President Trump's controversial tweets about global warming have left many heads of state stony-faced. But big business is now pushing Washington to implement the United Nations' climate goals.
"Money is the mother's milk of politics," Jerry Brown, Governor of California, warned in September during the first Sustainable Development Impact Summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in New York.
Politicians and business leaders were gathered for an emergency meeting during the UN General Assembly in New York, just a few months after Donald Trump attempted to kill the Paris climate accord.
While Washington remains demoralised by Trump's 180-degree turn, Brown is optimistic. He and his predecessor Arnold Schwarzenegger are confident that a massive shift of capital towards green technology will help California and many other US states to achieve their climate goals — no matter what is tweeted from the White House.
"One man cannot stop our progress. One man will not bring back the dirty energy of the past," Schwarzenegger warned in governator style. The Hollywood star will join the UN's COP23 conference in Bonn from November 6-17.
Read more:Bonn, the global climate village: Bigger, greener ... better?
Support for the Paris accord also comes from the finance sector. According to the environmental campaign group 350.org, institutions representing more than $5 trillion (€4.3 trillion) have now committed to divest assets from fossil fuel. The movement to pull out of dirty energies has doubled in size over the past 24 months. The main driver of this unprecedented shift of capital is the pension funds.
According to Zurich-based reinsurance giant Swiss Re, hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria and other disasters have caused a total of $95 billion in insured market losses. That has led to panic among CEOs of insurance companies and heads of pension funds, who hold shares in insurance giants.
Germany's largest insurer Allianz recently pulled out of coal in order to invest billions in wind energy. Similar winds of change are blowing in other board rooms – especially the corner offices of the big pension funds. Their gigantic resources could help to generate the $5 trillion needed to meet the UN's sustainable development goals.
Billion-dollar companies such as Siemens, Grundfos and Unilever are also hoisting the blue United Nations flag and navigating their armadas towards the 17 goals set for 2030.
"We see the Sustainable Development Goals as a compass," Mads Nipper, the CEO of Grundfos, told DW.
The world's largest producer of pumps has shut down its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) department, insisting that sustainability was at the heart of everything it does. "All of our 18,000 employees are committed to sustainability," he explained. The Danish company has renewed its mission to provide global access to drinking water.
"We know that investments in water infrastructure need to triple in order to reach the universal goals by 2030," Nipper insisted.
The destruction of natural habitats to plant trees that produce palm oil caused global protests and outcries. In order to avoid consumer boycotts, companies have acted.
"Palm oil Unilever 100 percent sustainable. Expect others to follow. No other option if serious on climate change," tweeted Paul Polman, CEO of the Dutch-British consumer goods giant Unilever.
Read more: Engineering the climate — is it a good idea?
Other executives are now following his lead and insist on marketing sustainably farmed soya, meat and palm oil. Nethertheless alarming satellite images show how more and more of the green lungs of the planet are burned and turned into farm land.
"We need to stop deforestation and plant trillions of trees," urged Klaus Wiegandt, the founder of the German think-tank Forum für Verantworung (Forum for Sustainability). The former CEO of the German retail and wholesale group Metro is now orchestrating a major climate campaign.
"Governments provide about $1 trillion in global fossil fuel subsidies. We only need about $50 billion to protect the rain forest," he told DW.
Other multi-nationals are talking up their achievements in tackling climate change, including the German conglomerate Siemens, which claims its solutions are helping to save 521 million tons of CO2 — equaling more than 60 percent of Germany's total annual CO2 emissions.
"Full awareness of our responsibility towards society and future generations," is the mantra of Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser, who adds that "being responsible is also good business." Almost half of the firm's 80-billion-euro turnover is now generated by green technologies.
Despite climate change deniers and the rising chorus of doomsayers who believe world leaders have acted too late to save the planet, many environmentalists including Al Gore remain convinced that technology and a resolution to succeed is advancing the cause.
"We have the solutions to the world's problems," Patrick Furlotti, the founder of environment group Globalmana, told DW.
Furlotti supports Graciela Chichilnisky, a world leading scientist whose work helped to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her carbon emission trading scheme. Chichilnisky is now about to scale up CO2 harvesting plants which have the capacity to extract carbon dioxide from the air and produce CO2 for industry.
Last year, Germany contributed some 8.5 billion euros to climate funds. But even so, the UN needs trillions. Therefore the World Economic Forum founders Klaus and Hilde Schwab are mobilizing their Davos Club of billionaires and CEOs of billion-dollar companies who control about half of the world's GDP.
Sweden's Prime Minister skipped last month's UN meetings and instead joined the WEF Impact Summit. With his "Global Deal" project Stefan Löfven aims to help the less wealthy benefit from globalization and sustainable development.
Löfven is grateful for the support of the action-oriented WEF community which just launched the "Global Battery Alliance." The initiative, which aims to work towards a responsible and sustainable global supply of batteries, is campaigning for more recycling and better working conditions for miners.
While other heads of state are still Trump-traumatized, Löfven is breathing a sigh of relief. He told DW: "Yes, there is hope!"
Climate change provides the sinister backdrop in this much-acclaimed 2012 film, which combines poetry and politics. The plot follows six-year-old Hushpuppy through her life after hurricane Katrina. The child's community faces melting ice caps that flood her home and unleash ancient aurochs.
Back in 1995, Kevin Costner played the hero of a distant, dystopian future, where polar ice caps have completely melted and flooded every continent. The surviving humans live in ramshackle floating communities and dream of a "dryland" somewhere in the ocean. Costner's character ultimately leads survivors to the top of Mount Everest, which is filled with vegetation and wildlife.
The controversial subject of geoengineering takes center-stage in the latest cli-fi movie, due for US release on October 20. Gerard Butler plays an astronaut who tries to save the world from a storm of epic proportions caused by malfunctioning climate-controlling satellites.
Not all cli-fi movies are about an apocalypse. This soon-to-be-released film comedy-drama takes a humorous look at how to tackle global warming. People are shrunk to tiny versions of themselves to use fewer resources. Starring Matt Damon and Christoph Waltz, it will hit cinemas in December 2017.
Al Gore's Oscar-winning 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" was full of dire warnings of what climate change will bring. His 2017 sequel shows exactly what has been happening around the world since then: "Rain bombs" lashing cities around the world, flooding of biblical proportions in Miami and Manhattan, collapsing glaciers in Antarctica and raging wildfires in Europe and Canada.
Roland Emmerich's 2004 disaster flick was one of the first and most successful movies about climate change. It depicts New York City as a frozen, dystopian landscape after disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation leads to a new ice age. A box-office hit, researchers criticized its numerous scientific inaccuracies.
This 2016 National Geographic documentary harnessed Leonardo DiCaprio's star power to inspire viewers to take action and change their habits. The actor-turned-climate-activist visits various regions of the world to explore the impacts of global warming and provides examples of what individuals can do to mitigate environmental damage.
Engineering the climate — is it a good idea?
Is Trump's environment agency silencing its scientists?


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This volume marks the first full months of Franklin's tenure as sole American minister to the Court of France. Relieved from the necessity of having to work any longer with John Adams and Arthur Lee, Franklin took charge of the American mission with new-found vigor, writing on average fifty letters a month, sometimes in spurts of six or seven a day. No other period of his life has left so full a documentary record.
In the absence of a network of American consuls in France, the business of receiving cargoes, fitting out ships, supervising the procurement of supplies, and tending to the interests of American citizens abroad fell to the American minister plenipotentiary. Prominent among the naval captains with whom he dealt was John Paul Jones; this volume reveals the first attempts of Franklin and the French Court to devise a mission for the Bonhomme Richard squadron.
Busy diplomat that he was, Franklin always had time for scientific and other pursuits. His paper on the aurora borealis was delivered to the Academie des sciences. He attended experiments on the ingenious microscope solaire by the young scientist of future Revolutionary fame, Jean-Paul Marat. In May, he was elected Venerable of his Masonic lodge.
During these months too, Franklin resumed his earliest profession and avocation, printing. He established a type foundry at Passy in 1778 and had his press in operation by the following spring. In this volume is reproduced the first Passy imprint that can be dated with any certainty, his invitation to an Independence Day celebration. Also in the spring he reworked an essay that he had conceived over sixty years before. Entitled "The Morals of Chess," it became one of his best-known lighter pieces.


The Mendocino County Museum will present the 2015 Mendocino County Museum Road Show, coming in March to a local theater near you.
Now in its second year, the show features enactments of oral history stories by noted local actors and is accompanied by music both original and traditional by the Americana trio All About Sally.
The Museum Road Show will play over the span of three weekends in March, at 7:30 p.m. for one night only each, at the following venues: Saturday, March 7 at Willits High School; Friday, March 13 at Arena Theater in Point Arena; Saturday, March 14 at SPACE Theater in Ukiah; Friday, March 20 at the Anderson Valley Grange in Philo; and Saturday, March 21 at Cotton Auditorium in Fort Bragg.
There will be an additional matinee at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 15 at SPACE Theater in Ukiah.
Doors open half an hour early for guests to enjoy refreshments and pre-show music.
"We're bringing history to the people, bringing it alive, using the real words of the people who lived those stories," states Museum Road Show Artistic Director Linda Pack.
Pack created the show from oral history accounts and historical archives with help from Ukiah Players Theatre director Kate Magruder.
Pack and Magruder also act in the show, along with local talent Rick Allan, Ricci Dedola, Billy Hetherington, Nichole Phillips and Tony Rakes.
An old-fashioned proscenium arch, period costumes and archival photos projected onto the stage flesh out the drama, along with tunes such as "Lorena," a song whose strains used to drift between enemy campfires at night after the battles of the Civil War. An original tune written by All About Sally member Dave Alden, "Ballad of Black Bart," will also debut during the show.
Mendocino County is a far-flung and diverse region, both geographically and culturally, and this season's Museum Road Show reflects that. Stories range from the long-lived Lucy Young, a Native woman whose grandfather foresaw the coming of Europeans, to some regrettably short-lived members of the Coates and Frost families, whose members took part in a multigenerational feud in Willits based on differing loyalties in the Civil War.
Along the way we meet Jeremiah "Doc" Standley, a Ukiah-based sheriff who talked an angry mob out of attacking Chinese immigrant railroad workers on the Coast; Helen Carpenter, mother of Grace Hudson, whose trek west from Kansas was so arduous that she and her companions had to jettison their cookstove before descending into Potter Valley; and the inimitable Black Bart, part gentleman, part criminal, who was known for robbing Wells Fargo bank safes and leaving poetry in his wake.
Equally important are small stories and tall tales, part of the everyday life of people making their lives in a raw and often unfamiliar terrain: encounters with grizzly bears, children surviving third-degree burns, and a humorous recital of the near-endless chores that make up one woman's day.
We learn how people cooked their food (including a recipe for cooking gray squirrel in Boontling, the lingo invented by Boonville residents), how they loved and fought, and how they came together to challenge near-impossible odds. In this way, everyday lives are acknowledged and honored.
"Where we are" includes the Mendocino County Museum, which sponsors and produces the Museum Road Show. Located in Willits, the geographical center of the county, the Museum decided to "take to the road" (via the Museum Road Show, that is) as a way of reaching folks directly in their communities to reflect their history and heritage back to them.
Tickets for the 2015 Mendocino County Museum Road Show are now on sale. The Road Show sold out most of its venues last year, so purchasing tickets in advance is advised. The cost is $15 for adults, $12 for seniors (ages 65 and over) and $10 for youth (ages 20 and under). Tickets are available online through www.MendocinoMuseum.org, by calling the Museum at (707) 459-2736, or by visiting the Mendocino County Museum at 400 E. Commercial St. in Willits during open hours, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Additional ticket sales locations will be listed on the website.


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This course is in two parts: the first is a more in-depth exploration of the quantum mechanics concepts presented in the Physics bachelor, in particular introducing the different resolution methods. The second focuses on a detailed description of atoms.
Quantum Mechanics bachelor (L3) course (formalism, wave-particle duality, black-body and photons, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Schrödinger equation, potential wells and barriers, harmonic oscillator, hydrogen atom and spin ½).
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While you're putting in the extra time and energy to make the season bright for family and friends, you mustn't forget about yourself.
Here are five simple rules to remember to maintain your energy, your weight and your healthy glow. You may have heard them before, but it's always good to get a reminder right about now.
Exercise burns extra calories. It'll bring your stress levels down, increase your energy and get the endorphins going so your mood stays lifted. As an extra benefit, it gets the blood running to your brain and your face so you'll be both brilliant and beautiful at the party.
Here's a fun fact for you: the Thermic Effect of Food (the calories you burn while digesting your food, which is pretty small) plus the Thermic Effect of Exercise (the calories you burn while exercising) has a greater than additive effect when you eat and exercise within a short time of each other. It's the perfect motivation to get out for a walk, play some football, or take that hike before or after dinner. Here's one case where 1+1 is greater than 2!
Getting the macronutrients, phytochemicals and antioxidants you need to keep your energy and your healthy glow by filling half your plate with fresh plants (fruit and/or vegetables, minimally cooked, with minimal sauce and cheese) every time you eat. I recommend it to all of my clients, and I do it myself .
If you practice this through the holiday you'll be fully satisfied with less calories and feel great after you eat. Having lots of fruits and veggies will also curb your appetite for the dessert after the meal. Hands down, it's the easiest way to maintain your waistline through the holidays.
When we're not getting enough water, our blood volume actually lowers. We can start to feel sluggish, and we may not even think as well. Staying hydrated ensures you've got enough blood to get all the oxygen and nutrients (from all the fruits and veggies you're eating) to your brain, body and skin so you can radiate all day long.
It's recommended that women get a maximum of 6 teaspoons and men get a maximum of 9 teaspoons of added sugar per day. That's 24 g and 36g of added sugar per day. (I'm not talking about natural sugars we find in fruit and dairy).
Most of us are already consuming more than that during the average daily routine. So when it comes to the holidays, we add more sugar and fat on top of that. That's how the holidays can become dangerous for our waistline, and for our health.
Take a quick tally of where you're already eating sugar during the day. See if there's any place you can cut down on the sugar in order to make room for some of the holiday treats you might be having.
For example: What are you eating for breakfast? Do you regularly stop at the coffee shop for a holiday coffee and a slice of pound cake? If so, you could make a swap for oats with fresh fruit and nuts, or eggs, spinach and half of a sweet potato, have an espresso and save your sugar budget for the holiday party.
Remember, sugary foods take the place of other, healthy foods that support your healthy day. So make sure you have a nutrient-filled meal before you dive into the dessert table. And when you do, take the treats that you love the most and leave the rest.
The value of sleep is becoming more evident. During deep sleep Human Growth Hormone (HGH) is at peak levels in our bodies. HGH is crucial for our body's growth, recovery and repair. Deep sleep is essential for optimal gains from an exercise program, recovery from injury or illness, and the deposit of information into long term memory banks in our brain. Recent research even suggests that sleep may clear our brain of toxic chemicals that are associated with alzheimers. On the lighter side, sleep is the best beauty product nature ever invented and getting enough of it really does wonders for our looks.
If you're having trouble getting enough sleep, you may be over-stressed. Stress can get in the way of falling to sleep and can even disturb our deep sleep.
The holidays can be a wonderful time, but we can't ignore the fact that the additional preparation, obligation and expectation can bring additional stress. For that reason, it can be helpful to have a few stress-reduction practices in your back pocket.
Diana and I have created a trilogy of Healthy Holiday webinars to help our viewers manage the holidays in a healthy way. In Episode 3- Tamping Down the Stress I gave away techniques that help you to quickly bring down holiday stress so you can get back to having fun. Click here to watch the recording of that webinar. You can join in on the previous two below.
Do you have your own secrets to looking and feeling great through the holidays? Share in the comments section.


It's been a week – hard to believe! – and we've done very little, which suits us just fine right now. The house is now very clean; that's one good thing. Another is that the weather so far has been pretty, albeit chilly in the evenings (and probably in the mornings, for all we know). We do not yet leave our doors and windows open all day. We are still tired.
I walked by the synagogue today, and there's no sign of any digging going on there, either.
Saturday being Lazarus Saturday, we were resolved to pay a surprise visit to Demetros' old and dear friend, Lazaros, on his feast day. Lazaros was a very, very poor lad when they were all growing up; so poor he had to depend upon people like Demetrios' and Christos' mother to help him, and she was so poor she never knew where the next day's meal(s) would come from. Demetrios' mother felt very bad for him and helped him as much as she could.
He used to come by the house and tutor Christos. They were in the same class together, but Lazaros had had his education interrupted by the Communist insurrection and was therefore a couple of years older than Christos. "Just like a teacher!" my mother-in-law used to say of Lazaros. She always wanted to adopt him.
We were having our afternoon rest in preparation for going to surprise Lazaros when our doorbell rang. I opened it to a man I didn't recognize.
So he did, and Demetrios, lying on the sofa, sat up and rubbed his eyes and exclaimed, "Lazaros! Lazaros, my old friend!" And there were hugs all around.
Christos had called Lazaros to wish him a happy nameday, and had mentioned that we were in town. Lazaros decided to celebrate his name day by coming to see Demetrios – reversing the planned surprise.
We had a little tea and a little treat; then he proposed to take us to his house. It was in easy walking distance, he said. We eagerly agreed.
It is in easy walking distance, too, and when we got there, we found his wife, Voula, her sister, a niece, and a friend, all waiting for him, the celebratory (but Lenten!) food all prepared.
Voula is a wonderful person, just like her husband. She looks 20 years younger than she is, with strawberry blonde (!) hair, twinkling blue eyes and a ready smile. She is very kind, very sweet; we loved one another instantly.
Demetrios says when they were all still children, and Voula was a little girl going to school, Lazaros' mother told him, "This is who you will marry." So Lazaros replied, "Yes, Mamma; if that is your choice, I will marry her." So he did. And both of them now seem enormously pleased with that choice.
Voula speaks three languages (at least). She is from Pontos, in present-day Turkey, so she speaks Turkish as well as Greek. And they both speak German, having lived in Germany for many years. (Work is hard to find in Greece.) That means I can converse with them; hooray!
Lazaros is still the wonderful person he always was. He is a physical therapist, and now that he is retired, he works for free. He has about 20 patients he helps, and he goes around seeking out others on the street. As many as he can find who need his help and will accept it, receive it.
Voula tells us, though, that he has some "anoia," dementia, and has been diagnosed with early Alzheimer's. We certainly couldn't see any signs of it; his conversation was clear and well-thought-out.
Glory to God for people like these!
We had to leave them when time came to go to Leonidas and Ianna; Kostas and Mena came, too. In the beginning, the conversation was all about Ianna's breast cancer. The prognosis is good, at least. She asked about my sister, who died from breast cancer. I told here there was a big difference: Barbara, from fear, had postponed having her lump seen by a doctor until it was the size of a tangerine, whereas Ianna's lump was quite small.
Then, as always happens at our age, the conversation turned to all our other medical problems. I rather felt left out, having nothing current to report for myself! Well, I have a spider bite that has turned my thumb lovely shades of purple and black, but that's comparatively nothing. And of course the report of my *former problem with arrhythmia, especially the part about having received not one, but FOUR electric shocks for it, that was good for, well, some shock value, but of course that's all over and done. I'm going to have to develop some new medical condition before I'll make a good conversationalist.
Leonidas brought out two old photograph albums from the late 'Fifties and early 'Sixties. He looks glamorous in all of the pictures, then as now, with his natural good looks, augmented by a carefully manicured goatee and perfect hairdo. Everybody else looks dorky. But the men, especially, had a great time looking at the photographs and remembering and laughing.
The women's conversation, as usual, then turned to domestic concerns: our children and grandchildren. Now there's where I have 'em all beat! Here I reign supreme, having four grandchildren. Ianna has no grandchildren so far, and Mena has only one grandson, although both her daughter and her daughter-in-law are pregnant.
Her daughter, Elpida (which, in English, is Hope) became pregnant just after she and her new husband had bought their new apartment and moved in. Whereupon Elpida's nose developed a peculiar sensibility; she discovered that the new apartment had a terrible, nauseating smell. In fact, so had her husband. She couldn't tolerate either one of them. The upshot of it is, they are both living with Mena and Kostas now, and sleeping in separate bedrooms. Mena says every room, including the living room, becomes a bedroom at night. Elpida is depressed and Mena works hard to make her get out of bed and to cheer her up. She is praying this situation will improve once the baby is born. But that won't be until September, God willing.
We arrived home early – early in the morning, that is, at half past midnight, and were soon asleep. We had big plans for the next day.
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"Police wear body armor. Why would a community member be driving around in body armor?" Craig asked.
Leaving aside the fact that the wearer in this case was a criminal, I certainly don't think it's unusual at all for an ordinary, non-felon private citizen in a crime-ridden city like Detroit to consider wearing body armor. Type IIA or II armor will protect against the majority of common handgun rounds which one might encounter in a place like Detroit.
Is it uncommon for private citizens to wear armor? Sure, but it seems odd to question why a private person might want to wear armor. The answer is simple, and it's exactly the same reason why a cop wears armor: they don't want to get shot.


Edward Adams and family set sail on the S.S. Campania from Liverpool, England on March 17, 1906. They arrived at Ellis Island, New York seven days later on March 24, 1906. The family is listed on page 287 of the manifest.
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Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Glasgow, Scotland, 1893. 12,950 gross tons; 622 (bp) feet long; 65 feet wide. Steam triple expansion engines, twin screw. Service speed 21 knots. 2,000 passengers (600 first class, 400 second class, 1,000 third class).
Built for Cunard Line, British flag, in 1893 and named Campania. Liverpool-New York service. Sold to British Admiralty, British flag, in 1914 and renamed HMS Campania. Rebuilt as an aircraft carrier. Sunk following a collision in the Firth of Forth in Scotland in 1918.


"Although we are excited for Lt. Governor Garcia, his departure is certainly a loss for the state of Colorado and for the Governor's office - which is definitely now a little less cool. They were an incredibly effective team that built on one another's skillsets. Our office has had the pleasure of working with the Lt. Governor many times over the years, especially on higher education. We were always impressed by his dedication, intelligence, and charisma. He has a profound appreciation for the people who paved the way for his success and is committed to paving the way for the next generation. Joe cares deeply about increasing college access and affordability for all kids in Colorado. His passion for education and determination to create a better future make him an ideal choice for this next venture. We wish him luck."


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Nintendo, whose latest console has sold poorly, could be on a "path to irrelevance", the founder of legendary games company Atari has said.
In an interview with the BBC, Nolan Bushnell said the Japanese firm was left in a "very difficult position".
Games analysts have drawn parallels between Atari's doomed Jaguar console in 1993 and the struggling Wii U.
"I don't think handheld game-only devices make sense anymore," he told the BBC. "Not when you have an iPod or an Android microtablet.
"When it comes to the console market, I think the market is truncating.
"Nintendo always had a soft spot for young people - they sort of did the 12-and-under pretty well, and the other guys did the 12-and-over.
"And now I think the other [consoles] are good enough on those things, and the rush to upgrade from the 12-and-under is not nearly as important."
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The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by the American Realist painter Fairfield Porter. This will be the gallery's first exhibition of the artist's work in over ten years. The show concentrates mainly on landscapes from the 1950s through the 1970s.
As a painter, Fairfield Porter forged a distinctly American vision out of two disparate styles: the first—intimate, sensual and representational; and the second—colorful, gestural and abstract. Porter's broad knowledge of art history and theory informed not only his art criticism but his painting as well. His work as a writer and painter is best considered as a single lifelong project in which he perpetually sought to define for himself his relation to the world.
Though he was Harvard-educated, Porter was largely self-taught in the art of painting. He was as much influenced by French Intimists such as Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard, as by his own friends and contemporaries during a time when Abstract Expressionism was flourishing. Foremost among his allies were Willem and Elaine de Kooning, artists with whom Porter sustained a dialogue which would prove deeply meaningful in his own work. Remaining defiantly figurative despite an art scene that swung increasingly toward abstraction, and choosing as his subjects those places and homes to which he felt most deeply connected, Porter produced a body of work of tremendous personal significance and emotional power.
More than any other American painter of his generation, Fairfield Porter poignantly defined the look and feel of everyday, domestic life. He endeavored to convey an honest appraisal of what his eye saw, expressing it with a beguiling, unpretentious naturalness. Porter has long been associated with the gallery, as it introduced his work with his first solo exhibition in 1952. He has gone on to have over 20 solo exhibitions with the gallery to date.


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What's the most dangerous time to go to the hospital? The answer may surprise you.
Did you know that there are certain times when it is more dangerous to go to the hospital?
What's the most dangerous time to go to the hospital?
As Canadians we are proud of our health care system. We expect hospitals, doctors and nurses to provide us with excellent care no matter when we are forced to go to the hospital. That's not an unreasonable expectation.
Medical Malpractice Claims against Doctors Continue to Drop: But is it because of improvements in medical care?
The Canadian Medical Protective Association represents almost every doctor in Canada. The Association is a mutual defence fund that operates sort of like insurance. If a doctor is sued for malpractice, the CMPA will defend the claim and if the doctor is found liable for the plaintiff's injuries, the CMPA will pay the compensation out of its $3 billion dollar reserve fund.
The CMPA also represents doctors in matters dealing with College of Surgeon and Physician complaints, disciplinary matters, criminal charges, and matters dealing with hospital privilege issues.
Are Overworked Nurses Causing Medical Errors?
Are staffing demands putting patient safety at risk?
Last week the media reported two stories of interest to patient safety advocates.
The Province of Nova Scotia released statistics from its medical errors registry suggesting that, in the last six months, medical errors had caused almost thirty cases of serious injury or death in hospitals throughout Nova Scotia. If you are interested, you can read my article about the problems with Nova Scotia's medical errors registry.
How often does Medical Malpractice happen in Canada? The answer may surprise you.
In the six years that I have been writing this blog the article that has been consistently viewed the most, year after year, is the one published on September 29, 2008: How often does Medical Malpractice Happen in Canada?
Therefore, I thought it might be useful to take another look at the issue to see if the statics have changed or if there is any new information to shed some light on the question.
What is the Safest Time to be admitted to Hospital? Weekend Admissions Carry Higher Risk of Death.
Last week the Canadian Institute for Health Information released a study that examined four million urgent acute care hospital admissions between 2010-2013. The study found that there was a 4% higher risk of death for patients admitted to hospital on a weekend rather than a weekday.
The statistics did not apply across the board. The so called "weekend effect" did not occur in hospital admissions for obstetric, pediatric or mental health patients.
I read with interest this article in the New York times written by Joanna Schwartz, a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles.
One of the (false) arguments trotted out by oppontents of medical malpractice litigation is that it prevents disclosure because doctors and hospitals take a "circle the wagons" approach to litigation that inhibits sharing of information that could improve patient safety.
CBC-TV's The Fifth Estate is spearheading an initiative to rate and rank Canadian hospitals.
As a medical malpractice lawyer I applaud any effort that makes health care in Canada more transparent. Peter Drucker is famous for saying: "What gets measured gets managed". So I have to think that using public data to educate the public about hospital performance and asking the public for feedback about hospitals can't help but have a positive influence in the care that patients receive.
The CBC collected data from the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) and ranked the hospitals using certain criteria.
A client of mine sent me a link to a story about a case in Manitoba. She thought I would be interested in the article because the situation was so similar to a case I was involved in a few years ago in New Brunswick.
According to the article, last month a four year old girl from Manitoba suffered a brain injury following botched dental surgery. Jairlyn Roulette was supposed to undergo a routine surgical procedure on October 11, but ended up with a permanent disability. Jairlyn needed some teeth capped, some fillings and an extraction and her dentist thought it would be best to subject her to general anesthetic.
In other words, Jairlyn was going to be unconscious throughout the dental procedure.
Checklists Help Improve Medical Care: Is your hospital using one?
It's not news that surgeries can result in infections.
More than 250,000 patients develop infections in hospitals across Canada every year. 8000 to 9000 patients will die from the infections they develop in the hospital.
Does the Workers' Compensation Act Immunize Hospitals Against Medical Malpractice Claims?
As a Halifax medical malpractice lawyer I frequently get calls from other lawyers who don't practice this area of law, wondering if their client has a potential medical malpractice claim.
This week I got a call from a colleague of mine, and since his question is one I have been asked many times over the years, I thought it would be helpful to post some information here in case it is helpful to anyone else in the same circumstances.


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1 December 2013 | MOCS
I felt a bit like David Attenborough at around 2 am last night as I got to witness the annual migration of the graduating students of Marist College from Civic to Woden.
I watched in awe as this 100 – 200 strong group of mainly intoxicated young men in varying stages of undress rampaged through the streets drinking, singing, bashing on traffic signs and yelling abuse at any that may have inadvertently attracted their attention.
I envied the pride their school must feel in turning out such fine examples as they bravely stood their ground and threatened, spat on and kicked any vehicle that dared to attempt to share the road as they blocked traffic along the way.
I couldn't help but note that this vision on the arrival of Canberra's summer was more reminiscent of the Arab Spring.
Deref1:33 pm 05 Dec 13
It's great to see that parents who put value and money into a private education for their offspring are getting such a good return on their investment.
farnarkler10:32 am 05 Dec 13
Oh so that's why half of mooseheads seemed to run towards the carpark over the road. I wondered what was going on. Now I know.
chewy144:24 pm 02 Dec 13
rhino said :
chewy14 said :
IrishPete said :
And let's not forget that if they were 17 and drunk, someone was presumably illegally supplying them with alcohol. Not a licensed premises in Civic. That would never happen.
Most people turn 18 in year 12. And since it's December, there shouldn't be many at all whose birthdays fall later than now. I suspect the handful who are still 17 stayed at home. I don't believe someone 17 can get into a night club in Civic these days. It probably happens but it'd be very rare. I've accidentally left my ID at home and been unable to get into clubs as a 26 year old who certainly doesn't look remotely near 18. So unless you personally knew a bouncer (unlikely if you're 17), your chances would be so low of getting in that you wouldn't bother trying only to have to go home.
Your faith in the bouncing profession of the ACT is admirable.
What are you basing that on though? Because I've tried to get my underage friends into clubs when I was 18. And I've tried to get into clubs at 26 without an ID and it's certainly not easy.
Unless perhaps you know some place that makes decent fake IDs? I never tried that route lol.
Yeah, the old dodgy fake ID can work but from some of the younger guys I know, its more that not every venue is as fastidious with their ID checks as others.
rhino4:12 pm 02 Dec 13
Antagonist12:07 pm 02 Dec 13
eyeLikeCarrots said :
Eventually, some half blind old pensioner driving a 1974 stateman (purchased new, fully optioned, serviced and garaged, only ever driven to church on sundays and the bi monthly visit to the Labour club for pokie night) will not see these young men walking down the road … and will plough through them like an AMF regulation 12 pound bowling ball. Recently graduated limbs and organs will fly through the air.
When questioned, the pensioner will say, "Listen copper, I was just driving down the road listening to my favorite Barbra Streisand 8-track and some young dickhead let of a fire extinguisher. I couldn't see a thing. Have you seen the damaged to my car, who is going to pay for that?"
And maybe then…. the school will be compelled to stop these young d***heads.
What was the pensioner doing out driving at 3am in the morning?
Buying prunes and adult diapers.
IrishPete11:18 am 02 Dec 13
markbuzz said :
How does a school stop ex-students misbehaving? It's a police and public order matter, and as it happens every year apparently, maybe they could start preparing for it in advance.
I believe that previously the police have provided an escort. As opposed to having been mobilised to respond. A concern in years gone by is having 'effusive' youths crossing the bridge on foot and the possibility of someone deciding jumping off would be a good idea.
Graduating school with a police record isn't the brightest thing to do. Nor was (apparently) responding on social media to police claims of rocks being thrown at cars by claiming that they were 'just' empty water bottles. I don't think they realise the real trouble they could have been in if the police decide to press the issue.
Unfortunately 17 and 18yo's don't have a great filter for determining boundaries on their first forays out into the wilds of nightlife.
markbuzz10:17 am 02 Dec 13
chewy149:52 am 02 Dec 13
IrishPete9:43 am 02 Dec 13
eyeLikeCarrots9:20 am 02 Dec 13
Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd6:25 am 02 Dec 13
By the time these students have reached the end of year 12 they have woken up to the fact that their teachers and other school staff who demand absolute respect all of the time actually show very little respect back to them.
This is just their way of breaking free and celebrating their release from the concentration camp they have just spent the last 9 years in.
I think you should research concentration camps.
EvanJames1:20 am 02 Dec 13
We need a war. Bored, affluent, under-educated cashed-up bogans. Maybe they'd just realised their "private school" didn't quite cut the mustard.
gospeedygo11:54 pm 01 Dec 13
Just a thought, maybe don't use genocide as a metaphor for a privileged/elite school…or anything in the future.
IrishPete11:21 pm 01 Dec 13
Do they ask for their fees to be refunded too?
Very Busy9:16 pm 01 Dec 13
golden_youth8:32 pm 01 Dec 13
What a bunch of d*ckheads.
I was in a taxi traveling from the city to Woden and they were just at the tunnel, one bright spark had let off a fire extinguisher in the tunnel and you couldn't see 2-3 metres in front of the car. Pretty dangerous when there were 100 people on the road and cars flying through there. Our taxi was kicked at and idiots were knocking on the windows. I don't get it.


This CLE/CPE webinar for estate planning counsel who advise—or want to advise—private equity and hedge fund founders will discuss the estate planning opportunities presented by carried interest. The panel will outline how planners can help structure founders' transfers of carried interest to family members, dive into the particulars of Chapter 14 of the Internal Revenue Code, explore the unintended impact on founders' estate planning, and discuss multidisciplinary strategies specialists are implementing for these high net worth clients.
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Careful planning is required to take advantage of the opportunities that carried interest offers for transferring wealth. IRC Chapter 14 governs the valuation of certain lifetime transfers to family members.
Under typical private equity or hedge fund structure, a founder's transfer of carried interest to one or more family members may trigger gift tax consequences under Chapter 14 as well as under traditional gift tax principles. Strategic estate planning can help fund sponsors take advantage of specific transfer techniques to achieve tax savings.
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A great beginner's cover crop, oilseed radishes can tap into underground nutrients, increase water-infiltration rates and ultimately help boost crop yields.
Since he started seeding radishes as cover crops 6 years ago, Illinois no-tiller Daniel Steidinger says higher yields and improved water infiltration are two major benefits he's seen.
Onfarm corn plots, with and without radishes, show a 50-bushel yield difference, with the higher figure going to cover-cropped plots, Steidinger told attendees at the 2013 Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) Conservation In Action Tour.
Steidinger says the benefit of increased water infiltration was seen almost immediately after he seeded radishes, when a wet spring came along. He found no standing water on a flat farm that normally didn't drain well, which he attributes to the radishes' taproots that went down about 32 inches.
The soil-loosening abilities of radishes have also allowed Steidinger to expand no-till practices to 300 acres on his farm in Fairbury, Ill., where the cover crop has been seeded.
But finding the right management system for these brassicas can take some time. Steidinger admits it was a 3-year process to get the details worked out. Timing, pH levels and the presence of other cover crops can affect how radishes fit into a no-tiller's cover-cropping system.
Timing Key. One of the first things a no-tiller should consider when seeding radishes is the seeding date.
Steidinger says timing was one of the initial challenges he faced. Producing corn, soybeans and wheat, he only seeds radishes with a seeder after his wheat crops because he found they didn't develop as much as he preferred after corn and soybeans.
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National Museum Of African American Music To Honor Quincy Jones, Smokey Robinson, And Lionel Richie
'NMAAM showcases Black music excellence every day, but this year's Black Music Month will be a special one as we celebrate the museum's opening with phenomenal music icons and Black music fans across the world.'
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The National Museum of African American Music has announced that Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Quincy Jones, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers will be the recipients of its 2021 Rhapsody & Rhythm Awards.
The awards will be presented to this year's honorees on June 17 during the National Museum of African American Music's seventh annual Celebration of Legends Benefit Concert.
"NMAAM showcases Black music excellence every day, but this year's Black Music Month will be a special one as we celebrate the museum's opening with phenomenal music icons and Black music fans across the world," said NMAAM President and CEO Henry Beecher Hicks III. "We can't wait to open our doors and share in the joy of Juneteenth weekend with our supporters, fans, and a few musical legends, as well."
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Previous recipients of the Rhapsody & Rhythm Awards include CeCe Winans, George Clinton, Gloria Gaynor, Nile Rodgers, Keb' Mo', and Jody Watley.
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The fundraising benefit concert marks the first day of NMAAM's Black Music Month celebrations, held from June 17 through June 19. The celebration honoring Jones, Robinson, Richie, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers will be sponsored by Amazon, featuring live and virtual tribute performances. Though it will be live-streamed, limited seating will be available for guests to attend in person.
"We know that we can only [think big] when we all work together to recognize, elevate and celebrate all voices. We are excited to be NMAAM's partner and the presenting sponsor for this year's Black Music Month celebration," said Courtney Ross, the senior manager of external affairs at Amazon Nashville. "The work the museum is doing is essential to helping our wider community expand the way it thinks, and it's an honor to be a part of it all."
Visit the official National Music of African American Music website to learn more about the Rhapsody & Rhythm Awards, as well as the museum's forthcoming Black Music Month festivities.
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