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Hell in a Hand Basket: The Washington representative of a national Jewish organization is urging federal officials who attend the McLean Bible Church to distance themselves from the northern Virginia institution, which has launched a drive to convert Jews.
The church, whose pastor, Lon Solomon, is a Jewish convert to Christianity, counts among its attendees Senators James Inhofe and Don Nickles, both Oklahoma Republicans, as well as former independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr, whose investigation of President Clinton led to the president's 1998 impeachment. Starr's wife is a Jewish convert to Christianity.
The American Jewish Committee's Washington-area director, David Bernstein, is demanding that the officials who attend Solomon's church denounce the effort.
"It's distressing that so many prominent people, including members of Congress, attend the church and study with the pastor," Bernstein said in an interview with Washington Jewish Week. "That the pastor has made such disparaging remarks and engaged in intolerant actions means that they should take a stand and distance themselves from those activities."
Solomon says he is leading the drive in order to prevent Jews from going to hell, a remark that has antagonized local Jewish organizations, thus mobilizing against his drive.
"Every Jewish person, just like every gentile, needs to believe in Jesus Christ as their personal savior, or they're going to miss heaven," Solomon said in a recent sermon, which was carried on radio and quoted in the Jewish Week. "That means that God expects you and me to do everything we can to tell them what nobody else has the courage to tell them."
No surprise: The politicians are declining to touch this one. Inhofe spokesman Ryan Thompson wrote in an e-mail that because "Inhofe has only visited the church on two or three occasions… the senator is not in a position to offer the informed remarks that you seek." Nickles's spokeswoman declined comment.
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Holbrooke Headlines: Auditioning for the job of secretary of state in a Kerry administration, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke told a National Jewish Democratic Council luncheon in Manhattan two weeks ago that he belongs to the "Anybody but Arafat Party," according to attendees who heard the off-the-record speech.
Holbrooke said that when he met Arafat after the failure of the Camp David talks in 2000, he came to the conclusion that the Palestinian leader is either unwilling or unable to sign an agreement. Holbrooke noted that during his 30 years as a diplomat, he had negotiated with a host of bad apples, including Slobodan Milosevic and Ferdinand Marcos, but he implied that Arafat, in effect, took the cake. Given Arafat's inability to negotiate, Holbrooke said, any president, whether Bush or Al Gore, would have had to isolate him.
"Basically, what Holbrooke said was that the president should be complimented for his stance but that any Democrat would have done the same," one Jewish Democratic activist said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Moreover, Holbrooke said that Bush's failure to employ a high-level envoy [in the Middle East] has been devastating."
Holbrooke noted that some say having a high-level envoy in the region in the absence of a Palestinian partner would lead to pressure on Israel, but he argued that the idea is wrong. He said the envoy should be used to pressure the Arab states to come up with solutions, according to those who heard him at the luncheon.
Friedman's Fans: New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, a bugaboo of the Jewish right wing because of his liberal views on the Arab-Israel conflict, has found a fan or, actually, two.
Among the columnist's boosters are the president of the United States and Bush's Texan chum, indicted Enron chief Kenneth Lay, sometimes known by his Bush-given nickname, "Kenny Boy."
Correspondence between Lay and Bush unearthed by the Web site The Smoking Gun shows the two men to be enamored of Friedman's theories of globalization. Lay wrote to Bush on March 31, 1999: "Dear Governor George, [Please see] the attached article by Tom Friedman…. [This] article concerning globalization is an excellent overview of most of the major issues concerning international financial markets and trade… my very best to you and Laura." On May 14, 1999, Bush responded: "Dear Ken, Thanks for the Friedman article. I too loved it — very interesting. All is well. — George."
Friedman's chief antagonist, Zionist Organization of America president Morton Klein, remains unimpressed. "After reading his views on the Arab-Israeli conflict, I've decided not to pay too much attention to his views on globalization," Klein said.


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Zinaida Serebriakova 1884-1967
Sometimes the simplest things in life can bring us the most inspiration. What better to contemplate those integuments for our feet. What if we didn't have them? What do they symbolize? Have a good story about shoes?
Ah, shoes! My secret passion! (My other passion is hats but they are out of fashion so don't count.) But I LOVE SHOES. I have no idea why. But I can tell you that the first thing I notice about a person is their footwear. I've startled strangers and friends alike by sidling up to them and saying in an emotional, conspiratorial whisper, "I love your shoes!"
Besides a "thank you" I usually also receive a wink and a nod and a "Me too! They're my favorite." And we smile the smile of a passion shared. Another shoe lover!
Looming large in our living room in the home where I grew up were two oil portraits from the early 20th century, framed by thick, ornate, and gilded frames. Each pictured a formidable character, and I knew them as "Grossmama" and "Grosspapa." They were my great, great grandparents who immigrated from Germany. Grosspapa had a handlebar mustache and kind of looked like Edgar Allan Poe, but I was fascinated by Grossmama. I always wanted to hear her story.
"Look at her earrings and her pin," my mother would tell me, pointing to the very Victorian-looking bunches of grapes dangling from her ears and the high neck of her dress. "That jewelry was made from her baby Florentine's hair."
Even though I already knew, I would ask, "And who was Florentine?"
"Florentine was the youngest of Grossmama and Grosspapa's fourteen children."
"But only seven of them grew up, right Mommy?"
"Yes, that's right. And one year, Grossmama lost her three youngest children to tuberculosis: first her six-year-old, then her four-year-old, and then her two-year-old, Florentine."
"So Grossmama had the jewelry made from her long dark curls, right Mommy?"
"Yes, her long dark curls."
Then my mother would produce a small pair of tiny black leather boots with buttons up the side. They looked almost new. "These were Florentine's shoes," she would continue. "Grossmama would hold them and cry and say, 'If only I could bear looking at the shoes!'"
How thrillingly morbid! I loved this story. Couldn't get enough of it. Unsuspecting guests who had never been to our house before would enter our living room for presumed hospitality, only to have me push ahead of them where I shouted out a "highlights-only" version of this story. I had to get there before my brother tried to steal the show and tell the story first. Mind you, my brother couldn't care less about the story and was probably playing Atari in the other room, but I beat him, nonetheless. I'm sure our guests were very grateful.
Why the shoes? Why couldn't Elizabeta Von Sturmer Hugo bear to see Florentine's shoes?
I think it's because they didn't have the worn sole and scuffs of a child who played outside, or followed her brothers and sisters on adventures, or walked to market and church. They seemed too small not to be worn. They represented the steps not taken.
About ten years ago, my mother asked me what she should specifically leave me in her will. I couldn't really think of anything. (For the record, my mother has approximately 438 pairs of shoes. Also for the record, my brother, when posed the same question, immediately asked which of my mother's belongings cost the most.)
"I think I want the bible Grossmama and Grosspapa brought from Germany," I said. I love old books, and I remembered the careful list kept on the first page of the bible detailing the births and deaths of their children, and the family to follow.
"And Florentine's shoes," I added.
Because every footprint we leave is important to someone.
And my breasts—it's better not to mention them at all except to say that
they seemed to be in a race to see which could be first to reach my knees.
Maya Angelou, Rainbow in the Cloud
Gravity has had its way on me, as on Sister Maya. And beyond the obvious effect of gravity, age has also affected my shoe size. I always had big feet. As a teen, I had to buy shoes at a tiny Rochester, NY emporium euphemistically called the "Tall Girl Shop." Now, feet that used to be comfortable in size 11s need 11-1/2 or 12s. I'm lucky to live in Nordstrom land, where through the gift of mostly Munros my feet are comfortably clad.
And at the same time—when I think of my expanding feet, I think of the greater understanding they represent. That too, is a gift of aging.
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Music Is Instrumental Campaign Exceeds First-Year Goal
Conductor Anthony Parnther leads the BUSD All District Orchestra in a rousing performance of music from film and television. (Photo By Ross Benson)
The Burbank Unified School District recognized the Music Is Instrumental campaign at the Burbank Board of Education meeting on Thursday, June 7, and lauded the work of its many supporters, which helped the campaign exceed its first-year goal.
Headed by Peggy Flynn, Arts and Career Technical Education Coordinator for BUSD, the Music Is Instrumental campaign and final concert utilized efforts from those in the Burbank and greater Los Angeles community to raise approximately $127,000 during the 2017-18 school year.
Since October 2017, Music Is Instrumental has been working to raise 1.2 million dollars, at a pace of $120,000 per year over 10 years, to repair and replace musical instruments used by students at the District's three middle schools and two high schools.
Burbank Unified All District Symphonic Orchestra and Choir and professional mentors from Musicians at Play Foundation amazed the audience at Burbank's Wolfson Auditorium for the Music Is Instrumental fund-raising concert. (Photo By Ross Benson)
The campaign culminated in a powerful performance on Friday, May 11, combining the efforts of Burbank Unified's vocal and instrumental high school music groups and their professional musician mentors from the Musicians At Play Foundation.
The performance set a standard for future collaborations between the high school students and their mentors.
"Between ticket sales, donations and auction items, the event by itself raised approximately $13,000," explained Cindy Pease, Managing Director of Musicians at Play Foundation. "Some of that was donations made to directly purchase instruments."
Michael Hastings, Peggy Flynn, April Williams, Don Williams, Roberta Reynolds, Matt Hill, Trena Pitchford, Linda Walmsley, Tom Vice and Cindy Pease. (Photo Courtesy Burbank Unified School District)
"Don and April [Williams, of Musicians At Play] spent many hours recruiting the musicians and coordinating the schedules, auditions and getting the music donated," Pease added.
"With BUSD, MAP is establishing protocols and a working model to perpetuate this program in order to establish ongoing performances and to create sustainable revenue for music education in schools. This would include vocal programs and more training for middle schools that feed into high school."
"Peggy Flynn from BUSD worked tirelessly to make this happen as she works nonstop to build career training programs in the arts to also include theater tech, film and animation," Pease also said. "This partnership prepare students for careers in the entertainment industry which is a big part of the Burbank community."
L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger presents a check for $25,000 for the Music Is Instrumental campaign to Burbank Board of Education President Dr. Roberta Reynolds and Burbank Unified Superintendent Dr. Matt Hill. (Photo Courtesy Burbank Unified School District)
L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger donated $25,000 to the Music Is Instrumental campaign, which was also supported by the L.A. County Arts Commission and the Burbank Arts For All Foundation.
The 1000 for $100 Committee, led by teacher Linda Walmsley and local businessmen Michael Hastings and Michael Cusumano, raised a large amount of money through direct donations.
"I am once again in awe of the support we receive from our community for the arts," commented Superintendent Dr. Matt Hill. "This campaign has shown the power of individuals working together to support our students."
With a new school year beginning in a few short months, the Music Is Instrumental campaign is focused on the future and resetting anew for 2018-19.
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The main structural timbers of the Jetty on this mid 15c service cross wing end of a much larger house, were seriously decayed, making the jetty unsafe. We removed all the visible decayed timber and replaced with new dry oak, faithfully reproducing the size and shape of the timbers. Then grouted the margins of the panel infill with non hydraulic lime mortar.
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This week on a special Thanksgiving Behind The Lens, producer and host Tom Wright talks with Lens co-founder and staff writer Karen Gadbois.
And in a follow-up recorded this week, Karen gave Tom an update on the situation.
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Parents, student athletes sue IHSA in protest of postponement of several fall sports
Sophia Ismail and Anika Krishnaswamy
In response to the IHSA's statewide regulations on fall sports, three parents of Illinois student athletes filed a class-action lawsuit on October 1. These parents from DuPage County sued the IHSA and sought a temporary restraining order that would force the IHSA to reverse changes they made to the sports schedule due to COVID-19. A county judge has since denied the request.
The lawsuit asserted that the IHSA violated its own constitution when it changed the sports schedule without introducing it to the IHSA Legislative Commission first. In addition, the parents who filed the complaint also claim that the decision to postpone fall contact sports has hurt students both financially and mentally.
Although this lawsuit was filed on behalf of the students, their parents were more involved in the law process. Parents have also been a major influence in the creation of petitions and social media groups with aims to influence the IHSA into reversing their decision. However, Paula Cohn, whose daughter plays field hockey and lacrosse at Stevenson, believes many parents support the IHSA guidelines and restrictions.
"I do not agree with the litigation that has been initiated by parents to restart sports because my sense is that the majority of parents support the decisions made by the IHSA, as those decisions are consistent with the science and recommendations of experts," Cohn said.
Like Cohn, Stevenson varsity soccer player Daniel Saltzman '22 believes that students' and coaches' health should be a priority during the pandemic. He doesn't find the regulations to be unreasonable at all.
"I agree with the regulations imposed by the IHSA — COVID is not a joke and it should not be treated like one," Saltzman said. "The health of students should be the priority and they have taken measures such that it still is."
Though its website says it has no official connection with the state government, the IHSA allowed Pritzker to take control of the plans for a COVID accommodating high school sports schedule on July 14. Since then, questions have arisen about whether the IHSA itself may want to lessen restrictions on fall sports.
However, when IHSA executive director Craig Anderson sent a letter to Pritzker requesting that the IHSA be given back authority over fall sports schedules, Pritzker stood firm in his decision to postpone contact sports, even as all of Illinois' neighboring states have restarted sports like football.
Although the since-rejected lawsuit was aimed specifically at the IHSA, Pritzker has also been facing backlash from student athletes and their parents. On September 19, students held rallies in Chicago and Springfield. They held an additional protest outside the governor's house on September 27 in an attempt to pressure the state government into reversing their decision.
According to Stevenson Athletic Director Tricia Betthauser, Stevenson has not faced pressure from parents or students to ease limitations on sports or to attempt to use their influence as an IHSA member school to encourage the IHSA to reverse decisions on its sports schedule. Still, Betthauser believes that honesty is best in situations where the school must oppose certain parent or student requests for the sake of safety.
"I feel the best way to address parent or student concerns is with open dialogue and communication," Betthauser said.
Stevenson's head football coach Brent Becker shared a similar sentiment, also stressing the importance of being honest and upfront with all community members in these uncertain times, but expressed concern for his students should their sports be canceled next spring.
"Some of our spring athletes last school year had to go through that [sports being banned in the spring] and it was really heartbreaking, for those seniors especially because they didn't get to participate in their senior season," Becker said.
Even for many students who feel that the IHSA is making the right decision in regards to safety, the cancelation is still disappointing and causes other difficulties.
"I know that many fellow athletes are relying on sports to get into college," Saltzman said. "With the limited season, I'm sure it must be very difficult to get scouted."
Becker understands how disheartening the loss of opportunity might seem to his student athletes. Ultimately, though, he feels that the Stevenson administration and the IHSA's regulations are trying to find the best balance between protecting students' well-being without sacrificing important opportunities for their futures.
"I think every organization is doing the best they can right now to allow opportunities under the guidelines that we've been given and at the same time keep kids healthy," Becker said.
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Care is deeply woven into Aedifica's DNA. We invest in care properties that meet the needs of their users as closely as possible. But that's not the only way we care for our communities and contribute to a better future. Through financial support to charities, partnerships with non-profit organisations and in-kind donations, Aedifica brings positive, sustainable change to society.
In 2022, Aedifica is focusing its support to charities on three central themes: improving the quality of life of those in need of care, tackling poverty, and innovation in the healthcare sector. In addition, we have supported the victims of the war in Ukraine.
Improving the quality of life of those in need of care
Drawing on research that demonstrated improvements in the social and emotional skills of Alzheimer's patients through music therapy, classical concerts were organised in six Dutch care residences in collaboration with the Philomela Foundation. We also supported victims of domestic violence residing in the Pääkaugin Turvakoti shelter in Helsinki. Our contribution enabled the shelter to purchase, among other things, digitisation screens. Lastly, we provided financial support to Escalpade, a Belgian non-profit organisation that organises care, leisure and educational activities and builds adapted schools for people with disabilities.
Tackling poverty
Aedifica helped children in poverty by contributing to Rackets Cubed, a UK-based charity that runs sports, education and nutrition programmes. In Germany, we donated to food bank Frankfurter Tafel. We also provided support to socially vulnerable mothers and their children through Nasci and Mamma United. These Belgian and Swedish organisations address poverty and social exclusion by providing low-threshold first-line assistance. Moreover, Aedifica matched the amount raised by its staff during the 'Warmest Week', a Belgian event that provides financial support to more than 270 projects fighting poverty.
Innovation in the healthcare sector
Aedifica contributes to innovation within the healthcare sector not only with its sustainable real estate concepts, but also by supporting research and development. This year, we donated to the Leuven Brain Institute, which is carrying out research at KU Leuven to find solutions for brain diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, MS, ALS, depression.
Support for victims in Ukraine
Finally, we also provided support to victims of the war in Ukraine. In addition to financial support to Ukrainian children and refugees through UNICEF and UNHCR, Aedifica also provided material support through BEforUkraine, a Belgian non-profit organisation that sends medical supplies to Ukraine and facilitates the accommodation of refugees in Belgium.
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A Cellular Immune Surveillance Mechanism that Detects Cancer Early
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Fresh insights into how cells detect damage to their DNA – a hallmark of cancer – could help explain how the body keeps disease in check.
Scientists have discovered how damage to the cell's genetic material can trigger inflammation, setting in motion processes to remove damaged cells and keep tissues healthy.
The findings shed new light on how potentially cancerous cells are flagged, so that they can be removed as part of the body's natural surveillance systems before tumours form.
A key molecule called cGAS is known to bind DNA, triggering inflammation. Until now, it was not clear how this happens as DNA is usually physically separated from the rest of the cell inside a compartment called the nucleus.
DNA damage
When damage occurs, fragments of DNA can get separated from the nucleus and form structures called micronuclei.
Researchers at the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh discovered that cGAS can penetrate these micronuclei and bind to DNA, initiating mechanisms that lead to inflammation.
As DNA damage is often one of the early steps in the development of cancer, the detection of micronuclei by cGAS could therefore be an important early alarm system allowing the human body to detect and remove potentially cancerous cells.
The team say their findings could also shed light on how inflammation occurs in certain types of autoinflammatory diseases, where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues.
Our findings provide a possible new mechanism for how the body protects itself against cancer, but in some circumstances could instead trigger inflammatory disease.
Dr Karen Mackenzie, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh
We hope that this research will inform future studies into the development of improved therapeutic approaches.
Dr Martin Reijns, Senior Research Fellow, MRC Human Genetics Unit
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Mackenzie, K. J., Carroll, P., Martin, C. A., Murina, O., Fluteau, A., Simpson, D. J., ... & Osborn, R. T. (2017). cGAS surveillance of micronuclei links genome instability to innate immunity. Nature.
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Monthly sales of new and existing homes in Southern California continued to decline in October while home prices tumbled back to last January's levels according to real estate information provider DataQuick.
Sales in the Southern California region, which includes Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura, San Bernardino and Orange counties, totaled 16,829 new and re-sale homes in October. That was down 7.3 percent from the 18,149 homes sold in September and 29.3 percent below the October historical average of 23,819 sold homes. Sales were only 0.5 percent higher than October of last year when 16,744 homes were sold.
Sales typically fall 0.7 percent from September to October and have varied from a low of 12,913 in 2007 to a high of 37,672 in 2003.
New home sales were at their lowest level on record for an October, falling 18.4 percent below last years levels, while sales of existing single-family homes were 2.2 percent higher and existing condos were 1.3 percent higher than in October of last year.
In the first month following the reduction in the loan limits, the share of homes sold over $500,000 dropped to 17.4 percent of all homes sold, down from 20.4 in September and 20.8 percent a year earlier. It was the lowest portion of sales in the $500,000+ price range since May 2009.
"For a few months now, lower prices and amazingly low mortgage rates have kept resale activity slightly ahead of last year. Of course, that's not saying a lot when you consider sales were 25 to 30 percent below average. The market continues to struggle with a difficult lending environment, uncertainty among potential buyers, underwater homeowners who can't move up, and a weak job market. The lower conforming loan limits implemented last month help explain the relatively sharp drop in mid- to high-end sales during October. Now we'll have to see if the private loan market can fill the void," said John Walsh, DataQuick president.
The median sales price paid for all new and re-sale homes in the Southern California region in October was $270,000, the lowest median price reported since January of this year. The price was 3.6 percent lower than the $280,000 median price posted in September and 4.6 percent lower than in October of 2010 when the median price was $283,000.
The median sales price has declined year-over-year for the past eight months and has declined or remained unchanged since December 2010.
Distressed properties accounted for 52.5 percent of the re-sale market in October, up from 50.8 percent in September, with foreclosure re-sales accounting for 32.8 percent of the market while short sales made up an estimated 19.7 percent of re-sales.
Cash buyers accounted for 29.4 percent of the homes sold for the month, up from 28.5 percent in September, paying a median price of $204,000 for their purchases. Absentee buyers accounted for 25.1 percent of all sales, up from 24.3 percent in September, paying a median price of $200,000 for the homes they purchased.


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Lessons from Karnataka constitutional crisis: Speaker's functioning must be effectively regulated to ensure impartiality
The political slugfest in Karnataka raised pertinent constitutional questions about the vitality of our federated parliamentary democracy.
Prannv Dhawan and Bhaskar Kumar July 25, 2019 21:45:10 IST
The inevitable fall of the troubled Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka was precipitated after a long-delayed and controversial trust vote on Tuesday.
This crisis in Karnataka mirrors the 25-year-old constitutional battle which led to the landmark SR Bommai judgment.
The intervention of courts in these matters presents a deep threat to separation of powers.
The inevitable fall of the troubled Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka was precipitated after a long-delayed and controversial trust vote on Tuesday. This occurred after the long-drawn political and legal contest in the state Assembly, the Supreme Court, the media and the public domain in general. Even as the respect for elected representatives and the political class nosedived yet again to a degree where the uncharitable monikers of "commodity" etc. were ascribed to them, the slugfest raised pertinent constitutional questions about the vitality of our federated parliamentary democracy.
This crisis in Karnataka mirrors the 25-year-old constitutional battle which led to the landmark SR Bommai judgment. It was a prolonged battled which involved the Speaker, the governor, the ruling party and the Supreme Court. Bommai was the chief minister of Karnataka, but his government was dismissed by the then governor on account of the withdrawal of support of 19 MLAs. The Supreme Court finally held the dismissal of the government unconstitutional.
HD Kumaraswamy found himself in almost similar circumstances when over 16 MLAs from the ruling alliance offered their resignation to the Speaker. Even as the resigning MLAs maintained that they were doing so out of their free will, the Speaker as well as the leaders of the Congress-JDS combine claimed that these MLAs have been bribed. At this juncture, the significant discretion that the office of the Speaker enjoys under Article 190 of the Constitution comes into question. This provision enables the Speaker to reject the resignation if in her view, it is not "voluntary and genuine." This provision was drafted in the post-colonial context shortly after Independence, when the constitutional convention of the Speaker acting in good faith was practiced in letter and spirit. The exercise of the wide constitutional powers by the office of the Speaker is supposed to be in line with these "sacred" conventions of political neutrality and fairness. But as has been evidenced in the recent past, Speakers have repeatedly acted according to partisan motives. A case in point is the conduct of the last Lok Sabha Speaker in certifying money bills and refusing to hold votes of confidence.
Karnataka Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar. Twitter @ANI
The "rebel" MLAs of Karnataka argued in the Supreme Court that the Speaker had deliberately delayed the decision on their resignation letters, and therefore violated his duty to act in good faith. The legislators have alleged that the Speaker is acting as per the partisan interests of political expediency and survival of the ruling coalition. Essentially, they alluded that he was waiting until the ruling combine issues a three-line whip to its party members, at which point the anti-defection provision under the Tenth Schedule would kick in. The moment the rebel legislators vote against the whip, their resignations will become infructuous, because disqualification will kick in. The MLAs had requested the court to issue a directive to the Speaker to act in a time-bound manner. This raises significant concerns about the burgeoning judicial supremacy in a parliamentary democracy which is founded on the principle of separation of powers.
The court faces a dilemma as its decision will favour one of the political groups over another. But the intervention of courts in these matters presents a deep threat to separation of powers and also enables the court to become the supreme power arbiter, which is in contravention with the fundamental tenets of a parliamentary democracy as well as our constitutional scheme. Article 212 of the Constitution provides immunity to legislative procedure form judicial review. It also stipulates that no officer or member of the legislature who is vested with powers under the Constitution for regulating procedure be subject to the jurisdiction of any court in respect of the exercise by him of those powers. The Supreme Court has also affirmed the legislature's autonomy in the 1959 MSM Sharma case, where it held that, "No court can go into those questions which are within the special jurisdiction of the legislature itself which has the power to conduct its own business..Mere non-compliance with rules of procedure cannot be a ground for issuing a writ under Article 32 of the Constitution."
However, as recently exposited by Justice Chandrachud in his dissenting judgment on the issue of the Speaker's certification of the Aadhar Bill as a Money Bill, "a consistent thread which emerges" from these three cases (Special Reference No.1 of 1964 case, Ramdas Athawale's case and Raja Ram Pal's case) is that "the validity of proceedings in Parliament or a State Legislature can be subject to judicial review on the ground that there is an illegality or a constitutional violation." He further observed that, "a constitutional trust has been vested in the office of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. By declaring an ordinary bill to be a Money bill, the speaker limits the role of the Rajya Sabha. This power cannot be unbridled or bereft of judicial scrutiny"
The idea of constitutional trust in the office of the Speaker was also alluded to by the majority judgment in the Aadhaar case, where the Court observed that a judicial review of the Speaker's decision can be allowed in certain circumstances. This is in line with the jurisprudence emanating from the Kihoto Holohan case, where the court had partially allowed the review of the Speaker's decision on the ground of illegality and exempted the cases where there were just certain irregularities in the decision of the Speaker. Hence, a slew of cases have established the role of the court as an umpire in the manipulative quests for capturing State power in the legislature which, unfortunately, involve the abuse of powers of the office of Speaker.
In exercise of this role, the court has often gone beyond the constitutional scheme in order to ensure "justice" in the comprehensive sense. In the recent case of the Karnataka MLAs, the court directed the Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly to decide on the resignations of the rebel Congress and JD(S) MLAs within an "appropriate time frame," while adding that rebel MLAs cannot be compelled to participate in the proceedings of the House. This order was significant as it allowed the MLAs to refrain from attending House proceeding, allowing them to escape the party whip, which is a ground for disqualification under the Tenth Schedule. The court's order provided the MLAs with a way around the judgment in the Kihoto Holohan case, which held that by operation of paragraph 2(1)(b) of the Tenth Schedule, voting against the whip or abstaining from voting in cases of confidence motions would lead to disqualification. As is clear from the Article 190(3)(b) of the Constitution, the acceptance of resignation by the Speaker is not a matter of right of a legislator. It is subject to the Speaker's discretionary satisfaction about the voluntariness or authenticity of the resignation.
In context of the present case of judicial review, it is clear that the court's exercise of its role has been in dissonance with the constitutional scheme. However, the court's approach is a consequence of the contemporary political situation wherein the constitutional offices have in fact violated sacred conventions of fairness.
Thus, the autonomy and dignity of the constitutional office of the Speaker has been subject to judicial review, as the degree of discretion envisioned under the Constitution has become subject to political expediencies and choices of the ruling political formation and, by extension, the executive. This has had a deleterious effect on the sacrosanct separation of powers which is the hallmark of a parliamentary democracy. Hence, political conventions have outlived their utility as they have been practiced mostly in their breach. This has elevated the judiciary to the pedestal of being an arbiter of power, hence causing institutional imbalance. Thus, there is an urgent need to reorient checks and balances between institutions and to provide for clear legislative and constitutional safeguards against abuse of discretionary powers. The principle of constitutional trust requires meaningful and robust enunciation in our constitutional framework so that the carte blanche of constitutional power is effectively regulated.
The authors are students of NLSIU, Bengaluru. Dhawan is the Founding Editor of Law School Policy Review.
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Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Supreme Court grants eight-week interim bail to Ashish Mishra
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had on July 26 last year rejected the Ashish Mishra's bail plea. He had challenged the high court's order in the apex court
US abortion rights 'war' rages on 50 years after landmark Supreme Court ruling
Since the Supreme Court overturned the Roe ruling, a reversal made possible with the votes of three conservative justices appointed by Trump,some 20 Republican-led US states have passed laws banning or severely restricting abortion rights
In a major setback, Google loses bid to block India's Android antitrust ruling
A three-judge panel led by Chief Justice Chandrachud decided against blocking the CCI's antitrust ruling that would require Google to change the way it markets Android in India. The Supreme Court also upheld the $161 million penalty imposed on Google.
Supreme Court to consider setting up 3-judge bench to hear Karnataka Hijab ban row
A two judge bench of the apex court had on October 13, last year delivered opposing verdicts in the hijab controversy, and urged the Chief Justice to constitute an appropriate bench to adjudicate the case that stemmed from a ban on wearing of Islamic head covering in Karnataka schools
SC to hear Google's plea against CCI order on 19 January
Google has challenged the January 4 order of the NCLAT which refused to stay the CCI order reasoning that the CCI's order was passed in October 2022, while the appeal by Google was filed only in December 2022 and hence, no case for interim relief was made out
Brazil Supreme Court greenlights probe of former president Jair Bolsonaro for riot
Justice Alexandre de Moraes granted the request from the prosecutor-general's office, which cited a video Bolsonaro posted on Facebook two days after the riot which claimed Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wasn't voted into office but rather was chosen by the Supreme Court and Brazil's electoral authority
Army doesn't have to tell police about arrests, says Mexico's Supreme Court
Last year, the court upheld a constitutional change that allows the military to continue in law enforcement duties until 2028, ruling against appeals that argued law enforcement should be left to civilian police forces
On this day: A look at historic events that occurred on 28 January
On 28 January 1986, the US space shuttle orbiter Challenger disappeared into the air following a massive explosion just 73 seconds after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.


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The Use of Forensic Evidence in Lost Profits Cases
Jeffrey D. Diamond, Attorney at Law
Rebekah A. Smith, CPA, CVA, CFFA
As Michael Kaplan notes in the 2009 edition of The Comprehensive Guide to Lost Profits Damages, "lost profits calculations are invariably done in the context of a legal dispute, with an eye toward possible resolution or an eventual trial." As forensic accountants or expert witness, appraisers are expected to provide testimony and factual and opinion evidence to assist the court in understanding the financial matters. It is imperative then that an expert understand what forensic evidence is, how it should be used in his or her analysis, and the potential problems if forensic evidence is not appropriately incorporated into an analysis. In Part 3 of BVR's Webinar Series on Damages Essentials, Kaplan will join Rebekah Smith to cover the ins and outs of forensic evidence and its place in lost profits damages cases. From gathering and examining this evidence to utilizing it to support an unimpeachable conclusion, Kaplan and Smith will show how to put the court's rules to best use. As Kaplan writes, "an expert who proffers opinions that are so well-supported by forensic evidence that counsel is moved to the settlement table is an expert who has been most effective in serving the case and the client."


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SMU: Better Off Without Larry Brown
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by Greg Lech July 11, 2016 July 11, 2016 0
The Southern Methodist University Mustangs opted against re-signing a Hall of Fame coach and it was the best decision for them. Larry Brown's four year tenure with the school ended last week. He had one year remaining on his contract. There was a gap between what the school offered and what Larry Brown desired. This may seem like a hazy and questionable process for the end of a Hall of Famer's career, but it was quite predictable considering where he has been. SMU had no choice but to move on if they wanted their program to succeed in the near future.
Larry Brown is a winner. That is for sure. He won over 1,000 games in the NBA, 200 in the ABA and over 250 in the NCAA. He took the 1979-80 UCLA Bruins to the Final Four, won the National Title with Kansas in 1988, took the 76ers to the NBA Finals in 2001 and won an NBA Championship with the Detroit Pistons in 2004. He is the only coach to ever win an NBA and NCAA title. That is the bright side of Larry Brown and it is the reason that he obtained the Mustangs' job one year after the Charlotte Bobcats fired him.
The dark side of Larry Brown is a story of instability and scandal. His restless soul cannot remain in one place for too long. Larry Brown became the coach of the Davidson Wildcats in 1969. He never coached a game. Brown's UCLA squad had their Final Four appearance vacated for recruiting violations. He was the Bruins coach for three seasons. He then bolted for the NBA. The 1988 Kansas team was found guilty of violations and disqualified from contention in the 1989 NCAA Tournament. Brown jumped ship for the NBA again. The New York Kicks fired Brown during that stint and ended up with a huge payday. Michael Jordan had to cut Brown's tenure with the Charlotte Bobcats short after a few lackluster seasons. The point being, that wherever Brown goes drama and scandal follow no matter how short of a time he is there.
His time at SMU was no exception. After the program was found guilty of academic fraud, the Mustangs were ineligible for the 2016 NCAA Tournament. Brown sat out nine games for his involvement. Even though he was not involved with the violations directly, he did not report them properly and for that reason the NCAA handed him a suspension. To Brown's credit, the team started 18-0 and was a legitimate contender for an NCAA title in a year with no dominant force in college basketball. The Mustangs had a chance to make some legitimate noise in the postseason. This was, in large part, due to the play of star Nic Moore. Moore was a transfer from Tim Jankovich's Illinois State squad. However, as per usual, Brown's extracurricular activities blockaded any chance they had.
Brown did bring notoriety back to SMU. The program had one winning season from 2003 to 2012. However, yet again, Larry Brown wore out his welcome very shortly. At the age of 75, it was reported that Brown wanted a five year deal. The school was only willing to give him a deal in the arena of two to three years. After the hiring of Brown, Tim Jankovich entered the fray with the intention of being the successor at the program.
SMU decided that five years was too many. On top of the fact that Brown has shown a tendency to flee after short periods of time, any momentum that the program would build in the next few years would unravel at the changing of hands at the coaching positions. Tim Jankovich was a successful coach at Illinois State and now has a few years of experience under Brown. So more than just the factor of his age led to this decision.
The SMU program faced a crossroads in the past few seasons negotiating with their coach. Although he brings them success, he does not promise them success long into the future due to age and history. He also caused violations and lacked program control, something not unknown in his career. SMU weighed their options and made the right choice. As can be seen, giving Brown what he wants, stunts the growth of the program.
Nevertheless, Larry Brown will always be revered as one of the better coaches in history. He accomplished a feat that no one else could in two titles at two levels. That does not change the fact that it was just time to hang them up. Overall, his career is a difficult one to put a positive or negative summation on. What is clear is what is happening now. The Southern Methodist Mustangs and Larry Brown are parting ways. It was the best decision for SMU. Now we wait to see what Brown does next.
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Authors Karunanayaka, S. P., & Naidu S.
AbstractWhile there is growing recognition and acceptance of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) in teaching and learning, designing for their integration remains very challenging for educators. Adopting OER and OEP in their profession requires significant changes in practitioners' pedagogical thinking and practices, which can be supported by the design of appropriate professional development experiences. At the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL), significant successes in addressing this challenge have been achieved with the design and development of a rigorous approach and a robust model to support adoption of OER and OEP by practitioners using Scenario-based Learning (SBL). In this paper we explore the efficacy of a scenario-based approach to learning in the integration of OER by practitioners, reflecting on how the SBL approach was tested and refined over three continuing professional development (CPD) interventions conducted at the OUSL over 2013–2017. Based on the findings, we discuss what design strategies of the three CPD interventions best supported the adoption of OER and OEP by practitioners, how effective have been the theoretical constructs and the strategies adopted in the design of CPD interventions, the impacts of the CPD interventions and implications of these experiences for the future.


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Ernst & Young Showcase 'Nightfall'
April 17, 2019 By Max Friar
Ethereum is getting renewed attention of late as the price reaches a new high. That is to be expected as larger companies showcase their adoption of Ethereum-based dApps/protocols. This month, accounting firm Ernst & Young showcased their blockchain protocol "Nightfall." Designed for use on the Ethereum mainnet, the software allows companies to securely conduct private transactions through a shared ledger.
For Ernst & Young clients, the confidence-building factor with regard to privacy is the use of zero-knowledge proofs. The latter enables user authentication without having to resort to passwords. In short, zero-knowledge proofs allow one party to prove that they possess knowledge about a secret to a second party – without actually revealing the secret.
Designed for use on the Ethereum mainnet, the software allows companies to securely conduct private transactions through a shared ledger.
Given private transaction security concerns, enterprises and investors have been reluctant to fully embrace public blockchains. Zero-knowledge proofs ensures that transactions are private to all blockchain users – except for those authorised to see the information. However, moving forward with this unique technology requires extensive testing.
As Paul Brody, Ernst & Young's global innovation leader, explains:
"Making public blockchains secure and scalable is a priority for Ernst & Young. The fastest way to spread this privacy-enhancing technology was to make it public. The gold standard in security is only achieved with this kind of intense review and testing that comes with public domain releases."
By using zero-knowledge proofs with Nightfall, Ernst & Young has also been able to reduce their transaction processing costs for users.
In addition to providing for secure, private transfers and payments on the public Ethereum network, Nightfall also supports fungible token payments compatible with the ERC-20 standard and unique asset transfers compatible with the ERC-721 standard.


I hear it everyday. I belong to a parent support group for children with learning disabilities and ADHD, one of the largest Internet listserv groups for parent support for these disabilities. There seems to be a constant, recurring topic among our group: "The teacher says I am enabling him to be the way he is" or "The teacher says if we gave him more discipline he'd be fine." Parents of children with invisible disabilities are constantly being blamed for their child's difficulties. We are easy targets.
What is the problem here? It is devastating for a parent to hear this. We know our child has an invisible disability, we have spent many hours researching the problem and finding doctors to diagnose and explain the problem and then trying to explain it to the school in hopes of receiving accommodations and support. Just when everything seems smooth, a crisis erupts and the parent(s) and child are blamed. I received a note in big red angry letters from my son's teacher one day that read, "If he would only do the work there would be no problem!"
I understood her frustration. I was frustrated and angry too. My son, Nick, had shut down in writing anything. Homework was a nightmare that took forever. His psychologist was able to pinpoint perfectionism as the cause. One of his learning disabilities is dysgraphia, the inability to produce handwriting legibly or in any form. By fifth grade he became aware that he didn't write the way the other kids wrote. For him, handwriting was difficult work, his writing looked babyish, it took him forever, his hand cramped. He knew he didn't measure up.
The psychologist said it was better for his ego to not produce anything than to produce and look foolish or even fail. I understood that it would take a lot of work to remove him from this cycle, that we needed to focus on what he could do and what he did well. The focus on writing should probably be ignored for now. He didn't need to fail in an area of disability in order to get him to "see the light" and produce.
We, his parents understood, but could I get the teacher to understand this? Sadly, it wasn't possible as our relationship didn't have the kind of teamwork needed for us to work together for his success. Earlier in the year she had called me in for what she termed "a woman to woman talk" and accused me of being an enabler and assured me that it was my fault that Nick had problems. She said he needed stricter discipline and he needed me to stay out of everything involving his schooling.
I was simply shocked. All my hard-learned, carefully researched and professionally-based explanations of the things I had learned about my son were perceived as excuses. The facts I tried to teach were viewed as "enabling" and making excuses for my son's deficits when in fact I had attempted to educate someone with very little knowledge of his disabilities so she could be a better teacher for him.
I was so taken by surprise that I cried and cried in front of her. I was humiliated and started questioning every incident that had brought me to this terrible place. For days I went around in a daze, could think of nothing else. Had I really caused my child's problems? Her uneducated and unreasoning comments flooded me with a disabling self-doubt.
It was a relief to talk to my son's psychologist about this. Was I an enabler? "No", she said, certainly not in the negative sense of the word. I knew his strengths and weaknesses and I would step in and defend him when needed, but this was not the same as a negative type of enabling which is associated with alcoholism, drug abuse and over-dependency and prevents a person from overcoming the challenges he faces. A parent can become desperate and afraid when their child isn't succeeding with school but the help I gave my son like letting him dictate to me were not what caused his perfectionism. I knew dictation was a legitimate accommodation for children with dysgraphia, but the school's stance was he should do everything by himself, no matter the struggle, the frustration or the amount of time it took. This is equivalent to a child in a wheelchair participating in a regular PE class. It's unthinkable. If that same child were in an adapted PE class, it would be fair, just as it is fair to allow a child with dysgraphia access to a computer or typewriter or even a scribe who will take notes for him.
A child with invisible disabilities needs a strong advocate who will stand up for him, be assertive and deal with school issues and personnel in ways that allow the child an equal opportunity to become a successful student, a student who learns what his mind is capable of learning rather than being held back by his physical and/or mental differences. Unfortunately, school personnel often think the parent is too involved with the child's needs or has become an enabler. For many school personnel, it is simply easier to blame the parent or the child than to do things differently.
A friend who recently received her Ph.D. studied children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and found in her research that children with chronic illnesses NEED an "enabler". This enabler should be someone who will make sure the child gets what he needs, who will protect him when necessary. Without this vital person, the course of his disease is much worse and the quality of his life is poor. It's interesting to see that research is available showing how necessary it is for children with visible disabilities to have someone speak up for them and to enable them to do well, yet school staff continue to label "enablers" for the children with invisible disabilities as the reason for the children's problems.
As a parent of a child with invisible disabilities, I feel that we must become that vital person. However, in today's school culture, because our children have an invisible disability that is tied to production or quality of work or to responsibility instead of gnarled hands and wheelchairs, we parents are made to feel we should not step in and help, that our children must somehow find academic success with no assistance, no advocacy, no voice for their needs. We are seen as overprotective, the opposite of that other nasty parent label that schools frequently use which is "uninvolved". We are made to feel that if we stand up for our child, our actions are the reason he is having problems.
Parents struggle so much to get these children to become independent. Why would we be doing so much work otherwise? It is certainly not fun; I get no joy from it. It is costly providing therapy that the school didn't see as necessary. I certainly get no personal recognition for the incredible extra efforts it takes to help my child find his academic successes and compensatory coping skills. No one pats me on the back and tells me to keep up the good work. All that doesn't matter though, as my happiest day won't be having a dependent grown-up child living with me. I am working myself heart and soul to guarantee my child's ultimate independence and good mental health. I don't believe I'm coddling him by smoothing the rocky path in order to help him and his teachers learn to manage the obstacles. I am making sure the playing field is level so that he'll WANT to play and not give up completely in discouragement.
I see that day coming. For the past two years he has been in a private school that allowed him to completely ignore his writing for the first year and to focus on his strengths. His writing requirements were fulfilled by writing and drawing comic books, something he is good at and enjoys. We spent a year focusing on things he enjoyed and did well. He entered a Lego competition and had his artwork displayed in an art show and at a local coffee shop. He became interested in photography. We also taught him keyboarding, something his previous school should have insisted he learn and use at all times but didn't.
This year he is doing more writing including a science research paper. There is no complaining, no struggling to get him to work. In fact, he passed up an invitation to a friend's house so he could work on the paper which was coming due. Writing will probably never be his favorite thing to do, but it is vast progress beyond his almost-suicidal state when his previous teacher told him he wouldn't graduate from a drug abuse resistance program co-taught by local police because he hadn't filled out his workbook completely. Then she blamed the teaching officer who had no idea my son had a learning disability or was dysgraphic. When informed, as she should have been by the teacher, the officer bent over backwards to be accommodating and let him finish up the workbook over the weekend. He was able to graduate, though by that time, it held no meaning for him.
I understand why teachers want our children to be responsible, productive people, but often their solution is detention or failure. This is an easy, economical, one-size-fits-all solution and unfortunately does not fit all students and is often damaging to students with disabilities. Studies have been done showing that countries like Sweden and Japan that show juvenile offenders care and nurturing have a much lower rate of recidivism than countries who use humiliation and punishment. Schools that show children care and nurturing also produce far less angry students, less dropouts and more successes than schools that dole out punishment or detention. I should know, my son has been in both types and the former is where he's had happiness and success and the latter is where he had nausea and diarrhea everyday before school during his 5th grade year.
Parents must have as much of a voice in their child's schooling as does the school and parents should not have to be afraid of being labeled as the cause of their child's problem. I had thought I was the only one to whom this had happened and I was ashamed and humiliated until I understood that I was right. Now I am angry and upset that it can happen and that it does happen to many other parents nationwide who are working just as hard as I am for our children's independence and academic success.
Enabling, in the positive sense of the word, can be a good thing for our children.


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Zizira is an initiative of Chillibreeze with an aim to open markets for the farmers of Northeast India and improve their livelihood. Zizira is selling healthy products via eCommerce to the cities and towns of India. Our vision is to create and sell high-value products so that farmers increase income by releasing the potential of their land.
To fuel its growth, Zizira is looking for someone who can manage its various online platforms.


Moving, nostalgic are just some of the words to describe last Sunday evening. Over 25 past pupils, going back to 2006, joined the KH choir to celebrate a special past choristers' service.
The sound in the Chapel was amazing - Ms. Helen Roycroft conducted the choir as they harmonised with the past choristers.
The congregation, pupils, past pupils, friends and teachers, played their part too as they (under enthustiastic encouragement from Rev. Peter Campion, which you might hear in one or two of the videos) billowed out the classics.
The idea to have a past choristers' service began four years ago but unfortunately due to other commitments (winning some competitions) this was only the second such service. It is such a terrific evening that it is our intention to make it an annual event.
The service commenced with a powerful solo performance by David Corr from 2006.


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Q: How to perform multiplication along axes in pytorch? I have 2 tensors X and Y - X has shape (20,4,300) and Y has shape(20,300) . How to perform multiplication such that I have an result of shape (20,4). The corresponding techinique in keras is
doc_product = Dot(axes=(2,1))([X,Y])

I would like to know how the same can be done in pytorch?

A: Your most versatile function for matrix multiplication is torch.einsum: it allows you specify the dimensions along which to multiply and the order of the dimensions of the output tensor.
In your case it would look like:
dot_product = torch.einsum('bij,bj->bi')

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David Moyes has a top-flight win percentage of 38.6West Ham boss David Moyes says he has a "point to prove" as he aims to "repair" his reputation at his new club.The former Everton and Manchester United manager has replaced Slaven Bilic, who was sacked on Monday with the Hammers in the relegation zone.Moyes, 54, has been out of work since May, when he resigned as Sunderland boss after the club's relegation to the Championship.
"It is good for West Ham, they are getting a good manager," he said.Moyes, who started his managerial career at Preston North End, was voted LMA Manager of the Year three times while at Everton from 2002 to 2013 - an 11-year spell during which they finished in the top eight nine times.
He signed a six-year contract when he succeeded Sir Alex Ferguson as Manchester United boss in 2013 but was sacked 10 months into the deal.Moyes then went to Spain to manage Real Sociedad but was dismissed in November 2015 after a year in charge.He took over at Sunderland in July 2016 but quit in May 2017 after the Blacks Cats finished bottom of the Premier League."I do have a point to prove. Sometimes you have to repair things and I have a little bit to repair," said Moyes, who has a contract until the end of the season with the east London club."It's good for me, I'm back in and it's what I love doing. I want to do well and want the team to do well."
bbc.comThe Hammers are 18th, having won just two Premier League matches this season.They spent a reported £42m on players in the summer including forward Marko Arnautovic from Stoke City for a club record £20m and former Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez from Bayer Leverkusen for £16m.Having lost their first three games, West Ham have taken just nine points from 11 league matches, conceding 23 goals.Following a trip to Watford on 19 November, West Ham host Leicester City and go to Everton, before a difficult run in December in which they face league leaders Manchester City, champions Chelsea and Arsenal.Later in the month, the Hammers travel to face the Gunners in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals."My ambition is short term. I have to win the games," said Moyes. "I want the football to be entertaining. But I want to start defensively. We have to start there and get some clean sheets."First it's about winning football games, then it's about the style."There's a really strong squad of players here. They certainly shouldn't be in the position they are in."
Since moving to London Stadium at the beginning of the 2016-17 season, West Ham have the third-worst home record in the Premier League.They have conceded the second-highest number of goals (41) in the league, with only Swansea (44) having conceded more - but the Hammers have the worse goal difference in the top flight with -16.
BBC Sport's Simon StoneThe break David Moyes has had from the game since leaving Sunderland at the end of last season has had a positive effect on the Scot, at least visually. He also spoke confidently.Typically, he did not shy away from questions, although unlike his latter days at Manchester United, when he looked haunted and daunted by the situation he found himself in, he handled them with certainty.The elephant in the room was the 'slap' comment to Match of the Day interviewer Vicki Sparkes. They were brought up by a female journalist, and followed up by another. West Ham vice-chairman Lady Karren Brady, who was critical at the time, was mentioned. Had Moyes spoken to her? Was the comment mentioned? Straight back, Moyes responded immediately. "Yes. No." The insinuation was that Brady's comments were not quite as they had been portrayed but there was no clarification on what they actually were.Moyes, evidently, regards it as history. He said he made a mistake and apologised. In his mind at least, it is time to move on.If the world had turned out differently, Moyes would now be in the fifth year of his six-year contract at Manchester United. But it didn't. At Old Trafford, inside and out, he is regarded with ridicule. Since then he has failed at Real Sociedad and failed at Sunderland. His 11 years at Everton seem such a long time ago.As he looked out at his audience, and the darkening London skyline to his left, Moyes admitted something on which the entire crux of his new - and maybe last - Premier League job will hinge."I do have a point to prove," he admitted. "Maybe I do have a little bit to repair."


A rare Far Eastern subject by this predominantly marine painter. In fresh condition and with amazingly strong colours. While on active service, Mason produced many sketches of the Middle East which were later produced as gouache studies and commissions from the Imperial War Museum. This study of the Pyramids near Cairo probably stems from that period and would date to about 1920 to 1925.


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For Ted Robinson, becoming a sports announcer was always number one priority
by Linda Hubbard Gulker on February 18, 2018
Editor's note: It was great to hear Atherton resident Ted Robinson's commentary during the short track speed skating competition at this year's Winter Olympics. Given that this is the 11th Olympics that he's had announcing responsibilities, we thought it would be good to rerun an interview we had with Ted back in 2012 where he talked about how his broadcast career began.
Ted Robinson knew early on he wanted to be a sports announcer. "Truth is, I really wanted to be an athlete but wasn't good enough," he recalls. "But I was passionate about sports, and announcing was the next best thing.
"My relatives all thought I was weird. I'd be upstairs in my room with the door closed with the Mets game on, where I'd practice calling the game."
Ted left his boyhood home in Queens to attend the University of Notre Dame. "I went there specifically to broadcast," he says. "Notre Dame had a student-run radio station, and unlike schools noted for their broadcasting degrees, there weren't tons of students who wanted a shot at the mike. That gave me an incredibly high level of on-air access.
"I tell young people today that broadcasting is little different than acting — not the same skills but the same principles. You can't learn it in a classroom. You learn it by doing and that means being on the air. Notre Dame provided me with four years of on air experience. I did everything, and could still queue up a record and play DJ if I had to today."
While Ted is probably best known in the Bay Area as former Giants announcer (during the 90s) and current 49ers announcer, a post he took in 2009, there are few sports that he hasn't broadcast or provided analysis for. His sports broadcasting experience is so wide and varied, we'll refer folks who want the full list to his Wikipedia bio. It does include four years as announcer for his boyhood team, the New York Mets. "You don't think you're ever going to get a shot at that," he says."In this business, you go where the jobs are."
As he has for the past seven Olympics, he'll be at this year's Games in London, providing the diving commentary and calling the Gold Medal men's singles tennis match with John McEnroe.
It was a broadcast opportunity at Stanford during the 1980s that first brought Ted and his wife Mary, who he met at Notre Dame, to the Bay Area. "When we came back in 1993 and had young children, we chose the school first (St. Joseph's) and then bought a house in Atherton. It's been home ever since."
Photo by Scott R. Kline (c) 2012
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The Shelf Journal is a french bi-annual review on publishing design and book design. Part place of worship and reflection for paper lovers, part experimental platform for designers, typographers and other graphic designers, the Journal explores the essence of our libraries' charm: the limitless variations in form of this unique object. In the first issue — Off the Shelf: Tristan Pernet, Le trident francophone / Colin Caradec, Préposé aux chevaux vapeur — Shelf Service: Paul Disjtelberge, On loving books / Nick Sherman, The Design of Type Specimens — Me my Shelf and I: Pierre di Sciullo, Entrevue — Display Shelf: W. A. Dwiggins, The Structure of a Book — Shelf Mark: Paul-Marie Grinevald, Les voyages de découvertes (1750-1850) — Shelf Label, What was the last book you bought for its visual, physical or artistic quality?


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F is for Family Season 6: Will There Be Another Season?
By Anjali On Dec 25, 2022
So what happened to the incredible animation series after the fifth season? For the fans of the adult animation series, the end of F is for Family Season 5 brings a lot of emotions. The series is one of the most popular adult animated series of all time and has constantly brought laughter to the face of the audience. The popularity of the series is immense and that's the reason why the show has been doing well for the last few years. As the fifth season of the show is released, the show brings a new question among the people and that is, Will there be F is For Family Season 6?
The story animated series is set in the 1970s, where the story features Murphy, a dysfunctional Irish-American family living in the fictional suburbs of Rustvale, Pennsylvania. As the first seasons of the show were released, the fans started to wonder about the story, the Black Comedy series progressed within a few times and enjoyed unlimited popularity around the world. As for the series, the showrunners were excited to bring new episodes and innovations to the people.
Created by Bill Mur, the first season of this animation show debuted on Netflix which marks one of the greatest releases of all time. The subscriber was excited for the series to be on the OTT platform and it made a huge impact on the other shows. As of now, the series has already released its five seasons and everyone was waiting for the series to be back on the show.
In this article, we'll be back on the animation show and will discuss everything about the series in detail. If you are one of those people who are waiting for the series to be back, continue reading the article in detail.
F is for Family Season 6 Release Date: Is it Expected to Release?
Can we Expect the return of F is For Family Season 6?
Is there any official trailer to watch?
After the release of the fifth season, the fans of the animated series started to wonder about the future of the show. On November 25, 2021, the fifth installment of the adult comedy-drama was released on Netflix, which consists of eight episodes with a timing of 26-30 minutes each.
Netflix confirmed the release of the fifth season of Family man in 2020. As soon as the news hit the ground, fans became excited about the release of the fifth part. Finally, on November 25, 2022, F is for Family was released on Netflix.
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Michael Price, the co-creator of the series has officially released a statement regarding the fifth season of the show. The show's co-creator has released a bittersweet message for the fans of the series where they told the fans that the show's fifth season will be the final and the last season.
Through the message, he said, "Working on this show with the great Bill Burr, Vince Vaughn, and our amazing cast, writers, producers, and crew has been the greatest joy of my life, […] I'll be forever grateful to everyone at Netflix, Gaumont, and Wild West who let us share this stressed-out, foul-mouthed and loving family with the world,"
He further released the statement by saying, "Thank you to all the fans that watched this show. Thanks to Vince Vaughn, Peter Billingsley, Victoria Vaughn, Ted Sarandos, and all the INCREDIBLE writers, performers, animators, editors, and musicians that made this show happen. Special thanks to the Captain of the Ship: The great Mike Price! I love all of you guys!" he said.
As soon as the fifth and final season of the show was released, the fans started to wonder about the future of the show. There has been speculation about the sixth season since the start of the announcement. Fans were shocked to hear the cancellation of the series since the show was so huge among the people.
During an interview, the interviewer asked about the plans for the sixth season of the series. Upon asking, the officials said that there are no such plans for the show to move forward because of multiple reasons, as the series was released on Netflix, and the OTT Platform is known for its strict rules regarding its shows. Michael Price said in an interview that it ain't possible for the streaming platform to move forward with the show. Since Netflix holds exclusive rights to the series, the directors can't renew the show without agreeing with Netflix.
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Along with this, Michael Price explained that he is currently working on another adult animation show that will be leading onto a big OTT platform. Although the series has not yet announced any such thing about the selective OTT platform, it surely has plans for it.
Talking about the current status of the series, we know that the show won't be happening anytime soon. As the officials have already announced the cancellation of the series, leading the fans to be disheartened for the rest of their lives. There is no doubt that Michael Price has thought about the future of the show but due to some agreement with Netflix, they ain't moving forward. Micheal has released a statement on Twitter by saying, "We definitely would love to do more with Rosie. I'd like to see what kind of dad Kevin would turn into when he's in his 40s or so." All these things are conflicting with the schedule of the show.
As of now, there is no official confirmation regarding the sixth season of the show. The showrunners are wondering about the future of the series and somewhere they are hoping to work with the show in the future. As per the latest updates, Michael has released an official statement regarding the series by saying that they will love to make more seasons of the show.
If the audience demands another season of the series, we are going to watch some new episodes of the show. In the past, we have seen that the renewal of any series is highly dependent on the audience. If the people showed interest in the production of the show, the series gets released anyhow. In the case of F is For Family, we know that Netflix will consider some updates in the future.
However, as of now, there are no details regarding the sixth season. There are no updates on the future of the series. We are hoping that the show will be back in the future.
The fifth and final installment of the series has been released recently, if you have not watched the series yet, continue reading the article and find out the details here. Watch the official trailer of the series and find out all the details.
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