, which includes monitoring and operation of a groundwater treatment facility. In addition, she was responsible for multiple groundwater investigations, including Workplan preparation and multiple monitoring well design and installations.
Project Manager who oversaw the decommissioning of the industrial facility including a Phase I investigation of the 23-acre former industrial property, Phase II environmental investigation and subsequent site remediation work. Ms. Willbanks was responsible for the preparation and implementation of the Removal Action Workplan for site remediation, which included removal and disposal of cyanide and heavy metal contamination in soil. Ms. Willbanks has worked closely with the DTSC as the regulatory agency, architects, engineers, and contractors during the decommissioning and subsequent redevelopment of the facility.
Environmental Compliance Projects
Caruthers Raisin Packing, Inc., Caruthers, CA – Project Manager for the wastewater distribution and permitting operations of the food processor. Prepared the Report of Waste Discharge as required for continued packing operation by the Regional Water Quality Control Board. After modifications were implemented at the site, and extensive groundwater and site investigations, the site was issued WDRs for continued operation. Installed a groundwater monitoring network and developed sampling and analysis plan for the Site. Also assisted with modifications to the existing PWS permit through the California Department of Public Health.
Olam Tomato Processing, Lemoore, CA - Project Manager responsible for Waste Discharge permitting, amendment and renewal including preparation of the Report of Waste Discharge. The project included the preparation of work plans for monitoring well installation and monitoring, soil sampling and analysis, and percolation testing. This project required extensive communications with the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board for expedited turn-around to allow for continued discharge under a modified permit. This project was issued a modified WDR by the RWQCB in less than one year, and there were no interruptions to operations.
Southern California Edison, Various Locations, Ca – Qualified Stormwater Practitioner (QSP) for multiple substation and modernization projects in the Central Valley and Sierras. Perform QSP inspections, work with contractors to ensure permit compliance, assist with COI preparation and submittal, annual reports, and other project documentation.
State of California Department of Corrections, Various Prison Site, CA – Qualified Stormwater Practitioner and developer (QSP/QSD) for various prison sites in California. Oversee QSP inspections, work with contractors to ensure permit compliance, assist with COI preparation and submittal, annual reports, and other project documentation.
CalTrans, Fresno, CA – Staff Engineer for PELS project/campaign. Staff engineer responsible for sampling of stormwater samples from collection systems along Highway 99 and other Fresno County highways. Collected litter samples from storm drains along same highways to sort, count, weigh, and report percentages of litter encountered along the highways for an ad campaign for Keep California Clean.
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Fresno Branch. Past Section Director, Past President, Practitioner Advisor and Scholarship Director, Student Liaison and Student Branch Vice-President
California Stormwater Quality Association (CASQA). Current Member
Groundwater Resources Association (GRA) of California. Current Member
American Public Works Association (APWA). Current Member
Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society. Life Member
Burton E. Gilpin, PG, CEG, CHG – Professional Geologist
As a Certified Engineering Geologist, Certified Hydrogeologist, and real-estate broker, Mr. Gilpin’s technical expertise and experience has included mineral-resource identification and reserves quantification, mineral-lease negotiation and development, mining and reclamation planning, mine permitting, geologic hazards assessment including slope-stability analyses, water resources management, engineering risk analyses, landfill engineering, mineral exploration and geochemistry, environmental site assessment, regulatory compliance, remediation management for soil and groundwater-contaminated sites, and participation in and management of the preparation of Environmental Impact Reports (EIR). He has served as an instructor for Federal Mine Safety and Health Administaration (MSHA) sponsored training courses.
Mr. Gilpin has a complete working knowledge and has successfully navigated California’s Senate Bill 4 (SB4) legislation involving oil- and gas-well stimulation (fracking). He has helped a number of O&G companies obtain stimulation permits under SB4 requirements, often negotiating directly with the State Water Board and the California Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR).
Mining, Petroleum, Permitting, and Water Resources
Project Applicant – Lehigh Hanson, Heidelberg Cement Group - Various Greenfield Mine Projects throughout Central California – Initially as the Permitting Manager, then Operations Manager and then Vice President/General Manager Central California, Mr. Gilpin served a lead role in the strategic development of aggregate operations throughout Central California. At the time, these operations were often designed to dewater large-scale mine pits for dry-mining purposes, and always employed large quantities of water for processing. Groundwater development, consumption and potential impacts due to industrial operations often comprised the most significant challenges to developing and permitting these mine sites. Mr. Gilpin led efforts to assess and acquire property, identify and evaluate permitting and operational issues, and foster political and public support for mine projects/entitlements. He has successfully completed the permitting and development of several mine sites in environmentally sensitive areas of California.
Project Manager/Engineering Geologist - Major, as well as small, Confidential Oil & Gas Producers, California - Assisted producers with well-stimulation permitting.
Project Manager – Vulcan, Fresno County, California - Engineering studies in support of an EIR for a gravel mine on the San Joaquin River. The project included evaluation of geology, hydrogeology and geologic hazards, significance of aggregate resources, compliance of the mining and reclamation plan with SMARA, levee stability, river morphology, flooding and sediment transport, groundwater-surface water interaction, and hazardous material assessment.
Project Manager/Engineering Geologist – Cold Spring Granite, Fresno County, California - Managed and prepared revisions to the CUP Application including preparation of a new Mine and Reclamation Plan. The mine is a granite-boulder quarry located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Aspects of the plan included waste-pile stability, erosion and revegetation, and mine and reclamation sequencing. During development of the plan, Mr. Gilpin conducted the annual site review for the mine.
Hydrogeologist and Task Manager – Proposed Texaco Petroleum Reservoir Mining Project, Kern County, California - The proposed project involved the mining of a near-surface petroleum deposit characterized by reservoir rock with high porosity and low permeability. The source rock was to be mined and processed and spent ore would be placed back into the excavation for reclamation. Plans called for the recovery of approximately 300,000,000 barrels of oil from a mine expected to measure approximately 3 miles long, 1 mile wide and 1,000 feet deep. Mr. Gilpin’s task was to evaluate groundwater and surface-water impacts associated with the project and manage that aspect of the permitting process.
Consulting Hydrogeologist – Kaweah River Rock, Tulare County, California - Provided technical review and oversight for the groundwater portion of an EIR for an aggregate mine on the Kaweah River. The project involved dewatering of up to 85 vertical feet of aggregate in order to provide "dry" mining below the water table; followed by re-injection of the water downgradient of the mine. Mr. Gilpin’s responsibilities included reviewing the groundwater modeling and groundwater impact portions of the EIR, and then representing Tulare County in public hearings regarding the EIR.
Hydrogeologist/Task Manager - Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1 (NPR-1), California - In the process of petroleum reserves valuation, Mr. Gilpin prepared environmental cost estimates associated with management of wastewater and groundwater. Based on various development scenarios, volumes of co-produced water, water-flooding alternatives, and surface and subsurface disposal (injection) scenarios were considered, as well as regulatory requirements, to identify possible environmental impacts. The environmental liabilities were evaluated based on then-current operations and site conditions and projected out through the life of the project. Costs of environmental liabilities were then incorporated into the value of the reserve for establishing minimum bid requirements. Divestment of the NPR-1 in Elk Hills represented, at the time, the largest-ever divestiture on the part of the United States.
Project Manager/Consultant - Oil/Gas Well Site Screening, Kern County Oil Producer - Managed and conducted environmental studies and assisted in the preparation of Conditional Use Permits for proposed gas development of approximately 10-square miles within the Trico Gas Field located in southwestern Tulare and southeastern Kings Counties, California. In addition, the studies were used to establish baseline environmental site conditions and current and past land-use practices prior to planned lease of selected properties for gas development. The project included hazardous-materials, biological and archaeological assessments, as well as, potential wetlands identification and biological surveys for Threatened and Endangered Species and Species of Special Concern.
Geologist - Highway 1 Expansion, Monterey County, California - Provided baseline geology, geohazards assessment, and environmental characterization for an EIR for Highway 1 widening.
Geologist - Highway 101 Expansion, San Jose, California - Provided baseline geology, geohazards assessment, and environmental characterization for an EIR for Highway 101 widening and improvements.
Project Manager - Pinedale Area TCE Contamination RI/FS - Provided management and oversight responsibilities necessary to assess groundwater conditions on a superfund site (Cal EPA) that encompasses several hundred acres. Currently, Mr. Gilpin is providing hydrologic expertise during late stages of site remediation.
Project Manager – Kraft Foods Plant, Visalia, California - Soil-contamination assessment and remediation: diesel and fuel oil. Project included field investigation, chemical analyses, assessment reports, risk assessment, and selection and implementation of various remedial alternatives including in-situbioremediation of diesel fuel, excavation and disposal, and risk analysis to support abandoning fuel oil in-place.
Independent Quality Assurance Team (IQAT) Representative - Fairchild/MEW Superfund Site, Mountainview, CA - Oversaw remedial activities conducted by SMITH Environmental at the Fairchild Semiconductor site. Remedial activities comprised primarily excavation, vapor extraction and groundwater extraction for cleanup of volatile chlorinated compounds.
Project Manager - Pinedale Area TCE Contamination RI/FS and Landfill SWAT - Engineering Geologist-of-Record for a SWAT performed on an abandoned Army and privately owned and operated landfill on the property. Activities included refuse characterization, soil gas, groundwater and vadose-zone assessment. The landfill investigation was instrumental in assessing possible source areas and soil-and interim groundwater-remedial measures.
Project Manager - Fresno Sanitary Landfill, Design of Source Control Operable Unit - The project, performed under regulatory oversight of the US EPA, included consulting services related to the Gas Control System, the Gas Treatment System, the Landfill Cover Design, Surface-Water Management, and geotechnical investigation associated with relocation of an irrigation-supply pipeline traversing the property. Several cover borrow sources were evaluated on the basis of soil type, quantity and transportation costs.
Project Manager/Senior Geologist - American Avenue Landfill, Fresno County - Provided oversight for the selection, mining and transportation of clay material for a landfill liner from a remote borrow source. Several thousand cubic yards of clay material were taken from the borrow source and the source area was backfilled with material excavated from the landfill module. The geology of the base of the landfill was mapped prior to placing the clay liner.
Project Quality Assurance - Various Tulare County Landfills, Regulatory Compliance - Provided technical review and oversight for the preparation of Compliance Reviews for Tulare County landfills followed by preparation of various regulatory compliance plans for several Tulare County Landfills, including Detection Monitoring and Financial Assurance, Engineering Feasibility, Evaluation Monitoring Programs, and Justification for Concentration Limits Greater Than Background.
Civil Engineer, California, C67593
Civil Engineer, Nevada, CE22562
Treatment/Distribution Operator, T2/D2, California, 31674
Qualified Storm Water Developer (QSD/QSP), California, 00145 Qualified Industrial Stormwater Practitioner, California, I67593
Certified Environmental Manager, Nevada, No. 2363
BS Civil Engineering, California State University, Fresno, 2001
Willbanks Environmental Cons. Principal Engineer
BSK Associates 2002 – 2014 Environmental Group Manager
2001 – 2002, URS Corporation Graduate Engineer
2001 – Carollo Engineers
1999 – 2001 Mauldin Dorfmeier Field Engineer
1998 – 1999, Caltrans
Geologist, California, No. 5635
Certified Engineering Geologist, California, CHG #1757
Certified Hydrogeologist, California, CHG #362
Auburn University, BS Geology
San Jose State University, Post Graduate Studies, Engineering Geology/Hydrogeology;
University of Phoenix, MBA;
Willbanks Environmental Consulting, Inc. – Principal Hydrogeologist (2015-Present).
Permian Basin Materials, Inc. – CEO, West Texas (2014-2015)
Heidelberg Cement Group – Vice President/General Manager, California (1998-2013).
BSK Associates, Engineers and Scientists – Principal Geologist, California (1990-1995, 2013 - 2014).
Dames & Moore – Managing Principal - San Francisco, CA,
(1988 to 1990 & Fresno, CA (1995 - 1998).
Applied GeoSystems - Consulting Geologist - Fremont, CA (1987 – 1988).
E.G. & G. Continental Laboratories – Offshore Well-Site Geologist -Houston, TX (1984 – 1985).
NERCO Coal Company - Consulting Mining Geologist - Evansville, IN (1983 - 1984).
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Lars Greve
– 20.02.22
With his clarinet, the Danish sound artist Lars Greve adds sound to Copenhagen Contemporary’s 600 m2 Hall 6. A more than 100-metre-long ventilation pipe, which was once part of the shipyard B&W’s welding hall, is brought to life with sounds and music that invite guests to move to a unique listening experience.
During the winter holidays woodwind player and composer Lars Greve transforms CC’s Hall 6 into a resonating space. Over a period of seven days Greve will perform fourteen improvised sound installations in the old welding hall whose architecture and extensive ventilation system become a huge instrument unlocking new sonic dimensions.
Greve is intent on finding out how to give us, as listeners, a feeling that the music resonates within us. He grew up surrounded by sea and forest in Western Jutland and plays the clarinet so that it doesn’t merely sound like a clarinet, but more like the nature that shaped him. Greve is on an existential journey of discovery, exploring the music whose slow and insistent tempo invites guests to join in.
Using an extensive set-up developed by Greve himself, the clarinet’s sound is amplified through Hall 6’s 100-metre-long ventilation pipe. The sound of the metal differs from one place to another, and the character of the sound changes as the guests move around the room and feel the vibrations.
Greve transforms the pipes into a pulsating lung mechanism – you can feel the sound, lean into the sound, shape the sound and let it grow into an inner resonance. Resonance will create physical vibrations that can be translated into something emotional; a mood will strike a chord with the individual listener, amplifying something within her or him.
Greve has chosen to leave Hall 6 as it is, so the incoming light, weather and guests will all be part of the experience. The sound installations will take place both in daylight and after dark, with Greve playing by musical intuition in a symbiosis with the space and the audience. No two of the fourteen sound installations will be identical. There are no rows of chairs, no stage elevation – just Greve with his clarinets in the resonating space. Young and old alike are invited to move silently about in order to listen to a world unfolding.
About Lars Greve
Lars Greve (b.1983) graduated as a soloist from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen where he has been part of their Artistic Research Programme as an affiliate since 2019, doing research on resonance. As part of his musical career he has performed with a host of Danish and international artists and received numerous awards for his music for releases, films and theatre and dance performances. As artistic director of the independent institution Resonating Rooms, Greve is also a major driving force behind contemporary cultural projects. His vision is to develop and sustain broad popular communities through inter-aesthetic collaborations, an approach that has spawned a number of relevant and thought-provoking works, of which the most recent are Solhverv (Solstice), a portrait of his native region created together with the art photographer Fryd Frydendahl, and the solo album Dødedans (Dance of Death), an aluminium cover weighing three kilos, created in collaboration with the sculptor Ingvar Cronhammar.
About Resonating Rooms
En verden, der melder sig is one of several projects that Greve is running on the platform Resonating Rooms – a cultural institution for contemporary music focusing on approachable and innovative music projects. Resonating Rooms is a ‘school’ for modern contemporary music, but not a school in the traditional sense. It is neither built of bricks nor filled with students and teachers. It is a school in the original meaning of the word, namely ‘leisure or free time’ – a free space focused on development and education through new music.
En verden, der melder sig has received generous financial support from the William Demant Foundation and the Danish Arts Foundation and is presented in collaboration with Resonating Rooms.
In week 7 there will be two daily performances which you can access with a valid entrance ticket to CC.
Each one will last for approximately 40 minutes. Space is limited, so please sign up on arrival at CC
Monday 14 February: 12.00 and 15.00
Tuesday 15 February: 12.00 and 15.00
Wednesday 16 February: 12.00 and 15.00
Thursday 17 February: 15.00 and 20.00
Friday 18 February: 12.00 and 15.00
Saturday 19 February: 12.00 and 15.00
Sunday 20 February: 12.00 and 15.00
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A wild Wyoming saga
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By Leslie Doran and Special to The Denver Post | Special to The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2006 at 1:11 p.m. | UPDATED: May 8, 2016 at 4:52 a.m.
In his new, novel, “In Plain Sight,” C.J. Box continues the saga of Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett’s life. In Pickett, Box has created a homey, everyman hero who is married with two daughters, Sheridan and Lucy. His family proves essential in driving the storyline.
Pickett is responsible for covering the extensive territory of Twelve Sleep County and traveling vast distances with his faithful yellow Lab, Maxine. He is overworked and underpaid, but he’s passionate about his job. He is also ethical and honest; not even the governor escaped getting a ticket.
“In Plain Sight” introduces a new family to the action. The Scarletts, a pioneer ranching family, have been a leading power in the county since 1883. They are a major dysfunctional unit. Opal, the matriarch, is a force of nature who doesn’t suffer fools. Her three sons, Arlen, Hank and Wyatt, want to inherit the family 1,000-acre Thunderhead Ranch. As the story opens, the ranch has been unofficially divided in half, with Hank on one side and Opal, Arlen and Wyatt on the other.
Opal, not the most loving of mothers, has fueled a fierce competition between Arlen and Hank since they were kids. Wyatt, the youngest, is large, soft and slow, and most people forget there even is a third brother. Arlen, the eldest, is a powerful state senator, while Hank is a big-game guide and outfitter.
Pickett is drawn into this drama by a wild and bloody fight, which reveals that Opal is missing. This brings into question just who is going to inherit the ranch – and the money. Greed had remained hidden while Opal was around, but now it has bloomed with a vengeance.
As this family’s story unravels, another family’s loss is brought into the action with the arrival in Wyoming of a stranger from Georgia. This stranger is out for revenge, and Pickett and his family are fixed in the crosshairs of the stranger’s sense of loss and rage. When the two meet, Pickett thinks the stranger looks familiar, but he just can’t place him. Box takes the title of the book from the stranger’s musings about how the antelope hide in plain sight on the wild and open land in Wyoming, whereas in Georgia the critters hide in the dense undergrowth.
In his job, Pickett is in a bad situation after the appointment of a new head of his department. The new governor (a Democrat in a state where 70 percent are Republicans) is an eccentric character and has appointed Randy Pope to the job. Since Pickett and Pope have a history, Pope is making Pickett’s life miserable.
Box poignantly describes this situation: “Pope was a master of the bureaucratic Death of a Thousand Cuts, the slow, steady, petty, and maddening procedure designed to drive an employee out of a state or federal agency.” For instance, Pickett used to file weekly reports but now must report directly to Pope daily. Pope also issues Pickett an old and unreliable truck with 150,000 miles on the odometer. Not the best pick for a man who has to travel far and wide on unpopulated roads. Pickett is sure that his job is circling the drain and it is only a matter of time before Pope succeeds in eliminating it.
Box creates different, sympathetic characters who are surrounded by equally interesting people. Pickett’s friend, Nate Romanowski, is one example. A mysterious falconer with a hidden past, Nate has been gone for six months, only to show up just as Pickett is in a desperate situation.
Box places his characters in beautiful and slightly wild locales and then sets up situations that grab the imagination and take readers on thrilling and dangerous adventures. Spring in Wyoming presents fascinating weather challenges that Box uses to full effect.
By the end of this gripping story, Pickett’s life is profoundly changed, and his family’s future is uncertain at best. This new novel has all the right elements in the proper order, all packed with the right punch. The ending is riveting and shocking.
Leslie Doran is a freelance writer in Durango.
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Past Webinar: Reducing the Complexity of Funding Affordable Housing: What Works?
The development of new affordable housing in the U.S. relies on a complex and fragmented financing system. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program has been the primary source of new affordable housing in the past few decades. But the growing gaps between what a typical LIHTC project can raise in equity and its total development costs—along with policy decisions at the federal, state, and local level— have contributed to the need for projects to pull together an increasingly varied set of gap funding sources from local, state, and federal sources to make sure new housing development is possible. Many of those funding sources come with requirements, application processes, and funding cycles that can be at odds with each other.
The Terner Center hosted a webinar on Thursday, May 27th, 2021 from 11 am – 12 pm PT (2 pm – 3 pm ET) to explore the challenges of the current system and to learn about promising practices at the state and local level to better align affordable housing subsidy administration around the country.
Our Managing Director Ben Metcalf and Desiree Francis of Capital One began the session with opening remarks. Our Research Director Elizabeth Kneebone presented the findings from our recent paper on the subject and tee up a panel discussion, which will draw from practitioner experience in improving affordable housing funding processes in Minnesota, California, and Massachusetts. The panel was moderated by Yusef Freeman of Jonathan Rose Companies and featured three practitioners who have worked to align funding sources at the state level:
Judith Jacobson of Preservation of Affordable Housing (formerly with Massachusetts Housing Partnership)
Mark Stivers of California Housing Partnership (formerly with California’s Tax Credit Allocation Committee and Department of Housing and Community Development)
Mary Tingerthal of Tingerthal Group (formerly with Minnesota Housing)
The recording of the webinar is available above.
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Hallmark’s ‘Christmas At The Plaza’ Pairs Ryan Paevey With Elizabeth Henstridge
This is the most wonderful time of the year, as it is Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas. There is a little mystery, old-tyme romance and self reflection in the enchanting Christmas At The Plaza, starring Hallmark fan favorite Ryan Paevey and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star, Elizabeth Henstridge. If you like holiday decorations, crazy Christmas sweaters, and romantic stories, then Christmas At The Plaza is for you.
What Is Christmas At The Plaza About?
Christmas is rapidly approaching, and Jessica (Henstridge), an archival historian, needs to curate a special Christmas exhibition at the historic Plaza Hotel. She immediately learns that “Nothing unimportant happens at The Plaza.” But, despite these grand words, she cannot figure out what sort of exhibition to display at the historic New York hotel. She has boxes of unorganized materials and a mere three weeks to come up with something fabulous.
Jessica also has had some unpleasant run-ins with Nick (Paevey), the handsome decorator who is Christmasfying the New York landmark. Once Jessica figures out what she will exhibit, she and Nick begin to work together and afterwork, do some Christmasy things together. From hot chocolate to elaborate Christmas lights, Jessica becomes happily immersed in the world of Christmas and begins to fall for Christmas-loving Nick.
But, there is a complication. She has had a boyfriend for two years who seems uninterested in her project. While trying to solve an old, and romantic mystery, Jessica begins to solve her own heart.
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You always thought that star on the tree was called a tree topper? Well, in Christmas At The Plaza, Hallmark fans learn that the real tree topper name is finial d’arbre. Why is this such a complicated name? According to Hallmark, who posted on Twitter, “Finial meaning: a distinctive ornament at the apex of a roof, pinnacle, canopy, or similar structure in a building or an ornament at the top, end, or corner of an object. D’arbre meaning: French for tree. Interesting!”
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When Can You See Christmas At The Plaza?
The first showing of Christmas at the Plaza premiered on Hallmark on Thanksgiving Day, November 28. The encore showings include Nov. 30 at 6 p.m., Dec. 6 at 6 p.m., Dec. 8 at 12 p.m., Dec. 12 at 10:03 p.m., Dec. 22 at 6 p.m., Dec. 25 at 2 a.m., and Dec. 31 at 6 p.m., all times Eastern.
Currently, the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Mysteries & Movies are airing the Countdown to Christmas. Movies, including Christmas At The Plaza star, Ryan Paevey, and mysteries such as the Gourmet Detective will return after the holiday season.
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NBA suspends Pistons' Killian Hayes 3 games, Magic's Moe Wagner 2 games after brawl
December 29, 2022, 9:57 p.m. ·2 min read
The NBA suspended 11 players after Wednesday night’s brawl during the Detroit Pistons’ 121-101 win over the Orlando Magic.
The league handed out punishments Thursday night after the altercation at Little Caesars Arena. Pistons guard Killian Hayes received a three-game suspension, and Magic forward Moe Wagner received a two-game suspension.
Pistons guard Hamidou Diallo received a one-game suspension for his role in the altercation, along with eight different Magic players who were all suspended for leaving the bench area once the incident began.
That group of players — Cole Anthony, R.J. Hampton, Gary Harris, Kevon Harris, Admiral Schofield, Franz Wagner, Mo Bamba and Wendell Carter Jr. — will serve their suspensions on a staggered basis so that the Magic have enough players to compete.
The fight broke out just before halftime of Wednesday’s matchup in Detroit when Wagner and Hayes were chasing down a loose ball in the backcourt. As they neared the Pistons' bench, Wagner hit Hayes with a hip-check that sent him falling to the floor. That prompted a quick response from Hayes, who jumped right back up and punched Wagner in the back of the head.
That blow sent Wagner falling down into the Pistons' bench hard, and prompted a much larger altercation to break out behind him.
Coaches and officials eventually separated the group, and Wagner and Hayes were ejected. Diallo was ejected, too, as he shoved Wagner before the punch.
Pistons head coach Dwane Casey called out the group of Magic players and coaches who rushed in to the swarm after the game, clearly unhappy with how it escalated.
"I was upset because, my understanding of the rule was the fact that when you leave your bench to get into an altercation, you're escalating," Casey said.
"My thing is, there were words being said, things being said by their players and coaches that were not deescalating the situation ... For them not to have anyone ejected [other than Moe Wagner], I have to go back and have an explanation ... That's how bad things start. It could've been worse. I don't feel like they were deescalating the situation."
The Pistons held a 17-point lead at halftime and cruised to the 20-point win, which snapped a six-game losing streak. Alec Burks dropped 32 points off the bench for Detroit, and Saddiq Bey added 28 points and eight rebounds off the bench.
Killian Hayes landed a punch that sent Moe Wagner falling hard into the Pistons bench on Wednesday night. In total, 11 players received a suspension after the fight. (Rick Osentoski/USA Today)
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Brady Skjei
Martin Necas
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Necas helps Hurricanes beat Blue Jackets in opener
By BOB SUTTONOctober 13, 2022 GMT
Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Frederik Andersen (31) freezes the puck as Brent Burns (8) and Paul Stastny (26) take care of Columbus Blue Jackets' Boone Jenner (38) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Martin Necas had a goal and two assists and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-1 in the season opener for both teams Wednesday night.
Seth Jarvis, Brady Skjei and Andrei Svechnikov also scored for the Hurricanes, who’ve won four consecutive opening games.
Patrick Laine had the Columbus goal, giving the Blue Jackets a brief second-period lead.
Frederik Andersen made 31 saves for the Hurricanes.
Columbus turned to Daniil Tarasov as the surprise opening-night starter because top netminder Elvis Merzilikins was ill. Tarasov, who appeared in his fifth NHL game, made 39 saves.
The Hurricanes would like to churn out another stellar opening stretch. They won their first nine games last season.
Necas began his points-producing spree by assisting on Skjei’s go-ahead goal with 1:30 to play in the second period. The Hurricanes were in transition, but Skjei spotted up inside the blueline and Necas delivered a pass back to him to set up the shot.
Necas then scored 6:29 into the third period off a rebound. Less than three minutes later, he recorded the primary assist on Svechnikov’s goal.
Laine scored the first goal 11 seconds into the second period following a Carolina turnover. He has 10 goals in 20 career games against Carolina.
WELCOME THEM ALL
A few players made debuts with their respective teams.
Six-time All-Star Johnny Gaudreau was in the Columbus lineup, while defenseman Brent Burns played in his 680th consecutive game – but first for Carolina – to move into sole possession for the 10th longest streak in NHL history.
Paul Stastny, another veteran in his first game for the Hurricanes, assisted on the team’s fourth goal. He’s beginning his 17th NHL season.
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Pennsylvania Extends COVID-19 School Closings and Stay-at-Home Order
Kathy Whyte Published: March 31, 2020
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is revising the state’s Stay at Home orders to include four more counties, bringing the total to 26 under the order.
PennDOT photo: Pa. Governor Tim Wolf
The only county in Northeast Pennsylvania included in the total is Wayne County, east of Susquehanna and southeast of Binghamton, which was one of the first counties in the commonwealth to report a positive test result for the coronavirus.
The Stay-at-Home orders are extended for all those affected counties through April 30th. Residents in those counties may only leave their home to maintain health and safety of their family, including pets, get supplies, engage in outdoor activity, go to work at essential businesses, care for a family member, travel required by law or court order or travel to receive meals or materials for distance learning.
Governor Wolf says all Pennsylvania schools will remain closed until further notice and non-life-sustaining business closures remain in effect.
The governor says at this time law enforcement will focus on ensuring residents are aware of the order and informing the public of social distancing practices rather than enforcement.
Officials say to report a non-compliant business, residents should contact their local law enforcement agency’s non-emergency number or the nearest Pennsylvania State Police station.
Source: Pennsylvania Extends COVID-19 School Closings and Stay-at-Home Order
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Helianthus annuus 'Ring of Fire'
Pollenless, Branching Sunflower
Looking a little like a solar eclipse, Helianthus ‘Ring of Fire’ produces gorgeous bicolour blooms that will definitely add some late season colour to the garden.
This dark centred sunflower blooms with glowing red petals that gradually flare outwards to golden-yellow tips. Growing to a manageable 100 to 120cm (40 to 48in) in the garden they are perfect for borders and landscaping. Space plants 45 to 60cm (18 to 24in) apart for best performance.
'Ring of Fire' is day length neutral (see below), so it can be grown to bloom year round either in the garden or in the greenhouse. It is a very uniform variety. Pollenless with a branching habit, the plants have a bushy form and freely producing many flowers on long side stems. It is considered one of the best varieties for use as a cut flower.
All-America Selections Flower Award.
All-America Selections is the oldest, independent testing organisation of flower and edible varieties in North America. Helianthus annuus 'Ring of Fire' is a winner of the AAS Flower Award. The long flower stems are perfect for cut flowers and may produce seed for wildlife, another benefit to grow Ring of Fire.
Helianthus annuus 'Ring of Fire' has been awarded the Fleuroselect Award. Professional growers and gardeners all over the world recognise the Fleuroselect awards as certificates of exceptional merit.
Pollenless Sunflowers:
Sunflowers are a hot item, originally considered to be a bit of a fad by florists. The fad never passed, in response to the call by florists and home growers, breeders produced innumerable varieties and developed a number of premium varieties that are fabulous as a cut flower, and most importantly are pollenless.
A regular cut-flower sunflower is beautiful when cut, but as the disc flowers in the centre mature, they drop pollen all over the consumer’s table, followed shortly, by the petals of the flower.
A pollenless variety has sterile disc flowers, so it can produce neither pollen nor seed. Since it doesn’t produce pollen, it never decides that its natural function (seed production) has been fulfilled, and it lasts for two full weeks in the vase. The leaves will yellow and have to be removed, but the flower remains attractive for much longer.
For early flowers, start indoors as early as February or March, or sow directly outdoors in in mid-April through to mid-May.
For continuity, sow a succession of sunflowers every fortnight for six weeks in the early part of the growing season. In a hot summer, each cycle from sowing to blooming will take about 60 days.
Start indoors as early as February or March, to germinate in about 10 days at 60 to 65°F and plant out in April or May. Use 7.5cm (3in) pots and a good sowing compost. Sow one seed 2.5mm (1in) deep per pot. Water and cover with either polythene or bubble plastic to retain the heat, or place pots on a heated bench or in a propagator with the temperature set at 13°C (55°F).
Remove the covers when the leaves appear. Plant seedlings outside when they are large enough to be handled and the root system is well developed. Add garden compost to the soil if it is heavy or infertile.
Plant outside as early as possible to miss heavy frosts, to germinate in about 1 to 3 weeks, in mid-April through mid-May, after the danger of spring frost is past. Ideally, when the soil temperature has reached 13 to 16°C (55 to 60°F).
Sow the seed 5cm (2in) deep and space 45cm (18in) apart in borders. Give the plants plenty of room, especially for low-growing varieties that will branch out. Make rows about 30 inches apart. For very smaller varieties, plant closer together, around 30cm (12in) apart. You can plant multiple seeds and thin them to the strongest contenders when the plants are 15cm (6in) tall.
Experiment with plantings staggered over 5 to 6 weeks to keep enjoying continuous blooms. Water seedlings regularly and, when growing tall forms, feed sparingly with a liquid fertiliser when 60cm (2ft) high. Beware of slugs when they are still young plants and birds stealing the seeds.
Once the plant is established, water deeply though infrequently to encourage deep rooting and feed sparingly with a liquid fertiliser. Avoid splashing water or fertiliser solution on the stems or leaves. It may help to build a moat in a circle around the plant about 30 to 45cm (12 to 18in) out. Over-fertilisation can cause stem breakage in the autumn especially if the heads are large.
Tall species and cultivars require support. Bamboo stakes are a good choice for any plant that has a strong, single stem and needs support for a short period of time. Remember to cap the top of the cane with any small rounded object or upturned small pot to avoid any eye injuries.
Harvesting Cut Flowers:
Handle sunflowers gently, although they may appear robust, the petals and more delicate parts may bruise. For the vase, cut the fresh flowers in the morning just after they open, but wait until the sun has dried the dew. Remove leaves that are low on the stem, leaving just two or three higher up, near the flower's face. Place the flowers in a bucket filled with water, and leave them to stand for several hours in a cool room before placing in a vase.
Use a clean knife, a clean vase and a few drops of bleach in the water to keep it fresh. Change the water every few days. Blooms can last up to a fortnight when kept in water.
Harvesting Seed:
To dry sunflower seeds, cut the heads off when they begin to yellow at the back and hang them upside down in a dry location away from rodents and birds. Once dry, rub the seeds off and soak overnight in 4 litres (1 gallon) of water with 1 cup of salt in it.
Dry in a low heat, 120°C (250°F) oven for 4 to 5 hours and store in an airtight container. The black-seeded varieties are mainly for oil and birdseed. The grey and white-striped varieties are for drying and eating.
A native of North America, Helianthus annuus is a member of the Asteraceae family. Sunflowers become very popular as a cultivated plant in the 18th century. The plant was initially used as on ornamental but by 1769 literature mentions sunflower cultivated by oil production. Today the sunflower is grown for crops in the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, Argentina, India and the USA.
Artists throughout history have appreciated the sunflower's unique splendor, and those of the Impressionist era were especially fixated on the flower.
The Latin name for Sunflower, Helianthus annuus, is taken from the Greek helios, meaning sun, and anthos, meaning flower. The Sunflower originated from South America and represented the sun to worshiping Aztec people; it was brought to Europe in the late sixteenth century.
The species name annuus was named by Linnaeus, it was the only sunflower known to him that lived for a single season, hence it was called annus which means 'annual', 'yearly' or 'lasting a year'.
Helianthus Ring of Fire has been named after The Ring of Fire, an area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur. In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. It has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes. The Ring of Fire is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt.
Explanation of 'Day Length Neutral':
Plant flowering responses to day length (which is also called 'photoperiod'), can be divided into three distinct groups: short-day, long-day, and day-neutral flowering responses.
a. Short-day plants flower when night length exceeds a certain number of hours,
they induce flowers naturally as nights get longer at some point after June 21.
b. Long-day plants require a night length shorter than a specific number of hours for flower induction to occur.
Most bedding plants are 'long-day plants'. There are two categories:
• 'Facultative' long day plants flower quicker under long days.
• 'Obligate' long day plants only flower when grown under long days.
c. Day-neutral plants flower induction is unaffected by day length,
so can be grown to bloom year round either in the garden or in the greenhouse.
Helianthus annuus 'Ring of Fire' has been awarded the Fleuroselect Quality Award. Fleuroselect is the international organisation for the ornamental plants industry. Its main activities include the testing, protecting and promoting of new flower varieties. Membership includes breeders, producers and distributors of ornamental varieties. Fleuroselect is run by the members, for the members. A small secretariat operates from the organisational headquarters currently based in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
annuus
Hardy Annual
Red petals that gradually flare outwards to golden-yellow tips.
Midsummer to Autumn
100 to 120cm (40 to 48in)
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NASCAR is Riding with the Tide
Simon Besnoy
Simon Besnoy Published: August 24, 2022
Two of the most influential sports entities are colliding in a massive and modern deal. Early Tuesday, it was announced that NASCAR inked a deal to be a major sponsor for the Alabama Crimson Tide. This partnership will create a marketing giant.
The sponsorship is a one-year agreement with no announced compensation. NASCAR will run radio spots and put up billboards and other forms of non-digital media in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. Furthermore, NASCAR will receive space to showcase stats and highlights at Alabama football and basketball games. Also included in the deal is a "NASCAR Drive Summary" at all seven Alabama football home games, and a "NASCAR Drive of the Game" in Coleman Coliseum. The final part is a social media sweepstakes and access to Learfields Fan365 platform.
This deal is an attempt to help draw fans to Talladega and other NASCAR venues. Alabama Athletics is one of the most influential sports organizations in the country and especially its pull on the state of Alabama. This is a great pact for NASCAR to help draw in more fans to the raceway and create new interest in the sport
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This agreement is one of a kind and no one else in college sports has a sponsorship to this level. This continues to prove the new era we are entering in college athletics and how sponsorships and NIL deals are changing the game.
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Ten Year Throwback to Tide's WCWS Title
In honor of the 10 year anniversary, let's take a look back at the Alabama Crimson Tide's 2012 Women's College World Series championship.
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Driving a non-synchromesh transmission is complicated. Learn how here!
How to Shift a 9, 10, 13, 15 or 18-Speed Transmission | Truck Driving
https://youtu.be/LzB9vZ71v08
13 & 18 Speed Transmissions
High-Low Range
More Gears...More Gears I Say
The Splitter Explained
15-Speed Transmission
"A Crash Box" or Non-Synchromesh Transmission
Speeding Up The Transmission
5th Gear is My Happy Place
Modern Diesel Engines Demand Progressive Shifting
The Clutch is Different
A Clutch Brake Doesn't Help You Stop
Double Clutch When Learning to Drive a Big Truck
Floating the Gears
Clutch Control is Critical
Downshifting is Your Biggest Challenge
Shift Right
What's Expected on Your Driver's Test
Driving a Big Truck is NOT a Spectator Sport
Smart Points to Remember
All transmissions are basic 5-speed patterns.
What allows a 5-speed transmission to become a 10-speed transmission is the range selector.
Down for low, up for high.
The only time you use the range selector is between fourth and fifth.
You're going from 4th to 5th, pull it up, andf shift to fifth.
If you're going from fifth to fourth, push it down before you come out of fifth and it'll shift as you go through neutral.
The splitter gives you 13- or 18-speeds.
So it's red, blue, or grey.
Red is 13-speed, blue is 15, grey is 18-speed.
The clutch is very different than that you're going to find on a car or light truck.
Top of it's the freeplay, the friction point, the dead space and then the clutch brake.
Clutch brake has to be engaged only for starting gears - 1st & reverse.
After that you only push the clutch in 1-inch because if you push it farther than one inch you start to engage the clutch brake.
When you engage the clutch brake you to slow the gears down in the transmission and you're going to get a rough shift.
Double-clutch to start
One of the other things that you have to do as well is you have to double-clutch: once into neutral another clutch into gear - ba dump, ba dump, ba dump, ba dump.
To Shift a Non-Synchromesh Transmission you have to match the engine speed, the road speed, and the gear.
Those three things have to line up.
And as well, geography is going to start having an impact on your shifting because downhill-uphill is going to affect the road speed.
Therefore you have to adjust the other two variables to compensate for that.
And again the last piece: and this goes for any manual transmission, not just a non-synchromesh - don't ride the clutch.
As soon as you finish shifting the gear, get your foot off that clutch. Don't ride the clutch on any vehicle!
Downshifting
The last piece for non-synchromesh transmission: when you're down shifting, slow down to gear down.
It's different than normal cars and light trucks.
You got to slow the vehicle down - bring the RPM all the way down to a thousand to downshift.
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Hi there smart drivers.
Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you today about shifting theory for non-synchromesh transmissions.
In your car or light truck a manual transmission is a synchromesh transmission, which essentially speaking or simplistically speaking means that you could go down the road at 100 kilometers an hour, take it out of fifth gear stick it back into first and it'll go into first...
you don't want to let the clutch out, but it'll go back into first.
A non- synchromesh transmission on a big truck you can take that stick out of high gear and try to put it back into first gear...you'll break the stick off before it goes back into first gear.
It is the driver's job to synchronize the transmission.
In order to do that you gotta line up:
1) the gear;
2) the road speed;
3) the engine speed.
Those three things have to match or it's not going to go into gear.
So today, we're going to talk to you about shifting a non-synchromesh transmission and the theory behind it.
13- & 18- Speed Transmissions
Hi there smart drivers welcome back.
Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you today about shifting theory for a non-synchromesh transmission.
This is for drivers going to driving school and learning how to drive a big truck.
And this particularly is directed towards 13- and 18-speed transmissions.
I will cover some of the other transmissions, but for the most part 13- & 18-speed transmissions.
Shifting Pattern
Now the first part of a non-synchromesh transmission is the shifting pattern: reverse, low sometimes, called bull - 1,2,3,4.
So reverse and low or bull are up here.
First, second, third and fourth - and what confuses students or causes challenges for students is that yes it is a basic 5-speed pattern, but you drive it like a four speed - 1,2,3,4.
The only time you're going to use low is if you're starting off with a really heavy load - a set of super B's at a hundred forty thousand pounds or sixty three thousand five hundred kilograms, or you're pulling out of a loading dock, or just need to go slow, hooking up to trailers and those types of things where you need a bit of control.
And you use low gear or you're starting off on a really steep grade and you're just trying to get the truck going.
But for the most part you're just going to use first gear.
Now to get to reverse and low, there's a bit of a wall here.
If you pull the shifter over towards you, you'll feel a bit of a spring there and that way you'll know that not only are you in neutral, but you also know where to find low and reverse.
As with all five speed transmission - no matter whether it's a car, light truck, or a big truck - the shifter rests between the two middle gears.
So for the purposes of a big truck it rests between first and second.
If you're in your car or light truck it'll rest between third and fourth, which are the middle gears.
So if you just let go of it in neutral and push it straight forward, it'll go right up to first.
High Range-Low Range
Now you say to yourself, how do I get more gears out of a 5-speed transmission? So the way that you get more gears on a 5-speed transmission in a big truck is on the front of the shifter is the range selector - down is low and up is high.
So for fourth to fifth you push the range selector up - you pre-select the range selector - flip it up with your middle finger, push the stick into neutral, let go of the stick and push straight forward.
It will go back into fifth on the high range.
So think of it like a downstairs and upstairs.
The range selector is the staircase that takes you up to the top five gears.
On the top, you've got another five gears 5,6,7,8.
So basically if you're driving it like a four-speed, as you will in a 13- and 18- speed, you now have eight gears.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.
If you include low you now have a nine-speed and in the ten speed transmissions, what happens is that instead of going back to the fifth gear, which is up here, you go out of eight and over and down to low which will give you ten gears.
So those are the variations for eight nine and ten speed transmissions.
However in this day and age, most of the transmissions that you're going to drive are going to be 13- or 18-speeds because the technology has advanced and moved forward and they're much more robust so they've infiltrated the industry and really those are the most common transmissions that you're going to find on big trucks now.
So you now ask yourself we've got to eight, nine, or ten gears - ten gears for the purposes of simplicity.
More Gears I Say...More Gears
How do we get 13, 15 or 18 gears? And what happens is on the side...on the side of he shift lever is the splitter.
The splitter allows you to split the gears in the top range.
If it's red, it's a 13-speed; if it's blue, it's a 15-speed; and if it's grey, it's an 18-speed.
Now let's just talk about 13- and 18- for just a moment because 15-speeds are different than 13 and 18.
So what happens in a 13- speed is 1,2,3,4, flip the range selector up and go back to five - five, six, seven, eight, and then what happens in the top range is that you can split each one of the gears.
So low-high, low-high, low- high, low-high.
So you shift from 4th to 5th: 5-lo, push the splitter forward, take your foot off the throttle - break the tension in the drive train--wait a moment, let the RPMs drop a couple hundred rpm, back on the throttle - it shifts to high.
Pre-select back the low, shift to six like a normal shift, six-low six high - pre-select back to low - seven lo seven high, pre-select back to low 8-lo 8-hi.
So what happens is you get five on the bottom...low 1,2,3,4 - range selector up to high, back to 5-lo 5-hi, six-lo six-hi, 7-lo 7-hi, 8-lo 8-hi.
So you get five in the bottom, eight on the top.
5 + 8 gives you a 13-speed.
And that's how you get 13-speed.
Now how you get an 18-speed is that you can split all the gears on the bottom and all the gears on the top so you get 10 gears on the bottom and eight gears on the top, which gives you an 18-speed.
Now an 18-speed is a glorified 13-speed.
You're never going to split the gears on the bottom, unless you're running around a gravel pit, or you're one of those Ice Road Truckers.
You're just not going to do it, it's too much work!
So essentially, what you're going to do is a 13- and 18-speed transmission - both of these transmissions are going to be driven like a 12-speed.
1,2,3,4 - four gears in the bottom, eight gears on the top - so it's essentially a 12-speed.
And you've got to get your head around that.
And that will be your challenge at the beginning of learning how to shift a non-synchromesh transmission.
Now I'll just touch on what a 15-speed is for a moment.
If you get in a truck and it's got a blue button in it, it's a 15-speed.
Now this is not a splitter in a 15-speed transmission.
This is what is called deep reduction.
And the best way to explain deep reduction on a 15-speed is that essentially you've got three tiers of five gears.
Five gears way down in the basement, five gears on the main level, and five gears upstairs.
Most of the time you're going to drive a 15-speed like a ten-speed.
1,2,3,4,5, flip up the range selector, back over to low - and for those of us who drive 13s and 18s and then get into 15- that's very weird for us to go back to low - but back to low 1,2,3,4,5 shift it like a ten-speed.
Now if you get into a gravel pit or something like that you need deep reduction, the best way to understand deep reduction in a 15-speed is like four-wheel drive low and four-wheel-drive hi.
That's the difference.
And it's not sequential, so if you're in deep reduction in 15-speed you can't go one, two, three, four, five and then split up to the next gear and go the other five.
It's more like up to five in the low low and then up to three on the next level.
So it's a little bit strange, but if you ever get into a 15-speed, just kind of play around with it and you'll get use to it.
But know that if the splitter is blue it's a 15-speed; if it's red, it's 13; and if it's grey, it's 18.
And in this day and age of non-synchronous transmissions, most of them are going to be 18-speeds.
Crash Box - What we call a transmission in a big truck
In a non-synchromesh transmission or sometimes referred to as a "crash box", the driver has to synchronize the transmission in order to make it shift.
And the way that you make it shift is that you have to match the engine speed, the road speed, and the gear.
Those three things have to line up or it will not shift.
Uphill-Downhill
And these variables will change depending on the terrain, so you need to now pay attention to geography - uphill, downhill.
If the truck is slowing down going uphill you don't need to give it as much throttle to shift.
If you're going downhill, the road speed is going to pick up, therefore you need to shift the gears faster or you need to skip the gears in order to keep up with the accelerating road speed.
Transmission Speed
The other thing about these three variables - engine speed, road speed, and the gear--is that the engine speed is a misnomer.
It's actually the gears' speed and the transmission that we're measuring the speed of, but we don't have any way to measure the gears in the transmission and how fast they're spinning, so we use the engine's tachometer.
The engine's tachometer tells you how fast the engine is turning over.
Now in order to spin the gears in the transmission, we have to reconnect the transmission to the motor and you do that with the clutch.
And I'll talk about double-clutching here in a moment.
Because in order to shift a non- synchromesh transmission and to make these three things line up: 1) engine speed; 2) road speed; 3) and the gear.
You have to double clutch, you have to reconnect the transmission to the engine in order to determine how fast the gears in the transmission are spinning.
5th Gear is "The Happy Gear"
One of the gears that we like the best is fifth gear.
If you lose a gear and you're trying to recover and find a gear - eighty-five percent of the time the transmission--a 13- or 18-speed transmission--will go into fifth gear.
So fifth gear - up here with the range selector up, back to the first slot - fifth gear is your go-to gear.
85% percent of the time the truck will go back into fifth gear and you can carry on.
Sometimes it may not be pretty, but you can get it back into fifth gear and go.
As well, fifth is you're up to the lights slow gear.
When you're kind of idling up to the intersection, timing traffic, trying to keep the truck moving, fifth is gear is the one you want--up to the lights slow gear.
Fifth is also the highest gear that the truck will idle in.
You can take your foot right off the accelerator and the truck will just kind of chug, chug, chug, chug, chug.
Fifth gear is the highest gear that that truck will do that in - fifth gear.
Finally, fifth gear is the first gear that the truck actually begins to accelerate - actually begins to pick up speed.
So we need to get through those first low gears as quickly as possible to get up to fifth gear.
And the faster you get through these low gears, the better fuel economy you're going to get on the truck.
So move through those first four gears fairly quickly up into fifth because we love fifth.
Fifth is that go-to-gear.
It's that happy gear! Its kind of like when you go home at the end of the day and your partner looks at you and gives you a wink and a nod - that's fifth.
So love fifth - fifth is the happy gear.
Low Range; Low Revs—High Range; High Revs
(Progressive Shifting)
One of the other things that we talked about in trucking and in terms of shifting a non-synchromesh transmission is progressive shifting.
And basically progressive shifting was designed and implemented out on the flat on the east coast, where there aren't big mountains and whatnot.
It works well on the flat - doesn't work so well in the mountains.
In the mountains it's more of a variation on a theme.
And my variation on shifting in the mountains is low range, low revs; high range, high revs, because if you start climbing hills, especially if you've got a big load on, you're going to have to bring your rpms up and compensate for drops in road speed because of gravity.
So progressive shifting is essentially every gear you bring your rpms up 50 rpm.
So if you started at 1100, shifting to second and you bring it up to 1150 to shift to third and bring it up to 1,200 to shift to forth and so on and so on and so forth.
However that doesn't work so well here in the mountains on the west coast in Canada and the United States, so essentially what I tell students for the purposes of shifting, especially in low range...can't get the cap off the marker...9-10-11.
1 to 2 is 900, 2 to 3 is 1000.
3 to 4 is 1100- 900, 1000, 1100.
Now if you go to a driving school, different instructors are going to have different interpretations of that.
But that's essentially what I say, "nine, ten, eleven and once you get some practice, you should be able to move through those first three gears fairly quickly.
Pre-select the range selector and back up to five.
Once you get up to fifth gear, then you can start bringing the RPMs up.
Because you're into high range - high range; high revs.
You need to bring the RPMs up 13-1400 RPM, once you get to 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th.
You don't need more than 1500 rpm in a big truck - a big electronic diesel engine.
Unless you're climbing hills, you just don't need more than 1,500.
The peak power band on large electronic diesel engines - and I know that different guys will tell you different things--oh, it's a Cummins, it's a Detroit, it's a Mercedes, whatever!
It doesn't matter - big electronic diesel engines - the power band is somewhere between 1200 and 1500 rpm.
I drove a Peterbilt last fall within EPIQ engine - its Paccar's own engine.
The sweet spot on that engine was between 1200 and 1400 RPM and there was actually on the tachometer was a spot called the "sweet spot."
And it was right at 1400 RPM, so keep that engine between 1200 & 1400 rpm to get maximum fuel economy.
The other piece on shifting a non synchromesh transmission in a big truck is the clutch.
Although the shifter and the clutch, and everything else looks kind of the same as it does in a car or light truck, it isn't anything like it is in a car or light truck.
And many a student gets in the truck and go: "I got this!"
And then they realize after the first lesson that it's going to be a lot more challenging than they ever imagined.
So the clutch in a big truck:
• the top part is called the free play....
• the next part is called the friction point...
• next part is called the dead space...
• and the last part - right up against the firewall here, that's the firewall - is called the clutch brake.
So the four points of the clutch:
1) free play;
2) friction point;
3) dead space;
4) and the clutch brake– right at the bottom.
Top of the clutch is the freeplay.
Nothing happens there – next point is the friction point: the friction point is where the engine begins to reconnect with the transmission and the vehicle moves forward.
Behind the friction pointis the dead space.
The dead space is where you hold the clutch when you're waiting at a traffic light or waiting to go.
So it's in behind the friction point is the dead space.
Clutch Brake - it's at the bottom
At the bottom - right up against the firewall - is the clutch brake and the reason that we have a clutch brake in a non-synchromesh transmission, is you have to engage the clutch brake to get the vehicle into a starting gear; whether that's first, second, third, or reverse.
Whatever you're starting gear is, you've got to push the clutch all the way to the floor, pause, hold, and put it into your starting gear.
If it won't go into the starting gear, hold the selector against the gear, and ever so gently let the clutch out until it drops into gear.
What happens is that the gears don't quite line up, and it won't go into gear, so you've got to just rotate the gears a little bit.
So hold the stick against the gear, and then ever so gently let the clutch out and then just push it back in.
Double Clutching
You have to double clutch - so essentially what that means is that you have to clutch once in, pull it into neutral, another clutch and push it back in and then pull it into gear.
So once...one clutch into neutral, one clutch into gear.
And the reason that you do that on the up shifting is because you gotta spin the gears in the transmission in order to keep the gears up to speed to synchronize the transmission.
So you got to double clutch: once into neutral; once in the gear.
And if you're having trouble coordinating that shift with the clutch because you've got to coordinate the clutch as you're pushing it in - ba dump, ba dump, ba dump, ba dump - you gotta coordinate those two things and if you're having trouble with that go home get a chair and a toilet plunger, stick it on the floor and practice with your foot and your hand - ba dump, ba dump - because that coordination is important in order to get it to double-clutch.
Now the other thing that is very weird for students is that you only push the clutch in that far - one inch - just enough to break the plate tension in the clutch.
If you push the clutch in any farther than one inch, what happens is you begin to engage the clutch brake.
And when you engage the clutch brake, it slows down the gears in the transmission and you get a rough sift.
So you only push the clutch in one inch - ba dump, ba dump - and what I tell students for the purposes of shifting a big truck, put the seat back farther.
That way you're less inclined to push the clutch in too far.
And what I'll do is I'll put a card up here for you on how to adjust your air ride seat so that you can adjust the seat so you're not inclined to push the clutch in too far.
Floating the Gear...Yes, You Can Shift Without the Clutch
First, double clutching is more forgiving than floating the gears.
And because it's not as precise, students can pick up shifting faster.
This allows driving instructors to get all the other information into them that they need to pass their on-road CDL test.
Second, if you're slip-seating trucks all the time, it's easier to just double clutch rather than figuring out the nuance of every transmission.
But, if you're driving the same truck all the time, it's easier to just float the gears.
Again, for new drivers, double clutch and you'll get a smoother shift.
Once you start driving and have a bit of experience, then you can dispense with the clutch and "float the gears."
Get Your Foot Off the Throttle
(Clutch Control)
The other piece about the clutch is that in order to take off in a big truck, you don't need to give the vehicle any throttle in first gear when you're taking off.
You just gently let the clutch out--control the clutch--and the vehicle will start off on its own.
The electronic diesel engine will torque up all by itself.
Even in a car or light truck, the electronic fuel injection will torque up the motor and start to bring the RPM up.
So clutch control is really one of the most important things in driving any manual transmission, whether it's a synchromesh or a non-synchromesh transmission.
The last piece for students is being able to downshift and downshifting poses the greatest challenge, not only to students, but drivers generally.
And I think one of the biggest reasons that students and professional drivers don't understand how to downshift is because they don't understand the mechanism behind downshifting and what actually happens in the transmission.
Now there are two or three ways of doing this and different instructors will show you different ways of how to do this.
And they're teaching you how to double clutch and we get into a hybrid form of how to downshift.
The way that I teach students how to do it is to use the clutch...to double clutch.
So you clutch into neutral, clutch into gear.
And the reason you do that is because the transmission tends to be more forgiving.
Other instructors will just teach you to clutch into neutral and then throttle up and let it and sort of match the gear.
Hybrid Shifting - Don't Do It!
They call it tickling - you just kind of tickle the gear until the RPM comes up high enough that the selector will drop into the gear.
It works and you can teach students how to do it, but I find that if you double-clutch down and push the clutch in to put it into gear when you throttle up, it's just going to make it easier for students because the transmission tends to be more forgiving.
It will depend on the instructor that you're with when you go to the driving school, however.
So what happens in terms of downshifting in a big truck with a non- synchromesh transmission?
So first of all when you shift up, say for example, we shift from 5th to 6th gear and we go up to 1350 RPM.
So in fifth gear, we go up to 1350 RPM.
When we drop to six, when we put the transmission in 6th gear - we're not splitting for a moment - the engine rpm drops to 1050.
So what happened was that we went from the maximum of the lower gear to the minimum of the higher gear.
So we went from the maximum of 5th gear into the minimum of six gear.
We went to 1350 on fifth gear and then we shifted to 6 at ten-fifty - maximum to [RRRRRRRRRRRRRNNN, RRRRRRRRRRRRN, RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNN]
And this is what happens when you shift any standard transmission.
What happens in terms of shifting down is is that in a big truck it's different than what most people do: most people shift down to slow the vehicle down.
In a big truck you gotta slow down to gear down.
You gotta slow down first and essentially what you're doing is you're bringing six gear down to its minimum rpm.
Shift into neutral at the with the clutch, let the clutch out to reconnect the transmission to the engine, throttle back up 300 RPM to 1350, push the clutch in, put it into gear and it will go into the maximum of 5th gear.
When you downshift, you got to do the reverse of what you did going up.
So when you shifted from 5th to 6th for example, you went up to 1350 in fifth gear and then shifted to sixth gear and the RPMs drop down to 1050.
Now when you go back down, you got to do the reverse and you got a brake to slow the vehicle down, which will bring your engine rpm down to 1050.
When your engine rpm goes down to 1050, push the clutch in, put it into neutral, let the clutch back out, throttle up - and that's a little challenging for students when your throttling up when you're slowing down - so that's a bit strange, but you gotta throttle up to spin the gears in the transmission and bring them back up to 1350.
So that you'll match maximum of 5th and then push the clutch in and put it into fifth gear.
So you're doing the reverse of what you did going up to down shift.
And it's a little bit odd.
Now the other thing to keep in mind is you gotta slow down to gear down in a big truck.
So you gotta slow down first and then down shift.
Down to 1000 RPM
And what I tell students when the downshift - the easiest thing to do is every time you downshift, you need to bring it down to at least a thousand rpm.
The lower you bring the tachometer down when you slow down to gear down, the less you have to rev it up and the easier it is to downshift.
So bring it down to a thousand or less.
Now geography, as well is going to impact your downshifting and you're upshifting.
Now for downshifting, if you're going downhill, what's going to happen is your road speed's going to pick up as soon as you put it in neutral, so you have to compensate for that.
And the way that you do that is bring your engine rpm right down to 800 or 700 RPM.
Bring it down a couple hundred more than what you normally would.
That will compensate for the pickup in road speed when you dump the transmission into neutral.
So it's imperative when you're driving a non-synchromesh transmission to pay attention to geography because uphill-downhill is going to impact the speed of the vehicle, which is going to change one of your variables: your road speed, your engine speed, and the gear.
Downshifting for the Purposes of a Road Test
And you're going to have to make allowances for that and change one of the other variables.
For the purposes of the road test, you need to downshift to fourth gear, which is down over here.
So you need to push the range selector down when you get to fifth, and go down to fourth.
You only have to go to fourth.
For the purposes of a road test, you have to demonstrate that you can shift between high range and low range.
Some instructors will get you to shift all the way to the basement - all the way back to first gear.
You don't have to do that, just shift down to fourth gear.
As I said, for the purposes of a road test you have to demonstrate you can shift between high range and low range - high range to low range is just 5th to 4th.
Once you get to fourth, and it starts to lug down, just push the clutch in, come to a stop and leave it in gear until you come to a complete stop for the purposes of a road test.
And then put it back into first gear and you have to hold the clutch in the whole time that you're stopped because you need to be prepared and ready to go when the light changes.
It is Not a Spectator Sport
One last note on learning to drive a big truck and shifting a non-synchromesh transmission.
It's not a spectator sport!
You are not going to learn how to drive a non-synchromesh transmission from this video.
This is going to help and give you some understanding of what's going on down there with the clutch and the shifter and the engine and the transmission and all of that sort of thing, but it is not going to teach you how to drive.
Driving a non-synchromesh transmission, driving a big truck is not a spectator sport! You gotta put time in the seat, you gotta practice and that's the only way that you're going to learn how to do it.
And not only do you got to work the clutch and shift the gears - there's all the rest of that bit of driving that goes along with it as well.
So, seat time, not a spectator sport! Get as much practice as you can.
You'll be amazed at what three months in the seat will do.
In conclusion, shifting theory.
And you'll hear it after you get a bit of practice with it, you'll be able to hear the transmission click from high range too low range as you're moving through neutral.
Unlike the other gears, it can be fairly quick--ba dump, ba dump.
Fourth to fifth it's ba dump...ba dump.
There's a bit of a pause in there...less than half a second just to allow the transmission time to change gears.
If you get in a 15-speed it's going to be a blue button.
The clutch is very different than most clutches that you're going to find on a car or light truck.
Clutch brake has to be engaged only for starting gears.
So it's tap-tap tap-tap teaspoon...tappy tappy.
And what I tell students is ot push the seat back farther than you normally would, that way you're less inclined to push the clutch in too far because this is one of the major adjustments for students is to stop pushing the clutch in too far.
One of the other things that you have to do as well is you have to double-clutch: once into neutral another clutch into gear - ba dump, ba dump, ba dump, ba dump - and if you're having some trouble with that, go home get a chair, get a toilet plunger, put it down and then practice that coordination - ba dump ba dump, ba dump ba dump.
Once with your foot and once with your hand.
So you have to coordinate those two things.
It's a little bit strange at the beginning when you start double-clutching, especially if you haven't had any experience before.
So for the purposes of shifting a non- synchromesh transmission, it's up to the driver to synchronize the transmission.
You have to match the engine speed, the road speed, and the gear.
Now the other thing that I was going to tell you is clutch and throttle work independently of one another.
They cannot work together: ones on, one's off, one's on, one's off - wax on wax off.
And the engine speed is a misnomer - it's not actually the engine speed that were worried about when we're shifting the truck.
It's the transmission speed, but we don't have any way to measure the speed of the transmission gears in a non-synchromesh transmission.
So we use the engine's tachometer.
The engine's tachometer measures how fast the gears in the transmission are spinning, but in order to spin the gears in the transmission, we need to reconnect the motor to the transmission via the clutch.
The clutch pedal has to be out, especially when you're down shifting and throttling up.
Make sure the clutch is all the way out when you're throttling up.
As soon as you finish shifting the gear, get your foot off that clutch.
Because there's two plates in there and what happens is if you got your foot on the clutch at all, the two plates start to separate.
When the two plates start to separate, they begin to spin against each other and it causes the clutch to wear out.
So don't ride the clutch in any manual transmission vehicle.
You can feather the clutch on a starting gear if you're backing into loading dock or something like that, but most of the time in a big truck, if you're going too fast and find yourself feathering the clutch you're in too high of gear - find a lower gear.
For the purposes of a road test you only gotta shift fifth to fourth.
You have to demonstrate you can shift between high range and low range.
And just to reiterate the last point: learning how to drive a non synchromesh transmission is not a spectator sport! You got to put time in the seat.
The more time you put in the seat, the more proficient you're going to become.
I'm Rick with Smart Drive Test.
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We will be more happy to get back to you and give you a hand to get shifting that vehicle.
Question for my smart drivers:
When you started learning how to drive a non-synchromesh transmission, what was your biggest challenge in learning how to shift a non-synchromesh transmission?
For example, was it downshifting, was it double clutching - which part of learning how to shift a non-synchromesh transmission gave you the most grief.
Thanks very much for watching.
Remember pick the best answer, not necessarily the right answer.
Bye now.
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The Sumo Logic Advantage for the Analytics Economy
I continue to be intrigued by the evolution of software architectures and their impact on business. In my 20+ year career, I’ve participated in four of these architecture transitions – the shift from client-server to the internet, the rise of 3-tier architectures underpinning rich internet applications, virtualization that upended the dominance of hardware providers, and now the shift to microservices-based architectures based on cloud infrastructure and software automation.
Complexity of Adopting Modern Applications
Fundamentally, the rise of each phase was a means for companies to break free from the limitations of the previous phase to increase business capabilities, improve efficiencies, move faster and more flexibly, and ultimately, reach more customers and markets. Bottom line: it was a means to increase business speed and agility at scale, a never-ending race that I believe will fuel digital business’ speed of innovation for the foreseeable future.
Ironically, with the benefits of each new phase came a consistent drawback that we continue to experience today: growing complexity and risk. The rise of distributed computing over the last twenty years simply means as components have gotten smaller, application scale has grown larger, a point I discussed in my Illuminate keynote last September, Sumo Logic’s annual user conference.
We recognized eight years ago that the shift to cloud, agile software practices, microservices and automation would create an unprecedented level of data complexity and risk that would be humanly impossible to address manually with legacy analytics or data warehouse tools built for previous architecture phases.
New World, New Analytics Solution
In this new cloud computing/software automation transition, the value of analytics solutions would shift from collecting data and mining it later, to what could be mined as it’s being collected – insights from analyzing machine data streams in real-time. And if this type of solution could be delivered as a cloud-native service, then digital companies could consume and act upon insights faster, without the management headaches of yet another on-premises, enterprise application. Finally, insights from real-time machine data analytics would now align to the speed and agility requirements of modern, digital companies to drive new, disruptive customer experiences.
So, that has been our maniacal focus: to build a cloud-native, machine data analytics platform, delivered as a service, providing real-time operations, security and business insights for people building, running and securing modern applications. Modern applications are transforming the classic “IT stack” to a modern application stack we’ve identified through our own, proprietary meta data research, called the Modern App Report. Among these technologies are containers and serverless technologies, such as Docker and AWS Lambda, that are growing fast, and orchestration technology, like Kubernetes that’s not far behind.
Thus, today we announced significant platform enhancements to make it easier for our customers to automate, manage and gain insights from their microservices-based application architectures, using containers, such as Docker, and orchestration software, like Kubernetes and Amazon EKS. With these improvements, customers now have an end-to-end, holistic view of their modern applications with new instrumentation, analytics and metadata insights from their machine data to drive faster innovation, deliver better customer experiences and increase decision-making across the organization.
And, more importantly, all of this value is delivered from one single analytics solution, designed, delivered and consumed as a service.
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But machine data analytics is doing much more than supporting the operations and security needs of modern applications. As we’ve seen with our own business, real-time machine data analytics is transforming us into a modern business – that is, a business that’s driving faster, relevant decision-making across the entire organization based on the customer and business insights we leverage from a single, real-time, machine data analytics platform.
The ability to consume and act upon real-time analytics, like continuous intelligence for your modern application, will become a source of competitive advantage to companies, especially since the rise of cloud and software automation is creating an even playing field for companies delivering disruptive, digital services on the backbone of powerful and scalable technology. The market outcome will be what I have been referring to as, the Analytics Economy, in which speed-to-insight will determine the difference between average vs. great customer experiences, and thus who gets the bigger slice of the total addressable market pie.
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Many digital companies are feeling the pressure of the customer experience imperative, which we believe is fueling the growing reliance on machine data analytics for rich insights into end-user behaviors, product and service usage trends, and business/customer patterns.
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For example, Samsung SmartThings has over 90 percent of their organization using Sumo Logic for visibility, monitoring, troubleshooting and device/application usage pattern insights to drive customer experience, inform product innovation teams and enable business leaders to track KPIs.
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Ramin Sayar
As CEO, Ramin brings 20 years of industry experience as a strategic and operating leader of both small and large organizations, and has a strong track record of developing innovative products in both emerging and mature markets. Ramin joined Sumo Logic from VMware where he formulated the strategy for and built the industry’s leading private cloud management products. The Cloud Management Business Unit became the fastest growing business within VMware, with nearly $1 billion in revenue during his nearly five-year tenure. Previously, Ramin held executive roles at leading enterprises, including Vice President of Products and Strategy at HP Software, Senior Director of Products at Mercury Software, Director of Products and Solutions at TIBCO, Product Line Marketing Manager at iPlanet Software, and Product Line Marketing Manager at Netscape. He also serves on the technology and executive boards of various startup companies. Ramin holds an MBA from San Jose State University and B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Four-star Defensive Tackle Darrion Henry Commits to Ohio State
By Taylor Lehman on June 29, 2019 at 5:41 pm @taylorrlehman
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Four-star Ohio defensive lineman Darrion Henry has committed to Ohio State, he announced at a commitment ceremony Saturday evening.
Committed #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/K81KJA8oZo
— D Hen (@darrion_henry) June 29, 2019
Out of Princeton High School, Henry becomes the second Buckeye pledge from the Cincinnati program, joining five-star offensive tackle Paris Johnson, Jr. who recently transferred from St. Xavier. Henry has been a top target for Larry Johnson dating back to February of 2018 when the offer was extended.
Henry chose the Buckeyes over his other five finalists, which consisted of LSU, Tennessee, Georgia, Cincinnati and Kentucky. He's the No. 121 overall prospect and the 11th-ranked defensive tackle in his class.
The Henry File
Size: 6-foot-4.5, 279 pounds
Pos: DT
School: Princeton (OH)
Composite Rating: ★★★★
Composite Rank: 11 (DT)
Henry was previously listed as a defensive end but was reclassified as a defensive tackle. At nearly 6-foot-5 and 280 pounds, he can play in multiple roles along the front line.
Henry made several unofficial visits to Ohio State throughout the recruiting process, including one in October and one on Feb. 2. He also visited on March 29, when high school teammate Jaheim Thomas received his offer from the Buckeyes. Henry camped at Ohio State on June 6 and attended the Buckeye Bash & Barbecue on June 21.
The Cincinnati trio – Henry, Johnson and Thomas – made several visits throughout the southern portion of the United States, making stops at Georgia, Georgia Tech, LSU and Alabama, where all three received offers before Ohio State offered Thomas.
The trio had made it clear earlier in the calendar year that it would like to attend the same school, but as time passed, so did that momentum. Now, it appears Henry and Johnson will be the only two together in Columbus, but plenty can still change between now and February's signing day.
Henry becomes the 15th commitment of Ohio State's 2020 class and second of the day following four-star linebacker Cody Simon's pledge. Larry Johnson landed his first 2020 defensive line commitment in Ty Hamilton just two weeks ago.
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A California clerk was fatally shot by a robbery suspect, police say. The suspect won’t be charged with murder.
An armed robber fatally shot a Northern California gas station clerk but won’t be charged with murder — presumably because the gunman could claim self-defense, police said Wednesday.
Ronald Jackson Jr., 20, was initially booked into custody on suspicion of armed robbery and homicide in connection to the slaying of James Williams, 36, early Saturday at a Chevron in Antioch, police said.
Jackson and another man, who was still being sought on Thursday, were fleeing the robbery when Williams chased and opened fire on the suspects, police said. Jackson was struck in the leg and returned fire, killing Williams, police said.
Antioch detectives submitted their findings to the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office and prosecutors “elected to charge Jackson with robbery, possession of stolen property, and a firearm enhancement, but declined to charge him with murder,” according to a police statement.
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A DA representative on Thursday confirmed that Jackson was charged with alleged second-degree robbery, a special allegation of using a firearm in that crime and receiving stolen property worth more than $950 — crimes that could land him behind bars for as long as 15 years — but no homicide.
The DA’s office on Thursday did not immediately explain its rationale against charging Jackson with murder.
The decision not to pursue a homicide case stunned girlfriend and co-worker Annette Matamoroz, who was at the store when Williams was shot.
“I totally disagree with this,” a tearful Matamoroz told NBC News. “It is murder. It doesn’t seem like murder, it is murder. What else could it be?”
Since Jackson has wounded by Williams outside the Chevron, a legal expert says the suspect could’ve argued he was leaving the scene and had a legal right to protect himself.
“Self-defense is a temporal concept. So in other words, had this event happened within the store that would have been one thing,” San Jose criminal defense attorney and NBC Bay Area legal analyst Steven Clark said.
“But when the guy ran away, the concept of the clerk being reasonably afraid, that changed considerably. Now you have a serious felony, what the robber did, but you don’t get to execute the guy under those circumstances. So the robber then obtained the right to self-defense.”
Matamoroz believes that Williams would still be alive today without Jackson and his accomplice entering the Chevron.
“None of this would have happened had they not come to the store. They came with those intentions (to commit a crime). They didn’t come here just to go shopping,” she said.
While agreeing with Contra Costa County DA Diana Becton’s decision not to seek a murder prosecution, Clark faulted her for failing to quickly and forcefully explain the rationale to an understandably concerned and confused public.
“There’s a general doctrine that when you are the initiator of the problem, like the robber was, your self-defense rights are lessened than if you are the victim, like the clerk,” Clark said.
“There’s going to be potential for criticism here. ‘Why are we bending over backward to not charge an armed robber with the murder of an innocent store clerk who is protecting his premises?’ That seems to stand the law on its head, that seems to stand logic on its head. The DA needs to carefully articulate to the public why this decision was made.”
Matamoroz worked at the same Chevron but wan’t on the clock when she was keeping Williams company before his death. Matamoroz was in the bathroom when Williams told her to stay put.
“He had told me, ‘They’re trying to rob this place, just say here, just stay here in the bathroom,'” Matamoroz said.
“He was a loving, caring, genuine man. You don’t come across too many people like that in life. He actually genuinely cared. He cared about people he didn’t even know. He wanted to help everybody, he wanted everybody to be all right all the time. If he could make it better, that’s what he would do.”
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Probate is the legal process by which the assets of a deceased person (decedent) are distributed to recipients (beneficiaries) and the decedent’s liabilities are settled. The person who handles the liabilities and assets of a decedent’s estate is called an executor (decedent appointed) or an administrator (court appointed). In the United States, a decedent’s estate can be settled by an executor through informal account of assets and liabilities or an administrator through court (formal) accounting.
For an executor to make an informal accounting of an estate, the decedent must have appointed him as the distributor of her estate in a written will. The executor will determine the decedent’s desires for asset distribution by reading and interpreting the will and will then send to all beneficiaries a listing of the assets that go to each of them. When all beneficiaries sign off on the process and the executor submits a final accounting of the estate to a local court, the executor will release the assets and close out the estate.
If no will exists or the decedent did not appoint an executor, a court accounting of the assets and liabilities of the estate must take place by a court-appointed administrator. Even if the decedent appointed an executor before his death, a formal accounting will take place if beneficiaries do not agree with the distribution of assets. The administrator will complete the same process as an executor but will have to determine what assets go to each beneficiary. This involves legal proceedings where beneficiaries argue over who gets what share of an estate and a judge can force beneficiaries to accept certain distributions regardless of whether they are satisfied with the settlement.
Dragging the probate process through court will cost the estate money due to the need to hire attorneys and pay the costs of a court-appointed administrator and court fees. Unless beneficiaries feel cheated by a will or the actions of an executor, they should avoid court accounting. With informal accounting, an estate will only have to pay out monies to transfer property and file a minimal amount of documents, making the process significantly less expensive.
With informal accounting, the executor can settle liabilities and distribute assets in the shortest time frame established by state law, a process that usually only takes a few months. With court accounting, the probate process can drag through the court system for years as beneficiaries squabble over the distribution of a decedent’s assets. In court accounting situations where a beneficiary contests an executor’s decisions and the court approves the executor’s plan, the process will take only slightly longer than an informal account.
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Chris Hamilton has been a writer since 2005, specializing in business and legal topics. He contributes to various websites and holds a Bachelor of Science in biology from Virginia Tech.
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5 Significant Facts About Porcini Mushrooms
Written by Alexander Lundell Updated on January 18, 2021
There are so many mushroom varieties in the world that it’s hard to differentiate between them. There are some more commonly found in supermarkets while others only found by the most die-hard mushroom foragers. Thankfully, porcini mushrooms grow in abundance for the masses that appreciate their flavor and texture.
Porcini mushrooms are one of the few mushrooms that are not grown commercially. This means that the only way to get your hands on some is to either find them yourself, or rely on the kindness of others.
Mushrooms are part of the Fungi kingdom, a vast collection of organisms numbering in the millions. The number of mushrooms that exist in the world is around 50 000, but scientists often discover new varieties, adding to an ever-growing list.
While many toxic mushrooms exist, the number of edible mushrooms worth finding only number around 5% of the total that exist. That’s not a very appealing number, but then not all inedible mushrooms are toxic.
What Are Porcini Mushrooms?
Meaning ‘little piggy’ in Italian, Porcini mushrooms look very much like a poster-child mushroom. They resemble the classic shape of a mushroom and exist in many areas throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Because of their abundance throughout many countries, you will find porcini mushrooms in many classic dishes of a vast number of cultures.
In England, Porcinis are known as ‘penny buns’, while in Germany they call them ‘steinpilz’. Many countries know the distinctive mushroom, including Russia, Austria, Mexico, Holland, France and many more. But while the mushroom grows wildly across North America, Europe and Asia, the mushroom is an introduced species in Southern Africa, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.
But whatever the name, the mushroom is the same, varying in height anywhere from 3 to 10 inches. The stems are rather large when compared to the cap, up to 3 inches thick and appear club-shaped. And speaking of the cap, porcini mushroom caps are anywhere from 3 inches to a full 12 inches wide when mature.
Significant Facts
Fact #1: Porcinis Have 2 Seasons
For those keen to find their own porcini mushrooms, its best to head out during their growing season. Thankfully, being one of the most popular wild-harvested mushrooms in the world, they aren’t limited to a single annual season like Morels.
The first Porcini mushroom season in the northern hemisphere is during the Spring, running through March and April. The second time you have a chance of bagging a few of these delicious mushrooms is during the fall, running between September through to November.
They grow singularly, but you may also find them in small clusters of 2 and 3 mushrooms. They love the forests, preferring to grow amongst landscapes dominated by pine trees, but will also grow amongst spruce, hemlock and fir trees. You might also find them amongst chestnut, chinquapin, beech and oak trees.
Fact #2: Porcini Mushrooms Taste Amazing
While many mushrooms add slight flavor to the dishes they create, porcini mushroom are one of the few with a distinct Unagi flavor. Just to clarify, Unagi is one of the 5 food descriptors, which include sweet, salty, bitter, sour and unagi.
Porcini have a distinctive earthy flavor that compliments many dishes. They possess a slight nutty undertone, yet rich and woodsy that is perfectly paired with steak, meatballs and many gravies. Because they stand up to a lot of other flavors, people use porcinis as a complimenting addition to many meals
Fact #3: Porcini Mushrooms Have Few Poison Look-a-likes
The mushroom family have some pretty nasty members, some of which are toxic enough to kill. Confusion often comes from eating similar looking varieties mistakenly. Many mushroom hunters quickly learn to identify toxic varieties based on appearance, where they grow and some specific characteristics.
Mushrooms like the true morel, one of the world’s most sought-after mushrooms, have a distant cousin called a false morel, its appearance strikingly similar. The confusion between the two varieties often leads to people eating the toxic variety.
Some other mushrooms also have distant cousins, their similarities often confusing to the untrained eye. But thankfully, the Porcini is one of those varieties that stands almost alone.
I say almost because there are a couple of varieties remarkably similar. But you easily identify them for what they are, the Devil’s Bolete one of those culprits. You can easily tell the difference, as Devil’s Boletes have a red stem and when bruised, turn their flesh blue.
Fact #4: Porcini Have Many Health Benefits
Mushrooms as a whole have amazing health benefits, some of which still surprises researchers today. Many view mushroom varieties as miracle cures, used abundantly in Eastern medicine for millennia.
While modern science hasn’t yet caught up with many of the purported health benefits, research is growing and with it, evidence that mushrooms are a definite positive in anyone’s diet.
Porcini mushrooms contain no cholesterol, trans fats or saturated fats. This makes them popular with many people on diets, trying to lose weight. They also carry a high amount of fiber which helps with overall gut health and keeping you feeling fuller for longer.
A definite positive is the immune-boosting antioxidants in porcini mushrooms, perfect for those wanting to boost their immune system, or people recovering from illness who already have a depleted immune system. There’s also an excellent source of protein and iron in these mushrooms, perfect for vegetarians looking to incorporate a meat substitute.
Fact #5: Porcini Mushrooms in Other Forms
Many find Porcini mushrooms an irresistible addition to any pantry. Their wholesome appeal includes their incredible taste, wonderful texture and many health benefits. But only growing during 2 brief seasons throughout the year makes the mushroom extremely sought after.
Thankfully, there are other ways to obtain the mushrooms if fresh isn’t an option. There are a number of unique forms of porcini mushrooms, available for you to purchase year-round. These include-
Dried– These dehydrated porcini mushrooms are perfect for storing, for those times when fresh ones aren’t available. Re-hydrated, they are great for soups, stews and other meal ideas.
Powdered– dehydrated and crushed, use powdered versions in smoothies, yogurt, tea or however else you want.
Paste– A great way to experience the mushroom as a spread.
Canned– just like having the genuine thing. Canned goods store well for lengthy periods of time, perfect to use outside of porcini mushroom season.
Stock Cubes– these cubes work great added to soups and stews or just dissolved in a hot cup of water for a satisfying broth.
Mushrooms are a wonderful gift from Mother Nature. They are one of the world’s true superfoods. Modern Science still haven’t found their remarkable health qualities, but researchers are already finding that many of the myths surrounding these remarkable organisms hold some weight. But despite their health appeal, there’s no denying just how versatile mushrooms really are.
They make impressive additions to most meals, or even as a snack on their own. For me, there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a plate filled with a variety of mushrooms, freshly fried in some delicious butter, seasoned lightly with a sprinkling of good quality salt and cracked pepper.
It’s the kind of dish that always takes me back to my grandmother’s cabin, watching as she prepared the treasures we found on our latest hunt.
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Duncan Hypocrisy Watch
The NYT reports that during a press phone call yesterday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan "unleashed a barrage of dismal statistics about the South Carolina schools" whose Governor, Mark Sanford "has told the Obama administration that he would not accept some $577 million in educational stimulus money for South Carolina unless he could use it to pay down state debt."
During the putative barrage of dismal statistics Duncan noted that "only 15 percent of the state’s black students are proficient in math and that the state has one of the nation’s worst high school graduation rates."
This is a pot kettle black moment.
Duncan, who up until he was tapped by the Obama administration, served as CEO of Chicago Public Schools. Why don't we take a look at how well the Chicago Public Schools has fared under Duncan's astute management?
In 2007, only 10% of 4th Grade black students in Chicago tested at the proficient level in Reading. (Table A-5) And, only 9% of 8th Grade black students tested at the proficient level. (Table A-6)
In 2007, only 8% of 4th Grade black students in Chicago tested at the proficient level in Math. (Table A-5) And, only 6% of 8th Grade black students tested at the proficient level. (Table A-6)
These dismal results were obtained with spending of between $13k - $14k per pupil -- far higher than what South Carolina spends. Apparently, how much a district spends has little to do with how well it educates.
Now there goes some performance information on our public schools that is "embarrassing."
So, what's the answer here, then? Should we spend the next 4-8 years ignoring states with horrible records because the Secretary of Education came from a failing district? I get that Duncan wasn't the best choice here (hell, I am available... :) ) but now that we are stuck with him, we shouldn't call out failure?
Dick Schutz said...
The failure that the Secretary of Education and the Obama Administration should be calling out is the policy failure of "standards and accountability by standardized tests." When "proficiency" is nothing more than a cut score on a test that is sensitive only to racial/SES differences, not only South Carolina, but all kids are in trouble.
Hypocricy + ignorance does not ordinarily equal "Change we can believe in."
KDeRosa said...
Anon, I'm merely noting the hypocrisy. We should call out failure, strating with the sec'y's own high-spendin' low-performin' district.
Dick, th eprioblem isn't so much that the tests aren't sensitive to instruction, but that much of the vocabulary/background knowledge continues not to be taught in school (or before school in the home for the low-SES crowd).
Tracy W said...
Dick, I notice that you cite no evidence that the tests in question are only sensitive to racial/SES differences. Nor do you offer any evidence of a better option than standardised tests.
Do you have any evidence to support your opinions here?
CrypticLife said...
I looked for other possible interpretations, and while doing so noticed that 15% is exactly the nation's performance for black students, though "large central city" is only 13%.
Either way, sad, sorry performance, of course. Is there any chance it will be better if Duncan doesn't have direct responsibility for a single school district? Could he be better at being sec of ed than superintendent?
"the prioblem isn't so much that the tests aren't sensitive to instruction, but that much of the vocabulary/background knowledge continues not to be taught in school (or before school in the home for the low-SES crowd)."
The two factors go hand in hand. The fact that the tests in large part measure background info (which isn't taught) is what makes them insensitive to instruction.
Tracy, there are a baker's dozen papers, with references, at
http://ssrn.com/author=1199505
that respond to your question from various angles.
Malcolm Kirkpatrick said...
(Anonymous): "Should we spend the next 4-8 years ignoring states with horrible records because the Secretary of Education came from a failing district?"
We should ignore, or better, mock, insult, and humiliate, people who suggest that, beyond a rather low level, increases in school budgets will generate increases in school performance (as measured by standardized tests of Reading, Science, and Mathematics).
(Schultz): "When 'proficiency' is nothing more than a cut score on a test that is sensitive only to racial/SES differences, not only South Carolina, but all kids are in trouble."
Scores on standardized tests or Reading, Science, and Mathematics respond to institutional variables. See John Chubb and Terry Moe Politics, Markets, and America's Schools, also Herman Brutsaert's comparison of government and Catholic schools in Belgium. See also Lockheed and Jimenez comparison of government schools and independent schools in developing countries. See also Lassibile and Gomes, on country-level performance, related to the application of market mechanisms (vouchers, etc.).
More obviously, standardized tests of Reading, Science, and Math respond to the age at which students take the test; a 15 year-old and a 5 year-old from the same family (hence, same parent SES) will test differently.
RMD said...
dick,
I still don't see what you're advocating . . . it's hard to imagine a world without standardized tests.
Besides, I know extremely good charters schools that are somehow able to make those test scores move dramatically.
Libby Maxim said...
dont unleash Dick and standardized tests
i use a reading tool for instruction that is so transparent i need no STs to let me know how the child is doing, the child's movement through the instruction is the assessment, not only is this time saving but it is very instructional not only for the child but the teacher, both child and teacher understand the process and child can see where he has been and where he has to go, very motivating for child
at any moment, i can point to exactly what said child can and cannot do in terms of the alphabetic code, the child's fluency and comprehension merely by observing him using the reading instructional tool
quite nice, and when parents come and observe, they also know exactly where their child is and i do not have to waste time on the QRI or standardized tests
and parents do not leave thinking, what the heck can my child do
with most STs, no one including the teacher can actually point to where the instruction fell down and know how to fix it to help the child
they merely see a score and make guesses as to why the child did poorly
I don't think it's hypocritical to say "You're doing pretty poorly, you need the money." If Duncan himself had refused federal funds despite his track record, that'd be hypocritical. As it is, I can easily imagine Duncan saying "Yeah, I need the help." That's what he's calling Sanford on.
Dick, your initial claim was, to quote you "When "proficiency" is nothing more than a cut score on a test that is sensitive only to racial/SES differences"
You have now changed your argument. If tests are sensitive to background information then if that background information is taught, then the test will be sensitive to instruction. So you now are effectively admitting you were wrong to say that the tests are only sensitive to racial/SES differences. But of course you're not going to acknowledge this.
Tracy, there are a baker's dozen papers, with references, at http://ssrn.com/author=1199505 that respond to your question from various angles.
Dick, I asked for evidence behind your assertion. Let's take the first paper on the link you provided, written by yourself. In this you just make unsupported assertions. For example you say "Next, we save the items that have the highest relationship with all the other items we’ve saved. That leaves us with the purest measure of the thingy we can get. And we call it an achievement test."
Now of course you might do this. But that is not evidence that any serious psychometrician does it this way, let alone that all standardised tests are designed this way. This is you making stuff up. You can't even make stuff up in an internally consistent way. For example you describe a method of constructing a test when, for some unknown reason, you chuck out the "easy" items and the "hard" items. Having done this you assert that "First, we’ve morphed from “latent trait” to “ability” and then to “achievement.” Second, we’ve sliced the latent trait into age/grade levels"
But nothing the procedure you describe has anything to do with latent traits, or age or grade levels.
You then start going on about constructing a bell curve. You make this assertion that "The IRT scores come out of the computer forming a normalized distribution with a mean of 0 and a
range of +/‐ 3." This is despite me pointing out to you in painstaking detail that IRT does not create or require a normalised distribution curve for tests, for example in the reference material you yourself point to it is clearly stated:
The shape of the test characteristic curve depends upon a number of factors, including the number
of items, the item characteristic curve model employed, and the values of the item parameters. Because of this, there is no explicit formula, other than equation 4-1, for the test characteristic curve as there was for the item characteristic curve." (see chapter 4 of http://echo.edres.org:8080/irt/baker/final.pdf, and yes I have quoted this to you before, I am disappointed but not surprised to see that it has made no impact on your memory).
Conclusion - you have no evidence to support your assertions about standarised tests.
As for the alternative method you describe to summarise:
- specify "the capability to be delivered"
- construct a set of 5-9 performance indicators
- aggregate the information.
Now if you standardise the assessment of the 5-9 performance indicators that we can be confident that your rating of a student on them is going to be roughly equal to that of any other trained assessor assuming that the student hasn't learnt anything new between the two assessments then we have a standardised achievement test. The purpose of standardising achievement tests is so we can do comparisons of achievement even if we can't have the same person testing all students (for example, we might want to test more students than Dick can assess single-handedly, or we might want a test that will still be useful even if Dick drops dead, or we might want to introduce some controls for observer bias that means that Dick can't carry out all the tests single-handedly).
So you spend all this time dissing standardised achievement tests, and yet you then describe something so close to a standardised achievement test. Yet you have the chutzpah to criticise the Secretary of Education for not dissing standardised achievement tests.
Libby Maxim - it sounds to me like you are using a curriculum so well laid out that it effectively doubles as a standardised achievement test. Very smart design. I will defend separate standardised achievement tests though because they allow us to compare different curriculae.
"it's hard to imagine a world without standardized tests."
Standardized tests were not used as measures of individual achievement before the mid-1960s. In fact test companies before then specifically warned that the tests were not fit for this use.
"I know extremely good charters schools that are somehow able to make those test scores move dramatically."
Certainly. Ken's graph shows such schools too. The point is that these effects are built around a non-replicable set of school personnel and selected students.
No other sector of life uses such convoluted and arcane measures. They'd be laughed out existence in a minute.
The main function of the tests has been to hold harmless the unaccountables who mandate their use.
Tracy, you need to do more homework. It's not possible to thrash out these technical matters in blog comments that quickly deteriorate to "tis-taint" and "so's your old man" level of dialog.
TurbineGuy said...
Let's also note that South Carolina has some of the toughest standards in the country, so their stats are a lot more honest than other places.
It's fairly easy to get a direct comparison of numbers using the NAEP data...
Black Students - SC leads 265 - 248 (+17 margin)
Parents Graduated College - SC leads 291 - 267 (+24)
Eligible for School Lunch - SC 269 - 257 (+12)
South Carolina beats Chicago in every category, using the exact same test.
(All 8th grade Math scores in 2007)
Standardized tests were not used as measures of individual achievement before the mid-1960s.
This is false as I have pointed out to you before. For example, O-levels were introduced in Britain in the 1950s. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_Level
And my own grandmother who went to high school and university in the 1930s reported sitting exams designed to measure her individual achievement, and in particular to see if she could get into university.
This is also false. Medicine uses standardised tests for diagnositic purposes - see http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/10479/
Tracy, you need to do more homework.
Dick, how would me doing more homework fix your errors? I quoted where the text you referred to contradicted your claim about IRT scores coming out of the computer forming a normalised test - that's all I can do. I don't see how me doing more homework will result in you starting to get things right, it never has in the past, I think that you are going to have to put some effort into fixing your mistakes yourself.
It's not possible to thrash out these technical matters in blog comments that quickly deteriorate to "tis-taint" and "so's your old man" level of dialog.
Your errors are far larger than merely technical matters. For example, as I pointed out above, you present a hypothetical situation about how to construct tests. You then draw conclusions that actually appear nowhere in the hypothetical situation you made, for example you state that " Second, we’ve sliced the latent trait into age/grade levels". But you didn't slice the latent trait into age/grade levels in your hypothetical situation. This is not a merely technical error, this is far more fundamental than that.
Of course I will continue to point out your technical errors as you make them, as I adore thrashing out technical matters like these. If you want to discuss them somewhere else on the WWW to which I can get acess, please say where. But drop the idea that you only have some technical errors to fix, that's just as wrong as anything else you've said.
Dick said
"Certainly. Ken's graph shows such schools too. The point is that these effects are built around a non-replicable set of school personnel and selected students."
Not true.
These schools have 1 thing in common: they use Direct Instruction. (one of them also uses Precision Teaching to measure fluency)
Other than that, their selection process is random (within the body of students available in that district).
And each of them does WAYYYYY better than the corresponding public schools.
One thing I will give you on standardized tests . . . they are usually not very good diagnostic tools if you want to find out whether or not students have learned the material you're teaching. So if you're teaching math, you might have to dive deep in the results to see if your students are, for example, mastering fractions, since the exam in question might not cover fractions or cover them sufficiently. And the test might not also tell you where they're getting hung up.
But, as a whole, it's interesting how some high-performing schools see tests as a way to demonstrate their superior performance (DI schools), while others complain and moan about them.
"Standardized tests were not used as measures of individual achievement [in elementary/secondary schools in the US] before the mid-1960s."
"A standardised test battery for assessing vascular and neurological components of the hand-arm vibration syndrome"
Are you telling me that this battery involves marking bubbles for multiple choice items, Tracy?
The Social Science Research Network provides a mechanism for anyone caring to post a paper, and it also includes a mechanism for contacting an author, if one wishes to point out errors. That's the sort of homework I was suggesting you might wish to do.
Hey, RMD. I've acknowledged that replicable results can attained using DI and other well-developed instructional architecture--even using instructionally insensitive standardized achievement tests. But this is not because they are charter schools.
It's true that item analyses of standardized achievement tests are informative. But that's a long way away from reporting scaled scores. How many item analyses have been in the news?
Thank you for correcting this. Please remember it in the future.
And I will note that the SAT was introduced in 1926 in the USA, meant as a standardised measure of individual aptitude (not achievement) and intended to reduce the number of Jews in Harvard and other Ivy League universities in the USA.
(see http://www.jewishachievement.com/domains/edu.html)
Personally I think replacing standardised aptitude tests with standardised achievement tests for making decisions about people's future is a good thing.
No Dick, and you are trying to change your argument again. You were talking about standardised achievement tests in general, you did not make a single mention of marking bubbles for multiple choice items. If you want to argue that no other field uses marking bubbles for multiple choice items then make that argument. You'll still be wrong in your earlier assertion that no other field uses standardised tests however.
Also standardised tests do not require marking bubbles for multiple choice items. The important thing about standardised tests is that different markers get roughly the same result given the same set of answers (obviously a testee might give different answers at different periods of time). Having the testees mark bubbles is one way of doing this but it is not essential.
Dick, you are the one who said "The IRT scores come out of the computer forming a normalized distribution with a mean of 0 and a
The shape of the test characteristic curve depends upon a number of factors, including the number of items, the item characteristic curve model employed, and the values of the item parameters. Because of this, there is no explicit formula, other than equation 4-1, for the test characteristic curve as there was for the item characteristic curve." (see chapter 4 of http://echo.edres.org:8080/irt/baker/final.pdf"
Fixing this is in your court and the amount of homework I do is irrelevant. I have pointed this error out to you, amongst some other errors, but you're the one who made the errors and you are the only one who can fix them.
If anyone wants to argue that standardized achievement tests generate by Item Response Theory are "fit for use" as sensitive measures of of the academic expertise of individual students, with "proficiency" results reported in terms of cut scores, "bring em on."
I've never heard anyone make that argument. As far as proponents go is, "the tests do have flaws but there is no other way"--(words to that effect.)
I've described a "better way." It didn't come "off the top of my head." It's rooted soundly psychometrically and is being applied routinely with good effect throughout the corporate world. If anyone finds the alternative methodology flawed that too might be worth talking about.
Item response theory IS a fit application for several situations. It's application in connection with NCLB in the US--which has been my focus--is not one of these situations.
(Schutz): "If anyone wants to argue that standardized achievement tests generate(d?) by Item Response Theory are 'fit for use'.."
Why "quotes" here?
(Schutz): "...as sensitive measures of of the academic expertise of individual students, with 'proficiency' results reported in terms of cut scores, 'bring em on'."
Mr. Schutz, Let's stick to one argument at a time. You wrote:...
(Schutz): "The failure that the Secretary of Education and the Obama Administration should be calling out is the policy failure of 'standards and accountability by standardized tests'. When 'proficiency' is nothing more than a cut score on a test that is sensitive only to racial/SES differences, not only South Carolina, but all kids are in trouble."
Thie makes sense only if you maintain (as you wrote in an earlier thread) that standardized tests of academic achievement are sensitive only to parent SES (and now race, evidently).
NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA respond to institutional and other variables beyond parent SES and parent race.
fit for use didn't really require quote marks. I tend to overuse them in comments because they're the only way to get emphasis other the CAPS, which are too strong.
"NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA respond to institutional and other variables beyond parent SES and parent race."
Yes they do. But they are also insensitive to "instructional" differences. SES/ethnicity is the popular non-instructional variable of interest, and that's why I said "only"
It's not that IRT generated achievement tests don't measure instructional accomplishments at all. They just do so too insensitively to be of much use--and of negligible use as measures of individual achievement.
There are selection "problems" in interpreting TIMSS and PISA results. They haven't done much for any country or for global education that I can see. But the show goes on.
(Malcolm): " 'NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA respond to institutional and other variables beyond parent SES and parent race.' "
(Schutz): "Yes they do. But they are also insensitive to 'instructional' differences."
In Politics, Markets, and America's Schools Chubb and Moe assert that standardized test scores respond to the policy of "tracking" (by which they apparently meant ability grouping). Several studies relate teacher quality (not Ed school credentials to student performance. Analysis of test score data indicates that classroom use of calculators and computers is counter-indicated. As Ken has argued, direct instruction (or Direct Instruction) outperforms discovery methods in Math and Whole Language methods in early reading instruction.
(Schutz): "SES/ethnicity is the popular non-instructional variable of interest, and that's why I said 'only'."
Odd use of "only", seems to me.
This argument will not alter the fact that you are wrong in your assertions that standardised tests are only sensitive to racial/SES differences. It will not alter the fact that you were wrong in asserting that standardised achievement tests were not used before the mid 1960s. It will not alter the fact that your assertion that IRT-designed tests churn out a normalised distribution curve is wrong. It will not lead you to create internally-consistent arguments.
I've described a "better way." It didn't come "off the top of my head." It's rooted soundly psychometrically and is being applied routinely with good effect throughout the corporate world.
I note that you cite no evidence to support your assertion that it is rooted soundly psychometrically, nor to support
your statement that it is being applied routinely with good effect. By your stated standards, why do you expect anyone to believe you?
Nor is there anything in your described system 5-9 performance indicators that leads me to believe that it is incompatible with IRT. IRT is a way of using the pattern of right and wrong answers on a test to estimate the testee's performance on other more or less difficult tests. If students achieve some of your key performance indicators and not others, IRT could be used to estimate the ability level of said students and thus how well they are likely to achieve on other sets of key performance indicators related to whatever ability the key performance indicators are trying to measure - be that reading, mathematical, driving or whatever. (Of course IRT doesn't help us in estimating the underlying ability of any students who achieve all of the key performance indicators nor that of any students who achieve none of them.)
I do however think that you are right in putting quote marks around the words "better way", I am exceedingly doubtful as to whether it is a "better way" since your method appears to only be different from a standardised test in being worse - in particular it does not include any controls for inter-marker reliability, which creates some problems in comparing results from different schools in any large country (or indeed any country which is not very small).
I actually agree with you on this, as the NCLB is only interested in whether students reach certain minimum standards, not in estimating what their underlying ability is, which is what IRT seeks to estimate. I can agree with two statements in one of your blog comments - perhaps this is a record!
"NCLB is only interested in whether students reach certain minimum standards, not in estimating what their underlying ability is"
Precisely. That's what concerns US parents, citizenry, and government. In former President Bush's words, NCLB was to answer the question, "What is our children learning." Standard achievement tests, administered in grades after formal instruction in reading has ended in the general curriculum are a very blunt instrument for answering the question.
The "minimum" of reading is fundamental to all further acquisition of academic expertise, so its importance is not to be minimized.
Dick, you are changing your argument again. You were saying that "Item response theory IS a fit application for several situations. It's application in connection with NCLB in the US--which has been my focus--is not one of these situations."
The goals of the NCLB don't depend on IRT being used in the design of standardised achievement tests. A far more fundamental problem it strikes me with the NCLB's standardised achievement tests is that the individual states get to define them - another thing that has nothing to do with IRT.
NCLB mandates the use of standardized tests. All test publishers follow IRT in constructing the tests and reporting the results. The states can use whatever test they like. Where the variation among states come into play is in the cut scores used to determine "adequate yearly progress" each year
Dick - you cite no more evidence in support of your assertions here than you did in support of your assertion that your "better way" is rooted soundly psychometrically or that it is being applied with good effect.
Given your asserted standards about evidence, I am starting to wonder if even you believe the things you say or if this is all some form of performance art.
Tracy:
Re psychometric grounding. Check out "Guttman scales" Wikipedia is a good place to start.
Re common application. Google for "business dashboards"
Dick, I didn't ask for advice on what might be an interesting topic to google nor do I want it. You are the one that asserted that your "better way" is rooted soundly psychometrically or that it is being applied with good effect. If you have actual evidence, provide a decent reference to it.
My Googling skills do not extend to being able to read your mind to figure out what evidence, if any, you based your assertions on. Especially since the last time you provided me with a link to an actual reference material, the Baker book, it turned out to thoroughly contradict what you claimed about IRT.
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Fortnite estimated to have grossed $1.5M in in-app purchases after 4 days on iOS App Store
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Though it launched on iOS as a limited "early release" last Thursday, Epic Games' Fortnite is already sitting atop the App Store's free app download charts and, according to fresh estimates from Sensor Tower, has grossed more than $1.5 million in worldwide in-app purchases.
Sensor Tower, a data analytics firm specializing in the mobile app marketplace, revealed the Fortnite calculations in blog post on Monday.
According to the report, $1 million of Epic's total estimated earnings came in the first three days after in-app purchases were activated. The performance puts Fortnite well ahead of similar battle royale style games Knives Out and Rules of Survival, which earned approximately $57,000 and $39,000, respectively, when they debuted.
A separate report from Apptopia adds color to Epic's release, noting the game now sits in the No. 1 overall App Store spot in 89 markets. Currently the second-highest grossing game in the U.S. behind App Store stalwart Candy Crush Saga, Fortnite appears in the top-ten highest grossing charts in 15 markets, the analytics firm says.
The numbers are notable for a game that is not only free to play, but is currently offering downloads on an invite-only basis. Perhaps more surprising is Fortnite's digital goods are limited to cosmetics, not in-game buffs or functional enhancements.
Players spend real money to buy V-Bucks, which can be redeemed for skins, accessory modifications, character animations and more. Currently, V-Buck packs range from $9.99 for 1,000 currency units to $99.99 for 10,000 units. Larger purchases net additional in-game currency, for example the $99.99 tier comes with an extra 3,500 V-Bucks on top of the standard 10,000 units.
Epic first announced the imminent release of Fortnite for iOS in early March and subsequently debuted the game last Thursday in an "invitation event." Users can download the app from the App Store, but need a valid invitation from Epic to sign in and play.
As AppleInsider noted, users interested in playing the closed beta can sign up through Epic's website or request an invite code from a friend who already received access.
Fortnite debuted as an early access co-op game survival game on PC, Mac, Playstation 4 and Xbox One in 2017, incorporating scavenging, resource collection and building mechanics into a sandbox style shooter. Epic later released a battle royale version of the game that translates those same mechanics into a 100-person multiplayer mode.
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It’s pretty cool but i’m more into mature games. Or Fruit 🍉 🍎 Ninja lol
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Please add Apple TV and controller support!
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How in the world could a third party analytics company estimate in-app purchases? How? Seems like a lot of unsubstantiated speculation.
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Who are the 15 unidentified people in Denver?
DENVER (KDVR) — Since 1952, there have been 90 bodies found in Colorado that remain unidentified. The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner says 15 of those bodies were found in the city.
The Problem Solvers are working to highlight cold cases in our state. These are the unidentified bodies found in Denver since 1970.
In 2022, two bodies were identified in Denver including a body found in 2021 and another body found in 1999.
Skeletal remains identified as man missing for 25 years
The body of man believed to be experiencing homelessness was found by a woman walking her dog in Bear Creek Park on Aug. 29, 2019.
The man was wearing a white polo with “Denver Lacrosse” across the left shoulder, navy blue sweatpants, long white socks, black watch on left wrist, and Black and blue New Balance tennis shoes.
The man was described as:
Possibly Hispanic, Latino, American Indian, Alaska Native
5 feet 1 inch tall
Age range: 20-50 years old
See photos here
The body of a man believed to be experiencing homelessness was found along the west bank of the South Platte River by a cleaning crew on Feb. 22, 2002.
Possibly Hispanic or Native American
5 feet 8 inches tall
Gray hair with stubble on face
No front teeth
No tattoos or scars
The body of a man was found in an abandoned building at 1135 Broadway on Feb. 25, 1999.
The man is described as:
45 years old or older
Slight-medium build
Light brown hair with stubble on his face
Evidence of previous dental work
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System said the man was wearing a green sweatshirt with the word “MEXICO” on the front.
The body of a man was found in an alley between South Julian Circle and South Irving Street on Jan. 8, 1997. Police said the victim was wearing a brown cord necklace with a cross pendant.
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Brunette hair with a thin mustache
Brown eyes
“Lopez” tattoo on upper section of left arm
Scar on left forearm
The body of a man believed to be experiencing homelessness was found in a storm drain at 5050 Humboldt Street Jan. 26, 1996 by two waste water employees who were going to clean the storm drain.
30-45 years of age
Approximately 150 pounds
Police also said the man had degenerative bone disease and tooth loss that happened before he died.
The body of a man was found in a grassy area off of the southbound Interstate 25 exit from Interstate 70 on Nov. 5, 1990.
Brunette hair, stubble on face
No tattoos, scars or identifying marks
The body of a newborn baby girl was found in a dumpster behind a house at 2860 N. Ivanhoe St. on June 8, 1990.
The baby was described as being Black with Black curly hair. No other identifying information was released.
The body of a man believed to be experiencing homelessness was found in the railroad yard at Rio Grande West Railroad at 6th St. and Navajo St on Sept. 17, 1988.
5 feet 11 inches tall
Gray hair with balding
Hazel eyes
No teeth
The body of a man was found floating in the Platte River near West 13th Street and Zuni Street by a public service worker on Jan. 30, 1987.
Black or brunette hair
Unknown race, possibly White, Asian or Hispanic
The body of a man possibly known as “Kinky” was found at 1350 Columbine St. on June 7, 1987 after neighbors called in a welfare check. Police believe the man is from Miami or Jamaica.
He was described as:
Several tattoos on lower right leg, including “GEMINI” and an outline of a wine glass
He was found wearing a red, yellow, green and black beaded necklace
The body of a man was found in an alley on 32nd Avenue between Alcott Street and Zuni Street on Oct. 16, 1983.
Hispanic or Native American
Black hair and a goatee
According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, the man also had the following tattoos:
Left forearm: human face with hat, colored
Right forearm: multi-colored, unidentifiable design
Back of left hand: swastika
Left fingers: L O V E, black or dark blue
Right leg above knee: heart with arrow and “Mary Jane”
Left leg above knee: “Rebelo E Causa”, drawing of a syringe, drawing resembling a medical capsule, S I N in black or dark blue
Left leg below knee: drawing of a skull in a helmet with a swastika on helmet and drawing of a bone
The body of a man was found on March 21, 1981 near 2600 West 17th Street.
Long black hair with a black mustache and sideburns
The body of a man believed to be experiencing homelessness was found under the 23rd Street viaduct on April 25, 1980.
Black hair mixed with gray and a mustache
A tattoo on his left arm of an outline of a woman
The body of a man was found by the fire department while they were putting out a fire at building on May 21, 1979.
According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, the man was wearing clear glasses with a tortoise shell-type frame, buckle dress shoes, and a gray metal ring with black stone on his left pinky finger. He also had a red bandana in his pants pocket.
The body of a man was found in an alley behind 2205 Larimer St. on Sept. 8, 1970. According to The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, the man’s remains were unrecognizable due to decomposition. The victim was described as being white and 30 years old or older.
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Selected Districts Exemplify AASA’s Learning 2025 Commission Initiative
Alexandria, Va. – May 2, 2022 – Moving toward creating a holistic redesign of our nation’s schools, AASA, The School Superintendents Association, in partnership with the Successful Practices Network, announced today that 13 school districts have been recognized as “Lighthouse” systems that will serve as models of positive change in public education.
The selected designates are members of AASA’s Learning 2025 Network, a cadre of more than 120 demonstration systems representing forward-leaning, urban, suburban and rural school districts engaged in learning, networking and working together to help drive education policy and ultimately improve student learning.
The goal of the Network, which was created by the AASA National Commission on Student-Centered, Equity-Focused Education, is to guide Learning 2025 leaders as they chart their progress toward “Lighthouse” designation in one or more areas of growth. The commission called for identification of exemplary educational systems to serve as beacons of light in key areas of holistic redesign of American education.
“Our ‘Lighthouse’ systems are serving as thought-leader practitioners that are implementing bold, actionable steps on behalf of the broader education community to learn from and learn with as they have taken on the challenge of Learning 2025,” said Daniel A. Domenech, executive director, AASA. “As we emerge from the pandemic, it is critical to invoke future-focused best practices for the well-being, self-sufficiency and success of our young learners. I congratulate these districts, as well as all of the school districts associated with the Learning 2025 Network.”
The AASA Learning 2025 Lighthouse Systems are:
Baldwin Union Free School District, Baldwin, N.Y.
Superintendent: Shari Camhi
Buckeye Elementary School District, Buckeye Ariz.
Superintendent: Kristi Wilson
Coxsackie-Athens Central School District, Coxsackie, N.Y.
Superintendent: Randy Squier
Elizabeth Forward School District, Elizabeth, Pa.
Superintendent: Todd Keruskin
Ephrata Area School District, Ephrata, Pa.
Superintendent: Brian Troop
Harvard Community Unit School District 50, Harvard, Ill.
Superintendent: Corey Tafoya
High School District 214, Arlington Heights, Ill.
Superintendent: David Schuler
Linton-Stockton School Corporation, Linton, Ind.
Superintendent: Kathy Goad
Naperville Community Unit School District 203, Naperville, Ill.
Superintendent: Dan Bridges
Val Verde Unified School District, Perris, Calif.
Superintendent: Michael McCormick
Washougal School District, Washougal, Wash.
Superintendent: Mary Templeton
West Allegheny School District, Imperial, Pa.
Superintendent: Jerri Lynn Lippert
West Valley School District 208, Yakima, Wash.
Superintendent: Peter Finch
A review panel comprised of independent education leaders from across the country evaluated applications submitted during the first three months of 2022. Districts were reviewed based on strategies and recommendations developed by the commission. Redesign component indicators included:
Social, Emotional and Cognitive Growth
Future-Ready Learners
Cognitive Growth Model
Learners as Co-authors
Accelerator A1: Diverse Educator Pipeline
Accelerator A2: Early Learning
Accelerator A3: Technology Enhanced Learning
Accelerator A4: Community Alignment
“While no school district is anticipated to be exemplary in all components of the AASA Learning 2025 redesign, the goal of the educational system reflection profile is to guide Learning 2025 leaders and staff,” said Bill Daggett, founder of the Successful Practices Network and co-chair of the commission. “System improvement is viewed as a continuum of planning, developing, implementing and evaluating practices, and moving a system to where it strives to grow to benefit the children it serves.”
The opportunity to learn from colleagues, or ‘critical friends,’ across the country should be inspirational for the school systems participating in a process that provides endless opportunities to reflect on the majesty of the work that is happening right now in our school communities.
“It is gratifying to know that we will be able to take action together as we look at some of the country’s remarkable school systems embracing the challenge of Learning 2025,” said Mort Sherman, associate executive director, AASA and co-chair of the commission. “The opportunity to learn from colleagues, or ‘critical friends,’ across the country should be inspirational for the school systems participating in a process that provides endless opportunities to reflect on the majesty of the work that is happening right now in our school communities.”
The profile is meant to guide superintendents and their teams as they consider progress toward their growth. AASA and SPN will provide feedback on behalf of selected districts’ progress and efforts for system redesign.
The Learning 2025 National Summit
The Learning 2025 National Summit, co-hosted by AASA and SPN, June 28-30 in Washington, D.C., will bring together leadership, faculty, boards and staff from across the country to highlight the work building future-focused capacity by these exemplar districts in alignment with the commission. Over the course of the summit, participants will learn from each other, as well as thought leaders and national experts, through keynote presentations, how-to sessions and networking sessions focused on strengthening culture, focusing instruction and maximizing the use of resources. Click here to learn more.
Educators are encouraged to access An American Imperative: A New Vision of Public Schools, prepared and issued by the commission in 2021. The report articulates AASA’s vision, which is intended to serve as a guardrail for specific change, while also empowering districts and schools to tailor plans to the needs of their leaders and learners.
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I want to start by showing off the average review rating this game has received. With an average score of 7.5/10 it seemed like a game that should have been fairly fun. The reviews range wildly but on average it rated better than a lot of games do. Now on to the Quick Blip for The Evil Within (and the reason that we came up with Quick Blips).
The Evil Within starts off as a fairly interesting game. You’re a detective who gets brought to an in progress crime scene due to special circumstance. Upon entering you find numerous dead bodies and upon finding the security room you see a ghost or spirit of some sort that kills off three police officers easily, all while being shot at. It then proceeds to warp through the camera and attack everyone in the room that you’re standing in. You wake up strung upside down in a room where a beefy guy is dismembering bodies Castlevania style..
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As you work your way through the hospital, it takes a little bit to get used to the controls but it is nerve wracking and exciting. Unfortunately as soon as I finally managed to exit the hospital is when I started to lose interest in the game.
After a wild ride through the city you end up in a forest trying to get past all these infected(?) people who are trying to kill you. The farther you get in the game the more sentience they seem to gain and even start using weapons. This took the game in a much different direction than we thought it was going to go and became much less appealing to us. I tried to keep going through it in order to write a review about it but honestly I was hating it so much that I ended up creating the idea of Quick Blips as a way to write about a game that I just couldn’t muster the energy to finish!
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Not to totally dunk on the game as it was good in a lot of ways but it just wasn’t the type of game that I like. If you enjoy a game that forces you to heavily monitor your supplies (in a Resident Evil way) than you’ll likely enjoy this game a lot. We picked it up second hand for $8 so it’s not much of a loss but I would have been rather upset if we had payed full price. I would suggest trying to find a used copy yourself if you’re interested in trying it out. There is a sequel coming after all there must’ve been lots of fans to warrant that happening!
Let us know what you think of the Quick Blip or the game itself in the comments below.
This game is not as fun as I thought it would be but for those who like the Resident Evil series you might find this game entertaining. I would suggest trying to find it on sale just in case.
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Guest BLOG: F.E.A.S.T. on Euthanasia and anorexia nervosa
July 10, 2019 by Julie O'Toole
Some of you may be shocked by the concept of euthanasia for people with eating disorders — we at Kartini Clinic certainly are. The concept of ‘assisted dying’ has recently been a hot topic, along with the ethics of ‘forced feeding’. Below is the position statement of the FEAST organization, a parent-driven support network for those who have loved ones suffering from eating disorders. They are powerful and vocal in the eating disorder community and they have taken on this issue headlong. Kartini Clinic supports their stance and with their permission are reproducing it here as a guest blog. – JOT
F.E.A.S.T. POSITION STATEMENT
EUTHANASIA AND EATING DISORDERS
Recent news reports of a 17-year old Dutch eating disorder patient who died of starvation after asking for euthanasia services have raised a worldwide discussion around eating disorders. As an organization of and for family members of those affected by eating disorders, we feel it is important to offer our perspective on the media coverage of this issue.
We want to make it clear that we are not able to speak to the specific and deeply tragic death of Noa Pothoven in June 2019. The case has been discussed widely, and often inaccurately, in the international press. While Pothoven’s request for euthanasia was denied, she did die at home in June 2019.
Our sympathy for her family is particularly sharp. In our community, we are all too familiar with the disabling and lethal consequences of eating disorders. We cannot and do not speak with specific or personal knowledge of her family, treatment, or her legal situation, and can only speak of the issues surrounding such a case. We extend our deepest condolences to Noa Pothoven’s family and all those affected by her loss.
Treatable Disorders
It is one of our central tenets as an organization that eating disorders are treatable. Regardless of the cause of the illness or the treatment history to date, we believe the science supports pursuing treatment for eating disorders even in cases that have been unsuccessful or complex. No eating disorder sufferer should be considered beyond help. In the words of one parent in our community: “If there is breath, there is hope.”
F.E.A.S.T. holds that hope for all who can be reached and supported, and their families.
New Prognosis Data
In the past, pessimism about the prognosis of eating disorders after the first few years of treatment was assumed. More recent analysis of available data sheds light on the tragic inaccuracy of that assumption. Not only are treatments improving over time, but longitudinal analyses are showing a greater optimism for recovery as seen in a recent study that indicated that after 22 years of illness, 63% of those with anorexia nervosa were fully recovered. Fully half of those recoveries were after over nine years of being unwell. Data for bulimia recoveries also had longer horizons than formerly believed: recovery rates reaching 68% in the first nine years
Dr. Craig Johnson, Senior Consultant at Eating Recovery Center, puts this in context:
“We should be very cautious about giving up hope for recovery too soon. I have been caring for these patients for over 40 years and during this time I have witnessed many patients achieve full recoveries after struggling for decades with these illnesses.”
Concerns about Coercion and Force Feeding
Often those experiencing eating disorders are left not only resistant to treatment attempts but sometimes unable to see how impaired they are. Family and treatment providers can have concerns about “forcing” a person to be hospitalized or nourished, or to be limited in compensatory behaviors. It is useful to assess for “anosognosia,” a brain-based deficit in insight about the condition itself. Research indicates that those put into treatment against their wishes still recover at similar rates to those who are not.
Our community also acknowledges that not all eating disorder patients will recover. These are tenacious and dangerous brain disorders that uniquely challenge our treatment, legal, social, and family systems. Those experiencing eating disorders are often not ONLY facing an individual eating disorder diagnosis, but other health and personal challenges, including co-occuring psychiatric issues. Those with longer courses of illness also suffer from health challenges, losses of relationships, and financial burdens. We cannot expect those suffering from eating disorders to maintain a focus on recovery when they are unwell, and not all sufferers have others to hold that hope for them.
Eating disorders are often accompanied by symptoms that defy intervention and exploit the gaps in our social and healthcare systems. Families and supports, are often not equipped with information or the ability to contain these powerful symptoms or lack access to treatment that will support them in doing so. The resources for eating disorder treatment are, at this time, scattered and overstretched in most areas of the world. Most treatment, while well-meaning, is not grounded in up to date understanding of the neurobiological and nutritional course of the disorders. We cannot blame patients or their families for these gaps. We must accept that it is our responsibility as a society that only a fraction of those with eating disorders ever get treatment, and those who do usually do not get enough.
As more countries offer the option of medically ending one’s life when near death, or euthanasia when suffering is unremitting and untreatable, eating disorder patients seeking to end their lives present unique questions. F.E.A.S.T. has observed in recent years a growing number of families being asked by loved ones about the option of euthanasia or assisted suicide.
These are not simple issues:
· Suicidal thoughts, despair, and anosognosia are common symptoms associated with eating disorders
· Patients are often asked to show motivation and compliance to access treatment
· Families are routinely exhausted, unsupported, and bankrupted for care that stops before remission and each treatment attempt depletes resources
· Those with eating disorders are often extraordinarily articulate and intellectually engaged, despite demonstrable impairment in perception and insight around the eating disorder
· Patients often suffer from debilitating health conditions and disability after years of dietary restriction, binging, or purging. Heart, bone, digestive, and dental health are often permanently harmed.
· Relationships are also casualties of protracted mental illness, and those with eating disorders can be isolated and alienated from their community.
As an organization of family members, the idea of euthanasia, ‘assisted dying’, and assisted suicide for eating disorder patients hits us particularly hard. We know that the feeling of despair and lack of hope can be temporary, and we know that our loved ones cannot always see the future or the past as we can.
We know that the despair of our loved ones is real, and we want to alleviate it because we love them and feel a duty to take action on their behalf.
We fear our voices will not be heard or understood because we know how movingly and articulately clear our loved ones sound to others even when they report symptoms and events inaccurately or without context.
In the F.E.A.S.T. community, there are many among us whose loved ones lost their lives to suicide or have survived suicide attempts. Many families among us whose children were suffering so deeply at some points that they asked to die, went on to not only survive but to full and robust recoveries.
In the words of one F.E.A.S.T. mother, Lisa T.: “My daughter begged her doctor and us to let her go to palliative care as she was unable to see a way out. Today she’s alive and healthy because we understood and fought for her.”
Another parent in our community, Judy Krasna, F.E.A.S.T. Board Member and parent advocate in Israel describes her feelings this way: “The most responsible thing that I can do as a parent is to never give up on my daughter, despite all odds, because recovery is always possible, even when it’s improbable.”
In her 2019 testimony before the Maryland Senate considering an Assisted Suicide bill, representing the Maryland Psychiatric Society, Angela Guarda, MD, Director of the Eating Disorders Program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, published here with her permission:
“I had two recent cases change their mind and contact me from hospice, where they were certified as terminally ill by their physician. Both improved dramatically with appropriate treatment and left hospital hopeful for their future. Under this (assisted suicide) bill they could be dead.”
F.E.A.S.T. Advisor, Jacinta Tan, Ph.D., who has studied the issue of compulsory treatment, calls the idea of assisted dying for people with eating disorders “very concerning.”
“Eating disorders can impair capacity to make decisions. In some cases, the despair and loss of hope that sufferers feel are related to the lack of appropriate, compassionate treatment and support. We need to focus more energy in developing and providing more effective treatment approaches to support people with eating disorders and their families and alleviate suffering, irrespective of age, severity and chronicity.”
F.E.A.S.T. offers the following considerations on euthanasia and assisted suicide when it comes to eating disorders:
· Lack of motivation and insight should be considered symptoms, not lasting or true beliefs
· Patients who appear competent and in control may be significantly impaired
· High levels of intellect and physical stamina can remain despite significant impairment in other domains
· A desire to die should be regarded as it would with depression
· Withdrawing treatment can easily lead to death, especially with chronic eating disorder sufferers
· Undernourishment, bingeing, purging, and over-exercise should all be considered as we would substance use: impairing ability to make life or death decisions
· Successful treatment does not require, at all stages, the hope of recovery
· A growing alternative to active treatment, harm reduction, is a consideration
· Family and clinicians may have significantly different perspectives than the patient and may hold long-term observations of a case that the patient does not hold in the moment.
The F.E.A.S.T. Board of Directors does not believe euthanasia, assisted dying, or assisted suicide are an appropriate recommendation when a patient believes that their life is not worth living or likely to recover. These beliefs are known symptoms, neither uncommon nor unexpected during treatment. Eating disorders are treatable, even when the patient does not hold that hope.
We believe strongly that eating disorder symptoms complicate issues around decision making and prognosis. We urge any family or clinician facing questions about letting patients die, or being assisted in dying, to carefully reflect on the considerations above.
To conclude, the message of Shannon Calvert, a Lived Experience Advocate and survivor of SEAN (severe and enduring anorexia nervosa),
“I felt desperate and begged to die. I believed that ending my life was the only way to destroy the abuse that was anorexia. The key was having others (YOU, clinician/loved one) not give up. Yet, I finally experienced someone just as persistent as my eating disorder. I didn’t believe anyone would ever beat it down with compassion, but I am more than grateful to admit I was wrong.”
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As sponsors of the event, representatives of Van Oord and Boskalis were present for the evening, and made a further donation by presenting a cheque for £2,000. Van Oord and Boskalis are currently undertaking the dredging operations needed to deepen the Harwich Channel on behalf of the Harwich Haven Authority.
The companies’ generous sponsorship of the evening meant the £1100 raised from the raffle and auction - which would have normally gone towards hosting the event – could be donated to the John Teatheredge Memorial Fund.
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‘The RNLI is a fantastic charity, and we at Van Oord and Boskalis are pleased to be supporting this dedicated cause by donating £2,000. Our projects, including the current Harwich Channel Deepening, work in various water bodies and we are grateful for the lifesaving work the RNLI do. Members of our crew along with Works Manager Chris van Meggelen and Office Manager Kim Good joined the annual dinner and dance where they presented the cheque to Coxswain Di Bush.’
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‘It was great to be able to get back together again after three years with our friends, partners, and supporters of Harwich Lifeboat Station. There are so many people I need to thank, but I would like to say a special thank you to Boskalis and Van Oord for sponsoring this event, and it was great to see them thoroughly enjoying themselves. A thank you also goes to all the companies that donated raffle prizes, but I would like to say a very special thank you to the long suffering partners of the crew, who put up with their loved ones being on standby, and being called out all times of day and night. It takes a very special person to be RNLI crew, but something extra special to be their partner.’
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New Jersey Athletic Control Board Comprehensive Muay Thai Officiating Seminar
Today the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board conducted a comprehensive and “hands-on” Muay Thai officiating seminar held at Coban’s Muay Thai Camp in New York City. The seminar lasted four hours. This seminar had a focus on the role of the referee.
The previous NJSACB Muay Thai seminar was held at North Jersey Muay Thai in Lodi, New Jersey in December 2012. That seminar, which focused on scoring, lasted six hours and was led by England’s Dr. Tony Myers.
That was preceded by a seminar in July led by Vladimir Borodine of the famed Borodin’s Gym in Brooklyn, NY and held at Strategic Combat in Sayreville, New Jersey. This seminar focused on proper muay Thai technique, balance and striking maneuvers.
The October 19 seminar was led by Coban who is a NJSACB licensed Muay Thai referee. Coban Lookchaomaesaitong” was born Banlu Ansiwet in Thailand His first fight was when he was 11 years old. It was at a fair sponsored by a Buddhist temple. One year later, a physician named Sam Rhung Jong Gon, whose brother was a Muay Thai fighter, and himself a ringside physician, had relocated to Buriram. He invited Coban to train and provided him with a heavy bag. By the time he was 15 years old, he had fought at least 35 fights.
As a youth, he was sent to Camp Lookchaomaesaitong, where he was given the nickname Coban by one of his trainers. Coban literally means Cowboy. When Coban was ready to attend high school, Sam Rhung Jong Gon sent Coban to Camp Lookchaomaesaitong where he was given the nickname Coban by one of his trainers. Coban literally means Cowboy. Later on his career he was named ” The Cruncher” by his fans.
He won his first World Championship at the age of 19 at Lumpinee Stadium (1985).He won his second Lumpinee title (1990), his third World Championship in The Netherlands (1990), and his fourth in France (1990). A year later, Coban went on to win his fifth World Championship in Bangkok (1991), sixth in England (1991) and seventh in Australia (1991). In 1994, Coban went to California, where he earned three additional belts. In his entire career, he has earned 250 official victories and 90 knockouts.
The toughest fights of his career were against Ramon Dekkers. He fought him a total of four times,the Coban vs. Dekkers fights have been rated as the best by any standards, by Muay Thai fans worldwide.
Those who attended today’s seminar include Michelle Agustin, Donnie Carolei Steve Cirone, Eric Colon, Bradley Desir, Vincent Dudley, Justin Greskiewicz, Munah Holland, Dan Miragliotta, Dr. Steven Oxler, Jaime Phillips, Darryl Porter, Julius Proenza, Paul Querido, Derek Riddick, Prairie Rugilo, Sue Sanidad, Vincent Sinclair, James B52 Smith, Liam Tarrant, Dave Tirelli, Chris Tran and Dr. Sherry Wulkan.
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‘No Point’ to European Union's Crypto Rules Unless World Follows Suit, Official Says
FTX's collapse may have added fuel for those seeking stricter crypto rules, but even the good guys may get it wrong, Mairead McGuinness told CoinDesk.
By Jack Schickler
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Jack Schickler is a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He doesn’t own any crypto.
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DAVOS, Switzerland — New European Union crypto rules are pointless unless the rest of the world follows suit, the bloc’s leading financial-services official told CoinDesk at the World Economic Forum on Thursday.
European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness said the turmoil in the crypto market has given extra ammunition to those pushing for a global rulebook, but warned future crypto innovations need to be focused on people.
“It's great that we can say that” the EU is the first major jurisdiction in the world to regulate the sector with its landmark Markets in Crypto Assets regulation (MiCA), McGuinness told CoinDesk on the sidelines of the meeting in Davos. “But there's no point in Europe being on its own, because this is a global development, and we can't put barriers on it.
“If we fail to do that global approach, we're going to find that there's more and more problems,” McGuinness said. “The technology is borderless.”
Read more: European Union Postpones MiCA Vote to April
The seeds of a likely global crypto regulatory framework have already been set by the Financial Stability Board, an international group that makes recommendations about the global financial system. Klaas Knot, the board's chairman, told an audience in Davos that he wants to complete controversial proposals before the summer. But McGuinness was honest about the practical challenges of implementing international rules.
“I do hope there is” global crypto regulation, she said. “But you know, when it comes to climate change, we all want global things to happen, and they're not, so sometimes somebody has to start the process.”
MiCA, which is set to be formally approved by the European Parliament in April, sets reserve requirements for stablecoins – cryptocurrencies that are typically pegged to the U.S. dollar – and governance rules for crypto companies. The fear is that MiCA will be undermined if exchanges or digital-wallet providers try to serve EU customers from regulatory havens, which McGuinness referred to as “sunny places for shady people" – something fellow European regulator and head of the Financial Stability Board, Klaas Knot, had said earlier during a panel on finding the right balance for crypto.
'Let’s talk'
The travails of 2022 when many major crypto firms collapsed, including Bahamas-based crypto exchange FTX, stablecoin issuer Terraform Labs and lenders Voyager Digital and Celsius Network, may help McGuinness in her quest.
“We're now, I think, in a good place because we have seen very visible examples of how things can go wrong,” she said. “I think the world now knows that, if it happened there, it can happen anywhere, so let's talk.”
FTX’s founder and former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, is now facing multiple criminal charges in the U.S., including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, to which he has pleaded not guilty. But McGuinness argues regulation is needed even for less egregious cases.
Some people got involved in crypto because of their distrust of the establishment and excitement about technology, and “it just went to their head and got out of control, and then there are casualties from that,” she said.
“There’s still, I think, an unfinished debate about what the problem is, or is there a problem with crypto inherently?” she said. “People with the best intentions can make business mistakes, and crypto people can make big business mistakes that then impact on individuals, or further down the financial system.”
Running ahead
Even once MiCA takes effect around the start of 2025, it won’t be the end of the story. Crypto evolves quickly and “we will have to tweak what’s in place,” McGuinness said, but she also cautioned against rushing to regulate areas such as decentralized finance (DeFi) that aren’t well understood yet.
“We need to get our heads around all of this,” she said. “DeFi – you ask the man or woman in the street what this is, and really they do not know, so we need to be very careful that we're not running ahead of ourselves.”
One option is to “have places or sandboxes where we can test things out before making it freely available, and decide based on the test whether it's going to work or whether it's not,” she said, citing an approach the EU has taken in experimenting with distributed ledger technology-based securities trading.
Meanwhile, crypto providers also need to remember what they are trying to achieve, and whom they are serving, she said.
“Sometimes you forget when you're talking about technology, this is ultimately about European citizens … they want service,” she said. “We may see pushback against this over excitement around the evolutions of finance.”
As examples of pushback, she cited lawmakers’ frustration over the closure of bank branches and ATMs, and her own personal – but relatable – frustration at waiting on hold for 45 minutes with a financial-services provider.
“If I were in the financial system, I would be thinking, how do we avoid that disconnect from our customers?” she said. “This excitement around technology is super wonderful … but don't underestimate that it has to be human-centered.”
Read more: EU’s MiCA Law May Have an FTX-Shaped Loophole
Update (Jan. 19, 2023, 19:07 UTC): Clarifies Commissioner McGuinness is referring to a statement made by Financial Stability Board Chair Klaas Knot on "sunny places for shady people" in paragraph seven.
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Jack Carter, Alan Moore and A Watchmen Prequel?
Among the highlights of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen III Century 1969 is the appearance of Jack Carter. Carter is an iconic figure in British crime writing culture. People know of him either through the novel Jack's Return Home or from Mike Hodges's brilliant Geordie Noir, Get Carter. If you haven't read the book or watched the film then you are really missing on a treat and you must do so at once! I saw the film first which stars Michael Caine in his best movie role as a London gangster who returns to Geordieland to find out what happened to his recently deceased brother. In the course of one weekend he manages to raise enough hell to last for decades.
Century 1969 takes place just before Carter's trip to the north. Although he doesn't officially join The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Carter plays a pivotal role in (temporarily) ending the reign of terror of an Aleister Crowley figure who has not only killed Brian Jones but now wants to take over Mick Jagger's body. With steely determination Carter (drawn in the comic as Michael Caine) finds out what happened to Jones and tracks Crowley down to his lair. As a precaution against the libel lawyers many of the names of real people in Century 1969 have been changed (and in real life of course it was Jimmy Page who was obsessed with Crowley not Jagger) but they're easy to spot with a little effort.
Alan Moore has been in the news recently bitching to The New York Times about DC Comics' plans for a Watchmen Prequel. I think DC is making a mistake attempting to do Watchmen without Moore and it will sully the reputation of an almost perfect comic the way the Matrix sequels ruined the mythology of the Matrix. But the big beardy Necromancer from Northampton is attempting to have it both ways. Moore himself freely borrows other peoples fictional creations: Allan Quartermain, Jack Carter, Mina Harker etc. in his League comics. And as Mark Hughes points out in a Forbes Magazine blog (?!) this is only the half of it. Moore's erotica comic Lost Girls takes Peter Pan, Wendy, Dorothy (from the Wizard of Oz) et. al. to places where no one really wants them to go. Lost Girls is not quite as shocking Hughes's portrayal of it in his piece but I completely understand his point about the hypocrisy of Moore's stance.
Saying all that though I am firmly in the camp that wishes the Watchmen prequels were not happening. Greed rather than fan demand is what's driving DC here.
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Ford Truck Windshields ‘Inadequately Bonded’
Overall, Ford has gotten off to a bumpy start in 2021.
Unit 202 ProductionsEric SorensenJeff Reinke
I don’t think it would be biased in any way to say that Ford knows how to make a good pickup truck.
Their F-150 has been the best-selling truck in the U.S. since 1976 and the best-selling overall vehicle in America since 1981.
That’s why it came as a surprise when the company recently announced that it would need to recall 87,350 F-150 and Super Duty Trucks due to windshields that, according to the company, "are inadequately bonded to the vehicle body structure.”
The notice went on to explain that in the event of a crash, the windshield’s inability to stay connected to the frame could result in a greater risk of injury. The affected vehicles were built at Ford's Dearborn and Kentucky plants between October 2020 and early February of this year.
Overall, Ford has gotten off to a bumpy start in 2021. After announcing a loss in 2020 of $1.2 billion due to pandemic-related sales losses, and costs associated with the Takata air bag recall and pension funding, the automaker announced that it would have to scale back F-150 production due to a semiconductor chip shortage.
The company also had to recall 90,000 trucks in Canada due to an issue with the electrical tailgate.
Then in early February, just over 1,600 of the highly touted Bronco Sport crossovers were recalled for rear suspension components that were improperly attached to the Bronco Sport's subframe.
On the positive side, even in the midst of a pandemic Ford sold just under 800,000 F-150s last year. Ideally, a stronger economy and a return on their electric vehicle investments should provide Ford’s sales with the shot in the arm it needs for the rest of 2021.
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Her love for children has earned Bundaberg Family Day Care educator Katrina Ashmore a national accolade for excellence in family day care.
Katrina was recognised as the Wide Bay regional winner at the 2020 Family Day Care Australia Excellence in Family Day Care Awards.
Katrina, who is registered with Carinbundi Kids Family Day Care in Bundaberg, is one of more than 13,000 family day care educators who play an important role in the lives of more than 108,000 children around the country.
The nomination came as a surprise to Katrina, but even greater was the shock of winning.
“I’m a little bit excited but it is probably more of an honour because I’ve been in the industry for 23 years,” she said.
“Family day and working with families and children of all different cultural backgrounds is my passion, so it’s an real honour to get this award.”
Family day care is an approved form of childcare that's provided in the family day care educator’s own home.
Katrina has worked as a family day care educator in Bundaberg for more than 20 years and has become an enduring and important part of her clients' lives.
“Our family day care is a very personalised service and it does become like your family, because you build a relationship and rapport with the families,” Katrina said.
“They become your extended family and I’ve got a mum who was one of my first day care children, and now I’m looking after her children. It’s quite beautiful and they become a part of your family.”
Celebrating its ninth year, the 2020 Family Day Care Australia’s Excellence in Family Day Care Awards highlights the important work of family day care educators and the invaluable contributions they make to the lives of children, families and communities.
Family Day Care Australia chief executive, Andrew Paterson, spoke about the record-breaking 5600 nominations which were made for this year’s awards and the achievements of the regional winners.
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“They have gone above and beyond to nurture and support the children in their care, and we are thrilled to recognise their achievements.”
Katrina is now in the running to be named as a national finalist for the 2020 National Family Day Care Educator of the Year Award.
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In the never-ending dossier on copyright reform, the latest development makes one wonder if we finally reached the fourth dimension. Following two weeks of silence and closed door negotiations between France and Germany, the Romanian Presidency came out with its new proposal for a negotiation mandate to be voted on this Friday, 8 February 2019, at the Council’s COREPER I meeting, which brings together the Deputy Permanent Representatives to the EU of the Member States (= the deputy Ambassadors), as point 27 on the agenda (close your eyes: it’s Friday after 6 pm and when everyone is already half headed home for the weekend, they get to hit the golden buzzer for the copyright Directive to go to the final trilogue).
Now that we have the setting of this tragedy, let’s explore its plot, as that’s where that fourth dimension element kicks in.
Part 1 of the plot: The Germans cave-in
First, there is the fact that a German-French negotiation started under the pretence of Germany wanting to protect small enterprises from the burden of Article 13 – aka the upload filter, aka the #CensorshipMachine, aka welcome to the licensing utopia – by creating a carve out for them, a sentiment apparently shared by the European Parliament when they adopted their own negotiation mandate at the September 2018 plenary. ‘Protecting SMEs is a red line’, German diplomats were quoted as saying (albeit without specific reference to their name). But journalists forgot to ask them the shape and nature of that line, as the compromise reached with the French clearly show the line was dotted, curved, and easily erased.
The end res ult as proposed by the Romanians is an unrealistic mess at a variety of levels in terms of what it entails:
an SME carve-out that is not a true carve-out: The text put forward maintains the notion that licensing is the magical solution, and that everyone, be it small or large companies, is in a position to obtain licenses. This raises issues at multiple levels: (1) there are no licensing mechanisms for all the content that would fall under the scope of Article 13, and (2) for those types of content that can be licensed, this approach risks favouring an exclusive dialogue between the big (US) platforms and big (US) rightholders, excluding the smaller platforms and creators. This would severely jeopardise the EU’s cultural diversity and economic potential for both the entrepreneurial and creative sector.
a solution that will discourage EU startups, and kill EU scaleups: The EU desperately wants to foster an EU startup economy, but is simultaneously creating a regulatory environment that is discouraging these companies to come to existence in the first place. Moreover, the text put forward is killing any potential ambition for startups to scaleup, as the supposed SME-carve-out – which is not a true carve-out (see point 1) – sends a signal that the EU prefers to have small, unsuccessful companies that do not innovate or support the EU job and growth creation, whilst creating an environment that enables the existing (US) giants to thrive at their and our expense. Check out Techdirt’s specific analysis here. Finally, remember that any ambitious startup that could benefit from the criteria put forward today for the partial carve-out will lose that benefit by the time this legislation is transposed, if one considers an average of 2 years for implementation.
a UGC exception that does not even cover ‘memes’: The deletion of reference to the ‘illustration’ exception renders the proposed user-generated content (UGC) exception useless to protect harmless everyday practices by users, such as ‘memes’, as these would not necessarily fall under the other limited set of exceptions that are covered, such as parody (often defined in a limited manner) or quotation (which does not cover audiovisual material in many Member States).
an obligation to prevent the availability of unauthorised content and to ensure that this content stays-down: These obligations can only be practically fulfilled by platforms through the adoption of automated filtering technologies. Although avoiding explicitly mandating these systems, the requirements laid upon platforms leave them no other choice than to implement, or even create, such filters. Moreover, a stay-down obligation would equate to a general monitoring obligation, which would be contrary to Article 15 of the e-Commerce Directive, since a platform can only prevent re-uploads of any works by filtering all works.
So that’s on the Council side. Add to that the bizarre statements of Rapporteur Axel Voss of the European Parliament yesterday, 5 February 2019, that “What France and Germany have agreed is a new safe harbour for small platforms, able to exist beyond what we already have today. It’s something we can’t accept,” and just reach the conclusion we did: all German elements involved in this dossier just buried any hope for SMEs to ever survive this provision, and for anyone but the rightholders’ interests to be defended.
Part 2 of the plot: The Italians Step Up
In parallel to these shady backdoor negotiations (and one cannot help wonder what the Germans received from the French in exchange for their submission), Italy yesterday once more stepped forward, not just to denounce the failures of Articles 11 and 13, but to actually outline what is needed to make them realistic, workable and beneficial to creators without wrecking the entire Internet.
In a statement made on 6 February, Luigi Di Maio, the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development, talks about such ‘crazy’ concepts as protecting the rights of web users and avoiding filters, direct or indirect, as an outcome of Article 13.
Let’s now hope that contrary to Shakespearian tragedy plots, this one does not end with an element of tragic waste or an absence of poetic justice, as EU citizens and creators deserve a better deal when it comes to copyright.
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Paramankeni, Lathur (Kancheepuram), Tamil Nadu
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About Sacard Heart HS, Paramankeni Kuppam
Sacard Heart HS, Paramankeni Kuppam was established in 1996 and it is managed by the Pvt. Unaided. It is located in Rural area. It is located in Lathur block of KANCHEEPURAM district of Tamil Nadu. The school consists of Grades from 6 to 10. The school is Co-educational and it doesn't have an attached pre-primary section. The school is N/A in nature and is not using school building as a shift-school. Tamil is the medium of instructions in this school. This school is approachable by all weather road. In this school academic session starts in April.
The school has Private building. It has got 3 classrooms for instructional purposes. All the classrooms are in good condition. It has 2 other rooms for non-teaching activities. The school has a separate room for Head master/Teacher. The school has Pucca boundary wall. The school has have electric connection. The source of Drinking Water in the school is Tap Water and it is functional. The school has 5 boys toilet and it is functional. and 5 girls toilet and it is functional. The school has a playground. The school has a library and has 2147 books in its library. The school does not need ramp for disabled children to access classrooms. The school has 3 computers for teaching and learning purposes and all are functional. The school is having a computer aided learning lab. The school is Not Applicable providing mid-day meal.
Academic - Upper Primary with Secondary (6-10):
Instruction Medium: Tamil
Board for Class 10th State Board
Classes: From Class 6 to Class 10
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Management: Pvt. Unaided
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Village / Town: Paramankeni
Cluster: Adwps, Kuvathur
Block: Lathur
District: Kancheepuram
State: Tamil Nadu
Building: Private
Books in Library: 2147
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SUNWAY LAUNCHES FIRST AUGMENTED REALITY GAMING APPLICATION “JOM MAKAN ‘EM ALL”
To celebrate Hari Kebangsaan and Malaysia Day, Sunway Group partnered with Astro Malaysia to launch “Jom Makan Icons of Malaysia!” campaign, a truly Malaysian foodie experience centered around the idea of uniting Malaysians through their unanimous love for food.
“Ask 10 Malaysians and majority will tell you that the one thing that unites Malaysians is food. Our love for durian, nasi lemak and teh tarik is globally well-known. With that in mind, we at Sunway Group came up with an idea to showcase 10 of our most iconic local delicacies. We believe that food is the secret ingredient in bringing Malaysians together, regardless of our age, gender, race, and religion,” explained Jane Poh, Senior General Manager of Sunway Group Brand Marketing and Communications.
“However, we did not stop there. Apart from the concept, we knew we needed to bring something different to the market. From the research and survey of the current trend and consumer behaviour, we developed a mobile gaming application. Sunway hopes that through this game, we, food-crazed Malaysians, are reminded that we are not only united by our mutual love for food, but also our mutual love and pride for our country,” she said.
The campaign started with the launch of Sunway’s very first augmented reality (AR) gaming application, “Jom Makan ‘Em All.” The engaging AR gaming application can be found on Facebook Face Filter and can be accessed from Sunway Group’s official Facebook page. The flappy-bird-inspired game features 10 Malaysian food icons, where players are to “eat” the food icons that fly across the smartphone screen by moving their mouths.
Players stand a chance to win Sunway PALS points worth RM3,000 across three weeks from 26 August to 15 September when they play “Jom Makan Em’ All”. Each week, 2 winners will be selected randomly and announcement will be made on Sunway Group’s official Facebook page every Saturday. Participants only need to play “Jom Makan ‘Em All” and snap a photo of the gameplay with the scores, post it up on Facebook with a creative caption, tag three of their closest friends, hashtag #JomMakanIconsofMalaysia and tag Sunway Group with the post set to public.
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If there is one thing we have learnt from the 62 years of independence, it is the importance of unity. This year, Sunway aims to let food unite Malaysians.
Malaysia is known for its exceptional culinary heritage. Therefore, Malaysians are no strangers to rich palette of flavours. In fact, they are spoilt for choices with the many local delicacies ranging from nasi lemak, cendol, satay and more.
Aside from the AR gaming application, Malaysians will also get to interact with their favourite radio announcers about “Jom Makan Icons of Malaysia!” campaign. Radio announcers from My FM, Hitz FM, Raaga FM and Era FM will be hosting entertaining talk sets and challenges on air by assuming the role of delicious food icons, Nasi Lemak, Roti Canai, Satay, Otak-otak, Durian, Mangosteen, Teh Tarik, White Coffee, Ais Kacang and Cendol. Listeners will be able to join in the fun by participating in respective radio stations’ Instagram polls and vote for their favourite “food personality.”
This campaign will end with an exciting on-ground event where the “Jom Makan Icons of Malaysia!” experience will take a spot at the massive Artbox Festival in Sunway City Kuala Lumpur on 13 September. Astro’s celebrity announcers will host an outdoor broadcast from 4.30pm to 7.30pm with food themed games and activities such as food tasting challenge, name the food challenge and so much more. In addition, there will be a 3D photobooth decorated according to the “Jom Makan – Icons of Malaysia!” theme where visitors can take photos.
In conjunction with the campaign. Suara Malaysia, a song produced by Sunway in partnership with Astro will be aired on Astro’s radio stations including My FM, Hitz FM, Raaga FM and Era FM throughout the patriotic month. Brand new music video can be found on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia1q7FaVjkQ featuring the icons through kinetic typography.
For more information, on “Jom Makan,” log on to www.jommakan.my or visit sunway Group’s official Facebook page.
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Come join in the first of our 2023 Seminar Series with Dr Josh Wodak.
About the talk -- Drawing a Line in the Sand: Bioengineering as Conservation in the face of Extinction Debt
What conservation could possibly become commensurate with the rates of human-induced biophysical change unfolding at the advent to the Sixth Extinction Event? Any such conservation would not only require time-critical interventions into both ecosystems and evolution itself, for these interventions would also require domains of risk and ethics that shatter normative understandings of conservation. And yet, normative critiques against such experimental conservation serve to retain conservation practices that are null and void against the extinction debt facing multitudes of species.
Amidst this quagmire, this paper explores conservation ethics in the face of extinction debt, through a detailed case study of current and proposed conservation for endangered Chelonia mydas sea turtles on Raine Island, a small coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Chelonia mydas and Raine Island are presented as synecdoche for conservation across diverse species across the world, because turtles are among the most endangered of all reptiles, and Raine Island is the largest and most important rookery in the world for this species.
This is not, however, a paper about conservation per se. Rather, the paper reframes any-and-all conservation in the context of the radical asymmetry and radical contingency of life to the vicissitudes of the cosmos. In this vein, the paper formulates a cosmology based on Raine Island’s unintentional creation via coral formation and guano from nesting sea birds, highlighting the relevance of pre-human ruptures to the one currently unfolding. This cosmology is presented as a synecdoche for how life has altered the lithosphere and atmosphere of the planet since its first appearance. Therein, in response to the question of what would a risk ethics of conservationist synthetic biology constitute if it was to become commensurate with the ecological and climate crisis, the paper contemplates the unthinkable questions that our current situation demands we ask, and perhaps even try to answer.
Dr Joshua Wodak works at the intersection of the Environmental Humanities and Science & Technology Studies. His research addresses the socio-cultural dimensions of the climate crisis and the Anthropocene, with a focus on the ethics and efficacy of conservation through technoscience, including Synthetic Biology, Assisted Evolution, and Climate Engineering.
He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, and a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre for Excellence in Synthetic Biology. This presentation is drawn from a chapter of his recently completed book Petrified: Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth.
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Written by Tishin Donkersley
Everyone wants a fair chance at the American dream. And if you have a big idea, the opportunity to create your destiny should be available to you. Fortunately, the Kauffman Foundation is dedicated to breaking down barriers, empowering the doers, and opening doors of opportunity to people regardless of race, age or where they come from to achieve uncommon things.
As part of building an inclusive society of startup ecosystems, TechCo and Startup of the Year have partnered with the Kauffman Foundation to create The American Cities House featuring a day of events, bringing together entrepreneurial ecosystem builders from cities like Kansas City, MO, Arlington, VA, Memphis, TN, Miami, FL, Minneapolis, MN, Fargo, ND, Albuquerque, NM, Lincoln, NE, Madison, WI and Dallas, TX. Organizations like digitalundivided, Black Tech Week, Global Entrepreneurship Week, and more will be on hand to showcase their entrepreneurial activity within their communities.
Doors will open around 11:00 AM, welcoming SXSW attendees to learn about these regions. You'll have the chance to enjoy a startup lunch on the rooftop, panels, mentor sessions, VC sessions, a special Startup Pitch Jam, and finally, the big party and “must attend” event known as Startup Night SXSW 2018.
“The Kauffman Foundation believes that everyone everywhere has a fundamental right to become an entrepreneur, regardless of who they are or where they come from. We know that this belief has fueled TechCo’s work to support startup communities across the United States through their media channels and their decade long series of events at SXSW, CES and beyond,” said Andy Stoll, Senior Program Officer of The Kauffman Foundation.
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Tishin is a technology journalist and correspondent. She has written for TechCrunch, Demand Studios and Fitness, and has regular network segments on local Phoenix affiliate stations. She holds a Master's degree in Clinical and Sport psychology, and has covered many areas of technology ranging from 3D printing and game development to neurotech and funding for over 15 years.
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The grand national of sheep racing which was banned after activists said it was cruel is making a comeback.
Government vets have ruled it is not cruel after all and the race – dubbed the Lamb stakes – is back on.
It had been held in Shropshire, UK, every year since 1991 until activists campaigned to end it.
More than 52,000 people signed a petition urging Hoo Farm Animal Kingdom near Telford to call off the event in which eight sheep leap over 2ft fences with teddy bear jockeys on their back.
As a result the Easter race was called off but organisers announced its return in time for the May bank holiday weekend race.
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“We look forward to seeing you all this weekend for the start of the Sheep Racing season.”
In a response, animal activists group Lambentations, which organised the petition, said: “All our hard work undone by the APHA.”
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Stuck between the main road and railway tracks, the municipal stadium in Nowa Sarzyna is part of the town's sports complex, along with a training field and Olympic-sized swimming pool.
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Is being average unhealthy? That question can be a kind of scary one to ask, considering that many of us—by definition—fall into the category of being average. And when you consider that the average American working in an office spends 10 hours of their day sitting and that the average American diet exceeds the recommended intake of calories from things like fats and added sugars, well, that question gets a little scarier.
BuzzFeed wanted to know if these numbers really represented the average American, so they gathered a group of men to find out. As it turns out, many of these statistics do, in fact, ring true. But instead of presenting the problem and leaving these men (and you) to deal with it, the site brought in a personal trainer who served up some serious life hacks to help you fit health into your schedule more easily.
The average American office worker spends 10 hours of their day sitting.
Sitting for 30 minutes slows your metabolism by about 90 percent, which isn’t fun for anyone. According to certified fitness instructor Aaron Hines, “What the body needs is constant change.” So? Make time to do something every 1.5 hours. Whether that’s hitting a few squats on your bathroom break or finding a few moments to be active outside, try to work 30 minutes of activity into your day.
Oh, and a standing desk isn’t the be-all and end-all solution to this problem. According to Hines, standing for too long can have negative consequences as well. For those of you who do have standing desks, make sure to work in some dynamic stretching every hour to keep your blood flowing.
See also Oprah.com: 10 New Exercises for Women.
In 2013, the average American consumed 78 pounds of added sugar.
Exercise is only 30 percent of the puzzle, according to Hines. The other 70 percent has to do with diet—something the average American tends to struggle with. Pay attention to the foods you’re consuming throughout the day, says Hines. Check your office snack stash and consider avoiding processed ingredients and saturated fats when possible.
But don’t go to the opposite extreme of cutting all fats and carbs from your diet, either. Just make sure the fats and carbs you’re using to fuel yourself are the right kinds—like lean meats, vegetables, and other clean, nutritious foods.
Between 2007 and 2010, fast food made up 15.3 percent of American adults’ daily caloric intake.
With a stat like this, it’s no surprise that the average American diet exceeds the recommended intake of calories from solid fats, added sugars, refined grains, sodium, and saturated fats. Fast food is convenient, but Hines says that with a little preparation, buying it can be an easy habit to beat. Just think ahead and bring some healthy snacks and meals with you to the office, and soon enough, that Big Mac will seem a lot less necessary.
So sure, average might be unhealthy. But that doesn’t mean it has to be that way. Throw in some jumping jacks the next time you hit the ladies’ room and work in some stretches throughout your day, and average might not mean unhealthy after all.
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Museveni appoints new board members at Bank of Uganda
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President yoweri Museveni has appointed new board members to Bank of Uganda.
In a letter dated November 29, 2017 to Speaker of Parliament, Mr Museveni nominated Dr. Willam Kalema, Mr. James Kahoza, Ms Jude Obitre Gama for reappointment while Ms Josephine Okui Ossiya was appointed to replace Mr brahim Kabanda.
“In the exercise of powers vested in the President by Article 161 of the 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, I hereby nominate the following persons for re-appointment as members of the board of directors for Bank of Uganda.” Mr Museveni wrote
Adding “I hereby forward their names and curriculum vitae for the required Parliamentary approval” he wrote in a letter copied to the Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Planing and Economic Development, Head of Public Service and Secretary to Cabinet and Governor Bank of Uganda.
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December 1, 2008 | by Pat Holt
#2: PUBLISHERS LEAVING NEW YORK
[Part One]
Right, they’ll never do it, but shouldn’t mainstream publishing houses want to explore a world beyond the Hudson River? Maybe talking about it will shed light on such fiascoes as the recent National Book Awards (see below) and the defensive reaction to a Nobel Prize judge’s accusations that the U.S. publishing community has become “too isolated, too insular.” (Honeys, it is.)
I’ve never understood why American publishers duplicated the British model of placing mainstream houses in one location so they would dictate to the tastes of the rest of the nation.
Why didn’t we load our printers and binders into the wagons as we went hacking and slashing across the Plains to the West? We certainly brought our newspaper presses. But for some reason – perhaps it was the independent wealth of publishing founders — we kept book publishing on the East Coast and eventually in New York City itself. We decided to depend on a “cottage industry” ideal in which literary ideas would foment within the social exchange of like-minded people.
By now, however, working in close proximity has made New York book publishers appear inbred and clannish. If you can’t get them on the phone, it’s because they’re calling/emailing/texting each other, lunching at publishing “in” spots, complaining about hotel rates at Frankfurt or BookExpo and working the room at author receptions as if a world outside publishing doesn’t exist. (more…)
Suddenly This Summer: The Firing of Jane Friedman
July 1, 2008 | by Pat Holt
IT RANKLES, AND IT’S WRONG
No matter how many times it happens, I’m always surprised that a corporate mogul like Rupert Murdoch has the audacity to fire a CEO like Jane Friedman (right), who in her quietly visionary way brought a middling publisher, HarperCollins, into the 21st century and kept the bottom line thriving as well.
But fire her Murdoch did, in a meeting that took Friedman completely by surprise, according to “Pub Crawl” columnist Leon Neyfakh in the June 16th New York Observer.
And thank you, Robert Gottlieb, former editor-in-chief at Knopf (and Friedman’s superior years ago), for saying what needs to be said – that replacing Friedman is “a dreadful mistake. Jane rescued HarperCollins from decades of sleepiness and irrelevance. … What can be in the minds of these people, losing somebody that valuable, is simply beyond my comprehension.”
Of course “these people” are the swaggering power mongers who make arbitrary decisions that damage book publishing as well as the careers of very good CEOs like Friedman.
Over the years, hasn’t it at least rankled you to see book publishing houses depend on the largesse of some jackass who either robs the company pension fund (Macmillan’s Robert Maxwell), turns himself into a rock star (Bertelsmann’s Thomas Middelhoff), forces the top editorial staff to resign (Random House’s Alberto Vitali), overrules editors to cancel a book (Richard Snyder of Simon & Schuster) or chortles to the New York Times about the many people “I fired personally” (Random House’s Peter Olson)?
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Mitch McConnell wins secret-ballot election to continue leading Senate Republicans
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has won a secret-ballot leadership election after days of finger-pointing over the Republican election lossesputting him on pace to become the longest-serving Senate party leader in US history.
McConnell defeated Florida Sen. Rick Scott, his first challenger in his 15 years atop his conference.
McConnell won the leadership vote 37-10-1, according to two senators. One senator voted present.
Senate Republican Conference chairman, Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming formally announced the slate of GOP leadership positions following the elections, including that Republican Sen. John Thune would continue as whip.
Montana Sen. Steve Daines will replace Scott as the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Senate GOP’s campaign arm.
For Democrats, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that their caucus leadership elections will be December 8, according to a source familiar at the Senate Democrats’ lunch on Wednesday.
After a tense meeting Tuesday that lasted several hours – the first in-person meeting for the Republican conference since the midterms – Scott told reporters he planned to challenge McConnell for the top job.
“I’m running for leader,” the Florida Republican told reporters. “I’m not satisfied with the status quo and so I think we ought to have an option.”
He added: “I still think we ought to delay the election.”
Throughout this year, Scott and McConnell have had a long-simmering conflict over messaging, outlook and how to spend resources this election cycle. The two have disagreed over the quality of their candidates, whether to engage in GOP primaries, whether to put forward an agenda or keep the focus on President Joe Biden, and where to compete.
Wednesday’s vote comes after Scott, as well as a handful of conservative senators, called for a delay in the leadership elections until after the Georgia runoff, underscoring Senate Republicans’ frustration with the outcome of the 2022 elections. That effort to push back the vote failed during the closed-door meeting, though 16 GOP senators voted to delay the GOP leadership elections, according to a source familiar.
And while Scott has little chance of succeeding in his bid to be leader, his declaration is seen as a protest vote. He’ll become the first challenger McConnell has faced in his time as GOP leader.
During the closed-door hearing with his Republican colleagues, Scott engaged in a tense back-and-forth with McConnell where they criticized each other.
“Sen. Scott disagrees with the approach that Mitch has taken in this election and for the last couple of years, and he made that clear and Sen. McConnell criticized Sen. Scott’s management of the NRSC,” Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri told reporters about the exchange.
Meanwhile, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said he was eager to get past the divisions with his Republican colleagues after emerging from the closed door meeting on Tuesday and hold the leadership elections.
He said he believed Republicans’ focus should be on helping Georgia Senate nominee Herschel Walker in his December 6 runoff against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.
“I think the best thing we can do is get this behind us,” Cornyn told CNN. “Because you guys will keep writing about it for the next three weeks and it will distract from the Georgia runoff, which I think should be our undivided focus.”
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Fox News Attacks Superman Because He Defended Immigrants From a Racist Slaughter
For twenty years Fox News has marketed itself as an ultra-patriotic mouthpiece for conservative principles. Their editorial posture has brazenly taken the side of what it considers American exceptionalism. Never mind that such bias is a breach of journalistic standards. An ethical news operation cannot be seen as exhibiting such favoritism. It would make it impossible to objectively criticize the U.S. when necessary.
This makes the commentary by Fox News host Todd Starnes all the more peculiar. Starnes unleashed an opinionated column that viciously attacked the concepts of “truth, justice, and the American way.” That’s right, he’s taking on Superman. And the offensive behavior by the Man of Steel was that he saved the lives of brown people from a murderous racist. In an article titled “Superman defends illegals against angry American,” Starnes writes that:
“The Man of Steel has now become a propaganda tool for the defenders of illegal aliens. In the most recent issue of Action Comics, Superman comes to the rescue of a group of illegal aliens — under attack from a white guy wearing an American flag bandana and waving around a machine gun. The man is reportedly infuriated because the illegal aliens took his job,” […]
“Instead of rounding up the illegals and flying them back to where they came from, the Man of Steel snatches the white guy and with a menacing look snarls, ‘The only person responsible for the blackness smothering your soul — is you.'”
So Starnes is outraged that our fictional superhero prevented the mass slaying of innocent human beings. Which is pretty much what Superman has been doing for seventy-five years. But Starnes is unconcerned about the killer’s admitted racism and intention to kill Latinos he believes cost him his job. Apparently Starnes would have preferred a version of the story with more bloodshed and dead immigrants. He concludes his tirade with a lament that D.C. Comics is “turning its stable of iconic heroes into political pawns” and “indoctrinating our kids.” The author of the comic, however, sees it differently:
The fact that a few people object to Superman saving innocent, unarmed people pretty much proves the point of the story, sad to say.
— Dan Jurgens (@thedanjurgens) September 14, 2017
It’s notable that nowhere in the comic are the Latino victims described as undocumented. But that doesn’t stop Starnes from repeatedly referring to them as “illegals” And even if they were undocumented, that wouldn’t justify them being murdered to anyone but bigots like Starnes. Their hatred is exactly what heroes like Superman are dedicated to fighting against. And the comic contains a thought that could easily be applied to Starnes and his pals at Fox News and in Donald Trump’s White House:
“Something darker is at work here. As though anger and ignorance have boiled over all at once. Where people can’t look past their own selfishness and the common good is a foreign concept.”
Precisely. The dark anger and ignorance that is boiling over at Fox News is a product of selfishness and prejudice. It’s too bad we don’t have actual superheroes to protect us from the cretins who peddle such hate. But it’s even worse that we have to suffer idiots like Starnes who wallow in it.
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6 thoughts on “Fox News Attacks Superman Because He Defended Immigrants From a Racist Slaughter”
Tilphousia on 9/15/2017
When will we wise up like the Brits and get fox fake news off the air? And get rid of Murdock’s little empire of bigotry, hate and lies.
Michael Bean on 9/15/2017
Maybe they should send in Lex Luther….
B. J. Anderson on 9/16/2017
It does prove the point who the Republican base truly is…bigots…
The shadowy smoke screens they cover this bigotry up with is that they wanted change in voting for Trump…change…how about voting for the very first female as president in the nation’s 272 year history…now that would’ve been real change.
They also spread that it made sense to vote for a successful business man to run the country. Successful they say? If declaring six bankruptcies, not paying subcontractors and service businesses, creating the scam ‘Trump Unversity’, hocking Trump paraphernalia at campaign rallies, making money off of taxpayer dollars by breaking emolument clauses and having to look for foreign banks to lend him money because U.S. financial institutions no longer wouldn’t…if ya call that successful, then whatever is failure? Besides, corporate mentalities are autocratic…not democratic, for ya see, corporate minds prefer saying, “You’re fired,” instead of using diplomacy…
One other that really gets me is in ignoring that Trump lied at every campaign speech multiple times and on average has lied at the minimum of 5 times per day in his first 7 months in office, while at the same time the Trump voter said they voted for him because Hillary lied. Without the bogus Republican conspiracy stories stretching all the way back from the Vince Foster/Whitewater days to Benghazi and her e-mails, they can’t even state one critical lie of hers…
Nope, its the downright bigotry that enthused and motivated his base in using minorities, refugees, immigrants and Islamophobia as scapegoats…
Fox faux news seems to be trying to out stupid our stupid president. What a bunch of well paid clowns.
ignoranceisbliss on 9/16/2017
Todd Starnes fits right in at the Republican propaganda network ak a Fox News. The original fake news source!
Jason on 9/16/2017
It comes to this… Fox News insulting a fictional character for defending a minority group from the same bigoted maniacs they promote on their channel…
Wonderfully pathetic. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5567582249641418, "wiki_prob": 0.44324177503585815, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1791292"} |
LAURENCE REISMAN
Report: Vero Beach, Sebastian among least affordable in U.S.; leaders seek plan | Opinion
The lightbulb went off in Meredith Egan’s head during the annual State of the County meeting in July.
While Indian River County Administrator Jason Brown was excited to talk about an array of new initiatives, leaders in the room seemed focused on one issue.
“No one wanted to talk about anything except housing,” Egan, the CEO of United Way of Indian River County, told me the other day.
Housing, as in the rising cost of it, how it was hurting businesses’ ability to hire workers, and all sorts of related problems, had finally become a consensus problem in the county.
“There’s lots of talk, finger-pointing and questions … everyone is throwing their hands up,” Egan said, in part addressing the finger I pointed in a November column when I criticized a county government committee’s lack of urgency on the issue.
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Creating community-wide conversation
“The county can’t do it alone,” she said, talking about what happened after the proverbial lightbulb shined. “Let’s start in one place and have a (community) conversation about it.”
It wouldn’t be the first time the United Way saw a countywide problem and convened folks with an eye toward getting the most knowledgeable, best and brightest in the room to devise solutions.
While my column called for the Indian River County Affordable Housing Advisory Committee to create strategic goals, Egan and others had a better idea: Create a private working group made up of community members to tackle the challenge.
In the past, United Way created similar groups to tackle community issues such as mental health, senior life, kindergarten readiness and third-grade reading. All have evolved into more focused philanthropic and governmental efforts to improve lives.
Egan and Susan Adams, the County Commission’s liaison to the Affordable Housing Committee, debriefed me recently on a forum a working group made up of leaders in government, business, nonprofits, and the judicial system took part in Nov. 16.
The forum came on the heels of the United Way’s annual community leaders breakfast, which featured David Hall, a Realtor and board member of the Florida Housing Finance Corp. and Florida Housing Coalition, who spoke on affordable housing efforts.
State of local housing scary: Florida Housing’s Home Matters 2022 Report
Vero, Sebastian affordability shocking
The next month, Egan and Adams brought in Ashon Nesbitt of the Florida Housing Coalition to help get participants on the same page. Nesbitt cited Florida Housing’s Home Matters 2022 Report, which showed Florida becoming more expensive compared to the rest of the country.
“Notably, the Sebastian-Vero Beach MSA fell a staggering 76 places, moving from being a relatively affordable place to among the least affordable communities in the country,” Sarah Tucci, the local United Way’s marketing director, noted in an email.
Some prime examples from the past several months of TCPalm coverage:
In October at an affordable housing meeting, Realtor Chip Landers said there were only 16 three-bedroom homes listed for sale in the county for less than $250,000. There were 22 two-bedroom homes with similar asking prices.
In June, I wrote about a retired Vietnam veteran facing homelessness after his rent was increased by 50%.
My colleague Catie Wegman wrote about a family of six living out of their van.
Columnist Blake Fontenay addressed the issue more generally in October.
But why should the rest of us who have affordable housing care?
“Families are spending more and more of their income on housing, forgoing personal and economic stability that safe, decent, and affordable housing provides,” Egan said in an email. “Not having access to it takes a toll on the health and wellness of families, the workforce, and the community as a whole.”
If caring for our fellow humans, something integral in many of our shared values, isn't enough to get anyone concerned about the problem, think about this:
We're affected when our neighbors clog our emergency rooms, suffer from mental illness or commit crimes when crisis strikes.
We grouse when our favorite shops, restaurants and services can’t find anyone willing to work or when the roads are backed up with cars coming from more affordable communities elsewhere.
And how many of us are thrilled with panhandlers on local streets — the growing throng in downtown Vero Beach, along U.S. 1 or elsewhere?
Educating the public about the problem and unique challenges Indian River County faces is one of eight targets the working group devised in November.
Working group devises action plan
Other targets the working group has include looking at:
More affordable, congregate living for seniors.
How to spur private development of more affordable rentals.
Tweaking ordinances to require landlords give 60 days’ notice if they plan to increase rents by 10% or more.
Creating a community land trust to seek private funding.
Underutilized parcels of land in the county that could be used for more affordable housing.
Areas in the county where mixed uses might be effective.
The potential of expanding the county’s urban services line to target affordable housing.
“Some of these will be easier to accomplish than others,” Adams said. “Some will be more palatable than others.”
The beauty, Egan said, is because leaders of various groups support these efforts, they can work together seeking grants to help fund certain needs. Collaboration increases grant funders' willingness to pay for applicant projects.
“Each of these (initiatives) has been triaged and agreed upon and weighed in on by everybody in this working group,” Adams said. “This is the community coming together. It feels like these are things we actually can do.”
They’re just a start. Eventually, they may morph into different initiatives as more people get involved and offer their ideas and more research is done.
In recent years, the United Way has evolved into a charity that funds agencies based on their community impact in targeted areas: education, financial stability and health.
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Each of these areas is interrelated. Ensuring people have access to affordable housing affects all three.
Thus, the affordable housing effort is right in the United Way’s wheelhouse.
As Adams said, “The more conversations you have, the more lightbulbs start going off in people’s heads.”
Then, hopefully, we’ll have more affordable homes using strategies a good cross-section of us can support.
And it will be done with the private sector leading the way.
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Burbank, CA : Warner Brothers Home Entertainment, [2019]
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2018.
Special features: Le Ministère des Affairs Magiques: The French Ministry.
Jude Law, Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Johnny Depp, Callum Turner, Ezra Miller, Alison Sudol.
In an effort to thwart Grindelwald's plans of raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings, Albus Dumbledore enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead.
Rating: M.
English, Castilian Spanish, Catalan dialogue ; English, French or Castililan Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Swedish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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Jenny Slate shined in an eye-catching satin dress at the 2023 Golden Globes tonight.
While hitting the red carpet at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., the star posed in a satin green ankle-length dress with a classic silhouette. Her sleek piece from Rodarte had a high neckline with a bold flower appliqué that sat right below her chin.
Jenny Slate attends the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on Jan. 10, 2023 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Slate paired the ensemble with gemstone chandelier earrings and rings that echoed those colors to achieve a lyrical look, along with a classic simple gold watch.
Jenny Slate attends the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 10, 2023 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
When it came to footwear, Slate opted for a pair of gold metallic pointed-toe pumps by Sophia Webster. Her holographic style gave her at least 4 inches in height, complementing her outfit’s colorful hues while not drawing attention away from her dress.
The Golden Globes honor the top film and television performances of the past year. This year’s event, held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, will be hosted by comedian Jerrod Carmichael. The occasion includes a star-studded list of nominees, including Zendaya, Viola Davis, Austin Butler, Jennifer Coolidge, Michelle Yeoh and Selena Gomez, among numerous others. This year’s Globes will notably be the first held in-person since 2021, and will include a pre-show hosted and streamed online by Variety.
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VIB is currently building a new incubator at Tech Lane Ghent Science Park/ Campus Eiland Zwijnaarde with a floor space of 14,000 m² in total. Next to shared infrastructure the new incubator will offer 22 individual modules of 272 m² each. This new incubator will also be the home of VIB’s headquarters. The new incubator will be available as of the end of 2023. For a preview of the new incubator under construction at Tech Lane Ghent Science Park :
Visit: https://facilities.sites.vib.be/en/ghent/vib-bio-incubator
For further information, please contact Wim Goemaere - [email protected].
Janssen Pharmaceutica & Legend Biotech are working together to enable the production of innovative cell therapy or CAR-T in Europe. To make this happen, new state-of-the-art facilities are currently being built, both at Campus Ardoyen and Campus Eiland Zwijnaarde.
Cell therapy to treat cancer
Cell therapy offers a new approach to fighting cancer cells by using the power of the patient's own immune system. Chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy (CAR-T therapy) is a specific form of cell therapy. It is a complex and highly personalised technology in which a patient's own T-cells are extracted from the blood and reprogrammed to target and eradicate cancer cells, making CAR-T therapy a treatment tailored to the individual patient.
Personalized therapy also requires customized infrastructure!
Tech Lane Ghent Science Park/ Campus Ardoyen – Obelisc
Part of the ground, first, fourth and fifth floor of Building Obelisc at Campus Ardoyen are being converted into a first production plant, that will host high-tech clean rooms, a brand-new logistics center, a training center and modern office spaces. This 3500 m2 facility will start producing CAR-T in the near future.
Tech Lane Ghent Science Park/ Campus Eiland Zwijnaarde
At the same time, a larger plant ‘Tech Lane’ is being build, which will enable to scale up production in the future. This brand-new building covering 22 000 m2 will become the beating heart of CAR-T.
Started as a green field, cleanrooms, laboratories, a warehouse and offices are currently being constructed.
Tech Lane and Obelisc will collaborate closely with the facilities on the Janssen Pharmaceutica Campus in Beerse to enable the full production process.
New R&D Center for Daikin
Daikin Europe N.V. (DENV), the European subsidiary of Daikin Industries Ltd., and leader in the field of climate solutions, has chosen Ghent as its new location for the EMEA Development Center (EDC).
The EDC needs additional capacity, test chambers and larger research facilities equipped with the latest technologies. It is therefore planning the construction of a cutting-edge development complex on our Tech Lane Ghent Science Park / Campus Ardoyen in the second half of 2021. The new and more extensive EDC is also very important for DENV with a view to the further development of new technologies.
Following a study into the ideal new location for the headquarters of the EMEA Development Center, Daikin Europe N.V. had its eye on Tech Lane Ghent Science Park / Campus Ardoyen.
As a Top 100 university, Ghent University has a renowned doctorate programme in ‘Mechanical Engineering’, and is, in that sense, a significant source of future employees. Ghent University and the EDC have already worked together, and will intensify their collaboration at the new site in the field of new heating technologies, the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence.
The intention is to inaugurate the test building in May 2023, and to take the office area into use at the end of 2023.
Read HERE the full article.
PMV wishes (in cooperation with Tech Lane Ghent Science Park NV and Ghent University) to engage a private partner for the full development, realisation and operation of a new tower building at Tech Lane Ghent Science Park/ Campus Ardoyen. The AI Campus Hub is a primarily private development intended to house companies and institutions in the fields of artificial intelligence and photonics.
We envisage a building of approximately 17,500 m² GLA (above ground), of which Ghent University is considering renting approximately 5,000 m² of office, demo and fablabspace on the basis of a fixed long-term lease. The remaining space can be leased to commercial or other users, and is partly also useful for community building and incubator purposes.
The realisation of the AI Campus Hub will take place via a project company in which the participant, as a private partner, will subscribe for at least 60% of the shares.A maximum of 40% of the shares will be taken by the public partners in this project, being Ghent University, Tech Lane Ghent Science Park NV and/or PMV.
More information can be obtained via [email protected]
A new park facility building will be opened in 2026, providing catering & conference facilities for Campus Eiland tenants, next to lab & office space for R&D intensive companies.
Catering or MICE facility companies can submit their interest in exploitation of these facilities, see (deadline 10th of February 2023).
Read HERE for more info.
More information can also be obtained via [email protected] or [email protected].
Ghent University has committed and made funds available to upgrade both the mobility and the redesign of Campus Ardoyen.The works are subsidized by VLAIO for 2.2 million euro. Ghent University contributes more than 3.5 million euro.
What's on the agenda?
A new central meeting place (parvis)
The construction of a new ring road with more measures to slow down the traffic
Improvement works on the green areas, including picnic islands and two sports fields
The construction of a network for cyclist and pedestrians
As part of these works, the underground pipelines will also be renewed, new streetlights will be installed and additional data facilities will be expanded. The ring road will be furbished for two-way traffic and will allow for the bus routes of De Lijn to traverse the park. Two bus stops will be built as well. At this point no free standing bike path will be constructed. However, a 3 meter strip around the ring road will be safeguarded in order not to rule out this option in the future.
A network for cyclists and pedestrians will be constructed in the green areas and a central bicycle axis will be realized.
This main bicycle road will connect the parvis, the parking building and the tram stop in Zwijnaarde. In time, a connection with the roundabout and the park forest will also be added;
Improvement works will be carried out in the green areas, including picnic islands and two sports fields with ping-pong tables and soccer field, as well as some long overdue forest management.
All these construction works will greatly improve the look and feel of the park, and will further enhance the water management and biodiversity.
Ghent University is working towards a more uniform park appearance and by improving the ‘soft road network’ they’ll enhance the safety for cyclists and pedestrians as well as making the green park strips more enjoyable.
The car traffic at the park will be better managed. The cars will be guided to the respective car parks and/or to the new parking tower. Access management for cars has also been introduced.
Execution of the works
As part of the redesign of the entire Campus Adoyen, there are multiple phases of construction works.
Below, you can find an indication of the upcoming phases :
- South Road phase: Oct 2021 – End-May 2022
- Phase East 1: End-May 2022 – Mid-July 2022 (The area between BASF and the Parking Building)
- Phase East 2: August 2022 – End September 2022 (The area between the Parking Building and the Bio-Accelerator)
- North phase 1: Fall 2022
- Parvis (the central square with water feature in line with the LOCUS-building): Dec 2022 - Fall 2023
Works: Nov 2022 – Fall 2023
The majority of the main road has been refurbished.
A building permit for the last part of the loop road is not yet granted.
Until the end of the year the contractor will be working on expanding the relighting of the campus to roads that weren’t refurbished, including the entrance road. The light fixtures themselves will be installed in February / March 2023.
The new year will finally bring the start of the centerpiece of the redesign: the central square with water feature. The contractor has already started preparing the area, but the actual construction will start after the Holidays.
In order to connect the water feature and infiltration area to the existing sewerage system, the traffic on the loop road will have to be interrupted one final time (approx. February 2023).
Although the central square will only be finished by next fall 2023, the sport fields will be ready for use in the spring of 2023.
The teams involved are also working hard to work out solutions for a more traffic-safe park.
During the redesign Ghent University is focusing on better recovery of rainwater and increased infiltration in order to prevent major drought and flooding. In this context, 'bioswales' were constructed. These are special canals that ensure better infiltration. There will also be a large rainwater pond. Read this article (only in Dutch).
North Road phase: End September 2022 – End October 2022
On September 22, the works will start.
Find HERE for the North Road - phase 1, an overview of the alternative routes for cars, bicycles and the Max Mobiel Shuttle Service.
East Road phase: End May 2022 – End September 2022
On May 30, a second phase will start: the eastern phase.
This eastern phase (indicated in blue on the map) will be done in two different phases in order to preserve the accessibility of the parking building:
Eastern phase 1: mid-May to mid-July
The area between BASF and the PARKING BUILDING
Eastern phase 2: August to end September
The area between the PARKING BUILDING and the BIO-ACCELERATOR
Practically, this means:
° All car traffic must re-enter via the main entrance. Entering via Tramstraat for companies located on Tramstraat will no longer be possible, but exiting will remain possible. The entrance barrier will no longer operate from 1 June.
° Two-way traffic on both southern and northern roads
° The parking building will initially be accessible via the northern road, then via the southern road.
° Max Mobiel will follow a new route and will stop respectively at the VIB stop, the temporary Cleanroom stop and the familiar stop at the AA Tower.
Find HERE for the East Road - phase 2, an overview of the alternative routes for cars, bicycles and the Max Mobiel Shuttle Service.
South Road phase: Oct 2021 – End-May 2022
On the 20th of October 2021 the first phase has started. According to the current construction schedule, the new southern road will open on May 30. There will be a confirmation of this closer to the date.
The southern phase includes the new southern road for mixed traffic with a new footpath and bioswale.
The road profile already accommodates the arrival of De Lijn with new bus stops at the level of the VIB research building (building no.71).
Near Labo Magnel (building no. 60) there is a new square that connects with the central grass area. A food truck will be serving lunch on this square every day starting at the end of May.
Across the entire park a number of footpaths have also been realised to provide better connection between the buildings.
The bicycle path to the Hertooiebos neighbourhood has also been realized and, pending the top layer, it can already be used. This offers an alternative access to the park for cyclists coming from the east (Merelbeke, Zwijnaarde).
According to the current construction schedule, the new southern road will open on May 30.
There will be a confirmation of this closer to the date.
During these works, there will be some inconvenience and accessibility to the companies/research institutes might be more difficult.
With each new phase, a new traffic solution will be communicated.
Find HERE for the South Road phase, an overview of the alternative routes for cars, bicycles and the Max Mobiel Shuttle Service.
Master Project Ardoyen is a joint project with the City of Ghent and its partners AWV (Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer), Ghent University, De Lijn and VZW Ardoyen.
Together they are working towards an integrated and sustainable development and accessibility of the Technology park Ardoyen.
With the main aim of sustainable mobility, the partners want to make the site more accessible through small and large interventions: footpaths, bike paths, better public transport. In addition, modifications to the accessibility of the site at the N60 roundabout (with bicycle tunnel) and a new bicycle connection between De Sterre and Ardoyen (with bicycle bridge) are an important part of this project.
Want to find out more about the projects?
Visit the project site: Project Ardoyen
De Lijn is investigating the possibility to move bus stops onto Tech Lane
AWV is investigating modifications to the accessibility of the site at the N60 roundabout (with bicycle tunnel) and a new bicycle connection between De Sterre and Ardoyen (with bicycle bridge)
We have a dream: a tram stop in the heart of the campus!
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PG&E Officers Kiraly and Burt, CPUC Planning & Policy Division Head Marzia Zafar Implicated in Smart Meter Spy Scandal
Posted on February 18, 2013 by Josh Hart
According to documents filed at the CPUC last week, Greg Kiraly, now Senior VP of Electric Distribution, joined Bill Devereaux and others in spying on anti-smart meter groups such as Stop Smart Meters!
Utility’s Own Internal Investigation Reveals Violations were Systemic and Widespread
SAN FRANCISCO- Documents filed last week at the California Public Utilities Commission indicate that the spy scandal that forced the resignation of William Devereaux, ex- Senior Director of Pacific Gas and Electric’s SmartMeter program in November 2010, has now widened to include at least 2 officers in the company, Chief Customer Officer Helen Burt and Greg Kiraly, Senior Vice President of Electric Distribution and several other employees, as well as the Head of Policy and Planning at the CPUC, Marzia Zafar.
Devereaux was forced to resign after admitting that he posed as an activist from Oakland named “Ralph Florea” in order to infiltrate and discredit private online groups of those opposed to smart meters because of health and safety impacts.
Bill Devereaux (aka “Peeping Ralph”)
Soon after media reports of Devereaux’s improper activities surfaced in November 2010, the CPUC’s Consumer Protection and Safety Division (CPSD) launched investigation 12-04-010 to determine the extent of PG&E’s violations. The investigation report concluded that: “PG&E violated Public Utilities (PU) § 451 in failing to furnish just and reasonable service when Mr. Devereaux lied about his identity to infiltrate online smart meter discussion groups in order to spy on their activities and discredit their views.” The report identifies at least 16 occasions where Devereaux forwarded private e-mails from anti-smart meter consumer groups to other PG&E employees, including his superiors. Documents filed last week indicate that this preliminary assessment was incomplete compared to the true extent of spying.
Rather than censure Mr. Devereaux for his deceitful activities, it is apparent that officers at PG&E actively took part in this infiltration and deception. PG&E officers Helen Burt and Greg Kiraly admitted to investigators that they directly monitored private online discussions of smart meter opponents, in addition to receiving messages forwarded from Devereaux without taking disciplinary action. PG&E’s investigation states:
Helen Burt, Chief Customer Officer, PG&E- she received “google alert” messages with anti-smart meter groups’ private messages
“Kiraly did review information from these sites”
“… (Burt) received a google alert message that was sent to her work computer. From the alert, she would access the site and review the information.”
The “google alerts” that Burt refers to were from SmartWarriorMarin, a private, subscription only e-mail group. Other PG&E employees- such as the EMF Program Manager- apparently subscribed surreptitiously to the private groups and accessed the public sites StopSmartMeters.Org and EMFSafetyNetwork.Org more than 46 times within the span of two months in 2010:
Another employee’s testimony hints at the desperation within the company, which was facing a public increasingly resistant to the violations of the SmartMeter program: “They are killing my (SmartMeter) project so I need to know.”
Senior executives in the company apparently were aware of the situation, and took a nod and wink approach to the spying- one employee reported:
“I remember an All Hands meeting where Bill Devereaux and <redacted> got up in the meeting to talk to the group. They stated that it was the company policy not to make contact with the groups on the internet. They stated that that they could not stop us from doing it at home because of the passion of the employees. They stated to be consistant (sic) with company policy if we did make contact. though it was ironic when the news about his incident surfaced.”
Devereaux forwarded at least one e-mail from the private smartwarriormarin group- a report from a heated debate in Marina where councilmembers were discussing health problems related to smart meters- to Marzia Zafar, currently Director of the Policy and Planning Division at the CPUC and former employee of Sempra Energy Utilities. From the context, it was obvious that this e-mail was private and not intended for the eyes of PG&E or the CPUC. Yet Zafar failed to question Devereaux about the origin of the e-mail, or report the incident. Instead, her reply was simply:
“Any upcoming events scheduled for Smart meter education/ inquiry?”
Marzia Zafar, Head of CPUC’s Policy and Planning Division, received private e-mails Devereaux had obtained through identity falsification
According to Sandi Maurer of the EMF Safety Network, Zafar also failed to produce records of this e-mail exchange in response to a records request.
As part of its multi-million dollar effort- funded by ratepayers- to promote the smart meter, PG&E hired Edelman Corp., an international public relations firm, to gather information on protesters and devise a media marketing strategy to promote the despised devices. An Edelman employee interviewed for PG&E’s investigation said:
“that his firm only accesses public sites and if an analyst is questioned concerning a reason for their interest and/ or a name they have been instructed to exit the site with no response……their analyst uses an e-mail address tied to the individual and not the Edelman company.”
Several parties to the proceeding, including Stop Smart Meters!, EMF Safety Network, CARE, and Ecological Options Network are demanding that an unfair and unreasonable settlement agreement between CPSD, PG&E and TURN is rejected and hearings be held to determine the true extent of the violations, including involvement by CPUC staff.
Despite clear evidence of systemic wrongdoing in the company, PG&E continues to insist that Devereaux acted alone. Surprisingly, consumer advocacy organization TURN is backing up PG&E’s untenable position. The proposed settlement agreement between PG&E, TURN, and CPSD states:
“PG&E disputes the allegations in the CPSD Investigative Report and maintains that none of its officers or senior management (other than Mr. Devereaux) were aware of or condoned Mr. Devereaux’s misconduct. PG&E further maintains that PG&E did not violate Public Utilities Code §§ 451, 2109, or any other statute, rule or regulation.”
According to Joshua Hart, Director of Stop Smart Meters!:
“What makes this all so egregious is that we have a situation where the Public Utilities Commission- which is meant to regulate utilities and protect public health, is instead working behind the scenes with the utility to silence the message of safety groups. If officials had heeded our warnings, rather than war-gaming us and treating us like ‘insurgents,’ the burnt homes and radiation injuries that the people of California are now dealing with may have been avoided.”
In its initial settlement agreement, PG&E proposed that they run workshops to instruct other utility companies on the proper use of social media. Stop Smart Meters! response: “Maybe they could give workshops on gas pipeline safety while they are at it.”
The groups who suffered privacy violations believe is in the public interest to find out exactly what occurred and who is responsible, and to levy appropriate fines and remedies, not settle the proceeding based on an incomplete rendering of the evidence.
They believe it is clear from PG&E’s data requests that Mr. Devereaux did not act alone, and that the extent of the spying and deceit- even extending into the CPUC- has not been accurately determined. Thus a settlement that ignores these facts and attempts to avert testimony, hearings and other findings of fact is inappropriate, premature, and not remotely in the public interest.
San Francisco Chronicle: SmartMeter foes don’t want spy probe closed
Documents from the case: Non-Settling Parties Opposition
Analysis of PG&E Internal Investigation into the Devereaux Affair
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5 Responses to PG&E Officers Kiraly and Burt, CPUC Planning & Policy Division Head Marzia Zafar Implicated in Smart Meter Spy Scandal
Paul H says:
I bet they all have smart meter health symptoms by now. I welcome those, that were treating us like insurgents, to switch sides and speak out concerning the smart meter debacle. It’s not too late.
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Dianne Christensen says:
Smart Meters not so smart, a health hazard, which I have to pay not to have. $75 to remove it, and $10 per month not to have it!
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Janet Curtis says:
my neighbor should not die in vain..so Im telling everyone..alot of oh yr crazy comments ensued..Josh and others like Gloria f have been working on this tirely. Is it a coincidence that alert id has been showing many electrical fires in this neighborhood where michelle sherman (Byrd) died..right in front of me along with her dog who played daily with my dog..the explosion happened after the neighbor pulled her and the dog out..it was burning inside the walls they had to tear the whole house apart..and never found the cat they say probably went right through the roof..the fire could be seen for a long way it was at least 100 ft in the air. We are traumatized by this and hiding the truth isnt going to help us believe she was just asleep or smoking in bed. that is not what happened. So I got an advocate and they came running out to switch me bk to analog, even saying for FREE they will come take care of my elec. and check and fix appliances etc..since the same problems i was having were the same as Michelles..and then Other neighbors said they had elec prob also..arching lights popping, refridge going out and garage door openers..and she had a deep cleaning that day done by we dont know who. her husband Paul lost everything and Im sure he is going to sue being a lawyer when this horrible shock goes away if ever. Now why would they check yr stuff for free (unheard of) if they werent afraid of lawsuits? As far as radiation..her husband had contracted cancer..another side effect of smart meters. coincidence? I dont think so..all the ringing ears humming noises ..a cracking sound coming from others homes were also heard at my home. Headaches, nausia and other ailments that come with being exposed to radiation that is very strong emminating from them. also causes insomnia and fatigue…so do not discount replacing them. nor the danger of them..why I had to pay for something i said i didnt want, why they came in anyway and did I cannot fathom..my gate was locked i had no appt as of yet..and i didnt oversee the work they did on meter elec or gas..they said the water meter was a different matter..also my bills went skyhigh instead of down i had been paying as a single person as much or sometimes more than neighbors with big families..keep looking at these..obviously saying it couldnt be the smart meter and it was too damaged or any other lie they tell you is just that. stay safe and tell yr neighors too. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5636681914329529, "wiki_prob": 0.4363318085670471, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1779115"} |
NASA's moon rocket returns to pad for next launch attempt
By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s moon rocket is back on the pad for another launch attempt, following more repairs.
The 322-foot rocket departed its hangar in the middle of the night and completed the 4-mile trip shortly after sunrise Friday.
NASA is aiming for a launch attempt on Nov. 14, sending an empty crew capsule around the moon and back in a dramatic flight test before astronauts climb aboard in a couple years.
Forecasters are keeping their eyes on potential tropical weather that could interfere.
It is NASA‘s biggest step yet to get astronauts back on the moon by 2025. The space agency is nearing the 50th anniversary of its last human moon landing: Apollo 17 in December 1972.
Although shorter, this early version of the rocket is even more powerful than the Saturn V that sent Apollo astronauts to the moon.
Fuel leaks have kept the rocket grounded since August. Then Hurricane Ian forced the rocket back to the hangar at Kennedy Space Center at the end of September. NASA used the time to make repairs and replace critical batteries.
NASA still does not know why hydrogen keeps leaking every time the rocket is fueled, but engineers are confident they can manage any future leaks, said Cliff Lanham, a senior manager.
Liftoff would be in the wee hours for the next three launch opportunities. While NASA prefers a daytime launch for test flights to capture as many pictures as possible, it’s not a requirement. Radar and infrared cameras should provide ample coverage, said Jim Free, a NASA associate administrator.
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Visual Art May 18, 2021 at 12:15 pm
Did You Notice New Banners in the Central District?
Intertwined weaves Black beauty into the cityscape.
Spotted near Raised Doughnuts on 23rd. JK
On Sunday, I stomped through an overgrown garden in the Central District and tried to find the best place to situate my body so that my blueberry hair contrasted against the slime greens of my background.
I'd signed up for Portland-based photographer Intisar Abioto's community portraits event at Wa Na Wari, held outside the arts space as a way of capturing the faces of Seattle's Black community members. Abioto guided my awkward body, gently suggesting positions and offering words of encouragement when I hit a pose that worked.
As we snapped away the rest of our allotted time in the garden, she told me that she normally lets her subjects set the scene, more interested in following their instincts than imposing a mood onto them. The key is to bring out comfort and confidence, she said. Her work reflects that collaborative spirit, capturing naturalistic, candid portraits of African diasporic people.
And now, Seattleites have the opportunity to view her portraits out in public. Last month, Wa Na Wari and Seattle Art Museum installed Abioto and Hank Willis Thomas's Intertwined. The public art installation is composed of nine banners placed along 23rd Avenue, Jackson Street, Union Street, and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, which will stay up over the next year. The banners balance Abioto's portraits with Thomas's text from his I AM A MAN series.
Abioto sitting on the front steps of Wa Na Wari this weekend. JK
The series initially began in Portland a year and a half ago, brought together by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and Portland Art Museum to celebrate the opening of Thomas's All Things Being Equal exhibition.
Known for The Black Portlanders project, which documented Black history and people in Portland, Abioto was invited to go through Thomas's catalog for inspiration for the collaboration. She told me his I AM A MAN series immediately drew her in because it riffed off a photo from a 1968 Memphis sanitation strike by Ernest C. Withers, a legendary Civil Rights photographer who Abioto interned with.
In the photo, Black workers carry signs with the same message emblazoned on them in the same script—"I AM A MAN." Thomas reinterpreted that sign into twenty paintings that play with the original phrase and text. And in Abioto's final iteration, she pulled from her archive of Black portraits and coupled them with Thomas's text paintings, embodying the words in flesh. The series, translated into banners, hung around the Rose City for six months.
Abioto—who moved to Portland several years ago from Memphis—told me Elisheba Johnson, co-founder of Wa Na Wari, asked her if she'd be interested in bringing the project up north to Seattle. In a press release, Johnson attributes her interest in the series to the concept of the "I-5 connection," which sees Black artists across the Pacific Northwest facing "similar opportunities and constraints due to gentrification and affordability" while living in this abundant blue-green landscape.
Another series entry spotted near 23rd and Spring St. JK
Intertwined comes during a prime moment for Black beauty and history in Seattle. It's coupled with Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle's eye on the roles of Black people in American history and Barbara Earl Thomas's The Geography of Innocence's focus on Black childhood, which are both up at SAM.
The banners in the Seattle iteration of the project are smaller and arranged differently, but they're still similar to the originals in Portland. Abioto told me she was "appreciative" of the opportunity to come up to Seattle to see her project and take pictures of the Black community.
"It's just so wonderful to appreciate us through art and through the lens, to notice our beauty," she said. "It's very much a love story for me; it's continuously interesting."
The photos she took of me and the dozens of other Seattleites this past weekend will go into her archive and may pop up at a show later this year at Wa Na Wari. In the meantime, go on a walk and try to spot all nine of these banners around the city. It's a chance to reflect on the communities you move through.
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Hilarious Bad Lip Reading of Donald Trump’s Inauguration Can Unite Us All
Staff Writer Published: January 25, 2017
Here's something political you can laugh at, no matter who you support.
The people at Bad Lip Reading are back doing what they do best: bad lip reading. This time, they have taken on the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
Yes, Trump is a controversial figure and, yes, his ascendance to the highest office in the land has incited backlash, to put it mildly. But these Bad Lip Reading videos have been around long before Trump took office, so maybe it will provide a laugh during a very tense time in our nation. Even if it's for just a few moments, at least you can still find a moment to kick back and laugh, right? Right?!
Feel free to give it a watch and then get back to unfriending those people on Facebook whose comments about today's political climate make you break out in a rash.
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Celery Seed Background and Benefits
Celery (Apium graveolens) is a member of the Apiaceae family, which also includes carrots and parsley. Celery plants can exceed three feet in height, and the leaves can grow to more than two inches in length. The white flowers are about 1/10-inch in diameter and grow in dense clusters called umbrels. Celery “seeds” are about 1/16-inch in diameter, although they are actually the fruits of the plant.
Celery is used as a vegetable throughout the world. The Pascal variety of celery is most common in North America, which is characterized by stalks that grow in tight, straight bunches. The most commonly used part of Pascal celery is the vertical leaf stalk, or petiole. The leaves have a sharp aromatic flavor and are typically used to flavor soups. The celeriac variety of celery is more common in Europe, and is primarily cultivated for its large bulbs.
Celery may also be grown for its seed, especially in temperate climates. Celery seeds have a strong flavor, which comes from a volatile oil called apiol. Celery seeds are primarily used as a spice, although they also common in many pharmaceutical and cosmetic products.
Uses of Celery Seed
The primary use of celery seed is to support menstruation. It may also be used for other purposes such as supporting healthy circulation, urination and healthy weight management.
Support healthy circulation
Research shows that celery seed may help to maintain a healthy circulation. The daily dosage of celery seed extract in this study was 150 mg.
Celery seed extract may help manage menstrual discomfort and regulate menstrual cycles. A common regimen for this purpose consists of three doses of celery seed extract per day for the first three days of menstruation.
Urination support
Celery seed extract may have diuretic properties that help to support healthy urination.
Weight management support
Celery seed extract may help to maintain a healthy weight by increasing metabolism.
Signs You May Need Celery Seed
The most common signs that you may need celery seed include menstrual symptoms such as discomfort and irregular periods. Digestive signs such as poor digestion, flatulence and irregular bowel movements may also mean that you may benefit from celery seed. Signs of water retention such as bloating can mean that celery seed may help you. Addition problems that may indicate you need this supplement include joint discomfort, fatigue and insomnia.
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Summary Agendas and Orders of Business
Order of Business Thursday 21 March 2013
+ indicates Government business.
Timings are indicative only.
At 9.30 am Prayers
Notes: indicates a question for oral answer.
[R] indicates that the Member has declared a relevant interest.
Questions for oral answer not reached receive a written answer
Supplementary questions will also be asked. Other Ministers may also answer.
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
1 Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire): What progress his Department has made on developing trade links with non-EU countries. (149127)
2 Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): What steps he is taking to reduce business regulation for start-ups and small businesses. (149128)
3 Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South): What recent assessment he has made of the operation of the Regional Growth Fund. (149129)
4 Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): If he will bring forward proposals to require companies to include supply chain issues in their annual narrative reporting. (149130)
5 Alison McGovern (Wirral South): What assessment he has made of access to apprenticeships for young women. (149131)
6 Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green): What assessment he has made of National Apprenticeship Week 2013. (149132)
7 Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central): What recent assessment he has made of manufacturing activity and future capacity in that sector. (149133)
8 Chris Williamson (Derby North): What recent assessment he has made of manufacturing activity and future capacity in that sector. (149135)
9 Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): What steps he is taking to promote advance manufacturing. (149136)
10 Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): What his policy is on vocational education routes; and if he will make a statement. (149137)
11 Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes): What support his Department is providing to encourage investment and growth in North and North East Lincolnshire local authority areas. (149138)
12 Roger Williams (Brecon and Radnorshire): What plans he has to implement a share scheme for Royal Mail employees. (149139)
13 Richard Fuller (Bedford): What recent assessment he has made of the costs and benefits of international students to the UK economy. (149141)
14 Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): What assessment he has made of the potential benefits of the development of a new agri-tech centre in Wisbech for regeneration in the Fenland region. (149142)
15 Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): What progress his Department has made on improving the export performance of UK manufacturers; and if he will make a statement. (149144)
16 Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): What progress he made on the adoption of an industrial strategy for the UK. (149145)
17 Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): What support his Department is providing to small businesses to compete in global markets. (149146)
18 Kris Hopkins (Keighley): What assessment he has made of the potential effects on the performance of Royal Mail of its employees holding a stake in the company. (149147)
19 Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): Which measures in the Government's Growth Plan his Department has not yet implemented; and if he will make a statement. (149148)
At 10.15 am
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
T1 Steve Baker (Wycombe): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. (149152)
T2 Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): (149153)
T3 Chris Williamson (Derby North): (149154)
T4 Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): (149155)
T5 Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): (149156)
T6 Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): (149157)
T7 Mr Robin Walker (Worcester): (149158)
T8 Mark Menzies (Fylde): (149159)
T9 Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): (149160)
T10 Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): (149161)
At 10.30 am Urgent Questions (if any)
Business Question to the Leader of the House
Ministerial Statements, including on Afghanistan: Quarterly update.
† indicates Government Business
† 1 WAYS AND MEANS: Adjourned debate on Question [20 March]. [Until 5.00 pm]
1. Amendment of the Law
(1) That it is expedient to amend the law with respect to the National Debt and the public revenue and to make further provision in connection with finance.
(2) This Resolution does not extend to the making of any amendment with respect to value added tax so as to provide-
(a) for zero-rating or exempting a supply, acquisition or importation;
(b) for refunding an amount of tax;
(c) for any relief, other than a relief that-
(i) so far as it is applicable to goods, applies to goods of every description, and
(ii) so far as it is applicable to services, applies to services of every description.
For the remaining Budget Motions, number 2 to 71, and those relating to Procedure and Money, see separate Paper.
Those Motions are to be moved at the conclusion of the Budget Debate, after the decision on the motion before the House on Amendment of the law. They will be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 51(3)).
Debate may continue until 5.00 pm.
At the end of the sitting:
2 PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC PETITION [No debate]
Wind farm (Wingate, County Durham) (Phil Wilson).
Presentation of petitions: no debate or decision (Standing Order No. 153).
3 ADJOURNMENT
Proposed subject: DWP Minister’s decision not to meet a delegation on Atos Healthcare (Mr Michael Meacher).
Debate may continue until 5.30 pm or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).
PUBLIC BILL COMMITTEES
Children and Families Bill
Room 12 (public)
Further to consider the Bill.
Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill
Room 9 (public)
The Attlee Suite, Portcullis House (private)
Political and Constitutional Reform
The Wilson Room, Portcullis House (private)
Subject: Revisiting Rebuilding the House: the Impact of the Wright Reforms.
Witnesses: Tony Wright, Professor of Government and Public Policy, University College London, and David Natzler, Clerk Assistant and Director General, Department of Chamber and Committee Services, House of Commons.
Scottish Affairs
Room 6 (private)
Subject: Remploy Marine Textiles Fife.
Witnesses: Esther McVey MP, Minister for Disabled People, and Jeremy Moore, Director, Disability and Work Opportunities, Department for Work and Pensions, and Ian Russell CBE, Chairman of the Board, Remploy.
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.]
PUBLICATION OF SELECT COMMITTEE REPORTS
Time of publication
The functions, powers and resources of the Information Commissioner (Ninth Report).
Written Ministerial Statements to be made today
1Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills: Building the business bank.
2Secretary of State for Defence: Service Complaints Commissioner Annual Report 2012.
3Secretary of State for Education: Review of personal, social, health and economic education.
4Secretary of State for Education: Working together to safeguard children guidance.
5Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Review of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
6Secretary of State for Health: Government response to the Health Select Committee’s report on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
7Secretary of State for the Home Department: EU Readmission Agreement with Armenia.
8Secretary of State for the Home Department: Measures to improve the performance of the UK Border Agency.
9Secretary of State for International Development: Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) (Triennial Review).
10Secretary of State for Justice: Law Commission report on intestacy and family provision claims.
11Secretary of State for Transport: Road safety.
General Committee Notices
A Public Bill Committee will meet on Tuesday 26 March at 9.10 am and 2.00 pm further to consider the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill.
European Committee C will meet on Tuesday 26 March at 2.30 pm to consider European Union Document No. 11762/11, a draft Regulation amending certain Regulations relating to the common commercial policy as regards the granting of delegated powers for the adoption of certain measures.
The Sixth Delegated Legislation Committee will meet on Monday 25 March at 4.30 pm to consider the draft Small Charitable Donations Regulations 2013.
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ASUU declares Pantami’s professorship illegal, to sanction FUTO VC, others
Written by darling on February 14, 2022
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has faulted the promotion of Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami, as a professor.
The union after its National Executive Council meeting declared the promotion as “illegal”.
This was declared at a press conference addressed by the President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, on Monday.
He said, “You cannot be a minister and a lecturer in a university. It is an encouragement of illegality.
“Pantami has to quit as a minister and be tried for doing double jobs within the same federal system. He is not qualified. Pantami should not be treated as a professor.”
In September 2021, Pantami, alongside seven academics were elevated by the council of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri to the position of professorship at the council’s 186th meeting.
The minister’s elevation has generated controversy, with many faulting FUTO on the promotion of the minister, who was not teaching in the university and whose highest academic attainment was reportedly a lecturer before he ventured into politics.
“We have resolved to sanction ASUU members involved in his promotion and the VC of FUTO,” he added.
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VICTORIAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT – THE HANSOM CAB
Posted on 13th February 2014 by MichelleHiggs11
If I was able to visit Victorian England, I know that one of the aspects which would fascinate me the most is the public transport. Aside from steam trains and the later electric trams, it was all horse-drawn which, of course, is so different from today’s motor-driven vehicles. Horses pulled the omnibuses, carts, and brewers’ drays through to the broughams, clarences and Hansom cabs. The sounds of hooves clattering on cobbles was everywhere, as was the smell of steaming horse manure…
To get about town quickly, catching a cabriolet (or cab for short) was the best bet. Cabbies plied their trade from cab-stands, not while moving. The fare was based on the distance, so it was important to know how far away the destination was to avoid being overcharged. The driver sat on a raised seat behind and above the passengers’ compartment with the horse’s reins going over the top of it. Passengers communicated with the driver and paid him through a trap-door in the roof. The cab-man controlled the door by means of a lever, which made it difficult to dodge paying the fare.
‘A Hansom Cab’ from Living London (1901)
Ladies often found that the overhanging reins could knock off their hats, and dresses could easily be soiled on the rim of the wheel. It was also extremely difficult to get in and out of a Hansom with any dignity while wearing a crinoline.
A journalist from Living London visited a cab yard and observed cab-drivers at work in 1901:
“The day cab-men, their hansoms and four-wheelers clean and bright from the washers’ hands, begin to appear in numbers about nine a.m., some hurrying Citywards with fares, and others proceeding slowly to various stands, where they find a few unfortunate and somewhat despondent night cab-men waiting in the hope of obtaining at least one good job before taking their cabs back to the yard.”
The best cab-stands for the drivers were outside the railway stations and the West End theatres, but life was tough for them. They worked twelve hour shifts and had to pay for the hire of their vehicles and horses out of the fares they earned.
‘In a Cab Yard’ from Living London (1901)
When John Hollingshead interviewed a cabman for Odd Journeys in and Out of London(1859), he was told that a Hansom cab driver had to earn fourteen or sixteen shillings a day in summer for his owner, in addition to ‘yard money’ which was the charges for the stables. This was before earning any money for himself. A four-wheeler could be let for slightly less at twelve shillings a day but the driver had to pay all expenses. At the time, cabmen driving licensed carriages had to pay five pound for the license plate and a shilling a day extra for the duty.
Beatrix Potter commented in her journal in 1885, that if “cabmen were really paid at the rate of sixpence a mile, they must go forty-two miles before they begin to make any profit. They pay sixteen shillings per day to a cab-owner for a cab and two horses, and have incidental expenses as well.”
‘In a Cabmen’s Shelter’ from Living London (1901)
Cab-men could enjoy a cheap midday meal at one of the cab-men’s shelters. Between two and five in the afternoon, hundreds of cabbies drove to the big yards where they changed horses and had their cabs ‘spotted’ to remove splashes of mud. It was usually around 9.30pm before the first hansom to finish its twelve hour day arrived back at the yard.
Although they were speedy, London cabs were rather uncomfortable. In Saunterings In and About London (1853), Max Schlesinger wrote that the “many crevices…let in wind and dust; the seats feel as if they were stuffed with broken stones; the check-string is always broken; the door won’t shut; or if shut, it won’t open; …to discover the faults of a London cab is easy.”
It sounds as though a ride in a Hansom cab was bearable for a tourist, but not necessarily for everyday use!
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VICTORIAN HOSPITALS: THE OUT-PATIENTS’ DEPARTMENT
Posted on 4th February 2014 by MichelleHiggs11
In the UK, we often take the NHS for granted. Everyone, regardless of background or income, can receive medical or surgical treatment if they need it without having to worry about whether they can afford it.
Imagine, then, how different it was if you lived in Victorian England. Back then, it was your social class which determined the type of healthcare you could get. The wealthy upper classes paid for private medical treatment at home or, later in the nineteenth century, in a practitioner’s consulting room. The middle classes might also pay for their treatment, perhaps at one of the increasing number of specialist hospitals, or through a general practitioner or dispensing chemist.
‘Awaiting Their Turn: In the Out-Patients’ Department at St Bartholomew’s Hospital drawn by Frank Craig (The Graphic, 3 August 1907)
Workers earning a regular and sufficient income could make weekly contributions to a ‘sick club’ or other providential scheme, but the benefits rarely extended to their wives or families. The working classes who were just above the poverty line were eligible for free treatment from charitable general hospitals or dispensaries. The abject poor who were receiving poor relief were refused admission to these hospitals and their only option was to seek treatment at the workhouse infirmary.
The out-patients’ department of a Victorian general hospital was very like today’s accident and emergency departments where most cases could be treated and sent home. More serious cases were admitted as in-patients.
‘Notes at a London Hospital: Saturday Night’ (The Graphic, 27 December 1879)
When a reporter for Living London (1900) visited one of these out-patients’ departments, he described the waiting room: “The pale consumptive jostles a sturdy labourer whose bandaged head furnishes an illustration of the momentum of falling bodies; patients with rasping coughs and panting breath; patients on crutches; patients in splints, with limbs swathed in bandages; men and women, old and young, strong and feeble, are here mingled into an indiscriminate assembly.”
Inside one of the consulting rooms, round the sides were “a number of electric lamps fitted with bull’s-eyes. At one of these a clinical assistant is examining, with the aid of a reflector fastened to his forehead, a patient’s throat, while at another a student is exploring an obstructed ear.” In the medical department “stethoscopes abound and coughs prevail; in the surgical, bandages, dressings and antiseptics are in evidence”. In the eye department, the air was “filled with a droning sound of “E, T, B, D, L, N” as the patients read aloud the letters of the test types through the trial glasses, and students, working out ‘refractions’, are seen in dark closets, throwing from their ophthalmoscopes bright, dancing spots of light on to the eyes of their patients.”
‘Extracting a Metal Fragment at the Ophthalmic Hospital’ (Supplement to The Sphere, 16 November 1901)
Those who had been seen by a doctor emerged from the consulting room with a prescription card which they took to the dispensary. Unlike today, bottles were not supplied free of charge so patients brought their own jars as receptacles for their medicine, or bought one from an itinerant bottle-seller outside the hospital. As well as medicines, out-patients could be prescribed surgical appliances such as crutches, artificial eyes or limbs, spectacles or a truss for supporting a hernia (a common complaint amongst labourers).
‘Notes at a London Hospital: La Queue at the Dispensary’ (The Graphic, 27 December 1879)
Victorian general hospitals were staffed with highly dedicated and skilled doctors, surgeons and nurses, but they were overstretched and had to work within the constraints of a limited budget. While there is a clear parallel with today’s hospitals, large numbers of the Victorian population, particularly women and children, frequently went without medical treatment simply because they weren’t entitled to it and couldn’t afford it. Thankfully, those days are long gone and today’s NHS is a more fair and just system of healthcare.
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Coronavirus: Every person prosecuted under Coronavirus Act was wrongly charged
Almost 15,000 fines for alleged breaches of the laws were issued by police forces in England and Wales up to 11 May.
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Every person prosecuted under the Coronavirus Act was wrongly charged, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.
Under the act, officers are allowed to remove or detain a "suspected infectious person" for screening and assessment, but all 44 charges brought up until the end of April were incorrect.
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And 12 charges under the Health Protection Regulations 2020, which give police powers to break up gatherings and fine people breaching restriction of movement rules, were also wrong.
However, other offences under those regulations were charged correctly, CPS director of legal services Gregor McGill said.
"Under the regulations, the vast majority, that's 175 out of 187, have been charged correctly.
"And these included people driving from London to Leicester for a party, groups drinking and misbehaving in the park and other groups hanging around the town centre after being asked to go home by police on several occasions.
"Where mistakes were made, it was usually because Welsh regulations were used in England, or vice versa.
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"Under the act, all 44 charges were incorrect because they did not cover potentially infectious people, which is what the legislation is intended for."
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The CPS reviewed all 231 police charges under coronavirus legislation in England and Wales up to the end of April, where the prosecution has either been stopped or ended in a conviction.
Most (38) of the 44 charges had been brought alongside other offences, including assaults on emergency workers, theft and burglary, Mr McGill said.
Thirty-one of the wrongful charges were withdrawn in court, with 13 wrongful convictions returned to court to be withdrawn.
It comes as the National Police Chiefs' Council revealed that a total of 14,244 fines for alleged breaches of these laws were issued by forces in England and Wales up to 11 May.
Most fines have been issued in London, the figures show, with the Metropolitan Police issuing the highest number of fines, 906, of the 43 regional police forces in England and Wales.
Thames Valley Police was second with 866, and North Yorkshire third, with 843. Warwickshire issued the fewest, with just 31.
National Police Chiefs' Council chairman Martin Hewitt said he was satisfied with how the laws were being enforced.
"The figures show our approach is proportionate with just 0.02% of the population in England and Wales being issued with a fine.
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