Spielberg, Streisand for Presidential Medal – Posthumous honors for Berra, Chisholm
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LOS ANGELES, Nov 17, (RTRS): Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Stephen Sondheim, Gloria Estefan and James Taylor are among the recipients of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom, to be presented at the White House by President Obama on Nov. 24.
Other recipients include veterans activist Bonnie Carroll, music producer Emilio Estefan, former Rep Lee Hamilton, NASA mathematician Katherine G. Johnson, baseball legend Willie Mays, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), conductor Itzhak Perlman and former EPA administrator William Ruckelshaus. Posthumous honors will go to Yogi Berra; Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress; Indian treaty rights activist Billy Frank Jr. and human rights leader Minoru Yasui.
The Medal of Freedom is the White House's highest civilian honor.
The list of recipients of each year's Medal of Freedom usually includes a handful from entertainment. Meryl Streep and Stevie Wonder were among the recipients in 2014. Sondheim was a recipient last year, but could not make the ceremony, and Obama said back then that he would receive the honor at the 2015 event.
The White House's full descriptions of the recipients are below:
Yogi Berra (posthumous)
Yogi Berra spent over 40 years as a professional baseball catcher, manager, and coach. Widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history — and an all-time Yankee great — Berra was an 18-time All-Star and 10-time World Series Champion who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. Always quick witted, Berra was famous for his "Yogi-isms," teaching us all that we can observe a lot just by watching. Berra was also a lifelong ambassador for inclusion in sports.
Bonnie Carroll
Bonnie Carroll is a life-long public servant who has devoted her life to caring for our military and veterans. After her husband, Brigadier General Tom Carroll, died in an Army C-12 plane crash in 1992, Carroll founded the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), which provides comprehensive support to those impacted by the death of their military hero, bringing healing comfort and compassionate care to the living legacies of our nation's service and sacrifice. Carroll is also a retired Major in the Air Force Reserve.
Shirley Chisholm (posthumous)
Shirley Chisholm made history in 1968 by becoming the first African-American woman elected to Congress, beginning the first of seven terms in the House of Representatives. In 1969 she became one of the founding members of what would become the Congressional Black Caucus. Not satisfied, Chisholm went on to make history yet again, becoming the first major-party African-American female candidate to make a bid for the US presidency when she ran for the Democratic nomination in 1972. She was a champion of minority education and employment opportunities throughout her tenure in Congress.
Emilio Estefan is a passionate and visionary music producer, entrepreneur, author, and songwriter who has won nineteen Grammy Awards and influenced a generation of artists. As the founding member of the Miami Sound Machine, and later through a decades-long career producing and shaping the work of countless stars, Estefan has helped popularize Latin music around the world. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Gloria Estefan is a singer, songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur who introduced Latin music to a global audience. The Cuban-American lead singer of the Miami Sound Machine has had chart topping hits such as "Conga," "Rhythm is Gonna Get You," and "Anything for You." Estefan has won seven Grammy Awards and is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide. She is an inductee to the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Billy Frank, Jr. (posthumous)
Billy Frank, Jr. was a tireless advocate for Indian treaty rights and environmental stewardship, whose activism paved the way for the "Boldt decision," which reaffirmed tribal co-management of salmon resources in the state of Washington. Frank led effective "fish-ins," which were modeled after sit-ins of the civil rights movement, during the tribal "fish wars" of the 1960s and 1970s. His magnetic personality and tireless advocacy over more than five decades made him a revered figure both domestically and abroad. Frank was the recipient of many awards, including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Service Award for Humanitarian Achievement.
Lee Hamilton has been one of the most influential voices on international relations and American national security over the course of his more than 40 year career. From 1965 to 1999, he served Indiana in the United States House of Representatives, where his chairmanships included the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. Since retiring from Congress, Hamilton has been involved in efforts to address some of our nation's most high profile homeland security and foreign policy challenges. He served as Vice Chairman of the 9/11 Commission and Co-Chairman of the Iraq Study Group.
Katherine G. Johnson
Katherine G. Johnson is a pioneer in American space history. A NASA mathematician, Johnson's computations have influenced every major space program from Mercury through the Shuttle program. Johnson was hired as a research mathematician at the Langley Research Center with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the agency that preceded NASA, after they opened hiring to African-Americans and women. Johnson exhibited exceptional technical leadership and is known especially for her calculations of the 1961 trajectory for Alan Shepard's flight (first American in space), the 1962 verification of the first flight calculation made by an electronic computer for John Glenn's orbit (first American to orbit the earth), and the 1969 Apollo 11 trajectory to the moon.
Willie Mays was a professional baseball player, spending most of his 22 seasons as a center fielder for the New York and San Francisco Giants. Mays ended his career with 660 home runs, making him the fifth all-time record-holder. Known as "The Say Hey Kid," Mays was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979 and landed on MLB's All-Time team. In 1951, Mays became one of the first African-American players in Major League Baseball history and won the Rookie of the Year award. Mays also served his country in the United States Army.
Barbara Mikulski
Barbara Mikulski is a lifelong public servant, who has held elected office since 1971. She became the longest serving female Senator in 2011, the longest serving woman in Congress in 2012, and the first female Senator to chair the Senate Appropriations Committee in 2012. Applying what she witnessed in her early career as a social worker and community activist in Baltimore, Maryland to her time in office, Senator Mikulski championed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and helped establish the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health to include women in federally-funded health research protocols.
Itzhak Perlman is a treasured conductor and sought-after teacher. Among his many achievements are four Emmy Awards, 16 Grammy Awards, and the 2008 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He was awarded a National Medal of Arts in 2000 and a Kennedy Center Honor in 2003. A native of Israel, he came to the United States at a young age and was introduced to Americans broadly when he appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. Mr. Perlman made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1963 when he was 18. In addition to performing internationally and recording the classical music for which he is best known, Perlman has also played jazz, including an album made with jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.
William Ruckelshaus
William D. Ruckelshaus is a dedicated public servant who has worked tirelessly to protect public health and combat global challenges like climate change. As the first and fifth Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, under Presidents Nixon and Reagan, he not only shaped the guiding principles of the agency, but also worked diligently to bring the public into the decision making process.
Stephen Sondheim is one of the country's most influential theater composers and lyricists. His work has helped define American theater with shows such as Company, West Side Story, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods. Sondheim has received eight Grammy Awards, eight Tony Awards, an Academy Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Steven Spielberg is an American film director, producer, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. Spielberg's films include blockbusters such as Jaws, Jurassic Park, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and the Indiana Jones series, as well as socially conscious works Schindler's List,Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln, and his newest film Bridge of Spies. A three-time Academy Award winner, Spielberg is widely considered one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history.
Barbra Streisand is one of our Nation's most gifted talents. Her body of work includes extraordinary singing, acting, directing, producing, songwriting, and she is one of the few performers to receive an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony. Her performance in 1968's Funny Girl endeared her to Americans for generations, and she won her first Academy Award for her role in that film. In 1984, she became the first woman to win a Golden Globe for Best Director, which she won for the motion picture Yentl. Streisand is also a recipient of four Peabody Awards, in addition to the National Medal of Arts and Kennedy Center Honors.
As a recording and touring artist, James Taylor has touched people with his warm baritone voice and distinctive style of guitar-playing for more than 40 years, while setting a precedent to which countless young musicians have aspired. Over the course of his celebrated songwriting and performing career, Taylor has sold more than 100 million albums, earning gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards for classics ranging from Sweet Baby James in 1970 to October Road in 2002.
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Holy Trinity is an attractive stone built church on the edge of the village looking out across the Trent Valley. It is surrounded by a large churchyard which is still used for burials. Little is known about the early history of the church which underwent a massive restoration in the C19th.
It is a typical parish church with a sturdy square tower at the west end with battlements and tall crocketted pinnacles at the corners. There are more crocketted pinnacles on the south aisle, which also has stone carved gargoyles.
The church is thought to have been built in the C13th and fabric in the nave is thought to date from that time.The big square windows were added in the C14th or C15th. The tower fell down in the mid C18th and was rebuilt. It contains a ring of six bells.
The Vicar, Henry Vincent Bailey funded a major restoration of the church in 1818 when the chancel and south wall were rebuilt. The interior furnishings date from this time. He also acquired a lot of medieval stained glass from other local churches. Messingham church probably has more stained glass than any other church in Lincolnshire.
Inside it is a large church with arcades of round and octagonal pillars and pointed arches separating the nave and side aisles. There is a small window at the top of the chancel arch with Christ crucified with an angel on either side.
The small round topped door into the tower is thought to be part of the original Norman church. This leads into the ringing chamber with a wooden ladder giving access to a trap door leading to the bells. On the walls are boards recording details of peel rung in the 1980s.
The wooden roof with its carved beams was part of the 1818 restoration. The clerestory windows on the north wall have clear glass in them. Those on the south wall have had their glass removed when the pitch of the south aisle roof was altered.
Just inside the door is the font which dates from the late C19th. The tall wooden cover with its carved base, is older.
At the east end of the south aisle is the Lady Chapel with a stone carving of the Last Supper above the altar. It is separated from the chancel by a modern glass screen.
The chancel is reached up steps and has a simple altar with a wooden panel reredos behind it. The East window contains the most medieval stained glass and is stunning when the sunlight shines through it.
The church has recently been awarded a Heritage Lottery Grant of £250,000 to repair the leaking roof and damp problems. There are plans to make the space more flexible for community based activities and to bring the church back to be the focal point of the community.
The church is currently kept locked. I emailed the Vicar who arranged for it to be open for me. It was definitely worth visiting. There is parking on Temperance Lane leading to the church. The postal code is DN17 3SB and the grid reference is SE 890048.
There are more pictures "here.":http://wasleys.org.uk/eleanor/churches/england/lincolnshire/lincolnshire_three/messingham/index.html


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If instead of making a film, you've created an episodic series (aka, a TV show) and you want to showcase it to TV executives, agents and producers you have limited options. There are a thousand film festivals but they don't accept episodic shows. So where do you take your series to be seen?
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Giants, Athletics Help Northern California Little League Team With World Series Traveling Expenses
by NESN Staff on Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:46AM
The Petaluma Little League team hails from Northern California, so allegiances are probably pretty split when it comes to choosing between rooting for the Giants or the A's.
For the next week or two, however, those Little Leaguers will be fans of both clubs.
The Bay Area big league clubs, along with Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, have teamed up to donate $15,000 to the Petaluma Little League club, as they get ready to head to Williamsport, Pa., for the Little League World Series.
Little League pays for the players' and coaches' accommodations, but families and friends are left to foot their own bills. That's obviously never easy, but fundraising efforts have helped lighten the load. As have the help from the pros.
"We look forward to cheering on the Petaluma Nationals and are hopeful that they will bring back a Little League World Series championship to Northern California," Comcast SportsNet Bay Area president Ted Griggs said, according to NBC Bay Area.
Petaluma defeated a team from Hawaii over the weekend, earning the right to represent the West region at Williamsport. They are the first team from Northern California to reach the World Series since 2002.
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Microsoft on Monday launched the slimmed down version of its latest Personal computer Operating system, Microsoft Windows 10 Internet of Things (IoT) core. Meant for development boards, the latest version will be of a great help to entrepreneurs, developers and students who are looking to develop software for internet-connected devices.
First announced in February this year, the light version is not meant for smartphones, but designed to function on Arduinos, and Raspberry Pi 2 boards. According to a blog post announcement by the software giant, Microsoft Windows 10 now brings support for MinnowBoard Max (MBM board) and Raspberry Pi 2, which is a $35 Linux-based tiny computer.
Microsoft has also added support for open-source Arduino in order to let the light new edition of OS communicate with Arduino boards. Reportedly, the company has also gone on to include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support, and made a massive improvement in the General Purpose Input-output performance for Raspberry Pi 2.
With the latest edition of the OS, Microsoft aims to offer a unified code base across all types of computers, which can help developers transform dumb objects into smart ones.
The new Microsoft Windows 10 IoT core also comes with support for programming languages, such as, JS, C#, VB and C++ as well as debugging. It also supports Node.js and Python.
The latest version of the OS will allow people to create apps for embedded devices such as connected appliances, toys or anything that one might be able to think up using the Windows ecosystem.
People interested in the new OS can download it from the Windows development center. However, the new Microsoft Windows 10 IoT core requires the July 29 versions of Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10 to function properly.
Officially, the only way to install Windows 10 IoT Core is with a computer running Windows 10. There are a few ways around this is with the ffu2img project on GitHub. This Python script takes the special Microsoft .FFU image file format and turns it into an .IMG file that can be used with dd under *nix and Win32DiskImager on Windows.
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Ivory Coast forward Gervinho could be on his way to China, with his club Roma confirming that they are in negotiations with Jiangsu Suning over a transfer for the player.
According to mtnfootball.com, the Elephants star has scored six goals in Serie A this season, but was left out of Roma's squad for their match against Juventus this past weekend.
"I can confirm there are negotiations on-going for Gervinho to China," said Roma director Mauro Baldissoni.
"When a player expresses the desire to leave, there's no point keeping him."
An offer of €18m is believed to have been made, although it is unclear whether that has been accepted.
If he does leave, Gervinho would become the latest high-profile player to move to the Chinese Super League.
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Today begins the second season of the Patriot political drama on Amazon Prime Video. In the following episodes, John has to go undercover to get information on a nuclear agreement with Iran.
Friday, November 9, the Patriot series returns to Amazon Prime Video after a long absence with the second season.
The "patriot"It's about two different brothers: one, a folk singer who is spinning, the other one a senator, often cynical, American. But John (Dorman) is not just a musician but also an agent, and his last the mission is Iran and the nuclear agreement. Unfortunately, he goes undercover in a medium-sized company over which the business trip can get information.
The question John Tavner has to ask at the beginning of the second season: can he leave John Lakeman behind and save himself? John must decide on the platform if he wants to get rid of his obligations and opponents by taking money from or after Agethe (Aliette Opheim), which may be a risk to him, but his brother, his father and that could save land. His father, meanwhile, has another way out: tracking and killing Calle Walley (Jay Abdo) in Paris.
Whether there will be a third season, it is not clear yet, especially because too much time has passed between the squadrons and some contracts have expired. Dorman took on a role in the new series for All Mankind.
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With all my heart I still love the man I killed
Directed by: William Wyler
Bette Davis, as
Leslie Crosbie
Herbert Marshall, as
James Stephenson, as
Howard Joyce
Frieda Inescort, as
Dorothy Joyce
Gale Sondergaard, as
Bruce Lester, as
John Withers
Elizabeth Inglis as
Adele Ainsworth
Reviewed on: April 1st, 2009
Bette Davis commits cold blooded murder.
Bette Davis teamed for her second of three movies with director William Wyler for this adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham play The Letter. It was nominated for seven Oscars including Best Picture, Actress and Director. It features some noir style black and white cinematography and a memorable musical score by Max Steiner. All of these ingredients combined for a classic murder melodrama.
The opening scene is one of the most unexpected and intriguing in movie history. We see a full moon then the camera pans down to a rubber tree with a sign identifying our location as Singapore. The camera then continues across some plantation workers lying in hammocks and finally we see the open front door of a large bungalow. A gun shot is heard. A man staggers out the front door of the bungalow. A woman follows him with a gun in her hand. The man falls to the ground as the woman repeatedly fires at point blank range until the gun chamber is empty.
Leslie Crosbie is one of Bette Davis' great villains. She tells her husband that the man she killed, a family friend, had tried to rape her and she shot him in self defense. He buys it and a lawyer friend takes on her case. But then evidence against her, in the form of an incriminating letter she wrote to the murder victim, surfaces. Without her husband knowing the full story her lawyer buys the letter and Leslie is subsequently acquitted of murder. Eventually her husband finds out what the letter said and that Leslie was indeed having an affair with the man; and what's more shot him in a fit of jealous passion when he tried to end it. Her husband forgives her and asks only if she still loves him. She struggles for a moment and then gives one of the great line readings of her career. "With all my heart I still love the man I killed!"
This movie is brilliantly acted and directed. Watch how Davis tells her first version of the murder. She is confident but is clearly acting. By that I mean the character is acting her lie. Later when she tells the true version of what happened she is much more relaxed and the truth pours out naturally. Wyler makes master use of his camera movement. He uses shadows and lighting contrasts that are very much film noir at the dawn of that genre.
There are only two flaws worth mentioning. One is the casting of Gale Sondergaard as the Asian wife of the man Leslie killed. Her makeup is garish and since all the other Asian characters are played by Asians she stands out. The other even bigger flaw is the ending that Hollywood censors imposed. In the stage version the curtain falls right after Leslie's big line. But here she has to pay for her sins. Therefore a somewhat ridiculous ending was tacked on where Leslie purposely walks out into the moonlight knowing that her murdered lover's wife is waiting in the shadows with a dagger.
Despite these flaws The Letter is a great movie.
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This Week At The Kino: Mexican provocations and Jewish & queer celebrations
Out of the many releases this week, only one caught our film editor's eye. Find out which one, and get the lowdown on this year's XPOSED and Jewish film festivals.
Nuevo Orden (New Order) – out in cinemas this week
This week's releases are numerous but, for the most part, slightly underwhelming. Only one truly stands out and we're saving it for last. Let's get through the others first.
Written, directed and starring Viggo Mortensen, Falling is strong albeit traditional-feeling drama that's essentially about a gay liberal struggling to care for his homophobic father during the final days of his life, after the latter has started showing signs of dementia. It's carried by two fantastic performances from Mortensen and the oft-underrated Lance Henriksen, who gives the performance of his 60-year career. Mortensen does delve into some interesting terrain regarding generational divides and father-son dynamics, but the end result tends to feel more exhaustingly melodramatic than reach-for-the-tissues poignant. Nonetheless, a solid directorial debut that's worth the price of admission for Henriksen's spirited performance alone.
Elsewhere, Tom & Jerry: The Movie can be filed alongside the Garfield films in the 'Kids Deserve Better Than These Uninspired Live Action 'Toon Movies' drawer; Dream Horse is a tooth-gratingly schmaltzy Brit flick that dramatises the real-life underdog tale of a Welsh village's racehorse-funding alliance, one that'll only delight those who consider Calendar Girls and Military Wives as flat out masterpieces. The fifth instalment in the Purge franchise, The Forever Purge, is a lot better than it had any right to be, and we're ashamed to say we haven't seen the Ryan Reynolds-starring Free Guy. We hope it's good.
As for this week's standout release, we nominate Nuevo Orden (New Order), the new film by Mexican provocateur Michel Franco. It won big at the Venice Film festival last year, nabbing the Grand Jury Prize for its bleak and distressingly not-so-unfeasibly-dystopian look at class revolt. It's far from subtle on the socio-political allegory front, but it pulls none of its punches during its mean and lean 88-minute runtime. It's worth watching, if you're not averse to stomach-knotting tension and some hard-hitting bursts of violence.
Angelo Madsen Minax's North By Current, screening at XPOSED Film Festival tonight at Moviemento (20:15) and on the closing night at Wolf Kino (21:10).
On our radar events-wise is the 15th edition of the XPOSED International Queer Film Fest, which had its opening night yesterday. The core of the programme kicks off today and lasts until the 15th, featuring 17 feature films and over 60 shorts. Of note are three Berlinale alumnus (click on the titles for our reviews): Alice Júnior (screening tonight at Il Kino – 19:00), The Twentieth Century (also screening tonight, this time at Moviemento – 22:45) and the fantastic North By Current (screening tonight at Moviemento and on the closing night at Wolf Kino – – 20:15 and 21:10 respectively). The last entry, which screened this year in Panorama, is our top pick: Angelo Madsen Minax's skilfully constructed essay follows the trans filmmaker returning to his Michigan hometown after the mysterious death of his two-year-old niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit. By grappling with the fact that "when you speak the pain's name, it dissipates", Madsen Minax movingly delves into themes of childhood, grief, addiction and transgender masculinity. It's a must-see. You can check out the full programme here.
Shiva Baby, screening at this year's JFBB – Jewish Film Festival.
Also kicking off tonight is the 27th edition of JFBB, the Jewish Film Festival (August 12-22). This year, the festival shines a light on the past and present realities between Israel and Palestine, as well as Germany and Poland. Two unmissable entries highlight the festival's diverse line-up and tonal range when it comes to tackling this year's theme: Shiva Baby and The Painted Bird.
On the lighter side of the spectrum is Emma Seligman's Shiva Baby, a refreshing and brilliantly scripted coming-of-age comedy that surprisingly manages to out-thrill most thrillers. It sees twentysomething Danielle (Rachel Sennott), who dabbles in both babysitting and sex work to support herself through uni, run into her secret sugar daddy at a shiva (a Jewish wake). As low-stakes as that sounds, the hyper-adrenalised execution would make the Safdie Brothers swoon, with Seligman managing to pull off an impressive tonal balancing act in which deadpan comedy, cringe humour and anxiety triggering claustrophobia have equal say. It screens on the 12th at Potsdam's Thalia (20:00) and the 13th at Delphi Lux (20:00), as well as an open-air screening on the 14th at Sommerkino Kulturforum (21:00).
On the much, much darker side is The Painted Bird, Czech filmmaker Václav Marhoul's adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński's divisive and seemingly unfilmable 1965 novel of the same name. This beautifully filmed monochrome odyssey explores conflict through the chaptered story of a young boy's ordeals through Eastern Europe during World War II. He is a witness to human depravity and the atrocities of war, reminding us that humankind has often shone through its malevolence and lack of humanity.
The film comes out early September in cinemas, but if you feel you can stomach it, rush to see this unforgettable piece of filmmaking at JFBB. Fair word of warning: it's an endurance test, but one that reveals itself to be devastatingly cathartic and vital. It screens on the 16th at Passage Kino (17:00), 17th at Potsdam's Thalia (19:00), 18th and 20th at Delphi Lux (20:00; 17:00). Keep an eye out for our full review when the film is released on September 9, as well as our interview with director Václav Marhoul.
Event Horizon, screening at the Berlin 24-Hour Sci-Fi Film Marathon at Babylon, starting tomorrow evening.
And lastly, if those two recommendations don't strike a chord, you can always head over to the third annual Berlin 24-Hour Sci-Fi Film Marathon at Babylon tomorrow evening. Lasting from 18:00 on Friday to 18:00 on Saturday (for those of you who were thrown off by the whole 24-Hour thing), the programme features genre classics like Flash Gordon, Terminators 1 & 2, They Live, Escape From New York, Event Horizon, and many more. All you need is a good sleeping bag and some comfy pillows; Babylon are throwing in a free breakfast for those who manage to keep awake, bless 'em.
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Cross-Ideological Common Ground on Torture and Discrimination, Sort of
Former VP Cheney and others (including a commenter on this blog) have criticized the Obama Administration for releasing the Bush OLC memos authorizing harsh interrogation techniques but redacting information about the supposed effectiveness of waterboarding, etc., as a means of obtaining actionable intelligence. On its face, the criticism is odd because the legal prohibition of torture is a prohibition of effective torture as well as ineffective torture, as even the Bush OLC memos themselves acknowledge. The severity or permanence of injury that some technique does not differ at all based on whether or not it leads to truthful and actionable intelligence or simply leads to the person being interrogating saying whatever he thinks the interrogators want to hear. Thus, it appears that what Cheney and others are saying is: "Whether or not waterboarding was illegal, it was the right thing to do."
That's not an inherently implausible claim. Just about everyone who thinks about the question will recognize that there are circumstances in which the right thing to do (judged by whatever moral standards one has for assessing rightness) is to violate the law--even if the law is generally a good law. Jurisprudence scholars debate whether there is even a prima facie moral duty to obey the law, but even if there is one, surely that duty can sometimes be overcome by other moral duties. It takes an awfully strong commitment to the act/omission distinction to say that it's wrong to torture the terrorist who has hidden a doomsday device. Of course, such scenarios are highly unrealistic, but the point of such "ticking bomb" examples is to show that categorical opposition to torture must be rooted in something besides the claim that it is always and in principle wrong (although there are indeed people who think, on Kantian grounds, that torture is indeed always and in principle wrong, even if the consequences of not torturing are catastrophic).
The difficulty with the foregoing analysis may be that it gives too much credit to VP Cheney and others, who really do seem to be saying something like "if it worked, it's legal." But we can make some sense of even that sort of claim. The argument goes along the lines of the OLC memos and is rooted in the impulse to resolve legal ambiguity in favor of permitting conduct that looks a lot like torture. If you think that the legal prohibition on torture gets in the way of doing things that are morally best, then you will want to construe that prohibition as narrowly as possible. Although I disagree with the premises of this set of arguments, I do understand their structure.
Indeed, the structure is broadly similar to the structure of arguments liberals (who tend to be on the other side of the torture debate) make in other contexts. Consider the issue presented by the New Haven firefighter case currently before the Supreme Court, and race-conscious affirmative action more broadly. Conservatives argue that the constitutional guarantee of "equal protection" and (even more clearly) the statutory prohibition on "discrimination on the basis of race," forbid all race-based affirmative action and that liberals who favor such programs favor them despite the fact that they are unequal and discriminatory. From the conservative viewpoint, in other words, liberals think it is more important to advance their vision of society (e.g., racially integrated fire departments) than to follow the legal requirement of equal protection and the legal prohibition on discrimination.
But from the perspective of (us) liberals, that's mistaken. We say that the meaning of terms like "equal protection" and "discrimination" is sufficiently open-ended to permit race-based affirmative action. Indeed, we even understand such programs as designed to implement the equality and anti-discrimination norms. In other words, we make the analogous move to the one made by the Bush OLC memos: We see and resolve ambiguity to render our understanding of the law consistent with our vision of morality.
To be clear, I'm NOT saying that the moves are equivalent in all respects. I think that the interpretation of "equality" to permit some race-based affirmative action is much more legitimate than the interpretation of "torture" to permit waterboarding. John Yoo and Steve Bradbury would probably draw the opposite conclusion. But my larger point is that the interpretive moves have the same structure.
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What Does A Veteran Look Like? Women Who Enlisted Break The Mold
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• November 11, 2018
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WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) On this Veteran's Day meet Beth Alford. The Indiana native served in the Navy in Iraq in 2006 and Afghanistan in 2013. She is also serving in Navy reserves as a naval chief petty officer.
SAGINAW, Mich.
When people think of veterans, women who serve in the military don't always come to mind.
Most people think of an older, white male Vietnam veteran with patches and a hat, says Andrea Norton, who served in the U.S. Air Force.
"Society at large doesn't recognize women as veterans," said Norton, now a woman veterans program manager for the Department of Veteran Affairs in Saginaw. "I guarantee if you ask anybody what's in your head, what does a veteran look like, they're gonna have one specific image."
But women who've served their country are out there. The Veteran Health Agency Support Service Center says there are 529 women veterans in Bay County, 986 in Saginaw County and 374 in Midland County.
Beth Alford, director of military student affairs at Saginaw Valley State University, is one of them. The Indiana native served in the Navy in Iraq in 2006 and Afghanistan in 2013. She is also serving in Navy reserves as a naval chief petty officer.
"I've heard in my groups of women that sometimes their service fields may be a little bit more invisible than others," Alford said. "When people think about veterans, they don't think of a 36-year-old female with three kids that works at SVSU, they don't think, 'Oh yeah, she's had two deployments.'"
Alford said women veterans aren't seeking recognition for their service beyond what other vets receive during times such as Veterans Day on Sunday, Nov. 11. But she says it's tough when things happen like a group of men at a gas station thank her husband for his service but ignore her.
"Honestly, I don't need someone to thank me, I don't expect that, but it is sort of a slap in the face," she said. Norton said the point of the military is not to be individualistic, but feels women have to do extra work to get recognized.
"We all look the same in the military for a reason, it's about cohesion and being a team," she said. But the military can be a "good old boys club" and women have to prove themselves to get "half the amount of respect" that men get, she said.
Being a woman in the military brings its own set of challenges, such as dealing with sexual harassment -- or even sexual assault.
According to a VA fact sheet, one in four women veterans say that have experienced sexual trauma or sexual harassment during their service.
"You would be hard pressed to find a single woman who served that didn't experience sexual harassment, it's part of the culture," Norton said, adding that she experienced discrimination as well when she served. "I had a tech sergeant who told me he didn't believe women should be wearing the uniform."
Haley Tacey, a student at Saginaw Valley and a veteran from Saginaw, says she experienced sexual harassment from a superior officer while she was in the U.S. Marine Corps.
She and another woman in the service reported him and after an investigation he was forced to retire, she said. Tacey said she faced criticism from others for reporting it.
Some of the terms used to describe women in the military, Tacey said, included terms like "wooks" and "walking mattresses."
Her advice for women in the military is to stick up and defend your morals in those types of instances and there are avenues for women to follow, like each base having an equal opportunity adviser to address issues such as sexual harassment.
Despite that incident, she said she is proud to be in the military and to have served her country.
"I just learned a lot from the military," she said, adding that it made her more mature and helped her to go to college, too.
Norton said things have gotten better for women over the years as more women are serving in roles that were traditionally held by men, but still more work is needed.
"There might be policies, but culture has to catch up to policy and sometimes policy has to catch up to culture," Norton said.
Norton said many women who have finished their service are reluctant to contact the VA, but the agency has made strides in recent years to improve its care to women, like the creation of Norton's role in 2010.
"When I was first hired on to this role a little over two years ago, they committed in their facility's strategic plan to prove women's health," she said. "We've been able to expand our staff and develop a more cohesive program."
She added that women have unique needs and that there should be equitable services because everyone has unique needs and all women want is equality.
The VA has services that can help women, and male veterans as well, like talking with a military sexual trauma coordinator who offers counseling, support and help with treatment planning through case management.
Alford said that there has been a lot of progress over the years like at the Aleta Lutz VA Hospital in Saginaw County, which has a robust women veteran's clinic for medical needs that are unique to women.
"I'm the forever optimist, but I think that we've come a long way. I know when I host workshops here, female veterans are always asked about or talked about," she said. "The experience they (women) bring can be so valuable when people might not think that it is."
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'It Was Killing Me': Doctors Save Vaping Victim On Long Island
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MANHASSET, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — The dangers of vaping have been all over the news of late.
On Thursday, a Long Island man spoke out about nearly dying from it.
The Roslyn Heights resident told CBSN New York's Cindy Hsu he's lucky to be alive.
"I can't express how much that that basically almost killed me. I thought it was just relaxing me, and it wasn't. It was killing me," Jonathan Doneson said at North Shore University Hospital.
The 52-year-old was talking about vaping THC, which is the chemical in marijuana that gets you high. He said he had been vaping from a pen every day for several weeks for several months to relieve stress, but then started to feel sick.
"Coughing, your lungs feeling tight, sweats, loss of appetite," Doneson said, describing his symptoms.
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Doctors said he was treated for bronchitis, but the symptoms continued. When they learned he had been vaping THC, they found lung damage and realized he also had double pneumonia.
They treated him with steroids and antibiotics, and he eventually recovered.
His doctors are concerned about the ingredients being vaped.
"We don't know what's inside them. A lot of them are counterfeit products. They do have marijuana in them, but they have other things that we don't know, like pesticides, carcinogens, cancer causing agents," pulmonologist Dr. Mina Makaryus said.
Doneson wouldn't say where he bought his THC, but after he got sick, he had it tested. What did they find?
"Formaldehyde, pesticide, vitamin E and a little dab of THC," he said.
He's really concerned about kids in middle and high school.
"It alsmose killed me. So don't be the big shot who thinks, 'Oh, I got the THC pen,' and you want to show off to all of your friends, 'look I got the new one.' It's not cool," he said.
His doctors are warning everyone to stop vaping, whether it's nicotine or marijuana.
"We don't know what the long-term affects are of these substances they they are using. We don't know if they're going to cause cancer in 20-30 years from now," Dr. Makaryus said.
Currently, the Centers for Disease Control is investigating hundreds of cases of illnesses believed to be related to vaping, and so far six people have died.


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9/11/03 - U.S. PLAN FOR IRAQ - 2003-09-12
Rebuilding Iraq will take time and require sacrifices. The United States has experience rebuilding war-torn countries. Following the Second World War, the U.S. devoted the resources necessary to help Germany and Japan establish democratic governments and market economies. The U.S. and its coalition allies want to do the same for Iraq, said President George W. Bush:
"That effort [in Germany and Japan] has been repaid many times over in three generations of friendship and peace. America today accepts the challenge of helping Iraq in the same spirit -- for their sake, and our own."
The first step is to destroy the terrorists. Since the end of major combat operations in Iraq, U.S. and coalition forces have seized many caches of weapons and ammunition. Hundreds of Saddam Hussein loyalists and terrorists have been captured or killed. Of the fifty-five most-wanted former Iraqi leaders, forty-two are now dead or in custody. The message is clear, said President Bush:
"Anyone who seeks to harm our soldiers can know that our soldiers are hunting for them."
The U.S. and its allies are also committed to expanding international cooperation in the reconstruction of Iraq. There are nearly one-hundred thirty-thousand U.S. troops in Iraq and over twenty-thousand troops from twenty-nine other countries. Two multinational divisions are led by British and Polish forces.
The ultimate goal is to restore sovereignty to the Iraqi people. More than ninety-percent of towns and cities in Iraq have functioning local governments. The new Iraqi Governing Council is made up of twenty-five leaders representing Iraq's diverse people -- Muslim, Christian, Shiite, Sunni, Kurd, and Turkman. The next step toward self-government will be drafting a constitution. Once written, the constitution will be widely circulated and debated among the Iraqi people. All adult Iraqis will have the chance to vote for or against it. After the constitution has been ratified, elections can be scheduled.
As President Bush said, with the help of the coalition, the Iraqi people "must rise to the responsibilities of a free people and secure the blessings of their own liberty."


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Valen awoke in the morning ready to go talk to the deputy Hogokage about his concerns regarding his eyes and abilities with light. He dressed himself in his usual attire of crimson cloak, black undershirt, black cargo pants and shinobi boots. He proceeded to tie his blade to his waist before rolling his shoulders and stepping out the door, making sure to reset his traps when he did so. He began to turn toward The Unseen University, where he would be able to find the Deputy Hogokage in most situations unless she was baking as he heard she enjoyed doing. As he turned toward the direction however he found himself shaking his head and turning back to go toward his usual training ground. He moved quietly down the street toward his preferred place of practice, taking slow strides and getting some fresh air as he moved toward the training ground. 'What's wrong with me?' He'd begin to think as he shortly came within view of the church that stood nearby. 'Why didn't I just go toward the Deputy Kage's Office as I had intended to? Why did I turn away?' He'd ask himself as he stepped onto the field and began to mill around, pacing back and forth, trying to figure out why he was hesitating. 'Am I afraid to find out about myself? If she knows, would I somehow find out more about my parents? Am I ready to find out what I am? What this is?' He'd ask himself as he paced around the training ground. The sun was high up in the sky and he soon decided it would be good to get out of the heat. He turned toward the church and walked toward it, taking a seat on a nearby bench that was shadowed by the structure. He would sigh in relief of the shade before placing his elbows on his knees and nervously moving his feet up and down in a rapid manner. He simply didn't know what to do, should he go ask her? Should he wait until he thought he was ready? "What is this power is dangerous to other people around me?..What if I accidentally harm civilians?..That settles it, I need to speak to the Deputy Kage..Denkiteki Sama would probably be too busy, but I'll bug him about it if I need to instead." He would say aloud, mainly to himself before nodding and standing up to leave. He'd look back up at the church before leaving, staring at the structure that seemed to be a constant fixture in his training.
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That was the word Akihana had been hearing a lot lately, and she wasn't entirely sure if it was a good or bad thing. Certainly Queen Shiera would not have liked to be referred to as the Commoner Queen and Princess Tehniyat may have simply found it an insult of the highest degree. Yet Akihana, when she did give into instinct in times of non realization, found herself warming up to the title. There were definitely grander versions of it. Queen of the People, Mother of Haven, The Princess that was Promised. But all those names never really described her, they described an image the common folk had of her.
An image that most days had to be more real than the kunoichi was, because in this world, there was little room for a woman who baked and prayed and mourned. She had to be kept out of sight in favor of the beautiful Queen who exuded confidence in her people and hope for the future. The Commoner Queen allowed for a little bit of Akihana to leak into the persona her royal image had created.
She had always been just one of the people, and that title reminder her that she would always be one of them. She sometimes wondered if that was how Youka felt, playing a part for his people as much as she played one for hers. The pain that came with thoughts of her husband was welcome at this point. It had been almost half a year since she had last seen him on the battlefield created outside Kumogakure's gate. Half a year since she'd heard anything from him, half a year since she'd asked him if he'd eaten, or slept, or had more work pending, or simply sat with him in silence.
Now, the pain was the only reminder that the silence had once existed, so it would always be welcome in her heart. if all she had to remember him by was the pain and the promise that rested on her ring finger, she was really one of the lucky ones. Someone had told her once that tokens didn't matter, but they had not clarified what forms tokens could take. Would she miss her heart if someone took it away? Or would she learn to live without it, reminded of its former existence only by the ache and emptiness it left behind?
The tear that threatened to escape her golden eyes was hidden expertly as Akihana bowed her head in prayer, seated in the back rows of the pew without her guards. There was no need, for it was Ser Kyousuke who was giving the sermon today. The knight had been so diligent in his duties to her, she hadn't realized he was neglecting his church. The Queen had insisted on attending one of his sermons and here they were. The church was beautiful, modest and catered to all who wished to learn the ways of a loving and merciful God. Ser Kyousuke's deity of choice welcomed everyone, the rich, the poor, the healthy and sick, the men and the women and ninja too.
It was the only place she felt right praying for the man who may never wish to lay eyes on her again. He may have been a sinner by many counts but this church welcomed sinners, and Akihana could only hope her silent plea for Youka's well being would be heard. As the bell for midday mass ending rang, the blonde rose to her feet, gathering her modest pale peach gown around herself. If she stayed, there would soon be a queue of people lining up to pay their respects and the last thing she wanted was the attention drawn from her Queensguard's excellent sermon. He deserved the spotlight today for his tireless duty to the crown.
Making her way out of one of the side doors to throw off any attention, the blonde found herself underneath the scorching midday sun. The heat felt cleansing on her back, travelling through the thin material of her gown to envelope her slender frame and make her golden locks glow. There were benches outside but those would soon be crowded by the church goers stopping for a word, a gossip, a favor or to simply congratulate someone on a wedding, a birth, even a death. A lonely shadowy figured was the only person that occupied the area of the benches and the kunoichi wandered why he hadn't gone in.
Feeling bolder than she would have before she had prayed for a man who many believed was beyond prayer, she made her way towards the ambling shadow up head. If he was a commoner, he would recognize her by her hair, if not, well, she was the Commoner Queen. Might as well be the "common" bit for a while.
"Good Morrow," she called out, raising a hand to the male slowly looming in view. "You should attend the service one of these days, they really are lovely."
Valen realized during his small mental breakdown that he didn't even know what the woman looked like. That would mean he would need to speak with her during anytime she might be in her office. This drove him absolutely mad as while a great deal of his being was a nervous wreck over actually learning something about his heritage. The other part of him wanted to know, badly. But unless he knew of someone that knew the Deputy Hogokage herself and could introduce him he doubted he'd be able to get a meeting with her easily. After all she must have been one incredibly busy woman. What with paperwork and having to deal with Hogokage-sama as well. A job which was probably a full time job in it of itself. So, while he wanted nothing more than to dash to the offices in The Unseen University he knew full well that'd he'd probably be a bit of a fool for doing so. This would lead to a long drawn out sigh right before he heard someone call out to him under the blistering afternoon sun. He turned to face the melodic voice to see a slender woman with striking blonde hair that seemed to be illuminated by the sun as she moved. She had deep brown eyes and wore a simple peach coloured gown that went perfectly with her hair.
After rudely staring at her when she called out to him, a fact he become all too aware of. He would blink a few times before realizing that she would be waiting for a response from the crimson haired young man. He would nod his head in her direction, not bothering to stand or move from the bench, but also not blocking the available seat on it if the fair haired woman decided to occupy the lone spot that remained. She must've been inside, so she was a civilian church goer? This made him nervous because his sword was currently strapped to his waist. This meant that this particular civilian might notice it and try something. He couldn't physically hurt her if she did, but at this point there was much on his mind that he simply didn't care if she tried to strike him, or belittle him or not. At this point he'd realize that she had told him that he should attend a service at some point. It seemed that she herself was a fan of them. Personally however, they simply weren't Valen's thing. Especially since most of the people that would go would absolutely love to see him and every other shinobi burn for all they cared.
Therefore he'd shake his head at the suggestion, while the lack of hostile words for the a moment was a kind respite, he wouldn't put himself so obviously in the middle of their world. "I think not, the majority of my kind are not welcome in most of the churches." He would say, not making eye contact mainly out of a minor bit of nervous tension. He didn't really understand why he felt so nervous about this woman. Perhaps it was simply him being worked up over his earlier thoughts. That could very well be it. Still it didn't really fix the issue he had but it didn't really matter. Someone had taken time out of their day to speak to him so he would at least be polite enough to not anger her. "I am however glad to know that people really do find peace in there." He would say as he continued to move his leg up and down in a nervous fashion. His mind was running too quickly for him to keep up at this point. He needed to calm down left he make HER nervous.


https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Greenwich-dealer-unveils-new-Rolls-Royce-3671683.php
Greenwich dealer unveils new Rolls-Royce
Nicole Narea
At right, David Archibald, president of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars North America, during the unveiling ceremony of the Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II in the recently renovated showroom at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Greenwich Wednesday night, June 27, 2012. less
At right, David Archibald, president of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars North America, during the unveiling ceremony of the Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II in the recently renovated showroom at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars ... more
Photo: Bob Luckey
Greenwich resident Michael Colnes took a sip of wine and boasted of once being the proud owner of a Rolls-Royce -- a toy-sized model that decorated his childhood bedroom, that is.
Nevertheless, as a longtime admirer of Rolls-Royce's unique brand of luxury, he knows that its "combination of history, tradition, and the leading edge" never goes out of style, he said.
"No one will ever ask what year Rolls Royce you have," Colnes said. "It is simply timeless."
The latest addition to Rolls-Royce's 108-year lineage of luxury vehicles is the Phantom Series II, which was unveiled Wednesday evening in the newly remodeled Rolls-Royce Motor Cars of Greenwich showroom on West Putnam Avenue. The cocktail chatter faded to whispers as David Archibald, president of the company's North American division, addressed the crowd of 50 car enthusiasts, revealing the Phantom's gleaming, spacious cobalt body.
It is easily the size of a small bus and would seemingly require a "commercial license to drive," joked Greenwich resident Niki Bloom.
Manhattan resident Beverly Ehrlich made the trek to the Greenwich dealership, the nation's biggest seller of Rolls-Royces, to experience the car before her own custom Phantom arrives in October. The car's most basic model is priced at nearly $400,000.
"The Queen of England will be driven in this car," Ehrlich said as other guests whipped out their smartphones to record footage of the Phantom. "This is the top of the top -- the Mount Everest of cars."
The Phantom Series II represents "an evolution, rather than a revolution" for Rolls-Royce, Archibald said.
It maintained all of the basic attributes of the acclaimed Series I model, but saw significant technological upgrades. It boasts the first LED headlights to be offered as standard on a production car and a new 8-speed automatic gearbox that lowers fuel consumption by 10 percent, as well as updated navigation and driver assistance services.
"The major appeal of Rolls-Royce is that the driving experience is effortless," said Archibald, who drives a range of Rolls-Royces, including the Phantom, depending on his mood. "I was stuck in traffic on the way from the George Washington Bridge to the Throgs Neck Bridge yesterday, and sitting there in the Rolls with a big smile on my face because I was completely relaxed."
Indeed, Rolls-Royce claims to be closely engaged in its customer experience and acts upon feedback, though it does not conduct formal market research.
"We do our market research in casual, intimate gatherings like this one where we can talk directly to loyal customers," Archibald said.
The Northeast remains the second-strongest market in the country for the brand, second only to the West Coast.
The addition of the Phantom Series II and the newly renovated showroom, updated as part of a Rolls-Royce corporate identity commission, bodes well for sales at the Greenwich dealership, which snagged the title of the country's "Dealer of the Year."
It is the only Rolls-Royce showroom in Connecticut and one of 37 in North America.
"Opening the showroom will breathe new life into the brand," said dealership General Manager Bailey Vanneck, who presided over three sales after the new showroom opened this week.
In addition, the dealership opened up the nation's largest Rolls-Royce after-purchase facility in Stamford, which heralds an opportunity for expansion.
"We are anticipating steady growth, incremental growth," said Sales Manager Tom Roach.
Dealership employees anticipate that some of that growth will stem from an increasingly diversified customer base. Luxury cars companies' target demographic used to be male entrepreneurs, but now about 10 percent of Rolls-Royce's customers are women, Archibald said.
Stamford resident Beth Dempsey claims to be among those women just beginning to dip their toes into the world of luxury vehicles.
"I've always wondered why men have such a fascination with cars," Dempsey said. "I'm exploring."
Nicole Narea is a special correspondent for Greenwich Time.
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Florida bill would have students learn alternatives to climate change, evolution
News / January 30, 2019 January 30, 2019
A bill that would allow school districts to teach Florida students alternatives to concepts deemed "controversial theories" — such as human-caused climate change and evolution — has been filed in the state Legislature.
The language of the bill sounds fairly unremarkable, requiring only that schools "shall" teach these "theories" in a "factual, objective, and balanced manner." But the group that wrote the bill, the Florida Citizens Alliance, says the bill is needed because curriculum currently taught in Florida schools equates to "political and religious indoctrination," according to their managing director, Keith Flaugh.
The bill's sponsor, Sen. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, said that schools need to teach "different worldviews" on issues like evolution and climate change. He asserts that textbooks now skew toward "uniformity" of thought.
Both evolution and climate change are well-established fact in the scientific community.
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Share this Story: Third annual Global Citizenship Summit planned for Nov. 18
Third annual Global Citizenship Summit planned for Nov. 18
Tyler Kula
Nov 05, 2015 • November 5, 2015 • 2 minute read
Misconceptions, stereotypes and prejudices will be targets at a gathering on global citizenship later this month in Sarnia.
Ruth Geurts is one half of the Lambton College duo that formed the annual Global Citizenship Summit three years ago — a way to promote knowledge about different cultures and different challenges that people worldwide face, said the international community development instructor.
It's "to bring a sensitivity and awareness to the general public, as well as to our student population," she said about the summit, this year set for Nov. 18.
Helping to do that, a pair of humanitarian activists are booked to tell their stories at the ticketed event at Lambton's event centre.
Gilad Cohen, with Canadian charity Jayu — which means "freedom" in Korean — is to speak about the agency's work bringing human rights awareness through art.
Leo Johnson, with Empowerment Squared — focused on effecting sustainable change in Liberia — is also set to speak about his agency's work, Geurts said.
It's timely given the recent attention paid to the Syrian refugee crisis, she said, noting Johnson, a former Liberian refugee, will be able to shed light on his experience of being displaced by civil war.
He lived for eight years in refugee camps in Ivory Coast and Ghana, his agency bio says.
A pair of local Muslim women will also speak about stereotypes they face, Geurts said, with all the talks tying in to this year's theme: 'debunking the myth.'
That means breaking down stereotypes and building understanding about different cultures, she said.
It's $30 per ticket to the 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. affair, which includes a buffet selection of various international cuisines until 6:30 p.m., Geurts said — noting local food establishments are offering Greek, Italian, French, Indian, Thai, and First Nations food, among others.
Last year's summit, she said, sold out.
Earlier in the day, Nov. 18, a group of about 300 college students will also take part in awareness building activities, said Geurts, who established the annual summit with student activities coordinator and English as a second language teacher Amy Weiler as a way to expose people to different cultures, and to open minds.
Lambton College currently has 446 international students from 21 countries studying at its Sarnia campus, a college spokesperson said.
Local businesses, the Awesome Foundation, Lambton College, the Sarnia-Lambton Local Immigration Partnership, and YMCA Immigration and Settlement also help put on the event, Geurts said.
Tickets are available via Bluewater Nutrition, by emailing amy.weiler@lambtoncollege.ca, or calling 519-542-7751 ext. 3579.
tyler.kula@sunmedia.ca
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Police crack down on family-run drug gang in Brussels
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Police have arrested twenty-one people and seized a dozen cars and tens of thousands of euros after dismantling a drug gang operating out of a Brussels municipality for years, law enforcement authorities announced Thursday.
The dismantlement was part of a major drug operation involving Belgian and international police, who managed to trace a family-operated drug gang operating out of the municipality of Anderlecht and importing cannabis from Spain and Morocco into France and Belgium for years.
Police carried out the arrests on June 27 after around 200 agents carried out thirty different house raids and detained a total of 21 people, among which they said were the main members of the gang.
Since the arrests, 11 people have been charged and four of them remain in preventive detention, Denis Goeman, spokesperson with Brussels public prosecutor told La Dernière Heure.
A dozen kilos of cannabis, €65,000 euro, three firearms and around a dozen cars were also seized during the operations, according to the spokesperson.
The operation was part of the "Global Drugs Plan," in which members of federal and local police units work together with public prosecutor offices to crack down on criminal drug gangs active in the Brussels territory.


LYNX Technik AG Appoints Stefan Gnann as New CEO
Winfried Deckelmann, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Stefan Gnann, CEO of LYNX Technik
LYNX Technik AG®, provider of modular interfaces for broadcast as well as professional AV signal processing applications, announces changes to its executive management team with the appointment of Stefan Gnann as the company's new CEO, effective immediately.
Winfried Deckelmann, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and former LYNX Technik CEO said: "I want to personally welcome Stefan to the LYNX Technik team as our new CEO. He brings with him invaluable business acumen, leadership, technology knowledge, and experience having worked in the Broadcast industry for so many years. Stefan has a clear passion for technology and innovation and is an excellent fit to lead our team and achieve the vision of LYNX Technik. We have maintained a strong relationship with Stefan over the years, and his input as a customer and partner has been influential in a number of our key product developments."
Most recently, Stefan has been immersed in the evolving world of 4K UHD and IP technologies. His work with broadcasters and standards groups has involved coordinated efforts to generate new enhanced methods and approaches for Broadcasters to make a smooth transition to IP sports & event production, as well as IP studio applications.
Throughout his extensive career in the Media & Entertainment Technology industry, Stefan Gnann has served in many leadership roles, helping drive financial growth, develop new production processes and facilitate the development and launch of new products and projects. Stefan led VTS Videotechnik Selhuber GmbH as Managing Director, where he was instrumental in building the company into a leading systems integrator and technology provider. Stefan also directed the merger between VTS with sono Studiotechnik GmbH to form sonoVTS GmbH.
"This is an exciting time for me to join LYNX Technik at such a pivotal time in the industry as new technologies and markets are evolving," comments Stefan Gnann, CEO of LYNX Technik. "One of my key roles here at LYNX, backed by our exceptional global team, will be to drive product development and market share leadership to meet both the short- and long-term demands of our production, post-production, contribution, and content distribution customers."
Stefan can be reached at: Stefan.Gnann@lynx-technik.com and +49 6150 1817130.
About LYNX Technik
LYNX Technik AG® is a technology provider of modular interface solutions for broadcast and professional use. LYNX Technik AG is an independent privately owned company with its headquarters, research and manufacturing facilities based in Weiterstadt, Germany. Sales and Support is covered through secondary distribution channels managed from its headquarters in Germany, USA (California), and Asia (Singapore).
Product brands include: the greenMachine® APP based signal processing platform, yellobrik® standalone plug-and play modules, Series 5000® rack and card-based series, APPolo control system and the Testor | lite 3G digital test signal generators.
Products include: audio / video / fiber conversion, audio / video distribution, fiber splitters, CWDM mux/demux, audio embedding / de-embedding, audio delay, image processing, frame synchronizers, test generators, 4K transmission solutions, as well as a line of rack frames and accessories.
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Bulls Continue To Dominate Cresco Labs Inc (OTCMKTS: CRLBF)
By Jim Bloom
Our last two updates on Cresco Labs Inc (OTCMKTS: CRLBF) acknowledged the robustness of the stock amid positive market sentiment. In particular, the stock has been on a roll since January and it promises to give even more gains to investors.
Cresco Labs Share Price Analysis
The stock opened the year at $6.73 and went on to achieve this year's high at $13.21 on April 24, 2019. However, the stock breached the 50-day moving average trend-line at $11.78 on May 22 but later bottomed out at $10.77.
Looking at the performance of the stock year-to-date, there is immense potential in terms of returns. To be sure, the stock is up 70.58% year-to-date and the desire to add more value is demonstrable. In particular, the current bull market has been buoyed by a spike in sales which was noted when the company released its earnings report for Q1 2019.
CRLBF Daily Chart
In the quarter, Cresco Labs generated $21.1 million in revenues which implies a rise of 311% year-on-year. In Q4 2018, the company reported a rise in revenue in the region of 411% YoY. Basically, this is an indication of the strong sales momentum which is supported by a robust business model and a general bull market in the cannabis industry.
Nonetheless, Cresco Labs missed consensus estimates for Q1 revenues. In particular, Thomson Reuters polled analysts before the earnings report and the estimated revenue for Q1 2019 which emerged from the consensus was $22.6 million. Also, the earnings underperformed estimates when it comes to anticipated loss. While the reported loss for the quarter amounted to $7.6 million, the estimated loss was $4.2 million.
Like earlier noted, the Cresco stock has grown 70.58% so far this year. Comparably, the Horizons Marijuana Lifesciences ETF has grown 42.6%. As such, Cresco has outperformed key market indicators and still looks poised to stretch the lead.
About Cresco Labs
Cresco prides itself in having an experienced management team which is capable of executing its growth strategy. The company grows, processes and retails premium cannabis and with a multistate business presence. Particularly, the company identifies and enters markets which have a lot of demand potential. Also, it boasts a remarkable speed-to-market which enables Cresco to replicate the model and grow its national reach expeditiously.
Voluntary lock-up agreement
In a demonstration of shareholder confidence in Cresco's long term growth strategy, holders of a little over 205 million common shares agreed not to sell their shares until December 3, 2019 and June 3, 2020. According to Charlie Bachtell, Co-founder and CEO of Cresco, the voluntary lock is the purest demonstration of shareholder confidence in management. This confidence should inspire the management to deliver greater value to shareholders and to execute the company strategy more efficiently.
"Our ability to deliver on the vision we have for building Cresco into one of the most important company's in the U.S. cannabis industry has instilled a high level of trust among our investors that we can continue executing on plan, responsibly manage the increase of the Company's liquidity and continue to preserve and create long-term shareholder value," Bachtell explained.
The Social Equity & Educational Development (SEED) program
At the core of Cresco's business strategy is to touch the community in a way that makes its continued growth much more meaningful. To this end, the company announced the unveiling of a community-oriented program dubbed Social Equity & Educational Development (SEED).
Particularly, the vision for the SEED program is built around the belief that the cannabis industry is a potential job-creating industry and that it could help many people lead meaningful lives in the future. Therefore, the principal outcome of the program is to prepare the members of the society for this massive industry in terms of skill, knowledge, and mindset which befits the industry.
For starters, the SEED program is three-pronged where the targeted areas are Social equity, a business incubator program, and workforce development through education initiatives. Towards social equity, Cresco Labs has several initiatives which are already underway in about three states. Also, the company has developed a model which will guide the business incubator program to provide the necessary support for individuals who would like to enter the cannabis industry. Lastly, the workforce development initiative will incorporate the provision of internship opportunities, placement assistance, and job training. This initiative will be undertaken in collaboration with colleges and universities.
In light of the developments herein discussed, we still believe the Cresco stock is poised to make a bull run in the near term. Also, despite the recent miss in revenue estimates, the company's financials are still robust enough to support an upside price action going forward.
Additionally, the SEED program should further generate positive market sentiment, especially when thinking about the long term strategy for the company. Basically, Cresco is strong both in the near and the long term. This is a buying opportunity which investors should not miss!
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by Laura - Música - 8 junio, 2013 13 marzo, 2019
British singer and songwriter Jake Bugg. Picture by: Álex Soto.
It was exactly 337 days after its first show (or 11 months and two days after his first concert, if you want to put it that way) when young British singer and songwriter Jake Bugg debuted in Ibiza Rocks as Ben Howard's support act. Bear in mind that, when he introduced Brit award winner in Ibiza Rocks, his first album was not even out. However, his talent had already mesmerised Noel Gallagher, Stone Roses or The Killers, who all picked him as his opening act. This time, he was the main act at the opening concert of Ibiza Rocks' 8th season.
But his is not an overnight success. He started performing for an audience in the roughest possible way, that is, in front of his High-School classmates. (Tough enough!). Later on, he started playing all around Nottingham, his hometown. What happened between that and his debut in Glastonbury is the perfect mix of talent and luck. You know, being at the right place at the right time.
He signed with Mercury Records and he recorded some singles like Lightning Bolt, Two Fingers, Trouble Town or Taste It. Bugg's eponymous debut album was released on 15 October 2012. Talking about Bugg and his debut Clash hailed the «precocious talent fusing retro folk with blistering contemporary rock riffs».On 21 October 2012 the song Two Fingers charted at 28 in the UK while his self-titled album reached number one in the UK charts.
He states that his formative musical moment was hearing Don McLean's Vincent on an episode of The Simpsons. His uncle Mark got him a guitar, taught him a few chords and that was the beginning of romance.
If music was ever created. If talent was ever precocious, it was because Jake was supposed to exist.
I remember his show last year. I got to Ibiza Rocks just in time to see him perform Lightning Bolt. I must confess it was the only song by him I knew back then. Something clicked. I knew I would be seeing a lot of him, most probably as a headliner, maybe somewhere else, probably at many other festivals but he would always be «moving forward», as he says constantly.
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